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One Step at a Time

Chapter 7: Hide & Seek

"What are we going to do with him when we find the Tenth Vonogla Boss?"

"Good question" The man said as he stared over at the boy who was sleeping.

"Maybe we could let him go."

"Maybe…" The man said as he walked over to the little boy and examined him.

"Boss?"

"Or we could sell him" The man chuckled evilly as a smirk came to his face.

"Sell him?"

"Yes, we'll sell him to who ever will pay the most." The man said as he grabbed Hayato's face and smiled as the boy lightly flinched.

"Why would we do that?"

"Look at him Tamaki, he'll be perfect for whatever the person wants him for." The man said before getting up and walking away from the boy.

"But, he's just a kid!"

"So, when your in the Mafia it doesn't matter how old you are." The man said with a glare before walking out of the room.

Tamaki glanced over at the boy sadly before leaving the room and making sure to lock the door. He felt so sorry for the boy but he could do nothing about it, so he quickly turned down the hallway following his Boss.

Tuesday-10:00 am

Tsuna's house

"Good morning, mama." Tsuna said as he rubbed his eyes and sat down at the table.

"Morning Tsu-chan! Did you sleep well?" Nana asked as she smiled and sat Tsuna's food on the table.

"Kind-of" Tsuna said as he grabbed some syrup and poured onto his pancakes.

"What do you mean? What's wrong?" Nana asked as she looked over at Tsuna with worry.

"I was just wondering where Hayato is." Tsuna said as a cute little frown fell across his chubby face.

Nana smiled sadly before walking over to Tsuna and giving his a gentle hug and a kiss on the cheek. Tsuna looked up at her questionably as she smiled gently making him smile back.

"He's ok, so don't worry about him." Nana said softly before going to continue making breakfast.

Tsuna grinned and began eating his breakfast. His Mama was right he should not worry about Hayato he would be ok.

"Tsu-chan is Giotto up?" Nana asked as she set another plate onto the table.

"I think so." Tsuna said around a mouth full of pancake.

"Tsu-chan, don't talk with your mouth full!" Nana lightly scolded.

"Sorry" Tsuna said as a light blush crossed his cheeks and he swallowed his food.

Just then Giotto slowly made his way downstairs and walked past the kitchen.

"Giotto breakfast is ready." Nana said as she walked into the Family room where he was sitting.

"I'm not hungry." Giotto said before picking up the remote control and turning on the TV.

"Giotto…" Nana sighed as she walked into the kitchen to eat breakfast with Tsuna.

"Mama?" Tsuna asked as he saw Nana smile softly at him and sit down at the table.

"Promise me you won't be as moody as Giotto when you get his age, Tsu-chan." Nana said as she stuck her pinky out to Tsuna.

"I promise." Tsuna said as he grabbed her pinky with his smaller one.

Nana just smiled before they both went back to eating their food. It was only a few minutes before they heard the sound of the news in the other room.

"Namimori Elementary is closed today due to a fire that took place yesterday."

"They didn't say anything about the shooting." Giotto muttered as he watched the news go on about how the fire started.

"Mom." Giotto said as he walked into the kitchen.

"Yes?" Nana asked as she looked over at him.

"I'm going over to Asari's." Giotto said as he looked at the floor.

"Ok, have fun." Nana said as Giotto walked upstairs to get dressed.

Tsuna looked over at his mama confused. Did she not know that Giotto was lying? He always looks down when he's lying. Tsuna just shrugged as he heard Giotto leave. Giotto wasn't about to do anything bad so it was ok if he lied, right?

Tsuna was only watching TV for a few minutes before he heard somebody knock on the door. Nana walked over to it quickly and opened the door.

"Daemon Spade, what are you doing here?" Nana asked as she smiled at him.

"Is Giotto here?" Daemon Spade asked as he smiled weakly at Nana.

"Sorry, you just missed him." Nana said.

"Sorry to bother you, goodbye." He said as he turned around to leave.

"You shouldn't say goodbye, it makes it seem like you won't come back you should say see you later." Nana said with a bright smile.

"I would say see you later but then I would be lying." Daemon said with a sad smile before he left.

Tsuna looked confused as he watched Daemon Spade leave. What did he mean by that.

Namimori Park

Giotto wrapped himself tighter in his jacket. It was unusually cold today and that couldn't be a good sign. Giotto slowly began to swing on the swing he was on. Things were getting really complicated and he was only 10! What in the world would happen when he got older? Would some crazy marshmallow obsessed guy try to take over the world just for fun? Hopefully not.

