Chapter 4

Tsuna groaned loudly and squished his face into his pillow. He didn't now why but a loud buzzing noise much like his alarm clock at home was droning loudly in the back of his head telling him to get up. Slowly he grated his head against the pillow turning until he could see his still silent clock, 6:15 way too early! Still unable to block out the buzzer in his head he rolled over and sat up instantly the buzzing stopped.

Yamamoto in the bed to his left stirred then sat up rubbing his eyes and began groping around for his school uniform. Gokudera in the bed to his right was still snoring loudly tangled comically in a cocoon of sheets.

"Someone better wake that guy up or he'll be late." A voice muttered sleepily. Tsuna looked to see the boy from the train, what was his name? Hungry? Harry?, pushing his glasses onto his face his raven black hair jutting out in all directions.

"I'll wake him." Tsuna vouched dragging him self over to his sleeping friend.

"Eh? You speak English now?" Harry exclaimed surprised.

"Your headmaster used a bilingual spell on us." Yamamoto stated cheerily as he pulled on a pair of socks.

"Hey Gokudera wake up." Tsuna urged loudly to the snoring storm guardian, does he ever take that ring off? "Gokudera." Tsuna tried again. "Hayato wake up!" he said, louder, carefully jabbing the boy on the shoulder. Suddenly, the silvered haired boy shot up, eyes blazing fiercely, producing a stick of dynamite and a lighter from god knows were.

"Hiiiiiii!" Startled Tsuna scuttled back, tripping over his own feet, and landing with a painful thud on the hard wood floor.

"Eh. Good morning Tenth!" Gokudera said merrily.

"G-good morning." Tsuna replied shakily climbing to his feet.

"Merlin's Beard! That's cool were did you get it? Did it hurt?" All heads swivel to Yamamoto who is staring confusedly at what Tsuna recognizes as the toad boy from the train, who is jabbering loudly and pointing at something on Yama's shoulder.

"Eh? Did what hurt I don't know what you're talking about?" The baseball nut smiled. Meanwhile his two friends rushed over to see what the problem was.

"So the old man wasn't kidding after all." Gokudera muttered

Tsuna stared numbly at his friend showing boldly on the back of his left shoulder blade was an eloquently detailed stain of the Vongola crest. The fist size mark was embroidered in black ink and was an exact replica of the mafia mark except for in the center of the shield was the symbol for rain instead of the usual bullet. He felt his stomach sink knowing that he probably had one just like it, with the exception of rain being sky, and this meant two things; 1. He and his friends would be marked by the mafia for as long as they lived and 2. His mom was going to kill him!

"Hey Tsuna, can you tell me what's up?" Yamamoto asked

"Look in the mirror idiot." Gokudera snapped, his boss did not look pleased

Immediately Yamamoto rushed over to the nearest mirror, twisting awkwardly to see what the fuss was about. His eyes lit up briefly in recognition and a smile crawled onto his lips. "Well I've never considered getting a tattoo before but this is actually pretty cool. Hey you guys should see if yours are the same!"

The other two boys exchanged glances, shrugged then pulled off their shirts and dashed over to the mirror. Like Yamamoto they each had the Vongola crest with their guardian symbols in the middle. Gokudera grinned proudly and Tsuna couldn't help but grin himself, they were cool looking after all.

"So wait? You all had tattoos and didn't know about it?" Harry asked skeptically

"Well Dumbledore had mentioned that there would be side effects to the language spell but we kind of figured he was pulling or leg, trying to freak us out." Tsuna replied pulling on a new shirt.

"Lucky bastards wish I could get me a tattoo, but my mum would kill me." Ron droned

"They were all a lot alike do they mean something?" Harry pressed

"Uh, they're a symbol for…" Tsuna faltered.

"Our club!" Gokudera exclaimed

"What kind of club?" Harry asked interested

"A fighting club." Gokudera countered

"You mean like dueling and stuff." Ron asked interestedly

"Yup, and Tsuna here is the boss!" Yamamoto announced

Suddenly a loud growl echoed through the room and everyone stared dumfounded at the now blushing red head.

"Let's discuss this over breakfast shall we?" he said sheepishly

"Sounds good to me." Yamamoto replied and the five of them headed down to the great hall for breakfast.

"Waaaaaaagh!" Tsuna screeched as a small, green, owl crash landed into his cereal.

"Oh good the mail's here." Hermione said watching out of the corner of her eye while receiving a newspaper from a normal colored owl.

"Um…why is your owl green?" gesturing at the creature that was now perched awkwardly in Tsuna's gravity defying hair. Suddenly the owl glowed and morphed into a googly eyed chameleon.

"Hey it's Leon," Gokudera said excitedly, "It looks like he brought our schedules."

"In't tha the wew roeffor's bet?" Ron sputtered through a mouthful of eggs.

"Ron don't talk with your mouthful" Hermione chided.

"Erm, yeah we actually came here with him." Tsuna said removing Leon tentatively from his hair. "Thanks Leon." Tsuna smiled at the small creature. Leon responded by affectionately darting out his sticky, pink, tongue, smacking the brunette loudly in the eye.

"Owowowow!" Tsuna squealed clutching his eye while Leon morphed back into an owl and flew off.

"Never seen one of those before." Harry smiled trying very unsuccessfully to hide his amusement. With a sigh Tsuna grabbed his schedule; nearly all off his classes were with Gokudera and Yamamoto as well as the newfound trio of Ron, Harry, and Hermione. The only exceptions were the exchange students' separate free periods which after finding a discreetly enclosed letter in Tsuna's envelope, were assigned by Reborn to be used as patrol periods were they would need to scan the school for anything suspicious and they must be fully armed at all times, according to a p.s. note at the bottom of the page.

