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A tense atmosphere surrounded the room.
Wolf had dropped a crucial information and the others, his squad did not know how to react to it that they have fallen into silence.
Who would have thought that their enemy would go to such lengths just to take down the Cielo Rosa. Just how despicable, disgusting would they be to just destroy them for some measly reason as a revenge for their sullied honor when clearly, they have been the ones to have brought it upon themselves centuries ago and Cielo Rosa definitely don't have any cause to it.
To think that they would make an army of experimented children, to force night flames into their bodies, no, they definitely didn't know how to react upon this.
"What about the Vindice?" One had spoken.
Wolf sighed.
"I do not know. I am confused that they seem to be missing in action." He answered.
Silence settled again.
Cheetah was not taking in this information well. Not when those bastard had thought of taking Tsunayoshi as one of their lab rats and damn, that would have been the reason of Cielo Rosa's fall.
Panther noticed how pale Cheetah have become so he slipped his hand beside him to hold the woman's clammy hands, sending a wave of rain flames to calm her down. Cheetah responded with channeling her mist flames.
"Because of the turn of events, I'm planning to fly to Japan to speak with Kana. It will be next week. I will have to ask you all to hold the fort before I come back. Now that we've confirmed our thoughts about this matter, we will be planning for a future attack." Wolf said.
"Yes, Sir." All of them responded in chorus with practiced ease.
Wolf smiled at them endearingly, lifting the tense atmosphere to a light, comforting one.
"I also have good news to the all of you. You see, when I spoke with my beloved wife, she told me that our precious son had finally woken up from his slumber!" Wolf said, or Yoshino with his current demeanor.
Relieved murmurs and excited voices erupted within the room.
Cheetah was gripping Panther's hand tight as Panther had completely slackened at the news. Rodent, also one of the high-ranking officers within the squad had his eyes wide despite the fact that he rarely had any kind of expression on his face.
"When? How? What?" Cheetah asked.
"Kana didn't let me ask. But she said she will tell me more about Tsunayoshi's state after the meeting. I decided to go back to Japan because of this. And I also need one of us that we can trust Tsuna's life with. Now that they are on the move and Tsunayoshi is out of the hospital, out of Vongola's protection, he is vulnerable." Yoshino sighed.
"I think...we have someone fitting for the role." Rodent hesitantly said.
The members of the ARC turned to look at the sun flame user. It was rare for him to suggest things. And certainly when he does, it is definitely something, someone good. They know to take up his advice when he gives it.
"We could use Lambo Bovino. The youngest heir of the recently allied Bovino. I heard that he's a lightning. Lightnings are the best at defence. He's near Tsunayoshi-sama's age so he can supervise him even in school as long as he attends the same classes. Wouldn't it be the best fit?" Rodent said.
After a few moments, disagreeing voices had erupted. Yes, they did take Rodent's advice because they were always accurate and helpful but this time was not the same.
Lambo Bovino. They know that 13 year old child. Heck, everyone knew that reckless, arrogant, snotty brat who was a crybaby. Yes, the child seems to have a dimensional pocket where his firearms suddenly appear out of nowhere but to have the child protect the precious life of their leader's child? That's just endangering Tsunayoshi-sama's life!
"Are you insane?! That kid is reckless with his own weapons! He even hurts himself in the process of using his own firearms! That'll just kill Tsunayoshi-sama!" One member voiced. Some others agreed and protested against Rodent's suggestion.
Wolf then brought himself to smack his hand on the long meeting table to settle the others down.
"Silence. I am sure there are other reasons you have suggested Bovino's youngest, Rodent." Wolf said.
Rodent nodded. Unfazed by the other members' heated glares.
"Lambo, unlike his older brother, is incompetent. I am aware of that myself. His childish personality, reckless and snotty, I do know and I have witnessed it myself. But I believe that is merely a facade of the child. I apologize but I had actually taken myself to check the young Bovino's peculiarity and I have found the fact that it was a facade." Rodent said.
Wolf raised a brow at that. It has been a while since Rodent had taken interest in someone and acted upon himself and had investigated. Even so, he gestured Rodent to continue.
"The child acts like that to keep his father's attention away from him. The child is atually intelligent, quite a bit on the lazy side when he has his guard down. He does not want to ascend to the throne when it was clear that he was much more capable of his brother. That's why he's acting 'unfit' to be the heir." Rodent explained.
Wolf grinned at the information. As expected of his trusted partner to do his job the best.
"I suppose you people now accepts Rodent's opinion?" Cheetah turned to the members who opposed. She had actually been the one to establish that Rodent's suggestions are to be accepted and to be followed as they were the best. Who would have thought that there were still people who disagreed to that.
Those said members nodded and apologized to their member. Rodent just shrugged it off. It was not like it hurt him or anything. It was expected.
