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Reborn finding out some things by himself, and yet further confusing himself as well.

THE CURRENT TIMELINE OF EVENTS UNTIL THIS CHAPTER:

2003 - Lancia is born

2012 - Byakuran's uncle was assassinated on December 22nd. Lancia gets taken into the Serpentine Famiglia on December 24th.

2013 - Byakuran is born (March 14) , Mukuro is born, Kyoya is born, Ryohei is born. Michaelo killed Gesso's brother's (Bya-kun's uncle) murderer on December 22nd. Ken and Chikusa are born.

2014 - Tsuna (13/10) and Ieyoshi (14/10) are born, Kensuke is born, Takeshi and Hayato (September 9th) are born. Kyoko and Hana are born

2016 - Yuni is born on January 15, Sawada twins are 2

2017 - Tsuna (3) gets sold to Estraneo and meets Mukuro, Ken and Chikusa.

2018 - Hayato started to perform piano for guests, first time eating Bianchi's poison cooking. Officially met Michaelo who consoled the crying Hayato.

2019 - Yuni is 3, Estraneo gets destroyed, Tsuna was rescued by ghosts to Giglio Nero mansion in January. Tsuna is now 5, Byakuran and Mukuro 6. Arcobaleno visited Aria and Yuni. Tsuna arrived after they left. Byakuran and Yuni officially meet each other and meets Tsuna, Yuni and Byakuran revealed to be half-siblings through Byakuran's father. (The Future Heirs Arc Part 2). In April, Tsuna goes back to Namimori. YUNIted is built. An unofficial alliance was created between Michaelo and the Giglio Nero.

2020 - The Crib Incident. Gesso becomes a Famiglia. Official (but silent) announcement of the alliance between Gesso and Giglio Nero. Mukuro (7) gets taken into the Serpentine Famiglia (lancia's Famiglia) along with Ken and Chikusa, both also 7 years old.

2022 - Hayato ran away. Mukuro(9) gets taken away by the Vindice with Ken (9), Chikusa (9) and Lancia (19). Lambo is born

2027 - Tsuna is 13, Reborn arrives. (by the way, since his birthday hasn't passed, he's not really 14 yet, so he'll be 15 in the Varia Arc). Enma meets the Trinisette Siblings.

2028 - Kokuyo Arc and Varia Arc.

(Whew!)

2027 (I'm really following the 2027 calendar...)

5/5 - Hibari Kyoya turns 15 years of age.
14/6 - Reborn boards the plane to Japan.
20/6 - Reborn arrives in Japan (presumably on that day since Tsuna can only guess), and is introduced in YUNIted
21/6 - Reborn arrives at the Sawada household. First bullet used on Ie. The kendo match happened.
22/6 - Smoking Bomb Hayato arrives, Tsuna gains a Storm, Mochida is scouted by Reborn to become Ieyoshi's Cloud. Second bullet used. Mukuro broke out of Vendicare.
23/6 - Takeshi's attempted suicide, was saved and became Tsuna's Rain.
29/6 - Bianchi and Lambo arrived. Third bullet.
30/6 - TYL Lambo makes an appearance and stirs things up.
12/7 - Haru makes an appearance. Tsuna's PTSD attack, Ieyoshi starts to regret.
13/7 - Haru attempts to challenge Ieyoshi. Fourth bullet. Tsuna gets interrogated and Reborn gets played.
16/7 - The Namimori inter-school baseball tournament.
19/7 - Summer holidays start. (monday)
(some time during the holidays,
25/7 - Tsuna accomplishes Enma's task and informs him of it. (Sunday). Start of the reparation of the brothers' relationship.
2/8 - 7/8 - The Summer festivals in Namimori.
2/8 - Enma and his Guardians are in town. Cielo27 contacts him and they start to plan a meeting without masks
4/8 - Enma meets Sawada Tsunayoshi. After a bit of talking, there were no misunderstandings as Enma understands how much Tsuna hates Iemitsu and they become friends.
5/8 - Enma is introduced to Byakuran, Yuni and Michaelo.
31/8 - Summer holidays end.
1/9 - Ieyoshi, Kensuke (joined by spectator Bianchi and spectator Hana because of Reborn) has to fight Kyoya (Reborn's meddling)

Chapter 22

Cloudy Day brings about a cornered Mist

Mini-trash, what should you call Iemitsu?

