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.

"Oh," Kyoya said as he casually looked up from where he was trying to get his opponent to move from the floor. "You're here. Took you long enough to find this place." The Cloud went back to kicking gently - and by gently, he means Kyoya-gently, which might as well amount to enough force to crack ribs if he's not careful - at the dark blue haired boy unconscious and face-down on the ground. A fancy trident was sticking out of an old but comfy looking couch some feet away, there was a huge hole in the wall right from the entrance through which Reborn had come in, one of the ratty, torn curtains was on literal fire, not the Flame kind, and there were unconscious snakes, wilting sakura petals and patches of ash on the floor. There were, also, the usual marks of a fight. Scratched and cracked walls, floor and furniture, even a hole in the ceiling.

Kyoya looked a bit ruffled. He had a cut on his left shoulder and under his right cheekbone. He was standing a bit funny, as if he had a sprained ankle, but his shoulders were square, his posture was straight and relaxed and though he was breathing a bit harder, he wasn't pale or sweating and there were no signs of blood on him to indicate bigger wounds. His eyes seemed focused and he was obviously aware of his surroundings and company.

All of which couldn't be said of the other boy, dressed in the same green Kokuyo Junior High School uniform that the other gang members had been wearing. His left shoulder looks dislocated, he had at least three gashes from the hidden spikes in Kyoya's tonfa that had shredded through his clothes, he was missing a black glove that he had on his right hand but not on his left, his hair looked like it had been pulled on really hard, most likely Kyoya had grabbed him by it to throw him because that's a method he often used when sparring with Fon though he usually had a braid to grab, which wasn't the case here so he must have improvised. The most telling features about who had won the fight, aside from the fact that the unknown teenager was unconscious and Kyoya was trying to kick him awake, was the small pool of blood that dripped from the wound on his temple - wow, Kyoya must have decked him really hard - and the fact that one of the hidden chains was propagated from inside Kyoya's tonfa and was wrapped around half of the stranger's torso and, of course, his neck, completely immobilizing him, though that feels almost as an afterthought because Kyoya doesn't usually bother with immobilizing people.

The other must have been an interesting enough opponent if Kyoya wanted to make sure he can't just run away once he wakes up.

"Hibari-san!?" Tsuna shrieked in shock when he noticed the Disciplinary Committee Chairman standing casually over a fallen body. "What happened? Are you alright? We found your phone and-"

"You're loud," commented the older teen menacingly and Tsuna let out a little meeping sound before clicking his teeth shut. Satisfied with the silence, Kyoya went back to kicking at the other boy. "Wake up, pineapple carnivore. I'm not done with you yet."

'Carnivore?' Well, that was interesting. Reborn arched an eyebrow as he eyed Kyoya's futile attempts to wake his fallen opponent up. "I don't think that's working."

"Then come over here and heal him. I want to bite him to death again."

Reborn did come over, but he had no intention of healing the other boy. "That's Rokudo Mukuro, right?"

"Is that supposed to mean something to me?"

"The Vindice are after him."

"Not my problem." Reborn huffed a laugh, ruffling the teen's hair now that he was close enough. (Also secretly checking for bumps and injuries, just to be safe. Skull had taught the youngest Hibari how to force his cells to quickly multiply to cover open wounds and replenish lost blood. Reborn had to be careful with the two Clouds in his life or else they might just write off an injury and end up getting an infection because Cloud Flames don't heal properly if you don't have a continuous stream of concentration throughout the process. And Cloud Flames can't deal with infections. Sun Flames can, though.) That's such a Kyoya thing to say.

"You bastards!" Shouted a somewhat familiar voice and Reborn nearly groaned when he caught sight of the mutt Sun from before, standing there with a teen with pale skin, glasses, purple hair under a beany, the both of them dressed in the same uniform as the supposedly Mukuro lying at Kyoya's feet. "What did you do to Mukuro-san!? I'll kill you!"

