Three weeks. Three weeks since that horrible battle between Tsuna's family and his own Flame. The said teen sighed and looked over at his self appointed right hand man, and Storm Guardian, who was currently leaning back in his desk looking bored. Tsuna took in the silver haired teens bandages and burns and his eyes saddened. Those bandaged wounds and burns were his fault, not only that but the burns were taking longer heal than normal burns. Practically no improvement was made on his Family's health the past few weeks, Flames can really do some damage. Tsuna bit his lip, everything was his fault! If only he had been stronger...!

The silver haired teen sensed his boss's eyes on him and glanced over. Seeing the look on the other's face, he quickly grinned and gave Tsuna the thumbs up, mouthing, 'I'm okay, Juudaime!'

Tsuna managed to smile faintly back and glanced quickly over to his Rain Guardian. The black haired boy felt Tsuna's eyes quicker than the Storm and gave the teen his classic care free grin. With that grin, you just can't help but grin back. Turning away from the two, Tsuna felt his depression come back and he rested his head on his desk. He remembered that battle very well, and the feelings that he felt during it, that he shouldn't have been able to feel, and the feelings afterward. After he had called the Vongola Primo...

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"GIOTTO!!!!!!!!!!!"

The school grounds were suddenly filled with light as out of the Vongola Ring shot Sky Flames, raging furiously, into the night sky. Just for a moment, the Flames took the shape of a giant wolf, larger than Tsuna's lion, and a deep howl was heard. Then, the Flames landed on the ground and began forming something else. All fighting had ceased as the Guardians, Acroblano, the men controlling the Flame lion and Tsuna watched in awe as from the Flames emerged the Vongola Primo.

His great black cape settled around him, his Flame lit on his head. Tsuna heard the murmurs, heard the whispers of wonderment, 'How could a dead man be alive?' But they all ceased when the lion growled ever so faintly. The blond opened his amber eyes and studied his obvious opponent while the Guardians and Arcoblano unconsciously moved out of his way. A devious smile played on Giotto's lips as he walked forward and his quiet, cool voice flowed out, "Well this should be interesting, fighting my own kin's Flame."

With that said, the men made the lion roar and pounce on Giotto, but the blond simply moved out of the way, his smile gone. Then, reaching forward, he froze one of the lion's front paws, not enough so that Tsuna's Flame couldn't return to him, but enough it wouldn't be able to move. The lion roared with frustration of the men and Tsuna's as Giotto turned to the now frightened trio of men.

"Now then..." he said, his eyes narrowing as a dangerous glint came into them. Faster than they could see, Giotto was behind them, his eyes cold. All three turned to attack him, but the Vongola Primo was not the strongest for nothing. All three fell to the ground, two of them dead. Giotto kneeled down in front of the last man and grabbed his hair, violently yanking him up to eye level. Leaning forward, Giotto whispered quietly, but angrily in the man's ear.

"If you were not needed for information, I would kill you where you lay! But... seeing as you are..." he paused then continued, "Just know this, the first chance I get to kill you I will, and it will not be quick like your friends. I do not easily forgive those who hurt my Tsunayoshi..." Throwing the frightened man on the ground, Giotto stood and stared coldly down at the man. "Now I suggest you hand over whatever device that is keeping Tsunayoshi's Flame from him."

The shaking man quickly brought out a small, blinking controller and handed it to the blond. Giotto took the silver object in his hand and crushed it. Instantly, the lion became a stream and rushed toward Tsuna, entering his body. The teen slumped forward, his eyes impossibly huge as they stared at the ground, and huge tears began falling once more, as Tsuna's hands were raised shakily to his head. Every feeling he had just been feeling intensified, sorrow, guilt, anger, frustration. Being emotionless the past three days had left him defenseless against this onslaught of feeling and so.... he screamed.

