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It would be a lie if Tsuna said that he was totally not scared because he was actually totally scared.
He was scared to leave his hospital room, he was scared to go home. He was scared to start school, he was scared to meet other people. He, was scared. And now he's riding his own mother's car and he's scared because of his mother's driving.
"M-mother, c-can't we go slower?" He stuttered out. He wanted to slap himself because of his stutter, it was embarrassing.
"Hmm? What did you say?" Kanako gave him a smile at the front mirror and he totally shuddered at that eerie smile. This is totally on purpose. Something is going on, that made her drive like this.
Tsuna made a note to himself that his mother was someone not to mess around with.
But before that, the real reason she's driving like that is...
...
Hour ago...
ring* *ring*
"Yes, this is Sawa Kanako of Sayoshigure Cafe. We are closed for today but we can take in reserva-" She was cut off by the caller.
"Kanako-sama."
Kanako stopped her walking abruptly. This voice was a voice that she knew well. A voice that wouldn't call her if it's not something critical and emergent. Hearing her voice, hearing her call means something bad, something bad about her husband.
"Peacock. It has been a while." She said calmly. She shouldn't jump to conclusion that easily. She needs to keep her cool and listen carefully. But that didn't stop her fast beating heart.
"Kanako-sama, we have a bad news. Wolf, he's..." Kanako bit her lower lip as she inhaled air from her nose slowly. She stopped herself from gasping or making an exaggerated reaction.
"Tell me in details carefully, Peacock. No need to feel nervous, I can hear it in your voice. You can tell me directly if he died or is still alive. I am fine, no need to worry." Kanako said. She felt relieved that she could hold back the tremble in her voice.
"No, Kanako-sama. He's still alive but he has sustained heavy injuries. He is still currently unconscious. As to why he was injured was because of our recent infiltration of a famiglia. We were not supposed to annihilate the famiglia but we somehow did and he got injured because of the sudden change of plans. Now some of the elites are also injured and we're in a dilemma without a higher up to tell us what to do." Peacock said.
Kanako felt wobbly when she heard that her husband was alive. She slowly lowered herself to sit on the floor when she had heard that.
-I'm glad. I'm glad that he's fine. He's alive. Breathe, calm down.-
"Were you a part of the team that infiltrated the famiglia?" Kanako asked.
"No, milady. I was left behind. What should I be doing for now? I was given the task to look after the famiglia because Cheetah is also not in the condition to take up the position of the leader for now."
It was a dilemma for Kanako also. Peacock was a bright and intelligent woman but she lacks leadership skills. She was a part of the strategy team of Cielo Rosa but she was not like a Cheetah who was a commander. It would be a great pressure for Peacock.
"It's fine Peacock, you'll do well. For now, you will take up the position that was given to you. I will be the one giving the orders, and you will tell them what I will be telling you. No need to panic and be pressured. Just think of this as a training, because someday you will be leading a group also." Kanako said to her as she pushed herself to stand up and walk again.
"For now, try to collect the information about the infiltration. Make sure write every details of it as much as possible. Tend to the injured properly so that you can get the information properly. Don't forget to not place a stronger defense because you have just annihilated a famiglia and there is a chance that their allies might come or some revenge. Also tell me about the past events so that I can understand that whole picture." Kanako said.
"Yes, Kanako-sama. Thank you Kanako-sama and I apologize for calling so suddenly without thinking." Peacock said.
"No sweat. It's completely fine. And also I have a good news for Wolf. Tell him to ring me a call when he wakes up and also tell him to get ready for a scolding." Kanako said.
"As you wish, Kanako-sama! Please have a good day! I will be excusing myself."
The call had ended with Kanako looking like she was about to cry.
"Yoshino, why are you so reckless? You scared me there." She whispered to herself.
...
"Mother can we go visit your cafe today?" Tsuna asked. Kanako thought for a moment. The cafe was closed for today. Should she open it for half a day? But if she did that, she wouldn't have time to spend with Tsuna.
"I'm not sure because I closed the cafe for today. Is it okay if we go tomorrow? I'll open tomorrow." Kanako said. Tsuna pondered for a bit but then nodded at her. "It's fine. But I still want to go somewhere today." He said. Kanako smiled at him. "Okay, let's take you somewhere you can go play around." She said.
It was nice to have her son awake and look so happy. Kanako felt glad that he was finally awake, that he was smiling, that he was talking to her. It hurt her to wake up every morning to go meet him in the hospital, looking tired and exhausted.
"Thank you, Tsuna. Thank you for waking up." She said.
Tsuna felt sad and guilty again. "Thank you for not giving up mother." Tsuna said.
