It was late at night, Tsuna sat down on his desk as he opened up his diary recalling what had happened today. It had been another typical day in the Vongola Limited for Tsuna, but to his demise with a few additional problems… First of all is that Gokudera had now gained "control" over the kitchen, he demanded that the kitchen is forbidden for entry beside the usual breakfast and dinner times. All his belongings were piled up in the corner adding some degree of mess to the kitchen, which was already messy enough as it was. He also "successfully" (or rather forcefully) claimed the sofa as his bed – so touch it, you die. Not only that, but Gokudera had now acquired a pair of sunglasses which is said to provide "an immunity to his sister", much to Tsuna's slight annoyance as he believed that Bianchi-san would have kept his brother under control and the kitchen would be free from Gokudera's conquer.

The second problem is Bianchi and the filthy sick smell emitting from a pot in the kitchen. Big Brother had warned him to not touch the purple-colored food no matter what as a mouthful of it mean instant death, which Tsuna absolutely agreed on as he remembered the effect that a mere cookie had on him. However, it was soon discovered that there was no escaping of death as either you happily take the poisonous food offered, or Bianchi shall kill you… Feeling miserable in his destined painful death, Tsuna took in the food and hoped for the best. May heaven saves me from the agony… The worry, however, was quickly solved when I-Pin said kindly to Bianchi that if she took over the duty in the kitchen, then I-Pin will lose her job. With that said, Bianchi agreed without another word of complain and happily returned the kitchen duty to I-Pin, much to everyone's joy (though they all kept a disappointed expression on their face to please the ever dangerous Poison Scorpion Bianchi), but not until Tsuna passed out for a couple of hours due to the effect of the Poison Cooking…

Tsuna shivered as he recalled the taste of the Poison Cooking as it was definitely something he wished to forget, as even the thought of it was enough to make him feel sick. He shook away the thought quickly as he continued to write…

**Earlier during dinner**

"Hey guys, since it will be Saturday tomorrow, anyone fancies going camping in the countryside?" Yamamoto asked the group sitting around the dining table with a smile.

"Yeah! Camping! Camping!" Lambo chanted in excitement.

"Extreme! I am up for it!" Ryohei echoed the excitement.

"Me too!" I-Pin said with a smile, as Chrome also nodded in agreement. "We will get to cook out in the country."

"How about you, Tsuna? Want to join us?" Yamamoto asked Tsuna with a bright smile.

"…Sure." Tsuna agreed without really having a second thought about it. To be fair, it was the first time someone ever invited him to a trip of some kind, so he wasn't completely sure at what to do. But it couldn't have been any harm since he would have nothing to do in the weekend, plus he believed people like Yamamoto and Big Brother would make good companions.

"How nice… I would like to come along too." Bianchi gently stated as she was sipping her purple-ish tea (Poison Cooking?). "Are you coming as well, Hayato?" Bianchi turned to his brother as she asked him with a smile.

"No, I am not coming." Gokudera simply stated.

"Come on, Gokudera. Don't be such a party pooper." Yamamoto said with his trademark smile as he swung his arm around Gokudera.

"Don't you dare touch me baseball freak!" Gokudera shouted as he pushed Yamamoto off him. "And I am not coming to your stupid camping!"

"Stupidera is so no fun!" Lambo said as he childishly stuck his tongue out to Gokudera.

"You stupid cow!" Gokudera stood up in a fit of rage and was about to smack Lambo in the head but paused when he realized it was not worth the trouble. He simply sat back down calmly onto his chair and ignored the whole thing, which somewhat surprised Tsuna. "Anyway, I am not coming!"

"Hayato…"

"For the last time, I repeat I am NOT coming!"

"Well I suppose we will just leave you be then." Yamamoto said in defeat. "Where is Mukuro-san by the way?"

"I think Mukuro-sama might be coming back late tonight, I don't know where he was though." Chrome answered.

"That pineapple head is probably up to nothing good anyway!"

"Kufufu were you guys talking about me?" Mukuro said as he appeared suddenly in the middle of the conversation startling everyone except for Tsuna. Tsuna just could no longer find anything more amusing compared to what he had experienced here for the last few days.

"Jeez why are you here!?" Gokudera shouted the question, sounding as rude as he usually was.

