FAMILY STORY

So as the title suggests, this is the final chapter of Family Story, and sorry to say, but there will not be a soap opera ending with Xanxus and Lussuria coming back to life. This final is set 3 years after The Beginning of the End and this should wrap up all loose ends. Thanks for the loyalty to my story, and sorry for the lack of updates. 3

~~Varia Mansion : : Cilia's room~~

"VVVVOOOIII! Lucia, fuck off, I want to sleep more!" Cilia yelled at her cloud guardian before giving a small moan of pain.

Lucia Belfontaine was a petite woman but she could kill you as soon as look at you. "Well isn't that too bad Snake? You shouldn't have gotten drunk last night and I wouldn't have to get you up." She said, walking over and throwing open the curtains to the winow. Hearing the pained groan, Lucia started to smirk. "Don't make me get Haru and Kyoko in here like they did with poor Irie-kun." She threatened, watching her friend sit bolt upright and then fall back on the bed, clutching her head and closing ehr eyes tight, another groan forth coming.

"Besides, I've already let you sleep longer then I should have. After all, your wedding is in 3 hours, and it'll take forever to get you ready."

"Aww fucking shit. I forgot...."

~~Varia Mansion : : Squalo's room~~

"Holy fucking shit, get out TRASH!" As cilia had picked up his saying, he had picked up on hers.

"Ushishishishi~ Someone had a little too much to drink last night..." Bel was delighted. It would be so much fun to torment Squalo today.

"Exactly Squalo. And besides, you should know that you're getting married....Today. In 3 hours actually." The sarcastic drawl that Fran was famous for came from the area near the only window in the room.

"Open that Curtain, and I'll kill you Fran..." Squalo said softly, but loud enough for the man to hear him.

Too late. Fran opened the curtain and all one could hear of the side of the mansion that Squalo occupied currently was, "VVVVVVVVVVVOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOIIIIIIIIIIIIII! I'M GOING TO MURDER YOU FRAN! YOU BAKA!"

"Ushishishi~ You'd have to catch him first. And right now you couldn't catch a cold if you tried."

"Squalo-san, why are you yelling? The rest of us are trying to sleep off our hangovers..." And there was Masaru, standing at Squalo's door, disgruntled look on his face.

Squalo gave a groan, laid back down and put a pillow over his face. "Who's idea was it to have a Bahelor party last night?" Came the muffled question.

"Mine." Three voices answered.

"Dead. All of you are dead after the wedding."

~~3 hours later~~

The main doors tot he mansion were open, and Squalo, the priest, Tsuna, Mukuro, Norm, and Gokudera stood in the doorway. To one side outside, you could see where the graves of the deceased Varia were. The first stirrings of music started and all eyes went to the stairs as women started to process down them. Leading were Iemito, Tsuna and Kyoko's son, wiht Miki, Mukuro and Chrome's daughter. Ring baron, and flower girl. Next was Haru, Kyoko and Chrome, Lucia being the matron of honour, and all girls were dressed in their flame colour, or the flame colour of their spouses, so Haru was in red, and Kyoko was in orange. Then came down the beauty in white.

Squalo watched her, a VOI! stuck in his throat. Her appearance was breathtaking and he wanted to say something to break the spell on him, but nothing came to mind. Cilia was dressed in a dress that stopped at her knees in the front, and went down to her ankles at the back. The top half was a corset type deal, and around her neck was a simple necklace with an Ankh in silver, the ancient Egyptian Symbol of Life. Her long black hair was piled up on head, and the clips that she never went anywhere without were in her hair. Her red eyes that normally glowed garnet in colour, shone a soft ruby hue. The heels she wore were almost half a foot in height, which brought her closer to Squalo's height.

He had no words to tell her how beautiful she was. It was then that he noticed that then man who was walking down the stairs with her was....her father! "VVVVOOOIII! How...Where....When....BOSS?"

