A/N: So here is chap 3. I hope that you like it. Updates are going to slow for a while considering that I don't really have a lot of time to write but I hope that I'll be able to do at least 2 updates a month. Sorry that the story is going short but every time I write I end up writing more and more stuff than I had originally had intended. For example this chapter was suppose to introduce yamamoto but some other things ended up happening. Hopefully I'll finally be able to write him in to the story next chap, unless my writing takes me somewhere else. Plus READ THE A/N AT THE BOTTOM OF THE CHAP I HAVE SOMETHING IMPORTANT TO SAY. Now that thats done I hope you enjoy the new installement of Heir and the Spare.

Disclaimer: I don't own Katekyo Hitman Reborn, if I did I would have ended it differently.

Chapter 3: Mama Bear and Awakened Prince

For about three weeks, Tsuna stayed in the ICU of Namimori's General Hospital. The only noise coming from his room was the beeping from the heart monitor. The only people who had visited him were his mother, Kyoko, and only once with Kyoko, Ryouhei. Not once since his fire-related accident did Hana visited him.

Kyoko was sad that her best friend Hana had decided not visit Tsuna in the hospital. Even though it greatly afflicted her that Hana would do such a thing. She could see the hurt look in her eyes whenever Tsuna was mentioned. She decided to avoid the issue until Tsuna woke up from his coma, even though she could see the loeliness on Nana's eyes when she told her that Hana would not be visiting Tsuna with her.

Though Tsuna had not awaken in 19 days. All the doctors could tell them that his prognosis was as excellent as someone in his condition can be. While he may have been injured badly, he was now in a stable condition. His bandages were replaced everyday there was a small chance that he would reject the skin grafts or get an infection. So perhaps all he need was to rest until then.

Even with the doctor assurance of Tsuna's full recovery, Nana was still not at ease. Her sweet little baby boy was laying there looking so thin and frail with all those bandages and tubes covering him all over. It were times like these that she had dearly missed her only daughter. Her little Hime would tell her not to worry, even though Tsu-kun was like that he'll make it through cause he was her oniisan and no oniisan of hers is going to die on her. Not on her watch anyway. And, that's why Nana kept on going because her Tsuna was strong just like Iemitsu and Himeko. She'll Stay with him so that when he opens his eyes he'll know that he wasn't alone during his unconscious.

Speaking of not being alone, during this difficult times Nana noticed just a week ago that someone else was visiting her son. She began to notice a silver hair wild looking boy has also began to visit her son. He never really went tin but he stood near the entrance as if conflicted in whether to go in or not. However, he ran away whenever she or Kyoko either got near him or noticed him. At first she thought that he was a classmate of his but now she wasn't so sure. He came at strange hours from early morning to late at night, he never appeared to wear uniform, and he'd most definitely be someone her little Tsu-chan would most likely avoid.

Without being able to getting to know him or even speak to him. She began to wonder who he was. From the looks of him, she could guess that he was most definitely a delinquent of some sorts. He most definitely, did not go to school so either a dropout or not even enrolled (which disturbed her more so she preferred dropout, not that it was any better). But, she couldn't get her head out of the bandages that covered his hands. If she didn't know any better it was as if he was covering some sort of recent damage to his hands.

Like a cut of some sort, tattoos perhaps (although he looked like the type who didn't care if people saw his tattoos or not), scars (but the bandages seemed to be soiled so perhaps not that), or burn marks... oh. Why didn't she notice that, she remembered after coming out of her shock from Tsuna's accident, being told how another young boy, perhaps no older than her son, carried her son to the ER. Though he escaped before being questioned by any form of authorities of his involvement of the events that lead to it. Nana knew that this wild boy had something to do, or at least knew of what happened to her Tsu-chan. And, she was going to find out what it was.

Sending sweet Kyoko Back home, that girl must be worrying her family with staying with her out so late (bless her heart). She decided to go out to the lobby to buy some oniigiri and drinks from the vending machines. Knowing full well, that he boy who has been watching her son's room like a hawk, would take the opportunity to get near his room, and do what she's not sure. It's a good thing that she can always tell when he's coming (well ever since she's noticed him she could anyway).

While no one could ever say that she was stealthy, for in fact she wasn't even close (thank god that she had out grown her two left feet), people always seemed to ignore her if they were not looking for her. So when she saw that silver haired boy near her sons room she made sure to catch him from behind. Seeing him grumble to himself, she knew that if she messed it up she may never get another shot like this.

