Star: Hey Guys! Here is chapter seven! *throws confitei* As always I want to say thank you all for your reviews,favorites, and follows. If it wasn't for you guys, I probably wouldn't have continued this story. As usual, I own nothing accept my lovely Ocs. The song Misaki sing is Dolce Melodie,Its from the Italian dub of Mermaid melody.

"Fuuta, can you run and grab a thing of whip cream?"

The newest member of the Sawada household nodded before running to the dairy isle. It had been almost a week since the young boy had joined the Sawada family and just like all other, he was welcomed with open arms.

"Misaki-nee, this is ranked among the best of all the whip cream in the store." Fuuta said.

Misaki smiled. "Alright, then that will make the tiramisus better. Alright that just leaves the instant coffee, bread, ladyfingers, garlic and basil."

Nana had noticed that Lambo had been down lately, turn out he was missing his grandma's cooking and tiramisus. To cheer him up, Nana had decided to make Italian food for dinner. She had sent Misaki to the store and Fuuta wanted to come along, still slight mad at Lambo for stealing his candy yesterday.

"Ne, Misaki-nee do you think everyone will be happy with it dinner?" Fuuta asked as they through the spice isle.

"I think they will." Misaki said, grabbing the basil. "Besides, they all love Nana's cooking. I'm more worried they might not like the tiramisus, this is the first time I'm really making it."

"Really?"

"Mhm, my Aunt Haruka makes it. I had to ask her for the recipe."

"Did your aunt teach you how to bake?"

"Mhm."

"Then I think Misaki-nee will make it perfectly!"

Misaki giggled as she ruffled the boy hair."I'll try my best."

The two of them finished up and headed home, just as the streets started to become crowed. They had left early to avoid usual Saturday rush at the store.

Fuuta grabbed on to Misaki's hand, not wanting to get separated from her. Misaki smiled a little, she knew that people were after him because of his ranking ability. She squeezed his hand lightly.

"Ne, Fuuta how about we stop at the candy shop?"

The boy's eye lit up at the magic words. "Really?"

The redhead nodded. "Since you came along and helped me, you deserve it."

"Yay!"

Misaki let out a giggles when she accidentally bumped into someone, knocking some of the stuff out their hand.

"I'm so sorry, Let me help you." Misaki said, kneeling to pick up the fallen items.

"It's fine, it was my fault."

Misaki looked up. Kneeling in front of her was girl around her age with light blond hair and pink eyes. Her outfit instantly made the redhead think of her cousin and her friend Hanna. Her white and pink short sleeves blouse with a pink ribbon around her neck, high-waist tan skirt and pale pink ankle boots with a pink ribbon laces screamed Lolita. In Misaki's opinion, it fit the girl perfectly.

"I'm really sorry. I wasn't paying attention." The girl said.

"It's fine. I wasn't paying attention either." Misaki said as they both stood up. "Here you go."

"Thank you." The girl said. "Um, if it's not too much trouble, so think you can tell me where the candy store?"

"We're actually headed over there, we'll show you the way."

"Thank you. I'm Lucia by the way."

"I'm Misaki and this is Fuuta."

Fuuta gave a small smiled and Luchia smiled back. "Is he your little brother?"

"Actually, he is my best friend's." Misaki said, letting go of the boy's hand to ruffle his hair. "He was helping me get stuff for dinner, so I decided to treat him to candy."

"That sweet of you."

The girl's shared a smiled, when Misaki noticed a locket around Luchia's neck. It was gold with a seashell locket.

"That a beautiful locket."

Luchia reached up and grasped the locket. "Thank you…It belong to my mother…."

MIsaki recognized the look in her eyes. It was one she wore for long time after her mom died.

"Did you just move to Namimori?" Misaki asked as they arrived at the candy shop, trying to lighten the mood.

"Yeah."

"How do you like it so far?"

The blond thought for a moment. "Well, it's different from the last place I lived."

Misaki nodded as Fuuta called out, asking if they could get candy for the others. The three of them got there candy and parted way, Misaki calling out to the blond hoping to see her again. The blond waved, nodding with a smiled before walking away to continue her shopping. She looked over her shoulder one last time, watching the two walk away. She shook her head and continued on her way.

~KHR~

"That was amazing, Mama."

