After being a member of FanFiction since *Checks profile*… April, I am finally posting a story. I probably have Carlile to thank for continually prodding, bugging, and threatening me as I wrote this up until its completion. Then there was the period between then and finally posting it… Yeah, it's been a long road.

Please forgive any mistakes I may have made. I hope you enjoy it!~ And remember! That little review button at the bottom is your bestest friend in the whole wide world!

I do not hold any claim over the creation of the Reborn! Series.

Chapter One: Rumors Are the Backbone of High School Society

She couldn't help but sigh at the scene that confronted her. Before her was a sniffling, brown haired boy that looked rather small for a 2nd grader crouching among the bushes. The tufts of hair that stood out on his head were like bits of fluff.

"Tsu-chan, what happened this time?' She asked him gently as she slowly knelt down to his curled up figure. The boy let out a few more sniffs as he vehemently rubbed at his eyes.

"Th-they were m-making fu-fu-fun of me a-again."

"Because?" She encouraged him to continue with his explanation.

"Be-because," here he took a deep breath while the young girl waited patiently, "For my career essay I said I wanted to be a Giant Robot."

For a moment, the girl thought she could visibly see the depressed aura surrounding her friend.

"A Giant Robot? Well that's way cooler than what I wrote. I said that I wanted to be a patissiere like my mom. Pretty boring, huh?" She sighed.

"But the pastries at your mom's shop are really good. I don't think it would be boring to make tasty stuff like that."

The girl stared at the boy for a while before grinning widely at the small boy, "Heh, you really like our pastries huh? Then how about coming over today? My mom was going to make some Choux a la Creme today."

"Really? Yay!" The boy quickly stood up and both he and the girl started to leave.

"Oh, one more thing Tsu-chan," She stopped suddenly as she remembered something.

"Hm? What is it, Mi-chan?"

"You know it's ok to cry every now and then but if you cry everyday it'll stunt your growth and you'll be short forever."

"SERIOUSLY?"

From then on Tsuna swore that he would never cry again... Which lasted till the next day at recess when the other boys in class started their usual chant of 'No-good Tsuna'.

It was a nice thought though.

~3~3~3~

The sound of the bell snapped her back to the reality of school, and she managed to catch the teacher's reminder to study for the math test at the end of the week. She gathered her notebook and packed it away into her schoolbag with her pencil case. She could hear some of the girls giggling about the new café that had just opened, and the volleyball club members were getting pumped for the upcoming game. They got a lot more excited for their games ever since Tsuna had substituted a player and helped win a game.

Speaking of Tsuna - where was he? He had been in class this morning, but now his desk sat vacant of his person. In fact, she didn't even remember him coming back from PE this afternoon. Could he be skipping? Miyabi inwardly sighed at that as she walked into the hallway.

"Isn't the Tea Ceremony club meeting today? Or was it the Baking club?" the questions came at her from behind causing her to jump at their sudden appearance, and spun around quickly to find their source.

"Geez Hana, give me a heart attack why don't you? And I'm not even in either of those clubs."

"You help out with them so much you might as well be."

"Tea Ceremony and Baking are both still small since they were only founded this year. I'm just helping them to get on their feet," She explained as she kept walking.

Hana had now caught up to her and they were walking sided by side as she gave Miyabi one of her 'all-knowingly' mature smiles, "Ever the big sister, huh Miya?"

"Hey, where's Kyoko?" Miyabi asked noticing the absence of the short-haired girl and in an attempt to divert the direction of the conversation.

"The class representatives are having a meeting today. Something about choosing a replacement for that Mochida-jerk."

It seemed that ever since the 'One-point Incident', as it came to be known, Mochida had been under pressure to retire from his position as a class representative. Yet another example of the strange occurrences that frequently seemed to revolve around Tsuna as of late. Of course the strange occurrences that revolved around him could probably be traced back to the strange people that seemed to gravitate towards him.

Such as the Italian transfer who one day seemed disgusted with the mere thought of having to breath the same air as Tsuna and the next day acting as though nothing could make him happier than being the very ground upon which Tsuna walked. Can you say Bipolar?

Miyabi momentarily halted her mental ramblings as she and Hana parted ways, both promising to meet up Saturday after their classes for a trip to the bookstore. She then picked up where she had left off on her list of strange people surrounding Tsuna, having mastered the art of thinking while walking, being the multitasked she is.

(And for those of you who say there is no such thing as multitasking, well Miyabi will just have to write you a strongly worded letter while memorizing the Periodic Table, cooking a balanced supper, balancing a soccer ball on her knee, and then revise and edit it herself while practicing French verb conjugations. So there. Snap, snap, snapping.)

The more she thought about it, it wasn't just strange people surrounding Tsuna, but strange incidents as well. The 'One-point Incident' and the, ahem, volleyball game being some of the more mundane examples. She hadn't thought much of it when she had heard that Tsuna was somehow involved in Yamamoto-san's 'staged suicide attempt', but she couldn't bring herself to ignore when he had gone and eaten all the cakes the girls had made in Home Ec. In his underwear no less.

In fact, she had heard lots of rumors about Tsuna running around in nothing but his underwear.

… On second thought strange didn't even begin to describe the events that surrounded Tsuna.