Chapter 4
Tsuna was almost certain he had been dreaming the past two weeks of his life. He blinked his sleepy eyes and stared at his bedroom ceiling.
'This is all just a dream.' he thought to himself. 'A weird long dream. Today, it's my first day of school at Namimori, I have no friends, much less two people who keep on saying they would follow me around. I do not have a kid living with my mother and I. A cow child who has threatened my life more than once with those grenades of his. Where the heck does he get those?! No, my life has not been full of explosions from grenades and dynamites, seriously where are they getting these weapons?, I do not have a obliviously laughing guy as a friend. No, these are all but just dreams.' He inhaled deeply. 'All just but-'
"GWAA!" He choked, something heavy jumped on his chest and he felt pain. Tsuna winced, and he saw a mop of curly black hair obscuring his view.
"Lambo! That hurt!" he scolded the young child.
Lambo stood up on his chest and looked down on him, laughing.
"The Great Lambo-sama has come to wake you up Dame-Tsuna!"
'Oh great, please make this a dream.'
There was a kick to his face.
"Ouch! Lambo!"
"Stand up Tsuna! Mama has ordered Lambo to wake you up and Lambo-san will accomplish his mission!" another kick.
"Alright! Alright! Get off my chest Lambo, you're heavy!"
Lambo jumped down from his Tsuna and Tsuna grumbled from the pressure Lambo exerted on his jump.
'Definitely not a dream. That hurt.'
Tsuna followed Lambo downstairs to the kitchen after he groomed himself where his mother, Nana, was preparing breakfast for him.
"Good morning Tsu-kun!"
"GYAHAHAHA Lambo-sama has woken up Tsuna, Lambo-sama accomplished his mission." Lambo informed Nana, and Nana picked up the child to put him on his seat across from the sitting Tsuna.
"Hai, Lambo-kun. Here is your price." She offered him some grape candies.
Tsuna groaned. "Mom, you're spoiling him too much." He complained.
Nana just smiled. "Lambo-kun is but a little boy, Tsu-kun is a little boy as well but Lambo's younger."
Tsuna sighed, wondering what it has to do with what he said. He did proceed to eat his plate of eggs and bacon.
As Tsuna observed his mom putting bacons on Lambo's plate, he couldn't help but think of what happened two weeks ago.
Tsuna entered the house. He just ate sushi with his friends outside. He smiled to himself, realizing that it was his first time going out with friends after school.
"Ara, ara. Tsu-kun you're home." He heard his mother approached.
He saw his mom, his brunet hair short up to his shoulder and she was wearing a pick apron, a ladle on his right hand.
"Ara, who is this little child?" she asked, noticing the boy Tsuna was with. He was holding into the boy's hands.
Tsuna gulped. Here comes his explanation. He only hoped his mother would not be mad at him.
"This is Lambo, he has ran away from home. I was wondering if he could stay with us?" he asked nervously.
To his immense relief and surprise, his mother knelt down to face Lambo and enveloped him in a hug.
"Lambo is it? Hello Lambo, I'm Mama. Welcome to our house!" she beamed.
Lambo let go of his hand and returned the warm embraced. "Mama." He buried his face into Nana's shoulder
Tsuna sighed. That was so fast. His mother immediately accepted Lambo just like that. There were no questions asked except how Tsuna found the child which he answered he found him after school with his friends, wandering around and lost. His mom beamed at him this time, and Tsuna knew the word 'friends' had her perked up and happy.
Of course Lambo is not a lost child. And he definitely did not found Lambo outside the school. It was what he, Hayato, and Takeshi came up as an excuse for Tsuna's mom to take the cow child in with him. For some reason, Lambo told them he has no home to go back to after they ate at the TakeSushi Restaurant. He said he just came from Italy.
"Hieee! You're from Italy?" Tsuna shrieked. The child is foreign, he finally took notice of his appearance up close.
