Tsuna's intuition haven't been blaring. No, instead it buzzed, nagging at the back of his mind. It was annoying despite that he could easily push it back. Though, ignoring his intuition was a bad idea, as how Reborn had put it. The hitman had drilled it into his brain, on how he should never belittle his intuition and how he should always be cautious. Reborn had said that his Hyper Intuition had been the strongest since centuries after Vongola Primo, after all.

No thanks to Reborn.

He smiled when Yamamoto and Gokudera argued, a one-sided argument anyway. However much they argue, Tsuna knew that they are closer than they look. He was able to pick up the hint of fondness under their tones easily, just like how Gokudera and Lambo always fight. There will be fondness, always. 

"Stop daydreaming, Dame-Tsuna" A kick on his knee sent him flying forward. He squeaked and braced himself for the impact against the ground, only to land in a pair of arms.

"Whoah!" He immediately jumped back, ignoring how Gokudera screamed at the other and Yamamoto's question of his well-being. "I'm sorry! Are you alright?" He blinked upon looking at dark blue eyes and remembered that it was Amemori. "Yeah, I'm fine" The other teen smiled at him. He felt a little uneasy. The smile looked similar to Ryuuichi's, but there was an edge, and there was something about Amemori. It seemed like Gokudera and Yamamoto felt the same as well.

"Umm, Amemori-san, right?" He slowly started.

"Yep. Amemori Hibiki. Nice to meet you." Tsuna introduced himself as Gokudera and Yamamoto did as well, the bomber not even hiding his distaste to him. "Is your hands alright?" He asked, the memory of Ryuuichi dragging him off with his hands bleeding played in his mind.

Amemori nodded at him, flexing his still bandaged hands. "It's alright, healing up just fine." Reborn suddenly popped into the conversation. "Where are you going to?" When Amemori wasn't fazed by his appearance and the way he spoke, he found it strange. 

"Ah, well, I was heading to Ryuuichi's house when I realized that I didn't even know his address"

Very strange. And stupid.

Reborn hummed, smirking. "We're heading there as well, how about we lead you there?" Amemori brighten. "Really? Thanks!" Tsuna immediately pulled him over, whispering. "Are you sure? He..." 'Doesn't feel right' was something Tsuna didn't say out loud, but Reborn knew. Of course he did. Who did Tsuna think he was? But this was a chance to observe him, and Reborn didn't want to lost this chance. 

Ever since Amemori transferred into Tsuna's class, he noticed something very wrong. Even Ryuuichi felt it, based on how fidgety he was. Yet, Reborn couldn't seem to find out why. Though, every of those bad feelings centered on Amemori somehow. He really need to know.

"Yes, now lead the way." He pushed the brunette to walk, giving him a look. 'Strike a conversation, Dame-Tsuna'

The brunette groaned at that, not wanting to do it but Reborn would probably give him hell if he didn't. He relented and turned to Amemori, who was walking beside him. (Gokudera gave the latter a stink-eye, glaring with all his might but Amemori feign ignorance. Yamamoto on the other hand, wasn't as cheery as he was before Tsuna bumped into Amemori)

"Eto, Amemori-san. Are you close to Ryuuichi?" Amemori looked at him in confusion. "I mean- It's just that.." He cursed himself internally.

"Oh." He raised an eyebrow when Amemori laughed. "Sorry. I would say yes, but I guess I can't anymore."

"Eh?"

"I'm Ryuuichi's childhood friend." Yamamoto perked up at that, eyes narrowing. He is Ryuuichi and Yuuichi's childhood friend, and he had never seen Amemori talking to the twins before, much less seeing Amemori when they were younger. "Well, was." 

Tsuna was confused at that. He was about to ask further when he noticed that they had reached the twin's house. 

Reborn immediately rang the door bell before they could react. A muffled 'Yes' was heard from the door, and then there was a thud and yelp of pain. They, minus Reborn, sweated a little at that as the door swung open.

"Uwa- cold." Ryuuichi shuddered as the cold air blasted in. He frowned at the group, eyes half lidded and hazy. From sleep, perhaps. And forehead was red, banged into something, probably. "Wait, what occasion is this?" 

"Let's go shooting." Reborn said as his head whipped towards the hitman. "What?" Ryuuichi asked, unable to load that. He huffed and stepped sideways. "Whatever it is, come in first." One by one, they went in, muttering apologies for the intrusion.

He lead the way after closing the door, yawning. "Did you guys had breakfast?" He walked into the dining room and slumped onto the chair, making a weak gesture for them to sit. They all nodded. Ryuuichi grunted. "Yuu, guests." He yawned again and crossed his arms, burying his face under his arms.

