OMG I'm so sorry, everyone!! D:

It's such a late update… And school's coming up too! GAH!

I'll try to update more, but… I just hope I'm not going to forget to update among all my homework.

Hmm, anonyMan, balancing both Ria and Kaia? Ria won't appear that much, I'll give you that. And who was accessing the Cervello records? That was Gokudera. :D

And that book? It's still in the past, buried somewhere in Kaia's apartment. A pet, yes a pet, a pet! :]

Hmm…meerla11 asked what was BPD again. It's Borderline-Personality Disorder. From what I remember, it's like maniac-depression, but those violent mood swings occur in larger intervals. It isn't as serious, the mood swings aren't as random or extreme, and it isn't that easy to get rid of.

Again, to n a g a s h i . n o . k u r o, I really want to get the Future Arc over with. The emo-ness isn't a good side to Kaia. Hah, it's not just you, you know? Everyone that's still reading really wants to know how it ends. But the question is, does it really end? xD

So far, not really. It's still going strong.

Ahh~ and for the scoreboard updates. Here they are:

Gokudera/Kaia: 10 [and 1 1/2 re-votes from Shin] [another re-vote from Crazee4anime] [a re-vote from little-L.A.M.]

Mukuro/Kaia: 9 [and 5 re-votes from Shin] [one of the votes are from Shoko-Chan, and she re-votes twice]

Belphegor/Kaia: 8 [a re-vote from The Great Pineapple MEKI] [a re-vote from RemStrike78] [and a re-vote from AkaMizu-Chan] [kaitlin177 re-votes four times]

Hibari/Kaia: 6 [a re-vote from that~one]

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

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

Mukuro/Kaia with a Hibari twist: 1 [and 3 re-votes from Shoko-Chan]

Belphegor/Kaia with a Mukuro twist: 1

Soto/Kaia: 1

Byakuran/Kaia: 1

Xanxus/Kaia: 1

Woah. Gokudera/Kaia surpassed Mukuro/Kaia. Hmm. Well Mukuro/Kaia hasn't had many votes recently, if any. Let's check what the votes are counting the re-votes.

Gokudera/Kaia: 13½

Mukuro/Kaia: 16

Belphegor/Kaia: 15

Hibari/Kaia: 7

Yamamoto/Chrome: 5

Hibari/Haruka: 3

Mukuro/Kaia with a Hibari twist: 4

Belphegor/Kaia with a Mukuro twist: 1

Soto/Kaia: 1

Byakuran/Kaia: 1

Xanxus/Kaia: 1

Woah. Seems Gokudera, Mukuro, and Belphegor are really fighting for Kaia. Please vote! Keep the poll alive! :D

Also, reminding those who want battles to take place. You can request future battles as well, and I have one between Bel and Kaia. I've added Bel vs. Mukuro and Mukuro vs. Hibari, according to the twist pairing votes.

Now, [finally] about the section, chapter, whatever. The update. Hmm. It has a lot of information inside it, and a lot of the text came from excerpts from books in the story. Not real books though, mind you. Still remember the ending to scene 54?

Yep, I was writing this part [I think] when I decided to add that ending as a Future Arc/the story's real future sneak peek. You may refer to that scene again if you'd like while you read this update. You'll see what I mean.

Well, happy reading, and please review afterwards~! :D

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The next morning came much earlier than anyone expected.

Gokudera prodded the unmoving lump of human sleeping on a book. It sort of looked like Tsuna or Kyoko; they both had brown hair.

"Err… hello?? Wake up…?" Gokudera frowned. "Hello…??" He paused; the person wasn't completely sleeping over the entire book. There were also other books scattered across the desk. Gokudera glanced at them.

Boxes originated from an ancient idea to create weapons modeled after life forms in nature. In the fourth century, an Italian biologist named Geppetto Lorenzini wrote a 343-volume work on his theory of these boxes, how they would work, and such. Those 343 volumes depicted ideas and theories that, at the time, were unpractical and much too advanced for the technology in the era. The main issues with the boxes were limitless; one such problem was that if even if they were built, there was no energy source. It would not work, both in theory and in that time. There were none who helped Geppetto with his research, and so he lived to old age as an insane old man and died a quiet death. The 343 volumes were then hidden away by a secret society called Cervello, and remained there for more than a thousand years…

There was another book, lying next to it. It had been tabbed with a big, yellow, sticky note.

