Hello! I was thinking about what would happen if Takeshi and Haru had children and so, I came up with this. This was really fun to write and to be perfectly honest, I only picked random baby names on the internet lol. I hope they're okay.

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Periwinkle

Having left in a predicament, Takeshi tries to console Haru as she stares dejectedly at her phone's screen.

"Maa, maa. It can't be helped," he says, rubbing her back.

Their sons' babysitter, due to being sick, cancels at the last minute, so they absolutely have no alternative but to take the children to work with them.

Takeshi knows that Haru is skeptical about this, but leaving the kids to some people like Lambo is not a good idea either. Since Takeshi is not assigned to any mission as of the moment, it is decided that he'll be the one to tend to the children.

Kousuke, their one-year-old baby fiddles with his father's necktie. Haru helps adjust the straps of the baby carrier around Takeshi's torso and straightens his slightly crinkled suit before handing over the bag filled with some baby necessities.

Next, she turns to their firstborn toddler standing curiously, Kotaro. "Be good to your dad, okay?" she coos, ruffling his jet black hair, "and be a good onii-chan, too."

She kisses her sons tenderly on their foreheads.

"I have to go now. I'll call you often," Haru says, placing a peck on her husband's lips.

Being the clever strategist of Vongola gives a lot on her plate, but Takeshi does not want to weigh her down any much further.

The Rain Guardian nods. "Yeah. Leave it all to me."

It'll be okay, or at least that's what he supposes, unaware of what completely lies ahead of him.

—

"Oi! Don't pull me." The Storm Guardian scowls when Kotaro grasps his hand. Aunt Kyoko has his little brother, so he does not have anyone to play with except for Uncle Hayato.

The toddler's giggles echo inside the Vongola mansion. While Takeshi flips over the stack of documents on his table, his lips curve upwards at the two.

"Shii," Kotaro babbles. "Shii, shit."

The Rain Guardian's handsome smile fades in one fell swoop upon hearing that four-letter word. Kotaro must have heard it from his Uncle Hayato at some point in the past.

Hayato laughs and wheezes at this while lounging on the couch, enjoying it that much. And being egged on, the toddler happily repeats the word over and over again, making Takeshi flinch and pull a face.

"Gokudera," he warns. "Haru will kill me if she finds out about this."

"Heh, I'd love to see her throw a fit."

"Dera-jii!" Kotaro exclaims in glee and claps his tiny hands.

But there it goes again — the expletive swiftly comes out from Kotaro's mouth. Left with no other option, Takeshi has to spend his time distracting his son from his new-found word for an hour or two.

A little later, Kyoko's downcast face shows up at his office, carrying his other son in her arms.

"Sorry, Yamamoto-kun. Kou-chan wouldn't stop crying even after I tried to calm him down."

Tears flowed from Kousuke's caramel eyes as he wails.

"That's alright. I'm done with the papers anyway," he says. Takeshi seizes hold of Kousuke from her, and in an instant, the baby stops crying upon hearing his father's voice.

The honey-haired woman softly smiles at the sight of them. "I guess he was only looking for his dad."

Split-second from averting his sight, the next thing Takeshi knows is that Kotaro had already slipped away. Panic starts to swell within him as his eyes quickly search for the tiny kid around the room.

"VOI!" a loud, familiar voice yells at the doorway, making Kousuke bawl again. Squalo shows up unexpectedly with Kotaro — the small fry keeps playing with his long silver hair.

"Get this brat away from me, now!" Squalo grunts and tries to release the tight grip of Kotaro's hands from his hair. Much to his chagrin, the child pulls his hair even tighter to the point where his scalp begins to sting.

"You scum!"

Kyoko attempts to help. "Squalo-kun, stop it. You'll only provoke him."

The Rain Guardian does not know what to do first — whether to stop his eldest son or soothe the crying baby in his arms.

From afar, Hayato watches them and lights a cigarette, crudely remarking, "Sucks to be them."

—

"Mommy!" Kotaro runs into his mother and hugs her, to which Haru simply reciprocates.

"Did you have fun, sweetheart?" she asks, smothering her son with kisses. As soon as the meeting at the Bertesca Headquarters came to an end, Haru immediately sped off just to see if her sons were doing well.

Advancing towards her husband, she glances at their other son napping peacefully in the baby carrier he wears. "How did it go?"

Takeshi gently shrugs. "I'm just glad it's finally over."