Hey, everyone. Sorry for the elongated wait. I just wanted to say to Final Syai Lunar Generation to not worry about if the amnesia plans ruined my plans because they didn't, I already had the idea so don't worry about that. Anyways I'm happy you liked the way I did the whole amnesia thing and I hoped the rest of my readers did as well…
Anyways, here's chapter 11.
Enjoy.
Disclaimer: I own nothing.
Recap:
"Tsuna." I said.
He finally looked at me.
"You alright now? Did the dizzy spell wore out?" I asked and he nodded.
"Ok. Then I want to introduce you to some close friends of mine." I said looking at G and the others.
Tsuna's P.O.V.
After I was woken up by Giotto-san and talked to him I noticed that there was a boy behind him. I looked at him and saw his weird curly sideburns and that piercing gaze.
Then I got a sense of déjà vu when our gazes met. I felt like I met him before just like I did when I first saw Giotto-san, but like with Giotto-san I have no recollection of it. And just so happens I do know him; the black hair boy is Reborn the boy Giotto-san told me about earlier. He looked serious and had a hint of worry cross his eyes before it was gone. And if I was going to be honest with myself he looked kind of scary even though he looked about to be our age. But something told me I could trust him, and I always follow my instincts, dad made sure of that.
Then he asked me if I wanted to eat here or downstairs and I was kind of tired of being in bed and my head was still hurting but not enough to still stay here. Plus my back muscles are starting to ache with the laying down position I been for hours now. I guess that is because dad always has me doing something and there not used to being inactive for so long.
I said downstairs and I could tell that Giotto-san was still worried about me and wanted me to stay in bed because of he's expression but I wanted to move around, and he let me.
Giotto-san helped me up and I sat at the edge of the bed before getting up. The second I was up my vision got blurry, I felt my body go weak and my head was assaulted with a dizzy spell.
I felt Giotto-san grab me to steady my body and when it passed we walked to the hall where he warned me that it wasn't just us three in the apartment.
I was getting nervous because it was Giotto's friends. And the fact that I was in this state didn't help, but what if they didn't like me? Would Giotto-san stop being my friend to appease them? No I couldn't stand the idea of it if it happened.
Wow, wait why am I so worried about that right now? This is so not the thing I should be worrying about. I have to focus on the fact that I'm missing 4 years of my life but here I'm worrying about if Giotto-san would stay my friend. Geez, what's wrong with me? I think that hit to my head might have affected more than my memory.
We reached the stairs with Reborn in front, me following him and Giotto-san behind me. I knew what they were doing. They strategically put themselves there in case I got dizzy again or fainted but I don't think that's going to happen again or at least I hope not.
I look around what look to be the a well decorated living room and saw six guys there, all about Giotto-san's age and all staring at me. Now I was really nervous about what was going to happen next, but also a little bit curious.
I was in the middle of descending the stair case with the other two when these emotions really hit me. I was staring at the steps so I wouldn't fall and because I didn't want to look at them in the eyes for so long but mostly because I didn't want to fall face first down the stairs in our first encounter.
When we were in the end of the stair case I was assaulted yet again by a dizzy spell but this one was stronger than the last one to the point I couldn't tell what the blurry shapes I was staring at were anymore and my foot failed me mid step making my body fall forwards.
I thought I was going to actually fall down the steps but then I felt a pair of strong, warm arms grab me, then take me and put me down in something soft. Whoever saved me from my meeting with the hard and cold unforgiving floor smells really good. Was it Giotto-san? No, wait they grabbed me from the front so it was Reborn. Oh Kami-sama, I just said Reborn smelled good. That's embarrassing, good thing people can't read minds.
Giotto-san's voice brought me back and then I realized he was crouched in front of me.
Wow, when did he get so close? I didn't feel his presence come so close. I blamed the head trauma.
He asked if I was better now and I nodded then he said he was going to introduced me to his closest friends. I looked to my right and saw Reborn standing there and then to my left where there was on a guy with green hair, his left blue eye showing and a lightning bolt tattoo under his right eye.
