Obsidian eyes narrowed as the commotion around him increased, static from the transmitter in his hand crackling over the noise.

"Sir, we have yet to see any signs of the targets, but we have updated news on their location."

"Where are they?"

"They were seen 5 minutes ago near downtown Namimori, sir."

"Then get them. Failure will not be tolerated, understand me? We cannot allow them to escape. I want them, dead or alive. And get our spy on the other side to kill the Cloud as quickly as possible. He's supposed to be taking care of the Cloud, and I'll be damned before I let him get to her, understood?"

"Yes, sir. We're on the move as you speak, and I've sent the information to the spy right...now!"

"Good. And remember what happens to your families if you fail," he whispered darkly, eyes flashing. There was a pause and a deep breath on the other side.

"We understand, sir. We will not fail you."

Tan hands wrapped around a small bundle, shifting slightly as a sword dug into his back. He carefully lifted the blankets to see one of his most important things in the world smiling at him.

"Hey there, Takeshi. How you doing there, buddy? Are you warm? We'll be out of here soon enough, and your brother'll be with us, okay? So hold on tight for now."

Takeshi gurgled happily, eliciting a small smile from his father as he ran a finger down the baby's cheek lovingly. Tsuyoshi wrapped him up in the blanket again before carefully strapping him to his chest with a baby carrier. Careful and wary for enemies, he slipped around the corner of the building, running swiftly and holding on to his son carefully.

He had to be careful while he was here. It was already late at night, and that meant people. Downtown was the dangerous part of Namimori, the place where all the yakuza resided and where the clubs and drunks were. As much as many people thought this was a normal town, there was a reason people like the Hibari's resided here. Eyes narrowing as he heard laughter and chatter, he made sure he was out of sight and ran quickly, his footsteps silent and fast.

He reached the outskirts safely and stealthily, only slightly out of breath. There was an emergency hideout there, back from the old days when he was still in the business. It was upgraded every year, and had advanced technology that allowed it to stay secret, even after all these years. The security had been specially grafted to fit his DNA, and only he had known of its existence. He had made it himself after all, with the help of some favors owed from long ago.

His attention was drawn downwards when Takeshi started to squirm against his chest and amber eyes filled with worry. He hadn't been fed since this morning, and it was already midnight. Tsuyoshi grit his teeth and shook his head. They were almost at the hideout. Just a little bit more...

A twig snapped behind him, and he heard a voice curse. In the few seconds it happened, he had unsheathed his sword and had it pressed against a very familiar neck. His eyes widened.

"You!"

Asari looked over to Alaude, nodding slightly. The coast was clear. They moved silently with almost unbelievable grace and speed, feet quick and light. The two had landed an hour ago and were headed to the Hibari home that was in Namimori. They had agreed that they should move together, especially since it was closer and on the way to Asari's own home.

Seeing the large manor enter their vision, they split up, moving to opposite sides and bringing out their weapons. After they were sure there were no enemies, they searched the house for family members or servants, but to no avail. Asari looked over at his fellow Guardian's face as it hardened the slightest bit before noticing something out of the corner of his eye. He motioned to Alaude, eyes questioning, as he lowered his sword. Grey eyes followed his hands before a smirk appeared on the Frenchman's lips.

"It seems we were left a message," he said, amused. He lifted up the little doll, eyes glinting with something that seemed almost fond. Asari looked over to him, confused.

"It's just a bird."

Alaude turned to face him, smirk growing wider at some untold joke. "A skylark."

"What?"

"Hn," he grunted before heading towards the nearest window and jumping outside, coat flapping behind him. Asari started and took after him, sheathing his sword.

"Hey! Wait for me!"

Giotto paced around carefully, wringing his hands occasionally in worry. Today was one of the appointments for the baby, and Nana still hadn't shown up even though fifteen minutes had passed. It wasn't like her to be late for anything, much less this late. The last time she was late for something-he grit his teeth and checked his watch again. What if something had happened to her? What if-what if she and the baby had gotten hurt? Panic and desperation filled him and his hand was halfway to his phone when a voice called out and stopped him in his tracks.

"Giotto!"

"Nana! Where've you been?! Are you okay?! Did something happen to the baby?!" Giotto fretted, hovering over her and checking to make sure she had no injuries after nearly giving himself whiplash.

Nana laughed, shaking her head and causing her brown locks to swing about.

