Okay, chp 14 is here. Please enjoy your reading.

DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN KHR

WARNING: THERE WILL BE HELL LOTS OF OCs IN HERE.

THIS CHP IS NOT BETA-D.

Chp 16

Even though she was in a comatose state, Sky could hear everyone voices pretty clearly.

'Please... Please don't break down, guys. Please stay strong! I'll be fine...'

She doesn't know how to calm her heartbroken guardians down and she felt guilty deep down inside for making them so worried and this made her remembered someone. Someone important to her long time ago.

'Aldo... As a boss. What will you do in this situation?'

*Flashback*

"Al... hey Al!" Sky's little hands tried to approach the tall man before her. The chestnut color haired man turned his heels around and kneeled down to meet the little girl's eyes.

"What's wrong, Sera?"

Little Sky takes a peek behind him.

"Who are those guys?" she asked in curiosity while looking at the long, silver haired man and the other one who was really, really scary looking one.

"Those guys?" he chuckled.

"they are... hmm... How should I put this? Friends?"

"Voiii, Raniero! We don't have all day! Stop wasting our time!" the loud voice made Sky's little body jolted. However, she does not like the tone he was using to her brother.

"Horaa! No one talks to my brother like that!"

Raniero Aldo sweat dropped.

'There she goes again...'

"Voiii, kid. Do you know who I am?! I am the sword emperor! Don't you dare to be rude to me! I'll cut you!"

Raniero pulled his younger sister behind him protectively.

"Squalo, losing cool over someone's little sister is quite embarrassing you know"

"Voiii, Raniero! You're still a softie! I can't believe you already become a boss of your family!" said Squalo. Raniero just laughed at the long-haired man complaint off.

"I'll take that as a compliment"

Little Sky stepped forward fearlessly.

"Of course he became the boss. My brother is strong you know!"

"Voiii! This little kid!"

'Buk!'

Squalo's head was kicked by the scary guy.

"You're annoying! Getting all worked up over a little kid! Pathetic!"

Sky laughed so hard at the sight.

"HAHAHAHA... SERVES YOU RIGHT, SHARKIE!"

Xanxus stared sharply at the happily laughing little girl. She sensed this and looks at him back. Now, both Xanxus and little Sky are having a 'friendly' staring competition.

Suddenly, someone patted her head gently. She looked up and meet his brother's smiling face.

"Sera, that's not nice" and she could hear a disapproval clearly in his tone.

"I got it, Al" she bowed at those men apologetically.

"I truly apologize for my rudeness"

"Voiii, become well-mannered now, eh?!" Squalo crossed his arm while looking down at her.

Sky pouted.

Her eyes moved from Squalo's triumph face to his arm where she could see a sword glued to his prosthetic arm.

"Nee, Squalo..." she looked straight at the man's face.

"you said you are the Sword Emperor, nee?"

"Voice, that's right! The best one!" he replied proudly.

"Then... would you teach me?" she asks with a serious look and tone.

Squalo realizes that the little girl actually meant it from her tone. But, before he could reply, they were interrupted.

"Decimo, your guest had arrived" announced young Len.

"Ah, Dino. You're here" said Raniero happily.

"Now, we can finally have our meeting. Sera..." he was just about to ask his sister to leave the room.

"Tony! Len! Boys! Let's play!" she called her friends out.

Raniero just lets out a small laugh. He was really thankful to his guardians for letting their little brothers to become Sky's playmates. He took another last look before he closed the door.

*End of flashback*

'Al, what should I do?' tears flow on her cheeks.

At the Vongola's meeting room

"Raniero was Griffone Decimo? Is that what Sky meant by she was not the original Decimo before?!" asked Tsuna.

"Then, if Raniero was the Decimo then why Sky is the one who?"

"he died" Tony interrupted Tsuna's incoming questions.

"Raniero died!"

"Oh..." that was the only smartest things everyone could say.

"The Cavellone, the Griffone as well as Varia, they were discussing regarding Sommerso familiglia..." Tony inhaled deeply. The Vongola and Shimon tenth generation were stunned as they heard of the Sommerso Famiglia. That explained why the Griffone seems so 'familiar' with them.

