Flashback for about 3 hours...

When Tsunayoshi woke up from his short nap, he noticed something different. Instead of seeing a familiar broken ceiling, he saw the vast wide sky. It was calm and bright that he was tempted to sleep again but when he tried moving his limbs, he then noticed, they were at his sides, not moving and tightly compressed.

Also, he felt that he was wrapped around by a blanket, his childhood blanket, tied to a cold circular surface that he couldn't identify because of drowsiness, and a moisty liquid under the balls of his feet. He looked down and saw what appeared to be a pond or a lake, several meters down, and let out a startled ear piercing shriek.

'Tell me again why am I here?' Yoshi internally freaked out. He heard noises and cheering voices behind and flinching did he turn his head until he saw his siblings—and their mother—standing before the grid, smiling.

"It's because we have to test if your intuition got stronger," Natsu explained, polishing his ever shining glasses. "You have to find which and where the coin is before you sink and drown in oblivion."

Yori agreed, flashing a toothy grin. "That's right Yoshi. You got ten minutes to guess where the coin is and get out before you die there like a bloated chicken."

"W-What?!"

"Tsu-kun be careful, there are alligators in there~" Nana cheered as if alligators were a normal thing.

Natsumi counted with her fingers as she think. "Hmm and there are seven of them there and they're hiding underneath y—ah, that one's coming right at y'a"

"HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEE!"

BOOM!

"YOU EVEN BROUGHT EXPLOSIVES?!" Yoshi shrieked.

"Well as they say, 'the more, the merrier', right?"

"That's not what it meant!"

Man, Yoshi wanted to scream at his siblings right now. They might have better brains and abilities than him, but Yoshi knew they lack common sense. He means that, how and why did Yori mistake and use the quote for something quite dangerous especially for his, as Natsu said it, "training" that did not even look like one.

"Don't worry—I placed it on places where you wouldn't be directly blown up" He jerked his thumb to where one of the explosives was place. "See, I planted one above the pole where I know you wouldn't be directly hit. Am I such a great brother?" he purred.

"No. You placed an explosive above me. Above me! How was that not a direct hit?!"

"Well if you managed to escape before the timer runs out, then it wouldn't be a hit" Natsu pointed out, sternly. "And if would you just stop screaming to your brother, maybe you're already free before the first had one exploded, no?"

Yoshi's mouth hanged wide open, completely disbelieving what his brother just said. True, it wouldn't be a direct hit if he escaped this...torture, but the problem is that how would he supposed to do it when he's tied to a pole with nothing but his head free.

Did his siblings think that this was just a game? Did they think that they could just tie him up there on the pole as bait for seven hungry alligators while they wear smirks on their faces?

Goodness, Yoshi must have been so unlucky to die in this way.

So without further ado, he opened his mouth, breathes in and shouted at the top of his lungs. "Anyone...HELP MEEE!"

Target # 2: Once Your Life is Insane...

"Tsu-kun must have played a lot with the alligator today, huh~?" Nana chuckled and damped the towel to the basin to clear off more blood from her son's wounds.

Tsuna winced at the contact of the towel to his wounds and bit his lower lip to avoid hissing. "Kaa-san, stop joking. You know they're real and tried to bite my head off"

"Don't be silly. Nat-kun and the others wouldn't let them do that" Nana said.

"But they tied me under an explosive that blew above me," Tsuna pouted. "That wasn't even safer than those alligators"

"I supposed so. But if it's a way for my little Tsu-kun to get stronger, I'm fine with it," Nana smiled, wiping more blood off his wounds. "Because as the saying goes 'no pain, no gain'. If Tsu-kun didn't learn how to fight, he wouldn't be able to defend himself and his family from bad guys."

"That has a point..." Tsuna trailed off after making sense of the matter she just said.

A dark looming expression passed from both of their faces and there was a short moment of silence. Nana continued wiping Tsuna's face with the same blood stained towel albeit, Tsuna noticed, slower and heavier. Tsuna side glanced to his mother and to his surprised; he caught her frowning and tear-eyed.

He quickly flinched from his position and scrambled closer to his mother, cradling and putting his arms around her. "K-Kaa-san, what's wrong? Do y-you need anything?"

