AN: Well here's a chapter! I dropped a few cameos in this chapter, so make a guess~ On another matter, I'll warn you that the next chapter might be not put up sooner that I'll plan, since I got a field trip this Friday...though I can push it up if you guys reviewed^^ Hope you enjoy this one.

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Chapter21: Anxiety

Naruto shivered as he saw the figure of his brother walking back towards them, the masked teen's posture was as lazy as ever and despite the eye-smile Kakashi gave the group, Naruto knew that it was not his real brother, it was a clone and somewhere inside the building Wolf had come out to play. He heard of his brother's accomplishment during his stay in the Familgia and was slightly disgruntled at the missions baa-chan made him do.

Torture, killing and even a total eradication of a smaller Familgia who stepped on their toes. Granted that Kakashi was with a team, it was slightly frightening to know that he was the one who planned their demise. His brother's accomplishment in the underground gave him a fearsome title that he wouldn't doubt that some Mafiosi whispered the name of the infamous Scarecrow.

It was slightly ironic consider the translation of Kakashi's name, nevertheless. Both his brother and Itachi rose high up on the most mysterious and deadly killers in the underground. The two kept their affiliation with their Familgia a secret and Naruto had an inkling that they were Mulinello's aces along with other veteran ANBUs who also took grueling missions in order for the Familgia to keep their growing power below the radars of top ranking Mafias.

"Who are you calling?" Naruto snapped his head to Kuria who was looking at Tsuna, the brunet held a phone against his ear.

Naruto frowned as he thought of the information he recently heard about Kuria. No matter what angle he look at the soccer player he couldn't match the image of a killer with the slightly introverted teen.

"My tutor, he said that I would wait for him here, but since the visiting hours is cut short..." Tsuna trailed off with a shrug.

Naruto rose an eyebrow at words, did Reborn knew that the men in the car were Mafias? Maybe he should have killed the bugs out of the town...but he didn't know how to drive so he just get to cut their throats. It was slightly disappointing that the men were dead to the world when his clone killed them, it would have satisfied a smidgen of his anger if he get to see the fear in their eyes.

"Maa, we could wait for your tutor here. We still have thirty minutes until the regular visiting hours ends." Clone Kakashi added as he finally reached the group.

"Thanks, but Kuria what about you?" Tsuna asked the blue haired teen and all eyes directed their gazes at the soccer player.

"You always have Faust-san escort you everywhere." Haku intoned.

Naruto saw the soccer player fidget his pocket. Ah, stupid ball head, he should have messaged his guard where he is. There might be a possibility that Kuria's phone had a tracking device but seeing as the driver was no where to be seen it had just confirmed his worry that Kuria might go home without someone to protect.

"Ugh, we'll go with you, dattebayo. It's not safe for you to go home alone." Naruto commented and saw Kuria open his mouth to retort but just sighed. Good the boy still has some sense left in that brain of his.

"Sure, thanks by the way."

"That's odd, Reborn is not answering." Tsuna muttered for a while as he stared at his phone.

Naruto looked at the clone of his brother in a silent question.

"Do you know that crows favorite meal are beetles?" Kakashi mused out.

The odd comment garnered some confused looks from Tsuna and Kuria. But Naruto and Haku knew that Kakashi was not alone for the clean up.

Kakashi, the real one, surveyed the empty lot and noted the lack of people in it. He was still relishing at the feeling of wearing his attire. The surgical was long gone, replaced by a plain black face mask that covered the lower part of his neck down until his collar. The ANBU uniform that majority of the his colleagues wore back in the Allied Nation had some major changes.

For one, the white armor was now black, the tight fitting sleeveless shirt beneath it was now a dark brown- nearly black in the night- and the regular black shinobi sandal and pants, the latter was customized to a more civilian like pants but with some changes. Like the pockets where he place the wooden shurikens, it was made by Cat- or Tenzo as he like to call him- the man had knack for Mokuton and were the one to supply him for the weapons.

