A/N: Hi all! It's been a while! I hope all of you are doing okay in this pandemic. I haven't been able to write any KHR AUs recently because I was too invested in another fandom and WFH, so I'm so sorry that it took me a while to pull out new content.
This time, It's a KHR X Psycho-Pass AU!
Please take note that since this is an AU, I took a lot of liberties in modifying Psycho-Pass's timeline. Everything will be explained in time, as usual!
I plan to keep this as short as possible, probably around 5 to 6 chapters as usual, so a lot of things are bound to happen. (Hihi)
Enjoy!
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Chapter 1
Going to Italy was something that forty-eight year-old Tsuna dreaded and looked forward to when he had to leave the country for field work.
While being a high-ranking officer in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tsuna enjoyed the wide outdoors investigating instead of doing administrative work. He had Kyoko for the administrative workload since she currently can't go to the field in her condition.
As he thought that, he sighed as he received another report from Frederica about a little stray that she picked up in SEAUn. It seems that she was doing well in her own personnel recruitment when he gave her free reign to create her team as she wished. She was efficient that way, but it kept the HR bugging him once a week asking why she was taking people from other ministries and departments as her direct reports.
Tsuna told them time and time again to mind their own business since they were submitting the proper paperwork and approvals for the transfers.
He trusted the woman to choose the people she wants to work with and those she has complete confidence will work well with their unorthodox way of investigating.
Sometimes Tsuna blamed himself for mentoring Frederica like that, but it was too late for regrets, and he really doesn't regret it since she always delivers with high quality output in her cases.
But this time, she was asking him to appeal for amnesty for a man ridden with criminal charges ever since he ran away from his owners.
Kogami Shinya.
The man reminded him of his own subordinate that it wasn't even funny. He was glad this one doesn't run on killing intent and biting people to death once he is annoyed.
A former Inspector and Enforcer to the Public Safety Bureau, the man's history was rocky and complicated as all latent criminals and Enforcers alike. Tsuna would sometimes be amazed by their tenacity and resolve to become hunting dogs instead of rotting in an isolation facility under therapy.
Looking at his history, the only issue in his case was that his target for one of his investigations was a person that the System was obsessed about and protecting at all costs. Tsuna knew that much, after all, he met the System more than once and is one of the people responsible for its maintenance.
Not that anyone else needed to know that.
It seems that the face of Sibyl this time was someone who had lost its credibility as part of the system, and per the arrangements should that happen, the brain was terminated. He remembered that the brain of Kozaburo Toma was the one the target had helped out to facilitate the Specimen Case, as he remembered from the Sibyl reports seven years ago.
That in itself needed the arbitration of the 'Maintenance Team' such as himself.
It seems Kogami Shinya will be getting an amnesty after all.
Not wanting to keep his student waiting, Tsuna immediately took out his communication device and video called Frederica.
"Tsunayoshi-sensei, that was fast." The face of Frederica in a VTOL cockpit came to his view.
Tsuna sighed. "When you sent me the report and the papers, I knew that I didn't need to wait until I landed to give you my response, Hanashiro." he told her.
The woman laughed good-naturedly. "Did I go a bit too far this time?"
"No." Tsuna denied. "In this case, you're reminding me of my teenage years." he admitted as he remembered his time as the Vongola heir. While he missed those times when he picked up different people in the mafia as his now-ex-guardians, he doesn't regret not becoming the boss of a mafia family in Italy.
Frederica had known how eccentric her mentor and boss is, as she also came from a different department before Tsuna took her under her wing. The man never got married, so he treated her like his own daughter, despite the less than ten years age gap they had.
When she asked why, Tsuna would simply say that he was going to be the end, and that was it.
"When you say that Tsunayoshi-sensei, I sometimes fear you will be retiring." she told him.
Tsuna had to laugh at her statement. "Me? Retire at this age? No way. HR will have to drag my old ass out of the offices before that happens." he told her. "Now, about that Kogami kid. Since his circumstances are a bit different from the runaways that we had when I did a small check, he can definitely have my backing on this." he told her.
"This won't put a dent on your reputation, I bet, Sensei." Frederica replied.
Tsuna smiled brightly, "Of course! There is no one in Japan who would even dare tarnish my reputation. I have Kyouya to do that for me." he nodded. "Now, all of the documents are signed, sealed and will be delivered in fifteen minutes to you and the necessary offices. Don't make me regret my decision, Hanashiro." he added as a small warning.
"Roger that." Frederica saluted before the call ended.
Tsuna sighed. He felt like he was raising a daughter, and it was tiring in helping her get what she needed in order to operate efficiently in the ministry.
