Wow, thanks so much to everyone who favorited, followed and reviewed. I'm glad you like the story.

So far these are the results of the pairings poll:

R27 - 4

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1827 - 2

8027 - 1

I want to note that Tsuna only being in the next town over is going to be explained more next chapter in case anyone is confused.

Again, sorry if I got some things wrong. Like I said before, I'm still new to Katekyo Hitman Reborn!

Disclaimer: I do not own Katekyo Hitman Reborn!, those rights belong to Akira Amano.

"You have got to be kidding me..."

Reborn had just spent the last half hour riding in a taxi to the Sawada residence. He used that time to review the information that idiot Iemitsu had given him about his son, which isn't much. Sawada Tsunayoshi, a 13-year old boy who has no athletic skills, is failing all his classes and is quite clumsy. Other than that, there is no other information on the boy which he had found odd since not only did they have Iemistu gathering information, but they sent some of Vongola's best spies to see what they could find out about the next boss of the Vongola.

He didn't think further on it though and decided to simply learn more about one Sawada Tsunayoshi while he tutors (read as: tortures) him.

However, he wasn't expecting this obstacle when he arrived.

A simple For Sale sign sitting on the lawn of what is now the former Sawada residence.

Here Reborn had thought the only obstacle in his way would have been unwillingness to become the Vongola Decimo and Sawada Tsunayoshi's no-good character.

Heh, looks like that idiot Iemitsu underestimated his family. Reborn thinks, pulling out his cellphone.

He has some calls to make, one of which he already knows is going to give him a headache, so he decides to make the less annoying one first.

Dialing a number Reborn knows by heart, he listens to it ring. When the familiar voice of Timoteo picks up, he doesn't give him a chance to speak. He doesn't care if he gets scolded for being rude. After all, this is an urgent matter that concerns Timoteo, so Reborn is sure he will want to know about it.

"We have a problem."

"What is it?" Timoteo asks, sounding serious. Reborn wouldn't have called him after only getting off the phone with him a half-hour ago if it isn't serious.

"The Sawada's have moved. Either Iemitsu didn't give us full information, which I doubt is true, or his family didn't inform him about their new location."

"..."

"This isn't good. He's the only heir I have left." Timoteo says, distressed. He's getting old and needs an heir. The only other option he has is Xanxus, but he really doesn't want to go there. He has other reasons Xanxus is not fit to be the heir, but he will keep those to himself.

"So what do you want me to do?"

"Find him. I need my heir so the sooner we find him, the better. Once you find Tsuna, start training him. Also, don't let anyone else besides Iemitsu and us know about this. Enemies may try to take advantage if they know Vongola Decimo is missing."

"Understood."

Click.

Reborn sighs, taking his fedora off his head to run a hand through his spiky hair.

"Now to make a call to that idiot."

He would rather leave it to someone else to tell Iemitsu the news, but he knows that even if he doesn't tell him, Timoteo will and Iemitsu will call him and bug him more about it so he might as well get it done and over with.

Here goes.

Reborn dials another familiar number and waits for the person to pick up.

"Reborn~ How are my lovely Nana and precious son?" Reborn cringes and holds the phone away from his ear as Iemitsu, or 'the idiot' as Reborn is so fond of calling him, yells in his ear.

"Not here." He really wants to add 'you idiot' at the end of his sentence but refrains from doing so, if only because of his respect for Timoteo. But that doesn't mean he can't have some fun with the idiot.

"Looks like you don't know your family as well as you thought you did seeing as how they didn't tell you they moved."

"WHAT!? You're lying! My precious Nana wouldn't do that to me..." Reborn can hear the hesitation in his voice. Iemitsu sounds like he's trying to convince himself more than him.

"Is there something you're not telling me? Did you know they moved?"

Reborn has his doubts about Iemitsu knowing. Why? Because if Iemitsu knew that his family moved, he would have given him the new address since he's the one who suggested his son be Vongola Decimo and all.

"NO!" Iemitsu yells, sounding panicked for a second. Reborn waits and when the man finally calms down a bit, he says. "It's just...Nana used to call me everyday to talk about Tsuna or what was going on in Namimori, but then, around 4-5 years ago, she stopped calling. At first I thought she may have been busy or didn't want to bother me at work, but after a year of no calls, I was worried. What if an assassin got them? So I had one of the Vongola spies see if they were alright."

"And? I assume they were since you suggested Tsuna to be Vongola Decimo."

"Yes, they were fine and from what the spies said, Nana didn't look too busy to call. Which means she was purposefully not calling..." Iemitsu almost sounds like he's crying as he says this.

Reborn doesn't know what to say. The man may be an idiot, but even he's starting to feel bad for him, but not much. After all, Iemitsu's the one who abandoned his family for years and left them to fend for themselves. Did he really think they wouldn't notice or care?