"...That family had committed tons of crimes by killing random people, trespassing others' famiglia territories... you named it. One day, an invitation was sent to the current decimo, stating that they needed to 'talk'", there was a painful expression on Tony's face.

"Raniero, in hoping to end those hideous crimes from happening over again, answered the invitation by going there. Obviously, it was a trap. A trap to lure the boss leaving the mansion so they could raid the mansion and annihilated the Griffone family. So, Raniero and his guardians quickly returned only to found out..." Tony was breathing hard as the memories were playing back into his mind.

David, who was still trembling so hard, was sitting quietly in his chair. There were ponds of water in his eyes.

*Flashback*

"Pierre!" he's a goner. All of the guardians are defeated! David turns to Sky who still holding her dead brother in her arms.

"Pierre..." she looked at Pierre's bloody, cold body with her teary eyes. David wanted to calm the weeping girl down, but he can't as he was crying himself!

Pierre was his brother and seeing a brother of his getting slaughtered in front of his eyes was not something that he would enjoy looking at. His body was shaking uncontrollably.

The Sommerso assassin's big hand easily covered David's neck and lifts him up to the air. It was dim, but Dave could see the others as well. Seeing them losing hope... Antonio, Nate, Danny, Len, Shun... Sky.

'I guess I'll be joining others soon. Pierre... wait for me', David shut his eyes slowly, finally giving up on living.

"Stop it..." a trembling tiny voice whispered.

'Sky?' he opened his eyes and saw Sky was punching the assassin on his leg with her small fists.

"You're annoying, kid!" another man kicked her in the stomach.

'stop it! don't hurt her...'

"Sky!" David could hear other's loud voice, loud but weak.

"Let. Dave. Go!" David didn't know where Sky obtains her strength, but she managed to tackle the assassin legs and dropping his gun in the process.

Sky, who was well known for her sharp reflexes picked the gun up and standing in front of the boys protectively while pointing the gun to its owner.

"Leave my family alone!" even though she was scared, without hesitations, she pulled the trigger and take a life.

Sky turned around to meet the other man. She raised the gun and pointing it to his chest. David does realize there was something different with Sky. Her eyes look so cold but so determined. She shoots out the bullet again and the man fell to the floor. She walked towards the fallen guy, not satisfied that he was still breathing. She shoots and shoots and kept shooting until the gun was out of bullets.

After her second kill, she dropped to her knees... wailing. She looked at her playmates with teary eyes and let out a painful smile.

"Don't worry, guys" she assured them.

"you don't have to be scared no more. I'll protect you. I'll get rid of them. ALL OF THEM!" she stood up and take the sword from Pierre's cold hand and rushing in the rain towards the main building.

*End of Flashback*

"She... ki... killed... them?" Tsuna was stuttered. He can't believe, Sky, at such a young age, killed. He looked around and everybody's expression was almost the same. Shocked, stunned, astonish, pain. Gokudera, Yamamoto, Ryohei, their jaws were hanging. Hibari, even though he looks calm, Tsuna could see the fists formed.

"I tried to stop her. We tried to stop her. But, we were too scared. Our body didn't do what our mind want us to do. Every room we entered, corpses of Sommerso famiglia were everywhere. Blood are everywhere. Finally, we caught up with her! It happened in seconds, we saw her slashed them all! She was covered with blood as if she was bathing in it!" David's voice breaks as he held his tears.

"the alliance families came too late. By the time they arrived, the only survivors are us and Mateo, the former Decimo storm guardian"

Everybody seems stunned at their place even the story telling was already finished. Who would have thought the happy-looking tenth generation of Griffone to have gone through a very bitter and dark childhood?

"That's... that's..." Enma sighed.

"I was wondering myself about what happened to Raniero. To think such crisis struck the Griffone famiglia is what I least expected. 10 years really bring lots of change. I thought Griffone famiglia will always be a stable and strong family"

"Well, at least we recovered from the damage and become the top 10 of the strongest mafia family, thanks to Sky of course" Tony looked down, with a faint smile plastered on his face.

