Disclaimer: I do not own Katekyo Hitman Reborn or Saw.
It was a relatively uneventful Monday morning. Xanxus was eating his usual breakfast of meat, while giving Squalo a whiskey shower, Fran was antagonising Bel, Levi was doting over Xanxus, and Lussuria was attempting to force breakfast down Nuvola's throat.
"Open wide Nuvola, here comes the train!"
"Kasu, shut up."
"But boss! Nuvola needs to eat breakfast; she's all skin and bones!" Lussuria pulled at Nuvola's cheeks to emphasize his point.
"VOI! She's not a baby!"
"Ishishishi, how old is the peasant anyway?" All eyes turned to face Nuvola.
"It's on my file, and it's rude to ask a lady's age." Nuvola replied indignantly
"Depends on whether the person asking thinks you're a lady." Xanxus shot her a glare across the table.
"My age and gender were on my file. But the fact that all of you thought I was a guy when I joined tells me that you haven't bothered reading it."
"What file? All we got was a letter saying you were arriving!" Squalo yelled down the table.
"It was stuck behind the letter…" Nuvola stared blankly back at Squalo.
"Kasu can't do anything properly, can you?"
"VOI! You're the one who screwed it up and threw it at me!" Squalo yelled at Xanxus, and was, once again, hit in the face with a glass tumbler.
"Now now, let's not fight. Open up Nuvola!"
"You asked for me?" Nuvola closed the door to Xanxus office and moved toward his desk.
"Mission. You're coming with me." Xanxus shoved a pile of papers in to her hands.
"This is for a meeting with the Vongola Decimo."
"I know that kasu. Shark-trash and Lussuria are busy, and the others annoy me. I have to take someone so congratulations, you've made the shortlist. We leave tomorrow, pack for a week."
Nuvola sat opposite Xanxus on the Varia private jet, flipping through the provided movie selection while Xanxus downed all the miniature whiskeys in sight.
"Is "Saw" ok with you."
"Mm."
"I'll take that as a yes."
Two hours of blood and guts later, the pair landed in Japan and got into a private car that would take them to Namimori. An uneventful ride found them deposited outside the Japanese Vongola headquarters, being greeted by the ninth.
"Xanxus, I see you bought Nuvola along! The meetings only going to be between yourselves, Tsunayoshi and I, so you'll have plenty of time to show Nuvola around Namimori." Timoteo lead the pair through the entrance and in to a small but comfortable meeting room where Tsuna was waiting.
Two hours later and the meeting was over, it was nothing more than a general review of what the different factions of the Vongola had done over the last year, and strategy planning for dealing with rival families. This left Nuvola with ample time to explore the town.
Nuvola decided she liked Namimori. Tsuna had shown her round his school and she'd met his mother who had given her a bag full of Japanese food to take back to Italy. She was now spending the remaining amount of her time browsing the shops around the town.
"Kasu, you're carrying all those bags on to the plane." Xanxus eyed up the armfuls of bags that she was carrying towards the hotel.
"I can stuff them into my suitcase. Most of this is packaging anyway." Nuvola replied as she forced her way through the doors that Xanxus had allowed to shut in her face.
"Tch, I don't want to hear any complaining about heavy suitcases then."
It happened so quickly, one moment she was waiting with Xanxus for the car to take them back to the castle, and the next, she's pushed to the ground, with Xanxus lying over her, acting as shield from incoming fire from passing cars, returning fire, whilst attempting to move them both behind a wall where they can seek temporary shelter from the bullets.
"Take out your daggers, they're leaving the cars, take down all of them." Xanxus ordered her as he used his X-guns to fly around and blast the cars into small pieces. Nuvola dodged the incoming fire and de-capitated 5 of the men firing at them, Xanxus took out another three as Nuvola threw her daggers at the remaining two men.
"Phone Shark-trash. Tell him what happened. I'm going home."
"Wait, what? You can't just leave like that!" Nuvola sighed as Xanxus stalked off to where the car to collect them had just pulled up.
"VOI! WHAT IS ALL THIS!"
"Ishishishi, looks like the boss and the peasant made a mess."
"They opened fire at us, who are they?" Nuvola kicked one of the men by her feet.
"Pesca family members, Squalo-sempai, I thought you said that the Pesca family would be weakened with the removal of their boss?" Fran held in his hand a few pieces of paper detailing the identity of one of the men.
"I thought we weakened them? How could they have done this?" Nuvola pulled the papers out of Fran's hands.
"They probably had reserve leaders in case the boss got killed." Fran answered.
"They're still a threat to the Vongola. Where did Xanxus go?" Nuvola pointed Squalo in the direction Xanxus had gone. "Right, clear off back to the base, someone has been sent to clean this up."