Kyandi: And I'm back! Sorry, I had to take a nap.
Roksana: Laying down at four a.m. does not make it a nap.
Kyandi: It does if you only sleep three hours.
Roksana: Yeah...sure.
Kyandi: Anyway, I'm going to post this and then I'm back off to dream world for a while.
Roksana: But then we'll be back with another chapter for you.
Kyandi: Yep! So everyone please enjoy and review.
Roksana: Kyandi-sama does not own Katekyo Hitman Reborn!
Chapter 4 Testing
The next few days went by as normal. Well...for Roksana. For Tsuna...not so much. Coming home from school one day, he found Reborn talking with the Cavallone Family's tenth boss, Dino. The young man greeted Tsuna as Reborn's former pupil. Dino, by the end of the day, was calling Tsuna, his sworn brother. Tsuna had no idea on how to handle any of it. At dinner that night, Dino told Tsuna he could ask him anything about being a boss. Tsuna couldn't think of anything to ask him.
"Oh yeah, do you have a family yet, Tsuna?" Dino asked.
"Right now, there are Gokudera and Yamamoto. Also a few candidates; Hibari, Sasagawa Ryohei, and..."
"They are just my friends and seniors!" Tsuna yelled, cutting Reborn off.
"Oh, and Volkov just joined too." Reborn added, ignoring Tsuna.
"Volkov? That doesn't sound Japanese." Dino remarked.
"Volkov is half Japanese, half Russian." Reborn replied.
"That's just another friend!" Tsuna insisted.
Reborn acted like he didn't hear Tsuna. Then again, he did that all of the time. While Roksana had agreed to join, Tsuna really couldn't think of her as a member of a mafia family anymore than he could the rest of his friends. Especially not Roksana since she was the daughter of an up-standing, Russian politician.
"But why did you come to a person like me, Reborn? You seemed to be doing just fine with Dino-san." Tsuna remarked.
"Vongolia is the center of our allied families. That's why it gets priority above all others in every aspect." Dino answered.
"Eeeh!? The Vongolia is that influential!?" Tsuna asked, shocked.
"That's right." Reborn confirmed.
"I'm even more scared." Tsuna muttered.
"Oh, Dino-kun. My, my, you spilled your food." Tsuna's mother remarked suddenly.
Sure enough, a small mess of rice lay on the table in front of Dino. According to Reborn, without his men around, Dino could barely function at half his usual standard. Dino insisted that it was just because he was use to forks and knives verses chopsticks and wasn't well versed in the use of chopsticks. As the night went on and Dino's turtle, Enzio, got into the bathtub, growing about ten times his normal size, it was proven that Dino really couldn't function well without his men around.
Instead of whipping Enzio with his bull whip, he whipped Tsuna.
In the end, Reborn had Leon jump on Tsuna's face, changing his face to match that of one of Dino's men. Snapping out of his state of uselessness, Dino managed to take care of Enzio and, after being blow dried, the turtle returned to his original size.
Only for Dino to fall down the stairs the next morning.
"I'm leaving." Tsuna called, as he hurried out his front door for school. "Crap! I over-slept because of that incident with Dino-san's turtle."
Tsuna froze at his gate when he found Dino's men in the street beyond, some polishing guns, others checking their sights on their guns. Hearing the commotion, Dino stuck his head out the front door, still half asleep.
"Why are you guys here? I didn't ask you to pick me up." Dino remarked.
"No one came to pick you up, boss." one man said.
"I was just taking a stroll and ended up here." another said, several of the others agreeing with him.
"From the hotel in front of the train station?" Dino asked, obviously not buying it.
Tsuna laughed a little to himself. He couldn't help but think that Dino was well loved by his men. Even if their protectiveness of him was a little annoying to Dino, it just meant that they really cared about him and his well being. Tsuna was suddenly jolted when Gokudera appeared beside him, calling a loud and cheerful greeting.
"I woke up too early so I was wandering around and ended up here." Gokudera said, feeding Tsuna an excuse similar to the one that Dino's men tried to feed him.
Tsuna didn't buy it anymore than Dino had.
