Thanks for reviewing guys, sorry if I've been a little whiny. Everyone has one of those moments. I like writing for readers, y'know? It's fun :)
Decided to post a quickie! Figured you guys would appreciate it because I like to take my time when writing...and if I went into more substantial stuff (coughlimecough), I would've taken much longer. Plus I haven't updated my other stories in a while! This story just gets my love because I like the chapters I'm writing at the moment c: Also in the while I haven't posted, I've been reading other fanfictions and watching Psycho-Pass. DOES KOUGAMI NOT LOOK LIKE HIBARI BECAUSE YES HE DOES. And Akane is so totally a fem!Tsuna. (Wait I got off-topic! I meant to say that I've also began to write Tsuna a little more differently, with more hints of masculinity because I tend to effeminate him a little too much. Uke!Tsuna is cute but still, he's a man).
Okay /will stop digressing
ahzria I've honestly never written Fon/Mammon, so we'll see how this goes c: And certainly, I've meant to that for a while now ehehe. Next chapter though. &thanks for your motivation! Victory Is My Name HI HOSANNA ;D Aww, my phone's not in military time though :c kyoneko87 ehehe...have some 6927 in this chapter. Also, I'll have that woman and her kid reappear as soon as they're needed as plot devices *-*... of course, the other characters haven't been added because they run in different social circles. Once university starts, the fun beings 8D ~ Thank you for your praise! n_n GreenDrkness Sadly she has no clue (as of yet!) Guest I felt that I've seen that type of Tsuna too often, so I decided to go a different route ;D Oooh, you're a Fon/Mammon shipper too? I've been reading up on that pairing lately and it's been...interesting. Calemirneth aw, thanks sweetheart! WhiteAnxiety I love alternated games! And I know, I'm not a fan of cliffhangers either, but you gotta end the chapter ;c onewiththetree Sadly, it's been confirmed that Mammon is a male...up till the point I read the Reborn! wikia, I've always thought s/he was a girl LOL Thanks! Wolf1989 shh. no one needs to know. ;) asian0music0love those asterisk are very...suggestive. Planning to do some of that Reborn/Skull next chapter! yuuhikari0308 You know...;)...stuff. SOON. As in next chapter. p. ageha coming next chapter (the 1827 that is) - since the odds of the jokers being Hibari and Tsuna are kind of slim considering the number of players...which is why I'm kicking some out LOL NAO-chan33 Not sure...bursts of confidence? Maybe? Thanks for the encouragement and luck! n_n red-fox-weng ...what? Chocolate, Tsuna, and mine is all I understand because it looks like Spanish ;( ezcap1st oh dear, 2013 seems to be a tough year for everyone...so many things going on _ And I know right?!
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Pairings in this chapter (thought it would be a good idea to start this): 6927/2769, slight 8059, slight Fon/Mammon, Colonello/Lal not mentioned BUT IT'S THERE. c:
Also in this chapter: Tsuna lapdancing
grappa - a type of Italian wine
Sexy Back by Justin Timberlake references
The next round of cards were dealt.
Lambo took a sip out of his grappa wine mix before setting it down on the table. "I'm King." He swirled the contents of his drink around nonchalantly as he thought of an order. "Red Joker gives Black Joker a lap dance for a minute."
Tsuna flipped his card, blanching when he saw the Red Joker. Shitshitshitshitshit. He took a gulp of his drink to attempt to calm his nerves, grimacing the slightest bit when he remembered that he had switched glasses with Hibari.
"'Fess up jokers," Giotto said, a tad irritable due to the slow pacing of the game.
"I'm the Black Joker," Mukuro said with an amused look on his face.
"I have the Red Joker," Tsuna muttered. Gokudera gave him an extremely pitying look and patted him on the shoulder while Giotto spluttered and set his drink down.
"I want to volunteer as tribute!" he demanded, slamming his hands down on the table.
"You're not nearly drunk enough to start quoting Hunger Games shit okay, Giotto?" G said, flicking his best friend's forehead.
"Nufufu. No can do, Giotto, you know as well as I do. No exceptions," Daemon said with an air of finality.
"You make it sound like Tsunayoshi-kun just received the death penalty," Mukuro said, punctuating his sentence with a wicked grin.
"I made up the goddamn rules," Giotto growled as he glared-pouted at G and rubbed his forehead, but knowing that it was of little use.
