Well, there will be a time that I have to tackle this. Yeah, all humor and all, but we also need fluff in this part at some point. I am not surprise if you people pointed out that there is SELDOM a RebornOC oneshot, let alone a fluff. Not really rare since there are some but...
Anyways, the most I read about him from the others were the best, and I mostly put the Mafioso in the humorous side so, why not, give the duo (Reborn & Artemis) a break. As well as because Verde nearly spliced me with his Mine for bashing him every time I put the two... well, not really. *cough*
Consider this a RebornOC drabble, then, but mostly it's how the two (Reborn and Artemis/Wanya) ponders much. There's also a TsunaOC if you squint REAL hard. LOL. What am I saying? And prolly the history as of why Sora has Wanya and... why didn't Wanya stayed with Reborn instead. *cough*
*epic PHAILED*
Rated for baby brutality... though, naturally, we ignore that since it's KHR. Then again, why am I saying this again?
It would be pretty nice, though. Messages would stop Verde from using Mine and her cannon arms from hitting the poor, unfortunate soul (AKA Me) so yeah.
Enjoy the (slight) Fluffness. Mostly on Artemis's part as Wanya, but there is also from Artemis as the scientist.
Sky Chord -To you, the one has became an adult-
"I know there are things more important to me
than becoming an adult.
But I'll be growing up the whole time;
I'm trying to figure out what they are.
You said we can't stay like this forever
I know... so let's take that first step."
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Swinging her legs to and fro, the blonde-haired baby sat idly onto her companion's shoulder as she walked around the corner with a school bag in on hand and an umbrella in the other, her light-auburn hair swaying a bit in each step. The baby heard her hum a small tune to herself, despite the light drizzle, as she blinked at the teenager she was perched upon.
"That's quite a catchy tune," She chirped, adjusting her steeped hat. "I was getting sleepy anyway with hearing the pitter-patter of the rain, to begin with." She said, stifling a small, baby yawn as an emphasis.
"I was just bored, that's all." The teenager replied as she turned her head to watch her small companion stifle another yawn. "Geez, of all the things, you could have just stayed back home and sleep if you're that bored!"
"And miss the chance to mess with that baby-companion your tuna friend has? No way!"
The teen only shook her head at the retort of the kid as she wondered about how in the world she had picked up such a peculiar toddler in the first place.
"WAAAAHH~!!! HELP~!!"
Coming home from school, and apparently tired from the hustle and bustle of school life, young Ichiroku Sora skated herself on her way back to her apartment flat where she would decide to hold onto her homework till later evening and just take a few minutes cat-nap when she heard a young, squeaky plea of help from out of the blue. Looking around, she noticed that there was no one so she presume it was nothing and went on. Unfortunately, just as she was about to turn to the corner curb, a streak of gray-and-yellow zoomed in pass her, nearly toppling her off, to be followed by a bark which did the job and made the teenage fell onto her behind.
"Yeouch~! Ugh, why me?!" Sora groaned as she heard another 'Help' once more coming from the direction the two streaks passed. Being the 'good, little girl' that she is, the female walked towards where a baby was clinging onto the tree while a gray-colored dog was barking at it as if some kind of a stuff toy. Well, come to think of it, the teen thought, the baby DID look like a stuff toy with that witch's garb and all... well, her own thoughts.
"Hey, 'neechan," The baby wailed, waving her arms towards the teen. "Mind helping me out here? The dog thinks I'm food bait or something!"
The only facial expression Sora could muster for now was of a 'what the heck, the baby's talking~!?' but helped the young one nevertheless as she shooed the dog away by flailing her bag towards the mongrel. "There," the auburn-haired female said, crossing her arms. "Dog's gone, so you should be safe. Now run alone and go home before your parents start wondering where you are." Without second glance, she turned around and went straight back to her place.
"Mom, I'm home!"
"Oya~!"
"..."
