A/N: I have returned! Sorry for the long wait!
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Chapter 12

Vongola Mansion, Italy

Lal Mirch, who now is co-boss of CEDEF, was walking in the corridors to Nonno's office to remind him she will be gone for the Arcobaleno annual meeting which was going to be the next day. Though on her way there, she heard her name being called out rather urgently. Lal turned and looked down at a floating worn box. She blinked and quickly realize it was Colonnello trying to carrying it, grinning at her sheepishly.

"Better not be another of your flirting intents or..." she narrowed her eyes at her once-upon a time student, who for a crazy reason took the Arcobaleno curse, turning him into a infant rain pacifier user that was meant for her.

"Nah...you see," he looked rather subdue for some reason, "I was cleaning his office like you told me," Lal barely contained a flinch at the thought of their previous boss of CEDEF, Iemitsu. What would they give to hear him gushing about his lovely wife or cute son, or his insane attempts to escape his paperwork. The CEDEF building is too silent of any outcries or panics of their insane leader crazy antics. Now Colonnello and her are new leaders of CEDEF until Basil is old enough to take over. Lal was so deep in her thoughts she almost missed what Colonnello was trying to tell her, "...so I found this box, but I couldn't open it, well I can but there is um, another box sealed away inside it," he looked uneasy at the end.

Lal frowned and picked up the box. Colonnello kept quiet for once and stood still as he saw his lovely teacher peer into the box. She almost dropped it and hissed, "Checkerface..."

"Nonno please excuse our intrusion, we have some classified information that can only be opened by sky flames-" Lal began as she entered quickly as Colonnello carry the worn box, but stopped when she realize he was in the middle of a meeting. She mentally cursed herself for not knocking first and waited to be invited in. "This stupid box is messing with me today," she thought annoyed with herself.

Standing in the office were the Varia, and one of the two chairs in front of the Vongola boss' desk was sideways showing Xanxus sitting like he own the chair.

"Ah Lal and Colonnello, join us we were about to begin," Nonno smiled kindly, but the bosses of CEDEF realize how tired he looked or more than usual. As they entered the second chair moved and realize it was their Arcobaleno boss, Yuni.

"Yuni?!" Colonello cried out in surprise as Lal had a self note to beat him a week long regiment of why he shouldn't show surprise for anything.

"Yuni-sama where are your guards? It isn't safe," Even though Lal does not have the curse of the Rainbow doesn't mean Yuni is not her boss. Yuni in the other hand gave her a humorless smiled as she went to greet them showing her back to the Varia and Nonno. They saw how worried she seems, "So you heard about what happened yesterday?"

"Yesterday?" Colonnello frowned trying to remember anything that could have upset their sky.

"Which brings us to the meeting," Nonno barely contained his sigh, feeling his old age, worried about how everything was falling apart. Xanxus annoyed glared at his right-hand man, Squalo who tsked, "VOII! YOU PEOPLE HAVE NO SECURITY OR SOMETHING?!" he shut the door and glanced at Mammon who mumbled something about extra pay and her purple pacifier glowed.

"Byakuran. The marshmallow idiot?" deadpanned Lal, but inside both Lal and Colonnello (even Mammon, but she isn't telling even if you give all your life savings) worried for their boss since he is her best friend and now turns out somehow even with his paranoia was kidnapped with no sign of fighting or anything.

"Great, as if that crazy trash wasn't enough, but someone crazier than him capturing him..." Xanxus growled barely containing his flames of wrath checked, "Old man, is not going to be a repeat is it?" Xanxus glared at Nonno as he side glanced at Yuni who blankly stared at the wall in front of behind Nonno. Nonno just stared at his only living son and signaled him to elaborate even though he has his suspicion on what could it be.

"Five years ago there was sudden explosion that seemed to just came out of nowhere and two bosses were critically injured and..." one young boy missing was left unspoken.

"For the record is rather impossible to injure the new Gesso boss let alone send him in critical condition, mou," Lussaria put in remembering that day feeling uneasy.

