Title: Namimori Gods
Summary: Namimori is the home of two divine entities: the Goddess of Luck and the God of Order. Every four generations, they reincarnate in a member of the Hibari Family and a random Namimori child. The search for the goddess has begun, will Tsuna be able to find Hibari's new wife?
Warning: Tsuna-abuse, BL/shounen-ai, mature themes, curse words and crossdressing.
Chapter 9
Uni took a long sip from her tea.
"So you're saying that the whole city is currently looking for the reincarnation of your goddess, OuSora, who you have no idea who it might be, because she doesn't make distinctions between those she chooses amongst the people born in Namimori, whereas OuHibari, your other god and OuSora's husband, chooses members of the Hibari Family to reincarnate into. And, that her husband and she are the protectors of Namimori who get together lifetime after lifetime due to true love?" Uni asked for confirmation.
The priestess nodded.
A blush overtook Uni's cheeks, "That is so romantic!"
"Isn't it? This is why all of us people of Namimori want to bring these two back together." The second in command of the OuSora Temple cooed. OuSora-sama and OuHibari-sama had the best romance of all Namimori and everyone knew it.
Gamma, on the other hand, didn't share their sentiments.
"Princess, we really should be going. We're here for business, not for tales of gods, romance and how that somehow justifies kidnapping."
Uni wasn't at all put-out by her guardian's words and merely stated, "But Gamma, Irie-kun isn't going anywhere. We are in no rush, I suggest we join the search. No work will get done until the goddess is found, after all."
Uni gave Gamma the best puppy face she knew he would never be able to resist. A minute or so later, Gamma sighed giving in.
"Alright, you win. We'll help with the search."
Uni giggled victoriously.
The priestess looked at them with curiosity but said nothing resuming their previous conversation.
"It's such a pity we haven't found OuSora-sama yet. OuHibari-sama must be desolate without his wife. We appreciate every bit of help you are willing to give."
"You can count on us!" Uni chirped.
"That's wonderful! Thank you so much!" She bowed gratefully, "I'll go check to see if the girls have found a uniform your size."
She left the room.
"Princess, are you sure about this?" Gamma asked quietly.
"I can't quite tell what is going to happen, but it will definitely affect Tsuna-san."
Gamma sighed, "I see. No helping it then. We'll stay."
Uni giggled, "Thank you, Gamma."
(Insert cute scene division)
Tsuna had a headache. It wasn't an occurence, mind you, seeing as Reborn made it his greatest ambition to make Tsuna's life as difficult as possible. However, this headache was not caused by his sadistic home tutor but by his foreign enemy turned ally, Byakuran, who upon learning that Uni was likely to be fine, had decided to be an annoying tourist and stop to look at anything he thought weird, comment on it, casually insult some people and have Tsuna and the rest stop people from picking a fight with the sociopathic albino.
Tsuna had a headache. He usually would breathe deeply and dismiss his anger, but it wasn't working. He head was pounding. He didn't care anymore if Byakuran had once been out for his blood or was a fearsome opponent even with no motive other than boredom. His temper was getting shorter and shorter by the minute and the person in question wasn't making it any easier.
Byakuran once more allowed himself to be distracted by the multiple businessmen and women trying to sell him goods celebrating the 'Search for OuSora'.
"Ne, Tsunayoshi-kun, how yummy is this?" The Gesso Don asked pointing at some melon bread.
Usually Tsuna would let anybody else be the one to chastise the other boy, but not today.
"You bastard!" Gokudera growled, but Tsuna stopped him and stepped forward to address the future Millefiore's boss.
"Byakuran" Tsuna called, his eyes orange and narrow, "You asked us for our help with finding Uni. If you're planning on wasting our time, we have better places to be."
"Ah, but Tsunayoshi-kun, I'm a visitor. As your guest, don't you think you should some me around? Japan is a fascinating place after all."
"This is your only warning. Keep up or we're leaving you behind." Tsuna turned on his heels and once more continued towards OuSora's Temple.
If Yamamoto, Gokudera and Shoichi fanboyed how cool Tsuna had been when subduing Byakuran, they didn't comment on it until they knew Byakuran was out of hearing range.
"…Spoilsport." Byakuran whispered unhappily before following.