He was considered as the original creator of the boxes, aside from Koenig, Innocenti, and Verde. Koenig, Innocenti, and Verde were members of the Cervello, working as keepers of ancient texts and experimenting with the old ideas. Verde had discovered the secret behind invisibility suits from this research, however as the financial costs were too high, the research wasn't further funded. The three scientists stumbled upon Geppetto's 343 volumes, and from those texts derived that the energy emitted from Mafia legacy rings, such as the Vongola and Mare rings, would power the boxes. Most of the technological problems were cleared in that step, and the three managed to construct a prototype in secret within five years…

A third book was next to the second one; it was a rather thick one, like an encyclopedia.

Each volume of Geppetto's work was dedicated to the construction of one box; each of them were based on various life-forms found in nature. But according to the basic build of the boxes, Innocenti, Verde, and Koenig managed to create other boxes, like the storage box, which are boxes typically created to contain tools or weapons. The three scientists decided to sell these boxes to fund their research to the mafia at incredibly, and now viewed as ridiculously, low prices. However, the mafia who had bought the boxes found that they could be extremely useful and powerful in battle, and demanded more. In the end, both Innocenti and Verde had been killed.

Koenig, the only remaining scientist that had stumbled on the texts of Geppetto, took the volumes of instructions and went into hiding. It is believed that he now constructs and sells the boxes as a weapons dealer…

Gokudera blinked, before everything sunk in. He looked to the sleeping person; either it was Tsuna or it was Kyoko. He looked to the book the person was sleeping on. The script looked like old Italian, and the edges of the book were frayed. The pages were yellowed and old. Diagrams covered the page, with tiny script in the corners and all around them. The diagrams depicted weapons, captions scribbled in the same Italian explaining each one in thorough detail. The Storm Guardian's eyes widened, as a thought raced across his mind.

This person is researching…boxes…

There was a pile of books on the table as well – works and explanations of Einstein, Newton, Nobel, Edison, and a great many other people with Ph.D's about the world. One book was labeled differently – CERN. He raised an eyebrow as he frowned and poked the person again.

"Hello??" Gokudera was beginning to get irritated. But even if it were either Tsuna or Kyoko, he shouldn't get angry. "Hello…?!" He shook the person's shoulder. "Wake up…" Then he caught sight of a notebook open on the other side of the table. Gokudera hesitated, but he walked to the other side, picked up the notebook, and looked at it. There was only one word written on the first line:

Why??

The Storm Guardian flipped the pages. It was entirely blank; but he was looking on the third page. He flipped backwards a page, and his eyes found a narrative, covering the whole of one page. He began to read.

I haven't a clue how it all happened, but it did. I think today would be Tuesday, but I'm not sure what time these people follow in this place.

I'll start on Saturday. I had a half-day of school, like always. School was boring, too, but never mind that. After school, Tsuna called me to meet behind the school. I did, and Gokudera, Reborn, Yamamoto, and Tsuna were all there. Apparently, I was to do something to become Tsuna's right-hand man. Like, yeah right, right? I'm not a man, either. Anyway, Reborn told me to go look for Lambo and I-Pin. I went to look for them, and there's this weird guy that popped up in front of me. He said his name was Byakuran, and he said some other stuff. But from there, I knew that he knew something about everything like the Vongola and stuff, and that he was planning to kill one of the Vongola, I think. Or that he didn't like them. Anyway, something exploded in his hand, and I ran for it.

The next day, I was told to pack up by this person. At first I was weird-ed out, but he told me he was the principal, and wanted me to go on this special school field trip, according to the Namimori Prowess Ranking. I didn't know what prowess meant, and I don't know now. But who cares? I get to skip school to go.

Monday, I met up with a few other people, like Chrome and Yamamoto and that extreme runner, Ryohei, in front of Tsuna's house. Tsuna, Gokudera, and Reborn came out, and Reborn told us that the people will be coming at night. We were there in the morning, so we all decided to wander a bit. Chrome and I went around, but then there was a sudden burst of that pink smoke again. And I ended up in a box in a car. I stuck my head out and saw that the car was plowing through forest, and someone that looked strangely like Gokudera at the wheel. The car stopped, and he got out and left. I pried open the trunk, which was where the box I was in was in, and jumped out and ran for it. I ran for a while, and I think I got lost. After that, there were these human-like machines that came walking around, and one stopped and beamed something at me.

After that happened, the older Yamamoto came and brought me here to this high-tech-y place. The regular Tsuna and Gokudera came too, and they were talking about all that stuff they refuse to tell me. Gokudera punched Yamamoto in the face, and Yamamoto was bleeding. I didn't like that at all… Anyway, I left, and here I am.

No, actually, I came to this big room and found the luggage that I was supposed to bring to that place. I found this notebook in there, as well as a pencil, eraser, and pen, so I took it and came to this place, behind a big cardboard box and near a door at the end of the hallway; it's warm here, probably from the air vent or something behind the door or something.

