Failing Friends

What the others didn't know he has, is his passion for fishing.

Before meeting Tsuna and eventually other people that he attracts, he usually has plenty of time to spare after the baseball practice and Yamamoto use that time to go to the nearest river or lake to go fishing.

He loved baseball, but he has a special place for fishing in his heart. After meeting Tsuna, those times was cut short because of many incident around the timid boy but he didn't mind because he was helping his friends and that is more important. After all he knows the feeling of helplessness when you want to help your friend but can't because there is nothing you can do for him and that feels so bad that he vow he would do anything to help his friends.

Because back then he was the oldest in the group, he feels responsible for the others. To guide them, to tell them what is right and wrong, or to stop them when they become too naughty (but he was the one who pranks people the most). This time, he doesn't need to fell that because most people in the group is either his age or older.

Back then the group start as 6 people, but then one of them had been exiled and two others joining him while the other two waits at the city and the last one, the one who framed the exiled one, took over as the army's general.

Yamamoto had been with the exiled one, and saw how that boy rise from a timid ordinary knight to a powerful army leader bent on liberating a nation from other nation who wants to have it by force.

That boy (and Tsuna who looked and act so much like him that Yamamoto almost call the wrong name) recruit a lot of people with many variations. There is a man whose age past hundred and don't look a day over 16, there is some pirates, a casual king, and even the one who framed him into exile.

That boy also burdened by a great power that slowly eats his life away, weakened by every single day he bears it and yet he still walks around like nothing matters.

Tsuna resembled that boy a lot, but the most important thing that matched between them is their eyes. The eyes that shows determination to save people, the eyes that promises greatness and have beaming charisma that makes people gather around them. But also the eyes that show the tiredness they stubbornly decline of having.

Yes, Tsuna resemble Lazlo so much that Tal almost can't stand looking the mirror image of his best friend that he failed to save and now doomed with the cursed rune.

And while he can't save Lazlo, there is still time to train and train. He doesn't want to fail Tsuna too.

And Yamamoto also knows that the whole Mafia thing is not a game, he pretend it is. To fool himself of the danger Tsuna will face, the danger he don't want the other boy to face. But it failed as the danger grew with time, no longer innocent brawls, now it's a full blown war between families and their allies.

At least he knows what ever happen, he will always stand by Tsuna side along with Gokudera. The other boy after all has a fierce loyalty to Tsuna and to Tsuna only.

Looking at Gokudera scowling at him because of the fear that he will be more important and useful was just funny. It was like looking at the three guards in front of Lazlo's room bickering and fighting over whose more important to the army leader.

And even though its naïve to wish for Tsuna's to be save and happy, he did anyway.

A/n: another chapter of some unknown randomness from me. This time the character is Tal from Genso Suikoden 4 just because I feel like doing it! And please tell me what do you think of it. for next I will need more creativity so any suggestion is open even though I won't really use all of it!!