Hi guys! I'm back! Sorry for the late update. I will try to update the fic in one or two weeks. Anyway, thanks for all reviews! They really help me! A lot. This chapter is longer than the previous chapter, so I hope you enjoy it.

Oh, yeah, if anyone is confused about the time of the story, it's after the winter war according to Bleach's timeline and before Kokuyou Arc in Reborn's timeline.

Disclaimer: I will never own Bleach or Reborn!

Death, Memories, Mafia

Chapter Two: A Worthy Recruit

Tsuna could not believe this, but this was happening right in front of his own eyes. He was having a dinner in house, with his family—including Lambo, I-Pin, Fuuta, Bianchi, and Reborn, her mother, and himself—and a boy that he didn't even know where he came from (Tsuna really had to warn her mother to not welcome stranger into the house easily). The white-haired boy named Hitsugaya Toushirou quickly gained the respect from Tsuna's family, even Lambo really respects that (somehow) icy boy.

"Toushirooooou!!!! Let's play hide and seek after the dinner!!!" Lambo pleaded.

"No! You shouldn't do that after dinner!" I-Pin warned her fellow kid.

Toushirou who stared at them with 'What the?' eyes just smiled. "Alright, but finish your dinner first, Lambo."

"Hehe!!! Lambo wins, baka I-Pin!!!" Lambo said proudly to I-Pin.

"Now, now, Lambo-chan, you should finish your dinner before you play, okay," Tsuna's mother reminded the naughty kid. "Toushirou-kun, I'm sorry if Lambo caused any trouble to you. He seems to like you, though"

Hitsugaya smiled. "It's fine. He's still a child."

Tsuna smiled as he looked at the boy he just met two days ago. The mafia boss-to-be wondered how could Lambo 'like' a person he just met, especially just for two days. It made Tsuna remember about the day when he took Hitsugaya to the hospital.

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"My name… is Hitsugaya Toushirou," Hitsugaya simply replied.

"Toushirou, eh? Sounds a good name," Yamamoto praised.

Tsuna looked at Hitsugaya concernly. "Are you okay? How could you be wounded so badly like that?"

Hitsugaya looked down for a while before he gave a reply, "I don't… know…"

"Hey, you'd better answer Juudaime's question properly, you darn shorty!" Gokudera snapped at Hitsugaya as he grabbed the boy's collar. "You have to say tahnk you at least! Juudaime has helped you!"

Tsuna sighed, "Enough, Gokudera-kun, calm down. Let him go."

"But, Juudaime…!!"

"Gokudera…"

"…Okay," Gokudera muttered and let Hitsugaya off.

"Hmm… Do you remember anything else about yourself?" Reborn in doctor suit suddenly asked. "Like where were you from? Or anything else?"

Hitsugaya weakly shook his head. "No… Not a little… Mr. Bonco."

"I see…" Reborn mumbled. "I think he lost his memories, all of it," He said to Tsuna.

"EEEEEEEH!!!!" Tsuna shrieked. "Now what should we do!!!"

Reborn looked at him seriously. "You're the one who found him, Tsuna, so you have to help him."

"But where should he stay?"

The little hitman smirked at him. Tsuna could sense something bad or worse was going to happen, sooner or later. "Of course, your house Tsuna," the baby replied shortly.

"EEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

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Thus, Hitsugaya stayed in Tsuna's house and lend a room with Tsuna. Even though his amnesia was worse than Tsuna thought—Hitsugaya asked Tsuna some 'unusual' question such as what is movie, what is school and how to use computer—he can cope up pretty well in two days. His family members were also happily accepted him. However, Tsuna was still worry about one thing. 'I hope Reborn won't recruit him to family like he does on Gokudera-kun and Yamamoto-kun…' he thought.

"Don't worry, Tsuna. If he's worthy enough, we should recruit him to your family," Reborn who sat next to him said as he knew what was Tsuna thinking.

'He read my mind again!!!' Tsuna sweat dropped. "But… Reborn! He's just an ordinary person, yet I don't know him pretty well!!!" The young Vongola whispered.

"You'll know him more in this week," Reborn replied. "Somehow, I feel that we really have to recruit him. He's some kind… unusual"

"Re-REBORN!!!! Can't you stop doing like that for once?!"

"You'd better believe me, Tsuna. My feeling is always right." Reborn said.

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Hitsugaya blinked at what the baby gave to him. A set of Namimori Junior High School uniform was placed and folded neatly in front of him. "I have to go… to school?"

Reborn nodded. "Yup, it will be strange if a person like you don't go to school."

