Hello! Wow a new chapter and I just updated too! Well I was reading through my chapters and I realized that I really wanted to add some romance to the chapters. So I made this chapter to make up for the lack of said romance. It might be a little confusing but please just hang in there. So please read and tell me what you think of this chapter.

As the sleek black car started up the curving driveway, Tsuna started to feel fear rise up in her again. Would she still know these people that she used to call her friends, her Guardians? Time could change people and not only for the better. She was a living example of that. Ever since she had gained that thing inside of her head, she had pushed away all human contact. She didn't want to hurt anybody. She just wanted to keep them safe from herself. If something happened to that mirror, if it was damaged in any way then she might lose herself to a monster.

Which was absolutely unacceptable in her mind. Nothing would hurt what she cared for and even if she got hurt; as long as her precious people were okay then everything would be fine. Tsuna frowned at her thoughts. Her heart hurt thinking about these things. She knew that acting this way may hurt the people she cared about but what other choice did she have? If she told them the truth they would blame themselves for not being there for her. But she knew that wasn't the only reason she wouldn't say anything. If she told them what had happened then she was sure that Reborn would hate her.

He had worked so hard to change her skittish way of living and if she told him that she couldn't even defend herself, she could see the disappointment in his face already. So no, she couldn't do that to him. She remembered when she figured out why she often felt the need to see him pleased with her and why her heart beat would quicken when he was near. It had been a little after her fifteenth birthday. She had been down stairs with her mother and Bianchi. She hadn't been really paying them any attention until Bianchi had asked how Nana and Iemitsu had met.

Nana giggled and got a dreamy look in her eye. Sighing she said, "No words can describe how we met. It was love at first sight it was. My heart had gone all doki doki and the rest, as they say, was history."

Tsuna was about to continue gazing out at the yard and resume ignoring their antics when she realized something. "Mama when you say doki doki, what exactly do you mean?"

She prayed that it wasn't what she thought it meant. If it was then she was in deep trouble. Not only would Bianchi kill her, rather painfully she was sure, but if he ever found out…her life would be screwed.

Nana giggled at her daughter's silly question. "It's the type of heart beat you get when the person you love is near Tsu-chan. The person who makes you blush and stutter and when he looks at you, you get warm all over. It means you're in love."

'Love? No it can't be love. It's REBORN! How on earth can you fall in love with a man like him?' Tsuna's thoughts were frantic. Not only could she possibly be in love with her sadistic BABY tutor, but she could possibly be killed for it too. She paled at the thought. If Reborn ever found out she was in deep trouble. Only two possibilities could occur from this. One, he would laugh at her and make fun of her forever after words or he would distance himself from her which, as much as she hated to admit, would hurt her greatly.

Tsuna chuckled inside of her head. Those times felt like so long ago. She wishes that she could go back to a time like that. She looked across the car at the man in her thoughts. It had been soon after that conversation that Reborn had gotten the news he had been waiting for. Verde had finally figured out the way to get their original bodies back. It had been one of the few times that she had seen him look like he was truly happy. That thought broke her heart. She wanted to be the one to put such a look on his face. She had shaken her head and congratulated him, trying to ignore the uncomfortable feeling in her stomach that was signaling how the coming events would affect her.

Her gut feeling had been right. Reborn had come home and everyone was shocked at how the man looked. It just wasn't possible for a human man to look that good. Of course she should have remembered that this was Reborn and he wasn't human, he was the devil and boy did he remind her of that fact. Of course now that she understood the reason behind why her heart acted the way it did around him, she had to figure a way to hide it from him and his mind reading abilities. It didn't help her heart now that he was so good looking either. So she acted like she had when he had been a baby. She held her blushes in with all her might and hid the flinches that she made when another women was talking, flirting really, with him.

But she knew she didn't have the right to be jealous of these women. They were beautiful, smart, and confident and he was way out of her league. She wasn't beautiful she knew. She might be cute but she was a cry baby and whined when reborn made her do something she didn't want to do. Those women could get him to go with them on dates with just a few blinks of their eyes and some well placed. She knew that reborn had no emotional attachment to them and that he was simply using them, letting them think that they were holding all the cards when that was actually him. He would never seriously date a woman and the relationship never lasted long.

Either he got bored or the woman finally realized just how sadistic he could be towards other people. More often than not it was the former. Shaking her head Tsuna looked at the man across from her. Longing filled her entire being. In truth she envied those women. It must have been wonderful to be held, kissed, caressed, hell just being near him. Looking out the window, Tsuna realized that they were in front of the mansion just as the car stopped. When her door opened, Tsuna took a deep breathe then, after letting it out, got out of the car and tried not to think about how everyone would react when they saw her.

Reborn watched as Tsuna took a deep breathe. 'She must be nervous.' He realized. Sure if it had been the regular Tsuna he would have expected it but since he had met this new Tsuna, he figured that all the emotions that had once been there were gone. This made him even more determined to find out what was wrong with her. This show of emotion showed him that the true Tsuna was still there, but she was hiding something. Something huge. Possibly more than one thing. If he didn't figure out what was making her like this soon he was going to go crazy. He wanted to see that smile again. He wanted to hear her laugh.

When he had found out that he would be getting his original body back he couldn't deny the excitement that coursed through him. Finally he would be able to be an adult again and maybe he could get Tsuna too. How he could develop feelings for his no good student still baffled but when she laughed or smiled he stopped thinking about why and just gave into the feelings. She had seen as an adult even when he was a baby. Maybe not at first but she had eventually, which was a lot sooner than he could say most people did. So when he had returned from Italy, he was upset to find that Tsuna had seemed to close herself off from him.

She still smiled and laughed but it was no longer directed to him. It was the one that she gave everybody. He had often felt the burning jealousy course through his entire being when she smiled or laughed at her Guardians. He had tried to make her jealous by flirting with other women, hoping that if she felt anything for him, she would ask, demand him to stop.

She never did. If anything the rift between the two of them had grown. Why would she no longer look at him? It was a question that still plagued him and one he was determined to find the answer to, but first he had to figure out what had caused her to be so withdrawn. And if he found out that the Stella Family had anything to do with it, the Family would no longer exist, and he would make sure of that.

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