Summary: Tsuna had a little accident in the Vongola research labs and found himself stuck in new body when his and Natsu's DNA merged. How will he cope with being the leader of the number one mafia family? TYL! Guardians27.
A/N: HEY ALL! i know i really shouldn't be posting this because i haven't written many future chapters. and also i have my main fic that i need to complete which has been a WIP for like... 8 years. LOL. but this KHR fic has been rotting in my computer for AGES. and well, i will definitely get to finishing it. eventually. i swear, i write best when i'm procrastinating from school work. AND NOW IS THE TIME.
so this was written even before i wrote 'A Piercing Catalyst' and it's has the same ideas behind the workings of Tsuna's Family. you dont have to read that to understand this. The story is going to revolve around the familia's hidden lives and Tsuna will get to learn more about his family along the way. i really loved reading 'Vivi Memor Leti' by sunnycalendargirl and that really inspired me to write about the TYL verse about family life. so... ENJOY!
WARNING: THE FOLLOWING FIC CONTAINS SLASH, LEMONS, TEN YEARS LATER CHARACTERS WHO MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE CHANGED/GROWN UP, SERIOUS BUSINESS, AND FLUFFY SCENES. I HAVE TO WARN YOU, IF YOU DONT LIKE GUY ON GUY STUFF, THIS IS NOT FOR YOU. well the guy on guy stuff is light and i'll try to put a warning before each chapter to tell you what to watch out for. i dont really write heavy sex scenes so yeah. BUT ANYWAY. WARNING.
"So what have you guys been working on?"
Shoichi and Spanner didn't even look up from their work when the Vongola Decimo walked in. Sawada Tsunayoshi was used to this greeting and merely took a seat behind them and waited for a respond.
After a few moments of silence, Irie Shoichi gave a contented sigh and turned around to face the Decimo with a smile on his face. "We're on the verge of a breakthrough, Tsuna-kun. Spanner's just going through the finer parts of our new machine before we'll have everything ready."
This time, Spanner turned around upon hearing his name. "The machine is supposed to send you to whichever time period you choose for an hour. It works much better than the previous one and it's supposed to be more stable. Requires less energy too."
"It's good to see that you two are making progress." Tsuna replied with a comforting smile on his face. He was dressed in what has become the usual attire for him –a suit with a dull orange shirt on the inside and a black tie to top it off. He had lost most of his baby fats making his face more angular and his jaw line harder. He had also grown a head taller and was not considered short anymore (though he was still shorter than most of his guardians). Overall, he looked like the boss he was supposed to be while still being the sky that everyone loved.
"What brings you here, Vongola?" Spanner asked with a lolly still in his mouth.
"Just taking a moment off of work."
"You're running away from paper work?" it was more of a statement than a question so Tsuna answered with a cough and a clueless look.
"Anything we can do for you today, Tsuna?" Spanner had gone back to work leaving Shoichi to deal with the talking.
Tsuna gave him a grin. "You can help me by taking breaks more often. I worry about you two overworking yourselves, you know?"
"Can't do that, boss! Major breakthrough here!" Spanner didn't even turn around.
"We'll rest when we're done, Tsuna." Shoichi gave Tsuna a reassuring pat on the back and went back to work.
Tsuna sighed but continued to press on. "Seriously, I'm not going away until you two take a break."
"Don't you have paper work to do, Vongola?"
"Don't worry about us, Tsuna, we can take care of ourselves."
Refusing to give in, Tsuna decided to summon Natsu to kill some time.
"Natsu! Would you like to have some fun here?"
"GAO!"
"Why don't you run around a bit? Try not to smash anything though." Over the years, Tsuna had learnt how to be a little manipulative to get what he wanted. As a boss, he had learnt how to tweak each of his famiglia to get them to do certain things. For example, if Kyoya refused to go on missions, all Tsuna had to do was mention the words 'strong opponent' and the cloud guardian would be gone within the day. Hayato would usually fall prey to his puppy-dog eyes while Lambo would do anything for food. In this case, Shoichi and Spanner would do anything to keep people out of their workplace.
"Alright! We'll take a break." Shoichi declared after Natsu bumped into his legs a few times. "Spanner, let's go have dinner."
Spanner grunted. "No. Almost."
With a look, Tsuna commanded Natsu to continue the havoc.
"GAO!"
"Okay, okay!" Spanner dropped whatever he was doing when Natsu jumped onto his workbench. He gave Tsuna a glare. "Just get out before we get back." With that, both geniuses left the lab.
"You'd better be gone when we get back, Decimo!"
"I'll get Gokudera to pick you up from the lab, Tsuna."
