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

Fratellanza

The first thing I saw when I opened my eyes was Kyoya's peaceful face very close to mine. He looked very peaceful. I gulped and his eyes were opened in an instant.

"Mo...morning?" I said nervously. He blinked, still clearly sleepy, and pulled a hand from under the covers.

I was on the floor the second after.

"The hell!?" He yawned, stretching out.

"I'm hungry. Go make breakfast." I jumped on my feet.

"I don't..." His gaze made me shut up. "I don't usually cook Japanese breakfast..."

"I'm hungry. Bring me my breakfast." I did, grumbling all the way. I settled for pancakes and tea, with jam on the side. The green tea made the breakfast Japanese, right?

When I gave him the tray, he looked at it silently.

I twitched when he sighed after the first bite.

"Too much sugar," he noted dully. I bit back the come back I had for him.

Needless to say, I hated the whole day. He made me do his paperwork or anything he didn't want to do and kept saying I was doing everything wrong.

You'd think eating a good yakiniku with him would...fix the whole day, even if he was having too much fun with the whole situation, but he casually told the waitress I would pay for it all.

"You're a jerk," I kept muttering, walking with my head low behind him. As it was November, the sun was long gone by now. "You enjoy getting me riled up way too much." No reply. "I'm not talking to you anymore."

"Good."

I did.

I didn't say a word until later in the night. He was casually laying in his bed and I jumped next to him, making him bounce on the mattress.

"You really don't care I don't want to talk to you when you're the one who said I had to spend the whole day with you!" He shot me an annoyed look.

"You can't not talk to me for so long."

"Well, aren't you being a smug bastard now?" I replied, turning my back to him, my feet on the floor. "I'll sleep els..."

My breath was caught in my throat when I was pressed against a warm chest, strong arms around my waist keeping me from moving. Kyoya was nuzzling my neck, me shivering each time he was exhaling against my skin.

"Now, if I wanted you to sleep somewhere else I wouldn't have let you inside this room," he whispered in my ear in a deep voice. I swallowed with difficulty, my hands clenching around his arms as I ducked my head, blushing. My heart was beating too fast. "Midnight hasn't come yet."

"Kyo...ya..." I stuttered and he blew in my ear. I squeezed my legs together, unknown heat pooling in my lower stomach.

"Luciana," he replied, still in my ear.

His hair was tickling me but I couldn't care less. I felt very hot, my cheeks were burning. I started breathing faster when I felt his nose going down my neck, unconsciously tilting my head on the side to give him more space. He seemed to appreciate because I immediately arched my back against him when his tongue was on my skin.

A strangled moan escaped my lips and his arms tightened around my waist, fingers digging in my sides, his tongue going up and down my neck painfully slowly.

"More," I moaned as his teeth grazed my awaiting flesh. He hummed, cold slender fingers going up my right arm. He was giving me goosebumps and making me feel things I...had never felt before. Was it...was it sexual arousal? Was it what it was? I was craving for more of his touch, for more heat, for…

He tilted my head back, his mouth suddenly right under my jaw. I moaned again, louder, his name coming out of my mouth like a plea for more.

"More you say?" he asked me, his lips against my throat and he smirked when I swallowed.

"Mor...Kyoya..." His teeth were nibbling the crook of my neck. His fingers were at the strap of my tank top when his other hand slipped under it. I widened my eyes, my body going rigid.

He noticed quickly I was unresponsive. Before he could ask what was happening, I elbowed him in the stomach and ran to the other side of the room, curling up on myself, hugging myself. I was shaking and when I shot Kyoya a look, I realized he was stunned, but not angry.

I...his hand on my stomach was...it was...cold like…

"Shit," I heard him curse under his breath, standing up.

"No!" He stopped, my eyes wide in fright. "No...it...it will pass...just...give me some time..."

It was violent. Last time I had a crisis that violent, it was not long after I arrived in China and Feng grabbed me a little bit too roughly.

Breath in, breath out.

It was a long time ago. I was with Kyoya. It was safe.

My body was my own, nobody will do things to it without my consent.

I repeated this as a mantra under my breath, hugging my knees to my chest, for long minutes until my breathing relaxed. My body stopped shaking and broke out of its defensive mode.

