Turning Point
Author : 27x18
Warnings : Fluff~ Copious amounts of fluffy fluff~ And swearing
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The second Ottabio heard from a maid that Vongola Nono was there the man was scurrying down the hall from the room he was in to greet Nono, the tall man hurried into the second lounge his eyes darting to Nono while he bowed respectfully to the man
"Nono, it's an honor to see you here." Ottabio bade while the old man just smiled sweetly at him and waving to the man to calm down
"That's nice, however….I would like for someone to start talking about the fact that my son seems to be….babysitting the five year old civilian daughter of my CEDEF commander." the room fell silent but for the snickering coming from Belphegor
"Oh….that." Ottabio noted while his glare pinned on each member of the Varia, all of whom ignored him, Xanxus had not said they could talk about it so they were not going to talk about it. "Where is Xanxus?"
"He took the brat to bed." Ottabio paled, then flushed while his eyes widened behind the thin frames of his glasses
"HE WHAT?" Squalo peered at the man with a blink his mind quickly calculating what the man was thinking while his lips twisted angrily
"VOI! You fucking pervert, what the fuck sort of monster do you take the boss for?!" Squalo snarled his blade slipping out on his false hand while he snarled at Ottabio "You just thought the boss was doing something fucking disgusting with a kid he thinks of as his fucking family!" Squalo snarled while Lussuria slid his boa from his neck glaring at Ottabio from behind his sunglasses, Belphegor fingering some blades, Mammon's hand twitching even while Levi cracked his knuckles and glared over at the man insulting their boss.
"Excuse me." Timoteo noted calmly drawing attention from the Varia second in command about to be lynched by his own team "Did you just say Xanxus thinks of Iemitsu's child as….family?" Squalo snapped his mouth shut glancing back at Timoteo, well shit, his big mouth.
"Uh….no?" Squalo tried while Timoteo frowned directly at the teen making Squalo shiver in fear, okay Timoteo was scary, he had never thought that for a second about the smiling old man, not until now when his blood ran cold with a simple stare. "...Uh….Well shit stop looking at me like that!" Squalo hissed while backing up from the Vongola boss "Ask boss, not my place."
"Mammon." Timoteo called out pinning the Arcobaleno "Explain to me what you know." Timoteo ordered slipping some notes from his pocket while Mammon all but pounced on the man and began counting the money
"Squalo called us here to see the boss making a spectacle of himself acting like a human with the kid." Mammon noted while slipping the money away in her dark robes "Kid calls him big brother and he seems to enjoy it~ €5000 for pictures of him smiling." Timoteo slid out his wallet and handed the baby some more money quietly "Nice doing business with you Nono." Mammon cackled while grabbing her camera and floating out, her money senses were telling her that if she got a picture of Xanxus right now she would make more money then she could imagine.
Squalo darted out after the Arcobaleno with a growl and everyone else just ended up following him, Mammon heading for a private room and quietly opening the door with a silent cackle, oh yes, this was perfect, snapping quickly before the noise woke the boss Mammon managed to secure herself a picture of Tsuna curled in a napping Xanxus' arms on a bed. The Varia commander stretched out with Tsuna gripping his shirt still fast asleep
"Mammon, you're dead scum." Xanxus growled cracking open a red eye at the Arcobaleno while Mammon pointed at the stirring Tsuna, silencing Xanxus while he glowered at them silently his arms around Tsuna protectively
"Well….fuck me." Timoteo noted his wide eyes on the scene before him while a small coin hit his forehead with surprising accuracy, wide eyes on a dozy Tsuna sleepily frowning at him from Xanxus' arms where she had stolen a coin from the teens pocket and just thrown it at boss of the entire Vongola famiglia.
"Bad word." Tsuna mumbled before crashing out again and nuzzling into Xanxus' chest, silence reigning over the room for a few seconds before Mammon began cackling quietly hiding her camera, that video, that was going to be very nearly priceless.
Timoteo could only stare for a few moments more before sighing heavily and rubbing at his temples "We will speak about this in the morning Xanxus." the old man then herded them out of the room and closed the doors behind himself his brown eyes flicking around at the Varia. "I will expect answers come morning." the old man then strode off while Squalo picked up the coin that had dropped to the floor and stared at it
"Voi did that kid just fucking attack the Vongola Nono?! With a coin!"
"I think we all should get some rest now dears." Lussuria noted while smiling brightly at them all "Come on ladies, bed time~" None of them missed the glare that Ottabio was sending towards the door, but until he made some sort of move none of them would say a word.
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Timoteo slid to sit in a private suite with a long drawn out sigh, reaching up to rub the tiny mark on his forehead, the kid had power in her arm, active flames too if he wasn't wrong. Iemitsu had not told him the his daughter had such strong Flames. No wonder Xanxus was attached to her, a strong Sky from Primo's line was nothing to sneeze at, her flames were likely running amok and had reached out to Xanxus' own Sky Flames.
