Chapter 3 In the Eyes of Ietsuna
Three Days Ago
"No! You can't go on your own!" Sawada Nana reprimanded her fourteen year-old son.
"Why should I listen to you?!" Ietsuna shouted with rage, annoyance and betrayal evident in his eyes.
His parents had lied to him for fourteen years. They lied that he was their only child. They hid the fact that they hid their other son—his older brother—to be raised by people other than the ones who reared him. "Reborn said it himself! The two of you know nothing about Nii-san!"
"That's not a way to speak to your mother, young man!" Sawada Iemitsu reprimanded.
Try as they might, Ietsuna has had enough. "No. I will go to Japan and see him for myself, and none of you can stop me!" he declared and left his parents staring at the once obedient boy they raised.
…
As Ietsuna slammed his bedroom door, he didn't notice a six year-old toddler sitting on his bed, waiting for him. "Tsuna-nii?"
Ietsuna flinched at the nickname. He didn't know until he discovered his brother's existence that he too, carried the same nickname as he does. That only made his anger intensify. "Lambo…" he addressed, noting the scared look that the toddler was making.
"Are…are you okay?" Lambo asked. For a six year-old, Lambo grew up to be a smart kid, although his wardrobe choice was a bit questionable.
Ietsuna sighed as he sat down on the bed beside the boy, "Not really." He admitted. "I just want to see my Nii-san,"
Lambo's eyes widened, "Eh? Tsuna-nii has a Nii-chan?"
The older boy nodded. "I've never seen him before, so I'd like to go to Japan to do so,"
"Really? Can I come?"
He was a bit hesitant in letting a toddler come with him, but since Lambo had been almost everywhere in Europe, and he already has a passport…so it goes to show that Lambo really can go with him. Of course, he could also use a companion, with Kyoko not due to come back to the Vongola Castle for another week because of her training with Lal and Bianchi…
"Alright. But I want you to promise to be good."
Lambo nodded in agreement.
He just hopes that Takeshi and Hayato will be nearby when he arrives. They were supposed to visit Kyoko's older brother and Takeshi's father, but it seems that he would have to ask them for help in locating his older brother…
...
Ietsuna knew Reborn wanted to murder someone, that was a given. But the intent was now directed at him, sitting across from him as his older brother, who hadn't uttered a word since they arrived, served them tea to calm them down.
Thirty minutes have passed since they had seen him with his youngest guardian, Lambo, being restrained by Hibari at the shrine of Nekota, and when Reborn assumed responsibility to the two of them, they left straight back to the Tenri residence. And right now, the living room was a few degrees colder. Tsuna had done the right thing to give the toddler to Yamamoto and the others while they wait outside the shrine for them to avoid an imminent ice age-worthy temperature in the room. And it was not even winter.
Reborn stared hardly at him. "Sawada Ietsuna. I will ask you once again. What in the world are you doing here?" he demanded with venom.
Ietsuna flinched at that. "I wanted to come here on my own, but Lambo had no one to stay with since Kyoko-san is in Rome right now," he excused.
"I'm not asking you about why you brought the cow here. I'm asking you what went through your mind for you to follow me and come here to Japan without any notice. Now speak up."
Ietsuna tried to resist giving an answer Reborn, but immediately gave up when he saw the hitman's eye narrow dangerously. "I…I wanted to see my brother myself! Since you sent the Ninth the telegram about my parents not being a reliable source of information, I knew they were hiding something from me." He confessed. "I want to see the brother they never told me I had…that's all…"
"Then," Tsuna spoke for the first time to him—he noted that he had somewhat a gentler voice than others, pretty much like Luce and Aria, "Can you tell me why my name and location had been spread out? I have been informed that you were the one who leaked this information."
Ietsuna blushed in that question. He knew it would come up sooner or later, he just didn't expect that he would ask him instantly. "It wasn't intentional, I swear! Mom, Dad and I were in a restaurant, and I asked them right there about coming here to Namimori. They were never around much, and that was a day before they would leave for Russia for three months…" he told them.
Flashback
Ietsuna was now annoyed. His parents should know that he hated fine dining restaurants more than anything. But nooo! They just had to bring him to that very same restaurant he detested. It was the sole reason why most of the time, he eats his meals in the kitchens of the castle in order to get away from all the suffocating grandeur.
Sure he was born in it, but he craved for simplicity.
But his parents had other ideas. They showered him with expensive gifts and things, and Ietsuna detested flashy things.
He wanted to see his parents' hometown in Japan, but they said no.
