Hello everybody. After a long time the rewritten completely revamp story in now published. I was thinking about doing a sequel, but when I kept rereading the original story, I could write the sequel knowing the first story could use a lot of work on it. So here it is. Rewritten with more details and changed completely so if it didn't make any sense before, it does now. So I hope everybody enjoy it the same way. I'm hoping for a lot of positive feedback.

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Rainbow: Rewritten Chapter 1 New Tutor

It was still early in the morning. The sun was still low in the sky and only a few people were actually up and about either adults was going to work or students going to their morning clubs. So the rest were asleep trying to catch another hour or so of rest until they inevitably had to wake up. However, there were one preteen who regularly wake up every morning to make his lunch for school while his mother who stood next to him and made breakfast.

It was always a quiet event between those two. The mother, Nana Sawada, worried if her son was beginning to be too responsible for his age. She didn't want him to miss out on just being a kid, but her child worked to be as perfect as he could be without sticking out. So he was just an average student with average grades, he looked average as well so nobody paid a lot of attention to him, especially those that didn't know him.

Nana wiped her hand off on a towel and set their breakfast on the table while her son, Tsunayoshi Sawada, Tsuna for short, put his lunch in his blue lunch box, bento, and came to sit at the breakfast table.

They blessed the food and ate. Nana looked at her son and sighed, she missed the days where her son used to talk and talk and talk, but now he won't say much these days and she's really believe her son is depressed and anti-social. She gets calls from his teachers asking if everything is alright with his home life, which was insulting. She tries talking to her son, but he always say he's fine and he didn't need any friends.

Nana put her hand in her apron and pulled out a flier that her no-good husband Iemitsu mailed to her when she called him a few weeks ago. Iemitsu said that he had a friend who could tutor Tsuna with his school work and help him with his social skills. Nana was skeptic, Iemitsu was a "construction worker," who did he know that could come from god knows where and help them out? But Iemitsu said that they could "trust him", and at this rate she was willing to jump through hoops if she could see her son genuinely happy and smiling again.

"Tsu-kun," her son looked at her. "Your father mailed this to me last week and I was wondering what you thought of it." She took out the worn flier where she thought long and hard if she should call this Reborn person, but she didn't want to do it without Tsuna at least knowing what she was doing. She pushed the flier to him.

Tsuna looked at the big bold letters that were on the fliers it read:

LET YOUR CHILD BE THE LEADER OF TOMORROW.

YOUR CHILD WILL BE TUTORED TO BE THE BEST IN ACADEMICS, ATHLETICS, AND SOCIAL SKILLS.

*The only payment would be room and board.

Tsuna looked at his mom waiting for the punch line of this poor joke, but by the looks of his mother hopeful looks she was seriously considering this.

"You said this came from him right," Tsuna would never acknowledge that man as his father. "Please throw it away, that man has no idea what he's doing, plus I never heard of such a phony advertising such as this. This is a scam seriously they only want room and board? It's probably some homeless person looking to scam a couple of idiots who actually believe this AD.

Nana frowned, but didn't lose faith yet, "Well I think it's a genuine AD."

"My grade average is a B," Tsuna said going back to eating his breakfast. "Unless my teachers have been calling you about something about me, I have no reason to believe that I need a tutor."

"Tsuna," but her son got up and walked to the sink. "I want you to socialize with somebody other than your textbooks. You do well enough in school, but I'm worried about your social life, you're too young to not at least have an acquaintance."

"I don't want to talk about this," Tsuna said arguing back, his hackles rising a bit. The tension in the room was rising and it was due to explode at any moment.

"Well I do," Nana snapped. "It has been years since that incident and every since then you push everybody including your own mother away."

Tsuna looked at her with an unreadable expression. "I do not push you away mom." Tsuna said turning to wrap his bento up and he crossed the connected living room dining room to get to the couch where his book bag was set down at and slid his bento inside of it. "Anyways, I think I'll go to school early today." Tsuna left the house before Nana could get out of her chair and ran to the front door, but her son was out of sight.

Nana groaned thinking and looked at the flier she had in her hand. She wanted to call this number badly, but she figured if she did this behind her sons back, it would cause a bigger riff in their relationship than ever.

