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"B-boyfriend?! I-I-I didn't know h-he was dating anybody! I-I mean... h-how did you get here? A-and...."

The boy stops himself, there were more important things to deal with right now. He gets up, carefully stepping over Yamamoto, to kneel down on the other side of Gokudera. He offers Gokudera's 'girlfriend' an awkward and meek little smile.

"My name's Sawada Tsunayoshi, G-Gokudera-kun's my friend."

Yes Ryuutaro, this tiny, meek, and derpy little thing is the brave, strong, courageous, and all around most amazing person ever that Gokudera never shut-up about. Of course this little teen doesn't consider himself mafia, thus he considers Gokudera his friend over his 'right-hand-man'.

Naturally Ryuutaro knew that there wasn't really a way Tsuna could have known of their relationship.
Even though for them it had been over a year, in this world Hayato probably had never been missing.
Naturally, Hayato could've told him, but at the risk of sounding insane...? It was unlikely.
And if it was like it had been for him when he was returned to his world, Hayato might... have passed it off as a dream. The thought did hurt a bit.

"How I got here is ... quite a long story", Ryuutaro said in the very same moment he recognized that name. He rarely heard it, because the name 'tenth' was so much more present, but... could this be? Could this really be?

"My name's Fukami Ryuutaro", he introduced himself, looking at the other boy. This was nothing like what he imagined that wondrous tenth to look like, "You're... the 'Tenth' if I'm not mistaken?"

"EEEEI?! Y-you're a boy?! G-Gokudera-kun is...?!"

... Actually... it... shouldn't have been that much of a surprise. Gokudera had been... sort of... stalker-ish to Tsuna in the past. Really it was just sort of pulling the pieces together... which he had never bothered doing... he was usually too busy trying to keep Gokudera out of trouble. They flaily little teen calms down a bit when Ryuutaro asks the second question... he's still a bit confused to say the least, but calmer. This whole situation was just so weird, but he would have to let this sink in later.

Of course Gokudera would go around calling him the 'Tenth' or 'Boss'... and probably blowing his image way out of proportion, hence this boy's confusion. He meekly rubs the back of his neck and looks away, a bit embarrassed thinking of what Gokudera probably said about him.

"Y-yeah... Gokudera-kun... made me out to be a lot more then I really am again, didn't he? He does that a lot."

Ryuutaro got out his fan. Not even Tsunayoshi Sawada, famous Tenth, is save from fan-shushings.
Not after obviously mistaking him for a girl.
"I assure you, I am completely male."

Taking the fan back, he looked down at his unconscious boyfriend, swallowing hard.

"I will gladly explain some more of these things to you, once we got him away from here. He needs help... "
Ryuutaro had to take a deep breath to keep himself from losing composure again.

At the fan-shushing Tsuna actually falls back on to his and just rapidly nods in apology. Though he pulls himself together again when he sees Ryuutaro's demeanor shift. He didn't need his hyper-intuition to know that the other boy's worry was genuine. Tsuna nods, this time in agreement. Before he goes to get help, he reaches into his sweatshirt pocket and hands Ryuutaro a little packet of tissues. The other boy's...erm... make-up was kind of smudgy. Then Tsuna realized he never thought he would be worrying about a boy's make-up in his life. WHY did him and a normal life EVER seem to work out? But still, he was Hayato's friend, and he was upset. ~~clearly he had never seen Hayato after his run ins with cars.~~

"Here, I'll be right back."

And he turns to run back from where he came, only to be stopped as a tall figure ~~with hair that could poke out an eye~~ emerges from the bush. Tsuna looks started for a moment. "Ah! Y-you're..?!"

"Kusakabe Tetsuya," The man interrupts, "Hibari's subordinate."

Tsuna nods and backs up to let the man pass and give him access to the two injured boys on the ground. He lifts up their shirts and pokes them a bit, getting a small flinch or grunt in pain from the boys if he hit an injury.

