Yay! I finally got to getting around to creating this story! It's been in my head for a while and I finally had some time and ideas to write it out.
Alright, so this is slight AU like always. Those of the Shimon family do not really show up in this story at all. I don't really feel like putting them in here really… ha ha. Too much work…
The only thing that came out of the Shimon is [spoiler alert for ch. 346] that Mukuro was released from the prison and that he could return to his original body. He will not need to really possess Chrome's body anymore. My other fics have him still doing so, and I will not change that. (Hibird the Yellow Feathered Matchmaker) This fic only will go under that idea. [spoiler over]
Regardless I do hope that you can come to enjoy the first chapter of this. ^^
Disclaimer: KHR belongs to the awesome Akira Amano! I just write fanfiction for her awesome work.
What's The Malfunction?
"Just where is Reborn? He's been gone for like… a week." Tsuna said walking through the park with the rest of the gang.
"Collonello has been gone for a while too, even longer than a week. I'm worried about him." Kyoko said with a sad look on her face, clearly very worried for the little Rain Arcobaleno.
"Reborn said he was gone on urgent business, what about Collonello?"
"Collonello said the same thing." Kyoko said.
"I'm sure they're fine. They're strong." Ryohei reassured them both.
"Yeah, you're right." The two both agreed.
"Gao." Natsu cried from his ring.
"Hm? Natsu, what's wrong?" He asked.
"Gao gao?"
"Ha ha, I'm fine Natsu. Thanks for worrying." Tsuna chuckled.
"Juudaime and his sky lion get along so well. It's so admirable. If only Uri could grow to like me." Gokudera sighed and Uri just hissed in retaliation.
Suddenly all of the rings started to glow.
"What is going on? Why are you guys letting out your dying will flames?" Tsuna asked.
"I'm not doing it on purpose Juudaime, also your ring is also glowing." Gokudera said.
Tsuan looked down at Natsu's ring to see that it was indeed glowing.
The animal rings all cried out loudly.
"Huh? Natsu? Are you okay?" Tsuna looked at his ring worriedly.
"U-Uri? What's wrong with you? Stop making such a ruckus."
"HISS!"
"Did you just hiss at me? If you weren't in your ring form…" Gokudera huffed angrily.
"Jirou and Kojirou are acting oddly as well. Do you think they are having a mini riot and are letting out dying will flames?" Yamamoto asked with an uncharacteristic worried face which replaced his usual smile.
"MUUU!~"
"Gyupya! Gyuudon is angry!" Lambo shouted running around in circles, panicking.
"Now now don't get upset now Lambo. It's just a talking ring. Take it like a man." Ryohei huffed staring at his ring and how Kangaryuu kept making sounds as well.
"Hahi, this is so weird-desu." Haru said.
"Yeah I know it's like… they sense something bad is going to happen." Kyoko said.
As soon as she said that- as if on cue the rings… started to crack!
"N-N-Natsu! Are you okay? What's going on!" Tsuna shouted loudly.
The rings all cracked and a bright light surrounded them.
"I'm BLIND!" Lambo shouted.
"Just shut up, ahoshi!('stupid cow')"
"Tako-head!"
"Tch tch tch." "Nyang~" "G-gao…" "Muuu…" "Woof!" "Cheep cheep~"
"Natsu? You're okay?" Tsuna called out covering his eyes from the great big flash his eyes were not anticipating.
When the light disappeared, everyone was rubbing their eyes trying to get their eyesight back.
"Ow! Who punched me! That's it! Someone has issued the challenge! Well bring it on!" Ryohei was randomly punching the air.
"I-I still can't see!" Tsuna was trying to feel around to feel a hard surface so he could stay next to it and be safe while he regained his eyesight but he stepped some something and tripped.
"GAO!"
"G-gwah! What the hell is this!" Gokudera shouted as he felt that his face was being ripped to shreds.
"W-what is going on? W-woah there. Is someone liking me?" Yamamoto was clearly shocked by this odd notion.
Haru and Kyoko who were farthest away from the light regained their eyesight first.
"Ha-hahi! This is so shocking-desu! What are all of these animals doing here?"
"Wow~ It's like a petting zoo!" Kyoko giggled.
"What?" Tsuna rubbed his eyes and saw this orange fluffy animal right in front of his eyes.
"G-gao…"
"NATSU!"
