Ohoho, I'm back…. TEMPORARILY…. Sorry guys I can actually only be on the computer for today because of a special occasion, so technically I'm still grounded just not for today.

Hopefully I'll be un-grounded soon…

All right! Someone got the spot for my 150th reviewer… and that lucky person is…

Rappappa (AGAIN)

Thank you everyone for helping me get this far, the next request thing will be available for the person who is my 200th reviewer ;)

Oh yeah and in regards to the requests, like how I'll let my 200th reviewer request for a one-shot of a pairing or fluff in this story, well there are certain things I can't do in regards to fluff in this story. Also in regards to pairings: I will not do M-rated, I will not do any pairing Byakuran or Daemon Spade related, and there are certain pairings I just can't do so you'll have to check with me, but I will do het pairings if anyone would want that.

The last winner (and current winner), Rappappa, had requested for some Asari/Tsuna fluff so your request will be in this chapter. Hope it's to your liking.

Although I wrote this today when I was un-grounded and when I had a case of writer's block, was sick with a really bad fever, and had a headache… So I feel this chapter may be a bit boring, still I hope you guys like it.

Story Notes:

'Character's thoughts'

"People speaking in Italian"

*sounds/motions/expressions*

Disclaimer: If I owned Katekyo Hitman Reborn I would…

Chapter 9: A Day with Asari

Gray clouds littered the sky and there was a light drizzle on this Thursday morning. Most people were asleep at this time, but not the Vongola's rain guardian, Asari Ugetsu.

Currently, Asari was in the Vongola mansion's Japanese styled dojo, made especially for him. He was practicing his sword skills like he usually did every morning.

*Clack, Cling* the sound of metal hitting wood, resounded throughout the dojo.

"Shigure Soen Ryuu…" Asari tightened his hold on his long sword "Shajiku no Ame" he then rushed forward towards a wooden dummy and thrust his long sword, accompanied by his three short swords right through it. Several seconds later the wooden dummy fell apart into hundreds of sliced wood.

Asari looked at his work and smiled a bit, "This is good, I'm almost there just a few more adjustments here and there and my new technique should be completed"

Asari stretched, put his swords back into their sheath, and went back to his room to retrieve his special teapot that he used to make green tea.

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After a couple minutes Asari reached his room, quietly opened the large twin doors, and walked inside.

Asari's room had the same layout as the other guardian's rooms; however, his room had an oriental style incorporated in as well.

The room's walls were of a light olive green shade, a lighter shade of olive green than Giotto's room's walls; Asari's large king sized bed was located in the far left corner of the room and was covered in soft, light blue colored sheets and a mini oak drawer next to the bed.

In the middle of the room was a low oak table with blue pillows as seats surrounding the table.

Off to the far left there was a little alcove with a Japanese scroll in the middle with the words 'calm rain' written in kanji, a vase filled with mimbrava flowers [1] and a little shrine that held his four swords. A giant window was located on the wall behind his bed, and on the same wall was his giant closet.

Asari looked through his room, but couldn't find his teapot. He then got on all fours and started to search for the pot again.

He checked anywhere the teapot could fit, as he was checking under his bed his hand brushed against something familiar.

Grabbing the item Asari pulled his hand out to see his old flute in his hands.

Asari's eyes widened a bit, he rolled the flute around in his hands and was surprised to find it in the same condition – although a bit dusty – as it was the day he lost the flute.

Asari's eyes took a look of longing with a hint of sadness, he then looked around to make sure no one was around or awake, then put the flute to his mouth and started to play a soothing tune, it was his favorite piece called, Just be Friends[2].

After several minutes the song was over, Asari sighed and smiled sadly as he looked at his flute.

All of a sudden there were sounds of clapping coming from his door, a bit surprised Asari turned around to see Tsuna in his pajamas smiling a bit sheepishly and clapping.

"T-tat was good, c-can I hear more?" Tsuna sheepishly asked as he looked at the ground and shuffled his feat.

Asari smiled, walked over to Tsuna, and kneeled down "Did you really like my music?"

Tsuna nodded "Yeah"

Asari smiled softly then ruffled Tsuna's hair "Thank you, by the way little one, what are you doing up so early?"

Tsuna looked down and started to move away a little as he stuttered, "A-ano…"

Asari smiled, "Aha, well you should go back to sleep it's still too early for you to be up"

Tsuna tilted his head and put a tiny finger to his mouth "T-then shudn't it be too early for you too?"

Asari chuckled "Ah, but I'm older than you so it's different, anyways why don't I take you to Giotto's room"

Tsuna opened his mouth to say more, but shut his mouth closed when Asari suddenly picked him up and started walking.

