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This is a G27 story, rating is T for now, but may rise accordingly to the story progress.
Chapter 14: Dire
Reader's POV
''No, I can't do that.'' Sepira said, gently yet definite. She tore her gaze away from the waterfall to focus them on Tsuna through both her blue eyes much similar to Tsuna's own ones.
''Why?'' Tsuna tried to steady his voice, but it sounded choked on the way out.
''I can't let you go back.'' Sepira lowered her gaze onto the chair they were sitting on, and then on the flowers growing in the wild grass in front of them.
''Why?'' Tsuna demanded, with more ferocity, but it still sounded more like a question.
''I bet Giotto didn't tell you anything. He's really too overprotective.'' Sepira said with a sigh, the corner of her lips tugging down.
''Tell me what?'' Tsuna asked. This was the third question and yet he didn't receive an answer.
''In a few days' time, you will not be a normal human.'' Sepira spoke with a serious voice, slightly hesitant. ''I'm sure he didn't want to tell you, but it would be better if you know.''
''Not a normal human? In a few days' time? But, know I'm a half vampire, so why would it really matter?''
''… If only you have Giotto's brain…''
''What?''
''Nothing!'' Sepira quickly said, waving her hands in front of her.
''Okay…'' Tsuna said suspiciously, but quickly shook it off. ''What do you mean?''
''I will let Giotto do the explanation. It's his choice, whether to tell you the entire truth or to deny you of it, to let you live…perhaps as a normal human longer.''
''?''
''If you were to know… Your world would be very different. You wouldn't be Tsuna anymore.''
Sepira straightened her back and fixed Tsuna with a stern gaze.
''You would be Tsunayoshi Vongola.''
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Tsuna took his steps slowly and carefully through the forest, wadding and weaving through the greenery and then a random stray broken branch appeared out of nowhere and cut his arm.
''Ouch.'' Tsuna yelped. He held his hand up to examine the bleeding. He stopped under a sunny spot where the late afternoon sun shone through a gap in the canopy of trees.
It was bleeding, but just a small cut. His blood was a really dark red, much darker than normal, glowing gloomily in the orange sun light. If it was yesterday, Tsuna would have thought otherwise that his eyes were just playing tricks on him. But no, it wasn't yesterday. It is today.
Vampire blood.
One drip of the shadowy dark blood dripped to the ground and landed onto an innocent grass blade. The grass blade immediately turned black like it was burned, just in a more environment-friendly manner. Tsuna cringed.
''I wonder…'' Tsuna looked at the wound again. Huh? Tsuna rubbed his eyes again, afraid that his eyes were really playing tricks on him. He wasn't wrong. It wasn't bleeding anymore, instead, the cut is already closing up, and new skin is being formed over the wound.
Tsuna laughed humourlessly and continued treading through the dimly lit forest.
''How am I going to explain this?'' He let his hand dropped to his side.
He reached the end of the forest path, and the sound of bells and wooden wheels rolling over rough ground filled his ears. He could hear what everyone was talking about, clearly, even if they were whispering. But he couldn't hear what Sepira said just before. What did it mean?
Somebody shouted from a distance. To others, it wasn't anything and just a part of an everyday nuisance noise. But to Tsuna, it hurt, a lot, like he was being punched on the ear. He clapped his hands on his ears and ran like his life depended on it.
'I want to run away.'
His footsteps felt heavy, his brain felt like it was being submerged in water. He couldn't think straight. He squint his eyes shut and pressed harder on his ears. His heart beat wildly against his ribs, moving in time with his feet, 1,2,1,2 in a quick tempo frantic dance. He could feel his heart beating everywhere in his body, surging a heat throughout his veins to every single cell in his body.
He continued to run through strange, unfamiliar landscape, shoving past and avoiding as much as the people who looked at him with strange eyes. He didn't stop to look back. Adrenaline was pumping through him like an addictive drug.
The scenery passed by him in a blurry flash.
'Where am I running to?' Tsuna wondered as he just let his legs go on auto mode, moving in whichever his Hyper Intuition told him to.
He couldn't stop. He doesn't want to stop.
Sure, it sounded cool when somebody told you that you are a vampire. But realistically, no. To be different and a creature feared by everyone wasn't something cool. He was inhuman. He could go berserk any moment and kill someone.
I'm scared.
Giotto.