"Alright Tsuna this is G and Asari Ugetsu, they're the ones that made you the soup." Said Giotto-san as he pointed to the red head boy with a tattoo on his face and the black hair boy that was smiling at me that was next to him but behind Giotto-san.
"Yo." Said the red head.
"Hello, I hope you're feeling better." Said the raven boy.
"Hello, um yes I am and thank you for the soup." I said softly to them. The red head just nodded while the raven, Ugetsu, kept smiling.
"It was no trouble." He said.
"The guy sitting next to you is Lampo and he's Knuckles." Giotto-san continued as my small talk with the other two was finished. The green hair boy, now known as Lampo, just looked at me and put to fingers to his forehead , doing the signal that means something along the lines of 'hey' that some people use but he didn't say anything. Then the spiky hair raven that was smiling at me stepped up.
"It's a pleasure to meet you to the limit." He said quite loudly, if I may add.
I visibly winced a little because of his voice volume wasn't doing anything for my headache.
"Knuckles lower the volume of your voice; Tsuna's head still hurts." Giotto-san said.
"Oh right, I'm sorry to the limit." He said this time with the volume a lot lower than before making it more bearable.
"It's alright, and it's nice to meet you too." I reassured him.
"And this is Daemon Spade." Said Giotto-san pointing to a blue haired and eyed boy that was at the end of the small, square table that was in front of the white couch.
"Hello." I said to him. The boy stared at me with a dangerous looking smirk on his lips which was creepy if you ask me. And for the third time today I felt a sense of déjà vu. It's as if I been scared by his creepy smirk before or just by him, which is strange because Giotto-san said I never met any of them before.
Hmm, weird.
"Nufufu, it's a pleasure to make your acquaintance." He said in a smooth, velvety voice.
This guy speaks really formally and he has manners. Well if it wasn't for the creepy smirk accompanied by the weird little laugh I don't think I have a problem with him but now he just kind of freaking me out a little bit.
"And the one in the corner is Alaude." Giotto-san said indicating the last person that was a blond with sky blue eyes, who was leaning against a wall in the farthest corner of the room.
"Hello, it's nice to meet you Alaude-san." I said though also I little bit freaked out because of the cold aura that corner over there was emitting. Alaude-san didn't look like a friendly person if the aura and the scowl on his face was anything to go by. His expression was pretty much unreadable to me.
"Hn." He said, if you count that as word, and nodded in acknowledgement in my direction.
He's scary but at least he's not creepy like Daemon-san over here. He just looks like an introverted, quiet kind of person. That I'm going to stay out of the way from as much as possible…
"Everyone this is Sawada Tsunayoshi, but he prefers being called Tsuna." Giotto-san said ending our introductions with my official one.
"Well then, since that's taken care of why don't you eat the soup Asari and G made for you now?" Said Giotto before standing from his crouching position and grabbing the bowl of soup that was set on the table that was behind him, after I nodded yes.
I grabbed the bowl and the spoon that he passed me, and took a sip. It was chicken soup, really good chicken soup at that.
"Hmm, this is really good. Thank you Asari-san, G-san." I said thanking them again.
"Glad you like it." Said Asari.
"You better eat it all, kid if you want to recover and get your strength back faster." Said G with crossed arms and a neutral expression.
I nodded in response and kept eating. I could feel the gazes on me as I ate and choose to ignore them.
"You were hungry, weren't you Tsuna?" Giotto-san asked teasingly while smiling. It was the first real smile I saw him make tonight, and not the ones I saw from earlier, filled with worried, sadness and forced.
"Yes, I was but I hadn't realized how much until I tasted the soup. I suppose my mind was focused on the head ache." I responded.
He smile grew.
"I see, then you should savor that and finish it." He said with a hand softly petting my hair while the other was put in his pocket. I blushed at this and looked at the bowl as I nodded while hoping he hadn't seen it.
I felt a weight on the sofa as someone sat down to my right and I looked over to see it was Reborn who sat next to me, legs and arms crossed with his head tilted downwards and closed eyes.
