Note from the Author: This chapter has no fight scenes in it, thank goodness, and is mostly just everyone talking. But on the flip side, Reborn actually makes an appearance, Poseidon is revived with a shock, Anna escapes, and Hanabi takes her own path! So please read and leave reviews!

I also have a request to all my readers, since I'm a very indecisive person, I cannot decide on Hide's weapon! So I have left a poll of different weapons that would fit Hide on my profile, please vote! Hide's life and storyline may depend on it!

~8~

"Loki!" Loki flinched and then swerved its chair around to look at what had yelled its name.

"Raphael!" the Box brightened up and gave a cheery smile towards its fellow Box Weapon, "What are you doing here? If you had come sooner I would have had a nice toy for you to play with!"

Mint-green hair fell on Raphael's almost flawless face; its vivid, bright green eyes were glaring angrily towards the red-haired Box. It had a large green hoodie on that read 'Fruity Delight' in large, rainbow colored letters, and brown shorts that went down to its knees. It charged towards Loki to start scolding it.

"Don't you 'Raphael!' me!" it yelled and grabbed Loki's shirt collar, "What are you doing! Isn't there supposed some girl down here?"

Loki tapped its chin thoughtfully in a mocking manner with its white gloves and said, "Why yes, I believe there was. She left just moments ago; you can probably catch her in the staircase if you're fast enough."

"Are you an idiot!" Raphael yelled angrily, the other Box continued its careless smile, "That girl was Gokudera Hayato! She had a 43.857% DNA match with him! That's almost HALF of that man! That guy probably just scrambled his DNA also along with the professor!"

"Is that why there's that girl in Floor 0?" Loki smiled and was amused by Raphael's frustration, it shook its head and said knowingly, "Oh stop, I'm just having fun. I know that girl had at least some resemblance to that guy. I've seen pictures of him around the halls, and she looks exactly like a younger-female version of him. But I know that she isn't him."

"Oh really?" Raphael rolled its green eyes sarcastically, "And what is that?"

"She's not as smart," it leaned back in its chair and continued, "Well, she's clever, but she's far from smart. And she hates explosions and loud noises. Even I could see that, the way she handled her cards, the way she talked about her explosives, and the way she used them also. All of it was without pride and full of spite, there was definitely a feeling of hate in the way that girl used her explosives."

The green Box rolled clamped its hand to its face to show annoyance, "Oh yes, and the girl couldn't have been acting!"

"Even the best actors will show an underlying fondness for something," it stated.

"So what are you saying then?" asked Raphael, "That the girl who looks like him, uses the same weapon as him, and has the same DNA as him, isn't him?"

"Yes," it nodded cheerily, "You can go after her if you want, but I'm sticking to my point and I'm not going to wait here like I was told."

"You're kidding right?" the Box growled and kept its steady glare, "Are you just going to wait here until who ever had beaten Poseidon comes?"

"Yup," it smiled carelessly at Raphael who in turn yelled something that Loki did not understand and stormed out of the room.

"Hahaha!" Loki's shrill laughter filled the room as it enjoyed itself fully in the laughter.

~8~

Hide looked down the staircase eerily as Morita and Suzuki ran down the stairs and slid down the rails which ended at a platform about every five steps. Suzuki noticed that Hide was still standing at the top of the stairs.

"Hey Hide!" the raven-haired boy called, "Hide!"

The blonde snapped out of his day dream and said with a trembling voice, "Y-yes?"

"Geez, Hide!" Suzuki sighed, "You've been spacing out a lot lately, what's up with you?"

"I'm just really nervous," Hide replied and looked around in a place where there was nothing to see, "I-I'm worried about what happened to Gokudera-san, and where Reborn went off to," he suddenly lightened up when he thought of Reborn and said, "Geez! What kind of tutor leaves his student in an abandoned underground base!"

The boys were silent for a moment or two before happily laughing; Hide had somehow relaxed more and was no longer pale and trembling, he still looked nervous, but then again Hide always looked slightly nervous.

"Hey guys, how far do you think these stairs go?" Morita asked as they descended down the staircase.

Suzuki shrugged and said, "Reborn said that there were twenty floors, and the map said that there were twenty floors also. So I'm just guessing here, but these stairs go down to twenty floors."

"Yeah, but what if they just stop at some floor and then you have to find another staircase," Morita asked, "or what if one of the stairs just stops cause it's destroyed or something."

"Morita-kun has a point," said Hide, "Reborn said that this place was old, so it wouldn't be surprising if some parts were gone."

"Well there's no point in worrying about it now," said Suzuki, he smiled sheepishly and put his hands on the back of his head, "We'll just have to wait and see!"
Suzuki…you're way too relaxed…Hide sighed; the baseball bat in his friend's hand caught his attention.

