Angry Sky, Bright Earth
Chunk & Clarion (the first and second prompts) are related with Clarion taking place first! Feel free to read them in whatever order
Chunk
Most days Enma was pretty sure he had a better handle on Xanxus' feelings are than Xanxus did.
Despite this, Enma was surprised to wake up and find Xanxus sitting in his hospital room.
He wasn't sitting right next to the bed, settled instead in a chair near the wall. He was staring out the window with his arms crossed over his chest.
His hair was pushed in all directions, he'd obviously been running his hands through it, and his clothes were rumpled as though he'd been sleeping in them.
"What's going on?" Enma said. The words slurred together, his mouth unused to speaking.
Xanxus turned to face him. For a moment, Enma saw a flicker of relief in his eyes.
"You got shot, trash," he answered. His fingers dug tighter into his arms. "I told you to take someone with you to meet him."
"I didn't think I need bodyguards with dons of allied families," Enma murmured. He let his eyes drift shut, feeling sleepy. Immediately, he heard the shuffle of feet. "I'm fine. You don't have to get up."
There was a moment before Xanxus said, his voice commanding, "Don't go back to sleep."
Enma let out a soft laugh, peeking one eye open to find the other man hovering near the edge of his bed. "Injured people are supposed to rest."
"You've spent more then enough time asleep."
There was an underlying worry there.
Enma forced his other eye open, shuffling to sit up. "I'll stay up longer enough to see the others. I'm sure Adel and Tsuna are lingering around here somewhere."
"Your trash guardians went to get dinner, I'll call and let them know your up." He added, "Tsuna is taking care of something. I'll let him know so he can drop by when he's done."
Enma didn't have to think very hard to know that Tsuna was ripping apart the family that'd put a bullet in him. "You didn't go with him?"
There was a moment of silence before Xanxus said, "Someone had to watch over you and make sure you didn't do something stupid."
Clarion
He hadn't realized it would be worst.
His brothers had died when he was imprisoned.
The feeling of coming back and finding out the people you loved, no matter how angry you had been with them, had died was horrible.
Xanxus hadn't realized how much worse it was to sit in a hospital room and not be able to do anything but watch and hope that someone would live.
Complication
"You have a private plane."
"Julie and Adel needed a vacation away from the kids."
Enma shuffled forward in the line as Xanxus answered, "They shouldn't have had the fucking twerps then."
There was a moment of tense silence before Enma said, "It feels like it's been forever since we've seen each other. I just thought it would be better to do this and get to see you then just video chatting for the meeting."
"You thought wrong then."
Enma sighed. "Xanxus, seriously. Just because it's not a Vongola trained pilot doesn't mean the plane is going to crash or get hijacked or anything. It'll be fine."
There was a huff on the other end of the line.
He glanced forward, taking in the small number of people between him and the women checking ticket. "I'm gonna need to hang up soon. It's almost my turn to board. I'll call when I've landed. "
"Don't bother. I'll be there to pick your ass up."
Contemplation
"Xanxus! There's someone I want to introduce you too."
Gripping his liquor glass tightly, Xanxus said, "No."
"I wasn't expecting you to say yes which is why I brought him over here." Tsuna smiled, the expression deceptively serene. Xanxus felt a twitch of amusement. "After we talked, it occurred to me you might not have met Enma yet. I thought it would be good to introduce you."
"I haven't agreed yet, trash."
"So you say." Tsuna reached behind him, pulling a redhead his age out from behind him. "Xanxus, this is Enma. He's the boss of the Shimon. Enma, this is Xanxus. He runs the Varia. I've asked him to be my external adviser."
Xanxus swept his eyes along the Don.
He looked a little out of his depth, shifting nervously on his feet and playing with the cuffs of one of his sleeves.
There was something about the set of his shoulders though. They were proud and strong. It made it look as though as a moment's notice he would be ready to protect himself.
He remembered asking Lussuria about the boy several weeks earlier and finding out that he'd been the one to interrupt Tsuna's original inheritance all those years ago.
"Interesting," Xanxus said at last. A sharp toothed smile pulled at his lips. He could see satisfaction rising in Tsuna's eyes and weariness rising in Enma's. "Maybe I'll take the offer after all, trash."
Control
They did not fight.
It was a bad idea and they both knew it.
Xanxus was explosive without any true anger. When he was actually riled up he got worse, hurdling words that cut deeper then simply being called trash. He was too proud to apologize as well. He'd watch their relationship crumble before he'd admit he'd been wrong about something or give in to what Enma wanted.
Enma, on the other hand, wouldn't get angry. He was a grown man, no longer the child he'd been when the Shimon had first come back, but having people well and truly angry at him wrecked him. He became the same mess of anxiety and nerves that he'd been back when he was a teenager. There had only been one time he'd fought with someone he cared about enough for it to happen, sometime after Adel and Julie had first gotten together and he and Julie had exchanged some particularly seething words, and no one wanted a repeat.
So they don't fight, because they both know that if they ever do they won't be able to come back from it.
E/n: Oh gosh, guys you are so nice? So many of you have favorited/followed and been like "oh im so happy your writing this" and i've been blushing nonstop.
I'm trying for daily updates, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to? These take me a bit of time, since sometimes i get stuck on a prompt, and I prioritize Counsel Me and I Cieli.
ON ANOTHER NOTE: some of you may wonder about the note at the beginning of the chapter and why I wouldn't just readjust the prompts to be in chronological order. This is because I follow a prompt table and like to keep them in the same order as the table. If there come any other connections like that though, I'll be sure to let you know in a similar way.
