A/N: Hey!

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Yeah, this took me a long time, and I rewrote it countless times, but I made it extra big to compensate...(JUST SAYING: THIS IS DIFFERENT FROM MY PREVIOUS PLOT) ç-ç I hope it's enough sorryes! I mean, with that M-rated fic deletions, I had to revise my stories, I also had my original story to write, characters to develop and writing to improve! Not to mention school! ç-ç I've been so busy! Damn it! Really, trust me, if I could, I would write more! Much more! u-u

Not to mention - yes there's more - the books I needed to read (I was late with all of them) and other huge ideas coming into my mind, I really didn't have that much time to write. Oh boy, what a month...

Well, I decided how this story will progress and all, so I hope it's adequate this time. Last time, I tried changing the main plot, because, you know, I was scared it would be removed, but now I changed back and tried to balance everything. Hope it's fine! ç-ç

Also, big thanks to Optomistic Emo Kleptomaniac; TheYoungStrega1999; dwindling flame; Link, The anonymous reviewer; cercueil noir; Another Link who probably is the same person but who knows; al ilmo nour; Phantom Hitman 1412; Yuu3; Ayz283; and Infernus87 who had me in his fave author list since who knows when, unless I'm mistaking this user with someone else!

Love you all! X) Really!

Oh well, on with the story:

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Everything was dark. His thoughts were clouded, and he felt horrible. How could his feelings affect his body so severely?

Tsuna felt his heart beat inside him, strongly and quickly. He thought something was going to explode in there. He couldn't stop trembling, felt cold, and felt disgusted with what he'd just done.

'He almost took a life...! Why...?'

He felt a terrible feeling run through his body. He put a hand on his mouth, fighting the urge to throw up, but the feeling was gone as soon as it came while tears ran fresh on his face. He wiped them immediately and already felt sick and nauseous, he wanted to lie down and sleep, give his mind and body a rest, but he knew he couldn't.

He's going to kill them again... He didn't want to see his precious friends in such a pain again, even if it was just in his mind, it was too real for him to ignore. The memories of the last three months came back suddenly, causing an unbearable headache on top of everything.

'That thing. Maybe I'm wrong about it. That's me. That's where the thoughts came from, that's why I...!'

...Was he just being himself...?

He couldn't see any hope within his problems. He almost killed someone who had nothing to do with him. Where Reborn took him after that was concerning, but he told Tsuna to stay put.

Tsuna's expression turned grim when he sighed. He walked up to the mirror and gave a brief look at his current state. He was a mess. His skin was pale, his eyes red and puffy from crying, and had dark rings under his eyes to make things worse. His hair was messier than ever and his clothes were stained in blood, mainly from his bleeding arm.

He raised his arm to take a look.

'It hurts...'

He could see his reflection smile, no... show him a creepy smirk. Tsuna inhaled sharpy. His legs feeling weaker suddenly, and then he was feeling small and helpless. He just stopped breathing and froze right there.

His true self...?

It just stared at him with that terrifying smile right in front of him, that smile always on his face,

Always,

Always there, no matter what he was doing. Tsuna let go of the breath he was holding, backing away from the reflective surface. And he did the same thing, copying his movements, though he just seemed plain amused by that.

He shrugged, as if saying 'I don't feel your pain,'

He could see the unspoken words coming out of his stare. Tsuna felt the urge to run, run and never stop,

'You hurt yourself for nothing,'

To hide in a dark corner and hope he would never see him,

'You're still too pathetic,'

To just disappear from his sight!

'You still need more pain!'

Tsuna had closed his eyes, wanting to avoid him, he didn't want to confront him, and he was too scared to even talk back. He only wanted to cry. But when he opened them again, he wasn't in the mirror anymore.

Tsuna felt a warm breath near his face. Right in front of him.

"…Boo!"

Panic-stricken, Tsuna broke into a run, trying to escape from him, but his callous presence wouldn't leave.

He was always on his back!

Tsuna ran, hoping he'd find anyone who could protect him, any friend, anything that could save him, until he found himself on his way to the roof, hoping they would be there, waiting for him.

He wanted to see them and feel safe, wanted to hug them, pretend everything was okay like he does every day, even if it was for just a second...

'Gokudera-kun! Yamamoto! Oni-san!'

Already out of breath, he walked towards a dark door in front of him. The roof.

