A/N: I'm sooo happy for the reviews, I absolutely love my reviewers. They really give me motivation to write which is why this is a faster update. Since it was requested, I'll show some of Hitman!Nana in the omake chapter. Oh it's almost fourth of July, I want to see the firework show at least once in my life. Yea if you wanted curses, sorry. It's not because I'm keeping this +K but because I feel very uncomfortable putting curses in my stories.
Disclaimer: I don't own.
It was like those two were in their own little world. That is until Gokudera decided to intervene.
"LET GO OF HIME-SAN YOU F-" Yamamoto covered his mouth before he could start cursing.
" I do agree with Haya-kun though, you really should let Tsuna go." Yamamoto said this in his same cheery voice but he had a dark aura surrounding him. He was holding a bat, that magically appeared, in a threataning way.
"Kufufu~ And what if I don't." Mukuro pulled Tsuna closer and made his trident appear.
Both Hayato and Takeshi were about to attack him when they heard Tsuna talk.
"Mou~ Muku-Tan, why do you like to add fuel to the fire?" Tsuna said in an adorable whiny voice while pouting.
"Because its fun, Tsunayoshi." Mukuro smiled and reluctantly pushed Tsuna off him but still kept a hand around his waist.
" How do you know my Onii-san, Tsuna-Hime?" Chrome asked with a questioning look in her eyes.
Tsuna gave her a bright, extremely happy, smile. "You could say we're childhood friends."
"When did you meet?" Gokudera asked, glaring at Mukuro's arm that was still around Hime-San.
Mukuro smirked at him. "Kufufu~ in our childhood." Gokudera's face flushed red in anger. Tsuna rolled his eyes and playfully nudged Mukuro in a scolding manner.
"We met when I was eight and Tsunayoshi was seven, in Italy. He saved me." Mukuro could still remember the time they met as if it were yesterday.
Mukuro was sitting on the floor behind the bars of his prison, the one of highest security, in a private cell. These bars have always been trapping him in there and he was starting to feel like a caged animal, all he could do was watch those who were taken pass by, most were never seen again. He's been experimented on by the Estrano for a few years and he was lucky to still be alive. He heard footsteps coming closer to his prison and he glared when the scientist opened the door. He was too weak to do anything but glare, he had already died 6 times and the lack of food and exercise was taking a toll on his body.
"Here I brought you a friend, he's a troublesome one, almost escaped twice." The scientist said, sneering at the glaring experiment. He pushed in the child he was holding and shut the prison. The child fell on his knees when he was pushed in and stayed in that position.
Once the scientist was out of range the child crawled closer to Mukuro, who was at the back of the cage, and sat infront of him, legs crossed. Mukuro got a good look at the child's face. He had brown gravity-defying hair, pale porcelain skin and he looked like a cherub angel. His cheeks were chubby and his eyes were wide and a beautiful honey color with a bit of gold mixed in. He had a small button nose and small pink lips. He looked about four or five. Mukuro actually wasn't sure if the kid was a boy or girl.
"Who are you?" Mukuro asked the child.
"I'm Tsunayoshi Sawada." The child said in a cute high voice that was unmistakably the voice of a boy.
'Tsunayoshi, so he's Asian' Mukuro mused. The child, now known as Tsunayoshi was pouting angrily and had tears in his eyes. Mukuro was confused at this action and was almost panicing, he didn't know what he did. "O-oi what's wrong." He awkwardly patted Tsunayoshi' hair.
The tears receded but Tsunayoshi was still pouting. "My uncle said its rude not to introduce yourself to someone who asks your name but, you didn't tell me your name."
"My name is Mukuro Rokudo but, how old are you exactly Tsunayoshi, I'm eight."
Tsuna brightened up instantly. "I'm seven, nice to meet you Muku-Tan."
"Tan? Why Tan?" He got over the shock of Tsunayoshi's age when he was called Tan.
Tsuna looked down at his lap and started fiddling with his fingers. Mukuro could see the faint blush on the little boy's face. "It's just that, I don't have many friends and Muku-kun sounds weird and friends give each other nicknames, right?" Tsuna looked up with tears gleaming in his eyes. "Are you mad?"
"No, I'm not, Muku-Tan is fine. Tsunayoshi." Mukuro gave a hesitant smile, an action his face muscles weren't used to doing, so it came out more as a slight twist of his lips.
"Call me Tsuna." Tsuna argued.
"Does anyone else call you Tsunayoshi." Mukuro countered.
"No." Tsuna said with a pout.
"Then Tsunayoshi is my nickname for you."
