Turning Point
Author : 27x18
Warnings : Some language~ Much fluff~
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Nana got out of the room and closed herself into another one, Tsuna stood at the door for a few moments before moving down the hallway and to another door, knocking at the door she blinked up at Lussuria with a sad smile, reaching up she took Lussuria's hand and tugged him with her to the room her mother was in.
"Can you take care of mama Luss-nee?" Lussuria ruffled Tsuna's hair before knocking at the door of the room and heading in. Tsuna frowned in thought looking at the door for a few more seconds, she wanted to get more people to help, but Nana didn't like it when Tsuna saw her sad, every time her mother had been sad she would hide it, and Tsuna knew she got even more upset if Tsuna realised something was wrong. Tsuna didn't want to add to her mother's upset….but she really wanted to do more to comfort her mother. While she didn't understand absolutely everything that happened in the other room she knew enough of it to know that Iemitsu had done something wrong and lied to her mother.
Tsuna poked her head back in the other room, Iemitsu was sitting in his chair still completely silent and staring at the floor, Tsuna flicked her eyes around to the others in the room, all of them talking over different things in Italian, Japanese and other languages she didn't understand. Tsuna slid in and tugged at Xanxus' sleeve
The room fell silent when Xanxus looked down at Tsuna, the girl lifting her arms to him, Xanxus picking her up as she leant in to whisper to him, she was getting really nervous with everyone looking at her, especially people she didn't know.
"Can you call Tsuyoshi-san?" Tsuna whispered "I think he and Luss-nee will help mama." Xanxus wasn't going to question her intuition, it had never steered them wrong before.
"Okay brat." Xanxus assured as he pulled out his mobile, everyone watching as Tsuna flicked her eyes around at everyone, Reborn sent her a little wave that Tsuna shyly returned with a small smile.
"Quite cute." Fon chuckled over to Reborn "And her Flames…."
"Strong, and pure." Reborn agreed studying the small child in Xanxus' arms "Remind you of anyone?" Fon chuckled looking over at the small girl.
"From both her actions and her Flame, yes~ She's going to be one person you don't want to piss off later in life."
"She'll protect her friends with her life." Reborn added "From what I hear she only fights if it's for her family." Fon studied the small girl for a few more minutes.
"Not famiglia?" Reborn had to chuckle at that.
"Oh believe me Fon, I've tried, Nono refuses to bring her into the familglia, however she does have quite a few Guardians. Xanxus was getting precious about that so Timoteo's renamed them to make it easier on the brat." Reborn chuckled looking over at Tsuna still. "Regardless of what they call them, the kid has nearly two sets of Guardians."
"She's missing some?"
"Lightning." Reborn noted "Kid's got herself a Cloud though. They're normally the most difficult." the hitman added while Fon chuckled softly to himself from behind his red sleeve.
"I know, my dearest nephew seems to be most taken with the small animal. My brother in law is so very upset." Fon noted "Apparently he was hoping his son would take after him and go into law enforcement, not take after my lovely sister and get involved with the Triad." Fon studied the small girl still in Xanxus' hold "Though with that Flame, I'm not surprised he fell to the temptation of the Mafia." Fon chucked "I haven't felt a Sky Flame like this since Luce."
"Exactly, and this is at seven...can you imagine her as an adult?" they both paused at that, exchanging a glance "Scary I know."
"How long do you think Nono can keep her out of the Mafia world?" Reborn studied the small girl being led out of the room.
"Not as long as he would like."
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Xanxus carried Tsuna out of the room his phone still at his ear, he headed for what was known in the mansion as the kids play room, it was a room set up for them to run amok in, enough space for Ken to bounce around and enough entertainment to stop Mukurou from hitting him.
Xanxus set her down, sending a glare at Belphegor, the child was waiting near one of the doors to kidnap Tsuna "She stays here brat." Xanxus growled "She needs to be easy to find when her mother comes looking. You want to play with the brat, you play in here." Belphegor growled in response and sat down with a huff, Tsuna trotting over to Bel and taking him over to the console, Belphegor hadn't been able to spend much time with her recently, Tsuna had so many kids around now it was getting difficult for them all to share her.
Fuuta was being watched by Chikusa, as soon as Tsuna sat down Fuuta headed over to her to sit in her lap while she played with the controller with Belphegor.
Now that he wasn't on kid duty Chikusa trotted out, Hayato coming running moments later.
"Barcode said….Tsuna-sama!" Belphegor hissed over at Hayato, the kid ignoring the blond completely and pouncing on Tsuna. "Tsuna-sama, you're here~" Tsuna had to giggle, she could hear the pat of the tail that Mukurou kept on Hayato most of the time.
"Get off her commoner." Belphegor hissed while glaring over at Mukurou for the addition of the cat ears and tail he knew had turned up thanks to one annoying illusionist bastard "The prince demands you get off his principessa." Belphegor tried to skewer Hayato, the newest of the Varia's growing brood. Also the one child that to his delight was still Hayato-kun, and not -nii.
"It's okay Bel-nii." Tsuna assured "Hayato-kun, come sit." the silverette moved to sit beside Tsuna, his tail still patting at the ground while he gave Tsuna advice on the game, oblivious to the glare coming from Belphegor. "Ah….where is Nagi-chan?"
"Mammon." Chikusa noted softly as he returned at a more docile pace than the energetic Storm. Mukurou kept himself amused by keeping the animal ears going. He had yet to decide on what sort of ears to give Tsuna, Chikusa he had made a cat, but Chikusa always ignored it and didn't react, it was much more fun when he did it to the more volatile of the group.
Belphegor and Hayato especially, the two fought constantly about Tsuna, it really was cats vs dogs with them. Hence why Mukurou enjoyed pushing their buttons so much, they made it well worth his time and energy with hours of entertainment.
