A/N

Omigod! Finally updating! got too distracted with Christmas stuff and watching movies :3 Plus it's really, really, really hot over here... computer gets really hot too... hard to get motivated to write story... But I drew some more picture! XD I'm gonna draw a special Christmas Pic when I've finally introduced all the guardians! hopefully before Christmas... if not then before New Years...

I MADE SOME EDITS TO THE PRELUDE! just the prologue and first 2 chapters are edited so far...

Thanks again uniquemangalover! He looked so cute as a panda XD

silvermoon170: Thanks for reviewing! rain as a crane...? never really pictured that before. I drew Azusa as a cheetah and Kai with a Raven but I haven't done the crane yet can't draw birds T_T)

hitomi65: Thanks for reviewing! XD

Akayuki Sawada: Hehehe, Kai as a bunny would be adorable though XD Cielo's cuteness factor would just overload when he wears Reborn's fedora! The only bad thing about KHR is the fact nearly all the girls are just so damn useless! Sometimes I wonder why Kyoko and Haru were even there!

maggie585907: once again, thanx for the review! XD

End Notes

Coffee is freaking amazing.

Well, provided you make it right… when you make it wrong its total crap. Katerina's coffee is a prime example of just how disgusting coffee can be sometimes… Seriously, I don't get how she can drink such horrible stuff… Reborn-sensei seems to agree with me because he always makes his own coffee.

Which is why I was kinda surprised when the other day, instead of dragging me up to the mountains for our usual early morning tutoring (read: 'torturing') session, he dragged me into the kitchen and said: "Today you're going to learn how to make coffee."

I think Padre was the one who bought the coffee machine (it looks like one from a proper café, only smaller) and the coffee grinder. I've never seen Katerina use it, but Padre makes his own coffee like sensei does. I actually think she really wants to get rid of it but can't because its Padre's…

Well, anyway… Sensei taught me how to make a simple black coffee and how to heat up the milk with the machine. It took about ten tries before I got it right and another eight before he said it was drinkable. I take it as a compliment that my coffee is at least "drinkable" compared to Katerina's.

Now it's my job to make the coffee every damn morning… sigh, at least I can make coffee now. I still think it's too bitter and I have to put milk and sugar in mine, but it's so nice. Particularly before the usual four a.m. "tutoring" session, I feel less tired after the coffee and I have just a little more energy.

I'm still pretty tired though… I yawn loudly as I trudge slowly bag home. The sun's peaking over the rooftops now so it must be close to about seven o'clock. Being awake all night and then going out really early is incredibly tiresome. It's only halfway through the week and I've already had enough…

I still don't really get the point of these sessions… Sigh, well at least he's not throwing me into snake pits or mine fields anymore… Now all I have to do is light a bunch of candles with my flame. Though, it seems pretty pointless to me… I mean, seriously, candles? Why the diamine is he making me light candles?

"Well, it's not like you've been able to do it right yet."

"Oh shut up… I'm getting there…" I scowl lightly. Sensei went back ahead of me (it's Masamune's turn for torture) so I'm free to grumble.

It's not my fault those damn candles are so small and easy to melt. It would be so much easier if I was allowed to touch the damn things… every time I try to light one, the whole thing bursts into flames and melts, plus it gets the ones next to it too… And sensei just has to make it harder by setting them up in a pattern too…

A circle of candles, where I'm only allowed to light every second one… Seriously, we must be funding the entire candle industry with the amount that have been liquefied and replaced… Though, I can't help but wonder where the diamine he keeps pulling all this stuff out from. He only brought the one small suitcase with him, didn't he?

Yet he's always producing things out of nowhere, like he had it the whole time… All those random costumes, those grenades, bombs and other various weapons of mass destruction… Where is he getting it all from? Maybe it's like how Kai can magic up his whip out of thin air…

"Telephone pole."

"What—" Bam! "Argh!" Where the diamine did this effing pole come from!?

"Hahahaha!"

"It's not funny!" I growl while rubbing my sore forehead.

"Yeah, you're right… it's not funny, it's hilarious!"

