A/N: So this is the official sequel of "Out of Time" and somewhat of the "Out of Time: Special". It was too long for it to be one chapter for the "OOT: Special" story, so here we are.
Anyways this is for the people who thought the first story was going to take place during first generation time.
But seriously, thanks for your support and comments!

Disclaimer: I NEVER OWN THE KHR SERIES!

The Will To Go On

Chapter 1
The escape attempt may fail…

It was dark and what looks like piles of piles of ashes surrounding the First Vongola boss. He stood frozen staring at the dimming flames on his hands. It left burnt marks on his gloves that should have able resist his flames…

The scenery changed to Primo standing in a circle with his eyes close. The circle had one arrow pointing North and a longer arrow a little toward East from the North direction.

Powerful sky flames began to swirl around the man. He concentrated hard to push the flames into the clock beneath him. The comforting warmth that been part of him from the very beginning began to waned to nonexistence.

"I pray in another time, we are together again, my friends," Giotto thought as he let silently tears fall. Soon his flames and his will…

Tsuna woke up groggily and checked the time. It was almost time to wake up. Rubbing off the left over sleep from working till late at night on *shiver* paperwork, it seemed that it now is giving him weird dreams. Though it was worth it since Reborn said he would give him a nice surprise if he finishes it up before he goes asleep. He prays it wouldn't backfire on him, again. Fortunately, he found out what it was by the last page he filled out. They were all going for special training with the Vongola 9th generation in Italy.

Once Tsuna and his guardians along with Reborn arrived at the Vongola Mansion in Italy, Nonno, the ninth Vongola Boss, greeted them. After visiting old friends in Italy, Nonno, Reborn and Tsuna went to walk around the Mansion while the others left with the Ninth generation guardians for advice of their respective guardian duties.

"It has been a while, Tsunayoshi," Nonno began, "I am glad you starting to accept your title. In just in few months you will go through the Inheritance Ceremony though it will be again for you." Nonno chuckled, "Still the title will be different from what I originally envisioned."

"Yeah Neo Vongola Primo is going to be some getting use to after hearing the whole Decimo for so long," Tsuna nervously laughed. He looked away as he clutched his fists, feeling guilty.

"What's wrong Dame-Tsuna?" smirked Reborn, "Realizing your one month reprieve of no flames training is up?" Tsuna paled.

"Oh? Why is that? Did something happen?" Nonno looks at Tsuna in worry.

"Oh no, nothing happen! Its just...um?" Tsuna glances at Reborn who huffs.

"This idiot just did something reckless again," Tsuna frowns at this, but gaps at his tutor, remembering something that had been eluding him.

"AHHH!" Nonno barely holding in the urge to jump while subtle looks around, wondering what had scared his honorary grandson.

Tsuna points at Reborn accusingly, "I bet you thought it was hilarious to fool me that your older self was your friend or something!"

"I don't know whatever you mean, Yo~shi." Tsuna glares menacingly at Reborn who just pets Leon feeling amused. They both blinked when they heard laughter next to them. It was Nonno.

"I see, I understand what you meant about not currently his student, let alone Mammon's," Nonno heartily laughed, "not to mention turning down my offer to join Vongola when you already are by blood."

"I don't have what it takes to be boss," Tsuna mutters quietly. Especially with my condition, Tsuna glances at Reborn who raised his eyebrow in questioning, I have yet to tell anyone in exception of Verde. When Reborn founds out, he'll kill me, Tsuna sighs.

"Tsunayoshi," Nonno softly looks at his successor, "it's not about power, but by your heart and those willing to stand by you to protect what is most precious."

"And I must be willing to able to do so with them," Tsuna puts in as he looked at the darkening sky through a high window, unable to face his grandfather. Nonno unaware of Tsuna's doubts smiles, agreeing his verbal response, yet the older man felt something was wrong.

The trio became silent until they entered the dinning hall and Tsuna half-heartily greeted his guardians. Tsuna tried to ignore Reborn's blank stare burning from sitting next to him throughout late dinner. That cemented for Tsuna to confess that night.

"Spill it Dame-Tsuna," Tsuna was facing gunpoint when he entered his room. By the looks of things, Reborn already took part of Tsuna's room to himself and Leon, never mind Reborn had his own room. Tsuna mentally groaned. He had hoped he at least had more time to mentally prepare, but by Reborn signaled him with his green gun to the center of the room. Tsuna quickly obeyed his tutor. Reborn kept his aim of his green gun at Tsuna as they sat on the room's floor. Tsuna bowed his head.

"I'm sorry, I just can't," Tsuna swallowed a hard lump and tried again before Reborn thought he meant in confessing to him, "I can't be boss, especially now."

"Dame-Tsuna I thought we already went through this," Reborn growled.

