AN: Hey everybody it's Edward the Pure, coming at you live from your computer. Well not live since it took forever to type this up. Sorry for the wait guys, I had a senior paper, which I did tell you about, but it is now complete, so all's good. I regret my decision for graduating early, but I can't change that now. And last chapter we saw Miki, who was actually out of character. There was a reason I did it, but I can't exactly say the reason at this moment. But now we reveal who the 11th boss candidate is. You have seen him in the beginning, but you have yet to truly meet him. His name is Anthony Sawada. I'm sure you remember him. Guy who used black flames? Well we'll see a bit more of him in this chapter, as well as a little of the Sun guardian. You'll find out why soon enough. But for now, let's just start the chapter.

Chapter 1, Pt. 2

First Day of School: Anthony's Experience

*Anthony POV, Dream*

"Now feel the power that the Sky has been hiding for so long. The power the Dark Palms has given me." The flames on my left hand centered into my palm. "M Burner." A burst of the black flames shot at them and-

I shot up out of my bed, my nerves wracked. I put my right hand on my forehead to try and relax myself. Why was that dream always coming back? What was with those flames? Or those gloves for that matter? How was it they could use the flames like they did? To many questions filled my head as I sat on my bed. That dream had some significance, but I didn't know what that was. I just felt like it meant something. Sleep deprived since I had been up all night on the DS playing against my onne-chan*, I took a look around my room to make sure that nothing was in my way when I went to go down stairs. My room was perfectly cubical with the dimensions of 10 ft by 10 ft, my bed dead center on the left wall adjacent to the door, which was about 2.7 ft wide and 6.4 ft tall, with orange sheets and a Digimon Adventure comforter (AN: the only thing Anthony had watched while growing up was Digimon, but he couldn't stick with it during Frontier or Savers), the dresser to the left of the bed, 5 drawers, two of which were right next to each other and not as wide as the others (the smaller drawers are 1.3 ft wide and 5.3 in tall, while the larger ones had the same height, but were 2.9 ft wide), the closet directly across the room from my bed, didn't bother to measure the size of that since I didn't have much in there other than my school uniform and my dress clothes, and a desk to the right of my bed with a chair pulled up to it. The desk had on it my laptop, a Dell Inspire, my pure black DS Lite, and a blue, college ruled notebook.

When everything was done, I stepped out of my room and turned directly to the right, walking into the bathroom. I closed the door and checked myself in the mirror. My black hair was messed up and sticking up everywhere, my palish tan skin was looking a lot paler than usual, probably because of my dream, and my green eyes were barely visible. Knowing my onne-chan, she probably did something after our battle. I looked at my clothes to make sure she hadn't done anything to them, since these were my favorite pajamas. My pure grey, short sleeved t-shirt was still alright, no sign of damage, wear, or graffiti, and the plaid, flannel pants were alright as well.

With that out of the way I went about my schedule, splash some cold water in my face to wake me up, swish some cold water in my mouth to loosen up dead cheek cells, and finally gel my hair into neat spikes. After which I went down stairs to greet my mom, but she wasn't there. Instead there was a note left on the fridge. In a nut shell, it just said that she was out and that she had left some Eggos in the freezer for me and onne-chan. Speaking of which, where was she? She was usually up way before this, and she was nowhere in sight. I was about to go to her room when I heard a few grunts from the back yard. I opened the door and saw a sand bag hanging from a maple tree. In front of it was a girl with platinum blond hair, bronze eyes and pale skin. She was wearing a white, button down, short sleeved shirt, a khaki skirt, and a pair of pure black flats. She also had a pair of red fingerless gloves similar to the ones that the fighters in the MMA wore (AN: correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the MMA is a worldwide known thing). She turned to deliver a round house kick to the sand bag, but lost her balance half way through and fell to the ground. She jumped up rather quickly and turned in my direction. "About time you got up baka," she said while she walked past me and grabbed a towel that was lying on a bush directly to my left.

"Don't be a sore loser onee-chan, you know I won that battle fair and square," I said as she turned around after wiping the sweat off her head. She seemed like she was ready to laugh, when something stopped her. She turned serious and just walked in the house, seeming to forget my very existence. "Um, what was that about?" She turned around quickly and looked ready to throw a punch.

"I'm not angry at that. You just lucked out on that one." She got the Eggos out of freezer and put them in the toaster. "And I'm not that angry either, I'm just anxious is all." She took them out and put them on two separate plates. I took mine and just began to eat it, not caring that it wasn't buttered or didn't have any syrup on it.

"It's the first day of high school, so? What could make you tha- oh." It clicked in the middle of my sentence. She wasn't anxious about school or something. It was someone she was anxious to see again. "You mean her." A look of fright crossed over her face at that. I forgot what had happened the last time they had been in the same room together. "You really think that she'll run away again? I mean, it's been over a year since you last saw her." She nodded and her look only slightly softened.