However, Timoteo had promised Iemitsu his child and wife would be kept out of their world, he would need to have a long conversation with his stubborn son tomorrow, Xanxus couldn't get so attached to Tsuna, she would return home soon and he would never see her again most likely. Few to no jobs ever arose for the Varia in Japan, let alone the small quiet town of Namimori.
The most logical answer he could see was to put a seal on her flames, if they were as powerful as he was thinking they were then it would not be something a civilian would be able to handle, it would be in the child's best interest and to have a normal life. Timoteo did not like sealing flames, the side effects were quite harsh on a child, but so too could active flames be just as unhealthy for her.
Timoteo did however worry about the attachment Xanxus was showing, while it was amusing it was true, this was Xanxus, the child had been nothing but volatile since he had taken the powerful Sky in all those years ago. While Xanxus was loyal, he was also so full of pride, arrogant and stubborn to a fault, for him to be attaching himself to another Sky, when he had never harmonized with them, but Timoteo worried that he may have with the child, that would make separating them a tiring process, especially if Xanxus decided to dig his heels in about it.
However they were not going to kidnap Iemitsu's daughter, not when he had sworn to Iemitsu to keep her out of the Mafia unless there was no other possibility. Sawada Tsunahime was to remain a civilian unless the unthinkable happened and somehow Nono lost all his three true sons.
Sighing heavily again Timoteo rubbed at his temples gently while laying back in the soft bed, he would think about all this tomorrow, right now he would just get some sleep and try to figure out how Iemitsu had managed to lose his daughter in Italy.
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The rest of the night was quite uneventful thankfully, Xanxus snapping awake early again his eyes finding the girl snoozing in his hold while she mumbled and snuggled into his chest, smirking at the memory of her hitting his father dead centre on his forehead last night, even though it was just a coin, the kid had some of the biggest balls he had ever acknowledged anyone having.
No one attacked Nono and got away with it, not anyone in the Mafia, and this civilian brat had pegged him hard in the head with a small coin while half asleep because Nono had sworn.
Guess no one told Nono rule number one when dealing with this kid.
Xanxus would need to talk to Mammon later, he recalled seeing a camera in her hands, and that recording would be something that would make him smile for a long time to come.
"Nii-san?" Tsuna mumbled rubbing at her sleep heavy eyes while blinking at him with those huge brown orbs "Morning, nii-san." Tsuna smiled sleepily at him while Xanxus ruffled her brown hair
"Morning brat." rolling out of the bed and cricking his neck and shoulders "Up you get brat. Your mother said she'd be here this morning to pick you up." Tsuna brightened while she scurried out of the bed and bounced into the bathroom. Xanxus yawned while sitting on the edge of the bed his eyes flicking to his bag
"Nii-san!" Xanxus headed for the bathroom and lifted her to wash her hands again
"You're gonna have a bath later kid so don't ask." Xanxus noted when she brown eyes flicked over to the bath, Tsuna nodded while tugging at her dress with a frown "Deal with it kid." Xanxus noted "Unless you know where the other clothes Lussuria had for you are?" Tsuna shook her head, she had no idea what room they were in, Tsuna got lost just stepping outside the lounge room and had to rely on others to get around
"Is nii-san going to leave Tsuna today?" Tsuna asked softly, she knew that he wasn't going to be around all the time, he was an adult, they had their own things to do that didn't involve taking care of Tsuna, she did understand that, but still, she wanted him to stay with her a little longer. Tsuna tried not to be selfish, but she really didn't want Xanxus to go away.
"You're not getting away from me that easily brat." Xanxus growled down at the kid while her small face brightened and she hugged his leg, Xanxus pulling her up to rest on his hip again and heading for the dining room.
First maid he passed he ordered her to grab his chair and bring it to the dining room and continued on his way Tsuna in his arms, of course that changed as soon as he was in the dining room, Lussuria stole the child with a squeal and took her over to Nono and settled the startled girl on his lap while talking to the Vongola boss
"Hello young Tsunahime, I'm Xanxus' father." Timoteo smiled at her while Tsuna twitched slightly her intuition flickering at her while Tsuna tilted her head her eyebrow furrowing in confusion, Nono touching his lips with one finger and a smile to encourage to her to stay silent.
Tsuna glanced over at Xanxus before hesitantly nodding quietly and blinking back at the old man
"Grandpa?" Tsuna asked questioningly while the old man chuckled
"That does sound nice, yes little one, call me Grandpa."
