Wow I've been updating more recently…weird…that's what I get for being in a strict internet usage. I'm only using a USB broadband (I don't know wha it's really called) that I sometimes load in that will last me an internet surfing for 24 hours only, and then I have to ask my mom to load the internet again, if she agrees…
Well, that aside, I'm already working on the Ring Battles and the last of the chapters that I am making. I've been having troubles with watching the ring battles over and over again and wording them out while adding something else into the mix. Well, enough spoilers enjoy!
Chapter 3 Shock of a Lifetime
"Ah, I see you are in your last stop of the overview tour," a familiar voice said. Natuski rubbed his eye to make sure he wasn't hallucinating. He was not, unfortunately. He was really seeing his sister on the table of the SC President, sorting out the papers. She seemed to be in a better mood than last night.
"Nee-san, what are you doing here?" he asked.
Tsuna sighed as she went on with the papers, "I am here because our President as gone AWOL again on his duties, and Vice President, Alaude-san, is hunting him down now along with the others," she explained.
"That explains the silence," Fran commented. "Usually you can hear Octopus head-san screaming his lungs out at Yamamoto-san and Turf Head-sempai,"
Natsuki shook his head, "No, why are you here, here? Aren't the SC members only allowed here?" he asked.
Tsuna stared at her little brother for a while before laughing lightly. She was about to answer when a noise was heard from the outside. Fran pulled Natsuki out of the doorway to witness the Student Council President being lifted up like a log by four people and another one following behind. The president was shouting incoherent words until it became clear that he was struggling while saying "Let me go!" repeatedly.
Tsuna then stepped out of the way and prepared the chair of Giotto while the four—Yamamoto, Gokudera, Ryohei and a disguised Mukuro sat him down forcefully.
Then the blond twin of Kyouya stepped in front of the desk while glaring at the president, "You had the nerve of escaping duties recently, Giotto," he scolded.
Tsuna sighed, "Honestly Giotto-nii, you should stop because one way or another, we are going to find you," Tsuna looked at Alaude, "Thank you for the help, Alaude-san."
"Anything for him to get his head back to work. For someone who suggested starting the preparations for two events weeks early, he's always the one who escapes his duties," he said and left the office. Natsuki heard from Fran that the Vice President was not very sociable like his twin, and he only shows up when the need arises, a.k.a. on some meetings and when the President escapes his duties.
Tsuna then turned to the escapee, "You know, you shouldn't go around while your duties are unfinished," she scolded again, "And we have a visitor," she introduced, "Everyone, the new student, my younger twin, Sawada Natsuki,"
Yamamoto and the rest of them noticed the silence and the tongue tied Natsuki. Since his job was to take people out of their shock anyways as the cheery Sports Committee head, he decided to break his shocked trance, "Haha! Didn't know that Tsuna is a member of the SC?" he mused. "Well, now you know. I'm Yamamoto Takeshi by the way," he said.
Natsuki looked at the cheery black haired man. 'So he is the baseball star of the academy,' he thought. "Ah…um…"
"Baseball idiot, let him go. He gets worse when you are near. Your stupidity is getting contagious," lectured Gokudera.
Yamamoto just laughed, "Come on Gokudera, there is no such thing. Even I know it's not true,"
'Gokudera Hayato? Is he really The Smoking Bomb Hayato? What is he doing here in Namimori? Last I heard from Bianchi-san, he ran away and left the country a few years back…could it be that he moved here?' Natsuki's mind was racing. How the hell did a Mafiosi get here? "Smoking Bomb…"
Gokudera feigned surprise, and so did Tsuna and the others. He must not know, at all costs, that they were dead aware of the life of her brother, "Gokudera-kun, what is he talking about?" she wondered.
Gokudera continued the act, "Ah, nothing Hime-sama. He must have mistaken me for someone else," he said as he shot the boy with a shut-up-eye.
