"Come on Tsuna, we're going to the airport," Reborn suddenly switched off the TV just before Tsuna defeated the final boss.
"Wha- Hey! Reborn!" Tsuna froze but then let out a heavy sigh. He had to do it again didn't he?! That was the second time that week! It was typical of Reborn though and Tsuna would've been naive to think that he wouldn't do something like that, really. "Why are we going to the airport?" he tiredly stood up and went towards his closet to change clothes.
Reborn smirked, "There are two people from Italy who are here to meet you. They're Vongola technically, but also associated with Varia. The Ninth and I decided to bring them here so you'll have more allies."
"Hmmm…" he really hasn't listening at all. Well, Reborn did just shut off his game - who wouldn't get angry?
After finally changing from his pajamas to a casual t-shirt and jean combination, Reborn dragged him out the door, "So slow."
"Oooiii!"
/
"Sawada Tsunayoshi, 10th Vongola boss candidate. He doesn't look all that special," the girl pushed her glasses up in a condescending manner. "Just some scrawny kid who got lucky."
The other girl, sitting in the airplane with her feet on her seat, leaned over to see the photo. "He looks special."
"How so?" she narrowed her eyes.
"His hair, it's like a hedgehog!" she pointed at her head, "How's that not special?"
"Kristina, I'm not talking about his hair. He doesn't look strong at all. He looks...like a kid."
"Hey, we're kids. Isn't that why we're going to Japan?" Kristina shrugged and put her feet down. "Italian mafia gets pretty scary sometimes, I'm glad we got to come here. Right, Jana?"
Jana put away the files back into the case neatly. "It'd be a nice change."
There was a ring in the airplane as the flight attendant spoke, "We will be landing very shortly. Please fasten your seatbelts and stow the table away to prepare for landing."
/
"Reborn...Are these people scary? Like crazy strong people who'll beat me up like you do whenever I stuff up?" He was starting to become nervous. Whenever mafioso visited him from Italy they were always scary! There were the times he became good friends with them, but Varia was another story. They were no good. At least, not to him.
Reborn glanced at his student shaking nervously. "They're your age. And no, they're not here to beat you up or anything like that. It's the opposite actually, they're here to be your friends."
"I guess that's better than them trying to kill me…" Tsuna sighed with relief. "Are they gonna be here anytime soon?"
The Arcobaleno looked around, watching everyone pass by through the airport. He didn't imagine them to stand out too much, so it was more a case of their visitors finding them first; which wasn't hard considering Tsuna's hair stuck out like a sore thumb.
"Sawada Tsunayoshi and the Arcobaleno Reborn."
The two of them turned around to see two girls standing in front of them. "Looking for us?" one of the girls smiled and opened her hand to one side as a friendly wave.
"Hi, I'm Kristina! Nice to meet you."
The other girl smiled slightly as she pushed up her glasses. "I'm Jana." She shook hands with Reborn and then held out her hand for Tsuna.
"I'm Tsu-"
"I know," Jana smacked Tsuna on the top of the head with the profile folder and handed it to him. "This was given to me."
Tsuna giggled nervously as he opened the folder. The first page had his horrible school photo and basic information on him. The next few pages were full of more personal details that scared him about how they got out. Tsuna reminded himself to burn this folder later.
"So let's get going so we can meet up with Tsuna's guardians at the park." The two nodded as Reborn led them out of the airport.
Tsuna fidgeted with his hands as the girls looked around the town. "HHIE!"
Reborn had jumped into the air and kicked him in the back of the head. "Idiot Tsuna! Make conversation!"
"So.. uh.. How are you associated with the V-Varia…?"
"Oh," Kristina laughed as she slumped back with her hands in her pockets. "Squalo's my older brother."
The air froze. Tsuna had remembered the deafening, long-haired, terrifying, shark-like swordsman.
"And Fran's my younger brother…" Jana sighed to herself mentally face-palming.
Apple.
