This chapter, and probably the whole story(if I'll finish it) is dedicated to HeArTzCrImSoNaNdGoLd. Ema-chan's my 2601 buddy and inspiration. Read and review :D
There are some corrections in the story, thanks ResyaAfhirsa! :D
Bell 1: Freshmen Morning! The Calm Before the Storm!
Yuni's morning…
"It's the date of the flame determination," Reborn stated as he sipped his cup of coffee, he looked at Yuni as he asked, "Are you prepared, Yuni?"
Yuni gave a sunny smile as she answered, "I'm excited, Uncle Reborn."
"That's nice, Yuni." Aria said with a smile, she turned her head and looked amusedly at Reborn, "Uncle Reborn, eh, father?"
"Uncle Reborn sounds fine to me," Reborn took another sip of his coffee, but he suggested, "Though I would prefer if you call me Father."
"Father?" Aria blanched as she gave an amused chuckle, and she added, "You're MY father, shouldn't it be grandfather?"
"Grandfather is for old men," Reborn dismissed it, and he said, "Which I am not, after all, I am an Arcobaleno."
"Haha," Yuni gave a cheery laugh as she said, "You do look young, uncle, you, too, mother."
Aria gave a satisfied smile as she cooed, "You're so sweet, Yuni-chan."
"I agree," Reborn agreed, and then he smirked as he added, "Unlike my daughter."
"That's a mean thing to say," Aria playfully took a swipe at the older man's head, as she added, "I have your genes, if you forget."
"I don't," Reborn said. After a pause, he added, "I'm not the world's greatest hitman for nothing."
"That doesn't even have a connection," Aria said with a laugh, and Yuni tried to stifle her giggle.
"Everything I say makes sense," Reborn said with a shrug, and then he stated, "Yuni, it's time to go."
"E-eh?" Yuni took a look at the wrist watch on her right arm, and with a surprised look, she stated, "It's really time to go."
Before she leaves, she kissed Aria and Reborn on the cheek, and then she cheerfully exits as she states, "I'll be leaving then, Mother, Uncle Reborn."
"Take care, Yuni!" Aria called out, while Reborn gave a nod.
"Aahh~" Aria gave a happy sound. When Reborn stared at her amusedly, Aria shrugged as she mused out, "I wonder what flame my dear Yuni will have."
"Oh?" Reborn stared at Aria, and then he curiously asked, "Didn't you use your clairvoyance?"
"That's cheating!" Aria shook her head as she gave a chuckle. When Reborn looked at her incredulously, she sighed as she gave a smile and said, "I don't want to spoil things for myself. After all, Yuni-chan might get mother's sky flame, like I did, or she might get your sun flame, father."
"You don't need to worry," Reborn said with the knowing smirk on his face, and then he added, "She'll get your flame, after all, she bears a great resemblance not only to you, or Luce, but Yuni must be the one in the Giglio Nero family who resembles Sepira the most."
"Sepira-sama, eh," Aria gave a nostalgic look, and then she added, "Still, no one have inherited your flame… yet."
"I would prefer if Yuni's gets you and your mother's sky flame," Reborn stated. When Aria gave another curious look, Reborn said, "So that someone from the bloodline succeeds your place as the Sky Arcobaleno, like you succeed your mother's."
"I guess." Aria gave a shrug, and then she furrows her brow as she comments, "I noticed that Yuni resembles mother more than me."
"I noticed as well," Reborn lowers his hat, and then he said, "She got more of Luce than you, and she also got more of me than her own father."
"Doesn't she?" Aria tilts her head.
"She does." Reborn gave a smug look as he said, "She has the potential to be the most powerful Sky Arcobaleno, yet. After all, she got the blood of the most powerful clairvoyant in the century and the world's greatest hitman."
"Oh, I remember," Aria asked, "How are your students doing, father?"
"Dino became a good boss for his family," Reborn said as he brews a freshly served coffee, and then he adds, "And Tsuna has great potential."
