Sorry for not updating! I had homework and I didn't have time. I had to make a mask for Carnival! This is the longest chapter I have ever written. If you have any suggestions or see any spelling errors please P.M. me or write it in the review area.
"Reborn. It looks like you've been called by Nono again." An Italian drinking liquor with his friend spoke.
"Must be tough being popular," His friend spoke, "going to Roma next? Venezia?"
"Giappone." A man's deep voice cut the silence.
"What? Nono must have made up his mind!" One exclaimed as they both turned to the young man in surprise.
"This is going to be a long journey." The man tilted his fedora down as he turned around and exited, "Tsuruhime…" He whispered softly as he looked to the darkening sky.
"Tsuna, PASS!" A fourteen year old boy threw a basketball at a frail looking kid. The ball made whistling sounds and smacked the boy straight in the face, luckily the glasses the boy was wearing didn't seem to break though.
"OW!" The boy shouted, clutching his face in agony, his team mates looking annoyed they roared, "Come on Tsuna!"
"Not again!" Another remarked in the same manner as the first boy.
"It's your fault we lost, you know!" The frail brunette's team crowded him, making him cower softly. "Sor… Sorry…"
So, can you do the cleaning?" The boy at the front handed Tsuna the broom, "We want to play during our precious After-School time!"
"Umm…" Tsuna backed away.
"We're counting on you! You can do it, Dame-Tsuna!" The group walked away chatting to themselves.
"Tests?" One said, as he was immediately answered, "Funked them all since he enrolled."
"Sports? The same person said, and was once again answered, "The team that Dame-Tsuna is on always loses!"
Once they left Tsuna smirked. "How easy they are to fool," He stated in a rather feminine voice. "To not even notice my true gender."
"Tsu-chan! I got a call from school again!" A woman's voice cut through the silence of the Sawada Household, "You came home in the middle of class again! Seriously! What are you going to do in the future?"
"I don't know…" Tsuna's voice answered.
"I'm not saying you have to go to a good high school, you know!" The door to Tsuna's room was slammed open as Sawada Nana came barging in. She looked around to see her son lying on the floor reading manga.
"You can live your entire life bored like you are right now, or live it happily." She swooned, "I want you to be feeling, "It's great to be alive!"
"Mama, that doesn't even make sense." Tsuna replied, huffing.
"Oh my…" Nana smiled, "Tsu-chan… A home tutor is coming today."
"Home tutor!?" Tsuna shouted.
"There was an interesting flyer in the mailbox," She held a normal piece of paper in her child's face as she began to read aloud, "I will raise your kid to be the new leader of the next generation, grade and subject don't matter. Reborn."
She laughed, "Isn't it great? I've never seen a promotion like this before!"
"It sounds like a scam!" Tsuna tried to convince his mother, as he became lost in thought, 'Reborn? But it can't be… no-'
Unfortunately his train of thought was cut off by an energetic mother.
"Oh, Tsu-chan, it's probably a tutor from a professional business school for young teenagers. I've wanted a teacher like this for you."
"I DON'T NEED A TUTOR!" Tsuna cried at his mother.
"Chaos." A deep voice cut through the mother-child argument.
"Eh?" Tsuna looked at the man who entered seeing a man half a head taller than himself. He wore a black fedora with a thick orange stripe running across the side. He had shiny onyx eyes, black hair, curly sideburns and a black suit with black boots and yellow long sleeved polo with a blue necktie underneath.
"Re…born?" He asked uncertainly.
"Well Baka-Tsuru, we meet again." He stated, smirking.
"Wha… WHAT!?" Tsuna, or Tsuru exclaimed with a furious blush.
"I arrived three hours early, but as a service I'll evaluate you now." He smirked once again, and then grabbed his waist and hauled him over his shoulder. Reborn then walked up the stairs gracefully as Tsuna started flailing around.
"Re-reborn! Let go!" Tsuna cried as his captor chuckled and dropped him to the ground. Tsuna looked around and noticed it was his room they were in.
"Baka-Tsuru, quit complaining." Tsuna immediately shut up as Reborn took out his Leon gun. "I'm not here to simply teach you math or how to play volleyball." He pointed Leon at Tsuna. "I am here to make you a 'Tenth Generation Mafia Boss.'"
"What?! Already? But I'm not even in High school!" He complained, as Reborn glared and stated. "But not now, I'm hungry."
Reborn exited his charge's room and left him all alone. "Why now? I thought I finally got over my silly crush."
Tsuna was walking to school slowly making sure he would arrive only seconds before class period started. On his way he saw two out of three of his best friends, Hana and Kyoko.
"Hana! Kyoko! Good morning!" Tsuna called out to them as they turned around to face him. "Good morning, Tsu-ch… Tsu-kun!" Kyoko responded while Hana just smiled politely, like she always did.
