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

Fratellanza

Frankly speaking, I passed out on Takeshi's back at some point. When I woke up, I could hear the sound of swords clashing against each other. I had a little bit more strength, but I didn't like what I was hearing and I couldn't do anything.

Then it was dead silent and a body fell on the ground. I focused illusions on my eyes.

It was blurry, but the red jacket that belonged to Takeshi was too close to the floor, someone in black staring down at him.

"I was going to ask you for your last words, but it seems you can no longer speak." He raised a sword and I opened my box, Cloud running to grab Takeshi and get out of the way. The guy looked at my wolf, then turned to me. "You regained consciousness then."

"...trash..." I managed to mumble, focusing my strengths to get Arro's box. I opened it and blinked at the marble in my han…

Oh.

Oh! Genius Arro, genius!

I threw it at his feet. I was pretty sure he cocked a brow at this.

"What is this?" I sent a weak wave of Flame of Wrath to the marble, which created an explosion. It didn't reach Takeshi and Cloud and the blow barely made me move.

The smoke vanished quickly. He was hurt, but not much.

"I'll get rid of you first then." He never reached me that the wall was destroyed.

I blinked in astonishment at the huge ball of spikes that destroyed the wall.

"Ah, you there. Perfect timing." That voice… "Is that white and round device up ahead?"

Well...you couldn't say Kyoya didn't know how to make an entrance, that jerk.

My sight went black again, my face meeting the floor harshly once again. They were speaking, then fighting, and I felt flames coming my way.

They were stopped brutally.

"Kyoya?" I mumbled weakly.

"Humph, a carnivore acting as a herbivore."

"Well I'm not dead yet..." He grabbed my jacket and threw me away.

He literally threw me away. Sure, after I landed, harshly because he was rude, Cloud nuzzled his nose against my cheek, but still!

"Takeshi?" I whispered to him. Cloud took my wrist in his mouth and put my hand in something soft.

Takeshi's hair. I searched for his pulse. There was one.

Good.

Kyoya and the Millefiore started to fight. They talked as well, but I didn't pay attention to it.

I was more focused on not losing consciousness again. Although, at some point I heard swift steps coming my way and a strong flare of Cloud Flames was in front of us, or me, whatever.

"Sorry Kyoya...poison..." I mumbled weakly, now leaning on my forearms. He clicked his tongue and the flames were gone.

It was not for long because they were back quickly, even stronger, and Cloud who was in his adult form managed to put me on his back, like Takeshi, and ran away. There was a change in the room, in the air.

"Cloud, is there something huge in the room?" He howled in confirmation.

The hell was Kyoya doing?

There was not a sound, then something crumbled.

Hibird started sing…

Hibird?

I focused my illusions as much as I could, using my last bit of strengths, to see what was happening.

"What..." Kyoya started, the smoke of where he landed disappearing, "am I doing here?" I widened my eyes at him.

The sixteen-year-old Kyoya. The adult version told me I'd see 'him' in ten years but…

That asshole, he knew exactly when he would be swapped with his younger self.

He looked around him and stopped on me and Takeshi. I offered him a shy smile, waving tentatively at him and he narrowed his eyes before pointing a shiny tonfa at me.

"I'll bite you to death for skipping duties again."

"If we survive, sure. I'll give you the fight of a lifetime." He cocked a brow and frowned seeing my state. I was not in the best shape ever, and Takeshi passed out next to me was not helping.

"Hey you," he said, looking back at the Millefiore, "do you know why two missing students of our school are there?"

"I beat Yamamoto Takeshi and the External Advisor has too much poison in her veins to fight at the moment." He didn't like that at all as he glared at the Millefiore.

"So I'll bite you to death myself."

Kyoya went for the hit, the Millefiore wasn't moving and he would…

I yelped when Cloud disappeared and Takeshi was half on me, who was stuck between him and the floor. I couldn't make him stay anymore.

"Kyoya..." I mumbled as he was sent in the wall. I tried to get up, my limbs shaking and almost giving out each time I was using them too much.

