Chapter 2

Over the years, Kagome was able to work her muscles back the way it had been during the feudal era… well, mostly. No matter how much protein she eats, her physical power as a preteen was still no match to here adult self, who had more time and experience (thank you power hungry demons) to train; though she made up for it with her weird flame, 'dying will flame' her subconscious provided helpfully, and her miko powers. She took a number of martial art classes and was a renowned fighter in Namimori along with one demon prefect.

Life at Namimori was uneventful most of the time. Her father is always away doing "construction" jobs; her mother is oblivious and airheaded as always, but she was still very motherly to both her and Tsuna; and then, there's her little sister. Tsuna was small for her age, though Kagome blamed it on genetics since she's tiny too, and very shy and timid, easy target for big bad bullies that roamed the school ground.

Tsuna's schoolmates always teased her for being small and clumsy, and to this day, Kagome still couldn't hunt down the idiot that started calling "dame-Tsuna". Things would occasionally, get physical, and when it happens, Kagome's "Tsu-chan's in trouble" radar would normally go haywire, and the older sibling would swoop in and save the day.

~oo0oo~

Kagome – 9 years old, Tsuna – 8 years old

Tsuna always waited for her big sister on the swings during lunch time at school. Her big sister had some great friends at school, but she would always make sure to have lunch and have some sister-bonding time. Tsuna didn't have any friends at school, and initially, Kagome tried to drag the fluffy brunet to have lunch with her friends, and one of them had been a silver haired boy who kept screaming about "EXTREME!"

Of course Tsuna denied, saying she didn't want to intrude on her and her friends, and that somehow led to the two of them having lunch alone every day. The younger Sawada didn't mind, though a small part of her felt guilty for relying on Kagome all the time, she loved her big sister who always showered her with love and attention, and kept the meanies away. And so, like every lunch, Tsuna is waiting for Kagome, but her big sister was late today.

Coincidentally, three of her bullies just happened to pass by. Uh oh.

"Well, well, what do we have here?" Bully number one said.

"Hey, we want to go on the swing, so move away dame-Tsuna." Bully number two told her.

By now, Tsuna was quivering in fright, "B-but, I'm waiting for nee-chan h-here!"

"We didn't ask you." Bully number three walked up and shoved her off the swing roughly, and her bento box also tumbled down from her lap.

Number two decided that falling from the swing wasn't enough and moved to kick her bruised legs, "Tch, you should have moved when we told you to."

"Yah, baka," Bully number three sneered at her and picked up her lunch box, "We'll be taking this with us because you didn't listen to us."

"W-wait! That's m-my lunch!" Tears filled her big brown eyes, threatening to fall.

"I bet Kagome-senpai ditched because you are so pathetic dame-Tsuna." Number one said and laughed along with his two friends.

"Ahem. Care to repeat that?"

The three bullies froze and slowly turned around to see Kagome smiling serenely at them.

"Ah… K-kagome-senpai. W-we were just giving dam- I mean, Tsuna her lunch back." Number three stumbled out an excuse.

"Thank you," Kagome picked the lunch from his hand, "So, I didn't just see you push my little sister down, right?" Her calm demeanour suddenly changed to anger, and the three boys cried out in terror. "Get out of here." They didn't need to be told twice and hightailed out of there.

Once the bullies left, Tsuna immediately latched onto her big sister and cried her eyes out. "O-onee-chan! I wa-was r-really scared! I t-thought you didn't w-want me anymore!"

"Aww. I'm sorry I was late, sensei had to talk to me for a bit." Kagome hugged her frightened little sister, "Don't worry Tsu-chan! Onee-san will always be here to protect you."

"Promise?"

"I promise."

~oo0oo~

Kagome – 13 years old, Tsuna – 12 years old

Of course promises were meant to be broken, and Kagome can't always be there for Tsuna, especially when Kagome is now in middle school. Though the bullying wasn't bad initially, they had still been wary of Kagome's tendency to beat them up and showing up randomly. It gradually got worse when they realize that Kagome can't leave school during school hours thanks to an infamous prefect. So, when Tsuna came home one day covered in bruises, Kagome flipped.

"Tsu-chan! What happened to you?" Kagome asked as she bandaged her baby sister up. "They shouldn't have gone this far. Do you want me to ask okaa-san to talk to the school?"

"Onee-chan, it's okay, I don't want kaa-san to worry." Tsuna told her. After a moment of silence, Tsuna spoke again, "They said some really mean things to me."

Kagome hesitated a bit before asking, "what did they say?"

"They said that one-san is very unlucky to have a sister like me, and that I'm a burden to you." Tsuna cried and hugged her.

"Oh, Tsu-chan, you know that's not true." Kagome cooed, calming down the hysterical girl.

"I know, but it still hurts."

