Gokudera Hayato

Italy...

Gokudera Hayato tried out being a Mafioso since he was young. But he always failed.

So he sidelined in where he does best. Information and Research.

He sidelines as a Saboteur to graduate school instead.

He's an accomplished scientist now. But his past as a neophyte never truly left him. In horrible ways that he really has to keep his senses and skills sharp.

To the point he's secretly having the skills of a high-ranking member now, but not the rank.

He worked hard to gain hand-to-hand, firearms, and field first aid mastery, mastered more chemical weaponry and hidden weapons. He ate healthy, and maxed out his stamina. He's slim and lanky, but very well-honed and trained. He also accessed his flames, learned it from Shamal...which he used to cleanse his body off of Poison Cooking with Shamal's careful guidance and he was also responsible for his diet and training plans to live a healthy life, if he wanted to 'max out' his body. He paid the guy in separate sums come adulthood.

He grew up to be a handsome 7-footer that resembles his mother more than his father.

He now has a Ph.D as a Formal Scientist and a Senior Researcher, earning BIG MONEY in Euros at just 21 because he was a genius and well-respected in the scientist community. Very rich. Richer than his assassin sister now but he dares not own his own home. He rents. This way so he can RUN at a moment's notice from his annoying sister who is basically, living the life of a stray cat. No earnings, no permanent residence, whatever and her bank account is way lesser than his.

Since she was legal daughter unlike him, an illegitimate, she was their father's heir, husband must marry INTO their family and his lying father has yet to find a guy willing to marry her just so their family's future is secure, while she learns how to run their family as it's head.

He has no stake and free to do as he pleases.

And now, one day while preparing breakfast for himself, he got a phone call.

'Pronto?'

/Ciaossu./ it's Reborn! Gigs from him are big-payers but insanely difficult! /Are you interested for an unusual gig?/

'Name it. I have nothing to do now.'

/How about working beyond that famous Gate in Japan as tutor?/

'T-THAT Gate?! I'm in I'm in!' Gokudera yelped in joy, wanting that chance. Pay aside, he gets to travel to another world! 'Who am I tutoring and in what?'

/A member of the Vongola Family who got taken there at age six. Thus needs Elementary up to Junior High Education before she can go home to Japan./ Reborn began. He explained the job stipulations, and CEDEF is willing to pay him 6000 euros per month until she graduates quick, thanks to her divine blessing as a worshipper of a God of Knowledge, enabling her to retain all she learns. And given what she studied, she'd classify as a Physics Scientist worth a Ph.D herself, they'd get along. She just lacked Earth Scientist Lingo, Jargon and Terminology and she's all set. And she's tackling Pharmacy and Medicine to update the Special Region's non-existent medicinal sources.

So he has a lot to bring to Japan. Japanese Curriculum Books which Reborn will supply, but he handles English and Italian, Scientist stuff and his own tools and equipment, and spare batteries and repair tools with spare parts as insurance even if he's careful with his equipment.

He packed up and went straight to Ginza with the Young Lion who's definitely NOT young any more, as Sawada Iemitsu is now in his forties.

'I hope you do my eldest daughter well Gokudera-kun. I'm glad as soon as she heard the Japan she left behind is the same Japan the Gate is connected to, she'd go home soon...we lost years of her life.' said CEDEF Boss with a somber smile. 'We thought she was kidnapped for who-knows-what, we can't find her anywhere only to be worlds away. We only found out she's alive, well and thriving thanks to those thirteen people...and it took us years to get over her supposed death too.'

'You can be rest assured sir. I'll make a scientist out of your daughter yet.' Gokudera grinned. 'She's well on her way! She's a Master of Physics and Natural Sciences, she just lacked modern world knowledge but that can be dealt with quickly!' besides, Vongola already has a MALE heir, the daughters can basically do whatever they want in careers! 'But about Vindice...flames can be excused as Magic she gained from Special Region so she can legally use it without getting the Boot, right?'

'We're still debating on that as magic is a factor...any country would want to...*choke* breed a magic-using human as an evolved species...' Iemitsu shivered at the idea. 'That cannot be plausible for her sake.' he said as Gokudera shuddered at the notion. 'Soren will realize that too, thus will no doubt be fine with losing her powers, if ever. The alternative will be yes, she keeps her magic but she'll be forever on the run from ambitious presidents, thus she'd rather stay away forever.'

