A/N:
@Hina-cchi: Even if it's against my will cause I'm currently writing my other fanfic, I still wrote a S27 omake. HAHAHA! No prob though. It wasn't a pressure. I had fun doing the omake. And it's nice that you liked the chapter. Thank you for reading all this way.
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Thank you for the reviews! So who requested for PridexTsuna again? Hahaha! And nope. Until we reach epilogue (which is a chapter more before that), the story is still on. Really. Thank you for reading all the way here, for all the reviews, favorites and follows. You, people, are AWESOME.
So here's another chapter. A little shaky since the transition of worlds is pretty hard to do. Hahaha. Well, circumstances wise. Try guessing who are the Sins in here. Hahaha. Just a little game to keep you from thinking that the story is... Well, you know.
Anyway, go on! Don't mind me here!
Chapter Sixty-Four
(New world; Year 20XX)
"Tsunayoshi Sawada!"
A brunet slammed the door shut behind him and stalked the hallways with his impassive look. Running a hand on his short hair, he hoisted his book bag higher on his shoulder and started to descend the stairs. He was by the ground floor when he saw the demon prefect of Namimori.
Brown eyes met greyish purple ones.
"Tsunayoshi." Kyouya Hibari acknowledged with a side of his lip quirking for a small smirk. "Skipping again?"
"Blame it on Arato." Tsunayoshi Sawada growled. "She goes on and on about being a good student. Didn't you report to her how many times her perfect students made contact with your tonfas?"
"Nope. But still counting." The noiret shook his head.
The brunet rolled his eyes before walking for the shoe lockers. "I'm going home. Tell Nezu-sensei that I'll attend his class."
"That's your last class." The prefect pointed out while watching him pull out his shoes and replace them with his indoors. "Kurokawa will scold you again."
"I know. And I know." He pulled the back of his right shoe to slip in his heel. "It will be all worth it. If Enma and Kensuke search for me, tell them ask Arato."
"What about the bullies?"
Tsunayoshi looked back to the prefect with a smile. "Hunting week is getting nearer."
He left behind a cackling prefect. Tsunayoshi mused how his friend is becoming crazier every passing day. Maybe introducing Kyouya to Mukuro and Chrome was a bad idea after all.
He looked around the Namimori neighborhood after exiting the school ground. Still as it is since he never left the town anyway. People come and go while he doesn't. Even his parents and grandpa do, and he's the only one who never wants to leave. Be it a holiday vacation or something.
It's not because he'll become homesick or he's afraid of the outside world. He just had this kind of feeling of wanting to wait for someone or something. This kind of yearning and nostalgic feeling. Namimori always has a special place in his heart that he cannot remove. And he didn't mind.
"I'm home." He said in a small voice while opening the door.
"Tsuna-nii?" He looked up to see Lambo and Fuuta staring at him. It was Lambo who called him. "What happened? Why are you home? Did you get suspended again?"
The brunet blinked before he chuckled as he toed his shoes off. "No. I should be asking the two of you about that. Why are you home at class hours?"
"Meeting." Fuuta replied without missing a beat.
"Electric wire faulty." Lambo shrugged before pouting. "What about you?"
"I missed the two of you." He answered innocently as he entered the house.
The two blushed.
"That's foul, Tsuna-nii." Fuuta pouted.
"Hey! At least I'm being honest!" He retorted before dropping his bag on the side of the couch and hugging the two after flopping on the couch. "Gah. Where's Kaasan and Giotto?"
"She went grocery shopping with little Gio. I was going to accompany them, but she declined." Lambo replied with a shrug.
"Hm. Who wants to eat snacks?" He asked again.
"Me!" The two responded in unison.
Tsuna ushered the two to the kitchen so they could watch him make something. When they figured he's making some chips with the vegetables, they volunteered to help him.
He glanced at Lambo who was peeling the carrots with his safe kiddie knife. He almost laughed at how concentrated the child is. Lambo Bovino, now Lambo Sawada, is a twelve year old child with black afro hair and green eyes. He's pretty cute for a pre-teen, and he's not denying it that Lambo got his looks from him (he was the one who took care of him mostly, okay?)
He got Lambo when he saw the child lounging in the bench of the hospital hall (while his Jii-jii was doing some check ups), staring at a room door. Lambo was just nine by then. When he asked the child what was wrong, he discovered that his mother was ill and inside the room he was staring. So he urged the kid to visit his mother with him. That day was the day Kaori Bovino died with a smile.
Nana, his mother, quickly understood Lambo's situation and took him in. When Lambo's father discovered what happened, he tried to take the child. His father and Grandpa filed a lawsuit for child custody. Since they have one Kyouya Hibari who likes to investigate things with one Hana Kurokawa, they were able to discover that Lambo didn't know who his father was because the latter never showed up in all his entire life. In the end, they won the case.
