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One Step at a Time

Chapter 4: The difference between a baseball & a flute


Saturday-12:00pm

Tsuna was sitting in the family room coloring in his coloring book. Nana was in the kitchen cleaning up and trying to figure out what she wanted to make for dinner. Giotto was in his room talking on the phone with one of his friends. Iemitsu was gone again. He was never really home since he was always at work. He seemed to be in Italy a lot and he even knew how to speak Italian. Tsuna didn't really mind since he knew his father had to work to make money so they could buy things.

Even though Tsuna knew why his father was always gone it still made him sad. He never got to spend time with his dad and he even missed his birthday last year. Tsuna cried that whole day. It was bad enough that people didn't really like him, but to have his dad gone didn't help at all. He remembered just before he had started school, when he had went to the park once and tried to play with the other kids. They had decided to play hide and seek then they picked a boy to be it and everyone took off running. Tsuna didn't know where to hide so he was looking around for a spot when some boys had told him to come here. He had went over to them and they said they had a good spot to hide at.

Tsuna had followed them into the small woods that sat just outside of the park. Tsuna had asked them where they were going and the boys had said it was a special hiding spot and nobody would find him there. Tsuna hadn't thought there was anything wrong with that so he followed them until they suddenly stopped. They had told him to come and look at his hiding spot. He had walked up to the boys and peeked down at a deep ditch that was in front of them. He was turning around to ask them if they were talking about the ditch when he was pushed. He had fell hard down the ditch and twisted his ankle. He had looked up to see all of the kids he was playing hide and seek with gathered around the ditch looking at him.

He had asked for help but they only laughed at him. The boys who pushed him into the ditch had told him he should have just left them alone and not have tried to play with them. Tsuna had apologized to them and asked for help. They had told him he was useless anyway and that his family was probably happy to get rid of him. Then they had all left.

Tsuna had got pushed down that ditch at about 6:00 and sat there for hours curled into a little ball crying. He had heard howling, growling, and footsteps so he made sure to be quiet. He was afraid that an animal might come and eat him. He sat for hours crying, cold and in pain until he heard someone calling his name. He had answered back immediately praying that who ever was looking for him could hear him. Relief washed over him as he saw Giotto appear with a flashlight. Giotto had looked so upset as he climbed down to Tsuna. He had asked Tsuna if he was okay. Tsuna replied with a no, and that only made Giotto madder. He gently put Tsuna on his back before he began to climb back up the ditch. The only thing Tsuna remembered after that was how Giotto's eyes had looked. They were such a glowing orange color that it was almost blinding.

When he woke up the next day Nana had hugged him tightly and Giotto wouldn't leave his side at all. Iemitsu hadn't been there…but when he got the call about what happened he showed up the next day asking how did it happened. Iemitsu didn't leave until he made sure Tsuna was going to be absolutely fine.

So Tsuna couldn't say Iemitsu was just a really bad dad, but he sure wasn't the best. Even though Tsuna loved him with all of his heart. Tsuna smiled as he finished his picture and turned to the next one. He was just about to begin on the new one when Giotto came down the stairs.

Giotto had on a yellow long sleeved shirt that had a swirly black A on the front that had little black swirls branching off of it and going up the sleeves. He had on a pair of black jeans and black gym shoes. He ran his hand through his unruly blond hair before his eyes landed on Tsuna. He smiled happily before he walked over to the boy sitting on the floor.

"Tsuna, do you want to go with me to G's house?" Giotto asked as he sat down on the couch right in front of Tsuna who looked up at him.

"No!" Tsuna said quickly as he grabbed his coloring book and held it up to his chest tightly as he shook his head no.

"Why?" Giotto asked confused as he saw Tsuna pale.

"G and Hayato are weird and mean!" Tsuna said as he pouted.

"Hayato's mean to you, too?" Giotto asked as he giggled.

"It's not funny!" Tsuna said as he puffed out his cheeks.

"Hayato's mean to everybody except for Asari." Giotto said as he smiled

"Why?" Tsuna asked as he got up and joined Giotto on the couch.

"I don't know, why don't you ask him when we get over there!" Giotto said as he picked Tsuna up and headed upstairs.

"I don't want to!" Tsuna whined as he tried to get away from Giotto.

