Turning Point

Author : 27x18

Warnings : So much swearing, wonder if a swear-jar would work on the Varia...Mammon should introduce one, she'd be a millionaire after a week.

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Varia Ages~

See Chapter 2

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It just wasn't fair, the brat had listened to Lussuria and was calling him nee-san, so why the hell was he grandpa-nii still. Squalo had tried glaring at the kid but she just tilted her head and blinked at him with those damn huge eyes. The brat wasn't even slightly scared of him anymore and that itself was infuriating, he was the damn sword emperor, he was scary! Why was this kid not scared of him anymore, when she had first tripped on his shoes she had been trying so hard not to piss them off, one night spent getting to know them and all of a sudden they were best friends.

Lussuria had very reluctantly dragged himself away from the child finally, to instead head off and raid every single room in the mansion to see if he could find some cute clothes to make Tsuna try on. It had taken him nearly an hour just to put the girl down, and only had then because Xanxus had threatened in Italian and glowered his most 'pissed Xanxus' glare at Lussuria.

Tsuna was now sitting back on Xanxus' lap while peeking over at Belphegor curiously, someone close to her age she might be able to play with. The child had yet to move over to greet him, instead she sat fiddling with her shirt hem on Xanxus' lap and kept peeking over at the prince who was peeking over at her in return.

The prince was trying to act superior, being a prince and the girl a commoner, but he was clearly interested in talking to or interacting with the brat, he kept peeking over before jerking his attention back to the knives he was playing with, the sleek metal flashing as he twirled them between his fingers and hands, concentrating on the dancing blades to keep him from showing interest in Tsuna.

Squalo snapped a picture of the prince peeking over at Tsuna when he caught him looking once before turning his attention back to the child that was peeking between Belphegor and Levi now. Tsuna seemed to want to comfort the dark haired teen who was sitting in a corner with his back to them all muttering sadly about Xanxus telling him off, but once again the girl was too shy to dare move over and initiate contact.

It made the sword master snort in amusement while he watched, the kid that had Xanxus around her little finger was shy.

"Tsu-chan~ Your nee-chan is back~" Lussuria announced slamming the door open and posing for the girl, Tsuna's eyes widening at the long green feather boa around Lussuria's throat while a smile took her. Tsuna beaming at Lussuria while the man did some poses never noticing how the whole room froze when Tsuna smiled, everyone staring at the girl in shock at the bright smile

"C-Cute." it was Levi that whispered that out breaking the silence of the room while Xanxus glared over at the teen wrapping one arm around Tsuna's waist protectively a growl escaping the Varia Commander. Lussuria gushing over the girl and pulling different outfits from thin air while babbling about cute combinations with the smiling, though confused, girl pulled attention away from Levi whom had flushed deeply and hidden back in his corner. The teen was now muttering to himself in horror at having called the brat distraction cute….embarrassed beyond humanly possible at having dared utter such a disgusting word, and about a five year old.

"Shishishi, pedo." Belphegor snickered causing Levi to sink deeper into his depression and Xanxus' glare to deepen at the teen

"Nii-san, what's a pedo?" Tsuna asked while Xanxus flicked another glare over at Levi

"Someone you don't have to interact with, ever." Xanxus growled while letting Lussuria instead cart the girl off to dress her up for the little fashion show he was going to put on "If you so much as look in her direction I will kill you." Xanxus growled over at Levi whom was frantically trying to defend his words as innocent, but Belphegor had bounced into the conversation again

"The prince saw him eyeing the brat like some sort of meal."

"Bastard-"

"The prince even saw the plebeian lick his lips."

"N-No, boss, I would nev-" but Xanxus wasn't listening as he grabbed Levi up by his coat and slammed his fist into the other mans face Levi dropping at his feet barely conscious while Xanxus growled down at the body of the teen

"The only reason you're alive is because you didn't." his red gaze swung around at the gathered Varia "Any of you fuck with the kid, you're fucking with me, understood?" Mammon just pressed the button on her camera to save the footage, she was sure someone would buy it. Xanxus losing his temper over a five year old, his father would probably kill for proof of something so human coming from the assassin

"Who's the pedo now." Belphegor muttered while Xanxus glared at him the eight year old holding up his hands in surrender quickly, Xanxus was in his ultra pissed off mood, time to agree to anything he said even if it grated against the princes pride.

