Raidon / Tsuna: 13 years
Nana: 33 years
Luna: 31 years - physical: 25 years
Salazar: 1,039 years - physical: 29 years
Fon: 47 years - physical: 25 years
Reborn: 44 years - physical: 13 years
Fred & George: 34 years - physical 29 years
Kyoya: 15 years

Conventions:
"text" - speech in Japanese
'text' - thoughts
'text' - telepathy

This chapter is the prologe of the new part. Meanwhile Tsuna and Raidon are 13 and this part contains summaries of the last four years. The story line will start in the next chapter.

Enjoy the next chapter.

On a Saturday morning, Tsuna and Raidon were training their magic in their warded magic lab of the mansion. With the focus runes it was easier to access their magic and use it for spells. They didn't need to do special movements like wand users. Over the last four years, the twins had tried several methods. They had realized that with the focus runes and a clear intent, they didn't need to move or speak for spell casting. In some cases movements or words could support the spell to direct the effect or focus the intent. But with their training in mental arts from their earliest age it was easy to focus their intent to cast. Salazar had documented everything to write a handbook about how to learn magic with the focus runes. Additionally, the adult magical users had documented their struggles to relearn magic with the runes to replace their wands. The clear result of the experiments was that the mind arts were a must. Salazar explained that the mind arts were a mandatory course at Hogwarts at the beginning and he could never understand why the British had banned it. With the mind arts castings was easier no matter which focus. Salazar had promoted the focus runes at several governments worldwide. The next school year an experiment would start in several magical schools all over the world. In each school a class, consisted of wizards, witches and Squibs, would start to learn magic with focus runes based on Salazar's handbook. If this would be accepted well, the program would be expanded. Most governments were enthusiastic about a way to include the Squibs in a better way in the magical world.

The twins had been home schooled in the mundane subjects since their sixth birthday. Salazar and Luna had explained Nana the circumstances of Raidon's reincarnation. Additionally they had described the mother the descent of Iemitsu thus the boys and the mafiaworld. Nana had been shocked, but pragmatism had won out quickly and she had accepted the home schooling to prepare her two sons as best as possible. Raidon would become a Lord with 25 and both boys could be involved in the Mafia world as Vongola heirs, because of that Salazar had insisted to teach them like heirs of noblemen. That means the twins had been learning many subjects over the years: mathematics; languages like Japanese, Italian, English and Latin; philosophy; natural science like physics, biology and chemistry; social science; history; arts and music; etiquettes and customs of the magical and mundane worlds and important countries like Japan, Italy and Britain; last but not least fighting with weapons and unarmed. Most of the subjects had been easy for Raidon, because he had the memories of his previous life though some of the subjects had been new ones. He had helped Tsuna and in that way they had excelled both in most of the courses. Salazar, Luna and later Verde were the tutors and could meet the boys' needs individually. The twins weren't genius, but very intelligent. Especially Raidon knew how important knowledge was and refused to be dependent on someone else like in his previous life with Hermione. To keep the balance and avoid social distance, the twins would play and connect with children of their age in the childcare.

Since their ninth birthday the two boys had learned and practiced their magic alongside their mundane subjects. The lessons were challenging and differed greatly from the ones at magical schools. After they had mastered the basics of the subjects within two and a half years, the lessons had changed to project based working. In the projects, the twins had had to combine several subjects at once, which had pursued holistic approaches and creative thinking. According to their tutors, they were ready to take their OWLs in Transfiguration, Charms, Defense, Potions, Herbology, History, Arithmancy, Ancient Runes, Care of Magical Creatures and Astronomy. They had decided to take the exams at the Japanese Ministry, which would start in a week. After reaching that milestone, Raidon and Tsuna would enter Namimori Middle School, which would start in three weeks. Everyone knew that the twins would excel the school due to their home schooling, but the goal was to integrate them better with children of their age. Their tutors would still teach them magic on NEWTs level and higher as well as mundane subjects like laws, economics and other languages in their free time.

The twins finished their studies to join the others for lunch. Both had planned to study the whole day, but Reborn had prevented that by inviting the usual gang after lunch. Over the last four years several kids about their age had joined their fighting lessons in the afternoon.

