Chapter 6

(Past) (Part 1)

Once there is Storm and Lightning, Rain would be always needed to wash off the sky's pain.

Upon landing, all three mothers disappeared. Or rather, Camellia was pulled away by Nana and Lavina for clothes shopping. It was now a totally bad idea to accept the quest of becoming a model for Mezzo Cielo.

Camellia was screaming away in fear as she looked at the kids to save her. Sadly to say, Tsuna and Hayato could only pray for her sanity.

The adults took a different car from the kids, leaving a lot of space for them. Lambo was obvious of his mother's worries and looked at his new brothers with curiosity. Tsuna smiled at Lambo.

"Let's go back home, Lambo." Needless to say, the trip was quite eventful. Too eventful….

Hayato didn't expect that his Tsuna-sama actually live in such a modest house. It was not as grand as the mansion back in Italy, and the apartment look too normal for them who had a lot of money to handle. They were not second to Vongola for nothing.

"Tsuna-sama, why is your house in Japan so….."

"Normal?" Hayato nodded.

"It is to hide our identity as Fantasma Famiglia. We are phantoms that appear and disappear anywhere we want and however we want. How would Fantasma be such a difficult thing to find anyway?" Tsuna posed the question, in which Hayato now understood the meaning. They weren't supposed to be found; they could just come and go off like an experienced thief, like a phantom.

"Interesting." Hayato rubbed his chin with his hands, nodding as he grasp the theory.

"Nana-sama sure is amazing." Tsuna smiled.

"But the one who created Fantasma with mama is the one who owns part of the mansion too." A voice interrupted, leading Hayato to defend Tsuna with his life.

"Ah. Mikan-san!" Tsuna hugged the brunette much to Hayato's disbelieve.

"Mikan-san, this is Gokudera Hayato and the young toddler on his hands is Bovino Lambo. Haya-chan, this is Yukihira Mikan." Tsuna excitedly introduced his tutor and his friend to each other.

"Haya-chan?" Mikan asked confusingly.

"Since when are you so feisty and hyper?" Mikan raised her eyebrow. Tsuna just smiling away.

"And Bovino? Since when the Bovino Famiglia has a child?"

"Apparently, the Bovino have a daughter called Camellia who was hidden. She ran away from them after having Lambo." Tsuna shrugged as he took Lambo for Hayato's hands.

"Something tells me that you still didn't tell me one more thing." Mikan crossed her arms as Tsuna cooed at Lambo who was playing with bubbles on his mouth.

"Lambo and Hayato are my guardians!" Tsuna grinned brightly.

"What?!" She wouldn't have expected that to happen.

"Well….. Mama has them too." Tsuna pouted. Mikan sighed.

"I can understand Nana-san on this but you need Guardians that are committed to you and are willing to sacrifice most of their freedom to protect you." Tsuna was going to retort when Hayato stood between both of them.

"I swear on my life that I would protect Tsuna-sama!" Hayato growled at Mikan who was surprised.

"Is that your answer as a storm or as a comet?"

"Both." Hayato stood firm as Mikan examined him overall. Mikan's face softened.

"Then welcome to the team, Gokudera Hayato, Guardian of Storm and Comet." Mikan's hand reached out to Hayato for a handshake, in which he gladly accepted.

"As for Lambo…" Mikan trailed away.

"I'll ask him when he's older." Tsuna smiled brightly.

"Thanks, Mikan-san!" Mikan smiled at the innocence he portrayed.

"Go off and meet Jii-chan. He's been dying to see you after Golden week, you know?" Tsuna squealed in excitement and ran off to the tea room.

"Nonno Jii-chan!" Tsuna jump-hugged the old man who despite his age was able to withstand a weight like Tsuna.

"The young man huh?" His words were contradicting to his expressions, since he was smiling at Tsuna dearly. He looked around before back to Tsuna.

"Where's Nana?"

"Mama is with Aunt Lavina and Aunt Camellia shopping!"

"Since when she has new friends?" Nonno raised his eyebrow.

"We met them in Italy! And they are our guardians too!" Tsuna jumped up and down happily.

"They?"

"My friend, Hayato and my newest baby brother, Lambo!" Nonno looked at Tsuna in slight shock.

"That was unexpected. I expected you to have them later though." Tsuna pouted.

"That's mean, Nonno Jii-chan! They are my friends no matter what!" Nonno laughed.

