Waking from the Grave (Eighteen and already going mad)
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When Tsuna woke up and pushed open the lid of a coffin, he wondered what his future self was doing in a coffin. In the middle of a forest. With actual lilies surrounding him. Wow, how much money went into making a fake coffin and those lilies? Viper was going to chew someone out for wasting money on such trivial things.
Hopefully not him.
"You're here!"
Tsuna turned to see a twenty-four-year-old Hayato walking towards him. 'You're here,' was a strange choice of words, Tsuna felt. Something more along the lines of 'you're awake' was what Tsuna was used to hearing and expected to hear.
Hayato knelt by the side of the coffin, setting down his briefcase and grabbing Tsuna by the shoulders. Tightly. For some reason, his hands felt bigger than usual.
"Err, Hayato?" Tsuna asked. Sure he was in a coffin, but surely he knew that Tsuna wasn't actually dead. Not when Tsuna had heard a seventeen-year-old Hayato talk about how boss-like Tsuna's forty-six-year-old self was.
"Tenth. I love you and I respect you and I'd do anything for you, but Tenth." Hayato's eyes bored into his, nearly making Tsuna flinch at their intensity. "You are a complete madman."
Wow. What in the world did future him ever do to Gokudera?
If it made Hayato of all people call him a madman, Tsuna didn't really want to know.
Hayato opened his mouth to say more, but then he was swallowed up by pink smoke. Lambo's bazooka struck again, it seemed.
"Tenth?! But I thought I was sent ten years in the future!"
That was an odd thing to say. Tsuna hit a growth spurt when he was around sixteen physically, so Hayato wasn't supposed to say that…
Wait a minute…
Wait a minute!
"You mean I got hit by Lambo's bazooka?!"
No, but he was positive that he had been there for more than five minutes. So...but…
He was thirteen mentally, and fifteen physically, just like he was before he woke up in the coffin. And it wasn't like he remembered fainting.
Actually, he did remember asking Lambo why Reborn still wasn't back…
Huh. Maybe he did get hit by the bazooka.
"By the way, Tenth, this kind of looks like a coffin…"
"It is. Apparently, my future self's a, uh, madman."
Hayato completely ignored Tsuna's comment on being a madman and focused more on the fact that he was in a coffin, what was future him(Hayato) doing?!
And then Lal attacked because why not? Make the whole situation more confusing, why didn't she?
What, was this some kind of game the Vongola were playing? Some kind of survival game or tournament or training exercise or something? Because if sticking himself in a coffin was part of some kind of game, then yeah, Tsuna could imagine future him being called a madman.
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AN: Wow, this got updated fast. Wow, Tsuna, you're ten years in the future and the first thing you notice is 'somebody wasted a lot of money for this and the old miser isn't going to be happy about this.' Just wait until you see what else 'somebody' wasted money on
Like the really realistic pretend war between you and Byakuran. And the apology gifts you bought to make up to your guardians for being a madman and faking your own death.
