Chapter 2 - Deciding

"Batter, Miyuki Kazuya-kun," the speaker announced as a brunette with goggles strides towards the home base after a one full swing in the air with the bat he was holding.

Yamamoto grinned excitedly. Witnessing the 'Miyuki Kazuya' one of the best catcher in Japan back to his real world in a form of a high-schooler, who wouldn't get goose bumps after realizing you are being recruited by the school where one of your idols resides? He must be crazy if he don't. This is actually scenting chills directly into his spine out of excitement. He's now at Seido High School for the visit.

Rei, his recruiter saw through his obvious amusement. He tensed up and robotically turns his sight on her who was fixing her glasses with a twinkle in it. Takeshi meekly flashed a smile. His recruiter sure is pretty sharp. However, he will not change his decision because this won't actually gave him any merit like getting near to his sky and the others, this decision became more solid when that incident occurred the other day.

Flashback

Takeshi was stunned of what his sky just sardonically stated. He was speechless, who wouldn't? Tsuna made him happy for an instant then crash it afterwards. "Aa…hahaha," he forced a laugh, he doesn't know why he did that though, maybe because he wanted to laugh at his idiocy or should we say stupidity. Asari already told him that the world he's currently in is where he will not be interacting to any Vongola family members. "I'm sorry…hahaha," he continued his awkward way of laughing, "you're right, I haven't told you my name yet," he paused biting his lower lip. Now he doesn't know how his life would turn out without his friends, after all he's with them all his life back to where he was still alive, "my name is Takeshi Yamamoto," he said.

The guardian heard a sigh on the other line though it sounded like he's relieve about something, "I see," Tsuna finally spoke, "Takeshi Yamamoto-san," he paused and for the second time, he sighed again. The way he called his name is very strange to Takeshi himself, "I don't know why I have a feeling that you're not a dangerous person, my head is pounding like crazy upon hearing your voice and name, it say's I should trust you," he paused again, Takeshi mentally smiled on what he had heard, he thought it might have something to do with Tsuna's hyper intuition, "but," Tsuna continued, "this doesn't mean I'm trusting you, if you harm my innocent sweet mother, I will make sure you'll pay it back ten folds" he warned, Takeshi remained silent, he actually couldn't blame Tsuna since he was in the first place a stranger to them in this world, "so if you'll excuse me, I'm a busy person, I'm putting the phone down, remember what I said," Tsuna reminded, Takeshi couldn't respond and before he could finally say a word, the call ended. What made him speechless is because he couldn't accept the fact that Tsuna is very different compare to his world. But his sky is still his sky, if he couldn't accept this Tsuna then he is not worth it, he should think of a way where he could directly interact to his sky so he can gain his trust just like in his world. He won't back down; he'll just set aside what Asari told him.

End of Flashback

"Come to think of it," Takeshi thought aloud, "going to Italy is the only option," he grinned at his idea though this vanished as he thought about the expenses that will be consumed, he then just sweat drop. Just where the heck is he going to get a huge amount of money, he is not that rich after all.

"Did you just say something, Yamamoto?" Rei asked as she noticed the devastated look on Takeshi's face, she couldn't help but wonder since Seido is actually winning the game.

Takeshi sheepishly looked at her, "hahaha," he nervously laughed as his response since his head is not really at the game, "It's noth-."

"I thought I heard you said Italy," Rei cuts shooting a glance at him then shrug, "well speaking of Italy," Takeshi discreetly turned his attention to her. "This upcoming school year, there will be a competition that will be held… the winning team will have an invitation to go to Italy and will have a chance to play with their representative team." The rain guardian this time actually turn to look at her in interest, not because the winning team will be competing to another competitive team in a foreign place but because of the set location, it's Italy we are talking about, "However, only the schools from Tokyo are allowed to participate in this said competition," she sternly smiled, "this should be kept as a secret until the next school year, I don't know why I told you about it though," Rei paused and stared at him as if thinking why she spat an information to a kid she doesn't really sure if he'll accept the scholarship their school was offering.

Takeshi was silent for a minute blankly staring back at his recruiter, "if you don't mind, can you tell me where exactly in Italy." Rei arches a brow at his sudden interest of the place Italy. However, Takeshi is wrong if he thought he could take advantage of the open conversation, after all he was talking to a recruiter.

"If I tell you, will you take my offer?" she asked wickedly looking at him. Takeshi reverted back to just staring at her again, "this after all is classified information for now, telling you this is as important as my job here," Rei said as she sensed that the guardian won't say a word not until she elaborate even more.

"I'll think about it," Takeshi responded after a while.

"Then you'll know the exact place after I get what I want," Rei ended pushing her glasses upward. "Oh!" she then reacted after realizing that the match already ended. Seido won the practice game against Komashiro. "Follow me," she said striding towards the entry, Takeshi did as she told. He followed her until he realized that he was already in front of the Seido first string regulars. He gaped at the person who's stoically staring at him; it's Yuuki Tetsuya, one of his idols in terms of batting.

"Ah Yuuki, this is Yamamoto Takeshi-kun, he is here to visit our school, he will soon be in our team if he accept the scholarship the school was offering," she introduced. This caught all the regulars' attention; they shifted their sight at him.

Miyuki who just took out his goggles immediately looked at Rei's direction after he heard Yamamoto's name, he travelled his sight to the guy behind Rei who's currently gaping at their captain, "eh? Yamamoto Takeshi from Namimori Middle School?" he wanted to confirm, he actually took everyone's attention, maybe wondering why he knew the guy Rei was scouting. Miyuki plastered his usual grin, "what?" this time he looked at his teammates acting so innocent. "You don't know him?" he pointed at the guardian, gaining no response which seems to be a 'yes' to his side, he then just sigh. "Well I can't really say anything about him since its Chris-senpai's team who faced theirs and…" he paused glancing at the rain, "it was quite a game noting that his team looks like a one man team," Miyuki had become stern on what he stated.

"Hey! You don't just judge someone's team like that!" Isashiki exclaimed.

Miyuki grinned even more, "but that's what I observed watching their match." He countered.

Takeshi on the other hand was just clueless of what Miyuki kept talking about, and Chris-senpai? Is he referring to an international baseball player Takigawa Chris Yuu back to his real world? Well he can't help but assume since as he take a better look at the regulars around him the more he realize that this team is scary because they are all considered as star players to his world. Is he really going to decline such an offer? This is a once lifetime moment he will encounter plus he has a chance to go to Italy.

"Anyway, we'll be going now," Rei cut at the rising one sided fight between Isashiki and Miyuki because surely the catcher enjoys annoying a person, "it's about time he go back to his town."

And now they are already at the train station, "So what do you think about the first string?" Rei asked smiling as he saw Takeshi's undecided expression, she's sure that Takeshi is reconsidering the scholarship. Takeshi just vacantly glanced at her. "Well I actually thought that you are interested at the competition I mentioned to you and Seido is just one of the strong schools in Tokyo, and its hard-fought tournament every year. There's no guarantee that you'll do well no matter how hard you train. Despite that fact, if you wanted to give it a try to our school, give me a call." she said then sighed, "okay then I won't pressure you so I'll tell you the exact place in Italy," Takeshi blinked at that sudden announcement, "it's at Sicily," she smiled, "now the decision is all yours."

End of Chapter

A/N:

Hope you like the chapter, there isn't anything much about it though but hope you still look forward to my next chapter. It'll probably take at least one more chapter before he became a high schooler. And I know you know why I picked Sicily, Italy since that's the place where Mafia started. Also, I've researched that they held tournaments there in regards with baseball. Please do point out any annoying wrong grammar and misspelled words; I'll be pleased to change it.