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Chapter 10: Bonds and Results

To say that Reborn was stunned by what his student asked was an understatement, when Tsuna asked Gokudera to swear loyalty to him he was ready to interfere, after all Oaths weren't to be taken lightly, so when Smokin' Bomb Hayato gave his oath without hesitation to his student, he halted his movement 'well, it looks like my student is very charismatic, but how did he know about the oath, I haven't told him anything of importance about the mafia yet- Reborn's thoughts were interrupted as he saw the Baseball star walked away, he of course noticed him when Yamamoto stumbled upon them, he didn't stop him because he was a potential member of his student's famiglia, He saw that by the look in the young man's eye, he was confused by what he witnessed, the young man knew that the scene he stumbled upon was a very private one by the flash of guilt he saw on his face but he was also fascinated and Reborn couldn't place the last emotion that passed by the young man's face before he turned away. Besides from the baseball star, someone else had watched the exchange, the sun arcobaleno didn't know what the intentions of the man was but he felt that maybe this person was a potential ally for the budding famiglia that his student was assembling.

Tsuna knew that because of what happened with Gokudera, he was going to be asked/interrogated by his sadistic tutor, but for now he was safe as he invited his right hand man to his home and he didn't think that reborn will ask him with the bomber around.

"Thank you for inviting me to your home Juudaime"- Gokudera said to his boss as they walked towards his home.

"Don't worry about it, after all its perfectly normal that the right-hand man is around the boss at all times, right?"- Tsuna said, he noticed that Gokudera stopped, when he paused to look at him, Gokudera looked as still as a statue

"Is there something wrong?"- The brunette asked his right-hand man

"R-right-hand man?" -the silver haired stuttered, as though in shock

A look of hurt passed by Tsuna's face but he quickly schooled his expression, he should have known that Gokudera didn't knew him well enough yet.

"If you don't want the position, it's fine" -Tsuna offered kindly

"NO!, um...I did not mean that I did not want to become your right-hand man, but are you sure?, I'm not that good, and I'm just a freelancer, and I attack you just earlier,will that still be okay with you?"-Gokudera explained, he really wanted the position but he didn't know how to ask his boss, after all to ask him to promote him to become his right hand man moments after he tried to kill him was dishonorable, not just that he didn't want to be overstepping his boundaries.

"I would like no other than yourself to become my right-hand, and even if you did attack me, you did it to protect the Vongola family's honor, you wanted to protect it's long history and honor, those are very admirable traits and not just that, I can already tell that you are very loyal and that you will never betray me" Tsuna explained with a kind smile then continued "You swore your oath with no hesitation, you proved that you price honor and loyalty, I find those traits makes you qualified to become my right hand man, now let's go I'm sure that my mom will be worried if I'm not home soon.

When Gokudera made his oath he knew that there was no backing out, one did not give their oath lightly, honor was one of the things that most mafioso treasured and to break it was unthinkable, but still he did not let it stop him even for a moment when Sawada Tsunayoshi challenged him to swear his oath to prove that he was truly loyal, after all he could understand if he wouldn't trust him even after the oath because he just tried to kill him. When one of his bombs fell off, he knew that it was the end for him even if he did not die he would still be severely burned at the least and crippled at the worst so when his new Boss saved him from his own stupidity, he knew in those short moments that he would serve this ma for all of his life,looking back the way he fought it was obvious that he was holding back at first he thought because he was mocking him but as he thought about it now, the expression he showed was almost as if he didn't want to hurt him, but if he was sure that if he was seriously fighting him, he would lose spectacularly no questions asked, that alone was worthy of respect and even though he clearly stated that he was there to kill him he was still forgived him and even accepted him to his famiglia!, and as if that wasn't enough he even gave him the position of his right-hand man! he was going to make sure that the trust that his boss gave him was never broken, it was the first time in his life that someone trusted him and accepted him and he wasn't about to waste it, he was going to be the best right-hand man he could be or he was going to die trying after all his Boss deserve no less.

