EndlessChains: This was one of MY favorites and I actually had it written into my prompt list before I even posted the first chapter XD.

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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him. - GK Chesterton

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Tsuna had always, and would always hate fighting.

The hate had started when he was young, when the other kids had started their bullying. It didn't help that Tsuna just didn't like to fight.

Yuni had once said he fought with a furrowed brow and his hands in the stance of a prayer.

Because while Tsuna hated fighting, would always hate fighting in and of itself, Tsuna was and would always be a protector at heart.

Tsuna hated fighting, but he loved his family and Tsuna would always choose to fight if it was for their sake.

He can remember, a few years into his reign as Decimo, the Mansion had been attacked once. The only people in residence at the time had been Tsuna, an injured Lambo a few feet behind him with I-pin hovering over him, and Fuuta rushing to see them.

His younger siblings, all of them injured in some way though only Lambo was unconscious and Tsuna can remember thinking "I can't take one more step back. If I take a step back they get a step closer to them."

Tsuna hated fighting in and of itself, but for the people he loved he would always, always fight.