"Ne...mama." Tsuna looked down at Fuuta the child blinking up at her "Why is Hayato-nii, Hayato-kun?" Hayato froze peeking over at Tsuna, the girl continuing to play without a twitch.
"Not until he stops calling me Tsuna-sama." Tsuna explained "It means...hmm….master?" Tsuna looked at Belphegor whom nodded, close enough "I don't want to be his master, I want to be his friend." Tsuna finished before handing the controller to the three year old "Your turn Fuuta-chan~" she helped him hold the controller while talking the child through buttons. Belphegor was glaring at Fuuta but hadn't done anything with Tsuna there, letting the brat have his turn. This console wasn't his so he had no reason to get angry, though it still annoyed the hell out of him that yet another little shit was taking Tsuna's attention.
"Hayato-nii, why don't you want to be Hayato-nii?" the silver haired child sat in silence for a few moments before reaching over to ruffle the hair of the boy.
"Tsuna-sama….Tsuna-sama has lots of brothers, I want to protect Tsuna-sama." Fuuta looked confused as he lowered the controller, Belphegor grumbling softly about the kid ruining the game, but Fuuta's attention was on Hayato.
"Mama's brother can't protect her?" Hayato went silent blinking at Fuuta with large green eyes "Family is the best protection." Fuuta reminded "Papa protected me, mama protects me."
"Family always takes care of family." Tsuna whispered looking at Hayato with a sad smile "Hayato-nii." Hayato's tail went nuts, Mukurou was good at picking the tail/ear moods that was for sure.
"T-T-T." Hayato stuttered over her name while he blushed and looked down "Tsu...Tsu-hime." that was the best she was going to get at the moment, at least he wasn't calling her Tsuna-sama anymore. Smiling brightly at Hayato, Tsuna hugged Fuuta tight before reaching out and pulling Hayato into a quick hug.
"Now we're all family!" Hayato gave her a look, Tsuna didn't understand how it was possible but he looked even more of a puppy then he had been before.
"Yes! Tsu-hime!" Tsuna was amazed at the energy Hayato showed, Tsuna had only really met Belphegor as a Storm before, but there was one thing she saw about Belphegor and Hayato, other than their gorgeous red Flames, they both were energetic and very moody.
"Mama, I'm hungry." Tsuna smiled down at Fuuta and stood, picking him up and resting him on her hip while she looked around the room at the children, spotting one of the maids Tsuna went over to order some food for them.
"Don't get cocky brat." Belphegor hissed over at Hayato "Just because you're now -nii, don't forget, the principessa was ours first."
"Tsuna~" Tsuna squeaked when she was tackled by Ken "Order steak! All of it!" Tsuna giggled while Hayato growled at Ken while trying to pry him off Tsuna.
"Stop touching Tsu-hime!"
"Stop touching her yourself puppy!" Ken growled as the two tackled one another and began a scuffle, Fuuta blinking at them with wide eyes, Mukurou sighing heavily as he waved Chikusa in, the blue haired child heading in to pull them apart.
"Mama….a-are they ok?" Tsuna blinked over at the two growling at one another with a Chikusa cat holding the dog Ken by his shirt while yoyo strings wrapped around the Hayato puppy.
"Mmm, they're training to be strong." Tsuna explained "Nii-san says that play fighting is good practice." Mukurou snorted in amusement at that, Tsuna thought that he and Kyoya fighting was play fighting too even though they were generally trying to kill one another.
"Order all the steak!" Ken called after the maid as she went to get the food for the children "None for Xanxus!" the maid giggled as she headed off, however the staff would never be that cruel, they didn't want a grumpy Xanxus around. Only Tsuna could calm down the grumpy Varia boss when there was no steak, they made a point of keeping as much in stock as possible for whatever Xanxus ordered, or having Tsuna on standby if anything ever happened and there was no steak.
"You wouldn't be able to eat that much." Chikusa reminded letting go of Ken, Belphegor sneaking up behind Tsuna and dragging her back to the console, Fuuta looked after her for a second startled before moving after her and sitting back in her lap while Tsuna played games with Belphegor.
Hayato stayed close behind Tsuna his tail wagging while he watched her like a hawk in case she needed anything. Ken of course glaring over at Hayato and doing the same, if Tsuna wanted anything he'd get it before the stupid puppy.
"How troublesome." Chikusa sighed as he looked over at Mukurou "She's collecting more and more."
"We keep her away from other brats then." Mukurou shrugged "Talk to birdy about it, he won't talk to me. Last I saw he was prowling around outside" Mukurou added while Chikusa nodded and slid out of the room to seek out Kyoya.
"You really think you'll be able to keep her away from more kids?" Mukurou tossed a glare over at Reborn.
"This is the kids room, Arcobaleno can fuck-ow!" Mukurou glared at Tsuna for a moment, she hadn't even turned around, just thrown a controller at him "Can buzz off."
"We're just innocent little children." Fon promised with a bright smile "We're just wanting to play in the kids room."
"You're all creepy little bast-" A shoe this time "Buggers pretending to be children." Mukurou growled at them before tossing the shoe back, Hayato catching it and handing it to Tsuna.
"We're still just kids~" Fon giggled as he bounced over to Tsuna "Tsu-hime right? I'm Fon~" Tsuna blinked at the child with a shy smile.
"Reborn-san's friend?"
"Yes...friend." Fon assured as he settled himself down "It's a pleasure to meet you Tsu-hime. You have quite the collection of Guardians….uh, Paladins I mean, I'm sorry."
"Guardians? Paladins? You mean my family?" Fon had to smile at that, Tsuna didn't seem familiar with either terminology, but she had her own it would seem.
"Famiglia." Fon agreed while Tsuna tilted her head at him in confusion, isn't that what she had already said? "You care about your famiglia a lot, don't you?" Tsuna nodded to him with a smile, looking down at Fuuta and hugging him.
