{Hey guys,
I intended to upload this last week but I got unexpectedly busy. I changed a lot of things cause a noticed a lot of holes and wanted to add some things to make it better in the long run. Well, at least I HOPE would be better in the long run. Enjoy and please don't hesitate to leave a comment!}
"." - Japanese
"." - Irish
"." - Italian
.- Thought/s
"Hello~"
"H-hello..?"
"Let's be friends!"
"Hiiiieee! D-demo, I d-don't even k-know you..."
"A-ah! G-gomenasai! I forgot... My name is Reina Hibari! Oh wait, I'm in Japan, stupid me. My name is Hibari Reina. Call me Ria-chan! Nice to meet you...?"
"A-ah... Sorry, I was being rude... It was nice meeting you though, somehow.."
"Ts-Tsuna!"
"E-eh?"
"S-sawada Tsunayoshi... N-nice to meet you t-too, Ria-chan."
"Then, let's try this again. Let's be friends, Tsuna-kun!"
"H-hai!"
"Ne...Ri-chan?"
"Hmm?"
"Are you a foreigner?"
"Yup, I'm from Ireland! My parents are busy with their jobs abroad, so I'm gonna stay here with my Aunt's family."
"A-ah, sorry for asking..."
"Hahaha, It's okay Tsu-kun. At least now, I finally have my first friend! Hey, let's be the best of friends forever, Tsu-kun!"
"O-of course, Ri-chan!"
[...Heh. Best Friends, huh?]
"-transfer student today. Please be on your best behaviour and make her feel welcome."
"-a girl!"
"A gaijin? In this little town?"
"I hope she's cute."
"Oh, she better not steal-"
Tsuna's head snapped to face the teacher at the words 'transfer student'. It was already the third week back in 2nd Grade. Who would transfer at this time of the year? Does anyone even transfer at this time?
His musings were cut off by a knock on the door. The teacher called for the new student to get inside and introduce herself.
The door opened and a petite girl walked confidently towards the teacher, her long, fairly curly vermillion hair bouncing as she did.
Bright silvery-teal eyes roamed the room until they landed on a pair of warm caramel hues, twinkling in humour.
A bright [mischievous] smile bloomed on her face as she spoke.
"Ohayou gozaimasu~ Watashi wa Hibari Reina, desu. I hope we'll have many interesting years together!"
It was interesting, really, when you wake up feeling like you had an out-of-body experience. Only to find later that yes, she did have an out-of-body experience and it wasn't the typical one that most people would think.
Well, if you consider experiencing weird, floating-to-the-light experience, narrowly avoiding the creepy sci-fi lovechild of a vacuum and something-quite-similar-to-a-shark that sucks out memories and then jumping into some random vortex that appears out of nowhere an out-of-body experience, then yeah. I guess it was an out-of-body experience.
While it would have been lovely to traumatize people of the woes I experienced being born [and wasn't that a curious and painful thing? No wonder bawling their eyes out is the first thing that infants do.] It also felt quite weird having a not-so-stranger as my mother [and to make it harder adjusting, my new biological one] considering I adored my parents in the Past [they were loving, responsible parents and howcouldIjust-].
"Fire-flower!"
Ah, speak of the-
"There you are, cunning little kit."
Light, graceful footsteps approached my room where I spent the majority of my life for the past three years. I looked up and saw a petite lady with long glossy black hair and sharp silver eyes approach me. My new mother grinned at catching my adorable little self in the middle of taking apart my toys.[What? I was bored!] Mama picked me up and carried me out of the room and headed towards the kitchen while I gripped and played with her long raven locks tied in a ponytail.
Fan Chen Hibari-Scairbhin, my new mother. She looks like the traditional kind of beauty that could never hurt a fly. Normal, mundane, easily forgotten. Well, the Triads didn't give her the moniker Lethal Dawn for nothing. Ah, yes, my mother is a Hibari and the sister of the Storm Arcobaleno, Fon and the Hibari Kyoya's aunt. She retired from being an assassin when she got married to my father, a rather fetching redheaded gentleman who came from an Ancient and Royal Clann from Gaelic Ireland. I was surprised. I thought I would lose my magick only to find that, well, the members of the Scairbhìn Clan are apparently both Irish wizards and unique practitioners of Soul Fire or Dying Will Flames.
Daithi was tall, lithe, and dangerous. Most importantly, he was doting, mischievous, family-oriented man. He was handsome, and if I wasn't currently a baby, and him my father, I would surely be drooling. [not that I am, I mean, that would be just weird and disgusting-]. As it is, I'm just glad there's proof that I would look gorgeous when I grow up.
