Katekyo Hitman Reborn!

The one who stands alone!

#The mysterious one#

"Reborn-san…I assume you needed me?"

"You are the one indeed…Listen…"

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"Why do you keep hanging out with us, baseball-idiot?" Gokudera said.

"Geez, Gokudera-kun, don't start again! He's as much as a friend as you are, so do-" Tsuna was interrupted by a kunai hitting the ground an inch from his left foot. "IIIEEE!"

"Tsuna!" Yamamoto and Gokudera yelled and the last one turned around, drawing out his dynamite and throwing it in the direction the weapon came. It was a wall that got hit and was ruined, the smoke circled up in the sky and a dark silhouette was seen behind it.

"Thanks for the smoke, it made my entrance a lot better…" The dark voice came for the guy behind the smoke and he stepped forwards. The guy was clad in black, an raincoat reaching the middle of his thighs a black shirt with some silver necklaces, black jeans and shoes and last but not least a black hat, which reminded Tsuna of Reborn's , though the band around it wasn't orange but a light shade of grey. It shielded his face as he held the front of it down with his right hand, but his dark hair which was tight in a loose tail was seen as it reached the middle of his back.

"TEME! How dare you attack Juudaime, you bastard! I'll kill you!" The dynamite expert yelled as he was about to run to the fellow.

"Gokudera-kun, don't… he's probably just one of Reborn-san's hired guys…like that death-faking guy." Tsuna stated while holding his friend back and dragging him the other way, but Gokudera shook the hand off and attacked the dark guy, throwing his dynamite to him already.

The guy blocked them by hitting them with his senbon and then showed off his speed, appearing in a split second behind Gokudera. He leaned over and whispered in a soft voice, "You know, you look a lot hotter when you are standing still, Hayato-san."

A shiver shoot through the silver-haired man's back and his knees got weak for a second, but he gathered himself, turned and threw a heck of a lot dynamite to his enemy. He simply dodged them and waited for the next attack.

Yamamoto was hesitating if he should enter the fight, finally decided that he could at least distract the guy so Gokudera had more time. He grabbed a baseball from his bag and threw it full-speed at the fellows head, hoping to knock him out. It was seen and dodged again with a simple movement and an instant he disappeared and then appeared in front of Yamamoto, his face close to the other's. "You're skilled, though, wouldn't you want to use that skilled hand for something completely different, Takeshi-san?" he said in a husky and soft voice.

Yamamoto went red, he knew exactly what the man meant since it was clearly heard in the way he said it and a shiver ran up his spine too. Though, his quick reflexes reacted on his own and grabbed his katana and took a swing at the man. And again it was dodged and the man took his distance.

Another attack was launched, this time from Ryohei, fist first he ran at the guy and while he tried to avoid it with a jump it stroke the side of his stomach. "EXTREME!" Ryohei yelled, but it was to soon. Again the mystic man disappeared and appeared behind him and spoke in a soft voice, "Not that extreme are you, joining in when most of the battle is over and then only being able to give me a simple scratch. More like Extremely embarrassing… onii-san." And it hit Ryohei hard. It was true what the fellow said. At least that's what he himself thought. His never failing lion-punch merely hit and that was something Ryohei couldn't imagine. It was the reason his mind went completely blank and he just stood there, trying to figure out what went wrong.

The man now took his appearance in front of Tsuna and spoke to him in a normal voice. "Aren't you feeling bad? All you're precious friends are fighting a battle and you're the only one who's utterly useless. Maybe you really are No Good-Tsuna… And that's supposed to be the next Vongola boss? Pathetic, don't you think, Tsunayoshi-san?" This triggered Tsuna to become so angry that he threw his fist at the guy, aiming at his jaw. But it missed as the man simply took a step backwards. Tsuna looked at the man, then to the ground. He felt ashamed, he really couldn't do anything to help his friends, not unless Reborn was here, but of course his teacher was nowhere in sight.

Now the man walked backwards, turning at the last moment before getting hit by another load of dynamite from Gokudera. He didn't avoid it and when it exploded and smoke circled up in the sky again everyone got the hopes he was gone. Though, for Tsuna nothing goes as wanted, because behind the smokescreen were two figures seen. One small and on a podium, Reborn-san and the second the same mystic man as they just fought.

"REBORN-SAN!" Tsuna yelled.

"Ciaossu, Tsuna-kun." Reborn greeted.

"THAT BASTARD'S STILL THERE!" Gokudera yelled.

"Minna-san, I would like to introduce to you Kai-n-san, also known as Bull's-eye." Reborn pointed to the mystic man. The man smiled a little, a hand at the brim of his hat, keeping it down.

"Ara? The Bull's-eye? From the movies? The hero?" Tsuna completely forgot his shame and was now looking with admiring eyes at Kai-n.