Tsuna was still a bit wary of the other guardians so he wasn't very comfortable when Asari picked him up; however, after a while Tsuna began to get sleepy and by the time Asari reached Giotto's room Tsuna was already asleep.

Asari looked down to see Tsuna asleep in his arms; he quietly chuckled and opened the door to Giotto's room.

He walked over to the bed to see Giotto sound asleep, he then looked at both Tsuna's and Giotto's sleeping face 'Hah they're faces are so similar!'

Asari started to pull the covers off to tuck Tsuna into bed when suddenly a hand shot out of nowhere and grabbed Asari's arm.

A bit shocked Asari looked down to see Giotto glaring while gripping his arm not to gently; however, when Giotto realized who he had grabbed he immediately dropped the glare and his hold

"Oh it's just you Asari, what are you doing here and what's Tsuna doing with you?"

Asari just laughed "I found Tsuna wandering around and brought him back here"

Giotto just yawned and nodded; he took Tsuna from Asari's hold, brushed the bangs from Tsuna's face and laid him in bed next to Natsu, who now also slept on the big bed.

"Thanks for taking Tsuna back; by the way I trust you know you're taking care of Tsuna today?"

Asari smiled and nodded, Giotto smiled back "Anyways I'm still tired I'm going back to bed see you in the morning, or later I guess since technically it's already morning"

"Haha alright, I'll see you in the morning"

"Yeah" Giotto then pulled the covers over himself, as Asari left the room

~The Next Morning~

"Oh you're here early, you're usually the last one here" Asari stated as he walked into the dining room.

Giotto looked up and smiled as he waved "Hey Asari you're early as usual"

Asari laughed "I guess so, by the way where's Tsuna?"

Giotto smiled and pointed to the right side corner of the dining room. Tsuna was there putting meat inside of Natsu's food bowl. After Tsuna placed the meat inside Natsu growled in appreciation and started to devour the meat. Tsuna giggled and turned around to walk back to Giotto, when he saw Asari.

"Ahh, Asari-nii you pway pwetty music…"

Giotto tilted his head and looked at Asari "Pretty music? Ah, you were playing your flute weren't you; it's been so long since I've heard you play the flute do you mind if I listen to you play?"

Asari scratched his head "Ah, well…"

Giotto raised his eyebrows at Asari's hesitation 'Why is he hesitating, he loves his music so why…'

"Is something wrong, Asari?"

Asari laughed, but Giotto could sense a bit of shakiness in that laughter "Well actually I lost my flute…"

"Oh really? I'll help you look for it then"

Asari shook his head "No its ok I'll look for it myself later"

"You sure you don't need any help?"

"Yes I'm sure"

"You know you can come to me whenever something is troubling you"

Asari nodded his head "Yes and I'm very grateful for that, thank you"

Giotto nodded his head and smiled back "Your welcome"

All of a sudden the door burst open, startled by the sudden noise Asari and Giotto both turned around and a saw a disheveled looking G come trudging into the dining room.

"Good Morning" Asari and Giotto both greeted G at the same time.

However, G looked up narrowed his eyes slightly at the both of them, and collapsed into his chair grumbling about something.

Confused Asari asked "What's the matter G? You seem more tired than usual these days"

G picked his head up and slightly glared at Giotto, he then picked up his hand and pointed towards the person he was glaring at and mumbled "That childish, sorry excuse for a Mafia boss is what my problem is. Oh why did I ever agree to be his right hand man, I already knew he had a habit to shirk work and yet…"

As G mumbled his grievances, Asari looked at Giotto and shook his head a little

"Skipping work again Giotto"

Giotto laughed sheepishly and replied "S-sort of…"

G slammed his fist on the table, slightly startling both of them. A dark aura surrounded G as he yelled "Sort of? What do you mean sort of! You've been skipping work non-stop since-"

All of a sudden G stopped mid sentence when he heard his name being called. He looked towards the direction of the voice and saw Tsuna running towards him with an elated expression on his face; however, Tsuna tripped over his own two feet while running and fell face first onto the ground.

Worried Giotto, Asari, and G all got off their chairs and ran over to Tsuna who had already begun to tear up. Giotto was the first to get there; he kneeled down and gently picked Tsuna up and placed him on his lap. Giotto inspected Tsuna for any wounds or bruising, and only found Tsuna's forehead to be a bit red.

"Are you ok, Tsuna?"

Tsuna who was sniffling and trying his best to not cry out just nodded his head; however, Giotto was still a bit concerned with the red spot on Tsuna's forehead and pressed lightly on it causing Tsuna to cry out in pain and start crying.

