"Kyoya! Tou-san! Kaa-san!" Tsuna smiled as he saw his most beloved people standing in front of him.
But everything worsened when the three frowned and turned to walk away.
"Wait, where are you going?" Tsuna began running. "Don't leave me behind! Please! Wait!"
Tsuna was finally startled awake by Reborn who was shaking him.
"Tsuna!" Reborn said. Once Tsuna opened his eyes, he was met with black intimidating eyes that for the first time ever, they showed so much emotions.
"R-" Tsuna started coughing a bit since his throat was very dry and Reborn helped by giving him a glass of water.
Tsuna drank it all in one gulp and then handed the glass back to Reborn. Looking around he just noticed that he wasn't in his house.
"You are at the Vongola's Corp building." Reborn said as if he could read the brunette's mind. "And the brats are sleeping on the couches since you have a cold."
There was a little silence before Reborn continued.
"Shamal came to look at you and said that you needed to be in bed for at least two days and take a day or two off, so I already contacted the Kindergarten about your absence."
"Th-thanks." Tsuna whispered.
There was a very awkward silence and Tsuna decided to lay back down facing the other side where he couldn't see Reborn. Before he could close his eyes, the raven spoke first.
"Tsuna," Reborn said with his eyes looking down at the floor. "... No, never mind." and with that Tsuna gave up against sleep.
"Kyaa! So cute!"
"Haha, are you really Tsuna's son, kora?"
"Of course not! Tenth doesn't even have the age to be married yet!"
"Gokudera ... Tsuna is already 18."
"What?"
"Haha, maa, maa, time sure does fly."
Tsuna was woken up by the loud chatting right outside his room.
'Right ... I'm at Vongola ... How nostalgic.'
"So Byakuran, Giotto, will you let us in?" a woman asked.
"No!" Byakuran and Giotto both yelled.
Tsuna stood up from the bed with a head wracking dizziness, but he managed to suppress it and walked over to the door.
"Open." Tsuna whispered and the door slid open.
"Tsu-chan!" Giotto and Byakuran both yelled. They were standing in front of the door and behind the kids were eleven other adults.
"Everyone ..." Tsuna whispered.
"Tsu-chan! Why didn't you invite me to your wedding?" a woman with dark blue hair said as she hugged Tsuna.
"Eh?" Tsuna was bewildered. "W-wait, what do yo-you mean?" Tsuna said in his raspy voice.
"Haha, maa, Luce is trying to figure out who is the mother, Tsuna." a cheery raven said as he took Luce off Tsuna.
"Eh?" Tsuna was still lost in the universe.
"Tsu-chan is our mom!" the twins yelled and almost everyone in the room were shocked.
"No way! Tsu-chan is that true?" Luce asked as she started shaking the brunette by his shoulders.
"So that's why you stopped coming, kora! Who did this to you? I'll kill them, kora!" a blond yelled as he, too, started shaking Tsuna.
"Oi, Tsunayoshi! Answer!" a woman with long blue hair and red goggles yelled.
"Tenth! It's ok! Just tell us his name and he'll be off the face of the earth!" a guy with silver hair yelled and the other nodded in agreement.
The only thing Tsuna saw were stars, a flying unicorn and a pitch black background.
"Stop shaking him. He is about to puke." Reborn said from the couch he was laying on.
Everyone stopped moving and Tsuna just muttered things like "Pretty pony." and "Shinny stars."
After everyone calmed down and sat Tsuna down on one of the couches with Byakuran and Giotto sitting besides him and everyone else on the other side of the tale, Reborn started explaining from the desk.
"First of all, Dame-Tsuna is no parent." Reborn said with a bit of irritation. "And you, brats, should stop saying that 'cause it makes people misunderstand.
"Second of all, Tsuna hasn't married yet. The albino is Byakuran and the blonde is Giotto. they were adopted, Adopted, by Tsuna for reasons and Tsuna stopped coming over because of his own will." Reborn didn't bother with details, but everyone knew better than to ask for more.
"Oh, so that's how it is ... Well, anyways, I'm Luce, nice to meet you." Luce said with a smile.
"That was quite a misunderstanding, kora! I thought that Tsuna had-" the cheerful blonde said, but was stopped by the woman besides her.
"Idiot! Kids are not supposed to know that! Anyways, I'm Lal Mirch." Lal said after smacking the blonde on the head.
"I'm Colonnello, kora! Nice to meet you!" Colonnello yelled after composing himself from the smack.
"Hahaha, I'm Yamamoto Takeshi. Used to be Tsuna's classmate." the cheerful raven said.
"Gokudera Hayato. You better not bother the Tenth!" the silver haired man said with a huff.
"Nice to meet you, I'm Fon." a guy with black braided hair said. "That over there is Verde and that is Mammon" Fon pointed towards a guy with green hair and then pointed towards a guy with a purple hood.
"Tsu-chan do you need anything?" Luce asked as she noticed Tsuna's face paling even more.