One day Kyoya had brought along Hiko. Since then Raidon would spar with Kyoya and Tsuna with Hiko, that way the spars were even. Sometimes they would switch partners, but afterwards Hiko and Tsuna would protest loudly about the increased number of bruises. Meanwhile Hiko saw Raidon as second big brother and called him Rai-nii. After some grudge Kyoya had accepted and permitted it. She used the honorific 'kun' for Tsuna, which demonstrated that she distinguished between the twins; Raidon was a protector and Tsuna a friend.

Yamamoto Takeshi had been the next joining. His father had sent him to the childcare one day and Takeshi had stumbled in the garden by accident or rather by Reborn induced encounter. Takeshi had come back for the training sessions after that day. The last three, Sasagawa Ryohei, Sasagawa Kyoko and Kurokawa Hana, had joined after their rescue from some bullies by Raidon. Showing that the people saving thing was still intact for Raidon, also in his new life. Ryohei had tried to protect the two girls, but there were too many for him and he had been beaten up before Raidon's arrival. Afterwards Hana and Kyoko had refused to become damsel in distress another time. Both girls had thrown themselves into training and had excelled after two years.

The first few weeks, Kyoya had had problems with the newcomers in the sessions, because of their crowding. He had been more brutal during those weeks. But slowly the new ones except Ryohei had grown on him. Takeshi was a natural fighter, because of that he could keep up after some sessions. The girls had struggled through the fighting training and he had started to respect them after some weeks. Extreme was the only word to describe Ryohei. He did everything extreme: training, speaking, plain everything in his life. He was definitely too loud and hyperactive for Kyoya. The most annoying traits were that he didn't get a hint and didn't respect the personal space of others. There was no way that Kyoya could accept that empty-headed idiot. Fortunately, his Sky had recognized that and kept them apart as much as possible.

Raidon and Tsuna finished to clean their magic lab, as a loud BOOOOOOM rang out and the building was shaking from a big explosion. The boys looked at each other with big eyes and then ran out of the room.

Luna was sitting on the grass under a tree in the garden. Her familiar Flidais was curled around her with the head on her lap. The blond witch stroked the back of the purring fey dragon. She had had to infuse her magic and flames for six months until Flidais hatched. The waiting had been gruel and according to the others she had pouted a lot during that time. When the little fey dragon had hatched, she couldn't believe her eyes. That mostly unknown dragon race was ancient and hadn't been seen for at least a millennium. Fey dragons were small with colorful and shimmering scales. Flidais was mostly turquoise with bright yellow scales on the underside and orange scales as highlights all over. She was the size of a lioness with a 3" long tail and 13" wingspan. The wings consisted of membranes, which were transparent for the most part. The membrane sections near the body were a soft turquoise. The wings were reminiscent of a dragonfly, the same structure and color, only bigger and sturdier. Fey dragons used trill, chirp and growl sounds to communicate among each other, but could use telepathy to interact with other creatures and humans. The most prominent ability was the breath, which influenced the perception of the persons and creatures concerned. Flidais could change the effect of her breath from hallucinogenic, forgetful to increase perception. With the last effect Luna was able to get clearer visions. Fey dragons had got their name because of their small size, colorful scales, the transparent wings and abilities. All these traits reminded the Magicals of feys.

The blond witch drifted slowly in a vision. After a few minutes she emerged the trance like state with a big smile. The time had come. She needed to tell Salazar. Before Luna could plan anything else a loud BOOOOOOM came from the mansion. She shook her head in annoyance, but rose to her feed and walked slowly to the mansion.

Salazar was sitting in his study together with Verde, Fon and Reborn waiting for Neville Longbottom and Katie Bell who joined them in the study shortly after. The wizard and witch had been living in the mansions for two years. Both had left Britain five years ago because of Luna's warning about the planned attacks against goblins and other magical creatures. They had travelled around the world and studied the flora and fauna, magical and mundane, in different countries. Neville had concentrated on the flora for his Herbology mastery and Katie on the fauna for her Care of Magical Creatures mastery. Both had passed their mastery two years ago and had come to Namimori through Luna's meddling. During their travels both had collected all kinds of seeds, plants, feathers, hairs, blood, venom and other magical creature parts.

