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Fong was panicking.
It was a big mistake for him to be lost within his thoughts while he went out of the house. He didn't even realize that his nephew had been following him. He just brushed off the faint feeling of being followed as it disappeared immediately. Not that he realized that his nephew who was following him got lost.
He checked the mansion for the small child but he wasn't there. Surely he was around the neighborhood, probably crying because he was alone.
He started running around the block, trying to sense the child's signature flame which was the cloud flame. He then abruptly stopped when he felt a familiar flame signature. He slowly walked to the corner and saw his student carrying a sleeping Kyoya while he was with a person he's deeply acquainted with.
"Fong-sensei!" Tsuna exclaimed when he saw him, sweating and looking really tired.
Fong could only blink in surprise when he had seen the young acquaintance of his whom he haven't seen for a while since he had volunteered to take care of his nephew. He had also recognized the blonde kid to be the child of the Vongola as he uncannily looked a lot like his father.
He recovered from his surprise immediately and ushered over his nephew. Checking if there were some injuries. Thankfully there was none and he was even looking peaceful as he slept.
"Thank god. I was worried that something bad happened to him when I didn't saw him in the house." Fong said as he took Kyoya from Tsunayoshi.
"Actually, Tsunayoshi-kun here and Kyoya-kun were chased by some men with guns." Ieyoshi said. Fong turned sharply to face him when he had heard that. "I am certain that Kyoya-kun might be the target because he is a child of a Hibari. His pursuers are currently held inside my house." Ieyoshi added.
"Well then, they will be taken custody by the Hibari force..." Fong trailed off.
Ieyoshi merely gave him a smile and stretched out his hand for a handshake. "Sawada Ieyoshi. I am a friend of Tsunayoshi." He said. Fong took his hand and shook it without hesitation. "I'm Hibari Fong. Pleased to meet you." Fong said.
"Anyways, are you alright Tsunayoshi-kun? Will you be able to attend school today?" Fong turned to Tsuna.
"I actually got grazed by a bullet but it's not big deal. I can go to school perfectly fine." Tsuna said. Fong gasped.
"A bullet graze? Are you sure you don't need to go to the hospital or anything? I can take care of the hospital fees–"
"It wasn't that serious, Fong. You don't need to panic." Reborn had spoke. Fong stared a him.
It was really weird for him to see the young hitman again after a few years of not meeting each other. From what he remember, he was 10 inches shorter than him back then. But now he was almost around his height. He had grown visibly and it felt foreign to see him different from how he had remembered him.
Fong merely cleared his throat. If Reborn says so, then it is the truth. Reborn only speaks the truth and he wouldn't lie about a gunshot sustained by a civilian.
"Anyways, you should go now Tsunayoshi-kun. I will take care of everything now. Though I will have to ask you some things later about the incident if possible. I deeply apologize for having you get hurt because of my nephew's pursuers. I am also thankful for protecting him." Fong said and bowed sincerely to Tsuna who became flustered at the act.
"You don't have to bow Fong-sensei! It's not like I got serious injuries or anything. Besides Reborn-san and Ieyoshi-san are the ones who saved us. They should be the one you're thanking, not me." Tsuna said.
"I thank you two for helping to save Kyoya." Fong thanked the other two. Ieyoshi just gave him a smile while Reborn just gave him a nod.
"Since you Fong-sensei said he will be taking care of everything, I'll get going before I become late for school. Ieyoshi-san, please help Fong-sensei with information later. I'll treat you two at the cafe later as thanks for saving us." Tsuna said.
"Are you sure you'll be fine alone?" Ieyoshi asked. Tsuna nodded at him.
"Actually I live five blocks away. I never knew that our houses are near to each other." Tsuna chuckled. Ieyoshi simply grinned.
"Then, I'll be looking forward for the treat later." Ieyoshi said.
Tsuna bid them goodbye and he also made sure to ruffle Kyoya's hair before he left. He also told Fong that he can speak to Tsuna anytime about the incident later.
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Now that Tsuna was gone, Fong faced Reborn with a serious look.
He doesn't know why in the world was Reborn here and why was the Vongola heir here in Japan. He did hear that the Vongola heir was a Japanese but he didn't know that he specifically lived in Namimori where his nephew resided.
"I am surprised to see you here, Fong." Reborn said.
