AUTHOR'S NOTE: THIS FIC IS CREATED DUE TO SHEER BOREDOM AND BECAUSE A CERTAIN PLOT BUNNY WAS KIND ENOUGH TO HOP INSIDE MY LAPTOP. IT'S UP FOR GRABS PEOPLE! I DON'T KNOW IF I CAN CONTINUE THIS FIC SINCE I HAVE A LOT OF FICS THAT ARE NEEDED TO BE FINISHED…! BE KIND ENOUGH TO TELL ME IF YOU WANT TO BORROW THE PLOT, I WON'T BITE! I SWEAR!

BTW, I'M TRYING TO REWRITE "FLAME OF A FAMILY"

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Of Shamans and Mafiosi:

PROLOGUE:
Meeting

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The Vongola family has long since been the most powerful Mafia family in the whole of Italy. They were known to be quite 'picky' with the members of their family. Unknown to many that they only accepted worthy shamans.

From generation to generation, the Vongola Bosses passed their knowledge to their children and grandchildren, in order to keep their legacy alive. They continued to train the next generations, in preparation for the Shaman Fight- that was held once every five hundred years.

After hearing the news that the Shaman Fight was nigh, the Vongola Ninth ordered his most trusted hitman, Reborn, to train the tenth generation of the Vongola Famiglia. Although, the tenth boss proved to be stubborn and useless, the Spartan ways of the little hitman managed to mold her into an almost perfect boss.

She had managed to earn loyalty from her friends, and so-called 'family'. Her strength continued to improve as time passed by, and slowly she was become less and less useless.

Her name was Sawada Tsunahime, the tenth boss of the Vongola.

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A young girl with long, messy hair looked outside the window of her private jet. Her amber eyes, scanned the bright blue sky, while she unconsciously tinkered with a silver ring that was hanging around her neck. She took a deep breath and closed her eyes, hoping that the pressure, she was feeling would subside.

Maybe lady luck loved to make her life miserable, because she was now stuck inside a jet with her home tutor, Cloud Guardian and Mist Guardian. 'Of all the people…' she inwardly groaned, shifting her weight to her right.

She and her guardians experienced harsh training by the hands of most of the Arcoballeno babies. Lal Mirch, Colonello and Reborn were the worst with their training. Heck, they didn't even care if someone died in the process! But all the while, they had learned how to control the strength of their furyoku, and how to master most of their skills.

They got their own unique weapons that were contained inside a box that only they could open using their dying will flames. Verde called them 'box weapons' and he was just testing them with the help from the Vongola Famiglia.

A soft nudge on her side turned her reminiscing to an end. The young Sawada blinked twice, staring at her faithful companion. Her spirit guardian was a lion cub, with flames emitting on its mane. His name was Natsu, and he was just like Tsuna in terms of personality. "Is there something wrong, Natsu?" she asked, tilting her head in confusion.

The little cub just buried his head at Tsuna's side, he was apparently shaking. A loud explosion from a part of the jet, along with a gun to her head and a red alarm flashing in front of her, definitely caught her attention.

"W-what's happening, Reborn?" she turned to her tutor, who was still pointing a gun on her head. "Hii! Drop the gun…!" she cried.

"The two are fighting again, Tsuna" Reborn pointed out.

"Ehh?!" she stood up, in alarm, rushing towards the scene before her two guardians destroy the whole plane. "Mukuro! Hibari-san!" she cried "Stop fighting!" her acts were in vain of course, the two guardians continued to exchange blows. She looked at Reborn, pleadingly "Reborn!"

"A great boss should be able to restrain her subordinates…" the young hitman said, taking a sip out of his tea.

"B-but…!" the young girl tried to compromise with her tutor, but the young lad had already fallen asleep. She sighed, fishing out a pack of dying will pills. The young girl frowned, not wanting to use the pills, but then the life of the plane rested on her hands. So, she took a deep breath and plopped a pill in her mouth. An orange flame appeared on her head, and her white wool mittens transformed into a pair of black, metal-clad gloves with an 'X' marking it. (Note: the ring is still hanging on her neck, making her unable to use the X-gloves version V.R)

"Oya, oya, hime-san is getting serious…" Mukuro said, glancing at his boss.

"Stop fighting, you two" she said in a serious tone with her eyes gleaming with a bright shade of orange, as she got in between her two guardians. Hibari grunted and then glared at the female in front of him, before he lowered his tonfas.

The young boss inwardly sighed, knowing that the ride was a lot longer than she thought it would be. She refused to let her two guardians inside the same place in the jet. So her mist guardian went up front while her cloud guardian was at the back, and she sat in the middle, not being able to relax.

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Gokudera Hayato, the silver headed and self-proclaimed right hand man of the tenth boss of the Vongola family, walked around in a circle. He was anxious, awaiting the arrival of his precious boss.

"Maa, maa. Calm down, Gokudera" the spiky haired boy named Yamamoto Takeshi said. On his lap was a kid with bushy hair who was currently eating a piece of lollipop and beside him was a teen who was slightly older than him. The said teen had white hair and a bandage on the bridge of his nose and everyone knew him as Sasagawa Ryohei.

