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Chapter 2

Shiyona stretched and rubbed her eyes as she got out of bed. Her meeting with her family had gone so much better than she had expected. She chuckled a little as she remembered their stunned faces.

Tsuna's "EH!" had been followed by laughter from Yamamoto. "I didn't know you had a sister Tsuna."

Before Tsuna could respond, Gokudera angrily exclaimed, "You can't be the Tenth's sister, how dare you! Don't joke around. You look nothing alike!"

Shiyona hadn't wiped her grin off her face, but Gokudera's statement made it even wider. Her eyes sparkled merrily as she retorted, "That's good, because that means I don't have hair like his."

To Tsuna's extreme surprise, no one else was saying a word. Kyoko, Haru, Ryohei, I-pin, and even Lambo were all silent as the grave. He blinked, they weren't moving either. He turned his head to look at Gokudera and Yamamoto, they too were strangely still, Gokudera's face still contorted in something akin to rage. He looked for Shiyona and found her calmly adjusting a necklace. She looked up and said something in English that we would all recognize as "oh, shoot." And somehow the world went back to normal speed.

Pulling on her uniform, Shiyona sighed, she couldn't believe she'd made such a huge mistake. Of course, after she'd released time, all the while praying Tsuna hadn't noticed, his whole family went into a bit of a chaos. Gokudera tried to kill her, Ryohei was shouting something so loud that she couldn't understand a single word of it, and the two assassin babies started chasing each other around.

She had known that it would be like that, but seeing it in front of her, Shiyona felt really sorry for Tsuna. How he could function with such a dysfunctional family she would never be able to tell. She laughed to herself, well, Tsuna's family was going to become hers after all.

After that, the sun arcobaleno Reborn had appeared. With him around it took no little effort to get the whole family home and the situation explained to Maman. Surprising enough, Nana took the news extremely well. Shiyona had never met someone so adoring or so content to take in surprising information. She smiled to herself, thinking, as she went out the door, that Iem- no, her father - had chosen just the right person as a wife.

Happy as a clam, Shiyona strolled down the street to her new school, Namimori Middle. She'd never been to a normal school before, so she was extremely excited. As she was about 20 minutes early getting there, she did not meet any of her family, but there was a certain person she was rather curious about.

"Let's see," she said to herself, "Hibari Kyoya. His favorite place is the roof, right?" Skipping up to the roof she looked around briefly, not bothering to do a thorough search. Upon finding him not there, she shook her head and said, "huh, guess he's not here." and skipped back down to the classroom.

The bell rang and the teacher walked in to Tsuna's class. Standing outside the classroom door, Shiyona chuckled as she heard the teacher futilely trying to get Gokudera to get his feet off the table. She waited patiently until the teacher said, "Sawada, you can come in now."

Shiyona chuckled to herself again as she heard some whispers go around the class. Could the transfer student be No-good-Tsuna's relative? Wonder what type of person it'll be. She touched a silver chain around her neck, hidden beneath her clothing, and if anyone had been looking just then, they would have gotten the inexplicable feeling that something was ever so slightly different about her. She walked into the classroom shyly and stood beside the teacher. The air around her was completely different from the day before.

When asked to introduce herself she spoke, not with the same flawless Japanese, but with extremely polite Japanese, using -desu at the end of every sentence and barely raising her voice above a whisper. She looked at her feet and said, "Uhm... Nice to meet you. My name is Sawada Shiyona. But please call me Shiyo-chan." She looked up and said, a little more assertively, "I'm Sawada Tsunayoshi's twin sister. I look forward to working with you." And she bowed.

The whole introduction was received with admiration, she had bought the whole class with just a few words. Tsuna, of course, was gaping at her like she was an alien. What was with this change in attitude, was she the same person? Yesterday, she had been so matter-of-fact and cold. But today was different, she had gained an entirely different character.

To Shiyona this much was easy. Humans were so predictable. With a few small words and a certain attitude she could manipulate a whole classroom full of people. It helped that she had been home-schooled in advance and already knew much of the curriculum, unlike her sadly failing twin brother. But she kept this feeling to herself as she sat down in class for several long, boring hours of review.

Shiyona sometimes looked back on the Spartan training she had had to go through during her years with her strictest family, but sitting in this dull classroom, she was feeling its benefits. She had already gathered all of the information she needed on the people in this room, so now it was just a matter of waiting. So wait she did. Some of the students who had been watching her for a while realized that she was beginning to resemble a statue. She stayed perfectly still, occasionally letting her eyes dart from side to side, just to see if she had missed anything, and one could barely tell she was breathing. They could not possibly know that this was the result of weeks of being taught to sit still as a child, in preparation for the time in which she would need to hide her presence in order to survive.

Shiyo's favorite subject of study was, of course, Tsuna. The boy really was a no-good. He didn't pay attention in class and got every question wrong. Nor was he very popular. During break, she noticed that, while Yamamoto and Gokudera attracted a great deal of female attention, Tsuna was completely ignored. His relationship with the arcobaleno was also of great interest to her. The sun arcobaleno was considered one of the strongest and smartest beings alive. In mafia circles he was famous, respected everywhere for his prowess. She had heard that he had gone to train the next head of the Vongola, but even after having seen their relationship in the future, there was something mysterious about interacting with them both at the same time. Similarly, Tsuna's relationship with his family is what could be called unique. It's a sign of his charisma, she thought, that he had brought together people so varied in personality and background.

At lunchtime, Shiyona wandered her way up to the roof with her family, still deep in thought over the relationships within her new family. And coincidentally, her thoughts strayed on the lone cloud, Hibari Kyoya. There had been a point in time where her own family had called her a skylark, she certainly hadn't thought, when she first began research, that her real family would have someone with a name that so reminded her of the past. From her information she remembered that he was the strongest of the family, but also strangely antagonistic. He had no allegiance to the family, but was no traitor either. He acted purely on his own interest. His history was, as far as she could tell, unknown to anyone but himself.

She returned to the present, effortlessly blending in with her family. If anyone had seen her with them, they would have assumed that she had known them for a long time, for she teased them and laughed with them as if she had known them her whole life.

When the bell rang again, Shiyona was unwilling to return to the classroom. Though she knew she should, she could just pretend, for today, that she had gotten lost or something. She let her family go down first, making some small excuse about having lost something. Shiyo stretched and looked up, she said quietly, "Come down, cloud man, I know you're up there."

Hibari jumped down, baring his tonfas. "Return to your classroom, or I'll bite you to death."

Shiyona only smiled, touching the chain around her neck once again.