"Well then, I will entrust Lambo to you Rodent. I trust that you will be able to have him fly to Japan and arrange the papers of his placement within Tsuna's class. Though he's a year younger, I believe you can do something about that." Wolf said. Rodent only nodded.
"Now that we've settled this matter, I ask some of you to arrange a flight for next week. And Panther, we will be having audience with Vongola Nono tomorrow. And I need a small squad to report the children we've collected from the Avidita and get me some files of the missing children of some famiglia and even civilian families. I'll need another squad to arrange adoption papers for some people who's willing to take in some of the orphaned child. And we'll take in some of the children within the famiglia if they do not have anyone." Wolf said.
The ARC meeting was finally dismissed but the high-ranking members of the ARC remained within the room.
"Are you sure you're going to Japan? Wouldn't that be risky? You do know that they recognize your face." Cheetah said.
"It has been two years since I sneaked into Namimori. And I've seen my son's lifeless form. I just want to see him now that he's awake. He's alive Tania. And I want to him with my own eyes. I want to make sure that he's safe, he's fine." Yoshino said.
"Will you be going alone?" Panther asked.
"I'm actually considering taking one of you three. But I need someone to supervise the famiglia." Yoshino sighed.
"The best choice to take would be you Lucian but I have already assigned you to take care of Bovino." Yoshino looked over the silent Rodent who dipped his head in response to his name.
"And obviously I'd have to leave Tania because she's the best in making the famiglia move properly." Cheetah nodded in understanding that she will not be able to leave Italy.
"But I can't take you Karell, considering that the Vongola seems to have sent their Decimo back in Namimori." Panther froze.
Yoshino raised a brow at that looked at Cheetah with a questioning look. She looked guilty and apologetic when she met his gaze.
He sighed and massaged his temples.
"I guess Tania have forgotten to tell you that your brother, Kaios is at Japan. But I'm curious as to why you didn't know in the first place when it concerns your brother." He said.
"I didn't have time to check my brother's current agenda. Now that I know, you can't have your trusted attendants to go with you." Panther sighed. Yoshino smiled at them.
"It's not like I can't take care of myself." He told them. He merely got glares from the two people of the three.
"Ho~ Who was the one who was on the verge of death that Rodent had to save? Panther who was it again?" Cheetah grinned at him menacingly.
"Oh I know him well Cheetah. I remember having to take care of the enemy to have Rodent save our boss who claims he can take care of himself." Panther said, his voice laced with dripping sarcasm.
Rodent merely avoided Wolf's pleading gaze to help him from his members.
Let's just say, Yoshino had to face the wrath of his two overprotective subordinates with Rodent dismissing himself from the matter, leaving the boss to fend for himself.
...
Wolf chewed on his lip as he read through the files they had been able to get from Avidita. There were some files that he searched but wasn't there. It seems like 'Franco' had been able to keep some of their files.
Especially that kid with mist flames that helped him back there. He remembered Franco calling him 'Muku-chan'. In any other way, that kid had been bothering his thoughts for a while.
He was injured at that time so he never thought about it but now that he was in a state where he can use his brain properly, that kid's flames were somehow familiar. He can put a finger on it but there was a sense of déjà vu right then.
Mist.
Who were the mists he know? There's quite a number of mists he knew but since he felt strongly familiar to it, he's sure that it was one of the people he was close to. And there were only three people he was extremely close to, one of his commanders, a former friend, and a certain pervert doctor that probably doesn't remember him anymore.
If he would pick out of those three, his commander and the doctor will be out.
His commander, codename Spider. He's just as elusive to people as Rodent, maybe even more worse as no one really knows about him except most of the high-ranking officials in ARC. He knew Spider well to know that he wouldn't likely have a son. A brother would be impossible as he knew that he didn't have any relatives due to a fairly sensitive reason. So he was out.
Now the pervert doctor, Shamal. He remembers his friend's signature flame well and it clashes with how the kid's flame felt so he was out. And Shamal definitely doesn't have a son at that age. If he had, it means that the doctor had impregnated a woman as a young teen, so no. It's impossible.
That left Kuroyanagi Mako. Kanako's former friend and his as well. The woman was formerly a Cielo Rosa member until she suddenly disappeared one day. They could not track her anywhere as she was an expert in covering her tracks. Although, most have thought she's dead, Kanako and he still stuck to believing she's still alive and hiding somewhere.
Wolf pinched the bridge of his nose. If the kid was actually related to Mako, and knowing what happened to the kid, maybe Mako did really die as he knows that she would never abandon a blood of her own to be experimented by some mad mafiosi.
God. Mako was a sister to him. He really wish it wasn't like that.
Anyways, he still has to track down the other famiglia that's connected to Avidita and dispose of them to stop this ridiculous experiment. And also those people.
He won't let them touch his famiglia. He promised Kanako that Cielo Rosa will stand strong in honor for what happened in the past.
