Penny: SORRY, sorry, and sorry. I didn't mean to update so late. The holiday snuck up on me and the day right after Christmas I got sick, but I promised myself that after Christmas I would update as soon as I could. So please be kind to this sick person and forgiver her for not updating sooner. Also, I apologies for errors in this chapter. I looked at the screen so long today that my eyes are blurry and my head ach ain't helping. So I can't look this over, but I did have my amazing friend WOLF look it over and she also drew a picture for this story which is now up. If you need clarification on something send a pm or review and I'll clarify. Since there probably will be a lot of mistakes in this chapter I might look it over when I'm not sick but that's only if people want me too. Lastly, there will be no Christmas special for I have no idea how I would do it and there will be one more chapter before Mukuro. Lastly, I will update either in the next couple of days or on the eleventh.

WOLF: Hey guys... feels odd commenting on penny's story for once... any way i think i looked the story over well, i'm not very good at it... and as for the pick i hope yall like it, i know it looks odd; it was a bit rushed so i could get it to penny before she left town.
and as another thing... penny how did you get sick again!1

Penny: It wasn't my fault!

WOLF: ah ya most likely not... PUT YOUR STORY UP AND GO TO BED!

Penny: Don't need to tell me twice.


"I'm not letting you go," Hiro said to Tsuna, standing in front of the door so Tsuna couldn't get through.

"Aniki, I need to get extra food for Reborn's birthday party tomorrow," Tsuna said exasperated.

"There have been reports of pickpockets lately. They could take your money or beat you up," Hiro said.

"I have to get the food Aniki," repeated Tsuna.

"But-," Hiro, was interrupted by a kick to the head courtesy of Reborn.

"Hiro-baka, are you trying to sabotage my birthday?" questioned Reborn.

"There are pickpockets' around right now so Tuna might get hurt or have his money stolen," Hiro explained, getting dark expressions from Lambo, I-pin, Bianchi, Reborn, Fuuta and Dino who hadn't left yet, as they thought of Tsuna being pickpocket.

"We are coming with you Mama, to help carry everything," Reborn stated as everyone got ready to take on some pickpockets' and Hiro looking just as dangerous as all the other mafia members.

"Thank you everyone, I appreciate the help," Tsuna said finding it adorable how everyone was coming to help him and funny because they all had such dark expressions.

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Everyone stared at a group of people walking down the street to the grocery store. The group consisted of a beautiful pink hair woman, a baby in a suit, two children clinging to a cute brunet, a handsome blond haired teen next to the brunet, and another brunet who looked like a small animal but. But, the reason for everyone staring was because all of them had dark looks on their face except the brunet that had the two kids holding his pant leg, who had a smile on his face.

While everyone was mostly staring at the people in the group with the serious face, a group of three men were looking at the small brunet with a predator glim in their eyes.

"Bro, I'll handle the brunet," said one of the guys as he started walking from behind the group.

He was the third, and youngest, of the pickpockets.' His plan revolved around just being a normal sneaky pickpocketor, and just walk past the brunet and grab the wallet that could be seen peeking out from his front right pocket.

The plan was going like all the other times he pickpocketed someone; follow the victim for a couple of blocks then speed up and grab the wallet. Just as he was at arm length away from the brunet the child in a cow suit started to drag him towards an ice cream stand and when he banked left after them the blond kid turned around to him and punch him square in the face. Making him see stars and sky larks.

After he got his bearings he started heading back to his brothers in crime. All the while trying to figure out why the blond punch him.

His brothers would find out soon enough that if someone was after Tsuna that everyone around him would notice. And they would be on the receiving end of some form of pain of their own.

"Little Bro, that was lame. You didn't even get close to the brunet," said the second eldest.

"It was my fault. The blondie just turned around and socked me in the face," he grumbled as he could still feel his face throbbing from where he was hit.

"Ha-ha, just watch a true master at work," the second eldest said as he got up after a nod from the eldest.

