Here's a special Halloween/Pumpkin themed chapter! I hope you all enjoy! :D

~8~

"Gah!" Hide yelped as he was kicked out of bed by Reborn.

"Get up, Lazy-Hide," his tutor ordered, "You're going to be doing a special assignment today."

"Assignment?" the boy questioned while rubbing the spot on the back of his head where Reborn had kicked him, "What are you talking about?"

A very sharp looking knife appeared in Reborn's hands and he said, with an oddly murderous intent, "What do you think I'm talking about?"

~8~

"Oh my, this is such a nice thing for you to do, Hide-kun!" his mother said while watching her son carve one out of possibly a hundred pumpkins that were littered around the kitchen and living room, "I'll be right back, Hide-kun! I'm going to the store to buy some groceries!"

"Okay mom," Hide muttered miserably as he continued his work, after hearing the door shut he looked up to Reborn, who was in a pumpkin outfit, and asked, "Is this seriously my 'special assignment'? Carving up pumpkins?"

"Each of the pumpkins you're carving are special Mafia Pumpkins," Reborn explained, he held up one of the pumpkins out of the large pile and said, "For example, this one is called a 'Sea Pumpkin' because it was grown in the ocean and is watery on the inside. And this one," he picked another, darker-colored pumpkin and held it up to Hide's face, "is a 'Grenade Pumpkin' because if you take the top off, and throw it without caution it explodes and will kill anyone that is close to it at the time."

He then dropped the pumpkin but Hide, luckily, caught it before it landed on the ground.

"You'll be carving each and every one of these pumpkins for everyone that you know, think of it as an appreciation gift for all of the things that everyone has done for you."

"Wait, for everyone I know?" he asked skeptically, "That'll take forever!"

"Then you shouldn't waste time whining about it," Reborn said haughtily and turned back to all of the Mafia Pumpkins that were around the two, "All of these pumpkins are different, you must carve them all in a unique way, and then deliver them to everybody. If you don't finish your assignment by the end of the day, then there will be grave consequences."

"What?" Hide groaned, and he picked up a nearby pumpkin out of the massive pile that looked normal enough, except for some reason he was getting weird vibes from the orange vegetable, "Why does this pumpkin look so suspicious…?"

"It's a Poison Pumpkin," Reborn answered, his student fumbled for pumpkin after it almost fell out of his hands, "The inside is made up of a special acidic property that is able to burn through steel, and the outside is hard enough to break a person's jaw if someone were to take a bite out of it."

"How the heck do you even carve it then?" he gawked and added, "And who in the world would I even give this to!"

"That's for you to figure out," the tutor shrugged, a gun appeared in his hand and he pointed it at Hide's forehead, "But I strongly suggest you get to carving. Now."

~8~

"Gramps!" Hide hollered upon entering Takesushi, "Gramps, where are you?"

"Hey Hide!" Suzuki waved energetically to him, "How's it going?"

"No time to talk, Suzuki!" he said hurriedly while searching the restaurant, "Have you seen Gramps?"

"I'll go call him out," he said and went to the kitchen, a few seconds later he came back with Yamamoto behind him.

"What's the rush, buddy?" the old man grinned to his grandson while wiping his hands on a rag.

"Gramps, can I borrow the hovercycle?" Hide asked quickly and hurriedly, "I have like a hundred pumpkins to give to people! Oh yeah, which reminds me!" he ran out of the restaurant before coming back in with two pumpkins under his arms, "These are for you guys!"

"Pumpkins?" Suzuki questioned and took one of them, "Well, it is almost Halloween…why does it feel squishy though?"

"Reborn called it a Sea Pumpkin," Hide explained, "Because the inside was really watery and it was grown in the ocean, so I think that's why its watery."

"That's kind of weird for a pumpkin," he laughed and added, "I like the baseball pattern on mine!

"Mafia Pumpkins!" Yamamoto brightened when he saw his own, there was a fish carved into it, "Man, I never thought I would miss one of these when I retired!"

