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Chapter 6: Sasagawa Ryohei

Behind Tsuna, the chaos had finally come under control. Tsuna grunted as he took a seat in the chair closest to him while he held onto his right arm. It throbbed viciously, but Tsuna knew it wasn't too horrible of a wound. He had certainly had worse before. The young boss looked up to see Mukuro carefully eyeing everyone even as his eyes kept straying back to his boss. The illusionist had hurried in after Tsuna to make sure he was alright. A loud explosion sounded from the aftermath of the battle which caused both Tsuna and Mukuro to tense slightly. People from the Gurian famiglia scurried inside the building. Tsuna could see the relief on their faces now that the battle was over. A glance around him caused Tsuna to relax as he realized they had made it to one of Vongola's smaller hideouts. More footsteps sounded and Tsuna turned to see his sun guardian who had also rushed in. Tsuna saw his guardian as he began to look frantically around after he entered. It took a moment before Tsuna realized his guardian was looking for him. He coughed slightly before he yelled over, "Onii-san!" Ryohei's face quickly whipped in his direction, and Tsuna could only hope the man hadn't gotten whiplash. However, Ryohei simply rushed over to Tsuna's side before kneeling before him. He activated his ring instantly and began to take care of the still-bleeding wound which began at his right shoulder and went down his arm. Tsuna huffed slightly as he told his protective, older brother, "I'm fine Onii-san. It's just a scratch; you should take care of the others first." Tsuna's received a glare before the jock-turned-doctor continued to focus on the wound. Tsuna grimaced as he felt his mist guardian's glare as well. It might've hurt pretty badly, but he was still fine. His guardians could be so overprotective sometimes.

Tsuna decided to let his sun guardian do his job as he glanced at Mukuro who was looking torn between being angry at Tsuna for being hurt or concerned about his injury. Tsuna decided to give Mukuro another focus instead, "Mukuro, is everyone inside the building now?" Tsuna knew that Mukuro had counted everyone as they rushed in, even as he secretly worried over his boss.

Mukuro carefully eyed Tsuna for one more moment before he straightened and nodded. "Yes, Tsunayoshi. Our allies are now all accounted for within the building." Mukuro paused for a moment and closed his eyes. Tsuna let Mukuro sense around outside for anymore enemies. Mukuro's eyes snapped open and he met Tsunayoshi's eyes softly. Tsuna felt himself ease as Mukuro calmly spoke, "All the enemies are taken care of as well." Mukuro paused before he continued, "You can relax now Tsunayoshi." Tsuna felt his shoulders ease slightly at his mist's words. He glanced down to see his sun guardian taking advantage of his relaxed state to fully access the wound.

Tsuna still wasn't even sure how all of this had happened. This had started out as a simple meeting with both the Gurian famiglia and the Zane famiglia. They had been meeting to discuss on how they would trade resources with each other. The Gurian famiglia had recently come into possession of a multitude of elemental rings and artillery, while the Zane famiglia unfortunately (at least in Tsuna's opinion) came into a bunch of drugs after disrupting the drug dealers within their city. Tsuna's hope was that the Zane famiglia would burn the more lethal drugs which didn't have any herbal properties, and distribute the rest of it which had herbal properties to their more trustful allies. Tsuna did not want any of the drugs being put back onto the street. The Vongola Boss had just been developing a plan in his head on how to keep an eye on the two other bosses in the room after this meeting when a slam had broken him out of his train of thought. He had looked up to see the boss of the Zane famiglia who looked annoyed and angry. The man had begun yelling at how he deserved not only the biggest portion of the drugs, but to also do whatever he wanted with the drugs which included putting them back onto the streets so his people could rake in more cash. The next thing Tsuna knew, he was dodging past bullets, swords, and a variety of other weapons with Mukuro and Ryohei at his side. Together with the Gurian famiglia, who had hosted the meeting and had most of their famiglia with them, the three Vongola members fought off the Zane famiglia. Tsuna realized that this had been the Zane famiglia's plan all along when a large number of back-up arrived to help out the Zane famiglia. Unfortunately, the Gurian's mansion had been destroyed and they had been forced to fight outside as they headed to the nearest Vongola facility. There had been quite a few casualties, but Tsuna was just relieved his guardians were alright; although Tsuna also felt bad for being relieved where there had been other casualties still.

