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When Hayato found himself back in his world, alone, he naturally had written off what happened at the manor as a dream... but at the same time... he couldn’t help but feel the pangs of heartbreak. He felt stupid for falling for something that had to have been a dream.... but the idea of having someone that loved him for just being him... it... it was too good to be true... but didn’t matter now. He had to push his feelings aside. His future self had failed the Tenth, now he was in the future with his boss to try to prevent this from happening. But it wasn’t easy, the Vongola were being hunted for their Vongola rings by the Millefiore family. While he didn't want to admit it... he was scared. He had already failed the Tenth once, he was in this strange foreign world where there was a price on his head, and to top it all off he had lost the boy who loved him.... naturally his mood had taken a SPECIAL turn south. He had already lashed out on Yamamoto a few times. Now him and the baseball idiot were screwed into an all knew lifetime because he lost his temper. One of the Millefiore generals had engaged them in a fight, Yamamoto was down, and now Hayato was being toyed with by Gamma. The man had him pinned on the ground, stepping on his hand until their was a sickening crack. Hayato screamed in agony but refused to say a word... he would gladly die for his boss’s sake. This was all his fault to begin with. If he hadn’t acted out... if his future self hadn’t failed his boss....

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Ryuutaro nodded. "Go do that, yes. You probably need both after all this exhaustion."

And there were chances that the water would wake Hayato up for good. As cute as the morning-braindead-Hayato could be, in this place Ryuutaro preferred the awake version.
While he'd come to terms with being here and managed quite well on his own, Hayato's awake company was still better than that.

"M'kay" He gave Ryuutaro a quick kiss on the cheek, "I'll be back soon."

And went off to get his clothes from his room and headed to the showers. It was quick, but he did take a bit longer than usual. The hot water felt good on his sore and aching muscles. When he got out, he didn't pay any mind to his injuries as usual- it wasn't like it was something easily treatable anyway. Just a large set of black bruises and mostly internal burns from the electric-like thunder flames. Luckily his clothes covered most of the injuries anyway.

Heading back to the parlor he spotted Ryuutaro, and a smile spread across his face as he rushed over to scoop him up in his arms for a surprise kiss.

"Tesoro!"

Asfshjafg always these surprises, stop giving him little heart attacks. Or.... maybe just don't stop at all. Ever.
So Ryuutaro just smiled and chuckled, wrapping his arms around Hayato softly.

"Feeling more awake now?" He should probably say good morning again, considering how asleep Hayato had been until a while ago...

Hayato leaned down to press his forhead against Ryuutaro's lovingly.

"Much, thanks."

And he pressed another kiss to Ryuutaro's lips as he set the boy back on his feet, but still remained close so he could keep those arms around him. The fights were over for now. While he knew he would have to try and open the new Vongola box... they were probably going to get a few days to rest and recover.

"How are things? I... guess I've been out for a while, huh?"

"You have, but I think that was to be expected after the fight you went through."
As unpleasant as it might be for Ryuutaro to be alone at this foreign place, he understood how badly his boyfriend needed the rest. And it wasn't like he could not manage on his own.

"I'm settling in though, I think."
Or something like this. At least he didn't feel horribly misplaced anymore and it was easier to act as usually, walk like he owned the universe, even when he didn't.

He smiled, it was a relief. Things were starting to pull themselves together again. Ryuutaro was doing better, they didn't have to sneak around as much, he had the C.A.I again... it was almost over.

"I'm glad."

And he nuzzles his face up against the younger boy's for a moment. They were going to be okay. A shout from down the hall catches the teen's attention though, and he pulls back from Ryuutaro to look. Well, the commotion didn't seem to be headed their way, so with a brief look back to Ryuutaro, he took the boy's hands and started to walk towards it.

Unfortunately Gokudera didn't get a good look, because as soon as he turned the corner his stomach let out a gurgle in protest before he made some sort of chocking noise before he just passed out and fell backwards. Yup. Bianchi.

Tsuna, Yamamoto, Ryohei, and the girls were there as well. Tsuna obviously the one flailing most at the circumstance.

"B-Bianchi! The goggles!"

"Oops, I'll put those on right now." She stated rather airily, obviously not bothered with her brother's condition.

Ryuutaro managed to support Hayato enough that his head didn't crash to the floor on full speed, at least.
He went down on his knees, next to his boyfriend and gave a fake-smile at the group.

"A bit too late, but it's still something that would be really helpful."

He looked everyone over, trying to figure out what was even going on in this little get-together while he waited for Hayato to wake up.

