Turning Point
Author : 27x18
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Note : So I wanna apologize to everyone for the terribly written ending of the last chapter, I've fixed it up now so it makes sense...Never update chapters on Friday night when you've had a few drinks.
If you haven't read the fix and want to just click back to last chapter and the section before the million omake's has been adjusted to no longer be a ramble of complete nonsense.
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First thing on Monday morning Tsuna sighed at the pile of papers, it would seem Kyoya had a productive weekend, there had to be at least 30 reports sitting on her desk. It was really bad timing too, they were meant to work out the sports day details today, Tsuna would have to stay late to finish up all the paperwork.
"I've finished dividing everyone up principessa~" Mukurou called as he set down even more paperwork on her desk, Tsuna blinking in surprise as she flicked through the paperwork.
"You divided us up like I asked?" Mukurou nodded down to her, it wasn't fair to have all of them on one team, the opposing team wouldn't stand a chance against the children of the Varia. Mukurou had thought that would be amusing, to totally dominate the rest of the school, but Tsuna had asked that they all separate.
"Sure did~" Mukurou purred, of course he had split them up, including putting Tsuna's guard puppy on the opposite team from Tsuna for the fun it would cause. He made sure the birdy and he were on opposite sides too, if there was any chance of a head to head challenge with him, Mukurou was ready. "I know you aren't taking part of any events, but I've put you on a team anyway, Chrome would prefer to be on your team, even if it is only on paper."
"Ah….I didn't think of that, thank you Mukurou-nii." Tsuna smiled brightly up at him and setting the team allocations into the done pile. "Ryohei-nii was organizing the equipment, he said that he extremely didn't need help...but can you check he's okay please?" Mukurou ruffled her hair with a nod heading out to check on the energetic Sun, he had taken Ken with him to count all the equipment and make sure they had enough. With those two together it was likely that nothing was getting done as they had a yelling match or decided to run laps training to the extreme.
"Now…" Tsuna sighed heavily looking at the dreaded pile of DC paperwork, how could he get into that many brawls in one weekend? Tsuna was starting to think he was getting into more fights than normal just so he could make the pile of papery doom even bigger on her desk. Tsuna now understood why Xanxus complained about his paperwork so often, if it was anything like these piles of papers then she was happy to help him burn them next time he asked. Tsuna had always been confused as to why he hated the paperwork so much, now she understood, and he had more paperwork than her on her worst day.
Tsuna pulled out her cell phone before typing a message to Xanxus. I promise next time you want to burn the paperwork I will help. We'll ask Squalo-nii to break up a fight between Mukurou and Kyoya to distract him from stopping us.
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Xanxus had to smile as he looked down at the message, not only had Tsuna changed her mind on the paperwork, but she already had a plan ready. Next time the paperwork tower threatened Tsuna and he were going to topple it.
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Appreciated. Tsuna smiled brightly down at the message before sighing and getting started on the pile of papery doom. While she would love to hand this off to someone else, she wasn't that cruel.
So instead Tsuna kept working through Kyoya's paperwork before she could finally start working on her own.
"Tsu-hime, the dog sent these forms to you to fill out." Hayato burst into her office brandishing a new stack of paperwork sent by Ken and Ryohei in regards to the equipment. Tsuna had to spend a conscious effort not to sob as the papers fell onto the top of her pile increasing the height substantially. "Tsu-hime?" Hayato asked confused when her head hit her desk for a moment, Tsuna peeking up with her huge brown eyes watering.
"Why do they keep doing this to me Hayato-nii?"
"T-Tsu-hime?!" Hayato began to panic while fussing around her, he didn't know what to do when she cried, he never did, and he dreaded Mukurou and Kyoya, worse Xanxus, finding out he had been there and possible been the cause of her crying.
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Something Tsuna hadn't expected at all to was find a small yellow ball of fluff sitting on her desk, paperwork, more paperwork and even more paperwork, yes, but a tiny fluff ball bird….no that was not what she expected when she came into the student council office that afternoon. Tsuna panicked only seconds later when she saw the red on the desk under it. "Oh no, oh no!" Tsuna panicked scooping up the tiny bird and sprinting out of her office towards Kyoya, he knew more about animals than anyone she knew.
"Kyoya-nii!" Tsuna yelled the door slamming open, ignoring his glare as she ran to him with the small yellow bird cradled in her hands "He's hurt, what do I do?!" Kyoya blinked startled before looking down at the tiny bird and the red staining Tsuna's hands.
"Set him down little animal." Kyoya ordered while Tsuna gently placed the small bird down, Kyoya checking it over "It's been attacked, probably a bigger bird." he muttered touching gently along its wings to find a snapped wing and some deep scratches "It's wing has been snapped, there's a few gashes too." Kyoya muttered as he carefully checked the small wing. "You have access to healers, get one of them, now." Tsuna nodded as she grabbed out her mobile.