Grabbing him from the shoulder, Nan felt the teen tense from her hold. Seeing him look at the person holding him, she saw the teen go still when he realized that she was holding him (with a grip stronger than he anticipated she could accomplish). Wasting no time she smiled at him, and happily spoke " Oh my, I don't think I've seen you before. You must be one of Tsu-chan's classmates. Come in, come in, I know Tsu-chan would be happy to know that you came to visit him. Please come in I was just grabbing some snacks from the vending machine. I've never really seen you before, if you don't mind what's your name?"

Pushing him to the room where Tsuna rested Nana plopped herself, along with Gokudera, on the sofa. Making sure that the silver teen was comfortable, both knew that he was trapped with no way out. Nana looked expectantly as she waited for him to respond.

Gokudera on the order realized that he was screwed. After all in front of him stood the mother of the boy, Tsuna as he learned his name from the hospital staff, was sleeping calmly in the room he was sitting. It would have been easy for him to get out of her grasp , push her" away, and escape, but he knew that his pride as a man would never allow it. Also, something about this woman screamed dangerous, even though he knew that she was only a civilian. His years of surviving the underground of Italy have taught him how to read people. Seeing the look this woman gave him, as if peering to his soul, he knew that he couldn't bullshit her.

"My name is Gokudera Hayato. Um, uh, we're not really classmates Ma'am, I've been in this town for only tell than a month..." hesitatingly responded Gokudera, all the while staring at the woman for her reaction, making sure to say as little as he could as possible.

Sensing Gokudera's discomfort, Nana felt bad for what she was doing to the poor boy who looked as if he wanted to bolt out of the room any minute. But this boy in front of her knew something, she could feel it and even though she didn't what to she had to push him as far as she could to get him to spill.

Smiling at Gokudera, trying to ease his discomfort, she asked,"Well if you're not a classmate then why are you here? For most of the month my Tsu-chan has been in the hospital for one reason or another, and the only people aside frome the doctors and nurses who've visited him were me, Hana-chan, Kyoko-chan, and Ryouhei-kun. So how do you know my Tsu-chan?"

Both knew the unasked but obvious question of what had transpired that day. As a mother, Nana took her motherly duties seriously when it came to loving, caring, and protecting her young. Which divided her when it came to preventing anything from more happening to her son and seeing the obvious (for her anyway) terror the boy in front of her was exhibiting. (As though she was a black hooded interrogator rather than a concerned mother). Gokudera was conflicted as well, after all he didn't need to be here interrogated over what happened to her son, but at the sme time something compelled him to come here. And, he didn't want to tell her the truth, knowing that doing so will lead to not so good consequences for him.

However, before the two could go much further, they heard a soft groan followed by a body shifting slowly, as bed sheet ruffled. Hearing the soft mumblings of the only other occupant in the room both, Nana and Gokudera, turned to look at the bed across from them, the interrogation forgotten. Staring at the waking figure reacquainting himself to the world in front of them, immobilized by relief and caution.

Gasping in pain, Tsuna fully opened his eyes. His vision blurry at first, cleared when he came upon 2 people he didn't think would be together. Staring at the dangerous silver hair boy and his mother sitting together on a sofa across the room from where he was. His surprise rapidly became confusion, and pain overcame his body as he began to hyperventilate. Confused over where he was, why his mom was with the dangerous teen, what was the teen planning to do with his mom, why was he in so much pain and why couldn't he move?

Tsuna became increasingly agitated, snapping Nana and Gokudera out of their stupor. Nana went over to console her son, no longer interested with anything else. While Gokudera got the hell out of the room not wanting to get even more involved than he was, but he knew that he would be coming back.

With his mother coming toward him, Tsuna attempted to choke out his confusion. "Wha... What's cough cough go-oing gasp on? Cough, cough, ack! Wha- " he gasped out.

