Target 7: Super Action: The Second Mission

Disclaimer: Never gonna own it.

Hitomi pads into the kitchen, her bare footsteps quiet and barely noticeable which is quite the feat for her. She stands near the door, watching her mother cook breakfast. The woman doesn't notice Hitomi until she happens to turn around to grab something and faces the brunette girl. Solana sends a questioning look at the girl as Hitomi walks fully into the kitchen.

Hitomi's dressed in her 'Super Action Baka' pajamas and holds a 'Super Action Baka Inu' plush in her hands, watching her mother's actions expectantly. Hitomi believes she doesn't need to say anything but does so anyway, to get her point across.

"They're doing a 'Super Action Baka Rewind Special' marathon on TV today. It's warming up for the movie that's premiering tonight." She says. Solana nods and smiles; she moves around the table to stand in front of Hitomi.

"Well… go make yourself comfortable in front of the TV, then." She shoos Hitomi out of the room who quickly thanks her mother and runs into the living room to plop herself on the couch.

Solana sighs and returns to cooking. "That girl…"


"Hey, honey?" Tsuna calls from the door. He stands almost as tall as the doorframe. In his hand is an unmarked manila folder, he turns it over, switching his gaze from the blonde to the folder a few times. Solana turns to him and looks at him with mild anger at disrupting her focus. Her eyes are filled with questioning expectance and Tsuna quickly clears his throat before speaking again.

"Why's Hitomi still here?" He asks. Solana rolls her eyes before turning back to the small gun she was working on.

"Today they're having a 'Super Action Baka' marathon; she always watches it." She explains as if it's enough. It's not, but, Tsuna nods anyway. He walks further into the laboratory-like room.

"…And she gets to miss school because of that?"

"If you go in there and try to make her leave or take the remote, she will cut off your hand." Solana tells him, her tone is light and Tsuna can't tell if she's joking or being serious.

He chuckles nervously anyway and makes his way towards the door. It's automatic and slides open with the air rushing sound of an airlock. Solana stops moving her hands and calls Tsuna's attention to her. He twists his body slightly to look at her.

"I'm warning you, Tsuna, don't you try to kick her out. She nearly put a babysitter in the hospital once because she tried to change the channel." Solana warns.

Tsuna doesn't reply and leaves his wife to her work, the door closing with finality in the sound.

"Hey… Hitomi?" Yamamoto makes the mistake of waving his hand in front of her face.

The swordsman is promptly pulled forward and pushed back with strong force into Gokudera, who stood idly by the threshold, making both fall into the wall behind Gokudera. Yamamoto looks at Hitomi with shock while Ryohei, who was leaning against the wall on the other side of the door frame, yells about how "extreme" that was.

"Guys, don't touch… Hitomi…" Tsuna looked at the two lying on the floor and then let his eyes travel to his daughter who is staring at them, her eyes narrowed in anger. Tsuna glances at the brunette girl with shock.

"Dad! Take your friends and leave! I'm watching TV!" Hitomi tosses one of the couch pillows at him. Tsuna blocks the harmless pillow and watches it fall to the floor.

"Hitomi, you're supposed to be at school like every other kid." He explains to her. She rolls her eyes.

"No!" Hitomi stands up and walks over to her father, she picks up the pillow and goes back to the couch. "Mom said I could stay home and watch the marathon."

"Well I'm telling you that you can't. It's still early, go to school." Tsuna commands. Hitomi rolls her eyes and leans back on the couch to make herself comfy once again.

"Yeah, whatever; just because you're forcing me into the mafia doesn't mean I have to listen to everything you say, dad. Mom told me that I could stay home and there's nothing you can do about it." Hitomi counters. She turns back to the TV just as the beginning of the instrumental theme song plays, signaling that the show has returned.

Tsuna flinches at Hitomi's tone and Gokudera pushes Yamamoto off of him. Gokudera pulls Tsuna by his sleeve out of the living room, closely followed by Ryohei and Yamamoto. Gokudera then proceeds to lead the tenth boss upstairs to where his home office is located.