"Sorry. I didn't really mean it. Forgive this old man won't you?" Nonno smiled. Tsuna nodded enthusiastically. Nonno would have thought that his head would drop off from shaking too hard. And that reminded him something.

"Did the chill-out sweets wear out during your trip?"

"I guess so." Some rustling of feet was heard and both of them looked at the door, where Hayato stood.

"Tsuna-sama….." Hayato was temperamental person, but after hearing Tsuna announcing him as a friend, his temper deceased. One of the most respected people that Tsuna love was in front of him, and he had not prepared himself.

"Ho….." Nonno's hand was on his chin, rubbing against it as he examined the boy in front of him.

"He looks like a promising young man."

"Eh?" Tsuna tilted his head.

"Hello, there. I'm Mikan's grandfather, Nonno. It's nice to meet you." Hayato stared at him with curiosity and awe.

"It has been an honor to meet you, Nonno-san!" Nonno was trying his best to stifle his laughter.

"Mou….. Nonno Jii-chan, don't laugh at Hayato." Tsuna crossed his arms, making him all the more adorable.

"All right, all right." Nonno cooled himself down.

"Now, tomorrow's school day. Ain't ya worried?" Tsuna frowned at the word 'school'. Even though he had already got those classmates to stop calling him Dame-Tsuna, it doesn't mean that they wouldn't stop bullying him.

"Can't I just not go to school tomorrow? Pretty please?" Tsuna pulled out the puppy dog eyes that no one had refused when he was Italy.

"No." Both Mikan and Nonno spoke at the same time. Mikan sighed as she leaned against the wall.

"What did I say when it comes to bullies?"

Tsuna looked down at his feet. "Beat them up or show them a lesson on what's a real punch…."

"And what are you doing now?"

"Chickening out…"

"And what are you suppose to do now?"

"Devising an evil plan on them….." Tsuna unconsciously spoke, before realizing what he was saying. Mikan smirked.

"Ho…." Tsuna panicked.

"I mean…." Tsuna was spewing out gibberish, but more importantly, he needed to take his words back! Meanwhile Hayato stood there with Lambo in his hands. Did he just hear his Tsuna-sama saying the impossible? But blinking a few times doesn't seem to help at all with Mikan's expression.

"Good luck for the bullies then." Mikan smile, walking away as Tsuna panicked.

"Mikan, no! I don't mean that!" Tsuna screeched away, which was quite high for a boy's tone.

"Tsuna-sama…." Hayato could only stare at him. He was at a lost.

"HIEEEE!" Nonno smiled. At least the dark days for Tsuna were over.

The next day was somehow eventful for the two boys, with Mikan teasing Tsuna while running away from the said boy, flustered.

"Mikan! I told you I'm not going to….." Tsuna crashed with someone, and that someone was not just anybody.

"Ha! It's Dame-Tsuna!" One of his bullies cracked his fingers and roughly pushed him down.

Hayato just stood there, worried for his Tsuna-sama. Mikan put a hand on his shoulder.

"Don't worry about him. He knows what to do anyways." Mikan turned to Tsuna.

"Oi, Tsuna!" Mikan smiled brightly.

"Nana-san will be cookin' Salisbury Steak for today!" Huh? Hayato was puzzled. What's Yukihira-san planning?

"I'll eat off yar share if ya don't finish this in five minutes!" Tsuna turned a shade pale. NO! Anything but not my Salisbury steak! As the group was going to close on him, he went into an offensive position.

"Sorry…" Tsuna looked down to the floor, feeling sorry for the group but he would do anything for his steak. And no one, NO ONE, eats off his stuff! He punched off the sides where two boys stood, pushing them quite a distance.

"Let's teach Dame-Tsuna a lesson on who's the boss here." The leader of the group grinned evilly, but Tsuna wouldn't care less. Packing another few more punches on the boys surrounding him, he back flipped and landed perfectly on his legs, shocking the bullies.

"Did Dame-Tsuna just…."

"WHO CARES?! GET HIM!" The leader shouted at his friends (Minions). The rest of them were getting wary of the change that Tsuna had. Hayato looked at his watch; three more minutes. But Mikan had better ideas.

"Hey, Tsuna! I'm eating off yar steak." Instantly, the atmosphere dropped. Tsuna's bangs shadowed his eyes, unable to see his expressions.

"It's your entire fault…" Tsuna growled, having the feeling intensified. The group was surprised with the atmosphere.

