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

Fratellanza

I was getting fed up. Dino noticed because he was grinning nervously next to me as I was looking at each moron present.

"But I won, I should go first~," Byakuran simpered. It only irked Xanxus and Mukuro whereas Zakuro and Kikyo were on their Sky's side. Enma was quiet next to my brother.

"Kufufu, cheating doesn't count as winning."

"How dare you!?" Zakuro yelled at Mukuro.

"I'll burn down all of you," Xanxus threatened, showing his gun.

I grabbed mine and shot twice in the sky. They shut up and stared at me.

"Put your fucking ego aside for a day and work together otherwise we're dead," I said icily, glaring at them coldly. "And remember, if someone falls nobody, and I mean nobody," I stressed, staring at my brothers, "loses their temper."

The plan.

First of all, I had decided to kick Kyoya out of Team Fon. He didn't like it at first, but I had to explain that Team Reborn might be the team which would last the longest and that being on their team meant he'd be able to fight longer. Ultimately, now Team Fon was me, Arro, Byakuran, Basil, Kikyo and Zakuro. Team Mammon was still Xanxus only. Team Verde was Mukuro, Fran, Enma and Adelheid. Team Reborn was Dino, Tsunayoshi, Hayato, Takeshi, Chrome and Kyoya.

Verde, along with Shoichi and Spanner, made flame replicas of yesterday version of each team. Team Verde was waiting on an empty parking lot. Team Fon and Team Mammon were in the woods waiting. Team Reborn was at the park.

However, the Team Verde actually hid Arro, Takeshi, Hayato, Fran, Chrome, Basil and Adelheid. Team Fon and Mammon were Kyoya and Tsunayoshi. Needless to say convincing Kyoya to let Tsunayoshi be with him at first had been a challenge. Finally, Team Reborn was in reality me, both of my brothers, Byakuran, Zakuro, Mukuro, Kikyo and Enma.

These morons wanted to basically have a contest to see who was the strongest and it was annoying. We had a plan, the Arcobalenos helped us by polishing it and they would follow it.

Even if Dino and Xanxus were not necessarily really comfortable with the plan, they'd follow it.

Basically, Bermuda and Jaeger would come to us to hear Reborn's answer to their proposal. He'd refuse and then the two would attack. Mukuro was a great illusionist and Enma and I would be in a group with him while the others waited further away. My dear childhood friend would use illusions to give the illusion the fake Team Reborn was fighting but ultimately they would lose. Meanwhile, I'd hide in illusions and, as I was apparently the fastest out of all of us, would attack. Once I was revealed in plain sight, I'd try to fight back while Enma was using his gravity to help me dodge and Mukuro would still be away but helping with illusions and reality illusions.

However, I was also the one with the less stamina. What the group not attacking had to do was watch the fight to be sure Bermuda was helping, thus cheating, and get him out of the game by calling him out.

From there, the others would come out and attack.

"One minute before the battle." I nodded at Dino and Xanxus before running away with Mukuro and Enma.

The Vindice used chains to fight. However, at very high speed like they used, it was as sharp as any blade and would slice up things like butter. From our previous encounters, they would go for the kill rather than just for a watch, so they'd try to incapacitate us through killing or making us unable to fight. It was Dino who brought that up while he was exposing a few, pretty good, strategies.

Finally, they appeared. My heart was pounding against my chest as I lit up my ring with Mist Flames. I felt Hugin hiding me totally, even my flames, and they started fighting with illusions.

"Let's hope I survive this as well," I mumbled, running at them.

Reborn gave me one and only one advice.

'While fighting Jaeger and Bermuda, remember when your life was always on the line before you were adopted and dive back head first in that mindset.'

It was...a great omen for the fight.

My Mare Ring and hand burning bright, I went for the watch. They saw me and dodged, appearing behind me. I bent forward, now standing on my hand while the other was aiming my Leon gun at them, my Leon ring burning in purple. I saw a blur, Jaeger's hand, going for my abdomen.

At the last moment, it stopped thanks to Enma. I saw his shock and shot him, my purple bullet immediately dividing in at least thirty bullets. There was not much space between us, but he disappeared and I was back on my feet.

"I see." I turned around, seeing Bermuda and Jaeger further away. "You're betting on Luciana-kun's speed to match Jaeger's while she has support behind the scene."

"When it comes to speed and survival instinct, Luciana is my best bet." I was flattered. Bermuda scoffed.

"Yes, the girl does have survival instincts, doesn't she?" I clicked my tongue at the Estraneo innuendo.

