Hello there readers, this is a series of oneshots for the KHR characters.
So, since this is a fanfic, I must put up a DISCLAIMER, claiming that I do not own nor make a profit off of these characters. In fact, the only ones that are mine are the Oc's .
Also I'd like to issue a warning. I have not yet worked with half of these characters and therefore I'm not entirely sure that they're going to be perfectly IC. But I assure you I'm trying my best to keep them IC.
And now, without further ado, I present to you the intro and the first oneshot!
~~ Intro~~
"What's this?" a brown haired boy asked as his shaking hands reached for the knot tied at his throat before he tried adjusting it so that it wasn't so hard to breathe, but the adjustment did nothing to help.
His tutor, a baby with bizarre connections to the mafia, had been keeping him in the dark since last week. Of course when was Reborn ever not hiding something or other from him?
There was some big event that was to take place tonight, that much he had picked up from the small slips that Gokudera made and tried to cover up, and the snippets of conversation he overheard when coming into the room after he had left his small tutor and his friends alone. Something was up and Reborn had already somehow gotten Yamamoto and Gokudera in on whatever it was.
"Tonight, you have thrown a party for your allies and their families to thank them for their loyalty and assistance in the past and, to encourage them to stay on your side." Reborn explained as they walked down the street. Getting out of the house in such formalwear had been quite difficult and now he was at the mercy of Reborn, as pleasant as that sounded.
"I am?" Tsuna asked deciding that explained the formal wear.
"Yes. And sometime before midnight, you are going to be making a speech and formally thank everyone for not only coming but also for being your allies." Reborn looked up at his young student to see wide, golden eyes looking down at him filled with worry so legible it was almost funny.
"What?! I-I am?!" Tsuna exclaimed, audibly gulping, beads of sweat building at his temple.
"Yes. I'll be there all night and if you decide not to make the speech, you're not going to like the consequences." To say that he had planned several punishments for Tsuna and his family was an understatement. It was his student's choice to get on that stage or to face the consequences, and he was hoping that Tsuna would make the right decision.
After several long minutes of silence, Tsuna looked down at his tutor and managed to ask the question that had been pushed to the back of his mind when he was told he was going to have to make a speech. "W-who all is going to be there?"
Reborn smiled. Knowing Tsuna, knowing exactly who it was he was talking to so formally wasn't going to help his nerves. Regardless, he answered the obviously nervous boy.
When Tsuna heard of just how many people he was going to have to address, how many pairs of eyes he was going to have on him, watching him make a fool of himself, Tsuna broke out in a cold sweat. His palms were clammy, sweat trickled down his temple, and he could swear that the tie around his neck was getting tighter and tighter the closer they got to their destination.
The silence drew on.
The walk continued on and on.
The sidewalk stretched on forever before them, and the building at the end of the street seemed so large, so imposing. All that was missing was the creepy trees, the black storm clouds and the jagged forks of lightning. Even though he knew that the building was filled with his friends, Tsuna couldn't help but want to run the opposite direction.
The only thing that stopped him was the baby at his side, the conductor of this torture.
Knowingly, he kept Tsuna grounded; at least it kept him from running from his fear. Even though Tsuna didn't know it, Reborn did not do things that were not in his students best interest.
~~LAMBO~~
A forest of moving legs was impossible to move through, they were packed too close together. The dress that she had been forced into was itchier than poison ivy, the shoes pinched her small feet and a cemetary would be more fun than this stupid place.
Who had even thrown such a stupid party?
"Play with me." She begged fisting a hand in black fabric and then tugging on it to get the person's attention. The dark haired person, red eyed person who gave her the attention she sought, glared so meanly that she instantly let go of the his slacks and shied away, bumping into yet another dark haired person.
Only the second guy smiled down at her, so she reached up and opened and closed her hands, a silent demand to be lifted up off the ground. To her surprise, he bent down, wrapped his arms around her sides and plucked her from the ground like that dandelion she had wished on earlier that day.
So far her wish hadn't come true. She had been forced into coming to this stupid party because she was 'only six and couldn't be left alone', that's what Leah had told her anyways.
"Hey there." The boy greeted, a stupid smile on his face. "What'cha doin' here? You lost?" He asked like a million questions at the exact same time.
"No!" She frowned at the guy, crossing stubby arms across her flat chest. She was offended, well that was a word that Ana used a lot and that word perfectly described how she currently felt…at least she thought it did. There was no way she was wrong. "For your information, I belong to the Vetto family."
"Aaah, now I remember you." He finally said, his smile remaining on his face, eyes scrunching up with what she believed was embarrassment.
"Of course you do. Only an idiot wouldn't after it's been spelled out for him."
He opened his stupid mouth to give her some kind of answer, but before he could say a word, a voice she knew very well gushed, "I am sooo sorry." As Ana apologized for absolutely nothing, a pair of hands lifted her out of the guys' arms and placed her on the familiar curve of Ana's hip. The boy was one of the Vongola's guardians, she knew that much, but which one, well she didn't quite care to be honest.
