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

Fratellanza

Dino apologized. I apologized. I left the hospital and almost had to put my brother in the plane to make him leave the country and stop mothering me so much. Right now, the school was closed because it was the weekend and Arro was still in Japan. It meant I was watching him and Takeshi playing baseball in the cold with Tsunayoshi.

"Is Arro-san a Vongola?"

"No, he's from another Family, but we're on good terms."

"It's funny though." I looked at Tsunayoshi in wonder. "When I first talked to you, you had an Italian accent. It's still here sometimes. But Arro-san is Italian too but his accent is different."

"He left Italy for America when he was nine. He lost his Italian accent a long time ago as he never speaks Italian there. I mean...him and I don't even talk in Italian when we're alone, or with Dino, it's in English. Arro has the Italian vocabulary of a ten-year-old and is..." I dodged a high-speed ball by a millimeter. "You fucker!" Arro grinned in anger at me, walking to us as Tsunayoshi went to pick up the ball.

"Sorry Lulu, did I interrupt an important conversation?" I puffed my cheeks and turned my head on the side. His fingers pressed on my cheeks. "My, Lulu what big cheeks you have!"

"It's to better spit you out my child." He laughed and accepted the ball, going back to the baseball field.

"How did you two even become friends?"

"He tried to kill me, then I almost died and he helped saving me." He gaped at me, eyes wide in horror. I waved him off. "It was a misunderstanding I will not explain."

I went to the zoo when Reborn told me to, but carefully avoided the explosions and shit like that. The baby animals were cute. Although, I did help them to get all of the animals back, knowing that if Kyoya knew I was around and didn't do anything he would bite me to death.

Talking about the jerk by the way! I stopped avoided him when he came to the hospital to hit me with his tonfa, obviously not bothered by the fact we kissed. It made me realize I was acting like some teenage girl who couldn't handle her crush! Even if I was a teenage girl, I had no crush whatsoever on that moron and, even if it sometimes happened I was still embarrassed by the kiss, it was more Dino's clumsiness I was embarrassed of.

And, looking on the bright side, how many people could say they kissed Hibari Kyoya and survived?

I didn't care though.

No matter how many times Reborn showed me the picture he took by the some weird means, I didn't care! Arro though, who also saw the picture? He cared.

It was a great way to piss off Kyoya, who was trying to kick him out of town. My best friend would not leave until he got a call from his Boss though.

"You cheated on me my love!" he kept whining, fake tears in his blue eyes. "Hibari, I thought we had something special!"

"Your blood on my tonfas is nothing special, Termite." Arro wiped a tear from his eye, but his katana was in his hand.

"But my heart is broken! I know Lulu is pretty, smart, and can be funny at times, but don't I count just a little?" He dodged the blow, said blow destroying half the rock. "See the rock? It's my heart right now!" I sighed, grabbed my bag and left. They were at Kyoya's they would be okay.

I raised my head. It was not snowing anymore, the sky was sunny but it was freezing cold. I took my phone when it vibrated. A text from my brother, saying they were at school.

Should I be worried my adult brother was with a bunch of teenagers in a middle-school when said school was closed for the day?

In any case, it was chaos when I got there. Enzio was falling on people, Tsunayoshi was panicking and I hesitated joining Reborn in drinking tea. My eyes spotted a huge snowball from where two heads were poking out though, so I went to them and sighed at Dino's grin.

"Get us out of here?"

"I'll get Takeshi out because I have a feeling he's the victim here."

"Ana!" Dino whined as I helped Takeshi. The snow was very solid. I took a deep breath and focused my Flame on the palm of my hand, not enough to be seen by the naked eye though, and hit the snow above Takeshi with the palm of my hand.

The Flame of Wrath had a huge destructive power, we all knew that. I could gather any quantity I wanted thanks to years of training under Fon, enough to destroy a wall or just melt a small lock. Sometimes it still touched too much, but never to the point where I would fail to control my flame.

Of course, I could also send enough flame inside of the human body to destroy one organ or multiple.

