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Tsuna walked with Gokudera on his right and Yamamoto on his left. It was Saturday, meaning Byakuran would be there by tomorrow at the latest.
Tsuna gratefully accepted when Yamamoto had asked him and Gokudera if they wanted to go over to his place for sushi, wanting to make the most of his last free, normal days. He was already regretting it. Both Yamamoto and Gokudera had perceived something was off about Tsuna the moment they had laid eyes on him.
"Juudaime! What's wrong?" Gokudera had asked alarmed upon seeing Tsuna's depressed expression.
"N-nothing! Why would you think something's wrong?" Tsuna tried to deny.
"Because, Tsuna, you look kind of down." Yamamoto took Gokudera's side.
"Ah... I'm fine, I'm just a bit tired." Neither of his guardians seemed to buy his excuse, though they questioned him no more. They continued to watch him with worried eyes through the rest of the evening, however.
Tsuna did his best to participate in the conversation, but he couldn't seem to muster up the mood necessary to speak about trivial things like math tests and upcoming festivals. Without him keeping the discussion light, the night mostly consisted of Gokudera shouting at Yamamoto and Yamamoto laughing his insults off.
It was a lot like any other day, and Tsuna felt more at peace listening to the regular banter of his guardians than he had since his mother had informed him his brother was coming home. He was almost able to pretend that nothing was going to change, and his everyday life of the next tenth mafia boss would continue.
Almost.
Reborn's sudden appearance at their get-together reminded him otherwise.
"Tsuna, I need to talk to you," he said almost the instant he materialized. Tsuna paled in response, but immediately stood and excused himself, following Reborn out the door.
Gokudera and Yamamoto eyed each other with silent alarm. Reborn had never asked to tell Tsuna something in private. He normally just blurted out whatever he wanted to tell the Decimo in front of whoever was present, regardless of how private or embarrassing in was.
"What do you make of it?" Yamamoto asked Gokudera, in one his rare moments of seriousness.
"Something's wrong with the Tenth and he's not telling us." Gokudera responded, a hurt look in his eyes. Yamamoto thought he understood Gokudera's pain. As the Tenth'sright-hand man, he hoped to be trusted enough for Tsuna to confide everything in him.
"I'm sure he wants to tell us, he just can't." Yamamoto made an attempt at comforting the silver haired boy, but received no response.
Tsuna didn't ask what Reborn wanted;he already knew, but he followed anyway, so Reborn could tell him the details.
"He's back." The world's best hit man reported. "He was at your house when I left." Tsuna nodded slowly, processing the information.
"Bianchi and the kids?" he inquired.
"They're out of the house. Maman thinks Bianchi left to take care of Gokudera and the kids had to temporarily visit with their real parents."
"She just bought it?" Tsuna asked, slightly pained. Though his mother's naivety came in handy, it was hard watching how easily she could be deceived.
"She was upset she had to part with everyone so suddenly, but she claimed to understand the importance of visiting and taking care of one's family."
Tsuna smiled slightly at that. It sounded just like her.
"You better get home soon," Reborn shot him a meaningful look. "Are you sure you-"
"Yes, Reborn. I'm sure. I'm sure it was best for Bianchi and them to move out. I'm sure I want to do this. And I'm definitelysure I don't want to tell them," the tenth cut the arcobaleno off, a steely look in his eye.
"There's no backing out now," was all Reborn said before disappearing into the shadows. Tsuna sighed. Reborn had done his very best to make Tsuna reconsider his decision without directly saying he thought it was a bad idea. But, just this once, Tsunayoshi was going to have to disagree with his tutor.
He turned to reenter the sushi place, plastering a casual look on his face as he went.
Gokudera and Yamamoto didn't question him. They continued the evening as if they hadn't realized something was wrong and, when it started getting late, they both offered to walk their boss home. Tsuna hesitantly accepted. It would be fine as long as he didn't invite them inside right? They'd never see Nii-sama and, even if Byakuran saw them, it wouldn't make the situation any worse. After all, things were already as bad as it got, so why not enjoy the pure company of his friends one last time?
So he smiled and said sure and thank you. The walk towards his house was eerily quiet. He hadn't thought it was possible for Gokudera and Yamamoto to go onfor so long without bickering, but they had proved him wrong. Not a single word was spoken.
Eventually it got to the point in which Tsuna, even in his distracted state, couldn't stand it anymore.
"Ahaha," he laughed awkwardly. "What's with you guys? You're acting like someone died!" He regretted his words the moment they left his mouth.
Gokudera didn't answer. "It's nothing… It's just that Gokudera doesn't think you trust us," Yamamoto replied. Tsuna's eyes widened as he listened to his Rain Guardianspeak. He had expected the two to brush off his question with a laugh, or at least lie. He hadn't expected this.
"That's not true! I trust you two with my life!" He felt like he was lying. True, he did trust them with his life, so why didn't he tell them the dark haunting secret he had kept from them? Suddenly Gokudera jumped and shoved the baseball-player to the side.
"Idiot! It's the Tenth's business what he wants to tell us! Some things are not meant for us lowly members of the Vongola!" he shouted.
"Ah! Gokudera-kun! That's not true! I… I wouldn't have Reborn hide anything from you!" The Vongola Decimo lied blatantly. "He was just telling me a message from my Dad, about family stuff. I have no idea why he asked me out of the room." He was alarmed at how easy the lie came out. He tried to shrug it off, knowing that he was going to be doing a lot of lying, but he couldn't quite dispel the guilty feeling.
Especially not when Gokudera's eyes sparkled with tears of joy and he was gleefully shouting apologies such as, "I'm sorry Juudaime, I will never doubt you again!" then, "Not that I ever doubted you!" and then, "Not that it's any of my business what you do!" and even then, "Even though I am your right hand man, so I should be somewhat involved!" He continued on and on cancelling out his statements as he went. Yamamoto merely grinned, relieved as he saw the two acting like themselves again.
The two would have believed him. They would have never guessed that their kind and innocent boss was not only keeping something from them, but lying to them while he was at it. But, unfortunately, they did notice.
Yamamoto was first. Gokudera was so busy shouting to Tsuna that he, despite being Tsuna's right hand man, didn't immediately notice his beloved boss's eyes widen. Then the brunet's pupils dilated, only to contract to tiny pinpricks the next instant. Yamamoto's grin disappeared.
Something was definitely not right.
Ahem. If some of you are wondering why I didn't update when I said I would, please note it wasn't my fault. I was actually ready to update it a full two days before I'd originally intended, but when I went to add this chapter Fanfiction wouldn't let me edit my story AT ALL! So today was the first day I was able to post this. My sincerest apologies.
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