Chapter 6: The Demon Cloud...

Italy...

Yuki stirred as sunlight filtered into her bedroom. Her eyes flickered drowsily open add she sits up with a reluctant sigh. Taking a deep breath she felt the remnants of her sleep melt away. As she exhaled, she could feel her senses sharpening. She opened her eyes, sapphire blue orb cold and unreadable. Within moments she was dressed into her school uniform.

*click*

"Ciao, bossu. Si. Missione completata."

"..."

"Si. Ciao ciao~"

*click*

Sighing she placed her phone back into her pocket after sending a text to her famiglia.

'Shoot, I'm late...Kyo's not going to be happy...', she sighed glancing at the calendar. She was late, very late. By about 3 months.

'Well it's not my fault I have over energetic sorellas and fratellos...not to mention a rather over protective bossu/fratello...hmph. No matter how many time he says, or does, otherwise...', her eyes softened slightly at the thought of her family, her famiglia.

"Well...nothing I can do about it...", she muttered, swiftly exiting the room with her bag slung over her shoulder.

Namimori, Japan

A certain skylark woke up as the first rays of dawn entered his room. Still in a daze he yawns and stretched his limbs, stiff from sleep. Within moments he was dressed and alert, out of his silk black pajamas and into his uniform, minus his gakuran.

He straightened his tie, or at least tried to, but couldn't help but feel rather irritated as the piece of fabric just didn't feel right. He glanced at the calendar by his bedside.

'3 months...she's late, very late.', he growled frustratedly, 'if something happened to her...I'll bite her to death!'

He slams his bedroom door close, walking down the stairs to the kitchen. Grabbing a slice of toast he tore out a bite before holding it with his mouth as he tied his shoes, only sparing another glance back at the empty house before tearing his door open and slamming it close.

'Damnit..'

~* Time skippu~, Committee Meeting *~

"Eh? How sly...Which committee is using the reception room..."a girl, Tanaka Mitsuri, whined as she read through the club room listings. Fear rose in the surrounding members.

"Shh!", the girl beside her elbowed the other, "That's the DC!"

"Is there a problem?", Hibari coldly asked, glaring at the sweating girl.

"N-no! Absolutely not!", she shouted frantically in panic, bowing deeply at the male, "I-I'm very sorry, Hibari-san!"

"Then...continue.", he dismisses the outburst, glaring at the other committee members to hurry up.

"Ara, ara...but isn't it weird? For a committee to use the reception room?", a boy's arrogant voice cuts through. Two other members of his committee supporting him from behind.

"Yeah! You think so too, Nocchi?", one of them scoffed.

"I sense a conspiracy going on~", the other chimes in. Hibari glared fiercely at them from the corner of his eyes, making them shrink slightly in fear.

"Oh? Are you from the Treeplanting committee?", the raven haired boy eyed the cowering herbivores coldly, "I though we agreed to only have one representative per committee?"

"U-uh...", they cowered, shrinking back from the furious prefect.

~* 10 minutes later... *~

Three boys collapsed onto the pavement, unconscious, sporting dark bruises all over their bodies.

"Your mistake wasn't because you defied him...", the vice-chairman of the DC, Kusakabe Tetsuya says as he turns around to walk away, several other prefects falling into step behind him, "...but it was because you crowded in front of Hibari.."

'...especially since Yuki-hime isn't here...' he internally added as he watched his superior yawn from the third floor. Shaking his head slightly he gestured for the rest of the committee to follow, heading up to report to their leader.

Elsewhere, a certain baby hitman smirked as he watched the teens with growing interest. Particularly the grey eyed skylark..

'Is he the one that stupid cow brat was talking about?...', the hitman thought darkly, already planning fifty different ways to murder the teen. Of course without any evidence left behind...not to mention his dear daughter was conveniently delayed by her team (he had been notified by Nono about her delay 3 months ago)...

'Now...it's about time we look for a base isn't it?', Reborn smirked (evilly), making some...entertaining tort—lessons, for his Dame student...

"Dame-Tsuna.. what do you know about Hibari Kyoya?", the baby casually asks.

"Eh? Hi—Hibari?", the boy froze, paling. Yamamoto paused, his mouth left open and a sandwich just centimetres away. Reborn's eye twitched as Gokudera immediately fussed over the unhealthily pale Tsuna, despite his confusion at the unfamiliar name. Instantly a green Leon mallet appears, knocking the brunette back.

"Ittai!", he shrieked, grasping his head where the mallet had made contact.

"Jyuudaime!", Gokudera screamed, immediately hovering over the injured Decimo candidate.

