This chapter is dedicated to saruko who gave me this amazing suggestion of writing a tutor day. Really, thank you! And of course, thank you for those who gave me your support on this little break.
The events of this chapter happens after the end of the chapter six (Smokin' Bomb Tsuna and Hyper Gokudera).
WARNING: This chapter has not been betead by a beta reader.
DISCLAIMER: I do not own Katekyo Hitman Reborn!, but the sadistic Akira Amano does. Through, I would like to.
Chapter Nine
Taking lessons with Reborn-sensei
It was a beautiful day. The sun was shinning and the birds were happily singing. Many families were enjoying the Saturday making picnic, kids playing games with their fathers and couples taking pictures while loving each other. Indeed, it was a good day for a walk in the park, or for some weird occasion, takes lessons with a strange baby hitman.
Tsuna stared at Gokudera and Gokudera stared back at him. They exchanged confused looks between them and, synchronously, they looked at Reborn, who was comfortably and casually drinking a coffee cup.
"Then again, what are we doing here, Reborn?" Tsuna asked as he looked at where they were. A park.
People are passing by and slightly chuckling as they saw a really funny scene. Reborn, a strange baby was drinking coffee as if it was milk and behind him was a blackboard. The two boys were sitting on the ground with what…? Were that dynamites around their bodies? Surely, toys are very realistic these days.
Tsuna looked down and flinched. "Is that really necessary?" He pointed at the dynamites around his chest. "I-It can scare people."
'Or even kill us!' He thought nervously, gulping.
"Are you complaining about my methods, dame-Tsuna?" Reborn sent him an inquisitive stare, which made Tsuna flinch once again. That was damn scary. If that was even possible, Reborn was getting better at making people scared with his deathly stares. "Good." He completed, smirking.
The hitman stood up from his mini chair and put his empty coffee cup on his mini table. "It's about time to both of you take some educational lessons." His eyes shone as he pointed to the blackboard.
"Educational lessons?" Gokudera repeated. "What's it, Reborn-san?"
"I'm having a bad feeling about this," Tsuna muttered, but Reborn heard and threw a rubber into Tsuna's head with an inhuman strength. The ex-brunette fell onto the ground with a 'THUMP'.
Tsuna rubbed the back of his head and stood up with Gokudera's help.
"A-Are you alright, Juudaime?" His right-hand man asked in concern.
"Yes, thank you Gokudera-kun," He assured him with a smile. Then, he looked at Reborn. "What was that for, Reborn? The dynamites could have exploded!" He stated while pointing to the fearsome device around his pale body. Actually, Gokudera's body.
Gokudera's brown honey eyes widened in realization when he heard those words.
How could he be so stupid to not have thought about that? Juudaime was in danger! And even worse, if his body, which was actually Tsuna's and was momentarily in his possession, was hurt then, how could he forgive himself for hurting his boss' body while he was in take care of it?
Reborn smirked dangerously once again. Tsuna gulped, he didn't like what could happen next.
"The dynamites won't explode unless I make them to," The hitman explained and then he took out a remote control from his black suit and raised it with his left hand. "Which means," He narrowed his eyes but his smirk was still there. "If I press this button, the dynamites will explode. Do you wanna see?" He asked innocently.
Both Tsuna and Gokudera widened his eyes. Sometimes, no, every time they caught themselves thinking if Reborn really had his sanity intact.
"HIIIIIIIIIIE! N-NO!" Tsuna begged and some people, who were passing by, raised their eyebrows at the scene. The silver haired boy was sweating like a crazy and giving a girly squeak. Somehow he was appearing to be desperate, but why? Anyways, that girly squeak didn't fit that little punk boy, or at least it was what they thought as they saw the clothes the boy wore.
"Tch. What a pity." Reborn pouted.
After lying the remote control on his mini table, Reborn walked towards the blackboard and wrote on it some instructions at an incredible speed.
"What is that about?" Tsuna asked looking at the blackboard with an interrogative and confused look. "How to act as the other's usually reactions?" He read the first line written on the board and then raised an eyebrow in confusion.
"Reborn-san, you'll teach us how we should act like the other one?" Gokudera asked, already putting his glasses on, ready for the explanations—he could do everything in his power to don't make any more mistakes that could inflame his boss.
"Indeed," Reborn answered with a smirk as he looked at Tsuna, who was sweating like a crazy once again. It was quite an entertainment reading the boy's mind. "But, it's not how you should act like the other one, but how you do have to."
"WHAT?" Tsuna demanded. 'I really have a bad, a very bad feeling about this whole thing!'
"If you shout like that again, dame-Tsuna," Reborn said and his eyes shone dangerously at the thought of having to do that. Well, Tsuna won't die that easily, then there's no problem. Not at all. "I'm gonna blow you to pieces." The hitman sent Tsuna a very cold stare, which made the younger feel a shiver down his spine and caused his hairs stand on.
