When the pink smoke clears and a half-bare, 17 year old, Lambo is revealed, it suddenly occurs to Tsuna…

"Why does Lambo always jump into the 10 year bazooka when he's upset?" Reborn tilts his head down, a sign that he isn't going to answer; while everyone else stares blankly back at Tsuna.

"I… don't know, Tenth…" Gokudera blinks once before shrugging the question off.

Reborn, standing behind them, tilts his head down, his fedora hiding his eyes, while he smirks a small smirk.

10 years later…

"WWWWAAAAAA HAAAAAAA HAAAAA! LAMBO REQUIRES COMFORT! WAAAAAAAA HAAAAAA HAAAAAAAAAAA!" His fists are flying in the air and tears are soaking his face.

He opens his mouth to scream again when – pop – a lollipop stops him.

"Ciaossu." His tears cease immediately. He looks up through wet eyes and is met with a smirk that might have been meant to be soft, but looks rather threatening instead.

Lambo licks the lollipop as he stares up at the man and begins smiling. He opens his arms wide and is lifted up off the ground and onto the man's hip where he is held with one arm while the man puts his fedora back on his head, tipping it just the right way for mystery. The man begins sauntering away from where they had stood, Lambo in tow.

As it turns out, they're at the Vongola home base in one of the grandeur hallways.

Lambo curls up against the man's hip, holding in both hands the man's thumb like his own personal teddy bear as he sucks from the lollipop.

"Where're we going?" Lambo looks up at the man with adoring eyes. He goes unanswered. He glares up at the man and pouts, but there still is no answer. "Stupid!" Lambo screeches, pulling at the man's suit jacket in an attempt for attention with his free hand.

The thumb he's holding in his other hand wiggles; he is instantly distracted.

He grabs it with both hands and tries to keep it still with childish delight. "GWAH HAH HAH HAH!" He ends up hanging five feet off the ground, his only lifeline the thumb, but he doesn't bother to look down, therefore doesn't care. The thumb keeps wiggling.

He doesn't know what happens to the lollipop in the process (unbelievable, of course!), but he gets the thumb to stop wiggling! "HA! LAMBO did it!"

Pink smoke surrounds him and then he's in the past, a blank look on his face. The tunnel of colors always leaves him confused…

And then there are cookies! "COOKIES!" He grabs one and munches on it, the happiest boy on earth.

"Uuummm… Lambo?" He looks up curiously to a nervous looking Tsuna. "What is it that you do whenever you – uuummm… - disappear? You always come back happy."

He tilts his head. "Disappear? I don't disappear!"

He's hit over the head. "The bazooka, you dumb cow!"

"… Gotta… be… calm… AH AAAAH HAHAH, I CAN'T!" Out comes the bazooka again.