Hello readers! Okay first off I'm sorry that this update took longer than how I usually update. It really wasn't my intention. Anyway, I'd like to thank those who reviewed:

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Thank you very much for reviewing! Now without further ado! Chapter 2! Enjoy!

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Chapter 2: Mysterious Little Boy

Giotto blankly stares at the front of the classroom as his math teacher, Kazuki-sensei, teaches the class about how to solve and find X and Y when you have two equations. Usually Giotto would listen to his teachers' explanations, but there were 2 things on his mind. One is how he hasn't been getting enough sleep, and two, the brunet that talked to him on his first day. Coincidentally, Giotto hasn't been able to get any sleep because he was thinking about the brunet.

Giotto has the brunet for 2 other classes other than homeroom, Home Economics and Gym. Whenever he's in those classes he can help, but look at the brunet. There was something about him that made him stand out from the other students.

He didn't understand why, but it made him curious.

He has tried to talk to the brunet to get to know him, but whenever he does the brunet's friends, the G and Asari look a likes he had labeled them as, would get in the way. They'd usually call the brunet out of the class room to do who knows what.

And it's not just once or twice. No, it's every time. At times Giotto feels like just taking the brunet from the class room and to a secluded area to talk to him, but if he did that he might freak out the brunet and make his friends more protective of him, which Giotto has had enough of, thank you very much.

Giotto doesn't know why, but he gets annoyed when the brunet is with someone. He doesn't get annoyed with small things like greeting or things like that. It's more like he gets annoyed when someone acts too friendly towards the brunet, especially that orange-haired girl. When he sees the brunet talk to Kyoko, or whatever her name is, it really annoys him, which is very usual seeing as he doesn't even know the brunet, let alone his name.

Giotto snapped out of his thoughts and sighed. He's been thinking too much about the brunet and not getting enough sleep. Maybe it's the lack of sleep that's making him feel like this. Whatever it is, it doesn't make any difference that he still needs sleep.

Giotto turned his attention back to the front of the classroom 'He's still explaining about solving the equations… Shouldn't we have already learned this in middle school? And if some people didn't, it's easy. You're just substituting most of the time.' He thought and rested his head on the desk 'Whatever, since I already know this I guess I could take this time to catch up on my sleep.' He closed his eyes and then started to drift off to sleep.

As he did, one last thing past through his thoughts.

'The brunet's smile looked so cute…'

In a park a pair of mothers conversed with each other as their children played. There were 2 boys playing. One was 4 year old Giotto, while the other was a 3 year old boy. Strangely enough, you couldn't make out how the younger boy looked like.

Though the two boys were playing, they weren't playing together. Giotto was playing on the swings, while the other boy was playing in the sandbox.

Everything was going fine until 3 other boys gathered around the unknown boy and then started to bully him by kicking the sand at him and calling him names. Giotto noticed this and frowned. He didn't really like it when others were treated badly, so he went to put a stop to it.

He got off the swing and marched up towards the group.

"Hey, stop!" Giotto shouted at the group.

The other boys stopped and turned their attention to Giotto "What do you want?" One boy said

"You heard me, stop treating him that way." Giotto said

"It's none of your business, so leave!" Another boy said

"I won't leave and let you continue to harm him." Giotto said

One of the three boys were going to talk back to Giotto, but stopped when they heard their mother calling them. The three looked at each other and then nodded to one another.

"Let's get out of here. It's a waste of time" One of them said and then the three boys left the park.

Once the three left, Giotto turned his attention to the unknown boy that was on the ground. "Hey, are you alright?" He asked

The boy looked up and stared at Giotto. He nodded. "I-I'm… a-alr-alright…" He said quietly and continued to look at Giotto. It looked as though he was trying to determine if Giotto was a good person or not. It's true that Giotto did save him from the bullies, but Giotto could just be acting.

Somehow sensing this, Giotto smiled at the boy and said "Don't worry, I won't hurt you, I promise." He said and looked at the unknown boy. "You're all dirty… Wait here, I'll be right back!" Giotto said and then left.

Giotto went inside the boy's public bathroom and less than a minute later came out with wet towels in his right hand and dry towels on his left.

He walked back to the boy, who was still on the ground "We have to get you cleaned up!" Giotto said and then went through the process of cleaning the younger boy.

After a few minutes of wiping, the boy was clean.

Giotto held out his hand to help the boy up. The boy looked at the hand for a second before hesitantly grabbing it. "T-Thank you… for h-helping me… um…?" He said and struggled at the last words not knowing what to call Giotto.

Knowing this, Giotto gave the boy a smile "My name's Giotto! I'm 4 years old!"