(Insert cute scene division)
They arrived at the Temple, out of breath, sweating and mostly cranky. It wasn't anyone's fault that OuSora's Temple was up a hill, but that didn't mean they didn't want to curse whoever had thought it was a good idea. They could only wonder how the priestesses managed it in the first place.
A familiar girl walked passed and Tsuna jumped at the recognition.
"Reiko-san!" He called.
The priestess, who had been talking to her friend, turned towards him. Her eyes fell on Tsuna and though surprised, she said something quickly to her friend before heading towards him.
"Hey kid, aren't you supposed to be at Namimori's Retirement Home with the rest of the boys? What are you doing here? In fact, what are you all doing here?" She demanded though it was obvious that she wasn't whole heartedly scolding them, as she was eying Gokudera, Yamamoto and even Byakuran to some extent as eye candy.
"A-Ano, R-Reiko-san, have you... have you seen a-a little girl and a b-blond man? Foreigners. Here?" Tsuna stuttered. He could never quite contain his stutters when someone glared at him.
Reiko's glare narrowed further but she tentatively worded out "There's a girl who was brought here under the suspicion of being OuSora-sama. A blond haired man beat up most of the people who brought her here. Why? Do you know them?"
Tsuna assented with a nod, "They're our friends."
Reiko looked around a bit, "I can take you to them, but you're going to have be quiet. It's a private sector of the Temple. You'll owe me one."
"Eh? B-But I don't-" Tsuna began to panic.
"Don't worry, kid, it's nothing big." She told him victoriously.
She leaned in conspiratorially, Tsuna backed away blushing at the closeness but ultimately didn't get far and heard her whisper to his ear, "Introduce me to your friends and we have a deal."
He nodded, still blushing, it wasn't an outrageous request.
"A-Ano, ev-everyone, umm ... this is Reiko-san. She was in charge of me during the first round." He turned to Reiko "Reiko-san, these are my friends. Yamamoto Takeshi," Yamamoto gave a grin of acknowledgement "Gokudera Hayato," the cranky boy scoffed and adverted his face in distaste, "Irie Shoichi," he accommodated his glass and bowed his head, "and finally Byakuran." The albino ignored the introduction completely as he focused on devouring a bag of marshmellows.
"Byakuran! Please be more polite, at least say something!" Shoichi scolded once more.
Byakuran turned to Reiko, "Please to meet you, miss Priestess~"
He returned to eating his sweets with glee, completely ignoring everyone else once more. Shoichi sighed, why did he even bother?
"You sure know how to pick 'em, kid." Reiko commented sardonically as she eyed Byakuran with a certain degree of appraisal and irritation.
Tsuna honestly didn't know how to answer that.
"Well, a deal is a deal. Let's go." Reiko announced, turning on her heel and heading to a sector of the Temple unavailable to civilians.
They passed building by building, from the newer structures, slowly leading older, more traditional, elaborate buildings. Tsuna could barely think as his eyes glistened in awe.
"Beautiful, isn't it?" Reiko asked a bit out of breath herself, "I love the architecture myself. They say that these buildings were built by grateful citizens throughout the ages as thanks to the Goddess. It is said-"
"Boring!" Byakuran sang popping more marshmallows in his mouth. Not caring at all that he had just interrupted their guide quite rudely.
Reiko's head snapped towards the white haired Italian with surprising force, her face flushed and her anger barely contained. She calmed herself with deep breathes before continuing, "Look, kid, I know you aren't from around here so I'll be nice and tell you that if keep your back talk up, you'll be tempting fate and someone will put you in your place. So be good and stop trying to be a wise guy."
Byakuran laughed, "You say such funny things, miss Priestess. You actually think-"
Tsuna jumped in knowing that from the darkening expression on the white haired teen, something very bad would happen if he didn't step in now. Unfortunately though he did manage to get between them, someone was quicker to solve the problem.
"Byakuran! Irie-kun! Tsuna-kun! Everyone!"
Their heads turned to what seemed to be Uni in priestess clothing, running towards them with Gamma a few paces back along with an older priestess.
"Uni!" Tsuna called out in relief and took a moment to take in how well priestess garbs fitted the Italian girl. She looked so pretty, her cheeks flushed healthily at the exercise and her frame nicely accentuated by the flowing cloth.
