Brave it Out
Summary: The boy was so much like her as a child that it scared Naruto. He was ignored, bullied and no one helped him, they just watched or laughed. She would try to find a way to go home later, because now, she had a Dame to help.
Beta: CeresNamikaze (No one is perfect, so maybe you can find an error here and there!)
Just a warning: FemNaru, AU
I don't own KHR or Naruto, Amano Akira and Masashi Kishimoto does!
The Arrival
"A hero always arrives late."
– Uzumaki Naruto
Kawahira
Wonomichi whimpered as he avoided the vase that was thrown in his direction and went flying toward the open window. Hesitantly, he looked in the direction of furious and cold eyes. Kawahira ignored him as he growled.
He had been feeling murderous since he noticed Naruto had left the house, and his mood didn't change when she came back (bringing with her the Bovino boy that he had sent after her) and apologized for disobeying him.
Although, he had to admit that he had been rather stupid if he had really thought she would obey him and stay in her room. She was too much like her mother, she hated to stay inside a closed space for too long, both of them felt like they were being trapped and you can't trap an Uzumaki. They are all free spirits.
He could understand why she would disobey him and would get out of the house. But he hated the fact that she had once again found her way to the Vongola boy and those guardians of his. He hated above all how she found her way to that man.
Her father wasn't meant to find out about her. None of the Arcobaleno should have found out about her. He needed them alive, so there was nothing that he could do to keep them away from her.
If there was a trait that all Arcobaleno shared, it was how they had the tendency of making his job and life harder without even trying (Though, when they did try, it never worked).
Actually, Naruto should have never gotten herself involved with the Vongola's boy and if Kawahira had known that Naruto's so called best friend was Sawada, then he would have done something the keep them apart before their bond got stronger.
Like how it was now.
He had sent Kobayashi to her so she could learn about the Flames and learn about how dangerous it was to be near the boy. But he had forgotten once again about how much similar she was to her mother.
She didn't run from danger, she would run to danger and beat it to a blood puddle if she could. Another annoying trait of an Uzumaki aside from being danger magnet and rule breakers, was their loyalty (they were all loyal to a fault and there was nothing you could do to change that).
So how was he going to protect her from her future downfall?
He tried but couldn't do anything about her mother. The Vongola and the Rain Arcobaleno took Kushina from him. And now that he had found his last connection to his beloved little sister, the Vongola and those Arcobaleno – who had been close to Kushina – would take this connection away from him. They would be the reason to Naruto's death in the future and none of them would do anything to stop it.
He narrowed his eyes in thought, the image of cold green eye flashing in his mind.
Slowly, a smirk appeared in his face.
Kawahira doubted he could do anything alone and he doubted he could keep his dear niece away from the Vongola and the others, but he could very well help to change the future and exterminate the reason of Naruto's death.
Normally, he would never try and mess with time. But after living with an Uzumaki for so long, he ended learning a few things or two about breaking rules and when it was necessary to do such thing.
"Wonomichi."
The black haired man jumped. "Y-Yes, sir?"
"Start making notes, I have a job for you."
Kawahira sat in his chair and folded his legs as he smirked and looked at the picture of a familiar red haired woman. Kushina would be so proud of him for using some of her Shinobi tactics. Though, he doubted she would be too happy with what his plan entailed. And if he could be honest with himself, he too wasn't too comfortable with it.
But there was no other alternative.
Tsuna
Summer was almost there and it was really hot. As he walked next to Naruto, Tsuna felt like he wanted to find a giant refrigerator and jump inside it and forget the fact that he needed to go home and give the groceries that he had brought to his mother. Naruto didn't seem too bothered by the sun on the sky, she was actually eating ice-cream with Colonello (her own Mini-me who Tsuna felt was too similar to Reborn and it made him start to fear for his life), who was sitting in her shoulder and eating a blueberry ice-cream.
"It's so hot…" He said with a loudly sigh as he looked at the sun, using his free hand to shadow his eyes. "…And I'm so thirsty."
Naruto stopped walking and looked at him.
"I offered to buy an ice-cream for you, but you refused it." To make her point, she pointed toward Colonello who was too occupied with ignoring his presence.
Colonello and Lambo were always trying to find the time to stay with her or follow her around recently.
And while Lambo seemed to see Naruto like a mother (much like Future Lambo did, he thought with a heavy heart), Tsuna wasn't sure of what to describe the way Colonello treated Naruto. Actually, he did, but it was so strange and the fact that the small voice on the back of his head (which Reborn said to be his Intuition) seemed to agree with him gave Tsuna a headache and all he wanted to see was a proof that he was wrong.
After all, even if Colonello acted like an adult – much like Reborn –, followed Naruto around and worked as her bodyguard (He had been doing that since Reborn so called Family Entrance Test) and carried a rifle with him didn't mean that he thought of Naruto as if she was his daughter. Nor did it mean that the blonde baby was acting like a protective father toward her.
He looked at Naruto with a small smile. "You shouldn't waste your money with me, Naruto-chan."
He left out the 'I'm not worthy', but she heard it anyway.
She rolled her eyes. "Tsuna, shut up. Don't say things like that. I thought that I had made you stop doing that."
"Doing what?"
"Thinking so lowly of yourself." Tsuna held a blush when she smiled. "You're special; you just need to see that."
This time, he did blush and looked way in embarrassment (and fear of the icy glare that Colonello sent in his way). Naruto was so kind to him and she was always there to help him. She was also pretty cute, cuter then… He frowned at this line of thoughts and shook his head. He like Kyoko, right? Why was he thinking like that?
Naruto was his best friend, nothing else.
He didn't notice how Colonello's eyes narrowed in his direction and finished his ice-cream before taking a small notebook from his pockets along a pencil. He also never noticed how the blonde baby opened the notebook and wrote his name on a list called "Boys Who Should Die in A Very Painful Way", but he shivered anyway and he doubted it was because of the wind. There was none around them.
Tsuna shook his head once again and focused his attention toward Naruto to ask if she had also felt a shiver on her spine. The moment he opened his mouth, though, he was interrupted by a ring.
He turned around; looking at what was approaching them with disbelief.
A mommy bike… with helmet and goggles? Tsuna thought as he watched the young woman on the bike stop next to him and take the helmet off.
He almost missed it, but thanks to Naruto and Reborn's training, Tsuna didn't miss the way Naruto tensed or how Colonello stared at the woman with narrowed eyes.
The woman, who had long pink hair and green eyes, was really pretty and if he wasn't wrong, then she was at least half-Japanese.
The woman smiled and threw something at him. "Please, have it if you like."
Tsuna blinked his eyes and raised his hands to grab what he just noticed to be a soda can, but before he could touch the can, Naruto grabbed it first, glaring at the woman who had already started riding her bike once again.
