Lily: Okay readers, just to let you know I'm going to be gone for a while. I won't be back for a week.

Shiro: Can't miss you if you don't leave

Lily: (ignores Shiro) I also want to inform you that I'm making it so that the Millefiore Family and Byakuran are not the enemies in the future cause I want to use them as an enemy later!

Shiro: So I made up names for the famiglia ans boss who fights Tsuna and the others in the future.

Lily: Please tell us how you feel about this story and chapter! Ha, ha! The chapter title is a little ironic. I didn't mean for that to happen, but it's kinda funny that it turned out that way.

Shiro: R&R. Disclaimer- we do not own Katekyo Hitman Reborn!

Lily: Ciao!

Chapter 10 Vongola Decimo

They all chattered away, except for the Hibari brothers of course, talking about school and the different events that had happened between then. They talked and caught up on all the things that they had missed, though the topic of fighting and mafia was avoided carefully by the younger ones. The big brothers noted how Tsuna and her friends were very careful and steered the conversation away from such topics.

On their way Lambo and Lampo got into a fight. Eventually Lambo ended up crying and Tsuna tried her best to calm him down, but then Gokudera and Reborn hit poor Lambo and send him flying into a nearby boulder. Lambo was unable to hold back his tears any longer. He wailed with all his might and pulled out a purple bazooka and shot himself, disappearing in a pink cloud.

"Holy crap! Where did he get that thing!" G shouted

"Lampo did you give that to him?" Knuckle demanded.

But Lampo just stared in shock at the place Lambo had disappeared. "No way," Lampo whispered, "Why does the brat have it?"

The older boys looked at Lampo and the spot Lambo was supposed to be. They also began to notice that the other kids weren't paying much attention to it. The cloud cleared and a boy who was the mirror image of Lampo, besides the hair and eye color, appear.

The boy raised a hand and said, "Yo, Giotto-nii, Lampo-nii and all my other nii-sans. Hey there young v-"

Tsuna suddenly clamped her hands over the boys mouth. "Lambo! Hi there it's nice to see you again, however if you continue with that last sentence I'll fry you into oblivion, got it?" She gave a sweet yet sinister smile to the boy sending chills down all of their spines. She pulled back.

"Ah, got it Tsuna-nee," The boy she had also called Lambo said with teary eyes.

"Tsuna…ah…what's going on," Giotto finally asked.

Reborn hopped onto the top of Tsuna's head, calling out to the other boys "The seaweed head over there can explain," he informed them. Said males turned toward the green haired guardian.

"That's the ten year bazooka. Father said that I wasn't allowed to use it. Basically whoever is shot with the bazooka is replaced with their future selves for five minutes. I only got to see it in action once, but I never thought that our father would give it to the cow brat to use." For once Lampo wasn't yawning out of boredom or complaining.

The 15 year old Lambo abruptly poofed into a pink cloud just like the broccoli shaped brat from earlier. The cloud eventually cleared to show the younger more annoying Lambo in his place. "Gyahahahaha! The great Lambo-san is back!" The little boy announced.

Tsuna and her younger companions ignored what had just happened due to the fact that it was a normal every-day occurrence with them. While the older group tried to follow their lead, they were still obviously flabbergasted with what had just transpired.

"Wooooow! This place is so beautiful!" Tsuna cried out when they reached their destination. She ran ahead a little so that she could get a better view of the place Giotto and his friends had picked out. "Gio-nii, I can't believe you knew about such a beautiful spot! Thank you so much!" Tsuna ran over and hugged Giotto.

"Actually, this was Alaude's secret spot," Giotto said begrudgingly.

"Ah! Alaude-nii are you sure it's alright to let us know about this place then?" Tsuna asked running over to the white-blond haired man.

Alaude smiled a little and ruffled the top of Tsuna's head gently. "It's fine little one," he replied. Tsuna blushed and smiled. She was very happy that Alaude would trust her with this place. She hugged her older brother figure, nuzzling her face into the crook of his neck. Alaude smirked, earning many jealous glares.

Asari laughed. "We should get settled down now, so that we can eat our lunch!"

They were about to agree when Tsuna suddenly jumped a little and looked around.

"Tsuna," Reborn whispered..

Tsuna sighed. "I know," she replied.

