Hi! Another chapter done! I hope everyone is enjoying the story so far! Thank you all for the continued support!

Important note! As you may have noticed already I'm doing very little in the form of Tsuna's perspective, that's not to say that they won't happen, it's just that I feel his development is better explored by viewing the changes from an outside perspective in the form of Reborn and his friends. Plus we do get a little insight to what's going on in his head when he has his little outbursts and what not, so look forward to some those near the end of this chapter ;)

And I would have probably have had this chapter up a little sooner if I didn't spend a lot of time trying to find out where exactly the Vongola HQ is actually located, then trying to remember as I got back to typing this up WHY I needed to know that information. Then there was also looking up the Japanese school system and ages and whatnot, then I had to do MATH to figure out if Tsuna should already be in high school (he's 16 in this fic if I'm going by wikia standards) and I decided to just go ahead and say 'not yet but getting there, add it to the plot hahahaha' THEN I decided I needed to look up Italian mafia hierarchy, (which will make sense when I start to incorporate it into the story) and I was stuck on that info for a while because I found it too interesting hahaha….. anyway…

Sooooo after a ridiculously long authors note, OH WAIT! Disclaimer! Don't own KHR!

There, now on with the story! Enjoy!

Chapter 3

Their Futures

"As you already know, I sealed away Tsuna's flame when he was only four, for reasons you are already aware of." Nono started after being demanded an explanation from his friend.

"In hopes of keeping him out of the mafia, yes." Reborn responded, not hiding his impatience. Noting this tone, Nono continued.

"When I met young Tsunayoshi again, when the battles for the rings were taking place, you might recall I used a delving flame, at the time to show him the truth of the situation and why he was facing it. But I also made a small alteration to the seal on his flame."

"You mean his flame was still sealed at the time?" Reborn asked, genuinely surprised.

"That's right"

"But the Rebuke bullets? And the pills?"

"All temporary, you'll note that there has always been a time limit and he has never been able to manifest his flame without assistance, until recently of course. This is due to the seal that I had placed on him. If we go back to the ring battles, I made an alteration to this seal, so that when he turned sixteen, it would remove itself, but slowly. This would give him time to adjust to the new ability of manifesting his flame, and his Hyper Dying Will Modes on his own volition, and at such a pace that he would not be overwhelmed. I had judged that he would have full control and capability of all aspects of his flame, and his intuition before he turned eighteen."

"Just in time for him to be old enough to take the mantle of Vongola. You've been planning this for a while Nono."

"I'm aggrieved to agree with you on that one my friend." Came the wistful response of the Vongola boss.

"But if what you're saying is true, then what you've planned is all going wrong. He's had moments of full control of his abilities and his intuition is going into overdrive. Instead of everything going slowly, it's happening rapidly, but in spurts. This isn't making any sense at all."

"Hence my concern."

"You've no idea what could be causing this?"

"Not without direct observation I'm afraid. But I will be investigating the matter on my end, I'll check though the archives at the manor, there's always a chance Primo might have gone through something similar when developing his own flame and recorded it for future reference, but I wouldn't be so hopeful."

"This didn't happen with you then?"

"I'm afraid not, I'd never had my flame sealed in such a way so I believe it developed rather naturally. Then we should also consider that Tsuna is the direct descendant of Primo, not I, I daresay there may be differences due to that."

"Then Iemitsu?"

"A possibility yes. I'll be sure to look into that myself. In the meantime, I can only recommend that you continue as you have with trying to have Tsuna keep control of his emotions. If nothing else, it should prevent such... unfortunate incidents in the future."

"I agree. I've not told him yet that I know about the kidnapper, he's not brought it up either."

"Then I suggest you mention nothing unless he does. I know that sounds like hiding it, but he might have forgotten his actions and bringing them up could make everything worse."

"Understood. I will be in touch if anything new comes up."

"As will I"

"Arrivederci"

"Arrivederci"

"So Tsuna! How are you doing today?" Yamamoto asked as the trio were making their way to school. They were a little late getting out today so the three hadn't been joined by Haru or Kyoko, the former being at a different school and the latter, not wanting to be late, had joined her brother in making her trip.

"I'm okay today Yamamoto-Kun. I suppose it's a little quieter with Enma and his group gone." Tsuna looked sullen at this and Gokudera thought it best to try and lighten his boss' mood.

"It's okay Jyudaime! We'll be sure to see them again when we all head to Italy ourselves"

Yamamoto just stared at the silverette in bland confusion while Tsuna donned his accustomed look of panic.

