Italy
The door of the tavern creaked open, and inside, two shady looking men sitting at a table looked up.
"It's Reborn… looks like you were called by the old man again," one of them said, taking a puff on his cigar.
"Must be tough being popular…" the other muttered before raising his voice. "Going to Rome next? Venezia?" he asked.
A young boy, a baby really, was the center of their attention. "Japan," he answered calmly, his black hat shading his face as his chameleon sat on top it.
Other people farther back in the bar started in surprise.
"What!" someone exclaimed.
"The Old Man must have finally made up his mind!" another said.
"Looks like it's going to be a long journey…" the baby said vaguely.
Japan
A girl, sitting in front of her vanity, stared into her seven-piece mirror, each mirror piece showing her reflection at a different angle. The girl was quite cute, if one looked past her ordinary personality. Her looks and brown hair were inherited from her mother, but her hairstyle was quite messy, like a boy's, no matter how much hairspray she used to tame it. Her body, going through puberty, is showing all the curves a girl should be having: a flat stomach, her breasts filling out the barely C-cup bra her mother picked out for her; her buttocks becoming more and more round than flat. She wore a simple necklace around her neck, given to her by her late grandmother. Her room didn't hold much personal items that would've reflected the owner's personality; it was pretty much bare, unlike her vanity.
Her vanity was covered with various make-up and accessories in all sorts of colors. Each of the make-up was labeled with a certain sticker. Each sticker was different: a red heart, blue spade, green three-leaf clover, yellow diamond, indigo rose, violet rosario, and an orange flame. In fact, her simple necklace was the same image as the orange flame.
The girl stared dejectedly at the item she was holding. Her name was Sawada Tsunahime, also known as 'Tsuna'. The item Tsuna was holding was an odd thing. It looked like a sword hilt, only broken off from the blade.
"Tsu-chan! Breakfast!" called her mother, Nana.
Tsuna's necklace changed into the red heart. "Coming, Mom!" came from Tsuna in a very upbeat voice, as if the dejected girl was gone and replaced by a vibrant person. Tsuna hid away her hilt in her vanity and went downstairs.
"Tsu-chan, you won't believe what came into the mail today," Nana said to her daughter, as her daughter sat down to the kitchen table for breakfast.
"What is it, Mom?" Tsuna asked, very curious.
"It was a flyer for a home tutor," Nana said.
"A home tutor? Mom, you didn't call for that home tutor, did you? My grades are fine, Mom. Very above average!"
"Yes, but above average won't allow you go to the high school that you want to go. Didn't you say that you wanted to get the scholarship that'll allow you to go to Grandmother's alma mater, Ouran High? If you want to go there, your grades have to be the best of the best."
"Hmm. That's true."
"The flyer about the home tutor. It says that age and grade don't matter and they'll train you to be the next leader of the generation. It seems that payment is a room to sleep in and three meals a day. Isn't that great?" Nana said.
Tsuna studied the words a bit; her necklace changed from the red heart into a blue spade. "Mom, that sounds like a scam," her voice a bit calm compared to her sassy personality from before.
"Ciaossu." A voice called out, startling the Sawada women. Tsuna looked down, where the voice had come from, to see a baby boy in a suit and fedora. There was a chameleon on the fedora and he had a big, yellow pacifier hanging from his neck.
"Where did you come from, little child?" Tsuna asked, feeling really, really surprised of the baby's appearance.
"Hm? I'm Reborn, your new home tutor," he said. Tsuna stared at him with confusion on her face.
"Eh?" Tsuna replied, not really sure what to say.
"Now, Reborn-kun, you shouldn't go around doing stuff like this, where are your parents?" Nana asked.
"This isn't a joke. Maman, if you'll excuse us, I must get started teaching my student," Reborn replied.
"Oh, no! School's about to start soon!" Tsuna exclaimed, looking at the clock; her necklace changed back to the red heart. "I'm late!" the girl shouted, shoving her breakfast into her mouth and running out the door.
Reborn stared after her. "That was fast; that was barely fifteen seconds."
"Tsu-chan's always fast when she's nearly late, but she never gets marked down," Nana commented. "Ano, are you really the home tutor?"
