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Summary: Semi-AU. Tsuna is not Vongola Decimo, but Vongola Primo says otherwise. He and the rest of the first generation train Tsuna to take his rightful place as Vongola Decimo, and to help find Tsuna's guardians.
"Talking"
Flashback/Thoughts
"Italian"
Warning: OOC-ness I apologize for that.
But, maybe, just maybe, I could wait for some time. Maybe time's the only thing Baka-Hiro needs.
Reborn sighed, and continued on his way to school.
Tsuna
Tsuna sighed as he walked towards school. Gokudera immediately pounced on him.
"Jyuudaime! Are you okay? Did you sleep well? Enough hours? Did you eat breakfast?" Tsuna smiled at the concern, but waved it away.
"Maa, Gokudera, I'm fine, just... I don't know, my Hyper Intuition's warning me about something. Have any idea?" Gokudera furrowed his eyebrows.
"No." Tsuna sighed.
"Never mind then." he mock saluted to Hibari as they passed.
"Hibari-san." Hibari tilted his head.
"Omnivore." he narrowed his eyes. "Annoying carnivore." Tsuna scrunched his face in confusion.
"Who are you- GAH! Alaude! What the heck was that for?!" Alaude raised an eyebrow in amusement.
"Giotto told me too." Tsuna sighed.
"Why? And where're the others? I don't think I've seen them for a while." Alaude sighed.
"We've been checking on Vongola HQ for more information on the, supposedly, Vongola Decimo." Tsuna nodded.
"So, what have you got so far?"
"We'll tell you at lunch. With the rest of your friends." Tsuna hummed in acceptance as Alaude vanished. He turned to see Gokudera gaping.
"Th-That was Vongola's First Cloud Guardian!" he exclaimed. Tsuna nodded.
"Yep!" he turned to Hibari.
"Hibari-san, you're coming right?" Tsuna fiddled with his fingers nervously under Hibari's stern stare.
"Hn. You owe me a fight." Tsuna smiled and, without thinking, hugged Hibari.
Tsuna. Hugging. Hibari.
Poor Tsuna.
Right?
Hibari grunted and growled, "Omnivore release me. Now." Tsuna squeaked and quickly released Hibari.
"Er... sorry Hibari! Let's go Gokudera!" Tsuna grabbed Gokudera's hand and dragged him to class.
Hibari stared at their getaway. He shook his head in wonder.
Carnivore one minute, omnivore the next. Even without this Hyper Dying Will Mode, he's like an off and on switch. And he continued to patrol for latecomers and delinquents.
Tsuna and Gokudera were panting when they reached the class. Gokudera took a deep breath before asking, "Jyuudaime, are you really tired?" Tsuna shot him an impish grin.
"Wow! Gokudera you catch on quite quickly! I do this to keep a low profile. Don't want any attention." Tsuna stopped panting immediately.
"Er... training from Vongola Primo?" Tsuna shuddered.
"Alaude."
"Ah." and the bell rang.
Nezu-sensei walked in.
"Okay class, it's very unexpected, but we have a new transfer student from Italy." the class buzzed with excitement.
"Basil, you can come in." a sandy-haired teen entered the room. Said boy had clear blue eyes and stood in front of the class. Boys groaned as the girls swooned and sighed. Basil bowed.
"Hello. My name is Basil." Tsuna narrowed his eyes suspiciously at Basil.
I'm pretty sure that's the Basil from Vongola's CEDEF, did Iemitsu send him? Or was it... Reborn? Tsuna's jaw slacked slightly at the realization.
Why would he send him here? To train Hiro, or is there something else in his mind? The ring battle won't happen soon.
"Damn that hitman." Tsuna cursed under his breath.
Gokudera nervously glanced at his boss. What was that ominous aura around him? Is he possessed? No, he looks fine, pupils aren't dilated or anything...
Gokudera slightly turned his head to the back, and spotted Yamamoto staring at Tsuna, an unknown emotion flickering in his eyes.
What is that Yakyuu-baka thinking about?! Does he have a motive? Anything suspicious? Gokudera continued to go through any possible reason, an ominous aura wrapping around him too. Basil glanced around the class, and saw two dark auras rolling off his targets.
