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It wasn't known to everyone but whenever he's fighting in his dying will mode, Tsuna's mind turns kind of weird.

Not the kind of weird that came from him undressing from the sheer power of his inherited sky flames, while screaming his tutor's name on top of his lungs like a debauched pervert for years.

Nor is it the kind of weird that made him continue wearing unflattering, lame, and sometimes-riddled-with-holes boxer shorts as a teen even if he knew he'll be flashing lots of people whenever Reborn hits him with his gun.

No, it's the kind of weird where whenever he was hyper-aware of everything in his surroundings - with his senses kicking into high gear, he splits into two people.

Yes, he knew that sounds ominous as fuck, but honestly, it wasn't as bad as it sounds, promise.

Basically-

His consciousness splits into a calm, logical and not-stupid Tsuna who usually communicate with everyone and tries hard not to act too try-hard and-

A sarcastic, little shit Tsuna who's responsible for eating popcorn, shitting on people privately, and making fun of everything that catches his attention.

(With everything, that includes everyone.)

(Even Reborn.)

(Sarcastic, little shit Tsuna is fearless in the face of that mind-reading monster because that version of Tsuna tried cursing the baby out already whenever his tutor appears in calm-got-his-shit-together!Tsuna's view during his first fight with Ryohei.)

(Imagine his and calm-got-his-shit-together!Tsuna's glee when both of them realized that no, the baby couldn't read them when they're like this and ain't that a huge plus enough to make up for all the shit this baby put him into?)

(They were fucking ecstatic when they realized that and well-)

(That was one of the reasons why Tsuna kept on wearing holey boxer shorts because he didn't even know it was an issue to begin with, grossly preoccupied as he was into shitting on his tutor during his dying will mode while acting hero for all of them up until Kei brought it up during a meeting yesterday because she was a petty little shit whose brother-complex rivals Hibari's own sister complex.)

(It wasn't his fault that Kyoya got his pretty face scratched up a little while Tsuna was letting off steam after his Cloud and Mist guardian wrecked a part of the mansion he spent hundreds of thousands to repair yesterday, those fuckers.)

Tsuna didn't know if Reborn knew about this side-effect or not and he wasn't eager to inform the baby before or even now, lest the baby would torture it out of him or worse, tutor him to weaponize the quirk with another round of hellish training.

Tsuna would rather try to underplay the whole shebang than go through that shit all over again.

(As he was concerned, with his followers and Varia's issues taken into consideration, having two personalities both aware at the same time during his dying will mode wasn't really that much of an issue in the first place.)

So-

When Tsuna finally came to Cloud fighting grounds after desperately training with Reborn for the Zero Point Breakthrough, the first thing that caught his attention wasn't the Gola Mosca flying while shooting missiles everywhere like a deranged fucker.

No.

The first thing that caught his attention was the calmly sitting white-haired loli - holding a flag as she bragged to Gokudera, Yamamoto, and Ryohei about how cute her otouto was.

What was she doing here?