Notes:Tsuna who is in the world where he and Yamamoto are in a relationship.

Parallel to Your Heart

By ilYamaTsuna7227li

Previously...

"Oh." Tsuna deflated in relief. He though Yamamoto would say roller coaster or something equally fast and terrifying. But then he blinked when he realized what the athlete suggested, "Ferris wheel?"

"Yup." Yamamoto said with a smile, "Now, let's go before it gets too dark."

"Y-Yeah." Tsuna nodded as he unconsciously let Yamamoto tug him to the direction of the Ferris wheel. He looked up at the rain guardian and saw the smile on the other's face dropping slightly and his amber eyes glittering in worry.

The brunet's face pinched in determination and swallowing lightly, he tightened his hold on Yamamoto's hand in reassurance.

The stunned look he got in return and the beatific smile that followed after, made his embarrassment and uncertainty all worth it.

Chapter 19

"That worked out better than I hoped for, my dear Chrome." Mukuro said to his partner in approval, "You did well."

Chrome flushed but smiled at the praise, "Thank you, Mukuro-sama." She glanced to the side when she noticed some people headed their way. "Chikusa and Ken have arrived with the others."

"Chrome-chan!" Haru yelled enthusiastically as she ran to the petite girl and gave her an enthusiastic hug. "I heard from those two about your plan, desu! It seemed like it was effective! We just saw Tsuna-san with Yamamoto-san, desu!"

Dino sighed, "We were starting to give up hope." He said with a relieved smile, "Good job, you guys."

"Che, of course we would succeed in this! We're not idiots like you!" Ken said as he crossed his arms with a smug look on his face.

"Ken, you didn't do anything." Chikusa said in his usual monotone voice to which his companion glared at him. Reborn smirked as he tugged his fedora down. He hopped down from Dino's shoulder and to the ground.

"All of you did a wonderful job." The arcobaleno said to the gathered people. "The two idiots are heading to the final phase of the plan, which is the Ferris wheel. Bianchi is already stationed there, ready to stop the Ferris wheel when it reaches the top. There's nothing more to do after that, you guys can go and enjoy the rest of the evening and everything here is for free, Vongola's treat."

There was chorus of happy agreement at that announcement.

"Alright!" Haru jumped to the air happily as she turned to Chrome, "Come on, Chrome-chan let's go and play some of those shooting games! Kyoko-chan would definitely like that lion stuffed toy I saw earlier."

"Uh," The shy girl glanced at her male counterpart who nodded at her.

"Go, my dear Chrome, we will look for you later." Mukuro assured and Chrome smiled as she was dragged by Haru to the closest shooting booth.

"We'll take you up on that offer, Reborn." Dino said with his hands in his pockets. "I'll call the men and tell them we're having an all-you-can-eat buffet." He said as he turned to leave and call on the others.

"Kufufufu, I guess this means you owe us, arcobaleno." The male mist guardian said, "We'll be out of your hair now but remember we'll come to collect on that debt someday." He said as he vanished in a swirl of mist, leaving his two friends behind.

"Wait! Mukuro-sama!" Ken began to run towards a random direction as Chikusa sighed and followed.

"And what about you, Byakuran?" Reborn asked the Millefiore-head who had been quiet for some time now.

The sky flame user shrugged, "Believe it or not, I actually want to see how this ends." He said as he turned his sights to the giant Ferris wheel which can be seen even from miles away. "I'll stay here."

Reborn looked at the other and followed his sight, "Suit yourself."

Don't mess this up, Dame-Tsuna.

When the guardian and boss pair lined up for the Ferris wheel, one of the workers there noticed them and came up to them. He ushered them to the front of the line when he noticed the VIP IDs they were wearing.

"Wow, this thing can be useful, huh?" Yamamoto laughed in embarrassment as some of the couples glared at them. Tsuna, on the other hand, was blushing at the way some girls giggled excitedly when they spotted the pair of them.

