My Storm, My Cloud, My Sun, My Sky
Summary: Reborn met Fon, they became Arcobaleno and went separate ways, not seeing each other for years. Kyoya was born, Fon had to leave to protect his family and they didn't see each other for years. Tsuna met Reborn, the adventure starts. Hibari met Reborn, craziness starts. Dino met Kyoya, Fon returns and secrets are revealed. Better than it sounds, I promise! D18, RF, LalCol possible others.
"Okay, so," Reborn said about five days after the grand Arcobaleno wedding - grand in the sense that it had been for two Arcobaleno, even though there had been only a handful of people in attendance, meaning the Arcobaleno themselves, the Varia, Yamamoto Takeshi, the Sasagawa siblings, I-Pin and Dino and his shadow Romario - as he lazed about on the couch in the living room, that day's newspaper spread over his stomach, legs dangling over the other end of the couch as he idly playing with Leon while talking to the two Japanese cooking dinner in the kitchen. Well, Fon was actually in the walk-in pantry, getting some more vegetables, but Kyoya wasn't sure if Reborn knew that because he couldn't exactly see them from the couch. "Apparently you need a godparent."
Scratch that, the Baby had known and was, indeed, talking directly to Hibari.
"I mean, on your improved birth certificate," the Sun continued, not caring that there was a staring Varia Rain and Storm sitting across from him at the other couch, playing cards in between them on the middle cushion. "You need at least one name and so I've been thinking ... "
Lal Mirch, who had just walked into the room, heard that and promptly turned to leave again. Kyoya would have snorted if he hadn't learned in the past month or so that the Baby truly was very inclined towards chaos and that chaos followed him like a lost puppy.
"I can't decide who'd be best as your godparent." That made Lal Mirch pause and dread pooled in the prefect's stomach. The Arcobaleno were a crazy bunch, that's for sure, so whenever something 'normal' was at hand, they somehow managed to make it into a right disaster. How Fon's and Reborn's wedding went so well was a mystery, even though the Disciplinary Committee deserved all the credit for the success. Even the reception afterwards had been peaceful, as peaceful as such things can be. Sasagawa Ryohei and the Shark Rain had been uncomfortably loud, but so had the blond Rain, but at least there had been no explosions since the location and time of the reception had remained a secret.
There had been no cow children, no Poison Cooking, no explosions, no time traveling guests, no fights, no shooting, no mad science, no illusions causing trouble, no fires or fights or any of the general Vongola madness that has, unfortunately, become a part of Namimori in the last year.
It had felt almost surreal. Kyoya had just been waiting for the other shoe to drop, but it never had. Everything had gone smoothly and Reborn had whisked Fon away to an expensive inn with an onsen just outside of Namimori for a short two days honeymoon getaway, which Kyoya was grateful for because he was certain the two would be having sex to make up for all the lost time.
He's actually quite certain he now knew what the future version of the cow child had meant that day and he hated this new clarity.
There were just some things a child, no matter their age, should not know about their parents and their sex life was at the top of the list.
"I don't need a godparent," Kyoya replied carefully, well aware of their audience and that these conversations will be the main gossip topic within the hour of its completion. "I've never had one before. I don't need one now."
"You see, that's the thing," the strongest Arcobaleno countered. "I've happily taken the Hibari name, even if it's only on paper because I will always be just Reborn, but I'm not letting go of the wonderful practice from my homeland that says every child should have godparents. Or at least one."
"I don't need one."
"Well, you don't exactly need a pet, either, and yet you have one."
Hibird chirped in protest, for once sounding angry and offended. Kyoya reached over to pet the bird until it settled before shooting a glare at the fedora-covered head peeking from the nearer end of the couch.
"I may be no expert, but I am pretty sure godparents aren't a legal requirement. Besides, even if they were, no one would dare insist on one for me." It was Namimori and his files were not available anywhere else without his explicit permission. "You just want to be westernly herbivorously traditional, which is a great disappointment when coming from you."
"Just indulge me, will you? I'll even let you take the final pick after I narrow down the list of potential candidates."