"Anyway, these guys here...who are they?" Gokudera asked, looking around at Dino's men.
"Hey, smoking-bomb brat! It's our first time meeting, right?" Dino asked, leaning on the wall next to Tsuna.
"That tattoo...Bucking Horse Dino." Gokudera said, seeing the tattoo on Dino's arm.
He was a little surprised to find the man at Tsuna's house but that surprise soon turned to annoyance when he heard Yamamoto call out to them seconds before grabbing both Gokudera and Tsuna around the shoulders.
"What are you guys doing? You're gonna be late! Roksana is probably already at school wondering where we are." Yamamoto said.
Yamamoto called a cheerful greeting to Dino before dragging Tsuna and Gokudera after him down the street. Gokudera complained the whole way, trying to get him to let go of him. Dino watched them, Reborn perching on the wall beside him. Not long after they vanished down the street, Roksana came from the opposite direction. She cast a glance at the men around the street before her eyes locked on Reborn. Dino stared at the girl as she came to a stop before Reborn.
"Has Tsuna left yet?" Roksana asked.
Reborn pointed down the street. Roksana glanced that way before turning back to Reborn, thanking him in Russian. Pinattsu popped her head up out of Roksana's shirt, shocking Dino as the squirrel looked up at him, raising her nose to sniff the air. Roksana didn't pay attention to it as she turned and hurried after them, her pale hair dancing out behind her. She spared Dino a glance over her sunglasses as she passed and then she was gone down the street.
"That's Volkov." Reborn told Dino.
"A girl!?" Dino asked.
"A dancer with naturally good reflexes and flexibility and training in multiple styles of marital arts. She's the daughter of a Russian politician, but it doesn't seem to matter much." Reborn told him.
Dino glanced off the way Roksana had gone, chasing her friends, humming to himself as she went. She didn't seem like much at first glance, but appearances never meant much.
"So that's Tsuna's family...a bunch of children." Dino remarked.
"You seem concerned." Reborn observed.
"Of course. After all, it's about the family of the sworn brother who reminds me of my past." Dino replied.
"So, what do you think? Usable?" Reborn asked.
"Maybe. The most important thing for a family is trust. As long as I don't see that, I don't approve them." Dino remarked.
"Then why don't you test them out?" Reborn suggested.
"Test?"
That gave Dino a good idea.
A very good idea.
An idea that Reborn was sure would get the man killed by Roksana.
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Roksana managed to catch up with the three boys, greeting them with a wave. When they hadn't shown up at their usual meeting place at their usual time, she had worried a bit and had gone in search of the three. It seemed they had just been running late. Which she preferred to any other reasons for being delayed.
As she fell into step with the three, Gokudera went on to tell Tsuna what he knew of Dino. Roksana figured, from the description she got, that that was the man she had seen with Reborn. She was a little shocked when she was told, roughly, how old Dino was. She had been thinking more along the late teenage years, rather than an adult. The air around him just didn't scream adult to her.
She listened in on the conversation, interested when Gokudera explained how Dino had built his family up after it had nearly been ruined by the previous boss. From the description, this Dino man sounded like a mas of passable intelligence. Or, at least, a man who cared those who served under him. She could respect that kind of man.
Grudgingly, but she could.
"Oh, Dino-san did?" Tsuna asked, looking at Gokudera.
"Yeah. He rebuilt the family's financial structure that was ruined by the previous generation. The Cavallone family has the third most influential power within the alliance." Gokudera told him.
"I wasn't aware it took so much management skills to be a boss." Roksana remarked.
She sounded awed, making Gokudera grit his teeth in annoyance. He had come to realized that it took a lot to actually awe Roksana and then, even when she was awed, she never really let others know she was. That she was not only awed, but sounded it, meant that she was really amazed by Dino. And that annoyed him. He shrugged it off though as if none of it really bothered him.
"Either way, I don't like him." Gokudera said, sourly.
"Eh...w-why?" Tsuna asked.
"Anyone older than me is an enemy." Gokudera replied darkly.
"Hayato...I'm older than you."
