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Second Chance

Most of this will closely relate to the ANIME.

Many events many seem similar. If you have a question, feel free to ask. Thank you.

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Target I: New beginnings

"This is where you fall Vongola Decimo. Like all of your worthless guardians before you!"

No! They're not my guardians... They're my friends!

"No! They're my friends! No!"

"You're too late, too weak, too pathetic, Decimo. They're. All. Dead! "

No... NO!

"Sayonara, Vongola Decimo. Or, as we Italians say, Arrivederci!"

BANG.

Bu-bump.

Is this the end? I failed them... my friends... If only... I was stronger... Another chance to protect them...

Bu-bump.

Is that what you wish for, Decimo? A Second Chance?

Bu-bump.

Yes.

Bu-bump.

Very well, consider this a gift. Arrivederci, Decimo. Until we meet again.

"Tsuna! Tsu- kun!" Sawada Nana called from the kitchen of the Sawada house hold. "You're going to be late again!"

Silence answered the woman as she decided to make her way up the stairs. "I guess it can't be helped."

The woman opened her son's room to find soft drinks, manga, magazines, and crumpled paper everywhere.

Tsunayoshi Sawada's head shot up as fast as a bullet. "I'M AWAKE!"

"Huh? Oh. Tsu-kun, you're going to be late for school!" Nana informed, completely oblivious to the questioning look her son gave her. The lady looked around in the room and spotted a sheet of paper sticking out of one of his drawers and grabbed it. She eyed the paper before turning back to her son and sighing. "As usual. Sawada Tsunayoshi, who received a 15% in math?"

"Eh?" was the other brunet's intelligent response.

"Here, hurry up and get dressed, you have school, remember?" Nana made her way out of the room. Before closing the door she spoke again. "Oh, and, starting today, you have a home tutor. I still have to call."

"What? Is this some kind of joke? Mist flames? No. This is... real. My second chance!" Tsuna's face brightened up.

"Tsu-kun! Hurry!"

"Then... HIIEE! Hibari-san's going to bite me to death!" The brunet hastily threw off his PJ's and slipped on his uniform. He tie was perfectly in place when he made his way out. Rushing down the stairs, he almost ran into a five year-old in a suit. The baby glanced at him from the corner of his eye and turned to his mother.

"Ciaossu. Starting from today, I'll be looking after Dame-Tsuna," Pulling out his card and handing it to Nana, he continued, "I'm the home-tutor, Reborn!"

"Isn't he cute? Come here Reborn-kun, let's get something to eat first. You can talk to Tsu-kun later, he still has school to attend," Nana squealed as she carried Reborn into the dining room, leaving a puzzled Tsuna.

"Huh? Oh! School!" The brunet shoved his foot into his shoes as he made a mad dash to school.

From behind, Reborn watched his new student make his way to school. The hitman smirked. Oh, he was going to make this boy's life miserable.

"Here, Reborn-kun," Nana said as she placed a plate of food in front of the Arcobaleno. Ah, yes, torturing comes after he finishes his breakfast.

Dashing as fast as his untrained body could, Tsuna headed for Namimori Middle School.

"Oof!" Tsuna crashed into Mochida, who was fixing his hair with gel.

"Hey! Watch where you're going!" Mochida said as he glared at Tsuna. The older student pulled out a mirror and looked at his reflection. "Aww, man! Now look what you did! You ruined my hair! Don't expect this to be the end, ya creep."

"Eh... This feels like déjà vu..." Tsunayoshi muttered. "Oh, well, he's not going to ruin my morning with useless threats."

Reborn didn't catch exactly what Tsuna muttered; he found the fact that his student wasn't squealing like a level 10 fan-girl odd. Yes, 'girl', Tsuna was too girly to be considered a guy, or at least on Reborn's standards.

Through a window at the school, a certain raven-haired skylark watched through the curtains of his den, commonly known as an office (but den sounds more carnivore-like).

