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Chapter 7: Blown

Arashi hummed a happy tune as she scrubbed the dishes in the kitchen. Reborn had invited her to Tsuna's house after work for a gathering, and she was excited to see everyone again. They were all weird in their own ways, but they seemed to be nice people. She couldn't wait!

Besides, she still had to tell Reborn about that "robbery" incident.

It had been a few weeks since it happened, and Masami and Oyaji were constantly reminding her that it was "just a bunch of Goddamn bastards that wanted to take all their money" and "nothing more than bad luck". Arashi smiled and went along with their story, but of course she didn't believe a word of it. The threats those "robbers" uttered seemed to be much more than just about money, and Arashi never actually saw them take any money or valuable goods. Those men were more like interrogators (or threateners) than robbers.

The most suspicious thing since the incident, though, was that Masami's attitude toward Arashi had changed completely. She no longer yelled at her and she became much more lenient. She even called Arashi by her name! (No more "GIRL! GET OVER HERE!" Hah.) Occasionally, when Hibari visited for free tea (because Arashi wouldn't dare charging him for the tea – the money came out of her pocket), Masami told her his drink was on the house and that she could chat with him as long as she wanted if there weren't many customers around. Sometimes Arashi even got to have a normal conversation with Masami to get to know her better. It was scary. It was like Masami was treating her like some sort of saviour or God…

~x~

"Bye, Masami-san! Bye, Oyaji!" Arashi waved at the two as she exited the tea house. The two waved cheerfully back at her as she set off to Tsuna's house.

Arashi had heard a loud buzz of commotion and voices way before she reached Tsuna's house. She bet that if Hibari was patrolling this part of the town, he certainly would've gotten a headache! When she got to Tsuna's house, the front door was wide open. Arashi stepped in and almost got knocked down by a couple of screaming kids.

"Woah there!" Arashi exclaimed, picking up the two squirming kids by the backs of their collars, "Be careful!"

One of them stopped squirming. She had an oval head with a single black braid at the top of her head. "Please let go, miss," she said politely. Arashi smiled at her adorableness.

The other kid, on the other hand, squirmed even more, causing Arashi to lose her balance and drop him. Arashi quickly put the braided girl down and awkwardly patted the poor kid who fell on the head.

"I'm so sorry!" she exclaimed. "Are you alright?!"

"Lambo…must…to…ler…rate…" the child mumbled. He took several deep breaths. Arashi let out a sigh of relief. For a cute little kid that looked like a cow, he sure was good at self-control!

The child suddenly burst into tears and wailed thunderously, knocking Arashi out for a few nanoseconds.

"Lambo! I-Pin!" Tsuna exclaimed, coming to the rescue. He spotted the poor brunette rubbing her ear. "Arashi-san, are you okay?!"

Arashi nodded weakly. "My ear is ringing a bit, but I think I'm fine…Poor Lambo doesn't seem to be okay though!" She patted the crying child on his bouncy afro.

By this time, the commotion had attracted everyone to come look. (Except for Nana who was busy cooking away as usual)

"STOP CRYING, YOU STUPID COW!" Gokudera yelled. "IT'S REALLY ANNOYING!"

"Gokudera! You're not helping!"

Lambo's cries increased in volume in response to Gokudera. He also started lashing out and pulling things out of his afro – candies, pink toy grenades, wrappers, half eaten apples…and a bunch of other things that Arashi didn't know could fit into that small mass of hair.

Suddenly, he pulled out a giant purple cylinder.

Tsuna screamed in horror as it landed on Arashi and a loud pop sounded. Smoke filled the area and everyone coughed.

~x~

Arashi rubbed her eyes. The smoke had stung a bit. It smelled really smoky and damp.

And it was really, really quiet.

Arashi squinted an eye open. It was dark…too dark to be Tsuna's house. Maybe something was wrong with her eyes?

NOOO! Arashi thought, frantically shaking her head and waving her arms. "OW!"

Arashi opened both of her eyes completely. Her arms had several paper-thin cuts and they hurt a lot. What's more, there was a complicated arrangement of thin wires in front of her.

She gingerly twisted her head to look around.

In fact, she was completely surrounded by a web of these thin wires.

Arashi freaked out on the inside. WHAT THE HECK?! HOW DID I GET HERE?! HOW AM I GOING TO GET OUT?!

She took several deep breaths to calm herself down.

Well, she thought as she observed her surroundings, if I somehow managed to get tangled in

the middle of all this, then there must be a way out!

~x~

"What the fuck?"

