Eye of the Beholder
Chapter 0: Introduction
A rumour used to spread around Namimori.
A little girl-no older than 3-with a cherubic face that looked like that of an angel's ,and with a kind smile so warm that it rivaled the Sun,resided in the 'Sawada' household.
She was adored by the residents of Namimori.
She was so well-known that some of those in neighboring neighborhoods sometimes crossed over just to have a glimpse of her angelic face and a taste of her baked treats.
She was a precious girl to the citizens of Namimori.
She was happy and kind.
Her life was perfect.
Until,one day,on her fourth birthday.
The brunette,with spiky gravity-defying hair and mismatched eyes,disappeared.
There was an outburst.
Everyone was devastated,but not so much in agony as Sawada Nana.
Search parties were carried out all over.
Because of the many connections that the visitors of Namimori had,the search stretched out even to Italy.
Street Gangs,Yakuza,Mafia
Different types of people had joined in the search for the beloved brunette.
Many people wondered where the father of the precious child he must have heard new of his missing daughter?
A year or so had passed before the girl was officially deemed dead.
All the citizens weeped,and it seemed that the sky was mourning for the girl as well,as it poured the entire day,and the following day,and the following day.
The father of the child hadn't even showed up at the girl's 'funeral',causing the residents of Namimori to create a bad impression of the supposed construction worker.
One month later.
The rain stopped only when a new visitor stepped foot onto Namimori.
This stranger wore a cloak to conceal their features,seemed around the same age as how old the previous brunette would have been were she alive,and had spiky brown tendrils of hair peeking out from under their cloak
They never saw this stranger's face once,though.
But the citizens were sure that even if the stranger did show their face,it would have been the same as their beloved angel's.
Mysteriously though,instead of finding out whether it was the supposedly deceased girl under that cloak,as if under a spell,the residents of Namimori ignored the mysterious person.
Nevertheless,though,the mother of said deceased child had welcomed the brown-haired stranger back with open arms,smothering the mysterious person and shocking the residents.
They let her be,though,thinking that she might have been too devastated by her loss to accept anyone who seemed similar enough to her baby girl.
The cause for the spread of this rumor,though,was that the precious brunette was sometimes spotted near important events,such as funerals,and marriages,dressed either in black or white dresses reminiscent to those of goth Lolita,somehow with an ethereal feel to her
The citizens of Namimori had thought that she truly died and went to Heaven to become a true angel,and prayed to her,thanking her for looking over their family.
Over the years,though,the girl's appearances became rare,and the people who happened to see her were deemed lucky and were said to have been blessed for the rest of their lives.
The people who had seen her did turn out to be lucky in their own ways
Of Course,as stated before,such occurrences were extremely rare and happened only once a blue moon.
According to the citizens,though,the dates on which she appeared were those of her birthday,her mother's birthday,and...the day she went missing,and every time she appeared,she seemed to have aged a bit...
However,this runout appeared to be popular only among the old generation which had known the brunette first-hand,while the present generation seemed to regard the rumor as a myth.
In present time,though,this rumor still circulates,and if one were to go to a certain spot in Namimori Cemetery,they would find an aged large grave stone-about one meter-engraved in intricate and delicate carvings
'Angel of Namimori,
Loved by all
Pure as Snow
Her soul is now with God
R.I.P
REST IN PEACE
Sawada Tsunayoshi'
Chapter 0:Prologue
Girl's POV:
*BEEP* *BEEP*
'can"t believe some people still talk about that...*sigh*'
"Urgh..."
I groan as my hand reaches for my alarm and I get out of bed slowly.
I open my left eye slowly
*5:30*
My alarm clock flashes in neon green
I reach for my eyepatch which has Bones on it.
"Good...morning...Yoshi"
"Shut up,brat!I told you not to call me that!My name is BONES! !"
I slip my eyepatch over my right eye as Bones shouts angrily.
"Get it,brat?Bones!It's so much more cooler than 'Yoshi' !"
"..."
I sigh tiredly.
Too much trouble in the morning.
3rd Person's POV:
(Cause it's weird to talk in present time for me...sorry :( )
The girl tried,and failed,as usual,to tame her wild brown hair as it stubbornly stuck up in all blew the long mess of hair that obscured half of her face in frustration,and stared at the full-length mirror before her.