"Gramps, yours is a Fish Pumpkin," his grandson quickly said, "Reborn told me that its called that because its an actual fish shaped like a pumpkin…which would probably explain the fish guts that were inside it…"

"Then aren't you glad I taught you how to properly gut a fish, buddy?" Yamamoto grinned.

"No, not really," he grimaced as he remembered the surprise he got when emptying out the Fish Pumpkin, "So can I borrow the hovercycle or not?"

"Sure thing," he grinned and tossed the hovercycle's keys to Hide, "Just bring it back around midnight, okay?"

"Not gonna be a problem, gramps!" he said and quickly left.

~8~

"Okay, I've gotten my neighbors, Gramps, Suzuki, Mom…" Hide muttered as he went through a list he had written out, "I think that Gokudera-san's apartment is closest right now…"

He soon came upon the apartment of Hanabi and Nagi and knocked on their door. They were both surprised to see him and, much to Hide's shock, they quietly listened to his story.

"Mafia Pumpkins?" Nagi questioned with interest as he examined his pumpkin, which had a skull on it, "I haven't seen one of these in a while. This is a Skull Pumpkin, right? A pumpkin rumored to have been grown on the bones of the Vongola's enemies."

"That's right," Hide nodded while looking a little unnerved, "But Reborn didn't tell me the gruesome story behind it.

"Thank you for the pumpkins Twelfth!" Hanabi piped in excitedly, "This Grenade Pumpkin is far too undeserving for me!"

"Your welcome, Gokudera-san," he said weakly and looked at his watch, "Oh geez, I have to go, I'll see you guys later!" the boy waved to them as he ran off to the hovercycle.

"That was surprisingly much easier than I originally thought," he muttered to himself as he rode through out Namimori on the hovercycle, he looked back at his list and said thoughtfully, "Morita-kun might be at the school, and I can probably go around to the teachers lounge and give my teachers these…"

~8~

He was beginning to steer his hovercycle in the direction of the school and immediately stopped on the bridge when he saw two familiar twins and one of them was holding a familiar, little, white-haired boy upside down on the bridge.

"Anna! What are you doing with Nico!" Hide yelped and grabbed the boy out away from her.

"He was pissing me off," she said, as if this was a suitable excuse, "Relax Boss, he's unconscious."

"What kind of reason is that!" he looked over to Adam, who was reading a magazine while leaning on the railing of the bridge and asked, "Are you just gonna sit there and watch your sister torture a kid!"

Adam looked up from his magazine and said, "Well, I'd like to clarify that I'm not sitting, I'm leaning," he turned a page of his magazine and continued, "As for my sister dangling a small child off of a bridge, I could probably care less."

"Then care more!" Hide yelled and looked back at the unconscious Nico, he tried waking him up, "Hey, Nico, I have a present to give you."

The boy's green eyes snapped open and he said excitedly, "Present?"

"Why did I think that would work…?" Hide muttered to himself.

"Where's the present?" the boy asked excitedly, "What's the present?"

"Hold on, it's on my hovercycle," he said and quickly went over to the hovercycle and got out three pumpkins, as he came back he noticed that Nico was hiding behind Adam and Anna also had a piece of rope in her hands.

"H-Here," he said, slightly unnerved at the sight, "I got you guys Mafia Pumpkins."

"Mafia Pumpkins?" Nico exclaimed as Hide handed the boy a pumpkin that was slightly paler than the ones he gave Adam and Anna.

"Mine's an Ice Pumpkin," said the twin sister, her pumpkin was designed with a thunderbolt and she asked, "Why does it have a thunderbolt on it?"

"Um, because you use tazers a lot?" Hide said uncertainly, he was not very sure why he had put a thunderbolt on it either.

"Haha, mine's a Funny Pumpkin!" Adam laughed, the design on his pumpkin was an eerie smiling face, "This is awesome, Boss. Thanks!"

"What kind is mine, Boss?" Nico asked eagerly.