"I am, Ma'am," Reborn answered, taking out his business card. Nana took it. "Now I have to catch up to my student."
In her hurry, Tsuna didn't notice she ran into someone. She had ran over Mochida, the school's kendo captain, and grabbed something all the way with her to school. At her shoe locker, she dropped what was was holding, switched her shoes, and ran to her classroom without even looking at the something she dropped.
Lunchtime
Reborn studied his student: her grades, like she said earlier, was very above average, among the top twenty; she was very athletic, close to that of Yamamoto, the baseball star; ironically, her sassy and vibrant personality didn't get her any friends, everyone was at most in their own group while she was all by herself.
"If her mother didn't call me for her grades, then what did she call me for?" Reborn muttered to himself.
Two girls approached his student.
"Sawada-san, correct?" asked the fair looking girl. She was Sasagawa Kyoko, the school's idol, the most-sought after girl by all the boys.
"Yes?" Tsuna replied.
"Thank you so much for this morning," Kyoko said. "If you hadn't grabbed me, I probably would've been late to school."
"Eh?"
"Mochida-sempai was talking to me, then you grabbed me and took me all the way to school. Thank you, Sawada-san," Kyoko continued.
"Oh, um..." Tsuna's necklace changed into a blue spade.
"You're welcome," Tsuna said, suddenly very calm and serious, despite having no recollection of this morning.
"We're going to eat lunch. Would you like to join us?" Kyoko offered.
"Oh, no. It's okay. I have something to do. Thank you for the offer," Tsuna said.
"Oh, okay. Maybe next time."
"Yeah, maybe next time."
"Kyoko, you go ahead. I have to talk to Sawada for a minute," said the other girl. Tsuna nearly forgot that she was there, being so quiet the entire time. She was known to be Kyoko's closest friend, Kurokawa Hana. She had the skills of becoming a lawyer, being among the top 5 in their grade.
"Okay."
After Kyoko left, Hana rounded on Tsuna. "What were you doing this morning? A little more, then Mochida would've made his move and Kyoko would've gotten herself a boyfriend."
"Well...I really have no idea what happened this morning. I only remember that I was nearly late, so..."
"Still, you couldn't avoid them on your way?"
"I'm sorry, but my goal is to not have any tardy marks on my record."
"Oh, well. When you put it like that, I can't really fault you like that; Mochida would've made Kyoko late. By the way, what is this something that you have to do? Can I help?"
"Oh, no. It's alright. It's something that I can finish by myself."
"Alright then. See you later in class."
"Bye!" Hana walked away.
After she was out of earshot, Tsuna sighed, as if dealing with the two girls took a lot of her; her necklace changed into the orange flame.
Then Hana came back; Tsuna's necklace turned into the red heart. "Mochida's talking to Kyoko right now. I can't interrupt them."
"Eh~, is Mochida-san really a good guy?"
"Of course, he's the captain of the kendo club. He's very compatible with Kyoko. Plus, if any guy gives him any hassle, he can take care of them."
"Oh..."
"You don't like guys or something?"
"Oh, no. It's just that I've never thought of any guys like that."
"Not even Yamamoto, our baseball star?"
"Now that's a maybe," Tsuna gushed with a blush; her necklace transformed into the blue spade. "He's very handsome."
"At least you're not like Kyoko in that aspect. Whenever she sees a guy who's very interested in her, she just treats them like any other guy. She also said that she doesn't think of any guy romantically."
"Oh, Hana, there you are. Hello, Sawada-san." Kyoko came back to the girls.
"Hey, Kyoko. Sorry I took too long, but weren't you with Mochida?"
"Un. Mochida-sempai confessed to me."
"Okay. Since it sounds like a private conversation between close friends, I should leave now," Tsuna said, trying to get away.
"Oh no, you don't. As the person responsible for the confession not happening this morning, you're staying and listening to the mess you caused," Hana said, stopping her.
"But I rejected him," Kyoko said.
"What? Why did you do that?" Hana asked.
"Well, I just can't see him like that," Kyoko confessed.
"But you two were spending so much time together. Come on, surely you felt a little something."
