Sorry for the EXTREME slow update. But here it is, for some reason, things become more complicated and writing this chapter becomes a challenge. So, I hope it's okay.

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Choice: Chapter 10

[In the future parallel world]

"Juudaime!"

"Sawada!"

"Tsuna!"

Before their eyes, their boss, friend and brother had disappeared into thin air. All of them stood dumbfounded. Just what had happened?

"SAWADA VANISHED TO THE EXTREME!" The boxer who was first to recover from his shock exclaimed, staring at the spot where the brunet had disappeared.

"Juudaime was missing! Something must have happened! DAMN IT! HOW CAN I LET SOMETHING LIKE THIS HAPPEN? I'm not fit to be Juudaime's Right Hand Man. Someone like me…"

"Calm down Gokudera, it's not your fault Tsuna disappeared. Stop blaming yourself. We should find a way to locate Tsuna." The baseball star advised, trying to keep himself composed. Gokudera could not help but agree. It was not the time to self-blame, finding Tsuna was the top priority.

As if on cue, everyone turned to the Millefiore Guardians and did what they always do.

"What did you do to Juudaime?" Gokudera demanded as he pulled out his dynamites, threatening to blow him up as he tightened his grip on the Millefiore Cloud guardian's collar. The others too, had their weapons pointed at them in all directions.

"Tell the truth or the bullet will pierce into your heart." The hitman infant eyed dangerously at the Millefiore guardians as he clicked his gun. "Now spit it out."

"O-ho? How do we know what happened to that brat? We were stand-"

"And how do we know if you did nothing?" This time it was Lussuria who spoke. "No one would disappear like this, even if it's an illusion…"

"No, from what I saw, it shouldn't be an illusion. If it was, I would have felt it. I sense no presence of mist flames or Sawada Tsunayoshi." Mukuro added. The mist Arcobaleno nodded his head in agreement. The air was electric with tension, however a certain illusionist seemed not to notice the tensed atmosphere, looking around lazily as his eyes landed on the huge pit where Tsuna had landed the finishing blow on the Millefiore Boss.

"Isn't that the Marshmallow fellow's ring? It broke." Said the illusionist, speaking with a monotonous tone.

"Ushishishi, I see the froggy has good eyesight."

"I'm talking to shishou, Bel senpai."

"Ushishishi, the prince is talking to the froggy."

"I'm not talking to a fallen prince."

"Ushishishi, who are you calling 'Fallen Prince'? The prince is the prince, because I am a prince."

As the bickering in the background continued, the Sun Arcobaleno had gone over to check on the said ring. Indeed, it had broken, shattered. This should not be the case. Something must be wrong with the ring. The Vongola technicians too, were trying to register whatever had happened in his head. Irie's face creased as he puts together his thoughts and the possible reason behind the shattered ring, Uh-oh. This isn't good. Reborn seemed to have noticed him, his eyes demanding answers. Irie gulped as he tried to speak up.

"Ano…" Everyone had stopped in whatever they were doing (fighting, threatening, quarrelling, scolding) and turned their attention to the red haired man. "If I presume correctly, the ring must have caused this phenomenon."

"Ring?" The crowd exclaimed in unison. "Explain yourself, trash." Irie swore his stomach had turned upside down. The glare Xanxus gave him shook him so much that he couldn't even stand properly. Reborn decided to volunteer to explain to the whole crowd.

….

….

"Get it?"

"I EXTREMELY DON'T GET IT!"

"As expected of Reborn-san. So the ring had disrupted the balance of Tri-ni-set that leads to the ring being broken and Juudaime sent into a parallel world? So Juudaime's in a parallel world now?"

"Hm… I get it but I don't get it. Haha, Gokudera you seem to understand."

"Of course baseball-freak, I'm not like you!"

"Maa maa, Gokudera, so Tsuna is in a place called parallel world? Where is it?"

"Idiot! Juudaime has time travelled! Just like Byakuran, remember?"

