Day 2: Ornaments

Muffled voices and laughter from downstairs woke up the young decimo from his slumber. Tsuna groggily rubbed the sleep from his eyes and stumbled down the stairs into the living room. There, he was met with a mess of cut up paper and flakes of tinsel sprinkled all over the floor, accompanied by colored pencils and crayons scattered around. He scanned the room and noticed several decorations already being put up. His mom noticed his presence and gave her son a warm smile.

"Good morning, Tsu-kun! I decided to make my own decorations with the others this year since we have a much bigger family now!" Nana explained. Lambo and I-pin were having a contest on who can make the best angel while Bianchi and Fuuta were making snowflakes. However, Reborn was nowhere in sight.

"Um, mom?"

"Hmm?" She hummed, snipping at a red piece of construction paper.

"Have you seen Reborn?" She stopped cutting for a second and tried to remember where the sun Arcobaleno ran off to. "Oh! I remember now. He said he wanted you to meet him at the shopping district! I don't know why though.." Nana trailed off, her head tilting to the side. Tsuna just thanked her and walked back upstairs to quickly get himself ready for whatever today's horror was going to be.

He sighed, this month is going to be stressful.

Tsuna finally arrived at the district, trying to catch his breath.

"Tenth!"

"Tsuna!

"Tsuna-kun!"

"Tsuna-san!"

He heard his friends call out to him. He looked over to his right and found them waving at him, Reborn was sitting on Yamamoto's shoulder as usual. Tsuna ran over to them and noticed that they were by an arts and crafts store.

"What are you guys doing here?" The young boss asked.

"The kid told us to meet him here." Yamamoto said. Tsuna stared at Reborn, waiting for an explanation.

"You saw that Mama was making her own decorations, right?" Tsuna nodded. "Hahi? That sounds like fun! Haru wants to join!" He sweat dropped.

Kyoko giggled and agreed with Haru. "Anyway, why did you ask us to meet here, Reborn-san?" Gokudera asked, getting back to the topic. The hitman jumped down from the baseball lover's shoulder and pointed to the shop they were next to.

"I'm going to give you 10 minutes to stock up on supplies because you are going to help Mama with making ornaments." He was about to leave the group to their own devices but he remembered something.

"Oh, and this is a competition. You're only allowed to use the supplies you buy." With that, Reborn had disappeared, probably back home.

The guys were left dumbfounded. However, they quickly felt a very fired up aura radiating off of the girls. The two girls looked at each other and got themselves pumped up before rushing into the store. The trio blinked.

"We should probably start gathering our stuff too, haha!" Yamamoto placed his arms behind his head and headed into the store.

"Don't worry, Tenth! I'll help you out!"

"Ahaha…thanks but I don't think Reborn is allowing teams." At that instance, the said hitman appeared in an elf costume. "That's right, now get going, you have 8 minutes left!"

He then kicked the two boys into the store.

Tsuna let out a sigh as they all came out of the shop, each of them holding several bags filled with craft supplies. He looked over at the two girls.

"I can't believe you guys were that brutal." He cried, recalling memories of Kyoko and Haru using Zettai Maken to scare away the other shoppers and one time, even surprising Tsuna.

They giggled and apologized. "Sorry Tsuna-kun, we didn't mean to scare you!" Kyoko said with a smile.

"H-hah?! I wasn't scared!"

"That's right! The Tenth isn't afraid of anything!" Tsuna laughed sheepishly at his storm guardian. 'You're very wrong, Gokudera-kun.' He thought sadly.

The five of them headed back to the Sawada residence and saw that a few decorations found their way to the outside of the house. Nana has been working hard! A few lines of Christmas lights were hung to the roof and wrapped around the front porch. Some of the snowflakes that Fuuta and Bianchi made surrounded the front door, two angels were at the top. One was nicely made while the other...was Lambo made.

"Uwaah~! Tsuna-san's house is looking so nice!"

"Woah, yeah! Everyone has been working so hard, we can't lose to them Tsuna!"

They headed their way inside and walked into the living room, where it was also very nicely decorated. Reborn was already there waiting for them. Nana and the others were in the kitchen doing who knows what. They sat down at the table and placed down their bags.

"Took you guys long enough. Alright! The rules are no teams and you can't use anything else besides the supplies you bought. The winner is the person who makes the best ornament. Let the competition begin!"

For the rest of the day, the five of them were working hard on their ornaments. Reborn had brought Nana out of the kitchen to let her watch the group. A happy expression painted her face as she sees her son and his friends make ornaments together. She reminisces a past memory where she made ornaments with her husband and Tsuna.

Reborn looked at his student as gave a small smile. 'Good job Dame-Tsuna, you've made your mother happy.'

The competition has come to an end and everyone is exhausted. Nana and the freeloaders came out of the kitchen to see the final results of the ornaments.

The girls and Gokudera's ornaments came out really nicely and surprisingly, Yamamoto and Tsuna's ornaments were pretty decent. Nana glanced over to her son's ornament and her eyes began to tear up.

"Tsu-kun…" She started, catching everyone's attention. "Is that...your papa and I?" Tsuna laughed sheepishly and nodded.

"Um...I remembered that we used to make ornaments when I was little so-" His sentence was cut off when Nana crouched down and hugged her son, crying tears of happiness.

"Baka-Tsuna made Mama cry!"

"Lambo, she's crying because she's happy!"

"Nuh uh! Tsuna is a meanie!" Fuuta sweat dropped and tried to stop the two kids from arguing even further. Bianchi sighed and looked over at Reborn.

The hitman jumped onto the table and announced the winner.

"The winner is...Tsuna!" Managing to pry away from his mother's hug, he stared at Reborn dumbfounded. "Eh? But Kyoko-chan, Haru, and Gokudera-kun's ornaments turned out the best."

Reborn pointed to Nana, who was holding onto the ornaments, still crying.

"Just because their ornaments looks better doesn't mean it's the best. Look how happy Mama is." Tsuna looked over at his mom and smiled softly.

"I knew you would win, Tenth!"

"Haha, congrats Tsuna!"

"Tsuna-san really is amazing!"

"Aww, Tsuna-kun's ornament was such a sweet idea!"

Tsuna turned red from the praises his friends were giving him. He kept denying them while he was pulled into another hug.

Maybe this advent calendar wasn't going to be all bad after all.

a/n:

ok not gonna lie, i almost cried thinking of nana holding onto tsuna's ornaments and crying her eyes out

agH. wholesome things make me hAappy