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Previously:
"Hey guys" Tsuna began and used his left arm to point towards his friends "Ari-chan this is Gokudera-kun, Yamamoto, Oniichan, Kyoko, Haru and my tutor Reborn" he said going from left to right "guys, this is Ari-chan" said girl gave a quick wave.
"starting today she's joining our familia".
Chapter 3: Introductions
Normal POV:
Everyone (minus Tsuna and Aria) stared at Tsuna is disbelief. Reborn didn't know whether he should be proud that his student took the whole Mafia thing seriously now or annoyed that Tsuna just told someone everything when he had no information on this girl. After a couple of minutes of silence and Tsuna still grinning like a Cheshire Cat it was Nana who broke the silence first by sighing and placing her hands on her hips
"At least promise me you two won't do anything reckless…again?" Nana asked, Tsuna and Aria both chuckled and did a mock salute
"We promise we won't do anything reckless, life endangering or any pranks" they both said, "unless Aria decides that she wants to hunt the trolls in the woods and get lost again" Tsuna then continued. Aria glared at him before lightly punching him in the arm
"That was one time" she protested "what about you jumping off a bridge in an attempt to fly cos you thought you had super powers?" She then accused.
"One. You were the one who told me I could fly. Two. I was six when that happened I didn't know any better" Tsuna then countered with as he playfully glared at his best friend. Nana shook her head at the two teens.
"How about you guys stay here and get to know Aria-chan better while I finish dinner" Nana suggested as she she gestured to the living room area before turning around and heading back to the kitchen. This seemed to bring the other teens back to their senses and it was Gokudera who acted first.
"Alright as Juudaime's right hand man it's my job to protect him." He said as he stormed over towards Aria and got up in her face "just who are you? Do you work for any other family? What's you motive? How can we trust you?" He then asked, firing these questions at Aria.
"Gokudera-kun" Tsuna then said as he stood in front of Aria and tried to get his right hand man to back away but just then Yamamoto also spoke up
"He has a point Tsuna" Yamamoto turned to Aria, his whole body language suddenly turned form the happy-go-lucky baseball player to don't-mess-with-me language "how do we know we can trust you with Tsuna?" He asked her. Tsuna sighed, he forgot how protective Yamamoto and Gokudera could be at times.
"Your gone scare her at this rate" Tsuna tried to argue back with, He didn't want his best friend, who has been gone for six years, to get scared off by his new friends when he only just got her back. However before he could say anything else he felt a hand on his right shoulder, it was Aria. Tsuna couldn't see her facial expression due to her fringe covering her eyes but when her left hand lightly squeezed his shoulder he knew that she could handle it. He smiled softly at Aria and stepped to the side "no killing anyone" he said remembering exactly who she was related to. Gokudera stared at Tsuna slightly confused at why he would say that to Aria 'why would he tell her not to kill anyone' he thought but then turned to look at Aria again when he heard her laughing.
Aria looked up as she emitted a powerful aura, a look of seriousness shone in her eyes before she stared up at Gokudera and pointed a finger up at him "okay look here Mr. Right hand man. I have known Tsuna since we were babies, I spent everyday growing up with him and practically spent everyday in this house with him that this place is like a second home to me. Im his best friend and I know more about Tsuna then you will ever know." She started, her aura was enough to make Gokudera step back from her, his composure was quickly breaking down.
"I don't belong to any family apart from the one Tsuna just offered me to, this Vongola family. And let's get one thing straight I'm here to protect Tsuna my motive is to protect my family and honestly I don't have to give you a reason as to why you should trust me, Tsuna does so that should be enough of a reason and before you start he is family. I only have an older brother, my dad walked out on us and my mother is dead, Tsuna and Nana are the only other two people who I can call family, and I'm sure as hell not going to let you or any Mafia take that away from me. Do. I. Make. Myself. Clear?" She the asked as she finished ranting.