They had gathered in the study to discuss a plan to establish a sales system for the focus runes all over the world. With the planned experiments in several schools worldwide, the first step had been completed. But they needed to develop a plan to sell that new method. For the experiments in the four schools in Japan, Australia, France and USA they could handle the roughly 50 students. Fortunately the school years started differently in each country. But if the experiments would be successful and the focus runes would be accepted, they would need shops worldwide. That case was realistic, because of that they were discussing the possibilities.

It wasn't a simple task, because of the required technical equipment to liquefy the magical substances. Most of the magical users couldn't handle such machines. After several hours of discussions they decided to use the mundane's franchise concept. That means they would sell licenses to rune experts and masters worldwide to operate the shops on-site. Verde would build a laboratory with the necessary equipment. Instructed magic users would operate the machines. The magical substances would be sent in magic hermetic containers - one per customer - through a rune portal between the shops and the lab. The potions to identify the magical substances of a customer would be provided by licensed potion masters. The shop owners would be responsible for the organization of the magical substances, although that could be changed in the future. If the product and concept were successful, Neville and Katie would establish a central procurement as option for the shops.

They were discussing the next steps to execute the concept like the search for rune experts and masters, as a loud BOOOOOOM rang out and the building was shaking from a big explosion. The attendees looked at each other with big eyes. Salazar and Verde started cursing. No one supervised the chaos twins.

"Anu, did you let Fred and George in the lab alone?"

'Y…yes, but they promised no explosions or other destructions!'

"Let me guess, they have complimented you quasi charmed you. You should have known better. This wasn't the first time. Because of that I told you to never let them alone in. Either Verde or I shall be with them."

'Yes, the next time I will stay strong. Pro…promise.'

"How bad is it?"

'They are injured, but nothing lethal. The lab is chaos, but can be repaired. Your improved rune circle could contain most of the explosion. It appears worse than it really is.'

"Thank you, Anu."

Over the last five years, Fred and George had expanded their business Weasley's Wizard Wheezes all over the world. They had promoted Lee Jordan to Chief Executive Officer of WWW to handle the daily business and execute the expansions. The Weasley twins had used the free time to research new items together with Verde. The three inventors worked well together. Fred and George were creative and came by with new ideas continuously. Verde was the reason of the trio. Sometimes the redheads would overshoot the mark, but Verde would restrain them or enforce at least appropriate safety measures. With the combination of magic and science the trio had invented some incredible items. Additionally the twins had developed a new line of prank products, which had been muggle compatible. That means these products could be used for Non-Magicals. Next steps would be to expand in the muggle world to sell these products there.

Two years ago, the trio had bonded with the ritual Death had offered for Raidon's guardians. Fred and George had known since the first meeting with the scientist that they wanted to bond with him. But Verde hadn't been that confident and had struggled. Three years later, the redheads had achieved to destroy all walls of the green-haired scientist and convinced him of the bonding. The ritual had been held with the family only.

The shadowfoxes accompanied the twins always. Fred called his vixen Nyx after the Greek goddess of the night and daughter of Chaos. George's fox was named Apep after the Egypt god who embodied chaos. Both familiars did their namesakes justice. As Salazar had predicted, the shadowfoxes could manipulate shadows to travel from on shadow to another as well as transport objects with this method. Additionally they can increase or decrease shadows in an area to change lighting conditions. The quartet had caused a lot of havoc. In some cases Salazar had had to use Midir's breath to paralyze them to keep control and give everyone a pause.

At that moment Fred and George were bored. Everyone was occupied with something: Tsuna and Raidon were studying; Luna was somewhere; Nana was shopping with a friend; the remaining guardians were discussing in Salazar's study. They weren't allowed to go alone in their lab. Usually that wasn't a problem, because Verde would be with them. But today he was discussing with the others and the twins didn't want to join. All of a sudden the two redheads looked at each other smirking. They had got an idea. The twins walked to their lab whistling. As predicted they couldn't enter, not yet.

"Our lovely and…"

"graceful Lady Anu."

'Yes, Forge and Gred.'

"Please, let us in our lab."

'Sorry, but no. Salazar forbade it. Alone you are too destructive.'

"Anu-hime, you are intelligent…"

"and old enough…"

"to decide for yourself. Do you really think…"

"that we would destroy something? And you are…"

"strong enough to protect us and the others."

