Angry Sky, Bright Earth
Footsteps
"You know, you make yourself easy to track down when you step in the victims blood."
"Whose going to come after me? The guy with a bullet through his forehead?"
"Well, me for one."
Xanxus cast a glance over his shoulder, throwing a thoroughly unimpressed look at Enma. "You are the least likely person in the Earth to harm me, you weak little shit."
"I suppose your right." Enma ran a hand through his hair. He flickered his gaze downward at the body lying in a pool of blood and scrunched his nose. "Remind me not to go on another job with you. This is disgusting."
"I told you you wouldn't like it. You're the one who insisted on coming."
Enma just sighed, "I've got a bad habit of following you when I shouldn't."
Forsake
Feeling Enma shifting in his arms, Xanxus tightened his hold.
"Come on," Enma murmured. His voice was quiet and lacking any fight. "Tsuna and Dino are gonna be waiting for us."
"Cancel," Xanxus said. He pressed his nose against Enma's neck. "I don't want to see their fucking faces today."
Enma let out a satisfied little hum. "Even if we don't go today, they'll just reschedule for tomorrow."
"Fine, but I'm fucking comfortable and I don't want to deal with them today."
"Mmm...I need to grab my phone to call them."
Xanxus huffed. He pulled way, shoving Enma away from him harshly. "The one time I actually fucking want you around and you can't just lay still."
The redhead just laughed, rolling over to grab his phone from the nightstand.
Fortitude
Enma was the one who had initially reached out, lacing his fingers through Xanxus', but he was starting to regret that decision as they drew closer to Timoteo.
Even without Xanxus squeezing his hand so hard it felt as though it was going to pop off, Enma knew how angry and nervous he was about what they were doing.
He rolled his lip between his teeth, wondering if it would be better to turn back.
Debating this, he stopped.
"What are you doing, trash?" Xanxus hissed.
Enma turned, keeping their hands clasped. He stared at Xanxus for a moment, not saying anything. Then he said, "Never mind. We don't have to talk to him."
"What? You've been on my ass about this for months and now that I finally agree, you-"
"This is about us," Enma interrupted. "But you clearly aren't ready to talk to him yet, so I'll wait."
Another silent moment passed. Then Xanxus let out a huff and his grip on Enma's hand loosened. "I'm fucking fine. Let's go talk to my trash father and then we can get out of here."
Game
"You look incredibly stupid," Xanxus said, reaching forward and pulling the bill of Enma's hat down. He grinned as Enma squawked and tried to wave him away with one arm.
"It's not that bad," Enma objected.
"It's pretty bad. Makes you look even younger then you are."
Xanxus turned away from him, glancing around the field. There was something strangely suburban about seeing the people he was close to – friends was a term he didn't like to apply to them – dressed up for a friendly baseball game. Near the dugout on the opposite side of the field, Reborn had taken up residence with a grill. One of the girl's in Tsuna's family – Haru? Xanxus thought her name was something like that – was playing, but the rest were content to lounge in the shade near the coolers and food.
"Why are we even fucking here?" Xanxus questioned, turning his gaze back to Enma.
"I'm here because it's Yamamoto's birthday and we always have a baseball game on his birthday. I'm not quite sure why you're here."
Xanxus gave a non-committing shrug and looked away from Enma. "Everyone I know is out here so it's not like I had anything better to do."
Gestate
Xanxus stopped when he entered Enma's office.
The redhead wasn't in his chair. Instead, he was curled up on the floor to the side of it. There was a small baby pressed against his chest, one of Enma's arms wrapped protectively against it.
"Ah..." Xanxus muttered as he stared. He remembered, vaguely, that Adelheid had been pregnant. But, his relationship with her was so rocky that he tended to tune Enma out when he started speaking about her and the pregnancy hadn't come up recently. He walked over, crouching down in front of the duo. "You must be the little twerp then?"
He stared for a minute before straightened back up.
He dropped the file in his hand on Enma's desk before strolling back out, picking his phone out of his pocket.
There wasn't any point in ruining Enma's time with his godson.
"Xanxus?" Tsuna said as he answered the phone.
"Yo, trash. Get your fucking siblings ready to go out."
"Eh? Why? I thought you were at Enma's?"
"He's busy." Xanxus was careful not to slam the door behind him as he left the office. "And I've got a sudden urge to spoil you fuckers so just do what your told."
E/n: Hello! I'm back from Vacation! I apologize if these aren't as good/are out of character. It's only been a week but I found myself a bit rusty with these guys.
This fic has ended up being like 97% dialogue and I'm pretty sure that's not gonna stop.
Also: fav headcanon is that Xanxus is super attached to Tsuna's siblings when their older.