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Chapter 5: Stupid Nezu

School was still boring. The students (with some exceptions) were boring. The teachers were boring. Therefore, Tsuna was bored. Reborn slept outside on a tree branch. She had to stay awake in the horrible teacher's math class.

Mr. Nezu sucked like shit.

"Kawada."

"Hai."

"Kurihara."

"Hai."

This was 'Torture Stupid Students' time, where the bastard returns the tests and talks shit to the failing students. Like she said, he sucked. Name after name was being called out in alphabetical order.

"Sawada"

Raising her head at her name, she strolled up. "Hai." Her hand went to take her test score ready for the swipe of the teacher's hand. Grabbing quickly enough, she snatched her test before he could pull it back.

Nezu looked pleasantly angry. Tsuna smiled pleasantly back at his astonished look.

Then he recovered and spoke. "This is just hypothetically speaking, but…. Let's just say there's a sole student that scores in the 20 point range zone and painfully lowers the class average… According to me, who's come through an elite course… That kind of person will just be baggage and burden on the education-conscious society. Is there a reason for that kind of trash to live?"

He finishes his speech. Nobody moves. No student is that stupid to do so when they learned (or thought) Tsuna was in the mafia. The teacher was confused with the silence. He was expecting jeering and laughing. Not a vibrating quietness unusual of his class.

A yawn came from his stupid student's mouth. 'Did she just yawn at me?' he thought disbelievingly.

"Whatever" she drawled out, not even looking at him.

Infuriated, Nezu was about to yell at the 'disrespectful student', when the door slammed open. The popular delinquent came in, his bangs shading his eyes. Nezu immediately started to reprimand the man. "Hey! You're late! What're you doing coming in at this time!"

The teacher had to yell over the overly excited fangirls that populated the area around Gokudera. They were the only ones courageous enough to move at that time; nothing would stop them from getting to their idol.

"Ahhhh?" Gokudera turned and glared at the shrinking man. Walking slowly, he headed straight for Tsuna. Right in front of her seat he yelled with arms by his side and a bowed deeply. "Good Morning Juudaime!" He said; voice filled with admiration and love. He looked so cheerful with eyes like puppies that begged for attention. Almost as if he was bipolar.

Disturbing thoughts appeared in Tsuna's head. 'He's strangely a lot like Levi-niichan… ' This led to her reminiscing about her other brothers as she stared out the windows. Unbeknownst to her, Gokudera's outburst led to mass chaos in the classroom.

" What's going on?"

"Did they become friends?"

"Is Gokudera-san part of the Mafia too?"

"He's so cool!"

"Why is he talking to her? No fair~"

There was a flurry of talking before Nezu coughed purposefully. The class settled and he smirked, fixing his glasses and sweating bullets at the same time. "This is just hypothetically speaking, but… Let's just say there's a student who carelessly comes to class late… Without question he hangs out with the loser trash. Because like people gravitate towards each other…"

'He's screwed.' Tsuna thought morbidly and with a small twinge of happiness.

She had known Gokudera's personality towards her for only a day, and she knew what would happen. Gokudera would kill the guy. And Tsuna would love every moment of it, though she didn't want the poor boy expelled…

"Old man." Gokudera snarled, stomping towards Nezu. With one hand he fisted the man's suit and lifted him up. "I won't forgive any insults towards Juudaime you bastard!" Turning around his face morphed into happiness. "Juudaime!"

He ignored the choking man he was lifting up. "I-I said i-it was hypothetically speaking…!"

"Juudaime, should I drop this guy?"

A finger to the chin and eyes closed as she thought for a second. "Gokudera, please let him down." she answered. "But Juudaime-!" "Gokudera." She opened her eyes with a level start at Gokudera, who flinched. "I asked to drop him right?" she questioned, sounding like a scolding mother.

He flinched once more as he slowly whispered, "Y-yes Juudaime." Gokudera let go of the guy and Nezu dropped to the floor with a squeak as the floor hit his arse with a slam.

Gokudera was looking thoroughly scolded with his head down and eyes showing despair, so Tsuna relented. Standing up she went to Gokudera and gave him a pat on the back. "It's fine. Just remember that it isn't a good idea to pick a fight with everyone without having a good reason to. Other than that, I'm happy and proud you stood up for me Gokudera."

Those words seemed to please the fair-headed boy a lot as he instantly recovered, glowering in pride and joy. Tsuna smiled fondly. He was just so cute sometimes. So locked up in their own world, both had completely disregarded the steaming red man who was still flat on the floor, glaring at her.

...

The two of them were ordered to the principal's office after school. It was infuriating really.

'Who does the bastard think he is? He can't just expel us; I mean he wasn't even hurt! What 15-year old time capsule? It's obvious he's lying…' Tsuna's wrath was blossoming… Who was he to dictate what she would do after the mandatory school hours and waste her time on such idiotic lectures?