"Ken-nii?" no answer "Ryohei-nii?!" Still nothing "Luss-nee!?"
"Tsu-chan?"
"Please help, school, Kyoya-nii's office." The phone went dead, Lussuria was on his way. Tsuna turning her eyes back to the small bird as she pulled out a paperclip and some thread, Tsuna had been repairing a tear in Mukurou's uniform after his latest fight with Kyoya.
"A splint, that would help right? Luss-nee taught me some first aid." Kyoya glanced to the tiny girl before nodding his permission to her, Tsuna carefully splinting the tiny wing of the round yellow ball of fluff.
"Baby girl who's hurt?!" Tsuna squeaked looking at Lussuria, the young man standing in the window his eyes searching for whoever was injured.
"The bird, Luss-nee." Tsuna explained while Lussuria blinked startled, looking between Tsuna and the small bird with a makeshift splint on its wing.
"...A bird?" Tsuna nodded while Lussuria blinked at the small child again "A bird?" Tsuna nodded again while Lussuria rubbed at his temples "Do you know how scared I was little one? I thought something happened to you. I thought it was an emergency!"
"It is!" Tsuna countered "He's bleeding….I've put a splint on his wing but he's still bleeding, will he be alright?" Lussuria had to laugh at that, all of this over a damn bird. Tsuna was beside herself over a bird, calling all her emergency contacts because a bird had hurt its wing.
"Ah little one, you're so….you."
"Less talk, more action." Kyoya growled "Fix the bird then get out of my office."
"So grumpy~ Alright cuties I'll help." Lussuria chuckled looking down at the small fluff ball "You need to make sure you take care of this tiny cutie~"
"Thank you Luss-nee." Tsuna smiled at him while Lussuria ruffled her hair.
"His scratches are at least partially healed, I didn't want to hurt the darling by risking more. Using Flames on an animal is different from a person. The wing will have to heal naturally." Lussuria sighed heavily and pulled Tsuna into a hug "Just give a little more detail next time you call like that hun, I thought you were injured." Tsuna nodded with a smile, Kyoya glared at Lussuria while the man jumped out the window "See you a bit later sweetie~"
"I'm glad….looks like the little one will be alright." Tsuna sighed in relief while she studied the small ball of fluff "...Can we keep him?" Tsuna asked peeking over at Kyoya, the child rolled his eyes at the small animal.
"Until it heals." Kyoya agreed as the bird jumped out of her hands and onto his desk, jumping around tweeting cutely.
"Heals, heals." Tsuna couldn't help but giggle.
"He talks~ That is so cute...can you say Tsuna?" Tsuna asked while the cheeped at her a few times "Tsu-na."
"Tsuna, Tsuna!" Tsuna had to force herself not to squeal, Kyoya would flick her forehead if she did in his presence.
"You're so cute~" Tsuna giggled "I guess you wouldn't want him calling you Kyoya-nii." Tsuna sighed, a glare her answer while Tsuna looked down at the curious bird. "Hibari." Tsuna said pointing to the child, the bird blinked at her before looking over at Kyoya "Hi-ba-ri."
"Hibari, Hibari!" Tsuna would never tell anyone, but she saw Kyoya smile at the bird. Not a smirk, a smile. "Hibari! Tsuna!"
"Fine….I'll keep it." Kyoya sighed as he picked the small bird up and stared at it. The yellow ball jumped up his arm and cheeped at his head, Tsuna scooping it up and putting it on his head. Kyoya glared at her for a moment while the bird nestled into his hair happily.
"Hibari!" the bird cheeped happily snuggling there "Hibari."
"I think he likes you Kyoya-nii." Kyoya cocked an eyebrow before shrugging, it was a small animal, there was nothing he could do about it, he had to admit, the bird was cute.
"Hibird." Tsuna tilted her head looking up at the small bird.
"Hibird? Well, hello Hibird~"
"Tsuna! Hibari!"
"We should teach him everyone's names." Tsuna mused looking at the happy bird "You think Hibird might stay when his wing heals?"
"That's up to him." Kyoya shrugged as he sat back down at his desk, pushing his inbox over at her. "Paperwork." Tsuna sighed down at the pile, blinking when a wet wipe hit her face "For the blood." Tsuna nodded wiping her hands off before scooping the pile up.
"See you later Hibird. Kyoya-nii."
Pausing in the doorway Tsuna glanced back in at Kyoya before snapping a photo with her phone and fleeing the glare she new was pointed at her with a very Mammon-esque cackle escaping her. "Sawada Tsunahime!"
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Hayato was horrified, he was absolutely horrified with the current situation, he was on the opposing team to Tsuna, he had never been so hurt in his life and he knew, he knew that Mukurou, the right hand man job stealing illusionist bastard had done this on purpose, he was on the Red team while Tsuna was on the Purple team.
His only solace was in that he wouldn't be forced to directly oppose Tsuna, since she was so busy running everything that she wasn't entered into any events. Still, the situation grated on his nerves, he was going to explode at Mukurou when they got back to the mansion.
