A/N: How long has it been, almost a year? I am so sorry for taking to long, i just didn't know what to write. I think i should have used that time to plan the direction the story is going but I may just edit. I started a new story "Family tradition: Gentle Steps" It shows the life of Tsuna and Reborn before this story started. This chapter was giving me so much trouble because of the gym class so after I finally discovered what to write I decided to post and cut this chapter short.
"The Vongola is the largest mafia famiglia in the world with Its main branch being in Italy. It is currently being led by Timoteo, the ninth boss. The position of Vongola boss can only be taken by those of Vongola blood because of the Vongola boss ring. The boss of Vongola always has guardians that help and protect him or her. The boss is the sky guardian then there is the storm, rain, sun, lightning, cloud, and mist guardian positions." Fon explained.
Kyoya did come back to class and he slipped into his seat from the window. They were on the third floor, how did he get in? Why is nobody commenting on this? No one is even looking! Tsuna thought as he looked at his friend who were focused entirely on Fon's lesson.
Fon just ignored him and continued speaking. "The positions are shown by the rings which you all will get soon. Of course you all are going to have to fight for your designated ring. A fight for the Vongola boss position can occur when a person of Vongola blood challenges the chosen heir or if the CEDEF and the current boss chose different people. Your opponents for this battle is the Varia, an independent assassination group under Vongola."
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Fon continued to explain to them the role of each guardian and a bit about the Varia. He answered any questions they asked and if he didn't know them he promised to give them the answer soon. He dismissed them after the lecture for lunch.
The group decided to eat outside under the sakura tree closest to the gym where their next class was located. Hibari refused to crowd so he left to patrol the school.
Tsuna sat with his back pressed against the tree with his friends sitting around him.
"I wonder what guardian I am?" Takeshi questioned.
"You're probably the rain because you're always calm." Hayato sneered.
Yamamoto laughed. "Haha. Then you're probably the storm Hayato because you're so aggressive."
"I'll show you aggressive." Hayato growled while pulling out his dynamite.
"Kufufu~ Ignoring those two, I believe you are the Sky guardian, Tsunayoshi. Since you are our boss and the loud one over there is the Sun guardian since he is so annoyingly bright." Mukuro laughed.
"WHAT WAS THAT PINEAPPLE HEAD?" Ryohei shouted.
"I said you're annoying and loud." Mukuro's smile twitched and he winced. That was right by his ear.
"DO YOU WANT TO EXTREMELY FIGHT?"
"Oya, you're challenging me." Mukuro materialized his trident.
"Hayato don't light those." Tsuna sighed while pulling the dynamites from Hayato's fingers. Tsuna already knew he was sky. It all went by flames and his friends personality showed their flames.
"Sorry Hime-san for my temper." Hayato got on his knees and started bowing.
"Please get up Hayato." Tsuna said worriedly while trying to pull him up.
"Ha ha. I guess Mukuro and Chrome must be the mist guardians because they're deceptive and Kyoya should be the cloud guardian because he's shy and likes being alone." Takeshi laughed.
"Kufufu~ I can see that happening." Mukuro chuckled.
"What was that herbivore?" Hibari said as he dropped down from the tree. Tsuna almost screamed because he came out of nowhere and they didn't even start eating yet. Why was he even up the tree? Isn't he supposed to be patrolling?
"Apparently you're shy Kyoya." Mukuro taunted.
"I'll bite you to death." Kyoya growled as he pulled out his tonfas.
"Um, maybe we should start eating before the next class starts." Chrome proposed. Tsuna gave her a grateful smile.
Tsuna used his commanding voice. "You heard her. We have two classes left and training after school. We won't get time to eat between those two classes so stop fighting and start eating. I don't know about you guys but I'm hungry." Tsuna scolded.
All those that were fighting or provoked a fight had varying degrees of a guilty look on their face. Hayato looked like he was about to get on his knees again and start bowing. Takeshi turned his head and scratched the back of his head in embarrassment. Ryohei looked apologetic and whispered an 'I'm extremely sorry'. Kyoya had a slight frown on his face and his brows were furrowed. Mukuro put away his trident and wasn't smirking.
Tsuna rolled his eyes and smiled fondly. "I'm not angry with you all. I just want to hurry up and eat so lose the sad looks and lets sit down and talk."
They all sat and started eating. After being silent for a moment conversation started up again and they were laughing and teasing each other like normal just without the actual fighting.
The bell rang and the group headed to the gym. Along the way they heard some squeals from girls and boys.
"Its the knight class!"
"Hime-san look over here."
"How do they even know the name of the class? Its only the first day." Hayato growled at the spectators who only got even more happy.
Tsuna groaned and facepalmed. "It was probably my uncle who did it."
Yamamoto laughed. "Sounds like sensei."
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They stepped into the gym after changing clothes to see Colonello standing next to an obstacle course.
