I'm BACK! I know, I know...I'm pretty slow with my updates, but please bear with me. This chapter practically wrote itself =) Hope you like it!

G:

Always there

anywhere...

I want to see your face.

You don't care,

it's not fair!

You leaft without a trace.

Now I am lost,

I have lost...

and you just walked away.

Giotto:

There had been a bond

between you and me.

A special connection

that forged us together, made us a 'we'.

But you shattered a promise,

and broke my trust

forced me away

turning our memories to the dust.

But now...I understand

I can finally see!

That you were meant to protect

and not deceive.

Chapter 10:

The blonde man didn't know how to act in this situation that he now found himself stuck in. Here, he was dragging his traitor friend back home with him, even though he had sworn to break things off with his past. And that for good! So…why didn't he just turn his back on the red-head, who had broken his trust and hurt him beyond repair? Certainly, he deserved to be selfish and abandon G as well as leave him there on the street, the same way that he was forced to leave his home a long time ago. So why the hell didn't he?

The moment G had broken down into this sobbing, whaling mess, Giotto's rage and anger, his hurt and the pain seemed to not be carrying any weight any more. Now, only his friend's heartache mattered and the blonde man wanted to heal the hole that seemed to have torn his friend apart.

So, here they were, with Giotto holding G's hand tightly in his own and dragging him back home; dragging him back into his life.

Soon, they arrived at his cozy, little house and Giotto stopped before his front door. He took a deep, calming breath and turned around, facing the red-head. He tightened his grip on the larger hand and held G's pale green eyes with his own blue orbs.

"G…I don't know if I am doing the right thing in letting you come back into my life, but…you know…I-I can't stand seeing you so hurt and broken! The night I left, something in me snapped and severed and I don't know if it can be repaired. But I am willing to do anything so you can return back to the way you were before… I-I don't want to see you like this. When I left, I thought that I made the right decision and I certainly hadn't expected my departure to have these consequences. I'm…sorry, G. But I need to know one thing: are you willing to accept Tsunayoshi as my son?"

Giotto swallowed hard and trained his eyes on his friend's. He searched in those green orbs for any uncertainty, for any flicker of repulsion or doubt…but he didn't find any.

G took a deep breath before he opened his mouth.

"Giotto, I-!", started the red-head.

"Mr. G! You came back!", said a high, child-like voice, before a brunette blur flew right in his direction.

Out of pure instinct, G held his hands out to catch whatever came barreling his way and his arms quickly circled around a small, warm body.

He looked down and came face to face with the kid that he had seen only hours prior on the street.

"I knew you were coming back, Mr. G! Oh and thank you for earlier! You're really nice!", said the small brunette child as he suddenly wrapped his short arms around the red-head's neck and buried his cheek against the firm chest in front of him.

To put it simple, G was stunned. Here he was, with the cause of this whole mess snuggled in his arms and he was even more stunned, when he felt a burning feeling of protectiveness and dare he say it…love overwhelm him. He instinctively tightened his arms around the child and hugged him closer to his body, before he hid his face in Tsuna's fluffy, caramel locks. He inhaled deeply and had to hide a smile when he smelled sunshine and vanilla, a scent that resembled Giotto's, although Tsuna held a scent of innocence and purity mixed within the rest.

"Tsuna! Don't go around hugging strange people with pink hair! And you, bastard, take your filthy hands off of my little brother or I'll shoot you!", came an enraged voice to the left.

G quickly looked in the direction of the threatening voice and came face to face with another kid, who he thought to be around 13 years old or so. The kid had jet black hair and deep coral eyes that glared at him. But what caused a shiver to run down his spine was the green gun that was clutched firmly in the kid's grasp.

G quickly set Tsuna down and pushed him behind himself, while standing protectively in front if the brunette.

"Put that toy away, kid. Children shouldn't play with things like that!", replied the red-head, while crossing his arms in front of his chest.

Reborn's eyes narrowed at being called a 'kid' and he let his evil aura spread around him. He took a step forward as if challenging G.

"I'm not a kid, pink-haired bastard! Now, step away from Tsuna!", said Reborn in a deep, angry voice.

G chuckled, not at all intimidated by the kid's glare or threat.

"Come on, as if you could possibly shoot with this toy gun-!".

BANG!

"Oh shit! That thing is real!", exclaimed G, as he quickly ducked when a bullet suddenly came sizzling his way.

He heard soft giggled coming from his side and when he looked, he saw Giotto and Tsuna on the ground, holding their stomachs as they laughed their head's off.

"Haha, you two should go for a comedy career! You're hilarious!", said Giotto between his laughter.

Tsuna wiped tears of happiness out of the corner of his eyes, before he ran to Reborn's side and hugged his brother around the waist.

"It's ok, Reborn-nii! Mr.G won't hurt me."