"My adorable Fire-flower! The food is ready, so go wash your hands, okay? You know how to wash your hands, right? And hold on to the sink, okay? Oh, my baby girl is growing up!"
And there stood my dad, in his frilly pink apron, that mother gave him as a gag gift. This man was currently crying proud tears while mother had a carefully blank face.
"She's still three and is only going to wash her hands. Woman up, you annoying red panda."
I hid my presence and crept into the bathroom where I can actually see my reflection and- Oh my Gosh.
What were the chances that I looked exactly like an adorable female chibi-Kyoya, only with vermillion hair and silvery-teal eyes? Macha, we may as well be twins!
Oh wow, I'm floored...
"Mamaí, why are we just standing here? And why can't Papa come with us? Isn't the Clann already stable?"
"We're waiting for my sister and her own cub to pick us up, Huǒhuā. And your idiotic Papa busy doing business as the Head of our clan. He's still looking for a nice, quiet place for the Clan to settle back in, no matter how few of us stay in the Quarters. But that is a talk for another time. Remember, speak Japanese and use my last name, alright?"
"Hai~"
Mamaí and I waited in the airport for our relatives to pick us up. It's Spring here and the cherry blossoms are lovely to watch. I turned four last March and was deemed old enough to start training in martial arts and the family magicks. I stood while reading beside my mother wearing a teal sundress with a brown waterfall cardigan on top and brown ankle-length gladiator sandals with my red hair twisted and tied in a form of a half-ponytail. It wasn't long before we heard someone call my mother's name.
"Fan Chen!"
A smile bloomed on my mother's face and she gracefully turned to greet her sister. Aunt Duzheng, from what Mamaí told me, is an individual who strongly prefers the traditions of Japan, partly because of our supposed traditionalist grandmother, but mostly because of her husband. Her husband is an honourable man with dubious morals. He is the Head of the Police in Tokyo, from what I heard. Aunt was a bit different from Mamaí. Though also an assassin, she was highly proficient in using poisons while Mamaí specialised in using venoms [something she started mixing in itty-bitty doses to build up my immunity against].
I closed my book and stood back while my mother hugged my Aunt and observed their interaction before noticing someone standing a ways away from the two hugging women. I started scanning his features and noticed three things, (1) He's probably a couple of years older than me, (2) He looked almost exactly like me except with different colouring, and last (3) He looked like he was trying to burn a hole in the ground with his eyes.
Yes, folks, it's the one and only Hibari Kyoya. My older cousin.
He must have felt my curious stare because he stopped trying to murder the cement with his glare and stared back, expression turning from murderous to innocently confused. That... that must be one of the most surprisingly adorable things I have ever seen.
"Huǒhuā, come and meet your Aunt!"
I whipped my head to face Mamaí before walking towards Mamaí before facing Aunt Duzheng and giving her a cutesy smile.
"It's nice to meet you Duzheng-oba~"
"Kawaii~ And you look just like Kyo-kun. Kyoya, meet your cousin, Reina!"
Kyoya walked before stopping in front of his mother where another stare-off started. He looked a bit confused before staring at me like a predator analysing prey. A glint flashed through my eyes before I tilted my head and let my eyes catch the light and widened my eyes a bit, performing [Charming Pose 1.0] [you have no idea how long I practised in front of the mirror trying to perfect all those looks, who knew physics was actually applicable to that].
When Kyoya didn't react for a few seconds, I was worried I wasted all those hours for nothing but then he twitched [Twitched, people, he TWITCHED] and his hand moved. I froze for a bit, but that was before I registered the weight on my head. He was... eh? Patting my head?
"Hn, Kitsune."
I blinked before giving him a sly grin.
"Kurohyou-nii."
Konnichiwa minna~
Translations:
Watashi wa Hibari Reina desu.- My name is Hibari Reina.
Ohayou gozaimasu- Good morning.
Names:
Scairbhín (Irish) -[pronounced as skara-veen] an Irish weather that occurs during the period between the last 2 weeks of April and first 2 weeks of may where changeable extremes of weather patterns are often rampant.
Reina (Japanese) -怜 (rei) meaning "wise" and 成 (na) meaning successful.
Huǒhuā (Chinese)- Fire Flower
Fan Chen (Chinese)- Fan means Lethal, while Chen means Break of Day
Daithi (Irish)- [pronounced Da-hee] meaning swift.
Mamaí (Irish) -[pronounced mah-mee] what children call their mothers in Irish Gaelic.
Duzheng (Chinese)- Du means poison, while Zheng means serious, classy
oba (Japanese)- honorific for Aunt
Kitsune (Japanese)- Fox
Kurohyou (Japanese)- Black Panther
-nii (Japanese)- an honorific given to older male siblings/cousins or the males they consider their brother