Instead of her mother greeting her, however, as soon as Sora opened the door, she saw the same baby from a while ago, waving towards her while holding a broom as she blinked her beady-teal optics towards the older female and waved her broom as if it was an extension of her arm.
"I'm staying here since I have no place to go, so please take care of me Sky-chan!"
Did she just.... call her 'Sky-chan'?
"I'm Wanya, by the way, call me that!"
"I always wonder how in the world you knew things before I even say it." Sora mumbled as she arrived at the said place. "Well, here we are." She chirped, but then flinched a bit. "You can get off now, Wanya."
"Aw, but I wanna stay some more!"
"Geoff or else!"
"A little longer, Pweese?"
"Off. Now!"
This was one of the usual things happening between the young genius-baby, Wanya, and the auburn-haired teenager, Sora. Yep, pretty normal stuff.
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"Honestly, you should start studying, Tsuna, you're lagging behind!"
Flipping the pages of a book in hand, Sora gave a 'tut tut' tone while skimming through the notes Sawada Tsuna had made for the past year he had stayed in Namimori. True, Sora stays in a different section from her friend, but that didn't stop her from helping the guy cope with studying, if Gokudera's not available. Then again, she must be asking for trouble, seeing that there is only seldom time the Italian guy and Sora would go along together in a civilized manner (and by Civilized Tsuna meant yes-or-no-replies... otherwise, the competition for his attention is like those of Haru's and Gokudera's, sheez).
"Reborn," Lifting her round spectacles perched onto the female's face (despite the spectacles, she has a clear, 20/20, vision thank you very much), Sora faced towards the tux-wearing baby as a slight frown was seen onto her face. And, yes, she is aware of the mafia and all, but that won't stop her from beating the snots out of Tsuna for lacking enthusiasm for studying. "You said you're his home tutor, right?" Her voice coated with the same, sweet tone (but everyone who knows her knew what it means, namely the aforementioned Sawada Tsuna and Wanya)
"Yes I am, Sora-chan."
"THEN WHY DIDN'T YOU SUPERVISE HIM ON TAKING DOWN NOTES?"
Reborn could almost swore he saw the witch-like baby snicker at the sight somewhere in her perch as he calmly ignored the shout and replied as if she was just talking back in a normal tone.
"I assure you I am doing what I can to do just that!" He was surprise, however, when he was lifted up from his place and came face-to-face with a less-than-happy (or, to Tsuna's case, sadist-mode) Sora, mouth forming that ever-so-wicked smile the brunette teen was oh-so familiar about. Reborn might be the best Mafioso there is, but he was unexpected that someone like her does not even get affected by his charm, charisma, or even his threats.
To him, that attitude somewhat reminds him of Artemis when she was still in her adult form. Oh good times, he thought in a sarcastic manner.
"Well," Her voice sounded sweet, but everyone knew how poisonous it is; as Gokudera complained, like 'damn Bianchi's poison cooking, times ten'. "I don't give a damn if you're the strongest baby or whatnot, you're still a baby in my eyes and when I say do better, do better." Glancing towards the bed, she pulled out her own notebook and hurl it on the said direction, hitting squarely at whoever was in there, though everyone knows from the gray 'thing' that fell on the ground and gave a sharp groan who it was. "That means you too~!" She barked which is not a pretty good sight to most.
"Ow~!" Wanya whined, flailing her arms that were hidden from the oversize gray cloak. "Meanie!" Sora could only smirk in reply, hands crossed, and apparently not guilty at bantering at the two suppose-to-be-adults in their own game. Greatest my ass!
"Er... Sora-chan?"
He could have died right this instant. Great, now Reborn's going to give him hell for this.
"Yes, Tuna?"
"Aren't you a little bit... harsh?"
After a few shouts, and another whack in the head courtesy from the auburn-haired female and her ever-so-infamous paper fan (A lot have wonder where in the world she pulled the damn, evil thing out no matter if she had brought a bag or not), Tsuna was already taking down notes about his homework via Sora's notes (he found out a long time ago how 'eager' she is on taking down those darn lectures) as Reborn and Wanya were left on the bed, talking.
