Chapter One: Clear Sky

Sawada Shou was a happy boy. As he saw it, life had been good to him. Sure his school grades could be a little bit better but with the proper effort he could fix that and besides, what's school grades compared to important things like family and friends?

And indeed Sawada Shou couldn't complain about that. He had a loving family and even though his two younger siblings could be quite grading sometimes he knew he wouldn't be the same without them. And to Shou family wasn't just blood relatives, it extended to all of his close friends whom had been there for him when things were good and when they took a turn to the worse. Like when Kaemon had convinced him that it was indeed a "good idea" to put dynamite under his father's couch. Yeah…things got somewhat troublesome.

But at least he wasn't scolded alone. Nope, Kaemon was there snickering at his father while he yelled for the billionth time that it was not OK to blow up the house, while Tsuna tried to reasonably work things out. And ignoring the fact that he ended up being grounded, Shou had to admit that the whole ordeal had been pretty fun.

Even now as he recalled that situation Shou couldn't help but to smile softly, while wondering what sort of shenanigans Kaemon would drag him into later. But he couldn't really afford to get lost in his thoughts right now, since his mother had given him a very important task which was to find his cousin and tell her about the dinner party they would be having tomorrow night. So Shou had to remain focused, mostly because he didn't quite know where his cousins' Capoeira class was.

He honestly had no idea how his cousin had ever managed to find a place that taught Capoeira in Namimori, but he was glad that she did, otherwise it would be like that time where she tried to play the guitar by learning through videos on the Internet. Yeah, that didn't end up so well… So he could only phantom the dangers her cousin could bring upon them all if she went around practicing Capoeira by copying what she saw on videos. It was best if she was learning from a teacher in a safe and controlled environment. At least, that's what Shou believed.

At every other turn Shou would look down to the small, wrinkled paper he held in one hand where his Uncle had scribbled down directions to the place. After taking a look at the paper for about the tenth time in 3 minutes he could only wish that his uncle had better handwriting.

Eventually though, and much to his happiness he did come across the place. It wasn't a very big building, nor did it look amazingly decorated, it was small and simple and it actually had a very welcoming vibe to it which eased Shou a bit more as he walked inside. Once he was in though, he didn't quite know what to do next. If his cousin was still in class then he wouldn't want to interrupt so he decided to check with the receptionist.

"Ano…excuse me but, I was wondering if my cousin was still in class. Her name is Sasagawa Yoko." He spoke sheepishly to the woman behind the counter, who smiled warmly and then turned her focus onto the computer screen. "Let me check then," she began and after a second or so looked back up to Shou. "Nope, from this schedule Sasagawa-san should have already left. At least her class did end half an hour ago." The woman informed Shou, who immediately paled feeling the need to smack his own forehead. He knew he should have hurried here instead of playing with Jirou on the way here.

"Well, thanks for the information anyway." He said, doing a polite bow towards the woman before rushing outside. He was so focused on the possible locations for his cousin to be in that he didn't even register the silver-haired girl standing right in front of him whom he knocked into; inevitably causing them both to fall backwards.

"Ow…ow…ow…" he muttered, rubbing his back and cracking on eye open to see who it was.

"Hey, watch where you're going moron!" The girl snapped, yet upon realizing who it was that she had bumped against she calmed down almost instantly. "Oh. It's you Shou." She said in a somewhat surprised tone.

"Ayane-san I'm so sorry!"

Ayane simply shook her head as she stood up, dusting off her long skirt that reached her knees and then outstretching a hand towards Shou, who was still on the ground looking flustered.

"It's fine Shou, accidents happen." She told him kindly and smiled contently, waiting for him to take her hand. Shou simply nodded his head shyly before reaching out and taking her hand, lifting himself up with Ayane's help.

As he looked at Ayane though he suddenly wondered what exactly she was doing here, whoever couldn't ask her because…well, she actually beat him to it. "So, what are you doing here Shou?"

"Ah, um, well I came here because Mom asked me to let Yoko know of the party."

At the mention of Yoko's name it was easy to see the change in Ayane's expression, that went from happy to annoyed.

