Chapter 3
Himeno and Anemone's helicopter arrived and took landing five miles from the Yagami Estate from where they are sent to kill that person. Himeno was playing Mystery Case Files: Return to Ravenhearst in her laptop while Anemone was taking a nap.
Then the helicopter pilot told Himeno that they were near the location, so she saved her game and turned off her laptop and woke up Anemone. Himeno readied her box weapons and Anemone did the same and placed on his white jacket's hood hiding his hair. Of course, he placed on a pin to prevent it from falling off.
When they landed, they were met by the mini-Varia. Anemone was the first to come down the helicopter, then Himeno.
"So, we meet again," Himeno greeted.
"White Lotus…" Anya murmured as she slowly takes out her broad sword to slice her in half.
She was about to do so when Anemone stopped her. "Save your wrath for later Anya Superbi-san. Right now, we need to finish our mission," he instructed.
The silver haired girl growled as she placed back her sword. "Fine then," she said as she walked away.
Yohannes looked at Anemone, "You must be the assassin named Anemone am I right?" he asked.
"No one else has an Anemone mask now right? So you have the right person," Anemone replied with a foxy grin.
Then the pilot of Himeno's came down with her laptop. "White Lotus, there's an incoming telecom from Mistress Moon Raven." The man said.
Then the screen flashed revealing a woman about twenty with long dark greenish hair. She is wearing a Raven mask and a puffy hat and she is wearing a female business suit with black slacks. She has a white cape around her shoulders.
"Mistress Moon Raven, what made you call before our mission starts?" she asked.
"Sorry for interrupting, but just a while ago, I brought your parents along with me to the Vongola Italian Headquarters to speak with Vongola Decimo-sama for an investigation mission we will perform next month," she said while zooming out the view revealing that she was in a long table along with her masked parents and a masked Tsuna. Half of his face was hidden. His body built has been improved and his hair is spikier than before. He was wearing a black business suit. "I hope it's no trouble to you,"
Himeno went back to her senses a few seconds later after seeing her masked parents near a very powerful mafia boss. "N-Not at all, its fine," she assured.
"Well then, enjoy your mission! Oh, and be careful with the Varia children!" Mistress Moon Raven bid and the screen blackened. The pilot went back inside and stayed there until he is needed.
"So…do all of us know how to start the mission?" Anemone started.
"We need to go through the trees without being noticed. By this hour, they are loading all the stolen weapons from a certain weaponry facility." Himeno started.
"The instructions are clear; kill the man and prove his guilt without any of us leaving a mark of our doing," Yohannes said.
Without wasting time, all of them jumped to the trees and made their way in pairs. Himeno is with Anemone, Yohannes and Anya, Martin and Rinsel, and Jonathan, Athena and Regine. Himeno and Anemone were leading with amazing speed rivaling theirs which made them a little pissed.
They got to the Estate in less than a half hour. There, they saw large and small boxes being piled up in trucks about seven to ten. As they waited for a perfect timing, they chose to listen to the conversations.
They listened to the man with a list of something that they suspected to be the list of stolen weapons and where to ship them for their black market.
"Hurry and get your asses moving! We need these weapons shipped out of Okinawa by morning!" the man shouted.
Then a man in a suit came out of the back door of the Estate. They figured that it was their target. The people outside saluted to him and returned to work. The man in a suit approached the man holding the list.
"Will this be shipped to Sicily the next morning?" he asked sinisterly.
"Of course Yagami-san. The Millefiore will get them by tomorrow afternoon," the man replied.
The group was surprised to hear the name of the Vongola's long-time enemy were behind this shenanigan. Then they listened no more since their target was already their.
Rinsel let out a loud snicker she inherited from her father to start the riot. "Shishishi…" her voice spread through the ears of everyone in the place that sent shivers down their spines.
"W-What was that?" one man asked.
Then seven silhouettes appeared from behind each one of the trees. Himeno and Anemone were left to go to another place so they would be surrounded.
"Show yourself!" the man in a suit yelled. The seven went into the light.
