A/N: Hey, 'sup, reader? Thanks for all the reviews eveyone. I'm glad to see that you like the fic. Note to skitty-nya, do not despair there will be some 8027 in this fic, just not anytime soon x( sorry. Oh, next chapter there will be some (one-sided?) 1859 and 2759/5927 if you squint. What else...? Oh yeah, any questions, just ask and I'll clarify what you want to understand about the madararui world :)
Story Thus Far: Yamamoto and Ryohei have been trying to teach Tsuna of the madararui world, but Tsuna has been hesitant. Two transfer students have joined Yamamoto and Tsuna's class, one of them clearly having a deep hatred for Tsuna. Ryohei, who used a special move called "blind" so that Tsuna can't freely see other's Soul's Appearances, becomes entranced by Tsuna's smell and almost pounces on him, but Tsuna's Soul's Appearance comes out. Now, two strange men have appeared before Ryohei and Yamamoto. One claiming to be Tsuna's future tutor and the other his future… husband?
"Right now," Reborn said coolly. "The only reason Sawada Tsunayoshi hasn't been raped is because you guys masked his scent with that of a heavy-seed snake's making it appear as though he has been claimed. Smart. You've also blinded him so that he wouldn't keep freaking out about seeing people's Soul's Appearances. Also smart."
Ryohei and Yamamoto beamed with pride.
Reborn smirked. "Except that was dumb."
"What?" Yamamoto retorted.
Reborn crossed his arms and said, "What you're doing is playing a game of pretend. You think 'if we say he's taken, we can protect him' and 'if he thinks he can't see Soul's Appearances, he won't be scared.' These types of things are only true for a very short while. But I will train him so that his protection and lack of fear are permanent. For that reason and one other, Heavy-seed Honey bear, I'm going to need you to cancel the blinding on the retrograde."
"If not," Dino added on with a smile. "I'll have to force it undone, which I don't want to have to do, seeing as how that might hurt Tsuna. And we're not here to hurt anyone. Understand that we mean well."
Ryohei and Yamamoto shook with both fright and fury. They didn't know whether to trust or doubt. They couldn't decide should they run or believe in these guys. One thing was for sure, fighting was not an option. They couldn't quite tell the soul shapes of the men, but they could smell that they were heavy-seeds, strong heavy-seeds. Possibly stronger than anyone they ever encountered.
"Okay." Ryohei finally said. Everyone's eyes widened just a bit. "I'll cancel the blinding, but that guy has to tell me what he means by becoming Tsuna's husband! It's totally unacceptable!"
Dino chuckled. "Actually, Heavy-seed bear, it's totally unacceptable to not have the retrograde give birth to my child. See, I'm a super-rare breed, dying out, in fact. I'm most likely the last of my kind, so~ I need the Returners to Ancestry to have my kid."
"Which happens to be the second reason you need to cancel the blinding." Reborn said. "How is he supposed to fuck Tsuna if he can't seduce the boy?"
Dino puffed up his cheeks. "Dude, don't speak in such a vulgar tone!"
Reborn grabbed onto the blonde's ear tightly. "How did you just refer to your former teacher?"
"Ow, ow!" Dino whined with tears on the verge of spilling out. "That really hurts."
At that moment, Ryohei and Yamamoto's image of Dino shifted.
Tsuna slammed himself into his bed after sprinting home.
"I hate this!" He whimpered. "I can't talk to Kyoko-chan properly, I'm being watched by a pervert, I got an erection from a guy then turned into an animal, and even though I've gained one of the most popular kids as my friend, all he ever talks about with me is this weird animal thing! Why me? What did I do to deserve this?" For a long while, he laid on his bed, despising his now twisted life.
"Tsu-kun!" His mother called from downstairs. "Some friends are here to visit you!"
"Friends?" Tsuna asked himself, looking up from where he had been crying tears of self-pity. "Not just Yamamoto, but onii-san too, I guess. I should probably apologize to them for running off like that." He looked to the door and blushed. "But what if onii-san comes into my room and tries something weird again or worse… what if Yamamoto does? Nah, Yamamoto's my devoted friend, he would never do something like that… then again I thought the same things about onii-san!" Tsuna bit at his fingernails questioning what to do when suddenly his door was kicked in to reveal a slim, tall man in a black suit and hat.
"What the hell?" Reborn shouted. "Are you really so rude as to keep guests waiting like that?"
"Reborn, calm down!" Dino said as he entered onto the scene. He waved to Tsuna when he spotted the speechless boy. "Ah, that's Returner's to Ancestry? Not bad, kind of cute."
"Tsuna!" Ryohei and Yamamoto called out, running up to their friend. "Are you okay?"
Tsuna could only stare at the crowd in his doorway with wide eyes and white face. "I… you… what…"
Ryohei came over to him and put his fingers to Tsuna's forehead. "I'm cancelling the blinding right now, okay?"
