In which he listened to his mother's story.
"Tsu-kun! Where did you…?" His mother asked him, looking almost ready to cry. "Mom, please. He has a bad fever." Tsunayoshi looked at his mother with sadness. "I understand! Come, put him in… his room." Tsunayoshi narrowed his eyes as his mother guide him to second floor. He never went to the second floor. His own room was at first floor.
The second floor was empty except for the storage room and another room he doesn't know the content. He knows that his mother cleaned that room every day, but he was never around to take a peek. Being the student council's vice-president took a lot of time after all.
The room they just entered was the most high-tech room Tsunayoshi ever visited. Not even the computer lab at school can compare to this room. One side of the wall was covered in sets of computer monitors. The room probably contained twenty different monitor, all facing to the center, three iMacs. It also has five wireless keyboards and three different computer mouse.
Under the window were stereo systems in different brands. There were Sony, and so many other brands he never knew it existed, along with a small refrigerator. The next wall had a little cupboard in front of the bed. The bed was small and comfortable looking. The blue colored sheets matched the wall's gray color in an odd way.
"Mom," Tsunayoshi began, but his mother laughed a sad laugh and yanked his younger twin's wet clothes. "This is the first time you've been to Tsu-chan's room, isn't it?" She changed her younger son's clothes with a new, orange with black trims pajamas. "How can I not know about this room? It's in my own house!" He said while watching his mother tending to his half-conscious brother.
"Tsu-chan… lived in his own expense ever since he was four. We didn't buy him all of this." His mom looked around the room with sad expression. "Whenever I asked him how he got all of this stuff, he mouthed 'Mantis', and then he'll shut his door. Tsuna never came down for dinner. I always left his dinner in front of his door…"
"Mom… who… I mean… um…" He lost his words. He never felt comfortable when discussing about money with his parents. "Giotto-kun, I mean, Vongola corp. was the one who supplied all Tsu-chan's necessities, I think. It was weird, I even think so." Nana continued as she put her hand on Tsuna's forehead. Tsunayoshi gritted his teeth when his mother mentioned that name. "Please tell me more about Giotto Vongola." Tsunayoshi followed his mother's example and placed his cold hand to Tsuna's cheek.
"Giotto-kun and I first met in a hospital. I was carrying both of you at that time. Giotto-kun with his two friends, Daemon-kun and G-kun came to my place. Of course I don't know who they are at that time. But Giotto-kun grinned to me as he put his ears on my stomach. 'Please work hard, Sawada Nana-san. I can't wait to see my cute Tsuna!' That's what he said…
"After that incident, he visited my room much more often. Sometimes bringing Daemon-kun and G-kun with him. He told me about himself and his soon-to-be corporation Vongola. And how he needed Tsuna. I don't quite understand him, of course.
"After so many visits, even more than Iemitsu, I trusted him. When he told me Tsuna won't have to feel inferiority complex towards you a few years later, I was so happy. I didn't ask for details and agreed without Iemitsu's consent. I didn't think that they'll just take Tsu-chan away from me…" She sobbed for a while, but then she continued. "That day, when you just got home from your violin concert, Tsu-chan was out of his room and he'd seen you playing. He watched you with amazed expression, but it soon turned bitter. I guess it was because he realized that he wasn't the only prodigy in the family and that struck him hard. He slammed the door shut and the next day, people from Vongola corp. came and moved Tsuna's important stuff." She clenched her fists and sobbed on Tsuna's blanket.
"Tsu-chan was crying, but I didn't see him. I was busy stopping Iemitsu from punching the Vongola workers one by one. I saw Giotto-kun in front of our house with his black car. He hugged Tsuna and said 'Hi little Skye, I'm Giotto. I knew you through Mantis.' After he said that, Tsuna stopped crying, and he doesn't move. He just leaned his head to Giotto's shoulder. And then they entered the car and leave. I cried so hard after that…"
She sobbed again. "Mom, this is the last question. Why do you celebrate this birthday with me?" Tsunayoshi wiped his tears from his face. "Eh? I got an email from Daemon-kun that Giotto-kun will take Tsu-chan out this year. So I won't need to come." Sawada Nana wiped her tears with shocked expression.
'That cunning blond…' Tsunayoshi clicked his tongue angrily. "Oops, I think we should let Tsu-chan sleep now." His mother stood up and took Tsuna's dirty clothes. She smiled and gestured Tsunayoshi to leave the room. When Tsunayoshi was about to leave, he felt a tug, asking him to not go.
"Huh?"
His mother giggled and ruffled his brown hair. "It seems like Tsu-chan wants you to stay, Tsu-kun. Please look after him, okay?" And then she closed the door.
