Twelve Pains of Christmas
Summary: Some people have their gifts, some people have their pains. It's an unfair world and more unfair still, for some members of the Mafia.
Chapter Summary: Reborn hates losing, Irie's crying over bills and Fran hates meeting his soon-to-be-probably in-laws.
4. Sending Christmas Cards
Reborn isn't one for mushy celebrations. Included in those celebrations is Christmas, too. But of course, it's also not because he hates the holiday. In fact, he kind of likes it. Just not too much, of course, because cool, number one hitmans like him doesn't love any celebration.
But, in any case, he does like the celebration. After all, there is some kind of twisted joy in seeing the faces of the people who he sent bombs as gifts – that kind of joy was up there, with killing people accurately with closed eyes.
So, he got weird habits, but then again, he is the number one hitman. It would be weirder if he has no weird habits at all. Imagine him acting all angel-like, what a disaster it would be, and very much fictional.
…Though he had done it before, when he spent some time with Luce.
Back to the present situation at hand, the hitman is quite… perplexed.
But not too much. Because he never gets too perplexed, he knows how to solve everything, after all, doesn't he?
However, what he's experiencing at the moment is indeed not easy for him, though not hard either because he doesn't know the meaning of the word. What his great problem is…
Sending Christmas cards.
Though not sending the Christmas cards itself is the actual problem but looking for the perfect Christmas card is.
Giving cards to his former students – Tsuna and Dino – was easy. Just look for something that explodes after being opened. There's no malice in that, just testing if their reflexes were still keen.
Giving cards to bosses were easier – especially Nono's. He only has to write a simple "Merry Christmas" on a scented parchment and that's it.
Giving to other Arcobalenos – that's a joke. He doesn't give them anything.
Except for Yuni.
Who is currently the source of his little problem.
As their boss, as the Arcobaleno boss, it was essential that he gives her a Christmas card. And not just a simple Christmas card!
Last year, Verde gave the young girl a Christmas card that actually moves and was more of a robot than a card. Yuni was entertained for quite some time. Viper gave Yuni a Christmas card that had moving Christmas characters… and promptly received a hug from the young girl – which pissed Reborn for some reason because that girl is his niece after all! Fon's Christmas card was quite normal – until they saw a Chinese dragon jump from it. Colonello even made a handmade Christmas card! That was so adorable that Reborn had to puke. Even Skull's wasn't that bad, it looked like a coloring book and the idiot proudly exclaimed that he colored the entire thing himself.
And what was the worst thing?
Reborn's was simply a plain "Merry Christmas" on a parchment. Everyone looked shock – others amused – and thank Luce, Yuni was nice enough to say something like, "Thank you, uncle. I think that simplicity is beauty."
He sent his bees and bugs to spy on the other Arcobaleno's Christmas cards. He's going the best card this time around or the whole hell will freeze over.
Reborn sighed to himself and drank some of his coffee – his favorite beans, too, which was sponsored by his beloved students.
That's when a thought entered his mind. How about a Christmas card with an artwork made of beans? And not just any artwork, he remembered having a photograph with Yuni from last year. That would be nice to replicate through coffee beans.
He smirked, beat that idiots.
5. Bills
Irie loved Christmas, just like any other good boys did. Christmas was a time of delight, a season of joy. It was one of the best things in the world that he looked forward to. After all, everyone is in a merry mood during this season – well, mostly everyone.
And some are way too over-acting with the merry mood thing.
He sighed to himself.
Byakuran was acting up again… even more high than usual.
Just a week ago, he had placed Christmas lights literally everywhere and let it on the entire week. And yesterday, he turned on every single oven in the entire Millefiore mansion just to bake marshmallows – smores!
He had nothing against the marshmallows but he did had something against Byakuran's anti-energy saving acts. Didn't he know about energy-saving and being eco-friendly?
Eco-friendly¸ the day that Byakuran learns about that is the day the world ends.
There's also the slight problem that Byakuran had used the most energy-consuming appliances, from stereo players to televisions to computers that were open even if they weren't used.
"Irie-sama," A Cervello lady went to him just as his thoughts were cut off.
Irie tilted his head to the side as he gave a polite smile, "Yes?"
"These were sent to the mail." The Cervello replied and placed an envelope in Irie's hands.
Ah, bills.
They weren't anything to fear, since Millefiore is one of the largest mafia families after all.