"Tsuna stay here for a moment, I need to test a theory." He had wanted to argue or ask why; but one look from Naruto was enough for him to do what she had ordered him to.
He wasn't stupid.
He knew when his friend was serious.
Naruto told Colonello to hold on her and the next thing Tsuna knew she had disappeared. Naruto then appeared in front of the woman, with one hand, the blonde stopped the bike, ignoring the pink haired woman questions and complains, and with the other hand, she opened the soda can and literally forced the woman to drink it.
Taking a deep breath, Tsuna approached them as Naruto nodded satisfied and threw the now empty can away.
"Let's see how you like your own poison." Tsuna's eyes widened at the information while Naruto folded her arms.
"You're pretty perceptive, kora!" Colonello said… And was that just Tsuna's impression, or was the baby proud of Naruto?
Naruto glared at the woman who now fell from the bike while holding her throat with wide eyes as she tried to regulate her breathing.
"No one can hide this type of thing from my nose, dattebayo!" Naruto said.
Tsuna looked at the woman, feeling a little worried as she coughed and winced in pain, she even started to look a little paler. But he didn't move to help her, he had a feeling that she would be fine. It did help that Naruto had explained to him in one of his lessons with Gokudera and Yamamoto (who had joined him and Gokudera in Reborn insistence) a little about a specialist in poisons.
Specialists created poisons, knew how to use it in effective ways and used their own poisons on themselves to create a protection against it. They also made sure to study others poisons and create antidotes to them. A specialist also always – always – carries with him a small kit in case he is poisoned in a mission or in an accident, like this, there will be a way to create an antidote that will either cure him or give him enough time to move and reach a place where he can get the real cure.
The woman was being a little affected by the poison she had placed inside the soda can, which showed that she wasn't really a poison specialist; she just knew how to create her own poison and never thought that it would be used against her, nor was she prepared in case this happened or in case someone else poisoned her.
And in Naruto's words; it was careless and something only an amateur would do.
The only reason the woman wasn't dead yet or why she wasn't showing some of the effects that she should, Tsuna realized, was because she had worked with her own poison for so long, that she naturally created a small defense against it.
Lucky her… He thought a little relieved.
He didn't want to see anyone dying in front of him.
"N-Naruto-chan d-did she –"
"Did she try to kill you?" Naruto finished his question.
Colonello answered for her. "Of course she did, kora. You're Reborn's new student, kora."
Tsuna looked at him a little confused while Naruto facepalmed.
"What did Reborn do?" She asked with a deadpanned expression.
Colonello grinned. "Reborn was just being himself and the girl feel in "love" with him, kora. She was thirteen or twelve at the time, kora." Colonello shrugged at the looks he received at this declaration. "What, kora? Everyone in the underworld knows her, kora. She is called Poison Scorpion and is well known for being obsessed with Reborn and for having killed some of his students before, kora. He wasn't too happy about it, kora."
"Love?" Naruto asked and she didn't seem to believe what she was hearing. "She loves him?"
Colonello shrugged once again. "She says so, kora. Reborn just plays along because he has a soft spot for her, kora. He trained her for a short period of time, kora."
"S-So she wasn't sent here to kill me because someone paid her…" Tsuna gulped when the two blondes looked at him with identical expressions. It was a little strange to see something like that. "But she wanted to kill me because in a way, I am in the way of her relationship with Reborn?"
Colonello nodded. "That is the reason to why she killed his students in the past, kora."
Tsuna couldn't believe he was going to say that, but he would have preferred it if she had been paid to kill him.
Her real reason was a little petty and made him question her sanity.
Colonello threw a sly grin in his direction. "And have I told you that she is the older half-sister of that Gokudera boy, kora?"
Tsuna blinked several times before he assimilated what he had just been told. "WHAT?! SHE IS GOKUDERA-KUN SISTER?!"
Naruto looked a little disappointed. "Does that mean that I can't kill her and watch her suffer for trying to kill Tsuna?"
He turned around to yell at her. "NARUTO-CHAN! WHAT TYPE OF QUESTION IS THAT?!"
He was so panicked that he never noticed the amusement in Naruto's turquoise blue eyes.
"So maybe I can have her help with our training sessions?"
"NO! YOU WILL DO SOMETHING THAT WILL KILL HER AND CALL IT AN ACCIDENT!"
Naruto laughed and high-fived Colonello who was snickering at the expressions Tsuna was doing.
They all forgot the suffering woman who was looking at them in disbelief.
"Reborn! Help me!" Was the first thing that Bianchi – the pink haired woman – yelled when they entered in his house.
Naruto had gone back to her house, as she wanted to train a little, while he and Colonello brought Bianchi to Reborn so they could find out what could be done about her. She had started muttering to herself when she learned where she was going. From what Tsuna had understood, she kept saying something about how Reborn would save her and punish them for mistreating her and for Naruto having tried to kill her.
Reborn on other hand, stared at the woman bound by a special tag that Naruto had created using something that she called Fuuijuntsu. The tag worked much like a rope, but it always shocked whoever had it on them every time this person tried to move or escape, the shock also got stronger every time it happened.
"New hairstyle, Bianchi?" Reborn asked after his customary 'Ciaossu'.
Bianchi stared.
And indeed, her hair was pretty different. It looked rather similar to Lambo's hair actually.
Tsuna approached the baby. "Er… Reborn? Is true what Colonello said? You know her?"
Reborn spared a glance toward Colonello with a raised eyebrow. When the blonde shrugged and mouthed something that Tsuna couldn't understand, Reborn nodded and turned his attention toward him.
"What are you doing here Bianchi?" Reborn asked as he finished his coffee and approached them.
Bianchi looked at the floor with teary eyes. "I am here to bring you back… Let's do another big job together, Reborn…"
Collonelo, who was sitting in his shoulder, shook his head while Tsuna gapped. "Eh?"
Bianchi continued as if Tsuna had never said anything. "A peaceful place doesn't suit you!" She said. Bianchi moved a little dramatically and winced a little when she was shocked by Naruto's tag. "The place you should be is the dark world where it's more dangerous and thrilling!"
She hadn't said anything else, but Tsuna could swear he heard something like: Your place is by my side!
He sweatdropped. So Colonello wasn't kidding? She is in love with Reborn?
Isn't it pedophilia?
Reborn sighed and shook his head. "I told you Bianchi. I have the job to raise Tsuna, so I can't."
Bianchi looked at Reborn with wide eyes. "…Poor Reborn!"
"Eh?" Tsuna stared.
"Unless the Tenth dies due an accident or something, Reborn won't be free again!"
Tsuna backed away. "Wait what?"
She seriously wanted to kill him just because she wanted Reborn to be by her side? Couldn't she just wait till his job ended or when he moved to another student?!
