Turning Point
Author : 27x18
Warnings : Language and Fluff~
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Xanxus growled at the phone but picked it up regardless, it was Levi calling, the teen was on Tsuna duty today so either he was calling because he was bored, or something had gone wrong.
"What?"
"Uh...you're not going to like it." Xanxus' eyes narrowed to a glare,
"Start talking scum."
"Some high school brats just took Tsuna and the other girl." Xanxus' desk mysteriously caught on fire, the teen stalking out of the room ignoring Squalo as the silver haired swordmaster growled after him and tried his best to put the fire out.
"How many."
"Six."
"Combat assessment." Xanxus ordered while Levi scanned the teenagers taking Tsuna off somewhere, following at a safe distance until Xanxus said otherwise.
"Low, civilian students with mediocre skill." Xanxus growled lightly, while his instincts told him to get in there and destroy those civilian brats that dared take Tsuna, he was also incredibly curious to see whether or not Tsuna would fight. Tsuna may be reluctant to use her skills, but she was also someone that wouldn't let a friend be hurt.
"Keep a close eye on them, I'm on my way. Only interfere if it looks like it's going to be too much for her, or if she doesn't fight."
"Yes boss." Levi sent the physical location to Xanxus by text while keeping an eye, so far the teenagers had just nudged the two children around, Tsuna had been covering Kyoko while frowning at the surrounding high schoolers.
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Tsuna complied with the teens when they dragged them off to a waterway, under a bridge, she kept her tongue and instead did her best to make sure Kyoko was calm, she wasn't the best at assessing combat abilities, but they surely couldn't be stronger than Xanxus.
If they were they would have been being pestered by Kyoya, so that meant they were probably weaker than Kyoya, so that made them weaker than Xanxus. That meant had a chance at beating them if she had to.
The only question now was how, Xanxus had said she shouldn't use her Flames unless they had a gun, she hadn't seen any guns, but one of them did have a knife. Squalo had taught her how to fight against someone with a knife or sword, but that would be difficult to manage along with keeping Kyoko safe.
Kyoko...Tsuna looked over at her scared friend, Kyoko hadn't let go of her hand since the teenagers had shown up, if she was going to get them both out of this safely she would need to leave Kyoko on her own, but what then if someone got to Kyoko while she was working on the other teenagers.
Tsuna's brow furrowed in thought while she kept calming Kyoko quietly, looking between the teens to see what she could use to get them out of this, one of them was limping slightly, one seemed to have a short temper, he would be the type to hit first and ask questions later, so he needed to go down first, or soon after it began. The one that worried her most though was the one with the knife, he was calm, and calm meant that he would be thinking should she do anything, that meant he might see that Kyoko couldn't fight and go after her while Tsuna was occupied.
It would be so much easier if she just used her Flames, but she had promised Xanxus, she wouldn't use those unless her life was in imminent danger, so that meant she needed to come up with a strategy before she and Kyoko got hurt.
"Hey! Give back my sister! You...You unextreme bullies!" Tsuna's head shot up to see Ryohei, Kyoko sobbed in relief, Tsuna tugging the girl back behind her when she went to run to Ryohei,
Tsuna knew things were only going to get worse from here, the one with a knife was shifting his weight on his feet in a way that told her he was about to come after her and Kyoko, while he was distracted, that gave her the chance to at least get the knife out of the way, between her and Ryohei they should be able to take out the rest, if Kyoko's bragging about her brothers boxing was anything to go by.
Nudging Kyoko back a bit further Tsuna studied the knife wielding teen as he dived at her and Kyoko, grabbing his wrist as the knife slashed past her face Tsuna pushed it up in the air while slamming her other hand into his throat, grabbing the wrist with the knife again Tsuna pulled the teen towards her while letting go of his wrist and delivering a roundhouse kick to his chest throwing the teen away from her and Kyoko and flat out on his back.
Tsuna tugged Kyoko away from the fallen teen and behind her still while ducking under a punch coming from one teen and burying her fist in his gut, knocking the air out of him while he slid to his knees.
With the yell of "Extreme." Ryohei also jumped into the fray quickly taking out another two high schoolers. Tsuna moved in front of Kyoko when one of the last two boys launched at her with a snarl, catching his fist in her hand she tugged him forwards and off balance right into the knee she had heading for his face knocking him out.
Turning to the last one she nodded with a smile seeing Ryohei finish him off.
"Woah! You're strong! Join the Boxing team Kyoko's friend!" Tsuna blinked at the older child with wide eyes, Kyoko interrupting them as she bounced on Tsuna with a sob,
"Tsu-chan you were so cool, I was so scared!" Tsuna hesitantly smiled, she had been scared that Kyoko would be scared of her if she saw that Tsuna could fight, Xanxus had told her that it would come in handy to protect her mama and her friends, Tsuna had been training for over a year with him now, but she had never really used it. In the end she knew she was still so small, boys and those teens especially were all so much bigger then how, how could someone like her actually do anything against them.
"Bitch!" Tsuna squeaked when she was pushed down, Ryohei covering both her and the fallen Kyoko as the knife wielding teen slashed at Tsuna, cutting across Ryohei's eye while Tsuna launched at him and knocked him back from Ryohei before he could do any more harm to the older child. Tsuna twisted to fall on the ground near him, locking her arm around his throat and cutting off the oxygen until the flailing fighting teen went limp.
Tsuna let him go and scurried over to Ryohei, tearing off a strip of her shirt and pushing it up against his eye,
"Kyoko-chan, my mobile phone, call an ambulance!" Tsuna ordered the child blinking at her with teary eyes, Tsuna pushing her mobile into Kyoko's hands "119!" Tsuna ordered pressing the cloth hard to Ryohei's eye. The cut wasn't too deep, Ryohei shouldn't lose his sight but head wounds bled a lot. Tsuna was trying very hard to stop the bleeding as Kyoko fumbled with Tsuna's mobile. "Kyoko-chan, stop, calm and dial."
"Don't worry brat, help is incoming." Tsuna blinked up in surprise before smiling brightly at Xanxus. The teen moving to check on Ryohei for her. Tsuna fell back to sit on her ass before she began shaking, all of a sudden everything caught up with her and she couldn't help but shake.
