Author Notes: I'm sorry!!!!!! I'm really sorry for updating so late, but school has been torture. I mean writing like 3 essays in two weeks is just torture. Well, now that I don't have to write essays and can enjoy days when there is no HW, I am pleased to give you Chapter 4 of this wonderful fanfiction. One more thing before we head into the story, whoever reviews this chapter will get cookies!!!! That's right, COOKIES!!!! Now let's get on with the chapter!

Chapter 4: The Brother and Sister of the Sun

Tsuna looked at Kyoko as time itself felt like it froze in place. He couldn't even move a finger as he stared into the eyes of the most beautiful girl he has ever seen. He felt his cheeks get warm from his blush as he continued to stare at her, which unfortunately began making Kyoko uncomfortable under his gaze. She blinked at him a couple of times and had a nervous smile before she asked her question again, "Um, w-who are you?"

Tsuna became as red as anyone can get as he snapped out of the trance he was in and clumsily fell off the couch, hitting his head hard on the ground. Kyoko blinked at him as he clutched his head in pain and then looked up at Kyoko again. He blushed again after seeing her face and immediately lowered his head to the ground and began apologizing to her, "I'm sorry!"

Kyoko blinked at him nervously as he continued to apologize, hitting his forehead against the ground every time he finished an apology. Before she could say anything, the marines who were chasing Tsuna suddenly appeared in front of them and pointed their guns at both teens. Kyoko let out a loud gasp as she stared right at the guns the marines were holding and began to shake slightly in fear. Her eyes widened as one of the marines began adjusting his aim at her. Then the marine who was in charge of their group spoke, "Both of you don't move a muscle!!" Tsuna gritted his teeth as his eyes wandered over to Kyoko which made his eyes widen as he saw tears start to well up in her eyes. This made him curse under his breath as he looked back towards the marines who had their guns pointed at them, but were whispering to each other silently.

'Damn it!' Tsuna thought as he looked around in panic, trying to find a place for him and Kyoko to escape. He knew Kyoko was minutes away from breaking down into tears, which made him hurry since he never like to see any girl cry. It was just one of those things Tsuna hated the most. He knew he cried a lot sometimes, but there was just something about a girl crying that he hated and for some reason gets him angry at the person who made a girl cry, even though he couldn't do anything about it, being the coward he is. As he searched for a way out, his eyes looked back at the marines hoping they didn't catch him and his eyes widened slightly as he found a hole to his left that was big enough for him and Kyoko to escape from the marines. He did a short nod and looked back at the marines and released a small sigh of relief when he saw that they did not notice him and then began to slowly and quietly moving toward to Kyoko, who was still in shock at the gun that was pointed at her for her to notice Tsuna moving toward her. The marines were still whispering to each other, somehow not noticing Tsuna moving toward Kyoko, as Tsuna managed to get close enough so that he was in arm's reach of Kyoko's hand. He let his eyes stay focused on the marines and made a 'psst' noise toward Kyoko, which made her snap out of her shock. She moved her eyes so that she was looking at Tsuna in the corner of her eyes, unmoving her head. Tsuna could see some tears in her eye from where it was visible and gulped before he whispered to her in a low voice that only she could have heard it, "F-follow me. I'm going to get us out of here."

Kyoko managed to blink at him through the corner of her eye, "Huh?" Tsuna just nodded his head as he looked at the marines while he slowly reach for her hand. When he touched her hand, he felt her slightly jerk her hand away, but he was able to grip her hand tight enough so that she didn't make any movement to attract the marines. He could feel her hand shake made saw that her hand was not the only thing that was shaking. He looked at the marines continue whisper something to each, but also noticed that they lowered their guns so that they were pointed diagonally down to the ground. He knew this was the chance he needed to escape with Kyoko and began pulling her silently and toward the escape route they were going to use. Kyoko just allowed this stranger to pull her. She didn't know why, but their was this feeling of trust emitting from Tsuna. For some reason, she was able to trust this stranger who she just met after he came through the roof of what she called home. Tsuna could feel her hand shake less, which he probably thought meant that she trusted him, which made him slightly blush but not enough for it to be visible on her face. Tsuna eye's widened when he suddenly watched a piece of wood fall to the ground and hit the ground, making a noise that caused the marines to look over at them. Tsuna could hear his heart beating rapidly as he turned his head back toward the marines and watched as their heads turn toward them. He heard a gasp emitting from the girl behind him. Which made him get rid of the shock he was in and grit his teeth. He then gripped Kyoko's wrist tightly as he stood up, pulling Kyoko up as well, and made a dash toward the exit. One of the marines reacted quicker than the others and quickly lifted his gun and took aim at the two run aways.