Ryohei closes the door behind the small group. Yamamoto and Ryohei make themselves comfortable on the couch while Gokudera leans against the wall next to the window and Tsuna sits in one of the chairs across from his desk chair. For the next few minutes no one says anything.

"It is kind of your fault, Tsuna." Reborn speaks. The swivel chair turns revealing that Reborn has been sitting in it. "Solana gave you a warning and you didn't heed her words."

Tsuna doesn't say anything and looks towards the window. Reborn sighs and stands, he hops onto the desk.

"… but did you hear what she said, Reborn? That was kinda harsh." Yamamoto says. Reborn nods but shrugs.

"Well, what can you expect? She said she hadn't seen you in what, almost a whole year or something? You expect her to be happy to see you? Were you happy to see your father when he suddenly came back and told you more about the mafia?" Reborn replied. "You can't say you don't know how she feels."

"No but…"

"It's not different, Tsuna." Gokudera calls from his place by the window. He taps the cigarette lightly, letting the excess ash fall out the window. "It's the same. Whatever you felt towards your dad then, she's feeling towards you now."

Tsuna sighs and sits back in the chair. "I just wish it wasn't happening…"

"That's the life of a Mafioso…" Reborn mumbles.


"Hey! Hitomi, do you need anything else?" Solana walks into the living room. She's got oil splatters and smudges on her mechanic's coveralls which are tied off at the waist and reveal her tank-top which is also smeared with grease and oil among other things. Hitomi looks to her mother and shakes her head.

"I'm fine mom." She says. Solana walks over to her daughter and sits down next to her on the couch with a heavy sigh.

"Your dad's pretty torn up about what you said to him." Solana begins. Hitomi rolled her eyes and leaned back into the couch.

"It's his fault. He's never here." Hitomi counters.

"Yes, that may be true, but now you know why." Solana gave her a look. Hitomi sighed, leaning back even further.

"So? It's not like he couldn't turn it down." She replied easily, looking anywhere but at her mom.

"Well… he couldn't turn it down, actually…" Solana clicks her tongue thinking of an example. "Like… like Super Action Baka. He got his powers because he wanted to save his friends and family from evil, right?"

"Yeah…" Hitomi agrees wondering how the two relate.

"Well, that's exactly how your father got his! Of course, not in the same way… but they both have something they want to protect. And your father only became a part of the mafia because he was forced into it… but he stayed because of his friends. They needed his help and he didn't want to let them down." Solana explains.

Hitomi looks at her mother thoughtfully and frowns, she'd never thought of her father like that. She sighs and flops back into the couch. Her mother ruffles her hair and stands up, dusting invisible dirt from her pants. The blonde woman then dons the white coat again.

"Just… think about it, okay? And don't be so hard on your father. He's trying." Solana makes a move to leave the room.

Once she's gone, Hitomi turns back to the TV and watches her hero do a triple flip before killing his enemy with a super powered shot. She sighs and turns off the TV and lies down on the couch, curling into a ball. She stays like that until it's time for dinner, thinking about her dad and how she could have been nicer to him.


Before school the next morning, Hitomi is confronted by Reborn as she and her current guardians along with Lucia have breakfast.

"You skipped training yesterday." He stated simply. Hitomi gulped and almost dropped her orange juice. She gripped the glass a little tighter before putting it down and making sure it was on the table.

He doesn't wait for an answer though, and smacks Hitomi in the face with his shoe and presents her with a bag.

"And because you missed training, you're at my mercy." Hitomi rubs her cheek and opens the bag, peering in; she notices that there are some clothes inside. Clothes that she recognizes almost instantaneously.

"Super… Action…? What is this, Reborn?" Hitomi looks between him and the bag, confused.

"Since you ditched training to watch your superhero show, you'll go around school today helping people with their problems dressed as Super Action Baka's female counterpart: Super Action Baka Girl. And Emiko and Kita will be your sidekicks." Reborn states.

"What?! No way! I'm already unliked by everybody at school! This will make me extremely unliked!" Hitomi yells. Reborn shrugs and turns to walk away.

"Well, I don't care. Don't miss training next time." He says dismissively. Hitomi sighs and pushes her breakfast around on her plate.