"Mmm." Tsuna pressed a kiss into Fuuta's hair before looking around at her family "I was alone before nii-san, then nii-san brought me my family, Mukurou-nii, Chikusa-nii and Ken-nii, and that was only the beginning." Tsuna noted hugging Fuuta tight "Since I met nii-san everything has been better, I have family, and friends….I just hope mama feels better soon."
"Nana-san? What happened to Nana-san?" Mukurou asked while Tsuna looked over to him "Tsuna?"
"Mama had a fight with papa….don't tell mama, but I heard her crying."
"Don't tell Nana-san that you heard her crying?" Reborn asked while Tsuna nodded keeping a tight hug on Fuuta.
"Mama doesn't want me to know she cries." Tsuna explained "It makes her sadder." Mukurou ruffled her hair gently standing by her side, this was the first he had heard of this, seems like more was going on in the mansion then he knew, he didn't like not knowing.
"You take care of everyone don't you Tsuna." Reborn noted with a smile, the child nodding at him brightly.
"Family is everything."
"Tsuna!" Tsuna looked over at the door as she was tackled by another child, Tsuna squeaked as Takeshi hugged her tight.
"Take-nii!"
"Pops brought me here, playtime~"
"Takeshi!" Ken yelled throwing a ball over at the child "You owe me a match!" Takeshi hugged her once more before running off after Ken, Tsuna giggling while she righted herself and watched after him as puppy ears appeared, would seem Mukurou had labelled another one of them a puppy.
"Does he often give them animal ears?" Fon asked while chuckling behind his red sleeve.
"Mmm, Mukurou-nii gives all of them different ears and tails."
"What ears do you get?" Reborn asked settling down with her, Fon on one side and Reborn on the other, Tsuna looked from one to the other.
"He doesn't put them on me." Tsuna mumbled hugging Fuuta tight and pressing her face in his hair "Mukurou-nii never gives them to me."
"Only because I don't know what ears suit you best." Mukurou called over "Belphegor is clearly a cat."
"Screw you illusion brat." Mukurou ignored the hissing Belphegor.
"Hayato, puppy, Ken, clearly a dog, the baby brat, dog as well." Mukurou kept explaining while Fuuta looked confused ears and tail popping up on him as well. "Tsuna….hard to place, doesn't fit puppy, or cat….she's more than a simple pet."
"What about a lion?" Reborn mused "Or tiger~ But she does need to be a pack animal."
"Kyoya-nii calls them my pack, what does it mean?" Tsuna asked while Fon chuckled at her, so innocent and young, he did miss seeing such purity. The strength and purity of her Flames was amazing, something he hadn't seen since Luce left them.
"Pack, means family." Reborn explained "It means you all come from the same famiglia."
"Oh….so we are a pack then." Tsuna mused cuddling Fuuta "Fuuta's my little animal." Fon had to laugh at that.
"Little animal hmm?" Fon had to glance over at Reborn "Wonder where she picked that up."
There was a nervous knock at the door before Dino poked his head in "R-Reborn?" a swift kick to the face silenced the blond.
"Bosses don't stutter!"
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"Take Iemitsu out of my sight, somewhere he can think over his actions." Timoteo ordered while Bouche tugged Iemitsu up and took him off to a room, Timoteo sighing heavily after the exit of Xanxus and Tsuna, and not long after Iemitsu was removed and all Timoteo could do was sigh heavily. "How is Tsuna and Nana?" Timoteo asked when Xanxus returned to the room.
"Luss is with Nana-san, Tsuna asked I call in someone else as well, intuition most likely."
"Kid definately has that in spades." Reborn mused looking over at Timoteo "I'm amazed she doesn't know about the Mafia from that alone."
"Kid's intuition is scary, she knows everything about us with a simple look, but when it comes to the Mafia, thankfully she takes after Nana and is entirely oblivious. Not sure how much she knows but she doesn't seem to see that." Xanxus grumbled "The way we talk to one another tells her everything she needs to know about each of us, fuck, the brat even got me guns for my birthday, but she thinks this is all normal now."
"On that note, we're going to keep an eye on her." Reborn noted as he headed for the door "Fon?" the dark haired Arcobaleno followed him out of the room, Xanxus looking back over at his father.
"Nana's locked in a room." Xanxus noted after the Arcobaleno "Brats in the open kids room." Xanxus slid into a chair "Why the fuck didn't you warn me about this shit? I could have prepared the brat."
"Nana needed to know." Xanxus glared over at his father angrily.
"You could have warned me you bastard, they didn't have to find out this way, in front of a group of people neither of them fucking knew!"
"That's why we brought support for them both." Timoteo explained while Xanxus growled over at his father and brothers.
"Support? A tonne of little shits that they don't know you mean, the Arcobaleno? Old man, why the fuck would you bring them here as 'support'."
"I thought that Fon and Reborn might take some of the pressure off you and take over the training temporarily while Nana and Tsuna deal with things." Timoteo explained "I was going to have Massimo stay as well." that copped him another glare from Xanxus "He's good with kids Xanxus, gives you more time to spend with Tsuna." Xanxus really hated being manipulated, he allowed it from Tsuna because 99.99% of the time she had no idea she was doing it, from his father however….he hated it.
"So unfair, Massimo gets to stay while I have to work." Federico sniffled while his brother cheered to himself.
"I get to take a break~" Massimo cheered while Federico pouted over at his father "And you have to work~"
"Not doing his paperwork." Federico muttered to Timoteo "I've got enough as it is."
"Don't worry, the paperwork he can do in the evening after the kids have gone to bed, Massimo won't be adding to our piles of papery hell."
"Damnit." Massimo grumbled huffing over at his family "So not fair. If I'm babysitting I shouldn't have to do my paperwork." Massimo whined as Xanxus threw a bottle of wine at his brother which Massimo just caught with a cheeky smile and took a swig from.
