Sora's ring ignited a faint pale orange flame, slowly cracking to a full bright orange. His worried eyes turned blissful. "I did it!" he cried, waving his hand about. Before anyone turned to see, the orange flame flickered out.

"Yes Boss?" Haruka asked.

Kagisora gaped. It was gone! What could have happened to make the flame disappear? And I worked so hard on it.. "I made a flame, but it disappeared before you looked.." he said mournfully.

"You need more focus," Rebirth said simply, "like Suzako. Look." Suzako took the demonstration opportunity and ignited his bright yellow flame again, his eyes focused onto the ring. The yellow flame sparkled in effect. Sora stared hard at his ring, but it gave him more of a hard time to handle.

"Rebirth..!" he glanced at Rebirth helplessly.

The arcobaleno's expression made no response. "You're focusing too much. Just imagine a orange flame in your head if that cools your brain down."

Sora closed his eyes and his surroundings blackened. Trying his best, he imagined an orange flame.

Suddenly, the imagination was clearer than ever, and the sound of a fire echoed through his ears. The flame was there. The flame was there!

The orange flame blazed bright orange excitedly on his Vongola ring. Sora brightened into a smile.

"Sugoi! Thank's Rebirth!" Kagisora stared at his tutor in thanks, but a small detail disturbed him.

There was no Dying Will Flame ring on any of her hands, nor there was a box weapon in sight. Only the yellow pacifier under her neck, showing his clear reflection.

"Anno.. Rebirth-san?"

"Hm?"

"Where's your ring?"

Rebirth frowned as if irritated by that inquiration. "I'm not engaged with Edward."

"Not yet, honey!" Edward stared lovingly at her.

"N-No! I didn't mean that!" Kagisora shook his head immediately. I didn't mean that! He repeated his sentence.

"Where's your Dying Will Ring?" he asked anxiously.

Rebirth's sour face changed fox- and mischevious like.

"A secret."

"A secret..?"

"A secret."

Kagisora decided to solve the mystery later. For now, he wanted to just.. sleep..

"Boss! That was really good! Amazing!" Haruka's voice made his body shoot up in alarm.

"E-Eh? Oh, but you made a flame much earlier than I did!" Sora said hastily. "I should say that to you, but.." he yawned during the middle of his sentence.

Haruka blinked. "Didn't you see? Your flame was brighter than all of ours." she tapped the front of her ring.

"Yes, it was actually brighter than mine." Suzako nodded.

"Magnific~" Mareo appeared behind Kagisora and attacked-hugged him openly, lifting him up from his seat.

"Ohh~ I just want to take you from my arms and flee to heaven!" he cried, gazing lovingly in the frightened boy in his eyes.

"Why I-" A swift stab in the back had Mareo fall flat on his back, with Haruka to catch Sora before he joined his fate as well. "Boss! Are you ok?" she hastened Sora back on his seat as before. "I'm fine. Mareo doesn't look so great though.."

Mareo still held his smile, unconscious. Actually, was he unconscious? Kagisora couldn't tell.

Amaya glared irritatedly at the Rokudo- an imaginary popped vein appeared clearly visable on her head. With effort, she dragged Mareo by the arm and exited the room silently, with Mareo mumbling dreamily of girls. The last word they heard him say were, "Amaya~" until a loud thump silenced the place once again.

Sora dropped with sweat. He wondered if he'll usually see that from now on..

Gianini, casually typing yet another sort of complex data, suddenly frowned. Futa tilted his body to see what was going on and blinked curiously. "Oh. A reciever from the-"

"Voi."

Giannini jumped back from his chair in surprise when the laptop's screen and the screen behind them showed a small girl. She had strange silver hair, and a uniform Suzako was familiar to. According to his last stay at Italy, he attended to the same school where the uniform was brought out to from her clothing.

What was the strangest were her eyes.

They looked nothing near childish or.. adult at all. Just.. dull. Her voice was dull and empty as well, nothing compared to her estimated gir'ls age's voice.

It spooked everyone, especially Hiroshi who blinked in surprise.

"Uwaa!" Kagisora fell over his chair in fright. Who was that?

The silver haired girl finally spoke again with the same tone. "This is Loss.. the daughter of that noisy baka rain guardian."

A faint shout was heard from the room.

Loss looked back at the sound, but turned her head back to the bewildered audience.

"Anyway, if Sora told you, which he didn't, Akio is going to give you more time to battle him. Maybe a month or so. He just realized you weren't much of a match to him anyway." She stared dully at Sora. Yet, there was an intense, strange, alien-like aura admitting from her.

Rebirth slowly turned to stare at Sora. Her gaze wasn't angry at Sora at all. Just.. expressionless like Loss'. "I-I can explain!" Sora's eyes widened in anxiety.

Unexpectedly, the arcobaleno's face softened into a reluctant cat grin. "It's alright. Even with little training, I'm sure you could have beaten Akio with little effort anyway."

Loss made no reaction to the insult, but countered: "Your student didn't use his box weapon yet. Or even activated it."

"But he used his Dying Will and made a flame from his ring."

Loss said nothing, then replied much slowly. "... Whatever. I'm not allowed to talk to Vongola's like you. I'll be-"

"OIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!" a loud yell shook the Vongola base with intense ferocity. But Loss wasn't effected at all, but knocked down by a random porclein tea cup. The girl and the cup crashed, but the scene wasn't quite visible but the falling of her overly long silver hair.

Another girl stomped right at the screen. She was extremely short, probably a teen, but much shorter than her age. She had long black hair, tied into two thin but extremely long pig tails.

Her clothing were likely gothic loli- mostly where you'd usually see in Cosplay and anime. It fitted her. Despite her height.

"LOSS! WHO ARE YOU TALKING TO? I NEVER TOLD YOU TO- … Oh! So it's you Vongola trash!" The girl glared at the screen.

Haruka glared back. "Vongola trash? Who gave you that stupid name?"

The girl laughed. "Ha! My great father of course! Xanxus, the tenth Varia Boss!"

Haruka raised an eyebrow in challenge. "Oh? So you throw teacups too?"

"What did you say-" The girl was thrown back off the screen; Loss appeared again, her eyes neither irriated at all. "That girl you just saw now is Xia. She's the runner-up for Varia boss." she said.

Sora blinked. ".. B-But, isn't Akio the Varia Boss..?"

"He's also a runner-up. Hrmph. A weak one. Xia-sama will easily-" Then, Loss was bombarded with five expensive looking tea cups and thrown off the screen again. Xia jumped back, looking much annoyed than ever.

"Oi! No stealing my spotlight!"

Not sure if Loss was alright, Sora was relieved when he heard her voice again.. or was he creeped out again?

"Who told you that?"

"Myself, you diabetic-user!"

"Grouchy-female."

"Old geezer!"

"Munchkin."

"GRAAAH!" Xia jumped at Loss, and started a frigid riot of pulling of hair and trampling each other.

Suddenly a large table was thrown right at the recorder and knocked down.

The screen blacked out immediately.

…...

Silence.

"That was interesting." Suzako blinked.