In which, she starts over

Christmas...

'So, is everything ready, Narvak?' Carina asked as she learned and prepared all she could, including copious uses of Time Turners.

'Of course. We have everything ready. Papers and all.' said Narvak as he gave her a suitcase.

'Thank you for everything.' said Carina gratefully. 'After a week, please activate my parents' public wills. Goodness knows Moony needs the money...and also, once its done, please give that letter to Sirius after telling him to come here in person, sound of mind, spirit, body and magic.' she said. 'Even after he's finally fount innocent, I just couldn't bear to face him out of guilt and shame regarding who sired me despite his belief for years. This will utterly crush him so I guess I'm twistedly happy we haven't really bonded that much yet.' she said glumly. 'All I know is I have no one unless my real father and I meet somehow and accept me or if I made new friends outside. Until then I'll be all alone. Its something I have to live with.'

'Well, try not to be too cynical.' Narvak chided. 'One can never tell with life. Now have Dobby take you to the airport because your flight is in ten minutes.'

'Yes. Thank you for everything.' Carina bowed before leaving with Dobby and her owl.

She left with the knowledge that things are kept from her.

Her maternal family and whether or not they'd accept her was up for debate but she won't meet them sometime soon.

The fact that Dumbledore kept all this from her and luckily, he has no clue what her mother did.

Attempts of illegal withdrawals by the Headmaster beyond his Magical Guardian stipend(fired long ago on her wish).

Attempts of 'shady withdrawals on her behalf' by Molly Weasley and this began in year 1992(was interrogated when alone at home when Carina wanted answers). Luckily Narvak put his foot down with smooth use of Goblin and Ministry Laws. Apparently the 'withdrawals on her behalf' was because 'Because she and my children are friends, surely she won't mind!' that's essentially stealing, isn't it?

Two weeks into her training, Sirius finally got a really-late trial, and the reason why it was made was because Director Bones investigated starting with a son's letter to his father. It was something she was grateful to Cedric Diggory for. Not only that, by being on the run and for people who really read the Rule Books, there's a way out for her whether or not she participated that she is a legal adult in the eyes of the law '-no thanks to the idiocy of the Hogwarts staff, Barty and Ludo'-Madam Bones' words in the Prophet. Now that the first task started and she's no longer in danger, she can now go back to being a normal student, but she still did not show up, merely telling her tutor that 'Not coming back is my idea of a big 'fuck you all'.' Madam Bones also called out Crouch Sr. for the huge mistake regarding Sirius and by the whole Wizengamot at the time, and according to laws, wrongful imprisonment of anyone, especially a member of a noble house warrants as a major offense warranting major sanctions. 100.000 Galleons per Wizengamot Member involved in his case as to WHO voted he go to Azkaban. Ouch! And for those who can't pay up, Sirius can charge up the fees in his own way!

So yes, the very vindictive man showed WHY he is a Black.

One letter, Carina got two things she and Remus long wanted, and now there's a manhunt for Rat Animagi, in which he offered a reward of 500.000 Galleons dead or alive. However, she couldn't show up to him out of guilt as he focused his efforts on finding her with Remus last she heard.

Finally, at Christmas, she sent Cedric a Firebolt which she purchased using her Family Vault out of gratitude and she deliberately sent it on Christmas to 'sweeten the deal'.

And now, she's on a flight to Japan where she'll begin her quest in graduating muggle school before finding her father.

On the same day, Out of tactfulness, while Narvak called in the Will Beneficiaries, he waited for at least, New Year for Carina's letter to drop the bomb on Sirius and Remus. And she wanted to wait at least until March, when Dobby is confident they suddenly will not get a stroke from reading their granddaughter's letter to them.

Its her first time on a plane while wearing her suppressor bracelet just so she won't cause the plane's computers to malfunction as magic fries technology. She really doesn't want to be responsible for a Plane Crash while in her terrible emotional state.

She landed in Narita Airport and made her way to a town she intended on settling in, to be really out-of-the-way. A town near the hills and seaports. Namimori.

"A new start, here I come."

December 26.

12 hours and some minutes was what it took to get to the Orient.

She settled for living in a Manshon, in a spacious 1LDK Apartment complete with a bathroom and toilet. Of course, she has to buy everything herself. Considering she plans to hide in Japan until she graduates College, she bought new furniture, appliances and electronics as she would be here for eight years...or probably forever if she chickened out.

She applied for Namimori Middle as a Sophomore and she was nervous.