Tsuna gasped and felt his saliva stuck in his throat. He forcefully stopped his legs from going any further and coughed violently, holding his balance against a tree. After a few more seconds of coughing, he felt his airway cleared and he could breathe properly again. His breathing came ragged and rough. Tsuna continued to pant slightly, sweat dripping down the side of his head. He rubbed his bottom lips with his fist.
He slid down the tree bark, his back against the wooden nature. He took an evaluative look at his environment. He was in an unfamiliar region, but he was certain he was still in Namimori. The scenery didn't change a lot, but it was still different. He didn't know those shops lining the street. He didn't know the people bustling around. He didn't know this place.
A bunch of silver hair caught his eyes. It glowed, bright with a warm orange, among the people. The silver hair bobbed among the crowd almost like a drowning person in the midst of a water body. And the face came into view.
It was just G. The silver hair became pink in an instant when he realised it, and Tsuna felt disappointment slapped him in the face.
This is reality, what were you expecting, you idiot.
''Tsuna!'' G hurriedly rushed over after a cry of acknowledgement at the bent over brunette leaning against the tree.
''What?!'' A frantic yelp soon followed after G. The golden hair was shining brightly with its own light even among some of the blond foreigners on the street. The crowd stared at them, some curious, some scared, some fangirling, creating a drool pool and et cetera.
''WHERE DID YOU GO!? WE COMBED THE ENTIRE STREET AND SCHOOL BUT WE COULDN'T FIND YOU!'' G immediately launched into a shout that shocked both the crowd and he himself. He immediately stopped himself and blushed lightly. Tsuna felt like melting into the tree behind him like a chameleon. G slot his fingers into his pocket and forced a smoke into his mouth, banging it against his front teeth than into the buccal cavity.
''Where did you go, Tsuna?'' Giotto demanded in an even louder voice. ''We were so worried that you had been kidnapped by an enemy!''
''Giotto, G… I'm sorry for making you both worried…'' Tsuna picked himself up, feeling his adrenaline wore off at the sight of the two. Their presence made him feel warm again. He didn't notice it when he ran, but he realized there was coldness somewhere in his heart. When was it there? Then he noticed that he was only running to make him feel warmer, even if a little; make him feel like a whole. The void was scary, like a bitter cold climate, with no one but himself and the cruelly white landscape in sight.
But just the sight of them, was able to make him feel warmer, like a human, instead of the bitter cold piercing his soul. The warmth coursed through him, and his heart felt light and free of the tonnes- heavy burden he was carrying.
He felt warm, hot moisture in his eyes and his sight turned blurry.
''Wah! D-Don't cry! I'm sorry that I shouted at you!'' G turned pink and flabbergasted. His movements weren't coordinated and robotic.
Tsuna's eyes widen and he quickly rubbed away the tears dripping from his eyes.
''G could never stand it when someone cries in front of him.'' Giotto laughed lightly and lightly caress Tsuna's cheek to rub away the tear stain Tsuna neglected to wipe away.
''Very G-like.'' Tsuna laughed.
''Tsuna... I don't know how to explain it, but you looked… different?'' G said slowly, after pulling himself together, fiddling with the mental dictionary in his head. Tsuna realized that G had also started to call him Tsuna instead of Tsunayoshi.
''Yeah, indeed…'' Giotto said absently-mindly, and placed a soft hand on Tsuna's head.
'His fingers feel cold.' Tsuna thought and resisted wincing.
''Hmm…'' Giotto mused.
''Come on, it's already dinner time. Let's go home.'' G said.
Tsuna took Giotto's and G's hand in each of his and dragged them into the orange horizon, into the street.
''Let's go!'' Tsuna turned back and flashed a smile at the two.
The two returned him with one as well as they were dragged along by the brunette.
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''So…'' G began deliberately and tossed the smoke on the floor and extinguished it with his shoes.
''Tsuna.'' Giotto ran frustrated fingers through his hair and messed his fringe up.
Tears threatened to well in Tsuna's eyes again.
''No! Don't cry please.'' G half begged, half exasperatedly.
''Where are we?'' The three of them asked in unison, which was followed by cricket sounds, and somewhere, a distant crow croaked something which sounded like 'Baka!'
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''Seriously, it took us thrice the time to get back.'' G rolled his eyes and stabbed at the meat with his fork, bypassing the pizzas.