"I have to do mine, so you sure as shit-" Xanxus couldn't help but glance around for attacks coming from Tsuna out of habit. "Have to." Massimo and Federico didn't miss his actions, giggling to one another about it.
"I guess I'll have to start being careful with swearing." Massimo mused before looking over at the eight year old trying to disappear into the floor. "Basil right?" he looked up startled and nodded over at Massimo "How about you head into the kids room and get to know your sister a bit huh?" Basil flicked his eyes around while chewing at his bottom lip.
"M-Master said...not to." Basil mumbled "I-I'm not allowed to speak to Sawada-dono."
"That asshole has you calling him master?" Xanxus growled while the kid flinched back from the tall teenager "Squalo, take him to the kids room." Squalo nodded as he nudged the eight year old towards the door "Get to know your sister you little shit."
Dino scurried after Squalo to head into the kids room and retrieve Reborn, the baby had a special talent for trying to recruit famiglia for people, if he started pushing the famiglia recruitment drive with Tsuna he was going to have Nono coming after him for blood.
"R-Reborn." Dino called before squeaking as a small foot met his face and slamming him into the ground.
"Bosses don't stutter!" Squalo nudged Basil in while casting his eyes around at the surrounding brat.
"You are not bringing another one in are you?" Mukurou groaned while Squalo pushed Basil forwards again.
"Brats, Basil, Basil, brats….Go talk, or play or whatever it is you brats do." Tsuna set Fuuta on his feet before heading over to Basil. "You understand who the brat is?" Tsuna nodded to Squalo. He had a different mother, but the same father.
"Mmm, like nii-san and his brothers." Tsuna replied, Squalo ruffling her hair.
"Exactly, you brats, play nice." Tsuna smiled at Basil while the child hesitantly smiled at her "All of you, play nice."
"So what is this new one?" Mukurou sighed "Another family member? Or you adopting another son?" Basil flicked his eyes from Tsuna to Mukurou unable to stop himself from speaking.
"Son? S-Sawada-dono has a s-son?!"
"Fuuta-chan." Tsuna explained as the small child moved over to her and grabbed her hand "Fuuta-chan calls me mama. Everyone….papa….Iemitsu said this is my brother, with a different mama." now that got their attention, so not only had Iemitsu made Nana cry, he had had a son no one had heard about, and to top it all off seems that he was no longer papa to Tsuna.
"So we got another friend huh? Hi Basil, I'm Takeshi, you like baseball?" Basil fumbled for words while glancing around at the room of children.
"U-uh…." Tsuna started the introductions while Basil collected himself.
"So you speak Japanese, that's awesome." Takeshi grinned "Fuuta-chan is trying to learn, Tsuna's a great mom."
"Master taught me Japanese."
"Master? Like….Hayato-nii thought mama was?" Fuuta asked while Tsuna shrugged looking over at Basil.
"Basil-nii?" Blue eyes locked onto Tsuna while heat jumped to his cheeks "Do you like to play racing car games?"
"...Yes?" Basil whispered as Tsuna tugged her newest pet over to the console while Reborn chuckled over at them.
"That's what...three Rain's she has now?"
"Haha, don't jump to any conclusions now, he's only just arrived." Fon reminded while Reborn rolled his dark eyes over at his longtime friend. "Though...He does seem to be a puppy already." Fon noted as the ears and tail appeared, courtesy of Mukurou of course.
"I've decided." Mukurou announced "Lion, Tsuna is the Lion." and so the ears and tail appeared while Mukurou grinned after her "Enjoy your new ears and tail~"
"Yay, I get ears and a tail now!" Tsuna cheered while chasing her new tail in circles trying to catch it "Mukurou-nii is the best."
"You know, chasing her tail like that, she might be a dog after all." Reborn mumbled while shaking his head at her, she had more power than any child had, powerful and dangerous masters and powers of the underworld all wrapped around her finger...and here she was chasing her tail.
"...Well, she certainly seems amusing." Fon mused "I might stick around for a while."
"Like hell you will bast-." Squalo growled over at Tsuna when a bottle of water hit him "The Varia take care of their own, the brat doesn't need outside help. You can both fuc-" Squalo hissed over at Tsuna when another controller hit his face "Leave. VOI! Brat stopping throwing shi-" another controller "things….where the hell did you get so many controllers?!"
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Tsuna stopped chasing her tail for now and instead tugged Basil over and pushing him to sit with a smile "Have you played this before?" Basil shook his head in silence while glancing around at everyone, well aware of them all watching him.
Basil hadn't dealt with kids his own age before, he was so busy training with Iemitsu in CEDEF he had never gone to a school or played games. CEDEF had provided education in house for him, this was all new "Basil-nii….you're like Mukurou-nii and his two." Tsuna mused tilting her head at him while Basil glanced over at the taller child with dark hair and different coloured eyes. "They didn't know how to play either.
"It's okay, we'll teach you." Tsuna shoved the controller in his hands and began explaining the buttons, Belphegor glancing over at the new kid.
"Think of it as a simulator, and learn it fast, you would do well to try entertain the prince."
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"Like hell you will bast-" Basil watched with wide eyes as the water bottle near Tsuna disappeared, turning to blink as it met Squalo's face "The Varia take care of their own, the brat doesn't need outside help. You can both fuc-" A game controller went flying towards Squalo this time "Leave. VOI! Brat stopping throwing shi-" another controller "things….where the hell did you get so many controllers?!"
"Nii-san bought lots because Bel-nii kept breaking them." Tsuna explained while Fuuta took the offered controller from the child. "Ken-nii has broken some too." Tsuna mused "I saw Mukurou-nii break one once...Chikusa-nii never has."
"Mammon charges a penalty for breaking them." Chikusa explained "It's too troublesome."
