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

Fratellanza

I sneezed once I left the car, Fon on my shoulder.

"You didn't catch a cold, did you?" I snorted, wiping my nose with the tissue he gave me.

"I don't think so, it's more like the feeling someone wants to hurt me than a cold. I bet Reborn knows."

"He wouldn't have taken long to discover the truth anyway." I nodded at Fon.

"Ha, there you are!" I turned around, seeing Arro almost running to us with a grin. I smiled back at him as Fon greeted him. "So, Sawada has met his tutor?"

"I think so." He laughed. "So, I'm ready! It is official business after all." He nodded, taking a more professional posture.

"Please follow me."

Much like the CEDEF HQ, the Weaponry Family HQ had a cover, here it was a lawyer firm, in a small skyscraper. All around us, people were hurrying for one reason or another, their suits all flawless. Arro led us to an elevator. Once the doors closed, he pulled a card from his pocket and slid it in the thin gap below the buttons. A dozen of buttons appeared under it and he pressed the '-5' one.

They were technologically advanced, I had been here once and it was still impressive.

"This is very modern," Fon complimented as we exited the elevator. Arro grinned at him above his shoulder.

"Thanks Fon!" He guided us through the maze of light gray hallways until we reached a steel door. "The Professor struggled to make the Boss and the Head of the Scientific Research Department agree, but eventually he did. Flames and rings will be important in the future, I mean Dino already claimed a ring for himself when one is ready, but..."

"Wait what?"

"Heh, you didn't know? It's not gonna happen soon anyway, Dino is a Sky and we don't have any of those to give for now."

"Dino's a Sky?" I muttered under my breath. I wasn't even surprised. Deep down, I must have known.

"Anyway, it's still pretty vague what we can do with flames. We can coat our weapons, great, but after? Apparently, Verde found some sketches of weapons. They went back four hundred years ago, were made by a guy named Gepetto Lorenzini."

"And Verde found that on his own?" Fon asked.

"No, there are two other guys but they do not work with us." Still looking at us, he knocked. He remained behind us as we entered the room. I couldn't see anyone in the chair, but there was typing. Fon jumped down.

"It has been a while, Verde." The typing stopped and the chair turned around. There was a baby dressed like a scientist, with glasses and green hair.

"Fon," Verde greeted him, before noticing me. "You're the CEDEF agent they sent?" I nodded. I was here to assess their work originally. The baby looked at me, from head to toes and turned back. "You don't seem very interesting." I heard Arro's muffled snicker. I turned around.

"Hey, do you still have malleable rings?" He nodded. "Maybe I can get my brother a Sky Ring."

The stones on the rings did not have an attribute right away. They were 'malleable stones', made from a material that could conduct flames, and then kept some of it, which then gave a ring its attribute.

"Wait a minute!" I looked down at Verde, now standing next to Fon. "You're a Sky!?"

"Kind of. And a Cloud. And a Mist." I lit up my Mist Ring to prove it. He stared at it with big, interested and slightly crazy eyes.

"You should have started by telling me you were Flame Active like De Luca girl!" I sweat dropped. He was barely interested in them, wasn't he? I shot Fon a look. He pursed his lips and nodded, although a little bit reluctantly. "What are you doing here by the way Fon?"

"Luciana is my student, I am here as a bodyguard on behalf of the CEDEF." The 'hurt my student and I'll make you pay' was obvious as Verde scoffed.

I was mesmerized by the purple flame dancing on the ring, before said ring cracked. I blinked in confusion as Verde raised a contemplative brow.

"Your Cloud Flames are stronger than expected, a lot more than your Mist Flames. They're your dominant ones."

"Tell me something I don't know Professor," I told him, calling him the same way as Arro. He clicked his tongue.

"Then show me your Sky Flame." I looked down at the ring with the orange stone. It was the only one they had and when I tried to lit it, the Cloud one burst to life. I snorted.

"I can't seem to do it with a ring." He growled something.

"Did you lie?"

"No I haven't. Maybe they're shy and don't want to use a ring."

"They're flames, not some kids!" I shrugged. I could show him my Flame of Wrath but…

Well, I wanted to know more about it anyway. I took the ring off my finger and gave it back to him.

"What, you're giving up?"

"No, I'm showing you," I replied flatly, sinking more in my chair. I put my arm on the armrest, palm to the ceiling and made my flame. It shut Verde up as he stared at it with big eyes. When it vanished, his mouth kept opening and closing, the baby struggling to find his words.

