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"Talking"
'Thought'
Most Wanted
Chapter 13
Tense.
That was the only way that Tsuna could describe the air that was around him and Gokudera as they made their way back to his house. After that call from Reborn, neither could relax as they walked. Both of them were scanning all their surroundings, expecting every shadow to be an enemy that would jump out at him.
It certainly didn't help any matters when a little boy suddenly dashed out of an alley right in front of them and fell to his hands and knees.
Gokudera and Tsuna looked at each other than down the alley the boy came from. At first neither saw anything, but they did hear the frantic footsteps coming towards them. Tsuna looked down at the boy to see his brown eyes alit with fear as he looked over his shoulder at the alley.
"Tenth?" Gokudera asked, looking from the alley, to the child, to his boss as he waited for the order.
Tsuna locked his eyes with Gokudera's before he stepped forward. His intuition was flying off the charts so he knew that whatever was coming was dangerous. He dropped down to one knee besides the boy. "Hey," He said gently. "Don't be scared." His voice drew the boy's attention to him. Tsuna gave him a gentle smile before he stood up and stepped behind the boy to stand in front of the alley. "Just stay there. My friend and I will protect you."
With those words, Gokudera was suddenly besides Tsuna with dynamite in his hands while Tsuna reached to the back of his belt and pulled out a knife.
"Whoever comes out of this alley is an enemy, so don't hesitate to attack, but don't kill them." Tsuna whispered, surprising Gokudera, but he nodded in consent to the order.
"Understood, Tenth." Gokudera replied before he threw his dynamite. The sticks of dynamite flew in the air towards the alley where they exploded, resulting in shock shouts and smoke filling the alley.
With the smoke blinding the enemy's sight, Tsuna kneeled down and grabbed the kid around the waist, causing the kid to yelp in shock. "Shh," Tsuna whispered quickly before he jumped quickly to the side and moved farther away from the alley, though he kept his eyes alert for anything and his knife held at the ready to defend himself. He slid down to his knees in front of a building and positioned the kid behind him. "Don't worry. I won't hurt you."
The boy looked up at the teenager that saved him, taking in his calm, confident aura which he found soothing and found himself trusting this strange boy.
As soon as the targets came running out of the smoke, hands clawing at their eyes, Tsuna froze for a moment in confusion. But when Gokudera started moving and slammed his foot into the first one's stomach, Tsuna launched to his feet and ran over to the second. Seeing as his opponent couldn't see which was a great advantage to Tsuna, he lowered his knife and instead slammed his fist into the man's face, which sent him flying backwards to knock into the first man.
With two unconscious men at his feet, Tsuna paused and looked back at the alley. Were there anymore? No, his intuition was saying they were safe now. Sighing, Tsuna put his knife away and looked over at Gokudera. "What did you do? They were clawing at their eyes."
"Huh?" Gokudera looked down at the men that were twitching on the ground. "Ah, I changed some of my dynamite a bit so I could install tear gas in them. I didn't realize I had grabbed those ones since they are still in testing the phase, but I guess they work well."
Tsuna stared blankly at Gokudera, eye twitching a bit in disbelief. "Maybe you should find a way to mark which ones are normal and which ones have tear gas." He muttered before turning back to the little boy. Now that he got a better look at him, he saw that this boy couldn't be more than ten years old. "Are you alright?"
"Yes, thank you for saving me."
Tsuna smiled. "It was no problem." He looked briefly at the alley then back at the boy. "For now, it might be safer for you to come with us, uh…"
"Fuuta." The boy responded. "You can call me Fuuta."
"Fuuta," Tsuna nodded. "Right, I'm Sawada Tsunayoshi and he's Gokudera Hayato." He motioned to his friend.
Fuuta looked around warily before he got up. To his surprise a hand landed on his head and he looked up to see it was Tsuna.
"Don't look so scared, Fuuta. I promise that you're safe."
It was that reassuring smile and the gentleness of Tsuna's actions that had Fuuta suddenly clinging to the older boy's arm as they walked down the sidewalk. While walking, Gokudera came up on Tsuna's other side and whispered so Fuuta didn't hear, "Hey Tenth, this boy I think it's Fuuta de la Stella."
Tsuna nodded. "The Ranker who the mafia finds invaluable?" He glanced down at Fuuta then back ahead of him. "I thought he looked familiar. I learned of him from my hacking and saw a picture of him once, but it was a couple years ago."
