CHAPTER 2- Getting to Know Everyone...Again

Giotto's POV:

The day quickly passed and I was inside my office once again signing the stack of paperworks. I can't really concentrate on the job I was currently doing because Tsuna and I's conversation in the infirmary always replayed in my mind.

Flashback:

"You and I...we are engaged. I am your fiancé"

"FIANCE? We are to be married?" Tsuna said.

"Well, that was the plan, but I guess..."

"In the first place, you and I are really different", Tsuna stated. "I heard from the maids that we are in a relationship and thinking about that now, how can a great guy like you love someone as plain as me?"

"Well...a lot of things", I replied and Tsuna closed her eyes and smiled.

"Judging by the looks of the maids that came here, I am really a scary and wicked person am I?" Tsuna said. "But Giotto, for all those months, why did you never leave my side?"

Now that I think about it, why did I never leave her when she changed? Maybe that is because I was expecting that she will turn back to the person she was before.

"Giotto, are you done with your paperworks?" my right hand man said and went inside me room.

"Giotto...FOR GOD'S SAKE YOUR PAPERWORKS ARE NOT DONE YET? WHAT KIND OF MAFIA BOSS ARE YOU?" G said and started to do his usual lecture.

"Giotto, you're not listening again, so what is distracting you?" G asked and I opened the bottom drawer of my desk and got a picture frame. "You're thinking about her again?"

"I can't help it G, and besides..."

"You still love her...even though how many times she told you to leave her...even though we knew that she is an enem..."

"She's not an enemy G, she might be from that family but she never tried to do something to us for the past year", I said and looked at the picture. In it is the two of us both smiling while and holding each other. We went for a date that day and then Tsuna suggested that we took a picture.

"Fine...but if anything happens to you...please remember that the whole family will do everything to kill her...friend or not", G said and then left the room.

I then looked at the clock and saw that it is already time for dinner. It must be the reason why G came to check on me. I then joined the others for dinner and hurriedly went back to my office to finish all my paperworks.

The next day passed and I then heard a loud knock on the door.

"Giotto are in you there? Please Giotto if you are please answer" a frantic voice of Daemon said and I then opened the door.

"Is there anything you want for waking me at 7 in the morning when I slept at 4 AM? Do you all have a death wish?" I said and everyone paled. "So why are you here?"

"Well...we thought that you might have been attacked by you know...Tsuna", Mukuro said.

"And pray tell me why?" I said.

"Well...she might just be faking her amnesiac state...and when you are vulnerable she might kill you", G said.

"Tsuna...will not do that. GUYS WAKE UP, SHE HAS AMNESIA AND YET YOU ARE THINKING THOSE KINDS OF THINGS ABOUT HER?" I said and shouted at everyone.

"We're just worried cause you know...Tsuna was not in the infirmary when we visited her", Elena said.

"What do you mean not there?" I asked.

"We looked inside the whole mansion, she's not here", Chrome said.

"Or maybe she went back to the Cielo to report about...", G said.

But before G can even finish his sentence, I hurriedly took a bath and changed my clothes in just 5 minutes...well that's a record. I then darted outside the mansion and shouted Tsuna's name all the time.

Then at the gardens, I heard a laugh...a familiar one.

"Well aren't you cute...I wonder who owns you", I saw Tsuna say to no other than my tiger which has Sky Flames on parts of his body. My tiger knows Tsuna that is why it would cuddle close to her. "What is your name? I'm really sorry I think we knew each other but I can't help but forget"

I can't help but smile at the scene and after a few thoughts I then walked towards Tsuna's location.

"His name is Chi...and yes you two are quite close", I said and patted my tiger.

"Oh so your name is Chi...nice to meet you..uh...again", she said and smiled. "Ah...Giotto why are you here by the way?"

"Everyone is worried to where you are" I said and Tsuna froze.

"But I left a letter on the desk saying that I'll be walking outside for a while", Tsuna said. "I don't want to disturb anyone so I went alone"

"It must have been blown away be the wind...so did you have a nice walk around the gardens?" I asked and offered my hand to her so she can stand up. We then walked to another section of the garden with Chi in tow.

"Yes, the whole place is so beautiful...it's like a castle. And to think you own all of this...you really are so rich"

"This mansion was built around the time of my great great great grandfather, when he founded our family", I said.

"I see..." Tsuna said and we continued to walk, on the way I plucked a big red rose and presented it to her.

"Thank you very much...", Tsuna said and smelled the flower." I have a feeling that you've done this to me a lot of times already"

"Oh..so your memories are slowly coming back?" I said and placed the flower on her hair.