"Does that mean I'm finally free from Grandpa-nii?" Squalo growled while Tsuna blinked over at him confused
"Grandpa-nii, doesn't like being called grandpa-nii?" Tsuna asked sadly while her bottom lip quivered, Squalo grunting while his heart clenched, this damn kid was too adorable, it shouldn't be allowed. Xanxus smacked him upside the head with a growl his eyes on Tsuna
"Rule two shark-scum." Squalo scowled at him before flicking his eyes back to Tsuna with a sigh
"Fine, call me grandpa-nii." Squalo muttered while Tsuna shook her head, she knew he was lying right now, sniffles escaping the girl
"T-Tsuna's sorry….Tsuna didn't know." Tsuna sobbed while Xanxus grabbed her from Lussuria and hugged her in close, glaring at Squalo while he held the crying five year old
"Enough brat. No tears." Xanxus ordered softly "You didn't do anything wrong." Tsuna pressed into Xanxus' hold ignoring the pictures being snapped by Mammon and just comforting the child awkwardly "Give him a new nickname, it will be fine then." Tsuna sniffled blinking up at Xanxus while the teen stared back at her, Tsuna glancing over at Squalo finally. The silver haired swordsman looked like he was truly hurt by the kid crying because of him
"Sh-Shark-nii?" Squalo cocked an eyebrow at her
"Squalo." he corrected while Tsuna squeaked and nodded her wide brown eyes on him
"S-Squalo-nii?" Squalo just nodded to her while a bright smile blossomed on her face then bringing light to the room while Timoteo chuckled his eyes taking in the interaction. It seems that Xanxus was not the only one attached to the little girl, Squalo and Lussuria had both shown a new side with her
It was going to be much harder then he had first thought to separate the girl from the Varia, Xanxus had even attempted to comfort the girl, something Timoteo had never thought to see. Xanxus never showed any real regard for the emotions of others, let alone tried to comfort someone else. Seeing him do that for a five year old girl really drove it home just how attached Xanxus was.
"While this is….adorable." Timoteo noted while he flicked his eyes to Tsuna "She is a civilian Xanxus." Timoteo reminded in Italian his eyes flicking to the girl "And I made a promise to Iemitsu not to involve her."
"You think I would?" Xanxus growled back his arms tightening on Tsuna "I have no intention of getting the brat stuck in the Mafia world, but I will not stand for you, or anyone locking away her flames." Xanxus growled in return "I'll train the kid, I am not going to stand by while you fuck up her life with a Flame seal." Timoteo blinked startled
"Train a civilian? Are you mad Xanxus?!" Tsuna was blinking between the pair confused while looping her arms around Xanxus' throat, she had a feeling she needed to stay close to him or something might happen
"The kid can already summon her flame old man." Xanxus proudly announced "I'm going to train her to manage it."
"By kidnapping Iemitsu's daughter?" Xanxus scowled at him while glaring at his father, narrow minded old bastard that he was
"No, by moving the Varia HQ to Japan." Xanxus announced while Timoteo sighed heavily, his son made such rash judgements and was stubborn enough to follow through with them as well.
"Xanxus…." Timoteo sighed heavily while Tsuna blinked over at the old man from her place hugging Xanxus' neck "I'm assuming you harmonized your Sky Flames with the girl, but I can't allow you to train her as an Assassin or Mafioso." Tsuna frowned at the old man, she had no idea what they were saying but Xanxus was going rigid and glaring at the old man with a growl
"Please don't be mean to nii-san, nii-san is nice to Tsuna." Tsuna asked softly her eyes flashing a golden orange that startled and silenced Timoteo "Nii-san is teaching Tsuna magic, and he's going to help Tsuna not be dame. So please, be nice to nii-san."
"Dame? No...good. The child is bullied?" Timoteo asked surprised while Xanxus nodded still holding Tsuna tight in his arms
"Little one….the magic that Xanxus is teaching you, can you show me?" Timoteo asked while Xanxus shuffled her in his hold and sat finally, the maid having brought in his chair while he was arguing with his father.
"No." Tsuna replied much to all their surprise, the kid had just said flat out no to a request from Vongola Nono "Tsuna won't until you say sorry to nii-san." Tsuna ordered while Timoteo studied her for a few seconds, the whole room tense to wait and see what the head of the Vongola did after being ordered by a five year old civilian.
Timoteo studied her before a smile cracked over his lips a soft laugh escaping the old man while he finally cracked his serious face open. He really had no answer for that, it wasn't just that Xanxus was attached, Tsuna seemed very strongly attached to his son in return, even to the point of pushing out of her shy reserved Japanese shell and ordering the Vongola famiglia head to apologise to Xanxus.
"Oh Xanxus, you have a real task ahead of you with this little one." Timoteo chuckled while shaking his head in amusement "I am sorry my son." Tsuna relaxed as soon as Timoteo apologised a small smile tugging at her lips while she buried her face in Xanxus' throat and hugged him tight, the Varia commander holding the girl close still for a few more moments before settling her in his lap
"Show him brat." Xanxus noted while Tsuna nodded back to him and cupped her hands a frown of concentration passing her lips, the small flame bursting to life for a moment before disappearing, Nono studying her intently
"Very pure Sky Flames." Timoteo agreed while studying Tsuna the little girl brightly smiling at him
"Nii-san's are prettier." Tsuna noted while twisting slightly and grinning brightly up at Xanxus
"Prettier?"
