Title: Trouble
Author: Carlile (gokuderaa/juuuudaime on Tumblr, CarlileLovesAnime on FFnet and Ao3)
Rating: heavy T
Series: Katekyo Hitman Reborn! because I couldn't get out of this fandom if I tried.
Characters/Pairings: 27fem!59; 69male!96, Iemitsu/Nana, R88, very slight 2795; some genderbent Vongola X Guardians, some gals, some kids, some Kokuyo Gang, the royal twins, and OCs/headcanon characters barely worth mentioning.
Genre(s): adventure, angst, drama, family, friendship, hurt/comfort, and romance, not necessarily in that order
Words: over 34K fuck me
Summary: Tsuna has low expectations of his forced summer vacation, having fled home due to dangerous circumstances. But when he starts hanging out with a mysterious girl he sees at a block party, his life undergoes a drastic and beautiful change. AU, eventual 27fem!59.
Warnings: physical fighting, attempted rape, blood, smoking, swearing; mentions of drug use, alcohol use, self-harm, and depression.
Disclaimer: /throws laptop in air/ Do I look like I own KHR?
Other: Two and a half weeks. I suffered at the hands of this stupid story for two and a half weeks. But it's finally done and I am ready to post.
This fic is a birthday present for my dear friend Cat (Tumblr user lecatniip), whose birthday was actually almost a month ago, oops. She requested a 5927 fic, and when I asked if she was okay with 27fem!59, she said yes. So I ran with it. All of Tsuna's guardians (not including himself) are genderbent in this, although fem!Hibari doesn't make any appearances. That was just how it worked out. I wanted to try my hand at writing genderbent characters, and hopefully I pulled it off decently.
The beta-reader of this fanfic was the lovely, intelligent, perfect, talented, perfect, amazing, PERFECT Zee (byakuzee on Tumblr and Ao3, Snow757 on FFnet), who is so perfect I could just marry her right now. She had suggested breaking this monster-sized fic into chapters so that it would be more digestible, and that is what shall be done.
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It started the same way it usually started, with Dad trudging into the kitchen wearing a mask of sweat and false peace.
"Honey, son," he said with big edgeless smile, "We're going on vacation." He tried subtly to hide his hand behind his back.
Mom and I stared at him, not knowing what to say.
"Finish eating and pack your bags, please." He hunched forward and coughed a few times into his fist, and I exchanged glances with Mom while he took a minute to compose himself. His fake smile became even faker. Furrowing his eyebrows a bit, he nodded at us and retreated into the master bedroom.
I caught a glimpse of the hand he'd been hiding. Fingers were dislocated at the joints, nails had been cut sloppily past the quick, and fresh and dry blood covered most of the skin. My appetite disappeared.
I went to my room and had no idea how long we would be gone, and when I remembered how long it had been since the last time this had happened, I was almost in tears. I thought we had been doing so well. I thought the turbulence was over. I wondered how long we had been unsafe and he'd not told us.
Downstairs, my parents yelled at each other: "You said we would never, ever have to go into hiding again!" "I know, I know." "You promised!" "I know, Nana. I'm sorry." "Where will we even go this time? We don't have the lake house anymore." "—Actually, I never sold the lake house." "Iemitsu, you lied to me!"
They would argue like this nearly every waking minute of the car trip, too. I would be too much a coward to take off my headphones.
All at once I felt crushingly tired. I pushed myself off the floor and grabbed piles of clothes from my dresser without discretion.
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Why does Tsuna's family have to leave? Why is the author's note longer than the chapter content? Why am I asking these questions?
Stay tuned for actually regular updates yo.
