A/N:
Ek. This came out short.
A little heads up, I may or may not be able to update that regularly during the holidays. I'll try my best.
Thank you for the reviews too! Your tears are my happiness. Hahaha.
Anyway, go on.
Chapter Eighteen
A merry laugh was heard in the room. All students looked at the source to see three people arguing and teasing each other. Tsuna was laughing with Takeshi as Hayato kept his scowl yet a suppressed smirk is almost seen.
Some blinked in surprise, other rubbed their eyes. It was their first time seeing the lifeless Tsuna laugh with his eyes full of brightness. It's almost a dream.
"Maa it was just a joke Hayato." Tsuna tried to negotiate as the bomber tried to grab Takeshi.
"Let me go, Juudaime. I'll grind that stupid baseball freak-"
"Nope! Not gonna happen!" Takeshi laughed.
"I'll-"
"Now now." Tsuna tried to stop only to laugh more.
The door opened and the prefect of Namimori entered. He has a gauze on his right cheek and a swollen bruise on his right jaw. The whole room quieted while the three kept on doing what they're doing.
Kyouya narrowed his eyes at three. Sensing the glare, the three looked at his direction. He raised a brow when the three looked at each other before Tsuna and Takeshi raced to his direction. They were pulling each other as they laugh out loud. Sighing, he snapped a tonfa out and hit the two on top of their heads when they neared him enough.
"Herbivore, what happened?" Kyouta asked Hayato.
Hayato smirked. "Why can't you be happy? They were excited to see you."
Kyouya glared at him. "Do you want me to bite you to death, herbivore?"
"You already had your fill with that pineapple. I'll do the other part after you recover."
"You're saying I'm a herbivore?" The skylark threatened. The room temperature dropped drastically, making every student sweat drop in fear.
'Stop it already Gokudera!' All of them begged mentally.
"Kyouya! Reborn told me to tell you that-" The brunet neared him and whispered things. The skylark nodded every ones in a while before smirking. They saw Tsuna frown. "I don't like that smirk."
"Hn." Kyouya said as he left.
"Did I understand that as 'I'll bite the death of you stupid herbivore'?" Takeshi translated.
Tsuna stared at the baseball star. "You understand Kyouya Language?"
"A little."
Hayato palmed his forehead. "This people. And who are you calling stupid you idiot skylark?!"
"Maa Kyouya meant that."
"Juudaime!" Hayato exaggerated making Tsuna grin.
"Kidding, Hayato. Let's go. I'll treat you some bread."
Takeshi swung an arm on Hayato's shoulder and did the same to Tsuna. "Let's go!"
Just as they went out, the bell rang. The students looked at each other. Some were on their phones texting their other friends what they witnessed. Other students went out of their rooms to see it for themselves as the three walk by.
Tsuna kept on trying to calm the Italian down as he yelled at the baseball star. Hayato is torn between obeying Tsuna and tying a lot of dynamites into Takeshi's body so he can explode. Takeshi just laughed and teased the two. And then they heard a loud 'extreme' far from them making Hayato more irritated while the sky and the rain looked at each other.
Everything became rowdy when Ryohei joined the party.
The four of them stopped on their tracks when they saw a lot of mafiosi outside the residence. Hayato and Takeshi went in front of Tsuna while Ryohei held a hand on his arm. Eyes sharp, no more playfulness present. Tsuna felt himself searching for any alert sign. His intuition isn't flaring anything.
The four tensed up when the house door opened. Fuuta went out of the compound and looked left and right until he spotted them. He waved at their direction and motioned them to come. The four looked at each other before they nodded and followed the young brunet's order.
"Tsuna-nii!" Fuuta cheered as he hugged Tsuna. "Welcome home!"
The older brunet smiled softly. "I'm home, Fuuta."
"Hey Fuuta!" Takeshi greeted as he tousled the boy's hair. "How's school?"
"Good! Lambo is helping me with some of my assignments."
Hayato's brows raised. "That stupid cow?"
"Is your extreme brother. So of course he's extreme smart." Ryohei seconded as he smiled at Fuuta. "Extreme Fuuta."
"Extreme Ryohei-nii!"
"Let's go inside?" Tsuna asked.
"Yes!" Fuuta responded as he walked alongside with Tsuna inside the circle. "Reborn has visitors."
"Ah. The Cavallone?" Tsuna asked.
"The bucking horse." Hayato supplied, taking the others' attention. "He's Reborn-san's previous student before Juudaime."
"Then I extremely guess that he's extreme strong too! He must join the boxing club!" Ryohei cheered.
