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

Fratellanza

"...hi..." Tsuna mumbled nervously. Arro blinked at him, still at the door.

"Sawada? What are yo..." He didn't finish his sentence that a certain baby kicked him in the face.

"Reborn, did you really have to do that!?" the Vongola shrieked, helping the Italian up. He was grumbling in English, rubbing his face.

"The hell Reborn?"

"You have been here for the entire conflict Bakarro, right?"

"Yeah? Someone had to fill in for Lulu."

"And you were in Italy before, right?"

"Yeah?"

"How long has it been since you went to school?" Arro pursed his lips.

"Huh...months?" Reborn clicked his tongue.

"As a home teacher I can't let a teenager go on without any education." A pile of books were set down next to him. "Don't worry, I made sure it was the Mafia School of Chicago curriculum." Tsuna pitied the older teenager. "And I made arrangements concerning school."

"Arrangements?" They both felt a shiver running down their spine at the baby's smirk.

The next day, Tsuna sighed when he saw Hibari running after Arro, now wearing their uniform.

"Was it De Luca?" Gokudera asked in wonder. "Isn't he a little too old to be in middle-school?"

"Reborn," Tsuna sighed.

"He...maybe he was the reason so many people were whispering among themselves this morning. A lot of girls were gossiping about a foreign exchange student with silver hair and blue eyes."

"Wait...baseball freak that's literally his description!" Yamamoto blinked innocently.

"Someone else could have been like that Gokudera!"

Tsuna listened to them bickering.

Hibari would destroy everything with Arro in his school.

I frowned at the paper in my hand.

"It is real," Alaric assured me.

"It's a wedding invitation." Dino nodded. "For Bianchi and Reborn." He nodded again.

Of course, once back in Namimori with Dino and Alaric, I was still repeating this part.

"A wedding. For Bianchi and Reborn. A wedding. For Bi..." Alaric sighed once inside my apartment.

"Ciaossu!" I ran to Reborn, sitting in my couch.

"You're getting married!?" He loudly sipped his coffee.

"Dino asked me the same thing. Bianchi seemed happy yesterday." I hit my forehead with the palm of my hand. "Back in Namimori I see?"

"As if you didn't know already. Seriously, what's going on? You can't even get married!"

"I'm not, I have something in mind." I blinked. "You're helping me. I also recruited Fuuta."

"...what the..." I heard the door shutting behind me and sweat dropped. Alaric just ran for his life, didn't he?

Obviously, during the 'ceremony', I was waiting for Fuuta to get here with my Boss, watching everything happening down there in an indigo dress and short black heels. It was…

Urgh. Reborn took my phone to keep any contact between Dino and I from happening.

I was bored.

"Luciana!" I looked behind me to see Iemitsu, in a white tux, Fuuta in a black one by his side.

Needless to say, I stuffed myself as much as I could once at my brother's and Tsunayoshi's table.

"By the way senpai, are you staying in Japan?" Tsunayoshi asked me curiously. "Reborn told me he wasn't sure if you would come back." I gave him a sly smirk, my chin in my hand.

"Hehh...I knew you had a thing for me Tsunayoshi." He looked at me as if a second head had grown whereas Dino choked on his food. "Ever since you saw me in my bra..."

"Wait what!?" my brother almost yelled, glaring at Tsunayoshi who was red of shame. "Tsuna, you spied on my sister changing!?"

"It was an accident!" I chuckled at them.

"I'm staying." They stopped and looked at me. "I'll explain more in details later on, with Reborn, but I'm staying, most probably until Reborn leaves too."

I was not going to lie, the happy smile Tsunayoshi had because of the news made me happy.

"Hiiieeee!" I raised my hand to greet Tsunayoshi, casually laying on his bed, Reborn sitting on his desk. "Senpai!"

"Y...Arro?" He grinned and pounced on me, but I rolled off the bed. I widened my eyes at the Nami-chuu uniform. "What...your clothes..." He raised his head, pointing an angry finger at Reborn.

"He's making me go to school Lulu!" He flailed his arms around as if it was the end of the world. "Can you believe that!? I have to study way too much to catch up and now I have to go to middle school!? I'm a senior in high-school!"

"Are you sure? You weren't there at the end of the school year." There was a heavy silence.

"But...but..."

"Anyway, you're staying here for some time." He raised his brows at me and I sat down at Tsunayoshi's coffee table, gesturing the two boys to do the same. "Your Boss and Iemitsu talked and it has been decided you will stay here until January at least," I told my best friend.