"Aw, cheer up, Hitomi! At least you're not alone! We're doing it too!" Emiko tells her. She holds up a bag identical to the one in front of Hitomi. Kita does the same and Hitomi smiles a little.

"Well… prepare to be unliked, guys…" Hitomi warns them.


"Hitomi, there's trouble in the gym." Reborn states. He's hanging upside down dressed in a russet colored dog costume.

Hitomi shrieks loudly and Emiko, who sits next to her, pokes Kita in the arm. Kita looks to Hitomi and Hitomi calls the two to attention. She doesn't want to do this, but honestly, she's more afraid of Reborn than the students in the gym. Plus, sitting for so long was making her spandex chafe.

"Okay, okay… We're going…" Hitomi sighs, standing up.

"And put some pep into your step." He kicks Hitomi as she passes by him.

Hitomi squeaks and begins running followed by Kita and Emiko, who don't want to pass her. Hitomi swings open the gymnasium doors and they hit the wall with a loud thud. The three 'superheroes' enter the gym and scan the room.

Kita doesn't seem bothered by the stares the students and four gym teachers are giving them but Hitomi pulls down her visor on her helmet to hide her face. Emiko rolls her eyes, a blush of embarrassment blooming on her face. She sort of wishes she had something else, other than this stupid, floppy hat on her head.

"U-Um…" Hitomi starts. All eyes are on her and she thinks back to Reborn's threats. "Hey! Does someone need help in here?" Her voice echoes off of the walls in the quiet gym.

The students and gym teachers look around the room, seeing if anyone reacts to Hitomi's question. Emiko shift closer to Hitomi, pulling on her white spandex suit. Hitomi turns her head slightly to acknowledge Emiko. Kita turns her eyes as well and pulls on the sleeve of her pink spandex suit. Emiko points to the girl over by the wall, almost out of view trying to reach something. Hitomi nods and turns back to the crowd, who is watching the trio intently.

"Never fear," Kita says, striking her pose. She gets into a lunge-type pose with her left arm pointing in the air and her right close to her chest, pointing in the same direction.

Emiko drops into her pose, the same as Kita's only facing the opposite way. "Because the Super Action Rewind Trio,"

"Is here!" Hitomi's pose is 'Sailor Moon' like peace sign with her right hand and her left arm in the air, pointing at the ceiling.

'Oh God, they haven't started laughing…' Hitomi thinks with dread.

Emiko moves first, sprinting towards the girl in the corner followed by Kita and Hitomi. The three appear in front of the girl a few seconds later with Hitomi happy that she didn't trip like she did earlier. With the sudden presence of new people, the girl is startled.

She stumbles back and falls onto her butt and stares up at the three. Hitomi offers her hand, which the girl takes. After standing, she gives the three a once over. Hitomi turns around and throws both arms in the air and makes an 'X' like pose.

"Super Action Baka here on the double to take away all your troubles!"

Emiko sighs and strikes another pose, dropping to one knee. She's glad she doesn't have a line. Kita does the same. The girl stares at the three, pushing some of her dark purple hair behind her ear.

"…You guys are superheroes?" She asks. Hitomi turns around with a spinning jump.

"Of course! And you're in trouble! We're here to help you out!" Hitomi points at her with gusto. Emiko and Kita rise from their kneeling positions.

"Help me out? But—"

"Hey! Who the fuck are you weirdoes?" Skye's voice booms in the quiet of the gymnasium. Hitomi gulps, this having been the first time she's run into Skye.

"Shit! It's the fuzz! We gotta split, home slices!" Kita grabs Hitomi's left arm and Emiko her right. Emiko throws down a smoke bomb, the three disappearing in the sudden loudness of the gym.


"Guys?!" Hitomi practically shrieks. They're on the roof now and it's around lunchtime.

"Hitomi, we know. But, we're the ones who looked stupid! You had on a visor." Emiko accuses.

Hitomi sits down against the chain link fence. Kita leans against it, looking down at the kids in the school's courtyard.

"We're missing lunch…." Emiko mumbles. Kita turns to her, a sloppy smile on her face.

