Let's Prove Them Wrong

Part 1

Being gay isn't the best thing in Japan. At least that's what vibes Tsuna got from his parents were giving off. 'He was young and energetic, just lost in his thoughts', 'he was going through a phase', 'you will get over this when you meet the right woman' were all things he had heard from them and he didn't really appreciate the salt he was getting.

He didn't really have people he could talk to since he was bullied, not badly really but people didn't talk to him because he wasn't great at school too. People did know him from his mother though since she was so nice and sociable and he looked a lot like her, the same big brown eyes, same light brown hair, they even had the same chubby cheeks that Tsuna swore up and down was just baby fat but he had had that baby fat for years now. He was 15 for crying out loud!

Anyways, people didn't like him but they tolerated him so he wasn't really left out. Until there was a nasty rumour spread around about him sleeping around with everybody for money and that he was gay. It wasn't the best way to start high school with a rumour following you so Tsuna was forced to stick to himself, just as he did in middle school.

The life Tsuna lead was a miserable one to say the least. His mother was more...traditional so when he told her he was gay she tried so hard to be accepting but the way she was raised got in the way of that. His father was Italian and came from a very Christian background, and even if he was overseas working, Tsuna felt like he could feel the ridicule from his father. They were trying but they weren't trying hard enough to be accepting of him.

It hurt but Tsuna was able to carry on because as long as he didn't mention anything of his sexuality to his mother, she would treat him the same as before she knew. She wasn't reserved or mean about it, she just didn't approve. And that was okay because she had yet to openly ridicule his lifestyle.

The rumour spread fast though and the entire town knew about the rumour and who Sawada Tsunayoshi within a week's time. In a small town like Namimori, Japan, stuff spread like wildfire.

There was another thing going around that lightened the rumours around Tsuna was new exchange students coming to the school to study the culture and language. Tsuna knew he would never be able to get near them to talk so he stopped paying attention to the details and stared out of the window, quietly humming nothing to himself.

It was another two weeks before the exchange students arrived in mid-April so they were there at the start of the school year. And the entire time people were buzzing with excitement over where they would come from, what they would look like, if they would be nice. What was nice to Tsuna was that people stopped bugging him about the stupid rumour. But he knew the minute the exchange students got there he would be the object of amusement to the school again so he resented the exchange students coming. Just a little bit.

Nobody else did though as the entire school was practically humming with the excitement. Only a few other people shared Tsuna's disinterest so they bounded a little over that. They hid behind the stands in the gym and showed each other funny pictures on their phones when everybody was fussing over seeing the exchange students.

When the exchange students finally came, there were about 5 in all. One was from Italy, he was the one with the most excitement brimming around him since he was so good looking to most of the population, another two were from the United States of America and they were cute but not handsome. One of the American's had bright pink hair and it might've scared some people off. The last one was Germany and he was another one of the heartbreakers because he had blond hair, blue eyes, and was really tall. For some reason people like that so they also enjoyed his appearance on the stage.

All of them sucked at Japanese though so they couldn't say anything to the student body without messing up which words were which. The two Americans were the worst as their accents were so thick. But they made up for that with enthusiasm.

The assembly held in the gymnasium to welcome the five students was over and done with, meaning everybody was dismissed early from school. The school thought it would be a good idea to introduce them at the end of the day while giving a tour of the school during the day. The logic in that confused Tsuna but he wasn't going to argue as he made his way home, managing not to trip over his own feet on the way home this time. He was hopelessly clumsy sometimes.

Some people stopped him to ask him what the homework was and ask if he was excited for a new school year. Tsuna laughed it off and kept going home, hoping he could get some of the homework given out. They didn't give out much the first few weeks though because of the exchange students coming in. They didn't want to overwhelm them as soon as they got there, so the class got off easy.

When Tsuna got home, his mother Nana was in the kitchen making something. He smelled cookies so he guessed either his father was home or somebody was visiting. When he walked into the kitchen, he saw one of the exchange students, the Italian one everybody was fawning over to be exact, sitting at the table talking to his mother like they were old friends. What confused Tsuna even more was the fact that he was speaking in fluent Japanese with barely a hint of an accent.

"Oh! Tsuna, meet our new housemate! His name is Reborn and he'll be staying with us for the year! Isn't it exciting?" Nana gushed as she continued mixing whatever she was making on the counter.

Tsuna shrugged, sitting in his usual spot, which happened to be beside Reborn, and said, "As long as you don't make me share my room."

"He says that he doesn't exactly like sleeping alone. Tsuna, don't be mean! You have to share or else you'll never go far in life." Nana chided, flicking some flour at her son.

"Sure, easy for you to say." Tsuna grumbled under his breath as he got up. "I'll be doing homework."

"Do you want some cookies when they're done?"

"Sure!"

Tsuna had hoped that he wasn't going to be followed by Reborn since he had left the room for a reason. Apparently not as Reborn also got up, saying he was going to bond with Tsuna, and followed him to his room. Exactly what Tsuna had hoped didn't happen. He sighed out of his nose in annoyance and sat down at the table he had in the middle of his medium sized room. Reborn sat on his bed like he owned it which annoyed Tsuna even more.

"Are you going to keep angrily sighing or are you going to say hi to me?" Reborn asked. Tsuna shrugged, pulling out his Japanese homework. This was the one he knew the best since he wanted to be good in at least one subject and Japanese was the easiest one to start on.

"I see. You're going to be Mr. Cranky-Pants." Reborn nodded seriously to himself before making himself comfortable on Tsuna's bed. "Do you even know what you're reading?"

"Yes, it's about the Japanese language."

"Ooh, snarky. I like it. Do you like Japanese?"

"It's okay. Better than math or science since I can actually understand Japanese better." Tsuna shrugged again and pushed his finished homework to the side while pulling out his math book. He grimaced to himself as he opened it to the page and started doing the first question he had to. Five minutes in, he already had a headache and gave up; flopping his head onto the book.

"I think you may be in need of help?" Reborn asked. He was lounging on Tsuna's bed and looking at all the little things Tsuna had in the bedside table drawer.

"I'm fine, but thank you." Tsuna picked his head up and sighed looking over the question again. He felt somebody sit down next to him and looked over to see Reborn looking over his shoulder at him, reading the question. "I said I'm fine, Reborn."

"I know, but you look annoying when you're distressed so I felt I should do a good deed today." Reborn reached over and plucked the book from Tsuna's hand, dropping it into his lap so he could see the picture of the graph better. "So, from what I gathered, you're doing algebra.

Tsuna nodded, balancing his head in the palm of his hand.

"What's hard about it then?"

"I don't understand how to get the value of 'x'."

"...It's 3. How you do that is..."

Reborn continued to explain how to do algebra to Tsuna, teaching it better than the actual teacher did. By the time Nana came up with the plate of cookies for the two, Tsuna was almost done his homework. She looked ridiculously proud that Tsuna didn't feel like telling her he had gotten a 12 on his science test. He just shoved it to the bottom of his bag so she wouldn't see it until he accidentally pulled it out looking for something.