Turning Point
Author : 27x18
Warnings : Lots of swearing, lots of fluff
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Note:Since the Cradle Affair hasn't happened Ottabio is still second in command of the Varia, even if he is a douche, but that will be rectified come the shit hitting the fan.
Varia Ages~
Ottabio : 26
Levi A Than : 15
Xanxus : 15
Lussuria : 17
Squalo : 14
Belphegor : 8
Mammon : Unfortunately I don't have enough money to buy that information from her, so it's unknown for now, physically looks 2
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As soon as it was decided that the two assassins were going to have continued contact with the little girl Squalo excused himself from the morning tea and headed for the closest phone, he needed to get the others here to see Xanxus being a normal human for once.
Squalo wasn't sure what sort of drugs his boss was taking but whatever it was he was acting like a normal civilian with the kid and it was one of the most hilarious things he had ever seen.
Calling in the cavalry Squalo organised for them to meet at the Vongola mansion just outside town, he hadn't even had to offer Mammon money, the baby was probably looking froward to getting some blackmail material on their new boss so he might be able to get money out of Xanxus later.
It was a real blessing that Iemitsu as a paranoid bastard and made them take care of Tsuna that evening at the Vongola mansion, it meant they should get there with the little brat around the same time the rest of the top level Varia members were arriving.
Besides, the kid might get bored with only Xanxus and him to play with, really he was doing Xanxus a favour by calling in the others to join him in staring at the boss like a crazy person while he played with a kid.
A kid that he still didn't understand, how the actual fuck had she just shoved her hands in Xanxus' Wrath Flame like it was nothing? That didn't even make any sense, even if the kid was a Sky there should still be no way she should be able to shove her hands in the powerful Flames of Wrath and giggle. He couldn't get over how the brat fucking giggled.
The kid had seriously tuned into Xanxus' Flames so perfectly that his Flames weren't a threat to her, Squalo had no idea how that was even possible, even Xanxus' own family couldn't tune into his Flames that well, and some kid, with no Flame training had done it unconsciously.
Alright so the kid was descended from Primo so that meant however distant it was she shared a common blood ancestor with Xanxus, but his bastard boss' brothers and father couldn't tune into his Flames anywhere near as well, and a fucking civilian kid had giggled at Xanxus' Flames.
Squalo wanted the others here just so that he wasn't the only one seeing this, because he didn't think he could believe it if it was only him, and they sure as shit would never believe that the boss had picked up a kid and taken it home, let alone everything that the kid had made him do.
Between eating pasta and smiling, not scowling or smirking, a real fucking smile, Xanxus! Xanxus of the Vongola and commander of the fucking Varia had smiled! Squalo was questioning his eyesight and his sanity.
Squalo had been all but bouncing in his chair all day after that, a smirk on his face at all times while he took sneaky pictures of Xanxus carrying Tsuna, Xanxus had remembered about the blisters from when she had been walking all on her own yesterday and wasn't about to make her go walking around today as well.
"The fuck you smiling at?" Xanxus growled over at the silver haired swordsman in Italian while they ate lunch, Xanxus getting steak as normal, Tsuna ordering whatever Xanxus ordered since the assassin seemed to be her own personal hero. Xanxus had to cut up her steak for her though while Nana handed him some chopsticks for Tsuna. They had found last night the five year old was pretty terrible with a knife and fork, it hadn't even occurred to them that she might do better with chopsticks
"Well shit." Squalo mumbled while Xanxus nodded, the kid was a professional with her chopsticks even if the girl could only really stab at things with her fork "Why didn't we think of that?" Squalo demanded while Xanxus waved off Squalo
"Because you're a moron." Xanxus spat back even as Squalo glared at him
"Voi! You didn't think of it either you shitty boss." Squalo's eye twitched when Xanxus outright ignored him instead the teen looked down at the five year old in his lap and went back to helping her cut up more of her steak "Just wait until tonight, stupid boss." Squalo muttered to himself glaring over at Xanxus while his boss hogged all the time with Tsuna. Squalo wasn't jealous though, not at all, who would be jealous of the attention some five year old brat was giving them? Definately not Squalo.
"What are you muttering about you shi-uh, you shark?" Xanxus growled over at the mumbling silver haired teen, glancing down at the happy Tsuna in his lap, he had caught himself just in time. This was going to be difficult, controlling his language long term, Xanxus was used to saying and doing anything he wanted, he was a Vongola child, he had never really had to worry about restraint before.