"Why?" he whispered quietly, more serious out of sudden.

"Because of me in a way, and my new mission." I grinned at Tsunayoshi and he had the good reflex to move back a little. "Now Tsunayoshi, you know I was sent here to keep an eye on you and choose potential Guardians that would be accepted or not, right?"

"Yes," he replied, his hands on his feet, his legs crossed. "But it's over then?"

"Yes, and no. I have a...an extension of my mission as I told you...at the wedding..." The sound of Reborn drinking his coffee was a lot louder for a second. "I was under house arrest because of my time in Vendicare, and Arro...it wasn't even help really...anyway, what happened with the VARIA would be very important. It seems like I did a good job, and I'm more useful here anyway, so I now have the mission to teach you and your Guardians how to be a Family." He was clearly dubious of that. "Yeah, my reaction was the same. As an ex-Guardian and stuff, I know what's expected of them or something like that."

"You stopped listening at some point, didn't you?" Tsunayoshi guessed with a deadpan. I puffed my cheeks.

"There were two birds fighting outside." I pointed my thumb at Arro. "This one will help, like Alaric, because they synchronized their Flames with mine years ago. You don't know a lot about them, but just remember the flames the rings made?"

"Ha, alright. They're important," he stated, looking at his closed fists.

"Do I have to go in depths about Flame theory?" Arro asked me, leaning back on his hands.

"Maybe not now." Tsunayoshi ruffled his hair furiously.

"Come on, the battles just ended that we have more to do! We're not a Family!"

"See it as a friendship test then!" Arro cried out, pulling me against him as I looked away. "You guys should be at our lever of friendship one day!"

"She doesn't seem like she wants to be here..." the Vongola muttered under his breath, which got me a cheek pulled by Arro.

"She likes doing that." I got rid of him and sighed.

"So, homework to do?" They both signed and I grabbed Arro's History book. A Mafia one, of course. "Wow, I haven't seen one of these in years!"

"You might find some interesting things in his book," Reborn pipped up, now standing on the table whereas Tsunayoshi was already sighing at the sight of his math sheet. "It's more focused on America, you never know when it might be useful."

"Damn Reborn, I'm done with school!" Something dangerous glimmered his eyes.

"You're lucky I didn't drop university-level work on you." I paled slightly.

"Oh..." Reborn smirked and turned his attention to Arro.

"Go page one hundred twenty-five Arro." He did and shouted in surprise. I leaned over and blinked several time.

"Wow we're famous!" I commented, reading through the page about CEDEF.

"Heh...the chapter is about important organizations I think..."

"Damn Iemitsu is not that impressive in real life!" The book disappeared from my hands and landed in Tsunayoshi's, who was glaring at the words. "You...understand?"

"I understand they clearly don't know the guy!" he groaned, his eyes almost burning through the poor book.

You bet knowing a book was complimenting the dad who's been absent your whole life but having the language barrier keeping you from debunking what's written is frustrating.

We were invited for dinner, but it turned out Nana had lost her wallet. I offered, and almost forced her to accept, to pay. I was pretty sure Tsunayoshi mumbled something about 'freeloaders', but Reborn kicked him in the forehead.

Kyoya seemed satisfied of what he was seeing.

"It almost feels nostalgic to wear it again," I admitted to him, making sure my red armband was secured on my sleeve. "Do I have a cover story for my absence?"

"The baby said something about family issues in Italy," he replied before yawning.

"By the way, how has it been having Arro running around?" I felt sweat running down my temple as I could almost see the deadly aura around him.

"That...stupid..." I raised my hands in front of me.

"Yeah I get it, he's annoying." I was so used to him now…

"I have to decide of your punishment." I stepped back in fake surrender when he got up, tonfa in hands but a grin was spreading on my lips.

"Kyo-chan, it was against my will!"

Of course, it ended in a fight on the roof, but unlike before, I found myself enjoying this a lot more. Kyoya was a lot stronger than before, so I was mixing illusions with my martial art with the Flame of Wrath. I couldn't use my gun at school after all, and it was something Kyoya was not about to allow anyway.

I spotted an opening in his guard and went for it, Kyoya seeing too late he was going to be hit. A yellow feathery ball appearing in my trajectory wasn't planned though, so I tripped myself to avoid it. I fell flat on my face, but I didn't hurt the bird.

"Hibari! Hibari!" I raised fuming eyes to him, who was eyeing me in pity.

"You cheated!" He raised a daring brow at me.

"You lost." I got up and stuck my tongue at him. He would have attacked me again if it wasn't for the bell. His tonfa disappeared under his jacket.

