Yosh! Here's the fourth chapter of my fic. Please, enjoy!
Some notes: This is "talking" and this is thinking, just to clear out some misunderstanding. And English is my second language, bow.
DISCLAIMER: DGM and KHR are not mine, thank you.
DGM-KHR
Tsuna looked around the surroundings with her hazel nut eyes wide and her mouth opened. She stared at the place like for 30 minutes, gaping at every sight which caught her eyes.
"W-Wow…" she whispered.
It's strange.
It's different.
It's weird.
But mostly strange.
Strange because this is not what she was expecting. She was still in state of wonder and confusion, to what brought her in this kind of place and the akuma incident a while ago. And to add the bewilderment she already encountered….
This town.
Houses and establishments which are made of woods and brick stones. The people are wearing different, to be exact, old fashioned clothes. Carriages and landaus were passing proudly here and there. Everything looks… old.
It's like an old Europe.
Just like what the history books always illustrate and what the foreign movies which features old movies. Even with the anime that has a theme of old Europe, it's all exactly the same. Tsuna looked around once more just to make sure her eyes were not playing tricks on her. It's really strange to see this kind of town in territory of Japan. Is she in place were foreigners lives homely here in Japan and was given permission to build their own community with their liking of old culture? Or maybe, this town is celebrating a festival, like a Japan-Europe friendship day of sort, to the point of building a temporary old europey structures for the spirit of festival. Even dressing and acting like one!
No, Tsuna's inner self is contradicting her own thoughts. All of these europey fetishes look so real that the brunette felt it strange somehow. What kind of place is this town that little Sheena lives in? Sure she knows she came in a different place but to this extent of difference is beyond her knowledge, or so Tsuna thought.
Where really am I? she kept asking to herself, hoping she was still in Japan.
"Is there something wrong, Sawada-chan?" Lenalee suddenly called her attention, snapping Tsuna out of her confused thoughts.
"N-Nothing really…" Tsuna trailed off warily, eyes uneasy to these strange surroundings around her.
"It's just that…" continued the brunette, didn't know if she should tell Lenalee what's on her mind. Besides, there are lots of question she wanted to ask also.
Lenalee was looking at her in wonder. "Sawada-chan?"
"A-Ano…"
"That's my house!" Sheena's voice rang out of the blue, startling both Tsuna and Lenalee. The asian girls shifted their peripherals to the said house. In front of them is a house big as the Sawada's own house back in Namimori. A garden with flowers that Tsuna thought Malaysian mums is laid out before the house and a wooden fence surrounds the house lot which serves as the gate.
Old, as Tsuna thought.
"I live at that house with my grandma and cousin!" Sheena said proudly.
"That's a pretty house, Sheena." Lenalee commented.
Sheena grinned at that. "Come in!"
And so, they walked through the lawn until they reached the said house. Sheena knocked first before opening the door.
"I'm home, grandma!" she shouted, letting the other guests entered the house and Tsuna was amazed at what she saw.
Very classic.
Upon closing the door, one operation knife came flying and went straight to the door that almost touched Allen's ear. All of them were completely shocked especially now the now sweating white haired Allen. He gulped at the knife that greeted him warmly.
"SHEENA!" a voice of an old woman then rang out all over the house, shocking the quartet once more. And a door in front of them suddenly opened with a loud bang, showing an old woman with a green veil around her upper body and was holding a cane. She was wearing a scary irate face almost near to a witch.
"Where in the tarnation have you gone?!" shouted the old woman. "Do you really want me to have a nervous breakdown?!" and she slammed the end of her cane hardly on the floor making them cringed nervously.
"I-I-I-I'm sorry, grandma…" said Sheena as she clutched Tsuna's skirt.
"Sheena!" another slam of cane and another cringe from the quartet making Nuts snuggled his self under Tsuna's hair and Timcanppy hid inside Allen's hood. The scary old woman started walking forward while they moved backwards until their back hit the door behind them.
"Where did you go? You know there are so many of them here in our town!" continued the old woman with the tone of mad, nervous and worried.
Them?
Tsuna suddenly paused when she heard this old woman said the word and it bothered her somehow.
"I'm sorry, grandma!" Sheena finally cried out, breaking Tsuna's thoughts. "I got lost in the forest when I was looking for gooseberries! And then the monster came and chased after me! Please, forgive me!" confessed the poor young girl and buried her face on Tsuna's skirt.
"What?!"
"U-Uhm… M-Madame-!" Allen somehow found his voice but he lost it again and got panic at the raining of operation knives going straight to them, courtesy of the friendly old witch by the way. Of course, they quickly evaded those knives successfully. The quartet thought they were safe but they felt the menacing dark aura from the old woman and saw how she transformed into a real scary witch.
