A/N: Ahhhhh, I'm really sorry about the late update. It's just that exams are staring soon with school and I have to study. I only managed to write a few things before I would be forced to study some more. Also I have been trying to update all of my stories at once, which is a bad idea and can confuse the crap out of you. I literally had all the word documents opened and went from one to another trying to get them all done close to each other. (Not that it worked that well...)
Anyway, here's the next chapter.
Disclaimer: I do not own KHR or Harry Potter, they belong to Akira Amano and J.K. Rowling respectively.
Warnings: Probable OOC-ness, Boss!Tsuna, and cursing (courtesy of Gokudera, but too much exposure causes other characters to pick up the habit)
"We may have gotten off to a bad start last lesson, so today we are going to focus on breathing and staying calm when in danger." Tsuna started the lesson as soon as the fifth year students walked into the classroom. All of them looked quite nervous about it, but Tsuna's words seemed to calm most of them down. Reborn looked over at his student with pride shining briefly in his eyes before his fedora hid them from sight again. From the slight curving of his lips, Reborn knew that Tsuna had seen his eyes.
"What does breathing have to do with self-defence?" Malfoy questioned, snarky tone still evident in his voice. It seems he didn't learn his lesson. Reborn smirked slightly and watched as the blonde student shivered in response.
"Well Mr Malfoy, you need to be able to breathe to live, so I would think that breathing would be a major part of self-defence; wouldn't you?" Tsuna looked directly into Malfoy's eyes and watched in satisfaction as he nodded his head and shrank in his seat. Reborn smirked wider at the sight; it turns out that he was a good influence on his student after all.
"Okay then, when danger is around you the first thing you have to do is get out of there. If you aren't there, you won't get hurt. It's that simple." Tsuna continued when no one asked anything else.
"If you can't get out of the area, you have to stay calm. And the way to stay calm is to keep your breathing even. If your breathing becomes uneven you now have got two dangers approaching; the danger you encountered plus the panic attack that you may evoke."
Murmuring started up when Tsuna finished talking. It seemed that none of them had ever experienced a panic attack before. Reborn watched as Tsuna glanced over at where Hibari and Mukuro were standing. Oh, now he understood what his student was planning to do. Reborn smirked and leaned against the wall, getting comfortable for the show that was about to begin.
Harry sighed in defeat as he sat down at the table in the library. Hermione had dragged him and Ron straight to the library once the self-defence class with the Vongola was finished. He was surprised that Hermione hadn't turned into a nervous wreck like everyone else in the class had. Ron was still shaking in his seat.
After Tsuna had informed them on how to keep their breathing even, he had made them all stand up. The tables and chair suddenly vanished and a larger space appeared. Once that was done, Hibari and Mukuro had walked forward. They were already glaring at each other because they had happened to step forward at the same time, and Harry knew at that moment that something scary was going to happen.
Harry had been right. As soon as they were standing in front of the students, they had launched at them. Ron had been on the receiving end of Mukuro and was still muttering about spiders. Harry had only just managed to dodge the spikes coming from his trident, which had instead put him into the path of Hibari's tonfas. His head was still throbbing from the hit, even after Ryohei had used those yellow flames of his.
Tsuna had eventually called the two back and the student were all standing there looking like the fear of god had been put into them. None of the students had been badly injured; just a few bumps on the head which could be easily fixed by a potion or the yellow flames.
When Malfoy had complained and said that this class was just abuse, the response they had received had just about killed the remainder of the students' sanity.
"Abuse? If you had wanted abuse, I would have Reborn set against you." Tsuna said but then Reborn had countered it.
"Actually, I would have actually set you against them." With that the man had walked through the door that seems to appear and disappear, and the class was dismissed.
"What exactly are we doing in the library again Hermione?" Ron asked, breaking Harry out of his flash back. It seemed the Ron had finally stopped shaking, but he still seemed a bit pale.
"We are trying to find out about Vongola Academy and the strange power that they have. There is no way that those flames are magic." Hermione replied, her head already buried in a book.
"Of course, why would I think we would be here for anything else?" Ron muttered under his breath, causing Harry to snicker and Hermione to sigh. Harry turned to have a look at the shelf closest to him when he spotted a flash of orange followed by brown. His head quickly followed the colour and his eyes rested upon Tsuna.
"Oi, take a look over there." Harry whispered to his friends, not taking his eyes off Tsuna. He heard the gasp from them when they turned their heads. They watched as Tsuna seemingly read a book before looking up into their direction. They all instantly turned their gaze elsewhere, but not before Tsuna had smiled at them. When they turned their heads back to look at him, he was placing the book on the shelf and walking away.
Harry looked at Ron and Hermione, before they all stood up and made their way over to where Tsuna had been standing. They scanned the shelves and felt there was something different about it. Hermione instantly pulled out a book and flicked through the pages as fast as she could.