Now he knew the reason why.
A 'dirty' little secret.
A secret that he just found out after stumbling upon a conversation between the Ninth and his father.
"What's the matter Tsu-kun? Why aren't you touching your food?" his mother asked him. Ietsuna restrained himself from flinching at the nickname. Now that he knew that he and his brother shared the same nickname, it just wasn't the same. At least his guardians call him Ietsuna or Ie-kun for Kyoko.
"Are you alright? Not eating is a big no." his father agreed with his mother.
Ietsuna, to assure them, shook his head, "No…I was…just thinking…" he excused.
"About what?" his father asked.
Ietsuna took a deep breath and spoke, "Can I go and see Namimori?"
His parents looked at each other with concerned faces, "What for Tsu-kun?" his mother asked worriedly.
"You know why. I've wanted to visit Namimori for years, even more since Takeshi and Kyoko lives there. I have no idea why you don't want to go back to your hometown, but at least let me see it." He pleaded.
"Ietsuna, what you ask is too much…" his father started.
But at this point, Ietsuna snapped. "Too much? Going to Japan is too much? When you took me to France for a simple weekend vacation—that is too much. What are you hiding from me?" he demanded. "Is there something you don't want me to see there, or is there someone you don't want me to meet?" he said, deciding to just let it out in one go.
His mother was now getting fidgety. "What do you mean? Of course we're not hiding something from you!"
But he wasn't going to let it pass. "Then does the name Sawada Tsunayoshi ring any bells?" he said with a raised brow.
His parents immediately stiffened. "Where…where did you hear that name?" his mother asked.
"It doesn't matter where. What I'd like to know is why, for fifteen years, you never found a spare minute to tell me that I have an older brother."
When the two went silent all of a sudden, it was enough of a proof that they had no intention for him to find out the existence of his brother. Standing up, he grabbed his bag and turned. "Until you tell me the reason why you kept my older brother from me, I will not say a single word to the two of you." He said as he left the restaurant, ignoring his parents who were calling out for him.
…
"I honestly didn't know there were spies around! I thought they would know better than to let us come in there without any precautionary measures…" Ietsuna confessed.
The room was silent once again and no one dared utter a word, trying to absorb the fact that the Sawada couple were stupid enough to assume that no spies were around to overhear them.
"So it was Iemitsu's fault…" Reborn muttered darkly. Ietsuna had received hell because of exposing the information to the public when his father was the one who was at fault for being lenient with the security of the three of them outside the castle. Seeing that the rage was now directed at his father, Ietsuna felt a bit triumphant right now towards his father. "Then, what are your plans for coming here? Now that you've seen Tsuna, what's next on your agenda?"
When he allowed himself to flinch, he knew that Reborn knew that something was amiss. "I…I never really thought about that…I thought it would take at least a day before I get in contact with you without having the urge to kill me…so…I never made any specific plans…" he confessed. "And then that scary priest got a hold of me and Lambo…"
"Ah, you mean Kyouya. Yes…people are mostly scared of him," Tsuna commented. Ietusna didn't know if that was the truth, or purely his opinion. "Well then, if you have no further plans…why don't you stay here until Reborn's time here is done?" he offered.
"Eh?" Ietsuna stared dumbly at Tsuna. "What…are…are you serious?"
Tsuna nodded. "Of course. You are my brother after all. And I don't want you to waste money to rent an apartment or check in at a hotel. I could use another human company," he said. "Two years with just living with a fox deity alone with constant visitors is not doing well for my social skills." He said with a worried sigh.
"That hurts, Tsunayoshi."
Ietsuna looked around to find the source of the new voice. "Who's that?" he said as he flipped and pointed at the door to the garden, looking at a white fox with nine tails its face had some red markings on them, like a symbol of his superiority to other foxes, most likely.
Immediately, Tsuna stared at him in surprise. "You can see him?"
"Who is it this time?" Reborn asked, looking at Tsuna.
"Konosuke." Tsuna said as he looked at Ietsuna, "Have you told this to your parents?"
Ietsuna took note that Tsuna used 'your' and not 'our' for future reference. He knew that even deep down, Tsuna might have not considered his parents as his most of his life. "No…I thought they were just imaginary stuff that I see when I'm hallucinating. At least after I met Hayato." He explained. "We've kept it a secret ever since. Not even Reborn knows it…" he said sheepishly, making sure to look away from his tutor who was probably burying him six feet under with his eyes.
"I see. Now I know how you managed to evade being abandoned."
