Chapter Four: Sawada Tsunayoshi, Dame-Tsuna

"Gomen ne Yatsu." Yamamoto said, scratching his head while apologizing. "I had to help dad with some stuff so.."

"It's alright, Yamamoto." Ieyatsu smiled, facing the door he frowned. 'Here comes my idiotic brother..'

"Class! We have a new student today so be in your best behavior!" The female English teacher shouted, trying to get the boy's attention.

"Hai!"

The female teacher finally settled down, sighing. "You may come in now, Sawada."

"Ha-hai..." Tsunayoshi went in, tripping along the way.

"Hahahaha~"

"Still the Dame we know."

"Never changed, did he?"

"Hey! At least we don't have to act nervous around him."

"Seriously? This is your brother Ieyatsu? He looks weak!"

Tsuna looks down embarrassed but in the inside he smiled, 'This is for Nii-san's sake!' The English teacher stares at him and asked, "Well? Introduce yourself."

"I-I'm Sa-Sawada Tsuna-Tsunayoshi..." Tsuna smiles once again to himself, watching his classmate look at him just the same way like five years ago.

"Hey! Dame-Tsuna!" One of the bullies told a scrawny boy, watching his gang members kick the boy in the process.

"Ahh!" The boy screamed, holding his gut, "Nii-san!"

The boys just laughed, making the small boy wince. "Wh-Why are you laughing?"

"Because Dame-Tsuna!" The head of the boys taunted, being the tallest, he easily shadows the boy. "Your Nii-san doesn't care anymore!"

"Liar!" The boy shouted, tears falling down, "Nii-san cares!"

"Sawada?" The teacher asks, waving her hand.

More tears from the boy fall down. "Tsuna doesn't believe you!"

"Sawada!" This time the brunette faced her, with a blank stare that is. The English teacher just looked away, 'What was that?'

"Please sit down beside Kozato Enma."

Tsuna silently went to his seat removing all traces of his blank expression then looking to his right, he spots a scared red-headed student with lots of bruises.

"Ni-Nice to me-meet you...Tsuna-Tsunayoshi-kun." He stuttered, letting the brunette smile.

"Uhmm.." Tsuna reach out his hand to the red-head which immediately shrunk back to his seat. 'How am I gonna do this... Aha!'

Enma looked back, seeing the brunette scribbling down something on a paper. 'Heh?'

Tsuna then passed the written paper to Enma which the red-eyed boy opened willingly,

Call me Tsuna. Want to have a group study in my house?

"Tsuna...kun.." Enma read out, smiling slightly.

*Ding! Ding! Ding. Ding...*

'He seems nice...' Enma closed his eyes, 'But maybe...' Clenches the paper hard, making it into a rock origami. "..He's just like the rest of his family.'

-Roof top-

Tsuna looked down, watching the baseball players go around like ants. 'Enma... Huh?'

"Gao~!"

"Not now Nuts... You got to hide now." Tsuna said, not looking at his invincible pet's direction. "Some thugs are coming..."

"Well look what we have here!" A tall fat student exclaimed to his five friends, "It's Dame-Tsuna!"

"Wha-What do you want?..." Tsuna asked, calming Nuts at the same time, 'It's alright Nuts... I faced something worse than this.'

"Give us your allowance!" A tall skinny guy demanded, Tsuna just went back one step away from them.

"B-But I have no-no mo-money.." Tsuna said which was really true, the money he gotten from all the missions he did in the mafia was given away to charity, hungry districts and projects created by honest and right people.

"Oh yeah? Well let's see about that!"

Tsuna has a bad feeling on what's coming next which will be a daily basis for him..

-Dismissal-

Tsuna walked off alone, heading back to his beloved sanctuary, his home. So far, Tsuna's predictions were right. In his first day, he gets beaten up senselessly by the bullies for senseless reasons, teachers scold him on even the smallest mistakes he made, not one classmate chose him in their team and finally, his brother was avoiding any relationship and contact with his own little brother.

"Tsu...Tsuna-kun?" A voice called out. Tsuna looked towards that direction and saw his seatmate, Enma.

"En-Enma-kun!" Tsuna cheerfully waves at him, leading the other to catch up.

"Tha-Thank you fo-for saving me..." Enma whispered, Tsuna just laughs.