Ah! Those are the ones Reborn-dono wanted me to spy on. According to Reborn-dono, Tsunayoshi-dono has some sort of connection to Iemitsu-dono. He wouldn't tell me...
Basil mentally sulked as he turned to Nezu-sensei.
"Nezu-dono, where is my seat?" Nezu straightened himself at the suffix, confidence growing. He cleared his throat.
"Ahem, your seat will be... ah, behind Dame-Tsuna. At least, until he pays attention, SAWADA!" Nezu barked. Tsuna snapped himself out of his daydream.
"Yes, sensei?" he answered tensley. Nezu raised an eyebrow in disgust.
"Basil here," he placed his hand on Basil's right shoulder, "is sitting behind you. Show respect to him and raise your hand, he doesn't know how you look like." Basil raised his hand.
"Sensei-dono, thee doesn't need to worry. I know who Itou-dono is." at this, Nezu, Tsuna, and the entire class-more like the girls- rose their eyebrows in surprise-suspicion in Tsuna's case.
Tsuna cursed.
So it is Reborn! What's he up to? Is this the uneasy feeling? No, it's still nagging me about something. What is it? Tsuna narrowed his eyes and scowled as Basil went to the empty seat behind him. Basil smiled.
"Please take good care of me, Itou-dono." Tsuna forced his worries away and returned the smile.
"No problem! Welcome to our school! If you need any help, don't be afraid to ask for help from any of us." when Basil gave the "I understand" nod, Tsuna turned to his former position and continued to ignore the lesson.
Lunch time
"Sawada! How do you know Basil-kun?!"
First name basis? Fan club? In less than thirty minutes. Huh, new record. He rolled his eyes in annoyance.
"I told you, I don't know who he is- I'm lying. He's a Mafioso here, on a mission that concerns me. Well, I don't know him personally.- but I don't-"
"Liar!" a girl screeched.
"Yeah! Don't lie to us, Sawada!" Alaude appeared next to Tsuna, who was pinching the bridge of his nose.
"I thought I told you to go to the rooftop." Tsuna sighed.
"Well I would if I wasn't ambushed by these annoying fangirls of Basil." he mumbled.
Alaude raised an eyebrow. "CEDEF's heir?" Tsuna gave a curt nod.
"Look, I really don't know who Basil is, and I need to go and meet up with Gokudera. Now, please excuse me." a girl blocked his path. Tsuna held in the urge to groan.
"Look, just tell us all you know about Basil, and we'll let you go." Tsuna raised in eyebrow.
"Okay, he's a new transfer student, he's Italian-"
"Not that!" Tsuna smirked.
"Didn't you want to know what I knew about him?" a girl impatient stomped her foot.
"Well yeah! But we already know that! Tell us more!" Tsuna did groan this time.
"Well, I'm sorry, but I don't know anymore than the rest of you." he snapped, patience wearing thin. All girls took a step back in shock. Tsuna took no hesitation and immediately took off towards the rooftop.
Everyone rose an eyebrow at the sight of a stressed out Tsuna.
"What pulled your tail, Tsu-kun?" Tsuna glared at Giotto.
"Shut up gramps." Giotto immediately went drama queen and ran to G.
"G-G, Tsuna yelled at me, and c-called me gr-gramps!" G scowled.
"Get off me, you big baby." Giotto walked slowly to a corner and sulked. Hibari glared at Tsuna.
"What took you so long? I had to stay with this annoying crowd." Tsuna groaned.
"These damn girls wouldn't leave me alone." he muttered. He walked over to Giotto and slapped him on the back of his head.
"Why'd you call us here for?" Tsuna turned and saw that Gokudera was not there. He turned to G, who immediately pointed to the fence, where Gokudera was smoking.
As he reached Gokudera, he plucked the cigarette.
"It's not good to smoke." Gokudera sighed.
"Sorry Jyuudaime." Tsuna patted Gokudera's shoulder.
"Let's talk later."Gokudera nodded and the duo walked back to the group, where Asari came.
"What took you so long, Asari?" Asari raised his sorrow-stricken eyes to Tsuna.
"Please save him, Tsuna. He needs a compassionate Sky to let him wash and fall." Tsuna's eyes widened.
