Future of the Sky

More Friends

It was a week later, and thanks to Reborn, Ieyatsu didn't have any physical signs of that attack that had happened on him, and Emiko. Ieyatsu didn't act all that differently after the attack, but Amami had slipped into protective big sister mode, much to Ieyatsu's amusement, and mild annoyance. On the fifth day after the attack Reborn had informed them that they would be leaving in three days, and he was going ahead to make preparations.

At the time Ieyatsu had asked curiously if this meant Reborn thought they were strong enough to be left alone by him, to which the hitman snorted, and told them that he had called someone to watch the two of them. Though he also said that he doubted that the two Sawada siblings would ever see their temporary guardian.

And so, on that seventh day from the attack, and the second day since Reborn left ahead of them, Amami and Ieyatsu found themselves in the living room of the Sawada residence reading, and playing video games respectively. The two had already repacked their travel backpacks, the ones their mother had given them before they left their home in Tokyo, having gotten a short letter form Reborn earlier that day with plane tickets in it saying they'd be leaving tomorrow.

Both brother, and sister jumped when the phone rang. Setting down her book Amami trotted over to the phone to get it, answering it with a cheerful, "Hello, Sawada residence. Who is this?"

"This is a friend." The person, a man no doubt, on the other end of the line replied vaguely. Amami blinked, and her lips pulled down into a frown.

"And what would this friend's name be?" She asked tartly, placing a hand on her hip. Ieyatsu paused his game, sitting very still for a moment before he set the controller down, and stood up. When he reached Amami the girl looked at her younger brother, and blinked seeing the serious expression.

"Maybe if you're a good girl I'll tell you later, young lady. For now, just be prepared." The male voice said before hanging up.

Amami pulled the phone away from her ear and stared at it in confusion, "Be prepared? Was that a prank?" She asked looking at her brother, who was shaking her head.

"Nee-chan, we're surrounded. Sorry, I should have noticed sooner." Ieyatsu replied still with that serious look that reminded Ami of their father. After the incident a week ago she had noticed that her younger brother was much more confident with his intuition then before.

"Surrounded…" The girl repeated as she looked at the phone for a moment before she nodded her head. "Alright, I understand. Let's get to the attic."

Ieyatsu blinked, the serious look turning to confusion, "The attic?" He repeated.

"Mmhm, it's the safest place right? Plus there's the weapons stash up there, remember?" She replied.

Both brother, and sister headed up stairs, pulling bedroom doors closed on their way to the attic. "Nee-chan you're not seriously thinking of using those things up there are you?" Ieyatsu asked.

"Reborn said they're for incase of emergency. If this isn't one I don't know what is." Amami replied bluntly.

"Nee-chan, we've never used a gun before." Was the just as blunt reply from Ieyatsu as he pulled the ladder down from the attic for them.

"I've seen Reborn do it. Point, and shoot, it'll be fine Tsu-kun." Amami replied getting a little annoyed with her brother.

Ieyatsu stared at his older sister, wondering when her fight or flight reflex changed from flight to fight. Or maybe her reflex was always to fight, but when they were with their mother they always followed her lead to flee…

Though the same could be said for him, the fact that Ieyatsu wanted to defend this home not run and hide, but Ieyatsu didn't think he was ready to shoot people. Fighting hand to hand was one thing, you can control how hard you hit a person, and where exactly you hit them. Guns were a different matter entirely, and all to permanent weapon for his liking.

As Ieyatsu and Amami stared each other down until the phone rang again, but instead of jumping Ieyatsu took his from his sister and answered him self this time.

"Hello Friend, how about a name." He said into the phone mildly while he stepped away from his sister who was reaching for the device.

There was a pause from the other end before the voice asked, "The little brother?"

"Is that a problem?" Ieyatsu replied his voice still mild again stepping out of the way of his big sister's hand. Amami huffed, and climbed up the ladder into the attic. Ieyatsu frowned up after her, sure that she was going to get into the weapons stash.

