For as long as Tsuna could remember, his cousin Narumi had always been there for him.

Narumi was older than him by a good ten years, but his cousin had never really acted like a kid as his mother would like to say. She was the one that encouraged him with his schoolwork. She was the one, who spent the countless nights helping him study for his exams. She was the only person who believed he could be someone and for that he was grateful.

She was also the one, who listened to him whenever he complained about his dead-beat father. She was the one who took his side whenever his mother called him, the nickname of no-good Tsuna. She would always glare at his mother, telling her that he was anything but no good.

To Tsuna: Narumi was his saviour.

However, he could not deny that she was overprotective over him because why else would she decide to become a teacher? And why else would she decide to work in his school as his homeroom teacher? She could have gone anywhere and could have studied anything. Yet she decided to become a teacher in a small town. Till this day, he did not understand her reasons.

Hopefully, his cousin would not find out that he skipped class.

"And where do you think you are going, my dear cousin?"

Why did he have the worse luck?

"N-Nowhere, Narumi…" Tsuna stuttered, clicking his legs together before twisting his body around to look at her.

His cousin stood in front of his locker, hands folded against her chest and eyes twinkling with mischief as she waited for him to answer. If one did not know his cousin then they would think they were safe. However, Tsuna knew Narumi very well and despite the mischief in her eyes, his cousin had an aura of fury surrounding her. She never liked it when he skipped school.

"Nowhere, huh? Then why aren't you attending class?"

"I'm sick."

The blond-haired woman raised her eyebrow, "You know I am not an idiot, right? I can tell that you aren't physically sick but maybe emotionally sick? You look like you have gotten your heartbroken," she said, her voice carried a slight hint of tiredness along with some understanding. It seemed like his cousin always seemed to have some clue on what was wrong with him.

"You are not wrong," Tsuna admitted, looking down at his feet. There was no way he could look his cousin in the eye at his admission. Narumi was a lot of things but she was not understanding when it came to love. She always raised her voices at the girls whenever she caught them ogling one of the boys. You should be focusing on school and not some boy. Those were always his cousin's words whenever she saw some girl daydreaming about some boy.

"Did you get the balls to ask Sasagawa-san out and get rejected?" His cousin asked, her voice softening as she stared at him with sad eyes.

He shook his head. "I-I didn't confess to her but I found out that she was dating Mochida-senpai."

Narumi arched her eyebrow, lips thinning at his news. She looked out at the window, where there was nothing but the trees and the birds surrounding them. Her blue eyes showed no emotions as Tsuna waited for her to say something. Would she scold him? Would she tell him to go back to class? Was she going to scream at him for being pathetic like she did with the girls?

"It is better that you didn't confess to her," she declared quietly, tearing her eyes away from the window. "I couldn't understand what you saw in her. Don't get me wrong, Sasagawa-san is a very cute and nice girl but she never did anything to make you fall in love with her. Shouldn't you fall in love with someone that defends you from the kids that bully you? Shouldn't you be with someone that accept you for who you are? Who notices you? Not once have I ever seen her defend you."

Tsuna chewed on his lip as his cousin tucked a strand of her blond-hair behind her ear. Someone who defended him? The only person who seemed to defend him was Narumi. No one noticed him and even when they did, they wanted his cousin's number. How could he hope to find someone when no one really seemed to be on his side? It was not like he could fall in love with the woman that practically raised him.

"What do you know about relationships? You always get tense whenever Mum tries to set you up with boys or whenever some man tried to ask you out."

The young woman tensed at the mention of her aversion to men. "I have my reasons for avoiding relationships but I have seen enough bad relationships to tell you that you deserve better," she whispered as she placed her hands on his hair. Her eyes carried a sadness and mournfulness that Tsuna could never understand.

"What if I don't find someone better?"

The young woman shook her head. "You will find someone better than Kyoko but it might not be today. It might not be tomorrow but you will move on from your heartbreak. It is just going to take a lot of work…which is why I am going to pretend that I never saw you."

"Narumi-neechan…"

"Yeah?"

"Thank you for not yelling at me…I know that you don't like it when you see a student not focusing on their work, but it really means a lot to me." Tsuna admitted, bowing down. He felt a pair of gentle arms wrapped around him. Tsuna looked up to see his cousin giving him the gentle smile that she only seemed to give him.