"It's Fong-san to you, Reborn-kun. You really do not like to use honorifics with me even after years hm? How many years has it been again?" Fong said to Reborn with a friendly smile on his face but his eyes begged to differ.
"It's been five years to be exact. I had wondered where you have gone when you suddenly disappeared. I never expected that you'd be here in Japan, looking after a nephew. You do know that you can't just leave the mafia just like that." Reborn said, unfazed by the wariness that the older man executed.
"I am perfectly aware of that fact. You do not need to remind me so." Fong said.
Ieyoshi merely stood silent beside Reborn. He doesn't know who in the world is this man who seems to be quite acquainted to his tutor. But considering their conversation, he knows that this man was a mafioso, formerly a mafioso to be exact.
"Anyways, you don't need to worry about your nephew Fong. He doesn't have pursuers. He's safe." Reborn said.
"You're implying that those pursuers are targeting Tsunayoshi? What would they want from a civilian?" Fong asked. Reborn didn't say anything but only gave him a stare. That made Fong think back his words.
Why would someone they target a civilian if they are not affiliated to anything? Of course it's because they are affiliated to something.
"I can't say anything any further because you don't have anything to do with his situation.Though we need you to ask him for information as a cover up for us because we can't have him knowing that he's actually the targeted one." Reborn said.
Fong just nodded. If Reborn is getting involved in this, it just means one things. Tsunayoshi is somehow connected to the mafia, maybe to Vongola. And he definitely has no right to probe into their business.
"Thank you for cooperating with us Fong-san." Ieyoshi spoke up.
"It is fine. I owe Reborn a lot." Fong said.
Fong then bid the two goodbye and made his way to their house. Ieyoshi watched him until he completely disappeared from their sight. After checking that the man has gone away, he turned to Reborn with a curious face.
"Who is he Reborn?" He asked.
"He's an acquaintance of mine. We had several missions we completed together. He disappeared from the mafia years ago. I didn't know the reason he had ran away from the mafia until now. He's a very skilled assassin so I had wondered why I haven't heard his name around back then. I guess, even a feared killer have a heart when it comes to their family." Reborn had explained.
"You told him he can't leave the mafia. Why did you tell him that when he's already here, completely living as a civilian?" Ieyoshi asked as he followed Reborn who had started walking back to their home.
"Because he's tied to it. And someday, he will have to go back. I won't tell any further about him because it's not my place to spill information of a respected friend of mine." Reborn said.
Ieyoshi blinked. "Friend, huh?" He sighed. Even after three years, there were only three people he knew whom Reborn calls his friend. One was a subordinate of his father, second was a part of the independent assassin squad of the Vongola, The Varia.
He really doesn't know anything about Reborn that somehow infuriates him sometimes. He wonders if there would be a chance where Reborn can trust him and tell him about himself.
Ieyoshi wants to know more about the Reborn before he was of now. All he knows about Reborn is that he is a very skilled man, almost perfect to everything despite being only one year older than him. He was curious as to how Reborn had gotten into the mafia. Was he born in it? Was he pulled into it? What made him become the strongest hitman in the world? Just who was he?
Ieyoshi never had the courage to ask. To be honest, Reborn never gave him a chance to ask. Reborn was all about him. Reborn always directed Ieyoshi's attention to his own self who was expected to succeed the most powerful mafia family. It was a heavy responsibility that he doesn't have any time to waste to think about other people because of his training.
But Ieyoshi does not want the responsibility of that. He cannot bear it because he was not worth it. He knew that he was not the right person for it. But he was also skeptical of abandoning that responsibility. He doesn't know if he can run away from this if he just pushed someone who might not be related into the Vongola at all to distract the expectant eyes away from himself. That suffocating attention from the people.
Ieyoshi sighed.
Now, he wonders how will he handle the people who's targeting the child of a potential ally, Cielo Rosa and who is also suspected to be a heir of the Vongola.
To be honest, he thought that he was really being ridiculous of thinking that Tsunayoshi might be Vongola. Well there's Xanxus who's not directly from the Vongola first bloodline but he is from the Vongola second's bloodline so he had this hope in him. But it was just absurd to hold on to that thought because it was clearly just him, trying to run away from his responsibilities.
He's only trying to find a way he can run away from the suffocating eyes of expectation, people have given him. Even thinking of the most absurd thing to happen. But his hoping had become stronger when Reborn himself had taken an interest in Tsuna. Though it had hurt him that the person who had trained him for three years had also believed in such an unbelievable thing because Ieyoshi was unfit even if the people had turned a blind eye to it. But Ieyoshi also turned a blind eye to that because of his selfishness to free himself from the thing that he didn't want.
