Hey Kumiko-chan again! Thx for the support mina-san! Thanks for all your time! Oh my, I didn't know I wrote like, 1800 words for this chap, oh my, I am shocked by my own work... Jesus!
Oh well, I will stop saying random stuff. Now enjoy the story!
Chapter Four
"Re...Reborn?" Tsuna murmured in surprise. Then he realised he should not know Reborn's name, as least not until he introduces himself. Thus he hid it with a cough. But it was too late, Reborn, the sun Arcobaleno, Tsuna's former Family Tutor, already noticed it.
"You know my name, Sawada?" Reborn asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Yeah, sure. You can say that." Tsuna replied cooly as he stood up from the ground, tidying up his clothes. He did not want to look lousy during his first encounter with the Reborn of this world. It felt extremely weird to be called as 'Sawada' or 'Sawada Tsunayoshi-san'. Why the hell was there a '-san'? Tsuna complained inside his heart. But this was another dreadful reminder that this place is not where he belongs.
"How did you know my name?" Reborn asked slowly. "You and I never met before, and no picture of me in this form was ever taken. Plus before yesterday, you had no contact with the Mafia whatsoever. Unless you count that these idiots here were your classmates in Middle School."
"Well," Tsuna said in a hard tone, trying to hide the sadness that just arouse inside his heart. "You mean contact with the Mafia? What do you call my dad then? Normal person who drills oil all over the world?"
Reborn jumped off from Nakamura's shoulder as Tsuna finished the sentence. "I cannot read through your mind." Reborn said slowly. "This is not right. There's only two people I cannot read through in the world, myself and the Sky Arcobaleno."
"Maybe I am the third one." Tsuna smiled his so-called 'sky attribute smile', the very same smile that gunned down all his guardians in his world. Another tool to hide his true emotion "Add me to your list."
"Who are you?" Reborn said as he approached Tsuna, putting his hand on Leon. "When did you know about your dad's identity? Why did you change so much in one day's time? Why can't I read through you? Answer my questions!"
"Hush, hush," Tsuna smiled. He decided to hold a false personality in front these guys just to make a difference in his life. "Too many questions, Reborn, our dear Sun Arcobaleno. Well, as you can see, I am genuinely Sawada Tsunayoshi. As for my dad, I knew about it long ago, you don't need to know when." Yeah, from fourteen years old. Tsuna thought, just in another world. "Such a huge change cannot occur in such a short time, as you know, so I guess I changed a lot overtime but I didn't have a chance to show it to the outside world."
Then Tsuna stopped. He bent his knees and leaned by Reborn's ear. There he whispered slowly, making sure no one else could hear what he was going to say.
"As for the last question, my dear Sun Arcobaleno," Tsuna whispered. "You can go ask your boss, Uni Giglio Nero-chan. I guess she will answer this question. Just a hint for you, it has something to do with the future war involving Byakuran Gesso and Uni-chan. The war which costed the life of Uni-chan and Gamma."
Then Tsuna stood up, he patted Reborn's head softly and walked towards Hibari. When he passed Hibari, he whispered a small "Sorry" and sent right into the change room, taking away the effect of the mist ring with him.
"Huh." Hibari was a little stunned at the 'sorry' since his body was unmovable for a second. Maybe also from the great surprise that Sawada Tsunayoshi, another herbivore, just patted the Sun Arcobaleno's head but the Sun Arcobaleno didn't beat him up.
"Phew, that was some shock." Nakamura said as he sat down on the ground, or collapsed. "Who is Sawada Tsunayoshi! I mean, I know his name and I know we were in the same class, but what is his true identity!"
"Nah nah," Yamamoto smiled. "He didn't look like a bad guy, did he? I think he can be our comrade. Don't you think so, senpai and Gokudera? Tsunayoshi-san is a good person after all!" Yamamoto just blurted out his instincts.
"Definitely not!" Gokudera protested. "He already has a family! Didn't you hear him say he didn't want to tell us his family for our own good? Meaning he doesn't want to join our family!"
"Sawada is quite strong!" Sasagawa said as he tried to heal a wound on Hibari's back. "He beat Hibari to the extreme!"
"You weakling." Hibari said as he gave a poke to Sasagawa's face.
"Gah!" Sasagawa exclaimed in pain.
"Reborn," Nakamura called out to the frozen Reborn, "What do you think about that idea?"
Reborn's body finally moved a little. "I am going to talk to Sawada-san for a second." Then he ran into the change run after Tsuna.
