Title: The Welcoming Sky
Pairings: (There is a poll)
Summary: Tsubasa and Tsunayoshi are twin brothers that have been separated due to the mafia. Tsubasa was raised and trained to be Vongola's Decimo, while Tsunayoshi had led the life of a normal, below-average teenager. So why does Dame-Tsuna able to have a form of control over Tsubasa's guardians?
Tsubasa gave his brother the most charming smile he could muster, and tried to reassure him that nothing major had happened while he was lost. He explained to Tsuna that he had wandered around for a bit in the neighborhood before some kind stranger finally took pity on him, and guided him to Namimori High. Once he was in school territory he once again got lost; looking for the principals office or the teacher's lounge.
"Okay, then how did you know I was up here?" Tsuna asked; a little suspicious.
A shaky laugh presented itself as Tsubasa tried not to grimace at the memory. "Well, while I was looking for the principals office, a guy came up to me and demanded why I wasn't in class. I kind of, maybe, made him mad by ignoring him and then telling him to mind his own business. Next thing I knew he threatened to 'bite me to death' and-"
"HHHIIIIIEEEEEE! Tsubasa, you have my face! Hibari-san must have thought you were me!" Tsuna panicked; flinching at the mere thought of what the perfect would do to him when they met again.
"Don't worry, Tsuna-nii. If he bothers you, I'll be there to protect you." Tsubasa reassured with a bright smile; secretly happy that he could protect his older brother.
"That's not the point!" Tsuna yelled.
"Anyways, I managed to get away from him and eventually found the teacher's lounge. From there I made it to class 2-B, and guess what? Sasagawa Kyoko came up to me and began talking to me. At first I was a little lost about what she was talking about, but then she told me that you and 'the other transfer student' were up at the rooftop. She was worried that there might be a fight, so I came rushing up." Tsubasa explained with another smile.
Before Tsuna could say anything else, Gokudera returned with the two bentos; which Tsuna was completely surprised by because he hadn't expect the silverette to bring his lunch too. With quick speed, the Italian gave the bento back to Tsuna and sat himself down next to Tsubasa. The Italian opened his bento, and much to Tsuna's horror, and began to devour the green vegetable known as spinach.
Normally Tsuna would be glad that someone would eat spinach willingly, but Gokudera Hayato's lunch consisted only of that vegetable. There was no rice, no meat, only spinach! It would have been okay if it was a salad, but it wasn't a salad and that truly got to Tsuna.
"Gokudera-kun! You can't just eat that, and nothing else!" Tsuna nearly shrieked.
The bomber looked up at his Juudaime's older brother, and merely gave him an energetic smile. "Don't worry Juudaime's Nii-sama! I am going to eat all this spinach to become stronger so that I may serve as Juudaime's right hand man!"
A tired sigh escaped from Tsuna, and he looked into the wide eyes of Gokudera. "If you have a plentiful meal, then you can become a lot stronger faster Gokudera-kun." Tsuna said before handing his own lunch over to the silverette.
"Here, have my lunch. I had a big breakfast today so I'll be fine."
Gokudera stared at the younger brunet in surprise before quickly refusing. "I cannot accept your lunch, Juudaime's Nii-sama, you need-"
"You'll probably need it more. You said that you would be Tsubasa's right hand, right? Then you need to eat better, or you'll fail. Besides, I already have a friend that will let me eat some of their lunch, so I'm fine." Tsuna interrupted with a kind smile.
Before Gokudera could say anything else, and Tsubasa could call out to him, Tsuna left the rooftop and headed towards the Nurse's Office. Along the way he met very few people, and slipped only twice before reaching the sickroom.
The nurse of Namimori High was a rather tall woman, who constantly had a bored look on her face. However as soon as Tsuna entered her domain, a large smile graced her face as she all but hugged him.
"Tsuna! What are you here for?" The older person asked.
"Do you have anything for my hands?" Tsuna asked; showing her his slightly irritated palms.
"Yeah, I should have some cooling salves or ointments in here. Just sit down, while I go ahead and look for it."