At this both Giotto and G started to panic and tried to calm Tsuna down to no avail that is until Asari came along with a bag of ice in his hands.

"Shh, Tsuna stop crying it'll be alright, just put this on your forehead."

Asari then bent down and gently put some ice on Tsuna's forehead. Eventually after a couple minutes passed the crying died down, and turned into sniffling. Giotto and G sighed in relief.

"Does it feel better, Tsuna?" Giotto asked Tsuna; Tsuna nodded in response.

"Twanks A-Asari-nii"

Asari smiled gently at Tsuna and ruffled his hair "Your welcome, little one"

Tsuna nodded his head and then turned towards G "Good Morning, G-nii!"

G chuckled and ruffled Tsuna's hair as well "Good Morning, Tsuna, also next time don't run that way you won't get into accidents like these."

Giotto nodded and agreed with G as well "Yeah Tsuna we don't want you getting hurt again, so no running."

Tsuna pouted "Yea, alright…"

"All right, now that that's all settled why don't we go and eat breakfast and afterwards you'll be staying with Asari" Giotto said as he got up and carried Tsuna to the table. Tsuna nodded in response.

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"Hmm Tsuna what is it?" Asari asked when Tsuna poked him on his leg.

Currently Asari, Natsu, and Tsuna were all inside Asari's room because it was raining outside and Asari decided to show them his room until he thought of something fun to do indoors.

"A-ano…" Tsuna whispered as he stared at the ground and shuffled his feet. All of a sudden Tsuna could feel a weight on his head, looking up Tsuna saw Asari's hand patting his head as he smiled at him

"Yes, go on" Asari coaxed Tsuna as he patted his head.

Tsuna felt comforted by Asari's kind gesture and nodded; Tsuna then pulled his hands out from behind his back and presented a wooden flute in his hands.

The Rain Guardian's eyes widened slightly when he saw his flute in Tsuna's hands; he slowly picked it up and asked "Where'd you get this Tsuna?"

The tiny brunet blushed and stuttered "A-ano… well I f-found it on top of y-your table and I th-thought maybe you could… pway it" Tsuna squeaked the last part of his sentence and immediately averted his gaze at the ground afraid Asari would get angry at him.

A few minutes passed, in that time Natsu had finished sniffing out the room and went to curl up near Tsuna, other than that nothing happened a long silence filled the room. Finally, Tsuna gathered the courage to look up and saw Asari just holding his flute and cleaning it with a towel.

"Ah, a-ano what a-are you d-doing Asari-nii?" Tsuna stuttered as he stared at the flute.

Asari chuckled "I'm cleaning this old flute; it's been a while since I've cleaned it."

Tsuna nodded in response, Asari then patted the place next to him, gesturing for Tsuna to come and sit next to him. Tsuna smiled a little and walked over to Asari's bed, with Natsu in tow; however, with the brunet being so short he couldn't quite get up on the bed by himself.

"Here we go" Asari said as he set his flute down, and picked up Tsuna and placed the little child next to him.

"T-twank you…" Tsuna mumbled as he settled in his seat, Natsu growled as well most likely thanking Asari as well for helping.

"N-Nee, after you clean y-your flute will y-you pway it?" Tsuna asked sheepishly.

"No I won't"

"O-oh…" Tsuna mumbled dejectedly

"You will"

"E-eh?"

Asari chuckled "You'll play the flute, because I will teach you how to play"

At his statement Tsuna's face lit up "W-weally? You'll weally teach me how to pway your flute?"

Asari nodded as he stood up, handed the now clean flute to Tsuna, and walked over to his closet.

"What are you doin, Asari-nii?" Tsuna asked as he followed him.

"You'll see"

Asari opened his closet and reached into the very back of his closet and fumbled around looking for a certain item, when he felt it, he smiled slightly. He pulled out a wooden chest covered in chains and locks.

"What's tat Asari-nii?" the little brunet asked as he got on his tippy toes to try and get a better look.

"Be patient" Asari said as he set the chest on his low table and walked over to the little alcove searching for something; meanwhile, Tsuna and Natsu were already at the low table staring at the chest and poking it.

"What do you think it is Natsu?" Tsuna whispered

"Gao" Natsu responded as it poked the chest with its paw

"Found it!" Asari exclaimed; he then walked over to his table and knelt down in front of the locked chest.

"What did you find?" Tsuna asked as he looked curiously at the chest.

"The key" Asari said happily as he held a key in his hand and started to unlock all the locks on the chest, finally the last lock was opened. Asari smiled slightly as he placed his hand on the chest and slowly opened it.

