A/N: Those who were waiting for the Monday regular update: sorry! I was focused on Toward the True Sky and didn't have enough focus on writing this one and then life happens (writer block was involved as well). There is going to be one more chapter, then Vongola special Sequel chapter for last! Enjoy!

Disclaimer: Nope, don't own KHR.

Chapter 7
Turbulent Emotions

Shamal tries to fill the void by flirting to any being with a skirt. Anything to forget her, but how can he, given to the circumstances.

Shamal's heart was given to one woman only. Unfortunately she seemed to already gave hers to another man. No matter his delusions he had of her smiling at him, her son was a testament of her love toward the boy's father. It didn't help that in one of his secret labs, she lays in a deep sleep as he treated her fatal disease and trains her unknowing son.

"Tell me again why should I train you?" Doesn't mean he will make it easy for the boy.

"Tch! I need to leave the mansion, but as of now I wouldn't survive," Hayato muttered, "Sis left to follow her new love and train to be a hitwoman to forget that idiot Romeo."

"What became of that guy anyways?" Shamal wondered out loud.

"He** I know," shrugged Hayato, "So you're helping or not?"

Shamal wondered and thought back when (he wont think if) Lavina wakes up, she will be unhappy with him at not taking care of her son.

"Sure, whatever, brat," Shamal nonchalantly said as he took out his mosquito to send it to check the perimeter for assassins.

"One question though," Hayato hesitantly asked and Shamal raised an eyebrow. Hayato scowled, "what are you working on? You seem obsessed."

Lets just say if I succeed, you might hate me for it, but you will be happy. otherwise nothing will change and I will be beyond heartbroken, Shamal thought to himself, but outl oud, "I see someone is eager to look into my porn stash," he smirked at the gaping younger boy.

"No way I am going to do that you pervert!" Shamal smack the boy's head.

"Give it a couple of years and then we talk, brat," Shamal grinned at the boy's poor attempts at cursing.

He looked fondly at Juudaime being chased around by Reborn. Hayato Gokudera was worried when Reborn left for a while after the Arcobaleno trials, his boss became depressed. Now everything was back to normal.

"Hey Hayato," Trident Shamal called out behind Hayato, "Come here I have something important to tell you." He looked anxious as if excited with guilt all over his face.

"You actually got a steady girlfriend, but you cheated on her with 5 other girls?" deadpanned Hayato.

"Shut it brat," muttered half-hearted, "technically I am officially out of the market." He looked away looking rather uncomfortable. Hayato didn't believe him, but he was blushing and actually ignored his goggle wearing sister, who passed by cheering Reborn on training Juudaime.

"Yeah right," he muttered, but he glared at Shamal for his long silence, letting him know he is listening. The man in question sighed. He pulled him over, "Walk with me. Reborn already cleared you for training today, ok." Shamal grinned that knowing smile to himself whenever he sees Juudaime and Reborn together. Though it was worse in the past. He laughed hard muttering Juudaime will never be Decimo, which Hayato really wished to blow him up. Strangely enough, the doctor no longer did so ever since Reborn returned.

Huh.

When they neared the Sawada household, Shamal bluntly said, "Hayato, you're mother is alive."

Hayato froze.

Shamal sighed at the unresponsive boy, "On your birthday, Yoshi-kun and Lavina survived the crash, but she had a debilitating disease as you heard. By then I found a cure, but she had to be in an induced coma to cure it– " he was punched by Hayato.

"So you told me nothing?!" Hayato glared down at the doctor. Then he realizing something, Hayato blinked, "Was...Yoshi-nii aware of this?"

"Its complicated Hayato.." Shamal looked back toward Juudaime and Reborn for some reason.

"Are you fu****** kidding me?! Where is they?!" Hayato fingered toward his stash of dynamite.

Shamal stood up and put his hands in his coat's pocket looking into the distance, "Sorry Hayato, I swore I wont reveal his identity, not until after he er.. remembers. As for your mother..." Hayato stares confused, but before he could ask, he heard a woman voice ahead of them.

"Is he here? Did you tell him yet, Trident?" Hayato looked at the entrance of Juudaime's house.

He paled and tried to breath wondering if Shamal was playing a cruel joke on him or his old offerings to the UMAs granted one of his secret wishes.

Coming into the path outside of the Sawada house, walked an older woman with the same hair color as him. Her long finger hands reached toward him as if she thought he was the dream just as he was edging toward a mental breakdown.

"Look at you, so big and strong," she murmured she gently lifted his chin (which isn't much by her slightly taller stature) to look at him better.

Hayato broke then and rushed to hugged his mother. She rubbed his back as his body wracked with heavy quiet sobs, smelling the familiar smell of Sensei, who actually was his mother.

"I-I thought y-y-yyou d-died and I nev-ver got to say I love you!"

"Is alright, I am sorry for doing this to you. If it wasn't for Yoshi-kun, I probably wouldn't survive the accident, you see," she patted his hair, "Besides I didn't want to lift up your hopes up in case of the treatment failed."

