Lily: Ha ha! I'm back! Although my reviews slowed down quite a lot. T-T

Shiro: So that she stops whining to me please be sure to R&R

Lily: I don't whine! I just get...depressed a little... (sniffles and tears)

Shiro: Well here's the explanation everyone has been asking for

Lily: Just an fyi I haven't passed through the inheritance arc yet like some people have assumed

Shiro: Disclaimer- we do not own Katekyo Hitman Reborn!

Lily: Enjoy!


Chapter 11 In Love and War

Giotto's mind was racing. He only had to lean in a little bit in order to capture her lips. But there was the chance that Tsuna would get mad at him. She could end up very afraid of Giotto if he did anything reckless. There was a very long pause where Giotto stayed frozen to the spot, debating whether or not to follow through with Tsuna's unconscious enticement.

Tsuna's tongue wiped out once again. This time Giotto gave into temptation and pressed his lips against her soft ones. He sucked a little so that he could get more of Tsuna's tongue. He sucked on the wet appendage, making the still sleeping Tsuna mewl a little. The small sound did wonders to his body. Giotto gently pried Tsuna's lips open and stuck his tongue inside, touching and tasting everything he could. Needing more oxygen he pulled away. Tsuna was also breathing hard, her face was flushed.

The lack of air had awoken Tsuna. She opened her eyes groggily and looked up to see Giotto's mesmerizing blue ones. "Giotto?" Tsuna questioned. She gasped a little and closed her eyes as she felt his hand squeeze her chest a little.

Giotto leaned in more till he was resting his head by Tsuna's ear. "Tsuna, I need you so bad. Please let me taste and feel a little more," Giotto pleaded, his lips brushing against her ear.

Tsuna shivered. She didn't quite understand, but she would do anything for Giotto. "Anything for Giotto," she whispered.

Giotto captured her lips once again. Tsuna gasped, this wasn't exactly what she was expecting. Giotto took advantage and plunged his tongue once again into her mouth. His hands roamed down her shirt till he reached the hem. Giotto then proceeded to slide a hand under the fabric and brush against the smooth skin. He pulled away from the kiss so that he and Tsuna could get more air, then moved down sucking on the flesh and leaving a series of hickeys. Tsuna moaned a little, she had never felt a sensation like this before.

While he was distracting her, Giotto had started to unbutton Tsuna's shirt. He reached under her bra and squeezed. Tsuna's flushed face became even redder and she mewled again, writhing a little at the contact. Giotto pulled the annoying undergarment away so that he could suck on her nipple.

"Ah, aaaaaahh!" Tsuna moaned, "G-Giotto…more…I want more…" Tsuna reached up and clung to Giotto's neck.

Giotto smirked and slipped his hand under her shorts. Teasing Tsuna, he rubbed and fingered her entrance that was blocked by a single piece of thin fabric. With a sudden inspiration Giotto stopped and looked at Tsuna. Her face was flushed, lips slightly parted, and her eyes were half lidded. "Tsuna, do you want to help?" Giotto asked huskily, "Do you want to make me feel good too?"

Tsuna nodded. Giotto's smirk grew wider and he undid his pants. He pulled away one of Tsuna's hands from his neck and slid it over to grip his member. Tsuna became more embarrassed and was about to pull her hand away, when she saw Giotto's look of pleasure. She hesitantly started to pump Giotto's member.

It felt so good. Giotto never imagined a hand job could be this amazing. He was coming close to his edge, he was going to-

Giotto woke with a start. 'Shit. What did I just dream?' He looked over to see Tsuna asleep on his couch. Tsuna had turned onto her side, facing Giotto, but unlike his dream she was a comfortable distance away. She was also holding his hand, but she hadn't pulled it into her chest. 'I feel like a sick old man,' Giotto thought. He left the room quickly as his dream had created a little bit of a 'problem'. He decided to take a cold shower.

As Giotto left the room Tsuna began to dream. More of, she began to relive a memory…

Tsuna was running down a hallway. With her was Gokudera and ten-year-older Yamamoto. Tsuna recognized that this was a memory of her experience in the future. They exited the hallway out into an abandoned district of storage buildings. Suddenly an explosion went off. Tsuna was knocked through a window and into one of the storage houses. Yamamoto and Gokudera went flying the opposite direction.

