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warning: ooc-ness? fem!tsuna.

Vongola enterprises chapter 2

She wondered if she had ever done something wrong. She had recalled the things she had done the past few weeks, but she couldn't seem to notice anything wrong she had done. But, now she was and is going there, accompanied by chrome, whom she had passed by a while ago with an older man who had introduced himself as Daemon Spade and thus is Chrome's father. She then gulped.

She blinked and blinked, feeling irritated from the sun that had been blinding her, peeking from her curtains.

"Tsu-chan, wake up!" She blinked. Was she really hearing this?

"Tsu-chan!" Yes, she could perfectly hear it.

"Mou~! Tsu-chan! Wake up!" She was startled that it made her fell down her bed. Did her mother really called her? She then heard footsteps nearing, and was surprised when she saw her mother in front of the door, looking at her worriedly, making sure she has no injuries.

"Are you okay?" She asked as she helped her up. Tsuna grinned sheepishly and nodded, not wanting to further worry her mother. Her mother then smiled, happy to know that.

"Then, fix up already alright? I'll be waiting downstairs. But, you need to come down faster or the food will be cold."

"Hai!" Satisfied, she left.

Tsuna then continued to blink, as she pinched herself. She yelped in pain. Her eyes widened, as tears suddenly blurred her vision. So, it was real! Her mother came here a few minutes ago and that she had not left. She hastily wiped her tears away and fixed her bed before going to the bathroom to fix herself up.

Reaching down the stairs, she could smell the aroma if the food her mother had made. Smiling, she went in and saw her mother humming as she placed their plates. She looked to see her daughter standing there.

"Ara? Tsu-chan, don't just stand there, come here." She said with her as she complied. Nana sat beside her.

She looked at the food in front of her and she couldn't help but smile. It was their favorite dishes placed there. She was getting teary, but she wouldn't want to show that to her mother. Slowly, she grabbed on to a spoon and took a spoonful in her mouth, slowly eating the food, savoring it. She really missed this. Them, having breakfast together, since it came only rarely nowadays. Nana then looked at her daughter, as she slowly ate her food.

"Tsu-chan? Is something wrong?" She asked, worry evident on her voice but she shook her head.

Swallowing the food, she looked at her mother.

"No, nothing's wrong. Thank you mom." And they ate their meal silently.

She was humming today, as her morning started out great. Aside from the breakfast they shared his morning, there was also no school today as it was a weekend. She grinned making her way towards the building. She wasn't working on the flower shop today since Luce called them informing she may not come back as expected, and Tsuna reassuring her it was fine.

Now, she was strolling around for a bit, before she was to head off to work. Her shift wouldn't start for about another hour or so.

She then came to a small park, filled with people around. She couldn't help the sad smile as she recalled her memories. She was about to leave when she heard someone call out to her.

"Tsuna-san?" She blinked and was surprised to see her.

"Ara, Haru-chan!" They immediately hugged. "It's been a while." Tsuna continued. Haru just nodded.

"Yeah. I had been quite busy these past few weeks so i had little time to go out. What brings you here?" Tsuna smiled.

"Just wanted to breathe the fresh air." And Haru just nodded. Suddenly, feeling a tug, Haru blinked.

"Oh yeah, meet Kenshin, my uncle's son. Kenshin, meet Tsuna-san, my friend." The child looked at him for a moment before smiling at her.

"Nice to meet you nee-san." She nodded.

"Nice to meet you too, Kenshin-kun. Anyways, i still have time left before my work starts, so you want to hang out?" Haru immediately nodded and Kenshin followed suit. Suddenly, they went to the nearest cake shop, it was also the cake shop they usually hang out with, and it made the girls happier.

"It seems everyone is here already?" He said as he looked at everyone present in the room. Nodding, he took a deep sigh and looked at them. "Okay. Everyone, we will now start the meeting. Daemon, if you please?" Giotto said as he looked at him. He smirked. "Certainly."

"Bye! See you later!" With a wave pf goodbye, they each left. Tsuna, after seeing them leave, sighed out loudly and made her way towards the company. But, she was then having this feeling, like something is about to happen, like what he had felt yesterday, only much stronger. Suddenly, her thoughts about all the things that had happened these past few days. Did she do something? She shrugged it off, as she made her way. Wouldn't want to be late for work. But, the dreadful feeling was still there.

She had now entered the building, seeing as her shift was about to come. Suddenly, she spotted a young lady standing idly at door from which Tsuna was about to go into. Suddenly, as if feeling that she was coming, she finally saw the young lady look at her, and recognize her as the young girl from yesterday.

"Chrome-san, fancy to see you here. Um, not to be rude, but what are you doing here?" she asked. The young lady smiled.

"Um, you see…" suddenly, she felt another presence near them and when she turned around, she indeed saw someone. An older man, she presumed, but where had she seen him? She was cut off from her thoughts when the guy chuckled, making her blush a bit, as to not that she was not paying attention. The man merely looked at her in amusement, chuckling on the reaction he was getting from the young brunette.