"Look on the bright side, guys," Emiko and Hitomi look up at her, the former having a pissed-off expression. "At least Skye didn't catch us!"

"Yeah but we've got detention for the next month because of our breakout!" Emiko counters.

"And if she finds out it was us parading around in these costumes, she'll add another month to it!" Hitomi continued. Kita's mood deflated instantly and she slunk down to sit beside Hitomi.

"We need to get out of detention, guys. I've got a game next week! They need me!" Emiko started.

"But how? It's not like we can sneak into her office and—Guys, why are you making those faces? Guys?! Where are you going? Guys?! Guys?!"


Twenty minutes later found the three 'heroes' in front of Skye's private office in the 'secret' hallway on the third floor. Hitomi nervously shifts from foot to foot as Kita kneels, surveying the lock on the door.

"Looks locked up pretty tight, we need a key for this if we don't want to be noticed breaking in."

"A key?! Who has a key other than Skye and Hikaru?!"

"Well, the janitor cleans the office every day after school for at least twenty minutes. And Skye is always patrolling. It's like clockwork." Comes a new voice. The three turn around to see a tall girl with dual-colored hair.

"Minoru-san!" Kita smiled at the girl. Minoru just gave her a half-wave and walked closer.

"Like I said, janitor cleans the office for at least twenty minutes. Skye takes that twenty minutes right after school to patrol the hallways. After that, it takes her about five minutes to do a quick sweep back up to this floor." Minoru repeated with more detail.

Hitomi looked between Minoru and Kita. "Well, what're you thinking of doing, then?" She asks, a little confused.

"Well, if we want those detentions to diminish by, I dunno, at least a week or so, we're gonna have to get in there, besides; she took something of mine that I'd like to get back." Minoru told them, clenching her fists.

"Well, it's settled then! After school, we'll meet back here and do what we need to do!" Emiko told the group, two nodded in agreement while the other, Hitomi, shook her head, her body wracking with fear.

"Guys! She'll know! How do you know she doesn't have surveillance in the office or something? The principal could've bought it for her!" Hitomi told the three. Minoru thought for a moment.

"While that is a possibility, I don't think it's very likely, however. But, you guys better not show up here in those crazy people costumes, I will not work with Action Baka and his mighty trio of justice." With that, Minoru walked away, hands in her sweater pocket.

"Oh great…" Hitomi whined. She really didn't want to go through with this plan. 'We can't go through with this! It's so under-planned!'

Reborn watched from afar, smirking. "It's almost like they're doing exactly what I want them to without me telling them too. Well, I'll just have to add a few things…"

The baby Hitman then left, the sadistic glee full of knowledge of things to come, taking over his features.


Hitomi is now at her shoe locker, stuffing the spandex uniform into it when she's confronted by Reborn, who is once again dressed as Spider-man and hanging from the ceiling with Leon. He's carrying a rather large rolled up piece of poster.

"Hitomi, I have a job for you." He tells the girl, startling her.

"Reborn! Why?!" Hitomi all but yells at him, though Reborn isn't fazed by this.

He just unrolls the piece of poster and holds it out to Hitomi, pointing at various things. The words on the poster are written badly and Hitomi can barely make out what it says.

"The poster, stupid," Reborn whacks her with it, "Is the plan."

"Plan? Plan for what?" Hitomi was confused now. Reborn sighed, resisting the urge to smack her. He rolls up the poster, dropping it onto the ground, Hitomi looks down at it, wondering why he dropped it.

"Let me just tell you, otherwise we'll be here all day." He said. Hitomi nodded, gulping. "I. Want you. To break into Skye's office." He finishes, his hand motions indicating just what he was saying.

"What?!" Hitomi gasped. She knew they were already doing that, but she didn't want to have to do it for Reborn.

"Well, you're in luck, little baby," Emiko's voice rounded the corner. Hitomi turned slightly to look at her best friend and Reborn looked up.

Emiko stood next to Minoru and Kita. "We're already gonna do that."

"That's excellent. Hitomi, you're going to claim Skye's office as your own, after all, all Mafia bosses need an office." Reborn told her, folding up the poster.

