N/A: Chapter 11, so Mukuro got shot and admitted in a private hospital and now Hermione are going to taste her first mission.

Chapter 11: The First Experience

Hermione sits on a chair, enjoying a sunny day in Nice, France. Yup, she is on her first mission, and she is not alone. Joining her is none other than Yamamoto, the Rain Guardian as the two of them left the Vongola Headquarters two days ago. Their mission is to retrieve a secret code from an ally of the Vongola regarding the secret weapon built by the military scientists. This secret weapon somehow had become the subjects of every mafia around the world and all of them are trying to get their hand on the weapon but somehow the Vongola had received an important notes from the COMSUBIN intelligence saying that anyone who had the secret code had the power to control the weapon, and thus making them the most powerful people ever and it worries them if the code fall on the wrong hand.

Their ally agrees to meet them in Nice, France since their ally is fond of sunny beach and nice, warm weather. Acting as a couple having their holiday together, Hermione and Yamamoto seem to act pretty naturally as no one would ever wonder that these two are actually working for a mafia organization.

"Well Hermione, when are we going to meet this mysterious ally?" Yamamoto asked her as they were having their drinks outside a café.

"Pretty soon that what this person said earlier. Well seems that we have to wait for this person to contact us again," Hermione responded as she finished her drink.

"I see, so what are we going to do now," Yamamoto spoke as he lied back on his chair, enjoyed the sunny day.

"I'm not sure, but so far it is good to know that we didn't lost contact with whoever this person is."

"Yup, that's the good thing. Anyway, why don't we go and take a walk, besides it is a nice day today," Yamamoto spoke as he rise from his seat.

"Huh?"

"Come on, let's take a walk while we didn't have much to do at this moment," Yamamoto said as he flashed his sweet smile and offered his hand to her.

Hermione chuckled as she accepted his invitation to take a stroll around the beach.

As they walking along the beach, both of them stumble upon a souvenir shop and as they peek into the shop they are surprise to see Lussuria and Bel arguing over something inside the shop as the shop assistant looked like he was freaked out.

"Lussuria, Bel, what are you two doing here?" called Yamomoto as he and Hermione entered the shop as the two Varia Guardians looked at him, surprised to see both of them there.

"MUFFIN…" Lussuria yelped as he run towards Hermione, giving her a hug which almost leave her breathless as Bel eyeing her and a blush lit on his cheek to see her in her summer dress, a simple peach color spaghetti straps above knee length dress, she didn't' apply make-up or wearing any jewellery, and wearing a floral printed hair band while she let her hair loose, simple yet alluring. While Yamamoto wear simple beige knee length short and short sleeve white shirt, they truly looked like a loving couple on holiday.

Hermione aware that Bel was watching her and she glared at the maniac prince.

"What?" she asked sternly at him as he smirked liked an idiot.

"Ushishishishi…"

"…"

"What are you two doing here, having your honeymoon?" Bel spoke with that stupid grin stuck on his face, leaving both Hermione and Yamamoto blushing pretty badly.

"Muffin, just ignore Bel-chan here, let's go take a walk in this beautiful beach, shall we?"

"Oh Merlin, what the hell are these two doing here, don't tell me they are part of the mission as well, but how come Vongola Nono didn't mention anything to me about them, or maybe they have their own mission here, at this very place?" Hermione's thought practically rambling to herself while eyeing Yamamoto who seems to be a bit lost.

"Lussuria…" Hermione was about to speak when she was interrupted by the gay Varia.

"Call me Mama Lus, yea."

Hermione gawked at him while Yamamoto laughed; he is cheerful as always.

Hermione nodded her head hesitated, while the gay Varia keep tugging the knife freak everywhere as she and Yamamoto eyeing each other as they walked behind the two Varia.

"Damn you, let me go you peasant, you have no right to touch the prince."

"…"

"Umm…Mama Lus, why are you two here?" Hermione asked hesitated when mentioning the word 'Mama Lus' as if the word came forcefully from her mouth.

"Hmm…well, I will tell you two later, now shall we get going because Mama Lus want to eat some ice-cream."

