Author's Note:
Hey all! I'm really sorry for the late update! Had been extremely busy. *deep bows* Finally, I will be having my piano exam TOMORROW! XD Once I'm done with Piano, I'll be having my Promotional Exams. So I apologise in advance that I may not be updating for the next two weeks! Great news is, I may be making weekly updates by the end of November! Don't worry, I'll still be updating this story, it's just irregular updates. Look forward to it people! :)
A big thank you to many of you who had favourited/story alert/followed/ AND REVIEWED this story! *toss confetti in the air* :D
Haha, just FYI, the eye colours of the characters are according to the manga. Kagome for example, has brown eyes in the Anime but blue eyes in the manga. I just decided to follow the manga version because it is much more uinque than brown eyes. ^-^
Here's my next chapter! Enjoy!
"Japanese"
"English"
'Thoughts'
Disclaimer: I don't own KHR or Inuyasha. Nor do I own the references taken from Jodi Picoult book.
Sapphire eyes met with bright orange eyes. "Kyoko!" She gasped in surprise, and beamed as she walked gracefully towards said girl and hugged her tightly. She had missed her childhood friend greatly; moving all the way to England with the demon lord away from Kyoko was never easy. Kyoko was one of her only closest friends before the deaths of her parents and grandparents. She had visited Kagome every day and helped her get over her relatives' deaths. Until about two years ago, they had exchanged letters with one another. A cough from the homeroom teacher interrupted their bubble of happiness and sent Kagome to her empty seat beside Tsunayoshi. Both girls promised to catch up with each other during break time later.
A smile graced her lips and she sent a nod towards the young heir to the Vongola family before taking her assigned seat beside Tsuna. The bell rang and Kobayashi Sensei walked out of the classroom and was replaced by the much hated English teacher. Groans filled the classroom as the teacher made them pass up their assignments.
Kagome sighed internally; she had already studied all the topics that were being taught in class. After the memories of her previous life were regained, she kept her knowledge about her studies in Middle School as well, meaning that she had an advantage against all the other students in class. The raven hair girl stared outside the window and doodled on her notebook, not noticing that the teacher has called out her name to make her read in front of the entire class.
"Higurashi Kagome!" Snapping out of her daydream as she heard her name get called, Kagome stood up and looked at the teacher. "Why not we let Higurashi read? She must be so clever till she didn't have to pay attention in class." the teacher smirked, having every intention to embarrass the new girl.
Listening to the teacher's comment, Kagome stood up haughtily, rolling her sapphire eyes at the teacher and began reading the passage from the book.
"There are stars in the night sky that look brighter than the others, and when you look at them through a telescope you realize you are looking at twins. The two stars rotate around each other, sometimes taking nearly a hundred years to do it. They create so much gravitational pull there's no room around for anything else. You might see a blue star, for example, and realized only later that it has a white dwarf as a companion-that first one shines so bright, by the time you notice the second one, it's really too late."
Kagome finished reading and sat down with an aloof expression on her face, silently thanking the demon lord who took her to England with him and made her study English with him as her tutor. A shiver climbed up her spine while thinking of the lessons she had with Sesshoumaru. Even though the great demon lord had mellowed out in the 500 years, his attitude hardly changed when he was teaching her.
Everyone was stunned by her perfect English that had a light British accent. The girls were whispering with each other in excitement while the boys were entrapped by Kagome's 'coolness'.
Feeling annoyed that he could not pick on the new student who wasn't paying attention to his class; the English teacher directed his anger to his next victim who was a certain brunette staring aimlessly outside the window.
"Sawada! You read the next paragraph!" he demanded.
The chair screeched while he stood up quickly with his book in his hands. "Y-Yes!" Tsuna gulped before beginning. "Kyamberu is deh one hu a-at-chuari…" Poor Tsuna was then hit by a chalk by the teacher before he could finish reading the first sentence.
"It seems that Dame-Tsuna can't even read properly." The teacher sniggered, a few other classmates followed suit.
"Why you bast-" Gokudera was halfway out of his seat; hands holding on dynamites that would go flying towards the teacher any minute before being dragged down by a pleading Tsuna.
"Why not dear teacher read the paragraph first and let us hear if you can do better than Sawada-san?" Another voice cut in. All eyes in the classroom focused on the raven haired was furious. She had never met a single teacher in her past life that would treat his students the way he treats Tsuna.
The teacher was taken aback by the transfer student's outburst. Determined not to be embarrassed by a 'silly girl who just transferred in', he read the same sentence. "Kyamberu iz tee one who at-chu-ari answers deh doctoru." He spoke with a heavy Japanese accent which only Gokudera and Kagome picked up.
