(This is my first KHR fanfiction! Woo! Go me! Anyway, this was written with prompts, a list of 100 words and terms i had to use... so far i'm only on 30... The words are underlined and I'll send the list to anyone who wants to do their own prompt story! Oh, I don't own Katekyo Hitman Reborn, but Akira Amano does. The only character I own is Chizune. Believe me, if i owned KHR, there'd be more XanTsu hints in it...)

"Go ahead, introduce yourself." The teacher urged the short, red-head.

"I'm Chizune Miahara... I lived in America for the past year... and that's about it." The teacher told her to sit in whatever empty desk she wanted.

Tsuna watched as the adorable girl sat down in the very back corner. '...I wonder if she knows english...' He thought. She looked over at him and he quickly turned back down to look at his notebook, a blush developing across his cheeks. 'What... is with me?!'

"Love!" Tsuna jumped as Reborn popped in his face with the comment. He was sitting on the roof, eating lunch with Gokudera and Yamamoto.

"Ehh?! Wh-what are you talking about?!" Reborn pulled out a marker.

"It's written all over your face." He jumped up and wrote love in big bold letters on Tsuna's face.

"J-juudaime!" Gokudera yelled while Yamamoto laughed at the scene.

Tsuna had finished getting all of the marker off his face when the door to the roof opened. Chizune walked through it and gasped.

"I'm sorry! I thought it'd be empty up here!" She turned to walk back through the door.

"Wait! You can eat with us, if you want." Tsuna said without realizing it.

"It's okay. I'll eat elsewhere." She said and closed the door behind her. Yamamoto and Gokudera looked at each other and shrugged.

"She seemed friendly enough in class..." Tsuna sighed. To him, when she appeared, it was like a light lit up the whole roof. He shook his head to clear the thoughts.

'No! K-kyoko's the only one for me!'

Chizune rushed down the stairs. She didn't know that people actually ate lunch up there. She typically liked to eat alone, she always had. In her dash down the hallways she didn't notice the black haired boy in front of her and she ran straight into him. He spun around, his tonfa aimed.

"Eeee! S-sorry! I- I wasn't watching where I was going!"

She had heard all about this boy already. Hibari Kyouya, the Disciplinary Committee President. Some girls warned her about him right before lunch. He just scowled at her and put the tonfa down.

"Fine, just watch where you're going next time." He turned around and continued down the hallway, a dark aura seeming to emit from him. Chizune exhaled in relief and turned to walk down the opposite hallway.

She finally found an empty stairway. She sat down and opened up her package of melon bread. She was just seeking solace because she had been swarmed around by girls AND boys all day, so far. She was glad to be back in Japan; there was no other place that she'd feel at home.

Her mother moved to America right after the divorce, she wanted to get as far away from her husband as possible. Chizune's dad moved back to his home town in Italy and Chizune felt depressed more and more because of it. Her mother certainly wasn't going to go let her live with him, so Chizune wouldn't talk with her mother anymore.

Chizune didn't believe in heaven, she was a firm believer in reincarnation. Its was all because of a stray cat. She used to have a dog; it was small, slobbery, and an attention hog. Cocoa was her first pet except for the fish that she won at a festival. One day, she came home from school only to see that the lime green collar she had given to Cocoa was lying on the ground... right next to a small patch of blood and a few tufts of fur.

That day, she lost quite a bit of innocence. She looked at death differently, she knew now that there was natural death and murder... He father did a good job of trying to explain it to her and she eventually accepted it. She would have to except it or she'd sit like a lump in her room crying all day, like she had been doing the past 2 days.

She was being driven to the pound to see if she was ready for another pet, when she saw a cat lying on the sidewalk. It couldn't move because its paw was stuck under a large trashcan.

"Dad! Stop the car!" She immediately yelled. They pulled to the side and she carefully walked up to the cat. She had been told once not to mess with stray cats, because even if they're injured, they'll swipe at you because they're solitary creatures. The cat simply looked at her and meowed what seemed to be a plea for help. Chizune lifted the trashcan from its paw and the cat sat up and licked it. She expected the cat to run off but it ran at her and rubbed its face on her legs. Her father laughed at this.

"Looks like it praises you." She bent down to pet the cat and it licked her hand with a slobbery tongue... just like her dog used to... She stood there dumbstruck and stared into the cat's eyes.

"Cocoa...?" The cat meowed again almost like a response. "D-dad... I found Cocoa..." She picked the cat up in her arms and started crying tears of joy.

After she took the cat in, she felt as if she could breathe again. She never let the cat out of the house when she was gone, afraid of the accident happening again. She stopped believing the stories of heaven her mother always told her, she had found her precious Cocoa again... it had to be reincarnation.

She snapped out of her thoughts when the bell that ended lunch rang. The memories had brought some tears to her eyes so she quickly wiped them away and ran off to class.

(A/N: This looks terribly short on here... Sorry if the first chap IS short, it was all written together and i had to split it somewhere. Anyway, Please review! Constructive critisism is much appreciated! ^^ ~Teichi)