"Dinner!" Addison's mom called from the kitchen.
~Tsuna's~
While Tsuna's mom is preparing dinner, Reborn is explaining the rules for Levi and Fran. There weren't as many for them as there were for Bel and Squalo though. Lussiria and Yamamoto had already left, making the house so much quieter.
Since Squalo was in charge, all the Varia met outside Addison's house at about eleven. She was still up, but her parents had just fallen asleep.
"Squalo~ we're all here." Lussiria called as he approached the house. Squalo was leaning against the fence, Bel flipping each knife once then throwing it at the tree across the street.
"VOI! Where's Fran?" Squalo shouted.
"Hey, be quiet, my parents are asleep." Addison called through the living room window.
"He was reading when I left, he wouldn't put the book down until he finished the chapter." Levi crossed his arms.
Squalo let out a long sigh.
"You're late Froggy." Bel threw another knife towards where Levi was standing. Levi didn't notice it until it whizzed an inch from his cheek.
"Ow, sempai~ that hurts." Fran continued walking towards the group, puling the knife out of his frog hat.
"Oi! Stupid Bel, you almost hit me." Levi snapped.
"Ushishi, it's a shame I didn't." Bel flashed his signature smile.
"Knock it off." Squalo commanded, walking off. "Let's go."
"Are you stupid, I told you not to and you did it anyways?" Squalo was half yelling when he walked back into Addison's house. "Because of you they got away."
Addison woke up on the couch. She pushed herself up and walked to the stairs so she could go to her room. "Shut up." Addison glanced back at the two Varia members. "Ew, you look gross, bathroom is down the hall to the left. Keep it down." Addison yawn, stumbling up the stairs.
"The Prince calls the bed first." Bel started for the bathroom to clean his knives, shining his wide smile. "Squalo can get the couch."
~Next morning~ School~
"Good morning everyone." Addison yawned, taking her seat.
"You look exhausted." Lynn sat on Addison's desk.
"Squalo and Bel woke me up when they came back last night. When are they leaving?"
"Who knows, but if needed, we can switch. Levi and Fran hardly make any noise." Tsuna offered.
"It's fine."
"Lussiria said this morning that their base was fixed, so now they just need to finish the mission." Yamamoto explained.
"I feel bad for you." Gokudera kicked his feet up onto his desk. "You have the knife bastard in your house."
"The only problem I have with him is that I'll have to fix the wall in the guest room." Addison sighed.
"What's wrong with the guest room?" Serenity walked into the room.
"He's stabbed his knives everywhere. I'm going to have to fix it before my mom finds it."
"Alright class, let's get started." The teacher stood from his desk.
~After School~
"Finally." Addison yawned, walking out of the school.
"It's sad to know that it's only Tuesday." Lynn sighed.
"At least there's not a lot of homework. Serenity smiled.
"Not a lot of homework is. . . ." Yamamoto started, but stopped when Addison jumped and grabbed the tree above, hoisting herself onto the branch. Just as she did a boy was now standing there, surprised.
"You missed." Addison squatted, looking down at the others. "You guys can go ahead." Addison told her friends. "I'll meet you at Tsuna's in a little bit."
The Vongola's stood there for a moment, wondering if they should leave their friend.
"Come on guys I'm sure she'll be fine." Yamamoto smiled, beginning to walk.
"If you say so." Tsuna hesitantly followed.
"Don't die Addison." Serenity laughed.
Gokudera was standing there looking through his backpack, not paying attention. "I think I forgot my homework." He mumbled.
"Sure you did." Lynn said sarcastically.
"I did, would you like to look?" Gokudera crossed his arms, turning back towards the school.
Addison jumped down from the tree, now only being with the boy. He didn't hesitate, the boy instantly began swinging his fist towards Addison. Addison didn't fight back, she only dodged the punches. She was purposefully being careless about this fight, knowing she would have to lose.
The boy grabbed Addison by the shoulder and punched her in the stomach. Addison dropped to her knees in pain since she was punched right where her cut is. She could feel the cut slightly begin to bleed, it wasn't much, but it was bleeding. Addison went to put her hand over her stomach when the boy kicked her in the exact same spot. He went to kick a second time, but Addison stopped his foot with her hands, twisting it so he would fall to the ground. The boy stood up again, Addison still on the ground. Gokudera was walking towards the fight, coming back from getting his homework. The boy was about to hit her again when Gokudera jumped in the way, grabbing his fist.
"She gives up, you win." Gokudera glared at the boy.
