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In a two story house in the quiet streets of Namimori the voice of a boy was heard yelping and screaming, "I'm late, oh my god I'm late!" The sound of crashing soon reverberates inside the house, along with a yelp of pain.
In the background you can hear Nana, a woman used to the chaos in the morning, ask, " Tsu-chan aren't you going to eat breakfast?".
The door to the house opens and out pops a small,14 year old boy with unkempt brown hair in a Nami-Chu's school uniform with a piece of toast in his mouth. He yelled goodbye to his mother. Now this short and unassuming boy's name is Sawada Tsunayoshi,or Tsuna as he prefers to call himself, a student at Nami-Chu
Now you ask yourself what does the author waste his time on such a generic character? Is he an undercover hero of justice or the head boss of a renown mafia family? Unfortunately, he is not either of those things. What he is is a 14 year old nobody who is known in all of Namimori as Dame-Tsuna. Which leads to him getting beat up by those who hate him for being so no good. However, moving forward, Tsuna was running to school knowing that no matter how fast he ran he would not make it to school on time but he had to try. After all, if he didn't get to school on time he will be bitten to death by Hibari, head of the Disciplinary Committee. Unfortunately, due to Murphy's Law that has followed Tsuna's life he still got his ass handed to him.
As we view Tsuna's day in school we see that as he went to class his teacher marked him as late and seemed to sneer as he saw the bruised boy limp to his seat. As he sat down Tsuna heard the mummer of his classmates.
"Why is Dame-Tsuna here?"
"Stupid."
"Aw man, here goes my day."
"Can't he just die?"
"He shouldn't be here. Just a big waste of time"
Tsuna heard it all but he didn't do anything as he was used to such comments being spoken about him. As you can see he wasn't a popular guy, in fact he was very much abhorred by most students and teachers in his school. He wasn't good looking, he was short, not very smart, super clumsy, very unlucky, a bad athlete, pathetic and unlucky. This mostly lead to him ending up in unfortunate situations.
As you can tell he gets bullied a lot in school, but even so it wasn't all that bad after all Sasagawa Kyoko was in his classroom. The idol of the school Kyoko was a girl of great beauty all the guys wanted to date her and all the girls wanted to be her. One would have suspected that jealousy would have been rampant in her life, but it didn't seem to be the case. After all, once you took a look at her you can never get angry at her, she was an angel.
Unfortunately, on this particular day Tsuna's luck seemed to be at all time low, cause, not long after lunch began, Tsuna quick to getting out of everyone's way he accidentally crashed onto Kyoko. Now for the most part after a quick apology both parties would have been able to depart peaceably to their own devices. However, for Tsuna that was not the case, while Kyoko knew it was an accident, everyone thought that he did it on purpose to cop a feel. At this particular time Mochida Kensuke, captain of the Kendo Club, was in the vicinity. One of Tsuna's many tormentors, Mochida was a very chauvinistic, prideful, and rough individual who prided himself on being a strong person and who wanted to have Kyoko all for himself. When he saw the commotion he was infuriated that someone as worthless as Tsuna was all over his Kyoko.
"What the FUCK are you doing to my Kyoko-chan you miserable worm?" seethed Mochida. "Someone like you shouldn't even be allowed to breath the same air as someone as lovely as Kyoko. If you know what's good for you you should get off of her this instant or else."
"She is not yours, you stupid gorilla," spoke Kurokawa Hana, Kyoko's harsh and mature best friend. "Anyway, it was just an accident Dame-Tsuna just tripped," continued Hana. After she spoke those words, there was a loud gasp by the surrounding students Hana looked around to find the source of the gasp and saw Tsuna's lips on Kyoko.
In his attempt to escape the crowd and his hold on Kyoko he had inadvertently slipped and ended up locking lips with Kyoko. Being the slow person that Tsuna was it took him a couple of seconds to withdraw himself from the kiss, but the damage was done. Every guy in the room was pissed. For many of them Kyoko was an untouchable goddess, the fact that lowly Dame-Tsuna stole a kiss from her was unforgivable. While Hana could understand that it was most likely an accident, especially since Tsuna was looked like he was going to keel over any second, she still pulled Kyoko out from Tsuna.
"I-I-I-I-'m s-s-s-so s-s-s-s-sorry, I-I-I d-d-d-d-, Iiiiiieeee!," yelped Tsuna as he was lifted by an infuriated Mochida.
"HOW DARE YOU TOUCH THE INNOCENT LIPS OF MY KYOKO?!" yelled Mochida as he shook Tsuna up and down sharply, hurting Tsuna with his powerful grip on his shoulder. Everyone agreed with Mochida, not with Kyoko being his, wanting blood to be spilled. Especially, the blood of the vile Dame-Tsuna for going beyond his position in the school hierarchy.
