Authors Note: Hey everyone, I'm happy most people are enjoying this story :D Sorry this took a while, going back to university keeps you busy -.- Also to the person who mentioned that the Iemitsu part in Chapter 1 was quite short, I sort of went off track when I was typing and multiple things where just appearing in my head :3 I think I'll just leave it as it is for now and in later chapters explain it more. Hope that fixes the problem.

Anyway, Story Time :D

Summary: Giotto has a secret which he has sworn to keep, no matter what. His 'left hand man.' Hidden away, a young boy has grown up helping the Vongola as best he can. Using the numerous skills he has plus his obsession with computers and technology. He quickly became a hacker that no one has been able to rival, but there seems to be more secrets that have yet to come to light between the two.

"Hello" – Speech

'Hello' – Thoughts

Chapter 3: Serious Face – On!

Knock, Knock

Two knocks at the door awoke the occupant who was sleeping, albeit still observing his surroundings.

"Hmm" Was the response, meaning that the occupant was allowing the other person to continue speaking.

"Master Reborn, You have been r-requested to join Primo and his Guardian's in the m-main meeting room." A women's voice from behind the closed door spoke. She stuttered ever so slightly as she was terrified of what Reborn could do to her if he was angry.

Some rustling could be heard before the door swung open and revealed Reborn in his usual suit and fedora with Leon, his little green chameleon sitting on top of it.

"Thank you, I will leave immediately." Reborn pushed passed the terrified maid, not giving her a second glance even when he heard her exhale slowly in relief.

Reborn strode towards the main meeting room he was in last time he met with Giotto. When he arrived there were already three people sitting around a large wooden table, set in an oval sort of shape, so that everyone could see each other easily.

Reborn nodded his head towards the three. He got two nods back and one yawn. The one who replied with a yawn was a young man, called Lampo who was leaning back against his chair, eyes half closed. He had light green hair, near his right eye was a black lightning bolt symbol showing he was the Lightning Guardian.

The one sitting next to Lampo was a man in a blue and white robe and a tall black hat, matching his black hair. His name was Ugetsu, the Rain guardian. He had a calming aura and smiled as Reborn moved to sit on the opposite side of him. The last person who was standing close to the door was another young man who was practicing different styles of punches and hand movements. He was wearing a black priest robe with a golden trim running around it. He also had a dark red scarf encircling his shoulders. Every so often you would hear the word 'EXTREME' being shouted. His name was Knuckle, the sun guardian.

Reborn pulled his fedora down – carefully not letting Leon fall – to cover his eyes and sat back in his chair, waiting for the final people to arrive.

After around 3 minutes, two more people arrived. One was speaking while the other just ignored him as much as possible. The one speaking was wearing a French-like military uniform and was teasing the other, laughing every so often. His name was Daemon, the Mist guardian. The other had light blonde hair and was wearing a buttoned-up, black trench coat; never spoke a word as he walked in. His name was Alaude, the Cloud guardian. (A/N: If I got some of this wrong, blame the KHR wiki :3)

Both of the men walked to a seat, farthest away from each other as they could get. The last to arrive were Giotto and G who quickly took their seats at the head of the table without so much as a word. G started fiddling with the buttons on the phone sitting in front of Giotto.

"Hello everyone, thank you for joining us today. Most of us are here but we are already running late so we'll just start without the late comers." Giotto announced.

In front of each of the seats, on the table, were a set of three different blue prints and lists of names of staff working in each of the warehouses that the blue prints corresponded to.

"In front of each of you are three different blue prints. This means that we will have to split up into groups if we don't want the evidence to be destroyed." Giotto looked around the room.

Both Alaude and Reborn had scowls across their faces. The others had a smile, smirk or neutral expression.

"Have we decided who's going to be going where and with whom?" Ugetsu asked; he still had a large smile on his face.

