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Chapter Fifteen

[How are you feeling?]

Mukuro stared at the paper.

[No. Scratch that. Are you okay? You're not cold are you?]

"No." He answered.

[Hungry? Apple? Orange? Cake?]

"Oi Tsuna! Don't tell him cakes! You're the only one craving for that!" Reborn scolded, but the brunet ignored him.

[I'll buy dark chocolate if you want? You can share it with the others.]

Mukuro thought for a moment. "I want a meal."

[Heavy or light?]

"Light."

Tsuna stood up and went for Mukuro's table. He placed it in front of the Mist user before reaching for his bag. Reborn smirked while Mukuro watched as Tsuna pulled a indigo colored lunch box. The brunet placed it on the table with chopsticks before sitting down on his spot awhile ago.

Mukuro stared at the lunch box in front of him before looking back at the younger teen next to him. Certainly, he can almost see Tsuna smiling brightly with that small sparkle in his eyes. For some reason, his savior is really happy to him.

[Eat. Chrome went out to buy you some med.]

"Alone?"

Tsuna shook his head. [Takeshi and Hayato accompanied her.]

"Oh."

[Eat. I won't go until you finish the whole box.]

"Don't mind him." Reborn commented.

[But it's hard not to eat when you came from there.] Tsuna wrote before facing Mukuro again. [Come on. Eat.]

Mukuro took the chopsticks, parted it before taking the lid out of the box. He started eating as Tsuna bickered with Reborn. He was rather entertained with the two. Tsuna's face consort to different negative expression while Reborn either remains stoic or expresses irritation.

He can't figure himself out why he wanted to possess the brunet to free himself. He knows he's good vessel. But to be able to be free by just meeting him is a miracle. Yet still, he can't enter the young teen's mind.

He was already done eating when people started to come in. When the brunet noticed him, he took the box and kept it on his bag again. Then the window opened and Hibari came in. Mukuro only glanced at the raven haired buy who leaned on the wall.

"We're all here." A hoarse voice said.

"Yes, Juudaime." Hayato answered.

"Settle down." All did his command except for those who had already found their places. "Now where do I start?"

"About what, Tsuna?" Takeshi questioned as he adjusted Lambo.

"About four years ago." Tsuna answered as he stared at his hands. He intertwined them. "My parents died in a car accident four years ago. Many came. Family friends and some foreign office mates of Dad. But I didn't see even one relative. I didn't even know why I wasn't given to the orphanage yet. Maybe because of Nono's influence. I was ten when they got me."

"They...?" Ryohei asked.

"Estrano famiglia." Tsuna said in a low voice. "I was walking home when someone took me from behind. I didn't know who was it because I fell asleep. The next moment, I was on a table, strapped on every corner with three people wearing white lab coats surrounding me."

Mukuro's face expressed grim while others listened thoroughly.

"Their head scientist told me what happened. The man who kidnapped me sold me to them for a big sum of money. At first I got scared. Who won't? They were strangers. I was only ten. Then I remembered Kaasan and Tousan aren't alive anymore..." Tsuna tightened his grasp on his own hands. "You can say I gave up on life on that day."

Silence engulfed them for a few seconds before the brunet talked again.

"So then, they started experimenting me. Tweaking me in every corner, injecting me liquids after liquids causing me pain, and something I couldn't comprehend. When I struggle to get out, they punish me. Almost killing me due to blood loss, or putting a knife on my chest, or sides to kill me already. Sometimes, they want to cut my feet so I can't walk anymore. But there are some good ones though. Those who stop the torture so they can continue examining me.

"Days became weeks to months. I concluded that I'm their favorite experiment. They were giddy to know me, see me and ask me things like how are you feeling, what do you feel... I noticed some new faces too. I can recognize each of my scientist. They were my everyday people. Besides, my only rest there was when I fell unconscious due to exhaustion or the liquids they give me, and when I fake my sleep.

"Then there's this one time a pedophile one tried to rape me." Tsuna shook his head as if trying to shake away the memory. "I was screaming and struggling for help. Good thing one of the doctors heard me. Yes. He helped me, but the down side is he killed him right in front of me. He's also the one who tortures me. He lit cigarettes too, and unlit it with my body. He was also the one who tried to destroy my throat but someone else succeeded to do so. He wanted to hear me scream everytime I'm in pain, but I ran out of voice so he destroyed it. But someone finished it off for him cause he gave up on me out of boredom.