"Their lives are not in immediate danger, but still need to get them treated quickly." The man easily hefts the taller boy, Yamamoto, onto his back, then looks to Ryuutaro curiously. Tsuna nods, wordlessly letting Tetsuya know that he was with them.

"Can you two take Gokudera-san?"

Tsuna nods again, and goes back to the spot next to Gokudera, slowly trying to ease him up into a sitting potion so he can get Gokudera's arm over his shoulder. He's careful not to touch Gokudera's damaged hand, instead holding his wrist to keep him supported. It felt so strange to be holding onto Gokudera like this, usually he was at least somewhat conscious.... but now... his body was just completely limp. His head lolled lifelessly as he was moved, the only sign that he was alive was his labored raspy breathing. It was frightening....

Edited 2011-07-31 00:25 (UTC)

'Their lives are not in immediate danger'... Ryuutaro lets out a sigh of relieve at these words.
Even though he had no idea where the man saying them came from and why being subordinate of a certain 'Hibari' made him trustworthy. It seemed like he had no choice but to play along with all of this. Figuring out this world would probably take him a long time.

Ryuutaro wordlessly helps Tsuna with carrying Hayato. This did feel as horrible to him as it did to the other boy. Ryuutaro bit his lip.
He only spoke up again after they already silently carried Hayato for a while.

"Who was the man who did this? And... why did he do it?"

Tsuna looked down at the ground worriedly. It was tough to explain... and he didn't even know if he should.

"It's... a long story... and it's kind of hard to explain. But I guess the easiest way of saying it is... well... the Vongola are being hunted. As for who attacked Yamamoto and Gokudera-kun, I think his name is Gamma"

They step into a clearing by a shrine.

"WAS Gamma." The tall, dark haired Asian man corrects Tsuna, standing right near the mangled body of the blonde man. ~~spoilers, he's not dead~~. "There's an entrance to the base here." The man turns, and looks like he's about to walk into a pillar, but suddenly just disappears.

Tsuna's eyes widen in shock. "H-Hibari-san!? H-he disappeared!"

Kusakabe takes off Yamamoto's Vongola ring and then speaks up, "There is, however, one problem with us taking our leave from here. That is the rain and storm Vongola rings. They would have shown up on the enemy radar by now. We can't let their signal disappear from here."

A dark-hair woman with a peculiar scar on the right side of her cheek steps forward. "I understand. Leave this matter to me." She takes the Rain guardian's ring, and then holds her hand out to Ryuutaro, since the storm ring was on the hand draped over his shoulder. Her stare at the new boy is harsh. She hadn't met him before, and obviously didn't trust him. But now was not the time for such matters, she would, however, be sure to keep a close watch on him.

While Ryuutaro at first still tried to make sense out of everything happening around him, he gave up when Hibari disappeared just accepting the weirdness of this place mostly, only vaguely trying to keep up with what was happening.

At least he knew what the woman wanted, even though he didn't like the way she looked at him. Not that he trusted her or anybody here any more than she trusted him.
Hesitantly he got the ring of his boyfriends hand, handing it over. He hardly had a choice at the moment and certainly wouldn't argue with the people here.
Getting through this somehow seemed to be the only thing he could do right now.

Kusakabe leads the two boys through the hidden door Hibari had just walked through... and apparently not waited for them. He was nowhere to be seen.

Tsuna seems just as new to this as Ryuutaro, looking around the underground facility curiously. He asks Tetsuya a few questions here and there, mostly about where they were. Supposedly some research facility of Hibari's that was connected to the Vongola base... but closed off until now because Hibari hated people crowds.

Eventually they come to a point where they can lay Hayato down on a stretcher. It's a bit difficult, Gokudera was not only taller (if that wasn't evident by how his feet had been dragging on the ground the whole way there...) but he was heavier too. Slowly he helps get Gokudera into a sitting position, then easing him down, holding his head so it doesn't loll around as they do so. That had really been bothering Tsuna. After getting the teens legs up he steps back and lets him get wheeled off. He looks at Ryuutaro again, a bit worried for him too, but also curious.