Tsuna blinked when he heard her scream and stared with wide eyes as she was shocked.
"W-What happened?!" He asked as Bianchi fell to the floor, looking a little tired and trembling slightly.
Colonello grinned. "Naruto is pretty advanced for her age!" He said, and once again Tsuna felt like he was proud of the blonde girl.
Reborn nodded with a small smirk.
Tsuna blinked.
Was that a proud look on Reborn's face?
No… Tsuna shook his head. He must have imagined it.
Reborn tilted his fedora. "Naruto not only made sure that Bianchi couldn't move with the tag on her, she made so that every time Bianchi even think of killing Tsuna, she would suffer because of this."
Tsuna head snapped toward Reborn. "How do you know that? Naruto-chan never explained how she created the tag!"
"I have seen it before." Reborn answered. "Although, Naruto still has a long way to go before she can call herself a Master of this Art…"
What Art? Was what Tsuna wanted to ask. But he didn't even try, knowing that they won't explain.
Reborn continued. "Hers tags would have already killed or knocked Bianchi out by now at how powerful they were."
Colonello growled. "Are… They are."
Tsuna looked between them before raising one of his hands slowly.
"Er… What do we do with Bianchi-san?"
Both babies looked at him, as if only now remembering that he was there.
Reborn sighed. "I will take the tag off her and then we can look for Naruto. I need to tell her to not hurt Bianchi … If she is anything like her, as I think she is, then Naruto will more likely kill Bianchi by "accident"."
Tsuna blinked. "Eh?! You know how to take the tag off?"
Reborn smirked as he tilted his fedora and looked in his direction by the corner of his eyes. "Of course I know Dame-Tsuna. Who do you take me for?"
Tsuna glared, but was ignored by Reborn who approached Bianchi and started working with the tag. Colonello jumped from his shoulders to join the fedora wearing baby and from what he could see, they were talking in rushed whispers and in another language.
Tsuna frowned.
Why did it seem like they knew something about Naruto that not even his friend knew?
Gokudera
Gokudera Hayato knew that he had a foul temperament and that he wasn't good when it came with other people.
He was the bastard child of Antonio Viti, a Mafioso from the North of the Italia, with a beautiful Half-Japanese Pianist.
Due to the mafia law, his mother – Lavina – had only been allowed to see him three times in a year without revealing her true identity to him; after all, she was nothing more than a mistress. Regardless, he grew to love Lavina after bonding with her through piano and through her encouragement he did his best to improve his skill as pianist, especially because he loved to see the proud look in her face.
Lavina died a little after he found out that she was his real mother, and if he was honest with himself, then the moment his mother died, was the moment his foul temperament started.
After a while, Hayato ran away from home and abandoned the piano, although he didn't truly stop playing when it was the only reminder of his mother. Hayato, after running away, tried to join the Mafia. But since he was considered to be a mere musician (especially because his father had forced him to do several recitals), no one wanted to accept him into their family; and the fact that he was nothing more than an oriental half-breed and a bastard child lessened his chances of finding a willing Mafia Family to take him in.
At some point, Hayato meet a doctor called Shamal, or Trident Mosquito as he was known…
Shamal, as much as he hated to admit it, had been someone who he had looked up to and who had taught him how to use sticks of dynamite, which lead to him fining out his fascination with explosions and that made him be known as a human explosive, or as some called him: Hurricane Bomb or Smoking Bomb Hayato.
When Reborn called him, Hayato knew that he had finally found the opportunity to be accepted on a Famiglia. And it wasn't any Famiglia, it was the Vongola!
He had known that he couldn't be the new Vongola Decimo if he defeated the Sawada boy, who was the only heir alive, it didn't matter what Reborn told him.
But when he saw the Sawada boy…
The boy was pathetic and he relied too much on that blonde girl with whiskers marks on her cheeks.
It would be better for everyone, he had thought, if he just finished the boy.
But then…
But then the Sawada boy, Tsuna, decided to save him even when he had tried to kill him! He… Hayato didn't know how happy he felt when he looked at the boy, when he noticed that he had found his Sky… Someone who would always accept him and he would protect him return.
And someone so selfless like him was more than worthy of his loyalty.
The blond girl… Uzumaki Naruto…
She was stronger than he could have ever thought. And as he observed her, he decided that she had been born on the wrong period of time. She had the spirit of a warrior and was always watching her surrounding, waiting for an enemy… Her weapons of choices also helped with this belief of his…
And there was the fact Naruto was a Ninja.
She could even use Ninjutsu!
She had tried to explain to both him and Juudaime how she did it, but frankly, none of them could understand her explanation, only that it was something that only her and a few others could do, and all of them were Ninja like her lived in Hidden Villages.
Hayato really respect Naruto, she was really the perfect person for the position of right-hand man (Err… Woman) of Juudaime. And he was really honored when she decided to train him and help him with all the problems that came with fighting style.
Though… He really can't see why she also decided to train the Baseball Freak when the idiot just decided to place himself in their group.
He really didn't like Yamamoto Takashi and he didn't care that he was Juudaime's Rain Guardian.
He acted like an idiot, he was always joking around, he never stopped smiling like a retarded and he didn't take things seriously!
The only person that could be more insupportable than him was the Cow Brat, Lambo Bovino.
Naruto had the patience of a Saint. She was the only one that could control the brat and not get tired of his presence.
"Ah, Gokudera, did you come here for today training?"
Hearing the familiar voice of Naruto, Hayato blinked and shook his head before a grin formed in his face and he waved to the blonde who had her giant sword resting on her shoulder.
"Good afternoon, Sempai!"
She waved with her free hand as he approached her. When he stopped in front of her, Naruto made the sword disappear ("He really needed to learn that!" He thought with stars in his eyes) and clapped her hands together.
"Tsuna is with Reborn and Colonello at the moment, so why don't we train a little before he gets here?"
Hayato nodded, eager to train. "Yes, Sempai!"
She smiled. "Well, let's start with seeing how that Taijutsu style that I choose for you is working with you."
"A-A-Aneki!" Hayato gave a few steps back.
He had been really happy – and tired – when Juudaime appeared along Reborn and Colonello (He had heard the blond baby name before, he just couldn't remember where…) after two hours of training. But then, as he ran in the direction of Juudaime to greet him, he noticed a very familiar pink haired woman standing next to Juudaime.
There was no doubt… It couldn't be anyone else… He thought as he started to feel sick.
The woman was his Half-sister Bianchi Viti.
He didn't have anything against her – his problem was with his father –, but Bianchi…
Bianchi was the one whose power to create poison, even if unconscious, traumatized him for life because of her cookies. And now, he can't even look at her face without feeling like would have an indigestion or die.
