Decided to re-edit this chapter because it took me one day to write the whole chapter while I was sleep deprived. Yeah staying up 2 in the morning does that to me. I will someday go back into my chapters and do the same or more, as well to this one. For now just enjoy the plot so far.
Chapter 14: Two Extremes and Father Talk
The sun was setting and Tsuna felt like he had another lifetime of knowing his Guardian's during their childhood. He knew that Gokudera, Chrome, and Mukuro, would be in Italy during this time so it was impossible to see what they were doing. Now that he was thinking about them, he remembered them sharing part of their sad past… well most were told indirect… but all the same in descriptive narrating.
Mukuro would be in the Estraneo Famiglia being tormented by illegal experimentation with many other kids like Ken and Chikusa. Chrome was probably with her uncaring parents and no friends. Then there was Gokudera, who was facing the truth and death anniversary of his real mother… not to mention the beginning of Bianchi-Phobia stage.
If he decided to fly over to Italy now and save them it would only affect the future and they would probably never be the kind of people he knew in his teen life. It was cruel, but he knew that they would make through it. After all it brought them together, though Mukuro still denies that he was following him for anything else besides the possession of Tsuna's body.
"I think I'm going insane," Tsuna said to himself when he realized he liked Mukuro the way he was. He looked up at the pinkish sky, "Better get home before it gets dark otherwise Kaa-san will be wondering where 'Tsu-kun' and 'Tsuyo-kun' is."
With a sigh he continued down the familiar streets of Namimori only to stop across a bridge. Alarms were flaring in his head when he heard yells and sounds of a fight by the grassy creak. Leaning over the edge of the railing he squinted through the dimming sunlight for the brawl. It didn't take long to see a few teens' violent motions on something relatively small… It didn't take much to figure what.
However it was when he caught sight of a little girl being held by the arm and crying towards the trio viciously lashing attacks one after another did Tsuna snapped.
Carefully looking around for any other people watching, except for the distant Reborn observing on some roof and the low population of people around in the late afternoon, he looked down from the railing to calculate the drop. Agilely he jumped over the rail and did a double roll upon landing to allow the shock to be absorbed before he started for a run towards the group of boys.
The first to go out was the boy with the girl who, he supposed, was the hostage for whoever was being beaten upon. With a loud thump the trio that was doing the attacks stopped to see only a brown blur before they too blacked out. The crying girl had ceased crying and had watched the whole event unfold stared at Tsuna in shock.
Dusting off his pants he turned towards object that the trio was attacking. He stopped short when he saw white hair and a familiar face bruised and bloody thanks to a gash on his eyebrow. During his moment of shock the crying girl must have regained her senses as she ran towards the beaten white-haired boy with tears streaming from her amber eyes.
"Onii-chan!" she kept yelling shaking the young boy. Tsuna stared at the two kids he knew so well.
"Kyoko… Ryohei…?"
"K-Kyo…ko…." a strained voice came from the boy breaking the young boss's daze spell.
"Onii-chan… I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" young Kyoko cried as one of the brother's silver eyes looked up at her with a small smile, weakly reaching to pat her head. Though Tsuna was not a medical expert he knew that Ryohei had to be taken to the hospital quickly with his eye going in and out of focus as well as the amount of blood that was flowing from several wounds. And as luck would have it, the closest hospital was only ten minutes run from where they were.
Not a moment of hesitation he tapped little Kyoko on the shoulder startling her as if she just realized he was there. "Come on we need to take your nii-san to the hospital," he said softly. She bit her lip looking at him then to her brother on the floor watching the whole scene. When she finally looked back at Tsuna she nodded her head making him smile. Quickly he turned his back towards her, "Hold on to my back so that I can hold your brother." She didn't need to be told twice as she did just that. Once he was sure she was secured he gently yet hastily put his hands under the young Ryohei and lifted.
Doing a double check on the two passengers (Kyoko wrapping tightly around his neck; Ryohei in his arms) he closed his eyes and inhaled deeply, focusing for his Dying will flames to ignite. Snapping his eyes open he started running down the streets towards the hospital.
With Reborn
The hitman watched the scene, scribbling a few more notes about Tsuna's keen senses and quick display of ambush. When he was finished with the precautions he went back to observing the contemplating brunette he had come across the bullies on the creek side. He was about to get the tired Leon from his hat but didn't get even a chance when all of them were on the floor with the brunette standing in the middle. But the moment he walked closer to the bloody boy Tsuna stopped a few feet away. From what he could tell from the body movement and facial expression Tsuna also knew the two kids; the boy bloody and the girl crying over him.