"Maybe after six months and two weeks, I ran havoc. They said something about testing me out after I survived and become their perfect experiment. Maybe they got my personality because they killed a little girl in front me. After confirming she died, I killed everyone of them. The last thing I knew, I was covered in blood and the building was on fire." Tsuna sighed heavily as memories flooded in his mind. "I ran away from the place and found myself in the streets of Italy from the story of Tousan."

"That's where I met Tsuna-nii." Lambo whispered.

Tsuna nodded. "When I discovered that I can destroy things with a snap, I tried to kill myself. I tried putting a knife on my chest, using dynamites to kill me, whacking my head on an axe. Many weapons to choose from, many pain to bear. Yet none worked. I discovered that one of their liquids created a steel wall of tissue that protects my insides from any harm from outside.

"When I met Lambo, I stopped for awhile. I couldn't help myself from restraining myself because he's a kid. He needs a good influence to grow into a good child. I said my goodbye after two weeks to return to Japan. And I also returned to my attempts of suicide. When I heard that there's another base of Estrano Mafia somewhere in Italy, I destroyed it, two days before my departure. That's where the Vindice got me."

"How long did you stay there?" Hayato asked.

"They observed me for a week before they put me in for seven months." Tsuna unconsciously trembled slightly. "There were no sound and no things to see. It was my kind of mental torture. In my stay there, all that happened to me replayed on my mind like a movie, no advertisement." Tsuna reached for his hair and gripped them with closed eyes.

"Tsuna." Takeshi called worriedly.

"After my stay there, after they released me on their own, we made a deal. I'll destroy the Estrano Famiglia bases as long as they turn a blind eye on it and detain all the scientists I'll leave alive. A win-win situation. And when I returned here in Japan, I destroyed their base here before I went home. I was planning to go to Russia but some people recognized me and told me to enter school. I did out of their recommendation. But still, I did my best to die until I stopped doing it."

"Then why do you starve a lot? Sleep almost all the time?" Reborn questioned.

Tsuna's grip on his hair tightened. "Sleeping is my way to remember my days with my late parents. I don't eat because they rarely feed me there and I got used to it. Whenever I eat a lot, I get stomach aches and sometimes threw it out with blood. So I sleep my hunger away or eat in a minimize way.

"I keep myself busy with household chores every weekends so I can occupy myself from the silence. I go to school even if I don't want to cause it makes me feel that I'm not alone and the noise keeps me at bay. I like collapsing on the floor out of fatigue because it gives me dreamless sleep."

Tsuna gave a sigh. "I know I'm not a good person. I'm already stained. My hands are stained. I should be staying away from all of you. Especially the innocent ones. You aren't supposed to gather around me nor meet me. I'm not suitable to be your friend nor be your companion at all. Everyday, one of those scientist hunts me down with their men. And I don't want to involve any of you. You're all too precious to me, and I might do something..." Then he stilled before he covered his face with his hands and moaned. "I just told you to stay away and contradicted it that you're too precious to me, didn't I?"

Lambo giggled, Takeshi laughed with Ryohei while Hayato and the other remaining four smiled.

"But I meant what I said." Tsuna lifted his hands and looked at them in the eyes one by one. "I'm dangerous. Hell, I can destroy the world with a bang if something happens that will make me click."

"What can make you click?" Chrome asked.

"I don't really know. What I know is I'm like a ticking bomb. The moment I feel... Something out of my control, I might never stop myself from destroying things."

"So in other words, you don't extremely know how dangerous you are?" Ryohei asked.

Tsuna nodded.

"Then you're not dangerous at all!" Takeshi cheered.

"But Takeshi-"

"Besides, I can't just leave you alone. You saved me and are willing to save me again. It's an enough reason to stay with you. I want to protect you too. May you be dangerous or not, crazy or not, a murderer or not. You're still Tsunayoshi Sawada for me." Takeshi explained.

