Disclaimer: I do not own Katekyo Hitman Reborn.
It was supposed to be a simple mission; Nuvola and Squalo were sent to remove of a spy who had been leaking Vongola secrets to a rival family. However the mission was compromised as the spy had strong backup, who dealt considerable damage to both Nuvola and Squalo. However they had managed to take out the spy and the backup before staggering back to the castle. With numerous injuries, Squalo, with a broken arm, was forced to drag Nuvola, bleeding heavily from multiple cuts, back to the castle. As soon as they set foot in the castle Nuvola passed out from blood loss, and was quickly carried off the infirmary by Lussuria.
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"Boss, we have a problem. It's Nuvola…well, you best see for yourself." Fran stood in the doorway of Xanxus office and gestured for Xanxus to follow him.
"This better be important, kasu." Xanxus spat as he followed Fran to the infirmary.
"It is boss, the others are in shock. It seems Nuvola isn't who we thought he was."
Xanxus stood at the side of Nuvola's bed. He was still unconscious, but as far as Xanxus could tell, under the pile of blankets, Nuvola looked the same as he did the day he arrived.
"Kasu, what is this. He looks no different."
Xanxus turned to glare at his subordinates.
"Ishishishi, you need to move the blankets boss."
Xanxus gave a glare at Bel then turned back to Nuvola and pulled the blankets away.
A pause, and then;
"Breasts? You called me down here because he has man boobs?"
"VOI! He's not even a he! Nuvola is a girl!"
"Ishishishi, they're not particularly big, that's probably how she got away with being mistaken for a boy."
The Varia stared at each other for a bit. Unsure of what to do now that they had discovered the new cloud guy was actually a cloud girl.
"Send her to me when she wakes up. She can explain herself then." And with that Xanxus left.
It was a week later when Nuvola finally woke up and needless to say the first thing she did not want to see was an angry and loud Squalo.
"VOOOOOIIIIIIIIII! When where you going to tell us that you were a girl! The boss wants to see you, go now!"
Nuvola didn't need telling twice, Squalo looked as though he was about to explode.
Nuvola reached out to knock on the door, when it opened and Lussuria walked out.
"Oh my! You've woken up! Come and find me when you've finished with the boss. You need some new clothes to wear. Boy clothes aren't a very cute thing for little girls to wear." Lussuria cooed.
Nuvola slipped into Xanxus office as Lussuria walked down the corridor. As the door clicked shut Xanxus looked up, ever present glass of Whiskey in his hand.
"Kasu, come here."
Nuvola moved to the front of Xanxus desk. Xanxus glared at her and Nuvola hoped he wasn't going to throw the Whiskey glass at her, she had seen the sticky mess that was Squalo after a glass had hit his head, and she didn't want to end up in the same state.
"When were you planning on stopping lying about your gender?"
"I didn't lie, you never asked, you all assumed I was a guy and I never bothered to correct you" Nuvola responded.
"Why allow us to continue to assume you were a male?"
"Because if you knew I was a girl you would have treated me like I was weak, and you would most likely refuse to accept me as the replacement Varia cloud."
"Kasu! Women are weak. Look at you; you managed to get knocked out by a couple of bodyguards on a simple mission. Women don't belong in the mafia; you'll cause problems with the other members of the Varia, I don't need them getting you pregnant and then having to run around after you." Xanxus growled.
Nuvola was fuming at the way Xanxus was talking about her.
"Fuck you. It was more than a simple mission and you know it. You must have seen the state Squalo was in as well! You call me weak when you got your ass handed to you on a silver platter by a bunch of teenagers! And what's with that crap about me causing problems for the other members of the Varia. They're perfectly fine with me being a girl and I can look after myself. You're just a finicky, drunken, chauvinistic pig!"
That had done it. Xanxus had snapped. Nuvola knew he had a short temper and now she saw first-hand how angry he could get. Within seconds he had her pinned to the floor and a barrel of an X-Gun was pointing at her throat.
"You want to say that again?" Xanxus voice was so low that had Nuvola not been so close to him she would not have heard his voice. Nuvola knew she would be pushing her luck when she gave her response.
"You heard me the first time."
Xanxus pushed the gun a little further into her throat, causing her to gasp for breath. Before moving off of her completely and leaving the office.
Nuvola lay on the floor stunned for a few minutes. She realised she was lucky that Xanxus had not chosen to blow a hole in her throat. Gathering her wits she stood up and headed over to the kitchen to find Lussuria.
"Lussuria?" She croaked out as she pushed the door open. Her throat was dry after her encounter with Xanxus.
"Nuvola! You're as white as a sheet! Did Xanxus hurt you? Tell your auntie Luss what he did!"
Lussuria pulled out a chair and sat Nuvola down, before handing her a cup of tea and some tissues. It took Nuvola a while to click why he had given her tissues, and then she realised that she had been unconsciously crying.
"Voi. You're lucky he didn't actually pull the trigger, the last person who back-talked to him ended up dead. Lussuria had to clean the brains off the floor." Squalo interrupted as he wandered into the kitchen, followed by Bel and Fran.
"Ishishishi, the boss clearly has a soft spot for the cloud peasant." Bel turned his creepy smirk to Nuvola.
"What do you mean?" Nuvola narrowed her eyes at Bel.
Lussuria waved his arms around and giggled. "Bel-chan thinks the boss fancies you, he's probably right though, if he didn't you'd probably be dead by now."
Nuvola choked on her tea, as Bel and Squalo laughed.
"Voi, if the boss fancied her he would have dragged her straight to his bedroom, not pressed a gun to her throat."
Fran interjected "Unless that's his way of flirting."
"Kawai! The boss has found a future wife." Lussuria squealed as Nuvola promptly fainted. "Oh dear, I think she's had too much excitement for one day. Squalo-chan where's her bedroom?"