Naruto X Katekyou Hitman Reborn
Two Destiny
By: lovelyhellion777
Disclaimer:
I don't own Naruto or Katekyou Hitman Reborn. I am merely a fan with an over-active imagination, who had no choice but to write this story or die of an imagination overload.
AN: Okay, folks, I am here to humbly apologize for not updating in the past year or so. I was suddenly hit with a very major writer's block, then I was suddenly bombarded my exams, and then a friend of mine asked for me to help with his manga that he had been planning to write for a very long time now. So finally here I am, over a year later, updating the 4th chapter to my story. The events in here might go by very fast but I need to do so because I want to get to the plots that I created and imagined.
There has been some queries as to how I am going to do the pairings, so here I am once again announcing that THERE WILL BE NO YAOI PAIRINGS, I apologize to the yaoi lovers. As for hetero pairings, I am very hesitant in adding them as a major or important part of the story due to the fact that I suck at romance. Apparently I CAN'T WRITE ROMANCE, even after many attempts. Romance is my greatest downfall, therefore I have decided to not have any pairings in my story for now. The only pairings will be Tsuna's feelings towards Kyoko. It will mainly be fluff, since that's pretty much the only thing I can write even remotely close to romance. For me romance = writer's block. BTW: If the guys in the story seemed sort of girly, then that's my fault since I am a girl and cannot fully express the true emotions of guys. I try my best, but sometimes it still feels girly.
Dialogue Notes:
This is Naruto talking to Kyuu-chan in his mind.
This is Kyuu-chan talking to Naruto in his mind.
This is Naruto and every other character throughout the story when they are talking to themself in their own mind.
~~~Enjoy!
Chapter 4: Mafia?
Naruto was bored. Why? Because he had yet to find someone he could pull great pranks on and get a good laugh over it. He sat in his desk bored out of his mind. He couldn't believe that he hadn't pulled a single prank since he came to Namimori, Japan.
Entertain me, Kyuu-chan.
Hell no. I ain't entertaining nobody. Go find someone else, you crappy host.
But I can't. There's, like, nobody interesting or funny to entertain myself with.
Too bad, now get out. I wanna sleep.
Slowly, bored blue eyes roamed lazily around the room landing on a shouting silverette. If he recalled correctly, the silverette who was shouting at the Baseball Club's Captain, Yamamoto Takeshi, was Gokudera Hayato, the intellectual bad boy of their class. Naruto stared blankly at the silverette before a slow sadistic smile touched his lips and an evil cackle fell creepily from them. Target Acquired.
Gokudera stopped in mid-rant as a sudden cold chill crawled up his back. He quickly turned and glanced around the room. Nothing was out of the ordinary. The cluster of fan girls was swooning over in their normal corner, while the normal students were in their normal places during this time of day. Even the blonde was in his normal position with his head lying on his desk and the wind blowing his blonde hair around, fast asleep. Not seeing anything out of the norm, he returned to his ranting, but he wasn't able to shake off the feeling that someone was watching him with very ill intentions…
2 Days Later
Iruka was handing back the results of yesterday's exam. As he handed Gokudera's exam to him, Iruka looked with disappointment at him. "Gokudera-kun, meet with me after class so that you can explain to me why you decided to answer every question with doodles. This is not art class. This is English Literature. I am disappointed in you."
"What do you mean?" Gokudera questioned looking confused. He was sure he had answered everything on the exam very thoroughly with letters. He even quadrupled checked his answers.
Iruka continued to shake his head in disappointment. "What I mean is this," he handed the sheet of paper in his hands over to him.
Gokudera stared at it. And stared. And stared. And stared. And sta—"UZUMAKI NARUTO! YOU ARE SOOOOOO DEAD!"
The sheet fell to the floor as the silverette sprinted after an already retreating blonde.
"What just happened?" Iruka stared at his clueless students who stared right back just as clueless as well. Slowly Yamamoto made his way to the sheet lying harmlessly on the tiled floor and stared at it. After frowning at it for a minute or so, he broke out into laughter.
"Tsuna, you should look at this." Yamamoto walked over to Tsuna, still chuckling, and handed him the sheet of paper. Tsuna looked confused for a second before he took it and looked at it. It took him longer, but he too soon broke out into a smile. Iruka stared at the two before he put on a stern face and demanded to know what was going on.
Tsuna froze and stared at Yamamoto, begging him to answer Iruka-sensei. Yamamoto nodded and showed it to Iruka-sensei. "You see, Sensei, these pictures on this sheet actually aren't doodles. It's a special code created by Gokudera. No one was supposed to figure out what it was saying but it seems that Naruto was too good. He figured it out." Iruka arched an eyebrow, commanding Yamamoto to get to the point. Yamamoto cleared his throat. "Umm…anyway. What I am saying is that right here under question number one, Naruto wrote, 'Hey there, Gokudera-kun. How do you like my pictures? Aren't they beautifully done? They are so much prettier that your chicken scrawls.' That's the only thing that I can make out, beyond that everything becomes too complex for me to understand, but I believe that some of the words in there was 'test' and 'fail'. Oh yeah, and right at the end here," Yamamoto pointed to the last question, "Naruto even signed it with his name, see." Yamamoto looked up at Iruka-sensei, and nearly jumped backwards in fright as his eyes met up with burning brunette eyes.
Iruka-sensei calmly took the paper from Yamamoto's slack hands and slowly went to the front of the room. He turned towards his students, "For the rest of the class period, you will have self-study. You are all to hand in a two page analysis of Burnett's The Secret Garden by the end of the class period. Please hand it in to the class monitor. Have a nice rest of your day." With Gokudera's paper in hand, Iruka quietly exited the silent classroom, leaving behind an even eerier silence.
Yamamoto turned to Tsuna, a worried look on his face. "What do you think Iruka-sensei is going to do to Naruto?" Tsuna stared back, trembling slightly.
"I don't know. I don't want to find out." Tsuna turned back to stare at his textbook as a loud screech filled the entire school. He shuddered. Never was he ever going to get on Iruka-sensei's bad side.
AN: I leave the rest to your imagination. *evil cackle*
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Not three days later, Naruto sat in his desk once again bored to death. Once again he stared at the back of the silvertte's head as he was writing on the chalk board, solving a very difficult and advance math problem, wondering what kind of prank he should pull next. He turned to look out the opened window, watching the summer sun as the wind gently enveloped him in its embrace.
Kyuu-chan, what kind of prank should I pull next?
Tch, do whatever you want, Kit. It's always fun watching his reactions. He's the perfect target, cuz he'll react to whatever you do.
I know, right? Oh, Tsuna's also a very good target too, but he seems a little too timid for me to play with. Naruto frowned as he continued to stare out the window, the wind slowly caressing his blonde hair. Yamamoto-taicho will never work, 'cause he'll just laugh at everything.
What's your next plan, Kit. Kyuu-chan ignored Naruto's frown.
Not having any ideas at the current moment, he turned bored blue eyes to look around the classroom ignoring Gokudera who was explaining to the students how to solve the problem while the teacher was crouched in the corner of the room trembling in fear, muttering prayers of salvation silently to himself. He watched as some of the better students started taking notes from Gokudera's lecture, while some of the fan girls stared at the silverette fawningly. After every sentence, two or three girls would sigh dreamily followed by hearts flying straight at Gokudera's head. Of course Gokudera, being Gokudera, ruthlessly swung at the flying hearts, breaking them brutally and sometimes cursing harshly at them before turning back to the black board and continuing with his explanations.
