In the forest Tsuna stood a few paces away from his coffin with his hands in his pockets. At first glance you'd think things like this happened every day. Only upon close inspection could you see the worry lines that were around his mouth, and in the corners of his eyes.

Tsuna was pretty sure he wouldn't be able to sleep on his own for awhile, and he would defiantly have an aversion to small dark spaces…

The sound of many hurried footsteps made the twenty four year old turn and look in the direction they came from. It was his family, and of course in the lead was Gokudera and Yamamoto. Tsuna braced himself so he wouldn't fall over when they slammed into him, he knew it would happen. Spreading his arms the brunette smiled warmly.

"I'm back."

The steps of his two best friends faltered a moment before they sped up even faster and crashed into him with near bone crushing hugs. Despite his best efforts the trio toppled over, and Tsuna hit the ground with a thud.

It had been a nearly a year since Tsuna's return, and the time was spent reassuring his family that he wouldn't do anything like that again, and making sure that everything else was alright with the Vongola.

It had taken two months for Tsuna to be able to be alone in a room without someone else there, usually Gokudera or Yamamoto. The young boss didn't mind himself, but he knew he'd have to get his friends to stop that quickly. Lambo kept trying to act cool about the whole thing, but Tsuna saw right through him and gave the teen the same attention everyone else got. In that same first two months, the first one he had to work on making Haru, Kyoko, and even I-pin, less angry at him for leaving them in the dark… again.

Dealing with Chrome had been fairly easy, dealing with Mukuro? Not so much. Tsuna couldn't tell exactly how the male illusionist felt about this incident. However it was clear that Mukuro was not happy to have heard his favorite target had died, and then heard it was all staged… Tsuna was just glad that he knew the man's threats were pretty empty when it came to him, well, that was until he was actually surprise attacked by said mist guardian… Later Chrome explained the logic behind the attack with a small smile, but Tsuna wasn't all that amused himself.

Tsuna was pretty sure that Hibari was laughing his ass off in private by now at the situation that Tsuna had created for himself. The fierce cloud guardian hadn't been worried at all, granted he had also known the plan.

At some point in the year his family came up with a few new rules. The first, there must be at least two guardians aren't on any particular mission at any given time, and in the same city as Tsuna. Hibari didn't count. Another was that all crazy, insane, or downright stupid plans were to be run past his right hand man god damnit! Tsuna winced when that one was presented to him with a glaring Gokudera in the room. He was still working on repairing his best friend's damaged pride. Finally, Tsuna was no longer allowed to go to any meetings alone. No acceptions.

This time Reborn was laughing his ass off, only not so much in private.

That final rule was being put in to action right now, only this time Tsuna was arguing against it.

"You guys, it's just Dino-san." The young boss insisted.

In front of him Gokudera and Ryohei had their arms crossed, and shaking their heads. "What if someone comes and crashes the meeting Sawada? You gotta take someone." Ryohei said reasonably.

"Then I'll take Lambo." Tsuna offered. At least he could send the kid to the arcade across the street from where he and Dino were having lunch.

Gokudera ground his teeth, "No way, the stupid cow will get too distracted." He said flatly.

Tsuna sweat dropped; leave it to Gokudera to see right through him… "Then I'll take Reborn with." Tsuna said. Tsuna nodded there was no way his guardians, and friends, could argue with that.

"Reborn left for somewhere earlier today Juudaime…" Gokudera said slowly.

Tsuna groaned, crap he had forgotten about that. Time for plan B. Tsuna slowly inched around Gokudera and Ryohei, allowing them to turn to keep track of him as he spoke. "Look, Dino's men will be all over the place, you know how he is without them. I'll even pick up Chrome on the way there if it will make you guys feel better." He made sure to keep his voice even and soothing as he spoke. With his back to the front door Tsuna prayed that the car was already pulled up for him. "It's just lunch Onii-san, Hayato. We're not even talking business. I promise I'll be fine."

Gokudera and Ryohei exchanged a look, and Tsuna waited for them to respond. Really Tsuna had allowed his family to come with him to every real meeting with another family. This was a bit ridiculous though, it was just Dino-san for crying out loud! If they did any talking about their families it would be about how overprotective Tsuna's own had become in the past year!

Finally Tsuna started backing towards the door. "Alright then, I have my phone if you need me, and Natsu, and my gloves, and pills, and the contacts Spanner-san made me if something happens. I'll be back in a few hours, please don't tear anything up while I'm gone." He said sounding like a mother as he spoke.

His storm and sun guardians blinked, taking a moment to process what Tsuna was saying. Tsuna took that moment to turn and bolt for the car waiting for him outside.

"Sawada!" "Tenth!" The brunette cringed as he heard the two calling for him to wait up. Inserting the key into the car and starting it back Tsuna repeated what he had said just moments before.

"I'll be back in a few hours! Don't destroy the mansion!" He called before he pulled out leaving a slack jawed Gokudera, and a slightly confused Ryohei behind.

"Dame Tsuna." Tsuna jumped hearing the voice of his tutor from next to him. "You could always just order them to stop." Reborn continued sounding amused.

Tsuna sighed, "If you were gonna come with…" He muttered fishing out his cell and handing it over to the baby. "Tell them you're with me Reborn." He said.

"It's just Dino, Dame Tsuna." Reborn repeated to him.

Tsuna scowled, and huffed "I thought we were past that…" He complained as they headed to the meeting spot.

Once they arrived Tsuna would find out how his family would make sure he was alright. Phone calls every ten or fifteen minutes from different people came causing Tsuna to sigh and Dino to laugh. Finally Tsuna just turned his phone off.

"Your family's really something Tsuna." Dino said laughing.

Tsuna cracked a smile, "Dino-san you have no-" Tsuna and Dino both jumped and whipped out their weapons despite the fact that Reborn didn't even twitch when the door burst open.

"Juudaime! Tsuna!" Tsuna twitched, and Dino lowered his whip as he tried not to laugh.

"You have no idea Dino-san…" Tsuna muttered as he gave his two best friends an exasperated look.

Yamamoto recovered first smiling sheepishly, and scratching the back of his head. "You didn't answer when I called after I got back…" He said sheepishly.

"It's just Dino-san!" Tsuna cried in exaspration before the thumped back into his seat.

Tsuna loved his family, he really did. They were just very overprotective of him these days, and he was now more then ready to get them over that.

A/N :: So this is just a little thing that I had come up with. It's set in the TYL!Verse where Tsuna had faked his death obviously. I noticed it mostly focused on Gokudera and Yamamoto more then the other guardians, and the most likely because in the show they seemed to be the most effected by Tsuna's "death" to me. It's my theory that the family would become quite protective over Tsuna, and a little paranoid. Anyways I might do something more with this later, but I couldn't count on it.

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