'But Salazar…'

The twins smirked, because they had heard the hesitation in her voice.

"You are experienced enough…"

"to decide it."

'Ok, but no explosions or other destructions.'

"We promise."

Half an hour later their cauldron exploded with a loud BOOOOOOM and the twins were slung away. They hit the wall hard and lost consciousness. All over both bodies were bruises, scratches and burns. Fortunately none of the injuries were lethal. The rune circle of Salazar contained the explosion, but the blast was strong enough to wreak havoc on the equipment.

Salazar apparated in front of the lab door and entered the lab. Sighing the wizard searched the chaos twins in the devastated lab. As he found them, he walked to both and checked their condition via diagnosis spells. Salazar recognized relieved that Fred and George weren't harmed seriously. Both had concussions, which were the worst injuries. Everything could be healed with standard potions and bed rest.

"Flora."

A small house elf popped into the study. Salazar had purchased one finally a month ago to support with the household and garden. Everyone was occupied enough with work or projects to justify an house elf.

"Yes, master Salazar."

"Bring my potion case from my lab, please."

Meanwhile Verde, Raidon and Tsuna arrived in the lab worried. While Salazar was explaining the results, Flora appeared again with the requested potion case. A quarter of an hour later, the chaos twins were lying in their bed. Potions and some healing spells had healed most of their injuries. Verde was sitting beside the bed to watch them and enforce the bed rest, when they would wake up.

Despite the explosion the occupants continued with their planned actions. After lunch Tsuna, Raidon, Reborn and Fon went to the trainings field in the garden. Soon afterwards the members of the gang arrived one after another for the training, which covered fighting, mediation and flame training by now. All of them had seen the flames of the twins on one occurrence and had asked about them. Fortunately, Salazar looked ahead, when he had warded the mansion. He had included a two-part secrecy ward. Persons, who weren't configured in this ward, weren't able to speak about any supernatural occurrences and the memories would get hazy and pushed back. Persons, who were included in the ward, couldn't speak about any supernatural occurrences without the permission from one of the ward holders; Salazar, Luna and the Sawada's twins. Additionally Salazar demanded a Magical Oath of the children of the gang to cover all bases. The ward and oath were more secure than Omerta of the Mafia. Raidon's guardians had explained the gang everything about the Dying Will Flames and the Mafia. Usually everyone with active flames had to join a Mafia family or would be killed. Each of the gang accepted that possibility and decided to awake their flames. None of them would be alone.

A year ago they had started with the flame training and all had awakened their flames within ten months through mediation and willpower. Hiko was a classic Cloud like her brother, but had Storm flames as secondary. Ryohei and Kyoko had Sun flames, but Kyoko had Lightning as secondary flames. Takeshi was a classic Rain. Hana had Storm as primary flames and Cloud as secondary. There had been one surprise, Tsuna and Raidon had joined the mediation training to improve their flames handling. Tsuna had awakened Rain flames as secondary. Thereupon Reborn had told them about Xanxus, a son of Vongola Nono, and his Flame of Wrath. That flame was a combination of Sky and Storm flames. The Flame of Wrath was an extremely destructive combination. That initiated a new aim for Tsuna and after several months he could combine his two flame types. He had called the new flame type Flame of Peace, because the tranquility aspect of Rain would be increased exponentially. Depending on the will power of the person concerned, the people would either end fighting or fight with reduced power. The problem was that the effect was only temporary.

For a month they had been training to use their flames during fighting. Raidon and Tsuna had already mastered that due to the many years' experience with flames. Kyoya had been the next one to use his flames constantly during fighting. With that he was more dangerous. Fortunately Salazar had created some protection rings, which absorbed flame attacks to some extend. Everyone of the gang had got one before they had started with that training and all were happy about it. That day training followed the same pattern as always: half an hour mediation for focusing; half an hour endurance training for warm up; one and a half hours fighting; half an hour tai chi to relax. The duration could differ, but the relation would remain constant. Kyoya had protested at the beginning, because he had wanted to fight the whole time. But Fon had beaten him easily to establish himself as respect person. The martial artist had convinced the Cloud of the advantages of the training plan. After that there had been no protests.