After watching this happen for 20 minutes, a sudden light bulb flashed brightly over his already very bright head. Plan Confirmed.
A sudden cold chill ran up Gokudera's spine. A very familiar cold chill, that is. Gokudera jerked away from the black board in mid-lecture and stared at the students. This had definitely happened before. If he remembered correctly, it had happened days before he had taken an English Literature exam and fell into the hands of Naruto's prank. Green eyes zoned in on bright innocent blue eyes. Something wasn't right about the bright innocence reflecting from those blue eyes. These next few days, he better watch his back or else something bad was going to happen, he could feel it crawling up his spine, as the bell rang to end the period.
In the next few days, Gokudera religiously watched his back very carefully, always keeping the blonde within his sights. Sadly he wasn't able to detect it when Naruto, with ninja-like stealth, snuck up behind him and carefully stuck a note to his back, during one morning, two days after his watch started.
Stage One complete. Kyuu-chan snickered, he knew exactly what Naruto was planning.
Gokudera went into the classroom and took a seat, not noticing the sound of the slight crinkling of paper as he leaned back in his seat, assuming that it was just the student who was sitting next to him making loud noises as he took out his notebooks and papers.
It was finally math period, when Gokudera finally got out of his seat and approached the front of the classroom. He ignored the slight gasps of surprise from his fan girls and the silent whispers of 'kiss', as he stood in front of the black board immersed in solving the very difficult math problem that the cowering teacher had written out. For the rest of the class period, his fan girls gave him even more dreamy sighs and stares that ever before. Some of them even blew him kisses. YUCK!
Naruto chuckled evilly to himself as he watched the fan girls go ballistic. Stage Two. Complete Success. Damn, all my plans always go so well
Kyuu-chan chuckled. Hell yeah, smart people really are idiots. Aha ha ha ha ha!
Finally the bell rang, signaling the end of the period. Their math sensei high-tailed it out of there before the first gong's echo could begin, maybe he was secretly a ninja, he sure has the speed for it. Gokudera merely arched an arrogant silver brow at the sensei's disappearance before retreating to his seat. The moment his butt hit the chair, the flood of fan girls invaded his space, screeching in high-pitched squeals about 'kissing' and 'you're super hot', roughly pushing Tsuna out of his seat and Naruto's empty desk…Gokudera snapped to attention as he turned away from the empty desk and green eyes went in search of blue eyes, finally finding them.
Naruto was standing at the open door to the classroom…smirking at him.
Run, boy, he's coming for you now.
I know, Kyuu-chan. Final Stage: Complete. Naruto's smirk turned into an evil grin. When he saw Gokudera's gaze on him, Naruto gave him a huge taunting grin and a wave before he sprinted off.
It took Gokudera a millisecond (1/1000 of a second) to understand what the ballistic fan girls were screeching about, two milliseconds for him to find the paper on his back, and half a millisecond for him to chase after the blonde, screaming bloody murder, with a gaggle of screeching fan girls right on his heels.
Tsuna carefully picked himself up from the floor, dusting off his tattered clothes and bruised body. "What was that all about?" Tsuna asked, confused as to why he found himself on the ground all battered up, when he was sleeping peacefully earlier. Yamamoto, who had been clenching his gut in hysterical laughter, broke out into even more laughter when he noticed that because Tsuna had been asleep the entire time he hadn't seen what went on.
After calming himself down, Yamamoto bent down and picked up the sheet of paper lying innocently on the tiled floor and handed it to a confused Tsuna.
'If you think I'm HOT, KISS ME.'
Tsuna stared at it, looked around the empty-of-fan-girls classroom, and then everything clicked. A small smile quickly turned into loud laughter, tears fell from honey gold eyes. One hand went up to swipe away the tears while the other went to clutch his aching gut. Uzumaki Naruto sure was an interesting guy. He definitely wasn't afraid of Gokudera's wrath.
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"It's too HOT!" Naruto whined loudly as he rested under the shade of the tree behind the school building, a warm breeze blowing around his sweaty form.
Stop bitch'n and moan'n. These are the last days of summer before it starts getting cooler. Enjoy it now before you suffer the shivers and colds. Kyuu-chan muttered tiredly, it was definitely burning today. He could feel it spreading into his normally cool cage.
But it's TOOOO HOT! Kyuu-chan, cool me down. I know you can do it.
I could…if you really want to die. I'll slowly drop your temperature until it reaches the temperature of 32 degrees Celsius. At that point, all we have to do is wait until your organs stop functioning. Then, once it stops, you will no longer be HOT, you will be eternally COLD. KAKAKAKAKAKAKAKAKA!
Naruto gulped. Actually, I still want to live…so it's alright. But can't you cool me down, just a smidgeon? Naruto continued to whine relentlessly.
Kyuu-chan glared. Shut up, or I'm not going to talk or listen to you anymore.
But Kyuu—Kyuu? Kyuuu-chan? Hey, that's no fair! Why am I the only one who has to suffer this horrible hotness? Get back here you scaredy cat! Naruto shouted uselessly since Kyuu-chan had closed itself off from Naruto. Naruto pouted, "Kyuu-chan is so mean. God, I am sooo tired." Naruto yawned as he tried to get comfortable on the ground, not noticing when the wind silently buffeted his body with the ground. He was nearly asleep when a sudden 'EXTREME!' came from the other side of the tree he was resting against.
"What the hell," Naruto mumbled as he woke up and rubbed his sleepy blue eyes. "And I was just about to fall asleep," Naruto stifled a yawn, carefully taking a look at who was screaming around the tree.
Naruto froze in mid-yawn as the sight before him processed through his sleep boggled mind. A silent, horror filled, 'What the hell…' fell from a slack jaw. Standing in front of him was a tall and muscular man with short silver hair sticking out at the top of his head. His arms were both bandaged from fingertips to elbow. But all this wasn't what made him go slack jaw in horror and shock. The guy was NAKED! Seriously, the guy was wearing only a small strip of white (fundoshi) around his crotch area. Not only that but he was also screaming, 'Fight the Heat to the EXTREME! LET'S DO IT! EXTREME!' over and over again, hands flying everywhere as he sweated like a pig in its roasting oven.
Naruto stared at this extremity until it finally stopped and took note of its stunned and horrified audience. The moment that it took note of him, it turned even redder than a lobster. The extremity slowly brought its hands to its chest and squeaked out a cracked, "Hi, I was getting ready for a sumo wrestling competition," before it ran into the forest behind the school.
Naruto stared at the empty space. Kyuu-chan, please wipe that from my memory. I never saw anything. I was resting under this tree and only woke up to return to classes when the lunch bell rang. There was no strange creature screaming and dancing (?) behind the school. I was there all by myself.
Selective Memory Deletion: In Progress. Kyuu-chan proceeded to shut the doors to those memories, sealing it in layers and layers of yellow, red, green, blue, and any color tape he could find, as long as it ensured that those memories will never resurface.
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The bell had just rung for lunch. Tsuna was slowly packing up his things before going off, when Gokudera ran up to him bowing at him.
"I apologize for not having lunch with you today, Juu-daime. Iruka-sensei has asked me to help him prepare some papers for tomorrow's lesson. I apologize for having to abandon you at such an important time." Gokudera shouted at the floor, his body still bent at a 90degree angle.
