Disclaimer: I do not own Katekyo Hitman Reborn.
In hindsight, buying Xanxus that birthday present was probably not the best idea Nuvola ever had. But the look on Xanxus' face as he held up a pair of black furry cat ears, a cat mask, a tail and a cat collar was priceless. But Nuvola had managed to humiliate Xanxus to some degree as everyone at the party was laughing at him, only to be quickly silenced by the fire of the X-Guns, aimed at Nuvola's head. Now she found herself, faced covered in bandages, cleaning all the toilets in the castle as punishment.
Squalo found her a few days later with Lussuria peeling the bandages off of her, while his peacock aimed sun flames at the worst burnt parts of her face.
"There! All better, and look, there are no burn marks or scars left on your face at all!" Lussuria smiled and gave her a gentle shove towards Squalo.
"Voi! We have a mission. You, Lussuria and I are to deal with some members of a rival family who are trafficking drugs. We leave in an hour, and wash that pink lipstick off before we leave." Squalo scowled at her
"What do you mean! I'm not wearing any pink lipstick!" Nuvola rubbed her lips on the back of her hand and grimaced at the sight of the glossy pink colour. Turning to face Lussuria she saw him waving around a small bottle of lip-gloss.
"I thought I'd make you look prettier, and Squ-chan it's not lipstick, its lip-gloss." Lussuria continued to coo over Nuvola and attempted to apply blusher to her cheeks. Squalo turned to leave as Nuvola quickly scarpered out after him.
2 hours later found the three of them hidden outside with the moonlight lighting the Pesca family's mansion. Squalo had briefed them that they were to take out the boss and his right-hand man. Removal of the men at the top would cause the lower ranking members to go in to frenzy, making them an easy target to be picked off by any other Mafia families they had a rivalry with.
Sneaking into the mansion Squalo signalled to them to split up and search the different floors of the mansion. Lussuria took the ground floor, Squalo the second floor and Nuvola took the third.
Lussuria checked all the rooms and corridors on the ground floor, finding nothing but the occasional snoozing cat and a dead mouse, he found a staircase that led to the first floor, so decided to go up and help Squalo search.
"Voi! You're supposed to be downstairs. What are you doing here?" Squalo hissed as Lussuria appeared from a well-disguised door in the wall.
"No-one's downstairs! So I came to help you!" Lussuria waved his arms around.
"I don't need help! The Boss is in that room over there!" Squalo pointed to the end of the corridor.
The two of them quickly snuck into the bedroom, and with a quick jab of Squalo's sword the boss was dead.
"A bit odd don't you think Squ-Chan, that this place is unguarded."
"Who cares, let's find Nuvola, kill the right-hand man and get out of here before anyone wakes up."
Running up the stairs Squalo collided with Nuvola who was walking out of a bathroom clutching her stomach and holding a small dagger.
"Voi! Watch where you going! What are you doing in a bathroom?"
"Using the toilet. Why else would I be in there?"
"You're supposed to be getting rid of the right-hand man! Not taking a piss!"
"He's dead. I slit his throat. He snored really noisily. I figured you'd take a while with the boss as he was likely to guarded."
"VOI! Then you should have come and helped us!"
"But I really needed to use the toilet, and you two look fine, was the boss difficult to kill?"
Squalo blinked and looked away. "No."
"Come now. Let's go home!" Lussuria grabbed their arms and pulled them down the stairs.
"That was it? No guards? Nothing at all?" Xanxus looked at the three of them.
"Nothing at all. Just went in there and killed the two of them." Squalo replied.
"Fine. Here's another mission, take Bel with you this time. Leave now, Kasu."
As the door to Xanxus office shut Nuvola let out a long sigh as Squalo ordered her to fetch Bel.
"Ishishishi. What does the peasant want with the prince?"
"Mission. We need your furry mink. Xanxus wants to attach it to his hair." Nuvola grumbled as she caught the knife Bel threw at her.
"You shouldn't be mean to the prince." Bel walked up to her and took the knife out of her hand as he walked towards the door.
"VOI! What's wrong with you!" Squalo yelled at Nuvola who was seemingly sulking as they walked along.
"Mmnnnnn" Nuvola replied as she wrapped her arms round her waist.
"Ishishishi. The peasant has forgotten how to talk." Bel prodded Nuvola who growled at him.
"Now stop it you two. We need you to create a distraction so Squalo and I can steal the documents." Lussuria pushed the two toward the entrance of the building while he and Squalo walked towards the back.
"Ishishishi. This will be easy." Bel opened his box weapon and ordered the mink to burn a hole through the wall. Nuvola took out her small dagger and crouched down behind a low wall, ready to take down any guards that came too near the back door. Less than 5 minutes later Squalo and Lussuria came out with the documents and gestured to Bel and Nuvola to pull back. Bel called his mink back and Nuvola sheathed her daggers as they ran to catch up with Squalo and Lussuria.
As they headed back to the base, Squalo thumbed through the documents they had stolen. "It say's in these that Pesca family were planning on attempting to start a war with the Vongola."
"Was this the reason we took out the boss and right-hand man then?" Nuvola looked at Squalo for answers.
"Yeah, we only had it on rumour before that they were going to start a war with us, but this proves it."
"Wait, we took out two guys based on rumour? What if it wasn't true!"
"Ishishishi, that's how the Varia works."
"So what was that about the drug trafficking?"
"That was true, that was how they were planning in funding this war, and hopefully by now they will be weakened to the point where if they do challenge us, it won't be a problem for us to remove of them completely." Squalo said.
"Because you will have left them open to be slowly picked off by other families?"
"Precisely" Squalo answered as he put the documents in his jacket.
Once again they were sat in Xanxus office, as the man himself lazily flicked through the documents. Squalo and Bel were giving Nuvola funny looks as she hunched over in her chair.
"Kasu, what are you doing?" Xanxus shot her a glare as Nuvola let out a low groan.
"Cramps" Nuvola snapped back. "Can I go now? I don't see why I have to stay here."
Lussuria pulled Nuvola into a hug. "Poor Nuvola-chan has PMS!" As he said this Nuvola swore she saw the other three move their chairs away from her slightly. Xanxus dismissed her and she wiggled her way out of Lussuria arms and made her way up to her bedroom.
And again thank you to kenco-coffee for taking the time to proof-read this for me. xx