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Chapter 1

His Hyper Dying Will Mode

Reborn was understandably frustrated. For once in his life he was genuinely confused by his student, and his sudden, albeit subtle, attitude change. And he was going to get to the bottom of it.

The change had only started a week ago, his student was starting to grow a backbone. True the idiot had always been in constant denial and refusal about his position, but the loud, obnoxious, and downright girly outbursts were easy enough to control with the threat of 'training' and Reborn relished in it.

But now, Tsuna was, very courageously, displaying sarcasm, and even, dare he think it. A spine.

Doing what any tutor would do in his situation, he asked his student about the matter directly, after witnessing a particular change he hadn't been expecting at all. However, with the development of a spine, and sarcastic humour, his student had also gained a death wish. He wasn't telling Reborn anything, but only one mystery was plaguing Reborn's thoughts and that was:

Tsuna no longer needs bullets or pills to go into Hyper Dying Will Mode.

Understandably, it had come as a shock to Reborn, not for lack of wanting the outcome over time, he had just been stuck in trying to find the solution, after witnessing the phenomena, while a little proud (though he would never admit it.) He still wanted to know how his student managed such a feat.

Which is why he asked, and soon found that being able to go into Hyper Dying Will Mode, at will, had sparked his students' sudden death wish, in not divulging any information to him. Which of course resulted in 'training' for his wayward student, in the form of bullets and the occasional Leon transformed mallet.

And yet, still no answers.

Silently seething, Reborn left his student to his own devices in their shared room and made his way to the empty kitchen, Nana being out shopping with the children. And took to cleaning his secondary 'non-Leon' gun.

Starting with precariously filling a flat basin with water, using the edge of the sink as a balance, he hefted the water to the kitchen table with seemingly little trouble for his short stature.

He then pulled out a silk cloth, placed it neatly next to the basin before following up with a cotton one that he put to one side, then got to work in dismantling the gun.

With little to go on with his student, Reborn started with what he did have. The first being the incident with Bermuda.

'It could be a side effect. He was already in Hyper Dying Will Mode when he was shot with another Dying Will bullet, if that's the case, this might end up wearing off.'

It seemed a plausible conclusion but thinking further, Reborn recalled a couple more instances where he was still required to shoot his student with a Rebuke bullet, or Tsuna had taken the two necessary pills to go into the Hyper Dying Will Mode.

'So perhaps not, unless he could already go into Hyper Dying Will Mode on his own, and was just hiding the fact. Or he didn't actually know until after those instances. But I can't just go ahead and ask because the Dame isn't talking. Damn student.'

Pausing in his thoughts when his gun was dismantled, he delicately placed the more larger parts in the water to soak while he took to cleaning the more smaller ones with the cotton cloth he had pulled out previously.

"He's too Dame to be able to hide something like that immediately" He muttered to himself placing the newly cleaned parts on the silk cloth he prepared. "And if he realised he could do it after the instances he would have immediately said something. No this is more serious."

With concluding that the change came after, and not during the event with Bermuda, Reborn figured that he needed to analyse any situations or incidents that may have led Tsuna to realise he could enter his HDWM without assistance. So he gave thought to the state itself,

'It allows the user to release their inner limiters, rather than the outer ones seen in just the normal Dying Will mode. The inner limiters being released allows him to act calmly in battle and not use is Dying Will all at once. So Tsuna must have developed the ability to simply release those limiters on his own. But how? He's too Dame to be able to do anything like that.'

The smaller parts now cleaned, Reborn took the larger parts that had been soaking in the water one at a time and started to dry and clean them.

'He might have just landed himself in a situation when I was not there, and possibly without his pills, idiota, and would have needed to go into HDWM in order to survive, escape, or protect someone.'

"Che" Came is vocal frustration, his drying on the gun chamber becoming slightly rougher.