Gokudera's jaw dropped then, the cigarette in his mouth falling to the ground as he turned to look at Roksana, who was peering over her sunglasses at him. He stumbled over his words, not sure how to get it out. He hadn't know she was older.
"Your birthday is in September, right?" Roksana asked.
Gokudera nodded. Idly, he wondered how she knew that, but he didn't question it at the moment, his head still reeling from the realization that she was older than him.
"Mine's in February. That makes me over half a year older than you." Roksana said before leaning around him. "Your birthday's in April, right, Takeshi? That means you're older than him too."
Yamamoto grinned, nodding to confirm that his birthday was in Apirl. Gokudera just found himself thinking that he had known there was something else about Yamamoto that he didn't like. Roksana nudged Gokudera in the side with one elbow when she saw the sour look on his face.
"You want to know something that'll cheer you up?" she asked.
"Yeah sure." he replied.
"Technically speaking...I'm only four and a half."
All three boys froze in their tracks, turning to stare at Roksana. There was no way in hell she was only four and a half! Roksana laughed as she looked at them, her hands going to her hips. It was the most cheerful laugh they had seen from her since she had come to their school and it shook her shoulders, lighting up her face with cheer.
"I was born on a leap year." Roksana explained.
The boys stared at her, silence spreading between. She was the half Japanese daughter of a Russian politician, had a Sectoral Heterochromia, and now they found out she had been born on a leap year to boot. This girl...
"You just get stranger and stranger, don't you?" Gokudera said bluntly.
Roksana just laughed. Back home, surrounded by people who believed in old folk lore and myths, she had been considered pretty unlucky. Yamamoto just laughed it off and after a little surprise at just how odd it was, Gokudera and Tsuna pretty much waved it off. Roksana could not begin to put into words how thankful she was for that.
They continued walking, Gokudera assuring Roksana that just because she was a little older than him didn't mean she was his enemy. Roksana waved it off, already sure that she wasn't. If he was going to hold the fact that she was a tiny bit older against her, then he wouldn't be a friend worth having.
"Back to the original subject, though, I have to admit that, as a mafia boss, this Dino seems to be pretty good. At least with the work he's done for his own family." Roksana remarked, making Gokudera grumble unhappily.
"Hey, Tsuna. She just said something about mafia." Yamamoto remarked.
Tsuna tense, freaking out. Though he had already agreed to being apart of the family, Yamamoto was cheerfully oblivious to the whole mafia things. Something that Roksana found both amusing and confusing at the same time. How did someone, when confronted with guns, fights, and other things, remain so oblivious? And he was completely so. Which he proved with his next sentence.
"That's a weird company name." Yamamoto said with a grin.
"I wonder about how your brain functions, Takeshi." Roksana remarked.
Yamamoto gave her a questioning look, but she didn't explain the remark. The sound of a fast approaching car had Gokudera pulling Roksana's arm to yank her out of the way. A slim, dark colored car came to a screeching halt next to them. It was definitely a foreign affair and a bit guady in Roksana's point of view.
That being said...her step-mother had a car just like it.
Roksana, Gokudera, and Yamamoto all three tensed when a lasso was thrown from the car, hooking around Tsuna and dragging him into the car before it burned rubber and took off. Gokudera and Yamamoto called out for Tsuna.
"They're yakuza called the Momokyokai that controls the area around here."
The three turned to find Reborn standing behind them. When had he gotten there? Roksana questioned his perfect timing, wondering if Reborn had something to do with this. After all...he was always doing something to put Tsuna in danger as a way of testing him.
"Yakuza is Japanese mafia. You middle schoolers won't stand a chance against the adult mafia. Leave it to the police." Reborn told them.
"Like hell I'd leave it to them!" Gokudera snapped.
"I'll leave the cops to you, little boy." Yamamoto added.
The two took off down the street, running the way the car had taken off in. Roksana, though, looked down at Reborn, suspicion in her eyes. Pinattsu poked her head out of her shirt and barked at her. Roksana looked down at the squirrel. She questioned this whole thing. But Yamamoto and Gokudera called back to her, telling her to hurry up. Roksana eyed Reborn once more before turning and hurrying after her friends. It was obvious that she wasn't so convinced. Reborn watched as she vanished after her friends.