"That's the Flame of Wrath? It's...extremely rare..." I snorted and crossed my legs.

"I know that." I bit my tongue when a weight landed on my head, way harder than it should have. "Come on Fon!"

"Don't get too interested Verde." It seemed he was still in shock. It took him a few seconds to recover and he hastily grabbed a probe, some of his other stuff falling to the floor in the process. I looked at it as Verde plugged his toy in a machine and he was standing on my laps. Fon jumped from my head and on my laps as well.

"Do it again! It's a one time opportunity!" I did it and he probed my flame, his eyes glued to the screen of the machine. I looked at it again.

Basically, every human beings were born with the seven waves from which the Dying Will Flame came from. It resided in one's life force. Depending on the individual though, one flame or another was stronger and would appear on a ring for instance. Some people had several, like Arro or I. On the screen of the machine were gauges for each flames.

The Sky one was high as the probe was in my flame, and the Storm was also rising a little, around a third of the whole thing.

"The Sky Flame is the rarest of the seven, the Flame or Wrath is even more rare," Verde told us, jumping on his chair to write down data on his computer. I caught the probe when my flame was gone, Verde having dropped it. "I can't believe how great that day is turning...so much discoveries...the potential this flame..."

"Verde, the Flame of Wrath is Luciana's property that she chose to share with you because she wanted to know more about it. She has a right of inspection on anything you do with it, you know like me what could happen if you share information or potential weapons with someone else."

It was silent law, kind of like the omertà. Everything Flame-related was under the omertà, and if someone, like me, had a 'special' ability, everything concerning said ability had to get their approval.

Hence why the Estraneos ended up like they did.

"I'm not stupid enough to get myself on the Vindice list Fon." I had Fon's back in front of me, but I was sure his face was dubious.

"Anyway, we spent the whole day here, we're going back to our hotel." Fon turned to me with a small smile on his face, even if before speaking he did that thing where he takes a deep breath and made some move with his arms. "Come on Luciana, let's go."

"Make sure to come back tomorrow, and in great shape! I'm not dealing with weak flames!" I got up.

"Sure."

I left the room, Fon next to me, but stopped quickly. I could hear Arro's voice not far, but he was not alone.

"You're already that baby's favorite, now we can't even enter the room!?" a girl voice roared. Arro sighed in frustration.

"I fucking told you Zelia, he's busy with someone!" The girl scoffed.

"Right, as if someone could get his attention!"

"Who would?" another boy asked, more calmly.

"Arro?" I called him as I appeared in the hallway they were standing in. Their gazes turned to me, the two strangers widening their eyes at me and Fon casually joining Arro. "Is everything alright?"

"Yeah Lulu, they're just being annoying. How did it go?" I shrugged.

"I still have all on my limbs." Arro snickered.

"The Professor isn't interested in the human body that way."

"Arro!" I turned my eyes to the girl. She was an African-American girl around my age and height, with wild extremely curly black hair perfectly framing her heart-shaped face. Two slender black eyes were looking at me in shock. Her nose was an aquiline one and her full lips were parted in shock. "You mean the 'Luciana' you never wanted to introduce to us is this girl!?" I frowned and shot a weak glare at my best friend.

"You're ashamed of me or something?" He face palmed in a sigh.

"No I'm not Lulu, it's just...I didn't want you to feel overwhelmed."

"Oh."

"So you're the CEDEF one? You were seriously recruited at twelve? Did that stupid idiot really try to kill you when he was with the Boss? Damn, he spent a lot of time abroad, he was with you each time, right? And recently when he came back from Japan, it was..." The boy put a hand on her mouth.

"You're overwhelming her." I blinked in confusion. He wasn't wrong, all of the questions were taking me by surprise.

The boy was Arro's height, barely taller than me, with short spiky red hair. No locks were falling over his emerald eyes. Just like the girl was gorgeous, he was pretty cute. I attempted a small smile to thank him for his intervention and he averted his eyes, a slight blush creeping up his cheeks.

I was confused.

"Anyway, we were going back to our hotel. We shall see you tomorrow Arro," Fon said, attracting the other two's attention. Arro nodded.

"Sure, I'm tagging along until you go back to Japan." Lower, he added. "And I'm coming to make fun of Sawada as soon as I can." I chuckled and started leaving with Fon.