"Dame-Tsuna's acting tough huh?" The leader nervously laughed. Tsuna's head raised and stared at the group in fury.

"I will make you regret this." His natural amber eyes shone bright orange. The next thing that scared Hayato out of his life would be Tsuna being angry. He could swear that it was one of the creepiest that he had ever seen. And now he would have to caution himself not to get him mad. Tsuna returned back to them, feeling depressed.

"4 minutes and 27.72 seconds. Not bad this time, Tsuna." Mikan ran away laughing again as Tsuna realized what she had done. The group was bloody with heavy punches and somehow some were bleeding with Tsuna on fire just moments ago.

"Mikan!" Tsuna ran frantically after Mikan as she ran away running. That's how part of the eventful morning went by without a hitch.


(Time skip)

Lunch break came in peacefully as Tsuna, Mikan and Hayato went up to the rooftop to eat their lunch. What Tsuna didn't expect was that news in Namimori spreads as fast as lightning.

"Hey, do you know? The Dame-Tsuna had beaten up a group of boys just before school."

"The Dame-Tsuna?! How is it possible?!"

"Those are rumors, I'm sure of it!" The conversations continued as Tsuna blushed in part embarrassment and part ashamed. Even though it doesn't seem like it, but it is an unknown fact that Tsuna was very possessive over his stuff (in which Mikan took it as a chance to threaten his precious food and Hayato was surprised that Tsuna was almost planning an evil plan in order to keep Hayato and Lambo as his guardians).

On the other hand, he was feeling horrible after what he did to them. He just hid the fact where he could fight and Mikan just turned it to her advantage. He just broke his words which he had promised himself a day before. And it wasn't even 24 hours yet!

"Tsuna-sama… Are you alright?" Hayato stared at Tsuna who was daydreaming.

"Huh? Ah, sorry Hayato. I have a lot of things in my mind now." Tsuna smiled meekly as he took a bite of his meal.

Rather getting worried about everyone talking about him, he was more interested in his dream last night.

The hybrid calls for his hybrid elements.
No matter what, his precious elements would always follow him.
Like day and night,
A true sky would always shine.

First would be the impenetrable storm,
Who destroys whatever is in his way.

Zooming in would be the lightning,
As fast as it could be,
Eliminating everything on his way.

The sky wouldn't be happy with the damage done.
The calm-hearted rain washes away its sorrows,
Yet ruthless to his enemies.

Even as strong as it is,
The Sky would eventually find out.
Cloud would hide him away,
But the kind-hearted sky would always let him go,
Because the cloud will always be aloof and free.

Being far away from the other elements,
The bright sun would always shine by its own.
But it would long for a companion,
Someone to befriend the lonely sun.

The mist deceives everyone with its words,
But it longs for truth that exposes it.
One would be shunned,
While the other would shine.
Even so, both had each other for company for they are twins.

In all, the night would slowly prevail itself,
For what they need is each other.

Tsuna couldn't understand any of it. For what he could say, it was a poem. But for what? He would need more than just brains to sort that one out. And it didn't seem like one of those nice dreams he would get once in a while. He didn't even tell anyone about it, feeling that it was a bad idea to tell them.

"Yo, Tsuna!" One of their classmates greeted him.

"Yamamoto-san?" Tsuna tilted his head in confusion with the famous uprising baseball prodigy on top of the roof. Aren't they supposed to be afraid of the Demon prefect at all?

"What ya doing?" Takeshi grinned, but Tsuna realized something. The smile was not reaching his eyes.

"Nothing. Just having lunch with Mikan and Hayato. Want to join us?"

"Sure!" Silence engulfed the area, making every moment awkward. Mikan was having her nap, which was why she didn't join them in their conversation.

"Yamamoto-san, don't worry too much." Takeshi was quite shocked, had he been so depressed that one could find out so easily?

"Wha do you mean, Tsuna-sama? He looks fine to me." Hayato took a bite of the Origini that Lavina specially made. Apparently, Nana had been teaching Lavina different kinds of recipes, from home meals all the way to cuisines. And it was the first batch she had made in her entire life, surprising him with the taste. It was quite unique and different from what Nana had cooked, but ending results were filled with thumbs up.

Takeshi laughed it off as a joke, but Tsuna narrowed his eyes. "Stop with that."

"Huh?"

"Don't laugh like that. It's fake, that smile of yours."

"What do you mean?" Tsuna sighed.

