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Disclaimer: I do not own Katekyo Hitman Reborn and also its characters and I forgot to mention for the past 24 chapters that DANICA RAVINO is mine.
Pairing: Hibari Kyoya x OC
Summary: On her 15th birthday, she was surprised to hear she was next in line for being Ravino the 10th, not only was she sent to Japan to be tutored, she also has to live with someone who wants to bite her to death.
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Chapter XXV- Never As It Seems
"I'm feeling so bored" I sighed while I walked around in circles at Hibari's base.
"Kusakabe and Kyo-kun have not yet returned from Namimori Middle! What in blazes are they doing there?" I growled and then sighed again.
"Tsuna and the others got air bikes yesterday, I want to ride one too" I dazed off until that statement led to an idea.
"YEAH! I want to ride one too!" I pumped myself up and began running to the Vongola Base.
*Vongola Base*
"Tsuna-kun!" I shouted as I ran to them in a very large room.
"Danica-chan? What is it?" Tsuna asked.
"Nobody's at Hibari's base so I came here" I smiled.
"That's good" Reborn said.
"What's good Reborn?" I asked.
"You can train too, I bet you want to ride the air bike" Reborn smirked.
"Of course!" I fired up.
"Reborn-san! Are you sure it would be alright? She is disturbing Juudaime's training" Gokudera asked Reborn in an I-PROTEST tone.
I glared at Gokudera.
"Danica-chan? Do you know how to ride one?" Tsuna asked.
"Hmmm, I know to ride bicycle though would it be the same as riding this?" I looked at Gianinni who was preparing another air bike.
"I guess you could say that, let me remind you that this is a state of an art invention of the Vongola Family so I'll ask you to be careful of it" Gianinni wiped his sweat.
"OH YEAH! I can do this! I learn pretty quickly!" I quickly rode the bike and Tsuna rode his.
"This is a very large training room so that you can practice that at ease" Gianinni explained.
"So how do we start this?" I asked.
"Yeah?" Tsuna was starting to panic.
"First, try using your right hand to crank the throttle" Reborn instructed.
I did as instructed and the air bike lets out a VROOM sound.
"Then continue by pressing the red switch on the handle" Gianinni said.
As we pressed the button, the air bike was now hovering on air.
"WOAH!" We both screamed.
"Don't panic, JUUDAIME!" Gokudera calms Tsuna.
"Yes, you're fine in that position" Gianinni panicked as Tsuna was about to fall off.
"That's easy for you to say!" Tsuna shouted.
"Good, I'm not having problems with mine! I might be a natural biker!" I muttered as I grinned to myself.
"Okay, let's continue; keep your left hand on the clutch, while using your left foot to shift gears" Reborn instructed.
"Yosh! I'm going to get good at this!" I grinned as I followed Reborn and so did Tsuna.
"Hmph, now then use you right hand to turn the throttle" Reborn smirked.
"Tsuna-kun! Let's do this!" The air bike then created the VROOM VROOM sound.
"Now! Release the clutch!" Reborn ordered.
"NOW REMOVE THE CLUTCH AND I'M AIRBIKI-GAH!" I stumbled down and I was thrown off the air bike, good thing Tsuna was there to share my pain in lying down on the floor.
"JUUDAIME!" Gokudera shouted.
"Are you okay, Danica-chan?" Yamamoto asked.
"Reborn-san! Why are you teaching them wrong?" Gianinni asked.
"This idiot over here thought it was all easy and good while this no-good one needs to be taught fear first; That's how I roll" Reborn explained.
"So was it easy and fun?" Reborn asked us both.
"LIKE HELL IT DID!" I thought to myself.
"Oh well, get used to it you two" Reborn smirked.
"This really shouldn't have been for me at my part, right Reborn?" I asked as I stood up.
"The air bike, yes but the lesson, no" Reborn stated.
"Hai! Hai! I get it Reborn!" I sighed.
"Danica-chan, thanks for your time really and I'm sorry if you got hurt" Tsuna said.
"Don't mention it! I'm just passing by anyways! Just continue with your training" I smiled and left.
"I have to train hard" I told myself.
*VONGOLA MEETING*
"It's time to move on to the next stage" Reborn announced.
"Is it finally time, Reborn-san?" Gokudera asked.