"She likes his Flames of Wrath." Squalo informed while a smirk took his lips, nudging Mammon to make sure the baby was ready to film this. "Hey boss, why don't you show him just how much she likes your flames." smirking over at Xanxus whom smirked back in return. Checking that Mammon and Squalo both had things ready to catch this moment.
Glancing at his father Xanxus summon an orb of Flames, Tsuna immediately cupping them much to Timoteo's horror. The child giggling softly at the tickle the flames caused her hands while wrapping her hands tight on his orb of Flames
"Well, shit." Timoteo was unable to stop himself, no one had ever harmonized to that degree with Xanxus' Flames. His son Federico had been the closest able to tune to Xanxus' powerful Flames, but even his had never matched up so perfectly that Federico had any less then small burns. Tsuna, a civilian child had tuned to them so perfectly they were not even Flames anymore.
Timoteo had to rethink all plans to separate them, no wonder his bastard son thought of her as family, they might as well be for how well suited they were to one another. It would probably destroy the girl to separate her from Xanxus now, let alone his already volatile son. It would seem that Timoteo had to allow the Varia to move to Japan for now, it may make jobs more expensive with the added airfare, but Xanxus would not separate from the girl for a while. Especially when she was being bullied, he would not leave her be until he knew she was safe.
The instincts of a Sky were nothing to laugh at, especially strong ones. Xanxus was definately strong even though he wasn't actually Vongola by blood. Xanxus had adopted Tsuna as his true family, breaking that would be just cruel to both of them.
"We need to speak privately later Xanxus, establish some rules." Timoteo noted while Xanxus shrugged looking down at the kid
"We have two." Xanxus assured "No swearing, and no making the kid cry." Timoteo couldn't help but chuckle at the first rule, the child seemed to also be enforcing that one if last night was anything to go by
"Just….shit, we'll talk later Xanxus." Timoteo reminded while the Varia commander reluctantly nodded while turning his attention back to Tsuna, the girl still cupping his Flame and smiling gently
"Grandpa." Tsuna called with a frown twisting her tiny face cutely "No bad words." Tsuna reminded while Timoteo chuckled, seems the tiny civilian was going to make sure he didn't swear. Timoteo had heard from Iemitsu that his daughter was shy, seems Xanxus had already started to change that.
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Mammon floated over to the child while flicking her eyes around at the surrounding males, all of them busy with their own things, which meant she had a short space of time with Tsuna until her mother arrived to take her back to her hotel and family
"Hello….child." Mammon noted while Tsuna blinked at the small baby with a bright smile
"Mammon." the Arcobaleno nodded "-nee, right?" Tsuna asked while blinking at the Arcobaleno
"Nee?" Mammon questioned cocking an eyebrow under her hood while Tsuna tilted her head at the Arcobaleno
"Mammon-san?"
"Nee is fine." Mammon sighed while studying the child whose face brightened at that "I have a proposal kid." Mammon continued while Tsuna tilted her head at Mammon with a blink. Mammon had to admit she understood why they were all addicted to this little girl's presence, her passive Sky Flames output reminded Mammon of Luce. "I want you to say some certain phrases as recordings, ones that I can sell to those morons for their phones." Tsuna blinked at the Arcobaleno her head tilting while her brow crinkled in confusion, trying to figure out what Mammon was asking
"I just want to record you saying something like….I love you Nii-san that I can sell to those idiots. I'll even give you 1% of the earnings." Mammon explained, mostly so that when the kid was older and learnt that she was being used that she was a business partner and therefore couldn't complain to the Varia or Vongola about having Mammon making money off her without anything in it for her. Tsuna nodded finally with a bright smile though she didn't understand all the words Mammon said
"Tsuna can do that!" Mammon's grin stretched across her mouth while she cackled lightly, she would be able to make some decent money off the custom ring tones for the mobile phones the Varia all had. Technology a definite step ahead of anything commercially available since the Mafia had most of the scientists and engineers of such things under their payroll
"Excellent. You know kid this will be the start of a beautiful business relationship." Mammon smirked while getting the recorder ready "How about you record something for Xanxus first?"
"Nii-san, daisuki." (I like/love you) Mammon had to hide her cackle so it didn't interfere with the recording, Xanxus was going to pay quite the pretty penny for that one.
"Any more cute things you could record for him?" Mammon purred while Tsuna hummed and looked over at Xanxus
"I like nii-san the most."
"Tsu-chan! Did you have fun with your nii-san~?" Nana arriving halted Mammon from getting any more recordings for now, but the baby sized illusionist was sure she would have the chance to get more later.
"Mmm, Tsuna had fun. Nii-san's friends came too, they all played with Tsuna." Tsuna announced while Nana giggled and picked up her daughter to have a cuddle
"Did one of them give you this pretty dress?" Nana asked while looking at the adorable dress, she would have to ask if she could buy it from whoever had put her daughter in it, she looked beyond adorable
"Mmm, nee-san." Tsuna pointed at Lussuria while her mother followed the path her finger took and smiled brightly at the man. Nana was a little confused as to why her daughter was calling this man her sister, but she would play along
"Thank you for helping take care of my Tsu-chan."