Tsuna looked around and got up. Tsuna knew that if she took the pathway in front of her then she would end up finding Giotto, G and Asari fighting. She would end up getting in their way and cause their death. She told her body to go the other way, but it moved on its own. Her body was on automatic. She had no control, no choice but to go through this memory the way she had before. It felt like she strapped down and forced to watch.

Tsuna kept running forward, turning whenever she came to a dead end. Finally she reached an exit and walked outside. Almost immediately she was under attack. Tsuna dodged, at the same time she pulled out her gloves and dying will pills. Now in hyper dying will mode she attacked back. She managed to take down a number of enemies, but she knew these were just small fry. The wall next to her was blown apart as a neighboring battle merged with her own.

Three familiar heads came into view as the fight went on. The one with golden hair was about to get hit from behind. Tsuna used her gloves and propelled herself forward and blocked the attack.

"Tsuna!" The ten-year-older version of Giotto called out in surprise.

"What! You're so young!" The older G said suddenly while dodging a blow.

"Get out of here little one," Alaude said calmly as he punched on oncoming enemy.

The enemy shouted their complaints about how they were being ignored and pulled out their box weapons. Flying disks went after Tsuna, and even though she dodged they kept chasing her.

"Homing weapons huh?" Tsuna said emotionlessly. She faced the weapons and held up her hands, "Zero Point Breakthrough First Edition."

"Tsuna look out!" Giotto shouted. But to his relief and shock, Tsuna froze the disks. She raced forward and was about to punch the one who sent the disks after her from behind, but he lit his ring and opened another box. This box weapon caught Tsuna by surprise. A bunch of spikes came out and one stabbed her through her left shoulder. The spikes retracted and Tsuna fell to the ground.

"Tsuna!" The three older males called out. They raced forward to protect the fallen girl. Tsuna tried to get up, but only managed to roll onto her stomach. While the three were engaged in combat an enemy opened his box weapon, a lightning spear, and threw it at Tsuna. The three males were locked in battle and Tsuna couldn't move. Right before the spear hit Tsuna, Alaude broke away from his fight and took the blow.

Shock spread over Tsuna's face as she saw the blood spurt from the wound. A couple drops landed on Tsuna's face. The enemy recalled his weapon and Alaude fell backwards onto the ground. G rushed forward to take care of the enemy who had injured Alaude.

Meanwhile Tsuna reached forward and touched Alaude's face. "Alaude-nii…no….no! Please don't die. Why did you do that? Why did you have to get hurt Alaude-nii? I don't want you to go…please." Tsuna was in shock at the sight of her older brother hurt so badly. Tears were streaming down her face.

Alaude gave her his usual small smile and gently cupped the side of Tsuna's face. "Be safe little one." He closed his eyes.

Tsuna looked up and saw G and Giotto still fighting. There were so many enemies. Tsuna saw an enemy charge to attack Giotto from behind. "Giotto look out behind you!" Tsuna shouted.

But it was too late. He wasn't going to turn in time. Blood splattered and dripped from the storm scythe. G had taken the blow instead.

"Noooooo!" Tsuna screamed. G fell nearby Tsuna as well. "G-nii! Not you too! Not you too! Please no! God no! Please someone help! I don't want this! I don't want this!" Tsuna begged and sobbed. She reached for G as well, but she wasn't close enough.

Like Alaude, G smiled. He reached forward and high fived her. "Keep going and good luck chibi!" G, too, closed his eyes.

Tsuna screamed with all her might. Her heart and mind in agony. But she didn't have time to think, as she was pulled up from behind and a blade was pressed against her throat. As Tsuna was held hostage, she watched as Giotto was forced to stop fighting. She yelled and screamed for him to keep fighting or to get away, but Giotto just smiled and told her he promised to protect her. One of the few remaining enemies took out a gun and shot Giotto several times.

Tsuna's mind was racing. 'There's still time. I have to protect them! I have to do something,'"I'll protect them!" Tsuna shouted. The Vongola ring, which was hanging on a chain around her neck, lit up with a pure orange sky flame. The enemy was in shock at Tsuna's strength and just as they realized that she was like the tenth Vongola boss, who was supposed to be dead, they were defeated.

Tsuna landed back by the three older males. She lifted Giotto's head onto her lap and looked at him. "Gio-nii is going to alright, right? Please…please don't leave me too Gio-nii. I need you."

Giotto reached up and stroked Tsuna's face. He was barely managing to breathe. "Even if I'm not here, I'll always be looking over you," he said softly then smiled, "Don't worry too much. It's not your fault." With one last breath, Giotto closed his eyes and died smiling gently.