As the time passed, Tsuna seemed to be more and more of what they ha suspected of him to be. Ieyoshi doesn't really know if he should be happy or to be afraid. A part of him is happy that he can be free from the hellish responsibility he didn't want in the first place. Another part of him had felt afraid that he will really be just tossed aside just like that.
It stressed him truly.
"Ieyoshi."
Ieyoshi was not able to hear Reborn as he was deep into his thoughts.
Reborn might look like he truly doesn't care about Ieyoshi more than as his student. But they were wrong about that because Reborn cared for Ieyoshi more than you could have thought of. Ieyoshi might think that Reborn simply doesn't want to mingle himself with Ieyoshi yet he doesn't have any choice but he is wrong. Reborn was actually afraid to get any closer to Ieyoshi who had constantly pulled him towards him.
And Ieyoshi's recent frequent silence was worrying him secretly.
Ieyoshi always seemed to go blank without even realizing it himself. In the middle of a conversation, he would just simply stop the talk and just space out, lost in his own thoughts. He would sigh several times. He would keep a straight undecipherable face some times. It was very concerning as Ieyoshi's mental health was not very good in the start basing on Reborn's perspective.
"Ieyoshi." Reborn had put a hand on Ieyoshi's shoulder as he was about to walk past their house. Now, Ieyoshi had snapped out of his trance.
"Oh! Sorry! I was distracted again! Don't get angry at me Reborn!" Ieyoshi hastily apologized for his carelessness. He knows that it was dangerous to be distracted, especially when he's supposed to be alert for danger at all times. Reborn had told him that for many times.
"If you keep on getting distracted like that, you'll find yourself swimming in the pool of your own blood Ieyoshi. Snap out of it." Reborn reminded. He had to be harsh. He had to because the world that Ieyoshi is forced to live in was cruel and unforgiving, never thinking of the importance of a human life, carelessly stealing people's lives as they please.
"I-I know. I'm sorry." Ieyoshi just apologized grimly.
"A mafia boss does not let himself be vulnerable. I've told you that for the past three years." Reborn said. Ieyoshi didn't say anything but nod his head at his tutor.
"I will be more attentive." Ieyoshi said and walked passed through Reborn into the house, fishing out his phone.
He speed-dialed one of the numbers he knows very well, one of his guardians, his rain guardian who had always been an expert with interrogating people.
"Hello Kaios? You have a job. Come at the house as fast as you can. Can you also bring Myall with you? We'll need her to hypnotize them just in case they don't speak." Ieyoshi said in a low tone. His guardians are familiar enough with that tone of his to know when he is urgent about something.
Ieyoshi cut off the call as soon as he heard an approving reply from his friend.
"I hope you don't mind me ditching my training for a while Reborn?" Ieyoshi asked.
Reborn merely tipped his fedora. Even if Tsunayoshi may not actually be connected to Vongola as they have thought, it will be better if Ieyoshi can establish a friendship in between them for increasing the chances of sealing an alliance contract with the Cielo Rosa through Tsunayoshi.
...
"Myall, I need you to go to Ie-pii's house. I'm also on my way there, we've got a job to do. Before you complain about your parfait, Ie-pii sounded urgent when he called." Kaios mounted his bike as he spoke onto his phone.
"How did you know I'm eating my parfait? Nevermind, I'll be there though I might take some time because I'm thirty minutes away from Ie-sama's house." Myall said, sounding a bit muffled which Kaios deduced to be because of the spoon in her mouth.
"We need you as fast as possible." Kaios said.
"Don't worry, Kai dear. I'll be there for you baby." Myall flirtily said with a sound of smacking her lips. Kaios cringed at his co-guardian. Myall have always been the flirtiest in their group, completely different from the other girl in their group whose name was Rafi and was the cloud guardian of the group.
"Will you please stop that? It's very much disturbing." Kaios spoke in a disgruntled manner. He could hear Myall chuckle heartily.
"Glad to make you feel uncomfortable. See ya thunder-boy" Myall said and ended the call.
Kaios merely sighed at the usual nickname that Myall called him. He was the lightning guardian so Myall called him that but he just felt irritated to be called in such manner when he had a proper name. Myall was the mist guardian of the group and she was certainly unpredictable and sneaky just like the mist creeping on your feet unknowingly.
