Chapter 3

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Love for one child

Tears fell from his eyes as he cradled the pacifier while Giotto mentally thanked Daemon's descendant for creating an illusion around them. Hibrai Kyoya and Rokudo Mukuro definitely cares for the brunette and they will do everything to help him and relieve him from the damned game Tsunayoshi was forced to do.

Giotto slowly approaches his descendant and hugs the brunette to comfort him.

When the brunette finally get himself together. He, along with Giotto, went to the brunette's designated classroom. He was already late for fifteen minutes and to his classmates shock, there was not even one scratch to the brunette's body, courtesy of Hibari Kyoya.

No one escapes the Demon Perfect unscathed.

Good thing it is homeroom class and their adviser is nice enough to let Tsuna inside. The teacher notices the red puffy eyes of the brunette and decide to let the brunette enter her class. Once the brunette sits, Mrs. Akano continues her lecture.

Tsuna unconsciously looks his left side where the window is located and stared at the clear blue sky while Mrs. Akano's voice slowly becomes lower and lower.

Because of the sudden panic attack at the hallway earlier, Tsuna's mind has been drifting.

LINE

[11 years ago, Japan]

The five year old boy gives Aria and Gamma a pout and the Italian woman chuckles because of his action.

"Smile for me, Tsuna." She says with a small smile while caressing the child's chubby cheeks. "I put my phone in your bag, so we could talk while I'm away." She continued.

"Promise?"

"Promise"

And with that, Tsuna and the two Italian bid their farewell.

Tsuna watches the car disappear before deciding to enter the house. The ghosts that has been with him from the start, opened the door for him and trailed behind him. As usual, Tsuna didn't receive any greeting from his mother. While walking upstairs, he saw his mother cuddling with his younger brothers in the entertainment room.

The ghosts noticed the longing in his eyes which made their nonexistent hearts ache.

Tsuna felt something cold on his shoulder and when he look at it, Giotto's hands were resting on his child looks up. "Let's go to your room." The blonde ghost said with a small smile on his lips which Tsuna responded with a small nod.

Giotto, being the nice and responsible guardian of the small child, helped the brunette change clothes once they are inside his room while the other responsible and mature men starts to rant about unreliable mother and father.

"Stupid son of a-"

"G! Language! Not in the presence of the child!" Asari said to stop the red-head from saying bad words.

"Wow, what a responsible adult." Lampo said sarcastically while rolling his eyes and G, being the most temperamental one in the group, exploded in fit of anger. "What did you just say?! Say that to my face!"

Giotto lets out an exasperated sigh and Tsuna just laughed obliviously at his older brothers' antics.

"So, Tsu-kun. What so you think of Aria-san? Did you have fun with her?"

Tsuna responded with a beaming smile and nodded his head multiple times. "Yup! Tsu-kun had fun! Mom's* hugs are very warm and I really like it! Mama** never hug me and Papa was never home. I like Mom and Gamma-san better than Mama and Papa." The child's smart answer was very shocking.

Cursing silently because of the words that just came out from Tsuna, Giotto could only express his sadness by hugging the child tenderly and pressing a kiss on Tsuna's hair. "We love you so much, Tsu-kun." He whispered.

And I wish for you not to be consumed by hate.

LINE

Later that evening, Tsuna found himself crying because of another punishment his mother gave him for making Takumi cry which Tsuna defended by saying the truth that he didn't made his little brother cry. Because of the lack of trust and dislike of the adult in Tsuna, she didn't took Tsuna's defense and she lashes out by hitting Tsuna once in the face and shouting at him that Tsuna is not allowed to eat dinner. The slap was hard enough for Tsuna to fall on the wooden ground.

The ghosts were furious, but they chooses not to do anything physically to the woman because they are men and they respect women in general. Yes, the mother of three did go beyond the line, but the ghosts' choices is an example that not every conflict must result in physical abuse.

They only shouted at the woman with different types of curses in Italian before following the distressed child in his room. Their hearts shattered when they heard the muffled sound of cry from Tsuna. They immediately went towards the child and comforted him without making any more aggressive comments to not add more distress to the child. All comments were kept inside their head.

While comforting the child, Giotto remembered the phone Aria left for Tsuna.

"Alaude, could you get the phone Aria-san left for Tsuna?" Giotto said which the Cloud guardian immediately did.

