Walking the Line Between "Hobby" and "Mental Illness"

Title: Truth and Consequences
Characters: Tsuna, Xanxus, Timoteo Vongola
Summary: Someone has to deal with Xanxus after the ring battles; everyone thinks it might as well be Tsuna.
Notes: For cliche_bingo, prompt: "Truth or Dare." Full bingo card is available here. This fic is part of the Generations project with branchandroot, occurring in the arc "A House Divided," after the end of the TYL arc. For a character guide, see the appendix (warning: spoilers for the arc!). This is a very rough draft, and will likely be revised and updated in the future. Many thanks to branchandroot for unsticking me on this prompt. 1126 words.

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Title: Management Techniques
Characters: Romario, Kusakabe
Summary: Hibari makes Romario very, very nervous, for a multitude of reasons.
Notes: For cliche_bingo, prompt: "Yentas and Matchmakers." Full bingo card is available here. This is a Generations sidestory, taking place between "A House Divided" and "They Also Serve." A certain amount of silliness here, folks. 1208 words.

( Romario was quite sure that Hibari Kyouya was a perfectly good Cloud Guardian for young master Sawada. All the same, he was starting to wish that the boy would simply drop off a cliff and disappear--not permanently, just for a few months, perhaps, or however long it would take for Romario to get his master's attention firmly settled on some nice young mafia lady who would be happy to make lots of little Cavallones while the boss went gallivanting around with the Vongola's Cloud Guardian. )

Title: Two Hands Make a Pair
Characters: Timoteo Vongola, Gianni, Rafaele
Summary: In which the Vongola Ninth's Mist and Rain reach an agreement, and establish a pattern that will carry them forward.
Notes: This fic is part of the Generations project with branchandroot, occurring in the arc "A House Divided." This is set about ten years before "Blood Will Tell." Timoteo has been the Ninth for a little under a decade at this point. This is a sidestory for the arc, focusing pretty much entirely on two of the original characters, and is not necessary to the main thrust of A House Divided--but it may make some character motivations make more sense later. For a character guide, see the appendix (warning: spoilers for the arc!). Written for the prompt "red wine." Contains fraught smut. 3727 words.

( Gianni may have been the Vongola Ninth's right hand, and his Mist Guardian besides, but he wasn't too proud to admit it when he was tired. And tonight, he was tired. )

This post contains information regarding the characters appearing in the Generations project. It includes spoilers for the stories which A House Divided, They Also Serve, and Carnivale comprise.

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The Vongola Eleventh Generation

Title: Relative Values
Characters: Tsuna, Kyouko, Mukuro, Chrome
Summary: Tsuna and Kyouko have a favor to ask.
Notes: branchandroot and I are brain-sharing again! This time it's what we're call the Generations project--a set of three subarcs focusing on the life and times of the Ninth and Eleventh generations of the Vongola and the women of the Tenth's generation. What that means in practical terms is more fic for you, and lots of it! This fic, written for the cliche_bingo, prompt: "Relative values: Families" follows up on my What to Expect When You're Expecting, which is followed up by branchandroot's The Queen and All Her Men and Exigencies of Service. The arc is ongoing and really too much fun for words. This ficlet is gen, 874 words, and fluffy.

( Rokudou Mukuro came and went as freely as a Cloud--rather more freely than perhaps anyone other than Tsuna and Kyouko was really comfortable with, all things considered. )

Title: Vigor
Characters: Kyouko, Tsuna (Tsuna/Kyouko)
Summary: Dino is only trying to help. Really.
Notes: An omake to They Also Serve. Silliness, 328 words.

( In which Tsuna wishes that people would stop trying to do him favors. )