Chapter 3: A stormy encounter

Disclaimer: I do not own the KHR franchise, it all goes to its creator and owner Amano Akira. Nyx and the story belong to me.

VxG: Hi, everyone, and welcome, to the third chapter of Memories Reborn's rewrite: Memories Rebirth. I hope you will enjoy it. Have a good day.

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Tsuna was angry. Here 'he' comes, showing up like he owns the place, like he has no idea as to what is going on. Tsuna grinded the gun further into the man's jaw, his finger was lingering at the trigger. He was holding himself back so he would not kill him.

Reborn must have read his mind, as he usually does, because he kicked the gun out of Tsuna's wrist. Though, as Reborn kicked the gun away, there was a sickening crack.

Takeshi ran up to Tsuna and dragged him away from Iemitsu ever so slightly. Takeshi's elbows were gripped underneath Tsuna's armpits, holding him in place. Even though Tsuna appeared to be none responsive, the powerful Sky flame on his head was still burning bright. There was no denying of the hate he held for Iemitsu burning bright in his amber eyes.

Reborn turned to look at the young lion. "I hope you have learned something about your family today, Iemitsu." It was not a question. It was a statement, and Reborn would make sure that the man would know this by the end of the day.

Tsuna deactivated his flames, his amber eyes returning to his usual soft, chocolate brown eyes, and turned his head towards Takeshi, who was still holding him by the armpits. "You can let go now, Takeshi. I'm fine."

Takeshi shared a glance with Ryohei, who appeared to be at the ready, if things where to get further out of hand. Ryohei nodded. He should let Tsuna go.

Takeshi did so. "Are you going to be alright, Tsuna?" Tsuna didn't say anything, just gave Nyx a glance. Stepping to the side of the drive way, he gave her a silent command: 'get him'.

The message was clear as day, as she got from her defensive position into hunting one. She would make sure not to hurt the stranger too badly, as both of her masters seemed to know him, but he had made her main master angry. This man was going to pay for it.

She growled, and Iemitsu was found running away from the black coated demon known as Nyx.

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Takeshi watched as Tsuna walked up to his mother, who, at this point, had fallen to her knees, clutching her own gun. Takeshi stepped forward. "Say, Tsuna, do you want to come to my place, or should I call the gang to come here for a sleep over? I can skip school if you want."

Tsuna was shaking, clutching the hand in which he had held the gun. The wrist that Reborn had kicked had accidentally broken.

"... I would like that... I would really like that... Thank you, Takeshi."

Takeshi placed an arm around Tsuna's shoulder. "What are friends for? You sure have been through a lot lately, huh?"

Reborn walked Nana inside, while Ryohei left, saying that he is going to bring his sister and the rest of the gang by later. 'This...' Reborn thought to himself, 'appears to be happening a lot. Tsuna's mental state must be wearing thin. How to fix that, without further damaging it?'

'For now,' Reborn mused, 'I'm going to let this group do what they usually do. I could get a lot more info about this 'gang' of theirs. Better to let things play out for now.'

.:VxG:.

Reborn sat outside on the fence, watching the morning rays appear from the horizon. Tsuna and Takeshi had ended up camping in Tsuna's room. He would make sure to keep Iemitsu away from the teen. Tsuna appeared to be close to that Takeshi boy. The files said that he was a Rain. In addition, he turned out to be the same Rain Reborn had intended to make as Tsuna's Rain Guardian. The two had a close bond, which would make things easier for Reborn to make him as an official Guardian for Tsunayoshi.

Ryohei was an obvious Sun to Tsuna, and, again, it was the very same Sun he had intended to be as Tsuna's Sun Guardian.

As for the Cloud, well, there was that individual in school to whom Takeshi talked to familiarly. Hibari Kyoya. He was to be the Cloud Guardian for Tsuna. There appeared to be some kind of a bond between them, but Reborn was not certain of it just yet. He would have to see it with his own eyes to believe it.