Before he could faint, a white mask was placed over his sister face and he took a deep breathe, feeling a lot better, before he turned his attention toward Naruto – as did everybody else –.
"What?"
Juudaime hesitantly pointed toward Bianchi. "W-Why did you do that Naruto-chan?"
She shrugged. "He seemed to get sick just by looking at her face. I thought it would help."
Hayato sent her a grateful look and she gave a grin in return.
Taking a deep breath, Hayato looked at the now masked Bianchi. "What are you doing here Aneki?"
Before his sister could answer, Naruto spoke. "She came to kill Tsuna…" Hayato looked at her with wide eyes.
When you're a Guardian, you have to do anything to protect your Sky. You need to even go against your own morals to make sure that your Sky, your home, will be well protected and will be safe and healthy. It doesn't matter what the Guardian has to do.
Hayato was well aware that his bond with Juudaime was still developing. But he could feel the angrer inside him, it was impossible to not notice the way his Flames were acting… All he wanted to do was jump on his sister and prove to his Sky that he could protect him and that he would exterminate anyone that wanted to hurt him…
But this was his sister!
"So… Why is she here?" Naruto repeated his unanswered question, making him turn his attention back to the group.
He could feel his sister eyes on him, but he refused to look at her.
"Bianchi will help with Tsuna's training!"
"Eh?"
Hayato gaped and could only stare at Reborn when he heard that.
Shouldn't the Hitman be killing his sister or something? Was he giving her another chance?
He would never admit it… But Hayato hopped that it was the case.
Naruto frowned in displeasure and pointed toward his sister. "And what she will teach him? I know more about poison than she ever will. She is nothing more than an amateur compared with me. And I can't even call myself a specialist in poisons yet."
Bianchi clenched her fits but it was Reborn who spoke. Hayato was really surprised and in awe when Naruto only gritted her teeth in angrer when Reborn looked at her with sharp eyes. "Naruto, Bianchi will help."
When she opened her mouth to argue, Colonello looked at her and shook his head.
Naruto growled.
Hayato blinked and backed a way, feeling a little confused.
Had Naruto's eyes changed color for a second? Or had he imagined it.
The blonde girl looked like she wanted to argue, but as she placed a hand over her chest and took a deep breath, as if in pain, she nodded.
"Very well." She then looked at him for a second before turning around, walking in the direction of the house of her guardian. "If she hurts any of the boys, she is dead. I don't care if she is in love with you or if you know her from before."
Colonello grinned and folded his arms. Hayato and Tsuna never heard him as he spoke to Reborn.
"She acts just like her…" He muttered. "I am so proud of my girl…"
Reborn nodded with a small smirk while Bianchi looked between them a little confused.
"W-Wait Naruto-chan, where you are going?!" Juudaime yelled after her.
"I will see if there is anything to eat on the kitchen…"
Hayato looked at her back and smiled with a determined look in his face.
He needed to train more so he could protect Juudaime better… He couldn't hesitate when it came to his Sky and he would have to act even if the threat to his Sky was a member of his family or someone from their Famiglia…
He would show Naruto… He decided.
He would get strong enough to protect Juudaime, and her.
She won't have to worry or even fight to protect him.
"Speaking of food…" Reborn said, making Hayato and the others look at him. "On this hot day… I want to eat eel…"
Hayato and Tsuna gaped when Bianchi make her bike appear out of nowhere and disappeared with it.
"W-Where did she go…?" Juudaime muttered in disbelief.
Hayato shook his head not knowing what to say.
Colonello was the one who gave them an answer.
"I think she is going to Hamana Lake to get an eel for Reborn, kora… It isn't even on this town, kora…"
Hayato and Tsuna sweatdropped.
Oh…
So it was so easy to get rid of her? All they needed to do was tell her that Reborn wanted something that she could only get outside of Namimori?
It was… Good to know…
Naruto
Naruto was walking with Tsuna to school along Reborn and Colonello, who always appeared out from nowhere when she walked out of Kawahira's house (Was the blonde sleeping in a tree outside of the house?!), when her Fan-Girl radar started tingling. She narrowed her eyes in annoyance and turned her head to see the same brown haired girl that she had seen the day Reborn had arrived in Namimori.
The girl, it seemed, had some type of fetish for babies because she was always following Reborn around and looking like an idiot when she did so. She wasn't even a little discreet and if Naruto could be honest with herself, the Civilians Fan-Girls from Konoha where better at following others around than this girl could ever be.
"She is here again…" She muttered, glaring in the direction that she could feel the girl presence.
Colonello, who was sitting in her shoulder, patted her head. "Now, now… Calm down and remember; she is only a civilian."
"And the worse type of Fan-Girls; are civilians…" Naruto said as mere of fact.
When she saw that the blonde baby shuddered at this, she knew he agreed with her.
With a sigh she raised her head and looked at the sky with a thoughtful expression while trying to ignore the brown haired stalker.
She frowned in thought, placing a hand over her chest as she tried to forget any type of annoyance and anger toward the girl.
Naruto wasn't sure why, but she had noticed that when she was feeling any type of intense emotion or wanted to protect something – or someone – with all she had, she felt like there was battle between powers inside her. She couldn't explain the feeling very well, but she knew it had nothing to do with the Fox. Actually, while her connection with the Fox was almost nonexistent, it always found a way to contact her to try calm her down, which made her worried.
If the Fox was afraid of whatever was happening to her, then she knew that it wasn't a good sign.
And something told her that she would die if she didn't find out what was going on.
And frankly, Naruto didn't want to die yet.
The image of Lambo from the future flashed in her mind. His cold and angry green eye and that familiar look that she had seen in Sasuke's face several times before…
Naruto shook her head.
"Hum…" Naruto turned her head toward the stalked. The girl was shifting next Reborn, blushing as she hugged herself. "Can you hug me… like this?" She asked Reborn.
"What the hell, kora?!" Colonello muttered with deadpanned expression in his face.
"What the heck?" Naruto and Tsuna also muttered with the same look in their faces.
Reborn on other hand, was looking at the girl with an innocent look in his face.
"Don't touch me so easily." Reborn said when she tried to approach him more. He made a pause and took a gun out of nowhere. "Because I am a Hitman."
The girl backed away with wide eyes.
Tsuna paled beside Naruto. "Hey! Reborn, don't say such things in the middle of the day!"
Naruto noticed the girl the moment she moved. Recognizing the glint of angrer in the stalker's eyes and the way her muscles tensed, Naruto stopped her from hitting Tsuna before she could even raise her head.
"Good reflexes there, Naruto." Reborn said with nod.
Naruto narrowed her eyes toward the baby, not even a little happy with him.
He was always trying to create situations were Tsuna would be hurt. She really hated that.
