Whop, it's been a while. A year at least? But we're back. Kinda. We're getting past the nitty gritty boring stuff that you already know from the manga.

Disclaimers, you already know. We don't own anything except the stuff about our OCs.

Chapter 20 - Training. Nothing New.

"Go check on the others. See if they'll be ready for battle in five days." Lal Mirch ordered, turning away from Tsuna.

"O-Okay…" Tsuna responded warily.

What's wrong?

~Taking the elevator to the fourteenth floor….~

By the time Tsuna entered the floor, he found Aoyuki sipping tea while reading his papers. Meanwhile, Sakurako focused on her cards holding a bunny with sky flames radiating from it's ears.

"Hey there Tsuna. Why're you down here? Weren't you supposed to be training?" Aoyuki asked from his seated position.

"Huh? Tsuna?" Sakurako lifted her head up after staring deeply at her cards, "What are you doing?"

"Oh, I'm just checking on how everyone is doing so far on their training, " Tsuna scratched the back of his head, "Lal Mirch told me to do so. I've finished with everyone except you two."

"Is that so?" Sakurako stood up still holding Lop the bunny, "By the way Tsuna, this my box animal. Her name's Lop!"

"S-Sky flames?!" Tsuna's eyes popped out of his head in shock.

"Ohohoh! Someone's getting friendly here!" Aoyuki whistled, laughing at Sakurako.

"Y-Yuki!" Sakurako flushed, "Ignore Yuki. Anyway….Reborn didn't tell you?"

"About what?" Tsuna still in shock.

"I have sky attribute flames." Sakurako innocently said causing Tsuna to become confused.

Sakura-chan has….sky flames?!

"That's strange. I thought Reborn told you already?" Sakurako wondered why Reborn didn't say anything about it.

"Reborn doesn't tell him anything~. Even if he did, the spiky haired idiot wouldn't understand it at all you know." Aoyuki added, still chuckling at their reaction.

"Well now you know you aren't the only one with sky flames."

"He wasn't the only one with them in the first place either. Dino has them too. So does Xanxus." Aoyuki flopped onto the floor.

"I meant within our small group minus the ones that are already in their middle twenties." Sakurako reminded, however corrected herself, "But since its the future, they should be in their early thirties."

"That's mean, you know. They aren't that much older than we are. Besides, we'll be that age eventually too." Aoyuki chided, rolling around on the floor.

"I was only referring to Xanxus and Dino, since they're the only ones on our side with sky flames." Sakurako continued.

"A-Anyway what are you doing for training?" Tsuna cut in the argument.

"My TYL self gave me her secret weapon. These cards…" Sakurako showed Tsuna the cards on the floor, "Remember how I was able to summon that lion against Hibari-san?"

Tsuna nodded, unsure of where the conversation was leading to.

"Apparently my summonings have been sealed into my box animal along with these cards. Although my future self warned me not to use them often, so I have to be careful otherwise I might mess up during the summoning." She explained.

"So this rabbit is…?" Tsuna stared at the bunny.

"She's a supporting box animal that can allow the animals in my summonings a body to use." Sakurako looked over at the clock, "Is it time already?"

"What?" Tsuna did the same as Sakurako.

"I have to go help Haru and Kyoko now," Sakurako put her cards away along with Lop, thus leading her to grabbing Tsuna's hand, "Let's all go together."

"Okay." Tsuna agreed.

"Bye you two cuties. Don't do anything I wouldn't do!" Aoyuki called out to them from his position on the floor.

Tsuna and Sakurako faces burned.

"Yuki!" Sakurako yelled before the elevator doors closed.

Snickering, Aoyuki allowed his eyes to close for a nice nap. "Eheheh. Seems like I'll have some fun watching things develop between them. Not so much for my own." *Sigh* "Oh. Maybe I'll go watch Yamamoto. Yeah." Collecting his things, Aoyuki headed over to the elevator to find Yamamoto.

Sakurako's side

Yuki...I'm so going to get you once I get back.

Sakurako planned out as her face cooled off. It was silent between Tsuna and her. This wasn't on the fact that Tsuna hasn't spoke much, but the cause was training wise.