"F***. You." I glare and turn away with a huff. Just because this cazzo can walk straight threw everything…

I shake my head as I pass through the front door, murmuring a small "…tadaima…" Sensei had made a point that a mafia should always announce his presence within his own home… it was a rather painful lesson…

Katerina was in the kitchen washing the breakfast dishes and since it's so quiet, Masamune and Sensei must already be gone. There's still an hour before I have to leave so I grab some bread and shove it in the toaster. Katerina leers at me with a plastic smile on her face. Guess she's still pissed that Reborn-sensei likes my coffee better than hers.

She eyes me up and down, her hands on her hips, "Really Cielo, why can't you dress more appropriately? Those clothes are very unbecoming of a lady."

I huff and glance down at my clothes: a light blue sleeveless hoodie, some faded blue jeans (with rips here and there and frayed at the ends), and orange and white sneakers. There's nothing inappropriate about what I'm wearing! Dio woman! When will you realise I'm not an effing girl!

Besides my style of clothing is almost the same as Masamune's! Seriously, maybe it's like a "twin thing" but we have the same taste in pretty much everything. From our style of clothing to the kinds of foods we like, heck, even our taste in movies and video games is the same!

Of course, there are some differences here and there. Like how I hate sports but Masamune loves them, and how I prefer hoods whereas Masamune hates them. Oh, and the fact that he only wears brand name clothes and I'm happy with whatever. I guess the fact all his clothes fit and mine are too big or me is also a different choice in style.

Maybe it's because our clothes are so similar that Katerina keeps giving mine to him. He doesn't even where most of them though… I've had to sneak into his room when no one's home just to get them back…

Rolling my eyes I take some leftover bacon and eggs from the fridge (clearly she wasn't planning on feeding me today) and make myself a toasted bacon and egg sandwich. She keeps on ranting away about nothing while sit down to eat. I think I'll just get dressed and go after I finish this.

People are freaking annoying! I can't help but think as I make my way to my classroom.

Argh! They won't stop staring and whispering amongst themselves as I pass. The look of sheer terror on their faces is all that's keeping me from letting Aigís mess with them. Apparently the rumour of me being cursed is true now since I had (according to them) put a curse on the baseball team.

Seriously, what the hell?

This is all that damn baseball freak's fault… she should have just left the clothes she borrowed with Sawa-chan, like I told her, instead of bringing them to my class. She— err, I guess I should be saying "he" since at school she's still a he… anyway, he randomly showed up at my class Monday morning asking for me.

I hadn't expected to ever talk to her/him again so I was kinda speechless… Well I was kinds worried about what she/he… Merda this is too hard… screw it, I'm just gonna go with "she"… so, I was worried over what she'd do about the whole "cross-dressing" thing. Turns out she had quit the baseball team.

Yeah, I really wasn't expecting that. She looked kinda relieved though and happier than I'd ever seen her. She said that she just needed some time to clear her head and gather up her thoughts. "Just some time to figure some things out." she said… I don't really get it, but so long as she's happy I guess its fine. She's still pretending to be a boy though…

I suppose suddenly coming out and saying: "Guess what? I'm a girl!" would be kind of weird. And she only has to pretend for the rest of the school year anyways…

Everyone had somehow connected Yuki-sempai visiting me to the reason for her leaving the team. How? I have no idea. They also seem to think I'm the reason the cazzo of a vice-captain had been kicked off the team. People are really stupid too… how the diamine does that guy getting kicked off the team get connected to me!?

The guy had been blackmailing the other team members for ages! Plus he went around beating up rival teams just so they'd have a better chance at winning! Kai had been the one to report him in; he won't tolerate any kind of illegal behaviour like blackmailing. Well, the guy wouldn't have been able to play anyways since Kai also broke his arm.

But in the end, the team did lose both its captains and some of its best players in one go. So everyone immediately assumes the team was cursed by dame Sora! Idiots! The lot of them!

"Yo! Cielo!" Sempai randomly pops up next to me scaring the shit out of me.