At Tsuna's sudden harsh words, Ietsuna felt himself being stabbed. He did have the feeling that if he said something to his parents, they would not take it too kindly. But now that he knew that seeing these beings was the reason his older brother was abandoned in the first place, he felt like he cheated.
The fox creature chuckled as he set down on the entrance of the garden and transformed into his human form. Ietsuna noted that he has seen the man in the Nekoma shrine, but he just dismissed him as one of the group before Reborn dragged him instantly towards the Inari shrine.
Hence, he didn't really take in the crowed when he was dragged by the scary priest and then dragged by his hitman tutor in less than half an hour.
"Whoa!" he said in shock as he looked at the elegantly-dressed man in front of them. "You…!"
Konosuke smiled in amusement as he looked at the shocked face of the boy. "Oh dear, a priceless face you have there, Sawada Ietsuna. Almost as if I was scaring Tsunayoshi out of his wits!"
"Stop it Konosuke," Tsuna said. "And why are you in corporeal form for the sightless?"
"So Reborn can see me, of course," Konosuke said with a wink to the hitman. "I at least have the courtesy to bring him into the conversation. A bit unfair if he's the only one who couldn't see us, yes? Unless he returns to his cursed form temporarily, that is,"
"I doubt it…" Ietsuna muttered, remembering what they had to go through to remove the 'infant' part of their curse after a bargain with Checker Face.
"I'd keep my adult form if you don't mind." Reborn replied.
With a sigh, the deity nodded, "Suite yourself." He stated.
With a small nod, Ietsuna righted himself. "Umm…so you're the deity of the Inari shrine?"
Konosuke nodded. "Precisely. I've been watching over the Tenri clan and have had them serve under me for a long time." Konosuke said, "And all of them were wonderful children. Of course, except for your mother," his face suddenly turned resentful.
"I know…" Ietsuna said.
"How could you know?" Konosuke asked.
"From the way you spoke of her and the way I remember her as a mother, I guess we both dislike something about my mother." Ietsuna confessed. "She showered me with things I never really wanted in the first place and barely listens. What's more…" Ietsuna glanced at his older brother, "She didn't have the guts to tell me about Nii-san."
At that statement, Konosuke smiled. "I like you already." He turned to Tsuna, "Tsunayoshi, he can stay here for life."
"Konosuke! This is no time to decide on things on a whim! Though he does have the right to, considering he has the Tenri blood active in his veins."
"Well then it's settled!" Konosuke decided.
And thus, began Ietsuna's life in the Inari Shrine cared by the Tenri Clan.
…
Ietsuna settled in well in the Tenri household. But with Reborn around, his training as a mafia boss resumed, as the hitman might have nothing exciting to do while he was in Namimori besides going sightseeing and training in Namimori Mountain (Tsuna stressed that he shouldn't train where the Ayakashi live). Now he has Ietsuna in his leash again and running around the mountain for some 'endurance and survival training' while he was at it.
He might have surprised Tsuna that he knows how to do housework, considering that he was raised in the lap of unwanted luxury all his life. He had told him that he had learned how to clean his own suite in the castle while making a deal with the maids not to tattle him on it. The maids found it quite adorable, considering that he had been doing it since he was eight.
Even babysitting was his forte, upon observing that the toddler in a cow onesie, Lambo, was too attached to his 'Tsuna-nii' and follows him everywhere he goes.
"Tsuna-nii! I want grape candy!" Lambo wailed as he clung to Ietsuna.
"Lambo, you already had two in the span of an hour. You'll get cavities." Ietsuna chided as he dressed up Lambo with his usual cow-printed onesies after taking a bath. "You need to be more careful of your teeth or they will rot away and would always give you owwies in the teeth,"
"But…" Lambo started to pout.
But Ietsuna was on to him, "Don't do the pouting. It won't work this time," he lectured as he zipped up the onesie and released Lambo from his hold.
Lambo puffed his cheeks in slight defiance at Ietsuna. "No fair…"
"Do you want to get cavities and have your teeth turn yellow and icky?" Ietsuna said.
"…No…" Lambo replied, head downcast.
Ietsuna ruffled his afro hair, "Then we have to control how you eat grape candies, okay?"
"Okay…" he replied, giving into his big brother. "Can I play at the backyard then?"
Ietsuna smiled. "Alright, but avoid any mud puddles. We can't have you take another bath," As soon as he said that, the toddler dashed outside the bathroom to go and play outside.
