Disclaimer: I do not own Katekyo Hitman Reborn

A/N: Thanks for the Reviews!

And, sorry this is so late. I kind of took an unofficial, unplanned break from writing.

Also, I finally find the real name of Tsuna's hacker name. The Reaper was just a substitute name until I came up with something better and spent the time researching it. His name is now Erebus, which is a Greek Primordial Deity that means deep darkness or shadow. You should get why that is his name by the meaning. Anyway, I went back and changed the name in all the chapters, but I might have missed some. Just so you know.

"Talking"

'Thought'

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Chapter 10

His head was pounding. Never before has he ever had a headache this bad. There was so much pounding in his head that it was like someone was trying to break his way out of his head with a sledgehammer. A painful groan escaped his lips before he could stop it. The only time he ever got headaches were from training or if he was sick. As far as he knew, he hasn't done any training recently so it couldn't be from that. So, was he sick?

With some difficulty, Tsuna forced his heavy eyelids to open. His eyes were assaulted with bright light, causing him to close them and open them a few times before his eyes got used to the light. Still, the light was annoying him so he forced his head off the couch and stared straight ahead…..at a stone wall.

Where was he?

He was lying on a bed in an empty room. The only light in the room was the one above him.

What happened?

Where was he?

Was he kidnapped?

Did someone find out that he was Erebus and captured him?

What was going on?

There were so many questions, but he had no answers. If there was one thing he hated, it was not knowing something.

In the moment of questions running through his head, he briefly heard a voice at the back of his voice say, "It's time." Those words caused his body to stiffen very slightly. Time? Time for what? He wanted to look at where the voice came from, but, at the same time, didn't want to see. That voice sounded familiar. It was a voice that scared him this time. A voice he could trust in normal situations, but this situation was not normal. It was incredibly dangerous at this moment.

If he was found out, then did that make him an enemy to the Vongola?

He listened carefully to the footsteps of the man. They walked passed him, then a door was opened, and finally shut, taking the man from the room and leaving him safe temporarily.

With that man gone, Tsuna, ever so slightly, relaxed his too tensed shoulders, but stayed staring at the wall for a bit longer. He was worried….scared….that the man would come back.

But, after a few minutes of nothing, Tsuna deemed it safe to look elsewhere. To his surprise, there was another person in the room. Normally, he would have spotted him out of the corner of his eye, but the man was standing in the shadows so he didn't notice him until he moved his head and saw those shining grey eyes staring at him.

"Who are you? Where am I?" Tsuna demanded.

Instead of answering him, the man said, "Omnivore?"

'Omnivore?' The word rang in Tsuna's mind. There was only one person who ever called him that. If he was here, then that meant this had nothing to do with Erebus. So what was going on?

Tsuna went to get up from the bed to approach him so they could talk quietly, but the moment he tried to get up, he realized that his legs weren't working properly. They had no strength left in them. They were as weak as a newborn's legs.

What was this? What was wrong with his body?

Tsuna pushed himself to his knees and crawled to the end of the bed. If that was all he could do right now, that was all he could do. He crawled to the end of the bed, but to his horror, as he was moving, the scenery all around started to change. All that remained was the bed he was on.

Suddenly, it was no longer a stone room he was trapped in. He was now sitting on a bed in the middle of a wasteland. The scent of blood, gunpowder, and death hung heavily in the air. It was horror and shock that had Tsuna's eyes moving to look around rapidly. Dead bodies lay everywhere, but what really grabbed his attention were those bodies that stood out to him by shining brightly so he would see them.

One such body was Hayato. He was thrown on his back, head thrown back and his eyes opened wide, but completely empty. Blood was all around him. His silver hair was no more as it was completely drenched in the blood. Cuts and burns littered his body, showing the harshness of his death. In the middle of stomach was a big hole, where all the blood came from. In fact, it was still oozing out of his body, making the puddle bigger.