Nana giggled. "You should also thank Misa-chan. She helped me a lot."

Misaki blushed. "I really didn't do much."

They all had just finished dinner and everyone loved it. Tsuna was doing the dishes since Misaki had made dinner.

"Ne, Mama, where did you learn to Italian food so well?" Bianchi asked.

"Misaki's mom taught me." Nana said. "Emi was born and raised in Italy until she came to Japan to study aboard."

"Was Misaki born in Italy?" Lambo asked, a mouth full of tiramisus.

"No, she was born in japan, but she is part Italian." Nana said, looking over at Misaki before giggling. "But it's hidden under her Irish and Japanese blood."

Misaki rolled her eyes, smiling. Nana had told her, she just like her mom except for her reddish brown hair and her father's eye color. Nana stood up and grabbed one of the photo albums from the bookcase. Nana found a picture and showed them. It was of four teens, three girl and one boy. A wine colored eyed girl with long dark brown hair had her arms wrapped around a redhead with hazel eyes, both grinning at the camera while a girl with light brown hair and brown eyes smirked slightly at the dark brown haired boy, who was shooting a glance at her. They all were wearing school uniforms, the girls consist of a gray blazer, white button up, navy bow, cardinal skirt while the boy wore a pair of black pants and white button up with rolled up sleeves with a poorly tied red tie.

"Nana, is that…"Misaki asked.

The woman nodded. "Yup, that's me, your parents and Haruka in middle school. Well Your father was in high school when it was taken."

"Misaki dose look a lot like Aunt Emi." Tsuna said, surprised.

Reborn nodded. "He's right. You do take after your mom."

"Is she still in America with your dad?" Fuuta asked.

"She died when I was younger." Misaki said, smiling sadly.

"Oh, sorry…"

Misaki reached over and ruffled the boy's hair. "It's okay, Fuuta. You were just asking."

"How did she die?"

Misaki looked over at Nana, slightly asking her to take over. Nana smiled nodding slightly.

"One of Emi's relatives in Italy had gotten very sick. Even though she hadn't talked to them in years, Emi was very close to them and wanted to see them one last time. Sadly they died while she was there. She stayed for the funeral and to help settle some other matters there. The day that she was supposed to come back, Emi was driving to the airport with another relative when they were in a car accident. Emi had died on impact, while the relative died later at the hospital."

The room was silent until it was broken by the loud scraping of a chair against the floor. Misaki excused herself to take a shower, hurrying out of the room. Feeling guilty, Fuuta looked down at his lap, muttering an apology.

"Fuuta, it's not your fault for asking." Nana reassured him. "Misaki is just like her mother. She hold thing in when she doesn't have to."

"Even though..…."Nana shook her head, taking a sip of her tea before trying to change the sober mood of the room by telling the story about Taichi's failed attempt at asking Emi out.

Emi died in a car accident. That was the story and that was what they would tell when they were asked.

~KHR~

"You okay?"

"Yeah…."

Tsuna sighed and rolled over, staring at his best friend's back. Misaki had asked if she could sleep in his bed with him and after what happened at dinner, Tsuna gladly let her. Fuuta had apologized to Misaki after she had gotten out of the shower. She told him it was fine and that she wasn't upset or anything.

Tsuna sighed and pulled her close, just like she used to do for him when they were younger. Misaki turned around and cuddled against him, tucking her head under his chin.

"You know, it's okay to be upset about it…" Tsuna said quietly. "She was your mom. If my mom died I would be upset about it."

"Like how it was with your dad?"

Tsuna snorted softly. Sure, he was sad when his mom told him his dad had 'become one with the stars' and disappeared, but he hadn't been closes to his dad. Honestly, he considered Taichi more of a father figure then anyone. He had more memories of Taichi then his dad anyway.

"That's different. Sure, I was a little sad, but Dad was never around, so it didn't hurt that much."

"Heh…"

Misaki smiled a little, closing her eyes. "You know, the morning I left, I was stared out at the water and wondered if Mom would have liked it there."

"I'm sure, she would." Tsuna said." You guys lived by the ocean right?"

"We live a street away from the ocean, but I could see the ocean from my window a little. It was beautiful to see the sun set and rise on the water, though I could do without the smell some mornings."

"What smell?"

