N/A: Alright folks, now entering chapter 8, getting pretty tough from one chapter to another but I will try my best. Anyway Harry and the gang (minus Hermione, of course) already make their appearance in the last chapter, don't worry I will write more of them as well as Draco Malfoy and the twins. And sorry for the delay, caught up with my laziness for a while.

Chapter 8: The Acquaintance of the Vongola 9th

Five months later

Somewhere in the Wizarding world

"My Lord, how long do we have to wait to gain control of the Wizarding world?" a rough voice hissed in the dark, damp, foul smelled dungeon as a tint of light from a torch begins to brighten the place.

"Be patient for the time will come eventually. We just need to gather as many wizards and witches as we could if we want to take over the Wizarding world from those who thinks that it is for everyone who was born witch and wizard, even if they are the mudbloods. They do not realize that the Wizarding world is meant for the purebloods, not those filthy, lowly witches and wizards. We will regain back power and we will strike back in order to regain control of this world. The dark lord may have vanished from this world but his legacy still lived and we will continue to regain back what that should belonged to us." A dark, cloaked figure, wearing a silver mask replied in a harsh voice which could strike fear in those who heard it.

"What about the Muggle world, My Lord?"

"Don't worry, they will face their worst enemy soon, and we will face ours. Now, go and inform the others to gather as many followers as we can, and I know that some of the Muggles that can help us to gain power by destroying anyone in their path to gain power. As long as these Muggles didn't interfere in our world I am more than willing to work with them, just give them the right information and they will work for us."

It was dark outside as the sky is now full with dark clouds and lightings seems to strike everywhere, making the surrounding more eerie than usual. It was somewhere on the north of Scotland where a hidden, abandon wizardry village in now manifested with the remaining followers of the once powerful Dark Lord, Lord Voldermort himself, which they managed to escaped from being caught and thrown into the darkness of Azkaban, and now they are begins to regroup and planning to take over again.

"One day, we will rule the Wizarding world again, and we will take over the world from the filthy purebloods, half-bloods, and includes those bloody, filthy mudbloods."

Italy

Hermione is now tries to master her sword skills as she is now being watched by Yamamoto and Squalo themselves. She didn't plan of learning it much as enthusiastic as they were, somehow they managed to insisted her to learn a bit more serious and knowing that it is useless to argue, she gave up and let them have the victory.

"VOOOOIIIII! SWING HARDER AND PROPERLY AND AIM AT YOUR ENEMY'S HEART." Shrieked Squalo from the corner of the training room while Yamamoto watched her with seriousness in his face that could scared a child away.

"I AM DOING IT SO STOP SHOUTING." Shouted Hermione as she could rivalled Squalo loud voice as she swing and tries to aim her short sword at the mannequin that they have brought for her to train with. Her sweats formed fast and fell liked a waterfall as they have trained her for hours now. Hermione had never had such training in her life before and she never knew that her training is much harder especially if she was trained by some professionals. Panting hard, she slowly tries to aim her sword at the right spot without 'harming' other part of the mannequin.

She had been staying with the Vongola for more than half a year now and they slowly had managed to bring back little by little of her confident, bravery, enthusiastic, a bit of her bossiness, and a little bit of her wickedness and making her lot dangerous if she had her wand in her hand, especially when she is bloody angry, and the lucky persons that managed to emerged her famous characteristics are none other than Mukuro, Squalo and Gokudera, which didn't surprised other much of their little 'achievements'.

Aiming her sword at the mannequin in front of her, Hermione tries to regain her consciousness from her tiredness and take a deep breath as this time around she will aim at the right spot in which she tried to master it a few time earlier but didn't prevail. She stared at the mannequin as her hand begin to shake from her tiredness, but she didn't want to stop or to back off as she strike at the mannequin, straight at the right spot, the heart, as she thrust it deeply with her sword.

