I'm back and alive! ^_^ I feel really accomplished that I was able to update this! I'm in an especially good mood because I was able to fix my laptop!

I think that the acrobaleno is my favorite group in the entire KHR series. Then the Varia is second... But I love all of KHR! Except that it ended. Seriously, I waited like 2 years to read the ending because I am weird, but after I read it... I insisted to write more about it. Haha.

Note: this story takes place after Yuni's mother dies. Like, a month or so afterwards. I probably got the times wrong with this but oh well.

Another note: I edited some of the spelling errors. Thank you BakaNeko96 for catching it ^_^ Sorry if this story is confusing, and thank you all for reviewing, favoring, or following. If you find any mistakes in here please tell me. And, if you have any questions please tell me and I will answer if it isn't a spoiler. And for Quest's questions, those are all spoilers. :D

Disclaimer: I do not own KHR.


After Tsuna had told Reborn what he said, he immediately fell into a coma and it wasn't until a week that he woke up; he had literally scared the whole world. Everybody seemed to know that something happened to the tenth from all the way to CEDEF and the Varia. But lucky for them, it had stayed into the family. If word got out to their enemies... they just might have been screwed.

Once his guardians heard that their boss was awake, they rushed in. Reborn had guessed that they had been near for their own reasons—Gokudera because he was the boss' right hand man, Takeshi because they were best friends, Hibari because he wanted information, Lambo because he thought that it was his fault, Ryohei because his little brother was hurt and his little sister was worried (and so was he), and then finally Chrome because…. She and Mukuro felt something appear around the same time as Tsuna was found, assuming that it was related to him. Of course, they would be correct.

But, once all of the guardians came bursting into the room, Reborn's "moment" was over, thus creating an awkward moment which, by the way, Reborn hated; he needed answers… But….

Nobody knew what to say or what to do. They just had no idea. What were they supposed to do, anyways? Were they just supposed to allow everything to unfold, allows the next boss of the Vongola familiga to break down like this? He was perfectly normal before this happened…. So what made him this way? They wanted to ask him but they couldn't find the words; they didn't know how to react to him when he was like this so they didn't try. They just watched him in his darkest moment. In a way, they were just as helpless as he was. All it would take to connect with him was a question, so simple, so forward. But they just couldn't….

They couldn't because they were afraid. Not of him, but of what happened. This might not be their little Tsuna, they thought. This might be a broken Tsuna, they thought. They were so engulfed into a fear that wasn't in reason that they forgot that they had a duty to Tsuna: to protect him.
It looked like they failed that job.

Reborn, being the great hitman that he was, spoke first with his emotions under control. "What do you mean it was just a game?"

Tsuna shock his head and frowned.

"Elaborate." Reborn ordered. "What did it mean?"

We have to help you before you die. You are not meant for that job...

Tsuna, with all broken respect, looked up with dreaded eyes. His big brown orbs gave off guilt—guilt of the unknown. His mouth was closed but the definitions of his injuries were still clear around his mouth; there were bruises everywhere along with cuts and scratches. His body, besides the injuries, seemed a little different as if there were more definition to his muscles. His baby fat seemed to be diminished though his height hadn't changed. Reborn, noticing this, raised an eyebrow. Taking out one of his random hammers, he hit Tsuna across the head, throwing him off of the hospital bed. Everybody else in the room went "Hieee" in fear of his health.

"Answer me or next time I will blow you up."

Tsuna's eyes fled away from the baby, knowing what to do. His resolve was clear with motive, but it was also pure with knowledge. There was something about Tsuna that was annoying Reborn—he couldn't guess what it was which frustrated him even more. Without mercy, Reborn threw a grenade at him. His guardians—mostly Gokudera and Takeshi—defended him with a quick response; the specialist in bombing destroyed the little bomb without having it blown up as Takeshi went closer to his boss, sword out and ready to fight.

"Kid, that's dangerous!" Takeshi said, laughing. "Tsuna could get hurt." He said with more aggressively.

"Tch." Gokudera said as he took a peek at his boss.

"Hayato, Takeshi, listen." Reborn started. "Look at your boss's neck. That pacifier can kill him. No, it will kill him. Think about it."

Gokudera glanced to the side of him feeling very protective. Now, normally he wouldn't get in the way between Reborn and Tsuna because they had this unique bond, something not even he could interfere with. But this time he felt something in the corner of his gut that begged him to be near his boss—the reason why he stayed near this room was proof. Well, to him it was.

Takeshi, noticing Gokudera glance back at Tsuna, could feel what his friend was feeling: an instinct. Just like a mother bear has for its cubs, they wanted to protect him. They could feel it in the air as if it were poison; the feeling was one that nobody could escape.