"Don't stutter. Don't make me repeat.", Reborn shakes his head, smirking slightly as he waves the 10-tonne Leon mallet ominously. "And answer my question."

"H-hai!", Tsuna instantly straightened, gulping in fear before launching into what he knew about the prefect.

"H-Hibari K-kyoya, 3rd year and head prefect of the Disciplinary Committee. Uh-um..", he stumbled as he wandered what else to say, "H-he's k-known as the D-Demon of Namimori and b-bites anyone t-to d-d-death i-if they break his rules. He–"

*Smack!*

"Ittaiiiii!", screamed the little tuna. His tutor ignored him.

"I meant with Snow!", the baby demanded, sighing in frustration, "What's his relationship with Snow?"

It was Yamamoto who answered for the still in pain brunette.

"He's her childhood friend, like me and Tsuna!", he smiled brightly, although it was slightly nervous.

"Childhood friend?", Reborn narrows his eyes under his fedora.

"H-hai! Y-yu-chan s-said she met h-him after our first day of elementary, after that they just kinda -uh- became friends...? ..although she never told me how now that I think about it...", he muttered, furrowing his eyebrows in confusion.

"Hahaha! You're right!", Yamamoto nods in agreement, "and they're really~ close too..."

Yamamoto pouts slightly at the latter sentence, jealous that the prefect was closer to his nee-chan then he was...and by the sulky grimace on Tsuna's face, he was feeling the same.

"Of course Jyuudaime's right, Yakyuu-Baka!", Gokudera scoffs, "Jyuudaime's always right!"

Ignoring the bomber, Reborn mused over the facts in his head for a while, analysing the small bits of information. Finally he comes to a...theory. One that he does not like, at all.

"So they're just...friends?", the hitman questions aloud, narrowing his eyes.

"eh?", the two simultaneously said. Shaking his head the baby pushed the matter aside for the time being. He'll find out, sooner then later.

"Anyway, its time to make a base for the family.", Reborn announced, smirking with dark mischief in his onyx eyes.

'After all...if Snow's close with this guy, all the more reason to investigate him...', Reborn inwardly smirked.

"Eh?! A base?", Tsuna questioned.

"Heh~ a secret base ne?", Yamamoto grins, "sounds fun!"

"What are you, a kid?", Gokudera scowls, glaring at the happy baseball player.

"Yep!", the baby hitman squeaked, "and I know just the place!"

~* Reception Room *~

"Heh~", Yamamoto hummed in awe as he entered the school's Reception Room, "I didn't know we had such a good room..."

He stooped as his eyes landed on another male in the room, leaning against the window sill with his arms crossed and a scowl on his face.

"Who are you herbivores?", he glared at them from the corner of his eyes, letting his arms fall to his side.

Yamamoto eyed the shorter ravenette wearily.

'Shoot... What's Hibari doing here?!', he gulped, feeling the dark aura surrounding the elder as he spots him.

"Who's he?", Gokudera lazily asks, chewing on a cigarette as he eyed the skylark. Before Yamamoto had a chance at answering Hibari's glare locks on to the silverette.

"Herbivore.", he growls, "For smoking on school grounds and in front of the Disciplinary Committee president...I'll bite you to death."

Just as Gokudera was about to retort a hand flashed out, snatching the sillverette's cigarette cleanly from his mouth, letting it fall to the ground before a foot crushed the flames out. Gokudera's eyes widened and he leapt back in shock.

"What the—", the bomber shouted, alert.

"Weak animals that crowd in groups, breaking the rules..", steel grey eyes narrowed at the two tense future guardians, "I'll bite them all to death."

'Where's nee-chan when you need her!?', the ace groaned, he knew the two were close childhood friends, more so then himself and the female prefect, and it just so happened that the prefects been in a bad mood for the past 3 months. If the countless 'bitten herbivores' was proving anything...

'Wait...nee-chan's been away for the past 5 months visiting her family in Italy... Don't tell me that's why—', Yamamoto's thoughts were cut as the prefect's tonfas appeared along his arms.

"You. Baseball herbivore...", the prefect growled, realisation flickering in his grey eyes as a memory dawned and pieces were connected. Yamamoto gulped, reaching the same conclusion as he saw the murderous glare pinning him.

"Hahaha, let's talk about this ne?", the ace puts his hands up in a nervous sign of peace, sweat dripping down his forehead.

"For daring to cause an injury to the Disciplinary Committee secretary and my little carnivore... I'll bite you to death!", grey eyes shone murderously and he tightened his grip on his tonfas, glaring at the other raven.

'Eh? What did he mean by tha—', Yamamoto's thoughts were cut off as the prefect drew his tonfa upwards.

