Tsuna casually entered the dining room area only to realize that most of the Vongola Famiglia was already present for breakfast.
It was indeed a rare opportunity, which Kyoko immediately seized in order to make her announcement. "If you are free tomorrow, the famiglia will be attending a local festival to support the community."
Lambo was half-sleep due to working late with Kawahira while I-Pin was eagerly exclaiming, "Tomorrow is my only off day so that's perfect!"
"It's been a while since we've done things as a complete famiglia." Ryohei openly stated after he drunk an energy drink and leaned his weight against one his taped hand.
"I can make us some bento lunches." Takashi was mentioning to the group, which was earning various exclamations, "This festival is going to rock!" "We're getting Yamamoto bentos!"
Gokudera privately thought about their family plan to attend the nearby festival, 'That'll be perfect since Reborn and CEDEF will arrive today.'
"It's time for school, you two." Chrome softly mentions to the two teenagers after she checks the current time on the kitchen clock.
"Bakadera, let's go! You have to drive me the mighty Lambo-san and I-Pin to school." The Bovine teen boastfully heckles along with a chortle until he falls on his back.
The 10th Storm Guardian merely dusted off his hands, stood to his feet and declared, "It's too early in the morning to listen to you gloat, you stupid cow."
The others were laughing at the brotherly banter between the two as Hayato and the teens were departing from the dining room.
"I should probably wait until after the lunch rush to work on the bentos." The brunette male commented to himself after he stacked the freshly washed plates in the dish rack.
Chrome excitingly perked up at the chance to leave HQ so she enquiringly asked, "Do you need any help today Takashi-san?"
The young man's cast his eyes in the direction of the question only to recognize that it was Chrome Dokuro that made the request. A "sure" escapes his lips right when Ken and Chikasa instantly interjects, "We're going too."
The 10th Rain Guardian was merely nodding his head in agreement, "We should head over there now since some of the food was set out overnight."
Ryohei finally draws closer to his sister in order to declare, "You seem extremely happy lately. Are you pregnant?"
Both Kyoko and Tsuna visibly blushed at the silver haired male's question.
"Nii-san, no!" His younger sister nervously squeals with her hands repeatedly wave left to right.
His brother-in-law eventually divulged the reason behind her happiness "She made a new friend, Ryohei-niisan" along with a shake of his head.
It was then taking the 10th Sun Guardian a minute to process what they were talking about before smiling at the married pair. He then reaches up and ruffles the crown of Kyoko's head while he happily murmurs, "That's good."
The brunette watched his wife returned a smile at her older brother as he inwardly considered, 'Maybe kids won't be such a bad idea one of these days.'
"Hey Tsu-kun," Her voice instantly realigns his focus back on to reality. "Can you listen in as I call for Haru-san?"
The young man was simply nodding his head before helping his wife up to her feet before overhearing her, "I hope Haru-san is okay."
0000
The Ricotta Head was stamping out a lit cigar against the ash tray before clipping the edge and placing it back in the wooden box.
"How'd you sleep?" He casually directs at the young man that suddenly enters inside of his private office space.
A few gestures followed as the future heir honestly confessed, "Not well…knowing Spring is freely out and about with the Vongola Famiglia."
"I'm not terminating her relationship with them." The older of the two instantly quells that idea once he rotates to face his son.
An expression of distaste was surfacing to his face while adamantly protesting, "They're getting free services that otherwise would be heavily charged if they weren't the Vongola."
"Get your head out of your ass…we are solidifying a potential negotiation opportunity." The elderly man immediately ceases his son's rant on the Vongola's privileges from their famiglia.
"Besides, you peddled out some free favors from Spring as well." His father bluntly accosted the young man with an unreadable expression present on his face.
Right before Yui was about to verbally counter, the office phone starts to ring.
"Hello?" The Ricotta Head said after he removed the phone from the receiver on the third ring.
"Ah, Mrs. Sawada how are you?" He was cordially greeting the individual that was presently on the other line with a smile across his face.
Kyoko briefly peers up at her husband, who simply nods his head as a signal to continue on with the conversation. "I'm fine." She flatly stated.
"I take it Ms. Miura handled herself accordingly." The male deliberately commented as he speedily glanced over to see his son's reaction to their topic of conversation.
"Please remain focus." The orange haired woman was sternly reprimanding him for his attempt in goading her to being angry about Haru's present living conditions.