"Mou, Tsu-chan." Tsuna pressed into the offered hold, Lussuria hugging her tight for a moment before calling over to Xanxus, swapping children Xanxus pulled Tsuna into his hold, Tsuna reaching out and grabbing Kyoko and pulling her into the hug as well while Lussuria moved his attention to helping the healing of Ryohei's injury so that there would be as little scarring as possible.
"You did good brat, but next time don't let your guard down until you're safe." Xanxus ordered while glaring around at the unconscious high schoolers, flicking a look over to Mukurou, whom Lussuria had brought with them, he nodded and the child smirked. Xanxus had given free reign to Mukurou to punish the teens that had dared lay a hand on the Varia principessa.
"I-Is onii-chan...is onii-chan going to be okay?" Kyoko sobbed while Tsuna stroked her hair gently and let her Flame ignite just enough to calm the girl,
"He'll be alright Kyoko-chan." Tsuna promised "Ryohei...onii-san will be okay."
It was only a few minutes later that an ambulance arrived, hot on the heels of the vehicle was Kyoya, the child stalking right into the gathering of Mafioso and tearing Tsuna from Xanxus, the teen snarling at the child but Kyoya ignoring him while checking Tsuna over.
"You are unharmed little animal?" Tsuna nodded with a sad smile before moving back into Xanxus' hug "The culprits will be dealt with." Kyoya growled while Mukurou snorted in amusement.
"Let's talk birdy~" Mukurou purred "Because they shall not get a moment of the rest for the remainder of their pitiful lives." Kyoya looked down at Tsuna one more time to check she was alright before nodding and heading off to talk with Mukurou on the punishment to come.
"Kyoko!" the child blinked over at her brother with wide eyes "I'm okay to the extreme." Kyoko sniffled with a nod "I'm okay."
Tsuna hugged Kyoko tight around the neck with a sad smile "He's okay Kyoko-chan, Luss-nee won't let anything happen to him."
"Really?" Kyoko sniffled while Tsuna hugged the child tight,
"Really."
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Xanxus looked down at the report, he had ordered Levi to not only record the encounter but to submit a full report, Tsuna had done extremely well, he did have his worries though, there had been a few small mistakes, but this did give them a good practical baseline to work on.
The other brat, Ryohei, he had done extremely well for a civilian, if he was going to be yet another of Tsuna's growing gathering of Paladins then they had a lot to work with, the kid had skill for his age, he had taken down some high school aged students at a very young age.
He trained on a regular basis, Xanxus knew that at the very least, he did runs and had some boxing training from an uncle that was a professional boxer.
"The boy, how is he now?"
"He'll have a scar." Levi noted "No problems with vision, no need for any rehab, he'll be released from the hospital tomorrow."
"Tch…at least this one has some training." Xanxus muttered grumpily, for once they didn't have to start from scratch.
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Kyoko, Tsuna, Hana and Nagi all sat in Hana's bedroom, the girl had organised yet another girls night in over the weekedn to help get Kyoko smiling again, the girl was worried about her brother even though he was being released tomorrow and the doctors all said he was fine.
Kyoko was still the type to worry though, so Hana had organised a girls night to talk and get Kyoko smiling again. The first hour of which Tsuna and Kyoko spent describing the night Ryohei got put in hospital in detail to a grumpy Hana.
"Tsuna" Tsuna couldn't help but snap to attention at the sound of Hana's order.
"Yes!"
"Where did you learn to fight?" Tsuna blinked in surprise at that, she didn't expect that to be the question.
"Uh...Nii-san?" Hana studied Tsuna quietly for a few moments before nodding, looking to Kyoko and back to Tsuna she nodded again to herself having come to a decision,
"Tell that brother of yours tomorrow, Kyoko and I want to learn to defend ourselves." Tsuna could only nod in silence to that order, while Tsuna didn't like that they had to learn to defend themselves, at that same time it was best they did, Xanxus had told her that girls needed to know how to defend themselves for when they got older.
"O-Ok. I'll send him a message." Tsuna noted looking down at her small phone Yes or no?
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Xanxus blinked down at his phone with a laugh, so she knew he was listening, he was making that girl much too observant. As for training the two civilian girls, if they were going to be around Tsuna from now on then it was best they had at least the basics of self defence, depending how well they took to different combat styles he could work on their training from there.
Tsuna was collecting quite the little army.
They had close combat specialists like Ken and Ryohei if Tsuna did end up collecting him, though the child wasn't giving Tsuna a choice, he was hassling her to join the elementary boxing team. Hayato was turning out to be mid range, Chikusa as well was better with mid range then either close combat or ranged. Nagi was just starting her training with Mammon and Mukurou. Tsuna had asked him to delay that when he brought it up months ago, Tsuna wanted for Nagi to get used to Nana and to be comfortable around the Varia first, it had been slow going, but Nagi was slowly opening up and relaxing.
Kyoya was doing his own training, with regular sparring with Mukurou, he had come up with some ingenious modifications to his beloved tonfa from what Xanxus had seen.
Maybe they would get lucky and one of the girls would take to long range combat giving Tsuna a balanced set of non Guardians around her at all times.
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"Nii-san said yes." Tsuna smiled closing the small flip phone "Luss-nee will probably be first, he's really good at fighting, he tells nii-san what would be best for each of us to learn."
"Ne Tsu-chan, why do you call Lussuria-san Luss-nee?" Kyoko asked blinking over at Tsuna curiously, the girl blinking in surprise, she hadn't really thought about it.
"Luss-nee asked me to, it's what he likes." Tsuna shrugged "I don't know why, but if it makes him happy." Kyoko tilted her head at Tsuna before smiling.
"Do you think he'd mind if we call him Luss-nee too?" Tsuna smiled brightly at Kyoko in response with a nod of her small head.
"He'd like that!"
"So...what are we in for Tsuna." Hana sighed grabbing a handful of popcorn her dark eyes locked on the tiny brunette.
