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Tsuna took a deep breath, trying to calm his raging nerves for what was about to happen. Even if this was an event he had prepared for ever since he was 14, the knowledge that after today he would be officially the Vongola Decimo, was somewhat terrifying.
Glancing back at his support, his guardians, as well as Reborn and Dino, and Xanxus and the Varia (seeing as he had never been able to connect with his father again, there was no way he was going to take on the CEDEF as his external advisor - he’d rather take someone he was much more comfortable with).
“This is it, isn’t it?”
Feeling a hand close around his shoulder, he looked up at Reborn. His tutor, who even after he was officially announced heir, didn’t find the will to leave him alone. Not when being an (un)official part of the Vongola Alliance kept him in close proximity with his students.
“You’re going to do just great, Dame Tsuna, this has been what the last 5 years have been all about. You have proven yourself to the Familia and to us, more than enough times. Go out there and show them who is Decimo.”
Xanxus’ gruff voice sounded from his other side, “And tell that bastard that your choice was made, entirely without my influence, because he was a shitty father and lost ass rights to be there for his son - on his own terms.”
Tsuna frowned at that, ever since he had been officially named heir, and as such Decimo, his father had been nothing like he remembered the man being. For one, he was suddenly there, and involved in his life. Not realising that by not being there for the first 16 years, he had lost that right and the connection they should have shared before.
He was much closer to Reborn in that regard, and would point out his tutor as his parental figure when asked any time of day. Even more so when his mother stayed in Japan, happy to live her fabricated life as she had done for all those years.
Iemitsu hadn’t been there when he needed him, and as such, would be needed for the rest of his life. He had other people filling up the spaces his father should be.
“I will, it’s high time that this is all his own fault - and that he was the one to push me towards the people that I trust a lot more than I will ever trust him. Let’s do this.”
Feeling the people behind him take a step back, while Hayato and Takeshi came to flank him, with his other guardians a step behind the three of them - followed by his council, he pushed open the door, ready to take up the mantle of Vongola Decimo.