But as he lunged at the world's greatest hitman and the demon prefect of Namimori, Kyoya took out handcuffs from somewhere and lit them with Cloud Flames. The cuffs started propagating as soon as the beastly blond was within range and Kyoya caught his wrist, soon covering the entirety of the blond's body. He fell to the ground with a heavy thud. Tsuna let out a "Hiieee!" and Yamamoto whistled appreciatively. Reborn kind of just stared for a moment because the last time he'd checked, Kyoya could not do that.

"Ken!" The other boy called out before he took out those dangerous red yoyos of his and launched an attack. Kyoya used Cloud Flames covered tonfa to deflect the attacks, the purple Flames covering more ground by radiating from the tonfa so he can defend both himself and Reborn. Then he deployed the chain from that same tonfa so it would propagate and wrap around the attacker until he was immobile. He joined his companions Mukuro and Ken on the floor, trashing to get free but Kyoya just tightened the chains until he can't move at all.

"Resistance is futile," Reborn casually informed him, watching with halfhearted interest as the trashing finally stopped because the chains were now tight enough that even a deep breath was uncomfortable. He looked towards his nonplussed son and arched an eyebrow. "Since when did you use handcuffs? And ones so easily taking on Flames?" Usually, one needs a conductor, like a special ring that's attributed to different Flame Types, in order to draw out the Dying Will Flames outside of a human body. The Arcobaleno, true to their status as the strongest seven in the world, have long since mastered making their own bodies into conductors, even for long range attacks, like Reborn's Chaos Shot or Fon's Exploding Lotus Kempo and Exploding Dragon Fire Dance. Bermuda had once told them that they were nothing short of monsters for having managed that even without the Pacifiers to change their body's constitution, as would usually need to be the case to make such things work.

Kyoya is not an Arcobaleno and he doesn't have a ring, but Verde had made his tonfa Flame-conductive but the cuffs? Reborn's pretty sure Verde hadn't made those cuffs. They looked old, even if they were well taken care of. And not 'old' as in Kyoya has been using them for a while, but rather old, like they'd been in existence for a very, very long time, longer than even Kyoya's great grandparents might have been around.

"Since I found them a couple of weeks ago," the younger Hibari answered, a slight smirk curling his lips. "Lal called because she found a file was missing from the early days of CEDEF and there were hints that the file was important enough that Alaudi might have taken it with him. She asked me if I could check some of the old archives and I did. I found the file but I also found an interesting sealed box. It required Flames to open it. Cloud Flames, to be exact, and of a specific signature one might dub as exclusively Skylark. These were in the box. In one go, I have discovered several interesting things. One, Alaudi is indeed the founder of the Clan. Two, these handcuffs, which were his. And three, the file Lal asked for revealed some interesting information that suggests Alaudi was more aware of the Trinisette than Checkerface had known."

"What do you mean?" Reborn asked, trying to push away his other questions regarding the Hibari Clan and Alaudi thing - and maybe fanboying a little inside over the fact that one of the most infamous artifacts of mafia history was currently right there in front of his face, casually used by his teenage son like it was a random toy - in favor of the Trinisette matter. That's what's the big deal in their lives. Kyoya's not exactly informed in full of just how complicated and dangerous the situation with the Pacifiers had gotten just weeks before he was born and no one wants to tell him more. Kyoya was as curious as a cat and had the mind of a detective. He'd find out sooner or later. It's in his blood. (And now it made sense why all skylarks always hunted for information.)

"Someone was either stupid enough to outright tell him or he did his own investigation, but he has discovered that, indeed, the Clam Rings are a part of the Trinisette." Clam. Vongola in its original Italian form. Finally, they have concrete confirmation that the Rings Viper's been suspecting to be a part of the Trinisette are a part of the Trinisette. Now, they at least know where to find them, which means only one more part to discover. "As are the Sea Rings."

'Sea? Mare!' He guessed, but frowned as he's never heard of Mare Rings before and he's pretty sure that there's no Mare famiglia anywhere.

