Chapter 2
The city was crowded with thousands of people but only one of them had spiky chocolate brown hair. The brown head looked around cautiously before jumping into an alleyway. At that moment Tsuna jumped into the alleyway two men in black suits ran right past him muttering profanities under their breaths. As soon as Tsuna made sure they were far enough away from him, he came out of hiding and ditched the alleyway running the opposite direction. Tsuna couldn't believe his luck (what luck?), he woke up from a long night of hacking and information gathering and was walking around until two guys in black suits just came up to him and held a photo by his face and grabbed his shoulder and proceed to drag him into an expensive black car. Like hell he was going to let them take him so he did the only thing he could have done, given his size, he kicked them both in the place where the sun doesn't shine and just booked it out of there.
Tsuna just sighed, "What did I ever do to deserve my life." Tsuna doesn't see things colorfully like he used as a child because as he grew up he realized that the world was cruel and cold to people like him so all he could do was survive.
He didn't particularly like to fight but he taught himself how to since that's the only way you can survive on the streets. He kept on walking through the throngs of people. He had become an orphan on the streets of Namimori as a child since his mother attempted to kill him. He's gone back to his house a few times when he was younger only to find out that his mother no longer lived there, so he slept in the most unusual places, such as a tree, a bench, grass, and all those other things you can find on the streets when he was a child but later on in life he found a broken laptop and fixed it somehow.
That laptop became his new life line because he realized that information was a very vital thing so he became a hacker to support himself, but he didn't know that the information he was getting was related to the mafia hence the chasing since Tsuna took information from a familia that he shouldn't have. He had become famous because of his first hacking. He managed to bring an entire company down to its knees because he sent the info out to the media and lets say that the reporters had themselves a field day. No one knew that a 10 year old was the one to destroy a company so he remained a mystery and thus became famous and he got a lot of job offers from many places and traveled a lot because of how efficient he was in his job. He was known as the Ghost Hacker. That was how his career as the number one hacker in the world began at the age of 10.
Now he was 18 years old and should be going to school but he's fine since he can read and do simple math and that's plenty to get him through everyday life but frankly speaking he had one strange job so he was pretty smart, just not school wise. Currently he is hungry but obviously had no money, since he was running the whole day, and the smell of takoyaki wafting through the streets wasn't helping his growling stomach.
When he turned the corner he froze and quickly ducked behind a large pole. The men in the black suits were back and they looked pissed off.
'Heeeiii, what am I going to do?!' when he was about to turn around they spotted him. He sprinted away again. They ran through the people and caused a lot of chaos. They were bumping into people and knocking some down in the process. Tsuna took a sharp turn and kept on running down the alleyway. The men in black weren't that far behind him. He was running out of breath and he didn't know how long he could keep this up.
There were stacks of crates on the right side of him and an idea came to him. He kicked the crate on the bottom and the other ones above it began to tremble. The men in suits gasped as the crates fell in their way and their target ran out of sight. They started to curse because their boss would surely kill them or experiment on them for this failed mission (can you guess which familia these guys are from?).
Tsuna looked back and was relieved that he lost them; he slowed down to catch his breath and decided to head home. He may be an orphan but he got money for all the information he sells to certain people so he was okay in a small apartment in Japan, it was perfect for him. He had many apartments in different parts of the world because his job didn't allow him to live in one place for too long so he moved around a lot. He walked down a familiar road and passed his favorite park, but today he decided to take a different route in case the men came back.
Taking a right he walked along a quiet road, well it was until he noticed he was in front of NamimoriHigh School. He stopped and stared enviously at the people that were leaving the school with their friends to go hang out. He was all alone in this world and he had no one but himself and his laptop. He sadly sighed and began to walk again until he heard a shout. He turned around and was surprised to see an old friend from back when he was in kindergarten. He always protected him from bullies because of how useless he was and as a result his dameness acquired a nick name, Dame-Tsuna.
"…Takeshi…" he whispered in surprise. It was his childhood friend Yamamoto Takeshi. He studied the older Takeshi. He had gotten taller, but lets face it everyone was taller than Tsuna. He was tanner than when he last saw him, and he still played baseball if the baseball bat in his hand said anything about it. Lastly Tsuna studied his face. There was a scar on his chin. Where had he gotten it? He had gotten better looking as the years rolled by; I bet girls bow down at his feet. His usually warm eyes seemed like they were replaced by something that Tsuna had never seen before and if you looked closely it was slightly cold before it registered in his head that Tsuna was right in front of him, but right now his eyes held surprise and it turned into uncontainable joy.
"Tsuna! It's really you! I can't believe it!" while Tsuna was studying Yamamoto, he was also studying the one in front of him. He would've never guessed that he'd see his best friend from kindergarten again ever since he went missing from home. He looked at Tsuna and realized that he was still as cute as before; he couldn't help but blush at his thought. Tsuna had gotten taller but still only reached his chin and his wild mocha locks were longer and in a ponytail that went to his mid back. He was still thin but you could see the lean muscles he had gained from living, fighting, and surviving on the streets, but of course Yamamoto didn't know that Tsuna lived on the streets. Then he looked at his eyes and was shocked to see how…lifeless they looked…What happened to you Tsuna?
Back when they were little Tsuna had the warmest and brightest smile in the world and it always made Yamamoto feel better if he was having a bad day. The warm caramel eyes had diminished to muddy brown and Takeshi felt his throat tighten at the sight. Where was his Tsuna? Where was his best friend from kindergarten? Where did he disappear to? Why hadn't he told him? All these questions were running in his head just bouncing off the walls of his brain. He needed answers and he wanted them very soon. Yamamoto jogged up to Tsuna and just hugged the living daylights out of him. Luckily no one was around to see this reunion since they had already left.
Tsuna was shocked at Takeshi's actions but slowly gave in to it and hugged him back. He was so happy that Takeshi was still hid friend after all this time and that he was thinking about him too. When was the last time he got to hug his first and best friend? Tsuna began to cry as he was held by Yamamoto and Takeshi feeling the wetness on his shoulder stepped back to get a look at Tsuna's face. Tears were cascading down his round cheeks that still had baby fat left on them surprisingly. Yamamoto wiped his friend's tears as Tsuna opened his eyes.
Yamamoto was relieved to see the eyes he remembered from childhood. They were warm and filled with happiness again. He smiled brightly and Tsuna smiled brightly back too. The one he always showed to Takeshi. Thank God you're still here Tsuna. An idea popped into Yamamoto's head as he held his friend's shoulders.
"…Hey… Tsuna" he waited until Tsuna was looking at him. "You know I… have a lot of questions and I want to know that happened 12 years ago…so let's go back to my place and talk about it…okay?" Tsuna looked deeply into Yamamoto's eyes and saw that they held a lot of concern and curiosity was there as well. He couldn't say no to his friend.
"Okay Takeshi…I'll tell you as much as I can." Tsuna smiled. Yamamoto wasn't expecting a soft and melodious voice that sounded like it was rarely used which is true since anything Tsuna did, didn't really require for him to speak. Takeshi broke out of his trance when he noticed a look of concern on his friend's face and smiled goofily. He slug his arm around Tsuna's shoulder, surprising him but slowly relaxed.
"Well let's hurry up. My old man will be so happy to see you." The two friends walked to the Yamamoto's sushi place and smiled all the way there.