The older boy sighed, thankful that he had avoided himself from giving into the demand of Lambo for grape candy.
"You seem to be a very qualified house husband,"
Ietsuna turned to see the amused face of Konosuke. "Konosuke-san…" Ietsuna addressed. "Well, I have been taking care of Lambo ever since we found him in…well…a child trafficking facility." He explained. "I was the one who found him all hungry and crying for his mother. I was the first one to show him affection, so I guess he kind of saw me as his parent."
"And you have been raising him on your own?" the deity inquired.
Ietsuna shook his head, "Not entirely. I had help from Takeshi and the others, though he and Hayato fight often. The maids are helpful, and gives me advice on when to give in and when to be firm with him. Even Reborn is finding him less and less of an annoyance,"
Konosuke chuckled. "I see I have painted you differently before I had even met you." He stated. "I thought you were spoiled brat living in the lap of luxury and never had a single honest bone in your body."
"Eh?!" Ietsuna said in shock.
"Though you are a bit idiotic in blowing up in front of your parents with possible spies around, but hey, no one is perfect,"
"H-How do you know about me then?" Ietsuna inquired.
That earned him a chuckle from the deity. "Oh we found out your existence when Shiranui was out checking up on Takeshi. When he saw you, he nearly had a heart attack! You looked a lot like Tsunayoshi that he thought he left Japan to Italy. Since then, we've known what you youngsters have been up to for a long time."
"Takeshi? He knew him before we met?"
The deity nodded. "Two of your guardians know him in their childhood. They know him as their 'Yoshi-nii,' that's why you never managed to place the pieces together, considering that the two of you share a nickname that would eventually make things a bit more confusing."
"I see…" Ietsuna said.
Konosuke was about to say more when a cat with a message landed in front of him. Ietsuna looked at the cat and sensed a strong spiritual aura around it. This was one of the followers of Nekota, the deity of the Nekoma shrine taken care of by the Hibari Clan.
"It seems that I am needed at the Sacred Grove." Konosuke said, when he read the message brought by the cat. "Family matters. Do tell Tsunayoshi when he asks, hm?"
And without further ado, Konosuke left Ietsuna with his thoughts about the name issue.
That explained a lot to Ietsuna the first day that he and Lambo had went to stay in the Tenri residence. Lambo had been used to addressing him as Tsuna-nii, that it surprised Tsuna when the two of them responded to the call of the toddler.
In the end, Tsuna rectified it by telling Lambo that he could call him 'Yoshi-nii' as he was used to younger kids calling him as such (Yamamoto and Kyoko started the whole thing. Might as well get used to it). Though Ietsuna could tell that Tsuna felt a bit of resentment towards the name thing. He had always been perceptive of the feelings and emotions of people around him, which is an advantage to Ietsuna when he was one step away from digging his own grave because of his actions and words.
So when he noticed that he was a bit upset about him bearing the same nickname, he knew that the resentment was directed at their parents.
Ietsuna knew what Tsuna had thought of that day: his parents were rather content to think that he never existed, and gave his nickname to the son that they thought didn't have the Sight. And that made Ietsuna even more hateful towards them and to himself.
Would Ietsuna end up being under the care of the late Tenri Nishiki and Tenri Nuriko had Ietsuna flaunted his ability to see the supernatural? Most probably, if they were determined to have a normal kid to raise as a mafia boss. Considering all things, Ietsuna might have preferred it than to be with his parents that were close to being inattentive—considering the fact that they shower him with unwanted luxury and would disappear for months before popping back up like mushrooms.
He would have been happy living in peace in Namimori, free from emotional complications brought about by the mafia and the educational torture Reborn had instilled in him, but he stopped himself.
He wouldn't have met his family members, his guardians, had he not been in certain sticky situations that made their bonds stronger.
Like when he found out that Gokudera had shared the same ability as him, when Yamamoto and Kyoko approached them with smiles even though they were speaking broken Italian, when he found Lambo helpless in the child trafficking market and unwanted by his family when he was returned, when Mukuro was about to take over his body and had forgiven him, and when he made peace with Xanxus who once resented him for taking the title that was supposed to be his, among other things.
He figured that his parents were the only sore spot in his existence, and the rest, they were the reason he was the person he was today. A boss-to-be with a well-trained mind and body, a little (too) clumsy, and somewhat a big brother figure to the kids that had snuggled themselves into his heart.
Ietsuna wouldn't trade his life for anything, but it would have been better had he grown up with his older brother, to support and give him advice every step of the way—maybe even meet his two aunts that he never got to know.