Now all that were needed were the Storm (which should be on his way soon), Lightning and Mist. Reborn would have to scrap those candidates he had, as the whole school was against Tsuna. Reborn would have to find new ones.

"REBORN-SAN!" Ah, it appeared the Storm had arrived, in more ways than one.

"Finally I found you, Reborn-san! Do you have any idea of what you have put me through? I barely managed to get onto the stupid plane just as the doors where closing! You're trying to give me a heart attack here, or something?"

Reborn smirked, ah, it was entertaining, after all. Good thing he made the bomber take that early plane.

"I want you to go into this house, walk up the stairs, and head into the second room to the left. There you will find the third candidate for the Decimo title."

"Th-The thi-third- The third candidate? What is Nono-san doing? Do you have any idea what is going on right now?"

"I don't think so. I have been busy here. We can talk later. Go on, scoot, I am waiting for someone."

Hayato furrowed his eyebrows. "Waiting on someone? Who are you-" Hayato did not have the time to properly ask, for in that moment, a certain black wolf returned. Her tail and head were raised proud in the air, and in her mouth was a piece of orange cloth. Showing her prize to the world, the wolf passed Reborn and gave him a look. There was a playful gleam in her eyes as she strutted into the building.

Reborn smiled. Oh, Iemitsu would not hear the end of this. Speaking of the young lion, there he was, walking a little lop sided with his hand at his butt, rubbing it ever so slightly.

Hayato stared wide-eye, not daring to move, as he watched Iemitsu waddled towards them.

"How you like Nyx, baka-mitsu?" Iemitsu grumbled "I don't know why you introduced such an animal to my family. That thing better be gone soon."

Reborn frowned, not that it was obvious to anyone, but he frowned none the less. "I never introduced her to the family. She was here when I got here."

"What you mean by that?"

"It means you don't know this family as well as you think you do!"

The trio turned their attention towards the sound coming from the door way. There stood Tsuna, arms crossed, a deep frown on his face. His gun was visible at his hip, while his broken wrist had been tightly wrapped in bandages and somewhat healed by Nana's Sun flames. Takeshi stood behind him with a sad look on his face.

"What you mean, Tuna-fish?"

"I thought I told you to stop calling me that! I don't care for you, I never have. You say you are doing job as a construction worker..." Tsuna paused, trying to calm his nerves "Yet you never call, other than for when you tell us you will be here, for a few DAYS! Maybe a week, if we are lucky. Do you have ANY idea what it is you are doing to Kaa-chan?"

Just then Nana stuck her head out, a little shaken. But determined none the less.

"Tsu-kun..." "No, Kaa-chan, don't you dare try to defend him. Reborn clarified his 'real' business to us yesterday, and you are still willing to love this bastard?"

Nana walked up to her son and cupped his cheek.

"I love him, Sawada Tsunayoshi. Things may be hard right now, but my love for him may never waver. I may be angry at him for keeping things from me, but you have no reason to hate him this much. Resentment? Sure. But not this full on hatred you are displaying right now... Where has my sweet little Tsu-kun gone too?"

Tsuna was gingerly touching his cheek. Caressing his mothers hand. Tears starting to fall from his eyes once more that day.

"Sorry... Kaa-chan, I didn't mean to be so extreme about all this. I guess, I am still a bit emotional about things."

Nana caressed Tsuna's cheek. Tsuna leaning in to the touch of it. "I know." Nana started. "Tell you what, why don't you take your friends to go up to that camp site of yours? It has been a while since all of you went there... though I get to keep Nyx with me. Is that a good deal?"

Tsuna smiled, gently removing Nana's hand from his cheek and kissed his mother's temple. "You got yourself a deal. Thanks, Kaa-chan." Tsuna turned around and Takeshi turned with him, curious about the family drama, but not entirely surprised. It was common knowledge that Tsuna had a little resentment to the man, but this was, perhaps, not something the baseball player had expected.

Nana turned towards Iemitsu. "... You must be hungry, dear. Come on in and I will make you some food." Iemitsu did so, happy his lovely wife was making him food. This left Reborn and Hayato stand outside in silence.

