I AM A LYING LIAR WHO LIES.
That's it. No more projected deadlines. They never work out.
Thank you all, dear reviewers, for being wonderful despite my horrible, horrible lies.
So have a Haru.
Miura Haru
1.
Haru, for all her awkwardness, is the second best at sports of Tsuna's family members. The inevitable result of this is that although Tsuna is her first long-term crush, Yamamoto Takeshi is her first real male friend.
She is able to keep her athleticism a secret up until the point Reborn, in all his sadistic wonder, decides to hold a baseball tournament among Tsuna's family. She and Yamamoto are forbidden from ever ending up on the same team five minutes before the games themselves are banned for good.
2.
While Haru's tastes in cosplay verge on the bizarre, she is by far the best seamstress in the Vongola family.
Ten years later, the only thing that frightens the majority of the Vongola is the thought of having to tell her that yes, once again, they have managed to shred to pieces the suit she so meticulously repaired for them only days earlier.
Haru never becomes one of Tsuna's combative family members, but the things she can do with a pair of scissors and a fully stocked pincushion are the stuff of nightmares.
3.
Haru is not a math nerd by choice, but after getting raised by her professor of a father she can't help but have picked up a few things.
Ironically, this only makes her relationship with Gokudera more antagonistic.
(Ten years later, Vongola Decimo wonders over the fact that he's probably the only Mafia don who has to worry about violent, earth-rending fights breaking out over who gets to do the accounting this season.)
4.
Out of everyone in the Vongola family, Haru is the only person completely unafraid of Rokudo Mukuro, and one of only three who actively tries to befriend him.
(For his part, Mukuro forever wishes he'd established that "slipping into a new guise" had everything to do with possession and nothing to do with cosplay.)
The day Haru finally, miraculously, forces him into a costume becomes the most prized piece of blackmail in Chrome Dokuro's "Mukuro-sama" collection.
5.
Haru's flame, though rarely used, is that of Lightning, giving her a training partner in Lambo and what at first seemed to be a horrendously unsuitable tutor in Leviathan.
Strangely enough, she is exactly what is needed to bridge the gap between Varia and Bovino, as she both sympathizes with Levi's oft-ignored fanatical devotion to Xanxus, and forever remains the closest thing Lambo has to a mother figure after Sawada Nana.
Haru's talent with the flame never passes beyond mediocre, but even the Arcobaleno Verde would think twice before challenging her and incurring the sizeable wrath of both the Vongola's Lightning Guardians.
6.
Haru has an uncanny knack with languages that ends up making her the first of the Japanese Vongola to become fluent in Italian.
She takes this gift for granted up until she sees the look on Gokudera's face when she snaps back a witty retort at a rival Mafia don who'd mockingly referred to her as the Storm Guardian's arm ornament only moments earlier (during a business meeting she'd only been attending because all the other Guardians were busy elsewhere, no less).
The thought of Gokudera forever worrying about how many of the Italian insults he'd muttered in her general direction over the years had been understood probably shouldn't help her sleep so well at night.
7.
Haru is not only a crack shot with a pistol, but indisputably the second best marksman in the Vongola family.
That very same aim has enabled her to never take a life. Haru's all for self-defense, family safety and the occasional shattered kneecap, but she just doesn't think she has what it takes to kill.
(Absolutely none of this saves her the trouble of having to spend over six months in hiding after Xanxus is made aware of this little fact in yet another one of Reborn's infamous competitions.)
8.
As much as Haru admires Bianchi's sophistication and style, and I-Pin's intelligence and strength, the only girl she's ever been jealous of is Kyoko.
Kyoko alone is free of the dysfunctions that plague the other Vongola girls, not to mention she has both an adoring brother and the unofficial title of school idol at Namimori, and she managed to earn and keep Tsuna's love with absolutely no effort on her part.
Nevertheless, Haru is incredibly proud of the fact that, no matter how bad her jealousy gets, it always has and always will come in second to their friendship.
(And really, in a group like theirs Kyoko's normality makes her the weird one.)
9.
While she's never fought on the front lines, even associating with the Vongola has ensured that Haru has been exposed to a colorful variety of dangerous situations.
To this day, she still believes that the riskiest thing she's ever done is name Hibari Kyouya's pet 'Hibird.'
10.
Haru can't even begin to count the number of times she's fallen head over heels for a boy, but Tsuna is the only one she never gets over.
The sweet and adorable, the mysterious and angsty, the ridiculously gorgeous, the suave and sophisticated—she's fallen for them all, but none of them will ever measure up to kind, awkward, unwittingly selfless loser Tsuna.
He is the only boy she's ever literally fallen for, after all.
Blame number four on the anime omake—their interaction was too funny for words.
Or you could blame it on me, as I am entirely unapologetic.
Still wanna hear what you think about a Gola Mosca chapter—that vote's probably going to stay open until I post Squalo. Yes? No? Pineapple?
Look forward to Kyoko at…some point in time. Like I said, I'd like to stop spreading horrible, horrible lies, and I happen to be currently dealing with the magical world of approaching finals deadlines.
But the Varia will be after that, so…yay!