Lambo and Takeshi were both nearby. They were lying next to each other, but had completely different wounds. Takeshi was pierced through the chest with his sword, pinned to the ground by it. Lambo, on the other hand, was filled with bullet holes, but none of which were lethal injuries. He was shot in places where he would die slowly of blood loss so he had to suffer the pain of the wounds.

Tsuna forced his eyes to look away from his friends' mangled bodies to look back at Kyoya. To his horror, where there used to be an uninjured Prefect staring at him, there was now one covered in blood. Blood was tickling down from his mouth. The now bleeding Prefect only managed to stay upright because of the pole that he was tied to by his neck and waist.

He stretched out a hand to Hibari while his other gripped the metal bedframe. His friend looked so close, yet so far away at the same time. "Hi–" He started, but cut himself off when the smell finally hit him. The whole area smelled like blood and burnt flesh. It was such a sickening twist that it made his stomach churn. He just wanted to throw up his stomach contents until he was left gagging. That was how bad the smell was. He fell over the bedframe, breathing becoming heavy. This smell was all around him. It was stuck in his throat and nose. It was burning his eyes. It wafted around him, taunting him with that fact that his friends were gone. He just wished it would end already.

What was going on here?

How could this possibly be happening?

Was all this fault? Was it because he let them get involved with him that they ended up dead? And why wasn't he dead yet? Was it just so he could see his friends tortured bodies?

That was so cruel. None of them deserved this.

It was all his fault for being involved in all this mess from the beginning. Because they got involved with him, they paid the price. This wasn't supposed to happen! He was supposed to be forever alone so no one else had to get hurt.

Why?

Why did this have to happen?

It was supposed to be him!

DAMN IT!

Tears pricked at his eyes. Why did he let them get close to him?

A bloodcurdling scream ripped from his throat. It was supposed to be him! Not them! Why did people have to die for him? Wasn't he supposed to protect them? So….so why? Why are people harmed when they associate themselves with him?

Was he cursed to be forever alone?

*K.H.R*

"So, any idea of where Reborn would have taken Tsuna?" Takeshi asked, frowning.

A dark look filled Hayato's eyes. "If I know Reborn, then I know that this test is far from over. It was difficult getting the antidote, but now we have to find Tenth. Reborn wouldn't make it simple for us to find Tenth just lying around somewhere. He would put him somewhere heavily guarded so we would have to fight to get to him and get him the antidote. What is the most dangerous place on school grounds?"

"Hahahaha. That's easy. The disciplinary committee office, of course!" Takeshi said, grinning slightly.

"The one run by that crazy blood thirsty prefect?" Hayato asked blandly.

"Yep, that's the one." Takeshi said, nodding.

Hayato suppressed a growl of annoyance. This was just like Reborn, that sadistic hitman!

"We should get a move on if we want to get there in time." Lambo said with a hint of urgency in his voice.

"Yeah, we are runn–"

"EXTREME!"

Lambo and Hayato jerked in surprised at the loud scream, but Takeshi just laughed as he was used to such an event and jumped to the side to avoid the boy that was suddenly running past them at a speed that shouldn't be humanly possible.

"What the hell?" Lambo muttered, staring at the dust flying through the air because of that speed maniac.

Still laughing, Takeshi yelled, "Yo, Sasagawa-senpai!" He turned back to his friends, grinning. "This is Sasagawa Ryohei, the captain of the boxing team."

The white haired boxer skidded to a halt when he heard his name being called and turned to look at the three with boys with a grin. "What are you guys extremely doing?" He asked.

"We're rescuing Tsuna!" Takeshi said innocently, causing Lambo and Hayato to groan.

"It's a secret, sword-freak." Hayato snapped at him, only to be ignored by the swordsman.

"Sawada was EXTREMELY kidnapped?" Ryohei yelled in surprise. He had seen the boy around often, but it wasn't until recently that the boy really caught his attention. The boy that everyone called no-good was much more EXTREME than he ever let on! Only an EXTREME person could easily defeat Mochida and protects his sister! Then there was the time he saved Yamamoto from killing himself. He was an EXTREMELY awesome person!

