Chapter 59 Airplanes, Sky, and Names
The days went by like this. Before he turned thirteen, Sawada Tsunayoshi never imagined that life could be so colorful. He had seen all the restricted weapons he hadn't seen in the previous ten years, including everything that was available on the market and everything that wasn't.
Of course, the wake-up service also changed from the cute and considerate childhood friends to a devil with a wicked sense of humor who pressed a pacemaker on him. Even the joke that Xiao Xiang and Xiao Zheng used to angrily say they would pour water on him to wake him up became kind and gentle.
Fortunately, the biological clock that Hinata brought out is still there, and Sawada Tsunayoshi is still able to get up on time every day. But will this prevent Reborn from having a weird sense of humor?
Obviously not.
His eyes sharpened, and he twisted his waist and abdomen to the right, dodging a stray bullet that seemed to have come from nowhere.
"Rambo, how many times have I told you not to use such dangerous things at home?"
Hearing the deafening roar of bombs exploding behind him, he said wearily to Lambo, who was running towards him.
A cute little girl named Ippo was dragging behind Lambo, trying to stop the calf that was jumping around and attempting to assassinate Reborn. It was clear that she had little success, and it could even be said that she made the already messy house even more lively.
Reborn calmly sipped his tea. Although drinking tea so early in the morning didn't seem to be good for his health, it was still better than coffee, so Sawada Tsunayoshi turned a blind eye to it.
"Are you alright, Tenth Boss?" Gokudera appeared at the door right afterward.
The explosion had just triggered a series of scenarios in the minds of his reliable right and left hands, who had been guarding the door, to rush into Sawada Tsunayoshi's room.
"Ah, it's nothing, Gokudera-kun."
Sawada Tsunayoshi was squatting on the ground, putting the items that the child had pushed over during parkour back in their original places, and tidying up the tabletop as well.
Gokudera Hayato's gaze lingered on the photo album in Tsuna's hand for a moment, then he squatted down to help tidy it up.
They had to go to school, so they didn't dawdle for long. After putting their things away, they went out to school. Reborn sat on Sawada Tsunayoshi's shoulders, and Yamamoto Takeshi also appeared at the street corner.
"By the way, Tenth Boss, I saw you were organizing a photo album earlier, but there are three people in it...?"
Hayato Gokudera didn't really care about these things, but upon closer reflection, the photos that appeared most often in the album were of the Tenth Generation and an orange-haired boy, with only occasionally a red-haired boy who looked a bit older than the Tenth Generation.
He knew that orange-haired guy. The Tenth Boss had mentioned him in front of them. That guy had also come back a few times on weekends. He lived next door to the Tenth Boss.
However, the red-haired boy was a complete stranger. He had stayed in Namimori for a while and had warned all the thugs around him, but he had never seen the boy during that time.
Sawada Tsunayoshi exclaimed "Ah!" and knew from the description that Gokudera-kun was talking about Kosho.
"Xiao Zheng, he's not in the country right now. A-Wu should remember him, right?"
Takeshi Yamamoto nodded. "Tsuna and Irie were very close when they were in elementary school. I often saw them playing together."
Hayato Gokudera was annoyed that he hadn't been involved in the Tenth's childhood, but when he heard Takeshi Yamamoto say "often," he immediately glared at him angrily. "Often"? Just how much ulterior motive did this guy have for the Tenth in the past?
Yamamoto Takeshi noticed his gaze, smiled slightly, as if he hadn't said anything at all.
Sawada Tsunayoshi paid no attention to the overt and covert rivalry and boasting among his Guardians; instead, he began to explain to Gokudera.
"Because Xiaozheng really likes photography, most of the photos in the album are of me and Xiaoxiang. There aren't many photos of the three of us together. Xiaozheng is usually the one who takes the photos."
Hayato Gokudera continued, following the Tenth Boss's lead, torn between supporting the Tenth Boss and belittling the hidden rival, ultimately choosing fairness and impartiality.
"Indeed, you can see that the composition and lighting of the photos he took of the Tenth Generation are very good, and they are works of a completely different level from the three-person photos."
After praising him, he added,
"I can take photos for the Tenth Generation too!"
Sawada Tsunayoshi smiled with delight; he had been in trouble earlier because Reborn had made him rush to take photos for everyone.
"If Gokudera-kun is willing, that would be wonderful!"
After saying that, he remembered the message he received the night before and continued speaking to himself.
"But Gokudera-kun will be able to meet Masashi in person soon. Masashi messaged me yesterday saying he's flying back today. Well, why didn't he say so sooner?"
His tone was tinged with a quiet complaint laced with surprise, but overall he was happy. Takeshi Yamamoto and Hayato Gokudera exchanged a glance, and Gokudera immediately realized that this person held a very high position in the Tenth Boss's heart.
"I was thinking of picking him up from the airport, but Eri-nee isn't here, and Masashi won't let me go. But picking him up from the train station is still an option, right?"
Reborn had been silently listening to Sawada Tsunayoshi and his Guardians exchanging feelings, until this moment, when he finally interrupted Tsunayoshi's beautiful reverie.
“I remember you said he was studying at a university in the United States. It should still be the middle of the semester at this time. Why is he back now?”
Sawada Tsunayoshi immediately replied, "Sho said his school is having an event recently and has a holiday. It just so happens that the last time we met was during the New Year. He said he wanted to go back to Namimori to see us."