"But there has never been anything happening between us. And we're only on the leadership committee together."
"You don't have to worry, Sasagawa-san," Tsuna said, her necklace changing from the blue spade to the indigo rose. "It's best that you had rejected him. If you two had gone out with each other and you still didn't feel anything for him, it would've been a nasty break-up."
"How can you not feel anything for Mochida? He's such a nice guy."
"So Kurokawa-san would've felt something for Mochida-san if he had confessed to her?"
"Nope. I prefer mature guys; Mochida-sempai isn't mature enough."
"Oh, is Sawada-san done with your something? Would you be free to eat lunch with us now?"
"Oh, uh...no, I'm not done yet. Maybe next time."
"Might as well. Maybe next time."
Then the girls left.
Once again, Tsuna sighed, as if dealing with the girls took a lot out of her; her necklace changing back to the orange flame.
"Why didn't you go eat lunch with the girls? It's not like you have anything to do," said a voice coming from the top of her head; Tsuna's necklace, once again, turned into the red heart.
Tsuna looked up and saw the same baby in a suit from this morning on top of her head. "What are you doing here? I thought I left you with Mom."
"I came to school. So why don't you go eat lunch with them?"
"I really do have something to do."
"Sawada Tsunahime!"
Tsuna turned toward the voice as Reborn left. A third-year with a shinai (wooden bamboo sword that's used in kendo) came close to her.
"You must be Mochida-san," Tsuna said.
"Yeah."
"It's alright, Mochida-san. Sasagawa-san's not the only girl in the world."
"You!" Mochida grabbed Tsuna by her collar. "If it hadn't been for you this morning, Kyoko would've said yes!"
"Excuse me..." Tsuna made Mochida let go of her. "What makes you think there would be a difference between this morning and this afternoon? Sasagawa may be a nice girl, but if she says that she can't see you romantically, you respect her decision. She said so herself."
"No! It's because you ran over me that Kyoko doesn't see me as a man!"
"Oh, really. You can't get the girl you like, so you blame outsiders, even a girl, for the reason. How low of you."
"Why you!" Mochida made to grab his shinai to attack Tsuna, but...
"If you continue to crowd here, I'll bite you to death," said Hibari Kyouya, the Disciplinary Committee Head, coming round the corner.
Even if Mochida was the kendo captain, there was no way that he would be able to defeat Hibari Kyouya, the dangerous Disciplinary Committee Head. The Disciplinary Committee was basically full of gangsters.
Mochida ran off. Tsuna turned to Hibari.
"Thank you for scaring him. I apologize for crowding here," Tsuna said to Hibari.
"Quit crowding here," was Hibari's only reply as he walked past her.
Tsuna only smiled after him. Looking around that there was no one around, Tsuna made her way to the nearby girl's restroom. Sensing that there was no one, Tsuna took out her compact mirror.
It was specially made for her by her late grandmother. Like the seven piece mirror on her vanity, her compact mirror was in seven pieces, carefully constructed to fold curved, like a turtle's shell.
Tsuna stared into her mirror, focusing on the center mirror; her necklace transformed into an orange flame.
"Just staring into your compact mirror doesn't really count as something," Reborn commented.
Tsuna looked up; her necklace changing into the red heart. The floor opened up, and up came Reborn, like those sci-fi or spy movies where a character can come up from the ground.
"And since when did my school turn into a spy company? The school was never like that," Tsuna asked. "If it was, I would never have to worry about being late and run."
"Since I moved in. You shouldn't have blown off those girls like that, especially not like this," Reborn said.
"Then what should I do?" Tsuna asked, putting away her compact mirror.
"I'd say, go out there and eat lunch with the girls. Do what other girls do," Reborn said.
"I don't want to," Tsuna replied. The school bell rang.
"Time for class! Bye bye!" Tsuna ran off.
Reborn stared after her. "Hmm. There's great potential in her. Maybe she could do it, just like he said."
After school
"I'm home!" Tsuna called out into her house.
Nana popped out of the kitchen. "Welcome home, Tsu-chan."
"I'm gonna finish my homework and then head out for a bit," Tsuna said.