"Well that was before..!" Tsuna looked at Reborn in reproach, but looked down, cutting off.

"Before you went time jumping?" Reborn softly asked.

Tsuna felt Leon licking his fingers, realizing he was no longer at gunpoint, Tsuna elaborated, "Not that simple...actually that helped me strengthen my resolve that maybe I can do this if I survive through all those jumps, but…" Tsuna tightly gripped his pants feeling ashamed. Reborn patiently waited for Tsuna to get his thoughts in order.

"Reborn did you ever wonder what Kawahira meant that day, when we last saw him," Reborn frowned, "and whose blood was on his kimono?"

"I'm guessing it's the reason you have been acting paranoid," Reborn blankly responded.

Tsuna stared at him for a long second before laughing hysterically, "You know whose is it Reborn," when his tutor said nothing, Tsuna went on, "I died as in I actually went into the ring and began to engrave my time into the ring die," Reborn let him talk not moving from across where Tsuna sat, but his eyes barely hide his anguish and wouldn't hide it under his hat for his student, "that only happens when, not if, the Vongola boss dies!" Tsuna was confessed staring desperately to his tutor, something he been wishing to do since the Time Jump Incident.

Since then the nightmares had never stopped. Reminding him of his condition, his lack of...

"Reborn," Tsuna's voice took in resigned note. Something Reborn hadn't heard for a long time from his student who faced an end apocalyptic future that will never be, turned a large misunderstanding into a powerful friendship, from someone who fought feared Vendice to save him of all people. Now he finds out his student died. Why is his student always gets involved in these situations?!

"My flames and my resolve suffered, I spoke with Verde," when Tsuna said this, Reborn growled at him. Tsuna pouted at him, almost like in familiar grounds for Reborn, "I was afraid, ok! And he confirmed it."

Tsuna sobered up and explained, "Did you know that time you guys showed up? It was the second time for me," Tsuna's eyes glazed over lost in his memories/nightmares, "the first time was that you guys didn't come in time," Reborn flinched at Tsuna's unmeant accusation, "just when I choose to give up my flames and he said, if I was sure if my family will come for me."

"We did, Boss," Reborn pulled his fedora down.

But Tsuna seems to ignore him, "But before I said anything, He shot me! I wasn't strong enough! I couldn't even say goodbye to you and I feared he would finish you guys off since I wouldn't able to! Sure he is gone, but now I fear the ring's power is broken as I am because with the time aspect of the ring is now destroyed, I'm feeling emptier by each passing day," Tsuna's eyes showed panic that wasn't nothing compared to his usual dame self.

"Idiot! You should've said something before!" Reborn growled.

"Easy for you to say! The ring no longer can reject or accept anyone anymore. I just broke a heirloom!"

Reborn resisting his urge to bashed his student's head with his 10-ton hammer, but he knows it will not help his student this time, "It doesn't take a silly ring for you to be Vongola boss!" Reborn's hard to read face showed mix of emotions of wanting to beat his student for him to understand, "You proven more than enough!"

"You don't understand!" Tsuna stood up and glared down at his tutor fighting off the empty feeling trying to swallow him again, "I made a mistake! How can I protect anyone if I don't have sky flames!"

"Then let the others do their jobs and protect you!" Reborn stood up and glared up at his student. His height difference meant nothing to him, only trying to figure out a way to snap his stupid student from being angst-y.

"That's stupid! Whatever happened to stand by them? Well now I can't! I might as well be crippled with no flames!" Reborn's eye twitched and Leon transformed back into his gun and wondered how much trouble he will be to actually cripple his idiot student.

Tsuna glared at Reborn, but slumped his shoulders no longer caring. Reborn began to give off killing intent at the dead look his student began to get, but Tsuna wasn't affected to it. Reborn didn't like how his hitman senses…no the feelings for the student he took under his wing, looking so defeated making him want to kill something.

"I'm truly am useless, I failed you Reb-," suddenly Tsuna's eyes widen.

He looked around frowning inciting Reborn to ask, "What– ?"

Reborn then curses as chains appeared from the darkest corner of the room and ensnarled his student.

"Oh he** no! You are not taking my student before he gets the tongue lashing and torture he deserves!" Reborn jumps on the chains as it pulled Tsuna into the now visible portal to Vindicare Prison.

Tsuna's guardians knew ever since Time Jump Incident, Tsuna wasn't himself. He became more withdrawn and spoke half-hearted at best. They were worried. So the guardians took turns to keep an eye of their precious sky. Reborn may or may not notice, but he didn't stop them from stalking Tsuna.

