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I officially lost my mind.
That was the only thought running through Narumi's mind as she watched Lambo snuggled against her pillow. What possessed her to react like that to a simple insult? She was older than that child and should have behaved like an adult. Kissing someone the way she did was the kind of reaction that she would have done in her first life if Sakura or Ino insulted her.
She wasn't the eighteen-year-old girl that needed to prove herself anymore, but a 24-year-old woman with 41-year's worth of memories inside of her. This was the kind of behavior that an immature adult would do and she wasn't that type of person anymore.
Or so she thought.
But that girl really annoyed the crap out of her even though Narumi knew that there was some truth behind her words. Reborn would never look at her if it wasn't for the fact she was Tsuna's cousin.
"You really took me by surprise…Narumi." Narumi blinked and lifted her head up from the pillow. She blinked at the sight of Reborn standing outside her door with his hat tilted upwards and that annoying smirk playing on his face. God she hated that annoying smirk. "I really didn't think you would have the courage to do that."
Narumi hunched her shoulders and held off the blush that threatened to consume her. What could she say? That she just went with her instincts or that she probably learnt half of what she did from those three years of training with Jiraiya. That mentor of hers was too lazy to get a proper editor to correct his mistakes.
He claimed he had been training her and in a way Narumi guessed Jiraiya had trained her. But she honestly doubt her former godfather was watching down on her with a smile on his face.
"She made me really angry." Narumi admitted. "I can never think straight when I'm furious."
Reborn gazed at her with an intensity that reminded her again of her actions towards him. She really should have controlled herself in her fit of anger because those eyes just made her think back to Jiraiya's books. Just thinking back to his books made her blush a bright shade of red.
Right, it was time for her to change the topic before Reborn teased the living shit out of her again.
"Why did you date her?" Narumi asked, clearing her throat and fixating her eyes on the hitman. It was a curiosity that was now burning through her now that she had seen Bianchi with her own eyes. "You are way older than her so why date her? She isn't mature enough to date someone like you."
"She was attractive," Reborn answered as if that was the most obvious answer in the world. It was actually painfully obvious when Narumi considered his personality.
Still the answer made her roll her eyes. That was a typical Reborn's answer. As long as a woman was attractive then he would date her, not even hesitating about her age.
"She is going to be after you," Reborn observed, tilting his hat upwards and fixating his black eyes on her. He didn't look concern about her safety. Then again he had never really been concerned about her safety and that was something she was grateful about him.
The moment someone acted overprotective over her made her want to let Kurama out and tell them that she was a woman who fought through a war against an alien and won.
"And whose fault is that?" Narumi asked, wiggling her fingers at him. Reborn quirked his lips into a smirk and without a second thought, the blue-eyed girl hurled a pillow at him. It smacked him right on the face. "You were the one that requested for me to act like your girlfriend."
"And I'm grateful." Reborn said, picking up the pillow from the ground. "But it is not all my fault, Narumi. You were the one that made out with me right in front of her."
"She wanted proof!" Narumi growled. "And if she didn't want that proof then she shouldn't have irritated me!"
The man chuckled. "And might I say that I enjoyed your proof?"
Narumi groaned and slapped her hand against her forehead. Why did he have to say that? Now she was going to be replaying the whole thing again in her mind. It would take her couple of hours before she could erase the whole encounter from her mind or look back at it without blushing like a little girl.
"I only did that because of her," Narumi declared, folding her arms against her chest. "Your ex-girlfriend implied I wasn't attractive enough to date you or even sleep with you. If anything I'm way too attractive to date someone like you."
It was a lie but she had too much pride to admit that Reborn was probably in the same level of attractiveness as her. He was probably one of the most attractive men she had seen in both of her live—which was saying something since Kakashi-sensei had been her teacher and Sasuke had been her teammate.
Reborn smirked and strolled right towards her. He looked almost like panther with that dangerous glint in his eyes but Narumi wasn't going to falter. Oh no. She was going to straighten her back and keep her head held up high because there was nothing wrong in her words.
"Bianchi was very much wrong about that," Reborn declared, a serious expression on his face. He cupped her chin and his breath ghosted against her ear. "If it weren't for the fact I respect you or even the fact Tsuna is your cousin, I would have tried to get in your pants from the moment we met."
Narumi shivered, but she did not falter. Why was this guy so good at flustering her? It wasn't fair. She was the former kunoichi who had been taught the seductive arts from the moment she entered the Academy. If anyone should ever get flustered then it should be him.
"And I would have turned you down without blinking an eyelash."
"Are you sure?" he chuckled. Why must he find her words funny? Just because he was an attractive man, didn't mean she would go weak in the knees if he showered her with attention.
She had her pride, god damn it.
"Yes, I'm sure!"