"Yo Tsuna, who are they?" A tall dark haired boy and ran up to Tsuna with a large grin on his face.
"Yamamoto this is-"
"Mukuro!" Jana had run up to the pineapple haired man smiling. "I haven't seen you in forever! Still rocking the pineapple I see."
"Kufufu.. since when are you in Japan?"
"Since about… an hour ago."
Tsuna tilted his head, "you know each other?"
"We're cousins," Jana said and Mukuro nodded.
"C….cousins!?" All of a sudden Tsuna became extremely scared again. Mukuro was always scary, and his logic thought that his cousin would probably be the same. However, his hyper intuition said otherwise. He tried to laugh it off, "I didn't know you had a cousin, Mukuro."
"Now you do, Sawada Tsunayoshi," Mukuro smiled.
Everything became silent again and Tsuna cleared his throat. "So," he turned to his guardians, "this is Jana and Kristina, they're our new allies." Both of the girls said hi again. He was glad that they were getting along...so far.
Yamamoto smiled and scratched the raven locks of his hair, "Hi! I'm Yamamoto Takeshi. Hmm...what should I say?" he mumbled to himself but then shrugged, "I love baseball and my dad owns a sushi shop."
Another guardian with short and spiky silver hair and nose bandage held out his fist, "I'm Sasagawa Ryohei, to the extreme! My dream one day is to become a professional boxer! Nice to meet you to the extreme!"
The girls were taken by surprise - two guardians introduce themselves and already they've got a large variety of people. Kristina smiled, "Nice to meet you," she bumped fists with him.
Suddenly out of nowhere, a child jumped out from behind Yamamoto's leg. The boy wore a cow suit and had a large afro, "Who am I~ I am Lambo~" he sung softly to himself.
Yamamoto kneeled on the ground and put his hand on Lambo's head. "Lambo, why don't you introduce yourself?"
Lambo looked curiously at the new faces in front of him. He suddenly jumped into the space between the girls and the Vongola, throwing his head back and laughing obnoxiously. "I am Lambo!" Then he pointed at them, "You two are going to be my new servants!"
Jana was dumbfounded. "...Servants?"
"Ugh, shut up you stupid cow!" another male with silver hair reaching to his shoulders crossed his arms and grumbled. He noticed the girls' attention and then sighed, "I'm Gokudera Hayato, the Tenth's right hand man and storm guardian. Nice to meet you." Gokudera averted his eyes away and looked into space, not wanting to make eye contact.
The only one who neither of them knew was a distant looking male a considerable distance from the crowd. They weren't even aware if he was paying attention to them because there was a small yellow bird resting on his finger. Tsuna looked at him, and then back to the girls. "This is Hibari-san. He's the cloud guardian and leader of our school's disciplinary committee." Suddenly he lowered his voice into a frightened whisper, "He doesn't like crowds at all, so I think you should stay away from him as much as possible."
"Uh...okay," Jana didn't say another word.
"Kufufu, and as Jana knows, I am Rokudo Mukuro." The pineapple head didn't bother to say anything else.
Tsuna looked around, making sure everyone introduced themselves. "Wait," he said, "where's Chrome?"
Kristina looked at Jana, "Aren't there only six guardians?"
"Chrome and Mukuro," Gokudera interrupted, "they used to share the same body and were both the mist guardians. But some stuff happened, and now they're separate again."
Chrome rushed towards them and stopped, catching her breath when she arrived. She looked at everyone and got slightly embarrassed when everyone was staring at her. "My name is Chrome Dokuro," she straightened up and smiled. "Nice to meet you."
Jana and Kristina looked at each other again, "So that leaves us huh?" Kristina smiled and then looked at everyone, "I'm Kristina. I'm not that special of a mafioso, so I guess I'll just say I have cloud flames and that I love music."
"Um… I'm Jana. I have mist flames, I also love music, anime and anything involving fantasy or horror really. Pissing the Varia off is pretty fun too I guess. But I guess I'm also really clumsy so… yeah."
