The Girl

Reborn has observed for three years after he found her.

She was a girl in oversized boys' castoffs he met in King's Cross Station as he headed for Heathrow Airport to go to Italy for his next job.

He felt her unawakened potential as she talked to a really big guy who looked like someone who lived in the woods for years. He really stood out, but he figured Sunnydale Syndrome kicked in as the people pretended he, an unusual sight, doesn't exist. He then left the young child alone with a trunk, and a pet owl.

Poor girl had no idea what to do afterward.

'Hello.' he greeted her as she looked curiously down at him, as he used his Arcobaleno powers on her. 'I'm Reborn. You are?'

'I-I'm Lorelei Potter.' that's a lady-like name for someone who clearly did not have a good home life. 'What is it?'

'Wanna come with me? Where I'll go is probably better than where you're going to.'

'I hope so because I don't want to go back either.' said the girl. 'They're never home anyway.'

Her damning sentence caused Chaos in Hogwarts, as the Headmaster's many instruments about her shut down, and some shattered.

'N-no...it can't be...!' Albus Dumbledore gasped out as he rushed out of his office.

Last he checked, Hagrid is taking Lorelei to shopping...he better find those two fast!

In the meantime, Lorelei happily chatted away with Reborn as she took him to Diagon Alley.

'I hated the fact that Hagrid rushed a lot!' she complained. 'I wanted to ask Gringotts about the accounts I never knew I had for years! And I wanted to buy more books to learn about this world I didn't know existed! But he was bent on limiting me when we had all time in the world and for some reason has very biased opinions...' she ranted as she headed for Gringotts. 'Good thing I took my key so I have it...I really want to ask about a lot of things...and does Platform 9 3/4 even exist?!'

Reborn found out about a new community through his second student who has no idea as well, and only got wind of it not long ago.

But it was a load of drama.

Lorelei believed for years from her horrible relatives that her parents were jobless bums who died in a car crash after blowing money in a casino in hopes of a quick-rich scheme...when the truth was her parents died as heroes and left her a huge fortune, and a will that needed opening up but remained locked by her self-appointed Magical Guardian but with her wishes, she can unlock it and because Reborn is of a magical nature himself given his circumstances...Lorelei gladly switched to him even though they just met!

The poor girl was desperate and willing to do absolutely anything for a better turn in life. That, and she's naive and too trusting. A bad mix.

While he DID accept being her Magical Guardian because the ex-guardian Albus Dumbledore, greatly screwed up with her that the Goblins quickly dropped him, and made arrangements on Lorelei's wishes. Lorelei opened the will...and she was furious. She wasn't even supposed to go to the Dursleys!

But she put up with them for ten years of her life, as she just turned eleven a few days ago, and she wasn't too happy.

So are the goblins because not following the Wills of the deceased is the same thing as overstepping and breaching of clients by outsiders. Reborn questioned if there were withdrawals and taking of family belongings Lorelei did not know about...there were...and the livid girl was willing to pay them 50% of what was taken if they retrieve it and she wanted her family's things back safely in her vaults.

The reason for the rushed shopping, was to keep these dark truths from her and she was furious, and she demanded charges. She intended on making them pay. Hard.

Finally, she wanted a thorough check-up out of paranoia...and she has an incomplete and accidentally-applied, but dark curse on herself, other than severe malnutrition, poor eyesight, and near non-existent immunizations she should have had but never got! Not to mention, blocks on her magic. The standard Parental Block, which was normal to stop childhood accidental magic but the other block WASN'T. The other block was blocking her access to 70% of her powers, and inhibiting her natural abilities! She want both gone!

She willingly paid for it all without hesitation, while Reborn reads her schoolbooks as she was taken for a thorough treatment she wanted and paid for, effectively spending the same amount he was paid to tutor Dino Cavallone. Schoolbooks she'll never touch again after she was done with them as she no longer wanted to go to Hogwarts, bearing a severe grudge to the man who ran it, and the man who kept all this from her. She was angry, resentful, and had enough contempt to bake a wedding cake with, flavored with animosity for icing.

Him being her Guardian now means he gets paid for being so every month, with monthly stipends for his charge to spend on and since she would soon be his student, she has to look the part.

His pay as her guardian, totals yet again, funnily enough, what Don Cavallone paid for in hiring him to teach his son as his dying wish. The pay in question divided into 84 months totaling seven years so he gets cuts every month, which wasn't so bad. But he gets paid for seven years until she's an adult in the Wizarding World's laws, so he'll be her guardian and tutor for seven years...not bad, not bad at all, yah?

No one calling themselves students of the World's Strongest Hitman would look like...what Lorelei looks like a week ago.

It took a week for Lorelei to come back.

A week ago, she was so tiny, skin and bones swimming in her obese cousin's castoffs. Now, she's as tall as any eleven years old kids out there, and 'finally had meat under her skin'. Whatever the goblins did, she's now in goof physical condition. He can finally buy her a decent closet. She also got back many magic books, her parents' belongings, and her family heirloom, an Invisibility Cloak. She valued the items more than money taken at any rate, and gladly gave the retrieved money to the bank as a bonus to their surprise, since for the poor kid, her parents' memories in the items were worth more to her than gold.

