Sorry, we had a storm so I had to edit it quickly because I didn't want to wait longer to post. Enjoy! I like this chapter, so I hope you do too.
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Chapter 4
By the time school ended, everyone around knew that 2nd year Mochida had challenged Dame Tsuna to a kendo match. Everyone was shocked that Tsuna had agreed to it and even amazed that the beautiful 1st-year, Kyoko, was the prize.
When the final bell rang, everyone ran to the gym to witness the match. Tsuna and his new friends waited until everyone was out of the room before heading out. As they walked to the gym, the four friends kept sending Tsuna questioning and worried glances while walking to the gym. They felt doubtful of Tsuna surviving what Mochida had planned for the small boy.
"Don't worry," Tsuna said as they made it to the gym doors. He walked in with a tall posture and powerful presence. His new friends, looking confident, followed him in, but on the inside, they couldn't help worrying about the brunet.
"You came, you piece of shit!" said an obnoxious voice. Tsuna looked up to the person. It was a dark-haired teen and he looked strong, stronger than Tsuna. "Let's get started then, I shall smite you!" Mochida smirked at Tsuna like you already won. 'Won a screaming contest maybe,' Tsuna thought to himself.
"Don't worry! This is an easy duel that even an idiot like you can understand. Since you're a novice at kendo, all you have to do is get one point off me then you win! If you can't, then I win! The prize is, of course, Sasagawa Kyoko!" Tsuna was quiet. He wouldn't say anything and just nodded.
The audience was watching Dame Tsuna intently, perhaps waiting for him to run away or start begging for his life. However, his four friends could not take their eyes off him. Mochida seemed to be dominating, but Tsuna constantly dodged all of his attacks. Mochida continued attacking Tsuna as Gokudera noticed something.
"Tsuna has not even attempted to take a point."
His friends worried a little on the inside, but they did their best not to show it. They only wanted to show the confidence they had to Tsuna. They were sure Tsuna was weak in strength, but they still felt confident in Tsuna had something hidden they wanted to see.
"Do you give up?" The older teen snidely asked. Tsuna only smiled back in response. He didn't answer him with words. The older teen seemed to hesitate to hit, perhaps he was surprised by Tsuna's reaction.
"I think it's time to end this," said Tsuna quietly to himself. Tsuna took the opportunity of Mochida's surprise to launch one attack. Tsuna's kendo sword hit Mochida's side. Tsuna watched as he rolled on the floor. Mochida seemed to be unmoving on the ground. Tsuna looked curiously at him. 'I didn't hit him that hard. Did I?' Tsuna looked to the referee who was Mochida's minion. Tsuna stood there staring into his eyes. The other teen began to shake in fear as if he saw something scary in Tsuna's eyes. Before he could say anything, a scream was heard. They all turned to the direction it came from, the entrance.
"..."
"Run away!"
"Ahhh!"
People began to scurry and run. They were all scared of the devil who entered the gym. Hibari, the leader of the Namimori's Disciplinary Committee, walked in with tonfas out and ready to slay everyone. The students all tried to get away, but he hit every single one of them.
"I will bite you all to death for crowding."
Hibari continued to attack all the students as he got closer to Tsuna. Tsuna's friends all ran up to him. Some seemed to be on guard, the other two hid behind Tsuna. Even Hana seemed to fear Hibari a little. Hibari stood in front of the small group as he scanned the area to see what had occurred here. He saw Mochida on the ground unconscious, the referee scared to death, and Tsuna with the kendo stick.
"You won against him?"
"Yes"
"Hn"
"…"
Tsuna watched as the scary teen stared at him. Tsuna saw something in the perfect's eyes that he had not seen in a long time. It was not anger but maybe lonesomeness, perhaps. Suddenly, Hibari attacked Tsuna. Tsuna was so distracted with his thoughts that he was slow to block when he saw Yamamoto block the attack with Mochida's sword.
"Haha! Now, now Hibari. Let's not attack each other here. I am not trying to crowd you, and we did not start this... disturbance. Mochida was the one to put together this crowd. So how about you punish him when he wakes up, okay?"
Hibari stared at the baseball player. He wasn't scared of him. Hibari knew he could take the laughing idiot down easily, but something about the suggestion was tempting. Also, that better had been a suggestion and not an order because if it was he was going to be bitten to death. Hibari finally turned around, grabbed Mochida and left to punish the group of friends stood there watching after them.
"Let's go home." Tsuna started to head out. His others followed. They each felt like they were in a daze. They felt amazed at how mature Tsuna seemed to be. They acknowledged him as a reliable leader that they admired strongly.
