A/N: Ciaossu, minna! Sorry for the late update, the end-of-year examinations have been keeping me busy. Anyway, this chapter will be typed by Tsunayoshi, my oldest cousin to prevent anymore stalling. Enjoy the 8th chapter!

Chapter 8: A Surprise Visit

While Tsuna worked on his homework, Reborn sat in an armchair with his legs on the miniature coffee table inside the Sawada residence. He glanced at the 14-year old brunette who was looking very stressed. Ever since the Arcobalenos were freed from their curse, Reborn had doubled Tsuna's training to become the Neo Vongola Primo, and he was starting to regret his decision. After all, it was Reborn's job to make sure his student got some rest once in a while, as requested by Timoteo (a.k.a. Vongola's ninth boss)

"Oi, Tsuna." Said brunette looked up from his homework and looked at his tutor with tired eyes, hoping that Reborn won't send him on a triple, no, quadruple round of training (again). Reborn tilted his fedora. "Let's pay a visit to your grandpa. I'll consider this a little break from your training." Tsuna's eyes lit up instantly that Reborn might have some kind of trick up his sleeve.

"Achoo!" Giotto sneezed, sending a sheet of paperwork flying into G's lap. "Hmm, finally down to the last sheet, huh? Looks like I can finally go fetch Elena from her aunt's house." G got up from his seat. "Hey, it was your decision to stay here and watch me finish my paperwork." Giotto complained, earning a flick on the forehead from his loyal right-hand-man. "And it was your decision to ignore your piling work and have fun instead. God, am I your mother or your maid?" G replied.

"Both." Giotto answered with a teasing smile." I bet Sakura's old uniform will fit you nicely…" he smirked. "Why, you son of a…" G pulled out his gun and released the safety catch. Giotto smirked and went into Hyper Dying Will Mode. He then flew off to god-knows-where to avoid the wrath of his right hand man.

A few hours later…

"Giotto, what happened?" Reborn arrived and saw Tsuna's ancestor tied to a chair with G holding a gun to said boss's temple. "Oi, what are you doing old man? Release Primo immediately!" Gokudera yelled. "Like hell I'll do that! This bastard said I was both his maid and mother!" G shouted back.

The tenth gen stopped and an image of G wearing an apron and dusting the Vongola mansion's furniture appeared in their heads. "Hahaha..."The other first gen guardians burst out laughing too as the exact same image formed inside them when they finally knew why G was so mad. G immediately realised that he had made a mistake. By telling them what was pissing him off so much, he had accidentally embarrassed himself even more.

"Oh, come on G, that was just a joke. Did you really need to take it that seriously?" Talbot asked after he finally managed to compose himself. "Yeah, do you remember what happened on Halloween when we were 10?" Giotto asked, trying desperately to fight down another laugh. G froze as he remembered that horrible day and glared at the only two people who happened to witness the incident, namely Talbot and you-know-who.

Meanwhile, the others had noticed that G was getting ready to pull the trigger of his trusty gun. The first gen exchanged looks with their descendants. "Giotto, don't you dare…" G was interrupted as everybody (excluding the two cloud guardians for a very obvious reason, Chrome, Talbot and Giotto) pounced on him. Before G can fight off his friends and their descendants, he had been tied to the chair while the others released Giotto.

"Um, should we gag him? I got a feeling he's gonna make a lot of noise later." Yamamoto suggested, casting a glance at the red-head who was struggling and cursing in four different languages. Gokudera 'tched' and stuffed a handkerchief into G's mouth, effectively saving their ears from G's endless colourful string of curses. "Nufufufu, now this is music to my ears." Daemon smirked, enjoying the silence." So, shall we continue?" Giotto asked.

"Just a minute, kora!" the door to the hall was immediately kicked open and Colonello appeared. "Colonello, you bastard! How many times do I have to tell you to open the door properly?" Lal kicked her student right in his backside, causing him to stumble and fall face first on the floor. Tsuna was forced to shut his eyes as a tiny ray of light shot into his eyes. He opened them after a while and saw the source of the blinding ray: an unmistakable diamond ring on both the Arobalenos' ring fingers.