"I have the answers to your problems, Yamamoto Takeshi." Huh?


(Present)

Tsuna groaned at the amount of paperwork that had appeared in his office a few days after Ladies' day. It almost felt like papers could multiply like bacteria if untreated early. In this case, paperwork never ends. I creaking sound of the door was made and a familiar face appeared.

"Ienari…" Tsuna smiled at his brother. Ienari growled.

"Don't call me so familiarly, you fool." Tsuna saddened at the fact where his brother had no opened up to him.

"Where's Reborn?" Ienari shrugged.

"Don't know, don't care." Tsuna sighed at the typical answer.

"You are here for….?"

"This bloody shit. What else?" Ienari gave the obviously look as he slammed down the paper. Tsuna looked at the paper questionably.

"By Nezu-sensei huh…."

"He wants you expelled?" Tsuna spoke his mind as he raised one of his eyebrows.

"What shit is he? He can't even teach properly!" That one sentence unconsciously made Tsuna laughed. Tears were appearing from the over-laughter over his brother's joke.

"What's so funny?!" Ienari was confused why Tsuna was laughing, but he definitely wasn't happy to see his twin smiling.

Tsuna wiped off his tears before picking up a piece of paper from the stack of paperwork, smirking.

"Say…" Tsuna looked at his brother with a sadistic smile.

"Wanna kick him out of here?"Ienari was shocked. How much did his brother changed?

"Wha-what?" Ienari stuttered. Was this really his brother?

"I have the real information about that fake after all." Tsuna had a gleam on his eyes, feeling sadistic more and more at the moment.

"If only we could find that time capsule that he has, I could send the evidence to the rest of the schools." Tsuna continued to mumble to himself. Ienari just stared at his brother. What happen when he was away?

"And I could preserve our school's legacy…" Tsuna grinned wider, no caring at the person who is in front of him. He turned towards Ienari.

"Wanna do it?" Why would he have to follow his twin's orders? He was Dame-Tsuna for goodness sake! The boy who had no talents and worthless to the core! But maybe….

"What the plan?" He would just agree once. It wouldn't hurt right?

"Eh?" Tsuna didn't expected that he would accept it so easily. Or Nezu-sensei really is worthless to teach someone.

"What? As a master planner, you should have a plan, right?" Ienari sat down on the chair that was in front of Tsuna and drummed his fingers rhythmically. Tsuna smiled.

"Basically it's only the two of us go to Namimori Middle. Namimori Middle is the abandoned school that is only a street away; it would become a theme park when the school is demolished of course. But strong rumors have been heard that ex-Namimori students would place time capsules from time to time."

"So?" Tsuna smiled as Ienari thought deeper about it.

"Wait, that old fart is from Namimori?"

"Namimori Middle, that is. We can uncover his secrets and I need hard core evidence that he's a fraud."

"What?!"

"I have been researching about him after all. I wanted him out of the school as well. So far, it only scratched his pay sadly." Tsuna sighed. He needed that capsule no matter what.

"When?" Tsuna hummed.

"This evening. I'll withhold your expulsion for a time limit. A student needs to study after all." Tsuna smiled as he started signing off the papers from the pile.

"Now's not his lesson right?" Ienari looked at him with an irritated feeling. His lesson wasn't going to end in another 45 minutes or so.

"It is."

"Oh…." Tsuna was crestfallen before he changed his expressions.

"Then you can stay here until his lessons end then! The president's library is upstairs, go and take a look alright?" Ienari went upstairs reluctantly. Well, at least he didn't have to go to the hell hole again.

After a few finished pens and few stacks of paperwork done, the door slammed open, revealing the infant.

"Oh, hello there Reborn. Why are you here?" Tsuna smiled as he added another piece to the stack and his face couldn't be seen due to the growing paper.

"Where's dame-Nari?" Reborn cocked his gun, ready to shoot his idiotic student.

"Ienari should be in the history section of the president's library I guess….." Tsuna thought aloud. Reborn smirked. Such a backstabbing brother.

Reborn stared at Tsuna who pointed up, revealing the second floor filled with books. The S Class gets the special properties for being a student council member after all. Like today, everyone is back to studying but the S Class had a free day off, hence the disappearance of everyone, except for the DC Members who are most probably patrolling the whole town since they have nothing to do.

Tsuna would probably be the one whose suffers from everything, but it was all well worth. Reborn disappeared from his sight, with the occasional screams and bangs on the second floor. Tsuna could only hope that the collection wouldn't be destroyed.

