Geebus, I've been really super busy. Like, so busy that I'm so shocked that this semester is almost over. One more semester… and I graduate. This is so unreal to me. I, a 6th year senior can FINALLY graduate. The sad thing? I am thinking about further learning either in graduate school or law school. LOLOLOLOLOL—I can never escape. OTL
ANYWAYS, WE ARE HERE TO BE INTRODUCED TO TSUNA AND DINO!
((I had a lot of coffee when I started writing this, can you tell? 8D))
Disclaimer: You know the dealio without me saying anything, yeyeyeyeyyeye?
Unlocking Event & Introduction- Medium Characters
While Haru was laying on her bed to rest, Koko had come in with a glass of water for her to drink.
It appeared as though Rebo asked of her to do so and Haru was grateful.
However, she didn't want to drink anything right now so she asked that Koko would leave the glass on the desk for her to drink later whenever she felt thirsty.
Haru had laid on the bed for what she guessed to be about an hour or so.
The candy had finally started to work its magic on her, and she didn't feel so dreadfully exhausted anymore. It wasn't like she had enough energy to run a few miles, but she had enough energy to feel perfectly fine.
Perhaps it was a side effect of the candy she ate, or perhaps her body was getting too used to this world, but she didn't feel like sleeping. Rather, she was wide awake.
Not being able to go to sleep, she had to find something else to do.
"Oh! I should write what I learned today in my notebook." Haru rushed over to her desk and pulled out her notebook that she was constantly updating every day with new things that she's learned in it.
Once she was finished writing about her new discovery of the Pheler's candy, and the people of the castle, she hid her notebook in her desk once more.
She has found herself with the same predicament as before: She had nothing to do and was bored. Nothing something shinning in the corner of her eye, she laid her eyes on the pretty brush that she found in the cave that day she explored the forest.
For something found in a cave, it was in good condition and it was clean. Lightly running her finger over it to feel how smooth the surface of the brush was, and could feel light bumps when she passed over the intricately engraved designs on the brush.
Curious as to how good this brush was, she pulled the hair tie out of her hair and picked up the brush in her right hand and started to brush her hair with it.
One wouldn't know by looking at it at first, but this brush was hiding a magical feature! It… IT SANG!- or at least, that's what Haru assumed it was trying to do.
Eyebrows furrowed, the discovery of this brush was rather disappointing.
Every time the brush glided through her soft hair, it would make sounds.
Haru couldn't say that the sounds were pretty since they just sounded like a garbled mess of sounds, where the notes would run into each other and clash with one another, producing a rather insulting sound to the ear. Her eyes would twitch as notes clashed with each other.
Unable to tolerate the sound for much longer, she stopped brushing her hair to instead inspect this magical brush. There were no signs of holes for the music to come out of, nor was there anything that looked like a power supply for this brush.
'Wait, they don't even really have technology in this world right? Does that mean this brush was enchanted to play music? Why would someone be so cruel to charm a brush to play such horrid music?' Haru's lips pursed at the thought.
Just remembering the sounds this brush produced made her furrow her brows further than they were already furrowed.
"Defective. Haru knows why it was tossed away now. Who would want this?"
Plip.
A small sound of a drop falling barely registered into Haru's left ear.
The only thing to the left of her was the glass of water that Koko had set down earlier. Did this cup just make a sound? Nothing could have bothered it, so why was it making sounds?
A ghost?
The blood rushed from Haru's face as she thought of the possibility.
'No, that's impossible, right? Though… wizards and werecats exist, so surely ghosts do as well?' Haru reasoned with herself.
What could she do if this room was indeed haunted? Did she give up this room to the ghost? Become happy roommates with the ghost? Maybe she could try to talk to it and reason for it to inhabit one of the many other rooms in this tower?
While Haru was busy thinking to herself, a low rumbling sound from the floors below her echoed through the tower, and it grew louder and louder until Haru's thoughts were interrupted by a loud bellowing sound from beneath her.
Loud banging and something which Haru could only guess was the cries of unfamiliar beasts echoed through the entire tower, scaring Haru out of her mind.
"Hahi! Haru is not a good haunting target! Please leave Haru alone!" She shrieked as she dove underneath the desk to hide from the unknown dangers.
The door to her room slammed open and Rebo flew in on top of his broomstick.
Without saying any words to announce his presence, if it wasn't evident to Haru already that he let himself in, he asked her a question:
"Did you open the door I told you not to open?" His dark and angry tone was scary enough to make Haru huddle herself even further under the desk.
