Note: Unedited. No Beta. Mentions (implied or direct) of Slash. Slow update.

Eclipse

05:

There was a whirlwind of activity after Tsuna was born. His status as blind, Iemitsu having to call on the last person he wouldn't have called if he had any other option, Sicari coming and healing Tsuna with a price and Nana knowing more about him, including his life as a member of the underworld.

Not to mention his dearest wife asking Iemitsu to make Sicari their beloved son's Godfather, to which his mist guardian accepted with a shark-like smile.

It sealed his fate. He couldn't wiggle out of the agreement, the price Sicari asked him before the healing.

Allowing him back into his life without actively trying to get away.

He now had to acknowledge Sicari as his mist guardian. Sicari would heal his son in exchange to being known as his guardian.

No one aside from his guardians had known that he had a mist guardian, even Nono didn't. At least at this time they didn't. He hadn't wanted Sicari to be a part of his life, so he cut him off without actually breaking their bond. He wasn't stupid. As much as he didn't like the other, he was still his guardian. The very first he had acquired. He had the longest and strongest bond with him. It's why the betrayal was painful. But with that strong of a bond, despite what had happened, he couldn't just break it off.

They would both be driven insane.

So he just made sure to have everyone's – who was in the know before Sicari's betrayal anyway – memories blocked. Nono was tricky but he managed to do it, along with Reborn. It was hard but he managed to do it, though he was sure he wouldn't be able to do it anytime soon again.

Not when he knew Sicari wouldn't be staying away from him anytime soon again apparently. It had worked before because his first acquired guardian didn't protest, didn't question and most importantly, didn't seek him out and made him retract his statement that he still hadn't found his mist guardian.

He knew Sicari wouldn't stay quiet now. Not when they already had it as their deal.

But then again, it wasn't as if he'd be retaining as the CEDEF head anymore. His beloved wife asked him to retire and be with him and their still-potentially blind son.

Any other time, if his family was still stable, if his wife still was oblivious to his real job, still unknowing of his connection to the mafia, had his son born normal without any difficulties, without his blindness, he wouldn't have to retire. As it is, all of those happened.

His conscience wasn't that numb enough to deny his wife's tearful request. Not when she still love him, still believed in him, still looked at him with admiration even when she now knows about his underworld connections.

Especially his flame and his guardians.

"Mitsu, when do you think I would meet your guardians?" Nana had asked one day while she was holding Tsuna as the baby slept. He was still on his work as CEDEF Head, finishing all the paperwork on his desk and his papers filed to have him seen as retired.

Retiring from such a job wasn't like any other normal ones. He didn't just have to write a resignation letter and be done with it. He had to follow tedious and long procedures for it to go through.

Not to mention his battles in regards to asking Vendice permission to allow Nana and his son to know the truth. That had been a real pain. Not only had he had to fight them, write a dozen paperwork for a request and donate large quantities of his admittedly very huge amount of money he had kept and three land he had in his name, he also owed Vendice a favor that he wouldn't be able to refuse.

Even if they called it and have him kill his entire family.

Thankfully, they were 'generous' enough to let him enlist it in their contract as one of the things they couldn't ask of him.

"They are also doing their paperwork for retirement Nana. I doubt they would be able to visit at all while they're doing them," he answered with a smile.

Except for Tsuyoshi – who had already filed his retirement letter from CEDEF a week after little Takeshi was born and his wife passed away after delivering their child ad was only waiting for confirmation both from him and Nono as he had apparently been thinking about it ever since his wife was confirmed pregnant – everyone was busy finishing the paperwork they have pushed back before in favor for their missions so their letters would be accepted.

They didn't have to follow him really. Even if he wasn't in CEDEF anymore, they are still his guardian. Being a guardian means they've harmonize and it wouldn't go away. It would always be there, unless one of them try and break their bond. Which was something of a rarity in the underworld and was considered as taboo even if it does indeed happen at times. Even the Vendice don't interfere when it comes to harmonization. It's something precious for them since there are so few people who held the flame of sky in the world and so only a few gets to harmonization.

But they said they will follow him wherever he goes so he didn't dissuade them that much. They might be his guardian and he might be their sky, but they have their own mind. They are their own person. They decided for themselves.

"Tsuyoshi-san is nice though. I really like him, especially little Takeshi. He's going to be a good playmate for my little Tsu-kun. I think I am going to like the others too," she concluded. Iemitsu resisted the urge to grimace when he remembered Sicari.

If Nana only knows…

. . . . .

Iemitsu was loathe to admit it, but he had to concede on the fact that Sicari, his sometimes unstable and with a frighteningly intelligent mind Mist guardian is a good Godfather to his now two-year-old Tsuna.

He was attentive to Tsuna and had that strange tender smile on his face that Iemitsu didn't have the slightest clue as to why. Sure, his son was such an adorable child with such a sweet smile that he was sure Tsuna could melt even the icy hearts of the Vendice – not that he would allow his baby boy to face those kinds of people – but for some reason, his mind just couldn't see Sicari succumbing to Tsuna's abundant charm.

Maybe he was just being absolute bias and that it was high time he had to stop antagonizing his mist. Well, as long as his mist would do the same, then he would try.

Him, along with his family and guardians – and yes, including Sicari as well – was in their house celebrating the day they are finally free of the mafia.