Even if it costs his life.
...
Kanako felt her flames flare as she had gone into a fit of panic when she found that her son was not at home. She had a really bad feeling and she hoped nothing happened to her child.
She did notice that her son's arm was injured this morning. She just shrugged it off that maybe Tsuna tripped and grazed his arm. But she hadn't thought maybe someone actually hurt him.
What if he's abducted again? What if this time he dies?
Kanako pushed her thoughts away. She needs to calm down and think rationally and not just jump into conclusions. Maybe his son was actually at the cafe now and she just missed him on her way back. Or maybe he's still at school, with his new friends. He did tell her that he made friends with someone.
She took out her phone and started dialing the school to check.
...
Ieyoshi and Giancarlo arrived at the Namimori Junior High just as a big explosion had resounded at the back of the school. Both had exchanged looks and immediately dashed there, hoping that nothing serious actually happened even with the loud explosion just now.
But their wishes were clearly went unheard when they saw the state of the school backyard had been, especially the crumpled form of two teens at the side.
"Gian, go call Reborn! Or maybe Xelo! Just call a sun!" Ieyoshi snapped out of his shock and immediately went to the unconscious teens' side. He grimaced when he saw how badly Tsuna's injuries had looked and felt horrified when he realized that he took the most injuries, trying to protect Gian's cousin.
Gian was speaking in a rapid fire Italian to Reborn as he explained what happened. His eyes were flickering around the place as he counted the damages and thought of what he would have to do along with Ieyoshi after this.
"Wait there for five minutes. I had Myall call the hospital they should be there after five. I'll be also needing to dial Nono about this incident. Just hope that Tempesta will still be standing the next day Gian. Vongola will definitely not gamble to hide this to their temporarily allied famiglia, risking them to become the enemy." Reborn said.
Gian just responded with an 'I understand' and the call had ended. He would have to speak to Bianchi about this. If he had just gotten here sooner, then maybe this would have been prevented.
He jogged towards Ieyoshi and he winced at the sight.
His cousin was completely fine with some few burns and a scratch on his head. But the brown-haired boy was not caring well with severe burns, bruises, cuts. And his head was bleeding badly.
"Whatever happened, Tsunayoshi had saved your cousin. I moved Tsunayoshi but he was on top of Hayato when I got here by their side. Maybe Hayato-kun did a mistake with explosives and Tsunayoshi-kun had pushed him out of the way or something." Ieyoshi explained as his hand glowed a faint yellow on top of Tsuna's forehead.
Ieyoshi has sun flames as his secondary flames but he has trouble tapping onto it. Even now he was struggling conjuring it. But he needed to at least heal Tsuna's head injury or it might become much more serious. The younger had just woken up from a coma. He wouldn't want to risk one again.
Gian noticed. Even with the dirtied and bloodied face of this Sawa Tsunayoshi kid, the face was quite familiar. He couldn't quite put a finger to it but he swore he had seen that face somewhere in Italy before. But did that mean he somehow accidentally met this kid's parents before?
Ieyoshi had also taken notice of Gian's staring at the brown-haired teen. He was sure his storm guardian is feeling conflicted at the moment and Ieyoshi doesn't really want to elaborate about it at the moment. On the other hand, he was quite bewildered at Gian's cousin.
As he have lived within the Vongola estate for a long time, he has seen the Vongola 1st Generation portraits for how many times. He almost had a heart attack when he had moved Tsuna away from Hayato to see a first generation storm guardian clone.
He never met Hayato before in face but they knew of each other's existence. And he didn't expect such a familiar face resting on his friend's cousin's face.
Maybe he should have brought Gian further into the portrait room so that he could have also seen the Vongola First Generation Guardians, not just the Primo.
And five minutes later, the sound of ambulance had blared through the streets and the two teens were immediately taken away. Reborn was also riding the ambulance along with his sun guardian Xelo.
Gian and Xelo had rode the ambulance to the hospital as Reborn and Ieyoshi stayed in the school to speak to the teachers that had come to the place when they had heard the ambulance. Ieyoshi was quite worried that they didn't react to the explosion but reached to the ambulance sirens.
"We apologize as Gokudera Hayato is a prodigy from a rich family and people have been targeting him even in Italy. We will be taking over the situation here and please don't worry about the damages. We will also be taking care of that part." Ieyoshi spoke to the old teacher.
"Y-yes, yes. I will assign a different teacher to discuss this matter and also the homeroom teacher of Gokudera and Sawa." The teacher said.
"Is there a teacher named Hibari Fong here? I think it would be best if he was the one appointed as he is connected to the Hibari Police Force." Reborn said.
"I was actually thinking of appointing him already. If you would please follow me to the office." The teacher said.
...
"Yes, this is the Namimori Junior Highschool Sasagawa. How may I help you?"
Kanako gulped down the lump on her throat as she started to speak.