Reborn quirked his lips into a smirk and curled his finger around the loose strand of blond hair. It wasn't anything really strange but it felt almost intimate if you asked her. More gentle than she ever really expected from Reborn and she wasn't sure if she liked this or not.
The last person to be this gentle to her had been her second father and he was gone now.
"Even if you had denied me, I would have chase you till the end of the world…Naru-chan," he announced, a teasing expression on his face. He bit her ear and dashed out of the door before Narumi could yell at him for breaking one of the rules in their contract.
She huffed and glared at her opened door.
That perverted hitman was not allowed to bite her ears when she didn't have a family member with her!
"Are you really dating Narumi-neechan, Reborn!" Tsuna yelled as soon as he shut the door of his bedroom. His student's eyes were filled with so much rage that it reminded Reborn of a little lion cub that was just trying to be scary. That Dame-Tsuna really did have a long way to go.
But first he would tease the boy.
"Oh, did Nana tell you?" Reborn asked, a large smirk on his face.
It would be a good idea for him to find out who spilled the beans to Tsuna. Reborn had been hoping he would be the one to do it. It would have been delicious to see the reaction of the boy when he saw his cousin snogging him. But alas, Nana must have not been able to control herself and told Tsuna.
"One of my classmates witness it!" Tsuna declared. He blushed and avoided looking him in the eye, making the smirk on Reborn's face even bigger. "H-He said that you and Narumi-neechan—"
"—Were having sex in the infirmary?" Reborn asked with an innocent glint in his eyes. Oh seeing the boy flush that deep shade of red was fun. Well not as fun as seeing Narumi when she blushed but it was a close second.
Nothing could really be as fun as seeing Narumi blushed or hearing her yells. God. Her yells entertained him, giving him the desire to egg her on until she threw something at him. He was playing with a fire when it comes to her but Reborn couldn't help it.
She was entertaining.
"We wore clothes," he informed him with a wide smirk on his face. The boy let out a sigh of relief and Reborn could only chuckle. Oh. He was going to have so much fun messing with him. "But if we weren't in the nurse office, then you might need to worry about getting a little nephew or niece in another nine months."
That look of fury on Tsuna's face was so entertaining that Reborn had to stop himself from chuckling. It was like the boy considered himself the protector of his older cousin when it was the reverse. He wouldn't have needed to do this if he wasn't trying to save himself.
Directing Bianchi to Narumi was the safer option than Bianchi trying again to kill Tsuna.
Tsuna scowled. "Are you toying with Narumi-neechan? She has never dated before and—"
"—and she is a grown woman." He reminded him, leaning back against the wall. Not just any grown woman but a grown, unpredictable woman who managed to make him weak in the knee with that kiss.
Not just any kiss but a mind-blowing kiss.
He never expected that kind of kiss from her. She was always shy like a little fox that just didn't want to come out to play. But that kiss was not of a little fox. No. It was a kiss that came from a grown fox. A kiss that Sawada Narumi shouldn't be capable of doing with her limited experience with men.
He knew Narumi well enough to know that she wasn't the type to fool around with men. Unlike him, the woman did have a problem with the idea of a casual relationship.
"I don't accept it."
Reborn raised an eyebrow and Tsuna glared at him. That Dame-student of his crossed his arms together into a cross-sign and narrowed his eyes at him.
"Good, I'm not asking you to accept it," he informed him, tilting his hat downwards. "Narumi is the one to decide whether to break up with me or not."
The whole thing was a sham but that useless student of his didn't need to know that. If he knew the truth then that boy would just spill the truth when Bianchi comes back again. The boy was, after all, too overprotective when it came to Narumi.
A good trait for a boss but a terrible trait when someone needed to get rid of an annoyance.
"You are a womanizer!" Tsuna declared as if Reborn didn't know that trait about himself. He scoffed. Honestly when he dated a woman, he was faithful to her and the same went for this fake dating business.
"So?" Reborn asked, shrugging his shoulders. "Your cousin doesn't mind."
The young teen scowled and stomped his feet against the floor. "Well I mind! She should be with someone that wants to be in a serious relationship with her!"
Tsuna was oddly more overprotective than Reborn had presumed. The words sprouting out of his mouth were the words he expected to hear from a father and judging from the way Tsuna blinked, the boy knew it too. Well Reborn guessed it was natural.
If Narumi was overprotective over Tsuna then the boy felt the same way towards her.
"But who says your cousin wants this relationship to be serious?" He chirped, tilting his hat upwards. There was a clue for Tsuna but Reborn doubt that the boy was smart enough to pick up the clue. Being observant wasn't Tsuna's strong suit. "Your cousin wants some fun and I give her that fun."
The boy glared and snarled. "What do I have to do to break off your relationship?"