"Shut up Turf top! Not all people are interested in the boxing club!"
"Maa. Don't argue. Reborn won't like it."
Tsuna chuckled at this and smiled as he opened the door. "We're home."
The others smiled at the term Tsuna used before saying the same thing.
"Tsuna-nii!" Lambo and Ipin cooed as they ran to him.
"Kids like Tsuna a lot." Takeshi pointed out.
"Because Tsuna-nii likes us too!" Fuuta reasoned out.
"Let me in first." Tsuna said between laughs. "Go attack your other nii-sans. I'll greet Bianchi first."
"Oh shit! I forgot Aneki is here!" Hayato muttered under his breath.
"Just close your eyes before you can even see her. I told you right? As long as you don't see her face, you'll survive." Takeshi advised as he took Ipin in his arms. "Hey there girl."
"Takeshi-nii!"
"I have an extreme gift for you, Ipin." Ryohei said as he pulled out a small stuffed toy from his bag. "I extremely asked Kyoko to make it."
Ipin's eyes sparkled in interest as she stared at a Fon look alike stuff toy she had in her hands. "Thank you Ryohei-nii!"
"No problem." Ryohei answered back.
"Bakadera! To the living room!" Lambo ordered as he settled himself comfortably in Hayato's arms.
"Stupid cow." The bomber grumbled but followed the order.
While the others went for the living room, Tsuna helped Bianchi serve some snacks for their visitors. He hasn't asked who are they but he got the gist that there are three of them.
He has the cups while Bianchi has the sweets. Bianchi went out first while Tsuna followed. He heard Reborn's voice, a happy one, a female grunt then a calm one. He settled the cups next to the sweets in the table before he looked at the four people inside his living room.
Reborn noticed Tsuna. He stared at the brunet, looking for any discreet expression. And he only came up with a curious expression.
"This is Tsuna." Reborn introduced to the others. "He's the owner of the house and the Vongola Decimo. Also the sky of those four."
"So you're Tsuna?" Lal asked.
"Lal Mirch?" Tsuna cautiously said.
"I am Lal Mirch."
The woman has a indigo colored hair. She was wearing a brown cloak with a metal ape head on her right shoulder, a googles on her head and a headphone. Tsuna can see bandages here and there.
"Nice to finally meet you." Tsuna greeted with a nod.
"Nice to hear you're not stuttering anymore." Lal replied back making Tsuna wince.
"Sorry about that. I have some issues back then." Tsuna apologized.
"Don't scare him, Lal." Reborn reprimanded.
"I am not. And it's a pleasure to meet him. I want to train him."
"Sorry." Tsuna got their attentions. "My tutor is Reborn."
This made the two grown up surprised.
"A-Are you sure?" A blond man asked.
Tsuna nodded. "He told me. Might as well learn from him. I'm Tsunayoshi Sawada. Nice to meet you..."
"Dino." The blond said. "Dino Cavallone."
Tsuna stared at him. The blond man has a shaggy hair and wearing a winter coat. He can sense the calmness in him although fear is present because of a certain hitman who's sitting beside him.
"Kora! I'm Colonnello!" Another blonde with a military head band said.
Tsuna stared at him. The man is wearing a dark green military clothes with blue undershirt. He can see the peeking rifle leaning on the rest of the couch by the back. He blinked his eyes and hummed as he thought.
"Rain." Tsuna said. "Colonnello-san is like Takeshi. He's also a rain."
"Tranquil?" Reborn asked with a brow raised.
Tsuna nodded before smiling at them. "Please continue your discussion. I think my room will explode if I don't get there now."
Reborn smirked. "Go. Takeshi's power will only rile up Hayato."
"Yes yes. And stop scaring Dino-san. He had enough of your tutorturing. I'm the next in line, you focus your sadism on me." Tsuna chirped as he went for the stairs.
"I am not. It's a reflex to scare him." Reborn defended.
Tsuna hummed as his smile softened. "My soup?"
"Later."
Reborn saw the small fist pump Tsuna made before the brunet disappeared into the hallway. They all heard a loud call of 'Tsuna' before a big 'thud' followed then laughter ranged. The others looked at the source of the noise before looking at Reborn who was sipping his coffee.
"Tsuna knows things about the mafia." Reborn informed. 'It's obvious he made this espresso.' "Although inexperienced, he can defend himself well with his hyper intuition."
"But he looks weak." Dino pointed out.
"You can call him weak all you want. But he can destroy a mafia with just him." Reborn proudly gloated. "And to tell you, he was only eleven when he did that."
