Unpopular opinion but sometimes it does weird me out a little how some kinda forget some of Tsuna’s friends are like… hardcore criminal and in fact knowing a lot of the world they are in and in some ways, dragging Tsuna (and other civillian’s friends) in.
Even uncount Hibari for his lack of background story (which a lot agrees that he is a Yakuza kia, I can see the point, but no confirmation until now so it is vague) then we still have direct confirmation as Gokudera is an well-know assassin with name for himself (and a notorious reputation of a wild animal that even Nono was wary of him at first) and Mukuro is a Vindice prisoner with two masscare cases attached to his name.
Even if we put aside the adult like Varia and Dino, we have Basil who is literally worker of an information organization of the most powerful mafia family, Uni is boss of a mafia family herself, and Enma and the whole Simon family is basically living on the dark side of mafia treatment since they are kids.
The thing about Tsuna’s trap that has been set up by adults around him is that most of his friends are hardcore mafia and have a very deep connection to mafia. Not all of them are kids being pulled into the darkness, some of them are born into it and grow up to be a version of the darkness themselves. Why it is a tragedy, we can see that right in Gokudera and Tsuna’s most basic interaction: Gokudera sees Tsuna being Vongola Decimo is something to be proud off, and it takes him two arcs to Varia arc to actually see Tsuna apart of the pride and glory of Vongola which he himself thinks Tsuna would like it (leading to him almost risks his life for the Storm ring until Tsuna tells him to fuck it because he doesn’t care about it). This kinda comes back in the Inheritance arc when almost all the gang (Gokudera, Yamamoto, Ryohei) looks so thrilled and exicted hearing there will be a ceremony when people acknowledges Tsuna as the legit boss of Vongola – no one gives a wonder about Tsuna being so worried and scared when hearing it, and it takes someone with the same position of forced boss to notice that Tsuna is not happy about the situation.
It is a tragedy because alongside with kids as civillian who know almost nothing like Yamamoto and Ryohei, we have kids who know it very well as they have been born and raised in that environment (and some even commits crime that shakes that environment); but because they are born and raised in that environment, they uphelp a totally 360 degree different viewpoint from their own boss, Tsuna, and thus see the world differently from Tsuna. They can totally understand Tsuna as someone who is very kind and want to be with his family and will do everything to protect them, but they will not and will never understand Tsuna’s fervent rejection of the boss title, and thus never realize they themselves, from the way they call him as boss or Decimo to their own actions of regarding him as someone in high position, are also a chain that chain Tsuna to the world he rejects so much.