"Um… C-Can I c-call you G-Gio-nii…?" He said nervously

Giotto nodded "It's okay, I don't mind. So what's your name? How old are you?" Giotto asked somewhat excited

The young boy fidgeted on where he stood "M-M-My names -*-*-." The boy said and held up 2 fingers "I'm 3 years old."

Giotto looked at the boy's fingers and repeated the boy's words. Giotto placed a hand over his mouth as he tried to hold his laughter.

The other boy looked at Giotto with a confused expression "I-Is something wrong?" He said

Giotto, who finally was able to calm himself down, smiled at the boy "Sorry, it's just that you had the wrong number of fingers." He said and then gently grabbed his hand. "Here, if you do this…" Giotto straightened another finger from the boy's hand adding to the other 2 fingers "Then that makes 3."

The boy blushed at his mistake "O-Oh… um… T-Thank you…" He said embarrassed

"No problem!" Giotto said and then looked at the blushing boy, only to blush himself when he realized that the other boy was cute. "A-Anyway, it's nice to meet you -*-*-."

The boy played with the hem of his shirt for a moment before looking at Giotto and shyly smiling "It's nice to meet you t-too, Gio-nii."

Giotto returned his smile "You know, you look cute when you smile." He said, which made the other boy blush a little more. "Um... T-Thank you..." The other boy mumbled, but Giotto still heard him.

"Your welcome!" Giotto said

"VONGOLA!" Kazuki-sensei shouted and slammed his hand onto his desk, successfully waking Giotto up. "Can you explain to me why you were sleeping in my class?"

'Damn… I was caught...' "I'm sorry, Sensei. I was just sleepy, and I couldn't stay awake." Giotto said

"I can see that. What I can't understand is why you were sleeping when I'm teaching you!" Kazuki-sensei said "You may be new, but I won't permit this."

Giotto blankly stared at his teacher "Again, I'm sorry, Sensei, but I thought it would be alright if I just took a small nap, seeing that I already know what to do in these sort of problems." He said

"Is that so? Then Vongola, come up here and solve #9 for us, if you know this." Kazuki-sensei challenged

"Of course, Sensei" Giotto said and went up to the board.

Number 9 had the two equations 9x+6y=90 and 3x= y+39. Giotto had to find what X and Y were so both equations were true. So he did and after a few minutes of dividing, substituting, and other mathematic techniques he got X = 12 and Y = -3.

"How is that, Sensei?" Giotto asked

"That's… correct. You may go back to your seat." Kazuki-sensei reluctantly said "But, I'd advise you to not sleep in my class again, Vongola."

"Of course, sensei. I'll do my best." Giotto said and walked back to his desk. 'Well that went better than expected.' He thought and then recalled his dream. 'What was with that dream anyway? Wait… Can I even call it a dream? I mean I was there, but I was 4… So a memory? And who was that other boy? I couldn't even see his face or hear his name…' The school bell rang. 'Whatever, I'll just add that to the list of things I don't understand.' He concluded after getting his thing and left the classroom.

Meanwhile Tsuna wasn't doing any better in the sense category. Gokudera and Yamamoto were with him. The two were arguing with each other, well, Gokudera was arguing, Yamamoto was just being his happy-go-lucky self. Usually Tsuna would calm Gokudera down to stop the arguing, but he was in his thoughts right now.

Tsuna was thinking about Giotto. He couldn't really believe that the person he first loved had forgotten him throughout the years. Sure they weren't together for 9 years, but hey, he remembered so why couldn't Giotto?

Even though that did make him sad, that was only half of the things that were bothering him. The other thing that was bothering him was that Giotto was trying to talk to him.

It did give him some hope that may be Giotto had remembered him, but by the way he tried to talk to him proved that Giotto didn't. The evidence was that Giotto never called him by his name. Every time he tried to talk to Tsuna he would always walk up to him instead of calling him over.

Knowing that Giotto had forgotten him, hurt Tsuna, and for the moment Tsuna didn't want to talk with Giotto or be with him for that matter. Tsuna was very grateful to his two best friends that they would always get him away from Giotto whenever he tried to talk to him, but that didn't stop the small pain he got for avoiding Giotto, knowing that Giotto probably felt annoyed or maybe sad from him avoiding him.

Tsuna did consider forgetting Giotto to avoid any pain and discomfort, but whenever he did Tsuna always remembered the fun times he had with Giotto, the times when Giotto would play with him. The warmth that he felt when he was hugged by Giotto or when he was kissed on the forehead from Giotto. Those times were carved into his heart and he didn't want them to go away, so he decided that forgetting wasn't the answer.

"–Okay, Tsuna?" Yamamoto said snapping Tsuna out of his thoughts.

