September 22st

Dear friend,

I encountered another weird child, this time on my way home from school. His name is Fuuta and he was on the run from the mafia (according to Reborn, of course, so I doubt that's true. Gokudera backed him up, but they're both "in the mafia" so his opinion didn't really help matters.) They then said he is "Ranking Prince Fuuta de la Stella." and that mafia families are after his abilities. (Once again, I do not truly believe them. I mean, come on, there is no way all of these people in the mafia suddenly just popped up in Namimori. And having special powers? Really? I think there is something wrong with all Italians.)

Fuuta ended up at my house just like Lambo and I-pin. He's older than them by a few years—he's twelve and they're nine—and they've started to call him "Fuuta-nii." I think it's kind of cute. Fuuta has caught onto Lambo's habit and now both he and I-pin are calling me Tsuna-nii. I think I'm starting to get used to all of the children running around my house. My mom is happy that there are more children in the house and she's glad that she is able to help them by providing for them. I think she missed babying someone and now she had three people she can baby. I'm glad she's happy. Before the move and a little bit after she seemed to be in a state of slight depression. I wanted to help but I couldn't. I was in my own state of depression, so there was nothing I could really do. I'm glad the kids have popped up. It's certainly livened things up a bit. I guess Reborn and my friends are to thank for that as well. Honestly, I am truly grateful.

I've noticed that I am starting to understand what my teachers are saying. Not much, and it still takes a lot of explaining, but I can sort of understand. You have no idea how that feels. I used to feel so stupid and I hated the fact that nothing was making sense to me. There just always seemed to be something blocking my learning, but with Reborn's appearance I've begun to understand. It feels amazing.

Yesterday was another day the gang met up at TakeSushi and they invited me once more. We sat in the same booth as before, the large one in the back, and we ordered the same thing. Our server was a part-timer named Rand. He and his older sister, Renji work here and they go to our school (so I've heard.) I've never actually seen them before, so they must be in a different year than me. They're both really soft-spoken, Rand more so than his sister, and they have matching eyes. I think they're nice people, though I've never gotten the chance to get to know them. Maybe I should one day.

Anyway, I sat next to Yamamoto this time since he was in the middle and Gokudera was next to the wall. I sat on the edge with Haru in front of me and Kyoko next to her. Haru, since she doesn't go to the same school as the rest of us, kept asking me questions to learn more about me. I'm sure she could have asked Kyoko these same questions but I think she wanted to hear the answers from me, which I thought was nice and considerate of her. I was also able to learn more about her and the rest of the gang.

It turns out that Gokudera and Haru met by chance one day when they were in middle school. She had a large suit of armor on because of a school festival and she was walking on a bridge. A little kid bumped into her by accident and ended up knocking her over the edge. He was near the bank and saw her fall in. He saved her from drowning. Ever since then she had been trying to get closer to him, and after a little encouragement from Yamamoto (they weren't dating at the time—they were just classmates.) they became friends. Kyoko and Haru had met a little bit before that at a cake shop. They became friends over their love of cakes and then it evolved into love.

I also found out about Yamamoto's suicide attempt and my blood ran cold at that moment. I couldn't believe someone as cheerful and happy as Yamamoto would have wanted to commit suicide. It turns out that it was because he broke his arm and everyone ignored him. Seriously? I mean, yeah that's horrible to break your arm and if they left you then they weren't your real friends, but to want to kill yourself over that?! Honestly I think that's one of the stupidest reasons ever. What about the family you leave behind? You could have thrown your life away over something as simple as a broken arm. I was really angry. I kept quiet, though. I was almost about to lash out and tell them about the accident but I knew I couldn't. I didn't want to make Yamamoto any more guilty than he already feels. So I stayed quiet and clenched my hands under the table.

I think he noticed.

Love always,

Tsuna

A/N: For those who have never played the games (like me) Rand and Renji are actual Reborn characters. I don't know much about them but I'm trying to stay away from OCs so I included them. I might flesh out their characters and come up with a back-story for them later in the story.