'Oh yeah...' Tsuna thought, 'I remembered those guys suddenly coming towards Enma-kun and started harassing him for no good explanation. No one deserves that sort of treatment... Well, I'm an exception.'

Tsuna frowned, 'In the end, both of us got beaten up, but at least we didn't end up in the nurse' office.' Tsuna shivered internally, remembering the first couple of nurses a specific uncle sended him while he was sick.

"Wha-What they di-did to you was-wasn't right s-so don't feel bad..." Tsuna whispered, comforting his guilty classmate. "That's wha-what frie-friends are for."

"Frie-Friends?!" Enma was flustered, 'Why would anyone want to be my friend?!'

"Beca-Because you're ni-nice and ge-gentle Enma-kun." Tsuna looked away, smirking as he knows behind his back that Enma's mouth started opening with his red eyes widening as well.

"You can mind read?!"

"S-So... Wi-Will you accept the gro-group study I pro-proposed to you for tom-tomorrows Math test?"

"You're avoiding the question!"

Tsuna smiles back, "Do-Do you?" Enma stared back, thinking. Pulling out his cellphone, Enma started using it to call his friends.

After one minute, Enma closes the phone and smiled. "Yeah!"

"Le-Let's go then!" Tsuna dragged Enma with him, playing all the way.

-House-

"Done!" Enma cried out, pushing his paperwork Reborn gave to them to Tsuna. The sadistic hit man told them at the struck of nine, he will come back and check. One mistake equals to ten laps around Namimori Middle guided by Reborn of course. The two then agreed to divide the work, Enma getting the easier ones.

"?" Tsuna checked the last equations Enma answered and shook his head. Circling the mistakes with a pencil, he gave them back to Enma. "Yo-You're ge-getting better..."

"Bu-But!" Enma reread his paper and facepalmed. "I-I'm sorry. I was just nervous that's all!"

Tsuna nodded, looking back at the full moon. "1 + 1 = 3. Correct in terms of letters.." Tsuna muttered. Enma had no clue what his new friend was thinking of, deciding to leave it be and solve again the encircled numbers.

"Hey... Tsuna-kun.." Enma asked after he finished writing on his paper. "What's that on your lap?"

"That's Nuts..." Tsuna softly told Enma, patting the sleeping creature. "Only sky users see him."

"Oh!" Enma's eyes widened, "What?!"

The lion woke up, eyelids half-opened as he stared at the unknown figure. "Gao~?"

"Nuts meet Enma. Enma, Nuts." Tsuna introduced, his voice always in a small volume. "Don't worry. He's a nice person. Go ahead and see for yourself."

Nuts slowly left from his owner's lap and went closer to Enma. Sensing no danger from the boy, he jumped towards his next victim's lap and purred, "Gao~"

"Nice kitty.." Enma cuddled happily as Nuts licked his face like a dog. "Hahahaha~! Quit it!"

"Nuts! ." Tsuna silently urged his pet who got his advice, it either disappeared or teleported away.

The door slammed open, revealing a cranky tutor. "Done yet?"

"Y-Yes.. Re-Reborn." Enma looked away, similar to what Tsuna did.

"Hmm..." Reborn checked, looking down at all the papers. 'Most of these questions are for higher levels so how?' Reborn glanced the papers and at the two. "Who did it?"

"Uhmm.." Tsuna looked, eye-to-eye contact, while talking to the tutor, a brave thing indeed. "I did the first half while Enma-kun did the rest the-then we exchange to check our papers..."

"Impressive but... You have five mistakes." Reborn showed the paper. To Reborn's amazement, Tsuna's eyes looked to where the sole mistake was within a second before looking away, saying "sorry."

"No excuses." Reborn marched away, "Get ready for tomorrow No-good Duo." Then he closed the door.

"So-Sorry...I didn't realize..." Enma looked down, feeling depress all over again until a purr came beside his ear.

"Gao~!"

"Nuts say it isn't your fault..." Tsuna gently says, back to the soft volume from a while ago. "Go to sleep... I'm just going to take a bath..."

"O-Okay." Enma watches his friend go outside, looking back at Tsuna's flaming pet. "Tsuna-kun's nice... Isn't he?"

"Gao~!" Nuts wiggled his tail, jumping up to the huge, comfy bed. "Gao~"

"Alright. Stop talking okay?" Enma sat down the bed, seeing it is perfectly safe, he decided to lie down. 'So soft...'

