A/N: I want to thank everyone who reviewed and added this story to their favourites and follows as well as everyone who reviewed the last chapter. I want to thank everyone for giving this fic a chance.
Running her hand through her hair, Naruto couldn't help but release a yawn as she walked through the streets that would lead her to Namimori Middle School. Why did she have to wake up so early in the morning? Why did school have to start at 8:30? Why couldn't it start at 10? She let out another yawn. She had barely gotten any sleep last night, having spent almost the whole entire night skimming through the school booklets the ladies in admission gave her as well as studying the scrolls that the Sandaime Hokage had given her in his will.
Shaking her head, she continued to grumble under her breath about the unfairness of school but only to stop grumbling when she noticed Tsuna walking with a toddler. The toddler was adorable, Naruto thought to herself, noticing he was wearing a hat with an orange strap. With his black hair and curly sideburns, all Naruto wanted to do was to grab the toddler and squeeze him, which was saying something since Naruto wasn't that kind of girl. Shaking her head, she walked towards Tsuna who seemed to be too busy arguing with the toddler, who looked more amused than annoyed.
"Hey Tsuna!" She laughed when the boy jumped up at the sight of her, furrowing his eyebrows at her while the toddler looked at her in confusion.
"Uzumaki-san!"
"Call me Naruto! Uzumaki-san sounds kinda weird to me!" he blinked his eyes before nodding his head at her request, making her smile widely at him, "I didn't expect I would meet you on my way to school! Now I know I won't get lost!" She grinned and stared at the toddler, who stared right back at her with a smile that Naruto could only describe as being fake. Wow, it amazed her how at such a young age a toddler could give such fake smiles. "Mind telling me who's the baby? I didn't see him yesterday when you were showing me the way to school."
"I'm his tutor Reborn."
She blinked and blinked her eyes while Tsuna stared at the baby as if he was crazy for saying that as well as looking at him in annoyance. Normally, Naruto would tell the baby he was lying but something inside of her told her not to underestimate this baby. A small part of her wanted to shiver in fear, wanted to crawl into a small place and hide. She hadn't felt like that since she met Itachi, hadn't felt that way since she first met Orochimaru and for a baby to make her instincts like this, told her one thing: this baby was dangerous.
"You must be really smart then," Tsuna blinked his eyes at her while she tilted her head at him, "Mind telling me why you're wearing a suit? It's kinda hot today?"
"Because I'm in the Mafia."
Scratching her head, she tilted her head at the toddler. "And what's the Mafia? I never heard of them before!"
Tsuna looked absolutely confused at the fact that she didn't know what the Mafia was while the toddler looked at her with interest but she couldn't tell because for once she couldn't read a person's emotions. Were they really well known? She wouldn't know since she only been in this country for three weeks now, not enough time for her to soak in all the knowledge this world could give her. It didn't give her enough time to know the laws of the world, not enough time to figure out what was seen as acceptable and what wasn't acceptable. It certainly didn't give her enough time to get to know about everything this world could offer her.
Before the two of them could answer her question, they heard someone squeal and before Naruto could even blink her eyes she saw a brown-haired girl standing right in front of her and the baby. She was a pretty girl Naruto thought to herself, noticing how Tsuna was flushing bright red at the sight of the girl. She was the kind of girl that all the mothers of the civilians boys would have pressured their son to marry. With her bright smile and pleasant appearance, there was no doubt in Naruto's mind that all the civilian boys in her ex-village would have been eager to date her.
"How cute!" The girl squealed, staring at Reborn.
"Ciaossu."
The girl smiled wider at the toddler. "Why are you wearing a suit?"
"Because I'm in the Mafia."
"How cool!"
So the mafia was something cool? Naruto asked herself, staring at the toddler and the girl who was now saying her goodbyes to them. She glanced at the toddler, who stared right back at her, and then looked at Tsuna, who she suddenly noticed was standing behind the corner of the walls of the house. She raised her eyebrow at him, earning a flushed expression before looking back at the baby, who was staring at the fading back of the golden-brown haired girl. He twisted his head and looked at Tsuna, who still looked flushed.