Yuuichi appeared, carrying a tray of hot tea. "I know. I heard them when they were at the door." He rolled his eyes at the sight of his brother dozing off again and served the tea. His eyes were hard when they landed on Amemori, placing the cup in front of him. Nevertheless, Amemori simply smiled and thanked him.

He nodded curtly and sat down beside Ryuuichi. "So, is there anything happening today?" Tsuna jerked his attention from Ryuuichi to the younger twin. "We're going to the shooting range today. We thought it might be a good idea to invite you guys along, but.." He shifted his gaze to Ryuuichi again.

"Is he alright?"

"Yeah, in a few minutes." True to his words, Ryuuichi slowly lifted his head after indeed a few minutes, eyes much clearer than before. (Reborn actually counted, and it was exactly two minutes and one second) "What shooting range? We have one in Namimori? And why so suddenly?"

"It was newly built, a few months ago. And didn't you want to know more about guns?" The gleeful look in Reborn's eyes had Ryuuichi leaning back, away from the hitman. He did asked Reborn to teach him more about guns. It intrigued him like it never did before after owning one, but he never really had the opportunity to learn and reading through the internet was just second-hand knowledge. Despite that second-hand knowledge was good, he still couldn't help but wanted to know and learn it first-hand, through experience.

The most he had was the guns he owned, the one his parents gave him and the one he had gotten from his older self, which was the one he was using. It was modified, so it seemed. The fact that it had endless of bullets in the magazine made him wonder, when he found out that the time he had shot using it, he had actually pumped his cloud flames in unconsciously. Which ended up with the bullets propagating right after it was shot. How was that even possible? (He mentally made note not to pump his flames into his guns next time.)

Then again, the look in Reborn's eyes made him rethink of even taking up the offer. But the shooting range was so tempting. He squinted his eyes for a moment before turning to Amemori. "What about you, Hibiki?"

Amemori perked up at the given attention, which reminded Ryuuichi of a neglected dog finally getting attention. "I was thinking that we could hang out today." He nodded stiffly at that, weighing something in his mind. All of them wondered what was he thinking about when he stood up. 

"I'm going to change. Give me five minutes. Ten max." And he rushed up to his room.

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Bang! Bang! Bang!

Ryuuichi winced a bit at the recoil. He lowered the gun and rolled his shoulder, sighing in relief at the cracks. (He really needed to get used to the recoil.) He looked at the target he had shot and frowned. The shots were all inches away from the parts he had wanted to hit, one of it was totally off course. 

He looked at his hand, the one that was holding the gun. It was shaking, and he had no idea why. 'Adrenaline rush, probably.' He changed the magazine as he willed his hands to stop shaking.

"So," Reborn who was standing by his side suddenly spoke in mid fire. "That kid is your childhood friend." The hitman wasn't even looking at him as he continued to shoot. Ryuuichi looked over and saw the targets dropping down at a rather incredible speed. He shook his head, sweating a little when one of it was a headshoot, followed by another bullet going through the same hole. (How was Reborn even allowed to shoot was beyond him. Then again, he is Reborn.)

"Was." He corrected without remorse and clicked in the magazine, positioned himself. He was mildly aware that Tsuna, Gokudera and Yamamoto were listening, seeing that they were standing on his other side respectively. (Gokudera was teaching both of them how to use a gun) That, and he was speaking rather loudly over the sound of gun shots. (The three perked up in attention at that correction.)

"He's from my past life. Something about his soul doesn't belong there or whatever." He pulled the trigger. Somehow, he managed to hit on the supposedly places of vital organs of a human on the human shaped target. At the corner of his eyes, he saw a shot serving further away than the target that it was supposed to hit.

"Ah! What the hell are you doing, baseball-idiot?!" Ignoring Gokudera's yells, Yamamoto, with rather sparkly eyes trotted over to him, gun still in hand. "Really?"

Ryuuichi backed away slightly when he leaned in, towering over him. "Yeah. Why?" Yamamoto grinned. "Nope~ Nothing~" And he trotted back to where he was standing before. Ryuuichi raised an eyebrow at that strange behavior and exchanged a look with Tsuna.

The brunette merely gave him a sheepish smile and shrugged.

He returned the shrug and turned back to the target. Bang! Bang! Reborn lowered his gun and looked at the targets in slight satisfaction, if it could be even called target anymore from all his shots. All of it were basically torn. He turned to Ryuuichi's and looked at the settings.

His dark black eyes glinted and tempered with the settings as Ryuuichi kept shooting, not noticing his doing. 

"Oh shairoit-!" The targets suddenly dropped down one by one at a rather fast speed. He smirked at the curses Ryuuichi gritted out. The teen was all focused on the targets, gunning down each and one of it. 