Doing as he was told, Tsuna sat down on a nearby chair and waited for the nurse to return. He looked around the, rather, bleak room, and thought over his meeting with Gokudera Hayato. He had been too familiar with the other, and hadn't act as his usual useless self; he had to remedy that. No to mention Kyoko was worried about him, he had to talk to her later on; it would be no good if she showed too much worry for 'Dame-Tsuna'.
"Tsuna, give me your hands." Nurse Suzuki ordered, reaching out for the closes palms to her.
Tsuna gave her his hands, and she applied a generous amount of the cooling solution on his palms before wrapping them up with clean bandages. Once both hands were tended to, she placed both of her hands over his. Small licks of sun flames spread from her fingers to his palms, and almost instantly the hands were no longer feeling any discomfort.
"Okay, your hands should be fine by tomorrow morning, but if they are still feeling irritated wrap them in new bandages. Okay?" She instructed while pulling out a bento from her bag.
She set the bento atop her desk, and handed him a pair of unused chopsticks before pulling hers out. Both knew that his hands were already healed, and the only thing that needed to be tended to at the moment were their stomachs. The two ate in compatible silence, and soon the meal was gone.
"After school, I'm going to go pick up Byakuran; he wants me to meet some of his friends." Tsuna said.
Nurse Suzuki nodded, before staring at the short brunet. "Okay, just be careful. I understand that Namimori isn't exactly the smallest town, but neither is it the largest. The chances of you bumping into your family with Byakuran and his 'friends' are pretty high." She warned.
Before Tsuna could say any reassurances the bell rang; signaling the end of lunch. Suzuki raised her hands, and gave Tsuna the shooing motion. "Go, before Hibari-san check the hallways for any late students."
***Break***
Just as Tsuna had expected, the class was in an uproar as soon as they saw Tsubasa. Some of the students who still remembered Tsubasa greeted him warmly, but those who didn't made rude comments about 'having another dame-student!' Gokudera, who heard this, was quick to anger and he quickly threatened to blow everyone up. Although many of the students took this for a joke, they were still intimidated by the gangster-looking teen, and so they stopped.
However, almost no one could help but insult Tsuna at least once. The students that recognize Tsubasa would mutter about how great it was to have him back, if only because his return should be able 'neutralize' Tsuna's useless self. Those that didn't know Tsubasa merely began their usual taunts of how worthless Tsuna was, and how he should better hope that the new students weren't as terrible as him, or he would be beaten up for spreading his 'dame-germs'.
By the time gym class started nearly everyone was being openly hostile with the older twin, and shot his younger brother with weary glances. The gym activity of the day was a game of dodge ball; Tsuna was always the first to get out because everyone targeted him. Everyone was separated in two teams, one team having Tsuna and the other Tsubasa.
Almost as soon as the game started, everyone from the opposite teams targeted the twins. Tsuna was quickly thrown out the game, but Tsubasa remained. With agile speed, and quick dodges to the sides Tsubasa was shown to be at least competent, if not good at sports. The soft, orange, bouncy balls were thrown back and forth between the two teams and eventually the team that Tsubasa was on was triumphant.
Tsuna's fellow teammates groaned about their defeat, and some even began to accuse Tsuna that he was at fault for their lose. "If only Dame-Tsuna wasn't the first one out, then we wouldn't have had the bad luck!" One boy complained.
Another nodded his head, and glanced at the girls who had watched from the sidelines, "Man, thanks to Dame-Tsuna, we looked like losers to those girls!" He moaned.
The others began to throw out insults, and faults at the brunet; who was quick to apologize, holding his bandaged hands together. Luckily for the clumsy brunet, and his teammates, they weren't playing for anything that day, so they didn't have to worry about clean-up duty. There were also no dares to fulfill, and no extra duties to carry out.
"Tsuna! Let's go!" Tsubasa called from across the gym, waving his brother over.
Teammates of Tsuna began to mumble in disappointment, at the abrupt end to their insults, but allowed the brunet to go through; it wouldn't do to have Tsubasa as an enemy, not when they still didn't know his full capabilities in athletics. Tiredly, Tsuna headed towards the males' locker room; which was where Tsubasa was motioning to.