"Sawada will be extremely fine!" stated Ryohei.

"Boss iswith Mukuro-sama, I doubt that she'll be in any kind of trouble" a girl with an eye patch covering her other eye, said. Her real name was Nagi, but she asked everyone to call her Chrome.

"That's why I'm worried, stupid woman" Hayato growled. "Leaving the tenth with that perverted pineapple bastard and that discipline freak…" he muttered.

"Gyahaha, Baka-dera is a worry-freak!" cried the youngest in the group, after finishing his piece of candy.

The four of them were currently in Yokocha American Air Base. They arrived a few hours earlier than what was planned, probably because they were kicked out of the mansion – courtesy of a certain arcoballeno (*cough* Reborn *cough*) – and were forced to board a plane that was heading to Japan.

"Why don't we explore a few booths, while we wait for Tsuna" Yamamoto suggested, standing up and dusting his pants.

"I'm staying here" Gokudera stated, placing his foot down as he stopped prancing around.

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"Reborn… aren't we already above the Air Base?" Tsuna asked, peering outside the window.

"You're right" the baby said with a smirk. Chills ran down the young girl's spine, she felt something bad was going to happen.

"So, shouldn't we be landing?" she asked, her heart beating faster than usual as she began sweating bullets, fearing her home tutor's answer. But Reborn didn't reply, instead he smirked and leaned back on his seat.

"To our dear Vongola Decimo, Reborn-sama, and the two guardians who didn't value the life of the plane, thank you for riding Vongola Airways, we hope to hear from you again. Arriverdecci"

Tsuna's eyes widened as their seats were ejected from the plane and they were falling right off the sky. She searched for a parachute button, but there was never one anyway.

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"I really have no idea what would happen next…" a boy with spiky light blue hair said, as he leaned backwards. His hands were supporting the back of his head.

"What's that…?" a carefree chocolate brown haired boy asked, pointing at the sky. The four shamans blinked, as the thing that was falling from the sky grew closer and closer, that's when they noticed it was a girl.

"JUUDAIME…!" a silver blur went pass them. There was a small explosion, and a huge cloud of smoke covered the area.

"What was that all about?!" a man with a weird hairstyle asked.

The smoke subsided, and then they saw two figures. The first one was a boy with silver hair with a wild cat with red flames, he was bowing at the next figure – A girl with long spiky brown hair, and bright orange eyes. She wore a pair of gloves that were, apparently, on fire and she had a lion cub beside her.

The flame on the girl's forehead subsided and she fell on her knees muttering: "I thought I was going to die…!" over and over again.

"I'm sorry Juudaime!" the silver haired boy said. "I failed as your right hand man!" he cried, banging his head on the floor.

"I-It's not your fault, Gokudera-kun…" the girl said, waving her arms. "R-reborn-san was just unpredictable…"

"Yo! Tsuna" a boy with spiky black hair jogged towards her, lending her a hand in order for her to stand up.

"Arigatou, Yamamoto-kun" she smiled and accepted the hand.

The Chinese shaman, who was now annoyed since they were ignored by the weird bunch, coughed. The three new figures turned at the other group, who just stared at them. The brown haired girl blushed, and began bowing and apologizing to the bunch.

"No harm done" the carefree, Asakura Yoh, said with a slight chuckle. "I'm Asakura Yoh, by the way" he introduced with a lazy grin.

The young lady smiled at the bunch, making them blush. "I'm Sawada Tsunahime, call me Tsuna" she said before motioning to the two boys behind her "And this is Yamamoto Takeshi" the said boy grinned at them before waving "and Gokudera Hayato" the silver haired teen glared at them.

"Don't you dare touch, Juudaime" he growled glaring at a certain member of the other group (*cough* Ryu *cough*), making Tsuna sweat drop. The other shamans introduced themselves as well. The Chinese kid with the pointy hair was Tao Ren, the blue haired guy with a snow board was Usui Horokeu aka 'Horo-horo' and the last guy was Umemiya Ryunosuke aka 'Ryu'.

"Just a bunch of kids…" a suave voice said, making everyone snap their heads towards the direction of the voice. Tsuna's eyes widened, feeling a lot of power from the young man in front of them.

"Who the hell are you?" Gokudera asked, taking out a few pieces of his dynamites. "Don't you dare pick a fight with us"

The young man chuckled "Hahaha, saying I'm picking a fight, this is too much…" everyone's eyes widened as a large fist nearly came in contact with the silver headed boy. "This is called picking a fight, Gokudera Hayato"

Hayato's eyes widened in disbelief as he fell on the ground 'S-storm flame…?' he wondered, staring at the giant spirit. 'Tenth…?' he then looked at the young girl, who seemed to be analysing the boy in front of them. She was trying to read him.

"Tsuna?" Yamamoto breathed, looking worriedly at his friend.

"What is that thing?!" Ryu cried out.

"Are you alright?!" Yoh asked Gokudera.

