Chapter 4 - Intruder
WARNINGS!
= OOCs
= Wrong Grammars and Spellings
DISCLAIMER!
~ I DO NOT OWN KHR except OCs and THE STORY ~
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"Talking"
'Thoughts'
"Italian"
Flashback
Author Note / AN
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Tsuna didn't say anything, just slowly nodded at the blond, who left for Knuckle after he saw the nod. '3 days? That long' Tsuna thought. 'Yeah.. I feel kind of tired.. I should sleep' Tsuna's eyes slowly dropped, before he fell into slumber.
But unknown to the three Skies though, Reborn had been staring with a slightly narrowed eyes at Tsuna since the brunet woke up. He didn't know how Tsuna did it but Reborn couldn't brushed away the feeling of Tsuna had found out something about him that he kept secret.
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AN : Thunder Guardian, Lightning Guardian, Thunder Ring, Lightning Ring..
I was wrong all this time..
It should be Lightning, instead of Thunder
Oh for the love of... *curse*
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= 3rd Person's POV =
Trees softly rustled as someone jumped from trees to trees towards the hidden Vongola mansion.
The intruder took a slow step towards the mansion, passing the two gate guards, who distracted themselves as they talked to each other.
And a twig snapped when he accidentally stepped on it, making the two guards snapped their attentions towards the sound, which the closest one then walked towards there slowly and carefully.
The intruder cursed in his mind for his carelessness, looking around for a way out.
But luck was on his side.
A rabbit jumped out of the bushes infront of him and hopped into the area within the guard's sight.
The guard blinked, before turning around. "It's just a rabbit. Man, that scares me a little just now" The guard said as he walked back to his position.
The intruder sighed in relieved, when he immediately tensed up, biting his lower lip to prevent himself to make a surprised voice, when a small dagger flew past by his ear. Had he made a peek after the guard walked away, he would has a dagger sticking on his right eye.
Silence reigned the place before the guard walked away. "What's wrong?" "I thought someone was there other than the rabbit, but I guess it's just my imagination" The guard replied, shrugging his shoulder.
The intruder slowly walked away, and after he made sure the distance, he he released his bitten lip and sighed in relieved.
'Well.. As expected of Vongola's guards, but they are not good enough ' He smirked, looking around, before his eyes landed on a tree, which according to the information he received, near his target's current location.
'Okay.. The faster I get this shit done. The faster I am out of here and get my money ' He thought, before he carefully climbed the tree of interest.
As he slowly ascending the tree, he quickly hide when a green haired man walked was the window infront of him. 'Crap! That's Decimo's Lightni...Huh? ' The intruder blinked when Lampo looked at the tree he was hiding once before shrugging and walked away.
He waited for Lampo to come back. '...He's not coming back ' He deadpanned at he thought. 'Well, not that I am complaining ' He looked around and on each nearby windows, before slowly opening the one infront of him.
'Hah! That's nerve-wreaking but awfully easy' He thought as he fixed his hat and mask before slowly walked to his destination, while looking around for the room his target was residing.
'Well, next stop... The infirmary '
《》《》《》Sky's Truth《》《》《》
The moment Tsuna went asleep, he couldn't help but heaved a long-suffering sigh. "Oh, come on!" Tsuna frustratedly shouted.
Again, he was greeted by darkness, which he was sure another past scenes would appear. Even though it's interesting to watch people's past, it was taking down all those privacy walls protecting people's privacy!
Didn't had any other choice, Tsuna sat down and waited patiently. And when it appeared, Tsuna had to gasp and widen his eyes. The child with a robot toy in his hands, appeared, carried by Enrico, looked awfully familiar to Tsuna, and he was sure that the toddler Enrico was carrying was Sawada Iemitsu himself.
"Oh, Enrico, I see you brought Matteo* with you" Nono smiled with baby Giotto in his arms, playing with his grandfather's fingers.
"Yes, father. I figure Giotto would want a friend to play with" Enrico grinned, carried his son towards baby Giotto who looked up, before putting his five years old son infront of the youngest blond.
