Chapter 6:The Frozen Sky

A/N: Just in case that no one picked up: Catrina is actually a piece of a soul. That's why she didn't remember anything. Her real identity is actually Sawada Natsuki.

Also things in italics are in a dream. I'm sorry for not clarifying

Iemetsu looked at his daughter glee as she came home with his tuna-fish. Despite his slightly sluggish state, he just hugged her. Tears formed in his eyes as he hugged her.

"My little Natsu," he whispered, hugging her tightly. "I missed you."

"I missed you too dad," Natsuki softly replied with a small smile. "But..." Natsuki escaped from her father's hug and kicked him on the leg.

"Not coming home for a long time," she angrily said. "And leaving Tsu and mom to deal with my state is unforgivable."

Iemetsu paled and started to stutter his excuse only to stopped his daughter's cold glare.

"Unless you start coming home more frequently and start caring more about mom and tsu," She continued. "I won't forgive you."

Iemetsu's jaw dropped as his daughter dragged her little brother up the stairs with no backward glance to his direction. Reborn on the other hand, just watched in amusement as Iemetsu quickly went to the corner to sulk.

About 10 days were given to Tsuna and his guardians to train for the upcoming fight. Everybody was busy, especially Tsuna and his guardians. They had all managed to be excused from school, especially Natsuki.

Recently,Natsuki had a problem with a certain hitman. She knew that her explanation would get a lot of suspicion from him. Yet she didn't know it was to the point where she too had to train alongside Tsuna and participate in the guy's little all that, she still had the time to meet up with her friends in her dreams.

Natsuki once again woke up to see the usual set up of the room. She saw the figure her friends once again sitting down on their proper places before sitting down on her chair.

"Are you okay Boss?" one of the males spoke up as soon as she had taken her seat.

"I'm fine," Natsuki replied with a tired sigh. "I was just forced into one of Reborn's little training antics."

All of the adults stiffened slightly as they saw small cuts and bruises cover her arms as the fog around them lifted to reveal their true forms.

"Let me kill that man," one of the women sharply said with a cheshire grin on her face.

"It's just Spartan like training," Natsuki defended, immediately seeing that grin. "Besides, these things are not that bad compared to the type of training that hitman has made my brother go through."

All of the adults went quiet yet couldn't help but agree. There was a reason why most of the mafia men wanted Reborn to teach their heirs. He was simply just one of the best.

"On to the meeting," Natsuki said. "As you all know, the Sun battle is about to start soon."

One of the male grinned, his white teeth shining.

"That means," Natsuki continued. "You will be up for this one Alek."

Alek nodded, his eyes lighting up at the mention of the match. Alek was a Vindice prisoner yet recently, he had gotten out due to special permissions from his own family. He was in prison because he had broken Omerta by telling his wife and kids about the mafia due to stress. In the end, he had lost his wife and kids because of kidnapping.

"I'll fulfill this service," Alek said with a serious look on his face, his blue eyes shining with resolve.

"We all know you will," Natsuki replied. "You're all dismissed, Alek meet me at Nanimori shrine."

With that, the whole place disappeared and Natsuki woke up to see a set of curious pair of black eyes looking at her.

"Ciaossu," Reborn said.

"Hey," Natsuki said, her lips twitching slightly downwards. "What time is it?"

Reborn didn't answer, with a sigh, the elder Sawada sibling sat up and took a look at her watch.

"Baka-Natsu," Reborn said.

"Hai Reborn?" Natsuki asked calmly, not looking up from her watch.

"Don't you dare run out right now," Reborn coldly said to her.

"I'll be fine," the girl said, looking up with a bright smile a flowery background suddenly popping up behind her.

Reborn could've sworn that he saw Tsuna and Nana in that small picture yet he didn't. He didn't budge also with that bright smile beaming it's full power at him. Mentally though, alarms were ringing but he forced his body to remain calm with the least effort.

"Baka-Natsuki," Reborn coldly said at her with a cold voice that could cut through almost everything.