"Ciaosu," a squeaky voice interrupted her thoughts and she looked down to see a small baby, with a large head and bubble cheeks and large beady black eyes stare at her. The kid was wearing a suit and a fedora with a green lizard adorned on his hat.

"Who are you kid?" Nana asked bending down to the child's level.

"I am Reborn, the tutor Iemitsu sent for you," Reborn said in his squeaky voice. "Don't worry ma'am, I'll make sure your child become the best student and person suited for society."
Nana could only shake her head in confusion as the baby disappeared from her sight.

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Tsuna long since stop running once he was out of his mother sight, so he just half trotted and walked the rest of the way to school, it was 7:05 when he made it the sun was up by then. He felt guilty for walking away from his mother like that, but he really didn't want to hear her bug him about making friends. People could get through life without any, but she always insisted that they couldn't. He shook his head, he didn't need friends he was fine on his own.

Nobody was on the campus except for a few sports team. Tsuna could hear the loud clacking sound coming from the baseball field and decided to waste his time there again. He sat in the same spot that he always did and he focused his attention on the star baseball player and classmateYamamoto Takeshi. For some odd reason he always felt drawn to the boy; hence, he always watched him that's how come he noticed that Yamamoto was favoring his right arm. He was also missing a lot and not hitting as many homeruns much to his displeasure of his team and Tsuna himself. He was sickened that Yamamoto coach hasn't benched him yet instead he was telling Yamamoto to get his head in the game.

Tsuna yawned wildly. He haven't got much sleep these past few days so he felt sluggish, but not sluggish enough to where he caught incoming baseball that was about to hit him in his face.

"Watch out!" Tsuna caught the ball and winced. He dropped the ball and looked at his red now swollen hand. Today was going to be a bad day wasn't it?

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It was now 7:45 and almost everybody was now in class. Tsuna had to leave to go to the doctor since the school nurse wasn't in to check and make sure his hand wasn't broken. It wasn't but he still had to have it bandage since it was turning an ugly purple and the doctor gave him an excuse to skip school that day, but he wasn't ready to go back home so he went back to school with a different note excusing him from any physical activities.

Tsuna was sitting at his desk when he saw a few of the baseball team come into his classroom. They and Yamamoto were all in his class. He could see the annoyed looks on their face and it didn't take much to know they were all scolded, but Tsuna knew that Yamamoto was probably scolded the worse.

"I can't believe how pathetic Yamamoto was today," one of the boys said.

"Yeah, what was he trying to do, hold back for us, or play dumber," another one chimed in.

The class was quiet. Tsuna snorted to himself. He likes how all of those fangirls of Yamamoto didn't once stand up for him or the whole class that claims to be his friends. People these days were disgusting and untrustworthy.

"I hope that he pulls his shit together, I don't want to be yelled at by the coach because he couldn't play right."

Tsuna wanted to say something so badly because what they were saying wasn't fair to Yamamoto, but he left it alone thinking that, 'This isn't my business.'

The door to the classroom slid open and Yamamoto came in smiling like he always did except it didn't reach his eyes and eyes were duller than normal. He heard them.

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Since Tsuna didn't do anything in gym today, he volunteered to clean up the baseball field alone. Yamamoto pushed himself harder to prove his baseball team wrong and that he wasn't pathetic, but by the end of the game Yamamoto was clutching his arm which was obviously in pain. He heard somebody approach him from behind and he saw the star baseball player behind him.

"I thought I help out," Yamamoto said grabbing a broom and started sweeping the field. While Tsuna picked up the baseballs that were for some reason strewn across the field. "Um…"

"What?" Tsuna asked not looking at Yamamoto.

Yamamoto scratched his head in embarrassment and laughed his fake laugh. "I was wondering if I can get some advice from you."

Tsuna looked at him as if wondering if Yamamoto was playing with him, "Why me?"

Yamamoto looked away at from the stare. "Well, out of everybody in the classroom, you seemed to be the most level head so that's why I wanted to ask you for advice." So Yamamoto wasn't as oblivious as he acted. Tsuna nodded. "Well lately I really been off my game, there are some days where my pitching isn't a fast or as powerful as they used to be or my batting skills seem to be dwindling. I haven't a homerun in days and today I hit my first foul in years and I almost killed you," Yamamoto bowed his head in apology, but Tsuna waved it off it was an accident after all. "So what should I do?"