''At least you came back.'' Asari said, smiling.
''If only G didn't come back.'' Lampo stuck a small piece of the meat into his mouth with his fork and left it inside, pouting his mouth.
''What was that you brat?'' G shouted and pointed at Lampo with his fork dripping with meat juice onto the table.
''I didn't say anything.'' Lampo denied and bit the meat off G's fork after swallowing the one in his mouth. ''And I'm not a brat.''
''I have sharp ears mind you. And you are one.'' G let it go and took a piece of pizza with his fingers. Lampo stuck his tongue at G, and almost pissed G to boiling point.
''Oh, Giotto, didn't I left you a note telling you I went to Sepira's house on your desk?'' Tsuna asked, looking at Giotto, already used to the bickering between the Storm and Lightning guardians like an everyday scene. It literally was either ways.
''Note?'' Giotto's eyes travelled to look upwards in the left direction, recalling. ''Nope, I didn't see any.''
''That's weird… I made sure to leave in a place I'm sure you can see.'' Tsuna scratched his head, puzzled.
''The wind maybe?'' Giotto suggested helpfully.
''That's impossible… I used the paper weight on your table to make sure it wouldn't fly off.''
''Well, it doesn't matter now anyway. We found you, and that's the important thing.''
Tsuna blushed a deep red and silently bit off a chunk of the cheesy pizza. The whole dinner was quiet with everyone's mouth stuffed with the delicious pizza and meat dishes. On another note, not really. G and Lampo was jumping at each other's throat and were chased outside the room by Giotto.
''Giotto, can I take a walk in the garden later on?'' Tsuna asked after finishing the last of the mouth-watering pizza. The pineapple sour taste and the sweet onions after taste still lingered in his mouth after the cheesy slice melted down his gullet.
''Well… Sure?'' Giotto raised a curious eyebrow. ''Do you need me to go with you?''
''Nope, I'm fine by myself.''
''Don't stay for too long. The weather is unpredictable.''
''Tsuna, take my coat. It will be cold.'' G said.
''Okay.''
''Nufufu, shou-'' Daemon started with a devious smirk on his face.
''No you don't.'' G cut in and stuffed the last piece of the pizza from his plate into Daemon's mouth. ''Eat the pizza, they are delicious.''
''Mfm! Dmafm ymou!''Daemon shouted at G with a muffled voice.
Tsuna closed the dining room door behind him, leaving the entire ruckus behind and made his way through the entrance hall.
''They really are like my family, as what G commented in the future during the inheritance trial.'' Tsuna remarked and opened the large wooden door and immediately felt the cold spiked through his skin and into the marrows of his bones, the night cool breeze hit him squarely in the face. He shivered and slammed the door shut.
''I forgot about the coat.'' Tsuna grabbed G's coat from the hanger and felt the warmth of his numb body again. Tsuna breathed out and felt this childish impulse to poke at the small cloud formed from his breath.
He caught himself and stepped out of the house into a snowy forest. It wasn't snowing but it's cold. Tsuna breathed warm air onto his hand, feeling the relief spread through his entire hands and rubbed his palms against each other, warming himself with friction heat.
He slots his hands into the coat pocket and walked down the path where the snow was shovelled out of the narrow path into the front yard and a garden.
The garden was similar to the one in Italy where Tsuna landed when he arrived in the past, but significantly smaller in size. A flower bed of pretty white roses decorated the majority of the garden, the rest were a rainbow of different flowers, but they all looked the same this late at night and covered with a thin layer of snow.
''It's amazing how the flowers can still survive in the winter. Daemon's illusions?'' Tsuna walked to the garden and squat down to take a better look at the flowers. He took the candle that was protected in a dome shaped glass closer to the white roses.
''It's beautiful.'' Tsuna commented and tickled the base of the flower petals.
The reason why Tsuna wanted to see the garden was because he wanted to at least see the world the next few days with his human eyes, and the first would be the garden with its exquisite white roses.
They were Giotto's favourites.
He sat down on the stone path and placed his candle on the floor. He wrapped his hands around his knees which he hugged close to his chest.
Ever since Tsuna came to this world, his life was thrown 180 degrees. He met Giotto. He met a lot of people. He found out a lot of things about Giotto.