Lambo, who was munching into a sushi nodded, "Lambo-sama travelled from Italy to kill Bakadera." He said simply, as if it was normal for a four-year old to travel half of the world to kill some kid.
"You've been saying you will kill Hayato. What exactly are you to him?" Tsuna inquired.
"Bakadera is a bastard child that insulted my Family. Lambo is here to take him out."
At the word bastard, Hayato stood up. "What do you say Ahoshi! You little-" he began, but Takeshi cut him off.
"Maa, maa Hayato, calm down. Here eat some more sushi." He placed three more sushi into Hayato's plate.
Hayato hissed and turned back to his sushi.
Tsuna gulped, and turned to Hayato. "So, you know him?" he asked, unsure.
Hayato exhaled. "Yes, we met for some time back in Italy."
Tsuna gasps. "Eh? Hayato is from Italy too?" and again, it was only then he noticed Hayato's foreign look.
Hayato grinned. "I am. I only came to Japan a year ago." He informed Tsuna.
"Ah, a year ago was when you came to school." Takeshi said.
Tsuna looked from Hayato to Takeshi and vice-versa. "So... so you met each other in Italy and you insulted Lambo's family?" Tsuna asked but he still couldn't understand why such an action would prompt the 4-year old to leave his country.
"Hmph. It was not an insult but the truth." Hayato said.
Tsuna went silet at this for a few moments before saying, "What exactly is Lambo's family Hayato?"
Hayato looked shocked for a moment, he opened his mouth to speak, closed, then opened again. "I'm sorry Tsuna, I trust you with all my life and I swear it. But I cannot tell you.." his voice faltered, there was a sad look on his eyes at his failure to provide any answer to the question Tsuna asked him.
Tsuna immediately waved it away. "No, no it's okay I understand." He then glanced at the cow child still eating sushi. "But where does he go?"
Hayato immediately clasped his hands together and bowed to Tsuna, "I'm sorry Tsuna, as much as it is my responsibility for having this cow here, I cannot accept him at my house." He apologized.
"Ahaha! Then Lambo can stay at our house." Takeshi said.
Tsuna breathe in relief. "Thanks Takeshi!"
Before Takeshi can respond, Lambo spoke up. "Lambo-sama will go to Dame-Tsuna's place. Lambo-sama will stay at his house."
Tsuna shrieked. Not only was the child insisting to be with him, he was also calling him a nasty nickname too. Of course that was the name he adopted throughout the years. How can the kid know this? Although of course it could also be something he made up himself.
"Why?" he asked.
"Because Lambo-sama wants to."
Tsuna sighed again. There's nothing much he can do about it. He then looked thoughtful. "But I can't tell Mama about what just happened and how I met Lambo, she might freak out." He expressed.
Takeshi laughed. "Don't worry, we'll think of something."
Tsuna gazed at his mother and Lambo. That was what they thought of, to say Lambo as a lost child they chanced upon the streets, hoping his mom would believe her. Turns out his mother does not care about the details so much, Tsuna had an inkling she'll never mind whatever he told him about it really. So much for making up a story.
Tsuna stood up after he finished his breakfast, picked up his bag and went outside the door. Outside, waiting for him, were Takeshi and Hayato. The two were currently on their usual morning routine – bickering.
"I said baseball freak, why are you here at Tsuna's house?!" Hayato demanded, there was a tick of irritation on his forehead, which Takeshi fail to notice as he just laughed it off.
"I thought of walking to school with Tsuna!"
Hayato looked more annoyed. "Tsuna does not need to walk to school with a baseball nut like you!"
Tsuna looked at his friends. "Eh, let's go?"
The two stopped bickering and smiled at him. Tsuna then led the way to school.
It has been like days for two weeks too. Right after that day, he found Hayato and Takeshi at his doorstep, claiming each of them has come to walk with him to school, and of course Hayato annoyed at Takeshi for doing the same and Takeshi just smiling it off.
