A/N : Second chapter of the day to compensate cause I haven't updated in so long XDD

Now that the first part of the prophecy is revealed, any guesses on what the whole thing is about? If you have any guesses let me read them on the reviews! It's quite interesting to see guesstimates XDD


Three days. He had been there for three days. The cold floor made him conscious of the discomfort he was feeling. He had tried every sitting position possible to alleviate any ache he was feeling on his bottom. The stack of books next to him was on the verge of toppling over, he only made the process quicker by nudging it and letting the tower of books fall in a pile of loud thuds next to him.

Gokudera was drained. For a while he didn't even know why he was doing this anymore, flipping through books, looking for confirmation and information. Digging for anything he could find to decipher the first line of the prophecy. The longest month, after three days of research, he'd found that it was September. An old book of Japanese poems drew him to the words "長月". Long month. He searched again and found Chinese books, as old as the Heian period in a corner of the Vongola Italy base library and saw more of the word. Finally, clutching the book that was in his hands, reading the same paragraph for the fifth time, he had determined that September was called the longest month in Japan, used as early as the 1180s.

A boy who is born on the longest month. Will be the first to know and be on the hunt. The irony of it. Gokudera thought. All those three days spent on two lines of a prophecy, only to find out that the prophecy was talking about him. Born on September 9, there was almost no doubt in Gokudera's mind that it was him the prophecy was pointing at. the first to know and be on the hunt. There might have been other people who were born in September surrounding Satsuki, but Gokudera was the only one who was on the hunt. He was the only one looking at this prophecy at this moment in time, hunting for answers. This, although not a hundred percent sure, he was confident of it.

"Damn it, more birthdays." He cursed under his breath, he didn't know anyone born in October, actually, he hadn't cared for anyone's birthday at all, not even the tenth's because the tenth, as he knew, hated surprises and celebrating his birthday. He threw the prophecy and book on the floor in frustration and stood up, he deserved a break. He needed three days' worth of cigarette and sleep right now.

Satsuki and the prophecy could wait.


"Giannini, had you gotten the serial number checked?" Spanner's voice was muffled by his wrench shaped lollipop placed neatly in his mouth. He was never seen without candy, he always had to have it for the sugar kept him going for long nights.

"I sent a replica of the chip to Shoichi." Giannini somewhat dejectedly drawled out, eyes focused on the original microchip from the bird tracker. It had been a long time and they still had no success as to where the tracker and chip came from. Spanner wasn't good at analyzing things, he was only good with making and fixing them, which was what he did when Ryohei had destroyed the microchip player out in the meeting room a few weeks back.

If Giannini had asked Shoichi for help, it meant that the microchip was far more complex than they all had anticipated. The three of them, Giannini, Shoichi and Spanner had what people called 'friendly rivalry'. Sometimes, Spanner wondered if it really was a 'friendly' rivalry or an unhealthy competition among the three of them. But at times like this, it was the trust and cooperation they put in each other that let Spanner know they were still family in the end.

"He's getting people to check if the serial number is in any shop database. The owner's bound to have bought it somewhere…" Spanner's lollipop stick broke off from the candy and he was left chewing the stick, letting the candy melt in his mouth. "…and if the owner made everything by himself and didn't buy anything off the market?" It was an insensitive question challenging Giannini's logic but it was a good question all the same.

"…Then we have to start from the beginning."

Spanner pushed himself up from the chair and wheeled over to the nearest supercomputer, his other hand taking another packet of his lollipop and popping it into his mouth.

This was going to be a long investigation.


Birds. Chrome would never look at them the same again. Every now and then she would glance at the window whenever something flitted by, half listening to Kyoko and Haru and half on guard ready for anything that would come at them, especially Kyoko. She could remember the chill that ran down her spine, the disgust and sinking feeling in her stomach when she had first seen the captured footage. To think that someone was capable of watching so closely yet be so far, to have followed your every move and to see what you were doing every minute of the day… It was beyond eerie and abnormal. It reached an entirely different magnitude to Chrome.

It disturbed her even more that Kyoko knew nothing of it, she was the only one who knew and it put a burden the weight of the world on her sometimes. Haru, Kyoko and I-pin, the three of them in their carefree world, in the dark for their own protection but was it really the best decision? Suppressing information from people, if Chrome was Kyoko, she wouldn't want it hidden from her. She would want to know. She would want to know so that she would stop looking for the birds in the morning, stop wondering why there was less birds in the area, why the colorful feathers never came back again and why there was no more chirping.

"Chrome-chan. Chrome-chan?"

She lifted her head slowly and looked towards Haru who was offering her a slice of cake, she didn't have the stomach to eat it and she shook her head politely to which Haru frowned at. "Are you okay, Chrome-chan? This is your favorite one." Chrome forced a smile and looked at both Haru and Kyoko, "I'm not hungry. I'm okay."