"Yeah, you may be right, but still. What would I even say? 'Hey there, how you been? Sorry about last time, but my feelings haven't changed one bit so go ahead and just run away again.' I mean, she didn't even take me seriously the first time. She'll never feel the same." She just picked up her Eggo and began to eat it whole.

"You never know Kira, she may have changed her mind." She nodded, but didn't seem to brighten up any. "But even if she doesn't, as a wise man once said, 'tis better to have loved and lost, than to never have loved at all.'" She didn't respond and just sat there. We left for school soon after we ate and I changed into the school uniform, a white, button down short-sleeved shirt tucked into a pair of khaki shorts and a black belt. We did have one argument on the way though.

"You can't tell me that Kia and Lyulf just up and disappeared during the summer, and then after only a day they were back. It's scientifically impossible," Kira said as she took off her gloves and put them into her pockets.

"You're talking about science? There's another mystery." She tried to sock me in the face, but I ducked just barely in time.

"I may not have the best grades, but that's just because I don't exert myself as much as you."

"And that's where everything began wasn't it?"

"Shut up about it or else?" She stopped walking entirely, stood directly in front of me and was about to get into a boxing stance.

"Just try me." I got into my own fighting stance and got ready to fight. We probably would have if not for a certain somebody coming right from behind us.

"Hey Anthony-kun, Kira-chan!" The voice yelled at the top of their lungs. We both turned to see who it was. We couldn't make the person out well, but we could see that it was definitely a girl. She began running and we got a better view when she was a few yards from us. She had on the same uniform Kira was wearing, but with brown flats instead of the black ones. She appeared to be 5'3", with long black hair that was tied up in a high ponytail but still reached down below her shoulders, innocent light brown eyes, and lightly tanned skin. She also had a gold chain necklace with a small sapphire stone around her neck.

"'Sup Roxanne-chan," I said when she was about a foot away. Kira shifted nervously as Roxanne came closer. "Sorry we didn't visit over the summer like we promised." I scratched the back of my head nervously.

"It's alright, I wasn't home most of the time anyway. So how have you guys been?" She asked acting like nothing had happened a year ago.

"We've been good," I said as a thought struck me. It sounded good to begin with, but Kira would probably beat me up after it. "I'd like to chat more with you, but I promised a friend that I'd help out with his summer homework. I don't want to be late so I better move along. See you in class!" I said as I ran away. I could hear Kira yelling at me to get back there, but kept running anyway.

I had been running for an unknown amount of time but was already at the school grounds. Sorry one-chan, but this needs to be settled as soon as possible. I was about to enter the grounds when a 12 year old kid zipped by me faster than I could follow, and that was saying something. I was about to chase after him when as if the world wanted to say "Nope you can't do anything without my permission", the 5 minute bell rang. That kid was kind of bothering, but I guess I'll just have to let sleeping dogs lie I guess.

Thankfully it didn't take 5 minutes to get my schedule, memorize the layout of the school, and get to class. Instead it took 5 minutes and 32 seconds. I had cursed myself many times for being late before I entered the room, which coincidentally, everyone was already in their seats and Kira and Roxanne were there as well. I took my allotted seat and just waited for the teacher to walk in and begin class.

The door opened soon after and our teacher walked in. He had has messy black hair that covered his brown eyes slightly, light skin and was 6 feet tall. He wore a dark blue shirt with long sleeves, blue jeans and black shoes. There seemed to be some sort of tiny lump in his sleeves, but I didn't have much time to think about it anymore as he picked up a clip board. "Alright students, welcome to your first day of class. I'll be your teacher for the year," he said as he looked over the list and began to write on the chalk board. "You may call me Hayashi-sensei if you want, but I'd prefer to just be called Ken-sensei." He said as he turned around, a serious look on his face. "It seems everyone's in their assigned seats, so I'll begin class now." (AN: Do I need to put that I'm going to skip to lunch here? If so, then now you know)

After the bell for lunch had rung, I had made sure that all the notes I had taken were stored in my desk securely. "You really need to fix that," Kira said as she walked up behind me with Roxanne right behind her.

"If you mean my obsession of security, then no we don't. And sorry for ditching you guys back there," I said without allowing Kira anytime to speak.

"It's OK, don't worry. You had something else to do," Roxanne said as she set her lunch down on the desk behind me. "So what all did you do since we last talked?" She interlaced her fingers, put her elbows on the table and put her chin on her fingers.

"Well, we went to Italy to visit our grandfather, Reborn-san, and Gokudera-san. I was hoping to see Takeshi-san, but they said he was away training a new pupil. They said that she showed excellent talent in swordsmanship." Roxanne seemed to notice that part but chose to ignore it. "You wouldn't happen to know anyone like that right?" I asked sarcastically, which she seemed to notice.

"Only the one and only," she said. "And to answer your next question, yes it was me. Yamamoto-sensei was teaching me the Shigure Soen Ryu style. It was actually pretty fun." A smile passed her lips as she took a bite out of the sandwich she had brought in her lunch.