"Go to class."

"Don't stay outside or you'll get sick!" I told him as I took off to class.

Of course people were surprised to see I was back. Of course I ignored them. Hopefully, even this year my seat was next to the window. I wasn't behind Ryohei anymore, who was on the second row.

We were barely ten minutes in class that someone opened the door.

"De Luca! You're late again!" our teacher lectured him, who rubbed the back of his head sheepishly.

"Sorry sensei!" Hum...he was accentuating his accent. He pointed at an empty with a very fake smile because I knew for a fact he couldn't care less about being here. "Can I go to my seat behind Aiya-chan?" Said girl, with round glasses, short brown hair and brow eyes, blushed furiously.

The teacher sighed and told him to do so.

During the entire morning, girls were whispering among themselves and shooting Arro glances, blushing when he would smile back at them. Right, the guy's looks screamed even more 'foreigner' than my looks.

However, hearing them gushing about Arro was hilariously annoying. They shouldn't judge a book by its cover, because I knew he didn't care about them. Arro, because he lacked attention after his father passed away in his childhood, craved people's attention in public areas. Well, 'craving' was a little bit strong, but if he was the center of attention he would enjoy it as much as he could.

"It's been like that since his first day?" I asked Ryohei when he gave me what I had missed because Kyoko told him he should do that for me. She was an angel, and from the handwriting she rewrote the History lessons. I would buy her something.

"Yeah, De Luca is extremely popular with everyone!" I sighed in spite of myself. I couldn't say I was surprised of his behavior.

When the bell rang for lunch, I went to the DC room. After many 'please', Kyoya accepted to get a mini-fridge and microwave inside because I was sick of always eating cold at lunch.

He wasn't complaining about it when he had a lunch better eaten hot knowing he would literally call me sometimes to make him something.

"Leftovers of curry chicken from last night with pasta and some carrots and peas," I told him, putting the two tupperwares in the microwave. He called me last night after all to make him lunch.

I often accepted because I didn't like wasting food and if Kyoya was willing to eat it, then so be it.

It was not bad. The vegetables tasted a little bit bland, but the rest was good. Hibari raised his eyes on Luciana once he was done. She was sitting on the couch, immobile and spacing out with her fork in her mouth, staring at nothing. He frowned.

She rarely was like this when she was eating, especially considering she barely touched her meal.

He stood up and sat next to her, ready to say something but instead, he found himself with the Italian's head on his lap as she stretched out her legs on the couch.

"You use me as a pillow when you have the chance, let me have this one," she whispered, her hair hiding her face.

Something was seriously wrong with her. She fell asleep pretty quickly and he kept staring at her and her regular breathing.

He was stuck here. If he moved she would wake up, he wouldn't hear the end of it and just thinking about it was annoying. He was Hibari Kyoya, he was feared by many yet the thought of Luciana angry at him for waking her up when she was preoccupied by something was very disturbing. She wouldn't scream at him or anything, she would most likely or be cold with him and stayed in his presence only if needed or she would just plainly ignore him.

He didn't like any of the options.

At least, when they were close like this, he didn't have to worry about Arroganza stealing her attention from him.

The first time he even heard of her, it was through his mother actually. One of his uncle's friends, Reborn he later discovered, had asked Fon to train her personally, implying she was interesting. His uncle had confirmed she was a great student. He had not care much about it as he was stuck in Tokyo.

His father's wife was European. A yakuza heir could not not be Asian, so his mother was whisked away from Namimori to bear the man's heir. For ten years, he grew up surrounded by luxury and outstanding teachers, his father allowing his mother to take him to Namimori for a few weeks a year.

Even if he saw her rarely, he loved his mother dearly. There was no pressure when he was in Namimori. He was not be greeted by the coldness of the mansion when he would wake up but by the warm smell of breakfast. One day though, his mother refused to return him. She was not defenseless, being the sister of the Storm Arcobaleno taught you one or two things, yet when he got home one day, he found her laying in a pool of her own blood. Her silky black hair was spread around her head, sticky blood coating it as her eyes stared at him, lifeless, an ugly wound on her chest.

Fon was here in just a few hours after he called him and he was in China mourning his mother for several weeks. He had totally forgotten about the girl his age living under his uncle's roof. The first time he was met with two ruby eyes and a broken English, he thought he was seeing things. Then he remembered and left her inside.

She had red eyes though. How uncommon was it to have red eyes? He would look at her sometimes, her doing the same with him, to analyze her and try to understand. She didn't seem like much but a regular European kid if it wasn't for the eyes. It changed the moment he fought her.

