Ch 10

Somewhere in the guild that is under construction.

Gokudera stopped himself midway from handing Yamamoto a tool and shivered.

Yamamoto blinked. "What's wrong, Gokudera?"

"I sense an idiot Lawn-Head," Gokudera replied.

"You mean Ryohei?" After Gokudera nodded, Yamamoto continued talking. "Well, I'm sure Tsuna is already with him, so let's finish this up so we can see him. I want to see if Ryohei is any different in this world."

As Yamamoto finished that sentence, they heard a distant, but loud, 'EXTREME.'

Gokudera sighed. "It doesn't sound like he is."

Back in the guild.

"Now, Natsu-nii, calm down." Tsuna tried to talk Natsu into composing himself so he could explain, but it was clear that Natsu wasn't listening to what Tsuna had to say.

"Who are you to decide that you're Tsuna's Onii-san? Tsuna is my little brother," Natsu growled.

The whole guild was backing away from Natsu as quickly as they could. Well, all except for Erza and Tsuna, who were trying to get in closer to stop the fight that might break out. Ryohei, on the other hand, didn't understand why Natsu was mad, he just knew that the teen in front of him was angry beyond redemption.

"I don't know why you're ready for a fight," Ryohei said, getting into a fighting stance himself. "But I'm always ready for an extreme brawl."

"Natsu-nii, Onii-san, stop, both of you." Tsuna stepped in between them before either could throw a punch. "Natsu-nii, I call him Onii-san because he was my Onii-san-in-law in my other life. I married his little sister."

This got everyone in the guild to stare at Tsuna, and Ryohei nodded.

"Once a family, always a family. Extreme!" Ryohei added.

Ryohei, who was still in his fighting stance, activated his magic. Gloves appeared on his hands, which Tsuna recognized as the boxing gloves from his box weapon. On Ryohei's shoulders was something that looked like the sun, and headgear was strapped to his forehead.

"And since I never back down from a fight without a good reason, and because you are Dragneel's new Onii-san, I'm willing to fight you whenever," Ryohei told Natsu, but then finished in a somewhat depressed tone. "Unfortunately, my fighting magic isn't as strong as my healing magic."

Natsu was about to agree to duke it out with him when Tsuna grabbed both of their heads and smashed them together, an action quite comparable to bashing two rocks.

"If you want to fight so bad, then at least wait until the guild is finished being rebuilt. There is going to be an area out back where some of the brawls will be. I don't want to repair a newly built guild so soon, and I'm sure the master wouldn't appreciate it either, understand?" Tsuna said, and gave the two of them a small glare, emitting a dark area to get his point across.

Natsu paled slightly at Tsuna's glare, but nodded.

Ryohei gave a sharp nod and said, "As long as I get an EXTREME fight."

Everything was settling down when Gokudera and Yamamoto walked in.

"Yo! Ryohei! It's good to see you again!" Yamamoto said, and Gokudera gave him a slight glare.

"OH, Yamamoto, Octopus-head, you're here too?" Ryohei asked with a big smile on his face.

A vein appeared on Gokudera's head and his eyes darkened. He kept chanting inwardly, 'It's not worth it, it's not worth it,' but still ended up starting a verbal fight with Ryohei. As the two were bantering, Yamamoto decided it would be fun to join them and put in his opinion every once in a while, turning it into a three-way fight. Tsuna was rubbing his temples, feeling a headache coming on.

"Tsuna, can I have a word with you?" He turned to see Erza and some others standing behind him, staring wordlessly.

"Yes Erza, what is it?" he asked.

She cleared her throat and her cheeks reddened a little. "When you said you were married before, did you ever, um, did you ever do the thing that makes kids?" By the time she was done asking her question, her face was completely red.

"Erza," Tsuna started, "You latch on to the weirdest things sometimes. But yes, I did. In fact Kyoko was almost nine months pregnant before she died."

Tsuna said that last part so quietly, that you'd have to really be listening to hear it. So of course Erza heard it did.

"My apologies, Tsuna, I didn't realize that that happened. You could hit me if you want to," Erza said with such a serious voice that Tsuna just sighed.

'Will she ever stop doing that?' he asked himself, then thought for a bit as he walked out of the guild to get away from the noise. 'Probably not.'

However, before he left completely, he saw Lucy run after Loki. A smirk was left on his face even when he reached his house.

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The next day Tsuna found Lucy sitting at the bar by herself looking pissed off. Naturally, he got into the seat next to her.

"So what set you off?" he asked.

Lucy didn't answer him, opting instead to just continue glaring at the drink Mira put in front of her. Tsuna raised an eyebrow at her, and then the bartender, who just shrugged.

