Title: Time Traveling for Dummies
Series: Katekyo Hitman Reborn (KHR)
Pairing/Characters(s): Fem!Fran and basically everyone else All27
Genre: Romance/Humor (Romance is in attempt only)
Rating: PG-13/T
Summary: There's a reason why only Byakuran travels between dimensions. Poor Francine has no idea what she's getting herself into. Placed right before the Arcobaleno Arc. Fem!Fran Attempted Fem!Fran27 All27 Chapter 2: Tsuna can't do anything right.
Word Count: 1620 (2808 So Far)
Chapter 2:
Tsuna was having a bad day. Now this wasn't anything new for him, but it felt like a particularly bad day if that made any sense. First of all, Chrome was still super depressed about Mukuro's weird letter and she wouldn't talk about it at all.
Then Reborn started beating him for not taking care of his subordinate correctly and no matter how many times he said it, Reborn wouldn't believe that Tsuna didn't want to be a boss. Just because he didn't want Xanxus to rule or that he promised to protect the Vongola Rings and their part of the Tri-Ni-Sette or that he promised to change the Mafia World for Enma and Mukuro didn't mean that he was going to be the leader of the Vongola! Even Nonno understood that!
Oh who was he kidding? Everyone knew that he was going to be the Decimo. It wasn't like Reborn would ever let him get out of it and he did make all those promises. It's just, did everyone have to be so mean to him about it?
Anyway, Tsuna had a new mission. He was supposed to go to Kokuyo Land and try to figure out why Mukuro told Chrome he didn't want her anymore. It didn't make any sense to him. His hyper intuition told him that he still cared about her, even if it was in an oddly possessive and manipulative way. As far as Tsuna could tell from his past encounters with Mukuro, that was the only way he could care.
But yeah, Tsuna was terrified. He thought that he'd at least get to take Gokudera and Yamamoto, but Yamamoto had been skipping too many practices because of his injuries and Vongola things and Gokudera got knocked unconscious after blowing up part of the Reception Room in his rage at Yamamoto's "negligence." Ryohei was watching Kyoko and Chrome in case Mukuro was waiting for a chance to pull something, and Lambo was unreliable as ever. Tsuna knew better than to even consider bringing Hibari. On the off chance he didn't refuse and bite him to death, he would definitely attack Mukuro.
Tsuna was going to ask Enma to go with him, but then Reborn attacked both of them because this was a Famiglia problem or something. Tsuna didn't pretend to understand.
All that mattered was that he had to go by himself to Kokuyo Land where it was scary and dilapidated and there was no doubt in his mind that he was going to leave after making a fool of himself and probably catching a strange disease from a rodent.
He walked past the buried menagerie and tried to remember which way to go when he heard a voice.
"Oya oya, it seems that the little Vongola has gotten lost."
"Hiiiiiiieeeeee!" Tsuna shrieked. "M-Mukuro! W-what are you doing here?"
"Kufufu, shouldn't I be asking you that question? This is my territory, not yours."
"W-well, Reborn said—"
"Kufufu, don't bother. I know what this is about. This is about Nagi, right?" Mukuro asked.
"Nagi?" Tsuna's observation skills outside of battle weren't the best, so he never noticed what Mukuro called Chrome.
Mukuro smiled. "My representative. She is very cute and calls you, Boss?"
"Oh, uh, yeah, it's about Chrome."
"I have nothing to say to you about it. If Nagi needs more information then she knows how to contact me herself."
Tsuna trembled. Large amounts of pain were in his future. "You can't talk to me at all? There's nothing I could do to change your mind?"
"Well," Mukuro started. He eyed Vongola speculatively. "There's something you could do for me."
"I can't give you my body!"
"Kufufu, I promise you would enjoy it."
"No means no Mukuro!"
"Fine. Spoil my fun."
Tsuna fidgeted in place as Mukuro continued to stare at him.
"There is one other thing you can do."
"Uh, okay. Will it hurt?"
"Physically? Probably not."
"What is it then?" He didn't get the impression that this was something that he wanted to do, but as long as it didn't hurt…
"I've recently gained another apprentice. He's rather unruly. If you can at least take him out of my hands outside of his training I will be more… receptive… to taking Nagi back and depending on how competent you are, I will consider being helpful the next time my services are required." Mukuro explained.
Babysitting didn't sound so bad to Tsuna. It's not like he could be worse than Lambo, right? "Sure, that sounds fine. Deal."
Mukuro smirked and Tsuna's hyper intuition went crazy. "I'll go fetch him then."
A few minutes later Mukuro came back dragging a ten year old boy wrapped in rope.
"Is that?" Tsuna asked.