Most likely to protect someone, he would willingly take a beating if it was only him around, and he wouldn't use the state just to escape, he'd just run and hope for the best. Which means…'

"Reborn"

The hitman almost jumped at the soft voice, too distracted in his thoughts and drying off his gun to notice that Tsuna had been standing in the doorway for a while, staring at the hitman with far too intense eyes that looked strange on the teens normal pre-pubescent face. The teens shoulder was resting against the door frame, his arms folded, as casual at it might have seemed to others, to Reborn it was just further proof that his student was changing, in its own way it was giving of an aura of control and calmness that Reborn had never seen from his student outside of his HDWM.

Tsuna seemed to notice the attention and lightly pushed himself away from the door frame and unfolded his arms, instead opting to leave them at his sides. This only furthered Reborn's unease at the casual power his student was exuding, and sudden attentiveness, and was thinking it might be further change from entering HDWM with his own ability.

"It's really not important Reborn. Can you not just let this one go?" Tsuna continued, once again bringing Reborn out from his thoughts. However, the hitman expected this and sighed.

"It is important, Dame-Tsuna. I can't let this go, I need to know how you were able to accomplish this on your own when even I have not found a solution to the problem." The hitman grumbled, drying his gun more furiously in frustration. Tsuna watched on in silence, waiting for his tutor to continue. "I don't understand why you can't just tell me Tsuna. This is not a bad thing." He said while casting a glance at the waiting teen. Seeing no obvious response coming he continued with a sigh while he started to reassemble his gun. "If you tell me, I promise I will not punish you, Dame-Tsuna. I actually find it commendable that you've accomplished something like this on your own. Keeping it a secret is just frustrating me, I had thought that you would be jumping for joy that I don't have to shoot you anymore." He figured that giving his student praise, rather than threatening him with further violence might make him open up and just tell him how he managed it. He honestly didn't care if his student might have found the kindness more frightening than any threat the hitman had given him before.

"Commendable." Came a monotonous voice. Reborn blinked before looking back at his student, seeing that the brunet had had hidden his eyes behind his bangs, a habit he will soon be trying to kick him out of. Reborn had thought momentarily that Tsuna had entered the very state they had been discussing, but with no flames present it didn't seem to be the case. But he still wondered.

"Tsuna?" The hitman enquired, placing his newly cleaned gun on the kitchen table in front of him. The soft sound seemed to snap Tsuna out of his strange mood and the teen looked up sheepishly.

"It's nothing Reborn. I don't remember how it happened. I don't mean to keep it a secret. But I just really don't know." He was completely different, like a switch had just been flicked and he went back to his usual Dame self. His eyes no longer holding that eerie attentiveness and his stance back to awkward and fidgety. Reborn almost shot him from sheer frustration for the switch and blatant lie. This was becoming more of a mystery, and he did not like it.

The door opened then with the arrival of Nana, returning from shopping with Lambo, I-Pin and Fuuta in toe. Breaking the killing intent Reborn was directing at his now sweating student.

'Damn'

"I'm home! Ah Tsu-Kun! Could you lend a hand with putting all this shopping away?"

Taking the welcomed distraction Tsuna didn't hesitate to help his mother, the children starting their usual chaotic routine of running around the small house, before being ushered into the yard by an exasperated Nana, for once exhausted by the endless energy of the children.

"Are you okay Kaa-San?" Tsuna asked after hearing a long sigh coming from his usually constantly energetic mother.

"I'm fine, the children just seem a bit more lively than normal. It's just been a little difficult with dealing with them today. Fuuta-kun helped as best he could but Lambo-Chan just seemed to be completely out of sorts."

Tsuna frowned at this and looked towards the children through the glass screen separating them from the yard. On the surface everything looked to be normal, the kids where running around each other and appeared to be playing happily. But on closer inspection Tsuna could tell it was different. Lambo, normally boisterous on any day looked to be ten times worse, his expression, normally happy and full of mischief seemed instead to be furrowed in anguish. I-Pin as a result looked to be more frustrated, her usually soft blows held back when playing, were now actually aiming to be painful to the young Bovino. And Fuuta of course was just despairing at not being able to stop the two.