Nana immediately shook her head, wiping her eyes dry, and wrapped her arms around her son, pulling him into a tight embraced. "Oh Tsu-kun...be strong, alright?"

Tsuna hummed in acknowledgement and begun rubbing circles on Nana's back. He let her squeeze him tighter and tighter for a long period of time, not even attempting to stop the cascading amount of blood from his forehead, and sat still until she stopped sobbing.

"Kaa-san...are you alright now?" Tsuna quietly asked after which his mother had calmed down. "Do you want me to get you a glass of water?"

"No, I'm fine" She stood up from the chair and carried the basin with the towel with her. She smiled tenderly to Tsuna, thanking him. "Now then, I should get this change. The water's all mixed up with blood. I'll be back, okay?"

"Hai~"

Tsuna watched Nana disappeared to the kitchen and leaned back to the chair, slouching for a bit, and sighed as he wiped the blood trickling down his nose. The explosives and the animals really got him good and if he didn't manage to run past the barrier before the last explosive took off, he would have been leftover chunks of meat. Good thing, he can run faster than them.

Then the doorbell rang out of nowhere.

Tsuna, knowing it was probably one of his siblings, sighed as he gets to the door and opening it without a doubt. However, it was not one of his siblings that he found at the household's doorstep. It was a baby. A baby clad in black suit, a black fedora with a chameleon on it, and a yellow pacifier, that was somehow familiar to him, that is.

Suddenly, something sparked from the back of his head. It told him not to close the door or comment anything bad on the baby. It wanted him to stay calm and wary of his movements that Tsuna questioned if he was imagining things or not for him to hear things. But as it said, Tsuna waited from him to speak before reacting.

"Ciaossu" the baby placidly looked back.

'Who...are you?' Tsuna carefully stared down, obviously wondering who the baby was and why was his intuition saying it was bad for him to close the door in front of the baby, as his intuition doesn't usually act.

"Ara, welcome. You must be Tsu-kun's tutor, ne?" Nana emerged from the kitchen with a newly refilled basin and freshly cleaned towel. Tsuna was perplexed with what his mother said and glanced at them one at the time, wondering what he had missed.

Miraculously, Nana got the clue. "You see Tsu-kun I forgot to tell you but earlier this morning but I found a flyer in the mailbox. It said that it will raise your kid to be the new leader of the next generation or something and it was cheap too. Isn't that great?"

The baby's blank obsidian orbs were at him again. "So you're Tsuna? Starting from today, I'll be looking after you"

"Pardon?"

"I'm your home tutor, Reborn"

'Reborn?' Now where did he hear that name before? Was it on his comic book or his favorite anime? Was it the name of one of Yori's pursuer? Nah. It came from his brother.

"But he's more mischievous like Yori but to a higher extent. I can also recall reading an article about him being able to read minds as well, so we really need to be cautious with how we move" Natsu said to them.

'Hiieee no way! This baby is that Reborn?!' Tsuna freaked out again in his mind and unconsciously step backwards. What should he do? Natsu sternly warned them about being too suspicious and if Tsuna blew it up then... Ever so slowly, he turned to his mother, trying to come up with anything...anything that isn't suspicious for a teenager to say and blurts out. "B-But he's just a baby!"

Ah, wrong move.

Tsuna felt a small weight on his head and suddenly found himself or rather his face planted on the floor. He hissed in pain and held his nose as he attempted sat up right again. "That's not how you should speak, Dame-Tsuna" Reborn said.

"What's up with you—kicking me out of nowhere?! And how did you even now that?" normally Tsuna's patience is very long, but apparently, after dealing with his siblings' shenanigans as early as three in the morning and now, a baby hitman that can kill you, he is really getting irked and tired.

He sank on the floor again, comically crying as he turns back to the events in his life that lead to where he was now. All of them aren't even good memories. Only torturing memories from his siblings. Sighing, he resigns to his fate.

Oh Reborn, please kill him now...

I'm back, guys! I just went on a long journey with author's block in the mountains and finally went back after a year and it was extremely tiring. So Tsuna and the others apparently didn't know what Reborn looked like (but they knew some information about him), therefore, he was surprised that Reborn is a baby and not a grown man like they thought he was.

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