5th December 2019
Warning: Grammar errors, Spoilers, Out of Characters, Original Character and Alternate Reality.
Disclaimer: Katekyou Hitman Reborn belongs to Akira Amano, but this fanfiction belongs to me.
Summary: Tsuna is confronted with the consequences of Future Decimo's choices. Will it confirm his own choices? A sequel of 'Contemplation of a Choice".
Hi everybody, this is my next Katekyou Hitman Reborn fanfiction. I hope you like this story.
"You encounter a choice. But narrow framing makes you miss options. You analyze your options. But the confirmation bias leads you to gather self-serving information. You make a choice. But short-term emotion will often tempt you to make the wrong one. Then you live with it. But you'll often be overconfident about how the future will unfold."
Chip Heath, Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work
Confirmation of a Choice
Chapter 1. Anaconda di Nebbia.
9 years later.
Inside an office in a huge mansion, a young man was signing some papers furiously. Until suddenly a younger man entered the office in a hurry.
"Tsuna-nii!"
"Fuuta? Is there something wrong?"
"I got some shocking information when we interrogate the members of the Real Funeral Wreath."
"What kind of information?"
"It's about Byakka-nee."
Tsuna looked shocked. "Why would they have information about her?"
"They said that Byakuran killed her," Fuuta informed him.
Tsuna widened his eyes. "So, Byakuran was supposed to kill her if she didn't commit suicide."
Fuuta looked at him sadly. "Tsuna-nii from what they told me. He did kill her. It was he who set the fire."
"Then, why did the report said it was suicide?" Tsuna asked in confusion and anger.
"They told me that it was Byakka-nee herself who asked Byakuran to make it look like suicide when he came to kill her."
Tsuna rubbed his forehead in frustration. "Why did she do that?"
"They said because she didn't want you to seek revenge for her." Fuuta offered a paper to him. "Also, Tsuna-nii you should read this. These are the details of what happened to her."
Tsuna read the paper and clenched his fist, and then closed his eyes with his right hand as if to hide his tears, but Fuuta clearly saw the tears.
"Both of us were so stupid. We suffered alone to protect each other. I should have listened to her." Tsuna said in regret. "It's already too late. She's dead."
Fuuta said nervously. "About that, because her death was caused by the Mare Rings, then she should have come back too, just like the others that killed by him."
Tsuna looked up at that. "You're right, she should be alive."
"Also, Tsuna-nii, I have some information about her that I got from the members of the Real Funeral Wreath." Fuuta gave him some papers.
Tsuna took the papers and read them. His eyes widened in disbelief. Then, he sighed tiredly and rubbed his forehead.
"Who would have thought?" Tsuna stated. "This is ironic. Is fate mocking me?"
Fuuta said worriedly. "What will you do now, Tsuna-nii?"
Tsuna sighed. "Where is she right now?"
"She's in Namimori."
"Just as I thought," Tsuna said. "Fuuta, prepare a plane to Namimori."
Fuuta smiled. "Yes, Tsuna-nii." And was about to go.
"Also, Fuuta."
"Yes, Tsuna-nii?"
"Can I have that letter I wrote for her? It seems she will receive that letter after all."
Fuuta remembered that the past Tsuna-nii gave the letter to him back after he read it. "Of course, Tsuna-nii."
Fuuta hopes everything will turn out all right. He still felt guilty because it was his fault that Byakka-nee's existence was exposed to Tsuna-nii's family and friends.
{K~H~R}
Fuuta was walking through the street of Namimori together with Tsuna-nii. After he told Tsuna- nii the news about Byakka-nee, they and some of Tsuna-nii closest family members went to Namimori immediately with Vongola private jet.
The others insisted to go with them because they were still reluctant to leave Tsuna-nii, ever since he faked his death.
Tsuna-nii had been trying to lose them, so he could go see Byakka-nee without interruption. Fuuta was lucky to be able to tag along with him because it was Fuuta who has the information of the whereabouts of Byakka-nee.
Tsuna-nii himself did not seem to mind Fuuta to tag along, that might be because Fuuta already knows about Byakka-nee from the beginning.
From the information Fuuta got, Byakka-nee is in the hospital ever since she was revived. But, strangely, they had not been walking towards the hospital, even though Fuuta already told Tsuna-nii about the whereabouts of Byakka-nee.
Tsuna-nii just looked at him sadly and said. "There is somewhere else I need to go."
Fuuta was confused. He thought Tsuna-nii wanted to see Byakka-nee.
Then Tsuna-nii suddenly stopped and Fuuta became more confused.
They were standing in front of the burndown house of the Natsume household.
At seeing the remnants of the fire, Fuuta wanted to smack himself over the head. Around the house, there's a trace of Mist Flames that might be there to fool the police and him to think it was suicide. Now that the Mist Flames were almost gone, he could see the unnaturalness of it.
From the damage, he could see that the fire only targeted the house, while the fence and garden were untouched. The fire was definitely controlled by dying will flame.
Meanwhile, Tsuna-nii only looked at the house with sad and longing eyes. Fuuta almost reluctant to interrupt him, but they must hurry before the others found them.
"Tsuna-nii, what are we doing here?" Fuuta asked softly.
Tsuna-nii did not answer and just stood there. After a while, he sighed and walked to the mailbox, which was also undamaged. Tsuna-nii dropped something in the mailbox and walked away from the house.
"Let's go back, Fuuta," Tsuna-nii said in a resigned tone.
"What's about, Byakka-nee? Don't you want to see her?" Fuuta asked confusedly.