Kyoya must have seen the confusion on his face because he elaborated. "Giglio Nero used to hold them for years, but then those pink menaces took them several years ago, when there was a change in leadership. I sent the information I have over to Viper and we believe that the Gesso family might now be in possession of the Rings."

"It would make sense." Vongola and Gesso were the only families that Giglio Nero had an alliance with. "Wait, what do you mean a change in leadership?" Luce had no successors that Reborn knows of!

Kyoya shrugged. "It's in the records from fifteen years ago. Apparently, after the old boss' death in an ambush during some social event, an underage girl had to come into power. She was, supposedly, five or six at the time and had to rely heavily on her predecessor's Guardians until she at least found her own to run things. It was still being looked into when it happened."

Reborn grit his teeth. As if it isn't bad enough that he now had to keep an eye out for someone like Luce again, after all these years, the Hibari Clan massacre had stopped an ongoing investigation as well as robbed Fon and Kyoya of their family. "But she doesn't have the Rings now, right?"

"Like I said, Viper and I are guessing the Gesso have them," Kyoya said with a shrug. "It's the only logical conclusion. I looked into some of our records and, apparently, some eighty years ago, the Gesso were actually born from Giglio Nero or something in a scandal. A part of the family followed one of the successor candidates when he left and it created the rift but his twin refused to lose contact with him and so the Gesso and Giglio Nero remained allies but never merged into one family again."

"Twins? Yeah, I never heard of a Don leading Giglio Nero before. They've always had a Donna." Reborn wondered if it had anything to do with the whole Arcobaleno thing, the real deal and not the way Reborn had made it into a name for himself and his Guardians because it was ironically fitting. Bermuda had said each Sky Arcobaleno had always been from the Giglio Nero bloodline and it had always been a woman. The male twin must have been older by birth and as such held the rightful title of Don back in the olden days, so maybe his mother had tried to get rid of him? Kill him off? It wouldn't be the first time in mafia history, that's for sure. Still, he hadn't known that's how the Gesso came to be. "You did really well with all of this, Kyoya, but how exactly did you get involved with Rokudo Mukuro? And where were you all this time?"

"Worried?"

"That Fon will bite my head off? Sure." Like hell he'd tell Kyoya he was two steps away from panicking, or that he had long since jumped over the threshold when he'd seen Kyoya's phone in Tsuna's hand. "Now answer the damn question."

The black haired teenager huffed. "I figured out their base of operations yesterday around noon but then Viper called me and said some lab rats were coming my way and suggested I arm myself to the teeth because at least one of them was seriously dangerous.I guess they meant this pineapple carnivore," he gestured to Mukuro. Now that Reborn was looking at him closer, his hairstyle really did resemble a pineapple. Fascinating. "So I went back home for the handcuffs. Figured if I've been practicing with them so much, I might as well use them. Then I found Kusakabe Tetsuya beat up on my way over here and had to take him to the hospital. One of my subordinates told me you and the herbivores you were working on were headed this way and were under the impression that I've been captured, so I hurried over to bite these herbivores to death, only one of them turned out to be an interesting opponent so I guess I lost track of time while I was having fun."

He frowned and Reborn frowned with him because that was not the face Kyoya made when he's having fun. "Then why do you suddenly look so unhappy?"

"Because the carnivore turned out to be a herbivore, too, because he thought mid-class illusions can defeat me," he answered in a huff, crossing his arms and kicking Mukuro hard enough to actually startle him awake from the pain. "As if there's an illusionist in the world besides maybe Viper that can fool me with such weak tricks."

"Hey, Mukuro-san is not weak, pyon!" Protested the blond, Ken, from the ground. "Mukuro-san is the strongest! You're just some freak of nature!"

'Well, that's ironic.'

"I assure you," Kyoya replied blandly, gesturing idly at Reborn. "I'm normal. It's his sort that are the monstrous ones."

"There's no way you're normal," the other boy said while Mukuro seemed to be struggling to catch up on what was going on.

"You said it Kaki-pi!"