But stopped, contracting his fingers away from the doorknob. 'What if they are not there...?'

On top of the building, the freedom from his pain was right there and he just needed a few steps...!

"N-no!" Tsuna cowered, suddenly realizing his own thoughts, hugging himself as if seeking some sort of self-comfort. He stepped back, imagining it was a bad idea to come here. He turned away from the door, looking down the stairs, and again, stopping.

Falling down there probably could hurt him pretty badly... or even end everything if he gets lucky...

Laughter rang in the air, a dark voice mocking him, laughing at his weak state.

Tsuna backed away, his back touching the corner of the staircase as if there was no way out. The room suddenly looked darker and bleak, the silence now had its own sound. He stared deeply at every other corner that now looked like dark spaces where he could see nothing. But yet, he felt like something was going to come out and eat him, crush his bones and rip his flesh painfully until it feels satisfied with the bloody mess.

Just like he did.

He couldn't move. Tsuna couldn't stop shaking, and his body wasn't responding.

Suddenly he was able to hear something, sounds of loud steps and laughter, it wasn't just in the dark corner, it was everywhere but he still couldn't see anything. Tsuna wanted to turn around and run, but there was no room to move.

The intuition telling him to stay put at any cost or he would die for real this time.

Suddenly, he felt something behind him, but it's not possible that he felt something there, almost feeling someone's hand near his face, like it was about to snatch his head and break his neck painfully. What was behind him was the wall.

'Am I insane now...?'

His eyes widened, while his breathing fastened, and the sound of his heart become loud as a drum beat. He mumbled with a pitched voice when his vision began to fade, "...S-someone save me..."

When he came back, he really couldn't believe himself. He shouldn't have left him alone... Well, he wouldn't overestimate Tsuna's cognitive abilities again. Ever.

Reborn sighed, slightly tired from his earlier actions. But it was necessary, since it looked like his baby form wasn't enough to scare Tsuna in his current mental state, so he thought changing back to his real form, the one that even the toughest in the world would cower shamefully in front, would stop him.

It worked wonderfully.

And the kid? Well, it would've been a disaster if he spread this around. And more importantly, would've been clear proof of Reborn's mistake.

He would leave no evidence of such a wrong step.

He walked through the hallways rather quickly, looking for a certain brunette. Although he would never, ever admit, he was preoccupied about him, and that he had formed a certain 'bond' with him (of torturer/teacher and victim/student) was factual.

And, that's exactly what was bothering him. It was messing with 0.00159% of his rational thoughts at that moment. This caused him to slip his eyes off the brunette, followed by completely losing sight of him.

Simple chain reaction and that's how a pebble causes an avalanche.

Reborn sighed again, this time much more annoyed. "What a troublesome pebble."

"Mah mah, can't you just let us pass?"

"No."

"...Please? We're looking for Tsuna."

"You're supposed to be in class now. For breaking this rule, I'll bite you to death."

Yamamoto barely dodged the prefect's vicious attack, but he tried to remind as normal as possible. Why...? "Come on Hibari... there are people watching..."

Hibari shrugged. "I don't care."

Because there were indeed people watching!

They were right beside their class, 2-B. They could be heard, the wall wasn't thick enough, and they could be seen, the doors where wide open with heads sticking off...

"Stay still, Yamamoto Takeshi!" Hibari ordered in a slightly louder tone, but still apparently calm. It was already impressive that the almighty prefect didn't refer to him as herbivore and the baseball player just kept dodging while his friends cheered him for that.

"G-Gokudera! Help me out here!" He called, his smile still intact.

Gokudera wasn't really far. He was on the floor, with a large red mark on his face. He looked dizzy but stood up a few seconds later. " How annoying...! I'll go ahead then! I'm counting on you, Baseball Idiot!"

"Wha-" Dodged again, while Gokudera ran off, leaving him behind. Yamamoto looked back to the prefect who looked a little too pissed off, and smiled sheepishly again, "Ha... haha..." If Sasagawa-senpai were with them before, this would be easier...

Hibari and his clear bad mood just raised his tonfas again, slowly saying "I'll bite you to death..."

...

Gokudera leaved the distraction of that damned prefect with his 'fellow guardian' as much as he dreaded calling him that, while he went ahead to look for his boss.

