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

Fratellanza

"Verde...broke the amusement park?"

"Well, he broke into the rides Lambo used to test the kid or something. He's no longer using the boxes so my Boss is calmer than last week," Arro replied, putting his card down. "And I've won."

"Stupid game," I grumbled, throwing my cards on the tray over my bed. Arro grinned mockingly. "Hey, the sun is down already."

"Kyoya should be home soon," Fon announced, carrying food with him. Arro stood up.

"It's my cue to leave. I'll see you soon Lulu. Fon, thanks for helping."

"You can use the door now," he reminded him as Arro had his shoes in one hand, a leg outside of the window already.

"Well, I came this way, I will leave this way as well. See ya!" He jumped down.

"Today were the Cloud and Sun Tests."

"Really? Thanks," I thanked him as the food was now on my tray. Sun as well then.

"Kyoya was hard to convince, but Skull somehow did his job." I raised a brow. Right… "He got angry and attacked the school." I choked on my rice.

"Seriously?"

"It's Skull, when's he's not listened to or taken seriously, he snapped after a while."

"You don't seem shocked at all." He smiled serenely at me.

"I had to go on various missions with the other Arcobalenos before we were turned. Now he has more firepower thanks to the Carcassa Family, but other than that he has not changed that much. None of us did."

"I do hope you were not jumping on people's head or shoulders before the Curse." He chuckled.

"There was no need to be on the same level as others."

"You were tall?"

"As much as Don Cavallone." I narrowed my eyes at the Chinese baby and pinched one of his puffy cheek. "Luciana." I let it go.

"I know, it's just that these would totally be gone and it's just sad."

During the evening, after Shamal came per usual and before Kyoya went to bed, he came in my room, clearly annoyed. I asked what was wrong, like the good friend I was.

I never expected him to rant about annoying herbivores and how he would bite Skull to death if he ever saw him again for half an hour.

"But you succeeded in the end, congratulations," I told him, pushing my chair away to lay down in the bed. He frowned at me.

"You've changed clothes."

"Yeah, I used your bathroom."

"Alone? You walked to the bathroom alone?"

"Yeah." He narrowed his eyes. "Arro may or may not have stopped by for a few hours?" He sighed. "We played cards and he left before I ate dinner." He walked up to me and pushed my arm with his foot. "What?"

"Move, I'm sleeping here tonight."

"Don't you have a bed?" He glared.

"It's my house, I sleep wherever I want." He had a point, and it looked like he wouldn't budge so I moved aside. He looked at the space there was and left to take another fuuton.

He wouldn't stop staring at me once in bed.

"What?"

"Everybody knows for you and the rings." I widened my eyes.

"How?"

"Because we all heard the herbivore and you talking?" he replied in sarcasm and I narrowed my eyes at the ceiling. I was half unconscious back then… "Don't you remember?"

"I do, I do, I just...it slipped out of my mind." I sighed deeply and turned my back to him. There was a soft groan behind me and arms were quickly around my waist, Kyoya's chest pressed against my back. "Do you...know if they're angry or not? Are you angry at me?"

"I'm not, and who cares if they're angry," he replied to me, his lips above my ear. "It's none of their business and doesn't change anything, does it?"

"To them it doesn't, you're right." His lips lingered for a second under my ear and he leaned his forehead against the back of my head.

No matter how many times this kind of situation occurred, Kyoya was the one in control. I never initiated anything, mainly because Kyoya's mood could change so fast and I didn't want to be rejected, and I was unable to ask him about...what was going on.

I didn't want it to change either, and asking him might make him run away.

I put my bandaged hand on his instead, my left arm, still in a splint, against the fuuton.

"Thank you Kyoya," I whispered, closing my eyes.

"Well, someone doesn't look happy," I told Mukuro as we were both in my mind scape. He had a deep concerned frown on his face.

"I would have contacted you earlier if you had not been half dead," he grumbled, arms crossed on his chest. I smiled at him.

"It's always a pleasure to see you pineapple." He twitched but didn't reply.

"I can't reach Chrome." I frowned myself. What now? "I haven't been able to reach her since they finished their tests."

"And you want to me to do something about it?"

