Chapter 2


Hibari looked at Tsuna who was in a chair reading a worn out Italian book. He seemed to be enjoying it. Tsuna flipped the page and closed his eyes for a second. He took a slip of paper and placed it between the pages before closing the book. "I have to go see Giotto now."

Hibari looked at Mukuro who was asleep on the bed. He stood up, following Tsuna out of the room and then they headed to Giotto's office.

When they got there Tsuna knocked lightly on the door. "Come in," Giotto's muffled voice was heard from behind the door.

Tsuna turned the knob and walked in. Alaude stood by the desk. He must have been discussing something with Giotto. Tsuna smiled and apologized for his interruption. "I'm sorry for disturbing you but my flames are almost at my limit."

Giotto just smiled and dismissed the apology. "It's okay. Helping you is important."

Tsuna went over to Giotto and the two of them put their hands out. Tsuna breathed and then released a small amount of flames. Giotto looked at Tsuna kindly. "It is okay, you can release more."

Tsuna shook his head stubbornly. "This is the amount that won't hurt you and this amount won't do damage to you or me."

Giotto nodded, knowing that the child would not change his mind. He looked at Alaude who was watching with Hibari and then started laughing. "You guys look so much alike."

Both cloud guardians just huffed and then did nothing more. This caused Tsuna to giggle. "You can go now if you're bored Hibari."

Hibari shook his head. "I'll be back in thirty minutes for you. Giotto, do not let him leave."

Giotto nodded to reassure the younger cloud guardian. "I won't."

Tsuna closed his eyes to concentrate again while Hibari left. Alaude sat down in the chair near the corner. It took about twenty minutes for Giotto to remove all of Tsuna's flames and right when he finished, the door to the office flew open. "Giotto we need you! There was a fight in town and the person took a white haired kid with them."

Giotto stood up and headed out the door. He simply said, "Alaude watch Tsuna well. I deal with this ok?"

Tsuna and Alaude just watched as the door closed behind Giotto. Quickly, Tsuna stood up and headed to the door. "Well then, I'll be going back to my room... see you Alaude-san."

Tsuna could not even make it out the door before he felt his feet leaving the floor. "Giotto said for me to watch you so you are coming with me."

Tsuna sighed. "Fine."


Hibari had gone to the room to find absolutely no one there. He sighed, thinking that maybe Tsuna had gone back to the room and decided to head in that direction.

When he returned, the only person in the room was a freshly bathed Mukuro. He had a fluffy white towel around his waist with hair still dripping wet. Mukuro looked at Hibari curiously. "Has Tsuna returned to the room since we left?"

Mukuro shook his head. "No, I've been alone this entire time."

Hibari sighed in frustration. "Then where did he go?"


Tsuna sat in a chair, bored as he looked at Alaude. He glanced around the room. Alaude handed him a piece of paper. "Here, read this and tell me what you think."

Tsuna looked down and saw the paper. He sighed. "You're giving a child your paper work, why?"

Alaude just responded while scanning through the contents of the document. "You're not a child so it shouldn't be a problem, should it?"

Tsuna smiled at the response he had gotten. "So what did Giotto tell you earlier?"

Alaude signed the paper and set it down in the neat pile on the edge of his desk. He looked up. "That he's your ancestor and that you control the Vongola of the future. So as a boss I believed that you're mature enough to handle telling me your thoughts on that. Was I wrong?"

Tsuna looked at the paper and quickly read it. It was a report from a town a little ways away about some strange people running after children through town in the middle of the night. Tsuna was sure from the sound of it that the children were them and he was curious about why the person who wrote this report had thought the other people chasing them were weird. "This is about us before we got here. We were attacked in the next town in the middle of the night but I didn't see anything strange about our attackers. Honestly, compared to most of the people after my life they were rather normal."

Alaude hummed. "So they were casing you and your guardians then?"

Tsuna nodded in affirmation with a crease on his forehead. "Yeah, the second we arrived they were already here... I get what they thought was weird about them now. Our attackers had guns on them from our time which isn't something existing here. I didn't notice right away because I'm used to them."

Alaude stood up. "So then, your attackers were from the future too."

Tsuna nodded. "They have to be. I can't see how else they would have those weapons. It wouldn't be possible for someone in this time to have those guns."

