As Lynn and Serenity talked about homework, Addison was soon asleep on the couch. Addison's mom was out shopping, and Andrew kind of just sat there.
"If she shows up at anybody's house with her cut bleeding because you two were fighting, I'm going to beat you." Lynn stood from the table.
"Where are you going?" Serenity sat up straight.
"Home."
"Don't leave me alone with him."
"Gee, thanks." Andrew crossed his arms.
"Then come with me."Lynn walked over to the front door. "Don't wake her up, she needs all of the rest she can get." The front door shut.
"What am I supposed to do now?" Andrew asked himself, heading upstairs.
"Addison, wake up." A finger poked Addison in the shoulder.
"Later." Addison rolled over.
"Addison." The person poked again.
"What, I'm tired." Addison sat up and turned, seeing Mukuro in front of her. "What do you need?" Addison reached for her phone to see what time it was. 8:27 pm.
"I was wondering where Lynn's house was."
"You asked her out and didn't find out where she lived?"
"Who are you?" Andrew's voice came from the stairs, him not seeing Addison awake.
"Andrew," Addison stood up and stretched out her arms. "This is Mukuro, I'm going to take him to Lynn's house, I'll be right back."
"Did you make and friends that are girls here?"
"A few, why?" Addison slipped on her shoes.
"Just wondering."
"Alright Mukuro, let's go." Addison walked out of the house, opening her phone. Addison started calling Lynn.
"Hello" Lynn answered.
"Hey, what are you doing?"
"Reading. You woke up?"
"Not intentionally." Addison sighed.
"Kufufu." Mukuro chuckled, following behind Addison.
"Why" Lynn asked.
"Why what?" Addison wondered.
"Why do you need to know what I'm doing?"
"I was just wondering."
"Alright, can I get back to my reading?"
"Sure." Addison closed her phone as she stopped in front of Lynn's house. "Here yah go, her room is the window right there." She pointed at the only lit window. "Now if you excuse me, I'm ti. . . ." Addison started to leave, but Mukuro grabbed her wrist. Next thing she knew, they were in Lynn's room. Lynn jumped a mile when she saw the two of them.
"What are you doing here?" Lynn put her book down.
"We could've used the front door." Addison rubbed her head, beginning to get a headache.
"Again, what are you doing here?" Lynn repeated.
"Mukuro didn't know where your house was. I'm going home now." Addison started for the door.
"Should you really walk home in the dark by your self?"
"I'll be fine."
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah, I'll call you if it's not." Addison walked out of the room.
"Call me when you get home." Lynn called after her.
"Yep." Addison started down the stairs.
"Oh Addison, I didn't know you were going to be over tonight." Lynn's mom caught sight of her as she was walking from the stairs to the front door.
"I didn't either. Have a good night." Addison smiled, stepping into the cool night breeze, closing the door behind her. She looked up at the cloudless sky, gazing up at all the stars. It was the kind of night Addison would spend in her hammock back in the US. Since she moved here and got filled with all of the Mafia business, she hasn't really stopped to look at her surroundings as much as she used to. Addison took a deep breath of the fresh cool air and began to take her time walking home.
About half way to her house, Addison saw a boy turn onto the street and start going the way she was, only he was a ways in front of her. Addison knew exactly who it was. If the color of his hair didn't give it away, the length of it would. Addison smirked, getting an idea in her mind. She sped up her pace, but kept quiet so he wouldn't hear her. Once she was close enough, she jumped up and landed on his back.
"Hey!" he shouted, looking over his shoulder.
"What are you doing out at this late hour?" Addison laughed.
"Just walking." Gokudera shrugged. "Thought it was nice enough out to do so."
"Interesting." Addison said in a suspicious tone.
"What?"
"Nothing." Addison hopped off of Gokudera's back, smiling, knowing that her provoking was working.
"Well why are you out?"
"Walking back from Lynn's."
"Should you be walking around at night on your own?"
"I could ask you the same question. Yet, neither of us are alone anymore, we're with each other.
"I'm not injured."
"Don't use a silly little scratch against me." Addison glared as her phone began ringing. "Hello?"
"You home yet?"
"No, it's a nice night, I'm taking my time and talking to Gokudera who's . . . . .apparently doing the same."
