Edited: August 14, 2012
And again: April 10, 2013 6:40-7:13p.m
Nat: TSUUU-CHAAAAN
Tsuna: Err yea?
Nat: Tell the reader to read the A/N at the bottom o.o
Tsuna: Why can't you?
Nat: 'Cause your adorable hawt and awesome and pplz love u so they'll listen now do it!
Tsuna: Okay fine... Please read the A/N at the bottom o.o... happy?
Nat: Yep XD now tsuna disclaimer
Tsuna: **DISCLAIMER: Nat does not own KHR if she did Shimon wouldn't be evil Byakuran be alive and yama wouldn't be half dead**
((Reading this over a year later and i seem so silly and kind of immature oops look at this childish talk haha))((really though year ago me, i agree))
**8 Kids and hopefully not counting** (1)
***Chapter 1***
****Lost and Found ****
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SNAP!
"SHUT UP YOU TWO!" the ravenette yelled.
Two pairs of teary eyes looked up at him; they blinked and stopped for a moment before wailing even louder.
"Oya, Oya, make them shut up it's starting to get on my nerves." The pineapple haired man said.
"Maa Maa, calm down you two they're just scared we just ran away from the orphanage (2) and now we're lost in forest, of course they'd be crying. Lambo's only 4 and you guys know Tsuna's sensitive." The cheery boy said.
"Yeah, so you guys leave Juudaime (3) alone!" fumed the well fuming silvnette.
"Ah, g-gomen Hibari-san, Mukuro, I'm just really scared and sad s-sorry for disturbing you both." The adorable brunette looked up with teary eyes and the smallest and cutest of smiles making both boys blush.
Hibari looked away his response a simple 'Hn.'
Mukuro looked right at Tsuna his face adorned with a small bright red blush as he said "N-no problem Tsunayoshi-kun its okay." The silvnette snickered behind them while black-haired boy continued to smile.
Tsuna moved closer to Lambo who was still crying and hugged him patting his head until his wails turned to sobs his sobs to tears his tears to sniffles and then finally stopping. "T-thank you Tsuna-nii." the young boy sniffed.
As both boys got up a bush rustled and all eyes turned to it waiting to see who came out. They breathed a sigh of relief when a girl with a similar hairstyle as Mukuro came out.
"Chrome what were you doing?" asked Mukuro slightly annoyed, but more at himself for just noticing his sister was gone. (4)
"Ano... I was just thinking that while you guys were bickering I'd take a look around to see if i could find anything that we could use as shelter, I apologize for any inconvenience I caused Mukuro-sama" The only girl said shyly.
"Ah, you caused no trouble at all Chrome dear, but did you find anything?" he asked.
The girls face instantly brightened. "Hai, I saw a big house, I think it's a mansion, up ahead I think it's empty since we're pretty deep in the forest and the windows looked dark but I'm not sure."
"Ah! That sounds great Chrome-chan maybe we won't have to sleep in the cold after all." The brunette chirped hugging Chrome tightly.
"Y-you're w-welcome bossu (5)"she stuttered. "N-now follow me, I'll show where it is."
And so they walked; Chrome and Mukuro in the front, Tsuna and Lambo -who refused to let go of Tsuna's hand- next, Gokudera trudging right behind Tsuna murmuring something about him being the one that should've found them a place to stay for Juudaime, Yamamoto right beside him laughing, and finally Hibari walking as far back as he could since he still hated crowding even if these herbivores, as he oh so endearingly called them, were starting to grow on him.
After a while Tsuna stopped and started looking around, everyone behind him pausing as well.
"What's wrong Tsuna-nii"? Lambo asked looking up at his not really older brother, Mukuro and Chrome finally stopping too as they heard Lambo's question.
"I just noticed onii-san isn't here, where did he go?" Tsuna replied, everyone other than Chrome and Hibari sweat dropped at this, how could they not notice the absence of their loudest member?
"Ano, Ryohei-kun is waiting for us at the house." Chrome answered. Various 'ahs' were heard as they nodded.
When they reached the house various 'oohs' 'ahhs' and 'woahs' were heard, to say the house was big was an understatement. It was humongous! Like four really big mansions all made into one giant place; as they looked around Hibari was the first to notice something.
"Oi, these windows aren't dark because it's dark inside there dark because they've been tinted black." Everyone took a closer look after Hibari spoke and noticed the same thing.
"So does that mean someone lives here?"
"No, it means someone might live in here, it's not like we can check inside to see."
"Soooo what do we do now?"
"Same thing we were going to do before, get in, this time we will just ring the door bell."
And so the seven boys and one girl walked to the entrance (which took forever mind you) and rang the doorbell. After, well over a, few minutes of silence Hibari was the first to speak.