"Nii-san, why is grandpa-nii a shark?" Tsuna asked blinking up at him with those deadly brown eyes full of honest curiosity and trust. Xanxus didn't think he would ever get over how huge her brown eyes were
"His name brat, it means Shark." Tsuna blinked over at Squalo with her wide eyes her head tilting
"Grandpa Shark-nii?"
"Oh fuck no, kid pick one or the other, don't call me that!" Squalo flinched when a knife slammed into the table near his false hand "FUCK!"
"Language scum." Xanxus growled "You will mind your mouth around the brat." Squalo flicked his eyes down to Tsuna, the five year old blinking at him with wide eyes "Understood? Shark-scum."
"Understood you bastardo." Squalo growled back while Xanxus pulled his knife from the wood of the table, tossing some extra notes down to pay for the damage to the table, flicking his eyes over to Nana and Iemitsu, the pair sitting at their own table hands clasped together over the top while looking dreamily at one another
"They always like that brat?" Xanxus asked looking down at Tsuna whom just nodded making a face
"Mama and papa are always like that." Tsuna small face twisted "It's icky." Xanxus snorted and pet her head
"You'll understand one day brat." Tsuna just blinked up at him disbelief clear in her eyes while Xanxus chuckled, she was really very expressive, and the innocence was a breath of fresh air like he hadn't ever known. Living on the streets anyone this innocent would have been killed early on, or twisted. Then in the Vongola mansion growing up wasn't much different then the street, there was always someone watching and waiting to use any weakness against you to further their own gain. Tsuna didn't seem to have a bad bone in her body, it probably wouldn't even occur to the kid to even think to use someones weakness against them, brat would probably offer help without any expectations. Xanxus wanted to keep that innocence intact. He'd kill anyone that tried to change it.
"Hey, Iemitsu." Xanxus called, half sneering the name of the CEDEF head, the blond jolted out of his little world with Nana and blinked over at Xanxus, he glared for all of a second before seeing the girl sitting in Xanxus' lap with a huge smile on her face "How about we head to the mansion, you and the missus go off for your night of romance early. We're about to barf watching you." Xanxus called over in Italian while Iemitsu glared at him
"What's your angle Xanxus?" Iemitsu really didn't understand what the brat was doing. Xanxus wasn't one to offer to take care of anything, let alone the kid of someone he didn't get along with in the slightest.
"Just take the fucking offer or leave it. I'm not in the mood to fuck around with you." the pair glared at one another for a few moments before Iemitsu sighed, looking back at his smiling wife and glancing over at his happy daughter
"Fine, you really want to play babysitter that badly, fine, we'll head our way you go to the mansion. If you're not there in an hour I'm assuming you've kidnapped my daughter and contacting your father." Xanxus rolled his eyes wrapping an arm around the five year old waist and standing up, the kid hanging from her middle by his side blinking up at him confused while hanging from his one arm
"Finally." Squalo grumbled, he didn't think he could take much more of the nauseating sight that Tsuna's parents made. They were just so in love it was physically sickening to watch
"Xanxus-kun?" Nana blinked over at them while Xanxus gave the woman a short bow, Tsuna still dangling from one arm
"We'll let you start your evening early." Nana's smiled was almost as bright as Tsuna's, Xanxus pinning Iemitsu with one more glare before striding off, Squalo a few steps behind, Tsuna just letting him dangle her under his arm
"You're so sweet. Take good care of our little Tsu-chan." Nana called after them, Xanxus just kept walking, Tsuna blinking up at him from her place dangling limply in his grip
"Nii-san?"
"You don't wanna spend the rest of the afternoon with those love birds do you?" Tsuna shook her head, when her mother got into that mood it was almost impossible to get her out of it, they would be sitting at that table for quite a while longer. They had finished eating and Tsuna was bored sitting there, that was how she got lost yesterday, she had followed a cute yellow bird for a little while when bored out of her mind waiting for her parents to stop staring at one another and sighing
"Where will you take Tsuna?" Tsuna asked blinking up at him while Xanxus lifted her fully to rest on his hip
"We're going to a mansion for the evening, then we'll get you working on your flames again." Tsuna brightened at the topic of the magic, she really liked the flames, they tickled and felt warm, like that warm feeling that told her when someone was nice, the flames felt safe.
"Mmm, Tsuna would like that."