"This class is to is to teach you all how to fight together, You're going to learn how to cover each other's weakness and use each other's strengths to your advantage. We're going to start with some stretches then some laps, just a light warm up. Start of with five sets of twenty crunches, then five sets of twenty lunges, twenty five sit-ups and pushups, arm stretches, and then five laps. After that we'll work on your weakness."
The seven of them did the warm-up and laps without complaint. They all wanted to know what their weakness was so they hurried to finish the warm-ups.
"Ok. so since I don't know most of you and I don't know your abilities, we're going to do teamwork exercises. Next week Monday you will go after Tsuna. If you or your partner get hit thats one point off. If you injure your partner that's three points off. If you hit Tsuna that's three points to your team. You all start off with ten points but that's just for next week. This week is to build teamwork. I will be changing your partner everyday so you won't know who you'll be working with on Monday."
"Wait I didn't agree to this." Tsuna protested.
"As soon as you stepped in any teachers class you agreed to be their assistant. Except Verde. We all know you're not allowed to help him with experiments. Besides, I already know your weakness."
"Just pair them up already." Tsuna grumbled.
"The pairs will be; Yamamoto and Gokudera, Mukuro and Hibari, and Chrome and Sasagawa. Today You and your partner will be avoiding obstacles. The name I called first will be blindfolded. The second name called will not be able to speak. You have to find a way to get your partner around the obstacles using simple sounds like snaps, whistles-" He looked at Tsuna and smirked while Tsuna looked horrified. "-or claps. Get together, decide what sound will mean what. You have five minutes." Colonello ordered.
Most of them weren't happy with who they were paired up with but they still got together with their partner. Gokudera tried to take control of the entire plan without asking for Yamamoto's input. Hibari refused to speak to Mukuro so he was left to throw in ideas and hope Hibari listened. Chrome and Ryohei were the only team making any progress.
"Tsuna go blindfold them." Colonello placed the blindfolds in Tsuna's hands.
"This is going to be a disaster." Tsuna muttered as he went over to his friends. He blindfolded Chrome first, who smiled at him, then Takeshi, who laughed, and lastly Mukuro who patted Tsuna on the head and gave a nervous 'Kufufu' when Tsuna slipped it threateningly around his neck.
"Remember, no words. You will go one at a time. Yamamoto is first."
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When Tsuna was little he used to hide so well his uncle couldn't find him. To solve this Reborn taught Tsuna to respond to a whistle with one the same pitch given. This took a while for Reborn to teach Tsuna but soon it became an automatic response. It became a problem. Only when Tsuna knew where his uncle specifically was would he not mimic sounds.
When Colonello was watching Tsuna and took him to see the COMSUBIN training exercises, they were doing the same exercise Colonello is teaching now. It turned into a disaster just like what is happening now.
Hayato whistled for Takeshi to turn left. A long low note. Tsuna mimicked it. Yamamoto turned left twice and stumbled over a cone.
Colonello was trying to hold in his laughter. It was turning out just like he hoped it would and it exposed one of Tsuna's weakness at the same time. His ability to mimic sounds could harm them just as well as it could help.
Tsuna's friends-Those who were not blindfolded- looked at him and he just shrugged.
Hayato clapped,Tsuna clapped. Takeshi took two steps to the right and into a wooden post.
This continued until Yamamoto finally got to the finish line five minutes later. He eventually adjusted to the extra commands. By then Everyone realized they would have to adjust and figure out the real signal from the fake one. Two meant one and four meant two. It went as smooth as it could for those who prepared properly.
Hibari and Mukuro enjoyed making each other run into things. Colonello concluded that their weakness was not being able to put aside differences and work with allies.
Chrome and Ryohei did the best. Sometimes Chrome was a little too quiet and Ryohei was a little too loud but other than that they did well.
Hayato and Takeshi did well enough. Colonello concluded that Hayato didn't trust his partner enough. It was shown when Colonello asked Tsuna to make the sound for right instead of left. Hayato followed Tsuna's command and fell into the sand trap. Yamamoto didn't seem to have any weakness in the leading department.
Colonello had them all line up in front of him. "I hope you all learned something today about leading. Tomorrow is a different exercise and Mukuro will be my assistant." Mukuro gave Colonello a distasteful look.
"Wait what about me?" Tsuna questioned.
"You're joining in on the activity. Can't have you slacking off everyday." Colonello replied.
Tsuna scowled. He was actually looking forward to not getting involved in Colonello's exercises.
"Who's our teacher for the next class?" Yamamoto questioned.
Colonello gave them a pitying look. "I wish you luck." He said solemnly. Then he promptly left the gym.
"Luck? Why do we need luck for this teacher?" Hayato murmured.
"Don't let Nello scare you. This class isn't hard." A familiar woman's voice announced. Her voice came from the stands and they all instinctively turned to look.
Mukuro's face whitened and everyone else just looked shocked.
"This class is called survival class. I'm just teaching you things you need to survive. Think of it as a life class." Nana mused with a small smirk.