"I'll go get you the pain killers for your head." Said Giotto and then disappeared into the kitchen.
There was a silence in the room until he came back with two pills and a glass of water.
I finished off the rest of the soup in a few more minutes then took the offered medicine and water to drink it with. Giotto-san took the bowl and set it down on the table.
"Are you full, Tsunayoshi?" Asked the ever kind and smiling Asari.
"Yes, I am." I said.
"That's good." He answered.
I nodded and then scratched the edges of my bandages which were starting to make my forehead itchy.
"Do you think I could take this off now? There itchy." I asked to no one in particular.
"I don't see why not if we have to changed them later on anyways when you take a shower but the doctor said to keep it covered at least three days and to keep it clean." Said Giotto-san.
I reached up to take them off but I can't see what I'm doing without a mirror.
"Here let me." Said Reborn and if other people had said it would of sounded like an offered but when he said it, it sounded like an order because of his tone of voice that let no room for discussion.
I turned to him as he uncrossed his arms. The he pulled softly the bandages and unwrapped them slowly then he grabbed the gaze that the bandages were holding to my forehead.
"Thank you, Reborn-san." I said.
He nodded in response and threw the bandages on the table next to the bowl.
"Giotto-san, do you have a small mirror?" I asked him curious as to how the wound looks like. How big and long it was and how many stiches were needed.
"No, but there's a big one in the bathroom." He said and pointed to the brown door neat the stair case.
"Tsuna, I don't think that such a good idea." Reborn said speaking up .
"It's ok, I just want to see the wound to know how big it is and thank you." I said to the Giotto-san as I got up slowly. I could feel all the eyes on me again even Alaude-san's and he had them closed a second ago while he rested against the wall.
Giotto-san watched me closely again.
I made my way to the bathroom and opened the door. I turned on the light but didn't shut the door seeing as I'm only going to see the wound. I look up at the mirror over the black sink and froze.
My eyes went wide.
What surprised me wasn't the wound, it was my reflection and how much it's changed since my last look at it in my bathroom mirror this morning. Well, what I thought was this morning but apparently was four years ago.
I couldn't believe it. The change from my last memory of my appearance and to the one I was staring at was prominent. My eyes were clearer and bigger than before if possible, my hair was longer and spikier, the little bit of natural baby fat I had was gone, my cheek bones were a little bit higher or at least more noticeable and I grew a few inches, and I was skinny but with more muscle than before.
When I first got up I felt the difference in my height but I didn't think it was by much but now that I'm looking at myself it's a lot more than I first expected.
It was one thing to be told by someone that it's been four years and have the reaction I did, but it was another thing completely different to actually experience it with your own eyes leaving no room for doubts just facts.
It's been four years and I can't remember a thing of those four years. That's when it really hit me, harder than it did earlier.
I took a few steps back and felt my back meet the wall behind me and let my weight rest on it. I could feel my breath speed up till the point of hyperventilating.
Four years, it's really been four years. What has happened in these years that I can't remember about? What about Okaa-san and Oto-san, how are they? What about my friends and teachers?
Why can't I remember anything? If I could at least remember one thing that has happened between 2008 and 2012 maybe I wouldn't feel so lost, confused, desperate, frustrated but most of all scared.
Why did this have to happen to me?
I could hear footsteps come my way but I didn't really acknowledge them. I could feel my breathing get even faster as I tried to remember something, anything from these last four years but my mind came up blank.
Suddenly Reborn-San and Giotto-san were in my line of vision, easing me down onto the tiled floor.
"This is why I said it wasn't a good idea for him to use a mirror right now. I was afraid he had this kind of reaction. Oi, Tsuna you need to calm down, you're going to pass out or stop breathing all together if you don't start breathing normally again." Reborn-san said in a kneeling position in front of me.
"Reborn's right Tsuna, you need to calm down and take deep breathes." Giotto-san said also in a kneeling position.
"Four years…it's been… four years…I can't…remember anything…my parents…" I said in between fast intakes of breathes.