"Gao!" Natsu ran a few paces away from him and shuddered frightened by his sudden shouting.
"What are all of the animals doing here? Uri get off my face."
"GYUDON! Nya ha ha!" Lambo laughed and jumped onto the bulls back.
"My boxing buddy!" Ryohei laughed and hugged Kangaryuu.
"Ha ha! I'm not sure what's going on but this is fun!" Yamamoto laughed petting Jirou and was laughing at Kojirou fly around in excitement.
"Hm… I suppose that it really did happen." Lal Mirch said jumping down from one of the trees.
"Lal Mirch-san? What are you doing here?" Tsuna asked her.
"Well I was told to watch over you brats, and well I was told that they rings just may revert back to their original forms." Lal Mirch explained.
"Why?" Gokudera asked, being a man who liked answers.
"Well I don't really know myself. I'm not the one who made the animals take form of rings." She said.
"Will they revert back to normal?" Gokudera asked.
"I'm not sure but I think they will be stuck like this for a while until we can figure out a plan." Lal Mirch said.
Haru and Kyoko approached the animals looking at some of them, remembering each and every one of them.
"So, Lal Mirch-san? What are we going to do? We can't like… leave the vongola box animals out like this." Tsuna said panicking a little bit.
"Hahi, Natsu~ Hello do you remember, Haru?" Haru asked the little sky lion who hid behind Tsuna.
"He's so cute isn't he, Haru-chan?"
"Hai! He's very cute-desu!"
"So cute we could just eat him up." Kyoko giggled.
"Haru agrees~" Haru smiled and Natsu let out a whimper climbing up Tsuna's back and up onto his shoulder shivering in fright.
"Natsu? That hurts Natsu, please get down."
"G-gao…" Natsu groaned in disappointment.
"Gah! Uri! Stop it! Bad! Bad! Stop it!" Gokudera shouted trying to get the clawing cat off of his face.
"Ha ha! This is fun! Kojirou! Jirou! I thought that I wouldn't see you guys like this for a very long time." Yamamoto laughed petting his rain dog, and laughing as the rain swallow flew overhead.
"Nya ha ha ha! GYUDON!" Lambo cheered at the big bull and was jumping around, much to the bull's annoyance.
"Kyokugen! I got my great sparring buddy bad! Kanagryuu I missed you!" Ryohei shouted at the top of his lungs and hugged his kangaroo friend with all of his strength, which is sun Kangaroo reciprocated.
Lal Mirch was looking around trying to access the situation. "Well… all I can say is that it looks like your vongola box animals are stuck like this for a while. Verde is the one who helped with this so he would know what's going on but he's disappeared.
"D-dissapeared?" Tsuna shouted in shock.
"Well I wasn't supposed to tell you but I see no point not to. I don't know much of the details of Verde's situation or these rings, but all I do know is that Verde has disappeared and Mammon had asked Collonello for assistance, and when Collonello also disappeared… Reborn decided to go in and settle things. Before he left, he put me in charge of you brats. I've just been watching over you but when this happened I had to reveal myself." Lal Mirch said.
"So what are we going to do? We can't keep these animals at home." Gokudera said. "My apartment doesn't accept pets." He added.
"Well, I do have a nearby vacant house. Sometimes all of the arcobaleno will gather there whenever there is a big meeting. I use it when I have to be here for a long period of time as well. You can store the animals there."
"So you rented a house?"
"No, I bought one."
"Y-you bought one? You don't even stay here for that long, why need a house?"
"It was cheap." Lal Mirch shrugged.
"Houses aren't that cheap though." Tsuna questioned her dubiously.
"Reborn helped me get a good deal." Lal Mirch added.
"Well that explains it. Reborn-san's excellent at negotiations." Gokudera said.
"So you can take all of the animals there." Lal Mirch suggested.
"Woah wait a minute, I have a question though. Are we… just going to leave the animals on their own? Don't they need someone to watch over them?" Yamamoto asked.
"You're right, we'll need someone who's good with animals, and will probably have more time on their hands." Lal Mirch said and everyone looked at Haru.
"Ha-Hahi? Haru? Oh Haru doesn't know if that's such a good idea-desu." Haru said waving her hands in front of her.
"Well you aren't that bad with the animals, and you are being home schooled after Reborn managed to convince your father." Gokudera said.
"Though is it okay to just leave her to watch over all of the animals? That's a bit unfair." Yamamoto said.