"Say hello, Matteo, he's your cousin, Giotto" Enrico grinned, patting his son's head.
"Hi! You wanna play with me?" Matteo grinned at the baby, who just blinked and for some reason, blowing bubbles out of his mouth. "Pu puh" was what baby Giotto said.
Matteo blinked for a few times, before back to grinning again. "Well, I don't understand what you said but let's play robots!" Matteo exclaimed happily, swinging his robot toy here and there. "Um.. Um.. Don't worry, Gio! I will be the best cousin ...no, I will be the best brother you ever has!" Matteo added, making his father and grandfather smiled at him.
"Oh my god.. Who is that innocent child? He's definitely not like that *sshole I used to see. Maybe I got the wrong person? They even have different names" Tsuna muttered ignoring the fact that the Giotto he knew also had two names, as he watched the two young blonds played with each other while ignoring the two adults.
Tsuna watched all those time skips, where baby Giotto kept growing up with Matteo by his side. And when Giotto reached the age of twelve and Matteo at fifteen, Tsuna noticed the difference in attitude of Matteo.
Slowly but surely, he seemed to be getting colder towards young Giotto when they were talking about anything outside of upperworld lives. Tsuna couldn't help but wondered why, until it reached a certain scene.
Matteo was walking down the hall, with a seven years old Giotto trailing behind him when he overheard the conversation between his father and his grandfather from the door that wasn't closed properly.
"Are you sure, father? You gave it to Giotto?"
'Give what to Gio?' Matteo thought, arching his eyebrow, before making a short glance at Giotto, who wasn't paying attention but at the surrounding, the part of the mansion that he wasn't allowed to explore before.
Matteo turned his attention back to the two adults' conversation, paying closely. 'Why did they give more attention to Giotto than me?! I am the heir!' Matteo thought, gritting his teeth.
"Yes, Enrico. Unlike what I felt from your son, Giotto's flame is stronger"
"But, father, Giotto is still young! Please consider this! I know I couldn't inherit it, and even if I did, it won't be long because of my illness, while Massio and Federico will be in CEDEF, at least let Matteo took the position, until young Giotto is ready!"
"I won't be giving this position to Giotto this fast, Enrico. I will wait until he is 20 before letting him take my position. And if I were to disappear before that dad, Matteo can be the figure head"
"Father..." Matteo could hear his father sighed in defeat, meaning there's no way to change his grandfather's mind.
'What the fck?! You mean I will be just a fcking temporary boss?! Are you fcking kidding me?! All those shtty education and training for me being the boss are useless!' Matteo had to hold back his urge to break the door and snarled at the adults. 'How dare they?! HOW . DARE . THEY ?!'
"Fratello* ?" A young voice behind him snapped him out of his thought, and immediately turned to the voice, which belonged to his cousin, who was staring at him questioningly. "Are you okay?"
'Am I okay? Am I Okay?! You stole my supposed-to-be-mine position, you little piece of sht!' "I am okay, Gio, let's go explore more around this place" Matteo faked-smile at Giotto, who nodded happily. "Un!"
Tsuna watched as Matteo lead young Giotto through the hall, before he gasped in disbelieved, widening his eyes. Did he just freaking saw Matteo shoved the distracted Giotto to the storage room?! Giotto still lacked the height to open that damn door! And did that brat just pretended to not to hear Giotto's shout, pretending to look for him when he purposely walked away?! How dare he?!
Tsuna was fuming, swinging his chair everywhere as if hitting an imaginary Matteo. Said brat even came back 2 hours later with a fake panic decorating on his face. The nerve of him!
The scenes played were quite similar, where Giotto would 'accidentally' ended up getting lost or getting trapped in a storage room or any other dangerous rooms, before Matteo came to his rescue few hours later. And the worst thing was young Giotto saw Matteo as his hero who kept saving him from the dark.
"Why?! Uncle Giotto, you stupid idiot!-"
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Somewhere in the mansion, Giotto, who was drinking coffee, sneezed, spatting said coffee in the process directly at G, who sat in front of him, right on the poor man's face.
Awkward silence surrounding them, before G pulled out a handkerchief, calmly wiping coffee off of his face.
