It's been a while guys. I want to keep the author note short-ish. This chapter has been sitting almost done for a while now but I've been busy. No promises on updates but I recently got motivated to finish the rest of this chapter before things got busy again. I figured a update after 2 years would still be better than no update so I hope you guys enjoy~

And no Reborn isn't going to be a guardian. I wasn't planning on going for the alternative of substituting all the missing guardians with arcobaleno. It starts making the arcobalenos seem like sets as well and when I pulled Fon in he was kind of like "even arcobaleno can become attached to a sky" or something. I don't think I explained that well but I just don't believe in the idea of predetermined sets if that makes sense. Tsuna's sun guardian was actually guessed before by someone.

Also the early chapters will most probably not get any more fixes since I was not using google docs then so the chapters were saved on my old laptop which broke down. It's too much of a pain to fix a tiny thing by typing a whole chapter again.

On another note, I attempted to draw a cover for this fic. Hopefully it isn't too disappointing. I felt like it was about time to give this fic a cover.

Disclaimer: I don't own KHR

Chapter 10-The Respective Sun

"Which one should we choose?"

The small brunet's right hand hovered in the air as he thought seriously about his choice.

"Remember, don't rush important decisions."

Next to the brunet, an infant was also carefully going over the choices.

"Maybe this one?" The child reached towards one of the many cards lying on the ground. "Or perhaps that one…"

"I'm going to chose this one."

"Alright, then I will trust you and also choose that one."

The two children stare at a pile of face-down index cards with anticipation.

"And the card is…"

"What are you two doing?" A sleepy voice asked. The two smaller bodies looked up at the blond who was sitting on his bed.

"Baka-Yatsu woke up on time today." Reborn said. He had made no move to try and hide the disappointed tint in his voice.

"Aw." Tsuna pouted.

"What? Why do you sound like you want me to oversleep." Ieyatsu stared suspiciously at the cards. Reaching toward the infant, he plucked the card out of his hand. That was taken easily. Now he was even more suspicious. Slowly, the blond turned the card around.

'Defrillibrators'

What?

The blond started turning over all the cards on the floor.

'Ice water', 'Leon Mallet', "Bullets', 'Kick', 'Knifes', 'Bomb', 'Road Roller'…

"We were letting the fair lady Luck decide on how to wake you up." Reborn supplied.

"Most of these options would make me never wake up at all!" Ieyatsu shouted.

"That'd be too bad then, guess there is more of maman's food for us."

"Is that your plan?!" The blond's eyes shifted around the room, staring at everything in suspicion. Who knows what the infant has rigged to blow up in his face.

"Nevermind, I'm going to eat breakfast before you steal mine again." The blond said, in a hurry to get away from whatever the infant was planning. Within 2 minutes, Ieyatsu was magically dressed and ready for the day. He walked into the door a few times before he remembered he had to open it first to step out of his room.

"Did nii-san just ignore my existence the whole time?" Tsuna asked, a bit shocked.

"Baka-Yatsu is just avoiding reality"

Outside the room and away from his sadistic tutor, the mafia boss-in-training sobbed to himself.

"My little Tsuna is conspiring with the devil."

Bianchi, who was passing by with the kids on the way to breakfast, stepped over the body that was laying in a puddle of his own misery.

"Yatsu-nii is acting weird?"

"Don't worry about it, he is probably just going to through puberty." Bianchi reassured the children. "He's at that age where he is getting tattoos everywhere."

"Tattoos?" Ieyatsu repeated in confusion. He ran to the bathroom and peered into the mirror. Noticing a black mark on his neck, he pulled his collar down to reveal words etched onto his skin.

"Reborn!"

Downstairs, a small brunet looked across the table as he heard the voice.

"I think nii-san is calling for you Reborn."

"I'll go see what Baka-Yatsu is up to…" The infant responded. "After I finish my espresso."

Reborn continued his drinking slowly, savoring the flavor. Baka-Yatsu could wait.

"Alright then, I'm going for a walk." Tsuna said as he hopped off of his chair and headed for the front door. "Have fun with you tor-turing."

If the infant noticed the slip-up, he said nothing.

"Congratulations Baka-yatsu, you've contracted the skull disease."

"Disease?! What do you- why are you congratulating me?!"

"Because…" The infant launched a stream of confetti as he pulled the string of a party popper. "this means you've been shot by a dying will bullet 10 times!"

"That isn't a good thing Reborn!" The blond panicked. "Anyway, fix this!"

"Don't tell me what to do." Reborn said, kicking the blond to the floor. "I'll do it if you recruit your sun guardian."

"Sun guardian?" The blond parroted. "I have a sun guardian?"