Kakashi would have preferred metal but ever since he gained the title of Scarecrow in the underground he made it into his trademark. Kakashi gave an amused smile at the origins of his title, aside from it being the exact translation of his name, the title Scarecrow was bestowed on him when a movie Jeepers Creepers was aired. The killer in the movie was, in a sense inventive, creating weapons out of wood.

Of course aside from the wooden shuriken Kakashi had also a beloved tanto for close combat. A far easier weapon to use.

Completing his ensemble was a plain strawhat, a rather ugly and ridiculous addition to the attire, after Tsunade force it to his uniform. Though after wearing during his mission it also became one of his trademark, Kakashi hoped that he'll throw it in the future. Never mind the benefit of it hiding his hair, he had some sense of fashion too.

After placing a genjutsu at the lot Kakashi, swiftly dropped from his hiding place, Pakkun followed him silently, he drew out some of his blood. After a series of hand seals Kakashi paused before he completed the justsu.

"Why did you stop?"

"I am wondering, why I am even bothering doing this. Killing a sector of a Familgia is not part of our mission." Kakashi mused out, he was distracted by Naruto's willingness that he forgot that they could walk out of this ordeal.

"Your brain is getting muddled up with that course of yours." Pakkun huffed while frowning at him. "Kuria Voile is an unknown factor in this mission, he has a killer locked in his mind not to mention that there is a possibility of that persona being awaken."

"Which would bring harm to the heir or Naruto if that persona is not guided." Kakashi continued nonchalantly. "There's also the code." He added remembering the death sentence for the scientists.

"Yep, and also. You let Sawada Tsunayoshi close to you via Naruto." Pakkun said smugly.

"...That too." He sighed admitting that a part of him had already took in their target. He let his hand drop to the ground and puff of smoke erupted before them, which was quickly replaced by eight dogs of varying breeds.

Kakashi quickly subdued the incoming chaos with an oppressive, as mush as he would like to get an update from them. They still got a job to do. He nodded as his pack sat up in attention, varying degrees of seriousness plastered on their faces.

"We're doing a clean up." Kakashi started, crouching before them and unsealed a scroll, a centralized map of Namimori was laid out before them. "We got a third party in our turf and the info I got from their...doings made them on top of our list."

A low growl emanated from Bull and Kakashi knew that the bulldog got the hint.

"There are five streets surrounding the hospital, each one has a car on standby containing our targets. One is blocked due to Naruto and the another one is left unattended. Bull, Bisuke, I want the two of you to guard this." He ordered pointing the street with a letter A marked beside it, it is where his clone got rid of the car earlier. He got an affirmative grunts from the dogs.

"Shiba and Uhei, B street, make sure there is no civilians in the area. Akino and Urushi, on C street. Pakkun and Guruko, on D street. I'll send a clone to each pair. Your jobs is to take out any bugs who will escape and keep the street witness free. Leave the rest of the cleaning to me." He added after getting nods from the pack.

"Oh, and take off hitae-ates, this is underground business." He added after he noticed that some of his pack still got the band on their bodies.

"What are you going to do?" Pakkun asked while he created four copies of himself.

"There's still one who got out earlier." Kakashi said referring to the man who check the crowds earlier. "I'll hunt him and if you found the leader, keep him alive."

The teams of three nodded and disappeared in a blink. Kakashi stood alone in the clearing and after moment he too disappeared, leaving the last shimmers of the genjutsu to dissipate.

Team A: Bull and Bisuke with Kakashi A.

"Hey boss, what are their crimes?" Bisuke whispered as they hid around the street. There were still some pedestrians passing beneath them, and as far as he could see he and Bull got the easy end of the mission.

"Experimentation on humans." Kakashi A quietly replied.

Bisuke frowned at the thought, so he and Bull got the worst part of the mission. He would really like to bite the necks of those bastards.

"We're in charge of making that this the only route that the civvies will take, safety of the public is our priority." Kakashi A said after a few seconds.

Bull nodded while Bisuke just pouted at the lack action.

Team B: Shiba and Uhei with Kakashi B.

Shibe was the one tasked to scare off the civilians off the streets, he was chosen because of his appearance, squinty eyes and mohawk and all that. It was easy seeing as it only a low growl for the humans to skitter away from him.