Sperm-donor?

What else?

A pansy bastard?

Tch. Don't tell me that's all you learned!

Scummiest scum who lives in trash and lives off of trash because that's what he is, TRASH!

Now that's very good, mini-trash. Let me tell you this...

So he's a... pompinara? What's that?

XANXUS DI VONGOLA! What have you been teaching Tsunayoshi?!

- It's not Xanxus without cuss words

Sawada Tsunayoshi made for a very strange and enigmatic individual, Reborn decided. It wasn't enough that he actually received a large amount of money, judging from those thermal glasses that 'I have plenty more', (he still has yet to figure out the source of the money, which frustrates him to no end), there was also the fact that he was already exposed to the mafia since a young age.

Reborn growled at the thought of that bastard Iemitsu.

And then, he had no idea how and when he harmonized with a Mist, he knew that Hibari Kyoya was already harmonized with him but he also didn't know the reason behind it. He does hold a twinge of pity for the teen because of the PTSD he was left with, no one that young deserves that.

It must have been the traumatic experience that forced him to awaken his Hyper Intuition, though that also begs the question. How did he get back from Italy? He either snuck onto a plane headed for Japan or had help. It was leaning towards the latter, since the date of his return to Namimori that he got from Nana (sweet woman she was, but he's starting to have a feeling that she knows more than she lets on, or that she knows about the mafia and Tsuna's businesses whenever he wanders out, always covering for him and all that. Again, he could not possibly fathom why he could never find the brunette when he wanders out) did not match up with the date that Estraneo was destroyed. Someone must've found him and took care of him, nursing him back to health and helped him return to Namimori.

That would certainly explain the pictures of Sawada Tsunayoshi in the familiar background, again, it brings him to another mystery, who is the white-haired child in the photo?

His eyes looked haunted, the picture displayed a small fluffy figure with an empty smile. It wasn't the Sawada household, it was Italy, he recognised. What was Sawada Tsunayoshi doing in Italy? There was one more that was taken in Italy. A child -probably 5-years old?- Sawada Tsunayoshi was asleep on the back of a white-haired, beaming teen with a purple tattoo or birthmark on his face. They didn't seem to notice that their picture was being taken as the white-haired older teen was looking to the side.

If it was truly taken in Italy, (he knew it was, he was never wrong, he was the World's Greatest Hitman after all!), then this could tie in to the mystery of why the Giglio Nero's picture was also in this house.

It was highly likely, Reborn deduced, that Sawada Tsunayoshi was rescued by the Giglio Nero, who must have something to do with the YUNIted cafe then, as the compartment that held these pictures had the exact same lily arrangement as the cafe plaque. In the mafia, nothing was coincidence, that he knew.

He got the desired results as the illusion of a false bottom faded away to reveal three locked cases, each labelled. One with black lilies painted in the middle, he took note that the lilies were arranged in the same way as the ones on the YUNIted name plaque, had a lock on it.

Or maybe, it could also be this mysterious Bya-kun from Tsuna's chatroom, who certainly knew of the nature of the Trinisette, which now brings him to the question of who in the blazes is he?!

He did confirm that the Giglio Nero was the one behind his astounding amount of money, but he also said that they never checked up on him... the pictures in the house confirmed their presence in his life, as for never checking up on him...

Speaking of the pictures, he remembered the brunette mentioning an illusionist who was behind the Mist-ing of the Giglio Nero pictures (had he been anyone else, he would've been fooled) and most probably also the culprit behind the Mist Flames saturating the teen's shelves.

And speaking of Mist Flames, the workers of YUNIted were always disguised by Mist Flames as well. Really, if his guard wasn't raised by the Mist Flames in the Sawada household, and the possible connection of the Giglio Nero (whose pictures was ALSO covered by Mist Flames), he would've written off the Mist-ed workers as mafiosi who just wanted to blend in with civilians. But now that he has all these questions swimming around his mind, he has no choice but to add the workers of the neutral cafe to the list, another question...

