"Speaking."- Japanese
"Speaking."- Italian
"Speaking."- English


Born For You
by ilYamaTsuna7227li


Chapter 9

Time skip, a week has passed…

In a forest somewhere in Venice Italy, a certain teen was finishing up on his latest mission.

"NO! PLEASE HAVE-"

SLASH!

"Yosh, that's the last of them." The swordsman said as he wiped his sword on the ground and rubbed at his cheek, trying to get rid of the blood. "That took longer than I thought." He took out his phone and looked at the date, "But it seems like I'll make it to the party."

The Vongola guardian stretched his arms and winced, "They really did a number on me, my arm hurts." Just as he said that the dark skies rumbled and the dark-haired teen blinked as a rain drop fell on his cheek. "Rain, huh…"

He smirked as he typed a message on his phone and pressed send before pocketing it. "It's sort of ironic how befitting it is at this time, for the rain to wash away the blood the rain guardian spilled."

The rain fell heavily on to the ground, drowning out the teen's footsteps as he left the forest, leaving behind the mass of dead bodies to rot.


"Kuh…" Tsuna fumbled with the tie around his neck as he looked at the mirror. He was dressed in an expensive black suit provided by the Vongola family and his shoes were, of course, Italian-made leather. His hair had been stylishly gelled and his bangs parted slightly to the side.

All in all he looked better than he ever had in his fifteen years.

There was a knock on the door making the soon-to-be boss jump. "Y-Yes?"

"Vongola, aren't you done yet?" The door opened and Lambo came in, wearing a suit as well as a fedora, probably to mock Reborn. It looked like he wore it everyday, with how at ease he was in his outfit. "What is that? Don't you know how to tie your necktie?"

"Y-Yamamoto always did it for me when we went to school." Tsuna argued, "I never bothered learning because he seemed to enjoy doing it for me."

Ah, despite not really knowing that Yamamoto, I can see that image clearly for some reason. The younger teen thought, "Well you need to hurry up, the guests are arriving and you still have to take the pills." He helped the brunet and pushed the tie up. "There."

"Geh, you're choking me." He patted Lambo's arm, trying to get him to stop. When the guardian finally let off, the brunet adjusted his tie to normal and sighed. "Do I really have to go to this party?"

"What are you saying now of all times, Vongola?" The teen asked the other, "It's a party in your honor and hasn't Reborn established that, 'to lure out Xanxus, you need to do this?'"

As always, when the name of Yamamoto's killer was mentioned the brunet flinched. But he scratched his cheek trying to look like he wasn't affected, "But it's a mafia party! Where everyone is in suits and black dresses," He trembled in fright, "It's like a funeral for someone. And everyone in the party will be from the mafia so they must be scary!"

"You're a wimp." Lambo said bluntly.

"That's a really horrible thing to say!"

Lambo blew at his bangs, "As the future Vongola boss, you must be used to this. This is going to be your future after all, whether you like it or not."

The brunet grew quiet, brown eyes downcast.

"You could have said 'no'," The youngest guardian added. "You had the choice to say 'no'."

"It's not really that much of a choice." The brunet's hands clenched into a fist. "It was either go with you or stay with uncle and die. I was given a choice to say 'no' but in the end, the obvious answer was 'yes' right?"

Lambo looked sideways uncomfortably.

The young boss rubbed at his eyes, "But even if there was a better choices that would have allowed me to stay with uncle and continue my normal life, I wouldn't want that!"

I wish everything could go back the way it was before. An image of a sadly smiling Yamamoto entered his mind. He remembered the night the baseball player said this to him, as he pretended to sleep trying to avoid him. I would have been content.

"A life like that without Yamamoto," Tsuna's shoulders trembled, "I wouldn't have wanted it anymore."

The teen stared at his boss with wide-eyes, before his gaze softened. He sighed and approached the older teen as he took off his fedora and placed it on top of the carefully styled brown hair. The brunet looked up in surprise.

"And isn't that the reason why you're here today?" Lambo said in exasperation as wide brown eyes looked up at him. "That's why you have to push through on that decision. You don't want to live a normal life without the Vongola unit- I mean that Yamamoto guy, then do your best in making this life as far from normal as possible."

Tsuna blinked, "That's not what I meant-"

Lambo patted the other on the head harshly as he huffed, "Stop making something so simple, complicated."