"No actually, I just quite had a feeling"

"You're right, I used to give you a rose every day and you never fail to thank me", I said and then we arrived at the back door leading to the kitchen.

"Giotto, can I borrow your cloak?" Tsuna said and I unclasped my mantle and gave it to her. She then covered herself with the mantle and proceeded to go inside the kitchen.

When we entered, all the kitchen staff became quite and stopped working for a few seconds then continues their work and greeted me.

"Thank you, I'm sorry if I borrowed it", Tsuna said and gave me back my mantle when we went back into the infirmary.

"Why did you do that?" I asked and Tsuna proceeded to sit on her bed.

"Because, I know that everybody hates me and yet I don't want to see the way they look at me with hate. That is why I want to ask you why you never left my side" Tsuna said and began to cry.

Before I can even answer, the door opened and Hayate came in bringing a bowl of soup.

"Ouji-sama everyone is already looking for you in the dining room", Hayate said and placed the soup in front of Tsuna.

"Alright...I'll come back Tsuna okay...and Hayate please take care of her while I'm gone" I said and went out from the room.

Tsuna's POV:

I wonder who is this woman who came here bringing my breakfast. She seems to be friendly even though I saw her sometimes with a grumpy look on her face.

When Giotto went outside, I immediately looked at her and smiled.

"What's your name?" I asked and the girl seems to froze for a while then looked at me with hatred in her eyes.

"I used to like you because you make Ouji-sama happy but when I found out that you are from an enemy Famiglia, I hated you. Why did you hurt not only Ouji-sama but also all of us in the Vongola? But anyway, I'd have to accompany you so I think I'll tell you my name, I am Hayate Gokudera"

"Hayate then, thank you for bringing me my breakfast", I said.

"The person you were months ago never says 'thank you' or 'sorry'", Hayate said.

"I'm sorry then..." I said.

"It isn't like you, you're acting like the Tsuna that we loved", Hayate said and also cried.

"Then Hayate...please punish me for making you feel that way. Do anything that you want to me and I'll accept it. And after that can you be my friend again?"

"Then...do these things", Hayate said and gave me a piece of paper. "You must finish all of that before lunch"

I then looked at the paper and saw:

Clean the fountain

Collect 100 apples in the garden

Collect 100 oranges

Collect 100 mangoes

Finish sorting out G's reports

Clean all archery equipments

Shop for 10 octopus stuff toys

Weed the North Eastern part of the garden

Clean Hayate's room

Clean Hayate's office

"So that means I have 4 hours to do these?" I said and Hayate nodded.

"If you finish all of that then I'll tell all the Protectors to be your friend", Hayate said.

"Really, then I'll do my best", I said and quickly finished my breakfast and started to do the tasks.

Hayate's POV:

Is she really serious, I mean it's impossible to do all of that in four hours. When she acts like that she looks like the first Tsuna, which I really respected like a younger sister. All of us Protectors would really spoil her and we all loved her and call her Hime or Princess like how we call Giotto Ouji-sama or Prince.

It was already 11:30 of course I won't expect her to finish or do her tasks seriously.

I was already in the dining room with the others where everyone was also gathered.

"Hayate...why is Tsuna the one cleaning the fountain? I thought G asked you to clean it?" Arisa said.

"You see..."

"I saw Tsuna-nee cleaning Hayate-nee's room too" Laela said.

"And I saw her cleaning G's room. Hayate what is going on here?" Elena said.

"It was she who told me that she will do anything she wants me to do as long as I became her friend", I said.

"What...and so you used her to do your chores?" Viole said.

"Hayate...we'll talk about this later...I'll look for Tsuna", Ouji-sama left and we all followed.

In my heart, I feel like kicking myself for what I have done but my brain tells me that it is right to make her suffer for a while.

Tsuna's POV:

Alright, the only thing that is left is for me to collect the 100 oranges, there is only 15 minutes left but I can do this. I then proceeded to climb the orange trees then got the oranges as fast as I can.

I collected half and only 5 minutes remained.

"No, I must finish this Hayate trusts me with her job and she'll be scolded if it won't be finished", I said and continued to climb towards the higher part of the tree where a lot of oranges are located.

At least if I finish this task, I will have people to stay by my side. I won't be alone again...

Only one minute remained and I need 10 more oranges. I climbed into another tree again and my vision became blurry for a while. I didn't mind it because I have to finish my task and then I proceeded to slowly climb the tree.

"Tsuna!", I heard someone shouted and I saw Giotto and the others a hundred meters before me.

