Chapter 10 Battle for the Vongola Part 1

I'M SOO SORRY for not updating quick enough! Oh yeah, these next few chapters will be about the battles between the guardians.

I hope that this chapter makes up for the long teribble wait!

Kichou: Thank you very much! Sorry for the wait! Thank you for your constant reviews!

Blueberryxn: Haha! And so, the skylark has fallen for the dense yet adorable tuna! Gotta love that, right?

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TheParadoxicalOtaku: I know! Hibari, why you so awesome?

"Well done, Dame-Tsuna. You actually managed to convince the mist and cloud guardians to accept the rings." Reborn exclaimed. But it was clear that he was being sarcastic with his student; his tone was rather exaggerated and his posture suggested that he was about to cry "tears of joy". Unfortunately, the oblivious tuna apparently never learned the language of sarcasm.

"What do you mean? It actually wasn't that hard." Well, maybe the visit to the Namimori Kingdom was much more...er, eventful than the other. Still, now that Tsuna looked back, it wasn't really difficult as she had thought. This was due to the fact that she was ever so unknowing of her almost dangerous smile and oh-so cute face.

"Juudaime-hime! Are you alright?" Gokudera suddenly burst into the "private" meeting room. Ever since he heard that his beloved princess would have to confront Mukuro and Hibari...well, let's just say that the king himself had to set the entire army on Gokudera to prevent him from bringing her back.

"Haha! Tsuna, I heard the news! Good job!" Yamamoto soon followed in. He affectionately patted her head which made Tsuna blush much like her visit to the Kokuyo Kingdom. Unfortunately, Gokudera furiously got out his dynamite and shouted out things about stealing the princess' innocence. If it wasn't for a stranger to quickly stop him, Yamamoto really would've got hurt (this time).

"Calm down Gokudera. I don't think Tsuna would like it if you hurt one of her guardians." It was none other than Giotto! He then released the explosive Gokudera and immediately bowed down at the surprised princess.

"G-Giotto! What are you doing here?"

"I came to overlook your performance." Giotto still remained bowing.

"My what?"

"Your performance, or rather, The Battle for the Vongola Inheritance." Reborn answered. He then rubbed his temples earnestly; had any of his teachings, any of them managed to reach that thick headed tuna?

"Ok, it looks like I'll have to go over this again. Listen closely Dame-Tsuna-" At that point, Tsuna immediately blanked out; her Hyper Intuition was telling her that Reborn was about to say something long. Very long.

"Your father decreed that you, the princess of the Vongola and Xanxus, the leader of the Varia will face off in a battle. The rules are simple: it's a battle to the death and no one is allowed to intervene with another's battle." Or maybe not.

"Wait, what? You mean they're actually going to kill us? And we'll have to kill them too!" She shrieked out. Ok, wasn't expecting that this mafia-like kingdom was so...harsh.

"I change my mind! Xanxus can inherit the Vongola Kingdom!" Tsuna said triumphantly. Perhaps a way to escape?

"Weren't you listening earlier? If you give in then Xanxus will think you're a disgrace and not even worthy to be an heir of the Vongola throne. Not to mention that he'll also find you and all of your guardians and most likely kill you."

"HIEEE! But I never really wanted to inherit this kingdom anyway!" Tsuna protested.

"Still, would you allow him to kill your guardians?"

Tsuna was silent at that. Of course, she was more than terrified of the demonic Xanxus but Tsuna did not want to drag in her friends in her problem. In fact, the only reason she had temporarily agreed to this was to protect them. The princess then diverted her attention to the current guardians in the room: Gokudera, Yamamoto, Ryohei, and young Lambo (who happened to be sleeping on the desk the entire time).

"May I ask you guys something?" She nervously got out.

They all nodded almost automatically, as if they knew that she was going to ask that. Or perhaps they would agree to anything she would request?

"Why...why did you accept the Vongola rings? You'll probably die in this battle because of me." Tsuna's eyes were hidden by her bangs.

"Juudaime-hime! I accepted this ring because I wanted to protect to and prove that I'm worthy of being your right-hand man!" Gokudera immediately stood up, shocked beyond reason at the question.

"That's right Tsuna! I just want to protect you!" Yamamoto followed in; his eyes were even sparkling.