For Hayato, the week was a blur. He doesn't remember much and wonders maybe it was because his purpose of life went on a surprise impromptu training trip without so much of a goodbye. Yet he cannot help feeling something was wrong.

Then he saw Reborn looking around for someone.

"Reborn? If you are back then that means– " Hayato began. He looks warily at Reborn's smirk.

Shamal looks back annoyed and left with a huffed. Hayato stared at them and just remembered he had to do some shopping for his mother.

"Tch! Its too quiet without that Baseball Idiot."

He twitches and cringes as Juudaime looks like he will crash into the pole or smack the wall, but subconsciously misses the impact at the last minute. Hayato been worried by the distance between Juudaime and him (and the others who happen to be guardians).

Hayato pulls him back when Juudaime was going to absentmindedly cross a no-walk zone into a heavy traffic street.

"Juudaime!" He calls his boss, for the third time.

The boy blinks and blearily looks at him. He makes a questioning sound.

"Uh..." Hayato thought fast as fingered his bracelet with music notes nervously, "Ah! I...um...been practicing playing and I would like to invite you to hear it."

Juudaime blinks and looks torn.

"Well I have work...and..." he looks away guilty, but Hayato could tell he wants to hear him. After all it has been a long time he played and lets no one else hear it except when he is sure he is alone.

"My mother will play as well and wishes you to come over," not exactly a lie. Ever since she started to live with him, his mother (he so happy to say this!) been wanting to talk to Juudaime, but he seemed afraid to intrude.

"Only for a while, I don't want Reborn to skin me alive and fry me for dinner," Juudaime said with a weak smile.

Hayato beamed and pulled the surprise boy to his mother's music studio (Shamal bought it as one of his one-month anniversary, given that he had not look at another female since then is an achievement).

His mother talked amicably as if knowing Juudaime before, but left him confused. Hayato quickly tuned the piano and signaled his mother.

Just for those few hours, Juudaime genuinely smiled as he heard the peaceful music play. Hayato was happy to see his most precious people together, just like Yoshi-nii did with his mother years ago...

"HAHAHAHAHA! I totally knew first than the greatest hitman that the kid is going to be great! Decimo indeed. The kid practically presented himself as Neo-Primo and whatnot. Though I admit I was doubting that wimpy kid to the older self-assured older one," Shamal grinned at Reborn's pout.

"Then why were you no help on searching for Juudaime when I needed you?!" Hayato yelled at Shamal.

"If you had asked I would have told you," Shamal shrugged and giggling at Reborn's dark glare.

"I did! Like many times, but you didn't answer!" Hayato growled. Shamal just stared at him blankly and took out his phone, "Nope, no call, though this week I have been busy and..." Shamal trailed off. Reborn smirks.

"Oh this is going to be good," Shamal glared at Reborn's comment, who looks at Hayato and then turns in mock-pity at Shamal.

"Is between two men, Reborn and only us since it doesn't concern you," Shamal snarled.

"Oh don't mind me," Reborn pulled out a bag of popcorn.

Suddenly Juudaime burst into Hayato's apartment with candy wrapping all over his hair.

"Reborn! Your coffee maker was blown up! I'm sorry! Lambo went crazy...then Mukuro and Hibari... I tried to stop them– HIEEEEE!" Reborn summoned his green gun and dropped his popcorn to stalk and eliminate the Vongola Neo-Primo-in-training.

Shamal blinked and chuckled, "That kid," he fingered the candy wrappings he picked up from the doorway, "Hayato," he looked like a man in a mission, "I really appreciated you let me date your mother," he bowed.

Hayato still can't get over the fact this man who still has memories from his other timeline (which everyone minus the guardians, Reborn and Tsuna don't remember) of being a shameless pervert dating his sweet mother who fell in love with the man who always cared for her no matter what (unlike his father who was a coward and almost indirectly killed her), "I wish to continue so for the rest of her days and I know I am not worthy, but I wish for your permission to marry her."

Hayato fingered his dynamite in deep thought as Shamal barely hide his shaking from his position.

"Make you cry and look at another girl as you once a upon of time you use to do, and you will be blown up and I will bug spray all your mosquitoes like the bug that you are," threaten Hayato.

Shamal looked up at Hayato's red face and was looking away.

"I appreciate the lengths you go to for her, and for taking care of Juudaime when I couldn't follow him back then," Hayato admitted as he recalled their recent conversation of Shamal and his mother's secrecy of knowing Tsuna going into the past.

"He is a good kid as well as my student," Shamal smiled.

Hayato coughed, "Now if you are done, I have things to do."

"Oh you going to meet up with the crazy Hahi girl?" Shamal smirked at a blushing Hayato.

"Are you crazy?!" Hayato threw a unlit dynamite at Shamal's laughing face.

A/N: Thank you for your great patience and comments and enjoy the other KHR stories from other authors as well! *cough*Odd-Job Tsuna*cough* :)
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