His plan was to run into the brunet to make him drop a vase, and get him to pay him for it. The brunet looked like the type of person who would blame himself for someone else's mistake. But the guy didn't expect for a smoking cake to come at him and hit the vase, making the vase melt into nothing. Leaving him with no evidence, to get the brunet to blame himself for what would have. While Bianchi just had a smug smile on her face as Hiro gave her a thumbs up. Both returned to watching Tsuna, as he was now pulled by I-pin to buy some sweet chestnuts.

"Bro, that was lamer then my attempt and what happened to watching a master? That was more like watching an amateur," said the youngest in the group as he gave a small laugh at the red face of his brother.

"At least I wasn't hit and got a bruise like you did," the second said heatedly. The other got red in the face too and was about to make a snide remark when he was interrupted by the oldest of the three.

"You both shut up. With me going in know we can now get his money and not acting like amateurs."

The two looked at the oldest with smug smirks, for he has never failed in getting money from his target.

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Hiro had been on edge since the first pickpocketer had started following Tsuna. At first he wasn't sure if he was a pickpocketer because he didn't come close to them, for he could just be heading in the direction they were going, but when they turned to go to the ice cream shop and he turned to follow them and got really close to him and Tsuna he turned around and gave him a punch in the face holding back a little for he didn't want to knock him out and have Tsuna notice them man on the ground; for he would try to help the man and would be pickpocketed.

Also, when his hyper intuition told him about a second pickpocketer coming up behind him, he was about ready to give Tsuna an excuse to leave so he could go beat the crap out of the guy in one of the dark alley ways; something that would have made Reborn proud. But Bianchi beat him to it and threw one of her poisoned cakes so that it melted his vase.

After that no other pickpocketer came but his intuition told him that there would be another one coming soon as they started to walk back home with everything bought.

When Tsuna started to unpack everything in the kitchen everyone went to different parts of the house; Reborn and Tsuna in the kitchen, the three kids left to take a nap in Tsuna's room, Bianchi to her room to get the ingredients to make another cake. Dino left knowing his Ototo is safe, and Hiro went to the living room so he could see Tsuna and the kids putting things away in the kitchen and relax on the couch.

Hiro was just about to fall asleep when the doorbell rang.

"Aniki, can you get that?!" Tsuna yelled from the kitchen just finishing two of the bags that they had on the table.

"Sure, thing Tuna!"

As Hiro started to get up from the couch his intuition started to tell him that if he opened the door there would be the last pickpocketer. He gave a smirk for everyone was now on their home turf and his family insanity would drive the man away with nightmares that would last him for the rest of his life. Knowing that Hiro was more than eager to open the door to see a man in a business suit and glasses with a smile that Hiro knew would not be on his face for long.

"Hello," the man began to say, "I'm part of a firm that sells private tutoring materials, for stay at home tutors and instructors. And we have been told that there is a young boy here that stays home all year long and that his older brother has a tutor."

"Not saying we would buy anything but I'm sure my tutor would love to look over the material," Hiro replied as he let the man in and had him follow him to the kitchen were all the groceries away and Reborn drinking coffee that was obviously made by Tsuna, as he was cleaning up the dishes and pot.

"Hey, Reborn this guy would like to sell you tutoring material," Hiro said as he started to drink some tea that Tsuna gave him as he took a seat at his usual place at the table, ready to watch the show that would unfold in front of him.

Reborn's smile turned deadly sweet. "Are you implying that I, the World's Greatest Tutor, need help tutoring my student?"

"Every tutor needs materials to teach a student," the swindler said thinking that Hiro had brought him to talk to the kid for child's play and he was going to play along till he could get the brunet alone so he could convince him to give him money for the fake home tutoring material and adults weren't there.

"Say that again and I'll blow your head off," Reborn said with a gun pointed at the man. Hiro was trying to cover his laughter as he knew that Reborn didn't like what the guy was saying.

"Reborn, what have I told you about having fake guns?" Tsuna said as he took the gun from Reborn, who if he was anyone else, would have pouted for he just lost a second gun to Tsuna and he knew he wouldn't get it back because he still hasn't been able to find the first gun that Tsuna took. He was again thankful for not using his Leon gun in front of Tsuna.