Gokudera froze.He He couldn't believe his eyes. It was Kaia's notebook, it was her telling of the past few days. She had met Byakuran. She had met a Strau Mosca. And yet, she still lives? Gokudera growled to himself; Byakuran must be the boss of the Gesso family at first; he had taken control of another one in those ten years, he must have. It was evident, even now; Byakuran was not a friendly man, despite his facial expression.

But to think that Kaia had come face to face with their strongest enemy and had lived on past that? He had no idea. He flipped to the first page again; his eyes landed on the lists.

Vongola – lots of people seem to know about it. It's like common knowledge; but everyone pretends to not know. It's weird, like hide-and-seek [onigokko, or demon chase]…

What's the Millifore, anyway? I heard Reborn mention something about that too…

People who know:

Sawada Tsunayoshi [Underwear-man] – dead in alt. uni

Reborn

Yamamoto Takeshi [Sword-person] [alt. uni]

Gokudera Hayato [Bomber-man]

Soto

Jasmine Opiello

Hibari Kyouya [alt. uni]

Chrome Dokuro

Rokudo Mukuro [Pineapple-san]

Byakuran – knows, but not a friend with Tsuna

Them:

Hibari Kyouya

Rokudo Mukuro

Gokudera Hayato

the prince [name…?]

Gokudera was once again astounded. How could Kaia know so much? She basically got down nearly everyone in Namimori that knows about the mafia – six out of eight people in Juudaime's Vongola family. And…she's met Mukuro in person? Has she? Or does she just know him? And what exactly is Them anyway? I seem to be a part of it.

"Mmmmmnnn…" stirred the brown-haired girl. Gokudera hushed his breathing. He hoped she would go back to sleep again, but it didn't work. She sniffed and sat up, stretching and yawning. "Ehh? Why am I here again??" Kaia blinked and looked around, turning and seeing Gokudera with the notebook in hand, looking inside. She immediately snatched it away in shock and put it on the table. She sat back in her chair, facing away from Gokudera, crossing her arms. She was instantly cold, hating, cruel to him. Silently fuming with rage. "What are you doing?"

"Uhh…uhh…" sputtered Gokudera. Kaia scoffed. Gokudera gritted his teeth and decided to ask. "Why…are you researching boxes??" Kaia blinked and frowned.

"Boxes? What do you mean boxes? I was looking up characteristics of animals; and I bumped into this stuff about magical boxes with stuff inside," she smiled to herself, despite her anger towards Gokudera. She failed to successfully lie again. "It all seems pretty awesome and really good for a collection of evidence for a novel. The real facts fit, too." She motioned towards the stack of books. Gokudera nodded, but he was still suspicious. "Don't tell me you know what boxes are, too?" Kaia grinned to herself.

"Well, I bumped into this really big book here," Kaia pointed to the ground. The book on the ground was thicker than the thickest commercially-sold dictionary in the world. Its title was The Vongola. "It's a pretty good novel, I mean, it even matches with everything in here." Her expression darkened a bit. "I never knew you guys were all just a fan-club of this awesome book! You could have told me!! I love it how Giotto managed to save the day all the time, and how Timeteo worked out the Cradle Affair, and- and all the stories of everything! And it's so much like a diary, I mean, every time it's been updated, the writing style changes! And it's all written in first-person of all the Bosses!! Like- like how the Tenth…Vongola…Sawada Tsunayoshi…ruled…" Now, when she said that, the real meaning registered in her head. Her hand shot out and grabbed the book and flipped it open. Kaia fell silent.

"Did…Did Tsuna change his n-name for this?" she barely whispered. "Or was it based on him? And…there's…Gokudera Hayato – that's you – and…and everyone… Yamamoto Takeshi, every-" She gasped and flipped back a few pages, reading, eyes wide open.

It's been a few days after I came to the future with Gokudera, Yamamoto, Kyoko, Haru, Lambo, I-Pin, and Kaia. I can't believe how much had ignored the poor girl. And to think- No, I shouldn't say this. Not yet. There is still a probability they would take a peek in the library and find this book. I mean, it is unavoidable that it would be found; it's so large. Come to think of it, I haven't seen Gokudera all morning. I remember wondering where he was that day. Kaia, naturally, wasn't there. I sometimes wonder where she goes. Sometimes I would think that she would have been wandering the halls, thinking, or probably helping Kyoko and Haru with Lambo and I-Pin, as well as the chores.