Reborn looked into Tsuna's bright caramel eyes and sighed. He knew better than to go against Tsuna's judgment on someone. When the small brunette said, the pink bastard was ok, then he probably was. Well, that didn't mean that Reborn trusted him.

He let Leon change back into this animal form and the small green chameleon quickly ran across his hand, up his arm and into Tsuna's fluffy hair. He liked to sit there, seeing that it must be pretty comfy.

"Ok, ok, now let's all get inside. It's getting pretty dark outside", said Giotto with a sigh.

He was still not sure how things would be between him and G, but at least…he could hear what he had to say. And he had willingly embraced his son, that should count for something, right?

Tsuna was about to run over to G and jump onto him again, when he was lifted up by Reborn and carried inside. He pouted cutely, but didn't say anything.

Giotto was about to follow, when he noticed G's hesitation to enter his home.

''Giotto…about before?...I have already accepted Tsunayoshi. I hope…that he can one day call me his family, like you accepted Hayato to be yours", whispered the red-haired while gazing into Giotto's blue eyes.

Giotto slowly nodded and felt a smile tuck at the corner of his lips. It was pretty obvious to him, that his son had already touched a part inside of his old friend and that they were already one family, even if G wasn't able to see it yet.

"Alright. Come on in, G. I believe that we have a lot to talk about."

G nodded and slowly followed his ex-boss inside.

Giotto led him to the living-room, where Reborn already sat in one arm-chair with Tsuna sitting contently on his lap.

The blonde man sat on the couch, while mentioning to G, to sit on the other couch on opposite side of him. The red-head quickly sat down and balled his hands into fists in his lap.

"So…please tell me what happened after…that night", began Giotto after a few minutes of awkward silence.

G closed his eyes for a second, remembering all the pain that he had felt and witnessed after his boss left them.

He then took a deep breath and looked back at Giotto.

"After…you left…all hell broke loose. Vongola was without a leader and none of us felt right to continue where you left of. We…felt so guilty and ashamed. We knew that we drove you away from us and that we were the ones who left you no choice but to leave. And we…broke. We searched everywhere for you, Giotto! But we never did find you and then…we started to believe that you would never return to us. In that moment we all decided to resign our positions as your guardians, seeing that we didn't deserve to be called members of the Vongola. Well…and after that…everyone left the mansion and I haven't seen any of the others for about 3 years now. Without you there…we all lost our purpose, our life. The worst thing though was, that it was our fault, all of this happened. The ones to blame had been us and we know that. We couldn't live with this shame, this guilt. I-I don't know if…if I were even here, hadn't it been for Hayato." The last part was nothing more than a quiet, defeated whisper, but the words rang inside Giotto's mind like a bell.

Had his friend…really thought about ending his life, just because he left them? Had he meant this much to his friends?

Giotto felt his throat close up and tears threatening to fall from his eyes. What had he done?

"G…I-I didn't know that it would come to this. I-I thought that you were all better off without me and Tsuna there! I mean…you knew how much I wanted a child and then, when Tsuna was born…you denied me my happiness! Did you know how I felt? I was so scared to tell you about Tsuna, but I had thought that you would come to accept him, because you were my friends! But then, you told me he could never be mine! What would you have done in my stead?", screamed the blonde man and stood up.

It felt good to finally let it all out and to tell someone about the pain he had locked away for all these years! And the tears did spill now, but he didn't care. He wanted to understand what had gone wrong on that fateful night.

G looked away, shamed to see his ex-boss so enraged and sad.

But Giotto would have none of that. He walked around the table that separated them and stood in front of the red-head. He took G's head between his hands and forced him to look at him again.

"Why couldn't you accept him? Tell me!", screamed Giotto right in G's face.

And then, the red-haired man cried.

"Because I didn't want you and Tsuna to be hurt, Giotto! What would have happened if another familiga had gotten wind of you having a son, a heir? They would have come to attack us and they would have stopped at nothing to kill Tsuna! It would only take a single moment of us being distracted and he could have died! I didn't want the child to be exposed to such a threat. Our children are constantly under strict surveillance and they need to train every day. They don't have a choice, but to follow our leads and get involved with the mafia. I wouldn't have wanted such a life for Hayato and if his mother hadn't died…if she…hadn't fucking died, he wouldn't have to be a part of my life. I love him, I do, but it would have been better for him, if he hadn't known me."

After G had ended…Giotto slowly released his hold on his friend's face. His hands fell limp to his sides and all he could do was stare at the other. Giotto…hadn't thought about this, he really hadn't. The moment Tsuna came into this life, he had only felt happiness and hadn't really thought about what being his son would have meant for Tsuna. He had thought lightly of the matter, not really concerned about how him being a mafia boss would change Tsuna's whole life!

And then came the realization. He had made a mistake. He shouldn't have left just like that without giving his guardians the chance to justify themselves.

This whole mess…was actually his fault!