Myall took leisure on teasing him. Maybe Myall was actually interested in him but Kaios certainly doesn't feel that way for Myall. Myall was the same age as him, yes, but he can only see her as some troublesome little sister, no more than that. If he would choose someone to go out with, he would prefer to go with Rafi because she's much more tolerable though she's also quite troublesome with her short temper and tendency to be hostile to people.
He just turned his attention to pedaling faster to get to Ieyoshi's house. He didn't entirely liked his tone of voice when he spoke to him on the phone. He sounded quite down too. Ieyoshi had always been the type to stress over things by himself because he doesn't want to trouble anyone with his problems.
Just like that problem he has being the Vongola heir.
...
Tsuna felt very guilty when he faced his mother.
He knew the moment that his mother had laid her eyes at him, she knew that he was injured. His mother was good at hiding her feelings. Thankfully she didn't ask anything about why his arm looked limp and uncomfortable. Though Tsuna knew that she was worried about it.
Kanako just smiled at her like the usual when he returned from his exercise. Telling him to clean up for breakfast and for school, acting like she didn't know.
Tsuna wondered if his mother also had a part in the mafia. He had observed her and her movements were not of the civilian one. As he have thought of before, she had this sharp look in her eyes and her movements were light but slightly tensed, like ready for something to just come out of nowhere. And that regal aura she had time to time.
It wouldn't be surprising if she was actually a mafia boss before.
Tsuna had tried starting his career being a hacker and it had been successful.
The first thing he had done was to join this kind of joint for hackers where they can share free informations and what a coincidence for him to find a person he was very familiar with from the other world. A certain guy who had stomachaches as their intuition.
He had learned things about the recent events within the mafia and one was the wipe out of this one famiglia named 'Avidita', which were a famiglia that was strong with creating firearms. Few of the hackers gave an information about Avidita that they were actually experimenting on children. Whoever the famiglia that annihilated them was still a question. Though there were some that pointed that it might be Vongola because they had also been annihilating famiglias here and there.
There was this opinion that said it might be 'Cielo Rosa'. Tsuna wondered what kind of famiglia is Cielo Rosa. The name just somehow bothered his Hyper Intuition, like telling him that it was important.
He then searched more information about Cielo Rosa on that joint and bam, he found some.
Cielo Rosa was a famiglia that was established forty years ago. When they were still new, no one really noticed their famiglia because they didn't stand out much, until thirty years before, they had managed to take down a big famiglia called Mintro Famiglia with a special squad called ARC. It had been the start of Cielo Rosa Famiglia's fame.
Years passed but no one can ever really get any information about Cielo Rosa. They were then known as the famiglia which was the best in keeping information as they had a strong technology that kept out hackers. It was known after a great hacker had tried to breached into their database but unfortunately, that hacker had suffered serious damages because of the cryptic virus that the famiglia had sent him after his attempt.
And a person named 'Wolf' only fueled the famiglia's fame after he lead the ARC to annihilate three famiglias which were known to have tricked the Cielo Rosa's allied famiglia which was the Artigli Famiglia whose expertise was weapons.
They have rose up to the second spot of the mafia world. Vongola had also been trying to allying the said famiglia but Cielo Rosa seemed to not like the idea of that as they kept refusing the offer. Vongola's connections were vast and the number of their enemies were equal to that. It is said that Cielo Rosa was civil and they do not act upon anything unless it involves something about their own circle. They were the type of famiglias who were neutral to mafia wars.
But there were some rumors that they have secretly allied with Vongola after some incident concerning one of the Vongola child. There weren't that much information about their alliance. Vongola seemed to be active in trying to hunt down whichever famiglia attempted to murder the Vongola child since famiglias went down here and there these past three years.
That really intrigued Tsuna. Why would the Vongola go to the extent of trying to take revenge on whichever famiglia that was for Sawada Ietsuna who was not exactly a heir but somehow you can call a spare. And if ever Cielo Rosa was allied to them, why after that incident?
Tsuna was really intrigued with this Cielo Rosa famiglia. A famiglia who seems to be powerful enough to take the Vongola's spot for being number one because of their strength and also their power of technologies. Hmm, it was very interesting. Besides, he's having some signals when he thinks about this famiglia from his Hyper Intuition.