"Shishishishi," grinned rather maniacal Bel, "funny, weeks after, the two went on a frantic search and thought no one would notice." At this Yuni flinched, but it didn't went unnoticed. Xanxus put up his legs on Nonno's desk and crossed them as he glared suspiciously at Yuni who turned pale remembering that day...

Oh gosh, everything went south!
"YUNI-SAMA!"
"SO MUCH BLOOD!"
"IS IT HERS?!"
"BYAKURAN NEEDS TRANSFUSION NOW!"
But Tsuna!
"She entered into shock...her sky flames...!"
"Focus on saving them! We'll kill those bast-"
She barely hear anything around her as she felt so wretched and self-hatred. Is their own fault Tsuna was involved! And now...
Which is why at first only the two of them were allowed to look for their fellow sky...
Though as time went on, Byakuran ask helped from his famiglia, but her...
She felt too ashamed to even utter his name to her family. Is it because the less people know about him, the less guilty she will feel for even befriend him? Getthing him involved? Even if it by his flames and the Vongola sky ring recognizing him, he belongs in this world?
How can she live with herself when she saw how pure he is and taint him with the sins of world of lies and deceit they live in. Yet, the three of them were willing to sacrifice their lives to save their friends or anyone else who will be cursed just as cursed as they were. And Tsuna paid for it.
Yet, even then was in vain, a dark voice whispered within Yuni's mind.

She shook her head and looked up. Before she can respond to Xanxus unspoken question, Fran spoke up, "Tuna." They all stared at him in confusion at first, but some came to realization.

"Pardon?" Yuni asked feeling out of her depth.

"OI! Shut up froggy," Bel threw knives at the mist user in-training.

"I'm surrounded by idiots, boss," cried Levithan as he got a pillow and a wine glass ready to be thrown by his precious boss. The rest of the Varia glared in annoyance at the hypocrisy of their lightning Varia user.

"Tu..na?" Nonno tried out the word as if trying to remember where he heard it before.

"Oi! Didn't you lot went to Japan recently?" Colonnello asked feeling a little uneasy at the familiarity of the word.

"You better be talking about the fish from over there," Lal hissed not liking where the conversation might be going.

"Shishishi, he just going native that's all," Bel said as he sharpen his knives, but everyone thought "Like he** we believe you!"

"Xanxus," Yuni began carefully as the man in question glared at her, "was he there?"

"Sky flame users are so obvious and worse secret keepers," muttered Xanxus. Yuni twitched.

"You're a sky flame user too," Nonno pouted childishly feeling amused. They sweatdropped.

"Flames of wrath." Xanxus responded as if it explained everything.

"Speaking of sky flame," Lal began, "I am in need of one to open this...box."

"Right! You see," Colonnello placed the box in the middle of the room as everyone surrounded them to see what is so special an old box, "we found it within...Iemitsu things," they took out the black and white checkered box carefully since it was rather heavy. Mammon flinched at the sight of it as Yuni blank faced volunteered to open it. She sat down and cupped her orange pacifier summoning some of her sky flame to the box, opening it easily. With no prompting she took out something from the box. She frowned and looked inside as she felt something. It was a letter. Rather light and.. "What the he-?!" Colonnello glared at the box Lal frowned as well. "Strange the box was rather heavy, but..."

"Oh there is something in there," Yuni contemplated, "But we can't access to it until...something or certain factors come to pass?" Closing her eyes holding the chekered box, Yuni then nodded to herself feeling her sky flames within her pacifier agreed at her theory.

"So what does it say?" Fran bluntly asked. Yuni quickly opened the letter:

Tri-ni-set's sky last stand

"What? Tri-ni-sette..?" Nonno thought out loud. The three Arcobaleno glanced at their sky who looked frustrated.

"You! You baby boss trash," Xanxus growled at her, "Where?"

Yuni bit her lip, "I don't remember."