"Finally..."
The girl held her waist-length hair in her small yet rough hands,tied it into a tight ponytail,grabbed the scissors on her desk,and in one swift motion,cut her long and silky hair off,leaving her with spiky but soft hair which struck out,defying gravity,and short strands of hair which rested against the nape of her neck. She then kept the tied up hair in her drawer,keeping it for later.(?)
Reaching for the spiky brown wig on her desktop,she placed that into her drawer as well.
"And...done."
When she left her room,she made sure to close the door quietly and got some cleaning supplies from the storage closet.
Clipping her bangs up,she picked up a large piece of cloth,wet it in some soap and began polishing every nook and cranny in the house,leaving not a single speck of dust.
"Phew..."
The brunette wiped the sweat that had formed on her forehead before unclipping her bangs and walking back up to her room silently.
Grabbing her school uniform -a white long-sleeved button-up shirt,I navy blue tie,dark-coloured slacks and a beige blazer-,underwear, a long roll of bandage and a big fluffy,white towel,she once again made her way out of her room and into the bathroom.
Laying her uniform and towel onto the counter outside the washroom neatly,she stripped and placed her used clothes into the basket next to the counter.
Removing her eyepatch,she shut her right eye before stepping into the bathroom.
Ten minutes later,the brunette emerged from the shower,spiky hair slightly drooping while the top of her face remained obscured by her brown bangs.
Grabbing the towel beside her,she quickly wiped her self off,wiping her hair dry with it as well.
Once her hair was deemed dry enough,she grabbed the roll of bandages and wrapped her chest tightly to conceal it and threw on the Namimori Middle school Male uniform.
Staring into the full-length mirror which was placed so conveniently in the small area outside the bathroom as well,she made sure that her tie was adjusted properly and that her shirt was properly tucked into her long pants.
After she was done inspecting her uniform,she began staring at her face intently in the mirror.
Well,not her face,but just half of it,seeing as her long bangs shadowed her left eye and eyepatch and a part of her nose.
Once that was done,she grabbed her school bag and went down to the kitchen quietly,making breakfast for her mother and herself.
After eating,she placed cling-wrap over her mother's plate of food before cooking her lunch and placing it into an orange bento box,doing the same to the other portion of food,but in a dark blue-coloured bento box.
She quietly placed the boxes into her bag and walked to the front door before putting on her shoes and walking out the door with a green-coloured Pocky stick in her mouth and a box of matcha-flavoured Pocky in her hands that appeared out of nowhere.
"Ja...ittekimasu..."
Girl's POV:
My name is Sawada Tsunayoshi.
People mostly call me 'Dame-Tsuna'
I'm 14 and in my second (?) of middle school.
I'm a male-but that's my gender to those who don't know me-female and part of the mafia.
My sidekick-
'HEY!'
-is a Skull called Bones,who is on my eyepatch.
My name is Sawada Tsunayoshi.
And that's all that you need to know.
For now...kehehehe
(In the background:
Dammit,Bones!You just ruined my cool intro!)
15 minutes later:
3rd Person's POV:
"Tsu-chan,wake up-huh?"
Sawada Nana walked into her daughter's room to wake her up,but was surprised to find that Tsuna wasn't in her room and that her bed had already been addition,the entire house seemed to be sparkling at every corner.
"Well,isn't this rare..."
It wasn't really rare,seeing as her beloved Tsu-chan woke up earlier than her once or thrice a month and cleaned the house until it was practically sparkling.
She walked down to the kitchen and was surprised to see an omelette on a plate wrapped in cling-wrap with a note which read:
"To Mama,
Don't overwork yourself!
I've already made breakfast for you,so eat up,enjoy,and relax!*_^
~Tsuna"
"...Oh,that girl..."
Nana put the omelette into the microwave after removing the cling-wrap to heat it up.
A silent tear made its way down her cheek as a memory made its way to her mind.
At the same time,Tsuna thought she got a feeling that something was happening it was just Bones...
Or was it?
