"You can't tame Natsu like that, Giotto." An elderly man said to Giotto. Clear, fluent Italian could be heard in the conversation with the two. Natsu the lion cub jumped around the office and roared a quiet roar. A couple of moments ago, the elderly man caught Natsu cowering in the corner away from a young Giotto.

"But I want Natsu to love me. Why won't he love me? He preferred a young boy a month ago who was a stranger in Japan during our vacation trip compared to me who has owned him for a year…" Giotto had a collar and a whip in his hands and had a sad look on his face. The time Natsu tried to run away from him broke something inside of Giotto he thought he could never be able to repair. He tried to suppress his feelings, but he'd been rejected for so long by everyone around him that he just wanted to get someone to accept him for who he is even if he had to use brute force.

"Then tame him correctly. But remember this: You are responsible for what you tame, Giotto." The elderly man gently ruffled Giotto's hair and gave him a warm smile. Giotto had enjoyed this man's company. He was always nice to him and accepted him with open arms.

Natsu walked towards the man.

Suddenly, a man in a black suit burst into the room with an obvious expression of immense gravity. The elderly man's face once warm now turned cold and stern with the appearance of the third party.

"Did something happen, Coyote?"

"Nono, the Lavanda famiglia has invaded the Vongola manor. We must evacuate the mansion—including the whole country. They've found us and our hideouts throughout the nation of Italy." Coyote said.

Vongola Nono frowned and picked up Natsu. He thought about any more possible hideouts outside Italy. "And the safest place to retreat to is?"

Coyote finally said, "Japan."

Vongola Nono nodded and looked at Giotto. "Giotto we're going to Japan again and we're staying there for a long while. Your things will be packed by the famiglia, so wait outside in the car with your guardians. We'll arrive at the airport shortly behind you." He began to pet Natsu in his arms.

Giotto nodded and ran out of the office. His guardians are already waiting for Giotto's arrival outside near a car ready for them to enter. One of Vongola Nono's men opened the car door for them and the seven children entered the vehicle. The car door shut closed behind them and the man entered the driver's seat, started the engine, and drove.

"Wait. We aren't waiting for Grandpa and Natsu before leaving?" Giotto said to the driver.

"I was ordered to take you and your guardians to safety first. Your safety is our first priority." He said.

Giotto frowned. He couldn't tell if he is first priority because he's a good friend to the famiglia or because he's the only heir to Vongola and has to inherit as the Decimo when the time arrives. He assumed that it was the latter… For two years, he was trained to take over Vongola as an able leader and Nono was and still is very proud of Giotto for his excellent progress.

As two weeks passed by when Giotto and his guardians were in Japan, Giotto received a letter with the contents that read:

Giotto di Vongola,

I am sorry to tell you that your loving grandfather, Timoteo di Vongola, is deceased along with your pet lion cub Natsu. He stayed behind to fend off the Lavanda famiglia as they invaded the main Vongola manor in Italy. Although he stopped the Lavanda famiglia from advancing further to the secrets of Vongola and preventing them from following you to Japan, he sacrificed his life solely to protect both from falling into the hands of the enemy. Natsu, your pet lion cub, chose to protect Timoteo and died alongside him in battle. Since there are no existing heirs other than you, you must inherit the fame, fortune, and responsibility of the Vongola title. In the beginning I was against this from happening, but however, there is not a single way out of this tight crevice. My efforts to take you in as my own were near zero percent. I apologize for being the bearer of bad news… I hope that you make the Vongola brighter with every touch. You are the light at the end of the tunnel.

Your loving uncle,

Davide Episcopo

After reading the content of the letter, Giotto was red with rage. His guardians tried to calm him down and restrain him from harming anyone and himself, but it was to no avail when Giotto ran out of the mansion in Japan and with his own bare hands burned nearly a third of a city with a strange orange flame. Giotto lost the only person who cared about him for who he is and also lost his pet Natsu before he got the chance to treat Natsu like a real friend. Now, he was forced to be put under the pressure of walking in Nono's shoes at the age of a child.