"Colonello, I didn't know you were the type to elope." Reborn smirked, as said blond got up and grinned at his Lal. "He wasn't. Lal forced him to. Said she didn't want to wear a wedding dress in front of everyone." Fon stepped out from behind the doors and smiled. So did Verde, Skull and Mammon, who were also smiling. "But for what reason? Verde and Mammon almost never smile unless his experiments succeed or she gets a fortune." Reborn thought.

"You seem surprised, Reborn. The truth is I brought an extra person from the future. That's why they're all smiling." Talbot replied with a wink. "But who? He must be really charismatic to make all six of them smile." Gokudera asked. The others nodded in response but Giotto only smiled. "Actually, you guys have got it wrong. That person's a she." A voice rang out from behind Fon. Reborn felt his body stiffen as his ears recognized the voice that he thought he'd never hear again.

"Is anyone hungry? I made some chocolate chip cookies. Oh, and Reborn, I also made espresso flavoured ones for you." Reborn tilted his fedora so it would shield his eyes and smiled. "Some people do never change, huh?" He thought. "Yuni? I didn't know you could make cookies." Ryohei reached for the plate but Yamamoto and Tsuna widened their eyes as their instincts/ Hyper Intuition kicked in. "Onii-san, that's not Yuni. It's her grandmother, Luche." Tsuna stared at said woman in disbelief. She was a spitting image of Yuni, like Reborn said.

"You have good instincts, Yamamoto, Tsuna. Nobody else except the Arcobaleno and Giotto can notice our differences." Luche smiled. She then proceeded to pick up an espresso flavoured cookie, which was considerably darker than the others, and handed it to the hitman. Reborn took the cookie and bit into it. For the first time in his life of an Arcobaleno, he smiled a genuine smile.

"Ahem, shall I continue, guys?" Giotto asked, and grinned when they all sat down on the floor to listen. "It all started when Halloween was near …" he began, once again turning a deaf ear to G's struggling.

Flashback

"Uncle Talbot, can we go trick-or-treating, please?" Giotto asked with pleading eyes at Talbot. The mechanic chuckled and ruffled Giotto's blond hair. "Go do whatever you want, boy. Just try not to get into trouble." He smiled as the 10-year old jumped into the air and cheered. "Hey G, let's go get some costumes from the shop!" Giotto ran off with G to the place mentioned to buy some stuff to wear.

A few minutes later…

"What do you mean there are only two costumes left?!" G exclaimed in disbelief." Sorry, but you have to pick the maid costume or the dragon one." The boss smiled apologetically. The two friends then exchanged glances. "Rock, paper, scissors, shoot!" Giotto made a scissors gesture while G made a rock." Ha! I win! Scissors cuts rock, remember?" Giotto cried triumphantly.

"Idiot, you son of a jackal, you…" G muttered curses under his breath. Luckily the storm guardian didn't know much curses in his childhood, so he had to be content with repeating all the swear words he knew non-stop.

Flashback ends

"As for the rest, you guys should know what happened. He was forced to collect sweets in that maid costume. You should have seen G when I told him that rock was supposed to crush scissors, not the other way round." Talbot finished with a laugh and looked at G. He was looking like an active volcano ready to explode.

When Giotto finally decided to release G, G fired multiple bullets so quickly Giotto had to move high speed to dodge them all. "Hmm, Giotto's moving at the speed of 3.1415 metres per second. What an amazing speed. I must invite him to participate in my experiments someday." Verde mumbled as he scribbled some notes on his PDA. "Well, now that the story's finished, you guys can do whatever you want." Giotto announced, still dodging bullets from his pissed off right hand man. "Idiot! I thought you promised not to tell anybody!" G boomed. The others took that as a cue to hightail it out of there.

"Ha-ha, well, that went well, eh guys?" Yamamoto laughed after the gang managed to rush out of the Vongola mansion into the garden. "Yeah, so we should split up already." Tsuna replied, panting heavily. "Dame-Tsuna, we've only run 700 metres and you're panting. Double training for you when we get back." Reborn turned his chameleon partner into his favourite pistol and cocked it at Tsuna.

"NOOOOOOOO!" the garden rang with Tsuna's voice and Yamamoto's carefree laugh. Reborn watched with a neutral expression. He used to have a life like that, a life where he could be assassinated any minute. But, like Tsuna, he had friends to support him. All the memories changed after that.