Just as he was about to launch at the baseball player and bomber...

"Whoa...it's my first time being in the reception room...", a high voice commented as he slipped around the two tense boys, conveniently placing himself between the two opposing sides.

Hibari stopped, glaring at the brunette. Tsuna looked around the room, admiring it before it landed on a certain furious prefect.

"HIIEEE! Hibari!", he shrieked, doe eyes wide as headlights as fear washed over him. His skin rapidly paying as he saw the pure anger in the prefect's eyes.

"Herbivore.", he growled at the cowering tuna-fish. Tsuna stumbled back towards Yamamoto, chocolate eyes meeting nervous dark brown eyes.

'He knows doesn't he?!', Tsuna internally screamed. Yamamoto nods weakly, giving a nervous laugh. They both turned back to the prefect, who was still fiercely glaring at them. They shrunk back even more as a smirk formed on the prefect's lips, bloodlust filling the air. Gokudera's eyes widened in panic and he leapt in front of Tsuna, dynamites in hand.

"You bastard—", Hibari appeared in front of him, tonfas gleaming as it aimed at his head.

"I'll bite you to death."

~* One tuna punch later~ *~

"Hey...can I kill you?", Hibari glared furiously at the Dying Will Tsuna.

"That's enough.", a high voice squeaked, Hibari instantly turned to face Reborn, his left eyebrow raising slightly before he narrowed his eyes again, glaring at the baby.

"You're strong after all.", the hitman smirked, satisfied.

'Atleast Snow has good taste..', he grudgingly concluded after his observations.

"I don't know who you are...", the prefect drawled, "but I'm very..irritated, right now. So sit still and let me bite you to death."

Hibari launched at the fedora wearing hitman, tonfas lashing out in front of him.

*Clang~~!*

The sound of metal clashing reverberated across the room as Reborn blocked the skylark's tonfa with a metal rod.

"Wao...", the prefect smirked a blood thirty smirk as he eyed the hitman, "you're strong..."

Reborn smirked as Leon turned into a pair of sunglasses, covering his eyes as he held a bomber that appeared magically.

"Let's break this up—", he was cut of as an object sliced cleanly through the bomb's fuse.

"Oh no you don't!", a familiar, feminine voice shouted, appearing on the window sill. Crouching on the edges as the wind ruffled her long black hair and black jacket, which laid casually on her shoulders.

"If you blow this place up chibi, guess who's going to have to clean it!", the new arrival huffed, pouting slightly as sapphire blue eyes narrowed on the bomb. Before the males could react the bomb was swiftly swiped from Reborn's hands and thrown casually up into the air, a sharp metal needle following it.

*BOOM!*

The explosion resounded across the school. Wind blowing in all directions from the force of it, heat licking their skin.

Satisfied, the girl turned to the stunned occupants, raising an eyebrow at their frozen state.

"Seriously? I come back after practically half a year and this is the welcome I get? Especially

for saving your—", she was cut off as she dodged a kick from a small foot.

"No swearing.", Reborn scolded as he landed on the other side of the girl, who huffed, before smirking slightly at the still frozen teenagers.

"Tuna...I didn't take you as a stripper...", she mused aloud, snapping the frozen males from their daze, Tsuna having fallen out of his Dying Will mode upon her appearance.

"Hiieee! It's not like that, Yu-cha—", he was cut off by a glare from the prefect, "um, I mean, uh– Yuki..", he finished in a small voice, sweat dripping down his neck. Yuki looked mildly amused before the skylark's eyes snapped onto hers.

"Yuki.", he greeted, his voice softer and slightly hinted with relief. She let her lips twitch upwards, flashing him a ghost of a smile.

"Kyoya, C-ciao~", she greeted back, slightly nervous at the hard glint in his eyes.

'Yup...I definitely worried him...I'm so going to kill bossu...', she internally groaned.

In a few powerful, long strides the raven haired male moved I front of her, swiftly sweeping her off the window ledge and carrying her bridle style.

"For being late...I'll bite you to death.", he growled huskily into her ear, causing her face to tint a faint red as she nervously glanced at her papa'n, who was narrowing his eyes at the pair.

"Uh-Kyo?", she poked his cheek, earning an annoyed look from the prefect, "can it wait? I want to go home..I'm sleepy...", right on cue she let out a soft yawn, opening her mouth cutely as her hands tried to cover it. Grunting the male nods, tightening his hold onto her before turning and swiftly exiting the room, ignoring the unconscious bodies and shaking Tsuna.

Reborn watched as the male left with his 'daughter', frowning.