Smirking, Tsuna congratulated himself for a job well done. He was grateful for all the hard work the two scientists had put in but he was worried for their health. Everyone in his family was a workaholic and often, they didn't remember to take breaks or eat meals. Someone had to look out for them and Tsuna believed it was his duty to watch out for them.
He fondly thought about how he met everyone ten years ago. It all started when Reborn had appeared as a home tutor. After gathering his beloved guardians and going through all the tough times, they've finally established themselves as the Vongola Decimo's Famiglia. Today, they were still the strongest and most influential mafia in the world. After the ninth had passed away, Tsuna and his famiglia had moved into the mansion in Italy. It took about a year to get used to the culture, language and formalities of being the boss of an Italian mafia group but he was used to it now.
'I'm just so grateful to everyone for standing by me…' Tsuna thought to himself as he watched Natsu getting tangled up in some cables on the ground. Chuckling, he went over to free the little lion.
"Natsu, you clumsy little lion…" he smiled fondly at the lion as he reached over to untangle his partner. Sparks shot outwards as he realized a few cables were not properly insulated and the struggling lion had caused a few live wires to surface.
"What the…" There was a loud sizzle, a bright light, a shriek from Natsu. Then, everything went black for the Decimo.
-'`~~~ooOOooOOooOOooOOooOO~~~'`-
"That Vongola Decimo really knows how to push our buttons." Spanner sighed as he and his partner strolled back to the lab after a delicious dinner.
Shoichi chuckled. "That's why we love him so much right? He knows us so well."
Spanner smiled and was left to his own memories as the two continued the stroll in silence. Upon reaching the lab, they found everything was still left in place and the lab was still intact except for the full grown lion on the ground next to the main computer.
"Uhh… Spanner… There's a lion in our lab."
Spanner was in shock and didn't reply his partner. He felt the lollypop leave his mouth and a distant clack on the floor. The main focus though was on the huge fully grown lion sprawled out on their floor. It had soft golden fur on its body and thick dark chocolate brown locks as its mane. It was about three meters long from head to tail and looked to weigh about 300kg.
"That's not Natsu right?" Shoichi continued questioning his partner who seems unresponsive. There was a fully grown lion in their lab that may or may not be tamed. What the heck does one do in this sort of situation?!
"Check the surveillance cameras, Sho." Spanner commanded in a whisper as he reached over to grab a gun just in case the lion woke up.
Without a second to waste, Shoichi rushed to the monitors across the room away from the lion to check the video data. It showed Tsuna day dreaming, followed by Natsu struggling in the wires and after Tsuna went to help, the video fizzled out. Confused and worried, Shoichi went to check the videos from the corridor outside their lab only to realize Tsuna had never left.
"Spanner, we've got a problem."
"There's a lion in our lab?"
"No. There's a bigger problem." Spanner turned to give Shoichi his full attention.
"The Vongola Decimo is gone."
-'`~~~ooOOooOOooOOooOOooOO~~~'`-
Tsuna woke up with a throbbing headache and every part of his body was screaming with exhaustion. Stretching, he felt relieved as his muscles loosened up and his shoulders cracked. There was a strange sensation of his claws sliding in and out of his hand but other than that, he felt better. Yawning, his tongue grazed across sharp canines and licked his nose to get rid of an itch there.
'Wait. Claws? Canines!?' Stunned, he stopped moving to assess the situation. Firstly, he was on the ground. He remembered trying to untangle Natsu then he passed out. Oh right! Where was Natsu anyway? His stomach grumbled signaling that he had missed dinner. Sniffing, he could smell a faint scent of food as well as mechanical oil. That's strange… since when could he pick up scent like that? The beeping of machines and computers signaled that he was still in the tech lab. Then, he noticed the most important thing - Spanner was pointing a gun at him.
"Spanner!? What the heck?!" was what he meant to say but he only heard angry roars followed by a deep rolling growl. He spun around trying to find the source of the noise only to see a tail swishing out of his sight. At this point in time, Spanner had cocked the gun and looked like he was ready to fire.
"Nice kitty… don't move or I'll have to put you down!" Spanner warned as he raised the muzzle of the gun to point directly at Tsuna's head.
Tsuna was beyond confused now. What the heck was going on!? Okay, Reborn said to take things in one at a time. Don't panic! He then decided to get off the ground first. Rolling onto his tummy, he used a front paw to push himself up first before using the rest of his legs to stabilize himself. That was the moment when his hyper intuition kicked in – something was definitely wrong with him.