Hayato watched a little curious about the little encounter between the two Sawada males. Iemitsu is the leader of CEDEF right? Why would his son... be like this...

"Reborn-san, what am I missing here?"

Reborn glanced over to the bomber. "That is for you to find out now isn't it. here is a hint. Iemitsu is an idiot."

Reborn left, leaving Hayato standing alone outsie the entrance. Nana poked her head out, beaming a kind smile. "Are you one of Reborn-kun's friends? You are welcome to come in and eat breakfast with us."

Hayato did so; he was pretty hungry after all.

.:VxG:.

After some great breakfast, Nana asked Hayato if he could be so kind as to bring some food to Tsuna's room upstairs, second door to the left.

Hayato nodded his head, watching as Nana was putting up a picture... Well more like some form of orange cloth that had been framed. Nyx sat beside the woman looking quite proud of herself.

Hayato grabbed the plates that were put out for Tsuna and Takeshi and walked upstairs. As he got to the room and opened the door, he was surprised to find Tsuna leaning his head on Takeshi's shoulder, a blanket was twisted around the two. There was a faint flame on the brunette's head, while his eyes were closed.

The black-haired boy was snoozing, barely awake, though he woke up when he heard Hayato walk in with breakfast.

"Uwah! That smells delicious! Mama is amazing! She makes such great food! Oh, hey, you're that guy who stood outside with Reborn, right? I know first impressions are kinda important, and all, and Tsuna must seem like a vengeful guy to you, but he is not. I swear it."

Takeshi rubbed the back of his head with his free hand. Then his eyes turned from happy to sad. "Tsuna and I have been close friends all our life. He was really there for me when my mother passed away. We just... We have been almost inseparable since... Oh, how rude of me. My name is Yamamoto Takeshi. Can I ask for yours?"

"... Hayato Gokudera..."

"Wow, your name is not Japanese at all! Which is weird, since your Japanese is so good. You're from a different country or something? Hayato is a weird surname too..."

Hayato sighed, placing the food down at the floor as he sat down in front of the two cuddled boys. "No, my given name is Hayato. Gokudera is my surname. We don't go around calling people by their last name in Europe. We call people by their given name."

"You're from Europe? That is like what...? Four hour difference?"

Hayato grew a tic mark, but before he was able to answer another voice spoke up: "Hehehehe, you are a little off there, Takeshi."

"Tsuna!" Takeshi smiled.

Tsuna shrugged the blanket off of himself and stood up stretching. "There is a seven hour difference between Japan and Italy. Hayato is from Italy" Tsuna gave Hayato a look "if I am not mistaken, that is. I am only basing this on your accent, so I could be wrong."

Hayato shook his head. "No, you hit it spot on. I am from Italy. However, I am surprised you would recognize an Italian accent."

Tsuna grew a small frown. "My 'father' is partly Italian. He is very fluent in the language. I've learned the language, as well as heard it, so I can distinguish it."

"... Okay." Hayato stood up and stood in front of Tsuna. "I have no idea why Reborn asked me to come here. We talked briefly about you being the third candidate of the Vongola name. At first, I had no idea what Reborn or your father was thinking about. But... I may not know you that well, but, if you would listen to my opinion, I think you are the true leader Vongola has been searching for, for a very long time now."

"That's good to know," Reborn said as he popped up on Tsuna's shoulder, "because you are going to be Tsuna's Storm guardian!"

"Guardian?" Takeshi said out loud. "What is that? Something that guards?"

Reborn smirked. He had that look in his eyes… that scheming look Tsuna was all too familiar with.

"Yes, Takeshi. Guardians. In fact, you are going to be one, as well. You are going to be Tsuna's Rain guardian, while Ryohei is going to be his Sun guardian. I will explain in details later when all of your friends are here, Tsuna. I take it, you don't want to keep it from them?"

Tsuna nodded firmly "You are right, everyone deserves to know."