Though, from what Iemitsu has told pretty much everyone in Vongola and the CEDEF, Nana is apparently an 'oblivious' and 'innocent' woman. Which begs the question, is Nana really as oblivious and innocent as Iemitsu makes her out to be? Could it be that Nana and Tsunayoshi moved and didn't tell Iemitsu because they thought he abandoned them, or is it something else?

"So you're wife has been ignoring you for the last few years and moved without telling you." Reborn sums the situation up. He can almost feel Iemitsu flinching on the other end of the phone.

"So it seems. Did you contact Timoteo about this?"

"Yeah. He said to find your son and to not let anyone but us three know."

"Alright. I'll leave this to you then. Please find my son and wife." Iemitsu says, an almost pleading but somewhat guilty tone in his voice.

He can only imagine what the man is thinking. Probably throwing himself a pity party.

"I will."

Click.

That had to be one of the least annoying conversations he's had with that idiot yet. He makes a mental note to call Gokudera Hayato and let him know he won't be needed until he tracks that student of his down.

Reborn sighs.

"What a mess this has become. You better watch out Sawada Tsunayoshi, when I find you I'm going to train you harder than I planned to make up for lost time and for making me waste time looking for you." Reborn smirks.

In the next town over, a familiar boy shivers, discreetly looking around the classroom in fright.

"Kufufu~ Something wrong Kuuya?" A boy with pineapple-shaped blue hair and heterochromatic eyes, one blue, one red, asks, raising an eyebrow at the boy sitting in the desk next to him.

"I feel like something is going to happen soon." Kuuya, a boy with black hair and brown eyes says.

"Good or bad?"

"Bad."

"Do you think it has something to do with them?"

"Most likely. You don't think they've found me already do you?"

"I don't think so otherwise they would have already confronted you."

"That's true. They most likely would have kidnapped me already."

"Kufufu~ as if they could do that. If they want you, they have to go through Ken, Chikusa, Chrome and I first and even if they managed to, they wouldn't be able to fight you let alone kidnap you."

"Thanks Mukuro, but let's leave this conversation for later at my house."

"Kufufu~ anything for you, my dear Kuuya. Of course I also don't like the mafia, so getting to fight them is a bonus."

"I told you to stop calling me dear."

"Kufufu~ never my dear Kuuya." Mukuro purrs.

Kuuya sighs, knowing he will never get Mukuro to stop calling him dear, yet he still tries anyway. The old him would have given up after the first try. Actually, the old him would have probably given up before he even tried.

Namimori

Gokudera growls angrily, wanting to smash his phone on the ground but manages to refrain from doing so (if only for the sake of saving money).

"Grrr...when I get my hands on that kid, I'm going to beat him to a pulp for making me wait! I don't know why I even bothered to take Reborn up on his offer (though it was more of a demand)!"

But of course any sane person knows that refusing Reborn is a guaranteed way to either get beaten badly or killed, and Gokudera really doesn't want to get on Reborn's bad side so he followed his orders only to find out that the plan is delayed because the Vongola Decimo candidate decided to run away.

"What a coward. There's no way I'll ever follow someone who runs away from their duties."

Gokudera sighs. "Now what am I supposed to do? I flew out here much earlier than Reborn told me to so I could see for myself what Vongola Decimo is like, but now I have to wait until Reborn finds him."

Gokudera already checked out all of Namimori, so maybe he should go sightseeing in Japan while he's waiting. That should keep him busy for a while and since he's never been out of Italy, it would be cool to see some new sights.

Alright, that's what he'll do. His first stop will be the next town over since it's the closest and he doesn't have enough money to travel too far right now.

It's only been a year since Tsuna and his mother moved from Namimori, but to him, it feels like it's been longer than that. Not to say that he hates his new town, actually, he loves it which is the reason why it's felt like more than a year.

In that year Tsuna managed to become good friends with Mukuro Rokudo, Chrome Dokuro, Ken and Chikusa. He knows all about Mukuro, Ken and Chikusa's involvement in the mafia, their crimes and their stay in Vendicare just as they know about him being related to the Vongola.

At first they were hostile towards him, but after learning that he also has a grudge against the mafia, they accepted him into their group. Chrome joined later after Mukuro saved her, and since then, they have been inseparable.

Mukuro uses his illusions to help hide Tsuna and his mother from the Vongola and any of its allies that may be looking for them. If someone were to look at either Tsuna or Nana, they wouldn't see a short 13-year old boy with spiky brown hair and big brown eyes and a woman who looks similar, but with short, straight brown hair. Instead they would see a tall 15-year old boy with black hair and brown eyes and a woman with long black hair and brown eyes. Only people who are skilled with illusions can see through the lie, which is why Tsuna and his mother still need to be careful when going outside. They don't know who may be watching.

Tsuna and Nana also changed their names, Tsuna now going by Kuuya and Nana by Michiko with their last name being a somewhat common surname in Japan: Fujimoto. If the Vongola tries to find anyone by the names of Sawada Tsunayoshi and Sawada Nana, they will come up blank. Nana made sure to get all the records containing their old names and any information on them and they only call each other 'Tsuna' or 'Nana' in the privacy of their own homes.