Both of his knees hit the ground and he wailed in agony. He cursed at the sky and to whoever was listening.

After Nono and Natsu's death, Giotto had never felt so alone…

The fire Giotto created was on the news the next two hours talking about a fire in a city by an unknown arsonist.

Tsuna had to run away. His heart could not take the emotional suffering he endured throughout his time at Vongola manor. He barely lasted two to three days… He thought that he would go crazy if he stayed for another day.

Why did he run? Well, curiosity had killed the cat—or should I say… the tuna.

When he woke up from his slumber, the skies were dark and the stars sparkled. He got up from the bed and walked out to go see how Giotto was doing. Why he was going to do this in the middle of the night is something Tsuna will never understand.

He stumbled upon Giotto's office—the door was open with just a crack. Curiosity killed the tuna when he entered the office. He spotted many stacks of paperwork on his desk unfinished. Giotto might get an earful from G for this.

Still then, Tsuna spotted a strange blue folder with his name on it sitting on top of Giotto's desk in plain sight. Anyone could have spotted the folder right away when standing in front of his desk regardless of the stacks of paper.

'This folder… has my name on it…' He thought to himself.

He picked it up and opened it—a choice he will soon deeply regret. In the folder were various pictures of him doing everyday things like walking to school with his friends and eating dinner at home. There were even pages of Tsuna's basic information such as age, height, weight, etc.

'Is Giotto a… stalker?!' He shouted in his mind.

The very last page was not info, but a page that answered Tsuna's burning question of why he was here at Vongola manor.

The page mentioned that he was NOT sold, but was taken away by force through the misuse of the power of Vongola—Giotto to be specific. The whole time, Tsuna thought his parents hated him so they sold him, but it was never the case. Tsuna was taken by brute force.

Giotto had forcefully taken him away from his family and his family was threatened not to call the police…

In disbelief, he dropped the folder on the floor and ran.

If only he knew there were shadows following him the whole way…

He stole keys to a vehicle and drove towards his home—don't ask how. He went through a lot of trouble to steal them. He drove slowly because he never drove a car before nor does he have a license. He was paranoid every time he passed by a police car. Every time he was unable to drive correctly on a lane, he switched lanes and received honks from cars behind him because of his sudden act on the road. Tsuna thought that he should just stick to riding bikes for his own good.

Tsuna had finally arrived home after hours of driving because he basically got lost several times and also received many shouts from other drivers yelling at him for his lousy driving. Not getting caught by the police was a miracle.

The sky was beginning to turn into a brighter shade of blue, signaling that the sun is rising. Without thinking, he knocked on the door gently.

No answer.

He knocked again and this time with louder knocks.

For a minute or two, no one answered the door until a sleepy Iemitsu opened it, sleep still in his eyes. He stared at the child at the door for a second before seeing who it was. His eyes widened and he hugged Tsuna with all his might.

"We thought we would never see you again." Iemitsu said.

Tsuna hugged back, "Me too." Tears fell from his eyes.

His father let him into the house and closed the door behind them. Nana came down the stairs and asked Iemitsu who it was that was at the door so early in the morning. She nearly got a heart attack to see that it was none other than Tsuna. She ran towards him and hugged him. She gave him plenty of kisses on his forehead and squeezed him again.

"We missed you so much." Nana said. She cried more than Tsuna did.

"Me too mom, me too." Tsuna hugged back and smiled. It feels good to be home again.

"How did you get back here?" Nana asked.

The three walked to the kitchen and continued their conversation there. Tsuna explained about all of his experiences at Vongola manor up until this point—including the blue folder. Tsuna didn't want to keep secrets from his parents; he trusts them with his life.

Nana buried her face in her hands and cried again. Iemitsu comforted her and at the same time, had a face that showed that he wanted to murder someone. Tsuna looked down on his feet. He felt guilty that his parents are sad. The Sawadas are nice people—so nice that no one could think to plot anything treacherous against them.

"That man… He… He—" Iemitsu was cut off.

"Took me by force?" Tsuna finished.

