Here's another chapter! Early in this chapter, I already apologize if some parts of the anime are told by me wrongly. My CD is missing and I can't find it anywhere to base it on. They are only to be dictations, and little dialogue. I have only the vaguest things about it since my internet has been cut off.

This chapter is all italicized. You know why.

Chapter 22

As the siblings took Giotto's hand, they felt themselves getting lighter by the second. Neither had the urge to let go of the blond man's hand for a second. They watched as they are transported to a different place, a place of white as if they are inside a void.

"Where are we going Giotto-san?" Himeno asked.

Giotto smiled a bit as the place began landscaping a certain place, a Japanese house in a town very familiar to Himeno. They were the ones glowing white, as if they are in a 3D room where you can see them as if they were real, while at the same time, you could not be part of it.

"We're in the past of Vongola Decimo," he answered.

"Eh? This is Grandma's and Grandpa's house!" Ieyoshi exclaimed. "Daddy was born in Namimori, and he grew up here too! He only moved in Italy when he went to college," he explained.

Himeno looked around the exterior of the house. He never knew that his father was a citizen in Namimori…but something tells her that she has heard it before. Shaking that thought off of her mind, the three walked to the patio of the household, but before they did, they saw a small baby in a suit and fedora hat with a chameleon on it. It was before sunrise, and he was the only one in the streets.

Himeno raised a brow, "That's weird…how could a baby walk like that? Let alone…" she then saw him put something in the mailbox of the Sawada household and left. "Wait a second…that baby looks like…"

"It's Reborn-san!" Ieyoshi continued. "Daddy once told me that Reborn-san used to look like a baby when they first met…I guess he meant it literally…"

Giotto chuckled. "Indeed, it is. But you would be surprised what will happen next," he informed.

Just then, a woman came out of the house. She had short brown hair and hazel eyes, pretty familiar when it comes to looks. Ieyoshi has informed that it was indeed their grandmother Nana, who still lives in the same house at present. As Nana walked to the mailbox and opened it, the thing that Reborn had placed in the mailbox was a rather convincing flyer for a For-hire tutor. The tutor would be a stay-in tutor, meaning his accommodations would be covered by the client and that they feed him thrice a day. Himeno twitched at the flyer when she read it.

She was even surprised that Nana was easy to convince despite the fact that it could be a scam, what with the accommodations would be covered by the client as payment…what has gotten into her?

The scene then changed and there it was their father's former room. They saw a young boy under the covers of the unruly bed, which compliments the unruly room typical for a fourteen year-old boy. Giotto explained that he has fast forwarded a few hours later that day.

Nana came into the room and tried to wake the boy up, calling him 'Tsu-kun'. But Himeno was paying attention at the paper that Nana grabbed from her son's trash and saw a failing red mark on the math test. "Fifteen out of…is he even studying?" Himeno complained complete with disbelief. To think that she would be the daughter of the no-good teenager who calls himself a mafia boss.

"Reborn-san always said that he is hopeless in academics…" Ieyoshi informed.

After Nana saw the flyer, she began to act like a teacher, 'Tsunayoshi Sawada, who got a score of fifteen in a math test?' the trick sure worked, for Tsuna jolted up to answer back and was swept back to reality. He tried to take the paper from his mother and he fell down the bed. Nana then showed him the flyer that she had gotten from the mail.

Tsuna was rather convinced that it could be a scam, but it was too late. Nana had already called the so-called tutor. The young boy then glanced at the clock hanging in his room only to see that he was running late.

The two siblings followed their father out of the room, only to hear loud thuds. And there they knew that he fell down the stairs as he was panicking. The two were quite in disbelief to see their father act that way when he was younger, and ends up as the mafia boss of a powerful family.

"To think Daddy would fall without dignity like that," Ieyoshi sighed, "He was my hero back when I was alive, but now…I am a little glad I didn't inherit his bad study habits…"

"Good for us," Himeno replied.

Giotto chuckled, "True, Tsunayoshi is not what you call a perfect child or boy,"

It was then when they noticed Reborn standing at the bottom of the stairs near the door. Tsuna looked at him and started insulting him. He got his due when Reborn twisted his arm, telling him he's not a baby. He then spilled some embarrassing facts about Tsuna. His grades, pathetic crush on a girl (Who was their mother) who wasn't even close to him, and his moniker, Dame-Tsuna.

Himeno couldn't believe that her father was a total loser.

A few minutes after Tsuna rushed out of the house, they saw Reborn point a gun at him by morphing Leon into a gun and shot him. It was then when he turned in Dying Will Mode. Something that was completely embarrassing, having only his boxers as he ran through the streets. Himeno had her eyes closed by Giotto when that happened. Ieyoshi just stared at the retreating figure of a half-naked Tsuna.

