A.N.: Hi everyone! Thanks for clicking on my story! This is something I started when I was out of school for a week and a half because I had to get my wisdom teeth removed! Yay! NOT! But this is what kept me sane for that time and so I'm posting it on here. I hope you enjoy this chapter and I have more on the way! Sorry for rambling so I'll stop and let you start the story!
Disclaimer:
Me: I wish I owned Kayekyo Hitam Reborn but sadly, I don't. *cries*
Reborn: Well you could always buy it.
Me: Good idea! *counts money* Do you think They'll take…20 dollars and a Payday bar?
Tsuna: You're trying to buy us with a Payday bar?
Me: *cries again* I'll never have enough to buy you! So for now, while I save up I'll just write stories and make you do what ever I want! Ha!
Tsuna: No! why us? T-T
Me: Because! I like you being my slave Muhahahaha! Anyways Enjoy!
Tsuna: Save me!
Mizuki sighed as she stepped off the plane that had brought her from Italy back to her home country, Japan. She couldn't exactly say she was happy to be back, but since she was here on a mission, Mizuki had to endure it because this was home until the mission was over, be it two days or two years.
She looked around for her uncle, whom she would be staying with, but couldn't find him anywhere. 'Whatever' she thought. 'I'm easy enough to find.' and with that she grabbed her luggage and taking a seat in one of those plastic airport chairs. Not even five minutes passed before a shadow loomed over her, blocking out the sunlight that came through the window wall she was seated in front of.
"Well, well, well, haven't you changed!" Mizuki looked up into the smiling face of her uncle, which hadn't changed at all from the last time she had seen him. The only thing that had changed about him was that he had grown his hair out slightly.
A smile slid across her face. "Uncle Tsuyoshi! It's been so long!" Mizuki threw herself at him, the two hugging for the first time in five years. When they separated, Mizuki looked around for her cousin who should have been there with his father. "Where's Takeshi?"
Her uncle shook his head. "He was hanging out with his friends when I left so I didn't want to drag him away. Besides, you'll see enough of each other now that you're living with us." She remembered how excited her uncle was when she had called and asked if she could stay with him for a while. He reached out to rumple her multi neon colored hair. "Let's get going so you can settle in."
He grabbed the bigger of her two bags and motioned for her to follow him. She leaned down to grab her other bag and all she saw for a moment was purple, green, blue, pink and white thanks to her hair.
The only reason her hair was like this was because on her last mission she had entered a group of ravers who were making and selling deadly drugs. She had liked her hair like this so much she had decided to keep it that way. Pushing it out of her face, she saw a man with blonde hair and lots of men around him looking at her and she just had to smile at him. Dino was a close friend of hers and she also did some jobs for him from time to time.
Dino started heading towards her and she had just enough time to put her finger to her lips in a shhhing motion and used the other hand to shoo him away, for her uncle had come back to see what was going on.
"Sorry," She stared, looking at Dino's retreating back. "I thought I saw someone I knew." And with that she started to walk away and Mizuki had a feeling things were going to be fun here.
They pulled up to a sushi shop and her uncle killed the engine. Unbuckling her seat belt, Mizuki looked around and took a deep breath. So this was home for who know how long? Her uncle stepped out of the car, breaking her trance, bringing her back to reality. Mizuki chastised herself thinking, 'What if the enemy was here? I would be dead!' then she was struck with a thought that chilled her to her bones. 'What would my teachers had found me like that?' She had to suppress a shiver.
"So what has my little niece been up to since I last saw her?" Tsuyoshi asked her to break the silence that had fallen over them on the car ride home. Mizuki sighed and told her uncle all that she could of the past five years. Not much of it could be retold for the average person.
"Well in school I made it into advanced classes in science and math, and also I'm took English, Japanese, Italian, and Spanish so I can talk to almost anyone I come across. About three years ago I stared gymnastics and softball which I really enjoy. I'm a black belt in two different marshal arts and a while back I started kendo." That was everything she could tell. What she couldn't tell was that she joined gymnastics because she needed to kill the head coach because someone had paid her too, or that everything but softball was related to her hitman training.
