BEFORE CONTINUING ON TO WHAT HAPPENS NEXT, LET'S HAVE ANOTHER REWIND.

In the peaceful town of Namimori, near the household of the future Tenth boss of the Vongola Family, a young man with silky silver hair wearing the school uniform of Namimori middle school is walking towards Sawada Tsunayoshi's house.

"Aww! Damn, I shouldn't have fallen asleep on the floor last night, these backaches are quite an ordeal!." Gokudera muttered to himself as he relaxed himself by leaning on the wall.

His thoughts about his backache were interrupted by a man's voice; it wasn't really the voice, but the words that he said caught Gokudera's attention.

"Are you sure that Sawada Tsunayoshi has been successfully sent back?" asked a young man of his much older companion.

"It has been confirmed, young master. Tsunayoshi Sawada has been sent back to the past and will not be coming back," the older man replied swiftly but gave off the feeling that he was talking to his boss.

'The tenth has been sent back? Sent back where?' Gokudera thought as he moved from his position and looked to see the owners of the voices that he had just heard. 'Who is that smaller guy? Is he their boss? Just who are these guys? Assassins after Tenth's life?' Gokudera looked to see if there were any other men near the two people and tried to come up with a plan on how to attack.

'Argh! Screw this! Instead of just sitting here and thinking I should just get rid of them fast and have them return Tenth!' Just as he was about to open his box weapon, something hit him on the back of his head and he fainted.

THE PAST (FIRST GENERATION OF VONGOLA FAMILY ERA)

In a certain place, somewhere in the country of Italy, near a cliff of a peculiar forest, was where Gokudera Hayato was currently on.

Gokudera had just scanned his surroundings and was about to look for indications on which place he was when he felt a murderous aura.

"Who's there?" Gokudera yelled.

At the same moment that he realised the person was somewhere behind him, he was hit with something like a baseball bat to his back.

Staggering, he reached for his box weapon and managed to get it out, but at the same time, he was pushed down to the edge of the cliff. Luckily, Gokudera was able to hit his attacker, even though he aimlessly fired at him.

The last thing Gokudera remembered was his attacker shrieking in pain.

A FEW HOURS LATER

In what seems to be a hospital room.

"Eh? Where am I? What is this place?" Gokudera uttered while looking around.

He was lying in what seemed to be an old fashioned hospital bed.

'A hospital, huh,' he thought, immediately trying to get up to look for wounds on him, but instead feeling intense pain in his whole left arm. He almost let out a shout of pain at this, but he forced himself not to attract attention.

After he had steadied himself into a more 'relaxing' position, he tried to recall what had caused him to be confined in a hospital.

As he tried to remember the reason, he ended up with a hazy memory about being near a cliff.

KNOCK KNOCK...

A man with crimson hair with a hairstyle almost identical to Gokudera's entered the room and eyed Gokudera.

"So, you finally woke up huh."

"G!" Gokudera exclaimed

"Oh? I don't think I've met you, how do you know my name?" G responded, his eyes narrowing.

'Primo and his guardians should already be dead, why is G here? My ring didn't show any signs of summoning him.' Realizing what he had just thought of, Gokudera glanced at his hand and saw the Vongola Ring of Storm still there.

"Well?" G seemed annoyed that Gokudera did not answer his question.

'This may turn out bad; if this is the real G in from of me right now, I can't let him know that I'm from the future or that the Vongola still exists in the future. I better keep this ring hidden from him.'

Gokudera then said, "Um, I heard from a friend about you. That's why I know your name." Gokudera then slipped the ring from his finger and put it into his pocket.

"Oh," said G, not seeming convinced. "Well then, setting that matter aside, I found you unconscious at the bottom of a cliff and brought you here. Care to tell me what you were doing on that cliff?"

'This is bad, I gotta make up some believable story or else.'

"Um, I was looking for my friend and my search led me there and then some guy hit me and I fell." 'Oh? I'm quite lucky I remembered what happened to me just now.'

"Oh? Is that so? By the way, I heard gunshots before I found you there, I didn't see a gun anywhere, had you been shot at?"

"Yeah; it seems there are people that do not want me to find my friend."

'I was the one who did the shooting though, but not everything I said were lies.'

"You're being targeted because you're looking for your friend? Those guys are quite the terrible ones. Why don't you stay on my place till you find your friend?" G offered.

"Really? That'd be great! When will we leave?" Gokudera asked.

"Right now; if you feel well enough. I just finished talking with the doctor and he said you're good to go. You can get up right? I don't plan on helping you get up from there."

"I can get up," Gokudera said in annoyance.

THIS HAPPENED RIGHT BEFORE TSUNA APPEARED IN THE PAST

(AN: The timeline I made for the story is correct.)

I'm sorry this story took quite a while; I didn't have enough time to write. And I also apologize because the chapter story has no connection to the chapter title.

TILL NEXT TIME!