"Fine." The boy walked away.
"Are you alright?" Gokudera helped Addison to her feet.
"I was until he hit me in the stomach." Addison placed her hand over her cut.
"I told you that this was a bad idea."
"Well it was my fault, I should've paid attention to where he was punching."
"Let's get to Tsuna's." Gokudera grabbed Addison's backpack that was on the ground, still supporting her from falling over. "Is it bleeding any?"
"Just a little, I'll be fine."
"Do you think we should've left Addison there?" Tsuna asked as they began up the stairs to his room.
"She'll be fine." Yamamoto reassured.
"And even if she's not, what's the worst that could happen?" Serenity laughed. Once they were up in Tsuna's room, they heard the front door open.
"Gokudera." Addison's voice echoed through the house. "Calm. Down."
"Sorry, put you looked like you were in a lot of pain when we first left." Gokudera's voice came up the stairs.
"But I'm fine now." Addison sighed. "I'll be up there in a minute." She started for the bathroom.
Gokudera walked into Tsuna's room, sitting on the floor with the others.
"So~ what happened?" Lynn nudged Gokudera with her elbow.
"I don't know, I only showed up when she got punched in the stomach."
"Ow, damn." Addison mumbled, coming up the stairs.
"You ok?" Tsuna questioned as Addison sat down with the rest of them.
"Yeah, fine." Addison sighed.
"So you lost?" Serenity giggled.
"Had to, he wouldn't leave me alone until I did. Should've lost in a little less painful way."
"You were punched in the stomach. . ." Lynn started.
"And kicked." Gokudera cut in.
"Let's see how bad the damage is." Lynn reached for the bottom of Addison's shirt.
Addison slapped it away. "I already re-bandaged it, don't touch my shirt."
"How badly was it bleeding?" Yamamoto wondered, leaning back and supporting his weight on one arm.
"Not much, it stopped on the way. . . ." Addison began to explain but was cut off by shouting across the hall.
"Oi! Stupid Fran, don't ignore me!" Levi yelled.
"What?" Fran asked in mono-tone.
"You heard me."
"I don't know, why don't you just call him and find out, instead of disturbing the entire neighborhood."
"Where are you going?"
"Someplace quieter." Fran walked out of the guest room and down the stairs with a small book in his hand.
"I've decided right now that Fran is my favorite." Addison rubbed her head, feeling another headache beginning to form.
"Out of what?" Fran asked, being nosy and still only part way down the stairs.
"All the Varia. Levi get's too loud when he's mad which is all the time. Lussiria's alright, he's just loud. Squalo is loud all the time and even more so when he's mad. Bel. . . . isn't loud, but those knives and that smile annoy me. You are quiet and even in your mono-tone voice, you still have plenty of sarcasm." Addison shared. Fran didn't show it physically, but inside he was smirking, knowing that all those comments were true.
"Well let's get started on this math homework." Lynn pulled out her notebook from her backpack.
"You don't understand it, do you?" Serenity sighed.
"Not at all."
"Then we should do it." Yamamoto laughed.
Addison's phone began ringing as she pulled out her note book as well. "Hello?"
"VOI! Are you at the brats house!" Squalo's voice bellowed through, making Addison nearly drop her phone.
"How did you get my cell phone number?" Addison shouted.
"Your mom gave it to me."
"Alright." Addison sighed. "Yes I'm at Tsuna's."
"Tell the two morons to head over to your house, and have them stop by and get Lussiria too."
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, will do." Addison hung up the phone. "X equals five for the first problem." Addison stood up, walking across the hall.
"I got the same." Gokudera pushed the notebook away, finishing the last problem.
"Levi, you and Fran need to go get Lussiria then go to my house. Squalo wants you." Addison barged into the guest room to see Levi in the middle of changing his shirt. "I'm going to barf." She mumbled, turning around. "Make sure you don't take to long, I don't want another phone call."
"Well you heard her." Fran came back up the stairs and walked into the room. "She's going to barf, cover your face before she does."
"Stupid Fran!" Levi shouted.
"Anyways, get going." Addison walked back into Tsuna's room.
"I think I understand." Lynn put her pencil down.
"Do you really or are you just saying that so we can move on?" Serenity grabbed Lynn's notebook to check Lynn's work.
"Let me see your answers." Addison reached for a random notebook.
"That's cheating." Tsuna pointed out.
"Yeah, I would've gotten it right on my own."
