Hi guys, I'm really, REALLY sorry for the waiting. Its just that January and February were horrible and I felt really depressed. Other than that its senior's hell right now, what with the term exams and the National Achievement test that the stupid government had imposed as of now. Seriously, we were supposed to have these kind of tests during the first semester and here they are dropping it when we are GRADUATING? Agggghhhhh!

Old senile bastards!

At least I have prom to look forward to...

Well, that's the end of my rant so there. I hope this is alright guys and well, it might take a while before I might update again but summer is just around the corner so don't loose hope! I'm not finished yet!

Tsuna felt inside his pockets and sighed in relief as he felt his mittens still there. His contacts were still on and he was still wearing his headphones, which was a good thing considering it was such a strange thing. They might have thought it was some weird earmuff. He looked at his cell door and was considering to blow it off of it's hinges until he heard Mare cough and he had to reconsider the idea. But they had no other way of escape. Tsuna had to either reveal who he really was before destroying the door or destroy the door and reveal himself later. They had to get out of there. Soon. Tsuna had a really bad feeling if they stayed there any longer; they would end up cold and lifeless.

That was just a guess of course... hopefully it wouldn't become real.

He looked at Mare at the other side of the cell. He was lying down on the cold floor, sleeping. Tsuna had talked him into getting some rest after apologizing on the angry bruise that was physically showing.

He didn't know how long they were there when the screams started.

Mare was jolted out of his sleep and Tsuna blocked his ears. The screaming went on and not one of them even dared to move until it ended with a strangled cry. Tsuna was frozen in his state, his eyes wide with fright. Mare, as usual, had no expression on his face. If it wasn't for the creeping darkness that surrounded them, he would have looked grim.

It was just after a short silence that the place they were staying was full of echoes of shouting and banging.

"Let us out!"

"What do you want from us?"

"If my father hears this he'll-"

Dozens of more joined in and the stone above them rumbled. Mare pulled Tsuna up and shook him. "Snap out of it Tsuna. We really need to get out of here."

"But… what was that?" Tsuna asked, his eyes wide and full of fright. He looked like any ten-year old that was scared the hell out of his wits.

"I don't know but I don't like this place so much anymore. As much as I hate to say goodbye to the cold stone floor, I'd rather wake up to something where I can hear Lia's or heaven be merciful – Mitchel's voice – rather than to bloody screams." He said with a straight face.

Tsuna was about to reply until Mare had opened the door effortlessly and his jaw dropped to the floor. "It was open… this whole time?" he said, outraged. Of all the times he was considering or not to whether blast the thing off its hinges it was actually open?

Mare shrugged. "While you were out I was picking the lock." He showed him of what looked like a jagged piece of metal.

Now Tsuna knew why Mare's hands were so scratched up. He frowned after a moment. "Why didn't you tell me so in the first place?"

"Cause I was tired." Mare's kind reply was. Tsuna would have answered back if it weren't for the earth shaking dangerously below their feet. He glared at the older boy before sighing.

Tsuna didn't expect it. Sure he was kidnapped and brought to the evil HQ, but he was expecting that he was somewhere like inside of a building, a castle or even a warehouse but no. His kidnappers had to be cocky and brought them underground. He didn't even know how deep they were! This explained the earthquakes of the like.

He didn't like the idea of being crushed to death by earth and having an early, plus free, burial.

Mare brought his handy candle with him while they were walking. They decided to go to where they heard the voices come from. It wasn't really so far when Tsuna was greeted by a familiar face:

"Crispin!"

"Tsuna!"

~ Vongola Famiglia ~

Giotto was still "talking" to Gokudera when Hibari walked casually into the room. Giotto smiled and Gokudera sighed in relief when they turned away from him.

"Kyoya." Giotto smiled.

"Out." Hibari told them. G jumped to his feet but Giotto held him back with a look. He turned towards the prefect. "Why so Kyoya?"

"The Headmaster had ordered a curfew. If you don't leave now I will bite you to death." Hibari showed him his tonfa, it already had a few blood specks on it.

'Looks like Hibari wasn't in his room the whole time after all.' Gokudera thought.

