The hitman did eye his student a bit more closely "You done then Skull? Got what you wanted out of this?"

She shook her head "Not yet. I've got another thing I want to teach but not to Tsuna. I'm taking up a third student now." she grinned.

"Another? You're that greedy?"

"gotta catch em all until everyone agrees I'm superior to you."

he raised an eyebrow "Really?"

"Sure."

"Will you tell me now what you did with the espresso?"

"Nothing."

"You did nothing?"

"Yeah."

"I don't believe you."

She shrugged "checked the lettering on your mug yet?"

He paused, "I thought you only did that on the cups at home?"

"Well…. would be boring if you could just buy new ones. And as I'm such a great teacher I need to give Fon motivation to study his flames. What would be a greater motivation than a hitman with injured pride?"

"Skull."

She ignored the matter again "But yeah, you should watch this now. I'm planning to teach Sasagawa next."

He raised an eyebrow "Sunflames?"

"Indeed. But don't interfere. I even think you need safety distance. Can't have your reputation ruin my teaching streak. If it fails, it's on you." She grinned before bouncing over to the teen sun.

Ryoher smiled brightly at her "You're gonna teach me something? That's extreme!"

She laughed, "Yeah, I'm going to teach you healing."

Reborn's attention immediately snapped even more to the two of them, stepping slightly closer.

The teen looked confused at her "But I know how to heal."

"Yeah but you heal wrong."

He tilted his head confused "But it works?"

"I mean yeah but you're a boxer right? There is a big difference if you jab with the correct technique or if a random guy just throws a punch, right?"

The sun lit up immediately "Yeah! there is an extreme difference!"

Reborn uttered loudly enough for her to hear "My flames are still not primitive."

She ignored him "Furthermore, normal sun users just push their flames into the area that's affected and just activate the healing process, right?"

The teen nodded "That's extremely correct. I don't have to think. It's great!"

Leilani ignored Gokudera's comment about the octopus head being stupid. Instead she just nodded "And that's how you give your patience cancer."

The boxer paused, "That is extremely bad."

"It is," she nodded while sitting down in a chair and gesturing to sit across from her "You ready to learn about it? So that your friends stay healthy?"

"Extremely!"

For once she was glad that Dudley had been so obsessed with boxing, even if he didn't like her and had used it on her she had learned quite a lot about it and with a quick refresh of it last night she felt ready to put everything in a way he would get it.

"Every injury is different and needs different healing techniques. You know how there are different boxing styles and stands? Like a Slugger or a Swarmer have different stances that are differently effective depending on the opponent but all of these styles still have the focus to be the best and win it, right? And sometimes you change your stance up or do something differently to achieve your goals?"

he nodded enthusiastically.

"So you don't want to go about it like a person that has never even entered a boxing gym and just attacks the punching bag without any thought and who just hopes for the best. No, you focus on what your opponent is doing. Same as you should realise what's wrong with the injured area, like is it a wound, a broken bone or a bruise. Same as how you check If it's a fast and light fighter or a slow but strong fighter."

His eyes lit up and she had to congratulate herself as he actually seemed to follow her completely.

"So instead of just attacking the injury with flames you have to think about the way you need to heal it. Like how you want it to heal. A broken bone needs to bond together again, an open wound needs to knit itself back together, you need the cells to bind itself together again. It's all about intent. You think you have followed me so far?"

The Boxer pumped his fist in the air "Extremely so!"

"Think you're up for trying? I'm gonna guide you with my flames, same as I did with Tsuna. All you have to promise me is that you listen to everything I say. So If I say stop you stop immediately, stuff like that."

"I can follow orders! I'm extremely good at that."

She nodded "Good. Now that we got that out of the way. Do you like me, Sasagawa?"

"Call me Ryohei! Extremely so! You're extremely awesome!"

"Perfect! This makes this so much easier." She immediately grabbed the heavy silver table decoration of a lionhead just to slam it down on her pinky without faltering as she completely crushed her finger under the force.

She could hear chokes and the next second both Reborn and Colonnello were at her side, Reborn already having his flames out but she harshly jumped back, her chair scattering to the floor in the process "Off! I'm teaching!"

Reborn was shaking his head "You just injured yourself. How is that teaching?"

"He needs something to practise on."

"Hiabri and Mukuro are both injured from their fight. They were still going until you pulled this. Seriously. You could have taken them."

"No."

"Are you kidding me?"

"I need to know what he's doing."

"You can do the same as with Tsuna."

"No, I can't. This is way more problematic. Same as I need to be able to interfere immediately if he messes up. I can't control it that much or feel it that quickly if it's not pristine work."

"Skull."

"No, furthermore I don't believe in child labour or abuse of children."

