Previously:
Tsunayoshi stared at his last piece of Salisbury steak and smiled a little. But that was immediately turned around when Nana came in. "Good news Tsu-kun, your dad is coming home! I'm so excited!"
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"If you stay here for a long time though, let's say 3 ½ weeks, you might turn to this world's Tsunayoshi and forget your memories of your other world."
"Well, your Reborn said that it will take 2 weeks for them to make a machine to bring you guys back. For the mean time, let's just sit tight."
"But… Reborn, when am I ever gonna tell them about my situation?" Tsuna asked.
"Any time actually. Well the right time."
Mammon got a text from an unknown sender and he opened the message. As soon as he opened it, he smirked and immediately went to the photocopier room. "Oh this will be one of the best sales yet. I'm gonna make a profit."
5 year old Tsunayoshi wanted a glass of milk. So he got out of his bed, a lion stuffed doll in hand, and went out of his room quietly. His footsteps were quiet as he went down the flight of stairs. He expected everyone to be asleep but then he saw light coming out from the kitchen. He peeked and saw his father and Nono. He would run to Iemitsu and hug him but he noticed the serious expressions they wore so he kept quiet and listened to their conversation.
"Iemitsu, when are you going to tell Tsunayoshi-kun? You can't keep it a secret forever."
"Blame the bastard. He's the one who abandoned Nana when he found out she was pregnant."
"You can't call your brother that."
"Sorry. Even though I promised Nana I'd be there for her, I can't when every night I hear from her that bastard's name. She's sleeping and she's crying. I love her so much but… I feel so bad for marrying her."
"Don't. Still you have to tell Tsunayoshi-kun that you're not his father."
"You're not my father?" Tsunayoshi decided to make himself known. Wide eyes stared at him. The little boy held his lion stuffed doll close to him as he prepared himself for the answer.
"I-I… Tsuna please understand."
"Understand what? That you're a liar? I hate liars!" His tears started to fall. He heard a noise from behind. It was Nana (or Mrs. Sawada).
"What's going on?" Tsunayoshi ran past her and outside the house. They followed him and they saw Tsunayoshi running in front of a truck. Iemitsu acted fast and embraced him to take the impact. Nana screamed.
Tsunayoshi couldn't comprehend what was happening. All he saw was, his so-called father slipping onto the ground with dead eyes staring at him. "Tsuna, are you alright?"
"How about father?!"
"I'm sorry. I couldn't tell you." Iemitsu kept his dead eyes locked onto Tsunayoshi's watery orange ones. He weakly raised his hand to caress his face. Tsunayoshi held it firm on his cheek with his small chubby hands.
"Are you going to leave me?"
"No... I would never leave you. Tsuna? Look at me… I…"
Tsunayoshi waited and waited but no more Sawada Iemitsu. "Dad?... Dad!"
Nana was crying while Nono took care of the situation. Crowds started to gather and it was suffocating Tsunayoshi. He turned to his the side where the truck had hit a lamp post, the driver dead on his steering wheel. That was the day when Tsunayoshi had come to an understanding,
…that he had killed two people.
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"Tsuna, look I made your favorite. Salisbury steak. It's not like your dad's cooking though." Nana put the steak in front of Tsunayoshi who was openly crying on the table, whose head was buried in his arms. Nono and Nana tried their best to comfort him but it came to no avail.
"I don't want it."
CANON WORLD
"What?"
"Your dad's coming home! He sounded like he was in a car when he called so it looks like he'll be here in no time!" Nana said excitedly. She skipped around the table, picked up the fork that Tsunayoshi let go of and gave it back to him. Humming as she did so.
"Tsuna-nii?" Fuuta asked. Tsunayoshi gave him a reassuring smile and it worked but it didn't fool Reborn.
"Tsuna. Get ready, your father will be here in exactly one minute." Reborn said looking at his Leon watch.
"What?!" He stood up abruptly. All eyes were on him but he didn't care. Tsunayoshi just stood there. The baby counted the seconds.
"1."