Tsuna fought not to roll his eyes, the boy was desperate for some answers so Tsuna chose his words careful, "Maybe you need to take a long break and sit out for practice for a while. You're favoring your right arm aren't you, I bet you can barely feel it these days can you?" Yamamoto blanched thinking he was the only one who knew about it. "I'm going to be blunt now you've been pulling everybody else's weight from day one. You worked hard and been pushed harder than you should've been. You're only 13 years old not an adult, you're seriously going to be hurt one day and then where will you be." Tsuna said harshly.

Yamamoto rebutted, "But my friends…"

"…Your friends insulted you in front of the whole classroom and your friends did nothing to defend you." Tsuna interrupted. "You know that do you? You heard them this morning. You heard them insult you and said nothing to defend you. None of them once considered that they should work harder and put more effort into the team. They left you hanging and I know you feel humiliated."

Yamamoto looked helpless as he tried to think of anything, anything to prove that Tsuna was wrong, but nothing. He knew what Tsuna said was the truth. He knew that his friends were talking behind his back this whole time and he neither did nor say anything about it.

Tsuna sighed, he felt bad for Yamamoto really. He truly, truly did, but he wasn't about to show pity, that boy needed a reality check unless reality would check out on him. "I'm not telling you to do anything because in the end the decision is yours, but I really want you to think about it." Then an idea came to him. "If you really feel sorry for almost killing me, you can skip practice today and go to the doctor to give you a full physical."

Yamamoto looked at Tsuna with an unreadable expression. "That's it?"

Tsuna nodded and went back to his cleaning.

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School was over and Tsuna packed his bag to go home. He knew that the doctor and the nurse probably called her about his injuries and he knew he was going to get an earful about him not coming home to rest, but he didn't care. Tsuna shivered for the nth time today and looked out the window. He won't lie and say he wasn't distracted all day. He swears somebody have been watching him all day. It couldn't have been anybody in the class because nobody stare was as lethal as the one he was feeling, but he chalked it up to be paranoia and guilt about going home and it was official. He was going to apologize.

Tsuna sped walk home, passing the bookstore, the candy shop, cookie shop, flower shop, that he usually stop by on his way home. He was in a hurry no doubt and he was clear in the head and he was sure his mother forgot all about this morning conversation and they would go back to normal like always except…

Tsuna was sure he was losing his mind. There was this baby sitting at their table, drinking coffee and petting a lizard. He looked at his mother who smiled back weakly at him.

"Ciaosu, my name is Reborn and from today on I will be your home tutor." The baby said. Tsuna looked at his mom and the baby and his mom again.

Tsuna didn't believe it for one second, yeah the baby showed his intelligence through his speech, but they have got to be kidding. He wasn't going to accept this at all.

"You're not serious are you, a baby of all people to tutor me," Tsuna asked full of scorn. "I don't need any help my grades are fine."

The baby snorted, "They may be fine, but we both know you can do better." Tsuna flushed.

"As if you would know," Tsuna stared at his mom. "I told you this was a scam."

Reborn tilted his hat and was mildly stunned at the kid attitude. It wasn't because the boy was rude, but he can see the lack of trust in his demeanor. It reminded him of how Reborn was before he was turned into this. What exactly happened to this boy?

"Your father sent me personally requesting that I help you with your studies and your social skills."

Now Tsuna snorted, "Like my father know who I am, that man hasn't been in my life for years so what he says or want from me is invalid, so you can pack your bags and leave." Tsuna left the kitchen and went to his room exhausted.

Nana looked at Reborn and sighed, "Well that went as expected, I'm sorry about that."

Reborn just tilted his hat to hide his annoyance. That boy was nothing like how Iemitsu described him. That moron was wrong. This wasn't some kid going into a phase or shy, this boy was depress and lack trust in everybody and if this child keeps going in the direction he was going he's going to end up dead somewhere.

Reborn looked at Iemitsu wife, she was tired and so heartbroken, and it wouldn't be long before she collapses under the strain as well. "Iemitsu didn't tell much about what's going on with Tsuna, so would you mind feeling me in?"

Nana sighed wondering if she should be telling some stranger her son's life story, but you know what? She was just that desperate to get her son some help. "It happened when he was in grade school."

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