Strolling along the hallways, she found a suspicious thingy. The thingy then opened up? And out came Reborn. It wasn't really surprising considering Reborn had always hid in strange spots. The only surprising thing was when Gokudera came out of it, looking all serious. 'How do they even fit?'

"How dare they try to expel Juudaime! Don't worry Juudaime! I have a plan!" he cursed. Then with a grin, he ran and left leaving a handful of dynamite with the frowning girl.

Sighing at her friend's (at least she would consider him that) energy, she followed his trail along the corridors. On her way, she heard two teachers beside doors. Specifically her hated teacher, Nezu.

"Man you are messed up Nezu-sensei. Telling them to dig up a time capsule that doesn't exist" a gruff voice laughed.

"The principal is the one who's messed up. He forgot that 15 years ago there happened to be no time capsule buried! Those bastards are expelled no matter what. Well, if they were ever to break the playground in half I might rethink it" the man snorted arrogantly.

The two teachers laughed heartily at their 'fun'.

Tsuna meanwhile was smirking. She couldn't really be angry at him for lying when she had predicted this earlier. In fact, the only thing she could do was consider his words.

'...break the playground in half.'

…

She found Gokudera outside, just ready to bomb the ground. "Gokudera stop! I know where the time capsule is located!" she barked aloud. Thankfully, he hadn't started his bombs yet. Gokudera blinked in confusion for a moment.

'He didn't forget that the goal was to locate the capsule... Right?' Somehow she didn't doubt that could've happened.

Once he remembered what he went outside bombing for, he smiled sheepishly and stated proudly. "Obviously, you're Juudaime!"

And so, he followed her to the playground.

The rest was easy. In one simultaneous action, they lit and threw each portion of dynamite and jumped back in time for the blast. It was indeed earth shattering. The ground and park foundation slit in half and burst, sending out large chunks of rocks spiraling out.

All of a sudden Reborn appeared and threw Leon at her. Now why in the world would he throw his pet chameleon at her, she would know soon. Staring at the chameleon that formed into … dowsing rods. Inspiration struck and she said gave an all knowing grin. Rushing forward at the mass destruction site, her Leon Rods tingled. "It's here!" with that said, she threw another bomb right at that crack and rushed back.

BOOM!

The earth shook once more and from that crack burst another great amount of rock, gravel and loosened soil. Tsuna reached down and found a time capsule. Opening it, she rifled through the many things inside it. If she found some incriminating evidence to prove Nezu was a fraud… There! Reaching in, she pulled out three tests and handed it to the amazed Gokudera.

He beamed proudly at her and grinned.

"What are you two doing?" a voice yelled.

"What happened to the playground? Do you want to be expelled sooner?" came the screaming of Nezu: their target. Gokudera lifted his hands, showing three tests; all of them Nezu's. It was a 2, 0, and 6 percentage.

"The 15 year old capsule didn't show up but a 40 year old capsule came up instead. Why are all the test of an elite course guy like you in the time capsule of our ordinary middle school? And these grades… What the hell? Seems like you need to lie to get a job, huh." Gokudera was sounding pretty cool then.

Too bad the serious side of his personality didn't stay. After Nezu was fired for fraudulent educational background of an F-ranked collage graduate, Gokudera stared at Tsuna eyes almost begging for a compliment of some kind.

"… You were adequate." she started when Gokudera grinned. "But you can't expect me to reward you for everything you do since I'll expect something better each time. Understood?" she finished. By then, Gokudera was crying at how she was such a great leader, and some other nonsense of how he wasn't fit to be her subordinate.

That somewhat irked Tsuna. It was hilarious how the guy acted all badass to anyone else, yet humble with her. But it was even more annoying how he kept on demeaning himself in front of her. She wasn't god or an angel and she had no wish to be.

"Gokudera!" she barked. "Yes, Juudaime!" he responded instantly, afraid of what she was going to say. Was she angry or disappointed with him? Did she not need him anymore?

Tsuna sighed. It was already noted that Gokudera didn't react well towards violence from others, and her yelling at him would probably kill him. She didn't need that. He was her 'subordinate' after all. And Reborn would kill her.

Sucking in her breath, she stepped closer to the trembling boy and hugged him gently around the neck. Stunned, he looked up and instantly blushed. Her chest was directly in front of his face, almost touching…

His blood pressure was increasing, heart beating quicker and louder. It was the same as before, and it felt… good. Ignoring his growing attraction towards his leader he looked up at her.

"Gokudera, don't be so harsh on yourself. If I had picked you as my right hand man, then aren't you worthy enough? When you say you aren't fit for me, aren't you really saying that my judgment is wrong?"she asked, as sincerely as she possibly could.

It dawned on Gokudera. Why had he not thought about this before? Of course! "No, you're judgment is always right, Juudaime! I'm sorry for ever doubting you in any way! I will serve you until I die!" he announced, hugging her tightly back.

"Isn't it great to have such a reliable subordinate?"

