I'M NOT DEAD :D Also I'm in America now apparently but who cares amirite? But on a serious note, I dedicate this chapter to my readers who are victims of Hurricane Harvey. I live near Houston and I am very lucky my host family's neighborhood didn't get flooded. I couldn't imagine what it would have felt like to lose your home, your belongings, maybe even separated from your family members or pets. I know this isn't much, but I hope this chapter would cheer you up for at least a few minutes in the face of this devastation.
This chapter and the next was supposed to be one of the same, but goddamn was it too long so I decided to divide it into two chapters. This first half is pretty short imo but I promise the second half would be slightly longer. It's still in progress and, if the heavens shined upon me, it would be uploaded around next week, maybe even earlier. If not, well, you know my track record…
Warnings: Cursing, attempt pedophilia (nothing bad happened I promise), lack of proofreading. Meaning, probably lots of grammatical error, repetition, typos, and many
Disclaimer: I do not own Katekyo Hitman Reborn.
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Chapter 02: In which the Sawada family were reunited
Nana felt ecstatic. Finally, after so long, Iemitsu was coming home!
Well, not exactly. For security reasons, they decided to not meet in Namimori. It wouldn't be good if someone unwanted traced Iemitsu to their home after all. Instead, she and her little Tsu-kun would go on a two-hour train ride to Kyoto, where they will meet up with Iemitsu in the inn he had booked. He also said he would wear a disguise so no one would recognize him.
Honestly, Nana thought that Iemitsu was being overly paranoid. But if making such a hassle brought some semblance of peace to his mind, then Nana couldn't find it in her heart to protest.
Besides, she would finally be reunited with Iemitsu again, so she didn't care how troublesome the process was!
And Tsu-kun will finally meet his tou-chan! The three of them had communicated through a video call program her husband provided and Tsu-kun already recognized Iemitsu as his tou-chan, but this would be the first time they meet face to face.
(Iemitsu had at first proposed the idea of cutting any kinds of communication to keep them safe, but Nana had put her feet down on that. She refused to have Tsu-kun grow up without knowing who his tou-chan was, or if he even existed in the first place. Iemitsu had conceded and decided to establish an untraceable private connection. Although it took quite a while, they now had a save line to communicate with.)
Moreover, they would also be celebrating Tsu-kun's birthday together! She couldn't wait!
She had packed all the things they would need for the three-day trip and they would be off to the train station first thing in the morning.
Knowing Tsu-kun wouldn't be in town for his birthday, Gouda-san and his friends had come over to drop off the presents they had prepared for Tsu-kun.
It was such a surprise the first time they came over a few months ago. She had been ready to take out the Glock 26 that was hidden in the secret compartment near the door when she saw several members of the Momokyoukai-gumi on her doorstep. That was until she saw Kyouya-kun, Mikoto-chan's son, carrying her Tsu-kun, both looking unconcerned.
She eased a bit. There were no alarm bells ringing in her head, and if it really was trouble, Tsu-kun would be screaming already. Nana had concluded that Tsu-kun's intuition was stronger than hers, so if Tsu-kun saw no need to kick up a fuss, then Nana would do the same.
After some explanation, she understood the situation. Turned out there really was nothing to be worried about. The two of them had just been declared honorary members of the group, that's all!
Apparently, they would have initiated the ceremony to welcome them as full-fledged members, but since it involved drinking sake and they're both still underaged, the plan had to be postponed.
Nana had seen this as a happy occasion nonetheless and felt as if it needed a proper celebration. The yakuza members cheered, Tsu-kun cheered along, while Kyouya-kun wore his usual inscrutable expression.
(Little did she know that Kyouya felt the urge to facepalm. Really, what did he expect from the mother of the absolutely insane brown fluff of a baby? He thought his okaa-san was weird, but Sawada Nana was on another level of absurd.)
When the Hibari couple heard of this, Mikoto didn't bother hiding her amusement at the sudden turn of events and offered for the party to be held at the Hibari estate, painfully stepping on Tatsuya's feet with the heel of her geta when he tried to protest in front of Nana. Meanwhile, Tatsuya had looked as if he was one moment short of having a coronary.
Really, his worries were unfounded. The Momokyoukai-gumi members turned out to be made up of quite charming people, after all! Just proved how one really should not judge something by its cover.
Oh, she got sidetracked! What was she thinking about again? Ah, yes. Tsu-kun's birthday presents from the group members. It was cute seeing how deeply infatuated they were with her little Tsu-kun!
