A/N: I'm done with chapter 2 of Trouble in Namimori!

Nina: Took you long enough.

T-That's because I have schoolwork and afterschool activities to attend to.

Gokudera: Excuses.

It's the truth!

Yamamoto: Maa, maa. She must have her reasons, right?

I just told you my reasons…

Tsuna: W-well I'll just go on with the disclaimers. Tsubasafan1230 does not own Katekyo Hitman Reborn and never will.

Harsh…

Chapter 2 "Storm and Rain"

Nina was hurrying through the streets towards the school buildings. In truth, her school was not that far away from her home. She slowed down when she realized she had enough time to walk slowly to school. Her eyes looked around as if looking for someone. She found who she was looking for and was about to run towards that person when she tripped over something fleshy. Nina yelped in surprise and tried her best to not land on her face. With her luck, she did. She stood up and looked over to see what it was. A young spiky, brown haired student wearing the Namimori Middle's uniform was on the street, unconscious. Her eyebrow perked up in surprise when her mind clicked into place.

'Isn't thay Dame-Tsuna or Sawada Tsunayoushi-san? I wonder why he's sleeping on the street…' Nina turned away from the unconscious boy and dusted her uniform to make it look presentable enough. She took three steps and sighed.

'I have to do the right thing, right?' With that thought, the girl turned back around and lifted his right arm around her neck. Shifting him closer to her right shoulder, she started the slow journey toward the nurse's office. The school bell must have rung because there was nobody in sight. Nina was half way through the school's courtyard when she felt a cold metal tonfa near her throat.

"You're tardy. Where do you think you're going, herbivore?"

"I'm taking a fellow classmate tot the nurse's office," Nina replied as she slowly looked behind her, "…Discipline Committee President, Hibari Kyouya-san."

The raven colored head glared at her with his cold gray-eyes. He took his tonfa away from her neck and turned around, hiding his weapon with his jacket.

"Hurry to class, herbivore, or else I'll find you and bite you to death."

"Yes, sir!"

Without any more words, he left. Nina's heart was still beating fast from the fear and awe that the prefect emitted. She sighed in relief and went inside as quickly as possible.

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"Sawada-san is fine now, Tanaki-san. You may go to class now," said an elderly woman. Nina nodded in understanding and took a nervous glance around the room.

"Where's Doctor Shamal?"

The elder looked up from her book and replied, "He's on emergency leave for a while, so I'm here temporarily until he comes back."

The brunette girl smiled in relief as a thought went by in her head. 'I'm so glad he's not here. I heard Doctor Shamel was a girl-chaser, so I really do not want to meet him… Still, I'm curious why our school bother to hire a doctor like him?'

Nina bowed to the nurse and left for her class. The classroom door was close, so she opened it. They were already in 1st period, which explains her history teacher being there instead of her homeroom teacher. The teacher looked up from his book and asked,

"Tanaki-san, you are tardy. Why are you late?"

The poor girl gulped in nervousness as she felt the peering eyes of her classmates and answered shakily, "I found Sawada-san unconscious out on the street, so I took him to the nurse's office."

"Tsk-tsk. I understand. Now, go to-," the teacher said as he was interrupted.

BAM!

Somebody had slammed their hands down hard on their desk. Really hard.

"W-what? Jyuudaime is hurt?"

"G-Gokudera-san, please be quiet," the teacher try to order, but failed miserably because he was visibly shaking.

The silver-haired guy glared at the teacher with his sharp green eyes and marched up to me. "What the hell did you do to the Jyuudaime?"

"I didn't do anything to him. I found him unconscious outside the school gates," Nina replied with as much honesty as she can.

"Lies! You probably did something—"

"Maa, maa. Calm down, Gokudera," said the baseball star, Yamamoto Takeshi. He was trying his best to hold back the hotheaded teen while wearing a calm, smiling face.

"What the? Get out of my way, stupid baseball brain! Jyuudaime is hurt, so as his right hand man, I must kill those who dare harm him!"

A girl with short orange hair with innocent brown eyes walked up to Nina with a worried expression.

"Is Tsuna-kun okay, Nina-chan?"

"Huh? Oh, yeah. The nurse said he's fine, so don't worry, Kyoko-chan," the brunette girl assured with a warm smile. Apparently, Nina had decided to ignore Gokudera's string of curses and headed toward her desk before she could get in trouble by the teacher. This seemed to have pissed him off real badly because Gokudera suddenly broke free from Yamamoto and brought out several dynamite. The class screamed and ran out of the room along with the teacher. The only ones left in the empty classroom were Yamamoto, Gokudera, Kyoko, Hana, and Nina.