His father nodded. "There was no way we would have handed you over to anyone was cold as that man… There was also nothing we could do. Your friends: Yamamoto and Gokudera tried to get you back including Hibari, Ryohei the boxer, and the strange Mukuro boy that you met half a month ago, but they were injured by that man's gang… We're so sorry…"

"No… It's not your fault… It's his…" Tsuna emphasized the word 'his' with venom.

Then, only the sounds of Nana's sobbing could be heard in the silent kitchen. Tsuna's few days has been filled with lots of silence in between conversations quite often. He's noticed it, but he didn't want to pester anyone to say anything by force if no one wants to say anything. The few days had just been so… dreadful to him that he needed someone who could listen to his problems besides his parents. He told his parents everything, so he wanted someone else he could talk to for just about anything. He thought about his friends.

"Are my friends… at a hospital?" Tsuna asked.

Iemitsu nodded his head. "Ever since the day they found out you were gone."

"I want to go see them." Tsuna stood up from his seat.

"Wait. It's too early in the morning. Get some rest." Both his parents urged him to stay for a bit longer. As much as Tsuna wanted to stay, he couldn't. He felt as if he would put his family in danger by his unexcused leave and have the Vongola turn the whole city upside down just to look for him. Now that made him question why he left in the first place. Even Tsuna himself doesn't understand his logic. Maybe he just needed a break. Maybe he could just stay here.

But Tsuna explained to his parents that he was leaving and they hesitated, but understood.

He looked at the doorknob to the front door for a little bit. If he went back undetected, he wouldn't be punished by anyone from Vongola—or maybe he will be severely punished if he was caught. If he stayed with his family, one day the Vongola will hunt his family down and hurt them. What a lose-lose situation.

He thought about it carefully and decided that it's best to go back. His parents fully accepted his decision although wished that he could stay here with them.

Tsuna said his goodbyes to his parents at the front door.

He looked at the staircase in his home and thought about Lambo and I-pin. He wanted to see them so badly, but he didn't want to wake them up just for that. If he went there now and saw their innocent faces, he didn't think there would be any way he'll tell himself to go back to that mansion.

His parents bid him farewell by the door and Tsuna walked out. All of a sudden, Tsuna felt a tug at both of his legs.

"Lambo! I-pin!" Nana called out to them. The two children were awake all along and when they found the chance, they ran to Tsuna and grabbed onto his legs.

"Lambo… I-pin…" Tsuna said, dismayed.

"Don't go Tsuna!" I-pin shouted.

"We want you to come back!" Lambo cried and wiped his snot on Tsuna's pant leg. Gross.

Tsuna had no idea how to stop them from crying. When they cried, it was nearly impossible to stop them from continuing.

"Will you come and play next time?" Lambo asked.

"Yeah! Play!" I-pin repeated.

Tsuna had no idea what to say. He didn't know if he was even able to come back and play with them like they used to before Giotto. He looked at his parents by the doorway and gulped.

"Y-yeah!" Tsuna replied and smiled.

Lambo and I-pin cheered when they heard him say that. "Promise?" They both said in unison.

Crap. What in the world is Tsuna getting himself into? 'Say something right. Say something right.' He repeatedly said in his mind.

"Promise." 'Crap. That just hammered a nail onto my coffin.'

Lambo and I-pin let go of Tsuna's leg and walked back to their parents by the door. The four of them waved him goodbye as he climbed into his car and started the engine. He looked at his parents one last time and drove off.

"I didn't know Tsuna could drive." Nana said.

"He can't…" Iemitsu said.

"WHERE IS HE?!" Giotto was red with rage. In Tsuna's room stood Asari, Knuckles, and Daemon and there's Giotto pacing back and forth in the room.

"W-we don't know." Asari said quietly.

Giotto took the chair by the window and threw it out if it. When Giotto's mad, there's no way out.

"Well there's more paperwork to do…" Daemon whispered quietly to Knuckles and Asari.

Unluckily to him, Giotto heard it loud and clear. He quickly spun around and glared at Daemon with a wrath alike to a demon's. Daemon flinched a little at this and shut his mouth.