My vision went black once again but I had enough time to see Kyoya being okay and I smiled a little before coughing.

I coughed a lot and ended up spitting blood.

I had the time to see Hayato's shields going to Kyoya's defense before I passed out once again.

I opened my mouth and bit in what was being hold over my face. The smell...it was a lollipop.

I knew it. I sucked on it quickly and smiled like an idiot at the sweet cherry flavor.

"Heh...you were right Decimo, she loves lollipops like me." A sigh.

"Yeah...I didn't think she would smell it in her sleep." I blinked. There was a blond guy with blue eyes looking at me lazily. He was clearly not Japanese.

I frowned.

Weren't we losing?

"Are you Kyoya's connection inside the Millefiore who's on our side?" I asked him, figuring out we were pretty much safe. He blinked lazily.

"I'm afraid not." Tsunayoshi was in my face a second later.

"Wait, you knew!?"

"I had my doubts. Kyoya kept telling me information with no link to the goal we had, it was hiding something. He loves giving cryptic messages to make me overthink sometimes. Whatever he knew and did, my future self knew as well. She made sure I fought my way out on my own in Italy, Alaric told me this." A hand was suddenly on my face and I whined.

"Stupid."

"Shut it Kyoya," I grumbled as he removed his hand. I squinted at him. His hair was longer and his clothes had cha… "Oh right, past Kyoya."

Tsunayoshi and the guy, Spanner, walked away, leaving Kyoya with me.

"...you beat him?" He glowered and I felt something poking my arm. I looked on the other side.

Arro was there, a grim face on and staring at the syringe in his hands. He shot me a brief look, clicked his tongue and looked away.

"His feelings are hurt because he was left out of the plan," Kyoya felt the need to explain, his arms crossed. Arro huffed, pulled the needle out of my arm without a care in the world and walked away.

Slowly, just like I could see again, I could control my body as usual, even if I was moving slowly. Meanwhile, they kept talking, especially of Belphegor's twin brother who should be dead but wasn't because of Byakuran's power.

Yeah, he saw it through parallel worlds, didn't he?

I looked around and frowned at Takeshi, still unconscious.

"Hey Kyoya, do you know how Takeshi is?" I asked him in a whisper, my eyes glued to the younger boy.

"No," he replied dryly. I looked at him above my shoulders and pursed my lips.

The glare was nothing I was not used to. However, he was standing awfully close to my bed. I refrained a sigh. No matter how you looked at it, Kyoya was sixteen and thrown in a complete foreign time in the middle of a fight. He would never show it, but it was obvious even him would be confused at first.

I mean, I was but my brothers found me quickly.

When they all were busy watching Tsunayoshi receive a Box Weapon, Takeshi waking up after Ryohei swapped with his younger self, I looked at Kyoya and took his wrist in my hand, giving it a squeeze to tell him it was fine. He was tensed but relaxed a little, his face not moving an inch.

"That's right! Luciana-san!" I blinked at the redhead. He...was the original target, Irie Shoichi. "I have something for you as well, just let me..." He went to his desk and rummaged through things for a couple of minutes. He pulled out an envelop and hold it above his head in sign of victory. "Got it!" He walked up to me and handed me the letter. "It's a letter from the Sawada Tsunayosho of this era. He wrote it before he met up with Byakuran." Everybody looked at me, whereas I was looking down at the letter in my hand in confusion.

I tightened my grip on it. Was it about the rings? Probably, why would the future Decimo write me a letter otherwise?

"It's not fair!" Hayato screamed, pointing a finger at me and Kyoya. "What's it with these two that pushed the Tenth to trust them so much!?"

I didn't know if it was trust in Kyoya's case, more like the knowledge he would get the job done.

"Now you should all rest. Come back tomorrow," Shoichi instructed us.

Kyoya was about to take my wrist to drag me away, most likely to get me to explain the full situation to him from the beginning, but I jumped on my feet. Shoichi caught me before I could fall and I pushed him away, maybe a little too harshly as he rubbed his head with an embarrassed smile.