He screamed every single feeling that had returned to him, letting the world know of his guilt and sorrow. It hurt, it hurt so much! Suddenly warm arms enveloped him as they pulled him against a wiry chest. A comforting voice whispered in his ear, "It's alright, nothing was your fault, Tsunayoshi..." over and over again. He became conscious of being rocked back and forth gently, and a faint scent of roses, paint and something warm, like a blanket, drifted into his nose, calming him and allowing his screams to die. He grabbed desperately onto Giotto, clinging to him as he cried. The Vongola Primo didn't cease his rocking until Tsuna's sobs had quieted to hiccups, only then did he still. Giotto had let his Flame go out, his eyes now their normal sky blue and his gloves simple black leather.

Tsuna felt himself shivering, from cold or something else he didn't know, but what he did know was that he also felt Giotto pulling away and he really didn't want him to.

"No…" he whimpered, his grip tightening.

"Sh, it's alright, I'm not going anywhere." Giotto replied and then he quickly took off his cape and settled it around Tsuna's quaking body. Giotto quickly picked Tsuna up, bridal style, his huge cape making Tsuna's small body seem like an infant's. The teen closed his eyes, burying his face in Giotto's chest as his Family came closer, along with Reborn. He felt Giotto's grip tighten ever so slightly, he took comfort from that and began to nod off.

"How can you be here?" he heard Reborn ask.

"I'll explain later." Giotto replied, making his chest vibrate. Tsuna smiled at the feeling as the darkness began to creep up on him, the last thing he heard was Gokudera complaining about how Giotto was holding Tsuna and Reborn saying, "You'd better. I'm not sure how the Ninth will take this news."

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He had fallen asleep at that point and had woken up to a frantic Gokudera and slightly calm yet happy Yamamoto. He learned from them that the Ninth was down stairs, speaking with Giotto, and he also learned why he could summon Giotto from the ring.

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"The Flames left in the ring?" Tsuna asked.

"Yes. Apparently every boss leaves his or her Flame in the ring when they die, why is unknown, but their basically sleeping except when they accept the new boss. So you some how woke Giotto-sama up and summoned him using your Flame." Gokudera explained.

"Then what about the Ninth? He was there when they accepted me as boss, too! And why did Giotto need to use my Flame?" Tsuna asked.

"Well, the Ninth was the last holder of the ring, as well as the Ninth boss of the Vongola Family, so a small portion of his Flame was left in it, at least until he passed and the rest of his Flame joined that portion. Ironically, he was actually taking a nap when you were accepted…And Giotto-sama needed to use your Flame because he, or any of the other bosses, can't get out of the ring without the current boss's help. Can you imagine what would happen if they could? I mean, I like Giotto-sama and all, and he's serious at times but most of the time he seems like a child kind of… Especially when he starts playing tricks on people…" Gokudera murmured shivering. Yamamoto laughed as Tsuna sweat dropped.

"Well I like him!" Yamamoto said cheerfully.

"You would you baseball freak!" Gokudera shouted back.

"Oh come on Gokudera-kun, you know you like him too." The black haired teen replied back.

"Shut up! Nobody asked you, baseball freak!" the silver haired teen shouted back, taking out his bombs as he did.

Tsuna was just about to calm the two down, mostly Gokudera, when his bedroom door opened and in stepped Vongola Primo himself, hand on his hip, his cape and pinstriped suit jacket left somewhere other than his body, his white button up shirt collar loosened, three buttons open, his black tie much looser than before and his sleeves rolled up to stop just at his elbow. He had a smile on his face, a perfectly innocent smile to any who were oblivious to the small current of anger below the surface and to people other than Gokudera and Yamamoto, who had been specifically told not to wake Tsuna.

"I really hope he woke up before you started shouting." Giotto said sweetly. Gokudera froze, overtaken by the dark cloud of despair that had appeared about him at Giotto's appearance. Yamamoto simply sweated dropped and smiled nervously, rubbing the back of his head. These two were obviously too scared, or nervous, to set things straight, so Tsuna had to save them.

"It's ok, they didn't wake me up!" Tsuna said quickly. The two teens barely disguised their sigh of relief as Giotto turned his gaze to Tsuna, his eyes becoming gentle and his smile genuine. Tsuna sweat dropped at how fast the anger in the Primo seemed to disappear.