"I apologize for Reborn's behavior," Tsuna said with a small bow before he put the gun in the same cupboard that he put Reborn's first gun. Making Reborn think that that pacific cupboard was a black hole but immediately dismissed the idea for he has seen Bianchi and Tsuna take out dishes from the same cupboard.

"It's fine," the swindler said as he pulled on his collar, starting to sweat.

There was an uncomfortable silence that fell onto the swindler, as Hiro and Reborn started to think of a way to get at the swindler or get Tsuna out of the room so they could do something to him. But they couldn't do the later one because Tsuna started to make preparation for tomorrow's party and would be in the kitchen the rest of the day and in the morning tomorrow making him in hearing range. It wasn't till Bianchi walked into the kitchen to start cooking her poison cake when Reborn told her to get the guest some tea. And in a blur of pink she got the tea ready and gave it to the guest.

"Thank you for the tea," the swindler said before he took a sip and promptly fell over knocked out.

"Oh, are guest decided to take a nap," Tsuna commented before he told Hiro to put him on the couch so he could rest.

"It would be my pleasure Tuna," he said before he lifted the man over his shoulder with Reborn right behind.

Once they were in the living room he threw the man on the couch non to gently. Reborn and Hiro taking a seat on the chair and both lost in their own thoughts of what to do to the man once he woke up.

It took an hour before the man woke up. When he woke up he groaned for he had slept in a weird position and now had a kink in his neck.

But he froze as he felt a deadly aura coming from two places in the room.

"Finally awake," two voices said in sadistic manner. Slowly he turned around in is position to see a kid and a baby with their faces shadowed, with smirks that made the two look like the other.

"GET AWAY FROM ME YOU DEMONS!" the man screamed as he ran out of the house like he was being chased by the devil himself. His little brothers didn't know what to do but to chase after him when he ran right by them.

Back in the living room, Hiro was laughing and rolling on the floor while Reborn gave a wide grin that he hid behind his fedora as he had saw Hiro's smirk that look very much like him. Reborn was proud of what Hiro had accomplished and how much he rubbed off on the boy, which he wasn't worried about the challenges that would come before the boy.

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Haru had been nervous for a couple of days now and now her nervousness were at a new level as she stood in front of the Sawada household with a present. As she debated about turning around going home she knocked on the door before she ran. As she waited for someone to open the door, praying it would be Tsuna, she thought about how she ended up here.

Flashback: Four Days Ago

She walked up to apologize to Tsuna for slapping him and thank him for saving her from falling of the bridge. She stopped him when he was working in the garden in front of his house while three kids were taking a nap in the shade of a sakura tree. Walking right up to him she had the words on the tip of her tongue but when he turned to look at her, she froze. For in his eyes was acceptance and he looked at her kindly, as if she never did anything to hurt him. Seeing that look made her guiltier then she was.

Once she got her thoughts back together she was going to apologize first before she said thank you but he interrupted her.

"It's okay Haru-san. You were just thinking about the safety of the kids and I respect that you would go so far for a stranger, but next time, wait till you have all the facts before you act. Or else you will end up regretting things you have done in the heat of the moment," he said with a soft smile that made him look like a mother reasoning with their child, and thinking that made Haru feel just like that; a child.

After what he said Haru didn't think an 'I'm sorry' or 'thank you' where adequate for what he has said and done. She shifted lightly in front of him trying once again to come up with something to say to him.

Tsuna noticing Haru having trouble decided to help her out, for he wanted to help her and have her as a friend just like in the other world. Where she grew to become a reliable spy for Vongola; she was able to get information from anyone for they always dismissed her for the way she acted. But that was after she learned to keep her feelings to herself on the job making her cool and collective.

"Do you want to come to Reborn's birthday party? There will be food and some games. Also I was told there would be a competition to see who brought the best present, I've been told. The more the merrier," he ended with a bright smile that showed Haru that her words to Tsuna weren't necessary for he was never mad at her but for the life of her, she couldn't figure out how he acted so kind to her even though he already gave a reason. A reason like that you would still have some resentment or something. Not so easily accepted as if she never did anything at all.