"Your parents are fine, but you're not. You need to calm down." Reborn-san said.
"Tsuna I can't even begin to imagine what you're going through or what that feels like but I need you to calm down, ok? Can you do that for me?" Said Giotto-san in a calming voice trying to get me to breathe normally again.
I tried to I really did but it was hard to bring it back to normal once you already start to hyperventilate. One need more to actually feel calm to breath normally again. Giotto-san saw this and moved to sit to my left, up against the wall and hugged me to his side. I rested my head on his chest as my left arm went around him to cling to the back of his shirt and the right to the front. I closed my eyes and tried to control my breathing again. I could feel myself calm down slowly, my breath starting to slow down back to its normal pace. I believe it has to do with the fact that I feel utterly safe in Giotto-san's arms and I can hear his heart beat with my ear pressed against his chest.
"There you go. Take long deep breaths and let it out." He said as he felt my breathing calm down. I got to say that his calming voice also helped.
My breathing was back to normal now.
"Tsuna, were going to figure this out and me and Reborn are going to be with you the whole time, right Reborn?" I heard him ask.
I opened my eyes and turned to look at Reborn while still in his arms and still clutching at his white shirt.
He nodded in agreement.
"See, you're not alone in this." He said.
I felt relieved at his words.
But wait…
"What if I don't get my memories back, what then?" I asked now looking at Giotto-san straight in the eyes.
He looked taken off guard with the question and didn't know how to answer. He opened his mouth to say something but close it again.
"What if I never get my memories back? What am I supposed to do then, with so much time of my life missing?" I asked almost desperately. I could feel my breathing accelerate again.
"I don't know…" He said unsurely.
"What about…" I didn't continue because I started to hyperventilate again and it got caught off.
"Shhh, Tsuna don't think like that. Everything will be fine." He said as he hugged me to him again but I didn't relaxed this time because I wasn't even a little bit calm like a was the first time after his words and I was even more panicked this time.
"How do…you know…that it…will be?" I asked in between breathes.
"I don't, but I hope and have faith that it will." He admitted.
I pulled back. I can't think like that right now. I couldn't just hope it will be ok; I needed to know they would be. Was too panicked to just have faith things will work out.
I completely pulled away and shook my head.
"I…don't…" I didn't continue even more out of breath than before.
"Tsuna, look at me." Reborn ordered.
I didn't and then I felt two large hands on both side of my face that made turn to him. He had a serious look on his face.
"Listen to me, Tsuna. I can't promise you that everything will be fine or that you'll get your memories back because I don't know if you will. But what I can promise you that I will do everything in my power to help you remember, ok?" He said with such a determined look in his eyes and assured tone in his voice that I couldn't help myself but believe him.
I nodded.
"Good, now take a long deep breath and let it out." He instructed.
And I did so with my face still being held in his hands. I was starting to calm down again.
"Again." He demanded. And I repeated the process a few more times until I was completely calm.
"Alright, can you face your reflection again? Or do you want to leave?" He asked with worry hidden in his tone. He wasn't trying too hard to mask it this time. Maybe because it was just us three here.
"I need to face the facts." I said.
He smirked.
"That's what I wanted to hear." He said.
He let go of my face then got up from his kneeling position and offered his hand to help me up. I took it and closed my eyes before opening them again and turning to the mirror. I took in my changed appearance calmly this time, already expecting it plus I had Reborn-san and Giotto-san with me this time.
Then I focused my gaze on the wound for the first time. It was sort of long but not too much and had 4 stiches in blue sutures wire made with a simple interrupted suture technique that is tied with a square knot. (A.N: It's an actual suture technique and knot; I'm not making that up.)
I took a deep breath and looked at Giotto-san and nodded at him that I was ready to leave, and he understood because he moved to the door. We walked out and I turned to them.
"I'm sorry about that, I just sort of panicked. And also thank you." I said.
"It's all right Tsuna, you don't have to apologize. It's a lot to take in at once and anyone would have been shocked if there were in your situation. So don't worry about it." Giotto-san said.