"Come here, you twerp!" she exclaimed with a promise of nightmare forever. Sheena cried out of fear, Tsuna made a small 'hiiee' sound and Lenalee prayed for their lives.
"Do-Do not worry, Madame!" Allen finally found his courage lost in his snowy hair, halting the woman.
"We saved your granddaughter a while ago so you don't have to worry anymore!" he stammered explaining, hoping the witch heard him loud and clear. The said witch became human again and stared at them with surprisingly blank face then her eyes landed on Allen and Lenalee which her gaze became hard suddenly.
"He's right, grandma. They saved me from the monster." said the young girl also. She never leaves her eyes to Allen and Lenalee making the saviors sweat coldly.
"Okay, I believe you." spoke the old woman in calm voice.
Eh, just like that? That got them wondering but Lenalee and Allen sighed in relief. Tsuna made a sideway glance to their saviors then to the old woman, finding it strange at the quick change of reaction from the old woman.
"Come here, Sheena!" said the old woman and the little girl complied but her grandma smacked her head with that cane. "Don't do that again."
Said the teary eyed little girl only nodded, holding her big lump on her head. The three teens sweat dropped at the sight.
"I forgot, grandma!" Sheena suddenly exclaimed and walked back to Tsuna, pulling the brunette nigh to her grandma. "She got hurt when she protected me from the monster! Please, tend her wound." Sheena grabbed Tsuna's wounded hand and showed it to her grandma.
"Leave that to me." nodded the old woman and turned around. "Let's go inside."
Sheena pulled the brunette inside and the others followed them behind.
DGM-KHR
They were inside the clinic and the old woman is now tending Tsuna's wound carefully. The clinic has a scent of herbs and some chemicals making them feel like they were really in a hospital.
"Thank you for saving Sheena. I'm relieved that you were with her the whole time." said Sheena's grandma while putting a bandage around Tsuna's hand.
"It's nothing, Madame." Allen replied politely. The old woman is done with the brunette's hand and looked at her.
"And thank you for protecting my little girl." she smiled for the first time. Tsuna only smiled back in strain and nodded her head.
"By the way, I'm Lina. This girl's grandma and the only doctor of this town." she introduced herself to them as she patted Sheena's head fondly.
"Nice to meet you, Madame Lina. I'm Allen Walker." Allen bowed politely to Lina.
"And I'm Lenalee Lee." Lenalee did the same thing also.
"And we are ex—" said Allen but he was cut in mid-sentence by the old woman.
"I know who you are. There are few like you who come here in our town once in a while." said Lina with a knowing look.
Allen and Lenalee exchanged glances then shared that same knowing smile. That got Tsuna wondering more, she furrowed her brows as she looked back to Lina. The old woman knew something and has the knowledge about these two saviors here.
"And you are?" Lina turned to Tsuna, who was startled.
"I'm Sawada Tsunayoshi. Pleased to meet you, Madame Lina." said Tsuna as she bowed respectfully.
"You have a funny name." Lina suddenly commented, giving Tsuna that look. Again, the brunette felt someone threw a rock on her head from somewhere. Tsuna then sulked on her chair while muttering why.
"Sawada-chan?" Lenalee tapped Tsuna's shoulder, having sweat drops on her head. Having such weird name for a girl is a thing that needs explanation. Shrugging off the thoughts, the chinese girl once again looked at her partner, Allen, who was busy chuckling every now and then while watching Sheena defends herself from the head eater known as cane that her grandma was trying to whack on the girl. Lenalee smiled at the sight.
Suddenly, the door was slammed open and another blonde girl with brown eyes came rushing in.
"Grandma! Sheena's missi—!" shouted the older blonde but stopped right away when one operation knife went past to her and got stuck on the wall.
"Don't you know how to knock?!" Lina shouted back while the others sprung away safe good meters from the scary grandmother.
"Grandma! How many times do I have to tell you not to throw your knives on people so casually?! Besides, that's for surgery purposes!" the new girl yelled again.
"Don't you dare shout at me! I'm your grandmother, show some respect!" the old woman stood and slammed her cane loudly on the floor "And haven't I told you to take care of your cousin?!"
"I am!"
"How so? Sheena was almost caught by them and I saw you hiding in Fusheman's bushes just to see your crush 30 minutes ago! Don't deny it!"
The girl blushed furiously. "D-Don't say it aloud! The neighbors might hear you! It's embarrassing!"
"What's the difference? Half of the town knows you're in love with that clumsy boy!"
"He's not clumsy and stop shouting!"
"I said don't yell at your grandmother!"
"Grandma!"