Naruto took a deep breath, stopping before she got furious at the almost slap on the face. Turning her attention back to the stalker, she narrowed her eyes.
The stalker tried to free herself. "H-Hey! Let me go!"
"You will stop stalking us then." Naruto said.
"EH?" Tsuna jumped, pointing toward the brown haired girl. "SHE HAD BEEN STALKING US?!"
Reborn nodded. "For several weeks now."
Tsuna gave the baby an accusatory look, paling a little. Naruto wondered if he was worried about the fact that the girl could know about the mafia or if it was because he thought that the girl was similar to Bianchi.
"AND WHY DIDN'T YOU SAY ANYTHING?!"
"It wasn't important, Dame-Tsuna."
Tsuna opened his mouth to argue, but the stalker interrupted him, glaring at the brown haired boy.
"Stop yelling at him you bastard!" Tsuna blinked and gaped in her direction. "Babies are angels with pure white hearts! You should treat them with love and care!"
Naruto and Colonello snorted out loud at this, both of them with the same thought in mind. Reborn? Having a pure white heart? As if.
"Good thing Reborn isn't a baby." Naruto said.
Or at least, I don't think so…
Naruto had come to the conclusion that Reborn, Fon and Colonello were using a sort of permanent Illusion or something made them be deaged, because she really believed they were adults after observing them for a while and the times she looked in their shadows and saw an adult form instead of an infant.
The girl looked at her with suspicion. "What do you mean?"
"He is a grown man who is suffering from an incurable and unknown disease that makes him look like a baby."
Colonello nodded sagely. "Yes… And there are more of us."
The girl looked at Colonello with wide eyes. It seemed that she had only now noticed him.
"S-So, Reborn-chan isn't a baby?"
"No." Naruto, Colonello and Reborn said at the same time.
The girl sighed and looked at the ground a little depressed and Naruto let her go.
"O-Oh… So he isn't a baby…" The girl turned around as if she was a puppet manipulated by invisible string and started to walk away from them.
"W-What a strange girl…" Tsuna muttered next to her as they watched the girl walk away in a depressive mood.
"You did well Naruto…" Reborn said. "It is good for the right-hand man of a Mafia Boss to know how to handle and diffuse different types of situations."
Tsuna yelled something at the baby Hitman, telling him how he didn't want Naruto involved with the mafia but she ignored her friend in favor of glaring at the fedora wearing baby.
She gritted her teeth when said baby smirked.
Insufferable bastard.
Tsuna
Tsuna sighed sadly as he walked to school. Naruto was already there, having been called by Hibari who wanted to spar with her, so he was alone. The sun above him was making him feel sick and the fact that he stayed all night awake yesterday studying with Naruto and Reborn, didn't make feel better. All he wanted to do was to go home and stay inside of his room. But of course, doing so would make Naruto disappointed in him (and he didn't want to see her sad) and Reborn would hit him with something to force him to go to school.
"Good morning!" Tsuna jumped at the voice and his head snapped forward.
His eyes widened. HIIIEE! It's the strange girl from yesterday!
He backed away a little.
She was dressed strangely, with a Kendo's armor and was holding a purple helmet under one of her arms while in her right hand, she was holding a Hockey's staff. Tsuna instantly tensed when he saw it, his training with Naruto and Reborn's kicked in and he fell to a defensive stance.
There was no way he could fight this girl if it was what she wanted. It was wrong to hit girls (And Naruto would kill him if she thought he was thinking that. Tsuna thought with a shivered in fear) and she was only a civilian (which was what Naruto and Reborn liked to call those who weren't involved with the mafia or didn't know how to fight).
"W-What do you want?"
The girl, who had dark bangs under her brown eyes, glared at him. "I am Haru, who couldn't sleep last night because of all the thoughts I had."
Tsuna looked at her in disbelief. "And you wear such things when you didn't have enough sleep?!"
"It's not that!" The girl snapped. "That would make me a complete idiot!"
Tsuna opened his mouth to comment, but thought against it.
"I can't believe what that blonde girl from yesterday said! Reborn-chan and the blonde baby can't be adults. I looked into the internet and didn't find anything about this so called disease. But… But if Reborn-chan is indeed a Hitman, then this means you're the Mafia Boss." She pointed in his direction.
"It could be Naruto-chan?" He muttered.
Why him? Why it was always him?
"Don't be stupid!" He winced a little at the tone of her voice. "She is a girl!"
She is a girl who would break all of your bones with her little finger if she heard you saying that! Tsuna thought, sparing a few glances around him in fear that Naruto would appear out of nowhere and start yelling at the girl.
His friend was very proud of her skills and the fact that she was girl with said skills. She hated it when someone underestimated her because of her gender. Just because she was girl, she liked to remind him, it didn't mean that she needed to be protected or that she didn't know how to defend herself.
"And since you're the Mafia Boss –" He turned his attention back to the brown haired girl who was now wearing the helmet. "– then you must be really strong Tsuna-san."
She knew his name? Oh yeah… Reborn had called him Dame-Tsuna yesterday.
"If you're strong, I will believe that blonde girl and Reborn-chan and won't complain about anything in his life! So please!"
She raised the Hockey's staff as if it was a Shinai.
"HAVE A MATCH WITH ME!" He dodged as she tried to tackle him.
"W-Wait!" He dodged again. "L-Look!" He decided that it would be better if he tried to talk to her, maybe resonance with her. "I'll never be a Mafia Boss –" She interrupted him before he could say anything else.
"SO YOU'RE ONLY TOYING WITH REBORN-CHAN!"
Tsuba felt like crying. I don't know what to do! I don't want to fight her! Naruto-chan, help!
He kept dodging her attacks, mentally asking for help and a little of guidance, for a few more minutes before his pleas were answered. But it wasn't by the person he had been expecting.
Someone jumped in front of him and it didn't take for Tsuna to recognize him. "G-Gokudera-kun?!"
Gokudera raised one his arms. "Juudaime! Please, stay behind!" He said, raising six dynamites before a feral smirk formed in his face.
Tsuna's eyes widened and he moved to stop his friend, but it was too late.
"DIE!" Gokudera threw the dynamites.
The girl stared at the dynamites and when the explosion occurred, Tsuna panicked as he ran to the other side of the bridge. She was nowhere to be seen. He noted with panic. But Tsuna then heard a cry for help and looked in direction of the river, his wide as he saw the crazy girl.
Behind him, Gokudera really didn't care as he nodded. "You're safe now Juudaime." He said, feeling proud of himself.
"Bwah!" The girl was trying to keep her head out of the water. "Sav…" She coughed water and continued fighting. "SAVE ME!"
Tsuna was panicking.
What Naruto-chan would do?!
