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Alright guys, this chapter is finally progressing with the story! I hope you enjoy it as much as I liked to write it.

Really now, I just don't know what to write in these A/Ns, cause I don't want to tell you what will happen in this chapter. That would be boring! Well maybe, someday I will think about something better to write in my A/Ns, so for now, please go on and read ;D

It has been a week since the meeting. Reborn had discussed all about the Arcobanelo project with the confidants and was now prepared for the upcoming final step, where all of the members would play their respective role.

He sighed in exhaustion. He had stayed up all night to finish the arrangements for tomorrow. But he still couldn't go to the well needed sleep, not yet anyways, because he had to do one last thing, before he could rest his mind in a hopefully peaceful sleep.

He went into Tsuna's room and saw him sleeping with a serene expression on his little face. He was breathing evenly, in and out, and his caramel colored hair fell into his eyes.

Reborn brushed those few strands carefully away. He really didn't want to wake Tsuna from his sleep, but he didn't have another choice.

'Tsuna, wake up, Tsuna.'

Reborn shook Tsuna's shoulder gently, but the little toddler didn't budge. Reborn frowned and shook his shoulder with more vigor.

'Tsuna, wake up already!'

Finally the little child mumbled some incoherent words and slowly opened his warm, brown eyes.

'R-Rebown? Why awe you waking me?'

Reborn chuckled at Tsuna's antics. Every time he woke up from sleep he would slip back into baby talk. But that only added to his charm.

'Tsuna. I have to tell you something.'

Tsuna was instantly alerted. His natural intuition was telling him, that the things Reborn was going to tell him about, will be more than unpleasant.

Reborn sat down on the edge of the bed and turned serious eyes at Tsuna.

'I have to go on a...trip...tomorrow. I don't know when I will be back, but I want you to stay here and take care of yourself. Nono will be here and he will keep his eyes on you for me. But Tsuna, by all means, DON'T follow me, alright? Promise me Tsuna, and please don't do anything reckless while I'm away. Promise me Tsuna.'

'B-but Reborn! Where are you going? Take me with you, I promise to be good and not get in your way!'

'No! I will go alone, and you WILL stay here. That's an order!'

'B-Bu-'

'No buts! Promise me, you will stay here!'

Tsuna stuck his bottom lip out and turned his watery puppy dog eyes on Reborn.

'Nooooo...don't look Reborn, you know you will give in,when you look into these beautiful pair of innocent eyes.'

Reborn kept his eyes locked on the sheets.

'Tsuna, Quit that, it won't work on me anymore. This is important Tsuna. Please, promise me? For me?'

Tears streamed down Tsuna's cheeks and he whimpered.

'A-alright Reborn. I promise you to be c-careful and take care of m-myself.'

Reborn smiled and ruffles Tsuna's hair. He felt sorry for the little tyke, but he didn't have another choice in the matter. Heck, he didn't even know if he will ever come back from that little 'trip'.

Suddenly Reborn leaned forward and pressed a kiss to Tsuna's forehead. Tsuna's eyes went wide in disbelieve for that was the first time Reborn had ever shown this kind of affection towards him.

'R-Reborn?'

Reborn pulled Tsuna tightly to his chest and embraced the little child with all his mind.

'I'm sorry Tsuna', he whispered in his ear,'I will do my best to come back fast, alright?Don't worry about anything, you're still my charge and I will come back as soon as I can. Sleep now Tsuna, I'll be gone in the morning, so I had to say goodbye now. Rest well, we will see each other soon. And remember your promise: You will stay here and be careful.'

With that Reborn quickly let go of Tsuna and rushed out the door, closing it behind himself. Tsuna was quickly surrounded by the darkness of the room. He laid down on his bed, but sleep was the thing, that he wouldn't get anymore of in this night. In his little head the wheels started to turn...

The next morning around 5 am, Reborn was already seated in the backseat of his sleek black sedan.

He had a strange feeling, that he just couldn't place his finger on since the car had driven off. But eventually he choose to ignore it.

'I hope everything will turn out right with this annoying Arcobanelo curse. We discussed this over and over, so it should be fine. I wonder, what Tsuna is doing right know...wait, why am I thinking about him again! He is just a four years old child, he shouldn't have this much effect on me...but still...I cannot deny these feelings. He has become a very precious being to me. I wonder if it was the right thing to do, to leave him all alone. Sure Nono is with him, but the little tyke is just too smart for his own good. I already miss him...'

After a three hour drive, Reborn arrived at the meeting place. he got out of the car and was greeted by a desert- like landscape. Occasionally little green bushes or plants were growing, but otherwise the area was dry and bare.

Reborn went over to a big tent that stood in the middle of a small hill, looking totally out of place. As he went into the tent, five people greeted him. In return he nodded to each of them.

'Fon, Lal Mirch, Verde, Skull, Colonello. Nice to see you again. I assume you are all prepared for what is coming.'

They all nodded. Skull stepped forward.

'Wait! Viper hasn't arrived yet.'

Reborn shook his head and hit him over the head.

'Come on out, Viper. All people except Skull here now that you are already here.'

'Hehehe, You detected me, not bad.'

A cloud of mist appeared and as it was dissolving, Viper stepped out of the fog.

'Alright, now that we are all present, let's get this whole ordeal over with.'

As they were all walking outside, Fon whispered to Colonello.

'I bet he is so grumpy, because he misses little Tsuna-chan.'

Colonello and Fon giggled together but were quickly silenced by a murderous glare coming from Reborn.

Soon the group of seven stood around a huge, black and ancient looking box. Verde stepped forward and opened the box and gave way to the content of the box so all could see what laid inside.

The box held seven pacifiers each in a different color of the rainbow.

'So, after we received our pacifiers, we will combine them and create 'them'. Once we begin there is no turning back or stopping. So I ask one last time: Are you all sure about this?'

Reborn looked at each and everyone separately for a few seconds, and received a nod from all of them in return.

'All right. Let's begin!'

They all closed their eyes simultaneously and spoke an old ritual in a foreign language. A blinding light appeared, surrounding the seven.

'I command thee before us, to deem us worthy of the holy power, that will grant us the strength to create a new era. I will be deemed worthy of this might. I will be deemed worthy as the guardian and keeper. I shall give my life to you, I shall surrender my soul and body to your will. Now open up the golden portal and fill our beings with the light of this curse. We accept the contract and sign in our blood.'

They each slashed their palms and let a few droplets of blood drip on one of the pacifiers. They started to glow bright in their own color and were slowly floating in the air, before the choosen ones, to receive the pacifier.

Reborn opened his eyes, like the other six, and raised his hand to grab the yellow pacifier. At the contact with his fingers, the pacifier felt warm to the touch. Reborn closed his fingers around the yellow object and felt a strange impulse race through his whole being. But it didn't hurt, on the contrary, it felt shooting and calm.

A-alright! Let's c-combine them now!'

Reborn shouted with a loud and booming voice. He felt his strength being taken from his body, so he knew they had to hurry up.

All seven stepped towards the middle with outstretched hands, which each held a different pacifier.

'Just a few more inches and they will touch and this whole ordeal will hopefully be over.'

Right in the moment, when the pacifiers came in contact with another, Reborn saw a movement out of the corner of his eyes, that headed in their direction at an unbelievable fast pace.

Suddenly a bright white light surrounded them, filled them, made them dissolve in it.

The last thing Reborn saw before darkness took over his mind, was brown, untamed hair...