A series of knives and bullets went flying at all of them. In a blink of an eye Tsuna slid on contacts, white mittens with a number 27 on the back, and fuzzy headphones also with 27 on them. She then proceeded to go into hyper dying will mode, creating a shield of dying will flames to protect her older brothers. Gokudera activated his System C.A.I. and shielded himself, Chrome, and Lambo. Yamamoto used Shigure Kintoki infused with dying will flames and Hibari used his tonfas infused with flames to shield themselves.

The seven oldest males stared in shock and were about to assist when Reborn lassoed all of them together using a rope Leon. "Just sit tight and watch," Reborn said standing in front of them.

The enemy was roughly 20 people in size and surrounded Tsuna and her friends.

"Looks like you get to bite someone to death today after all Kyoya-kun," Tsuna said smirking.

"Hn," Hibari also smirked, pleased that he would get to vent his anger for being forced on this ridiculous picnic.

"There is no way that we will allow Vongola Decimo to be a girl as weak as you!" One of the adversaries shouted.

"I never said I wanted to be Decimo," Tsuna said exasperated.

"Stop whining Dame-Tsuna. The inheritance ceremony is in three weeks," Reborn called out.

Tsuna sighed again, but dashed forward. Her speed took the enemy off guard and she successfully knocked out four of them. Meanwhile the rest of her guardians took action, taking out a section of enemy with ease. A giant purple soldier suddenly rose up. Tsuna clicked her tongue in irritation and took to the sky.

"Operation X," She muttered and positioned herself with one hand facing behind her and the other clenched in a fist in front of her. After building up enough soft flames for support she held out her other hand and blasted the enemy with hard flames, dissolving the enemy into nothing.

Tsuna landed back on the ground and sighed in exasperation as the flame on her forehead and hands went out, and she slipped back out of hyper dying will mode. "Moa! This is the second time already! That's why I said I don't want to be Vongola Decimo," Tsuna complained as she put her mittens and headphones away.

Reborn released the seven older boys so that he could kick Tsuna, but decided against it and instead he just jumped and sat on top of Tsuna's head.

"Vongola Decimo?" Giotto asked quietly drawing the younger eyes back to him and his guardians. "You're Vongola Decimo?" He asked staring at Tsuna.

Tsuna stared back at Giotto, unsure what to do. She meant to keep the fact that she was affiliated with the mafia a secret, but Giotto and the rest of his friends looked like they knew about the Vongola and they were furious about something.

"Tsuna and you're younger siblings are to inherit the Vongola Famiglia as the tenth generation," Reborn answered for Tsuna. "Tsuna is to be Vongola Decimo. Hibari, Yamamoto, Gokudera, Lambo, Ryohei, and Mukuro (with Chrome as a stand in) are Tsuna's guardians."

"No way…Hayato…Tsuna…you're a Vongola?" G asked incredulous.

"What's wrong?" Yamamoto asked. He tried to smile, but the tension in the air was thick.

"Tsuna, is this true? Are you really Vongola Decimo?" Giotto asked quietly.

'Why does he look so hurt? I don't understand. Giotto-nii and everyone look like we betrayed them. But why? What did I do wrong?' Tsuna nodded tentatively. She flinched at them amount of pain that infected Giotto's eyes at the small movement.

"Ah, so you called Tsuna 'Tenth' because she was the tenth boss. Not because she was tenth on your list of people you respect like Giotto and me," G said quietly.

Gokudera nodded curtly. "This should be a good thing Primo," Gokudera said from Tsuna's side.

"Yeah! You said that if Tsuna was the boss then you would be able to work out the problems between our two families!" Yamamoto said cheerfully.

"How could you choose to side with those Vongola?" Daemon demanded.

"They are the ones who destroyed our lives!" Lampo shouted. "There's no way that we could forgive them."

"You're not allowed to join the Vongola," Daemon said tersely.

"You have no right to decide that!" Gokudera yelled, "We are already a part of the Vongola, we will follow Tenth no matter what!"

"Think about the situation a little bit Hayato," G shouted back.

"The Vongola are made up of nothing but evil!" Lampo yelled. "We hate the Vongola!"

Something broke inside of Tsuna at those last words. 'They hate the Vongola? They hate us? They hate their little brothers, and…it's all my fault. They hate them and me, and it's all my fault. Their little brothers are only a part of the mafia because of me. Because of me! Because of ME! BECAUSE OF ME!'Tsuna fell to her hands and knees, tears streaming down her face.