Hitomi squeaked and attempted to stop Reborn, but he was already gone. Minoru looked between Hitomi and the two girls on either side of her.

"Did he just….?" She couldn't even find the right words to say.

"No! NO!" Kita laughed in what seemed to be a nervous voice, "He didn't say anything important." She winked at Hitomi before the group of four girls made their way back to the secret hallway.


"So what're they doing?" Xeno asked. She sat on the counter in the Sawada home.

Solana sat at the kitchen table, shifting slightly. Haru leaned against the counter, tapping her foot anxiously.

"Reborn's not back yet, I don't know. But, if you're worried about Ryota…." Solana trailed. Xeno shook her head.

"I'm more worried about what'll happen to those girls. I'm just wondering if Hitomi will be able to take it, Reborn sure as hell didn't let Tsuna get a free ride after half the shit he did." Xeno spoke.

Solana nodded, agreeing with the short-haired woman. "But, Haru," Solana addressed the designer, "What are you even doing back in Japan?"

"Oh, you know the usual. Other than there being a show in the city, Reborn called me here, said there was something important for me to do." Haru shrugged. Solana nodded, unsure of what else to do.

Yamamoto and Hayato came in at that moment, Yamamoto laughing at something or just laughing in general and Hayato smiling a little, Tsuna followed after the two.

"Have you seen my pills, Solana? I can't find them anywhere." Tsuna asked her, embarrassment on his face.

"They're inside your jacket pocket, like they always are." She told him offhandedly, studying Yamamoto and Hayato.

"Okay, what happened?" Haru asked the three men. Yamamoto laughed harder and Hayato's smile widened by just an inch. It was obvious to her that he was having a hard time trying not to laugh at his boss. Tsuna's cheeks just seemed to darken in color.

"Something obviously did. Wow, I remember the days when Hayato would be all 'Mama Cow' on Tsuna if this was the past. But now he's just laughing. What happened, Tsuna?" Xeno remarked fondly.

"Reborn happened." He said. Then before anyone else could question it, Hayato, Ryohei—who had just come in—and Yamamoto had to support each other from falling down in full-blown laughter.


Elsewhere, Reborn watched Hitomi and the others from one of his various hide-outs throughout the school. It was still five minutes until the bell actually rang for school to end. It looked like Minoru was being the leader from where Reborn sat. He clicked his tongue in distaste.

"No, no. Hitomi should be leading this little excursion. We'll have to get rid of her, won't we, Leon?" He addressed the small lizard, which smiled and moved, indicating he agreed.

Over with the girls, Minoru was giving out orders to everyone. The other three listened intently to what she had to say and Hitomi was just glad that she wasn't expected to come up with the plans.

"And lastly, Hitomi will keep watch by the door, any questions?" Minoru asked the three. Emiko didn't seem to care, Kita was nodding eagerly and Hitomi was looking slightly pale.

"But, Minoru-senpai?" Hitomi spoke up, she could feel fear embedding itself into her voice and cleared her throat before continuing, "Are you sure this will work? I mean, are you sure that you're sure? I-If that makes sense…"

"Of course I'm sure! I wouldn't just do this because I wanted too. Remember, she took something of mine too. And I need it back." Minoru tried to reassure Hitomi.

"…Fine, I guess…" Hitomi mumbled her voice lost in the new loudness of the ringing bell. As if on cue, Skye emerged from the office, followed closely by Hikaru and at least three of the other disciplinary committee members.

"Do you think there are anymore in there?" Emiko asked, peeking around the corner once again.

Minoru shook her head, her bangs shifting from side to side. "Nah, Skye only has a few of the group leaders and Hikaru in there with her around this time, every other member has either started patrolling or is in the break-room downstairs."

Kita and Emiko nod, Hitomi shaking a little as Minoru looks around for the janitor. The janitor enters the deserted hallway from the other side and heads straight for the door, Minoru motioning Kita forward. Kita nods, readying herself for her part.

She's oddly quiet, stilling herself and her breath. She then moves forward, sticking to the small shadows cast in the hallway. The three girls behind her watch as Kita passes by the old man and comes up behind him, quickly knocking him out.