It didn't took him long to finish, given how shaken he was after. "You.. Could have warned me first." He grumbled to the hitman, changing the magazine.

"Where's the fun in it?" Once the magazine clicked in place, the target started dropping again. 'Curse you, Spartan!'

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Amemori glanced at the two having fun despite the younger one cursing at the other, gun slowly lowering. Yuuichi, who noticed his stare towards his brother, said nothing about it but kept his eyes on the target. He pulled the trigger and winced, rubbing his shoulder soon after. The recoil was something he couldn't stand. Then again, he couldn't stand the gun as well. It made him wonder why he willingly joined. 

'Right. Ryuu.'

Ever since he knew that Ryuuichi used the gun, a real one, (He had never even seen his brother shooting using one until now. The one in the arcade doesn't count.) he had wondered what does it feel, shooting.

It didn't really feel good, but it was satisfying seeing his some of his shots hitting at important spots. He still prefer basketball though.

"You know, if I didn't knew that you're Ryuu's friend now, I would have gauge your eyes out."

Amemori's head whipped towards him so fast that he thought that his head would just snap off his head. He looked at Yuuichi with a pair of disbelief eyes, but the other didn't even turn to look at him. He had not expected that sudden comment.

"I don't know every shiet stuff about you and him in your previous life, but that's all in the past. If you dare to hurt him..." He menacingly said, glaring through his bangs as he clicked in the magazine he had changed. "I personally hunt you down and eradicate you." Amemori blinked at that threat, seeing dark aura seeping out of Yuuichi. "Well, I doubt that you don't know the other unsaid warning and consequences. Oh well." 'And they won't be from me only.'

"I know."

Yuuichi raised an eyebrow at the answer, but said nothing else. Instead, he pulled the trigger again, the bullet flying towards the target.

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All of the sat down by the huge round table inside a cafe, a cake shop to be exact, a bit tired from all the standing. They had finished their rounds and decided to take a break somewhere, since it they were at a shopping district. "That was fun." Ryuuichi chuckled. He clenched his hands, both still trembling from the adrenaline, but he didn't care. It was really fun.

Yuuichi shook his head, smiling. "Ryuu," He tugged his brother's black coat. "Crepe." Ryuuichi looked towards the signboard that Yuuichi was pointing towards and shook his head fondly, handing Yuuichi his wallet.

"Sure, sure. What flavour do you guys want? My treat." 

"Eh, that's alright, Ryuuichi. We don't-" Tsuna tried to protest, but Ryuuichi insisted stubbornly. "B-but..." He yelped out in pain when Reborn hit him right at the back of his head. "Coffee flavour."

"I'm not sure that they have that, but alright." Tsuna paused for a moment. "Then.. Honey Strawberry, please." Ryuuichi smiled at him and nodded before he turned to Amemori. "You?" "If it isn't much trouble, Chocolate Blueberry. Thanks." The younger twin shrugged at that before turning to Gokudera and Yamamoto.  

Before a word slipped out of his lips, they both stood up. "I'll help." They said in unison and immediately looked at each other. Well, Gokudera glared and Yamamoto laughed. The former found it annoying but the latter was very amused. 'They looked like a married couple, honestly.' Ryuuichi chuckled internally and he knew Yuuichi felt the same from how his lips stretched up further.

"Well, I suggest you guys queue up now before it gets longer. Oh and I want Chocolate Banana."

As the three walked over to the stall, he bent back on the chair, stretching. "Yuuichi said something to you, didn't he." He asked. Reborn and Tsuna remained silent as Amemori replied. "Yeah." Ryuuichi hummed. He didn't ask further since he had already knew what it was, somehow. Yuuichi is his twin brother after all. How could he not know? 

"Well, since my brother had issued a warning, I shall give you my own." The smile he had on his face turned into a rather feral smirk, bloodlust seeping out just from it. "I don't care what it is, but if you were to cause even a scratch on him, let's just say I won't cause you simply just one scratch." 

Amemori stared, surprise flashed in his dark blue eyes before he threw his head back and laughed. "My god. I take my statement back. You changed. And you and your brother are too much alike." 

"Of course. We're brothers after all."

Reborn briefly wondered what did Amemori meant by that and if the teen was blind or something. Ryuuichi and Yuuichi are nothing alike. Sure, there are some similarities, but they are not even the slightest the same. Like how Yin and Yang are. Both seemed similar yet total opposite. If Amemori was Ryuuichi's childhood friend, he should be able to see that difference more than Reborn, or Tsuna, in fact, could.

Hell, even Ryuuichi knew that he and his brother aren't alike. 