"Tsuna!" Yamamoto called. Hibari knelt by her and put a, arm across her shoulder. Reborn stood in front of her.

But Tsuna was deaf to the world. She suddenly remembered the fragments of a few memories she saw when she went through the trial to inherit the Vongola ring in the future.

A boy carrying a long sword and three short blades ran forward, but he was knocked backwards. A sword was held up and was about to slice through the boy, but a woman dashed in front and took the blow instead. A man ran forward, grabbed the boy and ran.

"Stop it," Tsuna whispered.

A car drove up to the apparently happy family. The little boy had raven colored hair and was shouting. The two couples smiled at him. The passenger in the car rolled down the window a little and held up a gun and shot one of the couples, then sped off.

A man laughed as he threatened the poor mafia boss in front of him. The laughing man pressed a knife to the throat of the little girl in his arms and stepped harder on the green haired boy under him. The mafia boss had no choice, but to give the man nearly every penny of his famiglia. The man laughed again and slit the throat of the little girl before leaving.

"Not again," Tsuna murmured, "I don't want to see this again."

A teenage boy was hit and kicked repeatedly. His indigo hair tinged with blood, but he didn't fight back. The blond hair girl and her family being held hostage yelled at the boy to escape. The oldest woman was then dragged into a room. Her screaming was terrible. The man fought to go to his wife's aid, but was shot for his effort.

A boy with extremely light blond hair and his parents walked down the street smiling happily and holding hands. Suddenly they were jumped. The family was beaten ruthlessly while a group of men by a café just watched. After their money was stolen the group of men beat up the muggers and stole the money they had just taken from them.

"No more, please" Tsuna begged, clutching her head in pain.

A boy with red hair and a flame like mark on his face was holding the hands of his little sister who also had red hair, only a little lighter. They played in a garden behind a castle, their mother watching from the shade of a tree. Suddenly a group of men in suits ran out of the forest. They stabbed the women and started for the two children

"No. No! Please! Stop! I can't…" Tsuna was yelling now. She curled into a ball on her side and clutched her head like it was breaking, spittle running down the side of her mouth.

A man was begging for his life. He cried that he had a wife and son, he needed to protect them. A gun shot him down and a woman screamed. The woman ran forward and hugged her lifeless husband. The gun stole her life as well. A golden haired boy was crying in a corner.

"STOP!" Tsuna yelled at the top of her lungs. She then collapsed and hugged herself. She was sobbing. She hated seeing those memories. But they were clearer than ever and she was now able to distinguish the children. The Vongola had hurt Giotto and her other older brothers. No, she could no longer allow herself to think that. She had no right to consider herself like a younger sister to them. Tsuna sobbed harder.

A small hand patted her head."Reborn, I saw it again. I saw them. I know, I know what the Vongola did to them. It hurts. Please, no more. I don't want to hurt them anymore. I don't want to be the reason that their families are torn apart. Not after what I've seen."

"What did you see this time?" Reborn asked quietly.

"Asari, Knuckle, Lampo, Daemon, Alaude, G, and Giotto. Their families…they were hurt so bad," Tsuna confessed. "I saw it during the trial, but there was so many I didn't have time to distinguish people."

Reborn rubbed his chin in thought. "The strain from this argument must have caused you to have a relapse and you were able to remember those memories clearer than before." Reborn made Tsuna look at him. "That may be so, but do you remember what you told the previous bosses when they asked if you had the resolve to inherit the sins of Vongola?"

Tsuna's eyes cleared a little bit. "I said I didn't need that kind of power, that if I had to inherit such sins, then…I would destroy the Vongola." Tsuna fainted.

The group of boys gazed intently at the still crying girl. The older males were still hesitant about going near their younger counter parts, but they couldn't stay mad at Tsuna. They knew that she would never want to hurt them. She probably blamed herself for their pain, thinking somewhere along the lines of she hurt them by being born a part of Vongola and it would have been better if she had never met them.

"I heard that the trial to inherit the Vongola ring could make a normal kind person go insane," Knuckle said quietly.

"It must have been awful for Tsuna, and then she had to go through a relapse." Asari felt Tsuna forehead to see if she had developed a fever.

G ran his hand through his hair. "And to make things worse, the chibi had a relapse focused on all of us. Her damned kind heart is probably in pieces."

"You know, Aniki…Tsuna has been doing a lot to protect all of us." Yamamoto said slowly.

