Author's Note: Wooo! Could it be? Yes, yes it could! An actual update! *throws confetti into the air and does a happy dance* Sorry it took such a long time, guys! I really worked hard on this, so I hope you like it! :'D
BTW: There's a question at the bottom of this chapter, so make sure to read it! :')
Warning: Shounen-Ai hints, also I think everyone is OOC xD. One more thing, my grammar stinks, so sorry about that^^
Summary: Haha, since this story is totally coming out different then I planned I will be changing the summary... When I think of a better one xD.
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"blablah"-Talking
Tsuna was beyond happy to be talking to all his friends. His heart swelled with the love he felt for all of them as they fussed over him, making sure he was alright. He smiled warmly and reassured them, again, that he was alright.
Meanwhile Giotto and the others watched from the doorway leading into the living room. They, minus Giotto, were curious about the new comers and were still wary of them, even though Giotto was not.
As he mused about the new happenings Giotto frowned, his brow creasing, it was all too confusing, there were more questions about this situation than there were answers. He glanced outside absently and found that it was already starting to get dark. Looking at his watch he blinked as it read 6:00, maybe we should eat. He mused.
Clearing his throat he waited until he got everyone's attention. When he did he spoke. "It's time for dinner."
Everyone nodded their heads and slowly got up. Giotto and the others watched, amused, as Tsuna's friends all looked to Tsuna expectantly.
He really is the Decimo. Alex thought to herself. She already knew it but she couldn't quite picture it all too well in her mind before. Now she saw it, with his "family" and friends there his attitude seemed to shift, he was standing straighter with his head held high in a way that would make people think he was someone important, someone that demanded attention. It nearly took her breath away to see his transformation from a timid child to a confident Mafia leader. "Tsuna." She breathed, and just like that the spell he seemed to have casted broke and he was back to being the same timid child she had grown to know.
Hearing his name Tsuna turned his attention to Alex and smiled at her. "Yes, Alex?" He asked.
Returning his smile with one of her own she shook her head. "Nothing, never mind." She said softly.
"Alright, let's eat!" G said and clapped his hands once.
"Yeah, let's eat. I'm starving." Tsuna said, a soft blush dusting his cheeks as his stomach growled.
Gokudera immediately started fussing over him and Yamamoto laughed that carefree laugh of his. The others joined in with some kind of commotion or another.
Reborn watched the scene blankly for a moment before walking over to Giotto and the others. He jumped onto Giotto's shoulder then onto his head, where he proceeded to sit. "Let's go. I'm hungry." He said, yanking on Giotto's hair unforgivingly. Giotto yelped a little and the others, including Alaude, winced practically feeling the pain themselves.
"Stop before I kill all of you." Alaude scowled at the group.
Everyone stopped what they were doing and immediately another ruckus started. There were various retorts to that one statement.
"Are you threatening the tenth?"
Someone laughed. "Won't you get arrested?"
"I'll bite you to death before you can even lay a finger on me." A calm, cold voice, said.
"Fufufu. You can only do that if you get passed my illusions." A creepy one laughed a little maniacally.
Dino, Kyoko, Kyoko's brother, Haru, and Tsuna watched from where Giotto and the others were. "Alright, alright." Giotto started. "Let's just go eat and save all this bonding for later." He said the last part of his sentence sarcastic.
"Don't tell me what to do, Herbivore." Hibari scowled causing Alaude to scowl at the way he talked to his boss, only he could talk to him like that! Hibari turned his attention to Alaude and everyone sweat dropped at how alike they were; they could have been brothers.
"Let's just go." Tsuna said. "They can come later." Everyone agreed with his thoughts.
They all walked to the table; Tsuna automatically took his seat to the left of Giotto. G went to sit next to him but stopped short when the boy that looked like him, Gokudera if he remembered correctly, sat down instead. "That's my seat." He stated simply. The other seemed to ignore him and he gritted his teeth; he hated being ignored. "That's my seat." He said a little more forcefully.
Tsuna blinked as killing intent suddenly filled the air. He looked to his left and wasn't sure what to do when both Gokudera and G looked at him expectantly. "You can sit here, G." He said standing up, hoping that would soothe him.