"Give the phone to your sister." The voice replied.

"Can't, she just went into the attic. I'd like you to stop encouraging her to be reckless with weapons Friend. We're not used to this life." Ieyatsu said into the phone.

The voice on the other end made a noncommittal grunt, and replied, "If she can use the weapons I don't care. Otherwise get into the attic, and don't do anything reckless." The voice said blandly before the line went dead.

Ieyatsu scowled, and shoved the phone into his pocket before climbing the ladder into the attic himself. If this was going to be the new normal this was going to get real old, real quick.

An adult that looked about twenty five with short cut black hair sighed as he dialed another number into his cell phone, and brought it to his ear. He was lying flat on his stomach on a roof across the street from the Sawada house a hand gun resting next to him, and a sniper riffle in front of him, aimed expertly as one of the men that was around the innocent looking house.

Finally the phone picked up, "I'm busy right now." A bland voice replied.

"You knew this would happen." The young adult accused with out taking his red eyes off the Sawada Residence.

"If you didn't bring enough people make use of the brats." Was the only response that the young adult got.

A scoff, "They're not ready for this." The young adult balanced the phone between this shoulder and ear as he adjusted his aim. "How long?"

"Tomorrow, but they need both the Yamamoto siblings. Not just one." Reborn replied.

"Are you telling me to kidnap the older brother?" Was the amused reply.

A snort came from the other end, "The pieces are already in place, someone just needs to put them together."

"You're taking away all my fun Reborn." The young man lined up his target, which was on the move headed to get into the house.

"I'm heartbroken." The young adult smirked at the sarcastic response, "If they're too reckless get the police involved. That'll put a leash on the brats."

"Fine by me." His finger on the trigger pulled, the gun hardly making a sound as the bullet flew from the barrel and hit the target in the shoulder. The man dropped to the ground with a cry of pain and some of his buddies rushed over to pull him back away from the house.

"Good, then get it taken care of." Reborn said before hanging up. The young man freed a hand to hang up as well and stuff his cell phone back into his pocket.

"Oi, princess trash." He said not looking behind him but instead sighting another target creeping up on the house. A small huff came from a petite pigtailed blonde with pretty doll like features. "Go call the cops, sound panicked or something." He ordered.

The girl stood up, brushing invisible dust off of her long black uniform coat, and adjusting her tiara, "Do not order me around I'm a princess, not trash." She huffed before walking away.

The young man smirked, "Trash." He repeated still not looking at the girl. She huffed again, glared at him, and then jumped off the edge of the roof to do as she was told as another target was taken down by the young man's gun.

A/N :: So, I got this out just in the nick of time! XD I apologize for the wait, but jeeze I wish FF had a feature where you could schedule chapters to be posted ahead of time.

Yosh, and so the Varia has made their reappearance! I know how I keep saying how I love writing for everyone, accept for maybe Reborn who makes me want to pull my hair out, but my Varia set is something special to me, because quite frankly it's hard for me to grasp characters like these guys. The leader is a particularly special character to me because out of the whole set he's the most twisted.

Anyways I hope you enjoyed this chapter! I'd also like to remind you to please get in your vote on who I'll be sending the Vongola Kids to go see next; Sasagawa's Son or the Gokudera Children (yes there's two of them too!). There's two places you can let me know now, either tell me in a review, or in the poll on my profile. So far it's a tie between the two...

Also, I'm attempting to do a christmas fic for this universe, but... well I'm having some issues involving spoilers. XD It's one of those things where you know it's no good because the first paragraph is filled with spoilers for something I'm not even close to posting. ^^;; Well, I'll figure something out eventually... I hope.

Please review with your dying will! Flames will, as always, be used to roast marshmallows with Byakuran.

Disclaimer: Akari-chan doesn't own Katekyo Hitman Reborn!, any of it's characters, places, or anything like that.

Reposted 12/16/12