Even though she had done nothing wrong, she couldn't bring herself to reveal herself to look into his angry face.
The sound of her heavily beating heart pounded in her ears along with the light sound from the chattering of her teeth. Hands clutched together, she could feel that her hands started to feel slightly moist from her anxiety.
She had lost her voice from her fear, but she knew that by not answering him, he would only get increasingly more upset.
Taking a deep breath and clenching her teeth to stop them from chattering.
Guuuuuuuoooooo!
Bang Bam Bang!
Gyeeeeeeh!
The loud sounds from below continued to echo all the way up to the upper floors of the tower, furthering Haru's anxious feelings.
Just what was going on here? Did these sounds have any correlation to why Rebo was this mad?
"H-Haru didn't open the door you specifically told her not to open. I-is there something wrong?" Haru asked as she slowly revealed herself from under the desk.
The scary sounds continued as Haru meekly answered Rebo who was now hovering above her on his broomstick.
Looking over her desk, he noticed the brush that she was using earlier and picked it up before looking at her questioningly, imploring her for answers.
"It was in a cave behind a small waterfall in the forest. Haru found it and ended up taking it with her. It's a weird brush that makes really bad music when it's used." Haru explained.
Nodding his head, Rebo looked around the room as if he were looking for something. Once he noticed the glass of water on the desk, he heaved a heavy sigh as if he had just solved a mystery that only he knew of.
Maybe if she waited long enough, she would be told the reason behind him relaxing? At least, that is what she was hoping for.
Instead of getting what she wished for, Rebo just took the brush off from the top of her desk and stashed it into the sleeve of his robe.
Getting increasingly annoyed with the noise around them, he picked up the glass of water and shouted at it. "Just shut up already!"
To say the very least, Haru was dumbfounded to see him shouting at the glass of water.
'Oh no, Rebo-san has finally snapped and gone crazy.' Haru paled and started to immediately plan her escape, but could she actually run away from a magical magician? Couldn't she just easily get zapped with magic?
Before she leapt into action to escape from the 'crazy magician,' she noticed that the sounds have died down.
Did yelling at the glass of water really stop the sounds?
Were glasses something like a universal remote in this world? If she told it to play Chopin, would it?
There was quiet for a minute before the noises started up again, but this time it was louder than before.
BAM BAM!
GAAAAOOOOOO!
BANG!
"Tell that one to shut up already or I won't let you guys meet!" Rebo shouted into the cup once more.
Just like last time, the noises stopped.
This furthered Haru's conviction that Rebo had gone crazy and by this point she was already at the door.
"Koko! Rebo-san has gone crazy-desu! We need to give him medicine and make him take a nap!" Haru shouted.
Already irritated, Rebo didn't have the patience for this. He slammed the glass back onto the desk, but not with enough force to break anything of course.
He urged the broomstick over to where Haru was and he nudged her arm purposely as he passed by her. With a cock of the head, Haru knew that he meant for her to follow him.
Flying down the hallway and down the stairs, she slowly started to recognize where they were going.
They were going to the room with the forbidden door that Rebo told her never to open no matter what.
Up until now Haru was following behind him but now she was having second thoughts. Her pace slowly slowed to a stop.
Haru stopped in her tracks as she knew of a situation similar to this one.
'This is how he gets rid of me because he's the secret super villain, right? That's how it always goes in the tv shows. They make you think that they are your ally, but then you find out they are really the enemy when it's too late.' Haru felt herself freeze up.
Realizing that he didn't hear her feet hitting the floor behind him, Rebo stopped the broomstick to look back at her inquisitively. Then he noticed how apprehensively Haru was slowly backtracking her steps.
"Since you'll be with me, you'll be fine. Just follow behind. I promised them that I'd introduce you to them eventually." Rebo heaved yet another heavy sigh acting as if this was just too troublesome for him to deal with.
If he could he would rather have someone else deal with this but he knew better than to allow that.
No one but him could be tasked with introducing Haru to those two.
Choosing to trust the wizard who had the same face and voice as the trusted child in her world, Haru let her feet follow behind the wizard once more until they stopped in front of the door she was warned so strongly about before.
Rebo raised his hand in a slow, fluid manner before knocking on it with a particular pattern.
Knock knock
Knockity-knock
Knock.
Waiting a few seconds after he finished, the door lit up to reveal and intricate pattern on it before it disappeared and slowly opened with a creaking sound.
