Summary: Tsuna didn't really know how it happened. One moment he was walking down the street and the next he ended up in a very dark room with people not really looking very happy to see him. Moreover, what caused Tsuna to panic at this was the sight of the first generation of Vongola along with an adult looking Reborn. Apparently Tsuna was quite infamous in this parallel world...

A/N [2013-08-17]: Fixing up the first 5 chapters in grammar and adding some small details. Nothing major but just to piff up the quality of the first ones as they were poorly written from the start. CURSE YOU BRAINSTORMING.

(old)A/N: Oh deer. Didn't think so many would enjoy my very first attempt on writing down a fan fiction story…. x'D

I'm aware that since I'm new into actually writing stories, since I haven't done that for years, my grammar might be very weird sometimes. English isn't my first language; Swedish is, so expect some mess ups. But I'd appreciate if you point out my mistakes or weird grammar or wording in general. :' I'll probably update the chapters as I go along, fixing some small grammar fails.

So hopefully I won't make the same mistake with the brunet/brunette thing… xD I fixed that in the first chapter. Just shout at me if I do it again. 3

So to make it a little clearer, this is going to swap between the Tsuna from the 'prime'-verse and his parallel version Tsunayoshi Ombra or just 'Ombra' between some chapters. Some changes in character's personalities might occur in the parallel-verse. Just for laughs.

As for timeline from the prime-verse. Go from after the Curse of the Rainbow arc~

But no, this won't have any romance centric what I know. No Yaoi or any sexual themes either since I'm not into that. *shivers*

A well enough blabbering about non-important stuff.

Ombra meaning Shadow in Italian. *derps*

Enjoy my weird attempts of writing :D


Chapter 2 – Confusing Rescuers

Giotto stared down at the unconscious boy. Trying to recall what actually happened from the moment Ombra had pressed that power switch of Talbot's machine. There was a white light, and then some coughing which made his guardians Alaude and G run forward and grab Ombra from the machine's debris which had fallen apart due to the power being switched on. The moment Alaude and G had grabbed onto the target and dragged him out of the debris and dust covering the room a high pitched shriek echoed from the person who was supposed to be Ombra whom seemed to be caught up in the dust which made him cough a lot.

The shriek had startled everyone in the room. Was the well-known information breaker even capable of making such a sound? Giotto gave a frown and Reborn went forward to press the chameleon which had transformed back into its gun form again straight at the man's forehead.

"Game over, Ombra." Reborn snapped coldly at Ombra which winced and stared back with fearful caramel brown eyes.

"Wh-wha?" A very light voice from the man came out and started to cough again. Was the man hyperventilating? That was so out of character of Ombra as it could be.

That's when it hit Giotto. The man, no, the boy, who looked like he couldn't be older than 15, couldn't be the Ombra from a few moments ago. Something was off. The boy did have the same attributes as Ombra in his hairstyle and colour of his eyes. But he looked a lot scrawny and way too short to be Ombra, not to mention his voice was way different and Ombra would never act like he was afraid. We had some pride into his personality, and it concluded to not act afraid at all times.

"Reborn, wait." Giotto stated calmly to the hitman. The boy looked towards him with his eyes widened in shock. The stare was intense, and the small brunet seemed to look confused for a moment.

"Tsunayoshi Ombra. What did you do?" Giotto said sharply to the boy, not letting his guard down if this really was the same Tsunayoshi as before.

"P-p-p-primo?" The brunet stuttered and clutched his head as he was in pain and collapsed down on the floor, leaving himself unconscious and unguarded to his enemies.

Giotto was in a strange dilemma. Right in front of him was a lookalike of Tsunayoshi Ombra; however the height, voice and clothes were not the same as before. And did the small brunet just say primo? It was way too confusing to know what he meant with it.

"Giotto." A certainly pissed off voice stated behind him. G looked at the boy with a scowl. "What just happened? Did the machine just turn him ten years younger or something?"

The other guardians gave their own different looks towards the unconscious boy. Asari and Knuckle looked rather confused, while Daemon studied the boy with a somewhat interesting look. Alaude had gone a little further back and inspected the now broken machine for clues. Lampo scratched his head lazily while eyeing the brunet with one eye.

"Was it like another ten-year bazooka? But backwards?" Lampo asked uninterested.

"Not sure." Giotto replied. Reborn gave a grunt in irritation. Probably mad since Ombra had tricked them into one of his own games again. One of those frustrating and rather dangerous versions Ombra liked to call games.

Giotto eyed the teenager again. The brunet was lying still and no movements were made. "We'll take him into custody for now." Giotto said tiredly and put his hand on his forehead. "Make sure to not let him escape until we got this sorted out. I'll need to get a hold on Talbot and get information about what the machine was supposed to do. That might give us a clue what it really did and what Ombra is up to."

The guardians along with Reborn nodded. Right now it was a little bit of too much confusion to wake up the brunet since they didn't know if that was one other of his tricks or not. Knuckle went forward and picked the surprisingly light body up and went towards the staircase. The other guardians watching the teen intensively, in case he where to make a move.