"Um... do you want to borrow some clothes? Yours got sort of bloody... I'm sure there's a place we can wash them around here...." Tsuna looks around as though a magical laundry room will appear before them,"Um... I can tell you more about what's going on if you want..."

and hopefully he would talk more about how he knew Gokudera...

Ryuutaro looked at his clothes. Yes, he was clearly looking messy again. But he figured that he'd still feel more comfortable wearing his own things, however bloody they were.
He even felt unsure wearing other clothes around Hayato, so he could live without having that feeling around a bunch of confusing strangers. And he didn't want to leave Hayato's side for a moment either.

"I'm fine like this, thank you", Ryuutaro answered putting on a fake smile, "And some more information would be helpful... Unfortunately I don't know too much about any of this."

Tsuna nods, and takes a seat outside the room Yamamoto and Gokudera had been taken into. Instead of changing Tsuna just pulls off his sweatshirt... he didn't like being reminded about just how hurt his friends had been.

"Well... um... has Gokudera-kun ever told you about Lambo? and his 10-yeah bazooka? It's some weird weapon that if you get hit with it, you switch out with yourself 10 years in the future for five minutes." He looks down at his hands, fidgeting with them awkwardly. He wouldn't tell this strange boy that 10 years in the future he was... in a coffin. That news hadn't gone over well with Gokudera, and Tsuna figured it was probably for the better if this boy didn't bring it up with Gokudera."Well, I got hit by it first while looking for someone, I met Gokudera for a minute, but then he got switched out too.... and for some reason even after 5 minutes we couldn't go back. Yamamoto and a few of our other friends got switched out too eventually. We're still looking for some of them. Apparently, though, in the future, I had the Vongola rings destroyed, because I didn't want to have to see my friends have to fight for them again..."

He cringed thinking about the ring battles too. Gokudera and Yamamoto hadn't come out much better then they had now... but at least they had been conscious.

"There's a mafia family here, the Millifiore, who started hunting other mafias and destroying them. Right now they're after the Vongola... th-they're hunting us, and they want the Vongola rings."

Tsuna holds out his hand looking at his ring, wrapping in a small chain so the other family couldn't pick it up on their radar or whatever it was. Now that his part was mostly-sort-of explained the best way he knew how, he had his own question.

"um... what about you? Where did you come from? H-how did you and Gokudera-kun.... um... y-you know.... start dating...?"

Edited 2011-08-01 04:13 (UTC)

Ryuutaro listened silently, trying to understand and memorize the things he was hearing. It all sounded pretty much horrible. The Dark Nebula was really nothing compared to the things going on here.

At Tsuna's questions Ryuutaro still staid silent for a moment, hesitating on how to reply. He could make up some weird lies here, but since he knew next to nothing about the world it wouldn't go over well.
Still the truth was going to make him sound insane. But he didn't have much of a choice at the moment.
The fortune-teller put on a smile, opening his fan.
"What I'm telling you now will probably sound extremely unlikely to you... Then again most of the things you told me a minute ago sound unlikely as well, so I hope you won't directly pass me off as insane. When Hayato wakes up, he'll tell you the same story."
Ryuutaro took another deep breath.
"I'm from some kind of alternate version of Japan", he was not going to say 'other world' yet because that sounded even weirder, "Technically I shouldn't have gotten to known Hayato and I shouldn't be here, but there is some kind of... interdimensional place, sucking people in. While here you most likely didn't notice his absence, Hayato spent far over a year at that place. He probably never told you about it, because... it sounds insane. And when you get back to your world it's likely that you think it's just a dream..."
Ryuutaro paused, closing the fan again.
"I did, too, when I was returned to my world for a short period of time... that was until Hayato literally blew up the door to the room I was in." - deliberately not saying 'cell' here- "I don't really know why he ended up in my world for a short period of time and neither do I really know why I'm here at the moment."
And now he arrived at Tsuna's last question. He tapped the fan against his lips, smiling sweetly. This was naturally none of Tsuna's business, but Ryuutaro almost felt something like jealousy because in the end there were still so many things he didn't know about his boyfriend.
"And fortune brought us together as a couple about a year ago. For us, at least."
Ryuutaro chuckled, opening the fan in front of his face.
"I don't think Hayato'd appreciate if I told you too many" ~~dirty~~ "details about our time together. Let's just say it's fate."