Enma slowly sees himself submerging to darkness...

-Shower-

"Gah!" Tsuna bent down, holding his chest. 'A-Aria...' As the brunette slowly remove his hand away from that area, a small pacifier mark is seen etched on his flesh. 'Acrobaleno sign... Huh?'

"What's wrong Gamma?" Tsuna asks. Revealing himself as his real age, wearing a black cloak and a white masquerade. Only the Giglio Nero family had this rare opportunity to see the great Cielo's real age. "Calling out my name every night doesn't help me get some shut-eye you know?"
The blond-haired man called Gamma bows down, "Please..." Gamma stares up at the boy, "Can you let Boss live longer..."
"I'm not a miracle worker, Gamma.." Tsuna watches the man start having a depression, "But! I can lengthen Aria's life to 27 more years."
"Really? Thank you!" Tsuna looks away with a smirk as he hears Gamma saying, "How can I ever repay you?"
"Don't hurt the Vongola or better yet," Tsuna gets ready to jump, looking at Gamma with his orange fiery eyes. "Make an alliance.."

"If Uncle Checkers find out about this... I'm doom." Tsuna says to himself. Knowing his uncle, he would take this opportunity to stalk him down or in a more worse situation... Let him join the Tri-ni-sette.

"Well... At east Gamma ain't bugging me anymore..." Tsuna sighs as he closes the shower knob. Tsuna then gets the orange towel his mother gave to him when he was at the age of seven and started to dry himself with it. Using the towel, Tsuna carefully conceals his body, especially his chest. 'I will not let anyone especially Reborn find out about this!'

Closing the lights and door, Sawada Tsunayoshi ventures a journey back to his room.

-The Hallway-

Walking very quietly, Tsuna avoids making a sound. Being extra careful when he reaches his older brother's room, knowing that the so-called sadistic baby was there resting. 'Why is the bathroom so far from my room again?'

'Almost there...' Tsuna thought to himself, already reaching two-thirds towards his room, Tsuna is sure enough that he won't get caught. Unfortunately for Tsuna, God likes to play tricks with him by creating a wooden tile for example.

*Creak~!*

"Ciaossu~" Tsuna stopped, closing his eyes, he hoped not to see the hit man...'There is no one there. There is really no small tutor behind you. Try believing in yourself for a change, Dame-Tsuna!'

Taking a deep breath, Tsunayoshi turned around, seeing that his conscious was wrong again. "I-I'm sorry... Reborn-san.."

"Hmmm.." The baby looked away as his pet chameleon stared at him, "Go to bed, Tsuna."

"Yeah tha-" Tsuna stopped, short visions coming to him.

Surrounded by thousands of people, a sole white-haired aged man stood before Tsunayoshi's brother, holding out a black case which appeared to have an important vial... Named Sin. (Tsunayoshi did his homework)
"I pass this to you, Decimo..."

"What?" Reborn looked back, seeing Tsuna's eyes go blank like glass. "Tsuna?"

Same place as the first vision but with all the mafia men looking shock at Enma's group.
"We needed this..." Enma told Ieyatsu, showing to everyone the vial as he poured a small amount from it.
"In order to regain our powers.." Enma's hand with the ring glowed. The ring suddenly morphed into a gauntlet for Enma to wear. Flames were also forming on his forehead. "And take our revenge on Vongola!"

"Tsuna?" Reborn looked closely at the boy. Tsuna was standing perfectly still, his eyes showing nothing but emptiness. 'What is he doing? Is he seeing a vision or something?'

Same area as the last two visions, but everything was a mess. Tsuna includes the fact that all of Ieyatsu's guardians are all on the ground except for that eye patch girl, being carried by that man named Julie.
"Chrome!" Tsuna's brother screams, making Enma face him with an irritated expression.
"Yatsu-kun... You'd better worry about yourself." Enma states out, using his hands surrounded with a strange aura, he faces Ieyatsu's direction and releases his palm. The result this action, cause all the Vongola rings to break and Ieyatsu's face showed pain.
"Gahh!" His brother finally screams out due to too much pain, spurting out blood from his mouth as he fall down towards the crater.

"You're either experiencing a dream, nightmare, imagination or a vision." Reborn says out loud, still no response from the other. "What will you do to your student's little brother Reborn..."

