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Before you start reading, I'd like to get something out of my system and it may pertain to you. While I'm glad that all of you enjoy this story, I do not need any of you to constantly PM me to ask when I'll be updating! I won't say who you are, but knock it off! I have a broken hand and a job, not to mention the other things that happen outside the computer! I don't spend every second of my life here, so I would appreciate you not harassing me every other day. It's a little difficult as it is and you are only killing my motivation to write. I like admirers. But I don't need someone breathing over my shoulder every second in between. That's when it moves into the area of harassment.

Deep breath.

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ALSO! This is now officially mainly a RebornxTsuna pairing with a little GiottoxTsuna on the side.

I hope you guys enjoy this chapter and understand why it's been taking me longer.

Chapter 21 Outshining the Sun

A little flip and his new head accessory was set in place. After making sure his suit was immaculate (like it ever wasn't), and his fedora was tilted a little so that he appeared more suave and dangerous, he turned toward his brunette companion, who had wondered in a few hours earlier with the excuse that she was just there to cook him breakfast. However, he knew better. He always knew better. "You ready for this?"

The girl took a deep breath before nodding. "Yeah."

The two then exited the comforting walls of the former's dorm room and walked down the hallway, heading toward one of the student council members' personal meeting room. When they started to near the office buildings, the shorter of the two suddenly reached out and grabbed the older teen's arm. Reborn looked down with a slightly raised brow, causing the brunette to realize what she had done. Her grip slackened, but she didn't let go completely.

"Ah. Sorry, I just…Sorry…" Tsuna stared down at her toes, unable to bring herself to look at the other and show any more weakness on her part.

Reborn merely looked on ahead once again and kept his pace casual.

Tsuna smiled slightly and tightened her grip once more. "Thanks…"

They continued their walk, finally coming to a stop in front of an innocent pair of wooden doors. The last and final barrier between the brunette and her companions of the past. Yelling and several crashes were easily distinguished as the occupants continued their everyday arguments. The duo just stood in front of the entrance, listening to the chaos within and allowing the small girl to gather up the last bits of her courage.

"Well, let's get on with it." Reborn then turned the handles and pushed open the door.

All at once, the noise stopped and everyone froze, staring at the newcomers.

"Erm…Hi…" Tsuna raised a hand in an awkward wave.

"Hime-sama!" Gokudera shouted out excitedly, dropping Lambo and taking a step towards the girl, though halting in his tracks immediately when she flinched a little.

"Hime-sama?" Reborn mouthed with a slightly raised eyebrow.

Tsuna shrugged in response, her eyes straying toward the floor.

"Nufufufu. It's been a long time, Tsunayoshi." Mukuro smirked as per usual, but Tsuna could tell that he was concerned and careful not to do anything that would upset her.

"A-Ano…" Chrome stuttered. "It's good to see you again, boss…"

"Uh…yeah…you too…" The brunette didn't seem to be able to remember her proper speech functions anymore and it was clear that she was struggling.

"Ahaha! You got a new hairstyle!" Yamamoto said cheerfully, hoping to wash away a bit of his friend's stress. "You look really cute like that."

Tsuna blushed a little, but didn't look up or relax her stance. "I…er…th-thanks…"

Reborn sighed and shook her head. "I knew you were useless, but you're being so dame, dame, dame-Tsuna. What a cumbersome person. I can't believe these people were actually willing to put up with a dame, dame girl. Honestly dame-Tsuna, anything that made you more of an equal is fading from such a dame performance."

"Hey you bastard! How dare you-" Gokudera started off shouting, but was pulled back and hushed by the others who were staring intently at the brunette girl, who's bangs had cast a dark shadow over her eyes, her hands balled into fists and shaking.

"Dammit you bastard! Quite adding dame to my name and everything else used to describe me you conceited, egotistical, vain asshole of a hitman!" Tsuna shouted angrily and tried to kick the other.

Reborn blocked her move easily with a smirk. "Then stop being no-good. Even a child would have had a more developed speech augmentation just now compared to you."

"Shut up!" Tsuna blushed and aimed another set of maneuvers toward the irksome teen. "I haven't seen them in forever, what am I supposed to say! Hi there, I know I've avoided all of you and acted like some bat-shit crazy broad from hell, but I hope you can forgive me since it was all due to all that other crap that happened when we were kids!"