"No, everything's fine. I was just spending some time with my fiancée. In fact, I brought him with me-that's not a problem, is it?" she asked, worry reaching her eyes. Giotto sighed in relief, his worry dissipating as he smiled at her.

"Of course it's fine, Nana, you know I've been dying to meet him. Just make sure you let me know where you are next time, okay? I was getting worried."

She nodded, a wide smile on her face as her eyes lit up. "Un! Don't worry, you'll love him! He's outside parking the car right now!"

And as she chattered and giggled with flushed cheeks and a bright smile, Giotto knew that this man made Nana happy and it didn't matter whether Giotto liked him or not. She was happy, and that's all that mattered. So he smiled and nodded, laughing at all the right moments while wondering what kind of man could make his precious sister this happy. He would find out soon enough.

"How did you find me?" Tsuyoshi asked, wrapping a cloth around her arm and looking at her curiously. He carefully pinned it there, making sure not to disturb the wound and leaned back with an approving nod.

"You'll have to keep that still for a while," he reminded her, reaching over to close the medical kit.

"Thank you," she whispered, a small smile on her face.

He moved over to the pan he had on the stove and poured the heated milk into a blue bottle with fish decorating its surface. He lifted a small blue bundle the exact same shade and fed his son the warm milk, making sure that it was cool enough before handing him it to drink. She watched, blue eyes following his every moment. He looked up at her, meeting eye to eye, amber to a light blue.

"You still haven't answered my question."

She paused, eyes unsure, before lifting a little toddler into her lap, wrapping her arms around him protectively. "My son found you, not me."

"What?" Tsuyoshi asked, starting in confusion.

"My son found you," she repeated, shifting in her seat and looking to the side.

"How in the world would your son be able to find us?! He's only a three year-old!" Tsuyoshi demanded, not unkindly, as he swiveled in his spot to face her.

She looked down at him, stroking his hair and smiling as he stirred before facing the swordsman again. Her eyes narrowed in thought and she replied.

"I don't know. We had just escaped the manor, leaving a clue that only my husband would understand so that he would know were alive when he stood up with this strange look in his eyes. He kept tugging on my clothes and telling me to follow him. When I asked him where, he simply said, "to the blue", and walked in the opposite direction. I didn't know what he was talking about, but before I knew it, we were in the woods and I'd only just caught him. Even then, he was still muttering something about the blue fire. When I stepped forward to grab him a twig snapped, and you were in front of me, sword against my neck."

He patted Takeshi's back, burping him, before laying him down in his seat. He grabbed his own chair before pulling it closer and sitting down to ponder this new occurrence. "You know," he said after a long time of thought and silence, "our sons have met before, haven't they?"

She nodded slowly, wondering where he was going with this.

"Yes, when we had come to congratulate you on Takeshi's birth, around a year ago. Kyoya had been sleeping, but Takeshi had woke him up somehow, and that's how we found the both of them. Really, there were just sitting there and staring at each other. But," she said, eyes widening as she realized something, "Kyoya told me something later on that day! He said that the blue baby was going to need his fire to stay strong. I paid no attention to it because I think it was just the babbles of a little kid, you know? Perhaps that has something to do with Takeshi and this?"

"But what does any of this mean? They're just children," he spoke as he shook his head, unable to understand what any of this meant.

She shrugged and looked down for a second, gasping when blue eyes met grey.

"Were you awake this whole time?" she asked in surprise, a hand to her chest.

Kyoya nodded, eyes unblinking.

"You were talking about the blue baby and I, weren't you," he asked suddenly, surprisingly clear and understandable for such a young child. Both adults started, before they looked at each other with similar thoughts running through their heads.

"Hi-kun," his mother asked, looking down at him, "what do you mean by the blue baby?"

He stared back up at her before pointing towards Takeshi. Well, at least they had confirmed one theory, she thought with a sort of grimace.

"Why did you say he needs fire?" she asked, eyes meeting Tsuyoshi's. He stared up at her once more before answering.

"He needs to burn, or there will be no more rain. Just the clouds. That's why they stay together, even now. So the orange can come, and unite the rainbow. Or else there'd be no more color-and the world is boring without color."

And he jumped off her lap and walked towards the now sleeping Takeshi. "Besides, blue is part of purple after all."

Giotto knitted his eyebrows in concern before looking at his watch. It shouldn't take that long for someone to park their car, should it? Just when he was about to ask, Nana brightened and called out, "There he is!"