"It's okay," Tsuna squeaked out; face burning red from Gokudera's embarrassing position. "I'm having lunch with Naruto, so everything will be fine. Go work hard, okay?"
Gokudera jumped up, "How dare you!" He turned to scream angrily at the sleep boggled blonde. "Are you trying to steal my seat as the right hand of Juu-daime!"
Naruto stared incoherently at the shouting silverette. "Huh…?"
Tsuna sweat dropped, before Gokudera could embarrass them any further, Tsuna jumped in. "Gokudera, why don't you go help Iruka-sensei now? The faster you get it done the faster you can join the two of us for lunch."
Gokudera stared silently at Tsuna before nodding his head. "You are right, Juu-daime. If I do that, I can join you faster." Green eyes sparkled down at honey-gold eyes. "I knew there was a reason why I chose you as my leader. I am so proud to be your right hand man." Finally, Gokudera left the duo. Tsuna sighed in relief.
"What's going on?" Naruto finally made his presence known, yawning and cracking his numb back. Tsuna stared at Naruto before he shook his head and started rubbing it. Why are all my friends such weirdos?
"It's time for lunch," Tsuna finally replied, grabbing his bento from his book bag.
"Yeah," Naruto exclaimed as he dug through his book bag for his lunch as well. Once the two retrieved their lunches, they left the classroom and went outside in search of a good tree to hide under. Finally they settled for a tree towards the back of the school building and opened their lunches.
Tsuna was just about to take a bite out of his onigiri, when a cute, short-haired, brown eyed girl interrupted him. Tsuna looked up and his face turned pink. Kyoko-chan.
"Ano, Tsuna-san, would you like to go and watch Onii-chan's boxing match with me?" Kyoko asked sweetly as she looked at a red-faced Tsuna.
Wide-eyed, Tsuna quickly nodded his head. He was so happy; his beloved Kyoko had asked him to attend her beloved Onii-chan's boxing match with her. Key word: 'with her'.
Kyoko smiled brilliantly at Tsuna's ecstatic reply, "That's great. Onii-chan really wanted you to watch him in his next competition. He said that it would be great if you can help give him some pointers on his techniques. He is going to be so happy when he knows that you're going to come watch his next competition. Remember, it's tomorrow at 5pm in the boxing club's ring. Naruto-kun, you should come to. Ja ne!" Kyoko waved cutely at the two before she turned around and left with her friends for the remainder of lunch. She never noticed Tsuna's happy smile disappear. Once Kyoko was out of sight, Tsuna released a loud sigh, tears of pity falling from his eyes.
"And I thought she was going to ask me out for a date. I knew it was too good to be true." Tsuna wiped away his tears as he tried to be more optimistic about the situation. "Oh well, at least I get to be with Kyoko-chan, even if it is just to watch Onii-chan's competition tomorrow."
"So she's the one you got your eyes on. She is a real cutie," Naruto stated before taking a bite out of his chicken sandwich. "Too bad, she already have you under the friends-only zone."
"Don't rub it in, you meany." Tsuna pouted while Naruto continued eating his sandwich. "I'm trying to be optimistic here, you know."
Naruto finished his sandwich and gave Tsuna one of his bright smiles. "Here, I'll console you." Naruto took his hand and rubbed the top of Tsuna's long spiked up brown hair. "Now, if you're not eating that onigiri sitting in your hands, I'll have it." Within seconds the onigiri that was, at one time, sitting in Tsuna's hand disappeared.
Honey-gold eyes widened in shock. "Nooooooo! My ONIGIRI!"
"Naruto, you HAVE to go with me." Tsuna demanded, hands gripping onto Naruto's upper arm. It was the day of the competition and Kyoko was going to meet with them in four hours. They were currently having their lunch, once again, under the same tree. Tsuna was currently in panic mode.
"I will, but I'll be late so you can go on ahead of me with your dear Kyoko." Naruto said, trying to pry Tsuna's vise like grip off his arm. Really, how could such a timid boy have such a strong grip? Was desperation such a powerful resource?
"I can't," Tsuna cried, hands only tightening even more. Naruto's blue eyes flinched painfully. "What am I supposed to say? What if she asked me something and I couldn't answer. What if—"
"Then go bring Gokudera along with you." Naruto finally jerked his arm free. Carefully, he began rubbing his numb and probably now bruised arm.
After a moment of silence, Tsuna nodded his head carefully. "You're right; I can take Gokudera with me. But you have to remember to come watch it too, okay, Naruto?" Tsuna looked earnestly at the blonde.
Naruto shook his head ruefully. "I told you that I will be there, just later. I have to go to baseball practice and talk with Yamamoto-taicho before I come over. So, of course I'll be there."
Tsuna grinned, "Okay, see you later than." With that said Tsuna turned around and went to the teacher's lounge to look for a currently stray Gokudera.
Naruto was finally excused from baseball practice and made it just in time to watch the final two box. He quietly watched the fight from near the door way as he waited until it was over before he approached Tsuna, Gokudera, and Kyoko.
"Hey, I made it." Naruto announced his presence as he arrived. Gokudera sniffed but Tsuna and Kyoko openly greeted him.
"I am so glad you could make it, Naruto-kun." Kyoko greeted, Naruto smiled in return. "I wanted to introduce you to my brother. This is Sasagawa Ryohei, my onii-chan." Kyoko said as she grabbed the arm of the person standing next to her.
Naruto stared at him with a blank look. Ryohei looked at the blonde. He looked very familiar. He was sure he'd seen that blonde somewhere before. Suddenly grey eyes widened in recognition, face burning a bright red. He was the guy from the other day who caught him in his fundoshi. Shadow dancing.
"Onii-san, do you know Naruto-kun?" Kyoko asked as she looked at her red faced brother. He could only let an embarrassed, "Ug…" out from between his lips.
Naruto continued to stare blankly at Ryohei. "I am Uzumaki Naruto. Kyoko's classmate. This is the first time I have ever seen you. Nice to meet you."
Ryohei finally released his breath in relief when he noticed that he had been holding his breath the entire time. Good, Naruto wasn't going to say anything. Ryohei finally summoned up a large smile and in a loud voice greeted him. "I am Sasagawa Ryohei, a second-year and Kyoko's onii-san. Nice to meet you."
Naruto nodded with a passive face, doing his hardest to keep the memory locked in its layers and layers of colorful sealing tape from tearing open.
No, I don't remember anything. Nothing happened on that day. I saw nothing. I was alone, sleeping.
It's too late! Kyuu-chan screamed in loud agony.
And suddenly, a loud RIP screamed through Naruto's mind as the many layers tore apart, revealing the sealed images.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
"So wanna go out for hamburgers?"
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"Yamato how are things doing on your end?" A tall man with a mask on the lower half of his face and long spiky silver hair sticking from the top of his head asked as the tall brunette entered the offices of Namimori Rentals: Homes, Apartments, and Workspaces.
Yamato at his senpai / boss, before taking a seat behind his desk. "Our little charge is doing well actually, Kakashi-senpai, although he is involving himself with some very dangerous people."
Kakashi's lone eye snapped dangerously at the brunette. "What do you mean by 'dangerous people'?"
Yamato sweatdropped, "Umm, what I mean is that he is getting involved with them, but he still doesn't know who they are, so right now it is still very dangerous for him to be with them. Was I supposed to put a stop to it?"