"I-Itte…" Tsuna said as he took off the fedora.

"Now let's get going and wipe that look off your face." The youngest guardian said as he turned. Then he paused and looked at Tsuna, "Before I forget. Here." He threw a familiar blue pill container at his boss who caught it clumsily. "Reborn said to take these before they introduce you."

"A-Ah."

"Let's go. You're not forgetting anything are you?"

"No- ah, wait!" Tsuna went to his nightstand and opened a drawer. A familiar box with a Vongola mark caught his sight. He looked at it a moment before carefully picking it up and pocketing it. He turned to Lambo with a serious expression. "Let's go."

His guardian gave him a small smile as he led the way.


"Whoah, is he the new Vongola boss?"

"He's so young!"

"I heard he's just fifteen…"

"He looks so much like the First Vongola, I guess he really is a direct descendant!"

"I heard this is his first mafia party but he looks so calm!"

Tsuna shook hands with various visitors, eyes the color of sunset orange, the flames he was emitting was invisible to everyone else, as Reborn explained. As expected, most of the participants in the Reborn spoke Italian, several spoke English, and only a handful spoke Japanese.

Thanks to Reborn's constant training though, he could at least understand some basic Italian and English. But still, he had only been learning the two languages in his dying will mode for two weeks, so, just in case, he had Gokudera with him to translate.

"This is the Lady Freschia of the Vulpin family, she wishes you well." Gokudera turned to him in Japanese and the brunet nodded, face still neutral as he shook hands with the woman introduced to him.

"It's a pleasure to meet you, thank you for coming today." It was one of the phrases Reborn hammered into his head. The hitman made him repeat it again and again until he got the proper pronunciation and tone.

The woman began to jabber excitedly in Italian as Tsuna nodded politely while Gokudera translated beside him. While the woman talked on and on about her large estate and things Gokudera could care less about, the brunet surveyed the surroundings.

You don't have to worry about anything much. Your guardians will be stationed around various parts of the room, keeping a look out for anyone suspicious. He remembered Reborn telling him earlier before he took the pills. Of course they're there to prevent anyone from attempting to take your life. Being the incoming heir of the famous Vongola famiglia would make you a lot of people's targets, so you better keep your guard up.

The brunet tried not to bristle as he felt several bad intents around him. His face was completely emotionless as Gokudera finally excused them from the chattering woman to move on to the next famous businessman or some head of some company to introduce him.

Actually, Tsuna, in his current state, could really care less about these power hungry people who were only after his position rather than his friendship. What he wanted was to see if Xanxus or his men had really been lured here like Reborn said.

He heard Gokudera start the introductions, "Mr. Luther, this person is Tsunayoshi Sawada the-"

"-The next Vongola boss, yes?" Two hands reached out to shake Tsuna's extended hand. The brunet's eyes narrowed dangerously as he felt the dark intent behind the foreigner's words. "My, what a pleasure it is to meet you! I thought it would be impossible, what with others trying to hog your attention."

"I apologize for that." There was some lingering Japanese accent as the brunet said those words. The man let go of his hand and smiled at him widely. Tsuna tried not to let it fool him. "There are just so many people that I have to get to know, it's overwhelming."

"Why, yes, Vongola is very famous after all! It's understandable." An attendant behind the man offered two glasses of wine. "Oh, finally! Champagne?"

Tsuna noticed that the attendant very specifically gave the champagne he held in his right hand to the foreigner while the one on the left was given in his direction. Orange eyes narrowed and Tsuna shook his head apologetically.

"I am underage." The brunet said politely, "And even if I wasn't, I'm not allowed to accept drinks given to me with malicious intent."

Gokudera stiffened as the foreigner tried to look affronted, "What are you saying, Mr. Sawada? I would never-"

"Excuse me." Gokudera said as he took the champagne and extracted from his pocket a device designed by the Vongola to detect poisoning. The small device lit up red and he turned angry green eyes to 'Luther', "Teme-"

"Tch." Luther stepped back, "The despicable Vongola and their tiny devices… Get him!"

The several bad intents Tsuna felt earlier made themselves known as a few guests pushed out of the crowd and towards him. The innocent guests tried to keep out of the way, as expected of the mafia to be used to this already. They don't try to get mixed in with the trouble since they weren't sure who'd win in the end.

"Power-loving morons." Gokudera gritted his teeth as he helped Tsuna deal with the pests attacking him.