He truly didn't expect an answer, but he got it anyway. "We've to save her."
"R-Reborn!" Tsuna yelled when he turned to see the fedora wearing baby next to him.
"No! T-This river… Isn't… Isn't something you can swim… Reborn-chan!" He heard the girl say.
Reborn ignored her in favor of pointing a gun in his direction.
Tsuna paled.
Oh no!
Reborn smirked.
"Save her with your Dying Will, Dame-Tsuna."
BANG!
"REBORN! I'LL SAVE HARU AS IF I WERE TO DIE!"
Tsuna smiled a little as he accepted the towel from Gokudera before sighing. It had been a long time since Reborn had used that bullet on him. Naruto had made sure that the baby couldn't find the opportunity to do so. She had said something about him reaching his real potential in his own way, not using a cheating method like the bullet.
Tsuna didn't understand what she had meant all that much, but he had been happy to know that the bullet wasn't going to be used and he didn't have to end in only his boxers.
But then…
Here he was… Having only his boxers with him…
Tsuna sighed once an again.
This was so embarrassing.
"Thank you very much…" He turned his attention to the girl – Haru –, who had her head behind her legs and her towel over her head.
Gokudera glared at her. "Did you even think about your actions?! If something happens to the Juudaime, you won't exist in this world." He gave a feral and malicious smirk. "I would love to see what Sempai would do to you. And I would be more than happy to help her."
Tsuna shivered.
He didn't even want to imagine what damages Gokudera and Naruto could do together.
"Pff…" Was Haru laughing?
Gokudera's face darkened and Tsuna blinked his eyes confused.
"I will save Haru as if I were to die!" Haru jumped, laughing happily. She then made a strange and dizzy expression when she turned around to look at him. She giggled. "I thought such cheesy lines could only be seen in TV."
Tsuna looked at her in despair and horror.
W-What is wrong with her?!
Tsuna tried to make her stop, but she continued to talking and giggling.
"It was… very wonderful –" She said, looking at him with a blush in her face. "– that you jumped in, in place of Reborn-chan, Juudaime."
Tsuna looked at her as if she was crazy. "WHAT?"
Reborn smirked.
She placed a hand over her heart and gave a long sigh. "My heart is… pounding…?" She made a pause, ignoring Tsuna protests. "I can say Haru has fallen in love with Tsuna-san!"
"WHAAT?!" What the hell was he hearing?
Gokudera placed himself between Tsuna and Haru. "Stay from Juudaime you stupid girl! The only one who can have his heart is Sempai! You're not worthy!"
Tsuna blushed.
He won't mind it if Naruto – He shook his head. He liked Kyoko. So he needed to think about Kyoko! Naruto was his friend! Nothing else!
Haru glared at his friend. "What do you mean?!"
"Exactly what you heard wench!" Gokudera snarled.
"Gokudera-kun…" Tsuna tried to stop him.
"If you want to stay by Tsuna side than you will have to fight Naruto." Reborn said.
"REBORN! WHAT ARE YOU SAYING?!" Tsuna yelled with a blush in his face.
Why did those two talk as if Naruto was his?!
Haru nodded. "Ok, Haru will fight against this Naruto." She made a pause. "Who is Naruto?"
"I am Naruto." Tsuna jumped and turned around to see Naruto walking in their direction. She stopped next a tree and after greeting them, she looked at him before glaring at Reborn. "And what the hell I told you about using that freaking bullet on him dattebeyo!?"
Reborn tilted his fedora. "It's for his own good."
Naruto snorted before throwing a scroll in Tsuna direction. And if it weren't for her training, he would have never gotten it in time before the object hit his head.
"Reborn called me saying that you would need some spare clothes because you fell in the river."
Tsuna glared at Reborn.
So he had been planning this?
With a sigh, Tsuna looked at Naruto, blushing a little when she smiled at him before she turned her attention toward Gokudera who was complaining about Haru. Shaking his head, Tsuna opened the scroll and bit his thumb to open it. The clothes weren't much, just a spare uniform and shoes.
Which remained him that he was more likely late for his supplemental classes…
"YOU!"
Naruto blinked and looked at Haru who was glaring at her and pointing a finger toward her. His blonde friend sighed. "Ah… It is you again Stalker-san…"
Gokudera high-fived the blonde, laughing at the nickname and the face Haru made at hearing it while Naruto shook her head with a small grin.
"Haru challenges you for a duel! The winner can have Tsuna-san's heart!"
Tsuna looked between them in panic.
Naruto scratched her cheek a little confused. "How can someone have another's heart dattebayo?" She asked cutely.
Tsuna facepalmed.
He didn't know if it was a good thing that Naruto didn't understand what Haru meant or if it was a good thing.
"N-Naruto-chan…" She raised a hand, stopping him from talking.
"Hey, stalker-san… Do you see this tree?" Haru nodded a little confused and Naruto gave an innocent smile. "This is you if you don't leave us –" She pointed to him and the others. "– alone. Watch…"
Naruto punched the tree which was shattered in small pieces. Tsuna gaped at her while Gokudera cheered and Reborn hummed with interest. He didn't know Naruto was so strong. He had seen her punch a wall and make a small crater on it, but he never thought she was this strong.
Haru paled in fear and Tsuna couldn't blame her. Naruto could be really scary when she wanted.
Haru then muttered something under breathing and ran away. Gokudera laughed when he saw this and grinned toward Naruto with awe in his eyes.
"Sempai is so strong!"
Reborn nodded. "It is good for Naruto to show others that they can't take her position away."
"What position?" Tsuna and Naruto asked, but were ignored by the baby.
Sighing, Naruto looked at him. "Now… What is this about her having your heart?"
Tsuna blushed and avoided her eyes.
How he was going to answer that?!
Naruto
Naruto ate her Soumen as she heard, half-sleep, as Tsuna told her about his last homework assignment on his supplemental classes and how Gokudera and Yamamoto and him just couldn't resolve the question 7. He them went on to how Haru appeared in his house, coming to look after her so she could tell Naruto that she respected her and that she won't try to steal Tsuna from her (Naruto raised an eyebrow at this while Tsuna blushed). Haru also couldn't resolve the question so she called Bianchi for help, which made Gokudera sick and then she called her father.
The blonde sweatdropped when she heard how the stalker's father, who was a Math teacher on a University, got the question wrong which lead to Reborn correcting him. Hearing that the man believed Reborn to be some type of mathematical genius didn't surprise her, not even a bit.
Tsuna sighed next to her. "Why we are eating Soumen again? Lately we've only been eating left-overs from mid-year gifts."
Naruto opened her mouth to comment but focused her attention on her food. She had been ready to tell Tsuna that he should learn to appreciate what he had and be happy that he had food on the dinner table. But she decided against it.