"I don't want to sit there, that's where you sit." He said stubbornly. He pointed to the seat Gokudera was occupying. "This is my seat."
Tsuna looked to Giotto helplessly and frowned when he just shrugged his shoulders. He was saved, however, by Reborn. "Get out of my seat, Gokudera-kun." Reborn said, smoothly, jumping off Giotto's head, scaring the hell out of him. He had forgotten he was there.
"Reborn." Gokudera said through gritted teeth. He knew talking back would result in the worst kind of punishment imaginable, so he reluctantly got up. When he did G looked smug but it quickly went away when the baby, Reborn, really did take the seat. He wanted to argue but he was smart enough to keep his mouth shut, the aura he gave off was scary in itself who knew what he was actually capable of.
"You can sit next to me, G." Alex said from her seat to the right of Giotto. A knowing smile was playing on her lips causing him to frown. He did take the offered seat though.
By the time everyone was settled it was already practically 7:00. The arrangement pretty much finished with it being Giotto's family to his right and Tsuna's family to his left. Venedici sat at the other end of the table and they all began eating.
"So, why don't we just introduce everyone." Giotto suggested to Tsuna.
Nodding, Tsuna put down his fork, stood, and walked behind each of his friends as he introduced them and then did the same for Giotto's friends, since he was already standing anyway.
"This is where you always end up?" Yamamoto asked.
"So far, yes." Tsuna replied, and he hoped he always ended up here. He would hate to end up somewhere else and freak out like his first time here. Then he started to play around with his food a little as he asked this next question. "How's my mom?"
None of them said anything for a while and his heart started to beat a little quicker from nerves. With each second that passed he was becoming more and more anxious about the answer.
"She's alright." Reborn stated. "I told her that you were at a training camp and that you wouldn't be back for a while."
"What kind of training camp?" Tsuna asked, curiously.
"She didn't ask, so I didn't have to make one up." He smirked.
"I see." Tsuna smiled a little. He still felt guilty about keeping his (sort of) second life away from her, but he knew if she knew what was really going on it would break her heart.
Before either of them could say anything else Alex spoke up. "Tsuna." When he looked up she continued. "You should eat more." She encouraged as he hadn't eaten much since the conversation started.
"Right." He said and started eating some more. The conversation flowed smoothly (for the most part) after that with everyone wanting to know something different about the past and some of Giotto's guardians wanting to know things about the future. Tsuna hadn't really gotten a chance to really talk about the future because there was always something going on.
It was nice to see that both his and the Primo's guardians were getting along. They spent a long time just talking and fighting (mostly Alaude and Hibari) and having a really pleasant time. Surprisingly they were all so absorbed in what they were doing that they didn't notice that it was already midnight, but when they did they decided that it as time for all of them to go to sleep.
Giotto, being the gracious host that he was, showed Tsuna's friends the rooms that they would be staying in. To be specific once they got to the hall where Tsuna's room was Gokudera asked which room was Tsuna's and immediately called dibs. This resulted in a fight between them all, minus Kyoko and Haru, for who got the room closest to Tsuna, which surprisingly involved Hibari, who really just joined because he wanted to beat them all up for the fun of it.
"Your friends are all so lively." Venedici commented amused.
"They're really getting on my nerves." Alaude growled, getting ready to give them all a smack down for the headache they were giving him.
Tsuna finally stepped in. "Guy's the room next to mine is actually where Alex is staying." He said awkwardly.
"What?" They chorused and Tsuna repeated what he said.
"I'm supposed to get that room, Tenth!" Gokudera exclaimed. "I'm your right hand!"
"Sorry guys," Alex stepped forward. "but that room is mine." Her lips then curled into a wicked smile. "You can fight me for it, if you like."
A shiver went down everyone's spine at that and they all shook their head. Sure she was a girl, or rather woman, but they felt the power that was radiating from her very being and they did not have a death wish. Besides, they had a feeling that they would be torn apart by Giotto and his guardians if they even tried anything.
Tsuna was amused by the change in some of his, sometimes too arrogant for their own good, guardians. Then again if he was on the receiving end of Alex's wrath he would probably be in a corner cowering in fear. He had never seen her in action, but from what Giotto and the others have said about her she was quite the force to be reckoned with.
