Hello! Seems like most of you were right for Reborn. But I'll let you find out why.

[秋] : Fall.

"Your hand," Reborn whispered while he sat on the ground covered by dead leaves. "It's smudged with ink..."

Tsuna looked down and smothered another nervous laugh while he shook his hand.

"Yes," he nodded. "I wasn't really careful when I was writing..."

"Your writing," the man whispered as he closed his eyes tiredly and leaned his chin on his torso. "Can I see it?"

The brown haired boy's curiosity was sparked alive by those words and he tried his best to ignore his feeling of being in danger. But, surrounded by his bullies that seemed to have been frozen by some kind of spell, the teenager had some difficulties to believe that what was happening around him wasn't a dream. So he just stopped caring about common sense and went to fetch his bag (that was in one of the bullies' hands) and looked for the bundle of sheets covered in inkblots and clumsy kanji and hiragana.

Reborn's eyes opened just as the sheets were taken out of Tsuna's bag and the boy shuddered when he noticed that the man's eyes had turned black. Deciding to believe that it was just a hallucination caused by all those kicks to his head, the teenager gave his sheets to the adult and tensed when the man's hand grazed his hand.

A mocking smirk blossomed on Reborn's lips and he took with a strong hold the sheets before he glanced at the text.

"Eh," he calmly breathed. "I guess it will do..."

And then, just in front of the dumbfounded Sawada, the man slightly lowed the sheets with an almost ceremonious elegance and delicately opened his mouth.

Suddenly, the kanji, hiragana and rare katakana started shuddering on the sheets and began to progressively come apart of the paper while they gave off an almost invisible light. They hovered delicately above the sheets and the time seemed to stop. Reborn's dark eyes glistened with a relentless glint and he gently aspired the characters before he swallowed them.

Once the sheets were blank, the man put them on the ground and closed his eyes while he gave a sated sigh.

While Tsuna had to pass through his biggest attack of nerves of his short life.

"W-w-w-w-what? W-w-w-w-what hap-p-p-p-ened?" the poor teenager panicked as he was on the verge to tear out. "M-m-m-my sheets?"

Reborn languidly opened an eye and silently looked at the brown haired boy before he closed his eye and delicately wiped his lips clean with the back of his hand.

"Kind of heavy," he commented before he stretched like a cat to ease some kinks and make some articulations pop back in place. "But as this was my first meal in centuries, I won't complain..."

That's was when Tsuna broke.

"HIIIIEEE" he screeched as he curled under the altar and hid his face in his knees.

The adult opened his eyes from the surprise of the boy's screech and observed the latter without saying anything. Then, he got up and calmly dusted off his dark clothes before he glanced at the night sky.

"There are less stars," he stated with a soft voice.

The man looked down and noticed with a growing aggravation that the frozen teenagers were still there. He clicked his tongue with annoyance and fetched in his suit pocket an emerald colored ring that gave a sudden green light before it began to morph into a tiny chameleon.

"Leon," Reborn whispered as he pointed the lizard's head toward the bullies. "You know what to do."

The chameleon curled his tongue around the adult's finger and its green body began to glow while it slowly morphed into a blowpipe. Stings came out of the recently materialized weapon and hit the frozen teenagers who immediately began to move as if their curse had been broken.

Tsuna widened his eyes and held his breath when he saw his bullies move in a slow and jerky way. They looked as if they were walking underwater and sometimes staggered like drunkards while they all walked down the stairs and vanished in the forest.

"What did you do to them?" he asked in a breathless voice.

He still feared that those bullies would end breaking the strange spell they were under and would end trying to attack him again with a knife.

"They hurt my eyes," Reborn sat on the first stair while he took off his hat and put it on his knees.

The brown haired teen began hyperventilating and asked himself if it was possible to die from a heart attack in a dream. But he soon forgot about that question when he noticed that the man was looking at him with his intense eyes.

"W-w-what?" Tsuna spluttered nervously while he asked himself for the hundredth time why he did strange dreams like that.

Couldn't he dream about the lovely girls in his class? No, of course not. He had to dream about a word eating man who scared him to death.

However, the adult ignored him once again and raked his hand through his dark hair. His tresses actually looked like the ruffled feathers of a crow.

"Because that was my first meal in centuries," the man suddenly declared as he cut the heavy silence where the only sound had been the teenager's wheezes. "I won't kill you for the carnage that you've written."

Tsuna widened his eyes once again and Reborn nimbly stood up while he put back his hat over his ruffled hair.

"That being said, Tsuna," he commented while he began to get down the stairs without even looking back at the teenager. "Make sure that your writing has gotten better for the next time we meet..."

The brown haired boy blinked and when he opened his eyes, he noticed that he was once again all alone in front of the altar. Tsuna rubbed his eyes and checked another time around him to make sure that he was really awake and alone. He even pinched his cheeks and grimaced when he felt the pain. He could also feel the coldness of the night as well as the pain of his injuries caused by the bullies' earlier beating. The teenager shook his head softly and fetched his bag that was laying on the moss covered ground and slowly took small steps. His articulations protested loudly as his whole body hurt but Tsuna continued walking with staggering steps.

It was only when he got home that he realized a really important thing that he had forgotten until then.

"HIIIEEEE! Kurokawa-sensei is going to kill me when she'll find out that I don't have my writing assignment!"

Next chapter's tomorrow. Again.
Also, anons get their answers:

Great: You're kind of right. But I can't tell you why (mostly because even the original story hasn't gotten to that point). PS: Reborn is Reborn.

miki: Nah, Reborn is pretty much kicking and alive.

And now, to finish this chapter on a little riddle: what did happen to those bullies?