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CHAPTER 9

GROUNDED

Tsuna woke up that very evening feeling a little bit lightheaded and a little colder than usual.

Is it me? Or it's colder today?

The brunet thought and shivers even though his comforter still covers him. Ignoring his not so normal feeling, he pushes himself up to sit but regretted nonetheless since he felt his body heavier than usual and his vision started spinning like crazy. He shuts his eyes and hold on into something or anything that can help him in maintaining his balance while he sits.

"Ugh. Maybe I do need to rest for tonight." He mutters and waited until his vertigo subsides and slowly went downstairs while balancing his body as he starts to prepare himself to act normal in front of his family.

When he reached downstairs, he heard three familiar voices and greeted him.

'Yo Tsuna! "Yamamoto went near him, wearing his usual grin followed by Gokudera as he looks like something good happen to him. "Hello Juudaime's twin."

"Gyahaha! Tsuna nii!" Lambo happily run towards the brunet as he observes him in a clearer view, this made the brunet greet the cow costumed child as he flash a gentle smile. Now Lambo, satisfied runs back inside the kitchen where their mother prepares the dinner.

"Yamamoto-san Gokudera-san, Good evening!" Tsuna tried greeting the them with no trace of difficulty.

"Hey Tsuna! Yamamoto and Gokudera will have dinner with us today." His older twin grins at him.

"What happened?" The brunet became worried the moment he saw the wrapped up bandage at the head part of his older brother but then he reassures him, afterwards his brother accidentally touch his warm face which made him flinch a little since it felt cold for him.

Natsu notice his younger brother's reaction and also finds his brother's face warmer than usual and so he observes him with his calculating eyes.

"Nii-san?" Tsuna tried to act normal since he can feel his brother looking at him as if he was being assess for any odd signs that he can find.

"Boys it's time to eat!" Natsu snapped out from assessing him the moment his mother calls for dinner and decided to continue it later after dinner and heads first to assist his two friends to their seats leaving the brunet at the living room, now able to relax after his brother's tight observation.

He released a heavy sigh as he shuts his eyes once again as his vertigo slowly returning.

Reborn notice this and approached the standing brunet quietly for him.

"Reborn I know you're in there."The brunet suddenly talked with his eyes still shut as he massage his temples.

Vongola's hyper intuition.Reborn Looked with his expressionless eyes but deep inside he find the said brunet amusing to no end. A lot of things were running at the baby hit man's mind and he almost forget about his business with the brunet.

"You're not allowed to go outside for tonight Dame Tsuna,"

Reborn expected his brown haired student to protest after his announcement, but nothing came.

Instead the brunet actually agreed for his grounded status for the night.

"Okay. I also plan to rest inside the house for tonight." he nodded before he continued with his a matter of fact gesture. "I'm hibernating for today." Tsuna said to his tutor in a scripted lazy tone and acted like he was sleepy for Reborn not to notice his current state.

"Well then let's dinner shall we?" And the brunet headed towards the dining area with Reborn sitting on his shoulders.

The dinner of the Sawada Family went well in a most peaceful way as possible, in addition to Gokudera, Yamamoto and Lambo. Gokudera sitting on Sawada Nana's left corner was praising her cooking skills while on her right corner was Lambo, happily digging all of his food beside the twins while Yamamoto sits next to Gokudera, cheerfully teaching the Sawada twins about the basics of swimming since both of them doesn't know how to swim.

"Just feel the water on your skin and go swish and hwahh!" The baseball star Yamamoto Takeshi demonstrating on how to swim with both of his hand positions into a diving stance and starts to act like he was actually swimming. The twins sweat dropped while watching the demonstration. Unfortunately, while Yamamoto is enjoying his swimming lessons he accidentally hit the silver haired teen head but only minimal force was used.

Even so, Yamamoto and Natsu knows how would their silver haired friend reacts and so they prepare themselves while Tsuna tilted his head in confusion as he observe his brother and Yamamoto getting ready for something to happen.

But then the reaction they anticipated never came, instead Gokudera's response was by far the scariest phenomenon ever occurred yet.

"It's fine Yamacchan." Gokudera smiled and his emerald eyes were gleaming just like he was talking to Natsu.

The scene went quiet for a while...

Then...

"Gyahaha! Ahodera isn't pissed!"

Nana, being oblivious in her surroundings continues to eat her dinner while the teens having different response. Yamamoto's face was expressionless, unsure what would be his reaction and so he decided for him not to use any, just a straight face while Natsu with his eyes widened in surprise and his jaw literally dropped as he watched the abnormal event happening in front of him and made his food spilled from the spoon he was holding. And Tsuna too amused to his brother's new reaction together with his friends just smiled for a bit, as much as he wanted to laugh, his on and off headache stops him from focusing and eventually loses his appetite though he didn't show it.

The dinner ended and Tsuna excused himself for a while for him to go to the comfort room. As soon as the brunet reach the area, he allows himself to throw up some of the food he ate, hoping he would feel fine, but he was wrong since he still feels nauseated.

I should return inside my room now.