She was strong. She was strong like him and had seen things, like him. He briefly thought she was a fraud when he had her pinned to the ground, but he realized he was wrong when he felt his chest heating up dangerously, her palm shining with an orange light.

She was ready to kill him and it made him realize he was mistaken about her.

She didn't seem like much but was dangerous. She was a carnivore, like him.

Even if she looked stupid when she realized he spoke perfect Mandarin.

For the first time in his life though, he had someone who was an actual challenge. They often sparred with each other, or teamed up against his uncle, where he discovered she could disappear too. He could get stronger like this, and one day he would avenge his mother.

In parallel to this, he knew his uncle was refraining himself from going to his father himself to assassinate him, knowing there was no way he was going to send his nephew back to the man who killed his sister. Fon couldn't just kill Hide though, but Hide could not ignore the fact an Arcobaleno wanted his head and could very easily ask his 'colleagues' to help him with that. It was decided Hibari would live in Namimori, but under the Nishimura's watch.

Namimori was a town his mother loved dearly and knowing his father's men were there pushed him to make this town his territory.

A territory had to be protected.

Hence, the moment he saw Luciana coming inside the house, a wounded bird in her hands, he decided something. After they took care of it, she kept staring at it and he was looking at her.

Carnivores could be enemies like they could team up. He would need someone by his side to rule over Namimori. She would rule by his side one day, carnivores had to stick by their kind after all.

Sure, she lived in Italy but he would work out the details later. From that day on, he decided she would be his carnivore and nothing would change his mind. Not even the amused smiles there were on his uncle's and aunt's face.

When he saw she was in his school years later, he was surprised but glad. He had been busy with Namimori and had not thought much of his childhood resolution. However, now he would have a challenging opponent.

She was. A little bit too much actually. Unlike him, she had had opponents who gave her troubles in the past and progressed more than him and it was unnerving. He was not going to stop fighting with her, because he would get better then and beat her.

He harassed her to be a part of his Committee though. If she patrolled Namimori, it would be a great help for him, but also she was a part of the Italian Mafia and her in Namimori was strange. He later found out she was watching a scrawny kid, heir to the Vongola Family, and he faintly pitied said Family for having such an heir.

Then she encountered the Nishimuras and they...discovered too much about each other. They became closer though, and it was basically mandatory in this case as they were stuck together in the situation. He got used to her presence, his house was not as cold as it once was as she would pop in unannounced, like he did at her place. She was his anyway, so it was normal she spent most of her time with him.

Until Arroganza came in town, provoked him on purpose and fought back easily. Another strong opponent had appeared, but he didn't like the way he was hanging around his carnivore, making innuendos about her or him, so he never said it out loud. He was a nuisance and would remain one. Who did he think he was? Sure, he helped when they cleaned Namimori from the Nishimuras, but he was the most annoying person Hibari had ever met.

Once Reborn arrived, everything changed. Sure, Namimori was safer now, but Luciana spent too much time with the herbivores. The worst was when Haneuma was in town, whining to spend time with his little sister he saw so rarely now.

Then she helped a childhood friend. Sure, why not, she did what she wanted as long as it didn't bother him. Mukuro bothered him a lot though. Not only did he make a fool out of him, but he was awfully close to what was his and treated her like an animal in cage who was misbehaving. What angered him the most though was how she clearly wasn't fighting him back.

Reborn later told him, when he was in the hospital nursing his wounded pride, Mukuro was an Estraneo test subject too. Sure, it explained why she helped him, but not why she didn't even try to fight back. She was in jail and it was not okay with him.

How could he make her rule by his sides if she was locked up? How selfish was it of her to become a part of his life and disappear from one day to the next?

The herbivores were providing with a little entertainment but still, the months where she was absent were extremely dull. On some nights, he even surprised himself remembering of the moment they had been the closest and kissed, even if it was an accident. Her lips had been cold, like her nose touching his face, but they had a nice sugary taste to them. He couldn't pinpoint what it was exactly that she had broken the kiss.

She avoided him afterward, the idiot.

When she came back, he cornered her and made it known he was angry at her for her behavior. Then, he said things he never thought he would say out loud, about how he would not let anyone take what was his anymore.

This oblivious moron didn't understand what he was implying. When he discovered Arroganza had been with her all along except for when she was in jail, his whole body was overwhelmed by anger. He was possessive, it was in his nature and of course Luciana was a target of it. He wanted her in the Committee just to have her near him after all.