Something broke that sounded like glass on the second floor and Tsuna ran up, praying seriously hard that it wasn't….

That.

Right smacked in the middle is a bullet laying innocently along with the crystal statue, broken into pieces. Tsuna's hair covered his eyes, refusing to reveal his emotions. Tsuna burst out his laughter, scaring the two in process.

"Ienari, please go back to class while I talk to Mr Reborn about destroying one's property." Ienari wasn't sure what would happen but it would be very likely that Reborn would get scolded like a kid. Tsuna had never called Reborn with a Mr. and he would probably be too angry. It would be amusing… if he wouldn't get shot after that. Ienari got out of the office, not wanting to be the trigger happy tutor's next target.

"Reborn, sit." It wasn't a request, but an order from the Student Council President. More unexpectedly, Reborn felt the waves of killer intent around the room…. Around the brunet.

Tsuna sat down in a composed manner and crossed his legs, seemingly looking like a Boss; A mafia boss. With the cape and the black vest, it amplified his aura.

"You know how long it took me to have that statue done up?" Reborn remain silent.

"3 years. 3 freaking years!" Tsuna wanted to desperately shout at him, but his mother wouldn't be happy if he literally blew up at someone, especially when it is The Famous Sun Arcobaleno.

"It took me a year raising up the 7 digit amount and god knows what I had to do just so to get that money. It took me another half a year to design the most precious design that I would ever want. And it took the rest of the time to carve down to the most important detail. And now you just destroyed it. What are you going to do about it?" His hands were crossed over one another, frowning at the infant. Reborn wanted to ask when Tsuna's phone rang.

"Hello?"

"…"

"They should be in that compartment."

"…"

"What do you mean it's not there?!"

"…." Tsuna looked at his drawers swiftly before turning back to the phone.

"It's with me….."

"…"

"How am I suppose to know that it was with me all along?! You can't expect me to remember everything!" Tsuna combed through his hair.

"…"

"Fine….. I'll bring it later to the office."

"…."

"Yeah…. I know….."

"…"

"Hey, wait….." Before Tsuna could speak, the call had ended.

"I swear….. She doesn't take it easy these days… like what's with her these days?" Tsuna mumbled. Reborn had only heard half of his words when the atmosphere dampened again.

"So what are you going to do?"

"I…" Reborn was yet interrupted by another phone call. Tsuna looked at his phone before answering.

"Hello?"

"Tsuna, we got a problem." Mikan's tone was serious, unlike the playful nature she had possessed.

"What?"

"Your mother's injured. One long gash on the back according to Teresa."

"H-how?" Tsuna stuttered. His mother has never been injured for all he knows.

"Blame on Vongola. Seems that their spies are not competent enough to protect our 'queen'." Tsuna gritted his teeth. Damn Vongola! They had already destroyed relationships and now they have an injured mother to take care of.

"How is she?"

"The dearest Luna is healing her as I'm speaking. Where's your blood bank?" Blood bank? Tsuna thought hard as he remembered something.

"It should be on that drawer. Use it on her as well. It would help her a lot."

"You do know that there are side effects to it?! She could go berserk because of it!" Mikan was worried about Nana. After all, she has been a mother figure to her for many years.

"I know. That's why she is needed to use that. If anything happens, I will take responsibility."

"Fine! Anything happens and I will destroy that."

"Too bad. Someone destroyed it before you already." Tsuna shifted his eyes to the Sun Arcobaleno who was silent. To Tsuna who had many years of experience with expressions, he could see that Reborn was concentrating on their conversation, but frustrated that he could only hear bits and pieces of the conversation.

"The sun's bothering me…" Tsuna smiled, decoding her words. The Sun Arcobaleno's bothering you?

"This isn't the first time you're out in the open, Mikan." He's watching us since some time ago.

"Oh, do remember to pass the designs to her. Heard that she's pissed off." Mikan giggled.

Tsuna groaned. "Why does everyone thinks that I won't do that?"

"That's because of the spring collection that you almost failed to meet the deadline." Mikan smiled.

"How am I suppose to know it was in there anyways?! I passed it to one of the staff and informed that they had to pass it to her. And what do I get?"

"I know what you mean. Got to go, someone's calling me." Tsuna smirked.

"Ho? You and Ignazio huh….." Mikan blushed.

