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Chapter 6

Tsuna stared in shock at the familiar sight of Kai. He had most definitely not told him where the training was taking place, and Natsume wasn't told before hand the location of the training either, so that ruled out the possibility of him finding out from Natsume. Tsuna was also a bit curious of Kai's companion, A young woman with a yukata and her blue hair picked up in a bun.

"Kai!" Reborn broke the silence by yelling sternly at the boy. "How did you get here?" Reborn asked, his suspicions on the boy growing even greater. The only reason he hadn't acted out before was because he had felt no ill-intent coming from the boy.

"I wanted to see where Natsume was. I just followed you guys here and made sure not be seen." Kai said as innocently as possible, completely ignoring the reason that he got caught. He had sensed and heard that Natsume was going to fight when he had gotten closer to the group. He didn't want certain things to get exposed or for Natsume to get hurt, which let him to release some of his energy automatically. In his defense, Inoue did the same things. Unfortunately for Kai, she was only visible to those who can sense spiritual beings.

"Liar!" Reborn screamed. "It was impossible for a normal person to follow us without us noticing. And what was with the weird energy that you let out?" Reborn grounded his teeth in frustration as he waited for an answer to his question.

Mukuro was definitely amused by the scene in front of him as he glanced around the new people in the group. His eyes held curiosity when looking at Natsume. His entertainment started again when Tsuna decided to try to calm the situation down a bit, as well as to settle his own curiosity. "Reborn, calm down. They don't mean any harm. I can sense that" Tsuna spoke in a soothing tone, hoping to keep everyone from going to an all out attack. "By the way Kai, who's the lady with you?"

The reaction to his statement varied. The guardians, apart from the Mist guardian, and Reborn were looking at Tsuna with a sense of confusion and slight fear that the young boy had finally lost his sanity. Most of them were expecting a break down to occur, especially with all the battles that they went through and as well as seeing and doing things that shouldn't be possible. They were expecting for Tsuna to have a few quirks, just not for him to be seeing things that weren't there. The rest of the group were startled, obviously not expecting him to have a spiritual sense. Natsume didn't know whether to feel relieved or scared that Tsuna could see the yokai. The good part was that Natsume could talk to someone about the spirits and they won't think he's insane or that he wouldn't have to hid it from them in order to keep them safe. The bad thing was that Tsuna's friends were a bit too scary and some were territorial and overprotective. He was sure that if Tsuna was involved, the others would be too, and he wasn't sure yet if that was a good thing or not.

Mukuro broke through the silence with his chuckles surrounding the area. He honestly found the whole situation quite humorous. "My, my, my, you seem to have made some very interesting acquaintances since the last time I saw you." He turned to look at the new comers and started to point to them. "A god of some kind." He said while pointing at Kai. "A yokai." He said while pointing to Inoue. He stopped as he saw the the confused looks that people were giving him. "Don't be surprised, you keep forgetting about my six paths of reincarnation. I can see and sense yokais too, and yes the woman that Sawada was seeing is a yokai and is there." He turned to point at Nyanko-sensei. "A pig yokai." This comment left the Madara protesting in a loud voice that he was not a pig yokai but a yokai trapped in a lucky cat statue, though the comment was completely ignored by most of the people. "And finally," Mukuro smiled as he looked at Natsume with a predatory gleam. "A half yokai."

The statement caused a thick silence to blanket all of them. Hibari was looking at the mentioned people with an interested gleam in his eyes. He was very curious about their fighting abilities and wanted to test them out. Kai, Inoue, and Madara were waiting for Natsume's temper to rise, and were hoping that he wouldn't blow up the humans if he let out a power surge by accident. The other reason they wanted Natsume to be doing energy consuming tasks was due to them not knowing how stable his powers were, after all, it was the first time they all had done something like that.

"A half yokai?" Natsume questioned, not fully understanding why the others did not protest that statement. "You must be mistaken. I would have heard about me being that by now."

Mukuro looked at Natsume with pity. "You poor dear, you have no idea whatsoever of what you are." He then looked at the strangely quite spirits. "It would seem that they didn't want to tell you yet."

Natsume waited for there to be some form of protest from his yokai friends. Natsume was very frightened, but refused to show it on his face. If what the dichromatic-eyes man was telling the truth, then he would be more of an outcast than he had thought possible. He wanted to be friends with both the spirits and the humans, he saw no difference in either of them. If he was half-yokai now, then that meant that there would be less people who would want to be friends with him. He wasn't even sure he wanted to know Natori's reaction to him. He didn't even know if there was going to be more prejudice with the spirits toward him, since not all the spirits/yokai like humans. So instead of getting mad like his guardians thought he would be, Natsume was getting back to depression.

Tsuna sensed the mood that Takashi was getting to, and didn't like it one bit. He swiftly made his way to the other teen and pulled him into a hug, which seemed to startle Takashi out of his depression. "You're family no matter what. Mom and I will always want you to come back with us. We don't care if you would sprout three head and started breathing fire. To us, you are still Takashi Natsume, our newest family member." Both teens had their eyes teary, but no drop was shed as they looked at each other. They offered each other a tender smile, Takashi's also held his feelings of thankfulness. Tsuna rubbed his eyes a bit to get rid of the tears. "Why don't you go and get your answers? That is bound to be a private conversation and you should feel free to get your answers without having to worry about how others would react first. I'll tell mom that something came up and that you and Kai had to do some project for school. I'll save you guys your dinner. Just make sure to come back home, okay?"

Natsume just stared in wonder, Tsuna was so accepting that it hurt him a bit after he compared him to his blood relatives. Natsume couldn't trust himself to speak so he just nodded his head and gave the slightly younger teen a big hug. The tears he was holding back were trying to break out with a vengeance. He grabbed Nyanko-sensei and ran. He gave a quick wave of goodbye, but he did not stop running. He wanted to get some answers quick. Inoue and Kai quickly followed the young teen, and recognized that he was headed to the forest that housed the rest of his yokai friends.