(Tsuna got a good punch on the man. Lambo was so happy about it that his parents didn't scold him for it. Even his grandpa gave a thumbs up.)
"Here, Tsuna-nii." Fuuta said as he put a plate of cabbage beside his chopping board.
Tsuna took the other's scarred wrist and caressed it with a smile. The teen relaxed. "Thanks, Fuuta."
Fuuta Dela Stella, or now known as Fuuta Sawada, was fourteen when Tsuna found him bleeding from neck and wrists. It was the only day that traumatize him too much that he vowed to take in the child's custody hell or high water. He really did after he was able to get concrete evidences of child abuse after the he got out of detention for 'killing' his little brother. The latter case intrigued Ietsuna, his grandpa, to reopen it again and investigate it with his friends help. It wasn't Fuuta's fault that his brother died, it was his parents for life insurance. And now, they're in jail, serving a life sentence away from Tsuna's little brother.
By then, he had to work hard to make Fuuta understand that 'No, it's not okay to hurt himself.', 'No, it's not okay to feel guilty about something he didn't do and when he did nothing wrong.', and 'No, I understand what you feel, but I don't know the experience. I just know that you need someone with you all the time that's why I'm always here.'.
At times, when the young teen's classmates discover who his parents are and bullies him, they answer to the whole gang, which is composed of Kensuke Mochida (the captain of Nami High Kendo team), Hana Kurokawa with her bestfriend Kyoko Sasagawa and Haru Miura, Kyoko's brother Ryohei Sasagawa (Captain of Nami High Boxing club), Hayato Gokudera (the genius delinquent), Takeshi Yamamoto (Nami High Baseball team Ace), Enma Kozato (Simoun Co. Heir), Adelheid Suzuki (Nami High Liquidation committee leader), Nait Longchamp (Tomaso Co. Heir), Kyouya Hibari (Nami High Prefect, Disciplinary Committee Chairman and known as demon of Namimori) and him, Tsunayoshi Sawada (Unruly delinquent of Namimori and doting brother). It doesn't even help the fact that Sawada family can take on any adults who joins in the fray. Regardless, Fuuta can pass on as his biological brother most of the time that's why he was never questioned. Brown hair and brown eyes with foreign like facial features. The only difference is their height since Tsuna is vertically challenged while the other is growing taller each year.
(Fuuta was ecstatic when he realized this fact. When he was asked, he answered he can cuddle and protect his Tsuna-nii more if he's taller.)
After he finished deep frying the vegetables, the kids helped him put it in the living room with their own sauce. They watched anime as they ate, joke around things and played a little. Nana, little Gio and Iemitsu, his father, caught them in a middle of wringing each other in a wrestling with Lambo laughing at them. And when you have cool parents, they joined them on eating the snacks. (He did make Little Gio's milk. His little angel is so cute whenenever he smiles with his blue eyes, crinkling close in happiness.)
When afternoon came, Tsuna went back to school to attend his last class of the day. The Disciplinary Committee members greeted him with nods as he passed by them. Like always, he didn't mind them and continued on.
"Good afternoon, Tsunayoshi." Douhachiro Nezu greeted with a sarcastic smile after he opened the door of his classroom.
Tsuna chuckled. "Yo."
"Where were you, Tsuna?" Hana questioned as he walked in and sat on his sit. "You missed a lot."
"Blame it on Arato." He replied in an agitated way as he took his notebook before nodding to their teacher. "Come on, Nezu-sensei. History time."
The prof chuckled at his enthusiasm then nodded. "Right."
"Tsuna-san!"
The called young man looked up to see a brunette with a ponytail. She's dragging a laughing Kyoko and a disgruntled Hana with her. Haru Miura, a designer who Tsuna helped from getting sold as a prostitute by recommending her to Adelheid, Enma's surrogate sister. It was the least he could do to stop such stupid outcome. She has so promising talents that he couldn't let it waste. She was so thankful too, that everytime she makes male clothes, she'll give him some.
"Yo." He greeted.
"Who are you with?" Hana asked as she took a seat beside him.
"Alone since a minute ago." He answered. "Kyouya went patrolling, Kensuke was dragged by Kusakabe for something important and Enma was taken by Nait and Adelheid about bandages and first aid they need for his clumsiness. I even heard Nait suggesting lion prints that I wanted to buy from him."
"Guess he said it's free for you?" Haru queried with a giggled while Kyoko called out a waiter.
"Duh." Tsuna mouthed with a flip of his invisible long hair before speaking in a high pitch voice. "It's so nice to put rich stuck up people in their right places. Especially when they bully one of my friends."
The girls laughed at his poor imitation of a snobbish girl.
