Recap
I awoke with a jolt, it felt like someone was staring at me. I glanced to my right where my desk is.
"Reborn!" I stared at the baby sitting on my desk, then glanced at my alarm clock. Six am, I didn't get to sleep last night until eleven. I guess that's not too bad.
"How did you get in my room?" His smirk left me a bit worried. "Actually, I'm not sure I want to know."
"Well, what brings you here?" I rubbed the sleep from my eyes as I spoke.
"You will start your Vongola style training today. Grab your bo staff and go downstairs for a light breakfast. You have twenty minutes."
"Wait, what?"
"You'll never be able to win if you keep running, Miyuki." I barely glanced at the infant hitman, while dodging another item being shot at me. I hadn't thought that training with him would be this difficult. Reborn said I needed to find the machines that were shooting at me, however if I got too close to one of them, another would be aimed at me. Apparently I had to hit a button on the top of each machine to turn them off. I needed to figure out a way to turn them off without getting too close.
Reborn had the machines placed in trees around the forest, making them harder to spot. When I did find one I had to avoid getting hit by another I couldn't see close by. That had happened too many times already. Quickly I moved to stand by bigger tree, that could block me from the machines.
"You can't win by hiding either." Reborn spoke, sitting carelessly by a tree himself.
I didn't bother replying to him, as I tried to think of a way to switch the machines off. They were shooting out different sized and shaped objects. My arms and legs were already bruised from where I had gotten to close to them earlier in the morning. I let out a deep sigh while rubbing my hands along the length of my training Bo staff. Splintered wood slid across my hands, the objects had ruined my staff. My eyes widened as I stared at the staff, maybe that could work! I looked up at the tree I was leaning against. It's a rather big tree, with many branches and it was filled enough limbs so I could climb into it and not worry about the machines catching me through the leaves. After sliding the staff through the back belt loop of my jeans, I slowly and carefully made my way up the tree.
"I need to work on my upper body strength." I mumbled to myself after making it a branch about six feet off the ground, I glanced at my hands which were covered in small painful scratches. Next time, I'll bring some gloves. Better safe than sorry.
"I wonder if a machine is close?" Maneuvering my body, I got closer to another tree. After a minute I noticed a machine about two trees down from me. "Okay!" Standing up I reached for a branch above my head and made sure I was close enough to the machine, after examining it a bit from my spot I noticed a large red button on the top of it. Placing my hand behind my back I slowly pulled the Bo staff out from behind me, worrying that if I made any sudden movements another machines around would pick it up. Carefully aiming at the red button, I tossed my Bo staff with what I prayed would be enough strength to actually push the button down.
"I hit it!" I called out in surprise, seeing my staff not only hit the red button, but also turn the machine off. Though my excitement was short lived, as my staff was suddenly shot at, by a machine across from it and broken in half. At that moment I was very thankful I brought an old practice staff instead of the one Akira gave me two years ago. Quickly I made my way down the tree and ran to get what was left of my staff. Before I was able to reach it, I was hit in the leg with a small object. I stumbled in pain a bit, however I still moved forward grabbing the two pieces and heading to another tree to get protection.
"There are four more." Reborn hadn't moved from his spot under his tree.
Leaning against the tree, I was taking deep breaths while trying to figure out what to do. Well my staff was already broken, there is no fixing it. I shrugged, lifting the staff over my knee and bringing it down, breaking it into more pieces. I smiled ignoring the pain in my body as I moved on to the next tree.
"I'm surprised you took all of them out so fast." Reborn stood by my head as I laid back in the grass trying to catch my breath. It was around noon I'd been training with Reborn trying to turn off those machines since six thirty. "It wasn't that fast." I mumbled expecting the bruises on my arms and legs. How would I explain this to my parents? "Here, drink some water." Reborn placed a bottle of water beside me as I examined my arms. I won't be able to wear long sleeves, now that it's summer even wearing long pants everyday will get my parents attention. What should I do? I lifted the water bottle to my lips while still trying to think of an excuse.
