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“… a camera phone?” Tsuna asked, looking up at the man who called himself his father. After the incidents in the future and the battle against the Shimon family and Daemon, Tsuna made Iemitsu promise to visit home more often. While Tsuna wanted nothing to do with the man and refused to call him dad, he knew that Nana missed Iemitsu more than anything, but Iemitsu it seemed still wanted to win back his son. “Why are you giving me this?”
Iemitsu grinned, placing a hand on Tsuna’s shoulder, who shifted out away from him. “I figured for your 16th birthday you deserved something better than clothes. This way you can keep up with your friends too and take better pictures.”
Well, the man was making sense at least. Tsuna looked down at the phone in his hands, it was a sleek touch-screen phone, in an orange cover with a 27 charm hanging off the top. “It hasn’t been activated yet, I thought you would want to do that with your friends later on,” Iemitsu explained, making Tsuna snort.
“You mean you don’t know how to do it,” Tsuna said, putting the phone down next to its box and raising an eyebrow at the man. “Thank you though. It was a… thoughtful gift.”
Their relationship was very strained. In Tsuna’s eyes there was nothing Iemitsu could do to be a good father figure anymore, but for Nana’s sake he agreed to at least be civil. It also meant, unfortunately, that Tsuna couldn’t have Gokudera, Elyse or Yamamoto near his house while Iemitsu was visiting. Elyse already had a hatred for the man as she had worked under him in the past for a few missions, but had become livid when she found out how he never even spoke to his family. Gokudera tended to get angry for Tsuna and while Yamamoto managed to look indifferent, anyone could feel the killer intent he radiated when he was near the elder Sawada.
So he wasn’t sure what to do.
“Right well,” Iemitsu said after a beat, knowing Tsuna wasn’t going to say or do anything else. He stood up from his seat at the table, offering a smile to his son, who continued to stare at him. “I’m taking your mother out for dinner tonight before I leave tomorrow, so you’ll have the house to yourself. Or- well, I guess with all the other additions that live here.”
Tsuna nodded, knowing that Bianchi was going to be staying over tonight again because Reborn was back. He knew that Iemitsu didn’t like the fact that so many people now lived at the house, but Tsuna had threatened the man to leave it be and he did. But Tsuna knew that Iemitsu tended to ask Nana what was going to happen with the amount of kids staying there.
Lambo and I-Pin were finally growing up and were attending Elementary school now that both were 6 years old, Tsuna was often in charge of walking them to and from school. Fuuta was joining them, but he was already two years above due to his age and the tutoring he received from Hana.
(His Guardians and Familiars stepped in from time to time, but he didn’t like to let them. Elyse had taken them out for ice-cream and gotten herself, Lambo, I-Pin and Fuuta lost. He wasn’t sure how well Gokudera would do with them as the storm Guardian often argued non-stop with Lambo, especially now that the cow was getting old enough to talk back properly.)
“Don’t wait up, kiddo,” Tsuna was broken out of his thoughts by his ‘dad’ ruffling his hair and leaving, making Tsuna growl and fix it as best he could. Like hell he was going to listen to the bastard, he’d wait up just to make sure his mom got home safe.
Sighing, he stood up and grabbed his phone, putting it in his pocket for now. While he wasn’t totally inept, he didn’t really know what to do with his new phone as it was the newest model released, and his old phone was at least 10 years old. Maybe Yamamoto or Gokudera could help him. Or even Shoichi.
(He’d ask Spanner but the last time he asked Spanner for technology advice, he had his computer rewired completely which eventually made it short-circuit.)
With that in mind, put his shoes on and headed out. The kids were out with Bianchi for the afternoon so he decided to lock up and headed to Yamamoto’s place.
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He got lucky as he found four of his Guardians all sat at a table over some sushi, talking amongst themselves. His Mist, Rain, Storm and Sun Guardians all seemed to be getting along for the time being so he counted his blessings.
