I got a chapter done! In only a bit more than a week! :D! But I do have to admit that there was a whole bunch of stuff I wanted to put into this chapter that was just, in my opinion, pure amazing-ness!
So in this chapter: English lessons! History Lessons! Algebra Lessons! A new character! And a ten-year-later Ahiru! OoO!
NOTE: anything ^ ^ in it is supposed to represent being in another language, and anything with a * has a note at the bottom
~8~
"^What are you talking about? The answer is totally 84!^" said Adam as he pointed at the Algebra homework in his hand, "^How the heck do you get 62?^"
"^You subtract the 12 not add it,^" his sister pointed out.
"^What?^" he questioned and examined his homework again.
Hide didn't say anything throughout this whole conversation, mainly because they were talking in English, a language that baffled Hide like most foreign languages did, at the encouragement of Reborn. The infant also encouraged them to help Hide with his studies and to only speak English to him throughout the entire study session.
"^Okay, let's do History now,^" said Anna, who was still speaking in English, she then turned slowly to Hide and said slowly and loudly, "^His-story-now.^"
"I'm not deaf," he retorted in Japanese but thought to himself, But that did help a little…, and he got out his History homework.
"^I'm sorry Boss, but I'm not allowed to respond to anything you say in Japanese,^" she said, still in English, she didn't sound the least bit apologetic though.
"^Oh hey, there's a guy in this text book with Boss's name,^" said Adam while looking at the History book, "^It says here his name is Toyotomi Hideyoshi and that he was a samurai.^"
"Are you guys talking about Toyotomi Hideyoshi?" Hide asked with interest as he flipped through his book, "You know, my dad partly named me after him because my grandfather and my great-grandfather were both named after samurais*."
~8~
Geh…Hanabi bit the bottom of her lip in anguish as she watched the study group from the crack in the door of Hide's bedroom, I want to go in there and say 'How interesting Twelfth!' But I don't know English, dammit!
So while Hanabi was continuing to mourn for the fact that she didn't know English, Reborn was torturing Hide with the fact that he also didn't know English.
~8~
"^Let's take a break,^" Adam sighed and looked over to Reborn, "^I seriously don't think Boss understands a word we're saying.^"
"^Fine then,^" Reborn shrugged, he looked at Hide and said in Japanese, "We're going to take a break, and you're going to stay in here until you understand English more."
"^What!^"
"^Bye Boss,^" the twins waved and started to leave the room, they both stopped though when they saw Hanabi spying through the crack in the door. What the heck…? Hide gawked.
"Oh, Smoking Bomb," Adam greeted her, "You shouldn't be bothering Boss when he's busy with his studies."
"Shut up! Don't you think I know that?" she barked at him.
"Then why were you kneeling on the ground while looking through the crack in Boss's bedroom door?" asked Anna.
"Geh!" Hanabi paled, both the twins walked past her before she could say anything else and she also turned straight around and started yelling at them for thinking that she was weak or some nonsense.
This left Hide alone with Reborn.
"Quit slacking and learn English," Reborn commanded in the foreign language.
"I have no clue what you just said," Hide grumbled as he looked back at his text book, he then realized something about it and shot a look at Reborn, "Did you change all the words in my books to English!"
"Quit slacking and learn English," the infant commanded again, except this time Hide noticed that it was actually a doll that was telling him this.
"What the hell!" he cried out to no one in general.
~8~
Meanwhile, hiding in the bush of the Sawada residence's front yard, a evil glare could be felt from a passerby. Which, in this case, would be Ahiru, who had wanted to play with Hide today.
"Hn?" she stopped and stared at the bush for a few seconds before walking over to it and taking off her yellow rain boot to throw at it.
"Gah!" the girl could hear something yelp.
She jumped into the bush and rustled in it before coming back out, in one hand: her yellow rain boot, in the other: a boy that was her age whom she was holding by the white hair on his head.
"Ahiru got you!" Ahiru smiled to herself.
"Let go of me!" the boy demanded.
"Okay," she nodded and let go of him, a little yellow bird flew overhead until it landed softly on Ahiru's black hair.
The boy dusted himself off before standing straight up and pointing at Ahiru, "How dare you harm a person sent directly from the Bovino Family!" he yelled accusingly, "I, Nico Bovino, demand an apology!"
Ahiru stared at him blankly for a few seconds before turning her head slightly and saying, "Che, herbivore…"
"Don't look down on me when saying that!" he yelled angrily, his face was vivid red.
"What's with all the yelling here!" Hanabi roared as she slid open the door harshly and glared at the two kids in the Sawada residence's frontyard, she eyed them both for a second before saying darkly, with a pack of cards in her hand, "Trespassers will be blown to pieces…"
"Gokudera-san!" Hide yelped from the window on the second floor, "Don't use those things in my front yard!"