"Honey! I'm home!" Iemitsu slammed the door open and immediately went to the kitchen. Nana was in his arms within a blink of an eye, obviously happy to see him. Turning to look at Tsunayoshi, his smile wavered and it didn't go unnoticed by Tsunayoshi and Reborn but he still kept it up. "Heya Tuna-fish! Come give your father a hug!"
As he stepped towards him, arms spread out wide, Tsunayoshi felt like running but he couldn't. He was embraced by Iemitsu but not warmly, Iemitus whispered in his ear.
"We're gonna have a talk, whoever you are."
As soon as he said that, he was by Nana's side laughing happily. Reborn pulled Tsunayoshi upstairs to his room. They waited for Iemitsu. Not too long after, he was knocking on his door and opened it without waiting for a response. He closed the door behind him.
"So. Who are you?"
"How did you know?" Tsunayoshi tried so hard to keep his cool as he smirked. Especially when it was because of him that killed his dad.
"Your aura is completely different. I know when you're in HDWM or not yet why are your eyes orange and sharp? And is it wrong for a father to know his own son and who's not?" Tsunayoshi winced at his reply but nodded nevertheless.
"True. Well, it's not a big of a secret so I'll tell you straight. I am Sawada Tsunayoshi but I am not the Sawada Tsunayoshi you know. I am your son's parallel self. I've been here for about a week. From what I heard from Reborn, your son is safe."
Iemitsu paused to let the information sink in. The brunette waited for his reply uncomfortably, expecting that he would be given the cold treatment but instead…
"Ok then! As long as my son is safe, then again, you're also my son." He said.
"When will he be back?"
"The machine to bring him back will be done in 2 weeks." Reborn answered. His Leon phone vibrated with a message.
"I see. Well then, that means I'll have time to spend time with this Tsuna! Nono allowed me a month off. I was against it at first but he insisted. Basil will take care of things for me he said. Now… Tsuna, how's the parallel world?" Iemitsu said with a smile that Tsunayoshi has never seen in years. He smiled brightly in return which surprised Reborn. His smile was soon replaced by his neutral expression.
"Oi Iemitsu, here's a picture of Tsuna. See, he's doing fine." Reborn showed him a picture of Tsuna pouting.
"So cute!"
Tsunayoshi stared at him as Iemitsu squealed annoyingly. He walked coolly towards the phone, and for the first time, he blushed in embarrassment. "That is so not me."
"Of course not, Dame-Tsuna. It's your parallel self." Reborn replied.
"Why are my pajamas tattered? Who cares, but how did you get that?"
"Byakuran bought Tsuna's phone for him. Most likely the phone runs on battery and Byakuran's Sky Flames which makes it possible to send messages across parallel universes. Mukuro has one too, although he stole that from him. I just got it from Mammon who likely received it from Tsuna's phone. He's probably making a profit out of it now."
"What?!"
"Now… Where did I put my money…" Reborn walked to his hammock on the other hand, Iemitsu was talking to his phone.
"Mammon, I want 5 copies of that."
"Don't order them!" Tsunayoshi could handle 2 more weeks there in that universe.
An hour passed and Tsunayoshi was enjoying Iemitsu's company. The doorbell rang and when Nana opened, there was Hayato. He bowed respectfully at Nana and went up to Tsuna's room. He slammed the door open. Hayato ignored Tsunayoshi rudely but bowed at Iemitsu in respect. Without a word, he walked over to where Reborn was, the desk.
"Hello Reborn-san. I'm sorry but what is the meaning of this picture?" From his phone, he showed a photo. "Oh that."
"Why is Juudaime upset? Has he been attacked? And I don't mean to be rude but why haven't I heard anything from Juudaime until now?" He asked.
"Gokudera-kun. You haven't greeted me yet. I think it is rude that you only greeted Reborn and my father." Tsunayoshi blurted out. The other occupants of the room raised an eyebrow.
"He's not even your real dad.*" He replied coldly. To everyone's confusion and surprise, Tsunayoshi was suddenly surrounded by flames looking very angry.
"Try saying that again."