Uhei on the other hand got to be the bait on the other side of the street, letting the crowds gather before him due to the bandages on his head. He only need to lie down a few meters away from the corner and majority of the people gave him pitiful pats.

Kakashi B, had took the time to create a genjustu. The kind where people won't hear or see something that they won't like if they look through the street. All they could see is dark empty street that would make them hesitate entering it.

As soon as they contained the area there would be chaos.

Team C: Akino and Urushi with Kakashi C.

Akino bit trough the muzzle of the sniper, snapping the metal to bits with his reinforced teeth. The man stepped back in fear as he growled threateningly. He ignored the gunshot from the other end of the street where he knew Urushi is making the other two men gather at the middle of the road.

Kakashi C had already killed two men after scaring their targets out of the vehicle. It was as simple as making an appearance right inside the car.

There were twelve men in total a larger amount that he assume but seeing as it was van, it made more sense. He threw a wooden shuriken directly at the throat of man before him, silencing his pleads for mercy, he stepped over the cooling body scrunching up his nose as he smelt the urine and feces from the corpse.

He nodded at his ninken who gathered the rest of their targets at the center of the street, all them are without a gun. Kakashi was pretty sure there is some still hidden in their bodies.

"Sca-scarecrow...why are you doing this?" One of their targets asked.

Kakashi remained silent and just tilted his head at the question. He nonchalantly threw a shuriken at the feet of a stupid bug who thought he could escape. The shuriken sank deep on the foot, completely through the footwear, and into the cement below. He ignored the pained shout from the victim and walked slowly to him.

He tipped his straw hat and with a swing of his tanto decapitated the man.

His action made the rest piss their pants, and Kakashi C found it troublesome, the smell was bad and even his ninken stopped a few feet away. Nonetheless he directed his gaze back at the remaining eight victims and deliberately made his steps much slower.

He hid his amusement as for every step he took the men stepped back twice. He repeated this, until their backs hit the wall, slowly their anxiety reached a pointed where the men pushed one another to the front until someone threw a punch. Soon the group was on each other neck, a crazed look on their eyes as they saw no other way out aside from extending their by having their comrades be killed before them.

Suddenly there was blood, as one lone man began to stab. It was then that Kakashi C let out killing intents, stopping the bloodbath before him, as mush as he was amused at their actions, cleaning up their mess was more hassle than killing them.

With three dead and puddle of blood was the result of the inner fight. Ah, troublesome, he'll need a mop to clean that up.

Team D: Pakkun and Guruko with Kakashi D.

"Then there is one..." Kakashi D muttered as he stared down as the snot filled face of the supposed leader of the back up. He used the 'scarecrow' voice as dubbed by Naruto when he first met the blond, his voice turned low and got a rasp in it like he was struggling to breathe.

"Please, have mercy! I'll have the Familgia give you money!" His victim pleaded, trying to bear the pain of having an arm snap back in the opposing direction.

"...Those kids..." He replied crouching before the man and promptly stab the leg.

"GUAAHHH!"

"...Have you given them mercy?" He asked, glancing at his ninken who he ordered to line up the corpses. They killed a total of seventeen bodies since they have two cars in their street. One was a white SUV and the other a van.

He silenced the grating screech of the man his killing intent. "Tell me...what are you planning to do to Kuria Voile..."

The man shook his head in denial. "I-I don't know! The higher ups just told us to take the Specimen A back to their base!"

Kakashi pulled out the tanto and stood up. "So there are others out there...Where is the location of your base?"

The original will not like this. The Familgia had stopped their kidnapping after Kuria escaped and just focused on their other establishment of drug dealings. But after he got a hint that that the Familgia continued their experiment out of Japan...it would be better if he get the info to Tsunade-sama.

Pakkun growled along with Guruko when the man gave no reply.

"I-Italy! I-I do-n't know where! But that's the exact c-country of our main- b-b-ase" the whimpered pathetically.

Kakashi remained silent at the reply and gave an eye-smile.