For now however he had to reluctantly be on the opposing team to Tsuna, he would find a way, of that he was certain, to get on the other team, even worse still he was on the same team as that perky annoying baseball nut. The one that kept touching him, seriously at what point exactly had they become friends? Why the hell did the bastard that was taller then him, to his chagrin, keep treating him like a friend?
"Don't touch me, baseball idiot."
"Come on Hayato~ Don't look so down, today's meant to be fun!"
"Get off me!" Hayato hissed shoving his arm off him again "There is nothing fun about being on the opposing team to Tsu-hime."
"Don't worry Hayato~ It'll work out~"
"The only way to work this out….is to sabotage the red team." Hayato grumbled before perking up, well that was a good idea, he just needed to make sure that the disciplinary committee leader, and leader of the red team, didn't find out.
"Uh….I don't think that…" Takeshi sighed heavily while chuckling at the child, Hayato was beyond hearing now, he was in full on planning mode.
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Tsuna's head tilted when a pair of pistols were dropped on her desk, they were a similar design to the pair she had given Xanxus for his birthday, blinking up at the dark haired grumpy looking demon of Namimori in question.
"Kyoya-nii?"
"Tsuna, Tsuna." Tsuna giggled and held out a finger for the yellow ball of feathers.
"And Hibird too of course~"
"Special event." Kyoya growled "My committee vs your pets." Tsuna's head tilted the other way as she blinked at him confused. "Move little animal." Kyoya growled nudging her as Tsuna nodded grabbing the guns and following after Kyoya. Tsuna's mouth dropped open in shock as she stared at the setup in the sports grounds. The area had been converted into a huge maze.
"How…." Tsuna squeaked in surprise as she was picked up, blinking at Xanxus while the teen smirked at her.
"The brats got us to help organise this shit. Don't you dare lose to anyone."
"Mmm….um….guns?"
"Paintball." Squalo noted as he threw another gun to her "Keep that as a reserve." Tsuna nodded slinging the sniper rifle across her back.
"Tsu-hime!" Hayato was bouncing energetically his tail wagging madly "We won't lose to that bas-" a nudge from Takeshi halted Hayato "That brat."
"While I'm loathe to agree with the puppy…" Mukurou sighed loading in a clip of paintball pellets to his gun "We won't lose to those thugs."
"Um...where did those screens come from?" Tsuna pointed at the huge screens set up facing the bleachers where students were gathered.
"On loan from the Varia." Mammon noted floating over with her calculator in hand clicking away "Charging per minute~"
"The prince has got control of the screens~" Belphegor purred from his place sitting in front of a few computer screens "The peons see what the prince chooses for them."
"Seventy two cameras~" Lussuria giggled while he pet Tsuna's hair gently "It would be no fun if no one was watching this game~"
"So this is….a free for all?" Tsuna asked while Lussuria nodded down at her, ruffling her soft brown hair gently.
"Somewhat, it's all the little ones in the student council versus the bloodthirsty birdie and his minions~"
"We won't let you down Tsu-chan!" Kyoko giggled hefting the heavy pistol she had been handed "So….heavy…" Tsuna tilted her head in confusion weighing the guns in her hands for a few moments in confusion.
"They're lighter than nii-san's." Tsuna murmured before shrugging it off and smiling at Ken thankfully when he handed her a holster for the two pistols. Tsuna had been taught guns by Xanxus personally, she had worked with guns like his, much heavier than these paintball ones, she would need to be sure to amend the force she used to change targets.
"There's no point to the day you helped organise as the student council if you don't get to participate in anything today~" Lussuria chuckled "Where's the fun in that, and since normal students would be no challenge, why not try against Kyo-chan-" the child glared at Lussuria but there was no way to stop him calling him that yet, he had tried. "And his little army~"
"It's good practice for armed combat too." Mukurou noted his eyes flicking over to the two civilian girls that Tsuna had made friends with, they were going to be a burden most likely, they would need to assign someone to babysitting duty. The pair had started training with Lussuria, but as far as he knew they hadn't done any weapon training yet.
"Can we just get this over with?" Hana sighed glaring around at all the boys around them. Monkeys, all of them, the less she had to deal with them the better. Then again, if she got to shoot a few of them in the face then her day wasn't a total loss.
"Alright." Tsuna nodded in agreement "Um...okay, we need a plan I guess….Mukurou-nii, can you play with Kyoya-nii while we take out the rest of the DC?" Mukurou's smile stretched across his face at that suggestion, he was more then happy to shoot Kyoya while Tsuna and co took out the rest of the pompadour minions.
"Ken and I will take on Tetsuya to the extreme!~" Tsuna nodded over to the white haired boxing addict, Ken all but bouncing on the spot in his enthusiasm to take on Kyoya's second in command. He was always on the sideline for Mukurou and Kyoya's spars, surely the demons second in command would be a challenge of some sort. He was second in command to someone like Hibari Kyoya, he wasn't allowed to be a herbivore.
