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"Talking"

'Thought'

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Chapter 9

It was a relatively peaceful day at school for Tsuna for once. His friends were all paying attention to the lesson going on and Reborn wasn't in the classroom at the moment for whatever reason. He didn't know where he disappeared to, but he didn't care. Without Reborn here to silently torment him, Tsuna found himself able to space out peacefully. It was so nice to be able to relax like this. With Reborn around it didn't happen often.

Still, even with Reborn missing from the class, Tsuna found it strange as to why he wasn't here. He had never missed staying in the class before. The teachers didn't even say anything about his absence. Though, that didn't really surprise him all too much. It was Reborn after all. He was a famed hitman. He would find a way to get out of anything, including student teaching which probably just got in his way of being a sadistic home tutor for future mafia bosses.

They had just reached the beginning of second period when the reason came as to why Reborn was missing. Tsuna really wished they hadn't been a reason and his intuition was wrong this time. Whenever that hitman was involved, it never turned out well for him.

"Sawada Tsunayoshi, Yamamoto Takeshi, Gokudera Hayato, and Bovino Lambo report to the guidance counselor's office now." A voice announced over the P.A system.

Tsuna allowed his head to smash into his desk. There was no doubt in his mind that this was all Reborn's doing.

"Come on, Tsuna." Takeshi's cheerful voice called to him.

Tsuna lifted his head slightly to stare at his grinning friend. Gokudera and Lambo both stopped by his desk to wait for him. Most of the students found this strange since he was Dame-Tsuna and couldn't process the fact that those three handsome and popular boys would wait for him. They were all ignored though as the four boys left the classroom without a glance at any of them.

"I wonder what the guidance counselor wants with us." Takeshi said thoughtfully.

Tsuna groaned. "It's not him. It's Reborn calling us."

The cheerful grin slipped from Takeshi's face to become serious for a moment before he put it back up. "Famiglia business?"

"No," Tsuna said thoughtfully, glancing at Lambo. "If so, Lambo wouldn't be here since he is in the Bovino Famiglia."

Lambo grimaced. "Tsuna, please don't remind me of that fact. I told you we are having a disagreement at the moment."

"Actually, I-pin was the one to tell me that." Tsuna corrected.

"I can send you to the future for twenty-four hours if you like." Lambo suggested evilly, knowing how his friend felt about that pistol.

Tsuna scowled. "No more future trips! Those people are insane!"

Lambo laughed. "Tuna, it was us in the future!"

Tsuna coughed into his hand. "Us?" He scoffed. "If I recall, and I do have a great memory, I did not meet my future self as we switched places. For all I know, my future self is the only sane one there!"

"What are you talking about, Tenth?" Gokudera asked confused.

"It's a Ten Year Pistol." Tsuna said disgruntled as he quickly explained the gun to his friends before they reached the guidance counselor's office. It would figure that they were both fascinated by the idea of seeing the future in ten years without aging. The concept was interesting until one GOT THERE! That was when all hell broke loose.

"What's so bad about that?" Takeshi asked, grinning. "I would love to see our future."

"You don't want to see the future if you are serious about following me down the path of joining the mafia." Tsuna said darkly before pushing the door to the guidance counselor's office open.

Or tried to.

He barely got it opened half way when Gokudera tackled him to the ground, and just in time because a moment later there was a bullet sized hole in the wall opposite the door where Tsuna's head was a moment ago.

"Ow." Tsuna mumbled as he sat up, rubbing his head. He glared into the office at Reborn, who was sitting nonchalantly on the couch with his gun still smoking in his hand. "What was that, Reborn?"

"You should never let your guard down. Someone will always be around to kill you." Reborn told him. "Though, I give Gokudera a few points for reacting instantly and protecting his boss."

Gokudera grinned proudly at the praise that so rarely came from the hitman.

Grumbling about sadistic training methods, Tsuna closed the door and sat on the couch opposite of Reborn. There was no way he would sit next to the hitman. He didn't have a death wish. "So why did you call us here?" He asked curiously.