Get rid of his ex-girlfriend would be the answer but Reborn doubt Narumi would be pleased if she found out that Tsuna learnt about their deal. He could picture the rage in her eyes and her throwing a book at him before yelling out:
"You told my adorable baby cousin that I did this because of your insane ex-girlfriend!"
Well Narumi would never say adorable baby cousin but Reborn knew that was what she thought whenever she caught sight of Tsuna. If this was her reaction to Tsuna. He could only imagine how terrifying she would be with Lambo or to any of her future kids.
"Get stronger and I might just consider it."
Tsuna glared and Reborn walked out of the door with a smirk playing on his lips.
It was always fun to mess with the Sawada cousins.
(Next day)
"So who was your first crush? I refuse to believe Nana when she claimed that you never had a crush."
"Just because I never told Nana about my crush, doesn't mean I never had one, Reborn!" Narumi grumbled.
The two of them were currently walking in the streets that would lead them to her workplace. Lambo would have gone with them but Nana seemed to have decided to become stubborn and decided not to let Narumi take her child with her. If anything, the brown-haired woman hugged Lambo before kicking Reborn and her out of the door.
Literally.
"I know," Reborn declared, flickering his eyes at her. "Now tell me about the first boy who captured your heart."
Narumi quirked her lips into a smirk and that quirked Reborn's interest. Was it a girl? Or was it a man? He could never really tell with that woman. Bianchi had been easy for him to figure out but then again he had been around Bianchi since she was a young girl.
It had been natural for Bianchi to see him as her first crush.
"Who says it was a boy?" Narumi asked, amusement colored her tone and the woman clasped her hands behind her back.
"Is it a man then? Or another girl perhaps?" he asked, tilting his hat downwards. Those blue eyes did not react at all to the questions, which was pretty interesting if you asked him. It would be hard for him to decipher the gender if she didn't react at all.
This was a mind game that he quite enjoyed.
"He was my teacher," Narumi answered, turning her head to look at him. Ah. So Sawada was the type of woman that enjoyed an age difference. Not something he would expect from her since she made a big deal between him and Bianchi.
Then again, he did deserve it since she was going to endure Bianchi's attacks.
"Did you ever tell him you had a terrible crush on him?" Reborn questioned. It must have been a very strong crush if her eyes softened like that. It almost reminded him of Bianchi—except there was no possessiveness in her gaze. Beside if it had been so long ago, it would have faded by now.
But it seemed to still linger with Narumi.
"I was 17 and he was 31…so no."
"That didn't stop me," Reborn pointed out. Narumi looked at him like he was an idiot and he was probably an idiot when he considered of the warnings that Shamal gave him and how he chose to ignore it. Of course he had too much pride to admit to her. "But this came to bite me in the ass."
He would at least admit this much to her.
Narumi giggled. It was strange to hear her giggle when she didn't really giggle all that much around him…but he didn't dislike it. Her giggles might not be like the other women he knew, but there was a certain charm to her giggle. He wouldn't mind hearing it again.
Actually he wanted to hear it again and hold it over her head.
"That is because you can't control yourself, Reborn," Narumi teased, her blue eyes twinkled with mischief and Reborn curled his lips into a smirk. "Besides, the age gap between Bianchi and you is a lot smaller between Kakashi-sensei and me."
Actually he doubt that their age gap could beat the age gap between Bianchi and him. His body might be forever frozen at the age of 26 but Reborn was practically old enough to be Bianchi's grandfather.
"What is the age gap between you and him?"
"14 years," she admitted, rubbing the back of her neck and not meeting him in the eyes. If she was concerned that he would judge her about this detail then she shouldn't worry about it. He was no better than her. "But I liked him since I was 15 but you know…things happened."
Reborn tilted his hat upwards. "Do you still like him?"
It would be problematic for either of them if Narumi still had lingering feelings for her teacher.
"A girl can never forget her first crush," she explained, a frown played on her lips. "But I don't think things would have worked out for us. He would always see me as his t…student."
Reborn believed with all the time that he spent around Narumi that he was almost an expert when it came to her. The way she quickly changed the last word, alongside the way she avoided looking him in the eye told him that she was lying about the last part.
What was she going to say?
Well it didn't really matter for him.
He tilted his hat downwards and fixated his black eyes on the now quiet woman. Everyone had their secrets when it came to their lives. He had the Arcobaleno Curse to deal with after all and Reborn would never tell Narumi about that curse.
There was no reason for him to tell her.
A/N: Congratulations for everyone who guessed Kakashi. I hope that you enjoyed this chapter and that everyone is keeping safe during these times. I also hope that you enjoyed the interaction between Reborn and Tsuna in this chapter.
Does anyone want to see another reincarnated character? Or would you rather prefer if Narumi was the only one?