"Okay, so we take care of everyone else." Tsuna nodded "Hayato-nii-" His tail and ears perked up "Can you stay with Kyoko, I'll take Hana and we'll both take off in opposite directions, clear out anyone we see." Hayato wilted, but nodded in agreement.
"Okay….I will."
"What about me~" Takeshi asked bouncing over to them both with a gun in his hands "Who do I get to play with~" Tsuna glanced around at the group of students.
"Kyoko." Tsuna blinked over at Hana while the girl frowned over at the monkies "If anything happens to Kyoko…." Tsuna nodded in agreement, if Hana said so then she would support her.
"Alright~" Takeshi smiled as he bounced over to Hayato and Kyoko "Looks like we're on the same team again~" Hayato growled and pushed the arm off his shoulders, yet again it didn't seem to phase Takeshi at all, his smile was still as bright, Hayato didn't know how to deal with someone like this, the smile on his face just annoyed Hayato for some reason.
"Stop smiling, you baseball-moron."
"Basil-nii, will you and Nagi-chan take the middle?" Basil saluted her with an enthusiastic nod.
"Of course, Tsuna-do…." he froze at her frown "Kaicho." He just couldn't get himself comfortable calling her by her name without any honorifics, Iemitsu had ordered him to never speak to his sister familiarly. Even though he had been given leave from Tsuna, and Nana to talk to them less formally, he couldn't kick the habit, Iemitsu had stressed the importance of that order on him more than once.
"Ne...Tsuna...what about-" Ken began while looking over at the devastated looking Chikusa, you couldn't tell if you didn't know him, the change in expression was tiny, but he felt like he had just been forgotten. To those of them that didn't know him well they didn't see anything out of the ordinary.
"I didn't forget you Chikusa-nii." Tsuna promised while the child sighed in relief "Would you mind coming with me and Hana?" Chikusa nodded with a lip twitch that meant a smile to those that knew Chikusa-speak.
"Are you prepared yet little animal? I'm getting impatient." Tsuna smiled over at Kyoya with a bright smile.
"Mmm, let's start!"
"DC enter from the south, the Student Council from the north, may the best team win~" Lussuria giggled while he waved off the students, this was going to be fun to watch, they should organise battles like this more often. Not only was it good training it was also fun to watch.
They had been in the maze only a few minutes, Mukurou had gone with her to guide Tsuna part way, until the screams directed him to Kyoya, Chikusa following up from behind to keep an eye on the girls until Mukurou left. Only a few minutes in before Hana grabbed Tsuna's hand to stop the small girl hurrying along "Hana?"
"I'm not going to be able to keep up with you." Hana reluctantly admitted "I'll hold you two back." Mukurou nodded in agreement, she was already holding them back, they had to keep going slowly and Chikusa wasn't able to use his full abilities around her, let alone the distraction if they came under attack.
"We can't just leave you unprotected though…." Tsuna murmured her eyes flicking around them as a smile pulled at her lips "Ne, Hana, what about up there." Tsuna pointed to something that resembled a treehouse or sentry tower.
"...They seriously thought of everything didn't they." Mukurou chuckled, Xanxus didn't ever do anything half assed, and this was yet another show of his foresight. Mukurou had a long way to go to even think of measuring up to the overpowered genius Sky bastard.
"Alright." Hana agreed as Tsuna smiled to her before pulling the sniper rifle from her shoulder and held it out to Hana "What is this for?"
"For you." Tsuna said with a bright smile "I know Luss-nee hasn't gotten to guns yet, but I don't want to leave you with nothing." Hana gingerly took the rifle looking at the contraption in distaste.
"...Oh yay." Mukurou had to laugh at how disgusted Hana was with the situation, and the gun she had just been handed "Don't go smirking at me monkey." Hana growled over at Mukurou before going for the ladder up to the platform, she doubted she'd use the gun, but she'd take it with her for now.
An unmanly screech drew Mukurou's attention, the child petting Tsuna's hair before disappearing off into the maze, that screech sounded decidedly like Hayato, it was likely Kyoya had found the three students.
Tsuna pulled one of her pistols out, thanks to the training she'd gone through she could tell when someone was getting close. They may not have active Flames, but Tsuna had learnt to pick up on the latent ones everyone had.
Massimo's hide and seek Tsuna game had really helped her in leaps and bounds.
Tsuna shot just as the DC uniformed member came around the corner, a squeak of surprise escaping the tall child as he blinked down at the stain of orange soaking into his black uniform. The boy's shoulders dropped, as soon as they were dead that was it. No more communicating with their boss, so he wasn't able to tell Kyoya that Tsuna was here, even though he had an earpiece connected to a radio frequency the entire DC was using.
Chikusa tapped Tsuna's shoulder and pointed at the radio as the child went walking past them, nodding to Chikusa with a smile Tsuna called after the retreating student.
