Disclaimer: KHR belong to Amano Akira

Meeting in the Past

Chapter 5

When they finally reached the Vongola mansion they were met by the rest of the guardians who'd already heard of the attack.

"Do you know who attacked you ?" Daemon asked.

"Is everyone alright ?" Knuckle worryingly looked at them.

"We're all fine." Ugetsu said reassuringly.

"Speak for yourself." Muttered Lampo. "That's why I hate leaving my room." Everyone ignored him though.

"It was the Mitilo Famiglia." Primo spoke for the first time since the attack, making Alaude frown.

"They've been more and more hostile toward us recently." Said Daemon.

"What should we do Primo ?" Knuckle asked.

"Alaude investigate the matter please."

The platinum blond inclined his head in consent and was going to turn away when G spoke.

"Wait. First we have something else we need to talk about." His gaze fell on Tsuna, as everyone else followed it too.

Tsuna who had tried to make himself the smallest possible since entering the mansion dropped his shoulders in resignation, he probably couldn't escape some interrogation.

"How about sitting first and some tea while we talk." Ugetsu cut the tension who had somehow invaded the air.

Everyone agreed and soon were settled in the sitting room.

"What is this about ?" Asked Knuckle.

"During the attack, in a moment of carelessness on our part the enemy throw flaming bottle at the carriage where Tsuna was."

The last three guardians frowned but didn't speak, as the boy was here he was obviously fine so where was the problem ?

"We didn't have the time to react that Tsuna took care of it himself by escaping the carriage while in a state akin to Giotto hyper-mode and fighting off two of the thugs." Continued G.

Now all of the first generation eyes were focused on him, a drop of cold sweat travelled down his back as he was unsure what to say.

"It looks different but I'm not mistaken, the ring you were wearing is the Vongola ring that should only be worn by the current leader of the Vongola." Primo spoke with a serious expression. He did not doubt that Tsuna didn't arbor bad intentions toward them, his hyper-intuition told him that much. But he also didn't understand Tsuna's denial on his involvement with Vongola.

His guardians upon hearing that looked at Tsuna in a different manner than before, not as a boy from Primo's bloodline but as a potential Boss of Vongola.

Tsuna was particularly uncomfortable under Daemon assessing gaze.

The brunette sighed, now that it had come to this, he should explain things a bit at least.

"What I said is true, I only learned about the Vongola less than three years ago, but the reason I learned about it is because I was made the next boss candidate. But I'm definitely not the boss and practically have no involvement with Vongola." He became more vehement at the end.

Primo had an inkling it wasn't the whole truth and his guardians could feel that much as well.

However before any of them could question him more, a corner of the room became filled with pink smoke. The first generation got in a stance ready to fight but Tsuna recognized the phenomena.

"Wait !" He called just as the smoke cleared to let them see eight figures.

"Jyuudaime !" Gokudera exclaimed as soon as he saw Tsuna.

"How are you guys here ?" Tsuna joined his newly arrived group of friends.

"We came to get you Tsuna." Yamamoto smiled happily.

While most of Tsuna's friends and guardians were surrounding him, Mukuro and Hibari attention was on the other men in the room who themselves were interestingly looking at the new arrivants.

"Wahh ! Tsuna, Reborn was mean to Lambo-sama !" Lambo jumped in Tsuna's arms.

"Oh ! It's extremely nice to see you Sawada !" Ryohei enthusiastically exclaimed.

After calming the louder ones he turned to the quiet ones.

"Even Enma is here." Tsuna was surprised seeing the red-head.

"Reborn said it'd be more interesting this way." Enma said resignedly, going against Reborn is impossible after all.

Tsuna sweat-dropped hearing that, it was just like that chaos lover.

"Are you alright boss ?" Asked Chrome as her eyes swept the other men across the room.

"Yeah, don't worry, everything is fine." He smiled reassuring them and making his guardians shoulders a bit less tense at his words.

"How about introducing us ?" Primo addressed Tsuna, perhaps sensing the underlying tension.

"Right. Everyone this is Giotto, Vongola Primo and his guardians, G, Asari Ugetsu, Knuckle, Lampo, Alaude and Daemon Spade."

The younger generation had known that Daemon would be here so they didn't react much to it, Enma turning his eyes away to hide the glare in them.

"And those are my friends, Gokudera Hayato," said boy puffed up his chest at being introduced first. "Yamamoto Takeshi, Sasagawa Ryohei, Lambo, Hibari Kyoya, Dokuro Chrome, Rokudo Mukuro and Kozato Enma." He finished introducing them.

The first generation all found their attention on the last name, their gazes speculative.

"Could you be Cozart descendant ?" Primo spoke their thoughts aloud.

"Y... Yes." Stuttered Enma at being addressed directly and glanced nervously toward Tsuna who nodded reassuringly.

Seeing his shyness Giotto turned his attention away and asked instead :

"Are they your guardians ?" He fixed his gaze on his descendant, it hadn't escaped him that while Tsuna had proclaimed to not be Vongola Boss or involved in it, he still had the Vongola ring and he noticed a few of their new guests wearing what could be modified guardians rings, he also didn't miss the way they referred to Tsuna as the Tenth boss and the fact that most of them resembled a younger version of his own guardians.

