Reborn's face grew blank as he watched the ammo for the ten year bazooka escape Futa's grasps and hit the teen who had been throwing cards at a tree. The teen's eyes quickly went over the situation, but he couldn't react the ammo, and was hit, smoke filling the clearing. Reborn jumped out of his perch on a tree branch to his student's head.
"R-reborn! What should we do?!" his stupid student screeched, panicked, "That guy was hit by the ten year bazooka's ammo!"
Lambo and I-Pin burst into the clearing, confused as to what happened to the "ball" and began to ask Futa about it. Futa started to scold the two toddlers, though I-Pin was the only one really listening.
Reborn hit his student on the head with the Leon ten ton hammer, "I know that Dame-Tsuna, shut up for a second!" he scolded as Tsuna writhed in pain on the ground, trying to think about what would happen, his eyes narrowed at the pink smoke.
"Itai! Reborn!" he squealed.
The shadow in the smoke immediately went forward, holding a hand out to his brunet student, "Are you okay?" the voice of the shadow asked calmly.
Tsuna's eyes widened, the smoke clearing to reveal a rather good looking ash brown haired man, "U-uh yes!" Tsuna hastily responded, letting the man help him up.
Reborn turned his head, hearing Gokudera and Yamamoto rushing towards their beloved boss, but Reborn also noticed the way the man noticed them approaching as well.
He chuckled softly, "Seems like your friends are concerned about you." he mused.
And as if on cue, Yamamoto and Gokudera burst through the trees, "Ahoshi! How dare you cause trouble for Juudaime!" Gokudera growled, grabbing at the cow child.
Yamamoto held him back, "Maa, maa, calm down. I'm sure it was an accident." he tried to calm Gokudera down.
Gokudera grew angry and started to threaten Yamamoto, Tsuna trying to break them up.
But Reborn never took his eyes off the man who appeared. If the man noticed Reborn staring, he didn't show it, only watching with a hint of melancholy in his eyes.
The man looked at the display and smiled, clapping his hands, "Alright, everyone calm down!" he said, gathering everyone's attention, "It's almost time for me to go, so I just thought, maybe I deserved a goodbye."
It was eerily silent as the man looked around, "No?" he asked sounding a bit hurt, "A well, it's too late, anyways. Bye bye," he said, waving his hand, and the smoke immediately engulfing him.
And what took his place, was the teen from before, but his eyes were sunken in, like veterans traumatized from war. Reborn recognized it more in the innocents he had seen traumatized by the underground.
The teen looked around blankly, nothing seeming to be on his mind.
He turned to walk off, yet his foolish student called out to him, only to shrink back once he saw his face.
Reborn took that moment to stand in his path.
"How annoying." the teen muttered, as if he had a bug in his path, and walked past Reborn, ignoring the yells from Gokudera and Lambo.
Reborn couldn't help but wonder who the teen really was.