PARALLEL WORLD
A knock resounded at Gesso's door. He opened to see Kozato, Gokudera and Hibari standing there arguing. Mostly on Hibari and Gokudera's part though. As they argued, Kozato sighed in exasperation as he spoke to Gesso.
"Good morning Byakuran-san. Is Tsuna-kun here?" At the mention of his name, Tsuna tilted his head towards the door.
"Enma-kun?" He walked over towards the door. Gesso smiled as he let them in. He left to his room where they could hear some piano playing.
"Hey, we didn't finish what we were talking about." Kozato said as he sat down on the couch. Everyone's attention was finally on Tsuna. To Tsuna's relief, he could finally let it out not being able to hide it anymore. Either way the cat's out of the bag anyways.
"It was stupid to think that I could hide after all the stupid things I've done. I'm Tsuna from another parallel universe sent here by a machine from my own universe. I'm sorry for the inconvenience I've caused you all and I hope you would forgive me." He sat back down after bowing waiting for their response, not really expecting anything.
"Oh… Well that's definitely what we weren't expecting." Hibari said.
"Yeah, we were thinking kind of like… Umm…" Gokudera followed then Kozato resumed it.
"You were toying with us. That's how our Tsuna-kun is. He's a good actor although, he can't keep himself from his amusement." Kozato said as the others nodded in agreement.
"So it's fine?"
"Yeah, it's totally fine! Besides I like this Tsuna! He's nicer!" Hibari said as he walked over to him and swung an arm around his shoulder.
"How was I in the other universe?" He said with beaming eyes. Tsuna felt uncomfortable for two reasons.
-This was Hibari. Period.
-He couldn't tell him what he was like in the other world.
"But ParaTsuna-kun, how are you going to go back?" Kozato said. Tsuna shrugged, ignoring Hibari.
"My original universe will be making a machine to take me back. And your Tsuna back."
"It's a bit hard to suddenly hear that you're not the real Juudaime but I'll cope with it. Welcome to this universe ParaJuudaime." Gokudera said.
"Who else knows about this?" He added.
"Onii-san, Reborn, Byakuran, Chrome and Mukuro."
"Onii-san?"
"Oh I meant Sasagawa-niisan. We're not brothers but I call him that. Huh?" He said suddenly feeling a gloomy aura beside him."
"Both Tsunas ignore me… I feel hurt." Hibari said.
"What?! That silent tough guy and those purple pineapples knew about it before I did?! I'm gonna give em a lecture after this! Hibari! You're coming with me later!"
"Hai…" 'My statement got ignored…'
Kozato and Tsuna laughed. Tsuna felt both comfortable and uncomfortable at the atmosphere but then he noticed Kozato's warm smile as he stood up. Tsuna felt a pat on his head
"Come on, let's talk more outside. How about TakeSushi?" Hibari stared at him in fear while Gokudera looked indifferent.
"Sure!" The others followed him outside but not before saying goodbye to Gesso who played Dvorak's "Humoresque". Gesso said goodbye and said something to Gokudera about a piano performance who was very happy about the news.
Rebo who said nothing the whole time followed them outside.
Kozato was the one to close the door. As he expected, Tsuna didn't reject the idea about going to TakeSushi and he was very happy to go there too.
'Maybe…'
OMAKE: PIAYURAN
Gesso played his own composition on the piano. He pressed a wrong note in the middle of the song and couldn't find a melody to cover it, so he started from the start. As he approached that same bar, he pressed the wrong note again. His calm self was fading away. For some reason, he kept pressing the wrong note.
He ate a marshmallow to try and calm himself down.
Wrong note.
"ARGH!" His hands slammed the piano as wings sprouted from his back.
"What was that?"
"Ignore it, ParaJuudaime. It's just Byakuran-san playing the piano."
"Oh…"
Nobody wants to hear excuses so I ain't saying anything. I hope you enjoyed this.
*What he meant was that Iemitsu is not his father since he came from a different universe. Nothing special about that but of course Tsunayoshi thought of a different thing. LLM-san made me notice that. (Arigatou gozaimasu)
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