Yamamoto knelt down on the other side of Hayato and pulled out a water bottle to pour on the teens face, while Tsuna hovered over them worriedly. Though they all seem pretty used to this.

Luckily, it only takes a few drips of water on his face to get him to start coming to again. Unlike some of his worse bouts that kept him out for a few hours. He sputters and grunted a bit, displeased by the water in his face, but at least he was awake.

Bianchi takes a few steps forward and smiles at the boys, pleased by their arrival.

"You arrived just in time. I was planning to bring the girls up to walk around for a while. We were planning to visit the school and some familiar places around the town."

Gokudera blinked a bit in surprise... they were going to the surface? Well that was a pleasant surprise. He fought the dizziness to prop himself up on his elbows and look up to Ryuutaro.

"I can take you to my apartment..." He paused to look at Bianchi, "Erm... if I still live there...?"

She chuckled and nodded, "You do, but it'll be a bit different from how you know it."

Get up and outside again? The thought alone was all it took to make Ryuutaro almost forgive the weird situation that walking in here had caused. The sky, fresh air... He needed it, he needed it badly.
And seeing Hayato's apartment was another big plus. Even if this was the future, it was closest he ever would've gotten to finally comprehending how Hayato had lived before the Manor.

He smiled, suddenly seeming even more fine with the world than before, almost a bit happy.
"Well, that will be interesting for the both of us then, won't it?"
Future Hayato's apartement... It'd give him a feeling of how Hayato would turn to be after all this was over... it might even be a tad more exiting than the usual one. Ryuutaro was so deprived of fortune-telling, anything future just exited him.

Gokudera couldn't help but smile himself when he saw Ryuutaro brighten up so much. He pushed himself up, and with a little help got to his feet. He was still a bit woozy, but that would wear off soon enough, and the fresh air would help.

"Let's go then."

And with that Bianchi lead the group up and out of the base, and started walking towards the highschool.

As unnaturally gloomy as Ryuutaro had been over the last time as easy it was to get him exited. It was as if his usual not-this-not-that-mood had vanished in favor of the extremes. Had he noticed this, Ryuutaro would probably have done his best to get back to his prior self, but for now he remained oblivious to the change. It would most likely calm down again anyway.

He held himself close to Hayato as he looked around the city once again, this time with considerably more calm and attention than the last short time they'd been up here.
It really wasn't so much difference from his world after all, if he disregarded the lack of beyblades, but by now he was used to that.
But then again what he saw here didn't matter as much as what he had witnessed earlier. The nature of a world was underneath what meets the eye. But Ryuutaro didn't want to reduce the place to mafia business either, that would've killed him.

Hayato walked towards the back of the group, with Ryuutaro, so that he wouldn't have to be so worried about people commenting about the few kisses he stole. Ryuutaro seemed in better spirits, which brightened the teen up as well. He had completely forgotten about the upcoming fight in favor of just getting absorbed in seeing Ryuutaro smile.

Hayato had to pull away though, once they reached the school, but he was still beaming a great big smile of his own now. As much as school bored him to death, just the familiarity of the building was enough to put him more at ease. They walked past the playground of the adjacent preschool, and Gokudera beamed when he saw it... scorch marks still on the ground...

"Hey look they finished rebuildin' it!"

This was actually the first time Ryuutaro really got close to a school. The first nine years of his live he'd been taught by a private teacher (not even that was fully common in his world, parental teaching was usual) and after he ran away he just stopped learning school material all together. He could read, write and earn money, so what did it matter?
His curiosity was growing about this, though the concept of public schools still seemed almost weird to him (even though they did exist in his world just fine).
Once again he just pictured Hayato in this place, in the everyday life he used to have before they met, staying silent over all these thoughts for the moment being.

Tsuna looked rather exasperated remembering the whole... event with the playground.

"Y-yeah... scorch marks are still there though..."

Hayato rubbed the back of his neck nervously, and chuckled a bit before the group moved to go inside. They walked through the halls peeking in classroom, laughing and joking and telling stupid school stories, until they found their homeroom.

They wandered inside, taking seats at there old desks. Hayato finds his desk by the front of the room and takes a seat, swinging his leg up onto the desk.

Yamamoto got comfortable slouched over on his desk, and chuckled a bit, "From this angle the teacher never noticed if I fell wanted to nap!"

Gokudera scoffed, "Tch, didn't matter if I were tired or not, I'd fall asleep as soon as the teacher hit me."

Ryuutaro remained positioned in the door frame while the others walked into the room, feeling a bit like a ghost. For once it wasn't so bad though.
Sure, it was an awkward feeling, but it was an appreciated insight in what kind of daily life Hayato had come from. It had always been so much trouble to imagine, with places and people he did not know and could not imagine up either.