"What do we do?" Gokudera asked.
"For now, get back to my house." Tsuna replied. "There's nothing else to do in this situation when we don't know fully what is going on." He looked over his shoulder. "The only thing I do know is that we have to protect him. Those people chasing him though…"
"What about them?" Gokudera asked confused.
"Did you notice the uniform they were wearing?" Tsuna asked.
Gokudera thought back to the two people they attacked. Both were wearing a green uniform. "Was there something about it?"
"It's the uniform worn by Kokuyo Junior High kids, though those two clearly weren't kids so it was strange they were wearing it." Tsuna explained. He must have risen his voice without realizing it since Fuuta suddenly tightened his hold on his arm. Tsuna looked down at him and used his free hand to ruffle his hair to calm him before looking at Gokudera. "While that school is full of delinquents, to my knowledge, there is no one that age who attends there. We should be on high alert for the time being."
Gokudera was already pulling his cell phone out before Tsuna finished speaking. "Understood. I'll warn the others to be wary of Kokuyo kids until we figure this out." He paused in typing his text to look at his boss. "Would you have Sasagawa's and Hibari's numbers?"
Tsuna nodded. "I just got Sasagawa's yesterday. I can give it to you and Hibari's." He sighed. Giving up Hibari's phone number would leave him with a hefty fine that he knew Hibari would claim in terms of a spar that would leave him hospital bound. He could just text Hibari himself, but if Hibari was getting involved in this, then he wanted all his friends to have everyone's numbers in case of an emergency. Best to just get this torture over with now.
*K*H*R*
"I said no detours."
Tsuna raised a brow and looked down at Fuuta. "He wasn't a detour. We actually ran into him on the way back here." He pushed Fuuta farther into the house. "Go to the kitchen, Fuuta. I can smell cookies in the air. My mom will give you some."
When Fuuta hesitated and looked out the door then back at Tsuna, Tsuna chuckled.
"Don't worry. My house is safe, Fuuta. Nothing will get you here. We can talk later after you've calmed down."
"Alright, Tsuna-nii." Fuuta said before he ran down the hall to the kitchen.
Tsuna blinked in surprise at the name before he shook it off and looked back at Reborn. "Now can you tell me what the hurry was?"
"Not down here." Reborn said as he began to head upstairs.
"Whatever it is, he doesn't want Mama to hear." Gokudera replied.
Tsuna nodded in agreement and followed his tutor upstairs. But before he could reach the top of the stairs, his instincts suddenly screamed at him to dodge and he was yanking on Gokudera's arm and falling down to the ground just as a weird purple cake flew over his head. He watched with dread as it hit the wall and melted a hole there.
"….The hell?" Was all Tsuna was able to say in response to that.
Gokudera, on the other hand, did not seem shock, just horrified. He slowly turned his head back around while muttering, "Poison cooking." And when a pair of legs suddenly appeared in front of him and Tsuna, he found forcing his eyes up to be a huge mistake. "Aneki!" And after shouting that, he promptly passed out, twitching on the ground just like the men they took out earlier that day.
"This has been one hell of a day so far." Tsuna muttered as he looked at his unconscious friend with a slight twitch to his brow. This is why he hated associating with the mafia. Weird crap always happened. And now he had to figure out how to explain a melted hole in the wall to his mother. She wasn't oblivious enough to miss that!
"Oh, my poor brother was so excited to see me that he passed out." The woman standing over Tsuna said.
Tsuna looked up at her in disbelief. Did she honestly believe that? Now that he was fully looking at her, he saw that she only looked a few years older than him and had long pink hair and green eyes that were just like Gokudera's. "I really doubt that is the case." He muttered as he stood up. Once he had his balance back and it looked like this woman wasn't going to try to melt his face off again, he pulled Gokudera up and threw one of his arms over his shoulders. "Anyway, who are you?"
The woman sharpened her gaze on Tsuna. "I am Bianchi, and you are the one who stole my brother and the love of my life! Prepare to die!"
Eyes widening in disbelief, Tsuna dropped back down to the ground as the woman threw a whole plate of her purple cooking at him. He watched in disgust as the food hit the wall again. Was that a worm crawling around in that smoking food? Seriously, what kind of weird people was he getting tangled up with?