"Alright." he replied, willing to forgive the brief fuss Gokudera had caused by being… Gokudera. "Are you up to eat anything?"

At the question Tsuna's eyes grew wide and he looked away. He had been fine when he woke up, having his friends' antics to distract him(if they hadn't he might have already fallen back into his own despair), but now was a different story. Apparently a few hours of sleep wasn't enough for him to get used to his emotions again, if it was he probably would have hid the sadness and guilt his face was currently showing. Even though Tsuna was hungry, he didn't think he could stomach anything, so he shook his head. He heard Giotto sigh.

"You have to at least try. You've been out for two days." Giotto said frowning as he crossed his arms. Tsuna shrugged and Giotto took that as an 'ok' to go get something.

As the Primo left the room, Gokudera and Yamamoto turned back to their friend. Tsuna wouldn't meet their eyes and after a few minutes of trying to get the conversation going again, to hopefully get Tsuna distracted once more, they left. Giotto came in only a few seconds later, a bowl of what Tsuna assumed to be soup of some kind on a tray, and some water, he set the tray on Tsuna's nightstand and the sat down on the edge of the bed next to the teen. He sat there for a few minutes, waiting to see if Tsuna would even touch the food, but he was disappointed.

"Tsunayoshi, you have to eat." Giotto said gently. Tsuna merely grabbed his blanket, laid back down, got in the fetal position and threw the blanket over himself, so that all he was, was a lump of green cloth. He heard Giotto sigh again.

"Tsuna, this isn't how we deal with problems." Giotto said patiently. His only response was Tsuna's grip tightening on his blanket. Tsuna felt Giotto's arm land next to his back, and knew that Giotto was now propping himself up over the Tsuna-lump. He felt a large but gentle hand find his and slowly take the cloth from his fingers. Tsuna stubbornly looked at his hand, refusing to meet Giotto's eyes, as the elder pulled the blanket away from his face, and let it settle upon his shoulders.

"You know, I will force feed if you if I have to and I do not believe you would enjoy that." Giotto said with a smile in his voice. Tsuna frowned and said nothing, but he did blush a little considering Giotto was close enough that his breath tickled his ear.

I wonder why this doesn't bother me… Tsuna thought faintly perplexed that he didn't really mind his ancestor this close. If one of his Guardians was doing this to him, he'd be blushing beet red and yelling at them to get off him while he screamed, 'pervert.' But he felt a faint sense of rightness about his position at the moment, as if the person he had a crush on totally wasn't Kyoko, but Giotto. Well… there's a disturbing, yet interesting thought. Yet, even if he had that faint sense, he still liked Kyoko, but it was as if something much bigger had filled his heart, as if his heart had been empty all this time waiting for that something. In simpler terms, since his brain can't deal with his own explanation, he still liked Kyoko, but he had just found someone whom he liked even more.

He felt that tickling sensation on his ear again as Giotto laughed; as if he could very well read Tsuna's thought process. You know, maybe it was just because Giotto was his great-great-great-great grandfather that this didn't both him. Yea, let's go with that explanation for now, he can deal with all the confusing crap later. Tsuna heard another chuckle, air following and his frown deepened, he was about to say something to the Primo when Giotto's hand came up and covered his, making his seem overly small.

"You know Tsunayoshi, you're about as easy to read as book, you should really learn to keep your thoughts off your face." Giotto said with another chuckle. Tsuna blushed.

"Wha-!? That's mean!" he replied frantically, turning his head to Giotto. He froze as he realized just how close he was to the blond and his blush got deeper.

"No, it's the truth." Giotto replied, smiling. Then he leaned down and kissed Tsuna on the forehead once more, reminding the teen of just how he had summoned his ancestor. Looking away again, Tsuna realized once again, he had successfully distracted, unfortunately once he realized that, despair returned once more. He felt the tears pile up in his eyes and begin to spill over and he turned his whole head away this time, biting his lips to hide his sobs.

"Oh Tsunayoshi…" Giotto said sympathetically, tightening his grip on Tsuna's hand and leaning ever closer to the teen so that he was practically laying on him if not for his arm, which had moved so that it was now touching Tsuna back.