"I like that. Their minds are set on rescuing Tsuna. The guys lost their composure, but they're trust-worthy. Not so sure about the girl."
Reborn looked up as Dino, two of his guys dragging a tied up Tsuna between them, appeared out of the very same car that had taken off with Tsuna. Tsuna wasn't happy with the situation.
"What are you doing, Dino-san!?" he demanded.
"Sorry, sorry. I just had to test your family." Dino told him, as he and one of his men worked on untying Tsuna.
"Test?" Tsuna asked.
Dino opened his mouth to reply when suddenly there was a loud slam and the car alarm went off, blaring out loud.
"I knew it!"
Dino jolted, all of them whipping around. Roksana was standing next to the car, a fist resting on the hood and a completely displeased look on her face. She had hit the car, making the alarm blare, and had obviously hit it hard for when she pulled her hand back, the part of the hand that had hit the car, had turned red. Pinattsu was sitting on her shoulder, nose raised in the air. The animal's eyes set on Dino and the squirrel barked.
"Roksana!" Tsuna exclaimed. "Wait, you don't understand!"
But Roksana was already pulling her pole weapon out from under her skirt. A flick of her wrist and the pole snapped together. Tsuna tried to get her to stop but Roksana shot towards Dino, ready to knock his head off in defense of Tsuna. Tsuna, having seen the damage she could do, freaked out and did the first thing he could think of.
"Roksana, freeze!"
Roksana froze on the spot, just a few feet from Dino, ready to attack. That had been a demand. Tsuna had demanded something of her. Even after she had told him to never do that. Tsuna froze when Roksana turned a hard look on him. Somewhere along the way, she had removed her sunglasses and he could now see her twin colored eyes blazing.
"Tsuna...was that an order?" Roksana asked darkly.
Tsuna, now set free from the rope, waved his hands before him. He hurried to explain that he had only done it to stop her because she was misunderstanding something. Roksana's head tilted to the side, one eyebrow going up.
"I'm listening." she said, still not budging from her ready-to-attack pose.
Dino didn't try to move. He was sure she would attack him if he did. Until she had a reason not to attack him, it would be best not to draw her attention anymore than he had to. He didn't want to have to hurt her in defense of himself. Tsuna quickly explained to her that he had never been in danger and that it had just been Dino testing hers, Gokudera's, and Yamamoto's devotion to him. Roksana eyed Tsuna for a moment before relaxing, standing up straight as she pushed the button to return her weapon to its three pole state.
"If you say so, then I'll believe you. I knew something was fishy." Roksana remarked.
"How?" Dino asked, curious as to how she had figured it out when Gokudera and Yamamoto hadn't.
"Simple. I'm a girl. I actually use the muscle between yours ears, you call a brain." Roksana replied, gesturing to her head.
Dino frowned as Tsuna chuckled sheepishly. Okay, so sarcasm was obviously something she did often. When all he did was stare at her, Roksana's hands went to her hips. Apparently some men couldn't take jokes.
"For one, what would the yakuza want with Tsuna? While he might be the next Vongolia boss, here the yakuza don't care about the Italian mafia. They would have no interest in Tsuna who's a middle schooler on top of it all. Not to mention that Pinattsu could smell you in the car. You have a cologne that makes her sneeze." Roksana said.
As if to prove her point, Pinattsu leaned out to sniff at Dino and sneezed, rubbing her nose with a small paw. Roksana pulled a small drawstring pouch out of her pocket, taking a seed out to reward the squirrel for a job well done. She replaced the pouch just to pull out a lollipop. Today's flavor of choice was strawberry cheesecake. She tore the wrapper off, still appearing a little annoyed, and stuck it in her mouth.
