La Ragazza

by Dark (because Tsuna is Love. And crack)

Summary: Sawada "Tsuna" Tsunayuki a.k.a. No-Good-Tsuna, never thought that she'd ever be important enough to get a home tutor, let alone one who wanted to turn her into the tenth generation mafia boss of the Vongola family, and the first female one at that. But now in the midst of trying to raise her grades and make new friends, she's finding that there's a lot more to this "Mafia" business than she first thought.

Pairings: GokuderaTsuna, YamamotoTsuna, HibariTsuna, DinoTsuna, MukuroTsuna, LanciaTsuna, RyoheiTsuna, BasilTsuna, SqualoTsuna, BelphegorTsuna, XanxusTsuna, ChikusaTsuna, KenTsuna, maybe OlderRebornTsuna, one-sided HaruTsuna, Chrome+Tsuna, and Kyoko+Tsuna. Maybe-ish some Adult!LamboOC.

Quote for the Story:
"Be careful what you wish for, for it might just come true, but not in the least the way you expected."

Obiettivo Tre

Gokudera Hayato

Songs listened to while writing this chapter: Things I'll Never Say, by Avril Lavigne.

Quote of the Chapter:
"Run!!!"
"Huh? Why?"
"The Tenth's smiling!!!!"
"Oh holy freakin' fuck."
-Gokudera and Yamamoto, Chapter 91
Moral: When Tsuna smiles, run.

School

The day had started out as normal for Tsuna, getting woken up by Reborn (an incident that usually involved a lot of shooting) being by turns smiled at o glared at on her way to school, and then sitting by herself while waiting for class to start. But then-

"We have a new transfer student from overseas in Italy, joining us today. His name is Gokudera Hayato."

-and it had suddenly turned abnormal.

'Hm… Italy… Reborn-kun's homeland…' Tsuna thought as she sat at her desk and observed the new student. He had short silver hair and blue green eyes. He wasn't wearing the tie to the school uniform, his shirt was left unbuttoned, and he had two necklaces hanging around his neck. Besides his necklaces, he also wore a multitude of bracelets and rings. His face looked like it had been permanently twisted into a scowl. Tsuna agreed with her classmates in that he was cute, even cute enough for her to glomp, but she was in school right now, so she had to refrain.

Tsuna glanced around idly to see what other reactions the new student was getting, and saw that it was mostly just idle curiosity for the most part. When she turned back to the front, she flinched back in shock. The transfer student was glaring at her.

'What? What is it?' Tsuna thought franticly, 'What did I do?'

She flinched back even more when the boy started to stalk –there really wasn't any other word for it- towards her, even though the teacher was trying to direct him towards his seat on the other side of the classroom.

Gokudera stalked right up to her desk and kicked it violently, knocking it back and into Tsuna's stomach, causing a startled wince, glaring at her the whole time.

'W-what?' Tsuna wondered, 'What was that about?!'

"You know him, Sawada-san?" one of her classmates asked curiously.

"N-no…" Tsuna stuttered nervously, wondering what was going on.

"He has to be a gangster," another of her classmates whispered, to which Tsuna nodded.

(SCENE CHANGE)

Hallways

'What was that all about?' Tsuna questioned in her mind as she walked along the hall during break, 'Why did the transfer student do that?' It bothered her that someone she had just met would be so hostile to her.

Tsuna was so lost in her thoughts that she failed to avoid a collision with another student. She bumped heavily into him and fell back with a small grunt of pain.

"Ouch," the teen said, and Tsuna looked up see three seniors, all very large, "I might have broken a bone."

'Eek!!' "S-sorry!" and then she was running away as fast as she could, until she was fully out of the school.

'Oh dear god, that was close. I could've been beaten to death…' Tsuna thought glumly as she panted heavily outside the school, '…Again.'

"Your wussyness is an eyeful."

Tsuna jumped violently when she heard the voice, and spun around as fast as she could, only to spot the transfer student who had been giving her the evil eye earlier. He was smoking a cigarette, she noticed, very irresponsible.

'It's him!' she thought, "Err, I-I'll ju-just go n-now…" she said timidly, and started to walk away as quickly as she could without running.

"If a pinprick like you becomes the 10th Gen, the Vongola family is finished," the teen stated rudely, causing Tsuna to halt mid-step.