"Young ladies should keep their modesty intact and refrain from seeing boys, event their own father, from seeing them half-naked," Giotto stated as he took his hands off of Himeno's eyes when Tsuna was out of sight.

"Are we just here to see Daddy embarrass himself, Giotto-san?" Ieyoshi asked.

"Well, half of it is embarrassing. Let me get it straight to some important dates," he said as he snapped his fingers. The scene changed from the quiet street of Namimori to the Ring Battles against Varia. Himeno recognized the place to be Namimori Middle School. The whole place is trashed with craters, fallen debris of walls, and the works. The whole school has turned into a battlefield. Then there was Tsuna with the creepy man with scars all over his face. The two recognized him as Xanxus, the father of Yohannes that had challenged Tsuna for the title of Vongola Decimo.

They spotted Tsuna in between some craters in a stance and his flames were flickering as if concentrating on something. Himeno recognized the flickering flames. "Zero Point Breakthrough…? Mistress Moon Raven taught me that move," she stated.

"She taught it to you because you are Vongola Decimo's daughter," Giotto stated. "I was the one who created that technique," he spilled.

Himeno looked at Giotto weirdly, "What do you mean?" she wondered.

Ieyoshi answered her question, "You didn't know? Giotto-san is the Vongola Primo, and our great-great-great-great grandfather," he informed while counting the great part with his fingers. "He does look like Daddy," he explained.

"Am I the only one who doesn't know this?" she demanded.

"Well, between the three of us, yes," Giotto answered.

Himno massaged her temples, "What is it with me and my parentage…?"

"It's not everyday you get to meet your predecessor," Giotto commented.

"I have got to get my senses about me…" she muttered.

They were interrupted by Xanxus attacking Tsuna suddenly while in the process of the technique. In the nick of time, Tsuna managed to dodge the bullets aimed at him. But as he did, he kept concentrating in completing the process of the Zero Point Breakthrough, which Xanxus was trying hard for him to get distracted.

It was a good thing that they weren't really in the scene, because the bullets that Xanxus shot went through Himeno's form which annoyed the girl.

Giotto chuckled wearily, "Let's get to Reborn and the rest who aren't involved in this battlefield, shall we? We'll be here until this ends," he offered.

Since the two didn't want to see things go through them, they followed their ancestor.

This went on with the ranting of Xanxus stating that it was not the real Zero Point Breakthrough, which could only mean that he has seen the technique before.

It wasn't until Tsuna had managed to somehow absorb the flames that came out from the scarred man's guns, did they find out from eavesdropping in the conversation of the ones who aren't involved in the Ring Battles about the version that the young brunette had created: Zero Point Breakthrough: Custom whose function is to absorb the flames that are being shot at him.

Then the scene was just too fast for the siblings. One way or another, Tsuna managed to come close to Xanxus and freeze him with the original Zero Point Breakthrough that Giotto himself, had created.

It was then when all of the Varia members had reappeared and had gathered all of the rings, which seemed to resemble the sealed versions of the Vongola Rings, unlike the ones that they have seen on the fingers of Tsuna and the guardians back in reality. They have revealed the hidden power within the rings, which is the power that they use now. She watched as the floating baby thawed Xanxus in his frozen state and placed the ring in his finger. But as a result, the ring rejected him and repelled from his finger.

After a few moments, the ladies in pink—which she knew to be the Cervello—declared Tsuna and his guardian candidates as the winner of the Ring Battles.

Himeno stared in awe as she saw how the once Dame-Tsuna had defeated the Varia leader, and the adopted son of the Ninth, Timoteo, to boot.

"For a no-good idiot, he really defeated Yohannes' dad," she mused. Then she frowned, "But then…I guess this will root to his negativity in the mafia world…"

Giotto and Ieyoshi knew that she kept hesitating in being amused and praising her father and forcing her to believe that what Byakuran had said to her has some truth in it, that he was a heartless man in the inside rather than 'purely kind' in the outside. That was what she had deduced that made him powerful and respectful over the years. He figured that it would take a while before he could indirectly convince her that her father was not that way. If he said it in a verbal way, she will just ignore it and get on with what she believes.

"True he did defeat Xanxus, but his troubles are not over just yet," Giotto explained. With a snap of his finger, the scene changed into a place Himeno had gone before. It was composed of abandoned storage buildings made for factories near the pier. They saw the teenage Tsuna and Gokudera with an older Yamamoto in tow wearing a business suit.

"Something is wrong with what I'm seeing," Ieyoshi stated as he rubbed his eyes.

"How come Yamamoto-san looks older than the other two?" Himeno asked.