"Oh no dear, it was our pleasure, Tsu-chan is such a little angel, and so cute too~ It's been so long since someone let me dress them up~" Lussuria gushed while Tsuna smiled brightly at the enthusiastic man while Nana joined him in his gushing
"Isn't she just~ Oh, this dress, would I be able to buy it from you~ I haven't seen something this cute in so long, and Tsu-chan looks so adorable in it." Nana giggled while the woman put Tsuna down to work out the details, and continue to gush, with Lussuria.
As soon as Tsuna was on the ground again she glanced around the room, Xanxus and grandpa were both missing, Squalo had Belphegor in a headlock for some reason and Mammon was playing with a calculator, Tsuna of course then rested her eyes on the last person in the room, Levi is what she had heard his name was.
Xanxus had been really mad at him last night and Levi had looked really sad, he still looked down, but Tsuna wasn't as afraid to approach him now, everyone else in the room was nice to her, maybe he would be too. Tsuna also wanted to try and make him feel better, she didn't understand why Xanxus had been mad at the man, but she had seen how much it hurt him
Silently the girl padded over to the tall man that was sitting at the table looking bored, his chin propped on one hand while he stared at the doorway where Xanxus and Timoteo had disappeared through some time earlier.
"U-Um." Tsuna stuttered tugging at his sleeve shyly while dark eyes flicked down to her "I-Is Levi-nii….sad?" Tsuna asked while he frowned down at her for a moment before his face softened, the girl was very cute he reluctantly admitted
"No." short and to the point, he would however not do anything to upset the child, he was already in Xanxus' bad books, he needed to do what he could to get out of them, not upsetting this child would be step one
"T-Tsuna….Can Tsuna help Levi-nii?" Levi stared at the five year old with her huge brown eyes, fluffy brown hair and still in that cute little dress, blinking up at him with worry clear in her eyes. No one ever worried about him, he was an assassin and not exactly the most popular person being a little short tempered to all his co-workers bar Xanxus.
Staring back at this tiny child while her huge eyes blinked up at him innocently Levi caved, reaching out he pet her head gently s ghost of a smile on his lips
"I'm alright. piccola principessa." (Little princess) Tsuna nodded with a bright smile looking up at him, she wasn't sure what he said, but he was alright, that was what she wanted to know.
"Mmm."
"Brat, get over here." Tsuna twisted around to see Xanxus had returned, her face brightening while a huge smile took her lips, hurrying over to Xanxus to hug his leg, the teen scooping her into his arms and hugging her "Let's hear it from the brat then, Iemitsu." Xanxus growled over at the man, the CEDEF commander glaring back at him in return
"With all due respect-" Lie, Tsuna's head noted "Tsuna is too young to be making this decision."
"That is where I'm going to have to oppose you Iemitsu, Tsunahime is the only person that can make this decision. Xanxus would be able to deal with the effects of separation, Tsunahime, would not." Nono noted while Iemitsu's hand clenched glaring at the teen holding his child. The girl had even looped her arms around his neck and was hugging Xanxus in return
"Tsuna's confused." Tsuna mumbled while Xanxus tightened his arms on her
"Brat, would you want to keep learning about your Flames from me?" Xanxus asked Tsuna's face brightening again while a huge grin took her lips, the child squealing with excitement
"Even when Tsuna went home? Nii-san would come? Tsuna would love that." Tsuna giggled while snuggling into Xanxus' arms "Tsuna wants to stay with nii-san forever." Xanxus shot a triumphant smirk over to Iemitsu, the man scowling back at Xanxus
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Timoteo had finally managed to separate his son from Tsuna, leading the teen out into the hall the old man sighed heavily, he felt his years at times like these
"What do you want old man? If it's trying to stop me from moving to Japan then you can fuck right off." Xanxus growled while Timoteo shook his head
"No, at first….at first I was going to oppose this, but seeing how well you two have harmonized….it would be cruel to cut that connection off to such a small child." Xanxus glared at Timoteo then, so the old man had been going to try take the girl away from his sight "I made a deal with Iemitsu, back when Nana-san was pregnant." Timoteo explained gently "That his wife and child would be kept out of this world."
"I'm not planning on getting the brat into anything." Xanxus growled "I'm teaching her Flames, tutoring her to bring her up to speed at school and teaching her self defence to get bullies off her back, that's it." Timoteo studied his son with a gentle smile tugging at his lips, Xanxus didn't even see how cute he was being, it was touching every single doting daddy switch he had. He had to be strong, closing his eyes Timoteo took a deep breath to hold himself serious for just a little longer. He could gush later, be strong Timoteo
"Have you spoken to her father?" Xanxus' face twisted then while he sneered at the very mention of Iemitsu
"That fucking moron." Timoteo sighed while reaching out to clasp a hand onto his youngest sons shoulder, Xanxus really didn't like Iemitsu, if Tsuna had never tuned to his Flames his son would probably never have had anything to do with CEDEF's head or family.
