A/N: I apologize for the super late update. I have no excuses, I was just had a minor writers' block but I'm back! Not only that, I'm already on vacations! So that would kinda explain my absence for like, what? A month? Yeah… Also, I have like… three new ideas (Yeah I know… WOW) of which, all are of Katekyo Hitman the end of this chapter there will be the info about the stories and the pairings of each!

Warning: Bad grammar and crappy chapter... not to mention Reborn is kinda OOC (is that right?) here... I always thought an adult Reborn is someone who loves or likes to tease... and a lot... I mean, look poor Skull! D:

Disclaimer: I do not own Katekyo Hitman Reborn

Chapter 10: The Hitman

"It's been a while Dame-Tsuna,"

A hoarse tune escaped the lips of the male known as Reborn. His trademark smirk widened when he noticed his small greeting had inflicted a certain reaction to his student; the knees of the latter were wobbling a bit and took a step back from the proximity of the other. Nevertheless, Reborn followed him.

"What? No welcome kiss?" the older male joked, a throaty chuckle escaping from his lips as he approached Tsuna. It pleased him to see his student stare at him with nervousness. To him, in an odd way, it meant he hasn't lost his touch just yet. But his student gawked at him with fear…odd. Perhaps he was afraid of the punishment— I mean, tutoring he'll receive from his reckless actions? …most likely…

Reborn's eyes narrowed slightly when his student backed away from him yet once again. Clearly, he pursued him; with each step back his student made, he also took one. But this wasn't normal… Tsuna would've welcomed him by now instead of trying to get away from him, and surely this was getting a bit boring. Unless… He shook the bad feeling he got in his gut. Getting tired of his students' behavior and this game of chasing, he backed his student against the wall.

Tsuna felt the white concrete walls against his back and slowly began panicking. Not only because of him being cornered by the male, but also at the mixed feelings had had he felt. He felt fear, however he also affection and a need to protect when he saw the male. It was quite the rare combination…

Soon when Reborn had Tsuna against the wall, the former positioned his hand alongside the wall next to his student's head, with his broader frame shadowing the slight smaller body of the auburn haired male.

"I didn't expect you to get so silent upon seeing me Dame-Tsuna, but even avoiding me?" the man purred against the others cheek, clearly enjoying the teasing he was doing that made to his student.

Tsuna's knees wobbled more when he felt the breath of the tall man against his cheek; getting nervous at the sudden closeness of the other. His eyes began roaming around the room, searching a way to escape from the clearly older male. He needed to get away from this man, he didn't know why, but he needed to, had to; he got the feeling something bad was going to happen to him, right there and right now.

"Did you miss me so much you fell head over heels for me?" Another amused chuckle left the lips of the experienced male, "I don't know what to say…" he said huskily, closing the distance between the nape of Tsuna's neck and his lips. He tried to suppress a fit of laughter at his students' antics; it's been so long since he teased his student so much. It's been like, what? Since he was a senior in Middle School? He released his breath at the nape of the neck of his apprentice with a large smirk on his lips; oh he was so enjoying this.

Tsuna stiffened when he felt the breathing against his neck, causing him to shudder and leaning further into the wall, eyes wide as saucers at the action. He opened his mouth to speak, but no words came out. After biting— almost chewing off— his lip in frustration at his cowardice, he reopened his mouth to speak up his mind; tell him to back away from him. It was very clear he felt uncomfortable with all of this and he could see it, so why was he pushing it further?

Well that's because he has always enjoyed seeing me in panic.

He blinked. What… was that?

Tsuna lowered his head, making his bangs shadow his face. His breath quickened when he felt a throbbing pain forming in his head, namely from the wound he had received in his forehead. His eyes narrowed a bit at the pain and he unconsciously furrowed his brows. The former began sweating, feeling his whole body burning up with the throbbing headache increasing. His knees wobbled and lost his balance, which caused him to slowly begin falling forward and bumped with the board chest of the male in front of him in the progress.

"Dame-Tsuna…?" Reborn called when he saw his student slump forward, bumping with his chest in the progress. So very slowly, he took a hold of his student's shoulders with both of his hands, since he felt Tsuna's knees gave out under him. "Oi, Dame-Tsuna," he called once again. The eyelids of said person began to feel heavier and heavier by the second, so weighty he ended up closing them.

His name being called once again by the man keeping him from falling to the ground was last thing Tsuna heard before darkness consumed him.