"I'm sorry Kaa-San. I should have been there to help out."

"Now now, I daresay there's nothing much you could have done. I doubt anything will calm them down. I suppose they will just tire themselves out eventually." Nana said with a smile before putting the last of her groceries in the fridge. She turned back to her son only to find that he was no longer in the kitchen with her, and had stepped out into the yard with the children.

She couldn't describe the feeling that came over her when she witnessed the utter stillness of the scene before her. Perhaps it was anticipation along with uncertainty, and she shivered at the thought of it being caused by her baby boy. She noticed Reborn in her peripheral vision, also taking in the strange sight, but she daren't turn away to see the baby's expression in case the scene shatters like an illusion. Instead she watched with bated breath as the children, who had been as loud as sirens for a good part of the afternoon, were now completely silent, watching their surrogate brother coming towards them with a grace and elegance she would never have even dreamed of being executed by her usually accident-prone son.

Tsuna walked straight up to Lambo before kneeling before the young Bovino, from only seeing the back of her son, she couldn't see what he was saying, or hear it for that matter, but knew that whatever it was, it was having an effect on the small Afro haired child, who suddenly teared up before moving to Tsuna, arms open wide in askance of an embrace before Tsuna complied. I-Pin and Fuuta, obviously moved by the scene demanded their own attention by clinging onto their older brother, their own tears slowly tricking down their cheeks.

It felt like hours to Nana, when only minutes had passed when the children reluctantly detached themselves from Tsuna, probably in response to something he must have been saying. They all gave him shaky nods before he stood and made his way back to the house.

Tsuna froze as he came back into the kitchen. Pausing at the look of slight awe and trepidation that he was receiving from his mother, and trying his best to ignore the look of confusion, frustration, and the promise of pain from his tutor.

'I think I probably could have handled that better. This is going to be bad' He reached his hand up to the back of his head, ruffling the hair at the back of his neck in nervous habit while he directed a small smile at his mother. He froze again when he found himself in a sudden embrace from Nana, the tension she had built up washed away from her and left relief in its place at the familiar gesture of nervousness from her son. She took a step back, nodded to herself and started on making dinner. Leaving the brunet stunned at the display.

Not being able to delay it any longer he turned his brown orbs to the waiting hitman, who simply gestured for him to make his way to his room. Biting back a sigh he nodded before heading up the stairs.

There was no avoiding the questions now, Reborn was clearly livid. He wondered if he might survive. But he wasn't going to tell him the truth. He doesn't need to know.

"Explain." Came the curt command from the former Arcobaleno as Tsuna shut the door behind them. The brunet simply sighed before making his way to his bed and sat on the edge, Reborn followed his example and sat in front on him, waiting for the teen to start.

Tsuna glanced at his tutor, noticing the dark glare he was receiving before turning his gaze to the clear sky out of his window, a soft warming of orange was starting to colour the azure landscape and Tsuna couldn't help but cast a smile at the sight. A sharp cough brought his attention back to his room and the angered tutor before him.

"I calmed them down. What is there to explain." He said simply as he leveled his own gaze to Reborn.

A twitch of Reborn's eye was the only indication that Tsuna was walking on dangerous grounds with his tutor. A stilled silence settled between them as Reborn reined in his anger at his student.

'Perhaps he's just hitting puberty and that's what's making him act so brave. Dame-Tsuna. I've not been this angry at a student since Dino thought showing his appreciation meant getting a tattoo of my fedora on his backside. I won't deny that personally lasering the thing off brought me a lot of satisfaction, and effectively re-educated my student. I wonder if Tsuna might have got a tattoo without me knowing… No, probably not... Shame'

"Tsuna. I'm being serious here." He started instead, effectively turning his anger to thoughts of lasering skin off students. "As much as those children look up to you, you have never been able to calm them down. No-one is able to calm them down. Which leads me to believe that something happened beforehand that drove them more crazy than normal. That you know something about. Am I wrong?"

