Well then here is another update for you all! Hopefully you all like this story so far. I really don't know when this story will end… but I don't think it'll end that soon. I currently mapped out chapters 1-9 figured out, so it won't take me a month to get over any writer's blocks. All you all need to do is worry about how lazy and busy I get, and enjoy the reading when they come out. I'm not feeling like the story is anywhere close to being done with 9 chapters so it may go for a long while. I'm trying to have at least an introductory chapter with all of the guys, and have some chapters that deal with why the Arcobaleno are gone. Ew… this may end up being more than 20 chapters like the two other stories. QAQ UGGHHH wish me luck on coming up with some ideas.

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Never Trust the Nocturnal

Haru woke up from the sound of the animal's cries, and many sets of feet running around the house.

Haru peeled open her eyes tiredly to see that the sun had just risen from the looks of the sunlight creeping in through the blinds.

Haru sighed and she set out to get out of her bed and she walked to the bathroom first to get herself ready for the tiring day.

Once she walked out she was tackled down by a dog and a cat.

"Ha-hahi! Jirou! Uri! Get off of Haru please! She'll give you your food in just a moment-desu!" Haru squealed as she tried to move away from the furry little critters who were currently walking all over her begging for food.

Jirou was the obedient canine and hopped off of her, sitting down next to her with his tail wagging quickly. Uri though opted to climb onto her shoulder and stay there, her claws digging into her clothes for a firm grip, and luckily enough she hadn't dug them deep enough to hurt Haru.

Haru walked over to the kitchen to read the schedule that she and Lal Mirch had both decided upon together.

"Well it looks as though everyone will have two big meals every day, well except for Kojirou, he will eat out of his bird feeder whenever he feels like it." Haru said trudging into the kitchen as more animals decided it would be fun to latch onto Haru as she ventured into the kitchen to give them food.

Natsu climbed up to her shoulders and perched on the other shoulder that Uri had not occupied. Kojirou had perched on top of her head like her hair were a nest of some sorts.

Jirou was lightly rubbing against her leg as she walked with the top of his head in a loving gesture of saying 'thank you' in advance for giving them food.

Gyuudon was still sleeping in the corner and… where was Kangaryuu?

"Yes, yes that's it. Right hook. Ah, too slow! I could dodge that in my sleep, and you call yourself a Vongola box animal!"

BAM!

"Garuu!"

Haru just shook her head now knowing where Kangaryuu was. She walked over to the counter and she placed all of the bowls onto t he ground and she opened up the cabinets getting out bags of food, and some canned foods as well.

Box animals did not really have a real need for food as they really just needed flames, but this didn't really process too well with Haru. She wanted to feed them anyways. Nothing happened when they fed Uri fish when they visited the future.

So if they could eat human food as well, then there was nothing wrong with feeding the box animals real food other than flames.

Haru was pouring or dropping the food into the individual bowls of each animal and she would step back to see all of the animals would look at her and then back at the food.

"Um… enjoy your food?" Haru questioned and the animals before her jumped down to get to their food and started to eat.

Haru went into the closet next to get out some big piles of plants, or whatever this was that these animals ate. Was this just grass? Hay? Whatever it was, Lal Mirch said that Gyuudon would be happy with this. She needed five pitch-forks full and that would last Gyuudon for pretty much the whole day.

Poor cows and bulls having like, what was it? 5 stomachs? 6? 7? Whichever it was, it took them forever to eat.

She also had to get out some of the plants and fruit for Kangaryuu. This was hard work already and it was just breakfast time!

Once she set Kangaryuu's food down, she soon heard some loud thumping coming her way. Before she would get stomped all over, she quickly moved to the side to safety being mindful of the other animals that were eating.

She heard a small whistling sound right above her. She looked up to see Kojirou staring down at her. She had almost forgot that he was on top of her head!

Haru quickly moved to the countertop to get the bad of bird seed and she poured it into the bird feeder and she filled the water bin with fresh water.

"Oh great, Haru has fed the animals but she didn't give them water yet." She sighed dropping to the ground tiredly.

"Good work Haru. You can go and rest up for now. I'll take care of the water supply for these animals." Lal Mirch said taking off the boxing gloves from her little hands.

Yep, she was having a morning spar with Kanagryuu. What an extreme person she was.

