A/N: Hi guys, and sorry but I edited and re-typed part of this chapter. I can't do the fluffy bits for this kind of story after all. So, of course, if you want lotsa 1827 moments, be sure to read my story "Falling in Love with a Carnivore" (I think that's the title, at least). It isn't complete, since I plan to let it drag on unless people start complaining. So... Start reading, start reviewing, and stop daydreaming! ^^
"Jyuudaime!"
"Tsuna!" Both of the guardians gaped at the person before them. Without a doubt, it was their precious boss. Looking… different. He certainly had grown taller, and was about the same height as Gokudera now. Yamamoto, of course, was still the tallest among them. His voice had gone a little lower, just like when he was in HDW mode. His face was basically the same, but he looked a little more mature. However, there was still…cuteness retained in that smile which had magically appeared.
"Jyuudaime, when did you return?"Gokudera asked as he pounced onto Tsuna. Suddenly, he realised something important. Very important.
"Jyuudaime, I am very sorry for not being able to receive you from the airport! Please forgive me, your right-hand man, for his incompetence!" Gokudera moved away to kneel land bang his head against the floor. After all this time, he hadn't changed. Tsuna chuckled at this fact. He pulled his Storm Guardian to his feet instantly.
"So…how have you two been? Have you gotten girlfriends yet?" Tsuna teased. The answer he got was just outright ridiculous.
"Of course not, Jyuudaime! It is not appropriate to have a partner when I am your right-hand man!" Huh? What kind of logic is that?
"Gokudera-kun, I have never heard of such a thing. You are free to find a suitable partner." Tsuna sighed at the over-enthusiastic teen.
"Tsuna, I think you've really changed. Right now, you are much more composed than before! Oh yeah, and I see your ear piercings... Haha, did Reborn force you to get those? I like it, though. Black earings do look good on you. Reborn must have tried to force his own fashion sense on you, right?" Yamamoto hurriedly changed the subject. Those earings...
"You could say that... Reborn suddenly grabbed me out of nowhere and ordered Sho to bring me to get piercings... Oh, and just to let you know, I have a bodyguard called Sho. Man, I just don't understand why I even need bodyguards..."
"You have bodyguards? But I don't see them anywhere!" Yamamoto wondered.
"Idiot, isn't the reason obvious? Jyuudaime doesn't need somebody to protect him, so his bodyguards were sent off!" Gokudera proclaimed. Tsuna inwardly chuckled - Gokudera certainly amused him to no end whenever he made up such stuff.
"Gokudera-kun, I just told my two bodyguards to stay away for now. I hate being followed every second of the day. It's more of a relief to be without them. Besides, how could I relax without being alone with you guys?"
"Jyuudaime, we are very honoured to-"
"Who is the newcomer to the extreme?" Somebody broke into their conversation. It wasn't just somebody, but the extremely loud Ryohei Sasagawa.
"Ah, onii-san. It's nice to see you again!" Tsuna gave that dazzling smile again.
"Sawada? Is that you to the extreme?" Ryohei asked with confidence. Well, since he didn't ever do anything without confidence.
"Turf-top, you don't have to bother asking, and bothering Jyuudaime, do you?" Gokudera asked.
"Haha! Welcome back to Japan, Sawada! What are you doing here, anyway?" Ryohei blatantly ignored the Storm Guardian, which made Gokudera retort. However, he was interrupted by Tsuna, who was answering the question, thus successfully shutting the silver-haired boy up.
They spent the next fifteen minutes talking about everything which had happened in their school life (for the three guardians) and the funny stuff that Tsuna had seen in Italy.
"Herbivore. You're getting too noisy. I'll bite you to death." Hibari slammed open the door to the rooftop. Everyone froze.
"I'll kill you for daring to insult the Tenth! Anyway, what are you doing back here? I didn't see you this morning." Gokudera immediately got into his offensive position.
Hibari didn't make any move to reply, and immediately lunged forward to start the fight, which went on for a minute, before Yamamoto intervened and pulled Gokudera apart, while Hibari smirked at Gokudera tauntingly, and let his tonfas drop to his side.
The bell rang a few minutes later, and obviously, it was time for class. Since Tsuna wasn't in the mood to leave his guardians after their reunion, he obviously followed Gokudera and Yamamoto to their class (surprisingly, the two were in the same class). Onii-san had bid them goodbye to the extreme, and Tsuna smiled. He had missed that quite a lot.
"Jyuudaime! I am very sorry, but you will not have a desk to yourself." Gokudera bowed after pulling a chair to his own desk.
"Haha… Gokudera-kun, it's fine. Nobody expected me to be here, after all. I doubt the students even remember me!" Tsuna chuckled.
"If anybody dares to forget Jyuudaime, I will blow them up!" A lighted dynamite appeared out of nowhere and Tsuna immediately snuffed it out.
"Gokudera-kun, it's alright." Tsuna flashed his brightest smile and his Storm Guardian gulped. Yamamoto, who was sitting on Gokudera's right, chuckled along. The other students in the classroom were about to find out more about the new addition to their class, but were interrupted by footsteps nearing the classroom.
The teacher, whom Tsuna later came to know as "Rika-sensei", realised there was a new person in class. She'd never seen the boy, and stared at him for a while.
"Excuse me, but you are…?"