Her teachers thought it was a good idea for her to some sport on the side so she could have a little bit of a normal childhood. Her uncle looked at her in something like shock. "What about fun time?" Mizuki just stared at him. 'Fun time?' she thought to herself. 'I haven't had fun time since I was seven…NO! I will not think like that!' she shouted inside her head.
"I do find what I do fun, Uncle." Mizuki said in a polite voice as they walked around to the house part of the shop.
"What about friends then? When do you have time for them?" She kept her face forward so he couldn't see the face she pulled. Friends? Everyone back in Italy knew she was part of the Vongola family and kept their kids away from here so the only friends she had were others in the mafia, like her teachers and people like Dino.
"Don't worry Uncle Tsuyoshi, I have all the friends I need." Mizuki smiled at him and he had no choice but to smile back. They walked down a small hallway and suddenly he stopped in front of one of the door.
"This will be your room from now on Mizuki." He started to walk away from her, to let her settle in, but he turned around and told her, "Oh and you'll have a lot more friends if Takeshi has anything to say about it." His eyes twinkled and he was gone.
Opening her door, Mizuki didn't know what to expect but she thanked her lucky stars that her uncle hadn't done the room in all pink or something girly like that. It was a normal room with soft, neutral colors and it all was on a deep drown hardwood floor. There was only a desk, a chair, a bed, and a window looking out over the front of the shop into the street. Oh and there was a closet.
Taking a deep breath, Mizuki began to unpack her bags. She hadn't brought that much clothing with her because she didn't really need all that much. What she mostly brought was her weapons, which took up the biggest bag and part of the smaller one. She began to find places to hide her weapons around her room, like her small hand gun which went under her pillow, her sniper went under her mattress, her throwing knifes were put in her underwear drawer, and her tonfas in her closet.
That was only the beginning of what she had with her and it took her almost a whole hour to find a place for everything. She was slightly depressed that she couldn't bring her katona with her but she was just happy it should be here within no more than three days, so she could begin to train with it once more.
Mizuki was having trouble finding a place for her ammo when she heard voices inter the living room down the hall. Laughter filled the house and she knew Takeshi was home, she knew his laugh anywhere, but when another voice joined in she knew he wasn't alone. Looking down at what she was wearing, her old I'm with stupid shirt and a pair of old sweatpants, not something you meet someone in for the first time. Digging through the few clothes she had brought, she quickly changed into a teal tank top and a black skirt that had white hidden in the folds, so you could only see the white when she moved, and strapped a pair of her throwing knifes to the inside if her thigh, just concealed by her skirt. She was doing one last check of her room when she was interrupted by the sound of her door.
"Yo, Mizuki-chan! Open up, I have some people I want you to meet!" She rolled her eyes at her cousin's excitement and pulling her door open she met Takeshi's chest as he pulled her into a bone crushing hug. Mizuki just laughed and hugged him back. When he finally let her go, she saw a boy about the same age as Takeshi with big drown hair that seemed to defy gravity and kind, innocent brown eyes.
"He-hello. I'm Tsunayoshi Sawada but you can just call me Tsuna. Yamamoto has told a lot about you." He put out his hand and she took it in shock. This was the boy she was sent to protect!
"Hi! I'm Mizuki Harsha but just call me Zuki, all my friends do." Mizuki said smiling at the boy. What luck was it that Takeshi was friends with the Tenth? She was about to tell him who she was and why she was here when she looked sideways at Takeshi. She couldn't say anything until her and Tsuna were alone because her cousin didn't know anything about the mafia. She opened her mouth to say something when she heard a voice that still haunted her in her nightmares.
"Mizuki, you're getting sloppy. You left your ammo on your bed." She heard the cock of a gun and knew without turning around that Leon was pointed at the back of her head.