And where does Tsuna always wander off to in the mornings of the Summer Break and during that one day of the Summer Festival anyway? He couldn't track him down anywhere, there was no hint of Sky Flames, so he must've been good at blending in (possible, seeing as he had to find a way to survive in those hellish Estraneo labs) or he must've unconsciously or consciously pulled his flames in, if he did in unconsciously, it must be because he wanted to be alone or just blend in with the crowd, possible again due to his tragic background. But if it was consciously, then Reborn will find out what the brunette was doing.

He'll keep a better eye on that boy, it was a mistake not doing so before and he would rectify it.

Reborn groaned from his spot in the three, analyzing the pictures he took using Leon and thinking over the information he wrote down and his deductions, he never really considered the brunette before, he wasn't his main objective after all, but the hitman really should've because now, there weren't any clear answers and any speculations would wring him back to more questions.

That all surrounds the enigma known as Sawada Tsunayoshi.

"I will figure you out, Sawada Tsunayoshi, and all the mysteries that surround you." He vowed, not knowing how hard it was going to be to fulfill it, and not knowing how long it would take him.

Namimori has a tradition, every first day of Spring and first day of Fall quarters of the school year, each committee would send a representative to a committee meeting to redistribute each committee's room.

"Alright," the leader of the debate club sighed. "So it's decided that the sports clubs just trade rooms with another sports club, no complains there." Everyone nodded, eager to get out of the meeting room.

"Hey! What's this?! Which committee is using the reception room? That's the best room, how sly of them!" One of the female representatives burst out.

Her neighbouring representative hurriedly whispered to her. "That's the discipline committee!" and her face paled.

"Is there a problem?"

Hibari Kyoya leaned against the window, hands crossed as he glared at her, a menacing smirk on his lips.

"It is not fair that the discipline committee gets to use the reception room!"

"Unfair! Extremely unfair!"

A small protesting group of the members of the Tree Planting committee stood behind their representative and shouted, a twitch of the prefect's fingers betrayed his annoyance.

"Oh?"

"Hibari Kyoya, Cloud of Sawada Tsunayoshi." Reborn spied with his Leon binoculars as the prefect yawned, his underlings beating up the protestors from before. "Time to cash in this deal, prepare yourself, Baka-Ie."

A glint could be seen in his eyes as he remembered the deal he made with the prefect to let him go all out on his student and whoever accompanies him in exchange for transferring Mochida Kensuke into Ieyoshi's class.

On the rooftop, two small groups of students sat on two corners of the rooftop. Well, one of which ain't a student.

In one corner sat Kensuke, Ieyoshi and Bianchi who was eeriely seeming to be waiting for someone.

In the second corner, the group of students consisted of Yamamoto Takeshi, Gokudera Hayato, Sasagawa Kyoko, Kurokawa Hana and Sawada Tsunayoshi.

Bianchi knew what was going to happen next and she did her part by calling the other two girls to her side. During the holidays, the three have gotten closer, and Bianchi had to admit that the idea of having friends like those two were actually appealing. "Kyoko! Hana! Can you come over for a bit?"

Ieyoshi looked torn between worry for his crush or nervousness because his crush was coming over.

The two girls were used to the third older girl not using any honorifics, seeing as she was a foreigner after all. "Of course, Bianchi-chan!" Kyoko shouted back, her voice ringing beautifully clear Hana huffed because she had to be near the two monkeys but she and Kyoko rose and walked over to Bianchi.

Hana, being the observant one, noticed how Tsuna's eyes were a bit sharper.

He knows something is up, but not what, she realised. Giving a very subtle nod to show she understood and was on guard, he turned back to lean against his hands behind him, listening to the daily argument of the other two monkeys.

"Ah man... it's quite boring today..." Ieyoshi sighed, a goofy smile on his face when he realizes that he's sitting next to Kyoko.

It was pretty insane to think back to the first day that damn baby arrived with all his chaos, but there were many things that changed in his life, for the better too!

He and Mochida were friends yes, but now, they were closer, and there was also that matter with his twin brother. He was glad to say that their relationship was improving, even though it was awkward 100% of the time...

Even that annoying Miura girl who kept stalking him and proclaiming her love couldn't dim his mood.

