AN: I'm so happy! I now have over 100 followers and favourites to this story, I never imagined I'd get this many in such a short amount of time! Thanks to all those of you who reviewed, I appreciate the feedback! The chapter after this one will be up in less than a week and that'll be when Reborn and Tsuna meet!
WARNING: This fic may contain many cliches known to fanfic readers everywhere, but I hope that at least some of my ideas are original. If not—well, this is fanfiction people! We can't all be geniuses at literature!
Disclaimer: I don't own Katekyo Hitman Reborn or Harry Potter, they belong to JK Rowling and Akira Amano.
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Chapter 4:
8 years later:
"Tsu-kun, wake up! Your brother already left for school, you have ten minutes!"
A thump could be heard from downstairs as Tsuna fell out of bed, feet tangled in the covers.
'It seems no matter what, I'll always be a late riser, seems like some things never change.'
Ever since life number #13 (or was it 15?), he had received the habit of being unable to wake up early in the mornings.
If he tried hard enough, he could probably get up as early as he wanted, but he decided against it, being late helped with his Dame-Tsuna facade anyway.
And it also irritated Hibari.
Both him and Hibari had come a long way from the small, weak (in Tsuna's case), children they had been.
Tsuna had become much more nimble and strong, though it didn't show much (seemed like this body wouldn't get any taller or larger, he'd been furious when he figured out that he had to stay at a below average height for the rest of his life while Hibari reached a respectable height for someone their age).
Hibari had also grown into his strength, nowadays it seemed like his tonfas were an extension of his body. He'd grown into a fearful person.
The moment they had both started attending Namimori Middle, Hibari had become curious about the Disciplinary Committee.
It hadn't taken more than five days before he beat the head and took over as Head Prefect. All the other prefects had become very loyal to him not soon after.
At first, many had been against it of course, I mean, how could a twelve year old discipline others twice his age? People hadn't payed attention to him, disrespecting his authority and crowding in the school's hallways. Hibari eventually taught them to treat him seriously after he beat four upperclassmen in what everyone was able to tell had been a one-sided fight.
Soon people began to fear Hibari, specially whenever they heard his new favorite thing to say: "I'll bite you to death".
Indeed, Hibari was very feared, something he seemed to enjoy as it made sure that all the stupid herbivores wouldn't crowd and disturb the peace at school.
The only aspect of Hibari that many people didn't understand was his friendship with Tsuna.
Now affectionately called Dame-Tsuna by most of the school's population, including some of the teachers, Tsuna and Hibari's apparent friendship continued to confuse others.
How could Dame-Tsuna, a clumsy idiot that could even manage to trip over air, keep the friendship of the scariest student in the school? Hibari was known to act harshly on those like Tsuna. Everyone knew not to mess with Tsuna, or bad things would happen to you, VERY bad things courtesy of a certain skylark.
Of course, Hibari took it out on Tsuna as well sometimes, chastising in his own way, trying to explain to Tsuna that he was tired of beating up insolent herbivores for annoying him, but Tsuna knew that Hibari was aware of exactly why he hid his actual abilities.
After the first few years of his friendship with Hibari, Tsuna figured out that it was impossible to keep the whole 'mafia people coming to kill him' thing from Hibari.
So one day, after the fifth assassination attempt since that day when they had met, Tsuna told Hibari the truth.
Not the whole reincarnation thing of course, just the whole 'Oh, you know what? My father works for the mafia so me and my family have assassins come every once in a while to kidnap and/or kill us!'
Hibari had been very understanding (more like apathetic) to his plight and from then on, Hibari helped him 'dispose' of any evidence from the assassins. He had also never asked how he'd gotten all the information he had on the mafia, another thing he liked about him.
Apparently Hibari had contacts within the Japanese Police through his family, so making sure the bodies of assassins 'went away' became his job.
They both knew that Tsuna was trying to distance himself from the mafia as much as he could, because he'd explained about how he and his brother were both possible heirs to a mafia family. If he suddenly started showing off his real abilities, it might gain the attention of someone from the mafia, and he REALLY didn't want that to happen.
The only thing Hibari had actually forced him into was becoming the Disciplinary Committee's secretary of sorts.
It was Tsuna's job to file paperwork (mountains and mountains of evil paperwork!), fetch Hibari his coffee (to not do so would make for a very angry Hibari, something he had found out after he forgot one time), and occasionally clean up after Hibari 'bit' someone to death.
He'd gotten used to the work, and it also gave him an excuse to give to his mom as to why he was getting such failing grades. She had grown surprisingly used to her son's bad grades and seemed to be unfazed towards his academic failures.
Ironically, Hibari was so busy with the Committee, he apparently didn't have time to attend some of his classes, so Tsuna had to tutor him every once in a while.
Tsuna and his brother's relationship was slowly getting better as well, it seemed that all the popularity his brother had because of his prowess with all kinds of sports really helped with his anger issues towards his younger brother.
He still didn't acknowledge him while he was around his friends, but there wasn't any hate sent towards him, not like before.
In the past 8 years, Iemetsu had only visited four times, something that seemed to depress his mother no matter how happy she seemed on the outside. While everyone mostly only saw Nana's happy exterior, they didn't bother to see the loneliness in her eyes whenever her husband was mentioned.
From conversations he'd been listening in from the shadows the few times Iemetsu was there, it seemed his clumsy act had written him off of the Vongola heir's list for good, unless all the candidates died as well as his brother, something he would make sure didn't happen.
