Mechanical Bonds
Summary: Tsuna decided to appoint new guardians after becoming the Vongola Decimo officially. He does not give the rings to his friends. Instead, robots were appointed as guardians for the first time in the entire Vongola history. No one can do anything to change Tsuna's mind, not even Reborn. Then something goes wrong with the robots and Tsuna faces death. Will human bonds win over the programmed robots?
Chapter 3
The Betrayal
Author's Note: Sorry for not writing for a while. Getting lied to by family, betrayed and losing a huge sum of money you spent years saving for an education (blown by the betrayal in less than five minutes) actually made it impossible for me to want to live, yet here I am unable to abandon writing. Forgive me for taking so long to clean my shit up but I'm now back to where I should be – writing.
Thank you for waiting.
Xxx Destiny Aitsuji xxX
It was two years since the official coronation ceremony to make Tsuna the official Vongola Decimo. His mechanical guardians had been upgraded several times. They now attend school with Tsuna. Due to the lack of creativity, Spanner and Irie made their official names according to the flame element they have.
The guardians were registered as school teachers, students and also part of the board of directors. Each guardian was made to appear different. The flame types gave each of them unique personality, matching their status.
Three guardians were made to appear as students. They lived with Tsuna and were constantly within range to intercept any potential danger that might befall the Decimo. Rain Vongola, Lightning Vongola and Sun Vongola attended the same class as Tsuna did. They were always there and at any time one of them would accompany Tsuna be it school or home.
Storm Vongola and Cloud Vongola were registered as teachers going by the names "Arashi" and "Kumo". The only one working from behind the scenes would be Mist Vongola who was involved with the school's board of directors.
Tsuna had ensured that his mechanical guardians were in sight and close to him because no matter how capable they were, Tsuna did not trust them enough to leave them alone. They were just programmed beings created into existence. No matter how capable they were made, Tsuna knew that the flames inside these machines proved to be a threat and Tsuna could not risk anyone's safety should the flames prove to be unstable.
Spanner had expressed concerns over the threshold the machines could handle the dying will flames. As the flames have extremely destructive properties, having them contained inside the mechanical parts can be risky especially when they do not have enough information about these mysterious flames. The only one who actually knew something more about these flames would be Verde. Unfortunately that man is always not contactable.
School was boring as usual. The only good thing about Namimori High was the fact that Mochida was no longer here and Nezu sensei would not be able to torture him. No one bullied him anymore and Tsuna existed on a different scale. The Vongola's influence reached out to even ordinary folks. His school was controlled by his Mist guardian and the teachers fear his cloud guardian's mercilessness in meeting out appropriate punishments.
None of the students would approach too close to Tsuna because of the three student guardians. Kami always sleeps in class but everyone knew better than to underestimate the man. Whenever Tsuna was going to be in physical danger, he would always be there defending him. Once a football flew towards Tsuna's head, Kami sent it flying back to the striker with a powerful kick. The striker was hospitalized soon after.
Ame was an easy going person. Most students are comfortable talking to Ame. It was only certain times that Ame became cold and scary. Anyone badmouthing Tsuna or plotting against him would be mysteriously traumatised after a chat session with the guardian. No one questioned him and everyone held their tongues in front of him.
Taiyo on the other hand was the opposite of Ame. He was extremely warm and welcoming. He only became overwhelming when sports had been involved. He never backed down from a challenge and Tsuna sighed. It looks as if a certain part of Ryohei still lived in the flames used to support Taiyo. Granted, the muscle-headedness was gone but the enthusiasm still shone brightly even behind the mechanical structure. Some things never changed.
Unfortunately, the same trait of being rash remained with Taiyo. He had a record of detentions for pulping people who were against Tsuna. More often than not, a lot of negotiations had to be made for Taiyo to be released from detentions earlier to perform his official guardian duties and also, the fact that he only had been suspended for two days once is a miracle.
Arashi was similar to the traits of a storm guardian and executed it flawlessly. He never rests. None of the students could follow what he says in class even though he teaches well. Also, his constant supervision on Tsuna's homework was unnerving. He never slept to recharge like the other guardians do during the night. Instead, he did it on his breaks during lunch while Tsuna's safety was taken care of by the other guardians. It took a while for Tsuna to get used to being watched while he slept. It was uncomfortable but Tsuna knew it was useless to deny the guardians and what they do. It was the properties of the flames they carried that fused with their program. If Tsuna gave them an order, they would comply but the fact that it runs against their nature would create bugs in them. Tsuna tried to avoid giving orders so he won't create bugs in their system.
Irie had warned the brunet about the possibilities that could happen should bugs be created from the conflict of nature and command. They had little information and did not know what to predict either. Tsuna watched his words carefully. Any comment he made would be taken as an order. He did not want to give the wrong command and add onto the mountain of problems Irie and Spanner have.
Little did he know that trouble was meant to ensue.
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Irie and Spanner had called back all the guardians over a weekend. Tsuna would be safe in his home because Dino was visiting. All his men were stationed outside on guard. Even Reborn was sitting in with Tsuna. It was safe enough even without his constant guardians watching him.
Tsuna took this time to relax. Reborn had been silent for most the moments as Tsuna and Dino shared relaxed conversations while exchanging complains over paperwork. Reborn snorted at how some parts of his ex-students never changed. Both of them, despite being powerful mafia dons, were still wimps at heart. He might need to organize a training retreat to toughen them up and buff them up a little.
Reborn felt a little sleepy because it was the afternoon. Seeing how deeply engrossed the two dons were in their conversations, Reborn left to get a cup of Espresso from the kitchen while leaving the sworn brothers to Tsuna's room.
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"Is the money transferred?" Angry onyx eyes stared deep into forest green ones. The man only smirked.
"Don Felix Croce, when have I ever cheated you of your payment?" amusement danced in emerald orbs. The man had a scar beneath his chin.
Don Corce grunted. The man before him had been correct. Liam D'amore had never denied anyone of their payment. After all, being the love child of Fabio the Vongola Settimo meant Liam had a lot of cash at his disposal from running in the shadows while his half-sister Daniela sat on the throne that could have been his.
Timoteo had taken the liberty to take care of Liam's expenses under Vongola's shady fundings. However, he made it certain to cut Liam off everything when Tsuna took over as Decimo. Liam was in his sixties. It had been fifty years since Daniela's prime. Being twenty years younger than his half-sister made it easy to press Nono to provide for him.
It was something Liam took advantage of. Now that Nono has stepped down and Liam had a huge cut in his income source, not to mention the route of his underworld contacts since Tsuna's spring cleaning of the underworld, Liam wanted all out.
He engaged Don Croce who was specialized in all underworld dealings of latest information via the latest technology. Second only to the crazy Bovino famiglia, Croce was unbeatable in spy technology.
The Vongola would not expect it and they would never be able to guess what hit them. With the confidence in Don Croce and his spy tech, Liam D'amore left.
Xxx Destiny Aitsuji xxX
Author's Note: Review please.