"Hey! Stop right there!" He immediately pulled the trigger, which caused Kyoko to gasp in fear as she heard the gun being fired. Tsuna cursed under his teeth at her the gun and ran as fast as he could, pulling Kyoko behind him and somehow made it outside as they heard the bullet hit a crate that was in front of them. The marine who fired couldn't believe he hit the crate as he slammed his gun down in frustration and then balled his fists tightly, "Damn it!" One of the marines came up from behind and put a reassuring hand on his shoulder.

"Don't worry about it. It's all our fault for not noticing what they were doing." He told him as the officer blinked at him as he settled down and picked up his gun.

"Don't just stand there!" The marine officer who was in charge of the group shouted at them as they flinched in fear from his outburst. "Go after them!" The officers all nodded and saluted before they ran toward the exit Tsuna and Kyoko used and tried to catch up to the run aways.

OOOOOOOO

"Aren't these guys persistent." Yamamoto chuckled as he was now surrounded by the marines after he took a wrong turn and found himself at a dead end. The marine officers all pointed their guns at Yamamoto and Reborn, who was on his shoulder. "What do we do now, kozo?" Yamamoto asked Reborn who had his eyes hidden underneath his fedora cap.

"Stop talking!" The marine officer in charge shouted at the both of them as Yamamoto's smile disappeared from his face and was replaced with a frown.

"This is bad." Reborn finally spoke, but it was not the words that Yamamoto wanted to hear when he stared at the weapons that can kill him easily.

"Alright men! Take aim and fire under my command!" The officer ordered as they took aim at the vital parts of the two cornered Vongola Pirates. "Ready!" Yamamoto gritted his teeth and close his eyes knowing that his end was near. However, what happened next was totally unexpected for him, but it caused Reborn to get a smile on his face. Instead of Yamamoto and Reborn being the ones blown away, it was the marines who suffered that consequence as they were blown away. Yamamoto opened his eyes in shock.

"What the..." He murmured under his breath as he suddenly felt a presence from behind him and he looked up onto the roof. His eyes widened when he saw Gokudera on it with three sticks of dynamite in each of his hands, glaring down at the marines before he looked down at both Yamamoto and Reborn. All Yamamoto could do was blink as he watched Gokudera jumped down from the roof and onto the ground in front of him. "Gokudera?" Yamamoto question his appearance.

Gokudera didn't answer him as he put on a scowl and pushed Yamamoto out of the way and threw two sticks of dynamite at two marines who managed to get and were about to fire their guns. Yamamoto blinked at him in shock before he turned around and glared at Yamamoto with the scowl still shown on his face. "What's wrong, Gokudera?" Reborn piped in, noticing Gokudera's tension.

"Where is the tenth?" Gokudera demanded an answer from Yamamoto and Reborn as Yamamoto just gapped at him surprise.

"You mean Tsuna? We..." Yamamoto didn't get to finish as Gokudera suddenly grabbed him by his collar and glared straight into his eyes as Reborn hopped off of Yamamoto before he was grabbed by Gokudera.

"Why isn't the tenth with you?" Gokudera asked with anger in his voice. Yamamoto however was not intimidated and stared back at Gokudera with his own glare. The tension between the two was suddenly getting so fierce that the marines who were still present were suddenly to scared to lift their guns and aim at the two. Gokudera gritted his teeth harder and became pissed off when Yamamoto was not answering him. Reborn finally decided to answer for Yamamoto.

"We split up in order to separate the marine forces into two groups. Me and Yamamoto took one path and Tsuna took another." Reborn explained as Gokudera looked at him before looking back at Yamamoto, mood not changing from Reborn's answer.

"Then why didn't you go with him, Reborn-san?" He asked, not looking at Reborn.

