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DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT own Katekyo Hitman Reborn. I only own Alana, Karasu, and my new character who I will not name. (You seriously thought I was going to ruin the surprise?)

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Warriors Don't Cry

Chapter 6: Bad Day – Karasu

Since the day I first entered school 'til yesterday, I have never gotten a grade below ninety five percent. I was always one of the top students in the class and was, for a good reason, labeled the "goody-goody" of the grade.

Well, imagine the shock I had when I received a twenty percent on my math test.

"Sawada-san, I'm a bit disappointed that you got a twenty percent. Do better next time." The teacher clicked his tongue me as I mourned over my terrible grade.

"Did you hear that? Bookworm Karasu actually got a twenty percent?"

"What do you think happened?"

"Probably slacked off."

"Maybe she didn't get enough sleep?"

You know the feeling when you fall off of your perch on the pinnacle of the mountain and fall into the deepest part of the sea?

I'm experiencing that right now.

"Um, Karasu? You know it's just one grade. It's not like your whole life is going to be ruined or anything." Alana said, trying to be comforting but failing. I looked at her shoulder and pointed. "Why the hell are you wearing a prefect badge? You're only fourteen, you know."

"It's a Junior Prefect Badge!" Alana said proudly. "I got accepted into the Disciplinary Committee as a member and a student of Hibari's!"

I sighed. "Good job."

"…So the grade was that bad."

"Yeah, it's my worst so do you mind letting me sulk for a little bit? I'm experiencing a little shock and disappointment." I moaned and buried my head into my arms. Alana patted my back. "Hang in there old pal. Alana's got you."

I remained moody and depressed for the rest of the day. Even Takeshi had the sense to leave me alone. During lunch, Tsuna awkwardly approached me and sat down a good two feet away from me. He sweatdropped at the sight of me brooding in my little cloud of doom. Hey, Alana had her mushroom growing moments, why can't I have my own sulking moments too?

"Karasu, I heard that you're feeling bad because of a bad test grade." He began awkwardly, "But don't feel too bad! You're smart so I bet you won't get that kind of grade again!" Tsuna finished encouragingly. "No one's expecting you to be perfect."

I nodded slowly. "Yeah, I know that. It's just my first time getting something this bad, you know?"

Tsuna scooted closer so he could pat my back for comfort. "Believe me. You're far better than I'll ever be, sis. I'm no-good Tsuna, remember?"

"No-good Tsuna who's going to be the future Boss of the Vongola Family." I corrected. Tsuna paled and waved his hands frantically. "No! I don't want to be the boss of the mafia! I don't want anything to do with it!"

Something tells me that he said this line more than once.

"When Reborn decides something, you have no choice but to follow." I said ominously, "It's better if you accept the facts and try harder to survive. I learned that the hard way when he dumped me onto my three sensei's."

"Hiii! But I don't' want to!" Tsuna wailed pitifully. I shook my head, temporarily recovering from my depression. "If you keep an attitude like that, you won't be able to survive under his training."

Shaking his head as if to dispel the very thought of death, Tsuna grinned at me. "See? You better than me in so many ways so don't feel bad about one little mistake. I bet you'll get a hundred on the next test."

(After lunch)

"I can't believe I didn't get a hundred in the science test!" I groaned in misery as I gripped my test. I got a thirty percent this time. What the hell is wrong with me today?

And why did Tsuna jinx me?

As if hearing my accusing thoughts, Tsuna shrunk into his seat and avoided my gaze.

I buried my face into my arms again and filled the whole classroom with my moody aura. I could tell that it made everyone a bit uncomfortable but I didn't really care. I failed two times today.

Hopefully, my day wouldn't get worse.

"What is this?" Tsuna shrieked.

Alana didn't walk home with us because she had a "play date" with her new Disciplinary Committee friends. Bet it involved beating someone up. I knew she would be fine due to how they were treating her. What made them think that she was a child to be cooed over?

I stared blankly at the group of mafia men standing in front of our house, still in a bad mood from what happened today. "Tsuna, are you seeing what I'm seeing or am I finally hallucinating like sensei said I would."

Tsuna sweatdropped. "What kind of sensei tells their student that?"

I shrugged.

