I mean, no one ever does anything with the Vendice that much so I wanted to give it a shot and I had this idea.
I'll try to keep characters as far in character as I can, despite not knowing much about the Vendice but here we go anyway.
Hopefully, I'll actually update this story.
Enjoy
Disclaimer: Don't and won't own Katekyo Hitman Reborn
Edit: Removed Unnecessary Character 2/23/17
A tug on Bermuda's cloak disrupted from him from his current doings. A particularly strong cloud user - not nearly as strong as he's faced before - had broken the trust of his famiglia, thus attempting the murder of the entire family as he had been planning. He did a sloppy job, however, a previous member of the mafia family escaped and attained the attention of the Vendice to bring justice and avenge the fallen family.
But as Bermuda had - quite easily actually - caught the rogue cloud in his hideout in a quiet Japanese town, Simone Alesi was his name, his chains moments away from bringing righteous justice, a gentle tug on his tattered cloak distracted him from his action at hand. Keeping his chains wrapped around the cloud user, Bermuda let his single revealed eye drift down to the disturbance. A small child, no more than five years, was beneath him. Large, incredibly clear honey eyes gleamed at Bermuda, a strange, alluring energy emanating from the child. With a snap, the cloud user was gone in a warp hole - He'd have to thank and apologize to Jager for that - and Bermuda was left with this strange child that stared at him with eyes to innocent for his own good.
His tall, imposing body turned to face the boy, towering over him. But the boy did not quiver nor did he scream in fright but he did something the ex-arcobaleno would have never expected. He smiled - a bright, practically searing smile at the Vendice leader. And it… felt warm. Bermuda had never thought he would be able to feel this kind of warmth from anyone again - much less someone as young as this. "Child," Bermuda's deep voice rumbled off the earth and his imposing presence was increased tenfold. But this strange child still did not quiver like other children did - Why did he not quiver? Why is he not afraid? The question boggled Bermuda's mind but he still leaned down and let the child speak, after all, if this child could stand to be in Bermuda's very presence, then he should at least be given a chance to speak his woes.
"Hello, mister… Um, have you seen my Mommy anywhere?" His voice was soft and the shake was obvious to Bermuda, he had, after all, seen fear before. But why wasn't the fear of him? "I lost Mommy and I can't find her anywhere," the boy sniffled, biting his lips gently.
Bermuda extended his senses to as far as they could reach but he could find no one anywhere near them. Turning his head back down to the child, the Vindice leader almost cringed when he saw the tears build up behind the boy's eyelids. "I cannot seem to find your family child." Why did I help him? He's but a child I should have no concern for. The boy's large eyes shrunk and dulled in fear.
"Oh… Okay. Thank you, mister, I'll… Go now. I don't want to disturb you." The boy began to timidly walk away from Bermuda but something in the back of his mind pounded as the boy began to walk away with a trudge. He pushed the feeling back and ignored the angry pulse that beat at him. Dark flames surrounded his body as the air itself seemed to tear to form in inky warp hole. For the first time in a long time, Bermuda hesitated as he went to step into the portal. The angry pulse in the back of his head continued to beat until the ex-arcobaleno groaned and turned back around to go after the boy. The warp hole sewed itself shut behind him and Bermuda sent his sense out to try and find the boy. Feeling him nearby, the man busied himself with rushing through the alleyways. It would not be good for civilians to see him running amok as he searched for a child.
A shriek found Bermuda's ears and he directed himself to where it came from, his mind identifying the scream to be the child's. A sense of urgency filled him and he found himself practically sprinting to the alleyway from which he heard the yell from. What am I doing?
A strange anger swelled in his chest when he saw two elder teenagers cornering the small child, switchblades grasped in their filthy hands. Narrowing his eye, Bermuda lifted his bandaged hands and from his large sleeves came a set of chains, spikes on the end. Following their master's wishes, they curled around two teenagers like a snake about to devour its prey. Hoisting the two up with barely a thought, Bermuda approached the child and beckoned him to follow. The boy did as requested by Bermuda and as the two were exiting the alleyway, a loud snap came from where the chains were wrapped tightly around the two malicious teens.
"Th-thank you, mister," the boy looked up with astonishment and once again, Bermuda couldn't help but feel wonder as this young, innocent child was not scared of him nor his odd powers.