"No one's answering let's just break the door down." Taking an offensive stance as he finished speaking.
"NO! H-hibari-san let's just try one more time... please?" Tsuna said sheepishly rubbing the back of his head.
"Hmm, fine, but if no one answers I'm busting this door down." And with that Hibari turned around and rang the door bell once again (6).
~inside~
A maid who was cleaning the front lobby stared at the door strangely, did it really just ring? The door here never rings, not just because the house is so far out in the forest, but because anyone who comes here either just barges in or has some kind of special knock to let people know it's them. So the maid, deciding it was her imagination, shrugged it off and continued her work. She soon though realized it wasn't her imagination when she heard it again and this time she was pretty sure she wasn't imagining it.
So she went to the door and looked through the peephole and what she saw made her gasp. She saw eight children (7) each resembling people she knew rather well.
The one in the front had cold blue-gray eyes and a smirk that were so familiar she could have fainted from shock.
The next two she saw gave her shivers, but one more than the other, the other looked almost normal. The first was a small violet haired girl whose hairstyle which resembled a pineapple (this made her shudder) and she had a lovely violet coloured eye but the other was covered with an eye patch. The other was a boy whose smile alone was enough to make her shudder at the thought of the man he resembled so she chose to quickly move on to the next child.
The next one had such a bright aura around him and looked so full of energy it made her smile. The band aid the child wore on his nose made the resemblance that much more obvious. She was glad that though the resemblance still shocker her she was not frightened by this one.
The next seemed to be youngest out of all of them, it took her a bit longer than the others but she saw the resemblance, the bright green eyes and childish but smug attitude definitely the same.
The calming and happy aura surrounding the next boy made her smile slightly and even without looking she could tell who this was. His smile and hairstyle, short, were exactly the same.
Save for the tattoo that this next child failed to have the resemblance was almost too obvious... then again so were the others, but the expression the child had was rather funny as to how exact it was to the man he so closely resembled.
As her eyes travelled to the last and final child her eyes widened a bit in shock. This child looked exactly like him yet nothing like him all at the same time. There was a nervous and scared look in his eyes but deep deep down she saw determination and fire, as for what she didn't know. The boy was small for his age and was so adorable. His gravity defying hair added a couple inches to his height and made his resemblance to her boss even closer.
She was snapped out of her thoughts when she heard voices coming from outside.
"That's it either no one's here or no one's opening the door either way it's going down."
"Hibari-san wait! What if someone lives there we don't have any money to pay them back."
"Che, how did you expect to get in anyways, this was going to happen so deal with it."
"B-but Hibari-san..."
"Hn, fine I'll ring the doorbell one more time."
"Yay, thank you Hibari-san."
*ding*dong* *ding*dong*
'Ah! Better open the door before the break it down... or at least try to I mean that door is pretty hard to open I think it was made from reinforced steel or something stronger.' But as soon as she finished her thought she heard a loud thud behind her. She slowly turned her head to see the door on the ground and all the children were behind the one boy who had his foot out and when she looked down to the door she saw a foot mark on it. She sweat dropped, what kind of children were they, none of them seemed surprised by this and two of them looked as if they were annoyed and acted as if they could've done better.
"Err... Ohayo (8), oh umm I mean ciao, sorry about the door." The small brunette was the first to speak.
"C-ciao, I'm Clara (9) and you guys are?"
"Oh yes my bad, I'm Tsunayoshi Sawada but you can call me tsuna."
"Gokudera Hayato." He waved though his eyes did move from the glare he had pinned on the raven haired child.
"Yo, I'm Yamamoto Takeshi." The black-haired boy said with his hands behind his head.
"I'm Lambo-san the great!" the youngest one said laughing like a maniac after.
"Ryohei Sasagawa, nice to meet you to the EXTREME!" The last part was said at an almost ear shattering volume while he pumped his fists in the air.
"Mukuro Rokudo at your service and this is my sister Chrome Dokuro." The mismatched eyed boy said as he gestured towards a girl she blushed and muttered a hello.
When the last child stayed silent the brunette went up to him and poked him and he continued to do so until the boy finally spoke. "Kyoya, Kyoya Hibari, call me Kyoya though and I will bite you to death." Clara shuddered, such a scary child.
"Sorry about Hibari-san, he's a nice person really."
"Yes I'm sure he is; now what did you kids want?"
"Umm, we were looking for a place to stay, would you mind if we stayed here?" His face was dusted with a nice pink as he spoke, feeling embarrassed.
"Why don't you guys go home to your parents?" though the moment she finished her sentence she regretted it Tsuna's eyes were watery and he looked like he was on the verge of tears, in less than a second Chrome and Lambo were beside him comforting him and the rest were standing in front him glaring daggers at Clara.