Misaki told him about the smell of the horrible seaweed in the morning, how some times she gag on her way to meet her friends to walk to school. Her story then drifted to some of the small thing that she and her friends did. Both of them slowly grew sleepier as Misaki went on, an occasional yawn coming from both of them. Tsuna opened his eyes, not realizing he had closed them, and looked at Misaki. She was fast asleep, a few stray stands of her hair falling in her face. He smiled and pressed his face in her hair, yawning softly.

His thoughts drifted to his aunt Emi. While he didn't remember as much as he used to, he remembered enough to see what his mom meant when she said she and Misaki were just like each other. She had drifted off one time while reading them a story late at night, just like Misaki did. Both of them had that soothing voice, one of the many things they shared. They both keep their emotions in to keep from worrying people. He remembered the few weeks after Emi had died, Misaki just smiled at the words of comfort and sympathy, the light in her eye growing dim with each word they offered. She acted as if she was alright, even though she was breaking inside. He remembered the grip she had on his hand as her father left for Italy with Nana after they had received that call. The way she held on to him as the dam finally broke and screamed for her mom, sobbing about how she was supposed to take them to the zoo like she promised the last time she talked to her, how she was supposed to show her how to play the violin and many other promised broken . He cried to along with her, not just because he lost his aunt but for his best friend. As he drifted off to sleep, Tsuna silently made a promise to himself.

No matter how dame he was, he would make sure that light in her eyes stayed bright.

~KHR~

"Thanks again for helping, guys." Misaki said.

Yesterday, Misaki almost had a heart attack when she realized her aunt was coming the next day and she hadn't gone over and cleaned the house.

"Haha, don't worry about it." Yamamoto said.

"I don't see why we had to get up so early." Gokudera yawned.

"Well, I figured if we started early then we would hopefully be finished before they get here." Misaki said, stopping in front of her house. "Here we are."

(Star: Because I suck at Describing house, think of Sakura's House from CCS just slightly larger.)

Misaki opened the gate and walked to the front door, unlocking it with the spare key Nana had given her. She looked around as she stepped inside, scrunching her nose slightly at the muskiness of the house.

"Wow, did you guys take everything with you?" Yamamoto asked as they took off their shoes.

"No, we took a few things, the rest is up is either down in the basement or at my aunt's."

They walked into the living room and Misaki walked over and opened the curtains, sneezing as dust flew off the curtains.

"God, this is going to be a pain to clean." Misaki sneezes as she opened the sliding door, airing out the room.

"I thought your dad was going to ask someone to come over and clean while you were gone." Tsuna said as he ran his hand along one of the media center shelves, making a face at the dust. "What happened to that?"

"I think Uncle Kazu said he was going to stop by once and a while and clean when he comes to Nami."

"Who's that?" Yamamoto asked as he pulled off the sheet on the couch, smiling sheepishly as a Gokudera got cough in a dust cloud.

"He's a friend of our parents from middle school." Tsuna said "Come to think of it, Uncle Kazu canceled his trip up here a few times."

Misaki blinked. "Really? Now that you mention it, Dad said he was going to visit us while we were in America but he ended up canceling it."

"Is it that unusual for him to cancel?" Gokudera asked.

Tsuna and Misaki looked at each other. It wasn't that unusual for him to cancel at least one of his yearly trip to Japan if something came up with work. Their Uncle Kazu was an archaeologist and traveled around the world to different dig sights. He made an effort to visit them at least two or three time a year.

MIsaki shrugged. "It's no big deal. Anyway,let's get to work. Nana said that she was picking them up around one."

The teens split up so they could get both floors done. Misaki and Yamamoto took the bottom floor while Gokudera and Tsuna cleaned upstairs except for Misaki's room which she said she'll get later. Turns out there was a lot more dust then they had thought. Even with the bandana covering their mouths, the teens found themselves coughing. Of course Lambo appeared out of nowhere with I-pin chasing after him and ended up causing a mess. Misaki didn't know whether to be relived or annoyed when Reborn also appeared in a maid outfit and shot Tsuna with a dying will bullet. They scrambled to open all the windows as the brunet furiously cleaned the house, dust flying everywhere.

"At least we're done now." Yamamoto said as the flame on Tsuna's forehead and the dust died down.