"What the hell are you talking about?" Tsuna muttered as he once again rose to his feet with his friend. "I understand Hayato being your brother, but I didn't steal him. He came to Japan on his own. But who is your love?"
Suddenly Bianchi fell out of her need to kill as she adopted a look of love.
Tsuna twitched a bit. Was he seriously seeing flying hearts around the woman who just attempted to melt his face?
"Reborn."
"Reborn." Tsuna muttered, forgetting his need to twitch in annoyance as he heard her utter that name. Seriously, he should have seen that one coming. Why did all the girls fall for him? Seriously, he was a sadistic man who killed for a living. What was so great about him?! "Wait," Tsuna blinked as he looked at her again. "You don't look much older than me. Isn't Reborn too old for you?"
Green eyes became alit with anger as they fell on Tsuna once more. Were all those floating hearts now popping like bubbles? "Love knows no age, foolish Vongola!"
Tsuna averted his eyes to the side. It was too early for him to deal with this crap. "Sorry, I asked." He muttered as he readjusted Gokudera on his shoulder. Where the hell did Reborn go? This crazy woman was here for him, so why did he have to meet her? "Look, if you want Reborn, go ahead and take him away with you." 'I certainly want nothing to do with him.'
"Really?" Bianchi asked excitedly and for a moment it looked like she and Tsuna could be great friends.
"No," Reborn suddenly came back in the hall and whacked Tsuna upside the head.
"Ow!" Tsuna whined, rubbing his head. Seriously, what was with all the abuse?
"That isn't his choice to make." Reborn said, giving Tsuna a glare before looking back at Bianchi. "I told you yesterday, Bianchi, that I can't leave until I've trained Tsuna to become Vongola Tenth."
"Yesterday?" Tsuna asked confused.
Lambo and I-pin peaked out of their rooms to see what all the noise was about. \
"Yeah, she showed up last night, looking to kill you, Tsuna. But when she couldn't find you, Mama let her stay the night." Lambo explained.
Tsuna dropped his head in a dejected manner. Of course that is what happened. Why did his mom always invite dangerous people inside? Then again, Tsuna looked up at Reborn, who didn't seem all that concerned about this turn of events. Reborn was here to train him so he wouldn't let anyone seriously dangerous in his house….Tsuna looked back at the destroyed wall. Well, maybe not anyone who seriously wanted to kill him, maybe. He could hope at least.
"Is this why you called me back in such a hurry?" Tsuna asked. "To meet your lover?"
Tsuna's smart ass reply earned him another whack on the head by Reborn, which caused Tsuna to whine at the pain again. "No, now get in your room. We need to talk." He turned to Bianchi. "This will take a while. Tsuna brought back Fuuta de la Stella. Keep an eye on him."
Bianchi took her glare away from Tsuna and nodded to Reborn. "Okay." She looked over her shoulder. "Do one of you want to help?"
I-pin and Lambo shared a look before I-pin ran out of her room. "I will, Bianchi."
It was with wary eyes that Tsuna watched the two girls head downstairs. It wasn't until they reached the bottom and rounded the corner that he relaxed and allowed himself to turn away from them. "Hey, Vongola with all the damn contactors, get someone to fix that wall." He muttered tiredly as he walked passed Reborn to his room.
"I don't take orders from you."
Tsuna twitched in annoyance while Lambo followed Tsuna into his room.
"You know," Tsuna shot him an annoyed look. "You could have warned me a crazy chick was waiting here to kill me before I got home."
"True, but I thought this would be more amusing, Tsuna." Lambo replied with a grin. "Besides, you're fine."
"What kind of friend are you that you would let me walk into a dangerous situation like that? Does she truly want to kill me or not? I feel that I am getting mixed singles here." Tsuna muttered as he laid Gokudera down on his bed. He seriously had to figure out what happened to him when he awoke. That was a strange reason to pass out.
Lambo sat on the edge of the bed and shrugged. "I don't know honestly. I think after spending the night and getting to see Reborn without you around has actually calmed her down significantly." He shuddered. "Last night when she first showed up was scary." He glanced back at Tsuna who took a seat in his desk chair. "You're taking this well, though."
"I'm trying to ignore this." Tsuna replied dryly before looking at Reborn who closed the bedroom door. "Alright, you have my undivided attention now, Reborn. What is the real reason you called me back home for? Test my dodging?"