"Right this way, sir." A familiar voice said as she ushered the two in one of the carriages, Tsuna was barely able to look over his shoulder to see who it was. He only got a glimpse of familiar pink hair before Yamamoto was pulling him down to sit as the carriage went up.

They were the last couple to be ushered inside and soon, the Ferris wheel was turning slowly.

Tsuna gulped nervously as he leaned by the left side of the carriage, looking out of the glass. He was very much aware of the hand he was still holding and his face burned at the contact. Beside him, he could feel Yamamoto's content, this calmed his pounding heart more than anything.

He felt the calloused hand holding his right shift and he looked to the side automatically, eyes widening when Yamamoto intertwined their fingers together so that their palms could touch. He looked up and was caught by warm amber eyes. Tsuna gulped.

"Remember on the day that you confessed to me…?" His rain guardian murmured in a soft voice that Tsuna only ever heard when his parents thought they were alone, talking to each other so softly as though they were in their own world. His heart beats became faster. "You looked so nervous and so scared that for one crazy second I thought you didn't want to be friends anymore. I mean, I knew you lived in a dangerous world and you were always worried about me whenever someone attacked you or when I got injured from protecting you."

He lifted their hands, looking at them, "I thought you realized I wasn't strong enough to protect you and that you wanted to cut ties with me, but I know it would be more out of protecting me more than anything." His rain guardian met his eyes and gave him a smile. Tsuna swore his heart stuttered, "I liked that about you, but I didn't want that to happen. And I was faced with the prospect of losing you and I guess, that more than anything told me about how I felt about you."

He reached out and took his boss' other hand, holding both of them in his. He leaned forward and touched his forehead with the sky guardian's eyes closing as Tsuna looked at him, wide-eyed.

"Yamamoto…" Tsuna breathed out, his heart clenching in guilt at these memories his best friend was sharing with him. These memories that he didn't share with him at all. His best friend was right in front of him, his hands warm, his presence soothing, but he wasn't looking at him but at another Tsuna who was possibly back at his world, looking with the same care at a Yamamoto that looked at him nothing more than a friend.

Tsuna's chest ached with a longing he did not understand.

There was a soft chuckle and he looked up to see that Yamamoto had pulled back, a kind smile on his face. "And you're doing it again."

Tsuna blinked at the question, "Doing what?"

"You're not telling me something, to protect me." His rain guardian said to his surprise, "But because of that, I risk losing you, Tsuna."

"I… I don't know what you're talking about." The brunet worded out loud, an uncertain smile forming in his face. "I'm not hiding something from you."

Amber eyes saddened and the brunet wanted to wipe that look from the other's face. His guardian played with his fingers, eyes looking down in distraction, "Why?" It was a silent question that did not need clarifying.

Why are you lying to me? Why aren't you telling me anything? Why protect me and from what?

Tsuna gulped once more, wiggling his hands and holding Yamamoto's hands in his instead of the other way around. He looked down at their hands and he felt his guardian's surprised look on his face. He focused on the rain ring on the other's finger instead and at his own sky ring.

He felt doubt and guilt claw at his throat and he wanted so bad to tell this Yamamoto that he wasn't his Tsuna, that he didn't love him like his Tsuna did, that his heart would break if he continued to show him this kindness and gentleness reserved for another person. But he didn't say these things because he knew what Reborn had been telling him when he pushed him into the arms of this rain guardian that looked at him like the world begun and ended with him.

Don't break his heart. He almost laughed at the thought of his hitman tutor being a hopeless romantic.

So instead of the truth that burned his throat he said instead, "Trust me?"

And he knew without looking, that Yamamoto was looking at him with lighter amber eyes and a smile that was reserved for the other him that returned his guardian's regard. And there was no hesitation at all when Yamamoto said, "Of course." And it stunned him at how easy the subject was closed after that.

And his heart may have twinge in something like pain and his breath may have stuttered when Yamamoto lifted his hand and kissed the sky ring. But he pushed all those feelings back, staring wide-eyed instead as the athlete let go of his hands in favor of cupping his face.