"I told you, none of it was your fault." Giotto whispered, the hand against Tsuna's back moving to rub his head.

"B-but…" Tsuna sobbed, "It was my F-Flame that a-attacked them…"

"Your stolen Flame. You never knew that when you went to that warehouse they'd take your Flame. It's their fault not yours." Giotto gently reminded him.

"Y-you know a-about the w-warehouse?" Tsuna asked surprised.

"Yes, Reborn told me about it and in a roundabout way I remember it as well. Well, I remember waking up at the sense of you losing your Flame, and that really didn't brighten my day, especially since I wasn't able to talk to you until three days later. I really wish that ring had something for me to take my anger out on…" Giotto replied sighing, "I could always wake up Secondo, but that's just more trouble than it's worth right there."

Tsuna let out a small laugh, catching Giotto off guard but a second later he smiled as well.

"Ready to try eating?" Giotto asked.

"Yeah." Tsuna replied, a smile finally gracing his features.

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Tsuna blushed as he thought of that encounter with Giotto, very glad none of his Guardians had walked in at that time, or Reborn. Dino would have been okay maybe, if Tsuna didn't have the feeling that his fellow boss liked him, that would have just sent the sparks flying even more between the two blonds in his life.

The teen glanced at the clock, noting that it was about five minutes away from school being over for the day and the week. So he had five minutes to kill… He could try to figure out that really confusing explanation his mind gave him from earlier… Nah. With Kyoko in the room it just didn't seem fair.

Excuses excuses… a voice in Tsuna's head said, making the teen gasp and hide his face in his hands. After about four more minutes and fifteen seconds of his brain torturing him, the bell rang and he was out of there. He didn't even wait for his Guardians or Kyoko, he was just gone. Maybe it had something to do with the fact that his brain had come up with really weird explanations and then really weird scenarios that involved him and Giotto doing things he'd rather not think about. What's even worse is that he enjoyed them! Well, worse for Tsuna, us fangirls are just like, 'Get it over with already! Gosh!'

Tsuna stopped once he'd reach the river, and bent over to catch his breath. When he looked up toward the river, who should he see but the person whom had started all his problems, Giotto. Tipping his head to the side, Tsuna wondered what the man was doing on the river bank all alone, and at the same time he was grateful for Reborn filling Giotto in on the current times, since the man wore a plain sky blue long sleeved button up, which of course had it's sleeves rolled up to his elbows and at least three buttons undone at the top. He also wore simple blue jeans and white tennis shoes, looking as un-boss-like as possible. Beside him was a simple brown bag that could be slung over his shoulder and on his raised thigh he had a white object Tsuna assumed was paper since he was doing something with a pencil on it. Being the curious little lion cub he was, Tsuna slowly slide down the slope, waving his imaginary lion tail, not bothering to take the steps.

As he got closer, Tsuna wondered if he shoulder say something so he didn't startle Giotto, but it seemed he didn't have to as Giotto glanced behind him for a second and smiled, then turned back to the paper. The teen took that as an ok to come sit next to the blond and so he did, setting his school bag next to him.

He glanced at the paper, again curious to see what Giotto was doing, and realized the paper was actually a sketchbook and the blond was currently drawing the river in front of them and its opposite bank.

How'd he get a sketchbook? Tsuna wondered silently, not voicing the question aloud because that would seem very rude indeed.

"Reborn did not enjoy having me around, while I was bored." Giotto said simply, once more reading Tsuna's mind. "So he gave me this and said to go entertain myself."

Giotto chuckled, both at the memory of what Reborn had said and Tsuna's current flabbergasted expression.

"How do you do that!?" Tsuna asked, making Giotto laugh.

"I told you, you're as easy to read as a book. You don't need intuition to know what you're thinking, Tsunayoshi." He replied, making Tsuna pout. Tsuna really didn't want to look at Giotto himself anymore, so he looked at the drawing Giotto was doing and he came very close to letting his mouth drop open. When Giotto had said Reborn had told him to 'entertain himself' and given him a sketchbook, Tsuna had assumed that it was just for fun and that the drawings were going to be kinda like his sorry little stick figures, but that's a total assuming fail on Tsuna's part since Giotto was pretty damn well artistic and was drawing the river exactly, right down to the last piece of grass.