"Mafia seduction," Reborn stated, earning a surprise look from both Tsuna and her.
"What?" Tsuna yelled.
"I'm still confuse, what the hell is the Mafia?"
"Do you know the Yakuza?" The baby asked her.
"Yeah, they're criminal group," The baby nodded, "What does the Yakuza have to do with the Mafia?"
"The Mafia are like the Italian Yakuza."
She blinked and blinked her eyes, stared at the baby then to Tsuna before biting her lips to stop herself from laughing out loud at the baby had been trying to tell her. This baby…this baby couldn't be serious when he said he was a part of the Mafia! Did he know how dangerous it was to claim you were a part of the Mafia? If they were anything like the Yakuza she knew then they were constantly being hunted down. She grimaced and stared at the baby, who stared right back at her with that smile of his. This baby had to be lying right? But even though it was insane, a small part of her told her this baby wasn't lying to her.
"Ok," She glanced at Tsuna, who was staring at her as if she was crazy, "So now that I know this baby is a part of the Mafia, mind telling me why the hell are you hiding like that? It isn't like the girl was going to bite you or something! And it feels kinda weird talking to you like that!"
"It's because he has a crush on that girl," Reborn explained to her before turning to Tsuna, who was staring at the disappearing form of the girl. "Isn't that right?"
"Why is it any of your business!" He hissed at them.
Reborn frowned. "Naruto here asked and you weren't going to answer so I decided to answer for you."
"How do you know I've a crush on her?" He hissed at Reborn.
She really couldn't help but laugh at the pair's interaction. Something about the way those two interact just made her want to laugh? Maybe it was the fact, the toddler didn't really care about what Tsuna say or maybe it was the fact Tsuna was really arguing with a toddler! She muffled her laughter with her hand, watching with twinkling eyes as Reborn stated with a serious face about how he mastered the art of mind reading. She shook her head when Tsuna's eyebrows twitched at the obvious lie Reborn had given to him. There was just something about the boy in front of her that was just so easy to rile up.
"And why are you laughing Naruto?" He asked her irritably.
"You're arguing with a baby," He blinked his eyes at her, "C'mon if you saw a boy our age argue with a toddler, wouldn't that make you laugh?"
He stared at her before reluctantly nodding his head, earning a smile from her. Shaking her head at Tsuna, she looked down at the baby who stared back at her before back at Tsuna. The baby smiled widely at them and suddenly Naruto had a bad feeling about what the smile meant, something about that smile just screamed trouble to her and Naruto certainly didn't want to deal with anymore trouble. She came to this country, hoping and praying she wasn't going to find or get into any trouble here. Something told her that as long as she stayed near those two then trouble would always find her.
It would only be later in the future that she would curse herself for not listening to that instinct of hers because if she had then maybe the future wouldn't have looked the way it did. If she hadn't met Reborn then maybe she wouldn't have been found but she was going to be found either way…she had been a fool to think otherwise. Not that she knew now. For now she was ignorant of what was to come.
Nodding her head, she glanced at Tsuna. "So that girl…did she reject you or something?" Tsuna blinked his eyes at the sudden change of topic. "I'm just asking you because you suddenly jumped behind the wall over there when she came."
"The better question to ask Naruto did he confess to her," Reborn informed her, gazing at the flustered boy.
He furiously shook his head at them. "How could she reject me if I didn't tell her!"
"Then why the hell are you hiding?" He blinked his eyes at her. "And why didn't you tell her about your feelings? For all y'know she might return your feelings."
"Sasagawa Kyoko is the idol of our school," Naruto couldn't help but raise her eyebrows at hearing this, "I'm not even in her league so it's useless to confess my feelings towards her."
"That loser complex is amazing," Reborn stated, making the blue-eyed girl nod her head in agreement.
Tsuna scowled. "Just leave me alone."