"Hush, shh, shh, calm down Tsu-chan breathe just take deep breaths. I'm calling the doctors so don't worry. You where in an accident, I don't know what happened, but... you got hurt, and I'm so sorry. I shouldn't have let you go out on your own and now I-I-I'm so glad that you're okay now.." cried Nana,closing the gap between the two withour hurting him. Her words fumbling out of her mouth unable to contain the mixture of relief, happiness, soothing and anxiousness she had felt seeing her son awake. All the while trying to calm her son as well, even though she knew that she was failling terrible at it. There would be time for things to calm down but for now Nana was just glad to see her son awake

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Three days after waking up, Tsuna had began getting used to his situation. After his initial shock when he woke up, he realized that he was in the hospital and that what happened with the silver haired boy really happened. Of course he wasn't going to tell his mother of what happened no matter what.

He didn't want to worry her over what happened, but what terrified him the most was that he had been with his Mom when he woke up, why? The time before, the silver teen looked as if he wanted to see him dead. However, no matter how many times he tried asking his Mom about what he was doing there, all she told him was that the boy's name was Gokudera Hayato. The she would deflect the question by attempting to get him to tell her how they met and he didn't want to open that can of worms. Both hiding something from the other in order to protect the other. Not wanting to strain the situation even more than they had to, both silently agreed to continue the conversation at another time.

With Tsuna's return to the living, Kyoko and Ryouhei visited him. Glad with having visitors, He was confused over why Hana had not accomponied the two . Finding out that Hana did not want to see him, hurt him greatly, as though he'd been kicked in the gut repeatedly (an experience he had gone through a couple of times in the past).

Though he couldn't stay sad for too long considering how extreme Ryouhei-nii (as he began to call the older teen). Being around him discombobulated him and he wondered how Kyoko could stay sane with such a maelstrom of a person around. Trying to calm him down was impossible but Tsuna could feel how happy Niisan felt knowing that he was okay (as he began to exercise to the extreme to show his delight). Which made him happy, even so he told himself to avoid the boxing club in the future.

Tsuna wasn't entirely worried over his injuries sure they hurt but they would heal. The skin grafts made him feel weird wearing someone's else skin and sometimes itchy (he knew that he would get nightmares from them). His broken bones would heal in time, which meant physical therapy as the doctors told him and his mother, increasing his time in the hospital. Sure he knew that he had gone through a very dangerous and painful experience, but (a) he was alive and (b) he had people who were worried for him, which filled him with vitality.

Unfortunately Kyoko popped his euphoria bubble, when she, with apologetic eyes, took out the 3 weeks of schoolwork he'd missed. And just like that the pressure was back on. He'd already missed a week of school, sure he had Hana tutor him but now he had no chance to even catch up. Without Hana to help him he'd most likely would repeat the year. It was nice that Kyoko and Niisan offered to tutor him, but that was out of the question. He was lucky that he could be around Kyoko without making himself look like a fool. He'd never be able to pay attention to the schoolwork with her around. And Niisan, would make go mad and deaf if he tried to tutor. (Plus, he had a suspicion that Niisan was a bigger idiot than he was, and that was saying something.)

With a heavy heart they'd decided to study, only for Ryouhei-nii to skip out the instan homework was bought out. (Who didn't see that coming?) After an hour or so of trying out the first page of his schoolwork, he decided to let Kyoko go they had a lot of time to get him up to speed and he was getting tired.

Alone with his thoughts, Tsuna contemplated his current situation. It'd be months before he'd get out of the hospital. Being stuck in bed would have been tolerable but he had limited movement at the moment and just doing an hour of schoolwork had tired him out mentally and physically. Sure Kyoko bought both her notes and Hana's notes, but without someone educating him on it, he'd never be able to get the information to stick.

Unfortunately, at that moment he couldn't get support from his mom, because when Kyoko came Nana had decided to let the 3 hang out alone while she went home to prepare some food for Tsuna. After only being fed through a tube and IV, she knew that Tsuna would be hungry for a home cooked meal, (of course following the doctors recommendation on what he could eat at the moment).

Tsuna didn't mind of course, his Mom's cooking was the best. So he was glad to wait for the food to arrive. Reading the notes left behind by Kyoko, Tsuna found himself too tired to concentrate. Tossing them aside after 1-2 minutes of unsuccessful reading.

Sighing to himself as he decided to rest for a bit, Tsuna began to notice a strange sensation. It was the same feeling he felt when he knew someone he knew was around. As though he was being watched. Looking around the room he didn't see anyone in the room, in front of the door, nor out the window (which would have been scary considering that he was on the third floor).Though he saw no one, he knew that there was someone definitely around.

