Hello! I'm back from my two-month HIATUS!YAY! Exams aren't over yet but my last paper is next week so no worries!(For now) For new readers to this story, thanks for giving this a go and just wanna let you know that I actually rewrote this because of the stupid flaws... To those who have read the old version of this story, thank you to those who reviewed and put this on alert! I reread all the reviews and it made me really excited so I decided replace these two chapters NOW! I'm glad that a novice (and extremely noob) writer with low self-esteem such as myself has caught your attention with this story!

Just to let you know, I rewrote 8 chapters worth of The Sky's Reflection and the plot line has completely changed (It was a horrible experience, rewriting so much. I only wrote it during toilet breaks while studying XD). The ending in my mind has not changed and there will still be OCs, just not as many as before and they won't last very long (Depends on readers though. You'll get what I mean later on). There will be NO ROMANCE in this story unless readers really want it (I highly doubt so) so yeah... Sorry for ranting, it tends to happen on first chapters of any story I write...

DISCLAIMER: ... Do I really have to do this? It's kind of obvious that I don't own KHR :(

Enjoy and REVIEW PLEASE~ I want to know what you think and some constructive comments on how to improve my writing!

Chapter 1: Disappearance of the Sky

"Sawada Tsunayoshi. You have been stripped of your position as the Tenth boss of the Vongola. New candidates for the position will be selected and you will no longer have your guardians. Please return the Vongola ring and Dying Will pills immediately." the Ninth said in a serious yet remorseful tone.

Tsuna gritted his teeth and reluctantly pulled off the ring from his finger. He slammed it on the desk and stepped back, waiting for a response. There was a stiff silence as the Ninth took the ring and placed it in an ornate box in the drawer. He then stood up and cleared his throat. "Sawada Tsunayoshi, you may leave and continue your normal life that you've always wanted again."

Tsuna kept silent and lowered his head. "Thank you for everything." he mumbled, turning round to face the door. Tsuna pushed it open, only to see the apprehensive looks of his guardians.

"Tsuna! How was it?" the ever optimistic Yamamoto asked.

Gokudera noticed that there wasn't a ring on Tsuna's finger anymore and his eyes widened.
"Take care of the new boss when I'm gone. Gokudera, please respect whoever is the next boss. Yamamoto, treat him like you treat me as your best friend okay? Lambo,-"

"I will never acknowledge anyone else as juudaime! You are the one and only juudaime that I will follow! How can the Ninth make such a decision?" Gokudera burst out. "I'll go convince the Ninth to change his mind!"

"If you step one foot into that room, I will not hesitate shoot you." a high-pitched voice echoed in the narrow hallway.

"Reborn." Tsuna gingerly said.

Gokudera stopped in his tracks and clenched his fists, holding back his anger. Yamamoto sensed the tension and his smile dropped. "Why did you attack our allies In the first place?..."

Tsuna cringed at the statement and saw that his other guardians had averted their gaze from him.

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"Tsuna! Hurry up! We're going to be late for the meeting!" Yamamoto called out, adjusting his tie without much success.

"Don't rush juudaime!" an over protective right-hand man yelled. Tsuna smiled to himself as he continued listening to their senseless bickering. He tried to flatten his gravity-defying hair and straightened his suit in front of a full length mirror. The reflection didn't show a useless, dame Tsuna anymore. Instead, the person in the mirror was a first year high school student, slightly more confident and much stronger than before. Tsuna had grown taller over the past year and managed to get into Nanimori High School, along with his other guardians, even Chrome. A few months ago, he had made peace with the Shimon Family and officially accepted the position of the Vongola Tenth boss. Today was no different than any other day when he had to go for meetings and meet the allied families to know them better. Reborn told him that he had to complete his studies first before going full-time as the head so it was much relaxing for Tsuna even though they had to fly to Italy every once in a while. He had grown more confident and wiser, thanks to Reborn (unfortunately). No doubt that he had still retained his clumsiness and would trip over air sometimes and stutter occasionally, but other than that, all was fine and dandy. "Go ahead without me! I'll be there soon!" Tsuna hollered from the large room. Hearing the sound of footsteps disappearing, he went back to admiring himself in his neat and crisp suit. Never in his life would he imagine himself wearing a suit and be in such a grand room. Once he was done, he went and took his mittens and dying will pills even though he didn't need them to go into Hyper Dying Will mode anymore but he wanted to keep that a secret for some unknown reason. As he strolled down the empty hallway towards the meeting room, he heard whispering from the room which the family whom they were meeting with, the Scuro Vampa family.