Haru smiled thankfully at Lal Mirch and she trudged her way to the couch and she let her body go limp onto its soft cushions that seemed to engulf her body.

Hm… yes, it felt so nice and soft. She was laying on a very comfy couch without a care in the world, feeling herself slowly slip into slumber until she suddenly felt really warm.

What is this? This… soft texture, and the-ow! What just poked her?

Haru unwillingly cracked open an eye to see that the animals started to dog-pile her as she was trying to rest on the couch.

Jirou was laying across her legs and her stomach while Natsu and Uri were both on her chest. That is, until Uri slapped Natsu with her claws and Natsu ran off crying in fear.

Kojirou found his favorite place on top of Haru's head in the middle of her hair whorl.

"Ha-Hahi… Haru can't move…" Haru groaned, though this was pretty warm and comforting. They weren't making much noise or anything.

Uri was curled up on top of Haru's chest, eyes closed, with her chest moving up and down. Was she sleeping?

"PUURRRR"

Well that answered her question. Jirou and Kojirou were sleeping as well. Haru rotated her eyes downwards to look down at the ground to see that Kangaryuu was full of food and she was pawled out against the cool wooden floor and was sleeping.

Haru let herself slip into deep slumber for a while dreaming a rather dreamless dream.

She slept with all of the animals surrounding her peacefully until one dreaded person did the unthinkable.

Ringing. The. DOORBELL. THAT JERK.

Jirou's head perked up suddenly, ears twitching and then he barked a loud bark surprising everyone else who was sleeping awake.

"RYAA! FFFT FFTT!" Uri meowed in fury and started to hiss at the dog, slapping it across the muzzle.

Jirou hopped off the couch with a small whine, slipping on Kangaryuu's tail on accident.

"Guuaaa!" Kanagryuu shouted and was on her feet ready to punch the snot out of the one who dared to step on her now aching tail.

Kojirou flew around in circles emitting a very loud cry which Uri found very dissatisfying and started to chase swallow in a hot pursuit.

DING DONG!

"Hahi! Haru is coming-desu! AH! Stop that right now! Ah, I'm so sorry Jirou~ Ow! Kojirou~ Please be careful-desu!" Haru whinned almost at the point of a mental breakdown at how all of these animals were in a midst of a fight and were running around everywhere tripping her, and trampling all over her as she was trying to walk over to the door to answer it.

Haru finally managed to make it to the door after the person on the other side of the door was getting impatient and kept ringing the doorbell which Jirou constantly barked in retort at.

"ALL OF YOU SHUT UP!" Lal Mirch roared having her little nap interrupted and she was not a happy person.

The animals stopped for a moment staring at her in fright, fur standing on end.

Haru opened the door to have the animals charge at her running away from Lal Mirch.

"Hello- OOF!" Haru crashed onto the ground hitting her chin onto the ground. "T-that hurt-desu… so so much-desu…" Haru cried out from the pain of her poor chin.

"Oya Oya, it looks like you are having some trouble." A suave voice spoke out.

Haru opened her eyes to see more than one pair of feet. How many people came to visit?

"I still don't think we should've brought him along, Juudaime." A disgruntled voice raised a complaint.

A small sigh was heard from the poor ever-bullied Tsunayoshi Sawada.

"Maa maa, just calm down Gokudera, it's fine."

Yamamoto tried to calm Gokudera down, actually holding him back from wanting to start a scuffle with Mukuro who was smirking at him provocatively. He wasn't helping Yamamoto in the least. Ryohei was watching with a careful eye, being sure to stop a fight if one just so happened to break out.

"Yeah Tako-head chill out."

Ryohei crossed his arms across his chest and he huffed. Gokudera flinched and he stopped trying to lunge himself onto Mukuro. Gokudera shot an angry glare Ryohei's way for he was sure that his hearing was not impaired in the least.

"W-what did you call me?" Gokudera growled angrily when he noticed the door was finally opened but he didn't see anyone at the doorway.

"Ku fu fu fu fu… do you enjoy laying on the ground my dear?" Mukuro chuckled asking Haru his question as she was still on the ground under the crushing weight of the animals.

Haru was trying to push herself off the floor but the weight of the animals proved too be too much for her.