"Uuhh… Well then," Hitsugaya replied as he picked the uniform.

Hitsugaya had just been in Namimori for three days, but he had seen to many strange things around him, especially in Tsuna's house. He never believed that a talking one years old baby became a home tutor, a lady who can only cook poisonous food, little kids who can turn into adults suddenly, a mother who was too absent-minded, a silver-haired guy who took out bunches of dynamites our of nowhere, a chameleon which can turn to different things, and many more of it. Now, unbeknownst him, the baby had registered him in one of the town's school and told him to go there studying. To be honest, looks like he had trapped in a strange place. He sighed, "How about the books and the other else?"

"Don't worry, I've prepared them all for you. All you have to do is just go and study. That's all," Reborn replied.

Hitsugaya blinked his eyes in disbelief. 'Who the heck is this baby?'

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Hitsugaya looked at himself in front of the mirror. The uniform fit him well, and his school bag has been prepared with all stationeries and books he needed.

"It's quiet neat, isn't it?" Hitsugaya said to himself.

Somehow, he did nor really enjoy to go to school. Even hearing the word 'school' and 'uniform' was enough to make him annoyed. He took a deep breath and lied on Tsuna's bed. Hitsugaya looked at the ceiling. 'Who am I? And how the hell can I be in this place?' He wondered. Hitsugaya closed his eyes. Could he at least remember… a bit?

"Shirou-chan! The registration to the academy is open now!"

"Why the hell you're so happy about that, Bedwetter?"

"Of course I'm happy! Because now I can be a shinigami!"

…

"Ooh… Taichou, you should wear this uniform! I think it suits you well!"

"I won't wear things like that, Matsumoto!"

Hitsugaya suddenly opened his eyes and sat on the bed. 'What… What was that?' he thought to himself. 'Was that my memories?' Hitsugaya closed his eyes and tried to remember more, but it useless. "Uuh… Why can't I remember more?" Hitsugaya moaned.

He tried to remember the flashbacks that he just got. What he remember was a person named Matsumoto and 'shinigami'. "Shinigami… Death god?" Hitsugaya asked to himself. "What does it mean? And who is this Matsumoto…?"

"Meow!!"

Hitsugaya's thought was ruined by a meow which came from a black cat which is sitting at the window. Hitsugaya turned to see the cat and realized that the black cat was carrying something with its mouth; a baby blue-indigo glove with a white skull printed on it. When the white-haired boy approached the cat, the cat left the glove and ran away from there.

"Hey, wait!" When Hitsugaya looked at the window, the cat had gone to nowhere. "Where did the cat go?...?" Hitsugaya picked the glove and looked closely at it. "What is this thing?"

"Hitsugaya-kun! We'd better hurry up!!" Hitsugaya heard Tsuna calling from out of the room.

"Coming!" He immediately put the glove in his pocket and grabbed his school bag, leaving the room with lots of questions in his head. 'Why I'm feeling that the cat's somehow familiar to me?' he though as he went out of the house.

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"Oh no, we are going to be late!!!" Tsuna exclaimed as he ran to the school. Behind him, Hitsugaya and Reborn, who was flying with a mini leon-copter, followed him. "I hope Hibari won't kill us…"

"Hibari? Who's Hibari?" Hitsugaya asked.

"The head of Namimori Junior High's Discipline Committee," Reborn replied shortly, "yet the strongest boy in Namimori Junior High."

"We'd better stay out of his way or he will kill us!!!" Tsuna added.

Finally, Tsuna and Hitsugaya reached the school on time. "Ah! Hibari wasn't there! We're lucky!!!" Tsuna relieved.

Hitsugaya was just about to reply when he heard a deep, intimidating voice came from behind.

"Who do you think the lucky person is, Sawada Tsunayoshi?"

Hitsugaya and Tsuna turned to their back and found a boy with black hair and stoic face, holding a tonfa in his right hand. A Disciplinary Committee band was tied around his left arm. Seeing Tsuna's face paled suddenly, Hitsugaya assumed that the person in front of him was Hibari, the head of Disciplinary Committee.

"And who is this boy beside you, Sawada?" Hibari asked.

"A… A… He's… uh…" Tsuna stammered. 'Where the hell is Reborn in this time?' He thought as he realized that Reborn was gone.

"I'm Hitsugaya Toushirou. I'm a new student in this school," Hitsugaya quickly replied.