'Tsu-chan needs friends to protect and support her when I'm not there.' Kagome thought and hugged her little sister tighter, 'Middle school, there will be new people, new place, and hopefully some new friends for her.'

~oo0oo~

Thankfully, Tsuna did manage to make some friends, Hana Kurokawa and Kyoko Sasagawa, the little sister of her friend, Ryohei Sasagawa. Kagome was so happy that when she heard the news that she took the three younger girls out for cake. Since Namimori was a small town, middle school didn't have too many new faces. Both Hana and Kyoko went to the same elementary school as the Sawada siblings, but they had never been in the same class.

According to Tsuna, during lunch time on the first day, some of her old bullies had been bothering her, Kyoko called them off to "leave Tsuna-chan alone" and Hana just followed along with her childhood friend and saved Tsuna. When she thanked thanked them and made her way to leave the classroom, Hana had asked, "Sawada, where are you going?"

"Eh? I was going to find my nee-chan in room 2-1 and eat lunch with her." Tsuna said.

"Really?" Kyoko looked really excited, "that's the same class my big brother is in! We should all eat lunch together! Come on guys!"

The red headed then dragged Tsuna and Kyoko towards their new destination. "Onii-chan!"

The captain of the boxing turned around at the voice of her little sister, and saw her with Hana, "Oh! Kyoko! Kurokawa! 'Sup?" He also noticed another girl, "Who's this Kyoko? New friend?"

"Yup, this is my new friend Tsunahime Sawada. Tsuna-chan, this is my big brother Ryohei." Kyoko introduced.

"Extremely nice to meet you Sawada-chan! You can call me onii-san!" The male shook Tsuna's hand enthusiastically.

"H-hai, onii-san."

Across the room, Kagome snapped her head to the doorway, when Ryohei's little sister said her new friend's name was Tsuna. And there she was, her baby sister shaking the hand of the hyperactive boxing captain with two other girls around her age, who did not look hostile whatsoever. The ex-miko wasted no time and rushed to her little tuna-fish, enveloping her in a giant hug, and then proceed to spin the embarrassed girl around, "Oh, Tsu-chan! I'm so proud of you! You made new friends!"

~oo0oo~

Remember how Kagome mentioned that life in Namimori was uneventful? Well, it got a lot more interesting when Tsuna met the demon prefect of Namimori. Actually, scratch that, life became more interesting when Kagome first met Kyoya Hibari.

It was in the first month of middle school, and the prefect decided he will bite Ryohei to death for being a loud herbivore. Luckily, or unluckily depending on whose point of view, Kagome had been in the vicinity and blocked a hit that would have sent Ryohei to the hospital. Hibari had been stunned for a mere second, before a predatory look took over and the two raven haired teens proceeded to beat each other out. Since both teens had a reputation for fighting, one as the demon prefect and the other as the overprotective sister of dame-Tsuna, both ended up destroying the school's courtyard, which resulted in Nana scolding Kagome for being reckless and destroying school property (and the damage bills too).

Since they are in different schools, Kagome couldn't do anything about Tsuna's bully, so she retorted in sparring with Hibari occasionally to let out steam. And both overly strong teens didn't mind (other than Hibari's weird fetish of labelling people as 'herbivores' and Kagome as 'carnivore'), plus, they needed a good partner to train with. So far, the score between the two is still unsettled, as their fight is always disturbed by someone or the school bell.

While Kagome and Hibari's meeting was more or less a bloodbath, Tsuna's meeting with the prefect was almost… cute.

As always, Tsuna was once again a damsel in distress. It was still the start of her first year at Namimorichuu, and she somehow got lost and found herself alone in a hallway; and with her luck, some of her past bullies decided this was optimal time to corner her. The small girl huddled in a corner and tried to make seem as small as possible. When one of the bullies raised a fist to hit her, a cold voice cut through.

"Herbivores."

There, behind the bullies was the famous chairman of the disciplinary committee, draped in a black gakuen and a red armband. He narrowed his steel grey eyes at the bullies and at the small girl crying on the ground, and raised his tonfas. "For crowding, I will bite you all to death."

If Kagome's beating looked brutal, then Hibari's was a massacre, there was blood for god's sake! He was an executioner. Or would be for anyone else. To our favourite little brunet, Hibari was like a god send. Other than her sister, no one had physically beaten up her bullies. Perhaps it was a case of hero worship, but from that moment onward, Tsuna developed a small crush to the stoic prefect.

When Hibari finished "biting" the bullies, the older teen turned to the stupefied girl who was still on the ground, "Herbivore."

Snapping out of her reverie, Tsuna turned her still wet from crying face to her saviour. "H-hai?"

Hibari studied the tiny, fluffy herbivore that reminded him of a frightened little bunny. It was not obvious, but there were features of the herbivore that was similar to his occasional sparring partner. And if he remembers correctly, the raven haired girl mentioned she had a younger sister. "Are you related to that carnivore?"

