Chapter 8: Obstacles in a Meeting

"Achoo~" Tsuna sneezed in the changing room of the showers, making Gokudera, Yamamoto, and Ryohei look up at him in concern.

"Jyuudaime, are you alright?" Gokudera jumped up, in the middle of washing himself, making bubbles fly around the area. Some landed in Ryohei's eye's leaving the boxer and bomber in another clash.

"Did you catch a cold Tsuna?" Yamamoto said, finally ignoring the two, as he cleared off the last of the soap bubbles on his head, "Maybe you should get some rest and warm food in you soon."

"No, I'm alright, though the food sounds nice right now," Tsuna laughed as he continued to rub the shampoo into his hair. "But for some reason I felt a chill down my back. I hope Reborn didn't go overboard with my younger self," he thought as an image of his younger self with mountains of paperwork and a two against one battle with Hibari and Mukuro. Tsuna shook his head hoping it wasn't anything like that. He looked at the side towards his younger guardians. For now he was too busy with his current situation.

Somehow or another he ended up being found by them on his way here. This made a wedge in his plans to meet up with Kyoko later. Reason one: Gokudera would follow him regardless of what he says; Reason two: Ryohei was there so meeting up with alone Kyoko would put himself making a difficult explanation; Reason three: It was too suspicious in their coincidental meeting.

"I bet Reborn planned this. I forgot how much he liked to do these things when he was in his baby form." Tsuna almost laughed when he remembered Reborn's complaint about not being able to do any of his disguises, hiding in unexpected places, and tormenting him in unexpected ways when he returned to his adult form. However, the tutor got over it when he realized he could torment him more in an adult like fashion. Tsuna gloomed when the memories played in his mind.

After a few minutes they were done and were now changing into their yukata's. "I got to do something guys," the boss said hoping the excuse would work, "I need to talk to the manager of the inn and explain about the damage earlier."

"Eh, Jyuudaime, you don't have to do that," Gokudera stated wanting to stay close to him and find out about what was happening in the future.

"Yeah, it was really our faults that things like that happen," Yamamoto laughed.

"No, Sawada is extremely right!" Ryohei yelled as he looked at him respectfully making everyone look at him surprisingly, "He is responsible for most of the damage anyways!" Gokudera's vein popped in anger and started an argument between them. Tsuna sweat-dropped when he noticed Yamamoto was clearly ignoring them again, not wanting to get in their way since it was getting nowhere.

"Alright if you insist then, I'm going to take a rest so later, Tsuna," Yamamoto yawned and went down the passageway to their rooms. The brunette watched as he left and glared at the two that were still bickering.

"Why don't you stop causing trouble for us Hayato," Bianchi said appearing with Haru and I-Pin behind her. In the instant Gokudera let his eyes fall upon her face he doubled over as the trauma engulfed him. Ryohei proclaimed that he won, left them to get some rest as well.

"Ha-hi, Gokudera-kun what's wrong with you!" Haru knelt next to him, still not understanding the fact on why he always feels sick whenever he sees him with his sister following her. Tsuna almost laughed when he remembered in his present time, ten years in the future to be exact, that the two in front of him were engaged. At that he almost jumped when he looked at a clock that was conveniently placed next to him.

"Was that always there?" he shook the thought out of his head, "No time to think that, I've got to meet Kyoko before I go back to my time!" and ran down the hallway passing Bianchi that had a ghostly smirked as he passed.

He looked over his shoulders not sure if he imagined it but continued to run anyways. However, he suddenly understood the meaning when the floor underneath him gave out. Somehow he caught the edge and pulled himself back up.

"NAZE…!" Tsuna gritted his teeth on the situation he was in, "Reborn had to make an obstacle to get to my goal. WHY IS HE ALWAYS SATISFIED WITH THESE SORT OF THINGS!" he yelled as he jumped over the area. The nightmarish memories of Reborn's ridiculous training sessions that would put any strong men to run away resurfaced. He was placed in a maze full of dangerous animals for days; swimming away from sharks and mafia trained dolphins; placed on a deserted island with experimental animals on the loose; forced to eat Bianchi's foods until he was immune to them. All of them involved having his weapons taken away and unavailable to use. Tsuna shivered, but glad that he didn't have to do them again. However, he felt sorry for his younger self's upcoming nightmare as well.

"But then again," The boss smirked in superiority when he grasped the circumstances, "I'm not like that anymore, Reborn." He moved his foot one step forward and quickly ran when an invisible trip mechanism activated the walls to go down revealing holes of arrows. That also involved him running, but he had to dodge them quickly. When that was all clear he sharply turned and ducked to avoid the oncoming poison cooking of Bianchi's with the catapult making them hit the wall behind him and melt away.

At last, just ahead of him, he could see Kyoko across from where he stood. Even though he knew she was the goal he figured something would come up before he could. Ready for any flying weapons or dangerous animals he stepped forward. As he predicted it was Reborn's last obstacle and it wasn't an easy one. His eyes twitched when he saw two figures emerge from the sliding doors besides the hallway, blocking him from Kyoko's view.

"Reborn, did you have to involve these two?" Tsuna thought gratingly as the two guys emitted huge dark auras.

"You're not getting away this time, Trash," Xanxus said raising both of his guns at him.

"Don't think I'll forgive you for doing that to me earlier, Herbivore," Hibari said darkly with a very pissed off face as he swung his tonfas around in his hands.

Tsuna, not wanting them to be bothersome when he's doing things, so he did the only think that he knew would make them stop and not be angry at the same time. The both of them charged and started their attack.

(Older Tsuna: 1 hr. left)

Author's note:

Alright at chapter 8! God that took a long time, but I will continue to write until the last minute. Please enjoy!

Ciao-ciao