Reborn wanted to scowl. He was not fond of repeating the same sequence of events over and over and over again.

He had hoped. Oh how hard he had hoped. He wanted Tsuna to be an only child. If the boy was, then the hitman wouldn't have to deal with the headache known as his brother.

But no, Iemitsu couldn't keep his pants to himself. The idiot.

He couldn't really blame the CEDEF boss in that retrospect, though. It was probably at his wife's behest, and wasn't that something.

So with grudging reluctance, Reborn rang the doorbell, making a mental note to modify his training plans.

He really should've listened to Nono's words carefully.

"Reborn, I'd like for you to evaluate the Sawada siblings, and groom them into fine young Mafiosi."

In Reborn's mind, this meant he needed to choose one, and like hell would Iemitsu let him choose his little Tuna-fishy.

(When the brother arrived, it was after Iemitsu visited and done various things with his wife dearest. So when he returned a few years later, he assumed the newest addition to the family was due to that thing he did all those years ago. Suffice to say, the addition took this to his advantage and never corrected Iemitsu.

Said addition also recieved the blankest look ever from his brother, to which he shrugged at and replied, "Idiots will be idiots, why not go with it?" Which earned him a disbelieving look that the addition dutifully ignored.)

That left the brother. Sawada Ienari. Reborn's overall atmosphere grew colder as he remembered what that brat had brought about. He was the heir Iemitsu willingly offered Nono, again getting protective of his son. Nono had been slightly more wise than Reborn expected, however, choosing to ask Reborn to evaluate the brothers first before coming to any desicion.

In Reborn's personal opinion, Sawada Tsunayoshi was obviously the best bet. A good head on his shoulders, firm but kind, a diamond in the rough.

Sawada Ienari, on the other hand, he did not like. Not one bit.

He may have told Nono that he was going to evaluate the heirs fairly, but he himself already came to a desicion.

(Too bad he made the mistake of not reading the files. Sawada Tsunayoshi was not at all what he was in a previous lifetime. This Tsunayoshi was slightly more sassy, more firm, due to the walking ticking time bomb known as his brother.

Sawada Ienari, unlike his previous iteration, was completely anti-social, not at all expressive, had an IQ that rivaled Shouichi's, did not possess Sky Flames (despite what Iemitsu seemed to assume), and most of all, was not at all related to the Sawadas in any shape or form.

He was lucky enough to have been found by a younger Tsuna hiding in an alley, bleeding profusely beside a shattered pair of glasses, and wearing the most ridiculous set of clothing Tsuna's ever witnessed in his lifetime.)

Ringing the doorbell, he mentally prepared himself not to react to a certain heir's beat-up, a brother's taunting comments, a mother's blissful ignorance, and a fully dysfunctional family.

He did not expect a piercing orangeorangeorange stare of a thirteen year old boy, weary and alert, with platinum blond hair that far out classed Iemitsu's dirty blond.

Here, staring at this boy (this couldn't be Tsuna, this was Ienari and what the fuck?!) Reborn realized with growing dread, that this particular journey would be far, far different than the one he remembered.

(He ignored the growing hope in his stomach that this brother would not be the same as his previous iteration.)