Everyone stared at the young girls outburst, though Tsuna was a little shocked by how much she restrained herself 'she definitely got better at her self control' Tsuna thought to himself but then frowned when he remembered that Aria mentioned something about her mother being dead 'I'll definitely need to talk about that to her, but not now there's too many people' Tsuna was brought out of his thoughts when he saw Gokudera suddenly suddenly kneel to the floor as he began to hit his head on the floor
"Please forgive me Aria-San, I did not mean to upset Juudaime's best friend. I was only trying to protect him. I am unfit to be Juudaime's right hand man". Gokudera than began to repeat over and over, Tsuna sweat dropped at Gokudera's actions while Aria just blinked a couple of times before laughing
"Please, Gokudera-kun stop that" she said as she knelt down to Gokudera's level and placed a hand on his shoulder "you know when Tsuna told me about this whole Mafia thing and about you guys, I honestly wasn't too sure about it. I mean Tsuna is my best friend, he's family and now because of who he's related too people will want to kill him. I told myself I was going to protect with everything I've got, I didn't care about who you guys were all that mattered was to make sure that Tsuna didn't have to face this alone. But you guys have shown me I was wrong, the way you all went defensive when you heard I was joining, granted probably not the best way to go about it but I'm glad.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who wants to protect him, his family is everything to me and to know there are people who are willing to help protect him as well as put me at ease especially since I haven't been here for the last six years." Aria quickly stood up and bowed down in front of the others "thank you for protecting my family, I'm glad Tsuna has found people he can call true friends" she finished as she stood up straight again and smiled before holding a hand out to Gokudera "now let's try this again. Nice to meet you, I'm Aria".
Gokudera looked up at the hand in front of him before smiling warmly and standing up taking Aria's hand in the process "nice to meet you Aria-San, I'm Gokudera Hayato." He said as he shoved his other hand in his pocket. Tsuna sighed but smiled as he watched what happened. It seemed Yamamoto also backed off and the the other two girls where a little more friendly now to the new family member.
"Okay, how about we take a seat and me and Aria will answer any other questions you still have" Tsuna suggested, the others nodded in agreement and went to sit down. Gokudera and Yamamoto next to each other while on Yamamoto's left was Rhoyei who was sitting next to Kyoko and Haru while Tsuna and Aria sat opposite them. "So what do you want to know?" Tsuna asked and surprisingly it was Kyoko who spoke up first
"What did Aria-chan mean when she said you jumped off a bridge Tsuna-kun?" She asked curiously, Tsuna groaned as the memory Played through his mind and placed his face in his hands, while Aria placed her hand in her mouth to try and muffle her laughter
"Kay firstly can I point out I was six at the time when this happened. Me and Aria had very active imaginations as younger kids" Tsuna began to explain and chuckled at his memories "Actually I think at one point we pretended we were in the Mafia, but instead of killing people we would protect them, that's actually how it started. Aria here convinced me to use my powers to fly and so we went to the bridge near the river and I jumped off trying to fly, lucky enough there was some civilians passing by at the time who dove into the river to save me." Tsuna explained, the others nodded their heads in understanding
"So she told you that your superpower was flying?" Asked Kyoko
"Heck no" Tsuna responded with "she convinced me to fly using my flame powers" Tsuna responded with, reborn who sat on a small table away from the group so he could listen in on them dropped his mug of coffee in shock as he heard what Tsuna had said before getting up and jumping over to the coffee table between the group of teens and curiously looked at Tsuna and Aria
"What flame powers?" Reborn asked, the teens were intrigued that Reborn seemed to be curious as well, considering their talking about an imaginary game from when they were six. This time it was Aria who responded
"Well I'm not sure what they were and when Tsuna got them but I can tell you now it wasn't from our imagination. But they were flames and they always appeared in Tsuna's hands when he was too emotional in some way. The first time it happened we were being picked on by these kids who were about twelve it thirteen at the time. One of the them had a hold on Tsuna while another one had grabbed me it was when the third guy was about to hit me that it happened.