"It seems that Loki did something to really get her mad. She keeps muttering things from time to time. And from what I caught, which sounded a lot like 'Loki' and 'bastard', Loki screwed up big time," Mira said, then left to deal with some other customers.

The two of them sat in silence until Natsu and Gray came by and started arguing about something. When the two asked Lucy for her opinion, she turned around and gave them a glare that, until now, Tsuna thought only Erza was capable of. Natsu and Gray gave her a salute and ran off saying, 'sorry for wasting your time!'

"Hey, Tsuna, can I ask you something?" Lucy asked after she calmed down some.

Tsuna nodded. "You already did, but you can ask something else."

Lucy made an unimpressed noise, but asked anyway. "Why would men use a pick-up-line where they tell the girl that they're going to die, when they aren't?"

"Loki is an idiot," Tsuna stated. "Idiots tend to tell the truth, but make it look like a lie."

"Huh?"

Tsuna sighed and got up. "Soon, something is going to happen to Loki, something that can be prevented. So the next time you see him, prove to him that he's wrong, and be sure to tell him that I called him an idiot."

Tsuna then left the guild to go and find Hibari and see what information he gathered. On his way there, he heard some noise coming from the forest where he trained. So, he took a detour to see who would be there. The voices led him to the river, where he found Natsu and Ryohei getting ready to fight, and it looked like Happy would be the referee. Staying in the trees, Tsuna waited to see what would happen.

"Look, I know you knew Tsuna in your other life, but in this life, Tsuna is my little brother and I don't appreciate you still calling Tsuna your little brother. I also don't really want to wait till the guild is finished to get this over with. This is Tsuna's tro-training area so he shouldn't mind us using it for this." Natsu explained.

"Extreme. All I'll need is three," Ryohei said, and got into a fighting stance and activated his magic, as Natsu held up his fists, covering them in fire.

'Three? Three what? Three minutes? Like hell if I'll go down in three minutes!' Natsu thought.

Happy flew in between the two and stated some rules.

"Alright, since this is Tsuna's area, try as hard as you can to keep all damage to the place to a minimum. The first one to hit the ground loses. GO!" Happy flew out of the way just in time.

Natsu immediately ran up to Ryohei and tried to punch him in the face. Ryohei dodged however, and Natsu hit his left shoulder instead. The recipient of his attack was forced to slide back, leaving two lines where his feet were. A flame appeared on one of the sun rays on Ryohei's shoulder. Natsu noticed it the second the dirt settled.

'What's that? The fire smells weird.' Natsu didn't have much time to think on it because Ryohei decided to make his move.

Ryohei held up his left arm in a defensive manner as he ran up to Natsu and punched him in the stomach. The blow wasn't strong enough to cause Natsu to keel over, but it was powerful enough to make him loose balance for a second. Natsu, after he regained his equilibrium, hit Ryohei in the side with his elbow. Ryohei spat up some blood but remained standing, and another flame appeared on another ray.

As Tsuna was watching the fight go on, not very impressed, he sensed somebody behind him.

"Hello, Hibari," Tsuna greeted.

"Omnivore."

"What are you doing here? I was going to go to you."

"You were late," Hibari informed him. "Though now I see why, even this is no excuse."

Tsuna huffed at that, and then commented on the fight. "They're not giving it their all. If they were, then my training area would be destroyed by now and Ryohei wouldn't be planning to take Natsu out with only thirty percent of his power."

"What do you expect from Herbivores?" Hibari asked.

It was a rhetorical question, and Tsuna knew that, but he answered anyway. "I expect them to go all out in everything they do."

By the time Tsuna and Hibari finished the conversation, Ryohei had gained the last flame and hit Natsu with Maximum Cannon. Natsu hit the ground, but Ryohei let his guard down and Natsu was able to trip him by using a fire whip, and he fell on his face. Happy declared that Natsu was the loser because he hit the ground first, but Natsu, being Natsu, started arguing that he won since Ryohei was down too.

"Natsu, say it was a draw and get over it," Tsuna called from where he and Hibari were standing.

All three of them, Natsu, Happy, and Ryohei, looked at Tsuna with shock.

"Tsuna? When did you get here?" Happy asked as he flew up to him.

"Ah, Hibari! You're here too!" Ryohei exclaimed as he spotted him.

Hibari just huffed and glared at the reasons why he was there in the first place, and not back in his office correcting any flaws he came across. Tsuna, on the other hand, was glaring at them for a different reason.

"Tell me exactly why you were going easy on each other," Tsuna demanded, not realizing that he used his 'boss' voice, as some people put it.

"What are you talking about Tsuna?" Natsu asked. "You know I go all out in everything I do."