"We don't have parents were orphans for your information." Gokudera said still glaring daggers at her.
"Oh, I'm so sorry I didn't mean to..."
"Yea, yea whatever you say, so can we stay here or not?"
"Err, stay here I'll be right back with an answer." And with that she turned around and ran off.
"You think they'll say yes?"
"I don't know; let's hope so it's getting pretty dark."
~somewhere else in the mansion~
"Master..." a blond haired man blinked his eyes open. He sat up straight and looked down at his desk full of blank paperwork '... shit... I'm goanna be in soo much trouble.' "Master!" he looked up to see wavy black hair that was shoulder length and deep dark chocolate brown eyes.
He sighed. "Clara how many times have I told you to call me by my name you are one of my best maids and we've known each other for a long time, it's fine, really."
"B-but... fine okay Giotto-sama" he fixed her with his sternest of glares "fine Giotto (10) happy now?" Giotto nodded.
"Anyways what did you want Clara?"
"Well these kids knocked on the door and before I could decide whether to let them in they kind of let themselves in..."
"What do you mean let themselves in?"
"One of them kicked the door down."
"WHAT!? That door is nearly unbreakable only I and my guardians have the power to do so... and you say these are kids?" Clara nodded and he let out a sigh. "What do they want?"
"Well they want a place to stay."
"I don't know if I can let that happen after what you told me, I can't be sure they are not a threat."
"But Giotto! They're kids the oldest of them I'm sure is only eight."
"What? That young... but still I mean..."
"Come on at least meet them there's something about them I'm sure will at least intrigue you." Clara responded smiling.
"Fine let's go"
~Back with Tsuna and co. ~
"Kids I'm back!" Clara announced.
"Ah welcome back Clara-san did you get an answer?" Tsuna ran up to her and looked up expectantly.
She blinked a bit at the honorific, unused to hearing it from anyone other than one of the other occupants of the house. And even then he used it rarely considering he was comfortable around them all and he had fallen out of using Japanese often.
"No but I did bring back the person who will; Giotto come in here?" And as soon as Giotto came in Tsuna ran behind the nearest person (who happened to be Hibari) and began crying.
*Giotto's P.O.V.*
As soon as I walked into the room I was shocked! There was like a mini-version of me and each of my guardians.
Though the shock soon turned to minor fear as I noticed all of them glaring at me with intense hatred, I stared, rather confused until I remembered the boy who had been standing in front of me had ran away crying... was it something I had done? All I did was walk in... I wasn't that scary, I mean these kids weren't afraid... though they might kill me. Trying to fix things I walked toward the crying boy barley containing a shudder as the glares intensified.
"Hello there." Voice small in a hope that, that way it wouldn't scare him.
"Hi" The boy quickly looked up and then looked back down again.
"I'm sorry do I scare you?" the boy shook his head. "Then what is it?" the boy looked up eyes glistening with tears.
"You remind me of... father... it makes me sad." The boy's voice was so quiet and sad it broke my heart.
"And what happened to your father?" By the way the boy flinched I could tell nothing good.
"Fathers dead... a-and so is mother... k-kaa-san..." The boys face was flooded with new tears. I took a moment to scan the room; Clara was crying, she always was rather sensitive, and the kids eyes were downcast eyes full of sadness and I could tell they had each suffered something similar.
"Boy... what your name?"
"Tsunayoshi Sawada most people call me Tsuna... but you remind me of mama and papa so will you call me Tsu-kun?" he paused and then, as if an afterthought, added "please." My heart went out to the boy so nodded my head and smiled at him.
"Okay Tsu-kun how would you and your friends like to live with me?"
"Really?! Thanks so much Giotto-san." He smiled so brightly and hugged me tight; he was such a cute little boy. I looked up again to see a whole different scene Clara was now smiling lovingly at us, I wondered why, and all the other children had gathered behind us staring but when they noticed my gaze they each muttered some form of thanks I nodded back at them. And as soon as I let Tsuna go they rushed towards him and stood there beside him.
This was going to be very interesting...
THE END
~A/N from after being edited~
Nat: So after editing this it's 2,506 two extra words than last time! Ididn't change the wording that much, though maybe I should have, I really didn't want to change that much since well one I wasn't completely sure how to change it and two it is still my first chapter and though while I improved the grammar and spelling I want to reminisce on how I used to write.
This entire chapter seems choppy it annoys me so much; I really hope my flow when it comes to writing has improved.
And as of the second edit 2,659I Wow looking back on that previous edit and reading the paragraph above I see why I didn't change it that much. Still as the second lil paragraph says it was still so damn choppy and I think it still is but like omg i just couldn't, hopefully less choppy? Giotto's POV seems weird to me now and the entire chapter as a whole seems kind of childish. Inconsistencies that I can't really fix as they are part of the sorta plot and just things that are wrong and i should've really noticed!
