Disclaimer: I own the OCs, the rest is Akira Amano's work.

Fratellanza

"Takeshi?" I asked in the intercom.

"Yeah, I brought Tsuna along!" I opened the door of my building. Takeshi was surprisingly good at pretending everything was okay. After the initial shock, it was as if nothing had happened.

In any case, Tsunayoshi needed self-defense too. His title might protect him from the Nishimuras. They were not dumb enough to attack the heir of the Vongolas.

Although, he was still a civilian and defenseless. It would be easy to get rid of him. It would be a 'check-mate' for the Nishimuras.

Damn, the situation was really bad, wasn't it?

Once the boys were there, they were surprised. Not at Kyoko's presence, who was wearing sports clothes, but at Hana's presence. Although, from what Kyoko told me about her best friend, if she had a chance to fight back some stupid boys she would take it.

Anyway, now all of the furniture of my living-room were pushed against the walls to give us space.

"Maybe Dame-Tsuna will be able to stop his bullies?" Hana snickered. Tsunayoshi flushed in shame, I rolled my eyes at her, Takeshi laughed yet there was some kind of threatening edge to his laugh and Kyoko turned to her friend.

"Hana!" She looked at Tsunayoshi with an apologetic smile. "I'm sorry Sawada-kun, she's not mean."

"It's nothing Kyoko-chan!" Should I put a cushion behind Tsunayoshi so that he doesn't get a concussion when he passed out because of Kyoko's blinding smile?

I clapped in my hands to get their attention.

"Alright people, we're going to learn self-defense! Basically, it means you can't use it to attack, only if you are attacked can you use these moves."

They quietly listened when I listed where you should hit your attacker, the two boys paling when I mentioned the groin. Of course, I chose Hana to demonstrate, knowing she was the one who wouldn't hesitate to hit. I was the attacker anyway, so I wouldn't be hurt.

Overall, it was an interesting afternoon.

Even if Tsunayoshi accidentally dropped the glass of water Kyoko gave him.

Before they left, Takeshi pulled me in the hallway.

"Tsuna's important, right?" I blinked in confusion.

"What?"

"You asked me to keep an eye on him for you. He's important." I bit the inside of my cheek, fighting against my hand wanting to grab my necklace. "Is he going to be in danger?" I couldn't help but nod. "But it's not because of you?" I nodded once again.

"Right now...it's because of me. To reach me. But...let's just say Tsunayoshi is in a position he can't avoid now, because of a sad turn of events." A flash of a bright smile and warm, kind hazelnut eyes appeared in my mind. "Will it make you leave him?" He blinked in surprise and chuckled.

"Don't worry about that, I'm not leaving him alone, especially if he ends up in a dangerous position."

He left when Tsunayoshi called him from the living-room.

Fuck, at this rhythm, Tsunayoshi would know of the great position he had in these fucking Vongolas before Reborn got here.

"Feng?" She smiled sweetly at me. Too sweetly.

My cheek burned as my face was turned to right after I was slapped. Slowly, I reached a hand to my reddened cheek and stared at her with wide eyes. Harsh, angry dark brown eyes stared back at me, the snarl on her face reminding me so much of Kyoya.

"You should have known better than to listen to Kyoya Luciana. I'm very disappointed in you." Despite all, my inside twisted at this.

Disappointed…

I would disappoint others too, wouldn't I?

"However, you could not have known Hide knew the Estraneos or others who are after you. Still, you should have called us right away." I swallowed with difficulty, ignoring how Tetsuya seemed uncomfortable in Kyoya's hallway. I was being scolded like a child. But if Feng was here…

"Fon is scolding Kyoya, isn't he?" She nodded. I ran a hand in my hair and didn't even dodge the kick aiming the back of my head. I turned around and looked down.

"Iemitsu is pissed and might come here himself if the situation is not solved quickly Luciana," Lal told me curtly, goggles on her head and riffle in her back. I gulped. "How could you let this situation get this messy?"

"I'm sorry, but this situation would have been messy at some point, Lal." We all looked at Fon, Kyoya behind him, head down. He shot me a look through his bangs and frowned at my cheek. I shrugged. "The only thing that is surprising is how the Nishimuras are targeting Luciana because of her own person and not her affiliations."

"Fon," she greeted her fellow Arcobaleno. He smiled serenely at her, even if I noted frustration too.