"Why would Haru like this? GET THESE ANIMALS OFF ME-DESU! NOW-DESU!" Haru raged on and the respective guardians took charge of getting their own animals off of Haru.

Haru sat up and she dusted herself off and she fixed her clothes, eyeing the little monsters carefully wondering just when they would attack her next.

"Natsu, please be nice to Haru, she's being nice enough to care for you. Please don't make her life any harder than it is already." Tsuna sighed lightly scolding his sky lion.

"G-gao… gao gao…" Natsu laid himself flat onto the ground as a sign of submission and apology.

His ears were pressed flat against his skull, his tail lay limp onto the ground, and his eyes reflected extreme sadness.

Little tears threatening to fall from the little lion's eyes feeling repentant at his actions.

"Well as long as you understand."

He slowly inched towards Haru and curled up on her lap licking her hand apologetically. "Aw… Natsu how cute." Haru giggled petting his soft mane with her hand.

"RYAA~" Uri ran over to Natsu and slapped him once again.

Natsu cried and hid behind Tsuna who only had a look of understanding and pity for the lion. He'd run away too if he was always being bullied by a little leopard.

"Uri! Stop being such a hassle! Also, be respectful to Juudaime's sky lion! As he is my boss, Uri is your animal boss!" Gokudera scolded Uri who only jumped onto Gokudera's face to enact scornful vengeance upon him.

Gokudera pried the feline away from his face and held him out away from claw length. "Is this what you did to Haru all day? You can't do that."

"Actually, Uri has never scratched me. Uri seems to like me a lot. She is always cuddling up to me, purring as she does so." Haru interrupted.

Gokudera stared at her with a confused look upon his face. Uri always tried to use his face as a scratching post every moment she got. That didn't sound like his Uri at all. His Uri wasn't that cute.

"Does she ignore you and treat you like you are lower than her?" He asked.

Haru looked at him oddly and she shook her head. Uri was such a gentle little creature towards her, but she didn't seem to like any other animal that got too close to her. Those poor things…

"No, never. She likes to follow me around, climbs onto my shoulder, and sometimes will lie on top of me and sleep while purring." Haru described what Uri had done all day.

Gokudera's look of utter dumbfounded shock was somewhat amusing. "What? What is the difference between HER and ME, Uri!" Gokudera shouted and Uri went back to trying to claw his face off again.

Everyone else started to just ignore this as it was almost a daily routine for Uri trying to claw Gokduera's face off and for Gokudera to just start fighting with a little animal.

Yamamoto placed his hand on top of his Rain dog's head with a little frown, trying to look a bit serious, but Jirou's sulking face was just too unbearably cute to stay mad at. Jirou was pretty smart and he knew that he was in trouble and he knew for what reason he was in trouble as well.

"Jirou, please be a good boy okay? Come on, be nice." Yamamoto looked at Jirou with a disappointed face and Jirou's tail sunk down, ears flat down and he whinned. He sunk his head down low and then he rolled onto his back showing his belly, which was often a submissive gesture amongst some wild canines.

Yamamoto smiled and he petted Jirou's head.

Jirou's ears perked up immediately and his tail wagged running over to Haru and he curled up right next to her happily.

Haru giggled and she petted his head happily, which aggravated Uri once again who jumped off Gokudera's head to try to slap Jirou's muzzle, in which he just expertly moved away from the moody feline.

"Now now Uri, be nice now." Haru said gently picking up Uri by the midsection to hold hug her to her chest and she smiled at the angry feline.

"T-that's not a good idea Haru." Gokudera warned her, a bit worried about how Uri was going to retaliate against her for picking her up when she was already angry.

Uri had always liked to claw at his face whenever he grabbed Uri, but for some reason Uri was not protracting her claws to lash out at Haru's rather bright and clean complexion.

"Fu fu fu~ This… is so… amusing." Mukuro said laughing to himself.

"Kangaryuu, you are the big animal here. Minus Gyuudon but he's a lazy bull. You got to be the strong one and stay calm, keep the other animals in line." Ryohei said.

"Guuaaa." Kangaryuu snorted and punched the air a couple of times to show that she was ready to take on the challenge.

