Summary: Semi-AU. The Elemental Countries our aware of the outside world, but the outside world isn't aware of them. Except for one person, who pulls in his favor to gain access and finish Tsuna's training. Different world, Different powers, Different people. How will Tsuna and his guardians deal with Naruto and his people? Will they end up clashing against each other, or will they join hands for awhile and possibly leave a lasting impression to form an alliance?
Ages: Tsuna and his Guardians are five years older. So the ages would be 17 [chrome] 18 [Tsuna, Gokudera, Yamamoto] 10 [Lambo] 20 [Ryohei, Mukuro] 21 [Hibari]. Naruto and his people are ten years older. Naruto's 26 years old, figure the rest out, cause they'll be a lot more people from the Naruto-verse
Setting: This mostly takes place in Konoha, some bits may be in Namimori.
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or Katekyo Hitman Reborn
Introduction
The chairman's waltz/Memoirs of a Geisha – John Williams
"So do we have a deal?"
The blond haired male thought over what the man on the other line had said. Of course they had a deal, but he was still thinking over it. Sure it'd be well for him, but would it be good for his people to establish this connection? What if this one spoke about their deals to others and then more people like him began ringing him up?
The blond snorted.
He wouldn't let that happen.
"Of course. I'll send for you when the time is appropriate, until then be ready for anything."
"As you say Hokage-dono."
"Also keep this to yourself, I'd rather not end up having more of your people reaching out to me. This is more for the safety of my people, is this understood Reborn-san?"
"Crystal, Uzumaki-san."
"I'll be seeing you then, Reborn-san," and with that the blond hung up the phone and pushed away the boxed shaped object.
His brows furrowed as he tucked his hands into the pale orange sleeves of his kimono top, his teeth seemed to nip at his bottom lip in thought, until finally the blond just sighed and stood up from his seated position. Straightening out his hakama, Naruto headed out of his office and out into the hallway of the Hokage Building.
"Saru-san, if you'll be kind enough to call up my personal council, I need to speak with them. Tell them to meet me in the council room and that I will not tolerate lateness," said Naruto as he slid open a door and headed on in, but he stuck his head back out to call out, "Hana-chan~ Could you get us some tea?"
He heard a gruff reply and a pair of feet padding against the wooden floor. Naruto smiled as he headed on in the room and led himself to the head of the table, hands smoothing out his pants as he lowered himself onto one of the cushions. Really it was such a pain sitting down on the floor, he should really look into getting actual chairs and a high table. But he had to carry tradition, as the leader of Konoha, he had to keep with traditions to keep it as it was now.
Peaceful, calm, and most of all a 'smooth cruise'.
Or so the Third had told him when he had chosen him as his successor. That man had begun to go crazy after he started his second term. Then again what did kneeling on the floor have to do with tradition and not letting things go astray? He shrugged, he didn't know. So he was changing the damn table – though of course that should be a thought for another day.
He could hear the faint sound of a tray being put onto the table and the shoji door being shut once again. The blond leaned into the table, his azure eyes taking in the pot, his eyes focused on the steam that danced its way out of the spout. He smiled, as he reached out for the handle to pour himself a cup of tea, it was silly how the simplest of things could so easily amuse him.
As he leaned away, sipping his cup of tea, Naruto thought over what he had agreed earlier. Some of the people on his personal council will get a bit iffy on the prospect of hosting and having a handful of the outer world in their homeland. Others would get just a bit pissy and perhaps even throw a hissy fit for he did not bother asking what they thought of it.
He harrumphed.
He didn't need anybody's opinion.
Plus it helped that he had happened to meet this Reborn person and knew him. So of course he was lending a hand to a long forgotten friend. Before he could ponder more, the shoji door slid open once again and this time a number of people entered, talking lowly, wondering what they've been called for this time. Each person sat in a certain seat, inclined their head towards the blond and then proceeded to grab a cup and serves themselves tea. Once the idle chatter had subsided and people had settled, Naruto straightened up, setting his tea cup to his right and lacing his hands together atop the table.
"Today is the fourteenth day of the sixth month, year 873 of the Rikudo Sennin," began Naruto, his eyes falling on a pink haired woman who had began writing down what he spoke, once getting a nod from her, he continued on.
"I've called for you, my personal council, to tell you more than to discuss that we will be having guests of the outer world staying with us for a training trip. Now before you all begin to get vocal about it, I would like to say that between the tutor and I, we have reached in agreement, they will be coming no matter what, though until I say it is alright to arrive. I've called this meeting to inform you all that the Tenth Vongola Don in training and his guardians will be coming here."
"As we don't associate ourselves with the outer world, the Vongola Don is the outer worlds leader in the underground world. As most of you know, it is hard to find a suitable training place to truly grasp ones prowess and skill in the outer world, so as a friend, I lent a hand out to them. Basically what I have said and may have repeated, is all I wanted you all to know. Your thoughts?"
"You should have called us first before agreeing to this," spoke up a dark haired man, his hair pulled up in a pony-tail that looked oddly similar to a pineapple. "Though I do not doubt your trust in this tutor, it is his underlings that I do not trust. What are their names or looks, where exactly do their loyalties lie?"
