The Sakurai: Umeko Yuri

A trumpet sounds and I jump out dramatically.

"Guess who's back!"

The only sound heard is that of a cricket chirping… Well, that's kinda disappointing, but to be expected, I did leave you guys hanging for 9 months… Well, on the bright side, I'm back and I've decided to go ahead and go back to writing now that the school year is over, and don't worry, I plan on answering and thanking everyone both in this fic and through private message for reading this story, now, onwards!

Note: Even though we've already established this: I do not own Katekyo Hitman Reborn, and probably never will, so leave me alone to wallow in my misery.

It had all started out as a normal day for Sawada Chiyome… Well, that's probably what should have made her suspicious, after all, it had started out as a normal day for Chiyome when she met Rinato, and then the next thing she knew, her life turned into this crazy Mafia/Yakuza violence filled insane asylum… But, either way, it was still a pretty normal day. Chiyome had been on her way to school, along with Yumemiru and Venerazione. As they walked Chiyome was in the middle of explaining what had happened the other day involving the incident with the strange kid who had followed her to school. The next thing she knew, she had fallen on her butt, because something latched onto her… Or should I say someone…

I blinked, then I blinked again, I was staring at the strange thing that had seemed to fall out of the sky, and latch onto me. 'What the heck…?' I thought to myself.

"20th! Daijobu?" asked Venerazione-kun, concerned.

I looked up at him and Yumemiru-kun, I nodded. "Yeah, I'm fine."

"Sorry about that Onee-san…" murmured a small voice.

I looked around, confused, before looking back down at the strange thing that had latched itself onto me.

The thing looked up, and I saw the face of a girl, no older than maybe 5.

"I didn't mean to jump onto you; I just wanted to get your attention." The girl murmured.

"Um… Sure, no problem?" I say, blankly. 'Who the heck is this girl?' I thought to myself.

"Oh, I am Junsui Yuri (1.1), tanoshimi (2)…" she murmured, as if reading my mind.

"Oh, well, it's nice to meet you… I'm Sawada Chiyome, Yoroshiku…" I replied. "Oh, and this is Venerazione Hayate and Yumemiru Takashi." I added, pointing to each of them when I said their name.

Venerazione just che'd. "Whatever."

Yumemiru gave his usual carefree laugh. "Maa, maa don't be like that." He turned to the girl, with his million watt grin. "Yoroshiku."

The girl's eyes widened. "You're Sawada Chiyome?"

I nodded. "Hai."

"Oi, Chiyome-chama!" I heard a familiar voice called.

"Eh?" I turned my head. "Victor-kun, Mizuki-chan, and Megumi-san? What are you all doing here?"

"Going to school… You do realize that we're going to be late if we don't hurry up, right?"

I blinked blankly at them, and then checked the time, before letting out a squealing "HHIIIEEE!"

The girl covered her ears, wincing.

"Oops, gomen, , excuseus (3.1)!" I said, talking a mile a minute, pulling the girl off of me and setting her on the ground. "Comeon! Wehavetodashifwewanttomakeit (3.2)!"

As all of us began to run to the school, we didn't notice the gaze of the young girl watching us… More specifically, me…

I heaved a sigh as I walked home from school. It had been an okay-ish day, well, except for the fact that we had a test this Friday! For Kami-sama's sake, Rinato and Chika were going to have a field day. I looked up at the sky in hope.

"Kami-sama, if you really do exist somewhere up there, then please send me a sign that I won't die when I get home." It was at that moment I heard a loud explosion followed by some shouting coming from the vicinity of my home.

I looked up at the sky once more, "You really do hate me, don't you?" I asked before running like hell towards home. Bursting in through the door (I wonder why it wasn't locked…); I saw quite an interesting scene set before me. Rinato was sitting at his usual spot on the couch, drinking an expresso, while ignoring Lampi, who was trying (and failing) to catch his attention. Apparently, because my sister has a soft spot for strays, Lampi would be staying with us because he didn't have anywhere to go. But what was unusual, was that Chika was on the floor. Also, on the floor, but on top of Chika was the little girl who had (literally) jumped me earlier today. The strangest, and most mentally scarring part of all, was the fact that the little girl happened to be holding a knife, and seemed to be threatening Chika.

I dropped my stuff "What the hell are you doing to my cat little girl!" I exclaimed.

They both looked up. "Oh, oops." She murmured quietly, before climbing off of Chika and brushing herself off and bowing. "I'm sorry my lady, please forgive me and my rudeness."