They were about to turn left when a figure bump into the three of them and they scrambled back down.
"Ow! Bastard what are you-"
Hayato's voice was drowned out by a loud booming voice.
"EXTREMELY sorry for that! Are you EXTREMELY okay?" said the boy who bumped them. Tsuna saw that he has white hair and an energetic aura around him.
Takeshi stood up, held his hand Tsuna who accepted it and pulled him up. Hayato glared at him for touching Tsuna.
"Ryohei-niisan!" Takeshi beamed.
Tsuna looked at them. "Eh, you know him Takeshi?"
Takeshi smiled even wider.
"He is Ryohei-niisan! He is in a grade older than us. He attends Namimori Elementary too." He said happily.
"These are your friends Takeshi?" he asked. Takeshi nodded. "Hello! I'm Sasagawa Ryohei and it is EXTREMELY nice to meet you!" he said loudly.
"Ah, Sa-sawada Tsunayoshi." Tsuna introduced himself.
Hayato glared at him and didn't speak.
"Who's this Octopus Head?" Ryohei asked curiously, pointing at Hayato.
It was then that Hayato reached the peak of his temper for that morning. "What did you say, you Lawn Head?!" he shouted at him.
"What did you just say Octopus Head!?"
"Shut up Lawn Head!"
"You shut up you are so loud!"
"You are the loud one Lawn Head! You have been yelling eversince!"
Suddenly there was a clash of tonfas and once again all of them fell back to the cold streets.
"Ugh. Why am I being trashed around today. More importantly, how dare you hurt Tsuna!" Hayato growled and stared at the boy standing in front of them. He was glaring down at them all. His tonfas ready to strike, he looked dangerous.
"Hn. You are all so noisy. I'll bite you to death."
Tsuna shivered as a dangerous stare met his gaze. He cowered under the gaze of Kyoya.
Ryohei recovered immediately and without warning tackled Kyoya into a one armed hug. Tsuna trembled nervously, praying for Ryohei's soul to be spared.
"EXTREMELY Good morning too Kyoya!" he simply said.
"Hn, herbivore lay off me." Kyoya pushed him back but Ryohei firmly stood. He looked at the fallen three and smiled brightly. "This is Hibari Kyoya, my EXTREME best friend!".
Kyoya does not look the least bit happy at being introduced. If anything he looked more dangerous and murderous aura was seeping out of him, but Ryohei firmly held him.
When Kyoya glanced them again, if was with a hint of recognition, he gave a scary smirk.
"Hn, these are the herbivores who have been destroying the peace at school for some time now. I will bite you all to death." He told them, pleased.
"Now that you mentioned it, aren't these the kids who caused a ruckus some time ago?" Ryohei asked.
Kyoya grunted and he positioned his tonfa to a fighting stance. "The explosion at Class 4-B."
Tsuna gulped and shifted nervously on the cement. That was the first day he came to school.
Hayato was not intimidated. "So what?" He stood up. "If you want to fight, I'll give you." He glared back.
Takeshi was quick to follow and stood beside Hayato. "Maa, let's all keep calm okay?"
Tsuna wished the ground beneath him would crumble and eat him up. He saw Hayato fished something out of his pockets and he immediately went to prevent more doom from happening.
Hayato was about to light his dynamite when Tsuna held his wrist back. "Hayato, let's not resort to violence okay?" Tsuna hoped.
Hayato beamed, if Tsuna told him to not to fight then he wouldn't.
"Consider yourself lucky. Tsuna just stopped me in time." He spoke to Kyoya.
"Come on Kyoya, we will be late for school!" And Ryohei dragged Kyoya with his arm. Kyoya pushed Ryohei away and stood properly, and the two boys walked away from Tsuna and his friends.
Tsuna let out a sigh. "Good thing that was prevented." He said more to himself that anyone else.
"Hahaha that was one scary sempai." Takeshi exclaimed and he led the rest of them to school.
END.