"Haha, our boss will surely succeed! I'm sure he can overthrow the Vongola! With that new power, nothing can stop him! Not even that newbie Decimo!"

What? What are they talking about? Overthrowing the Vongola? Tsuna bit his lower lip as he contemplated on barging into the room and demanding what was going on or to ignore it and walk on as if nothing happened. His dame side took over and he settled for the second option. He walked briskly towards the meeting room and settled down, acknowledging his guardians who were seated around him.
The meeting went smoothly but Tsuna still could not get that nagging feeling off from his chest. He examined the boss of the Scuro Vampa famiglia in front of him and he seemed quite normal. A man in his forties, wearing a worn out but neatly pressed suit and a cheerful disposition to him. Even so, appearances can be extremely deceiving.

When the meeting was over, Tsuna quickly made his way back to his room, much to his guardians' surprise.

When he had reached, he switched on his laptop and waited. He didn't tell anyone, not even Reborn, about what he had overheard since he wasn't sure. When his computer had finally loaded, he accessed the Vongola files and searched for the Scuro Vampa family.

Name of boss: Lorenzo Benigno

Strength: 682 members, specialised in creating weaponry.

Tsuna didn't bother to read any further and switched off his laptop. I should go inform the others!... No wait! I can't drag them into this! Reborn won't believe if I just tell him that I overheard a conversation... What should I do?...

Suddenly, a knock on the door jolted him from his internal conflict. "C-Come in..."

"B-Boss... We're going out for a while because y-your Dad wanted to show us around... He said that he'll take you out separately for some father-son b-bonding..." Chrome said, meekly.

"Ah, okay... Have fun then!" Tsuna answered, smiling at her warmly. Chrome smiled back and went off, closing the door very gently.

Looks like I'll have to scratch the plan of asking them... Maybe I should go by myself... Nothing will go wrong... Right?

Tsuna crept out of the Vongola Headquarters as discreetly as possible and took a cab to the Scuro Vampa family's headquarters. Using the limited knowledge of the Italian language and some weird hand gestures, he managed to get the destination right and slumped back in his seat. First, I'll have to make up a reason for going there...

There he stood. In front of the towering mansion. It wasn't as big as the Vongola's but it looked rather grand. He had seen the layout of the building from his laptop just now and decided to sneak in from the back.

Opening an air vent, he slid in and started crawling in the dark, cramped space. It wasn't so bad since he had some training from Lal during the fight with Byakuran. Tsuna sighed and shuddered at the memory of the sadistic training but shook it off and continued crawling. Soon he saw some light in front and hastened his speed. He looked down and realised that he was just above the meeting room which was empty but the files on the table showed that they would be having a meeting later on. He carefully lifted the grilles and jumped down, landing gently on the carpeted floor. At that moment the boss, Lorenzo Benigno, entered.

"Vongola Decimo. What are you doing here? You can be charged for trespassing, even though you are our ally." his low voice echoing the room, as if to mock the young boss.

"I know your plans! You're trying to overthrow the Vongola with a new power you created, aren't you?" Tsuna half yelled, a hint of fear in his attempt to sound intimidating.

A smirk appeared on the other man's face. Uh oh, not a good sign... "Oh? You found out? You heard it from my subordinates didn't you? Haha! Well it IS true but what can you do? Oh yes, do you want to know what I'm creating? " All of a sudden, his men burst through the doors and surrounded Tsuna who immediately went into Hyper Dying Will mode. How did so many appear at once? Did they know that he was coming?... He quickly knocked them out effortlessly and readied his fist for a punch at Lorenzo who discreetly took out a Swiss knife. "You know what your biggest mistake was? Not telling anyone that you came here~" Tsuna's eyes widened as the old man broke into a wide grin. The Decimo punched him and felt a sharp pain on his arm. He looked down and saw a dark red patch forming on his sleeve and the red liquid dripped onto the carpet. Suddenly, a small figure appeared at the door, with several other people behind.

"Tsuna! Release him at once! Why are you attacking our ally?" Reborn said, sternly. Tsuna couldn't say anything as he gaped like a fish out of water.

"You planned this didn't you?" Tsuna shouted, grabbing Lorenzo's suit, rage bubbling inside him.

"Tsuna! I said release him!"

Tsuna let go reluctantly and his flame died down. The other men behind Reborn went forward and grabbed Tsuna's arm, pushing him out of the room. The teen looked back, catching a smirk on the scheming man's face.