"Why?" she found herself asking, on the verge of tears for she had slapped someone who had nothing against her, and now was inviting her to Reborn's birthday party. Something she really wanted to attend.

"Haven't I already explained?" Tsuna replied with a small laugh.

'He had,' she thought as she started to cry.

"Hey now, no need to cry," he said as he stood up taking off his gardening gloves and gave her a hug as he wiped away her tears with a handkerchief from one of the pockets in his shorts he wore.

"Why don't we go inside and get you cleaned up and have some lemonade; it's been a hot day," he said as he dragged Haru into the house after she stopped crying.

From there Haru stayed with Tsuna till half an hour before Hiro came home from school. The two just making small talk, drinking lemonade and eating some snacks that Tsuna made.

End flashback

Haru had spent the four days trying to find the best present for Reborn. She even missed school to look for a present, getting that desperate to find something. She wanted to make friends for she didn't have any at school and she really like this group of people once she stopped thinking everything they did was to hurt children, especially Tsuna's; the boy was very kind and made her think he was the sweetest person in the world.

Her thoughts were stopped as the door open and to her relief; Tsuna was the one who opened it with a huge smile on his face. And when he motioned her in she felt she was walking into her home, nervousness lost to the presence of Tsuna.

"Just in time, everyone was getting ready to open presents and then eat," he said as he dragged her into the living that was decorated beautifully. Everyone was laughing and talking but when she walked in everyone stopped talking to stare at her with ranging emotions, from anger to hate to confusion.

"HIRO, HAYATO, TAKASHI, REBORN, LAMBO, KYOYA, BIANCHI, STOP GLARING AT HARU-CHAN. SHE IS A FRIEND AND YOU ALL WILL APOLOGIZE FOR YOUR BEHAVIOR," said Tsuna, scaring everyone in the room, including Reborn as he gave the people who he said their name a glare that would have anyone running. Hiro taking it the worst as Tsuna only called him by name when he was pissed at him. Dino was glad for once he wasn't on the end of Tsuna's anger and I-pin was glaring at the people who her Mama called by name, if you get Mama mad you did something wrong, and Fuuta acting the same as I-pin even though he was a little surprised by how Tsuna could be scary when angered.

Everyone mumbled an apology except for Kyoya, who just made a grunt, but he quickly apologized when Tsuna gave him a disapproving look.

"It's fine," Haru said trying to get over seeing such a sweet person like Tsuna become scary.

"Now that's over lets open presents," said Tsuna with a bright smile, making people relax as Tsuna was back to normal.

"Yes, lets started doing the Vongola Style Present Opening," Reborn announced as he took a seat in Tsuna's lap as he sat on the couch with Bianchi who wore goggles so Hayato was fine and Haru on either side; one to be next to Reborn, the other to be with Tsuna. Lambo, Fuuta, and I-pin taking a seat on the floor next to Tsuna's legs. Everyone else took a seat on the ground except Kyoya who leaned on the wall far from everyone and Hiro who took a seat in the chair.

"Vongola style?" asked Hiro confused.

"Each present will be judged by the person who birthday it is but only when someone turns an odd year old. The person with the highest score will get a special surprise that is decided by the person who birthday it is. But Mama isn't a part of it because he cooked everything and decorated," Reborn explained.

"I'll go Reborn love," Bianchi said as she took out some homemade bullets that were a jet black color with what looked like purple smoke painted on it.

"This is one of my new techniques I'm working on. I call it Homemade Poison, where I take a weapon and forge it myself and it turns into poison," she explained as she handed them to Reborn.

"80 points," Reborn said before thanking Bianchi.

"I'll go next for the kid," Takeshi said as he stood up from his position on the floor, took a yam from nowhere and transformed his baseball bat into a sword that the baby gave him after he found out that he quit baseball and joined Hiro. His father had been teaching him the family style and he was pretty good, not good enough to go into a fight yet, but still good.

