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"When you said you wanted to eat out, I didn't think you would bring me here Reborn."
Narumi picked up the sushi and focused her eyes on Reborn. The man had dragged her out of her room, claiming that he wanted to take her out to eat. If Nana hadn't been watching, I would have told him that I'm too busy to go out with him. She shook her head and poked her tongue against her cheeks as the black-haired man wiped his mouth with a napkin.
"I needed to talk to you without your Aunt watching us," Reborn put down the napkin and locked eyes on her. "So bringing you here was the best idea."
Clasping her hands together, Narumi leaned her body forward and fixated her eyes on the man before her. Those black eyes showed no emotion and there wasn't a smirk on his face. He is a good liar, I will give him that. She leaned back, took in another deep breath and darted her eyes to the kitchen.
"So you want me to believe that it is pure coincidence that you chose the restaurant that one of my students owned?" She tilted her head and observed Reborn as he took a sip of his green tea. From the way those black eyes gleamed with amusement, Narumi concluded that the answer was no.
The black-haired man tilted his hat upwards. "Yamamoto Takashi is one of the most popular kids in your school, isn't he?"
She pressed her lips into a thin line and fixated her blue eyes on her soda before nodding her head. Taking a deep breath, the blonde reached for her soda and stared at Reborn as she took a sip of her drink. "You want to make him one of Tsuna's subordinates."
Reborn quirked his lips into a smirk. "What do you think about it?"
Does it even matter what I think? If it was up to me, these kids would finish school before getting their hands dirtied. A sigh escaped her lips and Narumi picked up another sushi. She shouldn't think like a teacher. This time she needed to think like the Hokage because this wasn't an easy topic. She darted her eyes to the kitchen before going back to the door.
"Gokudera is a good kid and he is smart but he can't bring people in with his personality," Narumi sighed. "Yamamoto is a different story. He is a friendly kid who is practically loved by everyone and can be friends with anyone. If Tsuna needs people to join the Vongola Familigia, he needs someone like Yamamoto."
She forced herself to relax her shoulders before shoving the sushi down her mouth. This place really does make one of the best sushi in town but it can never compare to ramen. Blue eyes widened at the sight of Reborn leaning forward till they were only a couple of centimeters apart. His black eyes darted from her blue eyes to fixated on her pink lips.
"Is there something wrong?" Narumi asked, knitting her eyebrows together.
Reborn smirked. "You got a little bit of rice stuck on your lips."
Narumi tilted her head and darted her tongue out, trying and failing to find the rice on her lips. Where the hell was it? On the top of her lips? Her tongue zipped upwards and the woman frowned. Nope, nothing there. She darted her eyes to Reborn and felt her throat drying up as those black eyes stared intensely on her tongue. A nervous laugh escaped from her lips as a sudden thought came to her mind:
Why do I feel like he wants to gobble me up?
"Is it gone?" She cleared her throat and steadied her tone as Reborn tilted his hat downwards. The black-haired man let out a sigh, leaned his body forward and placed his fingers on her lips. The warmth of his fingers brought out a shiver that ran throughout her body and Narumi felt the intense desire to squirm. The speck of rice dropped and Reborn pulled his hand away.
The intense warmth that coursed through her faded and Narumi swirled her head at Reborn.
"Did you have to do that, Reborn?" She growled. "You could have told me where it was and I would have—"
"Hi Sawada-sensei!" Narumi blinked and swirled her head around, blue eyes widening at the sight of Yamamoto standing right behind her. The black-haired boy had flush cheeks and his brown eyes kept darting from her to Reborn as if he was uncertain about whether or not that he should be here. "Um, is this a bad time to greet you? I didn't realize that you were on a date."
Date? That single word made her mind go blank as Reborn let out a little chuckle. How the hell did this scream a date to her student? A man and a woman could eat a meal together without being on a date. But if he saw what Reborn did just now then I can understand why he mistook it as a date. Her eyebrows twitched and she clenched her hands into a fist.
"Yamamoto," she allowed iciness to coat her words and fixated her eyes on her student. "I want to make one thing clear to you, I will never date a fickle man like this guy right in front of me!"