The ride continued to be wrapped in a comfortable silence.
...
"Is that Namimori Junior High?" Tsuna asked Kanako when they passed the school.
It was just the exact replica of his school in his world. He guessed that this world's scenery still do look the same, just the people who lived in it were different.
"Yeah. That's where you're going to go. You'll start after three days. Are you sure you'll be fine?" Kanako asked as she turned the car around the corner.
"I'll be fine, mother. Didn't I already tell you that these past few days? Don't worry, I'm not going to be bullied." Tsuna reassured her. Kanako just let out a sigh.
Their house came into view and Tsuna got confused at how it looked different from what he saw in Yoshi's memories.
"It looks completely different from what I can remember." Tsuna said. Kanako chuckled at him. "What do you expect, three years has passed. It's impossible to leave it as it was before. I had to alter some parts of it because it was already old." Kanako explained.
Tsuna felt nostalgia wash over him. He himself didn't know this house but Yoshi did. It was Yoshi's nostalgia that he's feeling. He felt bad that Yoshi himself, can't experience it.
"One day. One day you will experience it Yoshi." Tsuna whispered to himself.
He took his things and got off the car after Kanako had parked it. There were some flowers on the walk way that lead to the front door. Tsuna thought that it was cute.
"Do you remember where your room is?" Kanako asked him. Tsuna knew but he had to act like he doesn't remember because he has a partial amnesia so he shook his head. "I'm not sure." He said.
"It's alright. I'm just checking how much you remember our house. It's the last room on the corridor of the upper floor. It's the second biggest room. Actually it has a fish name plate before but I remembered that you didn't like that name plate that your father made for you. 'tuna-fish', seriously. I don't know what's going on with your father's mind." Kanako said. Tsuna let out a chuckle. Even in his world, he will still be teased as 'tsuna-fish' by his father even if it's not Iemitsu.
"I already changed some of your things there because you've grown for three years so you might feel unusual. I heard people will amnesia will still feel like something is wrong even if they don't remember." Kanako said to him.
"It's fine mother. Thank you for cleaning my room." Tsuna said. "No problem. Just for my baby boy." Kanako said and reached out to ruffle his head.
"Go on and check out your room. I'll just go check the kitchen so that we can go get some groceries while we're out." Kanako said. Tsuna then went upstairs to check his room, Yoshi's room.
Tsuna opened the door to his room and saw a normal room of course. He looked around if he can have some kind of a secret room for his secret activities that he's planning to do. The life of hacking into mafia database.
He wondered if he can succeed in becoming a secret hacker because he's sure that his mother, Kanako, was somehow a hitman before. It's likely possible that she finds out Tsuna's secret.
He started checking his things like his closet, his studying tools, books. Most of his clothing was the same as he had back in his world. His books were much more better than the comic books he had in his world during his teenage years. Yoshi was really a smart boy to read actual novels like Agatha Christie's books or Conan Doyle's books, Dickens and some other literature books. There also some comic books but they were few compared to the novels.
He skimmed through Yoshi's notes in school. He was amazed to see neat hand writing and easy to understand notes. Yoshi is a complete opposite of what he was as a child.
After checking some things in his room, he then headed downstairs. His mother was already waiting for him.
"How was your room? Did you like the feel of it?" Kanako asked. Tsuna nodded. "It felt comfortable. I thought about it mother but can I ask for a computer?" Tsuna asked. Kanako nodded at him but looked confused for a second. "I can buy you a laptop, not a computer. Why with the sudden request?" She asked. "Nothing. I just felt like I needed it." Tsuna said.
They rode the car again to the market.
...
Ieyoshi had been confused on the way home. He had been distracted by Ietsuna's state to remember about the kid who helped him find Ietsuna's room. He look indentical to someone he had always seen every single day within the halls of Vongola mansion and it was mind-blowing even now.
"Reborn. You see, I saw this one kid. He was a patient in the hospital. He...looked so much alike to the Vongola Primo." He said to Reborn.
Reborn who had been sitting with his legs crossed cocked his eyebrow at his own student.
Both of them were currently at the kitchen, drinking some tea. Well coffee in Reborn's case. About Ieyoshi's mother and his guardians, they were out for some groceries.
"Are you sure you weren't seeing things? Where and how did you see him? Do you even know his name?" Reborn asked.
"I accidentally barged into his hospital room. I didn't even think of reading the name plate so I didn't know. He offered to help me to my brother's room. He said he was going to be discharged that time. We spoke a bit about Ietsuna. He said that Ietsuna had gone flatline for five minutes but then revived. I asked for his name in the end but he just said that it's better to not know then sprinted away before I could catch up to him." Ieyoshi explained.