Harry and Ron looked around on the shelves to see what Tsuna could have been reading, but were pulled back to Hermione from her shout of outrage. The librarian looked over at them and shushed them before walking past. Hermione shook her head, grabbed their arms and dragged them out of the room.
When they arrived at the common room, Hermione finally told them what was wrong.
"Look at this." She practically shouted as she shoved the book under their noses. Harry and Ron shared a look before shrugging and trying to focus on the page she shown them. It was a passage about the school ghosts 'Hogwarts, A History'. They had read it many times before when Hermione had forced them to scour the books, but there didn't seem to be anything different about it.
"What are we looking at 'Mione?" Ron asked in confusion. Hermione huffed before pointing at a sentence that was written at the bottom of the page. The sentence was written in ink and looked like it was supposed to be there. However there was a light smell of fresh ink – Harry was surprised he hadn't smelt it earlier – which meant that it had been written in recently.
"You're upset because someone wrote in a book?" Harry asked, not entirely surprised about the fact but surprised that she was so stunned about it.
"No, you dunce. Did you guys actually read the sentence?" Hermione breathed out a frustrated sigh as they both shook their heads. At the glare they received from her, they looked back at the elegant sentence.
"Giotto Vongole frequents the seventh floor on full moon nights, but hasn't been seen for the past century.' Okay, who is Giotto Vongole and why does the name sound familiar?" Harry looked back at Hermione. She looked thoughtful for a few moments before she shook her head.
"I don't know." She answered honestly before turning back to the book. Ron was muttering something whilst reading over the sentence and Harry gave him a weird look.
"Vongole, Vongole, Vongole. Hmm, Vongole, Vongola. Vongola!" Ron's sudden shout startled Harry and Hermione, who both turned to look at him in surprise.
"What?" They both asked.
"Well, I just thought that Vongole sounded like Vongola, which is the school Tsuna-sensei and his family are from right?" Ron scratched his cheek, his ears turning red from embarrassment.
"You're right Ron." Hermione stated in surprise. Harry looked at him in surprise as well. Hermione re-read the sentence again.
"'Giotto Vongole frequents the seventh floor on full moon nights', isn't tonight a full moon?" she asked before quickly looking at the calendar, completely ignoring any response that may have come from Ron or Harry.
"We're going to the seventh floor tonight." Hermione stated with a finality that made Ron and Harry shudder slightly. Harry sighed slightly before nodding his head and watched as Ron copied his movements.
"We meet here at midnight."
"Are you sure this is a good idea?" Ron muttered from under the invisibility cloak.
"Do you have a better one?" Hermione huffed back. Harry turned back to look at them before turning back to face the front. He blanched slightly when he spotted Tsuna in front of them and turned around to shush his friends.
"You can come out now Grandpa." They all froze when Tsuna had started speaking but breathed out a sigh of relief when he finished his words. For a moment they all thought that he knew they were there.
An orange glow started to appear in front of him. Hermione let a startled gasp as the orange glow started to form the shape of a human. When the glow disappeared a slightly see through person was standing there.
He didn't look like the ghosts that roamed around the halls of Hogwarts. For one thing, he wasn't white. He was in full colour, just slightly transparent. The man looked like an older version of Tsuna, just with blonde hair and blue eyes that had an orange tint to them. They could see a brief flash of orange flames on his forehead before it vanished.
The trio watched as Tsuna bowed his head at the man, who bowed in return.
"Hello Decimo, it's been a while." Tsuna pulled a look of disapproval at the name.
"I spoke to you this morning. Also please stop calling me Decimo."
"I'm sorry Tsuna but G. gets on my back about it and I had just been talking to him." The man smiled at Tsuna. Harry motioned to his friends and they moved closer, making sure to move quietly.
"Yeah right, you're just old." Tsuna said with a smirk. The man pulled a hurt look before grinning as well.
"You know me too well, but I was just talking to G." Tsuna nodded his head before glancing behind him. His eyes seemed to lock onto Harry. He smiled before gesturing his hand in a 'come here' motion. Harry glanced behind him to see if there were people there, but there was no one.
"Harry, I think he knows we are here." Ron whispered and Harry nodded and started forward. When they were in front of Tsuna they stopped. Harry had noticed that no matter which way they walked both Tsuna and the man beside him had their eyes on them, as though they could see them.
"So this is what the invisibility cloak does? It would have been bad if I hadn't prepared for something like this." Tsuna mused as he reached out his hand and grasped the material. The trio froze in shock as Tsuna pulled the cloak off of them.
The trio of shocked faces was the first full image Tsuna saw. He nearly burst out into laughter when he saw their faces shift from shock to horror at being caught by the teacher they were following. The cloak that he held in his hands shimmered in the moonlight now that it was no longer being use to hide the trio.