Backing off the mannequin, Hermione fell to her knees as she couldn't take the tiredness anymore and she takes her deepest breath while the sword still stuck at the mannequin. She heard a clap as she looked up and saw Yamamoto smile at her while Squalo sneered, but she didn't care at

"I take that as a compliment." Hermione smirked as Squalo glared at her and then looked away at other direction. She is really had guts that could rival him and somehow she is happy to work with him as he is very passionate person of his profession and both he and Yamamoto are serious of their work.

A couple of hours later

Back in the Varia Headquarters

"Ushishishishishishishi…"

"VOOOIIIII….WHAT ARE YOU LAUGHING AT?"

"Ushishishishishishishishi"

Nee…Strategic Captain, how's training with Muffin today, I'm sure you enjoyed yourself, right?"

"SHUT UP LUSSURIA, AND STOP CALLING HER THAT."

"Ushishishishishi…nee Strategic Captain, did you stuck up with her bossiness again today, or you two had a shouting competition around instead of sword training?" Bel asked as he smirked at their second-in-command.

"SHUT UP." Yelled Squalo as veins twitched in his head.

"Oi…Trashes, will you just shut up your mouths." Xanxus glared dagger at them.

"Yes, Boss."

There was silence for a few moments as Xanxus begins to fill his glass with tequila again as the rest of them sit in their chairs, kept their mouth shut.

"Nee...Boss, tomorrow we are free, right? Can't I go to the Vongola Headquarters because I want to train Muffin some self-defence?" Lussuria annoying voice breaks the silence.

"Huh…" Xanxus stared at him as his eyebrows twitched, then he smirked as he begin to drink his tequila.

"Thank you, Boss. Okay everyone, tomorrow you will cook on your own because I'm leaving early in the morning."

"VOOIIII…WHO SAID YOU CAN GO? AND WHO SUPPOSE TO COOK BREAKFAST IF YOU ARE LEAVING EARLY IN THE MORNING?"

"Hmmm…I don't know, well you have to decide on your own, and make an extra special for our dear Boss okay."

Lussuria's statements leave the rest of them, except Xanxus, in shock and gasped as they begins to think and pointed to each other of who is going to in charge of making breakfast and maybe lunch as Lussuria might stay a bit longer, he always does.

Somewhere in the northern Italy

Mukuro glanced at the night sky from the balcony of his room as he, Chrome, Ryohei and Gokudera are on a mission to the northern of Italy along with Dino and few of his men, to avoid his clumsiness that is. It was their fifth day already and he had to share a room with Dino, Hermione's acting brother, while Chrome had the privilege of having her own room.

"So Mukuro, how are you and Hermione doing now? I haven't heard from her for quite some time." Dino spoke as he rested in his bed, glanced at the illusionist who stood at the balcony outside.

"Kufufufufu…never thought that you will show some interest in our little 'businesses'."

"Well, she's my little sister, just like Tsuna, so don't forget that."

"Kufufufufufu…we are doing fine, we just…quite busy to spend some time with each other lately as you know that she had a lot to learn and we had a lot of missions to accomplish."

"Hmmm…I see. One important reminder, please don't ever think of trying to break her heart or even try to make her cry for I will not going to forgive you for that, she had suffered enough. Well I think I want to sleep now, goodnight," Dino spoke as he wished him a goodnight before hit a pillow and doze off to sleep, which leave Mukuro alone, awake and still gazing to the night sky as stars are shines brightly in the dark sky. Knowing how protective Dino is of Hermione, Mukuro never took his words lightly because he know how serious and dangerous the Bucking Horse can be when somebody tries to hurt the person he cared the most.

Taking his mobile phone from his pocket, he types a text message and sends it off to the recipient. Putting back his mobile phone, Mukuro continued to stares at the night sky, mesmerizing with its beauty.

In less than a minute, his phone vibrates to indicate that he had received a message. He reached for his phone and smiles as he read the message.

I miss you too, when are you coming back?

Hermione

Replying her message, Mukuro can't help but to think of how lucky he is as Hermione is an understanding person and she could accept him of who he is, she didn't mind of his illusionist status or having mismatched eyes. So far both of them didn't want to bring their current relationship to the next level as they both agreed that it is still early and they both want to accomplished their duty and mission before plan to go further. Yet he was very happy with her, and they have yet to have their second kiss after a long time as they both didn't want to rush into it.