"Who's that?" Kyoko pointed to the man standing behind Tsuna. He looked around and looked up at Reborn's face. "My Home-Tutor, his name is Reborn."
"Ah! It's nice to meet you, Reborn-san!" Both Kyoko and Hana bowed, the latter had a deep blush on her face. "Why are you wearing a suit, Reborn-san?" Kyoko asked once again.
"Because, I'm in the Mafia." Reborn said truthfully, but Kyoko being Kyoko she thought he was joking and she laughed, "That's so cool!"
Hana, who was still blushing, looked to her watch and nudged Kyoko. "It's time to go Kyoko, or we'll be late." Kyoko looked at the dark haired girl, "I see, thank you Hana. Tsu-ch… Kun, we're going to eat cake this weekend, would you like to join us?"
Tsuna hesitated before replying, "Sorry Kyoko… I can't…" Kyoko looked a bit saddened by this but her smile came right back, "Okay, join us next time, we'll be waiting!"
As his two friends left he gazed at them, "I wish I could just openly admit that I wanted to go…"
"You… You're rather Tsundere aren't you?" Reborn asked his student with a knowing voice.
"I-I-I! I am s-s-so n-n-not Tsu-Tsundere!" Tsuna argued back, "I just… don't feel worthy to be friends with Kyoko or Hana, even more so because they're popular as the School Idol and the Second most Scariest Student."
"It is finally time. Die." Reborn stated, as Tsuna replied with a rather intelligent, "Eh?" Reborn pointed his Leon gun at the shorter boy and fired at point blank giving him no time to dodge.
'I'm going to die… What a waste, if I had the will of the dead I could probably tell Kyoko and Hana that I really wanted to come... I should've told them... With my dying will.' Was what Tsuna thought the moment the Hitman shot him with his green gun in the forehead, it was painless and quick, or so he assumed.
"REBORN!" Tsuna shouted, lacking his vest and tie, he jumped up sporting a dark orange flame on his forehead, "I am going to tell them my true feelings!" He shouted, a determined look on the teen's face.
"WHERE IS SASAGAWA KYOKO AND KUROKAWA HANA?!" Tsuna shouted as he started running in the direction of Namimori Middle. "Aren't you happy, Baka? I had them modified so you didn't lose your dignity." Reborn stated after disappearing into nothing.
Meanwhile, Tsuna was running around the hill and crashed into a middle aged man on a motorcycle, not even in the right state of mind to say sorry, he was plummeted over the fence and coincidently right in front of where Kyoko and her boyfriend, Mochida Kensuke, the captain of the Kendo Club and two years her senior. He had dark spiky hair and was wearing the Namimori Middle uniform and a shinai strapped across his back.
"KYOKO-SAN! I CAN GO WITH YOU TO EAT CAKE!" Tsuna shouted, his flame standing as bright as can be as Kyoko smiled happily, "That's great Tsu-c…kun! Hana and I will meet you at the front gate after school."
"FREAK!" Mochida-sempai shouted, "How the hell did you survive from that fall? It's impossible!"
"Bye, Tsu-cha…kun!'' Kyoko waved leaving Tsuna alone with Mochida, "Hey Kyoko! Wait!"
Mochida looked back at Tsuna, "You've got to be kidding me! You Dame-Tsuna!" The dark haired boy ran after his girlfriend, both never seemed to notice the flame on his head.
'What did I just say?' Tsuna asked himself, and was interrupted by Reborn, "The Dying Will time lasts five minutes, after five minutes you revert back to normal."
And true to his word, the orange flame resting on Tsuna's forehead sizzled out. "I… REBORN! WHAT DID YOU DO!?"
"I shot you with a dying will bullet." Reborn pulled out a shiny yellow bullet, "This is the Dying Will bullet, the person shot with this bullet will be resurrected with their Dying Will after dying."
"What? How is that even possible!?" Tsuna asked the older man who chuckled in return. "Your Dying Will is based on what you regret before you die. So a 'I should've tell them.' will become 'I will tell them!'
"So, then what would happen if I didn't regret something?" The brunette asked, watching the hitman warily, "I am an Assassin."
"Does that mean I would've died?!" Tsuna jumped up in surprise, "Yes Baka, didn't Maman explain to you?"
"She might of… I got a temporary amnesia last year when I tripped, I don't remember some things, sorry."
In Tsuna's room, he was very confused, when he tripped and fell over it hurt, a lot. So then when he hit the bike why did it not hurt? "Because you had Dying Will." Reborn stated.
"What do you mean?!" Tsuna shrieked, pushing himself up onto his bed, "Dying Will means your body is in a start were all safety switches are off. So in exchange for risking your life by breaking your limits, you can utilize amazing strength." Reborn explained, "I get it! That's potential strength!"