"Hmm….well Luss-nee started with lots of running and how to punch….Moo...uh….mooway….he calls it something Thai, there's lots of punching and stuff, he said it's kind of like boxing, but better." Tsuna mused while Kyoko blinked at her with wide eyes,
"Boxing? So girls can box too?" Tsuna nodded over to Kyoko while Nagi tugged at her sleeve.
"W-What about me?" Nagi whispered while Tsuna petted her head gently giving the younger girl a gentle smile.
"You're already learning from Mammon-nee, you don't have to do this if you don't want to." Nagi hesitated her good eye flicking between Hana and Kyoko, to be honest she didn't want to learn the physical combat side of things, she prefered to stay away from direct violence as much as she could.
"I-I'll keep learning from Mammon-nee." Tsuna nodded before looking back over at Hana and Kyoko.
"Luss-nee gets you to try different things, and then he makes a list of things to do every day." Tsuna frowned while thinking what they had started with "How far you need to run and exercises."
"I could join onii-chan in his runs." Kyoko mused while Hana sighed heavily, while she was not looking forward to the physical conditioning she also knew it was important if they wanted to be able to hold their own against attackers, especially male ones. Most males would have better physical strength than them from the get-go, so getting their own up was going to be key in any sort of physical fight.
"How much training have you had Tsuna? You fought off high schoolers right?" Hana asked while Tsuna blinked over at the dark haired child in confusion.
"Nii-san's been teaching me for a year….or a little more I think." Tsuna mused "He gave me a list of exercises, and we do them every day after school before homework. He says the more I run around the more energy I run off so I can concentrate on my homework."
"So that's how he gets you to sit still, I'll have to remember that."
"Works o-on Ken-san t-too." Nagi noted while Hana smirked, finally, something that would make the dog monkey sit down and stop.
"Does he fetch?"
"Isn't that what baseball is?" Tsuna asked while Hana burst out laughing, Kyoko rolling around on the futon giggling as well.
"Best description of that monkey sport ever." Hana announced "Baseball is now and forevermore fetch."
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Lussuria was well and truly in his element, he had been given some more adorable little ones to teach to fight.
"Alright my adorable little darlings~" Lussuria giggled while fangirling over their cute little outfits, he had dressed them all up as ninjas for the first session, Kyoko was enjoying it, Hana just scowling at him while Tsuna barely noticed, Lussuria always dressed her up, in fact this was probably one of the more normal costumes she had been handed in the last year "We'll begin with running, Tsu-chan you lead. You two little darlings try keep up~" Hana could only groan, this was going to be a long day. "Run slow for them dear." Tsuna nodded with a bright smile before taking off "Slowly Tsu-chan~"
"That's slow?" Hana groaned looking after Tsuna, the brown haired girl stopped with a blink looking back at them before smiling,
"Sorry Luss-nee." Lussuria nudged Hana and Kyoko into following Tsuna as the small girl took off again, more at a jog instead, Hana grumbling every step of the way, but she followed.
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"Yo, Tsuna!" Tsuna smiled over at Takeshi as the child ran up to her with a bright grin "How was your weekend? We didn't see you at the baseball game."
"Oy, you, stay away from Tsuna-sama!" Tsuna was about to reply before Hayato pushed in between her and Takeshi, glaring at the teen "You baseball addicted moron."
"Hayato right?" Hayato growled over at Takeshi, intent on defending his boss from the likes of this always smiling jock brat "You can call me Takeshi."
"Like hell I will, stay away from Tsuna-sama! It's because you brats that she got attacked!" now that halted Takeshi entirely, his entire demeanour changed, sharpened even as he narrowed his eyes at Hayato and turned serious.
"Tsuna was attacked?" Takeshi demanded, Tsuna butting in with a smile, nudging Hayato back.
"It wasn't serious, some bullies came after Kyoko-chan to get back at her onii-san." Takeshi quickly scanned Tsuna looking for injuries, his dark eyes jumping over to Kyoko who was just coming through the school gates as well and assessing her for injuries. Other than looking tired she seemed okay, Hana was grumbling under her breath non stop and slowly inching into school grumpily.
"Are they okay?" Takeshi asked while Tsuna nodded to him with a smile.
"They're alright, Hana-san and Kyoko-chan are learning self defence from Luss-nee." Tsuna explained "I think Hana-san is tired."
"Tired doesn't even begin to cover it, that man is a demon, I don't understand how the hell you survive that every day!" Hana grumbled while Tsuna tilted her head in confusion.
"I don't do that every day….that's just the morning warm up." Hana couldn't help but groan, Tsuna wasn't human, she couldn't be, to be able to do that as a warmup. That Lussuria was a demon, she was exhausted, muscles she didn't know she had were aching and if she wasn't so stubborn she would throw in the towel.
If this meant that they could defend themselves against high school monkies though, then it was worth the pain, there would be no monkeys assaulting her friends for any reason ever again.
"Stop touching her you baseball-baka!" Hayato pushed Takeshi away from Tsuna while the girl blinked in surprise, catching Takeshi as he tumbled backwards.
"Hayato-kun." Tsuna frowned over at the child, Hayato flinching before wilting before her frown "Takeshi-kun is my friend….please, don't fight." it was like someone had taken his only toy, the child looked devastated as he scuffed his shoes on the ground mumbling apologies to her.
"It's okay Tsuna." Takeshi chuckled "It's how boys make friends!" Tsuna flicked his forehead only a second later when he smiled, the child blinking before grinning at her again, this time though, he was actually smiling. "So tell me about this attack." Takeshi noted trying to be off hand while Tsuna tried to find the words, she knew he was angry about it, she could tell he was upset. She didn't know how to word the story without making him more angry, she really didn't want to make anyone angry.
"Crowding at the gates is forbidden." Tsuna squeaked softly when a tonfa knocked on her head "Head in little animal." Tsuna nodded and hurried off, Takeshi went to follow but Kyoya caught him by his collar and dragged him to a halt, all the children running after Tsuna bad Takeshi.
"The report is in my office." Takeshi tilted his head at the dark haired child "If you're intending to be around my small animal, you will need to learn to defend her." Takeshi didn't completely understand what he said until he was reading the report. Someone called Levi had given it to Kyoya according to the grumpy child.
