It was a great surprise for the whole group that upon arriving in Namimori everything was very peaceful.
They thought it would be destroyed and unrecognizable because of the Yakuza, however, it was much better than when they left.
They looked at each other trying to believe this was real, Reborn smacked his student upside the head who groaned with a Reborn!
- Giotto, what did I tell you about your hyperintuition?
- ah - Giotto looked at the place again more carefully - there is nothing to worry about, I don't sense any threat.
The group split up a few blocks ahead, Alaude, Ugetsu and Knuckle said goodbye to go home, Daemon said goodbye and went off to who knows where.
Giotto accompanied by Reborn, Lampo and G went to the Sawada residence where Sawada Nana was waiting for them.
Ugetsu arrived in front of his family's restaurant, excited, while reading the restaurant's sign.
- Takesushi - a strange feeling of longing came over him as he uttered the name of the shop, he classified it as a feeling of wanting to return to his father. He approached the door and put his hand to open it.
- Welcome to Takesushi - his father's animated voice appeared, thrilling Ugetsu who wasted no time in entering.
Tsuyoshi at the sound of footsteps looked up to be mute, blinked several times to check if it was a dream, the smile of his son received him, dropping the knife he had looked carefully at his son and went away from the counter.
An imperceptible lump in the throat formed in Tsuyoshi's throat and then in a quick movement he hugged Ugetsu, who a little surprised returned the hug with a smile.
They lasted a few minutes like that, until they had to separate, Tsuyoshi ruffled his son's hair with a smile.
- You have grown up a lot, Ugetsu.
The younger boy nodded a little embarrassed, after all it had been seven long years that he had been away from his father.
- Yes dad... I'm sorry for not being able to communicate with you - Tsuyoshi shook his head with a small smile.
- Don't worry about it, son - Tsuyoshi put his hands on his son's shoulders and pushed him lightly to one of the chairs near the counter - come on, I'll prepare your favorite sushi to celebrate your return.
The joy was quite noticeable in his tone and in the rain guardian's father's expression, Ugetsu chuckled at how cheerful his father was.
Knuckle stopped in front of his house, excitement filled him, but at the same time sadness, he approached the door, took a deep breath and rang the doorbell.
An "I'm coming!" was heard , and the footsteps became louder.
The door was opened and out of it peeked an orange-haired girl, the girl stopped dead in her tracks when she saw who was in front of her. The greeting stuck in her throat, she blinked, checking to make sure her eyes weren't deceiving her.
Small tears came from her eyes and her shoulders shook, making Knuckle twitch, Kyoko let go of the doorknob and rushed to embrace her brother, who hugged her a little tighter.
- It's you! - Kyoko's broken voice hurt Knuckle, who didn't let go of her embrace - it's you, Knuckle-nii!
Knuckle stroked her head affectionately with a smile on her face, she remembered that when she left Kyoko was only four years old, now she was an eleven year old girl.
- You grew up a lot Kyoko, you are just as cute as our mother - the youngest laughed at what her brother said, shortly after she undid the hug and led Knuckle into the house.
Some things changed in his home in his absence.
- Did Otosan and Okasan come out?
- Yes, Okasan had to buy something and Otosan accompanied her.
- I see.
Knuckle looked around the house until something caught his attention, he approached the table in the living room, a picture was there. Knuckle grabbed it and lifted it to get a better look, it was a picture from a few years ago where he was with his parents, Kyoko and a boy with short white hair who had a lively smile.
Kyoko turned around to ask her brother if he wanted a drink, only to find him holding a picture, she walked slowly towards him, standing beside him contemplating the picture.
- You know Knuckle-nii, I think Oniisan grew up a lot, just like you - Knuckle saw his sister's expression, one of hope although she awkwardly tried to hide her sadness from her eyes - I... always think that if I had stopped him back then he would have been with us.
At the revelation Knuckle opened his eyes in surprise to look at Kyoko for information still holding the painting.
- Kyoko, what do you mean?
Kyoko signaled him to sit on the couches in the living room, to which the older one agreed, the younger one clenched her hands tightly to take a deep breath and look at her brother.
- Seven years ago, the same day you were leaving, do you remember that Oniisan and I after saying goodbye went for ice cream?
- I will always remember that day.
- Well, I ended up walking away from Ryo-nii unintentionally. I ended up bumping into some older kids who took it pretty badly, they wanted to force me to do I don't know what exactly, I just remember Oniisan had arrived at that time and he looked furious, the older kids picked on him. I think they were the same age as you, Knuckle-nii, Oniisan fought against them - Knuckle's face was angry and then turned to worry, Kyoko showed him a look of comfort.
- Do you know how it ended? Oniisan won, he ended up with several wounds, but he won, I had been worried and tried to heal them, the only thing he did was to smile lying on the floor, he had a happy smile.
Knuckle barely smiled, his little brother was quite animated when it came to combat and more about boxing.
- When we were about to get home, Oniisan acted strange, he told me he had to do something and to go inside the house. He ran off I don't know where.
- I felt something had happened to him when he didn't come back after fifteen minutes and I asked Okasan to go look for him, she said no, she would be back soon. I went out of the house to look for him and met Tsuna-kun's mother and Takeshi-kun's father.
- Takeshi?
Kyoko's face changed, trying to hide her sadness, denying quickly.
- Nothing, I got confused.
Knuckle gave him a confused look, but still sighed and let it pass.
Kyoko centered her gaze on the portrait and unconsciously bit her lower lip.
Alaude stopped by his residence just to ask for information about everything that happened in Namimori in his absence.
The man who gave him the information was about to leave when a noise stopped him.
Alaude tapped his finger against the desk and succeeded in stopping the informant, looked up and the man froze before the cold, sharp eyes of the elder Hibari.
