My Right-Hand man is my best friend

"I'm off to school!" the brunette shouted to his family inside his house, while opening his door, his tutor still on his shoulder. "Good morning, Juudaime!" Tsuna closed his door, and saw his storm guardian, and self proclaimed right-hand man, bowing at him at an exact 90 degree angle just outside his front gate. "Good morning Gokudera-kun," he replied with a big smile on his face.

At the sound of his name Gokudera straightened himself out, faced his boss and gave him a smile equally as big. As they walked Tsuna looked over at Gokudera, taking in the young man's feature's 'wow he really is handsome, I see why the girls go crazy over him and Yamamoto', "is something wrong Juudaime?" Gokudera asked, noticing Tsuna's staring "eh no, it's nothing!"

The embarrassed boy replied, flailing his arms around while red in the face. When Tsuna calmed down he thought for a second 'wait this would be a perfect time to ask him, I might as well get this over with'. Building up enough confidence "umm Gokudera-kun"

"Yes Juudaime?" Gokudera answered with a swift turn of his head and a sparkle in his eyes. Tsuna fidgeted at Gokudera's eagerness "umm... you see... the thing is..." while Gokudera waited patiently, Reborn who was still riding on Tsuna's shoulder was starting to get irritated. Once again, for the second time that day, Reborn brought out his favorite green Leon gun and pointed it at his annoying students head. "Gokudera-kun!"

Tsuna hurried, looking straight into his friends eyes, feeling the cold metal pointed at his skull "if, and I mean if, I decide to become the next head of Vongola, after we graduated from middle school, with you accompany me to Italy to advance our mafia training for two years?" Tsuna squeezed his eyes shut, staying rooted to his spot and breathed slowly, waiting for a reply, hoping it wouldn't be a big and loud declaration of loyalty from his companion like he expected.

"Yes Juudaime," Gokudera replied in a soft voice which caught Tsuna off guard, "no matter when or where you go, I will always be with you no matter where you are, as a right-hand man, but more importantly, as a close friend. So..." The smaller of the two opened his eyes, and to his surprise he saw Gokudera blushing and looking towards the ground while thinking of the right words to say 'Gokudera-kun?'

"So I will always give my best to make your dreams come true!" Gokudera finished off shouting to the ground, which he was still staring at, till he heard a snort come from Tsuna's direction. He looked up slowly and saw Tsuna holding his stomach and covering his mouth trying to hold in his laughter.

Gokudera looked away, hurt that the boss he looked up to so much would mock his feelings like that. Once Tsuna had calmed down he saw that Gokudera was very obviously angry at him "Gokudera-kun," he called; the taller of the two turned his head so he faced Tsuna but didn't look him in the eyes "it was very sweet of you to say that to me Gokudera-kun, thank you."

Gokudera looked straight into Tsuna's eyes, his own filled with confusion, "then why were you laughing?" Gokudera asked with a soft whisper. "I don't know really, I guess I was kind of shocked by the sincerity of your words, I didn't mean to offend you." Tsuna replied feeling ashamed for upsetting his friend. "It's ok Juudaime!" Gokudera assured chirpily now that he knew the reason for his bosses actions, "nothing you say or do will ever offend me!"

"Friends shouldn't lie to each other Gokudera-kun, especially close friends" Tsuna lectured sternly "and since we're such close friends, we should call each other by our first names, shouldn't we Hayato?" Hayato seemed to be surprised and embarrassed by the suggestion as the blush that left his face seemed to resurface.

"Yes Juudaime," Hayato replied eventually, "It's Tsuna, Hayato, Tsuna" Hayato's eyes widened before he sighed, he really couldn't win against his boss "Tsuna-sama, then." Tsuna thought for a little bit then sighed, "Fine, I'll take it" Gokudera chuckled at his friend, he felt a little bit closer to Tsuna, and he enjoyed it. "Come on Hayato let's go, or we're going to be late for school!"

"Yes, Tsuna-sama!" Hayato replied before running off to catch up to his friend, towards Nami chuu, 'that wasn't as bad as I thought it would be,' Tsuna thought to himself 'next would be, Yamamoto.' While Tsuna and Hayato were running a forgotten baby with a chameleon on Tsuna's shoulder was smirking 'good job, Tsuna, Gokudera.'

Tsuna and Hayato ran into their classroom with only minutes to spare before the bell rang, and Hibari bit them to death. By this time, Reborn had disappeared somewhere as expected. While Hayato helped Tsuna to his desk (he was too tired to walk by himself) they were greeted by their good friend Yamamoto, "Good morning Tsuna, Gokudera, you guys sure are late today." He pointed out with a carefree laugh.

