Hello readers and welcome to my first fan fiction! The characters may be a little OOC but please forgive me. I love fem tsuna and reborn fics and I hope you really enjoy mine.

Disclaimer: I do not own katekyo hitman reborn.

The outside was quiet in the early morning hours around Namimori. A girl of seventeen walked to her school, calmly taking in her surroundings. Normally her morning hours were filled with getting shot with a gun, fighting for her food, keeping her two best-friends from fighting and getting to school in time so not to be "bitten to death" by Hibari-san. However those best-friends, and guardians, were all in Italy training for their future positions with Reborn. Tsuna sighed. It had been almost three years now since she had last seen or heard from them. Reborn had been extremely strict about contact, saying it was not important for Tsuna to know the extent of her guardians' abilities for right now. Wincing at the thought of Reborn, Tsuna ignored the stab in her hear. To her it seemed as though Reborn had forgotten all about her and how all of this would affect her. Had he forgotten that she too could change while her friends trained without her? Shaking her head, Tsuna quickened her pace. Tomorrow was her eighteenth birthday and she would officially inherit the Vongola. Dino was coming to pick her up today right after school. Dino, another person that she had not seen since Reborn and her guardians had left for Italy.

Finally coming to the school gate, Tsuna schooled her features into a cold mask. After being left behind by the people that she cherished so dearly, Tsuna had become lonely and depressed, she had closed herself from people on an emotional level, never allowing them to know her thoughts or why she did or said what she did. She was a mystery to them. The one person that used to be clumsy and loud but always willing to help another person no matter the cost was gone. All that was left was a cold shell of the person that once inhabited her body. Tsuna's emotional state was not the only change. The once flat chested body was now curvy, even in the unflattering school uniform. Smooth, shiny brown hair, large caramel eyes and a pair of soft pink lips later; she was one of the most beautiful girls in school. She was oblivious to all of this however, focused solely on her studies and at keeping people at bay. Her once average grades were now some of the highest in her grade. She had completely changed over the last three years and her friends and her beloved tutor were ignorant to them all. Tsuna came to hate these changes. Sure everyone else loved them but to her they were a reminder to what her friends had missed. Once more shaking her head, Tsuna walked on to the school grounds ready to get this last day in hell over. 'Graduation is almost here. Remember that Tsuna. Once that is over you will live in Italy permanently. You'll be with your friends and Reborn. Everything will work out. I hope it works out.'

"Now everyone remember to do your homework tonight and that we will be taking a grade on it. Alright, everyone dismissed."

Called the teacher as the school day ended. As everyone clattered to get to the door first, Tsuna walked up to the teacher's desk. Setting the finished homework one the desk, Tsuna stated quietly,

"Teacher, I will be out of town for several days and I would like you to email me all of my missed assignments for those days and they shall be given to you the day I come back. I have already asked the other teacher if they would do the same and the office has given their approval as long I take any tests I miss on school grounds after I come back."

Looking at the teacher in front of her she waited for the teacher's approval and, after a nod from the instructor, she quickly made her way out of the class room and off of school grounds. Keeping her fast pace, she made her way to her house. Opening the door, she called a greeting to her mother before hurrying upstairs to change, missing her mother's call for her to come into the living room. Hearing her daughters foot steps going up the stairs, Nana frowned. Tsuna had become so antisocial lately. When ever she asked where Gokudera, Yamamoto, Lambo, I-pin, and Reborn were, Tsuna would get this blank look on her face and Nana immediately changed the subject, afraid that her daughter would have a break down. The first year that Tsuna's friends come over, she was in depression. She wouldn't eat, speak or even move. It had scared Nana so bad. She took Tsuna to the hospital, but they said there was nothing they could do except give her some medication to ease the depression. They warned that these meds wouldn't completely get rid of her depression and that she might never be the same Tsuna that she had come to know. Slowly, Tsuna had started to eat and talk again. But Nana worried that something would once again trigger the depression. She wasn't sure she could take looking into her daughter's almost lifeless eyes again. She hadn't told Iemitsu about the incident and she never wanted to. Breaking out of her thoughts she looked at the two men across from her, smiling.