"Let's get out of here, Kyoko," the long, black hair girl said.

"But Hana…" Kyoko tried to protest against her best friend, but was dragged out by Hana.

'Great. Only me, the famous delinquent Gokudera-san, and the baseball star Yamamoto-san are left. What should I do?' Nina tried to stay as expressionless as she can even though she wanted to run away from them deep inside. She slowly put down her book bag on top of her desk. Her eyes curiously looked in amusement at Yamamoto trying to calm down Gokudera while he himself was bringing out more dynamite out of nowhere.

"I'm going to kill you, stupid woman!"

"Maa, maa. You should put up your dynamites, Gokudera. Harming a harmless girl is just wrong."

Ignoring what Yamamoto just said, Gokudera quickly threw twenty lit dynamite into the air. Nina's hand slip into her book bag and drew out a sky-blue cobalt gun. She quickly shot the nearest dynamites. Yamamoto somehow managed to get a sword and sliced the rest of them before they even touch the ceiling.

"What was that for, baseball freak?" Gokudera yelled.

"Well, I didn't want Tsuna to worry about more problems than he already is. Besides, she's a fellow classmate," Yamamoto explained with a hand behind his head.

"Che," clicked the bomber. He crossed his arms in obvious irritation as he glared at the swordsman. Gokudera's eyes casually landed on the gun in the girl's hand and frowned. "Where did you get a gun?"

"Uh," Nina stalled as she tried to shove the gun in her bag. A shadow went by and her gun disappeared from her hands. "Huh?" Nina looked around and saw a baby wearing a suit and fedora, holding her gun.

"Reborn-san!" "Kid."

"Ciaossu," greeted the baby.

"Um, little kid? Can I have my gun back?" Nina asked nervously. She really did not want to get in trouble later for losing her gun. Without warning he put her gun in his hat and jumped on top of Yamamoto's shoulder.

"What's your name?"

"Huh?" the girl said in confusion "Oh. My name is Tanaki Nina. What's yours?"

"Reborn is the name. Do you want to join Tsuna's family?" he asked with a small smirk.

"Reborn-san! Why would you let someone like her into Jyuudaime's Family?" Gokudera protested with exasperation.

Reborn transformed his green lizard into a giant mallet and knocked him down.

"Ha ha ha. Why not? It's going to be so much funner!" Yamamoto agreeded with a good-natured laugh.

"Funner is not even a word, baseball-brain!" Gokudera yelled with annoyance while rubbing his newly formed bruise.

The baseball star just laughed in reply.

"Um, hello? I am not joining any 'family'. I'm sorry Reborn-san," Nina refused as nicely as she could. She held out her hand and the kid handed her gun back to the outstretched hand. Putting it quickly into her book bag, she left the room and headed for the kendo room. As she was walking away from the classroom, she was able to hear bits of their conversation.

"How dare she reject Jyuudaime's offer to join!"

"Maa, maa. The kid offered it to her, remember?"

"Shut up, baseball freak!"

"Both of you. Go look for Dame-Tsuna."

"Of course, Reborn-san!" "Sure, kid."

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Nina dropped her bag on the nearest bench and opened her locker. She quickly dressed into her equipment and went inside the prop closet. It was dark and dusty and Nina kept sneezing every time she moved something. She slowly groped her way in the blackness until she found two wooden mannequins. Dragging them out, she closed the door and propped them up in the middle of the room. She adjusted on her helmet guard and grabbed a wooden katana from the floor. Getting into a basic stance, her thoughts of her meeting with Reborn were racing through her head. Soon, she was using several techniques on the dummies and was so focused that she didn't notice a pair of small black eyes. The little baby was sitting on top of one of the lights in the room.

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Reborn was stroking his green lizard, Leon, with a finger. He watched with interest in the complicated techniques of the girl. His stupid pupil had told him a month ago that a new transfer student came into his class. Reborn had already known about this, but was surprised when he heard from Tsuna that the new girl fought the feared prefect on the first day of school and lived to tell the tale.

Now, he knew Hibari was the strongest Guardian out of Tsuna's Familia. For a transfer student to be able to live through the prefect's relentless attacks with only a few bruises aroused his curiosity. He knew immediately that she would be a great addition to the Vongola Familia. Reborn was watching Tanaki Nina's actions and grades and knew right away that she was not an ordinary girl. Her grades were next to Gokudera, the Storm Guardian, and her physical skills were almost on par with Yamamoto, the Rain Guardian.

The small hitman started investigating on the mysterious transfer student and was dumbfounded when he found nothing out of the ordinary. She lived with a family of five, her parents had normal jobs, and her siblings were twins who also go to Namimori Chuu. Nothing looked out of place, yet Reborn knew from years of experience not to judge a person by their cover. As he watched her perform some simple kendo techniques, he felt a presence heading toward the room.