Giotto sighed as he started up at the sky. It was beautiful as small white clouds floated around it. The sun was barely shining as the clouds continued to cover it. If only he could be like the sky. So calmly beautiful and free as everything else joined it adding to it's beauty, it must feel wonderful. Giotto sighed as he closed his eyes and thought about how eventful everything had been lately.

A light blush fell across his face as he remembered what happened with Daemon Spade. Daemon was so hard to figure out but Giotto felt the need to keep on trying. He didn't know why but Daemon felt different than everybody else and Giotto liked it. When Daemon was being a pervert he made Giotto blush, when he was sad he made Giotto worry, and when he was being nice he made Giotto feel very happy. But out of all of that whenever Daemon gave Giotto something and told him how much he liked him, it always made Giotto feel special and he loved it.

Giotto was so deep in thought he didn't hear anybody walk up to him and he didn't notice he stopped swinging that is until someone began to gently push him.

"Ehhh!" Giotto exclaimed as he began to swing.

"I hope you were blushing because you were thinking about me." Daemon said as he continued to push Giotto softly.

"D-Daemon?" Giotto asked as he looked back to see Daemon smiling at him.

"Hello, Giotto." Daemon said as he stopped pushing him.

"What do you want?" Giotto asked as the swing stopped and he got off of it.

"I was wonder if you wanted to spend the day together?" Daemon said as Giotto looked surprised.

"Wha-um…I…" Giotto stuttered as a blush crawled onto his cheeks.

"I'll take that as a yes!" Daemon smiled before he grabbed Giotto's hand and took off down the street.

"Daemon!" Giotto exclaimed as he blushed harder.

"Don't worry you'll have fun." Daemon said as he smiled sweetly at Giotto.

Since this was the last time Daemon would see Giotto, for who knows how long, it had to be fun. He had to make sure Giotto wouldn't forget him no matter what.

Mall

4:30pm

"Tsu-chan stay close to mama." Nana said as they walked into a clothing store.

"Alright mama." Tsuna said as he looked around.

"I can't believe they're having a sale at my favorite store!" Nana exclaimed as she began to look around.

Tsuna looked around and saw nothing but a lot of ladies with children. This must be every ladies favorite store Tsuna thought as he noted the bunches of ladies.

"Tsuna!" Yamamoto exclaimed as he walked over to him.

"Takeshi, why are you here?" Tsuna asked as Yamamoto chuckled.

"My mom came to shop." Yamamoto said as he pointed over to tall woman with pale skin, long black hair and hazel eyes.

"Your mama's really pretty." Tsuna said happily.

"Your mom is too!" Yamamoto said with a smile.

"Thanks." Tsuna said as he noticed more ladies coming in.

"Hey there's Lambo." Tsuna said as he pointed to the little boy who was walking next to a gorgeous lady who looked like a model.

"Lambo!" Yamamoto called as he waved over at the little boy.

Lambo looked over and so did his mother who roughly let him go and pointed over at Yamamoto and Tsuna. Lambo slowly walked over to them as the woman turned around as if she didn't care about where her child went.

"Hi Lambo!" Yamamoto exclaimed with a smile.

"Hi." Lambo grumbled.

"What's wrong?" Tsuna asked.

"Nothing." Lambo muttered.

"Herbivores."

"HIIIIEE!" Tsuna exclaimed as he ran behind Yamamoto.

"Who's little girl was that?" A few ladies asked before going back to shopping.

"Hi, Hibari!" Yamamoto said with a grin.

Hibari just looked him up and down before frowning and saying "Herbivore."

"It's weird that we all met up like this." Tsuna muttered as he looked around, " All we're missing is Ryohei and Mukuro."

"EXTREME!"

"There's Ryohei!" Yamamoto chuckled as said boy came running over to them.

"Now there's just Mukuro." Tsuna said as he slowly came from behind Yamamoto.

Hibari growled at the name as he glared at the nearest thing which just happened to be Tsuna.

Tsuna shrunk away from the glare when a flash of sliver caught his eye. It wasn't just any color sliver it was the same color as Gokudera's hair. He then saw what looked like a little girl dressed in a red dress with a white hat on her head, she looked about 5. Tsuna frowned as he stared at the little girl she looked like Gokudera too much like him.

"Guys, I think I found Gokudera?" Tsuna said confused as everyone turned and looked at where Tsuna was looking.

"…"

"Isn't that a girl?" Ryohei asked as Tsuna bit his lower lip.

"Yeah, but it's him." Tsuna said as he stared at the little girl.

"…That's Hayato." Yamamoto said without a trace of doubt in his voice.

Yamamoto quickly began making his way over to the boy.

"Yamamoto wait up!" Tsuna exclaimed as he began to follow him with everyone else following at a slower pace.

"Hayato!"

The little girl looked over quickly and all color drained from her face before she quickly ran away.