Once Tsuna was within arms distance of Tsubasa, he grabbed a hold of his brother, and dragged him in. Words spew out of Tsubasa's lips as he excitedly talked about the fun of dodge ball, and asked if Tsuna saw Kyoko watching him, Tsubasa. Laughter bubbled up in Tsuna, as he began to double over at his brother's animated slurs for words.
As the other males began to file into the locker rooms, the twins were already done and, sort of, ready to go on to the next class of the day. Once the bell rang, they headed back to their class, and waited for their English Literature teacher to come in. Sato-sensei walked into the classroom, and began to write down the page numbers that everyone was supposed to be at for the play "The Tragedy of Julius Caesar." Because both Tsubasa and Gokudera were new students, they didn't have the assigned book and were forced to share with their fellow students.
Because they were twins, it was only natural that they shared the book together. However, Gokudera had been picky as to who he would share the book with, and eventually the three students were forced to share one book amongst each other. Literature, no matter what language, was actually something Tsuna enjoyed. Tsubasa didn't share the same feeling with his brother, but he was kind enough to simply ignore it in quiet bliss. Gokudera on the other hand proved to be quite the genius, and because of his intelligence, and lack of patience for the teacher, he intimidated Sato-sensei quite easily; something that the bomber and his, Tsuna's, student, Byakuran, had in common.
During that class no one bothered to pick on Tsuna, too shocked at the open rudeness that Gokudera was showing Sato-sensei. It wasn't until Gokudera had pulled out some dynamites that Tsubasa intervened, and an admonishment from Tsuna, did the bomber retract his weapon. Apparently two annoyed twins was enough to stop an angry, Italian bomber.
The shaky teacher looked down at his new transfer student, and quietly dismissed the class; not waiting for the bell to ring to signal the end of the day. Some of students were happy at the early dismissal, but others were a little reluctant to leave; if only because they pitied their English Literature teacher.
"Ready to go, Tsuna?" Tsubasa said, pulling his bag from the side of his desk.
"Okay." Tsuna answered, before grabbing his own bag.
Taking this as an initiative to follow, Gokudera got his pack as well and walked on his Juudaime's right side. Taking a look at the clock in the hallway, Tsuna turned to Gokudera and gave him a small slip of paper.
"Um, Gokudera-kun can you take Tsubasa home? On the paper is our address, and Tsubasa isn't... The greatest when it comes to directions." Tsuna said.
Tsubasa turned to his brother quickly, and pointed an accusing finger at him. "Tsuna, we're supposed to go to the grocery store today with Kaa-san!"
Tsuna shook his head, "No, you're supposed to help Kaa-san with the grocery shopping today. I got her permission to go somewhere after school today. Tsu-kun, please. I promise I'll go next time." Tsuna pleaded.
His brother relented, and Gokudera did a short bow to Tsuna; assuring the shorter teen that he would take Juudaime home safely. He also looked rather pleased that the brunet had given him a task regarding his "Juudaime's" health. Once they were in front of the school gates, they separated ways. Tsubasa and Gokudera to the right, while Tsuna headed towards the left.
In front of Yumei Private School stood a group of seven individuals. Two out of the seven belonged in the elementary school section, and the remaining five students were in middle school. In the group of seven, only one of them knew who they were waiting for. While waiting for his tutor to arrive, Byakuran pulled out a bag of marshmallows from his backpack and opened it.
It wasn't until he was one marshmallow away from finishing his bag of sweets did his tutor finally arrive. As soon as Tsuna was within seeing distance of the group, his albino student smirked at his weary tutor. Seeing the smirk, Tsuna cautiously approached them, and stood in front of Byakuran.
The two elementary student looked at the brunet in wonder, curious about why he was there; while the four middle school students stared at the brunet in mild curiosity or open hostility. Ignoring the scary looks as best he can, Tsuna looked only at Byakuran and waited for the other to explain.
"These are the people I wanted you to meet, Tsunayoshi-kun.~" Byakuran gestured to the kids behind him in a casual manner; waiting for a reaction from his tutor.
"Ah, so you're all of Byakuran's friends? Thank you for taking care of him at school, and please continue to be his friends." Tsuna greeted with one of his signature smiles.