Reborn dodged and blocked, still smirking. "That sounds good."

"What type of an apology is that you asshole! They deserve way better than that!" Tsuna raged, completely forgetting everyone else in the room in her desire to beat up the raven both verbally and physically. "They're the best family and friends that anyone could ever wish for and I had to ruin everything because I was too weak to disassociate the bullies from the rest of them! How would you of all people be able to understand how difficult it is to tell them that you really cared the whole time, but when you thought you could ignore the stupid bullies' words, then you had to get your hands stained in the worst sort of way! How can I possibly allow myself to stain them with everything that I've done!

Hell! How am I even supposed to bring it up? You and the other Arcobaleno have known each other and everything that you could have possibly done since you were born! They weren't exactly there when it happened and then the freaking doctor had to go and threaten to put me on depression medication since he thought I went psycho and my parents fucking agreed with him! I don't want people to hate me and call me a monster! So how do you suggest I was supposed to ever bring it up after that? ERG! You make me so mad sometimes!"

The brunette came to a stop, panting and glaring at Reborn, who seemed oddly and irritatingly pleased about something. "Congratulations Baka-Tsuna, you just did."

The sky guardian blinked in confusion. "Did? Did what?" Suddenly the reason she came to that room in the first place came rushing back to her and the girl's body froze up. Very slowly she looked around to see that, yes, the room was still occupied with all of her past and present friends, and no, they did not happen to have gone temporarily deaf and blind while she ranted and raved loudly, trying to beat up the world's number one hitman. Her eye twitched vigorously and she slapped a hand over her face and swore.

"Tsu-chan?" Giotto called out in shock. Never once in all the years that he knew the girl, did he ever see her try to fight someone or actually swear.

"If I can't see them, then maybe they can't see me," Tsuna muttered, refusing to remove her hand from over her eyes.

Reborn nearly snorted. "That's why you're so dame, Baka-Tsuna."

"That's it," the brunette growled, glancing up a little so that she could glare at the hitman. "I didn't want to resort to this, but you've left me with no other choice…"

The raven cocked an eyebrow at the girl. "Oh? And what would that be?"

Tsuna curled her hands into fists and took a deep breath. "Luuuuuuuuucee!" She yelled at the top of her lungs and sprinted out of the room.

"Merda!" Reborn followed suit, chasing after the girl to stop her before she reached the sky Arcobaleno and tattled.

…

"We were completely forgotten, weren't we?" Lampo mused allowed.

….

G heaved a sigh. "Come on. We better go after them."

The Arcobaleno present in the meeting room looked up curiously when they heard shouting heading toward them and burst through the doorway. They immediately recognized Tsuna, but were surprised to see her run over and cling to their sky, crying no less. Then again, when Reborn came into the room right after they were able to piece together what probably happened.

"What's wrong dear?" Luce asked the poor thing.

"R-Reborn came with me to help me meet my old friends because he s-said he wanted to h-help, b-but he tricked me into some-something really m-mean and n-now ev-everyone's going to h-hate me-e-e-e!" The brunette told the older girl, big crocodile tears pouring down her cheeks, though the others didn't seem to be able to tell the difference. Tsuna cackled evilly in the back of her head. This would teach the hitman not to mess with her precious ones. She sent a smirk toward the hitman, knowing that he was the only one who could see it. The hitman glared.

"Reborn!" Luce snapped. "How could you mess with Tsuna-chan's chance to make up with her family? Have you no shame."

The raven turned away pointedly. "You shouldn't make assumptions without knowing the full story, Luce."

Tsuna whimpered and sniffed pitifully, rubbing her fists on the corner of her eyes like a little child would.

Luce placed her hands on her hips and narrowed her eyes at the other teen. "I don't need to know everything to know that you've upset Tsuna-chan greatly."

"Dame-Tsuna's conning you," Reborn growled, narrowing his eyes at the offending girl to let her know that if she didn't knock it off and tell Luce the truth, then she would be in for hell later.

A shiver of fear went through the small brunette, but she managed to keep her act going, only dropping it when the hitman was dragged out of the room by an angry sky Arcobaleno. She chuckled sinisterly when she was sure those two were out of earshot, causing the other Arcobaleno to sweat drop and Skull to cower in newfound fear of the girl.