"I think that Tsunayoshi-kun will be a great boss," Aria commented.
"He had great ideals, he's got a loyal family and he's not a shabby fighter," Reborn gave a dark look as he adds, "But he's still uncertain about being a mafia boss, and that's a crucial part if he's ever to succeed Giotto."
"I see," Aria gave an enticed smile as she said, "I believe that Tsunayoshi-kun will be a great mafia boss someday."
"Someday sums it up nicely," Reborn stated as he lowers his hat.
"Oh, look at the time," Aria said with a sigh as she looked at a nearby clock in the dining room, and then she stood up and said, "It's time for work."
"Don't sigh," Reborn reprimanded as he reminded, "It's not a good etiquette for a mafia boss and that's bad habit for the school's principal."
"Hai, hai." Aria said as she gave a nod, and then he said, "Are you going to come with me, father?"
"You go on first," Reborn said with a wave as he said, "I'll follow up."
"Father!" Aria irritatedly stated, "Aren't you excited for Yuni?"
"That's why I said I'll follow up," Reborn said as he looked at Aria with an amused smile, and then he comments, "You need to calm down a little."
"B-but-" Aria pursed her lips, "I'm excited for Yuni, I mean, what kind of flame will she have?"
"You're too excited," Reborn said as he sips his coffee, and then when Aria gave a small frown, he added, "You'll accidentally activate your ability like that, and you'll be spoil things."
Aria gave a small sigh as she calms down, "I understand."
"Aren't you supposed to go?" Reborn said with a smirk.
"Ah, right." Aria said, and then, bowing, she said, "I'll be going first, then, father."
"Children grew up so fast," Reborn said monotonously as he pets Leon, and then he said, to no one in particular, "Aria didn't even kiss my cheek like Yuni did."
Fran's morning…
"Ne, froggy," Bel boredly asked as he sent a knife flying in the younger boy's head, "Aren't you excited for your flame determination?"
"Of course I am," A sarcastic voice came out from the teal haired male, and then he monotonously quipped, "I'm shivering with anticipation here."
"Brat," Bel twitched as another set of knife was thrown in the frog's direction, and he said, "You should be thankful that the prince was such a nice sempai that he's looking out for a bratty kouhai."
"What are you saying, Bel-sempai?" Fran said with a bored look in his eyes as he retorted, "I don't recall asking you to look out for me?"
"Brat!" A set of knife with storm flames were sent at the frog's direction before a realistic illusion interfered and deflected the knife, "W-what? Mammon!"
"It's not me," Mammon said as she strolled around the room and decided to sit in the couch.
"If it's not you, then who?" Bel asked with a mocking expression, and then he narrowed his eyes to Flan, following his genius instincts, and asked, "Don't tell me? It's the frog?"
"That hurts my feeling, sempai," Fran said monotonously, playing with his hat, changing it from apple to frog to other animal. Noticing Bel's surprised expression, a slight upward twitch was present in Fran's lips as he declared, "I won't tell you if you don't want, Bel-sempai."
"B-but, you haven't determined your flame yet?!" Bel incredulously stated, before he narrowed his eyes on their female mist officer, and said, "Unless, you..!"
"So what if I did?" Mammon gave a shrug, and then she added, "I saw great potential in Fran, it was a great investment."
"Isn't that against the rules?" Bel said as he turned to the esper.
A slight smirk was shadowed in Mammon's lips as she said, "We're Varia, we don't play by the rules."
"True enough," Bel gave a shrug after he was finished with his initial expression of surprise, and then he curiously asked, "What did you do, Mammon?"
"I have my ways," Mammon answered with a shrug, and when Bel waited on excitedly, "Trade secret."
"Ushishishi," Bel gave Mammon a manic grin as he said, "As the prince's princess, you're not allowed to keep a secret from me."
"Ugh," Flan cleared his throat as he stated, "I'm leaving you love birds-sempai."