Given her physical condition, she had to undergo and consume numerous things to be healthy, look good, and purchased good clothes and shoes for four seasons-but had to ask the salesladies for help as she's horribly inept in modern fashion standards, not by choice. And considering what kind of country she's in, and styled her hair nicely into a straight, shoulder-length bouncy bob.

She continued making herself look better and studied hard until school came in April.

xxx

March, a month ago...

'You called us here again, Narvak?' Sirius asked Narvak as he and Remus arrived when summoned by the Goblin by letter.

'Yes.' said Narvak. 'Ms. Potter discovered something that shook her world during her stay here...and she asked that I will let you see it when she's long gone out of fear for your reaction.'

'Something that shook her and she fears Sirius' reaction?' Remus frowned.

'Its a private will from Lady Potter meant for Miss. Potter.' said Narvak as he took out the bomb. 'She feared that if you find out what's in it, you wouldn't care for her anymore as you have no reason to. Its what she firmly believes given how she grew up, and her experiences in the community cemented those beliefs. While she wants you to know the truth, she'd rather not be around to see your reaction.' Sirius and Remus exchanged looks to see Lily's will...

They're just as shocked as Carina was months ago.

'...well...wow.' Remus choked numbly. 'This explains Lily's weird behavior that she's overly doting on James...we just thought its war anxiety.'

'S-she thought I'm going to hate her just for seeing this?' Sirius choked out. 'Moony!' he wailed at Remus, 'I thought of nothing but Carina and my promise to James while I was in my Cell! I'm angry alright, but at Lily! Never her! Carina never asked for all this!' he broke down. 'She was even willing to be a fugitive with me months ago if it meant having family!'

'She believes otherwise, given the mentality of your kind gave her one heck of an impression.' Narvak sneered. 'So yes, she has good reason to have no faith and be in utter resignation as she believes nothing good ever happens to her. All she's happy about is you finally free and she sent that Diggory boy a Firebolt for his part in it. But she has zero confidence in ever having a happy family.'

'Do you know where she is, Narvak?' Remus asked Narvak while Sirius was broken on the floor.

'She wishes to calm down herself because she is still high-strung, reeling from shock and fearing your reaction. For now, cool down before I tell you anything on her request. I'd say you got six months to cool off.'

'We'll be back then.' said Remus, dragging a sobbing friend out of the office, and returning the will to Narvak because that will, will further destroy Carina if it gets out and frankly, the girl needs a break.

xxx

Hogwarts...

Since the truth came out, not all was in sunshines and daisies and the atmosphere was glum at best, and thoroughly embarrassed to their foreign neighbors. The ones most affected on the staff was Hagrid whom Carina, Ron and Hermione protected in their First Year, and Professor McGonagall who played a big blow to the girl's fragile trust-issues while the Headmaster laid the finishing blow by denying her of her only wish. Carina's former friends and Quidditch Teammates were also silent as they should have known better.

Their presumptuous nature drove away the girl-who-lived who was willing to become a Squib just to get out of the tournament she didn't sign for, until someone thoroughly read the rules(Amelia Bones). The only one truly clean, was Diggory, the only person who believed in her, and his belief gratuitously repaid in kind, in the form of a Firebolt even though he can no longer play Quidditch in his Final Year in Hogwarts. This was also an insult to injury as Gryffindor lost their only Quidditch Member who has the same broom and for Hufflepuff, so near yet so far. They could never see that Firebolt play for their team, as Carina vindictively ensured only Cedric can use it. To anyone who wasn't Cedric Diggory or even a Polyjuicer, they would be viciously electrocuted enough to be knocked out for a week. There was also no longer the spirit of competition, with the champions only playing out of obligation in fear of losing their magic.

However what happens if someone entered an unwilling participant in, a cost 'Moody' is already paying. A large chunk of his magical powers is taken from him, leaving him a weak wizard only little better than a Squib.

Not only that, the Court Trial in the Wizengamot opened a lot of questions regarding her years before Hogwarts as she had trouble trusting as she revealed to Cedric Diggory. Try as Dumbledore might stall to protect the Dursleys and avoid yet another Anti-Muggle Propaganda, he had no choice in the end as the Dursleys were taken to court, and grilled.

What came out, shocked the court into silence and then the blame games and shouting matches began, with the Dursleys sentenced to Azkaban, and the first muggles to go there while their son Dudley is in the custody of his Aunt Marge as given the boy's spoiled nature, he needed a 'firm hand'. Combine her life with her Hogwarts Years, with the Tri-Wizard Tournament being the final straw, it was little wonder why Carina Potter ran away with her money and perfectly fine with being a Squib as she is clearly capable of fending for herself. She is the only underage they knew who could cook, clean the house and do the laundry, all the while living the life of a House Elf!