"Sorry, I forgot." I looked at him with distrust and gestured at Arro to come.

"I need to talk to you. In private." Shoichi blinked and gulped, nodding. Arro slipped his arm around my waist to keep me standing.

"Senpai?" Tsunayoshi called me, Reborn's knowing eyes on me. I waved him off.

"I'll see you later." I shot Kyoya a quick look when he was next to us. "Tetsuya can explain, so go back to the base with him." Kyoya blinked, surprised by I didn't know what, and frowned. "What?"

"And him?" he asked curtly, showing Arro with a gesture of his head.

"He's concerned by what I want to talk with Shoichi, but you're not so I'll talk to you later." I took my inhalator and took a deep breath from it.

"I don't care." Yes, his glare was a lot darker than a second ago, but I didn't care.

"Can't you just accept I don't want you to hear this?" I asked a lot more coldly I intended to. I widened my eyes, like Kyoya.

He turned his head away from me and hurried outside while I just watched him stomping away.

"He'll get over it," Arro told me. "I mean, I have to get over your and his future selves' secrets, he can get over this."

"You don't know why Byakuran has a weird interest in me, right?" I asked him instead.

"Huh...no? Wait, you know?"

"You know?" Shoichi said as well with nervous eyes. I nodded slowly.

"Wait Shoichi, you know?" Arro asked him.

"You know each other?"

"Well, you and I attended college for a year and Byakuran was my roommate, he befriended Shoichi during the year so we hung out a lot."

"Oh", I replied. College? "Anyway, can Byakuran really see anything going on in parallel worlds as he wishes?" It was dead silent.

"Hum...yeah, kind of."

"Wait what?" I took a deep breath and looked up at my best friend.

"Tri-Ni-Sette, Arcobaleno Pacifiers, Vongola Rings and Mare Rings, the ones the Millefiores have, like this one?" I started, showing him the Cloud ring I got from the guy earlier. Arro nodded. "Well, it seems like the Mare Rings, or at least the Sky one, gives the ability to its wielder to...gather knowledge from parallel worlds."

"It connects all of their versions," Shoichi added.

"But what does that have to do with you Lulu?" I raised a hand.

"I'm a potential wielder of the Sky Ring, or so the Kyoya from this era told me." Arro gaped at me. "I mean...yeah, I knew my way inside the VARIA HQ and knew they hacked into the spectators' cage during the Sky Battle, I didn't just...guess, I saw it. In dreams."

"And you got sick every time," he whispered to himself. I nodded.

"With my Sky Flame changing to the Cloud Flame, it asks more strengths to get...these dreams. Well, my body is not the most resistant either so..."

"I...shit…does he want to kill you then?"

"No, Byakuran-sama never showed any plans of this kind about Luciana-san." I looked at Shoichi. Byakuran did seem happy to have 'finally' find a cure for me...meaning he had been looking for a while. "I don't know the extent but...he doesn't want to kill her."

"I think we must have been close friends in one of the worlds and it's stuck in his head."

"Anyway, Byakuran-sama can see through his other selves to get all the information he can get. That's how he got so powerful in such a short amount of time and Box Weapons were created so quickly."

"Why didn't she just take it?" Arro muttered under his breath.

"From what I know, they were both approached when we were in college but Luciana-san declined the rings because she was not interested and didn't have enough Sky Flames to maintain control over it."

"Yeah and then so many people died!" he snapped back and I looked down. He groaned, running his free hand in his hair. "Don't...I'm not angry at you Luciana, I'm angry at the one of my time." He looked heartbroken. "She never told me any of this."

I didn't know what to say. Arro was my partner in crime, I didn't know why I wouldn't tell him.

"This plan, of bringing us from the past..." Shoichi pursed his lips.

"It seems like...I think it was few years ago, but she had another dream where Byakuran was beaten, by a fourteen-year-old Tsunayoshi-kun. There's a lot more to explain about parallel worlds, but I think you should read the letter and come back later with your questions. You need to rest as well, you received the antidotes to the poison but your body is still exhausted."

