"REBORN!" shouts Tsuna when the infant sets off another bomb. "Where in the world is there a home tutor who uses bombs whenever a student makes a mistake?"
"Right here," answers the baby from hell, an absurdly angelic smile on his face. "This is how I do it."
"That's definitely wrong!" shouts the boy.
"You said you were going to study hard for your test to raise your allowance," Reborn tells him, raising an eyebrow as if to say, 'Have you changed your mind?'
"At this rate, before my allowance rises, I'll rise to heaven!" counters Tsuna, trying to make the arcobaleno to see reason.
When he sees that Reborn isn't paying attention, Tsuna lets out a huff of frustration and turns to stare out the window, only to see a sight that makes his eyes bulge.
"What the…?" he asks, rubbing at his eyes to make sure he's seeing properly. When he looks again, the scene is still the same; a five-year-old in a cow suit and cow horns sticking out of either side of his afro is sitting on the tree outside his window.
"Well, I'll review what we did now," says Reborn, as if he hasn't noticed the presence of the cow-clad child, even though he most definitely has.
"Die, Reborn!" shouts the boy, pointing a gun at his target and not even noticing Tsuna staring at him with his mouth gaping.
"First, the target is going to be this number," states Reborn, completely ignoring the gun aimed at his head, but Tsuna isn't listening to his tutor.
Getting up from where he's sitting on the ground, Tsuna heads towards the window, calling out, "Lambo! Get down from there!"
Hearing the familiar voice, Lambo's head whips around to look at the person he hadn't even noticed in the same room as his target, and his eyes widen as the gun drops from his limp hands.
"T-Tsuna…nii…?" he asks in a shocked voice, and Reborn finally stops ignoring him to look suspiciously at Tsuna.
"That's right," says Tsuna, a worried expression on his face, "So can you please get out of that tree? You'll get hurt."
"…"
Lambo is dead silent, staring at Tsuna with a shocked expression on his face.
Tsuna takes another step forward, thinking to reach out and pull Lambo into his arms, when Lambo finally snaps out of his shock and throws himself at Tsuna.
"TSUNA-NII!" he shouts, clinging onto Tsuna as if his life depends on it, any thoughts of killing Reborn having fled from his mind.
"H-hey, Lambo," replies Tsuna in a much quieter voice, rubbing Lambo's back as the boy starts to shake, his tears soaking through Tsuna's shirt.
"Waah, Tsuna-nii! L-Lambo-sama is s-so glad to see y-you!"
Tsuna has been a student of Nami-chuu for almost a month when it happens.
They get a new transfer student.
As everyone else whispers about how odd it is that they've been having so many transfers lately, Tsuna just sits back in his chair, his head resting on the desk behind his, which just so happens to be Hayato's.
"I wonder who the new transfer student is?" asks Tsuna of the upside down Hayato (at least, he's upside down from Tsuna's point of view).
Hayato just shrugs and says in a joking voice, "Imagine it was another of us?"
Tsuna laughs this off, saying, "No way, that would be too coincidental! Anyways, the other three are older than us, aren't they?"
Hayato shrugs nonchalantly. "Maybe the pineapple head got held back?" he asks. "Knowing him, that could probably happen."
A little crease forms between Tsuna's eyebrows and he's about to reprimand his guardian and best friend for insulting another of their friends, but decides to change the subject, asking him, "Hey, what do you think about the student exchange program with Kokuyo?"
The silveret snorts, saying, "I think it's rather stupid. Why do an exchange with a school that's only an hour away from ours?"
"Really?" asks Tsuna. "I think it sounds fun! We wouldn't have to do any work for our classes, and we could see how their school works! I heard it's very different from Nami-chuu!"
Hayato lets out a grunt, acknowledging that point, and he's about to say something, but the teacher comes in, and they have to stop talking to pay attention.
The teacher soon introduces the transfer student; a pretty girl with shoulder length, brownish-orange hair, and wide, innocent brown eyes. When she smiles at the class, the majority of the boys melt at the sight, and even the girls seem to be in awe.
"Konnichiwa," she says in a chipper voice, "Watashi wa Sasagawa Kyoko desu! Hajimemashite!"
Tsuna, who had been somewhat smitten at the sight of her, suddenly jerks violently at the name.
He looks over at Takeshi out of the corner of his eye, and the boy's shocked expression tells him that he's come to the same conclusion.
Hayato's feather light touch on his shoulder tells him that the bomber is also thinking the same thing, and as Tsuna studies the new girl carefully, his rather hopeful mind starts picking up small similarities between her and his friend Ryohei. The boy had mentioned a younger sister named Kyoko once, and the surname was correct.