Alaude walked towards the door. "Let's go check it out then, I have to go see what happened anyway. There may be a hint as to why we're here then."

Tsuna followed behind Alaude as they left the room heading for their ride outside. Tsuna and Alaude exited the mansion to see a small black covered carriage unlike the horse pulled wagon that Elena and Daemon had used. Alaude opened the door and helped a very short Tsuna up, and then he started to get in himself.


Hibari and Mukuro had walked around the entire house at least three times. Where had Tsuna gone? Tsuna was nowhere to be found and neither was Giotto, who he was supposed to be with. They walked down the stairs and turned to their right to see Tsuna and Alaude getting in a small carriage. They ran out and grabbed the door before Alaude closed it. "Where are you taking Tsunayoshi?"

Alaude stopped and starred at them as Tsuna laughed. "We're just going to check on something. You guys don't need to come. I'll be fine with Alaude."

Hibari pushed his way in and Mukuro got in right behind him. "Not going to happen Tsunayoshi. Of course were going with you."

Hibari glared at him. "Herbivore, I refuse to leave you alone with him."

Tsuna sighed. "Yeah but you don't like crowds and its going to be very busy and crowded when we get there."

Hibari just stared at him for a moment before growling, "Doesn't matter. I'll deal with it."

Tsuna sighed and glanced at Alaude who nodded. "Okay then but please don't make a scene."

The two sat down. Hibari was on Tsuna's left and Mukuro was on his right. Tsuna was successfully squished in between the two boys. Tsuna was so squished and irritated that he was about to snap. He tried to calm himself and it did work but for only about five minutes and then when he thought the time had come, he glared ahead of himself and simply said, "If one of you doesn't move in the next ten seconds, you're both dead."

Instantly both Mukuro and Hibari had flown across so they were sitting with Alaude who was now even more thoroughly squished than Tsuna had been. Although he was not as irritated as he could be because their reaction had been rather funny. For someone like him who never got amused, it was funny to see such a small person scare the older two. If he was a more open person he would have laughed.

Tsuna sighed and looked at his guardians. Mukuro seemed to be fine but Hibari clearly was uncomfortable sitting beside Alaude so Tsuna simply smiled and patted the seat beside him as he scooted over. "Hibari come back and sit over here, you guys are squishing Alaude."

Hibari moved instantly and then sat rather close to Tsuna. Tsuna sighed and allowed it this time. He knew Hibari was probably really uncomfortable as it was being in the vehicle with the other two. From what Tsuna could tell, Hibari could not handle being in a small area with usually more than just him although he would also put up with Mukuro if he had to but having Alaude here too was probably way too much for him to handle.


The carriage had just stopped and Hibari was the first one out. The last one to exit was Tsuna and this time, Alaude had helped him get down because of his very short stature.

Tsuna stretched as he walked around. It had been a longer ride then he thought it was going to be. Mukuro and Hibari were fighting in the background and Alaude was trying to stop them. Tsuna just ignored them because he was used to it and started to walk around when he saw the alley.

Tsuna walked over to where he saw scorch marks on the ground from when he burnt the man and started looking around. After about thirty minutes of walking, Tsuna did not realize how far he had been walking for. His instincts had been telling him a direction and he had followed it subconsciously as he spaced out.

When Tsuna finally took notice of his surroundings, he was already in a different part of the small town. He tried to find the way he had just came from to retrace his footsteps when he heard a footstep behind him. He turned to feel nothing but a light sting in his arm as he instantly lost consciousness. The last thing he saw was a pair of black shiny shoes.


Mukuro and Hibari both stopped as the stress from their fight finally kicked in. They knew their bodies were not made to handle too much stress and they glanced at each other with a silent understanding of truce.

They turned to see a very annoyed Alaude watching them from the side. They started looking around and noticed a certain someone was missing. Mukuro was the first one to notice as he took off in the direction he last saw Tsuna and Hibari followed close behind. Hibari looked at Alaude. "Where did Tsunayoshi go?"

Alaude looked around and kept his anger in check. "Before you idiots started fighting, I saw him in the alley looking around."

Mukuro and Hibari looked at each other as Hibari muttered blaming Mukuro. "Look what you did you idiot, now we've lost him."