"…"

"Psst, Yamamoto, are they part of our mission as well?" Hermione whispered to Yamamoto who appeared to think of the same thought.

As the two of them followed the two Varia Guardians, her mobile phone rang and as she looked at her phone, the number indicated that their mystery ally is calling her. Quickly answered the phone, both Hermione and Yamamoto listened to their caller carefully.

"Hello." Hermione greeted their mystery ally while Yamamoto listened carefully and quietly.

"Hello, glad to call you again. Tomorrow 12 p.m. at the Bonjour Café, don't be late and be careful, our enemy might be here as well," their mystery ally who appeared to be a man hung up before Hermione could responds.

Inhaled a deep breath, both Hermione and Yamamoto looked at each other, wondering of why their mystery ally hung up immediately after giving them some instruction. And the word enemy had both of them flinched, worried if their enemy is nearby them at the moment as the two of them walked faster towards the two Varia Guardians who had been waiting for them.

"So, it's tomorrow afternoon huh. What do you think Yamamoto, do you think that he will give that secret code tomorrow or give another hint to us?" Hermione asked as her mind wandering back as she reached for a chair to sit. It is now ten minutes till seven in the evening and both she and Yamamoto returned to their hotel room an hour ago after taking a good stroll around the area. Since these two had to act as a loving couple they were required to share a room, luckily with two single beds. Both of them flinched at first but then thinking of the mission they both agreed to the term, knowing that it is lot safer than staying alone, who knew what might happens if they were to stay in separated room, and people won't suspects much.

Yamamoto shrugs as he leans back on his chair, his mind wandering of the Varia Guardians whom were there as well.

"Hermione, do you think the Varia knew about this mission? Do you think that they were part of this mission as well?"

"Well, I'm not sure either as the Vongola 9th didn't inform us anything about having them a part of the misson." Hermione spoke unsurely.

"Hmm, yea guess you are right. Maybe we should give them a call, you know. Maybe we could ask Tsuna, I'm sure that Vongola 9th told him something about this mission." Yamamoto responded nonchalantly, a smile slowly appears in his face.

Hermione nods her head slowly, agrees with him. She knows that Yamamoto has a point there, Tsuna is the Vongola Decimo, boss to Yamamoto and the rest of the 10th Guardians, and even though she was given a mission by the Vongola 9th but she also work with Tsuna and them so she is confidently sure that the Vongola 9th will inform about the mission to Tsuna.

"Well, why don't we get down to the dining hall for dinner, I'm kinda hungry. So shall we?" Yamamoto spoke as he offered his hand to her with that sweet smile appeared in his face. Hermione couldn't help but smile as she accepts his offer and took his hand. Yamamoto had been a good friend with her since she arrived at the Vongola Headquarters more than half year ago and they had become best friends since that.

As they approached the lounge area of the hotel, they are pretty shocked to see not only Lussuria and Bel but almost all the Varia Guardians and their Boss, Xanxus were there as well.

"Okay, I had a bad feeling about this." Hermione spoke as they both stopped on their track. They glanced at each other when the Varia noticed about their presence there.

"Muffin, it's good to see you again," Lussuria with usual, cheery, pretty annoying voice as he greeted them, mostly her as he launched himself to her and hugged tightly then gave her an European style of cheek kissing, leaving Hermione to flushed and her body was now stiffed from the sudden attack.

"Nee…Muffin, why do you always look beautiful and adorable," Lussuria wailed over Hermione's look who suddenly could feel her body heated as Bel and surprisingly Squalo approaches them. She doesn't mind taking praises from men but when dealing with these people means dangerous business.

"Ushishishishishi…seems that this little chick loves some attention, do you want this prince to entertain you?" Bel spoke as he eyed Hermione, a little hint of a blush lit on his cheek, now where did that come from. He was awed with her look tonight as she's wearing a fabulous gradient blue double v-neck knee length evening dress with matching strap sandal. Even Squalo was pretty amazed with her as he couldn't help but slowly blushed to see her appearance for the night, he never saw her in such stunning dress before as she often wore pants and jeans with shirt and all that kind of clothing but tonight she had made herself noticeable and looked gorgeous in men's eyes.