Everyone looked up and saw a tall female silhouette behind the smoke.

"It must be Arashi-san from ten years later!"

The smoke cleared to reveal the older Arashi. Her wavy brown hair was tied up in a high ponytail and she was dressed in black from head to toe. She had a few thin cuts on her face, and her hazel eyes were dark and stormy. Her pale lips were pressed into a firm line.

"I just had to get blasted right when I'm in the middle of something dangerous…" Arashi said, obviously annoyed.

"This Arashi is so much darker and more serious than the younger one…" Gokudera muttered to himself.

Suddenly, Lambo and I-Pin screamed and jumped away from Arashi, holding onto Tsuna for dear life.

Arashi blinked and looked down at her hand. "Oh," she said and sheathed her silver dagger, which was tainted with blood.

Tsuna inched away slowly. "Hehe…hehe…so scary…"

She walked over to Reborn and squatted down to his level, making creaky metal sounds in the process. "Please smack some sense into the younger me."

"Hmm…" Reborn responded, seemingly in deep thought.

"You're holding back. Stop being so nice to her."

"HIII?!" Tsuna cringed. "Reborn is nice? Why is he always so mean and kicking me?!"

In response, Reborn kicks Tsuna hard in the butt, sending him flying across the room. "It's just you, Dame-Tsuna."

"REBORN! THAT HURT!" Tsuna cried.

"You asked for it."

From his peripheral vision, Gokudera noticed that Arashi's eyes softened and the corners of her lips twitched slightly upwards.

~x~

Arashi carefully pinched a wire with her hands (receiving more cuts in the process) to test their strength, only to find that they were hard…like a very thin string of glass.

That's awesome! I can easily smash through these and be free!

She covered her eyes with one arm and gave her foot and other arm a good swing. The sound of glass shattering made her feel relieved that her plan actually worked…

~x~

The sound of metal shifted Tsuna's attention back to Arashi. She had stood up and was unsheathing her dagger.

"5 minutes is almost up," she stated.

"Arashi-san, will you be safe?" Tsuna asked.

"I will be," she replied, her face void of any expression. "But you'll be extremely lucky if you see the younger me still intact when she gets back. If she gets back."

"Haha, of course she'll be back and intact!" Yamamoto piped.

"EXTREMELY INTACT!" Ryohei added.

~c~

The sound of glass shattering did not stop.

She peeked an eye open and saw that the entire web of glass wires was falling apart.

A humming sound began as the glass shattering sound diminished, growing louder and louder, closer and clos-

BAM

~x~

Light flooded around her, penetrating her eyelids.

She coughed and opened an eye, only to see smoke. Her ears were ringing, but she could still smell…the scent of smoke and…food?

"Arashi! You're back!" Yamamoto's cheerful voice was the first sound she could hear.

"Thank goodness!" Tsuna exclaimed.

"YOU'RE EXTREMELY STILL INTACT!" Ryohei yelled.

"What the heck…?" Arashi replied, still confused as to what happened.

"You got blasted into the future." Reborn stated.

The smoke finally cleared and Arashi stared at Reborn, her eyes wide. "I got blasted into what?"

"The future. Ten years later. Lambo blasted you with his ten-year bazooka, so your future self and you swapped spots for 5 minutes."

"Wow…" Arashi mused as she found a chair to sit on. "That sounds…so farfetched, but SO COOL!"

"Dinner is ready, everyone!" Nana exclaimed. "Come over and eat!"

"Tell us what happened in ten years, Arashi! What did you see?"

"Well," Arashi began as she dug into her food, "(Thank you Nana! Your cooking is always delicious!) I was stuck in this dark, damp place…"

~x~

Later that night, after writing in her journal about her crazy adventure today, Arashi plopped onto her bed and fell fast asleep.

~x~

"You."

Yes?

It's that woman again. Everything looked the same. Except this time, her hazel eyes were no longer sparkling with light. Her face was decorated with thin cuts and a frown.

She seemed more…real.

"Never, NEVER get blasted by the bazooka EVER again."

What?

That doesn't make sense…why are you talking about the past?

"Because I'm not some 'fortune teller'."

Then who are you?

"I'm you from the future."

...Because every OC has to get blasted by the bazooka at least once.

I hope this bazooka blast wasn't too cliché though! I thought the blast was a pretty justified reason to finally let you in on who the fortune lady is ;D

I was actually going to end the chapter at the BAM! part, but then I know I probably won't get around to posting another chapter for a bit so that'd be really mean leaving a cliff-hanger like that xD

Hope you enjoyed!