"Just you wait brat, tonight will be fun." Squalo chuckled while he smirked over at Tsuna and Xanxus, snapping another sneaky picture of his boss with the kid. Tonight was going to be amazing, as soon as the others arrived
"Tsuna wants to spend more time with nii-san and grandpa-nii. Nii-san...does nii-san want to spend time with Tsuna?" Damn it there were those huge brown eye again, Xanxus felt like he had just kicked a puppy by the way his gut twisted when he saw those wide watering eyes and quivering bottom lip. If he didn't know better he'd think she was trying to manipulate him, but the kid didn't have a clue how powerful her damn pout was, and that was scary in it's own way. Tsuna was able to manipulate the masses, at least, Xanxus was sure it was possible being that she had manipulated him into caring, all without meaning to.
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Xanxus dropped the kid down as soon as they were in a lounge area while calling for a maid to bring them something to drink, thanks to his father his something was non alcoholic as much as the teen would rather it was otherwise. As long as his father had no say in things he could drink what he wanted, but Timoteo was very much stuck on the no drinking for minors viewpoint even if they were in the Mafia
Xanxus was not sure how teens their age survived this shit world without something to drink, whenever he had to spend time at any of the Vongola mansions he had a hint of the normal teen life without a drink. At least in the Varia mansion he had threatened all the staff into giving him what he asked for when he wanted some damn scotch.
"Nii-san, look. Tsuna can make the fire easier." Tsuna bounced over to him and held out her hands while a small flame flickered to life. While the kid wasn't able to hold the flame for long she seemed to be summoning it easier, he would make a Sky Flame user out of the brat yet.
Though if anyone tried to taint the kid with blood he was going to tear their throat out and shoot them in the face, Tsuna needed to stay Tsuna.
Xanxus grabbed the kid by her shirt and lifted her into his lap while he got comfortable in the huge chair and Tsuna nestled into his lap with a bright smile. Tsuna didn't know why, but she felt safe with this teenager, Tsuna didn't ever understand why the warm feeling pushed her in directions that it did, but Xanxus was safe, that was all it could tell her, this person would be safe and they would help and protect her. Tsuna never questioned the warm feelings, it had helped her way too many times, even if she thought it was strange it still meant that she would listen.
And every single feeling in her gut was telling her that Xanxus was a friend, even the small tingle that reminded her that Iemitsu had dropped her that once, and that he lied all the time it still told her to trust Xanxus, and Tsuna would do just that. This nii-san was nice and he was gentle with her, he was teaching her magic too, Tsuna was happy to follow along behind him until that warm twist in her gut told her otherwise.
"You're improving brat. Now we need to get you trained up to keep it alight for longer." Xanxus noted while he roughly ruffled her hair and flicked his eyes around the room. His father would tell him to do something like this inside a training room, Xanxus didn't give a flying fuck if it was in the kitchen or lounge with this brat, he wanted her to be comfortable before they got into training to get her physical attributes up to channel her Flame for longer.
"If I write you a list of exercises brat, will you follow it?" Tsuna blinked up at Xanxus her head tilting to the side while her wide brown eyes blinked at the Varia Commander
"Exercises?" Xanxus nodded while lifting the girl from his lap and sitting her down on the ground and smirking down at her wide eyes
"Exercises and things, if I make you a list, will you follow it." Tsuna nodded eagerly while grinning up at Xanxus
"Tsuna would. Tsuna is dame and clumsy thought." Xanxus cracked a half smile then while tugging the kid into his lap and hugging her
"Not after my training brat. You will be the most co-ordinated kid in the country when I'm done with you." Tsuna could only smile and snuggle into the warm arms at his response, wrapping her small arms around his waist, and only just barely doing that while she snuggled into his tall form
"Tsuna believes nii-san." Tsuna promised while the teen assassin nodded back to the wide eyed child his gaze softening.
"Shit." Xanxus muttered in Italian "Alright kid, let's get back to Flames." Xanxus switched back to Japanese now he was done swearing, until the kid learnt Italian they could at least swear in their native tongue, heaven help them when Tsuna learnt Italian.
Considering that he had heard a lot from the girl about how she was bullied and belittled by her peers, Xanxus was also wanting to tutor the girl on Japanese Kanji and other such things. Tsuna had been a stay at home child with her mother until this year when entered into primary school, and once there they had assumed a lot of knowledge that kids had gathered from kindergarten, Tsuna had never been there and was behind, yet teachers treated her as stupid and never tried to help her. Xanxus was going to take over that position and make sure the girl was up to date with her peers if not even years ahead of them once he had finished hammering the information into Tsuna's head.