"Anything you say, Twelfth!" she immediately obeyed and the cards seemed to disappear her hand.
"Thank goodness," He sighed with relief and noticed the two children in his front yard, he recognized only one, "H-Hibari-chan? What are you doing here!"
"Hide-nii!" Ahiru smiled brightly at him, "Ahiru wanted to come play with Hide-nii!"
"B-But how did you know where I lived?" he asked.
"Ahiru looked in the school directory!"
"We have a school directory?" he questioned.
"Ahiru really wanted to come and play with Hide-nii today!" she said brightly.
"Wait, then whose that right next to you?" he asked.
"Um," Ahiru turned and stared at the boy, who still looked like he was demanding an apology from her, and turned back to Hide to say bluntly, "He's a herbivore I found in the bush!"
"Quit calling me that!" he yelled.
"H-Herbivore huh?" the teen sweat-dropped and sighed, "Fine, Gokudera-san, can you let them both in?"
"Of course Twelfth!" she said brightly.
"I'll come down in a sec then," he said.
~8~
"Whose this?" Adam asked upon seeing the two kids.
"Ahiru is Ahiru!" the little girl chirped happily, she then pointed to the bird on her head and said, "And this is Ahibird!"
"What a stupid name for a bird," the boy next to her scoffed, "I know, since you call me herbivore, I'm going to call you Duck!"
"That makes no sense," she said flatly, "Ahiru already said that she was Ahiru**."
"Apparently these two brats found the Twelfth's home by looking in the school directory," Hanabi shrugged.
"There's a school directory?" Adam questioned.
Hide soon came rolling down the stairs, he was kicked by Reborn at the top of the staircase since he wasn't doing his studies, and he greeted the two children.
"Boss, isn't this that girl that randomly ran into our class the other day while asking you for help?" asked Adam.
"And isn't she the one that was called me 'meanie' and was quacking at you?" asked Hanabi in a slightly more threatening tone.
"W-Well, it turns out that she's the granddaughter of our principal…" Hide began sheepishly, "And she found my house by looking in the school directory."
"There's a school directory?" asked Anna, who had walked into the conversation and noticed the white-haired boy that was shooting a dirty look at Ahiru, "Who's this?"
"I," the boy began proudly, "am Nico Bovino, a prestigious member of the Bovino Family, here to help the young Twelfth Vongola with his training to become the next Vongola Boss and to become his Thunder Guardian!"
"My what?" Hide raised an eyebrow and then said, "You really shouldn't be calling others 'young' when their older than you."
"You're Thunder Guardian!" the boy said with even more pride while ignoring the last comment Hide made, "The Great Nico Bovino is gracing your Gua-GAH!"
Reborn kicked the child in the face and said flatly, "We're not at that part of the story yet, idiot."
"Huh? Reborn, what's going on?" the young Boss questioned.
"Don't worry about it yet, Hide," the infant said dismissively, "You won't have to worry about for at least a few months now."
"What?" he questioned with even more confusion.
"Boss, do you want us to kill this brat?" Anna asked.
"What kind of question is that!" Hide snapped out of his confusion and yelled, "Of course I don't!"
"Yeah!" Nico stuck his tongue out at her, "Boss has me under his protection!"
"Wha-! How did we already get to calling me 'Boss'!" he asked.
"Boss, can I please kill this brat?" Anna asked, Hide noticed a dark aura surrounding her that only Adam was oblivious to.
"How did you get to hating each other already!" the blonde Japanese's mouth fell open.
"Bring it on, American, the Boss is going to protect me no matter what, right Boss?" Nico said eagerly.
"W-What? When did I ever say that?" he sweat-dropped, "Wait, where did you even come from?"
"I just found them in the front yard," Hanabi shrugged.
"Ahiru found the herbivore grazing in the bush!" Ahiru chirped happily.
"I'm from Italy!" Nico yelled, "I'm not from the Boss's yard or from a bush!"
"Why were you in my bush?" Hide asked while knowing that he would probably dread the answer.
"I wanted to surprise you, Boss!" he said eagerly.
"You could have just gone up to my front door!" the teen yelled.
"That would be too boring," the child frowned.
What sort of reasoning is that…? Hide gaped.
"Besides," Nico continued as he searched the contents of his backpack, "I have brought gifts from the Bovino Family!"
"Gifts?" he asked warily.
"Gifts!" Ahiru brightened and hugged him, "You're officially Ahiru's new best herbivore!"
"Get off of me!" Nico yelled and fell over with the backpack in his arms, a large purple bazooka flew out when he hit the ground and it flew into the air where it landed on both Ahiru and Nico.
Before Hide could even comprehend anything that was going on, pink smoke filled the room and only two figures were standing where Ahiru and Nico were. Hide coughed and struggled to find a window to open, but when he did the smoke seemed to clear straight out and the two figures were revealed to be a boy and a girl that looked like they were a few years older than Hide.