Kakashi rubbed his face tiredly. "No, it's okay, one day he'll need to know who they are anyway so why not now."
Yamato stared at his tired senpai. "I still don't understand why we have been charged to look after him, after all this time. Who was the one to give us this mission?"
Kakashi sighed, before he looked at Yamato. "This is actually a secret mission, passed down through my family for generations. My father passed it down to me before he passed away. At first I thought of it as a joke. As if, someone who was supposed to exist centuries ago was going to still be alive for me to protect in the present. But I was wrong, I waited too long to find him. When I did, it was already too late, I had failed my mission, so the only thing I can do now is to watch over him from afar. At the time, I was a young and ignorant fool who was too full of himself. Protecting him has now become my life's mission. You can leave anytime you want to, Yamato, if you find yourself tired of this job, but, as for me, I have been entrusted with his life. I cannot leave him."
Yamato stared at the steel glint of determination reflecting from the senpai that he had greatly admired for so long and knew that he could not abandon him alone to this lifelong mission. "I am just glad that you answered me honestly when you could have lied, senpai. Now I will be able to stand firm and work hard to help you achieve your mission because now it is no longer just yours, it is now mine to." Yamato smiled is creepy smile at Kakashi (that just totally destroyed the impact of those very cool lines, dear Yamato). "After all, I have grown quite fond of that boy who is slowly starting to learn how to smile."
Kakashi gave Yamato an eye-smile before he left the office and returned to the house to watch over his charge. "You're right. He really is slowly starting to learn how to smile again."
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One Month Later
Tsuna stood alone at the school's front gate waiting for his friends. The sun was setting and school was long out. He had stayed behind to wait for his friends. Tsuna stood, leaning against the school gates, staring at the setting sun. Lost in a trance, he did not notice when three teens approached him until an annoyingly loud voice interrupted him.
"Oi, Tsuna!" Tsuna turned his glance away from the setting sun's glare and looked at the rising sun (Naruto's hair), squinting at its brightness. Naruto approached him with a large grin and waving arms.
"I apologize for my lateness Juu-daime," Gokudera apologized profusely, pushing Naruto to the side. Tsuna's sigh of relief was short lived as Naruto's exuberant voice was merely replaced with a more annoyingly humble one. Yamamoto laughed at their silly antics before greeting Tsuna normally.
"Yo, Tsuna!"
Tsuna smiled back at Yamamoto before he pushed off the gates and started off home. As soon as Tsuna started walking, Gokudera flanked his right side and Yamamoto, his left. This left Naruto to choose which side he wanted to be on. Yamamoto or Gokudera? He chose neither option; instead, he walked backwards facing the group. Naruto yawned as he entwined his hands behind his head, "Practice today was tiresome, Yamamoto-taicho."
"Wasn't today's practice one of our easier ones?" Yamamoto replied, looking confusedly at Naruto who was staring disbelievingly back at him almost stumbling and falling on his butt. ALMOST.
"You think running 50 laps around the school grounds, 1000 push-ups, sit-ups, and pull-ups, 500 swings, and 200 pitches is one of our easier practices?" Naruto shouted disbelievingly. Tsuna's jaw dropped, That's almost as bad as what Reborn makes me do on one of his good days. Gokudera merely scowled in annoyance.
"Well there was a time when we did an easier practice." Yamamoto said thoughtfully. "I remember now!" He exclaimed looking at Naruto with an excited grin. "There was a time when we had to run up Mount Fuji for a whole day with only 3 minute breaks every hour. I think that was one of our easiest practices so far."
Everyone glared at Yamamoto's outrageous words, as if that was easy. They were sure that quite a few players were sent to the hospital because of this harsh training. Before the group can say anything to Yamamoto's outrageous statement, they had reached the intersection where the four were separated. Gokudera and Yamamoto went left while Naruto and Tsuna went right.
"Goodbye, Juu-daime." Gokudera bowed respectfully to Tsuna. "I apologize for not being able to send you home, so I will have to rely on the unreliable assistance from Whiskers here." Gokudera glared at Naruto who completely ignored him and was speaking with Yamamoto instead.
" 'Night, Naruto. 'Night, Tsuna." Yamamoto said as he pulled Gokudera away from the two and down the left road towards their respective homes.
Tsuna and Naruto waved at the two before turning the other way and started off towards their own respective homes. Tsuna walked quietly by Naruto's side, silently contemplating what Naruto was going to talk about today. They've done this same routine for almost a month already and he never got tired of Naruto's randomness and chatter box ability. Yesterday, while on their way home from school, they had had long and interesting conversations about the many differences between Italy and Japan. Naruto had told him about the many times he pranked his teachers and classmates. He told him about how he was forever suspended from the science lab because the school he had attended had to shut down for half a semester due to one of his failed science experiments. In his eyes, Naruto was a very interesting character. It was always fun to talk with him.
"Was today's practice really that hard," Tsuna questioned as he turned his head to look at the blonde walking next to him.
"Yep, today was horrible. I almost couldn't complete it. Many of the other students had to be sent to the infirmary half-way through." Naruto pronounced tiredly, rubbing at his sore arms and limping overdramatically. Tsuna laughed at Naruto's attempt to look tired and sore.
"Were there really students who were sent to the infirmary?" Tsuna asked seriously.
Naruto nodded, blue eyes opened wide and full of seriousness. "Yeah, two students were sent to the infirmary. One tripped on his laces and the other got caught in the trip. They both sprained an ankle and were sent to the infirmary."
"No way," Tsuna exclaimed laughing at Naruto's expression.
He grinned. "Yes way, the first student tripped slamming into the other student. Together they ended up twisting their ankles. It was a miracle that saved them from today's training."
Their chuckles slowly died out, but their smiles remained. "So what did you do today, while waiting for us?" Naruto asked turning his head to look at Tsuna.
Tsuna's brow furrowed in thought as he wondered what he should tell him. He couldn't tell him that he was secretly training with Reborn on the mountain behind the school to become the tenth heir to the Vongola Mafia Familia, right? "Umm, I was sitting in the classroom trying to get some of my math assignments done…but I didn't get through a single one." Tsuna grimaced gloomily. "Why is math so hard?"
Naruto laughed loudly, "Yep, they just had to go and make life so hard for the rest of us. Adults are so mean," Naruto said cheerfully but a dark shadow of 'something' crossed his bright blue eyes before it quickly disappeared. Tsuna continued walking without noticing anything.
"Not all of them are mean, you know. My Mom is the nicest mom in the world." Tsuna said in defense of his mother who was the epitome of the best mother in the world. Tsuna turned to look at Naruto who just laughed and nodded his head. Suddenly a question popped into his head, and before he could stop himself, the question popped out. "Don't you like your parents? They're adults, too, right?"
Naruto's laughter died out and he looked at the confused brunette. He wondered what he should say. Should he tell him the truth or just brush off the question? His brows furrowed. Naruto turned to look once more at the innocent honey-gold eyes staring at him curiously; he should not have done that. Before he knew it, the truth stumbled off his tongue. "I am an orphan, so I never had parents. I don't even know who they were or what they look like." Naruto quickly turned away shrugging his shoulders nonchalantly but inside, Kyuu-chan was reprimanding at him.
BAKAYARO, why are you talking about your past? Don't forget that you cannot reveal too much. Remember what happened back in Italy and Konoha. Do you want the same things to repeat themselves all over again here, where you have finally found a little peace and people who cared for you, even if it is just a little? Kyuu-chan reprimanded Naruto harshly.
