Two years ago…
"Reborn, why do you still ignore me?" Lambo tilts his head curiously, school bag slung over his back and Namimori school uniform on.
He is, of course, ignored by the hitman Lambo had just so happened to skip the last two hours of the school day to meet up with after Reborn's return from a mission.
He sighs. "Yare, yare, I'm not a small fry anymore. I am the thunder guardian of the Vongola family; doesn't that merit any attention from you?"
Again, he is unanswered.
It doesn't matter; behind Reborn, where, undoubtedly, the man shouldn't be able to see him, he smiles. This was the longest period of time he had been without the hitman – Fuuta had not wanted him to miss any more school and had brought the subject up with Tsuna who had agreed (with some doubt because he remembers the multiple times before when they had tried to separate the cow-obsessed boy from his archrival).
"Why are you smiling, you dumb cow?" Comes the gruff question.
Lambo blinks, but the smile only grows. "My archrival is home and safe for another day… At least…" He smirks his own small smirk that isn't nearly as dangerous as Reborn's, but just as entrancing. "until the day I decide to take you life." He assumes his apathetic face. "But I feel pity for you today, my archrival; you will be safe. I'm warning you, though, be ready by breakfast tomorrow." He says it all with the self-confidence of someone who knows they're all that.
"The grenade in the coffee maker is getting old."
"EH! You've figured it out already?" Lambo is, least to say, shocked! Despite the fact that he's been playing that specific trick for nearly five weeks (not including the two weeks and random days Reborn wasn't there to do it to) nonstop, he is nearly certain that Reborn shouldn't have figured it out.
"If I have to buy a new one tomorrow, I'm killing you."
"Eh heh heh… No hard feelings, archrival?" Lambo smiles pleasantly enough.
There's no answer; Lambo doesn't expect one. He follows with the loyalty of a stalker as Reborn trails his way back to Vongola base.
He knows Fuuta and Tsuna are going to be upset to see him out of school and he knows that Hibari is going to bite him to death for skipping, but it's all worth it just to be the first to see Reborn come home.