Chapter Summary: Alessandro throws shade at Iemitsu and Iemitsu is not happy.

This received a lot more attention that I expected it to! I'm not entirely sure as to where I'm going to take this in the end, but I will try my best.

I have an extreme dislike for Iemitsu Sawada who abandoned his family in favor of CEDEF and left them in the dark. Nana Sawada is quite honestly a saint of a woman for staying loyal to Iemitsu when he's gone most of the year and only returns for a short time, in which he's almost always wasted during that time. She's essentially a single mother who receives a child-support check from a deadbeat father, but who otherwise stays out of their life.

Tsuna himself barely recognizes his own father because of this.

As I am a college student who works part time, updates might be sporadic.

Usual disclaimer of do not own KHR besides the concept of the Riva family and Alessandro Riva. Celino is my brain baby, but was brought into being by my friend Chama.

Alessandro's adoptive daughter, who you may hear mentions of is owned by my lovely friend, Nero. Shika is my precious little bean who will probably make an appearance at some point.

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Over the next several days, Alessandro explained more and more to Nana Sawada and her son, Tsunayoshi Sawada. She asked if it was okay for him to be telling her all this and he shrugged, calmly stated that she was the wife to a powerful person in the mafia and that she had the right to know, especially if it put her in danger.

Nana found it hard to fathom this man who came so boldly into her and her son's life and was offering up his help just like that with no strings attached. Obviously, it made her wary and one day, when the man was over, she asked why he was helping her. Tsunayoshi was sitting in the kitchen, at the table, doing his homework and out of earshot. Though, Tsunayoshi seemed to trust the man and Nana had come to learn that Tsunayoshi seemed to be a great judge of character in the time she had come to know him with his flames unsealed. Though, because of Tsunayoshi's ability to seemingly tell the intentions of others or be aware, it was hard for him to make friends. There was the Yamamoto boy from down the street whose father owned a ramen and sushi restaurant as well as a few others, including a rather violent student a year ahead of Tsunayoshi that Nana couldn't fathom why until one day, she noticed the young boy feeding a stray kitten when he thought nobody was looking.

"My family is a neutral party in our world. We are simple doctors trying to help those in need. In fact, we have several enemies in the world if only because we offer our medical practices with flames to civilians," Alessandro explained as he took a sip of tea. "Some families are still stuck in the past, where they want to hoard their knowledge to themselves," he put the tea down, looking thoughtfully out into the kitchen for a moment. "I have two children of my own, both of them are adopted. I have an extreme soft spot for children in which I can't bear to see them suffer. Tsunayoshi with his flames sealed as they were was suffering quite a bit and I couldn't bear to see it continue."

Alessandro paused a brief moment, thinking about his words. "I was loathe to have to involve either of you in this business, but given that somebody had resealed Tsunayoshi's flames, I thought it best to inform you of this fact. Upon my return to Italy, I'm going to be meeting with Iemitsu and discussing the issue at hand. I have a few members of my family lurking around the area keeping an eye on things, should anything happen." He rose to his feet, walked into the kitchen to bid Tsunayoshi farewell and then bid Nana one as well before heading out into the evening.

-x-

The flight back to Italy was long and tiresome as Alessandro rifled through paperwork that needed his attention under Celino's watchful gaze. He didn't much care for paperwork and did everything in his power to avoid it, but between his partner and his daughter, there was no escape for it. As he scrawled a signature across a page, he stopped and leaned against Celino's shoulder for a moment. "Am I doing the right thing, Lion? Dragging them into this mess? It would only be a matter of time...but it would have been nice to give them both a few more years of ignorance."

Celino hummed thoughtfully for a moment before nodding his head and leaning his head over slightly to rest against Alessandro's. He didn't think Alessandro could do anything wrong. The two had been more than just Sky and Lightning for years and it was rare that Celino found fault in anything his Sky did.

"Vongola the Ninth's children are all dead and Iemitsu Sawada is trying to push for them to name his son Decimo..." Alessandro sighed heavily. "If he really wanted to keep his family safe, he would have considered changing his surname instead of keeping them in the dark. He's lucky that I'm the only one to connect the dots, so far...but it will only be a matter of time, now." Celino's hand entwined into his own as the man kissed the top of his head and left Alessandro to doze off like that for the rest of the flight.

-x-

Several days later, Alessandro was sitting in his office working on paperwork yet again. The never-ending tide of paper was definitely not fun times. He groaned and leaned back in his chair, stretching his arms when a knock came to his office door and a head poked itself in. "Boss? There's aaa...uh...Iemitsu Sawada here to see you and he's not happy..."