"Excited to get back, Tsuna?"
Tsuna turned to face his long-time friend, Yamamoto Takeshi, now a fellow colleague but still under his wing, seated at the other side of the plane with his baseball magazine in hand.
Tsuna scoffed as he looked back out the window of their private plane. "I didn't expect to return here at all," he replied. "How many countries have we gone to ever since we came to work at the MFA?"
Yamamoto hummed and pretended to count. "I'd say more than ten countries over the course of our ministry career, but this is the first time we will be going to Italy. The last time we headed there was when we were still teenagers."
"When we were still caught up in mafia-related issues, you mean." Hibari Kyouya spoke up right behind them while he was typing away giving instructions to his second-in-command back in Japan. "I expect the moment we land, sniffing dogs will be about."
Tsuna shrugged, "It's already been more than thirty years. I doubt they're that caught up with the past."
"But what if he comes after you because of everything that happened?" Hibari inquired.
"The Vongola are not that petty to be vengeful towards a fourteen year-old teenager's actions for more than three decades, Kyouya." Tsuna replied.
"I was talking about your old man." Hibari corrected.
Tsuna's fist clenched at the mention of his father. Out of all things, he didn't want to be reminded of that deadbeat father who only wanted to act like one when he felt like it, and even then, he had a shitty way of doing it. It was a good thing his mom divorced him the moment he couldn't come back to Japan.
The Sibyl System made sure of that.
"What about him?" he asked.
Yamamoto looked like he didn't want to be involved in the conversation regarding shitty fathers, since his own father was the complete opposite, but he had to, lest a fight ensue in the middle of a flight. The AI and the rest of their staff were not going to like it.
"Well, you can't really help us from worrying since you were part of the team who perfected the Sibyl System and drafted our current Foreign Policy."
Tsuna huffed, "Just because I joined the ministry in the middle of Sibyl's R&D does not mean that the entire Foreign Policy was my doing." he denied.
"But it is no secret that you were in for barring any and all individuals from leaving and entering the country with potentially clouded Hues, especially the ones who were working overseas and are now deemed as 'Abandoned Japanese' by the public." Hibari returned.
Tsuna did not speak after Hibari had hit the mark.
There was a reason why he had been hired as part of the research and development team of the Sibyl System straight out of college after all.
Out of all the people in the plane, Tsuna was the one who can accurately gauge a person's potential as a latent criminal, and his father had fit the bill of the profile that Sibyl has in its core that are deemed as latent criminals that can be killed by a Dominator's Lethal Eliminator mode the moment it aims.
And in the name of developing the system in the name of stabilization during the fall of Neo Liberal Economy and the seclusion of Japan in order to save themselves from the civil wars of foreign nations around them, at the time, Tsuna was willing to do anything just to be useful in a country in dire need of reform and self-sufficiency.
"Well, when you put it like that, it sounds like the old petty Me." Tsuna sighed in defeat. "But I don't regret drafting that policy and my input to Sibyl, that's for sure," he declared. "If we ever get to see them again...well. They're not going to see the old Sawada Tsunayoshi, now are they?"
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Fifteen minutes.
That was how long Tsuna's mind knew peace after landing in Italy and being introduced to the meeting committee sent by the Italian Government.
Everything was going well, until they got to the armored cars that were supposed to bring them to the country's law enforcement headquarters where they will meet up with their local department overseeing domestic and international organized crime.
While being transported in the armored cars, Tsuna had gotten the foreboding that something was going to go wrong, and it got Yamamoto and Hibari on high alert. Nobody, especially his direct subordinates, doubts his intuition and his gut feeling, no matter how unreasonable it may sound at first.
"Watch your backs. Something is going to happen soon." Tsuna warned the two of them.
"Something dangerous?" Yamamoto wondered.
Tsuna shook his head. "Something that would lead us to answers right away, and probably will get us home in a month or two." he told them. "It would be best if we cover both sides."
Hibari sighed. "Being reckless used to be my job, Tsunayoshi." he told him. "This cannot even be considered as a mid-life crisis."
Yamamoto laughed. "It's more of a mid-life recklessness, isn't it?"
"Perfectly said." the other man replied.
Tsuna huffed indignantly. Over the years, these two had gotten on closer terms that they usually tag-team him into submission every time he plans to do something outrageous when carrying out operations.
"In any case, prepare for some surprises." he warned them.
Kyouya sighed and nodded. "And your instructions?"
"Leave me to the wolves."
"Protection and contact?" Yamamoto asked.
"Prepared, as usual." Tsuna affirmed.