Soon everybody was in the Kendo Club's training room surrounding both Tsuna and Mochida. Kyoko and Hana where there as well. Tsuna tried to escape the crowd but every time he tried to get away someone in the crowd pushed him back in to the middle. He knew that he was screwed and that if he didn't try to get away soon he'd most likely get the worst beating of his life. He was confused when two of the kendo club members barely threw a shinai to Tsuna, making a heavy sound as it dropped to the floor. He saw that Mochida was also holding a shinai.
"For the heinous act of touching Kyoko and the disrespect of her purity and virtue, I, Mochida Kensuke, will duel you in a simple one point duel if you can get an ippon I'll let you go," stated Mochida with a grin. True to his nature, he had no interest in fighting a fair fight. In fact, the shinai that was brought for Tsuna was a very heavy, which is why it took two kendo club members to carry it. Not only that but, the referee of the match was a friend of his who would make sure not to call out any points so that Tsuna couldn't win. "So come on take it if you don't you won't get out of here alive," arrogantly spoke Mochida as he pointed at the shinai in front of Tsuna.
Now at this point Tsuna knew that he was fucking screwed. For a boy who has never really done anything in his life to stand out or to retaliate against those who have wronged him, he had no idea on what to do exactly to get out of his situation. As he heard the referee start the duel he saw Mochida raised his own shinai and ran towards Tsuna. Tsuna, in his fear occupied head, attempted to grab onto his own shinai not caring that it was too heavy for him to even move it. As Tsuna in vain attempted to pull and pull on the shinai Mochida struck him on the shoulder. Cracking it, as Tsuna cried in pain.
As Tsuna saw Mochida raise his shinai again for another blow, Tsuna desperately moved as far away from Mochida as he could, leaving behind his own shinai, before the captain could hurt him again. As Tsuna tried in vain to escape the murderous captain the crowd pushed him back. As they did so, Mochida struck him again on the side.
That's how the battle continued but, it wasn't a fight at all it was a massacre. Sadly, for Tsuna, it seemed that no one cared for it was invigorating to see something like that as the crowd was pulled into the insanity and cruelty of the fight. Only two people in the crowd were, in fact, disgusted and frightened by what they saw.
Kyoko and Hana were shocked by the participation of the crowd and how no one was stopping it. Hana was a brusque girl who has never been for lost of words when it came to pointing out people's flaws in front of them. And, Tsuna was just one of the many people who she insulted to get better, but she never wanted anything bad to happen to him. As Hana turned to her friend, she saw tears streaming from Kyoko's frightened eyes and knew that what they were witnessing was wrong on so many levels.
So from the crowd Hana yelled, " Stop it! Come on, can't anyone see that what is going on is wr- Waaah!" As she screamed when she was pushed to the side. No one was listening they were all engrossed to the situation.
Kyoko just couldn't stand it. It was all just an accident, can't anyone see that? How can they let something like this to happen?
As Tsuna fell in front of her with a yelp of pain, with Mochida going straight towards him ready to strike. Without a second thought, Kyoko threw herself in front of Tsuna as if to protect him with her body. As Hana was picking herself up from the floor she saw the events unfold in front of her eyes.
With Kyoko crouched in front of Tsuna and Mochida swinging the shinai towards them unable to stop himself due to the full force he put on that swing. Hana was certain that Kyoko would get struck and she couldn't do anything, no one could as the scene unfolded. But, Tsuna didn't know that Kyoko was trying to protect him, he just wanted to escape and with his last remaining strength he tried to get out of the way. As he pushed himself from the floor, he smacked onto Kyoko throwing both of them further to the ground he on top of her. Because of the unexpected move from Tsuna his head was on the shinai's path.
As a loud crack was heard throughout the room, everybody was speechless. They had all witnessed Kyoko's attempt at stopping the fight and Tsuna taking the blow that would've struck her. However, as Kyoko recovered from the impact she saw a scene that reminded her of when she was younger and her older brother got wounded protecting her. In front of her, laid Tsuna bleeding from the back of his head, and she just stood their paralyzed, unable to think or do anything as she flashbacked to the traumatizing experience of her child hoood.
"Someone call an ambulance, he's really hurt!" yelled Hana as she ran toward her comatose friend. As her words echoed to the room, it became a pandemonium of kids screaming, others calling 119, some fainting from the sight of blood, and others just leaving the scene.
Mochida was shocked, he never wanted to kill the kid he just wanted to teach him a lesson. He didn't meant for this to happen. He jumped as Hana yelled at him.
"You stupid ass monkey. Do you have any idea what you've done? He could be dead for all we know. God what is wrong with you!" As Mochida stood there letting Hana to ream him like that, waiting for the ambulance, teachers, police, or any authority figure to come. He stared at Tsuna and without words thanked him for protecting Kyoko. He prayed that that the unconscious boy would be all right.