No little sister of his was going to be called no good or stupid, he would kill anyone that tried that shit on Tsuna. The little brat was his family, even if they weren't blood related, Xanxus didn't care a whit about blood, as long as he got a chance to keep watching over this pure Sky. Xanxus knew that he was being manipulated by the brat, even if unconsciously, but he really didn't care as long as he got to spend some more time with a Sky that had resonated with his Flames so perfectly they were no threat to her.
"How does Tsuna get the pretty colours like nii-san's magic-uh, Flames?" Tsuna asked while pouting at the teen, Xanxus' hand cupping a dark Flame of Wrath orb while Tsuna sat with her eyes glued to the dark burning orange flame in Xanxus hands "Nii-san's is much prettier."
Xanxus chuckled softly while cutting off his flames to ruffle her hair again, ignoring Squalo still snapping away with the camera, he was so used to it now he wasn't paying it any attention. He would just confiscate the camera later and get the pictures developed privately, either killing or threatening the person that developed them to ensure no one ever heard about this side of him.
"You can't brat." Xanxus noted while her bottom lip began quivering her wide eyes on him "It's something only I can do, don't you dare cry brat." Xanxus sighed while shaking his head at the girl, the kid really wanted to use the Flames of Wrath
"When Tsuna's older, will Tsuna be able to use them then?" Xanxus chuckled while ruffling her hair again, a pout coming from the five year old while she tried to brush the messy hair back out of her eyes
"Maybe." Tsuna brightened at that, her mother said maybe to things too, and normally it meant yes. So she just had to wait until she was older to make the darker tinted flame that Xanxus had. Tsuna also hoped that she would be able to summon such a pretty ball some day, at the moment she was barely able to get a flickering flame spark to life. Her mother had told her though that older people had more experience and knew how to do things she didn't, but one day she might be able to if she worked hard.
Xanxus glanced around the room his red eyes flicking to the doorway where Squalo had been popping in and out taking photos for the last hour, he had been gone for some time now and that meant the silver haired little shit was up to something. Something Xanxus was sure he would not like.
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Squalo paced back and forth in front of the doors to the mansion, the Varia should be arriving any minute now and it was making him more then a little twitchy. Xanxus was going to kill him for this as soon as Tsuna wasn't in the room to see him die. This was just too rare of an opportunity to miss, Xanxus of the Varia and Vongola acting like a real human being. Xanxus was the most powerful person both in sheer inner strength and flames, and personality that Squalo had ever met, bar Vongola Nono. Squalo had stepped aside from his rightfully won position as the leader of the Varia for Xanxus when he had come to the Varia looking to join. Squalo had run into Xanxus once, and not even fought him, but he had known. He could feel it as soon his eyes had laid on the teen at a Vongola event that he was going to follow Xanxus into hell if he asked it.
Nothing had prepared him for how proud Xanxus was, the teen was a Vongola to the core and had stronger flames the any of his three brothers and he knew it. When it came to sheer raw power and talent Xanxus was above his brothers by no small margin. Nono had suggested his son take on a position in the Varia to help him learn more practical skills and how to manage an outfit of eccentric and powerful diverse group of fighters.
Xanxus had strolled in as if he owned the mansion and walked up to Squalo without even a twitch and ordered the silver haired teen to give him command of the Varia, what else could Squalo do before such power but step aside. Happy to be the strategic commander, even though Xanxus had wanted to fire Ottabio for being an arrogant little shit about having to follow someone younger then him that hadn't earned the place as Squalo had killing the previous Commander and Sword Emperor.
Xanxus had set the man straight with a burst of flames point blank to the face sending him flying into and through a wall. Squalo hadn't wanted to ruffle the second in commands feathers further when asked to replace Ottabio as second in command. So he had stepped down and instead taken the seat of strategic commander. A position that Ottabio had pointed out to Xanxus didn't exist, but one glare had shut him up immediately. It existed now.
That show of power and Xanxus' reputation had soon won him the alliance of all the upper echelon of the Varia, even the crazy little blood thirsty prince obeyed when Xanxus ordered something, and no one could make the blond little shit do anything but play games and torment the staff unless it involved the kid being allowed to go off and murder commoners as he called them.