The Ricotta Head easily downplayed with, "Apologizes but this is the flow of our typical conversation when Ms. Miura-san is involved."
"I would like for Haru-san to join us tomorrow afternoon for a festival." The 10th Vongola's wife explains the reason why she was currently on the phone with him.
"She's available as usual. We will have her delivered to the provided address." He eventually confirmed right before Yui stormed out and roughly slammed the door behind him.
The gray haired male was privately ruminating while leaning against the body of the rolling leather chair, 'You'll learn that business comes before pleasure really soon, young man.'
0000
"I'm glad traffic wasn't too busy." Bianchi broke her silence as they headed inside of the airport once they parked their vehicle in a nearby empty lot.
Her half-brother was merely nodding his head while they were venturing over to the metallic contraption with the initials of a French airport underneath the scrolling banner displaying: Arrivals.
The two then discovered a station designated for drivers that contained whiteboards and markers for them to write the name of their respective party.
A few giggles escaped the violet haired woman at what was scribbled on Hayato's board, who then requested, "Let me write one for Reborn-san."
Her sights quietly read the board then laughs at what was written before she predicts, "He'll be really surprised."
A few minutes passed when they soon noticed that some of the passengers finally approached the baggage claim in order to find their belongings.
Green eyes eventually spot a familiar bob of blonde along with two other people enter his line of vision.
"Yo, Basil," The silver haired male cordially greeted him once they were within range to hear his voice.
"The Exotic Dolphin Tour Group?" He then was jokingly questioning instead once placing his bag's strap around his shoulder.
"Can't exact put CEDEF on it but welcome to Japan…again." Gokudera properly greets the young man and company before the two exchange a brief hug.
A squealing noise was loudly emitting from his right before watching Bianchi speedily dashing forward and lovingly embracing a strange figure.
"I take it that I'm the Expresso Maniac." The voice calmly presumed before a bright light shone from his eyes, which sent a cold chill throughout the 10th Storm Guardian's body.
He nervously chuckles while he teasingly retorts, "Just a bit of humor."
"Basil…" "Reborn-sama, it's good to see you again." The blonde cordially acknowledged the shortest member out of the group with a bow of the waist.
"Let's catch up in the car, shall we?" The Sun Arcobaleno promptly suggests to the lot before the group gather their respective belongings and head out of the airport.
"Yes…we just picked them both up." Bianchi was dutifully reporting in while securing Reborn within her arms while the other was pressing a phone against the side of her face.
An "okay" left her lips before she hung up the phone.
"I heard the family has been rather friendly with the Ricotta." The Mafioso promptly comments with an expressionless face.
"Kyoko-san made a friend with a stupid woman!" The driver was annoyingly scoffing at the mention of the Ricotta Famiglia while stopping the car at the right light.
"Stupid woman?" Both Basil and Reborn confusingly repeated, which earned an explanation, "She's the brunette he publicly embarrassed at the Inheritance Ceremony because she accidentally fell in front of Tsunayoshi and even glared holes in her the whole entire time."
An expression of "oh" materializes on their faces when one of them poses, "Are they truly friends or is this a sham?"
"Tsuna-san makes sure at least one of the guardians is there as an escort during their "outings"." Hayato provided the best answer he could think of for that question.
At the mention of outing, Bianchi was promptly adding, "Kyoko-shan suggested this morning that the family attend a local festival tomorrow."
"That actually doesn't sound too bad. I haven't been to a Japanese festival in a while." Basil positively agreed to the idea while Reborn lipped, "If that's what the famiglia want then it is fine by me."
The rest of drive was used to catch up with each other personal lives after the Inheritance Ceremony.
00000
Haru lazily faced the ceiling or was it the floor, either way the carved rock looked the exact same to her. She then closed her eyes and wondered what her friend was presently doing.
Her stomach hungrily growls at the image of the delicious confectionery slice of cake from the bakery the other day that now coats the dirty driveway of the Ricotta Famiglia.
"What's yours is mine." The brunette angrily scoffed at the male's overly possessive nature towards her, which was a complete turn off for her in a man.
An audible groan was escaping her lips after completely processing everything to herself quietly before listening to footsteps approaching her cell.
Her body instinctively tensed until the voice finally spoke, "I'm your get out of jail ticket, Miura-san."
Her chocolate orbs were brightly twinkling at the sight of Katsumi currently standing in front of her instead of Yui Ricotta.