Tsuna felt incredibly self-conscious as just about everyone at the table directed their attention at him. He did the only thing he could think of—he picked up his drink and started to take large gulps.
"Oi, does he even know how to?" Colonello asked. Giotto's eyes brightened up at the loophole.
"No of course he doesn't—"
"I do," Tsuna cut in, his eyes at half-mast as he lowered his lips back on his—Hibari's—drink. "Just let me finish this first." He was going to have to numb himself as thoroughly as possible.
"The kid can drink decently," Lal commented. Cozart nodded in agreement beside her.
Reborn smirked. "Of course, I did tutor him after all."
Giotto, however, look positively scandalized. "Where in the world did he learn how to give a lap dance? The last time I checked, Namimori was a pretty modest town..."
Enma and Cozart coughed, communicating with their eyes silently that that night was to remain a secret.
Yamamoto whistled when Tsuna finished the gin and tonic. Tsuna took a deep breath and closed his eyes. When they opened again, they were flecked with amber. Only the most observant noticed. The brunet sauntered over to Mukuro.
"Do you prefer it with music?" Tsuna asked in a surprisingly stable voice. Before Mukuro got a chance to reply, Daemon tossed his phone at the brunet.
"Choose a song from there, it's already hooked up to the karaoke machine."
Tsuna caught it effortlessly, swiping his thumb across his screen and choosing the first song he saw that had the word "sexy" in it. If he had to do something, he might as well do it all the way.
"Kufufu. Don't disappoint me, Tsunayoshi-kun," Mukuro said with a devious twinkle in his eye. Tsuna remained unfazed—it was probably the alcohol working its wonders.
"Remember, no touching, okay?" Tsuna whispered in Mukuro's ear before smirking slowly.
The familiar beat that played through the karaoke speakers had everyone thinking "Of course Daemon would have this song."
"I'm bringing sexy back..." Tsuna glanced provocatively over his shoulder, his usual wide eyes and innocent face sharpening into a sexy expression.
"Them other boys don't know how to act..." Tsuna trailed a hand seductively up Mukuro's legs, letting them linger on this thighs for a second before gently parting them to make more room for himself.
"I think it's special what's behind your back..."
Tsuna parted his legs over Mukuro's right knee, and rhythmically swayed his hips to the beat of the song. He bent over to stretch the material of his jeans (he had automatically went for comfort when Giotto told him to get dressed) more thinly over his ass, hovering back several times to feather light touches against Mukuro's clothed arousal that was guaranteed to grow more prominent in the next few moments.
It was incredibly awkward facing his audience (despite the fact that his eyes were fixated on the arabesque-ish designs on the carpet) and not his client. It would also be incredibly awkward vice versa, but he decided to go with the lesser of the two evils and paused his hip swaying momentarily to turn around. Mukuro was staring at him with widened eyes and lips parted slightly in part shock, part awe, and part lust. The part of Tsuna that wasn't completely engrossed with monitoring his movements (so he wouldn't end up kicking Mukuro in the spleen or something in the midst of straddling him on the chair) was concentrated on making said movements as slow as possible. He had to drag this out for a minute, after all.
"So turn around and I'll pick up the slack."
When Tsuna finally positioned himself neatly on Mukuro's lap, the illusionist had regained his composure and was staring calmly at him with an infuriatingly sexy smirk. Tsuna returned the smirk with one of his own, carefully timing his next movement so he could stay on beat.
The occupants of the table stared at Tsuna in rapture as he started to twist and gyrate, his arms raised above his head to avoid getting in his way. When Timberlake hit the part of the song where he sang about shackles and slaves, Tsuna put his hands together as if they were bound by handcuffs.
"You don't need to see this Yuni," Reborn said matter-of-factly as he covered her eyes. The girl pouted and moved his hand out of the way.
"Uncle Reborn," she whined when he censored her view again. Cozart sweatdropped. Uncle?
"It's just that no one makes me feel this way." Tsuna had to move his hands down so he could trap Mukuro's hands before they went to places they shouldn't be going to. The illusionist's breathing was starting to get strained as Tsuna continued to grind against him tortuously. Alaude noted with narrowed eyes that Hibari was staring. The raven-haired male's gaze was in between a mix of mesmerized and incredibly pissed off. If he gripped his glass any harder, it would probably shatter.