Tsunayoshi sighed and shook his head. "Hahaha, you're weird, Tsuna," He grabbed the younger twin's hand and sat on the floor. "A few days ago you threw banana split to my head and now you're asking me not to go." Tsunayoshi brought Tsuna's hand to his cheek. "Here you go, I'll give some of my coolness to you."
But then, Tsunayoshi kissed his younger twin's hand with his cold lips.
In which he slapped G's girlfriend.
"He's gone? !" Giotto's eyes widened as he listened to Ugetsu's voice from his phone. "Yes, Giotto. I heard from G who heard it from his girlfriend." Giotto grinded his teeth in frustration and sighed angrily. "Okay then, thank you, Ugetsu." The blond pressed his Blackberry Storm's screen so hard that it almost crack.
"Is something wrong, boss?" His chauffeur asked, looking to him from the mirror. The blond sighed angrily and threw his Blackberry across his car, almost hitting the chauffeur. Amber eyes glowed in anger as he took off his gloves and threw them somewhere. "Damn, damn, damn." No longer had his voice sounded like pleasant baritone which can make girls throw babies at him. It sounded like a low growl of an angered tiger.
"Sir?" The chauffeur asked again. "Can't you do something to avoid this stupid traffic jam and drive me to the main office already?" Giotto snapped at the poor man. "Y-yessir!" The chauffeur took a sharp turn to the left and led them to a smaller, yet looser road.
"That stupid girl! Didn't I tell her to keep an eye on him? ! What if someone from other groups or companies got hold of him? We'll lose 60 percent of our monthly income!" The blond ruffled his own hair and punched the window. "Sir, what are you talking about?" The chauffeur asked again.
"Sawada Tsuna…" Giotto took a deep breath as he watched a fountain near his workplace. "Are we close?" He asked to the chauffeur. "Yes, sir. We've arrived." Giotto stormed out of the car when one of his doormen opened his door. He rushed to the lobby to see a redhead sitting next to a crying brunette.
"Where is he? Who's the one in charge of searching him?" He asked to his best friend and his right-hand man. "Alaude is currently searching, Daemon and Ugetsu also helped." The redhead answered. Giotto glared menacingly at the crying girl in front of him. "Miura-chan, I told you to take care of Tsuna, didn't I?" He asked with a fervent cold tone.
Miura-chan looked up to his direction fearfully and nodded. "Tsuna-san… He asked me to drive him to a park. So, I dropped him there. When we arrived, he asked me to get him a penthouse with a starry sky as its ceiling. I nodded and asked him to wait for me there. He nodded and sat on the swings.
"I rushed to Namimori's VIP apartment complex to get things done. When I realized that it had been ten hours, I asked the clerk to wait so I can get his real client. I rushed to the park, but it was raining and there was a traffic jam. And when I got there… he's… he's…" Miura-chan sobbed. Giotto gritted his teeth and slapped the girl.
"You could have gotten someone to look after him instead of leaving him alone! That boy can't talk and he has zero experience in socializing! Do you think he'll fend off strangers instead of following them? !" Giotto raged. The whole lobby of Vongola Tower went silent to watch their boss' wrath. Something that rarely happened.
"Giotto, cut her some slack…" G patted his best friend's shoulder as he sighed. "I'm not cutting anyone any slack until he is found. And that includes your girl, Guerino." Giotto stormed off as Miura-chan wailed and hugged his boyfriend.
Giotto walked to the janitor's closet and knocked at the wall behind the third rack. "Tell everyone from the 'underworld' to find him. But, don't tell them who he really is; just tell them that he is one of important people in Vongola Nascosto department. Those who can find him will be granted fifteen million US dollar and membership to Vongola. Spread it, Daesy."
'Daesy' knocked the wall back which signaled his yes. As expected of the head of Vongola corp.'s technology department, he already knew that Miura Haru stupidly lost the company's greatest asset. Giotto got out from the cramped janitor's closet and walked to his office as he mused to himself about how weird the hackers he knew are.
He sat down on his chair and leaned back. Before he can ask for a cup of coffee to whomever there was in the office boy's pantry, a certain snow-haired man entered his room. "Boss," He called. "Can't I get my coffee, Alaude." It wasn't a question, Giotto was pissed.
"What did you do to contribute to his search?" Alaude asked with a piercing tone. Giotto sighed, but straightened himself otherwise. "I asked Daesy to spread things about him in 'underworld', since they're easier to work with than the police- not that I'm insulting you." The blond chuckled as the snow-haired man narrowed his cyan eyes.
