Hi! So I know it's been life forever...but forgive me! I've just now gotten a new writing program onto my computer and it's taken me a while to figure out how to use it...but I actually uploaded this! I'm still not sure what I want to do with this yet, but I just wanted to re-write it to see what it would turn into. I honestly can't promise that this would be updated regularly, but I'll try. So I would just kindly like to say that if this chapter sounds weird at all keep in mind that A) I'm going to be redoing this story entirely (which will eventually consist of my other two stories being changed) and B) Due to insomnia I wrote a majority of this at 2 in the morning.
As usual, I don't own Katekyo Hitman Reborn!
"Someone's moving in across the street." Verde said, looking over Viper's shoulder from where she was perched on the window sill. He took a sip of his coffee and leaned against the wall.
Viper snickered and turned a page in her book. "They'll be gone in a month when Luce has one of her formals." She said breathlessly; an amused smile hidden under the curtain that was her hair.
"What do they look like?" Skull asked from where he was, under the coffee table trying to fix the wobbly leg that had been bothering all of them for a month now.
Verde leaned in close to the window. "He's blond, blue eyes, and tall. He's got a cast on his left arm. Holds himself in the same way that Lal Mirch does so I'm going to assume that he's part of the military."
"Maybe he's in her unit." Fon called out from the kitchen.
"We should invite him over for breakfast, I don't want this one to move away like all of the others have." Luce said as she walked into the sitting room from the kitchen, a bowl of bread dough resting on her pregnant stomach.
Verde made a groaning sound and busied himself with drinking his coffee, which earned him a glare from Luce and Viper/
"Viper, you should come with me to invite him over." Luce said, smiling beautifully at the younger woman.
Viper made an even louder groan than Verde and slammed her book shut. She stood up and motioned to the fact that she was wearing fluffy frog pajamas and matching slippers.
Luce waved off her argument with a wave of her hand. "Just put your clothes on over your pajamas, it'll be fine." She said as she passed the bowl of dough into Verde's unexpected hands, and went to fetch both of their cloaks.
Viper let out an annoyed huff and turned to put Fantasma down so he didn't try and wander off while they were outside. "I don't see why she can't wait until Lal Mirch and Reborn get back from their morning jog, she knows I don't like to meet new people." She mumbled darkly under her breath as Verde looked at the bread dough in confusion.
"What am I supposed to do with this?" Verde asked, oblivious to Viper's words of anger towards their boss.
"Just go to the kitchen and see what Fon needs you to do." Viper hissed, annoyed at the so called genius.
Verde, looking slightly offended by the younger woman, stalked out of the sitting room into the kitchen's as Luce came back with the cloaks.
"Will you be a dear and help me with my cloak?" She asked, giving the other woman a pitiful look.
Viper sighed and helped her into the coat. "You ask so much of me for so little pay." She tsked.
Luce laughed and pat her on the cheek. "I'll put some money in your account mio caro."
"It's the least that you could do for all that you put me through." Viper sniffed, sticking her nose in the air as she escorted Luce out of the estate right as Reborn and Lal Mirch ran in.
"No running in the house, you know I don't like when you two run in the house!"Luce shouted after them. They always broke at least one of her expensive vases or ruined one of the paintings.
"We know what we're doing Luce!" Reborn shouted from somewhere in the house.
"They don't know what they're doing. I've known them most of my adult life and they've been winging everything since before that." Viper said as they made their way to their new neighbors house.
"I wish they would tell us more about what they were like as children." Luce sighed, rubbing her stomach in an act of comfort.
They were close enough now to their neighbors house to hear what was being said between their newest neighbor and the people who were helping him.
"Thank you for helping on such short notice, my boss broke my arm yesterday, kora." The tall blond man that they assumed was their neighbor.
Viper gasped and turned to Luce. "I know who that is!" She whisper yelled to the woman, glad that they were far away to not be heard.
Luce looked at Viper in confusion. "Who is he?" she asked.
"He's Lal's student! The one that she was to personally train!" She hissed, a nervous excitement creeping up inside of her. If things went well Viper could see herself coming into a lot of money.
"I wasn't aware that any of her students were allowed to live off base." Luce said. She was sure that Lal had mentioned something about it before.
Viper waved her boss off. "They aren't, but once they graduate her hell camp they can. Lal moved in directly after her training was over." She reminded her boss.
