Intuitive Conclusions (sharp teeth of truth) - 13 - Future, Decimo Era
It takes more than half a year for anyone to realize that Iemitsu won't be coming back.
Part of this is the orders Tsuna gave him, long term missions with little contact - part of it was the man's own nature, extra detours, extra digging - trying to prove himself - he was always late, by at least a week.
It made people pity him for having his own son for a Boss. Having made a bad ploy and only reaping misfortunes instead of benefits form it.
"Are you sure he's missing?" is all Tsuna asks when it reaches him. He doesn't even stop writing - granted this has happened before - in fact, Tsuna made sure of it, sending Iemitsu on progressively longer and longer missions.
Disguised as him being fed up with Iemitsu, it wasn't even a lie - so it was the best kind of deception.
There have been a bunch of false alarms and when there's a lot of false alarms...people stop reacting.
Hayato looks harried. "As far as we can tell." Irritation colours his tone, not with Tsuna's question -for Hayato could never be irritated with Tsuna- but with Iemitsu. Time under Tsuna's rule has shown off Iemitsu's professional inadequacies - if simply because Tsuna would not overlook a single mistake - and if Tsuna wouldn't than Hayato would go over everything with a microscope for good measure.
You spent all your life working here, you better have some actual skill to show for it - is what Tsuna had told him the first time Iemitsu tried to write off mistakes that stood out glaringly to Tsuna's intuition. I will always hold you to a higher standard - is what he said to feed the man's ego, an insult - not that Iemitsu noticed.
Tsuna hums as the places his signature on another piece of paperwork.
He glances up to Hayato and Basil, who looks drained to the bone. Tsuna puts his pen down and asks for details.
Tsuna doesn't know the details. He didn't ask for more than confirmation of a mission being finished and Mukuro didn't volunteer. Somehow Tsuna is distantly...excited to find out what sorts of horrors Iemitsu was subjected to - though it's probably better that Iemitsu never be found again.
Then again...a lack of a body may have it's own problems.
Never mind. It will be dealt with however it turns out.