"Oh, no. Kyoya's perfectly normal. For a Skylark, anyway," Reborn commented with a shrug. "And he's still growing, so he'll only get stronger so it's not fair to judge him yet. He might make it to Arcobaleno level one day," he said with a proud smirk, to which Kyoya only rolled his eyes, though the way he stood a bit straighter belayed how pleased he was with the praise and show of faith.

"How did you break free from my illusions?" Demanded Mukuro once he had his bearing back together.

"You're really not that good."

"No, he is," said a different voice, one that Reborn was familiar with even if they didn't speak often. "You're just raised really well, aren't you, Hibari Kyoya. The way you've handled everything ... Well," clapping followed the unfinished statement seconds before a wormhole appeared and out stepped three Vindice plus Bermuda on Jaeger's shoulder. The Clear Pacifier holder was the one who was clapping in a slow, impressed and approving manner. Mukuro, Ken and 'Kaki-pi'(?) tensed while Tsuna and his friends, who had just been watching in confusion, backed up in fear, Gokudera and Bianchi pulling Tsuna and Yamamoto back even further because they, at least, knew about the Vindice and they knew it was for the best not to get involved. "You definitely live up to your name. And your upbringing." Chains rattled as the Vindice prepared to take back their prisoners. "Now, if you could just leave them to us-"

"No," Kyoya said and nearly gave Reborn a heart attack when he boldly stepped in front of his three captives, who were frozen in honest fear. Reborn was kind of panicking, okay? Because Leon was still shifting from shape to shape, though he seemed to be spending most of his time in green jello form so the process should be over soon but who knows what will come out at this point?! And agreement or not that's lasted ten years, one does not interfere with Vindice business!

Bermuda pauses, clearly flabbergasted by what Kyoya had just said. "Excuse me, but did you just say 'no'? These are dangerous convicts! They've escaped Vendicare Prison, killed their way to Japan and, from what I've heard, involved a whole bunch of civilians in what is clearly mafia business-"

"They claim not to be a part of the mafia," Hibari argued, pointing at the pineapple one. "This one goes as far as saying he's trying to destroy the mafia but that makes him no different from law enforcement, vigilantes and all the organizations that refuse to take part in that part of the underworld."

"They were born to the Estraeno family-"

"So?" Scoffs Kyoya. "Is it a dog's fault that it was born to a champion cage fighter? It's not its fault that someone has trained its sire and bearer to fight to the death in such arenas. It was born into that life and it can't choose. And yet such dogs, if they get out or are rescued, get a chance at rehabilitation and are given to warm, safe homes. Shouldn't these herbivores get such a chance, too?"

"Oya, oya, how bold of you to compare us to dog-urgh!" Mukuro's idiocy was shut up by a swift kick from Kyoya so the idiot wouldn't undo Kyoya's argument. Why the Cloud was fighting for these three's freedom was anyone's guess and Reborn planned on interrogating his son as soon as this was over, but he's kind of curious to see how Kyoya will work Vindice around to get what he wants.

Kyoya was not spoiled. He was just really good at getting what he wants. That's how the Arcobaleno have raised him.

"That may be so," Bermuda carefully conceded and the three escapees of Vendicare stare in disbelief because they hadn't been expecting even that much. "But these dogs broke free of their chains a long time ago and kept killing their new masters, again and again, until they were caught. It's a repeated felony. It's done on purpose."

Kyoya just shrugs. "So? They're conditioned. It's like a child that's, theoretically, been raised by wolves. If humans found it and managed to catch it, it will keep lashing out because it's only ever known humans to be a threat because that's what it learned from the wolves. It would kill any human that tries to 'tame' it. Would you kill that child because of the circumstances it had grown up in, when it is someone else's negligence or cruelty that has even led it to that situation and upbringing in the first place?"

"Okay, who's been teaching you to speak like a politician?" Reborn asks in a whisper while Bermuda seems to think over Kyoya's words. "Because this is getting interesting."

