Story Title: The Choice
Rating: T
Summary: As middle school comes to an end, Tsuna and his family have to make a decision that would change their lives.
Paring: 27OC
Disclaimer: I do not own KHR D:
A/N: Yay! I managed to write earlier than expected. Just know I'm kind (well am) doing this instead of my dual credit English project (eh it's due till Tuesday). But I am learning a lot already. So far were learning how to learn meanings behind all sorts of stuff in literature (for example my favorite is the "It's not just heart disease" chapter). Anyway on another note, I just want to say thank you to you all! I never thought I would get this many followers this soon I'm almost to 50! *squeals* Just know if you have any comments, concerns, or questions about the story please feel free to review! Well enough of this A/N! On to the story!
Mission departure day:
After celebrating New Year's, Tsuna and his familgia boarded the plane with his mother to return to japan for the first time in months. It was decided that they would stay at the hotel, as it would give them better access to various locations in Namimori. During their long plane ride, they were to rest, and look over the schematics for the underground base. When it was decided to follow their TYL counterpart's idea and create a base in Namimori, they decided to make a few adjustments to make it less accessible in the public, and relocate some entrances to make it harder to find.
One of the covers for one of the main entrances was a newly built convenience store in the outskirts of Namimori. This provided a good cover for the entrance as these stores are common in any developed country, and no one was suspicious of the construction. The hidden entrance was to be built when the store was in the interior designing stage of the construction, where there were fewer builders, and leeway in explaining any removal of wall or the addition of anything as it being "better" for the design of the building. The other entrances were scattered across the forest near the town. The convenience store would be the only entrance near and accessible in the public.
The last day of their time in Namimori would be spent overseeing the convenience store construction, and the rest would be seeing the forest entrances and the inside of the actual base with Spanner and Irie. Even though their schedule for their time in Namimori was packed, Nerina was still able to clear the whole first day so they can be reacquainted with their old home. Well that and they agreed to give her a tour of the whole town and tell their stories along with it. She was very excited and glad that Japanese was a part of her lessons.
The last few days for both Tsuna and Nerina have been slightly awkward for both of them. Nerina would occasionally get embarrassed when they would be a little too close together, still remembering her encounter with future Tsuna. Tsuna, after a heart felt and embarrassing conversation with his mother, finally understood what his feelings for Nerina were. This revelation surprised him, as he thought he still liked Kyoko, but he accepted it without a struggle. He was glad he could be himself around her, and not the stuttering mess he used to be around Kyoko. He also realized he no longer felt the same way for Kyoko, and now only saw her as a friend. While he accepted his feelings for her, he still didn't know how to act on them. He still felt insecure on who she marries in the future. He tried not to let this get to him, but he couldn't let it go. On the plane ride, he glanced at her sleeping form next to him, and decided that somehow, he was going to make his move this week and prevent anyone else from doing it before him.
After their plane ride.
They soon landed in a private landing site owned by the Vongola. After they landed they boarded their limo. Like the last few hours on the plane, the group spent their time napping, regaining energy for their first day in Namimori. They would arrive in Namimori at around nine in the morning and eat breakfast at Tsuna's house. After they eat breakfast, they would roam the town till they check in at the hotel at noon. After they check in and check the rooms for any bugs, they will continue roaming the town until they return to the hotel at ten and rest for the next day.
After they ate breakfast, they took Nerina to the first place they could think of, Namimori middle school. They walked the memorized path together and were eager to see the old building, some more than others. Right after they entered Namimori, Hibari left the limo and went off on his own to do whatever he wanted to do. Ryohei also left with Kyoko to go home and visit their parents after being gone for so long. After a delicious breakfast at Nana's, Haru and Yamamoto returned to their homes. Mukuro and Chrome also returned to Kokuyo to see how their old home was fairing with them gone. That left Tsuna and Gokudera to give her the grand tour of Namimori.
They soon arrived to the middle school and entered the premises. They weren't worried about the discipline committee as they already received permission from Hibari to enter the school. They walked around the school telling her various stories about what had happened in the area. They soon reached their old classroom and opened the door. They walked in the room and looked around.
"Where were your desks?" Nerina asked.
They gave her the locations of everyone's desk and they continued to tell her stories about things that occurred in the class room. After about 30 minutes, they heard the door the room open. They looked to the door and saw a teacher looking at them with a frown. "What are you kids doing in here? The school is closed"
"We got permission from Hibari." Gokudera informed the teacher, showing her a note that he had in his pocket. The teachers face paled.
"Oh my god! He's back!" The teacher said in dread.
When the faculty and students were informed that the famous Discipline committee head was moving, and out of the country no less, they rejoiced. They would no longer live in fear. Their hopes had soon died down when the rest of the members would be stepping up their act in the absence of their leader. While they were fiercer then they used to, it never compared to when Hibari was present, something the newest students took for granted of. They teacher left the room and practically ran down the hall to warn her co-workers of the prefects return.
Tsuna, Nerina, and Gokudera laughed and decided to explore the town more. They were walking along the sidewalk when a certain building came into view. They passed were going to pass by the high school when a group of kids their age walked out of it and noticed Tsuna. Tsuna groaned when he saw them begin to approach them. They tensed when the group approached them and continued walking.
"Well look who it is, dame-Tsuna." One boy said.
"I bet he failed at where ever he went and came back crying to his mom." Another boy teased him.
They continued to ignore them and it pissed off the boys. "Hey look at this, they got a cute girl with them. Hey cutie why don't you ditch this loser and come with us. We can give you a good time." The third boy tried to grab her when Gokudera grabbed their arm. The boy grew scared when he saw his expression.