Standing at the balcony, Mukuro could feel the night breeze flowing around him as the cold wind rushed into him, sending shiver to his spine, but he didn't care as he enjoyed it very much. Thinking about Hermione making him at ease, she is beautiful, brave and strong yet fragile and he couldn't bear to see her in pain, even she knows the risk of working with the mafia.

"Oi…could you shut the door, it is cold in here," Dino sleepy voice interrupts his thought. Mukuro sneered and he glanced at the next room, the light is shut off meaning Chrome is already asleep and he could hear Gokudera and Ryohei argues in their room next to them, knowing that those two are still awakes.

Shutting the glass door, Mukuro crawl into his own bed and as soon as he hit the pillow, he fell asleep, dreaming of a certain brunette.

Hermione smiled like an idiot after received a text message from Mukuro as she is now lying in her bed. Looking at the window (she let the curtain open) she can see a bright dark sky as stars are shine beautifully. She then glanced at the magic photo that she put at the table stand next to her bed, she let her finger caress the surface of the photo and smile. Oh how she missed them so much, her best friends.

She glanced again at her table stand where her expensive watch and a crystal dolphins, both are gifts from Dino and her wand are on the table, next to her magic photo. She missed Dino as well as she loved her like her own elder, loving brother, a brother that anyone could ask for. She knows Mukuro knew about her and Dino's relations as brother and sister, and she is glad that he is such an understanding person.

Her room is warm and calm and she loved it very much. It reminded her of her old dormitory back in Hogwarts, and how much she missed it. But then this room seems to provide the same comfort, except that this time around she doesn't need to share it with anyone else.

Her phone's ringtone disturbed her memory of her past as she pick it up and read the message that she had received. She then smiled like there is no tomorrow, and luckily that she is alone and Ginny Weasley is not with her, if not she will be interrogate like hell from the youngest Weasley.

"Please come back soon, I missed you so much." She thought to herself before grab a pillow and doze to sleep.

The next morning

Hermione is helping herself with her breakfast at the dining hall along with Tsuna and the rest of the Vongola and also I-pin and Bianchi who didn't had any current mission to attend when an annoying, high-pitch voice sing itself approaching the dining hall, sending shivers to most of them except the Vongola 9th and his Guardians, Reborn and Hibari who doesn't give a damn about it.

"Wow…he's early." Hermione thought to herself as Lussuria stand on the doorway with his red boa on his shoulder, holding on the door as if he is doing a poll dance. Tsuna gawked as he watched the scene at the doorway and he could feel shiver is now roaming in his body. Yamamoto does what he done best, laugh. Hibari raised his eyebrow, and then he ignored him completely.

"Morning everyone and especially to you Muffin," greeted the gay Varia in his most annoying voice as he walked towards them, pinched Hermione in her cheek and helped himself with some breakfast (well he left the Varia Headquarters very early that he didn't take his breakfast at all).

Hermione nodded her head slowly as she hand caressed her now red cheek where Lussuria had pinched earlier and glanced at Tsuna who sits opposite from her.

"Muffin, I hope you didn't have anything to do today because we will start your self-defence practice afterward, and if you do have anything to be done, just ignore it and leave it to someone else to do it for you, okay?"

Hermione's jaw slightly open as she and Tsuna looked at each other, sure thing they both got plenty of work to do as Hermione needed to finished her strategic program and also some paper work to be settle on that day, but knowing that Lussuria won't take no as an answer all the burden are now on Tsuna's shoulder.

"Does he know we got a lot of work to be done, and now how am I going to settle all of it on my own if he drags her away?" Tsuna gawked as his thought begins to roam in his mind as his sweat drops like a waterfall.

"Tsuna seems that you have to work harder now since Hermione couldn't join you to finish your paper work." Reborn stated his words seriously as Tsuna nodded his head once in a defeated manner as Hermione couldn't help but show him some sympathy.