"M-Miyu-chan!" I removed the bottle from my lips, looking up towards the voice. Tsuna stood before me in purple boxers looking horrified. "What happened to you!" He stepped closer me, gently lifting my arm, checking over the bruises. "T-t-tsunayoshi-kun" I could feel my face heating up and he looked up to meet my eyes. He looked at me blinking innocently. "What's wrong?" He quickly turned to look at Reborn, who looked rather amused with himself. "What did you do to Miyu-chan, Reborn!" Reborn's amused look quickly switched to an innocent one. "I was training her, she's actually better than you Dame-Tsuna. So you shouldn't be so worried." Tsuna looked like he was about to argue back, though I quickly cut him off. "Umm, Tsuna-kun could you, uhh..." I trailed off while glancing at his boxers and then back to his face. He glanced at me confused for a second before also looking down.
"Hiie!" Tsuna quickly let go of my arm, while jumping away from me. "Clothes! I need clothes."
"Purple is your favorite color isn't it? I noticed that while in your room this morning." Reborn stated while watching Tsuna run off.
I suddenly missed Byakuran's teasing.
"I'm sorry you had to go through all that training." I didn't exactly understand why Tsuna was blaming himself about my training. Though I was rather happy he actually had clothes on now, it would be strange if he was walking around town in his boxers. Then again, wasn't he in his boxers in the park last time Naohiko was here? I felt myself starting to blush remembering him in boxers.
Trying to ignore my embarrassment I responded. "I'm happy I was able to train. When I was in Tokyo with my brother an old friend of his called, he started training me in Bojutsu. His name is Akira, he's like my second older brother. He said I better not be slacking. Which translates into 'if you aren't in shape when I visit, you will be in a lot of trouble.' Honestly Akira is a really tough teacher. He'll make practice painful if he thinks I've been slacking." I glanced at Reborn who was on Tsuna's shoulder as we walked back to town. "Though, after training with Reborn today, I'd never slack off with him. I couldn't imagine Reborn making training harder. Tsuna-kun do you train with Reborn often? You must never slack off." Tsuna looked away from me before speaking.
"Reborn shoots me when I slack off."
"Juudaime!" Gokudera called out to Tsuna, he was running towards us with Yamamoto not too far behind.
"Gokudera-kun? What are you doing here?" Tsuna questioned the silver haired boy. Though Gokudera didn't answer right away, instead he glanced over Tsuna's bruised form. His green eyes widened with a look of worry, then suddenly he acknowledged me with a dark glare. "What did you do to Juudaime, Saito." I flinched at his glare and took a step back. "I didn't do anything to Tsuna-kun." Yamamoto quickly cut in. "Miyu-chan, also has a lot of bruises. Are you two okay?"
Tsuna raised his hands up trying to calm Gokudera down. "Reborn was training us, It's not Miyu-chan's fault, Gokudera-kun. I actually didn't know Reborn was training her too until after I was done." Tsuna shot Reborn a look. He still wasn't pleased that he was dragging Miyuki into this, now she is full of bruises and has a slight limp.
"Haha, you were playing the mafia game?"
"Baseball idiot!"
"Umm, I was walking Miyuki home so..." Tsuna started.
"Would you like me to go with you, Juudaime?" Gokudera's eyes brightened while look at Tsuna.
"I'll walk with you too, if that's okay." Yamamoto smiled brightly.
I glanced at Tsuna who was giving me a questioning look. "Maybe we can all get lunch if you two haven't had lunch yet?"
"I haven't had lunch yet, so that sounds good. Maybe we can go to my family's restaurant?"
"I haven't had lunch either..."
"Okay, well I would need to take a shower first." I spoke glancing down at my clothes. Tsuna didn't look so bad since he changed. Looking up I noticed the three boys were giving me a strange look.
