Sorry for the wait! I had college finals, but now that I'm finally finished with school till fall, I'll update more frequently ^^ Please review!

It's been over a month since the whole incident with Mr. Pineapple head and all my wounds had finally healed. The moment my brother heard what had happened, he returned to give Reborn and I an earful. What I couldn't understand, was how Reborn managed to NOT get yelled at? I mean, I may be deaf and all, but I could practically feel my brother's voice throughout my body when he yelled at me. Of course, I couldn't understand a word my brother said because he was yelling, but I got what he was telling me. I'm just glad he went home that night. I wouldn't be able to stand him yelling for much longer.

Currently, I was sitting in my living room on the floor typing away on my laptop as I tried to get some more information on Reborn and Gokudera. I wasn't getting much luck, as far as Reborn goes, but for Gokudera I had what I needed.

"Let's see…Smokin' Bomb Hayato: born September 9th, uses dynamite, blood type B, I don't care about his height and weight…and I found out his grades a while back after I first met him. Not much here, but more than what I got for Reborn. All I got about him is that he's a hitman and a tutor who likes to shoot people."

I sighed and pulled a hand through my hair, closing the window of information and erasing any evidence that I was searching for info. I had already looked up the others as well as their family and they seemed normal enough, aside from Tsuna's father who I couldn't get much info on either. I decided that now would be a good chance to get some sleep, but when I glanced at the time on my laptop I discovered that I stayed up into the next day and I had just enough time to get to school for prep classes.

"Are you serious? Great."

I really have to stop talking to myself. I thought as I got ready for school. Just as I pulled on my shoes, I opened the door and was greeted by Reborn sitting on Yamamoto's shoulder.

"Caiossu."

"Yo! You wanna come with us? We're going to have some fun!"

I cocked my head to the side before throwing my bag back into the house.

"Sure."

It wasn't long before we met up with the others and were walking down the road, eventually splitting up due to Lambo's disappearance. I thought about following Tsuna as he chased after Lambo, but decided against it and walked with Reborn to go get a drink. He tugged on my pants at one point on our way back and I turned to look at him.

"Yeah?"

"I heard you were looking up information about me."

"What about it? I think I deserve to know who I'll be working with. One can never be too prepared."

"Hm." Smirking, he continued. "What'd you get from Leon?"

"Oh, that? It's a ring of some sort. It's just a straight black color with a red line going through it. Here, look."

I reached in my shirt and pulled off the chain I had attached it to, so I wouldn't lose it. Reborn jumped on my shoulder to look at it, but didn't say anything as far as I could tell as I started walking back to where Tsuna was with Lambo, Kyoko, and that Chinese kid I still hadn't gotten a name for. Suddenly, I felt a rumble in the ground and Reborn handed the ring back. I had a bad feeling about something and hurried over to where Tsuna was, now being helped up by a brown haired kid with flames on his forehead. Reborn hopped off my shoulder as I began trying to figure out what was going on.

"Um, Reborn? Being deaf has its disadvantages, like not knowing what is going on."

Of course Reborn, being the amazingly helpful baby hitman that he is, completely ignored me as the brown haired kid ran off with Tsuna. Thinking the worst, I followed, clutching the ring I had in my palm as I yelled at the kid.

"Hey! Tsuna! What's he doing?"

Tsuna turned around and began shouting something at me, but people haven't learned yet that I can't understand them when they do that. I groaned and nearly ran into Tsuna and the kid when someone landed right in front of them.

He too was an odd character. Other than the fact that he'd just jumped off a building and landed without harm, he had quite the hair; being pure white in color and extremely long for a guy…He is a guy, right? I shook off the thought, and kept my eye on the girly man in case Tsuna and the kid needed help.

"And, who are these guys?" The man crouched and I saw him get ready to charge, using that chance to get in front of both Tsuna and the kid. I held out my hand in front of me and was going to reach for one of my hidden knives when the palm of my hand began to glow; more specifically, the ring in my hand. Metal clashed with metal as the man's sword was blocked by a set of black tekagi-shuko that now covered my hand and wrist. The girly man didn't seem too happy that I blocked him and even when he put more pressure on the blade, I only moved back a few inches.

"Voi! You're pretty good for a brat, but tell me your relationship with this kid or I'll slice you to pieces!"

I was a bit surprised I could even make out what he was saying, what with half of it being yells, but responded back with a monotone expression.