His head began to pound.
Uni threw herself around Tsuna and hugged him, he answered with a nervous smile, before turning to Shoichi and Byakuran, "I'm sorry for worrying you."
"Mah, mah, as long as Princess is safe there's no problem." Byakuran sang merrily, completely ignoring the glares of Reiko, Gokudera and Shoichi.
"Well now that, you've found your friends, how about we have some tea?" the elder priestess proposed, signaling one of the farthest and more homely looking buildings.
(Insert cute scene division)
Tsuna felt uneasy.
Sitting next to a suddenly less obnoxious Byakuran and an explosive Gokudera, it could only result in disaster. The only good part was that Uni and Yamamoto sat on the other side of the volatile duo, hopefully they'd be enough to stop any possibility for violence in the future.
"Uni-chan is so lucky to have such good friends!" The elder priestess cooed like a proud aunt.
"I am lucky to have met them all. Ne, Tsuna-kun?"
Tsuna felt uneasy as Byakuran's eyes narrowed, but still nodded.
"I would have never had imagined that the friends you were talking about were Tsuna-san and his friends. He was such a shy child when he was younger. It's surprising to see he has such a pretty friend."
"Eh? You know Tsuna-kun?" That caught the attention of everyone in the room and Tsuna groaned internally.
"Is it that surprising?" The priestess ask a bit startled at the sudden scrutiny, "His mother is a devoted follower of OuSora-sama and used to be a priestess here, but wanted more time to care for her family so she resumed passive service. As one of our most active passive members, we thought it fair to help care for young Tsuna here. Why, I took care of him on occasion, as has the Head Priestess and two others."
She turned to Tsuna, "By the way, have you gotten passed falling down the stairs yet?"
He nodded, grimacing at the memory, he still sometimes forgot to wear slippers if he needed to run down the stairs.
"Yeah, I have."
"That's good! All of us worried that one day you'd end up falling down all 108 steps, like that one New Years day a few years back."
Byakuran, Uni and Shoichi tried stifling their laughs but Tsuna couldn't deny anything. Two years ago, those steps almost killed him. A bell rang from afar, silencing all further conversation.
"That would be your group returning from the second task" she announced before turning to them with a teasing smile, "This time, try not to be disqualified, alright?"
Tsuna, Gokudera and Shoichi had the decency to look ashamed and Uni looked guilty for having been the cause. Yamamoto however laughed, "The only one disqualified was Gokudera. Tsuna and I just wanted to come see if Uni-chan was alright."
Gokudera raged, "Shut up, baseball freak! The old clown had it coming!" he turned immediately to Tsuna "I'm sorry Juudaime for shaming you with my behavior, next time I'll get rid of him for sure!"
Tsuna paled, "That's not the problem here…"
"As nice as this is, the third round is starting and you morons have to get going or heads will roll."
Everyone turned to look at the door, where a certain Arcobaleno with his yellow pacifier stood. Leon jumped from his fedora and transformed into his trusty gun.
"Reborn!" Tsuna called out in acknowledgement, voice wavering between being pleased to see him and terrified at what was soon to come.
"You have until 3, Dame-Tsuna." Reborn threatened.
"…1…"
Tsuna squealed in alarm before turning to the priestess and the previous Millefiore famiglia members, "Sorry, we have to go now. Let's talk some other time!" He called.
"…2…"
"Bye!" Tsuna screeched as he ran out, Yamamoto vague goodbyes were almost not heard as Reborn began firing after them. Though surely getting farther away, they could still hear as Tsuna screamed in reproach as Reborn never said 3 before firing.
The third round was beginning.
(Insert cute chapter end division)
A/N: Dear readers, I have begun classes once more thus I warn that I might take a bit longer than usual in updating the next chapter. I hope you all enjoyed this chapter and find it in yourselves to forgive my horrible narrative. I'm planning a change in narration styles in certain parts and after a certain event of my story, so please don't go deluding yourselves into thinking that this is the best my narrating can get. It'll get better, I promise.
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Iwataki-san, thank you for the lovely review and I'm sorry, I don't think Uni was as interesting in this chapter as you hoped, but please look forward to their future interventions in the plot.
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