Tsuna glanced around once more to see the Gurian famiglia rushing around to take care of their own. Tsuna's arm let out another painful throb which caused Tsuna to tense for a moment. He glanced down to see Ryohei flinch slightly. "Sorry, Sawada. This wound seems to go extremely deeper than I extremely thought it could."

Tsuna pushed a smile onto his face even though he was sure it was also a slight grimace. "So that's why it hurts like one of Kyoya's hits?"

Ryohei gave the boy an expression which was mixed between a glare and a grimace as Mukuro marched over to them. The mist guardian watched them carefully before he asked, "But Tsunayoshi will be okay, correct?"

Tsuna scoffed, feeling insulted. The two guardians ignored him. Ryohei nodded and answered, "Yeah. Sawada will make an extreme full recovery with no extreme problems. Octopus-head is going to throw an extreme hissy fit though to the extreme." Tsuna groaned as Mukuro let out his signature laugh. Hayato AND Takeshi were probably going to flip once they heard the one meeting they didn't go to ended up like this.

Tsuna pointed out to both of his amused guardians, "Forget Hayato's reaction; think about what Reborn's reaction will be." They all froze and paled slightly. Reborn was not going to be happy that the meeting had went sideways, but even more so they would get punished for Tsuna being hurt for sure; Tsuna included.

Mukuro huffed and turned around to face the other way as he crossed his arms together. "I just wanted to make sure your body was still fit for me to possess Tsunayoshi, but thanks for that pleasant reminder."

Tsuna snickered and shrugged slightly, which only caused a ripple of pain to rush down his arm and Ryohei to glare at him. He smiled sheepishly as he responded, "Well at least we'll be punished together." The other two gave him a look which clearly showed that they didn't agree with that in the least, having both gotten to experience more of Reborn's "tutoring" over the years.

Mukuro was about to say something else when a small yell was heard from across the room. All three quickly turned over in surprise as they remembered the others that were with them. Their healers were trying to heal their wounded, but it seemed the wounded outnumbered the healers. Most of those with critical wounds seemed to be getting treatment just fine, but those without critical wounds seemed to not be getting much treatment at all. Tsuna glanced at his sun guardian with the silent question of whether or not he was fine now. Ryohei, having sensed Tsuna's glance, looked up before he checked on the wound his sun flames were still on.

Ryohei hesitated for a moment before he nodded. "Mukuro, can you extremely come here and bind Tsuna's wounds to the extreme please? I'll start helping the Gurian famiglia with their wounded as well."

Mukuro nodded and moved to take Ryohei's place to bind the wound as Tsuna smiled gratefully at his sun guardian. "Thank you, Onii-san."

Ryohei sent Tsuna a bright smiled before he nodded and rubbed his hand across the brunette's hair much to Tsuna's annoyance. "Sure thing to the extreme, extreme little bro."

Ryohei jogged off as Mukuro carefully began to wrap up Tsuna's arms with some bandages the sun guardian had left. Without looking up, the mist guardian asked, "So what do we do now, Tsunayoshi?"

Tsuna let out a sigh as he rubbed the back of his head with his good arm, "I think we should focus on just healing everyone here first. I'm sure Xanxus and the rest of Varia are already on their way to finish off any Zane famiglia that might remain. We'll have to deal with the aftermath later. For now we'll finish our deal and help out the Gurian famiglia with their wounds and rebuilding of course. We'll figure out everything they need in order to get back on their feet properly." Tsuna let out another sigh and tried to not wince; he was a sighing a bit too much today. Mukuro shot him a pitying look as there was a lot of work to be done as always before he moved away from his wrapping job on Tsuna. The young sky ignored his mist's look and continued, "We'll also need to talk about redistributing the materials once again without the Zane famiglia now."

Mukuro couldn't help but look curious at that notion. "Are you planning on splitting it fifty-fifty with the Gurian famiglia now?" Tsuna hummed in thought as he tried rolling his injured shoulder slightly, only to flinch in pain and receive another glare from Mukuro.

Tsuna quickly gulped and relaxed his shoulders before he straightened himself and answered, "No. I know the Gurian famiglia might not be the happiest about it, but it would be a bad idea for us to relinquish such materials after all that's happened today. We'll still try to come to an agreeable solution, but I think it might be best if we-."

