Author's note
Sorry about this! Even though I just began this story, I won't be able to update it for about a month since I'll be going on a vacation! But I'll update it as soon as I get back, I promise! Also, I will be introducing Vongola Undicesimo and his guardians in this chapter, but I will not be mentioning how they look. So just tell me if you want me to describe how they look. Please comment too! Thanks and see you soon!
Chapter 2
Hayato's POV
When the blinding light finally died down, I realized that the scenery changed from us being on the outskirts of the forest to us being in some kind of room. Meaning that either we were transported somewhere else or we somehow travelled through time.
"Welcome to the year 2XXX, Hayato, Decimo's storm guardian, Takeshi, Decimo's rain guardian, and Ryohei, Decimo's sun guardian." A teen said that was behind me. I turned around to face the man, but got surprised from seeing not only the rest of the guardians from our time, but also from seeing Primo, his guardians, and the rest of the Vongola bosses from Secondo to Nono (none of their guardians are with them in this story) along with 7 people (who looked like they were in their late teens early 20's) whom I couldn't identify.
"Who are you?" I asked the teen. "Oh. My name is Hiroshi and I'm 19 years old. People also refer to me as Vongola Undicesimo. And these…" Hiroshi said as he gestured to his companions that were standing right next to him "are my guardians." "Hello! Nice to meet ya again! My name is Kazuo, same age as Hiroshi! I'm also his rain guardian!" Kazuo said with a grin. "Baka, be more polite to our predecessors!" Another man yelled at Kazuo before turning towards us said "Please excuse that idiot. My name is Shino, 19 years old. Hiroshi's storm guardian. Nice to meet you." "Fufufu~ my name is Setsuna, 21 years old. Mist guardian." Setsuna said with a laugh so creepy that he could compete with Mukuro and Daemon. "Hibiki, same age. Cloud guardian." Hibiki stated. "My name is Kintaro, 20 years old. Hiroshi's sun guardian and it's REALLY nice to meet you!" Kintaro shouted. "The name's Ryousuke, but you can call me Ryou. I'm 18 years old and also the lightening guardian. Don't forget it." Ryou said with a lazy voice.
A moment later, chaos broke out between them. Shino was yelling at Ryou saying something about having respect. Kazuo was trying to calm Shino down. Setsuna was taunting Hibiki; which resulted in a fight. "Hahaha… don't worry. They're always like this." Hiroshi explained once he saw the confusion in our faces. Then Hiroshi asked a question that made all of his guardians silent, "By the way, where's Decimo?"
After a moment of silence, Hiroshi and his guardians turned to face us; which caused the rest of the Vongola bosses and first generation guardians to do the same. Before I could say anything, the yakyuu-baka that was right beside me asked "Did you guys find Tsuna yet?" "Yeah! We couldn't find him to the EXTREME!" Turf-top added. I noticed that after Takeshi asked that question, Mukuro, Chrome, Lambo, and even Kyoya tensed up before sending out killing intents. "I… No; we looked for him but we couldn't *sniff* find him." Lambo replied while trying to hold back his tears. "What happened?" Hiroshi asked suspiciously. "Jyuudaime was kidnapped." I said. "How did that happen?" Hiroshi inquired. I turned to face the first generation guardians and the other Vongola bosses before deciding to tell them what happened after judging that what I was going to say won't change the future.
Flashback
*Knocks on the door that leads to Decimo's office* "Jyuudaime! I'm sorry, but you have more… paperwork to do." I said feeling a little bit guilty while looking down at the numerous stacks of paperwork that was on the trolley that I was wheeling since most of the paperwork was from me destroying half of a city during a mission. I waited for a while since I knew how much Jyuudaime detests paperwork. "I'm coming in now, Jyuudaime." I said as I began to enter the room only to realize that Jyuudaime wasn't there like he was supposed to.
Concerned, I hastily made my way to Jyuudaime's desk expecting him to be under it trying to hide like he'd sometimes do since he wasn't sitting down in his chair. So when I walked over to his desk and looked underneath it, he wasn't there. When I was about to turn around to look for him, my eyes fell upon a letter on his desk that was addressed to me. It said:
Dear Hayato,
Guessing that you are reading this note, you are here to give me more paperwork, aren't you?! You know how much I hate it, but you still give it to me anyways. So I decided to take a little 'break' from doing paperwork. Knowing how smart you are, you probably began to realize what I meant by that; and you are absolutely CORRECT! We're now playing hide and go seek! I'm the person who's hiding and you're the person who's trying to find me~ Good luck, ne?
When I was about to put the letter down, I stopped when I noticed that the note continued at the bottom.