"HIEEE! Why would we be going to Italy?! Has Reborn planned something again?!"

"Well I don't know about Reborn, Jyudaime. But I imagine you'll be heading the Family in Italy rather than here."

"Waaa? I won't be heading the Family! I don't want to go to Italy!"

"Ah! Got it Jyudaime! You'll want the headquarters moved here so that you're closer to home! Very good Jyudaime"

"That's not it either!"

"Ma ma, we should probably hurry to homeroom before we're late" Came Yamamoto's saving input, although Tsuna was still voicing denials to Gokudera who of course was taking all of them the wrong way.

Tsuna had soon given up with his argument once they all entered their classroom, too exhausted to continue with the denials and just opted for silent agreement on whatever Gokudera was saying, no longer keeping up with the conversation.

"So which one are you planning to go for Tsuna?" Came the inquisitive tone of his Rain Guardian, looking up from where he had resting his head in his arms he looked into the brown eyes of Yamamoto and answered with a dazed

"What?"

"Haha, you look like you've zoned out there Tsuna!"

"Hey! Don't disturb Jyudaime when he's sleeping Baseball freak!"

"Ma ma, the teacher would have woken him anyway when they came in"

"It's fine, Gokudera-Kun, I wasn't really asleep. What did you ask Yamamoto-Kun?"

Gokudera opted to glare instead at the 'baseball freak' while Yamamoto enthusiastically repeated his previous question.

"I was wondering about which high school you're thinking of applying to? I'd like to pick one with a good baseball team, but I'm afraid that my grades probably won't be good enough to pass the exams." Yamamoto trailed off sheepishly but Tsuna just shook his head at the pessimistic attitude.

"You shouldn't think like that Yamamoto, there are plenty of high schools that will let you in with sports talent, it wouldn't matter all too much about your grades. Besides, yours are no where near as bad as mine. I'd doubt I'd even get excepted into a public school." Tsuna said rubbing the hair at the back of his head in a nervous gesture. His response had helped his guardian though and Yamamoto's expression brightened at the confidence given by his friend.

"I'm sure you'll be able to get into a good school Tsuna, you just haven't had as much chance to study much with everything that's being going on recently." He said, hoping to give his friend the same confidence he had just received, Tsuna just gave a nervous laugh and smiled before turning to his storm guardian, who was still glaring at not being allowed to insult Yamamoto, for the time being at least.

"What about you Gokudera, I bet you've already applied to some private ones in the area." Tsuna asked, distracting Gokudera from his one sided glaring match.

"Of course not! Jyudaime! I will only apply for the schools you do, I cannot allow myself to be in a completely different school if you are at risk of being in danger elsewhere. As your right hand man I will not allow it!"

Tsuna sighed as he contemplated how he was going to approach this issue, outright refusing wasn't going to work in this case, like with the Italy talk from the way into school. He needed to be subtle with this one otherwise Gokudera would end up wasting his talent in some small time public school when he could be applying himself better and furthering his already inexhaustible knowledge.

Gokudera looked to be fidgeting under the scrutiny of his boss, who hadn't lifted his thoughtful gaze for two whole minutes since his outburst and was wondering if he had actually angered his boss before Tsuna's expression shifted from contemplative to an all too fake smile, unnerving Gokudera, before his boss spoke.

"No." Forget subtle, he was going for blunt instead, but he still needed to be smart about it. If he could.

It was with fake cheer and a continued unnerving smile, eyes lighting with unmistakable deviousness that stilled Gokudera's tongue before his boss continued.

"You won't be able to support me better if you waste your talents in a public school, that's if I even get into one. If you go to a private school and gain more knowledge, you would be able to apply it as my Storm guardian. Don't you think?"

Before Gokudera could reply however, Tsuna continued.

"But of course, if you feel that you don't want to apply yourself to be better, then you are free to do what you like. Of course then we'll never know what you might have been able to do to better support me. Would we?"

Gokudera swallowed thickly at the question and was torn between is previous argument of protecting the Tenth or looking to the future so that he might better help the him as a right hand man. The resulting turmoil came out as a shaky

"B-But"

"Wanting to protect me is good, and I know it must be difficult to choose. But I would feel better to know that you will be of greater help in the future for applying yourself academically. Also, after everything we've all been through so far, do you really think that I have no means of protecting myself?"

"J-Jyudaime" Gokudera spoke quietly, Yamamoto looking to Tsuna in awe at the lecture, opting not to say anything as he waited for Gokudera to come to his decision.