"Hmph… And you call yourself an English teacher." The Decimo's right hand man scoffed loudly. He grabbed the book on Tsuna's desk and began reading in flawless English. "Campbell is the only one who answers the doctor. "I have power of attorney for Anna," he explains, "not her parents." He looks from me, to Sara. "And there is a girl upstairs who needs that kidney." He finished, closing the book and smirked at the teacher. "So how is my reading, Sen-sei?" He laced his last sentence with obvious sarcasm.
Those in class who were better in class could only understand the bits and pieces of what was spoken by the three people. The rest were just clueless but knew that the two students were standing up for Dame-Tsuna.
The teacher was mortified before Kyoko spoke up in Japanese that he should not bully students, let alone throwing things at them. Yells of agreement rose from the class, causing the passing principal to look in and requested the teacher to visit his office after lesson.
Tsuna gave Kagome a sheepish smile as thanks for helping which she returned with a grin.
As promised, Kagome and Kyoko, along with Hana spent the entire afternoon trying to catch up with each other. Kyoko had brought Kagome to meet Tsuna who was sitting with his two guardians on a bench under a tree.
"Kagome-chan, I want you to meet Tsuna-kun and his friends."
"Oh! So you're that 'Tsuna-kun'! I've heard quite a lot from dear Kyoko over here about you." Kagome nudged Kyoko playfully, earning a whine about how embarrassing it was from her. "Anyway, I'm Higurashi-Taisho Kagome. Pleased to meet you, everyone." The raven hair girl reintroduced herself.
"I-I'm Sawada Tsunayoshi. Tsu-Tsuna is fine." He stuttered once it was his turn to do self-introduction. Tsuna's heart skipped a beat when Kagome smiled warmly at him. The brunette blushed lightly as he grinned back sheepishly.
"Hey! I'm Yamamoto Takeshi." The baseball player extended his hand and gave Kagome's a shake.
"Gokudera Hayato." A certain sliver haired male introduced in a scornful manner. Although he was grateful that she stood up for the Tenth as well, he did not like her at all. To him, her personality was almost exactly the same as the stupid baseball idiot; always smiling like an idiot, with a happy-go-lucky attitude, not even knowing the truth behind things. However, there was something that Gokudera could not understand. Her surname, Taisho, sounded really familiar to him, but he was unable to recall where and when he had heard that name before.
Kagome as though sensing Gokudera's suspicions of her, quickly started chatting away with Yamamoto as though they had known each other for ages instead of just meeting the other for a few minutes. Seeing how well her dearest friend had gotten along with Tsuna and gang, Kyoko and Hana left her with them as they gave them some time for themselves to break the ice between them.
The Guardian of Rain told her stories about how he met Tsuna, how Tsuna saved his life when he wanted to commit suicide, and Gokudera, and Tsuna, Gokudera and himself joining some sort of Mafia game that the Reborn kid had created.
Gokudera was practically shaking from annoyance at the baseball idiot and was only barely containing his anger with much coaxing from his beloved Tenth. He was cursing the Guardian of Rain in his mind, hoping he did not expose too many details to the girl.
The tenth boss of Vongola gazed at his friend feeling a little envious how they were able to hit off so quickly. An uneasy feeling rose from his chest as he saw Kagome giggling at Yamamoto's jokes. He wanted to be the one making her laugh. 'W-wait, where did that thought come out from? Argh! Get a grip on yourself Dame-Tsuna! Stupid Tsuna, stop being delusional about being able to talk to Kagome like how Yamamoto is.' Tsuna started having a mental war in his mind. Unknown to him, all three students were looking at him curiously as he hit his head with his hands.
The ringing of the school bell broke Tsuna's mental war.
"Ahh… Lunch break is over." Yamamoto sighed as he offered a hand to pull Kagome up from the bench.
"Thank you Takeshi-kun." She placed her slender hands on his callused ones due to the intensive baseball training and stood up.
"I had fun chatting with you Kagome. Let's do it again next time!" he grinned happily. He wanted to continue but was rudely interrupted by Gokudera who demanded that the Tenth should return to the class soon and he couldn't stand the stupid 'baseball idiot' talking with the 'transfer-ee'. Kagome's eyebrow twitched at the name and she sighed. 'He's just like that Inuyasha.'
Yamamoto simply shrugged and lead Kagome back to the class, apologizing for his friend's behaviour which she simply waved it off.
Thankfully for the Namimori Middle School, the day ended without much chaos and destruction caused by the new generation of Vongola family.
However, rumours had started after several students in Namimori Middle school had been attacked by students from another school, even Ryohei got attacked. Despite Hibari has already left school to deal with the attackers, Tsuna was terrified. Thinking it might be related to the mafia, he ran back home as quickly as possible to find his tutor to talk about the attacks.
"Tsuna!" A voice called out to him from behind. Turning around, he saw the new transfer student jogging towards him.