"Tsu-kun, I made you guys a snack." Tsuna's mom called from the bottom of the stairs. Everyone progressed down the stairs. Tsuna being the first, everyone else slowly following at different rates. Addison being the last because she was the only one to put her homework away, noticed Tsuna's mom at the door as she dropped her wallet.
Addison reached for the wallet as Tsuna's mom call to the others. "Tsu-kun, I'm going to the store." She then noticed she didn't have her wallet, seeing Addison pick it up. "Oh, thank you Addison-chan. would you mind coming to get the mail for me?"
"Not at all." Addison followed her outside. "Where do you want it?"
"You can just put it on the kitchen counter, thank you." Mama smiled, starting to leave.
Addison reached for the mailbox when a voice boomed from around the corner. "VOI! Bel stop screwing around!"
"What? He won't get away this time." Bel came around the corner first, jumping up into one of the trees across the street. Addison decided it would be best to ignore them, grabbing the mail and heading back into the house. As she got into the door way, something slammed against her back. The mail scattered in front of her as she stumbled forward, catching her balance before falling. She turned to see what had hit her, a hand immediately covering her mouth. It was silent, a black haired man in front of her stared out a small crack in the now mostly closed door, keeping his hand tightly on her mouth while the other hand was slowly gliding towards a gun that was sticking out of his pocket. Addison could hear her friends talking and snacking in the other room.
"VIO!" Squalo's shout making her jump slightly. Squalo stood under the tree Bel sat in, about ready to swing his sword up and cut off the branch he was on. "Bel I told you not to screw around. Where the fuck did he go?" Lussiria, Levi, and Fran were all standing slightly off to the side. Lussiria was ready to step in and help get answers out of Bel. Levi was cursing in his mind. Fran, he was just staring into space waiting for the next move.
"Ushishi, who lost him now?" Bel flashed his signature smile down at his comrades.
"Come now Bel, we need to get him." Lussiria stepped forward.
Even though it was obvious they were going to pry for it, Bel frowned anyway when Lussiria stepped in. "You should go ask the girl," Bel pointed to Tsuna's house. "She had seen where he went too."
"There are three girls in there, moron-sempai, which one?" Fran no longer stared blankly at house a couple doors down, he was now looking over at the prince in the tree.
"Do you mean Addison?" Lussiria questioned.
Addison was so busy listening to the Varia's conversation, she didn't realize that the man had moved away from the door, and not known that they were coming.
"Of course it's Addison." Squalo told the other Varia members, making is way to the door, knowing Bel wouldn't give him any more information. As Addison waited for Squalo to reach the door she tried to figure out how she could get herself out of this, when she noticed a second smaller gun in the other pocket of the mans black hoodie. Now she knew, that she wasn't getting out of this, she wouldn't be able to move fast enough to get both guns and get away from him. She could hear Squalo's foot steps getting closer, followed by three other pairs. Addison was still close enough to the door that she could reach it and pull it open the rest of the way. . . . with her foot. But she did so.
The front door swung open, Squalo, Lussiria, Levi, and Fran all froze when Addison was instantly pulled to her feet and a gun was pointed at her head, the hand that had been on her mouth was no longer there.
"Ushishi, I told you." Bel said from across the street, still squatting in the tree.
"Come closer and I'll shoot." The man stated quickly.
"You know if one of them weren't here they would just let me die." Addison crossed her arms, referring to Lussiria, possible Fran too, but she didn't know him well enough yet.
"I won't let him kill you Addison." Lussiria smiled, proving her point.
"Addison, what are you . . . ." Yamamoto came over and froze when he saw the situation.
"Well I don't have to kill her now, I could always take her with and. . . ." the man started smirking, but was cut off.
"Now that's too far." Addison mumbled, grabbing the second gun from the man's pocket and pulling herself away from him, gun pointed right between his eyes. Before anything else could happen, the man fell to the ground, a rock landing beside him. Everyone looked up to see Bel at the top of the stairs with a bigger smile on his face than he usually did.
"Ushishi, who's screwed up now? I think you owe the prince an apology." Bel walked down the stairs, stepping on the unconscious man as he got to the bottom. Addison tossed the gun to the floor, bending down to pick up the mail she had dropped. The Varia took the man and left the house. Once Addison and Yamamoto were back in the dining room with the others, Addison couldn't help but ask herself 'Why is it always me?'
Wha La, another chapter out, I had a reader say they were a little confused on the last chapter so if you have any comments, questions or concerns please review. Well you should review even if you don't : )