Meanwhile, Mikoto-chan had said that Kyouya-kun was still working on his, so he would give his present after they had returned from Kyoto. It was proof of how close her little Tsu-kun had gotten to the raven-haired boy, the carbon copy of his mother. Apparently, he didn't have any friends before Tsu-kun appeared, the poor boy.
(In actuality, little Kyouya would always beat up anyone who came close to him, saying they were 'crowding' and were 'beneath him'. Eventually, no one dared to approach him. This trait of his was gained from his mother who, while civil for the most part, refused to interact with people if she saw no need. Carbon copy indeed.
Honestly, the only reason Tsuna managed to get close enough to Kyouya without getting hit was that Mikoto didn't want Nana to think badly of her because of her son and had, in turn, told him to behave.)
She got sidetracked again! It must be because of her excitement for the trip. She just couldn't wait for tomorrow!
.:-Chapter 02-:.
Two Years Old
The next morning Nana and Tsuna took the train to Kyoto, but not before saying goodbyes (and receiving several 'happy birthday's in Tsuna's case) to the Hibari family and the Momokyoukai-gumi. The yakuza group members that came to see them off had looked a bit teary eyed, but managed to keep the tears from falling. Tatsuya sweat dropped looking at the scene, a bunch of grown men trying hard to not cry in front of a cheerful two-year-old waving goodbye, while Mikoto looked as distracted as she directed her gaze somewhere.
Kyouya couldn't keep himself from frowning. In the few months Kyouya had known the little brunet, he discovered that Tsunayoshi had the uncanny talent of accidentally (or not so accidentally) getting into trouble. Like that one time on the bridge, or when they stumbled across that squirrel, or the many occasions after.
Tsunayoshi would just pout whenever Kyouya prevented him from going on his 'ventures'. Kyouya had assumed the brunet had meant 'adventures' and no, he wasn't stopping him from having adventures. He was stopping him from getting himself killed.
Regardless of his efforts though, Tsunayoshi would still manage to find a way to 'have fun' in the end, so Kyouya had resorted to escorting him whenever he could.
Because, like they said, if you can't beat them, join them.
Besides, it was kind of fun. But nobody besides him needed to know that, especially his otou-san. He'd flip.
His otou-san had agreed with him on how Tsunayoshi couldn't be left unsupervised. ("He managed to get onto the back of a moving truck and ended up in the police station with a stuffed lion, which I was sure he didn't have before. I still don't know how that happened.")
So his adamant protest when he found out that the Sawada family was going to Kyoto, to unknown territory, wasn't unfounded. At least in Namimori, Kyouya would be there to keep an eye on the boy.
But Nana-baasan ("You can call me Nana-baachan if you want, Kyouya-kun!" "Nana-sa-" Cue The Stare from one Hibari Mikoto. "... Nana-baasan." "Ara, that's fine too, I guess.") managed to persuade him.
"You don't have to worry so much, Kyouya-kun. We would be doing a lot of things on this trip, after all. I'm sure he would be too preoccupied to wander around much," she said.
And it did assure him a little. Maybe with all the things they planned to do he would be too tired to go on (very, very dangerous) adventures.
So Kyouya relented, and with a "bye-bye Kyou-nii!", a "Hn", and numerous sounds of camera flash in the background ("Oh my god, Mikoto they're so adorable I'm going to cry." "Please refrain from doing that, Tatsuya-san. You look very unseemly." "Says the one holding the camcorder- OW!"), the Sawada family boarded their train and went away.
When the train was no longer in sight, the Hibari family made their way home. Kyouya released a sigh of relief. He had been internally twitching because they had been crowding. Just the prospect of standing in the middle of so many people made him want to brandish his very own pair of wooden tonfa.
He deserved to feel smug about it. His otou-san had finally deemed him worthy to wield a weapon and had started training him the moment he turned four. It wasn't metallic like his otou-san's, but he would obtain that as soon as he proved he was strong enough.
Which reminded him, he had another training session with his otou-san after this. The perfect opportunity to get rid of his frustration.
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The two-hour ride with a train plus twenty minutes on a taxi to reach the inn wasn't exactly a problem, but Nana would be lying if she said that she had been calm throughout the ride. Oh, she just couldn't keep a lid on her excitement!
She hummed a familiar tune, watching her Tsu-kun press his head to the taxi window. It was the first time he went out of Namimori, after all. His fascination with all the surroundings was to be expected. She let her mind fly, imagining about all the fun stuff she, her husband, and Tsu-kun could finally do now that they would be reunited.