This made it easier.

Ryuutaro found himself thinking back to their time in his world. Hayato had probably had a similar ghost-like feeling at the get-togethers. Even if they belonged with each other, they really didn't belong into each other's worlds. Not until now, at least.
Ryuutaro had thankfully stopped really identifying the dimension he came from as his world... it made it at least a tiny bit easier to think about settling here.
He wondered if he would be expected to go to this school as well. An odd thought. But then again, this world did not have records about him, so how would they know? Truth was... Ryuutaro just had no clue how a school system worked.

So he just watched the others, smiling vacantly to himself.

They remained idly chatting and laughing for a bit. Gokudera would give Yamamoto a hard time for being an overly cheerful idiot, Yamamoto laughed it off. Tsuna would bring up a few 'remember whens' here and there, including the story behind Gokudera nearly getting them both expelled and then subsequently blowing up the play ground.

Though it didn't take long for Gokudera to notice his boyfriend's absence, and quickly gestured him over to join them. Even if he wasn't there to experience the stories first hand, Ryuutaro was his family, so these stories were for him too.

Ryuutaro shrugged almost unnoticably as he gracefully stepped over to them. He wasn't shy after all and he had to make very sure it would not be mistaken for it.
When he reached the group, he leaned against a wall, fan half-opened in his hand. While he didn't use the item a lot around Hayato anymore (it was just so impractical, he needed his hands then... walking around holding hands and needing another to open doors or carry something that already made for difficulties after all), he would always make sure to use it a lot when around others as well. It was a part of him, a part of his personality that he needed to make sure to come accross just right.
Hayato knew him anyway and beyond the boundaries of what he'd usually let people see, so with him... he could put the fan aside and only use it when it came natural and he felt like it. ~~... fanshushes tended to be needed one time or another after all~~

Ryuutaro still did not take part in the conversation though, not because he would be too awkward doing so, but because what he wanted was listening. Listening and looking pretty seemed like the perfect strategy right now. ... admittedly he tended to be better at the later and problematic with the first.

The talk and chatter continued for a good while, until Haru piqued up mentioning she would like to see her house before it got too late. Upon agreeing they had stayed long enough they headed out to leave the school, in much lighter spirits then they had been the past good long while.

Though, once they're out in front of the school, Hayato decides it would be a good point to separate from the group.

"Hey boss, would it be alright if Ryuutaro and I went to my apartment instead?" Since he couldn't give too much of a crap about Haru's house.

Tsuna turned around, slightly weirded out by the fact that Gokudera felt the need to ask his permission for that.... but then again... he was sort of used to it, "Th-that's fine Gokudera-kun... Y-you don't need to ask..."

Gokudera just beamed in response and grabbed Ryuutaro's hand, and giving an enthusiastic wave in Tsuna's direction, started to head down a different street.

"Thanks boss!"

The group just waved back...

Tsuna silently wondering why he was being thanked... it was almost like he was Gokudera's mom...

God, he really needed Tsuna's allowance for this? Ryuutaro nearly rolled his eyes, but then he figured he really had to learn to deal with this... it didn't make it better one did, but this was probably a thing too major than to have Hayato change it. Grah.
But he was in a forgiving mood, so he let the thought go after a moment.

"I must admit, I'm really curious now. But then again, I suppose so are you?"
It was ten years in the future after all. And Hayato was less used to seeing the future than Ryuutaro was. Granted this was completely different. A too far-away future... and actually being in it.

Gokudera just beamed and nodded, "Yeah! Besides... I sorta miss my apartment... it's... been a really long time..."

He took a deep breath and looked ahead, tightening his grip on his boyfriend's hand. The apartment was only a few blocks away, and the closer they got the quicker Hayato's pace got until they arrived right in front of the door. As a habit, Gokudera looked under his rug for his spare key, as he had when the Author put a look-alike of his apartment in Ryuutaro's world, and low and behold, the key to the front door. He looked a bit nervous... but also rather excited. He put the key in the door and unlocked it, but before he opened it he looked at Ryuutaro still smiling.

"Welcome home, Tesoro."

And he pushed open the door to reveal.... a surprisingly nice apartment. It was obvious it had once been that rather dumpy apartment he was living in. The rooms were more-or-less the same size, but it had been completely renovated into a unique mix of western and Japanese furniture. It wasn't excessive in any way, but it was quite nice.

Gokudera's jaw completely dropped when he saw it.