He hated the fact the herbivores got into troubles again and that he had to participate in it. Sure, he had the opportunity to fight, but his carnivore showed how weak she could be and he hated it. He hated how there was nothing he could do about it but win a stupid ring.

He loathed the fact he had been denied something that could have made her his for good. That stupid Arroganza could be one of her elements, he had more respect for the German guy calling her 'Miss', but not him? Wasn't he good enough for her? What did the moron have he didn't?

He was jealous. This fact dropped on him like a bucket of icy water. Sure, Arroganza had asked him if he liked Luciana and he scoffed, but the moment he implied he could ask her out the tonfas were out. As if he would let anyone have her in that way.

Hibari looked down when she turned around, burying her face in his stomach. She was...popular in a way. His presence kept boys from asking her out, even if it didn't keep a certain baseball player to slip a love letter in her locker. He threw it out the moment he was at home.

Did he...like her? The anger and jealousy boiling inside of him after he learned about Flame synchronization were still fresh in his mind, just like the fact if he took his eye off of her for one second she could pass out and get hurt. He didn't mind if he was the one hurting her, but he was the only one allowed to bite her to death.

A smirk flourished on his lips, one of his hands unconsciously burying itself in her black and soft hair. He did bite her, on the wrist, and then licked the biting marks slowly to enjoy the feeling of her warm skin under his lips for as long as possible, finding joy in feeling her shivering because of his tongue. A part of him wanted his tongue to explore other spots to see if she would have the same reaction, if her face would turn as red as it did.

They almost kissed. She wanted to be kissed, he saw it, but he had smirked and used her as a pillow instead, enjoying the warmth of her body against his and how soft she was in his arms. She made him feel a lot of emotions he was not used to, it was just payback not to give her something she wanted.

He would take his time before giving in. Even if now, sleeping on his lap, he wanted to bite her in the neck and hear her moan. The naked skin between her socks and skirt, even if it was so little, was just making him want to see more.

"Heh...Hibari you're creepy." Of course he would be interrupted by the Termite, who was put off by his smirk and gaze on Luciana. Hibari scowled at him.

"Get out."

"No, the girls are annoying."

"I don't care, get out before I bite you to death."

"Bu..." The Italian girl sat up, blinking sleepily.

"That asshole..." they heard her muttering as she got up. "I won't be able to patrol tonight."

On this note, she left them.

"Did you notice anything weird about her?" Arro asked him more seriously. "She was spacing out a lot last night. Maybe something happened in Italy but..."

Hibari attacked him.

They were just fine before he showed up and he would bite him to death for that. Maybe, maybe there were times where he found Arroganza bearable, but they were rare, so it always ended up in fights.

"They're crazy! They're insane!" a red-headed teenager screamed, running past me at an incredible speed as I was going at Tsunayoshi's. When I reached the place, I sweat dropped.

It was a circus, they scared the shit out of the guy.

Should I worry about my mental health as I was totally numb at Reborn's outfit?

"Blond hair?" I asked him as I joined him.

"You're late."

"I was with Kyoko, I bought her a cake as a thanks for my lessons." I leaned on the law wall surrounding the Sawada's front yard. "So, why did you call me?"

"I have to leave Namimori for a short while. I have taken measures to keep Namimori protected even if I'm not here myself, so don't worry about that. I just need you to take care of Tsuna and his friends."

"You're making it sound as if they couldn't..." My eyes found Tsunayoshi, on the ground in his underwear, passed out. "Why do you need to leave?"

"I need to check something about your dreams." I frowned. "I won't say too much because I am not sure yet, but that's what I am going to do."

"In Italy?" He nodded and I pursed my lips. "Would it be too much to ask you something Reborn?"

"What?"

"Can you...get me something?"

He didn't show anything at my request, listening and agreeing in the end.

The next day, Tsunayoshi was at a loss as I stood outside his house.

"Senpai?"

"Reborn told you I was in charge until he comes back?" He nodded hesitantly and I showed him a paper. "Good, because I spent hours making a program!" He paled and I received Fuuta easily as he hugged me around the waist. "Hey you."

"Luciana-nee, good morning!" I saw the kid, I-pin, hiding behind Tsunayoshi's legs as Lambo was climbing on him. "What are you doing here?"

"Well, today I'm helping Tsunayoshi babysitting you three!"

"HEEE!?" the latter screamed in disbelief.

"Indeed, eat breakfast and get dressed, you're spending your Saturday with us starting 10:00 am."

I couldn't stop grinning at his distress.

Fratellanza

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