"I'm not answering that. I've already answered your question. You can't force me to talk."

"Don't test me on that Tsuna."

"Or what?"

"Or I will force you to talk." Thoughts of lasering looking like a nice prospect now.

"How? Shooting me? Hitting me? Do you think I'm not already used to all the violence you've subjected me to? What else have you got that you haven't used against me already!" Tsuna's voice escalated rapidly and his previously calm eyes were now filled with a rage Reborn hadn't even seen him use in battle.

'What the?'

The sudden outburst had caught Reborn completely off guard, and from the almost hysteric pants and panic filled eyes, it had shocked his student too. The silence stretched, broken only by Tsuna's labored breathing as if he had just run a marathon.

It took a while before Tsuna was able to fully calm down, his breathing eventually becoming less erratic while his heartbeat slowly steadied itself. He looked to his waiting tutor, the hitman's face showing no reaction to his odd outburst. Taking one last steadying breath Tsuna spoke.

"I – I'm sorry Reborn. I don't know what came over me. I didn't mean to shout at you like that."

Reborn scoffed. "Despite appearances Tsuna, I'm not a child, and I'm not offended. But you need to tell me what happened to you. This is strange behaviour. I just want to understand so that I can help. Can you please just tell me what happened."

Tsuna was taken about back at the obvious concern and small note of pleading from his tutor and in that moment, he was tempted to tell him everything. But he couldn't, not yet at least. He wouldn't understand, he still didn't understand. And until he did, no one was going to know anything. Not even his tutor.

Resolved, he simply shook his head. Clamming his mouth shut and closing his eyes. Visibly shaking and a sheen of sweat running from his forehead.

"Very well," Reborn mumbled, almost silently. "But you can't avoid this conversation forever, Dame-Tsuna. Get yourself cleaned up before coming down for dinner."

Nodding mutely Tsuna rose from his seat and moved to the bathroom, Reborn watching attentively as he did before the brunet disappeared from sight. With nothing else to do the hitman made his way back to the kitchen, Nana still preparing dinner, if she had heard the loud outburst from her son earlier, she decided not to comment and Reborn turned to the only person seated at the table, which was Fuuta.

He smirked at the opportunity as he hopped up to his usual seat, looking around, he noticed that Lambo and I-Pin were still out in the yard, their playful routine back to normal instead of the all-out fight he had witnessed earlier.

"Fuuta" He called as he got settled. The ranking price looked to him in silent question before the hitman continued, erasing the presence of his smirk at the golden opportunity he'd landed in.

"What did Tsuna say to Lambo?" At the question, he noticed that Nana paused in her cooking for a moment before continuing, now keeping an ear on the conversation. In Reborn's opinion, a direct approach was usually the best one. A blunt question asked suddenly leaves little time for the other party to come up with a plausible lie. And from experience he usually gains the whole truth, part of the truth, or a blatant lie. Even if he got a lie from Fuuta on this occasion, he would probably still gain some insight.

"You'll have to ask Lambo or Tsuna, I didn't really hear, it was mumbled."

'No hesitation, damn. A deflection perhaps? Or part of the truth? He didn't look surprised at the question either. Maybe Tsuna warned him that I might start asking questions?

"Very well." The hitman replied, no other choice, if it's a truth or a lie, no more answers would be given.

The kitchen remained quiet if not for the noises of cooking being made by their host, the peace lasting until Lambo barged into the room, followed quickly by I-Pin. Before the young Bovino could make any declaration of war to the superior hitman, Reborn interjected with his one question of the afternoon.

"What did Tsuna say to you earlier?"

'That's more like it, Lambo's younger and less mature so he can't school his expression as well, if at all. This should be easy.'

Lambo fell silent at the sudden question from his rival and his expression flitted between frustrated and nervous, his gaze shifting everywhere away from the hitman before him.

"That's private." He said finally. Reborn almost pulled out a gun in annoyance.

"Then I won't tell anyone" He said instead.

"I don't want you to know." Came the childish retort.