"Skull, you have the body of a teen."

She rolled her eyes "You're trying this again?"

"Skull."

"Nope, you're still not my dad. So bugger off and get your paws off me. I promised to teach him and I will do it correctly. Be glad I didn't decide a flesh wound would be better. I would have thrown my hand at you if I could then."

Colonnello was standing very conflicted there, his eyes completely focused on her oddly standing up pinky "Skull…"

"It doesn't even really hurt much."

He swallowed hard "Your… nerves?"

"I mean it's cool right? It aids me in this instance."

Reborn had pulled his Fedora down harshly, his hand slightly trembling in his own rage at her willingness to just injure herself for something so whimsical, it spoke way too much about her and her childhood.

Fon cleared his throat, his own eyes glued to the injury as well "Don't you have the risk of getting cancer if it goes wrong?"

"In theory but I got storm flames."

he paused "What does that have to do with anything?"

"Storms can cancel and destroy almost everything but that's a different lesson. Just.. I'm fine. Just let me do it now. It's already broken and I'm still not leting Reborn fuck around with his flames on me."

"You could teach him instead. He would figure it out way quicker. I'm certain."

She raised an eyebrow "You think a man that has used his flames in the same way for who knows how long he had his flames but… 50 years maybe? You think it's that easy to change an ancient dude's mindset that easily? It's Reborn. Literally. He so set in his ways I could murder him on a good day for it."

Colonnello still hadn't lifted his eyes from the injury "You don't like sunflames."

"Great achievements demand a sacrifice. I'm chill with it. Can you all calm down now? It's done now and it would be stupid to let this go to waste, you know If I did this without a reason so please let me teach. The quicker we get this done the quicker I have a healed finger."

She didn't comment on the fact that they stayed close, only threw Colonnello a stern glance when he attempted to lighten her pain with his flames until he took them back.

"So Ryohei. What we have here is a broken pinky, a bit shattered sure but the bones aren't sticking out, it's all pretty much almost in its original place. So what do you think we need to do right now?"

He blinked at her, clearly fascinated. "Make it grow?"

"Yeah, kinda. make it grow back together. But first we need to check out where the bone broke apart. So we need to scan it."

"We need to go to the hospital?"

"No, we are doing it with flames. Sun flames are perfect for scanning the body and figuring out what's wrong with it. You just have to know what's wrong." She pulled the folded piece of paper out of her pocket, unfolding it and pushing it in front of the boxer. "I copied you an anatomy picture to let you have a visual of how the bone originally looks. Just to make it easier. For the real complicated healing stuff you have to learn anatomy. But a broken bone like this is easy enough."

She waited a moment until he had studied the picture "What I want you to do is let your flames enter me. But not let them do anything, just send them into me and let them chill. Can you do it? Try it on my normal pinkie." She pushed her uninjured hand towards him.

he nodded before slowly doing what she said, a bit too overenthusiastic though.

"Pull the force back. Be soft as if you're hugging your sister. You don't straight out attack if you see an opponent you wait and look how he's standing and study him, right?"

He nodded, his eyes narrowed in concentration.

"Very good. That's it. Do you feel it? Are you able to filter through the information and feel how it's supposed to be? Do you see it and understand how it works?"

He took a bit longer, his flames slightly flickering in her but she stayed calm, nudging him slightly to her bone.

he finally nodded "I think i understand."

"Good, then do the same thing on the injured pinky now."

He slowly followed her instructions, clearly demonstrating how careful he tried to be. She had to reprimand him only once until he got the feeling back.

She was more alert this time, gently nudging him and highlighting the edges to him "You see the difference?"

"Extremely."

"You notice the edges right? Where it's rough, where the breaks and shards are, right? That it's very different from the picture or what you felt with my healthy finger."

"Yes."

"That's very good. Let me guide you a bit more. I'm gonna outline every last shard so that you can see it even more clearly."

She proceeded to let her flames dance internally over it "You understand where the breaks are now, right? How many are there?"

"six." his face in a determined grimace as he full focused on it

"Very good. Let's start with the first one. We go one at a time. You see which one is still lighting up, right? It's like a puzzle, the piece isn't fully in the correct spot because there are rips. You want to push it together, knit it together and make the parts grow back together. Activate the parts so that they fully interact with each other."

She carefully monitored his progress "Stop. Pull back."

She was very glad that he actually immediately did so, even while she could see sweat forming on his forehead.

"You used too much power. Stay observing a little longer, dance over the edges with your flame, feel it until you get a complete grip on it and then nudge it."

It was very different to how she had learned to cast the charm herself but she still wasn't there to teach any of them real magic. She just wanted to figure out if he was able to. Ryohei was probably the worst candidate for a real lesson in magic.