Giotto had no choice but to leave since it was Flavio's orders. Besides, the children will be resuming regular classes the next day and he didn't want them to keep them all night. At least… that's what he thought. His Hyper Intuition had said otherwise.

Hibari himself made sure that they had left their dorm grounds before going inside.

"We found a lead after all." Giotto said, a satisfied look on his face.

"Lead? All I found out was that they're planning something and that we got kicked out of the dorm. Where's your lead there Giotto?" G said as he pulled out a cigarette and had started to smoke.

"G, those aren't healthy." Asari said disapprovingly. G huffed and continued to smoke.

"I know Hayato knows something but not much… it's Kyoya that knows." Giotto said.

"How do you know that Giotto?" Asari asked.

Giotto tapped his head. "At first, I figured he would know something but now I know he knows something that Alaude doesn't and that's a first."

If there's one thing that Giotto was right on was that his Hyper Intuition was always right.

"If Alaude hears that, he'll throttle you." G said, blowing a puff of smoke. Giotto grimaced. He didn't need his hyper intuition to know the truth in that.

"Kyoya is too much like Alaude. I don't think he'll ever tell us." Asari said, frowning.

"I know." Giotto said after a while. "Which is why we're going to follow them."

~ Vongola Famiglia ~

Gokudera slumped on the couch and turned his head to glare at Hibari. He had just realized that Hibari's interruption was in perfect timing. Damn, now he owes the prefect. Its bad enough he owes Hibari already.

Deciding to suck up his insults for now he stood up and walked towards Hibari. Hibari wordlessly told him with a look that said "Go now before I change my mind and bite you to death." Gokudera wasted no time and called Ryohei and Chrome.

When they came down they instantly went to business.

Where were Yamamoto and Lambo all this time? They were at the stables, getting the carriage ready.

"Coast is clear?" Yamamoto whispered in the dark through the catch in the carriage.

"Not a soul in sight young master." Mitchel whispered back. He gripped the reins in his hands tightly, his stomach churning with nervousness.

Sure he was surprised when the young masters came to him asking for a favor, he was willing to do it, but, he wasn't ready for this.

How they ever got him to go along with stealing the Vongola coach he'll never know. All he knows was that they needed a driver, give or take, no questions asked. He sighed. He was too loyal for his own good.

The bushes near them rustled and Mitchel almost jumped out of his seat, what came out were three small figures. The door opened and Yamamoto jumped out. "Gokudera, is that you?"

"Ssshhhh! Shut up baseball-head, we're being followed!" Gokudera came closer and Mitchel could make out the small pack he was holding. The other two came closer and Ryohei and Chrome appeared.

Yamamoto looked alarmed but kept quiet.

"Where's the stupid cow?" Gokudera whispered so quietly that only Yamamoto can hear.

"He's sleeping inside."

"Stupid cow!"

"I hate to break it to you young masters but I suggest you get inside the carriage now. I'll handle whoever is coming." Mitchel said and jumped down from his post. Gokudera looked like he was about to argue but thought twice when he heard leaves cracking.

Gokudera pushed the rest of them in and closed the door, leaving Mitchel to face his doom.

He knew it, he just knew it. His masters were too smart and had followed the children, he just knew it! And he… Mitchel was going to get punished. He swallowed hard but his knees were shaking. The bushes rustled and a dark figure showed itself before him.

Mitchel didn't think and just threw himself at the figure. "Oh spare me sirs! I only did what I was ordered to do! Don't let gramps find out or he'll skin me alive and feed me to the crows! Please, I'll do whatever you say!"

"Anything you say?" a soft voice said then followed closely by a giggle. Lia stepped out, her long hair tied up into a bun and she was wearing a shirt and breeches. All in all she looked like she was going out for a ride.

"Can I come along?" she asked.

Mitchel suddenly sprang to his feet and glared at her, blushing furiously. Here he was expecting the worse too!

"Bloody NO. Mare would kill me if I did!" He meant the last part all too well too. He'd rather not get on the bad side of his weird friend. Lia crossed her arms, a determined expression on her face.