"Tsuna-nii is Tsuna-nii." Lambo voiced out. "I want to be with you until my birthday and the incoming ones. I want to be with Tsuna-nii when things happens. Tsuna-nii is my brother. So I want to stay with him."

"I don't need to explain. I vowed to be his right-hand man. And as one of his family members, I am willingly committed to be with him for better or for worse." Hayato answered with a smile. "Don't worry Juudaime. I'll control my cigarette intake."

"I-It's just a suggestion, Hayato. No need to follow me if it's hard." Tsuna tried to assure.

"There must be an extreme way to save Sawada." Ryohei thought out loud. "You're also my brother so I'm willing to help you."

Tsuna's eyes watered. He bowed his head. "Thank you."

"No worries. Family is family. And it always come first." Takeshi replied with a gleeful tone.

"Ne Tsuna-nii."

"Yes Lambo?"

"Was there any of the scientist that you got attached to?" Lambo asked.

"You stupid cow!" Hayato yelled.

"What?! It's a logical question, Bakadera!" Lambo shouted back.

"Now now. Don't fight. They'll kick us out of you do. And Tsuna won't like it." Takeshi said, sending a wink on Tsuna's way when he said the brunet's name. Tsuna gave a tiny smile.

Tsuna thought for a sec. "I think I got attached to two people. One is the person who torture me a lot. Not that I like the pain or anything, but he was one of those people who call off the experimentation when he notices that I'm too weak for it, or makes me eat on my own when no one is around. He even asked me what I want to eat sometimes, and buys them when I get sick because of too much injected liquids in a day.

"Then the second person is a scientist who has this green hair with round glasses. I call him Verde because it's the Italian of green. We only talked once. He asked me if I remember every bit of my life before they took me in. When I answered yes, he started to question me. Like what's my name, my current age, my birthday, my home town, and my parents' name. After that day, I didn't see him again."

'Verde?' Reborn thought.

"What about that man who tortured you?" Hibari asked.

"I don't really know where he went. He suddenly disappeared the day before they tested me out."

"So he's not the one who killed the little girl?" Mukuro asked.

"Yes. It was the head scientist, Doctor Bene Canzone. He was the first one I got... You know."

"But why can't I enter your mind?" Mukuro asked, a ting of frustration is heard on his voice. "It's protected."

"You can't?" Tsuna asked before sighing in relief. "It's better not to enter it, Mukuro-san. What's inside here is far worse than I'm telling you."

Everyone shivered except for the stoic ones.

"Ah I remembered something." Tsuna exclaimed as he faced the mist user, clapped his hands together and bowed his head as an apology. "I'm so sorry. I know you'll be angry about this."

Mukuro's and Chrome's brows furrowed in worry.

"What is it?" Mukuro asked.

"You see, Bermuda-san-"

'Did he just said the Vindice boss's name casually?' Mukuro thought.

"-only agreed to free you if you... Well..."

"If I become part of a mafia." Mukuro supplied.

Tsuna started to rub his hands together, making others laugh. "Yes. And I'm so sorry. I tried to reason out that you hate mafia but Reborn told Bermuda-san that he'll take care of it. Reborn works with the Vongola. And I think they're really kind, yet rowdy. They won't restrict you of anything you do as long as you don't break their rules. Just bend them a little and you'll be good. Is it okay?"

"I don't work to them, Baka." Reborn corrected as he swung Leon mallet but the brunet dodged it.

"I said with. I didn't say to nor in. Sheesh. You told me you're a freelancer and judging with your personality, I can tell that they're scared of you." Tsuna retorted.

"And what do you mean bend the rules and don't break them? When did you learn that?"

"From you?"

Tsuna shrieked and jumped over Mukuro's bed when Leon turned into a gun. The brunet went behind Hibari who smirked at Reborn's grim expression. Tsuna peeked at Reborn's way and gave an apologizing look.

"I was kidding. Please don't take away my soup." Tsuna begged.

"Soup?" Mukuro whispered to Chrome.

Chrome nodded. "He likes Reborn-san's soup. What I heard is it's the reason why he started to eat properly."

"No. I'm not making it." Reborn clipped.

Tsuna's expression fell. "Then I'm not eating too."