So, they're all here, Tsuna thought; looking at each individual faces. It wasn't until he came across a face that was almost identical to Byakuran's did he froze. Byakuran, seeing this, only smirked even wider at his tutor's shocked expression and explained the situation to him.
"Amazing, neh Tsunayoshi-kun? This is Byakuya Gesso, but we call him Ghost. He is a distant cousin of mine; we look really similar, right?~" Byakuran asked, his face twisted in a fox's smile.
"Un," Tsuna agreed, turning his uneasy eyes to Byakuran.
The blonde copy of his student was unnatural, and the last time Tsuna had ever met the enigma known as 'Ghost' his friends had almost been killed. Shaking his head mentally, the brunet opened his mouth and asked his student for the names of his other friends.
"The two elementary students besides me are Bluebell and Daisy; Bluebell is the little girl, and Daisy is the little boy. Kikyo is the one with the light teal hair, and Zakuro is the only redhead. Torikabuto is the one wearing bandages around his head, and Ghost is the one I already introduced you to." Byakuran introduced cheerfully; pointing to each individual when he mentioned their names.
Tsuna nodded before introducing himself, "Ohayo, I'm Sawada Tsunayoshi. I'm Byakuran's home tutor."
"Byakuran-sama, doesn't need a tutor. Why are you here?" Zakuro drawled, obviously bored with the dull introductions.
A smile flitted across Tsuna's face, and regarded the question for a few minutes before looking in another direction. Pointing at a small, but decent, pastry shop nearby he turned back to the group and asked, "Do you want to get something to drink?"
Not waiting for an answer, the brunet walked over to the shop; soon enough Byakuran followed with a light smirk, and his friends followed quietly behind him. Once inside the calming café, the large group sat down in a booth located in the far corner. Ordering their respective drinks, and snacks, Zakuro once again restated his question.
"So, why are you here?"
The light brown eyes of Sawada Tsunayoshi closed for a few minutes as he thought over his answer. Tsubasa was already gathering his guardians, and they would be training soon. Byakuran already had all his guardians gathered, and it was Tsuna's job to train them. Now was not the time to lie, nor was it the time to give vague answers.
Opening his eyes, Tsuna glanced around their surrounds and spotted the camera behind him. The camera was positioned in a way where it wouldn't see his face, and it wasn't made to record the sounds for the security footages. Reaching his decision, Tsuna turned his head forward, so that the camera would only see the back of his head.
"Place a hand over your mouth when you want to speak, and try to make it look as natural as you can. When you're done speaking put your hand down, and speak quietly when you do talk." Tsuna instructed.
Everyone turned their eyes to Byakuran; waiting for his command. When the albino nodded his consent, they did as they were told. Pleased that they had done as he had requested, Tsuna opened his mouth to answer the question.
"I was sent by the Gesso Boss to train Byakuran to be an appropriate future boss for the Gesso family. I am also meant to train his guardians, which is conveniently all of you." Tsuna answered with a warm smile, completely ignoring the hidden looks of shock directed at him. Even Byakuran, who sat next to him, stiffened.
Remembering what he was told to do, Kikyo was the first to lean his head to the side, with his hand covering his mouth, and asked in a muffled voice, "Who are you?"
"Don't you remember, I'm Sawada Tsunayoshi." Tsuna answered; so his intuition was correct. When he had mentioned to train them as Byakuran's guardian, he had ran the risk of mentioning the mafia when they possibly knew absolutely nothing about it. For sure he already knew that Byakuran was involved in the mafia because of his father contacting him, but he didn't know about the future 'Funeral Wreaths' that all sat around him; not to mention the surprised existence of 'Ghost'.
The brunet actually thought he had to look for a lightning guardian for Byakuran.
"Neh, neh, why do we need to cover our mouths?" Bluebell asked, with her hands over her mouth.
"Because if someone looked at the security camera, and wants to know what we are talking about they can hire a person who knows how to read 'lip'." Tsuna answered patiently.
"How do you intend to 'train' us?" Zakuro asked next.