After Tsuna didn't come back, Gokudera began to grow anxious, wondering if anything happened along the way. 'That's why I'm not supposed to leave him alone damn it!' "As his Right-hand-man, I have reasons to be ashamed now!"

He passed through a lot of halls and checked other places. He didn't remember schools were this empty during class, it was oddly silent actually. 'Maybe I should give credit to Japanese students for being so damn quiet during class.'

But yet, he couldn't find Tsuna. Now things were becoming hazy in his mind. He couldn't think of any place right now!

But to his relief, he stumbled across a small figure in one hallway. He probably knew where Tsuna was!

"Reborn-san!" Gokudera smiled, relieved in seeing the Arcobaleno.

"Gokudera..." Reborn looked at him, then looked around, seeming distracted with something else. "Where is Tsuna?" He asked, to Gokudera's surprise.

"E-eh? I thought you knew-!"

Reborn looked with poorly hidden surprised. "He's not with you guys? !" He asked loudly, really inpatient.

"I'll keep looking for him!"

"Wait." Reborn protested, "Let's not waste time like this. Where were you guys before the bell, and when did you leave?"

Gokudera's breathing was already uneasy. He felt cold sweat slowly running on his skin. Reborn didn't even care about hiding his worry. Reborn was obviously worried! Something bad happened, 'I knew it!' "W-we were on the roof like usual, and Juudaime said he would be right back... we went after him after the bell. What happened with Juudaime before that, Reborn-san? !"

Reborn didn't respond. He instead hoped on his shoulder. "Let's go there then." Gokudera shook his head and ran towards the roof, not happy for being left without answers.

They could see the stairs, Gokudera was afraid of what he might find. "Can't you tell me already? !" Years in the mafia caused certain pessimism when it comes to this kind of situation.

"...Lets just say Tsuna's not feeling well." When someone disappears, and when even the world's greatest Hitman is worried... How bad can it be? !

"Why? !" He reached the stairs, a little bit closer to his destination, but the way up seemed so much longer now! "Is he sick? !"

"...I'm not sure." Not sure? ! His mind was racing with thoughts of the most variety of possibilities of what could have happened. He avoided thinking he could... die... There was no way he would ever die like this...

Maybe it was just a common cold? No, that doesn't explain how the Arcobaleno could be so worried! He couldn't think of anything!

When he finally met the door, he wanted to open it right away, but he was unexpectedly met with an unconscious form on the floor. He stopped dead on his tracks, eyes wide in shock. He could hear Reborn breath sharply by his side, but it become steady again right after when he hopped off the Storm's shoulder.

Gokudera finally broke off his daze and knelt down by the boy's side. "Juudaime!" Gokudera shook him lightly on his shoulder, when there was no response, he checked his pulse quickly.

'...Nothing!'

"...J-Juudaime! Juudaime! Please wake up!" Gokudera continuously plead for him to wake up, his panic instantly assumed the worst while he subconsciously promised the most painful fate for whoever did this. "...Who the hell-? !"

Reborn quickly checked his pulse again; something the panicking guardian could have missed.

Reborn scoffed.

Of course Gokudera missed it. He wouldn't notice any vital signs anyway, it was too weak. "He's alive Gokudera. Stop crying over nothing." He looked at his student. Anyone could easily mistake him as a dead person. It reminds him of some cases he's seen in his career.

Shock?

Fear?

Could be anything actually.

Reborn clenched his fists. He'd told Tsuna. 'Enough is enough! He should have stayed where I left him!' Would this make a difference anyway? "It's a lethargy state. Somehow." Why did he fall into such a deeply unconscious state, he didn't know though.

"L-lethargy? Then what do we do? !"

"Take him to a hospital." Reborn stated simply while Leon turned into a cell phone. He went towards the door and opened, letting the light clear the darkish staircase. "I'll get us a car right now. We can't waste any time now." 'Damn it...' Reborn sighed. "Really... I can't even leave him alone after this...?"

'Yes, that's it...'

Reborn had called him earlier, and strangely, demanded his presence back in Japan, not really explaining much.

He seemed hasty but Iemitsu was a busy man, Reborn knew that. But what excuse he has to simply ask- no, scratch that, to simply order him to go back to Japan and help with 'something', nevertheless explaining very little of what was happening?

And there was the Arcobaleno, calling him again... He wasn't in the mood for it. It's frigging late, and oh, he was running out on coffee...

