And so Tsuna takes the stage for the Sports Festival. What will become of this?

And if anyone wants to see some fanart that has been drawn for me, there are links in my profile. :3

I don't own KHR.

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The weather was cold even for October on Sunday when everyone met by the river. Tsuna glanced around, slightly nervous. Ryohei had once again promised that Tsuna would be captain of Team A for the pole climbing competition, and they had once again brought one for training. Haru and Kyoko stood to the side with Thora and Anna as Yamamoto, Gokudera, Ryohei and Francis set up the pole. Reborn too was there, dressed up in his Coach Pao-Pao outfit.

"Let's start practicing for the pole climbing event!" Ryohei shouted as he pumped his fist in the air. While Tsuna shivered, Francis raised a hand.

"Question! How do we practice if we don't have enough people to act as the opposing teams and our own team?"

"That is an extremely good question!"

Jumping off of Yamamoto's shoulder where he perched, Reborn smiled his creepy smile up at the group, "Don't worry, I have that covered."

"Yo, Tsuna!" Down the hill towards the river where everyone was, Dino walked casually with a large group of his men behind him, some carrying a pole. Suddenly Tsuna shivered, knowing what was about to happen.

"They will be team B," announced the toddler.

"Don't worry, we'll try to go easy on you," Dino grinned. Off to the side, Thora blushed and hid behind Anna, grinning like an idiot while the blonde rolled her eyes in sync with Francis.

"B-but-!" Tsuna stuttered, "H-how many men do you have?"

"About fifty."

"Fifty-?!"

Reborn knocked his silly student on the head, "Of course, he has fifty. It's not even as much your classes have. Anyways, another family is coming too."

"Another-?"

"Heeeeey, Sawada-chan!" Naito Longchamp shouted as he ran towards them, Mangusta, Lunga and Pantera in tow, "Have you missed me?!"

"N-Naito!" Tsuna tried to greet the very enthusiastic boy nicely, "It's been awhile-"

"I'm here to be team C!" interrupted the other boss.

With a grin, the leader of the boxing team came over, "You're very enthusiastic! You'll do well here!"

"Good!"

Meanwhile, over on the side, Francis twitched at the exuberance of the newcomer, Thora grimaced and Anna muttered something about axes and flamethrowers. Gokudera decided to join the blonde and Yamamoto went with Kyoko and Haru set up lunch, as he had brought some sushi from his shop. Dino leaned in towards Reborn.

"Are you sure about this Reborn?" The blond asked, looking towards the smaller group with a similar expression to Thora's, "I've heard that the Tomaso family is being led to ruin thanks to that boy."

Smiling his usual, Reborn explained, "I tried the Varia, but they were too busy, I couldn't all the Arcobalenos together, the Shimon and Giglio Nero families were also busy and the CEDEF wouldn't come."

"I… see…"

"So, Naito," Tsuna tried friendly conversation, "Where have you been? I haven't seen you around…"

"I was in Italy doing mafia business and dating cute girls! Wanna see a picture of my latest girlfriend?!" Naito pulled a picture out, spilling another two dozen out while we did so, "Ignore the others! I broke up with them ages ago!"

He's exactly the same as before!

A few minutes later, Dino was sitting on top of his pole with all his men surrounding him on the bottom, Naito was on top of his with Mangusta holding up the pole and the other two preparing to attack and Tsuna sat on his, Francis and Yamamoto holding the pole up with Gokudera and Ryohei squabbling about where to attack first. When Tsuna looked down, he noticed Anna come up behind them and whisper a few things.

"Yo," Reborn popped up beside the boy, "Useless Anna is less useless than I thought."

"What…?"

"She just told Gokudera and Ryohei to attack the Cavallone family because she had the feeling that Pantera would try and take out Naito on her own."

"Ehhh? She still attacks him?"

"Yup. She also said that it would be best if Gokudera took the right side and Ryohei the left and that they avoided hitting people and just attacked the pole. We'll see how that works out." Jumping down, he blew a whistle he had around his neck, "Begin!"

"Go Tsuna-kun!" Haru cheered happily as Kyoko called encouragements for her brother.

As the Cavallone men charged forward, Pantera leaped up to attack Naito and Mangusta panicked, letting go of the pole and letting Naito fall into the river.

"Heeey! I lost!" Tomaso Ottavo shouted with a grin.

Ryohei and Gokudera had apparently decided to ignore Anna's instructions and charged straight at the Cavallone group and were quickly swarmed and put down. The rest of them threw Francis and Yamamoto off the pole on top of one another and let gravity take down Tsuna. He wound up next to Naito in the river as Anna began cursing in English at the two who didn't listen to her and Thora held her back. Francis, strangely blushing, got up off of Yamamoto apologizing and Haru ran over to check on Tsuna, Kyoko to Ryohei.

"Hey, hey, Sawada-chan! You lost too!"

I don't think I'll live 'till the Sports Festival!

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Luckily Tsuna hadn't gotten sick from his fall, since he had immediately been wrapped in towels and changed into warm clothes. On the day of, Tsuna stared in some horror at everything set up, despite all of his friends assuring him that he would do fine (except Anna who was running errands for Hibari), and that he shouldn't worry so much.