Tsuna probably understood all that well too seeing his resigned smile.

"That's right. Except Enma-kun who is an ally, everyone else are my guardians." He frankly stated.

"The respective attributes is as you think." He added in references to their obvious similarity as each guardians from each generation took in their counter part.

"So are they also our descendants ?" Bluntly asked Lampo, not looking particularly happy watching the clueless Lambo.

"As far as I'm aware I'm the only one truly descended from Primo of the first generation and the rest is coincidence..." Tsuna shrugged, he truly didn't know, it could be possible for a few but impossible for others like Knuckle, a cleric or Daemon for obvious reasons.

"Well I'm sure you want to speak privately with your friends so we will leave you to it." Primo stood up followed by his guardians and they left the room.

Tsuna released a small relieved sigh once they were alone.

"Did they do anything to you Jyuudaime ? If they did, tell me and I'll go have them get a taste of my dynamite !" Gokudera said seeing that.

"No, no. They were rather welcoming toward a stranger who dropped on them out of nowhere." Tsuna calmed him, in fact if the situation was reversed he could well imagine the suspicions and probable bite to death and mental torture they'd experience.

Well granted Primo and his guardians were all strong enough to shrug it off. They still had a long way to go to catch up to Primo's generation, Tsuna thought.

Then he shook his head dispelling that thought.

No, no, no. It didn't matter if they were still immatures, they weren't going to take over Vongola anyway.

"How did you manage to come here ?" He asked the group.

"Old Talbot showed up at your house Tenth and told us where in time you were and with some modification to the Ten-Year Bazooka Reborn-san send us here since the power of the Vongola rings will be necessary to send us back to our time. Here, Reborn entrusted me with this letter for you Tenth." Gokudera took over the duty of explaining.

"I extremely still don't get it ! Where are we ?" Yelled Ryohei puzzled.

"How is it hard to get Lawn-head ?!" Gokudera yelled back.

"Mah mah." Smiled Yamamoto making placating gestures.

Ignoring the somewhat soothing usualness of his guardians interactions, Tsuna put his focus on reading the letter.

It was a short missive in Reborn usual blunt style explaining once all the rings would be reunited, Talbot would know what to do to fix the situation so before being sent back he should learn as much as possible from Primo to become a better Neo Primo Vongola Boss. That line made Tsuna sweat-drop.

[PS : Talbot will make sure the first generation forget what they learned after you're gone, so you can relax and have a good talk with your ancestor.]

Well that lifted the weight on his mind a bit but he still didn't think saying all he know would happen in Vongola future was a good idea.

Lifting his head from the letter, Gokudera and Ryohei were still arguing with Yamamoto in between them mediating. Enma was sitting next to him, fidgeting while looking around. Lambo was sitting on Chrome lap, though he was getting too big for that, and they were eating candy. Mukuro had commandeered a sofa in the corner of the room and was laying on it, arms crossed behind his head and eyes closed. And Hibari... Hibari was nowhere to be found, he thought in a moment of panic, his gaze settled on an opened and it wasn't hard to guess the Cloud guardian had had enough of the crowding and went on his own.

Sighing, Tsuna could only hope he wouldn't get lost or be thought of as an enemy by Primo's men. Mostly for Primo's men sake if they foolishly attacked the Prefect, only the guardians would probably be his match.

They spent the rest of the afternoon catching up until dinner.

Meanwhile in Primo's office another discussion was taking place.

"What do you think ?" He asked his guardians.

"Anyone else think it's a bit creepy how much they look like us ?" Lampo lazily offered. As usual everyone else ignored him.

"I think they look like they make an ultimate good team." Knuckle proclaimed.

"Some of them barely look like they can stand each other." G commented.

"To those who do not know us, it probably look the same." Ugetsu reminded.

"I'm more interested in the new appearances of the Vongola rings. Though it is curious that Tsunayoshi-kun seem to have two people sharing a guardianship." Daemon reflected.

"They are mere children." Was Alaude sole opinion.

"However they cannot be normal kids if they have the Vongola rings and are recognized as the next leading generation of Vongola." Knuckle objected.

"That's also what worry me the most. Tsuna's absolute denial of being the boss, even if he is only the heir now, he reject being Vongola leader in the future as well." Primo shared his concerns.

"Why don't you just ask him ?" Said Lampo nonchalantly.

While G scolded Lampo for his attitude, Giotto seriously considered it. After all having a one-on-one frank talk with Tsuna had merits.

Finished talking they all left to take care of their own work, beside the day to day affair of Vongola, the Mitilo Famiglia needed investigating, Talbot to be contacted and rooms arranged for their new guests.

They didn't see Tsuna's group until dinner that night, though Alaude was conspicuously absent but no one said a word about it. Tsuna was just glad Hibari had joined them on the way of the dining room.

With all those people the dinner was a lot more lively, especially on the younger generation side, though there was a lot of observing between the two sides. Tsuna mostly ignored it and tried to mediate in between, the more sociable members of each generations quickly warming up to each other. The brunette felt happy about his friends presences, after all he always felt better with them at his side.