"It's up to you Gokudera-Kun. I will not be disappointed in what you choose." This seemed to be decision maker for Gokudera and he now looked to his boss with a fierce determination.

"I will apply to a private school, Jyudaime. I'm deeply sorry for not focusing on how I can be better in the future. I will be sure to improve in all ways that I can so that I can continue to support you better than I have so far. Please accept my deepest apologies, my near sightedness will not be a problem again, I swear it." At this point Gokudera had risen from his temporary seat next to Tsuna in order to bow a full ninety degrees before his boss, garnering whispers and strange looks from the rest of the students in class. For once Tsuna didn't care for the extra attention and gave a true smile at his guardian's decision.

"I'm happy to hear that Gokudera-Kun, and there is nothing to forgive, you were only thinking about my wellbeing. I cannot be angry at that."

Near tears at the praise Gokudera merely nodded rapidly before lifting from his bow and taking his seat the three of them ignoring the whispers from their classmates before the homeroom teacher came in and called to them all to settle down.

Lunch came about slowly for the trio, both of the guardians having different thoughts of the conversation before homeroom and had been utterly distracted in lessons as a result.

Yamamoto had been rather impressed at Tsuna's insight for both Gokudera and himself, in one small conversation his friend had eliminated all fears on picking out a school, as well as silently encouraging that he should focus on the sport he still loved. He was equally impressed at how he handled Gokudera, he himself knew that Gokudera was smart enough to already go to college, if he hadn't already, and that he would just be bored and be wasted at a small public school. But of course he had no idea on how to broach the topic with the explosive teen without it turning into another argument, that would of course get them both nowhere. But Tsuna had turned his own dedication against him, it had almost seemed sly in the way that he had done it, but he knew Tsuna was just thinking about Gokudera's future, just as he had his own with Baseball and it was genuinely amazing to see how it had worked. Gokudera himself seemed to be glowing with pleasing his boss and Yamamoto couldn't help but smile though the rest of the morning.

Gokudera of course was ecstatic that he had pleased his boss. Of course he'd admonished himself repeatedly afterwards for not thinking at all about the future. As the right hand man he needed to be fully able to provide assistance in all manner of things, from counsel, information, protection, mediation or intimidation. Focusing only on protecting his boss, while not a bad thing, limited him in everything else he would be expected to do. He was instantly happy of course, that his boss had recognised the need for him to focus on more than protection and saw it as a positive sign that Tsuna was accepting him to be his right hand man. Happy with this revelation Gokudera was practically glowing all throughout their morning classes, for once not even rebuking the teacher for their dumb lessons.

When lunch did arrive it saw the three of them on the roof. Kyoko and Chrome had opted to head to the home economics room to work on their cooking skills. Tsuna was still a little edgy being on the roof since the recent incident with Dino but was sure not to show his discomfort to his friends while they dug into their meals.

He was happily chewing on a small bite of fried chicken when he felt his blood shoot with adrenaline before he heard a distinct whistle of wind being sliced before he ducked his head out of the path of the coming tonfa. He then instantly leapt forward, discarding his bento and surprising his two guardians before a second tonfa crashed into where he was sat less than a second before. He rolled after his jump, and while rising spun a kick aimed at the skylarks left wrist, hoping to disarm at least one of the tonfa's. Seeing this Hibari backed off and leveled an amused gaze at the now glaring Tsuna, his gaze a bright orange and stance defensive in anticipation of another attack. He eyes flickered to his two guardians, picking themselves up from the ground in stunned confusion. Tsuna, uncomfortable with the Skylark being closer to them than he was moved to circle around the steely eyed teen until he was directly in front of them, blocking the way for Hibari to go directly to them.

Hibari had watched with the eagerness of a predator stalking his prey while Tsuna put himself before the two stunned guardians, the orange fire in his eyes promising a fight should he attempt to get by him. Smirking at the thought he instead opted to put away his tonfas noticing that Tsuna did not move from his defensive stance.

"You are a lot more interesting when you are a carnivore. Sawada Tsunayoshi. But I suggest you stop scaring little children. It disrupts the peace in Namimori" He almost chuckled at the way Tsuna's eyes widened in shock before they started to fade back to his caramel brown. "Until next time, carnivore" He said while walking away, leaving the three in silence. Tsuna just stared in stunned silence at where the prefect had once been, realisation at what his words implied hitting him like a punch in the gut, he tried to control his expression when he heard Yamamoto and Gokudera try to get his attention.