BANG! They sweatdropped. 'Maybe he's not that much of an amazing leader after all.' Tsuna lay flat on the ground face first into the gym floor.
They sweatdropped and stared in shock. 'Maybe he's not that much of an amazing leader after all,' they all thought as they helped Tsuna off the ground where he lay, face against the hard gym floor.
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They arrived at Yamamoto's house. He ran inside followed by the rest. They walked in and looked around the restaurant. There were tables lined up at the wall and at the bar stood a man who looked very similar to Yamamoto. Yamamoto walked up to the counter followed by his friends.
"Dad, I was invited to my friend's place for a tutoring session. Is that alright?" asked Yamamoto. The man looked up with surprised eyes. He looked from the girls to the two boys.
"Oh, hello there you two. I see, so they're your friends, Takashi." He walked around to the bar and stood in front of the teens. Tsuna noticed that the man stood in between Yamamoto and them, but he didn't mention it.
"Hello, my name is Sawada Tsunayoshi, and Gokudera-kun is going to tutor us at my house. Yamamoto-kun wanted to come with if it was okay with you. Also, since it is later than usual, why doesn't Yamamoto-kun spend the night? What do you think Yamamoto-kun?"
Tsuna had intense eyes as he looked at Yamamoto, waiting for his answer. Yamamoto felt a warm sensation swell inside himself. He smiled and laughed. Tsuna noticed the honest happiness in his smile.
"I'd love to!" Yamamoto ran off upstairs. They assumed to get his stuff to sleep over. Tsuna smiled fondly after him. Yamamoto's dad watched him leave.
"Of course, if you don't mind," Tsuna said to the adult. Tsuna continued to smile. Yamamoto's father stared back and couldn't look away from the friendly smile he had.
"No problem," he said after a moment. The man couldn't help the smile that came as he watches his son come running excitedly to them with his bag in hand. "Don't be a bother and say thank you to his mom."
"No problem, Dad. I am ready!" Yamamoto laughed with joy. His eyes glowing with hope.
"Let's go, and thank you," Tsuna spoke to the old man.
They walked out and headed out.
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They arrived at the split where they were to say bye to the girls.
"We'll see you monkeys tomorrow."
"Thank you for everything, Tsunayoshi-kun."
Tsuna smiled a small smile. He didn't look too comfortable with the thank you. "I-it's no problem, really." They waved goodbye, and Tsuna to look at Gokudera. "D-do you need to go home Gokudera-kun?"
"Not really, since I live by myself."
"Ar-are you not spending the night?" Tsuna asked looking questionably at the taller boy. Gokudera stared at the boy just as confused and hesitant.
"I didn't think I was asked too." Gokudera looked to Tsuna. He could tell the other was feeling distrustful.
"I meant both of you, Gokudera-kun," Tsuna spoke honestly. "I-if you want though. I j-just thought it would be b-better since it is already late." Gokudera continued to stare at the boy unsure. He looked into those chocolate brown eyes.
"I'll stay over since it is late."
"Haha, awesome well I have some extra clothes since I pretty much grabbed a handful of shirts and pajama pants."
"That's just like you, baseball freak," Gokudera grumbled as he leads the way to Tsuna's home. Tsuna smiled broadly as he jogged after him. He caught up and followed on Gokudera's left, and Yamamoto followed next to Tsuna. They arrived at Tsuna's house before the sun began to set.
"I'm home!"
"Tsu-kun, welcome home! Where have you been? Did you have to stay after class? Oh, hello there!" Tsuna's mom, Nana, walked out to greet them. "Are you both friends of Tsu-kun's?"
"Hai, ma'am" Yamamoto said politely. Gokudera just stared at her."I'm Yamamoto Takashi and this is Gokudera Hayato. We are here for a tutoring session and if it's alright, a sleepover too, haha!"
Nana smiled radiantly. Tsuna could tell, right away, she was ecstatic that he made friends at school.
"No problem, dinner is ready, so why don't you boys go put your things away in Tsu-kun's room."
"Thanks, Mom!" The boys ran upstairs and came down just as quickly.
"Sorry, my room is small, we actually have three spare rooms, but they are pretty dusty."
"It's okay."
"It's whatever really."
They ate dinner and talked a lot. Well, Tsuna's mom and Yamamoto did. Tsuna felt so happy with his new friends, and once dinner was finished, they ran upstairs to start studying. They sat around Tsuna's little table and took out their textbooks. Gokudera had them start on the 1st problem of their homework. He pulled out some glasses and wore them as he pulled out a paper. Tsuna looked over at it and saw it covered in pencil markings.
