Written by: Hajimeru Rinko
Full Summary: The Fantasy Adventure of Sawada Tsunayoshi, who ventures to seek out the past that he had forgotten as a child. When he sets out, he is chased by people who claimed to know his 'past'. Who is he actually? Will he find out and is he prepared to face the burden that would be in front of him? AU and OC.
Note:I do not own KHR.
A/N:Okay. The training tower is officially, a school to hone combat skills and takes place in the afternoon. More like a tuition centre though.
A Fantasy Tale Chapter 3- The Taste of School
The next day, Tsuna and Yamamoto were putting up advertisements on the Community Board while Rinko featured the Training Tower in her school's newspaper. When the kids were out, the lazy mother got up and did some work. After putting up the ads, Yamamoto turned to Tsuna and smiled.
"This is the last ad in Chuguraitsu." Yamamoto told him, and Tsuna showed him that his bag is empty too.
"So after your errand, where would you go?" Tsuna asked, putting down his bag.
"Go home." Yamamoto answered cheerfully.
"But…" Tsuna stammered.
"This will do. What, you didn't expect me to go so soon?" Yamamoto saw Tsuna's sad face.
"Yeah…" Tsuna looked away.
"Don't worry! I'll go home tomorrow."Yamamoto mentioned.
"Eh?"Tsuna was surprised.
"Well, that's because I wanted to go fishing right now." Yamamoto grinned at the boy, and then grabbed his hand.
"Let's go." Yamamoto said, and the boy nodded.
In the Evening
"I'm home…What the heck?! Where did you get those?" Rinko was shocked at the amount of fish Yamamoto and Tsuna brought home.
Many fishes were covering the whole kitchen and the boys were carrying some fishes.
"Oh, nee-san, you're home." Tsuna smiled at his adoptive sister and puts down the fish.
"Yo, Rinko. When we were finished, we went to do some fishing."
Rinko stomped her feet, surprising the boys, and pointing behind them.
"What? 'Some fishing'? No way! YOU FISHED TOO MUCH! WHERE CAN I PUT THEM IN ANYWAY? THEY'LL ROT GODDAMMMIT!" Rinko bellowed at the two boys.
"Calm down, we got a solution." Yamamoto pointed at the side.
Rinko looked in the direction and saw her mother munching on the fishes with some cats. 'My mother…is very degrading…' Rinko felt disgusted and made a face palm. 'I just wish I wasn't born from her.' Rinko was depressed that her mother was a fat woman, and doesn't mind her weight at all. She then saw the kitchen sparkling clean. Where did the fish go? Rinko sees Tsuna and Yamamoto sitting on a long box in the backyard of the house, which faced a river.
"Errm, guys, what are you doing?" Rinko asked, walking to the backyard.
"Nothing." The boys saw her walking towards them.
"You're leaving tomorrow, right?" Rinko demanded from the swordsman.
"Yup!" Yamamoto hopped off the box. "This will last you for a whole year though." He mentioned, pointing at the box.
"You're bringing him with you, right?" Rinko asked with a sad face.
"Sure. But don't feel bad. I'll definitely take care of him!" Yamamoto assured the girl, who was looking at Tsuna with sad eyes.
"I'll be okay! I'm already ten, and I need to take care of myself!" Tsuna really didn't want her to cry; she'll drown him in tears.
A month later; Autumn, the time where the winds are the strongest.
Tsuna was sitting in the classroom, all alone. It was very early, and the day was average. He already put his belongings in his room and now is waiting for class to start. His first lesson was English lesson, and he hoped that it wasn't advanced past his knowledge. Being home-tutored and a peasant make it even worse. Suddenly, the door opened, and the teacher came in.
"Oh, you're early." The teacher then checked his clipboard. "Sawada Tsunayoshi, right?" He said, and Tsuna stood up and greeted him.
"Hai."
"You should be careful, since majority of your classmates are nobles."
"I will. Thanks for your concern." Tsuna assured the teacher that he would be fine.
After some time, the students flocked in. One of them walked to Tsuna and smiled, making the boy wonder what was he thinking. The classmate sat behind Tsuna, making Tsuna feel very uneasy about him. Yamamoto comes in, and waves to Tsuna, who waved back. Yamamoto then sat on the table beside Tsuna and smiled at him. Tsuna felt relieved that Yamamoto would be beside him for a while. The class started once everyone was here and the attendance was done.
"English is one of our main languages. After establishing our country, our first ruler Giotto, who was first Italian, migrated somewhere unknown. It was revealed that he was living in the Japanese areas, and he was speaking Japanese. So, this influenced our education system to make students multi-lingual, so English was added during the 4th generation when an English scholar came and taught some commoners English…" The teacher started babbling about everything about English.