"Hello, this is Sawa Tsunayoshi's mother. I called to ask if my son is still within the school premises as he still haven't gone back home his usual time." Kanako said.
"Ah, Mrs. Sawa. I'm sorry to say that I cannot confirm wether he's still within the school. I believe I did see him leave the school building when the school hours ended. But it is quite worrying to hear that he's still not at home."
Kanako licked her dried lips as sweat started forming on her forehead. Tsuna was not at school. She really didn't want to think that something bad happened to him but she just can't shrug off the bad feeling she was getting.
"It's okay Sasagawa-sensei. Maybe he's at our café. I'll just go check there." Kanako said.
"If he's still not ther–hmm? I'm sorry excuse me for a moment."
The call was suddenly held as the school anthem's tune replaced the baritone voice of the school teacher.
Kanako briefly inhaled and exhaled as she tried to calm down her fast-paced beating of her heart that seemed to threaten to burst out of her chest.
It wasn't like she wasn't used to nerve-racking situations before but this time, she was not standing in front of a barrel of a gun with her life depending on that one moment the bullet shoots out from that gun that's pointed at her, she was worried about her son's current state, hoping that nothing happened at him despite her intuition blaring that something was wrong.
She learned to listen to her own 'mother's intuition', as people called it. It had made her son go into a three-year coma before, and it might finally cost her her own son this time that it makes her more paranoid than when she heard from Peacock that Yoshino sustained life-threatening injuries.
Then there was a click and the school anthem stopped playing. There was a shaky and unsure sigh from the other line, then the clearing of the throat.
Kanako knew at that moment, that something really happened to her child.
"I'm sorry Mrs. Sawa but it seems like your son has been sent to the hospital. There had been an accident in school."
Kanako felt horrified that she couldn't keep up her composure like how she did when she was speaking with Peacock.
...
Tsuna found himself in the familiar vast dark place. It has been a long time since he was pushed out of this place to live his counterpart's life. And he has been concerned of what has happened to his counterpart as they didn't exactly know how to communicate with him.
He let his eyes wander around the place, looking for the small figure of his counterpart as he remembered that he had taken a form of a young child due to some reasons. Then there had been a glow. A yellow glow.
"Yoshi?" Tsuna was confused as he approached that yellow glow.
As he neared towards that glow, he found the form of his counterpart, unconscious, with orange colored chains bound tightly onto his skin. It started from his feet, legs, crawling up to his torso, to his chest, to his arms, to nowhere. He was spread out like an eagle, dangling in the air with the chains supporting him up.
The sickly looking face of his counterpart worried Tsuna deeply. He was confused and albeit scared for his counterpart who looked like he was suffering from whatever happening to him.
He frowned as he looked at the chains. What were those orange chains? Was is the 'anchor' thing? Or was is it flames, considering that it were orange? Were those chains the reason Yoshi is glowing? Was it devouring his soul? How long has he been like this? How can he get Yoshi out of those chains?
Tsuna then tried to touch the chains but then he immediately regretted it when a surge of sky flames lashed out on him, mildly burning his hand.
Now those chains also started glowing like it's warding off anyone.
Tsuna plopped down on the floor(?), ground(?), and stared at his counterpart. It seems like it's impossible to get Yoshi out of those chains nor even knowing anything about it. He didn't really know what to do inside that scape. He doesn't know how to get out and he doesn't know what's happening to his counterpart.
He doesn't want to try and attempt to touch those chains again as he didn't even know what they were not how they affected Yoshi. He really didn't want to risk hurting his counterpart to try and fiddle with those chains again.
But then there was a voice. An eerily familiar voice that he was sure to have heard it many times back in his world to not possibly know.
Then turned to see a face resembling his own.
"Primo." He said.
There was his great great great grandfather, standing in his glory, with the signature pinstripe suit and the cloak that he had been accustomed to wear time to time, gloves with the insignia of Vongola, the same to his but with an 'I' rather than 'X'. Sky flames were flickering strongly on his forehead, calm eyes gazing at him.
"It has been a while." Primo said.
Tsuna stares at him in shock, his mouth slightly agape. He didn't know why Giotto was there in Tsunayoshi's mindscape. Or was it not his mindscape but some place where souls would roam? Or was he somehow pulled by Yoshi into here too, like him?
"Why I'm here can be explained later. I think explaining your counterpart's situation is much more important than asking why I am here in his mindscape." Primo told Tsuna.
"Yoshi, as you call him, is currently in a 'preserving' state. I think you know that he's acting as an anchor to Sawada Ietsuna's soul." Tsuna nodded at that.
"Ietsuna is slipping away and he was pulling Tsunayoshi along with him." Primo said.
Tsuna's eyebrow furrowed at that. Giotto looked at Yoshi and Tsuna did the same as his ancestor.