"It couldn't be helped at the moment. When we split up, I was on Yamamoto's shoulder at the time." Reborn told him as Gokudera looked back down and scowled before letting Yamamoto go. Yamamoto watched as Gokudera lowered his head and was amazed of how this guy can care so much about Tsuna who he had only just met.

"You are still reckless, Hayato." Gokudera made a noise in surprise at his sister's voice as he slowly turned around and became relieved when he saw her wearing her goggles on her face.

"W-what do you mean?" He asked as Bianchi suddenly rushed over to hug Reborn and nuzzled her cheek with his.

"Reborn-san, are you ok!?" She asked her so called lover as she felt him nod his head against her cheek.

"Aa." He replied with a smile before looking back at Yamamoto and Gokudera.

"Oi aniki, what do you mean?" Gokudera asked again as Bianchi opened her eyes and lowered Reborn into her arms.

"Instead of finishing the job, you allowed your opponents to rest and gave them a chance to strike." Gokudera's eyes widened. "Lucky for you, they were too scared to move because of the tension between you and Yamamoto had." Gokudera looked at Yamamoto before he looked back at the marines and his eyes widened when he saw them all on the floor, clutching their stomachs and some had purple ooze coming out of their mouths. Gokudera's eyes twitched as he knew what the substance was.

"Did you guys find him?" Reborn suddenly asked as all three gave him a questionable look before they understood who he meant. Gokudera and Bianchi sadly shook their heads. "I see. Anyway, it's best for now to look for Tsuna." They all nodded their heads as Yamamoto retraced his steps with the others following him and took the path that Tsuna took when he and Yamamoto split up.

OOOOOOO

Tsuna began to gasp for air as he sat down, back leaning against the wall of a building as he opened his eyes slightly, looking up at the blue sky above. When his breathing started to get slower and return to normal, he turned his head slightly to look over at Kyoko who was also trying to slow down her breathing by putting a hand to her chest. He suddenly felt his cheeks get warm as he blushed. 'So cute...' He thought and immediately shook his head. He couldn't believe what he was thinking. He just met the girl and was thinking those kinds of thoughts made him feel bad. His thoughts were suddenly snapped when he saw Kyoko turn her head and looked at him.

"Um, thank you..." She told Tsuna who looked at her again and blushed as a similar thought came to his head and shook his vigorously as Kyoko blinked at him in confusion. "Um, a-are you ok?" She asked as Tsuna looked at her and gave her a nervous smile while rubbing the back of his head.

"I-I'm just fine...." He added a chuckle at the end as he suddenly felt like an idiot. Kyoko looked at him and couldn't suppress a giggle escaping from her mouth. Tsuna blinked at her as he suddenly began to chuckle himself.

"I-I'm sorry..." Kyoko told him as she continued to giggle obviously apologizing for her suddenly laughing at him.

"It's alright!" Tsuna told her as he chuckled a little bit himself before they stopped and the two looked at each other. Tsuna watched as she smiled which caused his cheeks to warm up again as it was the first time he saw her smile. He rubbed the back of his neck again showing off his nervousness as Kyoko looked down and away from Tsuna as she became nervous as well. Tsuna swore he saw a tint of red on Kyoko's cheeks but disregarded it as he watched her raise her head.

"Um, I'm Kyoko..." She told Tsuna who blinked at her and gave her a small smile.

"Nice to meet you Kyoko-chan, my name is Tsuna." He replied as she nodded and gave him another small smile.

"Nice to meet you too, Tsuna-kun." Tsuna looked at her in amazement and felt his cheeks get warm again as he gave her a big smile. He then suddenly heard footsteps coming their ways and due to his reaction, he grabbed Kyoko suddenly and pulled her closer to him and behind a set of crates and hid away from the road. He heard her reaction, but immediately silenced her mouth with a hand as he waited for the footsteps to disappear. When he heard the footsteps fade away, he let out a sigh of relief and it wasn't until then when he noticed the situation he and Kyoko were in at that moment. He looked down and blushed deeply as he looked down at her eyes and immediately removed his hand from her mouth. He then released her as she moved away from him in embarrassment as both blushed, looking away from each other.

"I-I'm sorry..." He apologized facing his back toward her. She looked over her shoulder at him and gave him a small smile before she replied.