"It's the abdomen the worst," Kyoya suddenly said, a lot closer. I looked up with tired eyes. He was right next to me, one knee on the floor, eyes unreadable. I nodded stiffly.

"It's...over clothes is fine, it's just..." I bit the inside of my cheek. I killed the mood. "Are you mad?" He was quiet but ended up sighing.

"Not at you stupid." I smiled faintly and raised surprised eyes when he took my tattooed ankle in his hand.

"Kyoya?" He lifted the bottom of my pants and put his lips on my tattoo, sucking on the skin. I blushed furiously. "Kyoya!?" Once he was done, he picked me up as if it was nothing.

He put me in bed without a word. I watched him do the same and close his eyes while still facing me. I pursed my lips and took his wrist in my hand. He opened his eyes, parting his lips to ask me what I was doing but I was biting on his wrist before he could.

His skin was warm. I could even feel his blood pulsing in his veins, it felt weird. Weird, but not unpleasant, I would even describe it as satisfying.

I moved my head back and let go of his wrist, cloudy steel-colored eyes staring at me. I smiled a little.

"Pay back." He huffed and closed his eyes. I did the same shortly after.

Arro was right, wasn't he? I liked Kyoya.

I...had feelings for him. Nobody made me feel like he did and...damn, Kyoya liked having his personal space at all time, yet here I was in his bed…

Arro and I went to the Sawadas on the day where we celebrated Mama's hard work. He made me play the piano while he sang. Now I was at Alaric's, Reborn also present.

"I couldn't find a book, but I think I gathered enough for you," Reborn told me, giving me a folder. I opened it and took the paper sheets, Italian words giving me a sense of comfort. "Now, is it true?"

"What her uncle said about the inheritance?" Alaric replied as I was reading the papers carefully. "I think so."

"If it is, she won't be able to run forever."

"I agree," I told them, my finger on a sentence. "Shit, it's true. Listen to that: 'If the heir of a Family is, for some reasons, sent away from the Family, said Family is legitimate in using any kind of ways to recover the heir. Affiliations to other organizations or adoption by a third party are automatically obsolete if they are not allied with the Family recovering their heir. If they encounter resistance in the recovery, the Vindice are allowed to intervene, if not forced to in case of lost lives caused by the resistant party.'" It cast a chill. "They...fuck, they have been...our laws allow that kind of shit!?" Reborn sighed.

"They're not fair Luciana, you should know that."

"I know but..."

"The Boss won't call the Vindice for that case." Reborn and I looked at Alaric, who had his arms crossed and a frown on his face. "I mean, during the Trial, they clearly stated he should have been sent in Vendicare years ago now. He won't do something that will force you to go in Spain if he can't… 'train' you to be the Boss."

"Can't you tell me the name of this damned Family?"

"Omertà, as long as you're a part of another organization he's not allowed to tell you," Reborn reminded me.

"I know," I grunted through my teeth. "Xanxus is...out of danger though?"

"Yes. From what I gathered, from the moment he was adopted your father gave up all rights on him Miss. This includes his own rights as the first heir." I sighed in relief.

"It's a sick version of a custody battle in the end," I whispered, falling on the chair. "By the way, anything about the dreams?" Reborn pursed his lips.

"Yes." I widened my eyes, drawing the chair closer to him in a scraping sound. "Nothing I can tell you though."

"What!?"

"I'm forbidden to," he confessed with a hint of frustration.

"Let me guess, the Tri-ni-sette hierarchy came into action?" He nodded somberly. "Seriously, I don't want any of it..."

"Unfortunately, I don't think you have a choice but handle it the best you can right now. We need to keep an eye out for any...inconvenience."

"The Nishimuras are situated in Tokyo," Alaric added.

"Oh joy..."

The next day, I received a call from Tsunayoshi as I was patrolling on my own, asking me if I had seen Reborn. I barely hung up after saying 'no' that pink smoke surrounded me.

"Seriously, Dino's overreacting," I sighed, looking at another text I received. "Xanxus' a lot more chill." Arro snickered.

"Yeah, he'll show up next week you mean." I chuckled. Xanxus was totally capable of doing that. "It's only a year off in college anyway, they'll survive."

"I hope so." We entered the dorms. Dino wanted me to have an apartment to myself and I accepted, even if I still had the one in Namimori.