The brunet calmly went through the attacks, kicking others who were too close and punching those who snuck up on him. A few people clapped and 'ooh'ed at his display and he tried not to sigh in exasperation. Finally, the men attacking were all knocked down except for one which Gokudera was taking care of. The other guardians kept out of the fight by advice of Reborn who said that it would be good if Tsuna showed his power off a little bit, so any other morons who wanted to destroy Vongola would back off.

Only one person was left, the pretentious foreigner Luther.

"H-Hey, I didn't mean for things to get out of h-hand. I just wanted to protect my innocence-!" Luther argued as he stepped back. People cleared out of the way, trying not to get involved with him.

"He sounds like he's being deflowered or something." Tsuna heard Lambo whisper to himself not far. The young boss raised a fist, ready to knock the offender out, when-

Someone caught his attention at the corner of his eyes. He turned and saw a familiar figure with long silver hair slipping out of the party, trying not to be seen.

A silver-haired man pushed the blade on his arm towards him and Yamamoto-

Tsuna's eyes widened as he fully turned to chase after the man, That's-

"Jyuudaime!" Gokudera yelled in warning as Luther smirked and took out a knife, rushing towards the young Vongola heir. Several people gasped and Tsuna turned, eyes wide as the man was suddenly in front of him, blade inches form his heart. He closed his eyes. Yamamoto!

CLANG!

There were dramatic exclamations from the watching group as Luther's knife fell to the floor and the man was thrown to the other side of the room. Most of the guardians sighed in relief, Mukuro leaned against the wall in disinterest while Hibari just watched the scene blankly. Reborn's eyes narrowed and Gokudera stood up unsteadily, green eyes wide with shock and horror.

Tsuna slowly opened his eyes, seeing muddy shoes at first.

"What a pain, and after I just came back from a mission and all, I didn't even get to rest." Despite the fact that the person spoke in Italian, his tone of voice stood out of all the murmurs as the brunet slowly looked up to see the back of his savior.

A tall teen with dark-hair and wearing a rumpled black suit with a blue undershirt and black tie, turned sideways as he wiped some blood from his face. "Ah, I got injured."

Orange eyes widened and all at once the voices of people whispering buzzed in Tsuna's ears.

"Hey, isn't he-?"

"-the rumored most natural hitman out of all the guardians. That's him right?"

"Takeshi Vongola."

Am I going into shock? Tsuna thought as the teen before him slowly turned and looked at him with familiar amber eyes. Or am I hallucinating from taking too much of those pills?

The face, the eyes, the nose, the mouth… everything looked just like him. But he saw him die that day. He was there. He held him and cried for him and grieved for him-

The brunet's heart throbbed painfully and the person before him tilted his head as he said in Italian, "You're the news boss, right? Do you need help standing up?"

Tsuna looked at the hand dazedly before looking up at the face. He froze when he saw the blood dripping down from the scar on the other's chin.

An image of a dying Yamamoto in his arms flashed in his mind and he couldn't find it in himself the strength to stand up.

"-Jyuudaime!" He could hear Gokudera calling at the back of his head. Had he known about this? The bomber met Yamamoto, so he must've noticed the fact that this guy and Yamamoto had identical faces. But then again this may all be just a dream and-

A fist hit him in the head and the brunet let out a cry of 'itte!' as he looked up into familiar obsidian eyes. The pain helped clear his head somewhat as he stared wide-eyed at Reborn.

"This isn't a dream, you aren't hallucinating." Reborn said to him with a frown. The brunet was starting to realize this was reality as he shakily supported himself with his arms. "Now stop being a wimp and stand up Dame-Tsu-"

SMACK!

Everyone in the room gasped as the young boss punched the well-renowned hitman. Even Mukuro and HIbari's eyes were slightly wide at the unexpected development. Ryohei was too stunned to yell out 'extreme' like always, Chrome had both her hands covering her mouth, and Lambo seemed to fear for his boss' life.

But instead of taking out his gun or giving the brunet a glare that promised his death, Reborn stood his ground and looked at Tsuna coolly, "Are you satisfied now-"

The brunet grabbed the hitman by the collar, eyes ablaze with fury. Takeshi was staring at the scene in surprise while Gokudera looked like he didn't know what to do.