In all honesty, as I was supposed to be careful on my use of flames, this was perfect for me.

All of this to say, I melted the snow without killing them. I turned my head to look at the mess, leaving these two getting up, when I saw my best friend running toward us, a bleeding forehead and a grin on his lips. He climbed up the stairs in a flash, followed by an angry Kyoya with a busted bleeding lip. He stopped and stared at us at the bottom of the stairs. Dino gulped.

"His men aren't here, don't waste your time," I told Kyoya in a deadpan. Dino protested but slipped and fell. On this note, Kyoya went back to chasing Arro as I looked down at my brother, my hands on my hips. "Have you been having fun?"

"I invited you!" I looked around.

"To be a part of that joke? Yeah, no thanks. Tonight we're eating sushis at Takesushi by the way, you're paying."

"HEEHH?"

"If I were to pay it would be the same anyway."

"No it wouldn't you have a salary!"

"But I'm keeping it for safety like you taught me to do," I replied with puffed cheeks, like Reborn would.

"I swear..." Takeshi just laughed at our antics and I shoved my nose in my scarf.

Hell it was too cold for my poor, delicate and weak constitution.

"Fuck, wake up brat!" I opened my eyes, groaned and sat in my bed. I looked around.

Huh? This wasn't my room. I lived alone anyway, where was I? This room was all dark and gloomy and…

I got up. Why...wasn't I in control of my own body?

"Wak..." I opened the door and glared at Superbi.

Superbi?

"I am up, so shut up!"

"Get dressed, the Boss wants to see you." I tensed. It was strange, I felt everything going on in my, her, mind, her feelings, but...it was just not exactly me.

I went to the bathroom and washed up quickly before getting dressed. The style was...VARIA style, there was no other way to describe it. Leather pants, white dressed shirt with the VARIA symbol on my breast pocket, black leather combat boots and the VARIA jacket I didn't close. There was a gun in the holster around my thigh, but entirely black, not like mine. I tied up my hair in a high ponytail, leaving my bangs on my forehead.

The hell was going on?

I left my room and walked through hallways I didn't even know. Once in front of a huge, intimidating door, I took a deep breath and knocked.

"Come in Luciana," a deep, hoarse voice told me. I gulped and opened the door, closing it silently behind me. I stood straight as a ramrod in front of the man lazing in the throne like chair, crimson eyes staring coldly at me.

I caught the file he threw at me.

"Take the royal trash with you." There were scars on his face. Nono's ice, probably. In any case, my heart was beating wildly in my rib cage.

"That's all Xanxus?" He sipped on his wine.

"What else? Get out of my sight now." I did, the desire to slam the door behind me burning my insides. I didn't though, and instead ruffled my hair.

"What did he want?" Superbi asked me near the staircase.

"Mission with Belphegor." I stopped next to him and shot him a helpless look. "What have I done? He's cold to me since he came back, he...made me join the VARIA so that I was not a freeloader and he hasn't even called me 'Ann'' once! I..." Superbi stared harshly at the ground, leaning against the wall, his hands in his pockets.

"Maybe he wants his eight-year-old sister and not the fifteen-year-old one."

"It's been seven years, I had to grow up!" He patted my hair.

"I'm not in his head brat, give him some time."

'I don't have that luxury,' I thought bitterly.

I woke up in a start, waking up the sleeping Prefect on my lap.

"What's wrong with y..." He didn't finish his sentence because I was breathing heavily and had wide eyes. Wide panicked eyes.

I got up, Kyoya almost falling on the floor and ran outside. I ran up to the roof and leaned on the barrier, taking big gulps of the cold January air.

Fuck, what was that!? What kind of weird dream was that!? I...I didn't even know what the VARIA HQ looked like and seriously hoped it looked nothing like that, or that Xanxus' voice was nothing like that!

Yet, this dream...it seemed so real.

I didn't even dodge the tonfa that landed in my head.

"You disturbed my sleep."

"Then don't choose my lap as a pillow," I grumbled weakly, grabbing my head and my fingers grabbing locks of my hair. Kyoya's gaze was heavy on me. "Just forget it Kyoya."

