Here you go my lovelies. Another chapter. I finished one of my more stressful essays this week, and I might try to get something like a 'Difference Between' or something like that. But no guarantees since I have a v stressful few weeks in the works. Please understand, and please enjoy.


Revenge: Tsuna 20, six months after opening of the sanctuary.


Sometimes things didn't always work out in the sanctuary. In the beginning things were much calmer and there were no such rules on which children or mob bosses were going to be let in. However things happened and the mafia wasn't a kind place.

There had been a time, early on, where old mob bosses took advantage of Tsuna's sanctuary and took revenge.

"Tsuna, there's gunfire in the daycare." Takeshi had been breathless and even before his words left his mouth Tsuna was alit with flames and he and his rain were sprinting.

Kyouya was already there, cloud-flames and his box animal going crazy as retired-mob-bosses fell to his strength.

Luckily enough, Tsuna had been there to oversee the transition, and had stopped the Mafia men before anything could come to an end. Children were scarred and injured, and a few guards were killed in the attempted-massacre of a block of heirs. But considering the planning that had gone in to this plan it wasn't that bad.

Tsuna ended up with thirty-two stitches, and Kyouya had gone on a rampage not long after to get rid of his pent up frustration (both at the rule breaking and having let danger into his home). There was a lockdown for an entire three months while they rewrote and reworked how they were going to run this sanctuary.

Tsuna remembers it with vivid clarity. The scared eyes of wounded children, the sheer terror when Tsuna approached and their guards were dead. It had taken a long time before things had settled, and though the children adored Tsuna when he visited now, Tsuna remembered a time when this project of his had almost crumbled.

"How are we looking today, Ryohei?" Tsuna's voice was calm from the top of their 'welcome' building. Both men were sitting there, watching over the town. They'd both be leaving back to Italy by the end of the year now that thigns had settled.

"As you'd expect, I think." Ryohei had been the most furious with Tsuna's decision. What with his sister and girlfriend living in the town still attending school and working within the safe walls, it wasn't surprising. Ryohei still help a little animosity towards the newest residences of the town, and could often be found patrolling with Kyouya. "Assassinations have EXTREMELY dwindled. But I'd put that down to the stupid famiglia figuring out that we aren't corralling heirs and Bosses for slaughter."

Ryohei's boss hummed at his feet, Tsuna seemed to like sitting on the edge of the roof-tops. Ryohei felt less inclined, but he also liked to be near Tsuna's back as often as possible. It wasn't only the new residents with targets on their heads now.

"But the children are doing well." Tsuna wasn't asking, because he knew that Ryohei saw exactly how well the new wards of Namimori were doing.

Ryohei could see the good. He could see the children growing more confident and making friends. He saw heirs (or ex-heirs perhaps you should call them) of famiglia that should never have been friends playing in the park and swapping childhood secrets. And despite the fear he felt for his loved ones, Ryohei thought that it was a beautiful thing.

So while he wasn't happy that his childhood home had become this madhouse, Ryohei could appreciate all Tsuna was trying to do. He was proud that Tsuna trusted them to make the town a safety for children like Lambo, and I-Pin, and even people like Ryohei and Kyouya whose families were dragged into the mafia because of their relationship with Tsuna.

Ryohei could say that he was proud of Tsuna. And his love for his little boss-brother hadn't changed. Which was why it didn't matter if assassins were sent to kill an heir staying in the town, or Tsuna to end both Vongola's reign and Tsuna's idealistic dreams. It didn't matter, because Ryohei was going to be there protecting his family, and his town.