"W-What the hell-" Tsuna began to say and Gokudera's eyes widened when he saw the calm façade of the hyper dying will mode breaking into an expression of frustration and despair. Orange eyes were filled with angry tears as they were shadowed by his bangs. "What the hell is happening here, R-Reborn?" He choked.

The hitman gave the brunet an emotionless face as he continued to shake the older man, "W-Who is he? Why does he-?"

Why does he look like Yamamoto? The brunet wanted to gasp out but his grip slackened and Gokudera rushed forward to catch his falling boss.

"Jyuudaime!" The Italian yelled in worry as he caught the younger teen. "Calm down, there's a logical explanation, so please-"

Teary orange eyes looked at Gokudera in hurt and the bomber tried not to flinch, "D-Did you know about this too, Gokudera-kun? All this time, were you and Reborn…?" Were you laughing at me?

Lambo bit his lip and looked down guiltily, the rest of the guardians and the guests looked lost, not knowing what was happening. Tsuna closed his eyes in frustration, hands grabbing onto Gokudera's sleeves tightly as the guardian tried to think of what to say. Instead his boss gritted his teeth and let out a cry of frustration.

Suddenly, the glass windows, glasses, and even the plates began to crack, and it was only then that guests began to panic.

"Everyone EXTREMELY calm down!" Ryohei shouted, Chrome and Lambo also helped in ushering the guests to safety.

Even the chandeliers… Reborn looked up at the dangerously swaying objects. Could all this be… He looked at Tsuna warily, Tsuna, such a powerful child, how could he have escaped detection for so long? The he turned to the last guardian who was also looking at the cracking glass, And just by seeing the rain guardian, his perfect façade broke. He may hold stronger feelings for the unit UA than I thought.

"Reborn-san, what do I do?" Gokudera yelled to the hitman who walked towards him and leaned down. The brunet was too warm to his touch, but he was trying his best to hold on to him.

"Dame-Tsuna, calm down. Everything will be explained later." He reached out and pinched a nerve on the brunet's neck. Tsuna's eyes snapped open, the orange slowly turned back to brown as his eyes closed again. "For now, sleep."

Almost immediately, everything calmed down and the guests' panic slowly eased as well. Gokudera easily lifted the brunet off the floor and asked Reborn for permission to take him back to the room.

"Ah, but afterwards I want you to come back immediately." The hitman said, "We have a lot of things to sort out here."

"But who'll look after jyuudaime-"

"I'll do it." Takeshi volunteered in Japanese as he neared them, "I mean, I was going to get something to patch myself up anyway and maybe I'll take some rest while being behind the scenes for awhile."

The bomber scowled, "Like hell I'm gonna-"

"It's fine Hayato." Reborn assured the other guardian, "I want you to call me immediately if he wakes up, Takeshi. And try not to show your face too much in front of him, alright?"

The natural born hitman tilted his head, "What's with that request?" Then he shrugged, "Suit yourself, let's go then, Gokudera."

The bomber shot the older man an unsure look, "Reborn-san, are you sure-?"

"It'll be fine." The other assured, "I'll properly explain to him when he wakes up."

Gokudera could do nothing more but nod hesitantly as he led the way to the brunet's room with Takeshi following behind him. Reborn tilted his fedora down.

"Now, to clean up this mess."


Brown eyes opened as Tsuna slowly sat up, running a hand through his hair as he tried to suit his aching head. "Huh, this place is?"

"Tsuna!"

Automatically the brunet turned to look at the source of that call. His eyes widened as he abruptly stood up, a smile going to his face, "Yamamoto!" He called back as he ran towards the smiling raven-haired teen. "What are you doing here? I thought-"

But then his words got stuck in his throat when the baseball idol reached out for him the moment he was near enough. Familiar calloused hands cupped his face as Yamamoto gave him a content smile.

For some reason the brunet felt his eyes burn as he placed a hand on top of the other's. He closed his eyes and felt the warmth the other exuded. Instead of asking what was happening and what he was doing here, Tsuna said instead, "I missed you."

"Me too." Yamamoto answered, amber eyes softening as he caressed the brunet's cheek with his thumb. "I missed you a lot, Tsuna."

Brown eyes burned as Tsuna looked up at the smiling teen. He tightly held onto Yamamoto's hands, tears forming in his eyes, "Your dad misses you too and I'm sure all of our classmates and-" The brunet rushed forward, surprising the other as he hugged him, "I missed you the most. Please…"

Please, can't I come to where you are?