"Rudeness?" I repeated. "You just tried to kill Chika!" I then turned to the other two in the room. "And what exactly were the two of you doing that prevented you from helping?"

Rinato shrugged. "I was sure that she could take care of herself."

Lampi glared at Rinato. "Lampi was trying to kill Rinato. Lampi didn't notice the weird little girl."

"Hey!" the girl protested glaring at Lampi.

"Okay then, to the question at hand: why were you trying to kill Chika?" I demanded.

"I was trying to get information out of her." she explained. "Information on my mother."

I raised an eyebrow. "Why?"

"Because," she began. "My mother went missing 2 years ago and..." she pointed towards Chika. "She is the one of the only people who may have information on where she is."

We all turned to look at Chika. Returning our looks, she sighed, and then began to explain. "Yes, I do have some information on your mother, child." She looked sternly at the little girl. "But, I'm sorry to say that I cannot reveal it to you, as per your mother's orders."

"Well then, I guess that I'm not going anywhere, then." The little girl replied plopping herself down next to Lampi, and stealing a lollipop from his pocket.

"Whoa, wait a minute… What do you mean?" I asked, confused.

"Well, my mission was to find out information on my mother, and since I can't do that." At this she glared pointedly at Chika. "I will stay here, until I do so… After all," she turned to me, eyes all big and puppy-dog like, "You wouldn't kick a little girl out with no place to go, right?"

I stared at her, feeling my eye twitching. Everyone else had turned towards me, as if to see what my answer was. Rinato looked like he didn't care, although he did have a glint of curiosity in his eye. Chika also looked like she didn't care, but from how tense she was, I could tell she didn't want the little girl near. As for Lampi… He looked like he really didn't care.

Turning my gaze back to the little girl, (she still had on that puppy dog look), I sighed. "I'll ask my sister to see what she'll say, although, I know she'll ultimately say yes…"

The little girl gave a squeal so loud that caused me to wince. "Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you my lady, I'll try not to be a bother."

'Bit too late for that…' I thought to myself.

It was later that night, after that incident, and welcoming Junsui Yuri (1.2) (the little girl) to our now 6 person house hold, I was getting ready for bed, and about to take a shower, when I spotted Yuri-chan looking for something.

"What's the matter, Yuri-chan? Are you looking for something?" I asked her.

She turned to me. "Yes, Lady Sawada, would you by any chance know where that cat is?"

"First of all, Chiyome is fine. Secondly, do you mean Chika?" I asked.

She nodded her head vigorously.

I shrugged my shoulders, "Sorry, but she's not here. And I don't know where she is."

She looked at me closely to see if I was telling a lie, but, it was true. She and Rinato had left at sundown to head over to the hotel that they usually stayed at during their 'nightly escapades' as Chika liked to call it.

"Are you sure?" she asked.

"Uh-huh." I replied. "Now come on, let's get you to bed."

It was the next day and Rinato and Chika had returned for breakfast, although I really wished they had stayed out, even if it would have made my sister suspicious, at least I would have been able to actually eat what was on my plate.

After only managing to eat half my food (Rinato had stolen a fourth, while Lampi, the rest), I quickly got dressed ran (fell) down the stairs, and got my shoes on.

"Bai bai (4.1)!" I called after me, as I rushed away, to make sure I wasn't late.

The familiar calls of "Ohayōgozaimasu 20th!" and "Yo, Chiyome!" were heard just as I closed the gate, and I turned immediately spotting Yumemiru-kun and Venerazione-kun.

"Ohayo!" I greeted back. "Come on, if we don't want to be late, we have to hurry!"

It was lunch time and while we were up on the roof top eating, I heard some commotion going on down below.

"Let me go! I must find the cat or Lady Sawada!"

'Can it be?' I thought to myself, turning, and catching her being dragged away from the school by some policemen.

My eyes widened, and I jumped up. "Yuri-chan!" I exclaimed before rushing towards the door and down the steps as fast as I could.

"Chiyome-chan?" Ayame called after her.

"20th!" Venerazione exclaimed as he made to go after her.

"Wait." murmured Megumi.

"Huh?" he asked. "Why the fucking hell should I?"

"Language!" Mizuki scolded, but was ignored.

"Look." replied Megumi pointing to the commotion going on below them.

"Maa, maa calm down, we won't hurt you, we're just taking you back to the station so we can find your family."

"Matte! Matte!" I exclaimed running out of the school and stopping in front of the officers panting like crazy.

"Lady Sawada!" exclaimed Yuri-chan, latching onto my leg in a koala-like fashion (as a matter of fact, she reminded me somewhat of Lampi, when he followed me to school). She sniffled; it was obvious that she was crying.