"Come on Jeremiah, stop blushing already!" the girl, Zelia, told the boy. I peeked above my shoulder to see him staring at me. He widened his eyes when he spotted me watching him and turned around to hide. I smirked.

"Don Cavallone will have a stroke." I heard Fon muttering this under his breath before he jumped on my shoulder.

In the middle of the night, I was woken up by my phone. Fon turned on the light on the nightstand between the beds and with a groan, I answered my fucking phone.

"Give Fon the phone now." I was wide awake at the anger in Reborn's voice, and wordlessly handed it to Fon. He took it and didn't say anything for a few second.

"I understand your anger at not being told many things, but you should know I have no power over what the CEDEF does. Lal had no reason to tell you either, like me. Luciana did what a CEDEF agent had to in order to fulfill her mission. Asking for the Cavallones' help, even if their Boss is her brother, had no meaning." Nothing for another few seconds. "Of course she handled it. She was wounded, but the Nishimuras are not in Namimori anymore. And anyway, I was there. I wouldn't have let my student deal with something she could not deal with on her own." Nothing. "Yes, I did train her while I was in Namimori." Fon's eyes found me and he smirked. Not smile like usual.

Fon fucking smirked at me.

"I'm sure she will be delighted to have you train her once she is back in Namimori." After this, the call ended and I was fucking pale.

"Can I not go back?"

"My nephew won't be happy if you skip your duty at school," he reminded me so kindly as he laid back down. I groaned and hid under the covers.

"But Mexico seems like such a good destination..."

"I go to school with them and pretty much grew up with Jeremiah," Arro told me as I accepted the hot chocolate he gave me. "They're not Flame Actives yet though. It seems like lighting up a ring is harder than it looks.

"But you did it quickly." He grinned smugly.

"Of course I did, like you did!" I rolled my eyes at him.

"Has Superbi contacted you?" Arro's grin fell and he frowned harshly at me.

"No, why?"

"I saw him in Italy, before I saw my mom. He asked me if we were friends and I ended up advising him to make the first step because you wouldn't do it." He glared at the floor.

"I haven't heard from him Lulu and that's perfectly fine by me." No it wasn't, I knew it wasn't, because you could not talk about Superbi with Arro without the latter scowling and shutting up.

Of course, I kept that thought to myself.

I saw Arro's friends often. Zelia kept pestering me with questions and Jeremiah would make small talks, blushing here and there. I slapped Zelia's hand away coldly when she tried to drag me somewhere by the arm and told her I didn't like being touched so casually.

Two weeks went by, at the end of which I went back to Japan with one bullet, apparently compatible with the Flame of Wrath. The plane ride was fine, the landing too, the airport was not crowded.

I froze once outside though. Tsunayoshi was smiling nervously, probably praying for my soul and Reborn was just smirking like a fucking sadist at me. I stared at him and gulped slowly, putting my backpack with my suitcase.

"Tsunayoshi, please take care of my stuff." He nodded stiffly and on this note, I sprinted away for my life. Reborn was right behind of course.

Of course he got me. Of course he slammed me in a wall with hammer-Leon. Of course he scolded me in his own way for not telling him and Dino I was in trouble.

Iemitsu had not told him about the Estraneos though, and I could not be more thankful for that.

"You're not hiding anything more, are you?" he asked me darkly, frustration piercing in his voice.

"No, not really no."

Lie. I was lying but I couldn't trust him. He stared at me a little bit longer and sighed, knowing I wouldn't say anything more.

"Is it your awkward teenage phase?" I snorted.

"Maybe, who knows?" He hit me on the head again.

"Don't be so haughty with me Bakana, I saw you wailing at the dentist when you had cavities."

"He was a sadist!"

Tsunayoshi was in front of my building. Once we were all sitting in the living-room, me taking care of my wounds, Reborn smirked in all his glory.

"At least I won't have to introduce you two to each other. Tsuna, Luciana is my apprentice." I raised a brow and Tsunayoshi gaped.

"It's official now?"

"Of course. As my apprentice, you have to assist me in making Tsuna the Vongola Decimo and forming his Family." I nodded and Tsunayoshi stood up.

"I already told you they were my friends, not Family!"

"Is there a difference?"