"Wow…" Tsuna whispered, unconsciously moving closer to get a better look. Giotto chuckled.

"What do plan on doing with it after you've finished the sketch?" Tsuna asked, watching Giotto's hand working on the grassy bank.

"Well I might redraw it later and add people if I feel like it, or simply leave it as it is. If I could get some paint and canvas though, I'd probably paint it." Giotto replied, turning the pencil over to erase a mistake.

"You paint?" Tsuna asked, looking up at Giotto's face.

"Yea, I think some of the paintings I did before might still be in the Vongola mansion, both my Guardians and your grandmother enjoyed them." Giotto said, then he glanced over to the bridge his attention caught by something. Tsuna followed his gaze and saw three upperclassmen laughing about something and waving around a bag of something that seemed illegal. The teen grimaced, silently praying to God that he never even came close to behaving like those guys and if he did, that somebody would slap him.

"The world can really change in four hundred years." Giotto murmured, frowning as the boys began harassing a boy on a bike.

"Yeah…" Tsuna agreed, he paused for a moment and then asked, "What was it like in Italy?"

Giotto looked back at him in surprise. "Why the sudden interest?"

Tsuna shrugged, "I'm curious."

"You know curiosity killed the cat, or in your case the lion."

"Yea I know, but this is pretty much a harmless subject unless you're some evil genius planning to take over the world."

Giotto laughed at that one and ruffled Tsuna's fluffy brown hair, then he told him of Italy, the good and the bad. Tsuna sat next to Giotto listening intently to the tale as his ancestor continued to draw. By the time Giotto had finished his narrative, not only was the sun starting to go down, but he had finished his river sketch a while ago and had begun another drawing, this time of Tsuna. Giotto closed the sketch book, put it in the bag beside him, then got up and stretched.

"Come on, mi amore. Time to go home before everyone starts wondering where you are." Giotto said, holding his hand out to Tsuna to help the teen up. Tsuna took Giotto's hand, grabbing his school bag as the bond pulled him up. They walked back to Tsuna's home in silence, Giotto off in his own little world, humming a song Tsuna didn't recognize, and Tsuna wondering what the heck mi amore meant. He knew it was Italian and Spanish at the same time, but he has enough trouble with English, thank you very much!

The two made it back in record time for Tsuna, since he was walking, but that was mostly because Giotto set the pace unconsciously making Tsuna have to exercise.

"I'm ho-" was all Tsuna got out before he got kicked in the face by Reborn.

"Where have you been, baka-Tsuna?" Reborn asked, landing as gracefully as a baby can while Tsuna slammed into the wall.

"Gomen, gomen. He's been with me." Giotto replied laughing and rubbing the back of his head. Tsuna shakily got to his feet, shook his head and then glared at Reborn.

"You didn't have to kick me so hard!" Tsuna complained.

"You deserve it, dame-Tsuna." Reborn replied, walking into the kitchen. "Now hurry up before I eat your dinner again."

"Oi, Reborn!" Tsuna said, then hurried into the kitchen Giotto trailing behind. Tsuna was surprised to see that other than the usual people at his table(not including Giotto, who was still a fairly new edition and the fact that he didn't really have to eat), Lambo, I-pin, Fuuta, Reborn and Bianchi, Dino had also made an appearance as well and was currently leaning against the counter with Romario.

"Yo, Tsuna!" Dino said happily, raising a hand to the teen, while giving dagger glares to Giotto.(Let's all try to guess why he's giving dagger glares, shall we? XD)

"D-Dino-san?! What are you doing here?" Tsuna exclaimed.

"Oh I thought I'd just visit my cute little kouhai to see how's he's doing and to make sure he hasn't been raped yet by a certain somebody." Dino said with a smile. Giotto by this time had gotten a glass and filled it with water from the sink Dino was so kindly standing by and was completely ignoring the other blond, until Dino had finished his sentence anyway.

