KHR belongs to Amano Akira

~8~

Hide woke up. He was in his bed, in his room, and in his house. He jumped out of the bed and ran over to his window where he pulled open the curtains and heard birds singing softly in the morning sun.

"I'm..." he gulped, "home?"

He looked around his room and ran towards the mirror. It showed a blond-haired, spiky headed boy with wide caramel eyes and dressed in blue and white striped pajamas. This was Hide.

"Was it all a dream...?" he found himself asking, a thought occurred in his head and he searched under his bed. All that was there were a few hidden magazines and a toy ball that he had received from his grandfather when he was younger.

"Hide-kun! Breakfast is ready!" Hide heard his mother call to him from downstairs.

"Uh, okay mom!" he replied back and looked around his room doubtfully, unsure what to think now.

He got dressed in a t-shirt and jeans then went downstairs where his mother facing the sink to wash dishes. There two chairs at the dining table. A plate of pancakes awaited him on the table; they were so fresh that the aroma floated throughout the whole house. Hide sat down at the table cautiously and looked both ways before grabbing the plate protectively.

"What are you doing?" his mother gave him a strange look.

"Uh..." Hide realized what he did and said unsurely, "Making sure no one steals my food?"

"Why?"

He blinked and shrugged, "I-I don't know?"

"Well, do you want eggs to guard as well?" she asked, a plateful of scrambled eggs was in her hands.

"Sure," he nodded as the plate was set next to him; Hide stared at his pancakes thoughtfully and took a bite.

Don't eat the food! Spit it out!

He spat the pancakes out and looked up to see that his mother looked shocked.

"Why did you do that!" she asked.

"I don't know!" he yelped and then said weakly, "I don't think I...feel well..."

"Oh dear," she rushed over to him and put a hand on his head, "You aren't sick are you?"

The doorbell rang, "Come in!" his mother called, Hanabi, Suzuki, and Morita entered the kitchen.

"I was just in the neighborhood," said Hanabi cheerfully and then jerked her thumb with a disgusted look on her face and grumbled, "When these idiots followed me..."

"Hey Hide!"

"'Sup!"

"I brought watermelon," she resumed brightly, and then shot a cold glare at Suzuki and Morita, "But you guys can't have any!"

"Okay," Suzuki shrugged and swung an arm around Hide, "Hide, wanna play cards today?"

"Don't steal all of the attention, baseball-freak!" Hanabi barked.

"I'll leave you kid's alone then," said Hide's mother as she left to go off and do house chores.

"C'mon Hide, let's have some of the watermelon Hanabi-san bought!" urged Morita cheerfully.

"Shut up! You guys can't have any!" Hanabi then turned back to Hide and said with a sweet smile on her face, "Do you want some watermelon, Hide?"

Hide gave her a bizarre look, as he did when ever Hanabi acted strangely, and glanced down at the watermelon. It was very tempting...

Don't touch it!

"Who said that?" Hide asked and looked around the room.

"Said what?" all three asked in unison.

"Someone just said 'Don't touch it!'" he said and then shook his head doubtfully, "Probably just my imagination..." he then noticed something and asked, "Oh yeah, have any of you guys seen Adam?"

All three had a questioning look on their faces.

"Whose Adam?" asked Suzuki.

"Is he a friend of yours, Hide?" asked Morita, Hide raised an eyebrow questioningly.

"Adam," he said slowly in case saying the name would jog their memories, "Adam Grandhart. Tall, blonde hair, blue eyes, American, he has a twin sister, Anna-"

"Adam and Anna?" Suzuki interrupted and said skeptically, "And they're twins? And they're American?"

"Hide, we have no clue who you're talking about," said Morita with a concerned look on his face.

"Gokudera-san, you met him before!" Hide looked over to the girl with a pleading look, "He and his sister came out of the sky and said they were going to kill me-!"

"That's awful!" she gasped.

"-But then he made a bargain with them," the boy rambled on, "He made them protect me!"

"Who made them protect you?" asked Morita.

Hide went blank; he couldn't remember anything at all about the 'he' he was talking about.

"Uh..." he thought about it long and hard before saying cautiously, "it had something to do with birth..."

"What?"