"You can't." The voice was Yamamoto's but it didn't come from the one he was hugging. Brown eyes snapped open when he was suddenly pulled backward and he turned, eyes widening when he saw another Yamamoto. Only this one was wearing a black suit and a sword was in his hand.

The expression on this Yamamoto's face was heartbroken and vulnerable as he looked into the brunet's eyes. "You can't go with him."

Please… stay with me.

Tsuna blinked in confusion as he looked up the familiar canopy of his king-sized bed. He sat up and groaned, placing a hand to his head as he felt the world spin at the sudden action. It was at that moment the door to his room opened and three people came in.

"I see you're awake, Tsunayoshi." It was Reborn who spoke first. Behind him was Gokudera and Lambo. "Good, then I can get over the explanation about Takeshi."

"Takeshi?" Tsuna repeated in confusion, "Who is-" But then the memories of what happened while he was in the hyper mode came to him and he clutched his head in pain.

"Jyuudaime!" The bomber approached the younger teen. "I have some painkillers, here-"

"Reborn." Tsuna looked up with pain-filled eyes. Tears gathered in his eyes, "Who was that person? Why did he look like-?"

The hitman approached the bed, cutting of the young brunet. Lambo dragged two chairs to the bedside. "Let's get something straight first, Dame-Tsuna. That person was your guardian and his name is Vongola Takeshi. He isn't Yamamoto Takeshi brought to life, they're two very different people, don't forget that."

Brown eyes widened and Tsuna couldn't help the disappointment he felt as he closed his eyes. "But his face, he looked like-"

"We know." Gokudera said as he hung his head guiltily and his hands grabbed at the sheets, "We're really sorry for not telling you, jyuudaime."

Brown eyes snapped to the bomber, "Gokudera-kun…" He turned back to Reborn, "Why?"

"Because…" Lambo answered instead, "It wasn't relevant information. They may look the same, but in no way are they the same people. Sure, we were surprised when we saw Vongola's UA unit number 08's face, but so what? Also, Reborn didn't want you to be distracted by something small like that."

Tsuna looked down, brown eyes shadowed. "But even so… I'd have preferred it if you'd told me." Because maybe if you did, I wouldn't have gotten angry… Maybe I wouldn't have gotten my hopes up.

"We realize that now, Vongola." Lambo said, "We're sorry."

"There's something else you have to know," Reborn added and the brunet turned to him as the hitman sat down on the other chair. "It's not a coincidence that his face looks like the Yamamoto Takeshi you knew."

Gokudera and Lambo both had their attention on the hitman. Clearly they had never been told of this before either.

"Sixteen years ago on April 24, Yamamoto Midoriko, head of the Vongola zygote experiment went into labor…" Reborn started seriously and then added, "And gave birth to twins."


Author's notes: (No, Tsuna was not having an Italian-language dream. It was only italicized to separate it from reality.) Chachaan! And plot twist! I've been planning this from the start actually, and I know you're like "But the first chapter showed how she gave birth and everything! There was only one baby!"

FULL EXPLANATION HERE: (Because Reborn knows only bits of what happened, so if you're interested)

Yeah, but after Midoriko gave birth to one, the midwife who helped her give birth sent Tsuyoshi out to an errand because she was planning to steal the baby away. She was Midoriko's colleague but was actually a traitor and planned to sell the baby to an enemy famiglia. She injected Midoriko with some sort of drug to make her forget about her but then afterwards, Yamamoto's mom went into labor pains again.

She helps her give birth to Takeshi! Unknowing which of the two was the zygote experiment, she took Takeshi and escaped to Italy. Tsuyoshi came back with no one caring for his wife and his wife didn't remember giving birth a second time. Because of the traitorous colleague's abandonment, Midoriko died in a week, she could've lived longer, maybe a few years, before the effect of having injected herself with an experimental zygote affected her body.

So, when the traitor reached Italy, she used the instruments there to check the baby Takeshi. And to her horror he was 100 percent pure human being.

Apparently, Midoriko was already pregnant when she injected herself with UA unit number 08! Because of the foreign experiment in her body, it sped up the growth of her real son as well. But when Takeshi and unit UA were both born, they were still premature.

So, yeah, that's that. WOHOOO, first time doing science fiction. Until next time, guys!