"You're asking that nerd?" Alaude said with his infamous piercing tone again. "That nerd happens to like Skye." Giotto replied with a smile. Alaude clicked his tongue in annoyance as Giotto remained unfazed by his glares. "Now if you excuse me, I want my black coffee. Not the instant one, so you can't ask me to make it by myself. Ahh, that civet coffee sounds nice. Get me that."
A vein popped on Alaude's head as he turned away from his boss' crazy antiques. Civet coffee, one of the world's most expensive and low-production varieties of coffee; how can one expect to get that coffee just by going to the pantry and ask for one?
"I want civet coffee, someone bring it here." Giotto said to the intercom. Alaude narrowed his eyes again, but decided to say nothing. He sat on a sofa in front of the bookshelves. A few minutes later, a figure with priest robe came running to the office. "That was an extreme signal for me, wasn't it? Since I just got back from Indonesia…"
"Welcome back, Knuckle." Giotto smiled passively. "How was the 'spreading beliefs' going?" Alaude asked with genuine tone of curiosity. "It went extremely well! Here ya go, civet coffee!" Knuckle threw a black plastic bag to Giotto's desk. "Thanks Knuckle!" Giotto smiled.
"By the way, I've heard from G and Miura-chan. They said that Tsuna is missing…" Giotto flinched. Alaude noticed this and pat Knuckle's shoulder, shaking his head. "I'll find him." Giotto declared sternly. His amber eyes flickered with passion and determination. "I haven't got any lead, Primo. Nufufu~" Daemon barged to the room, sitting on the sofa.
"Then why are you here, you insolent worm…" Alaude murmured snappily. Before Daemon can make any remarks or Knuckle to begin with his 'belief-strengthening', Giotto laughed eerily. "Gather everyone." He said with finality that made everyone flinched.
"Giotto… you're serious…" Daemon smirked. The others looked at Giotto with different expressions.
"Yeah. We can't fully trust Daesy, or A.H.A, even some of the Vongola employee. I want my own Guardians to be here." Giotto brought his hands to his face. His amber eyes shone eerily as his lips curled into a sadistic smile.
Everyone in the room flinched when Giotto's other part showed. He repressed it to the extent they never saw that sadistic smile. "I want it. And for it, I need to get him." Giotto said with an eerie baritone. "Even when I can't get what's inside the Arcobaleno Database by myself, I will get someone who can. I will get every pawn I need until my goal. You guys understand this, yes?" Amber eyes flickered.
Everyone murmured 'yes' and closed in to their Boss' table.
"Yes… golden-haired manipulator…"
In which he met with his allies.
Can you play the piano for me? It's calming.
I have software for it, it's called Synesthesia. You can play piano with keyboards there.
It feels warm…
Melodies engulfed the feverish brunet warmly. It hugged him better than his mom, or his caretaker. The melodies that his twin played… a very warm melody…
He always felt unexplainable hatred towards the older twin, but he also felt something akin to guilt when hating him. Suddenly, the beautiful melodies stopped, and the older twin grabbed his hand and brought it to his own face. "Tsuna… I promise I'll take lip-reading classes; I'll even stop playing music. But… please… can you not reject me? Can you… stay?" Tsuna opened his eyes slowly and saw his twin's troubled face.
A-ah…
He stretched his other hand to his twin's face.
I-I don't…
Hey, Tsu-Tsunayoshi…
Suddenly, he felt a cold stare from the windows. It sent a chill down his spine. Tsuna wanted to dismiss it as his fever's act, but he couldn't do it. He abruptly let go of his twin's face and pushed him away. The young hacker took a blanket and dragged himself downstairs. "Tsuna?" The other brunet asked and followed his younger twin's lead.
Would that be them…?
-Changing transmission: you are now within Daesy's territory-
Daesy pulled his sweater's hood closer to his face. He didn't trust the 'underworld' to bring Sawada Tsuna back to Vongola corp. building unscathed. The listening device he installed in the Vongola Tower main lobby was useful after all. He got to know that Miura Haru lost him. Thank goodness that the all-knowing leader of A.H.A, Mantis, told him where to find Skye as soon as he asked him on mIRC.
A.H.A: All Hackers Association.
It will fund any hacker's living expenses as long as they pledge loyalty to the leader and his seven admins. He was one of these seven admins, and there are other consequences for being A.H.A or more commonly known by the world as Cervello.
One of them would be their absolute freedom. They're not part of anything, even their own family. When he pledged his loyalty, he threw his family name and did freelance hacking for any company that pay him. He also met one of the seven admins, Butter-Fye. She told him about Vongola corp. and how Mantis wants someone to be a spy in Vongola corp.
Daesy accepted Mantis' order and become a spy in Vongola. That was also when he heard of Skye, a young but prodigy hacker capable of defeating another one of seven admins, Falcon. He once in the middle of the night sneaked away from his hideout behind the janitor's closet and looked to the dark room where the boy was hidden. There, he saw an angel.