"Reborn! What are you doing? That's Yamamoto's cousin!" Tsuna yelled but Mizuki's only reaction was to reach for the throwing knifes that she had hidden under her skirt. As her hand found the cool metal handle of her knife she took the only chance she had. Turning, she pulled the knife out of its sheath as she moved and threw it at where the voice had come from and as she fell to the ground she saw the bow of bullets on her bed next to the baby. Damn he was right, like always.
Mizuki hit the floor hard and rolled sideways towards her bed and the gun hiding there. Reaching under her pillow, she groped for the handle and when she found it she gripped it. She was about to pull it out and aim when Reborn was there, Leon pointed at her head. "Dead." Was all he said as Leon turned back to his lizard form.
Mizuki just plopped down and pouted. "Why are you always so mean to me Reborn? And how can you possibly expect me to beat you? It's impossible!" Right after she said this she caught sight of Takeshi and freaked out a little. "This isn't what it looks like Takeshi! This is a game he and I use to play when he lived with me back in Italy!" Mizuki was relived when he just laughed.
"Oh! It seems like a fun game!" Takeshi said but when he went to talk again he was cut off by Reborn, who chastised Mizuki.
"You shouldn't lie to a family member! I taught you better than that." Mizuki jus sighed. She remembered Reborn teaching her that if someone's not involved in the mafia you were to lie your head off…wait didn't he just say not to lie?
"Reborn, NO! He can't be apart of this!" She looked back and forth between Reborn and Takeshi and she could tell by their looks that no matter what happened, nothing was changing soon.
"Zuki-chan! I like the mafia game!" Everyone in the room sweat dropped at this but he just laughed. "Anyways, I brought Tsuna here so you'll know someone before you started school tomorrow since I'm not going to be there because I have a baseball game." He smiled and Mizuki could only sigh.
"Fine. Oh guys do you have an extra uniform I could borrow?" This question earned her two strange looks. "What? I don't like wearing girl's uniforms to school; I get into to many fights." Takeshi looked at her slightly disapproving of her getting into a fight, especially more than one.
"But Zuki! We can't do that! It would be like signing your death certificate!" Tsuna said which caused Mizuki to look at him with two eyebrows raised waiting for an explanation. His face went red, "Well you see our school's head prefect 'bites' people to death if they brake the school's rules." Mizuki just laughed. It seems like she would like this school.
"It'll be fine. I can take care of myself. Besides what's the worst this kid could do?" She said feeling confident.
Tsuna was about to argue when Reborn looked at him and said, "You and Mizuki are about the same height and size, give her one of yours. Or do you doubt one of my students?" Reborn turned to Mizuki. "Hibari is the prefect he was talking about. He is strong, the strongest of Tsuna's guardians next to Yamamoto. It's going to be fun to see how much you've grown under Lal Mirch." Mizuki grinned, remembering her two years of training under Lal Mirch.
Reborn began to walk to the door and Tsuna followed him. "I'll bring the uniform by in the morning, or you could come with Yamamoto in the morning and change at my house." Reborn held Leon as he turned into a hammer.
"Baka, Yamamoto's not going to be there tomorrow and she needs to be there early. You'll drop it off tonight or I get to torch- I mean train you twice as hard tomorrow." Tsuna paled and promised to drop it off tonight. Takeshi and Mizuki watched as Tsuna and Reborn walk away. Turning away, Mizuki yawned and realized how tired she really was. Looking at the clock on the wall she saw it read 9:07 and she was surprised. Where had the day gone?
"I'll see you tomorrow. If he gets me the uniform just put it outside my door, I'll grab it in the morning. Oh and good luck at your game tomorrow. Kill'em dead." She said with a slight smile and as he left she walked over to her alarm to set it when her foot caught a floorboard that was coming up and tripped. Looking back, she saw that beneath the floorboard was empty space and smiled. She had just found a spot for her bullets.
Mizuki had always been a light sleeper (thanks to someone training coughReborncough) so she popped awake when she heard Takeshi's alarm go off in the next room. Looking at the clock she sighed. The one day she was going to sleep in and she wakes up at five freaked thirdly.
