This story is doing way better than I ever thought it would. I'm honestly very surprised, since I'm quite frankly terrible at scheduling updates, also having lost faith in this story, as I could probably make it SO MUCH BETTER... But, I have to say, I can't draw this story out to the Arcobaleno trials. I have no plan for that (ironic for the story I had JUST NOW developed a plan for). Don't worry though: I'll find a way to involve those manga-only characters we all love so much (As the original KHR plotline is being thrown away as we speak)! Also, I would like to say I found what is possibly the BEST KHR FIC IN EXISTENCE. It's called "Bite to Death" on FF.n and it's by Deamon's eyes. It's about how Hibari basically takes over the world after the zombie (not) apocalypse/infestation. Please read it.
On a side note, NaNoWriMo is about ready, and I'm planning something big! Any of you read the 'Indestructible' fanfic I'd made? Yeah, I know, I deleted it when I said I wouldn't, but seriously. The rewrite is in the works already. I'm using it for NaNoWriMo, and this time around, I'll call it 'Of Gods and Men'. I swear, if you want writing that might actually be quality, more words for your vocabulary, and just a tragic action KHR fanfiction that will (hopefully) have you on the edge of your seat, then read it when I post! (I'm posting the first chapter to get hypes. It WILL be done by the end of November , NaNoWriMo goals!)

Gokudera stared blankly at Reborn in return. He and Yamamoto both knew where Tsuna was. They didn't know that Reborn did, too.

.....

In the Future- (Tsuna became the unofficial boss for some reason)

"Alright," said Tsuna. "Here's the plan for now."

As of now, everyone in the base was gathered around Tsuna in the mess hall (Hayato, Takeshi, Kyoya, Ryohei, Mukuro, Lambo, I-pin, Fuuta, and Irie). Since Tsuna was appointed the leader, he figured they should have a game plan.

"Ryohei-kun, I want you in contact with the Varia as you were before. Also, if you would, get together with Bianchi. We'll need all the help we can get. Mukuro-san, I need you looking for Chrome. Lambo, I-pin, can I have you two look for Kyoko-chan and Haru-chan? Kyoya-san," A glare. "Excuse me, HIBARI-san, before anything big happens, I need you to help me with training in this era, and to gather information if need be. Hayato and Takeshi, I'd like you in the woods around the base in case anyone comes by. Shouichi, watch over the base. Everyone got it?"

Most nodded and went about doing what they were suggested. The few that stayed were Gokudera, Yamamoto, Irie, and Tsuna.

"Tsuna," Irie said, "What'll you be doing in the meantime?"

Tsuna looked at Irie in a condescending manner. "Isn't that obvious? I'll wait for Reborn."

.....

In the Past- (Gokudera and Yamamoto are freaking out while Reborn looks at them smugly)

Gokudera took a glance at Yamamoto, who seemed much in the same mentality as himself. To bring it to a point, both were melting down. Mentally, of course, but they were worried about people thinking about the 'coincidence' and connecting the dots. Reborn didn't help much at all with that weirdly-cute baby-smirk of his. Not that anyone would call it "cute".

With the baby-smirk never faltering, Reborn asked the two a question. "So where do you think Tsuna is? You were closest to him, after all."

"Uhh," Yamamoto answered intelligently.

"Probably somewhere in this country?" Gokudera offered.

Which wiped the smirk right off Reborn's face. Which meant Gokudera pissed him off.

Crap.

"You have twenty-four hours," Reborn instructed.

Yamamoto looked at Reborn inquisitively. "For what?"

"To get Tsuna."

Both teens gulped. "O-okay," they said, almost in sync as they promptly stumbled out of the room.

Reborn sighed, alone in the room. Intimidation was hard work. Either way, he should probably go join his stupid student's brother in the future. If Tsuna really was Degli, that is.

And if Degli was half as smart as everyone seemed to think he was, he would know Reborn was coming.

.....

A while later, Gokudera came across Takeo having a mental breakdown. Upon wondering why the boy seemed to be freaking out, he noticed the wreckage around the living room of the Sawada residence. It looked as if at least three bombs had gone off, and a gun was fired maybe six times. Smaller blast radius residues littered the floor. It seemed Lambo's grenades had gone off again, if the crying cow-child in the corner had anything to do with it.

Gokudera wasn't one to comfort, but it looked like it was needed at this moment. He cleared his throat. "Ahem."

