Next up is Gokudera!
Amano Akira owns Reborn. This story is for entertainment purposes only.
Theme Two - Limits
Gokudera Hayato had once thought that the best way to preserve oneself was through a veil of confidence with a reckless streak as wide as the horizon. It had shaped his mind, and growing up in the Mafia had given him a strong idea of the concept of "high risk, high reward". The same philosophy had assisted with the choice of his fighting style, had helped him affirm the faith he had in his weapon of choice after Shamal had made the suggestion, had helped to shape his entire attitude and philosophy up until the moment he'd travelled to Japan to test the new Vongola heir.
The defeat was not what broke him; he had come to Japan to test the Vongola heir, after all, and defeat meant nothing but reassurance that the Ninth had made the right choice. Submitting to your superiors was part of being in the Mafia, and he could see that Sawada Tsunayoshi would become a great Boss. That was deserving of his unconditional loyalty.
No, the thing that broke down his philosophy and rebuilt it in the same instant was the Tenth himself.
The fight against the Varia Storm had been long and painful, and it drove him to avoid failure like nothing else. He knew death was a possibility, and a painful one at that, but shaming the person for which he had felt such fidelity had seemed like an impossible option. He was supposed to be the most trustworthy, the strongest-
- and in a second, all of the thoughts in his mind were gone, because his life meant more to the Tenth than the victory. And so he returned, empty-handed save for his life, and that was what made the Tenth happiest of all.
Gokudera no longer knew what it was to feel invincible, but he certainly knew what it was to feel that your drive to live for another was limitless.
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