"Kufufu I believe I have the right to be here." Mukuro plainly said with a smirk.

"That's not what I am trying to say!"

"Come on, guys. Just chill." Yamamoto interrupted and cheerfully shrugged off the death glare from Gokudera. "Mukuro-san, would you like to come camping with us tomorrow?"

"Kufufu how unfortunate… I have errands to run for the next few days… I would have loved to come." Mukuro said (though his face did not show any sign of disappointment.)

"Wait, so you staying here over the weekend!?" Gokudera expressed in disbelief.

"Kufufu how nice… it's only going to be me and you. Kufufu." Mukuro gave Gokudera an unpleasant stare.

"Plus Hibari if you see him around." Ryohei added from the side.

"Hell! I am not staying here alone with these queers!"

"Well you should come camping with us then." Yamamoto cheerfully suggested.

"Hell no! You guys are just going to wind me up!" Gokudera immediately declined the offer with no sign of appreciation.

"What do you extremely want then?" Ryohei shouted at Gokudera.

"None of your business!" Gokudera spat.

Gokudera-kun just had to be so difficult… Tsuna looked at Gokudera in the eyes, who looked he was kind of ... ummm it was hard to use words to describe what he saw, but Gokudera looked like he actually WANTED to go camping with them...

"What are you looking at, midget!?" Gokudera shouted at Tsuna as he shot him an angry glare.

"Well... If ... if you actually want to come... just come..." Tsuna said without really thinking through what he just said. Everyone looked at him in surprise with mouths wide open, with the exception of Gokudera who was all red and smoke was steaming out off his head. Gokudera grabbed Tsuna by the collar aggressively.

"LISTEN MIDGET, I DON'T FUCKING WANT TO!" Gokudera shouted aggressively into Tsuna's left ear and threw Tsuna back onto his chair as he stormed out of the kitchen.

"...Did I say something wrong?" Tsuna stuttered slightly confused at what just happened.

"It's nothing. You were just able to read Hayato's thoughts." Bianchi said calmly.

"As in?"

"We all know Gokudera actually wants to come, he is just too shy to admit it." Yamamoto said with a sheepish smile.

"Why?"

"It's just the way he extremely is." Ryohei shrugged. "He had always been this way."

"Kufufu what a lost child."

"Typical stupidera."

For some reasons, Tsuna kind of felt bad for Gokudera, it was like he just couldn't open up his heart to other people. Tsuna looked over to Bianchi who seemed to express a same kind of concern.

"...By the way, what do I need to bring tomorrow?" Tsuna asked as he sat the thought to the back of his mind.

"Just make sure to bring some clothes and drinks since we are going to be there overnight. Senpai and I will get the rest sorted." Yamamoto replied with a grin.

"Extreme!"

"Yeah! Camping! Camping!"

So that was the camping decided…

**End of Flashback**

Tsuna dropped his pen to the side of the desk, and leaned back against his chair for a brief moment of thought. Tomorrow is going to be interesting…? Wait... why am I sounding like Mukuro-san!?


It was early at 6 in the morning. Tsuna got out of his bed with his usual still-sleepy eyes and started packing his clothes into a rucksack. Even though he was tired, half of him was really excited since this was his first ever time out camping with friends. Friends…? Did I just call them my friends? Tsuna paused at what he was doing and smiled to himself as the realization hit him. My life had really changed now…

"Dame-Tsuna!" Lambo's irritating voice came out all of a sudden behind the door, snapping Tsuna away from his thought. "Dame-Tsuna! Open the door!" Lambo continued to shout impatiently.

Tsuna sighed as he walked to the door and opened it, only to get tackled by Lambo onto the ground.

"OUCH! What was that, Lambo!?" Tsuna shouted at the younger boy in pain as the boy pinned him to the ground.

"Dame-Tsuna! You excited for the camping? You excited?" Lambo chanted as he jumped up and down on Tsuna's lower abdomen, making him screamed in pain over and over again. Lambo continued to jump in a hyperactive fashion, completely unaware of the damage he caused to Tsuna.

"Lambo! Stop this, you are hurting Sawada-san!" I-Pin appeared from behind Lambo as she grabbed the boy in mid-air.