Yohannes appeared first. His gun triggers spinning from his index fingers. Anya slowly unsheathed her sword with a rough sound making the men in front of them shiver. Martin came out with an emotionless face with a spinning steel spiked ball connected to a chain. Rinsel came out next with her knives glinted by the moon. Jonathan appeared with a set of needles in his right hand. Then came out Athena, with her spear being spun around by one hand. Then the last is Regine with her trident mosquitos.
The suited man's eyes widened, "T-The Varia's children?" he said in shock.
"Why are you children interrupting my businesses?" he demanded.
Yohannes pulled the trigger from his right gun that shot through the heart of the man beside him. "Shut up Yagami. We know that you have been stealing weapons form a weaponry facility from one of our allied families and sending them to the other families to gain extra." He said disrespectfully. But frankly, that's how you talk to a person you are about to kill. "And you just so happened to sell the next batch of stolen weapons to the Millefiore."
"Stealing from the allied families of the Vongola is stealing from the Vongola…" Anya said.
Then the man screamed, "Hurry and finish these brats now! They are only seven!"
The men started to attack them while others came out from other places of the Estate. The other coming men were stopped by a blade of lotus and anemone petals covered in faint sky flames and the ones that hit them bled like crazy. The petals disappeared as fast as they came.
"They're not alone Yagami-san," Himeno said faintly as she and Anemone appeared behind them together.
They all turned to the back direction and saw the two assassins with a lit A-class mafia ring in their right middle finger and one of their boxes just recently closed as they came out.
"T-The assassins White Lotus and A-Anemone…" one of them murmured. All of them know the two best rookie assassins of Vendetta Assassin Organization.
"It's nice to know your family knows the two of us," Anemone said gladly with a fox-like grin.
Yagami was taken aback by his future assailants, "Kill them all! They are just a pack of children talking big!" he shouted.
Yohannes didn't have a problem sharpshooting the enemies that came near him. He even liked it. He shot through the front and his sides without any effort. They even managed to pierce their hearts to have a quick death.
Anya was enjoying piercing and slicing through their bodies by her rain flame covered sword.
Rinsel was treating her enemies like dartboards with her storm flame covered knives. And once she runs out of knives, she just boldly pulls them from the corpse of the once alive human and didn't care if their blood gushed out like a fountain after removing her beloved knives.
Martin lazily swished his steel spiked ball like a bored person does. The met went flying in different directions once they get hit by the steel ball covered in Mist flames.
Jonathan is skillfully attacking his pursuers with his lightning and poison needles and aiming at the acupuncture points.
Athena is just enjoying the feeling of the people's cries in pain while Regine used her cloud flame covered trident mosquitos with such skills with fighting with her bare hands while she stalls her mosquitos to bite the enemies.
Himeno and Anemone were fending off their enemies together. They fought them with the use of martial arts and using sharp and deadly uniform daggers from the organization which they used to slit their throats and left to die.
Himeno was using it as an extra weapon since she fights with her fists covered in sky flames. The mini-Varia didn't get to see it because they were busy killing their pursuers.
Anemone also, used the dagger as an alternative. He uses his shurikens covered in sky flames.
"Such losers in combat," Himeno insulted. "They're not even worth our time,"
"I agree," Anemone answered. "Shall we use the box weapons?" he asked.
"Strategy box L2A5 Anemone," Himeno said.
Anemone yawned and lit his ring once more and shoved the sky ring into a box hole in his fifth box. Out came pixies in the personified form of anemones. Then Himeno shoved her ring in her second box and out came her sky lotus petal blades.
The two box weapons collided and killed almost all of the enemies in the grounds.
After about fifteen or sixteen minutes, the only ones left are Yagami and four of his protectors. Yohannes easily shot them all to death.
"About a hundred down…one to go…" Martin said boringly.
Then Yohannes pointed the gun at him, "See you in hell." Then a gunshot and bloodshed occurred for the finale. There, at the evening spangled on the ground was Seishiro Yagami, dead along with his men in the sea of blood.