As a small child, she rarely had food. She could never go to the market because they kicked her out and at the orphanage, the matron and the rest of the staff tended to ignore her and she ended with the left overs. She only started to have three meals a day when after she befriend Shikamaru and he noticed that she was too thin and looked a little sick. He had told his mother, who in turn, practically forced her to live with the Nara Clan.
Naruto hated to admit it, but she is sure that if it wasn't for the Fox, she doubted she would have survived past her fourth birthday.
"D-Don't complain, Tsu-kun! It's good for us financially." Nana gave her son a look full of disapproval.
Naruto glared at nothing in particular.
She couldn't understand that. Didn't Sawada Iemitsu send money for his family? She doubted the man didn't gain a good amount of money with his job.
"I like the Soumen that Maman makes." Reborn said.
Bianchi, who was sitting next to him, nodded. "I like it too."
When Nana looked at her, as if expecting Naruto to say something, the blonde shrugged. "I don't mind it… Soumen isn't so bad…"
And really… She didn't mind it. If she did, then she wouldn't have accepted Nana's offer when the woman invited her to eat with them.
Nana smiled. "Why thank you Reborn-chan, Bianchi-chan and Naruto-chan!"
"Gahaha!" Naruto blinked at the familiar way of showing up while Tsuna glared the direction that the laughter came from.
"It is me! Lambo!" Naruto smiled as the small boy pointed to himself with a proud smirk.
"Lambo, manners." She said as he jumped in her lap.
The small boy looked at her for a second before pouting and waving toward the others. "Hello everyone." He said as Naruto started placing his horns in the right place. It looked like her boy had just wake up.
"Hello, Lambo-kun!" Nana waved back. "I will get a bowl of Soumen for you." She said before walking away.
"You have been training the boy well, Naruto." Reborn said, making Lambo glare at him.
Naruto facepalmed.
Why the Hitman couldn't keep his mouth shut?
"Reborn! Die Reborn!" Lambo took a bazooka out of nowhere (How did the people of this dimension did it?! Where did they hide their weapons?!).
It happened too fast and the next thing Naruto knew, Lambo was being fired away by his own bullet. Cursing and glaring at Reborn, Naruto jumped after Lambo, telling Tsuna that she would be back later.
BOOM!
She winced when Lambo collided against an apartment complex.
This isn't good dattebayo! She ran faster, using her chakra to walk on the walls to the apartment that she knew Lambo was. When she finally reached it, she blinked her eyes when she saw a middle aged woman, a teenager girl and a boy – a little older or maybe younger than her – sitting around a wooden box and looking inside it.
"Excuse me." They jumped and turned around, staring at her with wide eyes.
"H-How did you get here?!" The red haired boy yelled as he pointed in her direction.
Naruto felt amused at this.
He and Tsuna would be great friends with this attitude, she was sure of it.
"I am here for Lambo."
The woman, who she thought was the mother, blinked her eyes. "Lambo?"
Naruto pointed to the young boy who was on the corner of the room, shaking his head with tears in his eyes before he saw her. "Mama! Reborn is being mean!"
Naruto patted his head as he jumped into her arms. "Reborn is always mean, Lambo. And what I told you about attacking an enemy who is clearly stronger than you?"
"To not to…" He muttered. With a sigh, Lambo avoided her eyes. "Lambo is sorry Mama…"
"Aren't you a little young to be his mother?"
Naruto smiled at Lambo before she looked at the other girl. "I am not his mother, but I do not mind if he calls me that." She shrugged. "Well, I better go. Sorry for the inconvenience…" She looked at their destroyed wall. "And the wall…"
She scratched the back of her head.
Would Kawahira be angry with her if she asked for money to pay for this wall?
Slowly, she turned around, pointing toward the wall. "About the wall…"
The older woman waved a hand. "Don't worry; this little boy family already sent money for the repairs." She said, taking said money from the wooden box.
The red haired boy placed everything that they had taken from the box back inside it (from wine to grenades) and closed it. He then grabbed the box and walked toward Naruto.
"You can have it though."
Naruto placed Lambo in her shoulder, telling him to hold onto her and accepted the box with a smile… She was sure she saw the boy blush, but she was too focused on the fact that he felt like home – much like Shikamaru, Hinata, Konohamaru and Gaara did – to pay attention to this sort of thing... It was really strange… This feeling…
And for some reason… It was like being next to him, calmed part of the unknown power inside her, even if only a little.
She shook her head.
"Ok, then." Naruto grinned as she walked to the nearest exit, which was the hole on the wall. "See ya around, Megane-san." She said, waving to the boy family as she jumped ignoring the screams from the boy and his family.
As she made her way back to Tsuna house and held Lambo in place, so he won't fall, Naruto frowned and sighed.
That boy made her remember how much she missed her friends…
Life felt a little empty without them…
Kurama (Kyuubi)
Kurama watched with wide eyes as the Orange Flames got stronger, but at the same time calmed down a bit, when his container's hand touched the red haired boy's hand when she took the wooden box from him. As he observed the Flames a little more closely he noticed the Orange Flames had merged a little, just a little bit, with the reddish-brown ones.
He never would admit to say this but…
"What in the name of my Father just happened here?!"
He stared at the Flames from his safe corner. His mind was in turmoil as he tried to understand what just happened.
The boy had the Orange Flames, if he wasn't wrong, and even sealed away, his Flames were powerful enough to active her Flames after both humans kept in contact for a long period of time. After that, his vessel's Flames were always angry, constantly fighting against one another and if he wasn't wrong, it lacked harmony. That girly boy that she cherished so much made things worse.
So what was so special about that red haired boy with glasses to make the orange flames calm down a little? Was it his Flames? If so then why did they affect his container's Flames when not even her father's (and wasn't the Fox surprised when he saw the human male once again and in the form of a baby?) had any effect on her?
Kurama stopped at this.
The boy had Flames similar to that baby with the hat, he had Yellow Flames (For some reason, he would see the colors of the Flames and knew how each of them felt, it was like an aura surrounding the humans). And now that he thought about it, when the brat touched his hand (even if only for a millisecond and only a little) a bond was formed between them.
He narrowed his eyes.
The bond was the same one the brat had with the Hyuuga girl, the lazy boy, the monkey brat and Shukaku's container. But different from the bond she created with the red haired boy, which was active; her bonds with those humans were dormant…
They were dormant because their Flames were also dormant! He realized.
Kurama didn't really understand what the business with those Flames were, but something told him that the Orange Flames and the Reddish-brown Flames weren't meant to fight against one another, and they also weren't meant to exist in the same body.
He also came to the conclusion that if he wanted to survive and not destroyed by those Flames, his container would need to find and bond with… How had that Kobayashi human called it?... She will have to find her Guardians. The red haired boy was one; those friends of her were others.