"Tsu-kun," Nana started as she stared at his no good son who was sitting on the floor of his room, huffing and puffing about something his mother previously said. A wicked grin slowly began forming on her lips before she spoke again, "…A home tutor is coming today," she informed, staring at her son from the rim of her eyes.

"Home Tutor?" the boy screamed bloody murder, standing up in the progress of his outburst.

"There was an interesting flyer in the mailbox this morning," she took out a folded piece of paper from one of the small pockets from her pink apron with a small smile on her face. She unfolded the paper before clearing her throat and began reading what was printed on the document, "'Will raise your kid to be the new leader of the next generation; grade and subject doesn't matter, Reborn'." She looked up from the article and flashed a big smile, "Isn't it great?" she continued, "I've never seen a promotion like this before!" she exclaimed with glee.

"That sounds like a scam!" Tsuna shouted at the top of his lungs, turning around to face his naïve mother. That sounded so unreasonable and unreal!

The female cupped her cheek with her hand and twirled in her spot "It's probably a Tutor from a professional business school for young men!" Nana squealed at the same time as she stopped her twirling and continued her excitement with a serious yet determined façade, "I've wanted a teacher like this for you!" She informed with stars in her eyes.

"Don't create your image of him…" Tsuna scolded and began huffing again, "Besides!" the former turned his head to his mother, "I refuse to have a tutor!" he closed his eyes tightly; "I'm not good at anything I do anyways!"

"Tsu-kun…" his mothers' excitement lowered a notch at the outburst of his son.

"Ciaossu," an infant voice greeted. Nana and Tsuna turned in direction from where the voice came, just to see a small baby. He wore a black suit, red dress shirt and navy blue tie with a black fedora with a yellow band attached to it and a green, smirking chameleon perched on the rim of the hat. Did he mention the baby had sideburns? Curly sideburns?

"I'm the Home Tutor, Reborn,"

The sound of something rustling inside the room of our dear amnesic Boss interrupted the dream he was having. No, it wasn't a dream; it was a memory, a very distant memory by the looks of it. He was just fourteen years old when the baby called Reborn appeared in his life; he didn't know why, but he sure didn't want to find out the reason of him being scared of that particular baby.

Pushing his thoughts and the sudden memory away, Tsuna, ever so slowly, lifted his eyelids in hope to see what caused the rustling which awoke him. Just as a small ray of light made contact with his caramel copper eyes, he closed them again. The sun was too strong, maybe he overslept? Most likely; he guessed it was mid-day or even past mid-day from the intensity of the sun.

Tsuna re-opened his eyes as he tried to get used to the light in the room. He slowly began to sit up on the bed and rubbed his eyes with the back of his hand. As he sat, the same throbbing pain returned, but it wasn't as strong as the night before. Once again, he heard the rustling. Stopping his hand from rubbing his eyes, he looked up and searched the cause of the shuffling.

He directed his attention to the bathroom and it wasn't coming from there. He turned his head sideways and searched on the window sill, no; outside the window, neither. Near the table and chair…most certainly not... At the door or the on the couch neither. Under the bed, nope; under the covers, yes— Tsuna's right eyes twitched when he felt something rough and large touch his leg, sending him shivers up and down his back. Clearly, he freaked out.

Gathering up courage, he moved his hand to the covers and clenched the piece of cloth tightly. He gulped before he began raising his hand with the covers, which were getting wrinkled by the amount of strength used by Tsuna. Cold sweat traveled down his face and felt more nervous by the second. What could possibly be under the—

Tsuna ogled with wide eyes at the… chameleon that stared back at him. It was rough looking, green and large. But what was the most amazing thing of all was that… it blinked at him.

"Hiii!"

BAM

"Ow, ow, oww…" the amnesic male groaned in pain as he rubbed the back of his head that made contact with the floor. That's going to leave a mark… He lifted his eyelids and found himself staring at the white ceiling of the room. He blinked twice before he stared at the way his body ended up; one leg was tangled with the white covers of the bed while the other was still in the bed, he had one arm in the air while the other was over his chest.

