AN: Oh my god! I'm so sorry for the late update, it's just that my muse seemed to have left me temporarily and I was completely stumped on ideas for this chapter, I'm also very sorry for the length, I'm aware that it's much shorter than any of my previous chapters!

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I was aware from reading some of my recent reviews that some of my readers weren't really happy about my last chapter, thinking that I was going to suddenly add more HP characters to my fanfic. What I wanted to say was that last chapter will be the last time any living characters from HP will appear in this fanfiction. The only reason that these seemingly random, unimportant characters appeared was so Tsuna would know that there's someone out there that can also go to different dimensions, someone much better at choosing which ones to travel to as well. And no, that character isn't from the HP series at all, and he's NOT Voldemort either. VOLDEMORT IS DEAD.

WARNING: This fic may contain many clichés known to fanfic readers everywhere, but I hope that at least some of my ideas are original. If not—well, this is fanfiction people! We can't all be geniuses at literature!

Disclaimer: I don't own Katekyo Hitman Reborn or Harry Potter, they belong to JK Rowling and Akira Amano. If I did own them, I'd be rich and own a mansion or something.

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Death's Curse: Chapter 10

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Tsuna was staring at Reborn, getting a sense of deja-vu due to the similarities between his situation now and his first meeting with the baby weeks before.

"So. What's all this Master of Death business Tsunayoshi? I will no longer swallow your lies or half truths Tsuna, but since I know the importance of keeping secrets, I want you to know that you may keep yours as long as you explain to me the scene I've just witnessed. They clearly had no idea about your mafia ties, so this was something else. What was it? What were they after?"

Wow. It seemed Reborn either really wanted to know about all of this, or he cared about Tsuna's well being.

After a few moments of silence, Tsuna opened his mouth and began.

" They were after a stone, called the 'resurrection stone' by some. Somehow they found out it was currently in my possession and came to take it from me."

Reborn looked down at Tsuna's hand, noticing the ring, silently asking a question with his eyes.

Tsuna smiled wryly. "Yes Reborn, the ring you were previously curious about does indeed contain the 'resurrection stone'."

Reborn spoke again. "What about what they called you? And what does the stone have to with it?"

Tsuna's expressionless voice answered him.

"You see Reborn, there was once a legend about this stone, along with another two objects. All three objects were given to three mortals by death itself. It was said that the person to possess all three would be able to master death itself, with the help of the three objects. People searched high and low, but no one was able to own all three at once. The history of the objects was surrounded with death and despair."

Motioning to the ring he was wearing, he continued. "Now the 'resurrection stone' here was said to have the power to bring back the dead when someone spun it three times, and the very first owner of the stone brought back his dead wife. You must understand, that to truly bring back the dead is an impossible feat, and all that he managed to do was bring back part of his wife's soul, condemning her to never have peace in her afterlife. In retaliation of his actions, he eventually committed suicide and killed himself."

Reborn seemed engrossed with the story, but as Tsuna spoke more and more he seemed to get slightly suspicious, suspicious that the objects were real and not just some legend blown way out of proportion.

"So, they called you the Master of Death because you have all three items?"

"Had.", Tsuna spoke. "The only remaining item is the ring on my finger, the other two were lost many years ago."

Reborn decided not to ask how he'd gotten them in the first place, confident that his student would eventually choose to confide in him.

"So", Reborn looked reluctant to actually be asking this, but continued, thinking that he had to know. "Does the stone really work?"

As he asked this question, he couldn't help but remember a dear friend of his that had died so long ago, the sky Arcobaleno Luce. 'Will I...get to see you again?'. he wondered.

Tsuna seemed to have an idea as to what he'd been thinking, and smiled sympathetically at him.

"It does... but the fate of both the soul called and the one who calls it isn't good. As I said before, the soul called from the afterlife would forever be doomed to an existence as a lost soul, forced to forever wander the living plane but unable to interact with others or even be seen unless by the one who summoned it."

He looked serious again. "Reborn, you have to believe me when I say that for someone to have that on their conscience, to know that they doomed their loved one to such a fate, is a heavy burden to carry."

Suddenly Reborn blinked, as if suddenly realizing something he hadn't known before.

"You speak from experience don't you?"

Tsuna's face was impassive. "I am."

"Who was it?"

Immediately Reborn regretted his question as he watched Tsuna lock his emotions, his eyes usually filled with so many different emotions becoming an empty hole, making Reborn slightly uncomfortable.

"A friend who died.", was the curt answer he received.

"I think kaa-san is calling me, I should go help make dinner, goodbye Reborn."

As Reborn watched Tsuna walk out of the room, he couldn't help but feel as if his pupil was hiding a very dark secret, a secret which seemed to be eating a him from the inside. He hoped that Tsuna would decide to share his burden with someone else, even if it wouldn't be with him.

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Tsuna was helping his mother prepare dinner absent-mindedly, his thoughts still lingering on his previous conversation with Reborn. He'd never thought that such a conversation would have led to him remembering one of the worst moments of his past, of one of the only times his weakness had caused him to make such a horrible mistake.

'What a life I lead, with so many memories forgotten, plenty more trying to be forgotten, but it's never that easy is it?',he asked himself.

'It's never that easy. You can't just choose the things you want to remember and the things you'd rather erase from your mind completely. I would know, with all the years I've lived I have so many regrets, so many things that I know I could have done better.'

He remembered the anger he'd felt towards Reborn for prying so much into his life, for stirring awake old, forgotten regrets. His anger had been irrational of course, he realized that now, Reborn just wanted to know about his secretive pupil, it wasn't healthy for their relationship if he kept so many of his secrets to himself.

Realizing he was about to cut off his finger, he snapped back to reality, feeling slightly better now that he'd had a chance to cool down and think rationally about what had happened.

'But what am I going to do about this 'master' person? Who is he? Why does he want the deathly hallows, and how did he find out about them? How can he travel dimensions?'

So many questions bounced around in his head, and he wondered if he already knew the person, he HAD met many people throughout his many lives after all, for all he knew the guy had been his uncle in one dimension, who knew? His life was so strange hardly anything surprised him anymore.

'At least I hope Yamamoto is fine; I think he heard more of my conversation with the others than he let on.'

Sighing, he made his way to his bedroom after quietly eating his dinner, not noticing his mother's concerned face as she watched him eat quietly, not even mentioning how his day at school had went, and then leave.

'I guess tomorrow I'll deal with the aftermath of this crazy day, I hope Kyoya isn't too angry at me for somehow disturbing the peace of Namimori.'

He came inside his bedroom and as he began to loose consciousness to wonderful sleep, he noticed that Reborn seemed to be giving him some space to get his emotions under control, he hadn't even tried to take his bed, not even once.

These were his last thoughts as he finally fell asleep.

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AN: Once again, sorry for the short chapter, and no omake today as well, sorry. I'm not very happy with how it turned out, but hey, we all have our off days.

Some of you might have noticed that I changed a few minor details about the hallows, but I think that it's a writer's creative freedom to write different things, or change them. This as an AU after all.

Next chapter will (hopefully) be posted in a week or maybe even less (crosses fingers!).

In the next chapter, Yamamoto will get suspicious of Tsuna, and start to unravel the mystery that is his best friend. I hope you review, even if it's only to say how much you hated my chapter or something, I don't mind (well,maybe a little). -_-'

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