"Did Tsuna tell you not to tell me?" Reborn asked, getting more frustrated. Thinking back to when the three had nodded before Tsuna had left them in the yard, wondering if he had instructed them not to say anything.

"No." Lambo was getting more frustrated himself, his face starting to turn red and the occasional sniff marring the silence.

"Reborn-Kun, perhaps it's best if you let the matter rest." Came Nana's soothing tone and the Bovino almost fell over in relief at the words "Obviously what Tsuna has said to him is important to him, otherwise he would share it. Isn't that right Lambo-Chan?"

A small nod came from the sniffling Bovino while Reborn suppressed another urge to shoot the small cow child.

"Now that that's settled, could someone go get Tsuna? Dinner is ready."

"I'm here."

Reborn almost jumped again and had to quickly repress the urge to shoot his student for suddenly appearing behind him.

'That's twice he's been able to do that. It can't be a coincidence'

Ignoring the glare from the hitman Tsuna immediately moved to the distressed Bovino.

"Lambo, what's the matter? Did something happen?" The child just shook his head stiffly before taking his seat, Tsuna watched in mild confusion before casting a questioning gaze to his tutor, which was promptly ignored. With a sigh Tsuna dropped the matter. "Would you like a hand setting out the table?" He called to his mother, getting a thankful 'yes' he got to work. After setting down the plate of food in front of his tutor he leaned in a little closer and mumbled.

"I'll tell you, after dinner."

Deciding not to hide his smirk of victory Reborn dug into his meal with renewed vigor, Tsuna just rolled his eyes at the display before starting his own meal.

The silence stretched on uncomfortably, well, more frustratingly for the small hitman but he realised that his student needed to prepare himself for what he was about to say. He just wished the idiota would get on with it.

After hearing what must have been the twenty-seventh frustrated sigh, he promptly gave up on patience.

"Why don't you just start at the beginning." He suggested, trying to keep his tone calm and open.

"But it's difficult."

"How? It's the beginning, it's what you first remember of the event, situation, or incident or whatever the hell happened. Start with the morning, you woke up, the day was going fine, as fine as can be for you, then?" He prompted. It seemed like a good start for him. In fact "Or even more accurately, you were hit awake by yours truly, got frogmarched into getting ready for school, walked to said school with your ever-present storm and rain guardians. And then?"

It wasn't working, in fact it seemed to have the opposite effect on Tsuna. The brunet looked to be more confused, and slightly terrified.

"Tsuna?"

"I don't remember the morning." Tsuna had covered his eyes with his hair at this point, though Reborn knew they would have the same panic-stricken look from earlier in the day. "On that day." He elaborated "I wasn't lying earlier when I said I don't know what happened, I'm still trying to piece it all together in my head. I remember everything, but sometimes it's like I'm in the situation, and other times it's like I'm watching from the outside. And I don't know. It's all confusing, I don't understand what happened, that's why I hadn't wanted to tell you yet, because I don't know yet."

"Then we'll see if we can't piece it together for you. Let's start with what you do know. You mentioned it being a situation, right? You know what it was but you're seeing it all from different perspectives. Just start simple, tell me the situation."

"It was Lambo. He got taken away while we had been out shopping. I'd only taken my eyes off him for a moment, distracted by some stupid shop." He bit out before he continued. "When I looked back he wasn't with me. I'd first thought he'd gone off to some sweet shop, so I started looking in them. But I couldn't find him." He breathed out a shaky breath, hands clasped together and shaking, head bowed, eyes covered. Sensibly Reborn remained silent while his student continued. "That's when everything changed. Suddenly, it was like I knew exactly what had happened, I could picture it in my head, someone coming up to Lambo, tempting him with a candy and then him following silently, not alerting me at the time. It had been like I was in my Hyper Dying Will Mode, with the intuition, but it had never been so, so clear before, and potent, it had been like I was suddenly an observer, and then I was back in myself again, and I had never felt myself in such a desperate rage. Like another person had taken over and could think of nothing more than getting to Lambo and -"

Tsuna paused, the shaking had become worse, with his eyes covered Reborn couldn't tell if it was the rage Tsuna had mentioned, the panic he had been feeling or a combination of the two. Not wanting to break the thought process Reborn continued to wait, for once not impatient, but getting more and more confused as his student must have been feeling.

