Chapter 3

Warning(s): Negative!thoughts, trigger!moments, suicide, OOC's

Notes: "Japanese" Thinking [Tsuna's written msg]

Disclaimer: I do not own Katekyo Hitman Reborn; Amano Akira does. If I did, it would be more sadder and dark.

[3rd POV]

Dino Cavallone was confused. His former tutor that came from hell had called him in the middle of a meeting and was then ordered to drop everything and come straight to Namimori, Japan. And even when he tried to explain that there was no way he was free until a week after, his tutor had threatened him!

Sobbing the entire way to Japan, Reborn called once again and explained to him that the Vongola Decimo heir doesn't likes any physical contact- "so don't you dare try to jump on him because he looks cute! " Reborn growled on the phone.

This made Dino blush and was about to retort when he was once again interrupted- "Also, he doesn't speaks so don't force him or ask why either."

Now this confused Dino. Why didn't the heir speak or touch? Wasn't it important for skies to have physical contact to find their elements?

"Yes and Tsuna doesn't have elements," Reborn said, as though reading his mind. He sobbed again before the sentence registered in his mind. "He's elementless?!"

"Yes," Reborn said curtly. This just brought up more questions than any answers!

"Stop complaining, Dame-Dino. Just come here first and you'll understand."

"But Reborn-"

"You are going to become his guardian as an older brother, capisce?

"Rebo-" [Click]

Dino sobbed, "I hate you Reborn!"

Dino was horrified, terrified and any other word that one could think that was synonym.

The boy in front of him was practically lifeless! No sign of enthusiasm that a 14(?) year old would have. Instead, he looked at him as though he was an enemy he couldn't defeat and he had just given up. The way his eyes skirted in fear at the various people - bodyguards - behind him. His whole body language spoke that he would run if needed.

Taking a deep breath, Dino stepped forward aware of his former tutor's eyes on him.

"Hi!" he said jovially but to his disappointment, wariness flashed through the boy's eyes. "I'm Dino, your new older brother!"

Tsunayoshi met his eyes and Dino could tell the amount of fear flashing through his eyes. He shook as his eyes widened in shock and started shaking. Alarmed, Dino tried taking a step forward but was stopped by a bullet, grazing his leg.

"You whip, Dame-Dino," Reborn said with barely concealed rage.

"Eh?"

"Your whip! Get rid of your whip!" Reborn said as he went towards the frightened child.

"Tsuna," Reborn said softly; something that greatly surprised the blond. "It's fine. She's not here. It's okay. You're safe."

While Reborn was busy calming the shaking teen down, Dino was shocked. He only snapped out of it when Romario elbowed him lightly at his side.

Dino could tell that everyone, including his bodyguards, were surprised at the behavior of the possible heir of Vongola. The way he acted was akin to a scared animal who is trapped; who can't ever escape.

"Boss, your... weapon, please," Romario asked as he held out his hand to the still shocked Dino.

Numbly, he removed the whip, seeing how the heir flinched, and handed it to Romario, who promptly stood back. The brunet's eyes were still on the whip, as though it would be used against him any second now.

And this just filled him up with rage and anger. Who would do such a thing?! To make a child, a bambino to be afraid!

Suddenly, his eyes met with his tutor's, a silent conversation passing through them. Now, Dino truly understood why his tutor wanted him to come so soon. Why he was told to drop everything and just come. Why he was told to not ask the heir any questions regarding anything.

It was to protect him. This weak, fragile brunet needed help and fast.

Tsuna was terrified. There were too many people and they all were definitely strong. He couldn't run if he needed to, they would catch up to him.

He was scared, oh so very scared. He wanted to leave and never see them again. Why, just why did he accept this proposal?

The man had a whip, a whip! He knew fully well that a whip was a torture device and had personal experience with it.

"Tsunayoshi," The man with the whip - Dino if he remembered correctly - gently called out. "The whip is only there for self-defense. I promise you that I will not use it on you."

Regardless of that, Tsuna couldn't trust him. He had been lied to too often and didn't want to get his hopes up. After all, everyone would just leave and betray him again.

His eyes trailed towards the whip - that was given to that bodyguard of his. He was standing quite a distance away from him but if what he observed was right then he knew that it would only take a matter of seconds for people like them to surround him.

Clap!

The sound of someone clapping once startled him and redirected his attention to Dino. Said person smiled at him softly, "Now, like I said before, my name is Dino and I'm to be your new older brother!"

New older brother?

As though the blonde hair man could understand him or rather saw his confused expression, he clarified, "Well, I'm still a bit too young to be your dad and well, frankly, I myself don't want to think of myself as old, otherwise Reborn would never stop joking with me."

Tsuna at that could only look more confused while Reborn shot a warning glare to his former student.

"Anyways," he continued, sweating a little. "I decided to be your older brother! And I don't know about you, but I'm pretty sure your parents are alive, right?"

At that, Tsuna could only tilt his head sideways in contemplation.

Parents? Do they mean Iemitsu and Nana?

He chanced a glance towards Reborn, who was staring back at him with unreadable eyes before something clicked in his brain. He removed the book he always carried around with him before writing the question down.

[Do you know my parents?]

Reborn couldn't do much actually. He wanted to - for some weird inexplicable reason - but he couldn't do much, at least, not until Tsuna would let him.

At the moment, he knew that he couldn't just resort to the methods that he did with Dino. He had to be extremely gentle and well, considerate.

Calling Dino seemed like a good choice as he would genuinely want to help Tsuna. Not to mention, based on previous reports, Tsuna was considered to be clumsy, failing his studies, and would often trip out of nowhere. Very similar to Dino before he started to tortu*AHEM*train him.

So, for that reason, he called Dino in. They just needed... time before things started rolling.

But he also knew that, sooner or later, he had to confront him about his parents. He had a few questions regarding it but he didn't want to rush into it. He actually wanted to wait until after Dino and Tsuna got settled in the house before even broaching that subject.

So, really, he wanted to shoot Dino for bringing it up. Because, it was not a conversation to be held in the airport.

[Do you know my parents?]

Yes, really, he wanted to shoot Dino, right now.

Author's Note: Hey everyone! How's everything going? So, well, I know I haven't uploaded for a while now but well, it's life. I won't promise that my updates would be regular but they shouldn't be too far apart.

Anyways, how did you like it? I want to know your opinions honestly, on which guardian should I introduce first and how? I would love to know your thoughts!

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