"Go check at Kokuyo if something's wrong!" he snapped at me.

"Calm down Mukuro," I told him curtly. "I'll go, I'll ask Alaric to come with me and drive. Mammon should be with her anyway from what I understood, or at least around." He nodded stiffly and looked at me.

"What about you?" I waved him off.

"You should have seen the other guy. I melted his brain. Or blew it up. Whatever, he didn't have a brain once I was done with him." He looked thoughtful. "Mukuro?"

"Don't involve yourself too much in their business Luciana." I opened my mouth to reply, but he cut me to it. "I'm serious. If you get too involved, the Vongolas will really end up killing you one day." I looked away.

"So, Chrome, that's it? I'm taking care of it. That way, I won't turn you into smashed pineapple when I see you in real life."

When I woke up in the morning, I had my face buried in a warm chest. I looked up and blinked sleepily. Kyoya was staring, or glaring, or a mix of both.

"Morning..."

"You talked about that man in your sleep."

"Mukuro you mean?" His arms tightened around me.

"Don't say his name." I sat up.

"What did I say?"

"His name and smashed pineapple." I smirked and shot him an amused look.

"Is that why you're not angrier than that?"

"Hn." He got up and left.

I grabbed my phone and called Alaric. He didn't talk much, accepted and hung up as soon as he could. I felt bad about not telling him anything knowing he had my safety in his priorities.

I changed as quickly as I could, my right sleeve empty and my arm making a huge bump under my sweater instead. Alaric arrived soon after Kyoya left and once I was ready, he helped me in the...his car?

"When did you get a car or a Japanese driving license?"

"When you were in Italy after Vendicare." I pursed my lips. I didn't even know that? I was a pretty lame Sky.

The drive was silent and Rick helped me out of the car once we arrived, giving me a crutch to help me walking. I grabbed the handle, the top of the crutch resting under my armpit and followed my Mist.

"Dokuro is out of Rokudo's reach?" Alaric repeated once again. I nodded next to him. "From what I've understood of the current situation, Master should be tutoring her." We saw Ken and Chikusa leaving the building. Ken pointed a finger at me, gaping, and Chikusa readjusted his glasses.

"You're pretty hurt," he noted. I nodded dully.

"What are you doing here!?" Ken exclaimed loudly. I shot him a look.

"Mukuro contacted me last night." They both widened their eyes. "He told me to come check on Chrome because she was out of his reach." Chikusa looked down in thoughts.

"That woman is worrying Mukuro-san! I swear that..."

"She came back last night and she's not alright," the glasses boy interrupted him.

"Kakipi!" Chikusa shot him a quick side look, then went back at Alaric and I.

"If Mukuro-sama came to you, I guess it is related to illusions?" I nodded once again.

"It might be a possibility." He sighed.

"We'll leave it you then." They both left, Ken mumbling things I didn't care about.

Alaric looked all around him with a frown. He suddenly left in the woods around the building and I followed him as quickly as possible, but he seemed to have forgotten I was there.

I bumped into him when he stopped abruptly.

"There is an illusionist nearby. They're powerful, but I don't think I've ever encountered them before. Their flame is just...weird..." I frowned as well. An unknown illusionist to Alaric? Targeting Chrome?

I clicked my tongue, which got me Alaric's attention.

"Miss?"

"I have an hypothesis but...well, it's not a good one."

"Tell me more." I looked up at him with nervous eyes.

"What if it was the Mist Inheritance test? I mean...Primo's Mist Guardian was the same as the Secondo's, right?" Alaric saw where I wanted to say and averted his eyes toward the building.

"Daemon Spade?" I nodded slowly. "It shouldn't be a surprise though, he's not known for...being the nicest Guardian."

"Do you think Mammon is around?"

"I am," Mammon replied, appearing above us. They flew down to be on our level. "Daemon Spade is not an idiotic guess. However, if it is him, it means it's up to that girl to clear her test." I pursed my lips.

"Yeah...but if that guy is really playing with her mind..."

There were sounds toward the building, and I spotted Tsunayoshi and his group entering it while squinting. I decided to go back to the cinema center, but I was slow.