"My, you have a lot of friends your meeting today Tsuna-kun… hmm?" he zoomed closer when Tsuna crouched down with the girl on his back and the boy in his arms with his face concentrating. Then he saw the flames lighting on the boy's forehead. It was small but he could tell that the purity of the flame was past 'A' level as it waivered fiercely. His eyes widened even more when the brunette's eyes opened with calm orange tints in the chocolate brown irises.
And immediately, the three was dashing down the streets towards, to what he assumed, was to the hospital. He looked down at his book already filled to the middle. With satisfaction and curls going up his lips he got up, jumping down from the house with ease, and started for the other direction, "I think anymore would ruin the other surprises the kid has. When we finally meet Tsuna, I hope I'll enjoy the training session with you. Until then…"
…..
Tsuna and Kyoko sat in the waiting room of the hospital… to be more precise, Tsuna was caring for a sleeping five-year-old Kyoko who had cried herself to sleep. He couldn't blame her with her brother being admitted into the ER after a good beating from some teens, which he was sure to have called the authorities to clean up at their current resting place and take them to the detention center. Anyways, if he didn't knock those guys out he would have been sure that Reborn would have either kidnapped them or put in a torture chamber… or something even worse.
The brunette shivered at the thought of them going through the same training as he did. At least he didn't have to worry now since the hitman had decided to leave.
Suddenly the door to the waiting room opened and he looked up to pair of disheveled parents. The woman, a head shorter than the man, had the same color of hair and eyes as Kyoko's. Actually with her short hair, comparing 20-years-later Kyoko who has long hair looks exactly alike with her summer dress on and everything. As for the man… well let's just say he looked like Knuckles from the Primo's Generation.
Yes… by now, it was impossible to not see the relationship between the Tenth Guardians to the Primo Guardians. Even Nono was surprised when he found out that all of the guardians were descendent of the Founders and were working, in some way, to the Vongola.
That put aside, Tsuna couldn't help but laughed nervously when he saw the murderous glares from the two aimed towards him. He could have run; but doing that would wake Kyoko so he just sat in his seat as they walked…umm… stomped towards him.
It didn't even take them a second for the mother to pick up their daughter, who was stirring awake, and an oncoming punch from the father.
"Ah, wait Sasagawa-san! That young man brought your children here!" the nurse yelled stopping the man from his tracks a millimeter away from the blinking Tsuna. With a sigh of relief the young nurse walked towards them.
"Kaa-san, Tou-san…" Kyoko mumbled weakly, rubbing the dust off her eyes with a bandaged hand. Then she looked at Tsuna, her parents, and then to the nurse and doctor who just entered… Her brown eyes quickly widening, remembering the events before she fell asleep. She struggled out of her arms, which was obliged or she would have fallen, and ran to the doctor. "Onii-chan… is he alright!" she desperately asked gripping onto the scrub.
The doctor smiled and knelt down to her, "Your Onii-san is alright Kyoko-chan." He then looked up at the parents, staying where he was as a reassurance to the young girl, "He's not in any danger. Just a little banged up. He did have a deep cut on his eyebrow which we had to stich up, but otherwise no other wounds on him that would jeopardize his life." The parents sighed releasing the tension in their body that they held in. Kind black eyes looked back down at the crying Kyoko, "And he's awake and wants to see you."
She looked up in a bright gleam. Wiping her tears she took the hand of the nurse and was taken to the room.
Tsuna released the breath he was holding in, relived that the child Sun Guardian wasn't hurt that badly; though it was to be expected when he already heard about the damage from the stories. He looked up remembering he wasn't alone but was surprised to see the two parents kowtowing on the floor.
"We're so extremely sorry young man!" the father yelled surprising Tsuna at the volume.
"Now I know where the EXTREME phrase came from."
The father looked up in a tearful expression, which was strange for someone who looked like his great-great…. Whatever ancestor, "I almost extremely hit you! We will treat you to something as an apology!"
"I-It's okay… uhh… S-Sasagawa-san," Tsuna ushered trying to get the two of them back up, "(Definitely glad that Reborn isn't here. Otherwise he would have killed me for going back to stuttering.) I-I'm just glad that Ryo… uhh… your son is alright."