Tsuna blinked. He'd woken up in what looked like a cell of some sort. The cell was white, reminding him how asylum-cells looked like in those famous movies. There was a small bed which he was currently sitting on, in the middle of the room stood an empty small table with two chairs on either side of it. The only source of light came from a small window in the ceiling which let raw sunlight illuminate the small room and its white walls.

Tsuna let himself sit up, taking in the environment and sighed. What the heck had actually happened? Did he pass out on the way to the store and dreamt it all up? His Hyper Intuition told him otherwise which made Tsuna shiver at the thought. Was he somehow sent to Primo's time? No, why would Reborn, not to mention in adult form, be here?

Tsuna looked through his pockets. To his beating heart he breathed out when he felt the familiar pair of mittens, the small bottle of dying will pills and along with the contacts for the x-burner. His headphones were nowhere in sight though. But luckily the Vongola ring along with Natsu's ring was still on his finger. But something felt off.

The brunet gave the ring a closer look and noticed that he couldn't make out the Vongola insignia on the ring. It was more or less a weird blur around it, making it impossible to say it was the actual Vongola ring. However Tsuna's Intuition told him it was indeed the real ring, but it was hidden for some reason. He looked confusingly at the ring for a moment until he heard footsteps outside the white door at the other side of the white room.

The door gave out a small clicking sound and then no other than Vongola Primo went through along with his storm guardian. Tsuna gave them a stare in disbelief.

"So you've woken up Ombra?" Primo gave Tsuna a calculating gaze which made Tsuna wonder if he did something wrong. But at the name Ombra he stopped thinking.

"E-eh? O-Omb… Who?" Tsuna managed to stutter, making a note to self to try not to stutter next time. Reborn would not be happy with him stuttering in front of the founder of the Vongola.

Primo raised an eyebrow. Still not letting his clear blue eyes off the brunet and remained silent.

Tsuna was in his own dilemma at the moment. Should he really say something? Like it was a mistake and he was from the future. Wait no; he couldn't be in the past. Not with Reborn being here taking orders from Primo no less and coming to think of the room looking somewhat too modern to be from Primo's era. Tsuna couldn't help but getting mad at his thoughts swirling around unable to figure out the situation. Primo and G didn't make any signs of helping him out with explanations. Their gazes were too intimidating for Tsuna to ask anything making him unconsciously start fidgeting.

The awkward silence was broken by someone behind Primo and G, as a voice blurted out something to the first generation. Tsuna was unable to hear them but they seemed to look very serious about the matter at hand. With a final glance towards Tsuna they exited the room leaving him even more confused than before.

Tsuna just sat still, completely dumbfounded. Just what the heck was going on?


Giotto was on his way to his office along with G. Talbot had finally arrived while he and G were to see the small version of Ombra in the cell, which didn't look like he had the memories of the information breaker at least, or what was going on for that matter. That would be good news, but still made it impossible to be able to locate Ombra's actual whereabouts or figure out his plans. Giotto's Hyper Intuition had remained neutral towards the boy, inclining he was no threat as for now. But there was this weird feeling of that he was capable to more than he looked like or that he just didn't belong here.

Giotto entered his office where the old inventor along with three others of Vongola's new generation of inventors and scientists.

"A Giotto my old friend, how's family?" The old Talbot waved.

"As for now it's fine." Giotto replied politely. "But there's a matter in hand I want to discuss with you. It's about your old machine that was stored in one of your labs in the Delta facility."

"Oh. The unfinished machine that man in the iron hat warned me to not finish?" Talbot chuckled as everyone else in the room tensed at the statement.

"The man in the iron hat?" G asked with a scowl.

"I believe so. He warned me about not trying to finish it while it could cause some devastating results if used. So I just stored it down one of the old labs in the Delta facility to get rid of that piece of junk. I'm not sure what it was capable of though. That iron hat man said it was better if I forgot about it." Talbot replied in thought.

"Was it a smart idea to not destroy it?" One of the scientists dressed in a white lab coat, glasses and dark green hair said in an amused voice. "Or were you too interested in why he asked you not to finish it?"

"I believe the issue as for now is to figure out what it did. Not what it was supposed to do Verde." Giotto said firmly. "I have a feeling Ombra somehow figured out what it would do since he always has a reason for his actions, even if they never seem to make sense."

"So what did happen?" Souichi Irie, one of the last two inventors with glasses and red hair asked nervously. Behind him stood a rather laid back blonde inventor called Spanner who turned his attention to Giotto. Hoping to get an interesting answer for what the machine had been capable of.

"It exploded in a bright light. The moment after Ombra was gone and a little boy who looked like a younger version of him appeared and seemed rather confused about being there." G replied. "He didn't seem to know how he got there. He collapsed a few moments after muttering some words."

Giotto nodded. That was about what happened. The brunet was now in the small cell. Hopefully he wouldn't try escaping for a while. If he even could since the room was heavily guarded.

As G finished the last of the story and let the inventors take a few moments to let it sink in there was a small moment of silence.

The next moment a large explosion at the other side of the mansion echoed and shook the entire building.

"Giotto Vongola! Intruders! They are trying to break into Ombra's cell sir!" a subordinate announced frantically through the speakers.