Hibari and Yamamoto sighed in defeat. Switching on the conference call on his wristcom, Hibari connected the rest of the staff with them on the van right behind them that works directly under the Suppressing Action Department.
"Robins. This is Skylark. The Lion sends his instructions. Prepare for Operation Skyjack." he instructed them.
A second later, as Tsuna expected, the comms exploded with surprised reactions.
"Boss Lion?! What's going on?" one of their SAD officers wondered. "Operation Skyjack right off the bat?"
"Oh no not again! Remember when Boss Lion tried to do this for the first time without informing us in detail? Very stressful."
"Skylark, Swallow, please stop him!"
Yamamoto laughed sheepishly at them upon hearing their pleas, not missing the frown that marred Tsuna's face at the realization that Tsuna's operations tend to make their officers lose their minds in trying to make their boss safe. In every operation, that task tends to fail because of his impulsiveness. Had some of them not already been latent criminals in the beginning of serving under Tsuna and his team, they would have become one with just one mission with him.
"Sorry guys, but Lion's orders are actually sound this time. We'll explain later." Yamamoto assured them.
With one statement from their calmest superiors, the Robins ceased their protests and obliged.
"At least bring a Dominator with you." Hibari told him as he took out the Dominator carrier drone.
"I am a Dominator." Tsuna rebutted.
"Sawada Tsunayoshi."
"Fine!" Tsuna grunted and took a Dominator out of the carrier drone. In an instant, Tsuna's wristcom came to life as well as his lenses that glowed blue.
Dominator Portable Psychological Diagnosis and Suppression System has been activated.
User authentication, Chief Officer Sawada Tsunayoshi.
Affiliation: Foreign Affairs Operations Department and [******].
Dominator usage approval confirmed.
You are a valid user.
The current enforcement mode is Non-lethal Paralyzer. Aim calmly and disable the target.
"Happy now?" Tsuna asked them.
"Assured is the right term." Yamamoto told him.
…
When Sawada Tsunayoshi tells you something is wrong, then he is definitely 99.9% right.
That was what his team had gotten used to over the years since they were assigned under the legendary Chief Officer who had never moved an inch from his seat as the head of the Operations Department.
Many would think that the man who had held the post since he was in his late twenties had gotten into a rut or someone was withholding promotion from him, but to everyone who had gotten to know the man, he very much loved the job he is in right now. No amount of persuading from other departments or ministries could get him to budge out of the Operations Department of the Ministry of Foreign affairs, and for good reason, according to his main team, who had known him since they were teenagers.
When asked personally about it, Tsuna's reply would always be the same.
"Someone had to keep a close eye on the foreign criminals who would dare disrupt our system. My place is here until HR drags me out on a forced retirement order within reason."
To a normal person, it sounds righteous, but to someone who had known Tsuna for almost all his life, there were a lot of things laced in those words that they worry about him all the time.
Which is why their SAD direct subordinates, the Robins, as Tsuna would like to call them, now knew how their boss works, though they still get the occasional heart attacks and early greying hairs during operations. It was simply a fact that working with Sawada Tsunayoshi is a lot of work, but once you get used to his quirks, these were just small cons in being under his lead.
When they felt that there was an explosion followed by a skirmish outside, they immediately knew what he had predicted.
Tsuna looked at his watch. "Ah. And it only took less than thirty minutes too." he mumbled as he, Yamamoto and Hibari went out of the vehicle when it stopped all of a sudden, disrupted by the attackers. Getting out of the vehicle as fast as they could, Tsuna saw that the paddy wagon with his five Enforcers was opening due to the emergency situation, and they all came out, Dominators at the ready.
"Stay on alert. We're up against unknown attackers. Scout the perimeter and try not to get caught or shot. Apprehend those that you can." Tsuna ordered them.
"The main priority is Operation Skyjack. Ensure Lion is safe until then!" Yamamoto ordered as he and Hibari went separate ways.
"Yes!" the Robins replied as they scattered to assess the situation.
Tsuna looked at his own surroundings only to see the security detail sent by the envoy was being overwhelmed in no time, fallen officials littered the street, but to Tsuna's amazement, there was a lack of literal bloodshed. He had seen this familiar scene before, and he was not liking what he was seeing unfold.
Pulling out his registered gun, Tsuna immediately looked at the surrounding perimeter for any signs of what was happening, or what the attackers intended to do. He noticed that some of the brutes were targeting the center of the envoy, the car that he was just in, and they were taking out the small server for the Sibyl System's database that was specifically made for the use of the MFA. Most of all, it was his. The contents are classified and encrypted by the best analysts in Japan, but if the people he suspects get a hand on them, it would only take their intelligence a few days to crack them.
