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Destruction was everywhere. Bodies of different men and women lied scattered around. Some with bullets through them, others with slit throats, missing limbs, or still hanging on to life. The blood and limbs had the whole landscape look like a slaughterhouse. Two families made war with each other. Refusing to give up.

In one of the many battlefields, are Tsuna and his friends, and Giotto and his friends. They were both exhausted and so were their opponents.

Ryohei was down to his knees panting. Lambo was gaining consciousness from being knocked out. Hayato was lying on his stomach trying to get up. Takeshi was leaning heavily on his sword trying to shake off the fatigue. Mukuro was breathing heavily, but still standing. Chrome had her back to his back and also panting and gasping for breath. Kyouya was lightly panting trying to fight off the pain that was in his side.

Knuckle was tending to his wounds and helping out the others. Lampo was struggling to get into a seating position. G had blood covering his left eye and held onto his bleeding right arm. Ugetsu was tiredly leaning against a tree. Daemon was nowhere to be found. Alaude was in a state similar to Kyouya, but got shot in his left leg.

Giotto and Tsunayoshi where facing their opponent who had a muscular build, angrily, laughing red eyes, long white hair (he's not old, just in his late 20's early 30's), and a white and gold suit.

Tsuna was supporting his 4x great grandpa and pointed his glaring orange eyes to the man.

"Hahaha! What are you going to do now, Primo? All of your friends are exhausted and can barely fight! You're being held up by that brat you call a brother! Will you just die or do you want your friends to die? Hmm?" he taunted. Giotto shadowed his eyes with his bangs, Sky Flame still flickering. He trembled. Tsuna can feel it and let out an irritated sound.

"...I..." he started.

"None of our friends are gonna die. As long as I'm still standing, I will protect them and defeat you, even if it costs me. You will be defeated." the brunette said coldly. Gio snapped his head up and looked at Tsuna incredulously.

"W-wait! What are you talking about? You can't do that! This is my fight-!"

"This is not just your fight!" Tsuna yelled. The blonde was shocked. "This is my fight as well. If you don't live, I won't either. And I have to protect my family and friends. And that includes you. This is all I can do to ensure that you all stay safe and live." he smiled, "I won't die. I promised myself not to die in the presence of those that are precious to me. That I won't die because I want to have more happy memories with you all. So please, let me handle this. The Vongola will still be alive even after ten generations."

"That's what you think, you damned brat. Once I kill you and that bastard, I will create the most powerful mafia family in existence-!"

"I fought against someone with the same intention. He was strong, indeed, but I had my tutor and friends to thank for training me. Without them, I don't think I could've ever beat him. And you are no different." Tsuna gently sat Giotto on the ground and stood protectively in front of him.

"Ha! You think I'm going to lose to a small shrimp like you? Don't make me laugh. Just because you obtained the same Hyper Dying Will doesn't mean you can defeat me." he smirked. Tsuna gazed at his ring.

"I guess it's now or never Natsu. We're gonna have to use 'that'." he whispered.

"Gao~" Natsu growled in concern. Tsuna clenched his hand in resolution.

"... I hope this works." he whispered. Flames started building up inside him.

"Gao... Gao...! Gao! GAO!"

"Tsuna/Jyuudaime!"

Tsuna woke up with a start and sat up quickly, panting. Clenching the bedsheets so tightly it almost tore.

"Tsuna-nii! Are you okay?" Lambo asked concerned. He looked around him and saw the equally curious and concerned faces of his friends. He slowly relaxed with a shudder.

"H-hai. I'm fine... Just a bad dream." he tried to reassure them.

"That was some bad dream. Can you tell us what it's about?" Takeshi asked.

"I can't really remember it all that well. I'm sure it was nothing important. Gomen. For waking you all up." Tsuna apologized. They all smiled.

"It's okay, Jyuudaime. Anyway, we need to start training. Reborn-san wants us to stay strong and keep the Vongola existing. The only way to do that is to train and protect Primo's Family." Hayato said.

"YEAH! EXTREME TRAINING! I FINALLY GOT THE CHANCE TO FIGHT KNUCKLE-SAN!" Ryohei bellowed. Everyone winced.

"Urusei, turf-top!" Gokudera growled.

"Haha. Then I can train with Asari-san. Gokudera can train with that G guy." Takeshi said. Lambo huffed.

"I am not fighting with that green-haired Baka. Ghost or not, Lambo-sa- I mean I'm not going to touch him." Lambo crossed his arms.

