After a long flight, Tsuna had reached Sicily, the land of Mafioso and vampires. It was his homeland. He thought of paying everyone a visit after he found Lambo Bovino.

He slipped into a forest that would lead him to the Lightning Mansion, Miura clan's prideful fortress and home. As he walked in the forest, some traps activated and injured him slightly- making him bleed. Tsuna let it because he knew that wolves respond to vampire blood very sensitively.

"My, my..." A deep voice greeted him. 'I thought you're going to bring the other wolves with you, young Sawada Prince.' Sparks of electricity graced the wolf's presence as he walked towards Tsuna.

"N-no..." Tsuna gulped and took a deep breath. "You know about that, so I don't want anyone else to meet you first..."

That? Lambo thought of what that was until he remembered one fact about a certain clan. "Oh, the Phlegm," Lambo concluded.

Tsuna looked away, wanting to avoid Lambo's knowing stare. "N-no. It's the way they originated that worries me."

"You know..." said Lambo as he transformed into human form. "You can never hold it secret forever," he warned Tsuna.

"I know, that's why I'll keep it secret as long as I can."


Chapter 9: Hunter Council


Dino Cavallone is a respectable hunter. Armed with his whip and pet turtle, he hunts vampire efficiently as long as someone else is with him.

However, he has a crucial weakness. It's to prioritize the right and wrong using his own judgment before the mission. The greatest example of which was his mission to annihilate Sawada Tsunayoshi. A mission he forfeited at the last minute because he judged it was wrong.

Giotto Vongola is a genius hunter. Armed with his I-Gloves, he hunts the vampires without any trace.

Although... he too, had failed the mission to kill Sawada Tsunayoshi. His weakness is the fact that he was easily diverted. You can change his opinions in things just by telling or showing him good things.

The Council didn't like this at all.

Ricardo Vongola sat on his chair that had its back on the desk. He was Giotto's uncle and the leader of the Warrior's Hunter Council. When he saw that Dino Cavallone had failed, he had immediately sent his nephew to do it. But... he also failed. What was it that made two of his best hunters fail such a mission?

Ricardo scoffed at himself. Of course his hunters would fail the mission. They were up against the vampire with the purest of blood in the world.

He feared for the truth. However, he couldn't show it to anyone. Being the leader of the Council, he had to be seen as someone strong and unchallenged. One thing he needed though... was still not fulfilled.

He needed Sawada Tsunayoshi dead, no matter what it took.

"Uncle?" Giotto's husky voice came out behind his desk. Right, he was in his office, wasn't he?

He didn't face Giotto. He couldn't when his nephew was the living evidence of his failure to protect his older sister, Daniela Vongola. "You failed the mission." Giotto flinched slightly at his uncle's tone of voice. It was laced with anger and disappointment, but was hidden by his normal tone of boredom.

"I'm sorry Uncle... it's just that there's something about him that I can't... explain. I was wondering if you'd somehow tell me something," Giotto answered.

"That is?" Ricardo asked.

"I want to know what happened one year ago...The truth of Sawada Massacre."

Ricardo scoffed. "I'm not a Historian, Giotto. I wasn't the Council's leader last year. I wouldn't know about that truth you ask." Of course, that was a lie. Ricardo was the mastermind of the massacre.

Not that Giotto needed to know about that.


-1 year ago, before the Sawada clan Massacre.-

"Tsu-kun! What are you doing here?" Sawada Nana asked her son who was sitting alone beside the pond.

"Ah, mom," Tsuna said while looking up at her. "It's n-nothing, I-Pin has some errands she needs to do, so I'm..." Tsuna trailed off and bowed his head. He threw a stone at the pond.

The vampire Queen sighed. "That's no good, Tsu-kun! You have to try living by yourself!" She smiled and sat beside her son.

"Say, mom..." Tsuna plucked grasses uncomfortably. "You're a Blood Addict for Dad, aren't you?" He asked.

Nana threw a stone at the pond, farther than Tsuna's stone reached. "Why, yes! Papa's blood is the most delicious thing I've ever taste!" Nana said dreamily while smiling.

"And... Dad's a Blood Addict for you, right?" Tsuna asked again.

Nana's motherly instincts kicked in. She somehow knew something was wrong with her son. "What is it, Tsu-kun? I thought you've been taking blood tablets. Have you found 'the One'?" She asked. "We have to be sure and tell the Hunter Council then!" Nana exclaimed, but still worried at the same time.

"Council? Why does me being a Blood Addict have to do with the Council?" Tsuna asked, staring confusedly at his mother.

"So you won't be considered as the... 'other kind'." Sawada Nana stared to his son with intent and serious gaze. Suddenly, Tsuna flinched. "What's wrong, Tsu-kun?" Nana asked concerned.

"Thi... thirst..." He panicked and reached for his pocket, searching for his blood tablet box. Sawada Nana's brown eyes gleamed into red and she made her nail grow. She slit her wrist and offered it to his son.

A Sky pureblood like her marrying another Sky pureblood like Iemitsu was quite rare. The fact that they only take blood from each other, too, was far rarer. It was only logical that their son can only take the Sky Blood. Another thing also alarmed Nana...

It made their son, Sawada Tsunayoshi, a vampire with the purest blood alive.


Aaaaaaaah Mechanic test yesterday made this chapter! I hope I don't flunk...

Thank you for Solera who portray Ricardo at his best and making the story awesome!

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