Augusta Longbottom shrieked it was a horrible way to repay the Potters for fourteen years ago, that Lily and James Potter are rolling over their graves by now and the court hung their heads in shame. She also lambasted Rita Skeeter for writing her articles about the girl who clearly, wasn't at fault with going-ons in Hogwarts that she demanded a non-biased reporter cover the court proceedings or else the whole Daily Prophet will be out of a job and she'll ensure it with the power of her family. With that threat, for once, the Daily Prophet printed 'clear journalism'.

The Final blow was on the Hogwarts Staff, particularly Dumbledore and McGonagall whose names were mentioned. Hagrid revealed the reason for them being 'out of curfew hours'. He met 'a chap' who was an illegal dealer of Dragon Eggs but nobody bought it from him, so Hagrid offered to win it in a card game instead in hopes of sending it to the Ministry before it hatches as he has no idea what's in it nor can he turn the guy in as because Hagrid was an expelled student, yet another victim of presumptuous judgment, he doesn't have a wand as the Ministry snapped it in half so he couldn't fight the illegal dealer. Ron offered to mail his brother Charlie and they met him and his colleagues who took the Dragon that hatched while they were on the way...a Norwegian Ridgeback-an illegal species to sell with good reason- that they took back to the Romanian Preserve. Then they got caught after doing a good deed!

When asked about why he was expelled, he revealed his circumstances when he was a student. Not only was he proven innocent and allowed to use a wand again to continue his education, Tom Marvolo Riddle also lost the awards he won through foul play using Hagrid and the baby Acromantula he was raising and training to be a pet and a future financial help for his father as Acromantula silk and venom DOES cost a pretty penny to fund his Hogwarts years. Due to what happened to the trio for the huge points loss, Hagrid offered them refuge in his hut and did his best to compensate the kids as he knows how vicious peers can be 'fer the dumbest reasons'. He was in fact, the last to see Carina after he opened his hut to her again after seeing her crying, telling him that the only one who believed her, was Cedric Diggory and he was the only adult who believed her in the castle. She 'vented out' her anger and grief and he listened to her patiently but he was shocked she knew 'words young ladies should not say' but could not bring himself to scold her. And then she was never seen again after going back to the castle after cooling down.

Letters were sent to Carina in hopes of apologizing to her, but with Dobby's magic, the owls kept flying in circles, unable to find her.

xxx

Evans Family Residence...

Dobby nervously showed up to his new masters though technically, Carina is his master as he's feeding off her magic through their bond. Considering Carina disliked him wearing a filthy pillowcase and never took a bath as it was Pureblood Cruelty Doctrine of Prejudice as she calls it, she ordered him to 'care for himself'. That means taking baths, washing his clothes, eating and drinking enough, and wearing decent working clothes. She had gone to a doll shop and bought him a shirt, overalls and socks for a scarf as the eccentric elf likes socks as a sock freed him from the Malfoys. But she had to make his shoes from scratch with magic and some material he looked more like a handyman than a housekeeper.

'Oh my! Who are you dear?'

'Dobby is Dobby the House Elf, ma'am!' said Dobby. 'Dobby cooks and cleans in return for magic. Miss Carina Potter is my mistress but she asks me to care for you instead while Dobby gets magic from her.' the elderly couple exchanged looks. 'Uhhh you knows, Lily and James Potter?'

'Lily's daughter? I've never seen her for several years.' said Mr. Evans. 'Petunia says she died with Lily and her husband when Voldemort attacked them.' he said gloomily.

'Erm, not quite...Dobby is asked to give you letter.' Dobby gave them a letter from their other grandchild whom they've never seen or known in almost fifteen years. 'Dobby start cleaning now!' and Dobby ran off to do his job...knowing full well the outbursts of anger that'll come in minutes while he cooks.

Well, at least there's one thing to be happy about. Their daughter did leave them a fortune worth more than what Pension money they have...

But sometimes, there are things one is happier not knowing. Dobby did not tell them that Petunia and Vernon Dursley became the first-ever muggles to grace Azkaban.

xxx

Japan...

School began on April's first monday.

The uniform is a cream blazer over a black skirt. Under the blazer is a button-up shirt and a red ribbon. Given her condition from recently-recovering from malnutrition, she's now healthier but 'barely scraping healthy'. A few months is NOT enough time to recover from 11 years and 9 months' worth(by adding up four summer vacations post-Hogwarts and its nine weeks per school year) of malnourishment. Potions can only get one so far and for medical potions for fixing malnutrition to work, they need building blocks called food. The only thing that works instantly, were the skin-care and hair-care potions.