Well at first that story just gets the most confused blank stare from Tsuna. Tsuna would be the first to admit he wasn't very smart, and that story was just too weird!

Up until the part about Gokudera blowing up a door. That sounded like him. Tsuna nods at the statement, remembering how the teen had once blown up a playground...

Though Tsuna's expressions take on an all new level of FLAIL when Ryuutaro begins to talk about their relationship. His cheeks light up, and his eyes practically pop out of his head. He REALLY couldn't understand how this boy and Gokudera had gotten together. He knew Gokudera could be a bit of a bully... alright MORE than a bit, and well... this sort of person seemed like the type Gokudera would like the LEAST. But he didn't seem to be lying... and seeing this boy crying over Gokudera in the woods, it all felt real, his hyper intuition wouldn't miss a deception like this. It would be tough to explain to the other guardians, but Tsuna trusted Ryuutaro. He calms down, a bit worried about this strange boy now, but he didn't know if there was anything he could do to help him feel better.

"S-so... that might be part of the reason why Gokudera-kun has been acting so strangely... He must have missed you."

Granted the other part probably had something to do with Tsuna in a coffin...Just then a rather scruffy-looking man walks through the door, in complete doctors garb.

"The boys are stable if you want to go see them. You owe me for this one kid, you know how I am about treating men..."

Edited 2011-08-01 18:44 (UTC)

Ryuutaro expected nothing else than a stare like that. From one second to another Gokudera had a boyfriend who he'd known for a year... Ryuutaro imagined that it wasn't easy to wrap your head around that, especially not with the way Hayato usually behaved.

When whoever-this-was-now entered the room and says that they can go see Hayato (and that other person) Ryuutaro immediately jumps into a standing position - in an elegant way of course.
'Stable' sounded good. He was so relieved...

The man turns and leads to two eager boys into the little hospital wing. He points to a door on the right.

"Yamamoto's in there. He's awake if you want to talk to him." then he points to another door, "Hayato's in there. He's still out cold."

Tsuna nodded, and looked to Ryuutaro with a meek little smile. "I should go check on Yamamoto... um... if you need anything... j-just let me know."

And with a little wave Tsuna goes in to see Yamamoto.

Ryuutaro nodded with a little smile and then turned to go see Hayato.
He wasn't sure what to make out of this place. Not that he wasn't used to meeting new people all the time, but this was a little too much. He'd need time to think all this over.

For the moment he just sat down at the corner of Hayato's bed, looking at him.
This was not the first time he'd seen him hurt badly, but it still felt worse.
The boy reached out, gently brushing his fingers through his boyfriends hair.
He wasn't intending on leaving this room until Hayato woke up.
Even though it was certainly discomforting to be here.

Foror the next hour or so, Gokudera shows no visible signs of improvement. He simply remains unconscious. Tsuna would pop his head in occasionally to see how both he and Ryuutaro were doing, worried about them both. Understanably so, Gokudera, despite being stable, looked like he wa sin pretty rough shape. His left hand is heavily bandaged and splinted, while the arm is bandages up to his bicep. His torso is covered with bandages, and there's an IV in his right arm. His face is scratched and scraped, and his head wrapped up... but finally... FINALLY he opens an eye groggily.

He's not completely conscious at first, it takes him a moment to really take things in and wrap his brain around what's going on. The first thing that comes to him being the ungodly brightness of the room, forcing him to close his eye again. Then, the sensation of someone gently touching his hair... it felt so nice... and calming, even though his sore and aching body, the touch felt good. He let out a content sigh and opens his eye again, looking at the source of the stroking. Ryuutaro. The corners of his lips start to twitch into a smile, but he pauses to wince a bit, it hurt to smile.

