Book 1 Chapter 4: Always Read the Fine Print

"Are you buying the whole store?" Reborn quipped sarcastically as he watched his new manager stack more items on top of the overflowing pile in her shopping cart.

"Shut up!" Jenna snapped. "I cook when I'm stressed and right now I'm feeling very, very stressed. Not to mention, this is a new home I'm moving into, so I need to stock up."

The raven followed along, unbothered by the woman's attitude (actually, he was quite amused by it). "The Vongola are providing your living space, so I'm sure you have everything you ever need already in the new home."

"Annoying people should learn to be quiet." An eyebrow twitched in annoyance and the woman pushed her cart around.

"You're just lucky that I put my foot down when Giotto suggested we lived together," Reborn pressed on anyways. "If I hadn't said anything, you'd surely be stuck with me 24/7."

Jenna pressed a hand to her head and groaned. "Don't remind me. Look, can we just get this over with so that we don't have to deal with each other the rest of tonight? Dammit, why'd you have to offer to drive? Because of you, that moron wouldn't let me take the bus or rent a car."

Reborn smirked. "It was a good way to force you into owing me a favor."

Jenna restrained herself from punching the arrogant jerk, even though a fist was held up and she was visibly shaking from her overloaded anger. A menacing aura came over her as she reached up and pulled down more items and shoved them into her cart. The coral haired woman then stalked up the cash register where a extremely terrified sales clerk was forced to scan all of her items as quickly as possible. The two then went out to Reborn's car where Jenna had to physically restrain herself from damaging the man's car with her heavier grocery bags.

The raven smirked in amusement, waiting in the vehicle and driving off calmly once his passenger was inside. The two lived in a specially gated community, which was actually all of a single town named Namimori. Everyone who lived there had to have special permission and anyone who entered have to have clearance. Guests had to make appointments several weeks ahead, sometimes months, and had to have a set of different I.D.'s to prove their right to enter.

Needless to say, Jenna wanted to shoot herself when she heard about it.

The moment they arrived in front of her new home, Jenna hopped out and tossed everything unceremoniously into the house as quickly as possible. She then turned back to Reborn with her professional business smile. "Thank you for the ride, I will call you in the morning to discuss with you more about this position."

"No need," Reborn declined. "I'll just walk over in the morning. You just need to have a cup of espresso ready."

Jenna frowned in confusion. "Walk over?" How strange considering this man didn't seem like the type to do something like that.

"Yeah, I live right there." The raven pointed to house parallel to the woman's, separated only by a narrow road.

The coral haired woman dropped to her hands and knees in despair. Her life was officially over.

xXx

Mornings, Jenna decided, came way too early for her liking. More so, when you have apparently stayed up all night long.

She sighed and reached to put her dish down onto the counter, or at least she tried. Realizing that she had absolutely no more surface area for her latest creation, the coral haired woman sighed.

"Crap. Not again."

She chuckled morosely and set the plate back onto the stovetop and collected her dirty pot to wash them. It had been a while since she was frustrated so much, to the point that she lost anywhere to sit because she cooked so many dishes.

Jenna sighed and walked out her front door to see if any mail had come and to grab the newspaper. However she paused in the middle of bending down for the rolled up article. Something was off. The coral haired woman blinked and straightened up, looking around her yard carefully. She hadn't exactly gotten a good look at it last night, but…

Was that flower pot there before?

She didn't remember some obnoxious sunflower sitting on her front porch. But Jenna shook her head and sighed. She probably ignored it because of the doom and gloom she felt after Reborn told her he was her neighbor. At least they were separated by some road- no matter how narrow- rather than just a thin wooden fence. The coral haired woman sighed once more and walked back into her house.

Although it was five in the morning, it was too late to go to bed. Who knew when Reborn would arrive? No, she might as well just stay up and go to bed early. At least she wasn't required to head into the office today or do anything really. She was only required to talk to Reborn for a bit about the position so that she could start preparing for it.

Once more, Jenna sighed. She was really doing that a lot lately. She shook her head and moved her dishes around so that a couple of chairs and a bit of elbow room on the table was available, and sat down with a nice hot mug of coffee and her morning paper.

However, once more that morning, Jenna paused and blinked slowly. Turning slowly around the room, her gaze fell onto that weird flower pot, that was now sitting behind her sink in the bay window.

She stared. And stared. And stared.

Suddenly a head popped out from the pot, the flower resting on top. "Ciaossu."

Jenna blinked slowly and stared at the small child that had suddenly appeared. She sighed and stood up, heading toward her bedroom. "Pulling an all-nighter was a bad idea after all. Now I'm hallucinating. I'll just take a fifteen minute power nap and I'll be all better."