"That idiot? He doesn't even look like me! I'm the one from the myths, but even the myths are wrong at most points…" He answered.

"You're the real one?! Kaikkoii!" Tsuna was nearly jumping with excitement.

"Cut it out, kid. I'm not here to be worshipped." Kai-n answered annoyed.

"Kai-n-san is one unique mafia. He's no boss, no hitman, no subordinate or part of a famiglia, but a mafia nonetheless.

"Tsuna-kun, Kai-n-san is going to be your trainer." Reborn broke in.

"But, I thought you were my teacher?"

"I am. But there's a difference between trainer and teacher, Tsuna-kun. And Kai-n-san is going to train you and the others on fighting abilities."

"I thought we had our own teachers?" Ryohei replied.

"There are many styles when it comes to fighting and I think you are all ready for a new one. The more styles, the stronger you'll be and less predictable. Now can one of you tell me, what is his fighting style?"

There fell a silence, because none could recall the answer. All had been to busy with his own part of the battle and the things said. Maybe that was an answer, was what Gokudera thought.

"He said something to all of us." He said.

"What did he say to you, Gokudera-kun?" Reborn replied, Kai-n smiled devilish, they had it hard while it was just so simple.

"He said I looked a lot hotter when I would stand still." He answered, a bit reluctant, because it might be a compliment, it was said by a male and you could imagine how weird that is.

"And to you, Yamamoto-kun?"

"…" He had opened his mouth, but his face got red all over again and he stared at the ground, it was just too embarrassing.

Reborn looked at Kai-n, who shrugged and replied like it was the most obvious thing he could say, "I just said he could use his skilled hand for other things."

"Is that true, Yamamoto-kun?" Reborn watched at the swordsman who nodded, then he turned to Sasagawa. "And to you?"

"That I was extremely embarrassing." Ryohei replied with a voice as if he was very disappointed with himself.

"And Tsuna-kun?"

"That I was really no good for anyone…" He said in the same voice as Ryohei.

Kai-n finally lifted his hat, a smile still on his face. His silvery-grey eyes locked on Reborn, asking silent permission for speaking. The Mafia infant took notice of it and gave a nod as soon as he said the next. "Kai-n-san works with weaknesses. Kai-n-san, plea-"

"Wait a minute! What you said to me wasn't really a weakness, was it?!" Gokudera interrupted him.

"It wasn't, but your ear is one of the most sensitive spots of your body." Kai-n replied calmly. "Causing you to think it was offending and putting all your anger in an attack."

"Then what about the others?" He tried to defend himself.

" Yamamoto-san is smart, his brain jumps to conclusions quick. But when you know how, you can confuse the brain to think in a certain way. I tricked him by saying otherwise harmless words with an sexual intonation, causing him to jump to such conclusion.

"Sasagawa-san has a huge confidence in himself. That is a strong point, but with the right actions or words you can bring it down. He knows what he does and when it goes wrong, add up to that that I mocked him and he breaks down.

"And Sawada-san cares a lot about what other people think about him, so when you tell him what has been told to him a thousand times it calls up embarrassment and anger, especially when it is some stranger telling it." Kai-n paused. All were silent, stubbornly agreeing to the explanation. "When provoked verbally or physically it triggers an emotion. In Gokudera-san's and Sawada-san's case it triggers anger, causing you to put all your power in a powerful attack, but an attack is only successful when it is aimed, has power and when you have a goal with it. 'Anger'-attacks often leak aiming or are blind, like some sort of reflex. In case of Yamamoto-san and Sasagawa-san it triggers shame, causing one to act blindly and the other to black-out."

Again a long silence where everyone seemed to agree to the explanation. And they should, Kai-n was about their age, a year older in fact, but Kai-n was a mafia for almost eight years now. He had always worked with this style and it always worked out, because it was a style that wasn't predictable at all.

"But why did you attack Sawada-san?" Yamamoto finally asked.

"Come on! You call that an attack? I'm not called Bull's-eye for no reason, idiot! It was an inch from his left foot, if I had wanted to kill him than I would have aimed at his heart, and it would have been bull's-eye!"

"And there is my next question… Did you notice something about Kai-n-san's fighting?" Reborn watched as frowns appeared on Tsuna and his friends faces. It was silent for another few minutes, before he took the word again. "He didn't attack, except for the first strike, the kunai. Furthermore, he only dodged and blocked your attacks. Kai-n…?"

"When you don't want or need to fight, or your hurt, this is the way to stay unharmed. You don't have to focus on your own attacks, so your mind is 100 focused on the enemy. That's why, when you are only dodging and blocking, you have the chance to avoid injuries and even scratches."

"And that's why he's going to be your trainer." Reborn finished.