Prologue
Yuri knew she was screwed the moment she was robbed of the bag containing her money. She was supposed to land in Namimori, look for a place to live, find a job which would be able to provide her with sustainable livelihood and then live as an independent adult happily ever after.
But instead of doing what she was really supposed to, stupid little Yuri got robbed the moment she landed in Namimori.
The thief had pretended to be a guide who promised her to show every nook and cranny of Namimori. Yuri had happily complied and even paid him an extra hundred bucks for she was a lonely Russian girl who knew nothing about the strange land of Japan and was naïve and rather obvious to other people's intentions having lived a sheltered life all her life .
The only reason why Yuri had decided to run away to Japan was because of Namimori, which was ranked the most peaceful and affordable place to live in by many travel websites. To be honest Yuri didn't care about the place if it meant that she could get away from her overprotective grandpa or dedushka, as she called him lovingly who coddled her too much for her liking. (Heck, she would be more than willing to live in Antarctica just to get away from him) Sure, she loved her dedushka, but the old man was fiercely protective of her and would not allow her to take a step outside their property without at least ten bodyguards secretly following and watching her every step.
Now coming back to the thief. The thief was smart; he had taken Yuri to a dirty, old restaurant, which for the record smelled of piss and cigarettes. He then secretly drugged Yuri's tea with sleeping pills and ran off the moment Yuri's head banged on the old wooden table. The moment Yuri woke up she found herself alone in the restaurant with only her walking stick, clothes and her moneybag missing.
She mentally cursed the person who dare rob her money as she slouched against a pole.
'How can I be so stupid!' she thought pulling her short, choppy platinum blonde hair. Yuri was starting to regret her decision. How could she, a penniless thirteen years old girl survive all by herself a foreign country! (Though said thirteen year old was what many people considered a genius 'prodigy' with many admirable degrees under her belt)
"I miss home…sniff…I miss dedushka…sniff"
She imagined her dedushka calling her over with a warm smile and welcoming arms as a stray teardrop fell from her eyes. Yuri was missing her grandpa to the extreme (lol).
'Was I wrong to run away from home?', Yuri hugged her knees and buried her face in her pale yellow scarf. The sun was starting to set and Yuri was starting to feel hungry.
"Ara, are you okay little miss?"
Yuri looked up. A middle-aged woman with short brown hair was looking at her with concern.
"I'm not okay!" Yuri said..no shouted. The brunette woman was taken aback by Yuri's sudden outburst.
"I have been robbed, I miss my grandpa, I have not eaten properly for the past three days and I don't have a place to live!" Yuri said in just one breath. She felt her eyes become moist and before she knew, she had already started crying.
"Wahh! And all I wanted was to become an independent adult!" cried Yuri.
The woman felt sad for Yuri and patted her head gently. Said girl continued with her crying and started cursing herself and her luck in Russian.
"It's okay umm.."
"Yuri" Yuri said rubbing her eyes. "Sorry for the sudden outburst."
"Oh. It's okay Yuri-chan," the woman said.
"If you want you can stay at my house."
"Huh?" Yuri looked up at the woman who was smiling warmly. The woman seemed harmless to Yuri.
"Really? But I don't have the money to pay you the rent" Yuri said.
"It's okay." The woman said. "Plus I'm sure my son would love having a paying guest with such beautiful eyes."
Yuri blushed as she covered her eyes with her long bangs. The woman had seen her eyes. Yuri 'liked' to keep her eyes hidden with her long bangs, which she refused to cut no matter how many times her grandpa asked (pleaded) her to.
"It's a fashion statement dedushka," Yuri would say to her grandpa who would sigh and simply send the barber away.
"Thank you miss.."
"Nana" the woman said, "But you can call me mama."
"Ma-ma" Yuri said, testing the foreign word on her tongue. She was an orphan. Her parents had died in a freak accident when she was an infant, so to have someone to call mama was refreshing and heartwarming.
"Thank You. Mama." Yuri said smiling warmly.