Naruto flinched, blue eyes dimmed, I know, but the words just came out before I could stop them. I don't know why, but I just can't lie to that face.
Kyuu-chan shook his head, menacing eyes flinching at his host's pain. Kyuu-chan might had hated being sealed in the boy from the beginning, but as he watched the boy grow up and saw all the painful things that the boy had to suffer through because of his existence, Kyuu-chan had learned to care for the little boy. Of course, if you asked him, he would vehemently deny to the death but he really did care for the boy. Just watch your mouth.
Naruto smiled, happy that Kyuu-chan had forgiven him. He hadn't told Kyuu-chan, but Kyuu-chan really was important to him. He didn't want Kyuu-chan to disapprove of him. To him, Kyuu-chan was the closest to a 'family' Naruto ever had, so he really wanted to make him proud. Of course, even if you torture him to death, Naruto would never admit these feelings. A relationship where they could never be soft with each other, that was just the kind of relationship they had and it had been working perfectly fine for the past 15 years. It was a strange bond, but to Naruto it was a very important bond.
It took Naruto a while to notice that while he was talking with Kyuu-chan, Tsuna had stopped walking and was staring at him with wide shimmering, honey-gold eyes. Naruto scratched the back of his blonde head nervously, "Tsuna, are you alright?"
Naruto's voice jerked Tsuna out of his little trance and he quickly wiped at his eyes before rushing back to Naruto's side. They continued their walk in silence, each lost in their own thoughts.
So Naruto was an orphan. I thought he lived a blessed life. He was always so cheerful and happy. He's also so strong and smart. I had no idea. I wonder if he gets lonely by himself. Tsuna thought to himself as he remembered all the people living in his house. Baby Lambo, the crybaby bomber; baby I-pin, the sweet and caring martial artist; Bianchi and her poison cooking; Ranking Fuuta, his little brother; Reborn-san…his tutor; his mother who was always warm, open, and accepting; and every once and a while, Yamamoto and Gokudera would come over. With all these people around, he never felt lonely. He wondered what loneliness felt like.
"Don't you ever feel lonely? Is that why you always play pranks on others so that they will notice you and see that you do exist? That you are real?" Tsuna asked before he could stop himself. Realizing what he had just asked, Tsuna slammed his hands against his loose tongue and eyes wide in shock, horrified by his own boldness.
Naruto stopped walking to turn and look at him in shock. Tsuna had read him like a book. Was he that easily read and understood? He wondered. He better be careful, Tsuna was sharper than he looks. "Of course I do, you idiot. Although, lately, I haven't felt so as much." Naruto chuckled in reply, ignoring the other questions, not able to lie with those innocent, tearful, honey-gold eyes staring at him. Kyuu-chan was good company and helped kept the loneliness at bay but sometimes it still got lonely as he sat around his huge home staring at nothing much. But lately, he really hadn't felt as lonely anymore, especially since he got to Japan. Strange, it must be the company he was keeping with, there was never a moment for him to stop and think about loneliness.
Hearing Naruto's laughter calmed him down a little bit. Tsuna grinned back as an idea popped into his head. "Do you want to come over for dinner tonight? We can both work on our homework together. My Mom's food is the best in the world."
Naruto smiled brightly and nodded his head. "Sure!" Looking forward to a night where he didn't have to eat alone.
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Naruto walked into a house of chaos. One baby boy in a cow print costume was running around the house with guns in both hands, shouting at the top of his lungs about 'the family' and 'leader'. Another baby girl with a single braid down her back in Chinese clothing was doing some weird martial arts movements as she tried to get the guns out of the other baby's hands. Chasing after these two were a little boy with light brown hair asking for them to 'stop' and that 'there is a guest' so they had to behave correctly. His pleadings went unheard.
Naruto stared at this scene with amazed wide eyes while Tsuna awkwardly pushed Naruto up the stairs into his room. After Naruto entered, Tsuna excused himself and left Naruto alone in his room. He quickly went downstairs and into the kitchen finding Bianchi making her poison cooking alongside his mother.
Tsuna quickly gulped in some air before he turned to his mother. "Mom, you remember Naruto, our neighbor, right?" Nana nodded taking out some carrots. "Well, I asked him over for dinner, is that okay?"
"Yes, dear." Nana replied cheerfully as she took out more food for tonight's dinner. "Go on up to your room, I will come up in a little bit with some snacks and drinks."
Tsuna grinned before quickly giving her a hug. "Thanks, Mom."
Meanwhile with Naruto…
Naruto was taking a look around Tsuna's room when the doors crashed in and the boy in cow prints rolled in screaming at the top of his lungs. "Dame-Tsuna, come play hide-and-go-seek with me."
When the cow print noticed that Tsuna wasn't in his room and that there was a stranger in there instead, he screamed bloody murder. "Gahh! Intruder! What are you doing here!? Are here to kill or kidnap me? Well too bad, because I am not going to let you!" The cow print boy screeched as he took out a pink toy like grenade and threw it at Naruto.
Naruto stared at the pink toy flying straight at him wondering what kind of harm a 'pink toy' grenade could do to him. Right before the toy could hit his head, a brown blur entered the room and snatched the flying 'pink toy' in midair and flung it outside the window. Within seconds there was a loud explosion and smoke quickly drifted by the window. Naruto blinked rapidly, wondering what the hell had just happened. He looked at Tsuna, the unidentified brown blur from earlier, look outside the window to see what kind of damages appeared after the explosion. After seeing that not much damage was done to the outside or inside, Tsuna let go of a relieved sigh before turning his attention back inside the room. He finally took note of a wide-eyed shocked Naruto. Oh CRAP, how am I going to explain to him about this, without spilling everything out? Tsuna bit his lips nervously.
"Shit, that was not a toy, was it." Naruto stated, wide-eyed at the brunette. Tsuna hesitantly shook his head.
"It's the real thing."
"Why does a 'baby' have such a dangerous thing?"
"Ummm…I don't know…?" Tsuna replied. Hoping to change the subject, Tsuna, ran across the room, kicked the baby out and sat at his table, swiftly pulling out his textbook. "Why don't we work on our math assignment first?"
Naruto merely shook his head before taking a seat across the table from Tsuna. If he didn't want to explain, than Naruto wasn't going to push for it, because he understood that knowing too much was not always the best. Sometimes it will only bring you trouble, which was something that he didn't need right now, especially if he wanted to live out his life as a normal person. "Which section were we on?"
Tsuna released a silent breath of relief when Naruto decided to drop the issue. "I think we were working on conic…something. Ah-haha…I don't remember." He blushed bright red, remembering that he had told Naruto that he was working on his math earlier, apparently he couldn't keep up with his lies really well. Hopefully Naruto didn't catch that little slip up.
Thumbing through the textbook, Naruto stopped at a section and looked up. "It seems that we are on the conic section. Damn, I hate this section." Naruto grumbled as he stared at the textbook, frustration already gathering at his brows.
Tsuna turned to the page Naruto was on and stared at it, color quickly draining from his face. "W-w-what is c-c-conic?"
Naruto looked up at Tsuna, and sweatdropped. Tsuna was pale as a ghost and trembling. Naruto released a loud sigh. "Here let me explain…" And so they began their homework for the evening. Truthfully it was more like Naruto re-teaching the day's lesson to a very lost Tsuna.