Reborn smirked. "It's time for a Family Entrance Exam."

"Huh?" The Vongola Tenth stared blankly at his tutor while his three friends looked intrigued. Intrigued? Really? What was wrong with them? It's like they had a death wish! Nothing that came from Reborn was ever good so why were they feeling intrigued at the thought of an entrance exam? Besides that, what the hell was a Family Entrance Exam?

"Honestly Dame-Tsuna, isn't it obvious? It means I am testing them to see if they qualify to be in your family." Reborn said exasperated.

Blinking, Tsuna looked at Lambo then back at Reborn. He pointed to Lambo, but kept his eyes on his crazy tutor. "Then why is Lambo here. He's part of the Bovino Famiglia."

"Tuna, you are hurting me so much by constantly mentioning my part of that Famiglia." Lambo said in a bored tone that made it hard to realize that he was actually upset over the idea of his family back in Italy.

Tsuna's brows furrowed. "So, you want to leave the Bovino Famiglia to join mine?" He frowned. "Uh….I'm not sure if that is a good idea." When he saw Lambo frown and the flash of hurt that appeared in his eyes very, very briefly, he hurried on. "It's not that I don't want you in my Famiglia. You're a great and loyal friend, Lambo, but the Bovino Famiglia has raised you and supported you your whole life. You shouldn't just throw away being in their Famiglia because of a few arguments. There are always arguments among family, but you still cherish every moment with them. I just don't want to drag you away from the family that helped raise you and train you."

To say the least, Reborn was slightly impressed. For someone who was always called Dame-Tsuna and made an outcast at school, he was surprisingly perceptive and understanding of family, even though it's only been him and his mom for the past nine years.

Lambo, for his part, was touched by Tsuna's care, but he didn't show it or admit it. Instead he just stared determinably back at Tsuna. "You're my family, just as much as them. We've known each other for six years and have become great friends. And I wasn't planning to leave the Bovino Famiglia completely, but I'm sure they would be proud of me to take up a position where I could help and protect Vongola Tenth. I can make my Famiglia proud and help my friend. I say it's a win-win situation for me."

"Then let's get started." Reborn decided.

Tsuna stared at his evil tutor for a moment.

"The cow freak and baseball freak don't deserve to be in the Tenth's family." Gokudera growled, glaring at the two he mentioned. Takeshi just laughed him off, but Lambo glared at him.

"If anyone doesn't belong, it's the octopus head." Lambo argued.

Unbeknown to Lambo and Takeshi, hurt and sadness flashed in Gokudera's eyes but was quickly covered by anger so the only ones who noticed were Tsuna and Reborn. The latter just tilted his head down so his fedora covered his eyes while Tsuna stared at his friend with a frown. He remembered seeing something like this in the infirmary the other day. He would have to talk to Gokudera later.

"What kind of crazy, stupid exam did you set up to kill my friends?" Tsuna demanded of Reborn, ignoring the hurt he saw in Gokudera temporary, even though he really didn't want to. Whatever was wrong with him was a private matter so that made it a private conversation.

"You'll see when we get outside."

'Oh, dear god, what has he done this time?' Tsuna thought, frowning as he and his friends followed the demonic hitman to the back of the school. To his surprise, he found Dr. Shamal waiting for them at the back door of the school.

"The game is quite simple." Reborn told them, smirking evilly.

"Game? Since when was this a game?" Tsuna grumbled, dodging the hit aimed for his head by instinct, leaving him smirking at Reborn.

Reborn expertly ignored him as he looked at the three waiting boys. "All you got to do is save your boss."

Tsuna blinked in disbelief. "Save me? Since when was I in danger? There is nothing–OW!" He slapped a hand to his neck, but missed the bug that bit him. He watched it fly off and saw it was a mosquito flying back to Shamal, paling as he watched. 'Oh, that's why I'm in danger. Reborn and Shamal are conspiring against me and trying to kill me. And to think, I didn't think they would try this until they learned I was Erebus. Woe is me.'

