Ah, sorry for stopping updates. If you were following me on tumblr, I did Nano in November and kinda just... lost focus in writing instead of remembering to update.

Updates will continue on as normal, barring any RL issues.

Defense Lesson 3 Part 2

If there was one thing Tsuna was ever grateful for, it was the fact that Reborn had been assigned as Ienari's tutor. Because quite frankly, watching his twin brother go through the insane training that Reborn considered to be 'tutoring', Tsuna had never wanted to be under Reborn's tutoring methods.

Ayame's Death March had been insane enough. Sparring on a regular basis with Kyoya or Kyoko had been enough. Dealing with the craziness that Papa and his Guardians created had been enough.

Tsuna did not need to add Reborn's brand of crazy to the list!

Yet here he was with Reborn teaching Defense for the day.

(Also he had a small heart attack at the very idea of Neesan and Reborn agreeing. It was never good when they agreed. It usually led to horrid amounts of chaos and destruction.)

"Alright," Reborn said, once they were all outside. Tsuna tensed, Kyoko vibrated with excitement, Takeshi's smile grew a little more fixed and Haru's smile actually dimmed. The rest of their classmates continued on, unaware, looking confused.

"Today we're going to run laps," Reborn said. "We'll stress test how much you can run today when pushed to your limits. Complete as many laps as you can around Hogwarts grounds."

"Just laps?" Kyoko asked, excitement dimming.

"Running? Ew," Pansy said.

"Why do we have to run?" Lavender asked.

"If you don't want to run, I'll just introduce you to some of bug friends I made," Reborn said calmly.

"Ewww," Lavender said.

Tsuna merely paled further. He knew that Reborn had exploring the Forbidden Forest lately. Who knew what kind of bug creature he had found in there.

"Begin!" Reborn said.

Haru immediately shot off. Takeshi looked at Tsuna who was looking at everyone else. No one had moved and Reborn started to count down. "Ten, nine, eight…"

"MOVE!" Tsuna roared. His classmates were going to get themselves killed. He pointed to Kyoko and in a glance, told her to follow after Haru. Kyoko nodded and took off.

"What's your problem?" Ron snapped. "He said if we don't want to run, all he's going to do is introduce us to his bugs."

"Five, four…"

"Only if you want to meet whatever bug creature Reborn found in the Forbidden Forest," Tsuna shrieked.

Hermione paled. "RUN!" she screamed, taking off.

Tsuna thanked the gods and spirits above that someone here had brains.

"Hermione?" Harry asked.

"ARAGOG!" she shouted over her shoulder.

Both Harry and Ron paled and shot off. "If you valued your lives, you'll run!" Harry called out. Seeing the Boy Who Lived run off like that was more than enough to convince the rest of the class that they should too.

"Two…"

Tsuna wordlessly summoned a light barrier between his classmates and Reborn. That would buy them some more time. Reborn smirked, clearly noticing what Tsuna was doing.

"One."

Tsuna shot off, Takeshi trailing behind him.

These poor kids. xD Happy Holidays.

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