Tsuna stayed silent for a while, studying Mukuro's face. 'Why does he keep starting at me? Does he think my eyes are weird?' Mukuro was starting to feel self-conscious at Tsuna's intense gaze.
"Muku-Tan-" Mukuro held his breath, waiting for Tsunayoshi to call his eyes ugly or scary. "- Your eyes are very pretty, I've never seen eyes as pretty as yours." Tsuna put both his hands on either side of Mukuro's face and stared deep into his eyes, making Mukuro blush a deep red. Mukuro had one blue eye and the other was red with the kanji for six.
Tsuna gave a soft smile. "Muku-Tan, do you want to escape? And if you do, who do you want to see first?"
"Everyday I wish to escape but this room is of the highest security and I wish to see my little sister again." Mukuro turned to stare at the bars and Tsuna's hands slipped off his face. Between each bars were lasers that would burn through your skin and the door had a few locks and a code to get in.
Mukuro turned back towards Tsuna only to see a smirk on the little boy's face. "I've been in this place for a week and they've only caught me twice, I can easily escape, I know the guard shifts and the layout of the area. I was able to change the schedule of my experiment so I could get more time to explore. Tommorow we'll leave, you'll get to see your sister again Muku-Tan."
"Why tommorow, not that I'm not happy about it, but why so soon." Mukuro gave a confused look at Tsuna's knowing smile. Tsuna got up and went to a corner of the room to lay down and sleep. Mukuro huffed in frustration. 'I guess I'll find out tommorow." Mukuro laid down where he was and went to sleep thinking 'I don't think this plan will work'
The next morning Mukuro woke to a little hand shaking him awake. "Muku-Tan, wake up, it's time to go." The other hand was holding an orange phone that Tsuna was rapidly texting someone on. Mukuro sat up and stared at the cell doors in shock, it was wide open the keypad was smoking and wires were pulled out from the wall disabling the lasers. The metal on the bars and locks were melted through. In the distance explosions were heard.
"Come on Muku-Tan." Tsuna pulled Mukuro up with surprising strength and urgently pulled him through the door. Tsuna was muttering something along the lines of 'I'm not wearing my mask, they absolutely must not see me.'
'Who shouldn't see him?" Mukuro thought, feeling protective over his new friend.
Tsuna led them through some doors and ducked out of the view of those that passed, along the way he unlocked the doors of the other caged children. The ones that did catch sight of them were instant knocked unconscious by Tsuna or 'taken care of' by Mukuro before they could sound an alarm. Those that Tsuna made sure won't see him were the ones that had a crest on them. The crest had a bullet in the middle of it with two crossed guns and a clam over that.
'The Vongola famiglia? Why are they here? Are they the ones Tsuna is hiding from?' He wasn't able to ask Tsuna those questions because Tsuna pulled him through another door and he was distracted and awed with finally feeling the sunlight for the first time in a while.
Tsuna kept pulling Mukuro away from the facility that was situated deep in the middle of a forest. When Tsuna felt that they got far enough he sat down, still holding Mukuro's hand and pressed a button on the watch he was wearing.
"So you finally got out, took you long enough." Mukuro heard a deep baritone voice say behind them. Mukuro jumped up and got in a defensive position. He turned to see a young man wearing a suit with a yellow shirt underneath and a fedora with an orange stripe. The man's eyes were black and the way they stared at Mukuro, as if looking deep into his mind, made him shiver.
"Uncle!" Tsuna happily jumped up and ran to the person, dragging Mukuro along with him. "Uncle, I got out didn't I, and I made a friend, this is Mukuro, Muku-Tan, this is Reborn."
"Hello Mukuro." Reborn said.
"Hello.' Mukuro replied.
"Uncle, Muku-Tan doesn't have anywhere to go, so can he stay with us." Reborn made the mistake of looking into Tsuna's watery eyes and he couldn't refuse, although he didn't change his express, Mukuro still caught the twitch in his eyes.
"Alright, only for a while, then we'll look for a place for him to stay." Reborn said.
Mukuro ended up staying with Tsuna and Reborn for three months and became closer with Tsuna and, unexpectedly, Reborn too. A week after staying with them, he learned of Reborn's harsh training. After those months Reborn found out where Mukuro's sister was living. Mukuro decided to live with her and left after a tearful good bye with Tsuna, he hasn't see or heard from him since.
"So Muku-Tan-" Tsuna shook Mukuro out of his memories. "-why are you in front of the principles office?"
"Kufufu~ I met Reborn today and he told me to come here." Tsuna gave the door they were standing in front of a weary look.
"No public displays of affection, I'll bite you to death." Tsuna and Mukuro turned to the perfect that was coming up behind them. Hibari and Mukuro's eyes met and an instant rivalry was born, sparks were flying through the area between them.