"Don't even think about it, kid!" Both Tsuna and Mukuro turned around and were surprised to see Ryohei on the ground with a stunned expression. In front of him was one of the higher ranking Gurian famiglia members who had a fist raised and looked incredibly angry.

Both of the other Vongola members were up in a flash and made their way towards their sun guardian. Tsuna made his way and leaned down next to Ryohei and instantly noticed the reddening of his sun guardian's cheek. Mukuro had placed himself between his family and the other man. Already Tsuna could feel both his and Mukuro's rage swelling. Tsuna took a breath to calm himself before he asked, "What is the meaning of this? What's going on?"

Ryohei didn't answer as he continued to look stunned, but the other man snarled. Both Tsuna and Mukuro tensed at the notion; Mukuro even going so far as to bring out his trident for defense. The man snapped in response, "This boy thought he was capable of healing our Don. Just because our Don has waved off our healers to heal his famiglia first doesn't mean we want such an inexperienced civilian attempting to use his flames on our injured Don. He is by far one of the lowest ranked members of the guardians. It is most unacceptable." Tsuna could feel his rage boiling at this point; the only reason he hadn't made a move to retaliate was his older brother's stare. Despite being written off as weak and incapable, Ryohei still wanted to make sure the peace was kept as best as possible; which was actually ironic because if it had been Tsuna in Ryohei's place, the man might not even be alive at the moment.

Nonetheless, Tsuna turned his attention back over to Ryohei's injury. The sun guardian just smiled a crooked smile and Tsuna relaxed. The injury no doubt stung a bit, but wasn't much compared to what Ryohei was used to receiving. Tsuna stood up and offered his arm out to his older brother who took it gratefully and stood up on his own feet. The usually-boisterous man wobbled slightly, no doubt still surprised of what had happened. Tsuna kept his eyes shadowed for a moment before he focused his glare on the man who cowered instantly.

Tsuna pushed himself to remain professional as he kept himself in place. Still as the sky, Tsuna refused to let this go quietly as well as he growled out, "Unacceptable? Having one of Vongola's guardians who is the top healer in our famiglia healing your boss is unacceptable?" The man gulped as he realized the mistake he made. "Maybe Ryohei started out as a civilian, but so did I." Tsuna scoffed before he continued, "Most people for that matter started out as a civilian. Ryohei has come a long way from being a civilian, and even as a civilian he was by far one of the stronger protectors to those he cared for. However my sun guardian, my older brother, Ryohei, for whatever reason chose to follow me into this dark world." Behind him, Tsuna felt Ryohei tense. Tsuna could feel the way the older man wanted to jump in to reassure Tsuna as he always did when Tsuna tried to take the blame. However Tsuna continued to speak before he could, "My sun guardian followed me when we battled for the rings, when we had to fight our own futures, when we had to fight those we had trusted, and when we had to go up against the strongest hitmen and even Vindice themselves." Tsuna shook his head softly. "Ryohei never had to do any of those things, but he did in order to protect myself and the rest of my family. Time and time again, Ryohei has proven himself to be worthy of being called Sun guardian of the Vongola famiglia, the strongest famiglia around. He's protected me without me asking him to and is the first to make sure we are all safe and unharmed. Ryohei continued to go even further when he went to medical school just so he could have the ability to heal whatever wounds we receive, despite never having a knack for academics. Ryohei has beyond proven his loyalty to me as my Sun guardian and as my older brother. Gurian famiglia- if you have a problem with my older brother, then you have a problem with me." By the end of his speech, Tsuna could feel his resolve take place with the flame on his forehead. His eyes glowed orange and silenced the room before him in awe. Even Mukuro and Ryohei stared at their sky, stunned at his words. They had noticed Tsuna had gotten quite protective of them as of late, but they hadn't realized how proud of them he was.

Ryohei continued to stare at the man who had become his little brother in everything-but-blood with tears gathered in his eyes. The tears did not fall, and Ryohei quietly whispered out, still in shock, "Tsuna-otouto…"

Besides the whisper from Ryohei, the room remained completely silent. Tsuna allowed his eyes to fall back onto the man who had punched his Sun guardian. The man squeaked in surprise and fear before he fell back onto his butt and quivered in fear. Mukuro caught the action and scoffed quietly.