"Un?!" Tsuna voiced in confusion, "Um… y-you know about the fa-family…?" she asked him timidly.

"I refuse to accept it," Gokudera growled, turning to glare at her, "I'm the one who's fit to be the 10th!!" he said, his voice filled with malice.

Tsuna just stared at him in shock, her throat frozen. "Hi-ie! W-w-what are you s-s-saying?!" she finally managed to ask, "W-what's going on?"

"I've been watching you since the volleyball tournament, but it'd be a waste of time to spend any longer evaluating a weakling like you," the other said, ignoring her words completely.

"W-wa-watching?!" Tsuna squeaked.

"You're a nuisance," Gokudera said, drawing his hands from his pockets and bringing the sticks of dynamite he was holding into clear view, "Die right here."

'W-what?!' Tsuna shouted in her mind, 'Dynamite!?!'

But then she didn't have any more time to think, for the boy had already lit the wicks of his explosives, using the burning end of his cigarette. "Later," he said, and dropped them right in front of her.

Tsuna stared at them in silent fear as she fell back in a futile attempt to avoid the impending danger, her face white with terror even as tears welled up in the corners of her eyes. But then something was flying right past her, intercepting the dangerous explosives and shearing the burning parts of the wicks right off, rendering them obsolete.

Gokudera tsked, turning to glare at the person who had prevented his explosives from detonating, and Tsuna turned as well, even as she completed her fall and landed hard on the ground.

"Ciaossu," she heard, and Tsuna turned to look at Reborn as the tears in her eyes stared to drip down her face.

Reborn looked quite calm as he stood there, a smoking gun held in his hands.

"Reborn-kun!" Tsuna called, using the suffix that she had started to use after getting to know him better. She was happy to see him, thankful that he had stopped the explosives from going off.

"You came earlier than I expected, Gokudera Hayato," Reborn commented, completely ignoring Tsuna.

'What!?' Tsuna thought wildly, 'They know each other?!'

"Yeah, he's a member of the family that I called over from Italy," Reborn told Tsuna, once again reading her mind.

"S-so this guy's in the m-ma-mafia?!" Tsuna questioned in shock, deciding to ignore having her thought read once again, saying anything would accomplish nothing so it was best just to say nothing and save her breath.

Reborn nodded, a smirk on his face, indicating his amusement at Tsuna's reaction. "This is my first time meeting him as well, though," he admitted, turning to face Gokudera.

"So you're the 9th Gen's highly trusted assassin," commented the boy, "Reborn."

'Huh?' wondered Tsuna when she heard that, 'Reborn-kun is that powerful of a person?' Sure, she'd known he was important, but she hadn't known how much so before. The new information just drove home the fact that she was wasting Reborn's' time when he had so many more important things to do then teach a worthless loser like her.

"You aren't kidding about me becoming a candidate for succession if I kill Sawada, right?" Gokudera asked Reborn.

'What's he talking about?' Tsuna wondered, her brow furrowing in thought, 'Reborn-kun would never do something like th-'

"Yeah, that's right," Reborn said, and there went Tsuna's train of thought, crashing straight into a mental brick wall. "Well, let's continue with the killing."

"W-wait! K-killing… W-wh-what are you talking ab-about?! Y-yo-you're joking, r-right?" Tsuna cried, unbelieving about what was happening, her fear of speaking around strangers warring with her shock.

"I'm serious," Reborn told her, his expression blank and unreadable.

'What!?' "N-no… no way…" Tsuna stuttered, her eyes wide, "A-are you be-betraying me?" she asked, Reborn and her had just begun to be friends, her first one, and he was betraying her. "Y-you mean everything until now was a l-l-lie?!" she asked, tears welling up in her eyes once again, coming even faster this time.

"That's wrong," Reborn corrected her bluntly, pointing his gun at her, "I'm telling you to fight."

'What!?' was the thought that immediately ran through Tsuna's mind, "F-fight…? W-with the transfer student…?" she asked in surprise, "Y-you're kidding! Fight with the m-ma-mafia?" she cried, before turning and running away as fast as she could, her tears starting to drip down her face.

"Wait," suddenly, Gokudera was in front of her, glaring.

Tsuna shrieked in shock, scrambling backwards desperately.

