Jychan: I don't own Katekyo Hitman Reborn! I'm just an ordinary fan who loves doing fanfics for KHR.
Summary: She disappeared from their sight the day after they graduated High School. Five years later, she appeared at one of the Vongola Function Parties as the Boss of the Rose Noire Family. Was she still the Haru that they knew? TsunaxHaru
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"Miura-san, we have arrived." Tsuna said as Haru stirred up. She fell asleep on their flight going to Japan. She groaned as she woke up. Where was she again? She looked left and right until she saw Tsuna and Reborn staring at her. She quickly sat up. She couldn't slack off in front of other people. Even if the Vongola was their ally, but she just had to be sure.
She stood up and tried to see if there was any drool on her shoot. There was drool. She quickly wiped her drool while Tsuna had went out of the jet plane while Reborn smirked. She felt very embarrassed. But there was no time for any embarrassment right now. It was time for work. She followed Tsuna, who was already outside of the Vongola Private Jet Plane.
"It's been months since I last visited Japan." Tsuna said as he stared at the bright sun. The last time he was at Japan was during the Tanabata Festival. His mother insisted that he should come home for that festival, no matter what. And so, he went home, despite the complications that it created at the Italy HQ, since he, the Vongola Famiglia Boss, wasn't there at all. Plus, the fact that Gokudera at that time was on a mission. Nonetheless, when he returned, he was able to fix all the problems at the Vongola HQ.
"Oh... I see." Haru simply replied as her long brown hair drifted with the wind.
Unlike Tsuna, the last time she was here at Japan was five years ago. To be precise, that was one day after they graduated high school, although on that very day, she was at the airport, leaving Japan for Paris, France. It was weird for her to go to Paris just by herself, only to be greeted by mafioso at the Paris International Airport. She sighed. At the present though, it all seemed to be like a distant memory to her.
"Tsuna, shall we be on our way to the Namimori HQ now?" Reborn asked as Haru felt nostalgic.
Namimori, eh. It had really been quite some time since she was in Japan. The words Namimori brought her to the past where she was still innocent. Back to the days when she was the Haru who could not even kill anybody. True, she attempted to have a fight with Tsuna at the bridge, but she would not kill Tsuna at that time. But at the present, she could kill already. Well, of course, if she had to, which was usually the case, since she was a mafia boss.
"Miura-san, shall we be on our way now?" Tsuna asked as he motioned to the black car that was before them. This was probably their ride going to the Namimori HQ.
"Yes, Sawada-san." Haru replied as she went inside the car first, then Tsuna, and lastly, Reborn.
"Haru," Reborn called as Haru turned to the arcobaleno. "Yes, Reborn-san?" She asked. She couldn't call him with the '-chan' suffix anymore. She knew that Reborn was an arcobaleno. And she knew what an arcobaleno was already.
"Why don't you have a base here in Japan?" Reborn asked out of the blue as Haru's eyes widened for a second, but it returned to normal while she stifled her shock with a chuckle, then a reply. "I don't think we really need one here in Japan, since our connections aren't really focused here."
Reborn just gave a small smile and hoped that it was a hint for his student. Because for sure, the Vongola 10th was really interested regarding the subject matter. Plus, it might give some sort of clue why Haru had left Japan five years ago. Reborn somehow knew about the information, since he was deeply connected in the mafia world, unlike Tsuna who was still a newbie in one way or another.
Tsuna, on the other hand, was confused and he wondered on why exactly the Rose Noire Famiglia had no base in Japan, when in fact, Haru came from Japan. It should be connected to the reason why she left Japan five years ago. He should've thanked Reborn for giving some hint on this matter. He smirked. He should probably give Reborn some holiday or something.
A few hours passed and they had arrived the Namimori HQ Base, where Giannini was staying with Shoichi Irie and Spanner.
"Yo, Vongola." Spanner greeted as soon as they went inside the HQ Base. Apparently, Giannini, Shoichi and Spanner were at the entrance of the Namimori HQ Base, waiting for them to arrive.
"Boss! It's nice seeing you!" Giannini enthusiastically greeted Tsuna, who just nodded.
"Tsunayoshi-kun, it's nice to have you here once in a while." Shoichi said as he gave a small smile towards Tsuna, who replied, "Yo, Spanner. Shoichi Irie. I hope the three of you are doing well."
"No problem, boss." The three of them chorused as Tsuna remembered that he was with the Rose Noire Famiglia Boss.
"By the way, here with me is the Boss of the Rose Noire Famiglia. But I am pretty sure that you know her. Miura Haru-san." He introduced Haru before Shoichi, Spanner and Giannini.
"Ara! Haru-san! It's a surprise that you have become a mafia boss!" Giannini said as Haru nodded and simply smiled.
"This might be the first time we've seen each other in our present selves, but we have seen each other in the alternate future when you went there in the past, right?" Spanner said as Haru nodded and replied, "I've always had a trouble with your eating habits, though."
"Miura Haru-san, you've ended up different from what you were at the alternate future that you have gone." Shoichi said as Haru raised an eyebrow,
"I'm sorry? I wasn't able to meet my future self, actually. The others may have, but I didn't." Haru replied smoothly.