*Meanwhile*
As Tsuna walked to school,she felt relieved as she had woken up early and therefore,had no need to run to school to avoid getting 'bitten to death' by Hibari Kyoya,head of the Discipline Committee.
By this time,Tsuna had already finished her box of Pocky and was about to move on to the next,when she saw a large crowd chattering excitedly about something along the lines of,"Say yes!" Or "Go for it!"
"Is this a marriage proposal or something?",Bones thought out loud
"Shh..."
Tsuna murmured quietly although her naturally curious mind also wanted to know what was happening so she decided to walk in front to get a better look,but nature thought that it was funny to just leave a rock in her path for her to trip on.
*Slip* *Thud**Crunch*
The next thing she knew,Tsuna found herself coming face-to-face with a wide-eyed Sasagawa Kyoko,and an angered Mochida Kensuke.
'Urgh...shit,too close,male'
Tsuna thought with disgust,quickly slipping her black gloves on.
"HEY!WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING,'DAME-TSUNA'?!"
Came a shout from Mochida.
The next thing Tsuna knew,she was being pushed to the ground.
"Boo!" And other things like,
"I bet you're just jealous of Mochida-Senpai!"
Came from the crowd
'How embarrassing...'
"Um,Sawada-kun?Are you alright?"
A concerned voice came from above looked up to see the worried face of Sasagawa Kyoko,her former crush.
A flashback started in her mind like a black-and-White movie.
"TWO YEARS AGO"(SpongeBob SquarePants XD)
Sawada Tsuna fell in love with a girl while in her 'Dame-Tsuna' disguise. .
Tsuna fell in love with her sweet smile,cute face and knew it was wrong but she didn't like males anyways and her heart could never stop racing with Kyoko.
And it wasn't her fault that she was bisexual-homosexual at the time.(Don't judge)It didn't help when Bones started telling her to abandon her crush on the Orange-haired girl,telling her she'd get surprised the brunette that the spirit actually cared for her well-being.
One day,Tsuna decided to confess to Kyoko,and called her to the roof.
"Do you need something,Sawada-Kun?"
-Kyoko asked in a curious tone.
"...Ano..."
Tsuna began fidgeting,which would have been cute if not for the top of her face being covered by hair.
"...I like you,Kyoko-chan!Will you go out with me?"
-Tsuna shouted as she hung her head low.
"..."
-Kyoko did not reply
"...Kyoko...chan?..."
-Tsuna looked up through her brown bangs to see Kyoko who looked as though she was trying to suppress something and her expression morphed from hurt to sadness,and finally,guilt
"...I apologize,Sawada-San...but I don't like you in that way...I never will."
-Kyoko said with a wavering voice,something Tsuna failed to notice due to her preoccupied mind.
"...I see...then,could we at least be friends...?"
-Tsuna asked this with a hopeful voice
"..."
-The silence from Kyoko gave her an immediate answer.
"I...see...I apologise for wasting your time, excuse me."
-Tsuna said softly,voice cracking like her heart,as she dashed past Kyoko and through the door to the roof,tears falling from the left of her face.
How could she have thought that a girl like Kyoko would ever like her?
Tsuna thought that maybe it was because she (Tsuna) was a girl,but Kyoko didn't know that.
As Tsuna was running down the stairs leading to the main entrance of the school,she was suddenly grabbed by the arm by someone.
"Shh...don't panic, me,Kurokawa"
"...Ku-kurokawa-San?What do you need with me?"Tsuna asked,quickly wiping her left eye with the back of her blazer's sleeve.
"I heard what happened on the roof"Hana said softly
"W-What...?"
"Yeah.I just wanted to apologise to you on behalf of rejected you in that way because..."Hana seemed reluctant on completing her sentence.
"...Um...it's fine if you don't want to say it, rejected me because I'm 'Dame',right?...Hahaha...after all,I'm useless and-"
Hana's eyes widened and she cut Tsuna off,grabbing the latter by her shoulders,shocking Tsuna,and somehow managing to make her hair fly out of her face,revealing Bones on the eyepatch where her right eye was supposed to be,and her left eye,glittering with tears,
"You're wrong!Kyoko rejected you because...because she hates men!"
"..."
'Oh...same as me...'
