This is not going to be all fluff either. (just most of it) The Varia are still assassins after all, but for now, they'll be adjusting to a more civilian lifestyle…somewhat.
Beta'd by Tsumugi Hitomi
Current Ages:
Tsuna-5
Xanxus-15
Chapter 3: The Neighbor is an Empty Man
Tsuna would never know it, but when Xanxus had first laid eyes on him, he had seen glowing orange orbs squarely meeting his crimson ones. The teen would write it off as a trick of the dawning light coupled with his own jet lag until years later, when an eye opening incident would once again bring the memory to the forefront of his mind.
For now however, Xanxus pushed the matter into the back of his mind. He couldn't really bring himself to care enough to be curious. Then again, he couldn't really bring himself to care about much of anything these days. As he gazed upon the thick ornate metal cuffs, one for each arm, he could feel the familiar tide of anger and fury rising. The usual consuming burn of his flames welling up from within. But just as quickly as it rose, it drained away leaving him numb and empty. That seemed to be all he felt nowadays. All that he could feel. He could barely muster up enough energy to even feel annoyance anymore. So he just stopped. Stopped caring. Stopped feeling.
Life was lethargic and empty now. Just like him. His eyes ignored the heavy metal bands snuggly fitted around his wrists. He had had practice. There was no point in looking anyways. He knew what he would see. The dark orange stones, five for each cuff, would now be alight with an inner fire. His inner fire. His anger. His feelings. If he were to look, the bands would reignite his anger again and the stones would drain it-and everything else-all away again. So he didn't look and he didn't care. As long as he wasn't angry, the stones wouldn't drain him out completely.
Gasp! A Xanxus who isn't trigger happy or even angry. Though it's not of his own volition.
My goal is to keep each chapter less than a thousand words. I can already tell that it will be broken in the future.
By the way, these chapters are written in sets of five, beta'd in sets of five, and then posted one per day so there's generally a few days delay from the chapters completion to the actual publishing.