"Huh?" Tsuna said confused

"I said that I can't walk home with you for the whole week. The baseball team is training after school for the upcoming game." Yamamoto said

"It's okay, Yamamoto. I know how much baseball means to you. I wish you luck!" Tsuna said

"Thanks." Yamamoto said "At least you won't be walking home alone. You still have Gokudera, right Gokudera?"

"Actually I can't." Gokudera said "Aneki is picking me up now, and I have to get away as soon as possible to avoid her. I'm truly sorry, Tsuna-sama." Gokudera said and did a perfect 90 degrees bow.

Tsuna smiled "It's alright, Gokudera. I know that you can't be with your sister or you get a stomach ache. I'll be alright." Tsuna said

"As expected that a great man like you would understand!" Gokudera praised "Don't worry Tsuna-sama I promise you that I'll get Aneki to not pick me up, so that I can make sure you return home safely!"

"Okay, thank you Gokudera." Tsuna said "But make sure not to trouble yourself too much, okay?"

"Okay!" Gokudera said with a soldier salute.

~School Bell~ ~School Bell~ ~School Bell~

"Well, I'll see you two tomorrow!" Tsuna said as he was gathering his belongings.

"Have a safe trip home Tsuna-sama!" "Bye, Tsuna" The two said and the three of them left the classroom.

Tsuna made his way to his locker and switched out his school shoes to his normal shoes. After doing so, he left the school building, but as he was, someone roughly grabbed Tsuna's wrist and forcefully dragged him over behind the school building. Once there, the person threw Tsuna to the ground.

Tsuna looked up to see Mochida and two other people in front of him and they didn't look to happy.

'Why of all times does this happen today?' Tsuna thought sadly as Mochida opened his mouth.

"You know, Dame-Tsuna, I think you've forgotten your place in this world. Just because Yamamoto, Gokudera, and Namimori's Idol talks to you doesn't make you any better." Mochida said "You're still a pathetic loser whose life is higher than trash." He said and stepped forward towards Tsuna, while Tsuna's fear started to rise. "And I think we need to reteach you that that is, and will forever will be the truth." Mochida raised his leg behind him, ready to kick Tsuna.

Giotto sighed in relief when he heard the school bell. Finally, after 7 long hours, school is over. Now, all he has to deal with was his homework that he has gotten from his teacher.

He made his way towards the lockers at the front of the school so he could change into his normal shoes and walk home. His mother did have a car now, but she still doesn't pick him up. She uses that for driving to work and maybe sometimes when they eat out. Other times they walk or just eat at home.

Giotto changed into his normal shoes and turned to leave. As he did he caught the sight of the brunet. He then noticed that he wasn't with his usual two friends.

'Maybe they had other things to do?' He thought 'Well, whatever, now I can at least try to talk to him.'

Giotto fastened his pace towards the brunet, but then noticed some black haired teen with two other people started to drag the brunet somewhere. A little worried for the brunet's safety, Giotto followed.

He followed them until they reached behind the school. Giotto took a quick look at the group and noticed that the brunet was on the ground and that the other three people were in front of him, looking down on him. Giotto also noticed the black haired teen was ready to hurt the brunet.

It was at that moment that Giotto stepped in.

"Hasn't anyone ever taught you that it's not right to treat each other badly?" Giotto said and walked towards the group.

"And who the hell are you, Blondie?" The black haired teen, named Mochida, said

"Who, me? I'm just a passerby." Giotto said and glared at Mochida and his friends "You shouldn't treat others so harshly."

"It's none of your business on how we treat other people. Now get the hell out of here before you get hurt." Mochida threated

Giotto chuckled "Looks like I was right. You're nothing more than a dog who barks at a person you can't beat." He said

"What was that?!" Mochida shouted, his anger rising.

"You heard me. You're a dog, or maybe the correct term is a coward." Giotto replied "A weak coward, who has to hurt other people weaker than him to make himself look stronger."

That was all it took to push Mochida over his limit. He charged at Giotto and then aimed a punch to Giotto's face, but Giotto easily dodged the attack.

"I told you. You can beat me." Giotto said and then kneed Mochida's stomach. A few seconds later, Mochida was on the ground, holding his stomach and groaning in pain. Giotto turned his attention from Mochida towards the other two teens "So who's next?"

The two teens flinched and then ran away, leaving Mochida.

Seeing that the other two were gone, Giotto started to walk to the brunet–Tsuna on the ground. He held out his hand. "Are you alright?" Giotto asked

"Yeah…" Tsuna replied and let Giotto help him up. "Um… T-Thank you, Vongola-san."

"Giotto"

"Eh?" Tsuna said in confusion.

"Call me Giotto. I don't really like it when people use my last name." Giotto explained

"B-But…" Tsuna trailed off, trying to find an excuse.