"Now, miss Haru, I've heard that you've taken yourself up on the job of caring for the box animals?" Mukuro asked as he stared at her, his gaze almost piercing through her.

Haru suddenly felt the atmosphere around her freeze up with a shiver running up and down her spine and she gazed back up at Mukuro nervously who was the cause of her feeling such a way.

"Um… yes, that is quite right… and how may I help you?" Haru asked him politely not wanting to anger him.

Mukuro held out his arm and Mukurowl[1] flew down and perched onto his forearm.

"Hoo hoo~"

"Mukurowl, right?" Haru questioned looking at the white feathered cutie.

Gokudera got in between her and Mukuro defensively, glaring at him with an untrusting glare.

Mukuro just chuckled watching Gokudera with his differently colored eyes, and then he returned his gaze to the brunette haired female.

"Watch out Haru, he's nothing but trouble. He's probably onto something." Gokudera growled still never having forgiven Mukuro for all that he's done.

Mukuro smirked at Gokudera provocatively again and then he cast his look back at Haru, smiling a chilling but yet, almost harmless seeming smile. Just… something about his personality made his charming smile seem almost… chilling and dangerous.

"Ku fu fu fu~ I'm only here to ask that she could look after Mukurowl as well. It's unfair for him to not be able to socialize with the other animals, no?" He chuckled at Gokudera's extreme sense of paranoia.

"I don't think it would be that bad to look after the owl…" Haru interjected but was cut off by Gokudera's glare.

Haru clamped her mouth shut and she hadn't said anything else in fear of angering Gokudera even more.

Tsuna had Mukuro under his intense gaze as he made his way over to Gokudera, his storm guardian, and Haru, his friend.

"I don't sense anything wrong Gokudera, I'm sure it's fine." Tsuna reassured him.

"Yeah, it's not like the owl can do much harm." Ryohei said looking at the little bird, laughing mentally at how stupidly paranoid Gokudera was being.

Gokudera shot a glare quickly at Mukuro and then looked at Tsuna with a hurtful look. He still couldn't trust this man, but his boss was telling him to let it go.

He couldn't disregard his boss's wishes but he couldn't place him under harm either. It was his duty as Juudaime's future 'Right hand man' to ensure that everything he did was for the boss's sake.

Gokudera looked at the owl and then back at Haru who was currently trying to coo the oversized bird over to her.

Mukuro just chuckled to himself with his usual chuckle and he looked at the owl on his arm and with a twitch of the neck he said, "You know what to do Mukurowl." He said with an amused tone with a hint of laughter behind it.

"I knew it! He's planning something!" Gokudera shouted on the offensive.

Yamamoto waved a hand up and down as a gesture for him to calm down.

"Maa Maa, Gokudera it's probably fine. See? Mukurowl is just perching on her shoulder." Yamamoto said pointing to Mukurowl.

The owl had perched on Haru's shoulder and puffed out his feathers, which is usually a defensive stance against other cannibalistic owls, but it served to be a cute gesture in Haru's eyes.

Mukurowl then rubbed against Haru's cheek gently. "Hoo hoo~"

"Ho? What a cute thing. Going to be hard for her to resist that." Ryohei chuckled, and indeed he was correct.

Haru couldn't contain her excitement anymore. "Hahi! It's so cute-desu!" Haru squealed petting the owl with her fingers gently.

"Can Haru PLEASE look after Mukurowl as well? Haru thinks that things will be just fine. PLEASE? Pretty PLEASE?" Haru clapsed her hands together looking at Tsuna, Gokudera, Ryohei and Yamamoto with the biggest puppy dog pout she could muster.

Her eyebrows were lifted up high, eyes widened to show her saddened chocolate brown orbs, her lower lip protruded with a small little pout. Of course she didn't forget the little puppy dog whimper as well to add onto the innocent begging look routine.

She clasped her hands together and with a small tilt to the head, Haru looked undeniably adorable, not even Gokudera could lie and say that his heart had not melted a bit by seeing her like that.

It even had Jirou fooled, who stood on his hind legs, lightly pawing on Haru's cheek licking her cheek as if he were trying to cheer her up.

Jirou whinned barking at Gokudera, trotting in a circle barking in defiance over Gokudera's plea of not having Mukurowl stay with the other Vongola Gear animals.