"Oh...is that why she gave me a bill?" Ken questions before he snickered over at Belphegor "You must have to pay her a tonne~"
"Unlike you brats I bring money in, not just suck it out." Belphegor hissed while Chikusa lifted the camera up in silence.
"Chikusa-nii is right, Mammon pays him well for pictures." Tsuna translated while Basil blinked at her in confusion.
"H-He didn't say anything." Basil stuttered out hesitantly while Tsuna sent him a smile.
"Chikusa talks without talking." Tsuna explained "He doesn't talk much, so you have to learn Chikusa-speak. It's its own language, though it's easier to learn than Italian."
"You've learnt Italian fine brat." Squalo grumbled "It's English you're fumbling around with now." Fon padded over to Tsuna and sat down to study her interactions with Basil, she had met him an entire hour ago at most and was already treating him as family.
The kid seemed confused as to how to react to Tsuna, he was fighting her Sky Flames hand over fist in an attempt to follow the orders of his father. Fon could tell though, it was a futile battle, the boy wasn't experienced enough in Flames to be able to resist a Sky like Tsuna. The latent attraction of her Flames was nothing to sniff at, it was no surprise that Basil had already lost to her.
"So far the Tsuna-complex has a 100% fatality rate." Reborn noted with a chuckle "Not sure whether to be impressed or terrified."
"They all show great potential too for their age." Fon added "Regardless of her ever joining our world, she will be a force of nature come a few years."
"Please, that brat will be a force of f….of….a nuclear blast, scratch that a f….a black hole or some shit-"one shoe to the face "Damnit Tsuna!" Squalo snapped while huffing, he had tried so hard not to swear, he had stopped himself twice, but still in the end he had taken a shoe to his face.
"How does your ego hold up with the constant battery from a seven year old?" Reborn purred while Squalo glared over at him.
"It's Tsuna, so it's exempted." Squalo shrugged "Anyone else would be dead, this kid can stop Xanxus from swearing, and even drinking when she asks it, Tsuna and only Tsuna can do that." Squalo smiled down at the small child teaching yet another child of the Mafia how to be a kid. "She could ask Xanxus to bark like a dog in the middle of a Vongola Alliance meeting and he would do it, there is one exemption to all the Varia's rules, Tsuna trumps all orders."
"Alright little ones, food~" The kids all looked over at the maid as she pushed the cart into the room, most of the kids jumping on it like rabid dogs, Tsuna sighed with a smile over at them.
"Tsu-hime~" Hayato ran back to her with a plate "Steak, with vegetables." Hayato set it down his tail wagging "Do you...do you like it?" Tsuna quickly took a bite.
"It's good, Hayato-nii, can you get Fuuta-chan something too?" Hayato was a blur as he headed for the maid and more food, returning in record time while Fuuta smiled up at him.
"Thank you, Hayato-nii." at least with most of these kids having been natural Italians it meant Fuuta had plenty of people he could talk to while Tsuna taught him Japanese, though the kid was learning in leaps and bounds. Takeshi was going to start learning Italian as soon as Lussuria had some more time, but the poor man was already being worked overtime for training and teaching an ever growing group of children.
"Nagi-nee!" Tsuna followed Fuuta's look over at the door before smiling over at the small girl being ushered in by Mammon.
"Nagi-chan, how was your lesson?" Nagi headed for Tsuna with some dinner to sit and talk with Tsuna, the girl freezing when she saw a stranger sitting near Tsuna.
"T-T-Tsu-nee…"
"Ah, this is Basil-nii." Tsuna explained "He might be staying with mama and us for a while. Mama will decide that when she's feeling better."
"S-Something happened to Nana-san?" Tsuna began to explain to the small girl while they are dinner.
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Lussuria sat next to Nana hugging her tight while the young housewife cried into his shirt, he was a tad annoyed that he hadn't been around for the delivery of the news, who else would be better support for Nana, next time he'd have a chat with Xanxus about making sure the proper support was there for Nana.
From what he had gathered from Nana's sobbing was that Iemitsu was a dick, while he had always know that the CEDEF commander was a douchebag, apparently he had reached a new level of asshole upset Nana.
Something that Iemitsu would soon discover was one of the few things that would piss off Tsuna, the normally placid little girl wasn't going to let someone mess with her mother. Lussuria had to admit she had seen Tsuna annoyed once before, but this...well he might very well see her furious after this. While it would be interesting to see just how strong Tsuna was when she ignored all limitations, Lussuria had to admit the thought also scared him.
A knock at the door drew his attention while Tsuyoshi stepped into the room with a sad smile, heading over to help comfort Nana, Nana tossed the man a sad smile while Tsuyoshi ruffled her hair gently and sat down to be her support along with Lussuria.
Once Nana had calmed down the housewife smiled to the two men "Thank you, I'm alright now-" Nana blinked at Tsuyoshi startled when he flicked her forehead "T-Tsuyoshi-san?"
"In the words of your daughter, don't smile if you don't want to." Nana had to giggle at that, a much more natural smile tugging at her lips. That did sound like her daughter.
"So, what exactly would you like to do now Nana-chan~" Lussuria asked "We can egg Iemitsu, oh, or punch him in the balls like Tsuna~"
"Eh?" Tsuyoshi blinked down at Nana "Tsuna-chan punched him?!"
"Yup, one punch to the nuts." Nana giggled, the look on Iemitsu's face had actually been satisfying. "I've never seen Tsuna mad before~ It was cute."
"Ne, Nana-chan~ Do you know what first made Tsu-chan want to get better at school and learn to fight?" Nana blinked over at Lussuria before frowning in thought.
"Because of the bullies wasn't it?" Lussuria chuckled shaking his head.
"No, Tsu-chan wanted to get stronger so she could protect you." Nana's eyes welled with tears before she sniffled with a huge smile.