Her student gulped and scratched his hair as his eyes darted to Reborn. "Then if he isn't your boyfriend, who is he?"
"He's my friend." Narumi forced herself to choke out those words before darting her eyes to the hitman in front of her. His lips curled into a smirk and a sense of dread crept up into her stomach. Those black eyes radiated with an intensity that made her want to squirm, promising her things that should never be done in public.
"I thought we were more than friends, Vixen." There was a purr in his voice and Narumi felt her heart pounding against her chest as black eyes locked onto her. "After all I made you scream, haven't I?"
Screw this! Narumi growled and leaned her body forward before smacking the man on the head. Reborn jerked his head and slammed against the table. The food on the table jumped and the blonde glanced at Yamamoto. The teen had a flushed look on his face, brown eyes looking everywhere but her eyes.
"I-I think I will leave you to your date, Sawada-sensei!" Yamamoto squeaked.
"I'm not dating this jerk!"
I knew I should have stayed at home!
(A week later)
Life is good.
Narumi leaned her body against her chair and twisted her back as her blue eyes focused on the solitaire cards on her table. Tsuna and Gokudera hadn't gotten into any trouble in the past few days. Nana hadn't made any suggestion about her and Reborn going on a date. She closed her eyes and relaxed her shoulders.
Yes, life was great for her.
"S-Sawada-sensei!"
The young woman jerked her head away from the ceiling and swirled her head to her door as one of her female students flung the door open. Large black eyes gleamed with fear and the young girl trembled, lips wavering and tears streamed down her eyes like she saw something terrible. Her stomach churned when the girl grabbed the sleeve of her shirt.
"Y-Yamamoto-kun is going to jump off the roof!" Nothing came to her mind. The cries of her student was muffled, only a buzz against her ear. Why would he do it? What happened? Only those two questions came to her mind. Her breathing became ragged and the blonde forced herself to jerk her head away.
"What happened?" The words came out as a whisper and Narumi clenched her hands into a fist. The girl hesitated, lips wobbling as if she was uncertain about how to tell her. Her eyebrows twitched. "Answer me right now!"
The girl sobbed. "Yamamoto-kun stayed back yesterday to practice baseball and broke his arm during training."
Oh no. The blond-haired woman inhaled and exhaled before dashing out of the door, ignoring the cries of her student. Yamamoto was one of the best baseball players in the school. The kid was obsessed with the game. Just as obsessed as she was with ramen. But unlike her, baseball was his life.
"My dream? I wanna become the best baseball player in the world!"
Brown eyes flashed before her eyes alongside a warm happy smile. This was her fault! She should have checked up on him more! She should have been a better teacher! I thought I could be like Iruka-sensei but I'm not like him! Her throat dried up as more memories of Yamamoto came into her mind.
"Sorry Sawada-sensei, I forgot to do my homework!"
He always laughed even when she scolded him.
"Hey Sawada-sensei, here is some chocolate for you! I heard chocolate make people smile!"
That boy always tried his hardest to make everyone smile.
"Sawada-sensei, I'm fine!"
She should have pushed harder after she learnt of what his mother did to him and his father. I'm a terrible person. Her throat dried up and without a second thought, Narumi swirled her leg around and kicked the door open. Bang. Students swirled around to look at her and the blond-haired woman shoved them away as she tried to get to her student.
"Dame-Tsuna," Narumi froze at the sight of Tsuna standing in front of the crowds. Her young cousin trembled and paled, looking like he wanted to be anywhere but here as Yamamoto looked to the boy. "You must understand the feeling of preferring to die over failing at something, right?"
"I heard Lee-san can't become a shinobi, Naru-chan. What Gaara-san did to his arms and legs means that he can't accomplish his dream."
Why did that memory came to her mind? Narumi steadied her arms and held her hand up to her students as her blue eyes focused on the two boys before her. That wasn't the memory of her life in Japan. That memory was her time in Konoha when the chunin exams started. I remember how devasted Lee was when I visited him. She hunched her shoulders.
This wasn't something that she could understand and if Lee was here, he would probably sympathized with this kid.