"Finish reading it and get out." Takeshi scurried out of the office moments later and hurried to class. He needed to learn how to fight, to protect Tsuna. High school students had attacked her and she won, that meant he needed to be better than that, and to be able to keep her safe he needed to be able to intercept those attacks before Tsuna had to deal with them.
Takeshi stopped mid walk in the hall, looking at the papers once more before nodding to himself, he wanted to learn to protect Tsuna.
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"Dad! I want you to teach me the sword. I want to protect Tsuna!" Tsuyoshi felt his heart plummet, he had hoped against all hope that his son wouldn't ever ask him that, ad by mentioning Tsuna that meant he was intending to get involved with the daughter of a Mafioso, and even worse the girl's so called brother was part of the Varia if his source was to be believed.
Takeshi wanting to learn to fight was something he thought that might happen in the future, wanting to fight for the daughter of a Mafioso, that was something else entirely.
"Takeshi, this weekend we're going to meet Sawada Tsunahime and her mother officially." he needed to see the girl in her world, her home. The way she treated her family was going to be the deciding factor here, otherwise he was bundling up Takeshi and moving to another town.
If the girl was, however, the sort of gentle soul that Tsuyoshi thought might be at all trustworthy with his son's life, Flame and soul, only then would he stand down and let Takeshi choose his possible bloody fate.
Then he would agree to train his son and for him to have continued contact with Tsuna and the world the little girl lived in.
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It was the end of Golden Week and Tsuna had snuck out, again. So here she was sitting in the park quietly waiting for something to happen, her intuition had never sent her somewhere without a reason before, so she would wait and wait until whatever was going to happen, happened.
Tsuna slid off the swing, her golden brown eyes flicking up to the man stumbling into the park, heading for the stranger without hesitation Tsuna caught the bundle in his arms before it hit the ground. Blinking down at the bundle Tsuna's eyes widened seeing a small child around two to three years old,
"P-Principessa, are you the Vongola principessa." Tsuna wasn't sure what Vongola was, but she had heard the name before, nodding to the man he sobbed in relief and collapsed completely on the ground, Tsuna flinching seeing the blood beginning to pool around him.
"Please….please take Fuuta, my son, please." Tsuna looked down at the child in her arms "Please, keep him safe, principessa. Please." Tsuna could only nod, not sure what to say as the man on the ground burst into tears "Thank you, thank you, principessa." Tsuna fumbled with the sleeping toddler while tugging out her phone.
"Tsuna? Damnit did you sneak out again?" Xanxus growled, the brat was getting better and better at getting around his surveillance, whoever had the bright idea of teaching the kid that needed to die….oh yeah, it was him, so she could sneak out of enemy hands if left unattended like when Ottabio took her away.
"Nii-san, I'm at the park…." she could hear him moving around, probably storming out of the mansion with all his normal grouching.
"Is someone there, are you in danger?" Tsuna looked around carefully with a frown, tightening her hold on the sleeping toddler in her arms.
"I'm okay, there's a man that's hurt, he's bleeding….and a baby."
"A baby? What the fu-"
"Nii-san."
"Udge, I was going to say fudge brat. Stay there, do not move from that spot kid."
"Mmm….nii-san….hurry. It's just us here now….but I have a feeling someone is coming." Tsuna looked around, kneeling in the dirt she settled the sleeping toddler down and rolling the man over, he was bleeding from his middle, and bleeding a lot, all she could do was apply pressure and wait until Xanxus arrived.
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Xanxus grumbled while hopping in a car "Stay there, do not move from that spot kid."
"Mmm….nii-san….hurry. It's just us here now….but I have a feeling someone is coming." Xanxus hit the accelerator hard at that, the kids intuition hadn't yet waned a bit, if she thought someone was coming, then someone was bloody well coming.
Xanxus kept waiting for her intuition to die down, his father insisted that it always happened as children grew up, yet here was Tsuna, seven and still running with completely unhindered intuition. In the back of his mind he did note that Tsuna seemed to have overcome her fear of blood, looks like Ryohei getting slashed actually helped her move past that one fear.
His car screeched to a stop outside the park, Xanxus jumping out and moving over to the man Tsuna was kneeling by.
"Get in the car brat, take the kid with you." Tsuna nodded picking up the small child and carrying him over to the car, opening the back seat she slid in, settling the baby down on the seat beside her "It's okay, nii-san is here." Tsuna whispered to the toddler, though still he slept.
Xanxus carried the man over to the car and shoved him in the passenger side seat, jumping back in the car he headed back to the mansion, he would have to rely on Lussuria, a hospital wouldn't be able to help this man now.
"Call Lussuria brat, tell him to come to the mansion entrance." Tsuna nodded while calling him on her phone and relaying Xanxus' order.
"I'm here and waiting baby girl, oh, I see the car now~" Tsuna set her phone down before taking the toddler back into her hold, she needed to get him inside and clean the blood off him.
"Lussuria, here." Lussuria hurried over to the passenger side and began checking over the wounds while Tsuna trotted past them inside. Heading into Xanxus' room she took the toddler into the bathroom, running a bath she shook the child awake gently.
"Mama?" Tsuna smiled at him and set him down in the bath before following, the toddler sitting with her in the warm water "Mama?" Tsuna began washing off the blood that had stained through his clothes while the toddler babbled at her. Tsuna didn't even notice that apparently the soap was now floating, the water starting to rise in blobs and puddles "Sawada Tsunahime, ranked number one of kindest Mafioso out of 237." the water came splashing back down around them while Tsuna blinked at the toddler with wide eyes,
"Wow, Fuuta-chan, you talk like an adult!" the toddler tilting his head in confusion while he blinked at her with huge brown eyes.
"Mama?" Tsuna tilted her head back at Fuuta, the small toddler giggling all of a sudden and pouncing on the bubbles. Tsuna had no idea why he was all adult talk one second then back to a kid the next, but he was smiling, so that was good.
"Bubble crown!" Tsuna giggled beginning to pile bubbles on his head while the toddler giggled and tried to do the same for her.
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Xanxus was pacing, Squalo blinking at him confused while the teenager growled over at him "What' flew up your ass?"