"Wh-Who the hell are you guys!" the blonde haired Japanese screamed while pointing an accusing finger at them both.
"And I had just gotten back from buying strawberries…" the girl said with a slightly annoyed tone in her voice; she had pale-white skin, long black hair and narrow onyx-colored eyes that seemed to make her quite attractive. But the Namimori high school uniform that she was wearing and the prefect jacket that hung around her shoulders threw Hide off completely, mainly because he had never seen a girl anywhere in Namimori that wore a prefect jacket like a delinquent. Her face looked extremely angry as she stood shockingly still with a grocery bag in her hand.
"Geez, I was taking such a nice nap before this had to happen…" said the boy lazily as he rubbed the back of his snow-white head sheepishly, he was thin, tall, and had short blond hair. The white button-down shirt and brown pants seemed to suggest that he had come out of some fluff-filled romance novel, his looks didn't seem to reject this suggestion at all either. He also looked really tired since there were dark circles underneath his eyelids.
"Yo," Adam was the first to talk them.
"D-Don't just say 'hi' to them so casually!" Hide hissed.
"Well what else are we going to do?" the other shrugged.
"Hn? Where am I?" the older girl asked as she looked around her unfamiliar surroundings.
"That's right," the older boy said tiredly and yawned, "I should probably be more bothered, but I'm too tired…"
Who the heck are these guys! Hide wondered, And where did Hibari-chan and that Nico-kid go!
"They are Ahiru and Nico," said Reborn, the young Boss turned around to the infant and gave the hitman an 'Are-you-serious!' look, "Fine, if you don't believe me," the hitman turned to the girl and boy and asked, "Hey, what are your names?"
"Nico Bovino," the tired boy answered obediently.
"Oh, Reborn-chan, I didn't see you there," the girl nodded at him and answered solidly, "Hibari Ahiru."
"Wait, Reborn-san?" teen-Nico peered at the child, "Wow, it really is Reborn-san! It's been a while!"
"A while! You guys just met like ten minutes ago!" Hide's mouth fell open.
"Oh yeah, I must've been hit by the ten-year-bazooka," Nico nodded knowingly and saw the lost look on everybody else's face, "The ten-year-bazooka is like a time-machine of sorts, it switches the places of you and yourself ten years later for five minutes."
"What? How the heck does it do that?" Hide asked.
"Um, well," the other teen began and gave a lengthy pause before replying, "…a Bovino-Family Secret."
"You actually don't know, do you?" he paled and thought, So then that means that this is adult-Nico-san and adult-Hibari-chan?
"How boring," teen-Ahiru stated flatly, "What a boring explanation, if what you say is true then this," she pointed at Hide, "Would be Hide-nii, but I don't remember Hide-nii ever being a herbivore, the Hide-nii I know is a carnivore with only herbivore-like tendencies."
I have no clue what any of that means! he became paler.
"I'm leaving," she announced, there was no question in her tone.
"You better stop her Hide," Reborn warned, "If she goes out around town and your principal sees her, then something bad might happen to the future."
Hide automatically agreed to this idea and ran over to stop Ahiru from leaving his house, "W-Wait!" he yelped, "If what Nico-san says is true, then I can't let you leave!"
"Don't try to stop me," she said darkly.
Hieee! Why is Ahiru so scary when she grows up! Hide whimpered and gulped down his fear, "I-I can't let you leave!"
~8~
The result of this was two black eyes and a bruise on his chest from a pair of tonfas that seemed to magically appear in Ahiru's hands.
"Wait," Reborn interjected, "I can't let you leave this house without saying something to Hide in English."
Ahiru closed her eyes and said, "Fine." When she opened them again she knelt down to the fallen-Hide and said something in English, then she left without saying anything more.
The boy groaned in pain while Nico kneeled down to him and said, "Don't worry; the ten-year-bazooka's effects should wear off in two and half minutes."
"That bitch…I don't know who she was, but beating up the Twelfth is unforgiveable!" Hanabi grumbled, a pack of cards appeared in her hand and she started to get up, "I'll find that bitch and blow her away!"
"Y-You don't have to do that, Gokudera-san!" the young Boss yelped and frantically tried to stop her from going on a bombing raid around Namimori.
"I see that Gokudera-san is and will always be the same," Nico commented.
"Oh yeah, uh, what exactly did Hibari-chan say before she left?" Hide asked.
"Um," Adam and Anna bother looked at each other uncertainly before Adam said sheepishly, "I don't think you want to know, Twelfth."
Was it something that bad! Hide's mouth fell open.
"If she said something that made fun of the Twelfth-!" Hanabi began angrily.