"Alright. By the way, I've decided to let Reborn stay here, so that he can tutor you to be no.1," Nana said.
"Eh? But Mom! You know that all I have to do is try harder and then I can be no.1 by myself. There's no need to call for him!" Tsuna pouted.
"But I feel reassured that he stays."
"Ohh, all right, Mom."
Tsuna made her way upstairs to enter her room. Reborn was already sitting on her bed.
Tsuna sighed; once her mother decided something, there was no stopping her, unless it was her barely around father.
"Tsuna, sit down," Reborn said.
"Wow, going for the tutoring right from the start. Nice," Tsuna said, sitting down at the small table in the center of her room. Her necklace changed into a blue spade.
"I was lying to you before, my real line of work is assassination, and my job here, is to turn you into a wife suitable for a Mafia boss," Reborn said as he brought out a rifle from his brief case. Tsuna looked at him in disbelief.
"A-a wife? For a mafia boss?" She asked.
"A certain man hired me to make you a wife; because I have a lot of respect for him and close to his family, I agreed to do it," Reborn replied. "I don't like getting rough with women, but should I shoot you once to prove it's real?"
"Um, no. Whether it's real or not, I'd prefer not to get shot," Tsuna replied. "And I would like to decline the mafia boss wife thing because if it's anything like the Godfather, it's not something I would consider as a lifestyle after high school. And I'm only fourteen. Even my mom would agree with me that it's much too early for me to consider something like marriage."
"Well, that was my plan from the start, but after studying you, I've decided to turn you into a mafia boss instead," Reborn says.
"Eh? Mafia boss? Were you not listening to me?"
"With a little more training, your reflexes would be top notch to match a mafia boss. I can tell that you could be quite intelligent, the 1st in your grade, you just need more motivation. With your ambition to go to your grandmother's alta mater, Ouran High, that would be a good place to start your mafia family."
"I don't want to become a mafia boss, let alone a mafia boss' wife. I also don't want to go to my grandmother's alma mater to start a mafia family; that's not the reason why I want to go to Ouran."
"Alright then, we can start gathering followers now. Like the flyer says, age and grade don't matter. I'm staying."
"Ugh…I was hoping you would leave. But if you're gonna stay here in this household, leave my room. Even if you're a baby, you can't stay in a girl's room. There's a room downstairs that we use as storage; if we clean up there's enough room for you to sleep in."
"Not to worry, I've already cleaned it up."
The next day, Reborn escorted Tsuna to school, not that she could do anything about it, her necklace the red heart, and on the way, they ran into Kyoko.
"Ah, good morning Tsuna," Kyoko greeted her happily.
"Oh, good morning Kyoko," Tsuna replied.
"Ciaossu," greeted Reborn, which made Kyoko notice him.
"Kya! So cute, why are you wearing a suit?" Kyoko asked.
"Because I'm in the mafia. I'm Reborn, Tsuna's tu..." Reborn started to say, but Tsuna covered his mouth quickly.
"He is my younger cousin. He's role-playing the mafia boss, and he's staying with me and my mother while his parents work overseas," Tsuna quickly lied as Reborn removed her hand, frowning, and Kyoko giggled.
"That's so cute, good luck with that, Reborn-kun. I'll see you at school, Tsuna. You probably have to take him to nursery school." Kyoko said. Tsuna nodded, watching her walk away before sighing with relief that Kyoko had bought what she was saying, because she knew the story was somewhat farfetched.
"Look, I'm not saying I don't believe you, but you can't go around telling everyone that you're in the mafia and that you're my tutor! It's not normal!" Tsuna scolded Reborn who just shrugged.
"At least I'm not the one who's letting his friends getting eaten by wolfs," Reborn said, pointing something down the road.
Tsuna looked at the direction and saw what seemed like Kyoko being harassed by Mochida.
"Hey! What are you doing!" Tsuna shouted, going up to the two.
"Oh, I'm sorry," Mochida said, stepping back. "Sawada-san, right?"
"Yes. This is Sawada Tsunahime," Kyoko introduced. "Sawada-san, this is Mochida from the Leadership committee."
