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, Sasaki Xue Fang, Sasaki Daisuke, Sasaki Kiyoshi and every other non-identifiable characters 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 10: RUN! IT'S-!
The warm sun slowly sunk into the distance as the stars glittered in the darkening sky while accompanying the bright full moon.
Three children stood together as they stared down the large dark house looming over them with a mixture of fear, dread and excitement.
"D-Do we really have t-to go in?" A boy with spiky light brown hair whimpered as his colorful robot costume clanked a bit with his shivering.
"Of course we do, Robo-Tsuna!" Another boy exclaimed with sparkling red contacts as he fixed his white wings, "It's tradition to go through the Haunted House!"
"B-But, Li~!" Tsuna whined pathetically as the last boy, dressed as a werewolf, clutched his stomach and whimpered, "I don't feel so good…"
"It's Daisuke now, Tsuna! And, man up, Shou!" Li pouted at his friends before sighing.
He ran his fingers through his red-dyed hair before relenting upon seeing their horrified expressions, "Alright, alright."
They perked up at the submission.
"I'll go by my lonesome then." The Daisuke-cosplayer sighed dramatically as he began to walk forward, wings fluttering behind him.
He almost looked like an angel.
... Almost.
Light-brown and green eyes widened in shock and fear for their friend before their owners clung onto the red angel, "WE'LL COME!"
They never saw the devilish smirk that appeared on Li's lips.
The porch steps creaked eerily as the three kids walked over them and peered into the door that hung ajar.
Inside was the classical appearance of an abandoned house with its dustiness, broken furniture and random cobwebs.
Li pushed the door farther in.
SLAM!
"HIIIII!"
Everyone jumped at the loud noise and Tsuna's high-pitched scream before the light brunette fell over in a dead faint.
The red angel gave a wide grin while rubbing his head, "Whoops. My bad."
"L-Li-san…" Shouichi murmured with a deadpanned expression, "Could it be that you did that on purpose…?"
Li hoisted the light brunette onto his back, mindful of the white wings, before raising an eyebrow at the true red-head, "What did you say?"
The werewolf paled before shaking his head, "N-Nothing…"
Red eyes blinked curiously before their owner shrugged it off and continued forward.
The other boy followed closely behind, never noticing the faint spark of mischief.
The boys peered into the nearest room and saw that it was a living room with all of its furniture covered with white sheets.
They gazed curiously at the assortment of dusty glass figurines before stopping at a large painting of a portly man dressed in old British clothes.
"Whoa... His mustache is HUGE!" Li pointed out with a weirded-out look, "And his eyes..."
The dark brunette trailed off, making the bespectacled boy look curiously at him, before continuing, "They remind me of that freaky painting in Paris that Kiyoshi told me about."
Shouichi merely shook his head and sighed before pushing the angel out of the room.
Neither one noticed how the dark eyes of the painting seemed to follow them.
The next room that the boys entered was a kitchen.
Li grinned widely and automatically went over to the refrigerator, "I wonder if they have anything in here?"
Shouichi raised an eyebrow before giving the boy a look of disbelief, "Li-san, since this place has been abandoned for so long, I highly doubt-!"
The red-head was cut off as the red angel pulled out a cake that was seven-twelfths eaten.
"..."
A moment of silence settled over them.
"I'm leaving." Shouichi stated as he turned to walk out of the kitchen but was held back by the gender-bender.
"Oh no you're not." Li stated as he juggled between holding back his friend, carrying Tsuna, and balancing the cake in one hand, "I want to find out who left the cake here."
"B-But-!" The red-head started as he was dragged over to the table and forced into a seat, "-I don't want to die~!"
Torrents of tears poured down the frightened boy's face as Li placed the cake onto the table and seated Tsuna on an empty chair.
"We're not going to die~!" Li scolded and mocked the boy, "Besides, if worst comes to worst, I'll beat the snot out of whoever's trying to kill us."
"That doesn't help~!" The werewolf whined as he grabbed his stomach again, "Nngh… I really don't feel so good…"
The angel sighed before looking over at the cake and musing aloud, "The cake looks pretty tasty."
Shouichi gaped at his friend, "Don't tell me that you're going to try it!"
