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Chapter one
Where Am I?
The Sawada family never seemed to have quiet mornings anymore. Actually they hardly ever had a day without any loud bangs, booms, crashes or screams at least at one point of the day. Of course, those who were worried in the neighborhood, only see a happy Nana doing her chores or going out with children who looked more foreign than the next. Still the sight of the happy woman calmed them down into ignoring the noises as background noise.
And just as usual a scream was heard, from the modest looking house, early that morning.
Tsuna jumped off of the bed holding his bruised head. He glared at the baby hit-man now sitting comfortably on it. "Reborn! Why did you have to hit me?" Tsuna complained as he rubbed his bruised head, making his wild spiky looking soft locks even wilder.
"You're late for school, Tsuna." Reborn said with a smile as Leon changed from a ten ton hammer to its original lizard form. Tsuna screamed again when he saw his alarm clock. There was only three minutes till the school bell rings. He ran around the room yelling about being bitten to death by a certain skylark prefect, as he got ready to go and collected his things for school.
“Bye, mom!” Tsuna yelled out as he left the house in a dead run. He didn’t hear his mother calling after him in surprise. Didn’t wonder why his two friends, who almost always came to pick him up for school, were not there. He doesn’t wonder why there was hardly anyone on the road to school. If he did, he could have saved himself from running ragged. After all, school is closed on Sundays.
"Haa! Reborn tricked me!" Tsuna grumbled as he sat at the table waiting for lunch to be served. Reborn wasn't there at the moment and Nana was happily cooking for the many hungry children there to eat.
"Tsu-kun is so good, playing with Reborn." Nana spoke with a bright smile on her face as she kept a bowl of rice in front of her son.
"How is that playing?" He asked himself weakly. Mama never seemed to realize that she was sometimes surrounded by very dangerous people and just smiled on. Even though that worried him sometimes, Tsuna was happy that Mama loved to have the extra guests coming home now. That she accepted the new members of his family. After all, he couldn’t stop some of them even if he tried.
"Lambo! Give my candy!" Ipin called as she came running after the young Bovino Mafioso.
"Candy is Lambo-sama's! Lambo-sama won’t share with Ipin!" The curly haired five year-old ran around the room with Ipin following him. The child dressed in cow patterned cloths laughed obnoxiously as re continued to taunt the small Chinese girl.
"Lambo you took mine too! Give them back." Fuuta came running into the room as well. The Ranking Prince stopped next to Tsuna. Sighing and watched as Ipin chase after Lambo. He was older than them but sometimes Fuuta just wanted to pout.
"Arara. Don't fight. I'll get some more now." Mama said as she left the room. Tsuna sweat dropped as the children only became livelier at the thought of more candy. He wondered if it was a good idea for them to go on a sugar rush.
Suddenly reborn showed up out of nowhere- as per usual- kicking the young Bovino to the ground. He casually jumped on Tsuna's head and stood there smiling smugly at the cries that filled the room.
"Reborn!" Tsuna said in an admonishing tone, but was ignored.
"Must keep ca- aaa- aalm!" The whimpering of the young Bovino was heard moments before he promptly started in a loud cry taking out his ten-year bazooka.
"You shouldn’t cry over stolen candy." Reborn attacked Lambo again kicking the child to the floor. The bazooka he had been holding flew up with the impact, hitting the ceiling and headed straight at the brown haired teenager.
"Reborn, don't pick on Lambo!" As Tsuna said this his hyper intuition called danger from above, but he was only able to look up as the bazooka landed on him.
A puff of pink smoke covered the room and everyone watched, waiting to see what Tsuna would be like ten years in the future. Even Reborn stood watching the smoke dissipate. After all this was his student and Vongola Decimo’s ten year older self that would appear. However, when the smoke cleared there was no older version of Tsuna just the pink bazooka lying innocently where Tsuna had been about to stand up from. So where was Tsuna?
Tsuna rapidly blinked his big brown doe eyes as he tried to understand where he was. But it wasn't a familiar room. Nor did it look like a room in the Vongola mansion. After all the mansion had rooms that were expensively furbished.
"HIEEE! I got caught in Lambo's ten-year bazooka!" Tsuna yelped. "Wait, so where exactly was my ten year later self?" Tsuna asked himself with curiosity. After all the last time he woke up in a coffin with the future in utter chaos and danger. He wondered if there were any more such situations in this future.