"Reborn again?" Lal asked. She hopped on his table to stare at the phone with an annoyed look, before looking back at the papers she had in hands while shaking her head.

Iemitsu stopped writing whatever he was writing there. "I told him I would go there as soon as I can!" He answered the phone anyway, sighing. "I told you before, Reborn! I'm-"

"Just shut up and listen. Things are getting really nasty here, so put your current work aside now. We got important things to discuss this time."

"Reborn... But you didn't even tell me how important it is! How can I put everything aside if I don't even know what is and what is not more urgent than whatever is happening there? Just explain already. You know I'm busy." He responded. Really, as much as he cared about his son, as much as he hated desk work, he couldn't simply leave Italy whenever he wanted to. 'I really wish I could and see Nana and my cute son everyday!' He thought, while using his pen to scratch his head.

Reborn remained quiet for a few seconds. "I get it. Sorry." He wasn't honest about his apology at all. "The thing is, I was really hasty to help Tsuna at that moment. He was having quite the mania episode. Your wife is really, reallyworried you know?"

Mania episode...? But wait, "What do you mean, even Nana is really worried? ! Nana is a deep pool of peacefulness, cute naivety, and happiness!"

Lal sweat dropped.

"What could possibly make her worry like you say?"

Reborn sighed. He was doing that a lot now. "...Probably seeing her only son stab himself in some sort of psychotic rage fit, and also, almost committing suicide. I guess she's not cut for bloody people in front of her."

Iemitsu dropped the pen. Confusing Lal with his shocked expression. He got over his shock and then hit his fist on the glass table, cracking it. "What do you mean, suicide? !" He yelled.

Not too far, Basil jumped, really startled by the sudden scream and looked away from the person he was talking with to look at his master in surprise from a fair distance.

Lal looked back at him, frowning. 'Who? Who committed suicide?! Couldn't it be one of Sawada's friends, could it?'

Iemitsu heard Reborn scoff at the end of the line. "Now you understand the situation. Listen. Something has been... 'disturbing' your son directly in his mind. During his sleep to be precise. Maybe a skilled illusionist, though I don't know how said person got around him, that is, if." Reborn concluded. "He's mind is quite damaged."

Iemitsu looked down and took a deep breath. "How is he?"

"Right now, in a hospital. Looks like he can't take any more stress. He's in a lethargy state, so I'm not sure when he'll wake up."

"Have you asked him about it before that?"

"Of course I have. Do you think I'm that careless?"

"And?"

"Well..." Reborn started, Iemitsu imagined he was looking around. He was probably with Tsuna right then. "He has a psychological blockage. I spent a whole afternoon trying to get past it two days ago, but it's no use. He can't talk about it even if he wants to. And pushing him won't do us any good."

He lay back on his chair, frowning deeply. Lal sat on his table, her look saying she would patiently wait for him to finish his conversation, mentally drawing her own conclusions. "In this situation, if it's really an enemy illusionist, then we can use another one to barge in his mind and see who he or she is."

"Yeah, I thought so too. I have someone in mind for the job, but something's been bothering me."

"Hm? What is it?"

"Even though it's the most likely case, I'm not sure if he or she is an illusionist."

"..."

Reborn took his silence as a 'go on', "You see, I found very little about it with what Tsuna told me, but something he told me, is that this happened for over three months."

Iemitsu almost gasped, but frowned and let Reborn continue.

"And Tsuna, being the idiot he is, didn't want to worry anyone and kept quiet, thinking it would go away soon. I guess while he waited for it to go away, the psychological blockage began to take form. What I'm trying to say is that in such a long period of time, mental invasion leaves some trails, since the invader can't stay in there, otherwise I would have noticed a second presence immediately. It doesn't look like someone goes in and out of his mind like this every night. It's either one of the three most skilled illusionists in the world, which even so, I doubt they would fool me for that long without some special help, or something that has been there the whole time and never had to get in to begin with, therefore, wouldn't be a unknown presence for me."

"Something that never had to get in huh..." Iemitsu repeated thoughtfully. "If that's the case, then I can only think of the Vongola ring. I can't think of anything else he was given or even born with..."

Lal blinked in confusion. The Vongola ring? What could it have anything to do with someone's suicide? Did someone even committed one, or just tried? She looked down thoughtfully, then noticed Basil on their office's door. She shrugged at him. She was more confused than him.