"Wow! You're done already?" Tsuna screamed as he saw numbers and letter clutter the page. Gokudera smiled proudly.
"Yeah. I finished before class ended."
"Haha, that's awesome!"
The two boys did the first problem and Tsuna screamed that he didn't get it as Yamamoto gave Gokudera his paper.
"Now, now, I only guess if I don't know, haha!"
"Guessing is not going to cut it all the time, baseball freak! It's okay, Tsunayoshi. You can do it." Gokudera said encouragingly. Tsuna just started in a daze as he looked into Gokudera's 'puppy dog eyes?' Tsuna thought. Tsuna shook his head and tried again. Gokudera looked over Yamamoto's paper and marked the ones wrong.
Gokudera turned to Tsuna to try explaining the problem and how to solve it again. As he explained in words Tsuna should have understood, Tsuna just couldn't hold on to any of the words to understand. Gokudera noticed the dizzy and glazed look on Tsuna's face again and stopped talking.
"Ask me anything, and I will show you number by number and step by step. Even if you don't finish, the teacher will see you are progressing. So let's start again."
Tsuna sighed deeply. "Okay." Tsuna began to work on the problem again.
Knock! Knock! Nana comes in with a tray of cookies and juice.
"Here are some snacks to keep you motivated!"
"Thanks, mom."
"Thank you, Tsunayoshi's mom!"
"Thanks."
Nana's smile was ridged as she left, and Tsuna sighed, once again, for a new reason.
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Nana is downstairs cleaning the dishes. She enjoyed hearing all the new laughter and commotion that was foreign in the usually quiet house.
RING RING RING
Nana dried her hand and went to the ringing phone.
"Hello, Sawada Residence."
"-"
"Oh! Hello, hun!"
"-"
"Oh, I see."
"-"
"Of course!"
"-"
"Tsu-kun? Ummm. I wouldn't know really."
"-"
"It's okay hun. Just go ahead with it and I'm sure Tsu-kun will be okay. It's time to move on you know that and I know that. I hope Tsuna can know that too," she whispered that last of her words.
"-"
"Love you too. Bye."
She hung up and looked upstairs still hearing the laughter. 'I hope he will be okay, too.'
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Later, Tsuna was able to get 4 problems done without Gokudera's help. Tsuna and Yamamoto finished the page just before bedtime. Gokudera went to take the first bath and then Yamamoto.
"H-how does it look?"
"It's okay. I definitely see a big improvement."
"R-really? Wow! Thank you for the help today, Gokudera-kun."
"No problem."
Tsuna looked pleased and when Yamamoto was back, he then left to bathe.
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Tsuna came back after saying goodnight to his mother. As he walked into his room, he was hit in the head with a pillow.
"I'm sorry, Tsuna-sama!"
"Sorry about that Tsuna! Haha!"
They said it at the same time. Tsuna looked up at the two in shock and curiosity.
"What?"
Suddenly they both blushed and began looking away. Tsuna couldn't see their expression but he wasn't trying to see either.
"I don't know why I said Tsuna instead of Tsunayoshi. I'm sorry."
"It's okay... I-I'm just unsure of how I feel about the new name is all..."
"Now, now! Don't worry about it. I think it just slips. No big deal! Let's head to bed."
"Yeah..."
Tsuna looked to Gokudera. He could now tell he had a confuse and serious look. Tsuna thought it was best that they forget it now.
"So, what were you two doing?"
"Haha, just a game," Yamamoto laughed out as he looked a little sheepish
"Baseball freak here started throwing pillows at me, so I threw one back. I didn't mean for it to hit you. I'm sorry," Gokudera mumbled to Tsuna as he was now looking at them.
"It's okay," Tsuna smiled his usual welcoming smile and the two boys relaxed a little now that Tsuna was himself again.
The boys began to spread out the futons, and all three of them lay on the futons as they watched tv. They decided to watch a movie before bed as a reward for their hard work. They all passed out sleeping on top of each other. Legs over stomachs arms on arms and snoring.
Nana came to visit the boys to make sure they were okay and turn off Tsuna's tv that they left on. She walked in and saw the three boys spread out sleeping in such weird positions. She giggled as she left the boys.
Three new best friends began the night sleeping with Gokudera closer to the door and then Tsuna and lastly Yamamoto. Somehow, Gokudera ended up having his head at the feet end while Yamamoto now slept diagnolly so his feet where away from Gokudera's face. Tsuna was still, somehow, in the middle curled up in the fetal position. It looked like Gokudera and Yamamoto boxed the boy in with their heads, legs, and arms like they were protecting him.
Nana came back to snap a picture still giggling.
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