Nait Longchamp is a rich teen that has an attitude of a snobbish brat before he met Enma then Tsuna. With his red hair and green eyes, as the eight owner od Tomaso company, he needed to act like a 'noble', doesn't mean he needs to act like a total asshole. Because of his riches, he was always being accompanied by gold digger people. No wonder he has a stick on his ass.
So when he tried to bully Enma Kozato in front of the mighty Tsunayoshi Sawada, hell broke loose. Not even Kyouya could stop the brunet from hunting the rich kid to the end of the world until he apologized. And when he did say a sincere sorry, the hunting stopped. But Nait didn't stop visiting and eventually become a part of their little group.
Tsuna let himself relax around the girls. Not that he'll look gay with all his stupid accessories (what's wrong with his pierced ears, dog tag and a black bangle on his right wrist). The three just don't care of the norms as much as he does. Like his little group of crazy say, people can go fuck themselves and they'll keep their mind on their own businesses.
After a long chat in the cafe they were in, they went out to go home. They were waiting for the 'go' sign of the traffic light to become 'stop' when Tsuna saw Kensuke talking with someone on his back. What made him panicked was the fact that his sempai was walking right into the road without checking the traffic light. When the girls shouted the male's name, he moved.
He never felt the adrenaline pumping in his veins that good before as he pushed himself more to reach the other side and push Kensuke out of the way as a fast approaching car speed up to the latter's spot. When he got to touch his sempai out of the way, a motor shielded them from the car. Tsuna didn't know what happened to the driver but he was sure he pushed Kensuke back and cushioned their fall in time to not get any type of head concussion.
When the girls rushed towards them, Tsuna left them to pamper the Kendo captain and checked their saviour. He flipped the finger on the people inside the car and shouted for the nearby DC members to capture driver before going for the motorcycle driver.
The prone form of the guy looked like dead. Tsuna grimaced visibly as he approached. Good thing the driver has a helmet. He tapped on the head wear to, at least, gain a response that the driver is alive. Humming, he put a hand on the back and waited for a rise and fall. He grinned when he felt a movement.
"I called the ambulance." Hana informed as the DC members took the driver of the car captive. "I'll tell them to put that guy in that room. Knowing you, you'll want to drill speed limit in that guy's brain."
"If he has one." Tsuna remarked with sarcasm. He carefully removed the helmet. "Hoo. Nice hair." He complimented after seeing the purple hair, and refrained from moving the body further in case there's a damage in the spinal.
The body groaned, and Tsuna nodded as if he understands, causing Hana to face palm.
"I know. Purple is cool. But I'm more of the orange guy. Oh. You have piercings. I have three on my left ear. You're probably some celebrity with how cool your vehicle is and the way you dress."
"Stunt... Man."
"Oh." Both he and Hana crooned.
He stepped back when the ambulance came in. He watched the paramedics assess the stuntman. He waved at them when they wheeled him away and drove for the hospital. Taking note that Kensuke was relatively alright, he followed to the hospital to check on the stuntman. He can just sic Kyouya to the driver. That guy is so much terrifying than him, violence-wise.
When he got there, he asked the nurse station for information. No major injuries, just scrapes and fractured ankle. Probably because of the cool bike, since the stuntman did intercepted the speed of the car. Yup. That driver is so gonna get it from Kyouya.
After asking for their saviour's room number, he texted his family that he's staying at the hospital for the night and send Fuuta so the kid won't have an attack for not seeing him for the night (that happened once and it was not a funny experience). He went out for the flower shop first to get a bouquet before walking in again. Flowers make the bare hospital room a little lively.
"Ah, Tsuna-san." The nurse in charge of their saviour, Masaka, called out with a smile. "I have found some info about Skull-san's friends."
'Skull? Nice name.' Tsuna mused internally before nodding. "You want me to call them because I should explain what happened then?"
"Yes."
He shrugged. "Sure. It was our fault anyway."
Masaka only laughed at his wordings.
After arranging the flowers in a vase and put it at the table beside the bed, Tsuna pulled out his phone and skimmed the list of numbers the nurse gave him before dialing the most sane name he saw. Lal Mirch.
He waited for the line to connect. It must be international since the service voice told him that it will take a lot to connect. He watched Skull make a frown from the corner of his eyes. Wanting to help at least, he patted the man's hand before holding it in his free hand just as the call connected.
"Ciao." A female voice with a little deep timbre answered.
Tsuna mused the language used. Good thing he knew Italian like the back of his hand. His Jii-jii is such a good teacher. "Ciao. Are you Lal Mirch?"
"Yes. Who is calling?"
"I'm Tsunayoshi Sawada. I'm calling to tell you that Skull is in the hospital at the moment." He quickly removed the phone from his ear just as the other line shouted a 'what' and some Italian curses before he returned it. "Skull did not get into an accident, fortunately." He added with sarcasm.
The other line quieted.
