A/N: A brief special omake.
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"Speaking"
"Thoughts"
Setting: Occurs after Chapter 7 but before Chapter 8
An ordinary afternoon 4 pm
Tsuna pressed his fingers against his eyes attempting to keep a roll of exhaustion pass over. He inaudibly sighed catching the attention of a certain silver haired guardian.
"Juudaime, are you alright?" Gokudera asked.
Tsuna waved a hand, "It's nothing you should worry about, Hayato. My eyes just drooped down."
Tsuna could feel his right-hand frown and said, "You should take a break, Juudaime."
The don dropped his hands and open his eyes to his guardian, "Just let me finish reading these."
Gokudera opened his mouth to object but nodded his head silently, focusing on his task at hand. He was looking at the activities of the all famiglias known to the Vongola, allied or not. There was a matter he needed to find out. He finished one famiglia when he noticed his boss had stopped reading his report and had his eyes closed. Gokudera sighed. As much as he respected his boss, there were certain times when he wished Tsuna wouldn't take his job too seriously. He briefly recalled some memories of Juudaime not wanting to be the boss of a mafia family. 'How ironic, isn't it Juudaime?' the Storm guardian thought. But it didn't matter to Gokudera whether Tsuna was a boss or not, he would follow his boss to whatever ends unless he (Gokudera) thought it might endanger him.
Gokudera lifted up from his seat on the couch and walked towards the brunet. Tsuna flicked his eyes open and saw his friend walking towards him. He sighed in defeat. "Alright, I'll take a break."
Tsuna yawned, standing and stumbled before being caught by his Storm. 'And it manages to make an appearance again…'
"Juudaime, please rest on the couch," Gokudera firmly instructed his boss.
Tsuna raised an eyebrow, "Usually you would pester me to go to my room, Hayato. What's with the change of mind today?"
"So I can keep an eye on you." Gokudera replied back unfazed by the look covering Tsuna's face.
"Very well."
Within moments, Vongola Decimo was seen resting on the couch, his jacket hung on the arm and Gokudera satisfied with the situation went back working, clearing as much paperwork he deemed that did not require Tsuna's attention. Gokudera read through the files making a note to reprimand the others especially Hibari and Mukuro. 'Those ********, Juudaime doesn't need to work so hard if they didn't destroy most of the property. At least the others are taking into account of their destruction.' He didn't realised time had passed when Tsuna's voice came out.
"Ne, Hayato?"
Gokudera blinked, broken out of his concentration. "Juudaime? Shouldn't you rest a bit more?"
Tsuna laughed softly at his friend's question. "I guess even you can lose track of time. I rested for 2 hours already, Hayato. Remind me to use this against you."
Gokudera felt his cheeks warmed before confirming it was indeed six, the sky outside was turning dark as the sun sets.
"Anyway Hayato, I need to ask a favour of you."
"What is it, Juudaime?"
"Seemingly as this issue with the Millefiore right now won't breeze through anytime soon and I think that Reborn was right in bringing all that know us personally here, I-pin and Lambo are going to miss their school education. Namimori at the moment has been recovering thanks to Foundation and they will be carrying on as usual. I don't want them to miss all those lessons but I cannot allow them to be there."
Gokudera sensed where his boss was going. "You want me to home-schooled them?"
Tsuna sat up and smiled at his friend. "Basically, yes." Tsuna saw the incredulous look on Gokudera's face and stifled an incoming laugh. "You're the best person for the job, aside from being my right-hand man, of course. You know how Namimori-chuu operates."
Gokudera stayed silent before answering, "It would be my honor, Juudaime."
"No retorts? I thought you would have at least grumbled about Lambo." Tsuna teasingly said.
"None at all, Juudaime." Gokudera answered tactfully. Tsuna smiled proudly at his Storm.
"Oh, yes. Did you also tell them?" Tsuna asked.
Gokudera paused in his work, eyes swirling in confusion. "Them, Juudaime?"
"About our current situation- Ah… I forgot you don't personally know him. I came across him once in town." Noticing the look sent by Gokudera, Tsuna added nervously, "It happened during the time I was taking a break."
"Anyway, we became fast friends and I've been in contact with him ever since. I thought I mentioned him to you."
Gokudera startled about this new information asked, "Juudaime, excuse me for asking this but he's not-"
"No. He's not. The first time I saw him, he reminded me of me. We were similar in many ways. And to reassure you more, I personally checked on his background and I wasn't expecting it truthfully. I think I might arrange a time when you all can meet him. But in the meantime-"
Tsuna was cut off by his hand phone ringing. He looked at the contact before answering, "This is Sawada Tsunayoshi speaking. How may I help you?"
"Is that any way for Vongola Decimo to be speaking?" the person replied back, laughter in his voice.
"In any case, no; it's good to hear from you again. How are you, Enma?"
"As good as we can be, Tsuna-kun. And I want to thank you about telling us about the Millefiore family."
"What are friends for? Anyway, I'm glad you called first, apparently there's still trouble brewing up and it seems that the Millefiore are still active. I'm sorry but you still need to hide."
"You don't have to worry about us too much, I understand. But are you sure you don't need our help? Vongola is always involved." Enma asked worriedly.
"We can take care of this. I wouldn't want to pull you into our mess."
"It's not so much of your mess, Tsuna-kun." Tsuna faintly heard some sounds in the back. "Wah! Adelheid, what are you doing? I better get going Tsuna-kun; Adelheid's starting to choke Julie. I need to put a stop to that. Take care, Tsuna-kun."
"I'll talk to you later then. Say hi to the rest of the family for me." Tsuna ended the call and saw Gokudera, puzzled.
"Excuse my bluntness Juudaime, but who was that?" Gokudera asked.
"Hmm? Oh, he was the person I was mentioning to you. Kozato Enma."
"Kozato Enma? I haven't heard anyone of that name in town even if he was a regular."
"He's not someone you can find, Gokudera," Tsuna smiled.
"Why is that Juudaime?" Gokudera paused, then standing up alarmed. "Is he in the mafia?"
Tsuna contemplated the thought. "Presently, he's not."
"Present?"
"Ah, remember when I told you I was researching his background? It turns out he's connected to Cozart Shimon; to be correct, the Shimon famiglia."
"Shimon famiglia?" Gokudera was just confused.
Tsuna gave his Storm a secret smile. "No one recognises them now. But Vongola and Shimon were close friends once in the past. You could say we our families are like brothers to one another."
Gokudera blinked at the vagueness of his boss and settled down backed to the stacks of papers needed to verify. He wanted to check on this famiglia itself but for now, he would trust his boss. A sudden thought came to Gokudera's mind.
"Juudaime, may I ask you something?"
"What is it?"
"Does this mean that this Kozato Enma would also have guardians like you? What are they like?"
Tsuna was taken aback at this question and chuckled uneasily. "Well…"
A/N: And there you have it. Enma briefly comes. I always like the stories of TYL Tsuna and Enma still keeping their friendship even after they claimed their inheritance. And oh yes, since chapter 9 is a bit longer than usual I'll say majority of what I need. To Bernie6394, sorry but about Giotto's eyes, I'm going to follow what Yuki said about his - Orange. I try to stay as canon as possible. Hope you onwards to Chapter 9! ^^