In the back of his mind, he registered that they had stopped at the top for some strange reason and banging sounds and barely heard 'oohs' and 'aahs' could be heard outside as the fireworks colored the night sky.

Yamamoto's hands on his face were warm and he could feel his fingers pinching his friend's shirt as though to hang on. There was the gentlest and warmest of smiles on the swordsman's face as he tucked a strand of Tsuna's bangs behind his ear, "Tsuna…" He said in that soft murmur and the brunet's cheeks warmed not from the cold night but probably from something else he refused to acknowledge.

The sound of his heart beating fast against his chest was, for some reason, so easy to ignore in the face of whatever predicament he had gotten himself into and the worries his mind had displayed throughout the trip were hushed and tucked away carefully at the back of his mind.

He must have missed some sort of signal because in one moment he was looking at Yamamoto dazedly and in the next he was aware of the other inching closer, the barely-there space between them becoming non-existent as his hand gripped Yamamoto's shirt strongly as though to tether himself to the earth.

The soft press against his lips was enough to blow away the thoughts of Kyoko-chan and wrong, and even more so the gut clenching thought he never acknowledged of not mine.

And hundreds of feet up in the air with fireworks exploding loudly in the background as couples hugged and leaned against each other, purely content in the presence of their other halves… Tsuna thought of what ifs and what could have beens and maybes.

Then he thought of his Yamamoto and the other Tsuna who looked at this Yamamoto like his world started and ended with him.

And just like that, his heart promptly shattered in the face of secrets and feelings he did not wish to have uncovered… if it meant this pain would be a constant companion of his heart from now on.

"Have you thought of what you are doing to Tsunayoshi-kun by insistently pushing him into the arms of Takeshi-kun?" Byakuran said as he popped a marshmallow in his mouth. He was sitting high up on the branch of a tree, eyes looking at the topmost cart as though he knew what was happening. "What if he falls in love with this Takeshi-kun? Didn't you think it would hurt him to see his guardian look at him with so much love but know it wasn't for him?"

"I've thought of it." Reborn admitted, he was sated in another branch, just above the mafia boss. His little arms were crossed and his fedora hid his eyes. "And it's no question that eventually this Tsuna from wherever he came from would definitely love Yamamoto. It may be this Yamamoto from this world and right at this moment, or it could be back at his world, with his Yamamoto, and in his own time."

"Then, you did this on purpose? Pushed him to his guardian's arms knowing he'd get hurt?" The other asked, "How cruel."

"It's on purpose but I wasn't trying to be cruel." Reborn said quietly, "I just thought it would be a waste for him to remain stupid about it."

"At the risk of hurting him with his own heart."

"You could look at it that way." The hitman said as he looked up at the gaps of the leaves and into the evening sky, "Or you could see it as a miracle. If one idiot can realize his feelings then another idiot would follow suit. The gain he'd get at the end of it would be worth the pain."

"No pain, no gain." Byakuran huffed in amusement, "You are strange, arcobaleno. Never saw you for a matchmaker."

"I'd just like to think that I care." Reborn mocked as he stood up and jumped down to the ground, "Now let's go or Tsuna will find it strange that I'm not home."

"Yes, yes…" Byakurans said as he gracefully jumped down from his own branch and followed.

"Here are your complimentary jackets! Thank you for purchasing the VIP IDs." A worker- Bianchi- of the Ferris wheel controls said as she handed two jackets to rain and sky pair who had just gotten off. "And we apologize for the delay." She smirked.

"Thanks for the jacket and uh, it's no problem!" Yamamoto laughed sheepishly. Tsuna wore his jacket quietly, a dazed look in his eyes. Yamamoto followed suit before grabbing the brunet's right hand. "Let's head home, Tsuna?"

"Yeah." The brunet nodded as his guardian pulled him to the direction of home. Bianchi watched the two go, the smirk fading from her face and settling into concern as she looked at the brunet's slumped shoulders.

She sighed, "Nothing's ever easy when it comes to love." She said out loud before she turned and headed to the restrooms to change.