"Ah, you came to talk to the boar-woman." She muttered, which was then followed by a huff and a low string of complaints about Yoko, causing Shou to sweatdrop a little. This was exactly why Shou had been curious as to what Ayane was doing in front of the building where Yoko had Capoeira class, seeing as he was well aware that the two did not get along.

"Shou! Are you hearing me?" Ayane suddenly questioned, arching an eyebrow and causing Shou to almost jump in place. "Yes! Of course!" he quickly answered, not wanting to anger her. Ayane was scary when she lost her cool after all. "But, what are you doing here?"

By his question Ayane folded her arms over her chest, scowled and looked away. "Dad made me come here. He said I should apologize for what I said to her yesterday."

In all truth, Shou really didn't want to hear what she had told Yoko. He knew the two got into fights often, as stated before, and he knew that they knew just want buttons to press to annoy the other. So this time around, Ayane must have pressed the berserker button if even Uncle Hayato was making her come here and apologize. Shou sighed internally, wondering how much easier things could be if these two got along.

"Anyway, Shou let's go do something interesting!" Ayane suddenly blurted out, flicking her waist length silver hair, a typical thing for her to do.

"But, Ayane I really have to—"

"Oh don't be like that, you can text her or something, c'mon!" she exclaimed and took his hand before proceeding to drag him off to God knows where.

…

Meanwhile, Sasagawa Yoko was currently eating like there was no tomorrow at a local bakery, gobbling cake after cake, after ice cream…well, you get the picture. After finishing up her fifth slice of chocolate cake she looked up, her joyful grey eyes meeting with the bored blue ones in front of her.

"Neh, Hisoka isn't this great?"

"You mean watching you stuffing your face with sweets in a vain attempt at filling that endless pit you refer to as stomach? No." The boy in front of her deadpanned, causing Yoko to roll her eyes lightly at him before she pointed towards Hisoka with her fork. "You need to lighten up, you're too serious all of the time."

Admittedly, she herself was usually more like Hana than Ryohei, or perhaps she was somewhere in between. The point is that she knew when to be serious and when to give in to her excitement yet Hisoka didn't seem to know how to do that.

The boy simple sighed, resisting the urge to roll his eyes as he looked out the window for a moment, collecting his thoughts mainly about why he had come here in the first place. "So? What do you want?" he ended up saying to which Yoko smiled slyly. "I want to fight of course!"

She hadn't forgotten after all of the promise she had made when she was only 6 that she would one day defeat him. Well, she was 16 now and still the max she was able to pull off was a tie and a couple of close-calls. But she didn't let that keep her down. Naturally she reminded Hisoka of this every single day much to his chagrin.

"Again?"

Was the only word out of his mouth as he contemplated the girl in front of him, who now nodded feverously. Sasagawa Yoko was not as 'extreme' as her father but she definitely had the will to fight which was one thing that brought him close to her and made her look more like him, since appearance wise all she got were the eyes and the hair color. She had even gone so far so as to cut her long, wavy hair up to shoulder-length when she decided that it's former waist-length worked against her in a fight.

"Yes! But before I have a message for you," she began and took a sip from her chocolate smoothie. "I just heard today from Yasuhiko that there's going to be a dinner party tomorrow."

"How does that concern me?"

Yoko tried her best not to do any exasperated sounds as she set down her smoothie and stared at Hisoka once more. "Well, obviously you're invited."

"I don't feel like going."

Yoko frowned lightly at the boy. Bored by Hisoka's monotone answers she set her elbow on the table, and rested her chin upon her hand. "You never feel like going! When are you ever going to feel like going?"

Hisoka shrugged by his question. "Who knows. Probably never."

Yoko was by now very close to throwing her hands up in the air and ask the Lord for a miracle that would make Hisoka stop being so anti-social. "It's a party among friends, we want you there so you should definitely go!"

"Don't want to."

Yoko's eyebrow started twitching as he said this. "C'mon! It won't kill you! Besides, there'll be hot-dogs and hamburgers." She added, in an attempt at lure Hisoka into coming. It actually looked like it could work since Hisoka's eyes suddenly widened a bit, but just as quickly they returned to normal. "Still not going."