"I have to apologize, the CEDEF should not have been involved in my family matters. I should have been more careful." Lal seemed surprised and shot me an accusing look. I looked away.

"Well, someone should have kept us informed but failed to do that, obviously." Venom was dripping from my instructor's voice. "Let's talk privately." Once they were out of the hallway, Feng told us she would make snacks and tea for everyone.

Tetsuya ran away too under Kyoya's furious glare.

Which left the both of us alone.

We stared at each other for a long second and sat next to each other against the wall.

"We're doomed." He made a sound of approval. "Not even by that progenitor of yours and that fucking 'family' of mine. Fon and my Boss, if not Lal, will kill us." He scoffed.

"You clearly have never seen Feng furious then." I gulped, my hand cupping my cheek. "This is nothing."

"...we really messed up by thinking we could deal with it, huh?"

"Hn." I sighed deeply.

Obviously, we were later called by the two Arcobaleno, Feng in the room and giving tea to everyone. Fon carefully avoided looking at me, and I knew very well he was disappointed in me too. I could only hope he would not tell Reborn, thus Dino, anything.

"Now I know more about the situation, I understand why you asked for me in particular Luciana," Lal told me, calmer now. "This situation is a real mess, but Fon and I know how the other works, so it's good for us."

"And Hide will expect me to come at some point," Fon added, his cup of Oolong tea in his hands, hands covered by his red sleeves. "But he will not expect Lal." That...that was good.

"Luciana, remember all of these stealth exercises?" I nodded. As a shapeshifter, it was obvious I would be good in infiltrating. The way Fon trained me and my flame made it perfect for this and assassination. "Good, you'll be able to put them to the test." I blinked.

"What are you planning?"

"Hide has a base in Namimori, but of course not all of his forces are here. The only reason him and his wife are here in person is because he's trying to make Kyoya his rightful heir," Fon told us. I shot Kyoya a look, but he kept staring at his uncle. Of course he would refuse. I knew that already, and I also knew that if Kyoya was still in Namimori it was because Hide had some sadistic pleasure watching his son trying to kick them out of this town and had not fully tried yet. "So, we are obviously going to take Namimori back from these pitiful beings." I sweat dropped at the contrast between Fon's smile and his words. Even Lal moved away from him a little, feeling the anger radiating from the Storm Arcobaleno.

Hide had Fon's younger sister killed though. If there was one thing that I would never forget from my three years in China under his care was that you just do not piss off Fon. Pissing Reborn off might just be safer than pissing off Fon in my opinion.

"So...you want me to infiltrate their base and get you in? By myself?" Not that I wasn't flattered of their trust in me…

"No, not on your own, you'd be killed." Geez, thanks for the faith in me Lal. "And anyway, to us four we are not enough. They are targeting civilians, aren't they?" I nodded.

"I...may have a solution to guarantee their safety?" Except for Kyoya, all eyes turned to me. "I...kinda know an illusionist...have known him since I was a kid and he...you know, like Arro? He's kinda my Mist and...obey me?" I rubbed the back of my head sheepishly and ignored how Kyoya sighed at me, focusing more on the three looks I was receiving.

"And what is their name?"

"Alaric...Schlang I think?" Fon's smile seemed to freeze on his lips as Lal widened her eyes. "He's the one who dropped me at the Cavallones."

"Are you sure of his name?" I nodded at Lal. "He refused to join the VARIA a generation ago, even if Tyr went to meet him." I blinked. Tyr? Wasn't that the guy Superbi killed and cut his hand off because he wanted to know how it felt or some shit like that? "I am also pretty sure he trained under Viper with his brother." I tilted my head on my shoulder.

"Nick? Well, Nikolaus?" Lal pinched the bridge of her small nose.

"I can't believe you met such dangerous men when you were younger but never realized it."

"I know they're powerful, they just never tried to hurt me. Well, Alaric never, Nick..." I shivered at the memory of a man with short purple hair, a blue eye and a brown one staring down at me as if I was nothing but dirt under his shoes, and the hideous scar on his cheek. "Wait, 'Viper'? Isn't that..."

"The Mist Arcobaleno? It is." I widened my eyes at Fon, my lips slightly parted in shock. "Did Alaric ever mention money?"

"He's stingy." The two Arcobaleno nodded.

