Secondo Capitolo
"So, tell me Tetsuya-kun, when do you plan on telling me that you were coming back home here? It's not like you not to tell me of your activities," Tsuna said when he saw down at the chair opposite to the side where Tetsuya was seated.
"I don't plan to tell you. I mean never. But I did plan to come here earlier. Most probably a month earlier," the other man said, the smile now can't be seen from his face and having his usual dead-panned face.
"And the others?" Tsuna asked.
"Oh, they should be here at the same time I got here. But somehow, they all said they're off to somewhere first and I left them. It's a good thing though. I don't think your guardians will still be alive if they heard what they said," Tetsuya answered, his face still not changing.
Tsuna sighed at the man's words. "I thought it was just my imagination when I felt your presence behind them. But still, you really heard that, huh?"
Tetsuya only nodded, not trusting his voice to speak without venom remembering what he heard from his boss' guardians. Many may not know who he really is, but he is the Vongola Decimo's Phantom Guardian, and many have heard of it, they just never knew who the Phantom Guardian is.
But now, Tetsuya is willing to reveal himself and his own familigia to the Mafia world, if that meant protecting his boss from danger, even from his own guardians. He believed that his boss may be safe from facing danger by himself, but that doesn't mean he's safe when it concerns his Familigia. The Vongola Decimo will put the others first over his own even if meant that they all hate him.
"You know Tsunayoshi-kun, I don't think you deserve to be treated the way they treat you," Tetsuya suddenly said after a minute of silence between them.
Tsuna looked at him confusedly before asking, "What do you mean? I deser-"
"No you don't," Tetsuya said cutting Tsuna from what he was about to say. He grabbed both Tsuna's shoulders and looked at him in the eyes while continuing what he was saying.
"You really don't, Tsunayoshi-kun. Don't tell me you deserve it, because if you really do, tell me at least one reason. You killed? That's no reason at all. You're a boss of the most powerful mafia family; you are the boss of the Vongola. You have a lot of enemies that you should face, and all of them want you dead. It's been in your history to kill. You want to change the mafia? Sure you can! But that doesn't mean you can avoid to kill.
"Primo started the Vongola originally to be a vigilante group, right? That doesn't mean he never killed. He also killed, Tsunayoshi-kun. He killed so he can protect. You two are the same, your only difference, his guardians understood him and stayed by him, but your guardian didn't. And it's not your fault, it's theirs. They never should've leave you alone. They should've stood by you so you can get through it. That's the original purpose of a guardian. To help, to protect and to always be there for their boss."
"And that's what we are here for. We'll be the one to fulfill what your real guardians can't," said a new voice by the door.
Tsuna and Tetsuya turned at the door and there they found seven different colored haired man and a woman standing by the door with big smiles on their face and a determined resolve set in their eyes. Tsuna was shocked to see all of them, but he was sure it was not yet all of them. There are still missing faces.
"We're home, Tsunayoshi. We're finally home and we won't be going anywhere again," said the short – I mean, average height – red-haired man.
Tsuna, though still shocked, smiled and said, "Welcome home, minna. And it's good to have you all back."
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"You know, I'm starting to doubt your ex-tutors preference for your guardians. He was the one who chose most of them for you right?" said the tanned-skin, blue-haired man.
"I'll come and visit your grave, Aomine-kun," said Tetsuya.
"W-ha… What?" Aomine asked, completely baffled.
"You really are stupid, nanodayo," commented a green-haired man named Midorima Shintaro.
"I told you so Aomine. You're a much bigger idiot than I am," commented another red-haired man, Kagami Taiga.
"Actually Kagamicchi, you're both the same. You only activate your idiocy at different times. After all, you wouldn't be called 'Ahomine' and 'Bakagami' for no reason, right?" said a blond-man, Kise Ryouta.
"And you're one of them, Ki-chin," said one giant purpled-haired guy named, Murasakibara Atsushi.
Tsuna only smiled at the playful bickering of his friends. It was so refreshing for him to see them being like this. He miss them so much. The last time he saw them was more than a year ago, nearly two months before the incident.
"Now minna, enough of that. But I'd like to know, when will the others come?" Tsuna joined their conversation.
