Date Started: Friday, August 06, 2010
Title: The Journal of Memories
Author: Gin Nanashi
Creation Type: Fanfiction
Main Rating: K+
Main Genre: One-Shot Series; Fluff, Friendship
Disclaimer: Katekyo Hitman REBORN! belongs to Amano Akira; Sasaki Li and Sasaki Xue Fang belongs to me (Gin Nanashi).
Summary: Sasaki Li came from a bloodline that allows her to gender-bend. Unfortunately, Li has yet to figure out how to control her ability. Fortunately, it leads to a whole bit of fun for the readers!
The Journal of Memories
Event 08: You Need More Training.
Dark-brown eyes clashed with similar eyes as mother and son stared each other down.
Sweat trickled down the side of his face as Li silently gulped at the uncharacteristically stern face that Fang plastered onto her face.
The black-haired woman had that expression on ever since she talked with the evil squirrel lady of doom about the fight that took place when she was relaxing with Nana.
Suddenly, a smirk made its way onto her lips as her eyes sparked with an amount of mischief that spelled pain for a certain gender-bending kid.
"You need more training."
Yup.
He's definitely going to be in pain by the end of this.
Li grunted as he was thrown to the ground harshly by a hit to the stomach before rolling out of the way as a small wooden tonfa crashed into the grass.
The gender-bender pushed himself forward and away from the attack of the second tonfa before turning around, pressing his right foot into the ground, bursting forward and tackling the black-haired boy to the ground.
Having successfully knocked the tonfas out of his opponent's hands, Li smirked before dark-brown eyes widened in shock when the other boy pulled out a spare pair.
Using his opponent's chest as a propeller, Li pushed himself off and away from the black-haired boy though the weapon did graze his chest lightly.
Grey eyes narrowed at having missed his opponent before the owner charged forward with his weapons raised.
Li growled a bit and dodged the onslaught of attacks before dropping to the floor and delivering a sweeping kick.
The dark brunette then pushed himself up and delivered a direct kick to his opponent's stomach, knocking the grey-eyed boy backwards.
This didn't stop the six-year-old boy as he pushed off and forward at the moment that his feet landed, but Li slipped underneath him and rolled backwards as he brought his leg up and then down onto his opponent's back.
The black-haired boy crashed and was immobilized for a few seconds, allowing Li to catch his breath, before getting up and charging once more.
Li gave an exasperated groan as he began dodging again, "Can't you just stay down?"
With that said, Li turned to kick the boy in the head with his heel in hopes of knocking him out.
The opponent smirked at the wide opening Li gave as he blocked the kick with a tonfa and slammed his other one into the dark brunette's side, forcing him to crash into the grass again.
Pain flared all over his body as Li groaned and tried to push himself up.
It's too bad that he had a sadist for an opponent seeing as how the black-haired boy comfortably plopped himself onto Li's back.
The dark brunette twitched at the sudden weight before squirming and whining, "Get off of me!"
"Hn." The boy snorted as he pushed down on him and prodded Li's head with one of his tonfa, "You're starting to turn into an herbivore."
Li stopped struggling at that comment before turning his face to the side to glance at the boy's grey eyes.
A thin brow raised at the action before the boy demanded, "What is it?"
Li gave a wide grin and batted his long lashes, "Can you bite the evil squirrel lady of doom to death for me, Kyouya-nii?"
The tonfa's slamming into the dark brunette's head answered his question as Li passed out with swirly eyes.
"I'll bite you to death for disrupting the daycare's peace."
"So! What have we learned today?" Fang questioned rather cheerfully as she dabbed antiseptic onto her son's wounds.
Li hissed softly at the sting before groaning and dropping his head onto the pillow; his response was slightly mumbled by the soft fabric.
"Always fully bite an herbivore to death?"
The woman's smile tightened as she "accidentally" spilled the alcohol over the boy causing him to jump and yelp loudly.
POOF!
Fang calmly waved the white smoke away before raising an eyebrow briefly at her daughter's twitching body, "Well…?"
Li slowly turned her head sideways and deadpanned at the close-eyed sparkly smile that was being directed at her.
(So bright…)
Jumbled thoughts clashed with one another as the gender-bending kid went through the experience with a scrunched-up expression.
Slowly, the confused expression faded into one of pure thoughtfulness before Li looked up at the woman with wide and (not) innocent eyes.
"Never train with a sadistic cousin who hasn't finished teething?"
Wrong answer.
"ITAI-TAI-TAI!"
Fang tossed the empty bottle of antiseptic into the trash bin as she made her way out of her daughter's room, "Have a good night, sweetie pie~!"
Li's soul could be seen floating up towards the ever-bright lights before-
Click.
-it was switched off.
Author's Note:
I thank those who reviewed again!
(Xie xie ni!)
Your kind words and encouragement made me want to write to the extreme!
(Kyoukugen!)
As for the teenage arc, it's not to come until much later so I apologize for those anticipating it.
*Gin Nanashi bows lowly in apology.*
For now, I want to write a lot of childhood (and holiday) one-shots for this story and shed some light on Li's background.
And, yes, the readers read correctly about Sasaki Li's relation to Hibari Kyouya; they're cousins.
For those who don't know: Hibari means "skylark" while Sasaki means "wren" and both are birds of the passerine bird species, which are perching birds or (less accurately) songbirds.
(Hibird, anyone?)
I didn't intend this connection until I researched the names and, by then, I had already decided that they were to be cousins anyway.
An interesting coincidence, if I do say so myself.
Please stay tuned for the next chapter and for more fluffiness between Li, Tsuna and Shouichi!