In an old mansion on the other side of the world, Vongola Nono was sitting alone in his study. He was desperate. A month ago his last biological son, Federico, had been killed. The Mafia boss had planned to hand over the position to him next year. What should he do now? He was too old to lead Vongola much longer. Xanxus was only adopted and couldn't inherit the family. There were the Sawada twins as active Skies and descendants of Vongola Primo, but neither Iemitsu nor he had had any contact since the divorce. It was difficult to get much information about them. On the one hand Raidon and Tsuna didn't attend a public school and on the other hand none of their men could infiltrate the mansion to get information.

Sighing Timoteo decided on a plan of action. He would need to find a tutor. Then he would visit the twins with the tutor and explain everything. There had been too much distrust, because of that he had to be truthful to them about the inheritance. Who should he choose as tutor? He would prefer Reborn, but no one had seen the little hit man for more than six years. His eyes widened and he straightened up in his chair. 'That's it!' Timoteo pressed a button on the telephone.

"Vongola Nono, do you need anything?"

"Coyote, could you please come in."

"I will be there in a minute."

Soon after the door opened and Coyote Nougat, Timoteo's Storm guardian, entered the office.

"Please take a seat, Coyote. I have an idea about the inheritance and want feedback from you." Timoteo looked at this guardian who nodded and continued, "I want to assign Andrea de Luca as tutor for the Sawada twins. If he accepts the position, I will travel with him to Japan and explain everything to Tsuna, Raidon and Nana."

"Correct me if I am wrong, Andrea de Luca was the apprentice of Reborn before the Arcobaleno curse. At that time he is training Dino Chiavarone to be the Chiavarone Decimo."

"Exactly, Reborn has trained him well. After the disappearance of Reborn Andrea became the best hit man."

"That sounds like a valid plan."

"Ok, please contact him to schedule a meeting."

That night all occupants of the mansions except Raidon and Tsuna were in Salazar's study. Luna had called for that meeting to describe her vision of the afternoon.

"The time has come. Federico, last son of Vongola Nono, has been killed. Tsuna and Raidon are the only valid heirs of the family. Timoteo plans to come with a tutor and explain everything to the twins and Nana. Probably they will come in six weeks."

"What does this mean exactly?" Nana asked.

"The tutor shall train the twins to become the next boss of the family. He will assess Raidon and Tsuna during the tutoring and forward his results to Vongola Nono and unfortunately to Iemitsu as well. Both, boss and external advisor will decide on an heir. If they decide on the same heir, there will be no conflicts. But if they decide on different heirs, the twins and their guardians have to fight against each other for the position."

"Can one or both decline the inheritance?"

"I'm not sure, at the moment."

"Both have active flames, that means they need to join a family. It wouldn't be wise to decline." Reborn answered, "Do you know who will be assigned as tutor?"

"Yes, you know him well. Andrea de Luca will be assigned. He has been training successfully Dino Chiavarone for four years." Luna answered with a bright smile.

Reborn was cursing. He had tried to forget everything of his old life before the Arcobaleno curse, but big parts would come back with Andrea. He hoped Raidon had changed him enough to bear parts of his old life. 'Maybe.'

"Who is this Andrea?" Salazar asked.

"He was my apprentice for four years. I found him with eight and rescued him from living on the streets. Before I left for the missions, which resulted in the Arcobaleno curse, I have sent him to Comsubin for training. I have never returned… He is an active Cloud user who fights with daggers. After my inactivity six years ago he became the best hit man worldwide."

A big thank you to nordiamus who allowed me to use one of her characters. She had created Andrea De Luca for her story "Game on" and I like him.

I will try to post a chapter every week, but in some cases it could take two weeks. We all have a life outside of fan fiction :-)

Guardians of Raidon
Salazar - Mist
Fon - Storm
Reborn - Sun
Luna - Rain
Fred & George - Lightning
Kyoya - Cloud

Animal companions
Raidon - Sayuri (hybrid phoenix)
Salazar - Midir (quetzalcoatl)
Fon - Lichi (monkey)
Reborn - Leon (chameleon)
Luna - Flidais (fey dragon)
Fred - Nyx (Shadowfox)
George - Apep (Shadowfox)
Kyoya - none