Reborn nodded, jumping from the teens shoulder, and walked out the door.

.:VxG:.

It was closing in on dinnertime. Tsuna's friends had all been informed that they would be going to their camp spot after dinner. Takeshi had left to his own house to gather a few things.

For the most part, Tsuna was lounging in the living room with his favorite book, while Nyx laid curled up on the floor. A glass of water was at the small table besides Tsuna and, just as he was about to take a sip, Iemitsu came in to the living room.

"Hey, son. What you reading there?" Tsuna merely gave him a look. Well, at least he didn't call him by that ridiculous nick name of his.

"A book... Anything else you want to know that isn't as obvious?" Tsuna said with a hint of sarcasm.

Iemitsu gave the book a glance and saw that it was in Italian.

"... When did you learn Italian?" Tsuna shrugged. "Don't remember. Languages have always been easy for me."

Tsuna made it obvious the conversation was over as he took a sip from his glass.

"Tsuna, I..."

Tsuna clenched the glass in his hands, making said glass crack a little under the pressure. The water started to evaporate as Tsuna tried to real himself in, trying (and somewhat failing) to control his flames.

Tsuna switched to Italian, something he was prone to do when he got angry or annoyed. "What? Trying to mend our family, or something, now that I am a candidate for the Vongola name? Are you afraid I will fire your sorry ass, if I take the mantle?"

Iemitsu was silent, a face of utter confusion plastered on his face.

"I... I would never…"

Tsuna's eyes glowed amber for a moment. "Leave... please…" Iemitsu did so.

Tsuna watched Iemitsu leave towards the kitchen, probably off to glomp his wife. Tsuna took a look at his wrist watch. It was time to pack his equipment.

Tsuna knew Reborn was watching him. The hitman could do anything he felt like, not like Tsuna could do anything about it anyway.

Packing a sleeping bag, some flame resisting finger cloth he had managed to get from a shop. Flames were a normal occurrence these days, so flame resisting cloth as available, however, it was ridiculously expensive, as it was a rare case that Flames hurt its user.

Tsuna tied a piece of the cloth around his finger and snapped the said finger to ignite flame, letting his flame burn. Seeing that the fabric was protecting him from harm, Tsuna extinguishing the flame. Then he packed a metal can and a water bottle.

Reborn noted that no food was being packed. It was a simple bag pack with a few essentials, and a few comfort items.

There was a knock at the house's door. Reborn watched Tsuna walk to his window, hand at his gun. Seriously. This boy was too paranoid, and with a good reason too... but a bit over the top. What could he do to make the boy loosen up a bit..? Not even a seasoned mafia member was this paranoid.

Tsuna grabbed his bag, walked out the room, went down the stairs and hugged a girl with golden brown hair.

"Tsuna-kun, we came as fast as we could. Why don't we head out now?"

Tsuna nodded. Kyoko must have been told that Iemitsu was there and the faster they got out of the house, the better.

Along with Kyoko, there was Hana, Haru, Takeshi and Ryohei. The only one missing was Kyoya, but he was not one for crowding.

Tsuna was about to leave when he saw Hayato walk towards the kitchen. "Hayato, why don't you come along with us?"

Hayato stopped dead in his tracks, staring disbelieving at Tsuna.

"Say, Tsuna, who extremely is this guy?" Tsuna walked up to Ryohei, gesturing with his good hand towards Hayato. "This is Hayato. Reborn called him."

"Oh, well, we do have extreme space in our extreme camp for another one... But like, does he even have a sleeping bag?"

Hayato squinted his eyes. "Sleeping... bag?"

Takeshi walked up to Hayato, placing his arm over his shoulder. "Yeah. We go to our camping spot in the mountains when we want to be together, and away from the flame-prejudiced teachers. We start a fire, tell stories, eat smores, hunt our own food and practice survival. We even have a few training sessions, well, more like Hibari-senpai beating us up for crowding around him too much. Ah, speaking of Hibari-senpai, Tsuna, he will meet us at the camp."