"The brat seems interested in you, you little shit, so be nice." Belphegor tch's and looked away from Xanxus to pout, but fine, if he was being forced to, he would talk to the stupid commoner brat.

Only because he had no choice in the matter with Xanxus in this mood. Not because he, a prince, had any interest in some stupid snivelling little brat.

"Now boys~ Prepare~" Lussuria broke the mood completely while flouncing back into the room and tugging off his feathered boa and flinging it at the door as a thin curtain "Tsu-chan~ In all her cuteness~" Lussuria dropped his boa while Tsuna shuffled in her eyes downcast while her small feet padded bare on the floor. Lussuria had some pretty shoes but after seeing the plasters on her heels had demanded the child wear no shoes so the blisters could heal a bit without anything rubbing at them. Secretly taking the chance to hurry her healing up with his Sun Flames, but the girl didn't need to know that.

Tsuna had been shoved into a cute white summer dress edged in soft powder blue ruffle around her ankles and arms a giant blue bow at tied at her her tiny hip.

"..." Belphegor was struck speechless when those shy brown eyes that seemed to take up half her face flicked up shyly, clearly showcasing her shyness and her innocence.

He had never wanted to taint someone more then at that moment, no one should be that pure, the brat needed to taste blood. Having someone so damn innocent seemed impossible amongst the blood stained Varia, it made his hands itch to get out his blades and show her how to slice a man's throat.

"Tch, what is this sh- this? That the best you can do scum?" Xanxus growled while Tsuna's eyes welled with tears her small face crumpling with disappointment while she blinked at Xanxus her face showing her hurt. Looking at her felt as terrible as a physical blow to each of those watching her.

"T-Tsuna...Tsuna picked….the dress." Tsuna mumbled while sniffling, fat tears slipping down her cheeks "T-Tsuna...thought i-it was p-p-pretty." Xanxus felt like he was the scum of the universe, the worst underbelly of the darkest hole. He might as well have struck the child physically, her kicked puppy look was nothing in comparison to this, Xanxus truly felt like the ultimate scum, Tsuna had been properly hurt by his words and Xanxus didn't know how to fix it, this sort of shit wasn't covered by his tutors. How did someone comfort a crying five year old girl?

"You look passable." Belphegor broke into the conversation sneering down his nose at Tsuna still while he looked her up and down "Not like royalty, like the prince, but you pass the basic requirements for cute." Tsuna's tears seemed to evaporate while she blinked at Belphegor with her huge brown eyes her mouth slowly dropping open to an o of surprise

"Prince?" Tsuna whispered her eyes widening even further "Y-You're a prince? A real one?" Tsuna squeaked while Belphegor smirked at the child, finally, she was noticing his superior class.

"The prince is a real prince, you will refer to the prince as your majesty." Tsuna nodded enthusiastically, her depression from before gone while she bounced on her heels while staring at a real live prince, an actual prince, not just from a story or movie, but a real one!

"Your majesty." Tsuna cheered while he frowned at her, okay that felt wrong. Even though the kid was showing proper deference it felt wrong somehow, Belphegor had expected himself to feel proud and good as he did whenever a commoner finally noticed his superiority and class, referring to him with the correct deference. Somehow though, that felt wrong with this kid, he would make a exception for her, and only her.

"Bel-sama." he corrected "The prince will allow you to call him Bel-sama." Tsuna bounded up to him while still bouncing on her heels blinking at him in a worshipful manner

"Bel-sama, is that Bel-sama's crown." Tsuna pointed at the tiara in the long blond hair that covered his eyes, Belphegor's chest swelling in delight when she referred to his crown as a crown, not as a tiara like that stupid boss kept hinting.

"That is." Tsuna let out a small squeak of delight while she continued to look over the prince, he held himself so well, and he even talked like an adult, this was a real live prince. "Bel-sama's crown is so pretty!" there it was, that little twist still telling him that he didn't like what the brat was calling him still, he would leave it for now, there was little more he could allow the plebeian to call him without losing his title completely.

"Tsu-chan is cute isn't she, Xanxus-kun~." Lussuria noted breaking back into the conversation while giving their boss a pointed look, Xanxus scowling back at the flamboyant man but reluctantly he had to admit, yes the brat was cute, especially with the wounded puppy look she had flashed earlier and the sulking shy look she had on now when peeking at him from her place with Belphegor to the side.