"Let's go." Giotto ordered G.


Tsuna didn't make much fuss in the cell. He was a little too confused and scared to try anything that might make him more suspicious that he apparently already was towards the first generation of Vongola. Not to mention if he would try it would surely bring a lot of explanations to do of firing an x-burner, which he would need the headphones for anyways so that was out of the question for now. He did not want to risk shooting himself into a wall by accident.

Then a large explosion echoed right outside his small room and shook the entire cell and gave small cracks in the white walls. Tsuna gave up a shriek at the sudden interruption in his thinking process and looked warily around.

Next thing the door was blown off its hinges leaving an open path for escape. Tsuna did nothing more than flinching back into his bed.

Where the door had just stood a few seconds ago two persons where surely eyeing him, he was sure of it.

"Hey, Bel-sempai. Did we find the right room this time?" a monotonic voice asked the other one.

"Ushishishi~ Looks like this time we found the peasant."

Tsuna froze. No. Not those guys of all the people who would attack without warning. The brunet looked up at the duo which had gone inside the room to get a better look, now in front of the brunet stood Fran and Belphegor in their glory looking almost curiously back at him, knives in Belphegor's hands and Fran in his oversized frog hat. Tsuna could detect some holes in it, probably from Belphegor's knives.

"Oh hey Ombra clone. Ombra-san hired us to take you away from the Vongola." Fran commented dryly in his usual monotone voice while looking uninterested at the small brunet.

"Ushishishi. Get a move on. If that Giotto Vongola or his guardians come here we're in for some trouble." Tsuna didn't get the chance to answer as Belphegor went straight forward and grabbed him by the arm and dragged him out of the cell.

"Wha- Wait a minute! Who is this Ombra!?" Tsuna tried to ask while Belphegor and Fran made a sprint along with Tsuna dragged behind them still holding a firm grip around his arm.

"Bel-sempai. Seems like the mini-Ombra is asking a question." Fran told Belphegor who didn't give any signs of noticing Tsuna's question.

"Ushishishi. Save it for later peasant. We are in a sticky situation at the moment." Belphegor replied without looking back and turned a corner. "There they are!" a voice from behind alerted the trio. A group of men in suits where chasing them down the hallway.

"Stupid peasants. Trying to give us more attention? Froggy, make them lose us."

"Very well Bel-sempai."

Tsuna felt a shiver down his spine when an illusion was cast towards the mafiosos behind them as loud screams in agony was heard.

Somehow they made it out the building quite quickly without any other encounters. Though Tsuna assumed Fran was keeping them from being seen from anyone at this rate. The Trio ran into the surrounding forest where Tsuna started to have some problems with running as fast as the other two. With the firm grip it was impossible for him to get a chance to slow down and the tree roots didn't make it easier to keep up with them.

Soon they were at a forest cleaning were a helicopter was waiting. Belphegor more or less threw Tsuna into the backseat and jumped in along with Fran.

"Go now Lussuria. While Viper and Levi has their attention." Belphegor hissed.

"Right on it Bel-san" The man with the Mohawk chirped at the pilot seat.

Tsuna didn't know what to say. He'd been saved by the Varia of all people? Either he'd become insane from that asylum cell or the world had been turned upside down.

"Hey Ombra-mini clone…" Tsuna started to feel annoyed by the never ending nickname which seemed to change slightly every time. That Ombra guy again, what the heck was up with that name anyways?

"Who is this Ombra everyone keeps calling me!" Tsuna snapped. He was tired of all the confusion and just wanted an answer for once. He eyed Fran with a glint of frustration.

Belphegor seemed to be surprised, though it was hard to tell from his bangs covering his eyes. However, his usual creepy smile wasn't there.

"Ombra is an information breaker. Known to be on Vongola's list of people they want either locked in a cell like yours, or dead. He has pissed off that mafia family for a good amount of years now." Fran replied in is usual tone, ignoring Tsuna's little outburst completely. "We were paid to break you out once he'd played around with one of Vongola's inventor's machines. He didn't give us any specific details more than we'd take you out from Vongola's territory until he gets back."

The brunet stared silently back at Fran's deadpanned face as he finished his speak in an uninterested manner.

Tsuna tried letting the information sink in for a moment. His Hyper Intuition was nagging him again. And this time he got it figured out. The connection with Ombra and him, the people he actually knew but acted a bit different, the first generation in this era. The Hyper Intuition made it all click together.

"A parallel world…." Tsuna breathed out. With my other self as an enemy to the Vongola.


"So the Varia busted him out!?" G shouted at the few subordinates who looked like lost puppies in front of the Vongola storm guardian.

"G." The pissed off storm guardian moved his look towards the Vongola boss and shut is mouth, but continued to muttered curses silently.

"Nufufufu Giotto…" The blue haired mist guardian with pineapple-styled hairstyle suddenly spoke. "According to the reports, they are heading to the Varia headquarters. It's an easy pursuit."

Giotto nodded. Whatever the Varia was paid for to even break into the Vongola mansion just to get that small boy couldn't be any good news for Vongola.

"Then let's go and give them a greeting."