"Shut up, stalker!" Without any further taunting, the phone call ended, leaving Tsuna laughing silently.

"Who was that?" Tsuna then remembered something; Reborn was still seated in front of him. Tsuna cleared his throat, clearing his emotions.

"It's just Mikan." Reborn raised his eye.

"For the statue, I would hire the best to rebuild a better one." Tsuna inwardly smirked. That statue was actually one of his failed pieces since Lambo and Fantina caused quite a lot of trouble and the end product was beautiful when afar but on a closer look, there are actually mistakes. But the crystal was quite expensive itself since it was black.

"If you tell me what is your job, that is." Reborn smirked. He could try to find out more about Sawada Tsunayoshi, who had changed greatly from the report he had seen. Iemitsu must really been stupid not to even realize the information he had was too outdated.

Tsuna sighed. "I'm a fashion designer." And a weapon designer. Tsuna inwardly added to his mind. Reborn had his suspicions, but it was cleared when Tsuna spoke.

"Ever heard of Silver Cross?" Silver Cross? The famous designer who solely works for Mezzo Cielo? It was the only company that was on par with Vongola Corporations. Not to mention many of their talented people were all under a pseudonym.

"I work under him; or rather I was the one who improved his designs." Ya right. He was the infamous Silver Cross himself, the best of the best. Silver Cross himself had never needed the help, let alone leaving the designing to others. That's how he was able to afford the different types of crystals as his all time favorite collection.

Reborn wouldn't have thought that Tsuna was working under him and he was unwilling to show to him in fear that the designs stolen. It was by the famous Sliver Cross and losing those means losing millions of dollars and landing Tsuna into endless troubles. It seemed forever when a cup was handled to him. Reborn looked at the cup of espresso. Hadn't he known that kids are not supposed to drink coffee? Not that he wanted to be treated as a child of course.

Tsuna held a cup of coffee of his own; cappuccino to be exact. He held it to his lips, letting the hot liquid settle on his mouth. Reborn took a sip. His espresso had to be prefect of course.

"Where did you get this?" Tsuna blinked his eyes. Reborn likes the espresso made?

"I made it with the help of a coffee machine." Actually, Hayato was the one who bought the expensive coffee maker that was specially manufactured in Italy and improved the technology with both Shoichi and his thinking skills. It was amazement to Tsuna who didn't tried coffee. Espresso was bitter, more suited to others but not for him. Not only he gave the machine, he even gave a year worth of coffee bean supply that he reluctantly accepted. Thinking back, maybe that's where his coffee addiction to cappuccino started.

Hayato was elated that he started giving him the same present every year, something that Tsuna himself was thankful for.

"Which brand?" Reborn had never had such a good coffee in his life. People who were great makers were all dead, and he's not letting go of the chance that he could get.

"It's not there anymore." Reborn clicked his tongue.

"But I can share it with you if you want to." Tsuna smiled, finally completing another batch of paperwork. Reborn looked at the papers that were piling up. It was as high as a mountain, and if he would, he'll compare the size with Vongola Nono's work. It was the responsibility to take care of the whole Academy city, and only two people were allowed to make the decisions for everyone. With Mikan in and out of the country sometimes, Tsuna had to make them himself.

"Hn."

"I just remembered! Kaa-san won't be with us for a few days since she had won a lottery. So after finding what we twins need, we need to go to the supermarket for ingredients. I haven't welcomed both of you with food yet." Tsuna smiled, hoping the lie would last for sometime before Nana come back home. A real bad idea to find out that their enemy was so close to them.

"You cook?" Reborn asked credulously. Tsuna shook his head.

"Yup. Now for you excuse me, I need to go to the company now. We can't have people late for anything, don't we?" Tsuna grabbed the materials from the drawer, putting them into a bag before leaving. Reborn who sat on the chair jumped down from his seat and took a peak on the paperwork. It ranged from shop renting to the amount of people visiting to the amount of stuff destroyed (in courtesy of certain people destroying different stuff) to the festivals hosted in the area.

It took quite some time when he took out a letter from his suit.

Dear Reborn,

I understand that Ienari-kun may not be the best of the students that you would have, but we have promised that we would only have Sawada Ienari to become Vongola Decimo. Tsunayoshi may have changed as what you have prescribed as the better candidate, but it's only fair to Ienari who has been trained for this role. I hope you understand the situation, Reborn.

