I got tired of writing in Japanese. It became a chore so I decided not to write any from now on. I began writing this fic thinking that I would be able to put in some words here and their… Now I just want to go over the chapters and replace them. Oh well. I'm just going to add the ones that are really necessary since it wouldn't sound right without them…. Probably not going to do that either.

Anyways hope you enjoy this chapter. Thanks for the reviews and continue on with the support.

Chapter 10: From Frying Pan, into the Cooler, then Back

Ten minutes, only ten minutes had passed since the beginning of the battle with Hibari and Mukuro. However it seems to be one sided, because of one thing. Tsuna didn't have his gloves with him. He had managed to dodge Hibari's aggressive attacks so far by a hairs width. With Mukuro and his illusions, he wasn't doing so well. At least he wasn't seriously injured… for the moment.

Reborn left to find Lambo, who escaped at the beginning. He said something about putting the cow obsessed child in a maze for two days by himself and become a guinea pig for Spanners newly inventions. Tsuna shivered at the thought for a moment and regretted it. He immediately was hit in the stomach with the end of the tonfas and was thrown across the arena.

"HIIIIEE!" Tsuna got up quickly to avoid the oncoming attacks from Hibari's tonfas and the slash from the other direction by Mukuro. This led both weapons to clash against each other. "Uh oh," Tsuna said out loud when he realized what he just did. Both Cloud and Mist Guardians glared at each other, weapons so close to the other's throats.

"What do you think you're doing, Rokudo Mukuro?" Hibari asked pushing against the trident weapon with his tonfas.

"Kufufufu, I don't know what you mean, Hibari-san," Mukuro laughed not budging from his spot.

Within moments they pitted their attacks at each other leaving the tired Tsuna at the sidelines. "At least they aren't after me anymore, but…." he watched the event before him and laughed nervously at the killing intent the both of them radiated. Realizing his chance, Tsuna slipped out of the training room.

"Ah, Tsu-kun, are you alright?" Kyoko called out to him while running. She recovered from her run and looked around, "Where's Mukuro-kun and Hibari-san? I heard that they were with you," She didn't have to wait long when a rumble came from the behind the doorway beside them.

Kyoko sighed realizing that they were at it again. She faced her attention on the boy in front of her. Tsuna laughed nervously looking towards the arena ignoring the wounds. His bandages from earlier were coming undone, his body was covered with scratches, and bleeding in some areas. She shook her head, "That's Tsu-kun for you, forgetting about his own injuries." She grabbed his arm gaining the attention of the young boss and dragged him away from the area.

"Kyoko-chan, where are we going?" Tsuna was startled at the sudden action. Kyoko didn't say anything but continued on until they stopped in front of a door and slid it open. Two heads turned towards them with board looks. When their eyes looked onto Tsuna shock spread across their faces. Tsuna immediately smiled when he recognized the two figures in the room. "Spanner, Shouichi-kun!"

"Young Vongola!" Spanner called out getting up from his Indian style seating. His face was covered in oil, along with his usual green jumpsuit, but clearly he was working on a new Mosca design. The end of the lollypop was sticking out of his mouth, as usual, with a large grin and patted the teens back. "I didn't expect to see you back so soon," he turned towards the other stunned man sitting in front of the computer, "Shouichi, he's the real thing."

"T-Tsunayoshi-kun!" Shouichi practically jumped out of his chair and ran towards the teen with full bloom smile, "I never thought that I would see you in this era again, but why are you here?" Tsuna could tell he was the same as always. The headphone was around his neck and was playing some kind of music. The messy red-orange hair was still messily combed and his glasses were slipping towards the end of his nose.

"Ah that-" Tsuna tried to explain but was cut off by Kyoko's finger pressed against his lips. His face became bright red at the touch.

"First, we need to get you fixed up, Tsu-kun," She pouted in front of them making them look at the condition Tsuna was in. The three boys rubbed the back of their heads in embarrassment of the lack of observation.

"Why don't we use the Solar Machine then? It will heal you right up," Shouichi said as he walked towards a machine, similar to a test tube in the movies, and turned it on. He looked back at the young boss making him freeze in fright.

"I-it's not one of those crazy new gadgets Spanner made is it?" He stuttered getting a dirty glare from the said man.

"I don't make crazy things, young Vongola," he said monotony pushing the teen from behind, "And this has already been tested out on people already so it's completely safe."

Tsuna sighed in relief at hearing that however he cautiously walked into the tube. Once inside Shouichi started the process allowing Solar flames to enter the tube healing the many wounds on him. It was done within a few seconds and he walked out as a new man, however he can't say that for the clothes that he was wearing. They were still torn in many places thanks to the skirmish he had with the two Guardians earlier.

"It seems that we still need to work on this a little more, Spanner," Irie said looking at the confused Tsuna. Kyoko giggled knowing on what they were talking about.

"Your right," the mechanic agreed bringing another question mark above the bosses head, "We finally got the flames to only work only on the wounds, but…."

"Eh, did something go wrong?" Tsuna said looking over him until strands of long brunette hair dropped from his shoulders. It took him a moment to process the reason why his head felt heavy a few seconds before. "No way…" His shaking hand clasped around a bundle of hair and pulled gently. Just as he expected a yank off the scalp of his head told him that the long hair was his.

"I knew something like this would happen," a voice behind the mechanic and girl caught them by surprise. At the doorway, Reborn was leaning on the side of the wall looking at them before walking towards the young boss. "These two did say that they were going to test it on someone to see if they were making progress. I didn't expect you to be their guinea pig."

"What?" Tsuna exclaimed and turned his eyes at the three standing away from them. Kyoko and Spanner just looked away; Shouichi was… franticly avoiding his gaze until he collapsed onto the floor because of a stomachache of stress. The young boss sighed knowing that getting angry at them wouldn't help anything, but he continued to hold the long hair in his grip. At least half of his back was covered by the length of his hair.

"Alright, since we don't have time for this," Reborn started reaching for his green partner sitting on his fedora and let it transform into shears, "I'm going to cut it off." At the end of his sentence he grinned maliciously snipping the shears in his hands.

"NO WAY! YOU ARE THINKING OF CUTTING OFF ALL OF MY HAIR, I JUST KNOW IT!" Tsuna yelled running away from his crazy tutor that was chasing him. Unfortunately for him, he was caught by the tail of his hair and fell onto the ground. He wanted to move however his body was petrified by the evil grin on the man's face.

"I can make it into one of those bald monks if you want," Reborn said still grinning as he snipped the scissors moving closer.

"HIIIIEEEEE!"