"No we have to repay our debts!" the mother also yelled tearfully. An idea must have struck her as she rummaged through her purse and pulled it out. She took Tsuna's hand and pushed what looked like tickets into his hand, "You can have these Premium Tickets to the newly made Kokuyo Land!"
"Eh, I went through a lot of trou- ite!" the father yelled in pain when the mother pinched him.
"Umm… t-thank you," Tsuna accepted knowing fully well that these tickets were something he couldn't refused or he, meaning his five-year-old self, and his parents would never have gone there and he would have no clue where they would have been going during his adventures of when it was abandoned to defeat, as well as meet, Mukuro when he was fifteen.
"Sasagawa-san let's go see your son," the doctor said which they complied.
Tsuna sighed again when he exited the hospital. Stretching his arms he looked up at the night sky full of stars. The cool breeze felt good on his skin. With one last look at the hospital he smiled and started walking towards home…
"Wait a minute…" he stopped slowly looked back at the night sky, "If it's dark out then that means… ah crap Tou-san is so going to have my head!" Using all his strength he ran towards his home knowing that he will have a full lecture when he gets in.
…..
"… what would have happened if something happened?" Young Nana lectured with arms crossed against her chest, narrowing brown eyes looking down at the two Tsuna's (though the young was only and illusion and the older Tsuna is disguised again as Tsuyo) sitting in seiza pose looking down miserably.
Tsuna… Tsuyo and cheerful illusion Tsuna… had gotten back at the same time as the parents, returning from the wedding of a friend. The father only smiled apologetically knowing fully well which Tsuna really was but couldn't intervene otherwise it would cause mass panic for Nana and a very long explanation of what is going on.
"Gomen-nasai…" the two said in unison. Nana sighed and patted Tsuyo on the head before going down to pick up Tsuna off the floor with a smile.
"I'm glad you two understand… don't ever stay out this late again…" she said tickling the giggling Tsuna, "Otherwise you will make Kaa-chan worry." She looked back down at Tsuyo who was still on the floor, envying the child-play… something he misses.
Nana feeling the emotion within the young man did another kind smile, and patted his head thinking the look he was giving her was loss of a mother at a young age. Tsuna (Tsuyo) blinked back into reality feeling the hand on his head and looked back into his mother's eyes. "But I'm glad that you two didn't get hurt," she said softly, "For some reason I feel like I have two sons here."
"Ahahaha… that's-" he didn't finish when a growl came from both of their stomachs surprising everyone. Sheepishly he laughed rubbing the back of his head with one hand, "We didn't really eat since we were having so much fun exploring."
Both Nana and Iemitsu laughed and the two Tsuna's followed suit.
"I'll make something for the both of you to eat," she said wiping the cheer tear off of her eyes, putting down little Tsuna, and grabbing her apron, putting it over her summer dress, "It won't do if you went to bed hungry."
"Thank you… Kaa-san," at the end he added softly knowing she wouldn't catch it before he walked over to her and started helping despite her protest. He won in the end and began making food as quickly as her; bring her emotions up to a cheer along with the illusion child Tsuna.
Iemitsu, however, heard the soft words closing his eyes with a frown. Walking out of the porch of the backyard he eyed the night sky illuminating with a full moon and stars. He didn't even realize how much time had passed until Tsuna (taking off the illusion that was on him) was next to him when a plate of croquettes pushed in front of his vision. He looked over to his son, who was munching on one quickly. Gently he took the plate and set it in between them.
"Where's Nana?" Iemitsu asked him as he took a bite of one of the croquettes.
"Went into the bath with Tsuna," he answered eating his second one. Silence fell over them as they gazed at the night sky until he broke the silence again, "Is something the matter Tou-san? You seem deep in thought to the point of not feeling my presence at all."
"I… Tsuna…" he stopped with a sigh not sure what to say.
"Say it… though I'm not sure I can answer though," Tsuna answered as his intuition told him it was going to concern something about the future.
Iemitsu locked his gaze with the other for a moment before speaking, "Do you… like being Boss, Tsuna…? I mean as one of the Mafia's most powerful leader… holding power that no one ever has…" Tsuna blinked in confusion as he continued on, "I know the history of the Vongola began as a group for the weak, but it's changed into a bloody hell-hole… It takes away your time for family and friends… It's a dangerous job…I'm just wondering if you… I don't know… hate it…"
At first there was silence, then a snort and on to a full on laugh.
