"If he is one of us, I will find his name," Kyouya murmurs.

He crouches and pulls open the last drawer, sliding out a thick binder filled with loose-leaf sheets. It reads 'VXYZ' on the spine. He straightens and carries it over to a small stand in one corner of the room that holds a short stack of post-it notes and a pen. He places the book down softly and flips it open, gently leafing through the pages.

Each person has at least one page with a portrait of them, their basic information like date of birth and parents, then it starts listing their specialties and accomplishments.

He can't find anyone called Xanxus.

"He isn't," Kyouya declares and shuts the binder.

There's a frustrated growl on the other end of the phone, but for all its intensity it sounds like the male is giving up.

"What was his parents' names?" Kyouya asks.

There's a pause and then the male answers hesitantly with only a female's first name.

Kyouya returns the binder and pulls open another drawer, carrying a different binder back to the table and flipping through it. He pauses on the photo of a small child and reads through the information.

The girl had left when she was late teens but didn't have any masteries on her record. Perhaps she didn't want to learn anything, it did happen sometimes. Past that time nothing is recorded.

"Date of birth?" Kyouya requests to check that he wasn't confusing this person with someone else.

"I don't-" the male starts and then goes quiet. "The boss would disappear on a certain day," he tries and gives Kyouya a date.

The Hibari hums at seeing the correct date on the file. "He is mine."

A quiet sigh of relief comes from the male.

"What situation is it?" Kyouya asks, reaching for the pen and notepad.

He raises an eyebrow when the male starts talking but writes down bullet points of the scenario. Then he requests further information on what his cousin would want to have done.

"What do you mean?" the male asks warily.

"Does he wish to destroy Vongola himself or would he not want to get dirty with their blood?" Kyouya explains simply.

"Oh," the male says, rather sceptical that Vongola could be taken down. "No, he… likes the Vongola it's just the leadership is questionable."

"Then would he prefer to take control of it?" Kyouya asks. "You said 'Xanxus of the Varia' before. I could arrange a merger."

"I- I don't know. I'm not sure what he'd want, not now."

"That's fine," Kyouya hums. "I'll wait to ask. It'll just take a bit longer later." He scans the notes he has and decides that everything else he can get on his own. "Never call this number again and erase the information of it," Kyouya orders before hanging up.

He moves back to the living room and spends the next five hours calling a list of contacts both in the Hibari family and outside of it that would help with the case. By the time he finally puts the phone down, the furniture has been pushed to the sides of the room and most of the floor is covered in printed pieces of paper with his neat calligraphy on the edges as notes.

He has the entire situation fleshed out with CCTV footage of his cousin and the confrontation. He's filled in the missing information of the family records. He has the blueprints for the Vongola mansion and all information on security as well as where they're keeping his cousin.

Now he has to wait for his strike team to arrive so he can tell them about the situation. As he's thinking this the doorbell rings and he hops around the spread out papers to get to the hallway and open the door.

An aunt steps in with a smile. "It's good to see you, Kyouya," she says brightly.

"And you," Kyouya replies, leading her back to the living room. He snatches up a stack of papers and hands them to her. "This will be your main objective."

She takes the papers and scans through the first page, pauses, and then starts reading again much slower. The information she holds is a step by step process of how to manipulate the technique as well as history of its development and the science behind how it works.

"The Vongola Zero Point Breakthrough," she murmurs and her eyes glow amber with the sky flames she holds. "You've brought me something interesting," she says simply and glances up at Kyouya with a smirk. "I'll learn it in two days."

Kyouya raises an eyebrow at her excitement but shrugs it off. "Take any room you want," he calls to her retreating back. She waves over her shoulder, eyes narrowed in on the papers in her hands.

The next to arrive is another aunt, this one known for infiltration and best with a mist flame. Then comes a cousin, without flame training but with a world renowned acting career. Finally the last is an uncle with mafia experience and an informant's mind.

"Three of us, nephew?" the aunt asks with amusement. "Isn't this a bit of overkill?"

A loud explosion goes off then, coming from the backyard. The house is too well built to shake even despite the gush of sky flames that wash over the entire structure, blocking the windows with solid orange for a heartbeat before they flicker away into non-existence.

"I mean four," the aunt corrects.

"This isn't just a kidnapping," Kyouya says, sitting at the head of the dining table with the Vongola blueprints and any pertinent information spread out in front of him. "You have two days only to be prepared for this because I want him as soon as possible."

He leans over and taps a note he stuck to the edge of the blueprints. "The time with least personnel is in the middle of the morning when people are sloppiest at changing guard rotation, but its light out and you'll have far more witnesses to contend with when you leave Vongola territory. Our cousin is inside the Vongola ninth's personal area, a total of three rooms with the highest security."

He glances up at them. "Hibari brand security would be easy with our contacts, but this has been gutted and put back together with a mash of the best systems, leaving it entirely unique. Besides that, at least two guardians and over a hundred combat-able people are within immediate range of the Vongola headquarters at all times, with over three times that on standby less than half an hour away."

Kyouya tilts his head in challenge. "Most of all you are to not alert anyone as to the breach in security, nor the kidnapping. You are to get in, grab a frozen cousin, replace him and get out all without being seen or making contact with anyone."

There's a pause and then the uncle laughs, leaning over to ruffle Kyouya's hair. "This is why you're my favourite, kid!"

The cousin grins with a manic glee. "Oh, Kyo, you're spoiling me."

"I still think four is unnecessary," the aunt chimes in but she's smiling in contentment too and actually bothering to scan the information on her target. Just a kidnapping would have been boring but with these restrictions, it'll be fun.


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A/N: Last chapter's reference was Dogma from Hell's Kitchen.