"The brat is in the bath." Squalo snorted "With a male brat." now that froze Squalo, slipping his blade out the teen's silvery eyes narrowing.
"He's dead." Squalo purred while Xanxus caught him, stopping the teen from storming the room and killing someone,
"It's a baby brat." Squalo froze his head cocking while he tried to process that. Looking at Xanxus for a few moments he looked back at the door while trying to figure out what Xanxus meant.
"Wait...the kid has a kid?" Xanxus glared at him for that, cuffing him upside his head with a growl.
"No you fucking moron, the kid was handed a kid and is now bathing it." Squalo kept frowning at him still trying to figure out what was going on.
"What the fuck you shitty boss?" Xanxus hurriedly told Squalo what had been going on so far this evening.
"Fuck...do we know who this guy is? Or hell, how he found Tsuna?"
"I have an idea." Xanxus growled "The brat is the new Ranking Prince." Squalo froze at that, looking over at Xanxus while the colour fled his cheeks.
"The Ranking Prince died?" Xanxus nodded quietly,
"Two months ago, I'd gather the man brought him here hoping for protection, from the scribbles the bastard had on him his brat recommended Tsuna, and Namimori."
"How the fuck did he see her? He has to see her to analyse right? We haven't let the brat out without a disguise around Mafioso, so what the fuck." Xanxus growling and tossing over some papers "You're fucking with me." Squalo looking through the papers "From a fucking picture?" Squalo frowned down at it "She's under a fucking illusion, how the fuck did he do that?!"
"Apparently the new Ranking Prince is stronger than the last." Squalo growled in frustration while throwing the papers back at Xanxus.
"You said brat? How old we talking? And has Tsuna adopted the shit already?" the look Xanxus sent him gave him almost all the answers he needed, Tsuna had adopted another kid.
"Three." Squalo swore with a slash of his blade into the hall wall "The repairs are coming out of your pay trash."
"A fucking toddler!" Squalo hissed "The burden has been thrown on a fucking toddler!" pulling his blade out of the wall Squalo continued his line of expletives angrily while slashing around at the air, "This fucking world, why the fuck does it keep dragging in fucking toddlers and children!"
"Calm the fuck down Squalo." Xanxus growled "This is the Mafia, of course kids are being dragged in." red eyes flashed over to the silver haired swordfighter "The brat is making you soft."
"Fuck you, you shitty boss." Squalo growled "You're the one going fucking soft." Squalo took a few deep calming breaths while trying to force himself to calm down. "We're keeping him?"
"What do you fucking think?" Xanxus growled "Tsuna's not going to leave the brat alone. It's fucking Tsuna." Squalo groaned slamming his head into a wall,
"I fucking tied my fortune on the goddamn tree, how is she still collecting kids?!" Xanxus cocked an eye over at Squalo,
"You bought into that shit?" Xanxus snorted "It's all superstition." Squalo narrowed his eyes at Xanxus then.
"Don't you….you fucking pocketed a bad fortune didn't you?"
"It's just a superstition you shitty shark."
"You fucking did!" Squalo hissed "You asshole, any kids she collects this year, all on you, bastard." Xanxus growled over at the swordmaster.
"It's just some stupid superstition, of course I ignored it." Squalo groaned tugging at his hair.
"You bastard, all on you, shitty boss, fucking tie bad fortunes to the goddamn tree." Squalo hissed slashing his sword around again "It's not that fucking hard, the brat told you, tie the bad ones to the tree….fuck Xanxus, it may be a superstition but some superstitions stem from fact." Xanxus rolled his eyes at Squalo and waved him off, the shark was just babbling now. There was no way this was his fault.
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Tsuna giggled while rubbing the water off the toddler, the boy babbling a million miles a minute while waving his arms to tell her stories that she only barely understood, one thing was clear though, the child had adopted her as his mother, and Tsuna (while worried about what his mother would say) wasn't going to break his heart. Tsuna let the child keep calling her mama, at least for now.
"Fuuta-chan, stay still." Tsuna giggled while catching him in a towel and tugging him to sit in her lap "Fuuta-chan, behave bambino." Tsuna ordered in Italian while the boy giggled and kept babbling at her, Tsuna listened patiently while rubbing him down and redressings him. The toddler was telling her a epic adventure story that she only understood half of.
Tsuna took the child's hand once they were both dressed and tugged the toddler with her out into the bedroom, she could sense Xanxus' Flame on the other side of the door, so she opened it with a smile, Xanxus scowling down at her while the toddler hid half behind her and peeked out at Xanxus.
"Let me guess, we're keeping the kid?" Tsuna smiled brightly up at Xanxus then.
"Mmm, is his papa okay?" Xanxus flicked his eyes down to the brat while Fuuta slid behind Tsuna further his brown eyes falling to the floor. Tsuna's smile fell while she tightened her grip on Fuuta's hand at Xanxus' lack of answer, she had a feeling she knew just why he had gone silent.
"Fuuta-chan, let's get you something to eat." Tsuna bade gently tugging at his hand to lead him to the kitchen, she needed a distraction for Fuuta for a few minuets. Tsuna set him up with a sandwich and hot chocolate before asking him to wait for her and going over to Xanxus. The teen was amazed by how mature the girl was being about the whole thing, this was the same little one that he had met in Italy crying over her bleeding knees and hands.
"Did his papa die?" Tsuna asked softly while Xanxus nodded, petting her hair gently.
"Sorry brat." Tsuna took a long shaky breath, Xanxus studying her reaction, it was actually worrying by how calm she was, but the orange gold tint to her eyes gave him his answer, she was under the command of her Flames. For now they were keeping her calm about this all.
"Can Fuuta-chan and I stay here tonight?" Tsuna asked softly while Xanxus nodded to her, nudging her back over towards the child while he and Squalo talked quietly.
"Get Levi to up his security, anyone coming after the boy is coming after Tsuna as well, and that cannot be allowed." Squalo noted grabbing out his phone "Get Lussuria to round up clothes for a male brat, three years old according to his father's paperwork."