"That was fun," Yamamoto said after several minutes of silence as he smiled down happily at his boss, cheeks red from the cold or maybe from something else. Tsuna looked up at him quietly and nodded. The swordsman frowned and gripped the brunet's hand gently, "Are you okay?"

Tsuna gave him a small smile, "I'm fine. I, uh, I'm just a bit cold."

His guardian nodded, "You should get into a hot bath when you get home to warm up."

"Yeah," The younger teen said, noticing his house up ahead. "Are you going to stay for dinner?"

"I'd love to." His guardian said with a smile, "But I sorta made a bargain with dad." He scratched the back of his head sheepishly. "I was supposed to help with the shop this morning but I told him I was going on a date, so he said okay only if I help him out tonight and tomorrow morning."

"I'm sorry."

Amber eyes softened, "Don't be." He said as they stopped in front of the Vongola's house. "Well, I guess this is you. Drop by my house tomorrow and we can play that new baseball game I got."

"Yeah," Tsuna said as he looked at their intertwined hands which Yamamoto was about to release, but to his surprise Tsuna held on. The guardian didn't let go and continued holding on, looking at the brunet's unreadable expression with concern.

He didn't say anything though and just let the brunet look his share before chestnut colored eyes looked at him.

"I like you."

Amber eyes blinked in surprise as he looked down at frightened brown eyes. Yamamoto's eyebrows furrowed, why was Tsuna so scared? Was he afraid he'd get rejected? And why did he say it like that? As though he'd never said those words to him before?

Yamamoto didn't understand what was happening but he knew this was important to his boss. So he gripped the hand in his gently and said firmly, "I like you too."

The heartbreak on the younger teen's face made his eyes widen and Tsuna looked away before he could decipher what that meant, "Yeah. Uhm, I have to get inside, it's getting colder-"

The athlete's body moved for him, stepping forward to envelope the cold teen into his warm arms. There was a noise of protest but it was brief and eventually he felt Tsuna bury his face in his jacket.

"I love you." The rain guardian said surely, he didn't know why Tsuna looked like that but he didn't want that expression on his face. If it was because he was unsure of Yamamoto's affections then he would keep confessing until he understood. "I really, really do."

The brunet was like a statue in his arms, he could feel the tight grip on his jacket. He didn't know what Tsuna was thinking, he didn't know why Tsuna had been acting like he did for the past few days, and he had no idea what was going on but the brunet had asked him to trust him and how could he not do that? So he didn't asked nothing and just contented himself with the familiar person in his arms. He repeated his words again and again, knowing that this was all he could really do.

And eventually, Tsuna mumbled a sad, "I know," as he stepped back and finally let go.

Reborn found his student lying on his bed, looking at the ceiling blankly when he came in to his room. He closed the door quietly and watched as Tsuna began to speak without looking at him.

"Are you happy now, Reborn?" And it was rare to hear such a bitter but tired tone in his student's voice. The hitman tilted his fedora down, hiding his eyes from sight.

"Happy with what?"

"You got what you wanted," And because Tsuna felt like it, he added, "As always. Did you have fun today in the amusement park?"

"I'm impressed, you actually-"

"Of course I knew you had to be behind it. It had your name written all over it." Tsuna cut him off sharply before he turned to his die, facing the window. "Why did you do that?"

Th arcobaleno peeked from beneath his hat, "Do what, no-good Tsuna?"

"Why did you have to go and make me realize this?" The young boss gestured with his hands helplessly. "Why did you have to butt in as always and make me realize something I didn't want to know?"

"I don't know what you're talking about. I was merely doing everything that I can to ensure-"

"Stop that!" Tsuna curled into himself and the hitman closed his mouth for once, a frown on his face. "If you really wanted to do what you said, we could have told Yamamoto from the beginning that I wasn't his Tsuna and then he'd understand and back off and I wouldn't be this…" He choked, "This sad person who realized he was in love with his best friend who didn't even know he existed before the whole mafia game."

There was silence as Tsuna buried his face in his pillow and Reborn sighed, "What would you want me to do?"

"I want you to get me home." Came the muffled reply.