"Can I take that as a yes?" Nakamura complained. Then he wondered out loud, "Did Reborn just call Sawada Tsunayoshi 'Sawada-san'? Reborn never been that polite to a person before! How can Tsunayoshi make Reborn use -san? -SAN?"
Inside the change room, Sawada Tsunayoshi was lying facedown on the cold floor, breathing hard. It was quite hard to act like somebody you are not, especially in front of Reborn's see-through eyes. But thanks to the Sky Arcobaleno ability of being cool all the time, one of the three abilities that he wasn't able to seal, he appeared normal and flawless in a normal person's view. But what shocked him most was that he attacked two of his comrades whom he swore to protect with his life, without hesitation. No hesitation at all.
"How did I do that..." Tsuna murmured quietly, "Attacking Yamamoto and Hibari-san like that without hesitation. Was I losing control of my own temper? From the death of my friends? Or from the shock of coming to this world..." The last sentence he said it with the voice only he could hear, incase anyone was around. That turned out to be a wise choice. His hands in front of his face, as if trying to cover them at any second.
"Sawada Tsunayoshi-san." Reborn's voice came from his back, making Tsuna suddenly alert, sitting up from the floor, he found Reborn standing face to face with him.
"Sawada-san," The name made Tsuna felt a little strange, Reborn never called him that formal before. "I think you know that our current Sky Arcobaleno will disappear in two or three years thanks to Byakuran Gesso, the guy you called 'shiro-chan'." Reborn's face looked weird at the sound of the nickname. "So the Arcobalenos had a meeting just yesterday in the Japan Giglio Nero base. A letter was sent to us about the candidates for the next Sky Arcobaleno. Usually there are three candidates, but this time there was non. Only a sentence was written on the letter."
"Huh?" Tsuna was partly surprise. No candidates? All of them being murdered? Or were there no good choice for the position so they didn't choose anyone at all?
"Do you know what it said on the letter, Sawada-san?" Reborn asked slowly.
"No." Tsuna shook his head. "Please tell me then."
"'The next Sky Arcobaleno just came to this world.'" Reborn said quietly.
"Huh?" Tsuna was unable to respond. Yesterday...Does that mean-him?
"At first, we thought the next Sky Arcobaleno was just born yesterday, meaning we have to wait. But it seems like I got my answer now by putting all the puzzles together." A smile appeared on Reborn's face.
"Vongola keeps a person around you all the time to make sure you are safe ever since you entered university." Reborn continued. "Yesterday, the person assigned to the position sent a message saying that you fell into a small lake and came up by yourself seven minutes later, which is kind of impossible for you. And after you came up from the water, you looked like you were a completely different person. Even the way you walked changed. Before, it was quite lousy; but now, it actually had style."
Gulping down some air, Tsuna smirked inside his head. Style? Great, the behaviour lessons from Vongola Nono did help a little.
"And that was when the meeting of Arcobalenos were held. The letter before was destroyed one minute before the meeting started and was replaced by a completely new letter given by a man in the hood, the very same man who found me and told me to be the next Sun Arcobaleno. So I guess you are the next Sky Arcobaleno then, Sawada Tsunayoshi."
"Ho, you got that, Reborn~" Tsuna smiled mockingly. Then he turned serious. "Yes, you actually got it. But did you notice that I didn't have any power at all, so-"
"You sealed them away, didn't you?" Reborn cut Tsuna off. "Stop lying, Tsunayoshi-san. This is your fate, so go and accept it. My guess is that you were supposed to die in the lake yesterday but the Sky Arcobaleno gave you another life. So believe me. If this is your fate, go and accept it. And change it if you have the power to do so."
"Thanks for the lesson Reborn." Tsuna slowly stood up, "But please keep that a secret from the Vongola Guardians for now. it's good for them. Also, just saying. You didn't get the last part right, Reborn." Then he turned his head and gave Reborn a beautiful smile.
"I am always the very same Sawada Tsunayoshi, and I am never going to die alone."
As Tsuna was walking towards his locker, Reborn called out his name.
"Tsunayoshi-san, I have a favour to ask you. No, maybe not a favour, just a question."
"Spit it out." Tsuna said as he was fidgeting with his lock. Could it be the question he was waiting for...?
"Sawada Tsunayoshi-san, the next Sky Arcobaleno, the son of Vongola's head of CEDEF, would you like the join the Vongola Family and be our comrade and friend?"
Time and space unites, that is your existence.