"Why are you being hesitant now? I mean you called me 'Giotto-san' before." Giotto said

Tsuna sighed in defeat. The reason why he didn't want to call Giotto by his name was because it reminded him of when he and Giotto used to play together, but now it kind of seems like he has too. "Alright, Giotto-san."

Giotto smiled "There you go. Now, how about I take you home?"

Tsuna blushed a tiny bit from the smile "Y-You don't have to. I can go home by myself."

"No can do. I think its best that I walk you home just to make sure that you get home safely instead of being harmed by people like him." Giotto said gestured towards Mochida, who was still on the ground.

Tsuna stayed quiet and started to weight the options on whether or not to let him. In the end, it was best that Giotto takes him home. "Then I guess it'll be alright."

"Alright then" Giotto said with a smile and the both of them started to walk home.

The walk home was quiet and very awkward. It continued for a while until Giotto, who didn't like the awkwardness, spoke.

"So how was your day?" Giotto asked

"It was good… how was yours?" Tsuna asked

"It was fine…" Giotto said and then everything became quiet again before Giotto continued "How about we get to know each other?"

"Huh? Why do you asked?" Tsuna asked a little confused by the sudden question.

"I don't know. I'm just curious." Giotto answered

"You do know that 'curiosity killed the cat', right?" Tsuna said

"Yes, but you do know that 'satisfactory brought it back', right?" Giotto countered "Anyway, I just thought it would be nice to get to know each other, something to pass the time."

'Same old Gio-nii… Always wants to have his way.' "Alright, what would you like to know?" Tsuna asked

"Hm… I guess your likes and dislikes. In exchange, I'll tell you mine." Giotto said "How does that sound?"

"Okay." Tsuna answered and they started to talk.

By the time, they reached Tsuna's house, Giotto knew a few things about Tsuna, while Tsuna confirmed that Giotto didn't change during the last 9 years.

"Thank you for taking me home, Giotto-san." Tsuna said when they were at the gate of his house.

"No problem." Giotto said and turned around "Well, I'll be going now, bye."

"Bye" Tsuna said and then Giotto left.

Giotto was happy that he was at least able to know a few things about Tsuna, but while remembering about Tsuna and his conversation, he realized something.

'Ah… I never ask what his name was…' Giotto thought as he continued his way to his house.

"I'm home!" Tsuna shouted

"Welcome home, Tsu-kun!" Tsuna's mother, Nana, replied "How was your day?"

"It was fine." Tsuna answered

"Oh that's right, Tsu-kun did you know that Giotto-kun is back?" Nana asked "He should be in your school. Did you see him?"

Tsuna tensed for a moment, remembering that Giotto still didn't know him. "Y-Yeah, I saw him a few times…" Tsuna said and then paused for a moment before asking "Kaa-san… If a person very important to you forgot who you were… What would you do?"

"Hm? What type of question is that Tsu-kun? You should know very well the answer to that." Nana said and then smiled to her son "You help them remember of course."

"Eh? What do you mean?" Tsuna asked

"You stay by their side. If this person is very important to you then wouldn't you like to stay by that person's side? Along the way they are surely to remember you, but if they don't, well, wouldn't you want to still be with them instead of away?" Nana said

Tsuna was stunned by his mother's answer, but still tried to think about it in that way. He did feel a little happy when he and Giotto talked with each other on the way home. The pain of being forgotten disappeared. It felt like old times.

"Yeah… you're right… Thank you, Kaa-san." Tsuna said

Nana smiled "You're welcome. Now wash your hands Tsu-kun, dinner is about to be ready."

"Okay" Tsuna said and went upstairs to his room to put away his things. Once he was in his room, he placed his school bag on his desk. He looked at the locket that was still attached and smiled.

'Even though you forgot me, I want to help you remember. Even if you don't ever remember, I will continue to smile by your side.'

A/n: Is it just me or does the very last sentence make it feel like the story is over? Weird... Well whatever, it's still being continued. I won't stop until Giotto and Tsuna are together! Oh yeah, I before I forget. I think I'll be updating this story every two weeks. It look me a while to write this chapter so I thought that maybe I need more time for this story. Anyway, that's all I have to say, so bye!

Natsuki Sawada: Yeah, Giotto did lose his locket, but he'll find it eventually. And yes, in Giotto's locket he has a picture of Tsuna, but Tsuna's locket doesn't. His doesn't because Tsuna couldn't figure out how to put the picture inside.

PhantomThiefL: I don't know if I'll explain it in the story why Giotto left, so I'll say it now. Giotto and his mother left to Italy for a short vacation to like visit their family and such, but as time went by Giotto's mother decided that they would stay there because she liked being with her family and it's been so long since they ever saw each other so she wanted to catch up with them.