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...Don't mind me I get a little crazy sometimes.

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"Now, off to bed you lot," Giotto commanded, ushering the teens towards the bedrooms.

"But I'm not tired," Enma moaned.

"No exceptions, it's late and I don't want a bunch of sleepy, whacked out teens wandering around Alaude's house tomorrow," Giotto said, forcing the teens to get up and walk to their rooms.

"...Eh? What do you mean by that?" Tsuna questioned.

"I intend to give you all the full tour of the estate tomorrow, seeing as I suspect you'll be staying here for a while," the blonde answered.

"Sounds good," Gokudera said, readjusting the passed out rain guardian on his back.

The group of teens soon reached the retiring rooms, all of them craving a nice, hot bath and needing a good night's sleep. Honestly, their size and strength had almost been split in half, all in twenty-four hours. They weren't monsters (despite what some people thought) they needed to rest and rejuvenate.

"I really hoped you all remembered to picked rooms because it's bed time effective immediately," Giotto said in his best fatherly voice.

"Damn old man, just shut up and let us all sleep already," Reborn said with a sneer.

"Well that wa-"

"A-anyway," Tsuna interrupted, turning the attention that had been directed elsewhere on him, "thank you Giotto, we're all rather fatigued and we really appreciate the fact that you're giving us a bed to sleep in."

"It's...it's nothing," Giotto replied, fighting back a blush. He had to get a grip; he was acting like a love-struck teenager with a shota fetish.

"I'll be leaving now but I hope you know that there are no windows in this place, there's only one exit and if you're smart you won't attempt to leave through it. Now, good night everyone," Giotto said, the subtle threat evident.

"Night," Tsuna replied as the 1st Vongola boss started walking away.

And just as Giotto rounded the corner the time travellers turned to their boss, silently asking 'what do we do?'

Mulling over what course of action to take for a moment, Tsuna signalled for them to stay quiet and follow him into his room.

And when they were all seated (or in Yamamoto's case lying down), either on the floor, one of the two chairs Tsuna had, or the bed, they began to talk.

"It's only been a day but it feels like it's been weeks already," Enma said.

"And something still feels amiss..." Reborn said shiftily.

"Gah! I forgot all about up until now but Lambo and Ryohei are missing!" Tsuna exclaimed.

Silently the 10th generation Vongola guardians, as well as Enma and Reborn, looked around for their missing counterparts and when they saw neither hide nor hair of them they turned to Tsuna with uneasy expressions.

"...so where are they?" Gokudera asked.

"You know them, they're probably just lost somewhere," Tsuna said brightly, his happy charade all too easy to see through.

"Those idiots can take care of themselves," Reborn reassured the brunet.

"I hope so," the Vongola boss said despondently, his calm, collected mask slipping for a moment.

~With Ryohei and Lambo~

"I'm here, Lambo, it's okay, I'm right here," Ryohei soothed, stroking the top of the cow child's head. He used to do this all the time to Kyoko when they were younger and she had just woken up from a nightmare, terrified that monsters were going to eat her. She'd crawl up into his bed and he would lull her to sleep with the sound of his voice and comforting hand.

"Sleep now and when you wake up I'll have an extremely awesome way to get us out!" Ryohei said.

"...Okay..." was Lambo's uneasy reply.

In the darkness of their prison cell Ryohei felt Lambo's breath slow down and his tiny body sag within his arms as Lambo drifted off to sleep. Then when Ryohei was sure Lambo was asleep he gently lay the boy down on the floor before rising from the ground to thoroughly investigate the cell.

Any items they had been holding in their possession had been taken away, that much Ryohei knew, however he was lacking some vital information. More specifically, where they were, how they got there and exactly why they were being kept here. Lambo was relying on Ryohei to get them out of this place and Ryohei wouldn't let him down.

Ryohei scanned every nook and cranny of the prison. Finding out that their holding cell was relatively small - only about two by three meters - was composed of what he assumed to be rock and there appeared to be 10 metal bars blocking their escape and only one of the ten bars were even slightly loose.

"This shouldn't be extremely difficult," Ryohei said with a smile, cracking his knuckles.