"There's no way he could have been kidnapped…" Giotto said to himself as he paced back and forth. "There aren't any signs of struggle…" Giotto stopped pacing and looked out the broken window.

"Did he… run away?" Giotto's left eye twitched.

No way… Someone ran away from him… Again…

Giotto began taking some deep breaths and kneeled onto the ground. He fisted some of his hair in frustration.

Giotto's three present guardians were sad to see Giotto turn into something like how he is now. They don't blame him either—he's been through a lot. The three remained silent as they watched Giotto cry a little by the window. They didn't know what to do for their beloved friend.

"Why does everyone run from me?" Giotto sobbed quietly and began talking to himself.

"Is it because I'm a mafia boss? … Is it because they only liked me for my money? … Is it because they only liked me for my looks? … Is it because they only liked me for my status? … Is it because… because…" Giotto fell silent.

He enjoyed the brunette's company.

He wished for the brunette.

He needed the brunette.

He LOVED the brunette.

His three guardians were getting scared. They quietly backed away from the room and left, afraid to face Giotto the way he is now.

"We need to do something before… you know what…" Knuckes said, concerned for Giotto.

"Any ideas?" Daemon asked.

"I'll call Alaude." Asari took out his phone from his pocket and dialed a number.

Tsuna's heart nearly jumped from his chest when he heard a phone go off in the car.

'A phone? But I don't own one…' He thought to himself.

"Meh… The gig's up…" A familiar voice sat up from the back seats revealing Lampo.

"Lampo?!" Tsuna said. "What are you doing here? How did you get in?"

Then, two more people sat up from the back seats.

"Alaude? G?" What a strange group pairing. Tsuna was really shocked. How did he not notice them in the car? Maybe that's why they're Giotto's guardians—he didn't even see them coming.

"Hey kid." G said.

Tsuna flinched a little and nearly hit a stop sign.

"Maybe I should drive this thing." G said to him. Tsuna agreed and stopped on the side of the road to switch places with G.

"Where are you trying to run to?" G asked as Tsuna hopped onto the passenger seat.

"Namimori Hospital."

"Why?" G started to drive in the direction of where the hospital was.

"And you weren't even going the right way…" Lampo remarked.

Tsuna pouted. He looked at the three and noticed that they were wearing disguises. "Lampo, where's your disguise?"

"Yeah, Lampo. Where is it?" G said, teasingly.

Lampo was quiet for a moment until he spoke. "I'm wearing it… I'm disguised as Lampo."

Tsuna was silent. He tried to hold in a bit of his laughter because the atmosphere was a bit heavy in the vehicle.

"By the way, you should pick up that phone you ignored Alaude." Lampo said.

Alaude sighed and took out his phone. It was from Asari. Alaude spoke on the phone whilst G, Lampo and Tsuna spoke to each other.

"Hey kid. I'm sorry for what happened earlier before…" G said. "I got… way angry too quickly… I should have thought about it and known that it couldn't have been your fault." G finished.

Here's the part where Giotto mentioned that when he got to know G better, he was a kind man.

"It's okay. You were worried about your friend." Tsuna said.

G felt there was a weight lifted from his chest. "Thanks kid. That means a lot to me."

Lampo looked out the window with slight sadness. "The boss has gone nuts again."

"Huh?" Tsuna said.

"It's not the first time either…" Lampo continued, "The boss lost people that were dear to him in the past."

"Oh…" Tsuna looked down on his feet. "I'm sorry…"

"Nah, kid. It's not your fault in the first place so there's nothing for you to apologize for." G said.

"But he's probably going crazy because of me running away…" Tsuna said. He wasn't wrong there.

Alaude finished his conversation with Asari on the phone and put it away in his coat pocket. "Why did you run?" His voice was stern and cold, but Tsuna understood that Alaude is not being mean.

"I saw it…," Tsuna said, "The blue folder…"

The three older men squirmed in their seats. G felt like he needed to smoke.

"…So you did…" G finally said. "I'm sorry you had to see that. Giotto is… not alright."

Before Tsuna could ask what that meant, G arrived at the hospital.