"You do know that you might have just found an another candidate for the Vongola Decimo." Reborn pointed out.
Ieyoshi nodded at this. It was as Reborn had said. If ever this Primo replica boy was actually a descent, it's most likely that he might become a candidate of the Vongola Decimo because he had features of the Primo. And if ever he did have the potential to become the boss then maybe Ieyoshi would be tossed away easily.
But it was dangerous to think of someone innocent to be an enemy immediately. It might have been a coincidence that he looked like Primo. It made Ieyoshi curious to know how the boy had lived, just what was his identity. He felt something weird when he was with the teen.
"I'm curious about him. I wish I can identify flame attributes like you Reborn." Ieyoshi said and buried his face on the table.
"Since he's been at the Namimori Hospital, it's most likely that he lives in the neighborhood so you will surely meet him somewhere by chance." Reborn said. Ieyoshi nodded at him. He wishes it would be as soon as possible.
They settled in silence.
Unlike the other parallel worlds, this world doesn't make it normal for poeple to be able to sense lames and their types. The only people to have this kind of abilty are high-leveled dying will flame users. For example the Arcobaleno.
Arcobalenos are dying will flame users that are said to have high intensity of dying will flames that makes them the most powerful flame users in the world. And Reborn was of course one of those Arcobalenos. he's the sun flame user within the group of seven.
The Arcobalenos are said to hold stones that define their flame attributes. And of course Reborn holds the yellow stone. Ieyoshi has never seen it but he was sure that his tutor has that stone that they were saying about Arcobalenos.
Anyways, Ieyoshi was dead curious about the boy he met. Also little did he know that he would meet the boy soon.
...
"Mother is really clumsy really. How will she even able to go buy some groceries if she doesn't have her own purse." Ieyoshi said.
"You talk like you don't forget things when you obviously do it as a habit. You always trouble me to make you remember your lessons." Reborn said as they walked out of the house to the market to hand the purse to Ieyoshi's mother.
"It's because you force me to remember things that are impossible for a human being to remember in three hours, you spartan." Ieyoshi mumbled.
"Are you complaining with my way of teaching? From what I know you can never ace your tests in school if I had never taught you that way Ieyoshi." Reborn said. Ieyoshi turned red because he knew that Reborn was right with his words.
"But that doesn't change the fact that you're a sadist! You abuse me too much." Ieyoshi mumbled.
While they walked, a cafe had their attention caught.
「Sayoshigure Cafe」
It was a calming blue colored cafe with bright yellow colored flowers as designs outside. It was just a simple cafe but there was something about it that made it attracting. Maybe it was the calm and bright feeling that it gave or the strong sense of familiarity that any experienced flame users would feel.
Ieyoshi felt disappointed when he the sign, closed. He never felt disappointed not being able to enter a cafe before. He was never the coffee person nor the sweets person so he rarely visited cafes.
"Oh, we apologize. The cafe is closed for today but it will be open tomorrow."
...
Kanako had bought Tsuna a laptop and some other things that he will be needing for his new gadget. After that Kanako had exclaimed that she had forgotten something within her cafe so both of them had headed there.
While Tsuna had ridden the car, he felt very unsettled and anxious. His intuition was acting up again and he didn't know wether to stop his mother from going to her own cafe or not. In the end he was not able to do so and they had arrived at the cafe.
The both of them had seen two people standing in front of the shop. Their backview had looked very familiar to Tsuna. Especially the man who was wearing a fedora in a black suit.
it was impossible for Tsuna to not recognize that peculiar silhouette that held the air of confidence and slight arrogance. The lean figure that Tsuna had always followed, that fedora with yellow band, he would never be able to forget that figure.
"Oh we aplogize. The cafe is closed for today but it will open tomorrow." Kanako had said.
Both the two men that stood in front the cafe turned to look at Kanako and Tsuna. Tsuna recognized the shorter one to be the person who was the brother or Ietsuna.
"You! You're the kid in the hospital!"
Tsuna just stood there with his jaw dropped. He really wanted to avoid this person that gave him the tingling feeling of danger. And also, he hadn't expected to meet the person that he had been wanting to see, Reborn.
"You're Ietsuna's brother." Tsuna had said. Kanako has exclaimed in surprise and gushed over Ieyoshi. "You are Nana's kid?! What a handsome young man! You have Nana's eyes!" Kanako said. Tsuna sweat-dropped at his own mother. "Mom you're embarrassing me. You don't have to gush over him like that. Look at him he's flustered."
True to Tsuna's words, Ieyoshi was embarrassed being gushed over by a stranger all of a sudden.
