Hi to those who read and wait for "Romantically Inclined", thank you very much! Here's is another one shot but I think I'm moving on with things. I'm just writing spontaneously so things might get cut short or lengthened. Oh well. And that I might put in an underlying story. All in all, I hope everyone stays and reads.

Also, thanks to the guest named Sphinx. Your comment/review made me write again. Thank you!

Skylark Family: Casanova Not In My Genes

It was a slow hot day in the middle of summer and the stagnant heated air in the huge Japanese manse further infuriated the head of the strict and carnivorous Cloud Guardian. He sat by the balcony, facing the vast garden by himself. With the air conditioner broken, Kyoya could only sate his burning flesh with a small fan that I-pin handed to him earlier that day, and with every swish came a longer thought about how his little girl has grown up.

Kyoya was immersed in thought. He was angry for not noticing soon enough, angry that some unproven boy was laying claim on his daughter, and angry that he could not lay a hand on the said boy. Tetsuhiko was the son of a subordinate, a very indispensable one at that, heck, the closest one to a friend even. And it seems that a kind of reward should be underway for all the services Tetsuya has rendered to him. His exasperating thoughts drew a sigh from him. Being too caught up in it, he did not notice his beautiful wife approach,

"Kyoya-kun… please don't plan Tecchan's murder," said I-pin as she placed a tray of two glasses of iced tea in front of the man. The glass was sweating the same way Kyoya was sweltering in the heat,

"When is it gonna be fixed?" Kyoya groaned as he fanned himself while I-pin gently dried the thin streams of sweat on his face. A smirk found its way on his lips as his wife's hand traveled to his neck and down the patch of skin his yukata showed, so she could wipe away the sweat. But Kyoya had other ideas, "Oh, I know. Why don't you undress me?"

The heat might have been too strong and it fried his brain. Or, more likely charged his batteries. He leaned in hungrily, licking his lips as a lustful glint was in his eyes and I-pin would return it with a shy gaze through her long lashes. The glasses continued to sweat and the ice became a thin layer of water over the tea. Until Kirio arrived with a disgusted look on his face. "How can you be so close in this heat?" True. Even the child had his short hair sticking to his face.

The couple parted. Kyoya could only angrily take a glass for himself and sip the cold liquid it held, "What do you want?" and set it down with a loud thump, trying to tell his kid how much the moment had been ruined. I-pin, on the other hand, watched with stifled laughter.

"I'm going out with Kozato-san. I left my task at Orihime and Hiko's hands." The stoic boy left without hearing what his parents had to say. Though his actions weren't seen as rude, Kyoya opted to stay on the boy's heels towards the entryway, without an ounce of subtlety to his curiosity.

All throughout the walk, there was only one thing in the man's mind: 'Kozato? Why Kozato?' Kyoya mused about how his kids would be associated with Kozato but came up with none. But still, there are a lot of factors that he hadn't considered. Like, if this Kozato-san was a beautiful girl who was enamored with his son.

Kyoya was dumbfounded as he stood in between the skylark image-adorned dividers of the wide entryway. He saw his boy entertain the girl who looked like a model but was lacking in height. He also saw Kirio swipe his hand over the girl's shoulder to play with her reddish-brown hair. "What?" was the only word that left Kyoya's quivering lips, calling the attention of the children in front of him and effectively breaking the intimate atmosphere between the two.

The girl, wordless and doubtless, bowed perfectly and raised her head with a sweet smile on her pouty lips, "Good afternoon, Hibari-san. My name is Kozato Mami. It's a pleasure to meet you." Then she turned to Kirio with an even brighter smile, "Hibari-kun looks a lot like his father! And you sound like him, too!"

To which Kirio answers like a seasoned charmer, "Mami, my father's a Hibari, too. Call me Kirio to distinguish us," forcing the heat to become visible on the girl's face. He then dons a smirk and bids farewell to his father, pretty Mami in tow. "And I don't sound like him."

"Oh yes you do!" Mami pestered him. However, Kirio keeps a small smile and a fond look over the red-haired girl and listens to her chatter happily by his side as they walk. "But with your hair short, it's not that obvious. Your genes are funny," was Mami's final statement before they could disappear completely from the adult's vision.

As the two kids waved goodbye, I-pin snuck behind Kyoya. The words that she held back until everything had sunk into her husband's dense head serve as a pre-emptive attack, "Smooth moves, huh?" The man quickly turned but his face was nothing I-pin had ever seen. I-pin found it incredulous, that something such as their son being proactive towards girls would rattle the man infamous for his apathy and stony expression; Kyoya was broken. "I'm pretty sure he didn't learn it from you."

Hibari Kyoya was deep in thought once again.

