> no way! we don't want to lose. he [tsuna] was amazing at volleyball but we know he sucks at baseball.
+ isn't it alright? just join our team. don't be so stingy. i just have to keep them from hitting, right? (scores a base) oh, so sorry!
> (collective crowd cheering) nice, yamamoto!! yes! hail, baseball freak (LMAO IS THAT A COMPLIMENT ....) takeshi, so hot!
> ('yamamoto is amazing. if only i were like that.')
> (in the distance with binoculars) yamamoto. his athleticism and popularity are needed in the family.

+ help has arrived!
> sorry, it's all my fault ... just when you let me in the team.
+ don't worry about it, it's only pe. i'm counting on you, my target stock. aren't you amazing lately? like in the kendo battle and the volleyball tournament. i've got you checked in my book.
> (BLUSHES) eh? oh ... uh ...
+ in comparison, i just play baseball like it's all i know.
> what — what're you talking about? that baseball skill is amazing.
+ it's not going that well. lately, no matter how much i practice, my average is dropping and my fielding is screwing up. at this rate, it'll be the first time i don't start since i began playing baseball.
+ tsuna ... what should i do? (cUE TSUNA'S FLAILING) just kidding! lately, you're so reliable so i just ...

> ('i've never seen yamamoto like this. i want to give advice, but ... i also don't want him to find out about reborn.') i guess ... more effort ... is the way to go ... i think. ('bleh, i'm such a liar.')
+ yeah. you know, i thought it was that too. we agree, as i expected. yep, yep, so that's it. ... alright, today i'm remaining here and practicing like hell!
> ha ha ha. ('i said something good!!' tuna fish is so cute)

> did something good happen?
> can you tell? today, a popular kid came to me for advice. man, what to do, what to do.
> about that yamamoto.
> (!!) how did you know?!
> make him your subordinate.
> wha — you're going to turn my classmate into a mafia member too?! absolutely not! yamamoto is hot on baseball. i want to help yamamoto out as a friend!! (KDSLJF GOD, GOD, I CAN'T DO THSI ..... CINNAMON ROLL TOO GOOD FOR THIS WORD, TOO PURE)
> (reborn gag-lights tuna fish on fire as a pun ......)

>>> YAMAMOTO IS ABOUT TO JUMP OFF THE ROOF! (CW: SUICIDE IDEATION; THIS IS AN IMPORTANT SCENE EVEN THOUGH IT WASN'T WRITTEN/HANDLED PARTICULARLY WELL so here's context: he stayed after school to practice and overexerted himself to the point of breaking his right arm.)

> (collective mob clamor while tsuna hides/stresses out) hey yamamoto, this isn't funny! you're taking it too far!
+ heh. sorry, but that's not true. after the baseball god threw me away i have nothing left.
> what should i do, i shouldn't have said that. i can't face yamamoto.
> you want to help yamamoto out as a friend, right? then don't run away.
> (!) wait, time out!!! hieeee, please stop — ooof. owww ... (!!)
+ tsuna ...
> eh ... ah ... wh-what do i do?
+ if you came to stop me, it's no use. you should be able to understand my feelings. for someone that's called no-good tsuna all the time, you can understand the feeling of preferring to die over failing at everything, right?
> no ... you and i are different, so ...
+ how arrogant of the recently awe-inspiring tsuna-sama. so you're a fine student now, as opposed to me.
> n-no, that's wrong! it's because i'm no good!! unlike you, i've never put effort into one single thing ... i arrogantly told you "effort" and such, but i've really done nothing. ... what i said yesterday was a lie ... i'm sorry! saying you're so frustrated that you want to die, or you want to die because of a career-ending accident ... unlike you, i've never had those kinds of intense thoughts. in fact, i'm a pathetic person who would have regrets when dying ... thinking if i'm going to die i should've done it with a dying will. thinking it's a waste to die from something like this ... so i can't understand your feelings ... sorry ... later!

+ ...... wait, tsuna. (yamamoto reaches out to a panicking tsuna and both of them fall because the rickety rooftop fence collapses from their combined weight, reborn shoots tsuna with the dying will bullet, and tsuna saves them both)
> yamamoto, are you okay?
+ yeah. tsuna! you're amazing. it's just like you said, you have to do it with a dying will. i don't know what i was thinking. nothing good comes from my idiocy.

+ yo, tsuna. lack of sleep? you have bags under your eyes.
> er ... ah ... some stuff happened. ('i want to stay as normal friends with yamamoto ... i can't possibly say a hitman from another mafia came to assassinate the hitman in my house who instead made the former cry ...')
+ well, as long as you're not sleep-deprived due to studying, that's good. i'll lose my failure buddy, right? (whacks him on the shoulder)
> (GOKUDERA JEALOUSLY WATCHING FROM A DISTANCE) AH! he elbowed him! damn it, that baseball bastard!! being all clingy to the 10th!! (crushes cigarettes in his hand) [...] please rethink it, reborn-san!! i object someone so rude like him entering [the mafia]!!