"His name," he added quickly, "His name had something to with being born in a whole new person..."

"Reincarnation?" Hanabi suggested.

"No, but it's close," Hide said thoughtfully, "It's kinda like what happens when a phoenix does when ever it dies and comes back to life."

"Rebirth?" asked Suzuki.

"Close..." the boy sighed and then he remembered something important, "Gokudera-san, he was the one that said you could be Vongola Boss if you beat me!"

She looked at him questionably and said, "Vongola Boss? What's that?"

He gave them all a horrified look, and then he realized that he also didn't know what a 'Vongola' was nor the reason why anyone would want to be boss of it.

"Um, I don't know..." he said slowly.

No! Hold onto it! The Vongola is you!

Hide looked around after hearing the strange voice again and said warily, "It's...me?"

Yes! That's it! Now remember!

"Remember..." he repeated, the voice sounded very familiar to him.

Remember! This is all some silly trick! An illusion!

"It's an...illusion?" Hide blinked again and stared at his friends. They were suddenly looked very...strange, like they were clear as day but everything else around them was fuzzy. And their faces weren't quite right, like both of their eyes had switched places or a smile was a little crooked.

"Hide? Hide, are you alright?" Hanabi asked with a concerned look on her face.

Another trick! Gokudera-san always call you 'Twelfth!' She would rather strangle herself than call you 'Hide'!

"She would," he went pale and backed away slowly.

Remember! Remember Namimori! Remember mom, gramps, friends! Anna and Adam! Remember all those people! Remember your grandfather! Say his name!

Hide frowned and said sourly, "Sawada Tsunayoshi."

There was complete and total silence. His 'friends' gave him a blank stare and then one by one a creeping smile showing up on their faces.

"Oh very good," said Suzuki, his face was contorted into a mad expression that Hide hoped to never see on his friend's face ever again.

"But just saying names won't get you out," said Morita with the same expression.

Hanabi smirked and said in a tone of voice that suggested she was queen of something, "But why would you want to leave? You have everything you could ever want right here."

"You aren't my friends," Hide said slowly.

"No, but we could be better," they all said in a creepy sort of unison, "You would not be bothered with mafia-business here."

"But Adam and Anna aren't here," he argued.

"You don't need them," they said, "They are a burden and they only add stress to your mind."

Ignore them! They're tricking you! Remember the Vongola! You have to! It's you! And remember that person!

Hide took another step back as the voice shouted at him from where ever it was coming from. His 'friends' took a step forward. His head started hurting and everything around him was beginning to get distorted. The ground underneath his feet seemed to move even though his feet stayed in place.

Remember how he hit you! And strangled you! Remember how he turned your life upside down! Remember all those bullets he shot you with! And remember what you always said each time you were shot!

Hide gulped and muttered, "Reborn."

After that, Hide was jolted awake by a tazer.

~8~

"Oh? So that's your plan?" was what Hide heard when he opened his eyes.

He found himself lying under a blanket in a freezing clod place. Hide pulled the blanket off and twinged a little.

"Oh, you're awake," he looked up and saw that he was face-to-face with an unimpressed Anna who was holding a tazer in her hand. She looked up and called, "Mr. Reborn."

Hide snapped his head up and towards who she was calling to. Reborn was standing before them with Leon sleeping soundly on his back in a glowing green ball.

"You're awake," the infant said without turning.

Hide glanced around and saw that the blanket he had been under was very large and had three person-sized shapes underneath it. A large door, or what had been a door, was behind him and shattered into tiny little pieces. Hide looked back towards Reborn and saw that the baby hitman was facing a tall, indigo-haired person that was badly dressed and a woman with straw-blonde hair and was dressed very plainly. They both stood in front of a very large computer that seemed to scream bad stuff was up with it.

"Get up Boss," Anna urged, she grabbed Hide's are and lifted the boy to his feet, "Our fight is only beginning."

"Where am I? Who are those people?" he asked.

"Mist Morpheus and S-" Reborn began but stopped when he noticed that Amaterasu had vanished and spun around.

The God Box was only inches away from Hide's face and was staring deeply into the boy's eyes.

"Your eyes!"she said brightly, "They're like mine!"