Behind the door was a long stairway that seemed to vanish into the darkness.
Clapping his hands caused orbs of light to illuminate the previously dark pathway.
"I shall lead the way. Be sure to stay close and do not stray too far away from me, or you may end up in trouble if you frighten them." Rebo warned.
Haru nodded her head in response and followed closely behind Rebo as they both descended down the stairs.
As they made their way down, the orbs of light would light up as they went lower down the stairway, and the lights behind them would go out once they passed them.
Maybe it was a way to converse energy?
Being careful, Haru made her way down the steps with one foot after the other after making sure that she had a safe foundation beneath her foot.
She didn't want to go tumbling down after all. There was no telling how long these stairs went down for. They have been travelling down for a few minutes already and she saw no signs of coming to the end yet.
How was it that there was such a long stairway under the tower? How long did it descend? What was possibly down here?
Many thoughts raced through Haru's mind as her curiosity was rousing her excitement and anxiety about this current situation.
As her guardian in this new world, Rebo wouldn't betray her and let her die, right? He would protect her if something were to happen, right?
…Right?
He surely wouldn't want a person to die a horrible death…
'Is that really the case, Haru? You know about Reborn's profession. He was a hitman.' Haru thought to herself, losing herself in her paranoid thoughts. It was about a year ago before Reborn finally decided to tell Haru the truth about his profession.
It was of course a shock for her, but when reflecting on his skills, she had no other choice but to believe in his words.
Was this Rebo similar? Has he killed people for his own gain? Was he next?
'No! You have to trust people! He brought you here in trust that you can help this world! You have to trust him back!' Haru slapped her cheeks with her palms.
The warmth brought about from the stinging pain of her cheeks woke her mind out of her paranoid thoughts.
Surprised by the sound, Rebo stopped his broomstick to look back at her in confusion. Why was this girl always doing the weirdest of things? Why did she slap her cheeks? Now she's whining about the pain. If you don't want to feel pain, then surely not slapping yourself would suffice, no?
Were the humans of her world like this? Did they have a habit of slapping themselves at random? Weird people.
No, maybe she was the weird one of her world.
"Are you… alright?" He asked.
Haru dropped both of her hands to her side stood up straight. "Hai! Haru is okay now-desu. Sorry for the interruption." Haru bowed her head, acting oddly very formal.
Not convinced but too tired to deal with it, he started to make his way down the stairway again.
As they were going lower and lower down the stairway, Haru started to hear faint sounds of water, and she could see light up ahead.
"We're here." Rebo sighed once they finally reached the bottom of the stairway.
Before them was a large clearing.
To the left was a large piling of rocks. To the right was a small mini waterfall like the one in the forest whose water fed into a lake.
Where was this waterfall getting its water from, you asked? Haru hadn't a clue either! At this point, she was chalking it up to Rebo's magic.
Even though they were beneath the tower without any windows, the place was full of light and the air wasn't stale, but it felt fresh.
There was no possible way to explain this other than magic.
There were a few trees, grass patches and flowers were scattered across the area.
At first she didn't notice them, but there was someone on top of the pile of large rocks and there was a large horse laying at the edge of the lake.
"Lionel and Finn, I'm here you whiney brats. I brought your guest." Rebo huffed with annoyance.
With his words, the two figures bolted up to their feet and ran up towards Rebo.
Haru was hiding behind Rebo this entire time as he told her that she had to stick close to him or she may find herself in trouble.
She could hear a pair of light footsteps and a few heavy footsteps as well.
From the sounds of things, they were approaching both Rebo and her, stopping right in front of them.
"Is it her? She's the one you summoned? Is she really going to help with world, Rebo?" A voice spoke.
The very sound of the voice made Haru's heart momentarily stop from the shock.
'Tsuna…-san's voice?'
Steeling her resolve, she peered out from behind Rebo to see a young male before her wearing a familiar friendly smile.
The difference here being that his hair was a bit messier than it normally was, he had Lion ears on top of his head, had a lion tail swishing to and from behind him, and he wore what she assumed was a furry shirt and short pants. On his wrist and on his ankles were bands of fur as well.
His hands and feet look normal, if one could ignore the claws extending from his fingertips.
Small canines protruded from his mouth and his eyes were round like a cat's.
"Haru, this one is Lionel. He was this land's previous King." Rebo introduced her to him.
Previous king.
THE KING!?