I blinked and bent my knees to avoid the hand coming toward my head and tried to grab his ankle to blow it up, but Jaeger vanished. I ran away from him and his chain came my way, Mukuro's illusion stopping it.

I voluntarily fell on my back when he was in front of me and shot him with my Flame of Wrath when he was above me.

He dodged and Bermuda flew away from him.

I bit my lip when I moved my head to the side to doge his hand, but still received a cut at my forehead and temple, blood running down my face.

Then there was another wrap of black flames and Jaeger was gone.

"Mukuro-san!" I heard Enma yell. I was immediately up and ran to them.

Enma had managed to save Mukuro from a sure death by keeping Jaeger from stabbing the illusionist too deeply, but now blood splashed from the gash on his chest. The redhead fell to the ground, yelling in pain.

I was right behind Jaeger though. I had Flames of Wrath on the palm of my hand and hit him.

He caught my hand. He didn't vanish and caught my hand.

I was thankful for the whip around my waist yanking me back before I was killed, sliced in two by a chain.

He had been wheezing as well.

"We've seen enough," Dino said, Bermuda going back to Jaeger's shoulder. "Bermuda, get off Jaeger's shoulder! You're cheating!"

"Oh oh!" Tsunomichi immediately said, popping out of a bush as I was panting. Mukuro grabbed Enma and moved him closer to Reborn. "Cheating is forbidden! How is he cheating?"

"He's supplying Jaeger with flames, so he's actively taking part in the fight," Dino stated with confidence.

"Is it true!?"

"Yes it is," Bermuda replied calmly. "But it won't change anything." There was a barely visible flare of black flames and he left Jaeger's shoulder.

Byakuran attacked him with his dragon. As I was resting a little, not knowing how long Shamal's mosquito would work on me, I watched them going at Jaeger. Reborn and I went to Shamal to ask him to...boost me up like for the Inheritance Ceremony. He didn't like that, but knowing what Reborn's request was for helped a lot.

It was also what made him accept treating anyone wounded in the fight.

I blinked in confusion when Jaeger threw his chain at Dino, Byakuran, Kikyo and Zakuro all out already, but the chain disappeared.

It was coming at me in the blink of an eye.

"LUCIANA!" Dino yelled in horror as I was watching the chain coming my way in slow motion.

I was not fast enough to do anything.

I widened my eyes when I realized Xanxus was in front of me, ready to take the blow in my place.

"Xa..." I choked on my blood as the chain went through the upper right side of my chest.

Xanxus' blood dropped on my face, especially when the chain was yanked back brutally, and I fell backward, my brother on top of me. He had the reflex to hug me so that my head didn't hit the ground.

But we were both breathing with difficulty, Xanxus clearly in pain while I was in shock.

"Shit Xan..."

"So..." He coughed blood. "Sorry..."

"Wh..." I looked down when I felt a needle in my skin and stared silently at the yellow liquid slowly being injected in me. "Fra...fratello..." I was pretty sure he smiled a little at that before he stopped moving.

I passed out as well.

"You okay!?" Yamamoto asked Adelheid, Chrome and Fran.

"Yeah, I can handle it!" the Shimon replied before looking over her shoulder at the two shaken illusionists. "Keep going!"

They had strange weapons. Yamamoto looked next to him. His katana was broken and Gokudera System C.A.I had protected them once but would not protect them again.

He looked up, behind the two Vindice. He saw the fake Basil and Arro waiting while the real ones were spreading Rain Flames around the Vindice. However, they noticed the moment they were attacked by the illusions and the two were touched by explosions.

"Damn!" Arro cursed as he slid in front of them, an injured Basil on his shoulder.

There was a scream behind them and the crystal castle flew into pieces.

"Shit!" Gokudera yelled.

"Are you alright!?" Yamamato added. Arro frowned at the black flames in front of the small Vindice.

"Yes!" Chrome replied, Fran and her having protecting themselves and Adelheid from a deadly explosion. "But our watches are broken."

"Well at least you're alive," the Rain Guardian said in relief.

Arro threw his double-bladed sword at the coming explosion. It countered it and he caught his weapon back easily.

"How did you do that!?" Gokudera asked him with wide eyes. Arro showed him the two winged-rings burning on his finger.

"Storm Flames coated with Rain Flames. The Rain Flames weaken the attack enough for the Storm Flames to destroy it but...it didn't reach them, just canceled out their attack." He shot the younger teenagers a look. "You think you can do the same with your Vongola Gears? We're out of illusionists to protect us or get us ti..." He widened his time at the heat around him.

