Disclaimer: I do not own KHR. This is only a fan fiction. Give credits to their rightful owners.
Notes: Out of Character (OOC) Canons, AU, and Contains OCs and a bit of gore on further chapters.
Genre: Action, Angst, Family, Tragedy, and Time travel.
Summary : The world is in danger. They can't handle it by themselves. The Tri-ni-sette summons what they believe was their salvation. Seven Kids. Seven broken kids. How can they save the world if their only salvation is the one who needs to be saved first?
Ch 09 : Sawada Tsunayoshi
All of the first generation Vongola Guardians sat quietly at one side of the long dining table with the kids opposite them; foods barely untouched as the atmosphere around them grows thicker and heavier as the time ticks by.
"Will you stop it?!" Lampo exploded startling his co-guardians. "What is wrong with you two?!"
Kyoya and Mukuro glared at the green haired teen. "Ask him" both kids said in unison before glaring at each other again.
"Kyoya-kun, Mukuro-kun, please." Giotto pleaded as he pinch the bridge of his nose. In response, not only Kyoya and Mukuro but all the kids unconsciously stiffened and refused to look at him. This action never escaped the first generation's notice.
"It's not my fault, you know" Mukuro said after a heavy sigh.
"He almost died" Kyoya hissed.
"Don't blame me for something I have no control over!" Mukuro shouted in anger.
"Where the hell were you?!" Kyoya shouted back.
"I was taken away and brought in to a nasty laboratory!" Mukuro replied, spitting the last word as if it was poison. He stood up from his seat beside Nagi, his chair scrapping the floor noisily.
"You could've escaped! Just like when we got out of that place!"
"Easier said than done!" A trident materialized on the purple haired kid's right hand.
Kyoya retrieved his tonfas under the baggy shirt Alaude had lent him.
"Oi, oi!" Asari, Lampo, Knuckle, and Giotto were instantly in between them and the other kids reflexively stood up and took a wary step backward.
"Why don't we talk about this calmly?" Giotto suggested. The kids flinched in response.
"Do you all have a problem with me?" Giotto asked in suspicion and slight hurt. He have noticed it from the start, the kids never looked at him straight on his face. The first time they looked at him, they looked really surprised as if they saw somebody else in his place and then after that, they all avoided him at all cost.
None of the kids answered.
"Hey" Asari slightly tapped Takeshi on the shoulder.
"Ah! Gomen." Takeshi bowed. "I have just remembered that I have something important to do..."
"Me too" Hayato and Ryohei both quickly added and turned to walk towards the door.
"No one is leaving this room" Giotto said as he eyed the kids. "All of you sit down"
Reluctantly, everyone went back to their seats. Once again, there was a tense silence.
"Just tell us what's wrong" Asari sighed, breaking the tense atmosphere. "We want to help, degozaru"
The other guardians nodded in agreement while Alaude and Daemon remained stoic faced.
Unexpectedly, it was Nagi who spoke next. Her voice low and meek. "Please don't get mad at us, Giotto-san. We don't mean anything bad. It's just that..." Her lone eye looked straight in his eyes for the first time as she continued. "You look just like him, Giotto-san"
For a second, the Vongola First Generation saw an older Nagi in her place but it was gone the next second leaving them to think if it was only their imaginations.
"Who?" Daemon asked in place of his boss, but the shy girl only bit her lower lip.
"I see him in you" Takeshi answered next. His eyes were downcast and his normally cheerful aura vanished in an instant. "Tsuna"
"Who is he?" Lampo asked next.
"There is a cheerful kid that lives in our hometown that really looks like you, Giotto-san" Ryohei smiled in nostalgia.
"I don't know if we are all talking about the same person, but I met a kid with the same name three years ago." Hayato said, his eyes glazed over in remembrance. "His family came to my 3rd Birthday and it appeared that his father is well acquainted with my parents. He was really cheerful and his smiles are too bright..." A light chuckle escaped the little silveret's lips, then his eyes went downcast the next second like Takeshi had. "Then everything changed only a year later"
A cold shiver ran down everybody's spine and they involuntarily shuddered. The way Hayato worded it sets their mental warning bells off and the mismatched eyed kid and Kyoya shared a knowing look.
"Explain" Alaude demanded , trying very hard not to whip out his handcuffs and drag these brats down to the interrogation chambers.
"3 months after I met Tsu, they came back to Japan - their homeland. Though not long after that, I heard from my father that Tsu's family was assassinated." He took a deep breath before continuing. "We all thought he was dead too, until he showed up in Italy again a few months later. He said that his grandfather adopted him."
"I met Tsuna in my 2nd month at the orphanage that I was brought in after my parents died." Takeshi said somberly. "I was kind of glad when I met him, then I discovered how his parents died; I couldn't be any more happier to know that someone could actually relate to me. But five months later, he was transferred out; they said that he was adopted. "
"What?" Asari asked, dumbfounded at what he learned.
"My parents were killed too, just like Tsuna's." A tear slipped from his eyes. "They killed our parents right in front of our very eyes. Gunned them down and left to die on their own pool of blood"
The Vongola Family gasped at the cruelty this kid had gone through.
"When you arrived, you were covered in burns..." Knuckle trailed off.
"They burnt our house to destroy my parents' corpses and the evidence that they were killed. They didn't bother to kill me because they knew that no one will believe me" Takeshi choked out, he was already crying and Asari was quick to come and comfort him.
"There is no mistake" Mukuro stared out the window and to the bright blue sky. He refused to look at anyone as he said those words. "Same name and same resemblance to Giotto-san. There's no mistaking that we are talking about the same person"
"Brown unruly not to mention fluffy gravity defying hair, round caramel doe eyes and chubby cheeks" Hayato listed off as he remembered his friend's features.
"Aa." Ryohei nodded as he too visualize the kid he was talking about.
"I wouldn't be surprised if he appeared out of nowhere like everyone of us did." Mukuro commented.
"What's his name?" Giotto asked after his long silence throughout the whole thing. His Hyper Intuition kept ringing, telling him that this kid they were talking about is the one that bears the Sky Element and most importantly, his descendant.
"Tsunayoshi." Kyoya muttered from his seat near the end of the long table, gaining almost everyone's attention. "His name is Sawada Tsunayoshi"