'Carnivore?' Tsuna thought, 'does he mean some who's really strong? Like onee-chan?'

"Um, do you mean Kagome-nee?"

"Hn."

Then, he did a very un-Hibari-like action. The prefect had moved forward and ruffled Tsuna's fluffy brown hair, causing the brunet to blush. He simply couldn't help it. He had an embarrassing adoration to cute and fluffy animals, and the carnivore's little sister was the epitome of cute and fluffy. And then the prefect went back to patrolling the hallways, leaving a very flustered girl.

For the rest of the day, Tsuna had been red in the face. And at the dinner table, both Nana and Kagome stared at the youngest member of the household curiously.

"Mah, Tsu-chan, did something exciting happen today?" Nana asked her youngest child.

"W-what? No! Why would you ask that?"

Kagome poked her younger sister on the cheeks and said, "Well, your face was red for the whole day, and it still is."

"Ah!" Tsuna cried out and held her flaming face in embarrassment.

Nana giggled at her children's antics, "Could it be that Tsu-chan met a cute boy?"

Tsuna's face got even redder, "W-wha! H-how did y-you know? No! I m-mean, I d-don't like anyone!"

"Wah~ it is a boy isn't it~" Nana laughed, "How cute, my little Tsu-chan has a crush already. I wonder how your father would take it."

"Oh~" Kagome's eyes gleamed, "Tell me, do I know this boy?"

"Y-yes."

"Hm. Go-chan knows this boy? Is this boy a friend with her?" Nana inquired.

"… yes."

Kagome furrowed her brows, it's definitely not Ryohei, those two are like siblings, so that leaves… "Eh? Kyoya Hibari?"

Nod.

"Aw~ Tsu-chan likes Kyo-chan! That's adorable." Nana squealed. Obviously, Nana would also be the only one capable of calling Hibari 'Kyo-chan' and not get bitten to death.

Kagome merely blinked at her squealing mother and embarrassed sister. Was it her or does this remind her of a pair from her past life. Cute, innocent little girl; a deadly killer. 'Rin and Sesshomaru?!'

~oo0oo~

Despite the fact that Tsuna now has friends in school, the bulying didn't completely stopped and she still had a bad habit of skipping classes. So, it was no surprise when Kagome came home to Nana scolding Tsuna for skipping in the living room.

"Mou, Tsu-chan. Why did you skip again today?" Nana scolded her daughter, "What do you plan to do in the future?"

Tsuna pouted cutely at her mother, "Stop worrying about me, okaa-san."

"Even if you say so, I'm still worried. So, I got you a live-in home tutor today!"

"Wha? A home tutor?" Tsuna asked curiously.

"Mhm. I saw a flyer in the mail this morning." Nana pulled out a piece of paper and showed it to Tsuna. "I will raise your kid to be the leader of the next generation. Grade and subject doesn't matter."

"It looks like a scam." Tsuna deadpanned.

"I don't think so, after all your father sent this over."

'Otou-san? Does that mean Tsu-chan and I will get involved with the mafia now.' Kagome thought, as she sat down by her mother on the couch. "Tsu-chan, why don't you give it a try?"

"Not you too, onee-chan. It's not like I'll get better at anything with a tutor." Tsuna whined.

"Ciaossu."

A baby. A baby in a suit with really curly sideburns, a fedora and a green chameleon was standing in the Sawada's living room.

'What on earth? How come I didn't sense him coming?' Kagome thought. 'And why doesn't the age of his aura match his appearance?'

"I'm Reborn. The home tutor."

"S-see! Okaa-san I told you it was a scam! There's no way a baby could be a tutor!" Tsuna said nervously, something about the baby just screams dangerous.

The baby hit Tsuna on the head with a roll of newspaper that appeared out of nowhere (cough Leon cough). "You shouldn't talk like that to your tutor, dame-Tsuna."

"Oh~ How professional! Why don't you go and talk the details in Tsu-chan's room, I'll bring some snacks up later. Go-chan, make sure Tsuna goes and doesn't escape!" Nana said happily.

AN: I just had a thought for pairings… Tsuna get all numbers and Kagome get all letters. So, let's assume K is for Kagome. 00/18/27/69/100 and D/K/S/R/X. They each get a mass harem lol… No? Yes? Maybe? Keep it monogamous? Or is it monoandry in this case =) But I'm keeping Hibari with Tsuna for sure, these two are like my OTP from KHR

So far the votes are:

Xanxus (4), Harem (3), Mukuro (1), Reborn (1), Dino (1)

Hmm. I'm debating if I should make Gokudera a female or keep it as a male -.-' your thoughts?

And, if you are reading this from the computer, you'll realize that I have a new cover art for this story XD I made it myself and it's posted on my deviantart account too! The link is on my profile :3