/
Reborn slammed opened the bedroom door and kicked Tsuna out of bed. "Get up it's time for school!"
"Hu-?" The infant jumped on Tsuna's head, pressing it against the floor. After a few seconds Tsuna pushed Reborn off and struggled onto his feet while rubbing the back of his head. "Ow Reborn! There was no need for that."
"Hurry and get dressed or you'll be late for school," with that the Arcobaleno walked out of Tsuna's room kicking the door closed.
Tsuna quickly slipped on his uniform and grabbed his bag, afraid of being attacked again. He was about to race down the stairs, but not before checking the time. 6:30AM. Tsuna sprinted down the hallway and steps, stumbling a few times and almost missing a step once or twice. "Reborn! Why'd you wake me up so early? I'm not going to be late to school."
Reborn crossed his arms as he threw Tsuna a piece of toast and opened the front door. "You've got to show your new allies/friends around the school. They're not going to know where the office or anything is."
"But why do we have to be so early. Hibari-san will kill me if we enter the school early."
"Because I said so! Yamamoto will be there anyway, he has baseball this morning."
Tsuna sighed and began walking to school. It was so quiet this morning that he could hear his own hair rustling in the wind - not that, that was very important. But he thought it was cool, it's not like it happens everyday.
As the two neared closer to the front of the school, Tsuna could see Jana and Kristina leaning against the gate with headphones in their ears.
Kristina looked up and noticed them. She puts aways the earbuds and ran up to the two. "Hey!"
Jana also looked up. Pushing her glasses up she took out one earbud and walked up to them. "Morning."
"Morning," Tsuna said as he approached the school gate. "I don't know if the school's open, is Yamamoto here?"
"Hmm...didn't see him but," Kristina suddenly heard the bang of a bat hitting a baseball. There was also distant shouting from inside the gate. "I guess it's open."
"So you're going to show us around?" Jana asked.
Tsuna nodded, "Yeah, Reborn kicked me out of the house so I could come to school early and show you guys around." Next to the gate was a door, and Tsuna opened it. "The gate opens at 7, before then we use this door."
He took them around the outside of the school first, showing them the club building and the gymnasium. As the three of them got closer to the gym, the shouting and the baseball hitting started to get louder. "Here's the baseball field," Tsuna said, "it's also used for P.E a lot of the time. You can see the gym equipment and stuff near the base over there and there's also the two soccer goals on either side.
Inside the gymnasium we have basketball courts and a stage which they use for assemblies and ceremonies."
The hallways of the inside of the school were completely silent. It was odd for Tsuna since he was either on time or late, but never early. To be able to walk through the empty hallway without the stress of rushing was different to him. "The first three levels are the core classrooms where you'll have most of your classes." He turned to Kristina and Jana, "Which class are you guys in?"
"2-A, same as you," Jana said.
"Well, it's right here," Tsuna giggled and showed them the sign above the door. "The science rooms are just along the hallway, and the art room is upstairs along with the nurse and some other rooms that don't really matter. The staffroom is all the way at the end. And…" he looked outside the window and scanned the building, "I think that's all you really need to know."
Kristina scratched the back of her head, "Hmm...I feel like I'm gonna get lost in here. Everything looks the same…"
"Eh?" Tsuna blinked, "Well, you just remember where everything is, I guess. What was school in Italy like?"
"Uh, since we're mafioso kids our school was pretty much a castle."
"She knows the castle as well as the palm of her hand but she's afraid of getting lost in a Japanese middle school," Jana sighed, "I don't see the logic in that."
"Well not everything needs to be logical. Anyway, in the castle most things were different. Everything is so similar here it's quite creepy."
Tsuna looked around and laughed to himself, "well it might not be as fancy here as in Italy with the Varia and rest of Vongola. But it's got its own personality, haha."
The bell suddenly rang as people started crowding the previously empty hallways.
END OF CHAPTER