Getting up, she stood in the middle of her room doing her morning stretches and warm ups for a good half hour. After 100 push ups, she headed to the bathroom. As she stepped out of her room she nearly tripped on a bundle of clothing. Smiling she picked them up and two pieces of paper fell from somewhere within. She quickly picked them up and started to read them. The first one was a note from Takeshi saying he was sorry he was missing her first day and wishing her luck.
The second one was from her uncle and it was a map to the school so she would get lost. Mizuki smiled at the gesture. She moved on to the bathroom to grab a shower and get ready. Stepping in front of the mirror, she studied herself for a minute. Her hair was bleached and had strikes of multiple neon colors was the new style in the states and it was a mess this morning. What caught her attention other than her hair was the scar nest to her right blue-green eye. She had gotten that on a mission she was on last year and she had been lucky that she had moved just enough that she didn't lose her eye.
After a few more years of this life no man would want her. She would be scared, broken, and non-trusting. Mizuki had seen it happen to some of her teachers, this is the price she has to pay for choosing close combat as her method of assassination. She shook her head. 'No feeling bad for myself. I chose this and there's no going back.'
Jumping in to the shower, Mizuki stood under the warm water letting her muscles relax. She had changed schools so much she didn't even feel anything.
The shower was over a quickly as it started. Stepping out, she towel dried herself before putting any clothes on. Mizuki grabbed the shirt and a folder fell out of it, hitting the damp ground. Sighing, she picked it up, while thinking to herself 'I should've known Reborn would do this.'
Upon opening it, she discovered it was a profile on the school head prefect, a Hibari Kyouya. He was fifteen, almost sixteen, born on May 5th, lived alone, and fought with tonfas. Disliked anyone who broke the school rules and proceeded to beat them into a bloody pulp and sending them to the hospital. Liked birds, being alone and fighting. Looking it over she was less confident that the kid wasn't much of a challenge. Putting the file on the counter, she finished getting dressed. The uniform was the right size and she was thankful for that. Leaving the last two buttons unbuttoned and the tie lose, she started on her hair.
She never went anywhere where she could possibly get in a fight with her hair down because she had learned the hard was that getting your hair pulled hurt a lot more when it was down than when it was up. Her hair always took the longest to get ready because of the length. Finally when it was in its right place, she exited the bathroom, file in hand. "Today's going to be interesting." She said to herself.
When she arrived at the school she was half a hour early. Walking out of the office ten minutes later after getting yelled at by the woman in the office about the dress code, she saw Tsuna walking with a boy with silver hair.
"Hey Tsuna! Over here!" Mizuki yelled out to the boy. His head quickly shot in her direction and when he realized who had yelled he smiled. She quickly walked to where he had stopped to wait for her. "What are you doing here so early? Takeshi told me you're almost late everyday."
Tsuna blushed. "Well Yamamoto asked me to show you around so I came earlier than normal." The silver haired boy cleared his throat while glaring at Mizuki. "Oh! I'm sorry, Gokudera this is Mizuki. She's Yamamoto's cousin and she'll be living with him for awhile."
Gokudera continued to glare. "So she's related to the Baseball Freak., I bet she'll be just a stupid then." Mizuki was one who tried not to get mad much because anger just blinded you from your goals, but this boy was starting to piss her off and the just met!
Tsuna just sighed. "Zuki-chan follow me and I'll show you around. What class are you in?" Mizuki just handed him the paper the woman had handed her and he smiled. "You're in our class so that's going to be fun! He he" Tsuna laughed nervously a the tension between his two friends.
They entered a disserted hallway and in one second's time Mizuki knew something was off. Tsuna continued to talk, walking in front of her and Gokudera walked behind her, glaring at the back of her head. She could feel the murderous intent but she couldn't tell where it came from or who it was directed at.