"I know, I'm used to it. Thank you for the answers." I munched the last piece of candy on my lollipop.

"It was nothing." Arro and I left quietly. I kept shooting my adult best friend looks every now and then. He was...somewhere else.

"It's a lot to process Luciana," he finally said once we were back at Kyoya's base, "and the two people who could explain are gone for now so...don't worry about it."

The next day, after sleeping for a good ten hours, we went back to the past.

Namimori...looked the same. Kyoya just grabbed me by the back of my sweater and dragged me away.

"Okay, I get it, I wasn't the nicest to you yesterday but please don't start a fight today, I'm still not a hundred percent of my capacity." We reached his house in silence and he threw me in his couch. "Kyo..." My cellphone landed right between my eyes.

"How stupid do you have to be to be shot?"

"You were too!" He glared down at me, his arms crossed on his chest.

"I was the second to last, you were the second one period." I puffed my cheeks and tilted my head back.

"I know, sorry for worrying you. How...are Rick and Arro okay?" He gritted his teeth.

"The Termite's whining, Schlang covered for you." I sighed softly, TYL Rick and Arro flashing through my mind.

"I'll buy them dinner or something once everything is over." Kyoya's glare got darker and he straddled my hips. Although the position was...ambiguous, Kyoya was clearly pouting and it was as cute as a pouting child. "I'll make it up to you as well."

"Why don't you want me to know?" I averted my eyes.

"You'll know sooner or later." I sat up and wrapped my arms around his waist, my forehead against his shoulder. I blushed for a second when I remembered future Kyoya kissing the life out of me, but my fingers creased his shirt. I turned my head and kissed his cheek. It was just a peck and lasted for less than a second, but I hid my face against his shoulder afterward. "I missed you. The current you I mean, I spent a lot of time with your future self."

"Hn."

"He kicked my ass more than once."

"Obviously," he said smugly, pushing me away. His hands remained on my shoulders. "Tell me what happened starting when you arrived in the future."

"Sure...sorry I had to rely on you so much during the fight by the way, it was lame on my part." He didn't say anything. Instead, he sat down on the couch, pushing my legs toward me, so I crossed them. "So...I landed in the big bad guy's territory..."

"You can't tell us or you don't want to?" Arro asked me sternly, arms crossed and a harsh look on his face. Alaric, standing next to him his hands in his pockets, was not letting anything through on his face.

"I can't...Vongola business..." I replied in a low voice. "Sorry for worrying you."

"Miss, you vanish for three day and when you get back, you are clearly exhausted from a fight and something very sharp went too close to you eye," Rick said coldly. "Is it going to happen again?"

"...yes."

"And we can't help you?" Arro asked me quietly. "You have to fight with them when you have your own problems to deal with?" I nodded without an ounce of hesitation.

"I'm sorry guys to leave you out of this but..."

"Kyoya is in as well?" I nodded at my Mist, who pursed his lips. "I'll have a word with him, and Reborn. Now go to school, you're already late." I shrugged.

"Kyoya said I could not come today." We still left.

"So...are you dating Hibari now?" I choked on my saliva.

"What!?" He feigned innocence.

"I mean...you're closer since you came back from Italy. You didn't even tell me what he made you do during the twenty-four hours!"

"I did his paperwork while he napped, nothing interesting." As we entered our building, I turned my head back.

There...was something...illusions?

Two teenagers I had never seen in my life walked by, the redheaded girl grinning at me. I was pretty sure the illusions were coming from these two, and if I was not mistaken they were going toward the second-year area.

Mammon? The Arcobaleno Trial would last for a week, and the closer they were to Tsunayoshi and his crew the easier it would be to have a test, but the other then?

"Lulu!" I looked at Arro, waiting for me at the top of the stairs. "Come on!"

"I'm coming," I replied, hurrying.

At lunch, when I went to the roof, I was greeted by a tiny foot almost kicking me in the face. I ducked, Arro using his hands to stop my dear tutor. She jumped back and landed in front of me, a pleased scowl on her baby face.