"I'm tired." Tsuna suddenly announced. This got an interesting reaction from his friends as they also announced their sudden tiredness and suggested they pick their rooms quickly.
Giotto and them all sweat-dropped at the suddenness of their change. One minute they were all rowdy and loud and the next they're calm and all about being cooperative. They are a really strange bunch. They all mused.
With their sleeping arrangements all figured out they all went into their respective rooms. Reborn and Tsuna decided (really is was Reborn deciding it) that since they had been sharing a room for a while now they could sleep in the same room here too.
"There isn't another bed in there." Tsuna informed him.
Reborn just shrugged his shoulders. "I'm not a giant, Dame-Tsuna, we can share the bed."
"Wha?" Was Tsuna's unintelligible response.
"Come on now, it's late." Reborn walked into the room first. Tsuna looked to everyone else and shrugged his shoulders before following him into the room. When he walked in he saw that Reborn was in pajama, and under the covers, making him wonder where he got them from and how he changed so quickly. Being curious he voiced these two questions.
"I wore them under my clothes." He stated plainly.
Of course. Tsuna thought and settled into the bed next to him. Reborn was always quick to fall asleep and for that he was envious. There were times where his thoughts would just not stop and no matter how close he was to sleep there would always be a thought that made him sit up and think and worry. Right now it was the thought of this not being fixed.
Fed up with not being able to sleep he got up quietly and told Reborn he was going downstairs for a minute when he got questioned. Going downstairs he debated on whether to just go sit in the living room for a while or go outside and get some fresh air. Maybe fresh air will help to clear my head. He suggested to himself and with that walked to the back of the mansion and into the garden.
Walking through it he went to the bench he usual sat in when he went in their and took a deep breath. Letting it out he smiled as the cool air helped to cool down his suddenly too hot skin. He tensed when he heard footsteps behind him but quickly relaxed when he heard a familiar voice.
"Tsuna? What are you doing out here?" It was Alex.
When she sat next to him he turned to look at her for a moment before looking up at the stars. "I couldn't sleep, so I thought some fresh air would to clear my head." He said.
"Is it helping?" She asked.
"It is." he answered relieved.
"Do you want to talk about it?" Alex ventured.
Tsuna thought about it and was about to say no, but instead everything came pouring out. "I don't know what's happening, Alex. This whole situation is very confusing and I don't know what to do about it. I thought it was fine since it was just happening to me, but then it happened to Giotto, and now it's happening to my friends too. And I keep thinking about my mom. I want to tell her everything that is happening and how I am a Mafia leader, but I'm afraid. I keep telling myself that it is for the best that she doesn't know; that I shouldn't tell her, but how can I keep this from her? I am a part of something dangerous and I may become a great Mafia leader, people keep saying that I will, why do they have so much faith in me?, but my fall is inevitable. One day I will fall, like so many before me, and I'm scared that it will be when my mom is still around. What will happen then? She will have no preparation at all. At least if she knows then she will know why it happened and she will not have to wonder." Once he was finished he was breathing heavily and his eyes stung from the tears that were threatening to fall from them.
Alex for her part was in shock. She hadn't expected his worries to be quite so profound. She was unable to find her voice for a few minutes and she could see Tsuna staring at her out of the corner of his eye, although he tried not to. Then completely looked away from her when he decided to rub the tears out of them. This is what she liked about him the most; he always talked in a way that, more often than not, left her speechless with the sincerity of his words.
"Tsuna." He didn't look at her and so she stood and knelt down in front of him. This caused him to look down at her in surprise.
"Alex..." He trailed off.
"Tsuna. All I can tell you is not to worry about this situation because you are not alone. We are all going to do everything we can to fix it, so try not to worry about it so much. As for your mother, there is no reason for her to know right now, all it will do is cause her to worry about you all the time. Isn't it better this way? She is comforted by the lie that Reborn has made because it means that you are safe, and you are, everyone here will make sure that you are safe. You don't have to tell her now; don't make yourself think that there is a time limit to when you can tell her. Just tell her when you are able to confidently say that you are not afraid." Alex said, saying what she would do in that situation. There was no way that she could ever understand the situation he was in, having grown up in a mafia family, and she wasn't going to pretend she understood, so all she could do was offer her thoughts.