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"Eer.. G?" Giotto slowly put down his cup.
"What?"
"...I am sorry...?" That came out sounding like a question.
"...It's fine"
'I am sure it's not.. But if he's dropping this then...' Giotto thought, making a small glance every few seconds before picking up his cup again and took a sip.
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"-Aaargh! Damn it! You stupid oaf!-"
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Giotto snezeed again, and coffee being spat at G for the second time.
After the realization he spat the same coffee at his Storm's face for the second time, Giotto paled and immediately ran out of the kitchen, abandoning his half finished coffee. ...with G hot on his trail, aiming an arrow covered in Storm flame at him.
"GIOTTO!"
"I swear I didn't do it on purpo-"
BOOM!
"-And stop destroying the mansion!"
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"-Where's your intuition when you should need it-huh?" Tsuna kept on ranting, when he realized he was fading. "Oh.. I guess I am waking up" Tsuna grumbled as he became more transparent before taking a brief glance at the younger blond in the scene infront of him.
"Maybe I should give uncle Giotto a punch on the head once when I saw him next" Tsuna mumbled, slowly closing his eyes.
《》《》《》Sky's Truth《》《》《》
When Tsuna opened his eyes, he had to shut his eyes back from the brightness of the light of the sunset that was burning his face. 'It's evening already? Who in the world didn't close the curtains when someone was having a peaceful sleep? More importantly, how long have I been asleep when I fell asleep again after waking up from that 3 days unconscious?' Tsuna groaned, hand covering his face while his eyes slowly adjusting with the brightness.
Tsuna looked around, when he suddenly tensed up, narrowing his eyes, and eyes traveled around to look for the probable intruder. 'I felt someone's presence! Who? This is bad, I am not in my full strength to be able to protect myself yet' Tsuna thought, gritted his teeth. 'Maybe at least I can escaped from whoever this person is'
When Tsuna's eyes caught a blur, and hyper intuition suddenly rang, he immediately rolled his body from the bed, falling from it. Ignoring the pain from falling, Tsuna immediately looked up when the moment he rolled away, he heard something landed on the bed. Narrowing his eyes, the intruder was wearing a blank mask and a cap, making him to unable to identify him.
'Ugh.. It hurts to move' Tsuna gritted his teeth. Forcing himself to stand, Tsuna summoned his Sky flame and fired at the man, which said man dodged it, and landed few feet in front of him and the scorching bed. Tsuna narrowed his eyes, ready to shot Sky flame again. "Who are you and what do you want.." He demanded, not in the mood to politely ask him.
The man didn't reply, as he suddenly jumped towards Tsuna, catching the brunet off guard as he accidentally lower his guard down, which said man caught Tsuna's wrist and immediately zapped Tsuna with a Lightning flame "Aagh!", and the man let go of his wrist, making Tsuna fell to the ground.
"Uugh.." Tsuna gritted his teeth, forcing himself to look up and glared at the man. "A weak glare like that won't work, you know? And don't have a grudge against me alright. This is just an order from my client. You might know him though, and here's a message for you from said client-" Tsuna's eyes were starting to get blurry.
'Italian..? Ugh.. Must ...flare my flame ...to alert them..' Tsuna thought, mustering every single one of his strength to make said flare, which he did managed to.
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Somewhere in the mansion, Reborn and Giotto who were training Ietsuna in the training ground, and the Guardians who were currently present in the mansion, immediately snapped their heads towards the sudden flare of Sky flame. Every single one of them immediately knew who made the flare and rushed towards the location. After all, there was only one Sky the the mansion, since the other two were outside in the training ground.
"Tsu-kun!" Ietsuna shouted, instead of running like the other, he activated his Sky flame and immediately flew to the infirmary window where Tsuna was located, followed by Giotto and Reborn on the blond's shoulder.
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"-he said, and I quote "We will meet again, no.27..""
Though blurry, Tsuna widened his eyes at that. 'No..'
And darkness overtook his vision.
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* MATTEO : Italian form of Hebrew Mattithyah, meaning "gift of God."
* Fratello : Older brother