"You need to stop acting like your dad."

For the first time in that conversation Hisoka's gaze went from annoyed/bored to a chilling glare, but since Yoko was already somewhat used to it she managed to shrug it off quite well.

"I'm serious Hisoka. You need to start opening up and hanging around other people."

"I'm not acting like my Father, I just don't like parties and you can't force me to go." He stated simply, before leaning back in his seat, sitting a bit straighter. "Don't misunderstand things. Just because I'm here right now, doesn't mean I'll actually listen to what you say."

To some these words would come off as cruel and would potentially hurt their feelings but again, Yoko was so used to them that to her they sounded the same as 'Sure, I'll make an effort to go!' .

"I'm not misunderstanding anything, I just don't think you should isolate yourself—" she cut herself off as the waitress walked up to their table and set another soda and a slice of apple pie in front of Yoko; adding more things to on-growing list of sweets she had already ingested. Yoko thanked the waitress before eagerly eating her slice of pie. "Besides, it's rude to reject an invitation made by a girl."

Hisoka arched an eyebrow at her comment but allowed a smirk to fixate itself onto his features. "But then again, you're not really a girl."

Yoko who had been close to finishing her pie in record time suddenly stopped and she actually looked…hurt. It was actually curious how she had shrugged off previous comments that were delivered in a much colder tone, yet she was visibly sad over this one that questioned her femininity.

She suddenly looked down onto the plate with the last bit of pie in it falling silent, which prompted Hisoka to further arch his eyebrow. He honestly couldn't see what got into her all of a sudden. Silence around Yoko was something he wasn't used to and he was about to question her about it, when she suddenly stood up in such a way that it even knocked down the chair she had been sitting on.

Yeah, she was definitely angry now.

Hisoka only looked up with a questioning gaze that was quickly wiped off his face when Yoko reached for her soda and dumped it all over him, after which she threw the can at his head.

Ignoring the several looks of disbelief she was getting she stomped off the bakery but not before looking back to yell some words at Hisoka.

"Hibari Hisoka, you're truly a jerk! I take back my invitation!"

And with those angry words she stormed out of the tiny shop, now filled with silence.

Hisoka groaned looking down at his stained shirt, while holding a hand to his forehead where the can had hit him. "What a loud-mouth idiot." He muttered under his breath, standing up and getting ready to leave.

…...

A quick recap of all the characters introduced so far:

-Sawada Shou (Tsuna and Kyoko's older son) Appearance wise he's very much like Tsuna only with a lighter shade of hair and personality wise they're also similar though Shou was never the loser Tsuna used to be at his age. He still doesn't do great when it comes to school work though. His cousin is Sasagawa Yoko. He's 15 years old though his birthday is close already.

-Gokudera Ayane (Gokudera Hayato's older daughter) Much more level headed than her dad ever was, yet she does have a nasty temper which is best not to be seen. Has an on-going rivalry with Sasagawa Yoko. She's 15 years old.

-Gokudera Kaemon (Gokudera Hayato's younger son.) Gets along great with Shou and inherited his father's brains, which isn't such a good thing since he uses his smarts for his pranks and tricks instead of more positive things like school, where he gets practically the same grades Shou does, meaning they're not very good. He's 14 years old.

-Sasagawa Yoko (Sasagawa Ryohei and Kurokawa Hana's older daughter.)She's somewhere in between Hana's seriousness and Ryohei's overwhelming excitement and how she acts depends a lot on who she's with. She's a proficient fighter in Capoeira and much like Ayane it's best not to annoy her. She has an on-going rivalry with Ayane and greatly dislikes when someone comments on her un-lady like way of being. Her cousin is Sawada Shou. She's 16 years old.

-Hibari Hisoka (Hibari Kyoya's only son.) He's basically a mini-Hibari walking around. Appearance wise they're practically the same except that Hizoka's hair is a tad bit longer and wilder in appearance. As far as personality goes he's a lot like his dad, only less violent and only a bit more social. He's 16 years old.