"Whatever, froggy," Bel said as he sent a pair of knife flying in Fran's directions, and as he exit, he called out, "Don't get killed."
"Says the one who tries to kill me on a daily basis, oh, the irony," Fran said with a mock-hurt expression, and then as another knife was sent flying to him, he disappeared with an illusion as he exits the room.
"Why did you train him with illusions?" Bel seriously stated as he turned to Mammon.
"Mou," Mammon walked to Bel with a small smile, "You're acting so seriously, Bel, and your blood's not even spilled yet. Are you perhaps jealous?"
"It's not that," Bel immediately countered as he gave a small frown , as he said, "The boss will get angry if he knew that you have been secretly training Fran, and making him the same illusionist as you are."
"What are you saying?" An amused smile was playing on Mammon's lips as she explained, "The boss knew about it, it was a secret to everyone else."
"If the boss knew it, then, it's fine. Bel said as he shrugged and return to his normal, manic composure.
The amused smile twitch downwards as Mammon asked, "Aren't you jealous?"
"What..?" Bel gave an amused smile as he said, "The prince is never jealous, besides, I have trust in my princess."
"Mou," Mammon squeaked as she prevent a blush, not that it's noticeable anyway, and she said, "Do you want to know the reason why I trained Fran?"
Bel shrug as he said, "Do I look like I need to know more about the bratty frog?"
"Of course you do," Mammon dead-panned, and then she added, "It's because it's better if I was the one who train him."
"Ara?" Bel looked at Mammon with a knowing smile before he said, "So that he can take your place as an Arcobaleno?"
"Mou," Mammon gave a mysterious smile.
"Oh, right, ushishi," Bel gave a manic smile as he said, "I bet Levi and Squalo would be disappointed that Fran has mist flames."
"Are you saying that mist flames are inferior?" Mammon said with a glare directed at Bel, and even though Bel couldn't see it, he felt that the temperature around the room dropped.
"It's not that," Bel calmly said, "They're expecting Fran to have a cloud flame. After all, we're missing a cloud guardian, and the frog probably has the most potential to be an officer."
"Oh." Mammon pursed her lips as she said, "It's time for work. I'll need to go soon."
"Work?" Bel repeated and then he declared, with a manic grin, "I'll tag along."
"Mou." Mammon shrugged as she exited the room together with Bel.
Lambo's morning…
"Lambo," Tsuna called out for the fiftieth time that morning, "Did you prepare your lunch?"
"Yep," The Bovino answered with an energetic nod of his head, "Chrome gave me lunch."
"Then, Lambo," Tsuna asked his fifty-something question, as he said, "How about your books?"
Lambo paused for a while, before he answered, "You already prepared it last night?"
"Did I?" Tsuna mused, before he inquired, "Lambo, how about your bag, is it fine?"
The other guardians on the scene, the rain and the storm guardian, looked onto the scene. The former had a fairly amused and cheery expression, while the other is not so cheery, muttering things like, "Stupid cow, making trouble for the Tenth."
"So," Tsuna huffed as he went from one place to another, and then he said, "Lambo, how abou-"
"Tsuna," Yamamoto spoke up as he slung his hand at Tsuna's shoulder and then he said, "Calm down, you're too excited."
"You!" Gokudera exclaimed in the background, "What are you doing baseball nut?!"
"Ah, e-eto?" Tsuna gave Yamamoto a bright smile huffed as he tried to calm down, it was no good to panic, and then he said, "I'm sorry."
"You have nothing to say sorry for Tenth!" Gokudera immediately shouted, with matching sparkling background, and then he gave Yamamoto a dirty look as he said, "It's the baseball nut's fault anyway!"
"What are you saying?" Yamamoto said with a carefree laugh, and then he added, pointing to the Bovino, "He's apologizing to Lambo, not you."