"So, up for an Arcobaleno-only party?" Fon patted him on the shoulder. Reborn tilted his fedora and allowed Fon to lead the way. When he turned around a corner, he saw all the Arcobaleno sitting on a picnic blanket, with an assortment of food on the menu. "Reborn, you're here. I saved you a spot." Luche pointed to the seat next to Verde. Reborn glared at Luche."First time we've met after so many years and you're trying to torture me, Luche?" Luche just smiled and answered:" Reborn, you should learn to get along with the others, you know." Reborn just sat right next to Fon and smirked at his boss.

"Reborn, sit next to Verde now." Luche said with a smile that was too sweet for comfort. "Not this time, it's not every day I get to see you without carrying Aria wherever you go." Reborn answered with a playful smirk. Luche just glared at Reborn and proceeded to hand out her trademark cookies. Reborn saw his chance when Luche handed out lemonade and deliberately splashed it at Verde. "Oops, sorry, my hand slipped." Reborn smirked. Verde grabbed some salad and threw it back. Reborn dodged but the salad hit Skull instead. "Food fight!" Skull called out as he grabbed a pie and threw it at Fon. The martial arts expert dodged and grabbed the pie in mid-air before throwing it at a random target. Even Luche joined in and threw mashed potatoes at Reborn.

By the time the food supply ran out, all of them were covered in food of various colours. Lemonade, salad, jellies, you name it. Reborn laughed at Skull when he noticed the stuntman was covered from head to toe with food. Verde chuckled and laughed too. Before they knew it, everyone was laughing along as well, even Mammon. Giotto and the others had also chosen that moment to come check on them. "Whoa, did an extreme food fight happen here? You guys are totally covered in it!" Ryohei exclaimed. "Well, since you guys will be staying here for a while, I think you should take a shower." Talbot chuckled, as it reminded him of the food fights Giotto used to have with G.

After they had refreshed themselves, Asari asked them to follow him. Out of curiosity, they followed him and were surprised to see a small hill. There was a big tree that provided shade in the afternoons but that didn't block the view of the town and the starry night sky. They all lied down on the soft grass in a position that they were comfortable with and began to search for familiar constellations.

Unfortunately, the small hill wasn't big enough to accommodate 24 people so Reborn, Tsuna, Luche and Talbot decided to sit at the top of the tree. Lambo managed to climb up and sat in Tsuna's lap "Need some help?" Luche looked at Reborn's outstretched palm and accepted his offer to help. Reborn pulled her up and she settled down on a branch next to him. Lambo looked at the two and made a very stupid decision.

"Gya hahahaha! Reborn and Luche, sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G…" he teased. The others below the tree heard it and laughed when they saw said couple on the highest branch of the tree, which fitted the song perfectly.

Before Reborn can pull out his gun, Luche produced a grenade from Lambo's hair and pulled out the safety pin before throwing it at said stupid cow. She also did the same to the people below the tree. "Nice shot. You didn't even blow off a twig." Reborn complimented as Luche smirked when she saw Lambo fly towards the sky like Team Rocket in the Pokemon anime.

"I'm not a useless mafia boss, you know." She sat down. "So, did you miss me?" Luche continued. Reborn looked at Luche for a while before answering:"Yeah, a little. You were the only person who knew about that so I didn't have anybody to talk to about it after you died." Luche noticed a slight hint of sadness in his voice and frowned. "Then why didn't you just tell everyone? They can share the pain with you." She asked the hitman.

"I don't want to, and I don't need to. Nobody understood the suffering I had to go through. Not even my family." Reborn snapped. "Okay, I'll keep it a secret. Just remember: you're not alone and you never will." Luche replied with a sigh. Reborn glanced at Luche and smiled, just a little.

"Hey, by the way, Luche's gonna be here permanently. Won't affect the history. You can thank me later." Talbot called from a faraway branch. Luche smiled. "Well, looks like I'll have someone to talk to after all." Reborn thought and smirked.

A/N: So, how was my first cliffhanger and typed chapter? Like it? I hope it was as good as the previous chapters. From now on, I'll be taking over my cousin's job as the author. Sorry to disappoint you guys but there were some major issues. Oh, and reviews, please? That's all for now. Ciao ciao!