"Sky accept the Decimo position when she turned 10. She was the one who did everything. She don't want to admit it, but she is a genius after all, administering the 4000 family members under Griffone, managing the financial, hiring staffs, making alliances. She never let Griffone become weaker and crumble. Instead, she did what was necessary to grow the Griffone famiglia. She even becomes her own 'guardians'" Tony looked at his rain ring.

"Wait, what? She became her own 'guardians'. What do you mean by that?" asked Colin, the Griffone first generation Storm guardian.

The Griffone tenth generation guardians just nodded simultaneously.

"Sky is a very 'unique' girl after all. You'll understand what I mean later" Shun smiled bitterly as well. "we only become her official guardians when she turned 12"

*Flashback*

"Sky, please..." Shun sighed dejectedly.

"Let us become your guardians. We want to protect you, Sky. We need to"

Sky looked away; don't want to make any eye contacts with any of her childhood friends. She stared at her fingers on both hands, looking at the seven rings. She shook her head in disagreement.

"No. Because of these rings, my friends lose their siblings. You are my only family now and if I gave these rings to you guys, it's as if I let you guys follow their footsteps. You might die the same way they did!"

"You know that was not true, Skylar. My friends, Raniero and I wore that rings because we vowed to protect this family, to protect you and their little brothers, but" Mateo was grunting loudly.

"... your brother died because he wanted to protect all of you, the rest of the guardians died because they lose hope. We, the guardians were defeated because we lose our will and determination. I'm not gonna lie, I lost my hope too when I saw Raniero died right before my eyes when I have sworn to protect him. But I know, these kids, your childhood friends will never make the same mistake as we did because they know, if you die, they die. If they die, you'll die as well. Have some faith in them, Sky"

"And, that's what exactly I meant, Matt. I don't want to see anyone die. I've had enough! WE had enough!" she hit the table with her fist.

"I'm not going through 'that' again!"

Mateo sighed. The way of Sky's thinking and behaved was inappropriate for her age. She was too young to act all mature. Losing her brother, her only relative really had changed her.

"So am I, Sky. I've had enough with your acting all tough!" Finally, after holding in for such a long time, Mateo voiced out his feelings.

"Just cry when you're supposed to cry. Don't hold it in! You hurt us by doing that, Sky... ALL OF US!"

"I have to agree with Matt, Sky" Antonio finally spoke up after a while.

"You have worked hard on taking care of us, the family, for almost three years now. You even sacrifice your childhood for us. Your favorite phrases nowadays; 'I'm going to my office now' when you're supposed to have rest after arriving back from school, 'another meeting to attend' when you have a day off from school on the weekend, 'paperwork' when you have a homework to finish. For crying out loud, you're just 12 years old! ACT LIKE ONE!"

Dave nodded in agreement.

"I prefer your old favorite phrase 'Let's play!', better. You had done so much for our well-being. Let us pay you back somehow"

"Let us be your guardians, Sky. Your shoulders are too small to carry the entire burden" Len persuaded her as well.

"you're exhausted"

Tears flowed on Sky's soft cheeks.

"But... I don't want to lose you guys!" she started to cry like a baby.

Shun smiled as he saw Sky's reaction.

'Welcome back, cry baby Sky…'

*End of Flashback*

"Because of that incident, because she already lost someone precious, Sky tend to become overprotective and appreciate family relationships more" Nate looked straight at Tsuna and Enma.

"do you guys remember what she told you when we are on our own here?"

"We are family..." said Tsuna and Enma in unison.

Nate smiled again.

"that's the reason she protected you, Shimon Decimo. She couldn't stand by to see her family member getting hurt and do nothing. This is her new family that she tried to protect, that she wanted to protect, that she needed to protect"

'BOOM!'

The families could feel the sudden tremors as if the mansion was rammed with something heavy.

Whoops… shit gonna hit the fan soon! Can you guess what will happen?