"Ah…err…c-ciaossu…" Merda wrong greeting… so damn hard to speak properly… Why must people make my life hard by talking to me? Sigh, I miss my solitary existence…

"Haha, that's a cool word, is that Italian?" She grins, placing her elbow over my shoulder and leans on me a little as we walk. I just shrug, unable to find my voice. I don't really know it's a made up word after all. She seems to get the message and just laughs.

We continue on to my classroom with sempai chattering away about pointlessly random shit and me just listening silently. Is this weird? Like, should I be replying? I have no idea… I've never had a conversation with such an upbeat person before… this is a conversation, right?

I glance at sempai's bright happy grin and offer a very small awkward smile in response. I guess this isn't so bad…

Azusa had made a mistake… no that's an understatement; she had failed big time! All this time, the kid she'd been targeting was the Vongola Decimo's son! HOW COULD SHE NOT HAVE REALISED THIS SOONER!?

"Calm done Azusa!" she gave herself a light slap to stop from freaking out and paced around her room some more. She needed to keep her cool; she can't rush into this all impatient hot-headed! That's what got her into this mess in the first place! Just rushing in without thinking! How could she be so stupid!?

If she had kept calm and investigated properly then she would have easily found out this incredibly important piece of information a hell of a lot sooner!

Well, it was partly the old man's fault for not telling her she was attending the same school as the eleventh! Why hadn't he told her something so important!? She'd had to call him up herself for confirmation. "ARRGHH! GODDAMN OLD MAN!" she screamed punching the wall.

Luckily Clara was out grocery shopping so she could vent and not get yelled at. But still! The nerve of her stupid father! Telling her he'd already sent that info long ago! If he'd sent it then why the f*** didn't she already know, huh!? Damn old man must be getting senile! No Azusa! Focus now! Be pissed off later!

Take a deep breath… let it out… count to ten… repeat.

"…"

Okay! Now, to go over all the new information plus what she has already obtained (which admittedly, isn't much…). The files from her good-for-nothing father contained very basic info on Decimo-sama's sons. Yes that's right, "sons" as in plural. That no good scrawny brat had a twin!

Naturally she was rather pleased at this news. The Vongola would have a future after all! The guy had a lot of achievements under his belt already; surely he'd be the best choice for the title of Undicesimo! Azusa was certain of it! That is until she found out who said twin was. All hope for the future of Vongola shattered.

Why did it have to be that pig-headed, arrogant, perverted, prima donna of the basketball team Sawada Masamune! F***! She hated that pricks guts! The asshole had the nerve to f****** flirt with her and all her friends, thinking he's hot stuff! Perverted beast! How could this have happened!?

How could both of Decimo-sama's kids be so damn useless!?

It must be that wench who called herself Decimo-sama's wife! She passed down all the bad genes to her sons so they didn't inherit any of Decimo-sama's wonderfulness! Oh, how she loathed that woman! Of course she'd never actually met her, but she loathed her all the same! Especially when she heard of how the wench had up and disappeared without a trace!

It made Azusa happy knowing Decimo-sama was free of her and very sad knowing she had just abandoned him. What kind of woman in their right mind would give up such a wonderful man like Decimo-sama, plus the two kids she'd left behind! If she ever meets that puttana, she's gonna punch the living daylights out of her!

"Ah!" She slapped herself again, "Focus Azusa, focus!" With one last shake of her head she dived back into her research.

…Clearly, Sawada Masamune was the better choice by far. He was popular, strong and she'll admit he had charisma… But she still hated his guts! However, she hated that spineless coward dame Sora even more! The brat was the oldest yet he lets himself get pushed around and walked all over by his younger brother!

He was certainly a useless no good coward and wouldn't survive a day in the mafia! But Reborn-sama was tutoring him… well, his brother too but… it was the Reborn-sama after all! The world's number one hitman! The very best home tutor there is! And… he complimented her marksmanship! SQUEEEEEEEEEEE!

Slap! "Focus!" She can fangirl over Reborn-sama later! Right now she has other priorities!

