Chapter 1: Some People Just Don't Listen

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Special Thanks to 'Code-Emperor07', The first follower of this story.

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My first impression of Namimori:

A miniature version of Inaba…

The town wasn't all that big, and it was eerily quiet. All the buildings were tiny, and for some reason completely identical, and the roads were quite narrow.

As I was walking past this house belonging to some family called "Sawada", I noticed a kid around 2-3 years old of age with a giant black and orange fedora and a matching suit. I also noticed he had a yellow pacifier stuck around his neck, which looked very similar to the green pacifier of an acquaintance of mine.

Finally after getting lost oh so many times, I reached the house that Noato rented for me. I asked her on multiple occasions how the hell could she afford this, considering she's still a 2nd year middle-schooler, but she always shrugged it off with a 'It's no big deal'.

Yeah right….

Shit like that probably cost a fortune…

The house itself wasn't that big. It was located 2 blocks from Namimori Middle, so that was convenient. It had a kitchen, living room, bathroom and a bedroom. Suitable for a guy living by himself. However, what it lacks in size most definitely makes up for in appliances. The house had one of those big-ass TVs that are hung high on walls. Every room had a crystal chandelier hanging from the ceiling and the kitchen was equipped with the most high-tech fridge and furnace technologies. I guess she was under the impression I would be practicing cooking on a daily basis. Since a phone call at 5am means severe consequences, I sent her a message:

'Ok seriously… How the hell did you pay for all this? Are you some kind of heiress to a giant-ass fortune that I'm not aware of?

P.S: DON'T SHRUG THIS OFF WOMAN! I KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE!

-Ted.'

School starts at 7am, meaning I had around 1 and a half hour to kill before I needed to get going, so I decided to go ahead and use my new, extravagant TV. But of course, there was absolutely NOTHING! All the channels had those stupid morning shows. Do these people realize nobody is going to wake up just to watch them talk about crap nobody cares about? Just when I was about to turn the TV off, I heard a loud and metallic sound from somewhere inside the house. Alarms started ringing in the back of my head, considering the fact this house was supposed to be uninhabited. I followed the sound all the way to the kitchen and found a small, iron hatch on the floor underneath the kitchen table. The situation itself seemed very, very familiar. I opened the ever so eerie hatch to find a seemingly never-ending ladder. While the number 1 rule in horror movies is to never enter a never-ending passage, I decided to check it out for no good reason. Just proves that I never understood the whole "Curiosity killed the cat" thing. After what felt like ages, I reached the end of the ladder. When I saw what was there, I immediately wished I never opened that god-forsaken hatch…

There he was…. Throwing wrenches around and tinkering with a creepy computer and who-knows-what else and standing on top of a green Crocodile/Alligator….

The Mad Scientist and the Holder of the Green Arcobaleno Pacifier: Verde…

Not only was I confused, I was also pissed off because Verde was the last person you would want to meet unexpectedly. So I mustered up all those emotions and said:

"I really don't think there's a nice way to say this but… WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING HERE? WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY HOUSE YOU MAD BABY?! HOW DID YOU BUILD ALL THIS USELESS CRAP"

Verde literally jumped when he heard me yell, dropping all his tools of evil. He looked at me with a death glare that was almost as deadly as Naoto's and snapped at me quite angrily: "WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?! You don't just sneak up on somebody and then yell out of nowhere like it's something normal to do!"

"Bitch PLEASE! YOU built a lab under MY house. You have no right to complain!" I snapped back with equal ferocity. I'm pretty sure anybody would have reacted the same way if they found out a mad scientist built a secret lab under their house. He simply continued to glare at me while gathering all his stuff and putting them in a box.

"I overheard you saying you were going to move here, so I decided to come here as well. The reason doesn't concern you at the moment. And I also took the liberty of building another of my many secret labs all over the world under your house, so hopefully you won't mind me living here with you" said the mad scientist, giving me what appears to be a hybrid of puppy-eyes and a glare clearly stating ' Agree or I'll personally make your life a living hell'.