"Higurashi-san! What are you doing here?" He questioned.
"Oh, my house is at that direction as well. And don't call me Higurashi-san. My name is Kagome." She smiled and continued walking beside Tsuna.
"But Higura-"
She interrupted Tsuna before he could continue. "It's Ka-go-me," accenting on every syllable of her name. "Calling me Higurashi reminds me of someone I knew in the past." An image of Hojo-kun appeared in her mind. She gave a wince as she remembered all the excuses she had to give just to avoid Hojo-kun from visiting her and giving her health products that could better improve her many 'illnesses'.
"Ok, Kagome-chan."
Tsuna followed her and fell into steps with her. An awkward silence loomed over them as Tsuna wrecked his mind to think about things to talk about. "Have you heard that students from our school been attacked by other students?"
"Oh, that. I heard from some girls in our class that the attackers were from Kokuyo Middle school." Kagome replied, staring off in front of her while Tsuna fell silent.
As they continued their walk, Kagome, feeling Tsuna's uneasiness, started asking him about his life, parents and friends in Namimori Middle School. After a few moments, the ice between them broke and both teens chatted away like old friends.
Reaching his house, wondered why Kagome was still following him. Said girl was still looking around her surroundings and commenting how nostalgic it was to be back in her home country after staying so long in a foreign place.
"I've reached my house. Would you like to come in and have a seat?" Tsuna offered her when they reached the Sawada residence.
"Eh? Wouldn't it be bad? I mean, I don't want to intrude in your house."
The young boss gave a weak laugh and said it was alright and that they could study together if she liked to.
Kagome nodded her agreement and followed Tsuna in.
"Excuse me for intruding!" Kagome said quietly.
"Mum! Reborn! I'm home!" Tsuna kicked off his snickers and voiced his arrival. He waited for Kagome to remove her shoes and placed them neatly at the side before bringing her to his room, avoiding the playing children in the living room. Kagome hid a giggle with a cough upon looking at a door with a tuna fish hanged on it. 'A Tuna hung on the bedroom door for Tsuna's bedroom. Ironic much.' Kagome thought.
A flying kick aimed at Tsuna's head made its impact as soon as they entered the Decimo's bedroom. The tenth boss of Vongola whined in pain as he rubbed the bump that the kick had created on his head.
"Do you have to do this every time I go home Reborn?" Tsuna demanded with teary eyes as he glared at his infant of a home tutor.
"You don't have to shout this loud when you reach home. No one wants to know Dame-Tsuna has returned home." The baby hitman smirked.
"Ah! You're so cute! What's your name little boy?" Kagome picked up Reborn to her eye level and cooed at him.
"It's Reborn." Said hitman's eyebrow was twitching at how the girl was treating him as. He was no regular baby! He was the strongest hitman!
"Nice to meet you Reborn-kun," She gave him a small hug before placing him back on the ground.
Once his little feet were back on the ground, Reborn frowned. He wanted to be hugged for a little bit longer. He grimaced, he must be becoming soft. Liking a hug from a girl shouldn't make him, the greatest hitman in the world, blush like a school girl. Thankfully, his fedora hid his pink-tinted cheeks while he ordered his student to bring up some tea.
"Man… Even so, he doesn't have to kick his hard. I swear if he kicks my head his hard anymore, I'll become a retard sooner or later due to brain damage." Tsuna muttered to himself as he walked down the stairs towards the kitchen.
"Ah, Tsu-kun. Welcome home! Is the guest in your room?" Sawada Nana smiled at her son who was walking in. "I've taken the liberty to prepare some sweets and tea for her. Will you bring up for her?"
"Y-Yes mum. Wait! I never said anything that my friend that came is a girl!" his brown eyes went wide in surprise.
"It's a woman's instinct," was his only reply followed by a smile.
Tsuna sighed and carried the tray of tea and snacks back up his room. Opening the door to his room, he heard Kagome agreeing to something Reborn had told her.
"What were you talking about Reborn?" Tsuna asked his tutor suspiciously, afraid that he might try to influence Kagome to join his so-called guardians in his mafia family like how he made Yamamoto caught up in the Mafioso. He passed a cup of tea to the raven hair girl who voiced her thanks upon receiving the warm tea.
A smirk appeared on the Sun Arcobaleno's face. "It's exactly what you are thinking Dame-Tsuna."
"EHHHHHHHHH!" screamed the tenth boss of Vongola. "Why would you want to do that Reborn?" he demanded angrily. He had a bad feeling about letting Kagome being caught up with him in the Mafia; it was something he had never felt before despite his attraction towards Kyoko. He set the plate of rice crackers on the table in front of Kagome.