Speaking of "fangirling"… those few weeks she'd spent observing dame Sora had produced rather surprising results. Mainly in discovering his connection with Hibari Kai, as well as their so called "fan club", and the strange activities of the Occult club too… Well, she would have just taken him out straight away if that damn Hibari guy hadn't interfered!

She'd approached him before, due to his connection to the Vongola Cloud guardian, wanting to know where he stood in terms of allegiances. He proved to be incredibly uncaring and unsympathetic towards the Vongola. So she'd just ignored him. But how in God's name did that scrawny brat manage to get him as his subordinate!?

Hibari-san was probably even more violent and ill-tempered than his father! Yet he guarded dame Sora like a hawk! She couldn't even get close to the guy! So she'd tried just following them around, waiting for an opening to attack. That's how she ran into the Occult club members.

They were stalking dame Sora to see if the rumours of him being possessed by a demon were true. She had never been one to believe in silly things like curses and demons but these rumours did intrigue her. Things like rumours have to start from somewhere, right? There must be some truth in them.

The strange behaviour of the brat must be the cause. He keeps talking to himself, having strange one-sided conversations. He probably has some form of schizophrenia or something… It was odd, but nothing really all that "occult" about it, he can't help it if he's sick after all. Another reason he shouldn't be the Eleventh.

Shortly after her run-in with them she came face-to-face with the so called "Bishonen FanClub". Before then Azusa had never even heard that such a club existed. Those rabid fangirls are terrifying! They seemed to think she was one of them for some reason and dragged her back to their "secret club house" in the shack behind the gym.

She found out why when she got there. These girls were shipping random couples within the school. All male couples! Like the (former) Baseball Captain and the Boxing club Captain. One of their favourite "fandoms" is matching the demon spawn Hibari Kai with dame Sora! Heck, even one of the teachers is into this crap! She'd like to get her hands on the crazy cagna that has the nerve to call herself a teacher!

Meanwhile, faraway in her office, a certain school nurse suddenly sneezes.

She had managed to escape, but only with a whole pile of doujins, drawing, falsified photos and some fan made stories shoved in her arms. She was going to just throw it all out on the way home but… they did go through all the trouble of making this stuff… and she was just a tad curious… Well, curiosity killed the cat and she ended up taking them home.

She wasn't planning to read this junk… she was just gonna take a little peak. Yeah, that's all… It was just that the doujin she happened to pick up ended with a cliff-hanger! She had to go on! And on, and on… and on… until she'd ended up stayed awake for almost the whole night reading everything they'd given her…

The most shameful moment of her life was when she returned to the clubhouse the next day and signed up for full membership… Argh! The shame of it all!

Slap! "FOCUS, GODDAMIT!" Deep breaths, in and out…

Right! She needed to concentrate here! Based on her findings it was clear that the younger twin was better suited to be the Eleventh. However, she can't right off the older twin just yet. He had, after all, managed to get the uncooperative Hibari Kai on his side. And he had blocked her kick that one time too… He must have some hidden potential at least.

She would test him! If he wasn't up to her standards she'd just kill him off (or scare him away, whichever comes first) and side with the other twin. She'd make sure that bastardo learns his place… It didn't matter that her old man told her to stay out of it and just observe (as if she'd be a good little princess and wait); she was taking matters into her own hands!

As much as she loves these older model handguns, it's best she use the ones she's most familiar with. She's going all out with this one! Placing the old ones back she picked out her two Beretta M92s, a Beretta AR-70/223 assault rifle and, for good measure, a stack of dynamite and a few grenades. She would be prepared this time!

Her face burst into a heated blush as she remembers her last encounter with the loser twin. Yes, she would be prepared… instead of wearing her skirt high-waisted, she began wearing it on her hips to give it more length and, just in case, she also wore a pair of bike shorts underneath. It was easier to conceal the holsters for her twin Berettas this way too…

Now that she was adequately armed it was time to plan out her next move. This time she would not fail! Especially not with Reborn-sama watching! "…Hehe… Sawada Cielo… Prepare to meet your doom! Ahahahaha!"