"I said stay down!" Spanner fired a shot onto the floor next to Tsuna's front paw. Startled, Tsuna jumped back and was shocked when what was supposed to come out as a squeak, sounded like a loud rumbling roar.
'Okay Tsuna, think quick!' Tsuna tried to psych himself mentally before Spanner decided to fire a shot into him. Looking at his huge paws, he decided he was some sort of animal. He had a soft golden coat all over his body like Natsu's while his fringe (or what he could see of his hair) was the same brown mop he had. His curiosity with the change had also caused a certain foreign body part to start flicking in rhythm. Looking back, he saw a tail topped with a tuff of brown fur. Finally, after five minutes of panicking, he decided he was a lion like Natsu.
'Where is Natsu anyway?!' Tsuna wondered when suddenly a 'GAO!' resounded in his mind.
"Natsu?" He said out loud which sounded like a soft rumble of thunder and that made Spanner tense up again.
Suddenly, Tsuna was filled with warmth that he recognized as his sky flames. 'Natsu must have merged with me during that shock! That's why I'm a lion now and Natsu's in my head!'
Another 'GAO!' confirmed Tsuna's theory.
'Alright. Next step. I have to convince them that I'm not dangerous!'
"Sho, what's your hypothesis?" Spanner gave a brief glance to Shoichi who was approaching them before turning his focus back onto the full grown lion.
There was silence for a moment before Shoichi replied: "Tsuna must have gotten curious about the time machine and played with it. He probably got sent into another time frame!"
"What about the lion?"
"Maybe the time machine rejected Natsu and spat him back here after aging him. That's why he's fully grown now." Shoichi rubbed his chin as he continued to assess the situation.
"Natsu is a box weapon, it can't grow." Spanner countered while Shoichi frowned in thought.
"The time machine could have malfunctioned since it's not completed." Shoichi concluded.
"If that's the case, this lion should respond to Natsu's name." Spanner pointed out and both scientist turned to the big cat seated before them. The lion had sat down on its hind legs and started to clean itself during the conversation. It licked its paws before bringing it up to its face to rub his eyes. Noticing that the conversation had stopped and all focus was on him, the lion raised its slit amber eyes towards the pair while its tail continued swishing back and forth.
"Natsu?" Shoichi tried and received a rumble in recognition. "You're not going to attack us are you?"
There was an innocent look on the lion's face and a happy twinkle in its eye. Then, it raised a paw in a come hither motion and waiting patiently for the scientist to react.
"You go." Shoichi pushed Spanner in front towards the lion while Spanner tried to back away.
"I have the gun! I'll shoot it if it tries to bite you. So, you go!" Spanner reversed their position and pushed the other forward with all his might. Shoichi stumbled and shrieked as he tumbled to the ground right in front of the predator. Frozen in shock, Shoichi could only wait and see what the huge cat would do.
The big cat took a huge yawn which startled Shoichi as he felt shivers going down his spine at the sight of the lion's sharp canines. Spanner had cocked the gun and was ready to fire anytime. Everyone was waiting to see what the huge predator would do next when suddenly, it gave a toothy grin and gave Shoichi a huge lick on the cheek. A hot breath of air shot towards the inventor's face as the lion snorted in amusement which caused Shoichi to back off with a shrill.
"See! He's harmless! Good boy, Natsu!" Spanner proclaimed at the discovery as he moved forward to scratch between the big cat's ears and loud rumbling purrs could be heard as the lion twitched in delight at the sensation of being pampered.
"He's huge." Shoichi breathed out as he tried to catch his breath and calm his rapidly beating heart down.
Spanner ignored the other in favor of playing with the lion who seemed delighted with the attention. He could feel the big cat vibrating as it made low rumbling sounds of pleasure. Scratching its belly made the rumbles even louder. The big cat stretched out and rolled around as Spanner continued scratching various parts of its body. This lion was adorable!
"Spanner?" Shoichi suddenly froze at the realization of an important fact.
"Hmmnn?" Spanner laughed as the lion nudged forward playfully and tried to get as close and in contact with the inventor as much as he could. It nudged its head under the blond's chin and around his body and under his arms tickling Spanner.
"What are we going to tell Tsuna's guardians?" That made Spanner stop laughing.
"Well, shit."
The lion just gave a toothy smile to the two deadpanned scientist who were dreading the foreseeable near future.
A/N: well, this is the opening! the good thing about not writing much of it yet is that i really appreciate suggestions and feedbacks! tell me if there's a particular scene or pairing or person or ANYTHING you have been wishing to see more of in fanfiction! i'll try my best to see what i can do. TILL NEXT TIME! (which will be pretty soon)