Kyoko and Haru were staring in rapt attention, while Chrome averted her eyes after initially staring in surprise to spare her brother and the stranger she just met some embarrassment. Several of the more easygoing occupants of the table were able to chuckle—namely, Yamamoto, Asari and Knuckle. Giotto, despite his horror, was unable to take his eyes off the duo. The rest of the table shared his reaction. Minus the horror. Because damn, Tsuna lap-danced like a god.
("What are you doing?" Fon asked Mammon when she shifted in her seat awkwardly—no, suspiciously).
"None of your business," was her curt reply. Fon smiled in amusement—she was definitely up to something.)
Mukuro was this close to moaning in appreciation when Tsuna abruptly stopped his heavenly ministrations. With his remaining dignity, he winked at Tsuna and offered, "We can continue where we left off in my room." Tsuna tactfully ignored the illusionist and climbed off with as much grace as he could muster. Which admittedly, after the lap dance, was pretty low.
Elena was the first to break the silence after that. "That was pretty hot, Tsu-chan." The table then erupted in cat calls and raucous laughter. Tsuna's cheeks flamed in embarrassment and he hit Daemon up for another drink, this time receiving a mixture of Skyy vodka and coke along with a crooked smirk.
"We have a lot to talk about when we get home," Giotto mouthed to Tsuna. The brunet grimaced and lifted his glass to his lips to drink. Maybe if he got himself drunk enough, he wouldn't have to remember this in the morning (past experiences dictated that he had an unusually high tolerance for alcohol though, so that would be unlikely, and moreso because of Giotto's presence).
Viper, Knuckle, and Alaude received the threes and all gave them to Verde—the Chemistry major was a lightweight, and he was so drunk that he was starting to make googly eyes at Mukuro. Gross. Cozart received the Jack and ordered indiscriminately for everyone to drink up. Skull unceremoniously dumped Verde under the table when he passed out.
"Hey, this could become a thing, kora," Colonello commented. "Whoever passes out gets thrown under the table." Reborn smirked sinisterly at Skull. The stuntman gulped and hoped his superior wasn't getting any ideas.
The girls, namely Haru, Chrome, Kyoko, and Yuni were herded over to the karaoke and DDR station on the other side of the room (Reborn bluntly told Yuni to get the hell out unless she wanted to scar her virgin eyes, and the rest of the girls just followed, but with curiosity in their eyes).
"God, it's like a fucking sausage fest here," Gokudera muttered. Elena was taken and therefore never went too wild on drinking games (plus Daemon would whisk her away when her judgment grew too impaired). Lal was basically a man to him (goddamn Spartan bitch), and Mammon just gave him the creeps. He jumped about a foot in his seat when something warm covered his hand. He instinctively yanked it back, raising his annoyed eyes until they sighted on Yamamoto.
"Maa, Hayato, isn't this fun?" Yamamoto almost slurred. Gokudera rolled his eyes—he was getting tipsy already? Tsuna blinked as he sat and observed. Yamamoto's eyes didn't match the rest of his countenance—they were calculative and very much sober.
"What are you doing?" Gokudera hissed as Yamamoto began to intertwine their hands before moving it over until it was under the shadow of the table.
"Nobody can see like this," Yamamoto said brightly. The silver-haired Italian was about to protest, but realized that he didn't really have any reasons that a drunk Yamamoto would heed. Plus, the way their hands were clasped together and radiated warmth felt...nice. Warm. Peaceful. Like they belonged with each other—Gokudera put a stop to that train of thought. Those type of thoughts were unhealthy. Daemon dealt out the next hand.
"Bow down to the King, peasants!" Lampo crowed. G's eye twitched as his hand clenched around his glass, wondering if Giotto would stop him if he tried to decapitate the annoying little shit. "I dunno, suck face or something, ya?" G sighed. From the way he was speaking, the poor fool would pass out sooner or later. Low class lightweight.
Gokudera flipped his card over, feeling his blood turn to ice when he saw the red joker.
"Looks like the little doggie's got the Joker~ Kufufu." Gokudera was about to stand up and deck the fucker in the face but he realized just in time that his hand was still entwined in Yamamoto's. Fuck. He settled for snarling at the sick creep.
"I've got the other joker..."
And I'm just going to say it's fairly easy to guess who the joker is.
Next chapter will feature more explicit stuff and get down to the nitty gritty of the game Kings (aka players getting piss-drunk). Reborn/Skull will be one of the pairings, 1827 will definitely be one of the more prominent ones.
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