Warning: I do not own Katekyo Hitman Reborn!, the world of KHR, or the characters. Rosetta a Mezzanotte and other characters in her family I own.

A young fifteen year old Dino Cavallone stared out the window with a bored look on his face, his chin resting on the hard wood surface of the desk he was sitting at. The soft warm summer breeze that found its way through the cracked open window tousled his short spikeyish golden blond locks while his milk chocolate colored eyes showed no emotion except exhaust and boredom.

He sighed deeply, watching as the small white puffy clouds rolled by slowly in the large canvas that was his window. It was a beautiful, sunny warm day, when young people should be outside enjoying the weather, but the young Cavallone – who was busy most days and suddenly had a day off of training – didn't know exactly what to do for the time being.

'It's so nice outside, but I just don't feel like doing anything…' he thought to himself with another sigh. Then, sitting up and grabbing his head with exasperation he shouted, "Isn't anything exciting going to happen today?!"

For a moment Dino thought something would happen, like it sometimes did, but Dino ended up sitting in the silence, his head still being grabbed for a few awkward minutes.

See, being tutored by a spontaneous cursed hitman had its perks, and being wary of these weird happenings that came naturally with the infant was one of them.

Finally realizing that nothing was really going to happen, the young Cavallone relaxed back into his chair and continued to stare at the blue sky and clouds with boredom until….

One of the drawers of his desk suddenly opened and he leaned over to see why it had opened. There was another thing too….

He couldn't see the bottom of the drawer, only a black void.

"What? I don't remember any of my drawers this way…" Dino muttered half to himself as he knelt down on the ground and examined the inside of the drawer much closer.

Suddenly fast as lightning, something hit him hard, right on the nose, nearly giving him a nose bleed. "What was that?!" he asked aloud with surprise, holding his nose and making sure whatever popped out didn't break it.

He heard the familiar chuckle of his home tutor and sat up.

Sure enough, there he was, sitting in his favorite leather chair – which was on a risen mechanism – smirking with a mug of cappuccino in his hand.

"Reborn?!" Dino shouted, still nursing his throbbing nose. "What the-? How did you fit in there?"

His tutor didn't answer. Instead, he commented with a smirk, "You should know that you shouldn't poke around places when someone could come out and attack."

"Like you?!" the young Cavallone retorted with slight annoyance. "What are you even doing in my desk drawer? You should ask before using my stuff for your things!"

He was then face to face with the end of one of the guns that Reborn usually had with him. Getting ready to shoot it, he said, "Don't talk back to your tutor."

Reborn isn't quite as most people expect. Most pictures depict a suave and mysterious young man in his mid-twenties – possibly thirties – wearing a sharp suit and rimmed fedora that shaded his golden eyes.

Instead this Reborn sitting in front of Dino was very short and had the form of a five year old child. He had wild, spikey black hair with spiral sideburns and big round black eyes. On his head was a black fedora with a red shirt and blue tie. Around his neck was a peculiar yellow pacifier and perched on the brim of his hat was a small green lizard named Leon – a companion Reborn never went anywhere without.

Instantly Dino put his hands up and pleaded with his home tutor not to shoot him.

"I thought so," Reborn commented as he put his gun away. "You still need more tutoring Pipsqueak Dino." – with his free hand he reached into the inside pocket of his suit jacket, ignoring the shouts for him not to call his student that name – "Now onto more important matters. This letter is for you." He pulled an envelope out and handed it to his student.

Regardless, Dino received the letter somewhat gratefully and upon looking at the writing and the name on the envelope, his slight confusion turned to outright fear and disappointment.

"Eh?!" he exclaimed, staring at the envelope. "Reborn, where did you-?"

His voice trailed off as he looked to his tutor for an answer, but he was no longer there. The drawer was still open, but Reborn and his chair had disappeared. Dino sighed to himself as he stared at the name on the envelope.

Rosetta Mezzanotte.

That was the name of the sender, and he knew very well what was written in the letter.

It was a frequent occurrence that happened every summer. She would send him a letter telling him that she would arrive within a week or so, stay for the whole summer vacation, and then spend that time being his shadow and clinging to him.

He didn't really dislike her, she was actually pretty cute. If it wasn't for her overzealous attitude and the fact that she clinged to him a little too much, he would actually think about asking her out on a date or something.

That wasn't the only thing that made him cringe when he saw her letter in the mail. It was also her twin brother, Nero Ezzelin Mezzanotte. Whenever he came to visit – which was rare – Dino would hide, living in constant fear of Nero possibly killing the clumsy Cavallone. Nero would hunt Dino down in his own home, just so they could "spar", which was just Nero beating up the poor Cavallone. Dino had quite a few scars from those times Nero would back him into a corner and hurt him.

Thinking on those things, the young Cavallone shivered and hoped that Rosetta would be coming without her brother. Her clinginess, he could tolerate, and he thought that with him busy with tutoring, she wouldn't be able to cling too much. In fact, maybe with the tutoring he could avoid her altogether. So he kept that thought through the week, not even knowing that Reborn had other plans for the young teens up his sleeve….

Hey there, sorry for not putting up anything for a while. For one, I had to move back to the states, and I had a massive writers block! But here's the first chapter (again) for my Katekyo Hitman Reborn! Fanfic.

I've decided to rewrite this first chapter because I felt it could use a huge update. That and some of the comments from my Bleach fanfic said that the content for the fanfic was way too much and it needed to be broken down. I couldn't change the structure halfway through the story 'cause it wouldn't be right (though at this point in time I'm seriously thinking about rewriting it too). So I'm rewriting this fanfic because all I have is one chapter up for this one. Sorry for causing confusion or other feelings for those of you already waiting for the second chapter of my older KHR fanfic, but I think you'll be happier with this one.

I'll really try to keep up with updates on this one but I might get stuck a few times, so please bear with me and the updated chapters will really be worth it!

I look forward to any reviews that you write as well. They really give me the drive to go on and they lift my spirits!