"Her parents died when she was little,leaving her with her only brother,leaving them to be adopted by her foster parents...back then,Kyoko was just an average-looking ,a boy-Mochida Kensuke,a year or 2 her senior-asked her course,because she had never been asked out before,Kyoko was truly thought that Mochida really liked ...she found out that he only asked her out because of a dare...and...he...said some stuff...I was there,so I know about ...please don't blame Kyoko!"
Kurokawa bowed down low.
Tsuna was shocked and murmured,ashamed of herself,"...I-i never knew that...Sasagawa-San had a past like that...I would never blame her for that,or anyone else for that matter...but why did you tell me,Kurokawa-San?"
"It's because you get bullied enough and this rejection could hurt you,so don't misunderstand,alright?I-It's not like I wanted to be friends with you or anything!"
Tsuna thought inwardly,'Kawaii...'
'OOC...!'
"Ja...Would you prefer to remain as acquaintances for now,Kurokawa-San?"
Hana was taken aback at this and said while blushing,"F-fine!Its not like that makes me happy,though!And you can call me H-hana..."
'Acquaintances...sure...'
"Well,you can call me Tsuna!Yoroshiku-ne,Hana-chan!" Tsuna giggled,tears having disappeared,and wondered,'should I tell her?I don't think so...I'll tell her when we're closer...in the near future. '
After all,Bones wasn't warning her about Hana,so it was all fine and dandy.
And so,after seeing Tsuna's face-her entire face,adorned with the eyepatch-Hana...smothered Tsuna.
"How can a boy be SOOO cute?"
"Ha-Hana-chan?!"
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And That is the story of how Tsuna got rejected and made a new friend in one day.
Bones would later call her an idiot for getting too close to someone but,who cares.
But wait...that's not all,yet!
Unbeknownst to the newly-befriended friends,a certain short-orange-haired-cute-girl who had a not-so-cute expression-jealousy(but of who?)-on her face,had watched the exchange between the 2 girls and gripped the wall beside her tightly,close to cracking it.
Dun...dun...DUDUDUDUDUNNN!
(BTW,this was unknown to Tsuna even though it was in her flashback)
Flashback end.
Tsuna stared at the hand in front of her face had forgotten about what had happened between Orange-haired girl and her,but was slightly stunned at the events that had happened and said softly,
"No thank you,Sasagawa-San"
before standing up while dusting herself off before walking into the school while thinking,'I wonder if I will see Hana-chan later...'
After a few seconds though,
"SAWADA 'DAME-TSUNA'!I CHALLENGE YOU TO A KENDO MATCH!"
Came the enraged voice of the captain of the Kendo club,Mochida Kensuke.
Tsuna looked back and blankly said,"Not interested"
"The prize will be Sasagawa Kyoko!"
"...what a jerk..."
Tsuna said softly to herself.
"Wait-What?!"
Kyoko shouted
"Wow"Kurokawa Hana,who had entered the school just in time to witness the exchange, whistled softly.
"I'm NOT fucking interested,so piss off,jackass."
Said Tsuna with her back facing the crowd.'Jesus,can't he take no for an answer?'
She heard Bones mutter in her mind
She reached into her bag for her Pocky,and opened the box,but when she saw the inside of the plastic cover,her indifferent nonchalance quickly turned into shock,then rage as she froze and shook.
The crowd that had gathered was shocked at 'Dame-Tsuna's tone of voice,but nonetheless started chanting,"Fight Fight Fight"
"Why?Too scared?Figures,since you already know that you'll all,you ARE 'Dame-Tsuna'!"
"What was that?!Grrr...Fine,I accept!...oops...?"
-came the shout from Tsuna's retreating figure that had been frozen,the last word was unheard.
"Tomorrow,after school!You better show up,or else!"
Mochida shouted and left with Kyoko in his after,the crowd dispersed as well,not wanting to get caught by the demon prefect.
"Haha,this is interesting!"
Yamamoto Takeshi said to himself
What they didn't know,was that it wasn't Tsuna who shouted at Mochida,but Bones,who was fed up with the kendo captain's mockery.
After the fiasco,Tsuna was still frozen on the spot where she made a horrifying discovery.
A few minutes later,the bell rang,and Tsuna was still frozen.
