I-pin decided to visit her friend in his room who decided to lock himself at his room. It has already been 7 months since he was like that. Not that he didn't come out to play, or eat or take strolls for 7 months, he did but still in his most depressed state and I-pin never saw him like that since she met him.

I-pin had grew fairly beautiul. Her most bald head, hair that was always tied into pigtail was now long and was tied into pretty buns. Though her chest is still flatSHE'S A NINE YEAR OLD!) curves has grown to her body. And now she was wearing her favorite Chinese clothes, red chinese dress that can use as a formal attire at the same time an attire that you can fight in and black flat shoes.

"I-pin!" a shout called for her. She turned to her right and saw one o her best Ranking Futa or Fuuta de la Stella. I-pin waved a hello to him as he jumped towards to her. "I-pin! I missed you!" he exclaimed.

"I missed you too Fuuta-kun." I-pin smiled. Unknown to the girl Fuuta had those pink tinges across his cheeks.

I-pin looked at Fuuta, he too had grown nicely. His golden brown hair was a bit messier than before, through the green shirt that has VONGOLA written across the back with white letterings she can see small mucscles built up, and despite being a 12 year old boy he weilds a gun that is strapped to his belt. No one can blame him though, being in the Vongola Familigia he need to be precautious.

Fuuta looked up from the door where I-pin was standing in front, a Lightning was etched to it and their doodles back when they were younger was still on the door. His eyes became solemn as it landed on the bottom left corner of the door where small neat handwritings were put.

"I wonder how they are now..." Fuuta muttered.

"I don't know Fuuta-kun... I don't know..." I-pin replied solemnly. "Though I hope that they are better than our cow friend here." her hand crept to the door knob, she looked to Fuuta for confimation who nodded in response.

Lambo was sitting by his bed hugging his knees, looking at the the running T.V with blank eyes, still in his dazed state. I-pin and Fuuta sighed as they looked around the room, nothing changed at all. THe books they left by his study table was was still on his table untouched, dust was covering it. "Lambo, we're here." I-pin and Fuuta called out the same time but the cow child didn't respond to the call.

I-pin and Fuuta sat beside him, Lambo being the center. I-pin and Fuuta wanted to bombard him with accusation but they didn't, they didn't want to see their friend bawl like a baby as he release his lightning at full blast, breaking the mansion in process.

The trio had moved out the the Sawada residence right after the incident with their big brother. Lambo was too scared to face his big brother, Fuuta and I-pin was disturbed with his action they wanted to slap the truth but decided not to interfere as soon as Reborn called Tsuna a 'monster'.

=Flash Back=

Fuuta had a nightmare about guns, blood flowing down everywhere and couple of dead bodies around him (creepy dream for a child... He's mafia so it's kinda normal... right?) e wanted to return to sleep but found it hard. He grabbed his blanket and tip-toed out of his room where Lambo was snoring loudly and I-pin, who was current out of the room. He reached Tsuna's room, he looked up to make sure that the man was in room. After hearing shuffling he knew his big brother was there, Fuuta smiled slightly. He was about to knock when the wind blew lightly, opening the door slightly. Being the curious kid he was he peeked in, forgetting everything about the nightmare he just had.

I-pin just walked out of the bathroom, her very short hair was in a total disaster. With her near-sightedness she can only see a blur in fornt of Tsuna's room. Curiousity won upon her and came closer to the blur only to find out Fuuta eavesdropping inside Tsuna's room. "Fuuta?" she called.

Fuuta jumped in surprise as he saw I-pin. "Don't scare me like that!" he whispered/scold.

"What you doing Tsuna-nii's room?" I-pin asked in her broken Japanese.

"SHH!" Fuuta placed his index finger on his mouth. "Tsuna-nii's crying." he said. I-pin looked at the peephole and saw that Fuuta was indeed correct.

