A/N: OracionMist here with a new chapter! It's been a while, so thanks for being patient! Enjoy the chapter!

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Chapter 10

"So the explosion came from I-Pin over a explosive parcel, but it got mixed with Tsuna's lunch?" Yuuto asked as he was cutting some meat in the kitchen.

Minoru nodded, "Lambo brought it and caused a lot of trouble. Fortunately Hibari wasn't too bothered." Although he had to wonder what the prefect would've done if something did happen to the school. Nope, he didn't want to picture it.

"Oh yeah, Reborn said something about us going to Nami-chuu tomorrow for something." Hibiki commented, "He came to my school dressed like a squirrel during lunch." Strangely enough, Seiji eyed the hit man tutor like he were an enemy for a split second, but it was probably merely just his imagination.

The blond grinned, "We've submitted our work, so I see no harm."

"With Reborn, there might be a lot of harm." The youngest Vermillion muttered.

The next day

"We will be holding a contest to see who can get Lambo to smile first." Reborn stated, dressed as a panda sitting in a tire swing connect to who-knows-what in the sky while Bianchi dressed as a squirrel. "The one that does will be Lambo's babysitter."

Gokudera was the first to refuse. "There's no way I'll be his babysitter. I hate him."

Yamamoto made it seem like a game.

"I'm not good with kids." Minoru stated with finality.

"By the way, whoever is the babysitter will become the Boss's right hand man. You'll have a three minute time limit." Reborn added, giving the silver haired bomber motivation.

The Vermillion brothers glanced at each other before the youngest shrugged with the middle and eldest smiling.

The first to go was Gokudera, and Lambo was already crying. The bomber tried to apologize by offering a handshake, that that was returned with a grenade. Needless to say, Gokudera wasn't happy and make the boy cry more.

"Hayato is disqualified." Bianchi stated.

Next up were Ryohei and Minoru, trying to get Lambo to smile, but the boxer had an intimidating face while the mangaka's face had a strained awkward smile that didn't calm the mood his classmate was making for Lambo.

"Okay, three minutes. Disqualified."

"I thought I did an extremely good job!" Ryohei exclaimed while Minoru sighed.

"I told you I'm bad with kids."

Next was Yamamoto, who seemed to have a higher chance since he was the type to have have kids like him. He decided to play catch with Lambo, but his pitch ended up too hard as it hit the boy in the face and sent him flying into the wall of a nearby club room. That was definitely a fail as Lambo cried.

"Yamamoto is disqualified."

Hibiki grinned, "I'll go next!"

The blue eyed Vermillion smiled as he picked up the crying boy, "Come on, it's alright. How about we play this kind of catch?" As Lambo sniffled, Hibiki threw him into the air and catching him before repeating the process as he laughed to show that it was fun.

"Hibiki is a natural." Tsuna said in awe while Gokudera stared with frustration.

"Don't tell me he's going to be Juudaime's right hand man."

Hibiki paid no mind but threw Lambo incredibly high in surprise when someone shrieked, "What is this?!"

"Ah, I over shot!" The blue eyed teen scrambled to catch the boy as he came back down, colliding with Hibiki and the two layed on the ground.

The others turned to see it was Haru, looking at them with disapproval. "You're all making Lambo-chan cry. And you, Hibiki-san! That was dangerous! You should never do that!"

"Huh? But I always see other dads do that with their kids in the park." Hibiki commented but was ignored as she pulled Lambo away from him.

Haru didn't really seem to remember that she was holding the boy as she squeezed him in anger as she yelled at the boys. "To make such a sweet child cry... I'll never forgive you!"

The pain definitely made Lambo cry again as he leapt out of her arms and into Yuuto's.

"There there, Lambo. You're a big boy that's strong, so there's no need to cry." The blond gently said as he rubbed the boy's back and gave him a grape candy.

"Yuuto is the best option as a babysitter." Reborn stated with Tsuna agreeing. After all, Yuuto was the one most used to handling children out of the bunch.

When a phone rang, Yuuto went to his pocket to answer the call. "Hello?" His expression however, quickly went dark. "What do you mean ruined?"