"His name is Spirit of Fire" the long haired boy explained "His temper is not the same as mine, it's easily angered so please choose your words carefully" he smirked "When you are talking to the future king: Hao"

"Future King…?" muttered Horo-horo. "Hao?" Yoh continued, his eyes wide.

"Heh…" Tao Ren smirked "You're, no king" he said charging towards Hao.

"Such a small temper" Hao said, a smile still plastered on his face as he dodged the attack. "What's the hurry? Didn't you learn anything when you went home" Ren's eyes widened. "Or are you just angry that your friend, nearly got hit…?"

"You…!" Ren glared at the boy.

"As King, I know everything" Hao exclaimed.

"Stop this nonsense" Tsuna suddenly spoke out, standing in front of Gokudera. The two shamans exchanged gazes before Tsuna suddenly smirked. "Just as I thought" she said with a small smile "You can't read everyone like an open book, Hao-san" she stated.

"Hao-sama, please stop now…" a voice said, as a larger group of shamans appeared beside him. "If we don't go back now, then we'll miss the Patch Plane to the competition grounds"

Hao looked at his subordinates "Ah, yes. I've already made my introductions" he then turned to Yoh "Yoh, the reason why I came here is because I am really moved by your determination when I saw your last battle. If it's you I believe you can become a good lackey for me. Therefore, you must win every fight for me, the future king" he then turned to Tsuna "and you hime-san, I wish for you to join me too. I can see that you are powerful enough—"

BANG!

Everyone's eyes widened and Hao's subordinates were in their battle stances. A bullet nearly hit Hao, missing by only a hair.

"She will not join anyone" a baby wearing a fedora hat suddenly appeared, he lowered his green gun.

"Why you…" muttered someone from Hao's side.

Hao stopped his lackey from attacking the baby. "It's a pleasure to meet you Arcoballeno-san" Reborn frowned at this statement, the young Arcoballeno watched as the group took their leave.

"Reborn?" Tsuna looked at the Arcoballeno, confusion etched on her face. "Why couldn't he…? How did he…?" she tried to think of the proper words to use.

"I don't know" Reborn said, turning back to the others. "The Ninth, is waiting. Let's go" he said.

"H-hai!" Tsuna stuttered before waving goodbye to her newly found friends.

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Hao couldn't help but be perplexed at the girl he had just met. She looked like any other human girl, but he couldn't read her mind, and he immediately knew that she was strong despite her appearance. He stared at the girl, who was flustered as she sat beside an old man, surrounded by a few other figures.

She was a mystery, he couldn't resist but solve. He blinked twice when the girl looked at him and smiled sheepishly. He smiled in return.

Ten hours had passed since they left Japan, and Hao and his lackeys knew it was time for the main event. Then, suddenly, the chief of the patch tribe appeared on the screen thus waking everyone up. And a few seconds after the chief's announcement, did the plane disappear.

Everyone was falling…

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"Good luck, Tsunahime" were the last words Tsuna heard from the Ninth before she and her guardians fell from the sky.

'Déjà vu' she thought with a wry smile. 'Good thing I'm not wearing a skirt today…' she added as an afterthought.

"Juudaime…!" her right hand man cried.

"I'm fine Gokudera-kun…!" she called back with a gentle smile.

"Gyahahaha, Lambo-san is flying!" cried the youngest in the group.

"You're mixing flying with falling, stupid cow!" cried Gokudera.

"Everyone seems to be having fun" Yamamoto chuckled, thus earning a glare from Gokudera and wry smile from Tsuna.

"Mukuro-sama..." Chrome looked at her look-a-like who was falling, head first.

"Kfufu~ you'll do well, my kawaii Chrome. After all, you have been practicing" he said. Chrome blushed, before nodding; she held her small trident as if her life depended on it.

"EEEXXXXTTREEEMMMEEE FREE FALL!!!!!" another voice cried.

"N-nii-san…" Tsuna sweat dropped, before noticing they were nearly on the ground. "Everybody, ready your box weapons! Combine them once Gokudera-kun gives the signal!" she ordered "Chrome-chan please hold Lambo-kun for a while" the other girl nodded, reaching out to hold Lambo. Their spirit guardians appeared beside them, as they lit their dying will flames. "Gokudera-kun do a countdown when we're already 50ft. off the ground" she said.

"Hai! Juudaime!"

Tsuna looked around she was panicking inside for she couldn't locate her box weapon. She squeaked when her Mist Guardian appeared beside her, wrapping his arms on her waist. "Don't worry, hime-san…" he whispered.

"Pineapple bastard let of the—"

"Gokudera-kun! The countdown!" she reminded, even though her face was currently flushed. If she was thinking straight, she would've noticed that she had her gloves on and that her box weapon was hidden inside a certain Mist Guardian's pocket.

"R-right, Juudaime!" he said "Three… Two… One…Go!" and with that they all activated their box weapons and combined them together.

'…How interesting…' a certain shaman thought, as he looked at the group.

Mukuro looked up, a frown plastered on his face. 'You're not touching her' he thought, as if speaking mentally to the fire shaman.

'I won't lose' the fire shaman smirked.

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