"Almost, we need to bring some stuff up from the basement, like the dishes and stuff." Misaki said.

After Tsuna got dressed in a spare step of clothes that Reborn brought, they headed down into the basement, bringing up boxes with Reborn supervising. Once they brought up a couple boxes, Misaki started going through them, putting away the stuff like the dishes and some pictures.

"Lambo no running!" I-pin said, chasing the little boy around the dining table.

"You can't catch Lambo!" He yelled cheerfully.

"Hey, be careful you two." Misaki called over her shoulder, wiping down dishes before putting them away.

"Misa? You here?"

Misaki felt a shiver run up her spine at the male voice. She took a deep breath as she set the dish down and walked out to the hall. Taking off his shoes was a boy around Ryohei's age with long brown hair and wine colored eyes wearing a white button up with the sleeves rolled up and black skinny jeans. Around his neck were three sets of dog tags. The two of them stared at each other before a grin spread across the boy's face.

"What? No hug for your favorite cousin?" He asked, playfully.

Misaki sighed in relief before running up to the boys, jumping into his arms. He chuckled as he returned the hug, kissing the side of her head.

"I missed you too, Mi-chan."

Misaki rolled her eyes as she pulled back. "I missed you to, Hideaki. For a second I thought you were Ryoichi."

"And here I thought you would be happy I was the one who came with Mom." Hideaki said, rolling his eyes as his cousin giggled.

She was actually relived he was the one here instead of his twin brother, otherwise she would be living at Tsuna's house. Neither of them knew why but Ryoichi hated Misaki. When they had been younger, Ryoichi was one of her favorite cousin along with Hideaki until one day he had a complete change of heart. Now every time he saw her, he would glance as her and treat her like she was a curse. When she had started learning martial arts, he would pop out of now where and attack her, saying it was a surprise spar, even though he was way ahead of her. Their 'spars' would leave her with bruise and one time a sprained ankle from when she tripped over one of the tables trying to get away. After that, Hideaki made sure to always have his cousin at his side or with someone who could stop his brother.

"Misaki are they here already?" Tsuna asked as he came out of the basement carrying a box.

"Hey,Tsu." Hideaki said smiling.

"Hey, how was Train ride here?"

Before Hideaki could saw a word, a loud crash came from in the basement followed by yelling and crying. The three of them headed down stairs and saw Yamamoto trying to calm down Gokudera who was yelling at Lambo, who was crying.

"What's going on down here?" Tsuna asked.

"I told you, you stupid cow, not stop running around!" Gokudera yelled.

"It was an accident, Gokudera." Yamamoto said before looking over at the other. "Lambo was running around and crashed into to some boxes."

Misaki sighed as she walked down and picked up the crying child. "I told you to be careful. Are you okay?"

Lambo hide his face in her shoulder, sniffling. "Lambo is fine…"

"Everything okay down here?"

The teens looked over at the steps were a woman with long brown hair in a ponytail and wine color eye and Nana stood.

"Hi Aunt Haruka." Misaki greeted. "Some stuff just fell over."

"Misaki, you were a cute baby."

Misaki looked over at Reborn, who as looking at one of the books that had fallen out of one of the boxes. "What?"

The hitman turn the book towards the girl and pointed to one picture. It was of a baby Misaki laying on her stomach, staring up at the camera with big brown doe eyes with a stuffed lizard in her mouth.

"The kid's right Mi-chan." Hideaki cooed. "Look at those chubby cheeks."

Misaki blushed and pouted. "S-Shut up. You're one to talk."

Tsuna set the box up and saw that it and the other were full of albums. Nana suggested they take a break and they could look at the photos. The boys brought up the box and they all settled into the living room, going through the albums. Misaki was surprised at three box of albums and video tapes. The pictures ranged from when Nana and Haruka were in middle school to more recent ones taken within the last year.

"What are you two doing in this picture?" Yamamoto asked, showing them on picture.

It was of a five year old Tsuna standing in front of a tired and confused looking Misaki with his arms out, pout angrily at the six year old Hideaki who was giving him a look with his hand on his hips. All of them wearing pajamas. In the background, Nana was leaning against the door frame, a hand covering her mouth.