And most of all, Kyoko-chan! Back then, he only paid attention to his popularity, and so the idol of the school as a way to become more popular, now, he really has developed a real crush on her. And the fact that she's actually here, sitting next to him, giggling at Kurokawa-san's sass, smiling so beautifully, so angelically, so...

"Ow!" Something sharp and painful hit him on the cheek. "Augh! Reborn?!"

"Ciaossu!" the culprit of his pain just casually greeted, Ieyoshi glared at him, slowly backing away from... whatever the damn toddler was wearing.

"It's a ... big chestnut?" Kensuke stared, completely confused.

"It's my secret spy camouflage suit that I use to get around! It especially works well in when tailing targets in commute trains."

Bianchi literally swooned. "Oh my Reborn! It's the one I made in Home Ec! You're just so smart!" and Ieyoshi was then reminded of the fact that she seemed to have quite the crush on Reborn...

"Eh? You'll just be stared at, common sense..." Hana said, backing off due to her distaste and dislike for children, though she has to admit that despite his looks, he is most definitely not a child. Still, he looks enough like a child to make her back away. And couple that with her hatred of him due to a conversation, a seething one at that, they had.

"But no one dares to come near me so I can relax."

Ieyoshi chanced a glance at the other group consisting of his twin and his two friends, they were arguing but he saw them shot little smiles at the laughing Tsuna when he wasn't looking, the blonde felt an undescribable emotion bubbling within his chest. Was it... was it really jealousy? Of what? Them making his (his twin!) twin brother laugh and smile instead of him? When all he did was hurt him... ignore and abuse him... laughing and jeering, he heaved a sigh. Really... he didn't deserve a second chance, he was lucky that Tsunayoshi was forgiving. He still felt a bit burdened and guilty, especially after that PTSD attack the brunette had.

"Ow! Ow ow ow! Reborn stop rolling into me!" he continued backing off until his back met the bars preventing anyone from falling off of the rooftop, immediately installed after Yamamoto's suicide attempt.

"It's a sea urchin by the way, and anyone who gets hit with these spikes will be going to heaven in half a minute." he said casually, enjoying the way his vic-student's eyes widened with fear.

"What is wrong with y-" and he fainted, just as Reborn clicked the top on his stopwatch

"Oho! Thirty seconds on the dot!" Kensuke found himself looking wary at the gleeful sea urchin Reborn, Kyoko (bless her) was giggling, thinking it was all a funny joke.

"Oh! Sasagawa-san, would you mind going back to Tsuna and the others? I have something to do with these guys." Reborn asked, and Kyoko readily agreed, pulling up Hana with her but stopped when the toddler spoke again. "I actually need Kurokawa-san to stay here, sorry for that, Sasagawa-san." he didn't sound the least bit sorry though.

Kyoko faltered for a bit, looking at Hana who looked equally as uncomfortable. She then sighed, gesturing her to go ahead, remembering something that the hitman told her after she and Kyoko watched that other girl chasing the monkey after he idiotically jumped in with his feet... going crazy seems like a mild description but it'll have to do.

"Kurokawa Hana, friend of school idol Sasagawa Kyoko and Sawada Tsunayoshi, acquainted with Hibari Kyoya. You know of Sawada Ieyoshi's actions towards Sawada Tsunayoshi and also of his crush on your best friend Kyoko. You go to YUNIted everytime you have the free time with Kyoko. Quite easily the most intelligent person in town, rivalling Gokudera Hayato's intelligence." she heard a voice from behind her, Kyoko was socializing with that Miura girl so she stood alone. She tensed and glanced behind her before trying to maximize her distance, it was that weird baby with the sharp suit and chameleon.

"You, that monkey's tutor. You're quite the stalker I see," she snarked at him, she was not going to let him see how uneasy he made her. "I remember seeing you around random places and times, but wherever you go, a mess follows. You are the main reason why the skylark is so bloodthirsty and annoyed these days. What do you want with me?"

"And what makes you think I want anything from you? Perhaps I'm just here to trip you up, perhaps because you're alone and it's a perfect chance to mess with you. I'm sure you know that I like messing with people." he said with a glint that made her want to back away, not from fear, but from caution.

"You wouldn't have waited until I was alone, if you just wanted to mess with me, you would have done it even if Kyoko were here, because she'd just laughed and be amazed. Bless that girl, but I'm not blind, I know you're behind all the mess recently." she narrowed her eyes, staring the baby-not-baby down.