"I'm sorry… for your friends. Our subordinates hurt them." G said to Tsuna.

Tsuna looked down and nodded his head. "I'll talk to them."

"You don't want someone to come with you just in case?" Alaude said.

"I'll be fine." Tsuna said and smiled a little.

Lampo and G were surprised because Alaude barely talks to anyone besides Giotto and the other five guardians. There must be something about Tsuna that makes people want to open up to him.

Tsuna entered the hospital alone and walked towards the front desk. There was a secretary typing away information on the computer. She looked as if she was fresh out of college—probably in her early to mid-twenties. He greeted the secretary politely and asked about which rooms his friends were in. The secretary stopped typing and turned her attention to Tsuna with a smile. She happily gave Tsuna the room number and he gladly thanked her.

Tsuna began walking down the hallway and found the room he was told to go to. He wondered if they were awake at this early hour. He didn't want to disturb their slumber.

With nothing to lose, he knocked on the door and he received a faint 'come in'. He opened the door and entered the room. Tsuna saw that all six of them shared the same room and had their own beds. Hibari looked as if he wanted to walk out of the room because of the large crowd, but sadly he couldn't. He along with the other five are badly injured to the point where they couldn't leave their beds.

All eyed fell upon Tsuna and everyone in the room was shocked.

"Juudaime!" Gokudera tried to inch closer to Tsuna, but he winced in pain and stopped.

"Everyone…" Tsuna looked down at his feet. "I'm so sorry for what had happened to all of you."

"Tsuna…" Yamamoto was sad. He didn't want to see one of his first real friends with such a sad look on their face.

"Little tuna, it's alright. We did the best we could." Mukuro smiled weakly.

"They were too extreme." Ryohei wanted to scream it out, but it seems that two of his ribs were cracked and it made it difficult for him to try.

Hibari was only silent and kept his eyes closed. Although he shows no concern, deep inside of him he's thinking about murdering anyone who hurts Tsuna.

"They're not all bad people." Tsuna said.

The six in the room raised their eyebrows.

"Not bad people? Tsuna, you were taken away by them…" Gokudera was angry at his attackers and Tsuna's kidnappers.

"You're not thinking of going back there, are you?" Hibari finally spoke.

Tsuna fell silent.

"No!" Yamamoto said, "Oh, no Tsuna!"

Hibari clenched his teeth. Not only is Tsuna gone forever, he also lost in battle with some pale blonde-haired guy with handcuffs. Hibari? Lose a battle? That is like the sky and the ground—they'll never touch. Still, his pride was crushed.

"He'll hurt you guys again if I don't go back." Tsuna said.

"Then we'll just protect you again." Mukuro said and Ryohei, Yamamoto, and Gokudera agreed with the pineapple even though they had always disagreed with his perverted ways. Mukuro was being serious for once.

"But how… in such a condition?" Tsuna said and started to cry.

Mukuro bit his lip. He didn't know what to do.

Tsuna's friends had no idea what to do.

"Then promise us." Hibari said. "Promise us that you'll come back to us one day like how it used to be a few days ago."

The other five awaited Tsuna's answer and stared at him, anxious.

"… I promise." Tsuna thought he was going to die with all of these promises. He had no idea if he could keep them and fulfill them.

After the conversation, Tsuna walked out of the hospital to see Lampo eating some sweets, Alaude sitting on the car roof looking at the sky and relaxing, and G smoking.

"You should go back to the mansion, Tsuna. We can't let you go anywhere else." Lampo suggested. Although the rest of the group disagreed, it was the only option left.

Tsuna nodded hesitantly.

The four of them went back into the vehicle and drove back to the manor. When they arrived at the front of the mansion, G asked Tsuna if he will be okay when encountering Giotto at his 'scary mode'.

Tsuna nodded his head and exited the vehicle.

"Also… Please help Giotto…" G said to Tsuna. Lampo and Alaude looked at Tsuna with the same eyes as G—pleading for someone to save Giotto from his own darkness. Tsuna nodded to them and walked to the front doors.

