A/N ：To those who read my previous XS fic, thank you very much. To be honest, I planned that as a starting to my new story, this. I've been plotting this for quite some time already in my... well, head/brain. I know that my english is very poor, and I do hope whoever reads this enjoy the story, that hopefully will turn out the way I originally plotted it...
Disclaimer ：I don't own KHR
Xanxus made his way towards the Ninth's office. He was informed by Iemitsu that Timoteo had an urgent matter that needed him. It's not as if Xanxus actually cared about what the old man had with him. But the Varia is still serving under the Ninth, so there's no way he can reject his old man's assignments to him.
Xanxus didn't even bother to knock when he reached the Ninth's office and just opened the door. As he stepped inside, he saw his guardians were all already inside.
Bel was sitting lazily on the couch. Mammon in his arms, counting his money.
Levi is standing beside the Ninth's desk.
Lussuria, apparently had waited eagerly for his arrival, is standing in front of him at the door.
Squalo is leaning against the wall beside the door.
And of course, the Ninth sitting by his desk, with the kind smile on his face.
"You're finally here, my son." Timoteo greeted Xanxus.
"Ya, hurry up and tell me what you called me here for." Xanxus questioned, not very politely.
"Well, the thing is that..." the Ninth didn't manage to finish that line before he felt silent and stared at Xanxus the way a father looked at his son.
"What is it?"
"..."
Xanxus glanced at the rest in the room. None of them dared to speak up. Not even the usually noisy Squalo. The room is filled with tension. But their expressions did show something.
Bel, even with his bangs covering his eyes, did not have his usual Cheshire grin on his face. Instead, it was replaced by a slight frown. Mammon pulled his hood lower to cover up more parts of his face. In addition, using the notes in his hands to cover up the remaining parts that cannot be covered. Levi tried to make a serious face but failed. Lussuria also had a sad expression on his face. He's not screaming like a girl like he usually did. Squalo lowered his head so that his eyes were covered by his bangs, not showing any emotions.
Xanxus figured that he's not going to get anything out from his guardians so he just turned back to face the old man.
"Hurry up and tell me why you called me here and stop wasting my time!" Xanxus growled, beginning to get impatient.
The Ninth sighed and beginned his speech again. "Well, my son. The Vongola Famiglia had a war for about one month with another famiglia, the Fiancata Famiglia."
"If you called me here just to tell me about a war taking place in between the Vongola and another famiglia and wanted the help from my squad, just say it. Don't waste my time." Xanxus cut in before the Ninth can finish what he wanted to say.
"My son, please be patient and listen to what I'm going to say." Timoteo replied calmly. "After having about one month of war between the two famiglias, we came up with an agreement."
"What is it?"
"We agreed to have a marriage between one people from each famiglia for the end of the war." Timoteo answered. He sighed again and looked straight into Xanxus's eyes. "My son, this marriage is the only way to end the war between the two famiglias. So, will you acknowledge this?"
Xanxus stared at the Ninth with a death glare and sent out murderous aura around him, causing the rest in the room to twitch a little at the sight.
"So..." Xanxus beginned "what you're saying now is that you had a war with another famiglia. And everything turned out to be a big mess. And now you're telling me to go clean up all the mess you made by marrying someone from the other side?" As he finished that sentence, the aura around him became more threatening, causing a small gulp to escape from his guardians' throat.
"My son, please understand." Timoteo said, remaining to be calm. "There has been a lot of sacrifices during the war. Both of the famiglia wished for the end for this war. We all know that a marriage between the two famiglias is the best way to prevent war from happening again."
"Why don't you just let that Sawada brat and his guardians take care of them then?" Xanxus questioned.
Timoteo sighed again. "I don't want to drag Tsunayoshi-kun into all these mafia-related things if ever possible, even though he is going to be the next boss. He is in fact still a middle schooler and lack of knowledge to things that had gone around in the mafia. If we could settle things on our own, I don't want him to have any relation with it."
Timoteo pulled out a piece of paper from the drawer of his desk after he finished saying that.
"The girl you're going to marry is called Meridionale, the sister of the young boss of the Fiancata Famiglia." Timoteo said as he handed the paper to Xanxus.
Xanxus took the paper and examined the paper, which apparently shows a picture of a girl, most likely the girl known as "Meridionale". She had long bangs like Bel, but was swept to the sides so her baby blue eyes are visible. Her hair is black that extended to her waist.
"Ninth," Lussuria asked this time. "when is the wedding?"
The Ninth turned to look at Lussuria before answering. "It's not decided yet. The two famiglias decided to give the two people some time to work on their relationship before we decide on the actual date."
"Bossu," Levi spoke this time."are you really going to marry a girl from another famiglia?"