Tsuna didn't respond only remained in his previous position. When he finished, Ryohei backed away from the boy so that all of the guests were in Tsuna's view. His jaw dropped and eyes rolled to the back of his head. Did he just see a crocodile? And a beast? What was that beast, it was the first time he'd seen a madararui of that kind. No to mention, there was a bear…
"Ah, too… much…" Tsuna then fainted, his Soul's Appearance coming out once more.
Reborn walked up to the unconscious Tsuna and picked him up. "A Loris with a lion's mane?"
Yamamoto's face scrunched up. "I thought a lemur!"
"It seems the eyes point to Loris, but the ears say lemur…" Dino noted.
"He's a Returners to Ancestry, so isn't he just going to look weird to the extreme no matter what?" Ryohei suggested. The other men agreed.
Tsuna woke up, crawled over something in order to get out of bed, then tugged on his uniform. Last night, he felt that he had a horrible dream. There were all kinds of scary creatures and some mysterious guys, but everything was okay now, wasn't it? He yawned, stretched, and headed for the door, but mid-way stopped. What the hell? He spun on his heel to look at his bed. He rewound the past events in his head. Stretch, yawn, put on uniform, crawl over something to get out of bed, wake up. Stretch, yawn, put on uniform, crawl over something to get out bed –Pause- what the hell did he crawl over? He gulped before slowly approaching his bed and removing the blankets to reveal the blond man from last night, curled up and sleeping. Tsuna let out a single scream then fell down from surprise and scampered away from the bed.
Dino yawned, sitting up with his eyes fluttering open. "Ah, morning already? Oh, hey, wassup, Tsuna?"
Tsuna took in a huge breath before hollering at the top of his lungs, "WHAT THE HELL?"
It was awkward. Yamamoto, Ryohei, Reborn, and Dino had all stayed over so that they could have a talk with Tsuna in the morning. So, there they were, five males sitting around for breakfast about to speak of life-changing decisions. To say that there was tension was beyond an understatement. That was like an under-understatement.
"Where to start?" Reborn said. "Tsuna, you are already aware that you're a Returner's to Ancestry and I'm sure you're already aware what that means as far as your place in the madararui world. In other worlds, the retrograde means something else, because of that, I was sent to train you so that you could take some tests and be accepted into the madararui world and these other underground lives, got it?"
"Tests?" Tsuna asked. "Why should I work to pass tests in order to become a part of something that I want nothing to do with?"
"Because if you don't, you'll be taken away by the government." Dino said blatantly.
"Oh." Tsuna stated simply. He then faltered a bit. "W-Wait! You're the creepy guy who was in my bed!"
"What?" Ryohei shouted, spitting out his drink. Tsuna's statement made Yamamoto quite shocked too, the boy choking on some of his food. Ryohei pat Yamamoto's back until he spit the chunk up.
Dino smirked at Tsuna making the boy blush furiously and look away.
"Hold up to the extreme!" Ryohei bellowed, he was going to attack Dino, but Yamamoto held him back. "Stay out of Tsuna's bed and don't go around smirking and releasing your pheromones at him either! Or I'll cast the blinding on him again!"
"Stay out of this, bear." Reborn said coldly, throwing a bit of food in Ryohei's face.
Ryohei trembled with rage.
"Hey!" Tsuna shouted. "I don't mind you offering to help me, mister, but I will not tolerate you messing with my friends especially when their trying to protect me!"
Ryohei's eyes glistened. "Tsuna…" Him and Yamamoto murmured together, both dazzled by Tsuna standing up for them.
Dino glanced at Reborn who sighed in reply.
"Listen," The brunette man said. "We're talking business here and these two kids," he tilted his head in Yamamoto and Ryohei's direction. "are getting in the way of that talk. Now, I can see you really care about your buddies and if you don't want them to get hurt, you'll ask them to leave."
Ryohei's teeth gritted together and Yamamoto's fingers balled up into tight fists. Tsuna swallowed and glimpsed at friends then to the mysterious men in front of him and back and forth.
"Yamamoto, Onii-san," Tsuna said sadly. "Just go. These guys are scary and I don't want anything to happen to you."
"Tsuna…" They muttered before dejectedly leaving the house.
"Good choice." Reborn said with a smile. "Making good decisions like that is what makes a perfect mafia boss."
"Mafia?" Tsuna retorted.
"Ma-fi-a." Reborn sang. "I'm talkin' Vongola, the largest most successful mafia famiglia. And you're going to be the tenth boss of it."
"Wh-what?"
"Yep." Dino said. "I'm part of the Cavallone, a strong Vongola ally. The Vongola usually choose two candidates to become the boss, but whenever a Returners to Ancestry shows up, they automatically become the number one candidate."
"We were this close to picking one of the other two, but then we got word of you and came here to get you." Reborn said. "So, whether it's the madararui world entrance test or training for you to be the perfect mafia boss, I'm going to be working you like a dog."