"Narumi-neechan always tells me that I need to put more effort into my work," Tsuna said. Whispers broke out from the students around her and several students turned to look at her. Narumi only stared at her cousin, eyebrows raised at the sudden answer. "I never listen to her so I used the advise she gave me on you. But it was wrong of me because…we are different."
Yamamoto stayed quiet and stared at Tsuna. "Are you trying to tell me that you are a good student compared to me now?"
Tsuna shook his head and hunched his shoulders. "I meant that Narumi-neechan gave that advise to me because I never put any real effort into anything, so I can't understand how you feel when you said that you are so frustrated that you want to die because that broken arm might end a career."
He is growing up. The thought numbed her and Narumi stared at the boy that she spent most of her second-life raising with a small smile. With his back as straight as a trunk of a tree and that steady tone in his voice, the blond-haired woman could see the boss that he could become. And Sakura-chan thought that I will be terrible with raising kids! I showed her wrong! She chewed on her bottom lip.
"I'm someone who will always die with regret," Tsun continued on as he approached Yamamoto. "I will always think as I die that I should have done these things with putting my heart and soul into it and how it is a waste that I couldn't complete it when I was alive. So, I guess I can't understand your feelings."
Tsuna clicked his heels together and turned his body around to face the crowds of students. Brown eyes widened at the sight of her and Narumi smiled. You did good, my little lion cub. She took a step forward and felt her lips twitched when her young cousin flushed a bright shade of pink.
"Wait, Tsuna!" Yamamoto reached his hand out to Tsuna and yanked the boy close to him. Snap. Screams pierced through the wind as the rails of the roof broke into tiny pieces. Blue eyes widened as both boys stumbled out of the rooftop. I gotta get to them. Closing her eyes, Narumi sprinted to the end of the roof and jumped down.
Wind slapped the ends of her cheeks as both Tsuna and Yamamoto screamed for their life. Narumi channeled chakra into her legs, slammed it against the wall and began to sprint down the walls of the school. Tsuna was the first person that she saw. Taking a deep breath, Narumi hurled herself at Tsuna and grabbed him by the waist.
"Narumi-neechan, how—"
"No time to explain," she barked as she allowed Kurama's chakra to envelope her. It can't be helped. Orange-like flames enveloped her and Narumi knew if someone saw her eyes that it would be a reddish-orange colour. She took a deep breath and flew straight to Yamamoto, who was nearing to the ground.
She could feel Tsuna staring at her as her hand reached out to Yamamoto. The black-haired boy grabbed her hand and the blond-haired woman dashed to the ground, dropping the teens on the ground. I'm a little bit rusty, aren't I? She clicked her tongue as the chakra around her body faded. She rubbed the back of her neck as her cousin and student looked at her.
"Tell anyone that I flew you down to the ground and I will personally give the two of you detention for a whole month."
God, she needed a drink right now.
Sawada Narumi is becoming more and more of a puzzle to me.
Reborn stared at the blond-haired woman with a small frown playing on his lips. He had been prepared to use his riffle again to shoot Tsuna but Sawada was able to catch him and Yamamoto, flying the two teens down to the ground. Not even Viper can do what she did. He tilted his hat downwards before darting his eyes at the blond-haired woman.
Sawada knitted her eyebrows together and hunched her shoulders as her small hands curled into a fist. "You are doing a really good job with Tsuna; he is actually starting to grow up."
Those words should make him smirk but Reborn could hear the lingering sadness in her tone. She doesn't want him to grow up just yet. He curled his lips into a frown as his black eyes focused on Sawada. The usual bright sunny smile that plays on her lips was gone, replaced with lips that seemed ready to tremble.
A frown played on his lips and Reborn tilted his hat downwards. He pushed his chair backwards and strolled towards the blond-haired woman who kept staring at him with wide eyes. I really dislike seeing a woman as pretty as her being sad. He pulled his hat off of his head and placed it on top of the blond-haired woman's head.
"Why did you do that?" Her voice was soft, barely a light touch to his ear but it was enough for him to look down at the girl. His hat didn't engulf her head but it suited her. She looks good. He heard her suck in her breath and Reborn allowed his hands to hover on her shoulder.