His theory was simple.
Find those Guardians of hers and be over with the problem with her Flames. He was sure that the Guardians would help stabilize her Flames (Or at least, he hoped so).
Two from the Orange Flames side had been found (Although only one bond was active at the moment). And three from the Reddish-brown Flames had also been found. It wouldn't take long to find the others.
Easy!
At least it would be if most of her Guardians didn't live back in the Elemental Nations.
Kurama roared.
Why everything related to his container had to be so difficult and complicated?!
And why he had to end with her as his container?!
This was that Uchiha's fault!
It was always that blasted Clan fault!
Reborn
Reborn was drinking his coffee, sitting with Fon and Colonello as they watched his student and his Famiglia on another usual day for them. Fon – who was sitting on his right – was there to see how Naruto's had improved since he saw her for the last time and he also wanted to see his nephew (Not that the boy even knew he was there). Colonello – who was sitting on his left –, on other hand, looked like he wanted to kill the boys with Naruto for stealing her attention away from him.
Lambo was in her arms as Naruto ran away from Hibari who was trying to attack her. Gokudera was yelling at him and trying to hit him with one of his dynamites. Yamamoto was laughing on the background and trying to calm Gokudera down and Tsunayoshi looked like he would have a break down at any second.
"Gahaha! Run faster Mama!"
"Fight me, Omnivore. You promised."
"I did no such thing dattebayo!"
"Leave Sempai alone, bastard!"
"Hahaha! Leave them be, Gokudera, they are just playing a game."
"N-Naruto-chan! Look out!"
BOOM!
Reborn finished his coffee calmly as he ignored the chaos.
It was their day off.
So there was no school, no training and he had nothing planned for his student, so he let the group be. Actually, Reborn was even a little confused to how they all gathered in the same place.
At first it was only him and his fellow Arcobaleno, but then the Bovino brat appeared being followed by Naruto (who greeted them with her customary foxlike grin). A few moment after that, Hibari appeared demanding a fight, saying that Naruto had told him that she would fight him. Tsunayoshi, Gokudera and Yamamoto appeared a little after and this was how the chaos started.
Although Reborn didn't mind the chaos, he was rather impressed to how it seemed to follow both Tsunayoshi and Naruto around.
"Naruto, kora?"
Reborn looked at Colonello before focusing his attention on Naruto who had stopped running from Hibari. Kicking the boy away when he tried to attack her.
Her eyes were wide and she was looking around them desperately.
Reborn shared a look with Fon as they jumped from the branch of the tree they had been sitting on to follow Colonello as he approached his daughter.
"N-Naruto-chan? What is wrong?" Tsunayoshi asked with a worried.
He, much like the other boys, had noticed that something was clearly wrong with her.
Gently, Naruto placed Lambo on the ground and focused her attention on a single spot in front of her.
"It is the same feeling…" She muttered something else under her breath, but Reborn didn't understand it.
He opened his mouth to ask what was going on when an explosion followed by purely white smoke happened. And if it was possible, Naruto's eyes got even wider.
"A Summon…!"
"Summon…" Fon repeated the word with a frown after he greeted his nephew with a nod (The boy glared at him, but the Arcobaleno ignored the attitude. He was used to it). "Didn't Kushina talk about Summons sometimes when we asked her about the place she had come from…?"
Colonello nodded. "She did, kora. It was something about toads and a friend of hers, kora…"
Reborn looked at the smoke, which started to disappear, with narrowed eyes. Leon transformed into a gun and he kept him close by in case he needed to act. "I don't think this summon has anything to do with toads… I can see human forms there."
Fon tensed and kept close to Naruto as did Colonello.
When the smoke finally cleaned for good, Reborn was a little surprised and disappointed when he noticed that three persons who just arrived were children.
The first person he saw was a boy with a lazy expression. He had narrow brown eyes and his black hair was tied in a spiky ponytail. He was wearing a pair of stud earrings, a strange green lined mesh T-shit under a short sleeved grey jacket with green edges, which was adorned on both the sleeves and the back with a circle with a line through it. He too had brown pants and blue sandals, not too different from the sandals Naruto liked to use.
The second person was a girl with dark blue hair and white eyes, which had a tinge of lavender, and if he didn't know any better and if she wasn't so aware of the world around her, Reborn would say that she was blind. Her hair was short, levelled hime-cut style just above her forehead with chin-length strands framing her face. She wore a cream-colored hooded-jacket with a fire symbol on the upper right and left sleeved and fur around the cuffs and hem. She too had blue sandals and was wearing navy blue pants.
The last person was actually a young boy with short spiky brown hair and black eyes. He was wearing a yellow shirt with a symbol in red that resembled a leaf somehow, gray pants and a long blue scarf. He too had blue sandals and a pair of green goggles around his neck.
"H-Hinata? Shika? Is that Konohamaru too?" Naruto exclaimed, making him look at her in wonder.
So she knew them…
Tears formed into the unique eyes of the blue haired girl as she stared at Naruto. She then moved, being followed by the boy with the blue scarf as both of them threw their arms around the blonde and sobbed. Naruto laughed happily as she hugged both of them before grinning at the lazy looking boy as he patted her head with a fond smile.
Reborn stared at them before he finally noticed something that he should he noticed long ago.
"You have got to be kidding me, kora." Colonello said, faintly.
Reborn didn't blame him. He was also surprised.
A Sky…
Naruto was a Sky and those three were her Guardians.
There was no way he could mistake the bond that was just awakened (not created, because some told him that the bond between them was old) for anything else.
"I missed you, Boss!" The young boy said with a teary grin.
"Naruto, never disappear like that again! Do you hear me?!" The girl yelled between sobs as she held onto Naruto's arm.
"Troublesome blonde… We were worried about you." The lazy boy muttered with a soft, almost unnoticeable smile when Naruto looked in his direction with a happy grin in her face.
Yes… There was no way he could mistake the bond between them as anything else. Not with how they were looking at Naruto.
She was their home, their friend, their family, their leader, their safe-heaven... She was everything.
Now the question was…
How he – Reborn – hadn't noticed her Flames before?
"[When asked why he appeared by Naruto] That's the same question I was going to ask that perverted bastard!"
– Gamabunta
The Arrival
I don't really have anything to say about this chapter aside from the follow question:
Should Naruto have two sets of Guardians or should Naruto have a balanced number of Guardians (For example: Four Flames from the Sky and Four Flames from the Earth)?
Well… I hope you guys liked this chapter… Oh! And if you can, take a look on my other KHR Fanfiction, Camellia!
Anyway, don't forget to:
Review, Favorite or Follow and if you have questions/suggestions, just send me a PM.
- Cissnei