A/N: As soon as I added the cats, I gave in to the crazy. And in celebration of 100 followers, there's a drabble at the end. I might start doing this for my shorter chapters. As always, hope you all enjoy and feel free to review!
Unsupervised
It was a testament to how crazy Tsuna's life was that he didn't even question why a child in a cow suit was outside his window. He was torn between answering his homework questions correctly or wanting to ask why the kid was there. Shizuka was trying to poke around in Reborn's suitcase of wonders, snickering when the traps failed to capture her. "Get away from the suitcase or I'm sending your brother to the afterlife with you. Now, use this formula." Reborn says, Shizuka pouted in the background. "He can't even see me. It's not fair!" She complains.
"I finally found you Reborn! Now die!" The toddler yelled, Shizuka floated over to the window and closed it. The grenade the toddler threw bounced off the glass, the explosion knocking Lambo off of a tree branch. Shizuka stared out of the window at the now singed child, wondering if his curled hair was like that before the explosion. "Tol-er-ate." He sniffed, running to their front door. Shizuka sweat dropped. "I think it's a friend of Reborn. Why am I not surprised?" Shizuka asks dryly.
After a minute or so, they heard small feet going up the stairs. "I really don't want to deal with this." Shizuka stated, locking the door. There was a painful thud and the sound of a child crying on the other side of the door. "Reborn! Let me in! I just wanna kill you!" Lambo wailed, Shizuka and Tsuna shared a look of disbelief. Who would answer the door after hearing that?!
"Tsuna! Let Reborn's friend into your room, don't be rude!" Nana scolded from the bottom step of the stairs. "Oh kami, Mama is going to get you killed one of these days. And I thought that Iemitsu was bad." Shizuka states.
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The door was opened warily by Tsuna and the toddler threw yet another grenade at Reborn. Reborn pressed a button that automatically opened the window and threw the toddler and grenade out of the room. "When did we get an automatic window opener?" Shizuka wondered aloud, Tsuna deadpanned. "At this point, I've stopped wondering about all the crazy stuff going on in this town. Just who was that kid?" Tsuna asks, Reborn shrugged. "I wouldn't know, I don't associate with small-time familgias." Reborn says, putting on a pair of shades. "Magic, can we both agree he's using magic and move on?" Shizuka asks.
The toddler was persistent, Shizuka would give him that. And sturdy too, just what was that boy made of?! "Ahahahahaha! I, Lambo-sama, will ki-" Lambo tripped over thin air, falling flat on his face. There was an awkward silence. Lambo let out a forced laugh. "I, Lambo, 5 years old and from the Bovino family in Italy, tripped!" Oh my kami, this kid is really desperate to introduce himself. Tsuna and Shizuka both thought to themselves.
Tsuna picked up the toddler before he could try any more dangerous stunts. "How about you take a little snack break from trying to kill Reborn?" Lambo looked up at Tsuna with watery eyes and swiftly nodded. "I'm honestly surprised that Tsuna's room survived that encounter." Shizuka says bluntly. First it was Gokudera with dynamite, then Lambo with his grenades. Was everyone in the mafia obsessed with explosives? Her mind then wandered to Reborn and Natsumi. Explosives and guns then.
She decided to wander around town, not noticing a stray cat looking at her curiously. By the time that she found Lambo and Tsuna on the hill, she had a small group of cats following her like a tiny army. "Shizuka! What did you do?!" Shizuka looked at her brother in confusion. She turned and stared at the cats, the cats stared back. One of the cats meowed, Shizuka suddenly had an idea. "Surprise cat adoption!" She squealed, Tsuna face palmed. "We are not taking in a bunch of stray cats!"
Lambo looked at Tsuna in confusion. "Who are you talking to?" He asks, walking over to the small feline army. He started petting one and giggled when he was surrounded by purring cats. Tsuna winced. "My imaginary friend Shizuka." Lambo deadpanned. "Only babies have those. Lambo wants a cat! Lambo wants all the cats!" Shizuka grinned. "Yes! We shall take over the town with a cat army! Hibari would never hurt an animal, it's foolproof!" "Shizuka, we are not having a cat army!" "Lambo will use these cats to destroy Reborn! Lambo is so smart!" Lambo and Shizuka both had identical grins.
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Not only did Nana take Lambo into their home, but the stray cats that followed them as well. Reborn just looked at the young teen in disappointment. "You need more of a spine Crazy Tsuna." He states, drinking an espresso at the table. How can I when every time I protest something, I get kicked in the face or shot? Tsuna mentally wailed. They were all sitting at the dinner table, Lambo still attempting to kill Reborn by throwing a knife. Reborn easily deflected the knife, Shizuka and Tsuna winced when the knife went into Lambo's skull.
Lambo looked stunned, eyes watering and trying very hard not to cry. "How are you not dead?!" Shizuka exclaims. At this rate she was starting to think that the child was immortal. Lambo had wandered away from the table, trying to hide his tears, and pulled out a bazooka. Who thought it was a good idea to give a child a bazooka? Thank god mom isn't here! Shizuka and Tsuna thought. God help that poor soul that tried to hurt that precious woman.
Lambo pointed the barrel of the bazooka at himself, pulling the trigger. Smoke surrounded the child, and he was replaced with a teenager. Tsuna slammed his head against the table and groaned. "I already have a ghost haunting me and a hitman tutor. Why not throw in a time-bending bazooka?" He comments sarcastically, Shizuka shivered. If Natsumi was here, she would take the weapon apart and attempt to time travel herself. Sometimes that Italian scared her. If only she knew the teen would meet two geniuses just as crazy as her friend in the future.
Bonus: The Motivation Behind the Cat Army
There were cats on almost every surface of the house. There was a fat tabby on Tsuna's television, a Russian Blue that somehow managed to sneak into Reborn's hammock without dying, and countless others. Lambo was currently taking a nap, buried in a pile of purring fur. Shizuka was lazily floating in the air, holding a laser pointer and watching in amusement as the felines followed the red dot. "Shizuka, why?"
Shizuka tilted her head in confusion, and two cats copied the movement as well. "Why what? I thought that my plan would be obvious." She says bluntly, Tsuna deadpanned. "Half the time I have no clue what you're thinking. And why an army of cats, they're the anti-social jerks of the animal kingdom!" Shizuka just smirked, her eyes glinting mischievously.
"Exactly. Who else do we know that's an anti-social violent jerk?" Tsuna's eyes widened. "Do you have a death wish?! Why do you keep messing with Hibari?" He squeaked, Shizuka shrugged. "It's fun. Besides, there is a method to my madness." She states, Tsuna raised an eyebrow. Now this he had to hear.
"Hibari, total badass of Namimori... has a weakness for cute animals." Tsuna fell to the ground, but what was he expecting? It was his sister, she always had a strange thought process. There was a glint in her eyes, her flames starting to appear behind her. "Just think about it. There's no way that Hibari would be heartless enough to harm cute, adorable fluff balls. And then, when his guard is lowered, my cat minions will attack!" She pointed the laser pointer at a random stuffed animal, watching as the cats tore it apart.
"But why cats?" Shizuka shrugged. "I dunno, I saw them following and decided to roll with it." She says bluntly.