Naruto and Tsuna were so lost in their math assignment that they didn't notice when Nana walked in and slowly set their snacks and drinks by the door. She then left the room gently closing the door behind her, smiling cheerfully as she returned to the kitchen, glad that Tsuna had made a new friend.
It wasn't until they finished their math assignment before they noticed the snacks and drinks sitting by the door. Tsuna got up and retrieved the snacks. He set them on the table laden with their homework before handing Naruto a rice cake. Naruto smiled gratefully before grabbing it. "Man, I am soooo hungry." He took a great big bite into the rice cake, it was delicious. "Oishii!" Naruto cried, blue eyes glimmering with tears of happiness. Tsuna grinned in total agreement as he took a bite out of his own. It really was the best.
"I'll go down and check how dinner is going; would you like to come with me?" Tsuna asked Naruto. Naruto hesitated a second before carefully nodding his head. It didn't matter whether he met with them now or later since there was already no way that he can escape from meeting with them.
Tsuna smiled, exiting the room with Naruto trailing after him. They made it into the kitchen just as Nana asked Lambo to go to Tsuna's room and call down him and his friend for dinner.
"Hey Mom, is dinner ready yet?" Tsuna asked entering the kitchen. Upon entering he was immediately slammed into the ground by a flying cow print body.
"Momma told me to come tell you that dinner is ready, Dame-Tsuna." Lambo shouted before he harshly jumped off Tsuna's stomach and returned to his seat with a knife and fork in hand already drooling in anticipation.
Tsuna groaned painfully as Naruto laughed, bending over to help him off the ground.
Nana laughed as well before walking up to Naruto and with a gentle smile, introducing herself once again. "Hi there, Naruto-kun. I am Sawada Nana, Tsuna's mother. It's really nice to meet you again; it has been a while since we last talked."
Naruto smiled in return, "Uzumaki Naruto. I apologize for arriving unannounced for dinner."
Nana laughed, "No problem, I love cooking so the more the merrier. Let me introduce everyone to you, since I am sure that Tsuna hadn't done so yet." She directed Naruto to his chair before pointing at each individual sitting around the table. "Hey everyone, this is Uzumaki Naruto. He is our neighbor and Tsuna's friend."
Nana turned to the cow print baby. "He is Lambo Bovino. He is actually from Italy, just like you Naruto-kun. The little girl next to him is I-pin; I think she said she was from Hong Kong. Ah, and the sweet little boy sitting on Lambo's other side is Fuuta-chan. He is so sweet always doing his best to take care of the two little ones whenever we are all too busy." Then she directed Naruto's gaze to the other side of the table where a foreign girl with long light purple hair sat staring at a pile of evil emanating purple food (?). "She is Gokudera Bianchi, she is also from Italy as well, and she is also Hayato-kun's older sister." Nana smiled finished with her introductions. Fuuta and I-pin greeted Naruto cheerfully, while Lambo quickly shouted out a greeting before demanding for his food. Bianchi nodded at him. Naruto nodded in return.
Bianchi turned to Tsuna, "Where is my darling?"
"I don't know," Tsuna replied, nervously taking his seat while staring apprehensively at the poisonous plate in front of Bianchi.
"That's right, I forgot about Reborn-san. I wonder where he is." Nana asked wonderingly as she looked around the dinner table. Then she looked at Naruto. "Reborn-san is an amazing person. He came all the way from Italy to help and tutor Tsuna at home. Isn't he a great person?" She smiled at Naruto. Not knowing exactly what he was supposed to say in response, Naruto smiled awkwardly and smiled at her. Tsuna sweatdropped. Nervously, Tsuna fidgeted in the background, hoping that his mother wasn't going to reveal everything to Naruto. When nothing else was said about the topic, Tsuna released a small breath of relief.
After the introductions were made, Naruto sat quietly in his seat and silently observed the different interactions going on around him. It was so loud and noisy. Lambo was screaming across the table, food flying everywhere. Fuuta was trying his best to eat and clean up after Lambo at the same time. I-pin, in an attempt to quiet Lambo down ended up having a shouting match with him. Bianchi sat in her seat interrogating poor Tsuna who was trying to eat his dinner. Naruto watched as Nana laughed at everyone. When Lambo crawled into her lap crying because he lost a verbal fight with I-pin, Nana gently rocked him back and forth causing him to quickly calm down and return to his meal.
Naruto smiled. So this was what a family was like. Noisy, loud, and boisterous but full of love, warmth, and kindness. This was the first time he had seen something like this. Naruto remembered the times when he was at the orphanage. He remembered when they had their dinner in the evening. He remembered how silent those times were. He recalled how lonely he had felt as he sat within the silent hall. There was no laughter or words spoken during that time. He recalled how even though there was silence in the hall, all the orphans did their best to sit as far away from him as possible. He remembered how their fear emanated from their fragile bodies as they were forced to sit in a room with him. He could sense their fear and hatred of him coming off in waves.
So, sure the halls were silent as normal but everyone was still able to sit with their friends and exchange glances with them. They would smile every once in a while at each other. But everyone avoided his glance; everyone turned cold eyes to him whenever he ended up accidently catching their gazes. The look as those cheerful eyes suddenly turned icy cold, froze him to the core. It had been so long ago but Naruto still remembered every pain filled emotion as if it was just yesterday. The pain wa—
Naruto was suddenly interrupted by a gentle hand touching his shoulder, and worried honey-gold eyes.
"Are you alright?" Tsuna asked worriedly, watching as the dark pain and emptiness left Naruto's blue eyes replacing them with a cheerful gleam.
"Yep," Naruto replied with a wide grin, looking at Tsuna's concerned eyes. After a minute, Naruto finally dropped his smile and the fake cheer allowing a sad look and grin to flash through before it too disappeared. "I was just remembering something from a long time ago. Something very unpleasant, from a very long time ago." Naruto finally broke away from Tsuna's worried stare.
He was taken by surprised when he felt a strong grip on his arm. He turned to look at the owner of the hands. Sad blue eyes met with determined honey-gold eyes.
"Whether you are feeling happy or sad, remember that we, your friends, are here for you. So you can burden us with some of your burdens too when you feel that they are too heavy. So, don't ever forget that we are your friends and that we are always here for you." Tsuna finished with a wide confident grin.
Naruto stared at him, surprised that such words could come out of Dame-Tsuna's mouth. Reading the thought behind Naruto's surprise accurately, Tsuna pouted and punched him in the arm.
"Mohh, Naruto is so mean. Do you seriously think of me as Dame-Tsuna too?" Naruto laughed at this before he ruffled Tsuna's head.
"Thank you, Sawada Tsunayoshi." Tsuna blushed, embarrassed before he quickly cleared his throat and demanded Naruto to return to his dinner. Naruto smiled, and returned to his dinner, this time joining in the table's loud cheer.
Naruto quickly came to like teasing Lambo. Teasing him was as fun as teasing Gokudera. I-pin quickly grabbed a piece of his heart as she sweetly offered him one of her precious steamed dumpling. He rapidly became good buddies with Fuuta when he told Naruto that ramen really was ranked as the #1 meal in the world (he excluded the fact that, that was according to the statistics of poor college students who couldn't afford anything else). As for Bianchi, she was too scary for him to approach, but when she heard from Tsuna that he was the one pulling all those funny pranks on her younger brother, she turned to him and cackled.
