Yeah, Miko-chan here! Busy day today, but anyways~~ Oh, WI-san, great question, about the Vongola Rings. they will play an important part in the chapter coming up, trust me, very important. Oh also, Tsuna is 20 years old in this story. Plz Tsuna get better soon!

Chapter Eleven

Byakuran put Tsuna back into his room after breaking into the room using a hair pin he jacked from a maid. Leaving a short message giving more information about Hibari coming back to life, Byakuran left the Vongola Headquarters by flying out through Tsuna's window. But he remembered to shut the window behind him for Tsuna's health.

"I am a polite kid who knows his manners~~" He sang as he flew back to the Gesso family base. "Shut the door after you leave a room~~"

Tsuna woke up twenty minuets early the next morning. He slept through the whole afternoon yesterday to get back the sleep he lost during the past week. After reading Byakuran's message, Tsuna changed into another suite provided by the Vongola headquarters and opened the door at perfectly seven twenty-five, five minutes before breakfast starts.

When he stepped out of the door, he saw all the guardians (again, except Hibari) lining up in a straight line in the hallway outside Tsuna's room. Tsuna's only sign of noticing them was that his mouth twitched a little as he saw a giant cat scratch on Gokudera's face, probably by his box weapon 瓜(うり). It totally reminded him of the strange personality of Gokudera's box weapon in his world. Totally a jokester. A light smile appeared on his face gradually. As Tsuna ignored the guardian's existence and headed down towards the dinning room, Nakamura and Gokudera started to act. But the first to act was Nakamura Kai (中村海/まかむらかい incase you want to know the Kanji and Hiragana), to Tsuna's surprise.

"Tsunayoshi-kun," Nakamura said gently, "Tsunayoshi-kun, can you please teach us? I think you know about the fight already. So for the sake of Vongola, can you teach us?"

Tsuna ignored him and continued going down stairs.

"Tsunayoshi-san!" Gokudera called out. After the piano incident, he started to be extremely polite to Tsuna. "Tsunayoshi-san, we know your standards! So can you please fight with us after breakfast? We want to show you that we have improved a lot!"

"Nah,nah." Yamamoto said softly while humming a familiar pop song, "You are being too anxious, Gokudera!"

"You mean that you already have the ability to beat me?' Tsuna turned his head as Gokudera finished his sentence. "Or shall I say you have both the power, the confidence, and the resolution to beat me in order to improve yourselves for the sake of Vongola?"

"Yes." The guardians answered loudly in unison: a occasion quite rare in Tsuna's world.

"Great." Tsuna said without even turning his head. "Then show me your powers right now."

"Like, here? Right here?" Nakamura said in surprise, pointing down a finger to the ground. "You know we might destroy the Vongola Headquarters."

"That's what I mean." Tsuna grinned. "But if any of you even make a scratch on the wall, you all will be disqualified." Then, lighting up his mist ring, Tsuna's body dissolved into the air. As he reappeared behind Nakamura holding a silver revolver in his hands, Tsuna said. "Go into Hyper mode, now." Then he fired, hitting point blank at Nakamura's head in everyone's stunned stare.

"Jyuudaime?" Gokudera called as he saw Nakamura's body froze, but no blood came out. Half a second later, the front part of Nakamura's forehead was lighted with mass amount of Sky Attribute flame. "Huh? Dying will bullet?" Gokudera asked in surprise when he turned his gaze onto the silver revolver Tsuna had in his hands.

"Revised extra strength dying will bullet." Tsuna smiled as he put his revolved back into his belt. "Revised by myself to use during training when I don't want to light the fire up by myself. Or to use when I get too tired during a battle to recharge. He will need this, I mean Nakamura." Tsuna said as he went into Hyper mode himself. "This is gonna be quite fun."

At the same time, down in the dinning hall.

"I wonder where is Kai-kun and his guardians?" Nono said as he stared at the empty dinning room. "Are they over sleeping?"

"No, Nono." Reborn answered. "After Byakuran camed yesterday picking Tsunayoshi up, these idiots trained like crazy. Before they went for dinner, Kai told me that they are going to see Tsunayoshi the next morning. I bet they are either trying to please Tsunayoshi or they are in the training room already."

"Ok, that's great the-" Nono's voice was cut off with the sound of explosion from the main hall which was not far away from the dinning room. To his surprise, no alarm was sounded meaning nothing was damaged. "Enemy attack?" Nono said in surprise. "But not causing a damage?"

A mysterious smile appeared on Reborn's face. Smart, Tsunayoshi-san. He thought. Knowing the Catacimbe dei Cappuccini's space are quite narrow and extremely fragile, training and testing the Guardians in this kind of situation. Very wise indeed. Smiling, Reborn looked up at Nono.

"Nono," Reborn said slowly with a calm face, trying to hide his true excitement. "You want to take a look?" He motioned at the outside.

"Good idea." Nono nodded as he quickly hurry out wondering what actually was happening when he noticed Reborn was trying not to smile.

But when they arrived, both of them was extremely shocked.