"Kaa-chan, kaa-chan, look! It's pity!" Tsu-kun tugged at her sleeve while pointing at the eye-catching red gate leading to the Fushimi Inari Shrine.
Nana giggled when she finally caught on what her little boy was trying to say. "Don't you mean 'pretty', Tsu-kun?"
"Un!" he replied, nodding. "Go there!" he continued with much enthusiasm.
Nana's mouth stretched into a wide smile. Her son was just so adorable. "Of course! But first, we're going to meet up with someone special."
Tsu-kun gasped, "Tou-chan?" he questioned eagerly.
She nodded, her smile still place, "That's right! So be good and wait a little longer, okay?"
"'kay!"
The ride to the inn went pretty much like that. Tsu-kun pointing at all the things that caught his eyes and saying they should visit here or there.
Soon they arrived at their destination. The taxi driver helped put down their belongings before driving off. Nana pulled the suitcase on one hand, while her other hand holding onto Tsu-kun's hand. She's so proud of him, already walking on his own two feet!
As they entered the inn, one of the staff approached them, "Welcome-"
"NANA!" in an instant Nana found herself lift off the ground. In her surprise, she had let go of both the suitcase and Tsu-kun, but immediately squealed with glee when she realized the person holding her was her Iemitsu!
He dyed his hair black and was wearing glasses, probably part of his disguise, but she could care less because her Iemitsu was finally here after so long!
She hugged him back, and Iemitsu spun them around in place, not caring about the looks they were garnering from other people present. It was only when her Tsu-kun called that the couple remembered about the world outside of their own.
"Tou-chan!"
They looked towards the source of the sound, and Iemitsu put down Nana on the ground before moving to lift Tsu-kun high in the air.
"Tsuna! That's right, your tou-chan is here!" said the man.
Tsuna had been confused when he saw his tou-chan's appearance. Wasn't his hair supposed to be yellow? And Tsuna didn't remember ever seeing him wear the square thing on his face before. But still, for some reason, Tsuna had known that the unfamiliar-looking man was the same person he and his kaa-chan had been talking to through the square thing at home.
Anyway, he called out to his tou-chan and was lifted up. He squealed with delight at the sudden action.
"Tou-chan! Tou-chan!"
The man swung his son around, hugged him, and delivered kisses to his face. Tsuna giggled when the stubble near the man's mouth tickled his face. Nana just stood there, looking at them with a look of pure joy.
"Ahem."
The family's moment was interrupted by the inn staff that had previously approached them. After garnering their attention, she bowed.
"Welcome to our inn, honorable guests. Would you like some help with your baggage and checking in with the hotel?"
Adjusting Tsuna in his arms, Iemitsu replied, "No, it's fine. I've checked us in earlier and we can carry the suitcase ourselves. Thank you for your hospitality."
"It is of no problem. Please, enjoy your stay and don't hesitate to tell us if you are ever in need of our assistance." With that, the woman bowed again and walked away.
Iemitsu turned to his family, "So after we put your suitcase in our room, what do you want to do? Do you want to rest? Or maybe have lunch?"
Tsuna replied excitedly, "Inari!"
Iemitsu raised an eyebrow, while Nana giggled and clarified for him, "He means the shrine, honey."
Understanding his son's request, he nodded in agreement. "Alright, let's get your stuff out of the way first and then we'll go straight to the shrine."
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They chose to walk to the shrine instead of taking a taxi since it was within walking distance and they wanted to have little Tsuna practice his walking.
Although not five minutes in Tsuna demanded to be carried by his father because he was tired. Iemitsu wasn't complaining though. He would gladly accept any excuse to carry his son in his arms.
On the way, they passed by some food stalls. When they walked to pass a fruit stall, Tsuna began to move around in Iemitsu's arms, reaching his hands towards said stall.
Iemitsu stopped walking, followed by Nana. "What's wrong, Tsu-kun?" Nana voiced both their confusion.
The brunet didn't reply. He continued to reach out and make grabbing motions towards the fruit stall. Specifically, the blueberries that were sold by the stall.
"Do you want those blueberries, Tsuna?" Iemitsu asked. Tsuna turned his head to look at the man and nodded enthusiastically.
They continued on after acquiring their purchase in a small plastic bag. The plastic filled with blueberries was hung on Tsuna's left wrist while he picked them one by one with his other hand and ate them. ("Ah-ah! Clean your hands with a hand sanitizer first, Tsu-kun!")
When they arrived at the entrance of the famous shrine, Tsuna visibly brightened up.