"...Thank you for cooperating...you can go." He said, his words brought a shaky sigh from the man but he promptly squashed it with his next word. "...die."

...

"That was too much boss." Pakkun commented while looking at the foaming mouth of the leader.

"Meh, I'm too lazy to knock him out." Kakashi mumbled holstering his tanto and stared at the unconscious form, his voice returned to normal.

"What are you going to do with him?" Guruko asked, coming up beside him and sat on the ground.

"Send him to the Mulinello, Yamanaka's are better much on getting the information out of his head." He added and looked at the lined up bodies beside him.

"And them?"

"Delivery to Neptune." His reply got him eye roll from his pack.

Kakashi suppressed his presence until his existence will cease to exist to the sense of the people below him. He had followed the trail of the man who got out to check the crowd earlier, he was surprise to see that his target did not reported his group to others seeing as the car had left without a warning. It was a bad protocol in his opinion. Instead his lone target went to the 'red district' of Namimori. The area was as large as two blocks, Kakashi assumed that the Hibaris only allowed that much space for such activities.

The crowd was heavy with aged men and sober students drag their unbalance bodies through the street, he even saw some familiar faces of his classmates being dragged by their group. Shaking his thoughts, Kakashi swiftly jumped through the roof and kept a watchful distance to his target.

He saw the man glance around an opening of an alleyway and promptly entered it. Shifting his weight Kakashi used the walls of the building and disappeared in the darkness. He silently dropped on a emergency staircase and watched as the man waited at the dead end of the alley. Giving out a small pulse of chakra, Kakashi felt another presence hidden at the corner.

"Did you got the boy?" A voice called out and the man shifted uneasily on his feet.

"No, my group suddenly left me without a word, so I guess they already got him." His target replied.

"Are you sure?" The voice pressed on and Kakashi saw a glint of metal flashing from the darkness.

"...I'm not sure, I tried to contact them but they never answered." The target replied taking a small step away from the voice.

"You idiot." The voice cursed and Kakashi changed his position as a small rectangular slight glowed beneath him.

He was directly above the origin of the voice and Kakashi saw the features of the man due to the device. The owner of the voice had blond hair with, dull blue eyes that has black eye bugs beneath it. The man wore a black lab coat that made him blend into the darkness.

The glowing light went out as the man in lab coat held the device against his ear. "Kuria is not answering his phone..." The blond man murmured after a second.

"So..that means they got him right?" His target replied with a hopeful note.

"Or he shut his phone off. How troublesome of my charge..." The man murmured and pocketed his phone, blanking his form back to the darkness. "Go to the warehouse, check if they got the boy. I'll go back to the house and see if the he is home."

"...Why didn't you just get him from the second you got hired?" The target asked hesitantly.

"I need to get their trust, besides I still need to continue the observations of my subject." the man hissed. "If only the Familgia saw how valuable that specimen is, then they didn't have to start all over again."

"It was so close..." The man mourned dramatically. "I should have pressed them more... But that damn Stylishdare to discredit me and I nearly got back to the drawing board if I haven't saw my precious specimen."

Kakashi had enough of monologue from the man in lab coat, but the information that the man is speaking is worth more than the budding ire he felt.

"If I get my specimen back then Stylish would be on the receiving end of the Familgia!"

Ah, cue mad laugh.

"Ahaha! Now go check the team..."

His target fidgeted for a moment. "You'll- you will pay me right?"

"Yes, yes. A million yen for double crossing the Familgia and another million for the boy..."

The target gave a grin and ran out of the alley, Kakashi would send a clone after him later. The other man pose more problems than his target. His clone that he left with the teens earlier did not dismissed itself, a sign that the group is still safe. However the name Stylish rang a bell at the back of his mind, it only took him seconds to get a match.

Dr. Stylish, assistant of the head Scientist who lead the experimentation on Kuria. The name of the head Scientist however brought dread in his stomach.

Faust...Dr. Faust...

How the hell did he not see that!? Everything had connected in a dizzying obvious puzzle. There were only two survivors from the genocide five years ago- except for the victims-, the names were not mentioned. But Kakashi now knew who they are, and it's sickening to think that the head and assistant of the Scientist escaped.