His Guardians had changed a lot ever since the battle against Daemon. Especially his Mist, who was affected the most by the battle as she had been the one Daemon went for. She still had heterochromia, one purple eye contrasting the blue one. After the battle with Daemon she had cut her hair short (for Tsuna, as a promise that she would forever serve him and only him), so instead of reaching past her waist, it instead sat just above her shoulders in a nice bob, wavy with her bangs framing her face. Her blonde cat ears stood out above her head, but she had refused to dye her hair back to its natural colour, stating the black suited her better.
Her taste in clothing had changed too. Instead of the short shorts and waist-side cloths she’d wear over top, she was dressed in a white button up long sleeve shirt (with a floral pattern) tucked into high-waisted black skinny jeans, and flat shoes to boot. All in all, she looked grown up and it matched her more calmer personality.
His Storm Guardian had grown some more, now standing at equal height with Yamamoto. Gokudera now chose to wear his glasses more often, and his unkempt hair was almost always pulled back into a ponytail when he was studying or focusing on something. He did, however, choose to dress as he normally does. A red hoodie sitting underneath a black leather jacket, with matching black jeans and boots.
Yamamoto and Ryohei were almost exactly the same, except Ryohei had grown some more as well. The Sun Guardian still had bandages wrapped around his fists, but he was wearing his usual casual clothes – a hoodie and pants – which Tsuna suspected was because the boxer wanted to be ready to exercise at any given moment.
“Yo, Tsuna!” Yamamoto called out, waving him over. The other three stopped and looked at him. Gokudera immediately got up, offering his seat to his boss while he went to find another one.
Ryohei grinned. “Happy birthday, lil bro!” he said excitedly, pumping a fist into the air.
“Happy birthday Decimo,” Elyse said, her eyes twinkling as he sat down. “We’ll give you your presents later tonight, we wanted to make sure everyone else is there as well,” so in other words, they had planned a party for him. But he found himself not minding, he had gotten used to the chaos his very possessive and slightly psychopathic family brought with them.
Speaking of chaos, he was surprised that Elyse and Gokudera weren’t fighting over who has to give up their seat for him. But he supposed they were finally learning to be civil with each other.
“Mukuro and Chrome are supposed to be coming back today so it works out well, since Iemitsu leaves tomorrow,” Yamamoto said as Gokudera sat down on the spare chair he had found. “Speaking of… did he get you anything for your birthday?”
Tsuna sighed, knowing the question would come. “He got me a new phone, but I don’t know how to use it,” he said, putting the phone on the table for all four of them to look at. “Its one of those new ones.”
“Oh! I have one of those,” Elyse chirped, pulling her own at. “We can help you activate it and download what you need on it, Decimo.”
“That’s a nice present of Mr Sawada,” Gokudera said, eyes narrowed at the device. “Are you sure its safe to use, Tenth?”
Tsuna almost laughed at that, but he knew Gokudera’s worry was genuine. So instead, he nodded, and turned the phone on. “I haven’t ‘activated’ it yet because I don’t know how, but I want to. I think it’s the first time he’s given me a present that he’s actually picked out himself.”
Yamamoto nodded, picking up the phone and activating it, entering the information needed and making sure everything was working smoothly. As he worked, Tsuna helped himself to the sushi that was left on the plate, already thanking Tsuyoshi for being an amazing cook. He noticed Elyse helping the baseball player out while holding her own phone for comparison. Gokudera sat on the other side and helped out, but mainly watched. It was bizarre to see the three of them behaving nicely to each other, but he supposed it was because it was his birthday and they wanted him happy.
He’d enjoy it while it lasted.
“There,” Yamamoto said, handing the phone back to Tsuna. He took it, unlocking the phone and looking at it. “I’ve downloaded the basic apps you need, but it’s really up to you what you want on it. I also connected you to the wi-fi here so whenever you drop by you don’t have to waste your mobile data.”
Tsuna blinked, absorbing the information while Yamamoto grinned at him. “Thanks, Takeshi,” he said after a moment, offering a small smile in return.
Beside him, he noticed Elyse looking more and more excited, and he wondered what his Mist Guardian was up to this time. “Decimo, you should download Instagram,” she said, her phone clenched in her left hand. “It’s the most popular app right now, and it’s super easy to use.”
