The next few days were back to normal for Class 1-A. No interruptions or out of the ordinary class material. Aizawa got the students' attention by wearing his Hero Costume. Today was the day that theybstarted planning their own Hero Costumes. Izuku was already sketching out his idea he's been fixed on for as long as he could remember. Tsuna stared at his page where he wrote down, Spanner's Headset, contacts, and the X-Gloves. What should his should he wear?
The class period was almost over when Mr. Aizawa called for their designs to be submitted. Tsuna started to panic, he didn't do anything all class! While Tsuna walked up with his list of equipment he always carries with him he "suddenly" tripped while a shadow replaced his paper. The class laughed at Tsuna's akwardness as they left for lunch. Izuku waited for Tsuna to catch up so they could get lunch together.
Tsuna had a weird feeling on the way to lunch. The lines were long and he wasn't any more or less clumsy. Maybe it had to do with Reborn not being around? Maybe it was that he hasn't seen his friends in awhile? Tsuna planned to meet with everyone afyer school today. Other than tripping, school turned out to be normal. Even for a Hero Program.
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Izuku ran up to Tsuna after the final bell rang, "Tsuna! Are you doing anything after school?"
"Not really, just going out with some friends."
"O-okay. Nevermind then!"
"You can join if you want?"
Izuku made an overdramatic shake of his head trying to tell Tsuna "no" but it didn't really work. "It'll be fine!" The two walked off to the bus stop exchanging ideas for that night's homework on their way to Namimori's favorite Sushi shop, the Yamamoto Family resturant. Of course not everyone from the Vongola Family could make it though. Reborn, Gokudera, Yamamoto, Kyoko, Haru, I-Pin, and Lambo showed up along woth Tsuna's parents. Nana was gushing over the fact that Tsuna had made another new friend, she reminded Izuku of his own mother. He was also worried about Gokudera who kept eyeing him up and mumbling about how it was he who is worthy to be the Tenth's right hand man!
Kyoko was teasing Tsuna on how he was replacing them with real hero friends. Tsuna was doing his usual, mostly frantic, nervous rant about how he could never replace them. "Kyoko-chan you, and everyone else, you guys bring something that no hero ever could."
Kyoko smiled at Tsuna making him even more nervous, "and that is?"
"N-Normalcy."
The two laughed as Haru was now in another outlandish costume, Lambo and I-Pin were fighting over the same dish, while Gokudera was lecturing Izuku with Yamamoto calming the silver haired teen down. It was anything but normal but for Tsuna this was calming almost. Nothing life or death could come from this, no matter how much Lambo promised he would die without the last bite. It did feel weird that Reborn hadn't hit or humiliated Tsuna the entire night. Was something wrong? Tsuna was thinking about what could go wrong in the next few days.
"Tsuna!" It was his father, Iemitsu, "We begin your training tomorrow. Basil will also be joining us as well."
There it was...
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The weekend arrived as Iemitsu, Basil, and Reborn dragged Tsuna to his usual training spot in the moutains not too far from home. Iemitsu began stretching while Reborn got Tsuna and Basil ready to spar. Eventhough Tsuna has a higher and stronger Fiamma Volts, Basil has had more training and can control his Dying Will better. "Okay, Tsuna, the first step of your new training is quite simple. Be in control of your Dying Will." Reborn took away Tsuna's Dying Will Pills as Basil looked like he was thinking hard to himself.
"B-but how?! Is there any tricks you can tell me?!?"
Basil let out a small scream as he charged at Tsuna with his Metal Edge and a weak blue flame upon his forehead. Basil was able to enter Dying Will mode but it was vastly weaker than being shot or taking the pill to enter, another flaw is that he can only maintain it for a brief moment. Before the young CEDEF agent could reach the cowering Tsuna the flame went out.
"Basil, you need to set your worries aside. You have trained with Tsuna before."
Iemitsu began explaining how to feel the Dying Will Flame within. As usual the words just flew right over Tsuna's head. Reborn shot two bullets at Tsuna's head, one Criticism and one Dying Will, forcing the young Boss into Ultimate Dying Will Mode. The intense Flames engulfed and immersed Tsuna in his own power. Sky Flames continued to explode from every part of Tsuna's body.
"Tsuna, you know that feeling? Never forget it."
"I haven't from the last time." His calm and arrogant tone was all Reborn needed to be assured of the young Boss's potential. Not that Reborn ever missed seeing it, now Tsuna could feel his own potential. Iemitsu continued, "Good. Now you are to use that feeling to find your Dying Will. Then you can use it when ever and how ever you feel it necessary."
Basil took two Dying Will Pills to enter Hyper Dying Will as Iemitsu enter Dying Will. The two CEDEF agents attacked Tsuna with out holding back. Tsuna's control and use of his Sky Flames was impressive. Basil wasn't a big threat with his Rain Flames nullifying a portion of Tsuna's flames. The Sky's Harmony trait was amazong and versitile. Iemitsu was still too much for the young teen. Iemitsu had full control on both Dying Will and Hyper Dying Will modes plus his years of training.
Tsuna took one punch after another even with the Ultimate Vongola Intuition acting as a foresight, Iemitsu was just reacting faster than Tsuna. 'How is he able to change directions so fast? I was able to stop Bermuda at Light Speed!'
"Tsuna!" Iemitsu sent a right hook into his son's jaw, "Stop holding back! Just because we are all family doesn't mean you can act weak towards us!"
