AN: I realize there have been a lot of "reborn in Reborn!" fanfictions recently, but I figured it sounded like a fun idea and wanted to try it out. This is my first story, so I'm sorry if it isn't very good. I hope you enjoy it though.

I don't own Reborn!. If I did I wouldn't be watching it on Hulu with subtitles.

01-In Which I Talk to Myself or

The Clock has Started to Move

I walked along slowly, taking my time and enjoying the sights. It had been a while since I moved and this was a well-worn trail, but I enjoyed it all the same. It's finding pleasure in the little things. I mused. Maybe the world would be better if we could all be like that. I shook my head in annoyance. Those were dangerous thoughts. Besides, I couldn't deny that I wasn't completely content. Anime and manga had long ago worn down any contentedness I could have being normal. Every day I hoped for that one thing that would jerk me out of my boring life and into one more exciting.

My head felt like it had been split open.

I crumpled to the sidewalk, holding my head in my hands. It was like nothing I could remember feeling before, which wasn't saying much but I didn't really care. I could faintly hear myself saying something, but my mind was worlds away. Everything seemed fuzzy, and I couldn't make out anything but brief flashes, and the only thing I remembered before slipping into unconsciousness was a voice. My voice.

"I see."

...

"I see."

I snorted at the girl sitting in the chair in front of me. "'I see' huh? That's all? I gotta say, I didn't really anticipate that Heaven would look like this. The white, sure. The light, yeah. The complete lack of other colors or windows or doors, no. I'm pretty sure you have the only piece of furniture in the room. Also, I didn't expect that the first thing I saw would be myself."

She-I?-tilted her-my?-head. "Oh? So you know that you're dead?"

I paused. Did I? To be honest I didn't remember much about my life at all. Brief flashes here and there, perhaps. Some were of my family. Some were of my friends. Others didn't seem to make any kind of sense at all. The only thing I really remembered was waking up, standing, in this room. Oh, and information. Probably all the information I had learned in my past life. Including…

"This seems an awful lot like one of those fanfictions where someone is reborn into the world of some manga or book or TV show or something." I mused, looking over at "myself". "Perhaps I just automatically knew that I was dead because it seemed so similar."

"I" chuckled. "Nice. Maybe that's it. Who do you think you'll be?"

I frowned. "I hope it's a good character. One who I can play with. Those are the most fun, after all. I really have no idea though."

"She" smiled. "I think you'll like it. Here's a hint." A symbol suddenly appeared above "her" head.

I raised an eyebrow, intrigued. "A fedora with a chameleon sitting on it? I do like Reborn!. Am I actually going to be Reborn though?"

"Of course you're going to be reborn. You said it yourself, didn't you?" "She" was smiling merrily and fully enjoying the double meaning, just as I had when I was alive. Apparently I could remember what I liked too. Handy.

I smirked at "her". "I hope I was this confusing to people in my last life. I'd like to know what character I'm going to be before I get there though. Can you tell me, or do I have to wait to hear it when my parents inevitably name me?"

"She" pointed to a file sitting on a table off to my right, which had appeared out of thin air as things are want to do in fiction. "Before you ask," she said as I walked over, "this isn't going to be the main KHR world. You're presence there is going to change some things. You don't have to follow the rules if you don't want to. Or you can, if you want. All I know is that I've been known to crave a little world destruction, so if you decide to do that with your knowledge of that world there isn't anything to stop you. Oh, and you'll be a girl."

By this time I was looking down at the file-or rather the single sheet of paper in the file. There were only three words on it, and I thought it was unfortunate waste of a tree to make a whole paper and file for just three words, but since this probably had literally materialized out of thin air it probably wasn't a big deal. Of course, I was infinitely more interested in the words on the sheet. I stared for a moment before I felt a grin forming itself on my face. "This is going to be fun."

So, anyone want to guess who I am? I'll probably post the next chapter fairly soon, but I'm thinking weekly updates sounds reasonable. I've always been a bit of a procrastinator. *scratches head sheepishly*. Well, I hope you enjoyed, and I'd love it if you would review!