He wanted to try to resolve things between them and make everyone happy. G proceeded to drive the car into the Vongola garages. He entered the mansion's front doors to see no one pacing around the foyer.

'Where is everyone?' Tsuna thought.

He closed and locked the doors behind him and walked up the stairs.

"Hello?" Tsuna called out. "Is anyone home?"

Tsuna walked towards his room and saw a chair missing and a broken window. He walked into the room and frowned a bit. What happened to his room while he was gone and where is everyone?

"Hello?" Tsuna said.

Suddenly, there were stomps quickly coming towards his room. He quickly spun around in fear of what that was.

It was Giotto. He looked entirely exhausted, breathing rapidly, hair in need of grooming, sleeves sloppily rolled up, clothes wrinkled, and a set of wide eyes. G wasn't kidding when he said that Giotto wasn't 'alright'.

Tsuna was too scared to speak. What if Giotto was going to hit him? Or worse…?

"Tsuna…" Giotto spoke first. Giotto's face went back to normal and he walked towards Tsuna with a hand beckoning to him. Giotto wanted a hug, so he hugged Tsuna tight—so tight that Tsuna thought his bones were going to be crushed by the strength. "Giotto… I'm hurting…"

Giotto apologized and let Tsuna go. Tsuna asked where everyone was and Giotto replied saying that they were out in town looking for Tsuna. Tsuna widened his eyes at this.

Giotto also apologized for the messy room and broken window. He then took Tsuna's arm and pulled him towards his room. "Why don't you come sleep here in my room instead until your window's fixed?"

Tsuna was pulled towards Giotto's room and Giotto closed the door behind him, body turned towards the door looking down and not making eye contact with Tsuna.

Tsuna thought that Giotto was beginning to act strange.

Giotto smiled evilly and locked the door. Tsuna took one step back when he heard a click by the door.

"Giotto…?"

"Why did you run?" Giotto turned around and Tsuna saw that the person in front of him no longer looked like Giotto, but like a creepy psychotic person. Giotto's right eye was covered by his hair and his left eye was as wide as plates.

Tsuna began to shake and shiver with the new tone of Giotto's voice. What happened to him while he was gone?

"Tsuna…" Giotto's voice began to turn sweet again, but Tsuna wasn't buying it. Giotto slowly walked towards Tsuna, but Tsuna kept backing away from Giotto.

"Why are you backing away from me?" Giotto asked and laughed weakly, hair still covering one eye and the other still wide. He continued to walk closer.

"Stay away…" Tsuna said. He did not like Giotto the way he is now. Giotto was turning darker and darker…

"… But… why?" Giotto was heartbroken. But he still persists in walking closer to Tsuna until he finally was close enough to cup his face with his hands.

"No!" Tsuna pushed Giotto away from him.

Giotto was shocked at Tsuna's outburst. He scowled at this response and tightly grabbed Tsuna's neck. He then proceeded to throw Tsuna onto his bed and quickly searched for some things in his drawers. Tsuna tried to escape, but failed when Giotto found what he was looking for and tied Tsuna's arms together. Tsuna screamed and shouted for help, but no one was around to hear. Giotto's subordinates were out in the city searching for him, G along with Lampo and Alaude are gone somewhere, and Asari along with Daemon and Knuckles were also searching for Tsuna in the city. The house is almost empty with the exception of Giotto and Tsuna.

Giotto then put a collar on Tsuna's neck with a tag that said 'Natsu' on it. Tsuna tried to kick Giotto off him, but failed.

"Why are you trying to resist me?" Giotto spoke to him with a bittersweet tone and looked down at Tsuna with wide eyes and a psychotic smile plastered on his face. Giotto loosened his tie and unbuttoned his own shirt.

"No no no no no no no!" Tsuna cried.

Giotto still had on his psychotic grin. "Oh yes. Don't worry… After this, you'll never even want to think about trying to run away from me EVER AGAIN." Giotto proceeded to rip off Tsuna's clothes.

Lavanda=Lavender

Oh, and uh… Giotto's yandere, I think. Thought I'd tell you. *Smiles*