It was almost 9am when Rumiko had finished cleaning up the mess they made at breakfast. She hadn't seen a glimpse of Hibari since he had gone up the stairs and she was grateful for that. It was completely and unequivocably strange to have the presumably cold and heartless prefect joke around and that fact scared her just as much, if not more, than his icy glances and dangerous aura. In her daze, a soapy plate slipped from her hand and clattered to the ground, shattering into many pieces of the wooden floor.

"Aww jeez."

She groaned as she bent down to pick up the pieces, as she picked up one of the smaller pieces a sharp stinging sensation travelled from her finger. A thin red line soon dripped a crimson liquid. Cursing as she attempted to upright herself, in a hurry to stop the blood from falling to the ground, she hit her head on the kitchen bench. A yell pierced the still air followed by more curses. A finger in her mouth and a hand on her head she trudged up to the bathroom in search for a bandaid. As she rummaged one handed through the bathroom cupboard, she felt a murderous aura in the room. Startled she straightened up, but not before clumsily hitting her head on a door of the cupboard door. As she met the steely eyed and tonfa wielding prefect standing by the doorway, her headache grew to unimaginable heights.

"Kamikurosu."

Before she could react, she felt the cold steel of the tonfa press against her neck before she crashed head first into one of the bathroom walls. Unable to find her feet, she slipped to the floor. Her head was ready to burst and tears had flooded her eyes from the pain. A warm trickle of liquid ran down her cheek, her finger was still bleeding and the blood had gotten from where her hands were supporting her head to the bottom of her chin.

"What the fuck is the matter with you son of a bitch?!" Unable to contain her frustration and pain any longer, she screamed at the prefect. (Hehe mood swing moment ^^)

*silence*.

Curled with her knees to her chest, she began sobbing. She heard Hibari's footsteps walk away. Bloody son of a bitch, always so annoying and violent, why the hell does he always have to be so pissed off? As she raged about the prefect in her head, a tsunami of other emotions drowned her. The anger and frustration of being kept in the dark of her mother's death, sadness and sorrow for her deceased mother and hospitalised brother, anger at her father for somehow being all tied up with this. Annoyance with herself at her cluelessness and the feeling of being inferior, the string of thoughts and emotions just kept on coming. If felt like forever when the familiar sensation of sleep claimed her. Too tired to fight it of, she drifted into the darkness.

The numbness in her left leg awoke her from her slumber, with her eyes still closed; she stretched out her leg in an attempt to get rid of the irritating pain. As she did, her foot touched cold tiles and her head felt sore and heavy. Opening her eyes she gathered she was in the bathroom. Sensing someone's presence, she swivelled her head to her right, the familiar steely eyes gazed at her. Memories flooded back to her previously empty head, anger took hold of her once again as she took in the scene of the Prefect sitting cross legged beside her, gazing rather stupidly at her. Creepy! She thought as she took in a sharp breath.

Rumiko's blank look turned into anger, a frown creased her forehead and her eyes darkened.

*SLAP!*

A sharp sting crossed Hibari's face before it dulled and spread across his cheek. Now gazing at the bathroom wall, he felt her get up. For reasons even he could not explain, a hand shot up towards hers and grabbed it. Tugging it away she continued up righting herself. Following in suit, Hibari got up quickly. She had just managed a few steps when he reached out an arm and tugged on the sleeve of her shirt. Spinning around she aimed a punch at his face, he blocked and held her fist tightly, she aimed with her other fist, the same thing happened. Struggling to free her hands from his grasp she realised it was all in vain. Frustrated, she aimed the heel of her foot towards the guy's most vulnerable parts. Seeing this coming, he instinctively pulled her towards him so the kick never made contact. However they ended up in the rather awkward situation of Rumiko with her arms crossed across her body and kind of hugger herself with Hibari's arms also around her, holding her still clenched fists behind her back. The duo stood in silence for a long moment before Hibari let go and bent down. Rumiko screamed as she felt his shoulder jab into her stomach and screamed louder when her feet left the ground.

With the petite girl strung on his shoulder, Hibari made his way downstairs and out the front door, where a shocked Dino greeted him.

Bitch slapping the git had felt good, but now having her nose pressed to the prefect's back, she wondered if it was all worth it. She squirmed and kicked and thumped her fists on his back, it did little good as she could only use so much strength being upside down.

"I'm your guardian, so don't be so difficult. Do you want me to drop you?" The question was more like a threat and the statement was just rubbing it in. Going down the stairs was better than she had thought it would have been but on the way down, she had thought of many ways she could have annoyed him. Spitting on his super ironed and clean shirt seemed like a good idea until:

"Oh if you drool on my shirt, I'll bite you to death." =.= This guy is impossible! Rumiko screamed to herself. "You were actually going to try? Pfft, your stupider than I thought."