Gokudera brought out even more sticks of cigarette, and sticking them in his mouth he lit them all in one quick motion of his lighter, then he drew out dozens of sticks of dynamite from who knows where, lighting them as he had done before.

Tsuna stared at him in mute horror, scrambling backwards as fast as she could, trying to get away from the burning sticks of death.

"It's said that Gokudera Hayato is a human explosive device that conceals dynamite all over his body," Reborn said as he calmly walked up beside her, ignoring the danger, "His other name is Smokin' Bomb Hayato."

"T-that's even w-worse!" Tsuna spluttered, finally managing to stand up again and start to run.

"Die!" Gokudera called as he threw his bomb's carelessly towards her.

Tsuna only managed to get out of the way just in time, the concussive force of the explosion knocking her off her feet as the dynamite went off mere feet behind her. She scrambled to her feet again and continued running, just to be forced to stop when a dead end loomed up in front of her. 'Oh no,' she thought, spinning franticly only to come face to face with the glaring face of Gokudera.

"This is it," he said darkly, and let loose another wave of dynamite, "The end."

Tsuna shrieked, turning once again and making a break for it between the building and the dynamite, the words; 'This is not happening, not-happening, nothappening-' running through her mind like a broken record. Then, suddenly, there was a sharp pain in her head and she was falling over, the familiar sensation of the Dying Will Bullet taking over her mind.

"Reborn!!!" Tsuna snarled as she burst up from her body much like a snake shedding its' skin, her outer clothes once again burned away, her eyes completely white and an orange flame burning on her forehead, "I'll use my Dying Will to put out all the fuses!!"

And then she was off, gripping the burning end of each stick of dynamite in a bare hand and quenching the flame, shouting; "Defuse!!" as she did so, before quickly moving onto the next, going on until each and every single one of them was out.

"What?!" Gokudera shouted in shocked irritation. Then, growling, he brought out even more dynamite, twice as much as before. "Double Bomb!" he shouted as he threw them towards the girl.

This accomplished nothing, as 'Dying Will' Tsuna just continued on with her mission, defusing the new batch of explosives as well.

Gokudera growled, a vein twitching on his forehead. He then drew out three times as much dynamite as before, lighting them and growling; "Triple Bomb!"

Then, just as he was about to throw them, one fell. As he stared at it in surprise, he fumbled with the rest of the ones in his hands, accidentally dropping them. His multitude of cancer sticks followed until only a single one remained clenched between his teeth.

"Shit…" he muttered, the thought of this being the end flashing through his mind.

"Defuse!!" 'Dying Will' Tsuna shouted as she leapt on an explosive about to go off, one of the ones that Gokudera had dropped.

Gokudera stared at the girl in surprise as he watched her scurry around, defusing all the explosives in the area, saving him from an untimely end. His mouth dropped open in surprise and his lone cigarette dropped out, falling to the ground, just as the flame on Tsuna's forehead burned out and her eyes turned back to their warm gold.

Tsuna looked around in surprise for a moment, before she let out a breath of relief. "I made it…" she muttered, and let out a small, grateful, smile, completely open and sincere.

Watching it, Gokudera could feel his face turn red as he blushed. Then, making up his mind, he fell to the ground, slamming his hands down and bowing his head. "I was mistaken!" he cried out, making Tsuna jump in shock and whirl around. "You're the one who's fit to be the boss!" he declared.

Tsuna stared at him in genuine shock and confusion, her mind blank. She even temporarily forgot about her state of undress.

"10th Gen!! I'll follow you!" Gokudera declared, "Anything you command, I'll do!"

Tsuna just continued to stared, her eyes wide as she gazed at the boy kneeling in front of her.

"Having the loser serve the winner is a family rule," Reborn informed her from behind, causing Tsuna to whirl around yet again.

"E-ehh?!!" Tsuna squeaked.

"Actually, I really didn't have ambitions to become the 10th Generation boss," Gokudera told them, and Tsuna turned once again to face him, "It's just that when I heard that you, the 10th Gen, was a Japanese kid the same age as me, I felt I had to test your strength…"

And for the first time since she had met him, Gokudera didn't have any sort of hostile expression on his face. It made him look even cuter, and all at once Tsuna's urge to glomp the boy returned. She barely heard what he said next, she was so concentrated on restraining herself.

