Bite To Death

Xanxus pouts for a while and the Varia catch him staring after faint airplane sounds when one passes by. It gets to the point where they take out the list Tetsuya wrote and subtly slide it into Xanxus' reach.

It takes a week for Xanxus to decide and they end up hunting down a group of cream armbands. The Namimori soldiers cringe back in terror when Xanxus orders them to bring out a DC. The DC, however, takes in the tall and scarred Mafia boss calmly.

"Bring the little feral trash next time," Xanxus snaps at the DC before stomping off again.

Kyouya then responds with another DC. "Come to Namimori, monkey king, and I'll show you a true carnivore's playground."

This back and forth goes on for a while until Xanxus gets so insulted, he takes up the challenge and arrives in Japan, a little less than one month and a half into the outbreak.

Tetsuya and Squalo commiserate from a safe distance away as the two battle maniacs take out infected that have the bad luck to be attracted to the destruction - in between taking shots at each other.

When Xanxus runs out of bullets, Kyouya once again throws his tonfas down and they start fighting b.a.r.e handed which inevitably turns into tumbling around on the ground and shoving bits of zombie down each other's clothes like they're kids playing with snow.

Fon turns up around then, and Mammon very determinedly does not acknowledge his existence. Squalo learns that Fon sent a message but Mammon ignored it. Xanxus wouldn't have taken up the offer of sanctuary anyway, so Squalo shrugs it off.

However, Mammon snaps when Fon calls them Viper, and tosses the martial artist off the rooftop. He falls onto Xanxus and Kyouya –not doing much damage considering it was only two storeys- only for them to take offence to being used as a landing mat.

The three of them break Sapporo.

The next time they meet is a little less than two months in, and instead of springing into a fight, Kyouya asks why Xanxus allows the others to fight next to him.

Xanxus glares at the rest of the Varia until they leave and the two have a short conversation about letting herbivores grow their potential under carnivores like them before moving on to racing each other to the highest kill count. The Leaning Tower of Pisa goes down as a casualty.

When Kyouya steps into the plane, he leaves a satellite phone as well as a private number in Xanxus' hand.

They meet as often as they can make it –usually in Italy or wherever Xanxus is, because breaking Namimori is actually a bad thing, as Tetsuya continually insists- but one of the most memorable is on Xanxus' birthday, a little over two and a half months since the outbreak.

Kyouya drops into the airport on a cargo plane and when he emerges he has a beautiful white animal with black stripes and a huge mane beside him.

The teenager walks over to Xanxus, the large cat trailing at his side, and tells the Varia boss that the animal is a liger and that he's a present.

They spend the entire time playing with the deadly creature; rolling around with it or killing things with it. They end up falling asleep on the large animal's side, curled up together after a long day of slaughtering hundreds.

Tetsuya hesitates, understandably, when it's time to leave and he has to wake up Kyouya. Squalo solves the problem for Tetsuya, because the Varia have practice with this. They capture a few zombies and release them again near the two so the infected are the ones to get bashed to death.

A few days later, Xanxus strides through a wary group of cream armbands and takes a seat on the plane heading back to Namimori.

Kyouya is speechless when the man literally kicks down the Chairman's door and presents him with a box that has holes in the top. An adorable hedgehog peeks its head out when the lid is lifted and Kyouya gets an odd expression on his face, like determination mixed with sadness.

Xanxus freezes and looks around in panic but Kyouya snaps out of it and names the animal Roll. They spend the rest of the day in Kyouya's backyard, with Roll on the Chairman's head and Bester lounging at Xanxus' feet, ordering around zombies in games of chess.

Squalo isn't even surprised when Xanxus takes up a request from Kyouya and heads back into Italy to hunt down some trash. The Varia have maybe too much fun as they slide back into their enforcer role, especially since it's Vongola they're dealing with, but they all agree they like roaming the world better and take off again.

Time flies by as they meet in between Kyouya's busy schedule running Namimori. It's now three and a half months in and Kyouya brings lilac armbands to their next meeting.

Squalo sucks in a breath through his teeth as he watches Xanxus simmer in rage when the teenagers hover around Kyouya and take his attention away from the Varia boss.

It's entirely deliberate as well, on the part of Byakuran and Mukuro. Takeshi they're not too sure about, because he has that easy going smile on his face. He might not know what he's doing, or he's just good at hiding it.

Bester prowls over to Kyouya for a scratch and the three teens get dark looks on their faces.

"Poor boss," Lussuria murmurs. "His crush is surrounded by others."

Belphegor chokes a little and has to leave because he's laughing too hard.

"I'll get the sword trash," Squalo plans. "You get the boxer, Fran has trident, Bel's got dynamite, Levi's on the lightning brat and Mammon distracts marshmallow."

They nod and break the little circle they have to start the hunt. They get Xanxus two hours alone with Kyouya before the entire thing turns into a free for all fight and the Chairman willingly gets dives in.

After Kyouya leaves, they try to discuss assassination for the other love interests, but Xanxus denies any and all feelings for Kyouya, calls them trash, and throws alcohol at them.

Even Bester gives the Varia boss an exasperated look.