"WHAT?!" Gokudera twitched as he pulled his dynamite out, and then he screamed, "YOU WAN-"
"Stop." Tsuna ordered in his boss voice as soon as he saw Yamamoto playfully bringing out his sword. With the two people temporarily frozen in surprise and slight fear, even if both would deny it. Tsuna's eyes softened as he looked back at the scared to wit Lambo and said, "So have you prepared, your entrance form, Lambo?"
"Y-yes." Lambo almost cried as he answer, tears leaking out in his eyes as he added, "I-I already prepared e-everything, Tsuna-aaaaaa!"
"I'm sorry, Lambo," Tsuna immediately knelt down and apologized to the younger boy, and he mentally sighed, as he thought, 'I shouldn't have activated Boss mode in front of Lambo.'
The other two still stood frozen, unable to react. Tsuna, for his part, was nearly succeeding in calming Lambo down, what with giving him candies and grapes and… bombs.
Lambo brightened up when he received the bomb, it was confiscated by Tsuna a while back, and trying to subdue his hiccups, he gave Tsuna an excited look as he excitedly said, "Ne, ne, I wonder what flame element Lambo-san will have?"
"I wonder, too," Tsuna said with a smile on his face, and then he added, "Whatever flame you'll have is fine."
"E-etoo," Lambo gave a sheepish smile as he said, "Lambo-san wants to have a lightning flame! Then, Lambo-san will be able to become Tsuna-nii's lightning guardian."
"Lambo!" Tsuna beamed with pride as he hugged the young boy.
"E-eto, no-good Tsuna! You're squeezing me!" Lambo whined as he hid a blush, and then he looked at the clock, and then he said, "I'll be late!"
The statement has reverted the brunette back to his senses, and he ruffled Lambo's hair as he inquired, "You'll be classmates with Yuni and I-pin, right?"
"Yep." Lambo chirped as he nodded, and then he gave a small pout as he said, "I-pin's a bully, not like Yuni."
"Hahaha," Tsuna gave a slight chuckle, and then he added, "Well, have a great day, then."
"Goodbye Tsuna-nii, Yamamoto, Octopus Head!" Lambo shouted as he ran off to go to school.
"Octopus Head…?" Gokudera repeated with a twitch, defrosting him and Yamamoto from their overdue surprise and fear.
"Maa, maa," Yamamoto tried to calm him down but epically failed when he said, "The kid probably don't have anything else to describe your hair style."
"W-what?!" Gokudera shrieked in the baseball nut's ear, and then he shouted, "Why don't you repeat that, you, you baseball nut!"
Ignoring the bickering caused by his two guardians in the room, Tsuna gave a beam as he said, all fatherly like, "Lambo's grown up."
"No-good Tsuna," Reborn popped in, and then he smirked as he pointed out, "You're acting all fatherly."
I-pin's morning…
"I-pin-chan!" Kyoko greeted loudly as she noticed the younger girl in the lounge. She took one look at I-pin's nervous expression, mistook it for excitement, and then she excitedly annonunced, "You'll be having your flame determination today!"
"Hahi?" Another resident of the dorm, Haru Miura, entered the lounge, and then saw the slightly scared expression of the dorm's youngest resident, and she asked, "Aren't you excited, I-pin-chan?"
"E-eto," I-pin looked down because of the sudden attention given to her, and she sighed, "I-I guess I'm a little nervous."
"Nervous?" Haru stifled a giggle as she added, "You aren't nervous about being a delivery girl and waitress at a suspicious old man's ramen shop, but you're nervous about the flame determination?"
"Miura-chan!" Kyoko directed a scolding look at the other girl, before she look at I-pin with a wistful smile as she said, "Oh, I love the flame determination! I finally knew what flame I have, it was like a rite of passage."
"Yep," Haru bobbed her head enthusiastically, before she offhandedly comments, "Though Tsuna-san, Gokudera-san, and Yamamoto-san already knew about their flame beforehand."
"Come to think of it," Kyoko pauses as she remembers, "Haven't Chrome-chan knew of her flame beforehand, too?"