"We're seriously taking in the Ranking Prince?" Squalo hissed over at Xanxus "Are you insane? That makes us a target for every fucking Mafioso in the world." Xanxus glowered over at Squalo, he knew that, he fucking knew that, but there was no way to take the kid away from Tsuna. The kids father had picked the one person in the world that would take his son in without a word and protect him as part of her family no matter what hell rained down on them as a result.
"Don't you think I know that?" Xanxus growled "But we both know one pout and we'd cave anyway." Squalo smashed his head into a wall, damn his bastard boss but he was right, none of them would be able to say no to Tsuna, the Ranking Prince's father had just ensured the Varia and maybe even Vongola would protect his son.
"Call my father, tell him what's going on." Xanxus growled before freezing, how long had he been thinking of Nono as his father again.
"Boss?" Xanxus snapped himself from his daze and growled over at Squalo.
"Just make the call shark trash." Squalo nodded and fled while Xanxus turned his eyes back to Tsuna and her newest pet. This one was the most troublesome one yet.
"So….Who's going to break the news to Iemitsu that he's a grandfather." Xanxus couldn't stop the grin creeping over his lips at that thought.
"Not yet shark, I want to make sure there's someone filming that shit." Squalo couldn't help his grin at that, he would pay every cent he had to see that video.
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When Xanxus turned up to the Sawada house with Tsuna that morning Nana hadn't even begun to imagine what was going to happen that day. Xanxus stepped into the small Sawada home grumbling with Tsuna not far behind him, but what drew attention most was the small toddler hanging onto Tsuna's hand.
"Oh….who do we have here?" Nana asked bobbing down with a smile, the child fidgeting while clinging to Tsuna.
"Mama, this is Fuuta-chan….he has nowhere to go, is it okay if he stays with us?" Tsuna asked while tugging the small boy to her side "It's okay Fuuta-chan, this is my mama." Tsuna murmured in Italian trying to comfort the nervous child, Fuuta blinking up at Nana with wide eyes at that, this was his mama's mama.
"N-Nonna?" Nana squealed at the cute child while bobbing down to his level.
"Nana." she corrected while Fuuta blinked at her confused.
"Nonna?" Nana giggled and left it, he was adorable so if he wanted to mispronounce her name that was fine.
"Alright little one, Nonna it is." Nana had no idea however that Nonna was grandmother, Tsuna giggled softly to herself while Xanxus held back his laugh and tried very hard not to giggle like Tsuna was at the house wife's approval of being called nonna by a child.
"Welcome to the family Fuuta-chan." Tsuna translated down at the child whose face broke out in a huge smile. He was allowed to stay with his mama and nonna. "Does he speak any Japanese?" Nana asked while Tsuna shook her head.
"I'll start teaching him." Tsuna promised "I can translate for now though." Tsuna tugged Fuuta with her and hugged her mother tight, the tiny child hesitantly following until Nana pulled him tight into her arms as well and hugged the two. "Thank you mama."
Xanxus grabbed out his phone to send confirmation to Levi, he had told them the Ranking Prince was probably going to be stay at the Sawada abode but he wanted confirmation before Levi moved the new security into place. While Xanxus would be more comfortable with the Varia moving into the neighbouring houses and surrounding Tsuna with protection, he also knew that it would bring anyone chasing the Varia literally to Tsuna's doorstep.
The house next to the Sawada's had been bought however for the Varia, Levi and Mammon would move in there, Mammon could keep the Sawada house and Tsuna hidden and Levi would keep an eye on Tsuna's movements, especially when she snuck out of home as she was taking a habit of doing. No longer could he leave her surveillance to the minions of the Varia, the child had learnt how to get around his men, he needed someone with skill, and loyal like Levi on Tsuna duty from now on.
"Nagi-chan~" Nana called out as she stood back up, Tsuna tugging Fuuta with her out of the hall and into the kitchen "Come meet Fuuta-chan." Nagi peeked into the room her eyes landing on the small child.
"N-Nice to meet you." Nagi whispered while Fuuta stared over at her with wide eyes,
"Sorella. Nagi." Tsuna explained to Fuuta the child looking back over at Nagi again, the child shuffling into the room to study this new addition.
"S-Sorella?" Nagi asked softly taking a seat shyly while Tsuna sat down, Fuuta lifting his arms at her until she pulled him into her lap.
"Sister." Xanxus grunted "She told the brat you're his new sister." Nagi blushed cutely at that, while she knew Tsuna had saved her she hadn't ever really thought that Tsuna had taken her in as a sister, she had never imagined Tsuna, the strange strong girl that had saved her from her hell, might think of her as family. Nagi had thought she was a burden on Tsuna and her family, being called sister, well Nagi had no way to explain in words how much that meant to her.
"T-Tsu-Tsu-nee?" Nagi whispered while Tsuna smiled at her. Nagi had been wanting to say that for a long time, but too scared to dare.
"Alright ladies, let's start cooking, we'll give Fuuta-chan a real Sawada welcome!" Nana announced while Tsuna translated down to Fuuta, the boy staring up at Nana with wide eyes "What do you like to eat Fuuta-chan?"
"Hmm...Pasta~" Fuuta announced with a smile.
"Pasta it is~ To the shops my darlings!" Nana announced, all three children jumping to their feet, while Fuuta had no idea what was going on he was enjoying the atmosphere. "Xanxus-kun, are you coming?" the teen could only nod, their security for the Ranking Prince was still being put into place, so he would stay close for now. It was likely that some Mafioso had followed Fuuta and his father here and might still be in the area looking for the tiny child.
"Alright! Let's go my little minions~" Nana giggled herding the children to the front door, " To the shops~" Tsuna giggled tugging Fuuta with her, the child gripping her hand tight and following after her while they headed down to the shops to get things for the Sawada welcome lunch. "Forward march~" the children all followed Nana with a smile, Xanxus grumbling as he brought up the rear, already resigned to be the pack mule again, at least he got the reward of eating the food. No one else in the Varia mansion got to eat Nana's food as much as he did, something he was very proud of.
The kids stayed out of the way while Nana went and did her shopping, they didn't want to get stuck in between mothers and the sales. Xanxus kept guard on them while Nana ran around the shops. So there they were, each of the children carrying one packet of pasta and following after Nana while Xanxus carried the rest of the shopping.
