Reborn

My new student isn't what I expected. He's not even comparable to the nonsense Iemitsu gave me. Timid? Not athletic or good at school? Where exactly is he looking? The only reaction he had to finding unconscious men in is house is resigned exasperation. The situation was handled swiftly as well. And someone who isn't athletic, wouldn't be able to drag two full grown men out of the house with minimal effort. Iemitsu clearly doesn't know his son as well as he thinks he does. The closest thing he got to right is that he has no friends. But even that isn't completely true. It sounds like Hibari's been his friend for years, and that boy waiting outside basically worshiped the ground he walked on.

But the biggest difference is his flames. Nono informed me that they had been sealed when he was 5. But even a few blocks away I could feel his flames. They are probably some of the strongest and purest flames I've ever felt.

'I'm going to assume the other heirs died.' Breaking me out of my thoughts. I jump back on his shoulder and he continues onto school. Tsuna rubs his face looking tired.

'Enrico was killed in a gun fight, Massimo drowned and Frederico left only bones behind.' I confirm. Visibly he doesn't react, and I can't help but feel anticipation. He will certainly be more interesting to train than Dino was. 'Your taking this better than I thought you would.'

'What? Did you expect screaming or something?' He chuckles humorlessly. 'What's the name of the family?'

'Vongola' He groans.

'My luck is the worst.'

'You know about it?' This is a surprise I was certain he had no relation to the mafia.

'Just the name. I heard it mentioned a couple times by the people that used to try and kidnap me every other day when I was younger.'

'Kidnapped?' There was nothing about that mentioned. What the hell is Iemitsu doing!?

'They stopped after…' He trails off lost in his thoughts.

'Tsuna?'

He snaps out of it. 'They stopped trying after a while. I'm not sure why.'

It's a lie, but I'll let it go for now. Whatever happened, probably broke the seal. Something had put him in such dire straits that he forced the seal open on his own. The will power that's needed to do that, is beyond most people. But this also means I need to reformulate my plans. Hibari is probably a guardian, and it wouldn't be surprising if he was pulling in others. Since he is clearly active, I can skip the dying will bullets and go straight into teaching how to control them. Though, I'm a little disappointed about that. The school gate comes into sight and Hibari is eyeing the crowd like a hawk. They scramble into the building, hoping to avoid a confrontation with the violent perfect. He notices us and stalks over.

'Tsuna. Who is that.' His whole body is tense volatile cloud flames surging just beneath the surface. But this confirms that he is in fact Tsuna's guardian.

Tsuna, completely ignores this and continues into the building. This simple action causes everyone of the people around to suddenly pale dramatically.

'You aren't going to talk to him?'

'Hmm' He tilts his head 'The best way to discipline a misbehaving cat is to ignore them.' He informs me.

'Oh? And why are your class mates acting like it's the end of the world.'

'When I ignore Kyouya he tends to get… twitchy.' He gives me a closed eye smile. 'And a twitchy Kyouya, is a violent Kyouya. Watch by the end of the day they'll have elected a sacrifice to come and convince me to forgive him.'

A chuckle escapes me.

'Though I swear he does stuff like this on purpose. How did he put it?' He taps his chin 'A carnivore needs to show the herbivores where their place in the food chain is.' He shakes his head. We reach his classroom when I jump off.

'I'll meet you after class.'

He nods 'When you run into Kyouya, tell him I'll explain later.' He walks away before I can answer.

He has the whole school under his thumb, and I can't help but think that we will get along just fine.

The first thing after classes have started is search out the reception room. It would be foolish to go into with faulty info and his only confirmed guardian would be the best place to start. It is curious that he pulled in a cloud first, usually they are one of the last, especially for a classic cloud like Hibari. I find Hibari sulking behind his desk in the reception room.

'Caiossu~' I jump down, and the response is instantaneous. He tenses up ready to strike and glares at me.

'You were the baby with Tsuna. Who are you.'

'I am his new teacher, Tsuna wants to tell you the details himself.'

'What do you want.' He accepts that answer but still doesn't relax. It reminds me a bit of Tsuna. He looked completely relaxed, but he was constantly aware of his surroundings.

'What can you tell me about Tsuna?'

He contemplates this for a minute before finally answering. 'He's a carnivore. But he sleeps most of the time. Its best if you don't wake him up.' With that cryptic warning he jumps out the window.

Its best if you don't wake him up, huh. What exactly happened? This makes me consider that Hibari was involved in whatever caused the seal to break. But it doesn't look like I'll be getting any more information on that. They both hold it too close to the chest. I'll need to earn their trust first.

I spend the rest of the school day observing Tsuna. He is definitely aware of it, he keeps on throwing not so subtle looks to where I am. I suspect that he's awakened hyper intuition, or just sensitive to people watching him. Either way it will serve him well in the mafia.

His prediction from this morning turns out to be right and a boy name Yamamoto Takeshi asks to talk to him. He could be a potential rain gaurdian, his flames on the brink of going active. Tsuna's are already feeling his out, so it's probably only a matter of time before they bond. I follow them to behind the gym.

'Haha mad at Hibari-senpai again?' he smiles.

'Just irritated. I need to talk to him later so don't worry about trying to convince me to forgive him.'

'Oh, good I've got to get to baseball practice then.' He turns to walk off.

'Yamamoto-san' Tsuna stops him. 'Are you alright? I'll listen to you if you want.'

'What are you talking about? I'm fine.' He laughs but is obviously caught off guard.

'I don't mind if you lie to me.' Tsuna levels a look at him. 'But at least don't lie to yourself.'

Yamamoto can only watch in silence as Tsuna walks away, the happy grin finally slipping into a look of deep thought.

'Tsuna?' He gives in

'Yes?'

'I- I haven't been doing very well in baseball recently. My batting average keeps going down. What do you think I should do? I've been practicing more, but it hasn't helped.'

'I can't say I know a lot about baseball.' He admits 'But perhaps this is your body telling you to take a break. You can only push your body so hard for so long before something has to finally give way.'

'But what about the team? They need me.'

'Baseball is a team sport. If you're the only one pulling the team up, it's not much of a team is it.'

Yamamoto doesn't seem to know what to say about that. Tsuna certainly got to the heart of the problem.

'Come find me again if you want to talk. I leave you to think about what you want to do.' Yamamoto doesn't stop him this time, and once he's out of sight I leap down to meet Tsuna.

'I need to watch him.' He says simply. Not at all surprised by my appearance.

'Why?' Tsuna had given him solid advice. It should have addressed the concerns he had.

He turns to look at me with an unreadable expression.

'I saw something in him. Something I'd rather not see again.' Its not until the next day that I find out what that something was and wonder how I missed it. More importantly, why did Tsuna see it.