"We've met yesterday," Mochida said.
"Sasagawa-san, let's get to school. We'd better not be late," Tsuna said to the girl.
"Yes. You're right," Kyoko replied.
Tsuna quickly took Kyoko away from Mochida.
"Are you okay, Sasagawa-san?" Tsuna asked. "Has he been harassing you?"
"No, nothing like that."
"Not to worry, if he does end up harassing Kyoko just because she rejected him, we can just call on her brother," Hana said, getting into the conversation.
"Her brother?"
"You mean, you haven't been hearing her brother yelling 'Extreme' all the time?" Hana asked.
"Oh. Wait, that person is your brother?" Tsuna thought back to the mornings when there was a very spirited silver-haired boy jogging in the mornings. He did not look like Kyoko at all.
The bell rang.
"Oh, time for class." The girls took their seats.
After school, Kyoko and Hana left for the Leadership committee. Not feeling easy for Kyoko to be approached by Mochida, Tsuna hung around the school, dodging the places the leader of the Disciplinary Committee would take his rounds.
After the Leadership Committee was over, Tsuna found Kyoko and Hana talking to Mochida.
"Hey, Kyoko, Hana. Do you guys want to go to Nami-chuu for cakes?" Tsuna asked. "My mom hired this home tutor, so she asked me to buy some cakes to welcome him."
Tsuna noticed that Mochida had expressed annoyance when she showed up, unnoticed by Hana and Kyoko.
"Oh, sure I'd love to," Kyoko said.
"A home tutor? What for?" Hana asked. "I know your grades aren't as good as mine, but I didn't know they were that bad."
"That's what I said, but apparently Mom already signed the contract so he's staying," Tsuna explained as the girls left.
"It just shows that your Mom's really worried about your future," Mochida said, walking with them.
"I guess..."
When they got to Nami-chuu, Tsuna, her necklace a green clover, and Kyoko took a long time to pick out their cakes.
"You girls sure like cakes," Mochida commented.
"That's because Nami-chuu's cakes are the best," Kyoko said.
"I could eat their cakes every day," Tsuna added.
"Better be careful not to eat so much that you gain weight."
"We watch our weight, so don't you worry," Hana said.
At an intersection in one of the neighborhoods, the group spilt up.
"I'm going this way," Hana said.
"I'm going here," Tsuna said, pointing at a certain direction.
"Kyoko, how about I escort you home?" Mochida suggested.
"It's alright. It's right around the corner," Kyoko said. "It's also getting late. I don't want Mochida-sempai going home so late."
"It's more dangerous if a girl like Kyoko goes home alone than me."
"Are you saying that the two of us aren't girls?" Tsuna asked.
"Hey, what are you doing? Interrupting them," Hana muttered.
"Er...well..." Mochida tried to make up an excuse
"It should be okay for Sasagawa-chan to go home by herself, anyways. I can see her brother coming."
The group looked in the direction Tsuna was gesturing at; sure enough was Sasagawa Ryohei jogging towards their direction.
"Oh, Kyoko!" Ryohei exclaimed, seeing the group.
"Hello, Onii-chan," Kyoko replied back.
"Sasagawa," Mochida greeted.
"On your way home?"
"Un! What about you, Onii-chan?"
"I'm almost done with my extreme training around the town."
"Then why don't you go home with Kyoko together? It's getting late, after all," Tsuna suggested.
"Yosh! Let's go home, Kyoko."
"Okay. Bye, guys. See you tomorrow," Kyoko said to the others.
"Bye!"
"See you tomorrow."
After the group spilt, Tsuna felt as though someone was following her. She turned to a brisk jog, going in a direction different from her home. If there really is a person following her, she couldn't lead that person to her house and her mom.
"One, two, three," Tsuna counted off, reciting the words to a hide-and-seek game native to Japanese kids, "I see you!"
She turned around and saw that the person who was following her was Mochida.
"Eh? Mochida?"
"If it hadn't been for you..."
"What?"
"If it hadn't been for you!" Mochida shouted. Then he left, leaving Tsuna in confusion.
"Seems like he really hates you for ruining his chances with Kyoko," Reborn commented.