Whatever was being said on the other side of the phone must have been seriously upsetting as the blond yelled. "I spent the last month with zero sleep to have it finished and sent, and now you tell me you accidentally put it in the shredder, and I have to drive over there with a new copy?! That's a thirty-six to thirty-eight hour trip there and back! Why are none of the computers working?!"

Yuuto took a deep breath before exhaling to calm down. "Fine, but if this happens again..." After he hung up he glanced down at the gaping Lambo and over to his brothers with a sheepish smile. "Sorry about that, something came up on short notice. Hibiki, Minoru, you're free to buy whatever you need to eat for today and tomorrow." Putting down Lambo, he apologized by giving him a bag of candies that was tied by a band with a star charm and patting his head. "I'm sorry you had to see that; it must scared you. I'll make it to you with whatever you want, okay?"

Lambo nodded with a smile as the eldest Vermillion left. "Sorry, that was after the three minute time limit. Therefore, Yuuto is disqualified." Bianchi stated.

Once Yuuto was gone, Lambo wailed, "Scary! Yuu-nee was scary!"

Minoru shook his head, "Aniki can be temperamental when something like that happens and when he only gets sleep at a half hour at a time." Quite honestly, his brother was the scariest sight when he acted on his insomnia-induced rage, but was always apologetic and back to normal after he had plenty of sleep.

"Nii-chan's good at acting like a mom and a dad, but he's never too hard on us!" Hibiki grinned, but Lambo seemed to have had enough as he pulled out his TYL bazooka as he crawled in and blasted himself to switch places with TYL Lambo.

Needless to say, Haru didn't respond well as she called him a perv before running off. Bianchi on the other hand, saw red as she used her poison cooking.

As it made quick work cutting glass and trees, Minoru gaped, "Hibari's going to have my hide!"

Lambo immediately ran away, but didn't get too far as Yamamoto threw his forgotten horn at his head, making him cry.

In the end, Tsuna was to be Lambo's babysitter.

The youngest Vermillion sighed as he and Hibiki went over to the future teen and squatted next to him, "What did I say about you crying?"

Lambo sniffled as he looked up at the two. "Mino-chan? Hibi-chan?"

The blue eyed teen smiled, "Minoru was right, you really do grow up well! So what were you up to before being brought here?"

"I was visiting someone."

Meanwhile with Lambo in the future

The five year old was still crying, but stopped when a scary looking man glanced down at him with a disgusted scowl before calling out, "Oi, the cow trash got swapped out! It's crying!"

"I'll be out in a second!" A voice replied that instantly cheered Lambo up. It was the nice blond lady!

Said blond came out of what he assumed to be the kitchen with a tray of cupcakes with purple frosting. The blond smiled as he set the tray on the table and handed Lambo a cupcake with a smile. "These were for someone visiting, but since you're a guest too, I'm sure he won't mind."

As the cow clad child cheered and focused on his treat, he didn't notice the scary man grab the blond by the waist and pull the two close to each other. "You're way too nice to trash."

The blond blushed before smiling, "If you'd like, I can be extra nice to you." The blond gave the man a peck on the cheek.

"I'm expecting more than that later." The man grunted as he let go of the blond and walked away.

During all this, Lambo was oblivious as he snuck another cupcake before disappearing back to his own time.

Two week time skip

Minoru yawned as he made his way to school. He'd gotten used to patrolling, but he'd found out that Hibari had mostly assigned him a fairly small amount compared to Tetsuya, and it usually consisted of staying by the prefect's side for whatever he wanted and the occasional dealing with delinquents or whatever else. For being third in command, he sure wasn't given too much to do. "He's probably being considerate in a weird way, but why would he give me special treatment? Oh well, if I ask, he'll probably just hit me."

With that, he shrugged before stopping as he heard the familiar screaming on the other side of the bridge. Minoru's eyes widened when he saw that Tsuna was being chased by bees. Before he could do anything however, he gaped as he saw Gokudera throw dynamite as a way to get rid of the bees; blowing up Tsuna as well as collateral.

"And here I thought that getting dragged into the mafia was strange enough. I feel sorry Tsuna."

Lunch

"Excuse me?" Minoru frowned at the hitman tutor as he smirked.

"It's about time that you bunch have gotten training."

Tsuna yelled, "Wait, Reborn! I told you they were just my friends, you can't!"