"It seems about right," Fon noted.

"But if he's loyal to you, then it's an ally we cannot neglect," Lal added. "However, unless we get all of the possible targets in the same place, we need more than one man." I pursed my lips. Ryohei was back at his house but still pretty much hurt and couldn't do much. Kyoko would be with him, hopefully Hana too because she could be a potential target by now. Their parents would be with them too…

"Yamamoto Tsuyoshi," I muttered, Kyoya raising a brow in my direction. "In the files Kyoya got from the Nishimuras, it was written he had been a hitman in the past and Iemitsu helped me settling down in Namimori. If the debt hasn't been called upon already..." My instructor nodded firmly.

"I'll call Iemitsu." I grabbed my necklace.

"Hum...maybe I could ask Shamal, it can't hurt if he keeps his mouth shut in front of Reborn. And Arro, although he would need permission from his Boss."

"That one," Kyoya growled lowly. Right, I once gave Kyoya my phone when Arro was calling me. I didn't know what the moron that was my best friend told him, but Kyoya was pissed and had slightly red cheeks.

Obviously, I told him he was blushing, and ran away when he tried to bite me to death.

"Arroganza can fight, and his Family is first in term of technology in the Mafia nowadays." Of course, Lal was talking about flames. "But Trident Shamal? Would he help?" I shrugged.

"I have no idea. Maybe if he's getting something from it. That guy is a womanizer, there has to be women who wants his head on a silver platter for never calling back."

Lal left the room, muttering how Iemitsu would move his ass to get them to come.

"Feng and I will stay here until your father is out of town Kyoya," Fon told him.

"Fine."

Funny enough, I wasn't even surprised when Kyoya was napping on the bed of my guest room.

"You resent him that much?" I asked him, leaning on the door frame, my arms crossed. He opened an eye, looked at me for a second, and closed it back.

"I didn't see you staying back to have a chat with him." I chuckled dryly.

"The further I am from Fon's wrath, the better I am." He remained silent. "Just so you know, there are times where this place is crowded. Do not bite people to death in my apartment or I'll send you the bill." He turned on his side, ignoring me.

"I want curry for dinner." I cursed him in Italian.

That douche bag. Were we friends? Rivals? I didn't know how to define my relationship with Kyoya.

The only thing I knew was that my mess and his mess were tangled together and he would stay in my life for a long time.

I snickered to myself in the kitchen.

I was so going to give him the Cloud Ring for being the annoying asshole he was.

"Fuck my life," I muttered quietly at Namimori airport. The plan was there, we were just waiting for two other people. I had been given the great task of waiting at the airport as I was the one who suggested them in the fir…

"LULU I MISSED YOU SO MUCH LOVE!" I rolled my eyes and face palmed, not even budging when I was pressed against a chest more muscular I remembered it to be.

"Yeah...good to see you too Arro..." I pushed him away quickly. "Geez, you need to stop that."

"What?" he replied, blinking innocently his piercing blue eyes. "Embarrassing you is my duty in life Lulu, be prepared to me ruining your dignity in front of everybody you know." I stared blankly at him.

"I said goodbye to my dignity when I met you," I frowned, "and anyway I spent my childhood with Dino and Reborn, there wasn't much left to destroy." He nodded, his chin between two fingers.

"True, Reborn's ability to destroy dignities is what I aim to surpass." Why did I say he could help us again? Right, he knew his way around swords, and wasn't too bad with a gun in his hands. Also, the two rings on his fingers gave him a huge advantage against a lot of people. "Storm is red by the way, it's pretty cool." I snorted.

"Can I get a Cloud one?" He shook his head with a grin.

"It's not as if you needed that!" I puffed my cheeks as a voice called me.

"My, my, if it isn't the little lady who's becoming a gorgeous signorina!" I kicked Shamal in the stomach when he tried to hug me in my back. I spun around, staring down at him, my hands on my hips.

"We're not in a medical setting, keep your hands to yourself Doc." He whined something and Arro raised a brow.

"Wait, that's Trident Shamal?" He got up and noticed Arro.

"Well, you look like Silviano." Arro widened his eyes. "We started around the same time kid, we were the same generation. He was pretty gifted to craft bladed weapons, even flame resistant." Arro nodded dully.

"Yeah...I'm using his weapons..." Shamal nodded.