"It wasn't bad," Anna interrupted her, "and she didn't sound like she had an accent at all, but what she said didn't really make sense."
"Well what was it?"
The twins looked at each other before looking back at Hide and saying in unison, "I'll be waiting for you, herbivore."
"Again with this 'herbivore' and 'carnivore' stuff!" he groaned, "Come to think of it, the principal says that kind of stuff too. Are they both into animal documentaries of something!"
"That does sound like something Boots would say," Nico yawned.
"Boots?" Hide questioned his choice in nickname.
"Huh? Oh yeah, I decided that was her nickname when I was younger," he shrugged and added, "Because, you know, she always wears boots. Didn't you notice?"
"Oh yeah," they all recalled that the teen-Ahiru was wearing red rain boots.
"What a weird habit to have," Hide muttered.
"Well, my time is almost up," the teen-Nico said while staring at his watch sleepily.
"Wait," said Reborn, "Before you leave you have to say something in English to Hide."
"Oh right," Nico nodded, "Well unlike my younger-self, I'm actually fluent in more than one language. Very well, I shall say this Twelfth, au revoir***."
"That's French," Hide pointed out.
"Wha-?" the teen began but then a cloud of pink smoke filled the room and quickly left via the window, all that was there was Nico, who was taking a nap.
"What a useless idiot," said Reborn, "I guess that idiocy runs in that bloodline."
"What are you even talking about?" Hide asked.
Something started beeping and Hanabi took out her cell phone and checked a message on it, "Oh, sorry Twelfth, my idiot brother thinks I've been kidnapped again," she sighed as she put the phone away, "I'm sorry I have to go, I was completely useless today…"
"Um, it's seriously no problem," he quickly said, he would have honestly liked it if she wasn't trying to 'help' every five seconds.
"^Bye Twelfth!^" she said in English, thus allowing Reborn to let her pass.
Anna looked at the small child that was still taking a nap and picked him up gently, "^I'm going to hang this kid upside down over the river bed, Boss,^" she said to Hide in English with a kind smile on her face.
Hide nodded and said, "Um, okay, go for it," he then looked over to Adam and asked, "What did she say?"
"Uh, it's probably best that you don't know, Boss," the brother said before following his sister out the door.
"Ack! Wait, he didn't have to say anything English to me!" Hide yelled.
"That's because he's a native-born speaker, he doesn't have to," was the infant's answer.
"That's so not fair!"
"Life isn't fair," Reborn stated and hit Hide with a textbook, "Now in order to get dinner, you must memorize all the phrases that you heard today."
"What!"
~8~
"Oh come on," Suzuki breathed as he tried to start the engine of the old hovercycle, his endeavor failed since the machine refused to begin and just sputtered a little, "Come on, the sushi is going to get spoiled at this rate…"
He looked up when he heard some boots squeak behind him and turned around, he saw a girl with straight black hair, in the Namimori high school uniform with a prefect's jacket draped around her shoulders like a stereo-typical delinquent would. In one of her hands was a grocery bag, and on her feet were a pair of red rain boots.
"Um," Suzuki began, she seemed to ignored him as she walked forwards and stopped in front of the hovercycle. The girl gave it a good kick with her rain boots and the machine's engine suddenly began whirring as if nothing had ever happened to it.
"Huh? What?" he looked from the hovercycle to the girl and over again, "Uh, um, th-thanks!" he stammered and waved as she started to leave, he then remembered something and got out a package out of the cooler that was tied to the hovercycle, "Wait! Here, it's sushi from Takesushi, have you heard of that place before?"
The girl stopped and stared at the package silently.
"Well here, think of it as an appreciation gift for helping me," he smiled sheepishly.
She looked up at him and in one swift movement she took the package and started walking away quickly. Suzuki watched with interest as she turned the corner and saw a cloud of pink smoke appear right after she did. He ran over to the corner and peered around the corner. There was no one in sight.
"That's weird," he muttered to himself and looked down to see a notebook with the Namimori school's crest on it and underneath the crest read: School Directory.
"We have a school directory?" he questioned and looked down the street.
~8~
Ahiru blinked and found herself standing in the middle of the street.
"Ahiru thought she was at Hide-nii's house…?" she questioned herself and started to run towards Hide's house.
~8~
*Interesting history fact! Tsuna and his dad, Iemitsu, are possibly named after the samurais Tokugawa Iemitsu and Tokugawa Tsunayoshi! I realized this and decided to open up my World History textbook and pick the first samurai name that I see to be this story's main character's name, which happened to be Toyotomi Hideyoshi. So no, I did not pick Hide's name because it had '-yoshi' at the end like Tsuna's and because 'Hide' made a very catchy nickname...even though it does.'s
**Ahiru means 'duck' in Japanese, Nico's pretty slow on the uptake and he's not that clever.
***Nico said "Good bye" in French
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