Tsuna nodded, walking up the stairs again, coming back down with a second sleeping bag. "Here you go Hayato, you can use this. You can carry it yourself, and taking care of it will be your responsibility"

Hayato gingerly took the bag out of Tsunas hands. Not really certain as what to think of the situation. "Why... Why am I coming with you? We don't know each other?"

Tsuna smiled, giving the bomber a knowing look. "I don't know, I guess you could call it a gut feeling. And so far Reborn has been doing all he can to help me. If he called you, then I will trust his judgment."

Hayato nodded his head, watching as Tsuna walked into the kitchen. Listening as Nana talked to her son with a happy voice.

Nana watched the small group of friends walk away from the house. Iemitsu standing beside her, curious, when had Tsuna changed this much? When had he gotten so many friends? Was he really that blind?

.:VxG:.

Tsuna was really looking forward to this camping trip, they didn't know how long they would be staying, but at least it was his little safe haven, the only place where he knew for a fact assassins would not follow them, and even if they did. They did not know the forest as good as what he and his friends did.

They soon arrived at the camp site. Hibari was already there, beating away at a raised and fastened log that had been whittled by a knife. One could literally see the sweat beading off of the prefect, as he used his metal tonfa's against the log.

Ryohei yelled a big ETREME. And rushed off to join the prefect in beating the poor log up. Backpack still attached to the boxers back. Tsuna could only smile, taking his own backpack off. Walking over to a man made overhang. Hayato noted that there was two other small ones separated by a wall of braided wines and leaves, to the sides of the middle big one. One looked to be a single person use, while the other had a three man, four man use. While the last one, was the biggest of the three overhang's, it appeared to have space for six or seven people. The three overhangs where backed up to a mountain side, bushes and twigs where surrounding them at the sides.

Hayato turned to Tsuna. "What is this?" Tsuna smiled. "This is our sleeping room, we don't like to use tents as they tend to be a bug magnet, so we made these overhangs so we at least have a roof over our head as we sleep. We found a lot of moss in the woods, that is the bedding we use so we at least have a soft ground to sleep on when we pull out our sleeping bags for the night"

Hayato hmm'ed, Placing the sleeping bag at the ground he had carried with him.

"Tsuna, tell us what you do here" Hayato almost jumped out of his skin when he heard Reborn's voice. Watching the baby hitman wearing some form of leaf camo, standing at Tsunas shoulder. Said teen did not seem surprised in the least.

"Ah, Reborn. I was wondering when you would show up" Reborn smirked. "Your no fun Tsuna, show some reaction next time. I thought you where paranoid"

"I am paranoid only at home, to many break ins and pretenses for me not to be. Out here I feel more protected than what I would ever be in my own house."

Reborn didn't say anything.

"Anyway" Tsuna started as he motioned to the area around them. "As you can see, our little sleeping area is pushed up against this mountain, so if we where to be ambushed in the night they would only be coming from a lot fewer places. We have camouflaged the overhang so even if people where to come from the top they would not know where we are. Besides, the cliff is too steep to safely climb it, even Onii-san don't climb it"

The tour continued to the middle of the clearing. The girls was working at fixing up a fire pit. A circle of logs was circled around said fire pit. Off to the north of the sleeping area, And across from the fire pit. Was a river, said river had big rocks that was sticking out of the water, Said stones could be used to move across from the river.

"On the other side of the river is where we do our training, we do have punching logs on this side of the river as well. As obvious with what Onii-san and Kyoya is using over to the left there, but we will get to that area soon. Back to the training area, we usually do our morning free run in the forest after we warm up and eat some food we capture and find today, as you can see. Takeshi is on fishing duty right now"

Tsuna waved at Takeshi when he saw the baseball player seated on a big rock, fishing pole out as he was getting the fish. Happy Takeshi waved back the tour moved to the right side of the camp. Which was surprisingly empty.

