Lol. So I started school and am supposed to be working on my narrative. *ahem* BUT! Instead! I'm posting fic. And not even fic people were eagerly waiting for, but NEW fic. So I feel even worse. But Enma/Tsuna has become my new OTP and I feel terrible for 8059. T.T
Here's two ficlets. I do not own Reborn!.
Title: Risk
Rating: PG-13? A little violent.
Summary: In which Enma rules the mafia world.
Tsuna is dying, brown hair flecked with blood, vamped ring shattered once again, lying in shards and he thinks of broken mirrors and bad luck and tries to ignore the way he can't stop crying. Tsuna reaches out to touch him, but he can't reach and Enma refuses to move closer. It's his last movement, and his arm sticks out like that in rigor mortis, reaching and failing and reaching and failing.
The battle is anticlimactic in the end. There is a point when Enma is certain Tsuna will take the opportunity and kill him and he doesn't and then Enma finds the opportunity to kill him and he does, forcing his dying will into that last shot for pride and watches Tsuna smile a little sadly as he plummets down.
The first Vongola Guardian he kills is the Storm one, the loud annoying obnoxious one that spared Shitopi-chan from death, and he does his best to be merciful as the raging, sobbing Guardian tries to run an arrow through him, movements erratic at best and unorganized. He falls in a graceful arc, instant death, and he thinks he hears him whisper, "Yamamoto," but he doesn't think too deeply about it.
The mafia world falls to him, crumples underneath his power, and when he has a gun pointed at the Ninth Vongola Boss, the Vongolla tells him something he has been denying to himself. Pitying words about love and betrayal and wasn't this what happened to his ancestor, once long ago? Things run full circle in the end. The old man crumples in his chair, a bullet through the brain.
The Varia are too easy to annihilate after that.
When he takes his mantle as the Tenth Shimon Boss, he finds Reborn and offers him a position. The baby stares at him searchingly for a moment and then tells him in his off-handed sort of way, "The difference between you and him is that he was a better person," as if he doesn't already know that, is reminded by that every time he breathes and Tsuna does not. Reborn soon disappears afterwards, the only Arcobaleno to leave his post as an assassin.
Title: A Matter of Regret
Rating: R
Summary: Enma has Tsuna, but doesn't think he can keep him.
Tsuna tastes like elements. There's the slip of rain water, the electric current of lightening in the way his tongue wraps around his, a storm brewing with misty eyes lit by sunlight and the soft cloud-like brushes against his skin. He is the sky and everything in it and Enma wants to hate him and love him and break him and fix him and when Tsuna gives him that shy smile, slightly breathless and swollen lips, Enma wants to forgive him for his ignorance. Instead he pulls him in for another kiss, sharp and desperate, and doesn't realize he's crying until Tsuna brushes them away.
"I. You don't regret this, do you?"
And Tsuna's eyes are wide and almost-hurt, eager to please, and even though Enma can read that want in those brown brown eyes (soft like a doe) he knows Tsuna won't act on it if he doesn't want it and he pulls Tsuna back in for a rougher kiss, all bites and anger because he shouldn't be like this. He shouldn't want to shower him in soft linen and silk caresses, not after their history (their ancestor's history- their history hasn't been written) but in the end, he imagines that is how it will always be. The Shimon give their hearts to the Vongolla and the Vongolla take them and put a knife through them and leave them there to bleed in shame and disgrace and wanting love oh so much please come back. Things are supposed to be different this time. Things will be different. (when Tsuna offers his body to him like a sacrifice and he takes it he tries to forget the way Tsuna cries his name EnmaEnmaEnma and the giggles and the fumbles when Enma tries to make this not what it seems like and Tsuna is all gentle and obedient and he tries to forget the way he whispers iloveyouiloveyouiloveyou in his hair when his body shakes with release) He wants them to be different, but he knows they won't, can't, will never be.
Instead of saying no, pulling him in and kissing him again, he says, "Yes," and Tsuna smiles at him with that mature heartache Enma can't ever imagine possessing, can't understand why he, for all that Tsuna refuses to accept his position as the Tenth Vongola Boss, slides into that understanding position so easily.
"Okay."
And that's it.