But at least her gaunt face was the first to be fixed. She looked like a proper, youthful teenager with no stress. Her body just has looong ways to go.

She is in Class 2-C because she went by the name Tsubomi Karina and students are divided by Alphabetical Order per class. She did her best to excel in school(while forced to bring a number of dictionaries to get by). Due to difficulty yet persevering in hard work, her grades are barely scraping by, with her scores being in the 50s. She has the legal excuse of being a foreigner who just started out in Japan to justify her 'barely-there' grades. At least she was noted to be trying as she has plenty of dictionaries and reference books in her bag. That, and her Japanese sounds so funny(because she mispronounces everything with wrong accents) that she was labelled as 'the fun, funny foreigner with funny japanese' and she's really popular with her classmates...and she joined the Fencing Classes every after school.

However, she does NOT tolerate bullying. Period. In a month wherein there's a reputation of a 'Dame-Tsuna' everyone pokes fun at, she helped out the poor outcast kid. She made the whole school forget about his reputation and making fun of him, while ensuring Nezu gets fired for being an abusive teacher by sending his real school records to the Principal, and a Time Capsule buried in Namichuu's grounds revealing his old Namichuu grades. She didn't want Tsuna to end up like she did, she magically forced the teachers to be reliable adults he could turn to when the atmosphere sucks.

She succeeded but not even she can cure a long history of being a bully-victim.

If she was a quiet, stoic one who put up with it, he was a timid, submissive, open-coward and often hysterical when startled. She visited his house to have a good magical look at his mother, and she had to fix her too. As for the boy himself...the flow of whatever he has, was wonky. But with her limited knowledge, fixed what she could, loosening up what caused it to go wonky. But considering how it's done, she can only do halfway and she has to choose. Mind or body?

She chose mind for now, and removed the worst parts of his personality borne from years of bullying and being no-good and healed him. Afterall, what's the use of body if what's mostly-needed, are brains to get by in life?-was her thought. She got rid of his loudly hysterical, cowardly, wimpy, defeatist attitude, leaving only the timid, submissive ones behind but these two qualities are overshadowed by the fact that he really is a good kid who just wanted friends and acceptance.

Much like...herself.

Smiling, she left him beauty products and compelled him to use it for a week. Gaining friends is defined by shallow kids these days. Good looks, popularity and how useful you are to them, forgetting what REALLY matters in a true friendship. But she should at least, improve Tsuna's good looks to give him a helping hand. Ohhh and he's popular alright, the wrong way.

With that, mission accomplished, before a certain demon-tutor came for the kid. By then, Tsuna's grades improved for the Midterm.

xxx

For Reborn, when he came...

The wife seems normal while the son...well...he has very soft and silky-looking fluffy brown hair, and a skin most women older than him would kill to have. He also has thick, long lashes and considering he looks like his mother and thankfully doesn't resemble his father being 3/4 Japanese 1/4 Italian, his problem lay in the fact that the kid is a 'no-good' in school with bad grades. But when he investigated, he started doing real well in Midterms. From indeed, no-good, his grades supernaturally-rose. If only in quizzes, exams and homework and seeing this attitude, Reborn would have suspected cheating, but impossible as he has no friends. He is a social outcast.

By his expression and body language, he is timid, meek, submissive with zero confidence in himself with an attitude of utter resignation, and not looking forward to life at all. Not good for a boss to be. He would have to get to know this recent development as info given to him, is hilariously outdated. It was good he thought of investigating on his own before coming here.

'Ciaossu.'

xxx

For one Sawada Tsunayoshi, he knows what his life had been like, so he wasn't looking forward to anything at all, but he could tell some things changed.

Learning became so easy for him though he's still hopeless in P.E. Maybe things are looking up, but he still doesn't have friends anyway...

Then came this baby tutor...

He knew that with this kid, his life would change.

Why, his survivor's instincts screamed a shrill, hysterically high-pitched DANGERDANGERDANGERDANGERDANGERDANGERDANGERDANGERDANGERDANGERDANGERDANGER...

xxx

At school...

Reborn noted students in the school.

There's one foreigner who has been here who clearly changed her name and faked her records. He traced to her real identity which explains why she changed her last name. From 'Potter' to 'Tsubomi', written as 'Beautiful Vase/Jar' and her given name in katakana as she is foreign, not native and from Britain. She's popular for her looks and personality, as well as her funny japanese.

But he felt a potent power in the girl who could be Guardian Material. But her body clearly needs some work. He'll search her house tomorrow.

