Mia Tempesta

Summary: Reborn never liked being a (secondary) Sky, but he can't deny his nature forever, so one day he starts collecting his Elements. Except now there was a tiny Storm that packs quite a punch that he doesn't know what to do with. Denial leads to trouble, trouble leads to possessiveness, possessiveness leads to ... something else much more tender. Throw in Checkerface and the Arcobaleno Sky into the mix and things get quite complicated.

He watched with some interest as Dame-Tsuna started running towards the direction of his school - which just so happened to be Nami-chuu. Lucky~! - in order to confess to his crush, the cute, charming idol Sasagawa Kyoko, turning over his little discovery in his mind as he waited for everyone to pick up on the shared frequency they used only for emergencies.

With the Hibari Clan gone except for two very young members back then, the still freshly named Arcobaleno had taken up the habit of doing the Hibari's old work by trying to protect/help/save/hide Flame Active or Aware civilians who wanted nothing to do with the underworld. It was actually a lot of fun and they all got to learn some new interesting skills that have been kept a Hibari clan secret for generations. Fon may have been all but estranged from his family, but he was required to learn these techniques regardless and he then passed them on to his fellow Guardians. He couldn't teach them everything, because some techniques can only be learned at a very young age, like how humans need to learn to talk before they reach three years old because the brain's flexibility and ability to learn greatly diminishes afterwards, but only with Flames.

That usually refers to techniques required to unseal those poor bastards that some high-tier mafioso had sealed because they refused to join a famiglia or organization or just the mafia world in general.

However, that doesn't mean that the rest of the Arcobaleno don't know how to detect the seals and maybe even weaken or impair them. It's supposed to lessen the effects temporarily, until someone who knows how to destroy the seal comes along to do it. Reborn generally prefers to just force the Flames out of people from behind the barrier made by the seal, but depending on who it was that sealed the Flames, sometimes Deathperation Bullets are simply not enough. The best he can do in such situations is drag a bit of the person's Flames to the forefront and then they can draw on that small reserve until it dries up and then they're back to having to live a half-life until the seal is destroyed or it destroys them, whichever comes first.

Sawada Tsunayoshi, unfortunately, is in the latter group, the ones whom Reborn can't just force to break the barrier by dragging his Flames to the forefront, no matter how pure the Sky Flames are. Actually, that was even the impairing factor in freeing the kid's Flames because Sky Flames simply harmonize with the seal and settle like that. They're not like Cloud Flames, which fight against the seal with brute force or Storm Flames, which disintegrate the seal little by little. It also doesn't help that Dame-Tsuna also has no will to do it, even if he were to become aware of the seal.

And he can't become aware of the seal because a very skilled Sky user had placed it, long ago. Probably when the boy was a kid with an attention span of a goldfish.

And Reborn recognized the Flames.

Timoteo has a lot of explaining to do.

Six clicks and a seventh beep alert him to the fact that almost everyone has hooked into the shared frequency and the tone of the beep tells him that the person he really needs the most for this problem just had to be the one that didn't pick up. He doesn't bother to smother the groan but does speak up before anyone can ask useless questions even as he casually starts walking towards Namimori Middle School.

"Right, so, anyone besides our dear unable-to-answer-at-this-time Storm knows how to break a Flame seal? Because I'm tutoring the future Vongola Decimo and it seems Vongola Nono had sealed his Flames, probably years ago, so he can't really draw on them. It's been impairing his physical and psychological growth. The kid has dismal grades and is even clumsier than Dino." He could just imagine his Guardians all wincing because Reborn had not been shy about complaining about his first student's clumsiness over the years. "He has almost no social interactions to speak of outside of low key verbal bullying and I think something's up even with his mother, too. She's not exactly helping with his confidence and the will to improve himself."

"Those are serious enough stipulations for a clean break of your and Lal's contract," Viper helpfully informed, though that was not the information Reborn was hoping for.