"Although, even if I knew him, I will treat your wounds once and that's it, in his honor." Arro was confused, so I leaned toward him.

"He only treats girls."

Of course, Shamal being the adult he was, booked a room in a hotel. Arro? No, he wanted to stay at my place. It was fine by me, but Kyoya…

"Oh, that Hibari guy?" he asked me, stars in his eyes I sweat dropped. If there was one thing Arro loved above everything else, it was pissing people off. The more stuck up they were, the better he felt. "Where is he? I have to meet him love."

"At this hour? He must be at school." He stretched out his arm in front of us.

"Lead the way."

Kyoya would kill me one day. We dropped Arro's stuff at my place, even if he kept his katana, hidden in its bag, strapped to his shoulder.

"Are you...picking a fight with Kyoya?" He chuckled.

"My, of course I am! If he's that violent, or I fight him, or I make him evacuate his frustration in another way!" I stopped walking.

"Wait, that time you had Kyoya on the phone, you insinuated sexual stuff!?" He offered me a proud, toothy grin.

"Yup, ain't I awesome!?" I face palmed.

How long was he staying again?

It was a normal day in Namimori. The sun was shining in the late June, birds were chirping and Tsuna and Yamamoto were leaving the baseball field after a match. Their school had won and the team went to celebrate, but Yamamoto declined to leave back to his place with Tsuna.

Not that the latter minded. Yamamoto was his first real friend, and even if he had other friends than him, secretly he was glad he didn't stay with them.

To be honest, Tsuna had no idea why one day, Yamamoto approached him out of the blue, asking him about homework. Others were smarter than him and there was no way Yamamoto had not known he was 'Dame-Tsuna'. He told him that.

Yamamoto laughed it off, rubbed the back of his head and said it was the reason he was asking him, because he was bad at studying too. Tsuna accepted, not feeling like saying 'no' to a popular guy would be a nice thing.

They kept hanging out together ever since, Tsuna's bullies backing up because of Yamamoto's presence. In the back of his mind, he couldn't help but think Yamamoto also stayed to keep said bullies away from him.

He didn't care though. He finally had a friend who didn't judge him or made fun of him. When Tsuna asked him why he stayed with him, Yamamoto had laughed.

"You see, it's weird but I feel like I can be myself around you, that you really care about how I'm feeling. The guys on my team or people in school in general...they don't really care, they ask but if I say I don't feel great, they will worry about my performance in baseball and it just feels so empty...but you're not like that, that's why we're friends Tsuna! A kinda like senpai you know!"

Their senpai who was apparently Yamamoto's friend.

Even if she mainly showed...nothing, really. Her face was blank most of the time, if it wasn't for frowns or smirks. Although, he knew Sini Luciana was more than that. He saw it when she helped him against bullies. No one had ever bothered to help Dame-Tsuna, which was why he was so surprised she treated his wounds in the infirmary, and even walked him home. He had been surprised that she actually did the last part.

His senpai was surrounded by mystery. The very first time he saw her, that his eyes crossed path with bored ruby ones, he avoided her gaze immediately. The Italian was pretty, there was no doubts about it. He had already heard boys talking about her and her 'cool looks' but they never made a move because she was already taken by Hibari Kyoya.

Or so said the rumors. The Demon of Namimori wouldn't keep around a weak, useless girl after all. Yamamoto laughed and denied Luciana and Hibari were a couple, confessing Luciana herself had told him they were 'rivals' more than anything else.

Still, behind the apparent annoyance there was in that girl, Tsuna knew that she cared. She was surrounded in mystery, yet his mind kept telling him she was dangerous.

She was dangerous and used to dangerous situations. He was sure that was the reason her eyes reflected what he always saw in them.

Sadness, regrets and guilt.

Especially when she was looking at him.

Maybe it was the reason she seemed to be harder on him than the rest of them when she was teaching them self-defense.

He did not know if he could call his senpai a friend. They barely talked to each other after all, but she had never looked at him as Dame-Tsuna. If anything, when he was being clumsy, she would calmly help him and even have some fondness in her eyes.

Sini Luciana was dangerous, he knew it.

Yet, he knew the danger she represented was not against him. He did not know why, but he just knew that somehow, she meant danger to people as much as she meant safety to him.