"You should hurry home."
"Why it's beautiful out?"
"Because if you get in any trouble, no one's close enough to help you."
"I just said Gokudera was here. I'll be fine." Addison reassured. "What are you doing talking to me, isn't Mukuro over?"
"No he changed into a girl and left."
"Ah, Chrome, you've met her right?"
"Briefly."
"Alright anyways, I'll be fine."
"Fine, be careful."
"Yeah, will do." Addison shut her phone. "That took longer than needed." Addison turned to face Gokudera, who was looking at the clear sky until now.
"Huh? . . . oh yeah." Gokudera came back to reality.
"Well, since we're both going this way, we can walk together." Addison spun around to begin walking again, but fell to the ground when she bumped into something.
"We meet again." A familiar voice laughed. A voice Addison was sick of hearing. Addison stood up to see who was standing in front of her.
"When are you going to learn your lesson?" she put her hands on her hips.
"When I beat you, until that happens, we'll be seeing each other quite often." He pushed Addison against the near by fence, holding her head by her chin.
Addison brushed away the hand. "Don't touch me."
The boy said nothing to that, he just moved his face closer to Addison's. She quickly stopped his head from moving any closer.
"What do you think you're doing?" She pushed him away and jumped on top of the fence behind her.
"What's the matter? Is it because you have a boyfriend?"
"I wouldn't call him my boyfriend just yet. That's not it either. I have a bad temper and it's best to stay on my good side." Addison glared. "You're not going to beat me. I know karate, taekwondo, kenjutsu, and I'm going to be learning Aikido." Addison started walking on the fence towards her house. "Let's go Gokudera."
"Wait a minute." The boy went to grab her ankle, but she jumped out of way. When Addison came down, she lost her footing and fell to the ground off the fence.
"Ow!" Addison whined looking at her arms for damage.
"Are you alright?" Gokudera ran over to her.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Addison stood up. "Tell you what, I'll fight you if you can catch me after school one day this week before I get to my friend's house."
"Fine." The boy walked away.
"Why did you do that, what if your cut opens?" Gokudera asked, as the two of them started walking.
"The only way he's going to leave me alone is if he wins, so I'll lose this week and it'll be over with." Addison brushed dirt off of her shirt.
"It doesn't seem like a good idea."
"You and the others will be there."
"If you don't be careful, tho. . . ." Gokudera started, but stopped when Addison turned around.
"You worry too much." Addison placed her index finger in between his eyebrows, Gokudera jumping back slightly. "Frown lines." She smirked, continuing walking.
"What?" He stood confused for a moment, then caught up to her.
"Relax, I do know what I'm doing sometimes."
"So what's your cousin doing?"
"Don't know, probably sleeping." Addison stretched out her arms as they approached her house. Just in time too. Addison jumped up to sit on her brick wall like fence just as her mom opened the front door to find her.
"Addison?" Her mom wondered.
"What?" Addison turned her head.
"What are you doing out here?"
"Enjoying the cool night."
"How long have you been out here?"
"Ten, maybe fifteen minutes."
"Why?"
"I woke up, needed some fresh air. When I came out here, Gokudera was wondering, so I've been talking to him." Addison made up quickly, Gokudera waving slightly.
"Don't stay out here too late."
"Yeah, mom." Addison sighed in relief when she heard the front door close. "So, we can stay here and talk, we can go to the back and sit in the hammock, or we can both go home if we have nothing more to talk about."
"I don't want to go home yet, I'm sure we can find something to talk about." Gokudera shrugged.
"Here, or hammock."
"You can choose."
"Hammock then." Addison jumped off of the fence and began walking to the back yard.
"Hey, do you still get visions of the future?" Gokudera asked as the two of them plopped into the hammock.
"Now that you mention it, no, I don't." Addison began to think about why she hadn't been getting them. "Ever since the stab, haven't gotten one."
"What was the last one you had?"
"Um . . . . ." Addison yawned. "Umeko was telling her brother how they weren't supposed to even be here."
"That would've been more useful earlier." Gokudera joked, yawning as well.