"Get a sample of the Flames that make up the seal with the device Verde created and one of my Vindice will come pick it up for reference. If it is indeed Timoteo Vongola that has sealed the boy's Flames, he might be looking at a life sentence in Vendicare," Bermuda said and Reborn wanted to groan because that was still not what he was searching for from this little teleconference.

"Does any of you know how to undo this shit? Or has anyone been in contact with Fon for the past two months? Because I think we might literally need him to punch through the seal with his Storm Flames to destroy it to smithereens because Deathperation Bullets do very little for the kid."

"You can always get Kyoya to do it, kora. Fon taught him all about it as soon as the little rascal became Flame Active, remember?" Colonello suggested and that was actually the first useful thing he's heard in the call so far.

"I'll see about that soon enough. I'm most likely to meet with Kyoya in a few minutes. I'm heading towards the school as we speak," he informed, looking down both directions of the street before crossing to the other side and then casually jumping onto a roof so he can take one of his well-used shortcuts that he made over the years when he didn't feel like being around people when taking a walk. "Until we deal with the seal, I'll keep shooting him with Deathperation Bullets, but I might have to call in Shamal because Deathperation Bullets combined with sealed Sky Flames often causes the terminal illness called Skullitis and only Shamal knows how to treat that, But that's on my side. Here's what I need you guys to do: Lal, Viper, you two need to find out when good ol' Timmy could have been in Japan to seal Sawada Tsunayoshi's Flames-"

"Wait, he's Iemitsu's kid?" Skull asked, sounding incredulous. "Why the fuck would someone seal their personal advisor's kid's Flames!? Does he have a need to keep that idiot under his thumb or something? I mean, this makes no sense!"

Skull ... actually had a pretty good point. Why would Timoteo seal Iemitsu's kid? Sure, the Sawadas are direct descendants from Primo's bloodline... Oh, that might be why. But the Sawadas had all been civilians until Iemitsu, so they don't really have a claim to the Vongola anymore beyond maybe being recognized by the Sky Ring because of their blood. Actually, no one of Vongola blood should be the External Advisor, especially not a Sky. From what Reborn knew, that position was created with the Cloud Guardian in mind, given Alaudi himself had created it.

"The Ninth Generation of Vongola seems to have fucked a lot of shit up and it has caused most of the current problems we have here. I'd like some answers that I can give Kyoya when he finds out someone dared seal a kid on his territory, especially as Sawada now attends Nami-chuu." Kyoya was not going to like this. He had been raised on the base principles of the Hibari Clan's beliefs and practices, trained from a young age and taught how to treat all Elements. He considers Namimori his and is viciously protective of all its inhabitants, no matter their age, gender or occupation. You don't mess with what a Cloud considers theirs. Reborn was already going to get an earful from the younger Hibari for not immediately announcing himself to him, but it's not Reborn's fault because he had gone back to the compound, only to find that Kyoya had left extra early that morning for some reason. Probably the new yakuza that had tried to wrestle some blocks of Namimori's territory for themselves. Those poor bastards don't know what's coming for them. "Anyway, just tell me when Nono was last in Japan so Kyoya knows how viciously he has to attack the seal and so I can know just how big of an impact the seal has had on Tsuna's growth."

Sometimes, even after the seal is removed, the victim can never recover to how they should have been had they never been sealed in the first place and that depends on the seal itself, who made it and the strength of the victim and their Flames. Tsuna has pretty strong, very pure Sky Flames but he has no will or desire to fight. Who knows what kind of havoc the seal has wrecked on his personality, mind and physical health.

"I think Sawada went home some eight years ago, but I'll have to check and dig a bit deeper to see if Nono had accompanied him," Lal replied, sounding completely confident in her ability to find the information.

"I'll cross-reference what I know of Vongola's schedule in that time frame if she doesn't find anything," Viper added. "I need to go now, someone is coming. Keep me updated. I'll try to get in contact with Fon."