Nana laughed. "I remember that. Hideaki wanted Misaki to sleep in his bed that night but Tsuna said that she always slept with him when he spent the night. They argued about it until Hideaki asked her who she wanted to sleep with. We lost it when she said that they were being dummy heads and that they were all sleeping in the same bed."

"Tsuna didn't like sharing his Misa." Harkua said playfully, getting the two teens to blush.

"Really?" Gokudera asked, remembering when the red head had gotten 'kidnapped' and how pissed Tsuna had gotten.

The two woman nodded as Tsuna's blush darken.

"Mhm, there is only one person Tsuna is willing to share Misaki with and that is his Uncle Ren." Nana said.

Haruka turned the page and snorted. "Oh my god, Nana do you remembered this?"

Nana looked over at the picture and giggled. "Oh I remember!"

"What?" Tsuna asked.

Haruka turned the book towards them and everyone laughed. In the picture stood class of teenage, all the boy dressed in short frilly maid outfits, complete with stocking and headbands while the girls wore butler uniforms. None of the boys looked happy while the girls were laughing their heads off.

"I'm still surprised Tai got a low score on that test." Nana giggled.

"Dad scored low on a test?" Misaki asked surprised. "I thought he was top in the class."

"Oh he was, all I know is the night before, your mom took him out and the next day during the test he was asleep." Haruka said. "Our parents weren't happy at his grade."

"Ne , Juudaimie, who's this?" Gokudera asked, showing Tsuna a picture.

It was of him and Misaki as babies and an older man. The man was laying on his back on a blanket, his hand resting on Tsuna's back to keep him from falling off his stomach while the other was behind his head. Tsuna was staring wide eyed at a giggling Misaki as she leaned against the top of the man's head, her hands against his cheeks. You could see a faint smile on the man's face and black hair sticking out from under the little red-haired.

"Oh, I'm pretty sure that Uncle Ren." Tsuna said.

"Who's that?"

"He's mine and Misaki's godfather."

"Did you find a picture of Uncle Ren?" Misaki asked, crawling over to the boys.

"Yeah." Tsuna showed her the picture.

Nana smiled. "You know, the only time we could ever get a picture of Ren when he was with Tsuna and Misaki or with Emi."

"Really?" Tsuna asked, looking at the picture

"….What happened to Uncle Ren?" he asked.

The last time they had seen him was after Emi died. Ren had come for to stay with them while Nana and Taichi went to Italy to retrieve and for the funeral. After that, they only received letters from him before those stopped two years ago.

Nana and Harkua shared a look when Lambo and I-Pin came running in. Misaki opened her mouth to tell them to slow down when she noticed something in Lambo's hands. It was a small clam shaped box with the ocean painted on it.

"That's!"

"Lambo, it not yours!" I-pin yelled.

"Finders Keepers!"

"Stop running around, you two." Tsuna said only to be ignored.

The two of them ran around the room a few times until Lambo tripped on an album, the box flying out of his hands. Misaki moved to grab it but smacked her knee into the coffee table. She waited for the sound of it hitting the ground but it didn't come thanks to Reborn catching it. Misaki let out a sigh of relief then winced as she rubbed her knee.

"You okay?" Gokudera asked.

"Yeah…"Misaki winced.

"Didn't Juudaimie tell you to stop running around!? You almost broke that!" The bomber said, glancing at the cow kid.

"What is that anyway?" Hideaki asked.

"It's my mom's music box. I thought we lost it when we moved." Misaki said looking over at I-pin. "Where did you guys find that?"

"In a box, it was with other stuff. " She said.

"Other stuff?"

Suddenly Nana let out startled noise. "OH I forgot. I made a reservation at that new restaurant."

"Huh?" The teen asked, confused at the sudden change of topic.

"Oh yeah, you mentioned that on the ride here." Haruka said.

Nana hurried for them to clean up and get them out the door so they could be on time for their reservation. With all the chaos, no one noticed the look shared between the two older women.

~KHR~

"Still trying to figure out how to get it to work?"

Misaki glanced up at her best friend from her position on her futon. After dinner, they had gone back to her house and finished cleaning up. Once they were done, Misaki asked I-pin show her what box she and Lambo had found the music, but Hakura told her she could look for the box tomorrow after school when she brought her stuff over. She took the music box with her. Since then, Misaki has been trying to figure out how to it to work.