Giotto was warm, sweet, and childish yet matured at times. He likes white roses and has this crazy obsession with cakes. He is smart, but he failed terribly at cooking. He have a horde of crazy fan girls after him every day. He's responsible, but he sometimes acts on a whim so it ends up that G had to always give in to him and go along with his crazy antics. But G didn't look like he hated it; on the contrary, he seemed to enjoy his times with Giotto. Giotto wasn't one to let someone he doesn't trust near him at all, he doesn't like to interact with others a lot, but he was forced to mostly because of his popularity, looks and status.
The Giotto he knew was rather different from how Tsuna imagined him to be. He thought Giotto to be more of this, you know, perfect being, but no matter what, there exists no perfect being in this world. The definition of a perfect being varied with every individual and thus, there really isn't any perfect being.
That is reality.
'What am I going to do when my vampire blood awaken?' Tsuna thought and absently mindly tore a white rose from its stalk.
''Oh no! I plucked the flower…'' Tsuna quickly tried to poke the flower back to its spots but of course, it wouldn't stick back. And no Mr Super Glue to the rescue.
Tsuna brushed aside some of the flowers to pluck out the stalk because it looked ugly without its beautiful flower heart.
His fingers hit something hard. No, that isn't the flower bed or the flowers. If not, what was it?!
Tsuna held back his shriek with a mountainful of effort.
Tsuna recoiled his fingers and held it close to his chest, backing away from the flower bed.
He saw a gentle stir in the midst of the white roses and his heart almost jumped to his throat, palpitating rapidly in his throat.
''Gyaaa!'' Tsuna shrieked shrilly when something silvery white appeared among the white flowers. ''GHOST!'' Tsuna zoomed back into the house and slammed the door with a sharp thud.
''What is it…?'' Asari rubbed his eyes sleepily and walked dreamily into the entrance hall and plopped down onto the couch.
''You better have a damn good reason that I had to leave my work halfway.'' Daemon folded his arms across his chest.
''Tch, ghost don't exist.'' G clucked his tongue disapprovingly and leaned back into the couch.
''You can't prove they don't exist.'' Giotto said purposefully.
''G-G-Gh—Gho-st?!'' Lampo pulled onto Knuckle's priest robes, scurrying behind the dazed Knuckle, even the chatter of his teeth was so loud, you can hear it from miles away and his limbs were shaking uncontrollably, he looked close to tears already.
''Ghost isn't a problem! I can punch them!'' Knuckle punched a fist into the air.
''Dude, you can't just 'punch' a ghost.'' G told Knuckle while putting on an face with two thin lines for the eyes and a small dot for the mouth. You get what I'm trying to say? (This, -.-)
''EHH! You don't know if you never try!'' Knuckle punched a few more times into invisible enemies.
''…'' G banged his head on the wall, literally.
''That's not what we should be worried about. Tsuna, how did the ghost look like?'' Giotto asked gently and stepped in front of Alaude who still wore his trench coat. Tsuna wondered if he Alaude never wore anything other than the trench coat.
''It's… white.'' Tsuna said with a serious ashen white face.
''Okay…'' Giotto forced out from the back of his throat, breaking the awkward silence. ''Let's take a look at this... 'white' ghost.''
''Okay.'' Every one forcefully said and took their winter coat from the coat hanger and left the house.
'Did I say something wrong?' Tsuna asked himself.
''Where did you see the ghost?'' Giotto asked as Tsuna lead the way to the white rose bush.
''Eh… The white rose bushes.'' Tsuna said.
''Tsuna.'' Giotto placed both his hands on Tsuna's shoulders, stopping him in his tracks and spun him around. ''Are you sure the 'white' thing isn't just a flower?''
''…'' Tsuna sweat dropped. ''I think it's a ghost… I didn't see properly.''
''And ran off.'' Daemon finished what Tsuna purposely left out.
''…'' Tsuna glared at Daemon, who shrugged it off.
''Okay… Let's just make sure it isn't a ghost and go back.'' Giotto said and lightly pushed Tsuna in front.
They reached the white roses flower bed, and it was completely still, Giotto held up his candle lantern to allow its dim glow to reach the majority of the flower bed.
''See, ghost doesn't exist.'' G folded his arms again and smirked triumphantly.
''Sorry… It's probabl-''
The flower rustled eerily in the silent night.
''GGYAAAAAA!'' Lampo screamed and jumped onto Knuckle and hung from his shoulders like a Koala bear on a tree branch.