Hayato Gokudera noticed that the Tenth Generation used "we" instead of "family and friends," which shows that the Tenth Generation was confident that he held a position of importance in his childhood friend's heart, just like family.
The other person must be very important to the Tenth Boss, right? Looking at the Tenth Boss, who was much happier and more energetic than usual, Gokudera Hayato silently ranked that Irie classmate a few places in his heart.
Shoichi Irie's return to Japan this time was not just to see his family, as he and Tsunayoshi Sawada had said. Of course, that was important too, but his primary task was that the time in his dream was fast approaching.
While Sawada Tsunayoshi was busy graduating from elementary school, Irie Shoichi had a terrible dream. If it had only been a day or two, it wouldn't have been so bad, but he had the same dream for several weeks in a row.
In his dream, he was wearing a white uniform, and opposite him was the face of his friend Sawada Tsunayoshi grown up. Before he could even express his thoughts on how handsome the guy had become,
"Bang-"
A flower of blood bloomed right in the center of the other person's forehead.
He could comfort himself that it was just a dream, that dreams are the opposite of reality, and more importantly, that the future in the dream did not include Hinata Shoyo, so it could not be called their future at all.
Until he was also told that Hinata Shoyo was going to transfer back to Miyagi.
The despairing future in his dream seemed to be coming true step by step, and Sawada Tsunayoshi's gradually opening eyebrows and eyes became more and more like the future, the face that had been appearing in his nightmares.
He thought that was the end of it, but it turned out to be just the beginning. It was as if an ethereal voice told him that what followed was them in a parallel world.
Then, different ways the world was destroyed began to appear in his dreams, the various choices he made, the world's annihilation, and Tsuna closing his eyes again and again.
Why did you show me this kind of thing?!
Masakazu Irie was heartbroken, but his dreams wouldn't let him go, as if they were forcing him to remember what happened in the future, constantly replaying those events.
He's just an ordinary person; what good would it do him to see all this?
He couldn't understand why he had even avoided Sawada Tsunayoshi during that time, and would blurt out "Tsunayoshi-kun" whenever they met. In some parallel worlds, Sawada Tsunayoshi didn't even live to adulthood, and seemed not much different from his childhood friend in front of him.
Although he may not be as healthy and fair-skinned as his Tsunayoshi-kun, the light shining in his eyes is exactly the same.
With just one glance, Irie Shoichi could no longer distinguish himself from the others in the dream.
It was too painful. Irie hugged himself tightly all night, yet he also felt that this world, which was destined to lead to death, was equally tragic.
That day, he and Tsuna walked together under the cherry blossom tree for a while. He was still in a bad mood. Irie Shoichi didn't know if Tsuna had noticed, but with Sawada Tsuna's perception, he probably already knew that he was avoiding him.
He sat in the airport lobby reminiscing about that afternoon until the boarding announcement snapped him out of his reverie, at which point Irie Shoichi dragged his suitcase and hurriedly ran to the boarding gate.
After the plane takes off, it will experience turbulence as it passes through the clouds. When Irie Shoichi first flew abroad, this phenomenon still scared him quite a bit. Although he knew it was a normal phenomenon, the sense of insecurity of being out of the ground made him unable to relax.
He had flown back and forth on planes several times, but he still couldn't get used to it.
The behemoth led them into the stratosphere. Irie Shoichi looked out the window at the clouds, which stretched as far as the eye could see, making him feel as if he were in an oil painting under the blue sky.
He slowly exhaled, and mist appeared on the glass. Irie Shoichi raised his hand and wrote on it, stroke by stroke.
"さわだつなよし"
The fog wouldn't last long. He slowly breathed on it as he wrote, and it took him several breaths to finish writing the long string of words.
At that moment, he suddenly remembered his camera and pulled it out from the corner of his backpack.
The original plan was to take many photos of foreign countries to show Tsuna and the others, but apart from taking a few serious photos in the first few days, the camera was never even turned on and was left to gather dust in a corner.
I only remembered it just now and took the camera out again.
His friend's name appeared in the azure sky, beneath the dome, where clouds drifted leisurely. Irie Shoichi suddenly felt that there was no one more fitting to appear in the sky than this name.
Perhaps he didn't hate leaving the ground; he was just unhappy that he couldn't fly to the sky where his heart belonged.
Tsuna was overjoyed to be reunited with him. Sawada Tsuna probably took into account that Irie Shoichi didn't know his new friend, so he came to pick him up alone.
This is good; it provides Irie Shoichi with ample preparation for taking action.
His mind was filled with the painful lessons of countless parallel worlds. He smiled at Tsunayoshi and asked,
"Tsuna-kun, I heard from you earlier that there are a lot of new kids coming to the house?"
Sawada Tsunayoshi wasn't quite sure why he was asking that question, but he obediently answered anyway.
Yes.
The lenses of Shoichi Irie's glasses reflected a white light in the sunlight, adding to his ambiguous and mysterious air.
"Tsuna-kun must have had a tough time."
Even so, he still wanted to send Tsunayoshi to the future.
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Author's Note: I'll explain in more detail later, but I'll just give a general overview here. The rest of the story is about high school! Since the later parts are based on the original novel, there's not much to write about. [cat emoji]
I caught a cold and went to the hospital tonight. Sorry I'm late [crying emoji]
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