A "knock" was heard at Yui's private study, which prompted him to break away from his paperwork and inwardly wondered who would have the audacity to bother him during this hour.
He was soon then greeted with the sight of his mother, who wore a placid expression on her face as her body language conveyed a message that he failed to pick up on.
"Came to tell me more lies about my non-existent siblings?" The silver haired male vehemently grits through his teeth since he vividly recalls the last conversation between the two of them.
Her eyes were visibly rolling at his feeble attempt at blocking out the fact that his father did indeed have children outside of their marriage without regaling his first born of his adulterous ways.
"Whether it's the truth or a lie is up to you but I see that you're busy so I'll come back at another time then." Riko annoyingly retorted before she stepped away from the door's frame and advanced a few feet ahead.
She briefly pauses to glance over her slender right shoulder and sternly advises, "You'll do well to respect your elders, Yui."
Her son simply ignored her advice, angrily slammed the door and dutifully returned back to the pile of papers that graced his desk before a thought passed through his mind.
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"Haru-chan!' The brunette was repeatedly hearing a feminine voice loudly calling out her name until she was finally turning around to face the source.
A wide smile spreads across her face at the sight of the orange haired woman, who presently stands next to a rather short brunette male.
"Kyoko-chan," Haru excitedly returned the greeting until she eventually noticed that her friend brought along a larger entourage with two familiar faces mixed in for their date.
Kyoko breaks her gaze from the woman when she starts the introductions, "Haru-chan, this is my husband Sawada Tsunayoshi,"
"Tsuna-san is fine." The male directly next to her cordially suggests since any other honorific would be too formal for their current setting.
She was then pointing to another silver haired male before revealing, "My aniki, Sasagawa Ryohei,"
"So you're the one that has my sister EXTREMELY happy lately." The 10th Sun Guardian cheerfully exclaimed as he approached the brunette for a better look at her until he felt a rough tug at his ear.
"I apologize for his bright aura and personality. He has a really hard time toning it down." A beautiful curly raven haired woman teasingly quips before she introduces herself as "Kurokawa Hana".
Haru inwardly chuckled at the couple's interaction with each other while she grew envious at the idea of a significant other whose loved is solely reserved her.
"There is Fuuta, Basil, I-Pin and Lambo-san," The Vongola's Donna then gestures to each person by their respective names. "Then you have Dokuro Chrome and Kyoya Hibari,"
She instantly sensed two vastly different auras from the last two: one was a silent fury while the other was a quiet resilience.
"Reborn-sama and Bianchi-san," Her eyes then land on the small figure that was presently tucked against the older woman's bosom.
'A baby wearing a suit?' The brunette was confusingly considering before hearing a voice breaking out of her thoughts.
"It's a pleasure to meet you Haru-chan," The violet haired woman closed her eyes, tilted her head to the side and flashed a smile while Reborn's beady eyes pierced her soul.
"And you've already met Yamamoto Takeshi," "Yo Haru-chan," The tall brunette male warmly greets the woman with a wave of his hand and a smirk across his lips
"You're making too much noise over a stupid woman, baseball freak." The silver haired male was irritably gripping while shoving his hands inside of his pants pockets.
Chocolate brown eyes narrows in on the male that stands next to her friend's husband, tightens her fists and snaps, "Haru's not a stupid woman, Bakadera."
Lambo suddenly burst in to a fit of laughter while he frequently pointed an index finger at the male to shockingly exclaim, "Even she calls you Bakadera too!"
Hayato instantly felt all eyes on him, which caused a small blush embarrassment to lightly dust his cheeks.
He could only murmur "Stupid woman" along with a 'tsk' of his tongue and faces away from the brunette woman.
There was one particular pair of eyes that lingered on the two after their conversation, which earned a smirk and a thought, 'This should be interesting.'
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Katsumi dutifully strolled through the Ricotta mansion with one destination in mind.
He was soon greeted by the sight of the future heir to the very family he swore an oath to serve.
The blonde was initially planning on avoiding talking until watching Yui was angrily punching the wall with his bare knuckles.
"What'd do you think you're doing?" He confusingly questions at the male's rash decision to demolish a wall in the house.
Katsumi suddenly felt his collar being roughly yanked forward until he felt Yui's breath across his face.
"Where's spring?!" The silver haired male was hissing though his teeth while tightening his grip around the thin piece of fabric within his grasp.
The shorter male merely secured the man's wrist, executed a sharp twist and calmly stated, "I'm not at liberty to reveal where girls from the Geisha House are assigned out to."
Yui grits at the intense pain that currently courses through his body.
"She's with the Vongola's Donna." Another voice unexpectedly chimed in, which earned eyes in the direction of the source.