Unfazed, I gave him the best poker-face I could. I then realized I had to get going to school. It would be very bad to be late on your first day, so I planned on going there early. So I turned to him and said: "Listen up you crazy bitch. I am really not in the mood to deal with you right now so if you have anything else to-" I immediately stopped talking when I noticed that not only was that weird pacifier slightly glowing, but Verde raised his arms sideways. I recognized what was about to happen and I seriously wished I just stayed quiet and left for school..

"Elettrico Thunder!"

A greenish current of electricity made its way from the pacifier to the air and then directly striking none other than me… I'm sure you know what would happen if somebody was hit by a direct electric current. For me, it was a bit worse because my Persona, Kamui, is weak to electricity, which means I take double the amount of damage than normal. The shock made my hair turn brownish and it was kinda burnt. "OW! Why you little- THAT HURT! YOU KNOW MY PERSONA IS WEAK TO LIGHTNING-BASED ATTACKS!" I yelled at Verde while shaking him back and forth like a ragdoll.

"It serves you right! Call me a crazy bitch again, and I guarantee you won't survive the next shock" said Verde with a smug look plastered on his infantile face. It kinda was my fault, because while Verde is a crazy bitch, he's still one of The Arcobaleno, the world's strongest mafia babies. He made sure I got that on multiple occasions since I met him in Inaba.

*Flashback*

Around a month before I left Inaba, I was wandering around in Junes' Electronics Department, looking for some new video games to get and slacking off while I'm at it. Then I saw a baby wearing a lab coat staring at The TV, The one we normally use to enter The Midnight Channel. It looked as if he was analyzing the TV, as if he knew there was something strange about it. Curious, I approached the kid and asked him if he was lost.

The baby then turned around to face me with an annoyed look on his face and pretty much yelled at my face. "Go away, you are hindering my research!" then turned back to what looked like a mini tablet computer. That kinda threw me off guard because babies his age are supposed to be playing with toys not Tablets and most certainly not doing any research of any kind. I decided to play along to see where things were going.

"Oh yeah? What are you researching?" I asked with fake interest.

Yet again, the baby turned around with an annoyed expression, but he just sighed and started explaining. "I've been receiving strange signals from the TVs around here, especially this one" he said while pointing at our TV, "The readings show that the TV is some kind of entrance, but every time I touch the TV nothing happens. I analyzed the whole device and found nothing strange about it." Said the kid with a thoughtful look on his face.

'CRAP! How could a BABY figure out that the TV is a portal? This certainly piques my curiosity…' I thought to myself before checking out my surroundings. Then after noticing that the electronics department was empty, I picked up the protesting kid and dove into The Midnight Channel. We landed in the Lake area and I found there was a door in the middle of the area. I decided to investigate it later. I looked at the baby and was amused at his expression. His mouth and eyes were wide open and he seemed to have dropped his tablet on the ground. "So what do you think?" I asked the baby jokingly.

He regained his composure and had a creepy smirk on his face. "Well, looks like I was right! Care to explain where we are and how did you manage to enter, seeing as how I wasn't able to?" he asked looking at me questioningly.

"First, we're leaving this place; I'll take you to it later. And second, why don't you tell me how a Baby was able to sense that the TV was in fact a portal to another world?" I replied with a smirk of my own. The kid started laughing and replied with a 'Fine'. I tapped my foot on the ground twice, and just like always, The Triple TV Stack appeared out of thin air. It was good to know that things were still the same.

When we reached the real world, the kid and I sat down in the food court and had a drink. He explained that his name was Verde, an Arcobaleno. He explained how he and 7 others were actually adults who were tricked into getting tricked with a curse that stuck the pacifier to their bodies and turned them into 2 year olds that never grow. He also said that every one of them has an animal partner of their choice. His partner was a green crocodile/alligator named Keiman, who suddenly appeared under the table. He told me that his tablet was equipped with a sensor for disturbances in electromagnetic waves. Apparently, The TVs in Inaba emitted a lot of these disturbances so he came to investigate.

It was then my turn. I told him all about the past year. About The Midnight Channel, The Shadows, and The Murders. I even told him about Izanami and The Fog. Then I told him about Personas, how to obtain them and their capabilities. I also told him that only those with either a spark from Izanami or a Persona can enter the TV world.

And that is how Verde and I met.