Cilia laughed. She knew who it was beneath the illusion of her father, but she had wanted to see and hear Squalo's reaction. With matching smirks with Lucia, who nodded to Fran, the image started to shimmer, blonde hair appearing where black had been, brown eyes where they had been red, Mafia suit where the Varia uniform had been. Dino Cavalone, head of his family, walked her to where Squalo stood, a shocked expression still apparent on his face.

"Surprise?" Cilia said, tentatively as she drew nearer to Squalo.

"Voi! It was a surprise alright, but a welcome one at that."

Dino grinned, and placed her hand into Squalo's. "In place of her father, I give her to you for Xanxus."

Tears gathered in her eyes. Her wedding day. The one day she had actually hoped to share with Xanxus and he wasn't there. She had long ago let the anger go, and just accepted that eh was gone physically, but would always remain in her memories.

The priest rambled on as Squalo and Cilia watched each other. He was dressed in his Varia uniform, and had taken his sword off for the ceremony.
"If any person had a reason these two people should not be married, speak now or forever hold your peace."

"I OBJECT!" a female voice rang out, as a woman strode up the walkway to the mansion. Everyone turned to face the woman, who bore a striking resemblance to Cilia.

"YOU!" Cilia yelled, removing the clips from her hair. Immediately the Vongola family that wasn't already standing, stood and moved to stand beside her. The priest and all non fighters in the wedding party were moved into the mansion. The Vongola looked at the woman and then to Cilia, the resemblance strong. It was Cilia's mother. The woman paused, looking at the group of mafia assembled before her. Bel, Masaru, and Norm, with Fran and Lucia near them. Squalo and Cilia standing frnt and center, her guns out, and Squalo holding her back. The profanity that came from Cilia shocked the woman as it had so many years ago, but for now, she moved on down the line of people. Tsunayoshi, head of the Vongola Family, Gokudera Hayato, his right hand man, Yamamoto Takeshi, Rain Guardian, holding 2 swords, one his and the other Squalo's. Next to him stood Mukuro, trident in hand, Ryohei Sasawaga, and Hibari Kyoya, dressed in his officer uniform. Dino and Bianchi along with the Arcobaleno were inside protecting everyone if need be.

"SQUALO LET ME GO! I'M GOING TO FUCKING MURDER HER!"

"You touch me and my men will hunt you down like a pack of dogs, until the rest of what you hold dear is gone."

Cilia froze and looked at the woman. She wasn't as unstable as Cilia remembered. The fact that she led a mafia family was enough to suggest this, and as Cilia watched, men started to flood the main front area of the mansion grounds. "Fran, or Mukuro, is this an illusion?" she asked, finally getting Squalo to let her go.

"Kufufufu~ There's no illusion to this Cilia-chan."

"Fuck. I was afraid of that. Squalo, call out the grunts and Arcobaleno. We're going to need assistance." Even in a pair of heels and a dress, she was every inch the boss. "The woman is mine." She said, what the woman had said finally sinking into her head. "YOU KILLED MY FATHER!" She screamed, facing the woman fully now.

"Like I would soil my hands to do that."

Cilia looked over the woman's men. There was one who looked familiar....his nose was bent out of shape, and his cheek bones liked like it was shattered almost like someone had cracked the butt of a gun across his face. "But you sent your men to do it. Because the man standing behind you was one I fought personally, I'd recognize that damage anywhere."

"So what if I did? The goal was accomplished. And since I'm your only living relative, I refuse to let you marry that man, and refuse to allow you to be a Mafia leader any longer."

"You had no right to kill him! Damn it woman, I was happy with him! And you have no right to dictate to me what I will or will not do! I'm thirty one years old, more then legal!"

"It doesn't matter, I'm your mother and as such you should obey me!"

"Hibari-san, you heard her confess to having Xanxus killed, is there something you can do?" Tsuna asked, looking at his cloud guardian.

Hibari nodded, but soon after, shook his head. "I can arrest her, and the case will go to trial, but she's liable to plead insanity and get off. And that wouldn't satsify Cilia."