> so to satisfy gokudera, i decided to hold the "family entrance test" for yamamoto.
> [...] yamamoto is my classmate! he's my friend! and he's busy with baseball! don't involve him with your weird world! [...] WHAT?! it's "that" gokudera!! what will i do if something happened to yamamoto!! (WILDLY SPRINTS to wherever the heck gokudera and yamamoto are, idk)

+ hey hey, gokudera ... what's up with calling me out and doing a silent stare down?
> ('what a nasty dude ... there's no way someone so weak-looking can protect the tenth.')
+ you should drink some milk. frustration is usually caused by the lack of calcium. (for crYING OUT LOUD ..... also, because it's relevant: yams enjoys drinking an obscene amount of milk on the daily, which is likely another factor attributing to his tallness)

+ yo. ... (?!) who's that? your little brother?
> ciaossu. i'm not his little brother. i'm reborn, the vongola family hitman.
+ hahahaha, i see. well, i apologize. it must be troublesome to be a hitman at such a young age.
+ c'mon, he's only a kid. didn't you do it when you were young, too? pretending to be cops and heroes?
> ('wha!! he thinks it's a mafia game?!')
+ there. (HE LITERALLY PERCHES REBORN ON HIS SHOULDER while the kid gives him the rundown) oh, now that is a good choice of person [tsuna].
> ('damn reborn, he nearly kills me when i touch him. but in front of yamamoto, he's like a borrowed cat and he's acting all goody-goody.')
+ ok, sure. then let me in this vongola family, too. what am i supposed to do?
+ oh, there's a test. that's pretty legitimate.
+ (is told failure = death!!) hahaha, you're seriously funny. i like you.
+ whoa! wait up, tsuna. when we were kids, we played with wooden swords, right? it's alright. i'll stick around.
> ('he still thinks it's a child's game!!')
+ sounds good. it's a race to see who's going to pass the test. well, let's run!
+ whoa. good form. recent toys seem so real. those looked like real knives. (YAMAMOTO .......) nice job. now what?
+ phew. looks like if i take it easy, i won't be able to pass. what the ... (cool guys don't look at explosions and also he saved tsuna?? well) phew, that was close. thanks.

> you protected the tenth, so i have no choice but to admit you into the family. but the right arm of the tenth is me. you're the shoulder blade.
+ sh ... shoulder blade?! i thought so from before, but you're a funny guy!
+ but i don't want to withdraw from being tsuna's right arm. so you'll be the ear lobe.
> (ENTER VONGOLA SUBORDINATES ARGUING) the fuck? then you're nose hair!
+ what?! then you're snot.
+ well, i'm going to practice. see ya, shorty [reborn]. but bombs and toys seem so real these days, huh? ~~~
> ('so he still thinks it's a mafia game!!')

+ tsuna. want to do homework together? it'll be faster if we do it together rather than individually, right?
+ hey kid [reborn], you seem to be doing well!
+ hahahaha, i see. tsuna, you have a good home tutor!
> yamamoto thinks it's a joke again!
+ can you take a look at my homework, too? i'll treat you to some snacks later. (reborn refuses to help them until they understand a sizable amount of it) impressive thing to say, you!! i like this guy ~ !

+ we're here! i was thinking about it, and i figured if there isn't someone who understands the stuff, we're never gonna' finish it, right? with gokudera here, we have the skills of 100 people.
+ hey gokudera, i just noticed that you — ... you're just reading the textbook. yeah, i noticed. thanks to that, i was able to solve it thoroughly.
> ('wow, yamamoto ... since he's busy with baseball his grades are bad, but if he tries he can do it!!')
+ but i wasn't able to figure out what question 7 was. that's not good. if we can't solve all of it, we're gonna' fail, right? now now, we still have time so let's join our powers and think.
+ you're popular, tsuna. how did you get to meet a girl [haru] from such a good school? isn't she wearing the uniform of midori junior high? it's one of the hardest elite all-school junior highs to get into around here. maybe this question 7 might be easier for her.
+ come on, calm down a bit, tsuna, gokudera. it's still a 1st-year junior high question. we can just ask an adult.
+ seriously?! wow, that's perfect! (and then after bianchi ruins tsuna's paper) now now, i'll just xerox mine for you.
+ hahaha, he was probably just talking in his sleep. think about it, he's still a baby. there's so many guys who look like him in the world.