P.S – If you fail to find me by the end of the day, you have to finish the REST of the paperwork in my office! Including the ones that you just brought in! See you later~
After I read that part of the note, I began to pale as I noticed that about half of the room was covered in paperwork. 'I'm sorry, Jyuudaime… But I really don't want to do the paperwork!' I thought as I set off to look for Jyuudaime.
The first area that I searched was around the mansion to make sure that Jyuudaime wasn't hiding in the mansion while I was looking outside the mansion. After looking around the mansion with no sign of Jyuudaime, I went to the place that I knew that my boss would most likely be if he wanted to hide from me (or anyone as a matter of fact); and that was downtown. As soon as I got downtown, I began my search for Jyuudaime.
After hours of searching for Jyuudaime with no success, I gave up and began to head home so that I could at least start to finish the paperwork that Jyuudaime left for me. As I was leaving town, I heard gunshots and shouting coming from the opposite direction I was heading. So I turned around and ran towards the sound of gunshots that was fired.
When I arrived at the scene, I saw a group of Mafioso surrounding Jyuudaime (who was in HDWM) with guns pointed at him. After a few seconds of trying to understand what was going on, I took out my dynamite and started to blow up the enemies that were surrounding Jyuudaime. When Jyuudaime noticed me, he knocked quite a few Mafioso that was in his way while flying towards me.
"Are you alright, Hayato?" Jyuudaime asked when he saw the injuries I got as I made my way towards him. "Hai. I'm fine Jyuudaime. What happened here?" I asked. "Well, as I was walking around town, I felt like someone was tailing me. I thought that person was you so I didn't really pay any mind to it. But when I noticed that it wasn't you, it was too late to stop him from contacting his boss since the backup that he called for..." Jyuudaime pointed at the Mafioso that were in front of them, "already had me surrounded. The gunshots that you probably heard since you came here running over here was to get me to stay still so that they could catch me. And the rest you know already." Jyuudaime responded.
"Alright, let's go now." I said as we knocked out the last Mafioso of that group. "Not so fast, Decimo. If you don't come with us, these children will get hurt." One of men that we beat up said. When we turned around to face him, we saw him holding a little boy (that looked no older than 8)'s wrist while the little bit was struggling to get out of the man's grasp. In his other hand was a gun that was pointing a group of children that were crying behind him.
"Let them go." Jyuudaime said to the Mafioso using his boss voice. "Only if you come with us, Decimo." The Mafioso replied. "Like hell I'd let-" I began to say only to get stopped by Jyuudaime. "Fine." Jyuudaime said. "Good. Now drink this," he said as he tossed a bottle to Jyuudaime "don't worry. It'll only put you to sleep. It's not like its poison or anything because we were told to keep you alive." The Mafioso continued.
"I'll only drink it once you have released the children." Jyuudaime said. "But Jyuu-" I was cut off once again. "No, Hayato. It was my fault that they were involved in this so I need to fix it." Jyuudaime whispered to me. "Then let's do this, Decimo." The Mafioso said to gain our attention "You come to the middle so I know that you won't just run when I release them. And of course, your guardian stays where he is. You will drink it as soon as the children run pass you to your guardian. Is that okay for you, Decimo?" The Mafioso asked. "Hai." Jyuudaime answered. Then he turned back to me and said "Hayato, when the kids run to you, take them to safety and protect them; no matter what happens." "... Hai, Jyuudaime." I reluctantly said.
When Jyuudaime reached the middle, the man told the children to run towards me. As soon as the children ran passed Jyuudaime, Jyuudaime looked down at looked down at the bottle one last time before he drank it. The last thing I saw before I ran off with the children was the sight of seeing Jyuudaime fall towards the ground and being caught by the enemy with a smirk present on his face and then he carried Jyuudaime bridal-style back to his HQ.
Flashback ends
When I finished explaining what happened for the second time (since Hayato told the rest of the guardians what happened to Jyuudaime after he took the children to safety), I looked up to see their reactions. Everyone in the room excepting the people who knew about the situation before hand and Primo who looked pleased to know that the Vongola Decimo was a kind person that would protect people looked surprised (probably since they didn't think that a mafia don could be so nice excepting Primo's guardians since they might have thought that they would never encounter a boss that was similar to their own before).
G's POV
"Doesn't this Decimo sound just like you, Giotto?" I asked, breaking the silence. Every one of Primo's guardians nodded excepting Knuckle who said "TO THE MAXIMUM!" while Giotto just asked "What do you mean by that?" "Well, you and Decimo play hide and go seek with us just to run away from doing paperwork. Even the consequence of not being able to find you is the same." I answered. "Jyuudaime also sneaks into our rooms whenever he feels like it or when he wants candy. One time, Jyuudaime got caught by Hibari sneaking around in his room," The man that looked like a younger version of myself that was earlier identified as Hayato said as he gestured to the Aluade look-a-like that was identified as Hibari "which resulted in them fighting and destroying half of the mansion and us looking for new rooms and ways to making them Jyuudaime-proof." Hayato continued. "Yep. He sounds just like you, Giotto." I said. Giotto just ignored me and asked "What's his favourite type of cake?" "Strawberry cake." All of Decimo's guardians excepting Hibari answered. The answer just made the rest of us want to face palm since Giotto's favourite cake is also strawberry cake.