"What are you-!" the door slammed and basically the entire student body burst onto the roof. Hibari glared maliciously towards the crowd, and disappeared. Tsuna sighed.
"Alaude, make sure we meet up today at my house." Alaude nodded as the he and the rest disappeared. Tsuna tapped somebody in the shoulder. The person turned.
"What do you want, Dame-Tsuna?" Tsuna pointed to the front.
"What's going on over there?" the person snarled.
"Apparently Yamamoto's going to commit suicide because he broke his arm!" Tsuna's eyes widened as he turned to Gokudera.
"Stay here, I'll be back." and started to push forward.
Reborn
Reborn sighed irritably at another mistake Baka-Hiro committed.
Great. Baka-Hiro just lost another potential guardian. Is that Dame-Tsuna I see? And indeed it was.
Reborn watched as Tsuna pushed towards Yamamoto. Reborn smirked and leaned into his tree.
"Dame-Tsuna, show me what you can do."
Yamamoto stared blankly downwards. The fall looked tempting, as if the ground was waiting.
"Yamamoto-sama, please don't jump!"
"Come on, Takeshi! You don't need to do this! Let's go back to playing baseball and chilling out man!"
"Yes, Takeshi-sama! Please don't jump!" Yamamoto grit his teeth.
He said, "I can't. The baseball god has thrown me away. I have nothing left." a gasp made him turn.
He saw Tsuna in the front of the entire crowd, patting dust off of his shirt.
"Damn these people man! What's with them?" he saw Tsuna look at him.
Tsuna looked at Yamamoto and found the stare being returned.
He took a step forward.
"Look, I know that you're upset-"
"Upset?! I'm devastated! I've got nothing left! My career's over!"
Tsuna snapped.
"Look! You didn't lose everything you damn idiot! You've still got a dad waiting for you back home! What would your dad think, his only son committing suicide over a broken arm that will heal over time? He'd be devastated, of course, but you're still one heck of a fool. Athletes deal with this everyday! But they don't go around committing suicide! You wanna know why? Because they know it will heal! Or if it can't they look forward! But never think about stopping. Look over your shoulder and think, is it that easy to commit suicide now?" he took a breath and walked closer, looking over the fence. He whistled.
"It's a long way down, isn't it? Look down. Does it look as close as it used to?" Yamamoto took a glance down. His eyes widened at how far the ground looked now. He turned to Tsuna, eyes full of tears and realization.
"N-no, it doesn't." Tsuna smiled. He held out his hand.
"Well then" his smile grew bigger, "want a hand?" Yamamoto grinned and reached out for Tsuna's hand, walking over the fence. Unfortunately, when he grabbed Tsuna's hand, the fence broke, Yamamoto slipped and dragged Tsuna with him.
Sh*t. Hibari needs to replace a lot of things. Tsuna noted, as he went down.
"SH*T!" Tsuna heard somebody shout, before a hand roughly grabbed his hand, popping it.
"Guh!" Tsuna grunted as he started being pulled up, pulling Yamamoto too.
Tsuna and Yamamoto grunted as they slid onto the rooftop. Tsuna sat up, and cautiously trued moving his wrist. He winced at the pain.
Just as I thought. Dislocated. Tsuna quickly and smoothly popped his wrist joint back into place. He laughed quietly at the event.
"Wow. I could've gone skydiving." he sighed and looked over to Yamamoto.
"Yamamoto-san, are you okay?" Yamamoto stood up and flashed Tsuna a shaky smile.
"Y-Yeah, I'm cool." Yamamoto released a breath, his adrenaline following. He chuckled.
"Wow, that was something." Tsuna laughed.
"Yep, something indeed." he looked to his other side to see his savior.
"Gokudera?" Gokudera immediately checked on Tsuna.
"Jyuudaime! Are you okay? Injured? Dizzy? Any signs of throwing up or fainting?" Gokudera asked rapidly. Tsuna held his hand up.
"Gokudera, I'm completely fine. How did you know I was falling?" Gokudera looked angry.
"I didn't. It was that bastard." Tsuna raised an eyebrow.
"Who?"
"Hibari." Gokudera scowled. Tsuna sweat dropped.
He's definitely going to want two fights for compensation. Tsuna sighed.