"Brat looks fine." That was all it took for Tsuna to beam at them all again her smile brighter then the sun while she looked at Xanxus "Yeah, yeah, brat." Xanxus sighed softly at her cute look and ruffled her hair, the kid would be deadly given time, even if he never trained her as an assassin, the kid could conquer the entire Vongola Alliance with a smile. Xanxus was tempted for all of a second once more before shaking his head to himself, no, this kid needed to stay out of the bloodshed. He would teach her flame usage to keep her from having any accidental outburst that would draw attention from the Mafia, but he was not going to train her for anything to do with the underworld.

"Xanxus-kun, are we going to keep the little cutie?" Lussuria asked while he watched Tsuna following Belphegor around asking questions about being a prince.

"Yes and no." Xanxus watching her as well "I'm not going to separate a brat from her mother, but I will be tutoring her at my leisure." Lussuria smiled brightly at his boss, his eyes flicking to Tsuna

"We can come help of course~?"

"Fine, whatever." Xanxus shrugged while scowling over at Mammon, the baby hadn't stopped taking both video and camera shots for this entire time, he was going to have a word with the illusionist later about exactly who was going to be able to buy those pictures. Xanxus didn't need everyone in the Vongola finding out about this. Especially not his father, he was worse then Lussuria when he was in his doting mode. He did not need to lose all respect for his father again because the old man is a complete woman when it comes to his kids.

"What sort of tutoring will we be giving the little angel?" Lussuria mused while Xanxus flicked his eyes over to Squalo "Flames obviously." Lussuria noted while tapping his chin eyes on Tsuna "Balance too, the poor dear tripped on air twice when we went to get her changed into that pretty dress."

"Apparently the kids call her dame-Tsuna. The brat even believes them." Lussuria blinked startled behind his thick sunglasses

"They call something that cute dame?" Xanxus nodded while looking over at the girl still firing questions at Belphegor, who actually looked like he was enjoying himself, without killing things for once

"Until such time as I am happy with the level of her studies the HQ will be moved temporarily to the Vongola mansion in Japan." Xanxus noted while flicking his eyes to the nodding Squalo "Don't think I've forgotten you shark-scum." Squalo paled slightly before glaring back over at the red eyed demon of a boss

"Pissed because now you can't monopolise the little brat?" Xanxus' gaze narrowed further

"Rebelling because you didn't get to either?" red chased across Squalo's cheeks while he gaped at his boss

"No, who would care about some brat." Squalo growled while checking quickly that Tsuna hadn't heard him, he did not want the brat getting all down again just because he was terrible at being honest with himself.

"We all see you looking sweetie~" Lussuria giggled while Squalo flinched before whipping his head over to Lussuria

"VOI! The fuck would-" A feather boa was quickly wrapped around his throat, crossed at the back of his throat and swiftly tightened, Lussuria behind Squalo holding it across his throat while Xanxus growled at the shark.

"Rule number one Squ-chan~" Lussuria whispered in his ear while Xanxus merely smirked at the sight, he had told the stupid shark more then once now, Xanxus didn't like having to repeat himself, and he did not want his stupid underlings teaching his fucking brat how to swear.

"I get it." Squalo rasped while clawing at the boa, what sort was this shit made of? It felt like there was piano wire at the centre of all those cheap green feathers. Then again it being Lussuria's it probably was, one could never have enough weapons on them

"Ah, Grandpa-nii is trying the feathers." Tsuna smiled looking over at Squalo from where Belphegor had been showing her some knife tricks, Belphegor snorting in amusement as Lussuria let go of the boa finally giggling at the unfortunate title the young man had. The swordsman gasping for air while rubbing at his throat and glaring over at Lussuria

"Ushishi, changing teams hmm grandpa?" Belphegor snickered a glare being tossed his way from Squalo

"Fu-uh-uzz off brat." Squalo growled while flipping him off behind Tsuna's back

"Ushishi grandpa is so grumpy.." Belphegor pointedly ignored Squalo's glare and instead went back to showing Tsuna tricks and sending Squalo sneers while Tsuna focused her attention totally on the prince, much to his utmost pleasure

"Why the fu- the hell am I grandpa-nii still? Stupid brat. Stupid hair." Squalo muttered grumpily to himself while Lussuria pet his head in a condescending manner

"Poor grandpa-kun."

