[video/action @ metropolis district]

[reluctant10th]

Well, this is certainly a surprise.

[Not without a certain bazooka. Except, five minutes have long passed. There was no sign of Lambo in the park he was currently exploring.

Definitely not the bazooka's doing. Unless it was broken again. In that case, he should find a certain cow-print pajama wearing kid.

For all of those who know a certain failboat

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[voice]

[caligisti]

Punctuality has yet to become a virtue of yours.

[voice]

[cielo_infinito]

One of the many things I still have to work on, I suppose.

My apologies for being late.

[video]

[caligisti]

[ the bare truth is that mukuro has been hoping for this. call it intuition, if not one so specific as that of the Vongola, but he had a keen suspicion that, were he to supply adequate details about the younger Tsunayoshi's future (cryptic hints, never more), then the piquing of curiosity combined with Splendor's more unusual tendencies --

well, well. what does a man do next when a guess becomes a living and breathing reality? when one long dead is returned to life? a breakdown of illusions, that's what you may call it (so mukuro categorizes), and mukuro shifts the seal to video. ]

Better late than never, Vongola Decimo.

[cielo_infinito]

[Well, he elder Tsunayoshi is now here though whether or not this Tsunayoshi is the one from your world remains to be seen. How long this one will take the place of his younger self is also up to the whims of the city. What will you do now, Mukuro?]

Certainly.

[bindingoaths]

[It actually takes a good few seconds for him to overcome the cognitive dissonance between that voice and not Primo. Well.]

Sawada Tsunayoshi. [?]

voice

[cielo_infinito]

[can you hear the smile in his voice? But Alaude isn't the only one doing a minor double take. After all, his voice is also strikingly familiar to a man Tsuna knows very well]

Alaude-san.

voice

[bindingoaths]

Are there two of you as well?

[oh, he knows that tone of voice. But he'll let that apparent amusement just roll off of him for the moment.

Hmph.]

[cielo_infinito]

No, just me at the moment. I seem to have taken my younger self's place.

[he'll curb his own amusement soon enough]

/hurls self off hiatus VIDEO

[contrattato]

[This particular Chrome has been on the run for a number of years. Not that she has been entirely unaware of her boss's doings, but there is a difference between knowing what he is up to and seeing him, alive and well. Not quite in person, but. Well.]

... Boss!

[sadfsafafda]

[cielo_infinito]

[While this Tsuna isn't exactly the same boss in Chrome's world, not much changes between these parallel timelines]

Chrome.

[His smile becomes warmer]

Are you well?

[contrattato]

I -- yes.

[bossu ;;]

You look. You look very well.

It's been a very long time.

[reluctant10th]

I'm glad. I was worried, but you're okay and that's all that matters.

[his smile doesn't falter, even if it does become a touch sad.]

...it has. There's so much to catch up on.

ACTION

[somajorleague]

[ there are a lot of things one can say to this; the buried anger of being tricked into believing that Tsuna is dead because he -- Yamamoto -- and the others failed to protect him.

The relief at knowing that it had not been permanent, a gamble that hinged on true grief, and a gamble that had paid off in the end. (He doesn't think about what would happen if it hadn't, because this is Tsuna, right? The guy he could give anything up for.) He would recognize him anywhere. That frame, taller than his younger self, the matured kindness, the years of accepting being a mafia don; growing into the role, protecting everything he cares about.

And right here, in the midst of all their younger counterparts, this is one person he finds most familiar. ]

You're late. [ He smiles, strolling up to him. He hasn't seen him in a very long while. ]

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[cielo_infinito]

[It's a little disorientating, sorting through memories that aren't quite his own, walking in a body that is both his and not(the X-shaped scar on his back, he recalls in a battle he did not fight), a ring resting on his finger he doesn't remember wearing but is comfortable on his hand nonetheless(and more memories of a red-headed boy/man that he never met in his own world). When he left the machine, he had headed to the forest, in hopes of--well, he really wasn't sure what he hoped, but it wasn't being transported to another world and then being bombarded by memories of another timeline.

And he had been half-hoping to have a little more time to himself before he saw his saw his friend again. Everything he had done had rested on the hopes that their younger selves could fix what they could not, succeed where Tsuna had failed. It didn't make it any easier though, to walk into battle and hurt his friends so much--]

Yamamoto. [he breathes. It had been so long. Not sure whether to laugh or cry. Mukuro had said the same thing, he was

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[somajorleague]

[ Yamamoto laughs, because he could forgive anything, even this, and he drags the younger man into a one-armed hug. It's been a long time coming, and he figures that Tsuna being the kind of guy that he is, he would pretty much have had a tough time even making that sort of decision, right? ]

I know. [ And he does, because they are all friends, right? It's not something you can ever break, and even if the other does -- it's always up to you to make sure it can all be mended again.

A hearty clap on the back, and all is forgiven -- he figures, too, that he'd probably be really confused at what is going on, with younger copies of themselves that are still not quite themselves, because you see, they had succeeded, forgiving a brand new alternate world that they could not. ]

Anyone caught you up to speed yet?

[reluctant10th]

[It had been one of the hardest and most agonizing decisions of his life. Had there been any alternative, Tsuna would have taken it. But with everyone being backed into a corner...there really was no other choice.

The tension eases out of his shoulders and he smiles widely, hugging Yamamoto back fiercely -- he missed everyone so much -- before pulling back. He's so, so glad...

He shakes his head]

No, I was talking to Mukuro but--

[It's Mukuro :|]

I think I managed to fill myself in by accident but I'm not sure what I'm missing.

[fireandire]

[That face. That face. Tsuna had no right to be strutting around with that confident look on his face, why was he even alive ten years in the future?]

You.

[cielo_infinito]

[...well. His smile doesn't falter in the slightest]

Xanxus.

[fireandire]

[And Xanxus's frown doesn't falter either!]

What the hell are you doing.

[cielo_infinito]

Talking. Was I meant to be doing something else?

[A little bemused, maybe. Gosh Xanxus, it's odd being the same age as you]