"Vongola Nono has sent word to Reborn that Tsuna and his guardians are required to find out exactly who is targeting allied familigias and defeat them."

"Why am I getting a weird sense of déjà vu?"

"That would most likely be because your brother was required to capture his male mist guardian or risk being killed, Azami-sama."

"Hmm," a beat of silence "Thank you Taiyō, please send Shippō and Uroko-jū to me as soon as possible."

"As you wish, Azami-sama." The male moth demon inclined his head in acknowledgement before turning on his heel and leaving her office.

Azami watched him go before shaking her head slightly and turning back to the map that was laid out on a table in the middle of the room.

She tapped her fingers against the paper in thought, only looking up when the people she'd requested to come to her office arrived.

Without preamble, she started talking "The majority of the attacks follow a specific pattern in terms of when and where they take place. The first attack occurred in Milan on the seventeenth of January," She pushed a red pin onto the spot on the map. "Two days later, on Wednesday the nineteenth, another attack occurred in Bologna. So far, fifteen attacks have been carried out, both on unallied familigias and familigias allied with the Vongola," Azami turned to look at the serious expressions on her friends and subordinates faces. "The pattern here is that each attack took place two days after the last, and each place that was attacked was nearer to Japan than the last."

"So, whoever it is is working their way towards the Vongola Decimo and his Guardians." Shippō guessed.

"Possibly, though we cannot automatically assume that just because those who were attacked were mafia, Tsuna is the one they're after. It could just as well be me they're after, considering that the assailants were yōkai." She shrugged slightly.

"And whilst it isn't common knowledge that Decimo has a sister, if one looked hard enough and asked the right people..." Uroko-jū trailed off, letting Shippō fill in the blanks.

"Such as Mammon, then it would be pretty easy to find out important details." He said, looking thoughtful.

"Mmm hmm." Azami agreed, pushing more red pins onto the places that had been attacked, making the path clear.

"What do we do?" Uroko-jū asked.

Azami turned to look at them "Snake features, you are in charge of tracking down Kōga and his people. Shippō, you will accompany the spy groups on their various excursions and report back anything out of the ordinary."

"If the groups are attacked?"

"You get the hell of dodge." Azami answered calmly.

"What will you be doing?" Uroko-jū asked.

"I'll be tracking down Sesshomaru," She told them. "Knowing him, he'll be an annoying asshole to deal with." Azami grumbled under her breath.

"Well...this is...bright." Azami muttered, looking out of the window down at the bustling streets of Tokyo from Sesshomaru's office building.

She sighed audibly as she padded softly down the corridors towards the inu daiyōkai's office, unlocking the door and slipping into the empty room with ease.

"The bastard is out at a meeting, so I guess I'll do some snooping." She thought aloud as she walked over to his desk.

Her eyes wandered over the only picture, an image of a black haired young woman dressed in a white sundress standing besides the stoic as ever Sesshomaru, though if you knew the man, you could see that there was affection in his eyes directed towards the girl.

"That must be Rin's descendant then." Azami noted as she sat down in his leather chair.

She caught his scent coming towards her and smiled, masking her presence quickly and jumping to perch on the back of the chair.

He opened the door and took two steps in before immediately stiffening.

Narrowing his eyes, he flicked his gaze around the room. "Show yourself." He barked aggressively.

"Maa maa, so demanding. I thought you'd learned your lesson, dog breath." She commented, revealing herself and simultaneously dropping down onto the floor from the chair.

"Cat," Sesshomaru growled in annoyance "Why are you here?"

Azami tilted her head to the side "I'm sure you can figure it out. Various familigias are attacked by yōkai for no inexplicable reason, possibly risking the exposure of the demons to civilians, if that isn't the sound of something bad happening, then I don't know what is."

"Hnn, explain."

"I just did. Something is up, and because we are two of the most powerful daiyōkai's alive at this point in time, we kinda have to solve it, so that we don't wind up being hunted to extinction by the human government."

"I have no reason to help you." He stated coldly.

Azami rolled her eyes "So you say. I know you, and I know you will eventually get involved anyway, regardless of whether or not I ask you."

"Why did she send me off to track down those nomads?" Uroko-jū asked himself as he flew over a small valley.

"I mean, surely she could do it better then I could, considering she can get pretty much anywhere in a matter of hours, whilst I am stuck looking for a suitable place to land, but nooo, she had to be lazy." He grumbled to himself.

He spotted a nice clearing devoid of any trees and landed, loosing his dragon appearance and taking on his human guise once more.

"Hmm, now if I was a pack of wolves, where would I hide?" He mused, before having to dodge a volley of leaves.

He whirled around and looked at the red headed demon. "You wouldn't happen to be Ayame by any chance, would you?" He asked.

"Why do you ask?" She replied, joined by several wolves.

"Yōso no Azami sent me." Uroko-jū stated flatly.

Ayame paused "...You had better speak with my husband."

"Yeah, yeah. Lead on, iris."

Sooo, been awhile hasn't it?

Heheheh, writers block is a bitch.

On a side note, Azami's marshmallow idiot will show up soon, probably, so that's good, I guess.

Thoughts?

See ya