Another thought came into her head and she jabbed her fingers into the sides of his stomach, normally any other person would have squirmed and wiggled away, but the cold prefect was completely unfazed. Was he made of steel or something? Rumiko pondered. Suddenly she realised they were outside and as she turned to her right, a pair of black shoes and khaki coloured pants gave away the identity of the person walking behind Hibari.

"DINO! HELP ME!" Rumiko asked, well actually more like demanded.

"Uhhh how?"

"I DON'T KNOW! BUT JUST HELP!"

"Uhhh, Hibari-Kun could you put Rumiko down please?"

"DON'T ASK HIM! PUNCH HIM OR BEAT THE CRAP OUT OF HIM OR SOMETHING!"

"Heh, like he could." This time it was Hibari who spoke.

"Aw jeez, don't bad mouth me in front of Rumiko."

"What's it to you if I do?"

"Uhhh."

"JUST PUT ME DOWN ALREADY!" As she said this, she felt Hibari's arm loosed from behind her knees and she toppled sideways off his shoulder. She was sure she would have injured herself falling, but Dino had caught her. Scowling at the prefect, she got into the back of the black car that awaited them.

"What the hell happened?" Dino asked in an unnecessarily worried manner. Rumiko just "hpmf-ed" and Kyoya just continued gazing out the window. Dino did that sweat-drop thing that people do when they are faced with an awkward situation.

"Sorry we're late, um we kind of got sidetracked." Dino announced upon entering Tsuna's room. Rumiko peered inside, it was much neater than her room but it looked so small with so many people in the room.

"Oh hi Dino-nii, Rumiko-Chan." Tsuna greeted them.

"Hi Rumiko!" The ever so cheery Yamamoto said.

"GOOD TO SEE YOU TO THE EXTREME!" It was none other than Ryohei

"Hey Rumiko, did Hibari abduct your or something?" Gokudera inquired.

"Ciaossu." Reborn said simply.

"Hey guys, long time no see eh? Wait it's only been about two days ha-ha - !" She was abruptly cut off by a murderous aura. Tsuna eek'ed, Yamamoto and Ryohei took no notice, Gokudera tensed.

"Ciaossu, Hibari." Reborn acknowledged

"So the baby's here, you might all just live another day."

"Why are we all here?" Tsuna asked, perking up by the prospect of not being 'bitten to death'.

"Shut up, Dame-Tsuna, I'll explain." Reborn continued, "As some of you already know, the Yakuza tried to kidnap Rumiko's younger brother Kaito, of course they were unsuccessful. Dino's men are currently guarding him. Now the main concern is Rumiko."

"WHAT WHY ME?!"

"Because you're stupid and reckless and weak."

"I am not weak! I can look after myself! I don't need Hibari to look after me! I don't need bodyguards!"

"Then why did you almost get killed the night the yakuza came for your brother?" Reborn didn't wait for an answer. "From now on, you will serve as bodyguards for Rumiko at school, Hibari will take care of other times."

"I still don't get why it has to be Hibari." It was Dino who cut in this time.

"Because he's the strongest out of all of you, and also he is directly involved with the situation, it's helpful to have someone like him around."

"Why?!" Gokudera, Tsuna, Dino and Rumiko asked together.

"None of your business, herbivores," The cool and dangerous one spoke.

"IT IS SO MY BUSINESS! YOU'RE THE ONE LIVING AT MY HOUSE!"

"Maybe, but so what?"

"So what? So what?! What do you mean so what?!" Hibari gave no answer.

"Wait, so how is Rumiko involved with the mafia? And why did the Yakuza want Kaito?" Tsuna asked amidst the quarrel.

"I was getting to that; Rumiko's father is the Boss of the Chiaroscuro Family. They have strong ties with the Vongola and Cavallone families, and they are great allies. Chiaroscuro in Italian means: light and dark, like the name the family is also very well known in the mafia world but they're a mysterious family that no one knows much about."

"Like how I've known my dad since I was born but never knew he was Mafioso? Yep, makes so much sense." Rumiko interrupted sarcastically.

"The Chiaroscuro family is well known because they were originally formed by a group of vigilantes who were very much against mafia and organised criminal activity. But as they got used to the game, they realised they had to do things they were against to reach a bigger goal. Also the inner workings of the family is intricate and very, very little in known about the members. So as well as doing this favour as an ally of the family, it's also a covert plan to get intelligence." Reborn had ignored her completely.

What about Fuuta? Can't he rank and give us info?" Gokudera intervened.