"Suzuki, is that gramps' old practice bat?" he asked.

The boy looked at the blue bat and grinned, "Yup! For some reason he gave it to me before we left. He told me that something surprising would happen if I swung it super fast!" Suzuki swung it and nothing happened, "I've been swinging it as fast as I can but nothing has happened!"

"Maybe you have to swing it a certain way?" Morita suggested.

"Yeah, your left-handed, and gramps is right-handed*!" Hide remembered, "Why don't you try that?"

"You think?" the baseball player looked at his bat and changed hands, he swung it and as a result it flew out of his hands and hit the wall, then the bat ricocheted off of the wall and hit Suzuki in the forehead.

"Suzuki!" Hide yelped as he fell to the ground.

"That was pretty weird, are you alright?" Morita asked as he helped the baseball player up from the ground.

"I…I think I am," he said dizzily, his forehead was slightly purple as a bruise formed, "S…Sorry Hide, but I don't think I'll be using that bat right-handed…"

~8~

In a freezing cold room on the ninth floor, a robotic arm came out from the wall and joined others on a large keyboard in front of a computer. The arms' thin metallic fingers typed on the keyboard at what seemed to be a hundred miles per hour and they probably were. One final push of a button and a tile on the wall fell open with a sapphire blue box on it that was gilded with silver and gold, on one side of the box was a regal-looking clam in silver.

A different looking arm appeared, this arm's hand was more like a single metallic finger that was thick and round. The 'finger' ignited itself into a glowing, orange flame in the cold, frigid room. Then the finger fitted itself into a hole on the sapphire box.

The Box opened. A figure that was on fire, the fire was a marvelous blue, flew out of the box like a vacuum blowing dust out. The figure didn't flinch as it was enveloped in the large, blue fire but soon the fire dissipated and formed clothes and hair on the figure.

It had cropped blue hair, the blue was the same color as the fire; the flames turned into a khaki-colored polo shirt that said in mustard-colored wording: The Status is not Quo!*. Its pants were bermuda* denim shorts that had a bizarre design that could have been either flowers or some sort of animal. The Box was also holding onto a dark blue trident.

"Poseidon…" a voice whispered, the blue-haired Box turned towards the computer.

"Yes?" it croaked, it felt like it had been speaking for the first time.

"Poseidon…you are…fixed…now…" the voice said, it sounded so very sad.

"Do I go somewhere?" it asked with a blank expression.

"There…are some…rats…flush…out…" the voice commanded.

"Y-yes…" it nodded.

"…Poseidon?"

"Yes?"

"Why…why are you…crying?" the voice asked, it sounded confused but to Poseidon it sounded even sadder.

"I don't know," a tear rolled down from its eyes to its cheeks, the room was so cold that as the tears fell to the ground they froze into ice and shattered.

~8~

Hanabi decided that she now hated stairs. Especially when they suddenly decided to end. She had gotten up to the fourth floor before meeting a step that decided not to go up any further than it should.

"Dammit!" she yelled and then pulled out the leather deck of cards that she never even got to use, "What the hell am I supposed to do now!" for some reason yelling at the deck made her feel better.

She shoved the deck into her sleeve and, after a few minutes of thought, she decided that if she could not go up then she would just go down. Of course this sort of logic made no sense to anyone other than Hanabi.

~8~

"C'mon…" a voice huffed, a large, heavy looking, metal door cracked open unwillingly, "Just a little further…" the door opened wider and a pale girl slid through the crack.

She collapsed onto the ground and rested there on a tiled floor before getting up. Anna started walking on her bare feet, she was only wearing a pair of shorts that were now really muddy, and a slightly torn t-shirt that was either yellow or orange, it was hard to tell because of the dirt and blood stains. Anna was really tired though so she could have cared less what she was wearing, and more about were she was going.

"Is this some kind of facility…?" she wondered aloud as she looked around, she stood on white tiles and concrete walls made the hall she was in.

"I need to find stairs…and probably a change of clothes…" she decided calmly, she then started acting like the whole 'being kidnapped and locked in an underground cave in some weird looking place'-thing never happened.

A map plastered on the wall caught her attention; she stared silently at the giant red dot that was labeled 'You Are Here' before continuing her walk.

"Only idiots would follow such an obvious trap," Anna yawned as she walked.

~8~

Hide, Suzuki, and Morita sneezed at the same time and then they all started to think it was cool that they had sneezed at the same time.

~8~

His legs sauntered into the kitchen, his black leather shoes moved swiftly almost as if it was dancing and he hopped onto a stool in the kitchen to straighten his tie slightly then he fixed his hat to a good position. He smiled to himself as he examined his reflection in a picture frame on the wall.