"Should we interfere?" Lenalee asked carefully, watching them on their shouting contest. Though, she herself didn't want to.
"I don't think so…" answered Allen, smiling uneasily. "We might get sliced in half by Madame Lina's knife."
"Is this really okay?" Tsuna looked over to Sheena. Said the girl glanced up to them and grinned only.
"Don't worry, this happens everyday." remarked Sheena and they stared at her in disbelief.
"Everyday?" Lenalee was awed.
"Don't they get tired?" asked Allen.
"I can relate." Tsuna commented, remembering a certain octopus head and lawn head. Thrown in the loudest shark ever and you won't need an alarm clock.
"…hungry?"
Another knife came flying to the teenagers, shocking them again out of their thoughts. All eyes turned to the scary old woman.
"I'm asking if you kids were hungry." asked Lina casually.
"Grandma!" her granddaughters chided loudly.
Don't throw knives when asking a simple question! The trio mentally screamed.
"Tina." Lina turned to the older blonde named Tina. "Prepare lunch for them."
"Yes, grandma." Tina nodded.
"Madame Lina, don't bother!" Lenalee hastily said, abashed at the kindness that the old woman wanted to offer. "Please, don't worry. We're ok—ay…"
Growl.
All of them looked at the source of that familiar sound. Allen scratched his head sheepishly.
"S-Sorry! I heard lunch so my stomach…" he said shyly while touching his tummy.
"Then it's settle, you'll have lunch here." stated the Madame.
Allen turned pink. "B-But, Madame! You really don't need to bother. We can eat in a restaurant outside. Besides, I have a large appetite." he reasoned out.
"That's okay, I like kids with large stomachs." she insisted.
"B-But…" Lenalee wanted to protest more but a knife flung to their direction which they dodged quickly. Okay, no more protest. All heads nodded at the scary Madame.
"Good." Lina smiled.
DGM-KHR
When Allen said he has a large appetite — it was an understatement. It should be exaggeratedly large.
The ladies minus Lenalee, gaped incredulously in awe and shock at Allen, who's having his 39th plate of beef steak right now. On the other side of his current plate are also plates, piled up and ready to be washed anytime. Another amazing sight is Timcanppy, because the little golden one wasn't any different to his owner. They didn't know if the two large eaters were having a contest of who's going to finish first or who can eat more steak.
"Another one, please!" Allen exclaimed, giving his now clean plate to Tina. The older blonde girl took the empty plate and gave the 40th plate of steak to Allen, speechless at the british boy.
"Wow." Tsuna voiced out. She have never seen a person who can eat 40 plates of steak in one strike. Allen can even beat the sumo wrestlers very smoothly!
"So you're not lying when you said you have a large appetite." said Lina, chuckling and amused at Allen's eating behavior.
"Sorry." Lenalee smiled wryly. "He just likes food a bit."
"A bit?" Tsuna stared at her ridiculously. How could she say that where Allen here-eating-his-42th-plate-of-steak can star struck the Guinness World of Record? It's really an understatement!
"You're amazing, Big Allen!" Sheena cheered out gleefully to the albino, who thumbs up to her with his mouth full.
"I still can't believe that there is a person like him who can eat as much as this." said Tina as she sat on her chair for the first time. The older blonde sighed, she was having a hard time a while ago whether she should wash all the plates Allen used or cook many steaks because every minute he would always call for another one.
"Well, it's not a surprise actually to see him like this, considering at the type that he is." Lenalee remarked, giving them an odd smile. Tsuna now looked at the chinese girl, wondering again.
Type?
Another confusing word in her ears and Lenalee said it as if it was a normal thing to say to people. It is strange to see and hear these things around her. And she's wondering why these people she have only meet hours ago were acting so carefree as if it was nothing to be observe about. Tsuna thought she had gotten used at the singularity that she always meet since Reborn came to her life. But right now…. (Tsuna stared at these people before her) Why is it that everything seems wrong despite the normalcy presented to her? The brunette is very distraught inside for some reason she couldn't quite understand. Tsuna shrugged off the thoughts, she was thinking too much. Maybe because she got transported here in this kind of weird place via mysterious door and the akuma incident a while ago that she's seeing it strange. Sighing, she then just continue to eat her steak.
DGM-KHR
Done again! How's this chapter? Please, tell me what's on your mind. I know it's kind of short and the outline is a bit confusing. But since Tsuna has always been the slow poke little tuna, I intended to make her realize her situation bit by bit. After all, it's one of Tsuna's characteristics that we find so cute. ^_^
Tiger723: Thanks for reviewing again! About Lavi and Kanda, I'll make them appear in later chapters so it will take long for you to see them meet Tsuna. Just asking for your patience, though (hehe).
Ja ne!