Fon escorted Terra to a mountain with an old chinese mansion on it. The surroundings were filled with forests a mountains a what looked to be some natural hotsprings. Terra admired the scenery for awhile before turning her attention back towards Fon.
Fon stared her down looking like he was waiting for her to say something. A few minutes passed before Fon broke the silence.
"Aren't you supposed to greet your teacher when you arrive?" (Fon)
Terra bowed her head towards Fon and put her hands together.
"Shishou greet."
Fon nodded and patted Terra's head.
"That's good enough, alright so do you have any style that you particually want to learn?" (Fon)
Terra raised he head and her big violet eyes looked straight at Fons studying his eyes before answering.
"Evasion."
Fon showed a somewhat suprised face.
"Oho so you want to focus on evasion instead of power?" (Fon)
Terra nodded her little head.
"Alright i'll guide you in that direction."
From that day on Fon forced Terra to focus on improving her balance and footwork. He was impressed that she was already working on her flexibility but in his eyes it wasn't enough. Fon forced Terra to stay in extremely harsh postions for hours on end, and if she even moved in the slightest he would punish her.
After traing those three basic essentials Fon would have practice spars with Terra as he would mercisilly attack her while she would attempt to avaid.
A year passed with her following this routine daily. After a year Terra learned how to be light on her feet and her movements resembled flowing water.
Fon was impressed by Terras amazing progress so the second year he focused on training her senses. Much like how Reborn would attack Tsuna at random, Fon found amusement attacking Terra at the most rabdom of times.
There was that time when she was taking a bath and Fon appeared out of the spring water and hit Terra in the face.
In the begginig Terra fell to every attack but after the first three months she developed a natural sense to feel the presences around her. But that just added more fuel to the fire known as sadistic teachers, and soon the sneak attacks became more frequent and more traumatising.
Fon didn't spend the entire year tormenting her as he also taught her the basics in Taekwondo, Karate, Kungfu, and most of all capoeira. For those who don't know Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian
martial arts that focuses on dance and acrobatics. It uses a lot of kicks and spins that rely on speed, power, and leverage. Terra was just a natural at Capoeira and used it as her base when mixing together martial arts.
The final year Fon made Terra focus on a more spiritual route to cleanse her body and her soul. Terra learned about all of the different chakra point on the body and was taught various forms of meditation. Through learning these and practicing the meditations Terra found it easier to focus her thoughts, and move her body.
But unkown to both Terra and Fon, Terra's dying will flame slowly merged and adjusted her body every time she fell into a deep meditation. At the rate Terra is going soon enough she won't need a medium like the dying will bullet or the vongola rings to bring out her flame.
Time passed and soon three years was up, Terra was a little five year old who was a head taller than Fon. This suprised Terra a bit because she remembered both Ipun and Lambo being at Reborns height when they were five but apparently she was at average height for her age.
Terra was a bit sad to leave china as she did enjoy the forests and mountains around Fon's home but she was excited to see her dad after being away for three years. Terra paid respects to her shishou Fon and than left to board the plain that was headed back to Japan.
On the flight back Terra slowly drifted to sleep remembering what her shishou told her before she left.
"Terra you are like the wind evasive and ever dancing. Sharp but calm, here and there never staying in one place. You could be a storm or you could be the sky but something in you urges you to attack. You try to finish everything all at once the swifter you are the better you feel. You are like lightning, someone who is direct and takes the straightest path, but remember all lightning has a thunder and the same can be said about your actions each one has a repercussion so be careful." (Fon)
It all sounded weird to her but she decided to take her shishous word to hear as she really wasn't one to focus on things like the repercussion of her actions. I mean the last major action she made ended up shocking her to death so it couldn't hurt her to much to try to be a botore carefull.
The next day Terra returned to Namimori and more importantly to her home. She looked at the generic suburban house infront of her and thought about how funny it looked from the outside compared to the enourmous lab directly below it. It took her a minute but she finally stopped thinking about stupid things and just as she was about to go inside she heard a crying kid followed by dogs barking.
Terra turned around and saw a little sawada tsuna running from three small dogs. She thought about leaving it alone because Tsuna was easily outrunning the dogs but the poor kid just had to trip and fall over allowing the dogs to catch up.
Tsuna was flailing around on the ground trying to avoid getting mauled to death when in reality the dogs were just playing a little rough (Ruff) with him.
Terra found the sight to be funny and painfull at the same time and in the end she chose to help the small vongola out. Terra ran up to the dogs and put her hand above her head and commanded the dogs.
"Sit." The dogs all obediantly sat down.
Terra put out her hand. "Shake."
The dogs one by one shook her hand with their paws and soon left to go home or find some other kid to chase.
Terra turned her attention back on Tsuna and waited for him to calm down and to stop crying. It took awhile but Tsuna stopped crying and looked up at his savior only to be embaraced that a girl his age was the one who protected him.
He remembered how his mama would always tell that big boys always protect girls when they were in trouble. And her he was as a big boy crying infront of a girl only to be saved by her, rhanks to this realisation he calmed down a lot quicker and hid his tears like a man.
The girl just stared at him for awhile until she spat out a word. "Name?"
Tsuna was a little confused until he realised that the girl was asking for HIS name.
"My name is Sawada tsunayoshi what's yours?"
Tsuna squirmed around waiting for the girls name.
"Terra."
Terra just blatently told him her name as it really didn't matter much to her.
Meanwhile Tsuna was thinking about how the girls name sounded wierd and gave her a look unknowingly, Terra soon picked this up and decides to explain.
"Terra means earth. Hair looks like earth. named Terra."
Tsuna wore a face that showed that he finally understood.
Tsuna got off of his butt and tried to muster up the courage to say his thanks to the unusual girl but before he could she turned around and left.
Tsuna was a bit sad about how he couldn't say his thanks to the girl so when he went home and told his mom about his encounter with Terra, she told him he'll probably have the chance when he starts primary school next week.
Tsuna cheered up after hearing this and unlike in the origanal timeline where he didn't want to go to school due to the fact that he would be seperated from his mother. This Tsuna was looking forward to meeting Terra again.
On Terra's end she was sitting next to her dad refilling his coffee mug. She gave him a small peck on the cheek before going to bed.