Yamamoto laughed as he hung his arm around the frantic brunette's shoulder. "Sounds fun, let's do it! What do you say, Minoru-sempai?"

The red eyed Vermillion thought it over. Personally, he had a good amount of training from his brothers, aikido club, and Hibari; he also didn't want to be involved with whatever damage-inducing regimen that the false infant had planned... Then again, there was a chance Tsuna would somehow get hurt, so...

"Fine..." Minoru sighed while Gokudera was against the idea until Reborn told him was to get the others up to par.

"Hibari, I've been wondering something." The mangaka stated after he evaded a tonfa aimed at his head from the prefect. Most likely for returning a little late to deal with some trouble makers on the way.

A raised eyebrow was Minoru's only response as he continued, "I get that Tetsuya has a lot of job's since he's your right hand man, but what do I do as third-in-command?"

The youngest Vermillion gave a surprised yelp as he was suddenly tugged down as Hibari wrapped one arm around his neck. "You're a Scavenger. You are to remain at my side, and in return, gain prizes during the clean up."

Minoru grabbed his neighbor's arm and side in hopes to gain some sense of balance, so that he wouldn't fall and embarrass himself. Although, he wouldn't admit that he didn't expect this response. "Alright, I understand somewhat. Can you let me go? I'll fall over if I have to stay like this."

The head prefect smirked as he released his hold, but not without making sure the youngest Vermillion did fall by pulling forward slightly beforehand. It stayed as Minoru got up and glared lightly as he dusted himself off. "Anything else, Scavenger?"

The taller ravenette blinked before replying. "Oh. I have to do some sort of training that Reborn has planned; it's for Yamamoto, Gokudera, and maybe myself. It'll probably be at the school."

"You will cover for any damages made. Or I will bite you and the herbivores and baby to death."

Minoru widened his eyes, "Reborn should be able to reimburse you somehow, and why must I be punished too?!" Money wasn't really an issue, but he knew that with all that Reborn has probably already done to the school, he would probably be broke before he could submit a new chapter. Also, being bitten to death would be unavoidable as they made contact so often as it is.

Hibari raised an eyebrow, "Then stop them, or only you will face punishment."

"I'll go patrol." Minoru snappily as he headed out the door and apologized to Tetsuya when he bumped into him before continuing his way.

It didn't take long for the right hand man to figure out what happened and shook his head mentally. "Kyo-san really has attachments for Minoru, to the point that the subordinates suspect some sort of relationship between the two for never wanting him out of his range of contact. Minoru doesn't seem to mind anything he does to some extent, and goes out of his way to assist Kyo-san in my place while I'm elsewhere. If only these two weren't emotionally awkward, but then it's what allows them to get along so well." He gave a smile as he thought. "I'm glad Kyo-san has someone other than myself to look over him."

"Do your work Tetsuya or I'll bite you to death." Hibari stated as he gave a cold glare, not knowing or caring about the reason for the smile.

"Hai, Hai, Kyo-san." Tetsuya replied as he proceded doing his share of the paperwork, both not minding the screams from the other side of Namimori, most likely caused by their venting third-in-command.

Dinner

"Training? Don't we already do a lot as is?" Hibiki asked after the youngest sibling told the older brothers how the day went.

"While that is true, it never hurts." Yuuto stated before adding, "It's the matter of it being announced so unexpectedly that is troublesome."

The blue eyed teen nodded, "Yeah! Seiji and I promised to hang out on that day, and I really don't want to let him down by suddenly calling it off. It's not really fair."

"Avarice-san also scheduled a meeting that I have to attend to." The blond mentioned, "I'll have to be away for a few days."

"Reborn should've told us ahead of time at the very least." Minoru stated as he shook his head.

This was exactly why he was against the idea, they hardly had free time and their jobs demanded everything to be scheduled ahead of time if they wanted to do something. Then again, Yuuto tended to procrastinate on his manuscript deadlines and would do it on the last minute, but the results is what matters.

"It's too bad that we can't join too, but work hard for our share too, okay?" Hibiki smiled.

"Yes, Nii-san."

Minoru's eye twitched as he stared down at the box of objects in front of him and questioned the hitman tutor. "Why are we on the baseball field with myself at the pitcher's mound with a bag of chain weights?"

