One-Short (?)
Sometimes, Tsuna pondered on his past choice.
The decision to go immortal was not one that happened on a whim, but a carefully reviewed choice with the help of his family. Despite it all, the brunette still wondered - every once in a rainy day (God- How that made him miss his friends, his family, the one who has always been there to ease his pain, terribly) the possibility that might have happened had he'd chosen another path.
Maybe he'll retire much sooner, get to have another job that wasn't all sketchy and crime-related. Maybe he can pull his family away from this path and have them pursue their own interests.
Hayato will be a phenomenal pianist, Takeshi might have a place in the national baseball team, his brothers - Ryohei, who definitely favor boxing, while Lambo would have been just fine in business. And Renato...oh Renato, the tutor of his - Tsuna just couldn't help but giggling every time he thinks about it - who despite acting all cold and distant, would be more than happy to stick with him to make sure than he got everything in order (old habits never die young he supposed).
Do not take it wrong however, Tsuna didn't regret his choice to go immortal. The concept of death, though being one he has accepted, was still one that he feared. He's still a weakling after all, a mere human in a vast universe. In another timeline, where the technology has not been invented yet, may he live and leave when intended, but in this one, he can't let his family be lost without him, not yet, not ever.
Mukuro has been the first one to scold him once the brunette told him that. It's funny, really, since Mukuro was one who mocks (with an underlying caring tone that he knows), and to see him this openly worried was something he didn't anticipate. In the end, after Tsuna had successfully calmed him down, the man hummed in silent thought, and brought him a promise. To comeback, and to stay, even if death has claimed him, even if the Six Paths was no longer leading him.
Tsuna knew that it was the truth, and hugged him as a gesture of gratitude.
Chrome, his dear Chrome, stayed unmoving the whole time (which was in character for her), with mostly just some nods that let him know that she was listening. She chose to approach after the sob story (she cracked a smile when she heard that line) that was her brother and him happened, and politely request to know his reason. Mukuro and Chrome were one of a kind, really - they believed in many things, but none of that was the relatively eternal aspect of life. They knew too much about those that spend their lives craving for immortality, just to regret their decision in the end.
At her question, he chose to lay his heart bare in her hand, and prayed that she would understand. And she would, because as much as it pained him, Chrome is too understanding, too accepting. Tsuna whispered his thanks, and guided her back to bed.
The twin wasn't the only one that expressed their worries, but in the end, with a sprinkle of persuasion (Hayato didn't even need that, the silver hair just melted every time at Tsuna's pleas), everyone - some reluctantly so - agreed with him.
And so Tsuna became an immortal.
Tsuna has asked Skull (he still wondered why the man has chosen such a nickname) - a fellow undying being - what living as an immortal would actually feel like before arriving at the decision. The man kept the uncharacteristic frown for a while before slowly answering him: "It's melancholic, in an intoxicating way. Everyone that wasn't an immortal will pass before you, and leave you broken. You can try to fix it by making new acquaintances, but after a certain point, it just doesn't matter anymore."
Tsuna smiled through the whole conversation, his thoughts running, before coming into an abrupt halt.
Tsuna knew his family, knew the length that they would go for him. So if this was the price to comfort them, to be there for them in their last moment, he would gladly take it.
Tsuna didn't regret being immortal.
Although it pained him, like nothing has ever done, when death ripped his family from his hands, when he sat - all alone in his house (it's no longer a home), grieving his loss, he still powered through moments like that, because it was the price he had chosen to pay.
So instead, after the death of his family, Tsuna retired from his job as a Decimo (and while he agreed that ten generations is more than enough for any corporation, the beast still needed another leader to hold the leash, so he hand-picked his predecessor). He moved back to his childhood town, back in Namimori, and opened a coffee shop that also doubled as a bakery. Tsuna was glad that he at least knows how to bake, or to make some good coffee because God forsake he didn't know how to make a living (and the espresso also served as a memento for Renato, one that he couldn't afforded to forget after the way the tutor has methodically grinded the recipe into him).
Tsuna achieved enough for him to be comfortable with his spending, and to be caught slacking off once in a blue moon. It's usually rainy days that dampened his mood the most, so the shop was usually closed for the whole day. His life was relatively peaceful considering the whole criminal stunt that he once ran - Tsuna marveled at the thought, Dons weren't supposed to run off and live an unassuming life, after all. But he has always defined the odds, so it was of expectation, he guessed.
The once Don lived through many centuries after his own, moving his location every once in a few dozen years to stay away from prying eyes. Humanity still held a certain degree of skepticism towards immortality, but in a few present decades, Tsuna has noticed that the reason behind it has changed from mainly because of the distrust for medicine that could achieve this feat to the actual ending - what awaits at the end of the journey. After all, while the body won't age, the planet - and by extension - the whole universe still does. What will they do when the moment approaches, no one knows, and humans, as they've always been, are afraid of the unknown.
Tsuna also didn't know what the end held, but if there's one thing he did know, it was that his friends - his family will be there for him, and that gave him courage. So he closed his eyes and enjoyed the passing moment that life is, waiting patiently for the end that is looming.
Because in the end, he will be whole once more, and that's enough to know.
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P/s: This is my writing homework, so I'm open to suggestions on how to better write this qwq)/
(Also, the original topic was something along the line: If immortality was made viable by tech, would you choose to become one ?)
I know that there are still many flaws, so please be patient with me, and thank you for reading : 3333
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