Heading into his classroom, Tsuna casually slid the door open, only to find himself bombarded with comments.

"Hey, look guys, Dame-Tsuna is here!" someone in the front row pointed out.

"You just dug your own grave!" someone else pointed out. Amused chuckles spread through the whole room.

Tsuna only gave a defeated sigh and headed towards his seat. At least it wasn't as bad as the last time, he thought. Hopefully he wouldn't be shot with a Dying Will Bullet.

"Oi, Tsuna. Captain Mochida says he wants to fight you during afternoon break in the gym."

Wow. No matter what he did, Tsuna always ended up pissing the same person off... At least now he could see if the sword lessons with Yamamoto paid off... or would make he look like an amateur monkey swinging a wooden stick around at a fly or, in this case a cocky upperclassman…?

Hana chuckled evilly and said," Mochida doesn't like it when someone bumps into him when he's fixing his hair. Right, Kyoko? Too bad Tsuna obviously didn't know that."

"Huh? Hana, don't be so mean! It was probably a mistake," Sasagawa Kyoko responded.

"Na~ Kyoko you're too nice!" another girl commented, "Well it doesn't matter, this break will be fun!"

For the umpteenth time that day, Tsuna sighed. He missed his friends... even if one of them likes to cling to you like a life-line (Gokudera). He stared at the window as he watched the birds take flight into the late morning sky.

"Tsunayoshi," a voice called out, snapping the to-be boss out of his daze. "Would you come up and solve this simple Pythagorean Theorem equation? Don't forget to explain your answer."

The brunet groaned at walked up to the chalk board. Amused chuckles resonated in the room. What did he do to deserve such attention? He looked at the board. The board's equation was a simple 3 squared plus 4 squared equals blank, and he was supposed to figure out the length of the hypotenuse.

Tsuna took a deep breath and began to write and explain. "Using the formula a squared + b squared = c squared, you plug it in and you calculate it by multiplying 3 x 3 and 4 x 4. After doing so you will end up with 9 +16. You add the two resulting in 25; you will find that c squared would be 25. The square root of 25 would be 5. So c squared would be five, which is the answer."

Rotating on the ball of his heel, he headed back towards his seat, leaving the math teacher with his mouth open gaping like a fish. Most of the students were in shock as well.

'When did Dame-Tsuna grow a brain?' was the sole topic in their thoughts.

Yamamoto broke the uncomfortable silence with a chuckle of his own. "Great job, Tsuna!"

The shorter boy smiled in return. "Thanks."

"Well... That is correct Tsunayoshi, good job," the teacher managed to say. "Well, moving on . . ."

When the Sawada reached his desk he dropped down on his seat and stared out the window again.

Not far away, a fedora-wearing baby's eyes narrowed dangerously. His information sources stated that his useless student couldn't even complete a simple square root equation, let alone a Pythagorean Theorem one. Looking around at the shocked expressions on everybody's faces, it would seem that this was not a normal occurrence.

There is more than meets the eye with his student, he concluded.

The ringing of the school bell signaled the beginning of lunch period. Most of the students in Tsuna's class headed for the gym.

The renowned wimpy boy, on the other hand, headed towards the male restrooms.

Upon entering he opened the window where Reborn was hanging upside down.

"Are you running because you're scared?" Reborn greeted.

"Hello, Reborn. No, I'm not running, I was here to invite you to watch the match," Tsuna smiled weakly.

"Then hurry up and get there, I will be watching the match, of course," a smirk played on the hitman's lips.

Honey brown orbs met pools of onyx as he turned with a grin plastered on his face.

When the future boss was out of hearing distance, the hitman muttered, "Let's see how good you do on your own first."

Tsuna slid open the doors of the gym and spotted Yamamoto, Kyoko, Hibari, and Ryohei at first glance. Murmurs erupted out of the gym upon his arrival, one after another like a wild fire.

Hibari was probably there to supervise the match.

"That Dame-Tsuna actually came!"

"Whoa, he really came."