"You are going to eat and that's final."

Tsuna's eyes sparkled, his dull brown eyes became half-way brown in delight. "Then you're making some soup."

"How dense can you be?"

"When your soup is the topic?" Tsuna answered as he went over to Mukuro. "You want some soup? Reborn makes the best soup in the world."

"Oi-"

"He's kind too! And he likes to threaten me a lot but it's for my own good."

"You just badmouthed me and praised me in one sentence, Baka."

"And he's a great help most of the time. His partner Leon slept with us once!"

"Sleep with us?" Mukuro questioned.

Tsuna blinked. "Ah. I should've said that."

"Something extremely happened." Ryohei pointed out. "Tell us to the extreme, Sawada. No more secrets."

"I laid beside Mukuro after all of you went out. That's all. I got jealous that he was sleeping peacefully with five blankets so I tested it out."

'But it was hot on that day.' All of them thought.

Tsuna tipped his head to his right. "Is it bad?"

"Kufufufu~ It will be if you do it again." Mukuro laughed.

'Yehey! He's back to normal!' Tsuna praised with an external nod. "Okay. I won't do it again."

Reborn stared at the talkative brunet. He can feel the faint release of strong sky flame from Tsuna that harmonizes with the others' flames. Even Hibari is being pulled in the circle. The boy is already strong, a little more push and training, he can exceed his limit and become far more stronger than anyone.

Reborn was just watching them when in a flash, Tsuna punched Hibari. The latter stumbled backward, stunned at the attack. Tsuna was waving his hand everywhere in pain.

"What was that extremely for?" Ryohei asked as he stood on Hibari's side.

"That was for being careless. Ow. It hurts." Tsuna moaned as he shakes his hand. "I want to scold you for attacking alone again. But knowing you, you won't listen so I punched you instead. Besides, I don't need to explain why I did it. You already got it anyway. But it really hurts. Please excuse me, I need to go to Shamal-san for some ice."

They watched as Tsuna went for the door. Hayato immendiately followed him while the others stayed. They got the silent message but the Italian bomber is hardheaded not to follow. They all looked at Hibari who aimed a tonfa towards the smirking Mukuro. The air was filled with tension because of the two.

Reborn shook his head. He can already see the future of Vongola with the Cloud guardian and the potential mist guardian. Surely, Tsuna will cry with the amount of paper work he'll do.

"Ok. No extreme fighting." Ryohei said but the two didn't stop. "That's it."

Ryohei put a hand on both's heads and banged their foreheads together. Both groaned in pain as they backed away from each other. Takeshi gave out a loud crackle while Lambo giggled. Ryohei arranged the wrap on his hand and looked at the two.

"I want to extremely know what you think of Sawada's extreme situation. And don't fight to the extreme. If what Yamamoto extremely told me was true, Sawada is stronger than the two of you." Ryohei said.

"Chrome and I will survey the area using our illusion." Mukuro answered as he rubbed his sore spot. "Kufufufu. You're going to pay for this Ryohei Sasagawa."

"Hn. I'll patrol." Hibari answered.

"I'll extremely come with you." Ryohei volunteered. Hibari was going to say something when he cut him off. "You don't want to face Sawada's anger, Hibari. He's extremely mad at you for three weeks."

Hibari raised an eyebrow.

"He was. Didn't you notice that he won't spar with you when you invite him? He also eats in the classroom. He told us that he doesn't want to eat at the rooftop for the meantime." Takeshi supplied with a full teasing grin. "I advise you apologize. Tsuna holds grudges you know. Especially when you broke something you promised."

"I'll bite you to death." Hibari threatened and was about to attack but Ryohei got him.

"Extreme no!" The boxer restraint.

"Maa Hibari-sempai. You won't want to lose a sparring partner, will you?"

Glaring, Hibari brought down his tonfas. "Hn."

"Lambo-sama wants candies!" Lambo cried.

Chrome searched her pockets before taking out some candies. "Here Lambo-sama."

"Nyahahaha! Candies!" Lambo cheered as he took the sweets. "Thank you Chrome-nee."

"You're welcome." Chrome said with a nod.

Reborn tilted his hat. 'I need to tell him already.'