"The wife of the 10th Vongola Boss requested your presence for another date tomorrow." He then airs the reason as to why he was in front of her.
Haru was aimlessly stumbling toward the bars out of excitement while he was unlocking the lock and pushing the bars open for her to exit before shutting the bars back.
"Let's go…we have to nurse those wounds and get you ready." The blonde relayed what they needed to have done by tomorrow.
'Haru's going on another date!' The young woman eagerly exclaims to herself.
0000
Riko was deeply inhaling the tobacco scent before expertly blowing out a long jet stream of smoke in to the air.
"I didn't know you smoked." A masculine voice astonishingly quipped at the sight of a cigarette in the woman's mouth.
A smile stretched across her face as the stick loosely hung on her lower lip when she hinted, "There's a lot you don't know about me thanks to your father."
Confusion visibly surfaces to his face when he observes her pat an empty spot to her left so without any hesitation he occupies the seat next to her.
Her eyes briefly peek up at the night sky, remove the cigarette and crush it in the ash tray.
"Have you ever asked your father the real reason why I disappeared when you were little?" His mother was curiously posing after diverting her eyes from the sky and on to him.
The young man merely shook his head a "no" which earned a "bastard" from her.
"Your father wanted to groom you to become the next boss for our famiglia. Of course, I was eager to help which only prove how naïve I was to his actual plan." The silver haired woman was starting her story of with.
"Around your 10th birthday someone took noticed that you were the sole heir to the Ricotta's fortunes and sent death threats along with papers that claimed they knew a dark secret about the famiglia."
"I was enlisted to help the cause because they were not familiar with my face due to my position as being the Geisha House Madam therefore I could easily maneuver through the shadows without being caught."
"We were eventually able to track down the said individuals that targeted you and eliminated everyone so we wouldn't have to worry about someone avenging their family later on down the road."
"So…that sounded like a job well done to me." Yui confusingly presumed that her mission was a success based off of what she just told him.
She momentarily fiddles with the unlit cigarette stick to somberly opine, "If only it was that easy Yui."
"I eventually became curious about the people that sent those messages. Apparently, your father had sexual relations with two of them during the course of our marriage."
"I was absolutely furious that I was used for such a task but that was just the mere beginning of my despair." She mysteriously hinting at something darker before honestly confessing, "I even unknowingly slaughtered your siblings as well."
"What?!" The silver haired male instantly perked up at the mention of the word "siblings" that slipped from his mother's mouth.
He roughly jabbed a thumb at his chest when he loudly declared, "You just said that I was the sole heir so why are you telling me you ended up killing my siblings?!"
Before she could even supply an answer to his question, the young man fervently retorted, "Father would never do such a thing to this famiglia."
"I took the life an innocent unborn and born child, Yui. Their blood still stains my hands no matter how hard I scrub even until I bleed from my own hands, it is still there." Riko steadily explained while she directly stared at her open palms with a weary expression on her face.
Yui speedily hops to his feet, points at her and piercingly screams, "You're a liar!"
"We all are. We are humans with good and evil tendencies. Might I remind you of how you treat Spring?" His mother was claiming before breaking her sights from her hand and on to his face.
"That's different." He quickly counterclaims.
The silver haired woman merely narrowed her sights on him while she blatantly elucidates, "The only difference is you haven't killed her yet...but eventually you will with your server physical punishments."
"You're a fucking hypocrite." The future Ricotta heir was bitterly proclaiming while tightening his fist to the point his fingernails were digging in the palms of his hands.
"I've never laid a hand on those girls…someone else did. What I did was to instilled a fear so deep that they would never think to disobey this famiglia. You seem to be really good at the previous than the latter." His mother chided him on his tunnel vision whenever a situation involved Miura, Haru.
"The one you need to direct the rage at is not me, especially since Spring has another date tomorrow." The silver haired woman sternly advises on who he should really be mad at.
The older woman simply watches him violently storms away before she critically studies her hand then glances up at the window to the private study that houses her husband.
'I will snatch that seat from under you by any means necessary.'
000
The Vongola Headquaters was livelier than usual due to their latest arrivals to their home.
Gokudera was volunteering for washing plates when hearing a few cracking noises from the cups.
'Two of them cracked?' He inwardly notes as he gingerly scoops up two tea cups and spots a small crack near the handle on both.
'Is something bad going to happen tomorrow?'