"Like Giotto said it's a lot of information to take in and I didn't expect you to be totally calm in this situation anyways. But next time listen to my warnings." Said Reborn.
"Hai." I said.
"Is everything alright?" Asked Asari as he walked over with G and Knuckles behind.
"Yes, I just got a little freaked out is all. But I'm ok now." I said to him.
"I see. It's understandable." He replied.
G and Knuckles nodded their agreement.
I smiled a little at them.
"I'm tired." Said Lampo before he yawned. It was the first time I heard him speak.
"Maybe you guys should head home, I mean I'm not kicking you out or anything but its late and tomorrows a school day." Giotto-san reasoned.
"You're right, we should go." Said G.
"Then I bid you farewell." Said Asari.
"Have a good night to the limit." Said Knuckles.
"I'm leaving. See ya." Said Lampo.
"I guess I'll leave as well. Have a goodnight you three." Said Daemon.
"See you tomorrow Giotto. Goodnight Tsuna, Reborn." Said G as he walked to the door with the others.
"Good night guys and thank you." Said Giotto-san.
"Good night." I said. Reborn just nodded at them.
When they were on the other side was when Alaude decided to leave as well. He walked by us nodded in our direction and left.
"Have a good night Alaude and thank you." Said Giotto-san.
"Hn." He said to him, went to the opened door and closed it behind him.
I'm beginning to think he can't speak because he won't use words.
After they left Giotto turned to Reborn.
"I'm staying at little longer." Was all Reborn-san said.
"I see, alright then." Giotto-san said.
I just looked at them.
"Do you want to shower now Tsuna?" Asked Giotto-san.
"Hai. But what about clothes?" I asked.
"I could wash the uniform for tomorrow but I'll just lend you some of mine for tonight, alright?" He said.
I blushed and looked away.
"Ok." I said.
"Ok, then come I'll show you were everything is." He said.
Reborn turned back to the living room and sat down in his previous spot on the couch.
I went upstairs with Giotto-san and into his bedroom where he got a black t-shirt and some black pajama pants from a drawer. Which I could already tell where going to be too big on me.
"Alright, here's the extra towel, the soap, shampoo and conditioner are inside of the shower. The warm water knob is the one on the left and the cold is on the right. If you need anything just call me. " He said.
"Thank you, Giotto-san" I said as he left.
"No problem." He answered back before leaving.
I sighed, undressed and in the shower. I turned on the left knob and enjoy the feeling of the warm water gliding down my body. I reminisce in it as long as I could then wash my body and hair, while being careful with my head wound, go out, dried myself and got dressed in Giotto's clothes and my under wear which I turned inside-out.
I looked at myself in the mirror now without a problem. And like I expected they were too big on me, they looked baggy and the pants were sliding down so I had to hold them with one hand.
When I went to the living room it looked like Reborn-san and Giotto-san were in an argument but stopped as soon as I arrived so didn't hear any of it.
They looked at me.
I started to blush under there gazes.
"W-what?" I nervously stuttered.
"Uh, nothing." Said Giotto-san.
"Ok, so what were you guys talking about?" I asked.
"It's something between us, Tsuna you don't have to worry about it." Said Reborn.
"Alright." I replied.
"I think I'll be heading home now. You, bandage that up and go to sleep." Reborn said as he got closer and stopped in front of me.
"Ok, but I'm not really tired. I slept a lot today." I said.
"I don't care, go to sleep. I'll come see you tomorrow." He said and started to leave.
"Reborn?" I called him.
"He stopped and looked at me over his shoulder, both hands in his pockets.
"Thank you, for everything." I said.
He didn't say anything, but he did turn around and took one hand from his pocket to ruffle my hair softly.
"Hn. Night." He said.
"Good night." I and Giotto-san said at the same time.
Then he left and it was just the two of us.
I looked at Giotto-san and he smiled at me. I smiled a little bit too.
"Are you going to take a shower now, Giotto-san?" I asked him.
"I took one before you woke up." He answered.