Looking around, she was searching for anything that looked out of place…there! Two inches in front of Tsuna was a thin, sharp wire. "Tsuna!" Mizuki yelled and grabbed him by the shoulders, pulling him backwards, using herself to cushion his fall.
"Tenth!" Gokudera ran forward, almost falling for the same trick, but Mizuki used her arm to knock his legs out from under him, causing him to also fall backwards, landing on his back. "What the hell?" He yelled as she pushed Tsuna towards him.
"Shut up for a minute will ya?" Mizuki said as she moved closer to the wire. Touching it with her pointer finger, a thin line of blood formed. It's just like she thought. Mizuki knew this trick, it used a thin sharp metal wire and the victims own momentum to decapitate them. She was just lucky she had seen the light reflect off it at the right angle.
Mizuki pulled a tissue out of her bag to press to her new wound to help stop the bleeding. "Tsuna, someone just tried to kill you." Mizuki said in the voice she for some reason used when she was in her hitman mode.
"What?" Both Gokudera and Tsuna yelled. She ignored then as she grabbed more tissues out and one of her many knife. Grabbing the wire with the tissue, she preceded to cut it, disposing of it before anyone one else could get hurt.
Once that was done, she turned back to the two boys. "Okay! Let's get to class before we're late!" She said cheerfully as she grabbed the two stunned boy's hands, dragging them away.
Getting introduced to the class never changes. It's "We have a new student today" and "Pleased to meet you all, I hope we can get alone." Boring stuff and it got even more boring once the class started because she already knew everything, so she kept tuning in and out, but she at all times kept an eye out for anything out of place, should the person try anything again.
She was deep in thought when the teacher's voice broke through to her ears. "Harsha!" The look on his face suggested it wasn't the first time he had called her name. Mizuki quickly shot out of her chair.
"I'm sorry sensei, but I didn't hear the question." She lowered her head in mock shame. She didn't care what this teacher thought of her, she was most likely just as smart as him, maybe more.
"Solve this question on the board." The question was (x-4) (x+4) and she knew the answer right away. She could do questions three times as hard as this.
"The answer is clearly x2-16." She said with more attitude than necessary, but she really didn't like this man. He clearly liked to pick on his students and he moved to fast on purpose so he could humiliate more students. He was about to say something when the lunch bell rang. She could see he was trying to get her back for humiliating him like that. She smirked at him 'Bring it.' She thought at him. Tsuna walked over to her, smiling. "Would you like to have lunch with Gokudera and me?" She couldn't help but smile back.
"Sure, I would love to!" Grabbing the lunch her uncle had made her, she followed the two boys to the roof. Since this morning Gokudera hadn't glared at her, but he had been staring at her.
Just as they sat on the roof, they heard "Caissu." And Reborn popped out of nowhere. He looked at Mizuki and said, "Good job this morning. Tsuna would have been dead if it hadn't been for you." In that moment she knew it had been Reborn behind this morning's attack.
"What would you have done if I hadn't caught it? You would have killed two of your students, not to mention the next family's boss." She said as she ate the amazing sushi her uncle had made
"I have trust in you and it paid off. Don't bother with what could have happened. If one of my old students fell for that trick, what type of teacher would I be?" Reborn said calmly as he sat with his back to them.
Gokudera looked back and forth between Reborn and Mizuki in shock. "Wait, you're the Harsha Shadow? The hitman who appeared about five years ago?"
"Um…yeah? That's me" Mizuki said slowly. Gokudera looked at her with wide eyes. She shifted, unconformable with how he was staring. "Can I do something for you?" She asked Gokudera, afraid that he was slightly crazy. She looked to Tsuna for help when Gokudera fell to his knees in front of her.
"Thank you thank you thank you! You saved the boss when I couldn't! I'm in your debt!" He went on and on, hitting his head against the ground. Tsuna and Mizuki sweat dropped at his actions. Mizuki stepped back, trying to get away from Gokudera who was still on the ground, when she backed up into what felt like a guy's chest. Tsuna looked over when he heard the two bodies collide and scram in peer fear.