Tsuna stirred at the volume before yawning and mumbling out what he caught snippet of, "Who's going to try what?"
The werewolf looked relieved at the fact that the sleeping robot finally wakened before explaining, "Li found this eaten cake in the fridge and wants to try it."
"...!"
The light brunette sat up, completely awake of the situation now, before stammering, "B-But isn't the house a-abandoned!"
"Yup!" Came the cosplayer's cheerful answer as he swiped some icing off of the dessert and tasted it, "Mmm~ Chocolate."
Shouichi and Tsuna looked horrified.
THUMP!
Everyone jumped at the noise of something heavy falling onto the floor and stilled.
Silence reigned the air for a moment.
Thump!
Shouichi whimpered as Tsuna began to tear before Li sighed exaggeratedly and stated, "It's probably just a tree branch knocking."
Thump!
The two frightened boys clung onto one another and trembled violently.
Li scowled and began walking to the doorway, "… Fine. I'll check it out."
Tsuna made a movement to stop the gender-bender as Shouichi squeaked out a warning but the angel had already left.
Nothing but the sound of wind blowing outside and the thumping was heard for a moment.
"I knew it!" Came the red angel's shout causing relief to fill the boys, "It's just a branch!"
The boys quickly walked over to the doorway and peeked around to see the cosplayer by a window.
Outside of the dusty window was a large tree branch bumping into the pane.
"See! Nothing to be afraid of!" Li chirped as he began to walk back to the boys in a nonchalant manner before tripping and falling face-forward.
THUMP!
The angel twitched a bit as his friends yelped out his name in worry.
Li rubbed his face and scowled a bit before calling out, "I'm okay! I just tripped over…"
He trailed off and looked backwards to see before his eyes gradually widened and then narrowed.
Snapping back, Li commanded.
"RUN! IT'S-!"
The red angel was cut off as he yelped and was pulled into a hole that opened up in the floor by some dark thing.
Shouichi and Tsuna gaped at the spot that Li was previously in before panic began to settle in their stomach.
"L-LI!" Tsuna shouted as he attempted to run towards the spot his best friend was in but Shouichi held him back, "No! Tsunayoshi-kun!"
"B-But-! Li!" The light brunette whimpered with tears coursing down his face.
His body wouldn't stop shaking as his mind jumbled from the horrific thoughts of what could have happened (and what could be happening) to his best friend.
For all he knows, Li could be brutally tortured and murdered while they were just waiting around!
However, the werewolf kept his hands firmly on the other boy's shoulders before calmly saying, "I don't think Li-san's hurt."
The robot blinked away his tears and looked at the red-head with wide eyes, "W-What do you mean?"
The red-head startled a bit and stuttered, "W-Well…"
Shouichi thought for a moment before explaining slowly, "When Li-san saw whatever it was that grabbed him, he didn't look scared. Just… surprised."
He paused and went over his glimpse of the gender-bender's expression before adding in, "… And annoyed."
Tsuna stayed silent for a moment, pondering the red-head's observation before rubbing his eyes dry and piping up," S-Still, I don't want to leave Li alone."
"Yeah." Shouichi nodded in agreement, "In that case, we should probably… look… down… stairs…"
The red-head paled at the thought of staying in the Haunted House any longer as Tsuna did the same.
A dark and heavy aura surrounded the two as they thought of what could be lurking in the abandoned house before both gulped audibly.
Still, they forced down their fears and stepped towards the door with the word "Basement" scratched onto it.
Opening the door to the basement, Shouichi fumbled with his pockets before pulling out a small flashlight.
With a flick of the switch, a bright beam of light shone through the darkness.
The boys gulped once more before beginning their trek downstairs while clutching onto each other's hand tightly.
Oddly enough, the farther down the boys went, the lighter it became until they reached the bottom hall which was lighted quite well.
Shouichi shut off his flashlight as the boys gave each other a confused look.
The sound of voices was heard as the two glanced over at one another once more before tip-toeing closer to peer around the corner.
Their jaws dropped at the scene.
"You STUPIDLY ANNOYING IDIOT!" A familiar red-haired angel roared looking very much like an enraged demon at the moment.
(Complete with the dark and fire-blazing background too!)
His loafers were pressed heavily onto a familiar spikiness of black hair.