He's gotten used to his new life, but still keep's in contact with his friends from Namimori. They're all doing good as usual, so Tsuna is glad. The only thing he is worried about is the Vongola trying to contact them for information about him or his mother. He knows his friends would never tell them anything, he just worries that the Vongola may hurt his friends to get information out of them.

If they do, he will track them down and give them back double of what they gave his friends. He's not the weak boy he used to be. If anyone tries to hurt the people close to him, you can bet he's going to protect them.

"...suna...Tsuna!" Someone's shaking him. He must have spaced out again. Tsuna forgot it's after school and like he promised, he and his friends went to his house to further discuss what they were talking about at school (though it was really just him and Mukuro talking, but they don't keep secrets from Ken. Chikusa and Chrome). He must have been quiet for too long.

Tsuna snaps his attention to Mukuro whose sitting in front of him. Nobody but his close friends would be able to tell, but Tsuna can see that Mukuro is worried. His eyes are searching him, looking at him questioningly.

"I'm fine. I was just thinking."

Mukuro's shoulder slightly sags in relief, his hands releasing Tsuna from their hold.

"Is it about the Vongola?" Ken asks, slightly snarling at the mention of the mafia group. None of them really like the mafia.

"Somewhat."

"Kufufu~ speaking of the Vongola, I snooped around like you asked me to and I managed to find out a piece of interesting information."

"What is it?"

"Looks like Vongola Nono's three sons, Enrico, Federico and Massimo, were all killed and you are the only heir left so Nono has sent the world's greatest hitman, Reborn, to train you to become Vongola Decimo. In fact, he should have already arrived at your old house by now. Kufufu~ I wish I could have seen his face when he saw you weren't there!"

Tsuna, Ken and Chikusa laugh along with Mukuro. Chrome quietly sits next to Mukuro, not really laughing because the mafia hasn't hurt her like it has those four. Not yet anyway.

"I bet it was priceless! Someone getting the jump on Reborn of all people!" Tsuna laughs.

He made sure to study everybody linked to the Vongola, so he knows who Reborn is and is glad he got out of Namimori before he showed up. Tsuna has heard about what Reborn's ex-student Dino had to face and boy is he sure happy that he won't have to endure the same torture. He will never become a mafia boss, it's as simple as that. His mother made sure to get Tsuna and herself out before they both got sucked in much deeper than they already are.

"I know! Wish we could have seen it!" Ken laughs.

"It's a good thing you got out of there when you did Tsuna, otherwise you might have been stuck with Reborn. Let's hope he doesn't find you." Chikusa says.

"Kufufu~ if he does, we'll just have to make him go away." Mukuro grins.

"Besides, even if he did find me, no matter what he does, he can't make me become Vongola Decimo. I won't allow it because if I did, all of the trouble my mother and you all went through to hide me would have been for nothing."

Yes, no one pushes Tsuna around anymore. He won't let them. If the Vongola think they can force him to be their next boss, they can think again.

"So you're going sightseeing while you wait? I see. Then since you'll be traveling around, can you check the places you visit for any sign of Vongola Decimo or his mother. You already know what they both look like from the file I gave you."

"Sure. I'll help look for them."

"Thanks. It will make my job easier and maybe help us find my student sooner so you don't have to wait so long."

"Right."

"Let me know if you find anything." Reborn says then promptly ends the call, sighing.

"Time to start searching for that student of mine."

It might take a while, but at least he isn't doing this alone. He has Gokudera searching and he didn't need to ask Timoteo when he called him earlier if he would be sending out people to find Tsuna because he already knows that Timoteo will. Tsuna is his last heir after all.

Preview of next chapter...

"Quite the clever ones aren't they? Maybe this game of cat and mouse will be fun after all. And it will be even more fun once I catch my prey."

"What!? You mean to tell me that not only did he put our lives in danger, but now the family he's part of wants to make you their boss!? Never! I won't allow it! We will keep moving if that's what we have to do."

"Kufufu~ well if it isn't Smokin' Bomb Hayato. What brings you here?"

"Nothing that concerns you pineapple freak!"

"Kufufu~ oh but it does you see. No one gets away with attacking my dear Kuuya."

"Kuuya? Who the heck is Kuuya? That guy's name is Sawada Tsunayoshi or did he not tell you anything about himself?"

"Kufufu~ I know that's his real name."

"So Kuuya's just an alias then?"

"Kufufu~ of course."

"Coward. He even changed his name just to run away from his responsibilities."

"Kufufu~ you probably shouldn't have said that."

Gokudera doesn't even have the time to contemplate what the pineapple freak it telling him as a fist slams into his face, sending him flying.

Sorry this chapter is a little short and boring, but I will try and write more in the nest chapter and there will be more action.

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