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Chapter 5

The days that followed Natsume's arrival were all about routine. Natsume and Kai would wake up to the sound of Tsuna's cries. Both of them would get dressed and head down for breakfast and watch the amusing scene of Tsuna fighting for his food. Then the four, including Fuuta, would head out for school. Along the way Yamamoto and Gokudera would join them. Natsume had been warned of the blood thirsty prefect, so he made sure to follow all the rules in order not to get in trouble.

After school, the Vongola would go to their training routine that Reborn had them do and Natsume, Kai, and Nyanko-sensei would go to the local shrine. The Vongola group thought that it was for prayers, which was partly true. The real reason that they would go to the shrine was to visit the rest of the spirits and to make sure that Natsume could defend himself a bit more. Hinoe had taken Natsume in as her adopted child, no one messed with him without facing her wrath, and she was teaching him what she knew about curses. If Natsume wasn't drained from his training, he was drained from returning the names of the spirits that traveled to Namimori to get their names back. Reborn had not started on Natsume's training due to Nana's insistence that he get settled down first before starting any self-defense classes that the rest of the group was going through. Nana had yet to be told the real reason why the boys would come back with cuts and bruises.

One day at the breakfast table, Reborn spoke to Natsume. "After school, you're going to go with Tsuna and the others for some training. By now, you should already be used to this place and it would be best to not delay training any further. Who know's if you might be attacked or not. No objections." Without waiting for a response, Reborn left the table and leaving the others in shock.

"What?" Natsume asked worriedly, he still did not trust Reborn, who he had realized to give off weird energy. He was also unsure about when he was going to do his own training.

"I guess we have no choice. You might want to prepare to be pushed to your limits, maybe a bit beyond that, as well as seeing some strange sights. Reborn is a spartan tutor and trainer." Tsuna warned Natsume.

"Strange sights?" Natsume asked curiously. He was wondering if the group had any connections to spirits. He would sometimes see another person besides someone from the group, but they would disappear quickly which left him wondering if he was finally seeing things. If he was, he was going to blame the lack of any real energy and the paranoia that the spirits were instilling into Natsume.

"You'll have to wait and see." Tsuna plainly said.

During school Natsume was quite eager to find out what the secret was. He was a bit excited and nervous if it he didn't have to hide about seeing spirits. Either way, he knew that he was not going to tell them about the book of friends. School had finished, and Natsume made his way to join his new human friends to the training sight. Tsuna had already told the group of Reborn's choice. Along the way to the training grounds, they met with Chrome. Hibari was going to show up late as usual, and leave when he feels like it. The only reason that he bothered to go to the training was because he would sometimes fight against Reborn or Mukuro. The teens would usually be paired against one another after they finished their own unique training sessions and would have to spar with each other. The pairing would change daily and Reborn would sometimes join in.

When they arrived at the training grounds, Reborn was already waiting for them. "Everybody pair up, except for Natsume, I want for him to see what he is going to be going against." Reborn ordered. "You can do your personal training afterwards, the sparring is going to last five minuets, after all, it's only a small sample of what he is going to see quite commonly know."

Natsume watched in confusion as the teens paired up to fight. Chrome was going against Gokudera, Ryohei was against Tsuna, and Yamamoto was fighting against Hibari who had appeared quite suddenly. All of them had their own weapons drawn out and started to fight with each other. "This wasn't the secret I thought it was going to be." Natsume muttered to Nyanko-sensei, he was quite thankful that Kai had left to warn the other spirits of Natsume's change of plans.

"You still want to cease living?" Nyanko-sensei asked Natsume. "After all, you gained something to live for again. Even if they are a bit weird." He added as an after thought. He was referring to the Sawada family and all of his spirit friends.

"No, I do want to live." Natsume replied with conviction.

"Good! I thought I was going to have to bring in Hinoe again in order to knock some more sense into you. Now then, how about we leave this place, I doubt you'll last without revealing your powers." Nyanko-sensei said.

"I don't think Reborn would let us do that." Natsume said, while looking at Reborn who was smiling sadistically.

"Alright Natsume, it's time for you to show me what you can do and what we have to work with. Let's start out with illusions, since they are the least harmful. Chrome would you please test Natsume." Reborn commanded, he knew that if he had chosen any other person, Tsuna would have protested and not let him have his fun since most of the others would follow Tsuna's command.

Chrome had made her way to stand in front of Natsume, but before she could start the test, Mukuro took control. "I would like to test him out. I must say, I didn't expect to see any of your kind here." Mukuro stated as he looked at Natsume and Nyanko-sensei. Before anything else happened, Natsume, Mukuro, and Tsuna felt something head toward them and faced toward that direction. Nyanko-sensei was more interested in the group of teens than the familiar energy.