She shook her head and glanced at the clock in her wrist before cursing out loud, earning a surprised look from Tsuna. The blonde laughed before telling him she needed to get to class on time or else she would be dealing with a little problem. Well actually if she was going to be more honest, Hibari wasn't a small problem for her. He was a big problem for her because as much as she loved to fight, loved the thrill of a fight, she didn't want to make a bad impression to the teachers or students. For the first time in her life, Naruto wanted people to like her, wanted to forget all the terrible names she had been called. All she wanted was to start anew.
So with that thought in mind, she waved her goodbyes and started to sprint towards the road, where she remembered crossing to get towards the school. It wouldn't do her any good if the bastard saw her being late for school. There was no doubt in her mind if she broke a rule in the school then the boy would come charging in with his weapons, swinging them until he could hurt her. It would never happen though because she was trained to be a killer and could use chakra while that boy wasn't trained to use chakra.
If he used chakra then it might be a whole different case.
Her musing were interrupted when she suddenly felt a huge gush of wind passing her way. Frowning, Naruto blinked and blinked her eyes when she saw it was Tsuna who caused that sudden wind. Her face turned a bright red when she realized the boy was now in his underwear. What…? Why the hell was he suddenly in his underwear? And how was he running like that without getting tired? Civilians generally don't run as fast as he did! What the hell was happening to that guy? She asked herself as she walked across the road, scratching her head as she continued to watch the boy run around in his underwear.
Well if she could confirm one thing, it was that this town was weirder than she thought it was.
Naruto Uzumaki, Reborn decided as he watched the blue-eyed girl being introduced by the teacher to the class, was a very interesting girl. Out of all the kids he had seen so far, this girl was the only one who truly screamed danger to him. To an ordinary person, Naruto Uzumaki looked innocent and weak but Reborn could see the truth. That girl was someone strong but how strong she was, he didn't know. What he did know was this: the girl had a lot of potential. He knew from the way she walked that the girl was not some weakling like his student, was not someone that needed protecting like his student's crush and was definitely someone he needed to keep an eye out for.
It had barely been a day since he arrived here but Reborn knew the blue-eyed girl wasn't going to be like the other girls in Tsuna's class. He could somehow feel that girl standing confidently in the classroom was going to be someone powerful. Just like Tsuna, he could sense the flames roaring inside of her that was just ready to burst out. It had been a long time, a really long time since he felt such flames, felt such heat from her and he wondered briefly what would happen if those flames were just unleashed.
He tilted his hat, watched closely as the girl made her way to take the seat beside his student, who was keeping his head down. No doubt that student of his was feeling too embarrassed from having confessed to his crush in his underwear but Reborn didn't feel any sympathy for his student, only the pleasure and amusement of watching his student being humiliated. It certainly didn't help that he knew by making the boy confess to Kyoko in front of the whole school would have made one of the girl's suitors challenge him, allowing him to start his job.
Watching closely, Reborn watched Naruto as she gave his student a smile and declared to him that she hoped they would be friends, effectively making his student blink his eyes and stare at the girl with such hopeful eyes that Reborn didn't know whether he should call his student pitiful or feel sympathetic to him. In the end, he decided to go with pitiful. Shaking his head, he noted the way the girl took her seat and began scanning the classroom. He saw how alert her eyes were. The only thing that ruined the girl's tension was that smile on her face, which even he would admit could fool anyone to thinking she was fine and relax.
If he had been anyone else, she would have fooled him.
For someone as young as her to give such a smile told him two things about the girl. One, she was skilled in the art of deception since it isn't everyday he saw a kid her age that wasn't in the mafia do this. He had never seen a kid like that in his long life, never seen a kid who had so much potential to be one of the strongest people in the world. Secondly, that smile told him the girl didn't have much trust in her surrounding, like she was expecting something bad to happen or was just searching for a way out. She acted the same way Lal acted whenever she was in a new place. Only people who have been trained in the military react this was.
He curled his lips when the blue-eyed girl stood up and yelled at the whole class for making fun of his pathetic student. Interesting, he thought to himself, watching as the blue-eyed girl put her hands into her hips and went on a full rant about how they shouldn't act like this when some of them didn't even have the guts to admit to the girl they liked. This girl, Reborn mused, was either very naïve or truly didn't find anything wrong with his student admitting his feeling to a girl in his underwear.
