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Snippet 1 (Reborn)

They didn't know what had happened at first. The Inheritance Ceremony had finished and everything was fine for a year. Everyone went to school, hanged out, and Tsuna went through even more training (much to his despair) now that his place as Decimo was assured.

Then came the Arcobanelo Trials, and Tsuna. Sweet, kind, naïve idiot Tsuna, cried out for them; yelled out to Checker Face in anger. Why did they have to die? Wasn't there any other way?

Nobody was sure what deal they struck up. What kind of agreement they came to and Checker Face, who was apparently Kawahira, wasn't very forthcoming.

What they did know was that Tsuna was admitted to the hospital, unconscious but with no other visible injuries. And that when he woke up two weeks later —one week after Kawahira came and said that the curse on the Arcobanelo had been broken and took back all the Vongola rings (which still had everyone in an uproar)—he had panicked over his surroundings, needed to be calmed down, apparently had no idea what happened to him, and when the nurse in the room called the head doctor, Tsuna took one look at Shamal after the doctor berated Tsuna for worrying them all and making him treat him and asked, "Umm…Do I—do I know you?"

The panic that had caused was completely justified. Thinking back on it, that was the worst possible moment for his guardians to barge in, and contrary to first thoughts maybe Tsuna's panic attack didn't have so much to do with subconscious triggers and instead had more to do with the fact that he just woke up in a hospital with no memories of how he got there, a strange doctor panicking over his lack of recognition, and then several very loud and weird teenagers burst in through the door, who then began shouting and crowding around Tsuna.

Yes, all the panic that everyone felt was completely justified. What wasn't justified, Reborn thought grimly, was the fact that all of Tsuna's guardians (even Hibari and Mukuro for coffee's sake!) were now too afraid of causing Tsuna another panic attack to approach him.

Even after Shamal (now that he wasn't alarmed and could think clearly) assured them that what had triggered the flashbacks had been the shouting and not their appearance they didn't approach Tsuna—too afraid that the flashbacks and panic had been at their appearance to even try.

Weren't the kids Reborn picked as Tsuna's guardians more courageous than this? It had already been five months since the "accident" as they called it, and they only kept to the edges, coming in and out only when Tsuna couldn't see them and badgering Shamal for status reports.

He could understand them, he really could. If a guardian felt that something was harming his or her sky, his/her first thought would be to remove that thing. In this case, since the thing they thought was hurting their sky was the guardians themselves…well, they would keep as far away as possible while still keeping a protective eye. A bit like how the cloud acted naturally only worse, because now Tsuna didn't have his guardians near him. It would hurt him, even if he didn't know why, but did they listen to reason? Of course not.

Things like this made him happy he was unattached to a sky (Tsuna almost managed but—). Imagine him, The World's Greatest Hit man, acting like a shy, love-struck kid with stalker tendencies who was too scared to approach his crush. As if.

He looked at the people he was following and jumped down from is perch on the roof now that Tsuna and Nana were moving again. Well if one— not exactly positive side effect but better than the rest— interesting thing had happened from this it was the discovery of where Tsuna's protective tendencies came from. Who knew that such a petit woman had such a vicious side to her? Suddenly Tsuna's deceptive strength made a lot more sense.

Though he really didn't want to know where she got the ideas for her threats from. There were something's that he was better off not contemplating. Where Nana got her ideas for disembowelment via spoon was one of them. Bianchi had her money placed on Thanksgiving feasts while Coronello thought she might have overheard Iemitsu talking torture oneday.

The Ex-Arcobanelo (something neither he nor the others would ever be able to repay Tsuna for) walked just far enough that neither Sawada would notice him, though Tsuna kept glancing behind him every now and then. Reborn was proud. That was his student. Not even forgetting everything he learned before would keep his skills down.

Reborn ignored that he was doing something similar to what he criticized Tsuna's guardians of doing before. He had done this many times before the accident, and Tsuna was still his Student in his mind.

As he shadowed the Sawada's he resolutely ignored that without the Vongola Rings in question Xanxus had taken over and his contract had been terminated four months ago, meaning that Tsuna wasn't really in his jurisdiction anymore.

Tsuna was his student, even if nobody else saw it that way.

Authors Note:

First things first, thank you to all of those who favorited, reviewed, and/or follow this story! I'm really glad you liked it.

The first chapter was actually supposed to be a one-shot. But then the plunnies started breeding and now I have several drabbles in this universe planned out. This is the first one which is set 5 months after the accident and gives a bit of insight into Reborn's thoughts. I sure hope I got his characterization correctly.

Also, remember the conversation between Tsuna and Shamal where Tsuna tells Shamal all about how people kept sending funeral arrangements (read: death threats) to others who (much to Tsuna's confusion) weren't planning a funeral and were still alive?

I have a drabble that explains what happened in that mess but I'm not sure whether to do it from Tsuna's POV or from the assassin that gets the death threat's POV, or if I should write the drabble with Tsuna's POV and then one with the assassins POV (both would be about the same things but the second would explain things much better than from Tsuna's limited point of view) and post them together. Any thoughts?