"We're trying."

"Try harder." The young boss demanded and if his student was so angry with him, the hitman tutor would probably be proud that he grew enough backbone to argue with him.

"We're doing our best." He assured instead.

There was another pause of silence and the young Vongola said, "And let me tell Yamamoto the truth."

Obsidian eyes snapped to the brunet on the bed with surprise. But curiosity overtook the surprise, "Why?"

"Because I don't like lying."

"If he realizes you're not his Tsuna, he'd go back to treating you like his best friend instead of his boyfriend." The arcobaleno spelled it out for him, "Are you sure?"

"It's better than letting this continue." Tsuna said, finally pulling away from his pillow to stare at the wall of his bed, blankly. "I don't like lying to him."

"You like him," Reborn said and he clarified, "More than a friend. And you want him to like you back."

"Not like this."

"Of course." The hitman sighed and he admitted, "You're stronger than you look, No-Good Tsuna… Actually, I don't think I can call you 'no-good' anymore, after today."

The brunet's lips twitched slightly at that as he hugged his pillow closer in reply.

Reborn walked towards his hammock, getting ready to go to bed for the night. "Goodnight Tsuna."

And hours later as the sky began to lighten and Tsuna finally felt the first signs of sleep overcoming him, he murmured, "Goodnight, Reborn."

The next day sometime in the late afternoon, Yamamoto had finally gotten out of helping his dad. It would have been earlier but a group of middleschool tennis players had just won the Kantou tournament and had booked their place for lunch. After that hectic party, his dad nearly shoved him out of the door because he couldn't stop looking at his phone every five seconds since Tsuna hadn't texted him back yet.

The rain guardian sighed as he kicked a pebble from his path. After yesterday, he thought that things would go back to normal between them but when he thought about the way they parted, he wasn't so sure anymore.

But then he was distracted from his thoughts when his phone vibrated. He blinked in surprise before clicking the message open.

To: Yamamoto Takeshi
From: Sawada Tsunayoshi
Subject: Meet me

I'm at the park, meet me there?

Thankfully, the park was just a block away and the rain guardian hummed in delight at actually seeing the brunet sooner than he hoped. He jogged to the park and grinned when he saw Tsuna sitting by the swings, eyes on the ground.

"Hey, Tsuna!" The athlete said with a smile as he stopped in front of his boss who looked up in surprise at his sudden appearance. "So, what's the plan for today?"

His boss stood up smiling at him before looking away as though just realizing what he was doing. His cheeks were faintly red and Yamamoto couldn't help but raise a hand and brush it against the side of the brunet's face. But then the younger teen recoiled at the touch and Yamamoto looked on in worry.

"Tsuna?"

"I, uh, actually today I just wanted to tell you something, Yamamoto." Tsuna said as he stepped back, face still slightly red but his eyes were wide now with a little bit of fear that made his guardian worry.

"Sure," The rain guardian said unable to keep the worry from his face but still trying to smile, "You can tell me anything."

Tsuna looked at him with a somewhat sad expression on his face, he gripped at the front of his shirt before breathing deeply, "Yamamoto, actually… the truth is I…"

The rain guardian looked on expectantly and Tsuna exhaled.

"I like you." Amber eyes looked at him in confusion.

"I know, I like you too-" He started to walk forward but Tsuna raised a hand, stopping him.

"No." The brunet said firmly and his lips were pursed in a straight line, his shoulders tense. "No, I like you…"

Yamamoto nodded slowly trying to understand where this was going. But then his eyes widened when Tsuna told him the last thing he'd ever expected.

"But I'm not your Tsuna."

Author's notes: Hey, guys! XD uh, sorry for being late -_-. Semestral break is coming soon though, I just hope that the internet will be patched up back at our apartment soon (you know, house destroyed by typhoon Haiyan and lots of casualties). I'll start preparing for the Christmas challenge, please spread the word.

I reread this story and man, when I finish this I am so gonna edit everything D: Man I sucked at writing ahahah XD Anyway, cheerios and happy days my readers and reviewers!