"Will you forget Bianchi?"
"Not until I fully understand this!"
Reborn sighed. "She is a freelance hitman that goes by the name Poison Scorpion because as you just saw, you specializes in poison cooking."
"Were you two really lovers?" Tsuna asked confusion.
"We did go out briefly at one point." Reborn replied.
Tsuna whacked his forehead. "That's illegal, but considering you guys make a living by doing illegal things, I guess that point is moot." He sighed. "Alright, I'm good now so let's forget the woman downstairs planning my death. What is truly going on?"
Reborn raised a brow. "Oh? Can I actually explain it to you now? Sure you won't get distracted again?"
"If I get distracted, it's because you allowed a hitman in my house!" Tsuna snapped, brow twitching in annoyance. It was way too early for this.
"I believe it was your mom who actually allowed it." Lambo pointed with a grin. "And actually, she allowed three. Well, four if you count me, but you were the one who invited me to live here first six years ago. "
"Shut it, Lambo."
Lambo gave a weak, mocking shrug as he leaned back on the bedframe. "Yes, boss!" He said which got him an annoyed glare from Tsuna.
The clicking of a gun had both teenagers freezing and slowly turning their eyes to Reborn, who now had his gun out and pointed at Tsuna.
"Why at me?!" Tsuna screamed as he dived off his chair.
"Stop with the joking. This is serious."
Tsuna stayed sitting on the ground, twitching as Reborn took his seat on the chair and put his gun down on the desk.
"I have got word from my informants that a dangerous illusionist has come to Namimori. We are not sure what he is after, but he does not appear to be alone." Reborn explained as he looked down at Tsuna. "Last night it seems one of your classmates was attacked by some kids dressed in Kokuyo school uniforms."
"And you think they have something to do with this illusionist?" Tsuna asked suddenly serious about the situation. That uniform has shown up again?
"It's only speculation at the only moment, but I think it would be too big of a coincidence if they weren't connected. The sudden arrival of this illusionist and the attacks from the Kokuyo kids." Reborn replied with a frown. "Normally I wouldn't care about children attacking each other like this, but there was something strange about the scene where your classmate was found."
Tsuna blinked in confusion. "Strange?"
"There were clams deposited over the body." Reborn explained.
'Body?' Tsuna gave a displeased look. "Please don't say it like that. It makes it sound like my classmate was dead." He sighed and looked at Lambo, who had suddenly gone pale much to Tsuna's confusion. "Clams are strange to find at an attack like this, but how has that caught your attention?"
Reborn gave him a scowl. "You don't know an ounce of Italian, do you?"
Tsuna shot him an annoyed glare. Of course he knew Italian. If he didn't, it would be so hard to go through all those Famiglias servers. Besides, he couldn't reveal to those Famiglias that he knew Japanese since it would give him away as being Japanese so he corresponded with them in Italian. But what did that language have anything to do with this?
Lambo sighed as he saw Tsuna's face never change which meant he wasn't making the connection. "Tsuna, Vongola literally means clam. If they are throwing clams on the body, it means they are calling out Vongola." His face immediately became serious as he looked at Reborn. "And if they're here in Namimori, do you think they are calling out Vongola Tenth?"
"It's a strong possibility, but they don't seem to know who the heir is since they attacked a student that has no connection to Tsuna." Reborn replied as he bowed his head, hiding his eyes with his hat. "Which is why, Tsuna, that you are not to be without one of your friends ever."
Tsuna's eyes flashed in annoyance. He didn't have a problem being with his friends. He had a problem with the fact that Reborn thought he needed protection. His friends were let in on his secret to help him, not protect him. That wasn't what he wanted from them.
"That won't be a problem."
Tsuna's eyes snapped to his bed to see Gokudera now sitting up, though he still looked a bit pale. "Hayato, you don't look good still. Maybe you should stay lying down." He jumped to his feet and made his way over to his bed. "I can't believe you passed out like that. And don't worry about being with me all the time. I can t–"
The clicking of a gun had Tsuna freezing again. Without even looking, he knew a gun was pointed at his head. He very slowly turned his head to see Reborn glaring at him. "Let's have some training."
"Huh?" Tsuna mumbled before a scream of surprise escaped him as Reborn wrapped an arm around his waist and threw the struggling teen over his shoulder. "REBORN!"