At this time Clara Alessi returned home to find her mistress in a fit of maniacal laughter. She is currently contemplating on whether or not she should be getting her a therapist…

Today's lunch is really, really awkward… I am so glad Kai is busy biting people to death right now… He definitely wouldn't be happy with this.

Yuki-sempai had decided she would be eating lunch with me— err, I guess it's "us" now… well, with me and Sumi-chan. I wasn't really against having sempai around for lunch so I said it was okay. I'm not really used to eating with anyone other than Kai (or Sawa-chan) yet so I didn't really think about what Sumi-chan would think.

She seemed okay with it though. When the two met, it was like they had some kind of silent conversation between girls or something. The atmosphere became really tense and it gets worse whenever they speak face to face. Seriously, I'm ready to bolt at the first sign of a catfight breaking out…

"If a fight does break out, I'd place my money on the tomboy." Would you just stop!

Oh yeah, Sumi-chan also knows Sempai is a girl. "Woman's intuition." She said.

I don't really get it though, since most girls appear to be totally fooled. They tend to gossip a lot on which boys are the "hottest" and such; Sempai is apparently one of the most handsome guys in the school. The sheer irony of it all is freaking hilarious.

Wait… Sempai would have had to have the same medical check-ups as everyone else… so does that mean Sawa-chan knows too? Great now I really want to know… asking Sempai kinda feels awkward, and I haven't seen Sawa-chan in a while (been too busy with Sensei and my new friends… we are friends, right?). Guess I'll go and see her after school.

Kai didn't come back to class after lunch, so there must be a really big disturbance going on… Ugh, my "Reborn senses" are tingling… I don't like this… got such a bad feeling right now… Okay, I'll just quickly go to the nurses' office then run straight home! Yeah, that's a solid enough plan, what could possibly go wrong?

EVERYTHING! That's what! Sigh, its lines like these that make all the bad things happen… I seriously have to stop saying and thinking them…

I stupidly decided to take a shortcut around the back of the school only to run into that girl, Azusa-san, fully armed and ready to kill. Then Sensei shows up all innocent-like and I suddenly find myself in a life or death fight with my "uncle's" daughter (which I still can't believe he actually has).

Sigh, f*** my life….

"HIIIIEEEEE!" I cry as I dive behind a tree for cover. Said tree immediately becomes riddled with bullet holes (I'm so sorry tree!).

"STOP RUNNING!" Azusa-san (read 'crazy trigger happy chick') screeches and throws a bomb at me. HOLY SHIT! She threw a bomb at me!?

"Get moving!" Aigís gives me a shove and I stumble away just dodging the explosion.

"HIIEEE!" What the diamine is wrong with this chick!? Ah the poor, poor tree…

And Sensei is just standing off to the side with an amused look on his face… the cazzo… Seriously, if I try to run he starts shooting at me… How does that saying go again? "Stuck between a sadist and a gun-maniac"?

Okay, Aigís can stop a bullet (that much I know), but I have no idea if he can stop a whole freaking barrage of bullets! And frankly I'm not all that keen on finding out… But given the circumstances, there isn't really that much choice here… Kai, if I die, you can have my guitar… I pray silently.

The shooting pauses briefly so I dash out from my hiding place and rush her, hoping to throw her off-balance. But she's incredibly fast at reloading and in one fluid motion she clicks in the ammo and fires repeatedly. I flinch but somehow I manage to keep going. The bullets deflect off Aigis's barrier allowing me to continue on safely.

Her eyes widen in shock as I lunge forward reaching for the guns. Successfully knocking her down we wrestle for a few moments before I manage to knock one away and grab the other one. She aims a kick to my gut, pushing me back enough for her to escape. Swiftly we jump further apart; I duck around the corner for cover, panting hard.

She swears and I peek around the corner. "It's not over yet!" She growls and pulls a rifle out of nowhere! A WHOLE FREAKING RIFLE!

"Hey, that's cheating!" I don't even have any weapons (aside from the gun I took off her), "Where the hell were you even keeping that anyway!?"