"But it was doomed from the beginning, cuz Sasagawa-chan never saw him that way," Tsuna said. "By the way, Reborn-chan, mind if you can tell me why I'm supposed to be a mafia boss?"
"I was assigned by the 9th generation boss of the Vongola family to come to Japan and train you to succeed him, and become the 10th generation boss, because he's getting old. You were the 4th choice. The 1st, Enrico, was shot in a feud, the 2nd, Matsumo, had his feet clad in cement sneakers and took a walk into a river, and the 3rd and favorite, Federico, was kidnapped and we only got the bones back; we had to identify him by his dental records," Reborn said as he showed picture after picture of the choices while the two walked home.
"You didn't have to show the pictures! Now I can't go to sleep without having nightmares tonight! But why me? And why are you a baby?" she said as Reborn put the pictures away and entered their home.
"The first Vongola retried early and came here to Japan, where he had children with a local woman; he was your great, great, great grandfather on your father's side. This makes you a Vongola by blood, and the last legitimate heir to the title of 10th," Reborn explained, showing Tsuna a quickly made family tree of the Vongola.
"Then, do you know the reason why Daddy didn't tell me about this if I'm a Vongola by blood?" Tsuna asked, depressed as she entered her room.
"I don't know, but I'm still gonna make you into a fine mafia Donna," Reborn replied. Tsuna shook her head as Reborn went back downstairs.
"Hey, you still haven't told me why you're a baby unless you're just short." Tsuna reminded him.
"Tsu-chan, Reborn-chan, dinner!" Nana called.
"Coming!"
The next day, when Tsuna went to school, everyone whispered around her and didn't talk to her until she entered her classroom.
"Hey, Sawada. What did you do?" Hana asked as soon as Tsuna walked in through the door.
"Huh?"
"Sawada," called a voice from behind her. Tsuna turned and saw four guys.
"Mochida-taicho is waiting for you in the dojo to reclaim his honor, so you can't go home. He swore yesterday that he wouldn't rest until he got it back, no matter who or what you are," One of them said.
"Uhh...what honor?" Tsuna asked.
"Don't play stupid!" another guy said. "You made Mochida-taichou look stupid in front of Sasagawa Kyoko, our school's idol! Thanks to you, the perfect couple of the generation can't come together!"
"As you can see..." Hana said, as if the boys' cries for their taichou and the school idol's nonexistent relationship went down the tubes.
"But it was doomed from the beginning, Kurokawa-san. You heard what Sasagawa-chan said; she couldn't see Mochida like that," Tsuna said.
"I know, but the idiot captain doesn't know that and is setting the blame on you."
"Sawada, we have to get to the gym," one of the four guys said.
"But what about school?" Tsuna asked.
"Our kendo team persuaded the student body council to allow this to happen," another guy explained.
"Oh, uh..." Tsuna's necklace transformed into the orange flame. "Okay," Tsuna followed the four guys to the gymnasium.
"You!" Mochida called as soon as he saw Tsuna, "God may forgive a piece of shit like you, but I won't!" he shouted, "I shall smite you!"
Tsuna looked, well...bored, as if Mochida wasn't worth her time. Mochida was fully dressed in Kendo gear and looking completely serious. Despite all this, Tsuna, in her orange flame necklace, couldn't take him seriously.
'Mochida is a fool,' she thought. 'He couldn't get the girl he wanted so he takes it out on the closest thing next to the situation. Rather than focusing on correcting the things that would appeal Sasagawa to him, he goes around like an idiot and hacking people's heads off, pulling him away from Sasagawa even more.'
"Don't worry, it's an easy duel that even an girl like you can understand," Mochida informed her, pointing his Shinai at her, "You're a novice at Kendo, so if you can get an Ippon off me, then you win! If you can't, then I win!" he told her confidently. "The prize is, of course, Sasagawa Kyoko-san!"
Tsuna blinked. "Excuse me?"
In the audience, Kyoko and Hana bristled as well.
"Pri-prize!" Kyoko cried out, annoyed.
"What a jerk," Hana agreed.
Kyoko started to walk towards the Kendo captain, but was stopped by her friends. She struggled against them, telling them to let go.