Tsuna was holding the picture that was took during his 15th birthday at the beach. Everyone was in the picture and it was pretty much crowded, but no one was left out. The children, him and his gurdians (with HIbari and Mukuro of course), the Shimon familigia, The Ninth and his guardian's was also included, Nana, Iemitsu, Haru, Kyoko, Bianchi, Arcobaleno together with it's two living Sky arcobaleno, Basil, Oregano, the Kokuyo Gang and everyone's box animals were present. Fitting inside the picture was a miracle itself. Fuuta and I-pin (who already have glasses in hand) can see the tears flowing down to his face and the shaking of his body was the enough proof to say that Tsuna was indeed sad. The wind blew again, and this time it was stronger than the last one that it opened enough for Tsuna to see the two children peeking.

"F-Fuuta? I-pin? What are you doing here?" he asked, tears were still flowing down, seems like he didn't have a plan on wiping themor he simply doesn't know that his tears were following.

"N-nii-san..." Fuuta croaked out, he was aware of the problem between him and his guardians being the eldest in the group of children, he wasn't being dense like Lambo and I-pin who were too young to understand a thing. Not that he knew the full detail of it but he knew there was something happening, especially Lambo came after a small mission from the Ninth. He was acting very odd.

"Why Tsuna-nii crying?" I-pin asked so blunty. Fuuta mentally facepalmed himself.

The said male immediately wiped the unnoticeable tears and smile so sadly. "It's just the dust I-pin-chan," he assured but even she was 10 years younger she can detect the big lie under that smile. "What are you doing here? It's already midnight. Perghaps did you have a nightmare?"

"Ah, no it's nothing Tsuna-nii." Fuuta lied perfectly. "Can we at least sleep with you for tonight? Lambo's snore is too loud." he said as he carry I-pin in his arms.

"Ah? Eh, sure." Tsuna smiled and patted the space beside him, placing the frame on the study table. Fuuta hopped on his bed and laid I-pin to his lap, who was now sleeping peacefully. Tsuna was about to caress I-pin's hair when his hand jerked away, and Fuuta noticed this action.

Fuuta looked at his big brother with analyzing eyes. His eyes were dull but at the same time it was filled with something dark, it lost it's usual twinkle and warmness. The picture frame. Guilt that was pretty much hidden but under his gaze he can see it crystal clear. The puzzle was finally coming to pieces, Fuuta knew. "Tsuna-nii..." he called

"What is it, Fuuta?" Tsuna replied.

"Did you perhaps... With everyone around... Did you ki- BAM!" the door slammed open as it revealed the Sun Arcobaleno in his baby form with Leon on his hand tranformed into a green and black pistol.

"Don't touch them." he hissed. Reborn made a gesture to Fuuta, 'get-here-behind-me' it says. Fuuta didn't want to argue with the angry Arcobaleno, he complied to the look, carrying the sleeping child to his arms. He went behind the Arcobaleno reluctantly. He can see the flinch of the brunette as Reborn glared at him.

"Did you harm them?" Reborn asked

"O-of course I didn't..." He replied quitely, looking away. "As if I would." he added quietly.

"Tsuna-nii would never harm us!" Fuuta defended, Reborn sent him a glare and he flinched and shook under the baby's glare.

"Let's go." Reborn said, pushing the children out of the room. Fuuta spared his big brother a glance, he can see a small tear escaped his eye as he smile sadly at him. 'Oyasumi' he mouthed, Fuuta nodded and smiled back at him.

The door clicked, it was closed. Instead of pushing the children back to their bedroom, he led them to the dining room. I-pin was snuggled closed to Fuuta, sleeping peaceful while the boy hugged her protectively. "Why did you asked Tsuna-nii that?" Fuuta asked, collecting every bit of his courage to be able to answer back to the hitman.

"You wouldn't understand." the hitman said.

"I won't understand unless you explain it to me." Fuuta retorted back, he knew that it wasn't good to fight with Reborn but for his 'big brother' he would do anything to make him happy. That is how Fuuta love Tsuna. "Did Tsuna-nii already..." he gulped not really wanting to say the word.

"I won't answer your question." with the reply, the boy balled his fist in irritation. Everything was always kept from them just because they were children, he understood that. BUt now, he needed answers.

"Answ-"

"YOu won't make any contact to that man."

"Why?! He doesn't have a disease, does he?! He isn't a monster or anyth-"

"He is a monster." The hitman said.