A/N: Okay... Shit. I was totally not meaning to miss Wednesday. Honest to God. I meant to make it up to you on Thursday but the sore throat I went to sleep with blew up into a huge cold and I was slept the whole day once deciding to skip my afternoon classes. I couldn't on Friday or Saturday because of the aforementioned reason. I'm mostly over my cold now but there's also NaNoWriMo which I'm about 9k behind on. I have not done more than 2k all week. *hyperventilates a bit*

I will try, I promise to try, to have more ready for Wednesday and next Sunday.

Honest.

I'm tyring.

Warning/Disclaimer: Check Chapter One please!

The Adventures of Skull and Ri

8.1: Meeting the Vongola (Terrorizing Reborn), Part 1

Tsuna was a bit surprised by Ri-san. The man had attacked him in a wild hug, squishing him and Enma-san into his chest and cuddling him closely while exclaiming excitedly about their…adorableness.

However, Ri-san was very nice! He had immediately invited Tsuna over to his house, along with Gokudera-Kun and Takashi-san when they'd caught up with him, and the trio was free to relax with the Simon Family all they wanted. Gokudera had puffed up and fought a bit about going anywhere but when he realized it was Ri-san, apparently a good friend of his sister Bianchi, he relaxed a bit. (Which Tsuna would admit to being a little weird, but Gokudera wasn't shooting off his dynamite so it was fine!)

Takashi seemed content just to chat about baseball and was a bit fascinated by this Quadditch(?) Ri-san spoke of, and comparing baseball to croquet. The older man had cheerfully pulled off his tie, draped his jacket over a chair, and went about making snacks for everyone. In fact, Ri-san reminded him a bit of his mother.

"You're like a mother, Ri-san," Tsuna blurted out finally after Ri put a plate of cookies on the table with a pot of tea and cups of a English tea. Ri-san blinked in surprise and Tsuna colored in embarrassment.

"Gomen!" He said, "I didn't mean to—" But Ri-san just giggled and went around the island and hugged him tightly.

"That's a fine compliment!" Ri-san squealed, he stepped back, giving Tsuna a bright smile, before blinking with a frown and tipping his head to the side, "It was a compliment?"

Tsuna nodded hurriedly and the smile reappeared on Ri-san's face.

"Well, I hope that I prove to be a good parent to the Simon family guardians and boss, I adopted them," Ri-san said happily.

The three Vongolas mouths dropped open.

"Ri-dono you adopted the Simon family?!" Gokudera sputtered.

"Hai, Hayato-kun," Ri-san chirped. "I needed to take care of something at school for them and the only way to do that was to adopt them into my care."

"Sugoi," Takashi said in admiration.

"That's very nice of you, Ri—" Tsuna started to say.

A large crash interrupted them. A small vein appeared on Ri-san's forehead.

Tsuna would admit to being slightly frightened as the man turned away and looked through the doorway to the living room where Koyo and Kaoru had been rough housing and, unfortunately, stumbled into the china cabinet and knocked it hard enough that the top portion had toppled over. A large portion of the very pretty china and crystal that had been it were broken with the delicately carved and formed wood section they had bungled into.

The two Simons dramatically paled.

A dark aura appeared rising off of Ri-san like an evil haze.

"Two hundred laps around the estate." Ri-san said, "Now."

They disappeared and the door shut after them like a gunshot with how quickly they left.

Ri-san sighed and was friendly with a sweet smile when he turned back around.

"Tea?" He offered.

Tsuna and his guardians knew it would be wise to take it.

Tsuna instantly added a bit of Bianchi and Lal Mirch to his mother in his opinion of Ri-san and shuddered at the results. Ri-san was a very formidable mother.

A/N:

R&R