Leah had decided to force them to help the Vongola while they were in Japan. She had watched Leah open the letter and then throw it in the trash, and knew that she had never intended on attending this stupid gathering. But when Leon, the Vetto's sun guardian, mysteriously got his hands on the invitation, he had insisted that they go until Leah gave into his constant bothering, a trick Annika knew quite well. And since their boss came, they all had to come.
"No, it's not a problem." He scratched the back of his head, eyes closed, still smiling, only this time at Ana, who was making stupid googly eyes and was smiling at the boy with a smile that was just as stupid as his.
Looking from the Vongola to Ana and back again several times, Annika decided that it was time she left those two alone. If she didn't, scary things might happen, or she'd get to witness some scary things taking place, and she didn't want that.
Somehow, she managed to wiggle and squirm her way out of Ana's grasp and made a speedy get away, dodging between legs, under skirts and even a table before she knew that she had lost Ana.
But now she was faced with the same problem as before.
She needed someone to play with and she was surrounded by strangers.
So she looked around until she saw a white haired boy who looked like he'd be a lot of fun to play with. Wasting no time, she rushed over to him.
"PLAAAAAY WIIIITH MEEEEEEEEE!" Two voices whined at the same time from either side of the silver eyed boy.
Looking down, he saw two brats, one an annoying crybaby named Lambo, the other a little girl that he had never once seen in his life.
He glared down at them, hoping to scare them away, the girl at the very least.
But that did not work at all. Instead, the girl and Lambo simultaneously leaned over. Eyes locked and they silently seized up their competition.
It was just a scrawny boy in a cow suit with hair way puffier than her stupid dress.
It was just a redhead girl in a dress that doubled her size.
"He's going to play with me!" She latched onto the guy's leg and refused to let go even as he tried his hardest to detach her.
Why did she have such a strong grip?! Gokudera wondered, mentally cursing, as he tried to shake the girl off of him, and then tried to pull her off of him. Neither worked, the girl didn't budge.
"I asked him first!" Lambo exclaimed climbing Gokudera's body and clinging to the side of his head.
"Did not!" The girl argued, also climbing up Gokudera's body. Only, she clung to his neck, her small hand not pressed against one of his eyes, but both feet scrambling for a foothold, which she found in the form of his breast pocket.
"Did too."
She stuck her tongue out at him and then he returned the gesture. Annika blew a raspberry, and then so did he. Back and forth they went, crossing their eyes, glaring, saying 'yes/no' or 'did not/did too'. After several long minutes of just that, Gokudera all the while trying to get at least one of the brats off of him, they began slapping at each other right in front of his face.
Finally Gokudera had had enough. He grabbed both children by the back of their clothes, ripped them off of him and held each creature at arm's length, glad to have them off and glad that the cat fight stopped.
"Why don't you play with each other?" And, before either could respond, he drop kicked both brats somewhere into the crowd and then went to the refreshment table. They were somebody else's problem now.
Both children landed hard on their butts and sat there, stunned.
That was until Annika said, "Eeeww! Boys have cooties!" She would never play with someone who had cooties.
That caused Lambo to jump to his feet and feign an attack, hands held up as pretend claws, eyes wide and wild, teeth bared at her. "I'm gonna get'cha!" He shouted, and with that he slowly advanced towards her, one stomp at a time. With a shriek, she turned and started running away from the green eyed cow.
They ran around legs, under tables, slipped on the wooden floors and bumped into many things. For what felt like eternity she ran from the boy and the boy chased her giggling like a maniac. But eventually, after all of that running and chasing and fleeing, the pair ran out of energy and they sat next to each other against a rectangular pillar.
Tuckered out they passed a large flat cherry lollipop back and forth. Lambo could only lick one side, Annnika the other. Both had cooties and neither of them wanted said cooties.
"So you're Lambo huh? The Mighty Lightning Guardian of the Vongola who can take down a bazillion men in one strike?" She paused, let him confirm her previous words with a nod of his head, and then she smiled at him, thoroughly impressed. "Wow. Are you going to take out the Great Reborn as well?" Leah absolutely adored Reborn, rather his strength, always aspiring to get stronger so that they could one day fight evenly, or something like that.
Lambo nodded vigorously. One day he would manage to take Reborn down, and that day was soon. He just knew it. "Yup. That's me!"
"You should show me sometimes." Annika muttered. Thoughtlessly he agreed. After all, how could Lambo pass up an opportunity to show off his amazing skills?
"And so you're Annika, The Monster Slayer Ballerina Fighter Girl who can defeat an army with the bat of her eyes?" Lambo asked as she took a lick of her side of the red lollipop.
"You forgot Amazing Beautifully Talented Warrior after the." She glared at him. If he couldn't get it right then they could not be anything close to friends.
"Does it matter" He offhandedly asked twisting the lollipop between his hands.
"Of course it does! Does your full title matter?!"
"Well duh." He stuck out his tongue and crossed his eyes as she snatched the sucker out of his hand and took several furious licks.
Noticing that the swirl on his side was now going the opposite direction, he smiled broadly and said, "That's my side."
Instantly Annika dropped the candy and began wiping her tongue with both of her hands, a pained expression on her face as she cleaned her mouth and wailed, "NOOOOO! COOTIES! I HAVE THE COOTIES!"
