#8877

(This is very AU, very much an alternate take on canon)

Nana is Namimori's resident Cat Lady. She is also a witch, and the familiars that prowl around her home are waiting for a partner. When her nephew Tsuna moves in with her it becomes apparent that the boy is the one chosen by her clowder. A dash of All27

Cat!Bianchi is Nana's familiar

Karasu Tengu!Shamal hangs around Nana's home

Hana is Nana's apprentice, and cat!Kyoko is her familiar

every familiar has a human form

ship happens... ;D

Sawada Tsuna doesn't really remember his childhood.

At only age fifteen, four seems like a lifetime ago. Another thing that seemed like a lifetime ago was his parents having a good relationship; something big happened all those years ago, to him and to his mo- to Inoue Narumi. Something that had made her snap and walk away from her marriage to Sawada Iemitsu, walk away from her hurt not-even-five year old son, walk away from her family. 

Father- Iemitsu wouldn't talk about it, and even if he would, he didn't dare to. Why? His second wife. Who was a career woman. Annaliese Sinclair, who started her own fashion empire. Who refused to be a complete housewife. Who refused to settle down in Namimori, and would have rather moved back to Milan. Who refused her husband's son as her own, even after forcing Iemitsu to take her son, Basil, as his child. Who was a domineering, manipulative bitch who kept her young son on a tight leash, and her husband's balls on an even tighter leash.

So yeah, no. He was not a fan of his attempted stepmother. Nor was he a fan of his father, whom he thought had quite enough intelligence to parse that 'hey, wait a minute, maybe this isn't such a healthy relationship' but never quite did.

So here he was, a few months away from his fifteenth birthday, waving goodbye forever (probably) to his father's retreating back at the airport in Tokyo, waiting with the maternal aunt Iemitsu had never, ever mentioned to him before.

(Shimura Nana was a bit of an odd duck, putting it politely. She seemed to drift, but could still be rather serious.)

Tsuna had met his aunt for the first time ever earlier that morning, as his 'father' roused him from his fitful sleep in the car, saying "Son, I have someone I'd like for you to meet." As Tsuna blearily rubbed the sleep from his eyes, and got out of the car, he was met with the sight of a brunette lady glaring absolute death at Annaliese and Iemitsu, who were in their own little slice of paradise.

Tsuna had coughed awkwardly, still rather weirded out by the over-dramatic displays of affection, and, deciding he’d had rather enough of that, thank-you-very-much, walked over to the woman. She looked like she was in her early to mid-thirties, and had sharp, clear brown eyes. As he approached her, her gaze shifted from the sickeningly domestic couple to the young teen. Her eyes softened and she smiled, beginning to walk towards him. She stopped a good two feet in front of him, he did the same, giving the woman who looked like family the same amount of respectful distance, within arm’s reach, but distant enough.

Tsuna coughed awkwardly again, "Hi there.. I'm Sawada Tsunayoshi, please, call me Tsuna." The woman giggled at him, "Hello Tsuna, you can call me Nana. I'm your aunt, and Iemitsu," as she said the man's name, she turned and shot him another glare that could have melted iron, and continued with a derisive snort aimed at the blond lug, "- and Iemitsu wants me to be your guardian while he's off cavorting with his... woman. It's very nice to meet you Tsuna-kun, and I’m sorry for not being there for you sooner."

More notes:

Tsuna moves into Nana's place, finding it overrun by her cats, also her apprentice and her cats. And also a crow that is more than it seems- actually, that could be said for a lot of the wildlife near his Auntie Nana’s quaint little house near-ish to the woods.

Everything, surprise surprise, isn’t what it seems. It turns out Nana’s a witch, a fairly powerful and well renowned one at that. Her cat also turns into a very pretty lady that’s fairly head-over-heels for her- her name is Bianchi, she’s an apothecary whenever she isn’t a cat, and she specializes in poisons and potions. 

Nana’s apprentice is an acerbic but clever young woman called Hana, who is anything but a delicate, fragile flower- she’s often seen, in her spare time, training to thwack people with her walking staff- and is learning both from Nana and from Bianchi. Her familiar is Kyoko, also a part-time cat, who is Bianchi’s main apprentice, and is learning medicine, salves and anti-poisons in addition to potions and poisons.

There’s a whole whack of other cats lurking around too- there’s Bianchi’s brother, and Kyoko’s brother, both of whom are looking for their witch to contract them to name a few, and more than a few neighbourhood strays, like the Grimalkin Reborn, (Grimalkin are werecats.); Shamal, the Karasu-Tengu that likes to hit on Bianchi; Tsuyoshi and his son, Takeshi are Lycan-folk (werewolves, but like, pretty werewolves (let me have my dumb YA supernatural-fantasy-romance shenanigans dammit)); the young Grimalkin Kyoya and his mortal enemy(/ies), the fairfolk/demon (pair) Mukuro (and Chrome).  There are many others, like the young Tanuki Enma and his little sister, Mami; jorogumo Schitt P., yuki-onna Adelaide, the kitsune Byakuran, seer-witch Yuni, centaur Dino, witch Fon and his apprentice I-Pin, and her familiar, a faun called Lambo. (It’s my fav. magic au of mine so far....)

It comes to light later, that Tsuna is prophesied to be a very powerful, very prosperous witch, and his parents felt kind of threatened, but decided to love him anyway, but then Iemitsu went and had Tsuna sealed, and Narumi (OC half-fae mama) was v. distraught at not feeling her baby boy’s magic and kinda snapped, leaving a magic block on Tsuna’s childhood b/c it was pain for all three of them to bear, especially Iemitsu who knew how just how much he fucked up- and well...