"No. No, Tenth was not kidnapped!" Hayato snapped, shooting a glare at Takeshi. "And there is such a thing called discretion. You might learn it, sword-freak."

"Ma, ma," Takeshi said unconcerned. "We can trust Sasagawa-senpai not to spread it around. Right, senpai?"

"How can he spread it around when Tsuna wasn't even kidnapped?" Lambo demanded.

"In a sense, he was kidnapped." Takeshi argued.

"I extremely don't understand what is going on!" Ryohei shouted, confused as he looked between the boys. "But if Sawada is in danger, I want to EXTREMELY help him!"

Takeshi clapped his hands. "Great!" He exclaimed, pleased with this outcome. They would need all hands they could possibly get if they wanted to get passed Hibari, and he had a feeling Ryohei would be glad to help. He recalled seeing his senpai when Tsuna was defending Kyoko's honor and he looked quite pleased by what the younger boy did. He knew the boxing captain forgot a lot of things easily, but he never forgot a debt or someone who protected his dear little sister. "We believe that Tsuna is locked in the disciplinary committee office. He is a bit sick and we have to deliver an antidote to him while getting passed the disciplinary officers."

"Then let's EXTREMELY go!" Ryohei shouted.

Lambo blinked blankly at the overexcited boy. He leaned over to Hayato and whispered, "Did we just get played by Takeshi?"

"As much as it pains me to say this, I think we did." Hayato growled quietly back. He could not believe this! Of all people who could have played him, it was the baseball idiot!

*K.H.R*

"There is no one around." Hayato whispered to his comrades, eyeing the next hallway cautiously from the corner of the adjacent hallway. "For all we know, those bastards are probably in class right now."

"That should make this easy than." Lambo said, only to have Takeshi and Ryohei to shoot him looks of disbelief.

"The regular officers of the disciplinary committee are nothing to worry about." Takeshi retorted, gripping his bag more tightly. "It's Hibari that is the main threat."

"Tch. There are four of us and only one of him." Hayato growled.

A dark look crossed Takeshi's eyes as he shook his head. "Don't you remember what happened the last time we fought him when it was the two of us together? In-fir-ma-ry." He stressed, frowning. "Adding two more will make no difference when it's him we are up against."

The bomber spun around to glare at the swordsman. "So what?" He snarled. "The Tenth is in there, in some type of personal hell. We can't just leave him!"

"I never said that. I just think we should have a plan before we go rushing in." Takeshi argued, looking at Lambo and Ryohei for support.

Ryohei nodded. "I agree, though I am EXTREMELY not too sure of what is going on."

Resisting the urge to slam his head into the wall, Hayato, once again, explained to the idiot boxer just what they were doing. How many times were they going to have to explain this to the forgetful idiot?

"Look, Tsuna was injected with a drug called Nightmare. It knocks him out and when he wakes up he is living in his own eternal hell, seeing things that scare him. We were tasked with finding the antidote and administering it to him." Hayato snapped, holding up the box that contained the medicine.

"I think the best way to deal with this situation is to have three people attack Hibari and hold him off as long as possible while the fourth person injects Tsuna with antidote." Takeshi said quietly, glancing around the corner to check that it was still clear and they weren't suddenly going to be ambushed by disciplinary officers that showed up out of nowhere.

Nodding in agreement, Hayato opened the box to see a syringe, a small container with the antidote, a piece of cloth, a small container labeled alcohol, and a rubber band. "Does anyone have any experience with injecting medicine?"

"Oh? You don't, Mr. Genius?" Lambo asked sarcastically. "And here I thought you would be oh so eager to give the medicine to Tsuna."

The bomber shot him a heated glare. "I don't have the experience and I don't want to mess up the only chance we have of saving him."

Takeshi nodded in understanding and turned to their senpai. "Do you have any experience with medicine?"