Lambo and Gokudera could only blink in shock as their friend was taken away by his tutor. Not wanting to get on Reborn's bad side as well, neither teen moved to help their friend (besides Reborn wouldn't kill him…maybe) and fell into an awkward silence left in the wake of that departure.
"So…" Lambo coughed to break the silence. "Passing out at the sight of your sister? That's really pathetic."
"Shut it, stupid cow!" Gokudera screamed as he ripped his dynamite out. "Or I'll blow you to smithereens!"
Lambo raised a brow and pulled his gun out. "Let's see who will blow who to smithereens."
*K*H*R*
It was to his extreme displeasure that Tsuna found himself carried over his tutor's shoulder all through his neighborhood. While embarrassing, Tsuna also found it quite annoying. No one even questioned the fact that a strange man in a suit carrying a gun had a kid over his shoulder! Seriously, no one found that suspicious?! What kind of town did he live in where this was considered normal?
But it did give him time to think. Kokuyo uniforms and an illusionist. He saw some of those uniforms earlier that day. But the illusionist? What did that mean? His eyes narrowed in thought. Yesterday he did meet that strange boy who was able to disappear and reappear in front of him while no one else seemed to notice anything strange. In fact, everyone disappeared when that boy appeared. That kid even said 'illusionary world' to him. Was that the type of illusionist that Reborn was referring to?
Though that boy never said anything about Vongola to him. He only spoke of him being Erebus. But he knew that Reborn was watching him so did that mean he knew he was the heir to Vongola? If that was true, why did he attack a kid from his school? Unless the illusionist and the Kokuyo kids really didn't have anything in common…..Ugh, this was too confusing! He needed to get answers, but how? He could speak to the illusionist, but he didn't know where he was or how to find him.
Tsuna suddenly, without warning, found himself falling through the air and hitting the ground. "Ow." He moaned as he sat up, rubbing his back. He lifted his eyes to Reborn to glare at him. "What was that for?!" Blinking, he looked around to find himself in a forest by a river. "And why am I here?"
"You should learn to listen more, Tsuna. I said, training." Reborn said as he pulled a magazine out and swapped it with the one already in his gun. "Back in your room, I noticed you were about to tell your friends not to worry about your safety."
"I won't let you put them in danger just because someone might be hunting me down." Tsuna replied, glaring up at his tutor.
Reborn raised a slender brow. "But it's alright for you to be placed in danger?"
The young heir looked away from the strong gaze of his tutor. No, it wasn't alright. It wasn't alright for any of them to be placed in danger. But he really didn't want his friends to get hurt protecting him. He told them about Erebus. He let them know he was now involved with the mafia by being heir to Vongola. This was all so they could train and get stronger to defend themselves. He didn't want them to put themselves in harm's way for him. He wanted to be strong enough to take care of himself and keep them safe from the danger that was coming for him.
"Of course it isn't." Tsuna replied. "But I don't want people in danger because of me."
"The only way they would never be in danger was if you isolated yourself from everyone." Reborn said and his student snapped his eyes up to this in interest, but he went on, "But it's too late for that." And cue the depressed look that Tsuna adopted. "You've associated with them for too long so they are involved no matter what now. There's only one option left." With that, Reborn pointed his gun at Tsuna right between his eyes.
'Oh, god, he's really going to kill me! He brought me to a forest to kill me and dispose of my body where no one will find me!' Tsuna thought frantically as he looked around for an escape route. But really, what was the point? This was Reborn, the number one hitman. He couldn't escape from him. Though, he really wasn't one to give up without trying. So with that thought, Tsuna flew to his feet to run away.
Only, the click of the gun froze him in place. Well, that and Reborn saying, "Train with your Dying Will."
"Huh?" Was all Tsuna managed to mumble before Reborn actually fired. He actually shot at him! The heir he was supposed to be training! That was all Tsuna could think about as the bullet slammed into his forehead and his body was flying back. 'This is it. I'm actually going to die without being able to protect any of my friends from the danger coming for me.'
Suddenly, a flame appeared on his forehead and his body tore itself from his clothes as he rose up. "REBORN!" Tsuna screamed. "Train with my Dying Will!"
And with that, Tsuna ran off to start climbing the cliff in front of him.
