CHAPTER 1!

"We will be landing in Japan soon, please make sure you have all your belongings." One of the teachers said. Gokudera ignored him though. He didn't really care much about the field trip but his teachers recommended it and said that it will greatly help him understand the culture for future visits to Japan. Apparently, it would be likely since there were quite a few powerful and very useful Yakuza's that worked with the mafia. And so, here he was with his entire class of around 20 mafia children who were excited to be in Japan.

Well, the reason he decided to come along wasn't because of the culture learning. It was for two entirely different reasons.

1. If he skipped out, the other kids would have said it was because he was only a scared little boy. Since they found out he played piano, they seemed to think he was just a wimp.

2. The further he was from Bianchi and his family, the better.

So as said before, here he was with his entire class of mafia children. Not a single teenager and only 6 students who spoke Japanese.

"Hayato. Do you know Japanese?" One of the nicest teachers asked. He looked at her and shook his head. He only responded to her since she was so nice. The other teachers were scared of his attitude and his liking to explosions.

"If you want, I can be your translator." She said. "Seeing as you don't seem to want to group with the Japanese speakers."

He looked at the others. Most of them had grouped around one of the Japanese speakers, forming 5 groups with a teacher each. The other Japanese speaker was actually Japanese and so, the teachers decided to let him go to his mother's home and see his relatives. The five remaining Japanese speakers were not people he liked.

1. Vincent was bossy and rude to him. Vincent seemed to hate Gokudera for some odd reason that the boy couldn't understand and Vincent was nice to everyone else. Gokudera didn't need that hate around him so that was rejected.

2. Adelina was quiet and very shy. She only let her friends in her group because she was too shy to talk to anyone else. A shame since he actually didn't mind her but apparently, he wasn't friendly enough for her to be comfortable. Thus, he didn't join her group.

3. Celestina on the other hand was nothing like her twin Adelina. She was loud and proud. Never cared about what people thought of her. She was strong and had a backbone but she was too loud for him to deal with. He didn't need all that extra sound so another failure.

4. He didn't know one of them even existed so that was a no. Poor guy...

5. And finally, the last girl was in general, a bitch. She gossiped, badmouthed and backstabbed her way to being with the popular group. Definitely a bust.

And thus, Gokudera and his science teacher from America, Elena Rockwell, or Miss for short, prepared to work together.

On the remaining ride there, Elena spoke to him about when she went to Japan. He wasn't focusing and sort of wished she wasn't there to annoy him but he did, in fact, need a translator and he did think she was the best choice after Adelina. She spoke as if she missed the memories, absentmindedly twirling her brown hair around her finger.

When Elena went, she had apparently, gone with the Vongola Nono since she used to be one of his most trusted assistants before she quit to start teaching. That got his attention.

"Miss? You worked with Vongola Nono?" He asked.

"Well, yes. I did. I was part of the Weapons and Development Facility, or WDF for short. After an incident with a chemical explosion that almost destroyed an entire area, we were forced to disband or risk earning the wrath of not only the council, but also the Vindice."

"What?! Really?" Who knew his teacher was so interesting? He couldn't believe it. How could his weirdo teacher, with freckles at 30 years old and such an airheaded personality, be so cool?

"Yeah. At first, I didn't care much about the consequences and kept conducting my experiments but after I almost killed all my staff, I decided to listen to Nono and shut down the labs. Then, I decided to teach science to the next generation and pray they weren't as stupid as me." She said with a laugh at the end.

Gokudera blinked in surprise before acting cool again and scoffing. "You are the weirdest teacher I've ever met."

"Why thank you." She smiled, grey eyes sparkling.

"Okay children. Let's walk out in an orde-"

"Shut up, gramps! We get it! Japan is different and we have to listen to our teacher guides. You said that every 5 minutes!" One child shouted. The others broke into giggles and laughter. Gokudera sighed and rolled his eyes. He just wanted to get out of this crowded plane.

Soon, everyone had exited the plane and were being given a brief list of rules. Gokudera was, as expected, not listening. He was off to the side, eating a pack of crisps and drinking Red Bull. Elena had tried to take away the energy drink but he just growled and pulled out some dynamite, prompting her to stop so he didn't hurt any bystanders or innocent Japanese civilians.

"Oi, Miss. Where in Japan are we?" Gokudera asked. The brunette turned from where she was writing notes and looked at her student.

"We're starting in Namimori, then we move to Tokyo, Kyoto and then we leave. It's a three night trip, right?" Her finger on her chin in a thinking position.

After Gokudera nodded she smiled. "We stay in Namimori for a night, then Tokyo, then Kyoto. After that, it's back to good old Italy!"

"Why Namimori?" The silverette asked. Elena gaped at him.

"You don't know? This is where Vongola Primo moved after he gave the family to Secondo! It's common knowledge in History, isn't it? I'll have to speak to your teacher." She started babbling to herself, making Gokudera lose interest and start kicking a rock around.

"Okay! Hayato, I wrote down everything we need to know in these notepads. One for you, and one for me." Elena said, handing him a large red notebook with a skull design, just like how he liked it. "I also put down some key Japanese to Italian translations. Keep this notepad with you at all times, if you don't have it, who knows what would happen if you were lost."

Gokudera tuned her out in favor of looking at what she actually wrote. The fancy calligraphy writing spelling out the pronunciation of a few Japanese words. He flipped the page to see a bunch of notes about the trip and little doodles of Mai-chan.

Mai-chan was Elena's mascot. She was a chibi anime drawing of a girl who said tips and tricks. Her hair was curly and white, going down to her knees in an unreasonable bundle of curls. Her bright brown eyes were probably the size of half her head and she usually had a cute black and white Lolita dress with boots and a coat. Today however, she was dress like an ouji lolita with an eyepatch over her left eye.

Raising an eyebrow at Elena's drawing, he glanced at the babbling teacher. "What's with the weird clothing?" He never did understand the appeal of some of the Japanese fashion.

"Oh! She's cosplaying as Ciel Phantomhive." Elena said, losing her train of thought and going to look over the boys shoulder at the book.

"Who's that?" Gokudera asked. The teacher facepalmed with a sigh.

"Sorry... You wouldn't know this stuff." She removed her hand from her face and looked at the boy. "He's a character from a manga, which is technically like a Japanese comic book. The manga is called Black Butler in English and Kuroshitsuji in Japanese."

Gokudera flipped to the third page. "Because Kuro means black, right?" Elena nodded.

"If you want, we can buy you some manga!" She paused before suddenly deflating. "But it's all going to be in Kanji or Romaji so you can't read it."

"Eh? What's that?" Elena sighed. This was going to be a long trip.