Tsuna was a little bored, having known this already. Suddenly, someone was kicking his chair. Tsuna turned behind to see the boy earlier who just smirked at him. He stopped kicking, and then when Tsuna faced the front, the boy kicked his chair so loudly, that the whole class could hear. Tsuna fell as the chair tripped, and he landed face flat onto the ground. The teacher walked over to see the boy behind Tsuna putting his legs on the table.
"Mochida, what are you doing? We're in the middle of class and put down your legs! Tsuna, get up, what are you doing on the ground?" The teacher reprimanded, and the others giggled.
Tsuna sat up properly, wondering why was he the one people choose to pick on. He then remembered what Yamamoto said; 'He may face discrimination.' So this was in stock for him. Tsuna calmed down, and continued lessons. After English, it was Physical Education. Everyone changed into their PE shirt and went to the gymnasium, called a 'dojo' in the training tower. Everyone lined up a straight line as the PE Teacher came in. He was muscular, and was enormous compared to the students. He had a mustache and seemed fierce with his big eyes.
The teacher walked over to the students, and Tsuna could not believe how tall the PE teacher was. Compared to the whole class, he was like a tower.
"Alright!" The teacher said in a booming voice. "I'm Mr. Patrick and I am your PE teacher in this training tower. Now you all know that you'll face hell under my guidance. Ahem, I mean heaven. I will show you the 'Heavenly Spartan Way' so make sure you can keep up." The class was silent.
"Is it ALRIGHT!?" He bellowed, frightening most of the students.
"Al-Alright!" They replied and saluted Mr. Patrick.
"Okay. Let's do some sparring. Choose your partners. However, you are forbidden to use your magic here." Mr. Patrick said, noting that some of the students are mages.
"Mr. Patrick. I want to spar with the little boy over there." Mochida raised his hand and pointed at Tsuna.
Tsuna felt uneasy immediately. This is not good. This person named Mochida is persistent and looked like he is tempted to torture Tsuna forever. Yamamoto puts his hand on Tsuna's shoulder and winked an 'It's-going-to-be-okay' look at him. Tsuna sighed, and Mr. Patrick considered Mochida's request for awhile. Everyone instantly chose partners so as to avoid Mochida, as if they were scared of him. Except for Yamamoto, but he got dragged away by someone. Since Mr. Patrick sees everyone having a partner, he answered Mochida.
"Everyone has a partner except Tsunayoshi, so why not?" This answer made Mochida smile and Tsuna is terrified of what is going to happen.
"Umm, Sensei. Can we see Tsunayoshi and Mochida spar first? We are kind of interested in what might happen." They tried to urge the teacher, with exception of Yamamoto of course.
Like earlier, Mr. Patrick was thinking hard. He seemed like a guy who can't decide anything. Mochida puts his best puppy-dog face at Mr. Patrick. He eyed Mochida, and then Tsuna, the smallest of the pair.
Fifteen minutes later…
"Umm…teacher?" Mochida said, and the teacher still looked like he was thinking.
'How long does it take for him to think?' Everyone thought as Mr. Patrick was thinking.
"Hmmm…." Mr. Patrick couldn't make up his mind.
Another Fifteen Minutes.
"Hmm...." Mr. Patrick was still thinking.
"That's it! I don't care!" Mochida shouted, extremely impatient and stared fiercely at Tsuna.
Tsuna stepped back immediately. This is not good.
"Fire Beam!" Mochida launched a fire spell at Tsuna, who started to run.
Mr. Patrick was still thinking, not even looking up on the current situation. Everyone sweat dropped at the one-sided situation.
"Earthquake!" Mochida puts his hand on the ground, making the ground shake.
Tsuna lost his balance and fell. He then noticed that there were weapons lined up the walls of the dojo. Mochida jumped and was in the air above Tsuna, preparing for another attack.
"Lightning…" Tsuna immediately rolled away and grabbed any weapon.
"Dammit! Can't you stay in one place?!" Mochida shouted when he missed.
'Do you think I'm a dummy?' Tsuna thought as he stood up with his weapon in hand. It was a sword. Seeing the sword, Mochida summoned one of his strongest monsters he could muster. And it was a giant fire-breathing monster named Garon. Like a barbaric monster that resembled a monkey, Garon is one of the strongest summon of between the ranks C ~ B. Tsuna felt very unimpressed at the monster. Because, one, he easily knew its weaknesses. Two, he expected something even worser.