The three listening in on their conversation went almost unnaturally rigid and Kyoya sighed. He's not yet had the same amount of experience in dealing with his 'papa' as he has had with his 'chichi', but he was still pretty sure he knew what this will eventually lead to. But then he got an idea on how to interfere with Reborn's entertainment and smirked. As if sensing that smirk, the well dressed man turned around his head to see him and frowned at the expression he found.
"Very well. I will accept a godfather. But," he emphasized. "It can't be just anyone."
"Of course," Reborn said, returning the smirk. "Only the best for my one and only son."
By the time Fon returned from the pantry not a minute later, the room was quiet save for the rustling on newspaper and the stirring of the hot pot of dinner, no one else in sight save the three Hibaris and their animals.
Kyoya almost couldn't wait to see what the Baby will do.
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The Arcobaleno were, of course, the first to make a move. It is based on the fact that Kyoya is the child of two of their members, so of course they deserve to get first dibs or something. Or simply dibs.
Fon doesn't even know what's going on, that much is clear from watching his 'chichi' - it's going to take a while for him to stop putting the quotes on both parental titles, but no one exactly expects him to immediately get used to suddenly having two parental figures; Reborn isn't helping it any, either, because he's too used to cosplaying and is trying out the various father figures he's dressed up as over the years to see which one Kyoya would prefer the best. Kyoya just wants him to start acting like the Baby again because he'd thought that would be pretty cool to have as a father; well, once he didn't look like an actual baby, anyway - as one by one, the Arcobaleno ambush him while he's doing this or that around the house or in the compound.
At first, they'd been 'every man for himself' but then Xanxus had surprised everyone by offering to clear the table after dinner, something Fon usually did by himself or Kyoya helped because he hated his house being made a mess of. Everyone had stared, not quite able to believe their eyes. The Monkey King had actually even washed the dishes by hand all by himself, even when the umbrella herbivore had offered to do it for him.
Then, one day, Shamal had walked in and offered to Reborn the position of family physician, as an old friend. Reborn no doubt saw right through it - he'd probably been the one to inform the sketchy doctor that he's managed to convince Kyoya that he should have godparents - and suddenly the Arcobaleno teamed up in the ultimate quest to win over Fon's favor because they knew Reborn would deny them just for the chaos of it.
Kyoya decided to sit back and watch and he suddenly realized where his more sadistic side came from. Fon was not sadistic. He should have seen it a year ago.
Of course, after the Arcobaleno managed to get it out of Fon that yes, of course you're the closest people in my life outside of Reborn and Kyoya, what is all of this about?, it then occurred to them that one can't have half a dozen godparents. One godmother and one godfather is usually how it's done according to Italian tradition or something. Kyoya watched as Lal Mirch and Colonello teamed up against Verde and Viper, the Arcobaleno Cloud all but thrown out of the race because 'there was no way Reborn would pick the lackey for his son's godfather', the two claiming more rights to the position for this or that reason.
Lal Mirch and Colonello believed they'd had more of a hand in the two fathers getting together because it's been ultimately their teasing that's gotten Reborn to really consider the thing he felt for Fon and realize he was madly in love with the martial artist.
Viper and Verde claimed that it was because they'd spiked Fon's drink that the two made Kyoya at all, which nearly made said teenager throw up because he really didn't want to know anything about his parents' sex life. Viper also claimed that they had helped Reborn out the most because Reborn had actually come to them to learn more about Fon in hopes of finding something that will help him in courting the Storm.
Their argument just assured Kyoya that he's made the right decision, because if people should be getting credit for why he's been born, then his choice wins by a mile.