Yes, the approval was already given and their retirement letter was signed just yesterday afternoon. Nono had personally seen them, enforced the omerta by putting a restriction seal on their tongue with the Vendice giving him a small ring that he had to activate by his flame if ever he had another son so he won't be persecuted if he told his family.

Nono had expressed his best wishes to them and his regrets about him retiring. He was sure that the Ninth Vongola had wanted him to retract his intentions by his subtle words in that ceremony. Even if Sicari didn't warn him about Timoteo's words, he would still remain by his decision.

Only thinking about his tearful wife and cheerful partially blind son was enough for his resolve to not waver.

He would have been worried at that implication, that the Vongola didn't want him to retire and that as much as Timoteo was once his genuine friend, he had the largest and wealthiest famiglia to consider and he would eventually force him to take up the mantle of CEDEF leader again – if only for CEDEF to be firmly ties to Vongola – if he didn't have that deal with the Vendice.

They would erase the existence of him, his guardians and his family from everyone who knows about them if his favor increased to ten and he would help them find someone they had been looking for.

The price seems to be high, especially since he had that agreement with Vendice, but in the protection of the people he cared about, he thought that it was worth it.

So their life as normal people begins at that time, thus their celebration.

"Tsu-kun seems to like Enzo-san," Nana said to him, her voice sounding serene and content. He glanced at her just to see her eyes twinkling happily at where Sicari had Tsuna on his lap and was teaching him how to read with his son listening almost intently. Tsuna using braille at the moment since according to Sicari, they shouldn't push Tsuna's eyes as it was still healing.

He looked back at the pair. "Yeah," he said. And he better not abuse it, he thought darkly. Truthfully, he didn't want to be angry anymore, didn't want to continue bearing a grudge against his Mist just as he had thought earlier, but it was a little hard to let go of the accumulated years of anger. He may be a sky, but he wasn't a saint. He wasn't like the Arcobaleno's sky who had never-ending patience and could forgive people just like that.

Besides, he still didn't know the real motive behind Sicari's actions.

He turned to look at his wife and hugged her tightly, suddenly feeling the urge to do so. She looked up at him questioningly and he just smiled at her and kissed her forehead gently.

"Mitsu?"

"I love you, Nana," he said, voice choked up for some reason. She looked startled for a second, worry coming into her eyes before she gave him a soft and brilliant smile.

"I love you too," she breathed out, her eyes full of warmth and love as she looked at him.

"Thank you for loving me despite all you have uncovered," he murmured, still hugging her gently yet firmly in his.

"I will always love you despite what will happen Mitsu. I'll get angry and upset but I will still love you," Nana said fiercely, voice strong and sure that it had him taken aback. He had always known that despite Nana's tender and loving nature, despite how gentle she was and naïve at times, she was ferocious and determined once she set her mind on something. Stubborn and loyal to a fault.

It had been the things that drew him to her in the first place.

She hugged him tightly after that and he relished the smell she naturally carries. One of lilacs and sweetness, one that he considers as his home.

"Thank you,"

"Hey lovebirds! Going to any dates?" they both separated slightly to look at the person who called onto them. His Sun guardian, Samantha Jones was grinning widely it was a wonder her lips didn't split in half. Her eyes were twinkling happily as she was looking at them. Come to think of it, everyone was looking at them with varying expressions on their faces.

Aoi only nodded his head at them, eyes looking on calmly at them. Beside him was Tsuyoshi – who had previously looked uncomfortable at the small distance between him and the storm, fidgeting as if he wanted to get away but had to stay because Takeshi was in Aoi's lap – was now giving him a soft smile.

Amalia Leandres, his lightning guardian was sipping her drink on the stool beside the counter of the kitchen, her trusted rifle currently hidden in the basement of the house along with their more obvious weapons that they couldn't keep hidden with them given that they would now start living like a civilian. She had a small, pleased smile on her lips. She was playing with her guardian ring that she now turned into a necklace.

He couldn't actually see Leonid Belikov - who was his cloud guardian - at the moment, though he saw him earlier carrying a bottle of wine. Leonid probably went outside. It wouldn't surprise him if they didn't see him going out. After all, he had always been a silent man and his presence sometimes fade from their sight. He personally thinks that his secondary flame, his mist was probably helping him achieve that. He doesn't like crowd much after all, even if he was good at socializing when needed.

He glanced at his mist only to see him staring rather intently at him, or rather at where he was holding Nana firmly, forehead creasing and lips pursed. He sighed at Sicari's expression. His mist might have… tamed a little from before, but it still wasn't enough to calm the sudden temper erupting in him. It's probably his storm flame – his secondary alignment – that's affecting him.

But if he was completely honest with himself, he knew it's just because it was Sicari that his usual Rain flame wasn't affecting him much.

"We'll plan for it," he promised, giving Nana a tender look. He ignored the burning stare he felt coming from his mist and continued when he saw Nana giving a delighted smile. "For now, let's just celebrate,"

Everyone raised their glasses with a smile.

Yes, this would be the start of their normal, civilian life.

TBC.

A/N:

Well, here's another chapter. Late I know. Writer's block struck and I have no choice but to wait for my muse to come back. Not only here but in my other works. Anyway, so sorry because Tsuna's POV isn't here. Next chapter though, he'll be there. He's going to be three after all.

So, how was this? Seems like I finally gave the names of all of Iemitsu's guardians huh? I'm going to start writing their character profile in my tumblr after this along with pictures of them. *sigh* OC's. You are too hard to construct and give life to.

Anyway, lots of love from me.

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