"Dino-san, Reborn-chan, I am glad to see you after so long. Tsuna hadn't said were you all had gone and I was worried." The blond man laughed and apologized while the man next to him raised an eyebrow.

"Tsuna never said anything to you? I thought I told her to tell you we were all on vacation." Nana gave him a weird look. It was almost as if she didn't believe him.

"Do you not believe me Nana-san?" Reborn asked, curios to why this usually trusting woman didn't believe him. Nana hesitated but gave in.

"Tsuna… well… I had to take her to the doctor after everyone left. She became so…. Depressed? Emaciated? I don't know. She wouldn't move or at or talk to me." Nana started to cry tears quietly sliding down her face, leaving silvery trails.

"She became so thin and her eyes were almost lifeless. When she slept, which wasn't very often, she would start screaming because of the nightmares she was having. I couldn't take it anymore, so I took her to the hospital and they gave her some medication but she still isn't the same Tsuna."

Dino looked concerned and Reborn had gone completely still. Neither one of them had expected this outcome from the shy, lovable little girl they had once know. "When you say changed Nana-san," Dino started to ask. "What exactly has changed? Didn't the medication restore her back to the way she was?"

Reborn nodded in agreement, but Nana just shook her head. "When the doctors gave it to me they told me that it would get her moving and that whatever had caused the depression was still there. They couldn't do much and when they tried to talk to her she just stared at them, like she did me. They gave her the strongest medication they had but it only got her moving as they said. She doesn't talk much anymore. When she does it's only when necessary. She hates how I try to push her into making more friends. When I bring up the subject, she lashes out and says things that really hurt. She focuses on school and her grades have really improved. I am not complaining about that but there are days when she won't come home until late at night or might not come home for several days. I don't know what she does but I know that is what she does after a night of not sleeping. She will wake up really early and not come home until really late. I think the only reason that she came home this early is because she knew that Dino-san was coming. She won't smile or laugh and to be honest, it scares me."

The tears had stopped but her eyes still glimmered with the unshed tears. Reborn looked at her for a long while before standing up. "I will go tell Tsuna to get her bags. And Mrs. Sawada?" Nana looked at him. "I will talk with Tsuna about her depression, alright?" Nana nodded slowly and watched as Reborn headed up the stairs.

Tsuna was meditating. Legs crossed, hands on her knees, back straight. She breathed in deeply through her nose and slowly let it out through her mouth. Repeating this process several times, she finally had calmed down enough to restart her packing. It was all mechanical. No thought behind actions, her mind far away. She had headed back down stairs to ask her mother about when Dino would show up when she had heard a voice she hadn't heard in three long years. Reborn's voice had sent pleasurable shivers down her spine. It made her wonder how it would feel to be held, kissed, touched….. Tsuna shook her head. Breathing slowly she focused on her task in front of her. She didn't even stop when she heard her door open.

"Long time no see, Dame-Tsuna."

The deep voice traveled through the room. It received no answer. Reborn frowned, annoyed at being ignored but he stayed quite and in the doorway, taking in the girl before him. What he saw gave him a shock. Tsuna's once short hair had grown to her waist, all baby fat had left leaving only soft curves. She had grown in height as well, now coming up to his chest and gaining wonderful legs. This was not the child that he had left behind; this was a woman that was sure to be a force to be reckoned with. Finally turning to face him, Tsuna kept her face blank and gave no sign that she even cared that he was there. All she said was

"I have packed everything. When do we leave?" No emotion, no greeting, no frightened scream of "Reborn!" Just two sentences that she could have said to anyone. Reborn's frown deepened. For some reason he was hurt by her lack of emotion towards him. Shaking off his sense of unease he proceeded forward.

"That's not how you talk to someone that you haven't seen in a while now is it, Tsuna?" his tone was almost playful. A tone that she had once feared because it meant pain for her. Instead, she looked and said impassively, "Only to someone who is annoying you and won't answer a question without asking another question." Reborn could only stare in disbelief.

Chapter finish

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