A/N: Hehehehe….yeah….I'M SO SORRY! I don't expect any of you to forgive me so please feel free to scold me all you want. Leave it in your reviews, ya know if you plan to leave any…Just read already… *goes into a depression corner and sighs loudly*
"You're a natural, you should join the Marines." Colonello congratulated the purple-headed girl. She smiled but shook her head.
"I thank you for the compliment but too many people would be against it." she replied casually and Colonello scoffed.
"Then those people obviously can't see your raw talent."
"It is not that, it is that they do not with for me to become hurt." Colonello looked at her for a second and then sighed.
"That's understandable. Anyways, you have one more trail to clear; good luck soldier." he saluted then gave her a wink and a thumbs up. Kaminika put her feet a bit apart stood z smidge straighter and saluted back before bowing and walking up to the green-headed scientist.
"Congratulations," he seethed with clenched fist and a shaking figure, "you've cleared your second challenge." Kaminika bowed once again and fuelled Verde's anger even more. "This is your final challenge. You must face that over there for more details." he said pointing to Reborn who, at this point, seemed thoroughly offended. "Get your butt over here and explain!" Verde snapped viciously. Even though the demand wasn't directed at him, Tsuna jumped slightly from the tone Verde used. Gokudera, seeing this, yelled at the man for making the 'Tenth' jump like that. Yamamoto, of course, tried to calm things down but was failing miserably. It really didn't help that Ryohei was wailing "Extreme" and there was a series of "Ushishi's", "Kufufu's" and "I'll bite you to death's". Accompanying those were "Trash's", "Voi's", and "Boss's" from both sides. The others thought best to not add fuel to the fire by staying out of it.
Reborn, having enough of the shenanigans, strode over to the girl with a confident air wafting around him. Once he reached her, he looked like a giant in comparison.
"Are you ready?" he asked her, coldness in his voice. She nodded her head slightly with determination shinning in her eyes. Not that he could see, anyway. He stuck a finger over to a group of trees that looked, after closer inspection, to have multiple targets on them.
"All you need to do is hit all 30 targets with a direct bulls-eye, 10 times each. There's no time limit," Verde, who was standing by the huge timer, deflated a little…okay, a lot, "but…," the scientist perked up, "if you hit outside of the bulls-eye even once you fail." Ah Reborn, way to lift a poor mad scientist's spirits. As Reborn explained, Kaminika looked at what she was dealing with. Little did she realize Reborn was pulling out the weapon she needed to use to hit them.
"What should I use to hit-," Kaminika began to ask as she stubbornly tried to rip her gaze away from the targets. Boy did she regret it. Reborn had just begun to pull out a hand gun from his inner jacket pocket when Kaminika immediately backed away in such a hurried fashion that she didn't realize she had tangled her feet together and fell backwards. She scrambled farther away not taking her eyes off of the pistol in his hand. Reborn had stopped half way from removing the weapon when he saw the reaction. He raised a brow at this and it, of course, didn't go unnoticed by the crowd behind them. Verde quickly whipped out a notebook and jotted down notes on the new found discovery.
Kaminika's eyes were still glued to the object as her figure shook. Tsuna instantly got what was going on and called out to the tutor.
"Hey, Reborn, I think she might be scared of your gun." Reborn stood for a moment, effectively confusing the brunette, before looking at his upper arm. Tsuna could feel the tick mark making its way on his head. "NOT THAT GUN, THE ONE IN YOUR HAND!" he shouted in rage. 'This egotistical…' Tsuna wanted to pick up the rock peacefully sitting next to him, obviously not bothering anybody, and throw it at the hit man's head. Honestly! Who would look at their arm first and ignore the actual gun so blandly sitting in the palm of your hand? The arrogance of some people.
Kaminika backed away another inch, a deep frown imbedded on her face. by now Reborn had the whole thing out of his jacket pocket and pointed harmlessly at the ground but her eyes moved nowhere else, never leaving the dangerous weapon; then again what weapon isn't dangerous?
"#$ ~+;/!'?" she asked with a shaky voice. Reborn looked at her dumbfounded along with everyone else looking on with 'What the heck!' faces.
"WHAT?!" the girl sweat dropped but still looked wary.
"I am sorry. What I asked was if I really have to use…that?" she repeated, pointing a shaky finger at the gun.
"You have something else in mind?" the hit man asked with slight curiosity. Kaminika looked EXTREMELY hopeful with those words.
"I am good at archery!" she quickly spat out with a gleam in her eyes.
"Archery?" Reborn repeated.
"Yes." she said excitedly.
"You can use a bow and arrow?"
"Yes."
"Why?" the hit man was clearly baffled.
"It is a necessity," she spoke confidently, "my teacher said I was quite good at it. Exceptional even; he said that it very difficult to hit the middle every time." Reborn raised an amused eyebrow and Verde, for the umpteenth time, let his jaw hit the floor. Tsuna was impressed to say the least; Yamamoto was not far behind him and the same could be said for others. Mukuro was snickering behind the dumbstruck Italian scientist along with Bel, Squalo, and Byakuran because that information would've been useful before he made a test for accuracy.
Reborn turned around with a smirk across his face desperately trying to prevent himself from laughing.
"Do I still need to test her?" Colonello had busted a gut once he heard such a simple question that had such an obvious answer. Just to mess with Verde, he guessed. Fong was shaking trying to keep his composer and Viper was counting his money not caring either way. Hibari and Xanxus just smirked (cool guys). Enma and Tsuna looked at each other before laughing with the others.
Verde collapsed in defeat and gave a small wave of his hand signaling the end of the tests.