"Well then, Lal Mirch would be so pleased to know that one of her students is moving in right across the street from us!" Luce said happily.
"Oh Lal Mirch is gonna be something that's for sure." Viper said.
Luce smiled and turned so that the two could finish their trek to their neighbors home.
"Good morning!" Luce shouted happily, waiving to the blond man.
He turned to them, seemingly surprised to see that someone had come to see him. "Hello, kora." He flashed them a grin that made Luce question what a man like him could be doing in Lal Mirch's boot camp.
"We live across the street, and we were wondering if you would want to come over for breakfast." Luce said, one hand on her stomach and the other holding onto Viper's arm tightly.
At that the man looked even more surprised. "Well, kora, I've got to finish moving my stuff in."
"Oh don't you worry about that sir, we can handle all of this." One of the men who were helping him said.
"We have a man who can make the best pancakes in the country," Viper said, speaking for the first time, a lovely smile on her face. Oh yes, she was going to enjoy this. "And we make our bread fresh every morning." She said, remembering the bowl of dough.
Viper knew people, knew when someone's attention had been caught and how to drag them in further; and this man was tempted.
"It would be a pleasure, kora." The man said, walking down the steps of his house so that he was level with the two women. "My name's Colonnello."
"I'm Luce, and this is Mammon Esper." Luce said, extending her hand. If he recognized the name he didn't show it and Luce had the slightest bit of hope that Lal's soldiers didn't know too much about what went on in the underworld.
"Now, how about we get going. I can't wait to introduce you to the rest of our roommates." Viper said with a smile that Luce knew meant no good.
Colonnello didn't expect much when he moved into his new home; didn't expect to have one broken arm courtesy of Lal Mirch herself, and he definitely didn't expect for two women to come and invite him over to their house for breakfast, and he would have said no but it's been so long since the last time that he had a homemade meal that he couldn't possibly refuse.
So that's how Colonnello found himself seated at a table with six other people, two of which he had grown up with!
"I can't believe that out of all the houses in Italy you bought the one across the street from us!" Fon said happily after hugging his childhood friend for the first time in years, careful of the arm that was broken.
"Small world after all kora." Colonnello laughed, hugging his dear friend back as best as he could.
"Hey bitch, what happened to your arm?" Reborn asked as way of greeting, knowing exactly what had happened.
Colonnello sighed, he really shouldn't have expected anything different from Reborn. "Lal and I got into an argument yesterday kora, and she got a little too aggressive...as usual." He said with an odd amount of affection in his voice.
Fon an Reborn exchanged a glance.
"You still see Lal Mirch regularly?" Fon asked curiously as he sipped at his tea. Even after years of living in Italy he couldn't take the taste of coffee.
Colonnello nodded. "About a year ago I was placed in her unit. Just now getting out of her Spartan classes." He said with a small laugh. "We've been arguing the whole time. You know how Lal is, kora."
"Oh yeah, I couldn't imagine living with her again." Reborn said casually.
Luce didn't ignore the added word; again. He and Lal Mirch had lived together before, and now this new person was another piece of the three's weird past.
The room was quiet save for the sound of footsteps that were slowly coming closer.
"Is there someone else that lives here, kora?" Colonnello asked, looking around the kitchen. Six seemed like a big crowd to him already, not counting the baby in Luce's stomach, but seven people living in one house must be insane no matter the size of the estate.
"You'll love them, don't worry." Reborn said, a grin on his face.
None of them brought up the way that Verde pulled out a pen and a notebook from seemingly nowhere.
"Good morning all." Said the newest person.
Colonnello sat up straighter immediately, eyes wide at the voice that he could identify at any given moment. He watched with wide eyes as none other than Lal Mirch walked into the kitchen, hair still damp from the shower that she must have just gotten out of, and made herself a cup of coffee, not noticing that there was a new addition to her kitchen. (He made a note to bring that up while they were at the base in front of the other soldiers)
"Good morning commander, kora." Colonnello said, giving her the most shit-eating grin that he could manage.
The room was quiet for about two minutes before Lal Mirch let out a shriek of absolute fury and hurled her coffee cup, still full, at Colonnello's head.
If Reborn and Viper laughed till they had no breath left, no one seemed to notice.