"There are limits on how much information we can retrieve from rankings. Now the Chiaroscuro have had rough times with the Yakuza as they have been trying for some time to undermine their prostitution rings the Yakuza have a hold on all over Asia. They currently have a plan that could blow the Yakuza to bits, theoretically of course, but it is a slow plan. Your family moved to Japan so your father could overview the massive operation better. Of course that was a huge risk to the Chiaroscuro boss' family and of course, resulted in your mother's death. So now, we just have to take care of you and Kaito until the operation ends."

*silence*

"So who beat Kaito up enough for him to be hospitalized?" Rumiko broke the silence.

"The culprits are currently in ICU." Hibari replied.

"Woa! So Rumiko is in the role playing game as well?!" Yamamoto cheerfully asked.

"It's not a fucking game, baseball nut!" Gokudera yelled and the two began something that looked like wresting while sitting on cushions.

"Are you ok Rumiko-Chan?" Tsuna asked, it seemed he was the only one who saw she had gone a little teary.

"Nah I'm good." No I'm not, of course I'm not, why would I be ok?! How does the baby know more about my family than I do?! Tsuna gave her a worried look.

"Heh, don't worry, I didn't sign up to be a mafia boss." Tsuna's words and reassuring smile gave some comfort to the rather emotional looking girl.

"Is that all?" Dino asked.

"Just one more thing, at least one of you will have to be with her at all times during school. Hibari will take care of the rest."

"What if I need to...relive myself?" Rumiko asked rather childishly but she didn't expect a reply.

*BAM*

The bedroom door flew open, the toddlers came in right on cue.

"Lambo! Come back with my candy!" A little Chinese baby bursted in, it was chasing another baby in a stupid cow suit.

"Wahahaha! I Lambo, has got candy!"

"Lambo come back!" The little Chinese baby squeaked.

"I-pin and Lambo will go to school with you." Reborn finished off.

"What the...?" Before Rumiko could ask anything else, she was dragged off by Hibari.

"Why are the babies coming along too?" Gokudera asked wearily, remembering the last time he did babysitting. Reborn's smirk was the last thing she noticed of the group of newly informed, and ever so deranged mafia family.

"What was that for?"

"I hate crowding."

"You were doing fine!"

"It got too noisy."

"Their just children!"

"Did you want me to bite them to death?" This shut Rumiko up, so the guy did have self control eh?

"Oi, so who were the guys who beat Kaito up?" Dino asked.

"Was it the same two douche bags that beat him up like a month ago?" A nod from Hibari was all they got.

"BLOODY COWARDLY BASTARDS! I'LL BEAT THE CRAP OUT OF THEM AND MAKE THEM WISH THEY WERE NEVER BORN! ARGH!"

"No, your not." Dino and Hibari said simultaneously. Rumiko stared at them in shock.

"Because you're stupid and reckless and weak." Hibari quoted Reborn and the two guys watched as Rumiko's face turned all shades of red.

Rumiko then watched in turn as one of Hibari's and Dino's cheek turned pink after she bitch slapped them both.

"Wao, really mature." Hibari rolled his eyes.

"You haven't changed abit since you were 10." Dino mumbled as he rubbed his cheek.

"You guys are so weak, a feared prefect and a mafia boss just got slapped by a fourteen year old girl. You're all such losers."

"Romario, stop the car." Dino ordered with a smile on his face, Hibari produced Hibird from somewhere and handed it to Rumiko.

"If you hurt Hibird, I'll bite you to death."

"Pfft, you use that phrase way too mu-" Rumiko was shoved out of the car before she could finish. Standing in the middle of the road slightly dazed she heard Dino call out something about walking home on her own from the window of the quickly disappearing car.

"Bitch!" She mumbled under her breath, a thought floated into her mind and she snickered. "Sigh, I'll have so many questions to ask Hibari about his car ride alone with Dino."

"I heard that herbivore." A cold voice crackled from Hibird, Rumiko cringed. "Yes, you're in very, very big trouble." The voice crackled again.

Damn that bloody git! Rumiko cursed in her mind, the urge to squish the little bird overpowered her mind. She glared at the bird but could not hold a grudge against the cute yellow pom-pom lookalike.

"like I said, hurt Hibird and I'll bite you to death." The guy had cameras too?!

Ok hope you enjoyed it.

Chiaroscuro is an art term for really black shading and really bright highlights. Sounds like a weird word but I think it's pretty cool.

Sorry for the crappy-ness of the mafia info.

And I really don't know how Rumiko was able to bitch slap Hibari twice in one day, and I still don't get how it's physically possible so slap both Dino and Hibari in a car...(its meant to be a normal 5 door car ok?)

This chapter was mostly a rant, the next one will be better, promise^^

OH AND HIBARI"S BIRTHDAY IS ON THE 5TH OF MAY RIGHT?! BIRTHDAY SPECIAL COMING UP THEN ^^