"Um…" suddenly, Daemon took a deep breathe.

"I take it that you are Miss Tsunayuki Sawada?" she blinked a bit, as she heard him say her name. Suddenly, the dreaded feeling she had last night was coming back again.

"Miss?" she blinked once more and reprimanded herself inwardly of what seemed to be embarrassing herself further. Suddenly, she remembered the man ask a question and she merely nodded, not trusting her voice for the meantime. The man merely smirked at her, and she felt a cold ran through her spine.

"Ah, thank you for comforting my daughter last night. My name is Daemon Spade. A pleasure to meet you, miss Sawada." He smirked once again as he look at her. "And what a great performance you had there."

Her eyes widened at that. Of course, why didn't she think of it sooner? Chrome was obviously the daughter of one of the guardians otherwise known as the owners of the said company and its branches. She mentally face palmed at that. She was so screwed.

Seemingly knowing what she was thinking, he suddenly chuckled resulting for her to snap her head towards his direction as he looked plainly at her, before his eyes landed to his daughter.

"I see you are now in better terms of your feeling, I suppose?" Chrome nodded, as she blushed knowing of the night that had transpired. After the encounter she had with the brunette, she had suddenly bumped into her father, who was also going home for the day. He told her he knew all about it and that he assured her it was nothing that she had thought of. She visibly sighed in relief because of it. all she knew was that maybe her father would get angry at her for it, but she was wrong.

Another cough and their attentions zeroed back to the person in hand.

"Ah, yes. Miss Sawada, can you come with me? We need something to talk about." Her eyes widened a bit at this and suddenly she thought of escaping. Hearing the eerie chuckle from the man once again, she turned around.

"Oh, don't go away, miss. After all, you wouldn't want anything to happen to you, do you?" she suddenly gulped at the threat in his words. He knew he wqould resort to anything even brute force if he has to. Biting her lips, she had no other choice but to comply. Nodding, the three made their way towards the elevator, going to the highest floor. She saw Chrome muttering the word 'sorry' and she assured her it was fine. 'I hope.' But she didn't voice it out loud fearing of what would happen to her.

She sighed as she eyed the doors in front of her. She knew that the person(s) inside are all of high status in this company and being in their presence made her gulp.

"Oh, no need to worry. They won't bite." That made her all the more nervous. Chrome gave her a reassuring pat and she took a deep breath. Well, it's now or never.

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Nana sighed as she sat on the couch on their living room. This was only one of the days where she could stay at home, and do something for her daughter. Having two jobs at the same time is really tiring, especially since their debts were still there. She couldn't help but sigh. She then looked at the picture on the wall. Their small family of three, only them. She clearly looked at the picture, specifically to the person on the right.

Iemitsu.

He had not been in contact with them since a few months ago. Sure, the company was sending her his pay but she couldn't help but touch it. Those stacks that she was given, were placed on the drawer and had been there ever since. She would occasionally use them to pay the debt but that didn't mean that she'd use it all. It was her husband's but she couldn't fathom to use all of them since knowing the current whereabouts were still missing.

She could only close her eyes, as fatigue from a few hours ago came.

'Oh well. At least I made time for my Tsu-chan.' and darkness consumed her.

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"-na! Tsuna!" she blinked a lot until she sees the hand frantically waved in front of her. Seeing there was a worried Maria.

"Ah, Maria-san, what's wrong?" she asked. Maria looked at her, one of concern.

"Are you feeling alright? Because you look a little paler than usual." She said. Tsuna laughed nervously, as she gathered her cleaning materials to follow her.

"Well, I's nothing really, Maria-san. Do not worry." She gave her a reassuring smile. Maria knew she couldn't do anything else about it, and she didn't want to push the younger lady to tell her what had been bothering her since a few minutes ago.

Tsuna sighed and was relieved that Maria hadn't pushed further than that. She really didn't want to relive what had happened a while ago.

Opening the doors, she could now see a once empty meeting room to be occupied by six people, who after seeing the door open, had immediately silenced. Daemon came in, greeting everyone and went to seat next to a younger man, who had one eyed close. As he sat down, the one in the middle, then coughed at them.

"Now, everyone settle down now, as we are about to start the meeting. And it seems to me Daemon brought to us a guest, I presume?" Daemon merely nodded at him and smirked at her.

"Now, bambina, no need to stand there and come sit with us." She looked at them and gulped seeing as everyone's attention suddenly went to her. Slowly, she went to the nearest seat just a few seats away from them.

"Now, everyone. We called you here today for some shocking revelation. Daemon, if you may?" Daemon immediately stood up and brought out a cd as he slowly looked at them. Seeing Tsuna, he couldn't help but smirk at her before he looked at everyone once again.