"Ah!" he flinched when Tsuna stopped him from leaving, he was just going to go out of the maze and wait for it to end, but she had stopped him. "Since you're dead….I can take that right?" Tsuna asked pointing at the radio, he wanted to say no and flee, but she was right, he was dead, she was allowed to take anything she wanted off his body.
"...Here." Tsuna smiled brightly, taking the radio from him and trotting off into the maze with Chikusa a step behind her.
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"...Tsuna's surprisingly….devious." Belphegor murmured while he studied the small girl bouncing around corners with the radio in her hands "What the hell have you been teaching the principessa Xanxus?"
"She didn't get that from me." Xanxus growled "Massimo and Federico probably, the bastards." Squalo rolled his eyes at his boss at that, Xanxus blamed every single bad habit or teaching on his brothers….or Squalo if neither of them were there at the time.
"It common sense, taking communications from the enemy." Mammon noted floating over to the screens Belphegor was sorting through "The girl is just being smart, not devious."
"Her aim is dead on, as expected of the boss, he's a brilliant tutor!" Xanxus glanced over at Levi before smirking.
"You saying you expected my teaching not to be?" that made Levi backpedal, freaking out while fumbling over his words to try and save himself, Squalo snickering to himself off to the side. He wasn't about to tell Levi, but Xanxus was trolling the overly serious teen.
"Hey Luss, you might find this interesting." Lussuria blinked over at Belphegor as the child pulled up two screens "Looks like the frumpy commoner girl-brat can shoot~"
"Well...that's unexpected."
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Hana sighed heavily looking through the scope on the rifle Tsuna had given her, she wasn't about to lose to Tsuna. Hana had seen Tsuna take out the DC member without hesitation. They were using paintball guns, she had no reason to hesitate.
Hana swept her eyes over the labyrinth before her eyes caught on a DC member, sighting up the student she pulled the trigger with an unladylike whoop when it hit the dark uniformed child.
"Ha! Arcade games are just a waste of time my butt!" quickly calming herself Hana cleared her throat, glancing around to see if anyone had witnessed her little embarrassing celebration. Instead she focused back on the labyrinth and looked around again, one down, who knows how many left.
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Tsuna's group had scoured the maze nearly four times, but it would seem the only fight still raging on was the one between Mukurou and Kyoya, they had between them shot nearly twenty five people, all disciplinary committee members, they had taken two casualties on their side, Basil had taken a paintball to the chest to protect Chrome, and Kyoko had taken one while Hayato was having a one sided argument with Takeshi.
"So, what next boss?" Hayato asked his tail waving while Tsuna hummed to herself looking over the layout they had made of the maze while scouring it for any more DC members hiding around the place.
"Mukurou-nii has kept Kyoya-nii to the northeast corner, we need to make sure there's no way he can get out of the corner, if he gets away from Mukurou-nii and behind us...well….I don't think it would be good."
"He'll have way too much room to move around, and so many option in who to bite first." Chikusa agreed ignoring the stares he was getting, Takeshi and Hayato especially had never heard him speak more than five words in a sentence before.
"Mmm….so we need to make sure he can't get through." Tsuna agreed "We need to get as close as we can and try give Mukurou-nii an opening….just….please don't shoot Mukurou-nii by accident."
"..." Tsuna sighed over at Hayato, he didn't have his Mukurou enforced ears, but she could all but see them wilt anyway. "We just need to get him with one shot, just one." Tsuna reminded "We can do it!"
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Hayato was settled into his corner of the kids room cultivating mushrooms, he had shot Mukurou, as soon as he went down Kyoya had gone through them like tissue paper, only Tsuna had held her own against him, but in the end she had hesitated at the moment of shooting him, giving Kyoya the few seconds he needed to take her out as well. Kyoya knew the girl was holding back though, so it had been incredibly frustrating for him, but at the same time it's not like she could give her all in front of the student population.
It had however fuelled the demon of Namimori's desire to have a proper fight with her one day, he was going to have to try and engineer a sleep deprived Tsuna if he wanted to get a chance any time soon.
Back with Hayato however, the child was deep in depression, it was his fault Mukurou had been taken out, his badly aimed bullet had caused the end of the Student Council team.
All of Tsuna's hard work and planning had gone to waste because of him, he was the scum of the universe, the worst and least qualified person to be by her side, let alone as right hand man. He was going to stay in this corner for the rest of his life.
"Umm….Hayato-nii?" still nothing, Tsuna had tried telling him it was okay, she had tried to cheek him up but everything had ended with failure. "..."
"Don't worry Tsu-hime~" Fon chuckled hopping to her shoulder "I'll talk with him. He'll be alright, he just takes things too seriously."
"It's not his fault." Tsuna sighed while Mukurou steered her away from the sulking Hayato.
"It will be fine Tsuna, let him be, Fon will deal with the brat." Tsuna letting Mukurou steer hre over to the table, they were enjoying a dinner of defeat after the long day.