"You know, Lambo, if you beat Lampo in training, I'll give you some grape candy." Tsuna bargained. Lambo's eyes lit up at the mention of grape candy.

"Really?"

"Of course. But that's only if you beat Lampo."

"I will! I won't let a supposed-to-be-dead person defeat me!" Lambo announced.

"Good. I have to find the others and tell them about our training. Maybe I'll train them the way Reborn trained me a little. I'm sure it won't hurt. We all need to become stronger if we want to defeat whatever it is that don't belong here." Tsuna thought out loud. They all stared at him.

"Tsuna. Are you sure it's okay to do that?" Yamamoto asked.

"Yeah. You know that Reborn's methods are a bit dangerous." Ryohei agreed. Lambo just shrugged. As long as he wasn't on the receiving end of the training.

"Don't doubt what Jyuudaime says! Reborn-san's training will be a success. If we all got this strong by fighting with Reborn-san and the other arcobaleno, then of course it'll work for the First Generation!" Hayato reasoned.

"Hmm. Okay then! I'll pitch in if you want help setting up things." Takeshi smiled. Ryohei nodded enthusiastically. Tsuna smiled.

"Thanks guys. I really appreciate it. Now, let's go find where they hide their equipment." he smirked with an evil glint in his eyes. Everyone shivered, wondering just why they got themselves into this.

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First victim: Asari Ugetsu

Asari woke with a yawn. Sitting up in his futon, he smiled at the sunlight seeping through his curtains. His room was Japanese styled, but still had a few modern Italian things here and there.

Getting up, Ugetsu made his way to his bathroom to get ready for the day. Making his way out the room, he started off walking to the kitchen where everyone will soon be, but before he could get there, a dog ran up to him barking happily.

"What is a dog doing here?" he kneeled in front of the dog, "How did you get in here-" he paused when something flew in vision. Looking up, he spotted a swallow flying in circles over his head before it rested in the dog's head.

"What are animals doing in here?" he thought out loud. The dog barked again and turned away from him to start running. Asari got up to follow, but found a knife thrown and stuck into the ground where the dog and swallow were.

Pulling out one of his short swords from the folds of his sleeves, he carefully walked through the hall.

FWOOP! CLANG!

Ugetsu intercepted another knife. He looked in the direction it came from, but saw nothing there. His brows furrowed. 'Where are these knives coming from?' he thought.

More knives came after him in all directions. He fended them off, but didn't see a few of them, so in the end, he was stuck to the wall with knives holding him in place.

"You fail." a familiar voice hit his ears. He turned his head to see Tsunayoshi, Lambo, Takeshi, and Hayato all looking at him. The dog and swallow from earlier were being pet by Yamamoto (Ryohei thought it best for him to do some EXTREME morning training before helping out with the First Gen.'s training).

"This was your doing? What is the meaning of this!" he yelled. Tsuna smiled sheepishly.

"We did this to test you."

"Test me?"

"Hai. We are trying to see if you could dodge all the knives without getting injured, you did, but instead you got stuck to the wall. That would give your enemies the pleasure of killing you instantly and none of your comrades would even know it." the man explained. Asari blinked.

"But where did you come up with something like this?" he asked.

"Hayato fought against someone who used knives and wire. Those were the same things we used for you. And we used Takeshi's Vongola animals to lure you out."

"Vongola animals?"

"We obtained Box Animals when we had to go 10 years into the future when we were in High School. But forget that, you failed the test so you cannot get breakfast." Tsuna stated. Asari's eyes widened.

"Wha-!? You can't decide things like that!"

"I can and I did. You failed the test, therefore, you will have nothing to eat until lunch." he went up to the Rain Guardian, "And you will not tell anyone about their tests. If you do, I will make you hold off on eating anything until dinner." he began taking the knives out of the walls and Ugetsu's clothes.

Asari dusted himself off and looked into Tsuna's eyes. The young man just smiled and walked away. He reached out and grabbed the man's sleeve.

"What happens when we pass the test?" he asked. Tsuna turned around to face him.

"You spar with your descendant." he said and continued walking away with his friends, "But be warned now. No one said sparring with my guardians would be easy. See you later."

Ugetsu just stared after him. Setting a determined face, he vowed to get past his tests if it means seeing the strengths of his descendant and defeating their potential enemy. After all, he joined the Vongola because his friend was in danger and he couldn't just sit back and watch him fight.

'It's time to get stronger for the sake of protecting those that are precious to me. I will defeat you, Yamamoto Takeshi.'