Cielo: Hello, minna-san! Happy Late Valentine Day!
Nero: Tell them about the lateness, dame-Cielo!
Cielo: Fine. Sorry for not updating this story! If you checked on my profile last month, you would noticed that I'm RE-WRITE this story. So I recommend you to read the prologue before you read this chapter.
Nero: And she wants to have a beta-reader for this story because her ideas of romance are totally crap.
Cielo: HEY! It's your fault too! Your I'm-not-interested-with-romance-and-pinkness part is the reason we couldn't make a proper romance story!
Tsuna: On with the chapter!
Warning: Everything. Hey! I'm not good at romance so bear with this!
Disclaimer: No ALL27, No own.
My Sacrificed Heart
Chapter 1: Our Confrontation as the Beginning
At the quiet town of Namimori, the scent of breads and pastries lingering around the town like a wandering ghost of the night. The sun rises through the spaces between the mountains and shining the morning lights to the town. The chirping of the awakening birds become the alarm to the sleeping citizens. All in all, the day started with a peaceful morning.
The bakery which everyone likes to visit is opened with the scent of pastries escaping through the glass doors. Inside, pastries were lined up neatly without any mistakes or misplaces. The round tables and chairs were cleaned up until they were sparkling, and the floor doesn't have even the slightest bit of dust as they were taken care of. People already lined up to pay for their orders to the counter, where a beautiful maiden greeted them with a bright smile. His eyes sparkling like the eyes of the innocent children which all of the customers appreciate.
A raven haired man creeping behind the smiling brunet and startled him teasingly, making him jumped in surprise. "HHIIEEE?!" The brunet turns to his best friend and slapped his shoulder playfully. "Yamamoto! Don't surprise me like that! You nearly give me a heart shock!" The raven haired man, Yamamoto Takeshi, who is the infamous Namimori baseball ace, grinned sheepishly. "Haha! Sorry Tsuna. You're just too fun to tease." The brunet, known as Tsunayoshi, pouted. "Mou~!"
People around the bakery blushed and nosebleed at the sight. 'Cute...'
Reborn walked casually around the peaceful town of Namimori, his hands tucked inside his pockets and his fedora tilted slightly under his obsidian eyes, shadowing his eyes and in the same time gives himself a cool and mysterious character. All of women population around him drooled at his sight.
"KYAA! So handsome!"
"Is he still single? I want to become his girlfriend!"
"What is his number?"
Reborn frowned at the reactions of the annoying women. 'Che! So predictable and boring.' Reborn just ignored all the flirting women and went to the direction of the ramen shop. But as he passed by shops, he smells the sweet scent of...
"Pastries."
Reborn followed the lingering scent of pastries and slight scent of coffee across the road and arrived in front of the nice and homey bakery. He entered the glass doors and the chiming bell greeted him as he entered the bakery. Reborn took some glances around the bakery, and he concluded that the bakery he just entered has the accepting feeling as great as the sky.
"Welcome~! May I help you?" Reborn turns to the source of the sweet voice and there, standing behind the counter is a beautiful brunet with sparkling caramel eyes and sunny bright smile. His defying gravity brown hair bounced a little whenever his heart-shaped head moved, and the small figure just adding the cute characteristic of his.
DING!
Tsuna turns to the oven and opened the door while wearing gloves, then he take the freshly made strawberry muffins out of the oven. After that, he put down the trays, pulls out all of the muffins and put some icing and sprinkles on top of the muffins. He then arranged them neatly on another tray for display.
After displaying the tray at the display cabinet, Tsuna took out other trays, but with different sizes and shapes, and put the full trays into the unoccupied oven to bake them. Just as he was about to make another mix, the bell at the door chiming, signaling for customer.
"Goku- No, he's absent today..." Realizing the fact he works alone today, Tsuna pull out his gloves and exit the kitchen to the shop.
There standing a handsome mysterious man with black-and-orange fedora and black suit entered his bakery with curious obsidian eyes that he could see through, even though the man concealed it well.
"Welcome~! May I help you?" The man turns at him and his piercing eyes stares deeply at him before they snapped and the man walked gracefully towards him. "Do you have espresso?" the velvet voice echoed around the almost silent shop if not for some customers around. Returning back to the question, Tsuna nodded. "Un! We have espresso here! Do you want take-out or drink here?" Tsuna asked his customer politely.