"Tou-chan, look! It's pi- pretty!" he stumbled on his words, but the message came across in the end.
Iemitsu laughed a boisterous laugh, "Ahaha, that's right Tsuna! It is very pretty."
The family looked around the lower part of the shrine before slowly trekking up the hill the shrine was located in, taking pictures and having fun as a family along the way.
After quite a while, Tsuna felt like walking, so he told his father to put him down, which the man complied with.
The family of three walked some more, with the parents holding onto each of their son's hand until they came upon a row of shops selling various souvenirs, charms, and other little trinkets.
Nana, whose primary objective of going to the shrine (aside from her Tsu-kun's pleading) was to buy good luck charms, walked ahead towards the charms section, letting go of the hand she was previously holding.
"Darling, look at these charms! Luck, happiness, income-" seeing the next on the list she broke up in a giggle, a blush forming on her face and a dreamy sigh coming out of her mouth, "love..."
"You can get them if you want, Nana. But I know for a fact that we don't need luck for our love to last forever," the Sawada patriarch said, feeling like the smoothest man in town, holding his lover's hands in his own.
In doing so though, he had let go of his son. His decidedly bored son.
Big Mistake Number One.
"Oh, Iemitsu, you're such a charmer!" the couple was consumed in their own world and failed to notice their son had wandered off in search of something fun to do.
.:-Chapter 02-:.
Tsuna felt very happy today. Even though he was separated from Kyou-nii, he got to have fun with his kaa-chan and tou-chan! But his kaa-chan and tou-chan were busy with each other so he thought he'd just go and have fun by himself.
Tsuna walked down the pathway that was filled with lots of people. He got annoyed because the number of people present (there's so many of them) blocked him from going further.
He huffed and decided to just not follow the pathway provided and walk wherever he wanted.
He kept walking, deeper into the woods and farther away from socialization. He didn't know where exactly he's walking, but The Small Voice in the back of his mind told him to 'keep going' so he did. Like how it told him to get the yummy fruits (his tou-chan had called them 'blueberries') and to not eat all of it. (He was very tempted though. They were just so good.)
After some time walking Tsuna was feeling quite annoyed. He'd been walking forever and nothing fun had happened. Instead, he felt more bored than ever.
He was getting tired of walking, so he sat cross-legged below a tree to rest. He'd eat three blueberries. If nothing happens after that, he would turn back and look for his parents, no matter what The Small Voice said.
First berry, picked up and eaten. Second berry met the same fate as the first. Just as he was about to put the third berry into his mouth, something fell from the tree branch on top of him and landed on his laps.
He blinked, confused. The object that fell on his lap appeared to be a small animal of some sort, but he didn't know what it's called. The animal had white fur, pointed nose and ears, and very fluffy-looking tail. The Small Voice was now telling him to give the blueberries to the small animal, so he did.
He offered the blueberry that was on his hand to the animal. It leaned away from his hand at first, but after a few experimental sniffs, it conceded and ate the fruit. Tsuna giggled at the display. He liked the animal very much, and to show it he gave the rest of his blueberries to the animal.
Apparently, the snowy animal had liked him back after a few berries, because he let Tsuna pet it and play with its tail. After a few minutes, they had become fast friends and was playing tag with each other. (Never mind the fact that normal animals usually wouldn't act like that. Not that little Tsunayoshi knew that of course.)
Tsuna was squealing and giggling as he chased after his new friend. Well, not really. His chasing would be more accurately described as precariously walking as fast as his feet would allow him. Meanwhile, his little friend was yipping and jumping around, perfectly capable of outrunning the brunet but not doing so as to be fair towards its companion.
Their fun was cut short however when Tsuna ran into something. Specifically, someone. Even more specifically, someone's legs. Little Tsuna fell onto his backside while the person he collided to didn't seem to be affected in any way.
The person, a man judging by his looks, leaned down just enough and offered a hand towards Tsuna.
"Oh, I'm sorry little guy, I didn't mean to do that. How about I buy you an ice cream as an apology?" said the man with a (fake, The Small Voice said) smile.
The offer of ice cream was tempting, but The Small Voice was telling him to decline. So he glumly declined.
"No thanks, sir," Tsuna said as he shook his head and crossed his legs, not bothering to stand up. He was tired from running around and the ground was feeling comfy at the moment.
The hand that was outstretched towards him didn't pull back. Honestly, Tsuna had no idea why the man was stretching his hand towards him, so he just stared at it. After a while the smile slipped from the man's face, showing an unpleasant expression, before it returned in place. He pulled back his hand and stood up straight.