"If there's any chance of him being raped by somebody, it's you Chiavorone." Giotto said matter of factly, taking a drink of water as he stared at Dino out of the corner of his eye.

"Oh is that so…" Dino replied. Tsuna stared at the two in disbelief, were they really arguing about Tsuna being raped at dinner!? Luckily Tsuna mother walked in at that moment and both blonds became the gentlemen they were raised as, well Giotto did, Tsuna guessed Dino had had it beat into him by Reborn. Dinner passed pleasantly enough, but when Dino(and Romario), Reborn, Giotto, Tsuna and somehow Gokudera and Yamamoto(they had come over on the pretense of studying after dinner, but Tsuna swore he heard Gokudera mutter something about protecting his boss's virginity), the sparks began to fly, especially when Tsuna's mother left for late night shopping.

At the moment, the two were sitting on the couch and Dino was trying to have a glaring contest, but Giotto was ignoring him too thoroughly for him to succeed. Surprisingly, the three teens were doing their homework and actually studying, good thing too since Tsuna had been in such a state those three weeks ago that the homework left over from when he was doing that Choice thing, and those three lifeless days, wasn't done yet. He had maybe one fourth of it done and Dino had proved no help considering he was busy and even though he could help, had Reborn blowing things up in his face when he tried. There was always Giotto, but Tsuna wasn't how much Giotto knew from when he was still in Italy and how much Reborn had managed to update him on. Well at least he still had Gokudera…

Tsuna was chewing on his pencil when he realized Giotto had finally seemed to notice Dino, and he had almost gotten his essay done too! If they somehow burn it, he was so going to kill them both… Well he would kill Dino, he'd just make Giotto go in the ring for a year or two awake so he could be bored out of his mind, after all you can't kill a guy already dead. Sighing, Tsuna glanced over to them and sweat dropped as he saw the electricity sparking in the middle of them.

The thing about Dino is that when he glares he glares, but when Giotto glares, he just gives you this look that sends chills down your spine and you just know he's going to kill you. Apparently, Dino doesn't get that fact.

"You think you've won?" Dino muttered(obviously Tsuna had just jumped in on an ongoing muttered conversation)

"Yes, yes I do." Giotto replied.

"Don't make me laugh, I knew him before he even got the Sky Ring and in a sense, you!"

"Oh is that so? If you want to get technical about it, I met him long before you were born. Dino-chan~" Giotto replied smirking. Dino gritted his teeth and jumped at the Vongola Primo, but was stopped by Romario, Giotto however, continued to sit on his end of the couch as if it were a throne, his legs crossed and his hand propped on his cheek, the smirk still playing on his lips as he watched the other blond.

"Uh… Did we miss something?" Gokudera asked Giotto, who simply smiled.

"I'm off to bed." Reborn stated, jumping off the current work table, "Don't blow up the house while I'm sleeping."

"'Night, Reborn." Tsuna called, his eyes still on Dino's flailing figure as Romario shouted at him to calm down.

"That's not even possible!" Dino shouted at Giotto.

"Oh yes it is~" Giotto replied, letting his voice go annoyingly sing song.

"I am going to kill you Vongola!" Dino yelled in irritation.

"Oh I'm sorry, I'm already dead." Giotto replied sarcastically, jumping off the couch as Dino finally got free.

"Alright fine, I'll torture your ass, but explain to me how that is possible?" Dino asked through gritted teeth, his eye twitching. Giotto simple shrugged his shoulders and shook his head.

"I don't know how it happened, something about a weapon of some type malfunctioning. We'll probably find out in a few days." Giotto said matter of factly, crossing his arms. All three teens had by now gotten far out of the two blonds' range; well until Gokudera figured out what they were talking about.

"OI! I will not accept any more perverted words from your mouths! Even you Giotto-sama!" Gokudera shouted, shaking his fist at the blonds who had turned to look at him. Yamamoto grabbed onto Gokudera just as the silver haired teen made a lunge for Dino, vowing to deal with the Primo later.