Mukuro mumbled back as the two took off suddenly. "It's not my fault stupid."

Alaude shook his head in disapproval. It is unbecoming of the Decimo's guardians to behave like children despite their physical appearance. He took off closely behind them in search for Tsuna.


Tsuna woke up to the feel of someone's hand on his arm. He opened his eyes to see nothing but a white blur. "Tsunayoahi-kun wake-up."

He felt his arm being shaken as he finally sat up. Tsuna looked at the person in front of him and failed to recognize the stranger until it clicked. "Byakuran! Why are you here?"

He shook his head, "I don't know. All I saw was white and then these people attacked me. I didn't put up very good in a fight against them."

Tsuna held his head as his vision blurred again. "So it happened to you too. Anyway, where are we?"

Byakuran shook his head and shrugged. "I don't know… I haven't been let out of this room since I got here although I think we're still in Italy since they've all been speaking in Italian."

Tsuna nodded. "How long have I been here? I can't remember anything after the needle they shot in my arm."

Byakuran thought for a second. "Well I've only been awake for half an hour so I can't really tell you how long they've had you. I mean they may have had you for a few days depending on the drug they used to knock you out."

Tsuna nodded and as he was just standing up he suddenly felt a searing pain shooting up from within himself. He fell forward only to be caught by Byakuran. "What's wrong Tsunayoahi-kun?" worry was evident in his voice.

Tsuna clutched his chest with one arm and his head with the other. "My body can't handle my flames."

Byakuran's eyes shot open, understanding the consequences of that. He took Tsuna's hand. "Transfer some to me before it gets worse."

Tsuna shook his head. "It will hurt you. Your body is in the same condition as mine."

Byakuran shook his head. "That doesn't matter. Just do it. I can handle more. My body will be fine but yours can't handle it."

Tsuna looked up at Byakuran in pain. "I'm so sorry Byakuran… it's going to hurt."

Byakuran smiled at Tsunayoshi to reassure the boy. "I'll be fine."

Tsuna released his flames into Byakuran's hand and he could see the pain reflected in the other's eyes. Tsuna stopped. He could not bear to keep hurting his friend. "Are you okay?" he asked worriedly.

Byakuran smiled awfully. "I am but God that really did hurt…"

Tsuna smiled as Byakuran tried to laugh it off. "Will you be okay for a while now?"

Tsuna nodded. "I won't last for too long but it should give us enough time to figure a way out of here and then we can return to the mansion."

Byakuran nodded as he helped Tsuna up. Tsuna looked up at him. "You look quite mature."

Byakuran grinned. "I'd say I'm about 11."

Tsuna sighed dramatically and pouted. "God I wish I was more mature… I'm like what, in a seven year old body?"

Byakuran looked down at him and commented, "You're pretty little now. Anyway, what are we going to do next?"

Tsuna thought for a second and asked. "Can you fight in that form?"

Byakuran smirked. "I'm not as strong but I'm sure I can handle anything these people throw at us."

Tsuna beamed. "Then how about we just leave? I mean you could anytime, right?"

Byakuran laughed. "You know me so well Tsunayoshi-kun. I was enjoying myself in this room I had lots of stuff to do and eat so I really wasn't in any rush."

Tsuna giggled. "I figured that was the case."

Byakuran picked Tsuna up and maneuvered him onto his back. "If you're on my back I can protect you and still run. So make sure to hold on tight."

Tsuna tightened his grip around Byakuran's neck. "I know, it'll be the same as that time we were hanging out and my legs got injured when another mafia attacked us."

Byakuran smiled at the fond memory. "Yeah, except this time you won't be as heavy."

Tsuna hit his head and blushed. "Shut up! I'm not that heavy normally."

Byakuran whined. "Don't hit me, you really aren't that light."

Tsuna pouted. "Never mind… let's just go. I don't know how long my body will last until I need to release more flames again."

Byakuran did not need to be told twice and in a matter of seconds they were out the room, running down the hallway. Whoever had caught them was really underestimating them. It really did not take much for them to make it right to the door.

When they got to the door, Byakuran must have been concentrating too much on the people in front of him to notice the one coming from behind but Tsuna did notice and when the man went to attack Byakuran's back, Tsuna let Byakuran go and released a very destructive Sky flame.