"I think yours was a White Pumpkin," he said thoughtfully before adding, "Do you like the star I carved into it?"

"Yup!" he nodded cheerfully.

Hide took out his list and scratched off their names before going back to his hovercycle and saying, "I have to go now, I'll see you guys later!"

"See you Boss!" they all waved.

~8~

"What's this?" Morita asked upon seeing his pumpkin, which had a boxing glove carved into it, "These are some pretty crazy pumpkins, Hide."

Hide had carved a pumpkin for everybody he knew that was in the Boxing Team and even for Megumi, but they were all more or less surprised at the weird shapes and sizes of the pumpkins.

"I think it's cute!" Megumi smiled, hers was a tiny little pumpkin that was unimaginatively named Small Pumpkin, "I especially like the cute little face you carved into it, Hide-kun!"

"Wow, so Sawada is talented in music and sculpting…" commented one of the boxers in awe.

"No, I'm not at all," Hide quickly rejected the rumor.

"My pumpkin's pretty huge," Morita commented, the pumpkin he was holding was probably the same size as his own torso and was also unimaginatively named Big Pumpkin, "But I like the boxing glove you carved into it."

"Oh yeah, do you guys know if there are any teachers around today?" he asked quickly, not wanting to waste any time that could be spent avoiding Reborn's most likely horrible punishment.

"I think I saw Principal Hibari here," Megumi said helpfully, "And Kurokawa-sensei too."

"I-I don't think I want to run into Principal Hibari just yet…" the boy paled, he was actually planning on finding Ahiru and telling her to give the pumpkin to the principal.

"Good luck finding them," Morita called after him as Hide ran off to the school, he looked back at his pumpkin and said, "I'm kind of wondering where the heck he even got these things."

~8~

"Hello?" Hide asked as he entered the teacher's lounge, the lights were on inside but he could not see anyone in the room, "Um, I'm Sawada Hideyoshi, I'm looking for my teachers," he said cautiously as he slowly walked in, "Or at least their desks or something…"

He quietly walked in and looked around, "Hello?" he asked again and almost screamed when he found himself forcefully pulled down to the ground and a hand covering his mouth.

"Shhh!" his captor hushed him quickly.

Hide pulled the hand off his mouth and said in a hushed tone, "Kurokawa-sensei!"

"Oh, Sawada!" the assistant teacher exclaimed quietly and quickly let go of the student but still made him crouch down on the ground, "You gotta be quiet Sawada, I'm playing a super intense game of Hide-and-Seek with Ahiru-chan…"

The young boss was quiet for a few seconds before questioning, "Wait…you're doing what…?"

"Ah-hah!" they were both caught by surprise as the little girl swooped down upon them and grabbed their shirts, "Tag! I got the both of you herbivores!"

"Damn it! She got me!" Kurokawa pounded his fist on the ground in anguish.

"So you were seriously playing tag with Hibari-chan…huh," Hide muttered while trying not to sound unimpressed.

"Your fault was allowing Ahibird into the game!" Ahiru said triumphantly, "Ahibird was able to spot you herbivores in a second!"

"I see," the older man nodded as if he was learning from an important instructor and not a small girl.

"Hide-nii," she began cheerfully, "Do you want to join in the next game?"

"Maybe next time, Hibari-chan," Hide said cautiously and remembered why he was here, "Oh yeah, I have presents for the teachers, the principal, and Hibari-chan!"

"Presents?" Kurokawa questioned, "What kind?"

"I'll be right back!" he quickly said before running off and grabbing the pumpkins, "They're right here!"

"Pumpkins?" the assistant teacher asked as he helped his student with carrying the large amount in his hands.

"Yeah, my tutor thought it would be a good idea to give everyone I know a pumpkin as an appreciation gift," Hide nodded and took one out of the pile and handed it to Ahiru, "Here you go, Hibari-chan. A Yellow Pumpkin with a bird carved on it."

"Cute!" the girl blushed and danced around with the pumpkin, "It looks just like Ahibird! Thank you Hide-nii!"