"Shall we go inside the conference room first?" Reborn asked as the others nodded and walked towards the corridors. The Namimori HQ was exactly the same it was when they went to the future a few years ago. The kitchen was still the same. The corridors were exactly the same size. Thus, Haru wouldn't get lost inside the Namimori HQ.
They arrived to the conference room and immediately settled to their seats while Giannini and Shoichi opened their laptops and activated the video call conference with the other Guardians in each HQ around the world.
"JUDAIMEEEE!" Gokudera's voice rang out the screen as he gave a wide grin.
"Gokudera-kun! I see you're doing fine in Paris." Tsuna said as he gave a smile towards his underboss. He was relieved that his Storm Guardian had no problem with staying at Paris with Vio. He was worried that the underboss might have given Violeta a headache.
"Aside from his constant annoying cries about not having the Judaime beside him and that something might happen to you, he is fine, Vongola Boss." Violeta Ricci said as she flipped her red hair.
"Vio, do get well with Gokudera-san." Haru chided as her right hand nodded at what she said.
"I am doing so, boss. I am trying to gather all my patience." Vio replied at what her boss said as she gave a small smile. Haru raised an eyebrow. It was rare for Vio to give a smile, no matter how small it was. She was really uptight and very strict towards her subordinates. She rarely saw Vio loosen up. Though she was a bit worried of Vio at first, but then she figured out that it was part of Vio's personality.
"I see. That is good then." She simply replied at what Vio had said.
"YO! Tsuna! Miura-san!" Yamamoto greeted as he gave a wave at the camera.
"Yamamoto-kun, where's Antoinette-san?" Tsuna asked as he tried to look for Haru's Guardian all over the screen.
"She was tired from the flight. She had to retreat to bed, since she was suffering from jet lag." Yamamoto said as he gave his usual grin.
"Oh. I see. I was hoping to see her. I was a bit worried of her." Haru said as the others raised an eyebrow. Why was Haru worried so much of Antoinette?
"Allow me to explain." Vio said after she gave a cough and the others paid attention to her every word. "Antoinette easily gets traveling sickness. She easily feels bad after traveling for quite sometime."
The others nodded at what Violeta said as Haru immediately said, "Yamamoto-san, please do pay attention to her right now. The travel from such a big distance might be making her very sick."
Tsuna smiled. She was still the Haru that they knew after all. Being so worried sick of her friends, rather than subordinates, was very 'Haru'-ish. Years ago when she was still in Japan, she would be worried if Lambo got sick or wounded from their battles, even with a simple scratch from playing with I-Pin. She would keep a strong face when Lambo or I-Pin got wounded, but she would cry later when she was outside of the children's sight.
"KYAAA! YAMAMOTO-SAN! WHY DIDN'T YOU SAY THAT YOU WERE ON ALREADY!" A loud scream was heard from the background as Antoinette immediately pushed off Yamamoto from his chair. "BOSS! HI!" Antoinette greeted as she waved at the screen.
"Antoinette, are you okay? Are you feeling sick?" Haru asked with a straight face as she tried to hide her emotions. She couldn't have an emotional face while she was in front of other mafia people. It would show her weakness as a mafia boss.
"Yes, boss. I got better already at handling traveling sickness." Antoinette said as she gave a peace sign.
"But you were actually very weak earlier." Yamamoto said as he gave a light chuckle, "You were clinging to me like it was the end of the world. You were pretty cute."
Antoinette immediately blushed into different shades of red at what Yamamoto had stated. She wasn't expecting those words at all! She was expecting that he would say that she was weak and he detested her, but it was the utter opposite. She immediately retorted back, "I-I can't help doing so."
"Yo, Haru-chi!" Rico greeted as he gave his signature smile that would make other girls fall for him right away, except that they were pretty used to Rico doing so already and thus, it was not effective anymore.
"Kufufufu, Sawada Tsunayoshi, Miura Haru, Reborn, and the others around. I see that you are here." Mukuro said, "You need not to worry with our current situation here. We are fine."
"There are a lot of cute girls in Egypt, Haru-chi! Thank you for assigning me here." Rico said in a suave manner as he gave a thumbs up sign until he was hit on the head by several books by Sachiko.
"OW! SACHI! What are you doing?" Rico grumbled as he massaged his head while Sachiko rolled her eyes.
"I was planning to only stay here for a night after you called me the other night, telling me to bring your bag, which was full of porn magazines, wherein I only found out when I was already on the plane going towards Cairo already. Do you want me to kill you, Rico?" Sachiko ranted as she glared at Rico,"But on a second thought, I will be staying here until due time." She added as she gave a smirk towards Rico.
"I see. I hope the two of you won't be causing any problems to Mukuro-san and Chrome-san." Haru said in a stern voice and Sachiko and Rico nodded at what their boss had ordered them to do.
"I-I-I don't see a problem with them..." The ever-shy Chrome Dokuro said as she appeared beside Mukuro on the screen.
"Well then, keep that up." She said as another camera window opened up on the screen.
"SAWADAAAAA! We're here at the Australian HQ!" Ryohei said with a loud cheer as K just waved at the camera.