"R-Reborn-san!" Gokudera rebuked him. "Please, don't blow Juudaime to pieces!" He asked that in a very calm tone, despite his deep frown and sweating rolling down his forehead. 'A-And that is my body…'
"Humpf," Reborn grumbled and said something that both boys didn't catch what exactly was. "Fine. Only this once."
Tsuna was about to do a little dance when he felt another shiver down his spine—Reborn was smirking like a devil again, and only to him! But his time was worse than the previous ones, as if saying him that he has to prepare himself to go to hell. He surely was planning something, something evil.
"W-what?" He stuttered, swallowing heavily. Gokudera looked at him with a confused look and waited for Reborn's response.
"I forgot to tell you that not only I would be teaching you two." Reborn commented casually.
Both boys frowned by the news. They weren't expecting that, of course, but for some reason that news gave them a bad feeling. Tsuna was about to ask him more information but was stopped by Reborn's hand telling him to keep his mouth shut.
Reborn took Leon off his fedora and changed it into a green cellphone. After dialing a cellphone number, the baby hitman turned his back to the two boys and waited for the person he was calling to answer.
"Ciaossu," He greeted the person in his customary greeting. "Are you here already?"
Reborn nodded at something and then turned to face the boys.
"Yes," He said as he narrowed his eyes, looking at Tsuna. "We've agreed on that. He's all yours." Tsuna gulped at Reborn's tone of voice and prayed for his safety. Whatever it was, it wasn't a good thing, he was sure of that. "We'll be waiting for you." And then he hung up the cell phone.
Before Gokudera could say something, Tsuna said, "With who were you talking to on the cell phone, Reborn?"
"You'll see whom once he arrives here," His eyes shone once again.
They waited about four minutes and a tall figure approached them.
"Ah," Reborn looked at the newcomer. "You are here, and as fast as I could have thought you would arrive." He smirked.
"Hm."
Tsuna widened his eyes and if he was standing, he would have collapsed onto the ground such was his surprise.
"Wha-?" He tried to say something but failed miserably.
"He'll be your tutor, dame-Tsuna." Reborn voiced what Tsuna feared the most.
That just couldn't be true. Reborn was kidding with him. He HAD to be.
"EEEEEEEEH?" The ex-brunette squeaked.
Reborn lowered his fedora and pointed his green gun at the boy's forehead, for his and Gokudera's surprise.
"Shout like that again and I'm really gonna blow you to pieces," His tone of voice was clearly serious, almost telling you to dare to that and face the consequences of such unthinkable act. "You as Vongolas boss shouldn't shout like a little girl having her first kiss."
Tsuna blushed furiously at that statement but said nothing.
Reborn turned to face the older boy and put down his green gun. "I'm counting on you to teach him properly," And again, Tsuna felt a shiver down his spine. He was almost sure that day was the day of his death. "Hibari."
A smirk danced on Hibari's lips and he nodded slightly.
"Yes, baby." The raven-haired boy answered.
Tsuna gulped and all of sudden the felt the temperature drop to five degrees below zero.
'I'm gonna die! Good-bye world, good-bye mom and Kyoko-chan! Everyone!' He was mentally crying and running in circles. 'Today…it's my last day alive! And I don't even returned to my own body! Life's cruel!'
"W-why, Reborn?" Tsuna inquired nervously. He still had to do something to get out of that problem. "Why we have to take such lessons? We've been doing well so far!"
'Not so well, we have made some mistakes and we almost give ourselves in front of Bianchi and Yamamoto…' He added mentally.
"Well, I guess I should have done this lesson class on the first day…" Reborn commented and quickly sighed. He faked disappointment but as quickly as his change of face appeared, it disappeared. "But it can't be helped."
'Sure it can't be helped!' Tsuna shout again in thoughts and mentally put his hands on his head in a sign of desperation.
"But who knows, it may be of some help some day…" Reborn muttered with an evil grin.
Gokudera seeing his boss' situation, he quickly thought of something. "R-Reborn-san," He began, drawing the hitman's attention to him. "I can take Juudaime's place and be Hibari's s-s-s-student."
It almost took him gave up of his pride to say that. No way in hell he would say that again and if wasn't for his beloved boss.
Although Reborn liked seeing such loyal subordinate of his idiotic student, still he couldn't let his plans go out of control. Oh, he wasn't going to make it that easy.
"No." He answered quickly.
Hibari smirked at baby's selfish acts. Of course he knew that the person who he had some respect wouldn't accept what Gokudera Hayato was asking him for.
Gokudera jumped in surprise and the entire hope Tsuna was holding on, faded away. It was decided, it was the end of Sawada Tsunayoshi and he even didn't give his first kiss yet. Poor boy.