''Stop! Don't scream!'' Tsuna clasped his ears painfully.
''Eurrrrrggghhhhhh.'' A low sexy monster-like voice have appeared! and groaned from the bushes. Lampo's body fell limp against Knuckle's body and foaming bubbles.
''Geehh!''Tsuna zoomed to the back of Giotto and tugged on Giotto's coat.
''Oh my…'' Giotto said and backed off a little.
Unable to stand it, Alaude walked forward, pushing Asari and Giotto out of the way and stepped on the gravel path lining the side of the flower bed, plunged his hand into the midst of the thorny flowers which earned a gasp from his audience and pulled out a white-haired head.
''GAAAAHHH A CORPSE!" Tsuna screamed and retreated further behind Giotto, averting his eyes from the head.
''Don't grab my head!" A rebellious voice snapped and grabbed at Alaude, but the hands were far too short to even scratch Alaude.
''That voice…'' Tsuna listened much closely, and pinched his cheeks. This wasn't just another of his dream, an illusion, imagination right? It was real right?
Giotto held the light closer to the white haired body.
A pair of emerald green eyes came into view with his signature scowl on his face.
He tried to claw at Alaude's hands but he was already dropped back into the thorny bushes, earning a good few groans of pain from the hot-headed teen.
''Gokudera!'' Tsuna cried out, relieved that it wasn't his imagination. He ran forward, and helped the groaning figure out of the bushes who have sustained a few cuts here and there on his face. He wore a crumpled white shirt and black pants which camouflaged nicely into the white roses bushes at night.
''Ju-Juudaime!?'' Gokudera stammered wildly, his eyes growing wider and wider each second he looked into Tsuna's relieved face. Tsuna hugged Gokudera tightly, hot, fat tears streaming down his face. Nobody noticed the twitch in Giotto's poker face.
''At least this time Giannini did well on the machine…'' Gokudera said under his breath and placed an awkward hand onto the small of Tsuna's back.
''Juudaime?'' A few voices asked curiously, their eyebrows almost disappearing behind their fringes. ''And who is he, Tsuna?''
''Ehh…'' Tsuna let go of Gokudera and helped him up. ''We will explain inside. He feels really cold.''
''Hey, can I punc-?'' Knuckle asked innocently.
''No.'' G snapped.
''What you bastard!'' Gokudera struggled against Tsuna's grip on him to pummel the boxer.
''Bastard? What's that?'' Giotto asked.
''No…''
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''So… He's your friend… From Italy.'' Giotto mused. ''Gokudera Hayato was it?''
''That's right.'' From Gokudera's look of bewilderment, he probably recognized most of them from the inheritance trial; he swept his stern glare between each of them, one which lingered the longest on G. He stared long and hard, which G returned with the same favour.
''They looked… similar?'' Daemon's eyebrows bent downwards, making his sharp blue eyes even more razor-like than usual at the two glaring daggers at each other.
''N-No! It's just your imagination.'' Tsuna waved and grabbed at Gokudera to get him away from the staring contest which was brewing an awkward atmosphere into the entrance hall. Gokudera reluctantly looked away, but not without a final death glare at the red-head.
''Brat.'' G rolled his eyes.
''Bastard.'' Gokudera retorted.
''Gokudera-kun!'' Tsuna sighed loudly.
''O-okay, Juudaime.'' Gokudera forced himself to focus on the coffee table in front of him.
''Gokudera-kun, how is everyone?''
''Not good. I came here by Giannini's machine, because we are in serious trouble.'' Gokudera looked up to fix Tsuna with a serious glare.
''Serious trouble?'' Tsuna asked, and felt a sense of doom hit him.
''An enemy family caught wind of you missing, so they invaded the territory, and the HQ was destroyed.''
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And so… I made Gokudera came to the past, but it went wrong. I ended up making the story twist this way… But if I had to make Gokudera stay in the past longer, there will be more filler chapters so I decided to just go into the main storyline.
Hey, I'm just curious, but can you guys actually guess where am I from?
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Anisthasia, *Hugs back* Haha sure thing! :)
Ilover145, haha, he's not going Yandere anytime soon yet anyway. Lol really? I didn't really notice that but I guess so? :D
Nera Assassina, lol time paradoxes… Hmm that could be something… RAVELADSHSBSNEHEE. I DIE.? Lol XD