"That's because in this moment of Decimo's life, he and Gokudera were sent accidentally to ten years into the future," Giotto explained. "In this parallel world, Byakuran rules the mafia world, and his family, the Millelfiore, started attacking all of the allies of the Vongola, until it attacked Vongola itself with its new technology and the usage of flames…"

"What happened next?" Himeno wondered.

Giotto looked solemn, "After the attack at the castle, the Ninth, his guardians and your grandparents disappeared without a trace," the two were shocked, "For the sake of the people of the outside world and for the peace in the mafia world, Decimo, the entitled next boss of the family, arranged a meeting with Byakuran…but…"

Ieyoshi was getting impatient. He knew that it was something bad. Himeno knew it too. "But what?" Himeno pried.

"When Vongola Decimo arrived at the meeting place, the Millefiore refused to cooperate and killed him on the spot…" he revealed.

"You mean…Daddy died in a parallel world…?" Ieyoshi said, almost in tears.

Giotto sighed, "Well, not really…he was just put in a death slumber by a bullet to make the enemies think that he is dead, when only it was only temporary so that he could transport the Tsuna from ten years ago. Look, it's a complicated story, and I can't tell much about it. All I know is that it has to do something with the Decimo's plan with Shoichi Irie and his cloud guardian Kyouya Hibari,"

"Didn't you say that he is powerful?" Himeno questioned.

Giotto inwardly smirked. "He was, that's why his parallel self needed his help and strength, and I let that out of his dormant side…"

Before Himeno could comprehend, the scene changed into darkness, with the fourteen year-old Tsuna kneeling on the ground, almost out of breath. There were shadows with flaming masks asking him questions on whether he is ready to inherit the sins of the Vongola and to continue on its legacy of bloodshed.

It was then when he said the words, 'I will destroy Vongola itself,' did a solitary shadow looking like the figure of Giotto raised his head and Tsuna was on the brink of fainting.

It was then when he woke up that he was on the arms of the Ninth, looking at him with a smile. After securing that he could gain himself properly, the past Vongola bosses revealed their faces. The later eight made two lines creating a straight path where a man was sitting on a stone silver throne cross-legged, just across from Tsuna. He had the same gloves as Tsuna, only the design of the back of his hand formed the roman numeral of one with the name 'Vongola' around it.

The two didn't need to ask who the man was. It was none other than Giotto himself who had given him his proper ceremony of passing the test and giving him a weapon upgrade and barely defeating Kyouya in their sparring session after breaking out of Roll's sphere.

"How come you're here in his memory?" Himeno demanded.

Giotto laughed, "This is called the trials. You will get on with this when the time comes," he said smiling. "Do you know why he told that to us back then?" he asked.

Himeno thought for a while. She reviewed all of the things that she has seen in different times of her father's life and how his actions resembled that of what he know of Giotto's history as the Vongola Primo. It was then when he realized it, "He became the Vongola Decimo to protect those important to him…"

"And that was what Tsunayoshi has done to you also," he said.

Himeno didn't get what he said. "What do you mean?" she wondered.

It was then when she realized that she was becoming transparent. The two others noticed it too. "Looks like your consciousness is coming back to your body," Ieyoshi stated.

"You will just have to find out for yourself on why he sent you away to further understand his situation," Giotto advised.

"But…but how?"

Giotto smiled before she disappeared, "You'll know,"

When Himeno was gone, Ieyoshi looked at his ancestor, "Will Himeno-nee become convinced that Daddy didn't send her away for a negative reason?" he wondered with interest.

Giotto smiled, "If this didn't work, what will?" he replied. "And thank you for lending a helping hand, Ieyoshi,"

"Don't mention it. She needed it anyway, and I had wanted to see her for a long time with my own eyes," Ieyoshi reasoned.

…

When Himeno disappeared, she felt mysteriously warm somehow. She couldn't comprehend what that was. It felt as if the warmth she felt was that of Nori's when trying to calm her down because of a bad dream, or the hug that you get from a family member, signifying their love for you, or the warmth of a stuffed toy at night.

"I'm sorry…I'm so sorry…"

She heard a voice say. It was then when she realized that she was being embraced by someone. Slowly, she opened her eyes only to see a man hugging her with her head against his chest. They were inside the cylindrical barrier of her flames of depression. The man was wearing a mantle that she has frequently seen Giotto wearing all the time, but this mantle feels rather different.

"I'm sorry…please…calm yourself down…" The voice of the man said.

It was then she knew that she was being embraced by her biological father who somehow got in the barrier. It was none other than Tsuna.

And that is it! So, how is this? I know the narration in terms of her time sight seeing is not rather good, but that was all I could rummage in my head of the things that had happened. Of course I singled out the part when Byakuran was defeated, since that is out of this fic. He'd be dead by now if I put it in this fic, so I placed a halt when all of the bosses appeared in front of Tsuna.

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