"Penny for your thoughts?"
Ietsuna jumped at the owner of the voice. "Whoa!"
Tsuna chuckled as he raised his hands in surrender, "Sorry about that. You were staring into space outside Lambo's room, so I got a bit worried that an Ayakashi possessed you."
A blush crept on his face as he said that. "I-It's nothing." he stuttered.
Tsuna titled his head, "Then why did Konosuke leave for the grove from here?" he asked. "He said something, did he?" he said with a sigh. Without waiting for an answer, Tsuna turned to the living room, "Come on, let's have some tea and yokan. Reborn will be back in a few minutes after his chore in shopping,"
Following Tsuna, Ietsuna sighed inwardly as he thought of his tutor, whom he never see do anything domestic like cleaning and grocery shopping. Although there were a lot of things that the hitman preferred doing unseen, it was still unusual for him, a student of his since he was twelve, to see his tutor so domestic.
"So, is there anything bothering you about the house and the shrine?" Tsuna asked after he served the tea and yokan. The brothers now sat across each other.
Ietsuna shook his head. "Not really. The house is peaceful, though a lot of talismans are placed in certain corners of the house and the shrine, I noticed,"
Tsuna smiled, "They are used to ward off evil Ayakashi. But most of our guests here are traveling deities and certain ayakashi who gives us messages and information from other places outside of Namimori." He informed. "All in all, this town is quite peaceful—at least on my side of the town. Kyouya's, however…well, a lot of delinquents are being reformed there,"
"How…do you know the scary guy in the other shrine?" Ietsuna wondered, eager to know what their connection was.
"We grew up as brothers. He stood as my older brother alongside Ryohei, although the three of us are the same age. But in regards to months, I'm the youngest of the three of us." He said fondly. I even became a big brother to Takeshi and Kyoko in that respect. Even if they are not my siblings by blood, I adore them all to bits,"
A mysterious pang of jealousy waved through Ietsuna. The mere mention of Ryohei and the creepy priest named Kyouya was driving a wedge in his chest, as if saying that someone else has been filling the void of sibling affection in place of him, the one whose existence was not known to the young head priest had an inugami not have checked in on one of his surrogate brothers.
"I see…" he muttered a bit darkly, which did not get past Tsuna at all.
"Is there…something that matter?" Tsuna wondered.
"Nii-san…" Ietsuna started, "Have you…ever thought about…us?" he asked hesitantly.
At his question, Tsuna was taken aback. Ietsuna could see the mixing emotions in the eyes of his older brother, but suddenly, it all settled into one calm pool of caramel. It seems that his brother had thought about this more than once in his sixteen years of life, and Ietsuna is eager to hear what he has to say, no matter how painful it may sound coming from him.
Tsuna settled with a deep sigh and looked at his tea, "If I am honest with you, Ietsuna, I believe all I could feel when thinking about…our parents is hatred." He revealed. "I thought, growing up, even if they left me, they would still send me letters and gifts, even once a year, for me to be assured that they still want me. Imagine my surprise when I got a wake-up call that they would never come for me ever again, and that I was too naïve to ever think of such a scenario. It didn't help when our aunts hadn't had the heart to tell me that I have been abandoned by my own mother and father." He spat at the words.
It made Ietsuna flinch in fright at the intensity of the way he said those two words as if it was the vilest thing that has ever left his lips. But he understood it. Ietsuna had always been like that, able to sense emotion even in the coldest person's eyes, like Reborn whom he had sensed a lot of emotions from every single time he was in the vicinity—but mostly all of them were professionally hidden by others who were not empathetic, as the Ninth had called him. But it was there in Tsuna's aura, hurt, betrayal, anger, and frustration.
"Nii-san…"
"And when I had heard from Shiranui-san that he had seen you, and discovered who you are, I felt as if they replaced me with you." He said. "A child they all thought was normal, and couldn't see anything that a normal human couldn't. All because of a petty jealousy of one woman born to a clan serving a deity, and who would never have the sight like her two accomplished older sisters—not knowing that the child they kept also had the same ability that was the reason they threw away their older child…" He continued as he gripped his cup tighter, alerting Ietsuna that it might break from the pressure of his hands. "And worst of all…they kept me from knowing you." He said as he looked at him with a pained expression. "The moment Shiranui-san shared his memory of you, there was nothing I ever wanted than to meet you, and our parents didn't give me the chance to become a brother…"
At that, Ietsuna let out an amused smile. "It's funny, how we both wanted the same thing." He confessed. "The moment I discovered your own existence, there was nothing more I wanted to do than to meet the brother I never thought I had. Now that explained why they looked so hesitant and panicky when I said I wanted a big brother for my sixth birthday." He looked at Tsuna who seemed to have calmed down and stopped squeezing the life out of the tea cup in his hands. "To tell you the truth, Nii-san, I never wanted my life back in Italy. I sometimes wish I told our parents about my sight, then they might have sent me to live with you and our aunts and lived a simple life, not being groomed as a mafia boss in the lap of luxury."