A brunet shorter than any average boy he met. He has a deathly pale skin and a very serene sleeping figure. He will sometime stir in his sleep. From that moment, Daesy vowed that he will protect this boy. Mantis smiled (through Skype) at him and made him one of his seven admins.
Before he even entered the Sawada household, a familiar brunet came out, hooding himself with a blanket to protect his head from the pouring rain. "Hey." Daesy greeted casually. Skye looked at him with glazed eyes, most likely from his fever. "Quite some stuff you are, Skye, to actually run to your own house." He chuckled and stepped closer to the brunet.
Skye mouthed something. But he couldn't read it. "Don't ever forget who you are. You're not anything, you're just Skye. You're not even Sawada Tsuna." Daesy said with a cold tone. "Right now, you have a role to play. And this whole running away fiasco was not one of them. Mantis was very disappointed." He lied smoothly. As if that happy-go-lucky can ever be disappointed. Skye flinched. His eyes widened in fear.
As if reading the poor boy's heart, Daesy continued. "But don't worry. He didn't tell Falcon," The boy sighed. "At least, not yet." Daesy took out his green-colored Motorola Flipout. "Of course I can call Butter-Fye to tell Falcon about what you did…"
Skye trembled. He clutched his head and shivered. He fell to his knees and stared to the ground. "Return to Vongola corp.'s building, Skye." Daesy ordered. Skye didn't say a thing, but he still shivered. "He didn't run away." Another brunet stepped in front of his younger twin. "Tsuna didn't run away. I was the one who brought him here."
Daesy scoffed. "And who is this, Skye? You know that Mantis forbid us from taking unknown allies, right?" He clicked his tongue in disapproval. "I'm his older twin. My name is Sawada Tsunayoshi." Tsunayoshi answered with cold tone. "Oh, Libero Cielo." The hacker laughed. "Yeah, like Libero Cielo will protect the Confinati Cielo."
Skye flinched. "You damn-!" The young hacker stood in front of his twin and stretched his hand. Skye mouthed something to his twin. "B-but… Tsuna…" The older twin stammered. Tsuna shook his head and stepped forward. Daesy realized that he was panting heavily.
After a few steps, Skye tripped over nothing and fell to the ground. He panted heavily and didn't get up, too tired to do so. "Tsuna!" Tsunayoshi rushed to his twin's place. But Daesy picked the younger brunet and slung him on his shoulder. "Don't talk to him again. Skye is part of Cervello. He has roles to play, and those roles don't concern you. At least for now." Daesy scratched the back of his hood with his left hand. Tsunayoshi raged and charged towards Daesy.
"Too naïve. Even Butter-Fye can kick your ass easily." Daesy kicked the Tsunayoshi's forehead and he was thrown backwards. "Seeya, Libero Cielo."
"Tch. Tsuna…!"
-Changing transmission: IT'S MANTIS! :P-
"Oh, Daesy! Thank goodness. I'm so worried! How's Skye?" Mantis leaped from his favorite seat on Starbucks. "He's in the car. I figured you may want to see him before I returned him to Vongola corp.'s building." Mantis grinned knowingly to Daesy. "I do want to see him, Daesy. But Giotto Vongola will move him somewhere else closer to my place. Thanks anyways." Mantis grinned again.
Daesy looked at him in confusion. As usual, his boss is awesome. He can be all knowing about so many things. He once wondered how many bugs and listening-device his boss installed to many different people he met. "Daesy? C'mon I wanna meet Skye."
Mantis grinned. He walked hastily to Daesy's car and opened door. "I finally meet you, Skye…"
Mantis smiled warmly and touched Skye's face carefully, not wanting to wake him up. He grinned to himself and the boy in front of him. "I will protect what's inside the Arcobaleno Database. But, I'm not the Rainbow. I'm no one, and this no one will protect you." Mantis laughed and kissed the brunet's forehead.
"What's inside the Arcobaleno Database is yours. If you're mine, then it's going to be mine as well!"
OMG I UPDATED I FEEL SO PROUD!
Okay so this chapter introduces you to another party of the Voice Poem War: The A.H.A/Cervellos! They all consist of hackers. Daesy, Butter-Fye, and Mantis are not OCs. Guess them! And if you get it right, I shall give you cookies!
And personally, if I live in this universe, I would be a hacker as well. It'll be so awesome if being a hacker can make some organization pay for your living expenses (though with the cost of so many other things T_T)
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Random: Yes he will, with either Tsunayoshi or Giotto. XDD
I'm sorry for the late update! Please review!
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~Chiri-tan
