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1. They'll Learn To Let Go (We Won't) by YouInspiredMe (OneBrainCellArmy)

   Fandoms: Katekyou Hitman Reborn!  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Gen
   • Work in Progress

   24 Sep 2025

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Reborn & Skull (Katekyou Hitman Reborn!)
   • Colonnello & Skull (Katekyou Hitman Reborn!)
   • Lal Mirch & Skull
   • Skull & Verde (Katekyou Hitman Reborn!)
   • Mammon | Viper & Skull (Katekyou Hitman Reborn!)
   • Fon & Skull (Katekyou Hitman Reborn!)
   • Arcobaleno Ensemble & Skull (Katekyou Hitman Reborn!)
   • Luce & Skull (Katekyou Hitman Reborn!)
   • Aria & Skull (Katekyou Hitman Reborn!)
   • Skull & Uni | Yuni (Katekyou Hitman Reborn!)
   • Colonnello/Lal Mirch
   • PLATONIC Skull/Arcobaleno
   • Arcobaleno Ensemble/Skull (Katekyou Hitman Reborn!)
   • Arcobaleno Ensemble/Arcobaleno Ensemble (Katekyou Hitman Reborn!)
   • platonic - Relationship
   • Skull (Katekyou Hitman Reborn!)
   • Reborn (Katekyou Hitman Reborn!)
   • Verde (Katekyou Hitman Reborn!)
   • Mammon | Viper (Katekyou Hitman Reborn!)
   • Lal Mirch
   • Colonnello (Katekyou Hitman Reborn!)
   • Fon (Katekyou Hitman Reborn!)
   • Luce (Katekyou Hitman Reborn!)
   • Uni | Yuni (Katekyou Hitman Reborn!)
   • Aria (Katekyou Hitman Reborn!)
   • Sawada Tsunayoshi
   • Checker Face | Kawahira (Katekyou Hitman Reborn!)
   • Skull’s secret job
   • Skull hates the Arcobaleno
   • hating anything mafia is part of his job description honestly
   • but then shit happens
   • he doesn’t like them
   • he wouldn’t right?
   • to be fair none of the arcobaleno like each other in the beginning
   • Luce knows what’s going on
   • Aria kinda does
   • Yuni is trying her best
   • Arcobaleno don’t know
   • decently strong Skull but pretending to be not
   • Skull using his rapid healing
   • so some GORE
   • graphic and nongraphic violence
   • friendship fic
   • Arcobaleno family fic
   • Arcobaleno team-bonding moments
   • pissing off Kawahira early on
   • Skull trying not to care
   • Skull Leaves
   • the Arcobaleno react like the Arcobaleno do
   • Reborn keeps teaching Tsuna to protect his family
   • cause Reborn also lives by these lessons
   • Lal & Colonnello believe in shoot first ask later
   • Lal goes step on me if you dare bitch
   • Viper is in love with digging everyone’s past and trying to use it
   • Verde’s starting a church of science
   • Fon’s smiling through everybody’s bullshit until he isn’t
   • Reborn being defacto leader for a reason
   • he’s carrying this whole shitshow on his back or so god help him
   • Pre-Arcobaleno Curse
   • arcobaleno curse
   • post-Arcobaleno curse
   • Luce’s betrayal
   • The Fallout
   • multiple POVs
   • tag omissions cause spoilers
   • to keep Skull’s secret of course
   • TRIGGER WARNINGS if any are posted at the end of the chapter
   • Blades
   • Blood
   • Found Family
   • Tsuna and the gang are in here too but like that's another twenty tags so...
   • cold-blooded Skull that's used to killing
   • Kawahira's kinda scary here
   • the arcobaleno are kinda dicks to each other in the beginning

   Summary

   Playing weak has a lot of benefits, especially when it lets him slip from scrutiny while working with mafioso. Skull's hands have been drenched in blood by the mafia far longer than the Arcobaleno know him.

   And he's set on keeping it that way.

   He's been burnt by the mafia far too many times.

   Harmony? Bonds? Please. How can you form bonds when it's all pretend?

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   Unfortunately for Skull, Colonnello runs therapy sessions like military drills, Reborn can and will shoot till things go his way, Viper's deadset on wringing him financially dry, Fon bent on teaching him how to properly appreciate tea, Lal's grip is iron-clad, Verde's new science church is oddly skull-shaped, and Luce just wants to finish her mission and save the world. Permanently.

   Perhaps the fool is really Skull, for thinking the Arcobaleno will let him go after all their years together.

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