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For one Yamamoto Takeshi,

Since Tsunade's visit to his room, he got a visit from the Police's Women and Children's Help Desk about his situation and he felt better since talking to the girl who he couldn't help before who forgave him so he felt better that he was forgiven and doesn't feel so alone anymore. Just that, for financial reasons, she can't visit much and mails him instead.

However, what he didn't know is that his actions left a huge impact on his class and clubmates at school.

It was social chaos that Yamamoto underestimated how popular he was with the girls and some boys in his class yet was driven to suicide by his clubmates who were callous users that that Free Period resulted in an angry shouting match and a one-sided brawl.

Yamamoto never knew how many he had on his side. Well, his love for Baseball made him a poor judge of character...

Hibari who noticed him fall from his office window and saw the growing blood pool when he took a peek outside, promptly called an ambulance and went to the rooftop to see the chaos instead of an accident with faulty rails...and given what he discovered, he was not so lenient anymore as a 'bunch of herbivores drove a herbivore to suicide' and as being beaten by 'a pack' was enough, he called the parents over for a PTC and let the parents decide their sons' fates for driving their teammate to suicide.

Yamamoto Tsuyoshi was livid and furious he damn near jumped on the kids if not for the fact that the fathers held him back while begging him for forgiveness and offered to pay the hospital bills. He withdrew his son a week later, looking for a good school outside of town even if it meant his son staying in a dorm as long as he was in a 'mentally healthy environment'.

He lost his wife he can't handle losing his son too, all he had left of her since his son's face was mostly hers. A male version of her to be exact that gave his boy his good looks.

Class 1-B was traumatized with Yamamoto's suicide they couldn't go to school without seeing the guy's desk they mostly skipped school while some boys who were in the same club skipped to avoid the dirty, hostile looks at them. The impact was strong that a certain loud boxer had to forego his passions to comfort his distraught sister who couldn't bring herself to go to school a day after the School Scandal. Seeing her classmate's desk connected real quick to the sight of him jumping off the school roof.

He asked their parents to transfer her to a different class for 'extreme peace of mind' since its way too late to change schools for his extremely distraught sister...

xxx

Hospital...

Yamamoto looked forward to her visits.

On the fifth day since her last visit...

She came...injured.

'Er...?' he squawked as despite her injuries, she seems not to care how hurt she was. And she came with a gift as usual. This time, its a brown box...of what? 'What happened?'

'Oh, this? A job as usual~' Tsunade smiled. 'This job paid well. We just got finished getting patched up.'

'You're really serious about Freelancing aren't you?' Yamamoto choked as her arms are toned, but just enough to be obvious yet no muscle contour to ruin her shape as a female. He wasn't alone in his room, there was a nurse to replace his drips and giving him pain meds for his aching bones.

'Yeah, only job we slum rats can have anyway, but while risky it pays more than any white-collar job at any rate...my team and I had to steal and smuggle back out our client's kidnapped daughter for ransom just so they didn't have to pay the crooks!' she griped.

'To be fair, the ransom was huge, stuff the parents can't afford and you can't always guarantee your victim will be returned alive after paying them off...so hire Freelancers to kidnap their kid back to safety it is before the police jumped in and rained lead on the syndicate. Father's a lawyer who got hardcore stuff on the crooks and they found out. Wanna know how?'

'How?' Yamamoto choked out.

'Apparently, while the father was a doting family man, he was a stiff, cheap employer who's shorting his secretary off his pay. The family housekeeper was luckier since his wife employed her. The wife was more generous.' Tsunade scowled. 'The pay was way below what a secretary would normally make for a lawyer's secretary and Arisugawa-san is one of the best lawyers in Ginza making it big. This man wanted a pay raise because he needed to look for a new apartment to move into plus the fees that come with it or its the streets with his stuff, but my client turned him down quite rudely...and then the daughter got kidnapped after school the next day. It was too easy to figure out who dunnit as an angry person tended to leave big trails. This wouldn't have happened if he wasn't such a scrooge to a person in need who just happens to have the best revenge material on you as he knows you.' she said with an eye roll.