"It's not that bad. At least you get to be a grandfather earlier!" I-pin laughed and was about to leave her husband to his muddled thoughts when he grabbed her wrist, his fingers curling and uncurling over her skin. From their hands to his eyes, I-pin saw that he was unsure, it was rare, and the way he tried to speak in his momentary muteness caused another round of laughter to boil in her stomach. "What's wrong, Kyoya-kun?"

"What the damn hell just happened?" Kyoya then sputtered when he regained his control over his speech. He grit his teeth to which I-pin raised a brow. She then wrapped her arms around his neck, her body squeezed close to him, and looked up at him through her lashes, locking gazes with him.

The wife spoke with a seductive voice, "Well… Mami-chan is a pretty girl and Kirio-kun likes her." But Kyoya averted his gaze and I-pin tilts her face to the side, attempting to take back what was taken from her yet her man resisted her charm. Nevertheless, she asserts her point, "Aren't you like that around me?"

After a long silence followed by a sharp exhale, Kyoya speaks the unthinkable, "Kirio and Tatyana are… intimate," causing I-pin's eyes to widen in surprise. He swallows the thick lump in his throat and continues, "I've seen him with Yulia of the Varia as well… Others also mentioned that Kirio has his way around with the ladies in the turf. What is he, a Casanova?" Confusion reflected in his eyes, and I-pin shared the appalled feelings he has. She could only think of one possibility,

"…Lambo…" Yep, blame the resident Casanova for turning others into one. One thing is for sure, the eldest child of the Hibari couple will sit in a very long sermon about chastity, protection and commitment.

Later that day, Kirio returns from his date with Kozato Mami. He was tired. He didn't even bother arranging his shoes after he took them off. He just went past the first room filled with noisy mooks that greeted him, going straight for the family's reception, unknowing of the ambush that was there for him.

"I don't have a problem about the Varia whore. But toying with Kozato's daughter may actually cost us something."

There, Kirio sat uncomfortably over his zabuton as his father measured each and every action, even the smallest, that he made. He could feel that his father was furious despite the peaceful look. And it scared him. Whatever courage he has when he's with women is out the shoji now and he's practically shuddering at the cold gaze his father directed at him.

But there is something that he wishes to fight for. So, in spite of his embarrassing tendency of being a Casanova, Kirio raised his head and faced the older man, with fiery passion burning in the windows of his soul, professed his deepest desire, "I… I love Mami."

From the other room, a loud and audacious laugh could be heard, the cackling unmistakably Fujio. "This is precious! Did you hear that?" The two other Hibaris heard him, whoever he was talking to must be annoyed to hell. "He says 'I love Mami!' but you'll see him later with other women! What a manwhore!"

Kyoya witnessed his eldest son's self-control. The boy was clearly restraining himself in his seat over the zabuton; teeth gritting in anger of his brother's words and knuckles turning white, Kirio was certainly offended that he didn't care if it showed. The father wished that Fujio would stop speaking but that was too much to ask for as he hears another snide remark at the Kozato girl,

"I bet he wants Mami because she's an innocent bombshell! Nothing beats an innocent-looking girl that's a whore under the skin!"

Swords run zipping through the air, manipulated by righteous fury, and through the fusuma that separated the twins. More swords appear in the air, wreathed by Cloud flames, suspended and revolving around Kirio, point out like wheel spokes. "Mami always rejects my advances. Mami is caring. She's kind and small. She makes me want to protect her and everything that she cherishes. She might appear weak but Mami is strong." The aggravated walked through the debris of what was once a cardboard divider and with great malice goaded his brother into a fight, "Say that Mami's a whore again. I dare you! I double dare you, motherfucker!"

Despite the hate and dark aura, Fujio casually looks over his shoulder. A battle is what he yearns for, "Aren't you the motherfucker?"

The fire of hate is lit once again and the twins charge towards one another in a fight to the death! Or so what it should have been if the person that Fujio was with hadn't interfered. His blond hair swished in his movement, his Sky flames neutralizing the Cloud swords that Kirio materialized and his whips restraining both males from trading blows.

Kyoya wasn't surprised that his twin sons were intercepted. What surprised him was the interloper—the blond candidate for the Eleventh Generation sired by the Chiavarone, "Bucking foal…" he said as he closed his eyes and listened to the thunder-like snapping of whips.

"Gino…" Even Kirio was surprised with his appearance.

