I'm sorry for the long wait. Here's the new chapter. Somehow I feel like i'm drifting further away from the plot XD

"Boss, no strange movements here."

"Is that so? Just keep following her, don't let her out of your sight."

"Yes, sir!"

"I-is this really necessary, Dino?"

"Don't worry I'm not going to hurt her, I'm just asking my men to follow her around."

"But still..."

He was interrupted with a sudden kick on his head.

"Argh!" He screamed as he was kicked off the bed. "What was that for Reborn?"

"Dino knows what he's doing, so shut up once in awhile. You're too naïve to think that that girl is completely innocent. Even if she was, can't you feel it? Your intuition should have sensed something. She's hiding something from us. Something she doesn't want to tell us."

"I've been getting an uneasy feeling when I'm with her but..." He said it with downcast eyes. "I don't know if I'm just selfish or I'm just thick headed but I don't believe Ayame is a bad person."

He then sat upright and clung his knees to his chest and rested his head on top of his knees.

"If that's what your really believe." Dino said it with a smile as Tsuna looked up. "I trust your instincts more than anything in the world."

He pulled his phone out from his pocket.

"Hello, Ivan? Yeah, pull everyone back. There's no need to follow her anymore." Suddenly Dino's voice started to panic. "Wait. Hello?! Answer me! Are you there? Oi, what's happening?"

He received no reply but instead a dead line. Dino dropped the phone on the floor, he got up immediately and ran down.

"Ah, Dino wait I'm coming too!"

Dino turned around with a smile on his face he said. "Thanks, Tsuna."

Without putting on their coats they ran out of the house.

"Romario!" Dino shouted the moment he came into his line of vision.

"Boss! You're here." Romario said as he ran up to him. "Sawada-san too?"

"What happened?"

"I'm not sure. You should see it for yourself."

Dino went up to the man laying on the ground.

"Ivan. What happened?"

"Urgh, boss... Sorry to make you worry." He said as he mourned in pain and clutched his head.

"What are you saying? It's the boss's job to protect his comrades. Are you hurt?"

"Not really, I just feel a little dizzy."

"What happened back there?"

"I don't remember..."

"What do you mean. You screamed."

"I did? I can't recall anything. I was following the girl just like you ordered and... nothing I can't remember."

"It's ok, don't force yourself. Romario get him to a hospital." He ordered and turned back to his subordinate. "Just get some rest."

With the help of others they brought him into the car with a stretcher.

"Boss, we just did a small check-up on Ivan but there were no wounds on his body nor any injuries on his head." Romario said.

"Boss, over here! There are others too."

On the stretched laid another 3 men dressed in a suit.

"You guys too?" Romario said in shock.

"We're sorry boss, we were careless." One of the man said.

"It's ok, you guys should rest for now."

After the 4 got into the car they made off to the hospital.

"Boss..." Romario came up to Dino not sure if he should tell him or not.

"What is it?"

"We questioned the other three and they don't seem to remember what happened to them."

"Just like Ivan..." Dino made a serious face.

He lifted his hand and placed it on his chin as if he was thinking hard.

"Oh, you and Sawada-san must be cold. It's turning winter soon." Romario said as he offered the two blankets to keep them warm.

"Sorry about that Tsuna, I dragged you all the way here." Dino said.

"Ah no.. I should be the one to apologize. In the end I didn't do a thing." Tsuna said as he scratched his head.

"That's not true, you helped out a lot today." Dino gave a reassuring smile as he put his hand on top of his head.

"Boss!" A man in a suit shouted as he ran up to the three. He held his hand out. "Take a look at this."

In his palm was a small golden clothes pin.

"What is it?" Tsuna asked.

"Ivan was holding on to it. I think it came from the attacker."

"But how can a clothes pin tell us who it is?" Tsuna asked.

"Take a good look at it Tsuna." Dino said as he reached for the pin. "There's a logo on it, see?" He said as he pointed out. "Hm... I've never seen it before. Have you?"

"No. I don't think so." Tsuna said as he observed it.

"I think. I know someone who might know." Reborn said as he jumped on Tsuna's head.

"You do?" Tsuna said.

"Yes."

"Does this logo look familar to you, Ninth?" Dino asked with a serious expression.

He took the pin from Dino and inspected it.

"Hm... It does seem familiar."

"So you do know!" Tsuna said excitedly.

He gave it a good long glance and he rubbed his chin.

"Ah yes. This is the inferno secret assasin unit logo also known as Fiore."

"So, it all goes back to her." Reborn impliment.

"No. The Fiore are kept as a secret to the family and is only revealed to the sucessor during and only during the sucessesion ceremony. Ayame knows nothing about them."

"Then how do you know about it?" Tsuna asked.

"Well... Ayame's father and I were on good terms." He laughed as he said that.

"Then, they were probably sent to bring her back." Dino said.

"I guess that makes sense." Tsuna said.

"Ninth. I have one last question for you to answer." Reborn asked with a seriou face.

"Of course you may."

"What are the attributes of the snow flame?"

"Huh? What does that have got to do with anything?" Tsuna asked.

"Thanks for your hard work ojou-sama but seriously you should have just let me kill them."

"What are you saying?"

"I'm just joking, don't take it so seriously but I'm surprised. I didn't think you were able to awaken your powers so soon."

"I didn't awaken them, I just remembered how to use them that's all."

"You should know, after all her mother was your snow guardian." Reborn interrupted.

"The snow's attribute is... purification."

Author's notes:

Okay, I know Fiore is a really lame name for a assassin group it literally means flower in Italian but I can't help it. I couldn't think of anything better XD But it sounded really cool when you put it together like "The flower of winter". Yeah... it's still lame -sobs in a corner- What do you guys think? Does it sound weird?

P.S Ojou-sama has a similar meaning to "My lady" just in case you didn't know.