"Guys!" Kita yells, moving to grab the old man.

Minoru looks back to Hitomi and Emiko, motioning them forward. Emiko follows without a second thought and Hitomi hesitantly follows.

"Help me with this guy," Kita says, "He's kind of heavy for an old man!"

Minoru helps Kita lean him against the wall and once the two are finished, Kita picks the keys up off of the floor. Hitomi, with nothing else to do at the moment, checks the time on her cellphone.

"Minoru-san?" Hitomi questions. When Minoru looks up, Hitomi continues. "How much time did you say we had?"

"I dunno, maybe ten minutes or something? How long has it been since Collins left the office?" Minoru shot back. Hitomi shrugged, stepping aside when Kita walked by.

"Well, who cares? All we have to do is get in there and get out." Emiko told her.

"That's right," Minoru continued. "And all you have to do, Hitomi, is stand guard."

"That sounds easy enough, I guess…. But…"

"What if Skye comes back is what you mean, huh?" Kita asked. Hitomi nodded quickly, agreeing with her.

"Don't worry, just signal us… like… making a noise or—I got it! Just making a bird noise!" Minoru said. Hitomi reluctantly agrees with her.

Reborn watches as the three girls enter the room, leaving Hitomi outside with the janitor. He sighs, shaking his head and moving from his hiding place.

"If you want things done right…"

The hallway was extremely quiet this time, leaving Skye to walk around bored and very agitated, searching for a rule breaker. Hikaru follows behind her, clipboard in hand and lazily looks around.

"Do you see anyone, Hikaru?" Skye asks.

"No, Skye-san. There's nobody in the hallway and if they are, as you've seen, they all have passes." Hikaru promptly answers much to Skye's disappointment.

"Well, alright… let's head back to the office then…" Skye says, disappointment clearly shown in her voice.

"Right." Hikaru replies just as the two round another corner.

Emiko rested her arms on the windowsill and looks out the open window, which was overlooking the baseball field. Kita is over by the tall and extremely filled bookshelf for something of use while Minoru checks the desk. The only sound besides breathing that can be heard is the rustling of papers on the desk.

"Did you guys find anything?" Emiko asks. Kita shakes her head as if Emiko can see her and Minoru responds similarly.

"It's like she keeps everything—records and confiscated items in a totally different room or place! There's nothing up here but rejection and approval forms!" Minoru practically cries.

Emiko turns around, looking at the girl. "What do you mean? There are no keys or info on us or anything?"

Kita and Emiko approach the desk and Minoru backs away from it to show them that there's nothing on it. Emiko groans and Kita rolls her eyes.

"You're right; all that's up here is what you said and… some rather large file. But whose file is it?"

"Aw, who cares? It's got nothing to do with us." Emiko waved off the thought of the file. Kita shrugged.

"Well, let's go tell Hitomi-chan that there's no way out of detention." Kita mumbled.

Minoru stays by the desk, shuffling around papers, even knocking some off the desk.

"Dammit. I have to find a clue…"

At this moment, Hitomi is currently being confronted by Reborn. She kneels on the ground in front of the baby Hitman, tears forming in the corners of her eyes. Reborn rolls his eyes at this.

"I told you that you needed to claim this office in the name of the Vongola." He repeats. Hitomi frowns, looking at anything but Reborn.

"B-But—But this is Collins-san's office! I just can't take something of someone's! Besides! She'd beat the crap outta me! I don't want—"

"Hey, you! Isn't that…? So it is! Sawada! What're you doing?! And—and the janitor! What the fuck are you doing?!" Skye practically screeches down the hallway.

"HIIIEEEE?!"


So, hey! I'm back after a few weeks of being missing. I know I've been missed. Anyway, here's the latest chapter. I decided to upload it today in honor of Hitomi's birthday, which I mentioned in one of the chapters earlier. I think the fourth? I don't know right now. But, anyway, there will be a part 2 to this chapter, don't worry. I'm working on it now. I'm just going to be a little slower due to school and other activities. So, Review, Favorite, whatever! Bye!

Update: I combined the chapters. Wasn't that long, so there you go.