"Go away!" he shooed at her.

"What am I? A dog?"

"The way you're acting I would say you were a MUT." But Lia didn't retort, she was determined to come and that was it. Mitchel gritted his teeth. He knew how worried she was but she would most likely get herself killed and no, Mitchel did not want to dig his grave just yet.

"Lia, just go back already."

"No."

"Lyla…"

She marched passed him and wrenched the carriage door open. "I can come right?" she said rather dangerously.

It was one of those moments in Gokudera's life where he acknowledged his sister's wise life lessons: Never… EVER… stand in the way when a woman is acting on the forces of love.

Although he'll never admit it (as if he will!) he was cowering at her let-me-come-or-else-bad-things-will happen look.

There wasn't much a choice so they let her come with them.

~ Vongola Famiglia ~

"I can't believe we lost them." G finally said, standing alone in the middle of the lounge.

"You didn't have to say it out loud G." Asari said, looking at Giotto, who was sitting in a corner of gloom.

"It was all a trick…" Giotto grumbled.

G rolled his eyes. "You think?" he said sarcastically and started to pace around the room. "We're the Vongola and yet we were outsmarted byseven little brats." His hands were twitching weirdly as if he wanted to grab something but can't. "And the worst part is… five of them are out in god knows where! As if those two other brats weren't a pain in the ass already!" He meant Hibari and Mukuro.

"I didn't think those two would stay…" Giotto murmured.

"It's interesting don't you think?" Asari mused. "They just keep surprising you when you least expect it." He said admirably.

"Stupid sword freak…" G muttered and lit a cigarette.

Giotto sighed and stood up from his corner. "Me might as well play their game." He said wearily. Asari and G's eyes widened.

"You can't mean…"

"Alaude Giotto?" G placed his cigarette at the edge of the table. "You can't really mean to set him loose on them? "

"If there was one person who can track anyone in the world it's Alaude." Giotto replied confidently. Alaude has never failed before, not now not ever.

"Don't you think it's a bit extreme though?" Asari said nervously.

"We have no choice Asari. The kids want to play a game then fine, let's play."

With that they left. On the table where G had left his cigarette still lighted, it fell to the carpet and slowly, a small spark ignited. Hibari and Mukuro are not going to be happy.

Exactly as he said those words, the carriage containing the Vongola children rode out into the night. Looking inside though, it wasn't full of children but instead, it was filled with the first generation family.

G, Asari, Knuckle, Lampo and two maids while all the while being driven by an old man. They stopped at the only entrance.

"Halt! Who goes there?" one of the guards shouted.

The curtains blocking the window was pushed away and G's face came into view.

"Is there something wrong?" he grunted. The guard jumped back. "N-N-Nothings wrong sir… its just that the boss declared a lockdown."

G raised a brow. "We know that. Our boss ordered us to get information."

"But… don't you have subordinates to do that?"

G's eyes narrowed and the guard took a step back. "When lives are on the line, especially our own children, you think we'll just sit around and do nothing?" he hissed.

"No sir." The guard shook his head and bowed. "Our apologies. You may go on."

G nodded and off they went. When they were out of sight, G's image faded to reveal Gokudera. He slumped against the seat and sighed. The other's figures melted to show the rest.

"Pretty good acting there Gokudera." Yamamoto grinned.

"Extremely like Pink Octopus head!"

"Don't call my dad pink stupid lawn head!"

"AHA! You finally admitted that G is like a dad to you!" Lambo cried and Gokudera hit him, blushing as he did so. "Sh-shut up stupid cow!" He crossed his arms and growled at the window.

The scenery was dark, making it hard to see. The trees looked spooky as they passed through the forest, going around the town towards the old mines. When the wheels started rattling and making a lot of noise, they abandoned it right away and had started walking on foot with Mitchel leading them.

They walked in a single file, for how long they walked they didn't know. Mitchel saw a dim glow up ahead and stopped, raising an arm to stop the others. He pressed a finger to his lips and they nodded. Together, they sneaked into the bushes.

Gokudera poked his head between the leaves and saw four burly men leading a line of children inside the entrance of the mine. Two guards, who did not look all too pleasant, were holding guns at either side of the entrance.

