Tsuna in the past

Chapter 16 Reborn's and some of Tsuna's past

Tsuna hummed as he thought what he wanted to know. It was more that he is curious about his past.

"I want to know about your past. You always tried to avoid it. I want to know more about it."

Renato let out a sigh, as his lips were pressed together, but soon he gave him a wry smile. It was a different one which he never had seen. It was a smile that showed that his past wasn't pleasant. But it was precisely why he wanted to know.

"My past...wasn't pleasant. Are you sure you want to hear about it?"

Tsuna glanced at Renato and seeing him like that was breaking his heart. Never had he seen the Reborn look that troubled as well sad.

"You know that I won't judge you. I know that you are a hitman, and I never hated you. The opposite actually. How about an exchange? I have some stuff which no one knew about me. You aren't the only one who had a rather dark past."

That made Reborn look surprised at the tone he used. It was a different one, which wasn't something that he usually showed. He's good for nothing father wasn't someone who he talked about and he hated him, but why it was, he had never told anyone.

"Fine, so I was born in Italian, Sicilian. My mother and my father had abandoned me, and I was living in an orphanage until my 10th year. The orphanage was burned down, someone actually from the mafia burned it down."

The other paused as he had a grim expression and he didn't look better he was shocked and furious that someone would do this.

"I survived and that just because I was the one who had been chosen to buy food. Soon someone took me in, a hitman funnily enough."

He chuckled dryly at this and Tsuna stayed silent not saying anything.

"His name was Marcus. He was a nice fellow and he was the one who taught me with the age of 14 how to shoot. I had a talent for being a hitman as I can see waves that shows me people's feelings. I learned of it by chance when one of the kids who were Luce. She was on the brink of a panic attack at that time. I managed to calm her down thanks to that."

He could hear the whistful, yet sad tone out of it. 

"I used it to calm her down. And soon I met the other arcobalenos. It was then that Marcus had been killed, and I took over as the new Reborn. I was soon known by the whole underground as I was that good."

He felt sad about this, that his mentor had lost his father figure, and mentor. It made his heart sting just imagine losing Reborn would be torture to him.

"And the rest you know as two years later we got that damn curse forced on us."

Tsuna felt horrible for Renato and felt his heart just sting more. At least he knew now more about him. It was clear that the other hadn't told everything, but that didn't matter. It was now his turn to tell Renato and he wasn't sure how the other would react.

"Thanks for telling me this. I was at the age of 5 that I have seen the first-gen, as I had never felt real love. Nana was not the best mother. She usually ignored me, and when others came over she put an act on."

Until this day their relationship wasn't that good. Nana didn't change that much and it was all an act which he knew. He could feel the eyes bore into him, which led to him shiver. These eyes were telling a question, 'why didn't you tell me?' 

"That was that time where my flames got known. Of course, Bakamitsu didn't like it and did sell me later on to Estraneo Famiglia. I couldn't tell anyone and no one knows other then Mukuro. He was the one who rescued me."

He felt the other bloodlust and could tell that the other was furious now. Still, he didn't disrupt his story.

"I was lucky as I didn't die. Still, my flames were since then different and you did question me about this once and I didn't tell you because of this. After all, he still was my father and I couldn't tell anyone. Who would believe a dame like me?"

He let out a shaky sigh as he grimaced at the memory. That was one of the reasons why he was shy, timid and clumsy. The eyes on the other burned now into him, and he could tell that the latter was furious about this.

"The shyness, clumsiness, and timidness come from that. Vendice did bring me back to Nana, but I never could really forgive her for not putting enough of a fight. She was after all a former hitwoman."

With this, he stopped talking, as this was a bit too much for him. His hands balled to a fist as they were shaking. It was Mukuro who was for him as a big brother and still was. He felt himself being pulled into a hug by the other. He hugged back and that was one of the first times he cried. After all, he bottled it up. Tsuna never told anyone about this. It lifted the weight of his heart. 

His mist never told anyone as he asked to stay quiet about that matter and of course, Mukuro had accepted this. Soon he felt himself being lulled into a sleep from the calm heartbeat of his crush...

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"Ugh..."

His eyes slowly opened and he blinked the blurriness away, just to realize that he was back at his room. 

'Huh, I must have dozed off...I really have to thank Ren-chan for listening...'

For once he was glad that he hadn't said anything, but he knew that the other hated that someone made him suffer. Tsuna knew that the latter male cared deeply for him.

"You doing better now?"

The voice made him slightly jump up as he looked to the side to see Renato looking at him in concern. Damn, this doesn't suit Reborn at all. But then again he should have known that the other would now treat him different.

"Yeah, and Reborn?"

The waited for him to continue talking.

"Thanks, but don't treat me differently now. I am long over the point were this really affects me."

The other chuckled this and soon he had his smirk back on his lips.

"Oh don't worry I wasn't planning to treat you differently. I just wanted to be sure that you don't end up in a depressed state."

That made him blink and giving the other a bright smile. One which he hadn't had on his lips since remembering. The other pulled his fedora down, and Tsuna could see a slight blush on the cheeks of the other.

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I hope you enjoyed it and it ended up with Tsuna being one of the experiments there. The past won't be really mentioned often, and probably the only time. As it doesn't really have to do with the story itself. Or maybe I will. It depends on how my mood is.~ I see you all in the next chapter, ja ne.~