Of course, just because the Arcobaleno have managed to make Fon say he preferred them to just about everyone else save his family - and maybe his student, but she was definitely too young to be in the running for godparent - didn't mean others who have heard about the search for Kyoya's godparent have quit. Shamal came to offer his 'sincerest apologies' for the Sakura-kura incident, the Monkey King - why he even wanted to be his godfather baffled Kyoya, but he had a suspicion it was out of one of two reasons: either he wanted to get in Reborn's (and Fon's, but mostly the world's greatest hitman's) good graces to piss off Nono or because he wanted to be called 'the godfather' like in that mafia cult movie so he could rub it in Nono's face - offered they can spar every day; Sawada Iemitsu had tried to approach him, but thought better of it and backed off when Kyoya took out his tonfa and lit Cloud Flames on his Ring. He doesn't know how strong or weak the herbivore is, but if he fights Kyoya, Fon and Reborn would come running no matter how the fight progresses and then he'd be screwed either way.
One day, there was a knock on the door of the Reception Room and Kyoya's instincts told him he should be the one to open it. When he did, he found the female Storm standing there with an actually bought instead of baked cake with a strained smile on her face. Kyoya firmly shut the door in her face and reinforced it with Cloud Flames, as well as the rest of the wall, in case she tried that trick from the 'wedding' some weeks back.
The day after, Sawada Nana, oblivious to just about everything, arrived at the same door with cookies. Fon likes cookies, so he took them, thanked her and told her she was welcome to their house if she never tells anyone, not even her son or husband, the address. He reinforces the promise with Mist Flames planting suggestions in her head, just in case, and watches her go with a ditsy smile on her face while wondering if he should tell anyone that she's a latent Sky with more potential than her Vongola-blooded son and husband. It feels like something the Baby should have already been aware of but wasn't.
He also wonders if he should ask either Lal or Mammon for Mist Flame lessons because while illusionists annoyed him, he knew they can be useful.
Yamamoto Takeshi seeks him out some days later, saying since 'the Kid' seems to like him so much, maybe he had a shot. Then arrived the rest of Sawada's herbivores and Kyoya promptly bit them all to death, only to return to his house and bite the Varia to death, too, because the Shark Rain and the umbrella herbivore were arguing both about who deserves to be considered the Monkey King's most loyal and best subordinate and who deserves godfather rights if their boss doesn't make it with the knife Storm edging them on.
The Arcobaleno/Varia Mist tries to bribe him, but Kyoya has inherited the full scope of riches and influence the Hibari name has borne for centuries, so he declines.
Things progress like that for a couple of weeks until Kyoya can't take it anymore and starts spending days on dates with Bucking Horse. The blond and none of his men have tried winning over any of the Hibaris for the position, though Dino's been definitely trying to win brownie points with the strongest and second strongest Arcobaleno for the right to date their son. At this point, Kyoya isn't sure if the hitman is being genuinely overprotective or if he's doing it for shits and giggles, but whatever the reason, he's definitely a bad influence on Fon, who would usually know to back down at this point.
Bucking Horse is more than willing to take him on day-long dates and distract anyone who comes up on them if Kyoya either doesn't feel up to dealing with them or is particularly homicidal at the moment.
The Disciplinary Committee, bless them, have taken to sending what they dubbed 'support baskets' full of tea, cookies and steak hamburgers to get their Chairman through these trying times of having a crazy family all of a sudden.
Kyoya swore the Hibari themselves had never been this strange. And no, it was not rose colored glasses or however that saying went. The Arcobaleno alone are crazy enough to drive him up the wall and he lives with them and the Varia. He's reaching his limit before he actually lets loose and goes on a killing spree.
And he'd thought them annoying before.
How wrong he'd been.
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All in all, it takes about three weeks for Kyoya to finally give in. Or rather, snap.
The Baby's had his fun. Now it was time for Kyoya to have his by ruining it.
So he called everyone together in his own home, might he add, though not the main building but rather one at the farthest edges of the compound that didn't even look like it was part of the compound, and sat them down for a serious talk and his decision.