I sighed softly. Good old Namimori.

"Hello, are you my roommate?" I blinked at the guy around our age in Arro's room, unpacking his suitcase. Arro walked to him before me to shake his hand.

"Yeah, Arroganza De Luca but call me Arro!" The guy chuckled a little and nodded. He had a mop of purplish white hair with lilac eyes and a weird purple mark under his eye. I narrowed my eyes at him. My glasses were on my nose, but I just...had the feeling I had seen him somewhere before.

"I'm Byakuran, nice to meet you." He tilted his head on the side, smiling at me above Arro's shoulder. "And you?"

"Luciana," I replied dully, walking next to Arro. "Not girlfriend before you ask, best friend for years only." Something I didn't like spark in his eyes.

"Good to know!"

I wasn't even surprised to see him often. Not in Arro's room, of course he'd be here, but in my classes. He was nice, don't get me wrong, there was just something...so familiar about him.

Needless to say, when he introduced me to Shoichi who was from my Namimori, I cursed Tsunayoshi's luck for having rubbed off on me.

"How is your training with Reborn going?" I gritted my teeth at Aria.

"Really? You're not going to talk about this new Gesso Family? Reborn really?" I rummaged through my purse to get a cigarette. She kept me from using my lighter.

"Please, Uni is taking a nap right now." Right, I was at her personal residence. I ran a hand through my hair instead.

"Yeah well...your daughter is...shit...that dream was different, I wasn't in it!" Aria kept staring at me. "I wasn't dammit! Everybody was but not me whereas I always see things from her perspective!"

"'How' is not the question, what matters is the information you have now." I looked at my phone when it rang. I had a text from Kyoya telling me Tsuna wanted to talk to me asap.

"Come on, my mere existence changes everything! That stupid ring...Byakuran knows, he knows, he's always known!"

"Still, do you think bringing their past versions could work?" I flailed my arms around.

"I don't know Aria! Maybe he had that dream too and..." I stopped talking when the door was opened by a sleepy-head. Aria stood up to see her daughter and I pursed my lips at her walk.

It was soon. She told me Sky Arcobalenos were cursed with a short life-span, she...soon it would be her turn and then Uni would take over.

"Ana-nee?" I smiled softly at the kid and took a Mexican pack of candies from my purse.

"Hey, I was in Mexico with Uncle Reborn not long ago, I brought back some spicy sweets." I gave her and she grinned at me.

"Thank you! Are you still traveling with him?"

"Yeah, I'm pretty sure I'm going to spend months in Africa soon." Reborn's training as a hitman was harsh and brutal, nothing to do with Dino's or Tsuna's. Arro wanted to tag along and, yes he did improve by a lot, but he complained all the way.

The kid, Uni, was important too. But in the end she…

Damn that future.

I stood behind Tsuna, next to Takeshi, the three of us in black suits as I spotted purplish white hair entering the restaurant. He waved at us and Tsuna stood up from his chair.

"Vongola Decimo, it's a pleasure to meet you!" Byakuran exclaimed, shoving a bag of marshmallows in his face. "Want some?"

"No thank you Gesso-san," Tsuna replied. He looked at us above his shoulder. "This is my Guardian, Yamamoto Takeshi, and I believe you already know Ana." He grinned at me.

"Yeah! It's been a while since university, hasn't it Lucia-chan?" My smile was nowhere to be seen and I simply nodded.

The meeting was short yet boring, Takeshi silently telling me to keep my hand away from my gun as I knew he knew I was frustrated by the clown in front of us.

"Well, if that's all..." Byakuran left his chair and inched in front of me. "Lucia-chan, I've been wondering for a while now...do you want to join my Family?" I widened my eyes.

Takeshi and Tsuna reacted fast. Takeshi's broad shoulders were hiding me from view and I felt a flare of Sky Flames in the air.

"Please refrain yourself from asking members of my Family to join yours. We do not, especially my Cloud, take kindly to this kind of behavior," his voice rang in the room. I smiled a little in pride. He knew how to be listened to now.

"My bad, sorry Vongola!" I shivered at the unhappy gleam in his eyes. "I shall take my leaves now."

Once in the car back to HQ, I untied my tie, like Takeshi, and sighed deeply.