I just remember hearing Tsuna shout something till next thing I knew the guys were on the ground and Tsuna had these flames dancing across his hands, his eyes also turned orange but only for a brief moment. Since then we would go out to the woods a lot or somewhere where there weren't a lot of people and made Tsuna try and work out what happened." Aria explained and then Tsuna continued for her
"It was about a year afterwards that Aria decided to convince me to use my flames to fly, however on the day I just couldn't and I ended up in the river since then –we have no idea what happened – but I could no longer use the flames it's like they just vanished, in the end we had put it down to our imagination" Tsuna finished explaining. Aria pouted
"I wish you still had those sky flames they were totally awesome" she complained
"Sky flames?" Reborn asked
"Yeah, even though the flames where like a vibrant orange they reminded me of the sky so we called them sky flames" Aria explained, she looked towards the other teens and could see they were still trying to process what they were just told. Tsuna however spent the whole time watching Reborn, and could tell something wasn't right by his actions 'he knows something' Tsuna thought to himself but dismissed it when he heard his mum call out that dinner was ready, it seemed that the others also quickly forgot their train of thoughts when they heard that dinner was ready
- after dinner-
Dinner time was hectic, simple as. Lambo said something or did something that annoyed Gokudera and made him shout which in turn caused Rhoyei to shout at Gokudera while Yamamoto just laughed and tried to calm them down. Haru and Kyoko luckily enough seemed to be in their own little world and were chatting about this and that while Tsuna was complaining about reborn nicking his food. While some found this oddly strange Aria found it hilarious and had spent much of her time laughing at her new family.
It was a little while afterwards when Nana took Ipin and Lambo to have a bath that the Sasagawa siblings and Haru decided to make a move, a little while after that Gokudera and Yamamoto made a move as it seemed Bianchi had turned up and once again Gokudera had gotten his 'stomach pains' so Yamamoto offered to take him home and so the only one left was now Aria, who was currently sitting on Tsuna's bed and leaning against said persons shoulder.
"Ne Ari-chan we should get you home otherwise Hibari-San is gonna bite me to death" Tsuna said as he poked Aria in the arm, it seemed that the jet lag was finally hitting her full force as she was drifting in at out of consciousness.
"But I'm tired" she argues "just let me stay here" she said as she drifted off again, Tsuna sighed as he knew that she probably won't willingly move from her spot waited until her breathing relaxed signalling she had fallen asleep before carefully getting up and manoeuvring Aria onto his back and carrying her downstairs, Tsuna placed a finger to his mouth
"Shh" he whispered as he saw his mum enter the corridor, she chuckled quietly before handing Tsuna Aria's coat
"Don't be long" she whispered before making her way to her own room. Tsuna smiled before going out the front door and heading towards Aria's home, mentally hoping that he could remember the way, fortunately enough fate was on his side as he stood outside a tall house with the name 'Hibari' on the plaque outside the gate, quietly he opened the gate and made his was over to the door, however the door had swung open just as Tsuna was about to knock revealing a not very happy Kyoya.
"Gah Hibari-San you scared me" Tsuna said as he placed a hand above his heart, but from seeing the look of Kyoya's face he sighed "don't worry, she's fine. The jet lag just caught up to her and she fell asleep. You know what's she's like" Tsuna explained as he gestured to the girl on his back. Hibari glared at the herbivore before stepping to the side
"She's still in her old room. Make it quick" he simply said before walking off to his own room
Tsuna sighed in relief that he wasn't going to be bitten to death and made his way up the stairs to Aria's room, which luckily had the door still opened so he carefully set her down on her bed and and placed a blanket over her before crouching down. He smiled softly as he brushed part of her fringe out of her eyes, careful enough not to wake her up before placing a quick kiss on her forehead
"Glad to have you back Ari-chan, don't worry I'm not gonna lose you again" he whispered before getting up and exiting the room, slowly pulling the door to, if he had turned back he would have noticed the small smile that formed on her face as he left.
Okay people that's all for now, I know it seems kinda short and that however I'm just trying to ease my Oc –Aria into the story, just a couple more chapters and then it will continue from the anime story line. One chapter per episode basically so please be patient
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