'We got paid seven mil for the job- wife's insistence by the way- which was cheaper compared to the 70 million the crooks charged, plus the evidence.' she quipped as she tore the box apart to reveal plastic boxes of snacks. Mini-Dorayaki on the first box, decorative Namagashi on the second, Imagawayaki on the third, and Senbei on the fourth. The fifth was pre-sliced shokupan that's a beautiful golden in color with a glossy brown covering somehow?

'W-wow...how much money did THOSE cost you?' Yamamoto gawked. The nurse took a discreet peek to see the rather luxurious gifts in otherwise, cheap packaging that got her eyeballing it as well.

'Oh, they're cheap if you made it yourself you know.' Tsunade chimed. 'The only reason confectionery is expensive is because of the hands and skill that made them and the time it took to cook them. Ingredients are merely 1/4 of the cost to break even and 3/4 is for profit to continue production.'

'Oh...'

I know hospital food can be bland sometimes so have these.' Tsunade smiled.

'I hope you're OK...what on earth did you face in there?' Yamamoto squeaked as his old classmate still has blood seeping from her bandages.

'Ah, a couple bullet wounds and I just got out of surgery not long ago and confined here for quite a bit.' she said. 'Its normally easy for us to run unharmed but hey, we got a high schooler with us we can't move the way we normally could and we had to get her unscathed to naturally, we had to take some hits...' her listeners winced. 'While I'm long used to getting stabbed and shot at, it still hurts like shit.'

'Nobody should be used to that!' the nurse freaked out.

'In our line of work, you don't choose what's against and between you and your payday lady.' Tsunade drawled. 'Besides, the pay covers our hospital bills!'

'Tsu-chan! Your dress is seeping blood!' Yamamoto cried in alarm as he could see a blotch of red appear and grow bigger that stained her dress...and the females looked down...

'Oh, fuck!'

'Come with me young lady, we'll see to that wound...' the nurse yanked away his sole visitor for treatment.

'...is there a safer job for Freelancers?' Yamamoto whimpered, worried out of his wits when his dad came.

'Take-boy, is that an injured miss I saw get pulled out of your room?' he asked, bringing some manga for him.

'Yeah...that's Tsunade-chan.' said Yamamoto awkwardly. 'She just got back from a dangerous job and her stitches must have re-opened...'

'Freelancer huh? I refuse to believe till I saw it but...' Tsuyoshi scratched his head. 'What happened to that little lady?'

'A hostage situation she and her team had to rescue a lawyer's daughter.' said Yamamoto. 'She says she got shot at and her stitches opened just now...' he choked. 'She says she's long used to it but still hurts.'

'Good grief, no kid should be used to that...only the police and military should since its their damn job!' his dad sputtered. 'Did she tell you details...?'

That, and he'd look into his son's new company of choice...

'By the way, those came from her?' he asked, seeing the gifts.

'Yeah...she says she made it but they're way too good to be made by a kid our age...its kind of hard to believe.' Yamamoto scratched his head.

'Hmm...daddy will check.' Tsuyoshi inspected the food by smell. '...she did.'

'She did?' and he identified that by smell alone?

'Yeah. She smells strongly of sugar and flour and other sweet things as well as hi-grade sauce for the senbei that doesn't exist in the market so its homemade despite using a Tamari base...nevermind her blood, the smell on her matches these things.' said Tsuyoshi, patting the packages. 'Not to mention...she somehow has access to high-grade stuff daddy touched only a few times in his days in Culinary College...Wasanbon. Those things are crazy expensive and that happened to be the year college tuition skyrocketed my parents freaked out!' he shuddered. 'Just how much does she make to afford that?!'

Yamamoto stared at his dad incredulously.

His dad also picked a senbei and took a bite. 'Hmm...healthy stuff. Soy sauce aside, I tasted sweet spices here that gives a nice savory-sweet taste...its healthy, you should eat it!' he beamed happily. 'Aren't you glad you got a lady friend who's skilled in the kitchen?'

'I wish she changes her job since she got your seal of approval dad. Being a chef seems safer.'