Tsuna frowed before shouting, "Of course I don't get it! I have never heard of a Dying Will bullet!"
"Dying Will bullets are a specialty passed through the Vongola Famiglia," Reborn continued. "Vongola Famiglia?"
He ignored him, "But the most Qualified of the 10th generation, Enrico, was shot in a feud," Reborn held up a picture of a thirty year old man dead with a gun wound. "The young No. 2 Matsumo was drowned," Reborn once again help up a picture, this time with a drowning teenager. "The favourite child, Federico, was reduced to bone." Reborn held up a crude illustration of bones.
"That drawing sucks." Reborn glared at his student, "So you're the only candidate to be the 10th Generation Boss of the Vongola Famiglia."
"What? But I'm Japanese! Not some kid from Italy!" Tsuna shot back, his face was confused. "The Vongola's Famiglia's 1st Boss retired early and crossed over to Japan. That is your Great-great-great-grandfather, so, you are part of the Vongola Bloodline and a legitimate boss canidate." Tsuna looked fearful and confused as he spoke, "What are you taking about? I've never heard of this."
Reborn looked at Tsuna and with a knowing voice said, "You already know, don't you? But nevermind that, Tsuruhime, please enlighten me with the knowledge why you are crossdressing."
Tsuna, or in actuality, Tsuru, bit her lip. "I… The bullying got worse… They found out my intelligence and decide that they should teach me a lesson…" Tsuru looked down, her eyes brimming with tears, "I promised Maman I wouldn't hurt anyone… but… they threatened to hurt Hana and Kyoko." Tears fell from her eyes and softly rolled down her cheeks, "So I snapped and they're all in comas, even up to this day. All five of them, in comas and barely alive because I was angry and couldn't keep my emotions in check."
Reborn hugged her close to his chest as she cried out her frustrations from the last five years, she cried for what seemed to her like hours but in reality, only ten minutes. "You don't have to say the rest, if you don't want to." Reborn whispered in her ear gently.
"I'm fine," Tsuru sniffed as her small fingers wiped the tears from her eyes. "So once I got into Middle School I changed my records and made myself disappear from the face on the earth as Sawada Tsuruhime, Now I'm Sawada Tsunayoshi, a fourteen year old boy with no friends and absolutely horrible at everything. I even wear these fake glasses to make everyone forget who I was."
Tsuru sniffled as she let go of Reborn, "Thank you, for listening…" Reborn stood up and opened the door, before closing the door behind he spoke, "Anytime, Tsuna." Tsuru smiled, as Reborn called her by her alias, Sawada Tsunayoshi. Tsuru felt happier as she rested her eyes and fell into a deep sleep.
Tsuru walked into her classroom feeling worried, as her suspicions were true. Her classmates were mocking her.
"Here comes Dame-Tsuna!" A fat classmate jumped up laughing, another one said, "Confession of love!" Some other student yelled out, "We heard from Mochida-sempai!"
"They say you were rejected violently." A lanky, dark haired teen who was next to Kyoko speaks out. "What are you talking about?" Tsuru asks them, confused. She had no idea what was going on or what they were talking about. "Playing dumb, huh? Dame-Tsuna!"
A few upperclassmen walked into the classroom, they were wearing Kendo gear and corner Tsuru. "You can't go home yet, Mochida-sempai is waiting for you in the Dojo!" Tsuru was lifted up and heaved over to the dojo, the members of the Kendo team had noticed Tsuru was rather light and slender for a boy but shook it off as their imagination.
Meanwhile, all the students heard a rumor that Mochida Kensuke was fighting against Dame-Tsuna for Sasagawa Kyoko's dignity. Hana and Kyoko both knew this was completely false and didn't know what Mochida was talking about.
"Kyoko, we must go watch the match!" Hana told the school idol, who smiled and replied, "Yeah, I really think we should support Tsu-… Tsuna-Kun because sh-he didn't do anything wrong." Kyoko covered up her mistakes smoothly.
"By the way, Kyoko, you should really break up with Mochida, I saw him in town with another girl and they were all intimate." Hana advised, pulling Kyoko's hand and running to the dojo to see the match.
"There you are you Stalker!" Mochida pointed at Tsuru with the tip of the bamboo sword, shinai, at her face. "God may forgive a worthless being like you, but I won't! I shall smite you!"
"I don't get it, what's happening?" Tsuru said truthfully, as Mochida ignored her and shouted, "Don't worry, It's an easy duel, even an idiot like you can understand!" Mochida smirked and continued, "You're a novice at Kendo! So if you can get a point off of me then you win! If you can't, then I win!"