In the hospital, Tsuna was given a particular room, a fairly big space, demanded by Reborn, mostly because he didn't want roommates with his student. As soon as he sat on Tsuna's bed, he asked Gokudera to stay quiet and listen.

The right-hand-man looked completely dejected and distressed while he heard the conversation. At Tsuna's side, he held his hand, hoping he would wake up. But when he heard about what was happening, he couldn't help but feel like the most worthless piece of garbage in the history of mafia for not noticing that his boss was suffering right under his nose.

"That makes me wonder..." Reborn looked at Gokudera, who looked back expectantly, then at Tsuna. "...Could this have absolutely anything to do with that little accident last month?"

Gokudera tensed visibly. "...That dammed field trip...?" He murmured to himself, buried deeply inside his thoughts when he heard Reborn again.

"So maybe you could check that with Nono for me, since you insist that you're too busy to leave Italy? He might know something." Gokudera blinked worriedly. Now Kyuudaime? Things got so horrible suddenly. He clenched his teeth. Getting attached to normalcy wasn't his thing, so he constantly expected for something to happen again, like last month... But Gokudera never thought this something would hurt Tsuna so badly or that that would be tangled with their problems.

"Okay then. Call me when you get something." Reborn turned around. His call finished. "Well?"

Gokudera looked at him with wide eyes, but then looked down, completely ashamed. "How could this happen for three months... and no one notice anything?" He asked, almost forcing his voice out, the thing with the field trip forgotten then.

Reborn shook his head, lowering his hat to cover his eyes. He himself was deeply disappointed for not noticing. But also angry at Tsuna for once, trying to be tough at the wrong moment. "I shouldn't leave him alone, but I got someone I really need to find now."

Gokudera blinked, then realization hit him. He took a deep breath and stood up. "You can leave this to me!" He yelled devotedly, almost shining with determination.

Reborn smirked and folded his arms. "Yeah, I'll call Yamamoto and Ryohei too, just in case." With that, Gokudera sweat dropped and sank back on his chair again, feeling like Reborn doesn't trust him at all.

Even though Reborn noticed his determination, he really couldn't leave everything on his hands only. "Listen Gokudera. If he wakes up, he may be out of himself, so don't let him do anything stupid." He said, completely serious. "Don't hesitate, even if you need to hurt him."

Gokudera moved from his moody state to stare at Reborn in confusion. He gulped but nodded soon after.

Reborn nodded and was about to shut the door, his voice completely calm and nonchalant, "If something bad happens, I'll have your head, Gokudera Hayato."

Gokudera almost winced while watched the door closing in front of him. Reborn's serious air left some threatening trail that could frighten anyone.

He looked back at Tsuna and held his hand firmly. He was determined, he had the resolve to protect Tsuna no matter what and no matter who he had to fight with to achieve this, he would do it.

At least 20 minutes passes, Baseball Idiot and Lawn Head weren't there yet, probably because of school and the hospital wasn't that nearby. So while that, Gokudera watched Tsuna like a hawk by himself.

Gokudera took a long breath to lower the tension and looked around the room, making sure it was safe again, when he noticed a table at the other side of the room.

It had a bottle of water there. Tsuna would be thirsty when he wakes up, and so was he at that moment. The stress is not good for him.

He looked back at Tsuna and bit his lower lip.

Reluctantly, he stood up and left his side, walking towards the table, not once taking his eyes off the brunette.

While he served some water, he took a quick glance, just one second, to see what he was doing exactly, when he noticed he was pouring water on the table. "Wah! How could I mess Juudaime's room like this? ! I'm such a-!"

Then he heard a sound.

Gokudera looked around in a breakneck speed, now seeing Tsuna, sitting up like he just took a good nap. He left the mess the way it was to run towards Tsuna immediately, with a relieved expression on his face. "Juudaime! I'm so glad you're fine! How do you feel? ! Any pain? ! You need anything? !" He would worry about 'who' later. First things first.

He kept asking things about his well being, but apparently, Tsuna wasn't paying too much attention to it. He didn't smile, he didn't say anything. His expression was as blank as his eyes, and Gokudera noticed.

"Juudaime, is everything alright...?" He asked, again. Gokudera had a bad feeling about this. Not like his guts ever told him something useful at these tense situations.

Tsuna opened his mouth so say something when he noticed this man's obviously teary eyes, and closed it again. He frowned briefly, and then left his bed, walking towards the window rather slowly.