"This idiot?" Hayato sneered, glaring at the boxer. "I would trust you more, sword-freak, than this forgetful idiot to save Tenth." At least the cheerful idiot didn't forget anything and knew how dangerous this situation was. This forgetful idiot would probably mess everything up and leave his boss stuck in that hell for eternity.

Seeming not to hear Hayato, Ryohei replied to Takeshi, "Of course! I EXTREMELY get injured all the time so I learned how to treat them!"

"He treats himself?" Lambo muttered in disbelief.

"Hahaha, well, minor injuries he probably means." Takeshi said cheerfully, snatching the medicine box from Hayato as he did so. Tossing it to Ryohei while ignoring Hayato's protest, the swordsman grinned. He may not be the best student, but he prided himself on being quite observant. He noticed that Ryohei was a boxer and he got injured, not often, but still enough that he would learn how to handle the minor injuries he got. "And while Sasagawa-senpai gets to Tsuna, we'll distract Hibari. Should be easy."

"Except he is bloodthirsty." Lambo said.

Waving his hand in an unconcerned manner, Takeshi dropped his shoulder a bit so his bag would slip down to his hand. From it, he drew his shinai.

"Shinai?" Hayato questioned. "It looks different from before."

"I got this from my dad. It transforms into a real sword when I use the sword style he recently taught me." Takeshi explained.

'Giving a real sword to a cheerful idiot….Dangerous.' Hayato thought briefly, eyeing the sword freak cautiously. Besides his boss, there was no one he could trust. Everyone simply betrayed each other.

*K.H.R*

"No! No! No! NO!" Tears pricked at the corner of Tsuna's eyes as they continued to take in the scene in front of him. Why? Why the hell was he here?

Cold black eyes stared down at Tsuna, looking even darker than usual by the fedora that was shadowing his eyes.

"Why?" Tsuna whispered hoarsely, staring at the hitman with pure fear. Sure, Reborn was a hitman, but he was the most trusted hitman of Vongola Nono. He was loyal. He wouldn't betray the Vongola like this, not even if he was found out to be Erebus. They would let him explain himself before even thinking of killing him. He was, after all, the last heir left. So why was Reborn doing this? Wasn't he supposed to protect Tsuna, train him, keep him alive? "They didn't do anything wrong!"

Tsuna ripped his eyes from Reborn, not carrying if it was a fatal mistake. There was no way he could beat Reborn so if he was going to be killed by the hitman, he would be killed whether he was looking or not. But, he wanted to see his friends, even if they were all bloody and dead. He would be joining them soon anyway.

Staring at those prone forms of his friends, Tsuna's heart rate skyrocketed. He knew Reborn was a hitman, but to be this cruel to kids? Why couldn't he have just shot them? He didn't have to torture them like that. In fact, they needn't be killed at all! They had nothing to do with him! Sure, they were friends, but they knew nothing about Erebus. That was all him by himself.

When a cold muzzle was pushed into the side of his head, Tsuna felt himself tense up, but didn't move from his spot of kneeling on the bed. He just shut his eyes and waited for the pain to come. There was nothing he could do. There was no way in hell he would ever be able to beat Reborn. He was the number one hitman for a reason.

But, the shot never came. That didn't cause Tsuna to open his eyes though. If the hitman could torture his friends to death, he could easily toy with him before shooting him.

"Tsunayoshi."

As soon as he heard the hitman growl his name, he knew that it wasn't so simple as to be shot and have it be all over. Just like his friends, his death would be painful.

It wasn't until the muzzle disappeared from his head that Tsuna dared to crack his eyes open, but, when he did, he wished a million times over that he was blind. Reborn may have disappeared from the scene, but now he found himself standing in front of his house, his house that was lit up with a bright, burning fire that was so hot that it was scorching his skin with just the heat.

And that wasn't even the worse of it.

No, the worse of it came when the whole vicinity was filled with screaming. Loud, pain filled screams that made his ears burn. There was only one explanation to those screams with a burning house in front of him.