Once handed to the blonde he responded with, "Thanks" and starts looking for Aria's contact number. The moment he finds her contact number, he immediately presses the green button.

Seconds passed before the voice of the woman was heard.

"Hello?"

"Honey, is that you? Why are you crying?"

Hearing the familiar and warm voice of Aria, Tsuna cried harder and reaches his hand to the phone. "Mom, I don't want here anymore." Everyone in the room wasn't shocked to hear this from Tsuna, but what amazed them was Aria's response.

"Okay, honey. I understand. Mommy will go there and will take you, okay?"

Without any questions, she responded positively to the child's request.

The phone call ended and Tsuna is still not stopping from crying so, Giotto took the child and cradled him in his arms. The brunette clenched his little hands in Giotto's clothes as he cried. Giotto on the other hand told his men to pack Tsuna's clothes for they are leaving this cold home.

Fifteen minutes later, Lampo returned from his exploration and told them that he saw Aria's car and will be approaching the neighborhood.

"Don't worry about the people inside the house, I will handle the illusion for Tsuna to get out." Alaude said and with one swift of his hand, a mirror barrier appeared by the stairs until the gates of the residence.

LINE

Aria and Gamma were having dinner at the restaurant in the hotel when Aria's phone starts to ring. The woman fishes out the phone in her skirt pocket and to her glee when she sees the caller, she answers the call immediately and with a smile on her face.

"Hello?"

The smile immediately dissolves when she heard the distressed cries from the other line. Gamma also heard the cries and frowns at the phone.

"Honey, is that you? Why are you crying?" she asked with so much worry in her face and tone.

Aria immediately thought that something terrible must have happened with Tsuna for him to cry like that and this thought were proven right the moment Tsuna speaks up.

"Mom, I don't want here anymore."

Without any more questions she says, "Okay, honey. I understand. Mommy will go there and will take you, okay?" and drops the call.

Aria gestured at Gamma that they needed to go and with a nod from the man, he and Aria made their way out of the hotel. Leaving responsibilities of payments to one of their men.

On their way, Aria explained what just happened and Gamma silently absorbs the information while formulating the actions he must do. Twenty minutes later, they pulled over one block away from the Sawada Residence. They hurried their steps and the moments they saw the house of Sawada's and in front of the house is a child with a small backpack standing by the gates.

Aria runs and it hurt her to see the glistening eyes of the child when he saw Aria running towards him. Aria scoops the child in her arms and kisses him on his forehead while Tsuna starts to cry again. "I'm here. I'm here. Mommy's here. Don't cry, honey" Aria whispers.

Gamma notices that the brunette is holding a paper and takes it from the child's hand. The brunette let go the paper and let Gamma read the contents written there. The Italian man gasped in shock as he kept reading the contents in the paper.

Gamma noted that it was Alaude who wrote every contents in the paper. In the paper. It explained what happened and it was very hard for Gamma to stop himself from barging inside the house and confront the abusive mother.

[-if you are worried about Nana finding out that Tsuna is missing, Daemon put up an illusion.]

With the last note, Gamma let out a relieved sigh and hid the letter in his breast pocket before reaching out towards Tsuna's face to look at the place where Tsuna's abusive mother hit him.

Gamma let out a series of curses in Italian when he saw the bruising on Tsuna's left cheek and the small bleeding wound at the edge of his lip. "It's bruising" he said. He took his phone out and took a couple of pictures. It is a good evidence for the lawyers.

After taking pictures, he hid his phone back to where it belong and took the bag from Tsuna. The brunette kept his grip to Aria which Aria returned with her warm hug.

The three, including the ghosts, made their way to the car and drove off back to the hotel where Aria and Gamma are staying.

TBC

OMAKE

"Fuck"

All heads snapped behind and everyone's jaw are hanging open. They stared at the oblivious child who is beaming at them while hugging a stuffed-toy bear.

"Fuck"

Giotto gasped and launches himself to the gaping red-head. "G! Look what you just did! He's Five!" Giotto exclaims while strangling his best friend.

On the other hand, Asari dropped to his knees and kindly explained to the child that the word he just said is bad and must never be spoken again. Tsuna being the smart and adorable little shit responded with, "G-nii likes to say it."

Another person joins them to help Asari. "G is an uneducated bas— I mean, your big brother G is not a good example and must not be looked up to, understand?" Daemon answered.

AN: Aw shiet. Look at this! What the hell is this?! An update!