"Is she your sister?" I looked up at the officer who asked the question, they were both staring at me.

"No, but she is staying with me and my sister at the moment," I replied. "I guess that she must've followed me here…

I gently pried Yuri-chan off my leg, and pushed her down into a bowing position, and ordered. "Apologize!"

She sniffled once more, before muttering an apology, and once more latching herself to my leg.

I smiled sheepishly at the policemen, "Sorry for the trouble, excuse me…"

I quietly hobbled away…

"Huh, I never knew Chiyome had a sister." commented Yumemiru commented.

"She doesn't." a familiar baby-ish voice replied.

Everyone looked up, and standing there in all their (cat-like and/or babyish) glory were Rinato and Chika.

"Yes," the girl is actually the daughter of a colleague of mine; she must have been looking for information about her mother." Chika murmured.

"Eh, you're the talking cat from before!" Ayame exclaimed just as Venerazione yelled. "Rinato-sama!"

"Ahhahahahahahaha, a baby and a cat, are they both lost?" Yumemiru wondered.

Akane stared at the two before looking back at her lunch. "Maybe there is something wrong with the sushi here… (5)"

Before Chiyome began to climb the stairs to the rooftop, she looked down at the child latched to her leg, and sighed. "It's probably a good idea for you to let go of my leg, or else you may wind up hurt if I fall down the stairs, again."

Yuri stubbornly shook her head, holding on tighter to the leg she was latched onto.

Chiyome sighed again. "Okay then, fine…"

Chiyome began to climb the stairs, making sure she did so in a slow and careful manner, holding onto the banister as tightly as she could. Finally, when she reached the top, without tripping or falling, she reached the door to the rooftop. Pulling the door open, she was surprised to find, not only her friends waiting for her, but also both of her home tutors.

"Eh, Chika, Rinato? What's going on, what are you doing here?" Chiyome asked, surprised.

"We're your home tutors, of course if you look closely enough, you'll be able to find us near." replied Rinato.

"That, plus, I feel somewhat responsible for what has happened, so I shall take the child back to our residence." added Chika.

"NO!" exclaimed Yuri-chan, still latched onto my leg. "I don't wanna leave Chiyome-nee (6.1)! She saved me from those nasty police officers! They would've killed me!"

'Killed her?' Chiyome repeated mentally, out loud she spoke: "Yuri- chan, police men are good people, they are there to help people and stop the bad guys."

Yuri-chan shook her head once again. "No Chiyome-nee (6.2)! Policemen are bad! Yuri's mama told her so, and she once saw that they were shooting at Yuri's mama while she was holding a really pretty sparkly thing!"

'Really pretty sparkly thing?' Chiyome repeated mentally.

Chika motioned for her to lean closer, and as she did, Chika leapt up. "Her mother is a really famous thief that goes by the name: Le Lys. (7)" She explained.

Nodding her head in understanding, she turned to Yuri-chan and said. "Look Yuri-chan, I can't have you here at school, so please let Chika take you back to the house, I promise that you'll be safe with her, just as long as you listen to her. Okay?"

Yuri-chan looked at her hesitatingly, before slowly nodding her head in agreement.

Chiyome smiled, "I'll see you at home, okay?"

Another nod and Chiyome's smiled widened. "Well then, bai bai (4.2)!"

For the rest of the day everything was peaceful, well as peaceful as it could get when you were Chiyome Sawada…

My apologies for the 9 months and a day late update, the reason why? School and my own laziness… So, *repeated bowing* gomen, gomen, gomen, gomen!

1.) Junsui Yuri is this little girl's name, because Junsui means purity, while Yuri means Lily, the flower which also happens to represent purity and innocence.

2.) Pretty sure this means looking forward to working with you, it's also what I think some say in Japan after introducing themselves

3.) In case you can't understand, these are the translations for what she's saying: Oops, gomen, but we have to go or else suffer getting bitten to death, excuse us and Come on! We have to dash if we want to make it

4.) How the Japanese pronounce our bye bye, I think

5.) Remember what Chiyome said in Venerazione's chapter about sushi?

6.) I changed how Yuri addresses her, because up until now, she's acted very mature, so now I'm bringing out her childish side and reminding everyone that she's only 5, which some may forget with the way she acts…

7.) French, translates to The Lily in English, this will all make sense later

Well then, another chapter finished! Yay! BTW, I've decided to go ahead and pushed the update day forward to Thursday, so see ya then, next week!