"I dare you to try and grab her again." He said menacingly. The yanked his arm back and the group left. Nerina gave him a thankful smile and they continued to walk. Tsuna thanked Gokudera and he heard him mumble under his breath "Idiots, trying to grab tenths woman." He slightly blushed at his comment.
They continued on their way when they passed by Yamamoto's house and decided to eat their. They entered the shop and were greeted by Yamamoto's dad. "Hey! Good to see you guys! Have a seat, your meals will be on the house. Takeshi will be back soon, he's taking a shower. What do you want?" they placed their orders and Tsuyoshi noticed Nerina. "Ah, so you're the new friend huh. Nice to meet you I'm Tsuyoshi, Takeshi's dad."
"Hello I'm Nerina, nice to meet you." She said back.
"I'll be right back with your sushi." He said and went back to cooking sushi.
"He seems really nice." She commented.
"Yeah he is, but don't let that fool you, he's a swordsman like Yamamoto. He taught Yamamoto his sword style and used to be a part of the mafia too until his wife died." Tsuna told Nerina.
They continued talking and was soon joined by Tsuna and the food. Nerina loved the sushi she ordered, it tasted so much better than the other kinds she tried at various restaurants. After they ate they went to the hotel to check in. When they arrived, the others were already there waiting for them to arrive. There was a total of 5 rooms shared amongst them. Tsuna and Hibari had their own room, Yamamoto and Gokudera shared one, Ryohei and Mukuro shared another, and Chrome and Nerina shared the last. The rooms were placed next to and across each other, with Tsuna being placed in a corner room. After they made sure their rooms weren't bugged, they continued Nerina's tour together, with the exception of Hibari.
The rest of the tour went without a hitch and soon returned to the hotel to rest. Nerina really enjoyed their time together and was glad they got at least one day of fun before they had to endure a month of work and meetings.
The next day.
They next day Tsuna, Nerina and his guardians left the hotels in their work suits. Today they were checking the various locations of their underground base's entrances. There were entrances located across Japan and they were splitting up to check them all. They were paired off in pares to look at all of the locations in time. Tsuna was with Nerina, Gokudera with Yamamoto, Ryohei with Hibari, and Mukuro with Chrome. Tsuna was meeting with Spanner and Irie and was overseeing the main base in Namimori while the rest were taking the bullet train to see the others across Japan with other lead contractors.
Nerina and Tsuna met up with Spanner and Irie at a local Café near their hotel and soon left to enter the base. So far the base was being built accordingly. The various floors with multiple functions were progressing perfectly and were almost done with the construction. All they had left was the designing to do, which was one of the major reasons he was brought here. Since this base was being built for the tenth generation, it was going to be built for his comfort and not Nono's. They continued to tour the base and were making comments on what type of furniture was going to go in what room and what colors the walls were going to be painted. Due to him not being the best at this kind of stuff, he asked for Nerina's input a lot, something the two geniuses noted.
They finished off the day with two of the floors finished with the 14 that were built. They planned to finish the floors by the end of the week, saving the residence area for last so they could bring the rest of them to personalize their rooms. After they finished their days work at the base, they returned to the hotel and fell asleep right when their heads hit the pillow.
With Spanner and Irie
Spanner and Irie were in the base in the finished conference room. They were talking about what they noticed early in the day with Tsuna and Nerina.
"They look close huh." Irie commented.
"Yeah, was she in the future?" Spanner asked trying to see if he recalled her from his future counterpart's memories.
"I'm not sure if she was in that future, I don't remember her being there. We could ask Byakuran, he has more knowledge of that time." Spanner nodded to him and he called Byakuran on the screen. After a few moments of ringing Byakuran answered.
"Hi Shoichi, what's up?" Byakuran answered popping a marshmallow in mouth.
"Do you remember a Nerina from your future memories?" Irie asked.
"Oh, Tsuna finally met her?" Byakuran asked.
"She was there?" Spanner asked.
"Yeah, in that world he meets her a few years from now after meeting her some small town. He loved her and destroyed some small family that was keeping her as a slave. My future counterpart found out about her and killed her when we first started hunting Vongola members. Tsuna was devastated, they were starting a family together." Their eyes widened. "I guess their future selves didn't want them remembering that so they kept it from them. Oh maybe I'll get to meet her during the main alliance meeting in two weeks." He said with a smile. There was shouting in the background. "Gotta go. Bye bye." The screen went black.
The two teenagers went silent, taking in the information they just heard. During their silence they received another call. When they answered it was Reborn. "A-ah. Hello Reborn." Irie stuttered a little.
"Chaos, is something wrong?"
"Actually we just found out about what happened to Nerina's future counterpart when the Vongola and Millefiore were at war." Spanner told him.
"Ah yeah, I made sure that didn't reach Tsuna when we were there." Reborn commented.
"You knew already?" Irie asked.
"Who do you think I am? I was there before the rest and I gathered all I could from their future selves. That was one of the first things they told me. It had a huge impact on Tsuna. That's why I let him continue meeting her when he first met her and got her a job as his secretary. It was something I wanted to do for them, I know how it feels someone you fell in love with. I might look 20 now, but I'm many years older than I appear thanks to the curse."
"Oh."
"Any way, that's one of the reasons why I called you. I need your help with something." Reborn smirked.
A/N: So that's all for this chapter. I had started this chapter on Thursday but I didn't finish it till today. Anyway, I wanted to include what happened to them in the TYL timeline. In that time line, Tsuna never went to Italy when he did and stayed in Namimori when he went to highschool, because of that they met later and under slightly different circumstances. She was a slave to the Ciro Familgia and she met Tsuna when explored the town when he moved there. They fell in love and stayed in Italy till she died as a result of the war between Millefiore and Vongola, it was then that Tsuna decided to go to the base in Japan and a few months later he started his plan for his past self. Any way till next chapter!