"MOM!" Tsuna shouted, ready to charge in there to grab his mom when a pair of arms suddenly grabbed him around his torso and pulled him back. "Let me go! M-Mom!" Warm tears strung his eyes before cascading down his face. His friends he couldn't save, but his mother he could! He had to save her!

"This is your punishment." A voice whispered in his ear.

A very familiar voice at that.

"REBORN!" Tsuna shouted at the top of his lungs. With more strength than he ever displayed, Tsuna ripped himself free from the hitman but only got a step towards the house when his arms were caught by the hitman and twisted painfully behind his back before he was kicked in the back of his legs so he fell to his knees.

He struggled desperately to escape, but it was all in vain as the hitman was just too strong and wouldn't let him go for anything. All Tsuna could do was scream and cry for his mother as he tried to pull his arms free.

It was completely hopeless though as the screams died down, it could only mean one thing. One thing only, and that was that his mother was dead, gone forever.

With that thought flying through his head repeatedly, Tsuna ceased his struggling, becoming limp in Reborn's arms and letting his head drop so he could stare blankly at the ground.

Dead…..they were dead….

*K.H.R*

Hibari watched Tsuna with undisguised interest. The hitman said it was nightmare drug, that Tsuna would face his own personal hell, but he never expected to actually see tears running down the boy's face. He had never seen him cry before. The whole time that he has known Tsuna, he was strong. He could face any enemy or face his whole school mocking him because of his dame act in a completely disinterested manner. To actually see him scared and crying was truly astounding.

He screamed and screamed, but that was all Hibari heard from him. He watched as the boy screamed words, but he never heard them. They were blocked by his dreams so all he heard was the screaming, the screaming that was giving him a headache. It needed to end, and soon or he wasn't going to be responsible for his actions. If he was the one inflicting the pain, he wouldn't care, but to have to be stuck in a room with someone screaming when he wasn't the cause was annoying and troublesome.

With his annoyance levels rising, anyone who entered his office was going to be extremely unlucky as he was planning to take all his frustration out on them.

So, to him, it was great pleasure when his office door was kicked open by a familiar smoker that was constantly around the omnivore. His green eyes snapped to the boy, sitting on the couch, fingers fisted in his hair, screaming his lungs out then snapped to Hibari as if it was all his fault that Tsuna was trapped in a personal hell.

"You damn skylark." Hayato growled, pulling out some dynamite from his never ending supply.

Hibari pulled his tonfas out to deflect the dynamite right before they were about to hit him. As he knocked them away, he noticed a few heading to the frozen form of Tsunayoshi, but paid it no attention as three more boys magically appeared in the doorway. He was curious as to why there were four boys when he was informed only three were coming to get Tsuna, but just shrugged it off. It just meant more victims for him.

Takeshi, seeing the dynamite flying in the air, jumped into action. He leaped forward, swinging his shinai to deflect the dynamite away from Tsuna, which sent them back to Hibari, who simply ducked this time and let them go flying out the window.

"It's a madhouse." Lambo commented to himself as he watched Hibari fighting Hayato and Takeshi, whose shinai really did change into a sword. He pulled his guns out, using one to motion to Tsuna. "Help him."

Ryohei nodded his head, eyes completely serious now. The moment he saw and heard Tsuna screaming his lungs out, his whole demeanor changed. He hated seeing innocent people in pain. If they did nothing wrong, he wanted to help them, save them. Tsuna was strong and saved his sister. He didn't deserve whatever was happening to him.

Glancing at the three boys fighting, Ryohei sprang into action and ran over to the couch. He needed room and time to do this, which he couldn't do with those boys fighting around him so he gathered Tsuna into arms, which immediately caused Tsuna to start struggling, clawing at his arms to escape.

Unaffected, Ryohei ran out of the room and kneeled on the floor, putting Tsuna down so his back was against the wall. When they got out of the room, Lambo positioned himself in the doorway, guns at the ready to shoot Hibari if he tried to leave.

