AN:"..."

That was my reaction when I saw how many reviews I got for the last chapter. THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR YOU REVIEWS AND SUPPORT! I really appreciated those of you who wished me luck on my exams as well, thank you all so much, I can't say how glad I am that I won't have more exams for the next few weeks, it feels really liberating to know it's all finally over!

In this chapter you'll find out some of the things going on in the future, and some scenes will be added even though Lambo wasn't actually there when they happened, I just thought it would give you a few clues as to what would happen in the future (or just give you more questions -_^)

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 13

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'Primo? Why would they call the Vongola Decimo 'Primo'?'

The question was going around Reborn's head in circles, possible reasons being considered and dismissed just as quickly. Looking at Tsuna's slowly changing face, he noticed the look of horror and despair that seemed to have appeared the moment Lambo had uttered those words.

Slowly, he started remembering little things he'd noticed about Tsuna, he was an excellent fighter, he had known so much about the mafia, he looked remarkably like Primo...

No. It was impossible, there was no way that what he was thinking was the truth. Throughout his life in the mafia he had seen some very strange and wonderful things happen but...there was no way that Tsuna was Giotto...was there?

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Lambo didn't know what was going on, first he'd woken up to see that his nii-san wasn't in the room and when he'd gone to the kitchen to get a snack (or grapes!), he'd found Reborn there drinking some kind of brown, icky smelling liquid.

After trying to once again speak to Reborn about how to kill him, he was ignored! He, the great Lambo had been ignored! Of course, this had caused him to decide to kill Reborn without them talking first, thinking that with his weapons it'd be easy, but then Reborn seemed to jump, or teleport away! It wasn't fair!

But he'd had a great idea, yes! He'd gotten out his bazooka, and he'd shot himself!

Suddenly he found that his surroundings had changed, he was inside this huge mansion, with paintings surrounding him and a bunch of people quickly walking past, ignoring him.

Lambo had gotten so angry at being ignored again that he began to cry (he would later deny this), until a man came up to him.

"Hello there Lambo." The man had said to him.

Lambo looked up and saw that it was his nii-san! He looked taller!

Once he'd stopped crying, Tsuna had picked him up and taken him into another room. It was big and there were bookshelves on all the walls, intimidating him a bit.

He sat down on a big comfy chair and Tsuna sat beside him.

"How are you Lambo?", he asked gently."Are you living with me right now?"

Lambo gave a big smile and jumped up on the chair.

"HA HA HA! The great Lambo has already met Tsuna-nii, and is now living with him!", he shouted in triumph.

Tsuna gave a smile, Lambo too happy to notice the fact that his eyes looked tired and his smile didn't look completely genuine.

Before Tsuna could say anything else, the door swung open and a man ran inside.

"Primo! One of our safe-houses has just been bombed!", the man shouted quickly.

Tsuna immediately got to his feet. His whole demeanour had completely changed from the kind man who'd just been talking to Lambo into someone more serious, powerful. "Let's take this outside", he said while looking at Lambo. Both men walked into another room after Tsuna made sure to give Lambo a piece of candy.

"Whose was it?", he asked.

The other man seemed to steel himself for what he was about to say.

"The Sasagawas."

Tsuna's strong attitude seemed to disappear, as the severity of the situation was realized.

"Where is Ryohei?", he asked, fearing what the answer would be.

"We don't know Primo, he was the first to hear the news, the moment he found out he left headquarters, we're not sure where he went."

"Do you think he went after 'them'?",he asked the other man.

Before he could answer the question, Tsuna snorted an shook his head. "What a stupid question, of course he went after them, they just killed his little sister for God's sake!"

Tsuna once again looked at his employee, one of the people who had recently moved here after Varia HQ had been hit two months before. The Varia itself was missing, the only known fact being that they hadn't died in the explosion which had killed more than two thousand mafiosos.

"Mierda!", he cursed. "When is this hell finally going to end! We've been playing cat and mouse with 'them' for more than a year, and so far we've got nothing more that empty buildings and idiotic riddles out of them!"

Tsuna turned and walked away into another room along with the other man, Lambo forgotten in the moment. The only thought he spared before he left was; 'Lambo better not give anything away about the future to Reborn or even myself, who knows how things might change because of one tiny slip up?'

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Tsuna was watching as Reborn seemed to be figuring something out. 'Surely he wouldn't stumble across the truth just like that right? How could one simple slip of the tongue from a child uncover his most closely guarded secret?'

After a few seconds which felt like minutes, Reborn looked at Tsuna with a harsh glint in his eyes.

"Who are you really Tsunayoshi?"

Just as those words came out of the baby's mouth, Tsuna felt his head get dizzy, his surroundings spinning and the colors blurring together until finally...he lost consciousness.

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Tsuna woke up.

Finding himself in a familiar white void had not been what he'd been expecting.

"Hello! Death! I know you're here somewhere!", he shouted into the endless looking surroundings. I felt surreal that after all these years he'd finally been summoned once again by Death.