"I'm pretty jealous. I've been begging him to teach me for years." I was just ignoring my lunch until we were finished catching up. I hadn't seen her in a year and I sure don't want to be left in the dark. "So anything else? Or did he just train you all 2 of those months?"

"He taught me in only a few days, but the rest of time I was doing something else." She didn't go any further than that. If I didn't know her as well as I did I would have pried more.

We spent the rest of lunch in silence, only occasionally bringing up some random topics, such as the disappearances that had been happening around the school, the mystery of Kia and Lyulf, and discussing topics over what it could have been in Ken-sensei's sleeves. After that we just sat through the rest of class and took our notes.

The final bell rang and I was putting up my stuff when Kira walked up to me. "Anthony, I hate you; you know that?" She said with a scowl on her face. I just smirked and prepared for a punch to be flung.

"Well yes, but there were reasons for it before. Why now?" I was being serious the first sentence and sarcastic the next.

"Well thanks to you I had to lie to her face, saying it was because I was drunk at the time I said what I did." She began to crack her knuckles but seemed to calm down during it. "But I guess I'll just settle down for this round." She stretched her arms upward and a smile crossed her face. "But on the bright side, the qualifiers for Ryohei-sensei's Boxing Club are next so I get to show off my strength." She flexed her right arm and patted it.

"We talking your real strength or your mental strength? Because either way you're going to lose," I teased her. She just rolled her eyes, knowing I wouldn't kid her about her skills. Ryohei-san told me once that Kira was actually better than him when he was her age, and he was the Boxing Club's captain. "Make them go home black and bruised." I held out my left hand for her.

She took it with her own left hand and we both pulled towards each other. "But if you can't make them snooze." We pulled away and I grabbed my stuff. "You'll be there right?" She asked, actual sincerity in her voice.

"Of course. I may hate you, but when it comes to boxing it's the only time I actually do like you as a sister." We both left the class room and she went to go change in the girl's changing room while I decided to take a walk around the school.

I was on my second round when I saw that flash from before again. Only this time, I could make it out a little better. It was a kid no older than 12 with black spiky hair, not as spiky as mine, but pretty spiky, purple eyes, and the school uniform I was wearing. He seemed to be in a hurry as he ran to an alley way I didn't notice when I went around the first time.

I followed him to find out what he was doing when I heard him yell in a slightly high pitched voice. "Here you are, you hacking son of a-" He left his sentence hanging. I turned my head round the corner to see Ken-sensei sitting on the ground under a tree with a cup of what I guessed was sake in his hand.

He just took a swig of the sake and just ignored the kid. The kid wasn't too happy and slammed the cup out of his hand and onto the ground. Ken-sensei just looked up at the kid and lazily stood up. "You shouldn't have done that Kazuma," he said as though he knew the boy, whose name was apparently Kazuma. Before he could react, a few small explosives left his sleeves and exploded around the boy.

The smoke cleared and only a crater was where Kazuma had been. "Look around before making a move," Kazuma said as he appeared out of nowhere and smashed a tonfa into Ken-sensei's back. My teacher just rolled away and looked at Kazuma.

"I must say I'm impressed, who ever taught you is immensely skilled." He said as a few move bombs appeared out of his sleeves. "But you can't dodge this." He threw all the bombs at Kazuma who simply ran as fast as he could to dodge them all and appear in front of Ken-sensei. He was about to deliver a blow with the wide end the tonfa when multiple explosions hit him in the back.

Kazuma wasn't really hurt, but he couldn't seem to move. "While you know a lot about explosives, you don't know enough. That was my Reverse Rocket Bomb: Double Style Stunner." Kazuma didn't seem to be able to move as Ken-sensei just walked away.

Had I not noticed the time I would have seen if the kid was alright. I had to get to the club room soon or else Kira would kill me. Unfortunately for me, I didn't know that the boxing qualifiers were started early, so I got a right cross to the face. I wasn't expecting it and it was with Kira's full force so, as Kira had told me, I was KO'd and she had to carry me home. I didn't know what all happened after that, but right now I don't care. I just want to know who this Kazuma person is. And why did those movements seem so familiar? Guess I'll just try to find out tomorrow by asking Ken-sensei.

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AN: And that is it for this chapter. Took me from 8:22 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. to finish so I hope you like it. And also, question I would like you guys to answer in your reviews. Do you think Tsuna might disband Varia? I mean when you take into account his nature it make sense right? One of my friends and one of my readers actually made me think about it, so I might be including Varia members and successors. If you want to make a Varia successor, just fill out the Guardian form in chapter one and replace Guardian with Primary Flame. I don't suggest making one now, primarily just because it may just waste your time and right now I don't know if I'll include Varia or not. So anyway, reviews are always wanted. If you like this or not put it in, but no pointless flaming. Anyway, hope you guys enjoyed. Until next time dear readers, ciaossu.