Meanwhile, I will wait for Tsunayoshi-kun's report soon. It seems that the Young lion of Vongola would like to know more about his son.

Vongola Nono

This wouldn't be funny for most of them in the Famiglia, especially Iemitsu.


Tsuna sighed as he spotted the tall building in a few meters away. The words "Mezzo Cielo" was written majestically on the building itself, representing itself as one of the branches of the famous company itself. As he entered the area, some were bowing to him in respect for the President's friend's son. He was a regular in this place after all. Going to the top of the building, he opened the majestic designed door.

"Hello, Tsuna-kun." Tsuna was surprised.

"Aunt Camellia? I thought you're in France for a shoot." Camellia looked up amused.

"They canceled the shoot since the cameraman got into an accident. And can't I find my children in my own free time?" Camellia pouted.

"But Lambo is in a shoot in Germany, Hayato and Takeshi went to Italy for who knows what, Mukuro-nii and Chrome-nee won't be here until days later, Ryohei has a competition, Kyoya-nii wouldn't want to meet anyone now and I'm the only one who has to be stuck with paperwork in my office before coming here." Tsuna took a deep breath, cooling himself down.

"Wow… But what about Mikan and the rest of the members?"

"They had something to do, I guess…. I'm not really in charge of them anyways. As for Mikan…" Tsuna closed his eyes for a moment before opening again.

"She's on that again?" Tsuna shook his head.

"No, she's taking care of Kaa-san now." Camellia frowned, putting the folder down.

"What do you mean? What happen to Nana-san?"

"An accident." Camellia gritted her teeth. How could she be so worthless when her boss's in danger?

"Don't blame yourself, Aunt Camellia. You had done a great deal for the rest of us and Kaa-san is happy that we could be together as a family no matter what."

"But!"

"No buts. I know what's everyone thinking, but do spare some thought for yourselves, qui?" Tsuna grinned, but the happiness didn't reach his eyes.

"Tsuna-kun…" Camellia bit her lip. If this was suffering as her guardians, Tsuna would have it worse. He only had his mother to rely on since he was young, and who knows that what that bastard was doing in the Famiglia when he really needs to support his already broken family.

"It's alright. I could handle it." The atmosphere was gloomy when Tsuna remembered something.

"Ah! I almost forgot!" Camellia stared at the bag on his hands.

"This is this autumn's designs. And our latest designs for the Famiglia!" Camellia perked up in excitement.

"You're done with it?!"

"Yup. This design should be yours." Tsuna dig through the bag, passing one of the papers to an elated Camellia. Camellia squealed.

"Oh my gosh! I love this Tsuna-kun!" Camellia stared at it gleefully.

"But it isn't ready yet. Spanner would need more time to do up the inventions." Camellia hugged Tsuna happily.

"Oh, thank you thank you thank you thank you!" Tsuna would have thought of Camellia going crazy but guess it was part of the trait, something that Lambo would likely to have.

"I got to go now. Ienari would be finishing classes when I reach there. Keep the design if you want. I have an extra with me anyways." Tsuna smiled as he walked out of the office.

Hayato walked into the music room with his sister Bianchi on tow. He wasn't that sick of her face unlike the other worlds that he had saw with the Parallel World Alice he had gotten. It wasn't as powerful as Mikan's mother's, but it was sufficient for him to connect the dots of the other worlds as a genius of his age.

He carefully placed her on the black leathered sofa that Tsuna would love to take a nap on while he would play the piano to ease the young brunet's stress. Other sofas were meant for the other council members, whether to take a break to hear his playing or taking a nap on the other sofa that was in white.

The music room itself spans a quarter of the entire floor since the building itself was being quite big for its size. But it was the building for the S Class to use and most of them were to everyone's standard, even for Hibari and Teresa. They even had their private room for goodness sake!

The room was exclusively for the leaders and their secretaries. But for Mikan and Ignazio, they were more on the vocals than on the instruments itself, and sometimes it sets one thinking how they actually pass their music theories.

Instruments were laid cautiously across the room in its own casing and some had to be one of the most expensive and lengthy histories that the instruments in the world had. Sometimes Hayato had even wondered how rich was the owner of the school to let a bunch of students care for her property, moreover the whole Academy city.

He cracked his fingers as he sat on the white ivory piano, especially old for its age but playable and still melodious up to this point. Tracing his fingers on the white keys, he closed his eyes and let his fingers do the work.