But worry he did.

"I still don't think it's such a good idea for me to be captain…" he muttered to himself.

"Don't be like that, Tsuna!" Ryohei shouted from behind him, "With Yamamoto and Francis winning all the races and Kyoko on the cheerleading team, this'll be a cinch to win!"

Yeah, if you hadn't gotten me involved! When the spiky-haired boy turned around, he saw Haru and Bianchi standing with his mother, along with Lambo and I-Pin. Must they always come?!

"I believe in you Tenth!" announced Gokudera happily, "We'll defeat them all for sure after lunch!"

"I actually agree with octopus head for once!"

"Shut up, lawn hair!"

Shaking his head with a cheery grin, Yamamoto came over to the arguers, "Just like old times, ne? Next thing you know, someone will attack the other team captains!"

"Don't jinx it!" Glancing around, Tsuna let his eyes fall on the cheerleading part of the day. There were Kyoko and Anna, dressed in their cheerleading outfits and waving pom-poms and there was Lambo, crawling forward with I-Pin chasing after him-

Wait.

"Lambo!" Tsuna shrieked and took off towards the group.

"Nyehehehe! Lambo is a cheerleader too!" The little cow-boy jumped up and down in front of the girls and was doing little twirls in the air before he slipped on his face. Tears began to stream down his face.

"Oh, no! Lambo, come back here!"

"W-WAHHHH!" From out of his afro (which was beginning to actually look like real hair as he grew up) Lambo retrieved his Ten-Year Bazooka. Pulling the trigger, a puff of smoke appeared, followed by a seventeen year-old boy wearing a leather jacket, a helmet and a pair of motorcycle goggles. "Just when all the chicks were flocking to me," the boy grumbled. Most of the cheerleaders jumped back at the site of him, except Kyoko and Anna, the former knowing who he was and the latter not happy that somebody had interrupted team A's routine.

Stalking forward, the blonde gave older Lambo a deadly glare. "Get out of here right now," Anna hissed, her voice like ice, "And I might decide not to rip out your lungs and use them as balloons. But it's a hard decision. So go." The air Anna gave off was practically suffocating everyone around her, so murderous was her mood.

"Uhh…" her victim hesitated.

"Now!"

"Going!" Lambo whimpered and ran off to hide behind Tsuna, "Please protect me from her, young Vongola!"

"Of course," people began to whisper, "It has something to do with Sawada…"

"Is that a cousin or someone?"

"I bet he's trying to cheat to win again…"

"N-no! That's not it!" Tsuna shouted, and dragged Lambo back towards his mother, I-Pin trotting at his heels. Sadly, he had forgotten that someone else had also decided to join his family to cheer him on.

"Romeo," Bianchi declared, holding up a bento filled with purple and fuming food, "I'll make sure you die this time!"

With a sigh, the seventeen year old gave his boos a two fingered salute, "So long, Vongola Decimo." The older Lambo took off running, Bianchi in hot pursuit.

At that moment, the bell for lunch rang. Haru happily offered Tsuna a bento while Nana took care of I-Pin and Reborn's food. The Yamamotos and Thora, along with the Sasagawas and Anna and Gokudera, decided to join them and share bentos. Francis was eating with the Kusakabe family not too far away.

As everyone was eating, Tsuna caught Anna taking a glance at another pendant watch. Though he had heard Hibari had stolen one, apparently she had replacements. "Does anyone have some extra food?" She asked.

Thora tossed her a box of sushi that came from the Yamamoto's restaurant, "Here. Why?"

"Hibari actually sent me out for food, but I don't feel like going off the grounds to find food for him in town." Standing up, she waved good-bye to everyone, "Thanks for the food! Good luck with the pole climbing!"

"Gaaah!" Tsuna shouted, "The pole climbing competition is next!"

"Don't worry! We'll do our best and win this thing, to the extreme!" Ryohei announced happily. But before he could continue with a rousing speech of fire and dreams and hopes that would make everyone in the vicinity stand up and cheer, he keeled over, clutching his stomach.

"Ryohei!" Kyoko cried out, reaching out to her brother. Beside him, an empty bento with purple stains lay on its side.

He ate one of Bianchi's bentos! The mafia boss began to shake. Ryohei wouldn't be able to participate, meaning that one of their strongest people was out. Sure, Yamamoto and Gokudera would good fighters, and Francis was well enough too, but the boxer had to sit out. Their chances of winning went down significantly and his chances of coming out of this unscathed went from slim to non-existent.

"Don't worry," Reborn decided to cut in, "I'd prepared a replacement in case this happened."

"What?! Who?!" Tsuna asked, but a bad feeling was already stirring. He couldn't have asked…

"Hey," Hibari walked up to them, popping a final piece of sushi into his mouth and tossing the empty box at Anna behind him, "I'll be on your team for this."

"He's the replacement?!" Tsuna shrieked at Reborn, who simply smiled. Francis, looking very angry, stalked over.