"Oi, I'm being serious son!" the father yelled, blushing slightly, not understanding a single bit of what was so funny.
"No… I know…" Tsuna said in between laughs as he wiped a tear away, "It's just that I never saw you so serious except for that… uhh… never-mind…" he stopped to look at his father with a warm smile, "I can't say I love it… but I don't hate it either."
"Yeah it's dangerous, but don't worry I'm changing it," he laid back and looked back at the sky, "But because of the dangerous things I've gathered so many people that I can trust and depend on. Friends, allies, comrades…uhh… a crazy hitman," Iemitsu and Tsuna sweat-dropped, knowing the fedora wearer, "you and Kaa-san… we all became closer and became a huge Family… (Though I wish the Guardian's didn't make a mess everywhere they go…)" Tsuna sighed hoping nothing had happened back at his time with Byakuran on the loose. He got back up again and smiled brightly at his father who was staring back astonishingly at him, "So don't worry… everything in the future is fine… It's a future that you and the Primo Famiglia would be proud of…"
"I guess I'm worrying about nothing then," Iemitsu said feeling the weight lift off of his shoulders and he laid down the same way Tsuna did before.
"Is that all that you wanted to ask?" Tsuna asked in confusion looking down at him, "I thought it was something more serious."
"Sorry to disappoint you," he said with a smile and with that they both laughed until Nana called.
"Tsuyo-kun… Iemitsu… the bath is open now! I'm taking Tsu-kun to bed!"
"Alright!" the husband called out as he got up, "Well I better get a soak, this suit is getting stuffy," Iemitsu said finishing another croquette, walking towards the bathroom.
"What… Aren't you supposed to let guests go in first!" Tsuna protested getting up only to be tugged down again. He looked at his shirt being pinned down by a small needle, "Ah! That's not fair!" he yelled looking up at the receding father.
"Goes to show you have a long ways to go before you can catch up to me~," he sung closing the door to the bathroom.
With another pout Tsuna laid back onto the porch looking up at the night sky again with hands behind his head. Slowly a smile creeped up his lips realizing how much had been done that he had made it to this point. Eyes feeling heavy he allowed his lids to slip closed as he listened to the breeze drifting him to sleep.
Caiossu! How's everyone doing!
This is an extreme chapter! But I must say that I made this to only have Kyoko's side of the story if Tsuna was transported to that timeframe of when Ryohei got the scar on his left eyebrow. Then there is the conversation with the father… it's really not all that funny but I hope you understand the sentimental part.
Anyways I hoped everyone enjoyed this chapter!
Now onto chibi-Tsuna's part!
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Tsuna: Reborn! Where did he go now…?
Reborn appears from behind with a book: You called?
Tsuna: HIIIEE!
Reborn kicks him in the stomach as punishment for making the noise
FXF91: Oi what's going on!
Tsuna clutching stomach: H-He…
FXF91 shaking the unconscious boy: Tsuna?
Reborn: don't worry about him…
FXF91: What the heck did you do?
Reborn: nothing…
FXF91: That's definitely a lie…
Reborn takes out Leon-gun: you were saying…
FXF91 looking down at Tsuna: Umm… nothing… but why was he looking for you?
Reborn is silent then kicks Tsuna until he woke up: What did you want?
FXF91 sweat-dropped: Now he's curious…
Tsuna holding bruised cheeks: K-Kaa-san made… food…
FXF91: He passed out again.
Reborn comes back with a plate of croquettes
FXF91 wants one but had somehow been pinned down with hooked needles: Hey share!
Reborn holds it away and pulls out Leon-gun again this time pointing: Did you finish the other Fanfics?
FXF91: …. No?
Reborn eats another one: then no way am I giving you any until you finish it.
FXF91: Eh! But that will take forever!
Reborn: That's why you start on it now!
FXF91 crying then sees Adult Tsuna in distance: Adult Tsuna, give me some croquettes!
Adult Tsuna yells across the room: Sorry, I agree with Reborn!
FXF91: Ah! So mean… FINE I'll Work on the fic by myself….Though that's kind of impossible with the current rates going down.
Reborn fires a round: work!
FXF91: Gomen-nasai I'm working!
