'Thoughts'
"Talking"
Spells/Other's thoughts/Skills
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{Korin's Voice}
Inner Voice
Chapter 8 Katekyo Kenshin Korin
The school bell rang, signalling the end of the school day as students with no afternoon classes or not in any club starts leaving the campus to go start doing their own things for the day. Three of those students are currently walking along the streets in the residential district towards a certain brunette's home, "Why are the two of you following me?" Korin asked, more annoyed of the glare the bomber is giving him compared to the clueless look on his companion baseball fanatic.
"Even if Reborn-san placed his trust in you, I still won't trust you." Gokudera said angrily, "If you were hurt a single hair on Hime-sama…"
'Annoying puppy…' Korin thought, "What about you, Yamamoto Takeshi?"
"Maa maa, just call me Yamamoto." Yamamoto said cheerfully, "I'm just tagging along."
"You're just bored, huh…" Korin summarized, "Well, it doesn't really matter but I suggest that you shouldn't get too agitated. The right-hand man is supposed to help the boss deal with things that he is incapable of doing on his own and control most the family when the boss is unable to, right? With that temper and that lack of trust in other people, you failed in that aspect."
That really pissed the bomber off, "What are you trying to say?-!" He shouted angrily.
"You know that yourself." Korin said as he stopped on his steps, the three now standing in front of the Sawada Household. As much as he knows where she lives, the teen never did visit her in her own house before. He decides to only do so if he was invited by her or her tutor or due to emergency circumstances. "Seems pretty normal…" He said, "Well, she is just a normal girl…"
He walks up to the door and knocked a few firm knocks. He then heard a few footsteps coming from within and the door swung opened, in front of him stood a young woman with the same brown hair as Tsuna but it was combed down on her sides unlike her bed hair kind of style, she is wearing a simple shirt and a long skirt with a green apron donned in front of her, "Oh, who might you be?" She asked, "Are you new here?"
"Motoyama Korin." He introduced himself to her with a polite bow, "I just moved here sometime in June… or is it May…?"
"I see, it's really nice to meet you." The woman said happily, "I'm Sawada Nana."
"Sawada…?" Korin then got all the pieces together, "Are you Sawada Tsunahime's mother by any chance?"
"Oh? You know Tsu-chan?"
"You can say that…" Korin said, "I'm her classmate and Reborn have asked me to help tutor her." He looked over her trying to find the brunette that he was tasked to tutor, "Is she in?"
"Ah, yes." Nana smiled, "She's upstairs in her room."
"Mind if I come in?" He asked.
"Sure~!" She giggled, "It's always nice to see Tsu-chan getting so many friends~!" Korin now wonders if she is indeed the brunette's mother, with their personality completely polar opposites from each other, "Oh, Yamamoto-kun, Hayato-kun! You came as well!"
"It's nice to see you, Hime-sama's mother!" Gokudera greeted.
"Sorry for intruding." Yamamoto said.
Korin leave the three be and went up the stairs to the brunette's room. It was rather obvious thanks to the wooden fish shaped name plate by the front of the door, "Tsunahime, you ready yet?" He opens the door, and in front of him stood Tsunahime, in nothing but her panties and is just putting on a shirt, "Ah…" Korin blushed a little before slowly closing the door.
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"KKKKKKKKKKKYYYYYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!-!"
A scream was heard all over the house, the two boys downstairs heard it and they dashes up the stairs up to her room, "Are you alright, Hime-sama/Tsuna?-!" They cried barging in, and then notice the lack of clothing on the girl. Gokudera was the first to go out with a nosebleed while Yamamoto just stood there blushing like mad, "GET OUT!-!" She screams taking whatever she can find in her room and throwing at him and Korin, the two ran out of the door getting around the barrage of objects thrown at them.
A couple of minutes later…
The four students now sat around the same table in the room of the currently embarrassed brunette, now fully clothed with her face completely red unable to look at any of the guys in the eye, especially Korin, 'This is so embarrassing! The first time he came to my house and he has to see me like that…'
"Come on now." Korin said as he took out his books from his schoolbag, "This is supposed to be a tutor session, not some friendly meeting. I apologized for my little… incident then, but we can't just spend the whole day sulking over it." He opened the Mathematics textbook, "Why don't we start with the math homework sensei gave us?"