When Yamamoto Takeshi went to sleep, he was still thinking about what he saw that afternoon he planned to thank and congratulate Tsuna for his performance but he was sidetracked by the others who wanted to congratulate him so when he excused himself to the crowd and went to find the brunette, he accidentally stumbled upon Tsuna and the transfer student Gokudera, He didn't really understood what he saw but he was sure that it was important somehow, he couldn't just place how, he wondered if they were playing a game of some sort?, maybe he could join after all it looked pretty fun and he really wanted to befriend Tsuna, he didn't know why but somehow his gut told him that getting to know his classmate was a good idea, ever since he could remember Takeshi learned to trust what his instincts told hi to do, it saved him a lot of times, and in this situation he found no reason to disagree with this feeling.

Having that in mind Takeshi Yamamoto resolved to join his classmate and transfer student in their game.

Even though he suffered humiliating defeat at the hands of the (former?) loser of the school Dame-Tsuna, what he said since that stuck with him 'Disgusting, unable to show your courage by professing your love to the one who is precious to you, you sought to belittle others to make yourself more superior, you challenge me to a fight where you are at your best, knowing that I am but an amateur in the art of sword fighting, and to make a living being a prize without her permission, truly you are the lowest of the low'.

Those were the words that made the Kendo captain rethink and reflect on his past actions, it was true that he thought nothing about the others that could be harmed through his actions and having been pointed out like that was embarrassing but somehow he knew that it was the only way he would consider his selfish actions, and the the last sentence that the brunette said to him still echoed in his mind.

'If you really want to become better, do it by not pointing out that you are superior, after all the empty can is the loudest when they fall'.

Those words puzzled him greatly, maybe Sawada was only pretending to be a loser throughout the years and he simply never noticed it?, it was plausible as he didn't really took notice of the brunette except when he needed some chore done around the school, so as he watched Sawada helped his team win the game, he thought that maybe it was time to approach him, He didn't really know why he wanted to talk to the brunette, but he wanted to at least somehow pay his debt and apologize for his foolishness and of course he really wanted to thank him for the eye-opener the brunette gave him, it was rather painful but he could understand the need, so when he sought out Sawada Tsunayoshi as he escaped the crowd that was congratulating him, he followed suit but he was rather surprised when Sawada made his way to the back of the school 'maybe he forgot something?' but that line of thought ended as soon as he caught sight of the new student Hayato Gokudera, He was far enough in the trees that they weren't able to see him but he was also close enough to hear what they were saying,he didn't understand what they were talking about but he could grasp that the new student was not happy with the brunette, so when the silver haired student brandished dynamites, his first thought was that they were fakes but when he told the brunette to die and then proceeded to throw the now-lit dynamites, he was already ready to show himself and protect the brunette but he was stunned when Sawada just avoided the dynamites and its explosion with a very calm expression and not just that, he also taunted the silver-haired student which just caused the boy to bring out more bombs 'How the hell does he light those things and where are they coming from!' , He was still stunned when Gokudera made a mistake and let one of his dynamites fall which caused him to lose his hold with the other dynamites, He knew that the silver haired teen was going to be severely hurt but he knew that he was going to be late, so when Sawada saved him he released a breath of relief, he was about to help the both of them but he was once again stunned to inaction by the complete change of attitude that the transfer student showed, He saw the silver haired teen kneeling to Tsuna and was talkin-. no he wasn't talking he was gushing about what happened na d was telling the brunette, who was as calm as ever, that he was going to follow him, most of the talk he couldn't understand but he heard the words 'mafia' 'oath' 'honor', and then the dynamite-user suddenly produced a small knife and wounded himself then profess his loyalty to Tsuna, who accepted, finally he couldn't take it anymore and walked quickly towards the other direction, he didn't know what to think 'Was Dame-Tsuna in the mafia?', and what was that Vongola Decimo that the transfer student was spouting?']

That night Kensuke Mochida, Captain of Kendo club contemplated whether he should talked to Sawada about what he witnessed.

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