"Dame-Tsuna", he called out tersely, "...where does Snow live?.."

The girl obviously didn't live with his student, and Aria hadn't informed him of her address, despite his insistence. He couldn't even follow her since she'd always escape him somehow.

"U-umm...I don't know, actually...", Tsuna admitted nervously, "Yu-chan never lets us over, and she's never told us her address... I'm pretty sure Kyoko-chan knows and Hana as well since they went to her house a few times to cook... But we've never been able find out...and she'll punish us if she finds out we followed her...", he shivered, recalling the first, and only, time they dared to try and follow her to her house.

"I see..,", the hitman mutters, deep in thought.

"Wait, You set us up!", Tsuna leapt up, pointing an accusing finger at the baby, who waved him off absently.

"Yeah, it's a real combat training...although you were lucky to have escaped with just a few bruises and scratches..", the hitman smirked at his student's paling face, a nervous laugh from the rain guardian candidate showing that he fully agreed with that fact. Being best friends with the blood thirsty prefect's own best friend did not mean they were ever exempted from his wrath, nor the wrath of his secretary. If anything the territorial prefect made sure they were left worse then the regular students any time he catches them breaking the rules. (Which was quite often as Tsuna's usually late and Yamamoto had a long streak of broken windows, bats and balls due to his baseball commitments...)

"But that means...HIIEEE! Hibari's not one to let go of a grudge!", Tsuna shrieked.

"Don't worry, Jyuudaime! Next time I'll blow him away!", Gokudera declared as he tried to calm his panicking boss.

~* With Yuki... *~

Yawning, Yuki snuggled further into the body wrapped around her.

"Ne...Kyo...", she sleepily murmured.

"Hn?", the grey eyed male grunted, pulling her closer to him as they laid on the rooftop, his arms as their pillow. A cool breeze ruffling the girl's long hair before resting it across her body like a blanket.

"I'm...home...", she mumbled, clutching the back of his shirt as his jacket covered the two. He stayed silent for a moment, tightening his hold on her before leaning down slightly to kiss the top of her head.

"Yeah...welcome home.", he murmured back, smiling softly as she flashed a sleepy, warm smile at him. She nuzzled her head further under his chin, inhaling his scent as she listened to the steady beats of host heart.

"Missed you...", was the last things he heard before her breathing evened and the girl in his arms fell asleep.

"..missed you too.", he whispered into her ears.

'You really had me worried.', he yawned.

"Don't you dare to ever leave me like that...", he quietly growled, 'but at least now you're safe, with me. Okaeri, my little snowflake.', with a faint smile, the tension left the skylark as his breathing fell in sync with hers, carrying him off to sleep.

Omake ~ Tuna's and Baseball-kun's adventure with Yuki ~

Chapter 1: Finding her house

Attempt 1: Tsu-kun

"Ne, Yu-chan?", a 7 year old Tsunayoshi tilted his head as his raven haired friend turned to him with a questioning glance, 'what?'.

"Where does Yu-chan live?", he asked, blinking sparkling doe eyes at her. Unaffected she only raised an eyebrow.

"In a house.", she calmly said, flicking her eyes back onto the book in her hands, shutting the brunette out completely.

Result: Fail

Attempt 2: Tuna

"Ne, Yu-chan?", the 7 year old tried again, a week had past since he had last asked the raven.

"...", the girl to closes her book, lying it on her lap as she looked expectantly at the brunette, who asked, "where's Yu-chan's house?"

She stared blankly at him before asking, "...Why do you want to know?"

Tsuna smiled, sparkles popping out from behind him.

"I want to see Yu-chan's house!", he chirped excitedly.

Yuki's eye twitched before her eyes landed on the scrapes on the brunette's knees.

"..you fell again didn't you, Baka-Tsu?", she stated, shaking her head as the boy's blushed a bright red in embarrassment, fidgeting as he watched her take out a first-aid kit she had somehow stored in her jacket pocket, his head down as she started dressing hit wound, only squeaking when the disinfectant stung.

Result: Fail

Attempt 3: Take-kun

"Ne, Nee-chan?", Yuki suppressed a groan as she felt a familiar question coming.

"Can I go to your hou—"

"No."

"Haha, okay!", the boy smiled as he started swinging a small metal baseball bat he had gotten from her...all while desperately trying to avoid the deadly baseballs she was aiming at him.

"Honestly, if only you put as much effort into you studies as you do with baseball...", she said monotonously, throwing the balls at high speed towards him as she read through his recent maths test, a bright red '49' scrawled across the top. Yamamoto only laughed sheepishly as he ducked another ball, only yelling out an 'Ow..' When another ball hit him from below.