"Hayato wait!" Yamamoto exclaimed as he quickly followed.

Tsuna groaned as he sped up trying to catch his two friends. Once they noticed the little girl ran away everybody began to pick up the pace thinking that this little girl may actually be Gokudera, Hayato.

Namimori Carnival Grounds

They had followed the little girl for a good ten minutes and now they were out of the mall and at the Carnival. The place was closed down until spring but all the lights were open and the rides were going.

The girl had disappeared and they were left standing in the middle of the carnival looking around confused.

"Where did he go?" Tsuna asked as he tried to catch his breath.

"I don't know." Yamamoto muttered as he continued to look around.

"There he is!" Lambo exclaimed as a flash of sliver and red disappeared into the House of Mirrors.

They quickly followed the boy into the place hoping that when they got out they would have him with them.

House of Mirrors

They all stood looking at the mirrors that lined the walls and seeing nothing but reflections of themselves. Hayato had to be in here somewhere. They all slowly began to find their way around the maze of mirrors. It was very quiet and the only sound heard was their own breaths and what sounded like the soft pats of rain.

After walking for what felt like forever they made it to a part of the maze where there was a circle of mirrors and only two doors; the one they came from and the one that lead out of the maze. Standing in the middle of the place was Hayato just staring upwards as if seeing something no one else saw.

"…Hayato?" Yamamoto asked as he walked forward a little.

Hayato looked over at them his sea-green eyes shining brightly in the dimly lit room. Then before any of them could do anything a man dressed in a black suit stepped out and grabbed Hayato before pulling out a gun and pointing it at them. All color drained from Tsuna's face.

"Which one is it?" The man asked as he roughly shook Hayato.

The boy just turned his eyes onto the floor and the man growled.

"Maybe I should shoot them all!" The man hissed before grinning at the little boys.

"D-Don't!" Hayato exclaimed panicked.

"Then which one is it?" The man asked again anger laced into his voice.

Hayato just looked back down at the floor and the man growled.

"Fine then I'll just kill them all!" The man exclaimed as he raised his gun and pointed it at Tsuna, "You can go first."

In a flash of movement the gun fired but the man ended up on the floor.

The room was quiet as they all tried to figure out what happened.

"Kufufufu, weakling."

"M-Mukuro?" Tsuna asked as the boy looked over at him with one hand over his left eye and blood flowing from it.

"Tsunayoshi, you can't let weaklings defeat you it's quiet embarrassing." Mukuro said before slowly walking towards one of the mirrors.

"Where are you going?" Tsuna asked as Mukuro just smirked.

"Goodbye, Tsunayoshi." Mukuro said before walking into one of the mirrors and disappearing.

The room went silent as everyone tried to process what just happened.

"That was…EXTREME!" Ryohei exclaimed as he began to run around in circles.

Lambo just busted into tears, Hibari left, and Yamamoto ran over to Gokudera. What in the world just went on in this room!, Tsuna thought confused.

Namimori Park

"Daemon, what's wrong?" Giotto asked as they sat on a bench together.

"…Giotto, I don't know if I'll ever see you again." Daemon said as he stared at the grey clouded sky.

"…W-what are you talking about?" Giotto asked confused as worry overtook him.

"I'm moving." Daemon said as he stood up.

"What? Where?" Giotto asked, he didn't like where this conversation was going.

"…Italy." Daemon said as he slowly began to walk with Giotto right next to him.

"For how long?" Giotto asked.

Daemon stopped walking and just stared at Giotto with a sad smile. Giotto let the worry show on his face as they just stared at each other. The street light they were standing under flickered on as it began to quickly get darker.

"I don't know." Daemon said as Giotto looked heartbroken.

"…No" Giotto whispered as tears filled his eyes.

"I'm sorry." Daemon said as he hugged Giotto tightly.

"You can't leave." Giotto said as he buried his face in Daemon's shirt.

"…I love you." Daemon said as he pulled back a little staring Giotto in the eyes before bending down and capturing his lips and a soft kiss.

Tears fell down Giotto's cheeks as he gripped Daemon's shirt tightly and kissed back. It was a sweet kiss that made Giotto heart flutter and ache at the same time. As Daemon pulled back Giotto began to cry harder.

"I love you." Daemon whispered before letting go of Giotto and disappearing into the dark.

Rain gently began to fall as Giotto just stood there cold, sad and heartbroken.

"…I love you too." Giotto said softly as he touched his lips and let more tears pour down his cheeks. Seems like he was a little bit too late in saying it. A sad smile overtook his face, maybe this was his punishment.

DONE! My birthday is tomorrow~ So I decided you guys deserved this! Now it's time to really get into the story!

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