March 27, 2016
Proofread and Edited: December 27, 2016
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Chapter 03
"He's awake!" Ryohei, or who seemed to be Ryohei, exclaimed from his spot on the floor.
Tsuna glanced at him briefly before looking a little bit behind their group. Apparently his bedroom door was destroyed with the explosion.
"Sorry about the door, I thought these guys were trapped in here," at least Ryohei had the decency to apologize. It's not like Tsuna cared about his fake bedroom door after all. Now, if this was his door at the Vongola mansion . . . it would be a very different story.
"It's okay," Tsuna mumbled after a few seconds of silence.
Ryohei gasped. "EXTREME! He responds!"
Hayato scowled. "Tch, and you wouldn't believe us just minutes ago."
Ryohei gasped again. "Can we keep him?!"
This time Hayato stood up in anger. "Tsuna-ouji-sama is not a pet!"
But you were thinking of keeping me earlier too . . . Tsuna thought in dismay.
In the meantime, Takeshi had his usual grin on. "Haha, you haven't even introduced yourself to him."
"Right you are, Yamamoto!" Ryohei gasped for the third time as he, too, stood up and placed a fist on his chest and faced Tsuna. "Please call me MaximumPower —
"Goddamn idiot! Don't use your username!" Hayato was seriously freaking out. "Use your real name!"
Ryohei stared at him in disbelief. "What's the difference?"
Before Hayato could even begin shouting profanities at the guy, Takeshi interfered just at the very right moment. "We're roleplaying! So your username is not your real name, right? It's more like a title!"
Hayato found his voice. "Usernames are not titles —
"I see! I understand!" Ryohei nodded, and as if to restart his introduction, he placed his fist again on his chest. "I'm Sasagawa Ryohei, but please call me MaximumPower —
"WRONG!" Hayato snapped.
"Just call him Ryohei, okay Tsuna?" Takeshi smiled.
Tsuna couldn't help but smile back. "Okay."
Hayato sat back down on the carpeted floor, dragging Ryohei down with him. Then he gathered the three of them to discuss about something and this time he actually did it right as Tsuna couldn't hear what they were talking about.
Watching them huddle together made Tsuna feel nostalgic. Which was pretty silly, since it implied he had been separated from his normal, non-video-game life for so long that he was forming nostalgia. It shouldn't be the case and Tsuna would die first to let it take over him. So he tried his best to remind himself that no, these people were not his family, this situation was temporary, and that he would return home eventually. And as for his normal life? His family back home would be okay. They had a contingency plan just for cases like this in the event Tsuna suddenly disappeared. Hopefully Byakuran told them this, whatever thing he did but for that part, Tsuna wasn't hoping for the best.
Even then, Tsuna was confident everything would turn out all right. His Hyper Intuition continuously reminded him it would be okay, somehow. One way or another.
"Where's everybody else, anyway?" Tsuna heard Takeshi ask his two party members.
Hayato sighed. "Like I said, use your map." He took out his own map from his backpack and spread it on the floor. Suddenly there were little blips of light that showed up in the different parts of the map. "Those bastards! That's why nobody's responding to our party chat; they're all AFK!"
Due to his current situation and how the party members that showed up in his bedroom were all his Guardians, Tsuna pretty much caught on the pattern. He wouldn't be surprised if the rest of the party members in this world were Lambo and the others.
So Tsuna tried to take a closer look at the map too. The names hovering above the little blips of light were the usernames, but Tsuna couldn't see them all clearly, except for one whose username was AmazingLambo. Ahh, how strangely comforting to know he was so familiar with his friends, he already knew what to expect even in a different universe.
"Oh!" Takeshi pointed at one of the blips. "Hibari-san's moving."
Tsuna's eyes zeroed on the username above that blip.
Hibassassin.
Tsuna had to turn away and bury his face into his pillows because he was this close to laughing out loud.
Apparently this was cause for alarm. "What happened?!" Hayato yelled all of a sudden, almost throwing away his map in the process.
"Maybe he malfunctioned?" Takeshi offered.
This is just too much, Tsuna thought as he wheezed into the pillows to stop himself from giggling. "I'm fine," his voice was muffled amidst the fluffy pillows. That was just . . . he couldn't even think it was weird. It was a very Kyouya thing to name his character with such a silly name but it still caught him off guard.
"He's going to the opposite direction," Ryohei exclaimed, turning the other two guys' attention back to the map.
"That guy! He always does this," Hayato sighed as he stored the map in his backpack. "Anyway, we can't have a serious discussion if not all members are around . . ."
Tsuna finally calmed down and he sat up, watching his not-friends sit on his floor looking very confused and lost. "So," he began, catching their attention again, "What are you guys going to do?"
There was complete silence for a few seconds before Takeshi laughed. "I don't know." Hayato and Ryohei didn't even have anything to refute him with.
Tsuna frowned. "What were you guys doing before you got here?"
"Honest? We're walking through the area for exploration points —
"He means exploration experience, Tsuna-ouji-sama," Hayato chimed in while glaring at Takeshi. "We're aiming to get to know the lay of the land."
Ahh, achievement points, Tsuna thought wistfully.
Takeshi nodded along anyway. "We already explored most of this region except for this town. It's at the farthest area from the Capital . . . not to mention it required unconventional means to get into."
Now that was something Tsuna was interested in knowing. He had seen both a map of Namimori and a map of the Vongola region so he knew Takeshi was telling the truth about the town's location. However, during the times he was hanging out in the mansion's tallest tower, he had seen travelers come and go from all directions. In all the historical books he had read, there weren't any mentions about the difficulties of traveling from in and out of town. So that part was strange, and that was already saying something considering his situation.
Tsuna tilted his head. "What do you mean 'unconventional'?"
Ryohei pumped his fist. "Chrome found an explo —
"What this idi — Monk means is that we have a magic-user in our group that found some special properties about this town using her magic. That's all! And we used that special property to arrive in this town. But please rest assured it is completely possible to get here through conventional means, isn't that right, Yamamoto, Sasagawa?" He was holding onto his dynamites with both hands for effect. Or for threat. Most probably for threat, Tsuna concluded.
And they were definitely hiding something.
It probably wasn't important information, Tsuna mused, but it was still a curious thought.
As for this meeting . . . maybe this was just a huge coincidence. Even though these people were a great part of his normal life, that didn't automatically mean they would also be a part of his "life" here. They said they were just passing by, didn't they? They would leave and Tsuna would be back to waiting for that fateful day when Byakuran decides he had enough entertainment. Not that it was a bad thing; just a different reality.
Oh well, at least he wouldn't feel bad doing nothing. That was his character description, after all.
Time to move on.
"Then, if you'll excuse me," Tsuna stood up from his bed and dusted off the dirt from his bunny-printed pajamas, "I was about to go to breakfast. And I probably have to set up a meeting with a carpenter to fix my door."
"I can fix the door for you!" Hayato yelled. "I have skills in Woodworking and I'm an Engineer!"
Not my Hayato, Tsuna's thoughts echoed.
"I am very, very sorry!" Ryohei did a dogeza with all his might.
Not my Ryohei, Tsuna chanted in his head.
"Why don't you eat your breakfast while we fix your door?" Takeshi grinned.
Not my Takeshi, Tsuna's mind reeled.
"I don't want to keep you from your adventure," Tsuna returned the smile and quickly headed for the doorway. Best to walk away now and leave before these people changed his mind. Time to move on.
When Tsuna finished breakfast and returned to his room, not only his bedroom door was fixed, but there were now four people having a discussion in his freaking bedroom.