Gokudera Hayato

Tsuna sat on a table on the third floor of Rose' Cafe. Reborn was seating across him with a small smile on his face. They asked for tea and some snacks and once the waiter delivered everything Reborn spoke.

"As I was saying, I'm the hitman the 9TH trust the most, and he was the one that assigned this task to me. My goal is to make you into a fine mafia boss." He took a sip of his tea right after Tsuna did so. "Vongola the 9th is getting old and wants to pass the mantle of the boss to the 10TH generation."

Tsuna nodded without many reactions, his understanding of the mafia was too lacking for to him properly make an assessment of the situation, all he knew came from movies that the original Tsuna had watched. The problem was that those movies tended to fantasize a little too much, so he didn't know what was true and what was fake on them.

Besides.

"In the way here, you said that other candidates were assassinated. Are you sure that there isn't anyone trying to start something against Vongola by preventing a successor to show up?"

Reborn nodded with a sharp glint in his eyes. "The world of the Mafia is a dangerous one, families fight among each other for supremacy and will do everything in their power to achieve a stronger position or even fully exterminate their rivals. That's why I was sent, to make sure you would stay alive and would grow stronger."

"I don't see, however, how can you do that. I have experienced that weird bullet of yours, but do tell me if I'll be able to survive a real bullet to the head. Unless you can kill my enemies before they start their moves, ain't I fated to die?"

Reborn grinned hearing Tsuna's word. "You'll have to trust my ability for that matter, I'm the best Hitman after all, whether it is protection or hunting I can do both."

Tsuna had an uneasy smile on his face. To think that his ancestor was the founder of the Vongola family... even if that was the case, how could he take such a position just like that?

"Reborn, what makes you think I'll accept to become the 10TH? I'll be honest with you, unless you can prove to me that there are benefits for this course of action, I'll simply have to refuse the offer."

Reborn looked a Tsuna for a moment as if he could read what was on his mind. "You can get power from becoming the 10TH, no goal will be impossible."

"Ohhh! Can you hold on to that promise? The dreams of I, Sawada Tsunayoshi, aren't something that can be accomplished through normal means. I'm quite greedy you know? My hands want to reach as far as the sky and cover everything above the earth." Tsuna grinned as he took a sip of his tea.

Reborn's smile became roguish, it was like he was reminiscing his own past before he spoke. "Everything you want can be acquired, the question though is whether or not you'll have the power to get what you want."

It felt like Reborn was trying to tease him, but Tsuna who was used to this kind of conversation from his previous world quickly caught up with the hidden meaning of this sentence.

This world isn't as simple as I thought... Reborn is basically saying that there is danger in my path even with my skills... That makes me wonder, was he the one watching me that day?

While this world he had reincarnated on seemed mostly filled with weak and useless people, the truth is actually way different, while it couldn't be said that there were individuals strong enough to cause enough damage to the surroundings to the point of being comparable to people like the Kages, their personal strength was actually very high, with many have even reached and sometimes surpassed the level of skill of the Elite Jonin.

And there was more, while he had chakra, people in this world seemed capable of harnessing power from a different and currently unpredictable source, one example was the bullet Reborn shoot at him to make him enter in a hyper-focused state.

It was difficult to remember the sensation, but as an Uchiha, he could tell that the Shinuki Dan had pretty much opened all of his meridians and there were no side effects to that action, even with the gate of life opened he didn't die.

Who knows what else they might be capable of doing.

"Then, how do you plan on training me?" Tsuna looked at Reborn with interest, after all that happened, he didn't treat him like a kid anymore because he felt that Reborn was probably even older than himself.

"Body, mind, and spirit are all things that you need to improve. While you are much stronger than I had previously thought, you still have a long way to go." Reborn took a black leather briefcase out of nowhere and put it on the table, after searching for something inside it, he took out a Notebook with some childish drawing of himself on the cover and showed a page.

The page was titled "Tsuna's Schedule!" And Bellow there was a list of things to be done tomorrow that included math studying session, physical exercises, volleyball tournament, and transferred student presentation.

"Why volleyball? And what is this transferred student thing doing in the schedule?"

"It seems that one of the main players won't be playing tomorrow, and the reserve players had an incident and won't be playing, so Tsuna, the reserve, of the reserve, of the reserve, was escalated to play in their place."

"W-what? Don't tell me you killed them..." Tsuna had a gloomy look on his face.

"Of course not..." Tsuna who had just blinked his eyes was startled seeing him cleaning a sniper! "What I heard is that they all ate pizza from the same place and are now with a stomachache."

Hearing this he felt like coughing up blood. Reborn's sense of humor was kind of exotic.