"As you can see, while I had been wandering around the halls," a snort was heard but he ignored it. "I had somehow stumbled into something that had immediately caught my attention." His eyes zeroed into Tsuna that everyone in the room immediately looked at her. She immediately wanted to feel small so that she could hide herself from those eyes that were looking straight at her now. Suddenly, Daemon coughed, gaining back their attentions.

They all followed his movements as he grabbed the cd and placed it into the waiting player. Suddenly, the big television opened and had showed them a footage.

"You got interested at the tape in the surveillance room?" one of them had asked. To them, it was somewhat just a scene caught in the camera. But to Tsuna, it was not. Merely looking at it, made her heart beat faster as she paled. She knew that. She was there. And looking at the smug look Daemon has, she knew she was doomed.

She sighed deeply as she grabbed her bag and immediately leaving the building, not wishing to meet any one there as she hurriedly went home. it was quite dark now when she came home, and silence once greeted her. Opening the lights in the kitchen, she saw a covered plate filled with her dinner and a small note beside it.

Tsu-chan,

It seems that I might not be having dinner with you today. I am really sorry about it. I cooked up dinner before I left so feel free to eat it. I'll make it up to you somehow.

Love,

Mama

She crumpled the paper and threw it into the nearest trashbin as she quietly grabbed her dinner and eating it, not after she prayed. Dinner was silent as always, and she somehow got used to it by now. As she took a spoonful, she couldn't help but miss her mother's cooking. The next thing she knew, she was crying silently as she ate the food her mother made for her.

After the whole thing was played, everyone was silent. Various comments came from each one of them and somehow, Tsuna was not paying attention to any of it. she was clearly in her own thoughts, fighting back all the commotions happening inside her head.

As she herself was battling with herself, Lampo, one of them had looked at Daemon.

"so you man that your wandering around had brought you to this and so meeting this talent that is her?" he then pointed at the young lady who was further away from them, and the others recently acknowledged the other presence that had been very silent since the whole ordeal.

"Yes. I see you get the whole point. Now, Giotto, as I have told you, this is the girl whom had caught my interest, and I know even every one of you are as well."

No one had denied of it, since they were all caught up to the passion she had in singing the song, no doubt had been composed by none other than her. They were intrigued as well as interested for this young talent even though she was found by none other than Daemon Spade.

"Miss, what do you say then? Miss?" silence.

"It seems to me that she was caught up in her own thoughts." Asari said as he looked at the young girl.

"Tch."

"Miss Sawada?" that snapped her back from her musing.

"Huh?" oh, she really wanted to slap herself for being inattentive. It was really embarrassing.

"Y-Yes, sir?" she asked. Giotto just chuckled a bit.

"I asked if you would consider being a singer. You do have such a wonderful voice." She blushed at this since she wasn't used to being complimented.

"I…uh…" she stuttered out.

"No."

"No?" She bit her lip. The other man there sighed as he looked straight at her.

"If you're worried about your job, we could always fire you." Her eyes widened as she looked on her knees. She didn't know what to do since everything was happening all too fast. They were thinking of firing her and she didn't want that. Her pay might not be that much but it can at least help in her mother's already too large load. She had to do something.

"Um…"

"Yes?"

Seeing eyes on her, she almost looked down once again. She then took up a deep breath before she looked at all of them once again.

"Can I have time to think of it?" she asked.

"Can't you just make up your mind now?" she squeaked as she looked into fiery eyes looking at her. She heard him being reprimanded by who seemed to be their leader. She knew, but she really couldn't answer right away. Her thoughts were all jumbled up as well and her inner conflict has yet to be done.

"Alright." She was shocked as she looked up. She was met by kind azure eyes.

"We'll be giving you a week to consider. Is that enough time?" his voice was kind, and she noted that it held sincerity. She could only nod at him.

"Great. Now, this meeting is adjourned." After he said that, she immediately bolted out of the room, and immediately to the locker room, where she saw that |Maria wasn't still there. She opted to wait for her so she sat down on the bench available and zoned out.

She sighed as she entered her room. After washing up, she immediately flopped into her bed as she recalled her hectic day today.

'A week, huh?' she thought. Suddenly, her eyes felt heavy.

Somewhere…

Everyone there had been silent, no one uttering even a word. Tension was in the air, as they looked at each and every one of them. The lady in the end of the table side as she took her cup of tea and drank it.

"So, how did it all go?" she asked.

"It all went well. It ran smoothly but are you sure you need to leave today?" one of them asked. She nodded, sadly smiling at each and every one of them.

"I wish I could stay longer but if I would then she'd be sadden. And, you could always visit the shop." Agreements filled the air, as the tension had begun to slowly disappear. The lady with a small flower tattoo located below her left eye just smiled at them, as she watches them interact with one another. Seeing the time, she stood up and gave one last smile.

"I need to go. Tsuna-chan would miss me." She said as she left the room. Their meeting was over a few minutes ago already. The remaining occupants just smiled at their leader. She may not know it, but they too miss the young adult.

"Speaking of which, how is she now?"

The question was left unanswered.

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