Standing behind Mizuki was the one and only Hibari Kyouya, and he looked ready to kill. Mizuki knew he was taking in her hair, bleached with unnatural colors. The boy's uniform, the lose tie and the unbuttoned shirt. She was braking every rule he oh so loved and he was not happy about it.
"H-Hibari-san! What are you doing here? Hehe." This man clearly struck fear in her boss and she saw Gokudera reach for something. Mizuki only aw this from the corner of her eye because she couldn't rip her eyes off Hibari even if she wanted to. His black hair fell slightly into his gray eyes that looked as calm as the ocean before it turns violent and kills you.
"You." He said, speaking to Mizuki. "I'm going to bite you to death." And with that he charged at her, tonfas appearing out of nowhere. Mizuki barley had time to react but jumping back, avoiding his attacks. "Hmmm. No matter how fast you are, you're still just a herbivore." While he talked she attempted to get her knifes out of her sleeves but when she went for them she discovered they were gone.
"What…REBORN!" She screamed when she saw him standing there next to Tsuna holding all of the knifes she had brought to school with her. When she could she was going to kill that baby. "Hibari, what did I do?" She yelled to distract him while she found a new weapon.
Hibari's reaction was to narrow his eyes and kept coming at her at an incredible speed. "You're entire being is a rule violation, so you must be bitten to death. Die Herbivore." If it was possible he came at her faster than before and she still couldn't find a weapon.
Mizuki continued to doge his attacks for five minutes before she finally got an idea. She waited for him to swing at her face and when he did she threw herself backwards into a quick handstand, preceding to kick him in his left hand, causing him to drop on of his tonfas. Quickly getting back to her feet, she dove for the lost weapon before he could regain it. Landing on her stomach, she felt the wind as his other tonfa came at the back of her head.
Rolling onto her back, she put up her newly acquired weapon to block the oncoming one. They sat there for a moment, her on her back and him leaning over her, their tonfas locked. Mizuki let herself a small smile as she thought of a witty line she could use. "Hey, Hibari? It looks like you're out of luck because unfortunately for you, I have a biting fetish." His eyes widened slightly and in that moment she used her legs to kick him off her. Using the momentum of her kick, she jumped up to her feet, holding her tonfa in the ready position. Just then there was an explosion from somewhere inside the building. Tsuna ran to the edge of the roof and looking down he said, "The science buildings are on fire!"
Hibari lowered his weapon to look at the smoke rising from the side of the building. "Looks like I'll have to bite you to death another day," he paused. "Omnivore." He finished and Mizuki smiled.
"Here's your teeth back Carnivore." She threw him his weapon that she had borrowed. He just caught it and they disappeared into his jacket, and he walked away. The moment he was gone Tsuna and Gokudera were next to here, Tsuna checking her for injuries, Gokudera just staring at her in awe. Mizuki noticed Gokudera had a cigarette hanging from his mouth. She stuck out her had. "Give me one." She said in her hitman voice. When he gave her a blank look she rolled her eyes. "A cigarette. Give me one please." As he passed her one along with his lighter she winked at him "Don't tell Takeshi." Which made them both laugh.
Lighting the cigarette, she walked over to the edge of the roof, thinking about the fight. What had made her say that? She had been staring into his eyes and…"Caussiu" Reborn said making her jump. She eyed him disdainfully.
"What are you trying to kill off all your students in one day? Why did you steal my knifes?" Reborn just smiled that infuriating smile.
"I wanted to see if the wind could move the cloud." Mizuki looked at him like he had lost him mind. She remembered when she had been his main student she would always be giving him this look. She was about to ask him what he had meant by that when Tsuna called her over to finish her food because there was less then ten minutes of lunch left.
'At least things wont be boring.' She thought before she let herself be swept away in the lunch time talk. Mizuki failed to see Reborn looking at her with a evil glint in his eyes.
A.N.: So? Good? Bad? I will never know if you don't tell me so please R & R!