"Gokudera, let's go." Tsuna said, standing up and pattung his clothes.
"Ah. Wait!" Yamamoto said as he also stood up. Tsuna turned.
"We'll talk later. Right now, you've got a crowd wanting to see you. Alive." Tsuna promised as he and Gokudera walked away. Yamamoto stood there as the crowd surrounded him.
"Takeshi-sama! You're okay!"
"I guess Dame-Tsuna was okay for something."
"Don't talk about him like that. He saved my life." Yamamoto snapped.
"Takeshi-sama, calm down! You must've been shaken up from the fall! Let's take you to the nurse!" Yamamoto could do nothing as he was dragged to the nurse's office.
Reborn sighed irritably as he impatiently sipped his espresso.
At least Dame-Tsuna was able to save Yamamoto. But that damn Baka-Hiro caused it!
Flashback (Reborn's spying)
Reborn stealthily hid himself in a tree, watching the scene in front of him.
"Toshihiro, you're good at sports, right?" Hiro arrogantly smiled at Yamamoto.
"Of course. Why does that concern you?" Yamamoto scratched the back of his head.
"Well, I feel like that lately, my baseball skills have been a bit off, so I was wondering-" Yamamoto was cut off as Hiro went straight to the point.
"Look," he snapped,"I don't care what's wrong. Just keep practicing, how about that? Hm? Your baseball skills and play doesn't concern me. Maybe you should try talking to somebody who might care." and he walked away.
Reborn fumed in anger. He had watched Yamamoto practice and practice until he broke his arm, because he was in shock, and hurt.
"Baka-Hiro's in for it." Reborn muttered as he left.
"Huh, oh right, I owe Baka-Hiro a little something." a sadistic gleam settled in Reborn's eyes. The door opened, and Hiro walked in.
"I'm home!" Reborn jumped in front of Hiro.
"Baka-Hiro!~ We're going to have so much fun tonight!~" screams were throughout the entire neighborhood.
Same time during Reborn
Tsuna fiddled with his position before he got fully comfortable.
"So, why are we here?" Tsuna asked, not specifically to anyone.
Tsuna was currently cross legged on his bed, with Gokudera on his chair, and Hibari against the wall, eyes closed. Oh, and all the First generation in a circle around Tsuna's coffee tabl, which was in the middle of Tsuna's room.
Giotto cleared his throat.
"Well, there wasn't a lot of information, just a lot of boasts and compliments on Hiro. But," he started excitedly,"we found that-"
"That Toshihiro is a storm flame user." Alaude cut in, smirking. Giotto pouted.
"No fair, Alaude! I wanted to tell!" G snorted.
"Might as well get on with it, then. The brat also didn't inherit any Vongola blood, it's all in you." G informed Tsuna, as Giotto puffed his chest with pride.
He ruffled Tsuna's hair. "See, I knew you were special!" Tsuna blushed, and swatted the hand away.
"So, you saved Takeshi-kun?" Asari asked softly. Tsuna nodded,"Of course!"
Asari smiled,"Thank you, Tsuna." Tsuna smiled back.
"No problem." Giotto cleared his throat.
"Anyways, we've also realized that the-"
"Ah!" Tsuna suddenly exclaimed. All heads turned to him.
"Hibari!" Hibari's eyes reluctantly opened.
"What?" he hissed. Tsuna impishly grinned.
"You need to take better care of your precious Namimori." Hibari's eyebrow twitched.
"Are you saying that I am incapable?" Tsuna tapped his chin.
"Well, considering I almost died, because somebody won't replace old and weak things, then yes." Tsuna's grin grew as he saw Hibari reach for his tonfas.
"I'll bite you to death."
"Bring it on."
And for most of the night, it was Gokudera cheering for his boss, and the First generation calmly watching the spar.
Hey! So here was the eleventh chapter! As I mentioned in my last author's note, I will most likely be updating late. Don't forget to tell me pairing, which one, or none at all! Also, you can post any side pairings! Also, what's the color of Basil's hair? Please help me with the old fashioned words. I tried looking it up, but I got confused... If anyone could help me by telling me how to write battle and cooking scenes, that would be lovely.
Sorry for babbling!
Until next time,
Ciao!
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