Here we are, the final chapter of the story. Well, it's more of a little short epilogue/follow up than a chapter, but I figured you guys would enjoy it all the same. Be proud of me, I was going to post this on Tuesday, but I decided to do it today.
And thus, here is the first story I've ever completed.
Disclaimer: C'mon, do I really have to say it? It's the last chapter for crying out loud. Don't torture me further.
Ah, here he was again.
Tsuna had never faced such a dangerous enemy in his lifetime. Not once, in all of his years in being in the mafia had he ever faced such a foe that truly threaten to break him. This creature was a monster who challenged all of his morals, made him second guess every decision he ever made, and...
...Made him want to slam his head against his desk so many times that his skull fractured and he eventually bled to death.
"It's either you or me." Tsuna growled out loud to this cunning villain. "And I'm not going to give up so easily. So just go run and hide now before I tear you to shreds."
"Tsu-kun!" Kyoko called out from from the hallway. "Stop threatening your paperwork, it's not healthy!"
"Kyoko~" Tsuna cried out bitterly. "It's making fun of me, it really is! Can you believe that we had to travel all the way to Japan just for some silly game that Reborn came up with to pass the time? And now look what I have to do! One-hundred sheets for all the travel, thirty-six for all the food we bought, two-hundred and twenty for the mess Hibari and Mukuro made, ten for tying up a public worker, forty for the transportation, and one-hundred and fifty for the extra jet Haru, Mukuro, and Lambo stole! That's five-hundred and fifty-six total signatures. And then you add up all the other paperwork I do in a day. I've signed over one-thousand pieces of this crappy parchment in one day."
"Hm." Kyoko did not sound all that sympathetic for her husband's plight. "Maybe Reborn's trying to teach you a lesson. He may be a little sadistic and a tad bit overbearing, but I believe he has the Vongola's best interest at heart."
Tsuna rubbed his aching wrist and threw his pen at the wall. "Reborn's only goal is to give me carpal tunnel."
Kyoko poked her head into Tsuna's office. "Well then, you would just have to get surgery and you and I could go on vacation while you recovered. I've always wanted to see the rest of Europe, you know."
"And how much paperwork would be waiting for me when I get back?" Tsuna said dryly, not amused in the slightest.
Kyoko wisely said nothing at all.
The doors to Tsuna's office burst open, causing the young man to jump in his seat. He quickly collected himself before anybody noticed, but Kyoko's giggling told him he wasn't fast enough. Takeshi and Hayato walked in, Takeshi grinning broadly while Hayato managed to look both happy and annoyed.
"Tsuna! We have great news!"
"What's destroyed this time?"
Hayato and Takeshi both looked at their boss in silence as Tsuna winced. "Sorry, force of habit. What's going on?"
Takeshi and Hayato exchanged a look before they pulled something out from behind their backs. Tsuna's mouth dropped open.
"Reborn made it!" Yamamoto laughed. "Isn't it cool?"
"It features you as the main character, Tsuna!" Gokudera added. Tsuna took the thin rectangle into his hands and ruefully shook his head.
"I'm not surprised. Why am I not surprised?" He asked his two guardians, but Kyoko was the one who answered.
"Because it's Reborn. You have to expect everything and nothing from Reborn." She too stepped into the room to look at the object.
On the cover of the rectangle was a hot picture of Tsuna surrounded by his guardians with Kyoko and Haru smiling brightly in the background. Written across the top in big bold letters was 'The Demon From the Class Reunion!' with a caption underneath that read 'A Reboyama-sensei film'.
"It went on the market this morning and we've already sold three-thousand copies." Hayato declared proudly.
"Say, Tsuna, do you want to go watch it now?" Yamamoto clapped Tsuna on the shoulder.
Tsuna eyed the DVD wearily, afraid of the contents inside. "Um, no thanks. Maybe later."
"I'll watch it with you guys." Kyoko offered and the three of them left Tsuna in his office. Alone. Alone with his paperwork.
Tsuna tapped his fingers on his desk for a few seconds before whipping out his phone. He quickly dialed a number and watched the door like a hawk, as if afraid someone else was going to come in. The other person on the line picked up and Tsuna cleared his throat. "Hello?" He said in a voice deeper than his own. "I was wondering, how much does a shredder cost?"
"More than you have, Dame-Tsuna." Reborn answered.
Tsuna flinched and slowly turned around. Reborn was crouched in his window sill, holding a phone in one hand smugly. "The door's not the only entrance to your office, you know."
"It's the only official one, anyway." Tsuna muttered and slammed his cell onto his desk.
Reborn hopped out of the window and strode over to Tsuna's paperwork. "You still haven't finished it, I see."
"No." Tsuna answered curtly. He sat in silence for a moment before asking; "Hey, Reborn? Were you the one Redtail got his information from?"
The former arcobaleno nodded, the final part of his plan clicking into place. "I knew you would like it."
"You were wrong." Tsuna said.
Reborn nearly lost his fedora. He stiffened and slowly turned to face his student, who looked like he won the lottery. "What do you mean?" His words were cold and stiff, promising years of endless torture if Tsuna didn't answer right.
"My favorite boxers weren't the dinosaurs. They were the flames." Tsuna grinned. "See, you were wrong!"
Leon slid into Reborn's hand and morphed into a gun. "Oh, really? How about we change that fact?"
There is one major rule in the Vongola mansion. If you want to live, Reborn is never wrong. Even if he is, he's not. Some would say that he's much like a woman in that sense.
But those people are dead.
And to leave you all hanging by your teeth, I've decided to include a short little exert from my next story, Hidden Behind the Shadows
"Nana." Iemitsu's voice was cold. "I was simply letting Tsuna talk to his little brother. Our sons need to be acquainted even though they live in different countries. Why didn't you tell Toshi that he had a twin?"
"That thing is not my son!" Nana screeched and the line went dead.
Tsuna slowly stood up and walked back to his bed. What just happened? His mind couldn't come to terms with it, it wasn't clicking. Maybe he was too young to understand what happened. Or maybe, he didn't want to understand.
Didn't... Didn't his mother love him?
He tried and tried again, but the only answer he could come up with was a chilling no.
His mother did not love him.