Tsuna was in the middle of a hurricane of attacks, but he was still having that graceful smile on his face. Nakamura, Gokudera, Yamamoto and Hibari who came out of nowhere was the attacking force while Sasagawa, Chrome, Mukuro, and Lambo was protecting the objects around while creating a safe environment for the attackers, warning the four attacking forces of any trick Tsuna might be using, and telling them to move away from any object which was in the way.

"What a masterpiece." Nono exclaimed in amazement. "Testing both reflection, cooperation, and individual power at the same time! Even though being attacked by four guardians at 65% of their full power or higher, but still holding his cool, not losing his tempo. How strong is Tsunayoshi-kun?"

"Did you notice that he was just protecting himself, not even trying to attack the guardians?" Reborn smiled, "He created no error for the guardians to find, meaning they will be unable to defeat him unless he show them a mistake. And the way he was smiling..." Reborn's voice died off. Like he knew the guardians couldn't defeat him even if they used their full power with no limit in space.

"Is that all you have?" Tsuna laughed slightly while combing his hair which was a little messy thanks to Gokudera's dynamite. "Well, there are some improvements. But still, you guys are still far away from defeating me."

"You think so?" Hibari said as he cuffed one of Tsuna's hand. But Tsuna just smiled cooly and cuffed the other side of the cuff on Hibari's hands.

"Near body combat." Tsuna licked his lips with a joyful wink, "My favourite attack without using the flames." Then he kicked straight at Hibari's stomach without any hesitation what so ever. Hibari flew to the wall as the cuff broke by force. "Take care of the wall, somebody." Tsuna said mockingly with a loud laugh, "Or all of you will be out~"

Mukuro and Sasagawa raced to the wall before Hibari could hit it and caught Hibari in mid air. Hibari got off them the second they caught him. As he pat the dust off his black suite in disgust, Nakamura, Yamamoto and Gokudera was all attacking Tsuna using 80% of their full power now, but Tsuna was still ducking side to side cooly, not even bother to attack.

"Huh!" Yamamoto smiled all of a sudden, wielding his sword, he used his number eight technique. He imagined Tsuna as not knowing this technique so he thought this will get Tsuna off balance, but Tsuna knew all his guardian's power by heart. After so many years of fighting side by side, Tsuna imagines himself as being able to use these techniques if he got their weapons. Yamamoto used that technique invented by himself with only 75% of his full power is something Tsuna wouldn't even bother to duck. Smiling, he looked at Yamamoto with interest, as if watching a short play that is known to end with a laugh.

As soon as Yamamoto figured something was wrong, he noticed a small smirk on Tsuna's face. That was when he realised something was really wrong. One second later, Tsuna was no longer in the attack circle of he, Gokudera and Nakamura, but behind Gokudera and Chrome who was trying to help Gokudera with his cut on the arm.

"Nah, too slow." Tsuna said in a low voice as Gokudera and Chrome turned their heads. "You two are out." Then Gokudera and Chrome realised that they were surrounded by a tight circle of sky attribute flame. The kind of sky attribute flame that Vongola Secondo owned. "If you dare to move even one finger," Tsuna narrowed his eyes, "This flame's gonna eat you. So I suggest you stay right on the spot and see what you guys can improve on later."

Then Tsuna used the same technique on the rest of the guardians except Nakamura and Mukuro. Mukuro owns mist attribute fire, so this technique would not work on him. Using his rain attribute rain to calm the mist rain, Tsuna threw Mukuro into a closed space made by strong sky flame. As for Nakamura, there's other plans for him.

After watching his friends being defeated by Tsuna one by one under the time of twenty seconds, Nakamura was frozen on the spot. He didn't know Tsuna was that strong. But Nono who was watching Tsuna carefully noticed the details.

"Tsunayoshi-kun isn't that strong actually." Nono shook his head and whispered as he saw the shocked face of Nakamura. "He just knows how to use people's emotions correctly, creating a mist around himself by not attacking unless he is fully confident. As for the speed, it was just because he used his fire as Xanxus did - using it as a power engine to increase both his speed and reflection. Well, sure, he's great at wielding fire. But if Kai-kun can see through that, I think he can definitely beat Tsunayoshi-kun at full power."

"I guess." Reborn said lowering his hat. "After all, this is Nakamura Kai who is the Vongola Decimo. If Kai gets serious, I bet he can beat Tsunayoshi-san."

Thanks to Reborn's loud voice and Nakamura's great hearing, he heard everything Reborn and Nono just said. Taking an extra look at the Tsuna who was looking at him coldly, Nakamura made a serious decision.

"Sawada Tsunayoshi," Nakamura Kai said loudly, "I am going kill you." Then he disappeared. Before Nakamura reappeared behind Tsuna one second later, a surprise look appeared on Reborn's face.

"Oh, so 駄目海 decided to use that technique after all. Beware, Tsunayoshi-san." Reborn said slowly, changing into a worried look.

"Be careful, Sawada Tsunayoshi, and good luck on ducking."

There's bitterness behind every smile, as there's pain behind every happiness.