"Enough." Cue to Reborn's threatening aura, the whole place silenced. "Tsuna has time travelled. We need to get him back. Irie, Giannini, Spanner, with our current technology, can we make a time travel device?"

"We will have to work on it. It will not take too long, a few days may be fine."

"Do it quick. I have a bad feeling to this."

"But first, we need to contact Tsunayoshi-kun."

[In the meantime past parallel world]

"WHAT?"

"Yes you have to, Nastu."

"But I just had dinner."

"Not an excuse."

"But!"

"No buts."

"Nii-san!"

"EHHH?"

"What? Since you're older than me, I call you Nii-san, right?"

"Yeah but, it's weird because I'm actually you… So um, maybe you can call me… Tsuna-nii? Won't that sound better?"

"Tsuna-nii! Can I not have training please? I'm tired!" Natsu winced, putting on his best puppy dog eyes. This better work!

The taller teen signed, well the young version of him had tried so hard to please him using his puppy dog eyes, sure he couldn't deny him harshly, and after all, it's him!

"Well, if you say so… Okay then, I'll let you rest today but you'll-"

*lightning strike and thunder roars*

…

"HIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" The screams resounded as the two brunet crouched down as the lighting flashed past the window in bright green colour, following by the loud roar of thunder that shook the hell out of them. No matter how old, Tsuna or Natsu, they are the same. Being the older one, Tsuna patted Natsu's back, attempting to calm him. *sign* I feel you, Reborn.

In the Vongola Headquarters, The Sun Arcobaleno gave a light sneeze. Is the weather getting cold? Anyway, he would care about that later as currently there were more important things to do. After getting the report back from the CEDEF, it was confirmed that Tsunayoshi's disappearance was not as simple as they thought. Well, no one thought it was that simple anyway.

With the advanced technologies, technicians, and great Intelligence network, they were able to sniff out even the slightest clue. Using a Dying Will Flames detecting device, the computer shows the dying will flames around the area where Tsuna was. The strong flames are bright red in colour while the weaker ones are green. From the report, it seemed that strong bright red flames were emitting from the Estraneo Famiglia base. Unfortunately, they were unable to pinpoint the exact location of where in the base, something was really off.

There may be a lot of flames around in the Estraneo Famiglia as they do experiments with them. However no flames could be stronger than Sky flames, and there was no doubt there were no Sky flame holders imprisoned in the Estraneo but they are still children. Their flames were not as strong as the adults, even the stronger ones their flames only turned medium orange, far from bright red. Yet, there was such strong presence of Sky holder in the Estraneo. This prompted the hitman infant to think. As he flipped the pages of the report, more and stronger flames shown up as he recalled what happened- the ambush. During the attack period, the red flame only shown to be brighter and brighter, in the end, a large amount to flames was released as it seemed to be used as a propeller. Then, it was gone.

Reborn placed the report on the desk. This was enough.

[Meanwhile in the future parallel world]

Three Vongola most reliable technicians immersed themselves in their respective work, competing with time and most importantly their lives. Well, it should not be that hard but when a gun was pointing at them from behind it was best to hurry up.

"3 minutes passed." The sadistic infant warned. The three technicians jerked back and quickly regained themselves, this time working even harder. Making a time travel device was not that hard, even the Ten Year Bazooka was invented. They were not the Vongola for nothing. Thus get the communication device done in no time was not a problem.

"Damn it! I can't wait anymore! We have to get Juudaime back! Are you three done with the device?" Gokudera asked in annoyance, glaring at the backs of the three technicians. Irie felt the glare Gokudera sent them was boring a hole through his back. A gun pointing at us, a glare like this, I can't take it! He held onto his stomach as he clenched it tightly.

"Gyaa..My stomach." Irie grasped in between his words. "B-But, I'm d-done with the device." Spanner stopped his work and checked the communication device.

"Hmm…" He analyse it while sucking a sweet in his mouth. "I guess it can work perfectly well. We just need to make sure it connects to Vongola's earphone."