"It's a bit of Fon's, Lal's, Viper's and your own influence, to be honest," Kyoya replied in the same volume, watching Bermuda avidly to see how much effect his words will have. "And maybe a bit of Verde's." That would be the more scientific parts, of course. "I learned from the best, after all."

"That you did."

"I am hesitant to concede to your point, but it is sound, Hibari Kyoya," Bermuda said, bringing their attention back to the situation at hand.

"What's there to hesitate about?" Protested Kyoya, offended. "Killing the Estraneo can be deemed as an internal matter since he had been born into the famiglia and had been mistreated. And these herbivores with a bit sharper teeth are far from the first ones in mafia history to wipe out entire only thing you have against any of them is the endangerment of civilians here in Namimori and the use of a Possession Bullet. Neither of which deserve a life sentence in Vendicare, given no civilians learned about Cosa Nostra secrets and no one is dead. Besides, I'm the one who caught them. Namimori is my territory. And since this is neutral ground and they are technically not mafia, you don't have much sway over their fate."

"They cannot go unpunished!" Thundered Bermuda and all of the Vindice go tense, like they're ready to spring into a fight. Reborn curses in his mind even as his hand reaches for his gun.

Kyoya huffs. "No one said they will not be punished," he counters and the boys at his feet tense. "However, they don't deserve more than a few months of imprisonment."

"That is like a slap on the hand for being caught stealing cookies before dinner," argued Jaeger, speaking for the first time since the wormhole had opened.

"They are teenagers in their rebellious stage," Kyoya argues back. "Rebelling teenagers that cause trouble get grounded, not sent to prison unless they've committed a serious crime. And because you are mafia enforcers, what they've done hardly counts as a serious crime, aside from the endangering civilians part. Give them an example to be better by and a lighter sentence and I doubt they'd do it again. Besides, if they want to take over the world, that's the Skylark's business, not your's."

"No one said anything about world domination!" Protested Tsuna from where Bianchi was trying to keep everyone quiet.

Kyoya and Bermuda ignored them. "How long are you suggesting, then?"

"Half a year for the puppy and the yoyo addict," the Cloud replied smoothly, ignoring the protests the two in question gave at the names he's giving them. "The pineapple carnivore a year long sentence since his oversteps have bigger consequences." Ken and 'Kaki-pi' protest that even more but Mukuro was staring at Kyoya with something close to wonderment. He was probably not expecting such a light sentence. "And to prevent them from being tempted to make further trouble, send them straight back here. They can start over in Namimori, where they can be properly monitored."

Well, there was no arguing that Namimori was probably the safest, most monitored place on Earth. Not with it being the headquarters of both the Hibari Clan - or what was left of it, these days, but that didn't change the fact that it was most definitely incredibly secure - and the Arcobaleno, even if they are only occasionally all gathered there.

One of Bermuda's Vindice, Jack if Reborn remembered correctly, got offended by the implications behind Kyoya's words. "Excuse me, Vendicare Prison and Vindice can perfectly well monitor Rokudo Mukuro and his subordinates."

Kyoya arched a skeptical eyebrow. "You sure? I mean, he is here," he gestured down to the tied up Mist and then to his two companions as an afterthought. "He's, what, my age? And he managed to get out on his own and take along a bunch of other criminals? That must be a blow to your reputation. Not to mention that he's not the first to have managed it." Suddenly, the Vindice all go very, very still and the air in the room goes cold, charged and very heavy. Reborn says fuck it to subtlety and takes out his gun to show he means business. It's a reminder to Bermuda and his that Reborn will get serious and show why he's the strongest of his generation of Arcobaleno as well as the greatest hitman in the world if they dare go after the boy he had adopted as a son. "Clearly you are weak against Mist illusionists."

Mukuro perks to attention at that, most of the Vindice hiss in rage or shame and Reborn looks at Kyoya because that is something that very much interests him because there is a certain man in Vindice's care that possesses that Flame that he wants to believe will never be able to see the light of day again.

Bermuda radiates rage. "How do you know about that?"