"I'll only take twenty minutes, if that. You can just sit in my bedroom or something while you wait?" Though they still didn't look like they believed me, the three of them agreed.
"Are you coming too, Reborn?"
"Yes."
"Mom? Dad? I'm home and I brought over a few friends?" I called stepping into the doorway of my house, the boys slid in behind me slipping off their shoes. My mother walked into the living room to greet me, however as soon as she saw me her smile turned into a horrified look.
"Miyu-chan, what happened?" She quickly made her over to me, grabbing my bruised arms gently.
"You are hurt too!" She cried looking over Tsuna's bruises also.
"What's wrong?" Dad's eyes widened when he saw me.
"What happened?!"
"I can explain." Reborn jumped from Yamamoto's shoulder to stand before my parents.
"We were hiking in the woods and while walking down a rocky hill Miyuki tripped. Tsuna tried to help her, though they both ended up tumbling down the hill and ended up with the bruises." The story was actually believable, I had to stop myself from breathing a sigh if relief. Maybe Reborn wasn't so bad? He's just a bit tough and doesn't let anyone slack off it seems.
"Thank you for trying to help Miyuki." My mom smiled kindly at Tsuna.
"Don't you think they would make a cute couple?" Reborn questioned my parents. "That was pretty heroic of him."
Okay, I was wrong. Being around Reborn made me miss Byakuran.
"Wait! Stop trying to start things Reborn!" Tsuna was blushing while trying to avoid my parents eyes.
"Anyway, I'm going to take a shower real fast. I promise it'll only take twenty minutes." I quickly made my way out of the room.
"Thank you, Yamamoto-san." I thanked Yamamoto's father while placing my money back in my pocket.
"It's fine! It would be rude to expect you to pay when Takeshi invited everyone to lunch." Tsuyoshi spoke while smiling, Yamamoto looked just like his father.
The sushi was really good, I'd have to invite Shoichi here sometime and we could get dinner after school.
As I stood up to follow the others out of the restaurant, my phone started vibrating in my pocket.
-Miyu-chan~-
I stepped out the door with everyone, after checking the text.
"I'm gonna head home, I'll see you guys later."
Tsuna turned to me. "Do you want me to walk you home?"
"No, I can manage, thanks though." I turned to Yamamoto. "I'll have to invite my best friend here for dinner sometime, it was really good. I'm happy you suggested it."
"Haha, great, Dad seemed to really like you!" I was pretty sure his dad liked everyone. You could tell where Yamamoto got most of his personality traits.
My phone went off again.
-Miyu-chan it's important~-
"Bye, I'll see you guys later."
"You should come to Dame-Tsuna's house for lunch tomorrow. Everyone should." Reborn suddenly popped up.
I stared at him a minute, hadn't he left? I was pretty sure he left without us a bit earlier.
"Reborn!"
"Mama said to invite them." Reborn glanced at Yamamoto, Gokudera and me. "It would be rude to ignore her invitation."
"Of course! I would never ignore an invitation from Juudaime's mother!" Gokudera spoke proudly.
"Gokudera-kun..." Tsuna looked lost as he spoke.
"I'll have to ask my parents, also I'll need to check with Kyoko and Hana, they wanted me to spend some time with them so..." I trailed off trying not to look at Reborn.
I smiled, noticing Tsuna's eyes light up at the mention of Kyoko. I wonder if someone will ever like me that much? My phone went off again at the thought.
-Miyu-chan, do you have any plans this afternoon?-
"Well, I'll see if I'm free tomorrow." I started to walk away before Reborn found another reason to keep me longer.
-Nope, let's meet up at my house. I'm walking home now so I'll see you then-
I text Shoichi back first, then responded to Byakuran.
-Sorry, I was with friends. What is it?-
I didn't actually believe it was important. Byakuran was the type of person who would call if something needed my attention right away.
-Do you have a webcam?-
I knew it wouldn't be important, however, how could he even think to say it was?
-No, how do you see that as important?-
I'd never be able to understand how his mind works.