"Sorry for intruding! I just want to meet my friends, so I decided to stay on till school ends today. I'm Sawada Tsunayoshi." A collective gasp went around the room, while Rika-sensei was unperturbed. She was a new teacher, and didn't know of this particular brunet.
"Well then, welcome to our class!" Rika-sensei smiled, before she started her lesson, oblivious to the squeals of the girls from the back of the classroom. It was obvious what they were going on about – That hot guy is Sawada? DAME-TSUNA? For the whole of Rika-sensei's lesson, most of the students were listening (except for the nerdy ones) and giggling to themselves, trying to attract attention.
Tsuna smiled as he felt countless pairs of eyes staring at his back, and some at his face. If it were 1 and a half years ago, this would never have happened. Now, he was already starting to get used to these kind of stuff, since whenever he went out with his bodyguards, there were always girls trying to grab his interest by wearing ridiculously short skirts and showing a lot of skin, not that Tsuna cared. He already had Hibari, for goodness sake. Unfortunately for him, there seemed to be quite a few male perverts who tried to grope him or something, since they didn't know who Tsuna was. They surely wouldn't dare to do so if they ever found out they were messing with one of the most influential mafia bosses in Italy, and daresay, other parts of the world.
Tsuna started to smile dreamily as he reminisced, and the students in the class couldn't help but blush at the cute sight. Gokudera and Yamamoto were unaffected, since Gokudera was too busy glaring at the other pupils who were gawking at Tsuna, and Yamamoto was falling asleep since the teacher was droning on and on… Typical behaviour of Yamamoto, after all.
It was peaceful and quiet… other than the teacher's monotonous drone and students' constant chatter. Well, that was the case until…
Crash!
The glass from the windows in the classroom shattered, as a figure flashed by all too quickly.
And the figure landed in the classroom, with two others following closely. They were all dressed in black, though the one in front, presumably the leader, had a mask which covered half of his face.
"Vongola Decimo, I am from the Gabino family. Remember this, and prepare for your funeral!" That man lunged forward, and the other two immediately followed suit.
This isn't good… The teachers and students are going to get killed if we don't change the location.
"Gokudera-kun, Yamamoto, change location." Tsuna didn't have time to phrase his order properly, but his message was conveyed easily.
The two guardians dodged blows from the sharp knives which these people used, and while doing so, backed away and jumped through the window.
"The Gabino family? I would like to tell you now – I will never approve if you use these kind of methods to get to the top. You have no regard for human life, and you are sure to use the position to commit sinful acts. I do not see you worthy." Tsuna replied, though his eyes momentarily flickered to the terrified people in the classroom who couldn't understand what was happening. For one, they couldn't understand Italian. Also, the fact that some random group breaking in through the windows and Tsuna standing up to them was both surprising and cool. After all, who would expect Dame-Tsuna to actually fight back? Their previous conclusion that Sawada was a useless, hopeless and uncool idiot was now permamently changed to the hot, badass fighter who retained cute features, which were enough to thaw the thickest ice. However, they weren't able to continue watching this match.
"Worthy? And what makes you worthy? You are a successor of the Vongola family, but it doesn't mean that you are the strongest. I will prove that." The masked man pulled out a blue gun and shot at Tsuna. Having had enough training from Reborn, Tsuna easily dodged that and slowly guided the crazed man towards the window, before he let himself fall, popping two pills into his mouth.
Automatically, Tsuna was in his Hyper Dying Will mode, and made a perfect landing. His guardians were faring well and had almost defeated their opponents, and the relieved teen focused on his own fight.
The two exchanged blows, watching each other intently and Tsuna could tell that this man wasn't too bad in his combat skills. However, he was notches lower than Tsuna in terms of skills, and his disregard for human life disgusted the young Boss. Thus, Tsuna finished the fight with one of his favourite attacks: X-Burner.
Well, almost.
If it weren't for the raven-haired prefect who was smirking and leaning against a nearby wall. The Gabino family boss was surprised that he hadn't been knocked out or killed yet, and opened his eyes. Ah, the foolish Vongola scum wasn't hitting him and staring somewhere else? Not focusing on him was simply degrading. He was about to fire another few rounds of bullets, but was interrupted by an intense murderous aura.
Hibari Kyouya had decided to make his move.
"Hnn... Trespassing and destroying school property. Kami korosu."
The rest was just a blur, which ended up with a pathetic heap of 3 bodies kicked onto the road, since Hibari didn't want the corpses to dirty his school. Watching Tsuna for a second, he glared and retreated to the Reference Room.
The class couldn't really see the fight properly, since they were blocked by some walls, and were rather disappointed. However, they were moved to another floor where they were able to enjoy some air conditioning instead of the stuffy fan, and they had Tsuna to thank for that. The incident was a bit traumatizing to some, but the rest were too busy discussing Tsunayoshi Sawada to really care too much about this. Would Dame-Tsuna come- No, Kakoii Tsuna (for girls) (A/N: It means Cool Tsuna :p ) /Kawaii Sawada (for boys) return to school again for lessons? Most probably not, since they figured that Tsuna wouldn't be able to escape unscathed by a gunfight.
Oh well, they had a whole month to figure things out... If they succeeded, at least.
A/N: Hope you enjoyed this! I'm trying to study, but if people read my stories less often I'll try to write a new chapter as soon as possible and can't really do my homework… So please, read and review! I appreciate it! :) I really want to know your opinions on this fic, which doesn't seem too good by my standards… XD
Ja na~
KuroRaven