"You…you are absolutely right Vongola Don." Everyone turned to look at the Gurian Don. The slightly elderly man looked at Tsuna in wonder and admiration. The Don shifted and Tsuna couldn't help but be slightly worried as the older man continued to hold his slightly bleeding torso; it was wrapped but not well. "I apologize for Tereso; he can be far too protective of me at times." Tsuna mentally sweat-dropped as a certain silver-haired man popped into his own mind; Mukuro who apparently had the same thought threw Tsuna an annoyed look while even Ryohei chuckled quietly to the side. "Still, this does not excuse his behavior. Even if you had not said anything, we still should've shown all three of you our respect; all of you are top members of the Vongola after all. You've all proven that you have earned the positions you each have. I am truly, deeply sorry for the offense we have caused today." Tsuna watched quietly as he felt his rage simmer down a bit. In truth, he was impressed with how the Don handled himself and accepted responsibility for his famiglia's actions. The respect turned to slight horror as the older man started to bow with his still bleeding torso.

Tsuna and Ryohei both began to try and stop the Don, when a small thud was heard which caused all three to pause and look over at the man who had insulted and punched Ryohei. Tereso had bowed his head to the floor with his arms stretched out in front of him. Despite the honorable bow, Tsuna still wasn't impressed with him. However, Tereso showed he wasn't done as he let out a small sob and apologized with a voice that showed tears in it, "I am so sorry for all of my actions Mr. Ryohei Sasagawa! I was blinded by worry and I took it out on you! I forgot your position and all you have done to help us as allies! I do not deserve it but I offer you my sincerest apology to all three of you!"

Tsuna continued to stare at the groveling man. He huffed before he looked over at Ryohei who now had an amused expression plastered onto his face. However as if he felt Tsuna's eyes on him, Ryohei turned and met his stare; many emotions shined in the older man's eyes: gratitude, awe, happiness, and relief. Tsuna however jerked his head in Ryohei's direction which caused the Sun guardian to look at him confusion. Tsuna told him, "It's up to you, Onii-san. He punched you after all." Ryohei gave his little brother a disapproving look as a smirk appeared on Tsuna's face; there was no doubt in his mind he had just made Tereso pale at the reminder of what exactly he had done to who.

Ryohei still shook his head slightly with a chuckle before he turned to the man, who was still face-down on the ground. "Please extremely get up. I extremely forgive you, so no extreme worries!"

Tereso's head flew up with a smile as he thanked the man, "Thank you so much, Mr. Ryohei Sasagawa!"

Mukuro chuckled to the side which caused everyone to look at him. "Kufufufu. Are you sure? I mean in retaliation we could always-."

"Don't finish that sentence!" Both Tsuna and Ryohei had yelled at the same time, and tried to stifle their groans which usually came with their mist's actions. Mukuro simply continued to laugh his signature laugh.

Ryohei shook his head slightly before he turned his attention back onto the Gurian famiglia warily. He coughed slightly and offered, "So should I…?"

The Gurian famiglia all look embarrassed as they realized their boss was still bleeding slightly through his bandages. Tereso was the one to respond, "Yes, of course! Thank you again, Mr. Ryohei Sasagawa!"

Ryohei looked slightly out of his element with the respect he was being given but began to approach the Gurian Don when a familiar voice was heard, "I'm not sure what's going on, but why don't you let me heal him instead dearie?"

Everyone turned to the entrance and were surprised to spot Lussuria and Mammon from Varia as they stood watching everyone. "Luss! You're extremely here?"

Tsuna blinked in surprise as he looked over at the two Varia members. "Lussuria-san, Mammon-san? Why are you two here?"

Mammon gave Tsunayoshi a dead-pan stare which said, 'Are you serious?' Tsuna gulped nervously, but Lussuria cut in between the two of them with a light chuckle. "We heard that the meeting went south and since we were close, Boss kicked us over here-." Lussuria froze mid-sentence as Mammon coughed and gave another look which told him to shut up. Lussuria quickly laughed, this laugh a little strained. "I mean we came over here just to check up on you guys, not at all because Boss kicked us over here."

Tsuna chuckled slightly as Mukuro scoffed and Ryohei beamed at the pair. Tsuna had noticed lately that Xanxus had been keeping an eye out for them for whatever reason. Still, Tsuna went with it slightly, "Well thank you, Lussuria-san and Mammon-san. We appreciate it. I'll be sure to thank Xanxus-san for letting us borrow you two as well." Lussuria simply chuckled again as Mammon groaned slightly. Tsuna continued slightly more professional as he told them, "There shouldn't be any more enemies, but we could use the help in assisting with the healing of the Gurian famiglia."