"Ryuu... taro? Please tell me I ain't dreaming." Hayato's voice cracks as he starts getting choked up, "P-please t-tell me y-you're really here..."

Edited 2011-08-02 05:22 (UTC)

Ryuutaro was stuck somewhere between laughing and crying as he saw Hayato slowly regain consciousness again.
It was kind of hard to bite back the tears of relieve, but he did so. Instead he just gave his boyfriend a warm smile.

"I'm here. Really." - even though he didn't quite now how to feel about it.
Ryuutaro leans forward, placing a short kiss on Hayato's forehead. Usually this happened the other way around, but there was no better time than now to switch roles for a while.
"Welcome back."
Welcome back to what... consciousness or his own world in general was up to interpretation.

Pain or not, the teen can't keep the genuine beaming smile from his face. Everything already hurt anyway, so why couldn't he just smile? He just looked at Ryuutaro for a moment, his dull green eyes watering up, causing his silvery eyelashes to stick together. He takes in a deep shaky breath and works to move his good arm so that he can gently brush Ryuutaro's cheek with the back of his hand, completing the gesture he made before he lost consciousness- to wipe away tears that were no longer there.

"R-Ryuutaro... d-don't leave me again... p-please d-don't leave me again... I-I was afraid... I w-was afraid it was a-all a dream..."

Hearing Hayato actually say he was afraid felt strange.
But Ryuutaro knew what he was talking about. The moment he'd woken up in the Dark Nebula he'd felt the same.
When Hayato's hand went down again, Ryuutaro just took it into his.
"I'm not going to", not willingly at least. Ryuutaro didn't want to think about the possibility of them being forcefully separated, each returned to their own world for good.
"...you are my fate after all..."
And everyone knew how Ryuutaro was about fate. It was about the only thing that could keep him chained. In the beginning it had been a bit scary to actually accept the bonds with Hayato, accept to belong somewhere.
But fate had brought him there and it felt just okay to be together instead of on his own.
Finding his own place didn't necessarily mean that he had to have it all to himself. That was something he'd realized back then.
Forcefully keeping himself away and fully independent, even when being with Hayato felt better, would be a cage he'd lock himself into. And plainly just a stupid thing to do.
Ryuutaro was over that now. He'd made his choice and wouldn't let any insecurities appear now.
This was the first time he directly named Hayato as his fate instead of just saying something like 'this'.

And there was a little laugh. He couldn't get much more out due to his condition, but he was happy again. He gave Ryuutaro's hand a tight squeeze, damn he always said the corniest shit... but there was nothing Gokudera would rather hear at the moment.

"I love you so much..."

He brings Ryuutaro's hand to his lips, and kisses it. Forget the split lip and everything, he needed to just be touching Ryuutaro any way he could. It takes the teen some time to pull himself together. Recall everything that happened... where they were... and when he does, he grimaces a bit. The argument with Yamamoto, the effect it on on that fight...

"Ryuutaro... h-have you seen the Tenth? I... I need to apologize... this mess... this whole mess... with Gamma... is all my fault..."

Ryuutaro nodded slightly. The Tenth. The... miraculous Tenth. Miraculous in a way of ... how could Hayato ever see him as a hero? Then again Ryuutaro didn't really know him at all, he shouldn't be unfair.

"Yes, he's in the other room, with that boy who was with you. And that Gamma...", Ryuutaro paused for a moment, "... is apparently... dead."
Even though he was trying to sound like he was talking about things that were totally natural, it was kind of obvious that he still had no real clue about what was going on. Sure, he got it all explained, but it didn't actually make sense to him yet.

~~IS THAT JEALOUSY I SMELL RYUUTARO!?~~

"Gamma's dead?" Hayato grunted as he propped himself up on his elbow,"D-did Boss-?"

