"What on Earth are you three doing here?"

Miharu's eyes widened as she looked up at the menacing expression on her older cousin's face.

The two younger kids immediately hid behind the older one, who started stuttering again, in that language they'd been speaking before.

"Ah!" interrupted Tsuna, holding up an index finger to get him to stop talking. "What have I said about languages?"

"I-In Japan we speak Japanese," stuttered the boy, looking down.

"Good," said Tsuna with a nod. "Now tell me. What are you doing here?"

Fidgeting with the hem of his shirt, the boy said, "W-well we missed you b-because we hadn't seen you in a while. So when we f-found out that Reborn was sending some o-of your stuff over, we thought that maybe w-we could bring it over instead."

He looked like he wanted to say more, but didn't.

Instead, the other boy peeked his head out from behind his friend, and said in a quiet voice, "We thought you'd be happy."

Tsuna stared at the kids for a few moments, before heaving a sigh.

"Did you tell anyone you were coming?"

The kids all flinched slightly, and their silence spoke volumes.

"That was very irresponsible of you three," chided Tsuna, sounding heavily disappointed.

The kids were all looking down now, looking close to tears and obviously feeling guilty.

"Are you going to think about your actions?" he prompted, and the three of them nodded their heads as one.

"Good," said Tsuna, with a nod of approval.

Then, holding his arms out, he said, "Well, come on then. Can I get my hug now?"

The kids looked up then, all wide eyes and runny noses.

They seemed to hesitate a moment, but when Tsuna encouraged them with a soft smile and a nod, they tumbled into his embrace one by one.

And as he ruffled hair and kissed foreheads and wiped tears, Miharu couldn't help but feel a bit envious.

Whenever she got scolded by her mother in the past for doing something wrong, it had never ended so painlessly.

And definitely never with hugs and kisses and warm, "I love you"s and "I missed you too"s.

Unwrapping his arms from around the children, Tsuna bent to pick up the suitcase the children had brought with them, and ushered all of them in, closing the door behind them.

Before long, they were all seated at the table, and Tsuna had gotten to work making more breakfast to go around.

With his back still turned, he said, "Miharu, these three idiots are my kids. The oldest one is Fuuta and he's 16. The other two are both your age. The boy is Lambo and the girl is I-Pin. They can sometimes do really stupid things, as you can tell from how they flew from Italy to Japan without actually telling anyone about it. But they're good kids."

Miharu's head was spinning, and there were a million questions she wanted to ask.

But first of all had to be...

"Your kids?" she asked, faint-headed. "How old are you?"

Tsuna chuckled quietly, smiling over his shoulder at her.

"Just 21. They're more like my younger siblings, actually. But they're legally my wards. And I'm the one that does all their parenting so..."

Miharu nodded mutely.

And then, after another moment of thought, she asked, "So you're from Italy?"

There was a snort from next to her, and her head immediately whipped around to look at the curly-haired boy, Lambo.

He was smirking at her, as if to say, 'You didn't even know that?'

"I am," replied Tsuna. "I was visiting my mum at home in Namimori when I first heard about you. I didn't even go home first before coming here, so these three must have gotten lonely and ambushed the man that was bringing my clothes and work over from Italy. Am I right?"

"We did not!" insisted I-Pin, her voice indignant.

But when Tsuna turned to look at her with a raised eyebrow, she sank back into her seat, her face red.

As Miharu sat back and watched the three of them bicker, she felt an unexpected yearning inside of her, to be a part of it.

She didn't remember ever having this kind of relationship with her mother.

Having raised Miharu as a single parent, her mother had always worked late, and been exhausted by the time she got back home. So she'd never had the time or energy to make jokes like this. And they'd never ever had breakfast together.

It seemed like fun.

"Miharu?"

The girl's gaze snapped towards him as she snapped out of her daze.

"Yes?"

"Are you alright?" Tsuna asked, worried. Something seemed to be bothering her.

"Totally fine!" she said in a not at all convincing voice. "So...where did you even get the eggs and stuff? Wasn't the fridge empty?"

Getting distracted, Tsuna laughed and told her he'd gotten up early to run to the convenience store real quickly so they'd have something for breakfast.

By the time breakfast was over, Miharu was back to normal, and Tsuna had completely forgotten that there had even been something wrong with her.

Because he now had something else to worry about.

Fuuta had been uncharacteristically quiet throughout the meal, and Tsuna was worried he was still stewing over what had happened earlier.

So when Miharu went upstairs to take a bath before they went out grocery shopping, Tsuna sat his little brother down for a talk.

"Are you feeling alright?" asked Tsuna, brushing a lock of hair out of his face, and straightening his shirt, and just generally fussing like a mother hen. "You're not still upset about this morning, are you? I'm sorry if I was a bit harsh! But you really must consider others' feelings."

Fuuta stared at him silently for a moment, his expression thoughtful.

"I'm not still upset," he finally said. "Just...you seemed a bit different. But it must have been my imagination."

Tsuna narrowed his eyes in confusion, but then let it go with a shake of his head.

"Alright then. Moving on."

He looked at each of his kids in turn.

"You three have a very important phone call to make, don't you?"

SkyGem: That's it for this chapter! Hope you all enjoyed the fluff! And the short insight into Miharu's life before our Vongolas! Please do leave a review and let me know what you thought! Got any requests? Anything you want to see in the future? Let me know! And as for the thing about Yuni's father in the last chapter, that was purposefully left vague XD. You guys fill in the blank with whatever name you want. I like to think Gamma's her father, just because that's my ship, but that's just me. Anyways, that's it for me for now! See you tomorrow, loves!