Oh, yes, they knew better than to piss the already-piss-as-hell teenage girl who disregards the fact that one of them is a hitman who can kill anyone in a mere second and the other is the straight-A female genius who can create an antimatter with preciseness. Yes, Sora just disregarded those facts, and is damn proud of it!
"How can you stand with a girl such as her?" Reborn asked the female baby as she fiddled with the steeped hat with her hands.
"Actually," Wanya's voice changed from its usual child-like whine to a tone of complete professional. "I was wondering why you decide to tolerate her actions." Swinging her legs dangling at the edge of the bed, she couldn't help but answer the baby Mafioso back with that tone as she returned it once more with a child-like one suitable for her current body. "Yeah, she's a real pain and noisy, but it could be worse." Yeah, she thought from the back of her mind, as worse as seeing her own self through that teenager that's what. "Sora's an interesting character, don't you think?"
"Yes, verily so." Reborn agreed, nodding his head as he watched the two teenagers study (or, more likely, the female scolding the male) with his beady optics while absently petting his lizard companion, Leon. "And she seems to be such a sweet girl when I first laid my eyes on her."
Wanya, unfortunately, gave a snicker at the hitman's comment as she turned her head to face the small Mafioso and gave a slight chirp. "Apparently, your hutches are not always accurate!" She teased, earning her an ignored gesture from Reborn. "Somehow, though, I wonder if she had that split personality or something."
"Why so?"
"Well," Taking a pause as she observe the female teen, Wanya gave an all-knowing smile as she voice her own opinion as if she had observed long enough to conclude her own theory. "I notice that she only acts with such attitude to people whom she associates very well, like Gokudera or Yamamoto or those people Tsuna is associated with, I even believe that Kyoko-chan and Haru-chan seems to know the female's brashness." Tilting her head to the side, the young baby went on. "However, when she encounters people she barely known, she seems to have that cheerful persona." Reborn seem to nod in approval at her statement. "And, what's more interesting, she doesn't seem to faze much about the mafia business. Granted she freaked out when I told her about it and who I really am, but I never seen her change her outlook after that, suppose she keep treating me as Wanya rather than as Artemis."
Reborn pondered about her statement as well; he was the one who suggested the baby to tell the whole thing to the female teen since she have known too much, but when he saw how she treated Wanya still, he was wondering if she was holding back something. Of course, he saw a great potential towards the female, so he decided to add her to Tsuna's family. What was unexpected, however, is that after he told her who he is and what he does, as well as everything about the mafia-business including the Vongola, all he received was a skeptic look from her and then, to his surprise, her attitude still did not change. Suppose, if people heard that he is from the mafia, they would laugh at him. But Sora was different; she regarded- and even respected- the fact that he is a Mafioso and that, at any time, he can kill her, but it seems she had this outlook of treating the person not for their status but for who they really are. He don't know if it was a unique trait for her (which, he noted, had made her eligible to hold the Dying Will Sky Flames for some reason) or it's just how she was raised, but Reborn was more than amazed at these facts about her disregarding people's status and decided point-on to let her join in Tsuna's mafia family.
Of course, there is the fact of Tsuna not wanting to involve innocent people once more. It was bothersome, the baby Mafioso thought, but he already made up his mind about Sora.
"She's a very good asset in the future," Reborn spoke, tipping his fedora a bit. "So try to keep an eye on her."
Instead of an agreement, though, he heard a different answer from the witch-baby.
"I reckon let her keep watch of herself," A slight frown was seen from his face. "I'm not her babysitter; the only reason I stayed in Sora's house is because you're already staying at that Tsuna-person." He was slight confused on her statement, but he dare not show it. Unfortunately, Wanya can read Reborn like a book now since, honestly, the two had been together longer as adults when as babies. "Although you're correct about the asset part, I don't think she'll find the idea interesting to say the least if she hears about it."