It blew up.

The two Vongolas ran away on one side while Arro came out of the smoke, slightly burned, Basil still on his shoulder.

"Don't talk that much!" Gokudera yelled.

"Shut up Gokudera!" Arro replied, putting Basil down. His watch was broken.

"Tsuna!" He was diving from the sky straight to the small one.

However, the Vindice, Small Gia saw him. He used reflective panels that blinded Sawada. The sound of him crashing into the glass was heard by everyone.

"Asshole!" Gokudera yelled in anger.

"Gokudera!" Yamamoto called him before looking at Arro. "Arro, we're taking care of the big one with Gokudera!"

"Sawada jump back!" Tsuna did, as much as he could while Arro threw his weapon once again in a mix of blue and red flames, his Rain fox using the trail of flames to hide.

Arro jumped on Tsuna and tackled him to the ground, right before Small Gia could slice him in half with a new weapon of his.

"Your eyes?"

"I can't see a thing..." Tsuna groaned back in frustration. "It's too blurry."

"Basically, it's us and Gokudera and Yamamoto. Kyoya's still fighting?"

"Yeah."

"Okay..."

"I...I think he's tiring out." Arro pursed his lips, shooting the two Guardians a look.

Yamamoto was struggling to stay on Big Pino's back, his two Rain animals using as mush flames as possible to weaken him while Gokudera was fighting to stay on the arm with the watch.

Arro separated his swords in two and ran at Small Gia. He didn't disappear and stopped his blades with his massive clubs. With difficulty, Small Gia's explosion were countered by Arro's flames, only possible due to the two Mare Rings on his fingers.

Zoro, his fox, was still spreading Rain Flames around them. Small Gia noticed it and tried to attack him, but in that split of a second, Arro sent more Rain Flames from his Mare Ring and jumped on his back. He dropped the sword in his right hand, managed to wrap his leg around Small Gia's right arm and put his Rain Flames directly on the left arm, where the watch was.

"Wha..." Arro winced when he felt his leg breaking from the club hitting it, but Small Gia's left arm started to go limp.

The sword in his left hand now burning scarlet, he sliced the arm and sent it away.

He was grabbed by his jacket and thrown in the ground, spitting blood from the impact. He was a second away from being turn into dust by another explosion, a foot crushing his watch, that there was the sound of something breaking. They both looked on the right.

Tsuna had broken the watch there was on the arm Zoro brought him.

At the same time, the other Vindice fell, Gokudera as well.

"No!" Tsuna yanked Arro away from the Vindice and they regrouped.

"Who still has a watch?"

"Sorry, mine and Gokudera's were blown in the final attack."

"Same," Arro replied, panting. His fox went back in his box.

"Mine is good," Tsuna said. "But my eyes..."

"We have a few minutes, let's use them," Fon intervened, now there with Ryohei and Shamal.

"All the wounded in one spot!" the doctor yelled for the people still able to move.

I wasn't out for long, because when I woke up, there was still fighting against Jaeger. Xanxus was heavy on me and his blood was soaking my clothes. I tried to put that aside for the time being.

I didn't feel any wound on me. That serum…

I widened me eyes in horror when I realized Mukuro was the only one still standing on his feet. Dino was...lying in a pool of his blood.

I bit my bottom lip and tried to put that aside as well. As I started to use illusions to hide the fact I was awake, I immediately felt Mukuro's illusions reinforcing mine. I was silently grateful and gently pushed Xanxus away from me while Jaeger was busy. Once up, I sprinted toward him.

He saw me coming, turned around while Mukuro was panting and had blood dripping from his mouth, and grabbed me by my midsection before I could punch him with my Flame.

He tried to shove me into the ground. I used my hands to stop my head from being split open from the strength he was using and pressed my legs on each side of his neck. With a groan I lifted him up and threw him above me.

He touched the ground, but grabbed my ankles and threw me in the air. A second after, he was back on his feet and his chain was flying at me. He was still fast, but no Flame of Night?

I bit the inside of my cheek. From how things were going, I would be killed by the chain. I had no way to move in the air without immediately being his target, or at least the chain's. I had to get rid of it but…

I smirked and got Cloud out of my ring. He bit my shoulder and sent flames from his tail to turn me around.

He disappeared and my right leg was wrapped in the chain.

I needed my hands and my eyes, I could...sacrifice a leg.

I didn't bat an eye when I saw my leg falling on the ground next to me, blood splattering my face and people screaming my name below.