"Time for what?" I wondered.
"What's the next stage?" Ryohei asked too.
"You all have those right?" Reborn said.
"Oh! You mean the boxes!" I said as I brought out mine and everyone did too.
"Starting tomorrow, you'll begin training in using your boxes" Reborn stated.
"Why wait till tomorrow? Let's start right away! I've recovered plenty of energy and stamina in just these few days, I can now ignite a dying will flame on my ring now" Gokudera pressed.
"Wait. We'll open the boxes tomorrow because preparations have to be made" Reborn said.
"I wonder what kind of box animal you have Tsuna" I wondered.
"Yeah me too" Yamamoto said.
"Huh? Animal?" Tsuna seems to have forgotten.
"Mine's a swallow remember! Gokudera's is a cat, Sasagawa-senpai's is a kangaroo and Hibari's is a hedgehog" Yamamoto explained.
"I don't really remember what mine is but I know that I've already opened the prototype box; I wonder what would come out if I opened the Ravino box." I said.
Everyone then looked at me with worried faces.
"What is it?" I tilted my head.
"It's nothing!" Tsuna said.
Then silence.
"I bet your box weapon is amazing, Juudaime!" Gokudera broke the silence.
"Yeah, I can't wait to see what's inside yours!" Yamamoto smiled.
Why was everyone quiet when I told them about my box? Is there something they aren't telling me?
*Training Room *
"Good thing everyone are at their rooms" I said as I sneaked in the training room.
"This seems a good place to train" I told myself.
"The Ravino Box, huh" I brought out my box and gazed at it.
"Yue hasn't talked to me ever since that time at the lighthouse, I get the feeling that he wasn't Yue, I wonder if Yue will come out of this box" I looked at the box more.
"Everyone's faces awhile ago, they know something I don't, and what could it be?" I thought about it and then my ring suddenly flamed up.
"Black and White?" I was surprised by the sudden ignition of my flames.
Then my box was reacting to my lit ring.
"I want to know…" Was all in my head at that time; I slowly positioned myself to insert my flaming ring into the box.
"I want to know everything!"
*BOOOM!*
"What was that!?" I was startled by the sudden explosion that I didn't get the ring inside the box.
"Are we under attack!?" I quickly ran out of the training room.
*VONGOLA BASE*
"The explosion came from there!" I ran to the rubble in front of me.
"HAH! What is that!?" I gasped as I saw a monster with a sky-attributed coat attacking Tsuna.
"It's dangerous! Get back!" Tsuna ordered.
"Is that Tsuna-kun's box weapon?" I panicked.
"Yes, it is Danica-dono" A new face suddenly answered me.
"Excuse me, but who are you?" I asked.
"Stupid Woman! This isn't the time to be asking that! JUUDAIME!" Gokudera growled.
Tsuna tries to fight off the rampaging box weapon.
"Alright! That's it, Juudaime!" Gokudera cheered.
But it was too soon to celebrate, the monster then caught Tsuna into its grasp.
"Tsuna-kun!" I shouted as the monster hits Tsuna to the wall.
"JUUDAIME!" "Tsuna!" "Sawada!" The three guardians shouted while Tsuna was fighting off the monster who pinned him against the wall.
"You bastard!" Gokudera then lit his ring and readied his box.
"Please wait! Gokudera-dono's storm box weapon possesses the disassemble factor; one wrong move and Sawada-dono's box weapon may be damaged." The boy said.
"Then what am I supposed to do!? I can't stand around while the boss is suffering" Gokudera growled.
"I will calm it, stand back everyone" The boy then lit up his ring, it was a rain-attributed flame and went forward.
"OI! Basil!" Gokudera shouted.
Alas! I now know his name! So it's Basil huh? Basil….
"Basil-kun! Are you out of your mind!?" I shouted.
"Don't worry, Danica-dono; let's do this Alfin" Basil inserts his ring to his box and out came a rain-coated dolphin.
"Delfino de Pioggia" Basil stated.
"Dolphin Edge!" Basil commanded and then Alfin attacks with blades of water.
"The monster's is in pain" Gokudera said.
"The Dolphin Edge are blades of soothing rain flames which attacks from the inside; in other words, it functions as a box weapon tranquilizer; it should quiet down now" Basil said.
