Chapter 4 The Ninth p2

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[Tsuna Pov]

When I heard the new girl Kyoko Sasagawa suddenly confronting the other girls in the class, as I heard her suddenly saying to them.

[Kyoko]" Come on girls, you should bully Sawada-san like that, although I haven't known Sawada-san for long as you do; when I talk to him before, although his looks are a bit scary and adult-like, Sawada-san is a pretty nice person. And about that rumor about Sawada-san, although I hadn't seen that event for myself, I know that Sawada-san Isn't someone who would do something like that without any reason. According to big bro, the person Sawada-san had gotten into trouble with is one of the major bullies in the school, so shouldn't you thank Sawada-san instead of avoiding him."

After saying those words, the girls who were discouraging Kyoko from talking to me seemed to have contemplated what Kyoko-san had told them, and after a while. However, they still seem pretty wary. Still, they had suddenly apologized to me for judging me so quickly without actually seeing what happened in the playground weeks ago.

And after that, the girls had left the room, leaving me with Kyoko-san in that room alone, seeing that she had helped me unlike others before, I wanted to thank her, but due to me not having any friends before, I didn't know what to say to her. And it had shown in my face since when I took a look at Kyoko-san, it seems that she had somehow understood what I wanted to say and just nodded at me. However, I do want to thank her, so, for once, I used my determination again and then said to her while being very embarrassed.

[Tsuna]"Ah...Sasagawa-san, I. Uh just wanted to thank you for defending me earlier against those girls and believing in me despite what I did to him back then; I wasn't myself back then. I guess what I just wanted to say is sorry for ignoring you before now, Sasagawa-san. I just thought that you would be like the others, just ignoring me, so I just ignored you so that the others like me wouldn't ignore you. So once again, I just wanted to say thank you, Sasagawa-san, for helping me out there."

And as I said that for the first time in my life, my face that had been stuck in its calm look ever since I was young had suddenly loosened itself up to form a delighted smile that had felt very refreshing and nice towards Sasagawa-san.

When I saw that Sasagawa-san was suddenly staring at me blankly, I became worried for her as I asked her was she ok, and then after I said that, I saw her face suddenly turn red as she then started to talk nervously as she said to me.

[Kyoko] "Oh. It's nothing Sawada-san it's just that I thought that you should smile more like that, since if you smiled like that, then our classmates wouldn't be as scared as you since... uh you looked much nicer."

After hearing that from Sasagawa-san, I became a bit embarrassed due to no one complementing me before, except my mom, of course, so to counteract my embarrassment at the time, I then said Sasagawa-san was cute too, which made the atmosphere of the area, quite weird at the time. And that is how my friendship with Sasagawa-san had started.

[Tsuna Pov End]

[A few weeks later.]

A few weeks after that had happened slowly but surely, other classmates had slowly tried to at least be on friendlier terms with Tsuna. And with the help of Kyoko, who was a prevalent and kind individual in the class along with the new capability of Tsuna's face to show another expression other than his calm face, which had become a great point in helping Tsuna get along with all his other classmates although not as close as Tsuna and Kyoko had become this last few days.

Although getting along with the other students much better than before, Tsuna still preferred Kyoko over them since she was the first person who had helped him, as well as him being just comfortable and happy when playing/hanging out with Kyoko compared to the others. Of course, due to Tsuna's continued time with Kyoko, he eventually then met with her brother, who was only a year higher than them, and his name was Ryohei Sasagawa.

When Tsuna and Ryohei had first met, Tsuna was very nervous as he saw that Kyoko's brother was the exact opposite of her in appearance; unlike Kyoko's cute and kind look, Ryohei instead was the tough and cool looking type of look similar to that of Tsuna's look which was the cool and calm type of look. But eventually, in just a few talks, Ryohei and Tsuna had already become close, maybe due to joint love in sports, which Tsuna likes watching them instead of participating, or the influence of Kyoko, in their relationship. Made Tsuna and Ryohei become like brothers due to their closes, and Ryohei even declared at one time that he now considered Tsuna to be his brother at the school, which had become a very embarrassing memory for both Tsuna and Kyoko in the future.

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In the weeks while Tsuna had improved his relationships with his classmates and was slowly removing his bad reputation as a weirdo and a scary individual who had beaten up one of the school's bullies. Along with getting extremely friendly with both Kyoko Sasagawa and her older brother Ryohei Sawada, who had been energetic when first meeting Tsuna, since he seemed to recognize Tsuna already as his brother despite just only knowing him for a short while.

At that same time, while Iemitsu seemed to have only been lazing around the house, as well as drinking booze, playing with Nana, and going out occasionally with Tsuna and Nana in family outings, Iemitsu had already managed to call over the person he had contacted to help himself, to seal Tsuna's Dying Will Flame that he was planning for since a few weeks ago. In exchange for Iemitsu to work for longer times in the Familia as well as requiring him to conduct a special investigation, which Iemitsu could only sigh at but agreed in it anyways due to the person he had asked help from was the current most important person in the Vongola Familia, The Vongolo Nono "Timoteo Flammia."

And now after weeks of waiting, the Vongola Nono Timoteo had finally gotten a vacation from all his mafia boss work and had time to do one of his most trusted subordinates favors, in sealing that said subordinate's son dying will flame that had awakened in the mere age of six which implied immense talent. After Iemitsu, who had waited for Timoteo since he was still his subordinate despite being out of work despite being the boss of Cedef, that is the Second Vongola, and even comparable to Vongola Nono in political decisions.

Timoteo and Iemitsu, along with some of the Vongola Guards that had followed Timoteo, rode inside a limousine. Timoteo then suddenly started talking to Iemitsu as he said.

[Timoteo] "So Iemitsu hadn't seen you in a while huh, it's your yearly vacation right, First of all, I just wanted so sorry for one of my conditions in helping your child later on, as you know our Familia is evergrowing this last few years, and just a few years ago we had even managed to form a contract with the Russian Factions to let us base some of our bases in Russia."

"So due to those events, we need the Cedef to investigate more into the Familia's other bases if there is another coup de ta like the one, with the double agent in the Familia a Few Months ago, as you may know."

[Iemitsu] "Ahh, Vongola Nono, no need for you to apologize about, that I do understand that this ritual will take away a lot from you since this is one of the forbidden techniques the Founder had told in the Familia text that we should rarely use, And this technique also requires an amount of dying will flames, which although I hate to say this, your already a bit too old Vongola Nono, in overexerting yourself."

[Timoteo] "Haha, your quite bold as always Iemitsu for saying that to me, but I guess it wouldn't have been like you if you suddenly respected me as the boss, well anyways I do appreciate you for taking that special task concerning my stepson Xanxus."