Dino was pleasantly surprised. Where Gokudera and Yamamoto had lost their composure and had rushed off without thinking it through, Roksana had instantly mistrusted the situation and had come up with a solution herself, carefully thinking it through and using what was at her disposal. And when she had been presented with a possible enemy, had seen her boss in danger, she had attacked in his defense. She was definitely just as trust worthy as Gokudera and Yamamoto.
"Just so you know...if Hibari gives Tsuna, Hayato, Takeshi, and I crap for being late to school because of this, I'm hunting you down and will let my dog, Maleficent, use you as a chew toy. That boy gives me enough trouble and I'm not going to stand for someone putting my friends in danger on my watch." Roksana told Dino, her eyes reflecting her silently flaring temper.
Dino held his hands out before him. He didn't know who this Hibari was, though he remembered Reborn speaking of him before, but Dino hoped he didn't give Roksana trouble. He had a feeling she would go through with her threat. Dino searched for something to change the subject and finally noticed that her eyes had two different colors in the irises.
"Hey, your eyes have two different colors." Dino pointed out, leaning down into Roksana's face until there was but a few spare inches between their faces.
Bad mistake.
Roksana smacked him upside the head with her folded up pole, making the man crouch down on the spot to rub his abused head. Roksana fished her sunglasses out of her pocket and put them back on, hiding her eyes once more.
"Learn the meaning of personal space, will you. It's inappropriate for a man your age to be that close to a middle school girl like me." Roksana told him.
"My bad." Dino replied.
"Hey, wait! What about Gokudera-kun and Yamamoto?" Tsuna asked, concerned for his two friends.
Dino stood back up, still rubbing his head as Roksana stashed her weapon back beneath her skirt. Dino glanced at her before turning back to Tsuna.
"Don't worry. Momokyokai is just some imaginary yakuza group that Reborn made up. They'll probably give up and are on their way home now. Tsuna...you're a lucky guy. Lately, there haven't been many family members who are so thoughtful of their boss." Dino told him with a smile.
"Wait...but...they're not family, they're my friends." Tsuna said.
"We're both. Get use to it. Blizkiye druz'ya sem'i." Roksana told him, the last part being Russian for, "close friends are family".
Dino laughed in agreement and clapped her on the back. Roksana stumbled, shot him a look, and issued a threat to hit him over the head again. Dino yanked his hand back, apologizing with a sheepish smile on his face.
"Ah. I forgot to tell you guys. Momokyokai is a real, existing yakuza in this town." Reborn remarked suddenly.
The three looked down at him, their expressions ranging from horror on Tsuna's face, to shock on Dino's, to annoyance on Roksana's. Roksana was starting to come to expect this kind of stuff from Reborn. He was always making things so more complicated than they needed to be.
"What!?" Tsuna exclaimed. "Then, they really went to the yakuza's territory?"
"What are you thinking, Reborn!?" Dino demanded.
"Ya sobirayus' ubit' yego. Malen'kiy ublyudok ne dozhivet do svoyego sleduyushchego dnya rozhdeniya, yesli on ne prekratit delat' veshchi boleye slozhnymi, chem oni dolzhny byt'. Glupyy, malen'kiy, korotyshka ramer..."
Roksana started muttering in Russian. When Dino and Tsuna gave her a questioning look, she trailed off and waved a hand at them.
"You don't want to know." she told them, even though what she had said wasn't really all that bad.
"The opponents aren't just some punks or delinquents! There's no way those kids can win against them!" Dino snapped.
"That's true. I heard that they're very strong in martial arts." Reborn remarked as if it really wasn't a big deal.
"God, Reborn. Why do you always do extreme stuff like this!? It's not a joke." Dino told him.
"For real! What are you gonna do if they get hurt!?" Tsuna demanded.
It didn't look like Reborn was listening though.
"Hey, Reborn, are you listening!?" Dino asked.
A small sleep bubble started forming out of Reborn's nose, making Dino and Tsuna stare at him in disbelief. Both males had to grab Roksana's arms when she went to grab Reborn by the throat. Baby or not, if he kept this up, she was going to strangle him. They only released her when they were sure she wouldn't try to kill Reborn.
"Fine. Let's go, Tsuna." Dino told them.
"Go?" Roksana asked.