"It's okay..." Tsuna finally looked at her and turned his whole body around as she did the same. Both looked at each other before Kyoko let out a terrified gasp. Tsuna blinked at her and then his face turned pale when he noticed a certain strong presence behind him.

"There you two are..." Tsuna slowly turned around a she felt his heart beat ten times faster as he looked up to see a marine officer looking down at him with his men arriving behind him, guns pointing at the two. Tsuna immediately backed away in fear and continued to do so until he felt his hand on Kyoko's and he immediately looked back at her. His eyes widened when he saw tears threatening to fall and saw the look of fear in her eyes as she looked into his. He could tell that she was pleading to him to help her, but he gritted his teeth not knowing what to do. He then looked back at the marines and his eyes widened when he saw more marine officers appearing behind him. However, he didn't care at the moment. He did what his body told him, even though his brain told him to run, and stood up arms spread out. Kyoko's eyes widened as she watched him shield her view of the guns and blocked her from any guns that might get fired.

"Tsuna-kun...." She muttered.

"Kyoko-chan has nothing to do with this!" He shouted toward the officer. "So let her go and capture me instead!" Kyoko's eyes widened even more at his words.

'Why is he helping me?' She thought as she looked at his back.

"No can do." Tsuna's eyes widened. "Even though she might have nothing to do with your crimes, we will take both of you into custody." The officer in charge told him.

Tsuna gritted his teeth. 'Damn it! What do I do?' Tsuna began asking himself, hoping to find an answer. When he couldn't he closed his eyes as the pain of being called 'No-Good Tsuna' began reemerging in his head. 'Am I really no good? There has to be something even I could do!? But what!?'

"Do it with your dying will, baka-Tsuna!" Tsuna immediately opened his eyes as wide as they could as he recognized the voice of his pirate tutor. He however didn't get the time to look around for Reborn as he was suddenly shot in the head. Kyoko gasped as she watched Tsuna fall backwards toward her as the marine officer in command looked at him in shock.

"Who the hell fired?!" He shouted over his shoulder as the other officers flinched in fear at his outburst as they shook their heads no.

'At that moment, I felt regret. I'm now parting with this world forever. What a waste. If I had the dying will, I would have save and protect Kyoko-chan.' With that thought in his head, he fell down to the ground in front of Kyoko-chan, dead eyes looking up at the sky as Kyoko's eyes stayed widened. She suddenly felt tears fall down her cheeks, but was surprised at why they had fallen.

"Tsuna-kun...." She muttered silently looking at his dead eyes. Her eyes then widened again as a light began shining from Tsuna's body and his once dead eyes became that of anger as she watched him grit his teeth down very hard. However, the most surprising thing was the flame that suddenly appeared in front of Tsuna's forehead.

"REBORN!!!!!" Tsuna shouted as he stood up and to everyone's surprise, Tsuna's clothes were suddenly ripped and all that he had left was his boxers as he pumped his fists in the air along with his loud roar. "I WILL PROTECT AND SAVE KYOKO-CHAN WITH MY DYING WILL!!!!"

The marine officers all had their jaws dropped as they stared at Tsuna in total shock as he rushed toward them in a great amount of speed and bulldozed through most of the marine officers as they continued to stare in shock at him. The one who was most surprise was Kyoko as she gaped at him as Tsuna began punching and kicking at every marine officer that were around him. She then suddenly heard and saw an explosion inside the group of marines as a white haired teen appeared and began to help Tsuna fight off the marines.

"Tenth! Are you ok!?" Gokudera yelled at Tsuna who continued to pummel any marine around him as he looked back at Gokudera and gave him a loud battle cry, which told Gokudera that he was fine. Gokudera smile, pleased that the tenth was not harmed as he threw three sticks of dynamite at a pile of charging marines and blew them all away. Kyoko looked around and noticed another teen, this time with black hair evading the swords that were being swung at him.

"Suge, Tsuna!" Yamamoto shouted impressed at how he was handling the marine officers, while avoiding the attacks that were thrown at him. Yamamoto then gritted his teeth in annoyance. 'Damn it, if only I had a weapon.' His prayers were suddenly answered as a bamboo stick was thrown at him. He caught it and looked at the thrower who was Reborn as he smiled at Yamamoto. Yamamoto grinned. "Thank you, kozo!" With that said, he swung the bamboo sword at the marines own sword and to both of their surprises, the bamboo sword suddenly turned into a steel sword.