Tsuna smiled again, knowing how he felt. "I guess we are quite similar." He mused. "And don't worry, Kyouya, Ryohei, Takeshi and Kyoko might be my surrogate siblings, but I saved enough space for you in my life." He assured him with a smile, shocking Ietsuna. "You don't think I didn't sense a tinge of jealousy in you, right?" he joked around.
And for some reason, Ietsuna found himself easing up in his relationship with his older brother, and had somehow gotten used to the feeling of living a normal life as the little brother of the head priest of the Inari Shrine of Namimori.
"THIS IS AN OUTRAGE! I WILL NOT ACCEPT THIS!" Konosuke growled as he entered the living room where the brothers had settled into an animated conversation with each other. They were surprised at the outburst of the deity, even while he was in fox form.
"What's wrong, Konosuke-san?" Ietsuna wondered.
"THIS!" Konosuke said as he handed the boys an elegant scroll with a seal of a karasu-tengu and cat demon.
"Oh dear…" Tsuna muttered, sensing what was going on. Opening the scroll, he read its contents. "'You are invited for the wedding of Reitetsu-sama, son of Konosuke-sama and Nekota-sama, to Mira-sama, the son of Shiranui-sama and Kuroha-sama…' Eh?!" Tsuna blanched, stopping the moment the first sentence was processed in his head. "Reitetsu-san is getting married to Mira-san?!"
"Who's that?" Ietsuna wondered.
"Reitetsu-san is Konosuke and Nekota-sama's son, and he's a cat demon. Mira-san is the son of Shiranui-san, the inugami who checked on Takeshi, and Kuroha-san, the karasu-tengu. He's a karasu-tengu as well." He informed.
Ietsuna waved his hands in front of his brother, "Hold up! You read that they are sons. So the two of them are getting married with the fact that they are males?"
"FORGET THAT! I WILL NOT ACCEPT THE PERVERTED KARASU-TENGU MARRY MY PRECIOUS REITETSU! HE CAN TAKE ANYONE BUT MY YOUNGEST SON!"
"Konosuke, Reitetsu-san is two hundred years old." Tsuna injected.
"He's still barely a teenager in that respect! Shirofumi was two hundred and fifty when he married! I will have word with his mother right now! See if he still wants to be married to my son!" he said as he grabbed the scroll from Tsuna and left in his fox form towards the Nekoma shrine with the intent of convincing his lover to change Mira's mind about marrying their son. Ietsuna has a feeling that it will fail, but hey, the fox deity had to learn it the hard way in order for him to stop being an overprotective parent to a child more than a hundred years old.
With a sigh, Tsuna returned to Ietsuna who was near breaking from the scene. "Gender is not an issue when it comes to the Ayakashi, Ietsuna. That's common knowledge." Tsuna said with a huff. "Besides, offspring is created through simple unadulterated love towards to gods. A child materializing one day to prove that love is pretty much normal. Konosuke and Nekota-san has had five children since they got together five centuries ago." He informed him.
"Eh?"
"Indeed. Shocked the living daylights out of me too the first time I heard the godly birds and the bees talk." Tsuna said calmly as he sipped his tea. "But you'll get used to it soon enough."
'Nope. I take that back. I'm still not used to the life in the Inari shrine. I don't think I ever will for a few more years…or incidents…at least on the supernatural side of things…' Ietsuna thought, realizing that simple the life may be in Namimori, it was far from quiet.
And Ietsuna liked it that way.
END
And that's it for this chapter! Now don't fret, I decided, since this got longer than I anticipated, I decided to make it a Threeshot+Epilogue! Of course, the Parent Confrontation happens there, as well as a timeskip, so look forward to it!
Oh, and the offspring issue thing, I got it from Kudan no Kuroneko by Mizukami Shin, so if you don't like the R18 Yaoi with Mpreg themes, then don't read it! Or simply skip those parts, and if you already have read it, then yes, I named my Konosuke after that Konosuke.
See you soon~!