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"C'mon Lambo," urged Takeshi as he gently pulled his fingers away from Lambo's little grabby fingers. "You can do it!"
"Yeah, come here Lambo!" Tsuna encouraged with a clap of his hands. Not long after Hayato and Chrome left for town, Ryohei had the suggestion to try to get Lambo to walk. While Tsuna wasn't initally sure that Lambo would be up for it, everyone eventually agreed that it was worth a try. And looking at how Lambo was actually smiling right now...Takeshi could see that the distraction was working.
Of course, if Lambo actually took his first steps, that would be a plus.
"You're standing extremely well Lambo!" Ryohei complimented beside Tsuna. "Now take your first extreme step into manhood!"
"Uh oniisan...he's only one-year-old..." Tsuna told him.
"So...first extreme step into toddlerhood?" Takeshi asked.
"Extremely works for me!"
"Everyone pay attention, he's about to take a step," Kyoya ordered. Takeshi immediately turned his eyes to Lambo, and saw that the little boy was picking his foot up.
"That's it..." Tsuna urged.
"You can do it!" encouraged Takeshi.
"Yeah, you can extremely do it!"
"Just pick up your foot a little bit more small herbivore."
"Kufufu, you're almost there Lambo."
Lambo's green eyes narrowed in intense concentration as he slowly but steadily lift his foot up in the air before moving it forward.
His little foot landed safely on the ground. And though a little shaky, Lambo's body was not in danger of toppling over either.
"Extreme!"
"That's it! Now take another one! Try to get to me!" exclaimed Tsuna as he reached his arms out a little further. Lambo giggled and then he took another step with great success.
"Go Lambo go!" Takeshi encouraged as he made to stay behind with hands outreached, just in case Lambo took a tumble.
Lambo successfully took his third step, his smile growing by the second.
"Kufufu, this is actually more exciting than I thought it was going to be."
A fourth step was taken without a hitch. Lambo only needed about two more steps in order to reach Tsuna.
"Keep on going little herbivore, you can do it."
Lambo giggled again when he took yet another step without a problem.
"C'mon Lambo, you're almost there, c'mon," Tsuna urged with a wide smile. For a moment, Lambo just stood there, his green eyes twinkling with delight and his little body trembling slightly.
Then he took the step, right into Tsuna's arms.
"Tsu!" cried Lambo victoriously.
"You did it!" cheered Tsuna as he gave the victorous Lambo a great big hug.
"Extreme! You were very extreme Lambo!" Ryohei yelled happily as he took Lambo from Tsuna and swung Lambo around in the air, the toddler laughing the whole time.
"See, I knew you could do it," stated Kyoya with a smile as he rubbed Lambo's dark brown curls (once Ryohei was done swinging Lambo around that is) affectionately.
"Way to go Lambo!" congratulated Takeshi as he went over and offered Lambo a high five, which the little boy accepted with another gleeful laugh. Takeshi laughed, truly happy that Lambo had accomplished such a great milestone.
It was moments like these that Takeshi thanked the stars that they all decided to run away from the orphanage when they did. Because if they hadn't, there was no way they weren't have been able to see Lambo take his first steps.
"Kufufu, boy, are Hayato and Chrome going to be mad that they weren't..." Mukuro started to say with a smirk before suddenly going paler than usual, the rest of his sentence left hanging in the air.
"Mukuro?" asked Tsuna, sounding very concerned. Takeshi didn't blame him. Any traces of Mukuro's smirk were completely gone. As such, an uncertain dread began to twist around in Takeshi's stomach, much like how a snake moves around in its small dark den.
"What happened? What's the matter?" Kyoya all but ordered Mukuro, his pleased expression now switched for a serious one. Instead of answering, Mukuro closed his heterochromatic eyes tightly shut and took a deep breath. Before Takeshi or anyone could say his name or what was the matter again, Mukuro opened his eyes.
And they were full of fiery rage.
"The blasted Ricci famiglia has finally found Hayato. He and Chrome are on the run, but the Ricci thugs are quickly catching up to them. We gotta go now!"
And just like that, anxiety clenched his heart tightly as dread threatened to make his stomach its permanent home.
So we have a fluffy moment to have some light after the last chapter (and because I realized that being a one means that Lambo should be talking/starting to learn how to walk), and a moment where the others realize that yep, Hayato and Chrome are in trouble.
Please tell me what you thought about this chapter (like were the characters in character, was Lambo walking cute/accurate to real babies walking, etc) in a review and I will update shortly so you can know what is going to happen to Hayato and Chrome.
Have a good day/night!