CLANG!

Once he was down, Tsuna turned completely limp again. It was only when Ryohei touched his arm that he freaked out again.

BOOM!

Shocked, Ryohei pulled his arm away with a frown, which caused Tsuna to turn into a limp doll again. The only movement coming from his mouth as he screamed.

THUD!

Nodding his head in understanding, Ryohei turned to the medicine box and pulled out the cloth and alcohol so he could clean Tsuna's arm. He grabbed the thin wrist in his hand, and ignoring the frantic struggles of his patient, sterilized the spot where the needle would be injected into his vein.

SMASH!

*K.H.R*

"Reborn, you BASTARD!" Tsuna screamed, lifting his head on the last word to glare at the man standing in front of him with his gun now trained at the center of Tsuna's forehead. "Why the hell did you betray us?" He gulped down his fear, staring into those cold, dispassionate eyes once more. "Betray me? Say something! Reborn!"

*K.H.R*

Lambo watched as his friends struggled to hold Hibari back. He didn't want to believe it before, but the Head Prefect was truly a fearsome person. Even though he was fighting against a bomb expert and a swordsman, he showed no fear. In fact, he seemed to be enjoying himself as he continued to hit the two boys, smirking even when they managed to deflect one of his blows or even dodge. Usually that would annoy someone, but he seemed to take pleasure in difficult fights.

*K.H.R*

"What….?" Tsuna mumbled. He couldn't believe his eyes. It was all going backwards. Everything he saw was like on rewind. From Reborn standing in front of him with a gun trained on him all the way to the beginning with him waking up in that stone room. And the rewind ended with him being thrown into complete darkness as if he was asleep.

*K.H.R*

"Ow, ow, ow, ow." Hayato grumbled as Shamal continued treating his words. Damn that skylark.

"Tch, you are such a reckless idiot." Shamal mumbled.

Shooting the mafia doctor a glare, he turned to the damn skylark standing in the corner. "You had an antidote?" He hissed, looking at the small bottle that was put on the counter by the skylark than back at the prefect. "Why didn't you use it?"

"Hn," The skylark pushed off the wall. "It was only to be used if you herbivores didn't make it in time." With that said, he disappeared from the infirmary, though not before Hayato heard him grumble something about crowds.

"It was an emergency supply. If we let the kid be trapped in an eternal hell forever, the Vongola would come after us." Shamal explained while the four teenagers left in the infirmary stared blankly at the doctor. How cruel.

*K.H.R*

Tsuna, kneeling on his bed, gripped his shirt in his tightly as he glared at the hitman sitting in his computer chair, drinking an espresso. "Why the hell did you do such a thing?" He snarled.

"It was test for your friends." Reborn replied as if it was obvious.

"But a nightmare drug?" Tsuna almost screamed with tears pricking at his eyes once more. The moment he woke up from being given the antidote, he found himself in his bedroom without his friends around and Reborn sitting in his room. He had screamed loudly in fear, causing his mother to rush up to his room. Upon seeing her alive and safe, he was confused until the situation was explained to him again as he forgot all about it with that drug in his system. He had never been so relieved in his entire life, and, of course, furious at Reborn for doing such a thing. But his relief outweighed his fear. "That was horrible."

"Hence the name Nightmare." Reborn retorted. "It causes you to see your worst fears, to live them. Your friends were to save you, while you lived through your worst fears. Now that you know what they are, figure out what to do about them so whatever you saw doesn't happen."

Tsuna blinked. "Those were my worst fears?" He said shocked.

"Where else would the horrible nightmare come from?" Reborn asked before standing up and striding from the room, leaving Tsuna to stare blankly at his retreating form.

'Reborn betraying me is one of my worst fears?'

A/N: [1] I know I made Tsuna a bit of a badass with being a hacker, smart, and strong, but he is still only thirteen so he is a child. I think seeing his friends dead allows him to cry.

What did you think of Tsuna's dream? They were so difficult and bothersome to write.

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