"They're at a local festival by their headquarters." Riko reveals the information her son tries to strangle out of the male behind him.
Yui capitalized on the distracted Katsumi that he easily yanked his hand away from the tight grasp and stormed away from the two.
She then was feeling a pair of eyes glaring at her before listening to, "I'm not surprised that you would fan the flames, which means you're willing to be burned."
The former madam simply smiles and counterclaims, "You're ten years too early to lecture me."
The silver haired woman then promptly dismissed herself but not before she verbally uttered "cheeky brat" under her breath.
Yui was left with only one option: to tell the boss about the recent development that will greatly affect their golden opportunity with the Vongola famiiga.
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After a few announcements, the Vongola Famiglia's members naturally broke away in their respective cliques.
Haru then notes that a teen with a cow print shirt underneath a black blazer casually approaches her and bluntly announces, "The great Lambo-san acknowledges you since you weren't scared to put Bakadera in his place."
His comment unknowingly caused a smile to materialize on her face as he added, "I hope to see you around later onee-chan,"
And with that the Bovine teen heads off with two blonde males and a Chinese girl down the main walkway of the festival.
She instinctively felt a glare from her left in which she already knew who it belonged to but as she opened her mouth to speak, she heard, "Let's go, Haru-chan,"
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"Oi I-Pin," Lambo called out to the female Chinese Assassin, who received a wooden bowl with four steam Gyoza buns from a stall once she paid the vendor.
"Oh…those look good." He eagerly commented once the smell of delicious food wafted across his nose after he closed the distance between the two.
The young teen merely watches as he reaches and grabs a hot steamy bun from the bowl.
"What we're you about to say?" I-Pin was recalling that he was saying something earlier before stuffing his face.
"Did you see Bakadera's face when onee-chan called him Bakadera?" The raven haired teen amusingly quips about the brunette woman once he chewed and swallowed the doughy treat. "I think she's cool, what'd you think?"
She did not immediately answer as she thinks over the question until she notices some movement from behind her companion.
"Remember she was the brunette that Gokudera-san ran in to at the Inheritance Ceremony." Basil chimed in while he, his subordinates and Fuuta casually strolled up to the couple at the Gyoza bun stand.
"The crest on the back of her kimono says she's from the Ricotta Famiglia." The blonde knowingly discloses as he scopes out what the other booths in their vicinity offers to festival goers.
Fuuta was briefly glancing down at his metallic briefcase before promptly adding, "That famiglia always rank high in the worse categories from the Ranking Book."
"So one-chan is a part of that famiglia." Lambo audibly muttered as he casted his sights over to where their original point of entry as he fondly recollected how flustered she made Bakadera in front of Tsuna-san.
'It's too bad…onee-chan is cool.'
On the other hand…
"So Gokudera-san...how long are you going to glare at her?" Takeshi jokingly probes once their group arrive at a booth that eventually catches their interest.
The silver haired male merely ignored his companion's question and silently honed in on the brunette as she animatedly chatted up Kyoko-san.
'What's his problem?' Haru irritably thought as she privately envisioned dark shadowy tendrils with a pair of green eyes that brightly glowed behind her companion's head.
She stealthily cuts her eyes from Kyoko's face and toward the menace a few inches behind them. 'It feels like I can barely breathe!'
They then stopped at another booth where the goal was to knock over the bottles that formed the shape of a pyramid.
The Donna was unsuccessful in her attempts while Haru barely manages to knock three of the bottles over much to the surprise of both Hayato and Takeshi at her hidden arm strength.
The 10th Rain Guardian was silently noting the disappointment on her face before deciding to try his hand at the game.
He was then given three balls in which he picked one up, adjusted his fingers on the plain rubber ball, aimed for the weak spot and threw it with pinpoint accuracy to knock over the bottles.
This time it was the boothkeeper and Haru that was thoroughly surprised at the brunette's outcome while Hayato vocally huffed, "baseball freak".
"F-f-feel free to ch-ch-choose any pr-prize." The man was nervously stammering after speedily gathering up the bottles from around the wooden platform within his grasp.
Takeshi casually turns toward the pair of ladies, points his head in the direction of the prizes and warmly encourages, "Take your pick, ladies."
The boothkeeper happily obliged with the two girls' requests as he handed over plush toys that emitted a noise whenever it was tightly embraced around it's body.
"Are you having fun, Haru-chan?" Kyoko was curiously asking, which was earning the response, "Haru is having lots of fun, Kyoko-chan."
"Only a stupid woman would refer to herself in third person." Hayato bluntly puts forth before he receives what he assumes was a death glare.
Haru was physically shaking her fists and angrily countering, "Haru's not stupid!"
