A/N: Minna-san! Oishi-sashiburi desu! Minna genki ka?

YAY! Exams are finally over! More fanfic time for me!

I sincerely apologize from the bottom of my heart. *bows bows*

I know that this is supposed to be a XS story but all you see is all about the other members of Varia, but I swear I have a good explanation for that!

Xanxus isn't really the type that gives much of a thought to any thing and Squalo is currently... under some 'situation'... *cannot spoil*

OK, maybe that's not that good for an explanation, so I'll just let the story do the talking.

Disclaimer: KHR isn't mine, neither is the Varia. They're just too awesome to be owned by someone like me... T.T~~~

-Bel-

Tch, stupid peasant and his stupid smoke.

What on earth are you thinking by trapping us inside this maze of smoke?

Just by separating us isn't really that much helpful to you, you know that idiotic peasant?

What in the world can you achieve by getting us lost in this?

And you're not even showing yourself into attacking, the Prince doubts that you don't intend to kill us all here and now.

Come on now peasant, show yourself!

The Prince dares you to come out this instant to greet his royal highness!

With that thought running in his head, Bel almost missed the explosion behind him. The wall that was covered by the smokes, causing Bel to not notice it before, suddenly exploded, sending the expensive materials flying. The second youngest Varia wasted no time turning around and throwing a few of his knives at the shadow behind all the smokes, which just seemed to have reflected themselves and charged their way towards their owner, who dodged just in time before any of them actually made any contact with his skin.

"Tch, about time the peasant come out to meet the Prince. Ushishishi." the Varia Storm Guardian laughed as he got into position, knives ready in hands.

"Tsk tsk, impatient little brat I see." the deep voice commented as sound of footsteps followed. Bel stared at his opponent, who appeared to be a mask-wearing guy wearing a hooded, black cloak.

"A peasant like you has no right to judge the Prince." the blonde sneered as another set of knives was sent flying towards the strange-looking man. But without the smokes in the way this time, Bel was able to see with his very own eyes that his knives were blocked and sent flying in another angle by the xyston in his opponent's hand, which he hadn't notice before.

"Whatever, like I could care less." the guy said. "But since you asked for it, don't think I'll go easy on you." Without giving the self-proclaimed 'Prince' any second to register his thoughts, the intruder had already charged towards him like a wild animal attacking its prey, xyston ready in hand. But the attack was easily blocked by Bel's knives.

"Ushishi, that's the Prince's line, not something a peasant like you should be saying." the Storm smirked as his free hand pulled out another knife skillfully from underneath his Varia jacket and was about to stab his opponent when his wrist was grabbed. Before he knew it, he was already thrown across to the other side of the hall, judo style.

"Gah! What the hell?" Bel groaned as he hurriedly stood back on his feet , facing his enemy with gritted teeth. "So the stupid peasant got some moves too, huh?" he forced himself into a smirk.

"You don't seem too bad yourself, your Highness." the masked-guy muttered as he pulled out a Box from under that thick, dark, cloak of his. "Since the others got their targets cleared already, I suppose you are one of the stronger ones." clenched his right fist and light up a ring on his middle finger. The colour of the flame proves that he's a Storm holder. "I guess that people do give a thought about it before calling you a genius."

"Ushishishi. Of course I'm a genius. After all, I'm a Prince!"

"So I guess you're suggesting me not to hold back?" he punched the red flame into the Bos in his left hand. "Well, I'm not going to, at least from here onwards."

The eyes that were hidden behind the golden bangs widen as a gush of red flames filled the hallway, turning it into a sea of red...

"Mammon-san, did you sense that?"

" 'That', as in someone here 'keeping an eye' on us, then yes, I did." the elder Mist Guardian of Varia answered his teal-haired junior. "Is it me, or did you notice that just now?"

"Can't be helped, Me's techniques aren't as skilled as you are, Mammon-san." the emotionless junior replied blandly.

"But for crying out loud, it has already been half an hour! And you're telling me you now then noticed?!" Mammon questioned as he eyed the teenage boy beside him as if he's a retard, resisting the urge to face-palm.

"Why on earth, Mammon-san, would you not mention it sooner if you realise it all this while?" Fran questioned back, trying to maintain his normal monotonous voice.

" 'Why?' you ask, because it was for the sake of training you, you brat. I can see that you're still not skilled enough to see through illusions."

Fran rolled his eyes and turned around. "Forget it... Whoever is watching Me-tachi could you kindly step out now? It really is a pain having your murderous glares staring through our backs."

"Jeez, so I was found out this whole time?" a cloud of indigo mist appeared in front of the two illusionist. A teenage boy who looks no older than Fran stepped out from it as the mist dispersed itself. The boy was wearing a green suit with white dress shirt underneath, with golden somewhat messy hair with spikes. With just one glance is enough for the two illusionist to recognise who the little guy is.

