Nakuka has never been a child of normality. She must have been born under a star of oddity or maybe she was a child genius, or at least, that's how she assumed Nana Sawada saw it. She would never blame the woman if she did think that her child was broken, defective if you will. Hell, she isn't too far from calling herself that. She was just a cold, hard bitch of a teenager stuck into the body of a child after all. She never expected there to be an afterlife for someone like her. Then again, she never thought too much about what would happen after she died.

She took the whole situation in stride, though. She didn't act surprised when she woke up on a pink bed with a happy anime girl depicted on the covers, she simply went with the flow and went downstairs for breakfast. The only thing that annoyed her in this life was her "brother", Sawada Tsunayoshi. He was high-pitched, useless, and a cry baby. He was everything she wasn't and he pissed her off.

So, it was no surprise when she received him with a cold glance and an dismissive tone once she got to know him. He seemed to have gotten the vibe from her that she didn't want him around, so he generally stayed away from her, only to talk to her when their mother asked him to get her for whatever meal that was sitting on the kitchen table. She merely passed off her boredom by criticizing him and insulting him, but other than that, she generally stayed in the vicinity of her room.

"Na-chan! Good morning, how's my birthday girl?" Nana, the happy go-lucky woman, smiled at the dark brown haired girl as she grunted in response and took her usual seat across from her son. The response didn't bother her as she was used to Nakuka's nonverbal responses, she was even able to decipher the girl's grunts and hums now! Though, her husband has yet to pick up on some of them. It generally ended up with a cold glare towards the patriarch of the Sawada household when his jokes have run their course.

"So, what would you like to have for breakfast?" Her warm eyes watched as her daughter shrugged and sat slumped in chair, staring absentmindedly at the table. She already knew at this point that asking her more questions over the topic would only leave an irate child in their midst, so she quickly whipped up some rice and omelets for them to enjoy while she got started on dishes.

"Ka-san! We already had this two days ago!" Tsuna's complaint died in his throat once he caught the glare of his younger sister's dark eyes. The cold, irate gaze made him stutter as his sister spoke to him in the biting tone he was familiar with by now.

"Oh, do you want something else then, Tsu-kun?"

"If you wanted something else, then you should make it yourself."

"It's alright, Ka-san. I'll just eat this." Their mother smiled, completely missing the intimidation that her daughter instilled into her son as she mistook Nakuka's threateningly low voice as a sleepy one. She obliviously washed the dishes and the floors before her eyes latched onto the wall clock and she gasped in surprise.

"Ah, Tsu-kun, Na-chan! You two are going to be late to school!" She watched as both her children got up to get ready. Of course, one clumsily stumbled their way up the stairs while the other calmly followed after, not worried about the consequences for being late.

"I'm leaving, Ka-san!" Tsuna ran out the door, miraculously not tripping as he shoved his shoes on and avoided the neighbor's chihuahua.

"Have a good day at school, Na-chan."

"Mn." Said girl gave her a quick glance as she nodded and slipped onto her bicycle, having enough sense to ask for one so that she didn't have to run to school. Nana lingered by the door, resting her chin in the palm of her hand.

"Ara~ What am I going to do with those two." A small sigh left her lips before she shook her head and entered back into the house to get her wallet. "Oh well, might as well get some groceries. I wonder what Tsu-kun and Na-chan would like to eat tonight?"

'Ah man, I can't believe I'm late again! I even got up earlier than I normally do, too!' Tsuna huffed and puffed as his admittedly short legs carried him towards the school, hoping to whatever higher being the might be there that he wasn't late and had to face the dreaded Head of the Disciplinary committee.

"Ah, Nakuka! Wait for me!" All he received for his desperate call was a blank glance as she pedaled towards the school, going more than double his running speed on her new bike. Tsuna instantly regretted his decision to spend his birthday money on more manga books, even though he promised his mom that he would buy academic books to help with his poor grades, a few months ago.

By the time he arrived at school, his younger sister already locked her bike into the bike rack and went to her class. He could feel the hairs on his arms raise as the bell of the school's clock run.

"Herbivore."

"Hieeee!" He let out a high pitched squeal as he dashed to class, already knowing that if he stayed then he'll get "bitten to death" by the violent skylark.

Tsuna ran to class and made it just in time so that his teacher only left him with a snide remark before ordering him to his seat. It didn't take Tsuna long to drift off into a daze, not even bothering to understand the material he was 75% sure he wouldn't understand. He merely tapped a pencil against a desk before he yelped and stood up when his teacher asked him a question he didn't catch.

"Sawada! What's the answer to this problem?" He had gotten use to this teacher's piss poor attitude. He already resigned himself to the fate of being Nezu-sensei's target of humiliation.