"S-Sure! O-Of course!" Tsuna said as she took out her books as well.
"Hey Korin, mind helping with mine as well?" Yamamoto asked cheerfully as he took out his books as well.
"An idiot after another…" Korin grumbled, "Oh well, come on, let me see what's you're bad at." They started off doing the work that their teacher assigned them. Out of honesty, Korin isn't really all that smart, just that in his magic training, he is required to remember all sorts of formula written down in hundreds of scrolls as well as millions of different incantations. That resulted in him being able to understand the mathematical formulas with ease.
As for him explaining how each of the formula works, he have a little trouble with his twin before, so he knew what kind of approach he needs for the brunette.
"Look, this question is a little misleading." Korin tells her as he leans over to her to see the question she is having trouble with.
That causes her to flinched as she felt his breath near her ear, every word is completely ignored as she tries not to make any sudden movements that might alert him. She can feel his hard chest on her shoulder and the heartbeats vibrates along her arm to her head. She peeked over slightly to Korin's face, masculine but with slight feminine feel to it, and the old scar by his cheek peaks her curiosity.
From what she can tell, that wound is inflicted when he is probably young with the slight enlargement of the scar is obvious. That makes her recall his words to the Kokuyo students almost a month ago, 'What kind of past does you have, Motoyama-san…?' Her sense of pity is really directed at him, with the same lonely look in his eyes, 'Is that why you're so lonely, but you choose to avoid making any friends because of what you are…?'
"Are you getting this, Tsunahime?" Korin asked, snapping her back to reality.
"Y-Yes!" Tsuna said, 'I didn't get anything at all…!'
"Can you please be more concentrated on this?" He asked her in concern, "If you don't manage to pass your mid-terms, Reborn is definitely going to give you some kind of special treatment, and it won't be pretty."
'Ah! That's right! Reborn did mention something like that!' She cried.
Gokudera's pencil finally snapped from the continuous pressure he has been putting on since they started the tutor session, "God damn, you bastard!" He shouted angrily, "Stop being so close to Hime-sama already! You have been like that since we started, and it is completely inappropriate!-!"
"Huh…? Says the guy who stalks his boss every morning…" Korin retorted.
"Wha… you son of a…" The bomber growled angrily as he prepares to take out his dynamites, "I'll blow you away!" The fuse ignites, causing panic in Tsuna as she cried out for him to put that away.
Korin was on auto pilot as he moves towards him in a split second, tosses out the dynamites out the window, knock the silver haired teen down on his back and drew out his gun pointing its muzzle at his head, just as the bombs exploded outside without hurting anyone, "You lack of control really makes me wonder why you're still part of this family." Korin said.
"What?-!"
"If this were a real situation, your head will have been gone within a second." He added as he holsters his revolver, "If you want to remain as the right hand man, don't be so impulsive to everyone you meet."
"M-Motoyama-san…" Tsuna muttered worriedly.
Korin got off him, getting back to his place, "Now where were we?"
"Monster…"
Korin stopped with his page flipping.
"Like the prefect, you're a flipping monster." The bomber said, "I guess that's why you and him are so alike. People like that often flock together."
"G-Gokudera!" Yamamoto cried.
"It's true, isn't it?-!" The bomber shouted, "He is not like us, he is a pro fighter, and a killer too. I saw those kinds of faces before. Just like that crazy perfect."
"…You're right at that point." He said, "But I assure you, Hibari is hundreds times better than me. Even if he is strong, he doesn't really killed anyone, unlike someone like me…" Tsuna caught a glimpse in his eyes, realizing there are sadness, even guilt in them now. She has now completely curious of what kind of past he has, of why he is like this and why he refuses to get along with any other people. 'I… want to know… more about you…'
Korin notices the time on the clock on the wall, "Oh, it's getting pretty late." He said as he starts packing up his things, "I better get going."
"Ah, you're right." Yamamoto said as he too starts to pack up, "My dad is going to start nagging if I don't go back soon."
"You better leave too, Gokudera Hayato."
"Eh?-! Asshole, what give you the rights to command me?-!" The bomber shouted angrily.
"So you're planning on staying over in a girl's place?"
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"I better go as well." Gokudera too starts packing up, the most obvious thoughts going through his head.