"Of course there is Reborn, I'm not becoming a Mafia Boss!" He turned to me. "Senpai, since he got here it's nothing but madness." I raised a brow. "He made me confess to Kyoko-chan in my underwear, I beat up Mochida-senpai, played a volleyball game, almost got killed by Gokudera-kun but when I saved him from his dynamites he suddenly became my self-proclaimed right-hand man, Yamamoto got depressed because he broke his arm and I was seriously scared for a minute he would do something stupid but he he didn't, Gokudera-kun's sister is in town and tried to kill and a kid named Lambo tries to kill Reborn but fails each time and keeps turning into his adult self!" I blinked at him, who was out of breath.

"Your underwear?" He blushed furiously. Before I could comment on it, Reborn spoke out.

"It's the Dying Will Bullet. Once the target is hit, they will come back to life to make their last regret a reality."

"Dino never got that treatment."

"Of course, he's not a Vongola." I sweat dropped at Reborn. Dino...had not idea what he avoided.

I jumped at Tsunayoshi slamming his hands on my table.

"Is that the only thing you got from what I just said!?"

"Of course not. I thought Takeshi would be your right-hand man."

"There is still time for that," Reborn reminded me and I nodded. "By the way, do you remember Bianchi?" I paled.

"How could I not? I thought her waffles were going to kill me."

"She's trying to kill Tsuna."

"Wh...she's that Gokudera's sister!?"

"Talking about him, you might have heard of him." Really now? "Smoking Bomb Hayato?"

"I must have heard of him, it sounds familiar." Then, I remembered something Tsunayoshi said. "A kid is trying to kill you and changes to his adult self?" Reborn nodded. "Bovino? Their bazooka is real?"

"It seems so."

"You know that Family too senpai?" I shrugged.

"By name only, I don't deal with trash." He twitched. "What?"

"Reborn said something like this too." I sighed.

"What can I say, I grew up around Reborn."

Tsunayoshi sighed, giving up.

"You missed me?" I asked Kyoya with a big grin. I leaned my head back when he threw a folder in my face.

"It better be done by the end of the day carnivore," he told me idly, walking past me to leave the room, probably to sleep on the roof.

"I missed you too," I muttered in the now empty room. "Jerk."

I worked all day, skipping classes, and in the afternoon I decided to walk around the school to stretch out my legs. I was barely outside I heard laughs. Someone ran past me and I blinked at the bald head.

"Mochida?" I called them and they stopped. I pressed my fist against my mouth to hide my giggles and he ran away. As for me, I ran to the roof and burst into laughter near Kyoya, who woke up with a scowl.

"What do you think you're doing?" I was having difficulty to breath, but not because of my asthma.

"Mo...Mochida he...no hair...Tsunayoshi?" Now Kyoya looked bored.

"Sawada Tsunayoshi pulled all of his hair off when the referee didn't call him the winner fast enough." I slid against the wall, my arms around my stomach.

"Damn! I left for two weeks and Reborn just turned this town upside down!" Kyoya watched me laughing without a word, until he got sick of it and threw his tonfa at me. I dodged, the weapon now stuck in the wall. I took it and hugged it to my chest, a smile still dancing on my lips. "Sorry, Tsunayoshi told me he beat Mochida but not how...I wasn't expecting this."

As always, we ended up fighting. Actually, it was longer today as I had been gone for two weeks. In the late afternoon, as the sun was starting to set, Kyoya stopped, so I stopped as well, and we walked home. When we crossed a bridge above the river, I blinked in confusion at the group of people on the river bank, and how Tsunayoshi now seemed to have a fan girl and was in his underwear.

"Damn..." I muttered, shaking my head at their antics.

"They're crowding again," Kyoya stated next to me.

"Leave them be, the new girl might be annoying enough so that you don't have to bite them to death," I commented, starting to walk again.

"Hn." On this note, we left them be.

Children.

A few days later, it was the room distribution meeting. It was not held at the beginning of the school year but around a month after the summer holidays, so that the rooms were pristine clean or something. All of this to say, Kyoya was at the meeting, kindly saying the reception room was ours.

I yawned. It was sunny outside, I could eat on the roof. On this note, I grabbed my lunch and went to the roof. Tsunayoshi and Takeshi were there, with a silver-haired dude. It was probably Bianchi's brother.

"Yo senpai! Want to eat with us?" Takeshi asked me with a grin. I shrugged and plopped down next to Tsunayoshi. The guy, Hayato right, was glaring at me.

"Did your mom like the present?" Tsunayoshi nodded.

"Yeah, she really appreciated the thought." I bought some stuff in Chicago for Nana, as she often invited me to eat at their place. It was a lot of sweets though. I turned my eyes to Takeshi.