The man, or Reborn, take a glance at the watch around his wrist and nodded. "Drink here. I want a rich espresso, less milk." Tsuna nodded in understanding. "I understand. Please take a seat." Reborn walked away to the nearest table and sit on the wooden chair. While waiting for his espresso, he suddenly became bored, which just a few seconds passed by, he turns to the cute brunet and watched him preparing his order carefully.
Tsuna took out the coffee beans into the coffee machine and drilled the beans. While waiting for the coffee powder, he heated the water. Then, he took 2 spoons of coffee powder into the cup carefully without spilling any speck of powder and put half a spoon of sugar into the cup and poured the hot water into the cup*. After stirring the espresso, he put the cup on a tray and took them to the waiting Reborn. "Here is your espresso. Please enjoy it." After put the cup on the table, Tsuna turns to leave, but before he could, Reborn halted him by pulling his hand.
"Wait."
Tsuna blinked and turns to the man. "Do you want something?" Reborn answered back, "Yes. What is your name?" Tsuna blinked in confusion before answering, "My name is Tsunayoshi."
"No any surname?" Tsuna's eyes flash emotions of sadness, loneliness, and a much hidden feeling of...victorious? But before he could dwell in it a little further, those emotions disappear as fast as it came. Tsuna shook his head. "...No." Then he pulls back his hand and walked back into the kitchen.
As Reborn stares at the retreating figure of Tsuna, Reborn smirked in amusement while sipping his espresso.
"You're interesting, Tsunayoshi. Hmm? The espresso is quite good."
Tsuna suddenly shivered. He checked the temperature around the bakery with confused eyes. "Odd..."
"So you're asking me, a hitman, to catch that thief? Why?" Reborn asked the glassed man eating ramen casually with irritated tone. The man, or known as the ramen man uncle Kawahira, nodded. "That thief is no ordinary thief as he could track and broke the seal around the Vongola rings. He is very dangerous to us. Who knows what he will do once he gathered all of the scattered Vongola rings."
"The time and space could be in danger." Reborn calmly said while drinking the green tea Kawahira kindly offers. 'He knows I fucking hate teas, especially green tea. The damn old man!' Oh, how he wished he could shot the white-haired ramen freak to the afterlife but sadly the man before him is immortal. Even though he is Kawahira's niece, he isn't immortal.
Because he was adopted.
"So you want him dead or alive?" Reborn asked the older man casually as if he's talking about the sky instead of other's life. Kawahira paused on eating the nth bowl of ramen before he said, "Half-dead."
Reborn frowned in confusion before he shrugged it off. 'Not my business.'
"No way! It's already late night?!" Tsuna exclaimed in disbelief after he saw the night sky decorated with twinkling stars. Tsuna sighed before he leaves the bakery after he locked the door.
As he was walking down the path towards his house, he saw some shadows following him from the corner of his eyes. Those shadows somehow freaked him out and thus, he starts skipping his steps in hope of losing those shadows stalkers. But they kept following him, so he resorted his other attempt; sprinted off. Tsuna dashed down the dark path quickly that he left puff of smokes behind him literally. As he was running, he looked behind him and could only saw smokes without any form of the shadows. The scene gave him a relief feeling, before something cylinder and made of metal struck him on the head, hard. "Ugh!" Tsuna staggered forward a bit before falling down unconscious onto the hard cement with a dull thud.
The shadow behind him smirked at his fallen figure before motioning to the other shadows. One of the shadows kneeled before the bloodied head before slung the whole body onto his shoulder. A deep voice speak up, "Let's go."
The group of shadows disappears into the dark night of cloudy night along with the idol of Namimori, Tsunayoshi.
At a pitch black place, sounds of chuckling could be heard from the echoes, and soon followed by echoes of footsteps. Click. Clack. Click. Clack. The echoes of footsteps stopped at some point before the sound of someone sitting on a couch was heard. The chuckling stopped.
"Fufufu. Soon..."
A pair of sunsets orange eyes was revealed as the only color brightens the dark place. "..you will be mine!"
Preview:
"W-who are you?"
"Fufufu. My name is Cielo, your eternal partner."
Cielo: So, how is it?
Tsuna: ...
HDWM! Tsuna: ...
Adult Reborn: ...
Nero: I hate romance.
Cielo: *enter fangirl mode* Go away!
Nero: With pleasure. *walked away*
Cielo: Please tell me what you think about this chapter in your review, minna-san! I appreciate them! Oh, and if anyone willingly wanted to be my beta –which I don't know how to find one- please PM me!