"Oh ok." I said.
"But I haven't eaten and I am hungry." He said.
"Then you should eat something." I said feeling guilty that I was probably the reason he hadn't eaten.
"Yeah, I'm pretty sure that G and Asari made extra soup for me knowing I hadn't eaten yet." He said and headed for the kitchen.
And it was true, they did leave him some.
He poured some into a bowl and ate it while we talked at the kitchen counter. He told me about himself, that he lived alone because he moved here alone and that he's in first year of high school making him a year older than me since I'll be 15 years old in October 14th.
When he finished and was washing his bowl, I brought my abandoned bowl from earlier and the discarded bandages to throw them away in the trash.
"Here, let me help you." I offered to dry and put away the dishes.
"No Tsuna, you just got out of the hospital. And you're here to rest not to help clean up." He said.
"But it's the least that I can do after all you done for me." I said but Giotto-san didn't back down.
"No, you're not going to help me and that's final now go sit down on the couch and I'll be right there in a second." He said.
I sighed and did as a I was told.
After a few short minutes Giotto-san came out.
"I'm going to go change then get a pillow and a blanket for the couch since you're going to sleep in my bed and the guest room is too messy to stay in." He said heading up the stairs.
"No, that's alright I can stay on the couch I don't mind." I said.
"But I do, and you're sleeping in my bed room, I'm the one taking the couch." He said loudly already at top of the stair case.
Then he disappeared into his room only to reappear a few minutes later in a white t-shirt and a pair of grey sweat pants with a blanket and a pillow.
I have decided that he has done enough for me today and the least I can do is give him he's own bed to sleep on.
"Giotto-san, I decided to stay on the couch which is really comfortable by the way and there's absolutely nothing you can say to change my mind." I said. He just walked over to where I was seated, set down the pillow and blanket on the couch, and looked at me.
"Nothing? Are you sure there's nothing I can say to convince you otherwise?" He asked with a raised brow.
"No." I said determinately with my eyes closed and my arms crossed.
"Ok then." I heard him say.
I opened my eyes when I feel he moved next to me. And before I could say anything he bent down and picked me up bridal style. I blushed madly at this and clung to his neck as he headed for the stairs.
"G-giotto-san." I spluttered.
"If words wont convince you then I just have to take you there myself." He said.
"G-giotto-san, please put me down." I pleaded.
"I will, when we get to my room." He said.
"But…" I tried to talk but couldn't find the words.
We made it to his room and he gently set me down on his bed.
"You stay here, ok? Don't you move dare move because I'll carry you here again." He said.
He went into his bathroom and return with a gaze and medical tape. He cut the tape with his teeth and put it over the wound.
"There we are. Let's go brush our teeth." He said.
He brushed his with his toothbrush and I mine with my finger acting as a toothbrush, he left the bathroom and I used the toilet but when I got out he wasn't in the room. I thought that if I made it to the couch and pretended to fall asleep maybe he won't move me because he'll fear waking me up.
I made my way to the door and opened it only for my face to collide with a warm chest.
"Tsuna, where are you going?" Asked Giotto-san innocently while smiling.
"Huh, to the bed that's behind me?" I answered but it sounded more like a question.
"Good answer." He said.
I turned around, pulled the sheets back and got inside them. They were really warm which was good because the room's temperature was cold because of the air conditioner.
Giotto-san came over and kissed the top of my head making me blush all over again.
"Good night, Tsuna." He said smiling down at me.
"Good night, Giotto-san." I replied.
He turned around and left but not before turning off the lights.
One would think I would have trouble sleeping tonight with all the sleep that I got earlier and the headache. But the headache was numbed thanks to the pain killers and it wasn't that hard to have sleep succumbed me, especially not with Giotto-san wonderful scent on the pillows.
To be continued…
I was going to make this one short but since I fell asleep early Friday and was in a modeling agency Saturday for a lot of hours, I made this one longer as compensation.
I hope I got the characters right and they weren't OOC and if they were sorry.
Anyways, please review.
Until next time,
Girl in Blue