"He is still her father."
"Who is never there for the brat! Doesn't do anything while she's being bullied by other children, who ignored her pure strong Flames." Xanxus growled angrily, his father tightening his grip on his shoulder gently
"He is still her father." Timoteo reminded again while Xanxus brushed his hand from his shoulder with a glare, if Xanxus had his way the man would never have anything to do with Tsuna ever again "He deserves to be involved Xanxus, he is her father."
"Involved in what exactly." Xanxus' angry red eyes flicked over to the blond CEDEF commander while the man ushered his wife into the room where her daughter was and turned his attention back to the Varia brat and Vongola Nono.
"Iemitsu….perfect timing, it seems the Varia HQ will temporarily moved to Namimori, while Xanxus tutors your daughter." Timoteo explained flames sparking on Iemitsu's clenched fists while his brown eyes glared darkly at Xanxus. Like hell Xanxus was going to have anything to do with his daughter when she went back to Japan
"With respect Nono, never going to happen." Iemitsu spat out "A bloodthirsty emotionless assassin, tutoring my civilian daughter."
"Of course there would be restrictions on what he teaches her." Timoteo assured while glossing over the insults Iemitsu had thrown at Xanxus, the teen had however latched onto them and was seconds from punching Iemitsu "But Iemitsu, what I don't think you realise is that your daughter has harmonized completely with my son." Iemitsu stiffened with a twitch, the flames on his fists fizzling out while his brown eyes widened. Iemitsu felt like someone had just punched him in the gut.
"What?"
"Not too long ago, I was witness to young Tsunahime putting her bare hands on and in Xanxus' Flames of Wrath without any ill effects." Timoteo explained "You and I both know how hard it would be to separate them now."
"There is one way to stop that." Iemitsu reminded his eyes on Nono "Nono I formally request that you seal my daughters Flames." Xanxus grabbed Iemitsu by his shirt and slammed him into a wall with a snarl
"Fuck you, you bastard, it's all about you. You don't give a flying fuck what the brat wants, as long as you get what you want." Iemitsu's fist went to slam into Xanxus' face but Timoteo caught his hand in his own
"Xanxus, back down, now." Timoteo ordered in the voice that was not to be disobeyed, completely in boss mode while he glared at his youngest "Iemitsu, you as well." Timoteo studied the pair that had separated only on his order, still glaring at one another "Both of you, act your age, you are not children."
"I'm not, that brat however-"
"Iemitsu." the warning in Timoteo's voice silenced the man, the ninth Vongola head glancing between the two "I am not going to seal her Flames." Iemitsu went to say something "No Iemitsu, she has strong intuition that she instinctively uses, if we cut off her Flames now it will cause nothing but a childhood of loneliness and hurt. You know that as well as I do." Iemitsu clamped his mouth shut, flicking his eyes over to Xanxus again
"Then someone else can tutor her, not him." Timoteo pinned Iemitsu with his brown eyes again
"Tsunahime should have the choice. If she wants to learn from Xanxus then she will. Her Flames and intuition are what I will be going by here." Timoteo ordered while Xanxus smirked over at Iemitsu "We are going to now go in, try be civil Iemitsu, you as well Xanxus." Timoteo ordered flicking his gaze between them both, Xanxus nodding stiffly his red glare still on Iemitsu. "Iemitsu." the blond finally relented, nodding to Nono while the old man relaxed for the first time since Iemitsu had arrived "Now, shall we be civil boys?"
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"Now that everything is decided, shall we have a party tomorrow evening?" Timoteo announced with a smile clapping his hands together, Xanxus cocking an eyebrow at his father while Tsuna's head tilted in confusion "Well young Tsunahime and her mother will be returning to Japan, I thought we could hold a goodbye party for them." Timoteo chuckled, a party to which he was getting his three sons to attend to be able to see Xanxus' new obsession.
"You're scheming old man." Xanxus growled while Timoteo smiled innocently over at Xanxus
"I would never, you wound me my son." Timoteo chuckled while Xanxus kept his narrowed red eyes on his father, he didn't believe a word of it, he had dealt with this old man for years and he was definitely scheming something.
Tightening his grip on Tsuna, Xanxus glowered at Timoteo, he did not like this at all, but he couldn't deny that Tsuna seemed excited, her eyes were wide and she was even shaking with excitement
"A party, nii-san, can Tsuna go? Will nii-san come with Tsuna?" damnit….he couldn't say no now, Tsuna had asked him to go, that had sealed the deal.
"Damnit, you sneaky bastard." Xanxus growled over at his father in Italian, the reason Nono had brought this up with Tsuna there was in hopes of just this situation, Tsuna was his greatest weakness and his father was going to abuse that knowledge as often as he could
"Ah Tsu-chan~ You nee-chan is going to find you the perfect dress, we should go shopping, shouldn't we Nana-chan~" Lussuria gushed while Tsuna's mother gushed along with him, she was so glad to have found someone that also saw how cute her daughter could be, and he had such amazing knowledge of fashion, Nana really enjoyed her afternoon with Lussuria looking through dresses and the like he had prepared for Tsuna last night before the girl had fallen asleep.