'Yes but reality isn't that easy sonny-boy...she really has no choice because to open a restaurant, you need a lot of approvals as well as a certificate from college and she's way too young for all of those.' he explained. 'Can't blame her for that. But give her a few more years, she can safely open a cafe in town and it'll be a real money-spinner. These things are great! Have some!'

xxx

In another area of the hospital...

Amon was subtly cheating on their healing while stuck in a ward together, all three of them.

'Ah, your stitches reopened huh? Well, I think cooking visiting goods reopened them again.' he said. He was practicing on their injuries as to NOT leave scars.

'Well, you always have to have a present when visiting hospital patients.' Tsunade shrugged. 'So yeah, I had to work on that...'

'You guys really have what it takes.' said Reborn. 'But we need four more people to complete the family set. Tsunade's a Sky, Amon's a Sun and Gokudera is a Storm with a few elements in his blood but they're secondary and his primary and stronger flame is Storm.'

'Why is completing a family of elements so important?' Amon asked him.

'The Guardians Harmonize with their Sky.' said Reborn. 'The Sky that harmonized with them in turn balances out their powers and elemental instincts, bringing out everybody's full potential as a whole. A completed family makes the Sky stronger and in return, they become stronger through their Sky. Without a Sky, we're a miserable dysfunctional bunch, quite literally...and while Skies are rare with so many guardians...only a certain person per element can bond with a certain Sky for many reasons and factors such as personality, environment and other things that made them match and compatible for ideal happy and healthy bonds that in turn creates the benefits I stated, but there are no-good Skies in the mafia who treat this like a shopping and political venture it can really piss you off.'

'Elaborate.' Tsunade asked him.

'Most bosses in Mafia Famiglias are Skies.' Reborn explained. 'Like I said, they treat this as a political shopping venture. They choose based on reputation and political benefits over what's proper and normally healthy. As a result, there's resentment brewing, betrayals are inevitable as revenge. Tsunade is a proper Sky who was chosen by her Guardians because she truly cares for you guys.'

'I take it you have bad experience?'

'Like you wouldn't believe.' said Reborn curtly. 'Nevermind that I already have a Sky, some people are still trying to force themselves on me with their cloying attempts of Flame Courtship by sending out Flame Feelers and trying to push its way into my flames. That's no different from getting molested on a daily basis and they want me because I am the world's strongest Sun.' the three did a double-take.

'Tsunade's predecessor...his original guardians remaining are Coyote, Visconti and Bouche. The rest are replacements done politically hence their younger appearances, hence the originals are as old as Timoteo. They were basically sold to him by their famiglias in return for benefiting off the Alliance. Timoteo knows full well he had to earn their loyalty to obtain ideal harmonization so he often went on 'family bonding trips' with them and made them feel like they belong. It was hard that it took him long to truly make them his family. But the fact remains that somewhere out there is their true Sky who they'll never meet. To put it this way, what they have is second-rate harmony that it'll never feel true harmonization for them but they're stuck with him for life.'

'Oh...'

'To Gokudera who got lucky, Tsunade is your true Sky and you found her because you ran away from home.' Reborn told him. 'If you hadn't, you'd end up with a second-rate bond too through a political arrangement or worse.' Gokudera balked at that. 'Second-rate bond aside, you won't live past childhood either before you even get saddled with a rather unhealthy relationship.' Gokudera shuddered horribly.

'Good thing I ran away...' Gokudera shuddered. It was the best choice he made in life all this time!

His Sky was perfect.

'Well, that's food for thought so we should look for more family members.' Reborn told them. 'And we should renovate the house to accommodate a lot of people. As you travel and work as Freelancers, you would meet future family members.'

'Reborn, while that's cool with me and all, I will NOT be a mafia queen!' Tsunade grunted.

'Keep telling yourself that.' Reborn smirked and he had to stab a galette thrown at him with a Leon-Fork and he ate it in front of her to annoy her. 'I succeeded with clumsy, baka-Dino, I'll succeed making a boss out of a stubborn-as-a-mule freelancer into taking that boss chair.'

'Dream on buster!'

xxx

When they left the hospital days later...

Gokudera had good reason to freak out.

