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Chapter 3

The train passed by the towns, it was mostly empty to an average observer. One of the cars held a young teen and a cat, along with their luggage. The other cars were in similar states of emptiness. Natsume found himself waking up to someone stroking his hair softly, it almost made him want to go back to sleep. He heard and felt the movements of the train, which confused him because the only thing he remembered was Madara looming over him. He opened his eyes a bit and glanced at the occupants of the room. Nyanko-sensei was in him lap deep asleep mumbling something about delicious food. He was surprised to see Kai in the train playing tag with the young fox spirit. Natsume blinked as he saw all of his spirits friends sitting in the the train. He quickly decided that he was still dreaming and that it would be better to deal with it when he had a clearer mind frame. The spirits were amused at the boy's mumblings, but ignored him in favor of their planning that they needed to continue. Natsume still had to be watched to make sure that he would not do something foolish, or wind up with someone trying to kill him.

The train arrived at its destination and Natsume was over most of the shock. The spirits were being stubborn and would not reveal what their intentions were. As soon as he got off the train station, everyone but Kai and Nyanko-sensei dispersed to the city's forest to see the new scenery. Kai was holding onto Natsume's hand and was eager to converse with the teen, apparently he had heard that Natsume was leaving from the passing spirits in his mountain and decided to visit Natsume. Kai figured that he could use this opportunity to get new friends in this town while Natsume would be staying. Nyanko-sensei was perched on Natsume's shoulder with a slight drool on the corner of his mouth as he thought about the food. They walked down the streets, guided by Nana's written directions that she had left for Natsume, luckily it also included a map with identifiable markings to make sure that they were going to the correct location.

They arrived close the the designated sign. Kai was debating on letting Natsume and Nyanko-sensei enter the house by themselves. "I'm sure it's fine." Natsume said with a gentle smile. "Don't worry about us, why don't you find the others?" He suggested. "I'm sure that they would love to know where the house is." A little sarcasm was inserted when he said "love." Kai let go of Natsume's hand and was about to walk off when they heard the sound of a bomb going off in the house.

Pink smoke was coming out of one of the windows. A loud cry of "Romeo" was heard before the door was quickly opened and shut. A teen with black hair and green eyes came out, he was wearing a cow-print shirt, which Natsume quickly noticed. The teen started to run out of the front yard and stopped when he noticed Natsume. "You haven't changed a bit." He whispered in wondered. Natsume had a confused look in his face, not recognizing the teen.

Before Natsume could respond, the front door opened once again to reveal a young woman with long pink hair and goggles covering her eyes. "Romeo!" She cried. "Die!" With that she hurled a plate of food that Kai and Nyanko-sensei knew was poison. Both of them threw Natsume on the floor. Kai put up a small barrier in front of them. The three watched as the black haired teen ran away from the house with the pink haired woman after him.

"Are you sure this place is safe?" Kai asked once the three of them were up. Natsume never got the chance to answer as more explosions were heard in the house. There were a mixture of cries, "Hii," "Baseballnut," "Extreme," "Kukuku," and for some reason there was the phrase "bite you to death" mixed in as well as several different times. Finally there was a loud female scream of "Be quite!" before things calmed down.

"You guys, Takashi is going to be here any minute. I don't want him to be freaked out." Tsuna was heard talking.

"It's not too late to run." Nyanko-sensei told Natsume. Natsume's response was a glare in his direction. He walked to the door and politely knocked.

The door was opened by a baby wearing a suit and a fedora. The three of them were on guard as they sensed something off about the person in front of them. Reborn just smiled at the three of them. "Welcome to your new hell." He smirked. "I mean, welcome to your new home Takashi Natsume."