Now here he was six months later, about to piss off said powerful boss by not only telling the Varia about his current weakness, but showing them too. He was going to introduce the top powers of the Varia to Xanxus' new toy.
It really hit home then, he was seriously going to introduce all those personalities to the five year old daughter of CEDEF's head, and the kid that Xanxus had taken a liking to. Maybe he should have thought this through better, he was worse then dead as soon as the kid was asleep, Xanxus was going to gut him and hang him up be his entrails, that was all before Iemitsu found out about him inviting the remainder of the Varia's most powerful assassins to meet his five year old civilian daughter while Xanxus taught her flames and they all taught her swearing. He needed to remember to remind everyone not to swear around Tsuna, Xanxus would kill them on the spot if they did. At least if they could swear in any other language.
"You promised us quite a hefty reward for coming here, you best be able to deliver or I will be charging you penalty rates for my time." Squalo looked up as a small baby floated towards him from a long black limo
"Shishishi, the prince is expecting something worthy of his status." The little eight year old blond brat was not more then a few steps behind Mammon the Arcobaleno Mist.
"It's something you would never have imagined, like promised." Squalo assured even as a scowling Ottabio followed behind the two youngest members, he looked highly unimpressed with having to come on this excursion, but couldn't pass up an opportunity to maybe get some blackmail material on his arrogant boss.
"Oh, Squalo, you have to tell me, is my adorable sister to be cute?" So Lussuria was already adopting the girl? He hadn't even met her yet, then again Lussuria was like a very young mother of the Varia
"Who cares about some brat, we need to get rid of any eyesore in Xanxus-sama's way." That of course came from the grade A kiss ass of the group, Levi A Than, whom had all but fallen in a heap at Xanxus' feet at the beginning and proceeded to worship the ground he walked on. The second oldest of their group at eighteen the tall dark haired man would throw himself over a puddle and be a human stepping stone and enjoy it if Xanxus used him as such.
Squalo couldn't help but find the guy creepy, Xanxus enjoyed having a slave though and as such Squalo just put up with the weird man and ignored him as best he could. Ottabio was less tolerable then Levi, and if he had to choose, the sword emperor would pick Levi every time over the mid twenties creep Ottabio.
"Shut up and listen you idiots." Squalo growled while glancing around at the group "Rule number one, no swearing, at least not in Japanese, Xanxus will gut you, second do not make the brat cry. Other then that enjoy the show, it's fucking hilarious"
"Less talk more action, lead the way already. Time is money." Flicking a look over to Mammon the silver haired teen began to lead them through the twisting halls of the Vongola mansion to the room where Squalo had left Xanxus and Tsuna playing with flames.
"Ushishi, the prince can play with the peasant can't he?" Squalo did not like the way Belphegor had said play at all.
"Remember rule number two brat. Unless you want Xanxus to bury his fist in your precious face." The only visible part of the kids face was his nose and mouth, his fringe covering his eyes. The lips however twisted into disgust at Squalo's reminder. Belphegor did to want to make Xanxus mad, he had made him irritable once when he had woken their boss from a nap, if what he had seen then was irritated he never wanted to see furious.
"You're on your own from here, I need to go find a hiding place." Squalo waved them towards the door before turning and fleeing, he did not want to be there when they went in, no matter how hilarious it would be, his life was forfeit if he showed his face now.
Ottabio huffed at the sword emperors retreat while rolling his eyes, like he cared if the teenage brat got angry at him. Without any more delay he threw the door open and stalked in his eyes scanning for the so called five year old that had gotten attached to Xanxus and vica versa
The second in command of the Varia froze mid step his wide eyes on the sight before him, there was Xanxus the same arrogant shit of a boss they had recently come to work under, sitting in one his ever present high back chairs.( Ottabio was sure that he had one in every single Vongola mansion because he always managed to find the same damn chair.)
Sitting in the chair was the same grumpy faced bastard, but what stopped him dead was not only was there actually a five year old sitting on Xanxus' lap but the son of a bitch was smiling!
Not his normal I'm going to tear out your throat smile, no, a normal smile. Like he was genuinely enjoying sitting with some civilian brat
The sound of a shutter clicking snapped Ottabio from his surprise. glancing to the side to see Mammon snapping away on a camera, saving herself a nice stash of blackmail pictures, he would need to get a copy of some later, even if he had to pick up a few extra missions to pay for it.