The brunet now climbing the stairs, unconsciously dragging his feet, fortunately didn't notice by his brother and his friends since he just wanted to head into his bedroom fast and lay into his bed to sleep as he hopes to wake later on with a better condition.

"Where's Tsuna?" Yamamoto now worried for the brunet because he didn't saw him for more than 30 minutes already.

"He probably slept already." Gokudera still in a good mood and looks excited for later.

The two of them were waiting for Natsu as he checks for his brother and also for him to change to his outside clothes. And so they are stuck with each other for a while. This made Yamamoto uneasy, for the good mood Gokudera next to him.

It was until the blond haired teen came down stairs.

Thank goodness Natsu you came back. Yamamoto thought.

"He was already sleeping." Natsu looked disappointed since wanted Tsuna to meet the known night artist if they saw him later on. Maybe he's health gotten worse? But he was fine a while ago. Am I thinking too much?

"Let him rest Natsu. He must have been tired from his morning lesson with his tutor." Yamamoto told Natsu, noticing his blond haired teen friend frowns for a bit.

"Y-Yeah. You're probably right Yamamoto." But Natsu deep in his mind knows that his brother was asleep the whole morning, or maybe his brother didn't able to return to sleep after Lambo entered his room. That must be it! And so he shook his head and chose to focus on finding out Yozora's identity for now.

"Remember the plan; hide while we stalk Sasagawa Kyoko-san." Natsu informed his two friends as they nodded while Reborn suddenly appeared from nowhere also joined their small meeting.

"I'll come with you Baka Natsu."

Natsu was about to protest given that he wanted for Reborn to look after Tsuna but then Reborn butt in his mind.

"Leon will take care of Dame Tsuna."

"Leon? Your pet lizard partner?"

"Ah. My awesome green pet partner." Natsu heave a sigh before he nodded.

Now that they are settled, the three of them left the Sawada household with Reborn on Natsu's shoulder.

Tsuna's Room

Tsuna lay on his bed with his comforter covering his whole body, trying to warm himself as his body continue shivering while his eyes were closed. As much as he wanted to sleep his pounding headache is keeping his consciousness active.

He wanted this feeling to end but he was stubborn.

Tsuna doesn't want his mother to worry about him. He just want to tell her that he would be fine, that he would be okay after he rest for a while. He hates to be a burden to his family.

So here he was, trying to endure his condition.

He felt miserable right now as his frail body tries to fight against his weak immunity.

But he doesn't hate that his body to be so fragile since he accepted it for a long time ago.

It's because this body belongs to Sawada Tsunayoshi.

A representation of who he was.

He, a Sawada, which he was acknowledge by his family no matter what his condition is.

The brunet smiles as he starts to remember his experiences just to divert his pain into something else. And then he felt something ticklish on his cheeks.

The curious brunet slowly opens his eyes only to see a blur vision of a little green figure. He closed his eyes again and softly muttered; "Arigatou Leon. You're trying to comfort me, aren't you?"

After he spoke, he felt the ticklish sensation once again.

The brunet's lips curved into a smile, he was grateful that even Leon was also worried for him.

Now that his mood lighten for a bit, he didn't know that he already went into his own dreamland with Leon sleeping on his side.

...(A/N: I was just about to end this chapter. oh well. XD)

NOW BACK WITH THE TRIO

The three of them arrived at the Namimori shopping district, earlier than they expected to be since Sasagawa Kyoko was not there yet.

"It's because Gokudera here is !"

"Shh.. Quiet Yamamoto, they might see us."

"You guys, she's not here yet."

The trio were currently hiding behind a large bush, a suggestion made by Gokudera for their spying mission.

"Uhmm.. Reborn are you sure we need to hide like this?"

"Of course Baka Natsu, this is your first spying mission that's why as a boss you need to ensure your own and you're subordinates safety."

But this mission is not that dangerous. Natsu thought as he sweat dropped and stares at his tutor.

"Reborn san is right Juudaime. Your safety comes first! That's the reason why I figured out that we should hide in here." Gokudera who was it Natsu's left side places his right hand at the top of his chest and looked he had done something noble while the baseball star on Natsu's right is enjoying in hiding in the bushes.

"This is fun!haha!"

Well this is better than nothing.

And so they waited...

30 minutes

The trio were looking at their surroundings, sensing any signs of the arrival of their target..

And waited...

1 hour has passed

Natsu yawns trying to fight his drowsiness, while Yamamoto is currently listening to music with his headset on as he happily hums and Gokudera counting his dynamite that seems to be no end.

'Just how many dynamite does Gokudera has with him?'

Still waited...

1 hour and 30 minutes has passed.

"Target detected." Gokudera finally announced that made the two become alert.

There they saw Sasagawa Kyoko went beside the district's fountain and she sits as she started to wait for the painter to come hopefully while she hugs the sketchbook.

"You guys sure that Yozora would show up?" Yamamoto asked two his two friends.

"How many times you ask about that baseball freak, of course he will come." Gokudera now in his usual self began tightening his surveillance at the surroundings.

And so their spying session has already begun.

And that's it for now guys! :P

I'm kind of busy last week and thankfully I manage to update though it's not longer than the last two chapters.

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