Reborn sighed, taking a look at the other guardians. They were the same as well but, lucky for them, they weren't as fast as the other two were. Their resolve didn't falter but their instinct did. Reborn mentally clapped for them and then smacked the right and left handed men lightly but hard enough for it to sting (a lot).

"I am not going to hurt him. Nobody is going to—the people who hurt him is, though." Then the hitman jumped on Tsuna's lap. Tsuna winced but didn't shuffle on the hospital bed. "I expect answers, Tsuna."
And with that, they all left, ALL of them. Reborn made sure of it; Tsuna needed space and frankly, Reborn needed some space as well.


A few days after the said event, Tsuna still was speaking. All he did was look at something and stare at it for hours and hours. To his friends and family, that wasn't even the worst part. The worst was that he was so unresponsive to everything they did...
The longer this went on, the more nervous the acrobaleno became.

"This is so stupid, kora!"

"I am not getting paid anything for being here."

"The GREAT SKULL-SAMA has other things to be doing now!"

"But the situation is rather intriguing, I'd have to admit that. In all recorded and known history, there had never been two sky acrobalenos. It's just unheard of. We need to do more research on this... Hey, Reborn - "

"No."

"But - "

"No."

"I am afraid of what is happening," the youngest acrobaleno said quietly. The other acrobalenos hushed, interested in what she was going to say. "I can't see anything at all about this. Ever since a day after Tsuna-san was found and my pacifier glowed, I couldn't... I couldn't see anything at all. I could hardly maintain my flames... But..." Yuni looked down as if she was a disappointment. She was knew to this in a way, and so the others felt pity for her...

"YUNI IS GOING TO DIE!" Skull said dramatically.
Reborn, being who he was, kicked him in the face forcing the helmet off. Colonello, being who he was, also kicked Skull.

"Shut up, lackey."

"I agree with Reborn, kora."

"I agree with Colonello."

Skull got up and shifted uncomfortably. He whispered, a little hesitant at first but was able to spit it out, "You agree with each other 'cause you guys are all lovers."

Let's just say that Skull is now out of commission for a while.

"... What did we find at the spot?" Fon asked, curious and trying to stray away from the previous topic.

Yuni, a little shy, replied, "Evidence that all of us were there at the scene..."

Reborn, coughing, finished her sentence. "It is believed that are future selves were there."
It's another future arc...?

"It is a... possibility." Verde said after he pushed up his glasses. "We did see the evidence."

"But then that brings up another question, kora!"

"So many damned questions without answers."

"I know, Lal. It truly makes me want to strangle my dame student." Reborn sighed heavily. Reborn doesn't usually do this so the others sweat dropped knowing that he'd probably do something to outrageous to take out his frustrations on.

"Mmm... I could try to get information out of him though he'd have to be restrained for a certain amount of hours."

Everybody turned over to Mammon. HE doing work for FREE? He too must be... stressed.

Fon smiled gently and then nodded, thinking that was a great plan. Lal, however, thought it was stupid. Colenello was just thinking about it, not sure what to say about it, but probably going to agree with Lal because he likes her. Nobody could read what Reborn was thinking because he didn't say anything and just glared at an empty spot in the room, trying to damn something (or someone) to hell. With his glare, it wouldn't be that difficult. Skull was... still knocked out. He wouldn't get a say into this. Verde, though, was going to make sure he was going to input his thoughts on this matter.

"It would be nice if you could do such a thing, but how? He has Primo's intuition and strength to back it up. He isn't weak... when he feels that he is threatened."

"...I think I know how," Yuni said softly. All eyes looked at her to go on. When she didn't Lal nudged her on.

"If you know how, then say so!"

"Yeah, kora!"

When Yuni smiled modestly, Reborn began to speak to her. He still didn't look away from that spot, but his intense glare decreased and his voice was softer. "Whatever plan you make, I will follow, Yuni. When we were in the future, you made plans that even exceeded me or anyone else of importance. You have a gift for it, so use it wisely unlike my stupid student does."

"Well..." She began to say. She then went into full detail of her plan. As she did that, the other members got this glint in the corner of their eyes because of how exciting and so... Arcobaleno-like it sounded. She really was a genius.

After a couple hours their meeting was over. They all decided that they would stay in the immediate area in case something terrible happened and that they will keep a close eye on Tsuna. There was just so many questions and they were not getting answer due to the type of situation they were in. And not only that, but Tsuna seemed like he needed it - more people being around him, that is. There was something about him that was so mysterious and aloof and he wasn't the only one who noticed it; everybody else noticed it, even his mother who had less of a hold on what had happened. He and the other arcobalenos had a thought in this, but they didn't say anything about it because it would have just created more uncertainty and right now, nobody could afford to be confused. They needed to be strong in their conviction to help the arcobaleno get more information.