"LIKE FUCKING HELL I'LL OBEY YOU! VARIA!" She turned her gaze to the men who were now assembled. "We have found who killed Xanxus, Lussuria, and the rest!" Pointing to the woman, she starts to yell. "You all know what to do! She's mine, but destroy her men! GO!" She whirled back around, kicking off her heels, and felt her guns in her hands. The woman, finally feeling the murderous intent coming off Cilia fled into the center of her men. A trident blocked Cilia's way forward. She looked up at Mukuro and fairly snarled, "Get the fuck out of my way. You don't like to involve yourself in the Mafia, so don't start now."

"Think this through for a moment Cilia. If you kill her, you're as bad, if not worse then she is." Mukuro said, for once without an amused expression on his face. The Varia hadn't moved yet and Cilia's mother's men were warily watching her and her family.

"He is right Cilia. Please listen to him." Masaru said, looking at her.

The Arcobaleno came out to join them, and she looked at them all. Collenello and Lal, happily married even if they fought all the time. Reborn, stoic and lethal, Fon, calm and collected. Mammon, grumbling about the cost of her wedding, Verde, bored expression on his face, and Skull, who seemed a little worried.

"Reborn, what should I do?"

"I can't tell you that. You are past my tutelage, and now all I can tell you is to follow what will allow you to sleep at night."

Cilia nodded. "Arigato Reborn." Turning to Mukuro, she nods to him. "I may wind up worse then her, but my revenge will be complete. Xanxus and Lussuria will be avenged." Mukuro nodded his acceptance and stepped away. "I will no longer involve myself in this matter. I'll head in to be a protector." Spoken and then the man was true to his word and disappeared inside.

"Vongola, I will not hold it against you if you have no wish to stay." She said, looking at Tsuna, but speaking to them all.

"You are part of my family, and as such, I can not allow this to occur. I will stay."

"As will I."

"And I."

"Count me in to the EXTREME!"

"They had best be prepared to be bitten to death."

That was all she needed to hear. A small motion and everyone advanced to attack. With the help of the Arcobaleno, her and Squalo found themselves at the opposite end of the group, attacking from behind, along with Tsuna, Gokudera, and Yamamoto. Cilia's mother was in the center of her men, who were dropping like flies around her. "Yamamoto-kun! I need a sword!" she yelled, her clips empty. Catching the sword out of reflex, she sees that it was his good long one. "Thank you Yamamoto-kun!" All he did was nod. He didn't mind as long as she didn't break it.

Approaching her mother, Cilia starts to circle her, watching for an opening. Apparently you couldn't buy loyalty as all of the woman's men ran away. "Not so tough now are you Trash? No more men to protect you, no more left to hide behind. Think you can beat me, a person who's stood on her own two feet since she was 4?" Cilia taunted her mother.

Cilia's family surrounded the two women, and they watched the swordswomen engage in a battle that would end in death. For Cilia there was no other alternative. The woman had ordered the hit on her father, and in the process had taken her "mother" away from her. "Do you know what you took from me when you killed Xanxus? You took both Lussuria and Xanxus from me, from the Varia family. Did you honestly think that I wouldn't find you? And then to have you fall into my lap like this? It's just too easy."

"I don't know how you could get attached to someone like them. They were the biggest group of misfits I ever saw."

"We may have been dysfunctional, but we were family. We may have argued amongst ourselves, hell we still do that, but if an outsider like you targeted us we were so tight knit nothing could break us." Cilia said, clashing swords with her mother. And so the battle went, one side losing ground only to gain it back. Bel had been examining one of his knives and Cilia plucked it from his hands placing it between her teeth to watch for an opening to use it. Cilia was like a lethal dancer with a sword in her hands, even if it wasn't her sword. And that opening to use the knife came sooner then Cilia thought. With their swords locked together, she takes the knife and plunges it into the woman's chest. The look of surprised didn't surprise Cilia at all as the woman lost the grip on her sword and fell to her knees, blood gurgling softly from her mouth and lips.
Taking a step back, she looks down at her dress. Covered in blood, sweat, tears, and gunpowder. Glancing up at those assembled, she feels her knees give out. And she would have fallen, had Squalo not been closer to her then she had thought. "It's over. It's finally Done. Xanxus and Lussuria can rest in peace now." She said, softly to Squalo, hugging him.