'Ciaossu.' Reborn greeted Carina who stared, wide-eyed at him.

xxx

Carina stared wide-eyed at the baby.

'...a baby in school?' she croaked out in her funny japanese.

Then she froze.

She felt it.

This baby possesses a strong power no baby should have.

'...what creature are you?'

xxx

Creature, she says!

'...that's rude. I'm a cute hitman baby.' Reborn smirked to the stunned girl. 'By the way, what are you? If you can feel how strong I am, I feel the same for you too.' he said as the petite girl picked him up as gently as she could since she still considers him a baby...but she observed him like she was inspecting a good for defects...then she focused on his pacifier.

She poked it nervously...

'...why carry something that eats your energy?' she asked him and her innocent question made Reborn inwardly freeze in her arms. 'That's unhealthy you know.'

'...for reasons I can't say.' said Reborn firmly.

'...still unhealthy for a baby but I won't ask. But if you're gonna die then at least take it off.' Carina advised kindly. 'Parasitism and being on the bad end isn't good for anybody. Why are you here?'

'Welp, on business break.' Reborn lied. 'You?'

'To get away from my community while living a normal human life.' Carina smiled sadly. 'I hate it there. Here, I have freedom to live life the way I want it without anyone forcing on me what they want me to do and forcing me to their standards and expectations of me. Being free while abandoning that place is wonderful.'

And she sounded genuinely happy about it making Reborn wonder what was her life beyond her clearly-faked records that only mafioso and the likes of intelligence agencies would know. She took out a stick...and summoned tea and a bento which she took from the air to eat and drink.

'Er...?'

'I'm a witch.' Carina chimed, causing Reborn's eyes to bulge. She easily told him as she believed him to be a creature, not a human. If only she knew!

'The Fairy Godmother Cinderella-type or Maleficent-type?'

'Er, what?'

'They're movies made for children.'

'Ah, sorry, its only been over five months and I'm still getting the hang of living as a human and getting used to electronics and appliances...I've never seen a movie, sorry.' came the apologetic reply. 'I'm still studying what human teenaged girls are into just to fit in, I'm just glad they like me just fine even though my japanese is bad...I just hope they won't invite me out yet or anything...I'm not ready for some human teenage girl stuff.'

'You mean you lived with no technology?'

'No. My kind can never co-exist with technology unless they lived among humans as most of us can't last a few hours without using magic.' Carina told Reborn as she put on a weird-looking bracelet. 'If we get too emotional, our magic tends to go wonky...and we end up frying them. So I wear a Suppressor whenever I'm not using magic. Humans must never know about us or it'll be witch hunts or trying to catch us for experiments in trying to have magic too...scary prospect but select few humans are born with magic. You can't just get it. Not that power-greedy humans believe us anyway, they'll just say 'excuses, excuses' and then subject us to torture to steal magic for themselves but it'll never work. They end up just pointlessly killing for something they are never meant to have.'

'That does tend to happen doesn't it?'

'Yep.'

'Then can you help me out in something? You see, I'm made to tutor a clueless heir who was made ignorant of his heritage.' Reborn told her. 'For his safety as in our world, knowing nothing means you're untouchable. Safe. There are laws regarding innocents and civilians and breaking them results in the prison Vendicare. But now that Tsuna knows some bits...'

'...Tsuna as in Dame-Tsuna?' Reborn glanced at her. '...his situation since school began is atrocious. Surrounded by cruel kids who make fun of him and making him feel lower than dirt because he is clumsy and a horrible school performer. This made him have no sense of self-worth. So I used my powers over this school. To make the teachers reliable adults, and for the students in his class to stop bullying him. Then there's his mother.' she growled.

'What about maman?' Reborn wondered as what about Nana that he never knew about, other than Iemitsu's utterly good opinion of his family. He's clearly delusional or things changed since he left.

'She cheerfully believes her son is a no-good who will never get anywhere in life and cheerfully has low opinion of her own son I had to fix her head. Doesn't she know that problems start at home?' Carina fumed. 'If a bullied kid can't even turn to family for comfort, they essentially have nowhere to go and just accept fate since even their own family believes so. He was never supported at home. I'll show you the original Sawada Nana after school. I'm still studying their old personalities so I can make more changes to help him while making him forget what kind of mother she used to be to him. For now, he forgot about it.' Carina grunted.

'Well...crap...I'd love to see that.'

Reborn really wonders now...a witch who hated bullying and nasty family issues helped his student in her own way so now he has to be a counselor too. At least he can now know how to handle the Sawadas. But can a witch even have Flames? He reeeaally wonders.