What if the father of Sawa Tsunayoshi was actually a part of that said famiglia? That was a scary thought but his Hyper Intuition seems to sing a happy tune when he thinks about that. There's no way that is possible though. Sawa Tsunayoshi looked Vongola. Now that's weird. It wracked up Tsunayoshi's brain to think of how these stories fit so well if his father was actually in the Cielo Rosa.
Because Vongola won't just erase mafiosi just for a spare. But if you think that the one who wiped out those famiglias wasn't Vongola but Cielo Rosa, the stories makes more sense if Tsunayoshi's father was a high rank within the Cielo Rosa. And the secret alliance that wasn't confirmed, it would make sense because Tsunayoshi was the only one involved in that incident along with Sawada Ietsuna.
Very interesting indeed. It seems like even if his counterpart was not a Vongola (not confirmed yet) he's still affiliated to some big shot in mafia world.
Tsuna then proceeded to check out the other famiglias like Estraneo, Serpente and Bovino which some of his guardians have been affiliated to back in his world.
Estraneo was still somehow established and working as a weapon-making famiglia. Tsuna knows what kind of weapons they make personally as he remembered Joshima, Ken, Kakimoto Chikusa, and of course, Mukuro.
Serpente didn't come up to his searches. There were no such Famiglia. Well Estraneo was still up so it may mean that Mukuro was still locked up on that disgusting lab, still being experimented on.
Bovino came up to his searches and they were still the small famiglia as he had known back in his world with powerful weapons. There weren't information about their members because they were too small to be even bothered. He wished he could get some information about Lambo in this joint but it seems like he has to hack into their database to see that his well, former lightning guardian was alive.
Tsuna didn't know how to search for Gokudera because he never actually did hear about his father's famiglia, now that he had thought about it. Well he wasn't sure if Bianchi was still the Poison Scorpion Bianchi or Hayato would still be the Smoking Bomb Hayato like back in his world. But it didn't stop him to try.
There no such names that came up when he had searched for those names but he did found Hayato who was said to be a musical prodigal son of the Tempesta Famiglia. Gokudera Hayato was said to be an illegitimate child but his father had doted on him too much that people didn't really thought of that part.
Bianchi seemed to take up a different name. Rather than the Poison Scorpion, she was named as the Purple Death. Well Bianchi's poison cooking was always colored purple so Tsuna didn't really question it.
On top of the changes in their titles and standing, their ages and maybe also their appearance didn't seem to differ that much from how he had remembered them to be.
Anyways, Tsuna was happy with his successful information picking. Though it really interested Tsuna that there was this hacker joint and he was able to hack into that joint though it was quite a challenge for him because he was a first timer. Next time he'll need to check on the Bovino famiglia.
Putting the hacking talk aside, Tsuna was able to get to school safely without getting late. At first he had felt foreign to go to school almost getting late with no demon prefect guarding the school gates with steel tonfas in hands. He couldn't believe that the scary Kyoya he knew was still an innocent five year old child in this world. He felt like crying as he remembered the cute smile on his former cloud guardian's young face.
And it also seemed like there was a new transferee as his classmates gossiped about it when he had walked into their classroom.
He asked about it from Haru who was the only friend he had in the moment even if days had passed. His classmates had stopped bothering him when they realized that he had become close to Haru. Tsuna really feels angry at how they treat Haru but he just decided to be silent about it.
"What's with the transferee thing?" Tsuna asked Haru the moment he had sat down. He didn't even bother to say a greeting because their classmates was so into gossiping about this transferee. He guessed that it's a guy because it's mostly the girls who's talking about the transferee.
"Firstly, good morning to you too Tsunayoshi. And Sasagawa-sensei had come ten minutes earlier to tell us about a guy transferee who will be coming into our class. The girls are excited to see if it's a 'handsome one' or some 'ugly dude'. They've been noisier than ever." Haru rolled her eyes and Tsuna felt pity on Haru because the girl hated noisy, unlike Tsuna who seemed to have brought his immunity to loud things from his own world. If he could share that immunity, he would gladly give it to Haru.
"I wonder what kind of person is the transferee. I hope we can be friends because I'm also new." Tsuna said. Haru just shook her head at him.
"You ain't dragging that guy in our group if he's noisy." Haru threatened.
"We ain't a group Haru. There's only two of us at the moment. We're still a pair not a group." Tsuna pointed out but he put a hand on his mouth when Haru gave him her glare.
