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therainroguefanfiction · 4 years

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⁂ Flaws (Jirou Akutagawa) [3 of 4]

◂ Part 2 of 4

Genre: Angst, Mafia AU, Dark, Crossover, Fluff ☁

Word Count: 1,810 ☁

Pairing: High School Reader x Jirou ☁

World: Prince of Tennis & Katekyo Hitman Reborn! ☁

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Can you forgive my flaws?

Reborn sat in his usual spot at the Sawada’s kitchen table, drinking his espresso and reading the newspaper. Tsuna sat across from him, working on his homework despite not being able to really focus. He was still quite worried about you, who had become quite anti-social since the whole ordeal. Nothing like your normal self; you wouldn’t even argue with Gokudera – a task you normally took joy in.

He sighed, leaning back in his chair. “I need a break. I’ve read the same paragraph ten times and still don’t know what it says.”

“Stop worrying about her,” Reborn sipped his espresso. “She’s a big girl, she can handle her own affairs.”

“It doesn’t matter how old she is, Reborn. She’s family, and family takes care of one another.”

Reborn didn’t respond, he merely went back to reading his paper.

Tsuna sighed in frustration, not understanding why the Arcobaleno had been so cold lately. He gathered up his courage and decided to confront him about this, but the sound of his front door slamming open erased any thought of doing so. He jumped up as you stormed into the room, eyes blazing with anger.

He tried to ask you what was wrong but before he realized what was happening, you had already punched Reborn in the face. The impact sent him out of his chair and you pinned him down to the ground.

“Y/N-san!”

“You mother fucker! Tell me what you did!” You demanded, hands wrapped tight around the collar of his dress shirt. “I want the truth, Reborn!”

“Y/N-san, please calm down!” Tsuna didn’t know what to do. He knew he wasn’t physically strong enough to pull you off, but he also knew he had to do something. “Calm down, we can talk about it.”

“He set me up, Tsuna! He arranged it so Jirou would be there at the same time!” Your knuckles were turning white due to how tight you held him. They throbbed, demanding blood flow, but you couldn’t care less. You wanted answers, needed answers, and you’d get them.

“Why would he do that?”

“I don’t know!” You cried out, fighting back tears. “I don’t know, Tsuna!”

The young mafia leader set his hands on your shoulders. “We can’t solve the problem like this. Let him go,” It took some coaxing, but you finally released your grip on his shirt. He made you sit at the table closest to the doorway.

Reborn, who had remained quiet, rose to his feet. He wiped the small stream of blood from his split lip before leaning against the counter. His face was completely blank and his dark eyes that usually shined with mischievous intent were dull and devoid of emotion.

“Reborn, is there any truth to what she said?” Tsuna asked carefully, glancing at you to make sure you didn’t explode again. He stayed silent, so he turned to you instead. “Why do you say Reborn set you up?”

“I met with a mutual friend of Jirou’s and mine. Jirou told him that Reborn convinced him to go to the park with me that day. He wouldn’t have asked otherwise!”

Tsuna bit his lip in worry. “Is that true, Reborn?”

The Arcobaleno folded his arms across his chest and lowered his head so that his hat covered his eyes. “It is,”

You sprung up out of the chair but Tsuna held his hand up and you stayed put, hands clenched on the table. “Why? Why did you tell him to do that?”

A tense silence fell over the room, lasting a good few minutes before Reborn finally looked up at you. When he did, you froze at the ice in his eyes.

“Because I wanted him to see what you are; what you do. Did you really believe it would last, Y/N? Did you honestly think you could live a happy little life with that boy? He doesn’t love you. He never did. Did you know that he asked you out because of a dare? I did you a favor. You clearly couldn’t take care of it yourself.” And with that, Reborn left the room, leaving behind an ice-cold silence.

You fell onto the chair, your legs not able to hold your weight any longer. Your brain tried to process all of the information it had gathered over the past few days, but it seemed like the more it tried, the harder it failed to make sense of everything. Your head started to pound, feeling as if it would crack in half with the slightest of movement on your part. You didn’t know what to say. You didn’t even know what to feel.

Was Reborn right?

“Y/N-san?” Tsuna called to you, resting his hand on your shoulder gently like you might shatter into pieces if he grabbed you too tightly. “Are you okay?”