"Never mind. Karasu, do you mind…?"

I walked up toward one of the random men and tapped him on the shoulder. He flinched when he saw my moody and dark aura but stayed where he was. "Excuse me, sir. Do you mind letting me and my brother through?"

"You can't." The man stated bluntly, making me twitch. My dark cloud of moodiness grew and it was obvious that I was irritated. The man took a nervous step back but didn't change his mind. "I can only let Sawada Family Members pass through right now."

I gritted my teeth but forced a grin. "Well, isn't it a good thing that I'm Sawada Karasu and that's my brother Sawada Tsunayoshi over there?"

At my statement, they all stared at Tsuna in shock. "What? That's him?"

"Yes, yes, can you please let us through now? I'm having a really bad day." I said impatiently, pushing through the black suited body masses. I dragged Tsuna along with me. Both of us went upstairs into his room. "Reborn! This is all your doing, isn't it?"

When we reached his room, I slapped my forehead. Of course there would be more men in black in Tsuna's room. Luck was spitting on my face today so how could I have thought differently? "Reborn, what is the meaning of this?"

"Ciaossu, Karasu, Tsuna. We've been waiting for you."

"Yo, Vongola Boss," An unfamiliar voice sounded from a spinning chair that was faced away from us, "I traveled from afar to pay you and your sister a visit."

"I'm…"

The chair spinned around to reveal…

…A blonde pretty boy

"…The Cavallone Family's Tenth Boss, Dino."

For a long moment, Dino's eyes locked with Tsuna's and mine. Then, he laughed. "He's no good!"

I think I heard my vein pop.

"You have no aura," He said to Tsuna directly, "The way you present yourself is terrible. You don't seem ambitious, either."

*Pop**Pop*

"There's no sense of anticipation."

My fists clenched angrily.

"You look unlucky, too."

Oh look, the whole world turned red. Now how did that happen, I wonder?

"Your legs are short." Reborn added, momentarily breaking me from my angry state. I threw an incredulous look at Reborn's way. Speak for himself! He's a baby!

"Your disposition to be a Boss is zero."

That statement reminded me that I was angry with him. His subordinates laughing along to his statement as if it was a joke added wood to the already burning fire. I cracked my knuckles, drawing his attention to me. I calmly walked up to him and grabbed him by the collar. The two men standing guard strung into action and restrained me but I kept hold of his collar. Dino locked gazes with me and waved his men away. I grudgingly let go of his collar but remained glaring.

"You got guts insulting my brother like that in front of me, Cavallone." I growled lowly. "After making Reborn leave me in that hellhole with demons for teachers so he could tutor your sorry ass, I was thinking that you would show some manners while you're under my roof. Especially when I'm in a terrible mood today!"

Hey, I was pissed.

Tsuna shivered. "S-Scary!"

Dino lifted his hands up in defense. "I was only stating the truth!"

I glared daggers at him to give him the message that the statement didn't help one bit. "To think that a rude guy like you is sitting in my house, drinking tea as if you own the place, makes me sick."

"Hey! Don't speak to Boss in that tone!" One of the men snapped at me but regretted it when I whirled around to glare at them. "Well tell your Boss to stop picking on a boy who's obviously younger and less experienced than him! He's my brother and my blood and I won't stand by watching a stranger insult him!"

"Sorry." Dino apologized sincerely, "I meant no harm when insulting your brother, Karasu-chan. Especially when it was partially my fault that you had to go through all of that. Forgive me?"

He was sincere and I knew that he was sorry about that incident, not about my hellish training. I nodded tiredly and calmed down. "No, you couldn't have controlled it. You weren't even aware that I existed when it happened. I'm sorry too that I snapped like that. I'm very stressed today. Truce?" I offered, holding out my hand.

Dino gratefully took it. "Truce."

Reborn sipped his tea. "Oh and Karasu, I was already tutoring Dino to become a mafia boss way before I met you. I only told you that I needed to begin training with him as an excuse to leave."

Oh

Well that was a bit awkward.

"Why did you do that?" I yelled at the baby. "I've hated him since then until today before I met him because you told me that!"

"You were annoying."

Dino laughed and patted my head good-naturedly. "It's okay, just a misunderstanding, right? You don't hate me now, do you Karasu-chan?"

