"Japanese"

'Thoughts'

A moment of silence passed over to the whole Vongola dining room. Every one of Tsuna's classmates were staring at him and Gokudera. Then, chaos and confusion broke out.

"KYAAAAAHH! Isn't that Gokudera-kun?!"

"He looks so cute in that shirt!"

"He so handsome,"

"Do you think he's still single?"

"Oh, great. The monkey's here," Hana muttered, annoyed that her classmates were so noisy.

Gokudera ignored all the squealing girls but glared at Hana at her remark. He learned to control his anger with the help of his beloved Juudaime. Well, at least in the presence of strangers, that is.

Tsuna walked to his seat at the head of the table. Gokudera followed his boss quietly, ignoring the drooling and squealing girls. Tsuna was about to sit down when the class representative saw him.

"Ah~ Sawada-san, that seat is reserved to the boss of the Vongola," she said. Tsuna mentally cursed at his stupidity. He was used to sitting on the head of the table in the mansion from the time of the inheritance ceremony. He didn't realize that he was in the presence of his innocent classmates. Now what was he going to do?

"But there's no other seat left!" Tsuna blurted out as Gokudera took a seat at his right side.

"But-," she started but she was interrupted by Timoteo who just came in.

"It's alright, Zuki-chan," he said in a very kind voice, taking a seat in the other end of the table. "Tsuna can sit anywhere he likes." Zuki just nodded while thinking of how kind the old man is.

'Thanks grandpa,' Tsuna thought. He was really lucky that Timoteo prolonged the time when his classmates will know he's the Decimo.

Tsuna finally took a seat and calmed Gokudera down who looked like he wanted to throw his dynamites at Zuki for questioning his boss. Nono cleared his throat, successfully catching the attention of everyone in the room.

Nono began his welcoming speech in a gentle yet commanding voice of his.

"Welcome, students! You are here because you've been chosen as a part of the Vongola training program!"

"Training?" echoed a student.

In his mind, Tsuna also thought the same thing. Why training? After a moment, Tsuna realized what training meant and paled dramatically.

'Oh no…. no no no no…..' Tsuna thought.

"Juudaime, daijoubu?" Gokudera whispered to Tsuna after seeing him pale.

"I'm alright… It's nothing," Tsuna shook his head as Timoteo continued his speech. "Excuse me… I need to go to the bathroom." With that, Tsuna stood up and left the dining room through the back door behind him.

Gokudera didn't follow. He can sense that his boss was worried about what will happen to his classmates once the 'training' starts. But Gokudera can't help but contemplate why his boss would care for his classmates. They're just "random bastards who aren't even worthy to be in Juudaime's presence". But Gokudera didn't object Nono's decision. He respected him and his decision.

Tsuna splashed water on his face once again. Yup, he was awake. He wasn't dreaming. If he wasn't dreaming then….

No. He didn't even want to think about it.

Grandpa won't allow it. They're still so innocent….

In the middle of the night, when everybody else was sleeping, Tsuna woke up. He tossed and turned in his covers, wanting to go back to sleep but he just can't. He guessed it was because he felt uneasy being in the same room with his classmates. It's really hard not to when they were the same classmates that bullies him.

As quietly as he can, he crept out of the room where his classmates are sleeping. Tsuna wanted a midnight snack before he sleeps once more.

Hardly anyone in the Vongola mansion was awake. Only the guards guarding the perimeter of the mansion were awake. Tsuna didn't meet anyone in his trip to the kitchen. Getting a midnight snack would be easy cause' Tsuna knows where the chefs keep the cookies. The only problem was if anyone (i.e. Reborn) catches him strolling around the mansion at night. But Reborn was 5 years old right now* and he probably needed his sleep.

The worst case scenario would be that one of his classmates catches him while he was eating his snack. That would be really awkward and hard to explain…

*In the end of the Arcobaleno Arc, it was mentioned that the Arcobalenos will grow like normal people. So Reborn is 5 years old cause' this story is set 4YL.