“I… I was a dare?” You sounded so lost, it broke Tsuna’s heart. “I was a dare, Tsuna?”

“I don’t know…” He replied, slowly pulling you into his arms.

“What do I do, boss? I don’t know what to do.”

“I think… I think you should confront him. Not just about that, but about that day. It’ll be hard, really hard, but it’s better than leaving things the way they are now. You have to do this. You can do this.”

“What if I’m not strong enough to face him?”

“That’s nonsense. You’re the strongest person I know.” He pulled back, cupping your cheeks and forcing you to look at him. “All those times I wanted to give up, all those times I refused to be the new boss of the Vongola, all those times I doubted myself… you never gave up on me. You were always there for me when I needed you. No matter how difficult the situation was, you never let me back down. Now it’s my turn.” He smiled encouragingly. “I know you’re strong enough.”

“Thank you, Tsuna.” And for the first time since the incident, you smiled.

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After nearly two days of convincing yourself that you were, indeed, strong enough to confront Jirou, you found yourself waiting outside the gates of Hyotei Gakuen. The longer you stood there waiting for tennis practice to end, the more nervous you got. You hated how scared and weak you were feeling. God, you felt like a scared little girl and it pissed you off.

Your phone buzzed in your pocket and you pulled it out to find a new message from Hiyoshi.

‘I’m about to leave the locker room’, it read, ‘Jirou is the last one in there. If you’re gonna do it, now’s your chance.’

Taking a deep breath, you hoisted yourself over the gate and sped over toward the team’s changing room, making sure to avoid the sightline of anyone that got too close. Hiyoshi passed by you just as you made it to the changing room and he punched you lightly on the arm – his way of saying ‘good luck’.

Another deep breath before pushing open the locker room door.

Jirou had already changed back into his uniform and was sitting on the bench, knelt over as he tied his shoes. He hadn’t noticed your entrance, giving you a few extra seconds to compose yourself.

He stood up, putting his bag on his back before turning toward the door and promptly freezing, eyes wide.

“Hey,” you called softly, shoving your hands into the pockets on your jeans as you leaned back against the door. “Can we talk?”

He didn’t respond, just clutched the strap of his bag tighter.

“Listen, I know you’re scared of me. I don’t blame you, okay? I get it.” Deep breath. “I’d never hurt you, Jirou. Not intentionally. I never wanted…”

“Me to know that you murder people for a living?” His voice was low, like he was afraid of speaking too loudly. The words still managed to slice through you. He was right, of course, but it hurt like hell hearing it from him.

“Yeah… I’m part of the mafia and my job is to kill scumbags and protect the innocent. I lied to you, okay? That much is obvious, but I’m not the only one that’s lied.”

His brow furrowed and he seemed almost angry. “What have I lied about?”

You swallowed down the lump in your throat, but your voice still cracked when you spoke. “I was a dare wasn’t I?”

Jirou’s eyes widened slightly in surprise. “W-What?”

“You asked me out because you were dared to, not because you liked me.” The pain was slowly starting to mold into anger, as it usually tended to do with you. “Don’t you dare look down on me Jirou Akutagawa. Yeah, I fucking lied, but at least I have the guts to admit it. I was trying to protect you, you were trying to protect yourself.” You paused for a moment, considering your next move.

After a quick internal debate, you pulled a necklace from your pocket and tossed it at him. It was the necklace he had bought for you shortly after you had started dating; a black diamond dragon surrounded by stainless steel. He knew how much you loved dragons and figured that you would love the pendant, which you did, but now it just burned a hole in your pocket. You had to get rid of it or you’d never be able to move on.

“Our whole relationship was built on lies from the ground up. It never would have worked.”

You turned around and left, and Jirou didn’t stop you.

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Rain fell lightly from the darkened sky, matching the mood that you felt. You were sitting on the Sawada’s porch, thinking about everything that had happened the past few days. Your heart was still hurting, but you understand that time heals all wounds.

Although your eyes were closed, you could sense the presence of the sun Arcobaleno approaching you. He didn’t say anything as he took a seat beside you, his arm bumping against your own.

You decided to swallow your pride; keeping it would do nothing. “I’m sorry for punching you,”

“You know how to apologize?”