Mammon nodded as he told the baby-boss, "Ah, Bel and the Captain headed over to make sure that the Zane famiglia wouldn't cause any more problems. Like Lussuria said though, we'll handle things here. You guys look exhausted."

Tsuna smiled tiredly at the two and chuckled lightly. "Thank you Lussuria-san and Mammon-san."

The fluorescent sun of Varia beamed back at Tsuna before he gushed over him, "Of course Tsu-chan! No need to thank us though really! Do any of the three of you need any healing by the way? I doubt all three of you somehow managed to come out completely unscathed."

Tsuna nearly rolled his eyes as he heard his mist mumble under his breath, "We could've all come out unscathed."

The young boss gave the Varia members a genuine smile as he told them, "We're fine. I got hit in the battle, but Onii-san has already patched me up. It's the Gurian famiglia who could use your medical expertise."

Lussuria beamed and clapped his hands together. He responded, "You got it Baby-Boss! Leave this to Luss-Sis!"

Tsuna chuckled as Ryohei responded with an, "Extreme thank you Luss!"

The Vongola Boss turned towards the Gurian Don who smiled thankfully. "We can discuss things later. Please go and rest, Vongola Don. Thank you for all of your help today." The older man gave a slight nod with his head as a bow.

Tsuna wanted to point out that they weren't able to help out at all with this situation due to Tereso, but kept quiet. Tsuna nodded his head slightly as Lussuria moved forward to heal the Gurian boss. "Agreed. We will talk later after you have all healed then Gurian Don. Please rest well and easy." Tsuna turned to look at Mammon who had floated closer to them while listening. "I'll leave the rest to you two. Please be sure they get to one of their other hideouts safely, Mammon-san. I can pay extra if you'd like."

The young boss nearly laughed at the slight twitch from the Varia mist. The ex-arcobaleno grumbled slightly, "It's fine. No payments needed." Tsuna felt his lips twitch up as he knew that meant Xanxus ordered this to be payment free.

Tsuna chuckled slightly and ignored Mammon's glare as he told him, "I'll give you guys a gift then." Mammon perked up slightly before also getting to work as Tsuna turned to head out with Mukuro and Ryohei at his side.


The car ride was mostly silent as Mukuro drove them home. Tsuna allowed his guardians to their thoughts as he closed his eyes and rested his head on the car window. He was exhausted both physically and emotionally. His wound ached slightly still, but it seemed to have mostly healed from Ryohei's flames which just left him in a slightly sore state from all the fighting. He was emotionally exhausted from all the defending of his guardians he had been doing. He wouldn't hesitate to do it again for even a second if it came down to it, but he was beginning to get tired of people having doubt in his guardians. The young boss also knew it was bound to happen when he and the others inherited the Vongola famiglia at such a young age. It didn't make the matter any less annoying or exhausting though.

"Hey Tsuna-otouto?" Tsuna picked his head off the limo window and looked over to Ryohei who was sitting across from him. The older man looked at Tsuna fondly. "I just want you to know I've never once extremely regretted extremely joining you guys. You're my extreme family just as much as the extreme blood family I have. I just wanted to extremely thank you for what you said and did back there. It meant an extremely lot to me."

Tsuna smiled sheepishly at his older brother. "I meant every extreme word of it you know?"

Ryohei beamed back at him, "I extremely know!"

Tsuna glanced forward to see Mukuro glancing back and forth between the street and the pair. The brunette bit his lip to stifle a laugh at the slightly jealous look Mukuro was giving them. "Don't worry Mukuro. I'll give you an extreme speech next time too."

"Kufufufu, you had better Sawada Tsunayoshi."

Tsuna rolled his eyes but smiled at the two of them. "How about we stop for ice cream on the way back?" Ryohei let out a holler of excitement and Mukuro lit up slightly in his own little bit of excitement as Tsuna pushed back a chuckle; he never understood why every one of his guardians loved going out for ice cream so much, but he was glad he could treat them to it whenever he wanted. Suddenly Tsuna remembered what awaited them back at their mansion and chuckled nervously. "It'll be nice to get a treat before we have to go back and report to Reborn and the others." ...

The whole car groaned in remembrance. Reborn was going to kill them.