Wrath and Sky

(AN: 'Thinking', "Talking in Italian", "Talking in Japanese")

Sawada Tsukihana, age 9, goes with her dad Sawada Iemitsu, to visit her grandfather in Italy. While there they attend a party but being a child in a room of adults is boring, so she runs off away from her dad's notice to find something fun to do. Wondering the halls, she comes across a boy roughly 4 or 5 years older than her glaring at a group of 5 young adults yelling in Italian words she did not yet know. One of the men noticed her and quickly grabbed her holding a knife to her throat, "Give up and die or I'll kill the kid." The boy, Xanxus, just snorts, "Go ahead the brat is nothing to me."

Getting angry at being held and not knowing what is going on Tsukihana bites down hard on the arm holding a knife to her throat. Once he drops her and the knife in pain, she quickly grabs it and turns on her attacker. "You bitch," yelled the man, but before he could say more, she made her move. With him distracted she stabs him in the groin area, hitting an artery in his thigh, turns and walks away towards Xanxus. "Never underestimate a girl," she said in Japanese as if it is the most common thing in the world.

Meanwhile, with the four other men distracted by watching a little girl kill the man, Xanxus quickly kills them then turns to the girl and demands also in Japanese after hearing her speak, "Who are you brat," but on the inside he was impressed with her. "Tsukihana, who are..." out of nowhere came Squalo interrupting her by shouting, "VOI, where are you, asshole?", Xanxus just picks Tsukihana up and walks away saying, "Clean up the garbage, trash." "VOI, who's the brat?", Squalo asks but Xanxus just ignores him and walks away.

On the way back to the party Tsukihana looks up and asks, "Who are you onii-san?" He tells her his name and asks how she was able to kill the trash back there. Giggling she said, "don't tell anyone but I learned by watching someone at school fighting off adults..." signing she muttered "I hate school." At this Xanxus just raised an eyebrow and seeing this she explained, "If I don't pretend to be dumb the kids bully me worse than they do now and nobody likes me but I'm not dumb I'm really smart, but I don't want to upset mama more than I already do." Xanxus doesn't know what possessed him to say it but he did, "I like you Tsukihana." Looking up she asked, "Really?" All he did was grunt is affirmation making her smile. Again, not knowing what came over him he said, "Mine", at that she giggled again and said "Ok." They arrived back to the party where Xanxus sets Tsukihana down and she runs off to her dad after spotting him, waving to her new friend. Neither of them knowing that was the last they would be able to physically see each other for several years because the next morning she was on a plane back to Japan. Although that did not mean that they lost contact, they would write and call each other without anyone being none the wiser. Except for her grandpa that is after asking him for her new onii-san's contact information and asking him to keep it a secret before she left.

5 years later during the Ring Battle

During the battle for the Lighting Guardian before the Cervello could begin the fight the two sets of guardians were bickering with each other. Tsuna as her friends, or really everyone because everyone but her mama and Xanxus forgot her real name, called her was just watching everything in silence. This confused both her dad and Reborn, because to them she has only ever showed her damn self, who would always try to stop any conflicts that popped up. Meanwhile Xanxus watched as well but from his throne like chair on a higher area of the roof with his Guardians until the knife throwing trash said something he should not have, "What do you all see in her, she is weak unless you are all following her cause she can do nothing but spread her legs for you Shishishishi." This set off everyone on her side though some, Reborn, was able to hide it, as well as Xanxus, though he was less obvious. While her guardians were in an uproar Xanxus stood up slowly scowl on his face in rage and walked over to him before shooting him at point blank range with his flames of wrath and said, "Disgusting trash." Bel after a moment to collect himself got up and went back in line not daring to argue with his boss.

After this Xanxus and Tsukihana continue to stare at each other in silence despite the noise of the decima's Guardians and the quiet muttering of the Varia Guardians. Forgetting the danger of the field for the battle Tsukihana walks toward Xanxus as he jumps down onto the roof top from the platform and takes a single step towards her. She had made past the danger area just as a lightning bolt struck to the relief of her friends for her safety. Although, as she continued to walk towards Xanxus they started to scream and shout for her to get away from him, but she does not listen.

Looking at her now Xanxus can do nothing but see how much she has changed. She still had her brunette hair but unlike the uncontrollable mane it used to be, it was now long and curly down to her mid-back. Her eyes still the brown they were, but for the orange tint to it now that she had more control of her flames. Her body has developed and filled out to that of a young woman despite her being 14, but with still some room to grow and mature. As he was looking at her and seeing the changes in her she too saw how much he had grown.