Giotto then stood up, "Well then, welcome to Nami-Private Academy, cousin, and long time no see," he then looked at Tsuna, "And I see you have already seen your sister in action. With her being the Secretary, I have nothing to fear,"
Tsuna pouted at Giotto, "That still doesn't give you reason to disappear every now and then," she received a sheepish laugh from the blond.
Then it registered on Natsuki, and his thoughts were proven when he saw something on his sister's left arm. It was the armband of the Disciplinary Committee. "Wait…if Nee-san is the Secretary of the SC…" he looked at Fran, "And on what you told me earlier about this Mediator person being the secretary of both power organizations…then…"
Tsuna patted her brother on the back, "Yup. I'm the one they call Mediator."
This time, Natsuki was really dumbfounded. Giotto could feel the reaction of the younger Sawada, and decided that the two needed their alone time. "Well, carry on with the work, the rest of you. Tsuna and Natsuki have some talking to do," he said as he shoved the two out of the office.
All he could hear from the room was some goodbyes and then the next thing he knew, they were at the rooftop garden located at the East Wing of the school. It looked like some kind of replica of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
"Took you a while to know what I am in the school," Tsuna said to him.
Natsuki grunted, "Well if you hadn't been the Dame-Tsuna that you were back then, I would have guessed otherwise," he stated.
Tsuna's face gave out nothing and kept on smiling, "Well, I have to make most of my life while you were gone. To hell with what our father does, I think I should at least become an adult. I have to step up if I want to do something with my life. I don't want anyone to dictate my life."
Something hit Natsuki but he paid no heed to it. "Wait until Dad hears about this. Another thing, Mom was aware right? Why didn't you tell either of us?" he wondered.
It was then when Tsuna's cold eyes lit up for a good five seconds. "I don't want that man to know. If he should, he should figure it out himself. That's what he gets for leaving me and Mom behind for work while taking you into his work escapades. I'm starting to think he's not working on oil mills after the last postcard he sent. It was a picture of the South Pole complete with penguins." She snorted, "Have you ever thought how stupid I would be if I believed that there was oil in that place? Please."
Natsuki laughed lightly. "That stupid postcard was merely a joke," he reasoned. "But Mom knew that it was a sign that he's just fine,"
Tsuna ignored that explanation, "Whatever. For me, he's just an ass who prioritizes his work more than his family. If he loves work more, then he shouldn't have gotten married to the most wonderful woman," she said.
When she looked at her brother's shocked and sad face, she shook her head and changed the subject, "So, what made you transfer?" she wondered as she looked at the flowers that grew there. She remembered when this was built for the beautification project of the school. Giotto gave the gardening club full reins on the greenhouse of the school. It really has been replicated into the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. "As far as I know, you are not in trouble that made you expelled there,"
Natsuki scratched his head as he tried to find an excuse. Clearly she wants a straight answer, but how could he when his real task was to find potential guardians? Although even though he already found potential in one Gokudera Hayato, he has a hunch that she will not let go of her friend that easily, more so on winning the loyalty of the silver haired teen. "Umm…well…it's kind of hard to explain…"
"I'm all ears," Tsuna urged. But she knew what his intentions are the moment she saw the letter last week about him coming back.
"He is looking for family members," Reborn suddenly popped out of nowhere and hopped onto Natsuki's spiky head. "Ciaossu,"
Tsuna greeted him with a radiant smile, which surprised Reborn nonetheless. "Oh, the baby you brought with you," she greeted. "I'm sorry if I snapped at you two last night. I was a little stressed out and there were a lot to take care of at that time," she apologized. She then looked at Natsuki, hearing that her guess was at the perfect mark. But to keep up with the act, she had to act clueless of the mafia world. "So, what is this about finding family members? You're too young to look for a wife, and I don't want to be an aunt at this age," she joked.
Natsuki sputtered at what she said, "Of course not! What you are thinking is wrong!"
"Then what is it? Reborn said that you are here to look for family members." She said. It was then when she decided to take the older sister approach. "Natsuki. Tell me, are you getting associated with the yakuza?" she demanded. "If not, are you associating with something that I will not be happy about?"