"Hey, are you okay Ana?" Takeshi asked me in worry in front of me. "That guy didn't creep you out too much?" I waved his worry off with a fake smile.

"I'm fine, I was surprised to hear the proposal, that's all." Tsuna's eyes were saying another story though. I kicked him lightly in the leg. "Seriously Tsuna, I'm good." He didn't seem convinced but the Rain's laugh broke him out of it.

"I still can't believe you finally call Tsuna Tsuna! You had to go and come back from college to do that!" I shrugged.

"Get over it, it was two years ago."

"I don't like that man," the Sawada whispered and I gulped silently. None of us did.

Still, I had that lingering feeling telling me it was not hatred I had for Byakuran but...something else.

"Luci-nee-san." I looked up from my paperwork. Fran was standing in front of me, bored out of his mind. "I'm bored, Snake-san's not fun anymore. Where's Chrome-nee-san?"

"Not here for the time being," I replied tiredly, removing my glasses to rub my eyes. "Why is Rick not fun?"

"I don't know, he was on the phone with your brother and then..." I frowned. Xanxus? What could ha…

Shit.

It was no surprise when my darling brother barged in my apartment, Alaric close behind.

"Mammon?" I asked him and he grunted, cold eyes setting on the child next to me. Fran's arms were quickly around my neck and I wrapped a protective arm around his waist. "No Fratello, you're not getting Fran. Mukuro asked me to look after him."

"You have two Mists Ann', spare me one." I sighed. He was hurting, he lost an Element and he was angry.

"Take Rick, he's more experienced." Alaric nodded solemnly.

First Verde, whose work had been stolen before the lab was set on fire, like the Weaponry HQ. Arro escaped, but barely, and he was not the same, especially since the accident where his fiancee died and I lost my…

No, I would not think about this now.

Then Skull.

Then...Fon…

Now Mammon…

"He was with Colonnello," Alaric told me.

"Lal..." I mumbled weakly, taking my inhalator. "Rick, for the time being, replace Mammon."

The Arcobalenos were falling, one after another.

"Ann'." I raised my head, Xanxus' hand cupping my cheek. He had a frown on his face. "Another dream since you passed out in the Vongolas' hallways?"

"Nothing." They both left. I got up. "Fran, honey, we're going to Italy." He blinked at me, lost.

"Is Kyo-nii coming too?" I smiled softly at him.

"Even if he doesn't come now, Arro and him will come soon." Only God knew how thankful I was to Kyoya for integrating Arro in the Foundation. I needed to know where Zac and Uncle were too. What if Byakuran…

He already annihilated the Family and the Nishimuras. The Millefiore they now called themselves...they were bad, bad news.

The water rinsed away the remaining scarlet drops. The paper tissue was damped in blood and I threw it in the toilets. I had to cough out blood right before my meeting with Tsuna. I also looked like shit, so I took makeup in my purse and tried to hide my paleness and dark circles.

Get a hold of yourself Luciana.

"Ana!" Tsuna yelled in surprise. "What are you..."

"Sit down, I have to talk to you." He did, like me. "Look, in barely a week I'll lead CEDEF and will be number two in case of emergency, okay?"

"Yes, congratulations by the wa..." I raised my hand to stop him.

"No, I don't have the time for that. I'll have to make sure your plan of bringing the kids from the past work if you're taken down first and..."

"Wh...how do you know that? I thought about it yesterday!" I pursed my lips.

"Well, remember how I knew about Xanxus and his plan to kill everyone?" He was confused. "It's nice you're already sitting down."

I swallowed, my throat incredibly dry as the smoke filled my lungs. It was fine. Tsuna was 'dead' sure, but Kyoya knew what to do, so did Shoichi. Arro had been hurt by that red-headed guy with Storm Flames, but Takeshi would go back to the Namimori HQ with him and he would be fixed. Basil had to make sure they would leave Italy safely.

I bit back a sob.

They would take Reborn's pacifier to safety. Pacifier I ripped away from him, in his last moments. He asked me to do it, I knew the pacifier had to be kept safe but...it burned. The heat of his Flames as I torn away his pacifier was still burning my fingers.

"I asked you to join me Lucia-chan," Byakuran told me in a fawning voice. "You can't blame me now. After last time I had to take appropriate measures anyway, don't you think?" I scoffed, glaring at the wounded Storm.