"That's my Tsu-chan." Nana took the offered tissue and wiped her tears away. "I'll be one minute." Nana bade stepping into the bathroom to splash some cold water on her face. "Alright." Nana announced with a smile "Let's go join Tsu-chan~"
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Tsuna was out the door well before Nana reached the kid's room, no one saw anything the kid moved so fast.
"...Wao." Fon noted "She's fast."
"That means a lot coming from you." Reborn chuckled over at his long time friend, also known as the Fastest Arcobaleno.
"Tsu-chan~" a giggle came from the doorway, Nana carrying Tsuna in her arms back into the room while Tsuna hugged Nana tight "Have you all eaten?" Mukurou studied her carefully for a few moments before two ears popped up on her head. Tsuyoshi blinked startled taking a step back when a lion tail began flicking behind Nana.
"Mama gets a tail too~" Tsuna giggled as Nana set her down to touch the soft ears before giggling and chasing her tail in circles.
Reborn and Fon shared a look before breaking down in laughter at the sight while Tsuyoshi reached up and blinked to find dog ears on his head "Let me guess, an illusionist." Tsuyoshi sighed throwing a frown over at Mukurou, the child shrugged in response.
"Tsuna likes the ears." Mukurou reasoned "Want them gone, take it up with her." In other words that was a no.
"Alright little ones, we're going to stay in the mansion this evening, campout in the lounge room~" Nana annouced once she had caught her tail, Ken whooped and disappeared out the door to get his pillow and blanket.
"A-are we going to have a sleepover?" Nagi asked while Tsuna nodded with a grin, Mukurou looking back and forth between the two.
"Sleepover? Like the ones you girls have?" Mukurou asked "The ones that Xanxus always gets precious about?" Chikusa sighed heavily looking over at Mukurou, he had Mammon's 'I'm making a tonne of money' look to his eyes.
"How troublesome." Chikusa sighed as he headed over to one of the maids, they would get the bedding together for the camp out, from what Tsuna had told him they were going to throw blankets and pillows in the middle of the room and all talk and watch movies.
"Is nii-san going to come?" Nana pet Tsuna's hair gently.
"If he wants to." Tsuna grinned up at her mother before turning back to her friends and dragging all of them into the growing pile of blankets and pillows. Tsuna darted out to hunt down Xanxus while the maids got everything together for them to watch a movie, setting up the projectors for the kids to watch movies.
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"Nii-san~" Xanxus caught the flying brat as Tsuna bounced into his arms, tossing a glare over at his giggling brothers "Mama said we could have a sleepover in the kid's room, do you want to come?" the two brothers squealed with their father while watching Tsuna and Xanxus. It was always cuter in person.
"Can I come cutie~?" Massimo giggled while Xanxus tossed his brother a glare.
"No way in hell pedo." Massimo pouted over at Xanxus, bouncing up to Tsuna and taking her hand, bowing to her he kissed the back of her hand.
"Is it alright by you principessa?" Xanxus glared at his brother, he knew exactly what he was doing, once again he was being manipulated by his family through Tsuna, he really needed to teach her to say no.
"O-Ok, but only for the movie Massimo-nii." Tsuna agreed looking up at Xanxus, she knew he wasn't happy with Massimo being there, Tsuna didn't want to say no to Massimo, but she wasn't going to say yes because it would make Xanxus uncomfortable.
"So cute~" Federico and Massimo giggled bouncing their hands clasped together. "What movie are we watching?" Massimo asked dragging Tsuna and Xanxus behind him on the way to the kids room "I demand a musical~" Xanxus could have slapped his brother had his arms not been occupied carrying Tsuna.
"Kill me now." Xanxus grumbled being tugged into the room, Tsuna bouncing out of his arms and heading for the pile of blankets and diving in with a giggle. Xanxus cocked one eyebrow at her while the kids all snuggled into the blankets chattering about movie options.
"So this is a sleepover?" Massimo mused watching the moving pile of kids and bedding "Yay~" Xanxus sighed heavily and threw himself in his big chair and glowered at the pile of kids. "Let's pick a movie with lots of singing~" Massimo giggled as a shoe went flying past his head from Xanxus "You like the ones with singing don't you Tsu-chan~"
"Singing it is~ How about 'The Sound of Music'~" Nana giggled, Tsuna nodding in agreement while Xanxus resigned himself to a singing hell for the next few hours. Waving a maid over he got them to bring her something to drink, he wasn't going to be able to sit through this without a drink or two.
"Do I have to be here?" Squalo grumbled while Xanxus waved him out, while he didn't want to be the only one left in this hell, having Squalo around bitching about it for the next few hours was going to lead him to killing the swordmaster.
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Mukurou glared over at Nagi as they both stood in the training room, Mammon had ordered them both here, normally they trained with her seperately, but Mammon was getting frustrated with having to do everything twice and taking all this time when Nono was only paying her for the one training session. So, from now on the brats had to train together so she could spend the extra time making and counting money.
"From now on you brats train together." Mammon tossed Mukurou a glare when the child opened his mouth "Don't start with me brat." Mukurou fell silent "You two are going to get along or I'll be speaking with Tsuna." Mukurou silenced at that "You two train together as of today, no bitching, no whining, get along or I'll tell Tsuna that you have both been fighting."
Mukurou's hands were tied, he didn't want Tsuna thinking he was causing problems with Nagi, but the girl annoyed him, she had grown up outside of what he considered hell, her parents, he had heard, weren't the best, but it was still nothing like Estraneo surely. "Alright brats, let's get this done."
Nagi peeked over at Mukurou, the child sending her a glare before ignoring her, Nagi sighed quietly and tried her best to make nice.
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Nana stretched with a yawn, looking around at the collection of children all in various states of sleep or play after the sleepover that had very little sleep involved.
There had been talking, watching movies, throwing of popcorn and other treats and throwing of pillows, but sometime in the early hours of the morning Nana had finally dozed off, a check of the time let her know it was nearly lunch.