"I-I don't know." Tsuna sank down in his chair as his teacher made another remark about his idiocy and his fellow classmate's jeered at his response.

'Whatever. It's not like I'll ever use this stuff outside of school.' And so, Tsuna dozed off on his desk, not even masking his attempt to catch some shut eye.

"So, did Dame-Tsuna catch some nice Z's during class?" Tsuna jerked awake when one of his bullies flicked his cheek. The scrawny brunette scrambled for an answer only for the small group to poke more fun at him.

"Man, you're so useless, No Good Tsuna. At this rate you'll even fail at doing the simplest of things, like eating." The boys cackled at Tsuna's lack of skill. The boy weakly leaned back as one of them leaned forward.

"Huh, so what's new, No Good? I heard your little sister is a grade above you. Must be hard being so Dame." There it was, the subject that Tsuna dreaded. He and his sister never had a great relationship with each other. From an early age, he knew that she did not take a liking to him; she only interacted with him when she was forced to and whenever she did, she always had that empty gaze of hers fill up with contempt just for little ol' him. He suppose that he should feel relieved that he could evoke any sort of emotion from her, seeing as he would have to consider the possibility of her being a walking corpse if he didn't receive at least that.

"Poor, Nakuka. She must be embarrassed to have such a dame brother." Tsuna didn't doubt the possibility.

"I doubt it, man. She's practically a robot. She rarely shows any emotion."

"That's true." One of the boys agreed before he punched Tsuna's arm. "Well, see you after school, Dame Tsuna."

Tsuna rubbed his arm dejectedly, wondering what he did to deserve their wrath. He dug his bento out, quickly picking out the vegetables that he didn't like and throwing them away so that his sister couldn't reprimand him for wasting food again. He silently ate, sitting alone at his desk as his thoughts began to drift again. He found himself doing that a lot lately, though he doesn't have much else to do other than read mangas, and there was a limited amount of good ones before your resort to reading the ones that shouldn't have been approved by the producers in the first place.

"Shiori-chan, I heard that it was your older sister's birthday yesterday! So, how was it?"

"Oh my gosh, it was amazing! I got her these cute pair of earrings and she absolutely loved them! And then she took me out to karaoke and-"

Tsuna stopped listening to the girl as he packed up his bento, deciding to leave to go home despite the day being only half over. So, he quickly slung his stuff onto his shoulder and made his way home, thoughts drifting in his head as he did so.

'I wonder if Nakuka and I could have been that close...'

That was a thought that Tsuna often questioned himself when he was younger when he first started to notice his younger sister's distaste towards him. He suppose even his own family can't be immune to his dame-ness. At first he tried as hard as he could to impress and get Nakuka to like him, but as he grew older, he saw that there wasn't much point and stopped his attempts. She was a cold person and even their own mother, someone who practically radiated warmth, couldn't reach her black heart. She definitely was more successful than he and his no good father, though.

Most times, Nakuka won't even grace them with a response, instead opting to glare at them if their question irked her. She doesn't even call him by his name most times and if she does, then she calls him strictly his full first name instead of shortening it like everyone else.

"Maybe she's really related to Hibari-san and my real sister was switched with her." Though, he knew that couldn't be true. It was clear as day that they resembled each other. While he mainly took after his mother, she seemed to be more of a mix between their parents. His hair and eyes were a light shade of brown while her features took a more darker shade, though she seemed to luck out and inherited their mother's smooth locks instead of the same fluffy and hard to tame ones that Tsuna possessed. Her eyes were the same roundness as their mother's, but had a hint of their father's sharper eyes. Heck, the only thing that really bothered him was that she was just as tall as he was and was even growing past that despite being a year younger than him.

Tsuna flopped down as the thoughts in his head died down and the thoughts of his sister were replaced with the manga in his hands. Though, he didn't get far as his mother barged in and started to reprimand him for coming home in the middle of class. Geez, why couldn't people just leave him alone?

"Oh, and I hired you a home tutor." Hold on.

"What?! But mom, I don't need a tutor! Tell them not to come!"

"Well, you wouldn't listen to Nakuka when she tried to teach you, so I had to do it. Just look at this beautiful flier it came on." She held out said piece of paper and read it. "'Will raise your kid to be the leader of the next generation. Grade and subjects doesn't matter.' Isn't that great?!"

"I refuse to have a tutor! I'm not good at anything anyway!"

"Ciaossu." And that's when Tsuna's world turned upside down.

Author's Note:

Hey, so this chapter was mainly through Nakuka's family's eyes, but from here on out it will mostly center around Nakuka. I hope that you guys found it interesting. Leave me your thoughts and comments in the reviews, I'm interested in what you all think!

Thanks for reading!