OpalescentGold: I do not own Katekyo Hitman Reborn.

Shenanigans

This is how they frolic.

Zoo

"Why, aren't you mean, Reborn." Noriko laughs, eyeing the chaos from below curiously. The escaped lions are a nice touch.

"It's all for Tsuna's sake," Reborn reassures her, his small smirk smug. "It's about time for him to get a pet."

"You're ruining his date with Kyoko-chan," she points out, amused. He has a small crush on the Sun's pretty little sister, and she is fairly certain all this commotion cannot possibly be good for their possible relationship.

Reborn shrugs philosophically. "Trial by fire is a fine way to build a romantic relationship."

Sakura

"I despise crowding," Kyoya hisses darkly, grey eyes flashing.

Takeshi laughs, though he doesn't make the mistake of flinging an arm over the prefect's shoulders. "Come on, Hibari! If you want, you can sit over there." He points three trees away from the one they are currently surrounding.

"Or you can just leave," Hayato mutters under his breath. He has held a minor grudge against Kyoya since the first time he defeated the bomber effortlessly in their once-a-month spars.

Kyoya smiles dangerously, spinning a tonfa in his hand lazily. "What was that, herbivore?"

"Hiieee! P-Please don't fight!" Tsuna interjects, forcing his way between the bloodthirsty Cloud and the volatile Storm. They subside reluctantly, but glare at each other over Tsuna's fluffy brown hair.

Shoulders falling in relief, Tsuna turns pleading brown eyes the prefect's way. "W-We'll try not to crowd, Hibari-san, but w-would you like to watch the sakura blossoms with us?"

Kyoya lasts an impressive ten seconds against those absolutely lethal puppy dog eyes before glancing away with a grumble, tonfa disappearing. "Hn. I expect a decent spar next week, little omnivore."

Tsuna's face is an interesting mixture of happiness at his achievement and horror at the upcoming beating. Noriko comfortingly hands him an ice cream bar.

Longchamp

Noriko stares at the crying, desolate boy on the ground, clad only in his boxers and apparently depressed out of his mind. Disregarding his atrocious taste in fashion, what on Earth is he doing?

"My past has been complete darkness... My future shall be complete darkness..." Naito Longchamp sobs, curling into himself. Hovering nearby, Tsuna looks horrified and Kyoya looks intrigued.

Noriko is the least violent of her family.

But.

"I'll give you three seconds," she says calmly, closing her eyes.

"Huh?

"Three..."

"H-Hey...!"

"Two..."

"Oi!"

"One..."

"W-Wait - !"

Noriko pivots gracefully on her foot and introduces the heel of her boot to his chest.

She hates self-pity.

"Wao," Kyoya mutters as Naito goes flying.

Tsuna just covers his eyes and sinks to his knees, whimpering softly.

Vacation

Mafia Land is a fun place.

It's somewhat less fun when Tsuna goes missing.

Noriko tracks her Sky to the backstage of Mafia Land where he seems to be drowning in a whirlpool and being abused by two Arcobaleno.

She blinks, frowns. "Two on one isn't fair," Noriko says absently.

"Who cares, kora!?" the Rain Arcobaleno retorts without much thought before abruptly doing a double-take. "Who are you, kora!?"

"I can't swimmmmmm...!" comes the shriek of Tsuna trying to get away from vicious sharks.

"This is Reiki Noriko," Reborn introduces, blank-faced and unreadable but for the twinkle of mischief in his dark eyes. "She's Tsuna's best friend. Noriko, this is Colonello, the person in charge of training here."

"Humph, yet another weakling then?" Colonello leaps up and aims a kick at her head. Noriko dodges to the right automatically and earns herself an assessing look in return. "Aren't you supposed to be a civilian, kora!?"

Noriko only smiles and laughs. "I guess I'm a strange civilian, then."

(But she's never been just a civilian, has she?)

Calcassa

Noriko stays by the sidelines when the whole invasion thing blows up in the Cloud Arcobaleno's face. She would declare that the battle goes to Mafia Land, but she's fairly certain the conclusion is so obvious it's not necessary.

Still. It's almost as if she is the Judge of the Vongola for once more.

Wedding

"I've always wanted to be a June bride," Bianchi confides, holding her bouquet of flowers close, the veils on both sides of her head shifting in the minor wind. "I asked Reborn about it many times and he nodded in agreement."

Noriko laughs, clapping her hands. She highly doubts this wedding will actually succeed, but she's willing to go along with it until it crashes and burns. "Oh, that sounds wonderful!"

Tsuna, standing off to the side while Kyoko and Haru coo and ahh over the upcoming wedding, looks like he's going to be sick.

Poison

And what do you know? She's right, as usual.

Noriko sneaks a bite from the untouched wedding cake before jumping back as it turns to poison right in front of her. Bianchi is truly furious at the farce.

Reborn merely looks smug that he has forced Bianchi to manifest the most advanced skill of Poison Cooking possible.

Festival

"This is nice," Tsuna mumbles, his head resting on Noriko's lap as she combs her fingers through his hair. This year's summer festival was a bit action-filled, but the fireworks were beautiful as always.

Noriko laughs and looks around. Kyoya's sitting against a tree a few feet away from the rest of the group, dozing quietly. Ryohei's passed out next to Kyoko, who chatters quietly with Haru over a cake shop she found yesterday.

Not far away slumbers I-Pin and Lambo, the two children curled up into each other. Hayato and Takeshi are sitting to Noriko's left, arguing in low voices over this and that. Reborn is asleep with his eyes open to her right.

But he is still missing.