Chapter 3: Foreboding
“Reborn-dono did thou need me for something?” Basil said as he ran towards the baby. It was unusual for the Arcobaleno to call in the middle of the night to meet him at the shrine.
Reborn turned at the young boy with wise eyes, “It’s good for you to come here so quickly Basil,” he said calmly, “I need you to go to the CEDEF and tell Iemitsu to look up on any suspicious movements our allies are making.”
Basil frowned, “Did something happen to Sawada-dono?”
“Not yet, but it seems that they sent someone to watch him,” he pulled his fedora down, “I’m just making sure of something.”
“Alright,” the boy said but still curious in what was in the Arcobaleno’s mind. Shaking his head he left not wanting to question any further.
The baby hitman watched as the boy left and pulled out his small hand. In the center of his palm was a small tracker which he picked off of his student after he fell into the ditch.
“It seems that we need to be careful, Tsuna.”
~*~*~*~*~ At school (Lunchtime) ~*~*~*~*~*~
“Who and why would anyone want to spy on me?” Tsuna said annoyingly as he looked out of the window of the classroom. Ever since yesterday, he could feel the continuous watching presence. He hoped it was just his imagination, but he knew, from experience, on how accurate his “hyper-intuition” was. Not only that, he had the feeling that he had to be with his friends at all times or something would happen. Because of that, he has been on edge since this morning.
His two friends were sitting on the desks next to him eating their lunches and exchanged glances. Tsuna had insistently asked if they could stay inside. Of course they agreed without another word since they noticed how alert Tsuna had been. Ryohei and his sister had early leave so they were not, much to Tsuna’s disappointment. This left Gokudera and Yamamoto the only ones present.
“Are you sure it’s the same person, Jyuudaime?” Gokudera asked, “If it is then it must be another Family.”
“It’s the same person alright, but I don’t think that person is an enemy. All he/she did is watch,” Tsuna said pulling his eyes away from the sky, “But I feel like something was different yesterday.”
“Maybe you’re waiting for the Kid to appear out of nowhere, like he did yesterday,” Yamamoto laughed remembering that Reborn hadn’t ambushed them anywhere for any “training-sessions” before, or after.
“I don’t think so,” Gokudera and Tsuna said together as they sweat-dropped at their carefree friend. Thus started another quarrel, which was one-sided since Yamamoto always smiles and doesn’t take everything Gokudera says seriously.
“Anyways,” Tsuna continued closing his eyes in frustration, “There seems to be more than one person watching me.”
This brought the two friends to stop their argument. Tsuna winced at their seriously worried expressions and wondered if he shouldn’t have said anything. That was too late of course. Even if he say’s not to worry about it, it won’t change the fact that they will.
“Tsuna, I don’t think you should go home by yourself today,” Yamamoto said first making Gokudera stop from saying the same thing.
“I wanted to say that yakyū-baka (baseball-idiot)!” glared the bomber then turned back towards his boss, “Jyuudaime, you have to wait for one of us to take you home.” At the end of the sentence, a slight hint of annoyance was heard in his voice when he had to admit that someone has to watch Tsuna.
The young boss looked at them in confusion, “Wait?”
Realization struck him when he remembered that the both of them had something important to be done today. Gokudera had to help some annoying pleaders from the Science Club and Yamamoto was stuck with practice. Even Kyoko and Ryohei were busy.
Tsuna smiled at the two, “It’s alright you two I can-“
“No!” he was cut off by the two’s declaration. He gave up and nodded, not wanting to fight with them anymore because of their determination. Another sigh left his lips when the bell rang making them to go to their desks.
“Sometimes, I wish they weren’t so overprotective like mother hens.”
~*~*~*~*~ After School ~*~*~*~*~
Tsuna sat in the classroom alone trying to do his homework. But, of course, he couldn’t understand it at all. His two friends went off to their extracurricular activities and Kyoko had left with the child-hater Hana. So now he was stuck with nothing to do, besides the homework, in an empty classroom. He looked at the clock that said 2:50.
“About two more hours,” Tsuna thought closing his eyes wondering if he should just go to sleep. After 10-20 minutes he finally got up making his decision, “I can’t stay here any longer otherwise Reborn will try to booby-trap my room again. I hope they understand,”
Grabbing his bag he left the room and down the stairs towards the grounds of the school. Before he continued through the gate he took one more glance at the school. It wasn’t that he was regretting the decision of leaving his friends even though he silently promised; it was just the feeling that he wouldn’t be able to see the familiar building for a while.
Shaking his head from the foreboding, he turned, heading down the familiar route towards his house.