"Yes, myself," Giotto gestured to himself. "and Cielo have organised the best possible teams to complete the mission successfully, except…" Giotto paused. "Many of you may not like the group you have been put in…" Giotto never gave out any more information but could feel glares coming from two directions. "But I assure you that these groups will complete the operation properly."

"Oh… That's good then" Ugetsu replied with a grin.

"G, you done with that yet?" Giotto turned towards G who pushed one final button on the telephone and stepped behind Giotto.

There was a silent pause as the phone rang. It finally connected through.

"ONIIIIIII-SAMAAAA" These were the words shouted down the phone in a childish voice.

Giotto's face blushed crimson immediately looking away.

There were a couple of chuckles from in front of Giotto and giggles coming from the phone speaker. Reborn just smirked at Giotto's face but on the inside thought it was something he could use as black mail against Giotto. The smirk turned slightly evil towards the end of his thought.

"Cielo, you're going to end up giving Giotto a heart attack if you do that again." G covered his mouth after speaking, trying to stop a laugh from coming out.

Giotto cleared his throat, "C-Cielo…" Giotto fought down his blush before turning back to everyone and making a serious face.

"You've got your serious face on, haven't you?" Cielo guessed, knowing how Giotto would act.

More chuckles erupted from the guardians mouths.

Giotto did his best to ignore Cielo. "Ok then, let's get down to business. Cielo you have the blue prints in front of you correct?"

Cielo's voice became more serious at the question. "Indeed, I do."

"Right then, the groups that we put you in will be mentioned in a moment after I explain how we plan to get into these three warehouses."

Everyone in the room became serious.

Cielo spoke up. "I will be helping with any security within each of the ware houses. Many of them appear to have a number of alarms and CCTV cameras which I can only deactivate or disable after the mission starts; otherwise it's likely that we could be compromised and all evidence could be destroyed."

"We have a number of ear pieces for you to take in order for you to keep in touch with Cielo throughout this operation." Giotto added.

"We will have three differe-…" Giotto was interrupted as two people arrived, slamming open the door.

One was a male, the other a female. "Sorry for being late." The female spoke bowing towards Giotto and then to Alaude. Reborn shook his head and pulled down his fedora to cover his eyes yet again.

She had dark blue hair and a 'flame' scar on her right cheek. Her clothing consisted of combat gear and an infrared visor placed on top of her head, holding her hair away from her eyes.

"Sorry Boss, all blame falls on me." This came from the male this time and was directed towards Alaude, who just so happens to be the boss of the CEDEF.

The male was wearing a black suit, not tailored and looked rather uncomfortable in it. He had short blonde hair and was rather tall. Even though he was likely to be scolded, a grin graced his lips.

"You better be…" Alaude was angry but kept it contained as they were in the middle of a meeting. The two late comers quickly scrambled to find a seat around the table.

"Now that both Lal and Iemitsu have arrived we can continue. If there is anything you don't understand please ask when we are finished." G announced and turned to Giotto.

Giotto felt horrible. He completely forgot that the CEDEF was meant to be joining them in the meeting, specifically Iemitsu... 'Damn it, I'm an idiot!" Giotto chided himself. Giotto decided to just continue the meeting and speak to Cielo afterwards. Cielo remained quiet.

"Anyway… Where was I? Ah, oh yes. The groups." Giotto held up three fingers. "We are going to have three different groups; each group will take a different warehouse. You are allowed to engage enemies if they intend to attack or kill. Hopefully, while we are there we can find any experiments or hostages as I'm going to start calling them."

The members of CEDEF and Reborn nodded. "Find the hostages and bring them back to heal them, both physically and mentally…I hope." Giotto crossed his fingers.

G spoke up. "I will now read out who will be placed in which group. Ok then…" G picked up a piece of paper and started listing off names. "Group one will consist of Myself, Giotto, Colonello and Reborn."

"Wait! Colonello? Why is he allowed on this operation? He's not even here." Lal interrupted, clearly annoyed that her student was meant to be on this mission without her permission.