"What's going on?! What is he doing here?!"

"Ryohei is sick, so Hibari is going to be his replacement." Explained the fedora wearing toddler.

"I'm not going to be on the same team as him," hissed the newcomer. Strangely, all Hibari did was look at his despiser with a slight smirk and eyes that traveled up and down Francis' body. Francis noticed and began to turn red, "Wh-what're you doing?!"

"Mm? Nothing. But, if you don't want to participate," the prefect pulled out his tonfa and lunged in, hitting Francis' shin with a loud crack, "Then don't."

From behind, Anna jumped on to Hibari's back, "What the hell?! I'm the only allowed to sneak attack Francis! Me!"

Easily, he tossed her off, "Don't ever touch me again, weakling, or I'll break every bone in your body," he threatened, just as the bell rang to announce the end of lunch and Bianchi returned, carrying a young Lambo. Anna lay on the ground and scowled as Hibari walked by her, sticking out her tongue for good measure. The prefect just smirked and walked away.

Soon enough, Tsuna's nightmares were coming true. He was sitting at the top of the pole, staring down at the crowd below him. Francis and Ryohei were now in the infirmary being ignored by Dr. Shamal and Hibari was standing on his own, a large circle of space surrounding him as people kept out of his way. Yamamoto was with the group to attack team C and Gokudera would remain to help defend his boss. Tsuna closed his eyes and prayed it would be over quickly.

For about thirty seconds all he heard were screams, cracks and loud thuds. When he decided to open his eyes, all he could see was the no longer moving bodies of the other teams, his team cheering and Hibari walking away as he carried his tonfas by his side.

"Tenth!" Gokudera yelled up, "We won!"

Oh thank goodness… thought Tsuna as he nearly keeled over with relief.

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"Good job, Tsuna! I knew you could do it!" Ryohei cheered from his bed. In the one next to him was Francis, pale and talking with Thora and Kusakabe as Thora took care of the injured leg.

"It wasn't really me…" protested the smaller boy weakly, but his right hand man talked over him.

"Of course he could do it! The tenth is a great man! His leadership is second to none!" Gokudera declared passionately.

Kusakabe raised an eyebrow, "Even though it was Hibari-san who had defeated all of team B?"

"Bah! We would've won even without Hibari!" Announced Francis.

"Kyoko, could you pass me those bandages from over there, please?" Thora asked. The other girl nodded and was about to grab them when another hand snatched it up.

"Well, my beautiful young lady," Dr. Shamal had entered the room and was tossing the bandages up and down in one hand, a lecherous grin on his face, "This is the first time I've met you! I'm Shamal, the doctor here."

"It's nice to meet you," Thora said politely, "If I could get those bandages, please…?"

Leaning in, Shamal pursed his lips, "If you give me a kiss, I will."

"Francis. Hit him."

"Gladly!" A fist slammed into the doctor's face before Francis fell back on the bed, face pale from her injured leg, which had been jostled.

"Nice punch!" Shamal said admiringly, "No wonder Anna-chan always comes in here for ice packs if that's the kind of punches she gets."

"…What?" Hissed Thora as she turned towards Francis with a deadly spark in her eyes.

"She starts everything! Everything- OW! OW!"

I don't think an infirmary should be this active, Tsuna thought to himself, and he sighed and left them all to the chaos.

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In the reception room, Anna stood at the window and watched as students took down the tents they had set up. Behind her, Hibari worked on some of his paperwork, ignoring the activity outside.

Something had been tugging at Anna's mind for awhile, but she hadn't been able to figure out what it was. However, when her eyes were caught by the red and gold armband of the disciplinary committee, it clicked. The rumors of how people who angered the head prefect would disappear and never return, his need for total control and his usage of fear to keep it. With the red and gold symbols, it was almost stupid how she had overlooked it. The Russian Revolution and it's aftermath were one of her favourite historical subjects!

"Hibari…" She began, choosing to ignore his dirty look from leaving off an honorific, "If you'll pardon my rudeness, I must ask you a question." Pausing for dramatic effect but continuing before he could interrupt her, she asked, "Are you the reincarnation of Stalin?"

Silence filled the room, though it wasn't that impressive seeing how they were the only two in there, given that Kusakabe had left to see Francis and all the rest of the members were helping in the take down outside. Hibari whipped around and glared at her with icy eyes. "Weakling," he growled murderously, "Get out. Now."

Taking her cue, Anna booked it out the door, smiling all the way.

Well, he didn't kill me. I think we're getting off to a good start!

Back the room, Hibari rolled his eyes, returning to the papers in front of him. If that girl hadn't proven herself to be good at hunting down good food and relatively competent at whatever job he threw at her, he'd have disposed of her long ago.

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Hibari is Stalin, I swear it. Discovering how alike they are made the Russia unit in History so much more entertaining.

And to 'F', who decided to nit-pick my work: I know where you live, I know where you sleep, it only takes me twenty minutes to get there and I have a certain cosplay at the ready. You have been warned.

Tsuna still has the stage next chapter for his and Reborn's birthdays.