"Do I hear my name?" Chrome appeared in an illusion, and then she gave a warm smile as she said, "Were you guys talking about me?"
"Oh," Kyoko pursed her lips before she stated, "We're talking about the flame determination."
"H-hai!" Haru agreed insistently, and then she looked at I-pin as she wondered aloud, "I wonder what kind of flame I-pin-chan will have?"
"A-ano," Chrome pointed out as she asked the two, "Kyoko got sun flames and Haru got lightning flames, right?"
Kyoko gave a bright smile as she nods her head, "Yes."
"Then, maybe," Chrome declared with a slight genius gleam in her eyes, "I-pin will have either storm, rain, or cloud flame?"
When the other three in the room looked at her curiously, Chrome blushed before she said, "I-I heard from Mukuro-sama that in a dormitory, you can only have one kind of each flame."
"Ah!" Haru nodded her head in understanding, "That's because we four are the only occupant of this dorm and three flames are already taken by us."
"But," Kyoko asked, "Why didn't you add the sky flame?"
"Oh," Chrome paused, collecting her thoughts, before she explained, "Only one out of a billion can have the sky flame."
"Right~" Haru gave a whimsical smile as she agreed and added, "Only Tsuna-san got the sky flame in our batch."
"Ah," Kyoko gave a nod as she said, "That's right."
"…"
After a comfortable amount of silence, Haru looked around and asked, "Where's I-pin-chan?"
"…"
"I think that she got too nervous and ran away when she had a chance."
"Even if she runs away, she'll end up determining her flame by the end of the day."
"…"
Bluebell and Daisy's morning…
Byakuran looked on amusedly at the nervousness and excitement radiating off their dorm's youngest members as they walked around in circles obviously trying to contain their emotions. Grabbing a pack of marshmallow and nibbling it, he gave a sleepy smile as he informed to no one in particular, "Among my two youngest members, one will get the sun flame, while the other will get a rain flame.
Both teens turned to look at their leader, and Bluebell excitedly asked, "Who gets who, ne, ne, Byakuran?"
"It's," Byakuran pauses to get a certain cool effect, and then he gave a teasing smile as he declared, "a secret~"
"What?" Daisy looked slightly crest fallen, and then he said, "But, why Byakuran-sama?"
"Daisy," Byakuran popped a marshmallow on his mouth as he heard Kikyo explain, "You know that using things as clairvoyance to know your flame is illegal. Do you want Byakuran-sama to be reprimanded just because of your request?"
Noticing Byakuran's expecting stare, Daisy gulped as he immediately looked down and answered, "No."
"Good boy~" Byakuran praised as he opened another pack of marshmallow.
"Nyuu~" Bluebell looked on at Byakuran as she asked, "Bluebell's a good girl, too, right, Byakuran?"
"Yep." The boy popped another marshmallow on his mouth and he cooed, "Bluebell's a good girl, too."
"Hehe~" Bluebell giggled, not even trying to hide her blush.
"Haaa?" Zakuro entered the room and then took one look at Bluebell before he blurted out, "Why does Bluebell look idiotic?"
Snapping out of her happy reverie, Bluebell gave a dirty look at Zakuro before she demanded, "WHAT DID YOU SAY?"
"Forget it," Zakuro said with a smirk, "I almost forgot that you always look idiotic."
Kikyo was about to stop the impending fight, but Byakuran looked at him contentedly before he warned, "Don't bother."
"Say that again, you bastard!" Bluebell said with a full-on glare, and then she added, "I'll blow you away!"
"Psh," Zakuro snorted, "Blow me away? With that weak body of yours?"
"Weak?" Bluebell held out her arms as she said, "Don't you see the muscles in these arms?"
"Muscles?" Zakuro tried to innocently ask, and then he said, "Did you bring your microscope? I'll need it to see your non-existent muscles."
"Non-existent..!" Bluebell said with growing wrath and then she accidentally threw a vase near her at Zakuro's arms and she laughed as she said, "Look, it's your bloody arms that have non-existent muscles!"
