The Sun Always Shines or Ryohei's Report on the Treaty Signing
Ryohei knows that he is a bonehead. In fact, Ryohei knows that he is extremely dense when it comes to people and their feelings. Knowing this about himself hasn't ever made Ryohei feel like an incomplete person either, awkward at times but never incomplete. Ryohei just chooses to acknowledge his weaknesses as well as his strengths. Since he knows that people's feelings are his weakness, Ryohei also knows to let others who are good at that sort of thing take care of whatever the emotional problem is.
It was due this knowledge about himself that led Ryohei to assume that someone was already helping Tsuna out when he noticed there was something off with his friend. Ryohei was extremely surprised when he noticed that Tsuna was depressed two weeks later. It was as if no one but Ryohei noticed. Since Ryohei was certain that someone had to have noticed that something was wrong with Tsuna and is helping him, he decided to observe what was going on around him.
Taking time to notice what was going on around him was an extremely awkward and odd experience for Ryohei. During the course of trying to observe the things going on with his friends, Ryohei was often asked "are you doing alright?"; "is there anything wrong?"; and "if there's anything that you need to talk about…" Ryohei knows that he is normally a loud person in both speech and personality, but he hadn't known previously that so many people would worry if stopped being so loud and extreme. The one that almost made Ryohei extremely scream out in frustration was when Tsuna asked if he was alright "because if there's anything I can do for you, I will do it." Ryohei almost told Tsuna that he would extremely feel a great deal better if Tsuna was to be happier, but Ryohei realized that he still needs a better grasp on what is wrong before he could help Tsuna.
During the week he spent observing people, Ryohei noticed several things. Kyoko and Haru as well as Yamamoto and Gokudera are all still so new to their respective relationships that they don't notice much beyond their own relationships. According to Ryohei's mom it was a healthy thing, so that was the only thing keeping him from beating up Yamamoto and Gokudera for ditching their responsibilities to Tsuna. Since the rest of the guardians had appropriate excuses, Lambo was too young to understand the complexities of feelings, Chrome lives in another town, and Hibari hates crowds and people in general, Ryohei realized that it was going to be his duty to help Tsuna out this time.
The idea of having to help someone with their emotional problems extremely scared Ryohei but he would do anything for Tsuna, including this. Before even finding out what was wrong with Tsuna, Ryohei decided to gain a plan of attack in the form of advice. Collenello told Ryohei to ask what the problem is, listen to what the person is both saying and not saying, and then try to do something to help the person. Oh and if it's a chick he's trying to help, do not try to fix anything; chicks only want to have someone listen and comfort them. Master Pao-Pao said to listen to the person and then to trust his own instincts on how to handle the problem. Ryohei's mom told him that often just being a good friend to listen to the person and do something with that person is more than enough as sometimes people feel lonely.
Therefore, armed with all of that advice, Ryohei just now needed to talk to Tsuna. Talking to Tsuna about his feeling without getting an "I'm fine Nii-san" coupled with an extremely heartbreakingly sad smile was proving to be hard for Ryohei. Luckily though that next weekend Tsuna and Ryohei were given a mission to last the weekend long. Ryohei thought that this was the chance he's been waiting for.
The mission went off without any complications. It was a simple treaty negotiation between the Naito family and the Vongola family. Due to the fact that the Naito's current boss, Longchamp, considered himself to be a friend of Tsuna's already, the treaty was more of a technicality more than anything else.
The thing that was extremely noteworthy was that Ryohei did get Tsuna to open up and was able to fix the problem. That is all that Ryohei had to report. Yet Reborn can't help wondering what it was that was bothering Tsuna and how it was that Ryohei had fixed the problem. Reborn also has yet to receive Tsuna's report on the events that took place during the treaty, and Tsuna is someone that is much easier for Reborn to get answers out of.
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Katekyoshi Hitman Reborn and their respective characters belong to Amano Akira.