"Get away!" Anna took her tazer and swiped it at Amaterasu, who backed away quickly with a despaired look on her face.

"I...I was only trying to-" she began.

"Amaterasu!" Morpheus called, "It's time for you to do your job!"

"Yes!" she snapped to attention and vanished again to appear just behind Morpheus.

"Begin the Upload!" it ordered, Amaterasu grabbed a few wires that were lying around and put two of each into her ears and another on the back of her neck.

Beginning Upload...The large computer screen read.

"What's going on?" Hide shouted as the computer was making a bunch of loud noises at this point.

"They're giving her a body," said Reborn calmly.

"They're giving who a body?" Anna shouted the question; the underground base began to shake violently.

"The base, they're giving her Amaterasu's body," he spoke in his still strangely calm voice, "Tsukamoto Yuuko."

~8~

35 years ago...

"Oi, Assistant!" Yuuko flinched when she heard her name and almost fell and let the stacks of paper work fly out of her hands, but 5 years of working as personal assistant to a Mafia Boss had taught her a thing or two. One of them was to not be surprised the first time, but save the shock for the second time.

"Whew," she sighed with relief.

"Tsukamoto!" the person who had called her name again was now at her ear and shouting.

Tsukamoto Yuuko squeaked and tossed the papers into the air after falling on her face.

"Che, can't even keep a hold onto some papers, dumb assistant!" Gokudera Hayato scolded her, "Did you start to run away the first time I called you?"

"No! Of course not Gokudera-sama!" she said nervously as she scrambled to gather the papers together.

"Then what were you doing?" he asked, "Walking away from me at a really fast speed?"

"Um...er..." she gathered the papers together and looked around for a distraction, because she remembered the last time she had agreed on the answer Gokudera had given her had ended up with him getting even angrier. "Oh look! It's Boss!"

"You're not going to fool me," he growled.

"But he's coming over-"

"Yeah right!"

"He is! He-"

"Listen kid, everyone knows that Boss is-"

"Boss is what? Gokudera-kun?" Gokudera spun around and saw his Boss smiling cheerfully behind at him.

"T-Tenth! I thought that you were in Italy!" he exclaimed.

"I can't leave Japan without my own personal assistant, Gokudera-kun," Tsuna stated, "And my wife, even though she's having our second son, isn't really getting happy with having a first son to handle. Right Donny?"

A small child that was holding Tsuna's hand looked up at Gokudera and Yuuko and said, "Mommy looks like a monster!"

Tsuna sighed wearily, he patted the child's head and said, "He's 5, I don't expect any less of him to say something like that."

"Will Mommy be fatter when we get home?" Donny asked.

"She's not fat, Donny, she has a baby inside her," Tsuna quickly realized that he chose the wrong choice of words.

"You mean she ate someone!" the child looked horrified.

"N-No!" he shook his head quickly and tried to explain, "Look, it's like, uh, remember when Gokudera-kun's wife was, er, like Mommy last year?"

"Oh yeah," this calmed Donny down and after a little bit of thought said, "So a baby is going to come out?"

"Yes!" Tsuna nodded with relief.

"So..." the child said thoughtfully, a look of shock spread on his face, "I'm getting a brother!"

"You just realized this?" Tsuna sighed and looked over to Yuuko, "Come on Yuuko-san, let's go before Donny start asking the embarrassing questions."

"Yes sir!" she nodded and quickly followed him as the father and son left.

"I'm coming too!" said Gokudera.

When they were outside the base and heading towards a large black car, Yuuko held up a hand that stopped the other three.

"Hold on!" she said and held out the hand she was holding up, "Give me the keys."

"What? No way!" Gokudera yelled.

"Gokudera-sama, everyone knows that you don't drive well," she stated.

"What! No I don't!"

"It's true Gokudera-kun," Tsuna agreed, "Last week you almost caused a pile up."

"That's because those idiots wouldn't move out of the way fast enough!"

"Gokudera-kun, it was a red light."

"So?"

Gokudera soon lost the argument and handed the keys over to Yuuko who snatched them away as quickly as possible from the man. She turned around and opened her mouth to say something as she clicked a button on the car's remote to unlock it. Then a large flash of light occurred. Then, since light was faster than sound, a loud sound.

~8~

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