"I intend to train all of you individually, and then together. I'm not going to go into full details as to how I'll do this, though." Tsuna answered vaguely, knowing that it was best to keep his training methods a secret. If his pupils know what to expect, they wouldn't be able to train to the best of their capabilities. Not to mention it would allow them to think about the training beforehand, which wouldn't allow them to use their instincts at that exact moment.
In the mafia world, no one could plan everything to the 'T' beforehand. Not only was Tsuna supposed to train them all in combat, but he also had to hone their instinct. With training in mind, Tsuna turned to Byakuran and regarded his student for a moment. There was nothing Tsuna could do with his own student, unless they were to have a miniature fight. The capabilities Byakuran could achieve was immense, but likelihood of him already being as strong as Tsuna remembered him to be is unlikely.
Then there was Ghost, it seems that Tsuna would have to look more into this unexpected guardian's history. There was no weapons that Tsuna could classify the youth with, but since his flame was lightning all the brunet could assume was that he was a defensive fighter. There was much more work than Tsuna had first assumed, and the brunet had to be ready for the future as well.
While Tsuna was deep in thought, and the future 'Funeral Wreaths' soaking in all the new information, they all missed the way Byakuran stared at the brunet's hands. Tsuna's bandaged wrapped hands.
AN: I am leaving the chapter at that, and disregard Ghost's 'real name'. Yes, I know that the name shows up in Bleach as Kuchiki Byakuya, but that was the only name I could find that was similar to Byakuran's. However, the name doesn't really matter all that much because he will be referred to as 'Ghost' from now on.
To Miss Knight Yuuki, the question regarding Tsuna's rank is a fair one. Notice how in this chapter, that Tsuna doesn't really defend himself and how he refrains from speaking to anyone in general. He apologizes, but he doesn't really do much else. It's kind of one of those life experiences where they are bullied since childhood, but because they were bullied for so long they are now indifferent from it and don't really care. The students still call him 'Dame-Tsuna', and although they do bully him maliciously, they don't actually try to hit him too often or goad him because he doesn't care anymore. It's a situation of "If you leave me alone, I'll leave you alone." Also, I actually like long reviews, so please continue with them. :)
AliceVermillion, no. Gokudera is the only, current, guardian of Tsubasa. The only reason why I made Gokudera the only current guardian of Tsubasa is because I can't think of a way how Tsubasa managed to meet all the other guardians. Lambo, as far as I know, only came to know Tsuna in the actual anime because of Reborn. Tsubasa has only known Reborn ever since he found out that he was returning to Namimori. Yamamoto, Ryohei, and Hibari are all residents of Namimori, and so are unlikely to have known Tsubasa; who had been in Italy since pre-school, and hasn't step foot in Namimori in years. Mukuro was in his own personal hell with that messed-up familgia of his. Hope this answers your question.
Yuki, I'm not sure if all three reviews are from the same Yuki, but I'll answer the questions anyways. About the yaoi pairings, I'm not the one in charge of that because I have a poll on my profile, but so far the 'None' pairings is winning, so there might be no pairings at all. Now the question about Tsuna being the boss of the Gesso family, maybe or maybe not. You gave me quite the question to answer, I can't answer it because it could or could not affect the plot of the story. Sorry~
27, yes Hibari and Tsuna know each other, or at least Tsuna is aware of Hibari's existence; kind of hard to ignore a murderous individual who goes to your school, you know. I can't answer the question regarding Mukuro, sorry. Reborn already knows Tsuna, as seen in the second chapter, but he isn't gonna chose Tsuna over Tsubasa as the Vongola Decimo. I have no idea about Iemitsu, but he does dote on Tsuna like the canon. Tsubasa has a trauma regarding Tsuna because when they were younger, Tsuna was always there for him, so when they were separated that left a deep emotional scar for him. Hence his reluctance to have Tsuna away from him. Now Dino and Xanxus, I have a lot of ideas for. I also plan to finish this story as best as I can. It will take me time to write each chapter though, so please be patient with me; also thank you for telling me about Gokudera's entry. I was kind of tired when I was writing the previous chapter. Oops? Now I have a question for you, why did you think I would abandon this story? Please answer:)
Oh, and please review. I am really happy when people review, it also motivates me to write the next chapter quicker. I don't know why, but it does so please review.