Before the head could even disappear and go hide, a foot smashed into the door and Iemitsu angrily walked into the room. Alessandro calmly gestured to the couch and then looked at the broken dent in his door and sighed.

The man didn't take Alessandro's offered suggested and instead slammed his hands onto the desk, scattering paper. "What right do you have, Riva?! I heard from some of my subordinates that you were at my house and you unsealed my son's flames again! What right do you have interfering in my affairs?" Flames started searing at the papers on his desk as Alessandro frowned at this fact for a moment before deciding that it was for the best that his paperwork be damned. He could blame Iemitsu for it later.

"What right I see if that sealing your son's flames was akin to cutting a limb off, Sawada," Alessandro answered him, putting away his papers in his desk before more flames could char them to pieces. "I thought for sure that the great CEDEF head and Vongola the Ninth would know what flame-sealing does to a child, especially to a sky flame of his caliber. My family has done extensive research on that and even children with extremely volatile flames do not benefit from sealing them."

"I was going to unseal them when the time was right! You had no right!" Iemitsu snarled, flames now burning holes into the nice oak desk of Alessandro's office.

To which, his own sky flames slid across the desk to out Iemitsu's. "The time was right? When? When Timeteo finally declares his retirement and you can slide your child into position as Decimo? So you can have your men mold him into the perfect little puppet that CEDEF can control? You're an outside advisor to the Vongola. Outside being the key word there. Your wife and son were already in danger because you deemed it smart to not change yours or their last name when trying to 'protect' them. It only took a few hours of digging to even find them in Namimori."

Alessandro scowled into his desk for a moment before looking up at Iemitsu coldly. "I have no biological children of my own, but I treat my adopted children as such. When it came up that you had sealed your son's flames, he started crying and asking 'why' you would do that to him? When I first met Tsunayoshi, he had no friends because your wife decided to home-school him for a time because of how far behind he was in comparison to other children his age. His grades were abysmal and he could barely walk a straight line without losing balance. How is any of that protecting your son? Your family should be as physically protected as much as they are mentally. When's the last time you took your wife out to dinner? Or brought her home a present just because you could? It's been awhile, hasn't it? Have you even told her that you love her recently? Protection isn't just the physical kind, Iemitsu."

Alessandro rose from his desk to face an almost speechless Iemitsu before pointing at the door. "Now, if you'll excuse me, Sawada. I promised my children I'd pick them up from school today and we'd go out to dinner together," at this the door swung open with Celino in the doorway, prepared to escort Iemitsu out of the building and to his vehicle. Alessandro swept passed Iemitsu for a brief moment to lock arms with the taller male to also escort Iemitsu out of the building.

Iemitsu snarled something at the man that was probably profanity, but Celino merely shot him this dark look while Alessandro didn't particularly care what the other was saying. "You're really asking for it, Riva. Come near my family again and you might be looking at war."

At this, Alessandro paused and then looked at Iemitsu calmly, brushing a strand of red hair behind his ear before speaking. "I would not casually spout threats in my own home, Iemitsu Sawada. The Vongola would not declare war on us due to our truce and I have the Giglio Nero and the Sky Arcobaleno to back me. Have you heard? As it turns out, my adopted son is a distance cousin of Aria's family," he stated this in a conversational tone. "As I'm aware you employ two of the Arcobaleno, I doubt either of them would go against their Sky and her family, am I correct? Now, if you're quite finished in spouting all that hot air...Celino and I will gladly escort you to your vehicle.

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Alessandro usually isn't like this. Really. However, when you threaten the well-being of his children, or his family...you got a problem there.

A little background on the Riva - which may not come up until later on in this if at all. The Riva aren't near as old as the Vongola. In fact, their history begins before the eve of World War II in Italy as a resistant group to Mussolini and his alliance with Hitler.

After the war, the Riva continued to do work against corrupt government officials and other members of society. Eventually, they branched off into medical research and development while still working in the background against corruption. More or less, they are a bit like the Vongola...only they lack the bloody history that the Vongola has. In Alessandro's era - the last 20 years as leader - he's made truces with the Vongola as well as became an official branch of the Giglio Nero. They had high hopes that they'd be able to find a way to prolong the Sky Arcobeleno's life, but it didn't happen.

The Riva family actually did not start out in a KHR RP, but floated around in various other settings for my OC, Shika. Shika is Alessandro's adopted son with distant ties to the Giglio Nero from his mother. Celino, ironically enough, uses Gamma as his FC when he gets used in roleplay settings. So it's also likely that Celino is either related to Gamma or just a doppleganger. Who knows. Also, yes, Celino and Alessandro are together.