Word Count: 401
Ages: Tsuna-13
Kurama- 15
"It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance."
~Thomas Sowell
During the several weeks he had been in the Sawada household he had learned quite a bit about its occupants. He knew the general routine of each person, their ticks and pet peeves, likes and dislikes along with who their friends were and their entire family history.
He knew that Nana was valiantly fighting an illness that had the civilian doctors scratching their heads.
He knew that Tsuna had an irrational fear of bats.
He knew nearly every one of Shuichi's pet peeves and exploited them at every opportunity.
He had seen the boy twitch and scowl and almost break his calm facade on several occasions, only to rein himself in at the very last minute. He knew all of Tsuna's petty fears and insecurities and was slowly working with the boy in his tor-training. He knew that Nana knew a lot more than she let on and had the best poker face he'd seen in a long time. (He also learned not to play poker with the woman, lest he loses all his cash to the mother of two.)
However, despite all of his observations and needling. Despite his various attempts to invoke different reactions out of the oldest Sawada child, he had never seen him laugh.
Until today.
In fact, that boy was practically cackling, leaning against the door-frame.
Tsuna and Dino shared the same look of utter confusion.
Reborn felt his eye twitch in irritation. He wasn't sure why or how Dino's choice of weapon managed to get such an odd reaction out of the boy, but he was determined to find out.
The surreal moment was over within a few moments and Shuichi went back to normal, though there was a hint of amusement in his eyes as he watched Dino.
Reborn figured it out quickly enough. Shuichi's expert management of Dino's clumsiness gave himself away. No beginner could handle a whip that way. Reborn got the feeling the boy wasn't really trying to hide it. It also brought up another slew of questions about the strange boy that left Reborn at square one with his observations.
He sighed.
He'd have to reevaluate his report of the boy now.
He wondered how many times he'd have to do that during his time in the Sawada household.
The odds didn't look promising…
Okay, I'm going to be uploading three chapters back to back. None of them are very long, but I was on a writing spree (Must be because I've got a test next week). Thank you guys so much for the reviews! You're all superspecialawesome!