A/N: Arg! It's been too long! Sorry :'( I've had a lot of this written out for a long time but I couldn't decide how to finish it off. Then I had: drivers ed, opening and closing night of my school musical, my birthday, a national fair, and a really big time consuming project for Spanish. Thankfully schools almost over for me and then I'll have absolutely nothing to do but write all day.
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Tsuna returned home after hanging around the park for a while longer. By the growling of his persistent stomach, he could tell he was getting hungry. When he walks through the door, he could hear shouting voices from the kitchen. He sighs but continues on, not waiting for a headache to start before going in. He sits down at the table after grabbing a plate full of spaghetti, ignoring the cow sitting in a place at the head of the table where someone else who's never around is supposed to be. Tsuna's own seat used to be next to Ieyasu, but long ago it changed to across from Ieyasu. Now Reborn sits next to him. The empty chair was left just that –empty. The twins both hated the man but they left the chair for him anyway. It was a silent agreement (especially since Tsuna didn't talk). To see Lambo in the seat, it surprised him to feel a relief wash through him instead of pain. It was calming and he felt something lift off his shoulders, a giant weight that used to be there.
Nana's familiar cheery tone cuts through his thought process, "I'm going to deliver some bulletins to our neighbors, so be good!" He briefly glances up to see her leave. He goes back to his food before noticing the awkward atmosphere. He spares a look back up to see Ieyasu staring at Reborn with more contempt than usual and he looks dangerously close to his breaking point. Which is why Tsuna moves to stand up to leave, wishing to avoid any outbursts. He gets halfway out the chair…
Just to be snapped right back down. Surprised, but refusing to show it, Tsuna breathes in and tries to lift his leg carefully. He discovers there's glue holding him to the poor wooden chair and there's only a few possibilities of how this could've happened. All of them include Reborn, who sits with a too innocent of a look next to him, pretending not to notice the thickening air.
"Reborn! Don't ignore me!" Ieyasu cries out, as if he had been talking to him. Neither Reborn nor Tsuna pay him any heed as the air swirls with something dangerous as both stab a fork in their soggy spaghetti. "Rebooooorn!" He whines as Lambo curls his lips in an attempt to appear subtle, obviously making Ieyasu even more uncomfortable.
They all saw the next few events slowly as Lambo makes the first move and makes his knife fly at Reborn with a flick of his wrist. The fork heads in Reborn and Tsuna's direction, making them both alert as Tsuna can't dodge squat while glued to a chair. He squeezes his eyes shut and wills himself backwards as Reborn sticks his fork a little further out and barely catches himself from falling forward as the knife bounces back at Lambo. Ieyasu, the wide eyed spectator, groans and smacks his forehead, choosing to then bang his head on the table. Lambo sits aghast at the table with tears as blood begins to trickle down his forehead. The knife had ended up imbedded in the center of Lambo's forehead without mercy. Tsuna lays sprawled out on the floor, still glued to his chair, having fallen ungracefully backwards when trying to dodge the object. Reborn attempts to go back to his meal but finds himself troubled as Lambo turns around and suspiciously digs through his large mane.
"What's he doing while crying?" Ieyasu questions when he brings his head up. Lambo pulls out a huge bazooka from his afro and points it towards his head as his small body is racked with sobs. Ieyasu reaches out to stop him, his heart beginning to beat hard against his chest, "Wait! Why are trying to shoot yourself?!"
Lambo ignores him and pulls the trigger causing a contained explosion. Ieyasu stares stunned at the smoke rising from it, fearing the worst, and looks at Reborn disbelievingly when he just continues to eat. The smoke clears and a deeper voice than the small boy's usual annoying one rises from it. The smoke clears to reveal a mature teen with one eye closed. Ieyasu goes to scream before spotting the all-too-familiar cow print hidden under a dark blazer.
"Hmm…" The mysterious person sighs obnoxiously, "Looks like I was brought back ten years with the ten year bazooka…" He trails off and scans the room. He spots Ieyasu and Reborn sitting quietly and gives them an odd look before it flashes into a more relaxed one. "Long time no see," He offers with a smile. He leans toward Ieyasu to inspect him, "I'm cry baby Lambo."
"No way!" Ieyasu shouts in shock. After Lambo explains a short version of what happened and calms him down, he smirks with confidence. He turns to Reborn, "Hey, Reborn, I changed, didn't I?" He goes on without waiting for an answer, "I'm the one you kept ignoring, Lambo."
Reborn continues to chew in serenity, as if a new person hadn't even come into the mix. Lambo twitches and tries to keep it together before pulling out a familiar set of horns and slaps them on his head in a cool fashion while shouting, "Geez, looks like I'll just have to show you how much I've changed! Thunder set!"
A bright crackle of electricity shoots through the room towards Lambo as he mumbles on, "My horns are one million volts!" He pauses briefly, "Die, Reborn! Elettrico Cornata*!" Lambo screams with overpowering rage.