The final thing she did, was activate the will her parents left behind, and sent copied letters to the beneficiaries, before happily leaving with Reborn, wanting freedom, and they're now headed to Heathrow together to fly to Italy, after purchasing books she wanted just so she could learn culture and Reborn will be the one to teach her, in order to find, pros and cons and flaws and loopholes to exploit.

For three years, teaching her was a pleasure though he has to occasionally leave her for jobs, and hid her in a safehouse. So he had to read and reprint her books. Said reprints, is how he sees things after 'deciphering' her books, so she's smarter than her race, considering what he saw in their books.

He taught her Conduct, Morals and Etiquette, Italian Vanity, Mafia World, Faces to Know, Languages. Mathematics. Computers. Science. Physical and Muscular Conditioning. Swimming. Acrobatics. Parkour. Assassination Skills. Combat Skills. Weapons Skills. Firearms. Bomb Construction and Disposal Skills. Flame Training and she turned out to be a Cloud. Deduction Skills. Puzzles and Logic. Mythology. Art. Music. Alcohol Training. And of course, the stuff in her books that he 'edited' and her mind is a fortress, good against Illusionists. She is also an accomplished actress, and infiltrator...and is learning how to seduce from Reborn as her newest lesson. Well, legal age is 13-14 in the Mafia World, everyone is fair game.

Granted, it gave him one hell of a headache, but a challenge is fun. He never had a witch or wizard for a student before and she's an eager learner as she would do anything for freedom and keeping her freedom with her. Once she graduates from his training, she could choose how to live her life. As a Mafioso or as Lady Potter. Lorelei also keeps buying updates just so she's not out of the loop and fully-aware of what goes on in the Wizengamot through a goblin spy she's hired. By age 13, she's good enough for jobs befitting a mafioso her skill level and with Reborn endorsing her, she quickly made a name.

She was Black Death to most people, because when arriving to her destination to where her quarry is, she wears a black leather catsuit with an open front(an outfit she shocked him with), a black visor that obscured half her face and her normally-wavy hair made temporarily straight armed to the teeth and after that, lord help you. Since then, she also takes jobs on her own now that she's proven her credibility after Reborn's endorsement. On her first few jobs, Leon is with her to record her progresses and how she does her jobs. Utter chilling pragmatism worthy of the moniker she's received and she does what she does because she is the student of the world's best and strongest hitman she feels she couldn't do less or tarnish his reputation. What a good girl. But some others called her Black Pearl due to her black hair and outfit that greatly contrasted with her ivory skintone being the 'pearl' in the other name and the irony was, black pearls actually exist!

Being his student, he was able to get her a Driver's License through Mafia Channels, and she owns a bike, as she doesn't like to drive a car, preferring the thrill of speedy motorcycles, and how she can freely avoid traffic on two wheels.

On her fourteenth birthday, he was called by Don Cavallone.

From a scrawny girl she once was, to a growing maiden of Patrician Beauty due to her lineage, being a witch from a noble house. And boy did she take advantage of her Cloud Flames in her feminine vanity! Her hair is the blackest of black and very vibrant, using Cloud Flames on the pigments in her hair. She propagated the effects of beauty products enough that its several times more effective than normal, hence gaining even ivory skintone. She also propagated her own puberty growth, so she's tall by normal teenager standards as years of malnutrition stunted her, and even went as far as planning her BWH Measurements as she took into account her pear-shaped body, and used magic to stop anymore further developments at least until she's twenty.

He was asked to make his only son a fine Mafia Boss before the Cavallone Family collapses.

At the same time, Lorelei got mail from a Godfather she didn't know she had. Yet another fuck-up by the government of her country's magical society.

Hoo, boy.

'Reborn, I wanna check this out.' said Lorelei, after getting a letter from one Sirius Black. 'I want to see this for myself.' she said, giving him the letter for him to look into.

'A godfather who put up with quite a fuck-up eh?'

'Unfortunately.' Lorelei grumbled. 'I'm really tempted to kill em' all in hopes they'll be replaced but that would leave a vacuum and a possibly worser fuck-up which is frustrating. For now I'm content with kidnapping him and bringing him to Italy.'

'Well, good luck with that. It should be easy to kidnap him given the incompetence of your race.' said Reborn.

'Yes, but I'd rather be triple-sure.' said Lorelei. 'They're fond of firing spells behind one's back so I'll gladly be trigger happy...I'm preparing my weapons and concealed weaponry already.' she said, taking out her special coat that fools any weapons detection devices, and a coat with a muggle-repelling charm that makes security not do a body check on her. Her guns, knives, wires, needles and her wand are all there. As well as her licenses, and some cash.

Hedwig, her pet owl was also trained in more than just Owl Post...she was trained to fly in ways that she can be offensive with her beak and claws, or hell, be a killer in her own way only at night, by assassinating with a poisoned syringe or poisoned claws that can easily be washed away with water, to clawing out a good chunk of flesh by the nape, enough to damage the spinal cord, effectively killing her target.

Smart bird.

But Hedwig is rarely used as a weapon, unless Lorelei is sure there's nothing that can kill her beloved owl, or she will kill what would kill her dear pet so Hedwig can safely do her job.

Reborn knew Lorelei came a long way as his first student. From an abused and castigated, skin-and-bones girl to the deadly beauty she is today and she's someone he's proud of because she is truly determined. In three or four more years, she's really earned it, and looked at the young assassin like he would a daughter and she definitely respects him a lot.

She'll be fine.