"Mama, morning." Nana smiled and hugged her daughter when the small child tackled her neck and clung on "You had a big sleep in." Nana nodded cuddling Tsuna tight.
"Yep, mama feels much better today." Nana promised "Where's Nagi-chan?"
"Training with Mukurou-nii and Mammon-nee, Mammon-nee said they'd be done before lunch." Tsuna explained as Fuuta pounced into Nana's lap as well for a hug.
"Nonna happy now?" Tsuna translated while Nana smiled brightly hugging Fuuta tight.
"Mmm, it's okay now." Nana promised, setting the two down Nana stood, her brown eyes flicking over at Basil, the child was standing alone watching everyone in the room, his eyes flicking to Tsuna and herself often. Nana headed over to him, stopping in front of him while he blinked up at her shaking, Nana studied him for a few moments before she knelt down and pulled him into a hug.
"I'm not sure if you can understand me. I'm not angry at you, just at Iemitsu, I'm sorry you had to see us fighting." Basil blinked at her with wide eyes as Nana pulled back.
"I-I understand Japanese Nana-dono." Nana studied the shaking boy, he was starting to calm a bit though.
"Basil-kun, right?" Basil nodded quietly while Tsuna hugged her new brother.
"Will Basil-nii be staying with us?" Tsuna asked while Nana smiled softly at her daughter, looking at the other child who looked nervous as to the answer.
"What about your mother Basil-kun?" Basil fumbled for words as he looked from Tsuna to Nana and back again, he had been ordered by Iemitsu not to go near Nana and Tsuna, but he really didn't want to go back. Last night he had been happy, for the first time in a long time, he had enjoyed himself. Tsuna was nice to him but Iemitsu had ordered him. "Basil-kun?" Basil snapped from his thoughts as his blue eyes catching on Nana's gentle brown ones.
"M-My mother….Oregano-dono works a lot, she left me in the care of master."
"Master is Iemitsu." Tsuna murmured hugging her newest brother tight.
"If you want to Basil-kun, you're welcome to stay with us until your mother can take you back." Nana assured while Basil frowned down at his hands, Tsuna letting him go finally.
"Oregano-dono….doesn't want custody." Nana pulled the boy into a hug then, for a kid his age to have been told his mother doesn't want him "Master took me in." Nana just continued to hug him, Iemitsu hadn't done a very good job in her opinion, making the kid call him master was confusing and infuriating to her. If he had been around more with Tsuna, would he had made her call him master too?
"You can live with us then." Nana promised "You can call me Mama, or Nana if you don't want to call me mama, but without the -dono please." Basil looked at her in confusion for a few moments before looking down at his feet and nodding. No one had ever been so kind to him, Nana and Tsuna were like nothing he had ever come into contact with in the Mafia and especially in CEDEF.
"M-Mama?" Nana beamed at him and cuddled her latest child and Tsuna smiled at her mother and newest brother.
"Welcome to the family, Basil-nii."
"So this one is sticking around too?" Tsuna smiled over at Mukurou while the child glared at Basil "Mansion or your place?"
"Basil-kun will come home with us." Nana announced letting go of the child "Nagi-chan~ How was your lesson?~" Nagi just nodded to Nana while heading over to Tsuna and taking her hand, Mukurou had been intimidating, but she was learning so much just by watching him, his illusion manipulation was years ahead of hers.
"Mukurou-san's illusions are beautiful." Nagi whispered to Tsuna, the child nodding with a big grin. They were, Mukurou's illusions had always felt warm to her, and they had been beautiful each and every time.
"Mmm, they're warm." Tsuna agreed before looking over at the illusionist "Mukurou-nii, what ears suit Nagi-chan?" Nagi blinked at her in confusion even as Mukuro sighed and cat ears appeared on the girl, Nagi giggling and petting her ears.
"Ears for everyone~" Nana giggled as she began chasing Tsuna's tail, Tsuna giggling and trying to pounce Nana's in exchange.
"...It's scary how oblivious they are." Reborn sighed "They're like children."
"Children with a lot of influence in the underworld."
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Omake : Coffee and Tsuna~
Squalo wasn't even thinking when he set the drink down in front of Tsuna, he had asked if she'd like a hot drink and he had made her the same as what he was drinking, so when the child blinked at the coffee with wide eyes he never really thought about it.
Tsuna sipped at the drink with a face, it was bitter and weird, she had thought Squalo meant hot chocolate. Trying another sip Tsuna cringed again, but she didn't want to be rude, she had to finish the drink.
So Tsuna waited until it cooled a little before swallowing it all in a few big gulps, treating it like medicine and getting it done fast, her mother had always told her to drink them quickly and get it done. Sipping only made it worse.
With a cringe Tsuna finally set the empty cup down, almost immediately after she was bouncing in her seat.
"Hey, brat, you okay?" Tsuna nodded while bouncing out of her seat and starting to run out the door "Brat?" But Tsuna was gone, out like a shot and running laps around the mansion.
"Squalo what the fuck did you give the brat?!" Xanxus hollered down the hall before the wall nearby him exploded, Sky Flames shooting over at the Varia Commander "Damnit brat, stop blowing shit-" another explosion and more wall caved in "Stop blowing the mansion up!" Xanxus yelled out at her while Tsuna continued to run around. It was like someone had turned her into Ken, but a Ken who had Sky Flames and didn't approve of swearing.
"What did you give her Squalo?!" Xanxus growled at the silver haired swordsman who just shrugged in confusion.
"Just made her a coffee-ow!" Squalo was cuffed upside his head again while he glared over at "What was that for!"
"Coffee, for a brat, are you stupid? The repairs are coming out of your pay assho-Damn it Tsuna!" another hole, had coffee given her super hearing or something? Tsuna was picking up on every swear word no matter where she was around the mansion, it was infuriating, and causing holes in the walls.