Tsuna shudders from the floor as the electricity picks up and raises the hairs on his arms on their ends. The heat radiating off the glowing horns multiples and licks hungrily at any exposed skin. Ieyasu flinches as it becomes more and more unbearable to the point of stumbling backwards as Lambo barrels to the stoic Reborn, who whips out a green mirror just in time for the approaching bolts. The room's temperature drops several degrees as Lambo is sent backwards by the reflected rays and into the wall.
The silence is an ominous calm that's instantly broken by a recovered Lambo who looks ready to dash away, the tears brimming in his eyes visible, "T-tolerate…" He whimpers pathetically beforehand. He can't.
"Did he even change?" Ieyasu questions to no one in particular. The cow teen was long gone and dust was left in his wake. No. No, he really didn't.
A surprised gasp causes guilt to sink in as the scene in the kitchen was definitely not foreseeable to Nana, who walks in with overwhelming wonder. "Ieyasu! Tsuna!" She barks with a disappointed tone laced tight in her voice. The boys' heads snap to attention as she frowns at them. She herds a crying Lambo from behind her legs and gestures to him and then the messed up kitchen, "I thought I said behave!"
Ieyasu manages a nervous smile that is immediately shot down by a disapproving Nana. She notices Ieyasu eying Lambo closely and ushers him forward, "I found Lambo crying on my way back. He said he just wanted to be Reborn-kun's friend." Her eyes shoot around the room, surveying the damage and barely manages to not explode at the sight of her once beautiful kitchen. Ieyasu gets the message and leans down to Lambo, who sobers up and a glint in his eye is noticeable as he pulls out several deadly grenades that are thrown in Reborn's direction.
Not even flinching and in one swift motion, Reborn knocks them back at Lambo and takes the last bite of his spaghetti. With an empty plate, Reborn holds it up and calmly asks for seconds.
No one notices, however, preferring to stare at the now gaping hole in the side of the house. Tsuna sweats as he cranes his neck painfully to see Nana's jaw drop and hit the floor and Ieyasu not looking much better.
~~Reborn!~~
After the incident, and being sentenced to a whole lot of cleaning after being peeled off the horrid chair, Tsuna collapses onto his bed. He was so ready to just pass out for a few days and ignore Reborn.
Unfortunately, he never got the chance as his ears picked up a curious and soft noise. It tugged at his heart strings as he made the connection and he quickly takes off.
~~27Reborn27~~
He races down the hall as fast as his tiny feet will take him. The voice had immediately sent his hitman instincts wild and while he had this feeling in his gut that he already knew the answer, he couldn't stop himself. He skids to a stop and makes a clean cut to the door so it swings open with a loud thud. He readies his gun and approaches steadily before catching sight of a moving shadow in the corner. He turns toward it quickly and steadies his breathing to get a good shot…
When the lights switch on and he sees it is only Lambo sleeping soundly, unaware of his almost untimely demise. He sneers and glances up to see Ieyasu giving him a weird look. He opens his mouth and his mind races about how he should approach the current situation. Ieyasu seemingly decides, "What…what are you doing?" Reborn snarls and grunts once as Leon transforms back into his usual form. He tugs on his fedora to shade his expression but Ieyasu seems to understand the body language. "Lambo will be staying with us. This is his new room. Kaa-san prepared it earlier." He hesitates before continuing, "The only reason you didn't know is because you love to ignore him..."
Reborn shoves his way into the hallway and plans to goes to his hemic to pretend to fall asleep. He just barely manages to acknowledge the open window and a soft wind blowing in against the curtains as the young cow snoozes.
The following day he would begin to pay silent attention to Lambo. He couldn't be the world's best hitman if he slacked in observance. Even if he did despise the cow. That's why he noticed Lambo would soon come to sleep in Tsuna's room instead of his own.
Tsuna had no sooner sat down on the plush cot to have a cow attach itself to him with the speed that would make jaguar cry. Apparently the young boy still wasn't over what had happened earlier. Tsuna could practically see the weight of loneliness, disappointment, and being ignored crushing the already tiny boy into bite sized pieces. The amount he carried was visible to Tsuna, he could see the tons of it pushing on his back and keeping him in pain.
So, he stroked the cow's afro and flopped backwards, so that Lambo's face was buried in the soft fabric of Tsuna's pajamas. He wasn't even sure if the cow was coherent enough to recognize who was holding him so tightly, but found he didn't care. A wet patch was growing where his eyes were buried and his ugly sobbing took up the entire room.
With a soft and tender voice, Tsuna sang low and closed his eyes as the hands with a vice grip on his shirt loosened and the tears begin to stop falling. The tiny body stopped shaking as violently and soon he was lulled into sleep.
I'm looking for a place to start
but everything feels so different now.
Just grab a hold of my hand,
I will lead you through this wonderland.
Water up to my knees
but sharks are swimming in the sea.
Just follow my yellow light
and ignore all those big warning signs.
Somewhere deep in the dark
a howling beast hears us talk.
I dare you to close your eyes
and see all the colors in disguise.
Running into the night,
the earth is shaking and I see a light.
The light is blinding my eyes
as the soft walls eat us alive.
Tsuna cuts off as he hears soft snoring and a warm smile lights up his face as he sees the sleeping face.
*Electric horns
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