He smirked when he saw the look of terror in the student's eyes as the girl continued on her rant. The looks of those children's face jut reminded him of a little pigs that just realized what their fates were. Reborn looked at his student, who looked torn between looking at the girl in awe or to hide from the gaze of everyone. The boy should be grateful, he didn't have to do anything for the girl to protect him.
However he knew he could not make the girl Tsuna's guardian, not when he knew her flames would not allow it but it didn't mean Tsuna couldn't make her his ally. It also didn't mean she couldn't be included in his family. That boy would need a girl like her when he was boss. He curled his lips into a smirk when the girl finished her rant, stomped her feet, effectively causing the building to shake, and then finally sat down in her seat. With everyone quiet and staring at her, Reborn knew without a doubt the girl had gotten her message across to them.
His student should take a few lessons from her about having a presence and having a backbone. If the information from Iemitsu was true then he seriously did have a lot of work in teaching this supposedly useless- student in becoming a boss. Not that was a problem because if he could make Dino a good boss then Tsuna was going to be a little bit less challenging, especially if the girl Naruto was by his side.
Naruto Uzumaki was definitely someone he needed to do research on and keep an eye on because that girl was too good for his student to pass up on. He could not force his student to be friends with her but Reborn could simply advice him in becoming friends with that girl. Though he had a hunch even if he couldn't get his student to become friends with the blue-eyed girl, the girl would become friends with his student whether he liked it or not.
He smirked.
Yes, Naruto Uzumaki was going to be a good for his student.
"So…are you ready for your match against that Kendo Captain?" Naruto asked Tsuna, placing her hands on his shoulders as she directed him towards the gym. After catching him trying to run away, Naruto decided she needed to take the boy to the gym so he didn't postpone the fight—running away won't make a guy like the Kendo Captain stop the fight. She would know from all the times she had been in a fight as well as the whispers from the boys in their class, who whispered that even if Tsuna had run away then he would make the boy fight another day.
Groaning, the younger boy slumped his shoulders, giving her a look that just told her how much he really didn't want to fight the older teen. Not that she blame him because looking at Tsuna, she doubted the boy could last long against him. "If I had to take a wild guess, I'm going to have to say that you aren't ready to fight."
"O-Of course not!" She sighed when the boy continued to slump his shoulders. "How can I fight the Kendo Captain? He's stronger then me! I can't win against him."
"That's true," He slumped his shoulders even further but perked up when Naruto continued, "Or maybe you're wrong! How the hell do y'know you can't win? Have you tried fighting with him?"
Tsuna looked at her as if she was crazy. "He's the Kendo Captain! And I'm a nobody! I also don't know how to fight Naruto-san."
She shook her head when she heard those words. It had been so long since she met someone as depressing as the boy beside her, a long time since she heard someone doubt themself. She glanced at the younger boy, who covered his face with his hands as he moaned about what to do. Sighing, she looked at the other students who gave her new friend looks of disgust and pity. Curling her lips into a scowl, she glared at her fellow students and turned to Tsuna, who still had a depressed look on his face.
"You don't need to know how to fight him to make him lose," Tsuna blinked his eyes, "Fighting is fun! Don't get me wrong and a guy like that stupid Kendo Captain will need someone to beat him up but you're weak," he slumped his shoulders making the blonde grin widely at him before swinging her arms around him, "But you can make fun of him."
"He challenged me to a fight," He squeaked, turning to go away from the gym but only for her to swing him back to the direction of the gym. "How will making fun of him make him lose!"
She shrugged her shoulders. "I'm just telling you what I think you need to do to win! You don't have to listen to me about how to win…I haven't ever been in your situation. Seriously what the hell were you thinking confessing to the girl you like, like that? That had to be the worst way to confess to a girl!"
