I don't know if this has been done before, but I have been itching to write this oneshot for hours right now. This is to let off some steam and get my mind running again!
ENJOY!
Mangaka Sawada
When Reborn arrived at the Sawada household, he expected to find a No-Good student just like his previous one. But when he arrived, he was shocked to learn from Sawada Nana that Tsuna had moved out and had gotten an apartment to live by himself because of his work. When he arrived at the apartment, he saw a sleep-deprived teenager meeting his deadline.
…
Reborn liked to think of himself as a pretty composed person. He could tolerate almost everybody, even his lackey Cloud Arcobaleno, Skull.
If there was someone he couldn't tolerate, it was Sawada Iemitsu. That man was the most idiotic person he has ever met.
Now that he was to tutor his son, Sawada Tsunayoshi, he will have to see if the man would make up for his stupidity when he sees the state of his son.
Ringing the doorbell to the Sawada Household, he waited for a few seconds before the door was opened to reveal Sawada Nana, the civilian wife of the Young Lion of Vongola.
"Ciaossu! I'm the home tutor, Reborn," he introduced.
"Ah! You came!" Nana said as she opened the door widely, "Come inside. Have you had breakfast yet?"
Reborn simply smiled and accepted her offer. His brow rose when he noticed that there was only one pair of shoes in the entrance, and extra slippers were stored in the cabinet, as if it had not been used in a while. The dining room was the same. There was only one set of tableware aside from the one Nana is now taking out for him.
He sat down on the chair that Nana offered him. Five minutes passed and still, there was no other sign of another person living with the Sawada matriarch.
"Sawada-san," Reborn addressed.
Nana smiled at him, "Please, call me Mama."
"Mama, then, where's Tsuna?" he finally asked.
He was surprised to see Nana sigh dejectedly, "Well, to tell you the truth, Reborn-kun, I asked for your help because Tsuna has not been doing well at school lately, ever since he moved out,"
So the brat ran away? "Moved out?"
Nana nodded. "He still comes to dinner every Friday night, but I can tell that he hasn't been getting any sleep lately, and that his homeroom teacher had called me several times about him sleeping in class. He used to have good grades, but lately…they've been plummeting,"
"Does this have something to do with his friends?" he asked. He will have to shape up the conduct of the kid if he had to.
"Oh heaven's no! His friends are helping him already! It's just…I'm worried that he's valuing his work more than his school grades," Nana stated.
Job? The kid has a job? This wasn't in his files. He has a Young Lion to kill in his sleep later on.
"Well then, I assure you, I can help." Reborn said.
Nana smiled brightly again, "Really? Thank you! Oh, and here's his address. It's a few blocks away from his school, and I'm sure it would be easy to find," she said as she gave him a slip of paper with his address.
Reborn's eyes glinted. It was time to meet his student.
…
He arrived at the high rise apartments to see that Tsuna had good taste in finding an apartment. A bit costly for his liking, and quite too big for a middle school student to afford. But he double-checked the address that Nana had given him, and the landmarks were correct. Which meant one thing.
Tsuna's job was high paying enough for him to afford a three-bedroom apartment.
Getting up at the elevator, he went to the second floor to apartment 2772, where indeed, there was the plate of 'SAWADA' on it.
Ringing the doorbell, he waited for a while for someone to respond. To his surprise, there he heard someone shout at the intercom. "GAH! If you're Itou-san, it's not done yet!"
The door opened automatically anyways, and out came a teenager of fourteen years old with spiky brown hair and tired caramel eyes. It looked like he hadn't slept in days. "Huh? Who are you?"
His eyes glinted. "Ciaossu! I'm your tutor, Reborn,"
"Ah…Mom told me you were coming. But before we talk about that, can you help me for a while? I'm kind of in a tight spot." He said as he allowed him to enter the apartment. Not waiting for a reply, he immediately went to the second room to the left, which, from the blueprints that Reborn read before coming, was the largest room in the apartment.
When he entered the room with Tsuna, his brow rose at the sight of the room.
He has only seen this kind of room when reading articles about Japan and its manga industry. One of Sawada Tsunayoshi's rooms were made and arranged for a mangaka. Not just any mangaka, mind you. A professional mangaka that is Sawada Tsunayoshi.
'So this is what Mama was saying about his job making him sleep-deprived. Interesting.'
Tsuna motioned him to a workstation across his, which was the biggest workstation in the room. "Here. My assistants can't come today and I have school in two hours. Can you help me by erasing the pencil marks?" he asked as he gave him eight pages of the manga that were already inked.
"Sure." Reborn found himself agreeing. If there was something he learned from those articles about mangakas, it was to help them meet their deadlines to get them to talk reasonably.
Tsuna nodded and left him to work while the brunette had gotten his toners in his workstation to get the other pages done. Reborn observed his hands moving gracefully, as if he has done it for years already. The way he manages his pages was careful, and quick at the same time.
One hour later, found Tsuna stretching his limbs as he finished placing the toners to the last page and had just arranged them in order. "Ah! I made it!" he said with relief. He then looked back at Reborn who was eyeing him with interest. "Now I can talk. So, why are you here again?" Tsuna asked as he placed the pages in an envelope and sealing it and writing the name, Sora Yoshi.