"I know that damn well Sawa Tsunayoshi. I'm not dumb." Haru said and she turned to her book in hand with a frown marring her face.
"Hey, I'm sorry. Don't get mad at me, please? I know you certainly don't like people crowding like a certain person I know. I didn't mean to give such a smartass remark–"
"You know what? I regret speaking to you." Haru said and Tsuna couldn't suppress his chuckle anymore. Haru just fumed more because Tsuna seemed to like to tease her somehow.
"Don't be so grumpy. Anyways, I won't ask the guy to be my friend if he's potentially noisy. Don't worry, you can have me all alone." Tsuna teasingly said and a blush crept up to Haru's cheeks.
"Wha–! You–!" Haru looked so embarrassed and angry that Tsuna couldn't help but laugh. Haru started beating him with the book she was reading that Tsuna stopped laughing and yelped at every hit he received from his friend.
"Sorry, sorry! I won't tease you anymore!" Tsuna felt thankful when Haru did listen to him. Haru just cleared her throat as she went back to reading her book even if the redness of her cheeks still haven't subsided.
Their loud homeroom teacher then came inside the classroom with a booming voice, telling the students to go back to their seats with a silver haired student in tow. Tsuna almost chocked when he saw a familiar but unfamiliar face of his former bomber friend back in his world.
"Okay, I've told you this morning that we've got another guy to add in our pack. I know it's quite fast when Tsunayoshi just recently came, I hope you treat him well like how you did to Tsunayoshi." Ryohei said. He then signed for the new student to introduce himself.
"Nice to meet you all. My name is Gokudera Hayato and I came from Italy to Japan due to family reasons. I will be in your care from now on." Hayato bowed down ninety degrees.
Tsuna was surprised to see Hayato looking prom and proper, unlike the delinquent-like appearance he had back in his world. This may have been the biggest shock he's got ever since he's got here because there would be no way in the world that his Storm guardian will act polite to strangers.
He had donned a square shaped glasses as he had his hair in a neat low ponytail. His uniform was free from creases and was neatly worn, buttons properly hastened. He had the air of a rich son. Tsuna thought that this change might have been because of how he was raised differently from back in his world. This world's Hayato had a loving father who accepted him despite being a child outside of marriage. And it seemed like he had also pursued the career of being a pianist because of his mother.
"Hmm, where should we put you? There are two seats available. I guess you can just sit behind Tsunayoshi since he's also new here. I'm sure you two will get along. Tsunayoshi, will you raise your hand?" Ryohei said. Tsuna waved at Hayato with a friendly smile but Hayato kept his straight face.
Hayato may be polite and proper than before but it seems like he doesn't warm up to people that easily. It was quite foreign for Tsuna just like Haru's personality.
Hayato made his was to his own seat while girls were staring dumbly at him. Even if he didn't have the bad boy look that the girls back in his world liked, Hayato was still fairly handsome either way.
Tsuna immediately turned to Hayato when he got into his seat.
"Hello! My name is Sawa Tsunayoshi. I'm also new here. I came here last week. You can ask me some things if you don't know about some things. Also she's Miura Haru. She's really smart and helped me with some things. You can also ask her." Tsuna said.
Haru narrowed his eyes at Tsuna. "I didn't agree to help him though?" She said.
"Don't mind her. You can ask her anytime you want." Tsuna ignored her words.
Hayato just watched Tsuna without a word. Tsuna wondered if it was bad for him to be that straightforward because he really, reaaally did want to become friends with Hayato when he still can't even speak to Takeshi who distanced himself to people right now.
"I will..." Hayato replied after a few seconds of silence. Tsuna smiled awkwardly when Hayato kept on staring at him with a straight face.
Tsuna just cleared his throat and smiled at him before he faced the front and started listening to their teacher's important notices.
...
When the break came, Tsuna one upped his classmates as he immediately turned Hayato's attention to himself. He could feel his classmates glare at him because he was clearly telling them to 'fuck off for now'.
"Hey Gokudera-kun, what kind of school did you go to in Italy?" Tsuna asked.
Hayato stared at him again. Tsuna wondered why in the world is Hayato staring so much at him. Did he really make a bad first impression that Hayato thinks he's weird? No, Tsuna doesn't want Hayato to hate him!