When the dust and debris had finally settled down from the attack, Byakuran could be seen lying on the floor in the corner groaning. "God Tsunayoshi, give me a little warning next…time."

Tsuna dropped to his knees in so much pain that tears were dripping slowly down his cheeks. His body hurt that badly it felt like his flames were trying to burn their way out of his body. Tsuna knew he was at his limits. Byakuran saw the tears and ran over to him. He feared for the boy's safety. "Are you okay Tsunayoshi?"

Tsuna shook his head. "We need to hurry."

Byakuran grabbed his hand urgently. "Release more flames if you have to."

Tsuna shook his head stubbornly. "I don't want to hurt your body too. I may deteriorate you body if I give you my flames without you really knowing how to accept them. So just hurry. If you find Hibari and Mukuro they know where I need to be..."

Tsuna had passed out as Byakuran caught him once again. Instantly, Byakuran picked Tsuna up in his arms and started running. He knew he had to find them soon. Time was running out fast.


Byakuran had been running for such a long time. He had escaped the house they were locked in but he couldn't find Mukuro and Hibari. He was so worried he could feel the fever Tsuna had now and he knew he was running out of time fast. Byakuran had overestimated his own abilities in this body. He had no idea how much of his flames were even left at this point but he did hope that he would find the guardians soon otherwise both Tsuna and him may be out of luck.


Mukuro and Hibari had ended up back with Alaude who refused to let them leave the area in case they ended up caught or lost as well. "You need to calm down and think. Where would he have gone?"

Hibari almost growled. "He only would have wandered off if his intuition had acted up."

Mukuro finished Hibari's thought. "And if he could have come back he would have already."

Alaude nodded after listening to what they had said and then he ordered them, "Get in, were heading back to the house. Giotto will decide on what we do next."

Both Hibari and Mukuro rejected in unison, "I refuse."

Alaude forced them into the carriage against their will. He knew that if they thought Tsuna had been taken, he would need to be more careful with their next move even though it was far from his own style and liking.


Mukuro and Hibari were just pissed off. It was the next day already and Tsuna was still missing. They knew how dangerous this was and what would happen if Tsuna did not get back here in time. While they were arguing about what to do next, there was a large crashing noise that caused them both to jump and then take off running down the hallway.

When they got out of the room, they saw a large crater in the side of the house and a white haired person walking towards them. When they saw Tsuna they ran towards him and Byakuran smiled when he saw them. "Finall…y."

Byakuran had passed out exhausted from the stress of using too much of his flames. Hibari caught Tsuna and Mukuro caught Byakuran. While the two were standing there, a group of people came running from upstairs.

Elena, Giotto, Daemon, Alaude, and G had been heading down the stairs as Hibari walked towards them. Once close enough, Giotto quickly took Tsuna and then G picked up the older white haired child. "G, bring him with me too."

When they got to the room, Giotto forcibly extracted as much of Tsuna's flames as he could and then without a break he quickly ran over to the other child. "Giotto what's wrong with the white haired brat?"

Giotto grabbed Byakuran's hand and simply answered G's question. "He's out of flames. I have to get flames into him now."

G looked at him weirdly. "But shouldn't you find out what type of flame he is?"

Giotto shook his head and started forcing the sky flame into Byakuran. "I already know. His hands are burnt so Tsuna must have released some of his flames into this child which means he's got a sky flame."

Giotto did all he could and then the two boys were left on the bed in the room they used. Mukuro and Hibari guarded the two precious skies. Hibari was so focused on Tsuna he ignored everything else. Mukuro did the same, except his eyes wandered to the white haired boy occasionally.


Author's Notes: So there's the new chapter, it's about the same length as the first and I hope everyone really did enjoy reading it. So what does everyone else want to happen anytime soon, leave me ideas and comments and I might use your idea to make an omake. But anyways please leave a review I would love to hear everyone else's thoughts about the story so far, and is anyone out there actually interested in 10069, I've never done it before but it's actually sounds like a pretty cute pairing. Lol I'm more of a 10027 girl myself, but I'm not against new pairings.

Destiny Aitsuji: I enjoyed beta reading this chapter a lot. Do review! Am I sensing there would be future 10069 or something? xD Do let us know your thoughts! Also, what would you all like to see?