He slumped his shoulders at her reminder, making her shake her head at him and feel sympathy for the boy who obviously regretted doing what he did. Not that regretting could do anything since he now had no choice but to fight the Kendo Captain. If the worse came to worse, Naruto was going to beat him up for forcing her friend to fight. She grimaced and stared at Tsuna, who gulped at the sight of the gym's doors. How was the boy going to survive this? And why the hell must the Kendo Captain be a jerk?
No matter how much the girls of their class tried to say the Kendo Captain was a nice man for defending the airhead's honour, Naruto just had a bad feeling about him. It probably didn't help during her search for Tsunade, the Ero-sennin told her what kind of guys to avoid since apparently she needed to avoid all kind of men.
She didn't need to avoid all men, she just needed to avoid men like that pervert.
With a reluctant sigh, Naruto pushed the gym's doors open, revealing the crowds of students who all seemed so excited to watch her friend get beaten up by the stupid Kendo Captain. Glaring at the crowds of people, she shoved the younger boy to the front of the gym but not before giving him a grin and crying out the words good luck to him. He blinked his eyes at her before giving her a nervous smile that just reminded her of a small scared animal. Maybe when this was all done and over with, she should teach him the idea of confidence.
It would be amazing how confidence could save your life.
"There you're hentai stalker!" The Kendo Captain yelled at Tsuna, who squeaked at him. Naruto slapped her forehead when the boy turned his body around in a pose that just screamed he was going to run away from everyone. It seemed like the other students realized too or why else would they force the body to look at the stupid boy in front of them. "God might forgive a shitty person like you," Naruto clenched her hands into a fist at hearing this, "But I won't! I shall punish you for what you did!"
Did he just say he was going to punish her friend for one silly mistake? She asked herself, glaring at the Kendo Captain and twisted her head around to look at Tsuna, who looked so pale that Naruto was worried that the boy might just faint from shock. If Tsuna didn't beat this man up then she will! She was going to beat that piece of shit till he was black and blue, to the point where he cried out for his mama! Oh how she wanted Tsuna to at least punch this guy for her! There was no way she was going to allow Tsuna to be beaten up by some judgemental guy.
The Kendo Captain smirked when Tsuna started to squeak and squirm at his words, which only made Naruto's heart fill with dread at what he was going to say next. "Don't worry!" he pointed the sword at her friend, who paled even further. "It's an easy duel that even an idiot like you can understand."
He just needed one more insult before she was going to forget the rules and just punch the idiot on the face.
"You're a novice at Kendo," The Kendo Captain smirked, "If you can get a point off me then you win! If you can't then I win!" He twisted his body around and pointed at the girl that Naruto recognised as the girl who stopped to talk to Tsuna's friend, "The prize is of course Sasagawa Kyoko!"
Prize…
Did that arrogant, no good, piece of little shit, Kendo Captain just called a girl a prize? She gritted her teeth when she saw the girl being pulled back by her friends. She glanced at Tsuna before frowning when she saw that her new friend had run away. Right, well it was too much for her to think that the guy would stay and fight since Tsuna didn't know how to fight.
Guess that meant the Kendo Captain was free game.
Cracking her knuckles, Naruto made her way towards the front of the gym, pushed the other members of the Kendo team away before grabbing the male, who blinked his eyes at the sight of her. With a bright smile on her face, Naruto clenched her hands into a fist and punched the male on the nose, effectively sending him flying towards the walls of the gym. Everyone gasped and stared at her, looking as if they didn't know what to think of her but Naruto just ignored them and went to the male, crouching down on her knees before slamming her fist against his face before kicking him in the stomach.
She did it again and again until he was beaten up to her satisfaction.
When she finally kicked him in the balls, she pulled him up and showed him to everyone, who all stared at the Kendo Captain with disgust before looking at her with fear. Clearing her throat, she gave all the students a smirk before glaring at the captain, who whimpered at the sight of her. "I'm going to tell you guys this once and only once! I can handle a lot of things. I can handle you guys insulting my friend, I know he's more then you guys think! I can handle people picking a fight with me in fact if you want to fight me then come at me! But what I cannot handle are people who think girls are prizes to be won!" The captain whimpered. "Girls are not something you can posses! This idiot of the captain has to learn that the hard way! But if I hear any whisper of girls being treated like a possession, if I even hear the words Dame-Tsuna ever again then I'll make sure you'll end up like this stupid captain! Understood?"