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YURI
"Sorry for intruding!" I said as I entered the Sawada household. The place had a homely feeling to it.
"Yuri-chan. You need to take off your shoes," Mama said
I didn't know much about Japanese culture or etiquette.
"Sorry mama" I said embarrassed as I took off my knee length boots. Mama gasped the moment she saw my right leg.
"How?" she asked still looking at my right prosthetic leg.
"When I was small my parents and I got in an accident which took my parents life. I managed to survive, but had my right leg amputated." I explained.
Mama had tears in her eyes. She then engulfed me in a warm embrace.
"You poor baby!"
"Okaa-san you are back" I broke the hug and turned back. A boy around my age with gravity defying hair and looks similar to mama was looking at me curiously. He had a baby [?] on his shoulder wearing a black suit and fedora. The 'baby' looked at me with his beady charcoal black eyes and smirked.
I flinched under his gaze. Those eyes…they looked so ancient…. I was certain about one thing. The baby was not what he looked like…he was something else….
"Mama!" a kid in a cow suit latched onto mama's leg. "Did you bring Lambo-san grape candies?"
Mama smiled and handed Lambo a packet of grape candies.
"Gyahaha! This candy belongs to Lambo-san and Lambo-san alone"
"Okaa-san who is that?" the boy who I presumed to be Mama's son asked pointing at me.
"This is Yuri-chan. She is our new paying guest and will be staying in your room Tsuna-kun."
Tsuna shrieked before turning a bright red.
"Okaa-san how can I have a girl sleeping in my room!"
"Mou, Tsu-kun" Mama said giving Tsuna her puppy dog eyes of doom. Tears had started forming in the corner of her eyes.
The 'baby' on Tsuna's shoulder hit Tsuna with a green hammer, which I swear was a chameleon a second ago.
"Dame-Tsuna, how dare you make mama cry" the baby said as the hammer turned back into a chameleon.
"Reborn!" Tsuna cried rubbing the sore spot on his head. Reborn glared darkly at Tsuna who Hiee!d.
"Fine!"
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TSUNA
"So where are you from Yuri-san?" I asked.
Yuri looked up from her meal and in a heavily accented voice said.
"I'm from Russia."
"Why did you come to Namimori?"
"To get away from an overprotective old geezer who is my grandpa. And to live like an independent adult."
I sweatdropped. How does she expect to live like an independent adult when she is just thirteen years old? Heck, she is a year smaller than me!
"Yuri has more balls than you Dame-Tsuna" Reborn said as he stole the hamburger from my plate.
"Reborn!"
"Protecting your food is a part of your mafia training" Reborn said. Bianchi nodded and continued feeding Reborn his dinner.
'Bastard' I thought before turning my attention back to Yuri who was letting Lambo have her hamburger.
"Gyahaha! Lambo-san got the creepy boy-girl's hamburger." Laughed Lambo.
"Lambo!" I chided Lambo. Though, he was correct. Yuri was strange…she was wearing an oversized baby blue t-shirt, baggy brown knee-length shorts that hid part of her prosthetic right leg and a pale yellow scarf; her face was kind of scary because of her long bangs which covered her eyes and she looked like a boy.
"It's okay Tsuna-san. It's common for people to mistake me for a creepy hobo girl who looks very much like a boy. Yuri said smiling 'creepily'. 'I wonder if it's her actual smile that is creepy, or the fact that her long bangs make her smile look creepy.'
"What!" I shouted at the top of my voice. "You expect me to sleep with Yuri-san!"
"Yes" was Reborn's simple reply.
"Mama says that the two of you need to share the bed for the night." Reborn said. He was sipping on his twelfth cup of espresso (he is addicted to them).
"She said that she would arrange a bed for Yuri the first thing tomorrow. So for tonight share the bed."
"Can't she sleep with Bianchi?" I asked.
"Mama shares her room with Bianchi" Reborn said as a matter of fact
"Reborn!" I groaned. This felt like cheating Kyoko-chan (Not that we are dating or anything *blush*)
Reborn glared at me as he transformed Leon into a hammer. "Dame-Tsuna do you want to die young" Reborn said darkly.
