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"Talking"

'Thoughts'

Precious Sky

Chapter 1

His brother thought that he was oblivious to everything that happened around home, but he wasn't. He may have only been seven when the man who was going to tutor his big brother showed up, but that didn't mean he didn't notice all the oddness that came with him. First of all, there were all the gunshots, screams, explosions, and crazy training that his dear older brother was going through. He noticed it all. From the stress his brother and his friends went through when they snuck out every night for a week and came back injured. He remembered that time. It was only a year after that man appeared.

He really wanted to know what was going on. Nothing like all this craziness ever happened before that man, Reborn, showed up to tutor his brother, Giotto. That, itself, confused him. His brother was smart and got really good grades so why did he need a tutor?

But he wasn't complaining much. The man helped him with his studies sometimes, though at first, Giotto was freaked out when his little brother asked for help, but Reborn completely ignored the worry and started helping him. Giotto was amazed to see Reborn actually teaching him and not using explosives and his gun to get him to learn.

Because of that, Tsuna learned he could trust Reborn, which is why he found himself staring at Reborn at lunch one day. He was now nine years old and enjoying a lunch with his very, very crazy family. Giotto was cheerfully talking to his friends, G., Asari, Knuckle, Lampo, Daemon, Daemon's girlfriend, Elena, and Dino, who moved in a year ago as he was also being tutored by Reborn. The last of his friends, Alaude, wasn't around because he preferred solitary. His mother, Nana, was sitting to the left of Tsuna, while Reborn sat across from him.

Reborn stared back at the little boy's curious brown eyes with a neutral look. Tsuna was making no attempt to hide his curiosity. For the past few days he found the boy staring at him with curiosity, as if he wanted to know something.

When lunch was finished, Giotto and his friends went to his room so they could do homework. Reborn, instead of finding another sadistic way to torture his students, followed Tsuna to the backyard. The little brown haired boy could sense the tutor following him so he turned to face him with a curious look. "What is it, Reborn-san?"

The sadistic tutor looked down at the small boy with his dark eyes. He wore a black suit with a black fedora which had a yellow stripe going around it. There were curly sideburns at the side of his face that a lot of women loved. "What do you want, Tsuna? You've been staring at me for the past few days."

Tsuna's big brown eyes stared at the man for a moment as if he was debating whether or not to ask what he wanted to know. But, in the end, his curiosity was much too high. "Reborn-san, why is it that you came here?"

Reborn raised a brow. "You know why I am here. I am your brother's tutor."

"That's not what I meant and you know it." Tsuna argued, frowning at the man. "Ever since you've come here, it's been completely crazy. Nii-san is always off getting into fights and he made a lot of new friends who are now always around. You always carry a gun and set explosives off. Asari-nii carries a sword around. G-nii had a gun too, but I've also seen him using a bow made of bone structure. Dino-nii even uses a whip when he fights! Then there was that time a year after you showed up where Gio-nii and his friends were sneaking around every night for a week and they were always injured. Something is going on."

Reborn smirked as he stared down at the boy. "You are more observant than you let on."

Tsuna didn't reply. He just kept staring at Reborn, waiting for an answer to his inquiries. "So?" He prompted.

"I am a hitman."

"Huh?" Tsuna asked dumbly. He certainly wasn't expecting an answer like that, even if he wasn't sure what it was. "What's a hitman?"

"It is someone who is hired to kill someone else." Reborn explained.

The browned haired boy blinked and blinked again as he stared at the hitman in front of him. Hired to kill someone? Despite only being nine, Tsuna did understand what killing was and how it meant that a person was dead and never coming back. What he couldn't understand is why anyone would want a job like that? Killing people was wrong and hurt all of their loved ones. Only a heartless person could possibly live a life that was spent killing other people.

Upon noticing the distressed look that Tsuna was wearing, Reborn nodded his head as if he expected this. "You don't like my occupation? Then you do not want to learn anymore." Reborn decided and turned to go back in the house.

"Wait!" Tsuna called before Reborn could take two steps. "Why is a hitman here training Gio-nii and Dino-nii?"

Reborn turned to the boy with a frown. "If you can't handle the fact that I am a hitman, it is best you don't know why I am training them."

"I don't understand." Tsuna said quietly, but there was a fire of determination in his eyes. "I can't understand why you would want to spend your life killing people. But, even though I'll probably never understand or like it, I want to know what is going on. I'm tired of nii-san telling me that I don't need to know and that it is dangerous. I want to know what is going on. I'm tired of him trying to make all the decisions for me. I don't need him to baby me. Tell me so I can at least attempt to understand this."

Reborn, to say the least, was surprised by this. Tsuna, in the three years that he's known him, was rather quiet and didn't like to talk much. He silently watched his brothers and friends have fun and train, but never went out and had his own fun. It wasn't hard to realize that he didn't have friends of his own which gave the boy a lot of time to observe and think about his brother and tutor. "If I tell you the rest, Tsuna, there is no turning back. If you know, you will be dragged even farther into this world. Because your father and brother are involved in it, you are unknowingly involved. By telling you, you are even farther in then anyone wanted for you."

Tsuna closed his eyes and took a shuddering breathe. He could do this. He had to do this. When he opened his eyes again, there was a calmness now filled in them that reminded Reborn of when he saw Giotto in his Hyper Dying Will mode. "Tell me. If I'm already involved because of Giotto," He purposely avoided mentioning his dad seeing as he never even met the man once in his life. "Then I want to know. Isn't it better to know what he and I are involved in? If I don't know what is going on, that makes it even more dangerous."