Xanxus without a word stood up and as if an unspoken command, the rest of the Varia followed their boss out.

Before he left the room, Xanxus glared at his father, "Don't let those scum touch my stuff." In other words keep him informed for anything.

Mammon left last and asked, "Same time?"

"Of course Viper," Yuni nodded looking distracted by something, Mammon frowned at her, but nodded, disappearing into nothing.

TakeSushi, Namimori, Japan

Everyone was doing something around the TakeSushi restaurant, but not no one did it with much heart into it ever since Tsu-kun passed out in fever the evening before. Dr. Shamal wasn't even in the flirting mood let alone when he saw Nana (of course it helped when Tsuyoshi was casually getting out his most sharpest intimidating sushi knife and sharpening it).

Tsu-kun's fever would not let up and it reminded Reborn of the other times he had it, but this time was the worse. His fever was in dangerous levels and didn't last couple of minutes or hours, but all through the night to evening increasing at each hour.

"Father I have to go to Italy," Tsunayoshi told his father when he return after almost 5 years of absence. He froze and stared at his son as he hold his cup of sake in midair.
"Huh? Tuna-fish what...?"
"I need to go to Italy, Father," Tsuna's eyes flickered golden for a second that if it were not Iemitsu's Vongola intuition, he would have missed it.
"Well, we can go tomorrow," Iemitsu tried to sway his son as he didn't like the fact to go since he felt mixed that though something important will happen, something horrible and irreversible will happen as well. The fact that his son's showing signs of his Vongola blood even through the seal that was put upon five years before didn't help with his nerves.
"No. It must be today." This floored Iemitsu as he felt his son's strong resolve and sighed. Covering up his worries, he grinned goofily at his wife telling her to pack some clothes because they were going to Italy tonight.

"His flames seems to be unstable or more so, Reborn."

"Really? You don't say," a sarcastic child-like voice responded.

"GWAHAHAHA! SEE LAMBO-SAMA'S SUBORDINATE IS DOING THAT GOING TO BIG SELF THING LIKE LAMBO-SAMA!"

A black and white chess board fluttered in the background as a strong ambiguous flame that silence his feelings made Tsunayoshi...uneasy.

Do you remember Vongola's True Sky?

Funny he remembers hearing something similar before and the voice...

"Tsuna! Please get better," Takeshi felt the familiar darkness trying to get hold of Takeshi as he worried for the little(?) boy wondering maybe he over did it and didn't notice if his friend was sicker than he thought.

"Boss! Please wake up!" Chrome worried as Chikusa and Ken just blankly stared at the wall next to them.

"Come on little bunny, wake up. Is no fun to try to possess you if you're not able to fight back!" Mukuro sneered rather cruelly. It was as if he was making it louder to fill the uneasy silence of the usual loud mouth sun guardian next to him.

Tsunayoshi did not know why he had to go, but he dreamt a strange man with a checker-face mask asking him something and staring at him as if sizing him up. Normally Tsuna would have cowered and be Dame about it, but deep inside he felt tired. Tired at being looked down upon, tired at being ignored, tired at being laughed at, tired trying his best to calm his mother's cries at being forgotten, tired at not trying to be more than Dame-Tsuna.
So he gave him a piece of his mind!
The man was amused and seemed satisfied. Nodding to himself, the man told Tsunayoshi when his father visits, tell him to take his whole family to Italy as soon as possible.
"Why?"
"Because your wish will come true,"
"...I no longer believe in wishes," the young boy told the man looking away.
The checker-face man went down to the boy's level as he cupped his face (a strange glint in his eyes) and whispered, "That is not what your eyes say, don't be afraid. Use that spunk you had earlier, don't look away from your goal, always look ahead."
"...I'll try mister," looking younger than he looks still unsure, but felt a bittersweet flame within him engulf his soul. As if he just sealed his fate.