"I'm sorry, but my brother told me never to speak to girly men with long hair."

He began yelling all sorts of things as he slashed at me with his sword, putting even more pressure behind each swing. I would've done fine, if not for the brown haired kid interfering. He had thrown something in my peripheral vision and it caught me off guard, giving girly man a chance to slice me across my stomach and toss me into a nearby window. My vision swam for a moment and I felt violent vibrations from the ground again. The brown haired kid pulled me out of the wreckage, hurt pretty bad himself and spoke to me.

"Are thou okay?"

"I've been better…but you really shouldn't throw things in my peripheral vision. I get easily distracted, um…"

"Basil, but now is not the time for thou to ask questions. We need to help them!"

Yet another explosion shook the earth and I sat up painfully just as Yamamoto fell to the ground and Gokudera was taken out as well. Covering my wound I struggled to stand, but Basil beat me to it and began an intense battle with the sword wielding man. I began looking around for Tsuna, finding him yelling at…Is that Reborn? Why is he dressed as a potted plant?

I didn't have time to think about that when Reborn shot Tsuna, who suddenly stripped and stopped girly man from killing Basil. Forcing myself up, I headed to Reborn and leaned against the soda machine as Tsuna fought.

"Hey…I can hold him off for a bit if you need it."

"Hm. I may need you to. This is getting bad."

I nodded, reaching into one of my pockets and pulling out a box of pocky. I nibbled on the end of one to try and ease my nervousness and figure out where the tekagi-shuko came from, when my hair was blown in my face from a series of explosions. Snapping my pocky stick I grumbled.

"Che, men. Everything has to be an explosion to them."

I walked lazily out from my place, hoping to buy more time for Tsuna and Basil, where ever they went to. Of course, he was more than eager to fight me.

"Voi! I'm going to chop you to bits for callin' me girly!"

As we exchanged blows, I rolled my eyes.

"You know, I wouldn't be calling you girly if you'd just give me your name. Seriously, the last guy did the same thing so I called him Mr. Pineapple head majority of the time. Also, it's very hard to understand you when you're yelling all the time."

"What? You deaf or somethin'!"

"Yes, actually. Thanks for noticing…girly."

I smirked as he yelled more obscenities when he suddenly kicked me in the stomach and went to cut me across the face. My eyes widened and I swiftly brought up my arms, but I wasn't able to block it completely with the tekagi-shuko and it sliced deeply through my left arm and shoulder. Grabbing me, the man threw me into a set of tables that Tsuna and Basil had apparently been hiding behind. I gripped my bleeding arm, noticing that the tekagi-shuko had changed back into a ring, and painfully glared at the man as Tsuna freaked out about my injuries. Next thing I know, some blonde headed guy with a whip steps up, surrounded by men in black.

"You're just like always, Superbi Squalo. Isn't it embarrassing being so rough on kids?"

Squalo? Is that the girly man's name? And who's he calling a kid? I was doing fine until I got distracted by Basil's boomerang thing! I must've been more distracted than I though, because suddenly there were more explosions and smoke covered the scene. The blonde guy quickly came over to us and began asking if we were okay before he turned abruptly to Squalo, who was carrying a small box. It seemed extremely important to Basil, but we were all too injured to chase after Squalo. Just then, Reborn popped up out of nowhere once again clad in his suit and fedora.

"It's too dangerous to chase him."

Pointing a pocky stick at him I questioned him.

"What happened to your plant costume? And what's with girly man and blondie?"

"I'll tell you about Squalo later, but this is Dino, also known as Bucking Horse Dino of the Chiavarone Famiglia."

"Oh…Well, nice to meet ya, Dino."

"Haha, you too! You really held you own against Squalo. I'm impressed!"

I nodded as Tsuna freaked out yet again and Dino supported Basil. Seems they had a hospital ready for him and me as well, since Reborn ordered Tsuna to help me out. Gokudera and Yamamoto ran up then and Reborn said something while facing away from me. Whatever it was, they were obviously upset about it and we left them to go get Basil and I fixed up. Reaching for another pocky stick, I shoved one in Tsuna's mouth.

"They'll be fine Tsuna. Stop worrying. If anything, they get stronger from this. You know how they are."

He turned to me and smiled gently, mumbling something that I was guessing was "I guess you're right." I chuckled at how cute his face was right now. Wait, did I say cute? I meant…Oh look! Pocky!