"You'll be throwing them at Yamamoto, who'll be batting." Reborn stated as he handed the baseball enthusiast a relatively normal looking bat. "Go."

"Come on, Minoru-sempai! Give it a shot!" Yamamoto grinned as he took a few test swings before getting into position while Tsuna and Gokudera stood at the side.

The second year sighed as he pulled out his kusari-gami to compare the weights. They didn't look too different, although the ones Reborn gave him were heavier his own, it lookes pretty average.

Minoru shook his head before he unhinged his weight to reattach the new own and blinked as it attached quickly with a soft click, rather than having to jostle the chains like he usually did. He wouldn't show the infant tutor that he was impressed as he started swinging the weight in a circular motion before swinging forward as the weight came off when he stopped him arm forward.

"It came off?! How is this use-" The red eyed Vermillion gaped along with Tsuna when it blasted throw the wall when Yamamoto wasn't able to land a hit.

"Hiie! Reborn! What did you just give Minoru-san?!" Tsuna screamed, horrified that his sickle and chain wielding sempai, which was scary enough, now had a bomb attachment to it.

"They're explosives that, when going at a fast enough momentum from being swung by the kusari-gami, will unhinge itself and to explode upon impact." Reborn explained. "I call it, "Minoru's Weight B"."

"Dull name aside, what's the point of giving me bombs? Gokudera's the explosives expert here." Minoru stated as he held one of the weights.

"Other than close and mid-range combat, you're wide open in terms long-range with that kusari-gami." Reborn stated before raising an eyebrow, "Unless this other weapon you're skilled says otherwise."

"My brothers and I cover each other in terms of range, and we can take care of ourselves." Minoru wasn't about to say anything about his skill with weapons any time soon, so long as there wasn't a need to resort to other means than his current weapon; until then, it would stay a family secret.

While Tsuna was panicking, Yamamoto laughed as he stated, "It's alright, Tsuna! Reborn's just having Minoru-sempai psyche me up!" He also whispered, "The wall is styrofoam."

The red eyed Vermillion sighed while the brunette was thinking that that obviously wasn't the case. Either way, he kept throwing the weight bombs at the baseball enthusiast and kept going as he hit it into the sky as it exploded.

To Minoru's shock and concern, the weight flung off mid-swing and flew at Tsuna and Gokudera's direction. "Look out!"

"I got it!" Yamamoto yelled as he ran in front of the two and swung as quickly as he could.

The mangaka's eyes widened when he heard the clinging of metal as the bat turned into a katana and cut cleanly through the weight, effectively stopping it from exploding.

Both Tsuna and Minoru gaped. Figures that if Minoru's weights wouldn't be normal, neither would Yamamoto's bat.

Reborn explained that, applying similar rules from Minoru's Weight B's minus the throwing, Yamamoto's bat would turn into a katana. The name of it was "Yamamoto's Bat".

Minoru sweat dropped, "It looks like Reborn's bad at coming up with names."

The red eyed Vermillion flinched when a bullet flew past him and glared at the smirking tutor. "Now you two are going to work on your stamina and reflexes."

The boys turned when they felt the rumbling of the ground as a tank rolled up to them before it stopped. Dino came out of the hatch with a grin, "Hello you guys, Romario and I will be helping with that!" He returned into the tank and the vehicle hummed, ready to move.

"Sounds fun!" Yamamoto laughed as he ran with Minoru yelling as he wasn't far behind and dodging cannon fire.

"I'll get you for this!"

"I'll join too!" Gokudera yelled, ready to join, but Reborn stopped him.

"This regimen is best suited for Yamamoto and Minoru. You training will be inside."

As Tsuna, Gokudera, and Reborn left, they could hear the mangaka yelling, "You better not cause any damage or I'll take you down!"

Once they were gone, Yamamoto glanced back at his upset upperclassman with a grin. "Come on, Minoru-sempai! This is fun!"

Minoru yelled back after they ducked another cannonball that soon embedded itself into school building. "It's not when I'll be in trouble with Hibari! Dino, you are going to pay for this!"

For what felt like two hours or so and a flying I-pin later, the baseball enthusiast and mangaka were done and went to the room where the others were.

"Hey! How is it going here?" Yamamoto grinned as he came in with Minoru behind him.