"Sure." He grinned maniacally.

"I wasn't going to let you with them when I've finally found the cure!" I widened my eyes.

"...what?"

"I've looked for it so many times and failed to find it in time so many times...but it was just under my eyes all along!" He pulled me on my feet. "I've waited for so long for you to reconnect with the ring Lucia-chan, for you to remember. Now we can watch the world burn together."

What...was he talking about? What…

"Even if," he continued, taking my left hand and looking in disgust at my wedding band, "some...things happened. It won't be long until you're a widow, don't worry about that."

"Don't you..." I started, only for my body to fall in his arms as spasms were paralyzing me.

Shit, the chip…

"If you still had the Flame of Wrath it would be funnier," he noted, putting me on his shoulder. "Let's go Zakuro, I have what I came for."

"Yes Byakuran-sama!"

I wasn't...a prisoner per say. I could walk around the building freely, but I was monitored and had an electronic tag around my ankle. Byakuran did not tell me what that 'cure' was yet but…

Uni was around, her soul far away. If I knew where she was, Alaric could trigger her return.

I couldn't help but feel crept out by Byakuran though. He...for instance, right now I was in front of him, eating. He knew everything there was to know about me. Even my favorite food.

I never told him about it.

"Aren't you hungry?" I slammed my hands on the table. "Lucia-chan?"

"Stop it!" He was the bad guy, the bad guy, why was he being considerate? "Stop..."

"Stop what?"

"Being like that! I've never been able to hate you to begin with and your behavior is just frustrating me even more!" His eyes were so cold and calculating when you looked closely at them.

"Still can't hate me huh..."

Weeks later, when I felt myself falling whereas I was on my bed, I sighed. I couldn't reach out to the ring and more memories of Byakuran because my Sky Flame was too weak when the Cervellos showed up.

My past self would be better.

Please help Tsuna fix everything.

I was confused.

I was in the street a moment ago, my phone in hand. Now, my phone must have fallen on the ground and I was sent...there…I was in a big, bright room, the sun illuminating the room through the big windows. Everything was white, reminding me bitterly of a hospital, and I was on a bed. It was very soft, with a lot of pillows and blankets.

I walked around and stopped at one of the big windows. The scenery…

I was in Italy.

I deadpanned. Kyoya would be pissed at me for skipping duties again huh…

Still, where was I in Italy? There was pink smoke and…

"Lucia-chan?" I spun around. There was a man all clad in white, purplish white thick hair sticking out messily and lilac eyes peeking at me curiously. A purple mark was under his left eye. "Ha, I see."

He...that man...I tilted my head on the side, flashes of a younger version of him and myself running around in a forest, roaring with laughter as if nothing was wrong in the world.

"Byakuran?" I whispered weakly, my head spinning violently. I grabbed it, dropping on my knees. This whole place...was familiar...and this man…

"Well, you're a lot more responsive than the you of that time was when we met in this world." He knelt in front of me, tilted my head back and put his forehead against mine. "The fever is coming, as usual."

"Do I...I know you..." I mumbled as he moved his head back.

"You already know my name is Byakuran, don't you?" He picked me up and put me in bed. "We're longtime friends, you just don't remember it."

"Where am I?"

"In Italy, Milan. It's the Millefiore HQ." I frowned. "Oh, I should have started by 'you're ten years in the future'." I widened my eyes. Pink smoke...Lambo's bazooka! But he was not with me or anywhere near me or I would have heard him. "And you're here to stay because it's been more than five minutes already."

"What...shit, I have to..."

"Don't worry, you're safe here."

"I'll be just as safe with people I know, no offense. I...I need to see my brother." He grabbed my wrist when I tried to get up, his smile still here but cold and threatening. How could I miss that before?

"Trust me, you're safer here until you go back to your own time." I tried to pry his hand off my wrist, but he gripped harder. I would have bruises later.

"I want to see my brother!"

"I don't think he would have time for you. With the Arcobalenos dead like the Vongola Decimo...he must be busy."

My blood froze inside my veins.

What...the Arcobalenos dead...Tsunayoshi too?

What was going on in this era?

Fratellanza

Thanks for reading this chapter! Thanks to AutumnBee124 their review! And I hope you're all doing well and are handling the current situation as well as you can, of course.

Bye!