They all nodded their heads fearfully at her, glancing at the groaning captain before looking at her. She smiled widely at them, shoved the Kendo Captain away from her before pressing her hands into her pockets. Was she a fool to think the guy would have proved to be harder to defeat? Shaking her head, she put her hands into her skirt pockets and walked out of the doors, ignoring the stares of all the students who stared at her. She paused midway when she noticed a teenage boy with a weird hairstyle staring at her. He didn't smile at her or said anything, only gazing at the beaten form of the captain then to her. Why was he staring at her like that? It wasn't anything special to beat that weakling up.
She blinked her eyes when she caught sight of Tsuna rushing towards the gym. She opened her mouth to tell him that it was too late to fight the Kendo Captain, that she had just defeated the older boy but closed her mouth when she saw the determination in his eyes. Who cared about the fact she beat him up? It would be funnier to see what Tsuna would do to the stupid beaten man. Maybe, with both of them beating him up then the man would be sent to the doctor.
"You're leaving," Reborn asked, making her jump when she realized he was standing right in front of her. "Don't you want to watch Tsuna beat the guy up?"
"Of course I do but if I see the Kendo Captain I'm going to beat him up even more," she clenched her hands into a fist, "I want to leave something for Tsuna to beat…if I see him again, I might just send him to the hospital and I want him to see how the boy he called a little piece of shit beat him up. Oh I want to see his reaction when he realize what happen!"
"I can send you photos."
She smiled brightly. "Give me some videos too!"
The baby smiled at her. She smiled right back at him, causing the baby to blink his eyes at her before jumping up to the tree branches, leaving her standing alone in the gym. She never once realized, she was being watched by one of the disciplinary committee, not once realized this day was the first of many days where she caught the attention of not just Reborn but also the Chairman of the Disciplinary Committee.
For now, she was just content to smile up at the sky and thanked herself for coming to this country because it seemed more fun then her home in Konoha. Later on when she was older, she would look back at that day and claimed it was the first time in a very long time that she smiled sincerely, the first time she actually bonded with Reborn even if they didn't talk that much. This day would be one of her fondest memories, alongside the time when Tsuna later found out she had the video of the match alongside so many other blackmail materials.
Yeah, she didn't regret coming to this country.
"You should have seen the match Hibari-sama! The new girl beat the Kendo Captain as if he was nothing and then he was beaten up by Dame-Tsuna!"
Placing his pen to one side, Hibari looked up from his paperwork and stared coldly at his subordinate, who gulped as he stood still. This subordinate must have come back from overseeing the fight between the two weak Herbivores. He did not understand their desire to see two weaklings fight, not when it was obvious who would win but he did not know why the subordinate had to talk about the female herbivore. The female herbivore who he would grudgingly admit wasn't weak. She wasn't strong though, holding back on him made her weak and he was going to make her regret holding back on him.
"What did the Herbivore do?"
His subordinate blinked his eye. "Which one Hibari-sama?"
"The female one."
Blinking his eyes, his subordinate stared at him but didn't answer him until he raised his tonfa at him. Gulping, the subordinate started to tell him the story of the match, about how the small herbivore initially run and how the idiotic herbivore talked about possessing the loudhead's sister, which made the blond girl very angry. The more he hear, the more and more he was interested in fighting the herbivore again, to see the anger in her eyes as they fought. He felt his hands shook as he remembered in irritation what she said to him the day before, not once had anyone ever issued a challenge to him.
No one would dare do that but that blond herbivore was an idiot, an interesting one but she was still an idiot to try and challenge him.
"You actually have to beat me in a fight."
Oh, he was going to show her that she shouldn't underestimate him.
He was going to make the blond herbivore pay for insulting him.
A/N: Please review, ask any questions that you have and also tell me what you think of Naruto's interaction so far.