As he was staring at the amused Dr. Shamal, Tsuna's vision started to go black. He began to sway on the spot. Never before has he felt this weak. His whole body felt so limp. He couldn't even hold his head up anymore, let alone his body. As he was falling over, he heard his three friends shout out to him, but to him, it sounded like they were miles away, not feet. Before he completely blacked out, he felt strong arms wrapped themselves around him to catch him. That was the last thing he was aware of.

Gokudera watched in horror as his beloved boss started swaying on the spot. He had seen that mosquito flying away from him and shot a glare at his teacher. How dare he give his boss a disease? When Tsuna started to collapse, he took a step forward but was stopped by a glare from Reborn so all he could was shout, "Tenth!" Beside him, he heard Takeshi and Lambo both shout, "Tsuna!" How dare they disrespect his boss with such familiarity?

He watched as Reborn caught his boss before he collapsed to the ground and gathered him up in his arms so he was carrying him bridal style. "A nightmare drug." Reborn said in explanation. "He will be living nightmares when he wakes up in half an hour. The rules are simple. Get the antidote and find him within two hours and administer the medicine. Fail to do so and he will live the rest of his life in a nightmare."

"Two hours?" Lambo growled. "How are we supposed to find the antidote in two hours? This place is huge and we don't even know what it looks like."

"Look at home. I'm not trying to hide it." Reborn said. As he said these words, the whole area was suddenly filled with a smoke screen.

Coughing, Takeshi waved the smoke away from his face. His eyes shined with utter serious at the situation. Tsuna was his first true friend and now his boss. He couldn't let him face a life full of nightmares. He owed everything to Tsuna. The other day when he was going to jump from the roof, all he wanted was for someone to approach him and help him. But no one came, except for him. Tsuna was the only one daring enough to reach out to someone he barely knew because he cared, cared so much. And for that, he would follow Tsuna without a thought.

"Home?" Lambo demanded when the smoke cleared and he could see Takeshi and Gokudera. "What is home? He said the antidote was here at school!" He was already anxious after seeing his friend collapse because of those crazy hitman and now they had to solve a riddle to find the stupid antidote. He no longer wanted to take this test. All he wanted was for Tsuna to be safe. How was he supposed to be his shield when something like this happened? He had to protect him.

Takeshi thought for a moment while Gokudera was glaring at him and Lambo as he was at a lost too. Even though the bomber didn't want to admit it, it would be best to stay with the two for the moment. Since none of them knew where the antidote or Tsuna was, it would be chaos to split up cause one of them could find the antidote and have no way to tell them cause they were separated.

"There's only one home at school that I know of and that's home base." Takeshi said carefully, glancing up at Gokudera with a small, serious smile. "We need to go to the baseball field."

Grunting, Gokudera agreed and followed the baseball idiot to the field. "You better be right, baseball freak. This is the Tenth's life we are risking. We have no room for errors."

"You don't have to tell us that." Lambo snapped before Takeshi could reply. "You're not the only one loyal to Tsuna. He's our friend and boss too. We have just as much to lose as you do."

Gokudera stared at him coldly. "No, no you don't have as much as me." He said quietly but with a lot of anger.

The other two stared at him in confusion, but didn't reply as they reached the baseball field. They stopped at the edge of it and Takeshi pointed at the home plate. "There is a container there. I suppose that is what we are looking for?" He glanced at the frowning Gokudera and shrugged. Shouldn't he be happy they found the antidote? He made to step forward to cross the field but was pulled back when a hand suddenly grasped his arm. He turned to Gokudera in surprise. Didn't he want to save Tsuna?

"You're really an idiot, baseball freak. Reborn is the one who gave us the freaking challenge and yet you think you can cross the field without harm." Gokudera growled. "You do know that he is a notorious hitman, right? He wouldn't make this mission this simple."

"Traps?" Takeshi said, understanding the message Gokudera was trying to get across to him. He scratched the back of his head. "So, how do we cross the field?"

Gokudera scoffed at the idiot. "Dodge and defend obviously."