- Tell me now everything you know about the day Hibari Kyoya disappeared or I will arrest you to death - cloud flames shot out of the handcuffs he held in his hands menacingly.
A little yellow bird flew over the residence to observe the scene unfolding and continued on its way after standing there for a few minutes.
The group of Storm, Light, Sky and the arcobaleno were in front of the gate of the Sawada residence.
Giotto had his hand outstretched to knock, without doing so yet.
- If you stand there and do nothing you will grow roots - Reborn's words made Giotto react, because if he did nothing his tutor would surely hit him with a green hammer, courtesy of Leon.
Giotto knew that his mother would open the door in a few seconds and he calmed down.
Sawada Nana opened the door with a smile that became bigger and more dazzling when she saw her eldest son in front of her with a shy smile, Nana stepped forward and hugged her son tightly, small and disguised tears came out of her eyes.
- Gio-kun you are back, my baby is back - Nana grabbed her son's cheeks with her hands and there Giotto realized that his mother was crying without him noticing.
A few moments later Giotto understood his mother's words, she was happy to see him back, but also that he was well and that he is together with her, after all Tsuna disappeared years ago and there is still no news about his whereabouts.
Nana looked at her son's companions recognizing those who were once small children when she last saw them.
- Come on, don't just stand there, come in - Nana invited them in with a warm smile - Sit down, I'm going to make a great dinner.
The table was set and the food on it.
- Thanks for the food Mamma.
- You're welcome Reborn-kun.
The teens as they finished eating felt Reborn's gaze on them to then see him looking at something near Nana's side.
Giotto came a little closer, as he was closer to his mother, seeing that it was the painting brought a lump in his throat, Nana saw it and gave him a sad smile, leaving the painting in the center of the table.
The group did not remember how similar their friend's younger brother was to this one, Sawada Tsunayoshi a boy then four years old with gravity defying brown hair, his chocolate eyes, had a smile warmer than they would have known.
The boy was alone in that picture with a warm smile, G had a pit in his stomach, Giotto's younger brother was the same age as his brother when he disappeared, he barely remembers the moments he lived with Hayato, but what he will never forget is the beautiful smile of his brother back then.
Possibly, if he had taken Hayato with him on his trip to Japan he would have befriended Giotto's brother, plus he would not have disappeared because of his father's recklessness.
- Okasan - at the call, Nana looked at her son who had a complicated look - do you remember what happened when Tsuna disappeared?
Nana and those present paused, the major sighed and put a hand to her forehead.
- Tsu-kun disappeared the same day you left Gio-kun, at first I thought he had accompanied you to say goodbye and one of your father's friends would bring him back, but it wasn't like that.
- When I went to look for him, I heard the screams of a girl, she was the younger sister of one of your friends, I think her name was Sasagawa Kyoko.
Reborn barely frowned, Giotto's Hyperintuition rang like a bell, G and Lampo were already guessing what happened next.
- Did you find someone else Okasan? - Nana thought about it until she opened her eyes wide remembering something.
- Yes, I met Tsuyoshi-san - the group looked at each other at the name of Ugetsu's father.
- Do you know what Ugetsu's father was looking for?
- Of course he was - Nana answered as if it were obvious - he was looking for Takeshi-kun.
Reborn and the trio of teens frowned in confusion at the name.
- Mamma, who is this Takeshi you are talking about? - Reborn's question was not answered, the group saw how Nana's face changed, she closed her eyes and denied with force.
- No, no one Reborn-kun, as I was saying I met Tsuyoshi-san who was holding a baseball bat, I asked him if he had seen Tsu-kun, but he didn't know, Kyoko-chan said that his brother had gone somewhere for something and didn't come back. I wasted no more time and called the police to find Tsu-kun and was joined by the Sasagawa.
Nana sighed and got up from the place to pick up the dishes, she began to wash them lost in her thoughts - You know Gio-kun, something tells me that Tsu-kun is fine wherever he is, although I still have the hope that one day he will show up at the door of the house and say Okasan will arrive.
Giotto felt his eyes stinging, he blinked several times to remove it, G who had stood up put a hand on his friend's shoulder. Giotto stood up and turned around.
- I - he tried to regulate his voice - I also hope that wherever Tsuna is, I would like to see him again.
The group moved to Giotto's room, where they settled in.
Giotto threw himself on his bed closing his eyes for a moment. Jumping out of it when his Hyperintuition beeped, a hammer had crashed where his head used to be, Giotto saw out of the corner of his eye Reborn.
- Let them stabilize here, but we have very important things to discuss, if they want to object they better start running.
- Yes Reborn, we're coming - Giotto relaxed as his tutor let the gun go back to being Leon.
- Reborn do you mean the person Nana-san named - G's question made his friend remember the topic, and he sat down on the small cushion on the floor where a small table was next to his friends.
- Exactly, in the records of all of you, that name never appeared to link you, but for Mamma to name you as someone we knew is a bit odd.
- Can you think of who he might be connected to? - Lampo blurted out boredly, the other two teenagers looked at him to glare at each other.
Just by watching that exchange a vein marked itself on Reborn's face, he wanted to hit his students.
Rising from the bed where he had been sitting, Reborn went to the window being followed with his eyes by his students.
- Reborn, where are you going?
The assassin did not answer, only looked at them and then jumped out of the window.
Giotto sighed in exasperation, knowing what his tutor would do.
- Where do you think it was?
- I have no idea Lampo, I just hope Namimori doesn't end up upside down.
- Mm we are talking about Reborn-san, Giotto, don't ask for the impossible.
Giotto breathed in and out dejected by the words of his best friend, his Hyperintuition was telling him something that he did not pay attention to.