"This area is still under construction. We don't know what to do with it yet, if you got any ideas Hayato. We would be happy to hear them" Tsuna felt a slight shiver go down his spine when he saw the scheming face on Reborn. The baby was up to something Tsuna was not going to like.

"... Tsuna, I am going to take over your training regime after the third day. I hope you and your friends don't have any plans this week. I will train all of you into the ground all week if I have too"

Tsuna shivered, oh, there was that all too familiar feeling of dread. Reborn must have held back when they where at home because of his case of depression and paranoia. Here in the forest, neither of the two was present, so Reborn could do what he wanted with him and the others.

"Wait... All week? We don't stay here for longer than a weekend due to school and martial arts practice"

Reborn kicked Tsuna in the gut, said teen fell to the ground.

"Mou, what was that for Reborn? I am simply telling the truth, I may not have school anymore, but you can't stop me from going to the gym so I can practice my Judo"

"I will tell you all the details later, I am your tutor and trainer. So I can do all that I want with your training. That includes taking you out from your Judo practices"

Tsuna huffed, getting up from the ground, dusting himself off. Reborn is Reborn, there is no denying that.

"Do what you want then, I'll be going into the forest to set up some traps. Follow me if you want"

And with that, Tsuna left the clearing, telling Kyoko where he was going, after giving his girlfriend a quick kiss to her cheek.

.:VxG:.

Time went on in the small camp area where they were at. Food was being prepared. Takeshi had caught quite a haul, over twenty fish, while Tsuna had been able to catch few rabbits and a whole deer. This haul, however, didn't stop them from eating some of their smores when night time arrived.

The camp was lively. A few threats here and there from Kyoya though nobody seemed to be bothered by it. The skylark was pretty silent through-out the night. He would sometimes crack a faint smile at the stories that where being told around the camp fire. If someone noticed, they didn't say anything about it.

When the group had finished of eating their fish, Kyoko and Haru brought out a few bags of marshmallows. It was time for some smores.

"Hang on ladies, I have something I want to tell all of you."

It was Reborn who had spoken up. He had his suitcase besides him and was dressed in his pajamas.

The group gave the baby the attention he wanted.

"I am going to tell you about who I am to Tsuna and what it means for all of you. I am a hitman, the best hitman in the entire world to be precise. My job is to train Tsunayoshi to become the tenth boss of the world's best mafia famiglia, Vongola."

There was a dead silence, the air was heavy.

"The reason for Tsuna's assassination attempts is because of a rat in the system. I got curious the other day, so I called Vongola headquarters for them to check it out. It turned out that one of the higher officers had been leaking information in regards of 'the young lion's' son as well as his whereabouts. The problem has been dealt with. We just need to eliminate the remaining people who know about this."

Takeshi, who was seated beside Tsuna on the log, threw his arm around him. "Good thing that has been taken care of. But seriously, mafia?" Tsuna nodded. "Crazy, I know, but it is the truth."

"I will train all of you, so we are going to be here all week. I will spare the women, as they are not Guardian material. As for the Guardian's, Takeshi will be the Rain Guardian."

"Hahaha, well I do have Rain flames"

"Sun Guardian will be Ryohei."

"EXTREME!"

"Cloud – Hibari"

"Hn"

"Storm will be Hayato"

"..."

"As for Lightning and Mist... There are no current people who is worthy or available for the Title"

Tsuna frowned. "Available? You mean, you have someone in mind?"

"That is for me to know and you to find out, Dame-Tsuna"

Tsuna flinched a bit, he knew Reborn was joking... in a Reborn kind of way, but still.

Hayato spoke up, having been silent most of the evening. "Reborn-san, there is something I have to tell you now, since it is important and concerns all of us here."

Reborn eyed the bomber. Nodding for him to continue.

"There have been three death's all together in between Xanxus's and Fredrico's Guardian's."

Tsuna whipped his head towards Hayato. 'Wait, three deaths? which of Xanxus's Guardian's are dead? Belphegor, Mammon (No, wait, Mammon is an Arcobaleno)... Squalo... God I hope not. He may be loud, but he is very loyal to Xanxus. No way Xanxus will be able to remain sane without him.'