"Well then, how about a lollipop?" He asked while fiddling with his belt buckle. Without warning, Tsuna's fluffy friend immediately bit him on the leg.
"Agh! What the- Fucking fox! Get the fuck off me!" The man jumped around, trying and failing to pry the animal away. Suddenly, he froze in his movements and face-planted to the ground. Not a second later two small figures dropped down from above and landed right on the unconscious man's back.
"We shouldn't have let him get this far from his parents," one of them said, her face forming a frown. The baby was holding a really long gun, kinda like the one his kaa-chan hid under her bed. How did she do that? Even he could only lift one of the tiny ones, and she was smaller than him!
"Geez, cut him some slack, kora! If I was in his position and my parents are acting like that in the middle of a crowd, I'd bail too. Besides, you managed to stop the ba-" the frowny baby gave him a scary look, "-nana before anything happens, so all's good, right?" the other baby continued as if there was nothing wrong. He had yellow hair similar to his tou-chan's and a cloth tied around it.
The frowny baby growled at the yellow baby, "Of course I did! But that was way too close, and that was because you were distracting me from my duties!" And with that, the frowny baby swung her gun towards the other baby, like a batter hitting the ball with a bat, and the yellow baby was thrown back deeper into the woods.
Then the frowny baby turned her glare towards Tsuna. He, in turn, just blinked.
Silence stretched between them, the angry baby in irritation while Tsuna in confusion, before she sighed and said, "Go back to your parents kid."
Well, he was feeling tired and missing his tou-chan and kaa-chan so...
"'kay!" beaming, he stood up and walked unsteadily to where The Voice told him his parents were. All he could think of at the moment was getting to his parents quickly and taking a nap while his tou-chan carried him. Everything else was pushed back and forgotten.
Like the man laying on the ground. Or the incredibly peculiar pair of babies. Or his newest friend, who had disappeared without anyone noticing.
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Revieeeewwwwsss!
Guest (1): I'm glad my intention came across :') Here's more!
Guest (2): Lol, honestly it's been so long since I've watched it I don't even remember the story anymore. The only thing I'm sure of is that it was hilarious to watch the many crazy situations the baby ended up in so I thought "I want to achieve that level of ridiculousness." Don't know if I'll manage, but I'll definitely try :) I probably won't be doing a de-aged Tsuna fic anywhere in the near future but I can assure you that if all goes well, Tsuna will be messing with the Varia.
ChaosdragonPrincess: Thank you!
Youko Artemis: And here's the next journey!
Guest (3): Yes Reborn will not be pleased when he realized he can't mess with Tsuna (much) lol. Nana can stop him, but she felt that as long as he'll come back in one piece, Tsuna can have his merry little adventures. No, Iemitsu is still descended from Primo. It's just that, while he and Tsuna are directly descended from him, Nana's like a very distantly related family member? So distant that in the greater outlook on things they're considered not related. (So no it's not incest if that's what you're thinking lol.)
myownersmanual: I'm not familiar with this Animaniacs franchise. But I'll take it as a compliment lmao. Yes lil Tsuna is adorable I agree :')
VONGOLA DECIMOM: Yes, Nana is related to Primo. But, as I've said to Guest (3) above, she's very distantly related. And yes technically she would be an eligible Decimo heir, but she still lost compared to Tsuna who's a direct descendant of Primo, even though she's older. So yeah, no Decimom lmao.
Bella Roset, makubex000, Guest (4), Amusedbabysitter: I'm glad you like it. Here's the next chapter!
Guest (5): That's actually a really good idea! Thank you so much for the suggestion. I'll note it down and try to put it in this story somehow later on.
janellenicole52600: Pardon?
OperaEagle IcelynLacelett: Very true lol. As for Mukuro, you'll have to read on to find out mwahahaha. Yeah, I got some inspiration from Odd Job Tsuna (for those of you who hadn't read it, you're missing out. Go read it!) and Baby's Day Out, though you probably already know about the latter since I mentioned it in the first chapter. I have some things planned for the Hibari parents. And yep, Tsuna did, in fact, saved Tatsuya from death by (actually really lucky, since this is a noob shooter and wannabe gangster we're talking about) headshot.
Thanks for reading, folks! Your reviews would be greatly appreciated! I love reading reviews so much. They never fail to cheer me up and every time I get a notification that someone reviewed my story I always go "aw yiss."
Choppa, out.
Edit: 05/01/2018