You didn’t have to look at him to know he was smirking. Rather than the cold demeanor he had been using, he was back to his old self and it made you feel at ease like nothing had changed.

“Don’t get used to it.” You nudged his arm. “We cool?”

Reborn stood up and headed for the front door. “I’ve got a new job for you. If you think you can handle it,”

You smirked, following after the man.

You still thought that Reborn was an ass for what he did, but you came to realize that he was trying to protect you in his own twisted way. After all, Reborn is family, and you don’t turn your back on family.

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daesofthepen · 5 years

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So I really like KHR fics that make Namimori into a tightknit community of retired assassins, mafioso, etc. I would like to write a fic like that at some point.

Current ideas I’ve picked up from a variety of fic:

The idea that flames can be infused into items (I.E. rain flames into someone’s tea to calm them down or knock them out)

Like mentioned above, that Namimori is full of retired trained professionals. Added to this: You have to be Really Good in these professions to make it to retirement, so they’re all Pros in their fields.

Skies being able to harmonize with each other. I like the idea of each Sky being a “solar system” in a larger galaxy. Or at least, Skies harmonizing means everyone in both Sets gets a boost. They get even more boost if there are more than two Sky sets harmonized.

Kawahira and the Arcobaleno Curse isn’t the final boss antagonist of the fic. It could be aliens that arrive on Earth a la sci-fi movie, I just want it to have a different endgame fight. Not to mention, it would be cool if all that harmonizing-among-Skies power boosts had a proper antagonist to go against. Mafia-Earth vs Some-Aliens ftw! (Could also be, like, deep ocean species or underground species, but then I could feel bad cuz they already lived on Earth too...)

The girls of KHR getting more screentime. I’m tempted to have one of them be the protagonist of the fic tbh. I know some people do fem!Tsuna when they want a female protagonist, but there are perfectly canon female characters that already exist and don’t get enough screentime in both canon and fanfiction? I like Tsuna well enough, but I kinda want to write about someone else.

I like Haru, so it’ll probably be her. Plus some noncanon Sky Flames bc I want to experiment some with that.

Okay but like, consider a Sky in Namimori. They are young and civilian-raised, so they don’t realize they’re putting their Flames into the objects and locations they visit often. This means that when they visit the park, the playground emits Sky Flames for hours afterward. If they lay in the grass for long enough, the grass remains stained in Sky Flames for days. You could even go as far to say that their bathwater has Sky Flames, so it’s even in the plumbing of Namimori. Namimori becomes a town full of remnants of Sky Flames. The “harmony” element works to calm residents, similar to Rain Flames but less effective since it’s not what they’re for, and also increase their patriotism(?) for the town.

Consider: With Tsuna’s Sky Flames sealed, another Sky unknowingly gets claim for the town of Namimori without any other Sky contesting it. This is Namimori’s Sky.

Tsuna unlocks his Flames later on in life and -- even though he has stronger Sky Flames -- he doesn’t challenge for the claim. Tsuna’s personality always felt like someone who would enjoy following someone else’s lead more than leading himself. I can see him bowing to someone else’s leadership if that person wasn’t a murderous psycho out to kill him and his friends. Why fix what isn’t broken, after all.

Some thoughts on Flames and the quantity a person has: If a person has a parent who had active Rain Flames, that not only increases their chances of Rain Flames, but they would grow up to have more Rain Flames than some random schmuck without Flame active parents who just happened to unlock Rain Flames. And two parents with active Rain Flames would almost guarantee Rain Flames in their offspring AND their kids would have more of it. Yes, I’m taking the Naruto-chakra route.

So Haru, born of two civilian parents, would have less Sky Flames than Tsuna. To reverse on that whole only-follow-the-strong-and-”pure.” Sometimes the best guy for the job isn’t the strongest.

It’s also been forever since I’ve read KHR so I’m going by the wiki, which says Haru did gymnastics and went to the private all-girls school in Namimori. Probably will include some original characters to fill in as teachers and students to flesh out the town more. And -- of course -- the girls’ parents will all have backgrounds in all kinds of illegal activities.

Imagine: Haru goes to compete with another school from another town and most of the town shows up bc hell yeah that’s our Sky.