"Juudaime?" Gokudera called, confused by his behavior, when he remembered Reborn's words.

"Listen Gokudera. If he wakes up, he may be out of himself, so don't let him do anything stupid."

Gokudera's eyes widened at that and he stood up, steadily walking towards his boss, when Tsuna turned around.

Gokudera gasped. That empty look, almost like he was sleep walking or something.

"Don't hesitate, even if you need to hurt him."

He resumed his course towards him, determined to even pull him back into bed if necessary, but Tsuna raised his hand, closed it into a fist and quickly hit the glass, breaking it into shards.

Gokudera gasped in surprise.

He didn't move nor showed any sign of pain, just stared back at Gokudera, who looked shocked and confused while Tsuna bent down and picked a long shard on the floor.

Suicide?

It was the first thing that came into Gokudera's mind. Was he going to try it again? ! He couldn't let that happen! He went to grab his wrist before he could bring that shard anywhere near his skin.

But then, Gokudera's eyes widened and everything slowed down. The piece of glass - mere centimeters from his own green eyes.

Gokudera moved and dodged by sheer reflex, but couldn't avoid the livid cut under his eye and across his cheek. Groaning with the pain, Gokudera looked back at Tsuna, pressing his hand on the cut. The pain tingling uncomfortably.

Still no reaction. Just staring emptily at him. 'Why would he attack me? !'

Another quick attack, another scratch. Gokudera wasn't fast enough to completely dodge from Tsuna. He could be hit again easily! And worse, he couldn't even use his Vongola Gear. He would just end up hurting Tsuna even more!

Gokudera tried to grab his hands and stop him, but Tsuna moved shiftily and cut him again. This time on his arm.

Gokudera frowned and stopped moving this time. Not dodging, he felt the pain on his shoulder-blade, the pain of being stabbed, but he put it aside and grabbed Tsuna's wrist before he could take the shard off and attack him again.

'Still, almost no reaction...!'

Gokudera couldn't understand, but he remembered immediately about Reborn's conversation with Tsuna's father.

Frowning, he looked back at Tsuna who was holding the shard roughly enough to make his- Tsuna's hand bleed. The drops of blood, falling visibly on the white floor now.

"Who the hell are you...? !" Gokudera asked. Deep rage being repressed inside of him. Pain long forgotten.

That was it. Someone was controlling him and it could just be the possible illusionist Reborn was talking about.

'Tsuna' didn't say anything in response. He instead twisted the shard making Gokudera shiver in pain, along with the aching, bitter feeling he had. Yet, he refused to let go of Tsuna's wrist.

Seeing that hurting him further wasn't working, Tsuna pushed him straight into the wall, deepening the cut even more, and grabbed his neck with his free hand. Gokudera gasped in pain and lack of air when Tsuna pushed the shard even deeper, as if he wanted to cut his arm off, but Gokudera still wouldn't let go.

Gokudera was losing his grip when the shard suddenly broke, surprising them both. Tsuna let go of the now blunt shard, and used his foot against Gokudera's stomach, in a more desperate attempt to break free from his grasp.

Gasping in pain, Gokudera held on the hand that was currently choking him. But not with a firm grasp to free himself. But with a softer touch, as if trying to reach the real Tsuna behind mind controlling enemy. Tsuna's eyes lightened a little.

Gokudera gasped, or he would have gasped, if he had enough air, when he heard some loud and familiar voice away from the room, yelling 'EXTREME!' as far as he could tell. He felt annoyed and relieved at the same time. He couldn't deal with Tsuna without using his Vongola Gear and hurt him, so might as well use some help.

The door opened quickly and Gokudera saw two familiar faces who probably came running, but were surprised by the situation anyway. "W-what are you two doing?!"

Tsuna didn't even knowledge their presence and kept trying to break free.

"H-help me here! Someone's..." He didn't finish his sentence when Yamamoto quickly held Tsuna away from him while Ryohei grabbed Gokudera's shirt collar. "What's EXTREMELY happening? !" Yelling right on his face.

Yamamoto seemed to be having some trouble to hold Tsuna, so he mobilized him on the floor, holding Tsuna's arms, with his knee against his back and the other hand pressing Tsuna's head on the cold floor, sighing in relief.

"Did Sawada-?!"