He assumed the discredit part is where the man below him double crossed his own Familgia. In short, Faust was on his own with a -now dead- group of Familgia members he tricked into doing a second try in kidnapping Kuria. No connections, means no news from the Mafia, no news from Mafia, means that the person is an idiot. Lacking a vital aspect in the underground would always lead to a very bad ending.

Kakashi knew that Reborn was there during the ride to the dojo and Naruto's report of the events that day stated that the doctor had even accompanied the Arcobaleno. And despite seeing the infamous hitman face to face Faust still continued with his plan, Kakashi was a bit confused whether he commended the man for his bravery or sheer stupidity.

Yet there were some missing pieces though...How did the doctor manage to do all of this without raising suspicion from them or from the Arcobaleno?

He mumbled a soft curse, as he saw a small movement in the darkness.

"How, annoying..." The now identified, Faust commented after a moment. "I'm glad that idiot doesn't know the whole story..."

Kakashi leaned forward, seemingly trying to press on the doctor to continue his monologue.

"Now...what the heck did Viole-chan made me buy?"

...This is gonna be a long night for him.

Reborn, bit his lip as he tried to gather the information before him, taking up all the information on the screen while putting the pieces of the puzzle in a manageable sense. He should have started with Kuria Voile. The teen's kidnapping five years ago is finally being revealed before him, a much more easier feat when compared to the Mulinello but it seems the degree of importance was as drastic as his first break through.

Lab experimentation...genocide...and Faust...

Nothing made sense to him but the facts are right before his eyes. Somehow the head scientist manage to get closer to his specimen- Kuria. Despite that data before him that stated that the man was marked as diseased, Reborn was sure that the man he had once accompanied back to the Dojo this weekend was the same blond bug-eyed one on his screen. What he found confusing is how did the doctor manage to stay below his radar. Faust was as normal as any chauffer or guard, nothing was out of the ordinary during his short travel with him.

On the more pressing matters, Faust manage to trick a group of his old Familgia that he was assigned as their leader in their sub-base in Japan, wherein in reality he was excommunicated in their Familgia. Which is why they didn't changed their location when he arrived in Namimori, a very idiotic decision is had a say in it, even no one warned the doctor -his infamy was enough to warn others to be wary-. Now he just needs to track down the doctor, interrogate him for his motives and if it comes down to it dispose him if he poses as a blockade for Tsuna's progress.

And Kuira...

Reborn would be more inclined to get him a better mentor for what he suspected, Kuria's dual personality, or to be more precise the suppressed killer inside the soccer player. He was beginning to become wary of the blue haired teen and despite of five years without any fallout, Reborn needs to be cautious.

Glancing at his watch Reborn saw that he still has five minutes before the thirty minute mark he made after calling Tsuna. Deciding to finish his research, Reborn began to download the information. Clicking the last button Reborn leaned back on his seat as he waited for the single bar before him to fill up until one hundred percent. His mind kept rehashing the information he needed as his small fingers twisted his sideburns.

At the eighty percent mark. The download suddenly stopped and the screen blacked out for a second. The unannounced setback prompted a raised eyebrow from Reborn. Leaning forward, Reborn pushed a few keys to restart the download and instead of the default screen he expected, the computer only showed a red screen with a very familiar object at the bottom right corner.

Reborn hissed a cursed an his fingers flew through the keyboard in lightning speed. Trying to salvage whatever information he read earlier and his own network from any damages.

He is being hacked.

Or to be more specific Estraneo is being hacked.

Time is against him and Reborn was hard pressed not to loose any information from his side. He made a mistake of not using an external device to save his research earlier, but now is not the time to curse his realization. He stood from his seat in alarm as the hacker got through his first defense and pushed him out of the connection with Estraneo, that leaves him and the hacker to duke it out.

His attention was all directed to the screen before him and even with Leon poking at him, Reborn was pressured at the sudden attack to notice his partner, and consequently the phone that had been vibrating on the table at the other end of his hideout.