"Th-this ain't what it looked like when I left home..."

...granted this was ten years in the future but still, it was a large overhaul of his apartment...

That... looked a lot more like 'home' than Ryuutaro would ever have expected at Hayato's introduction. Ryuutaro slipped out of his shoes and then past Hayato, into the apartment, looking around with wide eyes.
He took a closer look at some details here and there, seeming completely amazed. For a minute he said nothing, than his expression turned into a smile.
Soon after he was chuckling, no, laughing.
It was a bit like when he had discovered that his ability had returned to him, just not that disbelieving insane and more genuinely amused and happy.
Right now it was just so much easier to believe in changing worlds.

After looking around, a bit awed himself, the sound of Ryuutaro laughing caught his attention. Hayato beamed, and his chest felt light. Ryuutaro looked so happy.... it was such a relief....

... such a relief in fact that he started laughing too. He leaned over to give Ryuutaro a peck on the cheek. They were home. Even despite the mess they were in... and that this wasn't the home they would know when they went back into their right time... none of that mattered at the moment.

He was just so happy... he couldn't find the words. He reached over to take Ryuutaro's hand and give it a squeeze before bringing it to his lips to kiss his lover's fingers.

Ryuutaro wondered how long it had taken them to figure out this design (then again, they were here now... which meant they would know from the start. This was a mess), what it had been like... Or rather what it would be like. He was used to seeing the future, but never before he had been this curious about it. Better than anyone he knew that waiting for the future was just that, waiting, but for once it seemed a hard thing.
They would be living here... granted in the past, but... It was such a major step that Ryuutaro could even momentarily put aside his dislike of permanently living in houses.

However, the fortune-teller was snapped out of his merry thoughts when he was kissed and it wasn't like he would mind. Especially not with such a ~~princely~~ sweet gesture as the last. Having calmed down from laughter he smiled.
"I'm looking forward to it."
He didn't bother specifying it. He meant all of it. It would be fine. It was great to be this optimistic and without doubt for a moment.

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"Me too." And he tugged Ryuutaro's hand to start to lead him around the apartment. There were a few pictures scattered around the apartment. There were a few group shots of Hayato with the Vongola, with Hayato's older self looking proud and stoic. Then there are the pictures of Hayato and Ryuutaro together from anywhere from age fifteen to twenty-five. Some are pictures that seemed to have been snuck on outings with the group, but in every shot Hayato is either holding Ryuutaro's hand or had his arm draped around him in some way. In every shot together Hayato is sporting a big cheerful grin whenever his face is in few, though occasionally he's too busy planting a kiss on his lover's cheek.

Hayato looked at the pictures, smiling, and holding Ryuutaro's hand a bit tighter. Even ten years in the future, they were still as in love as they were now. It choked Hayato up for a few moments, and a smile spread across his face.

This was really different from his visions after all, Ryuutaro thought. What he got where cryptic messages, a code of fate, things he could so easily get wrong... This was nothing like that. It was all in front of him, right in front of him. If he moved and reached out, nothing would fade away. No flash of white to take him back into the past, not yet.
In all his years as a fortune-teller, a gifted one, Ryuutaro had paid the thought of what was going to happen to himself amazingly little thought. He had been fine with small things, good or bad, irrelevant omens and knowing he was on the general track of fate.
Now he had it all written out, in direct view. How he was going to look when he was older, how he would dress, what kind of places he would be at... who he would be with.
On their first meeting he had made just such a simple and everyday prediction. Telling people they would find someone for them, that special encounter coming up... It was what he did. He had told people countless times, because that was how life was. What he could see and others couldn't. Fate.
In the end it turned out that the person who's future he had been most oblivious to was himself.
Ryuutaro could see everyone's future, the fate of the world, but his own had just crashed into his life without warning. Looking back, Ryuutaro wouldn't have wanted it any other way. It had been so hard, everything had been, even only days before.. and he wouldn't have wanted it any other way. Ryuutaro hadn't thought about the oddness of it all for a long time already, but now he just smiled silently to himself
'Strange, isn't it?'
Because it was.

His hand matched Hayato's in tightening the grip. For a while he said nothing. His eyes were just looking at the pictures over and over. He didn't seem like he would lose his eccentric nature anywhere in the next ten years, albeit his looks varied. His make-up did and on one of the recent pictures it seemed almost shockingly subtle. Future. It seemed like they wouldn't change a lot though... and then again they would. Ryuutaro was a patient person, but right now he couldn't wait.

"We look happy."
It was obvious, but what did he care?
"Being able to see the future is nice, isnt it?"