"This time, you should do something for your family, Tsuna." Dino told the boy.
Tsuna freaked out, knowing that he was going to get killed. He protested but Dino just took hold of one of his arms and started pulling him after him, assuring him that he was going to go with him. Roksana took hold of his other arm and helped Dino drag him off down the street.
"I'm going too." she said, leaving no room for argument.
The three hurried along, making their way to the building that the Momokyokai had made into their base. Dino insisted that he go first and that Roksana should bring up the rear. When Roksana gave him a wilting look for sounding like he was trying to protect her, he insisted that it was just in case some members were gone and came but, that he wanted to know he had a good fighter at his back. Roksana seemed to buy it for she didn't argue anymore.
"It's this room." Dino said, stopping in front of a door.
"Hey, Tsuna, isn't this Takeshi's school bag?" Roksana asked, pointing out a bag on the floor.
"It is! What if he's hurt!?" Tsuna asked.
"Of course, they came...Ok, let's go." Dino said, shoving open the door.
Beyond the door was a scene that made a small laugh spill from Roksana's lips. Gokudera and Yamamoto, in their quest to find Tsuna, had completely demolished the guys in the room and were currently trying to get information from the beat up men. When they looked up and found Tsuna with Dino and Roksana, the two released the men they had a hold of and came rushing to him, glad to see he was safe. They even commented on being worried for Roksana when she had gone missing.
"I just had Pinattsu follow the scent trail of the car. You two really should have stopped to think for a moment." Roksana told them.
Gokudera looked down at his feet, his cheeks going slightly red and Yamamoto rubbed the back of his head sheepishly. Roksana was just glad to see that the two were alright. She would have been upset if they had been hurt because of Reborn's and Dino's stupid test. Just then the door flew open again and even tougher looking thugs came into the room demanding to know what they had done.
"Uwaah...the strong looking guys arrived!" Tsuna yelled.
"Bastards...they just keep showing up." Gokudera said.
"Why is it I always find myself in these situations now?" Roksana questioned, ready to pull out her own weapon to fight.
Dino laid a hand on Gokudera's shoulder, patting it as he stepped forward. Both Gokudera and Roksana, who stood beside him, looked up at the man.
"Wait, they're not like the youngsters you just beat up. You can't do it. Leave an adult opponent to an adult." Dino told him.
He stepped in front of them, hands jammed into his pockets as he confronted the men. Roksana tilted her head, curious to see how Dino was going to handle this.
"I'm the tenth boss of the Cavallone family, Dino. It's my fault that it turned out like this. I apologize. I'll pay for everyone's medical fees as well as the fee to repair all the equipment. Please accept that offer." Dino told them.
"I really don't think you can talk to them about this." Roksana told Dino lowly.
Dino held up a hand, silently telling her to leave it to him. Roksana fell quiet but she really didn't think it would turn out well. Yakuza wasn't like the Italian mafia. They're rules were completely different. Mafia, depending on the country they came from, differed great compared to others. Yakuza was different from Italian Mafia, and Italian Mafia was different from Russian mafia, and so on and so forth.
"Huh? Family? What are you talking about? This is Japan. We'll take the money alright. But you guys aren't going anywhere." the leader said.
"I told you so." Roksana remarked from behind Dino.
Dino gave her a smile. Roksana's attention, though, was drawn to the side as a few men snickered from a few feet from her, their eyes raking over her as if they couldn't wait to get a piece of her. It made Roksana want to gag and she took a step to the side, basically pressing into Gokudera's side. Gokudera looked up to see what was wrong and shot the men a glare. Dino turned his attention back to the leader, pulling out his whip. This was going to end bad.
"You've broken off all negotiations, then. I guess we'll have to return with force. Here I come!" Dino declared, cracking his whip.
Roksana ducked in time to avoid a whip lash to the face. Gokudera, Yamamoto, and even Dino himself, didn't escape the fate. That put all three out of the fight, leaving only Roksana and Tsuna. Roksana stared down at Dino, embarrassed to be seen with a man who couldn't even use his own weapon properly. The yakuza men roared in laughter, mocking Dino.
