Looking Back

For Bishonenest-Baka

Tsunayoshi Sawada

Shoya Tsubasa smiled softly watching the scene unfolding in front of him. The silver haired bomber Gokudera, yet again, was yelling at the baseball loving Yamamoto for nothing in particular, leaving Tsuna to try and calm him down.

Which left the albino boy to his own thoughts. Being only 17 years old not much had happened in his life but that didn't mean it was any less meaningful.

Watching as Tsuna began to whine about Reborn discipling him, his mind was brought back to the day he met the supposed Vongola tenth.

Shoya, age 9, had once again run away from a foster family and was seeking refuge on a park bench. As always his mind was filled with thoughts of hate. Hate for his parents who abandoned him, Hate for the Foster Home that cared nothing about his well being, and finally hate for the foster family who only wanted him for the welfare checks.

Crimson eyes glared at the floor as white hair shielded them from harsh sunlight, being albino the boys eyes were extremely sensitive to light. He solved this problem by constantly wearing sunglasses to shield them, unfortunately he had left them behind at his former home.

"UWA!" Said a soft voice in amazement making Shoya look up.

Bushy brown hair, wide brown eyes, yellow shirt wrinkled from him playing and blue shorts.

This kid was a mommas boy for sure, Shoya observed.

"Your eyes!" the boy exclaimed pointing a finger at said body part.

Shoya was not in the mood of course so he immediately retaliated with a rude comment.

Which then made the boy cry loudly.

Shoya couldn't help but chuckle loudly making the three boy and baby look at him.

"What are you laughing at." Gokudera growled, his fingers twitching in case he had to bring out dynamite.

"Nothing nothing." he said waving the boy off, his face back to its usual blank state.

This caused two out of the three boy's to turn around, Reborn already losing interest. Gokudera gave Sho what was supposed to be an intimidating look before turning away.

Shoya simply rolled his eyes and went back into his day dream.

He remembered suddenly feeling bad for making the boy cry and quickly consoling him.

Which was strange considering the fact that the albino boy usually hated everyone.

Of course he thought it was a one time thing, that maybe he just saw how small and defenseless Tsuna was and felt sympathy.

But that changed when he met Nana Sawada.

It was a year later when he met her.

Tsuna finally convincing him to come and visit, with a promise of seeing a Robot figure collection.

He never expected Nana to be as kind as she was, his view on adults being quite low. But when she answered the door he was left dumbstruck, not only was she beautiful but she was the first person to say his hair was beautiful.

Thinking back its probably why he always insisted on keeping his hair long.

"Ah, Shoya." came the voice of Nana. "You came to visit, will you be staying for dinner?" she asked with a smile.

"Not today Nana, my fathers are making me a special meal to congratulate my getting into Tokyo U." the boy answered in his usual bored tone.

"Wah that's so exciting!" she let out happily before leaving the room.

The albino boy nodded and his mind went to his fathers.

Yes, he had two dads.

Keigo Shimeji, a high school teacher and Eita Shuun his optimistic and charismatic husband who ran and owned his own business.

The crimson eyed boy remembered hating them with a passion, he wondered if the foster home was just giving him away to the first people who asked.

As if it wasn't enough that he was smaller than average kids his age and albino, but they had to further torture him by giving him to a gay couple.

Just give the bullies at his school anymore of a reason to try and beat him up.

He was going to set a new running away record this time around.

As it happened, though, Shoya quickly began to see that these two mean weren't actually that bad and seemed to actually care about him.

But of course he wasn't buying it.

It wasn't the first time they tried the 'get on his good side' tactic. In fact he found Keigo's clumsy trying to hard song and dance to be very convincing, along with Eita's goofy carefree act.

He found it entertaining how they even went as far as to pick him up from school everyday.

But like always everything had to end and one day they weren't there to pick him up.

And on that day, there was no one to stop the bullies.

When Keigo finally was let off of a surprise detention duty and rushed over to the school it was too late.

The bigger boys had smashed Shoya's face into the pavement, the left side of his face was covered in blood.

The boy was pissed of course, he wanted to yell and run from the man. But something happened that changed the boy.

Keigo hugged him, the albino boy had never been hugged by any of his foster parents, and the man cried, really cried, and was apologizing.

Back in Tsuna's room the 17 year old was tracing a scar going down the left side of his lip. That moment was the first time that Shoya actually felt that he was loved, he couldn't imagine his life without Keigo and Eita now.

"Wow Sho, Tokyo U, that's amazing." Yamamoto grinned.

"Congratulations Shoya." Reborn nodded tipping his hat. "No-good-Tsuna should learn from you." he let out giving said boy a look.

"Tsuna will be fine." said boy let out looking at the brown haired boy only to frown.

Said boy wasn't celebrating, he didn't even look remotely happy.

Shoya had always seen the boy as his little brother, that meant that he didn't like it when he wasn't happy.

"You'll be leaving then..." he whispered making the older boy stare.

"I'll visit Tsuna."

"Yeah..." the boy answered slowly. "I thought you didn't want to go away for college..."

It was just a few months ago that Shoya wanted nothing to do with other people or leaving Namimori. He only cared about Tsuna, Nana, and his parents and was fine with it.

Until...Reborn showed up.

The baby's appearance seemed to change everything.

The boy could remember how it was when Tsuna began to get more friends. He of course didn't like them.

It was apparent that Tsuna was growing. Not just in physical appearance but in personality.

Shoya watched as the boy he considered to be his little brother, was becoming a man.

He watched when the boy beat that Mukuro freak, and when he defeated that spoiled brat Xanxus, he even had memories of Tsuna saving the future from Byakuran.

Things were changing and not with just Tsuna. Shoya realized that even he was changing. He was starting to open up to other people and wanting to see more then just this town.

"Tsuna..." the albino spoke getting the boys attention. "You know this doesn't change anything."

"This changes everything Shoya..." the boy let out looking down. "You won't be here anymore..."

Said boy smiled before moving next to the little brother like boy.

"Yeah but it isn't forever." he said. "And I will visit, and you can visit me."

Tsuna looked at him.

"You've grown a lot Tsuna, and so have I." he continued putting a hand on the smaller boys shoulder. "I will always be there for you, no matter where I am, but I have to do this." Shoya smiled.

"You'll always be my little brother Tsuna, Looking back I wouldn't have become who I am today with out you." crimson eyes stared into brown.

"I know you can handle yourself while I'm gone." the boy said. "I believe in you."

Tsuna nodded.

"Y-yeah..." he let out. "Alright, I'll make you proud while you are gone."

"I know Tsuna." Shoya answered as he stood and grabbed his things. "Gotta go, I'll see you guys tomorrow."

Each boy, and baby, said their goodbye and as Shoya walked down that familiar roads he looked back at his life.

Tsuna had done so much for him and he didn't even know.

Shoya smiled and chuckled.

"Tsuna, you are going to do such great things."

And looking back at their memories together he knew it was true.

Sorry sorry for this being late Bisho, I had to re-work the story at least four times. Not to mention I had work and wedding planning to do for my sister.

Anyways the point is that its done and I hope you like it!

Sorry for keeping everyone waiting, I'll be updating more One-Shots soon which mean requests will soon be open again.

Anyways, hope you all enjoy this one!