"Sorry, what was that?" He asked as he turned to look at his two confused guardians.

"What did he mean by that Tsuna?" Yamamoto asked, concern furrowing his brow, Gokudera wearing a similar expression nodded in agreement.

"I don't know" He stated, hoping confusion and denial will work well to ward of further questions. He didn't want to go into the kidnapping incident as well. Not after Hibari practically confirmed he had seen everything. Including... No. He wasn't going to think of it. He couldn't. That can't have happened. "He must just be in a weird mood. I mean, he was smiling and everything."

Sensing that his friend didn't want to talk about what the Skylark had said, Yamamoto instead opted for Tsuna's display of althletism

"That was pretty cool the way you dodged his attacks though! I hadn't even realised he was there until you leapt away! And then you almost landed a hit on him. I bet if he was just a little slower you would have got him with that kick" This however seemed to have the opposite effect on his friend who looked to be closing himself off more.

Gokudera was silent for once on the situation as he noticed his boss' darkening mood, sensing that Tsuna was uncomfortable with the baseball freaks' monologue he decided to intervene with a glare and subtle shake of his head outside his boss' line of sight. Blessedly taking the hint Yamamoto fell silent and the two watched as Tsuna stonily picked up his things and made his way back into the school, not seeming to care if they followed him or not.

Gokudera sighed when Tsuna was out of earshot gaining Yamamoto's questioning gaze.

"Reborn' going to kill us." He stated, his companion deflating at the news.

"Well, I suppose we never accounted for Hibari to cause a problem. I wonder what he was talking about though. Tsuna wouldn't scare children."

"I don't know, but the Tenth was clearly affected by it. Maybe Reborn knows something. We can probably ask him later, he hinted that he knew something this morning. Perhaps it's related to what Hibari was talking about."

"Could be, in the meantime we should probably catch up to Tsuna, he'll probably figure out that we're talking about him if we are gone too long."

"Right, let's go." Gokudera decided not to mention that Tsuna looked like he wouldn't notice a bomb going off next to him right now.

The atmosphere in the classroom had shifted dramatically from the morning, Chrome could instantly tell that something had happened during lunch when she noticed the depressed and sullen mood coming from Tsuna in his corner at the back of the class. Concerned as well as curious she made her way towards him, knowing the teacher wouldn't be arriving for another five minutes or so. On her way she noticed that Gokudera and Yamamoto were not to be seen and wondered if this was what was causing the dark mood in Tsuna.

"Bossu" She called as she got to his desk. Her soft voice gained his attention and he looked to her with heartbreakingly sad eyes. Taken aback at the display of such a raw emotion she almost stumbled back before grounding herself. "Is everything alright?" She continued almost breathless at the heavy aura around the two them. It looked as though Tsuna shook his head marginally before he changed his expression to a painfully fake smile, attempting to reassure her but failing miserably.

"I'm perfectly fine, Chrome-San." He said cheerfully but Chrome frowned at the lie and was about to press the issue before his eyes hardened. "Really." He insisted, his voice hardened along with his gaze. Seeing no means of getting an answer she retreated back to her desk, feeling his gaze on her as she did, trying not to openly shiver at the chill feeling it was giving her.

Shortly after the teacher arrived and the lessons continued, no one seemed to notice or care that the cheerful expressions from Gokudera and Yamamoto had vanished in the brief interval.

The walk home had been thick with tension as no one could think of anything to say to each other. Once they arrived at the Sawada household they all mumbled their farewells, Gokudera and Yamamoto watching Tsuna enter his home before they turned and went their separate ways.

Nana shouted a greeting from the kitchen as she heard the front door announce her sons arrival, followed by a mumbled 'I'm home' he didn't seem to acknowledge the greeting however and made his way to his room, muttering something about homework and studying for exams. Nana frowned at the mood her son appeared to be in but didn't want to interrupt his studies, besides she was in the middle of cooking. Returning to her food she hummed as she heard his soft footfalls climb up the stairs to his waiting tutor.

Reborn could tell something had gone wrong before Tsuna had even started his ascent up the stairs. This was of course confirmed when his student entered the room with a miserable set to his mouth and a dark heaviness in his gaze. He heard a mumbled greeting from him before his student disregarded him completely and made his way to his desk, surprisingly enough pulling out his homework. The thought of doing any work seemed to stop there though when he noticed Tsuna was just staring at the text in front of him blankly. Figuring a violent approach was not going to work again Reborn mustered the patience to tread carefully. Depression he had seen many a time in the teen, but this was something more. The heaviness in his eyes was weighted with something darker than just sorrow and he had an inkling of what it might be. But again, treading carefully.