Could it really be that they had found another part of their group?
As Kyoko goes to sit in her seat, Tsuna begins fidgeting, wanting to ask her about her brother, but knowing he wouldn't be able to until lunch.
When lunch finally rolls around, he and Hayato and Takeshi immediately make their way over to the girl's desk, ignoring the glares of the other guys who were too nervous to approach her.
"Ohayou, Sasagawa-chan," says Tsuna in a friendly voice, and Kyoko looks up at him and his friends curiously. "I'm Sawada Tsunayoshi, and these are my friends, Gokudera Hayato and Yamamoto Takeshi," says Tsuna, introducing himself and his friends, "We're sorry to bother you but…you wouldn't happen to have an older brother named Ryohei…would you?"
Kyoko's expression becomes surprised at this, and she asks, "Do you know my onii-chan?"
Tsuna almost forgets how to breathe when she says this, and a wide smile breaks onto Takeshi's face.
"Of course we do!" says the cheerful baseball player, "We're really close friends of his! He wouldn't happen to have transferred here as well…would he?"
And then, almost as if their conversation has summoned him, they all hear a faint but growing louder by the second, "EXTREME!" accompanied by the sound of running footsteps.
The footsteps stop right outside their classroom door, and a second later, one Sasagawa Ryohei steps into the room, looking around for his sister.
When his eyes land on the three boys standing by her desk, for just a second, his eyebrows draw together in disapproval, but then he recognizes the guys, and his entire expression lights up.
"Sawada!" he shouts. "It's you to the EXTREME! And Takeshi and tako head are here as well! EXTREME!"
"Onii-san!" shouts Tsuna in reply, both him and Takeshi dragging Hayato along to recreate the scene from when they had first met Kyoya in real life.
Even a week after Ryohei has transferred to Nami-chuu, Tsuna is still acting as if he's on a sugar high.
He's so preoccupied with his own happiness that he's completely forgotten that it's the day for the Kokuyo-chuu students to come to their school until one of the military-style-uniform-clad students enters the class following one of his classmates closely.
Tsuna watches curiously as the student takes as seat beside their partner, and feels just a little regretful that he hadn't signed up.
Before he can regret it too much, though, he hears a faint, "EXTREME!" from somewhere else in the building, and he can't help but wonder what's got his onii-san so excited.
It isn't until lunch time, though, that Tsuna finds out.
The bell has just rung a few minutes ago, and Tsuna and his two best friends are debating whether or not to go to Ryohei's classroom, when a familiar, creepy laugh fills the classroom.
"Kufufufu, look what we have here, my dear Chrome," says a familiar voice, and Tsuna's head snaps towards the source to find...nothing?"
As he continues staring, though, a thick mist starts to form, and a girl's voice can be heard saying, "Mukuro-nii…stop teasing them…"
And then, only seconds later, the mist begins to dissipate, and two forms emerge; the pineapple head twins.
"M-Mukuro-kun? Chrome-chan?" asks Takeshi, his voice shocked, as Tsuna stares speechlessly.
"Ohayou!" says an unusually cheerful Chrome, glomping Tsuna.
"Are you guys happy to see us?" asks Mukuro, just as cheerfully as he also glomps Tsuna. "You told us that you were a mafia boss before, right? Well, since we figured that there couldn't be that many up and coming teenage mafia bosses in Japan, when we found out that the Vongola Juudaime was a student at Nami-chuu, we guessed it was you!" he explained, and then his sister took over.
"So when we found out about the exchange program, we immediately signed up! And we were placed with one of Ryohei's classmates!"
It takes Takeshi approximately another ten seconds to come out of his shock, and Hayato, having already guess what was about to happen, tries to get away, but Takeshi, with the skill of an athlete, is able to catch his wrist.
Another second later, Tsuna is at the middle of his third group hug that month, and Lambo has suddenly appeared out of nowhere, wiggling his way into Tsuna's arms.
Ryohei appears not long after, looking for his friends, and when he sees the group hug, he decides he wants to join in, yelling "EXTREME!" as he does so.
And only a few seconds after he's wrapped his arms around the twins, Kyoya appears in the hallway to see what all the noise is.
Hayato, being the closest to him, glares at him and whips his hand out, managing to catch the skylark's wrist and pulling him over, growling out, "If I have to be a part of this, then so do you!"
And before they've even realized it, their entire group is finally there, together; not in a meadow in some dream, but in real life, and it finally feels like they're one hundred percent complete
The End
SkyGem: Well, that's the end of this three-shot! Lol, I hope y'all liked it, ne? Please do leave a review letting me know what you thought, and I'll do my best to upload Natsu's chapter of "Being Human" tomorrow!