EHHH!?
Now that she thought about it, the fountain in the middle of the town had a Lion!
"AH! You're the Lion in the fountain! The one that Oodera always sleeps on!" Haru pointed at Lionel in shock with one hand and shook Rebo's robe with her other hand.
As if a bit embarrassed, Lionel smiled sheepishly as he scratched the side of his check gently with a claw.
Upset by being ignored, the large horse next to Lionel stomped his hooves against the floor and neighed with displeasure.
It was a large eggshell colored horse with a long mane and tail. Unlike Silver who had long and silky flowing hair, this one had wet blonde hair with green-tips, which was likely algae from sitting in the water for so long.
Parts of the hair on the horse had something green woven through strands of its hair and a few shells could be seen in the hair. It looked like the horse had hairclips in its mane.
The body of the horse was shiny and if Haru squinted her eyes, she could barely make out the outline of scales. On the elbow joints of the horse were small protrusions of what looked like fin-extensions.
This horse wasn't a normal horse by any means, but it was an aquatic one. Slightly disappointing that it had all 4 legs instead of having the forelegs and a fish tail for the lower body.
That would be like a mermaid horse, right?
Oh? It isn't easy to spot at first, since she was looking at the front of the horse, but the tail was very long and it looked different from what you'd expect from a horse tail.
It was thick like a lizard-tail and then silky hair extended from the tips of the tail.
Maybe this tail helped maneuver under water by acting like a rudder?
Although different in its appearance, the horse that stood before Haru was still a beautiful one.
Making an 'o' shape with his mouth, Lionel rushed to the side of the large horse and patted its side with his hand gently. "This is Finn! He's my older brother!"
Snort. The Horse nudged its muzzle against Lionel's face affectionately.
No matter how you looked at it, Lionel was a Lion-boy and this was just a horse, right?
A horse.
A lion and a horse being brothers?
In what world did this make sense?
The look on Haru's face must have been quite something if Lionel stopped laughing at the tickling sensation he was getting from the horse to wave his hands around frantically.
"He's not a brother by blood! We have different parents! We just adopted each other so I consider him my brother!" Lionel defended his previous claim.
That definitely made more sense.
Lionel turned to the horse and stomped his bare foot against the ground. "You should show yourself already!"
The horse rolled its eyes at this, and turned around to walk towards the lake that it was resting at earlier.
After having walked a fair distance, it turned around once more and it kicked off the ground and started… charging!?
It's charging at them.
Nope. She didn't sign up for this.
There was surely nothing in the 'saving the world' manual that stated she had to get attacked by a horse, right?
A bit away from the three, the horse kicked off the ground with its back legs and disappeared into bubbles that sprouted from its body. A faint sound of neighing could be heard from within the bubbles.
From within the bubbles popped out a man who landed right before Haru with a charming smile.
"I apologize for before. I often like to keep to my equine form. My name is Finn." Before her was Dino!
So in this world they are like brothers, huh? How adorable.
Before her stood a man with blonde hair that framed this face, until he pushed back a part of his hair with his hand, slicking back some of it.
He went from having a boy-ish cuteness to looking absolutely stunning.
Now that Haru looked at it, wasn't this the same hair style Dino had when they had gone ten years into the future?
This hairstyle definitely suited him.
Finn wore a red dress up shirt that wasn't buttoned up all the way, and white pants. Unlike Lionel, Finn was wearing shoes.
'Oh, maybe it's like horse shoes? If he has horseshoes on, that's why he has shoes on now?' Haru wondered to herself. Did transformations work like that?
If one were to shave off his mane, would his transformation result in a bald headed Finn?
Wait. No no no. Don't think about that. Haru didn't want to think about a bald headed Dino. Once the image surfaced in your mind, you couldn't go back.
Finn looked so much like Dino did in her world, but the main difference were the eyes. The brown eye color was the same, but the eyes looked so… soulless?
They didn't seem to show any emotion behind them. No, it was the fact that had large iris that made her think that, probably.
It was like a fish that was taken out of water. The Iris in their eyes would grow wide.
Finn extended his hand outwards to take Haru's hand, but Rebo smacked his hand with the intent of warning him. "Better behave yourself. Don't forget whom you owe." Rebo spoke with such conviction that Finn had to retract his hand and plaster a smile on his face.
"I see, so she is but a guest. I shall do my best to behave myself then." He smirked.
Rebo's eyes squinted with suspicion before turning to Haru.