"But you're much more than I expected!" Gokudera continued, oblivious to Tsuna's inner struggle, "For putting yourself on the line to save me, I'll place my life in your hands!" he finished, his expression open and honest.

Well, that did it. There went all her self control, flying out the window and most likely to another, far away, planet. Tsuna jumped forward, glomping onto the now shocked boy, hugging him hard around the neck and crushing his face into her chest.

"You're so cute!" Tsuna cried out, a bright smile on her face as she pulled the taller boy down to her level with the hug.

Reborn looked on the scene in amusement, remembering when Tsuna had done that to him. If he knew anything about teenage boys, and he did, having taught one himself, then Gokudera was most certainly enjoying this, especially with Tsuna's state of dress, or more accurately, lack thereof, and there was no need to try to rescue him. Besides, Tsuna would most likely remember herself in a few moments.

And indeed, a few moments later, Tsuna let go, her face bright red as she jumped back from the boy, mumbling unnecessary apologizes.

Gokudera, his face bright red as well, turned away and coughed nervously, trying to hide his embarrassment at his first experience with a girl hugging him.

After a few moments, Tsuna turned back towards the two others, her face slightly less red. "Um… y-you don't have to be m-my, um, su-subordinate…" she told Gokudera, bringing back the topic they had been on before, staunchly trying to ignore what she had just done, "C-can't we just be, err, norm-normal classma-mates…?" she asked nervously.

Gokudera spun around once again, what had just happened temporarily forgotten at Tsuna's words. "Absolutely not!" he told her, his seemingly permanent scowl back on his face.

Tsuna flinched back at his angry words. 'S-scary!' she thought, 'I can't refuse… what kind of situation is this…?'

"Gokudera became your subordinate because of your strength," Reborn informed Tsuna, his voice reminding them both of his presence, "Good job Tsuna."

"Wh-what are you ta-talking about…?" Tsuna asked, a faint blush on her cheeks from the praise. 'What am I going to do?!' she wondered, but in the back of her mind she knew it was a lost cause.

Reborn opened his mouth to answer, but a voice from behind the three of them prevented him from doing so.

"Well well well…" the voice said in a sneering tone, "What's this?"

Tsuna jumped in shock and spun around, only to spot the three seniors from before sneering darkly at them. She vaguely noticed that all three of them were looking at her hungrily, like some of the other students had, before she jumped behind Gokudera, clinging to the back of his shirt. She felt him stiffen at the contact, but didn't let go. 'What's going to happen now!?' she wondered, her face paling.

"Skipping class?" one of the seniors asked, "That's not allowed until senior year…"

"This requires some punishment…" another agreed.

"How many teeth do you want broken?" the third asked with a sneer.

Tsuna flinched back, gripping even tighter at Gokudera's shirt.

"Or…" the first one said in a considering tone as he craned his neck to look Tsuna up and down, "The girl could come and 'play' with us for a bit…" he suggested, his smirk turning into a leer as the other two laughed sinisterly.

Gokudera stiffened, his face turning dark. They wanted to do what with the 10th?! He growled. Over his dead and burning body, and not even then. "Leave it to me…" he growled darkly, taking a step forward and wrenching his shirt out of Tsuna's death grip (he might even have heard something rip as he did so). "I'll take care of 'em…" he assured his new boss-to-be, drawing dynamite out of his pockets and stalking towards the despicable lowlifes who had threatened Tsuna.

Tsuna stared at him wide-eyed for a moment, before she realized what was going on and retched forward, trying to snag the end of Gokudera's shirt and hold him back. "W-wait!" she called, "Gokudera-kun, s-stop it! Don't use dynamite!" And Tsuna knew that from here on out her life was going to get even more complicated.

If she had known how right she was, Tsuna would have tried to run screaming from Japan. Unfortunately, Reborn would then catch her before she'd even manage to get five feet and drag her right back into the mess that her life had turned into. The bastard.

(THE END)
for now

A/N: Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!! I hope you enjoy the chapter, as well as the GokuTsuna interaction!

Hopefully the next chapter will be up soon, so keep a look out for it.

Oh, I also changed what I want the pairings to be, added some new ones, changed some old ones, and such, but they'll probably change again, so keep an eye on them!

Well, Dark out!