"And how do we do that when we can't see them?" Lambo asked, shoving his hands in his pocket to finger his weapon there. "I have a better idea then attempting to kill ourselves and never getting the antidote to Tsuna."

Gokudera scoffed, but waved the cow idiot forward to say his plan.

Lambo pulled out a normal looking gun from his pocket, much to the confusion of Takeshi and Gokudera. "This is a gun specially made for me by the Bovino Famiglia. With a bit of work, I added a little something to it that might just help us here."

"Hurry up and use it then." Gokudera snapped impatiently.

Lambo scowled at him, but obliged. He was really getting tired of that attitude from Gokudera. He kneeled on the ground and aimed his gun downward at the field. One bullet was fired into the ground before Lambo was jumping to his feet and snatching the back of Gokudera's and Takeshi's jackets to pull them back to safety. And not a moment too soon because the field was suddenly alive with cackling electricity all over it. It was so bright that the three boys had to shield their eyes so as not to go blind.

"What the hell is this?" Gokudera asked shocked as explosions started to ripple over the field.

"Electric Charge bullet," Lambo said with a smirk as he managed to shock both of his friends. "The bullet is filled with electricity, so much that it could probably power this whole school. Being hit with it anywhere would kill a normal person. By shooting it in the ground, the electric charge in it travels over a wide area if not controlled properly by the user. Since I have control over the power of the bullet, I kept the range of the electricity on the baseball field. The electricity entering the traps have caused them to explode, at least the bombs. If there are other traps, we'll have to find them on our own."

Takeshi gave a low whistle of appreciation. "Amazing, Lambo."

Lambo smiled at the praise as he put his gun away.

"Though, you kill your enemies?" Takeshi asked, frowning darkly.

"No, I don't use this bullet for enemies. It's too much. I have special bullets for fights. Those bullets have lower amounts of electricity in them so they won't kill." Lambo explained.

The baseball nodded his head, a bit pleased about that. "To the antidote we go!" Takeshi declared, earning a glare from Gokudera and a weak smile from Lambo.

*K.H.R*

The first thought he had when he heard his door being kicked open was that someone was going die a painful death. No one ever came into the Disciplinary Committee's office like that. His second thought was, who actually had the nerve to do something like that? The only person he knew of was Tsunayoshi, and he only did that on the rare occasion where he was super happy about something or severely pissed off and wanted a fight. So, it didn't happen often.

Looking up with a frown, Hibari glared at the intruder, but his glare disappeared and was replaced by his indifferent look when he saw who it was. "Hitman-san." He growled.

Reborn raised a brow before depositing Tsuna on the couch in front of Hibari's desk. "You know about me? I can only assume Tsuna told you."

Hibari ignored him and looked at the unconscious boy. "What did you do to the omnivore?"

"A nightmare drug." Reborn said, smirking at the boy. "You like to fight, right?"

With his interest perked, Hibari looked back at the hitman.

*K.H.R*

Lambo watched anxiously as Takeshi and Gokudera ran across the field to get to the antidote. The moment their feet hit the field, motion sensor machine guns were going off, but Takeshi and Gokudera ignored them. They were running as fast as they could across the field to avoid getting hit.

Lambo glanced over his shoulder towards the school. How could this not be causing mayhem for the students and teachers? Surely they heard the guns going off.

Looking back at the field, Lambo winced when he saw Takeshi's blood running down his arm. From where he was, it looked like he was just scratched by a bullet. Still, he was moving just as fast to get to home plate. He was in front of Hayato, being the faster of the two. The Italian boy, noticing this, skidded to a halt and fell to his knees.

Even though Hayato annoyed him, Lambo still felt worry for the boy when he came to a stop like that. He was going to get shot dead if he didn't keep moving. His eyes stared locked on the frozen boy. Even Takeshi took a moment to look at Hayato confused. Hayato either didn't notice them looking or was ignoring them.