"Voi! I'm not a fu-uh-dging grandpa!"

"If the kid says you're a grandpa then you're a grandpa shark-scum." Xanxus growled while Squalo flipped him off as well muttering swears in Italian. He wouldn't be able to do that forever though, Squalo knew Xanxus was planning to teach the kid Italian, among other useful languages. Each Varia member knew at least seven, the kid was going to be trained by the Varia as part of the Varia but learning self defence rather then assassination on the physical side of things.

For being a lazy arrogant bastard Xanxus was among their smartest, a true genius especially considering that his schooling had been non existent in the slums as a child. The Vongola had of course paid for the best tutors for Nono's youngest child. Even so, to have picked up seven languages plus all his other skills in such a limited time was a testament to just how bright he was. And now that bright bastard boss was going to tutor the brat.

It was strange to think that only yesterday morning they had never imagined Iemitsu being a father, let alone how attached they were to the CEDEF assholes kid in so short a time. The kid was just something different, not like any other snivelling brat, though she cried easily, there was just something….something about Tsuna. Sky's were normally an addictive presence, but Tsuna was something else entirely

"How do we know her mother isn't a Sky too? Double Sky plus being related to Primo, maybe that's why the brat is...well, the brat." Squalo blurted all of a sudden, everyone froze, looking at the assassin before looking over at Tsuna while the girl smiled brightly at Belphegor, the kid ignoring everything but the little girl sitting with him

"...Well shit, no wonder her flames are so fucking pure." Xanxus muttered while staring intently at the brat, alright, her hair was brown not blond, but that meant that the kid was taking after her mother. Thank fuck for that. Kid still had a faint resemblance to the portrait of Giotto sitting in every damn Vongola mansion. Take a few hundred years of new blood coming into the line and you might very well have Tsuna. Then add another Sky too the mix...

"That useless pricks Flames aren't as pure as the brats, is she a genetic accident or something?" Squalo mused while Xanxus narrowed his eyes, if that theory was true, then Tsuna was descended from the most powerful Sky Flame user in Vongola history, the first boss and another unknown Sky, all to create an incredibly powerful Sky child

"Doesn't matter." Xanxus announced while his red eyes stayed locked on the tiny girl "She's ours now."

"As long as it makes me money you can keep the kid." Mammon noted popping up behind Xanxus while snapping photos of their arrogant little brat prince interacting with a commoner. "As I predict that the money she makes me will be close to what the next few years missions will reward, keep the kid as long as you want." the baby chuckled while tapping at her calculator. The kid was already worth a good few thousand in just what Lussuria wanted, let alone anyone else she sold to.

"On that, my father, and brothers, are not on that list." Xanxus noted with a growl at the baby "Understood?" Mammon nodded, she would keep it from them, for now, but if there was a leak from the Varia from an unknown person to the Vongola about it and Nono asked directly, even Mammon couldn't say no. That of course was only if some silly person happened to leaked it to Nono.

"Stop scheming brat." Xanxus growled while his eyes flicked to Tsuna, if the Arcobaleno brat was planning something that would hurt Tsuna, then he was going to kill the little shit

"No scheming, just business." Mammon shrugged while floating away from Xanxus and getting back to catching every moment the kid had with the Varia that showed weakness that Mammon was happy to exploit. The kid was a goldmine, between blackmail material and pictures/video they would personally request, Mammon was going to be very rich.

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Belphegor had reluctantly admitted that the commoner was cute, not because it was true, but because she had been so pathetic there with her eyes full of tears and those tiny shoulders shaking with sobs

The moment he had said the word cute her tears had disappeared and she had smiled so brightly he had to wonder if they were wrong about her flame and the brat was actually a Sun.

Then the stupid brat started following him, trotting behind him with her bare feet and borrowed dress Tsuna followed him back to his corner while asking question after question about what it was like to be a prince. It was hardly proper for a prince to answer to a commoner, but at the same time, it was nice to be able to flaunt his status, and Tsuna seemed in awe of him, which was nice also

No one had looked at him with so much respect and awe since before he had killed his family, not that his bastard brother had ever looked at him so, nor his parents, but the servants all looked at him in awe, all treated him like a prince, because even if he had killed them all, he still was a prince and people should be treating him as such.