"Calm down, Kyoko-chan. Mochida's fighting for you," said one friend.
"Yeah. I envy you. I wish I was fought over," added another friend.
"I bet Sawada interfered because she was jealous of your relationship, Kyoko."
"That's not true," Kyoko tried to explain.
"Yeah. What's even stranger is why would he fight against Sawada?" Hana pointed out. "Sawada merely stood up for Kyoko, when she rejected Mochida. And now Sawada's getting all the blame, like a scapegoat."
Up on the floor again, the Kendo captain was talking to himself. "I'm the lead in this battle," he said, "No matter what happens, I won't lose to her. She is a girl, after all."
Tsuna went to the girls' bathroom and changed into her P.E. clothes. She took out her compact mirror and stared into it for a few moments.
Reborn was spying on her, wondering what was the big deal about the compact mirror.
Tsuna put the mirror back with her clothes, and took out the sword hilt.
"I'm back," Tsuna said, entering the gym. She ignored the armor and stood the opposite of Mochida on the match floor.
"Now let's start," Tsuna said, holding the sword hilt as if she were holding a real sword. Mochida went into the kendo stance, mentally laughing at her for trying to do kendo with a mere sword hilt. The ref started the battle and Mochida struck at her head, but Tsuna dodged it and struck his chest. Mochida stood up from the ground and struck at Tsuna again. Since the ref didn't call Mochida out, Tsuna knew that the match was rigged. Bristled about the rigged stuff, Tsuna went all out.
"You claim that you want Sasagawa-san's heart, yet you're not doing everything you could to win her affections. By attacking me, you're pulling further away from her, scaring her," Tsuna said, hitting Mochida at different places on his body nonstop while dodging Mochida's shinai. Even though she was at such close range, Mochida couldn't even hit her; she was moving too fast for even his eyes to catch up.
Tsuna then held her sword hilt above her head, wielding it like a samurai. "If you truly want to become Sasagawa-san's boyfriend, then you must change yourself first," Tsuna finished, striking Mochida on the head.
With all the blows on his body, Mochida fainted, collapsing on his front.
"Taichou!" exclaimed the various members of the kendo club.
"And I'll teach you boys how to properly referee a kendo match!" Tsuna rounded on them, scaring them. "How dare you not raise my flag when I clearly had won many Ippons, despite my choice of weapon. If you truly call yourself members of the kendo club, then you should've stopped Mochida from attacking me, or at the very least, raised my flag when I won Ippons. Your Captain has shamed your club's honor by treating it as if some toy to gain bragging rights. When each and every one of you joined the kendo club, you should've made a promise to uphold the kendo club's honor and pride. By going along with your captain in his selfish needs, you have shamed yourselves and the club. Now you must tell yourselves, are you someone who will respect those around you the way you respect your parents so that you will be someone respected, or are you someone who needed a female to scold you about what you obviously did wrong."
Once finished, Tsuna made her way to the girls' restroom. The crowd, watching the match, parted before her like the Red Sea.
"Sawada-san," Kyoko called her after she's done changing back into her school uniform. Tsuna's necklace became the red heart.
"Sasagawa-san."
"You were awesome back there," Kyoko said, smiling. "And thank you for standing up for me."
Tsuna smiled back. "You're welcome, Sasagawa-san."
"Please, call me Kyoko. I'll call you Tsuna, is that all right?"
"Sure, Kyoko."
Reborn stared at his student from his hiding place, smiling at the thought of the potential she's shown so far. 'Mochida wasn't the captain for his leadership skills. He was no pushover. Yet, Tsuna was able to beat him without even a hit on her, despite the fact that she was only using the hilt of a sword. She has incredible skills. Not only that, she fought for an acquaintance's reputation. Perhaps, she really will become a great Donna, even greater than the Ninth.'
By the power of the viewers, the poll has announced that the audience want Bleach back. Thanks to this, Natural Tsuna will still be different from the version before it was deleted. In order to make everything flow, the Dying Will Bullet won't be making an appearance for a while, nor will the Bleach characters since for now we're just introducing the KHR characters.