I sat awkwardly on the log as Kyoko and Haru explained how they had ended up lost along with the children. My turn to explain how I had ended up in the situation I had ended up in was next. I was still cringing inwardly over what I had blurted out earlier.

"I haven't killed anyone yet."

Yeah, that.

And the Most Situation Inappropriate Statement of the Millennium Award goes to me. Cue clapping and obligatory long-winded speech thanking people and things I don't actually want to thank.

That being said, what was Tsuna and co. doing here? In the manga, Tsuna was hospitalized before he ended up lost, the reverse being true in the anime. I thought we had already established this was the mangaverse.

Frowning, I took out The Book, and opened it up to the page this world was currently on. There was a small green bookmark stuck between the pages. I was the one who had put it there; the writing on it, however, was not mine.

Lol, no. Manganimeverse, bitch.

With a blur of movement, tiny scraps of green paper were fluttering through the air to litter the ground at my feet. I would need a new bookmark. Maybe yellow this time. Or purple. Yeah, that sounded nice.

Haru and Kyoko finished their recount and Tsuna turned to me.

"So, Nee-chan, why are you here? And why were you being chased by an angry bear?"

I sighed, "It's a long story. Listen up, because I'm only telling it once."

"Sawada-san!" A girl who I recognized as the president of the Newspaper Club shouted to me. I stopped and waited for her to catch up. She did after a minute, and took another minute to calm her breathing and compose herself. "Can you do me a favour?"

I smiled at her. "Depends. What do you need me to do?"

"Could you please go to the mountain and see what's going on there?"

"What's going on there?"

"There have been rumours of weird things happening, and I want a story to put in the newspaper."

(At this Tsuna sent an accusing glare at an innocent looking Reborn.)

"I see, but why couldn't you ask one of your members to do it or do it yourself?"

"Well, um, actually, the whole club has tried investigating what's happening, but it's too scary and dangerous!"

"...And you want me to investigate this scary and dangerous mountain?"

"Um, Sawada-san has always seemed like a brave person, so I thought..."

"Hm... I don't know..." I chewed my lip thoughtfully.

"You won't be doing it for free, of course! Our budget's large enough to pay for extra help."

"Hm, okay then. Wh-

"Stop for a moment there," Tsuna interrupted me, "You agreed to investigate a scary and dangerous place just because they paid you?"

"Hey," I retorted, "Where do think I got the money to bail you out of holding, hm?"

Tsuna avoided meeting the enquiring gazes directed at him.

"..."

"You think I picked it off a tree?"

"Okay, okay, I get it. Continue your story, please."

I hmphed, but did as he asked.

So I had accepted the job to investigate this mountain. The Newspaper Club gave me a camera and told me what they had seen during their attempts.

This morning, I set off for this mountain. Like what the club members had told me, there was a lot of weird stuff. Seriously, man-eating plants, snakes, and spiders that large should not have existed in a place like Japan, even in the wildest areas.

"You came across that too?! Are you okay?!"

I shot Tsuna a glare for interrupting me again. He held his hands up in a placating gesture and apologized. I continued with my story.

I managed to take photos of everything, and was trying to get a picture of an interesting bird, when all of a sudden the ground started shaking. I looked around for the source of the earthquake, and spotted what looked like an dinosaur/turtle stomping across the forest.

I was so busy snapping pictures of the creature that I didn't notice when I stepped too close to the cliff edge, and when the next shake came, the ground under my foot gave way, taking me with it.

I fell. And crashed into the ground just metres away from a bear family. There weren't even any trees to break my fall, so it really hurt. The mama bear must have felt threatened or something, because it tried to maul me. I ran and it gave chase. And that brought me to what you saw, me having to fight and tranquilize the bear.

The story of how I ended up in this situation was over. Everyone was staring at me. Tsuna was the first to speak up.

"You fell off a cliff and didn't die."

I nodded.

"Nor did you sustain any major injuries."

I nodded again.

"Then you fought and tranquilized a raging bear."

"Yep."

"...Nee-chan, you're amazing."

"Why, thank you."

"I'm not even going to asked where you found a tranquilizer or how you pulled those weapons out of nowhere." My brother sighed, running a hand down his face. "So what do we do now?"

Dino took charge of the situation and said it would be best to put some distance between the bear and us first. Everyone agreed. I tried to stand up and winced.

"Ow."

"What's wrong?" asked a concerned Dino.

"I think I twisted my foot when I was running from the bear."

The blond sighed and ran his fingers through his hair. "It can't be helped; I'll carry you." He lifted me up into his arms in a bridal carry. "You can rest your head on my shoulder, if you'd like."

I rose a blush to my cheeks and followed his suggestion, much to the horror of Tsuna. When I lifted my head from Dino's shoulder slightly, I could practically see my brother spiralling into a pit of mortification and quietly sniggered.

I was having way too much fun with this.

Hm, this chapter is kinda meh. She does so love screwing with Tsuna's mind. Did I write Dino okay?

mismnor: All has been revealed.

Reaper Senpai: Bear-wrestling - the main sport of KHR. I think they'd get along well too, although if our main character has her way, they'll never even meet. Too bad I'm here.

turtlehoffmann2251: Don't worry, he's probably not going to get one.

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