"Move it move it!" a male voice screamed behind them. A flash of silver ran between them, words in English flying from the stranger's lips, between two laughs.

Then, Hibari was running toward them, tonfas in hands and eyes as dark as Hell itself. His usual Japanese was replaced by fluent English, not as broken as a Japanese accent usually was.

He ran between them without stopping in his chase.

"Fuck these two idiots," a female voice hissed in front of them. Their senpai was taking deep breaths of her inhalator, not wearing her uniform. Instead were ripped dark blue jeans, black combat boots, a black tank top and a purple and black tartan opened shirt, probably one or two sizes above hers, over it. The sleeves were rolled up to her elbows, showing various bracelets of different colors around her left wrist. The necklace, that she never took off even, if jewelry was forbidden at school, was resting against her skin above her top. The ring she also never took off was still on her finger, the indigo stone on it silently telling Tsuna it was more than just a ring. On her head was a plain burgundy wool hat. A brown shoulder bag was on her shoulder. "Oh right, did you win guys?"

"Yeah! Wanna celebrate with us?" Yamamoto replied. She smiled faintly, softly at Yamamoto and Tsuna thought that maybe they were friends after all, maybe he just didn't really understand it.

"Sorry, but if I don't follow these two, I will have to help one to hide the other's body." Yamamoto laughed, as always, and Tsuna sweat dropped.

Yeah, the way she said it...she totally meant it.

"The first guy was your best friend, right? The one who lives in America?" She nodded.

"He's visiting for a few days and...wanted to meet Kyoya. See, Arro just has to piss people off to have funny reaction. He just had to basically make Kyoya sound like a pervert."

"How so?" Tsuna asked. Ruby eyes met his plain brown ones.

"Well, he pointed at Kyoya, with the biggest grin in the history of stupid grins, that 'bite me to death' sounded extremely kinky and it was only a matter of time that he left his tonfas for handcuffs and started saying 'I'll fuck you to death'." The two boys blushed a deep red and she sighed, shaking her head. "Anyway, you'll understand I have to go. I'm not explaining to their families, especially not Arro's because I don't want to be deaf, why they died. See you later." She left, running after her two friends.

"That Arro seems nice, doesn't he?" Tsuna looked at Yamamoto strangely.

"In a suicidal way!? Who would say that to Hibari-san!?" His friend crossed his hands behind his head, shrugging casually.

"I dunno Tsuna, senpai's strong like Hibari, her friend must be like that too."

"...sure?"

There was some craziness surrounding Luciana too, which was probably the reason she looked so indifferent all the time.

A shiver went up his back.

He couldn't help but think that soon the crazy would come directly to him and not leave him alone.

I looked to my left. Arro had a stupid grin on his lips, winking at Kyoya every now and then, a black eye and busted lip from the earlier fight. He was eating his food, bolognese spaghetti, as if there was no tomorrow.

I looked to my right. Kyoya was glaring daggers at my friend and I was surprised the chopsticks had not broken in his hand yet. Although, I knew, from the bruise I knew he had now on his ribs, that he was interested in Arro.

The idiot knew how to fight. Apparently, one day, after he had gotten in a fight, a man who used to know his dad told him he'd train him with a sword. He did.

Even if...Arro's swordsmanship was more a mix between martial arts and swords than anything else. His bases were the same as Superbi, apparently Arro's dad taught the two before he passed away, but he was more flexible in all of his moves. He had to.

After all, even if he used a sword, his main weapon, the one for serious fights, was a double bladed 'sword' if I could call it that way, with a metallic circle between the two blades, a single thick metal grip in it linking the two blades, sharp and very menacing blades by the way.

"So...isn't it just great to share a meal like that?" Kyoya snapped his chopsticks and I swallowed slowly. "Yeah, I know how happy you are Kyoya, there is no need to use the chopsticks as an example."

"They didn't do anything," Arro added with a pout. "By the way Lulu, we're sharing your bed, right?"

"Such indecency deserves to be bitten to death," Kyoya growled, getting up and slamming his hands on the table. They started to fight and I kept eating, looking at my ceiling.

How come I could think my days with Reborn and Dino were calmer that this?

How come I wished I was training with Fon, who was cold and more brutal than ever in the training he was giving me because it was 'needed for the fight to come'.

He was pissed and making me pay for not telling him Kyoya had daddy issues, that was all.

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