Before anyone else could say anything, the same bright light that everyone was used to by now appeared a long with a voice that could have been mistaken as Giotto's if I didn't know any better. "You know, your torturing methods are sooo old. I bet you that even Lambo can do better than you. So I suggest that you come up with something else... if you... want me... to... talk..." The voice said, struggling to get that last part out. 'Wait, did he just say torture?' I silently thought to myself. As the light disappeared once all of us except 5 people who yelled "Jyuudaime/Tsuna/Sawada/Tsuna-nii/Bossu!" froze.
What I saw almost made my heart stop with pity. It was a brunette with brown eyes, and with that face of his, he could strangely pass as Giotto's younger brother. His shirt was soaked in his own blood, blood was dripping from his mouth, and the rope that bounded his hands seemed to be tied tightly since his hands were bleeding (showing that he tried to get out of the ropes). As his body hit the floor mercilessly, all I could do was gasp. His back… Oh God, his back… it looked like he got brutally whipped. 'He looks no older than 16, yet he still had the guts to talk back to his captor with his body like that.' I thought. 'What in the hell did he have to go through to be able to do that?'
When I turned around to ask if that person was Decimo, I stopped as soon as I saw the looks that they had on their faces. Giotto, Asari, Knuckle, Daemon, Lampo, and even Alaude had a similar expression to what I was wearing; which was a mixture of confusion, concern, disbelief, and pity (but instead of pity, it was guilt for Giotto). While Hibari and the male Daemon look-a-like were sending out a killing intent that said 'if I ever catch the people who are responsible for this (which I will), they will experience hell like they never did before/I'll bite them to death for doing this to the omnivore.' The Vongola 'bosses' and Undicesimo's guardians' expressions were as mixed as ours, but one of them surprisingly also had the look of guilt as he said "Tsunayoshi?!"
Timoteo (Nono)'s POV
As the blinding light died down, I opened my eyes once more. But what I saw struck me in the heart. The man that appeared was covered in blood and it looked like he was barely conscious; on the verge of fainting. As I looked closely at the man's face, I realized that he wasn't a man; but a teen that looked no older than 16 years old. He also looked very similar to Tsunayoshi. I had my doubts that Tsunayoshi was the 'Tsuna' that the black-haired brown-eyed teen mentioned to be Decimo. But all of those doubts disappeared when I heard two of those five teens yell "Jyuudaime/Tsuna/Sawada/Tsuna-nii/Bossu!" say 'Tsuna' and 'Sawada.' That just confirmed the identity of the bloodied teen to be Sawada Tsunayoshi; Iemitsu's son and Primo's descendant. I couldn't help but feel guilty as I realized that this was one of the consequences of allowing Tsunayoshi to become Vongola Decimo.
I snapped back into reality as I felt two of Tsunayoshi's guardians releasing their killing intents only to see Tsunayoshi on the ground as his blood began to spill onto the floor and five of his guardians rushing towards him. "Tsunayoshi?!" was all I could say as I rushed right after them towards Tsunayoshi.
Giotto's POV
When the light disappeared once again, my eyes fell on the sight of the bloodied man, or better yet, teen that was standing right in front of us. My HI was screaming 'Help him! Help him! He's important, don't let him die! He can't die yet! Don't let him die!' But I couldn't move. The blood in my body felt cold as I began to realize that the teen looked like a carbon copy of my younger self (if you replace the brown hair and eyes with blond hair and blue eyes, of course). When I looked closer at his injuries, I noticed that blood was dripping from his mouth, the rope that was tied around his wrists made his skin brake since it seems like he was struggling to get out of it, his clothes were tattered and soaked in blood, and he was struggling to breathe. All I could think was 'What the hell did this boy go through to get all of these injuries?' as I saw the boy fall to the floor.
"Tsunayoshi?!" I heard as I turned my head to where the voice came from only to see the oldest one of the bosses run towards the bloodied boy that was now in the arms of his guardians.
That's it for chapter 2! Please tell me if I made any mistakes or if you don't get it! I'm also having a little bit of trouble coming up with what should happen next, so if you have any ideas, please tell me! Make sure to comment and read the author's note that I put up at the very beginning! It's important! See you guys in a while!