"You bitch," Zakuro's eyes narrowed, and just as he went to make a quick attack at the girl, Ghost appeared before them, and Zakuro turned his anger on the lightning guardian, "What the hell are you doing Ghost?"
"What are you two doing?" Ghost asked in a Byakuran-like manner, and everyone in the room, with the clear exception of Byakuran, felt shivers in their spines and moved meters away from Byakuran's other.
Ghost did not notice it, or if he did, he ignored it, and then he knelt down in front of Byakuran and greeted, "Byakuran-sama."
"Ghost~" Byakuran acknowledged with a smile, and then he inquired, "Is something the matter?"
Ghost looked on the two youngest members, who shivered, before he turned his head back to Byakuran as he said, "It's time for them to go to school."
"Oh." Byakuran munched another marshmallow, and then he looked at the two youngest members and said, "It's time to go, Bluebell, Daisy."
"R-right." Daisy said and he walked off, but not before bowing and said, "I'll be leaving then, Byakuran-sama."
"Goodbye Byakuran! Byebye Ghost and Kikyo!" Bluebell bowed as well before she ran to catch up with Daisy, calling out, "Wait up, Daisy!"
Zakuro twitched as he said, "That damn bitch didn't even acknowledged me."
"Zakuro," Ghost exasperatedly reprimanded, "Watch your tongue."
Before Zakuro can even quip or make any reaction, Kikyo nodded his head in agreement as he said, "You're being a bad influence to the children."
"What the hell!" Zakuro snorted, "We're mafia."
"We are," Byakuran agreed, and then he gave a creepy smile as he added, "But we are also in a Mafia School, and I wouldn't want the principal to get angry with me~"
Zakuro gulped, before he bowed in front of Byakuran before he took his leave.
"Oya~" Byakuran looked at Ghost and he asked, "Why did you stop the scene that I was watching?"
"I'm you in a sense, Byakuran-sama," Ghost reasoned out, "I knew that you will kill Zakuro in the event that he places major harm in another member, and I think that you wouldn't be pleased if you get two of your guardians killed."
"Haha~" Byakuran gave a laugh as he said, "That's just like you, Ghost~"
"So," Kikyo cleared his throat and then asked, "Is Yuni-sama part of their batch as well?"
"Hmm?" Byakuran nodded through mouthful of marshmallows before he said, "Yep, Yuni-chan's going to get her flame determined today as well."
"Oh," Kikyo gave a smile as he stated, "At the very least there is another interesting member of their batch."
"Don't be hasty." Ghost called out, and then he looked at Byakuran and said, "There are two more interesting students this year."
"Yep, not interesting as Yuni-chan, but still~" Byakuran paused as he munched on marshmallows, but once that was done, he added, "There's Lambo-chan from Vongola and Fran-chan from the Varia."
"Vongola, I understand," Kikyo asked with a surprised expression, "But I don't understand what's special about the Varia member?"
"Because he's not just a member~" Byakuran answered, "He'll be an officer real soon, and he's hand trained by an arcobaleno."
"An arcobaleno?" Kikyo asked surprised, "One of the strongest members of the whole Mafia community?"
"Yep~" Byakuran nodded his head with a grin.
"This year's batch is impressive," Ghost spoke up, and when he saw the curious expression on the other two's face, he added, "Four of them are trained by an arcobaleno."
Kikyo nodded, before he asked, "Four?"
"The fourth is Ipin-chan, trained in martial arts by Fon," Byakuran informed with a slight shrug, and he stated, "She's not too interesting for me, though~"
"This batch is…" Kikyo commented, "Scary."
Byakuran gave a happy, creepy laugh as he pointed out, "More like interesting~"
"Aside from that," Ghost said, "Two members of ours which are hand-picked by Byakuran-sama will be attending."
"Isn't that right~" Byakuran grinned, "It's soo interesting~"
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