"Oi!What's wrong with you,Brat?!The bell has rung!Let's go!"
Bones tried snapping her out of it,but to no avail.
"The bell has rung,why aren't you in class yet?"
The demon prefect of Namimori-chuu appeared while an overpowering aura surrounded Tsuna who was still frozen in shock.
"Answer me."
"..."
Tsuna didn't answer,obviously,which irritated Hibari.
"For coming to school late and defying my orders...I'll bite you to death!"
He then pulled out a pair of tonfas from nowhere and moved to strike the unmoving Tsuna when...
'To move,or not to move...that is the question...'
Bones contemplated letting Tsuna get hit by the bloodthirsty prefect,but then thought against it
'*sigh* I've got no choice...'
"SAWADA IEMITSU!!"A loud and shrill voice resounded through the air,which caught both Hibari and Tsuna's attention.
Hibari paused while looking around and Tsuna snapped from her daze,non-visible left eye wide open for a while before narrowing into a dangerous slit.
"Iemitsu,huh?Its been a while...huh?"Tsuna said in a deep voice which dripped with malice
Tsuna looked in the direction of Hibari.
"I'll bite you to death!"
"What the fu-?!"
Tsuna quickly snapped out of her malicious aura and before she had any time to comprehend what was going on,Hibari struck at her face.
Fortunately for Tsuna,Bones managed to maneuver her body in time (yes,he can do ,no?But couldn't he have done that earlier?...hehehe..) so she only ended up getting a graze while dodging.
"I don't know what's going on here,and I don't wanna find out."
With that,Tsuna ran at lightning speed into the school.
Or,at least,she tried.
The prefect had her pinned onto the ground so that she was sandwiched between the hard concrete ground and the prefect's tonfas.
'Tch!'
Taking in a deep breath,Tsuna narrowed her non-visible left eye and shoved the leader of the discipline committee off her,with more than just a bit of force.
Hibari,shocked,was frozen for a split second before regaining his composure as a dark and bloodthirsty aura quickly formed around him and a smirk was placed on his pale features.
"...wow..."
He lunged forward,failing to hit Tsuna as the brunette dodged his attacks quickly-
'Thank me,Leone!'
-But,once or twice,her cheeks got scraped by Hibari's tonfas,drawing small trickles of blood for Tsuna though,the small cuts closed up as soon as they were made,the only proof of them ever having been there were the trickles of blood which were slowly disappearing.
This went on for a few minutes before Tsuna remembered what time it sighed at the one-sided-ness of the fight and promised herself to beat the prefect the next time they crossed to end the fight quickly,Tsuna waited until the prefect came close enough,slowly lifted her left leg up,
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and promptly kneed Hibari in the you-know-where,causing him to gasp and fall onto the ground,releasing his tonfas,but his pride did not allow him to shriek like a girl.
Tsuna lowered her knee and quickly scrambled away and made a mad dash to her classroom,where Nezu-Sensei made use of the opportunity to belittle and humiliate her in front of the class.
While listening to Nezu's lecture on how Tsuna should be more like the model student that he used to be,Tsuna promised a death threat to Bones for mentioning that man's ,later that night,poor Bones would be getting a beating. Poor,poor he only wanted to ,sad Bones.
Now,maybe you're asking what happened to Tsuna?Weeeell,
"My Fucking Pocky"
That enough of a hint?
*:.｡. o(≧▽≦)o .｡.:*
Later that night,after finding out what had happened - Mochida Incident - ,Tsuna (somehow managed to) beat Bones up-twice as much due to her previous death threat for mentioning that man's name-until a crack was present in him.
(He is,after all,a small skull accessory...For now.)
She later promised to get him another vessel(?)
(Or an item to hold his spirit or something,I guess)
Bones didn't like the sadistic smirk that was present on her face,and he would know why the next day.
*･゜ﾟ･*:.｡..｡.:*･'(*ﾟ▽ﾟ*)'･*:.｡. .｡.:*･゜ﾟ･*
So...this is my first time writing a fanfic,and I'm kind of inexperienced,I guess?
So,please review to let me know if there are any problems-which I think come in abundance-with this Fanfiction.
sorry