"Stop. Try it again. Less force this time."

He pulled back immediately, attempting it again.

In a way it was almost mean, this was way harder than what she had taught Tsuna, especially as she didn't give him more time to figure it out. Tsuna had taken literal hours just to produce a wisp of his patronus at his first attempt and now she tried to push the boxer into it in a matter of minutes.

"That's better. Hold it in that spot, don't let it go anywhere." She waited to test out if he was getting somewhere, glancing at the sweat he was working up. "Now seal it together. Evolve the crack and connect the little bit in between. just focus on the edges that are connecting, nothing more, just this teensy tinsy spot, nowhere else. Be careful. Will the crack to disappear, Focus on your intent to heal it."

he tried.

"Stop." she actually had to slam her flames over his to make him stop in time.

"Try again."

This repeated several times.

She didn't give up on him though "Condense your flames. Way more pinpointed. Feel what I do." she paused for him to take in the actions of her own flames "And now try again."

Her brows furrowed as well as she tried to be alert of any kind of flame breakouts "Yes. Exactly. Now more power. Slowly, steady. Yes. More. Go on. And…. You got it."

She smiled at him as he breathed heavily, still focused on her injury though.

"We've got several more. You up for it?"

He nodded, already forcing his flames into place again, even being able to pinpoint the next edge alone. She still had to stop him sometimes but it went way smoother and quicker this time.

Still the more familiar he got with the technique the more she could spend time on studying his flames. Same as Tsunas they seemed to soak the information up, the technique in itself. They seemed alert, almost faszinaited but the echo of sentience hadn't evolved yet, closer to the opposite actually. In an odd kind of way they seemed to stagnate.

He performed magic, he really did, it was slow but still the same feeling as back then and the technique she used but… it wasn't magic. The sentience was missing. Sure, one could feel emotions through someone's flames but… her magic was different, her magic could be angry while she was calm. Her magic was active, thinking, acting for her. She doubted that anyone here was actually capable of accidental magic either. Still she felt his flames being slightly more comfortable, acting more willing and freer on the mission they had. He was on such a good level but it still didn't click.

It was a weird development, to see him and Tsuna perform magic but their flames still not grasping the whole concept fully even while they were doing it. She could make out that his flames were starting to take over the task but at the same time they were only concentrated on where he wanted them to be, not lingering over the rest of his body or the air. His flames were his to rule, nothing else.

They weren't there, they weren't trying to explore or anything similar. Still while she didn't get the reaction she had wanted from his flames it still left one thing clear. They were capable, they could do it in theory.

She got more certain at every try that this was the reason. Their flames didn't linger and acted by themselves and the way they seemed to think flames were from the base off different… The Arcobalenos didn't even notice they could power her magic with their own flames. They didn't take her flames in fully, letting it linger over them and pushing it slowly on her instead of ingraining it and nurturing it.

She was very certain she had to go a different way with the arcobalenos if she wanted to teach them but… the lack of response of Ryohei's flames besides his intent… well it seemed more realistic by the second.

Just teaching the tenth generation one or more skills did not awaken the sentience and… their flames were too clueless, not the person in itself but their flames.

She had to think about it way more. How would she pull this off? How could she achieve their flames to adapt and grow and most importantly make them understand the concept. She personally had never needed to think about it. She didn't even know how she did it as her magic did it by itself… How was she supposed to teach this to them?

Ryohei had finally finished and she wiggled her pinky to test it out "Seems like you did a good job. You should definitely rest now. Further training would be detrimental."

The teen nodded at her, obviously proud of his achievement.

Leilani didn't even protest when Reborn took her hand and examined her finger until he was sure that it had healed flawlessly "The progress is way too slow"

Leilani rolled her eyes "Well obviously. I had to teach him from scratch. As soon as he actually figured it out it gets quicker and if it's properly ingrained it only takes seconds, same as he will be able to heal multiple rips at once.

But for now it was just important that he sort of understands the practice and theory."

She paused before looking at the teen again "Ryohei? No practising on injured humans without me. We don't want anything to go wrong until you really have the technique down… you can practise on broken objects though. Like smash a plate and try it out. It's very similar and should give you the perfect opportunity to learn to mend stuff quicker."

Reborn took a deep breath, obviously not amused. "Why didn't you let him start with that?"

"It's easier to guide him like this. Same as I had to figure out how he works. I would have never understood his flames to this degree if I didn't let him practise on me… and I wanted to let him do something that technically is a skill he actually knows he can pull off."

She didn't even comment on the fact that Fon pulled the hitman aside, completely ignoring how the storm quietly talked with the hitman.

She was satisfied with her results today. She still hadn't figured everything out but… this was progress. Very good progress.