Giotto's Little Secret
Tsuna and Kyouya ran around the ship—though Tsuna's legs were still quite wobbly—like there was no tomorrow until they accidentally ended up outside a private room in Deck D.
Tsuna playfully nudged Kyouya's neck tie so the taller was hovering over him but stopped when they heard somebody yelling on the other side of the door.
"This was my design and you stole it from me! You stole Tsuna's future!" the voice from the room was too familiar for Tsuna to miss. Giotto's voice was full of hatred and pain and it sent shivers down Tsuna's spine.
"Brother?" he whispered to himself.
"Well, you should be sorry, Giotto. I was the one who passed it so it is now my design." the other voice was much older than Giotto's voice and it sounded mean.
The other voice was too familiar to Kyouya. "Father?" he whispered to himself too.
Tsuna and Kyouya looked at each other.
"You freak! I trusted you! I told you to hide it somewhere safe but you used it for your own good!" Giotto screamed at the top of his lungs. "You don't deserve to have the design, Alaude."
Tsuna shivered at the hatred in his brother's voice. He had never heard Giotto like this. Maybe he had, once and at that time…
"I just wanted a bright future for my own son, is that bad?" the older man feigned innocence.
"You'll regret this, Alaude Hibari. You'll regret this!" Giotto warned. There were steps towards the door.
"No way am I gonna regret it, Giotto."
Then a loud gunshot and a thud on the floor were heard.
Before Kyouya could stop him, Tsuna had opened the door and saw his brother on the floor bleeding to death. "Brother!" he screamed as he knelt and held his brother in his arms. "No! Don't leave me! You promised! You promised! Don't break the promise!" he yelled hysterically. Tears were flowing down his cheeks as he shook his brother gently.
Giotto tried his best to open his eyes and smiled sadly at his little brother. "I'm… so… sorry… Tsu… na…" he whispered as life slipped away from his body.
Kyouya stared at the scene in front of him. His father stared at Tsuna with wide eyes.
Alaude knew that Giotto had a younger sibling but he never expected the other child to be this young. He expected Giotto's sibling to be older than this. What have I done? He silently asked himself as he stared more at the crying child. Giotto's sister was definitely angry at him.
"You killed him." Tsuna murmured with hatred. "You killed my brother!" he screamed at the top of his lungs. "I'll never ever forgive you!"
Alaude flinched at the high-pitched voice of the child. He really didn't know what to do. He just ruined yet another life.
"Tsunayoshi…" Kyouya silently called as he knelt beside the boy and took Tsuna in a warm embrace. He tried hard to comfort his friend but he couldn't find the right words. "Hush…"
"Kyouya…" Alaude called silently.
Kyouya sent millions of daggers at his father. "You were never a father to me but I didn't think that you're this heartless to kill somebody's brother."
"I…" the old man started but he was not able to finish it.
Tsuna stood up and walked towards a table where he saw a letter opener. He took it and glared at Alaude. "You killed him." Pure hatred filled his eyes as he looked at Kyouya's father.
"Tsunayoshi, calm down." Kyouya stood up in front of his raging friend; between his father and the enraged child.
"He killed my brother." Tsuna said with his eyes burning with desire to kill. His voice was calm but it still sent shivers down the older men's spine.
"He's my father, Tsunayoshi…." Kyouya said in a sad voice. "I know he killed your brother but if you kill him, what difference do you have from him?"
Tsuna stared at the sad eyes of his friend. "K-Kyouya…" sadness laced his voice but was once again covered with anger. "He is just like our parents!"
Kyouya looked taken aback. "I thought your parents died when you were kids!"
"They… I…" tears started flowing down the face of the once innocent Tsuna. "I have another brother. His name was Byakuran. He was the eldest of us three. Our parents saw that he grew up with great potential so they sold him. Then, as Giotto and I were growing up, Giotto showed great potentials in him just like Byakuran did so they tried to sell him but Giotto fought back and the two of us ran away. They're not dead. They're just… and here's your so-called father killing my only family. So don't you think they just deserve to die?" Tsuna was on his painful world that he didn't notice Kyouya coming near him and getting the letter opener from his quivering hands.
Kyouya enclosed his friend in a tight embrace. "Please, Tsunayoshi, please calm down." he whispered against Tsuna's brown hair. Tsuna's pain was his and Tsuna's happiness was also his.
Alaude watched in complete awe as his son calmed the angry child down. What's with this two? He thought. He accidentally had a glance on the child's hickey-covered neck and understood what it was all about.
"Kyouya…" Alaude called.
Kyouya and Tsuna glared at him in unison. "You're heartless." they chorused as they entangled their embrace and walked towards the now dead body of Giotto. Kyouya carried the body bridal style and he and Tsuna left the room.
xXx
Kyouya and Tsuna wrapped Giotto's body with white blankets before they put him in a wooden box that served as a coffin for the blonde.
Tsuna's sobs and hiccup filled the room they were in. He had calmed down a bit, at least. The hatred in his eyes were now easing away and so was the coldness in his voice.
Kyouya stayed beside Tsuna all the time. He knew that his friend was still angry at his father and he couldn't do anything to ease the pain that Tsuna was feeling. He had loved the boy more than he had loved any one before and seeing Tsuna like this broke his heart into millions of pieces. The feeling of not being of any help to ease Tsuna's pain sent jolts of displeasure of himself up and down his spine.
Tsuna continued to sob on Kyouya's chest all the while the skylark was caressing the brown hair of the smaller boy.
"He didn't do anything wrong…" Tsuna whispered in between sobs and hiccups while clutching onto Kyouya's tear-soaked shirt. He was glad that Kyouya was there to warm him up but he was in great pain that he wanted to die.
"I know…" Kyouya whispered in assurance. "Believe me, I know."
Tsuna looked up at Kyouya. "Your dad killed my brother." he said with bitterness in his voice.
Kyouya flinched at Tsuna's words. He held the boy tighter in his arms. "I know and I'm sorry."
"Why does he have to do that?"
Kyouya caressed Tsuna's face. "I don't know. Believe me, I don't."
"He said it was all for you. He said that, didn't he?" the child was looking for answers and those answers may be taken from Kyouya who was currently holding him.
"Yes, he did but do you really believe him?"
Tsuna held Kyouya's shirt tighter. "Why shouldn't I?"
Kyouya froze. He stared at those caramel-colored eyes. He was just hurt, Kyouya. Don't take it seriously. "I don't know but if you believe him that would mean that you don't believe me, do you?"
It was Tsuna's turn to freeze. The two of them stared back at each other. Tsuna pulled back from Kyouya's hold which made the skylark's heart to break even more.
Kyouya just nodded silently. He got it. For Tsuna, he was just like his father. "I get it." he said before standing up and leaving the room.
Tsuna was left sitting on the floor with the coffin of his brother beside him. His heart throbbed with pain as he realized that what happened between him and Kyouya was just a part of foreplay. "Brother…" he whispered. "I think I loved him too much that I got my heart broken big time."
Tears started to flow from his eyes again but from a very different reason now. Kyouya….
Sorry for killing Dear Giotto-nii... *sighs* I... I'm really sorry
*Note:
Alaude had mistakenly thought that Tsuna was a girl and not a boy so he called him "Giotto's sister" and not "Giotto's brother"
