Author's note: I'm really really sorry for the super late update! I was really busy these past few months and i sort of forgot about typing a new chapter...hehe...but don't worry I will try my best to upload more often and to finish this one! I hope that you will like this chapter! (although nothing much happened... :P) Please continue reading my story and give reviews! Thanks a lot everyone!

Chapter 10: Homecoming

Tsuna is pacing back and forth in front of his house. He pauses for a while and reaches out for the door knob. But then takes back his hand and reverts back to pacing, feeling surprisingly nervous of entering his own home.

Yes. Tsuna and Reborn has finally arrived in Namimori and were now in front of the Sawada household. They just arrived about an hour earlier and were taken by a limo to Tsuna's house.

Reborn watched Tsuna with amused eyes as he stood there in front of the front door of his own house feeling all nervous and fidgety. He watches as his pathetic student paces back and forth and attempts to open the door only to freeze on the spot and go back to pacing. Three more minutes of this and all the traces of amusement are lost in Reborn's face. He felt the urge to kick his pathetic student for acting all stupid and feeling nervous for a stupid reason. Tsuna was not even away from his family for more than a month and yet he feels so nervous facing them as if the last time they saw each other was years ago. He was lucky that the ninth was kind enough to let him have a vacation even when their training was just getting started.

Finally losing his cool, Reborn gave in to his urge to beat the stupid person. He kicked Tsuna and sent him flying towards the door, causing it to break into millions of unfixable pieces. Tsuna landed face first and then his body fell and made contact with the cold floor. Tsuna groaned and rubbed his aching face.

"O-ouch! That really hurts, Reborn! You did not have to kick me! I was going to enter anyway." Tsuna complained, still sited on top of the debris of the broken door.

"You were not going to enter that door anytime soon so I figured that I should offer a hand and assist you." Reborn said, smirking.

Tsuna sweatdropped. You call that assisting? More like torture to me! Who the hell assists by doing that violent act?

"That is assisting for me, Dame-Tsuna." Reborn answered his thought. "And am I not going to receive any thanks for my act of generosity?" Reborn added.

"Stop reading my mind, Reborn! And I won't thank you for ki-" Tsuna was cut off by a familiar voice coming from not far away from them.

"My…my… the door is broken. Oh and welcome home, Tsu-kun and Reborn-kun." Nana said while giving his son her brightest smile and a hug. Tsuna was really glad to see his mother again. He momentarily forgot about his argument with Reborn. He looked at Nana and smiled. "I'm home okaa-san."

Suddenly, a ball of black curly hair appeared from behind Nana.

"Gyahaha! Dame-Tsuna is back! Dame-Tsuna, give Lambo-san some sweets!" Lambo yelled after appearing from behind Nana. Tsuna swatdropped and just patted Lambo's afro head. I-pin then appeared with Fuuta and greeted Tsuna. "Welcome home, Tsuna-nii!" They said together and hugged the still sitting lad.

"Hey, Lambo, I-pin and Fuuta. How have you been?" Tsuna asked the kids.

"Gyahahaha! Lambo-san has been a very good boy!" Lambo said proudly.

"That's not true Tsuna-san! He was acting naughty like always!" I-pin said while glaring at the cow kid.

"We are fine, Tsuna-nii! We're very happy you are now back!" Fuuta said enthusiastically.

Tsuna smiled and patted their heads. He was happy that they were still the same and that they were doing well while he was away. "I'm glad everyone's fine." He said to himself.

Meanwhile, Bianchi rushed to Reborn's side and gave him a death hug, not that Reborn would die because of it. She told him how much she had missed him and how she wished to be by his side.

"Okay kids; come with me to the kitchen so that we could prepare a feast for Tsu-kun's return!" Nana said as she led the kids plus Bianchi to the kitchen to prepare dinner.

Tsuna sighed to himself and grabbed his luggage and went up to his room to change. Reborn joined the rest of them and left Tsuna to rest for a while. After changing, Tsuna laid down his bed and took a short nap, quietly thanking that he has finally returned home.

Tsuna went down to the dining room and found himself gaping at the sight of the amount of delicious looking food in front of him. It almost looked like how his mother did when Iemitsu came back during the ring battles. He just sighed and smiled silently to himself, thanking that his family was still as lively as ever. He settled down to his seat and began eating the food his mother prepared for him.

Like the usual, Lambo and I-pin would be arguing and fighting over a piece of food although there are so many of them served in front of them. Fuuta would watch the scene happily and would make random rankings. Nana would eat happily and would say how lively the kids are acting that day, with a blushing face like those of teenagers watching a romantic movie. Bianchi would insist on feeding Reborn and Reborn would occasionally snatch some food from Tsuna. It was good that there is a lot of food prepared today. Tsuna found himself full after the feast.

Tsuna decides to just stay inside the house and rest. He planned on going to Namimori Middle School when classes are over and to surprises his friends. Apparently, no one knew of him going back that day except for Nana and Bianchi.

When it was the afternoon, Tsuna readied himself to go to Namimori Middle. He silently walked towards the school, very well aware that Reborn was silently following him. He noticed that the students were just starting to go out of the building. He stood at one side of the entrance and looked for familiar faces.

But unfortunately, a certain prefect noticed his presence and quickly rushed at him, taking out his tonfa. Tsuna immediately sidestepped and narrowly evaded the quick attack. The prefect jumped back and smirked in amusement at his new prey. Tsuna gulped and stepped back a little. Meanwhile, the rest of the students walked briskly away from the scene, not wanting to be caught in between the head prefect's punishment to the unlucky guy.