"Also why has he been put with me…?" Reborn interjected. Reborn was never a big fan of cheery attitudes in the first place and Colonello's cheeriness really irritated him beyond belief.

"Ah…That wasn't actually my decision. That was actually Cielo's idea." Giotto pointed out.

Reborn moved his gaze to the phone. "Cielo… Would you mind explaining this to us?" Reborn questioned.

However, the room remained silent. "Cielo?" Giotto asked, thinking that the call may have accidentally ended.

"Huh? Ah… what?" Cielo finally answered and was confused considering how he wasn't paying attention. Cielo had been in deep thought.

"Huh?" Reborn was a little confused but again tried not to show it. "I asked why Colonello was put in the same group as me."

"Ohhh. That's because I felt like it… And I like Colonello, he's fun." Cielo answered, snapping back into the conversation. Reborn knew that wasn't the entire reason for the group placements. Cielo just wanted to mess with Reborn. Lal never asked here question again and remain quiet.

"Ok, continuing on. Group 1 will be heading to the southern warehouse. Group 2 will consist of Knuckle," A shout of 'Extreme' was heard. "Ugestu, Iemitsu and Lal and any other CEDEF members you can spare as back up. They will be heading towards to western warehouse." Iemitsu and Lal nodded.

"The final group, Group 3 will consist of Alaude, Lampo and Daemon and possibly any other members we have available at the mansion. They will be heading to the warehouse that is the closest to the Estraneo Famiglia mansion. Everyone Clear?" Everyone with the exception those in group 3 nodded.

"I have to work?!" A shout could be heard from Lampo. "Why has the lord forsaken me?!" Many in the room just sweat dropped at the words spilling from the spoiled lightning guardians' mouth, including Cielo who wasn't even there.

Daemon was about to speak up to protest but a glare from Alaude stopped him, making Daemon smirk. Alaude growled at the group decisions but never spoke up, keeping an smirk on his face.

"Everyone should know what's going to be happening correct?" Giotto looked around the room.

"""Hai/Yes boss/Extreme""" Multiple people answered at the same time.

"The mission will take place tomorrow evening at 19 hundred hours. (7 at night) We will all meet up in here and then split up into our designated groups. Any questions?" Nobody answered, some even shook their heads. "You are all dismissed!" Giotto gave out the last minute details and dismissed everyone to go back to their rooms and get prepared.

Everyone besides Giotto and G walked out of the room, supposedly heading back to their rooms or office.

"G can you leave me alone with Cielo for a couple of minutes please." Giotto spoke in a heartfelt voice. G knew it would be best to leave and that he did.

"Yes. I'll be outside." G exited the room, picking up on the atmosphere from Giotto.

Now the room reminded silent. It was deafening. Giotto was unsure about what he should say. Just as Giotto was about to speak, Cielo spoke up first.

"Giotto, I know what you are going to say… And…" Cielo trailed off.

"I don't care… It was careless of me to forget the CEDEF where supposed to be attending today's meeting. I'm sorry for not mentioning it before." Giotto sounded guilty, lowering his head.

"It's fine… I knew I would have to speak to him eventually, considering he's going to be on this mission with you." Cielo replied back honestly. "Please don't feel guilty. At least… At least I won't have to talk to him tomorrow and even if I did, he wouldn't recognise who I was anyway…" Cielo fell silent.

However, he quickly changed the mood when he spoke once again. "Oh, while I remember… I'm running low on energy drinks again."

Though confused, Giotto was happy for the change of subject. "What? How? I brought over four full boxes like three days ago! What on earth happened to it?!" Giotto asked in a shocked voice.

"Well, I had to catch up with the days I missed, now didn't I." Cielo's voice had become childish again.

"What?! After all this is over, I'm getting you some help for that addiction." Giotto stated.

"It's not an addiction!" Cielo paused, if Giotto could see his face there would be a smirk plastered on it. "Please don't Giotto-nii." Cielo made is voice sound as innocent and child-like as possible.