'I'm having a vacation home as it's Soren's wish that we eat Ma Nuga together even if she's on the other side...she'd be sending us a whole butchered animal soon.' he said with a teary smile at his daughter's idea of a gift while ensuring he spends time with family at home even if she can't be home herself yet. 'I managed to wrangle that she sends two more so Nono and Varia won't complain. I got nagged at to the nth decade! They want other world meat, too!'

'Ahahaha...' Gokudera sweatdropped.

xxx

Ginza, Tokyo, sundown...

There were three vans.

The Varia were there, along with Bouche who illusioned them all as Japanese Sawada relatives, along with Iemitsu's wife and twin children.

Soldiers were taking large boxes out that needed two men each box to haul it out of the truck!

'Here you are! Pure Ma Nuga!' said a soldier. 'Sawada-chan butchered them herself after purchasing three whole animals from Countess Formal.'

'I-is my daughter on Alnus?' Iemitsu asked the soldier hopefully.

'She's on the next truck Sawada-san, she should be out in a few min...'

/Bzzzt! Kogure, get our ambulance ready!/ a voice from the man's walkie talkie cried urgently. /Sawada-chan is starting to heat up! This ain't an ordinary fever! Move it! She's literally SMOKING!/

Now THAT, is a cause for worry...

'W-what's happening to my daughter...' Nana shivered in fear as the man called Kogure quickly began running away to the nearest booth to get a phone call done.

'Awww fuck! I'm running!'

The second truck sped out of the Gate, and worried soldiers carried out the young teenager in literal cosplay, carrying a staff even as she was steaming.

'D-don't touch me! You'll burn!' she yelped as she staggered out of the truck before falling on all fours, curling up in pain. 'A-aaaaaaa!'

'Soren!' the frantic pair of parents ran to their eldest to help her but got their hands burned instead, making them cry in pain.

'Stay away! I'm burning...m-my body is...melting down to mush...'

They really don't wanna know now...

'Soren!' Nana burst out frantically as they were all helpless as what happened next was a horror show of her literally bubbling all over under her skin and grow...and she was so hot her rubber sandals melted off her legs and feet. Even her leather waist wrap was undone. 'Are you alright?! Soren!'

She was growing...to adulthood in those torturous minutes as an ambulance arrived, just in time as her clothes couldn't contain her any more, paramedics quickly tossed her a blanket for her modesty.

'Sawada-chan, on a scale of 10...' a paramedic asked nervously.

'...infinity.' Soren whimpered. 'Growing up hurts...' yep, she's definitely womanly now... 'I'm from...here to begin with...t-time...forced...catch...up...'

'We're bringing her to ER for a full check-up.' the other paramedic decided worriedly as they had to wear reinforced gloves just to put her on a stretcher and into the ambulance.

'...our world forced her body to age to 21...' Soran whimpered, terrified at what he witnessed just now. 'Because of some fucked-up rule?'

'That seems to be the case.' said Gokudera. 'She is born here, not there. Time affected her itself. Her growth in the other side slowed down but thanks to magic, somewhere within reacted to the fact that she should have been 21, after reacting to the knowledge of how much time of this world, instead of being 14 on the other side, but the fact is, she is not born there to be 'truly' 14 in existence.' he speculated. 'Her magic, responding to her knowledge and beliefs, did just that to acclimate her to her true home world. I guess she's going to college instead of junior high with the twins now after I'm done tutoring her...but I'm glad they called an ambulance.'

'What do you think would happen next?' Iemitsu asked him warily.

'Nothing is ever free, even with magic...' said Gokudera grimly, pale-faced. 'For a 14 year old body, yeah she's healthy. But given what happened, her body consumed what vitamins and minerals it has for her to grow...she will soon be clinging to life from fatal levels of vitamin and mineral deficiencies, so they gotta hook her up to numerous IVs quickly and cause all the goods to flow into her fast.' he told them urgently as nearby soldier is quickly dialing a number. 'Anemia will be the least of her worries! Her organs will start to fail if she doesn't get vitamins and minerals needed to keep her internal organs functioning!'

'What?!'

Good thing the JSDF quickly forwarded what needs to be known to the nearest hospital...the crucial vitamins and minerals were injected into her first to stabilize her, and Soren was using the Harmony Factor of her flames to heal fast. She was barely conscious and struggled to stay conscious due to how horribly right Gokudera was.

Bag after bag was injected into veins in the back of her hands, and her elbows. Four bags of IVs at a time, to a setting that ensures the nutrients flow into her body quickly while taking great care with her veins and she was hooked up to oxygen because she had trouble breathing.

'Sawada Family?' a doctor approached the grim family.

'How's Soren?' Iemitsu gasped out as they stood up nervously.