"Argh! What are you doing I-Pin!?" Lambo and I-Pin locked themselves in a tight struggle airborne until they BOTH landed on Tsuna in a bang, with Tsuna screamed in excruciating pain as the impact hit him like a boulder to his stomach.

Kids these days…

"You okay, Sawada-san?"

"Umm… It's not Lambo-san's fault!"

"It is so!"

"You grabbed me first!"

The two continued to bicker in an intense argument ignorant to the fact they are still standing ON Tsuna.

"Hey, hey. What are you two doing?" Yamamoto stepped into the room and separated the two arguing kids apart. Instead of his usual Vongola uniform, he was wearing a casual checked blue shirt with jeans, carrying a rucksack over his shoulder.

"Takeshi-nii, it was I-Pin's fault." Lambo stuck his tongue out at I-Pin who was offended and upset at his attitude.

"…I was just trying to help." I-Pin sounded upset as she spoke in a quiet voice. Lambo realized and felt guilty with his earlier rudeness.

Yamamoto patted the two lightly on their heads and smiled warmly to them. "Okay I know both of you are trying to help, it was nobody's fault. But Lambo, apologize to I-Pin-chan for sticking out your tongue at her."

"…I am…sorry, I-Pin." Lambo said shamefully holding his hands together.

"I am sorry for fighting with you Lambo." I-Pin returned the apology feeling equally bad.

Yamamoto brought the upset children towards him. "Okay now smile you two 'cause we are going camping together!" The two kids agreed with a nod and smiled back at Yamamoto as they looked much happier now. "You two go down first to help Senpai move stuffs into the van, I will be down in a minute or so."

"Okay, Takeshi-nii!" The two 11-years-olds said cheerfully together. Yamamoto gave a slight ruffle to their hair before they both left the room running down the stairs and chanting happily.

Yamamoto turned from the kids' direction and helped Tsuna up from the ground.

"You managing, Tsuna?"

"Barely."

"I know they can be too much sometimes, but they are good kids." Yamamto gave his trademark smile. "Are you almost done packing, Tsuna?"

"Yeah just need a few minutes more or so."

"Okay cool. I will see you downstairs at the car park then." Then, Yamamoto too departed.


Tsuna walked downstairs with a small rucksack in his hand. Understanding that the weather might be rather warm, he wore a plain orange T-shirt with a pair of light brown pants and also brought a bottle of water with him in the rucksack in case he felt thirsty under the heat. When he was finally at the car park, he saw Big Brother Ryohei busy moving stuffs into the back of the van whilst I-Pin and Lambo were chasing each other away in a distance from him. Ryohei was wearing a red T-shirt with an unique white strip pattern, plus a pair of jeans shorts. He was also wearing a white wristband around his left wrist.

"Morning, Big Brother." Tsuna called from behind, and Ryohei turned his head with a grin and greeted him.

"Morning to the extreme, Sawada!" Ryohei said as he lifted a box into the van, sweat visible on his forehead under the sunshine.

"You need any help?"

"No it's fine." Ryohei said as he tensed and bulged the muscle in his arm. "I am really strong you know."

"Ha-ha. Of course, Big Brother." Tsuna laughed. "Where is Yamamoto?" Tsuna asked as he scanned the surroundings for the tall man.

"He just went to get some stuff from the stores. He will be back soon." Ryohei said as he continued moving stuffs into the van.

"I see."

"Morning, Tsuna." Tsuna turned to whoever greeted him from behind.

"Morning, Bianchi." Bianchi was wearing a pink vest with white shorts, and a petite pink handbag over her shoulder, emitting her adult charm as per usual. Bianchi winked at the boy and Tsuna blushed a shade of red. Bianchi gave a slight chuckle at his reaction. Tsuna frowned slightly knowing Bianchi was doing this deliberately to tease him.

"Morning, Sasagawa." Bianchi greeted the other man as she leaned back the van.

"Morning to the extreme, Bianchi." Ryohei greeted the older woman as he busy himself around.

"You looked like you are doing fine as usual." Bianchi said as she looked at him moving the stuffs around.

"Of course I am to the extreme." Ryohei replied with a grin.

"I am sure Kyoko would like to see you like this." Ryohei stopped for a second or so as he caught upon the words and showed a slight face of sadness though Tsuna could tell he was trying his best to hide it.