Tsuna was alone. No one was coming to help them. She sobbed and muttered the trio's names over and over. But she couldn't maintain consciousness much longer, the pain from her all wounds were clouding her vision and she collapsed next to the three…

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Giotto came back from his shower with his hair still a little damp. As he was walking down the hall back to the living room, where he had left Tsuna, he heard whimpering and crying. He ran back to the other room.

Tsuna was curled up on her side and clutching her head. She was still asleep, but she was sobbing uncontrollably. "Please! Please don't leave me," She whimpered, "Don't leave me. Don't leave me. Don't leave me!"

Giotto knelt by her and stroked her hair trying to calm her down.

"It's all my fault. It's all my fault! It's not fair! I'm sorry! I'm so, so sorry! Please don't go." Tsuna tightened her grip.

"Tsuna! Wake up! It's ok, just wake up!" Giotto shook Tsuna by the shoulder trying to wake her.

Tsuna finally opened her eyes blearily. She took one look at Giotto and hugged him. She sobbed into his shoulder for what seemed like hours. Tsuna kept apologizing over and over. Even when Giotto told her it was alright she kept apologizing.

When Tsuna finally calmed down, she looked around the room realizing it was neither the forest nor her house.

"Ano…Gio-nii, where are we? Where are G-nii and Alaude-nii?" Tsuna asked trying not to look too worried.

'She must have dreamed about us dying in the future. So what Hayato-kun and the rest said was true.' Giotto thought. He patted Tsuna's head and smiled. "We are at my house, if you want I can call G and Alaude, and we can meet up at Asari's place for dinner."

"Huh? What time is it?" Tsuna was extremely confused. She remembered fighting in the forest and seeing those horrible visions… 'Oh…I must have fainted…' Tsuna thought embarrassed. But she still felt uneasy. She needed to see her older brothers to make sure that they were ok. "That would be great! Let's have dinner together!" Tsuna smile, though it was half fake. The smile was more to reassure herself rather than Giotto. "Ah! But I should go tell my mom first."

"That's ok, your mom is helping a friend out for a couple days and she asked me to look after you." Giotto informed her as he texted everyone to meet him at Asari's father's restaurant.

When they reached the restaurant Tsuna was greeted by a very worried group of guys. She did her best to reassure them, thought it was in vain because as soon as G and Alaude walked in Tsuna turned into an emotional wreck and clung to the two of them in turn as if her life depended on it.

After finally managing to calm her down and convince her that they were alright, the group was able to have an enjoyable dinner. Gokudera yelled at just about everyone. Alaude and Kyoya sat in a corner as far away from the group as possible. Asari and Yamamoto laughed cheerfully at everything. And Giotto and Tsuna smiled at them all. It was a good night all the way to the end.

Not.

As the group was getting ready to leave Reborn suddenly spoke up. "If the Cielo per Sempre famiglia is willing to become allies with the tenth generation Vongola famiglia then as a representative of the ninth I invite you to Tsuna's inheritance ceremony." Reborn held up and invitation.

"Hiiiiiiiiiee!" Tsuna squealed and dove for the envelope, "No Reborn! I said I didn't want to!"

Reborn dodged and smirked at Tsuna's futile efforts.

"Arg! Reborn! I said I don't want to be a mafia boss," Tsuna whined.

"Juudaime!" Gokudera stepped forward and bowed, "I am extremely honored to be your right hand man as you become the boss for the prestigious Vongola family!"

"Gokudera you aren't helping," metaphorical streams of tears fell from her eyes.

Giotto and his guardians were still a little weary of the Vongola famiglia, but they trusted Tsuna and their younger siblings.

"I'll gladly go and support Tsu-chan in whatever she does," Giotto said reaching for the envelope.

"Aaaaaah! Why me?" Tsuna yelled in frustration.

The group laughed at Tsuna's reaction and teased her and their families a little before finally parting ways for the night.


Lily: So that's the end of another chapter

Shiro: See you soon, now get out

Lily: Hold it! I want to ask the opinions of some of the readers about titles for my upcoming stories!

Shiro: Fine then get on with it

Lily: Weeeellll here are the titles for three stories coming up. Please let me know what you think of them!

- Angel or Demon

- See You Again

- Deja vu Love

Shiro: Shouldn't you give a summary with those?

Lily: Right now I just want to know if those are good titles. Interesting titles are what catches the eyes first, then the summary. So please let me know!

Shiro: Over and out.