"A wise answer." Reborn said, but he wasn't surprised. While it was his duty to train Giotto and Dino, he also spent time with the little brother and helped him with his schoolwork, but not just that. He also spent time educating him a bit about the real world, philosophy, and a bit other stuff because of the world that this family was involved in. "Do you know what the mafia is?"

'Mafia?' Tsuna shook his head.

*Giotto's room*

"Damn, it's stuffy in here." G. complained.

"Open the window then." Giotto told him without looking up from his math book.

G. leaned back on his heads and glanced at Knuckle. "Yo, Knuckle, you're closer to the window. Open it, will you?"

Knuckle nodded his head and got up. As he was lifting the window up, he looked down in the backyard and was surprised to see Tsuna staring at Reborn with a deadly calm expression on his face. 'Wonder what that is about. He looks just like Giotto with that face.' He thought with a grin.

"What are you looking at?" Elena asked curiously, pushing a strand of her long blonde hair behind her ear.

Blinking, Knuckle looked away and grinned. "Just Tsuna and Reborn. They are talking down there."

"What?" Giotto said sharply, looking up from his book with narrowed eyes.

"Relax, Giotto. I'm sure it's nothing. Tsuna talks to Reborn often." Asari said calmly.

"Nufufufu, maybe little Tsunayoshi is finally working on his curiosity." Daemon suggested lightly, causing people to give him scowls or confused looks.

Giotto glared at him. "Curiosity?"

"You didn't notice?" Daemon asked, leaning forward slightly to get to closer to his boss. "For the past few days, your little brother has been staring at Reborn with a curious gleam in his eyes. He wants information of some sort."

"What type of information?" The sixteen year old boss demanded.

Daemon shrugged and sat back down, throwing an arm over his girlfriend's shoulder. "Who knows? You've ordered me not to look into your precious little brother's mind."

"ARGh!" Giotto screamed. He jumped to his feet and raced out of his room.

Dino blinked as he watched his brother-in-training disappear from the room. "Did you have to tell him that? I don't think little Tsuna is going to realize anything is going on."

"Are you sure about that?" Lampo asked in a bored tone from where he was leaning on the window ledge to watch Tsuna and Reborn.

Dino paled as he stared at Lampo. "And if Tsuna asked….."

"Reborn would no doubt tell him." Daemon finished amused.

"Shit." Dino muttered and followed Giotto to the backyard.

"This should be interesting." Daemon decided and followed the two with Elena at his side. Soon, all the others followed, curious and worried.

The moment Giotto reached the backyard, he was screaming, "REBORN!"

The hitman shot an irritated look at the blond teen.

Giotto skidded to a halt, glancing from Reborn to Tsuna with a frown. "What did you tell him?" He demanded.

Reborn frowned and lifted his hand up to his hat. Leon, his green chameleon, wrapped around his hand and shifted into his customary gun. He pointed it at Giotto, but didn't shoot, as Tsuna, grinning, said, "That is so cool, Reborn-san. Where did you get a shape shifting chameleon?"

"That is a secret."

Giotto looked at his brother with a disbelieving frown. "He is pointing a gun at me and you think it's cool."

Tsuna blinked at him. "But he's been firing guns and causing explosions since he's arrived here three years ago, Gio-nii, and you're still alive."

Sighing, Giotto turned back to Reborn as his friends and fellow boss-in-training arrived. "What did you tell him?"

"Why not ask him?"

"What do you know, Tsuna?" Dino asked kindly, kneeling next to the boy he considered a little brother.

"You're and Gio-nii are in training to become mafia bosses. Gio-nii will be the tenth boss of the biggest mafia family in the world, Vongola, and you will be the tenth boss of the Chiavarone. And those strange rings that Gio-nii and the others wear were won in the Ring Conflict when Xanxus, the adopted son of the ninth, wanted to be the tenth. G-nii, Asari-nii, Lampo-nii, Daemon-nii, Alaude-nii, and Knuckle-nii are all of Giotto's guardians which is why they always carries weapons around." Tsuna explained, though he didn't look or sound happy about knowing all of this. It was a lot more than what he was expecting, but he didn't regret asking Reborn to tell him. "I also know that in the Vongola, the leader is called the Sky and his six guardians are elements that surround the Sky: Storm, Rain, Lightning, Sun, Mist, and Cloud. I know the meaning of each of them."

With each word that Tsuna said, Dino and Giotto got paler and paler. Tsuna wasn't supposed to know any of this so he would stay safe. They had told Reborn that hundreds of times that he wasn't to tell Tsuna anything because it would put him in a lot of danger.

"Great, now he knows." Giotto said angrily, glaring at Reborn. "Do you have any idea of how much more dangerous this is for him? Why the hell did you tell him?"

"Gio-nii," Tsuna said angrily, grabbing his brother's arm to get his attention. "Stop it. I'm the one who demanded to know. Reborn-san–"

"I gave him multiple chances to escape hearing this. He chose to get the information instead." Reborn finished for the child. "You can't keep him in the dark forever."

"Well, that's just great." Giotto said sarcastically. "He had no idea of what he was asking to get. The target on his back just grew because of you!"

Reborn raised a brow. "Then protect him. Protect him from your enemies."

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