Meanwhile, Reborn watched the scene from a tree not far from there. The infant hitman smirked. "Hmm… This is a good start to see how worthy Hitsugaya Toushirou is…" he mumbled. He took out a bundle of paper. On the top of the bundle, there was a photo and Hitsugaya's data. "Hmm… Everything is unknown… Interesting indeed…"

"Hitsugaya Toushirou, huh?" Hibari paused a bit and glared at Tsuna. "Sawada, I warn you to tell your new friend to not to bleach his hair. Bleached hair is disallowed in here," Hibari growled as he prepared to knock Tsuna out.

"Wait, it's not because bleached! My hair was originally white as far as I can remember!!" Hitsugaya suddenly blurted out.

Both Tsuna and Reborn widened his eyes. They never saw a person who dares to snap Hibari before.

"Hmm… Interesting…" Reborn mumbled.

"Hiee!!! Hitsugaya-kun, stop that!" Tsuna shrieked.

Hibari smiled. "Well, well, looks like I've got an arrogant herbivore to bite off this morning…" He took out his other tonfa and prepared a battle stance. "Now show me what you got, herbivore…"

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Hitsugaya even didn't know what he just said. It just more like a spontaneous reply. 'Arghh!!! Why the hell I said that?!' he thought. He looked at the prefect in front of him. Hitsugaya knew that he was in a big danger now. Like it was a reflex, he prepared a stance too.

"I don't want a fight, but if I have to, I will…" Hitsugaya muttered. It was also a spontaneous one. 'What the hell did I say?!!'

Hibari widened his eyes, but quickly covered it with a sadist smile. "Looks like I can have a little fun with you," he muttered lowly.

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Tsuna dropped his jaw. He would never believe what Hitsugaya just said. He challenged the fearful, stoic, merciless, school-lover, frighteningly strong, and famous of his battle-craziness Hibari Kyouya!!!? It he really did, Hitsugaya would be the first person ever who dare to challenge Hibari!

"OMG… Hitsugaya-kun… Don't do anything reckless…" Tsuna muttered.

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Reborn's smile grew wider and wider. He had known that his feeling was right. Hitsugaya Toushirou really is a worthy recruit after all.

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Hibari stole the start and quickly charged towards Hitsugaya. Hibari attacked the white haired boy with an unbelievable speed. However, Hitsugaya managed to dodge every attack perfectly. Both Hibari, Tsuna and Hitsugaya himself did not expect something like that.

'Hmm… He's a worthy herbivore…'

'Wow… I've never seen like this before...'

'How did I dodge those attacks easily, as if I'm used to it?'

Unfortunately for Hitsugaya, he tripped and was about to fall down. Hibari showed his winning smirk. "It's the time to end this, herbivore." He raised one of his tonfa and swung it to Hitsugaya.

"Hitsugaya!!!!" Tsuna shouted.

Unexpectedly, with a quick move, Hitsugaya got his balance back and dodged the attack, followed by elbowing Hibari right on his stomach. Hibari fall to his knees, holding his stomach. Tsuna and (even) Reborn widened their eyes. Hibari himself stared at Hitsugaya, showing a great disbelief. Then, Hibari smirked.

"You really are worthy to kill, Hitsugaya Toushirou…"

When they were about to fight again, they heard a clapping sound near them.

"Well, boys, that's enough," A dark-skinned lady came to them. The lady was wearing a white blouse with light blue flower embroidery and a long black skirt covering her legs. She tied her black hair to a ponytail. "This is school, not a place for you two to fight, and you, why don't you stop them?" The lady scolded Tsuna, Hibari, and Hitsugaya. "Shouldn't you be at school right now?"

"What do you think you're talking to?" Hibari asked back.

"It's not important right now," the lady replied, "you'd better pick your things and go to school now, the lesson's going to start soon."

Hibari sighed. He turned against Tsuna and Hitsugaya, walked to school. Before he left, he turned to see Hitsugaya. "Next time, we should settle this, Hitsugaya Toushirou."

Hitsugaya blinked. "Did I… just do something wrong?"

Tsuna stared at him. "Not just wrong, you've just risked your own life and now you're going to be in Hibari's worth-to-kill list…"

The lady sighed. She came to Tsuna and Hitsugaya, palcing both her hands on her waist. "Are you okay? Seems that you're hurt."

"No, I'm fine. Thank you." Hitsugaya replied.

Tsuna looked at the lady with confused look. "Are you a new teacher? I've never seen you before."

"Oh, yes. I'm a new teacher in here. My name's Shihouin Yoruichi," the lady replied. "It's nice to meet you."

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Reborn was satisfied, REALLY satisfied. He may not know a bit about Hitsugaya Toushirou, but the baby knew that Hitsugaya was a worthy boy. "Tsuna, Hitsugaya has to be one of the top list recruit…"

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