A young boy with auburn hair and amber eyes walked in. He was wearing the Namimori Chuu's uniform, which made Reborn assume he was a student here. Reborn watched with interest as he realized that the newcomer was his target's older brother. His ears perk up when he heard a little interesting fact…

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Nina wiped her sweat off her neck as she made a final strike against the mannequin. At the sound of applause, her head whipped around to see who it was. A student with short messy auburn hair and warm amber eyes was clapping his hands together in obvious amusement. Her eyes widen and a smile broke out on her face. She threw her headgear aside and ran over to the young man.

"Good. You're practicing real hard," the stranger said with a smile.

"Thank you. But Onii-chan! What are you doing here?" Nina asked her brother with worry.

"I should be asking that to you. Shouldn't you be in class right now?"

"Ah… A classmate blew up our class, so I doubt we will continue classes today," she replied while avoiding his gaze.

"Are you okay? You didn't get hurt any where?" her brother asked her, concerned.

"Syaoran 'nii-chan, I'm not a kid. I can take care of myself," Nina protested with a pout.

"Ha ha. True. Sorry about that, little sister."

"Hmph," she grunted. Finally, taking a glance behind her brother, she asked curiously, "Where's Lyndis Onee-san? Shouldn't she be with you?"

"Uh… funny story actually…" the older boy tried to cover up while scratching the back of his head.

"Don't tell me… You left without telling her where you went?"

"That sums it up, I think."

Nina looked at her older brother with an expression that clearly says she's not surprise. She shook her head and sighed. Taking a hand, she rubbed her temple. 'Oh no. Onee-san must be so worry about now. I should probably call for her…'

She went through her pockets and whipped out a black cell phone. Going through the contacts list, she quickly located her sister's number and pressed it. Knowing what she was doing, her brother sighed and started fidgeting with his hair. For a few seconds, the only sound that could be heard was the sound of phone ringing.

"Moshi moshi," a melodic voice came from the speakers. Syaoran visibly shivered and tried to slowly back away toward the door. Realizing what he was about to do Nina opened her mouth, but the caller called out first. "Tanaki Syaoran!" The two siblings winced as their ears heard the static from the small device.

"Ah… Lyndis…" whispered the obviously scared brother.

"Nina. Give the phone to Syaoran. Now."

"Um, okay, Onee-san," Nina obeyed and handed the phone to her quivering brother. He unhappily accepted it and held it at arm's length away from his ear.

"You are in so much trouble, mister! I can't believe you just ditched me here with your mob of crazy fangirls! Do you know how much I had to endure trying to be polite and answering all their goddamn stupid questions about you?" Nina raised a brow while her fingers covered her ears. Her poor older brother winced in pain as he tried to hold the phone as far away from his ear as he can.

"I'm so sorry, Lyn. I just don't know how to deal with them. You now a true mafia gentlemen can never harm a lady's feelings," he tried to explain.

"Nii-chan, you said the word in Japanese…"

"Oops. Well, at least there is no one around here."

"Syaoran… Just wait until we get home… You're going to face hell once school is over."

With that, the sound of a click was heard and the phone started beeping, signaling that the receiver had hung up. Syaoran closed it and handed it back to his younger sister. His skin was noticing pale and his eyes nervously darted around the room.

"Uh… Do you think I should escape before she comes here?"

"'Nii-chan… Don't think about escaping. You'll just make things harder for yourself," Nina advised and quickly switched to Italian, "Your familia must be very worried right now, big brother. Even big sister is worried."

"Haha. Well, this is Japan after all," Syaoran replied with rapid fluent Italian.

"I'm going home, 'Nii-chan," Nina said, switching back to Japanese. She picked up her headgear and headed for the lockers.

"Ah, I'll wait for you outside!" her older brother yelled at her vanishing figure.

Nina sighed in the dark room. She fumbled around the wall for a switch and flicked the switch. She frowned when the light wouldn't come on, despite her flicking the switch back and forth. "Oh, man. The power must be out," she grumbled to herself. She slowly moved toward where she thought her stuff was. She bumped into something soft and yelped in surprise. The object also moved and grabbed her by the neck.

Nina opened her mouth to scream and the human—she figured it was a person—whispered to her, "Scream and I frigging kill you."


A/N: I love cliffies! XD

Gokudera: Be quiet.

*sniff* Whatever… Well, thanks for reading this chapter!

EDIT: I edited spelling errors (I think) and my horrible Japanese to English! Thank you Silent-melody2413!