"But isn't it cool that you are the boss of a mafia family? What's more, you're THE boss of the oldest, most influential mafia in Italy according from what I heard from Reborn-kun." Kagome grinned in delight as though she was a child receiving candy. "And you're like the great-great-great grandson of the first ever boss, the one who founded it! Shouldn't you be a bit happy that you're chosen?" she continued.
"But I didn't ask for it!" he replied, "Plus I'm Dame-Tsuna! What can Dame-Tsuna do other than failing tests, getting injured from playing sports, getting ostracised by the class, and tripping over my own feet while walking on a flat surface which results to being embarrassed by the entire school?" he ended his rant, feeling angry that someone as normal as Kagome would find being the boss of a dark underground society cool.
Kagome's eyes widen upon hearing all the things that happened to Tsuna and apologized softly to him feeling a little guilty over what she had said.
Seeing the girl with sapphire eyes looking down with an apologetic expression on her face, Tsuna mentally whacked himself for exploding on her. 'I shouldn't have said all those things to her…'
"Ka-Kagome-chan, I'm sorry for taking it out on you." Tsuna said, afraid that said girl might burst out into tears like Haru. She gave a small smile, accepting his apology.
"Shut up you useless student. Tsuna, I want you to find out what is happening to Namimori middle school. There may be a possibility that the missing Fuuta could be a reason for this." Reborn sipped his espresso while talking.
"Why me?" said brunette whined.
"Because you're the next boss of Vongola," Reborn simply stated. "And being a boss, you must have experience in doing missions to protect your family from danger. Ryohei was injured from the attacks and you the boss still haven't done anything to protect or avenge him. So move your lazy ass and do something to protect your guardians." The infant tutor commanded.
Tsuna sighed, knowing that he could not win the argument with Reborn. After denying again that he would not be the next boss of Vongola for the umpteenth time, an irritated Reborn pointed his green gun at Tsuna and threatened him to shut up which the brunette gladly complied to prevent himself from getting shot by his Spartan of a tutor.
"Sorry to interrupt but I think I found out something." A quiet voice came from the new transfer student.
Both males turned and looked at her placing a piece of paper on the table. "I believe it might be related to this." Kagome pointed to the ranking list that Fuuta has made on the strongest people in Namimori Middle School. "The time on the watches matches the rank of the student who was attacked…" Reborn said.
Everything clicked into place in Tsuna's mind. 'That's why the students who got attacked had watches with them! The time on the watches was meant to be a countdown to the strongest person ranked on the Namimori Middle School Fighting Prowess Ranking. All the attacks were targeted at the strongest few in Namimori Middle School!'
"So if the Vice-president of the Disciplinary Council Kusakabe-san is number 4, then number 3 would be attacked next!" Tsuna exclaimed. Brown eyes scanned the ranking list to find the 3rd most powerful student in Namimori Middle School.
"You got to be kidding? What should we do Reborn?" the brunette was losing his cool. His hands were shaking when he saw the name printed in elegant font that said: '3. Gokudera Hayato'.
"This may be bad… You go check it out. I have to research something." Reborn carried Leon and jumped out of the bedroom window even before Tsuna could complain about it.
"Tsuna! Stop whining and let's go! Your friend is in trouble isn't it? Now isn't the time to be complaining about who is supposed to go. You got to warn him about this! I'll go with you." Kagome cut off Tsuna's hysterical whims and dragged him out of the room.
The duo rushed down the stairs and Tsuna told his mother that he would be going out with Kagome for a moment. Kagome started calling Yamamoto's cell phone to ask where Gokudera was.
"Takeshi-kun said that Gokudera-kun left school long ago and went to the shopping district." Kagome ended the call and flipped her phone shut.
"Ok, it's this way! We got to hurry!" Tsuna began running with Kagome following close behind.
Done! This chapter is extra long as an apology for taking a long time to update and I wouldn't be able to update in the following week.
Haha! I can't help it but put a few paragraphs of Jodi Picoult's "My Sister's Keeper". I ABSOLUTELY LOVE her books. I have about 7 of her novels on my shelf. And if you're wondering why would I make Tsuna's English class read her books, here's the reason. When I was fifteen, my school actually made the entire cohort buy Jodi Picoult's "My Sister's Keeper" as an English textbook! And that scene is what happened during my class one fine day. Just that I'd edited what exactly happened.
I've tried my best on how Japanese people would try to read English. No offense. But I imagined how a Japanese person with zero knowledge in English would try to read a sentence.
Lastly, I'm sorry for any grammatical or spelling errors if you had spotted any, tried my best to edit it before posting it up. This story is still unbeta-ed. If anyone is interested in being my Beta, Please send me a PM! :D
And so there you have it! Please Review! Review = Better storyline = Better chapters = Longer chapters = Quicker updates. :)
Chiibiisuke~