"It seems that you grew some spine while you were away, herbivore." remarked Hibari, the tonfa wielding prefect.

"N-nani?" Tsuna asked dumbly. Then Hibary jumped at him again, ready to attack.

"Hiiieee! What are you doing, Hibari-san? I-I didn't d-do anything wrong?" he asked in a panicked voice as he successfully dodges Hibari's attacks, but only narrowly.

"Trespassing. I'll bite you to death." he responded as he landed a hit on Tsuna's stomach.

Tsuna stumbled back and clutched his sore tummy, eying his cloud guardian with a slightly frightened eyes.

When Hibari rushed again, Reborn interrupted him and whispered something on his ears. After a while of persuasion, he unwielded his weapon and walked away, with a small smirk on his face.

"Reborn! What did you tell him?" quite worried that he might get into trouble because of Reborn's evil schemes.

"Oh, nothing. Why don't you fix yourself and not look stupid for once. A boss should be always presentable."

"Whatever." he muttered silently. But unfortunately the word was caught by Reborn's sharp ears and then kicked him on the chin. Tsuna dropped and rubbed his aching face.

"Will you stop doing that?" Tsuna exclaimed. "No.", Reborn said as he jumped to Tsuna's head and settled there.

Tsuna sighed and thought, Why do I even ask? It's not like I'm not yet used to it.

Tsuna once again stood at the entrance of Namimori Chuu and waited for his friends to come out of the building.

After a couple of minutes later, he sees the familiar faces of his friends walking out of the school. Gokudera was there, who seemingly was having one of those usual one-sided quarrels with the ever grinning Yamamoto, who was walking in a very carefree manner. Behind them was Ryohei who was punching the air, and shouting "EXTREME!". Kyoko was also walking near them, trying to calm his overly active brother.

"Will you stop following me, baseball freak?" Gokudera asked grudgingly.

"Why not? You are going to visit Tsuna's house again, right?" asked Yamamoto, who was grinning.

"Yeah! We'll EXTREMELY go to Sawada's house!" exclaimed Ryohei.

"Calm down, onii-chan." Kyoko said to her shouting brother, but failed miserably to calm him down as he was busy shouting random words to all.

"Will you shut up, lawn head! It's my obligation as the Tenth's right hand man to check on his mother and the kids." he said proudly.

"You really are taking this Mafia game seriously! Haha!" said the laughing Yamamoto.

"It's not a game, you nut!"

"Then I could also be Tsuna's right hand man since I regularly check his house!" said Yamamoto jokingly.

"What! I will only be the Tenth's right hand man!" Gokudera exclaimed, rather furious that the idiot baseball player ever dared take away his self-proclaimed title for himself.

They talked like that as they neared the entrance of the school. When they were near, all of them noticed a very familiar figure leaning on the wall of their school. And yes! It was really Tsuna.

Gokudera immediately ran towards Tsuna, with the rest of then behind him, and stopped when he was directly in front of him. His eyes were watery, anime tears threatening to fall and dog ears and tail seemed to materialize on him. After staring at his beloved boss, he bowed deeply, his head almost touching the pavement.

Tsuna was surprised at the action. He patted his shoulders and said, "Stop bowing, Gokudera-kun." he smiled at him.

Then Yamamoto tackled him, his arms arched around Tsuna's neck. "Tsuna! You didn't tell us you were coming back today!" he said while patting his shoulders rather hardly.

Gokudera glared at him and demanded that Yamamoto stop with his foolish act of disrespect towards the Tenth. Yamamoto grinned and then released his death grip.

Ryohei rushed at him and gave him a manly hug. Patting his back and shouting, "EXTREME welcome back!" Fortunately, Gokudera pulled him back and screamed at him, saying that he should not suffocate his beloved Tenth. Boo!

Then Kyoko walked up to him, giving him one of those beautiful smiles and said, "Welcome back, Tsuna-kun." Tsuna blushed a little and nodded.

"Hahi!" a voice came from behind them. Then suddenly Tsuna was on the ground, tackled by the overjoyed Haru.

"You didn't tell us you were coming back today, Tsuna-san! Welcome back." Haru exclaimed, still on the ground. Tsuna laughed a little and said, "That's to surprise you all." He held her hand as he stood up, pulling her up with him. Haru blushed.

"I'm glad that I'm back, everyone.", Tsuna said.

"Welcome back!", all of them said as they gave Tsuna a death hug. They laughed and ignored all the strange stares given to them by the people passing by.

"Thank you for the hospitality!", they said as they stood by the doorway of the Sawada household. It was already dark and they are all going back to their homes. They bid goodbye to Tsuna and all the others.

Right after meeting up with his friends, Tsuna invited all of them to go to his house and eat a meal. All of them agreed. It was a nice reunion and Tsuna told them about what happened to him during the time he spent at Italy. Tsuna also told them that he would be staying here for only a week and would go back to Italy. Although they were sad about it, Tsuna reassured them and told them that everything is alright.

Gokudera suggested to have a birthday party for Tsuna in two days. Yamamoto volunteered to use their sushi shop as the venue. Tsuna was truly happy that nothing changed about his friends. He was happy that they were their same old selves.

A/N: That's it for now! I know! it's not that great! but this is a sort of preparation for the next chapter! So...yeah.

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