Thanks so much, everyone, for reviewing! :D

Actually, to Shoko-Chan and MEKI! :]

The votes didn't change, but oh well, I'll just wait for some more~!

This time around, I decided to make Kaia a little more special. You'll see some reference to this part a long time later… I'm not quite sure, but just so we know, and I don't forget, I'm about…38k words over scene 50. :D

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The phone rang. Soto wondered who would call him at such a time. He was training, for goodness's sake… It was in an underground training room – a special one constructed for future purposes serving the Vongola Decimo. Soto pressed a few keys on the number pad on the wall. The targets all disappeared, and the room became an empty room once more. Soto set down his prized épéé de cour, or commonly called the court sword, and plunged his hand into his pocket to root out his cell phone. Again.

"Iello~"

"It's Reborn."

Oddly enough, the Arcobaleno was dead serious.

"Eh…Really? What is it?"

"It's Kaia – she's in the school hospital right now, though. By way of Iemitsu, I know she wouldn't approve of going back to the hospital."

"…what?!" gasped Soto.

"I've already got Jasmine there, though it's not really helping with keeping Shamal out…I should have told you that Shamal was the school doctor, shouldn't I?"

"What- I'm coming then, Reborn. What's the situation with the Tenth and his Family?" Soto's voice was stern; he had already grabbed his weapon and was making his way out to the surface of the ground.

"Lambo's been beaten pretty bad by Hibari, who's nowhere to be found as of current. Ryohei is continuing school as normal. Tsuna, Gokudera, and Yamamoto had to ditch class to get Lambo home and to see if Kaia's okay. But now, they've been forced back to class." Soto could see Reborn's malicious grin on his face already.

"Okay, Reborn-"

"Soto." The grin disappeared.

The Cloud Guardian was silent, waiting for Reborn to finish what he has to say.

"No, I'll just explain later. I'm awaiting you in the recuperation room with questions as well."

The line cut. Soto cursed to himself and threw the cell phone to the seat beside him. He had to focus on driving, of course.

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Soto burst through the door.

"Damn you, Reborn, for rushing me all the way here," he grumbled. He nodded to Jasmine. "What happened? Reborn?" He looked to the home tutor as well.

"Her physical condition isn't the problem here," said Jasmine. "As you know, it's her mental state of things that we have to rely on." She looked hard at Soto. "Again, I need to know what happened these past few days." Soto sighed.

"Didn't you see what happened these few days? I've only seen as much as you did, aside from Hibari's rather sudden attack on Kaia's head," he frowned.

"Soto, if this is a problem with the way she thinks," said Reborn, "then we need to figure out what exactly was the cause of all this."

"Which means we need to know what happened," finished Jasmine. Reborn nodded.

"Well, before you came, Jazz, Kaia was perfectly normal. She was moved to Namimori, though, as the Ninth thought she'd be safe with protection from the successor. But, on the first day of school, which had been Monday, Kaia both received a bruise and that knock on the head from Hibari Kyouya, the new Cloud Guardian. She was out for two days. After that, though, things began to get worse. Kaia became sluggish and not energetic. That's when I called Jasmine," Soto looked to the eighteen-year-old. "She came on Thursday, and we had her brain-scanned that same day. On Friday, though, Kaia snuck out of the apartment. It was where she met…Belphegor."

"Bel, her supposed rival, correct?" nodded Reborn.

"Not only that; after he left, there was Rokudo Mukuro as well," added Soto. Jasmine nodded in agreement.

"And what happened today, well we made her go to school. She'd be safer among a crowd of peers, and I still need to train," said Soto.

"That's where you made a mistake," said the Arcobaleno. "It was because she had gone to school, had she gotten into some trouble with Hibari, and probably resulted in her current state."

"Nevertheless that mistake, it's what happened," sighed Jasmine. "We have to deal with it."

"I've gotten a call from Iemitsu," said Reborn. "It might help."

"Yeah, I think you mentioned that," chimed in Soto.

"No, I haven't," Reborn corrected. "He said that he would make Kaia the…" He looked to Soto.

Soto raised his eyebrow in disbelief. Reborn nodded knowingly, and Soto knew it was true, though he still couldn't believe it. He had met the Ninth's, actually was a good friend with him. The only problem was, though, was that Soto had only found out when that same friend confessed to it at the last moment of his life. At the time, Soto hadn't any knowledge regarding the existence of such a position, but now he knew the full extent of the roles and duties of this.

"W-What is it called?" asked Jasmine.

"Can't tell you," frowned Reborn. "I've been permitted to tell only those who know; those who do not must not know. Otherwise, Kaia will be in much more danger than she is right now. I am, of course, the tutor of Iemitsu's son and the Ninth's most trusted hitman…"

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Heh. Reborn is really full of himself, as you can tell in the last sentence of the scene. xD

And Kaia, she's…part of the Vongola now. Well, her mom is, and Soto is, too. I mean, how could a tutor from the mafia teach you how to do a lot of things that could be related to the mafia, and yet you are completely uninvolved with the mafia in the first place? Well, good luck, Kaia, with whatever job you have now. ;D

Have an awesome life, everyone, and please review so the author[ess] here would be extremely(!) happy and would be updating like mad!

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