"…I am sure she will." Ryohei said with an usually quiet voice as he continued at what he was doing.

Kyoko…? Who is she? Why is Big Brother so upset upon hearing the name?

"Yo guys!" Yamamoto said smiling as he appeared with a bag of shopping in his hand. "Are we ready to leave?" Lambo and I-Pin also walked happily towards the group, looking very eager to start their little trip.

"Actually… I think we still need to wait for Chrome-chan…" Tsuna turned only to discover that Chrome was walking towards them. She was wearing a pale purple dress which glittered under the bright sunlight. She let her hair down instead of her usual hairstyle with a nice straw sun hat over her. Like Bianchi, she was also carrying a small handbag over her shoulder. Tsuna blushed at the sight as Chrome greeted him gently. "Morning Boss."

She looked so cute…

"Mor…mor…morning, Chrome-chan!" Tsuna stuttered at the words and Chrome looked at him with a worried expression.

"Are you okay, Boss? You seem really nervous." Chrome asked with concerns.

Bianchi walked behind Chrome and placed her hands on her shoulder as she chuckled softly. "It's alright, Chrome. Tsuna just doesn't know how to act appropriately in front of beautiful women." Bianchi teased Tsuna who was now flushing a bright shade of red across his face.

"I… I… so does!" Tsuna shouted nervously as Ryohei calmed him down with a hand on his shoulder.

"You look extremely beautiful today, Chrome." Ryohei grinned as he gave a thumb-up, and Yamamoto nodded in agreement at the back.

"You look so lovely in the dress, Chrome-nee." I-Pin said as she held Chrome's hands.

Chrome blushed a slight red as she looked to the ground shyly. "Th…Thank you guys."

"Kufufu what fun are you guys having without me?" Mukuro said with his usual creepy voice as he appeared from behind the van startling everyone again as usual, whilst Tsuna just sweat-dropped. Unlike the others, he was in his usual Vongola uniform.

"Mukuro-sama…" Chrome looked up and greeted her look-alike.

"You look beautiful today, my dear Chrome-chan. No wonder Tsunayoshi-kun here is as red as a tomato." Mukuro said with a smirk, and everyone (even Ryohei and Yamamoto) couldn't help but chuckled slightly, making Tsuna bright red in the face.

"Umm… I was…just… Why are you here anyway!?" Tsuna shouted in annoyance.

"I wish to bid farewells to my colleagues before they depart." Mukuro plainly said.

"You do know we will back by Sunday night!" Tsuna continued to shout the words – he really just didn't get on with the other man.

"But what if you got lost in the forest?" Mukuro said with a smirk.

"That's something quite nice to say!"

"Come on, guys." Yamamoto interrupted as he smiled at the group. "Since everyone is here now, we should start heading out now. We don't want to arrive over there too late." Tsuna nodded in agreement and threw away the thoughts of Mukuro to the back of his mind.

"Okay the. Let's get going to the extreme!" Ryohei shouted arms in the air.

"Yeah! Camping! Camping!" Lambo chanted in excitement.


The group departed from the car park soon afterwards as Mukuro smiled and waved them farewells with a handkerchief. Is he mocking us!? Tsuna thought, believing that the man was not doing this out of kindness. However it seems that everyone did not have second thought as they waved back to the creepy man whilst the van drove out of the car park. Ryohei was driving whilst Yamamoto was also sitting at the front looking at the map to give Ryohei the directions. Tsuna was sitting next to Bianchi in the middle section of the vehicle, and Lambo, I-Pin and Chrome were sitting on the backseats.

The car journey took a good two hours or so, and Tsuna was still feeling kind of sleepy as he did wake up so early today. However, he was unable to sleep at all with Lambo shouting and kicking around at the back of his seat. He was kind of annoyed but decided to leave the young boy be. He saw Chrome and I-Pin sharing some snacks together, and Bianchi was just looking out to the windows with her sunglasses on. Kind of interested to see what was outside, Tsuna too looked out to the windows as he discovered a marvelous scenery of mountains and rivers knowing they were now completely out of the big city.

"It's beautiful isn't it?" Bianchi asked Tsuna.

"Yeah, I never see something like this before."

"You never have been out to the mountains?" Bianchi asked him curiously.