"W-what is that?!" The marine officer that attacked Yamamoto yelled in shock as Yamamoto blinked at the sword, confused as well. His confusion however didn't last long as his concentration increased and used his sword to fling the marine officers sword away, before he attacked the officer with the back of the blade. Reborn noticed this and blinked before shrugging and smiling.

"Come back here and have a taste of my poison cooking!" Reborn turned his head to see Bianchi throwing her poison cooking into the mouths of the officers as they clenched their stomachs and fell unconscious on the floor. He smiled again before turning to look at how Tsuna was doing. His smile stayed in place as he was impressed on how Tsuna was dealing with the marine officers even though he had no fighting ability whatsoever.

'You will have a great pirate crew, baka-Tsuna.'

OOOOOOOO

"HAHAHAHAHAHA, TO THE EXTREME!!!!" Ryohei shouted as he watched his chaser stop to catch his breath and at that point at no chance of catching Ryohei. Ryohei turned a corner as he headed toward his home where he knew Kyoko was waiting for him. He turned another corner and stopped when he suddenly saw Kyoko sitting in the middle of the road, gazing in shock at something. Ryohei then began to jog toward her, wondering what she was doing in the middle of the road. "Oi, Kyoko-chan!"

Kyoko snapped out of her gaze and turned in the direction she heard her brother's voice come from. "Onii-chan!" She yelled and Ryohei grinned as he was about a few feet away from before his eyes widened in horror as a marine officer snuck up from behind her and was about to swing his sword down at her.

"KYOKO-CHAN!!!! WATCH OUT!!!" Ryohei yelled as loud as his voice could as Kyoko turned her head upward, only to watch as a sword was getting closer to her. She was about to scream as Ryohei wasn't going to make it in time. However, before the sword could reach her, Tsuna suddenly came out of nowhere and kicked the back of the marine officers head sending him flying forward toward a pile of crates. Kyoko covered her eyes and head with her arms as soon as Tsuna kicked the officers head. Ryohei stopped and stared with eyes widen eyes at his sister's savior, ignoring the part that he was only wearing his boxers. Ryohei then watched as Tsuna pumped his fists in the air.

"I WILL PROTECT KYOKO-CHAN WITH MY DYING WILL!!!" Ryohei eyes widened further at his words before he snapped out of his trance and ran toward his sister. Tsuna looked at Ryohei and was about to attack him, until the flame on his forehead suddenly disappeared.

"Looks like his time is up." Reborn commented as he walked up toward Tsuna and the two, leaving the fighting to Yamamoto, Gokudera and Bianchi.

"Kyoko-chan, are you okay!" Ryohei screamed as he knelt down in front of his sister as she raised her head and looked up at her brother. Tears welled up in her eyes as she immediately wrapped her arms around his waist and cried into his chest.

"Onii-chan!" She cried as Tsuna recovered from what happened and looked at Kyoko crying into her brother's chest. He then turned to Reborn.

"Reborn, what was that?" Tsuna asked, talking about the dying will flame.

"I shot you with a dying will bullet, which is passed down in the Vongola Pirates." He explained. "You can call it a type of aura, but the dying will flame unlocks your potential in become the tenth captain of the Vongola Pirates!" Tsuna stared at him and before he could say anything else, he felt a slight draft and looked down, only to notice that he only had his boxers on.

"Ah! Why am I in my boxers?" Tsuna yelled as he used his hands to cover himself in embarrassment.

"It seems the dying will bullet has some light glitches that need to be taken care of." Reborn told him as Tsuna gaped at him in disbelief.

"You call this light!" Tsuna yelled as Reborn looked back toward the fighters as he watch Gokudera finish off the last of the marines. "Don't ignore me!"

"Tenth! Are you okay!?" Gokudera asked as he ran up to Tsuna, concern shown all around his face.

Tsuna looked at him and smiled with a nod. "Aa, I'm fine." Gokudera let out a sigh of relief as Yamamoto walked up to Tsuna and put an arm around him.