I gulped, "Alright. I'll sleep with Yuri-san for the night…."
"Good."
So Yuri and Tsuna ended up sharing the bed. It was quite awkward for the two of them but they managed.
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The next morning~
Tsuna's eyes cracked open slowly as the morning sunlight hit his face. The first thing he saw was the back of the petite, strange Russian girl Yuri who had been 'adopted' by his mother yesterday.
'Oh right, Yuri and me shared the bed last night,' he thought. Said girl shuffled in her sleep and now her front was facing Tsuna's.
Tsuna blushed a deep red when he saw Yuri's adorable sleeping face. Her bangs, which had been covering her eyes, were parted sideways. Perfect brows, long thick eyelashes and the way she was smiling in her sleep made Yuri look heavenly.
Tsuna shook his head. 'I like Kyoko-chan! So why am I blushing like an idiot!'
This caused Yuri to open her eyes. Tsuna felt his heart stop when he saw Yuri's eyes. To simply say that they were beautiful would be a huge understatement. They were a striking baby blue in color with an icy blue tint. Tsuna's breathing hitched when Yuri smiled, her eyes still visible to him.
"Morning, Tsuna-kun" Yuri said.
"Mo-orning!" Tsuna blushed a deep red. He jumped off from the bed and tripped in the process.
"Are you okay?" Yuri asked tilting her head, baby blue eyes sparkling in the sunlight.
This caused Tsuna a major nosebleed as he stood up on his feet while holding his bloodied nose.
"I'm fine haha," he laughed nervously.
"If you say so.." Yuri said adjusting her scarf. The girl was obsessed with scarfs and even wore them to bed.
'God what is happening to me?' Tsuna thought as he scurried down the stairs to the bathroom to clean his bloodied nose.
Unbeknown to both of them a certain Spartan tutor was watching them while sipping on his cup of morning espresso.
'Well this is interesting' Reborn thought smirking. It was funny to see Tsuna all flustered up in front of another girl who was not Sasagawa Kyoko aka Tsuna's 'Madonna'. Plus, Yuri had managed to pique his interest. The Russian girl had not treated him like a baby, but as a full grown adult, which he really was.
Yuri was strange. She seemed like she was hiding something…. something big… and Reborn hated not knowing things.
Oh, he was so going to look her up.
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Breakfast went normally. Tsuna kept secretly glancing at Yuri who had covered her eyes with her long bangs. Again.
Lambo kept asking Yuri for her fried egg. Said girl was more than happy to give her fried egg to the little cow. Yuri loved kids. She could never say no to one. Plus, she was not much of an eater and Nana had made sure to fill up the girl's plate with all sorts of dishes (You are thin as a stick Yuri-chan. You should eat more!).
"Lambo don't ask Yuri-san for her food!" Tsuna said. Lambo being Lambo stuck his tongue out and started making hilarious faces in the process.
"Mama-Yuri was the one who gave Lambo-san the permission to eat her food" Lambo said. He had started calling Yuri, Mama-Yuri because the girl was more than willing to share her food with him and even fed him from her own plate. It reminded Lambo of the time when his own mother would feed him with her own two hands (poor Lambo)
"I'm off!" Tsuna said as he exited the house.
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"Have a nice day Tsuna-kun" Yuri said. She was holding Lambo with one arm while her other hand was busy holding her walking stick. Yuri had told them that when she was small she used to use her walking stick to support herself, and now it had been a permanent habit of her to always carry her titanium walking stick wherever she went.
Tsuna blushed remembering Yuri's beautiful eyes.
"Sa-ame to y-you Yu-uri-chan" he said nervously before scooting off to school with a smirking Reborn on his shoulder.
'Wait. Why did I call her Yuri-chan!'
"My, Dame-Tsuna has a crush on Yuri~" teased Reborn. He just loved torturing his dame student.
"Shut up Reborn!"
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