"Luss-chan this will be so much fun~" Nana giggled happily while Iemitsu threw the assassin a foul look, but he had no say in this, if Nono wanted to hold a party them the aging Vongola boss was going to do just that. Add to the situation that Iemitsu couldn't say no to his wife when she looked so happy, Tsuna looked so happy too, he had to follow along and just try his best to keep his daughter and wife out of the Mafia business. Xanxus had just made this so much harder.
"That's it." Timoteo nodded while a new thought presented itself to the Vongola boss "How about we have a costume party. And our guests of honour Nana and young Tsunahime here can pick each of your costumes." Xanxus had to wonder at that moment if his father had finally gone off the deep end "Of course that means the Varia can choose Tsunahime's costume and Iemitsu will choose Nana's." Nono continued while Tsuna blinked at Xanxus with big eyes, would she really be able to pick Xanxus' costume?
"R-really, Tsuna and mama can?"
"Of course little one, it's more fun this way." Timoteo chuckled while ruffling the five year olds hair "Oh, and of course how can we forget my Xanxus' birthday is the same evening." Nono chuckled, Tsuna blinking at the teen with wide eyes
"It's nii-san's birthday? Really?" Xanxus shrugged in response, he didn't really care about such things. Though Tsuna seemed even more excited now she knew
"How cute." Nana cooed at the pair "It's Tsu-chan's birthday on the 14th. Your birthdays are so close." that was news to Xanxus. While he didn't care about his own birthday, the kid's birthday was another matter entirely.
"Why don't we make the party a combination one, a farewell to Nana and Tsunahime, and a joint birthday for Xanxus and young Tsunahime." Timoteo mused, Tsuna unable to hold back her excitement was hugging Xanxus tight around his neck
"That would make Tsuna happy. Nii-san, does nii-san want to?" Xanxus nodded to the child already trying to think of what he could get the little girl as a present
"Now that that's been decided I will begin preparations, I'll leave you in the capable hands of Tsunahime and Nana to decide your costumes." Timoteo was smiling brightly while the Mafia Don all but skipped out of the room to begin preparations, and call his three sons here.
"Hmm, Tsu-chan what do you think?" Nana mused looking over the young men "How about we start with Xanxus-kun."
"Nii-san should be the king!" Tsuna cried while smiling at the teen brightly "Tsuna thinks nii-san would be a good king." Xanxus actually liked that plan, being king was being the boss, that was something he very much liked. Tsuna didn't know about the Mafia so of course she wouldn't say for him to be a Mafia boss, but a king was close.
"How cute, what do you think Xanxus-kun?" the teen just nodded a smirk on his lips, Nana moving on to the next person "What about this lovely young man?" Nana asked smile down at Belphegor sweetly, the child scowling at this peasant speaking to him so informally
"Bel-sama is a prince." Tsuna explained to her mother, Nana taking Tsuna's words as her picking a costume for the blond child
" Bel-chan is it? Would you like to be a prince?" Belphegor rolled his eyes at the woman, not that she could see
"The prince is already a prince." Nana smiled sweetly at him the eight year old looking at her strangely, but other then a slight twist to his lips Nana didn't notice at all since his eyes were covered.
To the other Varia however they knew the look well, Belphegor was thinking that Nana was pretty thick, though her innocence was actually very similar to Tsuna's. Like mother like daughter
"Who else, Tsu-chan?" Tsuna looked over the rest of the Varia in the room while trying to pick
"Nee-san." Tsuna nodded to herself looking at Lussuria, the man giggling and clasping his hands together while wriggling in anticipation "Umm….Nee-san would be a princess?" Tsuna mused while Lussuria giggled
"How cute~ I'll be your princess Tsu-chan~" Tsuna could only really think of royalty related things, she was only five after all, but looking at Mammon another idea popped into her head
"Mammon-nee…." Xanxus cocked an eyebrow at Tsuna then, since when was the money grubbing brat Mammon-nee? "Red riding hood!" Tsuna squeaked her eyes on Mammon's hooded figure "Mammon-nee could change her hood to red!" Mammon sighed at the child's one track mind, rolling her eyes under her hood, but at least it was better then the kid tying to shove her into something that would show her face, Mammon hated that more then anything. So the Arcobaleno would put up with this purely because she was sure to get some good pictures at this so called party Nono was going to hold.
"What about this nice gentleman?" Nana noted while smiling sweetly at Levi, the teen blushing furiously and bowing his head so that Nana wouldn't see his heated cheeks. Xanxus however did, snorting in amusement at the simple man, so easily charmed, he was meant to be an assassin but he was so weak to any female attention.