"I see. That's great, Onii-san. You're not getting any problems right?" Tsuna asked with concern as Ryohei nodded as a response to Tsuna's questions.
"Hello, boss." K greeted with his usual demeanor. He had easily adapted to Ryohei's character and personality. Sasagawa Ryohei didn't seem to be the person to have a very complex and weird personality like the Mist and Cloud Guardian. He was just simple to get along with. K had no problems with him, aside from his occasional yells though.
"Hello K." Haru greeted in return. She had complete confidence with K, since he was her most mature guardian. He rarely got serious in fights and he was level-headed in deciding things. He was someone that she could fall back upon when Vio couldn't do her job due to emotional attachments. Not that K was heartless, but he wouldn't hesitate just like how Vio would.
"Hello, Vongola." Lambo said in his usual voice as he stood beside I-Pin and Lizzy, but there was one more person beside Lizzy. The Chiavarone Famiglia Boss, Dino. Tsuna was really surprised to see Dino at the Vongola HQ. Not that he wouldn't go there at times, but well, Dino had no notice or something. Usually, Dino would notify in a letter or note that he was coming to the Vongola HQ.
"Dino-san, it's nice that you're there to take care of them." Tsuna addressed to the tenth generation of the Chiavarone Famiglia as Dino nodded in return and smirked. "I'll see what I can do to help Lambo and Lizzy-san here."
"Lizzy, are you okay there?" Haru earnestly asked as Lizzy nodded in return. She was too shy to look up towards the other people. She couldn't bring herself to talk with the others. She might do something wrong then commit the same mistake again. She might get hated again. She didn't want that to happen for the second time.
"I see. Well then, if you have problems there, you can just call me here at the Namimori HQ, okay?" Haru said as Lizzy nodded in return. Dino, I-Pin and Lambo were looking at Lizzy who was blushing a lot. It was evident by the red blush on her face.
"Haru-san!" An enthusiastic and cheerful Tan Li-Chen greeted as she gave a wave at the camera. It was weird that no one was beside her. The others wondered were Hibari was. Was he informed that he and Tan Li-Chen were going to be staying at the China HQ?
"Li-Chen! Where is your partner?" Haru asked as Li-Chen stood up prefusely upon the sudden question of her boss.
"He's at the training grounds, Haru-san. I called him, but I was too scared to approach him or something. He looked like he was going to bite me. Or worse, he was going to kill me! Haru-saaaan!" She answered while she was trembling a lot. Despite that fact that Tan Li-Chen was Haru's strongest Guardian, she was also the most cowardly among them. It was such an irony.
"Relax, Li-Chen-san. Hibari-san might look really dangerous, but he doesn't kill an ally." Tsuna said with a reassuring smile as Li-Chen stopped crying and trembling while looking up to the screen. "Really, Vongola Boss?"
"What is this, Tan Li-Chen?" A cold and stern voice had sent chills to Li-Chen's spine as her eyes widened upon the sight of Hibari Kyoya at her back.
"H-H-H-Hibari-san... Ano, it's a conference call with the other guardians." Li-Chen replied as she closed her eyes. She couldn't bring herself to look at Hibari. She was about to pee on her pants now. She was really scared of him. Their earlier experience at the Vongola Main HQ had made her feel this way. He was so scary. She wished that she wasn't his partner.
"I see. Well then, I will be going out first." Hibari said as he left the room.
"B-B-Booooooss! I'm going to die out of heart attack here!" Li-Chen cried as tears continuously fell out from her eyes as Haru shook her head, but replied in a caring way. "Li-Chen, stop crying. I assigned you there with Hibari-san because I knew that you could match up with Hibari-san, based from Fuuta's rankings. Now, stop crying, okay?"
Li-Chen nodded as she stopped her tears. She couldn't understand why her pairing with Hibari-san was the best pair that could come out based from the Ranking Prince's book. It really had startled her a lot. She just couldn't get it.
"I see that all of you are alright. Well then, we shall retreat for the night." Tsuna said as he gave a sincere smile. He was a bit worried at first that the pairs would cause a lot of trouble, but he was wrong. And he was glad with it.
"OSSU!" All of them replied in return as the conference call ended.
"I'm a bit worried of Li-Chen, though." Haru said as Tsuna raised an eyebrow and replied, "I do understand Li-Chen-san's feelings, though. Hibari-san could be really intimidating."
Haru sighed as she stared at the sky outside of the Namimori HQ.
"I'm a bit useless at this time. All I can do is just trust them. I do wish that I could do something better for them." She said as she sighed once again.
"Trusting others isn't useless." Tsuna said, "It can help a lot. It gives them the strength and the will to do something. To be able to achieve what they want to do." Haru gave a smile. Tsuna was encouraging her a lot. And it really was effective.
"Thank you, Sawada-san." She said as she gave a bitter smile and retreated to her room. She couldn't call him 'Tsuna-san' yet. No. Not yet. Not after leaving all of them in the past. Not after tainting her hands. She was tainted already. She was so tainted. She wasn't the 'Haru' of the past anymore. She was Rose Noire's Haru already. It was a sad fate that she had to take up.
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