He turned to the entrance of the hospital and heard the bell jingle as the door opened, a voice reaching them.

"Sorry I took so long. There was no space to park so it took a while for me to find some parking space."

Nana ran over to him before Giotto could take a look and he was left to wonder why that voice sounded so familiar, studying what he could of the man from his position curiously. Her fiancee lifted her and spun her around in the air, the both of them laughing. Giotto smiled at the scene before Nana was put down with a flourish, her dress fluttering down around her.

"Hel-"

His voice lost itself somewhere in the few seconds it took for golden brown eyes met azure, both bodies and hands freezing in their tracks.

He knew this man.

Giotto mentally kicked himself for not recognizing him earlier, for being so stupid and dense. He could only stare in shock at the new arrival that was the one and only Iemitsu Sawada, second-in-command of CEDEF and possible candidate as the new head.

A black fog clouded his brain, leaving Nana to worry and glance between the two, her concern apparent. Iemitsu himself was frozen, eyes wide as thoughts ran through his head like a tornado. This was him? This was her Gio-kun?! Of all the Giotto's in Italy, she had meant this one! Then that meant the child...

Giotto could only remember all those times he had visited Alaude and seen the same blond head, heard the same boisterous laughter, and those same eyes that had held so much respect when they landed on him. The same ones that turned hollow and dark every kill. The same face that-

"Giotto?"

The sound of his name broke the cloud, and he remembered Nana's expression of happiness earlier. E mentally shook his thoughts off and smiled, sticking a hand out in greeting.

"Hello. My name is Giotto Taru, and I'm Nana's childhood friend. The two of us are like siblings, and she's always talking about you. It's nice to finally meet you."

Golden irises widened before a slow smile spread across a tan face and similar hands shook the outstretched ones.

"Yeah, it's nice to meet you too."

Woohoo! Now you guys can enjoy this chapter! I've been typing this in all the little free time on the computer I could, and I have now manged to finish this chapter at like 5 in the morning. It is by far, the longest thing I have ever typed for a story. It was actually really fun because when I saved it so I could go and take my break, the word limit was 1,669. I was like,"Ohmygod, it says 69!" And then when I saved it later on again, (girls from this fandom will love this), the number was 1,896! I was fangirling like crazy because even though my OTP is 1827, I can still appreciate and value other pairings too.

Anyways, I tried to finish this as fast as I could, but I still replied to every favorite and follow and whichever new review popped up. If I haven't yet, I apologize, since, as you can tell, I've been busy. In fact, just yesterday I got a pm asking for my permission to translate Valentines Choco into Vietnamese and I sort of just sat there with my mouth open and a huge blush on my face before I told them I was all for it!

And of course, lots of thanks to FallenxLinkin and IceFlire Blader, who I just beat in World War 3 in the anime world. The fight was worthy of being called a challenge, but ultimately, I was the winner. Foolish child. You need more experience and knowledge before you challenge me! Mwahahahahahahahahahaha! *winks* Love ya!

So, please review or PM me if you have any questions! And as for the one I was asked before, I'm planning in making Mukuro, Hibari, and Ryohei a a year or two older than the rest. The others will have a few months between them. But still, any questions I will gladly answer, and I would absolutely LOVE it if I could get reviews. Actually, I was looking back at all my stories, and I feel like crying because they've come so far, you know? I'm only 5 chapters in the story and I already feel like crying at it's growth. Not to mention the fact that so many people that are great authors themselves actually liked my stories! So I hope you guys will continue to support me so that this story will be something we can all be proud of, as members of the Reborn community. Bye bye,

~ForeverBlackSun

A/N: If you're reading this, it means I have died because of feels and my best friend has kept her promise to post my apologies for ebing unable to continue any stories any longer.

Naw, jk. Anyways, I've figured out the details and Kyouya and Ryohei will be a year or two older than the other children (such as Hayato and Tsuna seeing as one had already been born but Tsuna is still a tiny little fetus). Mukuro, however, will be a year older than everybody else in the 10th gen, as will be explained later on for plot and such. I know the questions already: What about Chrome? Weren't they called twins? How come he's older than everybody? Again, will be explained later, I promise.

Ugh I'm so tired. To be honest, I had these chapters edited for like three weeks but couldn't upload them because of highschool urgh. *Makes face*

EDIT FINALLY UPLOADED ON: 10/1/2014