Tsuna just shook his head, but that made his headache even worse.
'Ugh ... I feel like vomiting ...' Tsuna groaned.
"Tsu-chan?"
"Tenth?"
"Tsuna?"
Before anyone could do anything, Reborn took Tsuna up and went into the room.
"Shamal said you should stay in bed, not walk around and talk to idiots." Reborn said as he threw Tsuna on the bed.
Tsuna got more dizzy which was uncomfortable as hell, so he went back to sleep.
"Now that he is asleep, everyone get back to work!" Reborn said. Everyone got out while Giotto and Byakuran just stood besides the bed.
"He is going to be fine, so just go get some snacks with Luce." Reborn sighed.
The twins didn't answer him, they just kept staring at Tsuna.
"It's late already, what do you want to eat?" Reborn leaned against the door frame.
"Marshmallows." Byakuran said.
"Spaghetti." Giotto said at the same time.
"Hm. I'll just order Italian food." Reborn said and left the room.
After ordering the Italian food and eating it, Reborn took Tsuna up again and made the boys follow him to the car.
"Are we going home?" Byakuran asked.
"Yeah. Now hop on and make sure that Dame-Tsuna doesn't fall." Reborn said.
As he drove the twins noticed the change of scenes.
"Hey, Reborn, this is not the way home." Giotto said.
"Of course it is. We are going to my house since you can't take care of Dame-Tsuna." Reborn said.
Giotto and Byakuran just stood silent.
"What? You thought I lived in that office?" Reborn sniggered while the twins just nodded.
"We are here." Reborn said. The kids haven't even noticed when had the raven pulled into a parking lot.
When they got to the elevator and it started going up, by the first floor, they could see the outside since the elevator had a transparent coverage.
"Cool." Giotto and Byakuran said as they stuck their face close to the glass.
After a few more seconds, they finally got to the penthouse. With one hand, Reborn swiped a card and the doors opened.
The boys ran inside and started exploring around.
"Don't break anything." was Reborn's only warning as he walked up the stairs to second floor where all the rooms were.
Reborn put the brunette in one of guest rooms and went to check on the boys.
"Woah ... I can see the whole city from here!" Giotto said from window.
"Oh! Giotto the show is about to begin!" Byakuran called from the couch. Giotto jumped onto the couch and they started watching a show about a boy becoming a mafia boss.
"Hey, isn't it time for bed?" Reborn said as he went to the kitchen.
"No." the kids answered.
Reborn just went back up to his room with an espresso to work on the things he missed.
'Shitty workers ... I'll be sure to give them hell tomorrow.' Reborn thought as he read through the documents.
By the time Reborn had finished with all the papers he had brought home, it was already midnight. Going down to the kitchen once again, he noticed the kids were asleep on the couch.
He decided to just leave them there and got some blankets to cover them up.
Just as he was heading back to his room, he heard a groan from the guest room he put Tsuna in.
"Tsuna?" he opened the door and saw the teen sitting on the bed looking a little troubled.
"You are in my house. Are you hungry?" Reborn said as he sat on the bed. He touched Tsuna's forehead and was glad that it wasn't as hot as it was hours ago.
Tsuna nodded and they both went down to the kitchen. After drinking a glass of water, Tsuna felt much better.
"Still dizzy?" Reborn asked as he took out some pamphlets. "Order whatever you want." he said as he passed the menus to the brunette.
"Yeah, but it's not as bad as before." Tsuna said as he looked through his options. After he had decided he just pointed at it and Reborn started calling.
Tsuna laid his head down on the counter he was sitting at and started looking around the most he could. It wasn't the first time that Tsuna was here, he had been here with his parents before and after they passed, too, since Reborn was his guardian.
"Ok. It'll be here in about 10 minutes." Reborn said and Tsuna muttered a small thanks.
Tsuna was used to this. It was kind of expected, after all, you can't expect much from a buys business man who doesn't know how to cook and won't even bother with it.
There was a silence between them, but they didn't mind; Tsuna was trying to fight the sleepiness that threatened his eyelids and Reborn was just staring at the boy in front of him while having a debate in his own mind.
"Sorry ..." Reborn whispered, but Tsuna heard it, even so, the brunette could not believe his ears.
"Eh? Did you say something Reborn?" Tsuna lifted his head up.
"So-sorry." Reborn said once again and Tsuna was bewildered.
Who wouldn't be if the most prideful man in the universe that could pass as the number one hitman suddenly, out of the blue and whole lot of other colors, just apologized to you!
"A-ah ... O-o-ok ..." Tsuna stuttered. There was a really awkward silence before Reborn started talking again.
"So-sorry I pun-punched you ..." Reborn said as he kept his head down.
"You ..." Tsuna started saying. "Have you been thinking about this all this time?"
With a sigh, Reborn nodded.
"You are really hopeless you know." Tsuna suddenly said. It irked the raven, but he didn't dare to look up yet. The awkward silence came back once again, but Reborn broke it.