"Better question might be how do I know the names Daemon Spade, Cozzato, Simon and about something that might be dubbed as the Simon massacre." Bermuda started gushing killing intent. Kyoya smiled faux innocently at him. "Skylarks always know."

"Damn that Alaudi! And damn you for inheriting his legacy!"

'Nuh-uh, no way,' Reborn decided there and then. 'I'm keeping Kyoya the fuck away from Tsuna. No way is he inheriting Alaudi's anything, even if he already has found his cuffs. Fuck that!'

"Fine, Hibari Kyoya, you have made your point," the leader of Vindice finally concedes, though he looks none too happy about it. "A year for Rokudo Mukuro and half of that for his subordinates from the Estraeno. But they're your responsibility after they're set free, kid. Consider this your early birthday present."

"If you would show up for my birthday every once in a while, I wouldn't need such pricey make-up gifts."

"We're busy," Jaeger responds guiltily. (And yes, ladies and gentlemen, Kyoya is indeed very well acquainted with the Vindice. 'Uncle' Bermuda and 'uncle' Jaeger try to visit for holidays and birthdays, but it doesn't always work out. Instead, Kyoya had started collecting favors from them because Bermuda and Jaeger do want to stay in the kid's good graces because he's the only one not directly connected to the whole Pacifiers and Trinisette business that's not afraid of them and that's refreshing to say the least.)

"You invite the Vindice to your birthday!?" Gokudera and Ken both screeched while Mukuro, 'Kaki-pi' and Bianchi were staring at him as though he were insane.

To be fair, Reborn had had the kid checked after the first time a three year old Kyoya had met Bermuda and Jaeger during an emergency meeting the Vindice leader called all those years ago when the kid had decided Bermuda should be his play buddy and he wanted to ride on the ridiculously tall Jaeger's shoulders and then, when the meeting had finally ended and the two mummified men were supposed to go back, he toddled up to them and invited them to his fourth birthday seven months down the line.

The biggest shock was that they had come at all, though.

Apparently, a three year old Kyoya's charms are too much even for the Vindice to take. Reborn had suddenly stopped feeling inadequate for being putty in his son's hands.

Fon and Bermuda somehow became tea and biscuits buddies.

"And since you're so well informed these days," Bermuda said even as Kyoya finally started letting go of his captives so Jack and the others can curl their own chains around them - though not around their necks, which was a change from their usual method of dragging their prisoners to their cells. "If you could look into that matter you've mentioned before and keep us informed, we'd be grateful."

"Of course," was all Kyoya said with a nod that had Reborn thinking his very Cloudy son won't be doing so unless it serves some of his own purposes.

Bermuda didn't seem to catch on to that and just tipped his top hat in farewell. "We'll be going now, then."

"Wait!" Tsuna shouted, breaking free from Gokudera's hold and running towards the Vindice that were now dragging away a much more willing Mukuro, Ken and 'Kaki-pi'. "You can't just lock them away! That's not fair!"

Leon started glowing and Reborn groaned because really? Now?! "Dame-Tsuna, don't get involved."

"So I should just stand to the side and watch them be dragged off to some terrible place for a whole year? No! I refuse!" Orange Flames burst from Tsuna's forehead at his determination, to which Reborn arched an eyebrow because that might be the best progress his dame-student has made so far.

"Wao," Kyoya commented at the little light show Leon was making before the chameleon finally settled and spat out a pair of wool mittens onto Tsuna's hands, white with red 27s on them.

Bermuda looked at the disappointed looking Tsuna who realized his destined weapon - or something - was mittens, the facepalming Reborn and the once again disinterested Kyoya who was picking up the exhausted Leon from where the chameleon had fallen to the floor in a splat and was putting himself back together. "Right. We're just gonna go."

Well, that was one weird afternoon and that was coming from Reborn, who'd kissed normality goodbye the day he accepted he had Guardians and he can't ignore that fact.

Looking at the mess he now had to deal with, he decided he really needed a bucket of espresso.