The mini-Varia, Himeno and Anemone did the other necessary things they were tasked to do and then together left to their helicopters. As they went there, Himeno summarized the mission.
"So the whole mission is related to the Vongola vs. Millefiore war that has been going on for more than twenty years. The Millefiore was about to become their next buyer if we didn't kill them." Himeno started.
"What a low move," Anemone added. "But the Millefiore aren't idiots to fall in their trap. Maybe out of chance, they needed the weapons…"
"The Gigilio Nero Family did disband itself from the Millefiore. After that, their boss Uni was never heard of again along with her family. Of course, it happened fifteen years ago or so," Martin said.
"The thing is, something's up…I know it…" Anya sensed.
When they landed on the soil, Anya called Himeno, "Hey, how about a little payback about a few weeks ago?" she offered while taking out her bloody sword.
Himeno smiled. "I knew this would happen eventually," she said as she took out her metal gloves and lit her ring and out came a sky flame on her forehead which became a little familiar to the mini-Varia somewhere.
Then, metal to metal clashed without anyone lowering their guard down. They were defending and attacking at the same time. The others watched them fight. Anya fought hard to her heart's content, while Himeno calmly fought the silver haired girl.
Anya wasn't holding back and placing all her wrath to the brunette.
This went on until they were called to go back o their base. The two enjoyed their 'payback fight'.
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Vongola Italian Base
Mistress Moon Raven was seated at a large meeting table with Himeno's parents with the names of Phoenix Dawn and Blue Moon. Tsuna was seated in the middle of them.
In front of them is a folder of a certain brunette.
Mistress Moon Raven was gazing at the picture, and so is the other two. "Himeno Suiri huh?" she plainly said.
"So you suspect that she is your lost daughter?" asked Blue Moon. She was also bewildered that her beloved adopted daughter could be the missing Vongola heir.
"Yes. She was spotted just last Christmas in the town square. We followed her track until she led us to Namimori. But we don't know for sure if she is my child. We were unable to continue because of a Millefiore ambush in one of our headquarters near France." Tsuna explained.
"Why send us to do this?" Phoenix Dawn asked. "Surely you can find out without our help," he reasoned out.
"Surely you know about the Vongola-Millefiore war that has been going on for over twenty years. The reason is because the Millefiore can detect the location of my daughter also if we ourselves do it." Tsuna answered.
"Then why did you leave her in a hospital in the first place?" Mistress moon raven interrogated.
Tsuna went quiet for a while. "Himeno was the beginning of the second war against the Millefiore. Byakuran was trying to kill her after she was born. So when she was three days old, we figured if she stayed with us, her life will be in danger. So I sent my Storm and Rain guardians to send her away. After that, we never heard of her again."
Blue moon went curious as she remembered Himeno's ring. "Do you have something that can identify her?" she asked.
Tsuna then remembered, "Yes, I forgot. On the day after her birth, I gave her a ring with her name engraved behind it. I placed it in a chain and wore it around her neck. It was a simple platinum band with precious gems on the front. Behind there is her name in gold letters."
Mistress Moon Raven gave a slight smile, "Well, at least we have a lead. Looks like we're accepting this mission, Decimo-sama."
"How much will you ask?" Tsuna asked.
"We'll talk about it after the mission. For now, we'll keep you updated via e-mail. You're going to Namimori next month right?" she asked.
"I agree Mistress Moon Raven. I'm putting all my trust in finding Himeno to you," Tsuna replied.
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Millefiore Italian Base
A certain white haired man was gazing at the stars in his office. Then, he heard a knock.
"Come in," he instructed.
The door opened revealing a young man in a Millefiore uniform. "Byakuran-san, we just received a message from Julian-sama,"
Byakuran looked at him with interest, "Julian? What did he say?"
"The Vongola children including the Varia are at Namimori. They are scattered at the schools of Namimori Middle School, Kokuyo Middle, Yuumei-Middle and Namimori Private Academy where he is studying. The Varia children were sent to Namimori Private Academy and they unconsciously met the missing heir," the man explained.