'Your daughter is stable now.' said the doctor. 'We managed to save her organs in time. It helps that she keeps healing herself with magic when any other patient in her shoes would have died if they don't know or have healing magic.' she said in relief. 'What we need now is blood transfusion from family members. Even if we inject Vitamin B-Complex, Iron, and other Blood-Replenishing nutrients, not even they can make the bone marrow work fast enough. We will test you for compatibility as per protocol before proceeding with the transfusion before we deem her cleared.'

'Alright...'

xxx

'She's stable now...that was hair-raising...who grows to adulthood in minutes? She does.' Mizora shook, still pale-faced and sweating buckets from the sheer terror Soren's growth showed them. Her flesh multiplied and added just to make her mature to adulthood in the worst way possible just to follow the world's rules, destiny and such!

'At least she's of proper age now...the problem is her mental, emotional and psychological growth.' said Reborn. 'That's her next issue to tackle with her home tutor.' he said as he and Gokudera exchanged glances. 'Soren lived a life of survival. Ancient Culture demands you learn skills quickly to help your parents with their meager income. She was adopted by an Archmage who taught her how the world works, leading her to become a mage herself as you know. Studying and Researching is basically the same as working.' he said. 'Your discoveries will get you paid annually so she had to learn how to budget at a young age to last till next payday. She never had childhood or teenage experiences like ourselves. She was forced to be an all-work and no play adult, forced to face reality since six years old.'

'I'll adjust accordingly, Reborn-san.' Gokudera promised. 'When we return to Japan permanently.'

And so...

'Are you alright now sweetheart?' Nana fussed over her daughter who was still lying in bed. She and her husband were a bit woozy from the transfusion and the blood bags are now being injected into their eldest daughter. Said daughter, is healing their burned hands from touching her.

'I'm alright now...I can breathe well but my body has yet to recover from the stress of forced growth.' said Soren wearily. 'And I still need a few more nutrient IV bags in me.' she said. 'More of the crucial kind.'

'Alright, we'll speak to your doctor about that soon.' Iemitsu reassured her. 'Do you need your staff too? Gokudera has it.'

'Yes please. Oh, and tell the JSDF that I need to be taken back to the Gate, I'll stay in their hospital quarters. Its dangerous in Tokyo for me and anyone around me right now.' said Soren urgently.

'Alright...you won't go home even for a short while?' Nana pouted, disappointed.

'Even if I want to, I can't...' said Soren wearily as her eyes glowed orange, and Iemitsu knows his daughter has an idea about flames. 'There are foreign spies in Tokyo lurking around Ginza looking for any opportunity.' this alarmed her parents. 'I can't take trouble home or you and the kids will experience gunfight and a grenade in our house.' NOW her parents paled. Their daughter can see the future now?! 'Get me discharged as soon as possible...sorry...'

Iemitsu scampered quickly to make quick arrangements even if its hard on him and his wife.

xxx

JSDF trucks took away Soren and Gokudera's luggage...and the family cannot be seen with the trucks.

'Because of foreign spies, Soren-chan felt danger.' said Nana unhappily. 'I was hoping we can eat together again...' their time with Soren, was very brief.

'It cannot be helped. The foreign countries want an in into the Gate too and resources within it.' said Reborn. 'Soren as she is now, is easy hostage material as she is greatly weakened by her ordeal. Or patients in the ER will be used to force her cooperation. Those are things she cannot risk here in Tokyo. Then finding out where you live is easy for spies. So we'll be very vigilant in the coming days, even if we avoided the future she saw.'

xxx

Alnus Military HQ...

'Holy smokes...she really grew...'

In the military clinic, a very adult Soren was in there. It was the rare instance Sage Cato, Lelei and Tuka were allowed to see Soren for a short while.

'The laws of Japan caught up to her.' Rory commented. 'Soren, what did you see when you returned home for the first time?' she asked with a strange intonation in her voice.

'I saw this guy.' said Soren, conjuring an illusion of a man in robes carrying a staff. 'He said he is his holiness, Elange.'

'Eh?!' Cato and Lelei's eyes popped out.

'He said its a relief that I intend to go home for good after I sorted out my affairs, so he gave me the body I should have had as a gift...because in Japan, I'm 21 years old yet here in this world where time flows slower, I was stuck at 14. I'm the oldest daughter of my family you know.'

'While it's good that you'll be with your family soon, why rush you to go home by his holiness?' Lelei asked Soren.