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When the arcobalenos were having a meeting, Tsuna's guardians were having their own. They were located at Ryohei's house because apparently his younger sister and Haru just had to be included. Most of the other guardians accepted them without question, but Gokudera was... well he was just himself. His usual "I'm his right hand man so you guys fuck off!" It's kind of funny because he actually said that to them. When he said that, Ryohei got defensive and then Takeshi joined in to ease the argument but that just made it worse. It soon turned into a fight to which Hibari welcomed that. Lambo just ran around in circles yelling something along these lines: "Lambo wants candy! Stupiddera is stupid! Lambo isn't scared!" Haru and Kyoko then felt the need to calm Lambo. Chrome tried to hep as well, but... that only lasted until Mukuro decided to come out and "play" with Hibari.

Let's just say the first three hours went by in total chaos. It only got worse after those hours because of a certain weapon a child had...

Gokudera had yelled too many insults at the kid and then Takeshi, being the airhead he was, rubbed salt into his wounds by his obliviou sbehavior. He didn't mean any harm but he inflicted the most. Ryohei, not getting any hints of any of this just screamed, "JOIN MY BOXING CLUB!"

"Stupid brat, you shouldn't even be here!"

"Maa, maa, Gokudera. Calm down, Lambo can be here!"

"...Lambo can...?" Lambo said on the verge of tears. Apparently Gokudera stepped on him on accident thus resulting in the brute to yell at him for being in his way and for being useless at the meeting, ect.

"Yeah!"

"WHY?!"

"Because shrrush and shhhrrrush and then brung~!" Takeshi then began to say more incoherent things and do some weird hand things, trying to explain things in what he thought was a simple manner. Lambo, not understanding, thought that he was just making fun of him.

"TOL ER ATE!" Lambo yelled, taking out his weapon.

Hibari, who was currently fighting with Mukuro, "accidentally" hit Lambo with his tonfas. Because of the sudden hit, Lambo's aim suddenly changed course, now aiming at Hibari. It could be said that it was his own fault really, but not like he would ever admit it. It looked like another effect of the 'hitting the Lambo with tonfas' was that now he was knocked out... Ina way, most people in the room blamed Lambo for being an annoying little brat. Most being mainly Gokudera.

Oh well. But... There was no way in hell that he was going to be hit by a herbivore, so he made it his life goal to dodge it. Once he did, he went "Wao" when it hit Kyoko.

Well damn. Nobody expected that to happen.


While everyone in Japan were having meetings, other people across the world were as well. Some were the friendly meetings that desired peace and comfort while others desired destruction...

A man with dark clothes sat restlessly in his seat, loosening his tie ever so minutes. He was suffocating, he was drowning. There was just too much information to process which made him extremely uncomfortable.

"I think that we should just get it over with," he mumbled under his breath.

A sinister grin appeared on the person who sat across from him in the meeting room. "So as I. But since you suggested it first, why don't you test it out?"

The nervous man shrank into his seat as all eyes went on him.

"Yeah, that would be a good idea."

"It's perfect, really."

"He can tell us how it goes."

"That is, if he lives to tell the tale."

"But it would be interesting with him gone. We-"

"If he leaves, I can take his place. I know all of what he does for the job. I'm practically doing it now!"

The conversation left the nervous man, only getting worse as the clock ticked by. He didn't want to do the said job; he would seriously die! He isn't one of those people who would gladly sacrifice themselves for the greater good, hell, he wouldn't even sacrifice himself if he could have the powers of a god in return. That would still require him to die and that is something that he doesn't want to happen. Nobody in this room wants that to happen to them That was the whole reason they were even having this godforsaken meeting!

"We shouldn't do that, guys. We just can't allow ourselves to die in vain." The leader of the group said, just now joining in on the conversation. Although he said that, there was this glint in the back of his eye that would put the information he got from the previous topic to good use. "But concerning what is happening... It will be true that we would need a sacrifice. But... More than one."

The rest of the group grimaced. They certainly wanted to STAY away from this project... Of course, they didn't want to stay away from the rewards.

"But that is why we have our little lab rats, right?"


Tsuna was getting tired of being constantly questioned about why he was so "different". It was getting really annoying because he just wanted... peace. Yeah, that is what he wanted: peace.

There is this saying, you know, his sub-conscious said to him, that in order to have peace you must have war.

Tsuna quietly laughed. He knew that. He knew that better than most should, better than most will ever know.

But apparently not to the extent that his intuition did. Ignoring his gut feeling, he rested his head on the hospital pillow. This feeling was rather nice, he had to admit. Peace, that is. He hadn't had it for a while which eased his nerves. Though, through this peace, he felt guilt sting him; if he was peaceful, then...

Another Tsuna had to be in turmoil.