Namimori High School Festival

Omake: Mochida's Hardships

Note: Going to take place during the series and in this story. I have a mix of what happened in the anime and in the manga...I think.

Mochida Kensuke admits... even though he is a captain of the Kendo Club; Even though, he has the leadership qualities to lead his team to the championships; Even though, he was part of the Student Committee and one of the male idols of Namimori Middle to High School... he didn't have a good life. He did not have a perfect life.

HE had faults.

Outward appearances are deceiving. More so when it is a student who appears to have the looks, smarts, the popularity and easygoing smile.

Take Yamamoto Takeshi for example: he has the looks, the popularity and easygoing smile as well, but he tried to commit suicide when he broke his arm. That was a memorable moment for everyone when their baseball star exclaimed that not one of them understood how he felt. How he had felt like he was only being used. Not seen as a person but just an object that could win the Season Cup for their school. The people around him were never his true friends. They were just people who wanted to be by his side because of his talents at baseball. But the moment he broke his arm, they turned on him like deceiving poisonous cobras; spouting how they can't win anymore because of him.

When everyone lost hope in trying to coax the baseball star back from the ledge, it was the most unexpected person to stop him from taking that last step:

It was Dame-Tsuna...

The person that failed at every subject test, even PE; stopped the teen from going to his death with words that spoke volume in not just how much insight he had of failures, but also the resolve of standing back up...what to live for.

Out of all the people in the school populace standing like deers frozen, staring at the headlights of an oncoming car; Dame-Tsuna, did something that no one expected him to do. He wasn't great and he failed and he was clumsy, he admitted that. But he did one thing that no one tried to do that day. Go up to someone suicidal, and talk them out of it.

Every one of the students' standing, there on the rooftop... behind Dame-Tsuna... had just stood there, not going any closer because they didn't want to take responsibility if they failed. And that was what they were afraid of.

Kensuke, being present, was one of the people who watched Tsuna stop the teen from committing suicide. Watching Tsuna dive after the teen when the fence broke from his weight when trying to get back on the other side. Grabbing hold of the hand the moment he started falling even when he couldn't handle the weight but still managed to do so with resolve until Gokudera Hayato, the delinquent-genius outcast transfer student, who somehow became a worshiper of every step Sawada Tsunayoshi takes. Watched them becoming the truest friend that Takeshi has in his life.

It left him in awe-inspired.

However, the bitterness of his defeat during his match with the said teen and his own pride made him continue his belittling and bullying of Tsuna. Even though he didn't want to mentally.

Every word and shoves he made on the brunette left a sour-bile taste in his mouth. It made him wonder where he was getting it from.

It wasn't until the days he was hospitalized, thanks to the Kokuyo students attacking the Namimori students, that he had finally realized why he acted as such.

He was taking example of his father... the man who didn't care for his family. The man who didn't love him and his siblings but the job of being the head of some corporation. The man who took his mother's life for granted for providing heirs and only using words of belittlement until she broke.