"That's good," he said in his squeaky voice, Reborn took one last glance at the picture frame but this time he looked at the picture inside it instead of his reflection. He then looked around the kitchen and commented, "This place still looks like it was never left…"

The mold that was growing in the sink, the dust that covered the counters and the rust along the doors and walls were now imagined as gone. Everything looked so new it was shining, and you could even see your reflection off of the counters. This was Reborn's memory from 40 years ago.

A young man with silver-grey hair stumbled into the room carrying a large, heavy looking box in his arms. The man slammed the box onto the table and turned to the door which was still standing open.

"Hurry in here you freak!" he yelled to someone outside.

"I'm coming, I'm coming," another young man with a slight muscular build and spiky black hair came into the room, he carried two large boxes and put them on the table, "Isn't this exciting Gokudera?" he said enthusiastically as he looked around the newly built kitchen, "Tsuna did a good job overseeing the construction of this place!"

"Yeah, yeah," Gokudera waved this off and looked around angrily before calling to another person, "Hey, Assistant!"

"Y-yes?" a small, thin figure came trudging along carrying four even larger boxes, its legs were shaking as it walked to the table and stopped.

"Well?" Gokudera asked impatiently.

"Uh…um, can I have some help…?" a feminine voice asked from behind the boxes.

"Oh alright!" the bomber snatched one of the boxes and Yamamoto helped grab two more and set them on the table.

"Th-thank you Gokudera-sama, Yamamoto-sama," the small girl said, she had large onyx eyes and short black hair, she actually looked more like a boy than a girl especially since she was wearing gym shorts and a large sweater.

"It's no problem Yuuko!" Yamamoto laughed heartily.

"Some assistant you are," Gokudera scoffed, "And where's the Tenth? Aren't you supposed to be with him at all times?"

"R-right!" she nodded and started to hurry out the door but ran into someone.

"Ow, that hurt…" the girl looked up in shock when she heard the voice and quickly apologized to the man she ran into to.

"I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" she bowed in forgiveness, "Please forgive me Boss!"

"Don't worry about it, Yuuko-san," Tsuna stood up and brushed himself off.

"Tenth are you okay?" Gokudera asked with sincere concern.

"I said not to worry about it," he sighed.

"Assistant!" the girl named Yuuko flinched when her nickname was called, Gokudera loomed over her angrily, "What are you doing running into the Tenth! Pick that stuff up right now!"

"Y-yes!" she yelped and quickly scrambled for the things that Tsuna had dropped.

"Gokudera, it's alright you don't have to yell at her for everything," the boss ordered, "She's been my assistant for two years; I think she can handle stuff."

"Gaah! Oh no!" Yuuko was holding a light bulb that had smoke coming out of it.

Gokudera growled at the assistant's incompetence and was about to yell at her when he was cut off.

"What a shoddy place," they all turned around and saw a cardboard box turn around and a cut-out of Tsuna's old tutor's face was there.

"Reborn!" Tsuna almost had a heart attack.

"Reborn-san! How did you get in here?" Gokudera asked.

"A certain little girl carried me in," he replied.

"I'm 20 years old; I'm just short is all!" Yuuko claimed, but she was 20 years old and being called a little girl gave her almost every right to be angry.

"Assistant…" Yuuko froze as she felt Gokudera's swelling anger towards her.

"Why the heck are you dressed in camouflage? I gave a key to this place!" Tsuna interrupted his Storm Guardian's angry rant.

"A hitman never uses a key."

"That's insane!"

The young men, assistant, the boxes, and Reborn's camouflage disappeared and all that was left was Reborn who stood where he had been standing on that very day that Tsuna had opened the Vongola base.* The infant jumped off the stool he was on and started to walk out of the old, rusted kitchen.

"Hide should want my help by now," he smirked at the doorway and left the kitchen.

"What the heck is going on!" Hide screamed as he and his friends started sliding down the staircase, which used to have stairs but those had suddenly flattened out on them and were now sending them down the staircase.

~8~

*I honestly have no clue if Yamamoto is right-handed or not, so this may not be right

*hee hee…Dr. Horrible joke…hee hee

*Bermuda shorts are shorts that cut off right before the knees, they are also really ugly and don't go with any outfit

*I imagine that Tsuna was probably 22 around the time he built the base, but that's just a guess so it's not true.

Note from the Author: KHR belongs to Amano Akira, but Yuuko is my own original character. We're starting to write Lambo's birthday fiction over at my forum, you can join now too! You just have to contribute something that will be used in the story! If you don't come visit Just another Forum Lambo will cry :(!