Reborn was far from being an expert in hacking but he knew enough codes to create multitudes of defense, keeping him safe just a bare few steps from the hacker. At the fifteen minute mark, Reborn grinned in triumphant as it his turn to take offense. His fingers gave a numb protest at the single minded actions he ordered them, however, Reborn persevered. Taking out another screen Reborn began to simultaneously add defensive firewalls and create viruses.

His offense was just a ruse as he plans to get the origin of the hacker, it would take him a few more minutes but it will be worth it. He gave a small growl from his throat when he suddenly found another hacker entering their connection. This time his screen had blacked out for ten seconds, short time in reality but in cyberspace he knew that ten seconds was more than enough time to get through his defense. Gritting his teeth, the only thing Reborn could do is wait.

The computer screen went on and the background changed from the simple black and white layout, to a deep red background with an odd design on it...three tomoes were spinning at the background and the center of it was a message.

'I will take your intel for awhile, don't worry I will return it under twenty four hours. In return for your cooperation I will tell you my location...'

Reborn snorted at the content, he had an idea that the location will be a false one. Even then, he could still try and relocate the hacker's location using the recent IP address. The message blinked out and was replaced by another.

'See this as an act of trust between us...'

The message blinked out again and another one appeared.

'I am in Namimori...'

Reborn stilled as the address was typed, no matter how much he try to deny this. Namimori is too much of a coincidence to be a bluff. He was still reeling from the point that even if he was in Namimori there were still mafiosi who had enough balls to make their appearance in the area. First, Mulinello, then the Estraneo black sheep, and now...him.

'Do not be alarmed of my presence...I am here for a mission and no harm will come to your charge.'

He frowned at the assuming message, however the man was not too far off his mark, Tsuna was still without a protection and despite the idea of his student having a company for the trip back home, there were still situations wherein the brunet might be in danger. Kuria Voile for example and Namikaze Naruto and his group was still not written on his 'trusted' list.

'I will only be here for one night...if you have any complaints please forward it to her...-Scarecrow.'

And then the screen went blank.

"He's not answering." Tsuna answered the questioning gazes of his friends and held out the phone before him. This was the third time he called the toddler and still the call went unattended, it was already past seven and Tsuna was becoming impatient at the wait.

"Jeeze, well? What are we going to do now, dattebayo?" Naruto grumbled and Tsuna hid a smirk when he heard the soft grumbles from the blond's stomach.

"I could go with you, accompanying Kuria." Tsuna murmured as he began to fidget in his place. That odd feeling at the back of his head began to pulse again and no matter how much he think to keep it abate it was getting stronger by the minute.

"Isn't your house much closer?" Kuria asked.

"Yeah, but I'll feel much better if I get to see you home first." He replied, scratching the back of his head.

Tsuna saw Naruto spare a glance at his brother and the silver haired teen gave a shrug.

"Well, we got a long detour, 'ttebayo." Naruto announced as he slung his bag back on his shoulder. "And I'm hungry, we can eat take outs, right?"

The question was directed at Kakashi and the masked teen nodded.

"There's a small shop that sells stir fry in one of streets that I passed by, we could buy there." Kakashi stated and he began to lead the way out of the building.

The group nodded their agreement and they quickly found themselves shielding from the cold breeze. Tsuna kept a hand on his pocket, hoping that the text he sent to Reborn will be read. Something bad will happen and his anxiety at the feeling, made his sense sharpen as they trudge their way out of hospital gates.

Tsuna looked around and noticed that that the streets were nearly bare of people, only a few pedestrians had walked pass them. They came up on one of the streets and Tsuna shivered at the lone single lane. It was too dark and the more he tried to see even a silhouette, his eyes suddenly became blurry and not a second later his legs moved away from the opening.

"Oi, Tsuna, the street is this way." Naruto hollered out, and Tsuna was surprised to see that the group was already a few feet away.

"Sorry." He replied sparing another second to look at the street. He was just an inch away from the corner when his peripheral caught a light at the other end of the street.