"I wanted to see how good you will look wearing my hat." He curled his lips into a smirk and placed his hand underneath her head, tilting her head forward. Blue eyes hardened and Sawada smacked his hand away, not looking one bit pleased by his words. He smirked even wider. "And can I say you look delicious."
"Reborn, don't make me throw a book at you." She scowled. Blue eyes looked everywhere but at him, making her look like a little mouse that was just ready to be gobbled. If I were fighting her with real weapons then she probably would be more confident. The thought made him smile. "Can't you be serious for once? I gave you a compliment and I never do that!"
He chuckled, leaned his body close and allowed himself to lower his voice. "But I'm serious, Sawada. You look like temptation when you wear my stuff."
It's a mystery how someone like her didn't have any experience with men. That shiver running through her body and the way her throat gulped brought a heat that he hadn't felt in a long time. Even the fact that she nibbled her lips made him want to bite it. He chuckled and shook his head.
"Then if I'm temptation, then you are the living embodiment of sin." Reborn blinked as blue eyes darkened and the blond-haired woman leaned her body forward. Her heat stroke him and the black-haired man felt his throat drying up as blue eyes darkened. She is playing with fire. The thought made him frown and he cleared his throat.
"It was a lot more fun when you blush," Reborn commented.
The blonde smiled. "But if you keep flirting with me like that then the effect goes away."
Even though I'm doing this, she is still sad. He could see that the smile was still wavering and that those blue eyes still screamed of sadness. With another sigh, Reborn curled his arms around the girl and lifted up from her chair. Blue eyes widened and those trembling shoulders stiffened like he poured a bucket of cold water on her.
I will need the bucket of cold water after this and I'll probably double check Tsuna's homework for mistakes. He took a seat on the chair, took the hat from her head and pulled her close to his chest. The blond-haired woman squirmed and squirmed to the point that he could feel his blood flowing in the opposite direction.
He steadied her. "Sawada unless you want me to fuck you in your office, I advise you to stop squirming."
Blue eyes widened and Narumi's pink lips parted at his words. I will give her five seconds before she snaps out of it. He curled his lips into a smirk at the thought.
Five…
Four…
Three…
Two…
"—Reborn!" She screamed. "I'm going to kill you."
He bobbed his head. "You can try and kill me after you cry your heart out."
Narumi blinked and raised her eyebrows at him. Reborn cleared his throat and cradled her head against his chest, detangling the tangles in her hair. I can't believe she made me do this. He might treat women with respect but this was the first time that he did something like this. Not just anyone but Iemitsu's niece of all people.
"Reborn, did you tease me because you thought I was going to cry?" He nodded and looked away as he forced down the heat that wanted to come up to his cheeks. Black eyes widened as Narumi laid her head against his chest. "Maybe Tsuna might really become a good guy to girls if you teach him things like this."
Reborn snorted. "He will be a good guy because you raised him. I did half of the work when it comes to tutoring him…if anything I should be grateful for you."
"What do you mean?" Narumi asked.
He pressed his forehead against her own forehead and looked down at those blue eyes that shone with uncertainty. With a loud sigh, Reborn tucked a strand of her blond-hair and steadied her again. "You thanked me for Dame-Tsuna, didn't you? But you made it easier for me to groom him since he has the foundations…he just needed a little push."
Narumi quirked her lips into a smile and her lips wobbled again. "I'm an amazing cousin, aren't I?"
He shook his head and brought her head closer to his chest. Too stubborn to cry. His eyebrows twitched as blue eyes looked up at him with uncertainty at his attitude.
"If you wanna cry a little for losing your kid to adulthood then go for it," Reborn looked out to the windows. "I'm not going to watch."
You can cry without worrying me judging you.
Those words didn't need to be said.
"I wonder how Tsuna will react if I tell him that his scary tutor is being so gentle with me," Narumi muttered. She quirked her lips into a small smile and Reborn felt his throat drying up slightly. She really is binding. He jerked his head away. "I think he might get a heart attack."
"Tell him and I'll make his life hell."
Narumi sighed and closed her eyes, laying her head against her chest.
"Well I can't have that, can I?"
Neither of them moved from their spot until it was time for Sawada to teach her next class.
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