"Your nose is bleeding," he hissed quietly, putting a tissue on my nose. I frowned and kept it there, removing it for a second to check.

There was blood. I put the tissue back on my nose. I turned to him, ready to talk, but fell to my knees instead, completely exhausted, almost as if...as if I had used too much flames. The world was spinning around me so I sat on my bottom, a hand on my head.

My chin was grabbed firmly between two fingers and my unfocused eyes were everywhere and nowhere at the same time. Kyoya clicked his tongue and picked up me to head stiffly to the Reception Room. He almost slammed the door behind him once I was in a couch. When he came back, Shamal was with him with a grave face.

He told me to follow the light with my eyes, I failed at doing it properly.

He checked my heart beat with his stethoscope and my blood pressure, which were both under the regular level.

"What were you doing before you became like this?" he asked, removing the tissue from my nose. It had stopped bleeding.

"Sleeping," Kyoya replied in my place when he saw me unable to formulate proper words.

"Sleeping?" my doctor repeated doubtfully. "You were sleeping?"

"Kyoya was sleeping on my lap, maybe I had an allergic reaction?" I managed to whisper. "You think...my condition?"

"No, it would not cause a flame exhaustion after you slept." Shamal stared at my face for a long time. "Anything unusual about your sleep?"

"I just had...a very realistic dream." He was confused and I knew Kyoya was too.

"A dream?" he mumbled, rubbing his head and messing up his hair. "It doesn't make any sense."

"Don't make me go back to the hospital..." I begged weakly.

"If it comes to it you won't be given a choice." I tried to sit up but failed.

"Damn it."

"You need to go home and rest, but you live alone. Would the Vongola mind if you stayed at his place for a few days?"

"Come on now..." He got up anyway.

"I'll talk to Reborn. You can't even walk." He left the room, knowing Reborn was around somewhere, and Kyoya came closer. A frown was marring his face.

"Is it the Estraneos?" I chuckled weakly.

"Hey...aren't you cute when you're concerned?" He glared and I knew he really wanted to take his weapons. "I...I don't know Kyoya...apart from my asthma and the ankle tattoo...I never had anything..." I was struggling to keep my eyes opened. "I'm gonna sleep a little."

When I woke up, I was in a room with Nana and Reborn next to the bed I was in.

"Hibari carried you here," Reborn told me and I looked at him, dumbfounded. He smirked in return. "Something about how a carnivore should not appear weak to herbivores." Something was pulled from my mouth.

"No fever anymore," Nana said in relief. "We will take care of you until you feel better, Doctor Shamal explained everything to us." She got up. "I'll make you chicken soup." She left the room and Reborn jumped on my chest, right in front of my face.

"What kind of dream was it? Shamal said it was a very bad cold to the Mama." I pursed my lips.

"I...dreamed I was a VARIA officer for some reason." He frowned.

"And?" I gulped.

"If...if Xanxus has scars on his face, one on his left cheek and one on the forehead, then I might be a psychic or some shit like that." Reborn remained silent for a few seconds.

"For now you have to rest." I gave him a thumbs-up.

"Roger that Captain."

I stayed for a little less than a week, with the boys, aka Tsunayoshi, Takeshi, and Hayato because he just had to follow them, visiting. Kyoya did too, once. When I went down and called him 'Kyo-chan', he left, deeming I was as annoying as before and therefore fine.

"So...what's the emergency?" I asked Tetsuya, removing my coat, scarf, hat, gloves and shoes once at Kyoya's. I didn't like to be sick, sometimes fever could make...my illusions go a little wild. Dino may have seen me with a split skull by accident once.

I never watched a horror movie while being sick ever since.

"He's sick. He couldn't walk straight this morning and fell," he explained to me worriedly. Kyoya just did not get sick. "I thought he might listen to you." I scoffed.

"I can tell him 'I told you so' after I told him to wear a coat but I have a feeling I would regret it in the future." I climbed the stairs and didn't even knock on his door. The blinds were still closed and there was a...silhouette in the bed, tangled in the sheets. "Well, hello there Kyo-chan." A groan and a hand came out of the cover, with a tonfa. It pathetically fell to the floor though.