Hermione's eyes flare with anger but she had to act cool, she doesn't want to create attention from other people. Slowly she walked towards Bel and poked hard on his chest with her finger.

"I'm not some sort of your entertainment here mister, if you wish to get laid why don't you go somewhere and get yourself some chick who willing to entertain you, okay?" Hermione spoke in soft yet harsh tone as she smiled innocently yet her eyes glinted with anger.

Bel stared at her in disbelief as his face slowly turned to pink. Hermione slowly stepped back and stood next to Yamamoto, smiled at him sweetly.

"Can we go now and have our dinner, I'm kinda of hungry," Hermione spoke sweetly as Yamamoto laughed heartily, leading her towards the dining hall of the hotel. The Varia were pretty stunned that they stood there for a few moment before snapped and ran after the two as Levi acted as a bodyguard to Xanxus, which annoyed him the most as he kicked Levi on his back pretty hard that the weirdo felt on the floor, face first.

And dinner didn't go pretty well either.

The very next day

"Well, seems that we are quite early, its 15 minutes to 12 p.m., so this is the place that he told to meet us, right?" Yamamoto spoke as the two of them stand outside the Bonjour Café.

"Yup, why don't we go inside and get something to drink while waiting for him, and seems that there are lots of people here so we better hurry and find an empty table for, few minutes of waiting won't kill us, right?"

"You're right, let's go inside and grab some drinks first."

As Yamamoto and Hermione went to grab their table, a stranger wearing a white shirt and black slack holding a small briefcase approaches them.

"Soba noodle."

Hermione and Yamamoto flinched, that's the secret password passed to them by the Vongola 9th and the only people that have known the secret password were themselves and their to ensure that they've met the right person.

"Miso soup," Yamamoto responded as the two of them turned to meet their mysterious ally.

Hermione found it to be quite funny since the secret password were some sort of food, and she even wondered if their mystery ally was a food lover.

Yamamoto and Hermione led their mysterious ally to an empty table at the corner of the café as a waitress came and took their order. They've waited until she delivers their drinks before proceed into the main business. Their mysterious ally happened to be a former COMSUBIN in his early 50s, dark brown hair with slightly grey hair and almost as tall as Yamamoto and tanned skin with a slight moustache. He had known the Vongola 9th and Colonello, and he still connected with them and now he is now working secretly as the military scientist that are involved in the making of the secret weapon.

"So, Vongola Nono had sent both of you, I believed that you must be Miss Granger and you are Mr Yamamoto, right? Quite young I see."

"Yes."

Yamamoto seems confident as he is already used to be in a mission while this is Hermione's first ever mission and at this time she could feel her confident is slowly draining from her as the man in front stared at them as if he is questioning their ability in making sure that this mission is a success.

"Before I forgot, my name is Enrique Santos, former COMSUBIN and now I was part of the team what I think you two should know already by now since you are here and because I assumed that the Vongola Nono would tell you about this."

Both of them nodded their heads as he took his briefcase and opened it on the table. The two of them looked at each other, wondering of the content inside the briefcase.

"This is not the secret code so don't worries, but I won't be giving it to you anytime sooner and seems that the two of you had to wait. Wrong if you think that this is an easy task, I had to dealt with the military forces since this has been considered as classified and it is the military top secret that only certain personnel are allowed to access to it." Enrique explained to them as he slowly took out the contents from the briefcase, it was some sort of white, thick papers and a small square computer chip. Both Yamamoto and Hermione eyed the two items as Enrique took out a small, square box and placed it on the table and they assumed it is the container for the computer chip.

"This is not the secret code whatsoever but in this chip is the clue of where you can get the secret code, and I could give it easily to you but I couldn't so you have to figure out yourself at the moment. I've heard that you are an intelligent person Miss Granger and I believe that you could figure out from the clue given of where you could retrieve the secret code. It is not safe to give it in the open because we cannot tell whether the enemy's nearby us or not."