Takeshi took a stance in the middle of the room and threw the yam in the air, making some complicated fast strikes with his sword before it fell into his hand. Nothing looked different about the yam till a second later the peeling in some places fell off. Revealing Reborn's head with, a fedora on top and his signature curly side burns.

"For not including Leon you get 75," Reborn said as he took the yam and put it as far from the bullets he got from Bianchi as possible, so that the yam didn't turn poisonous.

"The Great Lambo is next," Lambo said as he took out a piece of string.

"You go like this and this and get this," he said as he rolled the string in his hands and then pulled it out straight to show everyone that it was the length of Lambo's arm span.

"One point," Reborn said, shocking Lambo who then ran to Tsuna and cried into his leg.

"Reborn," Tsuna said sternly.

"10 points," Reborn said reluctantly putting Lambo in the double digits.

"Ha-ha, the Great Lambo did something amazing again," Lambo said as he sat on the ground again looking pleased with himself.

Reborn was about to put the boy in his place and make his score back to one, but was stopped by Tsuna giving him a smile and a whispered thanks making him stop.

"I'll go next Reborn-sama," Hayato said as he got out some actual fireworks and not his usual dynamite.

The show that Hayato was brilliant and colorful, that left everyone in astonishment.

At the end of the show Takeshi made a comment about Hayato using fireworks and for once the violent teen didn't say anything back.

"75 points for not being dangerous enough," Reborn said.

"We're tied Hayato," Takeshi said while laughing.

"Shut it Takeshi-baka," Hayato growled as he took his seat again. "Fuuta-kun, why don't you go next?" Tsuna said as he probing the boy with one of his hands.

"Okay," Fuuta said as he got up and started ranking Reborn.

Reborn was please to know he was still the number one hit man and he was the most sadistic tutor. He was pleased enough that he gave Fuuta 90 points. Before Kyoya went back to lean against the wall.

"Great job Fuuta-kun," said Tsuna as Fuuta sat down next to his leg. Being embarrassed by the praise from Fuuta hid his read face in Tsuna pant leg.

"Mama how did Lambo do?" asked Lambo as he looked at Tsuna with sparkling eyes.

Tsuna laughed before he said that Lambo did a great job too. I-pin seeing the complement their Mama made to Fuuta and Lambo decided to go next to impress Mama.

I-pin did an amazing demonstration of her Gyoza-Kempo getting an 85 from Reborn, because she destroyed a vase on accident and hit Lambo with some books. Making it a little violent the way Reborn likes it.

As she was about to sit next to Tsuna's leg, he leaned over and gave her a hug and said she did great.

She was about to go into Pinzu-Timed Super Explosion but Tsuna's calming aura stopped it before she could start the count down.

As I-pin sat down Dino got up and gave a whip demonstration. He didn't think it as for when he started to impress Kyoya he attacked him the prefect wanting to bite to death the man who thought he could just demonstrate a skill in front of him. The little girl herbivore didn't count as she was still a child herbivore. Dino not expecting to be attacked wasn't able to block the prefect all the way and got a little injured.

Dino was about to block another blow when Tsuna called for Kyoya to stop. The prefect listened for he didn't want to upset Tsuna so he walked back to his spot leaning against the wall.

"Kyoya gets 95 points for injuring my former student, and Dino for getting injured you get zero," Reborn said making Dino go cry in a corner.

"Now my other stupid student you're next," Reborn said as he gave Hiro a look that said you better make it good.

"I got Reborn a coffee mug," Hiro said getting a sweat drop on their head as he pulled out a Reborn size coffee mug that said the World's Extreme Tutor on it in black while the rest of the mug was white.

"50 points," Reborn said, making Dino sad for he lost to one of his little brothers.

"That leaves Haru," Tsuna said as he looked at Haru, to see what she would give Reborn.

"I got Reborn an outfit and a gift card to a café that I bought coffee for him at," Haru said as she took out a suit that was white with red targets and gift card for a café.