However, he smirked at the bloodlust. It wasn't usual to see Ryuuichi give a real threat simply like that. Reborn felt the small excitement from the thought of seeing Ryuuichi possibly killing someone even after the warning. If nothing goes wrong, he might just throw Tsuna into the fight between whoever it is and Ryuuichi. He would definitely like to see his student against Ryuuichi. 

Tsuna suddenly shuddered, half because of a bad feeling caused by whatever Reborn was planning and the other was caused by Ryuuichi. If a silent Ryuuichi was scary enough when angered, he couldn't say the same to a smiling, amused one. Even if he wasn't the subject to the threat, Tsuna was afraid. Silently, he prayed for Amemori's life should he anger Ryuuichi even after the warning.

Though, he still couldn't shake of the fact that he felt something was off. Actually, everything. He looked at Ryuuichi, who laughed when Reborn offhandedly commented that he was being overprotective, noting how his guard was up even though there was no need for him to. Then again, Amemori was with them. Somehow that explained all.

"I could say the same to you, Reborn." Or maybe not. (Tsuna had a feeling that Ryuuichi was getting more and more sadistic each second he spends time with his tutor.)

"Anyways, do any of you have plans during the break?" He and Amemori (surprisingly) shook their heads. Apparently, Reborn had other thoughts.

"Of course. Its Christmas." Ryuuichi leaned back slightly, mouth twitching. "The tradition, again? Wait, don't answer that. Of course there would be tradition involved with you around." He chuckled, cutting short a moment later when his wallet was placed on top of his head. Looking up, he smiled at his brother who was holding three crepes. 

"Here." He took his and passed the other one to Amemori. Gokudera and Yamamoto did the same, passing Reborn and Tsuna theirs before the three of them sat down. "Thanks~" He pocketed his wallet before biting into the crepe, munching. He gazed out the glass window.

"Oh?" He pointed out the window as everyone looked out. "Isn't that the girls?" At the same time, Haru turned to their direction and literally brighten up like a child being informed that Christmas came early. She patted Kyoko and Chrome's shoulder and pointed towards them. They turned and had similar reaction with Haru. It didn't really take them too long to hurried over.

Ryuuichi waved a little and went to pull three more chair to their table, ushering the others to shift closer and give them space.

"Hello!" They greeted back. A split second later, the atmosphere got chattier and brighter with Tsuna asking questions, Gokudera and Haru screaming at each other before it turned to Gokudera and Yamamoto (one-side) argument, and on and on. Yuuichi engaged with Chrome in a soft discussion on who-knows-what while Ryuuichi and Amemori laughed at the comical sight, occasionally whispering jokes.

Somehow, the girls managed to order cakes during their not-so-quiet talks. 

"Are you happy here?" Amemori suddenly whispered. Ryuuichi blinked at the question and let out a soft laughter. "Yep." He glanced side way to look at the other. "I hope you are as well." And he turned back to the others when one of them suddenly said jokes about him.

If he didn't, he would have saw the slightly dark look on Amemori.

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A/N= Umm, this chapter is a bit, weird? 

I emphasized Yuuichi's and Ryuuichi's relationship more here, somehow. And the overprotective streak they both have and are very well aware of it. 

I had forgotten that Ryuuichi should be calling Yamamoto by his given name since he had received the permission to during chapter 45, or 'Hell Fury'. I totally forgotten about that. Sorry! *doing dogeza*

Note= I'm not sure if I've mentioned this, but Reborn's growing faster than the normal growth time. There's a lot of different thoughts on how old originally was when he was curse and how long and blah blah blah. For me, he kind of started being a hitman by the age of, what, 15? Or something. And then he was cursed when he was 28-29, for 9 years? So during the last arc of the series, he should be mentally.. 37-38? Since Shamal is 35, his age shouldn't far from him, I think.

(I commented in a reply previously saying that Reborn's mentally 36, but, oh well.)

This chapter is more of a fill-in, I guess? Things will happen in the next chapter. Though, I need opinions. Should I write the continuation of this chapter, or another new thing? 

Ah btw, they still have a week of school before Winter break. Winter break in Japan is about 10 days? Around 26th of December to 6th of January. But since I have plans for this whole arc during Christmas, I guess it'll be longer..? 

Fun Fact= Yamamoto never really talked much to the twins when they were younger, but they do occasionally played together. Did I mentioned this before? They went to the same primary school together, got closer there, but not exactly as close as they are now. Yamamoto kindda took pride on knowing the twins the longest, so he was a little bit irritated when Amemori said that he was Ryuuichi's childhood friend?

Umm, last, this chapter is really really weird?!?!!?

[I apologize for any grammar, spelling, etc. etc. mistakes]