Moment In Time

Chapter 54

Chapter 54:How

Dessert Favors were very useful bribery tools that worked on everyone in the Mansion from the staff to Reborn and were a wonderful tool in keeping Tsuna sane in the craziness of his family.

Tsuna thanks every god that listens that he discovered the effect he could achieve with a well-placed Dessert Favor. (They deserved the capital letters. They had power over Reborn, Hibari, and Mukuro)

It had been an accident.

Before that day Tsuna had only ever made desserts on special occasions ranging from a special accomplishment to birthdays. He had only very rarely baked for baking's sake.

That day Tsuna had baked because he wanted something sweet and Mama hadn't been home. Reborn had called all his guardians to his home so Tsuna had made sure to make enough for everyone to have seconds. (If he didn't make enough for everyone to have more than a piece all hell would break loose and he knew it.)

Everyone had arrived and Tsuna had left them in the living room with Reborn- thinking the hit man would watch them- while he finished up the last touches on the multiple cakes in his kitchen. (Everyone knew not to step foot in the kitchen while Tsuna was making his desserts. Not even Reborn interrupted.)

The entirety of his living room had been demolished in the resulting chaos as Reborn encouraged the 'family' 'bonding'. Tsuna had walked out into a warzone of torn up furniture and crumbling walls and he had panicked on the inside.

As a result of his panic and need to fix everything before his mother came home he had yelled "That's it! No one gets any dessert unless this is cleaned up before Mama gets home! Mukuro, Hibari if the two of you can sit still and be civil while in the house I will make you both a dessert of your choice! Just......" He waved at the mess.

Everyone went very still as his words registered and Tsuna watched in shock as his previously fighting guardians all stopped fighting and quickly began to clean up while Mukuro and Hibari went still before moving to opposite corners to wait in silence, and Reborn began making calls to have the walls repaired and identical furniture brought in to replace the damaged furniture.

Tsuna watched as his use of his desserts calmed the fighting and bribed his most dangerous guardians into not fighting and as even Reborn stopped adding fuel to the fire and began clean up and he knew.

This was the answer.

And thus The Dessert Favor was reserved as a punishment and reward system.