I don't know why I insisted to put this book in the base; I remember, however, that this place wasn't destroyed after I left. It is safer than the Vongola Headquarters, where I soon learned was where I died. That was long ago. Still, in the Vongola base, I had rested for two weeks; the injury I sustained from Tasaru had kept me from training. Afterwards, I was introduced to boxes, and flames. Reborn was there as well; I remember complaining about how I was still Dame-Tsuna, looking up to Gokudera and Yamamoto for being experts at lighting their rings.

Looking back, as an adult, an experienced crime mafia boss, those were a good, calm two weeks. To my younger self, it was a whirlwind. It was like sticking a goldfish into a fast-flowing river; the sudden rush and overwhelming load of pressure to soar over expectations and the loads of information to digest and crunch and spit out new ideas from. I don't quite remember absolutely everything, but I do remember the worrying about everyone's safety. I thought that since I thought it was wild, it was insane, it was confusing, I thought it would apply to everyone else. Since I was confused, I assumed everyone else was confused as well. In fact, looking back, I was probably the weak link the first few days, when I was befuddled by everything, confused, unknowing exactly what was going on, how important the magnitude of the matter really was. But after that, after a little training with the older Hibari, I caught up with my two closest friends. How I remember Hibari's part in this, it was the Vongola Trial. The time I acquired my VVRs, Version Vongola Ring. The time I found the true potential of myself. It was the time I finally began to look into the future – the future, as me, the Vongola Tenth.

"No…everything isn't t-true, right?!" Kaia gasped. "It isn't true, right?!" She looked back at the book. "If it is, then…Tsuna should be looking for you right now." Gokudera glanced at the book, then burst out the door.

"Juudaime!! Juudaime!!"

For some reason, everything suddenly blacked out. Kaia fell over on the ground.

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"Ah, so it has been found," remarked Hibari. "The Book of the Vongola." He looked down on the ground. "And to be found by such a specific person, even."

"How long has the Book been in hiding?" Reborn asked.

"Too long," answered Hibari. "And if it stays here any longer, it would probably suffer further damage. I will take it into custody."

"Are you sure I can trust you with it?" Reborn asked.

"You're dead," answered Hibari. "I don't think you can remember any promises I've broken, can't you?" Reborn looked down to Kaia's unmoving form.

"Ria…that girl is…" Reborn shook his head in wonder. He looked to Hibari. "You've given her up?"

"You wish," Hibari muttered. "Life gave up on her." He sighed. "You wouldn't know how surprised, yet not surprised, I am at her appearance here."

"She is part of the Family now," answered Reborn. "Ria is. Kaia cannot be told anything; the Ninth ordered it to be so, as well as Allegra and Soto. At least not yet."

"You still use those old names?" Hibari glanced at Reborn. Reborn looked back.

"Well, I'm from ten years ago," he answered. "What do you think?"

"The Book is a fake."

"Of course," answered Reborn. "The true Vongola Books are buried in time; this is the copy. But it is the only copy we know of with the entire collection in it."

"It hides many secrets," nodded Hibari. Reborn didn't reply; he looked down to Kaia.

"It's only been one day," said Reborn. "And she knows too much."

"No; she is emptying her mind. Ria is, I mean," said Hibari, frowning, catching on. "When Kaia gets up again, she will not know anything about the Vongola, nothing about the contents of the Book. Ria knows Kaia will get out of control, as her mental state is a mess." He looked to Reborn. "That is, ten years ago, I believe." Reborn looked curiously at Hibari.

"When exactly was Kaia told of this?" he asked carefully. Hibari was silent.

"I am not supposed to tell you, baby [akanbo]," he answered. "You are from the past. However, I can tell you that she did go to a mafia university with the Vongola Family."

"The one and only Riquite?" Reborn raised an eyebrow in expectation. Hibari nodded.

"The one and only," he confirmed. "I will be going now, baby [akanbo]." He took the bulky book in his hand and walked off, out of the library. Reborn just watched him go, looked back to Kaia, and frowned. This was a lot harder than he had originally planned for Raiahu Kaiashi.

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Yes, the secret society that kept the records were the Cervello. Yes, Kaia had mysteriously stumbled upon the same book that was sacred and had disappeared from the face of the earth. And yes, Kaia knows absolutely everything there is to know about the Vongola, but wipes it completely out of her mind. And to identify the book Kaia was sleeping on before she woke up, it was one of the volumes depicting the construction of boxes. By Geppetto Lorenzini.

That was really interesting for a really late update. [SORRY! Dx]

Please review now that you're done with reading the update! Thanks so much for reading! :]

Have an awesome remainder of summer! [Darn, school starts in only a few days! D:]