"Kufufufu. Tsunayoshi-chan has become even more interesting while we were away it seems."

"Ack!" The brunette froze and slowly turned around to see that her old friends had followed her.

"And who are all of you, kora!" Colonello called out, only to get slapped on the back of his head by Lal.

"You idiot. They're the Student Councils' siblings who visited a short while ago." The bluenette griped.

Fon's eyes narrowed a little toward the group. "I hope you aren't trying to corner Tsuna-san against her will again."

Recognizing the dangerous undertone the storm Arcobaleno was using as well as the way several of her old friends bristled at the words, Tsuna stepped forward hastily. "Ah! No, no Fon-san! This time I was the one who requested for them to visit. I decided I didn't want my past fears to affect me anymore and I really wanted to see all of them again. Reborn just…"

"Ah, I see now." Fon eased into a gentle smile and patted the top of the girl's head, nearly chuckling when she flushed from embarrassment. "I'm glad you're getting better."

Gokudera was finally unable to take it anymore and stepped forward, glaring at the other storm. "How dare you touch Hime-sama so casually! Get your hands off her!"

"Gokudera-kun! It's okay!" Tsuna said quickly. "Fon-san is a friend and my senpai! He and the others have been helping me a lot!"

"If Hime-sama says so," the silver haired boy muttered reluctantly and back down.

The brunette sighed in relief, a hand over her heart.

Yamamoto laughed. "This is just like old times, huh!"

"This is an EXTREME reunion!" Ryohei shouted out, his sister giggling at his antics.

"Tch, you're just lucky that you even know that word," Gokudera growled.

"Kufufufu, it seems that our band of misfits has finally filled their gap. Too bad the majority is a bunch of fools," Mukuro said with a genuine smirked.

"Mukuro-sama," Chrome muttered in a slightly reprimanding tone, but she smiled shyly for the other girl.

The youngest child finally had enough of sitting around quietly and wiggled in his older brother's grasp, trying to escape. "Lambo-san wants candy now! Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!"

"Get your brat of a brother to shut up," G growled.

"Crowding with herbivores," Hibari grumbled, tempted to just ditch the group now that he was finally able to clear his conscious.

"Hn." Alaude seemed to agree with his younger counterpart's opinion.

"Nufufufu, what a rowdy bunch. You would think that all of you would have grown up even a little, but you seem to have maintained your childish attitude," Daemon sneered.

Knuckles chuckled. "But that youth is invigorating now and then. It's not like they should all grow up at once."

Asari just laughed.

Lampo sighed. "No one seems to remember how scary Tsuna was acting earlier and instead have turned back into the idiots you all were to begin with." The green haired teen cowered a second later when several glares and killing intent were directed his way.

Giotto heaved a heavy sigh. "Way to ruin the moment everyone. And here I thought you would all actually be serious this time."

"Only an idiot would think that," G teased his old friend.

"Stop reprimanding Primo, Pinky!" Gokudera shouted.

"Now, now," both Yamamoto and his brother said simultaneously.

"Yes! You should be EXTREMELY happy that my other little sister is together will all of us again!" Ryohei shouted.

"Un!" Kyoko added. "It's great that we can all be friends again!"

"You see!" Ryohei said loudly.

"Loud herbivore, be silent or I shall bite you to death," Hibari growled.

"Yeah! Stop trying to blow our ears out!" Gokudera yelled.

But everyone came to a stop when they heard the tinkling sound of laughter and turned to see Tsuna smiling and giggling at them. It was like a fresh breath of wind in a musty room and everyone couldn't seem to be able to get enough of it, causing them to all smile as well.

Tsuna smiled brightly at the group with a tilt of her head and her hands laced together loosely behind her back. "Thank you everyone."

She turned around and smiled at Reborn, who had re-entered the room with Luce in time to see the girl laugh, in thanks. To see such a bright and pure light return to the girl and have it directed toward him, after such a long period of living in his dark world, was absolutely breathtaking.

To think, that she was capable of outshining even the sun.

Cute ending, no?

HOLD IT! Before you review, I wish to tell you that last chapter was not the end of Byakuran! So please don't ask. He'll be back next chapter, but this was just a moment of happiness in between...That was a teaser wasn't it?...oop! ;p

~Reviews are lovely!