"May I ask who you are Madam?" Ieyoshi asked.
"Oh! Right, right. Of course you wouldn't remember me. My name is Sawa Kanako, this is Tsunayoshi, the kid who was in the same accident as your brother. He just woke up from coma and now he's discharged!!" Kanako said.
Tsuna gave Ieyoshi a nervous smile who had his expression blank now that he know his identity. And also Tsuna had felt uncomfortable at Reborn who wouldn't seem to stop eyeing him. Was there something wrong with him?
"P-pleased to meet you. I'm Sawa Tsunayoshi. I actually have partial amnesia so I'm not very familiar with some things." Tsuna said.
"I'm Sawada Ieyoshi. This person here is called Reborn. Thank you for helping me this afternoon, and also for thinking about my feelings." Ieyoshi said. Tsuna blinked a few times. "Pardon?" he asked.
"You purposely didn't say your name because you were worried about my reaction to knowing that the person who had been in the same accident as my brother had awoken from his own coma while my brother still hasn't right?" Ieyoshi said with a smile.
Tsuna could only nod. It was true and partially he felt wary of Ieyoshi that time because of his intuition.
"I was worried that you might feel upset or something..." Tsuna said with a sheepish smile.
"Please be assured. I wouldn't feel upset over something like that. It's actually the other way round. I would definitely feel relieved that you have woken up." Ieyoshi said.
"Thank goodness. I was worried for nothing. Ietsuna will definitely wake up for sure." Tsuna said. He was sure that it will happen. Because he will make it do so.
Ieyoshi was sure that Tsuna's brown orbs flashed orange in a blink of an eye. It might have been just a trick of the light but it made him feel that it was wrong.
Unlike Ieyoshi, Reborn was certain. The moment he had seen the boy, he was taken aback by the strength he had felt from him. He knew that the kid was a sky flame user, that he might just be the only kid who has the purest sky flames ever. Though there was a faint sun flames that was being suppressed. It intrigued him.
Not just that, the familiarity that flashed in his eyes when he had seen Reborn, it made him suspicious of the kid. He never saw him before so why? He seems to young to be involved in Mafia, besides he had been in a coma for three years. So why?
Reborn was puzzled by this one Sawa Tsunayoshi.
"Right! Reborn we need to send the purse to mom! I totally forgot!" Ieyoshi exclaimed.
"If you want to I can drive you to the market." Kanako offered to them. "It's fine auntie. We can just run to the market so there's no need to." Ieyoshi said.
"We do appreciate the offer but we wouldn't want to impose on you Ms. Sawa. I'm sure that you too have something else to do. So we will have to decline." Reborn said.
"Well-spoken. It's fine, no offense taken. Just be careful on the way. There are some pick-pocketeers around here." Kanako said.
"Visit the cafe tomorrow!" Tsuna told them with a bright smile. Ieyoshi couldn't help but pat the fluffy looking hair that the younger had. Tsuna didn't really mind the action as it reminded him of a certain someone that he held dear.
The two had left the mother and son to head to the market.
Reborn had contemplated wether to tell to Nono about Cielo Rosa's son, Sawa Tsunayoshi, that he's a splitting image of the Primo and holds high intensity of dying will flames. Not to mention that it had been the purest that Reborn had sensed in his whole life.
...
"You found out something right? That's why you couldn't take off your eyes from Tsunayoshi. You didn't even speak much. What is it that made you feel so troubled?" Ieyoshi asked Reborn while they rushed to the market.
Reborn stayed silent. Ieyoshi understood. This Sawa Tsunayoshi, he was someone special.
Sawa Tsunayoshi, the son of Cielo Rosa's Wolf. He never saw him before. And now that he had seen him to be a splitting image of the Vongola Primo, it made him confused.
Why? Why would some other famiglia look exactly as the Vongola? Had Reborn sensed Sky flames from Tsunayoshi? Then what would happen if it had been like that. But looking back at Reborn's reaction, Tsunayoshi might have just Sky flames.
Ieyoshi understood. They have just found another candidate for the Vongola Tenth. A perfect one on top of that.
They might need to have a talk with the Cielo Rosa for their famiglia history.
...
It burns...
Tsuna abruptly stopped walking when he had heard something, someone whisper onto his ears. He looked around to find the source of that voice but there had been no one there.
"It burns. Who was that?" Tsuna mumbled to himself.
"Tsuna! Hurry up, I still need to make some dinner at home!" Kanako called Tsuna from the car.
Tsuna just shrugged the weird voice he had heard and rushed inside the car. It might have just been his imagination. That's what he thought.
But little did he know that it was the start of some things unraveling to light.