That shocked the two of them. They turned to see Reborn smirking (if it could be called that) at them. Gokudera blushed and let his arms go, stepping back. With an embarrassed laugh he went to leave, though not before remembering something.

"Oh yeah!" He pulled out a test score showing it to her. It read: 100%

"The tests in this school are a cinch, huh?" He grinned, then walked away.

It didn't surprise her, not really. I mean, it's not uncommon for a gangster to ace any test he takes, right? Right. Tsuna's ideas about the mafia were really getting warped. Not like they weren't already.

" … Whatever."

Gokudera was finally gone and she was by herself. Not including the grinning infant atop of her head. Surrounded by a broken playground with the earth split open.

"..."

This would not bode well with a certain prefect…

"Sawada Tsuna. What. Did. You. Do..." a voice growled out.

Speak of the devil and he shall appear. Oh how she hated that line.

Tsuna really couldn't bother with his lecturing speech right now. So she settled for staring at the wildflowers nearby.

"Enough." Hibari barked, sensing her carefree look before taking out his tonfas.

"I will bite you to death." He announced with a smirk and went in for the kill.

'So he really does say that.' She thought indifferently as she dodged. On top of her Reborn took out a gun and shot a few rounds at Hibari. They were blocked by his steel tonfas.

Hibari's eyes narrowed and his lips twitched at the hitman. "Wao. Infant. I want to fight you. But first." With a short twirl he faces Tsuna, already in battle stance. It was like he loved fighting. He probably did.

"Midori tanabiku namimori no~ "

The fight was interrupted midway with some horrible sounding melody, which was the school anthem. With a flick of his wrist the phone is open. "What is it?" he growled, impatient for his fight. Then a pause. "… I see."

While Hibari was doing a mixture of glaring, grunting and frowning at the cell phone, Tsuna sweat dropped. 'Who actually likes that horrible anthem? I mean, does he actually like it enough to use as his ringtone?' Tsuna went through her mind all the facts she knew about this Hibari person.

He's bloodthirsty. He's the head of the Namimori Discipline Committee. He apparently loves the school. He's a third year… That was it… She frowned. She didn't have a sufficient amount of information on the man. And she needed to, for several reasons she listed out on hand.

1. He was not at all foolish or stupid… hopefully.

2. He was strong.

3. He considered himself a 'carnivore' for some reason. Which was similar to how Bel-kun called himself a 'prince' and everyone else (except her) a 'peasant'.

4. He was so similar (yet different) to Xan-niichan.

Such a fine specimen could not be ignored.

With a renewed determination she smiled as Hibari finished talking on his phone. "I have business. Fix the playground before I bite you to death." He stalked away, probably to beat up some delinquents.

"…"

Great. Now she was stuck in the middle of an ex-playground that was broken in smithereens. Just wonderful. And hopefully, with a blink of an eye the whole thing would magically fix itself.

Reborn watched his students face and smirked. Whipping out a cellular device, he punched a number and waited. In a matter of seconds, men came rushing forth and in a blink of an eye, started fixing the broken earth.

She blinked.

Well that was good enough she supposed.

Too tired to be even remotely surprised at Reborn's connections she asked, "And just why are you doing this for me?"

"I know the limitations of my student. I'm paying" was his snide remark. She sighed. Sleep would be happily welcomed tonight.

A/N: I hope you enjoyed this, though I found it a bit bland. Thanks for the reviews! Also, this definately will be a reverse harem. I've edited this, though no major changes... I think...

Second edit. Jan. 4. 2012

Hakoiri- I understand Xanxus would be the perfect big brother, BUT ... I- I somehow want a relationship between the two! I mean, THERE AREN'N ENOUGH Xanxus/Tsuna OUT THERE! Sniff... Also , I don't plan on making Tsuna the most sadistic of all. Her actions were more or less because Mochida is an ass. Her sadistic side comes out only when she's angry. I hope... I really need to keep on rereading my chapters...

pheonixlady7- I read/watch Beelzebub too! OGA IS AWESOME! I'm not really a fan of Himekawa, but the idea is good. I'm just gonna have to thinkg about when I could add it in... Maybe when she's being really sadistic to... some other character I will add in later.

femaleJoey- It seems incest (though I have nothing wrong with incest) but maybe... UGHHHH. Why did I have to make him so caring? WHY... Maybe I'll just add some innocent little snippings of the two and consider it non-romantic? Yeah, Dino will either be the big brother (threatened by Xanxus often) or a romantic partner.

To all reviewers: I will say, I most likely will make any pairing, some more dominate than others. Hell, I'll even do yuri if it seems right. The only ones I most likely will not do (for obvious reasons and some not) would be: Lussuria. Levi. Squalo. Bianchi. The kids. (Including Lambo). Shamal. Haru. ETC.

If you really, REALLY want one of these pairings, you need to give me the pairing. The reason why. And how I would incorporate it in.