"Hm? What's this?" Kyoko found a something in the phone she stole and opened it up.
"What's wrong?" Hana asked.
"Yoshitsune? And his plans? In Giotto's cell?" Kyoko read as she opened the file.
"The author?! No way!" Hana exclaimed as she leaned in closer.
"I can't seem to open up any more files… They need a password." Kyoko pouted.
"Do you think that…?" Hana and Kyoko looked at each other eye to eye.
"…Giotto is Yoshitsune?!" They exclaimed in unison.
The next day
Lampo sneezes once again. Maybe Asari was right—someone must really be thinking about me…or I'm really coming up with something, he thought to himself as he grabbed a tissue from the box and blew his nose. That was his third tissue today.
While Lampo blew his nose, G was sitting on the couch in the student council room, leaning on the palm of his hand and sporting a frown on his face as he listens to Giotto ramble on for an eternity about losing Tsuna's cell phone. He watched it 24/7. How in the world does he wind up losing it now?
Giotto face-plants onto his desk, nearly tipping over some paperwork that he just received today from a few teachers. As that happened, Giotto made a faint gasp heard by only himself.
Moments later, a knock on the door was heard and Daemon opened it. Shining as bright as day, Kyoko Sasagawa entered the room, hair dancing upon her shoulders. Her brown eyes fell upon Giotto, the student council president. She moved towards his desk and began to dig inside her purse.
"I found this on the floor yesterday in the hallway on the floor of the first floor," she smiles, "I hope that you'll take better care of your cell phone Vongola-san." She hands Giotto the cell phone and he gladly takes it. He won't be taking his eyes off this phone now; not ever.
Giotto felt something as Kyoko left with the same smile on her face. She said 'floor' one too many times. Could she be lying? Maybe she was the one who stole it, but Giotto can't make assumptions without evidence.
Instead of saying it out loud, Daemon was the one to spit it out without effort.
"That's too many 'floors' said. You sure you're telling the truth?" Daemon smirked.
Kyoko frowned upon what he said and started towards the door. She closed the door shut a bit too roughly and the stack of paperwork on Giotto's desk tumbled over.
Inside of Giotto's head, he was screaming some colorful language as he glared at the mess.
After School
Tsuna was sitting on the couch in the living room and stared at the television screen. He sighed and flipped the channel. He still doesn't have his cell phone and wasn't in the mood to do his homework.
"I might scare him if I call him on his phone, so I'll call his house phone and introduce myself to his parents." Kyoko giggled in her room and dialed the house phone number she got from stealing 'Giotto's cell'.
In the kitchen of Tsuna's house, the phone rang.
"Tsu-kun! Could you get that for me?" Nana, his mother, was hanging the clothes out to dry in another room.
"Okay!" Tsuna stated loudly so his mother could hear from the other room. He approached the phone and picked it up.
"Hello?" Tsuna asked, holding the phone up to his ear.
"Umm… Who is this? Is this Giotto's little sister?" Kyoko asked on the other side.
"No, I'm not related to Giotto nor am I a girl. I'm a boy…" Why does everyone suspect that he's female? Also a plus, Tsuna recognizes the voice on the other side of the line belonging to none other than Kyoko.
'Ouch. Super sassy.' Kyoko thought. "Oh! I'm sorry! Um… I think I got the wrong number. Bye." She quickly hung up as fast as how she dialed the number with a puzzled expression. How could she have gotten the wrong number? She copied it down exactly from Giotto's cell.
"What was that all about?" Tsuna asked as he raised his eyebrow at the phone and hung up.
In Giotto's room
With his master technology skills he was able to figure out Tsuna's password for the remaining files and opens them up using a device. A majority of them were about the famous book he wrote: Lerin's Maskerade Ball. Excitingly, one of them was about a second book to it. Giotto fisted the air in his room with glee about this information. Sadly, the folder only had a title of: "Lerin's Maskerade Ball Book 2" and nothing else written in it. Another one of them was about someone named Yoshiki and Fanfiction, but Giotto hasn't read Fanfictions much since he never has time to. The paperwork keeps him busy; he growls at that.
One of them had a shortened out summary of the first book:
The year is 1839.
Christopher Lerin was a man who lived in a mansion near the edge of a high cliff alone. He accepted no visitors and didn't bother to come out of his mansion due to his minuscule relationship with others… or at least that's his side of the story. People around him know who he is, but Lerin objects silently, saying that he is just hiding behind a mask of reality. (Hence the story's name of 'maskerade' other than 'masquerade'.)