"Bu-bye!" Natsuki quickly said before opening the window and jumping out.

Reborn immediately followed, concealing his presence. He watched as Natsuki ran towards the direction of the Shrine, a small smirk emerged from his lips. It was about the same speed as Tsuna would run whenever he would force him to run. With that, he decided to just follow and see why the girl wanted to go out after her little nap.

Natsuki slowed down as soon as she reached her destination. In front of her was a tall man with a jet black suit, dirty blond hair, and sparkling blue eyes. Beside him was a Vindice member, who just bowed at her before disappearing.

"Nice to finally see you Boss," he said in a deep baritone voice.

"Alek," Natsuki said with a bright smile, the flower background suddenly popping up behind her.

"Shit," Alek said and looked away. "Don't go into straight chibi mode on me now Boss, agh it's upgraded now."

"What do you mean?" the girl asked, purely confused.

"N-nevermind," the man replied, trying his best to withstand this wave of moe(cuteness) in front of him. "Anyways, I'm all set for the mission."

"Good," Natsuki said, her face reverting back to normal. "Just be careful of your presence."

Alek nodded and walked away, while Natsuki looked at the tree where Reborn was hidden and sighed.

"You're making me lose my bet," she whined. "Not cool Reborn."

"I always get my answers," Reborn said, jumping out of his hiding spot. "Now spill Baka-Natsuki."

"Fine," Natsuki said, shivering slightly under his cold gaze. "As you know, Primo perfected the Zero Point Breakthrough effect, despite being a dying will flame user."

Reborn nodded, making sure his ears catch every word of it.

"Dying will flames in it's negative state is always Frozen,"Natsuki continued. "My flames are the negative version of dying will flames."

"That still doesn't explain why my pacifier glowed," Reborn piped up.

"Ah that," Natsuki calmly replied. "Negative dying will flames are very rare even more rare than sky flames. It's form is usually the more flamey and wild one. The reason why it's frozen is because of a curse and a blessing given to me and a few others by a certain Checker-faced man."

Reborn froze, he felt his blood boil at that mention. Natsuki just stopped and waited for him to control his anger before he signaled her to continue.

"Instead of a pacifier," Natsuki continued. "We have pocket watch and for our curse.."

Natsuki stopped and frowned slightly then continued.

"We are forever stuck with this power until it destroys our bodies," Catrina softly said. "Everyday, we have to use the leftover dying will flames produced by the world to make sure our power doesn't freeze our blood."

"When did you receive this curse?" Reborn asked, his fedora now cover his eyes.

"When I was five," Natsuki replied. "I was the last one that received this curse in the current set."

Silence.

Reborn was seething. It was bad enough to create the Arcabolenos and curse them. It was bad enough that he was stuck in a baby form, not able to grow up. Now here was another set of cursed people all doomed to die if not enough flames are administered into their systems.

"And you haven't told anyone?" Reborn asked.

"No,"Natsuki, feeling a sharp feeling in the back of her neck. "But I'll get in trouble for telling you."

Reborn looked over to the glaring blond man that was standing behind her. He had already sensed him but ignored him while Natsuki was speaking.

"I'm sorry Alek," Natsuki said.

"No, the one at fault is the Arcobaleno," Alek said. "You better not spout this stuff to anyone else."

Reborn just smirked slightly. In front of him was a seasoned hitman, almost close to his level but not quite. His mind was whirring slightly, wondering who the cursed others are.

"Alek," Natsuki coldly said, her eye color turning slightly orange.

"But Boss," Alek said but closed his mouth as soon as he saw the stern orange eyes look at him.

Reborn watched and smirked slightly at the scene. He knew in time even Tsuna would be like that. A powerful figure, worthy of Vongola Primo.

Squalo looked at the box with the rings on it. Yet his mind was somewhere else. The words of the girl with the metal rings around her resonated in his mind.

"Is she really dead?" Squalo murmured to himself. Somewhere in his gut, he knew that she really was alive.