His paranoia increased irrationally as the feeling persisted. So to calm himself Tsuna spoke out, "Um, uh, hello? Is anyone out there? If you are can you show yourself." Then as a scary afterthought he spoke," If you're a ghost haunt someone else, pleas?" Though no one responded, he was certain that there was somebody nearby. Unsure of what to do next, he blurted without thinking, "If you don't come out, I'll call the nurses to kick you out."

Tsuna stared intently at the door. He heard a sigh as a figure shifted to the door's opening. He gasped as he saw who it was. It was that silver teen, Gokudera.

Why was he here? Did he want to fish what he started? Why wasn't he doing anhything? Was he waitnig for... OH MY GOD! Mom!

Reeling in terror, Tsuna choked out, "Why are you here? " His body rigid while his mind was going haywire. Eyes staring at the silver teen who looked as if he wanted to be anywhere but there.

Now Gokudera was at a turmoil, on one hand he owed the boy nothing (even if it was kind of his fault for the boy's current state [which he will never admit to damn it]). On the other hand he always found himself coming to the hospital whenever he had time on his hands. Why was he here? Thinking over his predicament, Gokudera was unaware of how much he was scowling till he heard the boy, Tsuna, squeaked in fright.

Snapped out of his thoughts, he spoke out, "I don't know -daze. Every single time that I try to forget about you I just end up here. I can't stand it -daze." Speaking out his thought Gokudera didn't want to admit it, but he thought that maybe if he did something for the boy then they can forget all of this mess. "Look maybe all I need to do is to make it up to for this -daze." He spoke out loud pointing at Tsuna, "Then we can go in our merry fucking way how does that sound -daze!"

Unfortunately, before Tsuna could respond Nana entered the room. As she looked at both teens, who both looked strained, and not seeing Kyoko and Ryohei around she asked calmly, "Oh, well hello Gokudera-kun, what are you doing here? Tsu-chan, where are Kyoko-chan and Ryouhei-kun?"

Gokudera froze not wanting to speak to that woman, as he remembered their previous encounter. Tsuna on the other hand, spoke out first from being jump started by his Mother's questions. Not wanting to worry her he blurted out, "Um, uh, Kyoko-chan and Niisan left. I was getting tired, so they decided to let me rest. Then Gokudera came in and he saw the homework that Kyoko left behind and he decided to help me on it, isn't that great!"

Hearing that the silver teen was helping out her son, she decided to change her impression of him. After all, that would make them friends, but how did they know each other? Shrugging off that line of questioning, after all she can always ask later and Gokudera-kun didn't appear to have any bad intentions. So que sera sera as they always said, she smiled and said, "That's marvelous. I hope that Gokudera can stay, I bought dinner." As she took out the food she cooked, as she had cooked a lot of food thinking tha Kyoko-chan and Ryouhei-kun would be staying over.

Seeing the expectant looks of mother and son Gokudera sighed and agreed.

A/N2: So thanks for reading this chapter. As I was writing it, I felt like most of the writing is just mostly filler, so I don't like this chap that much but it does move the story along and I'm finally able to place gokudera into a more permanent role. Hopefully I'll add Yamamoto in to the story. This yamamoto will have some issues which with the help from Tsuna he'll over come. Oh yeah before I forget THERE IS SOMETHING I WANT TO ASK YOU GUYS I'M HAVING TROUBLES WRITTING HEIR APPARENT, THE SISTER FIC TO THIS ONE. MOSTLY BECAUSE OF A PROBLEM WHICH I CAN'T FIGURE OUT. I CAN'T FIGURE OUT THE SETTING FOR THE STORY AND I WANT TO KNOW WHERE YOU WANT IT TO BE AT, THE CEDEF HEADQUARTERS WITH IEMITSU, FORTRESS THE VONGOLA HEADQUARTERS, OR A MAFIA SCHOOL. I'LL BE POSTING POLLS FOR IT AND WHICH EVER GETS THE MOST I MAY JUST CHOOSE IT. PLUS IF YOU COULD GIVE ME A REASON WHY. BY THE WAY I'LL MOST LIKELY POST IT SOMEWHERE DURING THE MOKURO ARC. THAT WAY I'LL HAVE TIME TO WRITE A COUPLE OF CHAPTERS BEFORE I BEGIN POSTING YOU FOR YOUR PATRONAGE, GO FOR HEIR AND THE SPARE. READ ADN REVIEW