Why is this happening to me?! Tsuna thought as he stumbled through the trees while an angry Hibari Kyouya chased him. He flashed back through the morning so far, trying to figure out where he'd gone wrong. As usual, Reborn had woken him that morning with a Leon hammer to the stomach.

"Oi! Dame Tsuna!" Reborn had glowered as Tsuna convulsed. "Go to Death Mountain and run 50 laps through the forest before breakfast!"

"What? Now?!" Tsuna had exclaimed before cowering as Reborn held up a Leon Bomb. "Fine!" He'd pulled on his clothes, yelled "Mom, I'm going out!", and rushed out of the house towards the mountain. Somehow, he hadn't run into Ryohei, Yamamoto, or Gokudera (surprisingly) on his way out and Tsuna had managed 4 laps before disaster struck. He'd run into Hibari 'disciplining' a group of delinquents for trash-talking him and had attempted to back away. Then, he'd tripped and crashed into the Discipline Committee president, knocking a tonfa out of his hand and splattering it with mud.

Hibari had stared at the tonfa, then at Tsuna, rage smoldering slowly in his steel gray eyes.

"Hieeeeee! H-Hibari-san! S-s-sorry..." Tsuna had apologized, then gave up as he saw Hibari's eyes narrow. The brown-haired boy had run off towards the forest, hoping at least to distract the other boy before he could do any serious damage. And that, he reminded himself, was why he was currently running for his life. Then, as Tsuna whipped his head around after hearing loud crashing through the undergrowth, his foot got lodged under a tree root and he'd sprawled across the ground as his ankle throbbed suddenly. I twisted it! He thought frantically before gritting his teeth against the pain and attempting to stand up.

As he flipped over onto his back, a foot stomped on his chest and Tsuna cried out, feeling a couple ribs, maybe more, snap in his chest.

"St-stop!" He stuttered against the pain, to no avail as Hibari stomped again and again, even harder. Tsuna spasmed in pain, trying to shield himself. He'd never seen Hibari that angry except when he'd been beaten by Mukuro. Every breath sent a sharp jolt through his chest and a bolt of pain flashed through him as Hibari picked him up by the collar and threw him into a tree. He screamed in agony as he felt something inside him rip, then choked as something warm and metallic rose in his throat. He coughed into his hand through the red fog of agony, feeling liquid splash into his palm and drip onto his clothes, then stared at it disbelievingly as tears of pain streamed down his face. Blood.