Tsuna shook his head. "You didn't even use Fire Dragon's Roar, you were going easy on him, and Ryohei only used thirty percent of his power to knock you down. Natsu-nii, do you need help with your training?"

Natsu was about to reply when Ryohei cut him off.

"Tsuna, that wasn't thirty percent of my power, that was thirty percent of his power," Ryohei stated with a firm nod.

"What do you mean I was hit with my own power!? That didn't feel like my power at all!" Natsu exclaimed.

"You heard me when I said that fighting isn't my fighting magic isn't strong right? That's because my power is fueled by my opponent's power," Ryohei explained.

"So the herbivore got beat by his own power," Hibari put in, and made a mental note not to hit Ryohei no matter what he said so that he couldn't use his own power against him.

Tsuna nodded, but he had a calculating look in his eyes.

"Natsu-nii, you are going to train with me. I'll tell you when and where to meet me soon. No protesting. Now, Hibari, let's talk at my house." Tsuna left no room for anyone to comment as he walked in the direction of his residence.

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"So, Hibari, what is it that you wanted to tell me?" Tsuna asked as the two of them sat in the living room.

Hibari didn't say anything, instead pulling out a file from his jacket and handing it over to Tsuna. He took the file and opened it with a slightly depressed feeling. Tsuna couldn't stop his mind from wandering to the other life when, on the rare occasions, Hibari would hand him a report on something and then wait for him to give him directions directly instead of going off and doing what he normally did. The front of the file had a picture of Mukuro and a brief biography about him. Really, Tsuna thought, that out of all of his guardians, Mukuro's life was the one that changed the most.

Mukuro started up his own dark guild called 'Paths of Hell' that consisted of four members, other than himself: Chrome, Ken, MM, and Chikusa. Paths of Hell so far have only committed small scale crimes, but Tsuna thought that they were only warming up for something bigger. What that something was, Tsuna didn't know. However, he was going to find out. The file also had the location of the guild in it.

"Thank you for the file, Hibari. Is there anything else you would like to add to it?" Tsuna asked as he put the documents on the table.

"Hn. I was just wondering how you were going to deal with the nuisance." Hibari leaned back into the chair, waiting for the reply.

"I think I will go there myself to talk to Mukuro. If I ask anyone else to go in my place, there could be more paper work for Master to deal with. Are you going to go on your own like last time as well?" Tsuna asked.

Hibari didn't say anything for a while, more than likely comparing the pros and cons, then he said, "I'll leave the pineapple herbivore to you."

With that Hibari left.

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Tsuna walked up to the master's office door and knocked. Tsuna knew that the Makarov was in there because it was 7 o'clock, and Makarov did the paper work that can't be burnt during this time. When Tsuna didn't hear a reply he checked to see if the door was locked. The door knob turned, so Tsuna opened the door. Tsuna froze at the sight that greeted him. The Master was sitting at his desk, passed out with multiple beer mugs surrounding him. But Tsuna was used to that, what he saw (and was unfortunately also used to) that made him freeze, was the stacks upon stacks of paper work.

'Reborn would never let me get it this bad,' Tsuna thought as he walked over to Makarov.

"Master?" Tsuna asked as he shook his shoulder.

Nothing.

"Master?" He tried again shaking him a little harder.

Nothing.

Tsuna sighed. He really didn't want to do this, but…

"Master, if you don't wake up soon I'll tell Mira that you've been slacking off on the paper work… again," Tsuna said with a flat tone.

Makarov's eyes shot open the next second. His face paled at a shockingly fast pace and he sat up.

"TSUNA!" Makarov exclaimed and chuckled slightly, knowing full well that Tsuna would have gone through with the threat. "What are you doing here?"

Tsuna gave him an unimpressed look before sighing.

"I came here to ask permission to go after a dark guild." Tsuna handed Makarov the folder that Hibari gave him. "If I'm allowed to, this is where I would be to get the guild master."

Makarov took the folder and did a quick skim through it.

"The reason you're asking me is because this might cause me more paper work, isn't it?" he asked. "And who is this 'Mukuro' guy?"

"Mukuro was one of my mist guardians in my other life," Tsuna told him, trying to avoid the first question. "So I would like to go over there and see how he's doing."

"He's the leader of a dark guild."

"Yes, it does sound like he's doing fine, but I would still like to see him in person."

Markova gave him a blank stare for five minutes before caving in. "Fine, you can go, just try not to add to any of these stacks."

Tsuna nodded, and was about to leave the room when he was called back.

"Oh, and Tsuna? Please don't tell Mira about the paper work," Makarov pleaded with him.

Tsuna smiled a sickeningly sweet smile.

"I don't have to. She'll find out when she comes up to get the beer mugs."

Tsuna then left the room leaving behind Makarov, who had tears streaming down his face.