Then the bell rang indicating that the students have fifteen minutes to return to classes. Tsuna turned to her brother, still posing as a curious sister, "We will talk about this later. Get to class. I have free time today and I need it to work on the Student Council," she said and left the rooftop.
When the door closed, Natsuki sighed in relief. "Thank god, that was close! I thought I would end up spilling the beans on her!"
Reborn hit him on the head, "Baka. She has the right to get a hint, but I never thought she would be as closer to the truth," he stated. "Which makes it all the more fun," he added.
Natsuki stared at him in disbelief, "It's not amusing to me!"
Reborn sighed, "Your sister is more composed than you, I can tell," he said. "I heard about her when you and that Fran boy lead you to the office. A surprising revelation, I might say," he commented. "The Mediator of the power organizations...to think she was originally the secretary of the Disciplinary Committee. I bet she can fight if she holds that kind of original rank in her,"
"Yeah I get you," Natsuki replied. "I was surprised that Nee-san transformed into someone like that in the course of five years,"
"Which makes her somehow, the more likeable candidate for the title," he smirked.
Natsuki shot a look at Reborn, "Hey, I thought Ninth would keep her out of the mafia business if I should accept the title against Xanxus?"
"Oh yes, the Ninth did," he transformed Leone into a gun, "You have less than fifteen minutes to return to class or get shot with your Dying Will!" he shouted.
It was enough to see the boy to scramble and scream right out of the rooftop to his class three floors below.
Reborn watched his student escaping the point of his gun. It has been three months since he was assigned to be the official tutor of the Vongola heir, but he couldn't ignore the fact that his sister has something that he was interested in knowing. According to Iemitsu, the girl was timid and shy. But from when he met her, she had a headstrong attitude and a bit, if not, a lot of resentment towards the men in their family particularly Iemitsu. He has been interested in her more when he found out her reputation in the school.
Turning Leone into a phone, he dialed a familiar number. Three rings later, it was answered.
"Iemitsu here," the voice answered.
"We need to talk about your daughter," Reborn cut to the chase.
A grunt came from the other line, "What about Tsuna?" he wondered in a serious tone.
"She seems to be more than meets the eye," he informed, "Oh, and your information is outdated," he added.
"What do you mean outdated? Which information? Is it the house address?" Iemitsu said.
Reborn wanted to reach to the other line with a Leone Mallet. "No you idiot. I mean the information on your daughter is outdated,"
"That's impossible." He said.
"A lot can happen in five years Iemitsu," he stated. "I don't have much information yet, but if my impression on her improves, then maybe we have to undergo a change of succession," he suggested. "Instead of two candidates, there is a great possibility that it would be three."
"But that won't be possible unless she claims it, right?" Iemitsu said with a hopeful voice.
"You're right. But I don't think it would not be too long before she finds out for herself and decide to take the reins that was originally meant for her,"
…
Natsuki got to his classroom in record time, with two minutes to spare. There he saw Fran already in his seat, reading a book called, Ways to Survive Your Weird Master' which he found rather weird. Fran noticed his presence, "Hey. Had a good time talking with Hime-sama?"
Natsuki went to his desk and grunted, "Why didn't you tell me that my sister was the Mediator?" he demanded.
Fran just kept on his bored face, "She said that it would be better if you find out for yourself." He replied, "Anyway, I ran into Hime-sama earlier, and she said that you could go home ahead of her. We have some things to take care of later," he informed.
Natsuki raised a brow, "I thought you were just in the Errand Committee? And why are you calling my Nee-san 'Hime-sama' when you called her Mediator-san earlier?"