I shook my head. "Nope, I don't hate you anymore. Want some more tea?"

Dino nodded. "Yes please!"

It turned out that we ran out so I quickly excused myself and went to the market to get more. We needed to restock in candy, anyways. I felt strangely lighter after meeting Dino. I softened up even more to him after learning that he used to be a lot like Tsuna before Reborn came. The guy won me over after his performance of protectiveness toward his subordinates. He had my respect.

Even if he carries around a turtle and makes terrible jokes

I balanced a huge bag filled with the things I just bought. Shopping took a longer time than expected.

I bumped into someone and fell onto my butt, breaking me from my train of thought. The large paper bag that carried what I bought didn't help much either by blocking my sight.

"Ah, sorry about that!" A heavily accented woman apologized. She obviously wasn't from Japan but she didn't sound American either. No, her accent sounded Korean. I looked over my annoying paper bag and gaped in shock at the person I bumped into. "S-Seonsaeng-nim!"

The woman looked up and broke into a wide smile when she saw who I was. "Karasu! You leave me for a week and we bump into each other? You really must have missed me, Student!" She joked.

I gulped.

Yup, you guessed it.

The woman in front of me was one of the teachers who put me through absolute hell. At least she didn't throw butcher knives at me as practice. *Shiver* I would've ran if my other Sensei showed up. Seonsaeng-nim's lessons focused on tact and defense. She taught us how to hack computers for information (which I really hope we wouldn't have to use. It's painfully hard to do.), pick pocket, lie, pick locks, wiggle information from others, create illusions, etc., etc.

Scary, right? And to think that her lessons were supposedly the easiest out of the three.

She taught me normal things sometimes. She tutored me in all academic subjects also so I wouldn't fall behind in the American Schools.

"A-Ah, hello."

Seonsaeng-nim, which meant teacher in Korean, was actually named Jung-won. Because she valued respect, I never dared to call her by her name.

She laughed. "Karasu, what were you doing in the grocery store instead of protecting your brother?" I didn't miss the warning tone in her voice. Did she really think that I would slack off? That sounded more like something that Alana would do. "He has a guest over and we ran out of green tea so I volunteered to go and get it for him. He was tired from the long day, you see."

"Is that so? Isn't that a good thing that I bumped into you?"

I raised my eyebrows. "Seonsaeng-nim, where did you get the money to buy-"

My teacher wagged a wallet that looked too pink for her usual tastes I front of my face, silently telling me the answer. I sweatdropped. She would never snap out of her pickpocketing habits, would she?

I shook my head.

"Not that I'm not happy to see you, but what are you doing here in Japan?" I asked curiously. My teacher smiled softly. "I'm here because I heard an old friend of mine dropped by here. I haven't seen him for a long time so I thought that it would be nice to pay him a surprise visit."

I nodded, not bothering to ask who this "friend" was. It was her own business, after all. "Would you like to come over to my house? I bet Mom would love to meet you. We have another guest over but the more the merrier, right?"

"I'd love to!"

"Seonsaeng-nim, this is my brother Tsuna, the future Tenth Boss of the Vongola Family and this is my Mother." I introduced my teacher to Tsuna and Mom. He wearily shook her hand. Good, he listened to my warnings. "Ah, hello. Nice to meet you."

"Nice to meet you too, Young Vongola. It's an honor to meet the mother of my student. She is one of my most brilliant students. You have raised her well."

"Oh, I'm sure that you had a hand on making her this way." Mother said, obviously flattered by my teacher's words.

"And you know Reborn." I went on, gesturing to the infant hitman. My teacher dipped her head. "Reborn-nim."

"Jung-won!" I heard Dino yelp in surprise before crashing down the stairs.

"Karasu!" Alana greeted with a toothy grin, "I'm back!"

Alana looked at Dino's pathetic heap of a body and stepped over it. "Clumsy over here wouldn't stop tripping over his own feet ever since his buddies left him here so he and Tsuna can have their little mafia boss play date."

It made me feel a little better that the Cavallone Boss wasn't perfect.

"Alana." Jung won said sharply, "Show some manners and help Dino up."