"What the fu- Hell are you bas-brats doing here?!" Xanxus growled over at them his smile gone while he glared at them one arm around the middle of the child in his lap so she wouldn't run over and greet these strangers, not until he knew for sure they were no threat to Tsuna. To her credit the brat didn't struggle or try get down, just blinked over at the watching group with her huge brown eyes
"Shishishi, the boss didn't swear." Belphegor snickered while he twirled a knife in one hand his eyes on the cute little prey in Xanxus' grasp
"She's so cute~" Lussuria screeched as he hurried over to the girl and began to look her over, kneeling before Xanxus to poke and prod at the little child "Mou, you just have the cutest little face, and you're so tiny~ You can call me Luss-nee. Or nee-chan, either is fine little angel." Lussuria was gushing with every fibre of his being while he giggled and tittered at the little girl who just blinked back at him with wide eyes
"N-Nii-san?" Tsuna squeaked looking up at Xanxus for help with the enthusiastic man
"Cute~" Lussuria squealed loudly "Now call me nee-chan!" Tsuna blinked at the gushing teen nervously
"Back off scum, you're crowding the brat." Xanxus growled down at Lussuria while the man giggled and backed off
"Sorry~ I just can't resist with such a cutie~" Belphegor took Lussuria's place coming in close to peer at the child while scowling at her
"I don't get the fuss, it's just a commoner." Tsuna blinked at the other child with wide brown eyes
"N-Nii-san, he doesn't have eyes!" Tsuna whispered while Xanxus snorted in amusement and brushed the bangs up from Belphegor's eyes the child darting backwards with an angry hiss
"Never touch the prince!"
"Oh come on dear, you have such pretty eyes~" Lussuria giggled glancing over at the still clicking Mammon while the baby sized illusionist stocked up on pictures "I want to buy some of those sweetie."
"2000 Euro a piece, 5000 if the boss is smiling." Mammon shot back, she was not going to let these go for anything less then that, it much too rare a thing they were witnessing.
"Boss! How dare this child defile your presence, I'll remove her right aw-" Levi silenced when a well aimed bottle smashed over his head
"Shut up trash. Your voice gets on my nerves." Levi fell silent with a creepy pout while Ottabio strode across the room having finally shook off his shock and looking down at the child
"An interesting pet you have there Xanxus." the teen shot the man a glare, not liking the way Tsuna pressed back into his hold when the man came close, she hadn't twitched for Belphegor or Lussuria but she seemed to instinctively move away from this man. The brat was a Vongola after all, Xanxus' non existent intuition told him that Ottabio was an asshole, nice to know the kid had inherited stronger intuition then him, that should help a lot on the training to come to teach the kid balance and how to defend herself from molesters. The kid was much too cute, let alone when, perish the thought, boys started taking any sort of interest in Tsuna.
"Call her a pet again and you'll lose what makes you a man." Xanxus growled in return, if even the kid was getting the dodgy vibe then he liked this arrogant old fart less and less. Squalo should never have bowed out on giving his position as second in command to this bastard. Ottabio looked taken aback at the venom in Xanxus' voice but soon recovered and glared down at Tsuna, the girl fiddling under his gaze and her eyes lowered, the room all freezing when Xanxus grabbed the girl and kicked Ottabio across the room before settling back down
"I won't let any of you scum get away with making the brat uncomfortable." Xanxus growled out while Lussuria went back to gushing
"Oh little one you just have to let me dress you up~" Lussuria giggled while measuring the kid internally so he could go buy her some outfits later, finally he had a little girl to dress up, the grumpy prince never let him play dress up with him, but maybe this cute little girl would.
"Why the hell are you people even here?" Xanxus growled glaring around at them all "I don't recall authorising a job for any of you to be in the city, let alone all of you."
"Squ-chan called us." Lussuria giggled while reaching out to Tsuna "Can I please have her~?" Xanxus looked down at the girl in his lap while she twisted to look up at him
"Nii-san?" the teen just shrugged back at the wide eyed child in return
"You decide brat, I'm not your mother." besides, she had shown to have highly developed intuition, kid could decide on her own if she would trust his stupid staff. In fact it would be a good test, seeing her already distrusting Ottabio, the only one of his senior staff that Xanxus didn't trust either.
"U-Um….H-hello L-L...nee-san." Tsuna couldn't bring herself to call someone older then her by their name, all she was able to stutter out was nee-san, a little confused why this nii-san wanted to be called nee-chan but Tsuna wouldn't be rude, if he wanted to be called nee-san then Tsuna would call him nee-san.