Wow.

It was worse than expected.

I carefully inched closer to the bed and removed the sheets from the top. Kyoya was clearly frowning, glaring at me, but the sweat and red cheeks were breaking with the usual threat he was.

"Leave." I didn't answer, instead putting my hand on his forehead, then his cheek. He tried to remove it, so I pinched his cheek in response, which made him wince.

"You're really not threatening right now. If me pinching you hurts, you might have the flu." He coughed a little.

"I have the flu, I know that..." he croaked out in a hoarse voice. I went to the bathroom quickly and came back with a bowl of water, a towel and a thermometer. I put it in his mouth, against his will as I maintained it there.

"Shit Kyoya," I muttered once I pulled it out to read it, "you have a temperature of forty point two Celsius degrees. That's like...more than a hundred Fahrenheit degrees!"

"What am I doing here?" Tsuna muttered, a plastic bag in his hand. Reborn was on his shoulder.

"Bakana asked Mama a favor, deal with it like a Mafia Boss should."

"But, but..." the future Boss looked at the big, traditional Japanese home in front of them, "I mean, coming to Hibari-san's house!?"

"Hibari is a part of your Family too, it's normal."

"Hibari-san is...he's terrifying! It's..." He stopped when the front gate opened. Luciana was looking at them with a raised eyebrow. "Senpai!"

"It is I." She looked down at the plastic bag in his hand. "Oh, thanks for bringing it. You'll thank you mom for me. Come on in." They followed her in the rich looking house and into the kitchen. She put the soup in the microwave and turned to them. "Want something to drink? Tetsuya went to the pharmacy to buy some stuff and Kyoya's sleeping."

"You know your way in this kitchen it seems." She shrugged at Reborn's comment.

"Are you dating Hibari-san?" Tsuna asked her spontaneously. She looked at him, clearly dumbfounded at the sudden question, but Reborn jumped from his shoulder to the table.

"Actually, I am curious too Luciana. What is your relationship with Hibari Kyoya exactly? I heard from Ryohei you already knew him when you arrived in Namimori." She rolled her eyes in exasperation.

"Of course he would say that...we're not dating, it's more like a partnership rival friends type of relationship. I spend a lot of time with him because of the aftermath of the Nishimuras and I was the only challenging person when I came in Japan, so he kept bugging me for fights."

"It doesn't answer a part of the question." She averted her eyes to the window, humidifying her lips. "Hibari doesn't like people but he doesn't mind you being around him so much."

"Well I've met him five years ago Reborn." Reborn frowned and something flashed in his dark eyes whereas Tsuna was lost.

"I see. It would explain a lot then." The microwave beeped.

"If you'll excuse me, I have to make sure Kyoya can walk so that I can take him to the hospital. I'm not his fucking personal nurse." They nodded and started leaving. "By the way Reborn. That thing you wanna do? Don't count on me, especially knowing none of this men will be around."

Tsuna felt a shiver ran down his spine at Reborn's smirk.

He had a bad feeling about what Luciana had turned down.

"It's way faster than me taking care of you," I noted, sitting next to Kyoya's bed at the hospital. "It's almost...as if professionals were taking care of you!"

"Shut up, will you?" I shot a quick look at the boys on the floor, quietly whimpering in pain.

"And them?"

He didn't answer, settling for sitting on the bed, feet on the floor and book in hands, his back to me. I stuck my tongue at him when the door opened, revealing Tsunayoshi.

"Hibari-san!?"

"Yo," Kyoya replied, raising his head.

"What are you doing here!? Did your flu get worse!?"

"No, I just wanted to make sure it was healing correctly." I slightly gaped at the lie. I was the one bugging him to go to the hospital because the flu lasted for quite a while. I stood up, grabbed my bag and started to leave.

"Hiiiee senpai!? I didn't see you!" I stopped and gave him a pointed look. Between him and Kyoya I swear…I pointed my thumb at the jerk behind me.