I really would like to think i've improved but i probably just ramble a lot unu
Any previous readers wanna tell me if i have improved? Any previous readers still here;;;;
~Read it if you want i mean it's just really my rambling about my writing~
~A/N from the actual chapter~
Onto the notes I suppose:
(1) The title is based on the show 18 (now 19 i guess) kids and counting... i couldn't really think of a title and for some reason i was watching this show the idea came into my head sorry if it's no good but it's all i could come up with.
(2) Yes this story is an AU and they used to live in an orphanage uhh in order of who was their first Chrome and Lambo have been there since they can remember then Mukuro then Tsuna followed by Yamamoto Hibari Ryohei and Gokudera
(3) Umm there is no real reason he calls him Juudaime it's just he's not the same if he's calling him tsuna right? Soo yea come up with any reason you want like Tsuna was the tenth person he met or they became friends in the first ten mins, anything really
(4) They're not really related but since they look alike so they are brother and sister just not by blood
(5) Same as number 3 i like it when Chrome calls Tsuna that soo hehe yea
(6) Did doorbells exist back then? I don't know so for history sake they do here and you will accept this
(7) Yes for those of you who haven't figured it out they are children; Lambo's 6, Yamamoto and Gokudera are 7, Hibari and Ryohei are 9. Tsuna and Chrome are still 6; Tsuna's birthday is in around a month (a couple days, maybe a week, since Gokudera's and Chrome is all the way in December)
(8) Took me this long to realize (noticed while writing the ohayo) but i noticed this story takes place in Italy yet Tsuna Hibari Yamamoto and Ryohei are Japanese so for stories sake at one point in their lives they and their parents went to Italy while they were there, there was an accident and their parents died it took them all awhile but they each learned Italian and as a thank you to Chrome Lambo Mukuro and Gokudera who taught them it they taught them Japanese. As for Ryohei who has a sister (Kyoko) you can either assume she doesn't exist or died as well whichever you're okay with.
For the most part they will be speaking in Italian but they may switch in and out. I'll probably never mention it unless it's important but if you want to take it like the way i speak Spanish? I will stick in random English words in when i can't remember the word or get frustrated and English just slips out.
Since everyone (including the guardians but probably excluding the maids) speaks Japanese (mafia peeps need to know various languages do they not) it won't really matter but if you want you can just picture random words in their sentences being in a different language man.
(9) I'm pretty sure this is considered an OC... i don't know much about her i needed someone to be there other than Giotto and co. So i needed a chara and i thought she deserved a name since she served a purpose in this chap i gave her a small description sooo yea... if i continue this story I'll give her a bio
(10) Again for those of you who haven't figured it out there at the Vongola Mansion where the Primo lives is it really in a forest how the hell would i know
**HEY HEY At least read this part of the A/N its impoooooortant kk thx~**
((this part is irrelevant now but I'm going to leave it))
For those of you who have read this entire A/N (for those of you who didn't thx for reading this part at least XD) you'll notice that number nine says IF i continue this story it's not that i don't want to continue this story i put it up cause it was an idea in my head that was jumping up and down saying 'Write me! Write me!' so I did but I'd rather not continue a story that no one's reading it'll be a waste of your and my time so
For me to continue this story i want at least one of two things
At least one review it doesn't have to be positive or long it can be as simple as 'nice' o.o not to hard right? Sorry if it is... and you only have to review this one time just so i can know if anyone's reading this
OR
I need to get at least two faves/alerts again sorry if it's too much to ask
So if i get either/both of these things I will continue this story
But just so you know it's not that i have a life it's that i don't get to long on the comp soo ill try my best to update as fast as I can sorry if this bothers anyone (i think i apologize to much)
OKAY next important annocemnet haha
For those of you who have read my first fanfic you'll know i have discontinued it but i was born with a dam conscience that is making me feel extremely guilty about this so ima continue this but don't expect lots of updates on that one it'll be like at the least or most month apart per update -.- sigh then again this one to but it'll definely be more often than that... besides that story has a max of 5 chaps left i think sooo it should be done soon for those of you who have read i hope you will read it again
((this never happened bad person gosh))
Annnnnd i think that's it Soooo we've come to end of this A/N soo thanks again for reading this fic and this A/N 8D
OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
And it was the Primo's birthday this week Jan first if I'm correct (pretty but not complete sure about the date) SOOOOOOOOOOOO
In your awesome honor HAPPY BIRTHDAY 3
((it was January of last year when i first wrote this, it's been awhile))
((TWO YEARS SINCE I PUBLISHED THIS STORY OMFG))
~Ciaossu