"... you can't contact your boss, Shoichi?" Tsu-kun barely heard the question as he came back to the conscious world. His whole body felt sore and for a second felt rather big, but felt himself settle to being small. He moaned as he used all his will just to open his eyes even if is a little. He groaned again at the bright light.

"Dame-Tsu comes alive again," huffed Reborn, "and I didn't even shot you."

"Re-re, coughed, Reborn?" Tsu-kun's throat hurt as he tried to call his tutor.

"Shamal you perv, your patient came back to the living!" called out Reborn. Tsu-kun's eyes focus at the now clear image of the sun Arcobaleno. Though soon he got cross eyed staring at a cup of water Shamal came in as Tsu-kun zooned out.

"Had a good nap Dame-Tsu?" Reborn asked as Shamal checked Tsu-kun half-heartedly.

"Yeah..." Tsu-kun frowned trying to grasp his fevered dreams.

"Dame-Tsu...?" Before Reborn can asked, Nana came rushing in and almost crushed her little boy.

"I already lost your father and now..." Nana began crying releasing her tears for her only son close call as Tsu-kun frowned in concentration.

"Father..." Tsu-kun gasped and felt drained once more, but determine as his eyes flashed gold at Reborn surprise black eyes, "I need to go to Italy as soon as possible." As he spoke a soft song echoed into Tsu-kun's mind as he felt his older (present self?) memories starting to settle.

The Sea knows no bounds.
The Clam passes down its form from Generation to Generation.
The Rainbow appears from time to time before fading away.

Reborn pulled his fedora down as Leon licked his finger before turning into a phone, ignoring the questioning gazes of Nana and Shamal, he made an important call. I am too old for this, Reborn thought waiting for the person to pick up. Reborn was worried for his student's fate and sighed internally, and I guess I am going soft after all.

Vongola Mansion, Italy

Hayato sighed and tried not to look at the five innocent rings. One never found, four are no more, and two are left behind, the storm guardian thought morbidly. Trying to distract himself while doing his homework he missed by his trip in Japan, it somehow led him think about a little boy who isn't little with determined golden eyes. I wonder how is Tsunayoshi-sama doing? he wondered, but then froze, Wait Tsunayoshi-sama?! Since when I think like...

"Argh!" Hayato pulled his silver hair in frustration. Suddenly the door in the Vongola's heir office slammed open, surprising Hayato into silence. Reynardo was muttering curses stomping into the office not realizing someone was in the room. The Vongola storm guardian felt a strange pull in his being like a vacuum sucking in something toward the Decimo.

Reynardo froze and turned to Hayato and stared like a deer in front of headlights for a split second, but schooled his face to "I am superior than you."

"What are you staring at Storm?" sneered Reynardo and Hayato felt himself back to normal.

"Che! Whatever," Hayato muttered, but mentally Hayato worried because he thought for sure his boss was coming in later like an hour. Worse, if he notices the Vongola rings...

"What. Is. This?" too late Reynardo saw them and with void of emotion leaving Hayato worry for his life. Of course it didn't help the vacuum feeling is back only stronger.

Is not killer intent, then what is it? Hayato thought, but out loud, "I don't understand Decimo."

Reynardo threw the rings on the carpet in front of the Vongola storm guardian. The lightning, rain, sun, mist rings thrown as if nothing and Hayato had to bitterly swallow any profanities at seeing the Vongola ring heirlooms being treated as such. "I don't know..."

"Oh no! You thought it was funny, didn't you?!" Hayato was disturbed as he stared at Decimo's black eyes as his short midnight black hair spiking around crackling with some kind of energy as he felt being drained somewhat even as Decimo was across the desk, "Rubbing it on my face and proving I am not worthy of being the tenth?!"

"I don't know how they got there," Hayato respond as he felt little strange, "they were there when I came in." Wanting to leave the office to not face an angered Decimo, the right hand man asked to be excused. Reynardo just huffed and went to pick up the rings and glared at the storm guardian. Before he responded, Reynardo paled significantly or more so with his natural pale skin. He clench his hands, then sighed looking familiarly resigned...