According to Iemetsu, he was the 'baby' of the family, the weak one that was always protected by his brother or his friend. His brother was the smart one, with his slightly above average grades and his supposed popularity among his peers.
Apparently he hadn't heard of all the assassins that came looking for them, too busy with CEDEF business to send even a few undercover agents of his to protect one of the possible heirs to the title of Vongola Decimo.
Recently, he'd acquired a decent laptop, and had managed to hack into some Vongola files. Nothing too top secret of course, but apparently all of the current Vongola Nono's children had met unfortunate accidents in the last few months.
First, the heir Enrico was shot and killed in a gun fight, then the second eldest son Massimo drowned, and the third son Federico was killed through unknown circumstances and only his bones had been found.
The only candidate left was Natsume, who even after all these years remained oblivious to Iemetsu's real job.
Tsuna had found out that Nono had planned to send one of the legendary Arcobaleno, Reborn, to Japan in order for him to teach Natsume how to become a good mafia boss. The only problem was that Tsuna didn't think Natsume would be the right person for the job.
While he and his brother got along well, he knew that his brother just wasn't able to handle the responsibility of being given free reign of Vongola. Natsume just didn't have the leadership skills to be able to take over such a large, influential group of people, no matter what Iemetsu may believe. He acted as if he was the leader of that little gang of his, but Tsuna could see that he gave in too easily to others and was only being led on, he would become a figurehead at most.
While his brother was friendly towards his friends, and on occasion to Tsuna, he wasn't the leader type, he was more of a follower. 'If he becomes Vongola Decimo, he might become a puppet for the more powerful in the famiglia, something that would cause chaos among the Vongola.'
'At least I've heard some good things about Reborn, maybe he'll be able to help Natsume. He IS one of the Arcobaleno after all.'
'Yes, I think for now I'll stay in the shadows and see if my brother can handle things.'
Tsuna smiled as he ran towards school.
'I'm sure you'll be a great teacher, Reborn.'
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Somewhere in Italy:
In a dark and dreary street, there was the sound of someone walking, the noise so soft it was barely heard. The person turned and entered the small bar. Two men sat at the counter, drinking and smoking.
One of the men turned and said, "It's Reborn! looks like you were called by the old man again."
The person who had just entered the bar was a small baby. A baby wearing a black suit and a fedora with an orange stripe on it. On his neck, a yellow pacifier was hanging, and on his hat, a chameleon he affectionately called Leon sat, lazily staring at the other two in front of him.
The second spoke as well. "Must be tough being popular, going to Rome next? Venice?"
The small baby didn't look up from under his hat as he said, "Japan."
"What!"
Both men were clearly shocked. "The old man must have finally made up his mind."
Reborn just looked down and said, "Looks like it's going to be a long journey."
As Reborn began to walk towards the bar, the door suddenly opened with a bang.
A man with a knife suddenly lunged towards the baby, clearly intending to kill him, when suddenly the assassin found himself at gun point.
"Die."
A bang was heard from the quiet street while an indistinguishable figure crossed into another building nearby.
The Man in the Iron Hat smiled, satisfied that everything was going according to plan.
'Let's see what you make of the next few years Reborn. I wonder who will win this little chess game of ours. The question is, who will choose the next move, you or the little Vongola?'
No one was aware of the events that would soon befall the small town of Namimori.
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On a plane headed to Japan:
Reborn was currently on a plane bound for Japan, and he was going through all the information he had on Natsume Sawada, the CEDEF Leader's son.
After the death of Vongola Nono's three sons, he had been chosen to be the tutor of the only remaining heir to the family, Iemetsu's son.
While Reborn had still been in the middle of training his very stupid, clumsy pupil Dino, he knew that the Vongola famiglia was much more powerful than the Cavallone family, so Reborn had said goodbye and left for Japan.
He read through the papers once more.
'Natsume Sawada, currently 16 years old, lives in Namimori, Japan. Gets slightly above average grades and has strong leadership skills. One of his school's idols and star of the soccer team. He also plays basketball, volleyball, and baseball. Apparently he has a younger brother, Tsunayoshi, but there isn't really anything on him on these papers. Only Iemetsu rambling on how he's not allowed to know anything about the mafia.'
Along with the information he found a picture of Natsume. He was a boy with blond hair and a handsome face, but Reborn knew you needed more than that to survive in the mafia.
'Well, I'm sure I'll get to see what kind of person he is along with this Tsunayoshi, and no matter what Iemetsu said, I have to tell the other brother about his father's job, what if he gets attacked because of his brother?'
As the plane continued its flight, Reborn sadistically smiled as he planned what he'd teach his newest pupil first.
'You better not waste my time Natsume Sawada.'
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AN: I'm back! Thanks so much for the reviews, I really appreciate that so many of you enjoy this story! I'm so sorry if you were expecting Reborn to meet the Sawada family in this chapter, but I needed to set the stage first. At least I added a few scenes with Reborn in them. As you could probably tell, the first scene with Reborn came straight from the manga, and I also got some information from the Reborn Wiki page.
Next chapter I will definitely cut back on the dialogues and add more interaction between characters, something that I don't think I did enough of in this chapter. The plot twist I was planning on using regarding Tsuna's brother will come into play next chapter and let me tell you, I don't think it's ever been used before, get ready to be surprised!
One of the questions I wanted to ask was: Should I follow the manga or the anime? Personally, I'm more familiar with the manga but I'm open to your opinions!
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