"The role of the sun guardian is to protect the family with their body." The infant informed. "Good thing you already have Sasagawa Ryohei to fill that role. Just give him the ring to make it official."

"Ryohei-senpai? I'm not going to get him involved in the mafia! Kyoko-chan will be worried."

"The disease is contagious." Reborn lied. "Tsuna might catch it."

"Okay Reborn, I'll recruit senpai tomorrow." The blond quickly responded making the infant smirk. Leon shifted into a cell phone, allowing the infant to make his call.

"Shamal? Get your ass here." The hitman finished before he immediately hung up and turned back to his idiot student.

"Wait...Reborn?" The blond questioned nervously. "What does the disease do?"

The infant smirked as he started explaining.

Taking place inside the Sawada household:

"All my games will go to Tsuna. My savings goes to Tsuna. Burn all my letters to Kyoko, they are under the bed." A certain blond teenager rapidly scribbled out a will beneath the covers of his bed as his infant teacher explained the lethality of the disease he has been infected with.

Taking place in the kitchen of the Sawada household:

"All for my precious reborn." Bianchi was smiling to herself as she put the finishing touches to her food, turning them purple.

Taking place near the Sawada household:

"If my calculations are correct, Juudaime will reach the corner soon. I just have to casually walk up to him and greet him as usual. I even got up earlier today, it's perfect!" Gokudera chuckled to himself.

Not Taking place near the Sawada household:

"Sho-chan~"

"I'm up, don't throw the marshmallows!"

The sleeping redhead looked around in alarm before relaxing as he saw the small figure.

"Oh, it's just you Tsunayoshi-san. I thought you were Byakuran."

"I'm offended, and it's Tsuna."

"Tsunayoshi-kun."

The brunet opened his eyes wider.

"Tsuna...kun"

"Meh, close enough."

"A-anyway Tsunayo-kun" The redhead corrected. "I finished making you another 10 set of micro-cameras for your, uh, hobbies."

"Thanks~ As expected of Sho-chan. It's hard to believe you wanted to be a musician just a year ago." Tsuna beamed. "Do you mind processing these?"

"Sure, I'll go ahead and print out the blackm-I mean, 'friendship' photos of yours." Irie Shoichi responded, taking the small device from the child's hand.

"While you are at it, do you mind installing some cameras in Byakuran's hospital room?" The brunet thought back to his encounter in the hospital while pouting. It was true that he was sick enough to be hospitalized, but… "I think he is still hiding something from me."

"A-are you crazy Tsunayos-kun?! I would die from cavities! Marshmallows, marshmallows...ow." The red-head keeled over clutching his stomach. "M-marshmallows…"

"Hmm, I guess that is unreasonable, sorry." The brunet relented. "Here, have some stomach medicine."

Tsuna held out a bottle to the red-head.

"That's poison!"

"Oh my bad, that was a joke." Tsuna said, peeling the piece of paper labeled 'poison' off, revealing a paper that had 'Stomach pills' written on it. He looked at the red-head expectantly.

Shoichi stared at the bottle skeptically. He could either take it and be relieved of his stomachache or take it and leave the world full of marshmallows and sadistic four-year olds behind. That...actually doesn't sound so bad. Either option sounded nice.

"Sho-chan."

"Hmm?" The redhead looked down at the child as he swallowed a pill.

"I need you to make me a weapon. Something that can channel my dying will flames."

Excitement passed over the red head's face. "A weapon for dying will flames? I can do that! For something like that I just need to…"

The look quickly changed to an uncertain one.

"Tsunayoshi-sa-kun, what exactly do you need these for?"

The brunet only smiled in response.

"Okay, don't tell me. I don't want to know. I'll get to it tonight so you can come pick it up tomorrow."

"Thanks Sho-chan!" The child beamed. "You can charge any expenses to the usual card."

"Alright." Shoichi hadn't questioned why there were so many zeros; he simply assumed that Tsuna was a rich kid who got money from his parents.

It was technically true. Not that his father ever noticed the disappearance of his funds.

"Also Tsuna-san." The red-head stopped the child as he was about to leave. "I've looked into the rings and they do seem to work based off of bypassing dimensional barriers. The barriers that normally keep parallel worlds running separate from each other can be altered using the rings which allows things such as transferring memories, knowledge and objects that do not interfere with the balance of a parallel branch. This is most likely done as if the rings were 'copy and pasting' what they transfer so that it does not cause repercussions onto the world it is transferring from. Although, the effects will still depend on the user."

"I see…" Tsuna's little nose wrinkled a bit as he adopted a thinking face. "That explains Byakuran's 'dimensional pockets'. Figures that guy would desire a power that lets him hold his marshmallows."