"Well Tsu-kun, I think their plane just landed now. The B-cup just texted me, informing that they just got out of the airport. She said that they'll be here in one and a half hour, three at most," replied the pink-haired girl, Momoi Satsuki.
Tsuna's eyes widen a little when he heard the news. "Are you serious? Well then, let's prepare. It seems like we'll be in for a noisier and messier times. By the way, when are you leaving?"
"Do you want us to go now Tsu-chin? And we just got here," said the tallest person with purple hair, Murasakibara Atsushi.
"It's not it, Atsushi-kun. I'm just wondering. I would, after all, like to spend time with all of you."
"Actually, that is what supposed to be our surprise for you. We plan to tell you later this evening," Akashi said.
"But I'll say it now. We're staying here, Tsunayoshi-kun. And it's permanent," Kuroko said.
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It's been nearly two hours since Tsuna learned that his friends are staying with him permanently. It's also been nearly two hours since his other friends have arrived at the airport on the way to Vongola HQ. Though surprised, Tsuna was ecstatic that he'll be with his friends now. He wouldn't feel the loneliness he feels whenever he was at the HQ.
He immediately prepared the rooms for his friends and requested the chefs to cook for the coming new residents. When the workers heard this, they sighed a sigh of relief. They immediately know who are coming. They were there after all, whenever they came, and they were also there whenever they see the Decimo smile whenever he saw them, especially after the incident.
A lot of maids and butler observed that their boss' shoulder seemed to be a lot more relaxed, and that he's smiling widely again, and that it's more real and often than it was before. They're liking this simple change more and more; especially since their also having fun watching them bicker with each other yet, helping the other out.
"What are you doing Ahomine?! Why the hell are you adding sugar to the sauce?! I told you to add salt! Damn it! Get the fuck out of this fucking kitchen right now and stay away from what I'm doing! Instead of helping out, you're only going to ruin the dish more!" Kagami suddenly exclaimed.
"Well I'm sorry if I thought that the sugar was the salt! They looked exactly the same to me!" Aho – I mean, Aomine answered back.
"No Aomine-kun, they don't look the same. It's only because you're an aho that they look the same to you." Kuroko suddenly said while suddenly appearing out of nowhere, scaring nearly all of the occupants in the room, save Tsuna and Akashi.
"You really have to stop appearing out of nowhere Kuroko-chi. One day soon, you're gonna give us a heart attack." Kise said while a hand was placed on top of where his heart should be.
"I apologize then Kise-kun. I thought that you've finally got used to be popping out of nowhere after years of doing it, but it seems that I am mistaken." Kuroko answered still with his usual demeanor.
As Tsuna enjoyed the sight of his second family gathering around and playing jokes, he couldn't help but feel like there something missing. He looked around to see what was making him feel that way when he realized.
"Where's Ogiwara-kun?" Tsuna asked which was heard by the loud banter of his family (which was kind of a miracle, and no pun intended).
"Oh yeah, we forgot to tell you, didn't we?" Aomine blurted thoughtfully, which looked more like stupidly in Akashi, Kagami, Midorima and Momoi's point of view.
"Can you be any more stupid?" Kagami asked with a stoic face.
"You're not really different from him you know. You're practically the same, except for your basketball and cooking abilities, of course." Kise added.
"Of course! I'm a lot better than him. He can't even beat me on one on one." Aomine announced full of pride that he's a lot better than Kagami.
"But you do realize, Aomine-kun that you've just admitted that you're as stupid as Kagami-kun, right?" Kuroko asked Aomine with a look that screams 'Innocent,' but Tsuna doubt that it's an innocent question.
"Hey!" Both Kagami and Aomine exclaimed.
"Anyway, to answer your previous question Tsunayoshi, Shigehiro also parted ways from us after we landed. He said something about picking an important gift or was it dropping an important gift? But either way, he said that he'll be here at the same time with the others, or later." Akashi interfered and answered Tsuna's question.
Tsuna only smiled as an answer to Akashi, in appreciation of answering his question, but the former basketball players at the background continued their bickering as if nothing happened, and Tsuna can't help but remember how he got to meet each and every one of them.
To be continued…