"So Tsuna-kun, have you made any progress in training."

Tsuna shook his head,"No...the gloves I use don't do much other than punch or chop."

Sakurako knew that Tsuna has not yet created one of his ultimate weapons...the X-burner. It looks like she has to shove yet another person, even if that person was Tsuna this time.

"Maybe you haven't realized it yet," Sakurako began as she straightened herself up, "There might be another function you're not aware of now."

"Eh?"

Sakurako's back faced him instead, she merely turned around smiling, "Think about it. It's great that you can handle two types of Sky flames, but what if those two flames are the key to the solution?"

"Uh, Sakura-chan, I don't understand," Tsuna scratched the back of his hair as he furrowed his brows.

Rolling her eyes, Sakurako explained in simpler terms, "If I recall not too long ago, you had two different types of sky flames, right."

He nodded showing response that he was indeed listening.

"Well what if it's the flames? Even if you can do close range hits, what if they can be used to hit from a distance? Like being blasted?"

Tsuna's head snapped up, "You're right! Maybe I can blast flames out from my hands like Xanxus!"

Sakurako shook her head in disapproval, "Didn't you already did that?"

Tsuna's spirit shot down, causing Sakurako to frown.

Is my explanation not simple enough?

Soon a cow print pattern hid immediately behind a stack of boxes, although you can see the fake cow tail quite well from a distance.

Sakurako turned to see Tsuna trying to fish for a piece of candy out of his jacket, but no luck. Luckily Sakurako had some grape candy , courtesy of TYL Yuki who declared he was the one along with her TYL self who has been giving Lambo candy whenever he traveled to the future.

She poked Tsuna's elbow, quietly showing the candy from her hand. Hiding away from Lambo's view. He smiled toward her, as Tsuna pointed over to Lambo Sakurako nodded in agreement.

The two quietly crept over to where Lambo was hiding, carefully placing the candy piece within his view. At the same time they hid on the opposite side of where Lambo was spying behind.

Lambo started to drool the moment he saw the nicely wrapped candy before him. Sakurako soon felt her hand being gripped. She shortly noticed her hand being held in Tsuna's, apparently he took her hand unconsciously. A tint of red spread on her face, as she kept herself quiet to keep them from being spotted. Lambo side stepped, finding himself standing right in front of the candy, at that moment Tsuna pulled Sakurako over to scare Lambo, "Boo!"

"Gupya!" Lambo screeched as he tried to scatter away from us, but both Sakurako and Tsuna were able to capture the little cow child.

"You're not getting away easily!" Tsuna happily spoke as he tickled Lambo's stomach. Sakurako smiled upon the sight.

It seems that Lambo forgave Tsuna.

Soon Sakurako took Lambo in her free arm stating, "C'mon Lambo. We're going to prepare grape jelly for dinner, okay?"

A sparkle glimmered in Lambo's eyes as he moved over to Sakurako. Sakurako thus proceeded to tell Tsuna, "Um, you can let go of my hand now Tsuna."

Tsuna froze as his eyes trailed over to his firmly held hand on Sakurako's, thus causing him to let go frantically as he blushed madly, "I-I'm sorry!"

Sakurako cradled Lambo in her arms, "Well I'll be going with Lambo now, I'll see you at dinner?"

Tsuna nodded. Sakurako was about to leave until she stopped halfway in the hallway with her back facing him, "You know Tsuna. Kyoko, Haru, and I have been supporting each other the best we can. So have the others in order to accomplish many things. Don't give up. We all need to help each other out in order to create the best outcome."

Sakurako continued her way toward the kitchens. Suddenly Tsuna yelled, "Thank you Sakura-chan! Can you thank Kyoko-chan for me too?!"

Then another yelp came from where Tsuna was, "Oh shoot! I need to apologize to Haru as well!"

The skidding of sneakers squeaked disappearing from the hallway. Sakurako giggled to herself.

I guess everyone in this universe needs a push before shove down the right path.

"What's so funny, Sakura-nee?" Lambo tilted his head asking the girl carrying him.