Cocking his gun up to the brutes, he shouted, "Drop my hardware, or I'll shoot your brains out!" He threatened.
The brute took out his own gun and aimed at Tsuna, "Who the hell are you bastard?!"
On impulse, Tsuna decided to reply to him in Italian, "I own the thing you're trying to steal, asshole!" Tsuna said as he shot the man in the kneecaps.
Soon enough, he collapsed to the ground and was being backed up by the rest of his troops who started aiming their guns at him.
Tsuna took advantage of the cars that were strewn around to take cover, but it was near enough for him to hear the men in their communication devices replying to whoever is on the other line.
"Bastard claims the hardware is his."
"Capture? Boss, are you sure?"
"Understood."
A frown marred on Tsuna's face as he heard the reply of the brute. Someone wants him captured, and funny they should think about that.
"Capture the brown haired Japanese who shot Alfonso! Boss wants him alive!"
Tsuna groaned, knowing that he needed to do this fast. Placing his wristcom near his mouth, he put out the orders they were waiting for.. "Skylark, Swallow and Robins, Operation Skyjack is beginning. You know what to do."
"Roger." they all replied as they continued to battle whoever they were up against on the small battlefield of cars and guns. Tsuna knew that he had to keep moving, so he switched from car to car and shot bullets, making sure they hit one of their arms and legs for better effect to disarm and immobilize them.
It didn't take long for him to run out of bullets before discarding his pistol and resorted into hand-to-hand combat with the one who was ordered to capture him.
He was impressed, in the twenty-something years in the force, their combat was pretty impressive, but that is to be expected seeing as they're the brawn of the operation of the culprits. He was going to have a lot of explaining to do with the damages on the vehicles and the hardware, but that was nothing compared to the operation they were doing in order to get the answer they needed, and it does not matter where the answer will come from.
The Italian Government was not going to help them anyway.
He didn't know which of the brutes he had to take revenge on later, but not a few moments later, he felt something prick his neck and felt himself go numb and weak.
'Paralyzer…' he thought before he collapsed.
He didn't feel any hard surface on his face, so he assumed that he was caught on time, because in his dimming vision, he saw the cobblestones, indicating that he was hoisted on the shoulder of his captor.
And before he lost consciousness, he heard the screams of his subordinates and Yamamoto and Hibari cursing before he knew nothing more.
…
When Tsuna came to, he saw darkness, and when he tried to open his eyes, his eyelids felt the fabric of the blindfold.
Trying to assess the situation, Tsuna moved his body around to assess what has happened to him since the abduction. He found himself bound to a comfortable leather chair (thank goodness for their consideration) but his hands were bound together by metal cuffs as well as his ankles.
Basically, he might have looked like a sitting ball-jointed doll figure.
When he tried to lean on the chair to feel for the Dominator he kept on his back holster, as he expected, it was gone. Seems they were competent enough to do a body check and confiscate his Dominator.
"Ah. You're awake." A young man's voice spoke as he heard the door open and two sets of footsteps were heard.
"So this is the one who owns the data storage that held their intelligence." another young man said.
Tsuna was on high alert at the mention of his server. Did they succeed in taking it, or did Hibari and Yamamoto secure it well enough for it not to be taken that easily?
"Since we didn't get the data hardware, this one is our best bet. If it's his, he knows already what is inside it." the first man said.
At that moment, Tsuna knew what he had to do. He spoke Italian. "What do you want from me? Where did you bring me? Who are you?" he demanded.
"Whoa there, it's us who are asking the questions, Mr. Japanese Diplomat." the second man told him. "You seem to be fluent in Italian. That's good. It seems Uncle Hayato didn't have to ingrain the basic Japanese language in our brains for two straight months."
Hayato.
Now he was certain who they are.
"If you're so intent on getting answers from me, then why don't you take off this blindfold? I'm sure you young men still have the decency to have a proper conversation with this old man." he told them.
Silence overtook the two of them for a minute, silently debating whether or not they should take off the blindfold.
"Well, we were raised to be proper gentlemen. It's only right." the first man said with a sigh as Tsuna felt him reach out to the back of his head to remove the blindfold.
Light invaded his eyes, making him wince as he tried to adjust his eyesight to his surroundings. Sure enough, he was in a room that screamed nothing but old money luxury.
And when he turned his stare to the two young men, he almost did a double take.
Tsuna felt like he was looking at a younger version of Xanxus and Dino.
'Well shit. I knew it.'
TBC