"That's amazing Kora!" Colonnello praised.
"But what took you so long? You could've already tortured the kid." Lal questioned.
"I said it before, Tsuna is fragile. He experienced a lot of things we cannot imagine. And it's only been days since he started smiling and laughing." Reborn's aura turned dark. "The kid suffered three years of solitude. Seeing him happy now is just the beginning of his merry future."
Colonnello's expression turned sullen. "Why do I have this feeling that he'll break once I tell him something negative, Kora?"
"He will." Reborn replied. "He's breakable than a flower. Or any soft things you can think of. But his mentality is strong too, as long as he has something he wants to fight for. That's his dying will."
"You've grown fond of him, Kora!" Colonnello commented.
"Yeah." Dino agreed. "Almost like you're his guardian or something."
"You said something Baka-Dino?"
Dino shook his head abruptly. "N-No!"
"Enough of Tsunayoshi." Lal interrupted. "What are you going to do? Varia will be here in a few weeks and you haven't trained the Decimo well."
"I have the half rings." Dino notified as he put a box in the table. "Basil gave them to me."
"I'll need to talk to them." Reborn murmured to himself.
"Don't worry, we'll help you train the other guardians." Lal assured, a smirk on her lips.
"Please Lal, Kora. These are kids. They can't handle military training, Kora."
Lal glared at Colonnello. "I know that, Baka. Don't tell me things."
The Military blonde nodded as he sweat under the lady's gaze. "No more words."
"I'll take one too." Dino said.
Reborn smirked. "I'll give you three."
Dino gulped. 'This is not good.'
That evening, Lal and Colonnello bid goodbyes to Tsuna and returned to the Vongola Mansion, despite his persuasion for them to stay. If only he knows how hard for them to resist him. While Dino did stay without his men. Although the blond assured them that he'll be fine, his men were still reluctant to go.
Tsuna can't stop chuckling every time Dino falls down on his face or bums. He kept on tripping over flat surfaces. Reborn wanted to smack the blond's head upside down but he can't, due to Tsuna being already on this previous student's side and the kids crowding around him too.
At the moment, Tsuna is blow drying Enzo. The turtle partner of Dino. He absorbs water like sponge but Tsuna was able to stop the turtle from growing after noticing that the turtle is already arm length. Next to him is Dino, watching him focus intently on the task.
Dino can't put a word on Tsuna. Although the brunet is very cheerful, he has this disturbing feeling that the brunet is incomplete yet. Like there's something missing in him.
"What's the matter, Dino-san?" Tsuna asked as he pets Enzo's head.
"I noticed something." Dino stated.
"Hmm?" Tsuna hummed in query.
"Why are you sad?" Dino asked directly.
Tsuna's smile dropped slowly as his eyes became sad. "I'm not that sad, am I?"
"Partly. You're like half and half. Half happy, half sad."
Tsuna gave a soft smile. "I'm just missing my other family members, that's all."
"Is it?"
Tsuna nodded. "I miss Takeshi, Hayato, Ryohei-nii, Kyouya, Mukuro and Chrome. There's also Kaasan and Tousan. Though the latter two already passed."
Dino smiled. "You really like them, don't you?"
"I do!" Tsuna beamed. "Although we just met just four or five months ago, it feels like we've known each other for a long time."
The two kept on talking inside the bathroom. Unknown to them, Reborn was just outside, leaning on the wall and listening to them.
Tsuna was reading his lessons when his door opened. He glanced at his visitor before closing his notebook and turning off his lamp. He faced Reborn and stared at the hitman who scowled at him.
"What? No smile for me?" Reborn demanded.
Tsuna chuckled before smiling. "You're here to see me off to dreamland?"
"As promised."
Tsuna nodded. "But you're still going to talk to Dino. You don't need to accompany me."
"That stupid can wait."
Tsuna shook his head. "He's not stupid you know. I admire how he keeps his family safe and secure. Despite his clumsiness, he's still a boss who can take care of his family, and keep them safe too."
"You're too soft."
"Won't want to meet the rough Tsuna." Tsuna sang as he transferred to his bed. "He clams up and never speaks. He glares like the angry light and gives a cold vibes. People thought he's good to pick at, but believe me he's not."
"What are you singing?" Reborn asked as Tsuna pulled his blanket up to his neck.
Tsuna grinned at him innocently. "Nothing. Good night, Reborn."
Reborn sighed as he sat down by his foot. "Yeah. Good night, Tsuna."