"Fredrico lost his Rain and Lightning, while Xanxus lost his Cloud"

'Cloud?... The Gola Mosca?' Tsuna thought to himself in wonder.

"Hmmm, that is a bit troubling." Reborn started. "If Titana was able to take out Fazil. I am going to have to up the training a bit more than I had originally planned"

Tsuna just gave reborn a look, the hitman did not appear to notice, as he spoke up again.

"As for now," Reborn opened his suitcase, it immediately popped up and a big pile of paper popped up. "Here you go Tsuna. Do as you wish with these."

Tsuna, curious, but did as he was told, grabbing the top page. His eyes widened as he noticed that they were his test papers. He glanced at Reborn as the hitman walked over to the girls, so that he could get some marshmallows from them.

Takeshi leaned over Tsuna's shoulder. "Wow, those are your faulty test's the teachers graded you in."

Tsuna had an evil glint in his eye. He ignited his finger and scorched the paper in his hand, watching as it was burning up. He threw it into the fire place as it was getting bigger and the remaining papers soon followed. Nobody said anything. They just watched as Tsuna burned the test papers in silence, seeing Tsuna's shoulders getting lighter and lighter.

When the last page was burned up and thrown into the fire pit, the silence was broken by Kyoko.

"Okay, time for some smores! Here you go Tsuna-kun." Kyoko said as she gave him a hand full of marshmallows.

"Thank you Kyoko-chan, it means a lot" Kyoko smiled, as she walked over to Takeshi to give him his pile.

Soon the camping mood returned to the group. They both talked and laughed a lot. After the marshmallows, the night started closing in on them so the teenagers went to bed. Kyoya went to his own singular overhang, not wanting to crowd any longer. Haru, Hana and Kyoko left for theirs, Kyoko and Tsuna giving each other a hug and a light good night kiss, while Tsuna, Takeshi, Ryohei and Hayato, went to the middle big one. Reborn went to sleep in a tree somewhere.

.:VxG:.

The next morning, Tsuna and his friends woke at the crack of dawn. Hayato woke with them, due to him still not being able to sleep properly because of the time difference between Italy and Japan.

Reborn watched the group jump across from rock to rock, preparing for their morning workout across the river.

The group started with some light exercises and stretches. Then they started having mock battles. Hayato watched from the side lines, making sure to stretch himself a bit more. An hour into the exercise Tsuna walked up to him, sweaty having trained with Ryohei.

"Hayato, why don't you go fight a little with Ryohei?"

Hayato stilled in his stretch. "Ummm, about that... I don't have a fighting style that is... Close range"

"Oh, don't worry about that. We should be able to help you out with that. I was uncertain as to what to do with myself too, in the start. I am working on both close range and long range… well, the only thing I can do with long range right now is with the use of my gun, and, to be honest, I have been relying on that a bit much lately. Sure, I got my Judo, but I want to be able to use my Flames in combat. However, I haven't been able to find something that suits me."

Tsuna ignited his hand. "If I'm not careful, my own flames will burn me. I need Flame resisting cloth, or gloves, but it is very expensive. Kaa-chan might earn a lot from the cafe she runs, but I don't want to use that money on myself, when she deserves it more than I do."

Tsuna deactivated the flame. "We can help you though. After this week is over, I am sure Kyoya will be glad to introduce you to his family's gym. It is where we, Ryohei, Kyoya and me, train. We will find you a good way to fight close combat, just you wait and see."

Hayato smiled, then he frowned. "I don't deserve your kindness. You take me to this place, you give me a sleeping bag, a place to stay while I am here in Japan. I don't deserve any of this."

Tsuna touched the bomber's shoulder. "You do, Hayato. We may not know each other as well as I do my other friends, but I'm sure we can become friends quickly. No. We are already friends, Hayato. Don't deny yourself the chance to become our friend, when we already are."