"And punishing the one who took him." The brunets voice took a hard edge and Reborn was taken aback by the unrestrained fury that came with the declaration. He wanted more than anything at that moment to ask if his student, his almost criminally cowardly student, who bawled at the mere thought of harming anyone unprovoked, had actually gone through with his wish of harming this stupid kidnapper. But again, knowing it would be unwise to interrupt, Reborn remained silent.

"I just moved, it was like I had a radar, telling me exactly where I could find Lambo, and I was there in minutes, but the kidnapper was waiting. Their face was covered, and they kept themselves in the shadows. I couldn't even tell the gender from where I stood. But they were holding Lambo. And Lambo was crying. None of us moved, I had lost whatever rage had driven me there when I saw Lambo's relief at seeing me, and I felt disgusted that I had actually thought about…. About causing harm to another human being, I was almost sick there and then. But the kidnapper was still there, and still had Lambo, and I knew I needed to do something. Knew I needed to get him back. But you weren't there, and I didn't have the dying will pills. So I didn't know what to do. But Lambo started crying again, the kidnapper must have hurt him. And then I just moved again, but it was different from before, it was like I was me, there was no rage, just how I am normally in in my hyper state. But I hadn't done anything, I just, I don't know I just – "

"Resolved yourself on your own, to protect Lambo." Tsuna looked up at the statement, understanding dawned on him momentarily and he nodded before his face became conflicted.

"It was over quickly, I stopped the kidnapper and called the police. Lambo was in hysterics, he had been so scared. And I had forgotten all about the rage I had felt, and the strange intuition. Until I was able to do it again."

"Go into HDWM?" Tsuna nodded.

"And then I remembered, how I had reacted at realising Lambo had been taken. How my intuition was completely different. And everything just got so confusing I didn't know what was happening, I kept feeling that rage, like it was trying to consume me. Change me. And I was so scared." Silence followed for a moment as Reborn took in his student's words, but needed to clarify.

"When you went into HDWM again, when was it?" He asked, wondering if there had been more times than he realised.

"When you saw it."

Or not.

That event wasn't something as big as the kidnapping Tsuna mentioned, but something in that first time must have unlocked the ability for Tsuna to release the limiters on his own. If he recalled this second time, it wasn't even a fight, Dino had stopped by for a visit and the three of them, with Gokudera, had been on the school roof. Dino had stupidly left his men back at base and somehow managed to do a brilliant Tsuna impersonation of tripping over thin air, to consequently trip onto thin air as he promptly fell of the roof. Reborn hadn't even been able to transform Leon into his gun form before Tsuna followed Dino over the edge, flames trailing behind him. Stunned, Reborn had turned to the storm guardian and asked if he had seen Tsuna take the dying will pills.

He hadn't.

Which was when Reborn had started his inquisition.

"So you've only gone into the state twice on your own?" He asked, getting back to the topic. He got a nod in response.

"And you feel this rage when you do?" Tsuna shifted at that and Reborn picked up on the sudden nervousness that came from the teen. "Or is it not limited to being in your Hyper state?" His response this time was Tsuna simply lowering his head as if in shame.

"When had the kidnapping first happened? I hadn't heard about it. Had I been away?" He asked instead, knowing the response to be mean yes.

"It had been two weeks before you came back with Dino."

So yes, he had been away at the time, which meant if he chalked up the timescales from then to now, Tsuna has had this rage thing for at least three weeks. It was definitely a concern. Now to narrow down the cause, thinking back to Xanxus, his flames of wrath were a manifestation of his anger, but also a trait that looked to be seemingly passed from Secondo. As such, Xanxus can't create Sky flames in the same way Tsuna can, and Tsuna's, from watching him with Dino, hadn't taken on that wrathful quality, they were still the much more harmonising flames that he had come used to. Even when hardened after the training for facing Byakuran. So his sudden rage was not effecting his flames, just seemingly, his intuition.