Giotto froze… 'Ok that's so not fair' Giotto thought to himself. "Y-you know that won't h-help you. Don't you?" Giotto stuttered when he started thinking about what Cielo would have looked like in that moment… Quickly stopping the thoughts with a shake of his head.

"Whatever you say Onii-sama." Cielo giggled.

"We will talk about this another day… Make sure you sleep properly tonight… I don't want you getting all hyper one moment and then depressed the next because of your sugar intake…" Giotto spoke in a soft voice.

"Mou…" Cielo made a defeated noise. "Fine… Speak to you tomorrow. Good Night Giotto."

"Night Cielo." Giotto smiled before hanging up the phone call.

Giotto gave out a relieved sigh before getting up off of his chair and heading towards the door. 'Energy Drinks... I can't exactly blame him for that since technically it was my fault for introducing them to him…' Giotto chuckled to himself as he opened the door to see G waiting on the other side, leaning against the wall opposite the door.

"You all finished up?" G asked.

"Yes, thanks for waiting. We need to go get some sleep; we are going to be busy tomorrow after all…" Giotto gave G a small smile. "Oh no…"

"What is it?" G looked concerned.

"Paperwork!" Giotto nearly shouted before sprinting off to his office leaving behind a laughing G. Eventually G caught up and helped him finish all the work.

They finally finished and split off heading towards their own rooms. "Good Night" G and Giotto spoke at the same time… Almost in sync. They had done this routine so many times already.

Next Day – Around 6.45 pm – Meeting Room

"Thank you everyone for coming once again. Hopefully today we can finally get rid of this… these… bad people?" Giotto had a hard time trying to figure out what to call the… bad people…

In Giotto's ear piece all he could hear was laughing. Cielo was only connected to Giotto at the moment but when he heard Giotto speak, he couldn't help but burst out laughing.

Many of the others chuckled or sweat dropped while listening to their boss' speech…. Although, it wasn't the most encouraging thing he could of said, it did end up brightening the mood of everyone.

The guardians, Giotto, Reborn and Colonello where all standing in one corner when they heard a quiet beep in their ear pieces.

"Hey Everyone." Cielo gave everyone some time to adjust to the ear piece and his voice. "These ear pieces are designed to talk either to me or other members of groups and vice versa, though if for some reason I don't answer straight away it will be because I am dealing with something else at the time. So be creative." Cielo gave out some instructions.

"Ok. Now we know how the ear pieces work, should we head off?" Giotto asked.

There wasn't a proper reply as everyone started walking outside. Giotto looked around to double check that everyone was present and ready to go.

"Be careful everyone, Come back safe." Giotto gave some last words of encouragement before heading back over to meet with his group.

"Oh, Hey! Nello-chan!" Cielo shouted through the ear pieces of group 1. Colonello, Giotto and G winced slightly.

"Hey. Wait…Nello-chan?" Colonello asked, really confused. G raised his eyebrow at that.

"Yeah, it's fitting." Everyone could practically hear the smile in Cielo's voice.

"Why are you calling him Nello-chan?" Giotto whined in jealousy, he kicked a foot at the dirt. Everyone just sweat dropped.

"Aww, Giotto-nii is jealous." Cielo giggled. "Time to get your serious face on Giotto."

"Aye!" Giotto replied happily until he realised what Cielo just said. "Hey!" Cielo ignored Giotto, before he started typing away.

Reborn, G and Colonello started heading in the direction of their warehouse, leaving behind a pouting Giotto. "Is he ok?" Colonello whispered to G.

"Just leave him. He'll be here in a minute." G continued walking. Colonello just glanced back before catching up.

"You might want to hurry up before you get left behind." Cielo reminded. Giotto stopped pouting and looked around seeing that the others had left him before running to catch up.

"See told you." G looked at Colonello with a smile.