"I understand your concern Nara-san but I have faith in Reborn that he will not bring anybody who would be willing to put both their people and our people in danger. And if they do try, well we are at an advantage, don't we?" sniffed Naruto, as he picked up his tea and sipped at it. "Has Nara-san addressed most of what you were all thinking?"
"Actually, although I agree with some of what Nara-san said, I see some good coming of this," spoke up the pink haired woman as she laid her brush down and looked up at the gathered group. "We don't know much of the outer world as we used too, but now we have a chance to learn about it once again. I think it'll be interesting to learn of these guests of ours."
Naruto hid his smile by taking another sip of his tea. Trust Sakura to have his back and to see another side of things other than the bad, like Shikamaru always seemed to do. Then again, he would be getting an earful about this later on when he and his teammates gathered for a team dinner. He could already hear her mother henning him and chastising him for such quick and brash decisions.
"Would any one else like to put in their thoughts to this?"
Silence, of course that was usually how it went. The people seated here and both outside the walls of the room they sat, trusted Naruto. He didn't dare try anything to put his people in danger, seeing as he fought tooth and nail for everything he had achieved.
"Well then onto the next thing, I will be assigning a couple of you to go out and escort our guests here, seeing as they do not know the exact location of the elemental countries. I will call you up within the next few days to give you the coordinates of where they will be to meet you. As there is nothing else to say, this meeting is adjourned."
All nodded their heads and drank the remaining tea out of their cups, before setting them down and standing up and leaving the small room. Only two people remained behind and they served themselves tea once again, before scooting closer to where Naruto sat. They didn't speak until the last person left and shut the shoji door behind them.
"What do you think you're doing Naruto? Inviting outsiders to our land!" hissed Sakura, her entire demeanor changing from earlier. "I understand what you are trying to do, but look what happened last time outsiders set foot here! A whole village was almost eradicated!"
"Sakura, you do know that those that last set foot here where of the armies, so of course they would try to destroy us. They thought we had sided with our long-brethren. But of course we weren't, they just happened to have come here. That was over 150 years ago, and the outsiders that are coming are of a better kind."
"A better kind in what way?" asked the other person remaining, his onyx eyes looking at his leader trying to read his intentions. "They are of the same tree, the same rotten apple. Why should you have bothered, Naruto?"
"Because, they are also unwelcome in their world. They are the underground, the other world, the dark side of those people!" said Naruto, something short of anger beginning to rouse through him. "Look, I called you all to this short meeting to tell you what I am doing, not so you could chastise me and tell me why should I have bothered."
"You two weren't there with me when I went on that training trip with Ero-sensei, but we passed over our borders and into the outer world, he wanted to show me what the outside world is like and how different it is from the Elemental Countries. I happened to have met a handful of people and I ended up being saved by one – this, what I am doing, is nothing more than repaying him for saving my life."
The dark haired man and Sakura stayed silent after that.
So this was nothing more than paying the back man for saving Naruto's life?
"Still you should have bothered informing us much earlier of what you planned to do," said the dark haired man, "But what has been done is done. You cannot take back what you promised, can you? Its not your way."
Sakura smiled at what the dark haired man, before looking at Naruto.
"I hope nothing bad happens during their stay here. Imagine what would happen if they were to be put on the brink of death because of a sudden skirmish? But we're at peace, so nothing of the sort should happen."
Naruto chuckled.
"Knock on wood, please, I'd rather us not be jinxed by what you say Sakura."
ii
Reborn paced about the small room of his student, hoping the stupid boy would think to hurry. The sky was looking a bit menacing and knowing the Tsunayoshi, he knew he would get caught in the downpour that was to come. The hitman, decided to take a seat near the window to watch when his student would arrive, along with the two others that followed him almost everywhere.
Reborn sighed.
It had been five years since he started the training of Sawada Tsunayoshi, it really should have been over by now, but so many things had gotten in the way. It irked Reborn, he was only supposed to tutor the brat a whole four years, he would have stayed another year – which would have totaled it up to a whole five year stay – to oversee how Tsuna did after his training and if he tried to start up his own base here in his hometown.
After that Reborn would have left, Tsuna would have graduated from school, and by that time a letter would have been sent from one of the academies that instructed students on the mafia life and gave them the chance to build relations with one another.
Well he would have been behind, if he had not called in his favors earlier in the day. To think that the blond he had saved eleven years ago would be such a big factor in this. Reborn smirked, things were really starting look up, even more so after the arcobaleno curse slowly started fading away.
"Tsk, where is that no good boy?"
And even if he was changing back into his adult form, even if everything was starting to look, even if Tsuna really wasn't that no good boy anymore, Reborn would forever be the hard ass tutor who despised waiting on people.
Author Notes: Hopefully you guys enjoyed this introduction. I know I have other stories I have to do, but I have little to no inspiration for those, though I will try my best to get to them. But I've really wanted to start a serious work and this is my try at it.
I don't have much to say, but if any of you have any questions, go ahead and ask. Review if you want? And I'll get back to this one within the week!
Sorugao-Bandgeek