Furfante's Attack

Abramo Furfante enjoyed resting in the master bedroom of the Neo Vongola mansion. His recent conquest allowed him the luxury of doing whatever he wanted within the mansion, especially since the Neo Vongola adults had been locked and kept under heavy guard and surveillance. Preparing himself for interrogating his prisoners, he left the comfortable bedroom, heading toward the room that housed his prisoners.

Furfante marched through the halls, his men speaking with one another in an attempt to locate the children that escaped their clutches. He was a bit infuriated that his men could not find a group of seven children. They're such idiots. He needed the children soon, and when he finally acquired them, he could gain the power to rule the world. It was a wonderful thought, one that he kept in mind until he got to the room that served as a pseudo-cell for Tsuna and his guardians. A sinister smirk appeared on his face, his glance moving toward the restrained family. He saw them gagged and cuffed, Hibari especially. He was awake this time, but he was much more restrained than the others, cuffs on his angles and wrists and chains wrapped around his arms that pressed them to his body. Furfante wasn't one to take chances, especially with someone like Hibari.

"Enjoying your new quarters, Vongola?" The Neo Vongola could only glare at the man who enjoyed their torture, anger filling their pupils and hoping to release themselves from their restraints. . "Your children are proving to be quite troublesome. My men are working hard to find them. My men may be idiots sometimes, but they do get their job done."

Furfante looked at his captives, relishing their pain. He wasn't going to let them get away until he got what he wanted. A sudden knock on the door moved the boss away from his thoughts, looking toward the door.

"Come in," he commanded. A man dressed in the typical suit entered the room, a piece of paper in his hand. "What is it?"

"Sir, we've got something." The grunt handed Furfante the paper he held, the boss taking it and reading it over. "This is a report that someone has hacked into our servers and viewed a piece of classified information about the…" The grunt needn't say more. Furfante understand what he was talking about, but Tsuna, who was listening to the two men's conversation, was confused, curious as to what they were talking about. Furfante turned toward the Vongola, the same sinister smile that he entered with reappearing on his face.

"Well, Vongola, it seems that your children are being much too nosy for their own good. I think I'll take advantage of this situation." Tsuna's eyes widened with fury, Furfante ignoring it and turning toward the grunt. "Did you already take measures against this?"

"Yes sir, we've mobilized a group of men when the attack appeared a short while ago and they're already on their way. Apparently it occurred in some university not far from here."

"Those children don't seem to have the ability to find such a minute piece of information, so they must have had some form of help. Make sure that whoever helped them is captured as well, and I expect no failure."

"Yes sir." The grunt nodded his head and left the room, reaching into his pocket to make the phone call to those who were heading toward the university. Furfante, in all his sinister sadism, smiled at the Vongola for the last time before leaving himself, leaving an atmosphere of hatred and a desire for vengeance.

Sukai, Annalise, Arashi, and Raiden waited rather impatiently for Irie to finish what his search. Like before, windows upon windows were appearing, but this time Irie wasn't giving a satisfied look. He bit his upper lip and continued to type furiously until, after a few more minutes, he was defeated and accomplished nothing else.

"I've got nothing. The mafia isn't known for being open, so finding something more with little resources isn't easy," Irie announced. It wasn't something that Sukai wanted to hear, but they did have something at least, even if it was just a signature.

"Thanks anyway," Sukai said, sighing heavily. It was a let down, but he couldn't feel like this forever.

" Well then, since we couldn't find any more information, we should probably get going," Arashi said. "There isn't much left to do and we have something to go by."

"Yeah. Maybe Norio knows something about places that make mechanical stuff or something," Raiden added.

"It's worth a shot," Annalise said.

"Just be careful," Irie said. "There's no telling when you'll be attacked. If anything, come back here for some shelter. That way you'll be safe to some extent. Also," Irie pulled on the handle of a drawer in his desk and reached in, holding a pair of earphones in his hands, "you should take these, Sukai." He reached his hand toward Sukai, the second-generation boss shocked at what he was being presented.

"Wh-what is this?" Sukai asked. A pair of dark red earphones was being held in front of him, a roman numeral two in black color on the outside of each earphone.

"This is what your father used whenever he would be on an operation with his guardians and they had to keep in communication. He didn't use it too much after the Arcobaleno's curse was broken, but he asked that I make you a pair for when you were old enough. I think now is the best time for it, especially since you won't always be with your guardians. There are earphones for them too, but they're just standard earphones modified to only communicate with you. After all, the boss has to have something to distinguish himself from his family." Irie kept his hands stretched toward Sukai, who, after several more seconds of hesitation and thought, finally firmed himself and nodded, taking the earphones from Irie's hand. Annalise, Raiden, and Arashi were all given earphones of their own, placing them in their ears and looking at Sukai who did the same. "Here are earphones for the other three when you meet them. Take care guys."

"Thank you Irie." With a small bow from them all, Sukai and his guardians left the room, hoping to find Norio and his group before they ran into any trouble. Knowing their luck, trouble couldn't be too far.

Norio, Ame, and Taiyō headed outside the building where they spoke with Spanner. Unfortunately for them, Spanner couldn't get much apart from a receipt that he said Irie had found, giving them the same information that the other group was given. It wasn't much and they didn't like it, but they had to deal with and left with their heads hung slightly.

"This isn't good," Norio muttered.

"And what isn't good?" Ame asked.

"Well, the machinery that was purchased in that receipt didn't look like anything that would be used for a conventional piece of equipment. I don't know much, but I know enough to realize the difference between heavy machinery and microwave stuff."

"So you're saying is that those parts aren't for anything you would see in everyday life?" Taiyō asked.

"Simply put, yeah. I don't know what exactly, but we can't expect anything good."

"Well we just have to find out who this 'F-A' guy is and the rest will be cake." Ame was clearly the voice of simplicity in the group.

"Easier said than done," Taiyō said, a bit discouraged that they would find out more.

The trio headed toward the building in which Spanner said Irie was located in. They hoped that their friends would be there or else it would be just be confusing to have to deal with finding them. As they walked, the three of them reached a small watering fountain, some of the students of the university sitting on the edge of the fountain or on the benches that surrounded it, some conversing and others studying. The fountain didn't really stand out to them, but what did stand out to Norio was a group of men in suited and black glasses approaching students at random and showing them a piece of paper. Being in a state of paranoia, Norio reached his arms out in front of the other two, Ame and Taiyō stopping abruptly.

"Hey, what-"

Ignoring Ame's words, Norio moved back, his arms pushing the other two back as well.

"Hey, Norio. What are y-"

"There they are!" One of the men that was showing the paper to the students ran toward Norio, Ame, and Taiyō, the three of them running away from the man, away from Irie's building and the rendezvous spot. They may have wanted to see their friends, but escaping alive took the top priority at the moment. What could you do if you were dead?

"Stop you three! Polizia di Stato!"

"What?!" Taiyō exclaimed.

"They're using the police force as a cover. Whatever you do, don't get caught and don't split up," Norio said. The three ran at each other's side, the men in suits charging up behind them. They didn't know how, but they were found out, and they had to leave now.