"No one knows myself best, but me." Lerin declares.
One day, in order to know who his true friends are, he sent invitations to everyone in town to a masquerade ball at his mansion three weeks from today. In the middle of sending them, he bumped into a young woman with long blonde curls. They apologized to each other for the inconvenience and helped each other up. The young woman helped him pick up the invitations—to which he's glad for.
"You're having a ball? May I come?" She asked politely.
"Of course! Everyone in town is invited!" He said with a smile. There he goes again… Why must he smile when he doesn't want to? He hands her an invitation and takes his leave.
On the day of the ball, there were many people from town flooding the ball room in his mansion wearing all different kinds of masks. They laughed, danced, and met new people. People could interact with others so easily—something that always eludes Lerin…
There was one in particular that caught everyone's attention: a young woman with blonde curls. Lerin realizes that she was the woman he bumped into three weeks ago, so when the music stopped and the people part until the next song, he walks up to her as she parts from her dance partner. As the ball went on, Lerin led the woman out to the balcony where no one would interrupt the two. They laughed and talked about small matters like the weather and how well the ball was doing.
They then began to talk about each other; this is where Lerin finds out that her name is Meredith. The young woman then asked about him, but Lerin hesitated. He was always uncomfortable with getting along with others—not that he minded doing so… He was just afraid of the distance one may put between the friend and him after knowing too much. After much persuasion later, Meredith tells him that he is a beautiful person no matter what's on the outside. What matters is the inside. With that, Christopher is glad he met the woman.
Lerin spent half a year getting closer and closer to Meredith after the day of the ball. She was the only one he spoke to, but he didn't mind. After that, they began a steady relationship, then an engagement, and finally, marriage.
And yes—as cliché as this sounds—they did live happily ever after.
Giotto smiled as he read it. Tsuna is such a talented author—sadly, he has written one book so far.
"I think it's about time I return his phone." Giotto happily exited his home and started for Tsuna's.
~Ding Dong~
The one who answered the door was none other than Tsunayoshi, the owner of the phone. Tsuna was greeted with a big hug from Giotto and a kiss on the lips.
"Giotto, you know I don't do your foreign stuff. Kisses aren't given as friendship here in Japan." Tsuna sighed.
"Ah, sorry!~" Giotto let go of Tsuna and handed him the cell phone. "It took a while to find, but here it is!" He lied.
"Ah, thanks." Tsuna smiled. Giotto's heart skipped a beat. Never in his life has he seen such a beautiful smile—he wants to make that smile his and only his. Tsuna noticed that Giotto's clothes were a bit dirty as if he tripped a couple of times before coming here and he has a bruise on his arm. Out of courtesy, Tsuna let him inside to let Giotto clean up; Giotto happily accepts.
Giotto cleans himself up in the bathroom located near Tsuna's room. After borrowing Tsuna's bigger jackets, Giotto began sniffing the scent that lingers on Tsuna's jacket. Luckily, Nana was waiting for Tsuna to grow into the jacket, but he never did, so Tsuna is letting Giotto borrow it. Tsuna says that it's fine to keep it, but Giotto said that he'll return it—not really though, Giotto giggles internally. He loves how Tsuna would always invite him over when he comes by for a visit. After a couple of visits, Tsuna and Giotto became close—closer than Yamamoto and Gokudera could. Giotto also noticed that those two have been staying together quite often; G says that his brother is dating the raven or something like that—he didn't really pay attention to it.
"What happened exactly? About how your clothes were dirty when you got here and the bruise." Tsuna asked Giotto.
For the sake of not being creepy, Giotto lied, "I tripped…and I ran into a pole."
"Huh…Interesting pole…" Tsuna replied and led Giotto to his room.
Giotto knew every layout of his room: How tall and wide it was, the color of the floor and walls and ceiling, and everything placed in his room. He's literally been in his room a million times already.
Upon entering, Giotto noticed a book partially opened and on the ground as if someone threw it. He picked it up and saw that the book was Yoshitsune's—also known as—Tsuna's famous book: Lerin's Maskerade Ball.
"You don't have to pick it up. I threw it there just because." Tsuna began to set up the video game console. "Do you want to play again?"
"Yeah I'd like to play! Why was the book on the ground?" Giotto asked and placed it on Tsuna's desk.
"I don't like it."
"Why not? It's a good book." Giotto sits down next to Tsuna as he finished setting up the game.
"I just don't." Tsuna handed him the remote control for player two.