Once the crying had subsided to quiet sniffles and the mutterings of a teen just about pulling hair out stopped, Gokudera continued.

"What happened here?"

"Lambo-sama's bazooka was stolen!" Lambo wailed.

"It was Reborn! And the fight! How am I going to explain this to Mom?" Takeo worried.

Gokudera let out a berated sigh, wondering just why Reborn would steal the cow-child's time traveling bazooka. Unless...

Reborn knew, and he was going to get Tsuna.

.....

In the future- (Tsuna is expecting a guest to come with a few gunshots. The guest delivers.)

Alright, so Tsuna's plan admittedly had flaws, but it's not like he'd done anything of this nature before! Technically, he was a freelance criminal, not the boss of a band of criminals.

Tsuna buried his face in his hands. If Reborn had things figured out, he'd be here soon. Well, that is if he cared.

Reborn had seen, like Tsuna, there were other ways out of the Vindice situation, but Degli had chosen to use the Ten-Year--Bazooka. It had to mean something, and it did. Henceforth, there he was, sitting in a mess hall in the future, being utterly bored.

But bored no more, he heard a faint cross between a POP and a POOF. He strode out the mess hall to face the pink smoke that undoubtedly had a gun-wielding baby, and if that wasn't a weird sentence, Tsuna didn't know what was.

"Degli!" Well crap. He sounded angry.

Tsuna pulled his mask up, regardless of whether or not Reborn knew, and answered, "Yes, Reborn? Don't make such a fuss, you're only stuck in the future for an indeterminate amount of time, nothing to worry about."

Reborn glared, sending chills down Tsuna's spine. "Tsuna, take off the mask. There's a conversation we need to have."

"Mmm, and if I say no?"

BANG! A bullet whizzed past Tsuna's shoulder.

"Point taken."

.....

"I knew it should have been you, you know. You give off this feeling of warmth and acceptance, like a true sky should."

"Awww, you make me blush," Tsuna responded.

"We'll have to do something about that sense of humor, though," Reborn growled.

"Sure, sure. All in good time. For now," Tsuna pulled a laptop out of a case he'd been carrying around, "let's have that 'conversation', no?"

.....

In the past- (In which Yamamoto and Gokudera wish people would just calm down)

"This isn't even fair," remarked Gokudera as he watched a redhead have a panic attack.

Yamamoto stood by the silver-haired teen's side, shaking his head 'no'. This person in front of them declared himself to be Degli's number one rival, then promptly collapsed holding his stomach in pain.

If this was Grigio, then they were Disney Princesses.

They put him in front of a computer and asked him to prove who he was. Apparently they both had exciting new careers as princesses.

While Grigio, or Shouichi as they now know, worked at a computer, Gokudera and Yamamoto whispered to each other.

"Can we trust him?" Yamamoto asked.

"I'm not sure. He hasn't killed us yet, so that's probably a good sign," Gokudera pointed out.

Yamamoto nodded in agreement. Both just about had a heart attack when they saw Lambo break Shouichi's glasses and pull on his thick red hair.

.....

In the future- (Tsuna gets an important message. Or not.)

Reborn watched over Tsuna's shoulder as the younger (older?) person easily bypassed Millefiore firewalls.

"We're onto their main system, Reborn. With the setup I have now, I might not be able to get into the more secure files. I'd need some codes on my flash drive for that," Tsuna told him.

"Wouldn't your future self have a flash drive? A more advanced version, at that."

"That's certainly a possibility, but considering this laptop was Shouichi's old, sorry, Grigio's old laptop, there might be a system here I can use." Tsuna searched the files for somewhere to write code. "Ah, here we go!"

Reborn watched in mild amusement and awe as Tsuna effortlessly typed a few lines to use against the viral locks.

"Now to just link the coding system to this tab, and find the backdoor... and we're in." One final tap on the 'Return' key, and a new tab opened, revealing a Millefiore... grocery list?

"All this file says is 'Marshmallows'," Reborn stated.

Tsuna angrily pounded on a few more keys. "That's all we're getting, Reborn. Marshmallows."

"I think I can help with that," a different voice said. They two turned to the entrance to see Gokudera from this time period.

"You can?" asked Reborn.

"You can?" asked Tsuna.

Gokudera merely nodded. "Their most important files aren't-" PYOOF!

A pillar of pink smoke surrounded the man who was about to reveal something about the Millefiore's secret files. When the smoke cleared, they did not see him. Instead, there stood his younger self.