'To get a point I just have to hit him right? Easy!' Tsuru thought, knowing how much Mochida underestimated her. 'But I can't blow my cover, not now, not ever.'
"The prize is, of course, SASAGAWA KYOKO!" Mochida exclaimed pointing behind him with his shinai in Kyoko and Hana's direction, "Pri… Prize!?" Kyoko exclaimed as Hana commented, "What a jerk, you really should dump him."
At that moment, time stopped, Tsuru was fuming. 'How dare he? Treating humans like possessions, he should shouldn't exist in this world!' Tsuru forgot all her reasons why she shouldn't kill him and was ready to kick him to the stairway of heaven.
Mochida thought his plan would never fail him. He intended to give Dame-Tsuna armour and shinai too heavy for one person to carry. He also made sure that the judge was one of the Kendo Club's members so they wouldn't raise the red flag for Dame-Tsuna.
In short Mochida had no way of losing to a scrawny boy that looked like a cute gir-… A cute girl!? Mochida looked over to Tsuna and looked at his face. Even with glasses Tsuna looked like a doll once examined carefully, clear porcelain skin, soft plush lips and large brown eyes. He had a petite figure and small, thin hands, the only downside to his ethereal beauty was his brown hair that always stuck up in a gravity deifying way. He was more gorgeous then Kyoko, and she is the School Idol!
'Snap out of it, Mochida!' He reprimanded himself, 'Dame-Tsuna can't be beautiful! He's Dame-Tsuna! It's just a trick of the light! A trick of the light!'
"This is your armor," A Kendo member offered Tsuru a set of armour that clearly was too heavy for even two people. Tsuru ignored them and passed them, she grabbed the shinai from the other members and noticed it was also too heavy for a standard one.
'Playing dirty, huh? Mochida!' She thought as she dragged the shinai across the floor, not bothering to hold it properly as it would waste her energy.
"Only an idiot would go in a Kendo match without armour!" Mochida laughed, Tsuru ignored him and continued walking forward towards him. "Do you think I'll hold back!? Take this you stalker!"
Mochida swung his shinai down to Tsuru's head in a men. Mochida was too slow and instead of feeling of contact he was met with an empty space.
"Where's Dame-Tsuna!" Someone yelled, this sparked conversations all around the audience.
"So I get a forfeit win! Kyoko is mine!" Mochida let go of his shinai and saw a shadow above his head. He looked up and saw Tsuru above him, aiming for a hit. "Die." Tsuru whispered to Mochida.
"What!?" Mochida shouted as Tsuru hit him on his head hard enough to give him a concussion.
Everyone was silent before Tsuru glared at the referee, who jolted at shakily raised a red flag up. "Red!" He called, close to tears.
"The… Flag… The flag was raised!" Someone from the audience shouted, everyone swarmed Tsuru, shouting things like, "You actually won!" and, "I have newfound respect for you!" and, "It was crazy, but you looked great!"
Tsuru looked at them and glared, everyone backed away thinking the same thing, 'Scary!' Once a path was cleared Tsuru stalked out, glaring daggers into everything in front of her and for the rest of the day no one tried to come close to her, except Hibari Kyoya, who was unaffected by her glare.
"Tsu-ch…kun!" Kyoko shouted, trying to get the brunette's attention, "Thank you!"
Tsuru turned around and her glare disappeared when she saw her two girlfriend's faces. "Hana, Kyoko!"
"Tsu-kun, thank you for fighting for me, even if you did nothing wrong. I spoke to Mochida-Sempai and we broke up."
"Kyoko." Tsuru started, "It's fine that's what friends are for, so… how about that cake we said we were going to eat?"
All three of the girls smiled, but before they started walking to buy cake, Hana interrupted, "We can't eat cake with you like this, they might get the wrong idea."
Tsuru thought for a minute a replied, "You're right…" She looked at her friends who had large smirks on their faces. A shiver ran down Tsuru's back, and she knew something was going to happen. "Never mind… Can we just buy take-out?"
Hana and Kyoko smiled sweetly. Locking Tsuru between them, they marched to Kyoko's house to get a proper disguise for their cross dressing friend.
Tsuru screamed.
Roma: Rome in Italian
Venezia: Venice in Italian
Giappone: Japan in Italian
Tsundere: A Japanese character development process that describes a person who is initially cold and even hostile towards another person before gradually showing their warm side over time.
Kendo: Way of the Sword. A modern Japanese Martial Art, which descended from Kenjutsu (The Technique of the Sword) and uses bamboo swords and protective armour.
Shinai: A bamboo weapon used for practice and competition in Kendo representing a Japanese Sword.
Men: One of the five strikes in Kendo (along with tsuki, dō, hidari kote and migi kote.) It is a long slashing stroke that falls on the centre-line of the head.
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