"Tch, after everything tenth alone went through…and you had to open your damned mouths and say you hated the Vongola. Juudaime probably thought that, that meant you hated her." Gokudera stuffed his hands into his pocket.

"I think you should know what Tsuna and her guardians have gone through," Reborn chipped, not looking up from Tsuna.

"Reborn-san! Are you sure!" Gokudera bellowed. Tsuna whimpered a little, she looked like she was hurting. Reborn patted her hand and nodded.

The next hour was spent explaining the events that had happened. How Tsuna, Hibari, Yamamoto, Gokudera, and Bianchi had fought Mukuro Rokudo and his Kokuyo gang. Daemon was displeased by that incident because of his brother's involvement. He was also displeased by the fact that the Vindice had taken his little brother into custody.

"Now I know why I haven't been able to contact him for so long," Daemon muttered, "And why I have not been able to locate my little sister."

They then explained the battle for the Vongola rings; Ryohei's victory in his fight against Lussuria. The match between the Varia's and Tsuna's Sun Guardian in the boxing ring; How Lambo fought Levi a Than in the Thunder Guardian's arena and nearly lost his life, had it not been for Tsuna's interference. Though it also caused both of them to lose their ring halves; Gokudera's battle of the Storm against Belphagor, or Prince the Ripper, and how he gave up his half of the ring in order to survive thanks to Tsuna's speech; How Yamamoto's Shigure Souen Style defeated Superbia Squalo's sword in the battle of Rain; In the battle of mist, Chrome's defeat against Mammon and then Mammon's defeat against Mukuro, giving the both sides three rings; the Hibari's victory against Gola Mosca, and Mosca's rampage afterwards. This only to revealed that it was all a plan by Xanxas, who had stuffed the Vongola Nono into Gola Mosca as the energy source in order to make Tsuna tear Mosca and Nono apart so that Xanxas could blame her for killing Nono and take over the Vongola on the account of avenging the ninth.

"Tsuna must have felt horrible after that," Asari spoke up at that.

Gokudera explained how distraught she was at hurting the ninth and how she told Xanxas that she wouldn't let him become Vongola Decimo for that. And in the final battle of the sky, how Tsuna had secret techniques, though they didn't tell the older males what her techniques were, and defeated Xanxas, as well as the struggles of the guardians during the Sky battle. But the Varia didn't do down without a fight and if it wasn't for the appearance of Lancia, all would have been lost.

"So that's why she was carried home by Lancia that one night," G murmured.

They then explained how they had been blasted into the future. Gokudera hesitated.

"What's wrong?" G asked.

Gokudera was tense. But finally told them how in the future Tsuna had witnessed Giotto, G, and Alaude die right in front of her. They had gone out to try and bring back Kyoko, Lambo, and I-pin who were spotted trying to get to the Vongola base, and on their way they walked right into a battle. Gokudera and ten-year-older Yamamoto got separated from Tsuna, and Tsuna ended up getting caught up in a fight that led her to the older three boys. Tsuna had tried to fight with them, but she was inexperienced with box weapons. Giotto, G, and Alaude had protected her with their lives. At that time Kyoko, Lambo, I-Pin, and Yamamoto got switched with their 10-year-younger selves. Tsuna and Gokudera managed to light their rings and win their fight, but for the older males it was too late. Gokudera paused for a bit.

"She probably hated herself for that," Asari closed his eyes, "Tsuna-chan probably felt desperate to change the future after watching something so horrific."

"I don't think she has ever been able to feel completely whole after that," Knuckle added.

"What about Lampo, Asari, Knuckle, and Daemon?" G asked.

"They were already dead," Reborn said, hiding his face a little under the shadow of his fedora.

Gokudera continued to explain the rest of their families situations and how they trained and found out the perpetrators were the Delle Tenebre. He proceeded to explain how their group broke into the Merone Base to defeat Irie Shoichi only to find out after all their struggles that Shoichi was a good guy and that was his way of training them in order to fight Kurai. Then how they found out that they had not faced the real six funeral wreaths and how in ten days the Vongola would play a game called Chance against the Delle Tenebre to decide the fate of the world.

Gokudera proceeded to explain how they then went back to their own time to get the Arcobaleno seals so that they could open their Vongola boxes. And then how they returned to the future to train for the upcoming battle. How they had fought and lost the game and how Yuni had null and voided the game, and asked for their protection and escaped with Tsuna and the others. They all explained how they once again returned to their own time to earn the approval of the first Vongola generation so that they could have full access to their rings and boxes abilities.