"Levi-nii!" Tsuna said to her mother while Nana giggled, her daughter had so many siblings now, and they all seemed to be so nice. Nana knew that Iemitsu was a little grumpy this afternoon so she was leaving him until last, she would pick for him and make sure it was something he would like
"Levi-san, hmm, what do you think Tsu-chan?" Xanxus was glaring at Levi while they were deciding, since when was that pervert Levi-nii, it was annoying, the brat was getting to comfortable with all these other bastards, she was his first.
"Levi-nii….umm….Nii-san, what's the metal person called?" Tsuna asked, Xanxus cocking an eyebrow at her in confusion, metal person?
"Ah, Tsu-chan, do you mean a knight?" Nana asked while Tsuna brightened with a nod her whole face lighting up
"Mmm, Levi-nii can be nii-san's knight." Levi actually teared up he was so happy, looking at his boss with adoration while Xanxus scowled back at him his arms tightening on the kid he was holding, his warning clear to Levi, The brat is mine. Levi was fine with that, as long as he could stay by his bosses side and continue to serve him in any way that Xanxus wanted or needed.
"Hmm, Squalo-kun wasn't it?" Nana asked while the silver haired teen nodded jerkily to the woman his arms crossed over his chest while he scowled at her, not that Nana noticed at all "Tsu-chan, what about Squalo-kun?" Tsuna blinked at the teen with huge brown eyes, flicking her eyes between Squalo and Xanxus while she chewed at her bottom lip nervously
"Just spit it out brat." Xanxus ordered while Tsuna hugged his neck tight
"Squalo-nii should be the queen." Tsuna whispered to him, Xanxus snorting in amusement his eyes flicking to the waiting silver haired male
"Trash, brat has decided and you will be obeying." Xanxus ordered while Squalo cocked an eyebrow confused while frowning back at his boss, the way Xanxus was ordering it was clear that he would not like the brats choice at all "You get to be the queen." Squalo's face paled, then flushed with anger
"VOI!" he was promptly silenced by Lussuria, the teen clapping a hand over his mouth and dragging him back from where he had been advancing on Tsuna and Xanxus
"Now, now sweetie." Lussuria purred "You heard Nono and boss, Tsu-chan's choice~"
"Why the fu- hell am I the damn queen, this bastards the queen if anyone." a coin hit his forehead while Tsuna frowned at him cutely
"Bad word." Tsuna reminded while Squalo tried to think back to what he just said, he stopped himself from saying fuck so what….ah shit, he used bastard.
"Nee-san is the princess. Squalo-nii is always with nii-san, like a queen would be." Tsuna explained with her childlike logic while Squalo sighed heavily resigning himself to this horror, at least it was just going to be the brat and the Varia, he would die from the embarrassment otherwise
"I am not wearing a dress." Squalo growled while Tsuna blinked at him her head tilting to the side
"Squalo-nii has to have long hair! And a crown!" Tsuna ordered with a pout, Squalo reluctantly nodding, he could do that as long as he didn't have to wear a damn dress. He could just pretend he was a long haired king or something, only the brat and those in this room would know he was meant to be a queen.
"Hmm, who's left." Nana mused looking over at the one Varia member standing close to a door so as to escape as soon as he could "Ah, what was your name?" Nana asked while smiling sweetly at the young man, Ottabio forcing a smile back at the woman while scowling at her daughter at the same time, it made him look a little constipated.
"Ottabio."
Tsuna tightened her grip on Xanxus' neck and buried her face in his throat with a shiver, Xanxus scowling over at Ottabio while holding Tsuna tight to him
"Bad guy." Tsuna whispered to Xanxus "He's a bad guy."
"Ah so cute, you're right Tsu-chan, he could be the villain in this cute little story." Nana giggled clapping her hands, Tsuna shivering again and burying her face deeper into his neck
"It's alright brat." Xanxus murmured glaring at Ottabio, Tsuna didn't like his second in command at all, if this was anything to go by then it was clear that he actually scared Tsuna, Xanxus trusted her intuition more then his own. Ottabio had also felt….wrong to him on occasion, but Tsuna was actually outright scared of him. He would need to keep a close eye on the old bastard it would seem.
"Oh, Iemitsu, how about we go as a king and queen too~" Nana giggled while Tsuna smiled brightly
"Mama would be pretty, Tsuna wants to see mama as a queen." Nana giggled while Levi spoke out then
"Tsunahime would be the principessa then." he noted while Xanxus looked down at Tsuna, the girl blinking back at him quietly, ruffling her hair with one hand he nodded
"The most intelligent thing you've ever said trash." Xanxus noted while looking at Tsuna "You're the principessa of the Varia." Tsuna blinking at him confused
"Nii-san, what's a prin-see-pess-ah?"
"Hime, you're our hime."
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I know I'm late on other things, but having a hard time being happy with the next chapters of Contritum Caelum and Cielo Perduto, it shouldn't be too much longer, just need to do some more tweaking, don't wanna throw them out there while unhappy with 'em.
Until more comes out of everything else, I hope y'all enjoy the fluffy goodness of Turning Point.
As always much love and a shoutout to the fantastic people who showed some feedback/appreciation~
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