CH2: Kyoko's Request

Gokudera could not hide his shock from what Kyoko had just said to him. Maybe he had heard it wrong.

"Come again?"

"I want you to be Tsuki chan's Godfather." Kyoko beaming at him with her usual smile.

Nope. He hadn't heard it wrong.

"Kyoko. Have you completely lost your mind? You know how things were like with me and Lambo growing up. I suck with kids."

"True." Kyoko admits bluntly, stunning Gokudera even more.

"Then why in the world would you think I'd be any good at watching over Tsuki as her Godfather?" Not understanding Kyoko's train of logic.

"Because you love Tsu-kun so much." She smiles

"Eh? W-what do you mean by that Kyoko?" Gokudera asks hoping she wasn't implying what he fears she was implying.

"You love him." Kyoko continues smiling. "The same way I love him, just as much as I love him, for all of the same reasons I love him. You also have tons of your own reasons for loving him."

She was implying what he feared she was implying. Laughing nervously, Gokudera attempts to tap dance his way around the issue.

"W-well we've been friends for a long time and we're close and everything but, Kyoko I wouldn't go that far…"

"Wouldn't you?" Kyoko smiles with a look in her eyes that said he wasn't fooling her.

Gokudera sighs knowing he lost. "D-did the 10th tell you?"

"Well, he talked to me about it before we got married, after he proposed and before the official engagement party. He wanted to know if I was ok with the fact you two dated in the past, if it bothered me at all. I told him already knew all about it."

"EEH!! Since when?"

Gokudera's exclamation is soon followed by a sudden out break of crying coming from Tsuki chan's crib. The Storm Guardian proceeds to bow profusely. "Sorry, sorry, Kyoko, I'm so sorry…"

Kyoko giggles as she goes over to attend to her fussing daughter. "Don't worry about it."

"Anyway, to answer your question." Kyoko continues as she picks Tsuki up. "I've always sort of suspected you had some kind of feelings for Tsuna. You two were always so close and it was obvious you worshiped the ground he walked on. And then that time, at the beginning of the first year we were all in High School…when you got really depress all of a sudden and he was helping you get through something, you got closer, he even started calling you by your first name. I could tell you were more than just friends."

"K-Kyoko…" Gokudera hadn't realized she had been so perceptive back then.

"Just kidding… I saw you two making out on the roof one day towards the end of the first year of high school. It wasn't until I saw that I pieced together everything else."

Gokudera nearly falls over "Kyoko."

Kyoko giggles "I've always been so dense you know. I'm always the last to figure things out. By the time I had figured out Tsu-kun had liked me, he was already with you. I figured I missed out. So I was surprised when he asked me to go out after graduation."

Gokudera looks way. It had been his idea for him and Tsuna to break up and for Tsuna to start pursuing Kyoko again. Though it was rare to find gays or bisexuals in the Mafia, or at least guys who'd admit to it, it wasn't like they were completely nonexistent. However in Tsuna and Hayato's case, there was no way it could work with them. Or rather, no way it could end happily ever after. Tsuna was the Boss, the head of the family, and since he didn't have any siblings or anything it would all be on him to provide heirs and continue the Vongola bloodline. If they stayed together the family elders and advisers would make their lives a living Hell. He also knew Tsuna wouldn't be cofortable having one or the other in the posision of a mistress. He couldn't let the Boss go through any of that.

Hayato had convinced Tsuna to start pursuing Kyoko again and go out with her. She was his first love after all and he cared deeply for her, so it's not like the relationship would be a sham. And this way, things would go much smoother once it came time for him to officially take over after the 9th. It killed something inside of him to do it but Hayato knew he loved Tsuna enough to let him go.

"Y-you still haven't told me what makes you think I'd be any good at taking care of your kid Kyoko." Gokudera trying to change the subject.

"I told you. Because you love Tsuna."

"And what does that have to do with me being good with Tsuki?"

"It has everything to do with it."

Gokudera raises a curiously questioning eye brow.

Kyoko walks over and holds Tsuki out to him. "Take her for a moment."

Gokudera backs up a step "Ah, Kyoko, I don't think that's a good idea."

"It'll be fine." Kyoko smiles "Just hold her."

Tsuki was still fussing a bit and flailing her tiny arms. Gokudera sighs and reaches out to take the child from her mother. She's light, weighing next to nothing in his arms. She's so small. So frail and helpless.

Tsuki suddenly stops fussing and failing. Gokudera sees her looking up him as if contemplating him. He wasn't her mommy. Who was this strange new person? He half expects her to start crying again…he tended to have that effect on kids. But she doesn't. She only lays there contently in his arms totally and completely trusting.

"Tsuki is Tsuna's child; she's a small piece of him." Kyoko says. "And I know you'd love and care for his child just as much as you love and care for him."

Gokudera look up Kyoko. "But…I…well…"

He can't think of anything good to say to that. He looks back down at the baby girl in his arms. She's still looking up at him with those big brown eyes. He suddenly feels a familiar feeling looking into them that makes him smile softly.

"She has the Boss's eyes." He says

"She does doesn't she." Kyoko smiles

Gokudera smiles a bit more. It was the first time he ever really looked at the child. She took after father for the most part but had Kyoko's copper brown hair. "You have to admit she is kinda cute."

Gokudera looks down at Tsuki "You're gonna cause me all kinds of problems trying to keep all the creepy guys away from you hu?"

Kyoko laughs "Oh I'm sure she will."

"But you're gonna be a nice sweet little girl and do what you're told and won't give us a hard time now won't you?" Gokudera smiles putting his face close to Tsuki's

Tsuki chan smiles and reaches out to Gokudera.

"Ah, see there. She likes you already Gokudera kun." Kyoko smiles

"Heh, you think s –AH! Owowowow!"

Gokudera is interrupted by a dull pain in his head as Tsuki grabs a small handful of his hair.

"Ahla! Tsuki chan dame dayo." Kyoko reverting to her native tougue. "You shouldn't do that to people." Kyoko extracting Gokudera's hair from the baby girl's tiny fist and taking her off the Storm ring bears hands.

"Heh." Gokudera laughs cynically "Oh you're gonna be a little Hellcat aren't ya."

Tsuki laughs again.

Hayato smiles slyly "There might be hope for you yet."

Yay! Update...don't know when the next chapter will be up tho

So of coures Gokudera is the Godfather...(no Mafia pun intended really, I've never even seen the movie...) for Tsuki. Sure Gokudera sucks with kids, but Kyoko relaizes how much Tsuna means to him and that he'll apprecate getting to be a part of raising Tsuki chan

Heh. Tsuki chan is so gonna have Gokudera wrapped around her little finger X3