Written April 12 2016
Edited January 11 2020
"I guess that you're not Pervert-Tsuna after all"
The hitman replied with a dark smirk, the brunette blushed in embarrassment.
"Of course not!"
The honey eyed brunette squeaked.
'It's a good thing, I won't tolerate any of my students becoming perverts'
The brunette suddenly began to cough harshly, the teen cupped his hands over his mouth to attempt to muffle the noise.
"Oi Tsuna, you okay?"
The hitman inquired with faint traces of worry, the brunette silently shook his head as he continued to cough, it was beginning to now sound like pained gasps half of the time.
'Usually he only coughs a little bit at a time? Is his condition worsening?...'
The teen quickly ran towards the bathroom and closed the door, locking the hitman out.
"Oi Tsuna, let me in"
'I need to check on his throat to make sure that it isn't over strained...'
"Don't bother Reborn, Dame-Tsuna doesn't like people seeing his attacks"
'So the Baka-student has come out of his room'
The hitman turned towards Ie who looked like he had been up for a while, which of course the hitman was already aware of the fact that the teen had woken up long ago.
"Attacks?"
Ie nodded with a bored expression plastered on his face.
"Yup, we call them that because Dame-Tsuna sometimes has harsh coughing fits at random times"
'This isn't good... If he has an attack during a fight he could be in trouble... Shamal needs to hurry up in arriving'
The hitman nodded in response as the brunette left back towards his room.
'Did he get up just to tell me that?'
"Dame-Tsuna is so loud and annoying..."
Ie whined before closing his door.
Reborn waited patiently on the other side of the bathroom door, listening to the teen's coughs.
'I can't barge in like my normal self, I've got to respect his space or else he might stop talking around me'
His inner flame jolted at the pained whine that came at the end of the brunette's coughing fit, he heard the sound of something slumping to the ground.
"Tsuna?"
He heard a tap on the door in response, the hitman frowned at this.
'His throat is most likely too sore to talk'
"Can I come in?"
The sound of the door unlocking prompted the hitman to enter the bathroom, the brunette was sitting in a corner with his legs tucked up to his chest, he noted the tired look within honey eyes.
'The attack took a lot out of him'
"You okay?"
'Being a kind tutor is tough... It was much easier dealing with my last student...'
"Yeah, sorry, usually disappear before attack... Didn't notice, before too late"
The brunette's voice was scratchy as he spoke in incomplete sentences, the hitman was fine with this because he knew that the teen was at least trying.
'I told him to stay earlier, I probably wouldn't have known about the attacks if I hadn't seen them'
"I see, so the attacks happen often?"
The teen nodded in response, a look of loneliness flashed through honey eyes for a moment, confusing the hitman.
"Yeah often enough, but usually hide away first"
Tsuna whispered softly, the hitman hopped onto the brunette's knee and placed a hand on the boy's neck.
"I'll try to heal it like that one time your brother attacked"
Reborn waited for the hesitant nod before allowing sun flames to coat his hand, he allowed his flame to mingle with the harmony aura exuding off of the brunette for a few moments before setting to work on the brunette.
'It's working again... But why didn't he feel pain that one time?... Do sun flames only have a fifty-fifty chance of working on him? Or is there another factor that I'm missing?'
Tsuna let out a soft contented sigh when the hitman pulled away his flame coated hand.
"Thanks, my throat feels much better now"
Tsuna stated softly with a small smile, the hitman lowered his fedora and nodded.
"It's fine, and don't worry, that Doctor I called should be arriving soon"
'Actually he should have already arrived... He probably got distracted by some girls like an idiot...'
Hope glimmered within honey eyes as the brunette nodded.
When everyone finished the breakfast of pancakes, courtesy of Nana, Reborn herded his two students towards the door.
"I don't want to walk together with Dame-Tsuna!"
Ie growled, Tsuna grimaced in response to his brother's anger.
"Baka-Ie behave!"
Reborn scolded as he hit the teen on the head with a Leon mallet.
Honey eyes blinked in surprise when they exited the front door.
"Tsuna-sama!"
"Yo Tsuna!"
Hayato and Takeshi were standing at the front gate.
"What the hell are you guys doing here?!"
Ie snarled, not liking that they said 'Tsuna' instead of 'Ie'.
"I'm here to walk Tsuna-Sama to school you idiot copy!"
The bomber growled as he pulled out some dynamite.
"Now now Gokudera, be nice"
Takeshi laughed as he slung an arm over the bomber's shoulder.
"Baseball idiot, you have no right to touch me or associate yourself with Tsuna-sama!"
Hayato growled as he shook off the arm.
"Wow the suicide boy and the temperamental octopus want to hang out with Dame-Tsuna"
Ie laughed, Takeshi's smile faded as he slung an arm over Tsuna.
"Tsuna is awesome! He is not dame"
Ie suppressed a shiver at the baseball fan's tone while the hitman smirked.
"The baseball freak is right! As much as it pains me to agree with him... Tsuna-Sama is much better than a copy like you"
Hayato retorted as he went to throw his dynamite, only to be stopped by the honey eyed boy.
A stern look was sent from the boy to the bomber and the silver haired teen reluctantly put them away.
"Get to school or you all will be late"
Reborn stated, the four boys looked towards the infant before running towards the school, however Ie was outrun by them by a wide margin.