The monster was angered and counter-attacked the Dolphin Edge's blades and tries to attack Alfin.
"OH NO!?" Basil shouted.
Fortunately, something stopped the monster's attack.
"That's…" Ryohei gasped.
"Ame Tsubame! (Rain Swallow)" Gokudera said.
"Rondine di Pioggia" Yamamoto stated.
"Yamamoto-dono!" Basil smiled.
"You aren't the only rain-attributed user here" Yamamoto said.
"You got that right!" I ignited my ring with rain-coated flames and inserted it to my other box.
"It's been a while since I've used my Sais" I said as I positioned myself in battle.
"Oi! It's dangerous!" Gokudera said.
"Don't underestimate me, Hayato-kun; I've been training too, you know" I smiled.
"Let's go!" Yamamoto signaled me and the box weapons.
"HAAAAAAA!" The box weapons and I surrounded the monster with rain flames; the monster then returned back to its box.
I caught Tsuna and we fell down, dripping wet.
"Sawada-dono! Danica-dono!" "Juudaime!" The others ran to us.
"Tsuna-kun? Are you okay?" I asked.
"I'm okay, I'm sorry everyone" Tsuna answered.
"So that was your box weapon" I said.
Tsuna nodded.
"What did you do, Tsuna?" Yamamoto asked.
"I thought of opening it and I just injected flames and then that thing suddenly flew out" Tsuna explained.
"I've never heard of something like that thing before, wasn't it supposed to be on our side?" Ryohei raised a point.
"But something is odd; boxes are supposed to be modeled after animals on earth but that monster does not exist here" Basil said.
"Could Irie have given you a defective one?" Gokudera gasped.
"Eh!? No way!" Tsuna protested.
"NO! I'm sure that's what happened! That monster couldn't possibly be a Sky Vongola Box" Gokudera defends his opinion.
"You're wrong, everything was Tsuna's fault, that wasn't how your box weapon should look; Sky boxes are especially delicate; If you keep opening your box like that then it will no longer be usable" A clatter of hoofs was heard behind us.
"Dino-san?" Tsuna uttered.
"Doing well, little bro?" Dino asked.
"DINO-SAN!" Tsuna smiled.
"Whoa! He's riding a horse" Yamamoto said.
"Orange flames, so that's a sky box weapon" Gokudera said.
"Still..haha, you were still a bunch of kids ten years ago" Dino laughed.
"What was that Dino-san?!" I pouted.
"Da-chan?" Dino's eyes grew big.
"Da-chan? Is that what you call me in this time?" I asked.
"Haha, well I guess you could say that" Dino smiled.
"Heh, you're a kid yourself, Dino; showing up this late, did you get lost?" Reborn asked.
"I never expected to see you again, Reborn" Dino said.
"What's with that look? Are you still green behind the ears after ten years?" Reborn smirked.
"Heh, still treating me like a kid after all these years..WOOAHH!" Dino fell off his horse.
Way to go, prince in shining fallmore.
"Hey, don't tell me…." Gokudera said.
"That's odd, I've been tripping and screwing up a lot lately" Dino scratched his head.
"It couldn't be…." Tsuna said.
"And it took me three hours to reach this place from a kilometer away" Dino said.
"You've got to be kidding me!" I gasped.
"Hmm, so you did get lost" Reborn said.
"Putting that aside, why are you here?" Gokudera rudely asked.
"Gokudera-kun?!" Tsuna tries to calm down his right hand man.
"Isn't your family having a hard time fighting the Millefiore?" Gokudera continued.
"I'm well aware of that….really" Dino looked down.
"But the victory in Italy will mean nothing if we don't beat Byakuran, which mean everything rests in your hands" Dino raised his head.
"We'll talk later, for now, let's hold a welcoming party for Dino" Reborn suggested.
"That would be great!" I smiled at Dino and he seemed to be in relief.
"Is something the matter, Dino-san?" I asked.
"It's nothing, it's great to see you again, Da-chan..I mean Danica-chan" Dino said.
"We must be close friends in this time huh?" I said.
"Yeah, our families were friends" Dino smiled.
"So, I'll be going then!" I said.
"Where to?" Gokudera asked.
"To the kitchen of course!" I smiled while I walked out.