Confused as to what was going on right now, Haru felt it deep in her bones that she had to be wary of Finn. While he wasn't dangerous if he were with this famiglia, he was a force to be reckoned with if he was alone.
Maybe he was the same in this world?
Why couldn't she come to a world where Dino was a harmless older brother?
Alas, you can't always get what you want, Haru. He at least said he'd behave so you should be okay. These were the thoughts Haru told herself in order to calm herself.
"Finn here is a Kelpie, and aquatic horse. They have this sick habit of tricking unsuspecting people on their backs, and then plunging into the water to drown them for fun. Some of them eat their drowned victims, aside from the liver." Rebo told her.
Crazy bucking horse indeed.
Dino of this world was crazy in a different sense. He killed people and ate them.
Immediately, Haru took a few steps away from Finn who started to smile mysteriously at her.
'NOOOOPE! NOPE! HARU IS NOT ABOUT TO DIE TODAY! SHE HAS YET TO EXPERIMENT ON THE REST OF THE DESSERTS SHE KNOWS IN REBO'S KITCHEN!'
Good going Haru, priorities. You definitely have them sorted out.
"Finn… you're scaring her. Eto… Haru-san, I can assure you that you will be fine. Finn cannot betray Rebo and he won't attack you if I also ask him to behave." Lionel reassured her.
Haru was still not convinced.
Would this crazy aquatic really do as they said?
Lionel sat on the ground and started to shake his head before he started to shake other parts of his body. As he shook, his features started to morph into what looked like a proud Lion.
"Ha-Hahi! Haru was brought here to be food!"
Not even bothering to figure out what was going on, Haru turned tail and dashed for the stairs, but she couldn't possibly outrun a lion.
Blocking the entrance to the stairway was Lionel, standing at attention. He had no intentions of letting her go.
From behind her, Haru could hear Finn starting a conversation with Rebo that caught her interest, causing her to stop paying attention to Lionel.
"Hey, by the way. Why are you in that form, Rebo? We didn't recognize you at first." Finn questioned Rebo for his appearance.
It took him a few seconds before Rebo realized what Finn was referring to.
"Ah. I was advised that meeting her like this would make her less anxious. Who can be scared around a baby? Since she's been here long enough and she's met you two, I might as well give up on the façade." Rebo snapped his fingers before he was enveloped in a puff of smoke.
After the smoke cleared, before them stood a tall man who wore a suit that had a faint silver lined star design stitched into the black suit. The fedora that had the same cloth as the robe he wore earlier around the rim was another give away.
This… was Rebo? Wasn't he a toddler though?
Did people in this world go through puberty in a manner of seconds?
'HAAAHIIII! CUTE REBO-CHAN HAS TURNED INTO A MAN!' Haru shrieked internally.
This was a complete shock to her to see a toddler transform into a man, but what was more shocking was that he was really cool!
He was tall and had an air of dangerous maturity about him.
The adorable curly sideburns of his looked pretty mysterious to her now. Was his sideburns naturally that curly? Did he style them that way?
This was insane!
Before she knew it, something soft was nudging her hand.
Lionel had approached her and was rubbing his head against her hand, a low purring bubbled out of his throat.
Though Haru was terrified at first she calmed down once she figured that Lionel was trying to comfort her.
"Can I pet you?" She asked quietly.
Without any warning, Lionel fell to his side and stared at her with inviting eyes. Kneeling down next to him, she extended her hand and started to pet his head.
His mane was so soft and fluffy! He was also really warm!
Unable to stop herself, she brought her face to the mass of fur and buried her face into it.
It was so warm and fluffy! It was quiet, but she could hear a low purring sound.
"Hey hey, I'm jealous. Let me join in too." Finn leaned on Lionel's back and rested his head on his mane.
Rebo was watching the three cuddle together as he rolled his eyes.
"Were you really that lonely and in need of company, Lionel? Listen to you purr. Finn, I'm warning you one last time. Don't do anything to Haru. She was summoned to this world to help it. I don't need you to do something stupid." Rebo warned the mischievous Kelpie.
Barely listening to Rebo's words, Finn raised a hand lazily and waved it to show that he understood. Patting Lionel's fur, a thought came to him.
"That's right! My brush! Rebo, you have it now, right? I want it back." Finn extended out his hand for Rebo to drop it onto his hand. Rebo fished the brush and placed it into Finn's hand.
At the memory of the horrid sounds the brush made, Haru scrunched up her face with displeasure. Was he going to start using it?