I was so slow Rick talked some more to Mammon, walked past me and I reached him when the boys, and only the boys, were leaving the building. They widened my eyes at my sight and I curled my toes in my boots.

I wasn't in the greatest shape ever after all.

"Ana, you shouldn't be walking!" Takeshi screamed at me in worry, almost running at me and I jumped at the sound of his voice. "Sorry for scaring you, but you should be resting and not walking."

"Yeah but...Mukuro kind of asked me to come see Chrome."

"Wait, that guy sensed something was off as well?" Hayato said with a frown.

"It might be Daemon Spade." They raised their brows. "He was Primo's Mist Guardian and then became Secondo's Mist Guardian as well. From what I was told he was quite manipulative and stuck in his own ideas."

"So it would be the test," the Storm summed up, holding his chin in thoughts.

"Shouldn't we go take the girls back then!?" Ryohei almost screamed.

"Well, Uni is with them for now, and they want to be there for Chrome so..." Tsunayoshi told him.

My hand clenched harder on my crutch out of sudden, my legs starting to shake. Takeshi seemed to notice and grabbed my shoulders to keep me steady.

"Senpai..." I raised my head to the Vongola. "Reborn made me read the letter...is it true?" I looked down and sighed.

"Yeah, it is." He looked horrified.

"Miss, I'm going to drive you back now. You shouldn't be up after all." I nodded and waved at them from my crutch.

"Good luck and be careful."

"Alaric, call Shamal," Reborn told him as we were leaving.

Once I was back at Kyoya's, Shamal was quick to come and he was not happy in the slightest.

"I don't know who's the most stupid. You for going outside or you," he turned to Rick, "for actually helping her when you're an adult who knows she should stay in bed and rest!" I would not say I was going to leave again soon. "In case you forgot, you had a broken leg! It's not just because of the flame exhaustion I ordered you to stay in bed Luciana, it's for the broken leg which was already crushed in Russia as well!"

"...sorry?" Shamal glared at me.

"I don't know in what kind of shady stuff Sawada got himself into, but you're fully aware of your health issues Luciana. Is it really worth it?"

"Yes," I replied without batting an eyelash. I noticed how Alaric tensed.

I grabbed the box Xanxus gave me before the Choice and took one of the vial in my hand, handing it to Shamal. He accepted it without knowing what to do with it.

"Can you run some test on it please?" He moved it closer to his eyes.

"The color is everything but natural."

"Just...I'll explain later." He took a few seconds to think about it but sighed, slipping the vial in his pocket.

"Fine, but it might take time. I don't have everything I need in this town."

"That's okay, I just need to know what's inside and what it does exactly."

"Alright. Alaric, out. Luciana, shirt off, now."

As usual, I shivered because of how cold the stethoscope was. Before he left, my doctor shot me one last warning look and took blood samples. My shirt was barely back on when Alaric entered the room again.

He was torn, I could see it.

"Rick?"

"I know you won't tell me Miss," he told me quietly, "but...are you personally involved?" I looked down.

"Unfortunately yes," I admitted. "I...I'll probably be able to tell you once it's over though!" He crouched in front of me.

"You better come back then." I nodded vigorously.

"You won't get rid of me just yet."

Kyoya came back when it was already dark outside. I was eating dinner in the kitchen and he smacked me behind the head with his hand. My face landed in my soup and I quickly wiped it away.

"What was that for?"

"You went out stupid." Just for the sake of stressing the stupidity of my act, he smacked me again. "It was none of your business, why did you go?"

"Mukuro asked me to and..." He slammed his hands on the table, making me jump. I grabbed my bowl to protect it by reflex though. "Kyoya, that you like it or not I'm not going to stop doing him favors from time to time! Do you know how useful it is to have an illusionist owing you a favor!?"

"You have a Mist already," he hissed through gritted teeth.

"It's not the same." He clicked his tongue and threw his tonfa at the door. There was a shriek.

"Hi...Hibari, Reborn sent me!" I looked back at Skull, trembling of fear. "To...Tomorrow morning, Namimori Shrine, you two! Bye!" He ran away in the blink of an eye.

"We're going back to the future."

"Hn." Kyoya looked concerned.