Tsuna mulled over everything she said in his head and was glad to be reassured that he might be making the right decision in not telling his mom, but he was still worried about the situation they were now in. "What if we can't fix this? I don't think I can live like this."
"We will find a way to fix it." She assured. "Just you wait and see, Tsuna. Everything will work out in the end."
Tsuna smiled a little. It was nice to be reassured when things were so jumbled up in his head. "Thanks, Alex." His smile turned warm.
"Anytime, Kiddo." She ruffled his hair and stood. "It's late and it's getting cold. Let's go to bed now." She suggested.
"Ok." He stood and hesitated for a moment. "You go ahead first, Alex. I will go in in a few minutes."
When she gave him a disbelieving look he promised that he would. She reluctantly left.
He sat down again and his worries came back full force. The reassurances had been nice in the moment, but there was a part of him that couldn't shake his thoughts about his mother. Maybe because, unlike this situation, having to hide this from mom was a long-term thing. Another thought suddenly crossed his mind, can I not tell her because I'm ashamed?
He recalled a time when someone talked to him about hiding the fact that his girlfriend was not the kind of girl his family would approve of. His girlfriend broke up with him because of it because he was too ashamed of not being able to do as his family wanted. His words had struck him then, and they still haunt him when he thinks about his mother, "When people hide things, it means they are ashamed of it."*
Was he supposed to feel ashamed? He didn't want his mom to know that there was blood on his hands; that there will always be blood on his hands. He can't tell her that there will come a day when his life will end because of this life. He can't tell her that with each passing day he was becoming used to being the target of assassin attempts. More importantly, if he told her she was at risk of getting involved in this whole mess. He wouldn't be able to live with himself if any harm came to her because of something that he was doing.
Suddenly he felt something wet on his cheek. Blinking, he looked up and felt more wetness and saw that it was coming from the sky. It's raining. Tsuna had always loved the rain. He closed his eyes and let the water hit his face and arms and any part of him that was exposed to it. There was just something about rain that soothed his very soul; it felt like it was washing all his concerns away and his shoulders relaxed. The raindrops that touched his skin comforted him in a way that no one is ever able to.
Closing his eyes for a few moments, a smile took over his lips. Yeah, everything will work out in the end. With that he went back onto the house and hurriedly went upstairs, not wanting to get the floor too wet. Quickly changing his clothes he went back down to clean up the water that had dripped from him, so that no one would slip on it.
Finally, he decided it was time to sleep. Making his way to his and Reborn's room he went in and closing the door leaned against it for a moment, suddenly feeling a little weak in the knees. Forcing the feeling away he got into bed and fell asleep once his head hit the pillow.
Well, there you have it! What did you think? I really kind of just wanted to explore Tsuna's uncertainty of these two issues. I am actually not sure if his mom ever finds out about his whole Mafia thing; kinda stopped watching this a while back _. Anyway, just wanted to explore his thoughts, a little, about tell her.
The next chapter will be everyone bonding and then the chapter after that will be exploring all the possible ways that this could be happening. So, we will finally be hitting the tip of how this is happening :'D
*Not necessarily, but I always tend to hide things that I am ashamed of, so thought I would just put that little bit of me in there xD
Another AN: I tried to make this along chapter for you guys, so I really hope you enjoyed it ^_^
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PuroCieloFiamme: Lol, yes, Tsuna already knows how to fight and he is at a super top level in fighting, but I mean these are Giotto and his guardians we are talking about. I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end f their attacks... If that's what you mean, lol.
Also, I will definitely be adding a fight scene in here soon! With all of them working together.
And to the people that have reviewed more then once you all get hugs. *hugs*
I would again also like to thank the people that favorited, and put this story in their alert. Thanks a bunch!
One Final Note: This was actually my first chapter story that I was confident in and I am sooo happy that you guys are enjoying it. *grabs tissue* You're all too awesome for words D;
Question: Should there be romance in this story? Yes, No? I am still debating it.
If yes, between who? Or just borderline of all the possible pairings? Leave a review with your thoughts or PM me :'D