"Tell me the truth, Artemis," The baby Mafioso spoke, looking at Wanya earnestly. "Do you really want to return to your adult self?" He could tell she was debating on the answer as she looked down, hands fiddling onto the rim of her steeped hat before she could answer back.
"Sometimes," She spoke in a soft tone. "I wonder if I'm just doing this for you Acrobaleno. The first time I try the invention, it backfires which cause me to turn into this form and gain an almost-similar curse as Lal Mirch." Blinking her teal optics, she went on. "But, sometimes, I think being a baby again is fun since people around would not get too serious about me and they would sometimes talk lightly with me. I really hate it sometimes if the conversation would border into something dark and brooding, which I always notice whenever I listen to your conversation when we were still in our adult bodies, but," Looking at the two teens, a small smile was seen from her face. "But I suppose, sooner or later, we have to grow up. Since I don't have a curse, I think the ray's effect would wear off in a few years and it would able me to grow up back to my normal age by ten years or so, but for now," A definite smile was seen from the child's face as the baby hitman knew what it means when she faced him once more with the look as if she had just gotten a realization. "For now, I'll stay as Wanya until I grow up. And if I do grow up, then, at least, I have memories as Wanya even though I'm already back as Artemis at that time."
There are times that he doesn't like the curse laid onto him, Reborn pondered at one point. Sometimes, the curse prevented him to do fully what he does best, restricting him to some actions and even going as far as not being taken serious. But he noticed that Artemis, despite the fact that she wanted to find a way to help the Acrobaleno break the curse, made an outlook that if she's a kid then she's a kid. He was bothered that she doesn't seem too annoyed all the time that normal people don't take her seriously due to her physical structure, but it somehow reassured her that she still held wise-ness beyond her years. He thought that maybe he, Reborn, had grown up too fast or maybe he had never experienced childhood much. He barely had memories in his childhood, to be honest, and surely so does Artemis. So, he thought, maybe this is why she is enjoying this to the fullest, decided upon herself that Artemis, for the time being, would be Wanya; Sora's baby companion and Reborn's 'tormentor' (He knew she self-proclaimed herself as that, but what can he do, even as Artemis she would have a one-sided bantering with him).
"You know?"
Snapping back to his reverie, the small Mafioso looked once more towards his counterpart as he watched her tilt her head.
"Sometimes, I wish we stay like this forever; Kids seem to think nothing but having fun and enjoying life."
He knew she always have a drawback- that's what makes Artemis from retaining her old self despite being Wanya most of the time.
"But I suppose, sooner or later, we're bound to grow up. It's ok, though, we'll just take it one step at a time."
If there is anything I ought to say about this.... I am telling you, Reborn is trying to kill me for doing this for him. Haha, it's not actually a round three, more like a ponder between to adults-turned-to-babies if ever they should turn back into adults or stay like this. Of course being a baby has it perks, and it clearly shows it here, ne? Muu, I even wish I wanted to be a baby again, but then they would just freak out when they noticed that this said baby can talk like mad. Haha.
Er, not really.
Are you people really into the RebornArtemis one? Because just tell me if you like to see more of this two... I might even tempt to actually make a story about this... but I'll just stick to drabbles.
Haha, Dual-personality Sora? I gotta make this! This is only a glimpse on WHO Sora really is to Tsuna... and probably a glimpse on the female's personality. I love characters with twist! *cough*
The song I used is 'Sky Chord ~Otona ni Naru Kimi he~' by Tsuji Shion from the anime Bleach. Darn, the Bleach takes a long time to finish the fight, but the songs are getting better! Haha! I do not own anything except the drabbles, my own characters, and the likes. If I do own the Reborn Universe, I am God and I shall make Collonello my right-hand angel-man. *cough*
Now, if you excuse me....