"If we don't go, I'll invite Kyoya and Alaude over."

Tsuna immediately stopped trying to get away.

"Good boy!" Giotto chirped happily.

"Meanie.."


Tsuna sighed as he walked with his brother to the Gokudera residence.

He was dressed in a long sleeved blue shirt with a little dark blue tuna on the front. He had on pair of black jeans and some dark blue sneakers. His messy cinnamon brown hair was covered under the hood of his black jacket. His big honey brown eyes were darting back and froth as he looked at all of the huge houses around them.

"Wow" Tsuna whispered as they kept going farther and farther and seeing bigger and bigger houses.

"I know" Giotto said as he smiled softly at his little brother.

"The houses are so big and pretty!" Tsuna said happily.

"Now are you happy that I brought you?" Giotto asked

"I guess.." Tsuna mumbled.

"Don't worry, there's a 99% chance that Takeshi will also be there since Asari and G are always together." Giotto said as he tried to cheer Tsuna up.

"Really!" Tsuna asked as he looked hopeful.

"Yeah." Giotto said as Tsuna smiled widely.

Silence filled in most of the rest of the walk until Tsuna turned to Giotto looking extremely serious.

"Giotto.."

"Yes?" Giotto asked confused.

"What is sex?" Tsuna asked with determination.

"Tsuna!" Giotto screamed as a beautifully red blush over took his face.

"I want to know!" Tsuna whined as a pout came onto his lips.

"Why?" Giotto whined as his blush got darker.

"Asari and G were talking about it the other day and G was saying things about how good it felt and that it made him happy! So what is sex?" Tsuna said as he looked up at Giotto with a glare.

"I'll tell you when your older!" Giotto said quickly as he sped up trying to not answer the question.

"How much older?" Tsuna asked as he ran to catch up with Giotto.

"75" Giotto quickly said as he rang the buzzer in front of G's house.

"But I'll be old!" Tsuna exclaimed as Giotto said something into the speaker quickly before the gates opened.

"Exactly" Giotto said as he sprinted towards the house quickly.

"Meanie….maybe I should ask Mukuro he knows everything…or Hayato." Tsuna mumbled as he walked to the front door that Giotto was standing at.


"Save me!" Giotto exclaimed as he ran to Asari.

"From what?" Asari asked as he smiled at Tsuna who grinned back.

"What's sex, Asari-nii?" Tsuna asked as he walked into the house.

"Oh." Asari mumbled as he looked away from Tsuna nervously.

"That's easy!" G said as he walked downstairs.

G only had on a pair of black pajamas pants and no shirt on. He was still a little wet as water dripped off of him. He had a towel on his head as he dried his wave red hair. He was smirking as he stared at the two blushing boys trying to answer Tsuna's question.

"What is it G-nii?" Tsuna asked

"Well sex is when two people want to fu-"

"Enough!" Giotto yelled as he covered Tsuna's ears and glared at G.

"You look mad!" G said before he busted out into laughter.

"It's not funny!" Giotto growled as he glared at G harder.

"He's going to learn someday, why not now?" G gasped out as he laughed harder.

"Asari, take Tsuna to Takeshi and Hayato and make sure to lock the door." Giotto said as he handed Tsuna over to Asari.

"What are you going to do?" G asked as Giotto pulled out his cell phone and Asari and Tsuna disappeared upstairs.

"Sometimes I think you want to get beat up." Giotto sighed as he speed-dialed somebody.

"Who are you cal-"

Before G could finish talking Giotto busted into tears.

"A-Alaude, G is messing with me again." Giotto sobbed into the phone.

"What the hell!" G exclaimed as he stared at Giotto in disbelief.

"O-ok, we're at G's house.." Giotto said as he sniffled a little before hanging up.

"He's on his way" Giotto said with a smirk.

"I don't care if you called him! I put up a lot of more traps to kept him out this time!" G said smugly.

Just then the door was kicked opened and G was thrown onto the floor with Alaude sitting on top of him glaring fiercely.

"You still dare to mess with what is mine" Alaude growled out as he quickly handcuffed G.

"I didn't even do anything!" G yelled as Alaude sat on his back handcuffing him.