"Those chains belong to Ietsuna. That's how strong they're bound together. You touched those chains and the reaction was immediate to ward off anyone from Yoshi. Yoshi have been trying to stick to this world after you took over his body. To be exact, he has been doing this from the start and it actually has become better for him that you're here. Your flames help him from being pulled along." Primo explained.
"But what is this preserving state, Primo?" Tsuna asked.
"You're injured gravely Decimo. Yoshi originally had Sun flames and as it is his body even if you're there, his flames are trying to mend the damages, making him looking like that." Giotto said.
Tsuna looked at Yoshi with guilt. It had been his fault that Yoshi was looking like that. It pained him to see his counterpart looking sickly. In a child's body on the top of all. If he wasn't so reckless, then Yoshi wouldn't have to suffer more than he did.
"Will he be alright, Primo?" Tsuna asked worriedly.
"As far as I can tell, he will be fine. Though it will strain his soul as he's burdened with those chains at the same time. But there is a way to help him with his burden." Primo said. Tsuna looked at him inquiringly.
"You can be an anchor to Yoshi-kun, Tsunayoshi." Primo smiled at him.
"An anchor? But wouldn't that pull me out of Yoshi's body?" Tsuna said.
"No, it won't. Just think of it as a rope or some chain of sorts. Ietsuna is far from life and unfortunately he is connected to Yoshi that prevents him from going back to his body. Since Ietsuna is getting dangerously close to the other side, Yoshi can't help but being pulled father away from his body even if he's not supposed to die. Since you are 'living' and of course your soul, your flames are far stronger than the normal, you can keep them away from the other side." Primo explained.
"And it is also possible for me to pull them back to the living, slowly." Tsuna said and Primo nodded at him with an approving smile.
"You can ease Yoshi's burden if you take a part of it. And he is quite fragile at the moment as he's sending his flames to your body to heal. If somehow Ietsuna decides to tug at the chains, there might be a chance that Yoshi-kun will be dragged away." Primo said.
"Then what are we waiting for Primo?! What if that actually happens? I don't plan on living as Yoshi all his life!" Tsuna panicked when he heard that.
"Calm down. Since both of us are here, that won't happen easily." Primo calmed Tsuna down but he was still frowning in worry.
"Why are we here in the first place Primo? Why are you here?" Tsuna asked.
"To answer your question simply, I'm here because you're here Tsunayoshi. But I do not understand well why you are here." Primo smiled.
"Why I am with is is because you are my descendant, my successor, the Vongola Decimo and you bear my will. I am here as a part of you. The moment I accepted you as my successor, I have always been with you." Primo said.
"Then..." Tsuna trailed off.
"I've seen everything and I am proud of you." Primo said. "You've made a great change in your world. You changed the mafia but sadly there are some people who can't change easily. But even so, you had many people follow you so loyally."
"You don't know but you have many people looking after you even in afterlife. After all, you are a sky with pure flames and an unbreakable resolve. An encompassing sky that accepts different kinds of elements, caring for them, protecting them. You don't know what happened after you left that world Tsunayoshi. With no people like you, everything just crumbles." Primo said.
Tsuna knew that Primo is telling him that the moment he died in his world, mafia has fell into nothing but bloodshed as Vongola who put famiglias in place have fallen. That peaceful era has ended the moment Vongola had fallen. He didn't want to think of what has happened to his guardians and family after that.
"In any other way, I'll be here to guide you Tsunayoshi. You are not alone in this." Primo put a hand on his shoulder.
Tsuna nodded as he made up his resolve.
"Alright. How do I become an anchor for Yoshi?"
...
"Vongola. Please keep off the questions." Xelo said as his hands glowed yellow while he was also mounted on the stretcher of Tsuna the moment they got off the ambulance.
Since the mention of the name, the doctor who was in charge barked orders to the nurses to call some specific doctors in a rush. The stretcher was being rolled to the emergency room hastily.
Xelo had been struggling to regenerate the damaged tissues on Tsuna's back by activating the cells as his control with his sun flames were not still on par with a skilled mafia medic. And he has never used his flames on a heavy injury like this.
When they got to the emergency room, some doctors took over the healing and Xelo had to get off the stretcher and wait outside. Gian then joined him as Hayato was also brought into the emergency room because of his head injury.
"Giancarlo, that guy..." Xelo trailed off.
He knew that face. Xelo has an eidetic memory. He remembers when Ieyoshi brought them to the Vongola mansion and when they passed through the portrait of the first Vongola Boss.
"He looks a lot like Primo Gian." He said. Gian's eyebrows shot up at Xelo's statement. Now that he thought about it, he felt oddly familiar with the brunet's face but he couldn't pinpoint it but thanks to Xelo, he finally realized why.
"You don't think..." Gian frowned.