"What is your name child?"
"S-Sawada Tsunayoshi," he spoke meekly, shuffling his feet along the ground.
Bermuda didn't recognize the name when he first heard of it, but soon the faint memory of one of the heads of the Vongola popped into his head. The CEDEF was it? Bermuda wasn't quite sure, he would have to look into it. Kneeling on one leg once more, the man stared carefully into Tsunayoshi's large eyes. He couldn't put his finger on it, but there was something about this child that stirred something inside of the Vendicare leader, something that he hadn't felt in a long time. He felt… almost protective over this child, despite knowing him for less than an hour. Something rumbled in his chest, telling him to take this child and keep him away from everything that could taint its purity.
And so, Bermuda would do that. At least until he could find his parents.
The pulse in his head seemed to frown at that but conceded as Bermuda would not steal a child - no matter how much he wanted to.
He let his bandaged hand reach out to Tsunayoshi, a blank look on his face. When the small brunette placed his tiny hand in Bermuda's much larger one with a happy grin, Bermuda couldn't help it as his own minuscule smile began to bloom.
"My name is Bermuda von Veckenschtein."
The small child tried to say his last name after he had said it but failed, and Bermuda didn't like the honorific "san" added to his last name as the boy failed to pronounce it; so he told him to just call him Bermuda and the brunette meekly agreed. Tearing a rip in the world around him, he created a warp hole in front of him and began to walk to it, Tsunayoshi following. Bermuda could feel the hesitation on the boy's part but he didn't blame him, he was quite literally walking into darkness. "Just close your eyes, it will be over soon," he murmured, slightly surprised at his own gentleness, and Tsunayoshi nodded shakily. But Bermuda didn't worry; as soon as Tsunayoshi bravely followed the man through the tear without a doubt in his mind toward Bermuda, he made a vow. A vow to never let that light be snuffed out.
Stepping through the tear, Tsuna felt every part of his body shiver before silencing. He stared up at the tall man with the bandages all over his face and arms but didn't worry. He liked this man and didn't want to leave. He was much better than Mommy who always forgot about him and Papa who never visited. He really liked this man. Tsuna smiled gently and as the two stepped through the portal, the brunette shrunk closer to Bermuda. A pressure began to be set onto his entire body the minute he stepped into the room. Clinging to the tall man's leg, Tsuna whimpered but tried to be brave like Bermuda was.
The ex-arcobaleno set his hand against Tsunayoshi's back as the two continued through the dark room. Not once did Bermuda think that the child would be frightened - if he was being honest with himself, he had no idea what he was doing. Bermuda didn't know how to act around children.
"Jager," at the sound of his name, Jager descended upon the two, his eye narrowed at the child by Bermuda's feet.
"Why did you send Simone Alesi to me when you could have covered it?And why do you have a child with you?" A hint of irritation was intricately hidden in his words but Bermuda could decode it without effort. It was never widely known, but the Vendice did have normal conversations every now and then.
Bermuda's lips quirked downward and he looked straight at Jager. "We are keeping him-"
"No," The other Vendice member interjected like a mother telling her son he couldn't have the puppy, his bandaged arms crossed under the large cloak.
"Jager-"
"I said no Bermuda."
Rubbing the bridge of his nose, a dangerous aura began to leak from the ex-arcobaleno as he glared venomously at Jager. "Let. Me. Finish. I was going to say, that we are keeping the boy until I can find his parents. Or at least his family."
"Oh," Jager adjusted his top hat, coughing lightly at his mistake but shook his head slightly to himself. "Well, then I'll get the others right to it."
Bermuda let a sigh escape his lips, his habit of adjusting his hat when Jager did coming into play. "Have Alejandro do it, I would prefer Smorgia and Pino to stay away from the child by all cases."
"Of course," Jager nodded respectively and strolled away with purpose. Bermuda set his hand back on Tsunayoshi's head to comfort the slightly shaken boy.
"It will be alright Tsunayoshi. I will find your family."
Tsuna didn't want to tell the tall man that he didn't want his family to find him. He liked Bermuda and he could tell the bandaged man seemed cold but Tsuna just knew he was different on the inside. He just burrowed his head further into Bermuda's coat at the man's promise; he wasn't going anywhere.