Tsuna sighed and groaned at the weird position of his body and straightened up; he lowered the leg that was on the bed before he propped his body upwards with the help of his elbows. He glanced at the bed and saw the green chameleon with a… Was that a smirk? It was! The lizard was smirking at him! He gaped. Wait… that chameleon seemed familiar somehow… He blinked before he stared at it for a few moments and tilted his head to the side to get a better view of it. Yes, it certainly looked familiar… That smirk on its' face, the green skin… it was the same one from his dream—I mean, memory. Sure it looked rough and was larger than when he was fourteen, but it was the same one. If the chameleon was here, where was the—

The sound of the door creaking opening along with a familiar voice, interrupted his thoughts, "It seems you're finally awake Dame-Tsuna," and it was the same hoarse voice from last night! Said male gulped at the voice and turned his head to where the voice came from, completely forgetting his thoughts and wonders about the missing baby. Tsuna stared at the older male as he made his way into the room, closing the door behind him of course, and approached the bed. He held out his arm, and surprisingly, the green lizard crawled towards him and traveled from his hand to his shoulders where he rested contently. He ogled at the scene. Does… Does this mean the baby with sideburns was this man? But… it can't be! The baby was (or appeared to be) five years old! He must be thirteen years old at least! He blinked at the thought. He laughed inwardly at his idiocy at even thinking of the possibility of this man being that small and chubby infant. It couldn't be… right?

"Why are you still there Dame-Tsuna? Get up and get ready," Reborn ordered as he petted the green lizard on his shoulders with two of his fingers and turned sideways.

"Y-Yes…!" Tsuna stammered out, rushing into getting up from the floor. As soon as he was on his two feet, he stood as a man from the military, back straight and arms firmly against his sides with a serious, yet concentrated face. His brows furrowed a bit at the same time as a nervous smile appearing in his face and a couple of beads of sweat ran down from his forehead to his cheek. He just obeyed the man in front of him with no hesitation, maybe it was the powerful aura around the male? That must be it… And something else perhaps… A knot formed in his stomach when the male ordered him to get ready. Maybe before he was used to this treatment?

The sound of chuckling interrupted his thoughts. Tsuna looked up from where he stared at the floor and it was from the male, which it wasn't that surprising. Relaxing his tense body, he stared at the man before said male re-spoke.

"Get a move on Dame-Tsuna we don't have all afternoon," he stated, looking at his wrist watch, "The private jet is probably ready to take off and we're the only ones absent, so move it." He ordered. Turning around to exit the room, Tsuna gaped and ogled at him some more before he hurriedly called the man to stop.

Reborn stopped his tracks, but did not turn around. Instead, he kept his back at his student before he spoke, "What is it Dame-Tsuna?" with a slight tone of annoyance in his words. The action made the apprentice quiver slightly at the tone which led him to fidget nervously in his spot, playing the edge of the hospital clothes. "Well…?" the man prompted.

Tsuna stopped playing with the garments and stared at his back before he spoke out the question that was worth one million dollars: "Just… Who… who are you?"

Reborn kept his back to his student, and remained unresponsive, silent. But after a few moments of awkward silence, a small sound left his lips which resembled a chuckle. The former cocked his head over his shoulder to stare at his student to give the answer to win that amount of money.

"I'm the Home Tutor and Hitman, Reborn."

Lol, I just LOVE to leave cliffys… NOT! I just hate it! *cries* I apologiz if it wasn't of your taste the chapter! I'll try harder next chapter! :D

Next chapter: The Assassin's squad (or The Varia I don't know yet... so you guys help me choose! :D Which sounds cooler? I think the first one...)

Let's just say... we'll be seeing a LOT of the Varia in this chapter :D

Okay okay, some of you might think: 'Why did he remember a little bit of Reborn and the others?' Well my fellow readers, it's quite simple, I don't know :D lol joking... okay half joking D:

The truth is that Tsuna remembers little bits of his forgotten memories when he encounters something, like... something that shocks him or gets him excited. Since the appearance of Reborn shocked him quite a lot, may I say, he remembered something about him. So let's say this... when he re-encounters Mukuro, he'll remember mostly everything about him because of his "nervousness" he gets whenever he sees' or feels' him... I hope it's simple to understand .

Noo? okay, how about this:

Shock or excitment = remembering bits of his memory (it depends of the person and/or situation really :D)

So! The pairings and info about my ideas! Drum roll please~

G27 – Do you believe in King Elves? Tsuna didn't, but that was until she was kidnapped and taken to the world of Elves and Fairies to please a certain spoiled Elf King.

X27 – A Human mustn't know the name of an Elf. But if he, she knows the name, that elf would be chained to that Human for eternity.

5927 – A tragic love story and a prohibited love. Fairies and Human are just not meant to be together. But will these two love birds be able to live together despite the opposition and hate of their kind to the other?

… Fairies and Elves… It's something quite funny actually…a friend of mine lend me a book about Fairies and Elves, of which started with all this crazy ideas! :D

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