"Alright, you three go play with Xanxus-kun, I'll get lunch ready." Tsuna blinked in surprise going to offer to help but nana shook her head "You too Tsu-chan, go on, I'll be alright, go help Fuuta-chan and Nagi-chan get to know one another."
"Mmm, thank you, Mama." Tsuna tugged Fuuta with her and led both of the children up to her room to talk and play. Tsuna knew that she still had some of the toys from when she was younger under her bed in storage, and some of the books Xanxus had gotten for her to help her learn Japanese better.
Nagi and Fuuta played with blocks and some toy cars while Tsuna wrote the Italian words in the book for Fuuta to start learning. Xanxus couldn't help by smile at her from the doorframe he was leaning on, looks like Tsuna was going to be a hard working mother to Fuuta.
"Mama, come play!" Fuuta tugged at her sleeve, Tsuna smiling down at him while putting the book aside and sitting with Fuuta and Nagi on the floor to maneuver cars through the city of blocks Nagi and Fuuta had made.
"Mama?" Nagi asked while Tsuna smiled over at her friend.
"Fuuta-chan calls me mama. Is it weird?" Nagi shook her head, had she been younger she would think of someone as kind as Tsuna as a mother as well, she wanted to think of her as family but couldn't let go of her guilt at causing trouble for Tsuna.
"Tsu-chan! Nagi-chan, Fuuta-chan~ Lunch time!" Tsuna translated to Fuuta, the child scurrying to his feet and running down the stairs in excitement, Tsuna grabbing Nagi and Xanxus and pulling them down the stairs with her.
"Lunch time~" Xanxus froze feeling a presence outside the door, pushing Tsuna and Nagi towards the kitchen.
"Go eat, I'll be there in a minute." Tsuna pulled Nagi in to the table before peeking back around the corner where Xanxus was at the door. "It's fine Tsuna, go eat. I'll take care of it." Tsuna nodded and slid back in to the table while he moved to answer the door.
"Oh? To what do we owe the honour Yamamoto-san?" Xanxus greeted his eyes flicking down to the small child by Tsuyoshi "And brat."
"I'd like to meet the Sky, and her mother."
"Not her father?" Xanxus asked while Tsuyoshi's eyes narrowed at him,
"We both know he's not here." Xanxus chuckled and waved the man in.
"We're about to start lunch, you're welcome to stay. We're celebrating the addition of the Ranking Prince." Takeshi had no idea what his dad and the teenager were talking about, but if it meant he could have lunch with Tsuna then he was happy. Bouncing in past Xanxus he kicked off his shoes and headed into the table laden under food.
"Ah, Takeshi-kun!"
"Ara, Takeshi-kun is it, a friend of Tsu-chan's is a friend of mine, come join us~" Nana greeted from the kitchen, Tsuyoshi glared over at Xanxus, leaving the topic of his son aside for one moment due to other concerns.
"The Ranking Prince, are you insane? Here? At the house of a civilian?!"
"So you do know she's a civilian." Xanxus noted while Tsuyoshi glared at him darkly.
"If you can call her that. My sources say she doesn't know about the Mafia….but she is the child of a Mafioso and being trained by the Varia, of all people." the man pinned Xanxus with a glare "And now you're dumping the Ranking Prince here? You seem to be trying damn hard to drag that child into your world." Tsuyoshi silenced when Xanxus's fist hit the door frame with a growl.
"I would sooner die than let Tsuna get into our world. However the brat is a Sky, an active Sky, and with Vongola intuition stronger than any seen in over 200 years. I'm doing everything I can to keep her out of that world old man, but that world keeps coming and finding her." Tsuyoshi studied the teenager seriously for a few minutes.
"My son, my only son, is wanting to protect that little girl. Tell me this Varia, is she worth protecting?" Xanxus just smirked at him in response and waved him into the house.
"You're welcome at lunch to make up your mind old man. Misbehave, or swear, and you're out, understood?" Tsuyoshi had to let out a short laugh at that, somehow he didn't think the no swearing rule had anything to do with Xanxus and was actually imposed by the child. The fact that the Varia boss had added it to the rules of the house meant that it was enforced and followed at the whim of a child.
"You know, I suspected….but are you possibly….taken in by her Sky Flame?" Xanxus' glare was all he needed for an answer. The Varia brat waved him in and led him to the dining table where he saw his son bright and happy talking with the little girl with soft brown hair, at the table also was a tiny child, the Ranking Prince he assumed, and a dark haired child with one eye covered.
"Ara, are you Takeshi-kun's father?" Tsuyoshi blinked over at the voice to see a smiling young woman, surely too young to be the mother of Tsuna, and with a smile that reminded him so much of his wife and her eyes, her eyes were just the same. All he could think as he looked at her was that he was meeting an angel.
"Ah….ah…." Tsuyoshi was lost for words as the angel tilted her head at him with a smile.
"Come sit, Yamamoto-san." Tsuyoshi could only move after her and sit in silence as he watched her get plates for the children and get everyone eating, still, he couldn't take his eyes off her.
"Mana…." Nana smiled at him and set down his plate on the table before him, so she had been right, this was Yamamoto Tsuyoshi, the man her runaway sister had told her about in their letters. The family had disowned Mana when she had run away with a man while still in high school. Nana had kept up letters with her twin, but she had never sought her out for fear of the family disowning her as well, something that she regretted now that she knew her younger twin had died.
"I'm Nana, Mana was my little sister. It's an honour to meet you properly, Yamamoto Tsuyoshi-san."
"Nana….Mana spoke of you often." Tsuyoshi murmured smiling at Nana sadly as the woman smiled back "You have her eyes." Nana smiled at him in response.
"We were twins….but I never understood her, it was hard as her big sister not knowing what she was thinking." Tsuyoshi chuckled to himself then his mind turning to the amazing woman he had lost much too soon.
"It's not your fault Nana-san, Mana was a very complex person."
"Mama?" Nana smiled and ruffled Tsuna's hair gently "Do you know Yamamoto-san?"
"Mmm, well, sort of." Nana explained "You remember when I told you about Mana-chan?" Tsuna nodded "It looks like Yamamoto-san was her husband." Tsuna blinked up at her mother with wide eyes, looking over at Tsuyoshi and then to Takeshi before her smile turned sad.