His smirk just made her raise her guard further up, indeed, this kid was not the usual kid, she doubts he's one in the first place. Suddenly, Kyoko's innocent theories about him being a genius with dwarfism made perfect sense. "Impressive. I'll get straight to the point then, Kurokawa Hana." she wanted to take a step back as something about that glint in his eyes and tone of his voice made her want to keep her distance but she didn't, no way was she letting him win. "My idiot student seems to be head over heels for Sasagawa Kyoko, she's quite the innocent. You see, I'm to train him into being a future mafia boss, for the strongest mafia famiglia."

She narrowed her eyes. "Vongola is it?"

"Oh? You know?"

She scoffed. "Oh please, when Sawada Tsunayoshi disappears from the town, it wasn't quiet. I doubt anyone remembered but the monkey twin was obnoxious, as obnoxious a three-year-old could be anyway, and Tsuna was no longer anywhere to be seen. The Hibari family were angered that someone stole a resident of Namimori from right under their watchful noses, I saw some of the Hibari's men camping out the house ever since the year we turned 3."

This piqued Reborn's interest, the Hibari family certainly was interesting, and he vaguely remembered that Fon and Hibari Kyoya looked eeriely similar, he wouldn't be the least bit surprised if Fon had some relations with the Hibari family, even though he was obviously from the Chinese Triads.

Hana looked warily at the baby who... took out a green gun? Well, she'd seen what that gun did to the idiot monkey, she was not looking forward to being a victim of it, so she continued speaking, just a bit more carefully as to not give away too much information that would hurt Tsuna or Kyoko. She remembered that Tsuna told her that he knew of the reason why YUNIted opened that year, though she understood that he wouldn't tell her because she would be in danger, she just wished he wasn't so damn stubborn!

"When he came back at 5 years old, YUNIted just opened then, coincidence I guess. But that was enough to get my attention, especially when a bunch of adults showed up by his house, and the next day at school, the monkey was in quite a foul mood. The following year, Tsuna enrolled and trust me, we were all surprised."

"It was all really suspicious, and then I noticed some men who were definitely not Japanese speaking in some European language, and was staking out the Sawada household. We were all 6 then, so of course, we all did stupid things, but that monkey was a right idiot, antagonizing those suspicious men. He almost got shot at, but Hibari Kyoya just tonfa-ed those men. Pathetic, they were, though a Hibari Kyoya at any age is scary with his tonfas." She scoffed at the thought of the violent prefect. "Ieyoshi fainted, Tsunayoshi took him and ran home, Hibari Kyoya just walked away, they were all knocked out not dead though. A note fell out of one of their pockets and I just snagged it."

"Tsuna never knew, but I know that those men are mafioso, translating the paper, the word Vongola was mentioned, they were to kill or kidnap the heir of Vongola with a picture of Sawada Ieyoshi when he was around 4 or 5. Then I researched and found out, not like its that difficult, you did say it yourself that it was the biggest and most powerful famiglia." she shrugged.

Reborn was admittedly impressed, he knew that all on paper orders given to mafiosi with Dying Will Flames are all disguised and covered with Mist Flames and/or Sky Flames. For Kurokawa to actually be able to read what the note said just cemented the theory and feeling that she was a Mist. Apparently, a very powerful one, not tied to Tsuna, no. But most likely attached to Sasagawa Kyoko, he couldn't sense any flames off of her, but he knew that if she had Flames, or latent ones at least, she would be a Sunny Sky.

And his idiot student is crushing really badly on Sasagawa Kyoko, who is sweet enough to give him a second chance.

"Well then, Kurokawa Hana, I'm sure you're aware of my idiot student's crush on Sasagawa Kyoko, right?" He knew she did, and he enjoyed the way her eyes widened in realization and stepped back, fury in her eyes swimming about.

"You would dare... you would dare bring a civilian who knows nothing about what you and him are involved in, into such darkness?!" Her eyes were positively glowing with specks of purple, Reborn noted with sadistic glee.

"I would say that Baka-Ie would try and keep her out of it, but who's to say that no one will attack her when she's away from him, hm? Pity, he won't have a Guardian by her side nearly most of the time... shame for such light to dim out so quickly..." he sighed, over-dramatically.