"I don't know. It could just be one of those 'coincidentally looking alike someone but not related' thing. I don't know what Fratellone is thinking about this. He seemed to know him, also Signor Reborn. Maybe they also think that he's related to the Primo. You do know how much Fratellone dislike the thought of being the decimo..." Xelo said.
Gian only patted the twelve-year-old on his back to let him know that he knows what he's talking about and he understands it just like him.
"I will follow Ieyoshi anywhere Xelo. Though I do wish he stops putting himself down as he is a great boss." Gian said.
"I'm not sure if I would...they will forcefully take me back if Fratellone didn't become the decimo." Xelo said.
Gian just stood silent. Xelo didn't mind because he knows that if he was in the position of Gian, he would never know what to say.
He just wish that Ieyoshi will never give up the position even if Nono finds out about this.
...
Reborn and Ieyoshi was currently speaking to Fon and Ryohei.
Fon was sending Reborn questioning looks that the latter ignored as he and Ieyoshi lied to the white-haired civilian teacher about what had happened and about their occupation.
"We are sorry for what had happened and about Sawa-kun. We were Gokudera's bodyguards and yet we had let Sawa-kun be involved and be hurt." Ieyoshi said.
"I don't really know what to do even if you apologize to me. What happened has happened and the most troubling matter here is not just the damage but also Sawa's mother. I did tell her that her son was in the hospital when Kondō-sensei informed me. And before I could explain to her, she had hung up on me and for sure she is heading to the hospital at the moment." Ryohei said.
"Sawa had only woken up from a long-term coma and Mrs. Sawa definitely didn't take that very well. And from what I can tell, it seems like Sawa is gravely injured. I think you need to talk to her today, right now at the moment, not be here discussing the damages with us." Ryohei said.
"I hope you don't mind Fong-sensei but I also wish to go to the hospital to check on Sawa and Gokudera. And also Mrs. Sawa. I'm quite acquainted to her as my sister likes visiting her café and I'm sure she needs someone to support her as her husband is away with his job at the moment." Ryohei said.
"No, I don't mind. I actually also want to check on Tsunayoshi-kun because he actually helped my lost nephew this morning. I'd want to see if he's actually okay or not. We can discuss the damages later." Fong said.
The four of them then headed to the hospital in Ryohei's car. Thankfully there wasn't a traffic on the main road so they got there within fifteen minutes.
Ieyoshi saw how badly Tsuna was injured so he was also worried from the start and he was thankful that Sasagawa-sensei wanted to check on his students more rather than discussing the details about the damages.
While they walked into the hospital building, Reborn and Fong fell behind and spoke in hushed voices. Fong had demanded Reborn to tell him the truth and Reborn had to spill it all because Fong had authority over the Hibari Police force and he can help covering up the matter.
Fong was shocked to hear that Tsuna was a Cielo Rosa child. If it was really true then that man he had seen sometime ago that looked a lot like Tsuna was 'Wolf'. He had seen Wolf unmasked and of course he wouldn't tell that to Reborn.
"Hello. We are looking for Sawa Tsunayoshi's and Gokudera Hayato's hospital room. I am his homeroom teacher and along with this person. The other two are the guardians of Gokudera Hayato." Ryohei said to the nurse.
"I'm sorry but they are still in the emergency room. You can wait at the lobby or the waiting area outside the emergency room which is just down that hall." The nurse said.
"Thank you." Ryohei said.
When they got there, there was a commotion with an auburn haired woman crying while grabbing a certain redhead by the collar, speaking in an angry way. Few nurses were trying to calm down the woman but the woman still hadn't let go of the redhead.
Ieyoshi gasped and immediately rushed to the scene when he recognized the woman as Kanako and the redhead as Giancarlo.
"–lmost lost my son and you guys are taking him away from me again!! What if I finally lost him this time!?! I don't have anyone left other than my son and my husband and your stupid jobs are always trying to take them away from me!!" Kanako was out of her mind and merely blamed the guy she was shouting at when she recognized him as the part of the mafia.
"Kanako-san!!" Ieyoshi called.
That made Kanako stop and turned to look at Ieyoshi. She finally released Giancarlo who was shocked by the sudden outburst of the woman. Kanako slowly slumped onto the floor as she broke down into broken sobs.
"My baby, my poor–*hic*–poor baby. He doesn't deserve this! We tried so hard! He was finally awake, he was finally alive! Why? Just why?!" Kanako sobbed.
Ryohei was now beside Kanako and was leading her to a chair as he comforted the sad mother. He knew how hard it was for Kanako as he remembered how exhausted she had looked when they went to the café. She had actually looked more livelier lately when he and his sister passed by the café last weekend.
"It will be fine Mrs. Sawa. We still don't know the results if Sawa is fine or not. You should not lose hope. He survived last time. Sawa is a strong kid. I've watched him countless times at the school. He won't give up. I'm sure he will come out of those doors just fine." Ryohei said.