This vision wasn't like the last three visions. Tsuna can conclude that this was the homeland of the Shimon family, the crumbling castle area (Checkerface told him a story about this location, being haunted and all that). Tsuna was glad to see eveyone that was injured healed again (His Nii-san and guardians), but was deeply depress when Tsuna saw his friend in school lose control over his abilities.
"Run for it!" Enma screamed, a huge black circle forming near his chest. "Everyone's going to be killed at this rate!"
His brother just looked at him and flew away. Leading the others to the outside, when they didn't follow Ieyatsu ordered them. "Let's go."

"Dame-Tsuna!" Reborn kicked the daydreamer's head, receiving a whimper from his victim. "What did you see?"

"Nothing..." Tsuna's eyes widened in surprise, 'How long did I stand here?'

"Probably five minutes." Reborn walked off back to Ieyatsu's room. 'Ninth's orders: Dame-Tsuna and Maman isn't allowed to know about the mafia... So don't bother.'

Good night!" Tsuna went too. Bowing down his head in order for the tutor not to see his teary eyes, 'Why did Nii-san do that to Enma-kun? Didn't he feel how lonely Enma-kun was?'

As Tsuna went inside his room, he remembered the times he had with his uncle in terms of those visions.

"Uncle Checkers?" The boy cried, looking at the sleeping figure. "Can I sleep with you?"
"What's wrong little Tsuna-kun?" The man whispered to the boy, giving some space for the child. The boy named Tsuna saw this and went up to join the man in the bed.
"I had a dream again..." Little Tsuna sniffed, "Everyone I saw was hurt!"
"Who were they my little Tsuna-kun?" The man groggily asks, hugging the weeping child.
"They were called the...The Giglu Niro."
"Gi-glio Ne-ro. Tsuna-kun." The man said, comforting the boy.
"What should I do?" Tsuna asks him, holding the man's clothes tight.
"Change it..." The man uttered, slowly closing his eyes. "You are a Vongola child... After all.."
"Vongola?" The boy asks, looking closer to his 'savior'.
"Yes, a Vongola. The one who can change all." Checkerface flashes his usual smile to Tsuna, but little Tsuna knows that deep inside, his uncle Checkerface felt sad. 'You have opened your ability in such a young age, Tsunayoshi... You'll become an ideal boss indeed...'
"Don't worry..." Tsuna closes his eyes, letting the feeling of warmth of his guardian. "I won't do that... That's Nii-san's dream..."

Tsuna smiles to himself, 'Uncle was always caring yet he treated Life like it were a game.' Tsuna then dresses up hastily to get ready for bed.

"Eh?" Tsuna's right eye twich. Before him was his bed, completely consumed by a sleeping red-head and his pet.

"Gao~"

Tsuna slowly faces his pet, Nuts. In a very creepy yet polite voice he whispered, "Nuts~! Care to give some space for me?"

"Ga-Gao~" Nuts moved around, afraid of his owner's demeanor.

Tsuna then looks at the motionless figure. 'Enma-kun.. Don't worry.. I'll teach my brother a thing or two so you can be great friends.'

"Gao~"

"Thank you~" Tsuna rested down, beside him was a sleeping Enma and a scared Nuts. "Good night..."

-The Next Day-

"HIIIEE!" Tsuna screamed for the twentieth time as he dodge Reborn's bullets. "You said we'll just do fifty laps for our mistakes!"

"I changed my mind."

"W-What?!" Both of them exclaimed at the same time, Tsuna from disbelief while Enma was from betrayal.

"Get going!"

"HIIEE!"

"S-STOP IT!"

"Hmph!" Reborn smirked, watching as the two run again for the fifty-one time. 'I'm going to enjoy this.'

And so that is how Tsuna and Enma became friends.

Before the next chapter...

Tsuna: I hate you Reborn...
Reborn: Why is that?
Tsuna: You still torture me even if I'm not the boss!
Reborn: So? (Now smirking)
Enma: Poor Tsuna-kun...
Tsuna: Hey! At least you're still my friend.

(On the other side)

Gokudera: Juudaime! Forgive me!
Yamamoto: Ma! Ma! Gokudera. This is a fanfic remember?
Hibari: Herbivores are crowding.. (Pulls out his tonfas)
Chrome: Mukuro-sama?
Mukuro: Kufufu... Don't worry, my precious Chrome... We're up next.