"What are they doing?" Lambo whispered beside him as they all watched. Gokudera didn't answer and took a closer look; the children were all chained around the ankles to prevent them from running for freedom.

Gokudera had no idea what the hell was going on, all he knows is that it must be stopped before something really bad happened.

~ Vongola Famiglia ~

Alaude was amused. Alaude was very amused. Alaude was so amused that his aura seemed to be taking a form of a wolf being amused.

He expected the children to do something just not this.

He was going to check on the guards at the entrance to the grounds when his boss came riding on a horse towards him with G and Asari. He listened to his boss recent discovery of how his adopted son had tricked them in on the wrong information. Giotto was expecting all of the children to make a move and even if they didn't go all together, he still expected that Hibari and Mukuro would have been the ones to come instead of Chrome and Lambo.

When they got there, they were surprised (except Alaude) when the guard started talking how he just saw G earlier.

"Illusions." Alaude said.

"What?" G asked irritably, his hand fisted around the shirt of the guard who he was yelling at a few minutes before.

"Illusions." Alaude repeated.

"Chrome probably did it." Giotto sighed, running a hand down his face. Asari patted his shoulder sympathetically.

G let go of the poor man and growled. "Do those brats even know where the hell they're going? Even if they did, how the hell did they know in the first place!"

"I just know they do G." Giotto said as he saddled his horse.

G snorted. "Yes and we all know that Mukuro sings and Hibari gives chocolate secretly. Yeah, you know."

Giotto sighed and knew that G was just as frustrated as he was.

Asari was going to saddle when he noticed Alaude was crouched on the ground. He walked over towards him. "What did you find Alaude?"

"Tracks." The cloud man responded by pointedly looking ahead of him towards the forest that surrounded the Academy. Asari saw it too, freshly made carriage tracks still lingered on the ground. Alaude got up and walked towards his horse.

Asari walked towards his boss.

"What was Alaude sniffing around for?" G asked.

"Oh, he just found something that might lead us to the kids." Asari said casually.

"What?" both men said simultaneously. Asari saddled his horse. "Yup." He smiled.

G smirked. "That guy has a nose better than a bloodhound, those brats will get it when we get our hands on them." He said.

"Ah G… you probably shouldn't have said that." Giotto pointed out in front of them. Alaude had looked over his shoulder and was giving them a cold and murderous glare. It seemed like the darkness really liked people who had souls as dark as the night, or so that G thought. Was he imagining it then? The shadows produced by the trees eerily made figures of wolves, barring their teeth at him and growling. Maybe it was just G's imagination. Then he realized that Alaude probably had the power to summon vicious animals to him.

~ With Hibari and Mukuro ~

The two boys stood in front of the blazing structure, their faces shadowed by the light and the heat licking their faces. Embers floated all around them like black snow, making it look like something darker had happened. But it wasn't.

"Kufufufu… I wonder who dared to do such a thing?" Mukuro said darkly.

Hibari raised his face, his eyes black as a nightmare.

He was going to find the person who did this and they… will. Pay. And he was personally going to deliver the punishment too.

~ Sawada Tsunayoshi ~

Tsuna panted as he tried to break from his bonds that were tying him on the accursed machine. Such a thing to suck the life out of all those children… this thing was an abomination. The person who made this was a monster.

But what can he do? If he used his flames then it would make it all easier for the machine to suck it out of him.

He tried again, trying to pull his hands through. "You can't do anything." A deep voice said. Tsuna turned around and saw the same man who made this monstrosity. He was tall, his skin caramel colored, his eyes grey and steely, a long face with narrowed eyes and black hair. His accent was forgeign but Tsuna had figured out what nationality he was: Indian. This man was Indian.

Tsuna saw the diluted yellow pacifier hanging around his neck.

"Who are you?" he asked, keeping his voice leveled.

"I? I am Kashim."

Haha, burning the dormitory was fun.

*Hearing protests from the characters*

Alright! I'm sorry!

Anyways, see ya guys! I hope I can update more frequently now and find the perfect dress to wear XD