"You are... you are... Excuse me, but what's you're name again?" Fran asked, giving the person a questioning look.

Mammon face-palmed. Literally.

"His name is Baleno, if I remember correctly." the former Mist of Varia stated. "The Thunder Guardian of Fiancata Famiglia I believe."

"And I believe that I should be thankful that you remembered my name, Arcobaleno." the blonde kid stated flatly.

"So what business do you have with Me-tachi?" Fran asked the Fiancata Thunder. "If you haven't realise, we're kinda busy trying to find the others here, so please make your explanation a quick one, thank you."

"That was rude," Baleno complained, even though his tone contradicted his words. "Mind telling me what in the world is going on in here?"

"Sure, if you pay 5 million euro in exchange." the greedy baby answered.

"Forget it then, don't want to get myself broke because of some stupid answer." Baleno shrugged as he dig inside his pockets before pulling out a silver ninja star. "Besides, I know the answer to that question already anyway." *smirk*

"Nani?!" the two Mist Guardians of Varia gasped as the ninja stars were sent flying in their directions like real shooting stars. However, as assassins, they were trained better than that. Mammon levitated from Fran's giant frog hat with the help of the yellow ouroboros 'halo' above him just in time before a few got stabbed onto Fran's hat.

"Itai, why does everyone likes stabbing Me now?" the youngest Varia asked sarcastically.

"That'll teach you not to slack during physical training." Mammon remarked.

"You know, you should be bleeding when you got stabbed. At least logically..." the youngest Fiancata Guardian pointed out, holding another identical ninja star between his index and middle fingers.

"Sure sure, that's what everyone who stabs me says..." Fran answered as he pulled out the silver metals in his hat before dropping them onto the floor. " 'Everyone' being pineapple-haired Shishou and idiotic fake-Prince Senpai and others."

"You know, that 'Senpai' of yours isn't really idiotic." another smirk. "He actually lasted the longest among all the others, proving that he was a genius for a reason."

"So you're implying that..."

"He's the one who intrudes here. And according to his words, if he's not lying, there should be more of them in this mansion." Mammon answered his junior's question before the Fiancata Thunder could, still wondering what is wrong with the teal-haired teen's brain.

"You got that right, Arcobaleno." more ninja stars were sent flying across the hallway. The Mist Arcobaleno wasted no time dodging them and creating an illusion of blue tentacled, wrapping themselves around the four limps of the little blonde, but were teared apart as soon as they made contact with his clothed arms by a ball of green flame.

"I had no idea what you're intending to do here. Killing us here isn't really of any good achievements. After all, we're now allied famiglias, by destroying us you'll probably be punished severely by the higher-ups." the hooded infant stated as he rolled the shredded paper back under his Varia cloak.

"Of course," Baleno chortled. "but that is not the reason why we're here." the ball of Thunder-class fame vanished and there was a snow-white furred rabbit in its place. "Save the talking, it'll take too much time explaining this and that. Let's just finish our job here, Yuki."

The great Boss of Varia sat in his throne-like chair in his office, he swung his left calve over his right leg and sipped the vodka from his glass. The Varia mansion was dead quiet, no sound of a living soul in the place. The first reason that leads to suspicion of the Varia leader considering it's only twelve thirty-five in the morning, not really the best time for the 'enthusiastic' Varia members to be in bed. During a time like this, it could either means that Bel was pulling a prank on him, like once when he tried putting a bucket of water on top of the door, waiting to hit Xanxus anytime when he comes out. But lucky for him, it hit the 'guard dog' Levi instead. After the Thunder Guardian rushed to the bathroom, trying to get his soaked self cleaned up, he got attacked by the bottle of pepper on top of the door, again. That caused him to sneeze so hard that he almost blow off the Varia rooftop, which is something the money-minded Mammon won't be so happy with. The other possible meaning behind the silence will be the Varia Second-in-Command got sick and lost his voice, which doesn't happen often. The last time the shark got sick, the whole Varia remained quiet for 24 hours straight as since the Rain Guardian cannot scream, he uses his sword as a replacement.

Obviously, the second possibility is out, so that left the first one. Just for safety-checking, plus easier doing, Xanxus pulled out one of his X-guns and blast the door. Not so surprisingly, smokes started to make their way into the room. Thinking it's one of the blond brat's prank, Xanxus just remained in his seat with his eyes closed. But they quickly snapped open at the sound of broken glass and just in time to witness flying bullets fly past his very own eyes and boke the window behind him.

"Fufufu~"

A/N: I SINCERELY APOLOGIZE PEOPLE!

This chpt is short and almost nothing happened... But don't worry, it's the beginning of summer vacation! Which means more time to works on dear chappies now! YAY!

So trust me, the next one will be updated very soon, okay? ( As long as I solved my problem of converting pictures to words... )

Addition: I was pretty sure that I'm going to finish this story by this year though, because I definitely won't have time for it next year...

Please review! They make my day! ^^