Hibari frowned at Mukuro's arm around Tsuna. "Let go of the omnivore or I'll bite you to death." When he brought out his tonfas Tsuna slipped out of Mukuro's arms.
"I guess it's time to see what Reborn wants." Tsuna ignored the battle going on in the background and the sounds of Takeshi and Hayato cheering for Hibari to beat Mukuro up. Actually, Hayato said 'they could both kill each other and that would take care of the perverts around Hime-San' in which the weapons were then turned toward him.
Tsuna and Chrome walked in the principals office and saw a huge conference table and Reborn was sitting in the middle while the principal sat next to him, looking intimidated. 'Reborn, what did you do to the poor guy?' Tsuna thought, feeling exasperated that Reborn made his principal feel intimidated.
Mukuro, Hibari, Hayato, and Takeshi walked in a few moments later, followed by Ryohei who was also caught by Reborn and told to come here.
"Good your all here in order to make a group to protect your Hime-San." Tsuna was sitting next to Reborn with Chrome on his other side. All the others were sitting in front of them and Hibari sat as far away as possible.
"Reborn, I don't need protecting." Tsuna pouted, making the boys in front him blush.
Reborn flicked Tsuna on his forehead, making him cry out in pain. "You can't do everything on your own, Baka-Tsuna."
"I can protect the omnivore on my own, I don't need these useless herbivores." Hibari said, bringing out his tonfas.
"Kufufu~ I can easily take down a little bird like you." Mukuro brought out his trident.
"Ha ha, Hime-San will be safe with me near." Yamamoto laughed.
"Hime-San doesn't need any of you idiots to protect him, he has me." Gokudera brought out his dynamites.
"NONE OF YOU ARE EXTREME ENOUGH TO PROTECT SAWADA-HIME." Ryohei decided to jump in the argument.
"What about you?" Tsuna whispered to Chrome.
"I can protect you too, Tsuna-Hime." She said with a bright red blush.
Reborn shot his gun up which made everyone go silent. "I'll make you a deal, if you can defeat my apprentice, i'll let you have Hime-San to yourself. If you loose you will have to go through tough training and you have to join the group."
"Kufufu~ i'll sit this one out, I'll accept the training instead." Mukuro said with an amused tone. He already knew he couldn't defeat Reborn's apprentice.
"Hime-san, I'll defeat Reborn's apprentice to prove I can protect you."Gokudera excitedly said, imaginary tail wagging.
"I'm confident in my skill to protect Tsuna." Yamamoto smiled.
"I'll easily defeat the herbivore." Hibari gave a confident smirk.
Reborn and Tsuna exchanged a look. Everyone was watching the exchange between the two when Tsuna suddenly sighed in defeat.
"Come to the dojo in a five minutes." Tsuna simply said then got up and walked out the door. Tsuna first walked to his changing room where there was a blue duffle bag waiting for him. Inside the bag was a black silk Chinese martial arts robe with an orange band. At least I don't have to fight in a skirt, even if I was trained to fight in one. Tsuna wasn't bothered with sparring his friends because he sparred with Reborn and Nana, and if he didn't fight them seriously, he would be in pain for at least a month.
Tsuna stepped into the dojo. Mukuro, Chrome, and Reborn were standing to the side while Gokudera, Yamamoto, Ryohei, and Hibari stood in the middle. I feel oddly satisfied at seeing their confused faces. Tsuna was referring to the look they gave him when he walked in the dojo.
Tsuna stood facing them on the other side of the room and bowed. "I will be facing you today-" Tsuna lifted his head, his eyes now glowing orange. "-nice to meet you, I'm Reborn's apprentice." He got into an aikido ready stance.
"None of you have time to be enthralled by how my nephew looks, get ready to fight or you will die." Reborn stated, leaning against the wall with his arm crossed and his fedora lowered, casting a shadow.
Mukuro spoke up. "Kufufu~ This is why I'm taking the training, I couldn't beat Tsunayoshi no matter how hard I tried when we were younger." Mukuro smirked at the shocked faces, though the calm face of the skylark did annoy him off.
"Lets get started then." Tsuna suddenly said into the silence, his voice a little deeper than before, then he attacked.
A/N: I'll stop here because the fight scene will take me longer. I hope no one got the impression from this chapter that Tsuna has a split personality because I felt that in the last few parts. If anyone wondered about it, Ken and Chikusa are somewhere else, probably with Lancia about now. I'm confused on why I keep writing new stories. Currently I have half of the first chapter for a new story and I'm almost finished with the first chapter for another new story. Anyways thanks for reading. XD R&R