"You idiot! Don't call the hime by her name so casually! You must die!" Once again, Gokudera withdrew his dynamite. But this time, Tsuna was the one who stopped him.

"It's ok Gokudera! He can call me by my name; you and everyone else can too." She blurted out.

This brought Gokudera back; he, of all people, was honored enough that he could address his precious leader by her name? He was now crying tears of joy!

"Juudaime-hime! You have given me an honor that I'm not worthy of! Your kindness knows no bounds!" The bomber continued to ramble on about how his "princess" was awesomely epic.

"Sawada! I became your guardian so I could protect you, to the extreme!" Ryohei proclaimed loudly. No surprise there...

"You guys..." Tsuna was now dangerously close to tears. She was touched; her friends wanted to protect her and she had wanted the same.

"Don't get too comfortable Dame-Tsuna." The spartan tutor interrupted. "The match starts in an hour, so I suggest that you should head over to the battlefield."

"HIIEEE! I take it back! I can't do this! I can't-" Tsuna was once again cut off when two scary looking guards appeared and grabbed her arms. "What is this! Reborn, save me!"

"I figured that you wouldn't be too eager to go so I asked Vongola's most strongest soldiers to 'escort' you there." Reborn smirked.

"You traitor! Somebody save me!" She wailed.

"Juudaime-hime! I'll save you!"

"Hahaha! Wait up you guys!"

"I'll fight this match to the EXTREME!"

"Wait for Lambo-san!" Lambo just happened to wake up from the noise and raced after them. Apparently, he thought that they were going to play a game of some sort.

Reborn only smirked. Again.

Reborn P.O.V

Yare yare, it seems that my Dame student has once again flopped. It seems that she's only useful when she was in HDW, looks like I'll have to fix that. Just so you know, I did happen to see her achieve Hyper Dying Will at the Namimori Kingdom. Not bad, but technically it's supposed to last a lot longer than that. Another thing to "amend"? Oh, the punish-I mean, training regime's she'll go through once this is over.

"So what's your real reason why you're here, Ieyasu Giotto?" You don't think that for one second that I actually believed that did you? Watching over the Battle would be completely pointless for him; he wouldn't get any closer to getting the throne.

"What ever do you mean? I just want to see the Battle for the Vongola Inheritance; anyone would." He answered a bit too smoothly.

"You're planning something, aren't you?" I narrowed my eyes at him. Something was a bit off; my intuition was going haywire at his response.

"I have planned nothing of the sort. Now if you excuse me, I must depart for the battlefield." With that, Giotto calmly stepped out. Perhaps was he thinking of-? Of course! Does that idiot have any idea what will happen if he does that? Well, Tsuna could always handle it anyway.

Despite the fact that Tsuna was useless and No-Good, she still had an almost amazing effect on the people she interacted with. Her guardians were fiercely loyal to her(well, maybe a little too much), and Tsuna in turn, would do everything in her power to protect them. And to top it all of, she managed to convince the elusive Mukuro Rokudo and the cold-blooded Hibari Kyoya to accept their rings. Ahh, speaking of the pineapple-hair and skylark.

"How long are you two going to stay hidden?" I said out loud. Almost instantly, they both revealed themselves while glaring daggars at eachother.

"Hn, looks like that herbivore's tutor was better than I expected."

"Oya oya, nothing less expected from an Arcobaleno."

I noticed their position to fight and potentially demolish the room, so I stepped in. Well, the battle couldn't exactly start if Tsuna's group was short of two guardians.

"Before you go destroying the room, might I ask something? Why would the infamous Hibari Kyoya and Rokudo Mukuro agree to become a guardian of the Vongola princess?" Might as well let the readers know (A/N: Reborn can break the fourth wall!)

Surprisingly, they halted in their movement and remained silent for awhile, until Mukuro spoke up.

"Don't misunderstand me, Arcobaleno. I only accepted the ring so I could possess her body so I could dominate the monarchy!" He said rather triumphantly. If he think that he could just simply take over a student of the greatest tutor/hitman in the world, then he's got another thing coming.

"Hn, so that was your plan after all." Whoops (insert sarcasm here). Looks like I just made them fight again. Well, the Battle of the Vongola Inheritance won't start in awhile, so I guess they could have a "warm up" before starting.

SOO SORRY! I kinda suck writing Reborn's POV!

Thank you for your patience and have a goodnight!

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