"It would've been better if he ran."

"Sawada-kun," Kyoko muttered to herself.

'The crazy guy...' Ryohei thought as he stared at Tsuna.

"Tsuna," Yamamoto's voice spoke clearly.

The brunet's smiling facial appearance didn't change as he walked up to Mochida. A crowd formed around the two.

"Hhm. There you are you clueless twit! You should know better than to bump into me! Let this match be a warning to you all," Mochida spoke clearly to the people in the quiet room. "Don't worry, since you're a beginner in kendo, I'll make it easy for you. If you manage to get one point from me, you win."

"The prize, of course," Mochida looked around and his eyes landed on Kyoko, "will be Sasagawa Kyoko!"

Something inside the brunet snapped at that comment.

"No. This is a fight between you and me, don't drag her into this!" Tsuna barked, glaring at Mochida as his smile quickly evolved into a frown. "Kyoko is no prize! She doesn't belong to you nor does she deserve someone like you!"

"HA! We'll see about that!" With that, Mochida charged. Tsuna glanced at Yamamoto who threw a wooden sword at him, which he successfully caught.

The upperclassmen's sword connected just above his head. The brunet gritted his teeth as he deflected second swing towards his ribcage. Tsuna lunged forward at the other teen, trying to get a hit on the raven's skull.

"Hgn!" Tsuna grunted and he pulled back, side-stepped, and thrust forward, hitting his wooden sword at the unprepared Mochida's neck. The result of the collision caused the older teen to fall backwards and land on his back.

Mochida lay unconscious on the floor.

Silence engulfed the room as mouths hung loose.

"Call the point!" someone in the mob of students shouted.

"Yeah! Mochida-senpai lost! It's only fair to raise the flag!" another roared.

Not long after, a chorus of 'Point! Point!' echoed the gym.

"Hey! Play fair!" Ryohei shouted, pressuring the judge.

"Eiahh! O-one P-point! Red wins!" the judge stuttered, raising the red flag.

"Hn," Hibari exited the gym. After all, being in a crowd was not good for one's mental health.

The mob of students erupted into cheers.

"WOW!"

"That was an EXTREME fight, SAWADA!"

"I have new found respect for you, Dame-Tsuna!"

Tsuna just smiled in response. Eventually, the gym became empty. Everyone except for Kyoko Sasagawa left to do other things, the novelty having been expired.

"Sawada-san," Kyoko greeted.

"Kyoko-chan," the brunet acknowledged, smiling.

"It was nice of you to say what you said to Mochida, thanks!" The girl's smile made Tsuna's cheeks redden. "You were incredible. Sawada-san, you're not an average guy!"

Tsuna chuckled, "Tsuna's fine."

"Okay then, Tsuna-kun it is," the female agreed.

"So that is... the Vongola's tenth Generation boss candidate, Sawada Tsunayoshi."

"Wait, Reborn, so you're saying I'm the next Mafia boss for this Vongola family?" Tsunayoshi questioned, already knowing the answer.

"Yes, I was sent here from the Ninth boss to train you to become an admirable Mafia boss," the infant replied curtly. "Oh, and my line of work is assassination."

"... I see. When do we start?" the brunet eagerly asked. This was his chance to get stronger, to protect his future guardians.

"Hhm. It's my sleepy time, see you tomorrow." The hitman crawled into Tsuna's bed and began to snore lightly.

Tsunayoshi sighed in defeat and went to get a futon. After all, he knew that if Reborn wanted something, he always got it using whatever means possible.

To Be Continued...

Author Rant:

So, how did you like it? I wanted to write something like this for a while now too. I'm not sure if this is a good plot or not, so I want you to tell me in the reviews :) Next chapter (if I'm not lazy) should be out within a week! I hope you liked it.

SPECIAL THANK YOU FOR MY BETA READER: Dream36!

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Originally Posted on : 7/22/2011

Re-posted on : 10/8/2011

Beta'd by Dream36 on: (9/19/11)