-I'll buy you one, it's important because I'm in the store now. I'm turning off my phone now, so don't bother arguing. ^.^-
Frowning at the phone, I shoved it in my pocket. Why does he have to be so difficult? I don't want him to spend money buying me a webcam, he shouldn't be wasting money on stupid things like that.
"Miyu-chan?" I turned to see Shoichi standing in front of me. I looked around noticing I was standing in front of my house. I hadn't even realized I was home yet.
"Are you okay? You look annoyed." Shoichi spoke looking worried.
"I'm fine, Byakuran is being stubborn though. He says he's buying a webcam for me, though he also turned off his phone so I couldn't argue about him buying it." I noticed Shoichi got a strange look in his eyes again, I still hadn't figured out what it was from the last time. Though as soon as he blinked it was gone.
"What happened to your arms!" Oh, I knew that look though. His eyes grew wide as horror crossed his face.
"I tripped down a rocky hill." The excuse sounded better when Reborn said it.
"You tripped?" Apparently it's also more believable when Reborn says it.
"Yes."
"Well, do you want to go to the park?" He was still staring at the bruises on my arms.
"That sounds good."
Tsuna, Gokudera, and Yamamoto sat in Tsuna's room, talking about things to do during the break.
"Tsuna." Reborn stepped into the room, a dark expression on his face.
"What's wrong?" Tsuna glanced at the infant, worried.
"It's Miyuki, she was kidnapped." The three boys sitting at the table quickly jumped to their feet.
"By who?!" This is all Reborn's fault! If Reborn had left Miyuki alone she wouldn't be in this mess. Tsuna felt guilt building up in his stomach. He should've walked her home, it was partially his fault.
"They are demanding to meet you in the park, only Tsuna is allowed to go." Reborn looked pointedly at the other two boys.
"I can't let Juudaime go alone!" Gokudera looked livid.
"What about Miyuki? What if her and Tsuna get hurt if we don't go?" Yamamoto's eyes had darkened.
"Only Tsuna will go." Reborn's tone didn't leave any room for argument. He raised his Leon gun to Tsuna.
"You better get there fast, they aren't promising to keep her in one piece." Reborn spoke gravely while pulling the trigger.
Shoichi and I were sitting on a bench. He was telling me about a new band he'd found, when suddenly I was knocked off the bench by another person.
"Ow."
I winced rubbing the back of my head, I glanced up to see Tsuna on top of me.
"Tsuna-kun?!" My eyes widened as I took in everything. He was only in his boxers on top of me. I felt my face heating up as I tried to avoid his gaze. "Could you please get off of me?" He seemed to just realize the situation since his face also turned a dark shade of red as he quickly removed his body from my own.
"Miyuki." Shoichi quickly reached over to help me up, then glanced at Tsuna.
"We should go back to your house." Shoichi tugged my arm trying to get me away from Tsuna.
"Wait! Are you okay Miyuki?" Tsuna called out, he looked really worried for some reason.
"Yeah, umm, I'm going to go home now. If I can't make it to your house for lunch tomorrow I'll call. But umm, you should really put some clothes on Tsuna-kun." With that said I let Shoichi drag me away.
"You got here in 5.7 seconds. You passed." Reborn suddenly popped up behind Tsuna.
"HIIE! Reborn! Wait, Miyu-chan was never in any danger?" Tsuna stared at Reborn, he knew he really shouldn't of been surprised. Though he couldn't help the surprised look on his face.
"I wanted to see how long it would take you to get to someone in danger, I found out Miyuki was in the park with her best friend and thought it'd be a good time to test you."
Tsuna dropped to the ground. He probably really embarrassed Miyuki and in front of her best friend. She probably wouldn't be eating lunch at his house tomorrow. He'd be surprised if she decides to even speak to him for the next few days. He would have to really apologize the next time he sees her.
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Ryohei is going to be in the next chapter since apparently he hasn't really been seen yet...
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