Penny: This chapter was sooo hard to write! Chrome isn't really the type of person who breaks rules, so it was difficult. The next rule breaker is Takeshi, so if you have any ideas let me know! I will try to update Aiden by Sunday but that may be me being optimistic. If I don't update it then, than I will update the second week of August. And I hope to update Fire Judge and Moon during August. My beta's flash-drive died, so they lost all the edits they had done for Taunt, so it will be a couple months till it's updated.

Rule V: No Cooking

Offender: Chrome

Time after Rules Instigated: 1 Year

Today, marked the one year mark since he had established his rules, and he was actually impressed that only four of his Guardians had broken the rules; he thought by now all of them would have broken the rules, but he was pleasantly surprised that his family had listen for once on a matter that didn't involve a life or death situation (he was completely oblivious that to his Guardians it was a matter of life or death when dealing with him).

So, of course his thoughts became a double dog dare to the world and to his Guardians that a rule had to be broken on the One Year Anniversary of The Rules. Although, unlike the other broken rules, this rule was broken with good intentions. It was also because of the occasion that the rule was unilaterally broken.

This rule was; that no one was allowed to cook. It wasn't because he thought that any of his Guardians were bad cooks. He just didn't want them anywhere near things that could be destructive around all the dangerous hazards that are in the kitchen, and because his dear Chrome had taken cooking lessons from Bianchi since she was 15 years old; and has since been unable to cook anything non-poisonous.

But, dear Chrome was unable to tell that the rule applied to her, and so she had decided that she would celebrate the Anniversary by baking a cake for all the Guardians.

So, she spent all day making a triple layered red velvet cake, for dinner. She worked so focused on frosting it, and adding rainbow designs to the cake, that she didn't even notice the ominous purple smoke coming from the cake or the weird black color coming from the frosting itself.

But, everyone at the dinner table noticed the fumes, and the reactions were instantaneous; Gokudera fainted because he thought his sister was there (he completely disregarded the thought that she was on a mission and wouldn't be back till next month), Lambo hid under the table so he wouldn't be feed the poisonous food, Mukuro just Kufufufed, Kyoya ignored it, Takashi just laughed, Ryohei yelled "EXTREME!", and Reborn looked at Tsuna waiting for the fireworks to go off. He was disappointed.

Tsuna tried to stay calm; he kept saying in his head that Chrome had just bought a cake for the celebration, she didn't cook it. But, he knew from the fumes that wasn't the case. But, he wanted to be sure before he did something he would regret.

"Chrome, did you make this cake?" he asked, a little too sweetly. His question had instantly made him the center of attention.

It was then that everyone realized exactly what Chrome had done. She must have realized it too because she instantly said, "Sorry Bossu."

Because, she had realized her mistake, and had said sorry, Tsuna forgave her and wouldn't punish her like he did the others. He just ordered her to throw away all her hard work because he wouldn't allow any of his Guardians to get sick.

Although, this might have been a far worse punishment than if he hit her, because she basically wasted all her hard work. And it was her responsibility to throw the cake away in the garbage, and watch as the cake got smashed and the frosting squished and deformed in the garbage. All that time, all that effort, just gone; being designated as trash.

That night everyone was nice, and considerate to her, by allowing her the whole cake that was store bought for the occasion; they all knew that when she was depressed or upset that eating cake was her way to deal with it. And if she screwed up the frosting and smashed the cake a little, no one said anything about it.