"H-Hey…" Tsuna speaks up, "Motoyama-san, c-can you… well… stay here for a while? Mom told me that she is hoping for you to stay for dinner, and… so…"
"I'm not really that hungry, sorry." Korin tells her, "But thanks for the offer, tell auntie I say sorry."
"I-I see…" She muttered, disappointed that he is not staying behind. Korin then felt a spike in magic energy from outside the house, not just a spike, a huge sudden increase the magic energy in the area for almost a second. He know that there isn't any mages in Namimori to his info, so he dashes towards the window and slides the glass panel aside, 'What was that?-!'
"Motoyama-san?"
"What's wrong, Korin?" Yamamoto asked.
He then notices a silhouette on one of the roofs, "There you are!" He leaped out the window and onto the roof, his gun out of its holster and pointing at the person in the shadows of the evening sun, "Who are you, and what are your purposes?"
The figure chuckled a little, his red eye obviously glowing with power, "Wouldn't you like to know, Vongola Knight?"
Korin's eyes widen for a split second as he fires at him, the man dodging it and leaping back to another roof, his black mantle fluttering in the wind, "We'll meet again, Knight-san. And then, we'll see if the Yan clan bloodline is really all that powerful." He flashes away with his image blurring out within the second he moves.
The Knight holster back his gun, his mind already knows what is going on. 'Someone knows who I am… about magic… and about the Vongola…' He looks back at the Sawada Residence, 'If so… then Tsunahime is in danger…' He jumped back down onto the roof, "Tsunahime."
"Y-Yes?"
"I've change my mind, I'll stay for dinner."
"Eh? R-Really?-!" She said happily, "T-Then I'll tell mom!" She dashes out of the room quickly as she can.
"Listen here, Motoyama Korin…" Gokudera said angrily as he approaches him in anger, "If you dare do something to Hime-sama-"
"You better keep a lookout around the area, Gokudera Hayato." Korin tells him, "I can sense a danger approaching Tsunahime soon, so be ready."
The bomber couldn't talk back with that serious tone and the sense of authority in his words, his teeth gritted in annoyance, "Fine! But I'll do it for Hime-sama, not for you, got it?-!"
"Yamamoto Takeshi, you better leave." Korin tells him, "Your father is going to be worried if you don't."
"Ah! You're right!" The baseball player cried as he notices the time on the clock, "See ya later, guys!" He dashes right out of the room and down the stairs as Gokudera follows him down.
"Is something wrong, Korin?" A squeaky voice of the infant hitman echoes in the room as Reborn appears behind Korin, "You wouldn't do something like this out of wimp."
"…There is someone here who may target Tsunahime." He explains to the tutor, "On her own, even with those two friends of hers and your bullet helping, she wouldn't be able to hold him back. I know you are strong, Reborn, but this is one opponent that even someone of your abilities can't win against."
"Sounding all cocky all of the sudden, Motoyama Korin." Reborn said, amused of his tone, "But thanks for the warning. Maybe this is a good thing, letting you be the Vongola Knight. You can replace Gokudera as her right-hand man."
"Don't sound too sure, Arcobaleno." Korin tells him, "I'm not worthy of something like that. My hands are stained too much to be by such innocence. The best I can do is to protect her as much as she can, until she is able to handle things on her own."
"Humans are never pure from the start, Korin." The infant chuckled, "By the way, stay back after school tomorrow at the baseball field. You have to handle a certain something later." The infant walks out of the room, leaving the teen confused but suspicious of the infant's words.
Korin now regretted following the infant's instruction.
The next day, after school, he went to the baseball field and there he found a large minigun at the white home base plate. On it, sat the Spartan tutor from hell known as Reborn, with the silver haired bomber standing next to him. "Ciaossu, Korin. Glad you can make it."
"Where did you get the gun?" He asked. He swear, he would go insane soon if he have this infant as his tutor.
"Got it delivered last night." Reborn explained, "But never mind that. We need to make you undergo the acceptance test now."
"Acceptance test…?" Korin could literally feel his eye twitch, "You're not going to cut my finger to test my loyalty, are you?"
"No, we're not the fucking bloody yakuza, idiot!" Gokudera shouted angrily. "I'll explain it to you." Reborn said, "You just have to dodge all the bullets coming from the gun here and you pass. There is no time limit, however."
"So you basically kill me…" Korin muttered annoyed.
