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I am a Lion;

It is in my nature to be kind,

gentle and loving.

But know this;

When it comes to matters of protecting my friend,

my family and my heart.

Do not trifle with me;

For I'm also the most powerful and relentless creature you will ever know.

–unknown (edited to fit Tsuna)

Tsuna despite what pretty much everyone believes, knows he's too caring. Now in highschool the mafia boss only has to look at his contact list, filled with multiple numbers of people who had once tried to kill or at least physically harm him.

Varia, Vindice, Vongola, Arcobaleno.

It's terrifying at first. Scary and frightening in ways he had never imagined, but as he grows to know them, to understand and learn about all that they've went through. Why, they developed the language ticks and habits.

It comes in small bits of information, often mentioned absent mindedly or when something starts a trigger they had thought they had gotten over.

Perhaps the scariest thing of all is that Tsuna finds that he doesn't care, he doesn't care about what had happened in the past. What he cares (perhaps too much) about was the people beneath all the layers of grit and grime that the mafia had formed.

The Arcobaleno in particular Tsuna finds, are the ones who need the most attention despite their now adult forms. Or perhaps it's because they have their adult forms that they need so much attention.

Many Arcobaleno try to go back to what they were doing before the curse, to go back to their original life. They can't though. Despite their mental age their bodies are still young. In a way the Arcobaleno are out of their time, to old and yet too young.

Skull especially had difficulty. He had been a civilian and a well known stuntman who had went off the grid, possible dead, possible injured or retired.

When Skull had gotten started with his stunts again the older members who had still remembered had called him a fake and an imposter. Insulted him and boycotted the stuntman's shows. People had thrown food, ripped down his advertisements, and ruined supplies for his shows.

It had gotten to the point where the self proclaimed immortal was living in a small ratty apartment in an even worse part of town living on whatever he could afford and possibly contaminated tap water.

Tsuna had found out by accident when he had been walking down the streets without his guardians for a short break. He had overheard a few more doubtful men talking about one off Skull's stunts. He had decided to look into how the stuntman was doing adjusting to his new life.

What Tsuna had found made him furious.

The Decimo had no doubt that had any other of the Arcobaleno besides Tsuna had found out that there would have been a small masacre and several towns demolished.

Tsuna was Skull's sky, and that meant that no one was aloud to mess with the immortal. Even if Yuni officially held the title of the Arcobaleno sky, it was Tsuna who Kawahira had pulled aside, who had been told that politically giving Tsuna both the title of Vongola Decimo and Arcobaleno Sky would be a too difficult.

It was Tsuna who had agreed to to bear two thirds of the weight of the TriNiSette. He who convinced Kawahira to give him a compacted bracelet instead of the original pacifier so the others wouldn't worry.

Even if Skull didn't know, he was still one of Tsuna's clouds and he refused to let one of his be treated like common trash.

It had took the newly named Vongola Decimo little time to spring into action. Tsuna had gone off at the men trash talking Skull, informing that he personally knew the person in question and that he was no doubt the real thing.

After that Tsuna had gone to his grandfather (a decision he would later regret), asking if he could cover for him while Tsuna started a small project of his own.

Nono had readily agreed, which allowed Tsuna to fix the problems,that came with it.

Tsuna had put all that he had learned from Reborn in the art of disguises and, sky save him, mafia seduction to work. Going as far as dressing as an admittedly cute girl and handing out flyers that were hand crafted by none other than the brunnette.

Tsuna had also called the Vindice and made sure that no one could drag Skull back into the underworld without the brunette's permission. The mafia would never be able to touch the stuntman without going through the brunette and therefore Vongola and Vindice first.

It was challenging of course, Tsuna had to do this in his free time after all which meant constantly escaping from his admirably over protective guardians, the Varia, and Reborn. It was worth it though.

When more and more people started to flood Skull's shows he was overjoyed, the cloud started to rake in a steady amount of cash, moved out of his dingy apartment, gotten a deal with a famous stunt company (per Tsuna's secret ninja skills slipping his portfolio into the pile when no one was looking) and was as happy as he had been since the curse had been broken.

Tsuna watched and smiled from the back of the stands as Skull preformed another insane stunt flying through the air with an insane grin plastered on his face. Sunset eyes watching the stuntman with unimaginable pride, making a few fans stop and stare at the brunnette.

(That little mission had also led Tsuna to discover that Skull was actually immortal but you know, job hazards.)

Meraki

The soul, creativity or love put into something; the essence of yourself that is put into your work.

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