In the midst of the piano playing, Bianchi woke up quietly to the sound of music. She wouldn't have believed the strong rumors of a certain bomber setting down and out of mafia, but it was her brother! The brother whom she would love to bits and killed for him without a doubt, the brother would always be sweet and adorable in her eyes.

Anyways, the enemy was quite lax in his part. They didn't tie her up or even blindfold her.

"You're awake?" The music continued as Hayato did not move an inch. Bianchi stared at him with shock and love.

"Hayato….." It had been seven years since they have met. His silver hair is still as distinctive as ever.

"You should be glad I told Kaichou and Fuku-Kaichou I would take charge of you." Hayato pressed the last few notes, indicating that the song had come to an end. Hayato turned his body to Bianchi, deciding that it was enough music for the day.

"You're alive?" She could still remember the times where he had to eat those cookies of her. It wasn't her fault that cooking subconsciously would end up with these results! But isn't supposed to be sick of her?

"I'm not an imposter if that what you are thinking." Hayato sighed. "I just got over the phobia of mine long ago." Bianchi felt guilty for ending Hayato in this position. While it was true that it was funny to see him with those funny expressions, but now….

"It's been a while… Younger brother…"

"Yeah, it's been a while." She noted that his hair was not like his mentor, Shamal's anymore. "I'm glad to see you again."

"Well, I'm not." The door opened, revealing Ignazio yawning his way in and went up to Hayato. They stared at each other with a silent agreement, Hayato leaving the seat and Ignazio cracking his hands to start up the music.

"You infiltrated the school and tried to poison one of our students. What's your reason for this?"

"I….. I want to get Reborn back to Italy." She removed her eyes from Hayato, looking down the floor like it's the most interesting thing. "Nono assigned him to teach the Vongola Decimo so I…"

Hayato snorted. "So deciding if Vongola's last heir died, Reborn would be left alone and come back to you instead of completing his mission." Bianchi continued to look away guilty.

"Sawada Ienari is the only Vongola heir left; you think his death would do wonders to Reborn's unblemished record?" Bianchi flinched.

"Not to mention Vongola is powerful on its own as its first position in the mafia, what makes you think they wouldn't kill you for your deeds?" Hayato sighed. He didn't like to make his sister go on a guilt trip, but it for their own good, for the sake of both mafias.

"I think you can help Reborn though." Bianchi brightened up a little.

"What do you mean?"

"Teach the Vongola Decimo about cooking and poisons. That's what you can do for now." Hayato pushed up his spectacles. Bianchi thought about it carefully.

"You can still be with Reborn-san." And it was a good deal too, for both Reborn and Bianchi closer together.

"But you would have to promise you don't hurt any of our students." Ignazio interrupted. "It would be inconvenient to Kaichou and Pokka." Hayato controlled his laughter over Mikan's nickname. As much as to interrupt, their relationship is equivalent to an old couple's squabbles, something that had happen while she was away for three years.

"Hayato….. This is…" Bianchi stared at Ignazio intently as he ended the song and stood up facing her.

"Cremisino 'Infiammare' Ignazio at your service." Ignazio bowed to her as his way of greeting. At least it wasn't them.

"The Infiammare?" Bianchi knew how cruel he could be, except when he is with his partner which was a mystery to most of the mafia.

"I won't harm anyone when they are in school so just relax." Bianchi couldn't find herself to release the tension. He was one of the top men beside Reborn and being a threat to Reborn's statue means being intensively strong. Ignazio sighed.

"Hayato, I'll be leaving first since your sister doesn't believe me. There will be a meeting for next month's event." Hayato raised his eyebrow.

"Was the rest informed?" Ignazio smirked. "Of course." Ignazio walked towards the door before taking another bow to Bianchi.

"I hope you would have a good day." Hayato sighed. If he knew any better, he wouldn't have known that Ignazio frequently used the Personality Alice to his advantage.

Ignazio walked quite a few distances before he stopped his tracks.

"Having fun teasing The Poison Scorpion?" A dark shadow appeared behind the wall.

"Pokka, your panties are quite sexy today." Ignazio smirked as Mikan blushed.

"Stupid pervert!" Ignazio kissed her lips and licked his own.

"But I'm your personal pervert." Mikan turned into another shade of red as they started kissing deeply with none of the students finding out their secret.


Groans...

I think I seriously need to remember to update this story.

Those who are waiting, Sorry for the late update.

Other than that, my homework's now waiting for me.

Ciao.

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