"It is your first heartbreak and I am not a monster to make you go to class when you are clearly in a lot of pain," his cousin whispered, her hands combing through his hair. "But I will be bringing your homework to you and I am going to make sure that you study everything you miss."

Well there goes his hope that his cousin would allow him to mope around at home.

It had been twenty-four years since Naruto Uzumaki was reborn as Narumi Sawada. Twenty-four years since her teammate murdered her in cold blood because he wanted them to fight. It had been twenty-four years since she woke up to find some woman calling her Narumi and apologizing to her for leaving her in this world. It had been more than eighteen years since this body's father died, leaving her to be raised by her uncle.

Her life as Narumi wasn't all that bad. Despite the loss of her second-set of parents at a young age, her uncle and his wife loved her. She had an adorable cousin who looked almost like her first father with his spikey hair. She had a good job even if her colleagues were a bunch of assholes. It wasn't adventurous like a shinobi, but Narumi liked being a teacher. The teachers of Naruto's life shaped her, helped her become the woman she was and Narumi wanted to be that that teacher.

Her female students might think she was evil for not understanding their heartaches but Narumi wanted the best for them. How many times had Naruto been disappointed by the actions of her female teammate? She wanted her students to have goals for themselves, especially her female students.

Was it wrong for her to be harsh on them?

She curled her lips into a tiny tired smile as she grabbed her bag from under her office table. This was not the time to be sad, Narumi decided. Her students were young kids, one day they would thank her for being harsh on them. Naruto had became grateful to all her teachers even if some of their teaching methods…were questionable. When they become successful people then they would thank her.

Yup, Narumi decided as she walked out of the school gates. Her students and cousin would thank her for being harsh on them. They would understand she did it because she loved them, not because she didn't have a heart.

Thud.

The young woman rubbed her forehead, where she could feel a slight throbbing pain. In the back of her mind, Kurama must be laughing at her misery. The fox always complained about her lack of awareness. He thought her choice of occupation was idiotic, was beneath her since she had been a powerful kunoichi. Naruto Uzumaki did not mind getting her hands dirty but Narumi preferred a simple life.

Rather she did not like the idea of dirtying her hands with blood.

She blinked as her eyes took in the sight of a tall foreign man looming over her. Mid-twenties, Narumi thought, pushing herself off the ground. Single? There was no ring on his hand. Fedora hat? He might be rich. Correction, he was rich if the suit he was wearing was of any indication. He wasn't a bad person if he wore something orange. Anyone who wears orange must be a decent person.

No one could hate the colour orange.

"I'm very sorry for bumping into you," she smiled at the quiet fedora-wearing man. The young man stared at her, black eyes scanning her like he was analysing her very being. She blinked when the man knelt down to the ground, where several test papers were scattered. Shit, how couldn't I pay attention to this? I spent the whole break putting the names in order! This must be a sign of bad luck.

"So you are the Math teacher?" The man asked, his voice laced with amusement and curiosity. His black eyes twinkled with an unfamiliar emotion that Narumi could not pick up. She felt a stirring of annoyance but pushed it down. He was a stranger, who didn't know anything about her. She should not feel irritated that he found it amusing that she was a Math teacher. Although she wondered how he knew that she was the Math teacher.

"How did you know I teach Math?"

The man arched his eyebrow and pointed to the test paper in his hand, where the equations and the numbers were clearly displayed to the whole world. Her cheeks burned at her silliness and there was a temptation to try and dig her head under the ground. How could she be so stupid? How could she not think before she ask? Narumi cried to herself, snatching the papers from his hands.

"How long have you been working here?" The man asked, his voice laced with so much curiosity that Narumi felt the hairs on her back prickling. She didn't know this man yet he seemed to be asking to many questions.

"Two years." She thinned her lips. "Why are you standing in front of my school?"

"I was out for a stroll."

Lies, her mind whispered as her blue eyes took in the man's appearance. Binoculars hanged around his neck, telling her that he had been observing people. She chewed on her bottom lip as the memories of Ero-Sennin flooded into her mind. The pervert used to carry those binoculars, telling Naruto that it was for his research. Her heart ached like it always did whenever she remembered the people who shaped Naruto's life.