Not too long after her nap, the woman returned (also after having took a shower and making herself look more presentable). She felt so much better than before and felt like she could get through the day at the very least. Be that as it may, when Jenna returned to her kitchen, not only was half of her meals consumed, but the child was still there and finishing up another plate. Jenna watched, frozen in place, as the child finished up the last bite on the plate and set the glass on top of another dirty dish.

"You're an odd woman," the child said. "Most people would ask a kid who suddenly appears if they're lost and need help finding their parents or call the police under the assumption that the child is there to steal from them, not go to sleep. Don't you have any sense of responsibility?"

"So...I wasn't imagining things after all?" Jenna thought for a moment and then shrugged. "Not my problem. Besides, this is a gated community, I doubt I have to worry about a child living here that feels the need to steal, let alone get lost. Besides, I should thank you."

The kid blinked in surprise and tilted his head to the side. "Why?"

"I made way more than I would know what to do with and you just helped me solve part of the problem by eating as much as you did." The coral haired woman collected the used dishware and placed them inside her dishwasher. "By the way, you made that costume right? That's really neat. You must be really smart and talented if you can make such a cool design as such a young age and get into my house undetected."

The ebony eyed child stared in shock. This woman was praising him for sneaking in and thanking him for eating her food without permission. "You're an idiot."

The coral haired woman smiled, that suspicious social smile of hers. "You think so? I just thought I would be nice."

…"You're also very suspicious. Are you secretly a pedophile."

A vein popped on Jenna's temple. "Kids aren't my type hun', sorry." She played it off with a wink and moved off to make more coffee.

"What do you think about Reborn?"

"I'll give him credit. That guy is talented enough to piss people off," The blood-orange eyed woman grumbled, more to herself than the kid behind her.

"Thank you."

Jenna swore and spun around to see her client standing next to the little boy. "Dammit! This is called breaking and entering! Get out! Who gave you permission to come and go through my house as you please!"

"You also have major mood swings," the child commented. "Are you bipolar."

Reborn smirked a little, but turned to the small boy with a serious gaze. "You have school today. What are you doing up so early and wasting time bothering the new neighbor."

"You said that she was interesting last night, so I wanted to see," the child replied innocently. "And it's not like I'm not prepared to leave at any moment."

Reborn nodded, and turned back to the evidently pissed off woman. "This is my youngest brother, Kōsei. We'll be taking him to school today, and later you'll be walking him every so often when my second youngest brother can't do so."

"Reborn, I'm not your maid, nor am I a caretaker, babysitter, or anything else you're currently treating me as," the coral haired woman growled. "I came to Japan to be an editor, but got stuck with the position as manager. Even so, I now that being a manager has nothing to do with taking care of your family members."

The eldest male smirked. "I already knew that. I told you yesterday, helping with my family was only if you wanted me to play nice."

"If this is playing nice, then no wonder you've had 34 editors before me," Jenna deadpanned.

The child blinked and looked up at his older brother. "She's your new editor?"

Reborn nodded. "She'll also be the manager of Dame-Tsuna in a month's time."

The little boy perked up. "Dame-Tsuna too?"

"That's right."

Kōsei turned with observant eyes to study the irritated woman. He smirked. "I want espresso."

"What? But you're like, five," Jenna rejected.

"I'm eight."

"Holy shi- but you're so small!" The woman reeled back in shock, only to slam her head against an open cabinet door. She crouched down holding her head in pain and muttering a string of curses.

Reborn looked on amused with his younger brother. Both of them were going to punish the girl for her insult- no matter how unintentional it was- but decided against it when karma kicked in for them.

Ignoring the in pain woman, Kōsei turned back to his older brother. "You should try some of her cooking. It's good and I know you haven't eaten yet."

Reborn raised an eyebrow. His brother was openly complimenting someone's ability? It seemed that miracles do happen. He pulled out a fork and dug into one of the nearby plates. "Not bad."

"I think I have a concussion," Jenna mumbled, oblivious to what was being said.

"Oi," the elder raven called out. "We want espresso."

"Oh, I'm sorry. Is my pain inconvenient for you? Let me reschedule it so that I can attend to your needs instead," the coral haired woman snapped sarcastically.

Reborn smirked. "Good job, you learn fast."

"&#$&#^&*!"

"We don't speak alien gibberish," Kōsei informed the woman.

If Jenna was the weak type, she would have burst into frustrated tears. Instead, she slapped on her business smile and prepared two cups of espresso and placed them in front of the two males, sitting down with her own cup of coffee and deciding not to speak to irritating people the rest of her morning to save herself from a migraine.

"You're so hot tempered. You should get your think about attending an anger management session."

"GAAAAH!"