Reborn lowered his gun to watch Tsuna start his climb. "Hmm, I wasn't going to have him start this training just yet since he is still new to the Dying Will mode. Well, whatever. I can't make the choice for him for how he wants to train. Not my problem if he tears his body apart because he does something he wasn't ready for."
Five minutes later found Tsuna waking up from his Dying Will mode. He blinked and found himself halfway up the cliff. The natural thing to do in this situation was to of course scream since he had no idea of what just happened or how he got here. So that's what did. Well, screamed and let go of the cliff wall in surprise, which just made him scream louder. If he survived this, he was going to have to start planning how to kill Reborn! Why did he always get him in situations like this?
He hit the surface of the river a few seconds later. Once he pulled himself out, gasping for air, he found himself glaring up at his tutor. "What the hell did you just do? Why was I on a cliff wall?"
"You were climbing it."
"Don't be smart with me!" Tsuna snapped before almost regretting it at the way Reborn's eyes darkened. Right, this was a hitman. The number one hitman. Do not anger the number one hitman if one desired to continue to live his crazy, dangerous, hectic but yet somehow enjoyable life.
Reborn pulled back on the slide of his gun to release a bullet from the chamber. It flew into the air and he caught it with ease before lifting it up to show the red bullet to Tsuna. "This is a Dying Will Bullet. If you are shot with this while regretting something, you will resurrect with Dying Will."
"If I regret something…" Tsuna mumbled. "So you're saying if I wasn't regretting…"
Reborn nodded with a dark smirk in place that made Tsuna tremble with dread. "You would have died."
Tsuna screamed and scrambled away from Reborn. Those dark eyes of his were alit with sadistic amusement. Who thought it was a good idea to make him a home tutor?!
"That was why I waited so long on using it on you. You never seemed to regret anything." Reborn continued.
Tsuna looked away with a dead panned expression. "I actually regret a lot." He muttered as he ran a hand through his hair. So many regrets. He made so many mistakes, especially regarding his friends and classmates.
"And times where I thought I could shoot you like when Yamamoto almost fell off the roof, you always had a backup plan to cover anything that happened that was out of your initial plan so it wasn't needed." Reborn went on seeming like he didn't notice Tsuna's interruption.
"Okay," Tsuna looked down to see himself in only his boxers. He blinked and blinked again. He knew he did not get kidnapped here in only his boxers! "Where the hell are my clothes?!"
Reborn gave a pointed stare towards the ripped clothes.
Tsuna followed his eyes and gaped at the sight. "What?! How!?" They were all torn to shreds! That was his favorite hoodie, damn it!
"When you are reborn after being shot, you lose your clothes." Reborn explained.
Tsuna stared at his clothes then slowly looked at Reborn. "Never again. Never shoot me again! I don't want to run around in my boxers."
"No can do." Reborn said as he repointed his gun at Tsuna, who quickly scrambled to get away from him. "Dying Will puts your body in a state where all safety switches are shut off. You risk your life by breaking your limits, but you can harness amazing strength. This is something that is passed through the Vongola Family."
"Of course it is." Tsuna muttered tiredly. It always tied back to the Vongola.
"Though the time limit for it is only five minutes then you will return to normal. Otherwise the strain on the body will be too great." Reborn continued.
"Then it seems pointless. It gives you great strength, but you can't win a fight against someone in five minutes if they are powerful. Not to mention there is no control over it at all." Tsuna replied with a sigh. "So what's the point of it?" He rubbed his hands against his arms as he felt chills go up and down his spine. It definitely wasn't cause he was cold. This whole conversation was bringing up something he wanted to avoid, but it seemed Reborn wouldn't let that happen.
"That is only if it remains untrained." Reborn replied as he looked up at the cliff they were by. "I brought you out here to introduce you to it and get you used to it, but I wasn't expecting you to already adapt to a training regime that can help with the control of the Dying Will mode." He looked back at Tsuna with a frown. It was his first time being shot so he shouldn't have immediately gone to start training to adjust to the Dying Will mode's lack of control. Did this kid have great potential or was there something from his past that he didn't know about? Was there something else that this kid seemed to be able to hide from the Vongola?
"Huh?" Tsuna muttered. This was all too much. First he gets a call from Reborn ordering him home, then he meets Fuuta, then an assassin tries to kill him in his own house, followed by learning of a dangerous illusionist and classmates being attacked by Kokuyo kids, and now the Dying Will mode! The day has only just begun and he was already ready to crawl back into bed and never leave it again.