Hermione who had asked to examine the rest of their schedules looked at the suspiciously "Why do you all have pre set free periods usually we just get them at random?"

"Well uh…Professor Reborn is our ah guardian and he wanted to make sure we didn't fall behind on our home studies so he set it up with Dumbledore for us to have set free time so we are sure not fall behind. We also have extra classes every other Saturday." Tsuna said remembering the excuses Reborn had pounded into him during the trip to the train station.

Hermione dropped the subject still looking a bit skeptical. "Well we probably should get going the bell's going to ring soon."

"Say's here we have Transfiguration first." Yamamoto said excitedly

As it turns out Transfiguration was both the most interesting and most infuriating class Tsuna had ever had. McGonagall who was indeed a formidable teacher while at the same time quite likable, instructed the class to break themselves in by turning a snail into a box and even though he had never done magic before and the large amount of magic activity was making his neck hairs tingle through the teachers instructions and the examples of the others students (Hermione) he felt he was doing pretty well. He had managed to make a lopsided, snail colored, box, with a googly eye, that he was quite proud of.

Next to him Ron and Gokudera were cursing fiercely under their breath as they had some how managed to fuse their two snails together and caused it to enlarge to the size of a small dog.

Charms which was taught by a small squeaky man sped by and the only thing that had really stood out was a large explosion in the back of the room. Thinking it Gokudera Tsuna whirled worriedly only to find a Gryffindor boy, covered in soot, with smoking hair, that had apparently blown up the book he was supposed to be levitating.

Out of their small little party only Yamamoto had even partially been able to lift his book from his desk. At which it had finally dawned on Tsuna that his comrades and him were trying to fit in without even knowing a smidge of magic. 'Heck the first years probably know more than us and it's the first day' Tsuna thought worriedly. If they were going to blend in they needed to learn and fast.

"Hey what's that?" Harry asked as they entered the hallway to find a black baseball bat case leaning against a nearby door.

"It looks like a-" Hermione began smartly only to be interrupted by Gokudera's growl

"That's the baseball freaks bat case." He grunted jutting his thumb at Yamamoto behind him.

"Hhmm that's funny I thought I left that in the dormitory. Oh well I guess I'm supposed to take it along." He smiled swinging it onto his shoulder expertly by the strap.

"Don't you think it's a little odd that it just appeared in the hallway?" Hermione asked incredulously

Yamamoto shrugged and smiled, "Not really besides it my free period anyway so it will be nice to have it with me."

"What exactly is baseball anyway?" Ron asked curiously. Yamamoto gaped at the boy as if he had just grown another head (although even if he had Yamamoto would probably more accepting of this than the former)

"Y-you don't know what baseball is?" he asked unbelievably his eye twitching a little. The others backed away a little concerned "Oh there the bell we have to go see you later Yamamoto!" Tsuna said hurriedly rushing the party away from the baseball obsessed rain guardian who was staring at them blankly eyes clouding with confusion.

"That was a little scary." Harry whispered to his friends

"Wow, looks like the idiot finally lost it." Gokudera snickered also glancing over his shoulder warily.

History of magic lasted an eternity so while the teacher who happened to be a ghost (you know its going to be a crappy class if the teacher cant even live through it) droned on about some goblin war Harry and Tsuna took turns passing notes to Ron in class explaining the concept of baseball earning them disapproving looks from Hermione and jealous looks from Gokudera who was probably insulted that he wasn't the one passing notes with the boss. So just in case Tsuna passed his friend a few random sentences for good measure.

After the bell rang they made their way to the grounds for care of magical creatures.

"Hey guys hurry we have class with the Hufflepuffs!" Yamamoto called already there and apparently recovered from his earlier episode. Ron, Harry, and Hermione dashed over to Hagrid to catch up before class. Tsuna and co. joined the growing throng of Gryffindors who were waiting for class to start. Suddenly a familiar voice called out in the crowd,"Hey Boss!" Chrome shouted weaving through the crowd, "How has your morning been?"

"Great, how have you and…the others doing." Tsuna replied noticing Ken and Chikusa glaring at the world around them on the other side of the crowd.

"Just fine," she said meekly "some of the other students seem to be a bit intimidated by the others and wary of me but we're used to it. Also reborn came to visit me during my patrol hour to check up on how I was doing. He said we will be taking classes every other Saturday to work on learning basic magic." She finished in a whisper.

"Oh, well that's good I guess, I mean we won't be able to blend in long if we can't do magic." Tsuna agreed grudgingly. Any lesson taught by Reborn can only mean disaster.

"Also Kens been kind of grumpy today." She said worried

"Um why's that?" he asked

"Well Chikusa told me that the y found their tattoos while getting dressed this morning and…" she paused

"Is he upset about having the Vongola sign?" Tsuna ventured

"Oh no you see, his is actually a paw print."

"Why would he be upset about that?"

"Well he's worried Mukuro Sempai will be offended."

"By a paw print?"

"By a paw print with a pineapple in the center." Chrome finished. Just then the bell rang indicating the start of class. Chrome said a hurried goodbye ant went to stand next to Ken who hit her roughly on the head for some reason or other.

Tsuna had to suppress a giggle, apparently he wasn't the only one who had noticed the resemblance between Mukuro's hair style and a certain fruit. Well if anything Dumbledore had a sense of humor, hopefully it's not too much like Reborn's.

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