"Provided there's reception."

"Teme! There's no time for such jokes!"

"Haha, sorry I was trying to lighten up the atmosphere. Now we can connect to Tsuna, so relax, Reborn."

*smack*

"What's that for? Reborn!"

"Baka-Dino, you're being noisy."

"Haha, bossu, fancy you being hit that this age." The subordinates laughed but were immediately silenced when their boss sent them an embarrassed stare.

"Hn, good. You have done it in 4 minutes and 27 seconds. Fair timing, Shoichi." The hitman infant smirked as he took the small device. "How do we use it?"

"Simple. Just like this."

[In the past parallel world]

Seeing that the sky had turned dark, the taller brunet scuttled to close the windows and pulled the curtains. The lightning flashed across the sky mercilessly as the thunder roared loudly. It's going to rain the whole night. For some reason, there's a feeling something will happen. I should be on guard. He glanced at the window one last time before turning back to the Natsu.

Now that the windows were closed, Natsu felt more at ease. He was always afraid of lightning and thunders. They scare him a lot. Previously it was always his mother who would comfort him. Wait. Mother?

"Ne Tsuna-nii."

"Ah Nastu, what's wrong?" Noticing the pout on his face, he asked in concern, "Are you still afraid of the thunder? Well, I closed the windows and curtains so it won't be so loud."

"No." Natsu shook his head. "It's just, there was a blurry image that flashed past my mind."

"And what was that image?"

"I can't see it. It's too fast. I was scared of the thunder, and the image flashed past, suddenly I have a feeling like I'm protected."

"Protected? From what?"

"Umm… thunder and lightning?" He looked unsure, trying to get the blurry image back into his mind. What was that or who was that?

On the other hand, the teen seemed to know the answer. When he was young, whenever there was thunder and lightning, Nana would always comfort him and protect him. It must be this case.

"Natsu."

"Yeah?"

"Do you… remember your mother?"

"Mother? Who's that?" Natsu looked up at him confusingly.

"Uh no nothing. What about father?"

"Father? Nope, nothing." Observing the looks of Natsu, he seemed to remember nothing. Maybe it was just some blurry images.

"Oh yes. I almost forgot."

"Hmm Tsuna-nii?"

"Remember I told you about the rings and all that?"

"Yeah."

"You are not supposed to tell anybody, okay? Oh and don't tell anyone my name. If it happens that someone asks, just in case, just say I'm your brother."

"Okay. But why?"

"It's dangerous if people know us. We are in the Mafia. And Mafia is very cruel. You never know what will happen to you."

"Why are we in the Mafia then?"

Tsuna stopped. The question Nastu asked was right. Why were they in the Mafia in the first place? He was just a normal school kid, being useless in everything and without any friends, one day an infant came claiming to groom him to be a Mafia boss. Then more things happened, more people came in, more fights, and more dangerous situations. Now he was here. It was all because he was blood-related to Vongola Primo and his father was the External Adviser of Vongola. Why did his life become so complicated?

Did you forget me, Decimo? I'm sorry that you have to carry such a burden but it hurts me to hear your thoughts.

Uh… Primo! I'm very sorry! I didn't mean to say that, it's just… My life has changed a lot…

I understand. But Decimo, you have to accept this. You're the only one worthy to be the Decimo. I trust you.

Still feeling a little apologetic towards his ancestor, Tsuna mentally apologised and make sure he think properly as someone could hear his thoughts. "My life…" He mumbled.

At that moment, there was a shuffling and sizzling of sounds.

"What was that?"

"Huh?"

"Did you the sounds? It's loud."

"What sound? You mean the thunder?"

"Uh, yeah maybe it's the thunder."

However, he was not convinced that it was the sound of the thunder. Until his doubts were cleared by…

"Of course it will be loud when it's just by your ear. Dame-Tsuna."

AN: End of chapter. Well actually I'm not very satisfied with this chapter. I think it can be better. What do you think? Leave a review to give me some feedback!