"Well I will also be living in the house, so I will help her whenever she needs help." Lal Mirch said.
"I suppose that could be okay." Yamamoto said a bit unsure of the whole thing though.
"This… would be temporary right? Haru wouldn't mind helping out even if it's just this much. Haru would like being more useful to everyone."
"Well then it's settled. Let's relocate ourselves then." Lal Mirch said walking in the direction of the vacant house.
"We're just going to move these animals through town?" Tsuna asked.
"Yes, now stop complaining or you are getting 10 backhands for questioning me." Lal Mirch said and Tsuna shut up.
"Follow me." She re-stated and she walked off.
They all walked around the town with their animals. Some could walk around more naturally than others.
Tsuna was carrying Natsu like he was a doll.
Yamamoto had asked for Kojirou to follow Lal Mirch from air and pretended to be taking Jirou for a walk.
Gokudera was also walking Uri, since you know walking your cat wasn't that hard at all.
Ryohei and Lambo had it the hardest, though they were also the ones that didn't care about being conspicuous at all.
Ryohei was walking alongside Kangaryuu occasionally throwing punches at her[1].
Lambo was still riding on Gyuudon's back having his good old fun at his expense.
Once they got to the house, they all managed to walk into the house, and it was pretty spacious.
Well it was for the arcobaleno, and some of them needed a lot of space.
Like Skull for instance with his huge armored octopus partner.
"This is HUGE! I'm surprised that you got it for so cheap!" Tsuna said in awe.
"It was a lot smaller but we all added onto it." Lal Mirch explained.
"Well the animals can stay here and roam around the house and I suppose that Haru will also have to stay here to watch over the animals. I will show you to your room later. Your room can be right across from mine." She said.
"Ah… okay, thank you." Haru thanked her still trying to wrap her mind around how she was going to have to care for all of these animals.
"Well I'll help you move in after we get all of this settled." Lal Mirch said.
"Thank you Lal Mirch-san." Haru said watching all of the animals roam around some sniffing around at their new surroundings.
"I'm sure they are all potty trained." Lal Mirch said.
"I think so." Yamamoto said not really sure.
"Well if they aren't… they'll soon learn what's coming to them as soon as they make an 'accident' in this house." Lal Mirch said.
"Are you sure you are going to be okay with this Haru?" Tsuna asked her.
"You don't want me to help?" Kyoko asked her.
"Well Haru is being homeschooled so it doesn't really bother me. Though you could try stopping by after school and helping perhaps." Haru suggested.
"I think I'll do that." Kyoko smiled.
"Well everyone should just go now while Haru and I situate everything. This will take a while." Lal Mirch said.
"Well… see you tomorrow then, Haru-chan." Kyoko bid her friend farewell without looking back at her nervously, having mixed feeling about her taking up this job, along with the others.
Haru, though, was determined that she could do this fine. After all she also had Lal Mirch to help her.
"Well then we might as well get started." Haru sighed figuring out just where all of the animals were going to sleep, where to feed them, feed them what, what to feed them from, where shall they get their water, tell them where to go to the bathroom, etc.
The last matter of business was going to be packing up just some of her things so she could move into the big house and get ready for her big day tomorrow.
[1]= Kangaryuu is often stated as a male in the series but it has a pouch. Only females have pouches… it's part of the whole reproductive system. I did my research. I don't care if it's stated as a male, but only females have pouches so I'm referring to her as female.
Well then there is chapter one. Hopefully this is satisfactory enough for an introductory chapter. I hate starting off stories. Just so hard dang it. I hope that it's interesting enough.
Just where are Hibari and Mukuro you ask? Well… they'll be coming out in the next few chapters or so. PSHHH like Mukuro and Hibari would be walking through the park with everyone else right? Especially in the same park at the same time? Oh lordy, pray that the park doesn't get destroyed.
So I decided to make them come out later on. Hm… I'm not sure when this will end but I feel as though it may go on for a while. Maybe… who knows.
Either way, when it's getting close to ending I will put up a poll to see which coupling gets the most votes and that is who Haru will end up with at the end. Though with my other poll that I had, Mukuro x Haru and Hibari x Haru are the reigning coupling pairs that people tend to like most.
I'm hoping for the other pairings to have a chance as well since that's more fun isn't it? A good competition instead of an overwhelming win?
Until next time!
-Neospice12