"Because of the recent chaos going on," he glared at everyone, but especially his 'papa', who looked far too smugly delighted for Kyoya's liking. Though that might actually be more because of the hickies peeking from over the high neck collar of Fon's usual long red tunics rather than the above mentioned chaos he's been amusing himself with since he announced he wanted to find godparents for Kyoya. The younger skylark had the sudden urge to strangle him with Fon's own braid since the hitman had some sort of fetish-levels fascination with undoing it and then redoing it in the exact same way, several times a day when the two were relatively alone just about anywhere in the house. "Regarding the 'issue' of my lack of godparents, I've finally decided to appoint myself a godparent to stop the disturbance in discipline happening all around Namimori because of you herbivores before I have to bite you all to death irreversibly."
"Oh, so you've made your choice, then?" The Sun Arcobaleno asked, actually sounding genuinely surprised, while Fon by his side looked confused because yes, indeed, no one has outright told him why everyone was so helpful around the house as though he's an actual housewife. This revelation is bound to have him hunting like he's not hunted since the Hibari Clan massacre. The Disciplinary Committee Chairman would just have to kick back and relax and watch the show unfold as Fon gives everyone a piece of his mind for keeping something like that from him. It's bound to be interesting, if nothing else.
If the chaos waiting just behind the horizon at the moment doesn't overwhelm them all first, that is.
"Indeed. I've heard some pretty good points that everyone's made over the last three weeks and I've put it all into consideration. Who's had the most hand in bringing my parents together and thus ensuring that I am born, who had the most hand in getting them back together, who would best fit into our crazy little family, who we are likely all to have the same or similar opinion of, who will be around no matter what one of us may need ... I've considered it all and I've made my decision."
"Then don't keep us waiting, kora!" The blond Rain Arcobaleno exclaimed.
"Yeah, who'd you pick? It's the great and awesome Skull-sama, right? Because I can teach you all there is to know about Cloud Flames!"
"Shut up, lackey," said Lal Mirch as she whacked the stuntman hard enough that he'd feel it even through his helmet.
"Who is it you've chosen, Kyoya?" Fon asked calmly, ignoring the mini argument that broke out among his fellow Arcobaleno, some of the Varia joining in and Yamamoto Takeshi just laughing along as if it were all a joke or game.
The question, predictably, stopped the insanity in its tracks and everyone turned to Kyoya just as a knock came from the front door. The prefect did not move to open the door, knowing Kusakabe was well informed that there'd be one more guest arriving a little later that he should wait for at the door. "The person I've chosen as my godparent-"
"Kyoya? I got your message. Is something the matter?" A familiar man with white hair and glasses hiding purple eyes called as he walked into the room under Kusakabe's directions, freezing when he saw the people gathered there. "Kyoya? What-"
"Everyone, this is Kawahira, he runs a realtor shop in Namimori's shopping district," the youngest Hibari introduced with a smirk. "He's been a major help in lifting the Arcobaleno curse, thus helping me complete a life-goal of mine. Meet my new godfather."
The man in question looked stunned, then a bit worried before he settled on ... Delighted, for some reason. Probably because he's spent a long time alone as one of the last of his kind while protecting the Trinisette. It was temporary at best given the probability that the man will be guarding the Trinisette as long as it exists, but for now, he had a family and Kyoya, as a Hibari, knew just how important family is.
"I'd be honored, little Kyoya."
"Ah, so this is the mysterious Kawahira," Fon said by way of greeting, standing up and coming over to properly greet the man. Reborn followed, even going as far as shaking the man's hand though he had a confused look on his face and a calculating glint in his eyes. Kyoya counted the seconds until it clicked into place. "Thank you for what you've done. We wouldn't be here like this if it was not for your assistance."
"It was a pleasure and a relief," Kawahira replied honestly, smiling back at Fon, the both of them looking serene.
"Wait a second there, kora!" Colonello called out, standing up as well and coming to a stop in front of the little family, staring at Kawahira suspiciously and throwing confused glances at the teenager. "I get that he helped with the Trinisette - thanks by the way, dude - and maybe the whole being around thing since he's local, but he doesn't fit any of the other requirements you've listed, kora!"
"Yeah! He's just a civilian," Skull protested. "What did he have with bringing Fon-senpai and Reborn-senpai together?"
"If anyone has any hand in that, it's me and Colonello."