"Holding back?"
Iemitsu and Basil both dashed at Tsuna who only used his flames to block or evade their attacks. He had not thrown a single punch towards his sparring partners. Reborn looked a little worried as if he was telling Tsuna something. The young Vongola couldn't focus on Reborn or he might actually hurt his father and his friend. "I-I am... but you guys might get hurt." Tsuna reverted back to normal self as the energy started draining from him.
"No Good Tsuna, you can't always be worried about your strength. You need to overcome this doubt otherwise you can't protect you Familia." Reborn came crashing into Tsuna's jaw with a drop kick, sending the teen into a pile of rocks. "Now if you are really that afraid because you want to become a hero or whatever that is going through your mind, that is why you have no control over your Dying Will."
Tsuna nodded and brushed off the dirt on his pants. "And U.A. won't give you a second chance everytime you hold back either." Reborn sat back down with Leon and started drinking his coffee. Tsuna started to think about the reasons he wanted to enter U.A. The biggest reason was to put a gap between him anf the Mafia, but the Mafia was the start of it all. Then he told himself it was to bring the Vongola Family back into the light, which is still true but there is still something hiding in the back of all Tsuna's excuses.
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The weekend of training didn't feel helpful to Tsuna. Whenever he couldn't draw out his Dying Will, Reborn would force him into Ultimate Dying Will Mode. School wasjust about to start and Tsuna was starting to feel more "awake" than usual. Aizawa did roll call before preping the class for gym.
"All right class, Gym will be a little different today. Master PaoPao will be taking the lead today."
"RE-REBORN?!?!?!"
Reborn in his Master PaoPao costume punched Tsuna, frightening the other students before they went to change into their gym uniforms. "Master PaoPao will meet you all on the training grounds in 15!"
Tsuna rubbed his face as he too went to get changed into his gym uniform. Class 1-A was in for quite a show...
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Master PaoPao had a mock Boxing Ring set up outside. It was maybe 4 times bigger then a normal Ring but then again this class was not some normal class. "Okay, today's exercise will determine how much catastrophe each of you can cause. So the goal is to keep all the damage inside this ring!"
"Who are we going to fight?"
"How much of our Quirk can we use?"
The class kept asking questions when Ryohei Sasagawa appeared, "Master PaoPao I am ready to do some EXTREME training!!!"
Tsuna's jaw slacked. How could he drag Ryohei into this? What did Ryohei know? "Ryohei calm down. You have plenty of Extreme Sparring Partners ahead." Ryohei became even more pumped up by Reborn's words. Tsuna couldn't believe that the older teen still could not tell PaoPao was Reborn.
"First up: Eijirou Kirishima, Quirk: Hardening."
A red, spikey haired boy jumped into the ring. He reminded Tsuna a little of Yamamoto, he was excited yet calm at the same time. Eijirou held out his hand to Ryohei, "I'm Eijirou! Let's have a fair match."
"Ryohei Sasagawa! Extreme Sumo Champion of the Sun!"
'He even thinks this is a Sumo Match...'
Master PaoPao rang a bell starting the match. Eijirou used his Quirk to harden his arms as strong as rock while Ryohei used Cambio Forma: Vongola Gear. The class was a little surprised by this "Quirk" it worked like Tsuna's but was different all the same. Ryohei donned powerful sparring equipment with a sun-like bangle. The "Champion" Belt bore the Crest of Vongola with the words Vongola Familia crossed like an X in the same fashion as Tsuna's gloves. The sparrining equipment looked more like armor to Class 1-A.
The fight started out Eijirou rushing the Boxer, but Ryohei used his Dying Will boots to boost his mobility. Eijirou could barely hit Ryohei. Any time that he did the silver haired teen countered with his own punch nullifying the hit altogether. Ryohei's speed and strength were way out of Eijirou's leauge which Reborn was counting on. Now that the tiny Mafioso worked for U.A. he no longer could just focus in Tsuna.
"That's enough Ryohei! Kirishima understands his limit."
Eijirou was panting as he undid his Quirk before exiting the ring, "H-He's incredible..."
Tsuna was relieved that Ryohei wasn't using he full power. How could Reborn think that this was a good idea?! "Next is... Mashirao Ojiro, Quirk: Tail!"
Mashirao jumped into the ring opposite of Ryohei and bowed in respect. Ryohei nodded with a grin and shouted "Extreme!!!" Reborn rang the bell and the second fight started. Mashirao started off by swining his giant tail at Ryohei's afterimages before wrapping himself up in a defesive stance. All 360 degrees around the teen was protected by his tail or his guard. Ryohei appeared in a bright dash, throwing quick and light jabs at the Ojiro boy. When Ryohei left an opening Mashirao took his chance.
The blonde did a roundhouse kick aimed at Ryohei's chest while balancing himself on his tail. Ryohei's bangle lit up with one small Sun Flame, "SUNSHINE UPPERCUT!" Ryohei charged his fist with the Sun Flame as he punched Mashirao's chin. While he was airborn by the punch, Mashirao used his tail to hit Ryohei back as well. The distance between them gave the mutant Quirk user to plan his next move.
Ryohei cocked back his right fist as his glove began to glow with Sun Flames once more, "Maximum Cannon!"
Reborn as PaoPao kicked the attack upward, "that's enough Ryohei. We'll move on to the next one." PaoPao looked right at Izuku, "Midoriya, your up!"