Be nice, be nice. Damn this better be goddamn worth it, it's making my bones itch having to be this soft!

"Do you want to talk about it?" He started carefully, setting himself on the desk in front of his student, Tsuna however didn't glance up from his trance but acknowledged the question nonetheless

"About what?" His voice was monotone, probably only responding out of habit. Restraining a sigh, as well as a brewing headache, Reborn continued.

"Clearly something happened today at school. I'm wondering if you want to talk about it?"

"No."

Don't shoot him, don't hit him. Don't strangle him. *sigh* there's got to be an easier way of doing this. Maybe drop the subject, take his mind off it, go back to it when he's less…. Zombie like? That'll do. Zombie-Tsuna actually has a nice ring to it. Might use it in the future. So"

"Do you want any help with your homework?" This actually got a reaction out of the teen. Though not quite what the hitman was hoping for.

Maybe surprise, shock, disbelief. Not a look of utter disdain and boredom. Perhaps getting off topic wasn't a good idea after all. Maybe hitting him might actually work. Where did Leon go? I need him to turn into mallet.

Looking around for his small green companion he almost missed Tsuna's monotonous question.

"Why?"

Progress! Must have sensed the threat of violence. Knew it would do the trick.

"Why else? Dame-Tsuna, you have final exams coming up, you also need to study for admittance exams for high school. I'm not letting the future boss of Vongola get by with just the compulsory education."

"What's the point? I won't be accepted into any anyway."

"It's that kind of defeatist attitude that ensures you won't. You need to think more like, 'I can and will' instead of 'I can't and won't.' You'll be surprised at how much your own willpower can help you succeed when you actually put your mind to it. Think back to all the battles you've had, all those times you turned your whiny 'I Can'ts' to 'I will' helped you to win those fights. Apply the same thing to your studies and you might actually see some progress. I'm here to help with that of course." Reborn looked to his student in shock when he heard a soft chuckle.

I can't believe talking about school of all things has knocked him out of the slump. Not completely though. But we are making progress anyway.

"We were talking about schools this morning too, Me, Gokudera-Kun and Yamamoto-Kun. I was telling them which ones to apply for. Yamamoto was concerned his bad grades wouldn't let him getting into a good sports school."

"What's he going to do then?" Reborn enquired, understanding the difficulty the 'hopefully' future hitman was facing.

"I said he shouldn't worry about it, a lot of high schools focus on sports more than grades, as long as he proves himself good at baseball, there shouldn't be an issue with his grades. It seemed to work. I just hope I'm right." Tsuna wasn't looking at Reborn during his explanation, he's moved his gaze to the orange sky outside his window a soft smile was now gracing his lips but his brow was furrowed in concern at his actions.

"What about Gokudera?" Tsuna scoffed at that, startling Reborn at the action before Tsuna turned his gaze once more to the incomprehensible homework before him.

"He was claiming that he would go to whatever high school I'd go to. As expected I suppose. I told him no."

"And he accepted that?"

"He did once I gave my reasoning." Tsuna's tone was almost smug and Reborn saw a flicker of a smirk and was about to press for more information before Tsuna obliged on his own. "I told him that he should apply to a private school that he would better be able to apply himself in, rather than waste away at a public school that I might not even get into."

"Tsuna" Reborn growled in warning.

"I know, I know. Willpower and all that, I'm just repeating what I said."

"Very well, continue."

"Anyway, I'd said that by being at a private school he'd be better able to support me in the future rather than just dedicating the whole of his time in protecting me, when I'm capable of defending myself."

"And that worked?"

"Seemed to" He said with a shrug. "I'm just happy that they will be aiming for things more suited to them rather than fixate on being around me all the time. Not that I hate them being around, I just want them to think about themselves for a change." Tsuna finished with, a smile still adorning his face. Reborn swelled slightly with pride at hearing the way his students had handled his guardians, and felt brave enough to broach the topic of before.

"So, what happened that turned everything sour? You were particularly unhappy when walking in." He's almost expected his student to return to his dark mood at the question, he was pleasantly surprised however when he received a resigned sigh instead.

"I suppose you won't just let the matter drop?"

"Not a chance" He responded with a grin. Tsuna was silent for a time before he got around to answering.

"Hibari had seen the incident with Lambo and the Kidnapper." Reborn was silent himself for a while as he processed what Tsuna had said and wondered if his student had in fact remembered everything that had occurred.

