Hey everyone, it's me, who is back again~! :D

I got two reviews, so I'm going to be updating… Hope you readers and reviewers and everyone are happy that I'm going to keep this going…

And just so I don't forget, by now I've reached an excess of about 4.6k words after chapter 50…

That way, now if there's any suggestions, you'll see them there. :D

Yes, I've been writing a lot throughout spring break [while finishing the entire curriculum of Pre-Algebra for no particular reason now because I'm going to be tested for Algebra 1…].

Anyway, here's the standings:

Kaia/Mukuro: 8 [and 5 re-votes from Shin] [one of the votes are from Shoko-Chan, and she re-votes]

Kaia/Mukuro with a Hibari twist: 1 [and 2 re-votes from Shoko-Chan]

Kaia/Gokudera: 3 1/2 [and 1 1/2 re-votes from Shin] [another re-vote from Crazee4anime] [Tsunadesama89 half-votes, but all final votes will be rounded down. Heheh.]

------------------ In a way, though, it's actually three votes…

Haruka/Hibari: 2 [and another re-vote from Shin]

Yamamoto/Chrome: 2 [and 2 re-votes from Shin] [and a re-vote from Banyou]

Well, happy reading everyone, and please review!! Thanks~! xD

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The phone clicked off, and Soto put it back in his pocket. He looked around, and satisfied that there isn't any movement coming from Kaia's room, therefore assuming she got to sleep, Soto went to the kitchen to snatch something to eat. After finding a banana, he peeled it and bit into it. He sat down at the couch in the living room and looked around for something to do. He didn't feel like going to train right now, since that would be boring, and to abandon a possibly ill child at her apartment isn't exactly following the law. He's going to be absolutely murdered by Kaia's mother, too. He didn't feel old enough to die, just yet.

So he just shrugged and went over Kaia's stuff from the hospital, and he found the book he gave her to read. He flipped through it, and accidentally flipped her bookmark out. Soto cursed silently to himself and picked up the bookmark. The bookmark was a simple rectangle of black paper with a little white ribbon tied on the top through a hole-punched hole. It was obviously something special, and Soto shook himself from daydreaming. He had to find Kaia's page again…

After a short while of skimming the book, he thought he found the page Kaia stopped at.

And Elisa stole away into the night, her item of dreams tightly clutched in her hands. The security guards were left in her wake, unconscious or dead on the road, as Dr. Grant Gedfordson IV, 500 miles away, paced back and forth across his study, immersed in the secrets of the code.

"So that's where she is…" Soto grinned as he said this to himself. And he began to read. But he hadn't gotten far when the doorbell rang. Soto jumped, quickly replaced Kaia's bookmark in its appropriate place, and went to get the door.

"Who's there?" Soto called in a low voice.

"It's just me, Soto," answered Reborn. "Tsuna and his family want to see Kaia…"

"Oh, Tsuna and his family…?" frowned Soto. He opened the door a crack and peered out. He saw Reborn, with a short boy with brown hair, another with black hair, and a third with platinum hair. "So you are Kaia's classmates?"

"Hai…" said the brown-haired one. Soto nodded and opened the door.

"She's sleeping right now, so I wouldn't be waking her up anytime soon." Soto motioned for the four to enter. "This is Kaia's apartment, mind."

"We know," remarked Reborn. They all entered and sat down around the living room.

"Do you live here?" asked Yamamoto.

"No, I'm just supposed to drop Kaia off here."

"And why are you still here?" Gokudera raised an eyebrow.

"Well, I can't just leave someone that just came back from the hospital alone in her apartment," frowned Soto. "That wouldn't be gentlemanly." He chuckled at his own comment. "Anyways, I bet Kaia's going to be pretty happy you guys came by to make sure she's alright. That's really kind of you, really." He smiled, but took a side-glance to Reborn. The Arcobaleno slightly nodded, then faced Tsuna and his two Guardians.

Seeing Reborn's wide grin, Tsuna immediately paled and sat up straighter in panic.

"You three, meet Soto, Vongola Nono's Cloud Guardian."

Silence prevailed the room.

"EH-"

"Shh," Soto stopped Tsuna's cry of surprise. "Mind, Kaia's still sleeping. Don't ever wake her up." And because of the way Soto said that, Tsuna immediately shut up. He had a feeling that Kaia didn't like to be woken up by other people.

I'm talking to the physical equivalent to Hibari, Tsuna internally squeaked. Reborn, however, caught that.

"Even though Soto's the Cloud Guardian for Vongola Nono, it doesn't mean he's the physical equivalent to Hibari. In fact, Soto here isn't even the strongest of the Guardians – he's the second strongest," the Arcobaleno said.

"Y-Yeah, but isn't the Ninth like…at an age where most other people are already grandfathers??" said Tsuna.

"Shut up," Reborn interjected, and whacked Tsuna in the head before continuing, "The Ninth was a candidate as Eighth, but he was too young then; by the time the actual Eighth died, the Ninth was around thirty. By now, however, his Guardians had all died, aside from his last and youngest one – the Storm Guardian. So now, all his Guardians are replacements – the second generation under the reign of the Ninth Boss of Vongola. Soto here was the first replacement."

Gokudera silently rejoiced that it was the one with his ring that survived the longest; but Reborn stopped him as well.

"Just because the youngest and so far only surviving Guardian of the Ninth is the Storm Guardian doesn't mean that you will die as last of the Guardians either. The First's Guardians had all died virtually at the same time," shrugged Reborn. "And plus – you might not even be Storm Guardian if you don't work hard enough or train enough; the Varia might be instead." Silence prevailed again. Soto sighed.

"…D-Does Kaia know t-that you're the Cloud Guardian of the Vongola?" Tsuna asked. Soto shook his head. Tsuna frowned, Gokudera wrinkled his brow, and Yamamoto shrugged.

"Anyways, there's no harm in her knowing it right?" Yamamoto said. "It's just a game." Soto shrugged.

"Think what you like."

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Ahh… I think it's a pretty okay chapter, though there isn't much action. T_T

Anyway, she will go to battle sometime at least, and it's going to be coming up…a long time later. Heh. :D

That's all I can say for now, or else it's spoilers, and I'm not sure if you readers would like spoilers. O.o

Still, I'll update again if the reviews are averaging at 2 reviews per chapter, and probably if it averages about one update per day.

Unless I get bored.

Again.

Well, have an awesome life, everyone~!