Before either of them realized it, they were both asleep. About five minutes after they did sleep, Addison's mom came out to call her inside. The only reason she found it cute that they were both asleep, was that they weren't touching each other; the normal worries of a mom. Addison's mom brought out a thin blanket for each of them, not wanting to make them too hot, but not wanting to let them freeze as it got colder through the night.
"Addison!" A voice shouted from the front of the house.
"I'm sleeping." Addison called back, waking half way, but not moving from the position she was in. Addison felt slight pressure on the side of her stomach but ignored the feeling.
"Addison?" a different voice came closer. "What are you doing back here?"
"With Gokudera?" A third voice asked.
Addison finally decided to open her eyes, sitting herself up half way. She then realized that the little pressure on her was Gokudera's arm. She grabbed his wrist and moved the arm back to his part of the hammock. Addison then looked to see Tsuna, Yamamoto, Serenity, and Lynn.
"You're all here?" Addison yawned, wanting to go back to sleep.
"And you're sleeping in a hammock with Gokudera." Lynn pointed out, looking at Gokudera who was still asleep.
"Oh look at that, I am." Addison realized, her brain moving a little slow. Addison nudged him to wake up.
Gokudera opened his eyes slowly.
"Chill, after I left Lynn's, we bumped into each other and started talking. We came here to sit and talk." Addison explained.
"And fell asleep?" Serenity questioned.
"I guess so."
"Why was his arm on you?" Tsuna wondered.
"My arm was on you?" Gokudera was now fully awake.
"Slightly. He must've rolled over or something. When we fell asleep we didn't have blankets, meaning my mom probably gave them to us. If his arm was around me when we fell asleep, she would've seen it and dumped us on the ground." Yamamoto laughed at Addison's explanation. "Why are you here anyways?"
"You never called me last night." Lynn told plainly.
"So you brought everyone to my house?"
"Well no one could get a hold of Gokudera either." Tsuna announced.
"Why didn't you call my house phone, my mom would've told you I was here." Addison sighed, standing up to stretch. "Well what ever."
"Since you're all together, I have an announcement." Reborn walked into the back yard. "The Varia were out on a mission when part of their HQ was damaged. Since they were going to be other here anyways, they're going to be staying with some of us."
"Don't they have other bases?" Gokudera asked, stretching across the hammock.
"Yes, but they're all having different problems." Reborn jumped onto Yamamoto's shoulder. "So they'll be staying at your houses."
"Who's staying where?" Addison questioned, getting worried who she'd get stuck with.
"Levi and Fran will be at Tsuna's; Lussiria will be at Yamamoto's; and Squalo and Bel will be at Addison's."
"Great." Addison sighed.
"What about Xanxus?" Tsuna wondered.
"He's going to stay back and make sure nothing get's messed up."
"When are they coming?" Yamamoto leaned against a tree that held the hammock.
"Tomorrow after school."
"Addison?" A voice called from the house. Addison silently walked over to the door, stepping inside. Everyone stood quietly in the backyard.
"Alright, bye." Addison came back into the yard.
"What was that?" Serenity asked.
"Andrew's leaving." Addison yawned. "I'm tired, I'll see you guys later."
"We'll be at my house all day, so you come over later." Tsuna smiled.
"Alright, later." Addison nodded, going back into her house once again.
Before she shut the door behind her, Serenity started singing. "Gokudera and Addison sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N" and then was cut off when both Addison and Gokudera yelled at her.
Addison walked further into her quiet house. Her parents had left to take Andrew to the airport, so she was alone. Addison slowly made her way up the stairs and was asleep on her bed almost as soon as her head hit the pillow.
"Addison, dinner." Her mom called. Addison opened her eyes slowly, pushing herself off of her bed and stumbling down stairs.
Addison was still extremely tired, since she had school tomorrow, she knew she needed to go right back to bed.
~Next morning~ School~
"Good morning class. Addison, welcome back, where have you been?" the teacher came in.
"Busy. Here's all the homework I missed." Addison placed a small stack of papers onto the teacher's desk.
"Alright then." He looked through the papers quickly, seeing everything there.
~After School~ Tsuna's~
"I can't believe I got the two most annoying people." Addison sighed. "I can already feel the headache coming."
"VOI! Where did those lousy brats go?" The front door banged against the wall as a long, silver haired man stepped into the room.