Only Hayato was taking it so badly, the rest of them were just glad to have made it as far as they did, as well as those on the purple team having won the overall sports day. Kyoya hadn't entered into any events so his being on the team hadn't helped them all that much, all he had done was glare at people.
When it came to toppling Mukurou, Chikusa and Ken as the leaders of most male events the students didn't have much chance. Even though some of them had been separated from Tsuna and the others, Takeshi and Hayato hadn't been training anywhere near as long as the others nor had their Flames awoken before the training had begun.
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Massimo and Federico glanced at one another before looking back at their father, Timoteo had called them both in for a serious talk, they could tell from his work face being on while they were alone, Timoteo only stayed in work mode with them privately if there was something huge going on.
Last time they saw this, Timoteo had been telling them that Enrico was dead.
"Before you start worrying, Both Xanxus and Tsunahime are alive and well, I didn't call you here for bad news." that relaxed them both immediately, if something happened to another close family member they would flip.
"You had us worried there for a minute father." Massimo sighed wiping sweat from his forehead that he hadn't noticed he had until then. "What is this about?"
"Massimo have you talked to Federico about your wishes?" Massimo nodded in confirmation, they had talked about it a lot in Japan. Federico had given his all at improving but they both knew that it wasn't enough, the heir needed to be at least as strong as Enrico and Massimo was only just making the requirement. "I have come to a decision." Timoteo explained softly while flicking his eyes between his sons, Massimo clenching his hands and studying the floor, he knew what was coming, he was going to be heir.
"Massimo I want you to join CEDEF." both of his sons started at him in confusion at that, glancing at one another before looking over at their father again.
"Say what now?" Massimo stuttered out while he and Federico looked at one another again.
"Father….I'm not strong enough, we know that….if Massimo joins CEDEF…."
"I've come to a decision, however I must ask that both of you don't speak a word of this to anyone. Including your brother. I am invoking omertà on the matter." the pair glanced at one another again before nodding to their father, they wouldn't say a word about this to anyone, not even one another. Once they left this room they never spoke about it again unless given leave by their father. "I intend to make Tsunahime the heir, once she is older." Massimo blinked at his father in shock, Federico paling while his soul fled him, he was not going to be the one to break that to Xanxus.
"F-Father….You know how Xan feels about Tsunahime and the Mafia." Massimo reminded while Timoteo nodded, he knew exactly how much Xanxus wanted to keep Tsuna out of the Mafia.
"I know, trust me I know….Federico, I want to ask for your assistance-"
"No way in hell I'm asking Xan that." Timoteo chuckled at his son, no, he would take care of that himself when it was time.
"I want to name you heir until such time as Tsunahime is ready." Federico chewed at his bottom lip while thinking, he was going to be dead once Xanxus found out that he was in on this, but at the same time it was a brilliant idea. They couldn't have no heir, but to announce that Tsunahime was the heir made her an instant target, even if the Mafia didn't know what she looked like they would come after her with every resource. They would find her, and they would put her in danger.
"I understand the reasoning behind it, it would keep her safe right?" Timoteo nodded as he sighed heavily.
"I'm sorry to ask this of you Federico."
"No...it's okay….I'll go along with this." Federico assured "I was thinking it the whole time in Japan, Tsuna, she's got really strong Flames, and nearly a complete collection of Guardians. She's fair and kind and….well she'd make a damn good boss."
"Xan is going to be our biggest road block." Massimo agreed "But I have to side with you and Federico….I thought it more than once while staying in Japan, Tsuna would make an amazing boss."
"I want to keep her out of this as long as possible. I hope to at least hold onto this charade until she's out of Elementary….High school would be better, from the reports Fon has sent it would seem her experiences as Student Council President are actually very good boss training for her."
"Once she's in….what does Federico do then?"
"Massimo-"
"No Fed, it needs to be asked, having you play the part of heir until the point where she takes over….what do you do next?"
"I was hoping that Federico might take on the role of adviser for her, both of you know a lot about our world. Knowledge that would be invaluable for the little one." Federico nodded in agreement, that actually sounded really good for him. He had contacts everywhere, contacts that could make or break situations, especially when Tsuna first came into their world.
"You okay with that Fed?" Federico nodded with a gentle smile.
"I was never suited for boss….I would gladly take on the role of helping Tsuna when she takes over the position of heir."
"Massimo….are you alright with this?" Federico asked in return, Massimo nodded over to his father as long as Federico was happy with the situation he was better than alright, he would be able to join CEDEF as he had always wanted and the famiglia was going to be alright, safe in the hands of Timoteo and the future Decimo, Sawada Tsunahime.
"Xan is going to kill us~" Massimo giggled, they were so dead when Mr. Flames of Wrath found out they had put this little plan together.
"It will be fine." Federico assured with a giggle "We just have to get Tsuna on our side~"
"We're all going to die." Massimo sighed heavily "Tsuna will always side with Xan."