"No! Juudaime is being controlled by someone!" Gokudera retorted back while taking the piece of shard off his shoulder. It probably reached his nerves, so no wonder it hurts so bad. He suppressed a shiver and looked at Tsuna who stopped trashing around and looked sleepy now.

"Why is he being controlled? !" Yamamoto asked. He was obviously more confused than anyone in the room.

"I-I don't know! Reborn-san said it might be it!"

"And why was he EXTREMELY trying to hurt you? !"

"I don't know! It's an enemy after all, or whatever- I just don't know!"

Yamamoto looked between them, not sure what he's supposed to do now. Laughing wasn't going to help Tsuna now. He wasn't even conscious for that matter!

Wait... 'Is getting hotter here...?' He looked down only to utter a surprised yelp at the sudden fire that appeared, and got away from Tsuna quickly.

"Flames? !" Gokudera took a few steps back. The flames diminished rather quickly and Tsuna looked much more tired now. He finally settled his eyes on Gokudera again.

"Knock him out now!" Yamamoto told Ryohei, who nodded. Strangely quiet and serious.

"Wait! You gonna hurt Juudaime!" Gokudera protested, angrily refusing the idea and holding Ryohei's arm. "There should be another way of doing this without hurting Juudaime!"

"But if we don't, he will extremely try to attack you!" Ryohei argued, seeing that Tsuna was going only after Gokudera, and no one else.

"What did you do?" Yamamoto asked.

"Nothing!" Gokudera yelled back.

Ryohei snatched his arm off Gokudera's grip and then was in Tsuna's direction.

Gokudera remained stunned when noticed that Tsuna was only looking at him,

Only after him,

Before Tsuna could defend against Ryohei, Yamamoto grabbed him shirt collar and pulled him back, Tsuna looked back at him and was punched by Ryohei soon after. But even so, he was still conscious, which was surprising. "Help here, Gokudera!" He called, when Tsuna hit Yamamoto's gut with his elbow and shiftily dodged the upcoming punch, resulted in Yamamoto getting punched instead.

"AH! Sorry!" Ryohei yelled, and Yamamoto shook his head, trying to ignore the pain of what would later turn into a really eye-catching black eye.

Before Ryohei could attack again, Tsuna grabbed his arm and used him as a weapon to attack Gokudera, with an amazing strength, he managed to throw him against the younger guardian.

They both hit the cold floor, Ryohei was slightly dizzy with the fall, and Gokudera couldn't get him off. "Get off me, Lawn Head!"

"How's that, Octopus Head? ! It's not my fault!"

"Then get off already!"

They were suddenly starting a fight when Yamamoto appeared and pulled them apart. "Hey! We need to go after Tsuna now!

"Wha...? !" Gokudera was startled, but then he noticed the door right open. "When-? !"

"Right after that last move. C'mon. If we don't hurry we'll lose sight of him!"

Clicking his tongue in a reluctant anger, Gokudera gave up. He couldn't ignore this. Hurting Tsuna was the only way to stop the enemy inside of him.

"We need to get him back before Reborn-san comes back."

"Why? Wouldn't be extremely easier with him? !" Ryohei asked, already outside the room, looking back and forth for any signs of Tsuna.

"A-ah! That's because...

"If something bad happens, I'll have your head, Gokudera Hayato."

That's why..."

He certainly cared about Tsuna more than himself, but Reborn managed to create a sparkle there, a fear of death inside of him. Not surprising.

"That includes us...?"

"Yes! It does!"

Yamamoto was really reluctant about this. Mainly because Ryohei actually looked eager to fight, and that only annoyed Gokudera, which could take to another fight. And he couldn't do anything! If he had his sword, would he be able to know him out with it? Ryohei couldn't. And of course he wouldn't cut him. Just no way. "We can't use our Gears to attack Sawada! We'll have to deal with this by extremely kicking his butt the old school way!"

Gokudera sighed. As much as he hated to even let such a thought slip into his mind, he would have to do it. And quickly!

A/N: Well! This took a hell of a long time! o-o I don't think it's good yet! But not matter, I couldn't change or add stuff anymore.

So really, I'll try to update sooner next time, I'll start writing as soon as I can. Not today... Not this week, because I've got exams this week... u.u It's still the MIDDLE of the year here, summer is still far away, and I wanted to post this before studying again... So yeah...

See you guys around! X(