-KHR-
"Whose kid are you?" Okaasan asked the baby.
"I'm Reborn, the home tutor," the ki-Reborn said.
"Oh! You must be a child prodigy! I'll go get some snacks," Okaasan declared and left. Right… A child prodigy… When Okaasan said that, Tsuna let out a 'pffft' while I just start giggling.
"He's adorable!" I laugh-squeal. The amount of ridiculousness in this situation is incredible, so I just end up stuffing my face in Tsuna's pillow to muffle my laughter.
"I was wondering who created that crazy flyer! It's this baby?!" he laughed incredulously.
"So you're Tsuna." Reborn affirms.
Tsuna and my laughter starts dying down. "I'm sorry but, I don't think I can learn anything from you," he tells Reborn.
"You never kn—," I start out jokingly, but was cut off when Tsuna got kicked in the stomach. "Tsuna!" I dived from my spot on the bed and managed to catch him before too much damage was done.
"Let's get started," Reborn says, "This is the room, right?"
"Pretty much," I laugh warily. Then I look down at Tsuna. "You knocked him unconscious," I deadpanned. "Whatever," I say quickly. I sit cross legged and put a pillow on my lap, then his head on the pillow. It's better this way. I won't get pins and needles later.
"So, you're really going to be his home tutor?" I ask.
"Yes, I am."
"Oh," I reply uncomfortably. I look down at Tsuna. "I hope you can help him then. He's a good brother. He's just really awkward." Thinking about the past, I let out a small empty laugh.
Hearing a soft snore, I look up. He's sleeping?! Who sleeps that fast? Even his chameleon is asleep! At this time Okaasan decides to walk in.
"Here are the sna— Oh? Everyone's asleep."
"I know, Okaasan. Just set the tray over here. They're just a little tired," I say. "Imagine the trip Reborn must've had."
"What do you mean?" Okaasan asked me.
"Well, look at Reborn's suit. It's kind of obvious that he's not from Japan, Okaasan. Reborn probably had to fly here, and there's probably a time difference from wherever he came from. Not to mention he said he was three hours early." I told her. She was silent.
"If you can figure all this out, why do you get bad grades in school?" she interrogated me, frustrated.
"I don't have the motivation," I shrug plainly.
"What am I going to do with you?" she asked rhetorically, shaking her head.
"For starters, you could let me wear what I want," I suggested.
"No," Okaasan says simply and leaves.
"Heh, at least I tried," I chuckle quietly. After nearly five minutes of waiting, I get tired of the silence. I look down at Tsuna. He looks so calm… you know, besides being knocked out by a baby. … I want to disturb that calm.
Poke. Poke. Poke poke… poke. Po-
"What!" Tsuna jolted. He sat up, or at least tried to.
"Itai!" we say at the same time. When he tried to sit up how heads smashed together… again.
"Was it all a dream?" he asked me.
"Was what a dream? The baby? No, he's sleeping on your desk," I answer, motioning towards the general direction of said desk.
I watch him as he turns his head slowly towards the kid, Reborn, like he was in a horror movie or something. He sure is dramatic. Then he leapt up and grabbed Reborn.
"Hey, wake up! I won't forgive you because you're a baby!" he yells.
"Well, you should forgive him because he's a baby… that can knock you out," I tell him. "That's pretty cool…" then I add as an afterthought, "… and scary."
"Hm?" I hear him say. I have a bad feeling about this… and I was right. I watch as Reborn swing Tsuna around by his tie, slamming him all over the place. "Itaaaaiii! What is this kid?!"
"I have no openings. My true line of work is assassination," he said when he stopped. Then I see Reborn open his suitcase and in a blink of an eye, he has a fully assembled gun that bigger than him! "My real job is to make you a mafia boss!"
"Whaa?! A mafia boss!?" Tsuna exclaimed.
The ridiculousness is going up again. So I start giggling. "You weren't kidding when you said you'd make him the leader of the next generation!"
Tsuna, on the other hand, was too shocked to speak. Then he snapped out of it. "Is your head okay?" I'm not sure if he was asking me or the kid.
"The method of teaching is up to me," Reborn continues ignoring Tsuna. "Should I shoot you once?" he points the gun at Tsuna.
"Wah! No thanks!" Tsuna yelps, putting his hands up in surrender.
"But not now."
"How co—," I start before I was interrupted by a grumbling sound.
"Eh?" Tsuna and I say together.
"Later," Reborn waves casually and leaves.
"What a guy," I say.
"Well… There shouldn't be a next time. Okaasan probably learned her lesson," Tsuna tells me.