"You spent all that time with her, and you didn't manage to bond with her like Xanxus?"
"Dude, she can hug his Wrath Flames and giggle, I was too damn scared I'd hurt her to try exposing her even to a weak Flame." Federico sighed "She's bonded so damn close with Xan, and so tuned to his Flames, I don't think anyone can bond better with the kid. Tsuna is his family and his famiglia. We can never change that."
"The moment she first touched his Flames, that moment, that's what changed them both." Federico sighed while looking down at the small Sky Flame in his palm.
"You know….I think the kid will change the Mafia." He chuckled softly "Xan worries, we all do, that the Mafia might change her pure heart, but I think the Mafia, fuck, the world, will change before she does."
"She is stubborn." Massimo agreed "If she can make Xan stop swearing, then she can change the world."
"You know….I actually pity the future Mafioso, they have no idea what's coming." Timoteo chuckled "That little girl will change everything."
Tsuna was pretty sure Kyoya was pissed off at her about holding back on sports day, since the student council lost to him her paperwork had tripled, Kyoya was going out of his way to torture her, she was sure of it.
"...I do apologise Tsunahime-san….but there's more." Tetsuya was even feeling sorry for her, Kyoya kept sending his second in command over with pile after pile of paperwork and Tsuna was about to cry.
"Wh-Why…." Tsuna whimpered her eyes welling with tears "Why is Kyoya-nii being so mean?" Tetsuya's blood ran cold at the sight of tears on the young girl's face, Xanxus was going to kill him for this. Even he knew to be wary of the teen, even if he didn't know the full extent of his power he was still someone that could beat Kyoya and ergo if they made his sister cry they were dead.
"Tsuna?"
"Tsu-hime."
"Tsuna?!" heads popped out from all over the place all looking at the sniffling elementary schooler sitting at her desk with towers of paper around her.
"What the hell did you do Kusakabe?!" Mukurou growled while he and the other Paladins formed ranks in front of Tsuna as a defensive wall against the perceived threat. There was no internal fighting when it came to Tsuna crying, Hayato and Mukurou got along famously when it came to defending Tsuna.
The second in command of the DC backed up to the doorway with wide eyes on all the students coming towards him, they were pissed, that much was clear, and he needed to escape.
"I was only doing as Kyo-san ordered." Tetsuya stuttered his back hitting the door while he swallowed nervously, this was going downhill fast, Tsuna was at her desk sobbing and wiping at her eyes while Nagi hugged her and the rest of the council advanced on Tetsuya.
"You made Tsuna cry."
"You made the principessa cry."
"You made Tsu-hime cry." Tetsuya only had the space of a second to send a prayer to the gods to save him as the rest of the student council descended on him.
"It was Kyo-san-arg!" Moments later Tetsuya was tied to a chair and gagged while the student council all fussed around Tsuna.
"Wh-Why does Kyoya-nii….hate me?" Tsuna sobbed while Nagi tried to soothe her how Tsuna normally soothed her, but the girl was inconsolable. One of her family hated her, it was worse than bullying, worse then anything, Kyoya hated her now. "W-Why is he being so mean?" Mukurou did the only thing he could in reaction to the clenching of his chest. He was going to go find Kyoya and beat him to a pulp for making Tsuna cry.
"Ken, Chikusa, with me. The rest of you, stay with Tsuna." Mukurou was not going to hold back this time.
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Kyoya came looking for Tsuna some hours later with a black eye and a bruised ego, Mukurou one on one was fine, Mukurou with those two minions of his, not so easy.
"Little animal." Kyoya growled the child flinching at the swollen sad eyes of Tsuna, well shit, he had deserved the punch to his face from Mukurou for making the little animal that sad that she had cried.
"K-Kyoya-nii….why do you hate Tsuna now?" Kyoya flinched with a visible wince, she was really upset at him.
"I'm not."
"B-But you keep….trying to make Tsuna disappear under paperwork." Kyoya cocked a confused eyebrow before sighing heavily. He had been trying to exhaust her so he could get some time with a sleep deprived Tsuna, but instead all he had done was make her cry.
"I will reduce the paperwork for a while….I don't hate you little animal." swollen teary eyes lifted to blink at him while the child sighed heavily not liking the situation one bit, let alone being the bad guy. "Stop being sad." Kyoya order as he set a hand on her head and pet her soft brown hair gently.
"...Mmm." A smile tugged at her lips while she grinned up at Kyoya, all signs of crying gone. "Then...can you please help me with the paperwork?" Tsuna asked shyly, Kyoya sighing heavily, while he wanted to say now, the glares coming his way combined with Tsuna's still slightly watery eyes forced him to agree.
"Just this once."
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"Wao~ Are you seeing this kid? Looks like this Tsu-chan is different~" The small white haired child popped a sweet into his mouth while juggling the infant in his arms. He had been watching the Sawada abode for two days now, he wanted to know what sort of person this Tsuna was.