+ we spent all summer attending supplemental classes too.
> we'll make a hideout for the family.
+ heh. sounds fun. a secret base, huh? where are we gonna' make it? a mountain behind school?
> we'll use the reception room of the school. the reception room is almost never used. the furniture and the view is good and the geographical location is excellent.
+ we'll start from rearranging the desks. [...] haa. i didn't think we had such a good room — (!) ('he's ... the president of the disciplinary committee and ruler of the delinquents: hibari kyoya, a.k.a. hibari!!!) gokudera, wait ... ('i've heard of him ... if hibari has people doesn't like, no matter who they are, he'll beat them up with his tonfa. we got caught by a troublesome one ...')
+ wait, tsuna!! punk ... !!! (lurches forward after tsuna and gokudera are beaten up)
> are you injured? you seem to be protecting your right hand. bingo. (whales on him)

+ oh, come on.
+ ohhh! hey, you! [...] wow, tsuna!

+ yo. ~ we were invited to train for the pole-knocking.
> (in a nutshell, tsuna's friends are helping him practice his balance on a pole and yams's essentially keeping everyone from murdering each other over insults)
+ good job.
> QUIT THAT! (CASUALLY SMACKS THE LIGHTER OUT OF HAND) [...] YOUR CIGARETTE CAN BE A THREAT TO MY HEALTH!!
+ hahaha. sasagawa's bro is a funny guy.
+ hey, you guys! support it properly!! (unbelievable, gokudera and ryohei both left the pole just to have a heated showdown, THEN EVERYTHING EXPLODES .....)
+ sorry, tsuna! you're going to fall!!

> goal! (the sports festival kicks off with yams winning a race and high-fiving his fellow classmates)
> ('wow, yamamoto. he won against the hopes of the track team! i have a fever and can only cheer on ... that's how it's supposed to be, but ... why am i bouncing around!!' on a pogo stick no less, life's rough to you, tuna fish)
+ this is tough! too much of a difference in people!
+ this way, tsuna! (finally, what we've all been waiting for: a 80592733 vs 18 match-up)
+ hey! you guys!!! (and they all topple and dissolves into a chaotic scuffle, but what matters is that tsuna forgot all about the cold he got when he fell in namimori river)

> what are you doing here?!
+ i don't have club activities today so i'm just a person with nothing to do like you.
> ('gokudera and yamamoto's voice ...' LMAO I CAN'T BELIEVE THEY'RE HANGING OUT??)
> hey! hey! how dare you say i have nothing to do? don't lump me together with the likes of you!
+ weren't you the one who was smoking on the park bench just a while ago, saying "i'm bored ~" to the pigeons? (MY MAN, TAKESHI YAMAMOTO)
> WHAT? YOU SAW THAT?!?
+ tsuna! ... what are you guys doing? huh? [...] calm down, tsuna. it's not yet decided that you're the one who did it.
+ you know him (shamal)?
> he's ... ! he was one of the doctors hired to work exclusively in the castle. every time he would have a different woman with him (— who are you? — my sister.) that's what he said ... so i've always thought i had 62 siblings ...
+ what the heck is that?!
+ what a funny guy! hahaha.
> anyways, is he really alive? if he's not breathing, has no heartbeat, and has dilated pupils, then he's dead.
+ he's not breathing.
> (shamal ditches the scene, hibari arrives as per the request of reborn to send someone over to dispose of the body on tsuna's bed before exiting, and gokudera's still upset about getting whooped by hibari so he lobs some dynamite after him)
+ it's already fall, yet you're still carrying around fireworks? geez.
> (but it's all good, moretti's just an assassin pro who was curious about the tenth so he demonstrated "addio"/faking his own death to tsuna)
+ this guy's hilarious! ~

+ (?) what's wrong, dad?
+ hey, it's you, tsuna.
> this ... sushi place is your house, yamamoto?!?!
+ still getting spoiled by the little ones, eh?
> i'll treat you guys for what you ate earlier. yeah! looks like you've been taking care of takeshi! thanks.
> (lmao, the three notice that the moochers reborn, bianchi, and lambo have returned for round two of expensive sushi eating, then tsuna's tasked with working in the sushi bar until he's paid off the bill)
+ well, i'll help out too. for now, don't pick on customers.

+ my dad praised those kids for being able to pick out good ingredients. it's no problem. i'm just helping out the family anyway.
> (note the WEIRD TIMING of gokudera's grand entrance; is he psychically linked to tsuna or) i heard from reborn-san that you were tricked by the evil sales of yamamoto's family.
+ hey, don't say horrible things like that! [...] this plate's my dad's favorite. you'll probably need to repay this with 30,000 yen ...
+ just a little more.
> (why is gOKUDERA EATING THE FOOD NOW?? god) this sushi restaurant is really good after all.
+ isn't that obvious?

+ oh! seriously good!! we just need to deliver it. [...] geh!