Result: Fail

Attempt 4: Tsuna-fish

"Ne, Yu-chan—"

"What was that, herbivore."

"Hiieee! Nothing, Hibari-san!"

"Hn. Herbivore."

"..that wasn't nice, Kyoya. Although I never knew Tsuna could go that fast..well as fast as he can get while tripping over his own feet anyway.", she giggled as the skylark smirked, patting her head before they headed off for a walk and a nap on the roof.

Result: Nearly bitten to death

Attempt 5: Lucky fish and Baseball Baka

"Ah! There she is!", a tall figure whisper shouted as he peaked behind a corner, his gaze falling on a familiar raven-haired girl, leaning against the wall as if she was waiting for something.

"Shh! We can't let her find out!", a shorter figure frantically hushed. The taller boy grinned apologetically, before their attention snapped back to the road where their 'target' was...

"What are you doing, herbivores.", an eerily calm voice whispered into their ears, sending shivers down their spines. They gulped nervously, refusing to turn around.

"Any day now, trash.", the voice drawled sarcastically, giving away nothing. Slowly, the two 8 year olds turned around, meeting the blank sapphire eyes staring at them. Behind her, a steel eyed male leant on a wall, a motorcycle parked beside him with two black helmets resting on it's seat.

"Hahaha...hai?", Yamamoto stuttered, sweat dropping as he rubbed the back of his neck in embarassment.

"Y-Yu-chan! It's not what i-it l-looks like!", Tsuna squealed, shrinking back slightly, his eyes looked anywhere except into hers, before they rested on the raven haired boy's glaring steel grey eyes. His tonfas gleaming under his gakuren.

"Oh...", Yuki raised an eyebrow, "so you weren't trying to stalk me home?"

They flinched at their words, and froze completely as the boy behind the blue eyed girl spoke.

"For attempting to stalk us and wasting our time...I'll bite you to death, herbivores.", the skylark growled in annoyance, lifting his arm to reveal his weapons. They panicked, their gaze flickering desperately to the only girl's.

"Hmph. I'll allow it, as your punishment..", she waves off their please, before tilting her head to the side so seemingly innocently... "Well..the first part anyway...it's about time the two of you learnt some...survival...skills."

Smirking, Yuki steps back as her partner leaps at the boys, swiftly reducing them to a bloody pulp. Although they were more or less alive... Smirking, the satisfied skylark returned to the girls side, his eyes gleaming with amusement at her next words.

"Now, how about we all go camping boys?", she smirked.

Result: Traumatised to the point they forgot they had even met...

Hi~ Sorry it's taken so long! ~ and this isn't a very long update either so gomen! So how was it? I'm sorry if Hibari's a bit too OOC at the end there. '-.- but I couldn't resist! Anyway, just to let you know, Im not sure if I should do the whole sports day thing, I am very tempted to do a short version of the Morretti incident, you know, Tsuna's supposed 'first kill' XD. How was the Omake btw? It's my first time writing one (and really this is my first fanfic so I'm not sure if the story good and all... Again, sorry this chapter is shorter then the others. I'll try to make it up in the next chapter...But I've also posted the first part of the sidestory! It's under, 'Per il Romantico - For the Romantic'! It'll be Yuki and Kyoya's First meeting!

(Oh and btw..now that I think about it the votes are kinda pointless *sweatdrop* hahaha? O/O ... Anyway...from now on all votes will go into the side stories.)

Current Votes:

Side Story:

Tsuna x Kyoko: 5

Haru x Gokudera: 3

Mukuro x Chrome: 2

Yuki x Hibari: 12

Yuki x Tsuna: 1

Yuki x All: 2

Tsuna x Reborn: 1


Here's the preview for part 1 of 'The Skylark and the Snow'

"Ciao, Tuna.", Yuki greeted as she leapt through the window.

"Hiiiee! Yu-chan how many times do I have to tell you! Use the door!", Tsuna shrieked.

"2043 times including just now.", she shrugs undisturbed, "so, did you need anything?"

She stares, eyebrow raised at the males in front of her.

"Haha, we were just wandering how you and Hibari became buddies!", Yamamoto cheerily explains.

Yuki just stares blankly at them.

"...seriously?", Yuki asks, she was expecting something like this sure, but after seeing them together like that...sure she knew they were dense but...

They nod eagerly with curious eyes, grudgingly curious one in Gokudera's case.

'They remind me of kids wanting a bed time story..', she sweat drops.

Sighing, Yuki began.


Anyway, that's it for the preview, check out 'Per il Romantico for the full version of it! Ciao ciao~~

~Nuvola~