(AN: XanXus looks the same as in the anime)

"Dame-Tsuna what is going on?" asked Reborn, but she just ignored him. Normally this would be a problem, but she just does not care at the moment. Xanxus though raised an eyebrow at the name in silent question. "Can I stop know, I'm tired of pretending?" she asked. In the background Tsukihana's dad asked, "What do you mean pretending Tuna-fishy?" But like always nobody cared what the idiot had to say. All Xanxus did was nod his head and smirk at the fact he was the only one to know the truth about who she truly was, not to mention that she asked for him permission before asking to reveal the truth, "You are not trash." This shocked anyone who knew of him for he was known to call everyone "trash." Meanwhile, she turned around to face her friends and family with standing straight and her back against his chest getting angry growls from her Guardians, except Lambo, and her dad. Xanxus lifted one of his arms and wrapped it around her waist, turned his head to look at Iemitsu, and smirked even wider. Leaning into the embrace she answered Reborn, "I am done being someone I'm not, just like I'm done being every bodies punching bag." At that Reborn only asked "Then who are you?" while Xanxus growled, tightened his hold on her, and demanded, "Who touched you?"

Once again ignoring Reborn causing an angry tick mark to form on his forehead, not that anyone could see it under his fedora, she answered Xanxus instead. "It's fine now, Kyoya-nii took care of them for me, not only is he my Cloud Guardian but he is like a big brother to me despite being what he calls an Omnivore." This statement shocked her friends, because they knew exactly how Hibari-san is, she said something that would get her 'Bitten to Death' by the demon prefect, 1) she called him by his first name without permission to their knowledge, and 2) he supposedly called her 'Omnivore'. To the groups knowledge everyone are herbivores except for the few carnivores.

"I don't care, trash touched what is mine, and make no mistake you are mine." Xanxus growled in her ear, but still everyone was able to hear him, sending shivers down her spine. Surprisingly it went unnoticed by everyone, even Reborn, in their shock except Xanxus who was holding her and could feel it. It was quiet after that until Gokudera shouted, "She's not yours." At this XanXus turned his away from Tsukihana to the loud trash and just raised an eyebrow in amusement.

Having had enough with being ignored Iemitsu yelled, "ENOUGH, Xanxus release my daughter, Tuna-fishy what did you mean by your done pretending?" Begrudgingly agreeing with the idiot Reborn says, "Dame-Tsuna listen to Baka-Iemitsu." Sighing Tsukihana still in Xanxus's arms replies, "First stop calling be that ridiculous name, my name is Tsukihana the only reason people call me Tsuna or Dame-Tsuna is because everyone but Mama and Xanxus forgot my real name or just didn't care to learn it, or use it I assume in your case Reborn. Second what I mean is that I am not stupid on the contrary I am very intelligent. I had to pretend I was bad at everything to minimize myself as a threat to others in school, to make myself less of a target for the constant bullying. As a result, I am mainly verbally insulted instead of the physically which it taken care of for me when it does happen. Now normally I wouldn't care about others and follow Kyoya-nii's example but unfortunately it made Mama upset and she is the only adult I care about. As for Xanxus it is as he said." During her whole speech Reborn watched for any lie and found none so he said, "Until proven to me otherwise as your tutor you will be Dame-Tsukihana, as for him explain how you two even know each other."

"When I was young Iemitsu brought me to Italy, there was a boring party, so I slipped away to explore and came upon Xanxus in the middle of an assassination attempt on his life. The group of idiots saw me and one took me hostage, I didn't like it so I bit his hand that was holding a knife to me, took it, and stabbed him in the leg and killed him. After that Xanxus brought me back to the party and just before we left back to Japan grandpa gave me his number, so we stayed in contact, everything just went from there," said Tsukihana as if it was nothing. "VOI that brat was you!" Screamed Squalo in the background causing her to look up at him and reply, "Yup."

"Ma ma so what the ring game?" asked Yamamoto. At this Tsukihana turned back around to Xanxus wanting to hear his reply to her Rain Guardian, seeing the look in her face he released her, took a step back, and handed her his half of the sky ring stating for his Guardians to hear, "You are Decima and I lead Varia but you are mine so Vongola is mine through you." She smirks at him and states, "I am yours but Vongola is not until we are married, and you still have to take me to dinner first." Her smart mouth just causes him to laugh like a maniac while everyone else behind her just shivers in fear at the idea of Tsuna, or rather Tsukihana, married to the ruthless assassin.

After the rest of the rings are exchanged on Xanxus' orders and everyone starts to head home after the long night the only ones left are Tsukihana, Xanxus, and Reborn. "Since you lied to me your tort-tutoring tomorrow will be worse than before plus I need to see what you are really capable of Dame-Tsukihana." She just sweat drops and sighs knowing there is no arguing with him and turns to Xanxus, "Will you be sticking around for a little while?" He turns and starts to walk away "You'll see" is all he says before he is gone. With that the last two on the roof also head home for the night curios what he meant by that.

(AN: Tell me what you all think about this by leaving a review and what should I have Xanxus do to surprise Tsukihana and her Guardians.)