He got into a boxing stance, positioning himself in front of the loose bar. If he hit hard enough and aimed true the bar should pop right off. However Ryohei wasn't a hundred percent sure he could do it, his strength was halved and he couldn't see a thing in the darkness. He had to trust in himself if he was even going to manage hitting a bar.

He centred himself then jabbed forward, putting all his strength into one punch. He felt the bar under his fist go flying and he let out a silent 'whoop' of success.

Ryohei retracted his fist and proceeded to rub it. That hurt.

"Lambo," Ryohei said, attempting to rouse the now sleeping thunder guardian. The cow child rolled over, showing no signs of waking up.

"Lambo!" he shouted.

The thunder guardian shot up, "w-wha?" he said blearily.

"Lambo, I want you to come here and squeeze through this gap in the bars, can you do that for me?" the sun guardian said.

"A gap?" Lambo exclaimed, "that means we can escape!"

"Yeah! Quickly now, someone could come at any minute," he said with some urgency.

"I'm going, I'm going," Lambo said, feeling his way to where Ryohei is.

Ryohei felt a tug on his leg and he lifted up the toddler teenager. "I'm going to put you right where the gap is and all you've got to do is crawl through. Got it?"

"Got it," Lambo said, rolling his eyes.

The sun guardian used one hand to re-find where the gap was before he placed Lambo smack bang in front of it. "Go forward now," he directed.

There was a small shuffling noise as Lambo escaped from the cell and even that seemed too loud.

"I'm out!" Lambo said.

"That's extreme!," Ryohei exclaimed.

"Now you go," Lambo said, sitting and waiting on the other side.

"Yeah...about that..." Ryohei drawled."Hey! Someone's trying to escape! Oi, can you hear me? Hey!"

Lambo jolted. "Ryohei, what are you doing?" he hissed, standing.

"Oi! Over here! Someone's getting away!" Ryohei shouted.

Soon the click-clack of footsteps on hard stone could be heard and Lambo began to grow desperate. "Turf-top, why are you doing this!-?" Lambo exclaimed. The footsteps grew louder and louder. "Let me back in!" Lambo exclaimed, charging towards the gap.

Ryohei blocked it with his leg, "here! The escapee is here!" he yelled.

"Ryohei!" Lambo said in a panic as a light rounded the corner.

"There he is! Get him!" a man with a rough voice and greasy hair bellowed.

Then Ryohei watched as Lambo disappeared around the corner with several very buff, no doubt powerful, men chasing him.

"I hope he's going to be extremely okay," Ryohei muttered to himself.

Suddenly he heard a laugh coming from across from where he was. "I see what you did there," Ryohei heard someone call.

"Who's there!-?" Ryohei shouted out into the darkness.

"You wanted him to escape but you knew he wouldn't leave without you. So you forced him away, ah~ that's so tragically boring."

"It's none of you business!" Ryohei retorted.

"Isn't it nice? Having family, well guess what? Your family is the one who got you into this mess! They're the reason you were kidnapped! Oh, you haven't been taken in for 'questioning' yet but it will happen then we'll see how much good your family does you then!" the other prisoner spat out bitterly.

Ryohei steeled himself. These were the mad words coming from someone who had obviously been in here for far too long.

"Say what you want but I know that my family is extremely worried right now," he retaliated.

~With Ryohei's family~

"Hmmmmm...hmmmmmmmmmm," Gokudera noised rubbing his chin, "they could be...roasting marshmallows right now," he suggested.

He was fixed with several 'are you fucking kidding me?' expressions and one vacant, half asleep one.

"Hey, Yamamoto, you look stupider than usual," the silverette said.

Yamamotot blinked. Once. Twice. "You are the one who is stupid!" he suddenly blurted out.

"Keep your voices down," Reborn hissed.

"...Anyway, back to figuring out a plan," Tsuna said.

"They don't know our capabilities yet," Enma elaborated," therefore I believe we have a definite advantage."

"But we can't just go gallivanting around without knowing anything about anywhere, it just doesn't work like that, we need to do some recon," Reborn stated.