"Tell me more," she demanded pulling Naruto away from Fuuta, thus, forcing Naruto to tell her all the different kinds of pranks that he had been pulling on Gokudera in the past month. Bianchi laughed and praised Naruto for some very creative and well thought out pranks, asking Naruto to help her come up with some so that she could prank Hayato as well. After that, they became very good 'prank Gokudera' friends.
Tsuna watched everyone around the table as they smiled, laughed, and cried (Lambo). His gaze landed on the blonde boy, so different from everyone else, and was glad that he was able to share this dinner experience with Naruto. He knew that there was no way that he could understand Naruto's feelings or help him much but he also knew that having someone there for him was also something really important. So he was glad that he could be the one to be there for Naruto. Even though, this friendship was still new, Tsuna knew that this friendship that he had built with Naruto was something that was going to last for a very long time. This was one of his special bonds that would last for eternity.
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"It seems that Dame-Tsuna has made his decision," Reborn muttered to himself as he secretly observed the dinner table and listened in on the conversations. He had been watching the entire time. Ever since Tsuna had brought Naruto to his home, Reborn had been silently observing them. He had watched as Naruto revealed more of himself than ever before to Tsuna. He watched as Naruto patiently taught Tsuna math to the point where he finally understood something. He watched as Naruto sat at the dinner table and reacted with everyone else. He was even able to catch Tsuna trying to act all cool by giving Naruto a line that he was sure he read from one of Tsuna's mangas lying around his room.
Reborn smirked. He was right, Whiskers was perfect as a new member of the Familigia. Now…how was he going to approach him?
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The next night, Tsuna sat silently in front of his table staring blankly at the piece of paper innocently lying on it. Yamamoto, too, sat silently staring at the same sheet in front of him. Gokudera stared at the two bent head, pencil tapping a steady beat on the table. Slowly the steady beat became erratic and impatient before it stopped completely. The sudden silence caused the two heads to jerk up and stare at the silverette with wide, blank eyes.
"The two of you have been staring at the same problems for over an hour now. What have you solved?" Gokudera demanded impatiently glaring daggers at the two blank stares.
"Ano…Gokudera-kun," Tsuna began hesitantly sliding his math worksheet across the small table. "I don't have anything."
"Maah, maah, I don't have anything too, Gokudera-kun," Yamamoto proudly held up his math worksheet full of baseball doodles. This action was followed by a long pause and a sudden drop in the room temperature.
In the next instant Yamamoto was sent across the room and crashed into the wall, creating a crater in it. Gokudera stood with both fists clenched into fists, long silver hair flying in the air like snakes wrestling against each other in agony. He took in huge heaving breaths, trying to calm himself in front of his Juu-daime. Tsuna stared at Gokudera with a pale blue face, trembling in his seat. Am I next? He thought in panic, breaking into a cold sweat.
"Ouch, that hurts." Yamamoto coughed out in between breathes, dusting the debris out of his hair and from his clothes. He slowly made his way back to the small table before carefully reseating himself.
Gokudera was about to go into his ranting when Reborn popped up from the window and interrupted him.
"Ciaossu! I have finished my observations."
"Of who?" Yamamoto asked carefully rubbing the side of his head and ignoring the angry Gokudera. Tsuna's face turned even paler as he stared at Reborn, horrified, already knowing what he was going to say. Reborn ignored the situation he had just interrupted.
"So," Reborn began as he jumped onto his favorite perch (Yamamoto's 'now dusty white' shoulder) "What do you guys think of Whiskers?"
Yamamoto was the first to reply. "Whiskers? Oh, you mean Naruto-kun? He is really good at baseball, even though, he is just a beginner. He caught on really quick with the many different ways of throwing the ball. He also works really hard too. I think he is a great guy with a great sense of humor. I like him; his pranks are the best, especially the ones that he plays on Gokudera." He grinned and nodded his head in satisfaction, arms crossed on his chest.
Reborn looked at Gokudera. The silverette glared venemously back. "I hate him." He gritted out between clenched jaws, the words coming out in a growled whisper.
"Ehhh?!" Yamamoto exclaimed in surprise, ignoring his pounding headache from the earlier blow. "Why?! He's a great guy."
"He is a despicable guy. You only stand up for him because, as of yet, he hadn't pulled a prank on you. I hate him even more now that I know him and not just because of the research minor facts that I was able to dig up." Gokudera growled furiously, silver brows scowling in livid remembrance of the many tortures he had to suffer through and the little information he could dig up about Naruto. "I did a little research on him. The only information I could find about him are from about 2 to 3 years ago. I can't find any older information about him. This leads me to wonder, who the hell is he? He appeared out of nowhere in Italy about 3 years ago. Learned kendo as a beginner and won the Western European Kendo Tournament 2 years in a row and then the world National Kendo Championships just before he moved to a small city like Namimori, Japan. Why would he abandon all that fame to move here of all places? Who is he and what is his purpose here? He is a suspicious character. I wouldn't trust him as far as I can toss him." Gokudera ended his long speech of hatred and distrust, eyes narrowed as he stared at Reborn trying to gauge his reaction with the information he had given.
"You're so mean, Gokudera," Yamamoto chided, shaking his head in disapproval of Gokudera's anger. "Naruto is a friendly and cheerful person, you know? Maybe you should you should learn to laugh at yourself and talk with him more?" Yamamoto suggested. Gokudera merely snorted disdainfully at him before he turned to Tsuna and glared icily.
"So, what do you think of Uzumaki-kun, Juu-daime?"
Tsuna sweatdropped and trembled in slight fear as he considered this question for a few minutes. "W-Well, I don't really know what to say. When I am with him, it reminded me very much of the times when I am with Gokudera-kun and Yamamoto. I think that he is very good friend. Whenever I am around Naruto-kun, I get this strange sense of familiarity, as well. It feels as if I had always known him. He is also a very funny and interesting person, too." Tsuna chuckled to himself rubbing his head with two hands. "I may sound crazy, but this is the first time that I have felt such familiarity and trust for someone I had just met." Tsuna let go of his head and glanced at the three faces in front of him. Gokudera was staring at him, mouth agape, eyes full of shock. Yamamoto was grinning his idiot baseball nut grin and nodding his head vigorously in agreement. Meanwhile, Reborn just looked thoughtfully at him, Is this proof of the Vongola Hyper Intuition or something else?
"I see." Reborn said with an unreadable expression.
"Why do you ask?" Yamamoto asked, looking questioningly at the Reborn sitting on his shoulder.
"It is apparently obvious, baseball idiot. Reborn-san intends to add him to Juu-daime's Familigia." Gokudera growled at Yamamoto's stupid question before he turned to the baby. "I object to adding him to the Familigia. I am enough. You object to it too, right Juu-daime?" Gokudera stared intensely at Tsuna.
Tsuna took a big gulp of air and stared between Gokudera and Reborn. He didn't know what to say. He agreed completely with Gokudera about not making Naruto into another one of his 'Familigia', he didn't want him to get hurt, but he was too afraid to cross swords with Reborn. In the end he didn't reply at all. He could only stare helplessly at Reborn and Gokudera with tearful eyes crying in desperation for someone to take him out of the spotlight.
"I have spent this last week or so observing the activities of Whiskers and found him to be a huge asset to the Familigia. He is intelligent and athletic, as well as, loyal. He also seems to get along really well with the very different clashes of personalities within Dame-Tsuna's Familigia. He would play a great role as the Familigia's assassin or someone who can work in some of the Familigia's more covert operations with no problems."
