I know I said that this will be Lambo's chapter, but Yamamoto's birthday came up so...
Tropes of Vongola
Tropes of Yamamoto
Big Damn Heroes
Yamamoto Takeshi was one of the first people to help him join a game, a person who introduced him to a sport he now greatly enjoyed.
A person who wanted to be his friend.
But what did he do? He attacked him, injured him in a way that is fatal, a way that made him lay there on the hospital bed unaware of the world around him, oblivious to his friends' grief.
All for family.
Kaoru is definitely surprised when he sees the boy he almost killed standing tall in front of him, miraculously alive and grinning and…
Saving him.
He couldn't believe it, he really couldn't.
But then Yamamoto smiles at him and calls him a friend and Kaoru doesn't have a choice but to cry.
Failed a Spot Check
"Oh! You're playing that Mafia game again, huh? Can I join?"
Gokudera was positive that the idiot didn't understand a single thing about Mafia. It's ridiculous to have a subordinate like him, he thinks.
I guess he's useful, he thinks again when he sees how annoyingly competent the baseball freak was.
Still, he wonders how long is he going to stick with them when he realizes that this wasn't a game at all.
"These Mafia games can get pretty tiring, huh?"
Gokudera takes one look at the now older Yamamoto and sees the change.
His face and heart are scarred, his eyes immensely burdened.
Understandable, he lost his father because of these Mafia games after all.
I guess he has the right to hate us.
But then Gokudera realizes that the baseball freak long since figured out about the Mafia games, and he still stood there with them all of these years.
It's useful to have him around, Gokudera thinks, almost fondly.
Friendly Enemy
Sometimes, Squalo really gets pissed about Yamamoto's carefree attitude with people he's supposed to fight.
It's doesn't make a damn sense!
You do not get sad about the fact your opponent died, you do not get happy when it turns out that he's alive, you do not greet someone who tried to fucking kill you with a smile!
You're a swordsman, in the Mafia, act like it!
"Oh hey, Squalo!" as if cue, the brat greets.
This damn brat will be the end of me.
Squalo sighed and dragged him for training.
No Sense of Personal Space
People in the Mafia world would wonder why the greatest hitman, the legendaryReborn, put up with Yamamoto Takeshi's antics.
He holds him high and pats his head and treats him like a normal baby and he's still not dead.
Why is that? they question as they look at the last person who dared to treat Reborn like a baby, said person's face ruined beyond recognition.
If Reborn heard this question, he would simply answer with this:
"He reminds me of myself, and he has the highest shoulder to sit on."
Beware The Nice Ones
Yamamoto was one of the best swordsmen around in this era, with so much potential to improve even more.
And most of the times, with how cheerful and nice he is, people tend to forget that.
And that's a grave mistake.
Interrupted Suicide
He decided not jump half-way through Tsuna's speech.
His way of wording was a bit awkward, and he ran away as soon as he finished, shouting an embarrassed, "Sorry!"
But even with that, Yamamoto found it admirable of him to open up to the entire school about himself (a school that its students would later make fun and torment him for what he said) all in effort to make him realize that he's too amazing to throw away everything like that.
And as he fell off the roof, he was somehow content, not bitter like he was just moments ago.
Tsuna saved him, and he later reelects that it was in a really weird way.
That's the way he gained his first, real friend.
As the years passed, Tsuna would always say, "Sorry," in a quiet, hushed voice.
I'm sorry for getting you involved in this…
"Don't be," Yamamoto would reply with a genuine smile.
Sure he went through a lot, but he doesn't regret a simple thing. He got a second chance to live, and he's going to spend it well.
Getting involved in Mafia games was a small price he was willing to pay.
Happy Birth Day Yamamochan!