Fran sighed as he closed the book, "Hime-sama didn't tell me that you are full of questions. Just because I am in the Errand Committee, doesn't mean we have more free time. There are complicated things that happen in the office, I can tell you that, and Hibari-san is not doing anything to make it less complicated than it is. We call her Hime-sama because we want to. Even some of the prefects call her that. It was first instigated by Gokudera Hayato, a.k.a. Octopus head-san, and then we adapted to it as a sign of respect. She was the only one who could talk to Hibari-san properly, and she is the most treasured only female in the Committee. If someone even dares to step on her, either she would retaliate by blackmailing them or the DC fixes the problem, if you know what I mean. The rest of the students only call her Mediator Sawada and the works, but never 'Hime-sama' because that title calling is only reserved for the ones in her inner circle, the prefects, if they want to, and her unwanted fan club. Her close friends still calls her Tsuna, except for Gokudera-san. The reason why I didn't call her that earlier was because you didn't know who the Mediator is yet,"
"Oh…" Natsuki managed to let out. Who knew that his sister had this kind of potential? He had to thank the person who talked some sense into her.
…
Meanwhile at the Reception Room, Kyouya sneezed loudly.
Kusakabe and Tsuna who were helping him sort out some necessary work. Well, Kusakabe that is, because Tsuna was busy with her own part of the work for the SC and half for the DC. She just decided that she would work there instead of the office because of the ruckus being made by her cousin and Kyouya's older twin on lecturing him about presidents who leaves their work when they were the ones who started them in the first place. And the word ruckus was such an understatement in describing how the two do it. It was a good thing that no one comes to the office very much. Kyouya never bothered to bust them, since it would be troublesome and it would end up scarring his men for life.
So when the Disciplinary Chairman sneezed, the two others in the room were concerned.
"Have you caught a cold Kyou-san?" Kusakabe asked.
Kyouya grunted, "Don't be ridiculous. I don't get colds…" he defended.
"Cold! Cold!" Hibird chirped as it sat itself on a small cushion on the prefect's desk.
Tsuna then smirked playfully, "Then could it be the outcome of our activity last night?" she asked innocently.
Kyouya flinched looked at her playful face. He had some suspicion that her way of misleading people was taught by Daemon. But then, her evolvement under him also attracted him to her. How long have they been together? Noticing that his guard was falling, he shrugged when Kusakabe gave him a disbelieving look, which he replied with a look saying that he is misunderstanding, "Still no Tsunarumi," he said.
Tsuna smiled as she turned back to her own work, "Hmm…then maybe someone is either talking or thinking about you," she guessed. "And I know it's not me,"
Kyouya just grunted and returned to his work. There was so much to do, what with checking some inspection papers of the things that the students use at school to make sure that nothing goes wrong. If there is somehow a change in the report, no matter how little, they had to make sure that everything goes smoothly.
Tsuna smiled at the brief vulnerability of the Head Prefect. He really taught her too much for her own good, but it worked to her advantage every time. When Kusakabe excused himself to go to the file room, her phone rang, "Hello?"
"Tsuna, it's me," Giotto's hoarse voice said. She could tell what had transpired of the lecture with Alaude.
Tsuna smirked, "Did you enjoy your lecture, Kaichou?" she teased.
The blond man stuttered as she said that. "Um…you can go back now," was his only reply before he hung up.
Tsuna pocketed her phone and straightened out her files. "Well, their lecture is done, so I should be getting back now," she bid Kyouya.
"Tsunarumi," Kyouya called, "Come here,"
Smiling, Tsuna went to the Head Prefect on his desk and leaned in. Kyouya took this chance to capture her lips by his. Tsuna loved the taste of the prefect when he was kissing her. Sure they hadn't progressed to a higher stage in their relationship because of their priorities, but their make-out sessions and dates make it all the while bearable.
Pulling out from the kiss with her cheeks a little flushed, she smiled brightly again. Kyouya looked at her with loving eyes that she only has the privilege to see, "I'll see you on Saturday for the Special Day then," he said.
Tsuna nodded as she went out of the office after one last peck on the lips of the prefect. Smiling to herself now, she wondered, what would his brother think if he ever finds out that he was dating the most feared prefect of the school…?
"Well, I guess I better prepare my camera when that happens," she said as she skipped happily to the office.
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