"Maybe we should send Ken out to run off the energy with her?" Squalo suggested while Xanxus glowered over at him "What?"
"She already left him in the dust." Xanxus growled "Chikusa didn't even bother and Mukurou took one look at Ken and surrendered."
"What about the explosive brat?" Squalo asked while Xanxus scowled over at him.
"There are two smouldering holes that don't belong to Tsuna."
"How the fu-" Xanxus punched him in the face as Tsuna blew another hole in the wall. "How did all this happen in only this much time?"
"Never, and I mean never give her coffee again."
"Is there going to be any mansion left before she comes down off the caffeine high?"
"We need to tell Nana as well, caffeine is a no for Tsuna for the foreseeable future."
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Omake : Inspired by Slightly Wicked
"It's not a toy you brat!" Xanxus growled as the toddler fumbled with the huge purple bazooka, the brat brought it out now and then, normally they managed to get it off him before he could fire it, his ten year later self was a sarcastic ass and Xanxus often tried to shoot him.
"No, that's mine!" Tsuna squeaked in surprise when the bazooka flew out of Lambo's hands and headed for Hayato, quickly pushing him out of the way Tsuna had only a second to realise where she was before she had the bazooka fly over her head.
"Oh no." Tsuna clenched her eyes shut with a whimper as she was covered by the bazooka.
"Oh….well hello little one."
"M-Mukurou?" Tsuna squeaked with wide eyes "Wh-what…."
"Welcome to your future Tsu-hime~"
The moment the smoke cleared Xanxus had to retrieve his jaw from the floor, Tsuna had grown up, that was the most infuriating part, his brat, the tiny little brat he had spent so much time with, she had grown up, Tsuna had not only grown up but she was a woman now. Xanxus refused to believe that this young woman was his brat
"Well….guess this is the first." the woman mused before smiling over at Xanxus "Nii-san, you're so cute back then~"
"T-Tsuna?" Xanxus stuttered as he was glomped by Tsuna, the young woman giggling and hugging him tight.
"Nii-san you were so cute~" Tsuna giggled while Xanxus fought against the hold, while it smelt like Tsuna and it spoke like Tsuna, this did not even slightly feel like Tsuna.
"Wh-Wh-What the fuck!" Xanxus hissed pulling back from the young woman while Tsuna smiled at him brightly, that smile, that smile was Tsuna, and those Flames….but his Tsuna was tiny, small and cute, his Tsuna was never going to grow up.
"Bad words nii-san, really, my younger self really needs to pick up her game on that." Xanxus was still studying her doubtfully while she looked around at everyone "You were all so cute~ I miss being seven."
"When the fuck did you get boobs brat?!" Squalo yelled pointing at her with his sword "What the fuck!"
"Squalo-nii~ You were so cute with short hair." Tsuna giggled while reaching out and petting his hair, Squalo growled at her and knocked her hand away but the ten years later version of their little principessa was already on the move cooing over everyone in the room.
"The fuck? I have long hair?!" Tsuna was over cuddling Mukurou, Ken, Chikusa and Hayato in a big hug, all of them squirming and trying to get free from the female.
"I forgot how cute you all were~ You were all so adorable~" Xanxus looked over at Tsuna with a frown.
"Don't tell me the brat grew up to be a cross between Lussuria and Nana?" Tsuna was still bouncing around cuddling the children until a few moments passed and their Tsuna was back, wide eyes blinking at them all while she tried to figure out what was going on.
"Thank God, the brat is back." Squalo sighed rubbing at his temples to fight the oncoming headache.
"Mukurou-nii, you were really tall." Tsuna explained to the other child, jumping up with her hand to indicate height as she tried to jump high enough to explain it "Bigger than this." Tsuna turned on Squalo with a huge smile "Squalo-nii's hair was down to his knees, it was pretty!" Squalo whined and threw a glare over to Xanxus,
"I guess you win the bet." Squalo grumbled grumpily while glaring over at Xanxus "Fu-ow!" Squalo growled when Xanxus pulled on his hair with a frown.
"Language."
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Omake : Reversal~
"Xanxus. No wait!" Tsuna scurried after the child as he fled her with a gun in his hand, triumphant smirk on his lips as he fired Flames of Wrath at Squalo.
"Xanxus, you piece of-"
"Language….you're six, you should not be using that word!" Tsuna cried catching the squirming Xanxus and taking the gun off him before setting him down "Please, can't you two play nice for ten minutes."
"Don't you dare take Xanxus-sama's gun!" Levi hissed latching to her leg with a growl, Tsuna reaching down to pet his head and nearly losing her hand to his teeth.
"Levi it's not nice to bite." Tsuna chided before her eyes flicked up to see Squalo brandishing a sword at Xanxus, Tsuna ran over, Levi still attached to her leg and all. Tugged the blade from his hand "No swords Squalo, we've talked about this." Tsun chided while the child ignored her completely and ran off to continue trying to catch Xanxus and kill him.
"Peasant, why are you touching the prince!" Tsuna wrestled the knives out of his hands "The prince will kill you for this!"
"Calm down Bel." Tsuna chided finally getting the knives free, Belphegor hissed at her and went off to get more knives.
"Bel-chan~" Tsuna sighed after Lussuria as the older child came running out with a dress in his hands "Come be a princess~" Tsuna nearly sobbing when an explosion rocked the side of the hallway.
"Xanxus, Squalo! Stop!" Tsuna hurried down to grab the two boys and pulling them apart only for Belphegor to shred the dress Lussuria had with knives, the child then turning to throw knives at her, Tsuna ducked out of the way while fighting the gun off Xanxus and glaring over at Mammon while the child just shrugged and summoned more real illusions for the others of their favorite weapons.
"If you don't like it pay me to stop~ Because they're paying me well to keep supplying them~"
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