"Oh god. Yoshino, oh god. Our son. Our precious sunshine." Kanako cried.
She had just told Yoshino that Tsuna had woke up and he was already planning to come here next week. How can she tell him about Tsuna now? What if Tsuna doesn't come out of that emergency room alive? She might not know the details of his injuries but her intuition had told her that it was bad enough as his coma. She didn't want to lose her child.
Reborn was watching Kanako silently. He thought about Kanako's words. She said 'your stupid jobs are always trying to take him away'. It indicates that she knows that their jobs are dangerous. Maybe she even actually knows about the mafia. He had been suspicious that she's affiliated to the mafia as she moved differently.
Ieyoshi was speaking to Xelo about what happened. Xelo explained that Kanako suddenly cried and grabbed Giancarlo and started blaming him for what happened. He told him that she pointed out about their 'job' countless times. Xelo had suspicions she knew about the mafia.
Fong was just like Reborn, watching Kanako. He knew the woman as Kyoya liked her sweets and visited her café time to time and he also noticed that she was probably just like him, an ex-mafioso. He wondered just what kind of things she had experienced in her life to make her this broken. He concluded that the cause might have been connected to Tsunayoshi's coma.
After a few minutes, Kanako has finally calmed down. She was now just occasionally hiccuping and breathing shakily but she had completely stopped crying and was now silently waiting.
"I apologize for my violent behavior. I didn't mean to blame you." Kanako said to Gian.
"A-ah. I-it's fine. I know that you didn't mean it ma'am." Giancarlo said, a little bit awkward.
"No, really. I'm sorry. It's just that Tsuna...he had been in an accident once and fell into a coma. Hearing that he was in a hospital and also in the emergency room had made me lost my senses. I feel really bad for yelling at you because you look so shaken." Kanako said.
Giancarlo was about to say something when the doctor had come out of the emergency room.
"Who's Gokudera Hayato's guardian?"
"Is Hayato okay doctor?" Gian immediately stalked up to the doctor.
"He's fine for now. But I'm afraid he might have a short term memory loss. His head wasn't bleeding and he didn't have that much visible injuries but apparently he knocked his head hard and had experienced a trauma. Thankfully his skull was fine. If he hit his head any harder, it might have cracked though but as I have said, thankfully it wasn't that hard." The doctor said.
Gian sighed in relief but he was still tense about the memory loss part.
"I don't think his amnesia will be that bad. He might forget today and that's all. Oh and he also cracked three of his ribs and he also sustained minor burns. But don't worry, he'll be just fine." The doctor added.
"Three ribs? Cracked three ribs?" Gian asked.
"It didn't puncture anything and it isn't as bad as you might be thinking. A little bit of sun flames will make him better in three weeks." The doctor lowered his voice at the sun flames part and Gian just nodded in understanding.
"We will be transferring him to a private room." The doctor said.
"Thank you, Sir." Gian said and the doctor merely dipped his head and left. Shortly after, Hayato was rolled out of the emergency room on a gurney. Gian was fast to follow. Ieyoshi told Xelo to go with Giancarlo and the younger complied without any word.
"Gokudera seems to be fine. Uh, Kanako-san. We would like to speak to you about this...accident. And also apologize for dragging Tsunayoshi-kun in this mess." Ieyoshi said to Kanako.
Kanako looked at him confused but nodded at him. The two and also Reborn moved father from the two teachers. The teachers watched them interact, focusing on Kanako's expressions. She seemed to be taking it better and rather calmly than what they expected due to her behavior earlier.
The three came back and the teachers spoke about Tsunayoshi's and Hayato's school as the both will be having to rest in the hospital.
In the middle of their talking, Kanako had gotten a phone call from her phone and she excused herself to take the call. Reborn was mildly suspicious when he saw Kanako tense when she saw the caller ID. Sadly he was not able to check the screen when Kanako abruptly told them that she will be excusing herself.
A few minutes after Kanako had left, a doctor came out of the emergency room, asking for Tsuna's guardians. Fong volunteered as Kanako was not there and Ryohei went to find Kanako to say that Tsuna was done.
"Tsunayoshi-kun's injuries were quite intensive and he knocked his head quite badly and the burns were worryingly bad but thankfully we were able to heal the most of it. There were a few bruises and the aggravated wound on his arm but they will heal in a few weeks. Though the most worrying part is that the trauma his body had obtained from his burn and form his head injury will likely make him go into a state of a self healing sort of coma. We don't exactly know but there is a possibility that it might turn into a prolonged comatose state like he had for three years." The doctor said.
"But I do wish that won't be the case because I have seen that child in the hospital for too long and his mother. The hospital is already closely acquainted to Tsunayoshi as he was such a sweet energetic child when he had woken up." The doctor added.
Fong and the other two didn't really know how to react to the doctor's words.