Tsuna leaned over the table and watched as Asari opened the chest, his eyes widened in amazement when he finally saw what was inside the chest.

"Wah! Tat's a wot of flutes!"

Asari chuckled "I know these are all the flutes I've owned"

He then gingerly picked up one of the flutes, stood and said "All right now why don't we get started on that flute lesson."

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"No, no Tsuna you need to have a straight posture when playing the flute, you can't slouch or it won't sound right."

Tsuna nodded and stood up straighter "Wike this?"

Asari nodded "Yes like that"

"All right now we can work on producing sound from the flute"

Tsuna tilted his head and pointed the mouthpiece "Don't you just blow hewe?"

Asari shook his head "No, there's a special technique to make it sound just right."

Tsuna mouthed an "O" and let Asari continue.

"So first you have to…" however, memories of a distant past suddenly came flashing back causing Asari to stop mid-sentence.

The brunet tilted his head "W-what's wong, Asari-nii?"

"It's… it's nothing Tsuna… you know it's already noon, why don't we go eat first?"

All of a sudden Tsuna's stomach growled and he quickly nodded his head. Asari laughed and suggested that Tsuna wait outside for him while he cleaned up his room. Once Tsuna left Asari sighed once more

"I'm breaking my promise again, aren't I?" The swordsman mumbled sadly to himself as he picked up the two flutes, stared at them for a bit, and put them back into their cases.

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"Asari-nii what awe you making?" Tsuna asked as he sat on a chair in the kitchen.

"You'll see" Asari chuckled as rolled up the rice and laid out all the fish he was going to use. Taking out his sword, the swordsman made a quick slash. Shortly after, the fish fell apart into rectangular pieces, the perfect size for sushi.

Tsuna's eyes brightened "Wahhh! Asari-nii how'd you do tat?"

Asari chuckled "Years of practice little one, now I'll go make some tea for the both us and we can go and eat the sushi in my room all right"

Tsuna nodded as he eyed the delicious pieces of sushi, tempted to just eat one. Asari could see those stares, so he took one and popped it into Tsuna's mouth.

"Good?"

"Mm-hmm" Tsuna mumbled as he happily chewed his sushi.

~Asari's Room~

"Done! Now can we pway the flute again Asari-nii?" Tsuna exclaimed as he ate the last piece of sushi on his plate.

Asari slowly drank the last of his green tea, slowly set cup down, and sighed "I'm sorry Tsuna, but I can't."

"Eh, w-why not?"

"Because I would be breaking a promise…"

"P-pwomise?"

Asari sighed as he looked outside, it was still drizzling…

~Flashback~

Sounds of fighting could be heard in the distance. Currently the budding mafia Famiglia, the Vongola Famiglia, was caught in a fight with another Famiglia. They were fighting over the fact that the other mafia Famiglia was terrorizing the townsfolk, and the Vongola wanted them to stop.

"Hey G watch out!" Giotto yelled out as he knocked out the guy that was about to shoot G with his guns.

"Thanks" G called out as he ran around shooting all the enemies.

All the guardians were doing their job and fighting off the enemy. Knuckles was fighting with his fists, giving himself a three minute time limit to defeat them. Lampo was defending himself with his shield and occasionally shooting out lightning from it. Alaude was skillfully using his handcuffs to incapacitate the enemy. Daemon was using his illusions to hurt and confuse his enemies, occasionally using his lens to see through the enemy or using his cane to deal a head blow. Lastly, Asari was gracefully fighting with his swords, taking out his enemies one by one.

"Hah, all right just a few more enemies left and we'll be done" Asari said to himself as he took down another enemy. He wanted to get this fight over with, one because he wasn't all too fond of fighting; the only reason he fought was to protect his best friend, Giotto. Second, Asari was much more interested in the ways of the flute rather than the ways of the sword.

While looking around for any more enemies Asari noticed that one of the men from the rival Famiglia had a gun in hand and aimed it directly at Giotto's heart. Alarmed the swordsman ran towards the opponent ready to take him out; however, just when he was about to do that one of the main members of the rival family blocked his way

"Woops can't have you doing that"

"Get out of my way" Asari yelled as he tried to take out his opponent; however, the person was quick and dodged Asari's attacks.

"Too slow" he stated as he took out his weapon and quickly took out Asari.

As Asari was knocked to the ground he yelled "GIOTTO LOOK OUT!"

Giotto turned around just in time to sidestep so that the bullet hit the side of his chest rather than his heart; however, the gunshot wound was enough to severely wound Giotto. Alarmed all the guardians ran over to Giotto.