"Tsunayoshi, don't ask too much questions! Just remember how our classmates interrogated you on the first day. You're just doing the same thing as him!" Haru reprimanded him. Tsuna held an expression of guilt.
"I'm sorry. I'm too pushy. I just want to be friends with Gokudera-kun." Tsuna apologized.
"It's fine." "It's okay even if you don't want to be friends now–"
Tsuna blinked as he felt like his ears failed him.
"I can be your friend." Hayato repeated. Tsuna immediately brightened and Haru rolled her eyes because Tsuna's dangerous weapon was unlocked again.
What Haru learned these past few days she spent with Tsuna is that, her friend had this special trait, a deadly weapon that can make people like him in a span of seconds. And that was his million kilowatt smile that was so bright that Haru's glasses had cracked, well not literally.
Haru discreetly glanced at their classmates who have been watching the interaction. Haru knew they felt resentment to Tsuna because he decided to hang out with some weird person like her but Haru also knew that they were also contented to just see one of Tsuna's kilowatt smiles. Some does wish those smiles are directed at them though.
"It seems like you're getting along." A soft voice interrupted Tsuna's chatter to Hayato.
Haru also noticed that one particular pair of eyes held heavy jealousy had been directed at her recently. And those eyes belonged to this person, Sasagawa Kyoko who was actually the younger sibling of their homeroom teacher but there was not biased treatment in their class.
Kyoko at first didn't seem to have any interest with Tsunayoshi until two days ago when they had started speaking. Kyoko then sometimes came to their side with her friend Kurokawa Hana to speak with Tsuna.
"Oh, Sasagawa-san, Kurokawa-san." Tsuna exclaimed.
"I hope you don't mind us joining, Gokudera-san, Miura-san." Kyoko said with a smile.
Haru didn't say anything. Kyoko was someone with a nice personality but it seemed like he didn't really like Haru for some reasons as she threw jealous glances at her. Kyoko and Haru never interacted before Tsuna's arrival so it puzzled Haru as to why Kyoko secretly but not so secretly hated her.
"I don't mind unless you're not disturbing me." Haru said, not really minding about them.
"I, we will be careful." Kyoko said with her usual smile.
Tsuna had also caught on that there was something in between Haru and Kyoko recently since Kyoko had started speaking to him. He doesn't really understand why they didn't get along. Well, Haru was elusive to interacting with others so it's understandable that she doesn't speak to Kyoko that much but he doesn't understand Kyoko's hidden hostility to Haru.
Did they somehow had a dispute before?
"I'm Sasagawa Kyoko and this is Kurokawa Hana. Nice to meet you Gokudera-san." Kyoko introduced.
"Just call me Kurokawa, monkey." Hana said with her arms crossed. Kyoko smiled weakly at her friend's action.
"Nice to meet you." Hayato said in a straight face while dipping his head slightly as a greeting. Tsuna sighed at that. It seems like Hayato and Hana in this world won't be able to get along just like in his world. He just had that vibes by their interaction. Tsuna cried mentally at his thought.
"Is it your first time in Japan, Gokudera-san? Your Japanese is really fluent." Kyoko commented.
Hayato nodded his head. "My father is partly Japanese and we had our Japanese relatives frequent our house since I was younger but I never visited Japan. I learned speaking the language from them." Hayato replied.
"That's so cool! Since learning English is already mandatory, it means you speak three languages!" Tsuna commented. Not that he didn't know a couple of languages himself.
"It's really troublesome to speak many languages. You will forget a word in a certain language but you know it in another language. I experience it commonly." Hayato said. Tsuna was kinda taken aback at the sudden talking of Hayato. He didn't seem to be be into speaking with them earlier. Did his compliment sparked him up?
Anyways, Tsuna understood what Hayato had said. He also sometimes had that predicament. But not that frequent, thanks to Reborn's not so gentle ways of teaching.
"That really sounds troubling. It would be embarrassing if you get stuck while speaking to someone you're not used to speaking with. Are you fine with us?" Tsuna asked Hayato. The latter seemed to have paused for a few seconds while staring at Tsuna before he nodded in response.
Tsuna was getting worried with his pauses and stares. Maybe Tsuna really did made him feel uncomfortable.
"Kyoko, we shouldn't waste any more time with the monkeys. We won't be able to prepare for the next class." Hana said, looking impatient. Hana didn't seem to like to mingle with them. Even when Kyoko spoke to Tsuna the first time, she was only silently watching the side while looking irritated.