"A-And this one is for Principal Hibari…" Hide said as he handed another pumpkin to her with slightly more care, "It's called a Spike Pumpkin…Reborn said that this one would suit him well…"

"Grandpa will be super happy with it, Hide-nii!" Ahiru said cheerfully.

"I hope so…" he grimaced before going back to the pile of pumpkins and started searching through them, "Um, there's one for you too, Kurokawa-sensei…uh…Here!"

He handed Kurokawa a slightly green pumpkin and said, "It's called a, um, Ripe Pumpkin, because it stays ripe for almost a whole year."

"Could you not think of anything other than a pen to carve on it?" the teacher said jokingly.

"It's actually a pencil…" Hide mumbled to himself and said out loud, "Do you know where the other teachers' desks are?"

"Sure," he nodded and said, "I'll help you."

"Ahiru wants to help too!" the girl said eagerly.

Hide was more than grateful for the help that was offered to him and after putting the pumpkins on the desks, he quickly left for the next location.

"Um, I got Morita, Megumi, the guys in the Boxing Team, Kurokawa-sensei, Hibari-chan, Principal Hibari, and all of the teachers…" he said thoughtfully as he started the hovercycle, "Who else…uh…that's right! Rosario-san! But…where do I find Rosario-san?"

"Did someone call me?" Hide nearly fell off of the hovercycle as he was riding past the park and saw Rosario sitting on the railing of the park entrance reading a newspaper, "My, my," she sighed and shook her head as she approached the boy, the newspaper in her hand turned into a clipboard and she started scribbling stuff down, "A Boss who gets surprised easily will die an early death."

Hide ignored this comment and quickly dug into the sack of pumpkins that was strapped on the hovercycle, "Thank goodness you're here, Rosario-san! Here!" he thrust out a pumpkin to the woman.

She took one whiff and immediately brightened, "Poison Pumpkin! Just like my mother used to grow!"

The boy's sweat dropped and he said, "Reborn said you would like that, but I didn't exactly know why until now…"

"And it has a little flower carved into it!" Rosario continued, "Thank you, young Twelfth! Mafia Pumpkins are a very special gift to give to allies of other Families, it's said that they are extremely hard to find also!"

"Really?" Hide asked skeptically, "Because Reborn filled my living room and kitchen with these things and told me to carve them."

"You should be very grateful to Papa then, young Twelfth!" the woman instructed while holding her Poison Pumpkin under one arm, "There must have been quite a lot of strings attached to all of the pumpkins that filled your house."

"R-Really…?" he paled and wondered where the costs of all of the pumpkins went, he then remembered the other pumpkins in his bag and asked, "Rosario-san, you know the Tenth and Eleventh, right?"

"I talk to them," she shrugged.

"Then would you happen to know my dad too?" he asked.

"Uh, I do," she nodded unsteadily, "How do you know?"

"Well I know for sure that my dad knows about the Mafia," Hide sighed tiredly, "Since my uncle is the Eleventh and all, I think it would actually be almost impossible for him not to know about the Mafia. So could you give these pumpkins to the Tenth, Eleventh, and my dad?"

Rosario stared at the sack before nodding, "I would be honored to, young Twelfth."

"Oh yeah, and there's one for Gokudera-san's grandfather also," Hide quickly added, "He helped Gokudera-san a lot, and I'm pretty sure he's a nice guy."

"I'm sure Gokudera-oji will be absolutely honored to have received such a present from the young Twelfth," she said while bowing, and asked with interest, "But why are you giving a pumpkin to the Tenth? I thought you said you hated him."

"I do," he answered flatly and then added reluctantly, "But Reborn told me that I'm apparently grateful to the old bastard…

She shrugged this insult off and asked, "Are you sure you want me to take all of these? Is there someone else you're forgetting that hasn't gotten one?"

