"If I didn't... and we met, we probably wouldn't have gotten together... I mean assumin' I lived that long."

He shook that thought away, "Y'now the first time I met the Ninth he actually kinda tricked me into playin' piano for someone while they were hurt."

And he paused thoughtfully for a moment.

"So I guess I have my mom to thank for that too..."

If his mother hadn't taught him the piano, then he wouldn't have been able to take over for Marco, the Ninth wouldn't have taken him in, he would never have joined the Vongola... and possibly he would have never met Ryuutaro. He owed her for everything good in his life, he really did.

and then it dawned on him... his mother's grave was probably in Sicily... if there was ever a time when he could find out where she was buried...