"Make sure they never talk again." one man declared.
Roksana heaved a sigh. This was going to come down to her and after she had promised her step-mother she would attempt to stay out of fights with opponents who could hurt her. Roksana could sense a scolding in her near future, she just knew it. The men wolf whistled when she reached under her skirt, but the whistles turned to laughter when she pulled out her pole. Roksana didn't bother saying a word to the taunts that sounded as she snapped her pole into it's full length.
"Roksana, what are you doing!?" Tsuna demanded.
"I'm apart of your family too, Tsuna and I can fight just as well as any guy. Just stand back." Roksana told him.
The men laughed, but Tsuna stepped back as told. He watched as Roksana shifted from one foot to the other. The moment her weight transferred to her left foot, she kicked off the ground, rocketing forward. Two men went down with howls of pain as she smacked one across the face, breaking his nose, and hit the second one, hard, in the groin. Both went down in moans of pain. Roksana moved on to the next, knowing better than to remain stationary for more than a few seconds when an enemy out numbered her. Her friends watched in wonder as she fended off the men that tried to overwhelm her. While she was keeping them away, it seemed that for every one she took down, another two took his place.
At this rate she was going to get some serious injuries.
Roksana yelped in pain when one man back handed her across the face. She stumbled back, tripped over a downed man's leg and fell back. Gokudera managed to catch her before she hit the floor.
"Are you alright, Roksana?" Tsuna asked.
"Besides the fact that I just got pimp slapped, I'm good." Roksana replied, pressing a hand to her stinging cheek.
She wouldn't be able to handle this on her own. Shattering glass had Gokudera wrapping an arm around her head to cover her face. When Roksana peered past his arm, she was confronted with a nearly naked Tsuna with fists swollen to a good five or six times their normal side. As if he was a wild animal, Tsuna attacked the yakuza men. Well that was something she had never seen before. Roksana climbed to her feet, turning to yank Gokudera and Yamamoto to their feet. Together, the three covered Tsuna's back, fighting together to take down the men.
His men showing up, Dino reentered the fight. Between all of them, they completely demolished the gang and returned to Tsuna's house. Roksana hissed, grumbling under her breath in what they were sure was not Russian, but French as she pressed an ice pack to her bruised cheek. Dimitri was going to kill her when she got home and he saw the bruise on her face. Then he would call her father and step-mother and Roksana would get a, at least, two hour long lecture.
On the bright side...she had completely destroyed the man that had hit her.
"I'm impressed. I can leave Tsuna to you guys." Dino said with a wide grin.
"No...leave me...it's not like that..." Tsuna stuttered, waving his hands.
"I'm going to go shopping with my men now. See ya." Dino told them, waving as he left.
"That man reminds me of a large man-child." Roksana remarked when Dino had left.
This made her friends laugh. When a loud crash sounded and they rushed to find that Dino had fallen down the stairs...again, Roksana heaved a sigh.
"Did I say man-child? I meant a klutz who can't do anything for himself." Roksana remarked.
END
Kyandi: I love Dino. He's such a source of entertainment.
Roksana: And annoyance.
Kyandi: Perhaps. But at least, now and then, you can get a good laugh out of him.
Roksana: I suppose.
Kyandi: Anyway, time for a translation. Some of what Roksana said in Russian, I told you the meaning to. All except for one paragraph. "Ya sobirayus' ubit' yego. Malen'kiy ublyudok ne dozhivet do svoyego sleduyushchego dnya rozhdeniya, yesli on ne prekratit delat' veshchi boleye slozhnymi, chem oni dolzhny byt'. Glupyy, malen'kiy, korotyshka ramer..." means, "I'm going to kill him. The little bastard won't see his next birthday if he doesn't stop making things more complicated than they have to be. Stupid, little, runt size..."
Roksana: It wasn't like I was cursing.
Kyandi: Not really. Anyway, I have one more chapter ready for all of you lovely readers. So enjoy and review.
Roksana: We'll be back with the next chapter soon.
Kyandi: Bye-bye!