He looked around the room. It was very plain and somewhat similar to his room but it was also different. For one there were no pictures of his family and friends at all in the entire room. There were books in the bookshelf on one side. A table in front of the window with books on it as well, a modest looking closet at one side and a simple bed with plain white sheets.
Tsuna wondered why he was in such a room, ‘Maybe my ten year self was visiting somebody?’ Tsuna reasoned as he looked around. He walked on silent feet, determined not to get in any trouble this trip round and go back home safely. Yet, his curiosity was peeked. Everything was so plain and there was nothing personal to the one who lived there. Tsuna quietly worked his way around the room and stopped at the study desk. And what he saw there astonished him.
The books on the table were middle school text books and more they had Namimori middle school logo printed on them. He looked around the room again. ‘Am I in Namimori?!’ He mentally screamed. His hyper-intuition was acting up and a sense of complete foreboding fell on him. His shoulders drooped with the sheer weight of the feeling. His breathing came out labored and fast. It was as if he was stripped of something. Something that was very important to him.
"Tsu-kun." His mother's voice snapped him out of his trance and he started to panic. Not knowing where he should hide. The door opened before he could even move and there stood his mother, smiling away at him. "Tsu-kun, come down for lunch. Everyone is already downstairs. Taki-kun is waiting." She left the door open as she left. It seemed her mother wasn’t worried of having a ten year younger version of him here. But then she rarely called on the obvious things back at home either. ‘But then why does she look the same?’ He quietly wondered.
Another thought struck Tsuna. "Taki-kun?" He asked himself, his head lolling cutely to one side. He never heard of anyone by that name that mama would be so familiar with. "AAAHH! Is the ten year later me visiting Mama?" He rubbed his brown hair harshly making it stand up more in a wild array of soft spikes in every direction. "Um, isn't the time up already? HIIEEE!" Tsuna panicked again. He didn’t want to be seen and cause any trouble. Or get him stuck in any either.
He stayed a moment more before deciding to go downstairs. If he didn’t mama would probably come back to call him. Or send someone else up to fetch him. With each step he took downstairs the foreboding feeling grew heavier in his chest, his heart beating so wildly.
"Jyuudaime! I am sorry for disappointing you!" Gokudera's voice was heard as Tsuna entered the kitchen and automatically he sweat-dropped. A weary smile came as he heard his self-appointed right hand man. Automatically he responded to when Gokudera apologized to him, as it usually followed Gokudera doing something to hurt himself.
"G-Gokudera please don't apologi-"
"You should be punished for failing me, Hayato."
Tsuna blinked. 'What?' Tsuna thought coming to the Kitchen doorway. He blinked again, now looking at the scene in front of him with confused terror.
Yamamoto Takeshi sat at one end of the table, quietly smiling at the two. Mama was cleaning the pots and pans while Lambo sat quietly and very politely at the table waiting for... something. Reborn sat at the other end closest to a boy Tsuna didn’t know, drinking his espresso calmly. It was the same boy to whom Gokudera Hayato was bowing to in a dogeza. Tsuna had never met this person before but a feeling of fear and sadness filled his entire person as he watched the boy with shorter and darker brown hair talk to Gokudera about punishment. Tsuna felt faint, the feeling growing, depressive and heavy. The scene before him swam and soon dark covered his vision. He felt his body fall and everything went dark.
Tsuna heard crying. He didn't know whose but it felt familiar. "Tsuna" a voice whispered in his ear.
"The wish of Sawada Tsunayoshi has been approved." Another voice said in monotone.
"Good luck Tsuna." A voice, similar to who whispered near his ear, said. But as Tsuna turned around there was only darkness surrounding him.
And then memories filled his mind; Memories that weren’t his. But still was. These were memories of a haunted Tsuna, shadowed by his younger Twin brother. A Tsuna who was beaten by his younger twin brother, bullied along with others laughing at him and locking him in closets. Memories of Takiru being the favorite amongst them to Iemitsu. Tsuna felt pain after pain of being pushed down whenever he gathered strength enough to stand back up. Of feeling his brother, calling him Dame-tsuna the first time and everyone else, following Takiru's lead. The memories of Takiru, his younger brother, who was also his tormentor.