"In any other way, he is stable at the moment. I was quite shocked when we got the code Vongola for Tsunayoshi-kun." The doctor's tone of voice seemed to change. Reborn immediately tensed at that as Ieyoshi became wary.
"It would be very much appreciated if you don't bring up those kind of matters into this talk, sir doctor." Fong said.
"I apologize. As I have said, Tsunayoshi is quite acquainted to the hospital. And I am quite concerned of the reason for his extensive injuries. I do wish that...this is not the fault of the Vongola Decimo." The doctor narrowed his eyes.
"Watch your tongue." Fong warned. The doctor didn't faze.
"Calm down Tanaka-sensei." A woman's voice said behind the doctor.
It was another doctor who had short black hair that was in a bob cut. She had striking blue eyes with a beauty mark under her left eye. She looked quite young just like the doctor. Around mid-twenties.
"They're Vongola you're up to. And you do know that it's Hibari Fong-san you're speaking to at the moment. Don't make a scene in the hospital even if you are angry at what happened to Tsuna-chan. Seriously, that boy is really reckless." The woman doctor said.
"I apologize. I have crossed the line. Thank you for reminding me Marina-sensei." Tanaka, the doctor cleared throat. The three eased as the other doctor named Marina neared them.
"You're assigned to a VIP patient. I'll be taking over Tsuna-chan. Go change out of your surgical robes and go. The head is waiting for you." Marina said. Tanaka nodded and excused himself after apologizing one more time.
"I am deeply sorry for my colleague's rudeness, sires. That was very unprofessional of him. I do hope that the Vongola won't take offense from a mere doctor like him." Marina said.
"It is fine. No offense taken." Ieyoshi said.
He wondered just how much did the hospital know about the mafia and the flames. He would need to ask Reborn because he had been the one to tell Xelo to say Vongola when Xelo and Gian get to the hospital.
Kanako then came back at that moment with Ryohei in tow. She had a worried look on her face as they neared towards them.
"Kanako-sam–san. Tsuna-chan is currently stable. About his injuries..." Marina leaded Kanako away from the group much to Ieyoshi's and Fong's confusion. Reborn raised a brow at the slip of tongue the female doctor had done.
Fong explained to Ryohei about Tsunayoshi's state as it seemed that Marina was filling in some details about Tsuna that wasn't meant for them to know, somehow.
Marina was currently speaking with Kanako about some other things.
"Kanako-sama. We are very sorry for our incompetence. We didn't expect that some enemy famiglia would actually use someone from the Vongola to hurt Tsunayoshi-sama. I had not expected that they would use Gokudera Hayato. And it seems like Vongola's tenth generation guardians has cleaned up after the enemy famiglia in the neighboring town. Though I doubt that it ends there." Marina said.
"No. I don't blame you Rose. It was my, our miscalculation to think that he would be fine without a personal bodyguard for a month. Wolf was supposed to send some protection next week. And it had been also my fault to not take notice of Tsuna's injury this morning. I did hear some rumors that they heard something like gunshots around the neighborhood this morning." Kanako said.
"Tsunayoshi-sama will be fine. Though he will be unconscious for a while. We're presuming that it will be a week or shorter." Marina said.
Marina looked really guilty and sad. She was disappointed at herself when they are supposed to be watching out for suspicious people around the area to protect Tsunayoshi and yet they had let him be hurt.
"We are really sorry Kanako-sama. I'm ashamed of my failure..." Marina said. Kanako smiled softly at her.
"Don't mull over it too much. We tend to make mistakes time to time. Just think of it as a lesson to prevent anything like this to happen in the future. I do not blame you, and I trust you because you are my famiglia. Tsuna is fine right? He's alive and okay right? Then it's alright. And I'm sure you won't let this repeat." Kanako said. Marina nodded at her as she hardened her resolve.
"Tsunayoshi-sama should be coming out anytime soon." Marina said.
The both of them went back to the group and just as the female doctor said, Tsuna was strolled out of the emergency room the same way Hayato did. Kanako felt relief wash over her when she saw that Tsuna looked peaceful and fine.
Tsuna was alive and Kanako thanked the gods for that.
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Hello my precious readers. I sincerely apologize for the long wait. How did you like the chapter? I think that it is not quite a good chapter myself. I believe that I made a major plot hole the moment I made the code Vongola at the Namimori General Hospital. I am seriously regretting it but I honestly felt that it was too troublesome to change it when I finally finished a chapter for my dear readers. I didn't really want to make you people wait any further.
Anyways, I am thinking of several ideas to cover that flaw. I wish I can be successful.
Please drop a review, criticism or not, it will be very much appreciated. I've also been wondering to mention some few reviewers in my next chapter. Maybe you'll be mentioned.
Thank you again for reading this fanfiction of mine! I'm afraid the next chapter will be taking a long while again but I hope you won't leave this fanfiction. See you again on the next chapter!!