-Back at the Vongola Headquarters –

The Ninth sat behind his desk and let off a heavy sigh. "Sawada Tsunayoshi... Why did you attack him? He is an important ally to the Vongola."

Tsuna held back the urge to scream that they were planning to overthrow the Vongola and that they had some stupid new weapons that could destroy the Mafia altogether but of course, he had enough brains to know that shouting wasn't going to work. "They are creating weapons and are planning to overthrow the Vongola." he said as calmly as he could for the hundredth time.

"We need evidence but you have none. They even caught you on camera breaking into their data storage room, wrecking it after messing up the files and severely injuring some of their members. Reborn and I have done everything we could to convince them of your innocence but it seems that they have too much on you... The Vongola Council has even found another candidate with the blood of the Vongola..."

The boy's jaw dropped. He had never even stepped foot in any room nor injure someone badly... What are they planning?... I thought there weren't any more candidates since I was the last one... "I didn't go there!-"

"Seeing is believing, I'm afraid... I've even tried to bring in the Cavallone family to try and clear your name but the council was adamant with their decision." he said, shaking his head. "Lorenzo Benigno is extremely angry and demands punishment. It was also partially your fault. You should know that it would have cost us our ties with them and you of all people should know that! What you did was very reckless and even I can't do anything. Even if something was going on, you should have thought through it properly first before acting out. The Vongola council has decided and you will have to step down from the Vongola Tenth position."

"What did Dad say?..." Tsuna mumbled.

The Ninth hesitated. It was hard for him to break the news to someone who was like a grandson to him. "... He... He said to do what's best for the Vongola... I trust you, Tsuna. We trust you. It's just that majority of the council members have requested that a new boss take over and I don't have much say there..."

"I-I understand... What about my guardians?..."

"The Council has also requested that they follow the new boss because there will be very important meetings and looking for new ones would take too long."

"What? But they are MY guardians! They can't just say that!"

"I know that they should follow you and I did bring that matter up but they wouldn't hear of it... Look Tsuna," Nono leaned in closer to the slightly flustered teen. "I believe you when you said that the Scuro Vampa is planning something and also, there seems to be something fishy in the Vongola Council but we can't do anything now. But for you, it's different. You are now no longer part of the Mafia so you are not linked to them anymore. I trust that you can do something about it. Here," he took out the Natsu ring and handed it to Tsuna who just gasped silently. "I know you can handle this externally and I will do my best to help you and your guardians, good luck... I'll explain it to Reborn later but you have to pretend not to know anything okay? We don't know what might happen during these maddening times with so much technological advancements..."

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Tsuna kept silent and walked down the hallway, not looking at his guardians. "Goodbye everyone." he mumbled, holding back his tears.

"Herbivore." Hibari growled. "Where do you think you're going?"

Tsuna flinched a little but continued walking. He was used to Hibari's scary ways but sometimes he meant well. This time with that statement, he could actually mean that he cared. After all, he was quite interesting to Hibari as an "omnivore".

"Is something wrong? Please tell us!" Yamamoto said, a frown marring his fine features.

"Take care of yourselves okay? I'll explain it you guys next time..."

"Juudaime! I'll follow you wherever you go! I won't stay in the Vongola if you're not in it!" Gokudera yelled, chasing after Tsuna.

"Gokudera Hayato. The Council and the Ninth's orders are final. Are you disobeying them?" Reborn said sternly, glaring daggers at the fuming bomber.

"Why can't I follow juudaime? He's our boss and we decided to follow him, not some new boss! I won't betray juudaime!" Gokudera retorted. It wasn't wise to oppose Reborn but this was one issue Gokudera could not lay down. His loyalty and pride was at stake.

"I extremely agree with octopus-head! Sawada here is an important friend! You can't just throw him out like that!" Ryohei shouted.

Chrome suddenly stepped up and bravely declared, "I-I will only follow Boss!"

Tsuna watched from the sidelines as his guardians stood up for him, even Chrome. Turning his head, he saw Hibari staring at him.

"Do you have a plan?" Hibari asked in a low voice.

Tsuna hesitated for a while before answering, "Sort of... I need more time to think about it..."

The skylark just gave a "Hm" and walked off. "Don't take too long, herbivore."

"Hey, we can talk this through can't we, Reborn? You of all people should know that Tsuna is a precious friend of ours and that he's the most suitable one to be the boss right?" Yamamoto said, trying to convince Reborn.

"I don't have a say in this. Tsuna, the plane is waiting, go now."

"Juudaime! I'm coming with you-"

Bang.