"Hello Master", a voice said mockingly from behind him.

Quickly spinning around he found himself face to face with Death.

"How are you liking your new life?", his voice said, coming from under the hood of his cloak.

Tsuna immediately knew that it had been no mere coincidence that he's ended up reborn as Sawada Tsunayoshi, heir to the title of Vongola tenth. And it was certainly no coincidence that all of his closest friends seemed to be so familiar to the looks and personalities of his previous guardians.

"Was this you plan all along? To torment me with the faces of those long dead? I lost them years ago, I acknowledged their deaths, why are you bringing up painful memories? Haven't you tortured me enough?!"

Death just looked at him and answered.

"Don't you understand 'Master'? This is what would have happened to you eventually anyway! Ever since the day you were born, it was your destiny to own all three of my hallows! You had no choice in the matter, and I; in my foolish thinking didn't believe that there would one day be someone to own all three, you have chained me! I am no longer the independent entity that I once was! I have been sullied by your human emotions, the moment you touched the hallows was the moment that Death finally changed forever!"

Tsuna was surprised, but despite this he felt an undeserved hatred towards Death, he'd never asked for this either, he'd been just as innocent if not more! How could he have possibly known that the hallows would lead to such a curse on his existence!

But deep inside he hated himself as well because he knew that if he had a chance to change it, to never have opened that package on that Christmas Day so long ago he would have still done it, because without the hallows the war would have never been won, and peace would have been a hopeless dream for him and his family.

Death continued, as if finally they could get rid of all the frustration they felt towards Tsuna.

"We are connected! No matter how much I wish to kill you I cannot, for if you were to die I would as well! A world without death, would be anarchy, chaos, HELL itself!"

His voice calmed down and he continued. "So you see Master, that is your fate, and there is nothing you can do to change it unless you wish to be selfish and ruin the lives of all the people in the world."

His voice turned mocking. "Think of all the poor families out there who would die, but be unable to reach the afterlife. All the mommies and daddies and oh! All the small kiddies who wouldn't even know what was going on! Just wandering the Earth as mere shadows, hiding from the eyes of those who're living! Doesn't that ring a bell to you? Remember that day in the forbidden forest, when mommy and daddy Potter came out of the stone-"

"SHUT UP!", Tsuna had finally had enough of Death's mocking and bringing up bad memories. He had been innocent at the time, no one had warned him of the fate of those called from the stone's power. He hadn't even learned of their fate until his first meeting with Death.

Death just laughed, taking joy from his suffering. "And didn't you like your little gift? He made sure you would find it, after all, 'Who knows what it might do in the wrong hands?'"

Tsuna remembered the note he'd found along with the resurrection stone. "That was you!"

Death just laughed harder. "Of course it wasn't little Master! why would I take any interest in your life, I'm just a 'servant' remember?"

'The mystery continues then", Tsuna thought. 'If Death wasn't the one to give me the ring then who was? He knows who it was though, not that I'll have much of a chance of making him tell me.'

Death suddenly cocked his head to the side, as if listening to something. "It seems that our time is almost up, but hey; I forgot to tell you!", he said cheerfully.

"That little baby Reborn had guessed one of your secrets and me being the hardworking servant that I am," he said mockingly. "I decided to erase Lambo's little slip up from their memories! When you wake up it'll be as if nothing had happened! So don't say I never do nice things for you!"

It was with those last words that Tsuna found that the world was once again spinning, and he passed out. Again.

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"...Tsuna-nii, TSUNA-NII!"

Tsuna blinked, and he found Lambo's face right in front of his; the small child having actually procured a small ladder from somewhere while Reborn was nowhere to be seen.

"Huh! Sorry Lambo, I guess I spaced out for a moment", he said sheepishly, rubbing the back of his head.

Lambo seemed to believe him. "That's okay Tsuna-nii, Reborn does that a lot as well!"

'I'm sure he does', Tsuna thought, knowing that Lambo was talking about the times when Reborn falls asleep with his eyes open.

"Anyway", he said. "Why don't you go and help my mom with things and I'll go to school okay?"

Lambo instantly threw himself at his leg, locking his arms around him. "Tsuna-nii can't leave Lambo!"

Tsuna began to try and placate him. "Don't worry Lambo! I'm not leaving you, I'll be back in a few hours!"

Lambo looked at him with teary eyes. "Promise?"

Tsuna nodded. "Promise."

After Lambo let go of his leg, he yelled a good-bye for his mother and walked to school, the recent events playing over and over in his mind.

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AN: Ta-da!

Probably not what most of you were expecting right? I know some of the things that happened in this chapter seem a bit weird when you read them and the future scene just didn't seem right to me, but later on it'll make better sense. Promise!

I thank once again all of those who reviewed and read my ridiculously short chapters, and hopefully this one isn't as disappointing!

Hope you like this chapter and don't forget to review!