They then explained the fights and the last battle that took place soon after that. They explained how Ghost nearly had them defeated had Tsuna not come when she did. How she fought Kurai on her own, how the sky elements resonated, and how Kurai tried to off her once he had Yuni under a barrier of sky flames. How Tsuna survived, the speech Tsuna gave about how she regretted nothing, and how the first generation appeared and unsealed the Vongola rings giving Tsuna enough power to defeat Kurai.

Gokudera told them about Yuni's sacrifice. How she gave her life flames to the pacifiers to bring back the other Arcobaleno, and Tsuna's grief at being unable to protect the child. He reported about Yuni's gifts and how they were able to successfully able to save their futures.

"You've all been through so much," Asari said softly.

"I think it's safe to say that these kids won't be anything like their predecessors in that famiglia," G also spoke up.

Alaude just knelt down next to Tsuna and stroked her head.

"The little rabbit, though I say this rather reluctantly, will be able to help us get some amount of revenge against the members of the Vongola who did the wronging in the first place. So we don't have to punish the entirety of Vongola." Daemon added.

"If it is these kids, I think we can trust them," Giotto said, kneeling down and picking Tsuna up in his arms. He smiled softly. "You know when I first heard that she was going to be Vongola Decimo. I felt like she betrayed me a little, but she probably didn't want the title and she only took on the responsibility to protect those precious to her. I remember talking to her on the night you all returned, Tsuna had said something about protecting me and my guardians. Now I understand why she seemed so desperate, but resolute."

"Even though Dame-Tsuna knows you're doing something dangerous, she hasn't put two and two together to figure out that you're all in the mafia as well," Reborn informed Giotto and his guardians.

The group looked at the ditzy girl a little exasperated. Tsuna could be so smart about some things, but a total idiot about others.

Giotto went ahead of the group so that he could take Tsuna home. But when he got to the house Nana was getting ready to head out.

"Ah, Giotto-kun! It's good to see you!" She said happily while pulling on a coat. Nana spotted Tsuna. "Oh no! Giotto-kun I'm sorry, I have to head out to help a friend. She's in the hospital and she needs someone to look after her kids and house. Can you watch Tsuna for me?"

"Ah…well…I guess, but, um, how long?" Giotto felt a little nervous for some reason.

"A couple days at minimum," Nana said, now pulling on shoes.

"I guess, but-" Giotto started.

"Thank you so much Giotto-kun! If it makes it easier on you, you can go ahead and have her stay at your house for a while! Thank you!" Nana said cheerily as she walked away quickly, leaving a stunned Giotto.

Nana had closed the door, and because Giotto didn't want to dig through Tsuna's cloths to find her key, Giotto was forced to take Tsuna to his home and lay her on the couch there. Having Tsuna in his house alone with him was a bad idea. He didn't want to hurt or scare Tsuna, but the temptation was definitely there. Fate definitely wasn't being kind to him today.

Giotto sat on the floor in front of the couch. He crossed his arms on the couch's padding and rested his head on his arms. Giotto watched Tsuna breathing and was gently lulled to sleep by the sound. A couple hours later Giotto woke up and found Tsuna facing him, still asleep. Her face was less than an inch from Giotto's causing his to freak out a little. He was about to pull away when he became preoccupied with his hand which was caught in a tight grasp of the two of Tsuna's hands.

Tsuna had taken one of Giotto's hands while she and he were asleep and had pulled it into her chest. Giotto blushed furiously and tired to pull his hand away without waking Tsuna up, but she pulled his hand closer. While Giotto was focused on releasing his hand he didn't notice Tsuna was still so close to his face, until she licked her lips. Since the distance was so short that Tsuna's tongue also traced Giotto's mouth. Giotto froze. He felt like electricity was running down his spine at the sensation. He had been with a few other women before, but none of them had made him feel so turned on by something so simple.

Aniki- brother/sister- sibling

Delle Tenebre- of darkness

Kurai- dark, but I'm using it as a name

Lily: Well that's the end of this chapter! See you in a week!

Shiro: That's a mean way to end...

Lily: It's called a cliff hanger

Shiro: whaaaaatever. R&R

Lily: Ciao Ciao!