"Uh, no, it's me and Viper-"
"Voi! Not this shit again!"
"Oh, didn't I say?" Kyoya asked innocently - Ha! - as he looked around the room that once more settled to hear what he has to say. He saw that Bucking Horse had the horrified look of dawning realization and Kawahira looked no better. Kyoya Fought back a smirk. "You Arcobaleno actually all know Kawahira pretty well. Well, I suppose, anyway."
"We do?" Viper/Mammon asked suspiciously and Verde beside them narrowed his eyes, obviously trying to remember if he actually had met the man.
"Why yes. Don't you recognize him?"
"Kyoya-"
"Though I guess why it can seem so confusing."
"Kyoya," Dino called this time, warily, eyeing the strongest seven in the world because he knew what would follow.
"He does look quite a bit when he goes by-"
"Checker Face," hissed Reborn, the pieces finally fitting together even with the limited information he had at hand and Kyoya smirked as the man in question went as white as his hair. The other Arcobaleno immediately went tense as, automatically, killing intent started pouring out of them at the mere mention of the alias.
Kawahira gave Kyoya a helpless, beseeching look but the prefect only shrugged, smirk still perfectly in place.
"I love serving my revenge Arctic cold."
Kawahira didn't stick around for the initial surge of rage and bolted, the Arcobaleno following after him like the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, only there were seven of them. Yes, even the goofball Skull charged with his fellow formerly cursed infants as they chased after the retreating man who was trying to yell excuses and apologies and explanations back at them while avoiding the ever deadly power of the Arcobaleno. And they weren't even using the power of the Pacifiers yet.
The others all ran out after them - either to join in the blood hunt, like the Varia, or to try and stop it, like Sawada's group will foolishly attempt, no doubt - while Kyoya swiftly climbed to the main house's roof so he may observe the chaos. Yes, he took all of his physical features from the Hibari, including the strength of his Flames and the ease with which he'd mastered them, and yes, he did have some personality characteristics that he shared with Fon, but it's clear what he shares with his other father. The sharp mind, the seemingly all knowing eye, the shooting skills, the blood lust and, of course, the penchant for chaos, something he's suppressed mostly because he knew he'd have to return discipline afterwards and that was just not fun.
"Why the hell did you do that, Kyoya?" Asked the blond Don when Bucking Horse eventually joined him, sitting down beside the skylark as they both watched the fireworks that was the Man in the Iron Hat getting his butt kicked by the current Arcobaleno. It was probably a first for him, even in his long life. "I thought you liked Kawahira."
"I guess I do, in some way," the black haired one said easily. "I'm actually pretty grateful to him, for many things. If he hadn't decided on Fon and Reborn being the Storm and Sun Arcobaleno, I wouldn't be here today because it's very likely they never would have met each other. He's not so bad. However, he's made my family suffer for a decade, so he must pay. And I needed to get the others off of my back for a while. They've been driving me insane for weeks. Hopefully at least the Varia will leave soon. I want my peace and quiet back."
"Remind me never to get on your bad side," Dino said with a chuckle, leaning back on his hands to get a bit more comfortable. Kyoya ignored that comment and simply leaned over so that his head is resting half on the older male's shoulder, half on his chest. They'd gotten used to more physical contact ever since Kyoya has made it clear he'd fight for whatever it is that's been developing between them in the last two months or so. The sky soon started getting dark, as if hours were seconds, and they didn't move, both content to watch the chaos unfold. (Hey, Bucking Horse was Reborn's student while Kyoya shared genes with him; so sue them if they are practically conditioned to enjoy it.) "Man, all of this from a simple choosing of godparents."
"Hm. When we have ours, it's going to be either Kusakabe or Romario. They're both responsible and reasonably sane. I don't need any more craziness in my life than the combination of Hibari and Reborn."
The flashes of Flames across the sky with distant booms and screams were perfectly combined with Dino's choked spluttering and Kyoya was very pleased.
He may have said no more craziness, but he never said he didn't enjoy the chaos.