'Good.' The brunet rolled his eyes. "I'm calling to only inform you since he has your number in a 'list' of people he deems important. Technically, you're the one I think is pretty mature enough not to shout obscenities on the person who saved me and my friend from being killed. Now let me explain everything before I change my mind about this and keep you hanging for a long time. I don't think Skull will be removed from my watch until I say so. Let's just say a lifetime of no contacts with him because of me will be a good payment, yeah?"
"Okay."
"Good. Now, Skull is suffering some minor scratches and a fractured ankle. His bike suffered some damages after sacrificing it to stop the impact of the car. The vehicle can be fixed so no need to worry about it, same with the bills since the owner of the car will pay for it. The hospital he's admitted in is the Namimori Hospital situated in Namimori, Japan. You can get here, yes?"
"Yes. Is he awake though?"
"No. But I'll be staying here with my brother to keep watch. Until you get here, I will not leave. Capiche?"
"I'll call on the closest subordinate we have in there. Thank you for informing us about Skull."
"No problem." Tsuna chirped as if he didn't threatened the woman awhile ago. "See you soonest."
"Yes."
Tsuna stared at his phone after the call got dropped. He sat back and caressed Skull's back of hand. He'll lament later the talk Fuuta will give him for being here. That kid is a worrywart.
He was forcing back a yawn when he opened the door, only to stop when he took in what was behind it. One of his brow rose high as he stared at six people sitting anywhere in the room with one Skull smiling sheepishly at him. Regardless, he walked in and closed the door.
The people, except for Skull, looked at him funnily as he approached the stuntman. He pulled the table on their saviour and put his bag there. He started to take out everything he picked up from home and the store all the way there. Skull watched and laughed sometimes whenever he pulled out something they made fun off.
"What are those, Kora?" A blond questioned from his spot that was really near them.
"Skull and I hit it off yesterday when he woke up. So as a good watcher and from personal experience, I brought all the things he needs to be comfortable here." He then dropped a good stack of magazine and gave the purple head a warm smile. "There are all the magazine I can see in the store awhile ago. And no. I didn't buy all of them. I left five on the rack. I'm not that rich even if I have Longchamp as a buddy. That guy will freeze the world just to get my requests, but nah. Not now." He winked at the two.
"Why not, Kora?" The blond asked. Tsuna didn't mind the fact that he didn't ask who was Longchamp. Nait is famous.
"Because why not? What if I needed an island to hide after I killed a president of a country? Or I want to have a pet dinosaur? Oh. What if I want to take over the world because Byakuran wants free marshmallows and Skull wants a good course for his stunts that runs around the globe? In accordance to what I learned from this kind of situations, when one owes you, you do not spend it too flippantly."
"Oh." The two nodded.
Tsuna blinked after he realized something. "Shit. Don't learn from me. I can even influence a grown man to steal a flat screen tv for me after talking about some criminal rights and benefits. Who doesn't want free things and hide from the world with no one bothering you?"
The occupants of the room snickered.
"You're amazing, Kora!" The blond laughed.
"Amazingly funny or amazingly amazing as a whole?" He queried as he fixed his bag and zipped it up. He eyed Skull who was smiling. "You're gonna be okay here, buddy?"
A hand shot out and took his. He stared at those purple eyes that looked pleading at him to stay. "You'll come back right?"
"Yup." He answered. "With Fuuta of course. You know how worrywart that guy is. Sometimes I wonder who's older between us. Don't start me when Lambo's with us. I feel like I'm the youngest with how mature they talk."
"Ah. I'll stay here too with Viper." The blond informed. "You don't really have to-"
"I insist." Tsuna cut off, taking a hold of Skull's hand and gave the blond a good look before side glancing the other occupants of the room. "This is my town, my money, my responsibility. You have to go through me before you can get Skull. And I'm warning you, sneak him out, I'm on your tail. A lot of people owe me too. Once I say search for this certain people, they won't hesitate."
"You cannot just threaten us, Tsunayoshi Sawada." A man with Chinese robes with Kyouya features admonished.
He gave a smirk. "I was stating a promise on Skull, but it's good you're taking it as a threat. It means my point crossed. Now," He smiled at the gaping stuntman. "sit tight and eat your chocolates while reading your magazine. I'll be back in thirty with a bento so we can eat together."
"Okay."
"Good."
When he came back, it was only the blond, he now know as Colonnello, who was staying there. Colonnello was cool. He can keep up with the oddity the three of them produce (Tsuna was so sure that Colonnello was surprised when Skull went scientific about stars and planets after he and Fuuta got into a debate) and even joined them.
When it was time to sleep, Colonnello took the futon beside the couch where Fuuta was curled up. He stayed on his seat and watched Skull sleep away like a baby. He didn't know what happened after he nodded off though. The next morning he woke up, he was beside Skull, curled up on his left with a black coat as a blanket and a tattered fedora above his head.