"Who were you observing?" The man raised his eyebrow and Narumi could only shrugged her shoulders. "You don't look like the kind of guy that observes bird…I think it will be too boring for a guy like you."

The man's eyes twinkled with mirth as if her observation was amusing to him. It probably was. "Didn't anyone tell you not to judge a book by its cover, Sawada Narumi?"

Narumi tensed at the mention of her name while the man smirked at her. I never told him my name, she thought to herself as she numbly took the remaining papers from his hands. How did the man know her name? She was certain that this was their first time meeting each other. The test papers didn't have her name and her wallet hadn't fallen off. So how did he know her name?

Was she dealing with a stalker?

Or was there something else that she didn't know about?

Iemitsu's niece was a very interesting young woman, Reborn decided as he entered his student's house. From the files he had read about the young woman as well as his observations, he knew that she cared a great deal for Tsuna. When all the students and teachers insulted his new charge, the woman tried her hardest to build him up. In fact if he hadn't taken the time to observe her, he would have presumed she was an ordinary civilian like her uncle said she was.

Narumi Sawada was anything but ordinary. The muscle tone in her arms indicated that the young woman trained herself and the way she carried herself was not that of a civilian woman. It was strange when he considered that her whole life had been ordinary just like her parents wished for her. Yet her observation skills were higher than of a normal civilian, if her observation skills was of any indication.

He slipped one hand into his pocket while another hand turned the door knob. Behind the door, he could hear his new student and his mother arguing over the flyer that Reborn placed in their mailbox. He pushed the door ajar and slipped into the boy's room.

Reborn curled his lips in disgust at the sight of the piles of manga, which were thrown carelessly in the ground.

"A Home Tutor?" His student yelled. "Narumi-neechan have been helping me with my schoolwork! And I'm doing fine in school!"

"I know Naru-chan has been helping you with your tests but I want your cousin to have a life," Nana shook her head. "She spends more time worrying about you then trying to find a nice man to settle down. If we lessen her workload then maybe she will finally settle down and have some kids."

His student pulled a face. "Narumi-neechan will tell you that it is her life and you shouldn't tell her to settle down."

"Your cousin is twenty-four years old and not once have I seen her gone out on a date with a nice boy," Nana cried. "If she doesn't start dating now then she might be too old to find a nice man to settle down. I understand that she wants her career but she needs to focus on other things."

"Narumi-neechan is going to become very angry if she hears you say that." Tsuna pointed out. "And a home tutor won't fix the problem."

"We don't know, do we?" Nana nodded her head and handed her son the flyer. "And the offer was very good too! How many people can find a guy who claimed he would raise any kid to be a leader for the next generation without payment! He just wants free food and a place to live while he helps you."

The boy narrowed his eyes, he traced the words in the flyer and glared at his mother. "It is a scam! Narumi-neechan is going to scream at us for this."

"I think you are making your cousin sound scarier than she really is, Tsu-kun."

The boy feared his cousin more than his mother, Reborn mused, leaning against the wall. Iemitsu stated in the files that his son was not the brightest crayon in the box, but the boy had enough brains to smell a scam. There might be piles of manga on the floor and the messiness of the room indicated Tsuna was a slacker, but there was some potential in him—his answer to his mother showed he had a brain.

Once he was finished with the introduction, he was going to make that kid cleaned his room. Reborn expected perfection from his student and that included a clean room for them to sleep in.

"He is probably a tutor from a professional business school," Nana clapped her hands together. "And he might be good-looking so maybe I could set your cousin up with him."

"Narumi-neechan will chew him alive," Tsuna retorted. "And I don't need a tutor. I am doing good in school so there is no need for me to be tutored."

Now would be the time to introduce himself.

"Chaos," he stepped between the mother and son, analysing the nervous boy and then to the posters around the wall before looking at the shelf. There was barely any photos of the boy with his parents, which was to be expected as Nana didn't spend a lot of time with her son. However there were many photos of the boy with his cousin. He knew from observing the two of them that Tsuna was very close to his cousin. It was to be expected as Narumi had been raised along side him. "I arrived three hours earlier than expected, but as a service I will evaluate you."

"Who are you?"

Reborn offered the woman a smirk. "I'm Reborn, the home tutor that you called for."