The Storm was actually in the crucial part of avenging his family and clan. He'd long since hunted down and dealt with all of the old leadership of the Triads. It's been a major blow to their operations and for a very long time, the Chinese underworld was in scrambles. Fon had followed several other leads on everyone who might have helped and was finally in the process of hunting the last person involved down to face punishment: his old teacher, Master (Mistress? He still didn't know which one was the proper way to address her) Chen. They knew he was alive, despite two months of absolutely no contact with him because they would have felt it had the bond connecting them to the martial artist snapped with death, but the radio silence was still a bit unnerving and annoying.

At this point, the only one who can actually get in contact with Fon would be Viper with a direct mind link through Mist Flames, but it still might take some time before Fon can respond to any of them. Chen was, after all, also a Mist. He doesn't know how strong she is, but it would be best not to write off the possibility that she might be able to sense such a strong, long-range communication. Viper can protect their end but Fon can't his, since he's not a Mist.

Lal and Viper had to go so they cut off the line and Bermuda did so, too, a few moments later because he needed evidence before he can act against such a powerful, influential famiglia's Don but he did say he'll look into it himself. Reborn talked some more with his remaining Guardians, telling them they should meet up soon enough at Mafia Land because Tsuna might need some of Colonello's COMSUBIN-like training and a simulated invasion by the Carcassa with Skull at the helm might give him an idea of the world he will be joining.

In the meantime, Reborn will be teaching Tsuna the way he had been teaching Dino, hopefully making a decent boss out of him instead of one of those snot-nosed famiglia Sky brats that he hates so much. He'll have to be careful of Tsuna, though. Once his Flames are freed, the Vongola Hyper Intuition, if he's inherited it that is, might recognize Reborn as a secondary Sky. After all, his Sky Flames have been a lot more active in the past years than when he'd last truly dealt with Timoteo.

He figures he can deal with that when the time comes. For now, he's reached Nami-chuu and Dame-Tsuna was being teased and low-key made fun of for confessing to Sasagawa in his underwear. A brief explanation later that had Tsuna brazenly shrieking at him - how rude - and suddenly the students were all running for their lives as though a wild lion had walked right up to them.

Then again, Hibari Kyoya was far more dangerous than some pansy little ol' lion. Comes with the territory of being a Cloud, a Hibari and raised by the Arcobaleno. And him simply being Hibari Kyoya.

"Chaos," Reborn says in greeting and silver blue eyes snap to him in genuine surprise. Ha! He'd managed to catch him off his guard again! Reborn ignored the exasperated, almost inaudible little sigh Leon gave from his usual perch on the hitman's hat.

"I didn't know you were back." Kyoya said without bothering to return his greeting, frowning at the hitman. It sounded accusing. The glare was accusing, too.

"Came back early this morning, but you seem to have been out earlier than I could get to the house," Reborn replied with a shrug, which was mostly the truth. He hadn't exactly gone straight for the Hibari Compound, instead stopping by to drop in the 'add' in the mail for the Sawadas to find before he went home, only to find Kyoya already gone but the little prefect didn't need to know that. "You look well."

The younger Hibari was about to say something - probably berate him for herbivorous small talk, knowing just how little patience Kyoya had for such useless notions, especially when one of the Arcobaleno try to do it because they feel awkward after not seeing the kid for a couple of months - when Tsuna let out a piercing, confused shriek that was really grating on the ears. "Hiiee?! You know this strange person, Hibari-san?!"

The prefect just glared. "Herbivore, class is about to start. If I find out that you are late, I will bite you to death." Tsuna forgot all about finding out about Kyoya's connection to Reborn and let out another shriek before running into the school building. "And put some clothes on! Herbivores, honestly," the boy called out before grumbling to himself. Reborn nearly cooed at the pout - homicidal frown, details, details - forming on his son's face. "I guess we can talk later. Do what you want, but don't destroy the school or disrupt the discipline. The Disciplinary Committee members know better than to bother you."

"Grazie, Kyoya. We'll talk later at home."