"Maybe you could ask Hibari for help," Hermione said quietly to Tsuna, she didn't mentioned Yamamoto knowing that the swordsman is having his own work to do. Upon hearing Hibari's name, Tsuna went pale and waved his hands frantically in front of her.

"No, no, I think I can manage by myself, it…it…it just an easy job…right?"

Hermione didn't convince at first, but knowing Hibari's attitude towards his companions had Hermione nods her head slowly and gives Tsuna a sympathy smile.

Reborn couldn't help but smirked, it's been a while since he had torture Tsuna with plenty of works.

On the afternoon

Vongola 9th is in his office when his Guardians entered.

"Boss, so today our acquaintance is coming to have a meeting with us?" the Vongola 9th Sun Guardian, Brow Nie Jr spoke as all of them took their sit in the Vongola 9th's office.

"Yes, seems that we have an important meeting to do," answered the Vongola 9th.

"Is the girl going to join us in this meeting?" the Storm Guardian, Coyote Nougat asked curiously.

"No, she will not join us, not yet because our acquaintance and I agreed that not to inform her yet, but we will decide of when we will tell her. At the moment we had to keep everything away from her first because we need to see whether this problems that we had heard lately is true or not."

"So, when is this person is going to come?" Visconti, the Vongola 9th Cloud Guardian asked as all of them gazed at their boss.

"Anytime soon, at the moment make sure that the girl didn't knew about his present here unless we decide that she could join us or not." The Vongola 9th spoke as all his Guardians nods their heads.

Meanwhile, in the training room somewhere in the Vongola Headquarters, Hermione is having a tough time practicing as Lussuria is now trained her pretty hard, and unlike training with Yamamoto and Squalo whom sometimes they can be a little decent, her training with Lussuria is pretty uptight since Ryohei is not there with them to train her while he's been involved with a mission, and surprisingly Hibari is joining them as if he is taking Ryohei's place for her training, she was pretty nervous and she admitted that she is quite scared knowing that the Vongola 10th Cloud Guardian is famous for his calm yet harsh words of biting people to death and he will beat who ever that dare to opposed him whether the person is a man or woman.

Despites the uptight and tough training, Hermione is more than glad as she had been taught of some self-defence and being protected as well, make her feel more safer with them.

It was around 3 o'clock in the afternoon as the Vongola 9th and his Guardians when a called received from the butler, indicates that their guest had just arrived.

The Vongola 9th and his Guardians are looking forward for the meeting, hoping of getting good news instead of bad one. Knowing that the threat they have heard and rumours that had been spreading around like wind is not small matters for them, or the other world as the threats are involving both side of the world and the danger are far greater if it is true.

A knock in the door had all of them to turn and see as the butler entered; telling them that their guest is now here and the Vongola 9th nods his head, requesting the butler to bring their guest inside the meeting room.

All the guardians are now waiting in anticipation as their guest entered, greeted each and one of them before greeted the Vongola 9th.

"Hello Timoteo, it's been a long time my dear friend, how are you? I hope that my present here is a secret among us, and only those inside this room are aware of this meeting, no other and not even her."

"I am fine my dear friend, and I am happy that you could come for this meeting, don't worry my dear friend she didn't know anything so far as we promised of not to informed her anything until it is time for her to know of what we are dealing with."

"I am glad Timoteo, and worried as well as for the rumours and threat are apparently spreading fast in our world, whispers of the return of the dark power are now taking over as we are prepared for the worst. Not knowing what we are up again is more worrying as we didn't sure how accurate it is for us to inform to our people of the truth."

"I understand of this situation, and I heard that it had spread to our world as well, taking and gathering the dark force of our world to join and work together, thus making it more harder as we had enemies on both side."

"Yes, this is what worries me the most, if our enemies are working together I pray that our forces will be able to gain control over them, if not everything will become unworthy. Now my dear friend Mr Kingsley Shacklebolt, the Minister of Magic from the Wizarding world, shall we precede this meeting to our more private meeting room?"

I am truly sorry for the delay and this chapter is a rather short from the previous chapters. So we have known of our mysterious person who had suggested Hermione to the Vongola Famiglia at the first place, so please review and comment thank you.