'Holy motherfucking ever-loving fuck!' came his horrified shriek that shook the rafters that got everyone in the house looking at him with wide-eyes. His family, and the contractors working into building extensions.

'That's quite the bad news if you swore to that degree.' Tsunade sweatdropped as Reborn was tutoring her in Junior-High Education while Amon was grooming the animals with a brush and Gokudera was in front of the computer. 'What is it?'

'Bianchi's in Tokyo!' he wailed in horror as if his world ended right then and there. 'I'm hiding until she's gone! I'll erase all my tracks right now!' and he rapidly began hacking in a frenzy. He was glad Tsunade taught them both how to hack...

'...is she that bad?' Tsunade hissed to her tutor.

'...she's er...too passionately clingy and possessive...and her cooking is lethal. If you're the heaven of the kitchen all men would worship, she's the hell version.' Reborn snorted. 'She's a nice, loyal girl but...those two traits can scare away any man.'

'Ah...'

'Well, I won't be going out much either...she decided I'm her true love when I mentored her for a bit when she was a beginner.' said Reborn. 'Iemitsu will visit again soon. He's just formalizing everything with Nono in Kyoto.'

'Ah, the Divorce.' Tsunade smirked. Her mother's in jail for Child Abandonment, Aggravated Damages(psychological damages), Breach of Trust, and Financial Extortion by pretending 'all's fine at home' when it isn't just so Iemitsu would keep sending Nana money. That, and her father will now sell their home and property as Tsunade now lives in Tokyo and would rather commit mass arson than go back. He also changed his will in legal court systems and such that she was his sole beneficiary if anything happened to him while at work, and left his daughter a legal guardian(the twenty-plus VOLTS gang adults, Reborn, Amon and Dino in that order). Vongola was also paying for the extension renovations in their house using family-affiliated members.

As for Nana's parents, they had no choice with Nana as Nana helps them with their son's medical fees that they helped her with her ruse while waiting for the right time to go as 'Anonymous' to ensure their granddaughter gets justice she deserves while they knew their daughter will soon pay for her crimes in the most ironic way possible...and it came true. They were also forgiven by their former son-in-law and granddaughter as circumstances were against them as well. So due to that, they were let off with a stern warning.

Even more ironic? Their son woke up when Nana went to jail!

'Its hard on him but nobody saw her true colors coming.' said Reborn. 'Its also his mistake not to visit every month. This problem could have been averted if he took a week off every month. However, the costs you paid paled in comparison to how much you've gained in turn.' he said. 'You gained plenty of boon in a karmic way. You have people who respect you as an equal and a family to come home to.'

'...'

'Oh yes, Nono and baka-mitsu will be coming here to ask you to awaken their pretty-much-dead Hyper Intuition as well.'

'There's a slim chance of that happening you know!'

'How slim?'

'1%! They better hope they're lucky!'

xxx

Omake

The family-affiliate Contractors and Builders have been instructed by Vongola to go to Shinjuku Tokyo to a particular Location to demolish and rebuild the house Tsunade and her guardians live in. They are watched over by Reborn into ensuring the work is top quality for security and built in western standards as Japanese Space Standards are so small!

The first floor contained a huge living room, a big kitchen with complete equipment, gender-segregated Communal Showers and one furo in each bathroom and four toilets with bidets. The materials used were fire and earthquake proof with bulletproof glass enough to withstand the most dangerous guns.

The electronics and appliances are the best money can buy, and compatible with Energy-Saving Devices. The first floor also has various hidden gizmos installed incase of an invasion if they got past the animals that will maul you to death.

Below the first floor is a basement(still under construction). Gokudera's laboratory, a safety bunker and an Interrogation Room.

The second floor plan is of course, bedrooms. About ten bedrooms as Tsunade insisted on for reasons she could not reveal. That, and each bedroom has a frigging huge bed. King-sized four-poster beds with privacy drapes and a mattress type that gives great comfort and healthy support.

When working hard, however, there's a boon to building a house for a young girl and her guardians...

The girl in question is a damned good cook and her cooking was worth overtime and Reborn's perfectionism, especially as they're allowed to eat till they're full!