"R-Reborn-san!" He tried to convince him once more.
Reborn lowered his fedora, which meant that he was very serious about that. "This is my final decision, Gokudera."
Gokudera gritted his teeth, but remained silent. Tsuna began to pray for his poor soul.
'God, please, have mercy with this poor no good boy like me! I don't wanna go to hell at such young age!'
"Then, I suppose you should prepare yourself, herbivore," Hibari said, and Tsuna was snapped from his thoughts and looked at him, already panicking. "Because I won't be an easy sensei."
"NO WAY!" Tsuna whined, getting paler and paler.
Meanwhile, somewhere in Namimori's town, Yamamoto was walking side by side with Ryohei. They were said to be at 3 p.m. in Namimori Central Park, but it was still too early to go there.
"Do you know why Pao Pao roshi called us to go to the park?" Ryohei asked Yamamoto as they walked to a sports store, stopping in front of the showcase to admire the new itens.
"I don't know," He admitted. "He only said me to meet him in the park at 3pm." And saying that, he looked at the clock. It was too early yet.
"We'll have to wait?" Ryohei almost shouted. "I WON'T!" Too much for Yamamoto's surprise, Ryohei was…complaining in the most childish way he had seen him complain?
The baseball star chuckled. He couldn't underestimate his senpai, he was one of the most impressive people he had seen. Of course, Tsuna was the first.
"Then, what will we do, senpai?" He asked.
"Hmm…" Ryohei frowned and put his hand under his chin as if he was thinking in a serious problem. "We could call the others to join us!"
"The others?" Yamamoto tilted his head, raising one of his eyebrows.
Ryohei nodded serious. "Kyoko and her friends…like that girl Chrome, huh?"
"Ah, yes!" Yamamoto chuckled. "It could be a good idea!"
"We could call Hibari too!" The captain of the boxing club commented enthusiastically, punching the air in excitement.
Yamamoto froze on the spot and chuckled again, but nervously. "I don't think Hibari would join us, senpai."
"Huh?" Ryohei asked confused. "You think so?" It was his time to tilt his head.
"Definitely! Hahah!"
And then, they walked into the sports store.
Hibari narrowed his eyes but that glare of amusement, sadism, and whatever it was, never left for a single second of his eyes. He was having fun.
"What are you waiting for, herbivore?" He asked raising his tonfas. Hibird flew away and landed in a safe place. "How do you expect win if you didn't even activate that special mode?"
Tsuna gulped.
They were in a place far away from the park, where no one could disturb them from their little training. It was a perfect place for an herbivore be beaten to death for some bloodlust carnivore. Indeed, even if that certain herbivore shout as loud as he could, no one could heard him because there was nothing around them, only trees and more trees.
Tsuna didn't know that such place even existed in Namimori.
"Then?" Hibari insisted.
"I-I don't like fighting," He stuttered and flinched a bit. "I would prefer not fight Hibari-san."
Saying that didn't caused any effect on Hibari, only made his smirk widen even more. "I asked you something about liking to fight or not?" Tsuna shook his head. "I asked you why you don't already activated the flames of your gear."
"B-But…"
"You heard the baby," Hibari cut him off. "You should do what he said and do it now." Saying that, he ran toward the ex-brunette, aiming for injure the boy's head with his tonfa but instinctively Tsuna avoided the blow. "Wao." Hibari's smirk widened once again.
"You won't have that chance I gave you again," Hibari warned him and began to attack the ex-brunette.
"I want my own body back~!" Tsuna whined, before activating Gokudera's Vongola Gear.
Hibari was surprised by the sudden burst of flames on Tsuna's shoulder, but as quickly as the surprise appeared in his face, it faded in seconds. "You will finally fight, hm?"
"Ah," Tsuna nodded, and Gokudera's eyes became serious and his voice in low tone voice. Uri was on his shoulder.
"How interesting," Hibari commented and raised his tonfas. "Let me see if you really can act like that man."
To be continued...
A/N: This chapter nine took a bit too long to be published due to several reasons, such as: I made a trip to Paris; second, I've got a fever just after coming home; third, I had exams to attend to; fourth, my beta reader didn't gave any sign to be alive till now; fifth, Tumblr is damn good! And another reason is: I'm writing SEVEN new stories at the same time, and it's slowing me down. And more two ideas for new stories is on the way.
Anyways, 'Exchanging Bodies' is already 75/80 percent done, so no needs to any complaints. It'll be eventually updated until the expected ending! Btw, I'm very anxious to post the last chapter, I can assure you it'll be very funny and you'll want more chappies. Yeah, I'm a bad person!
Also, I must thank Saruko once again for giving me such a great idea for this chapter! When I read your review and your suggestion, as if by miraculously, the whole chapter popped into my mind! :D