"No, it's nothing," Sakurako replied, "Nothing at all."

Aoyuki's side

"Hmm… Now which floor was he practicing on? I believe it was the tenth?" Pressing the button to bring the elevator to the 10th floor, Aoyuki rested against the wall, leaning slightly against the railing. "I wonder if he's still practicing with the glow-in-the-dark paintballs. Hopefully, they won't get too mad at me for disturbing practice."

Finally arriving at the 10th floor, he left the elevator in search of Yamamoto and Reborn, looking for the Japanese-styled sliding doors that would signal their presence. Noticing that there were paint splatters against the wall opposite of a set of doors, Aoyuki chuckled and briskly walked towards the door.

"Heyyy guys, hope I'm not interrupting things." Aoyuki called out as he slowly opened the door, sidestepping to avoid any stray paint bullets.

"Yuki!" Yamamoto blinked in surprise as he lowered his sword. In that moment, Reborn fired off several rounds at the both of them, and managed to hit Yamamoto while Yuki did an action roll into the room and hit the last bullet with his quarterstaff.

"Aww yes. Too pro." Aoyuki smirked and brushed imaginary dust off his shoulder.

"You let your guard down too fast Yamamoto." Reborn pointed out, "And Aoyuki, if it weren't for your reflexes, you'd be hit too."

"But Reborn, you should really drop that habit of shooting people who come in through the door. I saw the paint marks outside too, so I'm assuming you shot at someone else right? It's a nasty habit." Glancing at Yamamoto, Aoyuki turned to face Reborn with a blaming look.

"I don't know what you're talking about." A glint shined in Reborn's eye as he replied to Aoyuki, his hand still armed with Leon's pistol form.

"Anyways, I came in to check on you guys to see if you needed help. Me and Sakura were done for today and I got bored of walking around. But you know, Reborn, it looks like you're doing just fine training Yamamoto. And as much as I'd like to stay and watch, I don't think I'll like being in constant danger of being pelted with paint bullets. So, I guess I'll see you guys at dinner."

A vigorous shake erupted throughout the surrounding area of the room.

"What the...?" Yamamoto muttered, "What was that sound?"

"It sounded like it came from the floor above." Reborn affirmed.

"Oooh boy. That already?" Aoyuki muttered under his breath, as he glanced towards the cause of the quake. "Sakura musta been really quick about that talk then…" Turning towards the two, he asked, "Hey, you guys wanna go check it out?"

"We've been training for roughly five hours. Let's take a break and go check on the others." Reborn suggested.

"Ok!" Yamamoto agreed, offering his shoulder to the hitman and nodded at Aoyuki.

Arriving at the floor, Reborn, Aoyuki, and Yamamoto saw Tsuna kneeling on the floor, clutching his head as rubble fell above him.

"Tsuna! Are you okay!?" Yamamoto exclaimed as he ran towards Tsuna.

"Welp, there it is." Aoyuki murmured as he walked over, shoulders slumped and hands in his pockets.

"Yamamoto...Reborn...Kaji…" Tsuna faintly chuckled, "Haha...I was trying out a new technique."

"What...How did you cause this?" Yamamoto gasped in surprise, glancing at the Tsuna-shaped hole in the wall.

"New technique? Oh my god. No way." Aoyuki grumbled sarcastically under his breath. "Ohemgee uwahhh I think I can do this. Yeah, not perfectly though until you get the X-lens or whatever they're called from what's his face with the lollipop."

Oh boy.. How is this gonna work out now? Maybe if me and Sakura stay out of it, it'll go decently? What if there's opposites of us? That'll be bad. I think we need to discuss this a bit more. Gotta go find Sakura.

"Oi Tsuna," Reborn inquired, "Can you master this technique?"

Tsuna blurted out, "Uhh..maybe."

However poor Tsuna knocked out after answering Reborn's question.

If we're good about it, we might get a second upload real soon. Maybe even a third one. Depends on a certain two people (guess who). (It's me.)

Sorry that this was so repetitious. It'll hopefully pick up once we start getting into the actual battle stuff, because that's when things happen for us.

Us as in our OCs. Look forward to that. :D