"Ryaa~" Uri hissed at Gokudera and climbed up onto Haru's shoulders once again coiling herself around so she looked like she was a little feline scarf.

Uri's eyes were widened and she let out a small whine, being Haru's accomplice in the realm of begging to get one's desires fulfilled.

Gokudera cast his eyes to the side and cursed loudly, one hand reaching up to ruffle through his silver tresses. "Ah, damn it! FINE! I won't get angry about you taking care of Mukurowl but you better promise to stay vigilant around THIS man." Gokudera pointed an accusatory finger Mukuro's way.

Haru's pout went away as quickly as a cake would be devoured by her and Kyoko if their favorite cake shop was having a sale. She smiled brightly and she hopped a bit excitedly.

"That's great! Haru gets to play with you too Mukurowl~" Haru giggled looking at the white bird that pecked her cheek lightly.

"Aw~ I think that was a little bird kiss wasn't it? How cute~" Haru giggled.

Tsuna was happy that Haru was appeased by Gokudera's decision but what about Lal Mirch? Would this be okay with her?

"Che, I bet it was just trying to hurt you, maybe it wanted to get a taste of its meal later." Gokudera huffed under his breath still not happy about this decision at all.

Tsuna sighed at the over exaggerating friend of his. He was going to have to learn that not everything was bad. Though… this WAS Mukuro they were talking about. He hadn't felt anything bad though so he thought that it would be just fine.

"Are you sure you are okay with this? Also… would Lal Mirch be okay with this?" Tsuna asked her.

"I'm perfectly fine with it." Lal Mirch said walking out into the doorway.

Mukuro smiled and he gave Mukurowl one last look before he decided to take his leave before Gokudera would have something else to try to fight with him about.

"Well then since this is taken care of I'll be taking my leave now." Mukuro said with a slight flick of the wrist serving as his goodbye salute and he walked away.

The other four looked at each other and up at the sky to roughly guess the time.

"Well we have to go home too." Yamamoto said.

"Yeah I guess so." Tsuna nodded.

"All of you try to be good to Haru." Gokudera said looking at all of the animals there.

Ryohei was starting to jog in place wanting to go on a jog before he went home to do his homework eat dinner and then go back out on a late night jog.

"Bye bye~" Haru waved as the four left. "So Lal Mirch, why are you out here? It couldn't possibly be because you have heard me talking to the others just now, could it?" Haru questioned the little incomplete Arcobaleno.

The said Arcobaleno looked up at the sky and then checked the time with her goggles that she had adorned over her eyes.

"You are correct Haru, I'm waiting for someone. He should be here any moment now." Lal Mirch said as she spotted something descending from the sky.

Haru looked up to see something falling down as well. At first it just looked like a black spot, but it kept getting bigger and bigger so the shape of the dot became more defined as time went on.

Haru was able to make the shape out to be a person.

"Yo yo yo yo yo yo~"

Haru's face lit up once she knew who this descending person was. "Is this Giannini-san?" Haru questioned Lal Mirch who only answered with a curt head nod.

"Indeed, I am Giannini, Haru. It's nice to see you again. I was called over to see if I could help out." He said looking down at Lal Mirch who pulled out a huge stack of papers.

"This, is the information that Verde worked out when making the Vongola gear rings." Lal Mirch said handing them over to him.

Giannini took the papers and his levitating chair sunk down a bit from the weight of the stack of papers and he started to skim through the massive pile of papers.

"W-well this may take me a very long while to get these all worked through. This is all very complicated and it won't be too easy for me to understand." Giannini admitted.

"How long?" Lal Mirch asked him.

"About a month."

Haru looked down at the animals that were patiently looking up at her to play with them.

"Well, Haru's time is going to be a very long and dangerous one." Haru sighed but she is the one that decided to take up this challenge and she wasn't going to give up until she was finished.

[1]Mukurowl= Now, I understand that it's Mukuro/Mukurou. Fukurou= owl. So as a pun on his name and the animal the owl was named Mukurou, though to make it easier for the fans to understand some fansubbers spelt it as Mukurowl to make the pun more obvious. Since this way I can't possibly accidentally mess up with the spellings, I'll make the owl's name 'Mukurowl' to make it a bit more obvious about whom I am referring to.

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-Neospice12