Tsuna glanced at the cloak before glancing back the three students. He sighed before quickly folding the material over his arm, slightly shocked as he watched it disappear from view, before gesturing for the students to come closer.
"I know what you are thinking, but there is nothing wrong with your cloak, Harry. I just had one of family do something which allowed me to see the vague outline of your body if you had decided to follow me. Good thing I did, huh?" Tsuna winked at the shocked students before handing the cloak back to Harry. He took with the same stunned expression and Tsuna was starting to panic and think that he may have broken them.
"Stupid Tsuna, they aren't broken." A Leon-mallet came out of nowhere and nailed Tsuna on the head as the voice called out. Tsuna looked back and flung Leon back to the perpetrator even though he knew that nothing would happen. Reborn stepped out of the shadows and nodded his head toward the students. Then he turned to the Giotto, who had been watching the whole thing play out with an amused expression on his face.
"Primo," Reborn bowed to the faintly glowing man, who returned the bow.
"Now then I think we should continue this in the office." Reborn stated before turning around, expecting everyone to follow him. Tsuna motioned for the students to follow and then moved after him. After a moment's hesitation he heard the soft footfalls of the students following. Giotto was walking along beside them chatting away as though it wasn't the middle of the night and as if they were all best friends. Tsuna smiled lightly and answered all of Giotto's questions wholeheartedly, knowing that none of them would give away too much.
When they reached the office they walked into chaos. It turns out Giotto wasn't the only first gen visitor. Daemon and Alaude were currently in a glaring match so heated you could literally see the sparks flying. Hibari and Mukuro were doing the same thing across the room, with Chrome trying to do some paperwork in the middle of them. Gokudera and G. were engaged in a one sided argument with Yamamoto and Asari, with Knuckle and Ryohei piping in occasionally. Lampo was the only one not visible, but judging from the annoyed shouts coming from Lambo's room, that was probably where he was.
Tsuna glanced at the students who were standing behind him. He knew that Harry had seen some of the chaos that happens when the family is all together, but now it had reached a new level. The students were al standing there shell shocked. Tsuna looked over at Giotto and saw that he had the same look of horror on his face that was most likely being mirrored by himself. With all these people here it would mean only one thing. Paperwork, and lots of it.
Tsuna and Giotto both took a step backwards, trying to flee before they were noticed. However Reborn quickly got a grip onto Tsuna's arm and G. looked towards the door.
"Giotto you bastard, you left us here to deal with the kids and escaped from what little paperwork you have to do." The shout startled the rest of the room and every occupant all turned towards the doorway.
"Ghosts have to do paperwork?" Ron whispered to Hermione, but was quickly hushed.
"'Little paperwork'? What I have to do is anything but little." Giotto called back indignantly. Tsuna snorted at that.
"You think you have it bad," he muttered under his breath, but, judging from the sadistic expression that suddenly appeared on Reborn's face, the former Arcobaleno had heard his comment.
"Anyway, perhaps we can get some semblance of order into the room so we can actually entertain our guests?" Tsuna gestured towards the students behind him. All eyes immediately shifted towards the students, who shuffled in embarrassment before waving shyly. Harry waved with slightly more enthusiasm, but was a little overwhelmed.
Asari drifted over towards the door and greeted the students. Yamamoto was right behind him. They quickly led the students into the room and started to make some sushi for everyone, while Chrome went to make some tea and coffee. She had quickly realised that she wouldn't be getting her paperwork done and had abandoned it, at least until everyone was gone that is.
Hibari was the first person to leave the room and was followed, after a quick word to Giotto, by Alaude. They had developed somewhat of a relationship after a few years, but Tsuna had no idea what kind of relationship it was. All he knew was that it involved Hibari actually asking Alaude for advice, which always made Tsuna wonder what advice Alaude could give. He quickly shook his head to rid himself of those thoughts, they always lead to somewhere he didn't really want to think about.
Mukuro and Daemon had followed Chrome into the kitchen area to help make the drinks, but judging from the shouts and squeals coming from the area it wasn't going to well. Ryohei and Gokudera had suddenly started a shouting match about God knows what, and Tsuna shook his head. Sometimes peace was a rarity with this family, but if it was anything else it wouldn't be his family.
Tsuna smiled and then made his way to the seats as well, automatically sitting in the leather chair that was actually made for his desk but had been moved here because he was so used to sitting in it. Once he was seated, he motioned to the chair beside him and Giotto sat down.
At that moment Chrome walked in with a tray full of mugs, tea, sugar and milk. Mukuro had a red burn mark on his arm and Daemon had a bright red hand print upon his face. G. snickered at the handprint on Daemon's face and mumbled something about perverts. The glare that Daemon sent him made him laugh harder.