The teenager just nodded and walked away with a little wave to the hitman and his chameleon. Reborn only chuckled and did a little patrol of the school, familiarizing himself with his new hunting grounds, finding out a bit more about Tsuna's school life and ultimately learning that his new student was a wimp who would rather run away from his problems for forever unless given a nudge in the right direction than face them head on.

The little 'match' in the gym later in the day was an overall success and served several purposes. Reborn got his kicks out of it, he did a little evaluation of Tsuna's - nonexistent - abilities, he'd found his new student's most likely future Rain and Sun Guardians - they were sportsmen, strong and pretty compatible with Tsuna, about 70 to 80%; nowhere near the phenomenal almost 100% like the Arcobaleno, but that's still better than most - he'd checked just how much Flames the Deathperation Bullets can pull to the forefront from behind the barrier and how long it lasts and he'd shown Kyoya just what he was dealing with. No doubt that the tonfa-wielding skylark had understood what was impairing Sawada after that. After all, it wouldn't be the first time he'd seen Reborn try to help a sealed person in this manner. Fon or Kyoya often had to step in no matter which Arcobaleno did no matter what to try and break the seals they found on people, but sometimes Deathperation Bullets were just enough.

He'll really need a skylark's help with this one because he doubts Deathperation Bullets can pierce through Timoteo Vongola's seal.

Explaining to Tsuna that he's going to be a mafia boss was entertaining but loud and took a lot longer than he would have liked because Tsuna kept denying it and calling him crazy and Reborn had to keep introducing the brunet to his beloved one ton mallet. Kyoya was definitely on to something when he used blunt force trauma to 'discipline herbivores'. If Reborn had it his prefered way, well, there'd be no one left to discipline because a head shot is quite the final lesson. In the end, Reborn somehow manages to convince Nana that he's a home tutor and that he has to come over each and every day and the woman is so gullible that Reborn kind of worries.

He'll get Kyoya to come over and assess the situation with her at a later date. Dame-Tsuna was the priority because, sooner or later, people will start trying to kill him.

When he can finally get out of the house - the mother is a bit too hospitable for his liking; the woman looks lonely and there's something stunted in her Lightning Flames but they still try to cling to Reborn and they don't seem to care if it's his Sun or his Sky that they're trying to latch onto. It all just makes him uncomfortable and he just wants to get out of there as soon as possible. Yeah, there's definitely something wrong in that family and a Hibari will definitely be needed to check everything out - it's already well into dinner time and while the food Nana had prepared smells absolutely delicious, Reborn's skylarks are most definitely the best cooks in his book.

He's proven right when the first thing that greets him upon walking into the big, traditional Japanese home is the scent of a delicious home cooked meal and hand made espresso.

"Mio Dio, I love you," he says to the coffee, Kyoya, the house in general because it's home, it doesn't matter. He may have moved on from that initial phase where he only wanted Fon's espresso - and the being unable to sleep if they're apart thing, though that had been trickier and needed a lot of practice and it still bothered them just after one of the Arcobaleno's three-monthly reunions - but his Storm still made the best damned brew in the world and he had taught Kyoya his technique from a young age because Kyoya will always be home while Fon might take on a mission. Even after all these years, a Reborn before his morning espresso is a Reborn that would conquer the world just to watch humanity suffer from caffeine deprivation while they all make him a lifetime supply of his coffee. That is if he doesn't simply kill everyone who tries to talk to him before he drinks his coffee.

Kyoya doesn't roll his eyes, like he'd normally do when Reborn got so excited over coffee. Instead, when the older male looks up at him, he finds his teenage son with a very grave, almost murderous expression. "Who dared?"

Reborn didn't need a clarification of what and whom he meant. It's why he had asked Kyoya to attend the little 'duel' between Mochida and Dame-Tsuna, after all. "Timoteo Vongola."

Judging by Kyoya's snarl, a certain Don will be getting bitten to death soon enough.

No one messes with the citizens of Namimori on Kyoya's watch.