Household Crisis's

Next morning...

Mai woke up to help out in the kitchens, but its just Haru. 'Ah? Kyoko slept in?'

'No...she was gone when she woke...maybe she went to take a shower?' Haru suggested. 'At any rate, let's start making breakfast.' during breakfast making, an alarm sounded but she ignored it. The boys will get her if she's needed.

But still, a fully-cooked meal, the blonde did not show up.

'...that's a long bath desu...' Haru sweatdropped. 'The boys will be here soon too...' Mai activated her radar.

But...

'She's not marinating herself in the tub, she's not here!' Mai sputtered out.

'Hahi?! How would you know that?!' Haru yelped in alarm.

'Details details! For now we have to tell the guys what's wrong but before that, we check her bed or the showers! She may have left something before leaving.' Mai cried, not wanting to explain her powers to a civilian as they scampered for the girls' room where they tiptoed quietly as I-Pin is still asleep. Haru climbed to the upper bed where she found a note...

'She's really gone!'

'You girls are late!' Gokudera said wryly.

'Nevermind that! Trouble!' Haru cried panickingly.

'We know...its Hibird right?' Yamamoto grinned.

'No! Kyoko-san's not in the base!' Mai groused out. 'We can't find her anywhere!'

'She what?!'

'S-she left a note...' Haru choked out. 'I'm going to my house. I'll bring back snacks for Lambo-kun and I-Pin-chan.' she read aloud. She gave the note to Tsuna who read it again.

'That Sasagawa...she's not the type to be reckless.' Yamamoto commented thoughtfully.

'She must be really worried about Ryohei.' Reborn told them.

'We understand that but going out when Millefiore practically painted bulls' eyes on us?' Mai drawled sarcastically.

'Mai.' Tsuna spoke to the foreign girl who nodded.

'Wakatta.' she vanished in a spark, startling Haru.

'Hahi?!'

'Er...long story.' Gokudera coughed.

'...alone?! But there's a lot of enemies outside!' Giannini cried in protest as he put on the radar screen. 'There are so many enemy signals and one of whom, a powerful one!'

'She'll be alright.' Reborn held out Mai's ring, currently in Mammon Chains. 'She didn't even need a ring to activate her powers. They will never find her...and she's skilled enough to defeat Levi of the Varia, an A-Class assassin during the Ring Conflict. For now, we focus on locating Hibari. Let's leave Kyoko to her.'

'We will go to where Hibird is through the B-Hatch.' said Lal. 'Just remember, we are up against Gamma the Lightning, one of the Captains of Millefiore's Black Spell Division.' the boys exchanged looks.

'Lightning my ass, if there's anyone who deserved anything referring to mastery of lightning, its Mai!' Gokudera grumbled. 'He's just a cheap two-bit hack compared to her!'

'We agree on that, Lal-san...she's a true lightning master.' said Tsuna confidently. 'We all have full confidence in her. As soon as she ensures Kyoko-chan's safety, she can either be sufficient protection or reinforcement by herself. For now let's focus on gathering everybody and bring Hibari-san his boxes if he really is there.' he said optimistically. The boys ran on ahead.

'...'

xxx

The residential areas...

Nobody paid attention to a girl dressed in goth loli even though her looks are commented upon favorably and she simply said she's going to a cosplay party hosted by a japanese friend. She located Kyoko in Hana's house. It was easy. One's bio-signals never change. They stay that way forever unless their emotions cause it to flicker.

But as she walked around, she saw numerous men in black...she released enough electromagnetic waves to mess up their cars and their cell phones but enough not to get detected. She destroyed their cars and phones, and other gadgets. Smirking in glee, she then caused a ruckus by using sharp, hardened lightning to pierce gas tanks...and let it burn...and explode!

BOOM!

She did that to more and more mafia cars, effectively killing all enemies within town...before going to Hana's house.

'Mai-san!' Kyoko freaked out as Mai literally climbed into the window...to the second floor outside the house!

'What's with the explosions?!' Hana demanded.

'Oh, I wouldn't know...they just blew up on my way here.' Mai shrugged. 'I think my life is more important than checking out the explosions, hows and whys. I'm only a kid.'

O.O

'Urk...good point.' Hana cringed. And she wondered how many of their peers time-traveled exactly. Kyoko and what she told her is shocking enough as it is.

'Anyway, time to go back now Kyoko.' said Mai. 'Tsuna-sama and the boys are worried...and the people who harmed some of your friends and families are still lurking around.' she said softly.

'You're oddly not worried about yours.' Hana deadpanned.

'This future era is different from the time we know. We were taken to a parallel future world where people here never knew me.' Mai told her. 'Here, my family doesn't live here and are not targets. To these people who hunt us, we don't exist on their hit list. I can worry more for the others than my own.'

xxx

Back to Vongola Base...

Hibari received the goods, taking four Cloud Rings for himself, and the boxes obtained. He tested them out on the grounds.

The Caltrops come out as flames first and penetrate into the soil, concrete or reinforced floors. And anything Hibari considers enemy, the caltrops will automatically stab into enemy feet as many times until they run out of flames. He was also getting a good kick out of the other weapons and other items.