"Well I guess this concludes our study session," Yamamoto said cheerfully. "Do you mind if we come back for our work tomorrow? No? Great! Then see you tomorrow Tsuna!" And Yamamoto dragged a very violent Gokudera out the door while Tsuna waved at the two.

CRASH!

Tsuna jumped half way out of his skin and quickly turned to asses the damage done to his house which… wasn't a lot actually. Apparently, Dino had jumped at Giotto and Giotto had just simply pinned him on the floor.

Poor Dino… To be a boss and be defeated that easily and by somebody who's dead, too." Tsuna thought sympathetically.

"Well, then I'm going to bed." Tsuna said sighing.

"Ah, alright," Giotto replied, looking up from the struggling Dino, "Goodnight, mi amore." And there's that phrase again…

"WHO GAVE YOU THE RIGHT TO CALL HIM THAT!?" Dino screamed.

"I did, now shut up or I'll tie you up and leave in that corner over there." Giotto replied calmly.

Wonderful, now he was going to want to know what that meant even more. Tsuna sighed, waved goodnight and then headed upstairs. Reborn had said they'd be going to Italy in a few days so he might as well mentally prepare himself now and by that he means packing a small bag with the stuff he'd need if he got lost, which he probably would. He wouldn't be Tsuna if he didn't now would he?

He put an extra change of clothes and for good measure the suit Leon had made him when he was fighting the Choice battles, he then added some extra money and a folded piece of paper that said, 'Do you speak Japanese?' on it in Italian, curtesy of Gokudera for when he did get lost. He also put Natsu's box in the bag, his headset, pills(gosh people were going to think he was a pill popper), the contacts Spanner had made for him(he can't wear them all the time you know!) and then his gloves. The Vongola Ring was going to stay right on his finger, thank you. He put the bag next to his bed and then climbed into it, glancing over at Reborn, who was sleeping away as usual, he got the feeling that he was going to go on one hell of a ride tomorrow. And it was his intuition telling him that, meaning it was probably true.

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"Hmfph!" Dino screamed through the cloth tied over his mouth. True to his word, when Dino hadn't stopped struggling, Giotto had tied him up and thrown him in the corner.

"If you'd be quiet I'd take that cloth off." Giotto said from where he was crouched down in front of the Chiavorone boss. Dino simply glared at him.

"You know…" Giotto said sighing, "If you want to take Tsunayoshi away from me, your going to have to try a lot harder than that."

"Hfpmy?(Why?)" Dino asked. Apparently Giotto spoke mumble language, because he answered.

"Because I've been in that ring for four hundred years waiting for him, I am not going to easily let go." Giotto replied, his eyes dangerous.

"Yhmpu chpmft bhmp shpehfs!?(You can't be serious!?)" Dino said shocked, making Giotto smile.

"Oh but I am…" the Vongola Primo replied.

A/N: Hi guys, long time no see… I'm sorry for totally failing on the deadline I set for myself D: I was like sitting there, all ready to go and type and everything and then my G27 muse died! *crys* It came back though. Funny how not being able to sleep and while your dozing off not able to breath can make things come back… Anyways, hope you enjoyed the chapter! Beware the angst and comfort :3 I enjoy it, so there shall be lots. And just so you all know, I am obsessed with wolves(KiraLacus Forever's comics don't help with the matter XP) and Giotto as a wolf just kinda got stuck my head. Besides, Tsuna's already the lion, so Giotto needed something different :3

List of words used-
Note: If I have any misspellings or wrong translations, please tell me

Juudaime- Tenth (Japanesee)
Mi amore- my love (Italtian/Spanish)
baka- idiot (Japanese)
Gomen, gomen- Sorry, sorry (Japanese)
dame- No-Good (Japanese)
kouhai- opposite of sempai/senpai (Japanese)

And there you go! I'm currently working on chapter 2 and yes the action really starts in that chapter! XD I believe Wait, What? Is on a brief hiatus type thing until I get this fanfiction done, it's just too entertaining :3 what I mean by brief hiatus type thing, is that I won't necessarily be working on it, but you might see a chapter or two pop up once in a while

Btw… I do my cliff hangers on purpose *evil grin*