And so we start another chappy^^
Chapter 2:
When reborn woke up the next day he was greeted by the smell of bacon and for a second he forgot where he was. He lived alone right? So there shouldn't be anyone cooking.
Then the events from the last night came crashing down into his head giving him a severe headache.
"Fuck" he couldn't help but sigh as he hauled himself out of bed.
He walked downstairs to see the girl from last night standing on a stool in front of the stove in the kitchen.
She put some of the done bacon on a plate already piled with bacon and he frowned.
"I don't eat that much you know." She stopped her motions and looked over her shoulder.
"Not all of it is yours." She stated and he couldn't help but raise a brow at the response.
Soon he was sitting at the table with the child munching on bacon, eggs and toast and observing the strange creature in front of him.
The girl had a laptop open in front of her obscuring the view of her face, every so often an arm reached out to take a strip of bacon from the plate next to the laptop.
It was completely silent except for the sounds of small fingers hitting the keyboard keys and the crunch of bacon being eaten.
"How old are you?" Reborn asked, breaking the silence.
"Seven" the girl stated and that was the end of that topic. Reborn sipped at his coffee and used the moment to think.
The child was just too interesting to leave alone. She showed signs of intelligence not found in children her age and probably didn't have any clue on basic human interaction.
She lived alone despite her age and had quite and apatite if the giant mountain of bacon on her plate was anything to go by.
She screamed enigma and if reborn knew anything about himself it was that he loved a challenge.
"After you're done, you should call someone to get you" she said closing her laptop. She chomped on the last bacon and stared at her hands which were slightly greasy and made a motion to wipe them on the purple sundress she was wearing.
Reborn stopped her before her hands touched the cloth. With both of her hands in one of his, he reached to the side for a napkin and wiped her hands for her.
For the first time since he met her the night before her eyes showed true curiosity. Like she had no idea what or why he was doing what he was. To be quite honest neither did he, she was just so clueless when it came to basic human things like etiquette and interaction. She didn't seem to care much but she was at the age where she was still very impressionable and for some reason it made reborn feel rather paternal.
It was startling but he didn't hate it.
She slowly removed herself from Reborn's grip. The confusion still in her eyes but it was dimming back into her usual indifference.
He found he didn't like that but he didn't push it and retreated back into his seat.
"I'll be calling someone to pick me up" he informed and she nodded before leaving the kitchen.
About an hour later a man in a suit and dark sunglasses looking to the world like a mafia member came up the driveway and knocked on the door.
Midnight was the one to answer the door and looked blankly up at the man as if she were evaluating him and as big of a man that he was, he began squirming under her scrutiny.
He coughed into his fist and straitened himself.
"I'm here for reborn."
The girl lifted a brow almost imitating Reborn.
"Is that his name?"
She asked before a shadow loomed over her from behind.
"Yes it is" reborn said in his deep voice.
"I see... so I believe the proper term is goodbye." She stated.
Reborn smirked. "I'll be saying see you later bambini."
She stared at him blankly.
"We're not in Italy."
Reborn just shook his head and rested his hand on her head.
"You'll learn eventually"
She had no idea what he meant and was going to enquire him about it but he was already walking out the door and down the drive way. She slowly lifted a hand to place it on her head where reborn had patted her. She wondered briefly why her insides felt warm but ignored it thinking she was probably getting sick; after all it was cold out last night.
Meanwhile she had no idea that Reborn was plotting.
-End flashback-
Reborn smiled at the memory as he walked down a familiar path in Italy.
That incident was one that changed his life forever. He had gotten his wounds looked at and was properly stitched up before swiftly looking up anything and everything he could about the girl. Most of his research wasn't exactly legal but then again neither was the mafia.
Within two weeks time he had found that the girl was an orphan and was put into an orphanage in England even though she was originally from the states.
The orphanage itself was one for gifted children using their natural talents for government use. This would explain why she was living alone.
The English government was paying for her life style and in return the girl hacked into their main computer system everyday finding holes in their security so they could fix it.
That was probably what she was doing the morning he was there.
It disgusted him what the government was doing to her. Sure the mafia also used children for their work but at least the children had human interaction and were well cared for.
Reborn had taken it upon himself to adopt the child and before either of them new it they were living together and the child was showing improvement though she had yet to figure out the use of emotion. She showed it sometimes but it was few and very far in between.
About a year later the acrobaleno's were cursed and he was reduced to that of an infant.
She had taken one look at him and said:
"Papa, you're tiny" and at that he had to chuckle.
He should have known he wouldn't get much of a reaction out of her.
Throughout the years she had grown and had met all of the acrobaleno who had taken quite a shine to her abnormal personality. Even Verde which shocked everyone.
-Flashback!-
"REBORN!" Yelled out a furious Skull as he kicked and punched the front door of a small house in Italy.
"I know you're in there!"
"You're making a racket you idiot." a bored voice drawled behind him.
"V-V-V-V-V-Verde!" Skull shied away from the glasses wearing infant.
"Ah... someone's already here kora!" Colonello, the gun totting infant, exclaimed before getting smacked by Lal who was right beside him.
"I told you to get up earlier!" Lal mirch growled.
"I'll fine you for this." Mammon appeared out of nowhere
"My, my what noise you all make" Said a smiling Fon as he came from the side. His hands hidden in his sleeves as per usual.