I suddenly wanted to be very small as I remembered how I talked to her in the future.

"My hands!" Arro whined behind me. His palm was red.

"Senpai! Arro-san!" Tsunayoshi exclaimed, seeing us.

"Why are you greeting me this way?" I muttered under my breath, walking around her.

"Not enough practice will make you lose your reflex." The operation was literally two days ago.

She left quickly, saying she would see the others after school. I shot them a look.

"First Test?" They nodded.

"It's Colonnello," Takeshi told me. I hummed in thoughts.

"He was in the army, the real army, you better have a good strategy to counter his."

"Heh...care to enlighten me?" We all looked at Arro and he grinned nervously. "I know I'm handsome, but guys don't look at me like that." I turned my eyes to the boys, who had wide eyes.

Right, they were used to the twenty-six year-old version.

"It's the Arcobaleno Tests Arro," Reborn told him, now on my shoulder. "The wielders of the Vongola Rings have to be accepted by all Arcobalenos to fully use the power of their rings."

"Their rings?" he repeated, blinking. "Wait, you mean flames?" I nodded. "Oh good, it means I won't have to hold back against Hibari anymore?" I sweat dropped.

"Don't let him hear you say that." He shrugged.

"I don't care, it was boring to restrain myself all the time."

"Arro-san..." Tsunayoshi started awkwardly. "How long has it been since you..."

"I started fighting with flames when I was fourteen or thirteen. I lit up my ring on my fifth try." He pointed his finger at me. "Lulu lit up the Vongola Cloud Ring on the first try because she was pissed." I looked away when I was the center of attention.

"All of this to say, Colonnello is not to be taken lightly. You have seen nothing of what he can do, even if I'm still better than him. Now go back to class." Tsunayoshi opened his mouth, staring at me and I raised a brow, expecting him to say something.

"I need to talk to you senpai and..."

"Later, we have time. Focus on after school." He nodded hesitantly

"The Arcobaleno Tests..." Arro mumbled, his chin between two fingers. "That must be why..."

"Verde?" Reborn guessed easily. My friend nodded.

"My Boss called me last night, he said Verde left for Japan with...some of his projects." He sighed. "I mean...I hope he won't use them on Sawada and his gang but knowing the Professor, it wouldn't be surprising."

"What kind of projects are we talking about?"

"You think I can or would tell you that?" Reborn pursed his lips. "Hey, I've been around a lot but don't forget I'm not a Vongola or a member of CEDEF Reborn."

"But he's in Japan, you're sure of that."

"Yeah, that I'm sure. He left yesterday."

"I see," Reborn said thoughtfully. He didn't have the best opinion of Verde and I couldn't say he wasn't right in doing so. "You have social studies in an hour, right?"

"Yeah, why?" He smirked and jumped down.

"Let's just say Alaric came to have a 'talk' with me this morning, and I made sure he would be keeping a close eye on you Luciana." I watched him leave and exchanged a look with Arro.

"He asked if we had a particular class?"

"You don't think he got Alaric to be a teacher here, right?" I finished for him. We grinned nervously at each other. Alaric...as a teacher? "There's no German classes in this stupid school so he can't teach that."

"I don't need German classes anyway."

"Right, German grandma," I mumbled. "Still, I don't want to hear him saying for an hour how Hitler was Austrian and not German or how capitalism is not as bad as people make it to be."

"...I mean when you think about it for a second, it doesn't make humans look very smart."

"Yeah I know, but he doesn't think so and I gave up on trying to make him think differently," I grouched. "Why not an art teacher?"

"Lulu."

"I know, I would dig my own grave."

Needless to say, once school was over with dear Alaric-sensei, that girls found attractive for some reasons, as our new History teacher, Arro and I wanted to kill ourselves.

"You had to ask him that in German?" I growled at my best friend. "He went on a ten-minute explanation!" He rubbed the back of his head.

"Yeah I know, it totally backfired. We'll never beat that guy I think."