The Amazing Lambo just laughed at his newfound friend, so much that he was crying and had lost his balance, fallen backwards and was now rolling on the floor. Her face was just too funny.
His laughter, however, made the girl mad, so she tackled the rolling boy and rubbed her wet hands all over his face until she was sure he knew that she was no longer the only infected one. He managed to wiggle free, scramble to his feet and take off running, the girl, Annika, hot on his heels, much to his dismay.
Once again their cootie chase took off, this time the roles reversed.
Lambo could only stand being chased for so long. And when he was fed up with being the terrorized and not the terrorizer, he rolled his eyes to the back of his head, let his tongue hang from his mouth and turned around, reaching for, and pulling something from his hair before he pulled the trigger.
A bullet exploded out of the barrel of the bazooka. Only before it hit her, she lunged and tackled Lambo to the floor, squashing the bullet between their bodies.
When the thick, white cloud dissipated, a boy in an open, cow printed shirt, and a girl in just a towel lay atop each other, their long limbs tangled together. The boy, instantly recognizing the head of red above him, smiled. Not because a nearly naked girl was on top of him, but, because his old friend Annika was here in the flesh and it had been oh so long since they had last seen each other.
"It's been a while huh?" He asked the madly blushing girl who had rolled off of him as he got to his feet. Once there, he offered a hand and helped her to her's.
She reached forwards, grabbed two fistfuls of his stupid cow shirt and pulled him so close that their noses almost touched. "What. The. Hell. Did. You. Do?" She seethed. In her eyes danced a dangerous kind of furry.
But he just scratched the back of his head and then apologized before explaining the ten year bazooka to her. "We have less than five minutes now." He concluded with a heavy sigh and a frown. Leave it to his five year old self to blast him into an important part of his past.
He remembered this place well. He had only been five, but the memory was crystal clear. This was where he had first met Annika.
"And?" She haughtily asked, hands on her hips, seeming unconcerned with the fact that she was in only a fluffy white towel and was dripping all over the floor, creating a pool beneath her.
"You know I'd like to hang out with you sometime."
She scoffed at his words. "As if I'd go all the way to Japan to see your ugly mug. And besides, all we do is fight. I'm not going all the way across the world just to fight with you. It's not like you're that strong anywaysl."
Undeterred, he tried again. "At least entertain the thought. We always have fun when we're together." True they did fight, but there were some good times between those meaningless fights. Two visits in the span of ten years was not near enough to determine that they shouldn't hang out, that if they did it would only be wasted time.
She managed a small smile that she tried to hide by ducking as she tucked a strand of wet hair behind her ear. Toeing the ground she said nothing, not even to dispute his words.
"Lollipop?" He asked breaking the silence and holding a large, flat sucker out for her to take. He had gotten the strangest craving for a cherry sucker and had just left the store when he was brought back to the past.
She gave him this look, unable to believe him. But, then she rolled her eyes, reached out for her favorite candy. And as she took it from his hand and offered him a smile of gratitude, they returned to their time and respective places. Lambo to the sidewalk in front of the candy store, Annika to her steamy bathroom, the large red sucker in her hand the only evidence that she hadn't been dreaming
The cherry flavored candy made her smile. Maybe a trip to Japan was in store after all.
Lambo had a good feeling as he unwrapped a small cherry sucker, stuck it in his mouth and then stuck his hands into his pockets and continued on his way.
"What did you do to me you stupid cow?!" The little red haired girl shrieked, grabbing the young Lambo by the front of his suit and pulling him close.
"I have cooties you know." He giggled like a maniac, a ring of rainbow around his mouth, his hands sticky and equally as colorful.
For the last five minutes she had been in some strange place with no one around, not even Ana or Leah or Leo. And after discovering that she was alone, she had felt so helpless that the only thing she could do was sit down and let the tears stream down her face as she cried for her boss or her sister. But from the looks of it, Lambo had a grand old time in a candy shop!
"By time I'm done with you, I won't have to worry about that." She growled.
It wasn't fair that he went to somewhere with candy and she ended up alone!
Before she could punch him however, he reached into his hair, pulled something out and tried forcing it into her mouth. Instantly she let go, pulled it out and examined it. She was about to throw it back at him and yell that she didn't want it, but seeing what it was, she decided against it.
"You have ten seconds to explain to me what you shot me with and why I was in a strange place." And with that she unwrapped the sucker and started happily licking it.
Lambo rushed to explain.
And when he was done, he fell to his knees, folded his little hands together and began begging for his life. Annika let him cry and carry on for at least five minutes.
But after tiring of hearing his silly, rather stupid pleas, she grabbed the stupid cow and dragged him somewhere they wouldn't be trampled, stuck the stem of the lollipop between his clasped hands, and with her hands on her hips, said, "I'll spare you for now Mighty Lightning Guardian of the Vongola. But, in the future, remember my kindness."
When all he did was nod, she plopped down next to him and they began talking and playing civilly.
But all good things must come to an end. And so after a mere thirty minutes, they were at it again, chasing each other around, howling about cooties.
A/n: I am quite anxious to hear what you guys think. Please I would love to hear your opinions.
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