*AUTHOR'S POV*
"Tsuna, has Da-chan..I mean has Danica-chan gotten better at cooking?" Dino asked.
Tsuna, Gokudera and Yamamoto were then surrounded by a glooming aura.
"I would take that as a no" Dino sweat dropped.
*Kitchen* Danica's POV
"I wish they had told us sooner that a guest would be coming" Haru complained.
"If we had known, we could have had time for proper preparations" Kyoko said.
"Good thing that rice balls are easy to make" I smiled.
"Yeah! This time it's our time to shine! Let's make a huge feast to throw a special welcoming party" Haru cheered.
"Ummm…" Someone entered the kitchen.
"Chrome-chan!" I smiled.
"We'll help out!" I-pin said.
"Thanks! That'll be a big help" Kyoko said.
Chrome smiles.
"There! I've finished making the rice balls!" I congratulated myself with a thumbs-up.
"HAHI! Danica-chan, those are a lot! You've gotten good in making rice balls!" Haru amazed herself with the stack of rice balls on the table.
"It's the only recipe I can cook that is edible, so I've been practicing it" I chuckled.
"That's really great, Danica-chan" Kyoko said.
"Thanks! Now that Chrome-chan and I-pin-chan are going to help, I might as well help the boys with the decorating; I'll see you guys later!" I waved goodbye and left.
*HALLWAY*
"Ah! Dino-san!" I called when Dino was about to enter his room.
"Da-ch..Danica-chan, hi" Dino smiled.
"You know, it would be alright if you call me Da-chan, I wouldn't mind, we're close friends right?" I said.
"Haha, you told me the same thing last time" Dino laughed.
"Did I? Haha, I haven't changed much huh?" I asked.
"Well, you've gotten prettier and stronger but your bubbly personality did not fade" Dino said.
"Stronger..huh?" I looked down when I suddenly remembered my family.
"I'm sorry! I shouldn't have said something like that!" Dino panics.
"Haha! Even in words, you're still clumsy; it's alright, I should really be going now, I have to help Tsuna and the others" I bowed to Dino and left.
Did I really become stronger?
*Celebration Room*
"AHHH! OI! I told you the strips have to be 2.5 cm wide" Gokudera shouted.
"Gokudera's voice can be heard outside, what a loud mouth" I sighed and entered.
"Such a perfectionist, aren't you Hayato-kun?" I sarcastically said.
"You stupid woman! It wouldn't look right if they aren't the same width!" Gokudera said.
"You're really into this, huh?" I sighed.
"OI YAMAMOTO! Make yours more uniform!" Gokudera ordered.
"Alright!" Yamamoto chirped.
"I'll try to help too, but I don't want to be in Hayato's group" I raised my hand.
"And what's that supposed to mean?!" Gokudera scowled.
"BEH!" I let my tongue out and helped Tsuna.
"You two, stop fighting like kids" Tsuna said.
"Haha, I guess that's just the way we are Tsuna-kun" I smiled.
"The flowers are done" Yamamoto said.
"Alright, I'll help in pinning them on the wall, Tsuna-kun, will you place the banner already so that I could place the flowers" I said.
"Ah..hai!" Tsuna scrambled over and places the banner.
"NO! NO! Adjust it to the center! It won't look right if it's a centimeter off the center" I commanded.
"Danica-chan's being like Gokudera now, huh?" Yamamoto laughed.
"WHO'S LIKE WHO!?" Me and Gokudera protested.
"Huh? Did you guys hear something?" Tsuna asked.
"No, nothing at all" Yamamoto answered.
"Juudaime, please hang this up" Gokudera gives the garland to Tsuna.
Tsuna places the garland correctly, thanks to the guidance of two perfectionists.
"There, that should do it" Tsuna panted.
"WAHHHHH!" Lambo then came running into Tsuna and jumped to his face.
"What are you doing, Lambo?" Tsuna held Lambo off his face.
"THERE'S A MONSTER! REALLY BIG! IT ROARED AND TRIED TO EAT LAMBO-SAN!" Lambo sniffed.
"You were half-asleep, aren't you?" Gokudera disbelievingly said.
"It was there! I saw it! This proves it!" Lambo shows his butt…and I mean his BARE butt.
"It looks like it clawed or something" Yamamoto said.
"That's not possible because you see; Cryptids are found at the bottom of the lakes or deep in forests where humans rarely venture" Gokudera explained.