"My, my Squalo, calm down." Lussiria followed him in. "Bel wanted to get snack and took Fran with him."
"Stupid Bel, always running off, and always taking Fran with." Levi mumbled to himself.
"Ciao-su." Reborn was standing in the door way.
"HIHI~!" Lussiria smiled widely, coming further into the house. "Addison you seem to be doing better."
"Come on in." Tsuna invited.
"Sempai~ that's mine." Fran walked into the house, following the prince.
"Shut it Froggy, you weren't eating it." Bel took a bite of a rice ball.
"Why didn't you just get yourself two?"
"I didn't want one then."
"So it begins." Addison muttered.
"Which house do I have to stay at?" Levi crossed his arms, obviously not happy about being away from the boss.
"Lussiria, you'll be at Yamamoto's house." Reborn hopped onto the table. "Squalo and Bel will be at Addison's; Levi and Fran, you'll be here."
"Aw, the Prince isn't with Froggy, guess I'll have to bug Squalo. Ushishi." Bel tossed himself onto the couch, putting his feet up.
"Oh, hello everyone." Tsuna's mom came in. "Who would like a snack?"
"I would please." Fran said in his usual mono-tone voice, Bel glaring ever so slightly. Squalo and Levi helped themselves to the other couch. "Bel-sempai, you're taking up the whole couch."
"So?" Bel smiled. Fran didn't bother saying anything more, instead he grabbed Bel by the ankle and pulled him off of the couch, sitting on the now empty couch. "You stupid frog!" Bel instantly pulled out his oddly shaped knives.
"What?" Fran's face stayed as it always did, but you could tell he was laughing on the inside.
"Would you two knock it off?" Squalo shouted. "You trash are already giving me a head ache."
"Come now, there's plenty of room for you both to sit there." Yamamoto smiled.
"Here." Tsuna's mom smiled, setting a plate on the table and leaving the room.
"So how are you feeling, Addison?" Lussiria sat at the table with everyone else.
"Fine, why?" Addison reached for the food.
"Well last time I saw you, you passed out."
"Right, I'm fine." Addison's phone began ringing. "Hello?"
"Hey, when will our guests get here?" Her mom asked, Addison could hear shuffling in the background.
"When we decide to leave Tsuna's." Addison was trying to listen to the others as she listened to her mom, but her mom was being really loud at the moment.
"You should bring them over then, I'm making dinner and it'll probably be ready in about fifteen minutes.
"It's a little early don't you think?"
"A little."
"Alright, we'll leave." Addison hung up. "Squalo, Bel, we're leaving." She started for the door.
"You trash better behave." Squalo stood up.
"Bye-bii." Bel walked to the front door.
Addison was walking a few feet in front of Squalo and Bel. Bel had his hands behind his head. Squalo wasn't paying much attention to any thing.
"Tch, making the prince walk." Bel complained.
"Oh that reminds me of the rules while you'll be in my house." Addison pretended to get excited. "Bel, there will be no throwing knives in my house, no 'I'm a prince' talk, no getting too loud, no bugging Squalo so much he gets so loud."
"How come none of these are directed towards him?"
"Squalo, no getting too loud, don't call my parents trash, no swearing. You guys are also here for a mission right?"
"Yeah." Squalo stated.
"Then I'll make sure that the door is open if you leave at night, when you come back I want all weapons away, you to be quiet and if there's any blood on you to clean up before you go to bed. There's only one guest room so you can either both sleep in the bed or take turns on the couch."
"Ushishi, no promises on the knives."
"I'm sure there will be a spot in the guest room you can throw them at so my mom won't see it, if it gets thrown any where else, I'll break it." Addison opened her front door. "Mom, we're here."
"Perfect, dinner is almost ready."
"Did you guys not bring any stuff? The guest room is up here." Addison started up the stairs.
"An Underling is bringing it by later."
"Alright, this is the guest room. Bel, I'd prefer you not, but if needed, throw your knives here behind the door."
"Dinner!" Addison's mom called from the kitchen.
Hello once again. I'm sure your wondering why I brought the Varia in. well there isn't really a special reason, I just like them and thought it'd be nice to have them in here. Hope you enjoyed the chapter, please review.