"Who told you?"
Tsuna blinked at him and instant knew what he was talking about.
"No one." Tsuna said. "I just so happened to call Luce one day since you wouldn't answer my calls and she said that you were busy with some of your many lovers."
Reborn started cursing in his mind.
"You should really keep your personal problems to yourself, you know? Luce is already busy as she is yet you just keep adding more problems to her."
"Shut up." Reborn clenched his hands.
"Ah, sorry. I shouldn't be meddling with things that don't concern me."
"Shut up. They are not my lovers, just fucking one nighters." Reborn said; he would've wanted to yell, but knew that the kids were right there, behind Tsuna.
"Is that so." Tsuna said.
"Yes, that is so. They have nothing to do with me since I already finished with them and they signed a restraint order to be kept away from me."
"Hm ... are you sure? Don't you need them to keep you company?" Tsuna asked which made Reborn reach his last straw, but before he could burst, the phone rang.
"What?" Reborn growled out.
"A-ah ... Re-Reborn-sama ... Th-the delivery g-guy is he-here with t-the fo-food you or-ordered ..." the poor guy on the other end said.
"Fine, I'll be right down." Reborn said, with no more words, he went down the building.
"Stupid Reborn." Tsuna said as he laid his head back down, comforted by the coldness of the table.
Reborn wanted to kill someone right on the spot, but he knew better than doing anything harsh in an elevator 25 floors above ground, so he compromised by tapping his foot.
Once he got down to the lobby he gave the money to the delivery boy and ordered the security man to keep the food for a minute. He then went out to nearest tree in a park not far from the building and started punching it.
Too bad for Reborn and good for everyone else that it was 1 in the morning for no one would be awake at this hour. After 15 minutes of continuous work out, he finally went back inside.
He took the food and went up the elevator once again.
Once he got in, he saw Tsuna sleeping on the counter.
"Hey, wake up. Your food is here." Reborn said as he placed the bag in front of Tsuna.
Tsuna woke up to the smell of food and thanked the raven for it. He started drinking his soup and then moved to his smashed potatoes with grilled salmon while Reborn just stared at him the whole time.
"What?" Tsuna asked, finally getting tired of the staring.
"Nothing." Reborn said, but he kept staring.
"Hey, if you have nothing to do, then go back to sleep, I'll take care of these when I'm finished." Tsuna said with a huff.
"I don't have work tomorrow since Luce insisted that I should look over you like good guardian at least once."
"It's ok, I can take care of myself like I've been doing for the past year." Tsuna said with a bit of irritation. "Seriously, stop staring if you have no reason to!" luckily, Tsuna had a raspy voice which made his yelling just about a normal voice, unluckily, that made him start a coughing fit.
While Tsuna was coughing, Reborn just kept staring at him.
"You are been really weird tonight." Tsuna said after he calmed down.
"Because you don't know how I feel." Reborn suddenly said while the brunette just stared back at him with a bit of irritation
"Do you really expect to know how you feel when we only spent time together on Saturday lunches? Even those one-nighters of your spent more time with you than I had for the past 8 years ever since we met."
"The, do you want to know how I feel?"
"Hm? ... No, it's ok since I already know." Tsuna said making Reborn raise an eyebrow in curiosity. "I've already planned on moving to Chicago with the kids before I turn 19, so you will just have to bother with me until then."
"What are you talking about." Reborn demanded rather than asked while narrowing his eyes.
"I know you hate me alright. That I'm a pest and you have been taking care of me only because my dad had asked you to. But now that I'm old enough to take care myself and t-"
"Who told you that." he demanded once again.
"Oh come on, I'm not that stupid Reborn. Even a toddler can tell if someone just ignores your calls and avoids you every time possible!"
Reborn just glared at him, not really listenning to the boy's next few sentences.
"I know i disgust you, ok? Yes I have noticed. Ever since I said that I had been dating Hibari-san you've been acting differently, even after breaking up with him! No matter what, I'm still gay and you can't-"
"I love you."
"Change ... that." Tsuna finished his sentence, ignoring what the raven just said.
"I love you." Reborn repeated.
"If you are just messing around with me, you better stop; it's not funny at all." Tsuna glared.
"Sawada Tsunayoshi, I'm in love with you." Reborn tried clarifying.
Tsuna stared wide eyedly at the raven, it was obvious that the man was seroius since it was the first time that he had been called by full name, but Tsuna just couldn't believe it.
"The boys told me that you met him yesterday, that Hibari Kyoya; I know you are not over him yet, but I'll make you fall in love with love with me ... Do you need other proof for you to accept this?"
Tsuna just stared down at his hands on the table with uncertainty. Reborn took this chance and leaned over the counter to cup Tsuna's face in his hands and kissed him.
It was a soft kiss that kids considered as childish, but for this case, it was just perfect.
Tsuna blushed and turned his face free from the raven's hold and went back up to his room while Reborn just stood where he was, not knowing how to take this kind of reaction.