"Oh….So Mana-obasan is gone." Tsuna murmured before slipping out of her chair and tugging at Tsuyoshi's sleeve, the man blinking at her confused while she held her arms out. Confused, the sushi maker picked her up while Tsuna latched onto his neck and held him tight "Tsuna's sorry." Tsuna whispered before letting him go and smiling sadly up at the man "But, everything will be okay." Tsuna noted nodding to herself, her intuition told her that meant that it would, it had never steered her wrong before. Even if it wasn't okay now, it would be okay in the future.
"Dad? Do you know Tsuna?"
"It would seem that she's your cousin." Tsuyoshi chuckled "Remember when your mother talked about her sister?" Takeshi nodded "Apparently that was Nana-san."
"Ehhh? So...Nana-san is….my aunt?" Takeshi asked while Nana giggled and pet him on the head gently.
"Aunt makes me so old." Nana chuckled "Just call me Nana." Takeshi looked hesitant for a moment before smiling and nodding to her a smile breaking out on his face, she did have the same kind eyes.
"Mmm, Nana-san." And so lunch progressed, Tsuyoshi watching his son with Tsuna and the way they interacted, while he now knew that Tsuna was his son's cousin (which explained some of their bond to him) he worried about the Mafia dragging his son in as it had to him….but just seeing Takeshi smiling again was enough.
Takeshi was truly happy, for the first time in a long time, not since before Mana had gotten sick had he seen his son smile to openly to someone. So Tsuyoshi had decided, he would teach his son to protect Tsuna.
"Mama, nonna makes the best pasta!" Fuuta announced to Tsuna, the whole room bar Xanxus freezing.
"M-Mama?" Nana whispered with wide eyes looking at her daughter, she may not understand all the words, but she knew what mama was, Tsuna cleaned off pasta sauce from the three year old with a smile while she kept staring at her daughter "T-Tsu-chan….is Fuuta-chan's Mama?"
All Xanxus could do was take a photo, nothing had ever phased Nana as far as he knew, but she seemed frozen now, staring at Tsuna and the tiny child with wide eyes because the three year old she had just taken in was calling Tsuna his mother.
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Omake Inspired by Nekohana
"When I grow up, I'm going to marry nii-san!" the whole room froze, Xanxus gaping down at Tsuna while Iemitsu actually sobbed aloud.
"Awww, that's so cute~" Nana giggled while Iemitsu snarled and launched himself at Xanxus.
"Fucking bastard!" Xanxus growled grabbing Tsuna and backpedalling to get her out of the path, Iemitsu had lost sight of everything in the room and dived at him, nearly knocking Tsuna down on his quest.
"Squalo." the teen nodded taking Tsuna from Xanxus and moving her to safety while Xanxus drew one of his X guns to block the Flame infused punch coming towards him.
"You're dead Xanxus!"
"I think they'd make an adorable couple~" Massimo giggled while Federico nodded in agreement,
"Would make her part of the family officially."
"Fuck the both of you!" Iemitsu snarled before he was bowled over by a shoe to the face,
"Bad words." Tsuna growled from her place in Squalo's hold, one shoe in her hand and the other at Iemitsu's feet. "No bad words."
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Omake : Inspired by Anonimous (Guest)
Tsuna studied this dangerous teen behind her tears, dangerous this one, but still, she would see if she could get him under her thumb.
"Xanxus-"
"Nii-san." Ah, from that slight widening of his pupils and the ever so tiny hint of red in his cheeks he was going to fall to her charms as well, shifting her eyes over to the silver haired one might take a little more. He seemed the tsundere type, she could work with that too.
Tsuna had her cute act down pat, she had been kicking it up a notch at school, the bullies were easing off as they slowly fell under her spell, but she had a feeling this teen would be a good conquest to have under her belt.
Iemitsu had always held his distance, Tsuna wasn't sure if it was because of some sort of knowledge of her facade, or because he was the same as her, portraying a lie to the world.
So they took her home, Tsuna wasn't even slightly worried about anything nefarious, the grumpy looking dark haired one had been caught hook, line and sinker.
The party that was thrown for them, Xanxus and her, was beautiful, and there were some incredibly powerful people there, she could sense the power they had and worked quickly at getting herself under their skin.
It didn't take much in the end, some smiles here, a giggle there, and the perfect head tilt, Tsuna had perfected that long ago, and used at the right times it counted anywhere from cute to adorable with the right people.
Looks like she now had the Vongola head and the Varia on her side, it would be easy to take over the world from there, she just had to keep up the smiles and she would have them all in her pocket eventually
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It took some time, years in fact, but Tsuna had finally done it, everyone bowed before her smile. Tsuna had taken over every government with a smile and a cute head tilt, it had taken time, but it was possible because of her huge eyes and cute act. Finally they all belonged to her.
The few that could stand before her act and get away with it had been dealt with by the Varia, it was handy having the world's best assassin group in her pocket.
"Hmm, didn't you grow up to be a sensation." Tsuna blinked over at Reborn, tilting her head at him while he glared back.
"Don't try it, it won't work on me, Tsuna." her head tilted a few degrees more while the Arcobaleno bit at his bottom lip "It definitely won't work." and another two degrees "Damnit!" Reborn hissed "How the hell can you be that cute?!"
"Reborn-nii?" Reborn hated being manipulated, but when it was Tsuna, it was hard not to. While he knew that logically he should shoot her to stop her having control over the entire world….when faced with that head tilt, and the tears in her eyes….
"Damnit…" He had lost, to a brat, Reborn had lost.
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Working on Cielo Perduto, trying to at least, Turning Point is addictive to write, it comes so much easier than anything, probably because the fluff is addictive.
I've checked through twice, but as always I'm sure there are mistakes, I can only do so much. When you check your own it's harder to pick up things because you know where you were going/planning with things and can end up skipping small things.
Doing some re-reading while I work on things between bouts of typing and jumping from story to story, so there should be something out soon for CP. Been a bit manic lately so have been doing a lot of story flicking, hopefully should get some solid time on something soon to have more out.
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