His smirk widened when the woman clapped her hand together. He felt his lips twitched as the woman took her time to take in his appearance, eyes lingering on his curly sideburns and his build. The look on her eyes told him that she planned to push him with her niece, which was a terrible idea. Narumi Sawada was a beautiful woman but he was not interested in relationships.

From what his student said, it was the same for the young woman.

"Are you single?"

"Mum!"

"Yes but I am more interested in helping your son reach his potential then to date," Reborn stated, keeping his voice steady. The mother frowned, looking put down at his words, while the young boy relaxed his shoulders. It seemed like his student was very protective of his cousin. It was good. A good boss must be protective of his family members, even if said family member can take care of herself.

Why was there a man's shoes, Narumi asked herself, kneeling down to look at a pair of expensive shoes. They seemed to be an expensive band if the design was of any indication. She might not have any care for fashion but the blonde was knowledge enough to know the difference between good quality shoes and bad quality. Did they have an important guest that Nana forgot to tell them about? Could it be that man her uncle brought to the house that one time?

If Iemitsu came back then wouldn't Nana be happy? The woman made it so obvious about the return of her husband.

Narumi shook her head, slipped her hands into her pocket and quietly made her way to the kitchen. The smell of pasta engulfed her nose as well as the smell of coffee. She wrinkled her nose. Did Nana forget that she hated the smell of coffee? The bitterness of the drink was enough to ruin her nose, not to mention that it tasted like crap. She probably would not think like that if it was not for her enhanced taste and smell.

"Hey Nana, I want to…" Narumi trailed off when she caught sight of the strange man that she had met earlier. He sat on the dining table, sipping on the disgusting thing called coffee. He tilted his hat at her, lips curled at a smirk and the blond-haired woman composed herself. She curled her lips into a tight smile at the man and then glanced at the woman, who seemed obvious to the tension.

"Nana, why do we have a strange man on the table?"

"Oh Reborn is Tsuna's tutor," Nana said, her voice filled with so much joy that Narumi felt the temptation to throttle her. "I found a flyer saying that the man was willing to tutor Tsuna in return for free food and a place to live."

Was she kidding me? Did she just read a flyer and decide to let a man that we knew nothing about inside this house! For all we know he might be a rapist! Or a drug addict! Narumi yelled inside her mind. She clenched her hands into a tight fist, willing her rising temper to cool down. She must not yell at the woman, not when Nana had been so good to her for the last couple years of her second life.

She really wanted to question her sanity.

"And did you ask my opinion on whether Tsuna needs a tutor or not? I work in his school and I know what his grades looks like," Narumi reminded her aunt. "He is not bad enough to need a tutor and I have been helping him with his schoolwork, so why did you decide to do this to him? And why didn't you find someone better?'

"Well I want you to find a nice man to settle down, and you can't exactly settle down if you are always helping Tsuna study," Nana stated her words like it was a fact. Have you ever thought that I don't want to settle down? All the men in this stupid town are either slow or weak, Narumi thought to herself. This was the one thing which annoyed her. Nana could not accept the fact that she didn't want to have her life.

How could she ever think of having kids when she was certain that she would be a terrible mother?

"And why him?"

"Because I am the best," the black-haired man called out. Narumi swirled her head around at the smirking man. She curled her lips at the relaxed posture of the man. At first glance, he looked harmless but she knew better. He might try to act like a cat but he was a panther in disguise. His posture screamed killer and it worried her.

She was going to do some research on him.

"Where is Tsuna?"

"He's sleeping," Nana informed her. "I think he got bored during the time that Reborn was evaluating him. The poor boy was lying on the floor unconscious."

Narumi narrowed her eyes and turned her head to look at the man, who had an innocent smile on his face. Tsuna might be a lazy kid, Narumi would not deny it, but he never fell asleep when someone talked to him. He might get distracted but he never fell asleep. It was the one of the few things Narumi was proud of her cousin. The other being that he was a good kid with a good head on his shoulder.

She just wished that he didn't spend his time moping about.

"I wonder why…"

"Mum, I'm going out to eat!" Tsuna called out, peaking his head through the door. He looks better, she thought to herself, making her way towards the fridge. She had been worried that the boy was still going to be down in the dumps because of that girl. If the brat was ready to eat outside then he was going to be fine.

She felt worried when she saw Reborn following her cousin.

Narumi prayed to God that her cousin was going to be fine.

A/N: Please review and tell me what you think