"When you rescued Dino, you said you felt the rage again then. Can you think why?" Tsuna didn't move while he thought back, after a minute he looked to Reborn and nodded.

"I was reminded of the time Yamamoto-Kun had thought about jumping off for breaking his arm."

Reborn nodded in understanding, although different circumstances, it was still a need to protect, even if the guardians hadn't been established at the time, Tsuna had felt a strong need to protect his schoolmate at the time. Being put in a similar situation would have sparked that memory and that fierce protective need.

"So when you were enraged that time, you wouldn't have wanted to hurt anyone, it would have only probably been directed at Dino a little, for being so clumsy?" Reborn stated it as a question in case it was off the mark but the realisation and nod that came from Tsuna told him he was on the right track.

"And when you have been enraged at other times, without being in Hyper mode, what has happened? Can you think of any examples?" Suddenly Tsuna turned a cold gaze towards him and Reborn had to suppress the shiver that ran down his spine at the chilling atmosphere, he had a feeling that he had probably done something that upset the teen. And recently.

"There was today, when I came down and you had upset Lambo with your questions." Tsuna's voice was almost monotonous if not for the underlying rage that Reborn could now sense in his student. Not to be deterred, and hoping to diffuse the tension, Reborn continued.

"Understandable, It's the protectiveness again. Overall, the urge looks to have been heightened, and feeling the 'rage' is an effect of that. Normally you would chastise me in that whiny way you usually adopt, while I would rain bullets at you both for being annoying. But instead, you diffused the situation on your own by ignoring me completely and focusing your attention on calming Lambo down. Leading me to believe, that while not appearing in your Hyper Dying Will Mode, when someone close to you is upset or threatened, your mind goes into it on its own, and the 'rage' you are feeling, is just a fierce over-protectiveness."

Tsuna thought on this for a moment, possibly thinking about other times he had felt so uncontrollably angry and seeing if there was in fact a pattern like Reborn was suggesting.

"Also, by seeming to remember occasions that have left you feeling over-protective before, also lends itself into mentally activating your HDWM, if not appearing that you have. Such as a moment ago, when you remembered the incident with Lambo before dinner."

"But why is it happening now? Nothing's changed, but yet I'm getting so 'over-protective' like you say. It doesn't make sense."

"It makes perfect sense, Dame-Tsuna. You are finally showing your quality as a future boss. Having a fierce protectiveness over your family proves that. Now we just need to learn to control it. We can't have you wanting to maim people every time one of your guardians gets upset. Can we?"

Tsuna blinked and ducked his head sheepishly at the declaration before nodding his head in agreement.

"Good. Let's get started then. Tsuna! Show me your Dying Will!"

"HIEEEEEEE!?"

'Now, if I can just figure out how this over-protectiveness started affecting his HDWM. Find out what he said to Lambo earlier. If this kidnapper was Mafia or just an idiota. Why he can't remember the morning at all of the kidnapping. How all of this relates to him growing a backbone *Sigh* I've got my work cut out for me with this mystery. Oh well, time will tell.

And the first chapter is officially done, I've checked through this about three times so I think I got all the spelling mistakes, If not please let me know I'll i'll fix it up. :)

I hope you enjoyed the chapter, even though not a lot really happened, but the fic will be focusing more on Tsuna's personal development and how it comes about (because if I didn't make it clear in this chapter, it's going to be far from simple, TeeHee) I will be putting in fight scenes when they become part of the story, but I'm just letting you know to not expect them to happen in every chapter.

Also, I am hoping to update weekly, and will be trying my best to do this. If I don't update in a week I give everyone permission to personally give me a kick up the butt to get a chapter up ASAP :)

Thank you again for all your support so far, I hope I continue to impress.

Until next time,

~Killing Reality