"You..."

"Me." Smirking, he knew his plans were going well, even if his manipulations were easily seen through, he wasn't giving her much of a choice after all.

Kurokawa Hana clenched her fists, newfound hatred for this insufferable toddler, adult in a baby's body, glaring at him. She now understands why Tsuna felt so uncomfortable with this... this asshole living under the same roof as him.

"You would dare stoop so low, to use Kyoko?! Just to get me on HIS side?! On the side of one who treated their own flesh and blood like trash?" she whispered, not noticing the specks of Mist Flames flowing naturally off of her body, too focused on the red rage in her mind.

"I am a hitman after all, besides, you don't have to be his friend, just be a Guardian."

She was beyond pissed at his words, at him, at Sawada Ieyoshi, at whatever the universe had just thrown at her.

"So what do you say, Kurokawa Hana?"

Even without her giving an answer, both of them knew what she would say.

What she would do.

For Kyoko.

It was over pretty quickly, the moment when the skylark entered, it was over, she knew that.

And she took vicious glee in it.

After that day, immediately after, she opened up a new chatroom with Tsuna and the animal prefect. Not wanting Kyoko to catch wind of any of this, scared of her being hurt, she informed the other two of what the hitman had done.

Tsuna was rightfully angry, Hibari Kyoya was silent, but he made it obvious that he would take his revenge out on Sawada Ieyoshi, give him more pain than usual. Tsuna tried protesting, but gave up soon enough, since he knew the nature of his Cloud, but he did manage to make them promise to not put him in mortal danger.

He also went and explained everything, from the beginning, from when he was 3, to her and Kyoya, both furious and murderous at Sawada Iemitsu. She now understood what he meant by Guardian, but when he mentioned that some Skies out there are cruel enough to Scorch their own elements into submission, she felt fear, stabbing, suffocating fear, like something cold and dark had just wrapped itself around her heart, and was threatening to squeeze it.

Tsunayoshi, bless that kind boy, reassured her that he'll connect his Sky Flames to her, not as a Guardian bond (Hana felt angered at the reminder that she had no choice but to become his Guardian), but as a Protector bond, which would immediately alert him if some blasted Skies tried scorching her, or if someone tried to hurt her Flames, in other words, damage her soul. The stronger the Protector Sky, the longer his protection would last when activated.

He apologized to her, for that was apparently the most he could do as a non-bonded Sky, but he didn't know, and would never need to know, that because of what he promised he would do (which he did do, the next day when they went to YUNIted, into the staffroom so Kyoko wouldn't be alerted), she had been crying tears of relief and joy.

He would never need to know, she thought resolutely, he would tease her relentlessly, but she was thankful, oh so thankful.

And because of that big dump of information, only she was spared from the satisfying beatdown of the two monkeys, Bianchi was also only watching but she was pulled into the action too because of how bloodthirsty the prefect had become.

Hana was only standing there, watching with a too-satisfied smile and vicious glee in her eyes.

Again, she was amazed by the prefect's strength, and a bit of healthy fear as well but that was normal for everyone in regards to the crazy Hibari. She remembered how that bullet that the crazy baby (who was sipping on his coffee the entire time) worked on Ieyoshi before, making him pretty much immune physical damage, from what she was informed with by Tsuna, he could run straight into a truck, land on his head after falling from over a kilometer high in the air, momentum gathering making the impact enough to crush a skull, and yet still be completely fine like nothing happened.

It didn't help in the fight against Hibari Kyoya.

Mochida Kensuke was sitting on one of the luxurious couches in the reception room, in which she, Kyoko and Tsuna would sometimes come in, due to their 'friendship' with Hibari Kyoya, but that crazed not-adult would never need to know, nor find out in that case. Sawada Ieyoshi was lying down, peacefully sleeping, unaware to the impending doom. Bianchi, Hana found it weird that she was ultimately love-crazed and love-obssessed with the stupid toddler, who was sitting on the table in the middle of the room, in front of Hibari's desk, making coffee from his chameleon-transformed coffee maker.

She thought that Tsuna's friend who he talked about a lot, Irie Shoichi, she remembered, would probably go bonkers at the idea of a transforming chameleon.