I hurriedly get 10 oranges and threw it into the basket. After that my head throbbed and I clutched it because of the pain, my vision became very blurry and I can't even see a think. Suddenly I lost my balance and I saw everyone shouted in alarm.

Don't tell I am going to die? Maybe what that Sandra woman said was true, I really should just die.

I expected to feel the pain from falling to the ground but instead I felt two arms holding me and I saw Giotto with a worried look on her face.

"Giotto? I'm sorry for making you catch me", I said and Giotto looks like he's almost about to cry and gave me a reassuring smile.

"You made me worried there", Giotto said. I then told him that I can just stand and after some pleadings he finally gave in.

"Oh yeah...Hayate look I completed the task, I even look for witnesses to sign it so that you will not thing that..."

"You're an idiot for doing that..." Hayate said. "Just like in the past...I know you don't remember this but you also almost got into an accident when you tried to retrieve the arrow that has was stuck on the highest branch of a tree. If Takeshi wasn't there to catch you, you could have died"

"I'm sorry...for letting you worry about me", I said.

"I'm sorry for what I have done too...Hime-sama", Hayate said and immediately hugged me. "That's right, from now on I'll start calling you Hime-sama again"

"Really...then we'll be friends? Thank you so much Hayate", I said and immediately became dizzy and before I knew it, I fainted in front of them all.

I woke up and found myself lying in my bed in the infirmary with the others around me, it looks a lot like what happened when I first woke up.

"Guys..." I said and all of them looked at my direction and went directly to my side.

"So what happened to Princess, Knuckles?" a girl with violet hair and an eyepatch said.

"She's fine..just tired. She overexerted her body when she just recovered", Knuckles said. "Now, Tsuna, I want you to get rest and don't do strenuous jobs yet okay?"

I gave Knuckles a nod and then saw the others still in the room.

"Well...we know that you are getting uncomfortable not knowing us so we are going to reintroduce ourselves", Giotto said. "You already know that the Vongola is a mafia family right?"

"IT IS?" I said and everyone laughed.

"I thought the others told you..." Giotto said and looked at the others.

"We don't have the heart to tell her about it", Knuckles said.

And on the spot, Giotto told me about the Vongola, about how it is the most powerful and richest mafia family in the whole world. He told me about the different flames and yet even though he didn't elaborate it, I saw a picture of like 8 different colored flames on my mind.

"Alright, now that we are done explaining about the Vongola, it's time for the others to introduce themselves", Giotto said. "So first to introduce will be the Guardians followed by the Protectors"

"Fine then, I'm known as G..just G Rosso. Storm Guardian and right hand man" the red(pink) haired man with a grumpy look on his face which has a tattoo said.

"Just tell Tsuna that your full name is Gabrielle G...", Giotto said.

"Really? But why don't you call him by his given name?" I asked.

"Because I don't want to", G said.

"NEXT, I'm Arisa Aouto. Call me Arisa, I am the Rain Guardian and left hand woman", the black haired girl said.

"I'm Lampo Bovino, nice to meet cha", the sleepy looking green haired man said. "I'm the Lightning Guardian"

"And you know me already, I am Knuckles Sasagawa. Sun Guardian. It's EXTREMELY nice to EXTREMELY see your already well"

"Viole Aguerris...Cloud", the woman with a pale yellow hair said.

"I'm Daemon Rokudo, the Mist Guardian. Do you want to see what hell looks like?" the man with purple hair said.

"You can do that? That's cool", I said and everyone turned silent.

"Funny, you said the same thing when we first met", Daemon said.

"And I am Elena di Neve, Snow Guardian. Call me Elena-nee Tsuna", the woman with long yellow hair said.

"And so it is our turn, of course you already know me Hime, I am known as the Storm Protector. A protector's job is to be like an assistant to a Guardian", Hayate said.

"I'm the Rain Protector, Takeshi Yamamoto. Nice to meet you again Tsuna", a man with back hair said.

"I'm Laela Bovino. Lightning Protector, I am the younger sister of Lampo. Hello again, Tsuna-nee", the curly black haired girl said.

"I'm Rhea Sasagawa, Sun Protector, I am the younger sister of Knuckles", the girl with shoulder length white hair said.

"Kyoya...brother of Viole..Cloud", the other black haired man said.

"Kufufufu. I'm Mukuro Rokudo, the Mist Protector and this is my younger sister, Chrome Rokudo. We are the younger siblings of Daemon", another purple haired man said.

"I'm Chrome...Snow Protector. Nice to see you well Princess", the violet haired girl said.

"Nice to meet you too, please take care of me once again"