"Ah, sorry Hana-chan. I guess we need to cut the conversation here. I hope we can speak more later." Kyoko said and flashed them a grateful smile.
"You can speak to us anytime, Sasagawa-san." Tsuna said. He just pretended he didn't hear the small click of Haru's tongue behind him, who was reading her own novel.
Kyoko and Hana then returned to their respective seats.
"I really don't understand why you're speaking to those popular ones. You do know that you're throwing hate onto yourself for being close with her, Tsunayoshi. You're already disliked enough for mingling with me and now you're hogging the attention of the school idol and also this transferee here." Haru pointed her thumb to Hayato who seemed unbothered by Haru's distasteful eyes.
"I don't see any bad reason to be friends with you Haru. And I'll only get more hate if I had rejected Sasagawa-san to speak with me. To add to that, I am not hogging Ha–Gokudera-kun's attention. If they want to talk to him, they should just do it." Tsuna nonchalantly said. Though he lied about the last part. He did kinda told the others to back off with his eyes.
Haru could only sigh exasperatedly at him. "Suit yourself Tsunayoshi. I'm just so done with you." She said.
Their teacher then came in to start the class.
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"Hey Gian, are you really gonna keep me like this for a week? How many days have passed? Three? Four? You aren't serious right?"
Giancarlo looked at his charge distastefully. If only he knew that he wanted to just kill him badly rather than keep him in his apartment for God's sake.
"As much as I don't want to keep you here in my apartment Dino, Ieyoshi specifically ordered me to do so. It was also seconded by Reborn to keep you tied up nicely." Gian sighed as he ran his hair through his blazing red hair, glancing at the tied up Dino on his sofa.
"Just how the hell is this nice!! These ropes are killing me already!" Dino snapped. Gian eyes how the ropes are digging into his skin, clearly it would be leaving marks that will last for a long while.
"Just think of it as punishment for making Ieyoshi suffer for having to take care of some shit like you." Gian mumbled tiredly. He didn't really sign up for this when he became the storm guardian for his friend.
Dino watched the redhead make his way to his own fridge and pluck out a can of black coffee. Him and Giancarlo never really been together alone for that long because Gian was not a patient guy. He would mostly snap at people when he's not in the mood but somehow they were able to tolerate each other for three to four days.
"Hey Gian, did you hear something about your cousin?" Dino asked. The other turned to him with a raised brow.
"Bianchi? No, but if you're telling me that she's coming here, I'm not that surprised because Reborn-san is here." Gian said. Dino shook his head at him.
"I didn't mean Bianchi, I meant Hayato. Actually I bumped into him while I was buying some tickets to head to Japan. He was also buying tickets for Japan. He said he had some business here but as far as I know, there weren't any piano competitions here. I saw his flight date and it was yesterday–"
"Yesterday? Why didn't you tell me?" Gian said, a frown marring his friend. Dino gave him a confused look.
"So you don't know. Honestly I forgot about it and remembered just now. Why would that kid go here? He's not actually doing some mafia business is he?" Dino said.
"Yes. He actually started doing some. I don't know if you heard about it but he's called Red Turbulence. It's a weird title don't you think so?" Gian chuckled. His cousin was always sheltered and all so it was hard for him to imagine what he's done to achieve such destructive name.
"Anyways, did he tell you anything when you met him?" Gian asked.
"I couldn't ask because he left immediately. From what I've seen from his ticket, he should have landed at Narita. But isn't that the nearest airport here?" Dino asked.
"You aren't telling me he followed us here like you?" Gian said with a raised brow.
Dino just shrugged at him. "Well it's an eligible reason as to why he's here. Or maybe he has some mission? You did tell me that he started doing some Mafia business. But it's not that dangerous to think that he might have followed you." He said.
Giancarlo groaned at the blonde's statement.
"Either way, I hope he won't cause trouble. Even if he's a sheltered and a good-mannered kid, he sometimes tends to be short-tempered so I'm a little bit worried. I just hope it won't involve us Vongola. We're already done just by you." Gian said to Dino. Dino just laughed sheepishly at him.
"Putting that aside, can't you release me even just for five minutes? Please?" Dino asked Gian and did some puppy on eyes on him. Gian just threw him a disgusted look. "No way in hell. Just suffer." He said and walked away to go to the bathroom.
Dino just sighed at his failed attempt.