"I knew you two would be alright!" Tsuna exclaimed happily as he came up to them.

The youngest Vermillion glanced over to the bomber who clenched his fists before walking out and bumping him in the process.

"Ah, Gokudera!" The future Vongola boss called out, not sure why his friend left in such a hurry.

The baseball enthusiast was the one to stop him. "It'll be alright, Gokudera's just taking a break. He'll be right back!"

"He's right." Minoru added. "Gokudera's a tough guy, Tsuna."

"Alright then." Tsuna relented, but glanced at the door, hoping that the bomber was alright.

Gokudera sat sullenly on the swings. No matter how hard he tried, he just couldn't beat Yamamoto or Minoru in gaining recognition in Tsuna's eyes. It just felt like his attempts did more harm than good; Tsuna spoke more about the other two, and showed so much more faith in them than him.

"I'm a poor excuse for a right hand man."

"Gokudera-kun?"

"Hayato?"

The bomber looked up to see Nana and Yuuto, each having groceries in hand. "Juudaime's Okaa-san? Yuuto-san?"

"What are you doing here all by yourself?" Nana asked, "I thought, you, Tsu-kun, Yamamoto, Reborn-kun, and Minoru-kun were going to spending time together?"

Gokudera shook his head, "It's okay, they wouldn't need me there."

"I don't believe that, Hayato." The blond stated, "Minoru always says that he's amazed by your skills whenever he talks about you."

"Just like Tsu-kun! He always talks about you, Gokudera-kun!" The brunette smiled.

Gokudera was surprised at that information. "Really?"

"That's right, Minoru's always impressed by you whenever he mentions you. I'm sure Yamamoto enjoys your company too."

"They must be waiting for you, Gokudera-kun. Why don't you go along and be with your friends?" Nana smiled.

The bomber nodded as he gave a bow of gratitude before running off with new found confidence in himself.

Yuuto smiled at his friend, "You're quite skilled at giving pep talks."

"It's nice to help my son and your brothers' friends." Nana smiled back. "It may be best for us not to meddle too much, but being able to help is rewarding in a way."

"You're right about that." It was too bad that Yuuto couldn't tell the brunette about what was going on, but for now, it was fine. Balancing everything in life was something he was good at.

"So how'd training go, Minoru?" Hibiki asked as they sat down and ate dinner.

The youngest sighed, "Reborn gave me exploding weights, and had Yamamoto and I chased by a tank while Gokudera worked doing something even with a lot of interference. He succeeded, but ended up with food poisoning from his sister."

Yuuto gave a chuckle. "I take it that there were damages as well?"

Minoru nodded as he thought to the paperwork and punishment he would have to take later with a shiver. "It just astonishes me how Gokudera can cause so much damage without even using his dynamites."

Hibiki laughed, "Well Gokudera's not a bad guy. He tries, even if things blow up, and that effort counts."

"I suppose you're right, Nii-san." The red eyed sibling nodded before asking, "How were your days, Nii-san? Aniki?"

Had Minoru not looked down at his food for a moment, he would've seen his brothers' eyes darken for a split second before they replied with their usual smiles.

"I met Seiji's other friends and we had a good time talking!"

"Avarice-san wants me to help out with something in the spring, so it seems I'll be gone for a little bit."

"Really, Nii-chan? Avarice-san sure does plan stuff ahead for us." The blue eyed sibling commented with Minoru nodding.

Yuuto grinned, "In any case, now that it's nearing winter break, we'll have much to do. Concerts, photo shoots, special chapters, signings... It'll be fun."

"Looks like Nii-chan/Aniki forgot his birthday in that list..." The two younger brothers thought.

Well, whether they would be busy with work or not, they were going to have time for their friends.

A/N: And that's chapter ten! We're slowly and steadily making our way out of the daily arc! There was a little moment of how one of the pairings are in the future, Yuuto showing his scary side, Hibiki being as cheerful as ever, and Minoru not that good at making children smile.

It seems that Yuuto and Hibiki are keeping their little brother in the dark about something, what could it be?

Things will start to pick up after the next chapter with it getting near the Kokuyo arc!

My laptop is experiencing difficulty, so it may be a while until I update again!

Til next time!

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