She had to escape. Before she would make her escape a large paw sat her back down. Lionel's head nudged against her elbow. He was asking for her to not leave yet.
He had Finn to keep him company, but it just wasn't enough to keep from feeling lonely.
Another reason for not wanting to let her go was that she has some lingering scents on her that belonged to his precious friends.
It had been so long since he's seen them and he wanted to stay like this for a little while longer.
"Hey Lionel-" Finn started to ask a favor of the lion, who only responded with a low growl. "I didn't even ask anything yet." Finn huffed. "Hey, Haru would you like to-ow! Lionel!" Finn smacked the tail that just hit him. "I wasn't going to do anything bad! At least not that bad…" Finn coughed into his hand suspiciously.
Haru couldn't trust him.
She had to escape this crazy horse.
"She is the one who found your brush, don't forget." Rebo reminded the cruel horse.
Being reminded that she was the one who found his precious brush made Finn cross his arms over his chest and huff again with annoyance. Why was everything ruining his fun? Geez.
It was true that without her finding it, he would likely never see this brush again.
"In respects to her finding it, I promise I won't harm her. Happy? On the honor of my late father." Finn grumbled.
Lionel yawned loudly and stretched his large body before raising himself up onto all fours once more. His soft paws hit the ground as he trotted over to Rebo's side and tilted his head inquisitively.
Rebo tilted his head to the other side and stared into Lionel's eyes.
"Rrrrrrrrrrrr." Lionel let out a small whining sound.
In defeat, Rebo nodded his head.
Lionel seemed to jump for joy and ran back over to Haru and pranced around her with excitement.
"Haru, if you can promise to NEVER tell anyone about what you've seen down here, I'll give you permission to come down again to visit them if you'd wish."
Haru wondered if Rebo was the only one who knew that Lionel was hiding down here with Finn.
Did Oodera know? Did Hibarin or Kuroda know about this?
Was she the only one that Rebo had told this truth to?
"Does… anyone else know about them?" She asked.
Looking down at Lionel with the slightest bit of pity in his eyes, Rebo shook his head.
She should have already known the answer to this. If they knew, Oodera would never have left his 'boss' alone.
Even if he was told to, he would still sneak in to attend to his boss.
It was a bit suffocating to watch at times, but it was relieving to see how loyal Gokudera was towards Tsuna.
Surely the same went for Oodera and Lionel.
"Due to circumstances, no one can know that Lionel is in hiding. Everyone thinks that he was vanquished. The same goes for Finn over there. His entire family was wiped out by King Wang and his soldiers when they were seizing the throne. They deemed the Kelpie family too dangerous. Even if he was in the middle of battle, Lionel couldn't ignore anyone who lived on his lands so he went to save the Kelpie family but only managed to save Finn at least and brought him to me to keep him safe. During his absence, Wang took over the throne and I took the chance to hide the injured Lionel as well. After waiting for his injuries to heal and to wait for the right time, Lionel will reclaim his throne as the righteous ruler." Rebo explained.
Understanding the situation now Haru vowed to not tell a soul about the two hiding underneath the tower.
"Since it gets pretty lonely with just only one person around, Lionel requests that you visit every once in a while to keep him company."
So that's how it was.
How painful it must have been to lose your throne and silently watch as a tyrannical King makes your subjects live in fear.
He couldn't let his subjects know that he was alive either. Haru could only imagine how much Oodera must have cried when Wang took over the throne and was told that Lionel had passed away.
Finn had to helplessly fight as he watched more of his family fall prey to Wang and his soldiers.
The pity she felt for the two touched her heart strings. She couldn't possibly leave them alone after finding out this fact.
This big cat was giving her begging kitty eyes. He really knew how to play with a girl's heart. How naughty.
"Haru promises to not tell anyone about the two of them down here. She will also come to visit sometimes."
Lionel ran over to Finn and tackled him down to the ground. "I get it, you're happy. Get off of me you furrball or I'm going to push you into my lake and make you brush my hair for me."
With this threat, Lionel slowly climbed off of Finn as he didn't want to get himself wet. It felt horrible to have wet fur. It got so heavy and felt uncomfortable.
"Don't forget about me. Play with me too. When you come over the next time, I can let you ride on my back if you want. In time once you come to trust me, I will ask you to brush my hair. This brush only produces pretty music if you use it underwater. I'm not going to trick you anymore, but I can't promise that you won't fall for my charms instead." Finn winked playfully.