"So, I will live forever in the shadow of my old man, eh?" The blond young man rubbed his nape as he straightened from his attack position, his two whips returning to their boxes and releasing the cooled twins. He laughed, his wispy light blond locks swishing in his motion, and told the boys to calm down with his hands. Then he turns to meet the patriarch of the house, "Long time no see, Uncle." But he was met with a cold welcome, almost unwanted in the household,

"What are you doing here?" said Kyoya with narrowed eyes and an annoyed voice; his words subtly covering the cruel 'Go home.' Gino Chiavarone is lucky that I-pin was insistent on having Kyoya learn not to turn family friends away.

"Ah, that can-a wait. So Kirio-kun is in love? Who's the lucky girl?" Gino asked the blushing eldest son.

However, Fujio intercepted the question, "More like unlucky! Kirio's a Casanova apparently."

"You should cherish the woman you love! There's only one who can truly manage your shit!" Gino reprimanded the guilty. "But I think you can look... I mean you're just looking, right?" Now, he was just longing for the familial bickering, he has long been away from the Hibari household, and hoped that the man would take the bait, "Uncle, did you teach him that?"

But alas, Kyoya was never one for bickering, as his deadpan voice ruins even the slightest of jokes in his words, "More like you did. How many wives do I have?"

"One and that's me," answered I-pin as she eyed the broken fusuma with a deep frown creasing her brows. She clicked her tongue as she picked up a piece of the frame. Whoever was responsible for its destruction cringed. "Kirio. I suppose you know how much I care for everything in this house, yes?" and the boy nodded. "You are grounded. And you can't meet any girls for two months. Tetsuhiko will serve you during that time. Clean your mess." Then she turns to the guest; her strict frown disappearing in a blink of an eye. "Oh, why hello, Gino! You look more handsome now! I bet the girls gush over you! I hope you're not being a shameless flirt like one of my sons. When did you arrive?" Gino could only smile at her endless questions thereafter and was led away to another partition. Fujio left as well, reveling in the magnificent punishment that his brother was given.

Now that they were alone, Kirio faced his father again, "I really love Mami. Father, how will I prove to you my love for Mami?" The same passion he had before was back in him.

Kyoya held only one answer to the question and he was sure it was powerful enough to kick out the shameful tendencies from his son, "Prove it to Mami, not to me. Just as I had to your mother when everyone questioned me of my intentions." And he placed a firm hand over Kirio's shoulder and bobbed his head once. Upon releasing his hold, he looked at the floor, "Clean this up," and left to follow I-pin and Gino.

For a first time in a long time, Kyoya smiled with pride. Hopefully he won't be disproven.

There you have it. I hope you enjoyed this one as well as the others.

Hibari Kirio is the older of the twins born to Kyoya and I-pin. He is given authority being the first born and strongest fighter, and usually conflicts with his twin. He is a boy of few words and he prefers that his hair be worn just as long as Kyoya had when he was sixteen. He has bad eyesight and wears glasses; he plans on using contact lenses. His stoic yet caring self is a powerful charm to girls and women alike, and his Casanova disposition has developed from his father giving him the socializing jobs. He now sports a short haircut due to receiving a wound that spanned his cheek and cut off the top part of his left ear. (Cloud)

Hibari Fujio is the younger of the twins born to Kyoya and I-pin. He is two minutes younger than his twin brother. Just as twins are opposites, he is more social and vocal about things and is also the hot-blooded twin. He prefers his Grandpa, Fon, more than his father, thus wearing a braid for a hairstyle. He also claims that his siblings are heartless and do not know love unlike him. His eyesight isn't as bad as his brother's. (Sun)

Hibari Orihime is the youngest child born to Kyoya and I-pin. She acts unrefined despite I-pin's teaching and tends to settle things with her fists. Although she is the strongest in terms of physical strength amongst the siblings, Kyoya has posted several men around her to ensure her safety, including Kusakabe's son. She wears her hair in "hime" cut hence reinforcing her title of 'Princess.' (Storm)

Kusakabe Tetsuhiko is Tetsuya's only son. He has been training in the arts of ninjutsu to better protect the Hibari princess. He is around Orihime for almost twenty-four hours as directed by the Boss and the Lady-Boss.

Kozato Mami is Kozato Enma's daughter and heir. She is spoiled by her Dad and Aunt Adel but she works it out whenever she's not with the Shimon famiglia and tries her best not to annoy others. She wears her hair parted at the left and wears cherry blossom pins. (Earth)

Gino Chiavarone is Dino's second child. He is a contender for the title of Eleventh, or Neo Secondo, facing against Tsunayoshi's son. He has a simple and kind personality until he enters battle; he becomes hotblooded and fierce. He is close to the Hibari family and oftentimes spends his vacations at their house. He calls I-pin Mama and Kyoya Uncle. Fujio would always hang out with him whenever he is around. He shares the Casanova tendencies with Kirio. (Sky)