Next thing Hayato knew Reynardo somehow rushed at Hayato and pushed him against the wall lifting him from the front of his shirt. He saw...black flames? Well whatever the stuff surrounding Decimo grew larger and realized too late that it was swallowing his different flames! Naturally Hayato panicked. How is this logically possible?! He must be...

An UMA!

"You Mafia think you know everything and must control everything! All that power will corrupt you, you know!" Reynardo yelled at his face as Hayato thought how hypocrite of him, "Never caring those who want nothing to do with you or get involved like they have no choice!" At this Hayato thought groggy of a little boy with strong sky flames living his life outside the mafia and still being friends with those in the mafia. He is so kind and powerful and Hayato was at ease around Tsunayoshi-sama, but would not admitted to anyone. I must be really light-headed to think such futile things, Hayato thought as he felt losing consciousness as he barely felt his flickering of his flames.

Suddenly he fell to the ground. Dazed, Hayato tried to look around him as he heard shouts and clanking or something breaking. He closed his eyes and focus on his breathing, trying to focus.

"...LEAVE THEN! SEE IF I CARE! YOU BOTH CAN JUST GO AND GIVE UP YOUR GUARDIANSHIP!" At this Hayato open his eyes and saw how the office was scorched with his flames and...

"Kyoya!?" Hayato tried to stand up, but gasped as he fell down hard against the wall unable to move.

"What. Did. You. Do. Dirt?" the cloud was realizing strong killer intent toward Decimo when he saw his fellow guardian unnaturally weak no thanks to Decimo. Reynardo in the other hand just slowly got up from the puddle of his own blood cleaning off the blood on his face and hissing at his broken wrist courtesy of (ex) Vongola cloud guardian.

"Psh. Wouldn't you like to know," Reynardo's left eye was shadowed by his only hair bang with a humorless smile. He walked past Kyoya who was watching him ready to attack if necessary. He went down on one knee and took the storm ring from a confused Hayato, "You are now released and..." Reynardo closed his eyes as he put his hand on Hayato's head, who gasped.

Kyoya spring into action only stopped when Hayato shout out with more energy, "Wait! He's...healing me?"

"You are still young and naïve," Reynardo limped toward his desk. Wary, they left Decimo's office and the six Vongola rings. Just as they closed the door they barely caught Reynardo muttered, "I pity your true sky."

They walked silently through the hallway toward the Infirmary when Kyoya's phone vibrated. Without looking the caller ID, he answered. Hayato took advantage at the reprieve of not walking and leaned against the wall. He still had not recovered whatever Decimo did with him even with the little energy or flame he returned.

"What?" Kyoya hissed and Hayato worried. The cloud user already still under affect of his earlier bloodlust and whatever was said in the other side of the phone must be serious to increase it quickly again. He hanged up and turned his back on Hayato as an invisible wind blew his coat like a cloak flowing behind him. Hayato twitch at this, but sober up at his words.

"The two of the Tri-ni-set sky will soon call the third."

Hayato felt a strong fear as he thought about the third sky...

The storm's phone went off as Hayato robotically answered. It was Reborn. Reborn demanded expecting no response, "I need the two of you to help me guard Dame-Tsu, we are on our way." The line was cut. Reborn hanged up.

Hayato felt an impending panic attack when Kyoya glared at the weak herbivore. "He still owes me a fight, herbivore." Hayato blinked and realized the last powerful sky flame user is coming to Italy and Tsunayoshi-sama will need all the help he can get from the unknown kidnapper and like he** he let anyone hurt him!

With strong resolve he quickly followed the cloud user outside ignoring the panic mansion of the recent kidnapping of Yuni, the second captured sky.

A/N: Wonder when is the next chapter *shifting eyes*...

The next chapter will be all in Italy and time is running out...
Anyways one reviewer asked me about pairings in the story, and actually at the beginning there was going to be one, but now it would be too much (for now anyways) for the story.