Finish Him. The two words that make Tsuna frown if directed towards his loss.
Many, many games later, Tsuna lost to Giotto many, many times. He can never win. He has no idea how Giotto does it, but he always wins and is always on top. Giotto flashes a victorious smile and laughs.
"Man, I can never win." Tsuna sighs and turns off the game after realizing the time. "To think it's 2 AM already…"
"Yeah, sorry for playing so long." Giotto pouted. As a matter of fact, he loved playing for so long. "Luckily, it's the weekend so you can sleep in as long as you want."
"Haha, true." Tsuna laughs.
Nana comes in the room upon hearing the noise and seeing the lights still on. Her hair was a bit messy due to just waking up.
"Tsu-kun? It's 2 AM. You should be sleeping. Giotto's still here, too?" Nana smiles, "You're welcome to stay over for the night if you like!"
"He can?" Tsuna actually sounded glad, oblivious to Giotto's intentions.
"I can?" Giotto smiles, hiding his true intentions.
Nana nods and tells Tsuna to get a futon for Giotto and goes back to bed. Tsuna gets a futon and spreads it near his bed.
This was a change of plans, but I'm not complaining!~, Giotto thought to himself as he lied down onto the futon placed by Tsuna and was offered sheets and a pillow. Tsuna was still pouting at how he couldn't beat Giotto in Mortal Kombat and gets into bed.
"How are you so good at this game?" Tsuna asks.
Giotto then remembers back when he first started playing the game with him and nearly lost. That made him want to buy the game himself and train to where Tsuna couldn't land a scratch on his character. Successfully, he did.
"Luck, I guess." Giotto scratched the back of his head and laughs.
That didn't stop Tsuna from pouting. That pout really is cute though, he thought to himself.
Waking up early in the morning, Giotto spotted Tsuna's peaceful and innocent sleeping face. He crawled closer to Tsuna's body and brushed away hair that covered his eyes. Such pale, smooth skin; it almost makes Giotto want to ravish what's in front of him. (Nope! It's rated T. Hehehe!) Giotto wants Tsuna to be all leaned in closer to Tsuna and planted a kiss on his lips. Giotto still wonders why Tsuna threw the book to the side…
Due to the kiss, Tsuna's eyes fluttered open to see Giotto widen his eyes at what he's done. Is this like some sort of sleeping beauty?
"Um… I…" Giotto stood up straight, face red.
"Did you…kiss me?" Tsuna was startled; he sat up on the bed, looking up at Giotto.
'Darn it. I've been caught.' Giotto mentally slaps himself. "Yeah, I did." Giotto was completely embarrassed.
"Do you like me?" Tsuna asks the question he's wanted to ask Giotto for a very long time. Yes—Tsuna likes Giotto, too.
"I do." Giotto looks down at his feet. He was so terrified of how Tsuna would react or feel towards the blonde, so he kept in secret.
Not liking Giotto looking down, he cups Giotto's face and kisses him back. (Tsuna is still the uke no matter what.) Giotto is perplexed. What is going on?
Knowing how he's feeling, Tsuna rolls his eyes, "I like you too, idiot." Maybe Tsuna's life could be like some romance novel…
Starting today, the two of them began their lives as lovers. The goddess of love smiles down on them, feeling a job well done.
After the weekend ended, Tsuna and Giotto walked together to school. Yamamoto and Gokudera were out sick today—Tsuna has no idea what they did over the weekend—and Tsuna decides to exchange numbers with Giotto.
When they arrived to the school gates, a majority of the girls in Namimori High School were out waiting for Giotto. Kyoko was at the front of the mob of fangirls.
"What's going on?" Tsuna asks.
"I don't know…" Giotto replies.
"We know you're him!" Kyoko decides to play the pronoun game with Giotto. All of the other girls behind her agree.
"Him?" Giotto asks.
"Yoshitsune! You're him!" Kyoko exclaims.
"Huh?!" Giotto frowns, "I'm not him."
Few other girls in the crowd said their share, "But Kyoko says she saw the evidence in your phone!" The crowd nods in agreement.
"Oh gods…" Tsuna sighs.
"Wha?!" Giotto takes a step back as the crowd steps closer to Giotto.
"Um… Tsuna?"
"Yeah?"
"You can go on ahead. This might take a while…" And with that, Giotto sprints towards the back of the school with his mob of fangirls after him.
Surprisingly, none of the girls ran Tsuna over.
"What in the world is going on now?!" Tsuna decides to get the disciplinary committee to deal with this and looks for Hibari.