"I'm the Vongola Decimo."

Reborn stood silently, watching the boy in front of him, not knowing what to say. "The Vongola Decimo?" he asked, his mind already racing.

This boy shouldn't know that he was the heir yet. Heck, he shouldn't even know about the mafia. Was he just an imposter? Was this all just an elaborate plot?

"Explain."

The brunet just looked at him through desperate eyes for a second before saying, "You know about the accident I was in a while back? When I went into a coma for a week?"

Reborn nodded wordlessly.

"While I was in the coma, I dreamed. I dreamed about the next four years of my life. I dreamed about you telling me I was Vongola Decimo, about meeting all my guardians, about getting stuck in the future and having to stop Byakuran Gesso from taking over the world, about clearing up the misunderstanding between the Vongola and the Shimon, and so many, many more things…"

There was complete silence after he finished talking and frankly, Reborn had no idea how to respond.

Of course he was suspicious, immensely so, but he was also curious. Some of the things this boy said seemed completely ridiculous, but some of them were things that no one outside the Famiglia should know.

"And why should I believe you?" the sun arcobaleno finally asked.

"Because you're Reborn!" was the answer. "You're my tutor who, despite being a total jerk, always helps me out in the end! I wouldn't ever have gotten anywhere without you!"

Reborn pondered for only a moment longer before letting out a long sigh and saying, "I'm not saying I believe you, but seeing as I have nothing else to go by for now, I'll play along. But, if you ever give me reason to believe that you're an imposter, or that what you've told me today is a lie, I will not hesitate to take you out."

Tsuna nodded frantically at this, his expression one of profound relief, a watery smile on his face.

"Now," said Reborn, "tell me who your guardians were."

Tsuna didn't hesitate and began listing off the names and positions, "Storm guardian and right-hand man: Gokudera Hayato. Rain guardian: Yamamoto Takeshi. Sun guardian: Sasagawa Ryohei. Cloud guardian: Hibari Kyoya. Lightning guardian: Bovino Lambo. Mist guardians: Rokudo Mukuro and Dokuro Chrome."

Reborn listened carefully; he was surprised to hear that this boy had somehow tamed the Smoking Bomb, and was annoyed that for reasons unknown, the stupid Bovino was a guardian. Hearing Rokudo's name had also been a surprise, but what really caught his attention was…

"Mist guardians?" asked the arcobaleno.

Tsuna just nodded in reply, saying, "After I met Mukuro-kun, he was taken back to the Vendicare, and Chrome-chan acted as his…vessel, I guess you could say. Even after he was released, they both shared the role of mist guardian."

"I see…" said Reborn, and after that, the two talked long into the night, Reborn asking questions, and Tsuna answering them to the best of his abilities.

In the end, Tsuna ended up drifting off at around one in the morning and Reborn, seeing how tired the boy was and also wanting to go over everything he'd learned in the past few hours, decided to let him sleep.

The next morning, Reborn was just standing over his new student, getting his defibrillators ready when, to his disappointment, the little tuna fish shot up in bed, shrieking, "I'm up, I'm up! Please don't shoot me, Reborn!"

There was quiet for a moment after that as Tsuna took in the sight of his tutor standing over him, the defibrillator in his tiny hands, his expression downcast, before letting out an ear-piercing "HIIIEEEE!" and falling sideways off the bed.

Upon making contact with the floor, Tsuna immediately scrambled to his feet and ran into his bathroom to take a quick shower before heading to breakfast, leaving behind a sulking Reborn, who reluctantly put his torture device away.

"Stupid Dame-Tsuna," the infant muttered to himself, "Ruining my fun already…"

Not twenty minutes later, Tsuna was downstairs in his uniform, grabbing a piece of toast from the kitchen before running out the front door, shouting, "Ittekimasu!"

As Tsuna walked towards school at a leisurely pace, secure in the knowledge that, rather than being late, he was actually pretty early for school, Reborn sat nonchalantly on his shoulder, observing the boy. There was something about this pathetic brunet that was starting to seem more and more familiar to Reborn, but he just couldn't place why.

It was also pretty eerie, the way Tsunayoshi acted so familiar with him; Reborn knew that it was because Tsunayoshi already knew him, from the dreams he'd had, but still…

And suddenly, Reborn was snapped out of his musings as a terrifying killing intent reached him.

Tsuna seemed to have noticed it as well, because he stopped dead in his tracks before doing a one eighty and kicking away the dynamite that had been heading straight for them.

Tsuna felt a pool of dread gather in the pit of his stomach as he watched the dynamite explode harmlessly in the air, his eyes then traveling to the person who had thrown the projectile; none other than the one and only Gokudera Hayato.

On the boy's face was the most furious expression Tsuna had ever seen and what terrified him was that it was actually directed at him!

"You…" growled out the silveret. "IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT!"

And with that, Hayato lunged at the brunet, who was even now staring at him with those beautiful brown eyes of his. This only served to infuriate Hayato even more as he kicked and punched at the boy, trying to take out all his anger and frustration and loneliness.

All his attacks, though, were completely blocked and there was maybe one small, small part of Hayato that was relieved at that.

"W-why?" asked Tsuna, "Why are you attacking me? W-we haven't even m-met before…"

He left the 'in this world' part unsaid, believing that Gokudera, like the rest of the guardians, didn't remember any of their time together.

"Because it's your fault!" shouted the silveret again. "It's your fault that I'm feeling like this! It's because of those stupid dreams that I feel so lonely! Why? Why did you do that to me?"

When Hayato said the word 'dreams' Tsuna's eyes widened, and his attention was averted for just long enough for his storm to land a punch on his jaw, knocking him to the floor.

Standing over the prone form of his once boss, Hayato let the tears fall from his eyes.

"Why?" he asked. "Why did you have to hurt me like that? I was perfectly fine being all by myself before! But then you went and showed me that, and now, now…"

"And now you miss being a part of a famiglia," supplied Reborn from the sidelines, where he'd been watching the ongoing scene with curious eyes.

SkyGem: Sorry, that was kinda rushed, wasn't it? Lol, anyways, I hope you guys liked this chapter, ne? Please leave a review and let me know what you thought! Oh, and I'll be updating FbNF in a few hours, so look forward to that! Ciao!