She had excused herself to go pick up her lunch box at the rooftop, where she gave a small nod to Tsuna to let him know she was okay. She returned to a room followed by a scheming Hibari Kyoya (though he made sure to stay hidden to act like she didn't know she was being followed, it was part of their plan to exact revenge without bringing her into suspicion) filled with disciplinary committee members lying on the floor. Some poisonous food she knew Bianchi had a hand in was the culprit of their unconsciousness.

She guessed that the damn toddler must've had a hand in training the kendo monkey because she noticed one unconscious body with a lot of bumps and bruises and no poisonous food around him. "What on earth happened here?" she gaped, Bianchi just gave her a smile like she as trying to say, nothing much.

That was a lie, and she knew it.

"Herbivores. What do you think you are doing?"

Hana stepped aside to let the prefect walk past her into the room, the damn baby was sipping coffee, the coffee maker gone and turned back into a chameleon.

"Oh shit... Hibari Kyoya." Mochida Kensuke, one who was at the last committee meeting paled in fear as he remembered that this room was the club room for the disciplinary committee, which equals to...

The demon prefect of Namimori.

"Oh?" Bianchi raised a plate of poisonous food. "And this is?" she stalked towards him, intent on attacking him, mostly because Reborn wanted this room, and what he wanted, she would do her best to make it come true. Even if it was being a Guardian for the new Vongola Decimo.

"Hn." his fingers twitched.

"This is going to be the hideout of the Vongola Famiglia, I suggest you submit and give us this room. Or else I'll-" she was cut off when the sides of her plate that wasn't sitting on her hand suddenly fell to the ground, the food tumbled and started eating away at the floor.

"How..." her eyes widened. she didn't even see anything happening! It was sliced cleanly, and the boy... still had his hands in his pocket.

He smirked, and even though she was a hitwoman, this still sent shivers down her spine. Wait a minute... Hibari, did that boy say?

In Japan, that means... the Tokyo yakuza! And not only that, she vaguely remembered that the Hibari family's roots were from China, associated with the Chinese Triads.

Oh no, she jumped backwards, aware that Reborn's eyes were on her, but it doesn't matter, because the Hibari's were a force to be reckon with, she had no idea that Hibari Kyoya was actually a Hibari from the Hibari family, not just some prefect with the same name.

To be fair, his violent preferences should've clued her in, but she never really came across the boy except for rumours.

"Are you from the Yakuza, or the Triads?" She asked, and immediately regretted it when something struck her ribs. She winced but backed away, it was sure to leave a bruise, that boy was quick, yet, she didn't even glimpse his weapon yet.

Here he was, facing an experienced hitwoman like her, and she was still lost, she gritted her teeth, looks like Tsuna scored himself an excellent rarity of a Cloud. A Hibari at that.

"Do not, speak, of the Triads to me." he said, but she could detect an undertone of anger.

"Bianchi-san!" that idiot Kensuke, Bianchi wanted to smack his head as he was rushing over, obviously trying to help, but he was still so weak. "Augh!"

Yep, she expected that, she thought dryly as she saw him get hit straight into the wall, being knocked out instantly, his head slumped. She skirted back in an attempt to avoid the boy's blows, but failed to do so for all of them.

She would've taken out a gun, but she was in a civilian populated place after all. Cursing under her breath, she whipped out a kitchen knife, any good mafioso would never just resort to being a one-trick pony after all. She resisted the urge to shiver when the boy smirked threateningly at her, his weapons now fully out of his gakuran, being wielded with extreme precision and skill.

She had never seen anyone wield tonfas with such skill before, and she knew, when he suddenly disappeared from in front of her at the same time as a blunt harsh striking force struck her gut, civilian or not, this boy was a threat.

And perhaps she should start treating him as one, she grimaced as her world started to dim.

If this was Tsunayoshi's Cloud, what did Tsuna have that made this ferocious boy follow him?

Her world fully blacking out, she knew the answer was perhaps best unknown.

Amidst all the chaos that was the fighting, Reborn was calmly sipping his coffee and Baka-Ie was only just waking up, unaware that a prowling predator was now nearing him, malicious intent overflowing.