"No…" Tsuna was kind of embarrassed at admitting that he never had been out in the mountains for all his 20 years of life. To be honest, the thought of going to such places had never crossed his mind before.

"Well," Bianchi smiled. "I am sure this will be an enjoying trip for you."

Tsuna smiled as he really hoped what the lady said will be true, as he felt the car slowly coming to a stop.

"We have extremely arrived!"

Everyone was excited as they hurriedly get out of the van, and Tsuna followed behind hastily and marveled at the landscape. There was a large clear lake over in front of him which stood next to road the car was parked on, separated by a field of glass and flowers of all kinds. Over to the other side of the lake, where was a large green forest which stood in front a large tall mountain that extended over the clouds. The bright sunlight shined over the lake as the lake reflected the whole scenery upside down like a mirror. If Tsuna didn't feel the soft country breezes around him, he won't have believed that such a picturesque landscape actually existed.

"Is this going to be our camp-site?" Tsuna asked excitingly looking towards Yamamoto and Ryohei.

"Of course to the extreme!" Ryohei grinned widely.

"You like it, Tsuna?"

"Yeah. This is amazing!" Tsuna said as he continued to admire the wonderful landscape in front of him. I have a good feeling about this now…


Tsuna travelled across the clear lake with Lambo on an air-inflated boat (which Ryohei had brought) as they puddled themselves across the large lake. Lambo, being his usual self-confident self, announced himself as "the captain of the ship" and Tsuna as his "subordinate" much to Tsuna's annoyance. Tsuna blamed himself for his lack of abilities in swimming, and was down to no choice but to settle with Lambo. Ryohei and Yamamoto was swimming around them, and both of them constantly "attacked the ship" in a comic-like fashion to play with Lambo, causing Lambo always demanded Tsuna to fight off against the "sea monsters", which Tsuna usually did by splashing water on the two men as they all laughed in unison.

Bianchi was watching the scene unfolding of her with a gentle smile, whilst laying down on a bench in her bikini as she sunbathed. Her smile grew wider as she watched Tsuna laughing happily in the middle of the lake. You are not alone anymore, are you, Tsuna? She continued to watch the group as Tsuna playfully splashed water on Yamamoto and Ryohei. You have found your family… On the other hand, Bianchi turned to the two girls sitting down a few meters away from her. Chrome and I-Pin were making flower rings for each other using all the flowers they could found on field. The two girls were chatting happily as they also noted the funny acts of the boys. Bianchi smiled softly as she returned her gaze to the blue sky above her. To have a group of coworkers as such, you really are something, Reborn…

"Argh!" Bianchi's thought was interrupted when she heard a familiar sound behind her, only to discover Gokudera standing there in a casual white shirt and pants with sunglasses over his eyes (or he would have fainted upon seeing his sister) and a rucksack in his hand, looking sulky and mentally beaten-up.

"Hayato?" Bianchi frowned surprised to see her brother here.

"Gokudera-san?" The girls also shifted their attention from their flower rings to the unexpected man in front of them.

"Isn't that Gokudera?" Yamamoto noted Gokudera's presence as he along with the others swam back (or in Tsuna and Lambo's case, puddled) to the shore where everyone else was.

"Why are you here? I thought you are staying in the company." Bianchi asked with concern.

"Hell no! That fucking pineapple head was mentally screwing me up all over! He followed me everywhere I go." Gokudera spat. "So I decided to go out to take a breath and by COMPLETE COINCIDENCE run into you idiots."

Why couldn't he just admit he wanted to come with us all along?! Tsuna sweat-dropped.

"Ha-ha, anyway, it's nice to see you joining us Gokudera!" Yamamoto cheerfully welcomed the sulky man.

"Who said that I am joining you idiots!?"

"...Umm what do you mean?"

"I am here for a country trip ON MY OWN, and it just so happened that you idiots happen to be here!"

Hopeless…

"Well, ok, Gokudera. Umm… you can ask us for help anytime you want." Yamamoto replied with a sheepish smile as he scratched the back of his head.

"Like I need it, baseball freak!" Gokudera replied rudely despite Yamamoto's kindness, and laid down on the field, eyes closed. "I am going to sleep, so no body dare disturb me!"

Now I had a bad feeling about this trip…

To be continued...