Now they were in Italy, Tsuna seemed to calm down. Though he looked around nostalgically, especially when they visited the Bovino Mansion. For example the science department which Octavio is in charge of, squealed at Tsuna and saying something about they figured out what went wrong. Tsuna was very flustered that Mukuro mock him for it. Hayato threaten to blow him up for making Juudaime feel more uncomfortable. They felt relieved when Tsuna smiled then.

When they returned to the Vongola Mansion, they all went to their separate ways to their designated Guardian Duty 101 lessons, trusting Reborn will watch over him.

Then at dinner, the guardians' worry doubled. Reborn had been glaring at Tsuna through the whole dinner. They could tell the hitman wanted to ask something very important: something that may answer whatever is bothering Tsuna. If Reborn cannot get Tsuna to talk, they will since it has gone long enough. Fortunately and unfortunately, they didn't have to wait long.

That night, they felt it, the cold dread washing over them. They felt it deep within their flames, a feeling or a deep instinct calling them to find their boss. Quickly, the guardians rushed out of their rooms and slammed opened Tsuna's door. They were barely made it to see Reborn jumping into a familiar black portal.

"Vindice!" Mukuro shouted the word like a curse as the guardians stared in different levels of shock. Mukuro fearing what it meant for Tsuna tried to jump into it, but the portal had closed.

"Guess Tsuna-nii been found out," Lambo broke the ensuing silence staring at the innocent looking wall. He was rewarded with everyone's glares on him.

"So...did you ever went around fixing that tracking device on Tsuna that locates him even through time just in case?" Takeshi interrupting plans of relieving stress on the nervous lightning guardian. In response, Hayato darkly smirks and takes out his trusty Vongola X-Phone.

Bermuda greeted with only one Vindicare guard with him, "Tsunayoshi Sawada, Vongola Decimo, Neo Vongola Primo, Yoshi. Many names, one punishment."

Tsuna glared at them, "Took you long enough."

"Getting a bit suicidal there, don't you think, Dame-Tsuna?" Reborn mentally sighed when Tsuna ignored him. He turned to Jagger and Bermuda, "What do you guys want? Shouldn't you be busy guarding the flame jar of the Tri-Ni-Set?"

"It's stable for the time being and we had to clean up lose ends. Especially if that lose end can fix what he had damaged," Bermuda responded.

"Especially when we tried everything else already," Jagger muttered with a hint of exhaustion.

Before Tsuna or Reborn could ask what they meant, they were forced to follow the Vindicare guard and Bermuda to the portal room. Reborn raised an eyebrow, "What are you going to do to my student? Make him clean up his mess? Looks fine to me."

"All except one," they pointed at one portal that looked very unstable, "We need sky flames-"

"No," Tsuna huffed, barely resisting the dark feeling that resides in Vindicare Prison.

"We didn't finish asking what we need, boy," Jagger growled.

"I do not wield sky flames anymore hence I am unable to help," Tsuna crossed his arms in defiance.

"We are also aware of your mental instability," Tsuna spluttered at Bermuda statement.

"You've been alone so long with a stubborn strong will at not showing true weakness of how deeply troubled you are that it was no surprise you relapsed in your lack in self-worth. Vongola's true power resides in time. Furthermore since your sets of rings are the only Tri-Ni-Set power still manifesting in the outside world, when the power breaks, our time will ceased to exists."

"What are you saying?" Reborn asks.

Tsuna fists shook in anger, "Checkerface already said that, but you don't have to worry about my power going berserk since I don't have it anymore."

"Ah, but you didn't get it sealed like it should have been, did you? Because the timing of that lightning child reversing time, your very essence became unstable and you feel broken don't you, boy?" he stares dully at Tsuna.

Tsuna remembers when his flames began to seal his time within the ring, but something forcibly took him out, breaking something. He paled at Bermuda's next words, which were said to Reborn, "The boy is neither dead or alive. He must choose from deep within his broken time. A broken watch has no use, so fix it or throw it away. Vongola cannot have someone who is damaged and yet wishes to change others. Its hypocrisy and its dangerous to be out in the world."

"You are aware what happens to those we deem dangerous, do you?" Jagger clarified.

Reborn growls as he see Tsuna looking horrified, wondering if that is what is wrong with him, "Then what is your true purpose for MY student being here then?"

"We help with the choice," ever so casually and unexpectedly a chain pushed a still shocked Tsuna into the unstable portal.

Reborn took out a furious Leon gun and threaten the present Vindice, "You will bring his guardians here and fix this mess-up therapy of yours. I am not letting my student go to unknown places by himself again! Especially in his condition," A portal was destroyed in warning, "Be aware that I am not amused." Bermuda nodded at his frustrated guard.

"Do as the greatest Arcobaleno asks," Bermuda mocked Reborn, but did as Reborn asked.

A/N: Aww no first generation..yet! Well see you fellow readers until the next chapter!