*End Of Flashback*

"Dude… YOU broke into MY house, You don't have the right to make threats. We'll wrap this up later, I have to go take a shower thanks to you and then get going to school. The house better be in one piece when I get back here… OR ELSE!" I said as I rushed back upstairs to take a shower to clean off the aftermath of his electric shock. After that, I put on the dreadful uniform and left the house.

As I was close to the entrance of the school, a half-naked and mysteriously glowing brunette almost ran me over and screaming something about a 'Dying Will' whatever that meant… What intrigued me wasn't the brunette, it was the fedora-wearing baby from this morning following the kid and smirking while he was at it. I noticed he had a yellow version of the Verde's pacifier, which only meant one thing…

'Dear God! I think that's an Arcobaleno!' I thought to myself as I rushed to school before the baby could notice me staring, but I could feel his eyes looking at me as I walked away. When I finally reached the gate of Namimori Middle School, I saw that the half-naked kid from before was asking some orange-haired girl to go out with him. Now if there's one thing I learned from Sensei, it's that you NEVER ask a girl out publically in that manner. They freak out and get embarrassed, which is exactly what happened. The fact he was wearing nothing but his underwear did not help at ALL. The girl didn't say anything she just ran to the school building. I noticed that the kid's glowing aura started to go away but just before it happened, some other kid punched him.

"Don't kid yourself you pervert!" yelled the other kid before walking away. The brunette fell on the ground then started panicking.

"Damn it! What just happened to me?" asked the kid from nobody in particular.

As I was going to walk up to him and help him up, a squeaky voice came out of nowhere: "That is thanks to 'The Dying Will Bullet'" The baby came from the sky on what looked like a green parachute. Then he took out a red bullet and showed it to the kid. "This is it. A person shot in the head by it will die and get resurrected with a dying will." Said the miniature hitman like it's the most obvious thing in the world. The brunette simply said "HUH?" so the baby continued: "The person is resurrected on the basis that he or she has some kind of regret when dying, but the effect only lasts for 5 minutes."

Interested I walked closer and inquired more, "So what you're saying is that if somebody had no regrets, they would die? Wow that's Badass!" I said with enthusiasm, I wasn't fazed one bit by all that because that was hardly anything bizarre. The baby looked at me suspiciously then nodded. The brunette didn't even acknowledge my presence. Apparently, he didn't want to confess to that girl.

"Oh God! Now what do I do? I didn't even want to confess to her yet!" said the brunette in a panicked voice. The kid stopped his stare at me and turned to the brunette.

"So what you're saying is you wanted to confess but you couldn't?" said the baby mockingly.

The brunette started pinching the baby and said "Oh Shut up!" If this baby really was like Verde then the boy would surely regret doing that…

And that theory was proven when the baby punched him square in the face.

The boy yelped in pain and said: "OW! But I don't get it, I mean I was fine when I got hit by a truck just now!" I looked at him with disbelief written all over my face.

'Did he just say TRUCK?!'

The baby proceeded to explain how the bullet turns off all safety switches but I simply walked away as the bell rang, and some dangerous looking guy came towards us. He gave a ferocious glare, which I happily returned, and approached the kid from before.

"What do you think you're doing half-naked guy? Classes have started!" said the guy threateningly as he observed the brunette, which made him pale.

"H-Hibari Kyouya-san from the disciplinary committee!" stuttered the kid as he grabbed all of his stuff.

"As a member of the disciplinary committee, I cannot overlook this!"

The brunette simply crawled away and said "I'm So Sorry!" and headed inside the building, which I immediately followed suit. I did, however, notice him smirking towards the baby, then stalked off to who knows where.

Since I was a transfer student, I had to go to the faculty office to talk to my homeroom teacher. A guy with glasses whose name I keep forgetting. He told me to proceed to class and he will follow shortly. That was exactly what I did. My class was '1-A' and when I reached it, I saw half-naked guy open the door, and naturally he was bombarded with insults.

"HA! Here comes the half-naked pervert!"

"A failed confession to Sasagawa Kyoko!"

"Oh! Please go out with me! Hahaha!"

"He's so getting rejected right Sasagawa?"

People like that naturally get on my nerves, so I pushed the guy out of the way and yelled at all those guys, "Well! I'd like to see you confess to somebody! We'll see if you would do any better!"