Two Years Ago; Spring
"Since you're not a mage, I decided that you should know some things about magic." Rinko had Tsuna sit on a stool, facing her and the chalkboard.
"Magic? Is it like those when you bring out a cool monster or something?!" The nine year old Tsuna was getting excited by the minute.
"It's called summoning magic. And they don't randomly summon cool monsters. Mages need mana in order to perform magic, and they had the unique ability to collect mana around them. Normal people don't have this ability though." Rinko was rather upset when she learned this, and wanted to teach Tsuna magic.
"The summons before the spells of D is mainly animals, than from D onwards, there are some special summons such as Rabbito, Ravido, Lyra and more. In order to summon them, it's important that they make a contract with them first though. The most commonly used and personally looked 'weak', in my opinion, would be Garon."
"Garon?" Tsuna was confused.
"Garon looks like a fire type. He is more likely to bash up opponents and is easily obtained. However, I know his weaknesses."
"How can such a strong monster have weaknesses!?" Tsuna exclaimed, extremely surprised.
"Everything has weakness. Nothing is perfect, and you know it." Rinko was putting her hands on the little boy's shoulder.
Tsuna nodded, understanding what she had meant.
"Garon's weakness are…" Rinko whispered everything, and he nodded.
Back to reality
Tsuna was blocking Garon's attacks, but he was heavy that the ground made a small crater as the ground could not withstand his weight. 'He's heavy!' Tsuna thought as beads of perspiration dropped down his face. 'Even though he is a fire type, he is however an Earth type instead. That's why when water is poured on him, it does not affect him. Wind does.' Rinko's words that day echoed in Tsuna's mind, who knew what to do.
"What's taking you so long!? GARON! SMASH HIM!" Mochida pressured his summon, and Garon pressed harder.
'Jeez, he's annoying.' Tsuna thought and gave a kick at what-supposed-to-be Garon's stomach, pushing him away. Tsuna saw his shoe with some unknown yet hot slimey liquid. 'Eewww….what did I just kick?!' Tsuna was disgusted at the slime. Mochida is irritated. His summon is so useless that it cannot take out a little peasant boy! Tsuna ran to the side of the gym, dropped his sword, and looked at the height of the curtains. Wind Curtains were mostly used to prevent the wind from blowing into the training room.
"What does he intend to do?" Someone asked as Tsuna grabbed the line to pull up the wind curtains.
'Does he intend to pull up the Wind Curtains!?' Yamamoto thought. It wasn't easy to set up the curtain, let alone even putting it back together. Tsuna immediately pull it up – by running up the wall. Everyone was awed and Mr. Patrick is still thinking, not seeing the scene.
"Wow…he can even do that?" Mochida saw that the attention is stolen away from him which is diverting to Tsuna.
"Garon! Get him now!" He was furious.
By now, the curtain has been completely withdrawn and wind is blowing in at an alarming rate. Girls pressed on their skirts as the wind blew hard, and some boys were peeking at their underwear from behind. Yamamoto took a bat and hit them all unconscious. He didn't do it for the girls; he just didn't want the boys to do something so disgusting in his father's training tower. This really made the girls have a good impression on him. Ahem, a too GOOD impression on him.
"Yamamoto-kun is awesome!" A girl shouted, and Yamamoto suddenly faced a flock of girls leaving their skirts being blown with their hands in the air.
"O-oi! Your skirts!" Yamamoto shouted and blocked the sight with his arms.
"Garon!" Mochida shouted and suddenly saw his summon wearing a grass skirt and had eyes that admired the wind.
"Oi, oi, don't tell me that Mochida sempai's Garon is a female?" One boy talked behind his back as Tsuna throws a boomerang to knock the Garon out.
Flashback at Summons Centre three years ago; Spring
"Now kids, choose your Garons here." The nurse politely said as Mochida ran to the biggest Garon.
"Sensei! Can I have this?" Mochida said as his teacher ran to him.
"Are you sure?" His teacher said in disbelief.
"Yes! I am extra positive that this Garon is fit for me!" Mochida then hugged the Garon.
'Dammit, Mochida is so selfish.' Some students thought as they got different Garons. The nurse and the teacher were lost for words as Mochida made a contract with the Garon.
Back at reality
"…………." Mochida did not believe that he made a mistake and now he is blaming it on Tsuna.
Tsuna got down from the height as the winds slowed down and saw Mochida after him. He immediately ran off, to the other part of the dojo. Seeing a hole and a piece of cloth beside it, Tsuna decides to make a trap. He immediately tied the cloth to cover the hole and jumped when Mochida almost caught him.