"And your dad?"

"He loved it!" I felt bad for involving him in the Nishimura case weeks ago.

"Hey woman! Who do you think you are!?" the guy finally screamed at me. I pointing a finger at myself.

"Me? I'm Tsunayoshi's wonderful right-hand woman, obviously." Takeshi laughed, Tsunayoshi sweat dropped and Hayato turned red in anger. I smirked when he jumped on his feet and pulled dynamite out of nowhere. "More seriously, I work for his father."

"Gokudera-kun, please...Ana-senpai is pretty much my bodyguard. She's not a threat." He froze and stared harshly at me, before sitting back down.

"If the Tenth says so...but I'm keeping an eye on you woman!"

"My name is Luciana, you better remember it as your sister almost killed me and my brother shortly before I came to Japan." He paled. "I'm not eating her waffles again."

"You...ate them?"

"On accident! And that stupid Shamal didn't do..."

"You know that pervert!?" he cut me off rudely. "What's your last name!?"

"Cavallone." He froze, staring at me with wide eyes.

"You're that guy's sister!"

"It is I, the Bucking Bronco's adopted sister." I lowered my head when Reborn kicked it. I glared at him and he glared back.

"Don't say that so casually Bakana, you never know who could be listening."

"Haha! You two get along!" Reborn, in a chestnut costume, grazed his thorns against Tsunayoshi's arm. The latter yelped.

"What are you doing Reborn!?"

"Just testing. Bianchi did that costume for me a few years ago. The thorns are coated in poison, which affects the victim after thirty seconds." He pulled a timer from under the costume.

"Wha..." He passed out.

"Thirty seconds, just in time."

"Tenth!" Hayato shook him but nothing. "Tenth!"

"He needs to lay down somewhere," Takeshi suggested more seriously. I took a bite from my sandwich, nodding, as Hayato put Tsunayoshi's arm on his shoulders.

"The Reception Room should be enough." I froze but they were leaving already. I slowly looked at Reborn.

"Reborn? Kyoya is going to kill them." He smirked.

"Well, isn't that a proper introduction to the Cloud Guardian?" I frowned.

"You went through my files?" He nodded shamelessly before pouting.

"But Bakana, you didn't give me anything, I had to look myself. Sasagawa Ryohei is next."

"Stop pretending to be so innocent when you're a demon!" I dodged Leon, just to see it turned into a mini helicopter and Reborn flew away.

They would be fine, wouldn't they?

Once I was done with my lunch, I heard a big 'boom'. I got up and went to the railing, just in time to see Tsunayoshi, in his underwear, falling down with Hayato and Takeshi. Oh, they were diving straight into the swimming-pool, they'd be fine.

Did I want to see Kyoya though? He was probably pissed off.

I needed to escape his wrath. So I left the building. However, I barely made a step outside that I heard a tree branch cracking and someone landing behind me.

"Where..." I gulped at the cold voice, "...do you think you're going carnivore?"

"...far from you?" I tried.

"Hn, wrong answer."

"Come on we already fought today!" I whined, dodging the tonfa.

"A sport festival?" I repeated flatly. Ryohei nodded, standing between my table and his chair during the five-minute break between two classes.

"It happens every year. Last year I was the leader of our team to the extreme!" I nodded. "It's in two weeks!"

"Right..."

"Oh by the way!" I swear I would kick him for being so loud. "You know Sawada Tsunayoshi right!? He's in Kyoko's class!"

"So?"

"He was totally extreme this morning and I challenged him to a boxing match!" I sweat dropped.

"I'm pretty sure he can't box though..." He barely managed to succeed in the easiest self-defense move.

"It doesn't matter! If he loses, he'll join!"

And somehow, I ended up following him to the Boxing Room.

"Are you Sasagawa Ryohei?" I looked down, like Ryohei, and wanted to scream at Reborn, wearing red shorts, no shirt, boxing gloves and an elephant hat.

"Who are you!?"

"I'm Master Pao Pao, an expert in boxing. I heard about you and wanted to see you boxing, pao~!" I sweat dropped, and facepalmed when Ryohei suddenly got way too excited.

Let's not talk about this match.

Let's not talk about the fact Tsunayoshi was the only one to recognize Reborn.

And who was the kid with the black braid speaking Chinese?

"That's I-Pin," Reborn explained to me later. "She's Fon's latest student and is training in Japan."

"He didn't tell me anything," I muttered with a pout.

Fratellanza

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