'Development must come at the right time, and no rushing...but the thing is, things I know are too advanced here, very beyond your time...its forbidden to go beyond one's time. Had I remained stuck here, my frustration will cause me to create a development that's too ahead and I'll get in trouble with the gods, and send an apostle to either punish or kill me before it gets widespread.' the two mages and Tuka looked at Rory and her smile was...unsettling, causing them to shiver.

'At least you guys, master and Arpe know never to teach anyone the battle techniques I taught you. Teaching anyone those, will get you killed, so don't. At least with herbal medicine, stuff already practiced here is not 'going ahead'. Developing it is OK along with Healing Magic and Human Anatomy. As for Alchemy I taught you...don't teach it unless its to an apprentice who will never open a school for it. Lots of people will lose jobs if Alchemy became common in Rondel and angry craftsmen rendered jobless will kill you even without godly prodding.'

'Glad you know that!' Rory chimed, very pleased with Soren. 'So when will you go home?'

'I've foreseen many events when and where I am needed by the JSDF...until I participated in all of those, I can' t go home for real.' said Soren sheepishly, grabbing Rory's hand and making her see battles that needed Soren's help lest people DIE.

'Very well. I understand.' Rory reassured her. 'And what of your tutor Hayato Gokudera?'

'He'll teach me stuff I missed in Earth School...this way after I go home for real, I can attend a school called College.' Soren told them. 'It's a school wherein you choose a course that teaches you about a career you want to pursue in adulthood. Be a soldier like JSDF? Doctor? Architect? Fashion Designer? Chef? Researcher? And many more. Its required of people in my world to at least graduate college and attain a diploma as that is minimum requirement to get a job there.' she explained wearily. 'It's frustrating, especially when I have a cushy job here and well-respected, but I have to do it anyway, so irksome...' she complained. 'My world has so many fussy nitpicky requirements that are even useless when in the end, what matters is how competent you are like what this world cares about more.'

'That's too much work just to get a job...' Tuka scratched her head.

'Right?'

xxx

Soren rested in the clinic, while Gokudera got the tour of Alnus Base...regarding where he's allowed to and where NOT allowed to go. The fact that the Sawadas got a known Formal Scientist like him was amazing in itself, especially as when they dug up intel on him, Gokudera was a highly-accomplished genius well respected in scientist community.

'How the hell did the Sawadas snag you as Sawada-chan's tutor?!'

'Well, I owed the twins' tutor...' said Gokudera, scratching his head. 'If not for him I won't be the man I am today and Reborn-san is a close friend of Sawada-san's boss at work in Italy. They figured being a mix-jap will make things easier. Soren and her younger twin siblings are quarter-italian like myself. I have dual citizenship in Japan and Italy for years.'

'Any government affiliations?'

'Hell no. Why should we scientists bother with politics?' Gokudera scoffed in contempt with an eyeroll and armfold. 'They're just no-good lying promise-breakers. They break their promises to the gullible masses after getting the votes they want for their positions.'

His opinions made clear, he could stay in Alnus and contribute in his own way and learn what he can of the local language while waiting for his student to heal a week later.

Upon being fully-healed and no longer malnourished thanks to IV bags, Soren was one hell of a bombshell at full growth.

A six footer statuesque, slim young woman. She was physically fit but not muscular. Shapely in the right places - the perfect hourglass. But being 3/4 asian, she has understandably a smaller build than a western woman. Her features are also mixed, a real beauty.

Tutor aside, he is also her potential Storm Guardian if things worked out. That means he'll be a mafioso again but given his Sky's choices? Highly unlikely! They'll be scientists together!

'You ready to go to Beastman Village with me?' Soren asked Gokudera. 'No aircon, no internet and no showers as well as no electric lighting. Warning you now.' she reminded him.

'I'm alright with it. Been to the amazon and even ass-tralia for my research where everything's out to kill you.' Gokudera snorted. 'This place is safer if you live there without a scratch!'

'They'll fly us over to the mountain due to your equipment.' said Soren as they got Colonel Kengun's Aerial Unit taking them there. 'I'll fly alongside the choppers...because the Flame Dragon is still around and not dead yet. We might enter combat.'

Hence the need for an escort job...

'Flame Dragon...huh...' Gokudera shuddered. 'The JSDF actually encountered one?'

'Yup. Codenamed it King Ghidora even. Itami's 3rd Recon Team survived a Dragon while managing to protect refugees in combat though some understandably died. Two sages, one Apostle and a Panzerfaust saved the day after distraction of bullets.'

'Heee...'

'Considering such...fauna is around, the JSDF had to adjust their firepower as scales have the defensive power of a metal they call Tungsten. And the scales are 20 inches thick.'

'What the fu...'