That was…
Until he saw their electric bill – and the number was even greater than nine digits! Under the bill was a smiley face and written was "Merry Christmas Sho-chan!"
Irie had to gape and tried not to best but he still screamed, "Byakuran-sama!"
There were legends that the Cervello had no emotions but seeing the Cervello giggling at Irie's moment of insanity, it had to be rumors.
6. Facing my in-laws
Fran doesn't care about celebrations. Christmas was included. After all, in Varia, the only celebration they actually did was exchanging gifts and watching their boss kill a few servants due to drinking too much. With his pineapple master, it was even worst. MM extorted everyone in the spirit of Christmas. Christmas, his ass. He'd never been bored in his entire life.
The only good thing was the pranks that he managed to do under the guise of merry-making. It was nice but didn't suffice enough.
That's why when Yuni – his girlfriend, much to everyone's surprise, disappointment and anger – sent him an invitation and asked him to visit her during the Christmas season, he agreed. He had arguably nothing better to do and he missed the blue-eyed girl, too.
And that's why he's standing in front of her mansion with a gift in his hand.
He rang the doorbell and when the door opened, a white dragon came out. Fran only blinked and use enough power to destroy it. He looked at the figure that summoned the dragon and blankly commented, "Is this the way Millefiore treat their guests?"
"Nope," Byakuran immediately shook his head. He gave a wide grin as he admitted, "This kind of treatment is given only to the jerk who took Yuni and some of her time away from me~"
Fran let himself in even though the older boy didn't ask him too, well he did move and that was enough indication in Fran's logic. He tried his best not to smirk as he said with dripping sarcasm, "I feel so special, thanks."
"Brat." Byakuran immediately bit. He shook his head as he pointed to the hallways, "Look for Yuni somewhere inside. I want to kill you but she'll actually destroy me if I do."
"Nice to know that you care about me." Fran emotionlessly taunted and proceeded to walk away from the marshmallow maniac. Not before dodging and destroying another white dragon sent in his way, of course.
He continued to walk until he noticed that a foot was stuck out in order to trip him. He sighed and proceeded to step on the foot.
The owner of the foot, a pink haired individual, screamed, "Ouch!"
"Oh." Fran only blinked. He blew his cheeks, "I thought that it was an ant, sorry."
"You jerk, I'm telling Yuni!" The boy stuck his tongue out as he tried to run away.
Emphasis on tried. Fran simply sighed as he flicked his fingers and effectively made the shorter boy doze off. He dragged the boy to lean on the wall and shook his head, "Yuni must have been getting to me, I'm being kind enough not to kill this boy."
He promptly left him soon after.
Finally, after a few more unfortunate incidents, – which ended with him being horribly harassed time after time – Fran finally met Yuni in what looks to be a living room.
He cleared his throat once he was in the girl's vicinity, "Hey."
"You finally came," Yuni regarded with a warm smile. She approached him and gave the teal-haired boy a hug, "I've missed you."
Fran awkwardly hugged back. Unfortunately for him, Gamma had just entered the room.
The older boy separated the two of them and shouted at Fran, "What are you doing, you pervert!"
Fran just had to gape at that. What kind of conservative family is this – they only hugged. And awkwardly at that.
He didn't have anything else to say because at that time, Reborn also appeared.
The growing hitman only looked from Yuni to Gamma to Fran and asked nonchalantly, "What happened?"
"He's being a pervert!" Gamma overprotectively accused as he pointed at Fran.
Reborn's eyes shadowed and a frown was forming on his features, "What?"
Yuni sighed as she finally cleared the air, "I hugged Fran. That's all."
"Yeah." Fran only nodded his head at the weirdness of this all.
"Yuni, would you mind giving us tea?" Reborn casually asked his niece.
Yuni contemplated for a few moment before she looked defeated. She gave Fran an apologetic smile, "Sure. I'll be back soon."
As soon as Yuni went out of the room, Reborn and Gamma gave identical, maniacal smiles, "So, tell us a little bit about your relationship with Yuni."
Fran just knew that it's going to be a long day.
A/N: I TRIED HAHAHA. And the 2601 was just my OTP. I couldn't help it, sorry. And they were the only one that would make sense. I mean…. If it was KyokoTsuna or TsunaHaru, I don't think that meeting the parents would be a pain. They'll probably fall over Tsuna, anyway. Read, review and subscribe!