Hayato had tears in his eyes. "Y-you really are the best thing Vongola could ask for! You are so kind. I-"

Tsuna interrupted him by placing a finger to the silvete's lips, stopping the teen from talking. "You do not have to say anything, Hayato. You have proven to be trustworthy. Let us just get to know one another better, okay?"

Hayato was stumped speachless as he watched Tsuna walk away.

"Omnnivore." Hibari walked up to Tsuna. Takeshi and Ryohei were fist-fighting in the background.

"I'll be with you in a moment, Kyoya, wait a bit more, please."

Kyoya stared at Tsuna. Tsuna sighed "Fine, at least let Hayato do some stretches, while have a little mock battle. After that we can do our free run."

Kyoya nodded, turning around to prepare for a spar.

.:VxG:.

After the boys returned from their forest free run, the group of teens walked back into the forest together, this time towels slinging over their shoulders. Reaching a big natural pond, the teens dressed in bathing suits and threw the towels to the ground as they jumped into the water. They swam around and joked about, though Kyoya was swimming quietly by himself a bit further from the group.

Reborn watched from the shadows of the forest the teens going all out splashing each other, balancing each other on their shoulders trying to push the other off, jumping off a cliff, hanging over the lake they were at.

After a bit of rough-housing, they walked back to their camp, hungry after their little splash fest.

.:VxG:.

Reborn liked what he saw. The day had been spent mostly on training and interaction with each-other. Reborn guessed that Tsuna's friends where trying to keep the boy's mind from going to back his father, not that he could blame them. But as soon as this week would be up, they would return and Iemitsu would still be there. He had gotten a confirmation from Nono that Iemitsu did indeed had gotten two weeks off from work.

But still, the teens could only do so much without proper guidance. Tomorrow he would be sure to get the group into proper shape. He would also do some preparations for Tsuna to get something to wear when he used his flames. A boss who is unable to fight with his flames is not a boss who can do much.

Reborn smirked, watching from his hiding spot as Tsuna shivered. The teen had a good intuition indeed. Now all that Reborn had to do was to work the kid and his guardians to the ground. They had a solid basic build, as it is apparent that they had done well to maintain a balanced body. However, they lacked in balance and stamina, both of which they will have to focus on in their future training, and their introduction training for when they were in the forest. Reborn could not wait.

Once again, not for the first time and definitely not the last, Tsuna felt a cold shiver of dread run down his spine. Now what was it Reborn was up to? It could only be him.

Giving a quick glance around, his gaze lingered into the forest from where he could faintly feel Reborn's scheming presence. Tomorrow was not going to be fun, nor easy.

Tsuna sighed. Well, better to be in Reborn's presence than his 'father's' any day. It was simply just such a drag that Reborn was such a spartan trainer.

.:VxG:.

VxG: Another chapter done, a little short compared to the others, but what can you do. It might be a little off as well. A dog we are watching is keeping me up, he is a little home and momma sick. Barking and whining loudly through three doors, two of which are on the second floor, while I have my own door closed in the basement in the floor bellow it. He seemed to have calmed down now. (At 01:07 in the middle of the night -.-) I am off to bed now.

This chapter have been Betaed by my Darling Tairanda. Anyway G-night everybody, I'm off to bed. See you all in chapter 4.

Editor Note: Hello. Tairanda speaking here. I would like to apologize to everyone for taking this long to beta this chapter. My health hasn't been the best and I simply couldn't concentrate on beta-ing. In addition, if you see any mistakes still remaining, feel free to point them out it a mail to me and VxG. However, don't write 'this and that is wrong'. Say why it is wrong. Thank you for your time. Good-bye.

Author Edit: 29.06.17: Hi, I had to re-upload this chapter because of some details regarding the next chapter. A scene in here I forgot to remove. Something that is going to happened in the next chapter instead. So I am sorry it is taking a while to get the chapters out, but I want this to be perfect and not all over the place. Well with that. Have a good day, and I will see you all in the next part, have a good day everyone.