"Maa, maa, calm down you two…we don't want to cause a scene now do we?" Takeshi calmly suggested once he stepped between them with open palms towards the two, who intensely glared at each other.
Green eyes then casts over toward Juudaime only to note the unusually stern expression present on his face as a spectator to their argument.
"My apologies for embarrassing you, the Donna and our famiglia name." The silver haired male was quickly offering his apology in a solemn tone.
'So he's capable of saying sorry.' The brunette woman privately thought at the display of devotion toward his family. '…unlike another silver haired bastard Haru knows.'
"Gokudera-san is always so hard on himself whenever it comes to Tsuna-san and the famiglia's reputation." She overhead the tall male spoke as she inwardly ruminated, 'Was I supposed to hear that?'
Her stomach was soon loudly growling as a signal for its owner to start feeding it.
A blush of shame heats up her cheeks before she hears the same noise, except it emits from Hayato who kneels in front of Tsuna.
"It's a little too early for the bentos…let's grab a snack." Kyoko eventually suggested with a small smile on her face before they returned to their stroll on the main street.
Haru soon felt that same glare on her except it was not as intense as it was earlier.
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Bianchi lovingly cradles her beloved Reborn as close to her chest as much as she physically could yet being mindful not to smother the smaller figure with her strength or ample chest.
If the baby against her bosom was a normal child, it would have instinctively caused for a pause of repeated concern out of her innate motherly nature. However she had the pleasure to tote the World's Strongest Hitman, who was cursed to revert to a baby form within her grasp.
It was quite natural for any non-mafia related individual to presume the tot in her clutches was truly a child based off of stature and a swift glance at the appearance. But if you were ever able to closely inspect Reborn there was this mysterious yet foreboding aura that says otherwise.
Talk about never judge a book by its cover is a constant testament to this child...no better yet to this being's life.
The violet haired woman was brought out of her thoughts once she heard the suave Mafioso verbally addressed her, "Did you know about their arrangement with the Ricotta?"
"Not all of the details but I did notice a more cheerful Kyoko-chan than normal but I naturally assumed Tsuna-kun was the reason or she was possibly pregnant." She genuinely opined with her eyes briefly closed as she spoke.
"I warned him to err on the side of caution when dealing with them." He states while Leon sleepy dozes off on the wide brim of his black fedora hat as they peruse through the busy main path of the festival.
The Sun Arcobaleno was continuously studying their changing surroundings as Bianchi was delving further down the stone pathway before calmly mentioning, "They're a bunch that I would happily eliminate…if they go against the Vongola."
It grew eerily quiet between the two until Reborn broke his silence again once he recalled how the brunette, Haru, demonstrated her spunk when she easily stood against the turbulent 10th Storm Guardian.
A visible smirk stretches across his face while he inquisitively ruminates, 'We will have to see just how far this friendship will go and who it will affect the most Kyoko-chan or Gokudera-san?'
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'Why is this stupid woman getting under my skin?' His brain attempted to process just how she was able to get under his skin and speedily fester in to sore.
Vivid images of her escort physically assault left faded yet visible marks during their previous encounters made the takoyaki surprisingly bitter upon consumption
However one swift spared glance at the brunette, who happily scarfed down the fried goods with an expression of delight ultimately brought him out of his somber lament.
"Thank you for the takoyaki," She cordially thanks the silver haired male for the food as she bites off a round doughy ball from the end of a sharp toothpick.
'Well Juudaime made me do it.' The silver haired male was attempting to explain his sudden good will toward the stupid woman.
The two plus her escort patiently waited for the other three to return from a Cotton Candy stall when a booth with a large clear tank filled with water and exotic fishes instantly caught Haru's attention.
Green eyes watches as the woman gently presses her face against the glass side of the aquariums, which quickly earns the boothkeeper's attention.
"How much?" She was curiously posing with her face now separating away from the glass.
Hayato was paying the fee, handing over a small net towards her and annoyingly saying, "Go and knock yourself out stupid woman."
Her chocolate orbs apprehensively stared at the net as suspicion mixed with anxiousness and anticipation visibly reflected in her sights as she hesitatingly reached out for the green net.
"Stop acting as if I held you at gunpoint." He jokingly quips while he watches her carefully rolls her kimono sleeves upward, dips the net in the water and repeatedly attempts to catch one of the fish.
'She's truly a stupid woman.' The silver haired male was inwardly thinking after getting his kicks out of watching the woman desperately struggling to catch some fish.
The 10th Storm Guardian merely squatted next to her, gently secured her hand within his and forced her hand to remain completely still in the water
Haru was about to protest about his close proximity and how she did not need his help until the sight of two curious fish cautiously swims near the net instantly captures her focus.
What happened next caught the two completely off guard…