"I don't know Tsuna… Okaasan does whatever she wants. We can't really do anything about it."
"Stop being bitter about your clothes," he mumbles.
"Shut up! It's not about that!" I shout at him, nudging him with my elbow.
"But you're all red," he tells me bluntly. Silence.
"Do you feel like eating out today?" I ask him, ignoring what he had said.
Tsuna gives me a look that says, 'Don't ignore me' but then waves it off. "Sure, why not," he shrugs.
We walk down the stairs and Okaasan calls out to us.
"Tsuna, Yasu, what about dinner?"
"I'll think we'll just eat out," I tell her. "Can we have some money, Okaasan?"
"And about that tutor," Tsuna starts.
"Hm? The contract states that Reborn-kun will live here until your grades go up!" she says happily.
-KHR-
"You've got to be kidding!"
"Don't worry about it, Tsuna," I tell him while patting him on the shoulder. "Well, try not to worry about it."
"How can I not worry about it?" he asks me. Then he turns to Reborn. "Actually, why are you following me!? Don't you have to go to grade school?"
"Tsuna… School's been out since three. It's almost four now." I mumble but I'm completely ignored.
"Assassin's don't go to grade school," Reborn tells him.
"Quit the assassin act already," Tsuna replies. Then he freezes and hops behind a wall. Oh. It's Sasagawa Kyoko.
"Kyaa, how cute!" she gushes over Reborn. "Why are you wearing a suit?"
"Because I'm in the mafia," he tells her bluntly. I let out an unnoticeable 'pfft' at how forward he was.
Then she looks at me. "Sawada-chan?"
"Present," I say jokingly.
"I didn't know you had a little brother."
"Actually he isn't." I correct her. "Weren't you going to your baking club-y thing?" I tell her trying to change the subject.
"Ah! That's right! The others will be mad if I'm late again," she says to herself.
"Well, good luck! Bye!" I wave to her while I hear a 'Ciao ciao' in the background.
"Bye-bye!" she calls over her shoulder.
When she was out of ear-shot, I see Reborn turn to Tsuna and say, "Mafia seduction."
"What?!" Tsuna and I exclaim at the same time. Albeit at different levels of volume. The ridiculousness is going up again!
"You have a crush on her don't you?"
"Pfft. Isn't that the truth," I agree.
"Shut up!"
"Aw, Tsuna's all red!"
"Just leave me alone!"
Then Reborn grabs his arm and twists it around into a pretty painful looking armlock.
"No."
Nice, Reborn… nice. I thought sarcasticly.
"Have you told her yet?"
"Of course he hasn't. We're the Twin Klutzes… No one would ever like people like us," I mutter. That was said to my face before. Twice. This was a very depressing fact.
"Not to mention she's way out of my league." Tsuna adds.
"Doesn't she also have a huge fanclub too?" I recall aloud.
"Really?" I nod at Tsuna in confirmation. "It really is useless to confess…" he sighs before asking, "How do you know all these things?"
"Things like that always reach my ears… It's weird."
"Don't ignore me, I'm talking to you," Reborn tells us and then whacks us upside our heads.
"Itai!" Tsuna and I call out together. Wow, our pain always seems to be in sync.
"Your loser complexes are amazing."
"Why thank you." I say sarcastically while Tsuna tells him, "Leave me alone." Reborn looks at me.
"It's not a compliment." Then he turns to Tsuna.
"It's time." Reborn continues. Time for what? Then he pulls out his gun and points it at Tsuna. "Die."
I watch as Reborn shoot Tsuna in the forehead. I just stand there frozen. Before I can react, Tsuna jumps out of his clothes, literally.
"REBORN!" he yells. "I will tell Kyoko how I feel with my dying will!"
"It's dying will time," Reborn smirks and leaves. I just stare at him funny. Oh yeah, that's right. Tsuna's probably going to need clothes and the ones he jumped out of aren't salvageable. Luckily we didn't get to far away from home, so I run back, grab some clothes for Tsuna, and hopefully I get to see Tsuna confess… even if he's under the influence of a bullet-drug.
-KHR-
Runrunrunrunrun. I have a feeling I don't want to miss this. I made it! Geez, I need to run more. I think I'm out of shape… Or is it my dame-ness? Wait! Pay attention!
Oh yay. I managed to make it in time to see Tsuna extend his hand out to Sasagawa-chan.
"Please go out with me!" he yells. Is he bleeding? … And are those noodles in his hair? What the hell happened to him? Then I see Sasagawa-chan run away with a scared 'Kyaaaa.' The poor girl must be traumatized. Not to mention, poor Tsuna. After that, Mochi-senpai comes up and uppercuts my brother.