"Sorry to ask this, but since this is the military top secret why giving us to search for the secret code, why don't keep it among the military itself, and from what I know this is the Italian military secret, so why here in France, why not in Italy?" Hermione whispered to avoid attention, her tone is serious and full of confident.

Enrique looked at her, knowing that she had a point there. Vongola 9th was right of choosing her for the mission because of her wits and confident with herself.

"You are pretty smart for your age, Miss Granger. You do have a point there and the reason of why we didn't keep it in the military is that you cannot simply trust the people around you. I trust the Vongola because despite being a mafia organization they exist not because they want the power to control the world but power to protect the people from harm. The secret code is the key weapon and the most lethal weapon itself if it falls to the wrong hand. And you should aware that Italy had the most mafias around in the whole Europe and somehow it is quite dangerous to exchange any information there, besides Nice is a perfect gateway for summer break, the perfect view, perfect place, especially for a 'loving couple'." He can't help but teased them a bit.

Hermione flinched a little as she could felt her cheek heated in embarrassment, he should know that they are here for the mission and by Lord they are not a loving couple, and she could see Yamamoto tries to hide his embarrassment by looking away. But she also knows that he is right about it, the danger of the outcome if the code fell into the wrong hand, how it will jeopardize the whole mission. But her inner thought still curious whether this man is telling them the true or it is part of the mission, to test their ability or knowledge or sort of it. Her face shows that she wanted to believe him but her eyes betrayed her. And somehow Enrique had noticed it, knowing that her curiosity tries to overcome her believes.

"Let me tell you something, I know who you really are Miss Granger, and trust me this I have heard a lot of rumours lately that none of us are going to like it, but it is not my place to tell you about it, maybe the Vongola Nono will tell you himself, when the time's come. So with this I entrusted you to figure the secret code, all the clues inside this chip will help but you must be careful, and this is no ordinary paper, it is design by the military intelligence to keep all the information about the weapon but you must figure it out how to overlook it, to your eyes it just simply a plain paper but with the right device it will tell you everything you need to know. Component, formula, and information of the weapon are all written here. Keep these safe and don't simply give it to anyone, this mission is no easy, trust me."

Hermione was beyond confuse and clueless at that point as Yamamoto glanced at her. This is her biggest challenge in her life and she is now not sure if her confident levels are high enough but it is too late to say no.

"I'm glad that it went pretty well, but seems that we had to work harder to crack the code in this little chip and where are we going to find the right device to read this papers. Are you alright?" Yamamoto asked when Hermione didn't respond to him as she stared outside their room, looking clueless at the scene outside as evening approached. She seems to doze off into her mind as she didn't aware that Yamamoto stood next to her. She still wondering of what Enrique meant by knowing who she is, was he knew that she is in fact a witch, working for the Vongola 9th, and what rumours he talked about, seems that there's endless questions playing in her mind.

"Hermione…" Yamamoto called her softly as he patted her shoulder, startled the young witch as she stared at him, her eyes blinked before she realized that she had dozed off for a while.

"Oh, sorry, my mind went off for a while, you were saying?" Hermione started as she tried to spoke normally but somehow her voice betrayed her.

"Hermione, do you still thinking about what that Enrique guy said, about knowing who you are, right?" Yamamoto spoke, knowing that he was right when saw her winced.

Hermione looked at him before turned away and she hated it when he's right. Slowly she nods her head before meeting his gaze. She could see a little smile appeared in his face, he is sweet as always.

"Don't worry about it. I'm sure he mean no harm. I will be here for you if you need someone to talk with," Yamamoto said, his smile never leaves his face.

A smile slowly curved in Hermione's lips as she nodded her head understandingly. And she is glad to have Yamamoto on her side.

"Thanks," Hermione said with a beautiful smile in her face. She then walked towards him and kisses him in his cheek, leaving Yamamoto to shade in red as he's blushing pretty badly as Hermione let out a small laugh.

The two best friends then left their hotel room for dinner before proceed into searching the secret code. This will crack the hell out of their mind knowing that they are now facing the toughest work ever, and they were hoping that Gokudera is with them to help solve the problem.

Please review…sorry for any grammatical mistakes, my bad =/