Lussuria actually swooned while grabbing the girl from Xanxus' lap and cuddling her "You're just so adorable!" Lussuria hugged her close while rubbing his cheek on her hair in a snuggle "So soft~"
"N-Nee-san...Tsuna can't breathe." Tsuna squeaked but it only made the man squeal again
"She even refers to herself in third person, it's so adorable, how did such a cutie end up with someone as grumpy as Xanxus-kun?" Lussuria pouted while settling the girl on her hip "Oh cutie I'm going to keep you~"
"She's just some peasant, what's all the fuss." Belphegor grumbled, he did not like all the attention being on someone other then him, especially someone so common and low class. Belphegor stormed over to Lussuria and glared up at the weak common brat "What is your secret peasant, tell the prince now!" Belphegor brandished a knife that Lussuria tugged from his hand
"Confiscated, play nice Bel-chan~"
"Play nice or else." Xanxus growled while the prince sneered back at the little girl, Tsuna just blinking back in return with her huge brown eyes
"Tch." Belphegor turned away from the girl, like hell he was going to play nice with some brat, a genius like himself had more important things to do. So the child moved to a chair in a huff and pointedly ignored Tsuna while Lussuria pouted after him
"Bel-chan's so moody~" Lussuria turned her attention back to Tsuna and smiled brightly "What do you want to play angel?"
"Nii-san is teaching Tsuna magic." Tsuna smiled brightly while cupping her hands, a tiny orange flame flickering before it fizzled out, Tsuna smiled brightly even though she was panting slightly from exertion "It's not as pretty as Nii-san's."
"A Sky, that information could be valuable." Mammon mumbled while putting the camera aside to float over to Tsuna and look at the small flame she kept summoning. The child was inexperienced and she was also not currently suited for flames, but to still be summoning one meant that she had some powerful resolve. If they trained her up a bit she would make a decent Sky, as long as her resolve held. Maybe Mammon could charge the brat for training.
"Did you kidnap her?" Ottabio asked while still frowning over at this useless distraction that had entered their lives, they were assassins not babysitters. Xanxus should damn well know that
"Brat belongs to Iemitsu from CEDEF, he knows she's here." Xanxus growled back "You don't want to be here Ottabio, then fuck off." Tsuna looked over at Xanxus with a frown
"Nii-san, bad word." Xanxus huffed and waved off her complaint while switching to Italian
"I never asked you here bastard, so you are welcome to fuck off at any time. I won't stop you."
Ottabio whirled and stormed out so he didn't say anything he would regret to his bastard boss. How he hated the illegitimate asshole, first he was a bastard, literally, secondly he was an arrogant shit, and lastly he had power to back him up. Ottabio knew he could never win in a head to head fight, he needed to retreat and rethink calm down so he would be able to go back to strategising ways to take position of commander from Xanxus.
After he left the room Xanxus merely went back to teaching the kid about her Flames while Lussuria gushed continuously, Mammon stocked up on pictures, Levi. sat in a corner cultivating mushroom while sulking at his boss having attached himself to this child and Belphegor huffed moodily on a chair while peeking over at Tsuna curiously. Not that he would ever tell anyone that.
Squalo peeked in having hoped enough time had passed that Xanxus wasn't in the mood to murder, snapping a few pictures of his own while trying to ignore the glare from Xanxus that promised his death later.
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Wow, okay wow, a much bigger success then I thought it would be, y'all are awesome, so much feedback xD
Seems there's not enough brotherly Xanxus love around and it's fucking adorable.
Fluff will return full strength next chapter as the Varia get to know Tsuna, just had to set it up~
Huge thanks to the many people that reviewed chapter one, I hope that I can keep the standard up for you all, you are all amazing and I love you all for giving such a positive review of the first chapter of my brain bunny.
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Pipe Dream (Guest) : That's right, come to the dark side, brotherly Xanxus is amazing~
Loopy (Guest) : Hehe, when reading through to edit I ended up fangirling all over the place
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WriterKillsReader : I try to keep Tsuna as Tsuna, other then making him a girl, honestly I've just written so much femTsuna it's habit now
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Guest (Question) : Don't worry this adorable little family will survive anything
Guest (Idea) : I loved reading your idea, I got a few plans for what is to come but that was an awesome idea xD
Guest (s) : All of you, thank you so much!