I'm okay.


"It's not okay! It's not!"

"Stop throwing a tantrum Satsuki, don't you think you've caused too much trouble already?"

Shamal's words pierced through her skull, seemingly penetrating the outer exterior and entering her brain, then travelling all over her body so that she froze in place and tensed up. He hit more than a nerve. She had been causing too much trouble lately. Gokudera had been out of sight most of the time, in fact, Satsuki hadn't seen him since the first day they landed. He just disappeared.

Tsuna on the other hand had gotten caught up with Varia relations and even then, he talked about the peril back home, Kyoko's predicament instead of Satsuki's affairs in Italy. She couldn't blame him, she didn't want him to know and nobody told him anything. This was the biggest mistake, she shouldn't have let Tsuna come, there was no use for him here and he was better off back in Japan.

Reborn was almost always here and there, disappearing from time to time and reappearing only to give orders. His last orders for Satsuki was to stay in Vongola headquarters, not run off to another family's mansion like she had wanted to.

"First you come to Italy and drag Tsuna and Gokudera with you and now you insist on staying and helping the Matteo family with their own affairs. Aren't you a being a little too selfish?"

"… I hardly asked for Tsuna and Gokudera to come."

"They're worried about you. Why can't you just tell them what you're there in Italy for?"

"I just… don't want to drag them into my own problems… and if any of them found out that I've been giving my life in return for their health… They wouldn't forgive themselves, Tsuna wouldn't let me use my abilities anymore and I would be no use to Vongola anymore… I don't want that. I don't want to be useless."

"You're a skilled fighter. Just because you're not allowed to use your healing properties doesn't mean you're useless and even then you're still as stubborn as Gokudera and you would use them anyway."

This made her bite her lip a little to refrain from letting out a low laugh. The doctor was right, she wouldn't listen to those restrictions especially if she could have done something about it.

"If you open up to them, then things wouldn't be so hard. You'd be talking to them about this instead of me… You can't carry all your problems yourself, that's what family is for. Stop being selfish and let them out of the dark."

Satsuki sighed and dropped her head to look at the floor of her Varia base bedroom. Lately she had no one to turn to except Shamal and Reborn, the only two who knew and lately, she wished that she had more people to talk to. She somehow wished that it was easy to tell people and that it wasn't so frightening to let more of them know what had happened to her, how her family had came to be extinct. She was afraid that things would change if she told them. Her family. Vongola.

"…I'll think about it."

"You're welcome. I need to be paid for the amount of minutes you talked to me. I could have earned $100 with the people I turned down during that time."

He sounded like he meant it and Satsuki considered apologizing for a split second.

"Pay me 100 kisses."

She ended the call without another word.


"There are things that might go wrong back in Japan and I would have to leave." Tsuna shifted his weight from his right to the left, even after getting Varia's confidence, standing in front of Xanxus was something unnerving and caused discomfort. Having Squalo in the room helped for the long haired swordsman had his ways of being funny and eased silent tensions between the two. In fact, Xanxus had not said anything at all, it was Squalo who had been babbling and screaming all that time.

"Then why didn't you stay there in the first place?!" Tsuna slightly winced at the intensity of Squalo's screech but his question was something that had Tsuna trying to fish for an answer. It was as if he was holding a fishing rod without bait, he couldn't reel any legitimate answer. "W-Well... Satsuki has some matters here, I wanted to help." was the first thing his fishing rod was able to hook on to, but it wasn't such a great catch. In fact, there was a shark lurking in the waters, waiting for the opportunity to pull at Tsuna's fishing rod and devour him whole.

"and you've been telling us that you don't know what these "matters" are. Troublesome." The said shark complained. Tsuna sighed and frowned at Squalo's statement. This much was true. He still didn't know what he was here for, but it was instinct that urged him to come. That feeling crept up on him again, that Satsuki was pulling away, as if she was far from their reach. He didn't like it. "... I trust her. I think she needs me more than the others do right now." By others, Tsuna had only really meant Kyoko. The immediate danger Kyoko was in was frightening and the tenth admitted he himself had been disorganized at handling that.

Kyoko would be fine with the other guardians. He didn't know how many times he had told himself that. Satsuki on the other hand... Tsuna had a feeling that she needed something more than guardians. Something that he now knew the members of the family but most of all, he himself had failed to provide her. Companionship. He knew nothing about her, only knew that she was there for every battle. They had taken her for granted, they had always thought she'd be around forever but... her decision to fly to Italy and leave Vongola for her own matters proved that wasn't so. He didn't know anything about her and it had to change. It was either that, or lose her altogether.

and that last thought didn't sit well with Tsuna.