All three groups headed off towards their targets. Cielo kept switching between each of the warehouse security systems to make sure that he could easily get in and out without so much as a problem and to check that nothing changed.

After a short while, all of the groups arrived at their intended targets around the same time, giving Cielo a lot more work to contend with. Cielo switched to Giotto's group once again. They were now fairly close to the front entrance and where hiding in a forest which was a fair distance away but still close enough that they could see if anyone went in or out of the warehouse.

"Giotto, be careful. There are a large number of guards around the front entrance of the warehouse. A lot more than I anticipated, make sure you don't get seen or the whole plan fails!" Cielo let the group know of the problems that could arise.

"Will do." Giotto replied before he started whispering to the rest of the group. "Everyone, we are going to have to find a number of alternative routes to get in, this is a precaution in case something goes wrong. No matter how likely that may be." Giotto smiled.

Colonello pulled out a small version of the warehouse blueprint. "I've brought this with me in case of such occasions." Colonello was whispering as well.

"Nello-chan." Colonello blushed slightly at the name causing Giotto to give him a light scowl which went unnoticed. "With the blue print you have in front of you, can you see the numerous tunnels which lead underneath the building?" Cielo asked. He was also looking at the bigger version of the blue print.

"Yes I can see them." Colonello answered.

"Good, they might be the best choice for you to get into the building. Only problem is that they are fairly odd and could slow you down by quite a bit unfortunately due to the possibility of cave in's or other things." Cielo was confident that they would get to the building but the timing would be behind schedule with the other group's times.

"I think it should be fine as long as we get in, it shouldn't be too much of a problem. Plus with going through the tunnels, there is less chance we will get noticed." Reborn added.

"Correct Reborn." Cielo smiled to himself. "Ok, I will get back to you soon. If there's a problem let me know. Ciao." Cielo disconnected with Giotto and looked around his screens to see where everyone had gotten to.

Group 3 seemed to be spilt up a fair bit. One person seemed to be dragging behind. 'Obviously that's Lampo.' Cielo chuckled. The other two had started heading forward; they both had a good amount of blood lust and the strength to back it up so Cielo wasn't all that worried about them. So he passed over them as there weren't any changes popping up within the system.

He moved onto Group 2. He would rather not stay talking with this group all that much if he could. They seemed to be all grouped together as a good team should. "Hello, Ugestu." Cielo called.

"Oh Cielo. We were just about to enter the area. Anything we need to know about before heading out?" Ugestu asked.

"So far so good, I was just checking in for an update… which you've already given me. Be careful. Ciao" Cielo ended the call as quickly as he could.

Cielo turned his head to look at the security system for the warehouse Giotto's group where at. They had gotten through the tunnels within good time and now heading around to the warehouse building.

"Oh shit!" Cielo shouted as he pressed a button to connect to Giotto.

"Giotto, stop!" Giotto froze at the sound of the voice and as he was at the front everyone else did too.

"What wrong?" Giotto asked albeit confused.

"Just stay where you are for a few moments!" Cielo began typing away. Giotto could tell something was clearly wrong.

"Ok… Ok… Do not go anyway to the right of where you are now. I'm not entirely sure what it is but it's nothing good. If anything, the further away you can get from where you are the better." Cielo's voice was panicky.

"Hai… Ok will do." After listening to Cielo's voice he quickly did as he was told. The group slowly started to move towards the left of the building.

All of a sudden there was a large explosion on the right side of the building. Giotto's group were just far enough away not to get caught in the blast. They continued along the left side, now starting to run to finish as quick as possible.

If they had turned around a second later, inside the smoke they would have spotted a large silhouette of a tall man, with handcuffs around his wrists and ankles… He growled and headed in the direction after Giotto's group, though he was walking fairly slowly and would take a while for him to even catch up. The smoke was concealing all his features.

"Giotto, BE CAREFUL!" Cielo shouted making Giotto wince.

"I will, Promise." Giotto promised and continued moving ahead.