"Fire Panel!" Mochida summoned a fire spell to burn Tsuna.
Yamamoto saw the fire spell burning some parts of the dojo.
"O-oi! Don't burn the dojo! Someone put out the fire!" Yamamoto shouted as Tsuna was in the air.
"Hai! Yamamoto-kun~!" A girl stepped in to volunteer and summoned a water fairy to put out the fire.
"How did I do?" The girl asked, and Yamamoto made a face palm.
Tsuna landed at the trampoline and immediately jumped off. Mochida jumped into the trampoline, and the cloth tears due to his weight, making Mochida fall into the hole. Soon enough, Mr. Patrick snapped out of his thinking and saw the dojo wet, he was furious that the Wind Curtains were also opened! There was a Garon who is dried up lying on the ground and everyone surrounded that hole. He walked towards the hole to find Mochida inside.
"Mochida! What are you doing here?! On the first day and trapping yourself there!" Mr. Patrick screamed and everyone ran away.
"It wasn't me!" Mochida tried to shift the blame to Tsuna.
"WHO WAS THE ONE WHO PULLED THE WIND CURTAINS!?" Mr. Patrick glared at his students, making them frightened.
After some silence, Tsuna timidly raised up his hand.
"Hmm…Sawada Tsunayoshi. You will be punished for pulling the Wind Curtains later. Can someone get a ladder for Mochida?" Mr. Patrick seemed calm all of a sudden.
Tsuna blinked, but knew that he would get punished for pulling the Wind Curtains.
After school
Tsuna was in the principal's room with Yamamoto and looked down.
"Sawada Tsunayoshi, right?" The principal looked at the report.
He just nodded, without glancing at the principal.
"Your punishment will be putting up the Wind Curtains back to its original place in one week. If you can't do it, then you're expelled." The principal declared.
"Father!" Yamamoto disagreed with his father.
"Takeshi! Stay out of this." The principal ordered.
"But shouldn't I be blamed too, for bringing in Tsuna?" Yamamoto pointed, hoping that he could do the punishment with Tsuna.
Tsuna saw his friend standing up for him. He didn't expect him to stand up for him at all.
"Takeshi, don't put me in a hard place. Unlike Mochida, who is a noble, this boy is just a peasant and even though he had helped you, I still need to punish him." The principal said with a concerned tone, and Yamamoto backed out.
While they were talking, Tsuna was thinking of something Rinko told him about setting up the Wind Curtain.
A Year Ago; Summer
"Tsuna, do you know what a Wind Curtain is?" Rinko asked the boy suddenly.
"Well, a little. I learned that a Wind Curtain is used to block out the wind from the Mechanical Class." Tsuna said, recounting the class.
"Did they teach you how to set it up?" Rinko asked, with a unsatisfied face.
"No. They did not." Tsuna replied, after thinking for a while.
'I guess the Wind Curtain is too complicated.' Rinko thought and proudly stood in front of Tsuna.
"Then probably I'll tell you how. Most people do it takes about a month because they do not know the shortcut." Rinko mentioned, making Tsuna curious. She then whispered into Tsuna's ear. "The shortcut takes only a week!"
Tsuna was intrigued, but wasn't sure what Rinko was going to show him.
Back in reality
The principal turned to Tsuna, having been convinced that he had a lighter punishment.
"Can you do it? Or I should prepare another lighter punishment." The principal felt as if he was being too harsh on the boy.
"No. I'll do it." Tsuna said with a determined face, shocking the father and son.
"T-Tsuna! How can you set up the Wind Curtains in a week!? It took us months!" Yamamoto shouted.
Tsuna shook his head, and the principal questioned his willingness to do so.
"If you're really that confident, prove it." The principal said, and Tsuna still nodded.
He was determined to face this.
"I'll do it in a week to prove that I'm not a normal peasant!" Tsuna shouted, ending the discussion.
End of Chapter 3
Yeah. Tsuna did not own Mochida with Dying Will Mode, jumping on him and taking out his hair. This was what I planned to tell you guys that I'm not copying the storyline! I will not put infos on minor characters, so those with infos are major characters. I plan on writing the skill book for the summons too, with influences from MMOs. They can't be published in the story, since it would be a bother to include non-story material.
Wind Curtains - As the Vongola Empire is located at the East, this means winds blow throughout the kingdom violently, and as a result, invented the Wind Curtains. They are very hard to set up, let alone expensive. Most used in high-ranked areas. It takes practically months to set up, but apparently, Rinko seemed to have found a easier way to set it up, and it might be solved by other intelligent people, but the world never knew.