Thank you for staying with my story from the beginning to the near end. And I wanted to thank you for the reviews I have received from you all as well. It was pleasant to read, but the one review that stood out the most was Silver Lamp for you to break down all the things that was happening in my story was nothing short of amazing and amusing. I guess it goes to show how much you like the story, at least that's what I like to assume, but anyways. I hope you enjoy the second to last story.

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The Other Way Chapter 6 From the Beginning

Tsuna was surprised with what he was seeing. He was eleven fucking years in the past and good lord he can't even being to estimate what was going on now. For all he know that he can be at the time when he first meets Reborn or he could be at a time he and his guardians are about to fight for their lives for the rings. All he knew was that he needed to get in contact with Lueal and them and get the rings before they do. First he needed to know what day it was. He looked at the calendar and cursed. Well that was a big help, so he did the next best thing, stumble down the stairs.

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It was later on the same day and he got back with hanging out with his friends and seeing Squalo and Basil for the very first time. He was reminded of the good times and the bad times he had with everybody and he remembered saying to himself five years into the future that he wouldn't change it for the world, so what the hell he was doing now.

Tsuna got up and started pacing. He started re-evaluating everything that's been happening the past 11 years and every time he came up with something he drew up a blank.

He had to talk to them.

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It was midnight and he was able to sneak out with awakening his dad or reborn if they were still in the house. He needed to get to the forest where they first met them.

When he got to the clearing he could make out Lueal, Mariam, Anna, Toffee, Randal, and Jocobe, sitting on large boulders smiling at him and for some reason it made him ill.

"Tsuna, we thought you would never come," Toffee said cheerfully.

Tsuna smiled, "You know," he said sitting on a boulder as well. "I was reminiscing over the good and the bad times I shared with you and the guardians. And I can't help but be stuck on our memories and I can't help, but find some faults in our relationship."

Lueal raised an eyebrow, "And that is?"

"You guys don't exist, so I'll only as you once," changing into hdw, "who are you?"

Lueal smiled and laughed, "It's about time you figured out something was wrong young Vongola."

A flame smashed into her rock, but she dodged it with ease.

"Now, now, Vongola, surely you don't want to kill me without a least finding out who I am."

"Don't play with me," Tsuna growled. "Tell, why did you trick me into thinking we were friends and what did you do to my friends."

Lueal sighed, "It's not what we did, it's what you did."

Tsuna frowned; he lowered his arms down, "What do you mean by that?"

Lueal sighed, "We're guardians, but not the kind of guardians that you think we are. We're guardian angels." They all unfolded their wings.

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Tsuna couldn't believe what they were saying to him, but it made everything that happened make since. It would explain why when he thought about them he couldn't fit them in his life the way his friends entered his. And that fact that his friends turned their backs on him wasn't possible either, not with all the things they done together.

With that in mind, Lueal had dropped a bomb on him and told him that everything that happened from last year into now, plus the time traveling, was nothing but a dream, an illusion that was summoned up from the pit of my heart that contained all of his hatred and doubts and insecurities.

"I don't understand," Lueal rolled her eyes.

"What isn't there to understand?"

"Why now, I've been having these feeling since day one since I met everybody and became the Vongola leader, so why now?"

"Who knows why your insecurities decided to make itself known now, but it did and as your guardian angels it was our job to make sure that you were protected even if we had to warp your mind."

Tsuna hissed, "So it was you who tried to get me to turn my back against them."

"Calm down Tsuna," Mariam said after a long time of being silence. "We had to do this, as a way for us to know that protecting you wasn't a waste of time we had to test you to see if you were as loyal to your friends as your friends are loyal to you. That's why we did what we did to you, honestly though we dropped so many hints to you to see if you would catch on to them, Reborn, wouldn't had let this happened in fact nobody would be alive if this whole dream turned out to be real, then there were holidays that wasn't celebrated in Italy, then we were spilling dark malicious intent around you and you usually would catch on to it in a heartbeat, but can you guess what was missing."

"My hyper intuition," Tsuna was shocked that he didn't even noticed that was missing.

"Yep, but fortunately enough, you didn't need it now, but I guess we can write this off as a close cause, you want to know why?" Mariam asked. "If you was to choose us now, if you was to say simple words such as, "I want you guys to be my guardians", you would've rewrote history, by history your history, you would never have been friends with your true guardians, you would've denied their rights to be by your side simply because you let your deepest fears rule you and we would've taken your side. And that, wouldn't be a good thing simply because we're all aren't pure white. We are yin and yang, good and evil, night and day, we are created for the sole purpose of guiding you to the right path by any means necessary, do you understand Tsuna?"

Tsuna nodded.

"I have to say congratulation too, simply because of the fact that despite on how much we influenced you, you were able to break out of our spell and think for yourself. Because of that you was able to save yourself and the history of Vongola."

"Now, Tsuna, we help you get to this point and you manage to push beyond our expectation, but this where we part ways."

Startled Tsuna jumped in protest, "What do you mean? Are you just leaving me here?"

"Sorry, but we're just guardian angels we did our assignment and now it's time for us to move on, kind of like how you need to wake up." Lueal and the rest of them turned to leave.

"Wait, can you at least tell me how I got here, I can't even recall going to sleep."

Toffee piped in, "Of course you don't and that's because after the long battle that was supposed to be a negotiation you exerted more flames than you needed to, you shot the leader dead, then you passed out and you been unconscious since that day."

"And how long was that?"

"Two months, Christmas is coming up soon; you don't want them to be celebrate it without you do you?"

"Tsuna hurry up to them, before their Christmas will be filled with tears instead," with that they all disappeared one by one leaving Tsuna alone in his faux world.

I can't stop feeling guilty for what I've done right now. I might as well turned my backs on them for having such thoughts and if I they were to see what my thoughts were, what my dreams, were they surely would've felt betrayed. I don't deserve friends like them, but I do at the same time. I worked hard to keep them, and they worked hard as well. They were the only ones that I could count on and I love each and every one of them for their faults and all.

I love Gokudera, even though he's a hot head.

I love Yamamoto, even though he's book slow, but it's okay we're the same.

I love Lambo, even though he's a spoiled brat.

I love Ryohei, even though he's too loud.

I love Chrome, even though she's really quiet.

I love Mukuro, even though he committed all those crimes.

I love Hibari, even though he scares the hell out of me.

And I love Reborn too, because if it wasn't for him, for all of them, I wouldn't be where I am today.

I, Tsunayoshi Sawada, can't express my deepest gratitude to my family and my friends, for being with me even though I let my doubts get the best of me. I know because of those doubts I got us into so much trouble so as my friends, I hope that you guys can forgive me one day. And I'm also glad that I was able to experience the things that I seemed to have forgotten as well to, so I'm glad I was able to get a glimpse of the pass.

Goodbye my guardian angels and maybe your next tasks are much easier than mine.

Thank you and goodbye.

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Originally I was going to have this chapter filled with nothing but angst and tragedy, but I was like, "Hm, should I make them fight for the rings or not." Then when I attempted to do that, it didn't work, more like the plot was going for something more relaxed. I decided, why do something that had even more angst and be a little be more up lifting, I guess. Anyways, I hoped you like it. And sorry it took so long to get it up, it was just so hard with all the decision making.