First thing he noticed was that this was one of those worlds where Tsuna was a girl, it wasn't unheard of, but it was amusing, especially with the small child calling her mother. That was new, normally Fuuta turned up a few years older and attached to the Sawada matriarch.
"What a rare treat, something new~" It was even more amusing when he found out that some of the Varia lived next door, and it would appear that Xanxus was her slave. This Tsuna was getting more and more interesting, it would seem she had active Flames even, he could feel her Flames from where he was watching from a rooftop two houses away. This really was a rarity, the Iemitsu here must be different from the other worlds for her Flames not to have been locked away. Every time he had met Tsuna, every time, Iemitsu and Timoteo had locked up his or her Flames until they were awoken when Tsuna had to enter the Mafia world at 10-15 years old when the last of Timoteo's sons died.
Normally he enjoyed watching on and off as Tsuna grew up, all clumsy and fumbling without her intuition, to see a young Tsuna that looked….well impressive really, forgetting the Flames she was confident, she was happy and she was strong.
"You know what kid, I don't think we'll go back to Italy, this looks like much more fun~" stepping off the roof he headed for the front door, no point beating around the bush, might as well jump in and see what happened. It was more fun that way anyway.
"Oh...are you lost little one?" Looking up at the kind faced Sawada Nana he bowed gently to her.
"I'm here to see Tsuna~" Nana tilted her head before nodding with a gentle smile at the child.
"Tsu-chan~ You have a visitor~" He straightened while pasting a smile on his lips as the small statured (she/he was always so little) girl headed down the stairs curiously. Brown eyes locked on the white haired child with lilac eyes, flicking to the baby in his arms before back to him.
"Hello Tsu-chan~"
"Hello?"
"Byakuran my dear, and this little one here is Lambo~ I was hoping we might stay with you~" Tsuna blinked at the child in confusion her head tilting while she looked down at the tiny baby in the white haired child's arms.
"Um...okay?" Byakuran smiled brightly at her as he stepped into the genkan and toed off his shoes.
"How lovely, well little one, shall we go in?" Byakuran asked the baby in his arms before looking at the small and so very bright Sky, this was going to be so much fun~
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Omake : Inspired by HitmanReborn'sHime17
"Ne….nii-san….how are babies made?" the room froze while everyone turned to stare at the small girl sitting on Xanxus' huge chair, her legs swinging back and forth while she blinked at him curiously.
"Wh-What?"
"One of the girls in class said her mother was having a baby…..and we talked about it for a while but we don't know how a baby is made." Xanxus felt his blood run cold, he was unable to hide the fact that he was terrified right now, Tsuna was seriously asking him about this right now.
"Babies...uh….well….babies….come from…." Xanxus fumbled over words for a few minutes before sighing heavily "You know that girls are different from boys, right?" Tsuna blinked at with a frown while trying to figure out what he was talking about.
"Ah!" her face brightened as Tsuna grinned at him "Boys have the dangling thing!" the boys all looked at one another before looking back at Tsuna and bursting into laughter. Dangling thing, that was a new way of reference.
"...Yeah, that." Xanxus sighed while rubbing at his temples "When...uh...two people love one another very much….when they want to be a daddy and a mommy….they uh….hug-" Xanxus glared over at the cackling Varia members. "And uh….a baby is born nine months later."
"I don't get it. What does that have to do with bleeding?"
"B-Bleeding?!" Xanxus squeaked while Tsuna nodded.
"Mmm, Makoto-chan said that her mother said you could only have a baby after you bled every month….does that mean you have to get in a fight? Or cut yourself?"
"By bleeding...she means….?" Squalo murmured to the others while Lussuria giggled at the awkward younger teens.
"Her period~"
"ASK YOUR MOTHER!" Xanxus snapped grumpily his face heated and red as he refused to look at Tsuna, why the hell was she asking him of all people? "We're NOT talking about this anymore!"
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Well my friends, here we are again~ As the weather gets colder and colder writing will have a lot to do with snuggling up, my hands freeze in this weather. The biggest upside though, the cats cuddle a lot in winter, neither of ours like the cold at all.
Got some time off work so I'll be able to get some writing done, wisdom teeth got pulled, hurray...ow.
I have a heap of omake' started but only had a one ready this chapter, there will be more coming in the next chapter.
Contritum Caelum's next chapter is not far off being ready too, so hopefully will have moar soon.
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Siren3264 (Guest) : They did didn't they, I've had to start keeping a list of characters up as I write so I don't forget anyone again, so many people to keep track of. We'll Pretend that I sent them off to Italy with Iemitsu xD
Wanderer13 (Guest) : Mukurou is definitely tsundere, not as bad as Ken though xD Kyoya checking himself out in front of a mirror in his new uniform is a lovely mental image. When Tsuna grows up and becomes coffee dependant I think the Varia would have preferred coffee high Tsuna as opposed to caffeine withdrawal Tsuna.