"Hahaha, I didn't know you knew how to fight, Tsuna!"

"Oi, don't just put your arm around the Tenth like that!" Gokudera shouted directly at Yamamoto as he looked at Gokudera and blinked. He then chuckled.

"There's no point in getting angry. We should be happy we got lucky and escaped those marines." Gokudera gritted his teeth as a vessel popped on his forehead in anger.

"Thank you." Tsuna and the others all stopped what they were doing and looked down at Ryohei who was still hugging Kyoko as he stopped crying and all that came out were sobs. Tsuna blinked at him before rubbing the back of his head in embarrassment.

"It's no problem." Tsuna replied nervously as Reborn hopped onto Tsuna's shoulder.

"Take out the ring, baka-Tsuna." Tsuna looked at Reborn in confusion before understanding what he was talking about and ran toward where his pants were and began searching his pockets for the sun ring. "You too, Gokudera." Gokudera nodded as he went into his pocket and suddenly felt heat emitting from the sun ring and immediately took it out. His eyes widened when he saw the sun ring glow with a flame. When Tsuna returned, his half of the ring was in flames as well. Tsuna and Gokudera looked at each other before Gokudera handed over his half and Tsuna placed the two halves together to make the complete ring. "It seems we found our Sun Guardian." They all looked at Reborn and then followed his gaze toward Ryohei who looked back at them in confusion.

"EEEEHHHHH!!!"

OOOOOOOO

"Hmmm..." Ryohei said as he sat on the ground, trying to take everything Tsuna and the others told him. Gokudera was starting to get pissed off.

"How much longer do we have to explain this to you!!!???" Gokudera shouted as he stood and slammed his hand down on the ground. "It's already been three hours!!!"

"Gokudera-kun..." Tsuna tried to clam his hot blooded friend down as Gokudera looked at him and settled back down. "Onii-san, just how much do you get so far?"

"Hmmm..." He said again as Gokudera was about to burst before Ryohei continued. "So, you guys need me to be part of your pirate crew because this ring here chose me..." Ryohei said as he pointed toward the Sun Ring on the ground, still emitting flames.

"Aa..." Reborn replied as he sat with his arms crossed and in Indian position. Ryohei opened his eyes and looked over at Kyoko who was being taken care of by Bianchi before looking back at Tsuna and the others.

"Fine, but one one condition." Tsuna's ears perked up.

"What is it?" Reborn asked.

"I'll join your crew, if you let my sister join as well." All their eyes widened.

"B-but..." Tsuna was about to protest before Reborn spoke for him.

"Fine." Tsuna, Gokudera and Yamamoto all stared at Reborn in shock.

"Reborn!" Tsuna yelled as Reborn hid his eyes away from him with his fedora cap.

"A-are you sure, kozo?" Yamamoto asked.

"It will be fine. Besides there isn't any other way, is there?" Reborn asked Ryohei as he nodded his head.

"B-but why?" Tsuna asked as Ryohei closed his eyes and then opened them to look at his sister. He then spoke.

"Because I made a promise to her. I made a promise that we would travel around the world in a pirate crew that we would like to consider our family. Our birth parents died when she was only five and I had to take care of her ever since that day. In order to keep us alive, I had to steal food and steal other essentials. That is why I will only join a crew if my sister is allowed to join as well." Ryohei explained as it left all four of them speechless and in shock.

Reborn then turned to Tsuna. "So what's it going to be, Captain?" Tsuna flinched as he looked at Reborn and then looked back down on the ground.

"Why?" Reborn made a noise at his question. "Why do you always ask me what we should do?"

"Because your the Tenth Captain of the Vongola Pirates, baka-Tsuna." Reborn answered as Tsuna's eyes before he closed them shut. Gokudera and Yamamoto both gave Tsuna worried looks. He then raised his head.

"Fine." He answered as Ryohei grinned.

"Thank you, Sawada!" Ryohei bowed his head, as his forehead touched the ground. Reborn put on a smile as he stood up and walked over to the ring and placed it back in the box along with the four other rings that emitted flames. The Guardian of the Sun was found.

End of Chapter....


Author Notes 2: Man I'm tired. Well I hope you like this chapter and please review. Remember, you get a COOKIE!!! if you review!