"Yes, that's right. It's the future Varia member, Fran." He handed the rope to Tsuna. "Don't bring him back. If I need him then I will retrieve him myself. No matter what happens to him, he is still your responsibility." Mukuro glared fiercely at Fran. "Behave. Listen to the Vongola-slave."
"Pfft, like I'm going to listen to someone so weak willed. And besides his hair looks like a bird nest. I don't need any strange creatures wandering around me." Fran replied.
Mukuro laughed. "Kufufu, you have your work cut out for you Vongola. Now leave. My good humor is leaving."
Tsuna didn't know how to reply. So he decided not to. He started walking back to Namimori. "Hi Fran, I don't know if you remember or not, but my name is Sawada Tsunayoshi. You can call me Tsuna." He paused. "I'll be your babysitter for a while. Fuuta is around your age, so maybe you two will get along. Won't it be nice to spend time with someone your age?"
"Is he French?"
"Uh, no, I think he's Italian, but he has a Japanese name so I've always been too afraid to ask."
"Coward. And no, I don't think that I will be interested in spending time with him." Fran slipped out of his ropes. "I might as well go with you though. It's been boring around here anyway."
Tsuna blinked. "Uh, Fran? Are you racist?"
"Of course not."
He sighed in relief.
"I hate everyone. French people are just more tolerable than others," he dully stated.
The lack of tone from such a phrase unnerved Tsuna, but there wasn't much he could do about it.
They reached the bus stop and Tsuna realized that he needed some sort of an explanation to justify why yet another kid was moving into his house. Maybe Nana would be so busy worrying about him after Reborn beat him near death that Fran's presence would just be accepted?
Fran was bored out of his mind. He really hoped that someone fun showed up soon or else he was going to have to start making his own fun and that always required too much effort.
At that exact moment a familiar pink gas flooded his vision and he was quickly whisked somewhere else.
"Hiiiieeee! Ten Year Bazooka!" Tsuna shrieked. "What am I going to do? I didn't even know Lambo was nearby! I don't want Mukuro to kill me before I've even had Fran for an hour!"
The gas dissipated and in Fran's place was a green haired woman. Her clothes were similar to what Ten Years Later Fran wore and when Tsuna realized this he had a horrible sinking feeling in his stomach.
"Hm? Where am I?" she asked before looking around the area. "Oh, I'm in Kokuyo. I suppose Master must be messing with me."
"H-hello?"
"Yes? What is i—" she cut herself off. "Vongola?" She sounded shocked.
"Uh, yeah?"
"You're not twenty-five."
"No, I'm fifteen. Is your master Mukuro?"
Francine blinked. "Of course. Are you alright? What happened?"
"I think you got hit by the Ten Year Bazooka."
All emotion left her speech. "That makes sense. This would be about the time that I started my formal training." Her eyes brightened. She couldn't miss this opportunity!
Her voice lowered and she quickly used some mist flames to appear as attractive as possible. "While I'm in the past, wouldn't it be nice to spend some… private time together?"
Tsuna was a little weirded out by her change in octave while staying completely deadpanned. He didn't know how to let her know that she wasn't where she thought she was in the first place. Well, she was, but she wasn't? Tsuna was confused.
"Aren't we alone right now?"
She placed her hand on his chest. "I was thinking that we could be doing something else in a less… public area."
Tsuna had no idea what was going on. Luckily the bus showed up right then. He tried to move to get to the door, but Francine pushed harder and pinned him onto the bus bench.
"What are you—" he started to ask right as the door opened.
Before she could reply there was a loud scream.
"Who the hell are you and what are you doing to the Tenth!" Gokudera screamed while pulling out dynamite.
Yamamoto was right behind him and his sword was already drawn. "Is there some kind of danger? I knew I should have skipped practice."
"Back off! It's the right hand man's job to keep petty gold diggers away from the boss!" Gokudera yelled. "I'm sorry I've failed you Tenth!"
"Right hand man? But…" Francine trailed off. "You're not Vongola's right hand man."
Gokudera was ready to commit murder. Only Yamamoto's quick thinking saved her. He quickly had Kojirou pour rain flame infused raindrops over Gokudera and the flames instantly calmed his fighting spirit.
"No fair," he grumbled.
"Kojirou?" Francine's eyes widened marginally at the display. "Who are you guys?"
End Ch.2
Author's Notes: At the moment, I'm going to call Tsuna, Tsuna when referring to him in current time and Tsunayoshi when in the future, but I might change my mind. To me it's more of a maturity thing. For the zero people reading this let me know your opinion.
I hope people find this funny. It is supposed to be crack after all... Uh, and yeah, updates should be about once a week here. I post the chapters as I finish them on lj so go there if you're impatient. And for now at least, I'll upload bonus chapters for every ten reviews. I'll let a random person in the set of ten pick the topic.
Tell me if you find any typos. I do my best, but I'm not infallible.