It was nice to have someone that was finally treating him properly, the girl seemed to be quite impressed by him, and he hadn't even had to kill anyone for her regard, yet.

Belphegor could get used to this.

"Bel-sama? Bel-sama is allowed to play with knives?" Tsuna blinked looking at the sharp item in his hand, he had fingered a knife out of habit and been twirling it in his palm

"Hm?"

"Tsuna's not allowed to, since Tsuna is clumsy." Tsuna explained while staring at the flashing knife spinning in his hand "Bel-sama makes it look pretty."

"Shishishi, the prince is a genius." Belphegor snickered while slipping another knife into his palm and the pair of them dancing "This is nothing." Belphegor purred while another two knives slid into his palm, the small daggers that he personally made with care

"Tsuna has never seen knives like those, they're really pretty." Tsuna whispered while blinking at the flashing silver blades

"The prince made them." Belphegor smirked while Tsuna's brown eyes widened further

"You made them? Bel-sama is amazing!" Tsuna whispered while sitting in front of him on the floor while the prince relaxed in a chair his knives still flipping and twirling in his hands. Glancing at the girl Belphegor smirked seeing her wide brown eyes locked on his hands, there was an orange spark in her eyes like he saw in her hands when she summoned her small Flame, he liked that spark.

There was just something impressive about the spark, it wasn't the spark of a commoner, it was the spark of someone entirely different from a commoner.

Flicking his eyes over to the loud mouthed silver haired sword wielding bastard one of his eyebrows cocked hearing the teen noting that Tsuna was descended from the first Vongola, from Giotto himself.

While the prince knew little and cared even less about the Vongola history he knew who Giotto was, he knew that the first boss was some supposed hotshot. So it seems this little kid, the brown haired brat wasn't quite as common as he had first assumed.

Not royalty like himself, but still, not a total commoner.

"The prince has decided." Belphegor noted peering down at the child "Ask Bel-sama what it is he decided." he tagged on when the child just blinked at him with those orange tinted brown eyes

"What is it Bel-sama?"

"The prince has decided that you, and only you will be allowed the honor of being the princes maid." Tsuna nodded enthusiastically while bouncing in her spot on the floor

" Mmm." the girl agreed before pausing for a moment "Umm, Bel-sama, what does a maid do?"

"It means you're allowed to stay near the prince." Belphegor explained while looking down his nose at her "And you have to do what the prince tells you to do."

"Tsuna can do that. Tsuna will be the best maid, Tsuna promises." Belphegor nodded while studying the child, she was really quite sheltered, so he might be able to get away with this without her losing her deference to him.

"The prince's maid may call him Bel, but only in private." Belphegor explained while Tsuna tilted her head at him while blinking at him with those big brown eyes

"Private?" Tsuna mumbled while frowning in thought, the prince filling in the details for the sheltered not quite civilian

"When it is only us. Only when we're alone. " Only when there was no one around to hear him being called so informally and him allowing it.

"Tsuna can do that, Bel-sama!" His lips twisted upwards into a smile while he studied his new maid, since the girl was less annoying then other people, especially less annoying then the other Varia, he could come to even tolerate her presence if she continued to be so easy to deal with.

But only because Xanxus had made him, no other reason at all.

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Xanxus watched Tsuna interact with the brat prince for a while before he stood and moved over to grab the kid and lift her back to his hip while glaring at Belphegor for having taken all her attention for so long

"Nii-san?" Tsuna asked with a blink while he moved back to his chair

"Pick food." he grunted while holding out list of the chef's delicacies for her and reading it to her while Tsuna twisted to look up at him

"Tsuna wants what nii-san has." Tsuna announced while Xanxus smirked down at her with a nod, good, the kid did still adore him, even if the blond brat was interesting, she was still his

"Steak." Xanxus grunted while flicking his eyes to the butler waiting at the door for the dinner orders, everyone else calling out something while Xanxus moved his attention back to Tsuna "Now brat, we're going to work on your Flames again."

"Mmm, nii-san." Tsuna smiled widely up at him while Xanxus smirked and settled her on his lap while murmuring instructions to her to bring up her flame again and encouraging her to hold it as long as she could. Tsuna was able to hold the flame for almost three seconds now, they wouldn't be able to do much more until she got more physically able to support her flames.