Hayato wasn't as oblivious as they thought he was. He noticed that Lambo and Takeshi were staring at him, but he chose to ignore them. He had to check something with these guns. These guns, he noticed, were too focused on their target. The bullets were coming so close to them. It was only because of their quick reflexes that they were even alive.

And there it was.

Even though Takeshi looked back at him in confusion, he kept on moving which was what Hayato was expecting and hoping for. Takeshi was loyal to Tsuna so he was focused on getting to the medicine first.

With him still moving and Hayato frozen on his knees, he saw it. The guns firing at them were only firing at moving targets. If he was frozen still, the guns would move on from him. Taking this opportunity, Hayato pulled his dynamite slowly out so as not to alert the motion sensors to his movement. As he was doing this, his eyes were scanning the area to find out where the bullets were coming from. The guns couldn't be too far off with how loud they were and the fact they were motion sensor guns.

At last, Takeshi was just a few feet away from home plate. Taking this chance, he dropped to the ground and skidded the rest of the way to home plate. The moment he did this, he heard an extremely loud BOOM from behind him and the whole area was filled with smoke. His hands instinctively grabbed the box on home plate before he covered his head with his other arm and held the white box tightly to his chest.

But, then he realized it. He no longer heard the guns going off.

Lowering his arm from his head, he sat up on his knees and stared through the smoke that was beginning to clear. In the center of the field he saw the still form of Hayato still form sitting there. "What did you do?" Takeshi yelled at him.

"He blew the guns up." Lambo yelled back, slightly surprised by the Italian's willingness to work as a team with them.

"Did you get the box, sword freak?" Hayato said.

Grinning, Takeshi stood up and held up. "Got it."

*K.H.R*

Hibari glared out the window in the reception room when he saw all that smoke coming from the baseball field. What were those three idiots doing to his school? They were going to pay greatly very, very soon.

"….Argh…."

Hearing the groan, Hibari looked away from the window to look at the brown haired boy on his leather couch. The boy had lifted his head and was staring out the window with dull, brown eyes. He didn't even look at Hibari, as if he didn't notice the older boy standing there.

"It's time."

Hibari looked at Reborn, who was now standing up. The hitman nodded to him and left the room, making sure to lock it behind him.

Tsuna, on the other hand, didn't spare his tutor a glance. Instead, he had half raised his left hand towards the window, his finger twitching slightly. Quiet moans of despair came from the boy's lips.

Having been told the basics of the drug, Hibari was wondering what the omnivore was seeing and if the boy would survive this. Still, even wondering that, he still had a job to do which was to subdue Tsuna and keep him locked in this room, while fighting off those herbivores from saving him.

He watched Tsuna for a moment longer to see if he would do anything besides sit on the couch. After hearing about the nightmare drug, he expected something more than him just sitting there, moaning.

Yet, it didn't seem like he was going to be doing much else. So why did Hitman-san say he would have to subdue the boy? What would happen if he got out of this room?

His answer came a few minutes later.

Tsuna's blank eyes seemed to finally notice Hibari because they moved to him. He blinked at the Prefect, mouth moving wordlessly. It had Hibari wondering if the boy really saw him or was still trapped in his mind.

"Omnivore?" Hibari tried.

The sound of his voice caused Tsuna to freeze for a moment in his actions. He blinked once more at Hibari. As if recognizing the voice, something like relief spread across Tsuna's face, the first expression besides despair since he woke up. He crawled to the end of the couch so he was closer to Hibari. One of his hands gripped the armrest while his other was stretching forward to Hibari. "Hi–" Tsuna started to mumble, but was cut off by himself. He fell forward so he was hanging over the armrest now.

Confused, Hibari pushed off the window seal to see what was wrong with the boy, but before he could take one step towards Tsuna, a bloodcurdling scream ripped from the boy's mouth that was filled with so much pain and anguish that it made Hibari think that the boy was actually trapped in hell.

A/N: I had originally planned to put the whole family test in this chapter, but it was taking me way too long so I decided to just end it here and continue it next chapter. It's all planned out. Now it's just a matter of getting it written.

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