Xanxus turned around to look at Squalo, who is still leaning against the wall. His head is tilted up by now and his eyes stared at Xanxus like the rest of the group, waiting for his answer.
"It's not your choice in deciding whether or not you want to get married or not." the Ninth replied before Xanxus could answer. "The marriage had already been confirmed by both famiglias. That's something that had been decided."
Xanxus kept his eyes on Squalo, though not making it obvious. He had the same expression as everyone else : the worry and wonder of what is going to happen in the near future. There's no any sign sadness or melancholy that his boss is going to get married. He probably still don't understand the feelings inside Xanxus and still threats him like a boss. Nothing more. Nothing less.
"If there's nothing more you're going to say, then I'm leaving." Xanxus said as he turned around and walked towards the door that is just right behind him.
"My son," the Ninth said as Xanxus took his leave. "please do take some time to think about it. I'm sure you're not mentally prepared for any of these yet. So go spend some time to think things through."
Xanxus continued walking, completely ignoring the Ninth and made his way towards his own office.
"I wonder which is worse. The fact that Boss is going to marry a girl from a supposingly enemy famiglia. Or the fact that WE are actually helping them by writing and sending out these stupid invitations." asked Bel, handing over a just-finished-invitation to Mammon.
"My personal opinion," replied Mammon as he put it into a bag with the rest of the invitations. "is the fact that we are doing this without getting paid."
"Mammon-chan, don't be like that." Lussuria said as he looked up from the invitation he is currently writing. "We should be happy that Boss had finally managed to find a girl for him to love for the rest of his life and can finally have an heir to succeed the Varia boss' seat."
"True. But you're kind of missing the fact that Boss haven't even meet this girl yet, and who knows if he liked her or not?" Mammon pointed out.
"Ushishi, good point Mammon." Bel laughed his signature laugh. "But... why is Boss the one getting married? There's a lot of people to choose from in the whole Vongola right?"
"Well, the girl is the sister of the young boss of the famiglia. So the Ninth and his guardians is a definite no-no. And that Sawada brat and his guardians were only middle schoolers, they're way too young to get married. Besides, the one who got married because of famiglia alliance is usually the head of a main group of the famiglia. So that's probably the main reason why Boss is chosen." Squalo answered Bel's question without even looking up from his invitation-writing.
By then, everyone in the room had already stopped whatever they're doing and stared at Squalo who didn't notice, or at least pretended not to notice, and continued writing the invitation like nothing had happened.
The rest gathered at the other corner of the table, opposite of where Squalo is sitting, and started their little discussion.
"I'm really worried about Squ-chan." Lussuria began. "I don't know if he'll ever accept this."
"Even if he doesn't, he probably won't show it." Mammon continued. "And it would means that we cannot do anything."
"The proud Squalo is never going to admit such a thing." said Bel. "But it's quite obvious already, seeing that he's been a lot quieter lately."
"Why are we even discussing about this?" Levi protested. "How he feels is none of our business. We should worry about the Boss instead."
"Ushishishi. If you don't want to discuss about this, feel free to leave and let us discuss properly." Bel smirked as he took out his knives. "Hurry up and leave before I started target-practising."
A cold sweat felled off Levi's forehead before Lussuria interrupted.
"Mama, Bel-chan don't be like that. Levi-chan too. A marriage isn't just about the groom and the bride, but also their families. This marriage will definitely change a lot of things in the Vongola from now on."
"In other words, we will be affected too." Mammon stated.
"Ushishishi...The Prince don't like the sound of that, Mammon."
"Mama, don't worry Bel-chan." Lussuria attempted to calm the young Prince down. "Of course there's won't be a 180 degree change in our lives. Most is probably just that from then on, the girl will have the title of the wife of the boss of Varia."
"Then does that make her position higher than Squalo?" Mammon asked.
"Well..." Lussuria was cut off when Squalo suddenly smashed his pen along with his hand on the table, with a lot of force.
Everyone turned around to see Squalo stood up from his seat and headed towards Mammon and handed him the finished-invitation.
"Here, that should do it. We're done for the day." Squalo said as he took his leave. "I'm going to train now."
The rest stared as he left the room and closed the door behind him, then they quickly turned to face each other again.
"Do you think he heard us?"
"Who knows. He probably won't say or do anything even if he did anyway..."
"Awww~ I'm still worried..."
A/N: Ya, I think that'll do for chpt 1 ... I personally think it's a bit short... I prefer stories with each chpt around 10,000 words or so... & this is definitely a lot lesser than that...
YAY ! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME ! This day turned out worse than I expected though...*sad*
To anyone who is interested in knowing when I'll update the new chpt: I probably will update the next chpt soon... if I got no problem with my english that is...