Byakuran gave a sinister smile, "Hmm? So they really did evacuate the children…Well then you can go now. Tell me immediately if Julian sends another message," he instructed and the man left.
"This will be interesting…" he murmured. "Looks like the war will be in its center pretty soon…"
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Himeno got out of the helicopter o her room as if nothing happened. Anemone got home before her. She then changed into her nightgown and speed dialed on her other telephone which she uses for public phone calls. The phone rang several times before a voice answered.
"Himeno…what made you call?" said a voice. "Do you know what time it is?"
"Hey Julian, you're in the mafia right?" she asked. She has known ever since they were young that Julian is a Millefiore Mafioso in a truth or dare game with a lie detector. Heck, it was extraordinary. Once you lie, you will get shocked by electricity, and Julian didn't want to be a roasted human at an early age.
"Yup. You don't have to ask what you already know. What do you want to talk about?" Julian asked.
"About the Millefiore's former allied family, the Gigilio Nero family and Uni, their boss. What's their history to them?" she asked.
Julian stayed quiet for a few seconds before he answered. "You've heard about the Tri-Ni-Sette right?"
"Yeah. It's made up of three sets with seven pieces each. The Mare Rings, Vongola Rings and the Arcobaleno Pacifiers right?" she answered.
"Right, you see, the Gigilio Nero family used to take possession of the Mare Rings and the Arcobaleno Sky pacifier, which was in the possession of a woman named Luche, Uni's grandmother. Then it was passed onto Luche's daughter, Aria, who is Uni's mother. When Aria died, Uni took possession of the Sky Pacifier that is originally bestowed to Luche. Three months after Uni became the boss of the family at a young age, about as young as us or younger, Genkishi, one of Uni's men was said to be defeated by the Varia sword Emperor, Squalo. But it was all a lie because right from the start, that man was loyal to Dad." He started.
"Something made Uni chose to go and meet the boss of the Gesso Family led by Dad. Then somehow, Uni decided to team up with Dad and the Millefiore was born. But the reason why Uni decided to join is because Dad drugged her. When he was fighting the Vongola in a game battle called 'Choice', she somehow returned to normal. Right after the Millefiore was defeated, Uni and her family was never heard of again in the mafia world. That's about all I know," Julian explained.
"Wow, short explanation, long happening," Himeno mused.
"Why are you so interested anyway?" he asked.
"I just want to know. After all, it is the biggest war the mafia history has ever had." She explained.
"Be careful in getting too involved with mafia Himeno. Sometimes you will be too late to notice that you're already unconsciously heavily involved in the mafia," he warned.
"Julian, I already am. Come on, I've worked on assassination missions for mafia families since I was eight, and I've got the son of the major rival of the most powerful mafia family on speed dial. I and my family are heavily involved enough, because assassins are the same rank as mafia people."
"Alright, alright I get it." Julian replied. "Is there anything you like to ask before letting me sleep?"
"Nothing more. Good night Juls," she said and hung up.
She then turned off her lamp and went to sleep.
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The three elite assassins were inside a black limousine along the avenue to the airport to a private plane to Japan.
"I can't help thinking that Vongola Decimo could be No-chan's father…" Nori said.
Mori held his wife's hand, "If she is, she can cope up with all the happenings. I'm sure the Vongola will take care of her," he assured.
"Indeed the Vongola Decimo is most kind. But it will be Himeno's choice if she wants to be with the Vongola. Remember, she hates her real family even though she never met them," Mistress Moon Raven explained.
"But she has to accept it no matter what," Mori answered.
"We'll just let Himeno decide. For now, you must keep this secret from her." Mistress Moon Raven instructed.
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There it is! The third installment! Whew, I never thought I'd finish it so quickly. I actually did all of the next chapters of my stories in just four days; October 30, 31, November 1 and 2, because there's no school. And what are ahead of me on the 3rd are my exams.
I hope you enjoyed this chapter, although in the middle, things got a little haywire…