The teen's question is interrupted, by the meek presence of Tsuna, peeking through the door to make sure the couple was okay. His eyes briefly go to the two boys' interlaced hands. So the story was true... well.... Gokudera looked happy. Tsuna walked in with a smile on his face... and the company of what looked like a baby.

"Gokudera-kun! You're awake!"

Gokudera eased himself back on the bed and looked to Tsuna, his brows knit together.

"Boss... I'm sorry... I'm really sorry Boss... it's all my fault. I've been really... scared since I came to this world... I lost my temper... took it out on Yamamoto, and let something like this..."

Now it was Tsuna's turn to look concerned. Gokudera always blamed himself whenever something went wrong.

"Gokudera-kun...."

And then the baby spoke. Yup, that baby is talking and not like a baby SHOULD be talking...

"Yamamoto said the same thing. He also said many, many good things he said not to tell Gokudera." Before the surprised Gokudera could say anything, the baby continues, "He's alive and doing very well."

Tsuna smiles, glad that Gokudera had the news... of course it doesn't last long. Gokudera sinks back into his pillow and growls.

"CHE! He's still alive, that bastard!"

Hayato was glad, if it wasn't made obvious from his worrying beforehand, but of course he couldn't just convey it like a normal person. No, he had to be a dick about it. Though his grip tightened on Ryuutaro's hand just a bit. He was so relieved. Too relieved for words.

~~HE'S TOO ARROGANT FOR JEALOUSY! BUT IT MIIIIIIIIGHT BE SOMETHING SIMILIAR....~~

Ryuutaro seriously couldn't see Tsuna kill anybody, but it appeared natural that Hayato'd jump to that conclusion. With whatever he saw in that boy...
But at least he didn't need to reply as the Tenth and .... whoever was this now? came in.

Ryuutaro couldn't even bring himself to be really surprised anymore as the baby spoke up. After this day and almost two years at the Manor...

At Hayato's sudden outburst of grumpyness, Ryuutaro bites back a chuckle and just smiles at him ~~in an "I-know-what-you-actually-think"-manner~~ and brushed his thumb softly over his boyfriend's hand.

Then the fortune-teller turned his attention to the 'baby'. He was getting a bit annoyed at people unknown to him coming and going... he was just a bit too used to being the center of ...well, his world and when suddenly everything around him seemed to work so well without him it pissed him off.

"May I ask who you are now?", he smiled in the way he smiled at everyone who was not Hayato. Fake-polite and absolutely condescending when you looked behind that.

"Reborn, this idiot's home tutor." And the baby gives Tsuna a good kick in the jaw earning an 'OW!' from Tsuna. Reborn seems VERY unamused by Tsuna's reaction and continues. "Well what did you expect? You're all inexperienced, insecure, and brash leading to one disappointing mistake after another."

"Th-that's way too harsh, isn't it?!"

Despite Tsuna's attempt at arguing, Gokudera sinks a bit more on the bed. Reborn was right. And the mother of all fuck-ups was HIS fault... as if that wasn't apparent by the bandage suit he was wearing...

"But since you haven't died yet, it's fine."

Of course THAT gets both Gokudera's and Tsuna's attention... and confuses them.

"When you make such mistakes and get through them, you grow steadily. And that is your greatest weapon."

The two teens seem to buy it. Gokudera relaxes. If Reborn felt that his flaw had a purpose he would believe him, but he still needed to push himself to his limits later to make up for it. His grip tightened on Ryuutaro's hand. The teen knew he had more than just his boss and the Vongola to protect. He wouldn't let anything happen to Ryuutaro. It wasn't fair to him. He had been sucked into Gokudera's home-world at the worst possible time, if he got hurt because of it? Gokudera could already feel Ryuutaro was uncomfortable. He could have figured that out without even waking up. Everything was out of Ryuutaro's element. They were trapped and confined, their lives were in danger, there was a big foreign crowd of people he didn't know. The teen casts a worried, apologetic glance at Ryuutaro and gave his hand another squeeze. He would apologize to him when they got another moment alone.