It was only then when Alana realized that her teacher was in the room. She paled but kept her face wiped clean of fear and doubt. "Excuse my ill manners, Unni." She said to Jung won stiffly. "I'll help him up."

Alana bent down and effortlessly dragged the blonde mafia boss up by his collar. Dino looked at her in awe and shock by her strength and quickly regained balance onto his feet. "Thanks, kid."

"Alana, come over here." Jung won ordered. Alana obeyed and stopped in front of our teacher, avoiding eye contact. Jung won forced her to look at her. "Do you know how worried I was when your Grandmother told me you disappeared? Do you? And I nearly had a heart attack when I found out that you left to Japan without giving me the slightest notice?"

"You would've said no." Alana complained. Jung won shook her head to both Alana and my surprise. "No, I would've agreed. I'm very well aware that you're a big girl now. I'm not angry that you went to Japan by yourself but at the fact that you didn't put any faith in your Unni."

Alana looked down shamefully. "Sorry."

"Just as long as you don't do that to me again." She sighed while drawing Alana into a warm hug. "I hope that you're not causing any trouble to Karasu's kind mother?"

Mother shook her head while keeping her bright smile. "Not at all! She's been an angel during her stay here!"

I don't blame Seonsaeng-nim for not believing a word that came out of Mother's mouth, especially when it involved with Alana being a "good girl".

She bowed to my mother politely. "Thank you for taking care of my little sister for me. I truly appreciate it."

"WHAAAA?" Both Dino and Tsuna shrieked in disbelief.

Alana scowled at them. "Do you have a problem with that?"

Jung-won Kim, was the Seonsaeng-nim of four (including Alana and me) and the older sister of Alana Kim. She was a bit strict but she had a kind soul. I knew that she genuinely loved Alana and I from the bottom of her heart. Though, her pick pocketing habits isn't one of her greatest characteristics.

"That reminds me," Jung-won stated while approaching Dino with a grin, "Dino! Long time no see! You've grown a bit since we last met and you look more stronger, too." She greeted him with much familiarity.

Dino rubbed the back of his neck in embarrassment and blushed. "You look well too, Jung-won."

"How do you know my sister, Clumsy?" Alana questioned suspiciously. Jung-won sent her little sister a scolding look. "In my younger years, I used to gather information for a mafia family in South Korea. Not exactly something that I was proud of but I met Dino while trying to steal his wallet. I wasn't that good with pickpocketing then as I am now."

Dino smirked. "What makes you think that you improved since then?" He teased.

Jung-won replied by holding up his wallet and spare change before dropping them into his hands before going on. "Dino caught me, forgave me and somehow ended up treating me lunch on top of that. He was strange so I decided that I wasn't going to finish my mission."

Alana sweatdropped. "You thought he was strange? Was that the only reason?"

Jung-won thought for a moment before replying, "That and because the lunch he paid for was delicious."

Both Alana and Tsuna fell over in disbelief. "THAT'S IT?"

Jung-won nodded. "And that's how your older sister became an enemy of a Korean Mafia group, Alana. Wasn't it a nice story?"

"Like hell it was! You were involved with the mafia and you never told me?" Alana snapped.

Jung-won blinked innocently. "But you never asked."

I went up to the bathroom, eager for my long-awaited bath. I closed the door and took one look at the bathtub before hollering, "REBORN! WHY IS THERE A HUGE TURTLE PASSED OUT IN THE TUB?"

I don't think I'll be bathing any time soon.

And I still have those two twenty percent tests!

(Next Week)

"Karasu-san, allow us to apologize for confusing your tests with your brother's!" My math and science teachers apologized. "We hope our mistake didn't cause you much trouble!"

Did ya like it? I hope you all like Jung-won 'cause she's going to pop up everywhere in the future!

And (squeal!) Dino finally makes his appearance. I just love that clumsy guy, don't you all agree?

Oh! And if you didn't know:

Seonsaeng-nim= Teacher, Sensei

-nim=-san,-sama, or -dono (respectful way of calling someone)

Unni=Little sisters call their Older sisters that. Younger girls could also call friends who are older than them that to if they want to sound close (or something like that)

Heads up for the next chapter guys. I'll be writing as fast as I can!