Tsuna if left alone would have been unwell most of her life as her powerful pure flames were screaming for release and would flood over, her small body unable to support them would have failed and left her sick much too often. Really it was very lucky that Xanxus and Squalo had found her. Iemitsu would have probably gone the civilian route to keep Tsuna totally away from the Mafia and locked her flames, that would have locked away her intuition and a good part of her natural talents to leave her a shadow of what the bright child could be.

His father had told him that kids of the Vongola line seemed to always show strong intuition as part of a survival instinct while very young and later it toned down when they started to grow up, until they began to encourage it back to functioning. He had seen Tsuna so far showing good strong intuition, so she was still tapping that instinctively on a regular basis.

Locking her flames and suddenly taking the kids warning system would be a terrible idea and leave her floundering, unable to know if she could trust someone, or anyone, suspecting everyone of having hidden agendas and no intuition at all to even hint at the right way. Tsuna would likely have retreated from people and been alone a good part of her childhood

"Nii-san….Can you show me your magic again?" Tsuna asked while looking up at him with those huge brown eyes begging him, what could he do but summon his flame in his palm, everyone in the room pausing to watch while Tsuna clapped in glee and wrapped her small hands around the orb "Nii-san has the best magic."

"What….the actual fuck." a glass hit Levi dead centre on his forehead slamming him back to the ground while Xanxus glared at him

"Language scum." Lussuria stepped delicately over Levi's form and approached Xanxus, watching Tsuna intently

"You have to admit though boss, it's a little….surprising." Lussuria noted pointing to the five year old with her hands cupping his dark tinted Sky Flames "That should kill someone."

"Ah yeah, you guys haven't seen this….the brat giggles at his Flames of Wrath." Belphegor was watching intently while Tsuna played with the ball of Xanxus' Flames quite contentedly a smile on her lips while orange tinted eyes stayed locked on the Flames.

"Well, that is interesting." Belphegor murmured, the not so common child was just full of surprises

"This information-" Mammon murmured floating closer to peer at the actions of this so called five year old civilian

"Is not for sale, ever." Xanxus growled while Mammon studied the man, she would normally charge Xanxus for something like that, but the Arcobaleno had a feeling that it would be very unhealthy for her if she ever mentioned this to anyone or tried to sell it. Xanxus held grudges and it was quite possible he would turn the entire Vongola and all their allied famiglia on her, even most of the Arcobaleno were allied with the Vongola and would probably join the hunt. Mammon wasn't exactly popular with her fellow Arcobaleno for the fact that she had sold information on each of them before, the baby sized illusionist had even gone so far as to fake her death and change her name joining the Varia for the safety that the Vongola name provided.

"Understood, boss." Mammon conceded, if she wanted to keep taking the protection of the Varia name, then she would never sell this information, no matter the price. "The other….items?" Xanxus shrugged while looking back to the kid in his lap while she snuggled into him with a yawn, give her some food and she was going to be out like a light soon.

"As long as it doesn't compromise any member of this team, who gives a sh- I don't care." Mammon smirked, her lips turning up while her eyes brightened under her hood, she would well be able to make enough money off the other items she now had for sale. The Arcobaleno could see the money already, she could taste it. This kid was going to be very lucrative for her.

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Timoteo stepped out of the limo with a smile to the young man holding his door "Thank you." the Vongola ninth boss noted while moving up towards the mansion doors being held open by a butler

"Nono, it is an honour to have you here."

"I heard Iemitsu had his wife and daughter in town, how could I resist." Nono chuckled while the butler smiled at him in return

"Young Miss Tsunahime, a very kind child, she's in the second lounge with Master Xanxus and the Varia." that froze Timoteo while he flicked his eyes to the butler while trying to sort through the information that he had just been given, he felt a little like someone was playing a trick on him. It wasn't April first. Nor any other holiday that might cause his staff to prank him...however the information he had been given didn't quite compute in his mind.

"Wait….sorry, did you say that Xanxus, my adorable though arrogant son is here?" the butler nodded to the master of the Vongola, ergo all their mansions "Xanxus." Timoteo noted again while the butler bowed to him

"Is here with Miss Tsunahime and the Varia."