"Tsuna." He started carefully. "Tell me what you had said to Lambo yesterday." He started as a way to finding out.

"It doesn't matter." Monotonous again, and gaze elsewhere, Reborn decided that he wasn't going to hold back his anger this time.

"Damn it! Just tell me Tsuna!"

"Fine! I apologised!" The brunet said in a shout that could have probably been heard from across the street let alone the entire household. His eyes were a blazing orange of fury and sadness as he directed them at the still and calm Reborn. "I told him that I was sorry! That I didn't mean to frighten him!" He continued and Reborn could see the beginnings of tears in his students eyes at his despair. Much more quietly, as if remembering there were others in the house he spoke again. "And I promised I wouldn't scare him like that again." He finished, his head down and bangs hiding his eyes once more as his shoulders shook. Reborn says nothing as he watches his student move to sit at the end of his bed, shoulders dropping as if defeated.

"What is happening to me Reborn?" He asks quietly, not lifting his gaze from the ground. Reborn hopped of the desk and moved to sit next to his student on the bed, placing a small comforting hand on his leg.

"I don't know Tsuna, and I'm truly sorry for that. But I assure you, I will do everything in my power to find out. We will get through this, whatever this is, together. Just don't push me away, or your guardians. We are here for you." He got a small nod before he withdrew his hand, not used to giving out displays of comfort, being a hitman and all that, but he didn't hide the smile at seeing his student be the better off for it.

"I suppose you know about what really happened with the kidnapper then?" Tsuna said once he had calmed down enough to speak again. With a sigh Reborn nodded.

"I wasn't intending to bring the matter up, I had thought that you might have forgotten, and I hadn't picked up that you had been withholding information from me until I saw the man myself."

"You went to see him?" Tsuna asked, lifting questioning eyes of the ground and directing them to the hitman.

"Yes. I had wanted to gather information. See if he was part of a Family that was targeting Vongola."

"Was he?"

Reborn shook his head.

"Not directly, he was freelance. Hired by a Family to do their dirty work. Freelancers tend to work through anonymous sources and accounts, he only had the family name, no face to go by. Unfortunately, I don't know the family either. But Nono's been informed. He'll be able to look into them from his end. There's nothing much we can do in Japan, the Family is based in Italy, at least that's where the kidnapper was intending to take Lambo to." Tsuna nodded at the information and looked contemplative for a time before he looked to his tutor.

"Can anything be done?" He asked quietly. Reborn frowned in confusion at the question before responding.

"I've just said there's nothing much to be done. We're stuck here in Japan while the Edilizio Famiglia is in Italy."

"I meant his arm." Tsuna bit out in annoyance before his momentary frown softened to guilt. "I knew what I was doing at the time. But I couldn't stop it, I was just so angry at this stranger that had taken Lambo and hurt him." He shook his head repeatedly as if he was shaking away the memory, or the now too familiar feeling of anger. "But that was wrong, is there anyway of returning it to normal?" He asked, a hopeful gaze directed to his tutor.

"Again, I don't know Tsuna. But I'll see about getting Shamal on the case, if anyone has a chance of reversing it then he does." Tsuna nodded in understanding before gracing his tutor with a smile.

"Thank you, Reborn."

Have I mentioned that I love writing Reborn's internal little monologues? No? Well I do! It adds that small little bit of humour that I think this fic needs, (because I seem to be making it very dark and emotional….. woops! But I like it so. *shrugs*)

Without wanting to give too much away, I've already mentioned that there will be very little in Tsuna's perspective. Instead, as might already be obvious, I'll be doing more in Reborn's perspective when I am able, this isn't necessarily for favoritism, but more to the fact that Reborn would notice the changes immediately (as he has done) and actively work to try and find the cause (as he is doing) while Tsuna's guardians are a bit slower in realising what's happening (if they can figure it out at all) and will take them longer to try and find out what's actually going on before they could even consider trying to solve it like Reborn is already doing, you might notice Gokudera and Yamamoto have noticed something, but it is only a few weeks after the 'incident' that they are considering asking Reborn about what's going on. See, slower…. Maybe I gave away too much there? Oh well, the story itself isn't spoiled so *shrugs*

But anyway, there's my reasoning for why the perspectives are the way they are, plus, again, I love Reborns little monologues!

Next chapter we might be getting a hint as to what had started this whole thing with Tsuna! Look forward to it!

Until next time,

~ Killing Reality