"And I," Dino said happily. "Will work to seduce you and make you have my child. While you were sleeping, I covered you with my scent to mark you as mine. Rest assured no one will dare come near you now."
Hearing these things made Tsuna feel even worse than when he was first told about the madararui world. It was a feeling that there was no return. There was no going back.
"Where could that idiot Cavallone be?" Gokudera grumbled as Lambo walked with him to school.
"Ugh, why are we walking?" Lambo groaned. "You know I could've told one of the subordinates to drive us to school."
"You're always abusing your power, demanding them around. I told you to stop owing the Cavallone so much and you won't have the problem you do now."
"Tsk, it's more than an issue of obligation."
"Then what is it?"
"I can't…"
"What is wrong with you?" Gokudera snapped, stomping his foot onto the ground. "It feels like you've always been keeping something from me! I don't like it! How am I supposed to live with you two when I feel like I can barely trust you?"
"Gokudera…" Lambo said, wincing and glancing downwards.
"Tell me!" Gokudera commanded. "Tell me what's going on!"
Lambo gulped then requested that Gokudera say what he already knew.
"About what?"
"Me and Dino."
"I know that Dino is the boss of the Cavallone, an ally to the Vongola and that he found you after you were abandoned by the Bovino since you were a dog amongst a family of purely bears. Dino, who is believed to be the last madararui horse, raised you. He treats you like a princess in trade for sex, right?"
"That's not the truth."
"What?"
"The fact that I was abandoned and that I have sex with Dino."
"Then what is?"
"I've been wanting to tell someone this for a long time and lately, I've been needing someone to confide in about this. I think Dino, Romario, and I are the only ones who know."
"Know what?"
"You see, the truth is…"
Gokudera's fast pace alerted everyone of his anger despite him being a light-seed some still cringed with fear from his frustrated face.
"Wait! Gokudera!" Lambo cried out after him, trying to catch up. He latched onto Gokudera's arm.
"Let me go!" The boy hollered, slapping Lambo's hand away. "I can't believe you would keep something that big a deal from me!"
"I'm sorry!"
"Shut up! What is wrong with you? Don't you realize this also gives you reason to hate the retrograde?" Gokudera said. "He's taking your purpose in life away from you too!"
"It's not his fault though since Dino is just doing what he has to because of the burden he has."
"Don't take up for the Returner's to Ancestry or that asshole! You should hate that guy!"
"That's horrible! You're just bitter because we kept a few secrets."
Gokudera grabbed Lambo by the hair and threw the boy to the earth floor. "Shut up!"
"Stop acting like this or I'll tell Dino and he'll—"
Gokudera slammed his foot down onto the curly-haired. "You bitch! Abusing your power like that! I'm not some subordinate of the Cavallone! I don't depend on them!" Repeatedly he kicked Lambo, blood tricking from the boy's nose and his clothes becoming dusted with sand and dirt.
Yamamoto, Ryohei, and Tsuna all together turned the corner to the school gates to see the scene of several kids watching from afar as Gokudera beat Lambo. Tsuna gasped and ran towards the two.
"Tsuna, stop!" Yamamoto yelled, but it was too late.
Tsuna tackled Gokudera to the ground, landing on top of the boy with a harsh thud. "Stop it! Why are you hurting your friend?"
Gokudera quickly pushed Tsuna off and stood. "You bastard!" He snarled. "You have no idea what this is about and no business judging my actions! And you definitely can't call a liar like him a friend of mine!" Gokudera was about to attack Tsuna, but felt the powerful glare of Yamamoto and he hastily retreated to inside the school building, where several floors up, Hibari had been watching with some amusement.
Tsuna began walking towards the building, but was grabbed by Ryohei. "Leggo." Tsuna said. "I have to go after him."
"Are you crazy?" Yamamoto asked. "He's a lost cause. Just an angry soul."
"No, he's not." Tsuna said. "He deserves our sympathy more than our resentment!"
"What are you talking about?"
"That guy… he's in so much pain. It'd be shameful to let him go on that way… I want to help him. If we can get rid of that pain, then maybe he won't be so cruel to everyone. Maybe he can even be our friend… besides, didn't you notice? It looked like he was about to cry."
Ryohei and Yamamoto looked at each other, then Ryohei let go of Tsuna's arm.
"Those bastards!" Gokudera whined while aimlessly roaming the halls. "I hate them! Everyone! There's no one who understands…!" He wiped tears from his eyes then looked around the room he was in. "Where am I? This school is new to me and I was just strolling around, so I have idea where this is… it's so dark."
"This," A familiar voice hummed. "Is my office."
Gokudera could feel his hairs bristle. "Y-You're…!"
"My name is Hibari Kyoya, kitten."
Because I love this fic so much, I feel like I've been neglecting my others (specifically A Different Kind of Mafia Family though I really like that fic). Encourage me by reviewing this fic and my others please.