"Fon-san" Lal greeted formally while Verde made a 'Tch' noise.
Before the argument that was sure to break out when all the acrobaleno were together the door opened to reveal a girl. Possibly age nine to ten, she was wearing some sort of short sleeved bear onesy (I don't know how to spell that).
"Hello." She said in a polite, but empty voice.
"Can I help you?"
"Are you sure this is the right address?" Fon inquired.
"Skull-sama is never wrong."
"He's also never not an idiot." Verde put in his two cents.
"Hey!.. I'm... uh... what?" Skull tried to wrap his mind around what was just said.
"Using double negatives... harsh." The girl stated in a soft voice as if she were talking to herself. This shocked some of the acrobalenos considering girls of this age should not know about double negatives yet, right?
"What did I tell you about talking to yourself." A voice came from inside the house. The infants at the door were shocked by the fact that they knew this voice.
"To not to." The stared at the person who spoke blankly. said person only sighed
"REBORN!" was exclaimed by many.
"You're being too loud." The hitman growled out making Skull cower behind Verde, who in turn glared at the poor purple acrobaleno. The action making Skull 'eep' and run to hide behind Fon. Fon gave a smile that looked comforting and kind to anyone else who saw it, but to Skull there was the sense of impending doom as a devils' head loomed behind that smile.
"Poor child." The girl said, but it was an empty statement. one meant for normalcy rather then an actual concern.
"He deserves it." Reborn simply stated.
The child thought on that for a second before shrugging as if not caring. Knowing her, she probably didn't.
"I believe that it is customary to introduce one's self at time's like this." The girl looked at Reborn who nodded once.
"Midnight, this is everyone. Everyone, this is midnight."
So vague everyone sweat dropped. But The girl now named Midnight curtsied in her bear onesy.
"Papa, can I leave now." She said blankly
"PAPA!?"
-end flashback-
Soon after that the acrobaleno's were visiting the small house on their free time which irritated the sun acrobaleno to no end. Especially when they were starting getting to know the girl. For a child with absolutely no emotions and/or facial expression what so ever, the girl had a strange knack for finding, and putting, people together.
Soon enough the child had all seven of them wrapped around her finger. It was both amusing and mildly annoying.
At times Reborn wondered what would happen if the child were to meet their sky acrobaleno. But wasn't every going to happen.
Fon had decided to teach her martial arts when he had found out she had no idea how to protect herself which had opened the floodgates to all the others.
Collonelo taught her to use a sniper rifle.
Mammon taught her all the ways of money.
Verde let her partake in his non lethal experiments.
Lal being an unofficial acrobaleno taught her survival tactics and Midnight had declined anything that skull was going to teach her which he, in turn, loudly proclaimed it was Reborn's fault.
Reborn, not to be outdone taught her everything else needed for the mafia world.
He smiled lightly at his thoughts and memories as he reached a bar in the middle of Sicily, Italy ruled by the mafia. People who saw him tried to stay out of his radar as per usual.
He opened the swinging doors to reveal the dark pub inside.
"Reborn." Came the voice of someone sitting at the bar, drink in hand.
"Called by the old man again?" The man chuckled.
"The popular ones sure have it tough" another man sitting next to him commented.
"So where to this time? Rome? Venice?"
"Japan" Reborn cut the man off.
The two at the bar looked startled at that.
"Japan?" The second man asked?
"The old man finally decided?" Asked the first.
"This one will probably be a long journey." Reborn said in a matter of fact tone. Then a man screamed a battle cry behind Reborn's smaller body with a knife poised in the air ready to strike.
Reborn let his chameleon, Leon, crawl into his hand and transform into a real gun and pointed it at the man.
The man paused in fear.
"This is not a toy!" Reborn warned.
"My name it katekyo hitman... reborn" the infant stated before taking a shot into the room shattering one of the glass bottles on display.
The man was left to stand in fear before he ran off like a coward.
"Papa," came a call from one of the dark corners of the bar. "Was that really necessary?"
It was Midnight. She was now twelve years old and though she was taller and with less baby fat had not changed much from when she was seven.
She still had long black hair that she let down today to fall in waves down her back as her bangs framed her face. Still had those strange heterochromatic eyes still rather small for her age. At least 5'0" with a lithe build though she was developing quite a figure. Reborn had no doubt she would grow to be a heartbreaker, which he wasn't sure to be proud of or resent that fact yet.
She was wearing a mid-thigh length blue doll dress with black leggings and black flats and looked rather odd in the dark, dusty environment the bar made.
"We've got a mission Bambini" he said instead of answering her question.
She raised a brow at that looking much like reborn when he did it and reborn smirked.
"To Japan then" she inquired.
"To Japan indeed."
Note: Considering the suggestions made, I decided that if you want the pairing you gotta tell me. For every review that I get with a pairing or even multiple pairings will be considered a vote. You can do this multiple times, for every chapter if you'd like, but if you want a Pairing you gotta review. please no flames though. they make people sad.
Your votes so far ^^:
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Yamamoto
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anyone from Varia:
Adult!reborn
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Tsunasandwich:
hibari/tsuna/mukuro 1
hibari/tsuna/fon 1
Harem 1
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Hibari
Mukuro
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Yamamoto
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Ryohei
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