She turns bright red shouting, "Y-you pervert!" and proceeds to rain death on my hiding place. How the diamine does saying that make me a pervert!?

Seriously, I about to cry at the ridiculousness of all this… Sigh, I want to go home…

"Crying won't change anything." My thoughts are interrupted by Sensei's smooth baritone voice. I just give him a withered look that says: 'no shit Sherlock'. He just smirks. "Then, what are you going to do?"

'Run.' Would be my first answer but he's clearly not going to let me. She reloads too quickly for me to rush in (I'm not chancing it again). She also has explosives on her… My cover is almost gone too… Oh, I still have her other gun. I examine it for a bit, checking how many bullets are left…

Only two bullets… Well, it's not like I know how to use this thing anyways… I've fired a gun once but that was ages ago, and it flew out of my hands knocking me over too. I'm so screwed… I just want to get home and play my guitar… I slump further to the ground in depression.

…

… Huh? Hang on a sec…

The sound of the bullets hitting the wall is kinda… how to put it… It almost sounds like she's firing to a rhythm or something… Okay, let's pretend that's not a completely idiotic thought and say she is firing to a rhythm… It kinda sounds like it in 3/4 time. And, if in the off chance it's actually true, then I should be able to time when she's about to run out of bullets!

"You're sure about this…?" Not one bit!

Well, it is just a theory… But I guess it's better than nothing. Placing one hand on the wall, and gripping the gun tightly in the other, I crouch down low counting the beat. As I count I try my hardest to think of how Sensei fires his gun (though I'm usually running away at that point). I take a deep breath.

3…2…1…NOW!

I spring out and dash forward just as the bullet storm begins to die down. I raise the gun and fire. It misses her but scrapes the barrel of her rifle. She gives a squeak and is thrown back by the force of the bullet. She hits the ground but her finger is still on the trigger and she ends up accidently firing it, destroying the supports of a nearby water tank.

The huge metal structure comes crashing down on top of her crushing her completely!

Or, at least it would have if I hadn't rushed forward and shoved her out of the way. We went rolling off to the side as it hit the ground beside us; Aigís shielded us from any remaining rubble. I ended up on top of her supporting myself on my forearms. It was a lucky escape…

Kai's gonna be so pissed when he sees all the damage we've done… Actually, I'm surprised he isn't here now. I'm sensing a Reborn related incident may have occurred…

"You… saved me…" I look down to find Azusa-san staring up at me wide eyed.

"…Umm… yeah…? I-it's not like I'd j-just let you get… y-you know… crushed…" Even though it was own fault and you did try to kill me… I couldn't just walk away…

She turns bright red and turns away. My arms hurt now… I'm getting up. As I do so she grabs my arm and whispers a very small "Arigatou…" I just nod in response and help her up.

She opens her mouth to say something else, but Sensei suddenly sends me flying to the ground. "Good job for obtained Gokudera Azusa as a subordinate for your famiglia, dame Sora."

"Eeeeehh!?" What the hell?

"The loser always serves the winner. It's the rules of the mafia." He replies nonchalantly.

What kind of rule is that!? "Wait a minute, she's not in my famiglia!" What's with that smirk…? Wait… "And I don't have a famiglia!" Damn sadist, putting weird words in my mouth…

Suddenly Azusa-san grabs me by the collar of my shirt and point a gun at my head, "Listen up!" Merda this chick is scary! "I'll admit you're not that big a loser…" Was that meant to be praise? "But you're still a wimp! Prepare yourself cause I'm gonna turn you into the best dang boss there is! GOT IT?"

So effing scary! "H-hai!"

"Humph, good!" She drops me on the floor and storms off. Her face and ears are all red…

"I'd say that went pretty well."

"Please shut up." I reply dryly. Seriously I'm so done with this shit… I really hope whatever god I pissed off in another life is done torturing me now…

Yay! Azunya's officially part of the famiglia now XD The fight scene was really hard and sucks really bad... :P

Anywho... there's only like 2 weeks left till Christmas O_O must hurry and update next few chapters so we have every one introduced before Christmas!

As always Reviews are loved XD

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