Knuckles quickly examined Giotto's wounds "This doesn't look good, I might not be able to heal him all the way. The wound's too deep."

"Th-this is all my fault if I had been able to stop him… If I had been stronger-" Asari cried out as he knelt near Giotto

Giotto coughed gaining their attention "A-Asari…"

"Giotto stop, don't talk you'll worsen" Asari reprimanded.

Giotto shook his head as he took hold of Asari's hand "I-It's not… Y-your… fault…"

Afterwards Giotto passed out from the blood loss; enraged the guardians quickly took out the rest of the enemies as Knuckles treated Giotto's wounds.

A week after the fight Giotto finally woke up, and was fully healed a couple weeks after the incident. Unfortunately, Asari had blamed himself for not being able to protect Giotto. He felt that if he had dedicated himself to the way of the sword rather than split his dedication between the flute and the sword, then maybe he would have been able to save Giotto.

From that day Asari took all his flutes and locked them away, and dedicated himself to the way of the sword; never to touch his flutes again for fear of the same thing happening again.

~End of Flashback~

"A-Asari-nii?" Tsuna called out as the rain guardian sat there, staring off into space.

"Asari-nii" the little brunet pouted as he pulled at the swordsman's sleeves.

"H-Huh, oh sorry Tsuna I was just remembering something."

"Wat was it about?"

Asari just patted Tsuna's head "It's nothing all right"

Tsuna pouted, crossed his arms, and cutely huffed "But thewe is something botering you"

Asari sighed as he shook his head and continued to stare off into space contemplating. Tsuna, still pouting, stared at Asari. He wanted to make him feel better he just didn't know how. All of a sudden Natsu rubbed his head against Tsuna's leg to get his attention.

"Hmm, what is it?" Tsuna whispered to Natsu; Natsu lifted his paw and pointed towards the window. Tsuna tilted his head wondering why the little lion pointed outside. The little brunet then thought of something, thanking Natsu he quickly ran over to Asari and grabbed his sleeve.

"Come with me" Tsuna called out as he dragged Asari with him. Eventually Tsuna dragged Asari to the main doors of the mansion.

"So what are we doing here Tsuna?" Asari asked a bit confused at the brunet's actions.

Tsuna just opened the door, to reveal the falling rain outside, and proceeded to push Asari outside of the mansion.

"Um what are you doing Tsuna?" Asari asked as he looked down at Tsuna, who was trying to push him outside.

"Oof, I'm trying to make you stand in the rain!" Tsuna stated as he kept trying to push Asari outside.

Amused Asari chuckled "And why would you want me to do that?"

Tsuna stopped pushing and fidgeted around as he said "W-well I heard that rain will wash away all your pwoblems, so I wanted Asari-nii's pwoblems to be w-washed away too…"

Asari gently laughed as he knelt down and whispered "Thanks, Tsuna"

Tsuna smiled and hugged him back "You're Welcome… now go and get in tat rain we need your pwoblems to be washed away!"

Asari laughed as he picked up Tsuna and ran outside into the rain. After that their day was spent playing in the rain, taking a warm bath, and getting ready for bed afterwards.

"Mmmn" Tsuna sighed as he settled into the sheets with Natsu and fell asleep.

"Finally asleep" Asari sighed as he patted Tsuna's head.

Giotto who had been in the room already, when Asari came to put Tsuna to bed merely laughed as he walked over.

"He's too cute when he's asleep" Giotto stated as he kneeled down and patted Tsuna's chocolate brown locks.

"So how was today? Did you find your flute?"

"Today was really fun actually, I got a feel for Japan again and no not yet, but I will someday and it's thanks to Tsuna."

Giotto nodded "Well I'm glad Tsuna helped you as well."

Asari nodded as he walked out of Giotto's room 'Someday… Someday I'll be able to play my flute freely again, but as for now I'll focus on my sword just for a bit longer…'

[1] & [2] links will be posted of them on my profile if you're interested in seeing/listening to them

So…. How was it? Good? I hope I wrote this in the worst possible condition, so I apologize for any grammar or any other types of mistakes D:

Also this will be the last update for awhile, or at least until I get un-grounded so once again I'm sorry for crushing your hopes…. But hey at least you guys got a chapter ^^'

Oh right I have a question for you guys….

Would you guys like it if when Giotto and co are talking in Italian that I actually use the Italian language with English translation right next to it in parentheses or would you rather I keep it the way I'm doing it now?

I actually found a really accurate translator (person can speak Italian) so now it's a possibility I could translate their conversations now, I don't really care either way, but I want to hear your guy's opinion. Just answer in your review

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