"Assassin?!" Tsuna squeaked, honey-gold eyes widening in horror. "No, I can't do that to him."
Reborn merely raised an eyebrow at Tsuna's horror before looking over at the other two to see what they thought.
Yamamoto frowned, "I agree with Tsuna. We can't do that to him, but an assassin does sound cool…What about letting me be the assassin?" Yamamoto stared brightly at Reborn.
Gokudera frowned, but for a different reason. "I thought we weren't adding him to the Familigia."
Reborn merely snickered evilly before declaring that it was time for him to sleep. Everyone quickly scattered, Yamamoto and Gokudera to their homes, while Tsuna got ready for bed. By the time Tsuna returned to his room, Reborn was already dreaming away on his rope bed. Tsuna carefully made his way to his bed. He double checked his bed to make sure that there wasn't anything in it before he slowly slipped into it…
BOOM! Damn he knew this was going to happen, he should have just slept on the floor.
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Two mornings after the dinner at the Sawada house, found Naruto sitting in the Sawada's house once again eating what is now breakfast with the Sawada family. Naruto had actually arrived earlier to pick Tsuna up when he was forcefully dragged in by Nana to eat breakfast. He was peacefully eating breakfast, well as peacefully as he could with Lambo and I-pin screaming in the background, when a baby in a black suit and fedora suddenly jumped into the chair across the table. Caught by surprised Naruto looked up from his bowl of ramen (yes, ramen, Nana did a very through research with the help of sweet Fuuta-chan) and stared at the strange baby. The baby stared right back with sharp obsidian eyes. Naruto gulped.
"Umm, hi, I am Uzumaki Naruto, one of Tsuna's friends." Naruto introduced himself, carefully laying down his chopsticks.
The baby continued to stare at him. "Ciaosu, I am Reborn, the Legendary Hitman of the Vongola Familigia. Welcome to the Vongola Familigia."
Naruto stared, "Eh?"
Kyuu-chan, what is going on?
Seems like he's the same as those guys who approached you the last time you were in Italy.
Seriously?!
"Nooooooooo!" Tsuna came running into the kitchen barely dressed for school; one leg was in the pants leg, while the other was still dragging on the ground, a book bag in one hand and a tie on the other. "You can't, Reborn-san!"
Reborn turned to look at the half-dressed boy and smirked evilly. "Too bad, Dame-Tsuna. I already told him. Now go get dressed properly and get to school." Reborn commanded before he turned the little green chameleon sitting on his fedora into a large hammer and hit Tsuna's head with it.
"Gomenasai, Naruto." Tsuna screamed before he quickly left the kitchen, scared for his life.
Reborn returned to his seat, the green chameleon back on his fedora. "Questions?"
Naruto shook his head and returned to his ramen thinking silently to himself. This is just a dream. I am currently daydreaming. It's not real. This baby in front of me did not just announce that he is a hitman from a mafia family. What I am seeing is not real.
No Kit, it's not a dream, it's real.
After I count to three and look up I will see just another empty seat. This is all an illusion. One—two—three—Naruto looked up from his ramen bowl. The seat across from him was empty. He grinned. He knew it. It was all just an illusion.
He was just seeing things like a baby in a black suit with a fedora pointing a gun at his head—wait—what?!
Get out of the way, BAKAYARO! Naruto quickly ducked under the table as he felt a bullet whizz right past his right ear.
"What the hell!" Naruto screamed from under the table.
I told you. Kyuu-chan snickered. That's what you get for ignoring me.
Reborn slowly approached the cowering blonde. "Good job at dodging that bullet, Whiskers. If you didn't dodge it, you could have been dead." Reborn's green gun turned back into a chameleon before returning to its place on his fedora.
"Dude, are you trying to kill me or what?!" Naruto screamed wide blue eyes staring at sharp obsidian.
Reborn grinned, "Yep, if you were to die then that would mean that you weren't good enough to join the family, but since you lived…Welcome to the Vongola Familigia."
Naruto stared at the baby, and gulped. "What if I say no?" Naruto almost screamed like a little girl when Reborn took a menacing step towards him. Fortunately the only sound that escaped from his lips was a little gasp.
"Then…you die." Reborn's obsidian eyes gleamed menacingly. Naruto gulped.
What should I do now, Kyuu-chan.
Umm…join the familigia? Kyuu-chan suggested, not knowing what else to say to the scared shitless blonde kit.
"I am p-proud to be a member of the Vongola Familigia." Naruto squeaked breathlessly, arms clutching his knees close to his chest.
Reborn's eyes returned to their normal look. "Good you could see it my way. Ciaossu." He turned around and left the kitchen, leaving Naruto to silently sweat under the table. Naruto had no idea how long he had been sitting ranting silently to Kyuu-chan from there before a pair of black loafers stood nervously in front of his eyes.
"Ano…Naruto, we should get going now, or else we are going to be late."
Naruto's wide blue eyes stared up at the person standing over him. "Ah, Tsuna. Right. School. Yeah. Umm, let's go, shall we?" Naruto stuttered out before he quickly jumped to his—BAM—
"ARGH!" Naruto screamed painfully as he hit his head on the kitchen table that he had hidden under. Tsuna stared at Naruto for a second before he broke into loud laughter. Tears of pain fell from Naruto's eyes while tears of laughter fell from Tsuna's. After the pain lessened enough for Naruto to think properly, he turned to glare at the laughing Tsuna. In mock anger, Naruto yelled at Tsuna. "How dare you laugh at my pain?"
Tsuna only continued to laugh, Naruto leapt at Tsuna ready to tackle him. Tsuna, realizing what Naruto was going to do, turned tail and high tailed it out of there, still laughing. Naruto quickly ran after him, yelling and screaming.
Nana stood outside and watched as the two boys continued running the rest of the way to school. She smiled. Naruto and Tsuna got along really well. She was very happy that Tsuna was finally making friends. Watching the two, she knew that they would become really good friends. As the two boys disappeared around the bend in the road, Nana returned to hanging the bed sheets in the sun.
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A loud clash resounded from the roof top of the building as two weapons clashed against one another. A tall slender man with long silver hair and blade in his left hand stood in front of a shorter boy with a glowing blue flame on his forehead and two short blades in each hand.
The tall man smirked menacingly at the boy, growling. "Why'd you come to Japan? If you don't spit it out, I'll slice you into three, damn it."
With a calm and impervious glance the boy replied, coolly, "I have no need to answer thee." With that said the boy leapt straight at the tall man with every intention of killing him. But the tall man was very strong so he easily evaded the direct attack and was able to knock the boy off the building they were using as a battle ground. Just as the boy was about to fall over the edge, he was able to catch onto the ledge.
The tall man, slowly made his way to the ledge before he grinned crazily down at the hanging boy.
"Ugh," the boy looked up only the see the tall man grinning down at him.
"Heeeeey, you're WEAK." The man declared, bearing a dark grin. He stomped on the boy's hand that clung to the ledge.
Ignoring the pain in his right hand, the boy took his left hand and carefully retrieved a slightly crumpled photograph from his pocket and glanced at it. "I cannot lose…at a place like this." The boy muttered to himself, a determined glint returning to his eyes as he glanced at the image of a little boy trying to tie his shoelaces while smiling widely at the camera directed at him.
TO BE CONTINUED