"Wow, seriously?" I replied with sarcasm. "Let's go drink something in town, it's on me."

"Hell yeah!" We bought hot drinks and as the weather was nice, we walked and drank at the same time.

"Hey Arro..."

"Hum?"

"I trust you, you know that right?" He blinked in confusion.

"Well yeah?"

"Then know that I'll always have a reason if I hide something from you, or from Rick."

"Heh...like right now you mean?" I looked down and he sighed. "Geez, I know Lulu, it's annoying but I know you'd tell me. Unless you're all planning a jailbreak." I snickered.

"No, nothing lik..."

"Well well señoritas!" I heard the distinctive voice of my doctor nearby. I sighed.

What was not my surprise when I saw the two new students with Haru, Kyoko and Hana, Shamal apparently doing his usual thing with the girls.

"Follow my lead Arro," I told him curtly.

"Okay?" We stopped behind the newbies.

"My my Lucia-chan, you're here to do your Committee job?" They both turned to me, eyes widening slightly at my sight, but also at Arro. I smiled sweetly, too sweetly at Shamal who understood I noticed the same thing he did.

"Yeah. Sorry girls, I have some mandatory things to go through with our new students."

"That's okay Ana-senpai," Kyoko assured whereas Shamal walked away with them. "Bye bye Hime-chan, Monta-kun!" My smile vanished quickly.

"Lulu, the hell?" I sighed and pointed at the boy.

"Mammon." I pointed at the girl. "I'd say Belphegor because of the fake name meaning 'princess'." She snickered, her snicker sounding like 'ushishi'.

"Not bad Boss' sister." I snorted in disdain and crossed my arms over my chest.

"Arcobaleno Test?" Mammon nodded. "I trust you to have gone through the check point and most of all Alaric. I'm sure you remember what will happens if you think hurting a civilian for your test is okay Mammon?"

"Humph, hurting them would not get me anything." I smirked at him.

"It's good to hear. Don't forget to stay in line or we'll come for you. Again." Belphegor bared his teeth at me and I tilted my head on my shoulder. "Something's bothering Princess Charming?"

"Tch, you're acting all patronizing."

"Heh, would you take me seriously if I was not?" He looked away. "Do you tell me to piss off if I ask you how Xanxus is doing?" They both froze for a second. I smiled faintly at the lack of response. "Yeah, thought so."

"It's hard to say how the Boss is doing," Mammon started, struggling to find the right thing to say, "but he's...less obsessed than when he was unfrozen."

"He keeps throwing stuff at Squalo's head." Arro muffled a laugh. "And at all of us."

"However it's not...as bad as before. It's almost like he's seeing something he didn't see before."

I smiled.

That was good.

"I see, thank you. Don't cause us too much trouble." They walked away and Arro sighed deeply, going to the Chinese shopper in the street. I followed him.

"How come after my fight with the hot illusionist I couldn't sense them?" I patted his back.

"If it wasn't for Alaric I wouldn't have either." The shopper cleared his throat. "You and I both know he's more qualified than you in this field."

"It is not because I can't use illusions that I'm unqualified." He gave us two buns and I gave a piece to the monkey on his head.

"You seem extremely tall today Fon," Arro commented idly. Fon chuckled.

"Well, they wouldn't have let me have my stall if they knew I was a baby." The bun was as good as in my memories and I petted Lichi on the head. He made a happy sound.

"True, for once there's a logical reaction." Fon turned his hidden eyes to me.

"So, if I ask you where you all were for Alaric to call me, do I have an answer?" I looked apologetically at him. "I see."

"If you thought this town was busy with your brother, I have a feeling this week is about to get worst."

"Hum...agree." If all Arcobalenos were coming then Aria as well?

Might as well try to get as much explanations I could from her.

Fratellanza

Thanks for reading this chapter! Thanks to AutumnBee124 and Guang for their reviews! As for the name 'Feng', I looked on the internet for a name and this one came up for a girl. I haven't looked for the pronunciation though

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