She was wondering if he'd loose his ladies man nature or not in this world.
Nope. Still a ladies man.
Good to know.
Feeling her cheeks get hotter a little bit, she turned away from him. Much like Dino, Finn was an attractive man and I was hard to ignore his charm.
Curse this stupid aquatic horse…
He just made it so much harder to not come back and visit. She wanted to listen to the music of the brush under the water and who wouldn't want to ride a pretty horse?
"If you can promise that you won't bully me the next time, I'll visit again and play with you too…" Haru mumbled with her guard still up.
Finn extended his hand and he took her right hand into hers gently and placed a kiss on top of it, and Haru immediately reeled her hand back like she just touched something painful.
He seemed to be amused by her reaction and merely smiled at her innocently as if he had done no wrong such as teasing her. She wanted to hit him.
Stop doing such mean thins with Dino-san's face!
Where did the older brother figure go?
Whenever anything happened in Japan, Dino would always come flying in and do his best to protect everyone.
Sometimes he would visit the girls with sweets and would be very kind to them. Just like an older brother would.
He treated some other women differently than he did the girls, so they could feel safe around him, but it wasn't the case here unfortunately. This aquatic horse was quite the fiend.
This Finn was ruining his image. How was she going to look at Dino-san when she finally makes it back to her own world?
Haru had pulled both of her hands behind her back and took a step away from him. "Haru is getting tired, she thinks she'll go to bed now." She lied, only wanting to get out of the current situation quicker.
It wasn't a lie to say that she was mentally tired, but she wasn't physically tired.
She just met so many new people today. The people in the castle, Lionel, and Finn. Not to mention that Rebo decided to reveal his true appearance. WAIT.
WAIT A MINUTE.
Most of the characters here looked very much like the people she knew back at home. Their personalities were very similar to one another's as well.
Did that mean…
That is what Reborn will look like when he grows older!?
Wait, no? Maybe that's what he originally looked like? He wasn't really the age that he looked like after all.
'Reborn-chan didn't lie when he said his true form was really cool.' Haru thought to herself, surprised by suddenly seeing his grown up image.
This world was so weird.
"Bye! Visit again~" A quiet voice spoke. Lionel reverted back to his lion-boy form and was waved goodbye to Haru with his bright smile. A smile as bright as the sun.
She smiled and waved her hand back at him as she made started to make her way up the stairs.
A sudden thought hit her and she stopped right in her tracks.
Rewinding back her memory to just a few moments ago.
How was it that Finn knew that Rebo had his brush?
Why was it that Rebo was shouting at a glass earlier?
"Out to curiosity, does Finn have an ability to see things by using any body of water like say… a glass of water?" She asked.
Finn started to chuckle to himself, clearly impressed that she figured it out so soon. Looked he couldn't tease her about it the next time they met. He was looking forward to asking to play hide and seek and always finding her easily.
Then watch as she'd pout as she couldn't understand how he was finding her so quickly, but alas, she found out so soon.
'Note to self: Drink that glass of water as soon as possible.' Haru thought to herself as she rushed her way up the stairs to down the glass of water, write about the two new people she met and then rush herself to bed.
She deserved a good night's rest after today.
Congrats all! We are almost done with unlocking all of the characters! We have just one more to go! You get a special code for whenever you finally unlock them all. Assuming people would be interested in it, there will be a rematch fic for when this one is over. The code will be useful then. 83 [hint: You don't have to work hard to unlock all the characters again and go straight into it, ahahah]
[[Question: It's been a while, let's choose a place to visit after waking up, shall we?]]
[*] VISIT KAIPAN!
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[*] TO THE TOWN!
a.) I vote we push Oodera into a pool of catnip for fun!- I mean, let's visit him?
b.) Some attractive mansion demons are calling me (tell me which one you wanna visit)
c.) As I am royalty, I should visit the castle.
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[*] FOREST TIME!
a.) Visit Emani
b.) Huh… did I visit the middle path yet? No I haven't. Let's change that.
c.) Hmm… shall I try that right path again?
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[*] I wanna be lazy and stay in today.
a.) Talk to Rebo.
b.) Hey hey, let's visit the basement hermits again!
Lol I had so much coffee that I'm going everywhere in my author's notes things. PFFTTTT. Forgive me.
Hope you enjoyed this chapter!
UNTIL NEXT TIME, FOLKS!
-Neospice12