'I have certainly received the goods.' said Hibari.

'Mai also entrusted this to you since you're the only adult guardian left.' said Reborn as Tsuna gave him the rather big suitcase. 'She trusts that for Vongola, you'd know what to do with that. That's around 712 billion yen since she spent 288 billion on us so we can fight back.' Kusakabe looked dumbstruck as Hibari's eyes widened.

'And where did she get that money?!' Kusakabe sputtered out. 'Not even Vongola spends so much unless its utterly necessary!'

'She's rich.' Tsuna said with a wince. 'She's wealthy enough to pay Japan's national debt ten times before going broke.' he said with a wince. Kusakabe's jaws dropped and Hibari looked thoughtful at the money. 'Although I wonder how will Mai explain to her future self here though...here, Fiore Potter is not a Vongola Guardian. In this world, she's an ordinary civilian in England. This Vongola never met her as she never chose to run away from her horrible family when they came to Japan for a business deal when she was six.' he explained. 'Thus this Vongola never had her as the Lightning Guardian.'

'And if our future selves vanished to be replaced by us...no doubt Future Mai got replaced too.' said Gokudera. 'Disappearing from England and caused a ruckus.'

'Is that so...' Hibari glanced at Kusakabe who moved to stand up and leave.

'She also made contact with the scientist who created the Boxes.' Reborn added as the two men froze. 'She paid him off to make the family customized box animals...and in two weeks or possibly more, we will get it.'

'Who...is this person?' Hibari asked him, his eyes flashing in anticipation.

There were three scientists involved but two died. The last one became an underground arms dealer.' said Reborn. 'This scientist is Koenig. She gave me the information.'

xxx

'Reborn...they're obviously interested in future Fiore...but how can we explain away why they look different? Can we use the Omerta excuse again?' Tsuna asked him. 'Nobody knows what Mai truly looks like before she...changed permanently.'

'Aa. An Omerta between our circle.' said Reborn. 'I only told Lal because she is an Arcobaleno and she swore to Omerta as well.'

'I hope we can do it with just that...Hibari-san can really be persuasive if he puts his mind into it...' Tsuna shivered. 'I hope they don't meet her yet until they see her true form first from their digging.'

xxx

'A fever eh...?' Mai frowned as she scanned I-Pin's bio-signature. 'Last I checked, this base is squeaky clean I could use the floor as a sub-par mirror.'

'Er...she and Lambo-chan played in the bathtub too long...'

'That explains it.' Mai chuckled. 'I'll go get Yamamoto-kun to fix her.' she said, carrying I-Pin into her arms. 'The ones in this box are all pain relievers...I guess with senpai and future Yamamoto around, they really don't need fever medicine.'

'That's so impractical-desu!' Haru cried in annoyance. 'What if somebody got sick and they're not here?!'

'Er...boys being boys, they idiotically wait it out?'

'NANI?!' Kyoko and Haru aren't too happy about that...

The girls unleashed their fury on the boys, blaming them for not having fever medicine and only just painkillers. Since their future selves aren't available, they're taking it out on them to numerous sweatdrops.

'So Gokudera-kun, Yamamoto-kun I need you two to work together!' Mai chirped. 'Disintegrate only the cold-causing bacteria, then cool down the fever! Can you two do it? Concentrate OK? Ryohei-senpai isn't here so it falls to the two of you to relieve a fever!'

'Erm, right...' the boys gulped as they took I-Pin into a room.

'Can they really do it, Mai-chan?' Haru frowned, her cheeks puffed. 'I have no confidence in irresponsible boys-desu!'

'Maa maa, its their ten years self, not our boys.' Tsuna chuckled. 'I'm sure our present selves have more...common-sense and sensibility...' he defended feebly and sheepishly.

'I hope so-desu!' Haru grumbled. 'We have an incomplete medical kit-desu!'

'We'll buy complete ones, don't worry!'

xxx

'This is scary...haha.' Yamamoto chuckled. 'To think our flames can be used for something like this too but this is my first time playing doctor...you got experience?' he asked Gokudera nervously.

'Only in fighting injuries, not this!' Gokudera choked out. 'But Juudaime is counting on us and this is just another training exercise...yeah, that's it...gulp...' he stammered out. They have to make this work!

xxx

And so...

Kyoko checked the temperature to see a normal temperature. 'Wow! I-Pin chan's temperature went back to normal!' she cried in astonishment.

'Present-selves are reliable than the older-selves! I'm astonished-desu!' Haru chimed as the Guardians sweatdropped. 'I-Pin-chan you OK now?'

'Aye!' I-Pin chirped before turning to the boys and bowed. 'Thank you!'

'Haha, don't mention it!' Yamamoto grinned before slinging an arm on Gokudera. 'For first-time impromptu doctors, we did pretty well!'

'Get your arm off me baseball-freak!' Gokudera cried while blushing from embarrassment due to the fact that he really is shocked that he did it right. 'But still, I never thought our abilities could be used that way...'

'As long as you continue to broaden your minds and imaginations, our abilities are just mere words but a very broad range of ways to use them.' Reborn told them. 'Keep on thinking and studying, you'll surely discover more.'

'Ussu!'

'Yeah!'