"CONGRATULATIONS, TO THE EXTREME!" Ryohei (obviously) roared caused Gokudera to curse his name and the two to end up in, yet another, verbal fight. Yamamoto, the ever-so-loyal peacemaker, immediately attempted to stop them.
Which ultimately failed as he, too, got dragged in. _
"What else could you say that you're good at?" Reborn asked, genuinely intrigued by the girl in front of him.
"Well, where to begin?" she questioned as everyone began to gather to listen.
"Any where's fine." Colonello answered for Reborn, intrigued as well.
"That might take a good while." She said sheepishly.
"Don't worry, we've got plenty of time." Skull said as he jabbed a thumb behind him pointing at Verde depressingly picking and packing up his things at a very slow pace. Enma chuckled lightly at this.
"Haha, Skull-san made a funny." Skull stuck out his chest boastfully.
"Hey lackey, go get us something to drink," Reborn stated, "Espresso for me."
"Do you have any strawberry milk?" Viper asked. Kaminika nodded. "Then I require strawberry milk."
"Make that two." Yamamoto spoke up.
"Get me whisky, scum." Xanxus demanded.
"Are you not under age?" Kaminika asked. Xanxus glared at the girl.
"Does it matter?" Kaminika shrugged and left it at that.
"I want coffee, black." Verde half-heartedly yelled from over his shoulder.
"Aren't you supposed to be depressed?!" Skulled yelled back. Verde turned his head back with eyes full of malice.
"Get me my (censored) coffee."
"Y-yes sir!" Skull saluted. Orders were thrown at Skull that varied from plain tap water to Kool-Aid. Skull deflated and went to get everything everyone wanted.
"Ask Mary to help you." Kaminika raised her voice for him to hear. Skull paused before jogging off with a skip in his step.
"Anyways, you were saying?"
"Hm, besides archery?" she pondered aloud.
"Let's start with sports then." Yamamoto suggested, getting the wheel to roll.
"What's your favorite?" Dino asked.
"Soccer," she answered the second he finished the question, "that and boxing."
"EXTREME!" Ryohei screeched in glee as he jumped about ten feet in the air. Fire was in his eyes when he declared, "YOU ARE MY NEW BEST FRIEND!" Kaminika smiled gently.
"Okay, thank you."
"Why those two?" Lal scrunched her nose.
"I found fascination in soccer since I first attempted to play it when I was three, and in boxing because my father saw it as entertaining and executed it on us."
"'Us'?" Levi inquired.
"My brother and I. Have I never told you?"
"Nope." Fong deadpanned.
"Never." Byakuran sang.
"My, I am sorry."
"Why apologize? We never did ask." Dino said with a reassuring voice.
"I guess you are correct."
"Yes I am." He grinned childishly. She gave him a crooked grin back.
"Question!" Byakuran raised his hand like a child waving it furiously back and forth.
"Yes?" Byakuran pranced forward and landed next to Reborn. He swiftly grabbed the man's wrist and pointed at the object in his strong grip.
"Are you afraid of this?" he asked, continuing to gesture to the gun. Kaminika stiffened and full throttle launched herself into the tree behind her.
"Ow, that hurt." She caressed her head, placing it on her knees.
"Well I guess you are." Byakuran mused as he put hands up in a defensive manner to avoid being hit by the glaring bystanders. "Sorry."
"I-it is fine."
"Give me that!" Reborn growled, snatching his arm back and conveniently pointing it at the crippled girl. Unfortunately at that same time someone walked around the garden's corner and into the clearing.
"~/ -" The call from the new comer ceased at the sight. The clearing behind the garden was full of random people that he had no knowledge of, an obstacle course, by the looks of it, was sitting off to the side, a huge crater in the middle of said clearing, and most importantly one of those random people was pointing a pistol at a cowering figure.
"/+!-]#*/~!" he yelled in confusion and anger but mostly the latter. Kaminika slowly lifted head as everybody else stopped what they were doing and stared at him. He was a little taller than Gokudera and wore black jeans with a dark blue shirt. His hair was jet black but on closer inspection had a few red streaks. His hair went down to the end of his neck and he had bangs that covered his forehead. "KIACHI!" he screeched. Everyone continued to stare.
"WHAT?!" they yelled in confusion and frustration.
"/-]#*~." Kaminika winced but greeted back.
"WHAT?!"
"Speak in clear Japanese, please." Tsuna whined annoyed by the continuous change from one language to another. Kaminika sweat dropped at the request, kind of ashamed.
"THE HECK?!" the boy shouted, this time so they could understand. Yelling at someone when they can't understand a word you're saying sort of defeats the purpose of yelling at them in the first place.
"That's better."
"I'll repeat myself. WHAT"S GOING ON HERE?!"
"A good old fashion argument," Byakuran stated happily while picking up Reborn's wrist again, "with good old fashioned pistols." The boy's anger seem to grow more and Byakuran raised his hands in defense again once everyone began glaring at him…again.
"Welcome home, Zainto." Kaminika repeated with a smile on her face.
"KAICHI!" the boy, now identified as Zainto, rushed to her side like something was after him and shielded her from view. "WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE?!"
"WHO'RE YOU?!" Gokudera challenged back.
"Everyone," Kaminika caught their attention," this is my brother, Dustin."
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"WHO?!" they chorused. Cue explanation time.
A/N: I know I'm late guys and I'm truly sorry but I have some good news. This chapter was cut in half so I could give it to you all sooner so the next chapter should be out very soon. Also a heads up this week I have finals so I'm going to be busy but I will never give up on this story. Thank you for staying with me for all this time you all make me so happy.