"Stop with that face, I'm going to think you have a heart behind the tonfa." He clicked his tongue and I was quick to finish my meal to go to bed. "See you tomorrow!"

The next morning, we went to the shrine. Kyoya decided I was too slow climbing up the stairs so he threw me on his shoulder, my crutch in his free hand and dropped me on the ground once we were there.

A few minutes later, the others showed up and we returned to the future.

"And how long?" I asked sarcastically, Katryna giving me a full check-up, Shoichi sleeping in the room next to us.

"You're not fighting for some time." I fell back in my pillow. Kyoya went to school, Dino followed him once he saw himself I was better now. The others were...resting I think.

Arro was with Superbi from what I had been told, trying to reach the VARIA. Rick...I didn't know where he was, but he was not here.

It was on the following day an alarm rang in the base. Rick had finally come, telling me he was reporting the Choice Battle to Xanxus. Rick left to check what was going on and came back with a grim face.

"The Transportation device came back and threw them in different directions. So far, none of them landed near us, but one was heading to Nami Middle." I sat up.

"Well, Kyoya is with Dino, they will be fine." And we had some time to come up with a plan.

Uni appeared in my room a few minutes later. Truth be told, I had never really interacted with her. Reborn told me we had to protect her because she was the Sky Arcobaleno and stole the pacifiers from Byakuran.

"You look like Aria." She blushed faintly at that and smiled.

"Thank you Ana-nee." I blinked, lost at the nickname. "You...your future self visited often before my mother passed away."

"Oh, I see. Did you want to tell me something?" She pursed her lips and nodded briefly.

"I...I have a plan for you all to go back to a peaceful past without Byakuran ever being a threat anymore but..."

"Look, if you have to...I don't know, let's say destroy the rings in my time or seal them, then you should!" I quickly told her with a grin. Rick sighed in the corner of the room.

"Yeah...I thought you'd react this way. I...can seal the rings in this time, and I'm sure Ana-nee will gladly destroy them once she's back but...I don't have the power to do that in the past, even if all the Arcobalenos helped me."

"Why?"

"Because of you." I raised my brows up to my hairline. "If Byakuran was the only one the Mare Ring had chosen, I could...make the Ring reject him and then seal them but..." I facepalmed.

"But I'm blocking the process just by existing." She nodded. "And I guess me dying would solve the issue but I don't feel like doing that just yet?"

"Good," Rick felt the need to comment and I rolled my eyes.

"So, you need all of the Arcobalenos?"

"Yes, I...am already taking care of that. I know the final fight will take place in the forest and...and that there will be people. A lot of people. Byakuran will bring more people."

"Well that's not a good thing." I got up, put on my gear and grabbed my crutch. "Uni, you're staying with Reborn no matter what. If it comes to it, he'll fight back."

"Yes." I pursed my lips at the glint in her eyes.

"My Sky Flames required a lot from me. I'm sure there's a heavy price to pay for what you're about to do." She was taken back, deep blue eyes slightly wider. "Just...you know, be sure of what you're going to do, be confident and...thanks." I patted her shoulder awkwardly and she smiled softly.

"Thank you Ana-nee." I nodded at her and frowned.

"Now that's settled, am I the only one to feel watched?" Rick was next to me in an instant.

"What do you mean?"

"I feel like someone is watching us or is about to or..." Uni parted her lips in shock.

"It's Byakuran, he must be using his power to find where we're hiding."

"Oh, that explains why you don't seem to feel anything." There was a short silence Rick broke by clearing his throat.

"Maybe we should tell the others we're probably going to be attacked soon."

"Yeah, good point let's go." We all left the infirmary, my splint staying behind. We followed Uni to a room looking more like a living-room than anything else.

Everyone was there and Superbi was trying to make a point, Takeshi trying to get him to calm down. I slipped between people to reach Tsunayoshi with Uni and Alaric.

"There's ninety-nine percent chances Byakuran knows where we are," I whispered to him.

"WHAT!?" he screamed in my face, loud enough for me to plug one of my ears. "Byakuran knows where we are!?"

"He must have used his power to find the location of the base," Uni explained more in details. "We don't have much time before he sends one of his Funeral Wreaths here."