I grabbed the chain while it was in my reach, my rings shining bright. The mix of my Cloud Flame on my Leon Ring and Sky Flame, or more like Flame of Wrath, on my Mare Ring, with a little bit of effort, burned the entire chain.

My Flame of Wrath spread onto the whole chain and turned it into melted metal as I fell. I dropped it and shot him.

He dodged and ran at me when I was about to touch the ground. However, at his utter surprise, I landed on my two legs.

Mukuro was helping me making one out of illusions. I dodged his slower attacks, but I was not that good either. I knew the serum stopped the bleeding but...I still lost quite a lot of blood, Mukuro was no better and we were the only two able to fight.

Until a mosca came, distracted Jaeger and I went to Mukuro.

If Tsunayoshi could come now, it would be nice.

From the corner of my eyes, I saw Lal had taken my leg for safe keeping.

"You can get him?" Mukuro asked me as he covered Jaeger and the mosca in ceramic. My rings burned brighter.

"Obviously."

Ten shots of Flame of Wrath came out of the ground, all aimed at Jaeger who couldn't move. Smoke covered them because of the explosion and we stayed silent for a few seconds.

"I don't have any other choice now," a foreign voice said.

I paled at Jaeger on the ground, unable to move but his watch still intact, and the strange-looking man in front of him.

Bermuda had broken his curse. Skull had never used his present, so he had the whole time.

"Shit!" Mukuro cursed, pushing me on the side.

I widened my eyes, like him, when Bermuda sliced his arm and crushed the watch.

Team Verde out. I fell on the ground, my illusion leg vanishing.

Bermuda turned to me with a wicked grin.

"It seems like you're the last one." In the blink of an eye, he destroyed all the other watches but mine.

He started to come at me but a bullet flew between us.

A yellow bullet.

"Chaos." Was…

"Reborn?" I mumbled under my breath.

"It's you," Bermuda told him.

"It's chaos." I gulped when I felt I was being lifted and put next to Mukuro.

I looked up at Reborn. I had always seen him as a baby and never really imagined what his adult self looked like. Feng was right to gush over him, he was good looking but...most of all, I could see he was the one who trained me so harshly in the future. He wasn't the funky Reborn with many costumes.

This was Reborn the Hitman.

He put his hand on my head.

"Good job, I didn't need to join the fight like I did for Tsuna." I nodded, still astonished to see him as an adult.

Then, he crushed my watch.

"However, you're missing a leg now, so you're done."

"Tsunayoshi's still no..."

I looked behind me when I heard someone touching the ground.

Tsunayoshi was there and he was pissed.

"Stop Mukuro's bleeding." I gulped but nodded nonetheless at Reborn.

I let him and Tsunayoshi deal with Bermuda while, with my last bit of strengths, kept Mukuro from dying of blood loss. He groaned slightly.

"It's almost over now," I whispered.

It was not that Tsunayoshi's fight was not interesting, but I had to admit I was starting to feel dizzy. By the time Reborn turned back into a baby, I wasn't paying attention anymore.

I passed out before the end of the fight.

There was a loud 'bang'. It was what I woke up to.

A loud bang and someone shutting a door behind them.

I blinked several and opened my eyes. I was in the hospital. I was still alive and not in Vendicare.

"Senpai?" I gazed at Tsunayoshi. Reborn jumped on my bed. "How are you feeling?"

"Huh…strangely still alive?" Reborn slapped me on the head.

"Move your legs," he ordered me. I did and raised my brows, looking down at my legs. My right one was elevated, the left one on the mattress. The two were attached to my body.

"I keep forgetting you can reattach limbs to the human body within a certain amount of time after it's severed."

"The serum helped a lot actually, but Mukuro's arm is fine." I sighed in relief at Reborn's words.

"Dino and Xanxus?" I murmured.

"Nobody died." Tsunayoshi took a chair to sit next to my bed while Reborn was talking. "Dino's likely to have a big scar, but nothing was touched. Xanxus will need a lung transplant. During the fight, Mammon used their illusions on him and Byakuran to keep them alive until they can get a transplant."

"Thanks God."

"Byakuran's missing intestines and his liver. Zakuro and Kikyo, thanks to their Boxes, only had flesh wounds. Enma is fine and will make a full recovery, it was a flesh wound as well. Chrome, Fran and Adelheid were eliminated without suffering any serious injuries. Basil was caught in an explosion at the beginning of their fight when he pushed Arro out of the way. Gokudera was caught in an explosion as well to destroy a watch with Yamamoto, he was hurt but will be fine soon. Yamamoto didn't have anything serious. Arro's fine as well, just a few broken bones."