"I'm here to train you into a mafia boss."
Tsuna's eyes widened in shock. "What?!" he shouted. "Mafia?!"
"You're the last direct descendant of the first boss of the world's most powerful mafia families out there. The Vongola Famiglia." Reborn explained.
Tsuna started to stutter. "B-But I can't be a mafia boss! I'm just a mangaka!"
"That can be arranged." Reborn said calmly. "You can still do manga while you're a boss."
"Still! I don't want to be a boss!" then it hit him. "Wait a minute. When you said that I am a direct descendant…that wouldn't be my father's family line, is it?"
Huh. He guessed being a manga artist can make your imagination run wild and even hit a bull's eye. "Yes."
That made Tsuna growl. "Argh! That man! When will he stop meddling with my life?!" he complained. "Here I am, a working student in order to get away from his financial clutches, and now I end up becoming a mafia boss with just being related to him?!"
"You don't sound so surprised that I told you that you would inherit a mafia family."
Tsuna sighed and calmed down. "You would get used to it when you imagine a lot of scenarios that could happen to your characters. My shock was only because it's happening to me in real life," he stated. "My anger is situated on my father who knows nothing about me and even had the guts to put this on me. So, how did the other heirs die?" Reborn gave him a look. "Don't look at me like that. I know how the mafia works from my researches in my past manga series," he explained.
Reborn sighed. This was easier to explain. "There were supposed to be three before you. One died in a shooting, the other drowned, and the last got turned into ashes,"
"Ah. Morbid, but true to life." Tsuna said. "But still, I don't want to be a mafia boss."
"You have no choice."
"I always have no choice when it comes to him…" Tsuna said.
That got to Reborn. What did he mean by that? Did the idiot say something to him to get him like this?
Tsuna glanced at the clock in his workstation and saw that fifteen minutes has passed. "I better wash up. I have school in forty-five minutes,"
When Tsuna disappeared from the door, Reborn smirked. He would have fun torturing this kind of student. "A mangaka huh? Well, with his imagination running wild, training him would be so entertaining." He said to himself. But for now, he has to get back at the teenager's idiotic father. Now what would be good…?
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OMAKE
Two Weeks Later
"By the way, Tsuna," Reborn asked.
"Hm?" Tsuna replied as he and Reborn walked back to the apartment after classes. He has a deadline waiting for him in two days, and he had to get another all-nighter.
"You're a serialized mangaka doing shonen manga, right?" Reborn said.
"Yeah…" Reborn noticed that he was starting to sweat.
The hitman smirked, "Then why did I find some drafts of a BL manga kept in a tight lock and key around your workstation?"
"HIEE! You found that?! Only the girls know about that!" he said, mentioning his girl assistants, Sasagawa Kyoko, Miura Haru and Kurokawa Hana. Now Reborn understood why there are changes in the shifts of his assistants from all-male like Gokudera, Yamamoto and Ryohei, and the all-girls team. Each were helping him out with two different manga series.
"Care to explain? I didn't know you could cook up such a thing," he teased.
Tsuna blushed to the roots of his hair, "I-It started out as a joke, okay!"
"Then explain why the seme looked like Hibari Kyouya,"
"It was a coincidence, I swear!" Tsuna replied indignantly. "Besides…argh! Nevermind! Just keep it to yourself!"
Reborn smirked. Oh yes. He found it.
…
Italy
"Master! There's a package for you from Reborn-dono!" Basil said as he handed the package to Iemitsu who was buried in paperwork.
"Oh? Straight from Japan, I see? I wonder what it is…"
It looked small to be something dangerous. There was a note stuck on the package.
This is what your son has been doing while you were gone.
"Huh? What Tsuna is doing?" Iemitsu wondered.
When he opened the package, his eyes widened when he saw that it was a manga. But not just any manga. It was a BL manga with the innocent-looking uke being harassed by the seme from behind with a devilish grin. Not to mention that the uke was half naked.
Three seconds passed and everyone from the CEDEF building heard the scream of their boss.
Oregano, Turmeric, Lal and Colonello rushed to the room to find Iemitsu with his soul leaving his mouth, and Basil looking at a manga with a red face, looking scandalized.
"What's going on, kora?!" Colonello said.
Basil tried to take out the words in his mouth, "R-Reborn-dono sent Master a package saying that t-this is what S-Sawada-dono was doing while he was gone…" he said.
The others raised their brow and took the book from Basil. Oregano was the first to see it and squeaked at the cover page. "Oh dear!"
Turmeric and the two Arcobaleno were curious and leaned in to Oregano to see why she was blushing like Basil.
"WHAT THE HELL KORA!" Colonello shouted as he covered his eyes, praying that the image would be erased from his mind.
"S-Sawada has been having clandestine visits with a man?!" Lal said in shock while Turmeric just froze in place.
Upon hearing it, Iemitsu woke up with a determined face, "THAT'S IT! We're going to Japan and see my son!"
…
Meanwhile, in Namimori
Tsuna's spine shivered for some reason, which didn't go unnoticed by the girls. They were working on his BL manga today, and he couldn't help but be worried what that was about. But he knew that it had something to do with the missing volume of his most erotic BL manga that he had done last month.
END
Haha! I had fun! A little AU to get my mind running again!