"WHY, in the seven HELLS, did you GRAB me and PULL me DOWN who-knows-how-many FLIGHTS of STAIRS!" The cosplayer snarled while baring his canines.
Li continued to rub the bottom of his soles into the scalp and forcing the owner's face to kiss the floor.
"Did you REALLY think that I WASN'T going to exact my REVENGE on you!" Li hissed before stepping off of the kidnapper and kicking the person in the side.
The force was enough to make the dark clothed person bounce once before flying into a dusty couch, tipping it over, scattering up white particles and making coughs fill the air.
Tsuna and Shouichi gulped at the gender-bender's temper before the former squeaked meekly, "L-Li?"
"...?" The red angel blinked at the sound and turned around before wondering, "Ts-Tsuna? Shou?"
The two meeker boys stepped out from their hiding place and nodded weakly.
Li flushed red before running his fingers through his hair and turning away while mumbling, "I take it that you saw that…?"
"Y-Yeah…" Came the soft reply from both boys.
The cosplayer sighed and ruffled his hair roughly before jerking a thumb to the figure that began standing up from behind the couch, "In that case, meet the idiot who decided to jump me."
The smoke cleared as the figure, now covered in white dust, coughed a bit before giving a tired smile and wave, "Hello~ friends of Xiao Li!"
Two jaws dropped even farther than before.
"K-Kiyoshi-san!"
Indeed, it was the older Sasaki child who had spiky black hair and dark grey eyes.
"W-Why?" Tsuna managed to croak out as Shouichi fell onto his bottom out of shock and relief.
Kiyoshi patted off the rest of the dust and sneezed once before grinning brilliantly and wrapping an arm around Li, "Simple! I wanted to make All-Hallows-Eve even more enjoya-OW!"
The twelve-year-old sibling keeled over while wrapping an arm around the area that Li elbowed.
"I'll (as Kyouya-nii always says) bite you to death."
A throbbing vein made itself known on the dark brunette's temple as he bared his canines.
The boys sweatdropped a waterfall at the evil aura flowing out from the red demon - err - angel.
(Extended Ending)
"By the way, Kiyoshi-san?" The bespectacled werewolf started as he stared curiously at the older Sasaki.
"Yes~?" Kiyoshi was attempting to hug the still-irritated red angel who placed a foot on his sibling's face.
"Why does it seem like your voice is higher?" Shouichi continued before sweatdropping when Li punched his kidnapper in the head for attempting to kiss him.
"You seriously don't know?" The grey-eyed Sasaki asked while rubbing at the bump and pouting at the cosplayer.
Cue the shaking of heads as Kiyoshi laughs good-naturedly and replies rather enthusiastically.
"I'm a girl now!"
"…"
CRASH!
"Ah. They both fainted." Li mused as she turned to the unconscious boys and nudged them with his foot.
Kiyoshi gave a Cheshire Cat's smile and took this opportunity to jump the boy and plant a wet kiss on his cheek.
THUNK!
Barely a nanosecond later and Li had already slammed a fist into his now-a-sister's thick skull and smirked in satisfaction as the sibling fell to the floor with swirly eyes.
"I still haven't forgiven you."
(Extended Ending: Extra)
"I was wondering…" Li mused as he sat on his sister's back , "Did the cake's being seven-twelfths eaten have anything to do with your prank?"
Kiyoshi grunted as the red angel shifted above her before blinking and thinking deeply.
Li raised an eyebrow at the girl before his expression gradually faded into a blank stare.
A lightbulb seemed to have switched on before Kiyoshi nodded happily and responded, "I figured that by the time you got to the cake, it would've been seven o'clock already!"
Silence passed the siblings for a moment before Li slammed his fist in the girl's head.
"As if. You just got hungry waiting, didn't you?"
"Ehehehe… Guilty as charged~!"
Author's Note:
This chapter was quite fun for me to write (particularly the extended endings).
I'd like to thank jestie kiryuu for reviewing the previous chapter nine: THANK YOU!
If anyone wants to know how Li looks like, just go to my profile and click on my homepage.
The drawing is under the title "Tsuna and Li" and my DeviantArt Pen Name is Kira-Tsume.
Stay tuned for the next chapter!