"It seems your body wants to train this mode." Reborn said.
'No, no, no, no, no. No, I really do not.' Tsuna thought but didn't get a choice as Reborn shot him again. Just why did he get sent a trigger happy hitman for a tutor?! Was he being punished for something?
*K*H*R*
Evil. That was the only way that Tsuna could describe Reborn at this moment. Pure, unadulterated evil. A pained groan escaped him as Reborn carried him over his shoulder once more to take him back home. Every inch of his body ached. The torture of going through being shot and in his Dying Will Mode for the whole day while climbing a cliff left him feeling as if his body has been torn apart. Every muscle ached. Just twitching a finger caused him great agony.
How was training him to the point of exhaustion and his body being torn apart supposed to help anything? In this state, he couldn't defend himself against whoever was attacking his classmates, so this was completely pointless. Couldn't he train in a different way that didn't destroy his body?
"We're home."
Reborn's sudden call had Tsuna moaning out his greeting as well, though it wasn't heard by anyone.
"Welcome home, my dear."
Tsuna twitched a bit as he heard Bianchi speak to Reborn. She was still in his house? Seriously? That thought soon left as all he could do now was groan in pain as his twitching sent waves of pain flowing through his muscles.
"Everything was peaceful." Bianchi said, ignoring the way that Reborn roughly adjust Tsuna on his shoulder because of his whining of the pain.
Reborn nodded his head. "Thanks for watching over them."
Bianchi smiled and nodded in reply. "Of course. Anything for you, Reborn."
Reborn moved past her and went upstairs to his student's room. When he entered it, he snorted when he found it looked like a tornado went through it. Depositing his student on his bed elicited another pained groan from him which made Reborn roll his eyes. "Stop whining, Dame-Tsuna."
Annoyed at hearing the name, Tsuna cracked an eye opened only to groan again when he saw the state of his room. Obviously it was not a good idea to leave his friends alone in his room. But as long as they didn't break anything, like his laptop for instance, he didn't care all that much. Caring took too much effort, which he didn't have the energy for.
"Just sleep it off. You have school and another long day of training tomorrow." Reborn told him, which just made Tsuna groan louder and more painfully this time. He had to go through that hellish training AGAIN? As he stated earlier, Reborn was EVIL!
Ignoring his student's whining, Reborn took his leave and went to his own room with a frown in place. In his room, Reborn moved his hand up to Leon, who shapeshifted into a key for him. Using the Leon key, Reborn unlocked the drawer to his desk and pulled a file out of it. Flipping it open, he found the information that the Vongola had attained on Erebus, which wasn't a lot. The last time he hacked Vongola was to get the information on the Vongola heirs. Only two heirs were left: Xanxus and Tsuna. With that in mind and the fact that they had suspicions that Erebus was in Japan, it was decided Reborn would do what he could to hunt down this hacker while at the same time keeping Tsuna safe. For whatever reason, Erebus was after information on the heirs which meant that they might be in danger.
It left him wondering if this illusionist appearing had to do with Erebus. One could never be too sure when it was Erebus. He didn't work for the Famiglias that did things like human experiments or human trafficking, but for other Famiglias, if they paid him well, he would do whatever job. It didn't matter to him if it was against Vongola since he had no true loyalties to them. And yet, he still got hired for jobs by Vongola and other Famiglias even if he did work against them at times. It showed just how much his skills were valued, even if no Famiglia put a whole lot of trust into the hacker. They knew if they paid him, he would do the job with honor, but as soon as it was over, it was back to being completely one hundred percent wary of him.
Sighing, Reborn snapped the file shut. Besides Erebus being suspected of being in Japan, he really had no leads on how to find him. But this was the closest anyone has ever gotten so he would work with it.
*K*H*R*
A sense of dread found its way shivering down Tsuna's spine. His eyes snapped back open to look around his room. Why was he feeling like he was being hunted down all of a sudden? Deciding to dismiss it as fear from Reborn's sadistic training regime (AKA: torture sessions), Tsuna closed his eyes and attempted to fall asleep. He did want to have some type of energy for tomorrow to deal with whatever was coming his way.
A/N: I always greatly enjoy writing out the scenes with Tsuna and Reborn both in them. It is always fun.
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