"Ah, good morning Yamamoto," Tsuna replied when he got his breath back, "we late because Reborn had to talk to me about something, then Hayato and I had a very important discussion." Tsuna and Hayato exchanged glances then grinned at each other, remembering their conversation.

Yamamoto's grin dropped a little, "when did you guys get onto first name basis?" he asked feeling a little left out, "none of your business baseball idiot!" Hayato shouted in response to Yamamoto's question, which made Yamamoto feel even more left out. "It's fine Hayato, I was going to ask him the same thing."

Yamamoto was really confused at this point, as he had no idea what they were talking about. "Fine, if you must know, Tsuna-sama and I are close friends, and close friends should be on a first name basis." Hayato answered looking annoyed, with his hands stuffed in his pockets.

Yamamoto's smile widened again "then doesn't that mean that you and Tsuna should call me by my first name too? We're all close friends aren't we?" He finished with a small laugh, which made the other brunette smile "we should, shouldn't we Hayato?"

"No, we shouldn't!" Hayato shouted abruptly, causing some of their classmates to stop what they were doing and look at them. Tsuna and Yamamoto were confused "we shouldn't because you haven't even asked him yet. If he says no then he has no right to be called by his first name!" Hayato explained which made it clearer to Tsuna but not Yamamoto. "What did he ask you Gokudera?" Yamamoto asked wanting to get to the end of all the mysteries, "Tsuna-sama asked me to go to Italy with him after we graduate."

"Hayato I said 'if'" Yamamoto's smile fell completely, "if you guys are talking about the mafia game that the kid made up, don't you think your taking it a bit too far, going all the way to Italy?" Tsuna and Hayato stared at Yamamoto in disbelief 'hiiiee Yamamoto still thinks the mafia is just a game, I definitely can't ask him to go to Italy now!'

While Tsuna was brooding over what to do, Hayato's blood boiled, he was really angry. He grabbed the slightly smaller teen by his collar and pinned him up against the wall, "Oi Yamamoto, are you being serious?" Hayato asked, barely containing his anger, Yamamoto looked at Hayato with a confused expression, this made the delinquent snap.

"Do you seriously think everything has just been a joke?! All the times we fought for Tsuna-sama! All the times he risked his life for us! Do you seriously believe all those times were just part of a game? That none of this was serious?!" By this time Hayato had drawn the attention of the whole class, they all wanted to know what they were talking about, but none of them did except Tsuna, Kyoko, Chrome and Enma (who had just come in because he was also late), even Yamamoto was confused.

"H-hayato, it's ok, let go of him, we need to get to our seats." The smallest of the three tried to calm Hayato down but to no avail, he was too furious. "It's not ok Tsuna-sama!" Hayato complained, needing to let Yamamoto know how he felt, "this guy is just running away from the truth, he acts like everything is ok when it's not!"The dark haired boy didn't want to admit to knowing what Hayato was talking about, he turned his head so he wasn't facing Hayato, and when the light haired teen saw this he let go of Yamamoto's shirt, turned his head away and spat out one last sentence, "he's the type of guy that I hate."

After about a minute of a very awkward silence, Hayato decided to speak again, this time with a pleading voice, "Yamamoto," he started softly desperately not wanting to lose one of his friends, "please tell me you understand what I'm trying to say," Yamamoto lowered his head and said in an equally as soft voice, "No Gokudera, I don't."

"Then you should quit," Hayato snarled, obviously annoyed at Yamamoto's answer, "quit what?" The other boy asked extremely confused at what the subject had changed to. "Quit being one of Tsuna-sama's guardian's, because you obviously don't deserve to be one if you can't even accept reality!"

Yamamoto lifted his head as soon as those words left Hayato's mouth, "you have no right to decide that!" He shouted, surprising his classmates with his change of attitude, "But I agree with him," the forgotten brunette spoke up, with a hint of regret and sorrow in his big brown eyes, "Tsuna!" Yamamoto's head turned to face him as he was surprised at Tsuna's words.

"Yamamoto, if you can't accept the fact that all the fights and challenges we have gone through weren't just a game, then I also think you should quit. You should probably just focus on baseball, I'm sorry Yamamoto." Tsuna finished in a soft voice, making sure that only Yamamoto heard most of it. "Ts-tsuna..." His head fell so that he was looking at the floor, his hands were clenched and his body was trembling, holding in the tears, when the bell rang and the teacher walked in. "Everyone take your seats, class is starting."

1 ½ Done

5 To go

AN: i hope you guys enjoyed this second chapter, i put it out a bit early because it coz it was already written so i just tweaked a little and put it up plz R&R XD