If I want the KHR girls to have more screentime, I might have them go to Haru’s school, too, or have non-school-specific clubs which they all join. It could be like a book club. Or a let’s-make-the-pervert-disappear Statistics club. The retired mafioso and assassin adults of Namimori would find it adorable and sometimes help by hinting at the best way to go about a plan.

On one hand, it makes sense that the seal on Tsuna’s Flames is done very well and doesn’t leak. On the other hand, Tsuna attracting Haru’s attention? Not that Haru would realize what is grabbing her attention for a long while. She might assume it’s a crush lmao just like canon.

They also meet earlier so Haru gets her crush sooner, so she can get over her crush earlier, too. :3

You know what let’s go full indulgent on this fic and also include Verde.

Let’s say that while most of the time Haru’s father is absent, maybe he works as a mathematician for a big tech company alongside engineers, he sometimes gets to go on work trips to Expos and conferences to help promote the company. After Haru’s mother died, Mr. Miura became determined to financially provide for their daughter, so she could go to whatever school she wanted and into whatever field she would choose to devote herself to.

Mr. Miura gets permission to take Haru to a conference, so she can look around, meet people, check out if any job descriptions interest her, etc. That’s where she meets Verde, who’s there pitching some of his inventions.

They talk, find common ground in their passions, and maybe -- completely by accident -- they harmonize.

I like to imagine Verde as a very straight-to-the-point kind of person, so through him Haru eventually starts learning about Flames and (to a lesser extent) the mafia.

Verde has many labs and hideyholes around the world, but he moves his main lab to Namimori. And because he’s a professional inventor, technician, etc., he isn’t just lurking. Verde gets contract work by the town of Namimori and maybe some other richer families around Namimori. It probably doesn’t pay as well as he deserves, but he also gets a direct say in the safety of his Sky, so. Also, he probably is hired online/overseas constantly. He’s, like, a working professional you guys.

But anyway, Namimori goes through a (not so) minor technological revolution. Hospitals get upgraded, there are now cameras with face-recognizing technology which keep track of everyone who goes in and out of Namimori. Official underground bunkers, We start getting sci-fi up in here.

Close to when Verde first arrives, he notices that Namimori is protected by Mist Flames, a barrier that just makes people notice Namimori less unless they were directly heading there. With some Flame sensors, Verde manages to track down the source/core of the system to Kawahira’s shop.

Verde figures out pretty quick who Kawahira is and, as an Arcobaleno, he HATES Kawahira. But Verde doesn’t try to kick him out of town because that Mist barrier? Super useful for protecting the town.

Through the combined efforts of Haru and the gang, Verde, and Namimori citizens, Kawahira and Verde agree to work together to try to come up with an alternative solution for the Arcobaleno curse.

Both of them have YEARS of notes, so it’s easier to figure out what they would need: Flame-based perpetual motion machine. The problem would be making a machine that works not just in theory. Gotta make sure that while the Flames cycle continuously through the machine, non is being lost because of subpar conductive metals, and the entire thing would need a material that is really good at keeping Flames IN the machine instead of being lost over time because a large surface area increases heat lost, etc etc.

Adding some money problems for realism. Not including Verde and Kawahira, who have a personal investment in this project, they would need to hire an entire team of engineers, mathematicians, maybe some electricians, and at least one accountant to keep track of spending. Most of which need to know about Flames already to not break omerta. And then on top of that, a lot of their prototypes will be experimenting with different materials for Flame conductivity, etc. This stuff gets expensive over time, even if they have a lot of money saved up.

But anyway, eventually they get a working prototype. It just happens to be absolutely minuscule compared to the size it will have to be in real life to support the entire PLANET. So Verde presents the prototype to Viper to ask for funding --because this small prototype would show that it IS possible-- and afterward, they have no more money problems. Plus, all the other Arcobaleno find out through the grapevine and all are more than happy to pitch in in any way they can.

So the project has the opportunity for smooth sailing.

And then the aliens arrive.

#katekyou hitman reborn #khr #katekyo hitman reborn #Fanfic ideas #this got long and it's barely at the aliens #i actually looked up perpetual motion machines #no one has made one that actually works in RL in case u're curious as to how hard it would be to make one #speaks #Sky Haru fic

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