"Cilia-chan, that was amazing! I've never seen anyone preform with a sword like that!" Yamamoto said, coming over to retrieve his sword.

"Voi! Who do you think trained her?" Squalo said, a whole lot of pride in his voice for his woman's swordsmanship. Cilia smiled at both, before standing up, her arm around Squalo's waist. "Vongola, thank you for your assistance. Hibari-san, I trust you saw none of this occur?"

"See what occur? Nothing but a wedding, is happening here, or had happened here today." Hibari replied, a smirk on his face.

The mansion doors opened and the wives of the men who had fought came streaming out, going to their husbands. Cilia watched them fawning over their men. Kyoko dabbing at a cut Tsuna had acquired, berating him for worrying her so much, Haru and Gokudera arguing over whether or not he was fine, a girl Cilia only knew as her alias of Darkness Writer, was hitting Hibari on the chest yelling about worrying a pregnant lady, and he seemed to be taking the abuse rather well, Hana hugging Ryohei, who was spinning her around in his exuberance, and a girl who's name escaped her mind was quietly talking to Yamamoto. Chrome and Mukuro stood on the steps watching the scene before them with faint amusement.

Cilia smirked at Squalo before looking to her family. Bel and Masaru had no marks on them, and norm was healing Lucia while she fixed a seam on his suit. "OOII! As much as I hate to break this lovely scene up, we've dealt with the only objection and would like to continue with the deal of getting married!" She said, getting their attention, freezing Hibari's woman in mid-swing, and Haru before she slapped Gokudera. Walking up the stairs of the mansion, she puts her heels back on, picks up her bouquet, and puts her hand in Squalo's. "Do you, Squalo Superbia, take this woman, Cilia Moretti, to be your lawfully wedded wife, to have and to hold, in sickness and in health, for better or for worse, as long as you both shall live?"

"I do."

"Do you, Cilia Moretti, take this man, Squalo Superbia, to be your lawfully wedded husband, to have and to hold, in sickness and in health, for better or for worse, as long as you both shall live?"

Two words. Two little words that would make her his forever. There was no hesitation when she opened her mouth.

"I do."

"I now pronounce you husband and wife. You may kiss the bride."

The moment Squalo's lips touched hers, the entire room ceased to exist for them. It was just the two of them, her arms around his neck, and his around her waist pulling her in close. Pulling away slightly, she speaks softly. "I love you Squalo Superbia. With every fiber of my being, I love you."

"Consider it mutual. I will never let you go."

Their little moment was interrupted by a familiar blonde tripping over his own feet and almost hitting them. Standing up as if nothing happened, he spoke. "Time for the rest of us to kiss the bride!" The afternoon flowed into the evening, Cilia not finding a minute to go out to the graves of her parents. It was close to midnight when she got a chance. Heading out there, she stands before their graves, and looks down at them, feeling oddly peaceful for this place. Normally she was angry and sad when she was here. Sighing softly, she sets the bouquet down on Xanxus' grave, and her garter down on Lussuria's. "Well, Mom, dad, everything's bee solved. My blood mother ordered the hit, which lead to both of your deaths. And guess what, I got married! Yeah, you'd be happy with it. I'm keeping it in the family so to speak. Squalo and I are now husband and wife, and I still run the Varia father, just like you wanted. I love you both, and I miss you dearly. But now I know that you can sleep, and rest in peace. Good bye."

Turning around, she sees Squalo standing there. Giving him a smile, she wraps her arms around his waist and sees the tears in his eyes. "You don't have to be strong for me, I've got enough strength for both of us." He gave her a watery smile and buried his face in her hair, hugging her close. It was the perfect way to end the perfect day. With her parents, and his best friend, and brother. For now, the silence was welcome, but she knew it wouldn't last for long. After all, they were the Vongola Independent Assassination Squad.