The hitman thoroughly enjoyed the chaos he stirred up, and ignored his student's protests and pathetic attempts at negotiating for his life as he shot him with a Dying Will Bullet. One side of his attention was towards Tsunayoshi's Cloud (pity, he would be a powerful Guardian for Baka-Ie), the other side towards Kurokawa Hana.

The one and only prospective Mist who even had a chance at surviving the Underworld in Namimori. She may be Tsuna's friend, but he easily figured what to blackmail her with. It made sense that, both her and Hibari Kyoya being close to Tsuna, it would make those two neutral. He didn't dwell on it too long, it made perfect sense, there wasn't anything suspicious about it.

He didn't know of the plan hatched between only the two of them to get back at Ieyoshi for all those times he harmed Tsuna.

"Huh?" Ah, it seemed that even with the bullet, Ieyoshi stood absolutely no chance against the skylark. "Wait wait wait! No don't!" he was hanging off the window sill with one hand, a Hibari Kyoya on the other side of the window, with a menacing smirk that sent shivers down one Sawada Ieyoshi's spine.

Reborn sighed. "Probably enough for him, Hibari Kyoya." He wished to test out the boy's strength for himself, and he knew that the prefect had fallen for his hook as soon as the glare was turned onto him and he suddenly disappeared.

As the black tonfa that seemed invisible to even a normal mafioso's eye (but he was not normal, oh no, not at all) starting closing the distance between his annoyingly tiny body, Leon had already transformed into a miniature tonfa which he then used to block the larger tonfa.

"Oh?" the boy smirked, the glint in his eyes spoke of challenge and disturbing excitement.

"Hmph." Reborn smirked back at him, mighty strong indeed, but not enough to beat him.

Very impressive of Tsunayoshi to snare such a volatile and powerful Cloud.

Hibari withdrew his tonfa and calmly walked towards the still panicking Ieyoshi who was still hanging onto the sill for his life, Reborn could see the blood draining out of his fingers, leaving the, pale white.

Ieyoshi cried out loud as soon as the tonfa struck his fingers, forcing him to let go and fall to the ground.

Hibari Kyoya stalked out of the reception, leaving behind unconscious bodies, the disciplinary committee, Mochida Kensuke and sadly, Bianchi. Hana was just there, lounging on the couch, completely unharmed.

She was an exceptional hitwoman, being defeated must've been a strike to her pride, but this just further cemented how strong Hibari Kyoya was. And didn't the word 'Triads' struck a chord in him?

That... and the fact that he looked disturbingly similar to one of the Arcobaleno before... that happened.

Reborn hopped off of the window sill and onto the tree branch outside, eager to compile more information of this elusive fighter.

Watching as Sawada Tsunayoshi's group entered the room, in visible confusion at the sight of all those bodies, and followed by Hibari Kyoya, he was then reminded that it was this seemingly timid, meek, helpless 'weakling' of a boy that snared the volatile, ferocious, independant, powerful, murderous Cloud.

Only, Reborn fully knew that Sawada Tsunayoshi was anything but.

And that's it for this chapter!

Pairings are still open to vote, I'm just lazy to compile the votes for this chapter.

So I start school a week later... After months of online lessons, I don't think I can get used to it. And they're splitting the class into two with each section of the class having to go to school on specific days and stay home other days. My friends are all in the second section :(

Notes:

1) Wonder when will Tsunayoshi find out that there's a separate group chat dedicated to getting revenge on whoever wronged him?

2) Answers lead to more questions, which leads to a worse headache, which leads to increasing annoyance, which leads to frustration, which leads to pain in Ieyoshi's future, which also leads to torment in Tsunayoshi's near future, which will lead to Reborn's sadistic desires being fulfilled, which then leads to more disturbing plans that involve the pain of others and chaos hatched by Reborn...

3) Poor Hana, if Kyoko was a Sky, Hana would follow her first, but even dormant, she's a Sun. Reborn used Kyoko against her, which reveals that he really is a hitman at heart, no matter how innocent he tries to pretend.

4) Yes, Kyoya hates the Triads badly. Why? It'll come up soon.

5) Pompinara is Italian for... you know what? Just google it for yourself, it's quite the cuss word.

6) Hana is very observant even back in their childhood years, she's always been smart.