"Kyoya?" Their faces turned grim and I felt a knot in my stomach. "Guys, what about Kyoya? He was facing Romain alone, wh..."

"He's alive senpai," Tsunayoshi interrupted me with a smile that was supposed to be reassuring. "Hibari-san is alive. It was a draw, they both destroyed each other's watch."

"Then?"

"Hibari already had a severe head injury from the previous fight and Romain knew it. He's...currently in a coma." I felt like my heart dropped at this.

Kyoya...in a coma?

"He needed head surgery as well because of an hematoma growing next to his brain. I'll spare you the medical details but everything went well, they had to put him into an artificial coma. It will take time for him to wake up, but he will. If he's still in a coma after three months it will be concerning." I licked my dry lips.

"He'll be fine senpai," Tsunayoshi repeated. I nodded stiffly.

"It's...he's Hibari Kyoya you know..." This time, I appreciated his smile. He was worried as well, knowing his strongest Guardian was in this state. "Did we win?"

"Yes, Tsuna beat Bermuda and Checker Face accepted the plan." Reborn pointed at his chest, now lacking the yellow Pacifier. "We don't have the curse anymore, but we'll grow up twice as fast as a regular child until we reach the age at which we were turned into babies. Except for Lal who immediately went back to being twenty-eight because of the incomplete curse."

"Huh huh." Reborn smirked

"I was turned when I was thirty-one, we'll be the same age Bakana."

"Well that's a weird thing to think of." I smirked. "But you'll have to go through puberty aga..." The threatening glint in his eyes made me shut up. "So what was the explosion?"

"Ha, well...Xanxus' room was between Byakuran's and Mukuro's and well...walls were destroyed and weapons were out..." Tsunayoshi summed up with a stiff smile. I chuckled.

"I swear."

"I'm glad you're feeling okay senpai," Tsunayoshi said before getting up to leave.

Before he exited the room, Reborn stopped and looked at me.

"What happened to Hibari is not your fault Luciana, he chose to go on his own." I just looked through the window.

The door closed, I raised the hand without the IV to my eyes. Everything further than five meters was blurry and the tears prickling my eyes were making it worse.

"Dammit Luciana, he's not dead," I whispered harshly to myself, frustrated by the tears falling against my will. "It's Kyoya, he'll be fine and say you're turning into a herbivore if he knows you cried because of him, and he'll feel like a herbivore as well..." A sob escaped my lips. "Dam..."

Dino opened the door. He looked at me with sympathy, closed the door behind him and sat down next to me. He needed a crutch to walk.

"He's going to be fine," my brother assured me, rocking me back and forth.

"I shouldn't have accepted the rings, why did it choose me? I'm not good as a Sky, my Cloud wants my head for abandoning him to my father and the experiments and now Kyoya is...he's..." My fingers dug in my brother's back.

"It's Kyoya, he'll wake up and will want a rematch."

"But...but when is he...going to wake up?" There was a heavy, pregnant pause.

"I'm sorry, I don't have the answer to this question."

"I'm sorry sir, I wasn't looking where I was going!" Tsuna apologized as he was walking home. The adult smiled at him.

"It's nothing." He had a thick accent, European maybe? "I'm looking for my daughter, maybe you have seen her?"

"I don't know, but you should go to the police station." The man nodded.

"Yes, she ran away from home, maybe they have seen a teenager with nowhere to go. Thank you."

"Goodbye." Tsuna left with an uneasy feeling going up his back. He shot a discreet look above his shoulder.

The foreigner was leaving the opposite way, black sunglasses on and slicked back black hair giving an aura of power around him.

Tsuna shrugged it off, even if his intuition was telling him there was something weirdly familiar about the man.

In a dark alley, the man stopped.

"Boss," the two adults welcomed him.

"So?"

"She's in the hospital, your son as well. They both survived the fight against the Vindice." The man looked at the woman.

"Rose?"

"Romain left with the Vindice Boss, I stopped looking for him before they noticed me." He nodded and removed his sunglasses, showing two piercing crimson eyes. The red of the eyes seemed even more intimidating with his tan skin.

"Alaric?"

"My brother is still unconscious at the hospital and my Master is regularly visiting him." The man bit on the arm of his glasses.

"Hide asked me to see how is son was doing as well...It's a shame I can't visit my own son though, laws are so annoying."

"What should we do?"

"Rose, you're staying alert. Nick, tonight we're visiting my daughter! She won't run away this time!"

"Understood."

Fratellanza

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