"He's impossible to live with, good luck."

Later that day, I heard it had not ended in a good way.

No surprise here.

Valentine's Day came quickly. It was very annoying. The worst was how some first-years, girls in love with Hayato but mostly Takeshi, came at me and threatened me to make my life a living-hell if I had some sort of romantic feelings toward them.

I laughed and left. Seriously, they were babies!

Once school was over, I went to my locker. A letter fell to the floor as I grabbed shoes.

"A secret admirer senpai?" I looked up, the letter in my hand, and shrugged at Takeshi.

"Maybe someone is not scared of my frightening reputation or friendship with Kyoya." Once I had put my shoes on, I closed my locker and zipped up my coat, slipping the letter in my bag. "How did your day go? Chocolate overdose?" He laughed, rubbing the back of his head as we left the building.

"I left some in my desk, I couldn't bring all of them home! By the way, have you seen Tsuna?" I shook my head. "He left in a hurry in class, in his underwear." I sighed. It was Reborn. This had Reborn all over it. "I'm going to his place, wanna come?"

"No thanks, I have plans with Kyoya." His smile felt forced.

"You...do you guys have a date?" I gave him a strange look and laughed.

"Hell no! I go to my place to change clothes and then it's patrolling the town until the evening for you-know-what. And...I have a letter to read." I made a turn. "And be careful of Bianchi's cooking!"

Needless to say that patrolling on Valentine's Day was annoying. Everyone was all lovey-dovey and old people were whispering about us. It was…

I looked down, seeing I-Pin running away behind Kyoya, who had been a little behind me. My eyes went to the widest possible when he turned back to me, a gentle smile on his face. I rubbed my eyes, thinking I was hallucinating, but no, Kyoya was smiling at the box of chocolates in his hand.

"You have a heart!" He ignored my comment and walked past me. "We're on the same level now, I got a love letter in my locker!"

"Have you read it?"

"Not yet but..."

"Then how can you know it's a love letter?" he asked me, looking at me from the corner of his eyes.

"It's the day for that! I'll read it right away!" The letter was barely out of the envelope that he stole it from me, reading it without a care in the world. He even stopped walking, his free hand on my face to keep me from getting closer.

He frowned, his smile gone. Too bad, it was quite a gorgeous sight a Hibari Kyoya smiling.

"Humph, such herbivorous feelings..." I brightened up, a grin on my face.

"It is a love letter then! Is it signed!?"

I didn't get an answer as there was ruckus near-by. I went to deal with it and forgot about the letter until I got home. I cursed Kyoya out loud.

He never gave it back to me.

I woke up with a start, my TV still playing, my black blanket still on me. Someone was ringing at my apartment repeatedly. I got up, my blanket wrapped around me like a cocoon.

"Coming..." I grumbled to myself. I grabbed the phone harshly. "What?" I barked.

"Sen...senpai is it a bad time?" I let him in with a groan. I went back in my couch as Tsunayoshi appeared in my apartment, with Reborn, his two loyal friends and…

"Fuuta?" He grinned and ran at me with his book against his chest. He put his book on my coffee table and made his way against my side under the blanket, snuggling against my arm. "What are you doing here?"

"I asked Tsuna-nii for help!" I frowned.

"People were following you again?" He nodded, I sighed and looked at Tsunayoshi. "Thanks for helping him."

"How do you know him?"

"I helped him too, a few years back, on a mission." I was still sore from Reborn's training this morning, and tired, so they better leave and fast. Tsunayoshi must have understood that because he hurried them to leave, telling me he was leaving Fuuta in my care.

"Fuuta, would you do me a favor? It's...quite a big one actually, and personal."

"What is it?"

"I'd need a ranking." Under his expecting hazelnut gaze, I continued. "About Vendicare." He widened his eyes and nodded slowly, gulping. "I need to know what would get me in there."

Mukuro had just given me a sign he was alive in my dreams and wanted to get out soon, pretty soon.

Damn, I was diving straight into troubles for that guy.

Fratellanza

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