“Everyone uses it, I’m sure Kyoko would have told you,” Yamamoto laughed, pulling out his own phone and opening Instagram. He pulled his profile up, showing it to Tsuna.
Gokudera scoffed. “Baseball brain only really posts photos of him playing baseball or sports. His profile is boring.”
“Says the one who posts conspiracy theories and posts about aliens,” Elyse said bitingly, smirking when the dog growled at her.
“You can’t lie, you like conspiracy theories too!”
“Sure, puppy, but not that much.”
“You-“ the bomber growled, but held his tongue. “Che- well at least mine isn’t filled with dance videos and cheesy selfies.”
And thus the argument began between them, making Tsuna sighed as his Mist and Storm Guardians began squabbling again. Being a cat and a dog meant that the two of them almost never got along and Tsuna had long since given up trying to get them to be friends.
Ignoring the two of them, he looked at Yamamoto instead. “Should I make one? I know all my friends have one, but I don’t even know what to post,” he said, frowning at his phone.
“Its up to you but you don’t even need to post much, maybe start with a few pictures of us if it makes you feel better,” Yamamoto said, not minding Elyse and Gokudera yelling over top of them.
Tsuna sighed, staring at his phone. But he knew his mind was already made up. He got to work downloading the app, and a few others that Yamamoto told him were good to have too (like Snapchat, and this new messenger app that apparently has everyone hooked). Once it was downloaded, it was time to make his account, which Yamamoto helped him with.
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“You got everything set up now?” Yamamoto asked, walking Tsuna back to his house. Ryohei had long since left them, having something to do with Kyoko for the night.
Tsuna nodded, a smile on his face as he looked down at his phone in his hands. “I have no idea what to post though, I’ve never had a social account,” he said, looking up at his Rain Guardian. “Actually can I… can I take one of you guys?”
That stopped his friends. All three of them stopped walking, looking down at their boss with mixed expressions of adoration in their eyes. His Mist and Storm Guardians had long since stopped fighting (after Tsuna threatened to freeze them both if they didn’t quieten) and chose to ignore each other for the time being.
He instantly turned red, already regretting asking. He was closer with his Guardians now, but he still felt anxious when it came to friend-stuff. “Sorry I- that was dumb.”
“No, Decimo-! That just took us by surprise,” Elyse said, the first one to speak up.
“Yeah, usually you’re the one to fight photos,” Yamamoto laughed, slinging an arm around his small boss.
Gokudera nodded, his tail wagging excitedly. “We’d be happy to have a photo with you. I’m honoured to be part of your first post, Tenth!”
“All of us would be,” Elyse added, snidely glaring at the dog. Gokudera glared back, but thankfully they didn’t start arguing again. “It’ll be a good first post too so you can build up more followers. Do you want to be part of it?”
Tsuna shook his head, holding his phone up in front of him. “I just want one of you guys, my friends,” he said, peeking over his phone.
The three of them looked at each other, and Yamamoto wisely stood between the two feisty ones. He slung his arms over both of them, his left arm easily reaching Gokudera’s shoulders but his right arm settling just around Elyse’s neck as she barely reached his chest. Tsuna’s smile widened, his feeling of love and affection growing for his friends. He took the picture, taking a couple just in case before lowering his phone and putting his thumb up.
“Right, just post it to your account now,” Yamamoto said, pulling away from the other two and watching Tsuna. “And add a caption if you want!”
“Hashtags help too,” Elyse added, her hands in her pockets now that the photo was over.
Tsuna blinked, nodding as he took the information in and tried to think of a good caption. He looked at the three of them, Yamamoto smiling at him, Elyse tilting her head and looking like a curious cat, and Gokudera with a small grin on his face – and instantly he had one.
He posted it once it was complete, showing it to the other three and with their nods of approval he smiled and put his phone away. He walked between them again, leading them back to his house to spend some time together (and made a mental note to invite the others once he was home).
For now, the post was forgotten.