Sorry for the long wait guys! Here's another update. With the exception of Enma, I just bunched the Shimon Guardians together since Tsuna would be interacting with them as a whole rather than individually. It'll be the same for Byakuya and his funeral wreaths.

The case of the Shimon Family Guardians (I)

"So why have you brought him back?" Adelheid questioned in shock and a little frustration for what might seemed like the umpteenth time. No one said anything however. After all, Enma was not one like that to pull such a crazy stunt of bringing the amnesiac Vongola Decimo (in which everyone who closely known him loved him a little too much for tri-ni-set's sake) back to their mansion.

Enma did not just do that, right? He did not just escort Sawada Lovable-adorable- hamster-mafia freaking boss Tsunayoshi into one of their grander guest rooms. No, Enma Cozart had a good mind in him to not do that, Adelheid would firmly remain in her wavering belief.

She then heard someone falling and an all too familiar shrill cry.

"Tsuna tripped on the carpets or something." Enma chuckled as he placed a document on his desk. "Shitopi-chan, would you mind going to check on him?"

She turned to Julie who just gave her an apologetic shake of the head. Well damn her for being a fine fool. No. The fool here was her boss and she was a fool for following him ever so loyally which was her point in the first place... Thoughts aside.

"We'll get butchered and probably erased completely from the books of Mafia History!" She rubbed her temple, momentarily thinking of the aggressive man with the yellow bird and tonfas. He would definitely have grown much stronger the last time they met. That man's strength knew no bounds.

"Maybe Vongola would be kind enough to leave us a quarter of a page for us, I mean we're Shimon, you know- Vongola's best and greatest ally- you know, they know." Julie forced out a small laugh and shrugged as if nonchalant. "Plus, aren't we on a peace treaty?"

"Well, when was the peace treaty officially established?" Adelheid snapped.

"Five years ago?"

"Exactly when?"

"During the ceremony when Tsunayoshi officially became the Vongola Decimo?"

"And who introduced the treaty then?"

"Sawada Tsunayoshi?"

"…"

"…"

"Oh." Julie bit his lip, looking rather uncomfortable. "Uhm Boss, I beg your reconsideration?"

Enma, on the other hand, seemed totally unfazed by his situation at hand. However, he made a face when it came to talking about Tsuna. "Look. I am not leaving Tsuna, my best friend, in that den of rabid beasts. It's a miracle that nothing happened to him yet!"

"But he has other protectors than his Guardians, no? Maybe ask Skull to pick him up or something?" Julie croaked.

"There's…Reborn and in no manner will I indirectly cause his death." There was a short ponder on everyone's minds in the room about Reborn cooking up Takoyaki from Oodako and Skull being hung from a cliff by a thin rope.

"Yeah! But we're the ones now whose gotta' face his wrath now! Not to mention, our corpses will be the ones hanging off from a cliff by a thin road!" Julie exclaimed.

"That is if, CEDEF doesn't kill us first." Kaoru muttered, his voice somewhat strained.

"Guys, we are getting another rare match with the Vongola Guardians with legitimized reasons. Think about it." Enma said, nonchalant as he went back to lazily flipping over his documents.

There was a momentary silence in the room afterwards. The appeal for a battle (in which by now, everyone should know that fighting ran strong in Mafiaso blood) was quite overwhelming. Especially that it was ridiculously peaceful in the Vongola Decimo's reign.

No, it was certainly not Reborn, Varia and Vongola (plus their contracted allies) eliminating any possible ounce of a threat to their boss. It was just Sawada Tsunayoshi's newfound capability.

Meanwhile, the commotion in the room came to a silence. Even Rauji and Koyo seemed to enjoy the thought of it despite Kaoru looking rather apprehensive. Adelheid remained silently pondering how Enma truly changed a little too much for her liking in the last few years.

'Demon King of Hell, Enma', other rival Mafias called him that.

They were not entirely wrong.

Tsuna stood awkwardly in the room he had just been assigned to. "Natsu." He turned to the lion cub who meowed affectionally as it pressed against his leg. "What should I do now? I mean I didn't even inform anybody that-"

He paused to recall the name once more. "En-ma. En-ma brought me here. I hope they do not worry too much? I am starting to feel bad at my departure. They have strange habits, but they certainly do mean my good health…"

Tsuna then momentarily thought of Hibari and Xanxus before whimpering. "Well, most of them…?"

It was then there was a knock on the door and Shitopi entered with a tea tray in hand. Tsuna just stared at her usual strange and flamboyant attire, his eyes especially fixated on the pink feathered scarf that she had entwined around both arms.

"Hm it is not good to stare so much, Vongola."

Although Shitopi was not a person to say anything, much less initiate a conversion, the Vongola Decimo was someone she had respect for other than her Shimon Decimo. It attributed to one of the incidents that occurred around seven years back when Tsuna came back to help Shimon once more. She frowned a little, though her face revealed no expression. The Sawada Tsunayoshi now was not the same man as then.

"I apologise." Tsuna squeaked. "Erm, what is your name?"

"Call me Shitopi-chan." She muttered as she set the tea tray down.

"Shitopi-chan." Tsuna mumbled before suddenly walking towards her. "I am really sorry."

Now she was rather surprised. "No, Vongola."

"I can see you are upset though." Tsuna said.

"Oh." Other than Enma, the other person who was seemingly able to see through her was Sawada. She thought that it was mainly hyper intuition functioning at full. Still, Sawada always did express genuine concern to about everyone. She smiled ever so slightly.

"I stared at you- it was your scarf, I thought it was pretty." Tsuna flushed.

She then flicked his forehead with her finger- an act she had always wanted to do yet never till now because of Tsuna's authority and his Family. "It is not good to always flirt with others, Vongola." She chuckled and left the room.

Tsuna rubbing his temple, wondered in silence what exactly was "flirting".

Later that day when Tsuna tried to open the door, he found that it was rather heavily bolted.

"Just ring the bell if you need anything." He remembered Enma's graceful cheer, though he wondered why the taller man's eyes were not smiling at all as he mumbled something inaudible afterwards.

"Have I done something wrong?" Tsuna sighed. "Everyone seems to be always glaring and fighting for some reason."

Either way, Tsuna rang the bell and jumped in fright when the door was abruptly slammed open in less than two seconds. He nearly dived under the bed at the sight of the scarred muscular man with sharp eyes, fearing it might be another explosive Xanxus.

"What is it, Vongola?" Kaoru asked gruffly.

"Were you standing outside all along?" He squeaked.

"Yes. I was told to stand guard here." The bigger man replied. Tsuna remained silent for a moment and then pulled out a chair.

"How about you sit here? You don't have to stand outside all day. It would also be nice to have someone to talk to?" The brunette quickly sensed that something about this man was rather different. He was kind, despite his rather intimidating looks and expressions.

"Same as ever, eh? Vongola." He chuckled. "Some things really never change."

Tsuna wasn't too sure as to what he meant. He had wanted to ask more when there was an explosion outside.

"Seems that it has begun." Tsuna spied a frown marring his expression (although Kaoru seemed to be frowning all the time).

"What has begun?" He croaked, barely above a whisper. Judging from previous explosions, the outcome was rarely anything good in general. Natsu whimpered quietly at the side.