He must have gotten desperate when he had to go on a trip away from candy stores and online shopping. The red-head had to agree with him.

"All the mare ring holders officially recognized by the ring should gain something that is of value to their dying will."

"Then it makes sense that your 'skills' were transferred for you." Tsuna said as he swept his eyes across Shoichi's room filled with mechanical trinkets.

The red-head smiled sheepishly, fiddling with the ring adorning his finger.

"It's hard to stop myself from trying to create the products my other self has made." Shoichi admitted. "I'm not sure what to use these for after making it but you might be able to find a use for this Tsuna-san."

The brunet caught the small container that the red-head tossed.

Dying Will Pills. Tsuna was pretty sure he had no use for them since he could manifest his flames at will now but shrugged and stored the pills away in his tiny pocket anyway.

"Bye Sho-chan~ I'll come visit again." The child waved excitedly as he walked out the door.

'I pretend to be Santa and put presents in Tsuna's room every year.'

'I bashed my classmate's face in when he said there was no way Tsuna was cuter than his sister.'

The infant diligently recorded all of the blond's secrets down.

'I once pretended to forget tou-san's face and kicked him where the sun doesn't shine under the pretense of mistaking him for a pervert trying to kidnap Tsuna.'

Reborn nodded his approval and felt a small amount of hope form for his student.

'I was the one behind the transfer of the middle schooler that called Tsuna a brat after running into him on his way home.'

'I accidently dropped my anonymous love letter to Sasagawa Kyoko at the front of the classroom.'

'Kyoko is the first girl I liked. Before then I didn't know any girl who could spawn flowers like Tsuna does.'

'I asked kaa-san to buy Tsuna kitty pajamas.'

The infant tucked his blackm-notes away. He looked at his student to see that his tattoos have all gone away. The perverted doctor had finished curing his student right before time was up.

"Now as you promised Reborn." The pervert eyed the hitman in expectation.

"The location of that woman you are after in here." Reborn tossed a folded piece of paper to Shamal. He neglected to inform the doctor that the woman was the daughter of a mafia boss who would most likely attempt to get him beat him to a pulp as his daughter simply moved to another country again. The hitman mentally noted how many more times he could use this particular woman as a bribe before he would have to find another bait to pull favors with. 'Still quite a few' he nodded to him.

As the doctor left, not before getting pummeled by Bianchi on the way, Reborn turned to his student with a glint in his eyes. He supposed it was as good a time as any to relay Nono's message to his idiot student.

"C-criminal?" Ieyatsu gulped in fear.

"That's right, there is a rumor that a group of criminals have recently arrived in Namimori. The ninth has tasked you with capturing them."

"But-"

The infant swiftly kicked the blond across the room.

"You will be labeled a traitor if you refuse and we will have to eliminate you." Reborn casually stated.

The blond paled as he started muttering to himself. The infant tuned the idiot out as he stared at his partner.

His student was about to face a dangerous enemy, yet...why has Leon not gone into his cocoon form yet

Extra 1

Contents of Ieyatsu's anonymous letter to Kyoko

Dear Kyoko,

I have liked you for a while now; being near you calms me down. Your flowers are also very pretty, love your skill. Please be my brother's older sister. Starting with dating of course, not the proposal.

The rest was scribbled out but Reborn was amused by the blackmail material his idiot student's will has led him to.

Extra 2

Shoichi had to admit that he was finding it fun to tinker with machinery using the knowledge the ring had provided him but he still did not want to give up on being a musician. It had been his dream for years after all. The red-head had tried a bunch of different instruments and was about to attempt to play the clarinet.

He took a deep breath and blew into the instrument before ripping it away from his mouth and shouting at the top of his breath.

"BYAKURAN!"

That bastard switched his reed with a marshmallow one.

Shoichi gave up on becoming a musician. Every time he attempted to play an instrument his marshmallow trauma would resurface.

Profiles:

Name- Shoichi Irie(Candid-Photo Tools Provider)

Age: 13

Status: Alive

Mental Capacity: Marshmallow Trauma

Physical Capacity: Marshmallow rejection

Additional Notes: Fear of Marshmallows

Someone mentioned Shoichi a long time ago and they were right. I was actually hinting it with how Tsuna had micro-cameras for his blackmail needs. Shoichi was providing it for him.

Anyway, I hoped you guys enjoyed this chapter. No promises on the next update to the next chapter but it should be the Kokuyo arc as well as some background for Ieyatsu. The background was supposed to be planned a bit further down but I realized it is better next chapter as well.

Among this unfinished chapter I also found 2 unfinished one shots collecting dust but one of them was almost finished anyway so I decided to finish that along with this chapter. It should be posted shortly if anyone is interested. The title is Please Shoot Me.