She let of a frustrated noise as she glanced at the box. "I can't figure it out."

"Isn't there a little thing you use to whine it up?" Tsuna asked, drying his hair.

"No."

He raised an eyebrow. "Then how do you play the music?"

Misaki let out a sigh and pressed her face into the pillow. "I have no idea…"

Tsuna knelt down and picked up the music box, sitting down cross legged on the floor. He turned it around a few times before gently trying to pry it open. Misaki looked up at him and giggled as he let out a sigh.

"How did your mom used to get this to open?"

"I don't know."

One of the few memories of her mother she had was with that music box. The soft melody accompanied by Emi's voice was the comforting cure for sleepless night during a storm or bad dreams. Even after Emi died, Misaki found herself singing or humming quietly to herself.

"All she did to open it was hold it and it would open." Misaki said as Tsuna handed her the box.

"Do you still remember the song?"

Misaki nodded.

"So you think you can sing it?"

Misaki raised an eyebrow. "It's in Italian?"

"Please~." Tsuna said, giving her his best puppy eyes.

The red head blushed and looked away, pouting. "Fine, just stop with the eyes. I swear, I hope when you are older, you lose the ability to do that."

Tsuna laughed as Misaki took a deep breath.

"L'arcobaleno è la mia scia

che navigo in cerca di quella montagna

Le luci all'alba, melodia

mi portano indietro

ad un tempo passato.

Colori immersi nella scia dell'arcobaleno

che gioca nel cielo

il vento mi sospinge via

raggiungo le onde dei sette mari

Gli uccelli che volano alti nel cielo d'oriente

la rotta è sicura in quell'isola cela un tesoro

All'alba io vedrò le sette terre che

il destino vuole farmi trovare davvero

Oh dolce melodia

sprigioni vita e mi fai cantare forte un messaggio d'amore

Per sempre tu sarai in fondo all'anima,

così che neanche il tempo ci può separare

Oh dolce melodia

sprigioni vita e mi fai cantare forte un messaggio d'amore."

Tsuna clapped as Misaki finished.

"That was amazing."

The two teens looked up and say Reborn lounging in his hammock.

"Thanks Reborn." Misaki said, rubbing that back of her head. "Although, I'm pretty sure I was a little too fast."

"You should have more confidence in yourself." Reborn said." You sang it perfectly."

Misaki smiled and looked down at the music box. "I kind of wish was I could sing along with Music box like mom used to."

~KHR~

"Mama?"

Nana looked up and blinked. "Reborn, what are you doing up?"

The hitman hopped on the table and looked at the album Nana had open. "Look at pictures?"

"Mhm." Nana nodded, looking back at the page. "Just thinking of Emi."

She smiled at the picture of Emi and Misaki, the young mother resting her cheek against the sleeping toddlers head. How she missed her best friend, she was the one who knew them all better then they knew themselves. She wondered how life would be if she was still around. Would it be just as chaotic as when they were in middle school or would it be calm and relaxing?

"…Are you ever going to tell them?"

Nana sighed and leaned back in her chair, giving Reborn a look that he couldn't help but smirk at. "I've been wondering when you were going to ask this. Why does it matter?"

"Your son is going to be the Vongola tenth."

"If I recall, there is another heir." Nana said, even though both of them knew that there was no way he was going to be the next boss.

The woman let out a sigh as she ran her finger in her hair, suddenly feeling like her eighteen year old self." I don't know. Part of me is hoping that this is just a dream and that I'll wake up tomorrow and life will be back to normal."

"Your life is never going to be normal."

"I know, I know. Honestly, I'm willing to tell Tsuna when the time is right, but it all up to Tai if we should tell Misaki."

"Does he know about Tsuna?"

"No." Nana chuckled. "You know I always thought it would be the other way around."

Her eyes landed on another picture of Emi. A slightly bitter smile swept across her face.

"Reborn…"

The hitman looked at her.

"Promise me you'll keep them safe. I know you can't do much but..."

"Nana, I gave you and Emi my word all those years ago. I'll keep them safe."

Star: I hope you guys like this chapter. I'm going to put Hideaki and Haruka's bios in the beginning of the next chapter. I'm still trying to straighten out a few detail. Next up chapter begins the Kokuyo Arc! A new character and a secret. Can't wait!