…Ok maybe that wasn't such a good idea. I started receiving looks of curiosity from the girls and annoyance from the guys. "Who the hell are you?" yelled one of the guys. Before I could answer, the homeroom teacher came in and told everybody to take their seats.

"Ok everybody settle down! We have a transfer student today. Go ahead kid, introduce yourself." Said the teacher as he urged me to get the introduction over and done with. The guys from earlier were glaring at me, but if you have been in the company of Naoto Shirogane, glares such as those are nothing. I returned the favor with a glare of my own and proudly introduced myself.

"My name is Hanamura Kuma, but most people call me Teddie. It's very nice meet all of you!" I said with cheeriness covering my not yet resolved annoyance.

"Ok that's good. There's an empty seat next to Sawada, so why don't you go sit there." Instructed the teacher. I gave him a poker face that clearly meant 'How the hell should I know who Sawada is?' I guess he understood it because he pointed to somebody.

It was none other than half-naked guy… What a coincidence…

I went to sit next to him and gave him a smile. He returned it and said: "Thanks for standing up for me earlier. I really appreciate it!"

I gave him another reassuring smile and answered: "It's no problem! Guys like them get on my nerves!" I then turned to face those guys with a glare that made them look away in fear. I inwardly smirked. But then one of the guys whispered something to Sawada that made him panic.

"Hey Tsuna. Mochida-senpai said he wanted to fight you today in the gym."

"SAY WHAT?!" yelled Sawada, earning him a glare from the teacher.

"Supposedly he wants to get revenge on the insult you received today Kyoko. He was like 'I can't forgive those who make Kyoko cry!' Good for you Kyoko!" said a mature-looking girl to this Kyoko girl.

Kyoko simply fidgeted a little bit then said: "That's not it! We're just in the same committee!"

"Well anyway this afternoon should be fun!" said some random girl nobody cares about.

Sawada looked as if the afternoon was the apocalypse. I could've sworn I heard him mutter 'I swear I'm running away' There was nothing I could do so I stayed quiet and class continued.

However, when the afternoon break came, Sawada ran outside so fast you'd think an enraged bulldog is running after him. Since I had nothing to do and nobody to talk to I simply ran after him. He kept running until he reached the boys' toilet, and then stopped when the baby from earlier was hanging upside down on the window.

"REBORN!" yelled Sawada as he stared at the baby in disbelief.

The baby smirked, which by the way make me think the Arcobaleno have some kind of smirk obsession, and said: "Are you running away out of fear? If you run away now, you'll be running away for the rest of your life!" Sawada just yelled about how some baby should talk about his life.

"Mochida is the captain of the Kendo team and he won last year's tournament! There's no way in hell I could beat him!" whined Sawada with panic overtaking his tone.

I gotta hand it to the baby. He knows exactly which buttons to push. "What would Sasagawa Kyoko think?" That simple question made him stop panicking. "Even if you get clobbered by Mochida, a guy who stands up and fights is much cooler than somebody who runs away! You would stay in her memory for a long time."

"Reborn…"

Sawada hesitated but then he ran to what I presumed to be the gym. I turned to this Reborn and smirked. "You're a master of persuasion aren't you? Ten seconds ago he wouldn't dare even consider fighting Mochida, let alone agree to fight him! Good Going!" I said before I left and followed Sawada to the gym. Reborn gave a small snort then disappeared to who knows where.

Strangely enough, I reached the gym before Sawada, even though I didn't know anything about the school's layout. 'I hope he didn't bail out on the last minute' I thought while Mochida was saying something about how he wasn't about to lose.

"Where's Sawada? He's late!" demanded Mochida angrily. Somebody was impatient to cheat. He clearly bribed the judge or something, because he looked at him and smirked evilly. Some people said he ran away, which made Mochida laugh like a maniac, declaring himself winner by forfeit. But people were looking at him with disgust. I don't blame them. Senpai were supposed to be nice and helpful, not mean evil stalkers.

Then I saw the gym door open and Sawada entered. I couldn't wait to see Mochida's Face, so I did what had to be done.

"HEY GUYS LOOK! SAWADA CAME!" I yelled as loud as I could and all eyes were on Sawada as he entered the gym.

