paradisa | Vongola XX -- Dictated/Action for Casa de Guts

[Tsuna awakes in his bed with a small start and promptly sits up. He blinks blearily, looking toward the window, lifting an arm to block the light when it hits his eyes.]

Ah... [He blinks then, and looks down at his blanket, recalling what had happened to him for what had seemed to be the past few days. But he was back in his room at the house, and in his pajamas, so...]

What a strange dream. [He then gets out of bed and yawns and stretches, heading to the bathroom to brush his teeth. He opens the door, and...

There's a pair of white rabbit ears popping innocently out of his hair.]

Heehh!? [There's a thud as Tsuna falls over.] Rabbit ears?

[And then he cautiously raises a hand and tugs on one to make sure Reborn wasn't playing a dirty trick on him or something. He can feel a sensation from the tug, and it doesn't come off.]

N-no way! They're real?! --ah, my feet! [And now he's noticing that they're all dirtied, and a little cut and sore, too. The cogs are turning in his head.]

Wait... then...

[He pales a bit.]

All of that actually happened?!

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H-huh?! What do you mean, I'm behind?

That's exactly what I said. Between your recent kidnapping and that whole rebellion streak with the homework, you've fallen behind in terms of progress.

O-oi! The kidnapping wasn't my fault!

So? Doesn't change that you're behind. Nor does it change that your teacher from home's here and might start checking in on me.

And I am not getting flack for you not having priorities straight.

[--ERK] Y-you met Reborn?!

Sure did! Guy's a real pro.

E-eh?

[Zelos approved of Reborn? ... although maybe that's not so surprising. Their methods of training aren't dissimilar.

But still--]

N-no way! His training methods are crazy! You have no idea how many times I've almost died during his training sessions!

Has he ever killed a student before?

U..um... well, I don't know.

[A pause.]

... probably not.

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Then it's for your own good. You only seem to learn under heavy circumstances anyway.

What's that supposed to mean?

It means you don't seem to bother to pick up anything for long unless there's a risk. So I usually kick your ass more than I do the other students.

H-hey! I've been learning from our training sessions just fine. --what do you mean, more than the other students?! [gdit zelos]

It means I use more of my strength and speed when we fight so there's a greater risk.

[He openly admits it...]

Jeez, no wonder I get so exhausted sometimes.

No, that's because you don't exercise enough.

No way! You work me way too hard! You just said yourself that you're harder on me than your other students.

And yet even then I'm only using less than 10% of my total power. [Whether this is an exaggeration or not, YOU WILL NEVER KNOW]

If you want to see working you too hard, then I could start tapping into my powers.

[you might not be able to see the cringe, but you can probably feel it] N-no! You don't need to do that!

Yeah well maybe you should start exercising outside of training so you don't get so exhausted. You're starting to get a belly from all that slacking anyway.

[Okay so maybe it's like a couple pounds but still ]

I wouldn't get so exhausted if you went easier on me! --and am not!!

[Yep, you're starting to get on his nerves. So don't mind as you get a verbal slap ]

Oh, really? Is that it? Well if you put it that way, I guess I could go easier on you.

And then after that? You can tell the people who try to kill your friends to go easier on you too because you can't be bothered to put in more than minimal effort on your training. I'm sure they'll listen.

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[There's a startled sound from Tsuna, and then silence.

Tsuna considers saying that, well, even with the training he's done here, he's barely been able to protect any of his friends ever since he got here. The only one he'd managed to save, by some stroke of luck, was... well, it was actually Zelos.

But he knows Zelos would sooner disparage him for coming up with any more excuses.

The fight immediately rushes out of him.]

I'm sorry.

[Yeah, that would be a bad path to pick there so good job not taking it]

I don't want to hear apologies, just want you to take it as seriously as you claimed you'd take it.

... Okay. I will.

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