"Hm…" Hide muttered thoughtfully and shook his head, "No, there's you, Gokudera-san, Nagi-san, Morita-kun, Megumi-san, Suzuki, gramps, mom, Kurokawa-sensei, my neighbors, everyone on the Boxing Team, Principal Hibari, my teachers, Hibari-chan, Nico, Adam and Anna…yeah, I think that's everyone."

"Are you sure?" she asked again.

"For the last time, I'm pretty sure I got everyone," he shrugged and took out his list, "Look, other than you and dad, the Tenth, the Eleventh, and Gokudera-san's grandfather, I have everybody on my list scratched out!"

"Hmm," she eyed the list carefully before shrugging and saying, "Okay then, I'll go on the first plane to Italy and give these to the people you have asked me to give to as soon as possible."

"Thanks Rosario-san."

~8~

Upon coming back home, after he returned the hovercycle of course, Hide was greeted by Reborn with a kick to the face.

"Idiot, I told you not to come home until you gave a pumpkin to everyone," his tutor scolded.

"What?" Hide rubbed his nose in pain, "But I did give everyone a pumpkin! Wait, was it against the rules if I told Rosario-san to give the pumpkins to the Tenth, Eleventh, and my dad if they were in Italy?"

"No," he shook his head, "I overlooked that, but you still have to deliver one more pumpkin to someone else."

"What!" the boy's mouth fell open.

"Now I'll have to punish you," Reborn said, the Leon in his hand turned into a gun and he pointed it at Hide.

But instead of flinching away and running away, like he usually did, Hide smirked and said, "I know I missed someone."

"Oh really?" the infant asked skeptically.

"Yup," he nodded and took out a pumpkin that he had been hiding behind his back and presented it to Reborn, "But I didn't want to give you a Mafia Pumpkin, those things are weird. So I had to go to the store and get you a regular pumpkin."

His tutor stared at it for a few seconds before allowing Leon to turn back into his shape-shifting chameleon form and smiling back at his student, "Very good, I believe this is the first time you actually passed something."

Hide smiled and looked up when he saw his mom come out of the kitchen with the pumpkin he had given her earlier. Adam, Anna, and Nico followed her to the front door and quietly laid each of their own pumpkins outside on the front porch.

"What are you guys doing?" the son asked curiously.

"It was Adam-kun and Anna-chan's idea!" his mother said cheerfully, this did not answer her son's question at all so he still looked on with interest.

Anna took out a match and a few candles appeared in her brothers' hands, they each took the lid off of each of them and inserted a candle into each. Anna took her lit match and quietly lit the candles in each of them until all of the pumpkins had glowing faces.

"Oh my, how cute!" Mrs. Sawada said cheerfully.

"The Ice Pumpkin will probably melt by tomorrow morning, but oh well," Anna shrugged dismissively and walked back inside the house.

"Hmph, my pumpkin is definitely the best," Nico said proudly.

"So they're Jack-O-Lanterns?" Hide asked as he examined the pumpkins, "I didn't think of using them like that…"

"Hey Adam," the foreigner looked down and saw Reborn holding up the pumpkin Hide had given him, "Light this one up."

"Okay," he shrugged and put the candle in to light it.

"It's getting cold," Hide's mother shivered and rubbed her arms, "Let's all go inside, I'll make us all hot chocolate."

"Okay," the children said in sing-song voices before going back inside.

The door shut on the glowing pumpkins that sat on the front porch. And as the night sky fell on them, one pumpkin seemed to stand superior to all of the Mafia Pumpkins. This was the only pumpkin that had an orange glowing gun on it.

~8~

…Reborn's influence even reaches to his own pumpkin…

Well that's my Halloween chapter! And it will probably the last chapter I'm going to post up for the rest of the month.

In other news, I drew up a crappy character sheet of Hide. Here's a link if you guys want to see my horrible coloring skills and drawing skills: h t t p : / / e 1 c h a n . d e v i a n t a r t . c o m / a r t / H i d e - R e f e r e n c e - S h e e t - 1 4 0 6 0 1 3 2 6

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