"Why is he here? It would've been better if he ran away!" said some unimportant guy on the sidelines. Other people looked at Sawada in disbelief.

'Is it really that shocking that he came? Geez…'

Sawada started shaking in his spot and took hesitant steps towards the center of the gym. Mochida came closer to him while still grinning like a madman and said: "Well well well, what have we here? You came you perverted stalker! I won't forgive you for what you did! I will punish you!"

Sawada tried to reason with Mochida, but Mochida wouldn't listen. "Don't worry, if you can get one point from me then you win! Failure to do so will result in your loss! Of course, the prize is none other than Sasagawa Kyoko!"

Kyoko gave him a 'Bitch PLEASE!' look and yelled "PRIZE?!" It was actually amusing how she tried to protest but it came out as a pout. The girl next to her mumbled a barely audible 'Jerk…'

Mochida's grin seemed to get wider, if that was even possible, and yelled at Sawada to get ready. Then some kid threw him a Kendo sword, which he barely managed to catch. Mochida, like the disgusting cheater he is, charged at Sawada before he was ready and made him fall to the ground.

"YOU CHEATER! HE WAS NOT READY!" I yelled in protest, but Mochida didn't seem to care and he continued charging. Sawada, for whatever reason, started running away. Mochida simply chased him around. Some people started laughing at Sawada, calling him 'Dame-Tsuna' which I guess meant Loser or something similar.

Mochida, yet again, cheated and hit Sawada's legs, making him fall to the ground. What happened next was most interesting.

Sasagawa yelled: "Sawada-kun! Do your Best!" That made Mochida temporarily freeze and allowed the now appearing Reborn to shoot Sawada with those 'Dying-Will Bullets'. Sawada fell to the ground in what seemed like slow motion. According to Reborn, this is where the person feels his regrets. Sawada started glowing for a bit, then a flame- yes Flame- appeared on his forehead. His eyes became angry and his clothes magically tore off, leaving him in his underwear… Again…

"REBORN! I'LL GET A POINT NO MATTER WHAT!" Yelled Sawada, with a newly acquired confidence. Reborn, satisfied, turned his gun into a lizard. At that point nothing fazed me anymore.

Everybody started calling him a Pervert, I simply said: "Feast your eyes everybody! Shit just got real!" smirking at the same moment as everybody looked at me in disbelief.

Mochida, oblivious to Sawada's power boost, kept charging at him and was about to strike when Sawada head-butted the kendo sword and successfully broke it, then he jumped on top of Mochida and began tearing his hair… Literally…

"You think I can only get one point?!" yelled Sawada as he began tearing off more and more of Mochida's hair. I took the liberty of recording the whole thing and saving it in my 'Blackmail' folder. You never know when such things come in handy!

The judge started panicking, and then he raised the red flag. "One Point! Sawada wins!"

The whole room went into an uproar, apparently Sawada's victory was way too shocking.

"WOW! That was cool!"

"It was crazy, but it was fun!"

"I have some new found respect for you Tsuna!"

The glow faded and Sawada was panting heavily, looking at a now Bald Mochida in disbelief. "I-I did this? Guess the dying will helped me beat Senpai"

The 'Prize', Sasagawa, approached him and effectively shocking him.

"Umm… I'm sorry about this morning! My friends keep telling me that I don't get jokes very easily!"

That comment made me laugh real hard, so hard I even fell on the ground! Of course that just earned a few stares from the others, but what the hell? She thought his confession was a joke!

"You're really incredible Sawada-kun! You're not like I thought you were! Is it ok if I start calling you Tsuna-kun from now on?" asked Sasagawa innocently, not realizing what that meant to him.

"O-of Course!" answered Sawada a bit too eagerly.

"Oi! Can I call you Tsuna-kun too? Since you know, we're basically friends now!" I asked him while grinning sheepishly.

His expression became kind of shocked when I told him that, I guess he wasn't expecting me to consider us as friends yet. He then smiled and answered me happily "Of course! That means I can call you Kuma-kun right?"

"Yeah… Sure let's go with that!"

School ended after a while and I returned home. So much happened today that it made me too exhausted to even notice Verde watching Discovery Channel on my TV. I went straight to my room and fell asleep, eager to see what awaited me tomorrow!