"Still, why do you want me to participate in this?"

"Building up reputation is the job of the candidate to Mafia Boss. To become the boss, you need to get a better reputation and make everyone forget about the nickname no-good Tsuna."

"Alright... I can understand that, but what about the new guy?"

"About him... It's a surprise!" Reborn stood up and left the table when the waiter came back with the bill.

"O-Oi! Reborn!" Tsuna called out to him, but he had disappeared already, but when he saw the bill his eyes turned bloodshot as he cried in anger. "REBORN!!!"

Now he understood why Reborn left like that! Looking at the bill with trembling hands, he took out all the money in his wallet and put it on the counter with such strength that the wooden counter now had a dent with the format of his hand on it.

"T-thank you for e-eating with us, c-customer..." The man working on the counter counted the 20 thousand yens from the bill and smiled seeing everything was there.

Just like that, a single evening snack turned into a 180 dollars bill! Just what did Reborn order to make it so expensive?

* * *

The next morning, Tsuna quickly arrived at school after a long and boring explanation of Reborn regarding the function of the Shinuki Dan. Reborn explained how only someone with a regret could be resurrected by it to accomplish their dying will, and that when shot at different parts of the body it will have different effects, he didn't bother explaining what the effects would be though.

Just after he had put on his school shoes at the entrance, he saw that girl from yesterday... eh... Kyoko.

"Tsuna-kun, good morning!" She waved at him with energy and excitement in her eyes.

"Good morning, Sasagawa-san. You seem to be pretty happy today... well, not like you usually aren't."

She laughed at his words and the two went together to the classroom. "I wanted to apologize yesterday but there were so many people around that I couldn't talk to you. Can you forgive me for putting you in that situation? If it wasn't for me, you wouldn't have to-"

"Relax." Tsuna cut her off before she could finish. "It wasn't really your fault, the problem was with Mochida, he was the one looking for trouble and he would have done it with anyone that spoke to you that day, I am sure of it."

"Eh? Why?"

"Maybe he has a crush on you? Who knows... All I know is that people like him deserve a beating and that's what I gave him."

Kyoko nodded. She also thought that he deserved punishment after the words he said yesterday at the Dojo, he was a true jerk when he said that she was the prize of the fight. Besides, even if Tsuna was to confess to her, that had nothing to do with him.

"Pfft! Yesterday you reminded me a lot of my older brother, you two had the same sort of energy around you, as if you had the motivation to climb a mountain with your bare hands!"

"Hahaha! You've got an interesting brother then Sasagawa-san. You must like him a lot considering your reaction."

"Un, he is a really good person, just a little bit careless with his safety... Anyway, I look forward to your volleyball match today. Let's talk later."

Seeing Kyoko going to her friends inside classroom A, Tsuna smiled slightly and sat down at his table.

After some time the other students finally arrived followed by the sensei responsible for the first two classes in the morning. History class.

He was a fat man with a bald head, big round glasses, and a not-so-fitting mustache, the weird thing is that no one knew his name as this teacher always forgot to tell everyone his name. Usually, he would start the class right away, but this time he put his briefcase on the table, adjusted his formal pants held by suspenders, and after placing his suit jacket on his chair he looked at everyone with his sweaty face and said quickly. "Good morning everyone, let's skip formalities and go right to the point, today we have a new addition to the classroom. Gokudera Hayato, come in."

Hayato stepped inside and stood in front of the blackboard. He was the equivalent of a cool delinquent by the eyes of dreaming teenage girls. The combination of the wild and free hairstyle of silver color that let his face clearly visible and was yet spiky plus his bad boy complexion was already enough to make any girl crazy. But he went a step further by also using an unbuttoned shirt in a similar fashion to that of Mochida and he completed the set with suspenders attached to his pants that hanged by the side, making it look like he had ropes hanging from his waist.

"Gokudera is a transferred student that recently came from Italy."

The girls became wilder and wilder after they heard more about him and a few seconds after he arrived they were all whispering.

"Wow, he is so hot!"

"Do you think he has a girlfriend?"

"Who cares if he has one... he is so cool that I wouldn't mind sharing him with a sister."

"Ahh... if only I had a manly and cool boyfriend like Gokudera-san..."

While they were drooling at Gokudera and the boys were sighing, Tsuna was frowning as he looked at Gokudera in the eyes.

What problem does he have with me?

Many wouldn't notice, but Tsuna could read Gokudera's aura fairly easily as he wasn't even trying to hide his malicious intentions towards him, he wasn't sure what he did to provoke this random dog he found on the street, but one thing is certain.

If he intended to cause harm upon him, Tsuna would stop at nothing to teach him a lesson!