Tsuna-nii kept walking so Fuuta went to catch up with him. After Fuuta was beside him, Tsuna finally answered.
"No, I can't see her."
Fuuta looked at him in shock.
{K~H~R}
Tsuna was walking away from her house with a heavy heart. It was hard to see that house and imagining her burning alive in there. It made him angry, angry at himself, at Byakuran, and at her.
When he heard about her death, he was devastated. He knew he only had himself to blame. He depended so much on her letters to brighten his life, and when they suddenly stop, everything just became so dark to him. And he felt trapped in the darkness.
He read all of her previous letters over and over again, hoping to gain the light back, while everything else just became meaningless to him.
Then, when Fuuta told him about her last letter, his mind became clear. He finally realized he could not get the light back and he has to learn to live without it because there was nothing else he could do.
It was hard to live without her light, but he has to if only for his family. And, he finally decided to go along with Irie-kun's plan. Because he knew that the current him would not be able to make a change, while the younger him would be able to, because he still has his light unlike the current him.
"Tsuna-nii!"
Tsuna snapped out of his thought and looked at Fuuta's worried face.
"Why can't you see her?"
"I don't think it will be fair to just see her after I made her wait for 9 years."
"But..." Fuuta looked disagree.
Tsuna cut him. "Did you know that 3 years ago I thought she would stop sending me a letter?"
Fuuta looked confused. "Um... No... But, she didn't, did she. You still got letters from her."
"I did, but for a while, I thought she would stop," Tsuna said in contemplation. "It was because of a letter she sent me on Valentine 3 years ago."
Tsuna smiled sadly. "Ever since we were 18, the letters she sent at Valentine always imply that she has a feeling for me, although I can't confirm it. But, Valentine's letter 3 years ago was different."
"'When you love someone, let them go. If it means to be, they will come back to you.' That's what she wrote in that letter. I thought she was giving up on me. I even considered going to see her, but I didn't." Tsuna sighed. "When I still got her letter on my birthday I was relieved. Then, I realized that that letter was a warning from her that she was starting to give up."
"When I read that letter again after she died, I began to realize that I have been very selfish," Tsuna said. "I can't expect her to wait for me forever."
"Then, what will you do, Tsuna-nii?"
Tsuna looked at Fuuta's sad face. He knows that Fuuta already knows what he will do.
"Something I should have done years ago." Tsuna clenched his fist. "It's past time for me to stop stringing her along and just let her go."
{K~H~R}
Present.
A teenage boy with dark hair was walking around a huge lab. He was walking toward another teenage boy with green hair purposely.
The green hair boy seemed to focus all his attention on his computer. He did not seem to notice the other boy.
"Chaos Verde." The dark hair boy said in greeting.
Verde continued to look at his computer and did not react at all to the other presence.
"Verde!" He snapped.
Verde glanced at him briefly and back to look at his computer.
"I am busy, Reborn. What do you want?" Verde finally respond. "Even though I allowed you and our former colleagues to enter my lab, it doesn't mean that I want to be disturbed."
Reborn rolled his eyes. "You are always busy."
"Don't waste my time, Reborn. Just state your business." Verde said carelessly.
Reborn frowned. "Fine."
He was quiet for some time to think about what he was going to say.
"I want to ask you about a Box Weapon." He said.
Verde looked at Reborn with a raised eyebrows. "And?"
"Have you, Koenig or Innocenti, make an anaconda box animal?" Reborn inquired.
Verde's eyes widened slightly and he typed furiously on his computer.
"This is Anaconda di Nebbia (Mist Anaconda) nickname Kanna." He said while showing a picture on his computer.
Reborn looked at the picture in shock. "Kanna."
It was a picture of Mist attribute Anaconda that Reborn recognized very well.
Verde narrowed his eyes. "How do you know Kanna?"
"Verde, keep what I am going to say to yourself." Reborn frowned in hesitation. "I met someone from the future with that box weapon."
"I see," Verde said. "And?"
Reborn looked at him seriously. "I need to find the present user of this box weapon."
Verde sighed tiredly. "Reborn, you are looking for an infuriating person."
"Oh?" Reborn raised his eyebrows.
"But, that person will not show themselves unless they want to be found," Verde told him.
"You know this person." Reborn inquired.
"Of course I would know the person that uses the box weapon I designed." Verde scoffed.
"You designed this box weapon," Reborn said in surprised. "What it's abilities?"
"Reborn, I might have become a bit lenient in sharing information with our former colleagues. But, that did not mean I am going to share everything." Verde gave him an unimpressed look. "Information about weapons I sold and the person who uses them are one of them."
Reborn scowled unhappily.
"Your pout is not going to change my mind," Verde said nonchalantly.
"I am not pouting!" Reborn exclaimed.
Verde typed something on his computer and went back to what he was doing before. Reborn sighed since Verde went back to ignore him.
{K~H~R}
Ever since the meeting with Kanna in Tsuna's private office. They have not been able to get her to share any more information. Surprisingly, Tsuna was fine with it and let her be.
"Kanna-san said that she did not remember her life before Cervello. Besides, our world is not the same as hers anymore." Tsuna said. "I don't think she had any idea on how to find her past self."
Of course, the information about her past self was not the only thing they want to know. But, Tsuna was adamant in not asking Kanna anything more.
In the end, they have to find her past self by themselves without any clues.
Fortunately, Reborn realized that they do have a clue and he knows someone that designed Box Weapon. From there, the next step was obvious.
But, it seemed Verde has no intention to share the identity of the user of Anaconda di Nebbia.
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