"You bastard!" he and I yell out. I slap a hand over my mouth and turn around. I don't want to be caught calling the kendo captain a 'bastard,' so I try not to act suspicious. Luckily he didn't notice and he had already left. I think he called my brother a pervert when he did. When I turn back around I see Tsuna sneezing out a bullet and Reborn telling what that was all about.
-KHR-
-This is an omake/flashback.-
"Fujimoto-kun! Fujimoto-kun! How are you today?" a seven year old girl with unruly hair squeaks happily towards him. Yasu was running towards him with a bright smile. But then she trips… "Eeee!" …and falls on her face. Fujimoto sighs. He's tired of her. This girl keeps bothering him and his recess time... And his time with Kawaguchi Kumiko-chan. He blushes and smiles at the thought of her.
"Eh? Normally, you don't smile at me much… Is Fujimoto-kun happy to see me today? I'm happy to see you too!" she smiles brightly. "What do you want to play today, Fujimoto-kun? Do you want to pla-"
"Ah Kumiko-chan, there you are!" he greets her, cutting off Yasu midsentence.
"Uh um… Okay. Let's go say hello to Kawaguchi-san, I'm sure she'll want to play swings with us," Yasu continues ignored, but with not as much enthusiasm as before. Kumiko was quite intimidating to Yasu.
"Hello Itsuki-kun," Kumiko greets him. The she looks behind him. "She's still following you?" she whispers to him.
Trying to ignore the close proximity of his crush and best friend, Itsuki responds. "Yeah she is. I have no idea why. She keeps saying that she wants to play and won't leave me alone. I'd rather just play with you. She's annoying."
"I told you not to help her. I think she likes you."
"Just because I was nice to her?"
"Yeah… Don't think about it too much."
"That's kind of sad... In a bad way…"
"I know right? You wanna ask h-"
"Ne ne, do you guys want to play on the swings?" Yasu interrupts.
"Okay, but first I want to know something," Kumiko tells her.
"Hai?" Yasu responds, tilting her head to the side in curiosity.
"Do you like Itsuki here?" Kumiko states bluntly.
"EH?!" Yasu shouts in surprise then she blushes a deep red and looks down at her feet. "A-a-ano… I-I dunno… M-m-maybe?" she stutters while poking two fingers together.
Something flares in Kumiko. For some reason she didn't like that answer and she shot back snappily before she could stop herself, "No one would ever like someone like you… especially Itsuki-kun." She could've felt a little bad but at the time it seemed right.
Tears came forth in Yasu's eyes threatening to spill. She didn't have to say that. She knew she was dame, nothing more and maybe less. Things became even worse when Itsuki decided to speak up.
"Kumiko's right. I would never like someone like you, Dame-Yasu. I like Kumi-"
Yasu didn't hear the rest. She zoned them out. What's with this situation?! Yasu thought. She quickly turned and ran away from them. She didn't want to add 'Crybaby' to the long list of nick-names she already has. She didn't want to look at them. She needed Tsuna. So Yasu ran to the furthest corner of the playground and dove into a bush. And she ended up knocking heads with Tsuna.
"Tsuuuuuuuuuuuuuu…" Yasu sniffed as quietly as she could. Tsuna was rubbing his head but when he heard Yasu he froze and then looked up… and started panicking.
"Ah! Why are you crying? Did someone make fun of you? Are you hurt?" he whispered frantically. Then he stopped when Yasu just bumped her forehead into his shoulder with her face buried in her hands.
"I-I-I-I-I—" Yasu stopped herself and started again. "C-can I-I j-just stay h-here til the e-end of r-recess?"
"Um sure." Tsuna replied. And not knowing what else to do he just pats her on the head and rubs circles on her back. A few minutes pass and a quiet 'Thanks' is muttered.
-KHR-
I'm sorry I took too long. I was swamped with work. I took exactly two weeks. To be honest my goal was not to exceed two weeks and I was working on another fic. I wanted to get atleast a couple chapters in. I also… kind of… rushed. TT^TT Sorry. There are mistakes. I haven't had a chance to read it over carefully. Oh and I'll be sure to speed this up because right now I'm going at a snail's pace. Is there anything else I need to address? Um… I'm pretty sure I'll have tons of omakes/flashbacks. And thanks to all of those who faved, followed and reviewed!
Did I mention Valentines is coming? Valentine one-shots are coming.
I don't own KHR. Isn't it obvious? O-o