"Your under Arrest, bitch" Alaude growled as he than began to beat the living daylights out of G.

"My job's done" Giotto muttered as he slowly walked upstairs.

"Why does everyone hate me?" G yelled before Giotto disappeared upstairs.


Tsuna had been in this room with Hayato and Takeshi for a little while and he was beginning to notice something weird. While Takeshi was working really hard to get Hayato's attention, the boy was still ignoring him. Hayato was happily watching Asari practice playing his flute. Asari didn't seem to mind but Takeshi looked like he was getting highly upset. When ever Takeshi tried to say something to Hayato, he would just glare at him and say shut up. Takeshi just stared at Hayato for a second before trying to talk to him again.

"Hayato do-"

"I said shut up and leave me alone idiot!" Gokudera hissed again as he quickly turned back to Asari.

"I just-"

"I don't care, I'm trying to listen to Asari-sempai play his flute so shut up." Gokudera growled out before ignoring Yamamoto.

"Why do you always ignore me?" Yamamoto muttered before he picked up his baseball from the floor and leaving the room.

Tsuna watched as Yamamoto left and then turned around to see Gokudera talking to Asari who had stopped playing.

"Is it fun?" Gokudera asked as Asari nodded.

"It's very fun, you should try to find an instrument that you like when you get older." Asari said as he gently patted Gokudera's head.

"Do you think I'll be able to play my instrument good like you?" Gokudera asked hopefully.

"I hope you can play better than me. I'm not really that good anyways." Asari said as he giggled softly.

"You're better than good Asari-sempai, your like extremely wonderful!" Gokudera said sweetly.

"Aw, you're sweet, thank you" Asari said as he gave Gokudera a kiss on the cheek.

"Your welcome" Gokudera mumbled as he looked down at the floor and his pale cheeks turned a dark red.

"Haha, you're cheeks are as red as G's hair" Asari giggled before he ruffled Gokudera's hair.

"I have to go make sure G didn't die, be right back." Asari said as he slowly exited the room.

"Gokudera…?" Tsuna asked as soon as Asari left.

"What?" Gokudera asked as he looked up at Tsuna with a glare.

"U-um…you were really mean to Takeshi earlier." Tsuna uttered out as Gokudera glared at him harder making him gulp.

"Not like I care about that idiot." Gokudera hissed as he walked over to Tsuna.

"It's just that…um…he r-really wanted t-to talk to you." Tsuna stuttered as Gokudera stood in front of him.

"So, I don't talk to idiots,…you should consider yourself lucky." Gokudera said as he stared at Tsuna.

"But, it's not fair that you talk to Asari but ignore or yell at everybody else." Tsuna huffed as he balled his little hands into fists.

"So, why do you care?" Gokudera asked as he neared his eyes at Tsuna who glared at him.

"Why won't you talk to Takeshi?" Tsuna asked seriously.

Gokudera just stared at Tsuna for awhile as he saw pure determination in his eyes.

"…all he does is talk about baseball" Gokudera said as he sat down on the floor.

"That's it?" Tsuna asked as he sat down too.

"Asari is quiet, nice and he plays the flute….I like musical instruments" Gokudera said as he looked at the floor.

"But why don't you like Takeshi though?" Tsuna asked as Gokudera sighed.

"He's too loud, he's too nice and he cares too much about baseball, which I could care less about." Gokudera said as he looked up at the ceiling.

"…You can still be friends." Tsuna said as he stared at Gokudera.

"I don't like idiots" Gokudera said as he crossed his arms and huffed.

"Have you ever thought that maybe baseball is very important to him?" Tsuna asked as Gokudera looked at him.

"…No"

"And I'm pretty sure you have to think to play baseball, so he's not an idiot." Tsuna said as he glared at Gokudera.

"But…he-"

"The only idiot I see is the one who doesn't want to be his friend." Tsuna said as Gokudera gapped at him as he got up and walked out of the room.

"Giotto!" Tsuna called as he ran down stairs.

"Tsuna?" Giotto asked as the boy ran to him.

"Get me out of here before Hayato kills me!" Tsuna yelled as he darted for the front door.

"What happened to him?" Asari and G asked confused.

"He probably did something stupid." Giotto sighed.

"Help me this door won't open! I don't want to die!"


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