"B-Boss." Coyote Nougat his Storm Guardian hurried up the steps to the door in time to catch Timoteo when the man stumbled backwards in shock his wide brown eyes on the butler in shock

"Xanxus, my Xanxus, is here with a child?" the butler nodded

"I thought you knew Nono. Master Xanxus brought Miss Tsunahime to the mansion this afternoon with the permission of Iemitsu Sawada of CEDEF, He and his wife were going to spend some time together tonight and Master Xanxus was babysitting."

"Xanxus." Timoteo asked again "My Xanxus, babysitting?!" the butler looked a little worried about Timoteo while the poor man fainted dead away sending everyone into a panic

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The first nudge of his intuition sent Timoteo into the defensive as he approached the door for the second lounge, his Vongola intuition reminding him that the room was quiet. A room full of the Varia, quiet. Nothing prepared Timoteo for what he saw however when he pushed open the door. His eyes first found his son, the temperamental child of his, arrogant and superior, his Xanxus, not an illusion his intuition assured. There was the tall teen sitting in one of those huge comfortable chairs he had commissioned to have in every mansion for him and only him, in his lap a child of only five if that, the child was tiny, fast asleep in Xanxus' lap leaning against his chest one hand twisted in his shirt gripping her human pillow and snoozing happily away. Timoteo didn't miss the arm his son had around the girls waist either to keep her secure in his lap in case of restless sleep and moving.

Xanxus napping wasn't so abnormal, his son had a habit of sleeping in those huge chairs, just seeing him comfortable and at peace with a five year old girl in his lap, it was as if someone had pulled the rug out from under Timoteo and told him casually that really, the sky was purple

His brown eyes flicked around the room to see the rest of the top level Varia, bar Ottabio all curled in their own chairs, but none of them had left the room and retired to their own rooms, all of them were sleeping around Xanxus' chair in a formation of defense, and Timoteo knew it wasn't for Xanxus, his son could very easily hold his own. They were protecting the child in Xanxus' arms

"How long are you going to stare old man." Xanxus growled while his eyes cracked open and arm tightened around Tsuna's small waist "Who the fuck called you here." Angry red eyes flicking over to Squalo while Timoteo glanced around at the rest of the Varia, they were all awake and studying Nono quietly

"Called?" Timoteo murmured before cocking an eyebrow "Oh, you thought someone called me here? No, dear boy, I came to visit Iemitsu since I heard he was here with his wife and child, thought I'd surprise them. I must say I didn't expect to see you here still, your mission was for three days ago correct?" Xanxus looked decidedly annoyed while standing, the kid scooped into his arms, the little girl still gripping his shirt a soft mumble escaping her, the whole room holding their breath until she settled again

"I'm putting the brat to bed." Xanxus muttered while stalking out proudly his head held high even though he had a five year old civilian snuggled in his arms.

"That really just happened? Didn't it?" Nono asked his brown eyes looking towards the Varia for answers.

"Welcome to the twilight zone, it gets fucking weirder by the second." Squalo answered him while Timoteo blinked over at the swordsman confused "Me 'n boss ran into the kid alone in town yesterday, took her home while we figured out who to call to get her home. We entertained her and took her back home this morning. Kid grew on boss and we helped out taking her today."

Timoteo studied Squalo, his intuition was telling him the kid was telling the truth but there was a lot being unsaid. Timoteo going to have to keep an eye on things to find out more, the Varia had clammed up about anything further. Frowning suddenly the Vongola ninth boss pinned Squalo with a dark look.

"Why was she alone in town?"

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What can I say, on a bit of a fluff roll~

Moving on, seriously you are all amazing, so many favourites and follows and reviews, you are all amazing and thank you so much for taking the time to show some sort of appreciation for this weird brain bunny. My phone gives me alerts for and I go into fangirl mode, you are all fantastic and continue to make my day every day.

I nearly died when I saw that after two chapters this thing already had 200 follows O.O

A huge thanks and a shout out to all the amazing reviewers, seeing your reviews and comments really encourages me to keep going.

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Cookies (Guest) : Thank you so much, I really enjoy it all the more when someone else enjoys it~

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Skylar18 : Ottabio was less obvious and creepy in the light novel, more calculating, but sadly creepy fits him, and his purpose here, all too well.

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Pipe Dream (Guest) : How to disrupt the Varia and turn them against one another, ask Tsuna who her favourite is.

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