"But Reborn-san! I still don't get why we still have to do this?-!" Gokudera shouted angrily, "There is no way someone like him is going to be accepted into the Vongola!"
"R-Reborn!" Tsuna cried as she ran towards them frightened, "What are you up to now?-!"
"H-Hime-sama!"
"Oh nothing. I'm just getting Korin into the acceptance test." Reborn tells her.
"That again?-!" She cried, "You can't just do that!-!"
"By the way, you're in it as well."
"EHHH?-! Why?-!" She cried.
"Because you're the boss."
"How many times I told you, I don't want to be a mafia boss!-!"
"And the denial continues." Reborn sighed, "Oh well, let the test begin!" He flicks the lever on the minigun and the bullets came flying out towards them like rain. The teen instinctively grabs the brunette by her waist and leaps away from the bullet rain. He landed quite a few feet away from the range of the gun as he place her down, "You okay?" He asked her, the said brunette's face now bright red.
"E-Eh? Y-Yeah…" She muttered playing with her index fingers.
'He predicted where exactly the range is limited to from the beginning…" Reborn smirked, "Very well, time for phase two." Two more miniguns came out from the ground behind the two and starts raining bullets at them. Korin lifts her up bridal style and ran off, dodging all the bullets within an inch of their intended target.
"You better hold onto me tight and don't let go." Korin said.
"G-Got it!" She said as she grabs around his neck tightly.
Gokudera is using all his mental restraint from getting in there and stuffing dynamites into that guy's head for getting so physical with his boss.
Korin leaps back and forth from the raining bullets, dodging them all with almost no difficulties at all. But Reborn can tell he is getting tired with every extra movement he has to make to prevent any of the projectiles from hitting Tsuna, "I guess we better speed things up a bit." He said turning to Gokudera, "Gokudera, release your dynamites at them."
"Eh?-! But Hime-sama will…"
"She can dodge them." Reborn smirked.
"Oh, right!" Gokudera said as he pulls out his dynamites, which lit up on their own as usual, "Take this! Hime-sama, please dodge these!" He threw out a whole lot of dynamites that rain down towards them.
"HIIEEE!-! W-What do we do now?-!" She cried.
"Gyahahaha!" An obnoxious laughter was heard as the cow brat known to them as Lambo appears in the field, "Lambo-sama is here!" Korin leaped pass him, letting the dynamites falling down detonate at the cow kid, a painful scream is heard all over the field.
"L-Lambo!" Tsuna cried.
The kid laid down on the ground covered in soot, seemly unconscious, "We need to get medical attention…!" Korin realized as he was about to run to him but…
"Gotta… hold… it… in…" He heard him whimpered as the kid sat up and burst into tears, "You all meanie! Lambo-san hate all of you! All of you just die!-!" He dug into his afro and starts throwing pink grenades everywhere, exploding all over. One of them detonates at one of the miniguns, destroying the control panel and resulting in the gun starting up again, firing bullets all over without control.
"HIIEEEE!-! Everything is going crazy!-!" Tsuna cried in fear.
"Not good…" Korin muttered, before noticing a series of bullets and grenades coming towards them, "Shit!" He crouched down and covers the brunette with his entire body, "This is definitely going to hurt…" A series of explosions occurred at that area.
As the smoke clears, the teen was there with bruises all over his back, blood flowing out of the bullet holes he has endured, but what was most intriguing in the yellow-red flame that surrounds him right then, covering them like a cloak of pure fire. Unlike during the time when he fought Orcus, the flames here are much more calmer.
'E-Eh…?' Tsuna has her eyes closed in fear of the bullets, but when she opened her eyes, she saw the flames she once saw back in Kokuyo Land. But unlike the stinging burning sensation she felt before, this time is much more warmer, almost like the flame is nothing more than a warm blanket.
That flame dissipates as Korin collapses onto the ground panting for air, "Motoyama-san!" Tsuna cried, "Are you alright?"
'What was that flame?' Reborn wonders in shock, 'I have heard that Knights have a special dying will flame for their bloodline alone, but from what I heard, it is not like that.' Gokudera too starts to panic as he ran towards the unconscious male teen, "Just who are you, Motoyama Korin?"
To be continued…
Sorry if the smut isn't enough. Romance isn't
my forte and this is my first time trying out
something like that.
With that, I thank you for reading this!