"And what language is Hayato-kun speaking again?" I sighed.
"Sawada-dono! There's a problem! Please come with me!" Basil entered.
"What happened?" Tsuna asked.
"I'll explain later, for now please follow me" Basil said.
"Danica-chan, can you be in charge of the room first? We'll be back" I nodded and everyone left me alone in the room.
"Alright! I have to make this room perfect! I hope Tsuna and the others would be fine" I pumped myself up and started to work.
*DONE*
"Whew! That should be perfect" I wiped off my sweat and breathed slowly.
"Good Job, Danica! Whew, I'm so tired!" I congratulated myself.
*door opens*
"There isn't a box weapon around" Tsuna, Basil, Yamamoto, Gianinni and Reborn entered.
"Tsuna-kun!" I gasped.
"Is it really here?" Basil asked.
"According to the radar in the operations room, it should be here" Gianinni answered.
"What's here?" I asked.
"The box weapon that ate Gokudera and the others" Tsuna answered.
"EH!" I gasped.
"THERE IT IS!" Tsuna looks at the radar.
"Where?" Yamamoto asked.
"Over there!" Tsuna looked at that direction where the radar was picking the location of the box weapon.
"Nothing's there" I said.
"But it's getting closer" Tsuna said.
"Maybe it's broken" I suggested.
"No, it isn't" Gianinni protested.
"Then…ah! It's at the ceiling!" Tsuna gasped when the ceiling cracked up.
And then fell a large turtle in which it ate Gianinni in the process.
"We have to be careful in using dying will flames" Yamamoto charges to attack, hits but then it was not effective.
"SHOOT!" Yamamoto was then eaten by the turtle.
Tsuna then releases into hyper mode.
"I won't stand for any of this!" Tsuna said.
"YOU GOT THAT RIGHT!!!" I shouted.
"Danica-dono…" Basil said.
"YOU! YOU! HOW DARE YOU MESS UP THIS PERFECT ROOM! ARGHHH!" I charged in to attack this vile beast that dared to destroy my masterpiece, my art, my decoration, my *GLOMP*
"Great, now I've been eaten by a turtle; nice way to die Danica" I sighed.
"Is this heaven?" Everything was black.
"Is this hell?" Everything was still black.
"What the hell or heaven is this!?" I shouted.
Then I heard a crack sound and light passed through and poof!
"What just happened?" I was back at the room again.
"Wow! A special trick!" Kyoko smiled.
"Wonderful!" Haru agreed.
"Whoa, I felt like I didn't do any work awhile ago" I said.
Everyone said the same too about their bodies in their fullest condition.
"Sorry everyone, it looks like I caused a bunch of trouble" Dino smiled sympathetically.
"Shall we start eating now?" Haru said.
"Yeah, the food would get cold" Kyoko said.
"Well, it's time to celebrate!" I cheered.
*CELEBRATION*
"A box weapon for rejuvenation?" Tsuna gasped.
"There are sky flames and sun flames inside the belly of this turtle; flames of harmony to stabilize your health and flames of the sun to make your body more active" Dino explained.
"And then we have this mess because you screwed up" I sighed.
"AHAHA! But you know, Reborn should have known about this" Dino said.
"EH! REBORN!" Tsuna shouted.
"Well, it was more entertaining this way, plus everyone's rejuvenated now; training starts tomorrow" Reborn smirked.
"Wha-!? I'm completely worn out!" Tsuna complained.
"Sucks to be you, huh Tsuna-kun?" I laughed.
Tsuna looked down.
"Juudaime!" Gokudera called.
"Da-chan, did you make this rice ball?" Dino asked.
"Ah yes!" I smiled.
"I'm glad it's already edible" Dino said.
"What was that!" I stood up from my chair.
"AH! I'm sorry!" Dino sweat dropped.
"It was already edible when I first made it for Kyo-kun but then he told me it was gross, oh the nerve! But then he liked the second one, it really made me happy" I smiled.
"I'm really glad you and Kyoya are getting along" Dino said.
"Getting along? Hah! You must be kidding me!" I laughed.
"Everything is never as it seems, Da-chan" Dino muttered.
And with that we celebrated and had fun except for Tsuna, of course, poor him. XD
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