"Excellent idea Reborn," Tsuna said, "tomorrow will be a great chance to gather intelligence, everyone, be on the lookout and on your best behaviour. And when I say best I mean best. Remember that we are adults, despite our stature."

"Yes!" they all agreed.

"Now, I would very much enjoy it if you would all leave now, I'm so tired," Tsuna said, yawning as tears gathered in the corners of his eyes, which he rubbed away cutely.

Gokudera's expression stiffened as he saw other's grow hungrier. "Out, out," he said, taking on the role of a mother hen protecting her chick.

"Some of us still need to sort out our rooms and he we certainly won't be able to sort them out in here," Gokudera said as the others let out noises of annoyance.

"Goodnight," the silverette said to Tsuna just before closing the door.

"Night," the brunet replied tiredly as he crawled into bed, shutting his eyes.

It was so warm under the blankets and it was nice and quiet...perfect for having a nice full night slee-

SMASH

Tsuna shot up, his eyes wide and alert, hands resting on his gloves and pills as he tried to assess the situation. His intuition was telling him there was no danger to himself or anyone around him but his eyes told him different.

A mysterious blonde male in a long coat had just come crashing in through the window of his new room.

"Urmmm...hello?" Tsuna said, getting up from the bed and going over to prod the blonde male.

A hand shot out and grabbed his wrist. By then Tsuna was just about to use all the training he'd acquired when icy blue eyes looked up at him, freezing his entire body.

The grip on his wrist loosened then eventually dropped. "Oh, we had a guest," he said, straightening himself out and standing before Tsuna, sizing him up. He suddenly turned away when he saw Tsuna's exposed legs, taking off his coat and offering it to Tsuna.

The brunet looked upon him in puzzlement. The blonde cleared his throat, "a girl should not be so immodest."

Tsuna blushed profusely. He was so sick of this. It had happened more times than he could count and it used to happen even more when he was younger. He didn't wear dresses, he didn't wear makeup and he certainly did not have the necessary parts for him to be female. So why was he constantly being mistaken for a girl? Was it because he was Asian?

"I'm not fucking a girl!" he exclaimed, lifting up his shirt, "see, I don't have any boobs," Tsuna said.

And he was just about to remove his underpants when-

"Okay, I get it!" the blonde said, "...well, that makes things easier."

The brunet was wholly confused by the seemingly random sentence but didn't really question it, obviously stranger things had been said to him before, some of them fairly recently.

The blonde drifted over and sat on the bed, reaching into his coat pocket and pulling out a flask, uncapping it and taking a sip.

"Urm, so...who are you?" Tsuna asked.

"I'm not sure if I should tell you that," he said, "come over here, we'll get to know each other a little and then I'll see if I want to tell you."

"O-Okay," Tsuna said, sensing no ill intent as he settled himself by the taller male.

There was silence as the brunet fiddles, trying to get the bottom of his shirt to cover up more of him. It was a fairly cool night and he wasn't really wearing that much. He wouldn't like to say he was cold...and he couldn't exactly ask the blonde guy if he could get under the blankets.

He sighed as he felt several shiver run through him. He hated the weather sometimes.

Tsuna felt a big, soft object settle around his shoulders, enveloping him in warmth. He lifted his hands, feeling the material before checking what was wrapped around him. The long, black coat the strange man was wearing before was now settled around his shoulders.

"Thank you," he said.

"I didn't do anything," the blonde replied, looking away.

Tsuna giggled as Alaude asked him the first question in a string of many. Most of which he could barely answer before the next one was asked. Tsuna didn't even have enough time to think up a complete lie before the next question came out so he found himself simply emitting a lot of the truth.

It was strange...it was like he wanted to tell this new stranger things. He wanted to know his name. He wanted to know more about him. And for every few answers Tsuna gave the blonde would give something in return, never his name but little, random tit bits of information. Like his favourite colour or fruit. It was a rather odd exchange.

But it wasn't too long after their discussion began that Tsuna felt his lids grow heavy and his brain turn to mush as he rest his head against the blondes shoulder, closing his eyes as he drifted off to sleep.

Screw it! I did it! There it is! I hope you're happy because it is 3AM and I intended to go to sleep an hour ago.