"What should we do then?" Tsunayoshi asked in panic, ruffling his own hair. I looked at Reborn.

"Any news from my brother?"

"Not yet," he replied, looking at his student. "Tsuna, you're the Boss, it's your decision to make."

"But I..." His eyes met mine and him gulping made me nod. "Senpai, please help me."

"It's my job apparently," I said. I turned to the rest of the room. "Civilians on my right, fighters on my left, now." They did, Hayato grumbling how I was being bossy. "Now people from this era on my right, people from my era on my left." I looked at each person in each group, analyzing each of their abilities, I knew of of course, their original time period and experience. "Leaving in one big group would make us too big of a target. Uni, you said the final fight was in the woods?" She nodded, Tsunayoshi sending her a quizzical look. "She's a seer like her mom Tsunayoshi, don't focus on that for now. Anyway, Uni, you're going with Reborn, Tsunayoshi and Fuuta and...Reborn will choose who's in charge." Reborn nodded stiffly. "Arro, you're in charge of Lambo, Haru, Chrome and Hayato." I raised a finger when Hayato opened his mouth. "No complains, Tsunayoshi asked for my help and he's the only one able to give me orders right now. Lal, you're in charge of Katryna, Giannini, Shoichi and Takeshi. Bianchi, alongside Basil you're in charge of Ryohei, Kyoko and I-Pin. Alaric, Superbi and Spanner, you're with me." I took a deep breath. "In each group, there's at least one capable fighter and someone with prior fighting experience and/or a good knowledge of Namimori as it is right now. Hide, protect yourselves and those who can't fight back and we're meeting in the woods as soon as possible...where Uni?"

"A clearing near a cliff, it's...like a circle." I nodded.

"We're meeting at that spot then." I took another deep breath. "Anyway, Bianchi's team and Lal's team will leave first. Arro's team will leave after because Chrome needs to cover their departure first and hide their tracks even more than they will, but also see if their Mist is not around." She nodded, a determined glint in her eye. "Then, Uni's team will leave. Sorry, it's risky but she's the main target, the others need to leave before. Then, my team will leave. We'll be a distraction, Alaric and Superbi are both in the VARIA and Spanner's a technician, he can come up with...ways to make some places in the base blow up."

"And you?" Reborn asked me.

"I'll obey Spanner because I'm not really in fighting conditions." My eyes settled on a dumbstruck Tsunayoshi. "Is it okay with you, Decimo?" He nodded.

"Sure, I...wasn't expecting such a plan, that's all! Let's do that!"

"We need five earpieces, one for each group." Giannini barely had the time to go get them and come back that the base shook. "Okay, plan starts now!" The three first groups and then it were mine and Uni's.

The base shook once again. We walked to another hallway, Rick at the front and Superbi closing behind. My Mist mumbled something in his mother tongue.

"Cloud Funeral Wreath." He opened his box and a snake came out of it. "Otto, slip under his radar and play with him for a while." The snake obeyed immediately as the smell of smoke reached my nose.

Kikyo was destroying rooms one by one. I leaned toward Alaric and looked under his arm. Vines were on the walls. They could be radars for all we knew.

"Tsuna, Ana, do you copy?" Takeshi's voice asked in my ear.

"Yeah, we do. We're still in the base," Tsunayoshi replied in a whisper.

"That Torikabuto guy was at the exit, Chrome and Gokudera are taking care of it." Good, none of them suffered any injuries. "We just left Sasagawa-senpai's group. We didn't see the girl though, the zombie one or the one with long green hair."

"Kikyo's at the base," I told him.

"Tsuna?" I widened my eyes at Dino's voice. "Daisy at the school, we're taking care of it. Talk to you later." He cut off the transmission.

It meant the Rain Funeral Wreath was nowhere to be found.

Just like the Lightning one now I was thinking about it. The mysterious Guardian was not reassuring. Byakuran had a hidden trick in his sleeve th…

Someone pushed me roughly in the back.

"Move brat," Superbi grumbled behind me.

"Right, sure," I mumbled, walking as fast as I could with my crutch. We were going to the exit in the woods.

Once there, Uni's team left as well. I turned to Spanner, who had a map of the base on his screen.

"We follow you now."

Fratellanza

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