"100 points," Reborn said as he took the suit thinking about the training he could do in it and the amount of coffee he could get with the gift card.

"WHAT? THAT EASY?" could be heard around the room.

"That's wonderful Haru-chan, you won," Tsuna said clasping his hands together.

"As the winner, you will be the second person to start eating after me," said Reborn as he rode on Tsuna's shoulder, while the boy ushered everyone to the kitchen to eat.

"I hope you like your cake Reborn. I know you don't like sweets so I made a coffee flavored cake with dark chocolate frosting," Tsuna said as he took out a cake for Reborn with one candle on top.

"Thank you Mama," Reborn said before blowing out his candle.

The rest of the evening was filled with voices and laughter and slowly people started to include Haru too. Who quickly hit it off with Bianchi and by the end of the night everyone looked like a family with no outcasts. It wasn't till after Kyoya left, who stayed for the food and because Tsuna asked him to come, that Hiro reminded everyone that Tsuna's birthday was tomorrow. Making everyone but Reborn and Takeshi shocked for they didn't know.

After that people left quickly so they could get a present for Tsuna. Which left Hiro, Reborn, Takeshi, and Tsuna left in the house. But Takeshi left a few minutes later so he could help his father close up shop and Hiro went to finish up his homework that he didn't get to do because of the party.

Leaving Tsuna cleaning up and Reborn sipping on an espresso while eating some cake every once and awhile.

"Mama, you're really devious. Inviting Haru here so she could get to know everyone and make some friends," commented Reborn hiding a grin behind his cup of espresso.

"Ah, Reborn you give me too much credit," Tsuna said as he finished up cleaning up in the comfortable silence that was between the two.

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Since Tsuna wasn't turning an odd age number they didn't do a Vongola Style Present Opening, but everyone knew that they would never do that on Tsuna's birthday for the boy wouldn't be able to score everyone fairly, especially the kids.

So when Tsuna was opening his presents it was a normal event. At least as normal it could be for a group of Vongola people.

Tsunas presents consist of: Hiro giving him a small pink Taser for emergencies, Lambo two pieces of grape candy, Fuuta ranking Tsuna as number one mother hen, for scariest person when angry (Reborn was ranked second) and he was the number one sky (he pretended he didn't understand this ranking when people started making comments), Kyoya gave him an orange scarf, Haru a hand sewn sky blue apron that had a lion cub on it, Dino a kitten outfit that made Tsuna look like a girl resulting in him getting beat down by Hiro and Reborn giving him a scary look that said he was in trouble later, I-pin a finger painted picture of her, Broccoli Monster, Fuuta, and Tsuna, Bianchi gave him a gift card to the grocery store, Reborn gave him a new set of kitchen knives that could double as a weapon but Tsuna silently promised himself to never use as such because he wanted to keep a good set of knives to cook meals for everyone (he would never forgive himself if he used knives he used as a weapon to cook a meal for any of his family or friends), and Hayato gave him a spiked bracelet that had a tracker in it; no one but Reborn and him knew that or so they thought. They didn't know that Tsuna could feel the cool chip in the band.

Takeshi brought lunch so that Tsuna didn't have to cook lunch or dinner and Hiro had made him breakfast in bed, which consist of a lot of Tuna Sushi make Tsuna pout as everyone joked he was a cannibal for eating his own kind. But the rest of lunch was very entertaining for everyone and it was another fun day.

After they ate lunch they were going to play some games, when they heard the front door open. All the experienced people were ready for an assassin for no one just walked into a house before knocking. But as the person walked into the kitchen were everyone was, only the people who had lived in Namimori all their live had knew who this woman was.

She had brown hair that looked greasy and brown eyes that gave you chills and were guarded. But on her lips was a smirk that was so haughty that you couldn't help but hate it. And their clothes looked like the person blindly put them on.

It was her aura that made all the experienced assassins stay in an attack ready position and when Hiro it was in a cold voice that made them all more edgy but what he said made them confused.

"What are you doing here Nana?"