When Yamamoto and Asari brought the sushi over, the table was swarmed by everyone trying to get a piece. Tsuna had made sure to grab several pieces in case the students were unable to get any. It was a good thing he did because Hermione and Harry had just sat there in shock at the swarming of the table. Ron, however, had managed to grab some because the same thing happened at his home all the time.
Tsuna giggled softly before handing over a few pieces to the other two students. They looked at the sushi before digging into it as though they were starving. Tsuna smiled before one of the pieces that Ron had in his hand caught his eye.
"Don't eat that," Tsuna suddenly exclaimed causing everyone to jump and freeze. Ron had paused with the sushi roll halfway to his mouth and looked at Tsuna, who was looking at his piece of sushi. He looked down at it before letting out a slight shriek and dropping it back onto the plate. The sushi roll had been covered in yellow dying will flames.
Yamamoto came over and picked up the piece of sushi.
"Sorry man, but you probably shouldn't eat these ones. It was made for those guys." He pointed his thumb back at the first gen members. Ron nodded his head a scared look in his eyes. Knuckle came over and placed an ordinary piece of sushi down onto the plate.
"I must have extremely grabbed the wrong one. I apologise." Ron waved away his apologies before picking up the ordinary piece of sushi and devouring it.
Hermione was watching with undisguised fascination as Knuckle ate the sushi covered in the sun flames. She was probably trying to figure out how they were eating the sushi.
"Uh, professor, how –"
" – do they eat?" Tsuna finished her sentence. She looked over at him with wide eyes, obviously startled that he knew what she was planning to say. Tsuna smiled lightly before gesturing towards Giotto.
"Well, these people over here are our ancestors that are able to become visible because of our magic, and the only way they can stay visible is if we give them more of our flames." Tsuna punctuated his explanation by lighting up his ring with sky flames. He had noticed that Giotto had not moved to get any of the sushi laid out before them. Tsuna picked up one of the two pieces he had left and proceeded to cover the roll in his flames.
Giotto thanked him when he handed it to him. Hermione watched as he politely ate the sushi roll. It appeared that she had become quite fascinated with their flames during the short amount of time they had been here.
"So, was there any particular reason you followed me this evening?" Tsuna asked, already knowing the answer but knew that he should ask anyway.
"Um, well you see, we wanted to see if we could find out more about your family and flames." Hermione explained, blushing slightly from the question being blunt.
"Well that is understandable. Unfortunately there are some things that we are unable to tell you." Tsuna watched as their faces fell. He chuckled slightly.
"However," their faces rose at this, "I can tell you that to create our flames you need to have a high level of resolve. The only problem is that we can't use your magic, which means that you can't use flames." The students looked slightly disheartened at that fact but were happy to have received some answers. Tsuna picked up one of the mugs before him and took a sip. He immediately blanched and handed it over to Reborn.
"That's yours." He stated, wincing slightly from the bitter taste of the espresso. Reborn chuckled and took a sip. Tsuna shook his head and picked up the other mug. He took a sip but nearly spat it back out when he spotted the clock on the wall. It was nearly one o'clock in the morning.
Tsuna stood up and grabbed the invisibility cloak that was resting on the chair beside him. As he moved the students did too, realising what he was doing.
It was then that Lampo decided to make an appearance. He stumbled out of Lambo's room and flopped down onto the remaining couch, letting out a groan as he fell.
"The brat's asleep," he called out, waving his hand in a tired manner. Tsuna chuckled lightly before quickly running into the room and checking that, yes Lambo was asleep. He also picked up Lambo's helmet and brought it back into the room with him.
"Lampo if you are that tired, maybe you should go back?" Tsuna suggested before moving towards the students. Lampo grunted before facing the helmet and, after glowing brightly, faded out of existence. Tsuna saw the trio watching with their jaws just about hitting the ground. He chuckled again and all but dragged them out of the office. They looked at him in confusion as he chucked the cloak back over the top of them.
"Now then, it would be best if you all were to head back to your dormitories and get some sleep. You are welcome back whenever you want, but please don't snoop around at night. Also Harry can you please come back during the daylight hours of today, I need to go over something with you."
"Sure thing Tsuna," Harry replied, before a slight scuffling was heard.
"Harry, don't be disrespectful to the teacher." Tsuna let out yet another chuckle at Hermione scolding Harry. It sounded quite like when Gokudera would scold Yamamoto or any of the other guardians.
"Well, see you later then." Harry moved his head out from under the cloak to wave. Tsuna waved back and listened as they started walking away. Not taking his eyes off of the vague indigo outline that was Harry until they disappeared around the corner.
A/N: So who can guess howTsuna did it and when? Also wondering if anyone has figured out where the office and classroom is located. I'm really curious because I think that I have been really obvious with it, but I may not have been. Let me know what you think by leaving a review. Please and Thank you.