Tsuna stepped back giving him a full view of the street and saw a SUV driving away. As soon as the car turned the opposite corner, he smelled something. His scrunched up in disgust as the combined smell of urine and feces attacked his nose, the wind didn't gave him mercy at it blew towards his direction, forcing his hand to cover his nose. Giving another more thorough look, he was surprised to note that the empty street was more detailed, he can see the street lamps glowing through the darkness, making the silhouettes at the other end of the street more visible.

"Tsuna hurry up, they already got to the shop." Haku said just a feet away from him.

Surprise was far the description that Tsuna made. The sudden appearance of his long haired friend made him nearly jump out of his skin and his automatic reaction of shrieking flew through his mouth.

"Haku..." Tsuna gulped down another bout of shout from his throat. "Please warn me." He added while placing a hand to calm down his heart.

The raven only nodded and paused as he gazed at the street before them.

"Do you smell that?" He asked, his nose still scrunched up in distaste at the offending smell.

"What smell?" Haku asked, tilting his head in question.

Tsuna threw him a confusing look, and glanced back at the street. The smell was still strong and Tsuna doubts that it will dissipate by the morning.

"You're just hungry." Haku offered and nudged him back to the direction of the shop.

He shook his head in denial and was about to retort his side, when his stomach choose the time to complain. Haku raised at eyebrow as he points out his defense, Tsuna gave a sigh.

"Maybe.." He muttered and returned to their walk. It was far from his point but Tsuna couldn't deny that he's getting hungry, despite the offensive smell.

The two of them quickly reached the small shop and Tsuna found his friend already ordered their food. He sighed in exasperation as he saw the blond's receipt which contained three different variety of stir fry. Kuria was already chewing a candy and Kakashi's attention was fully directed on the orange book.

"What are you reading?" He asked the masked teen after he placed his order. His eyes landed on the first sentence oof the page and his cheeks flush at the words.

"Hoho, you're not of age yet, Tsuna." Kakashi replied as he blocked his sight, though the damage is already done.

"He-he..." He trailed off, stepping a few feet away from the masked teen. Kakashi made an eye-smile at his reaction.

"Hentai." Naruto grumbled while glaring at the little orange book.

"It's adult romance." Kakashi rebutted petulantly. "You can't appreciate it at your age."

"It's still disgusting." Naruto frowned. "I still can't believe, Ero-jiji manage to make a fan out of you."

"Who?" Kuria joined in as he notice their affronted look directed at the silver head.

"My godfather." The blond replied, a small fond look on his face that was suddenly changed in a more frustrated one. "He's an author for...adult romance...and Kaka-nii is a fan."

"Adult romance?" Kuria parroted. "Isn't those one with rated warning?s"

Tsuna nodded, though what he read was far from the rated one he glance once during his mother's...guilty pleasures. No, nope, Tsuna, turned your thoughts away from that.

"The novel is more...descriptive... Perhaps smut is a better description." Haku supplied.

His words prompted Kuria to copy his actions earlier and stepped father away from the now giggling Kakashi. The masked teen's leering look at the book didn't help any future defense, in Tsuna's opinion.

"Maa, it's not bad..." Kakashi commented.

"It's bad! You're reading it in public!" Kuria hotly retorted, getting an unamused look from Kakashi since his exclamation took the attention of the few customers.

Fortunately their orders had already arrived and group quickly took their food and hastily went out. Naruto was laughing at his brother's expense after he heard a passing comment of pervert from one of the females inside the shop.

"So..." Naruto began as he made an impression of a hamster as he ate his food. "Where's your house?"

"A few minutes away from the residential district." Kuria replied taking his time on his food. "Though, it will take half an hour if you walk."

"And you think it was better if you go home alone?" Naruto asked with a raised eyebrow.

Kuria's cheek flush at the question and smartly directed his attention back on his food.

"Maa, we should hurry our pace, we still need to drop Tsuna on his house." Kakashi said, throwing his already finished stir fry on one of the garbage bins.

Tsuna blinked. "You're done?"

Kakashi eyed him. "Yep."

"How?" Kuria joined in pure confusion an his eyes as he glanced back at the bin.

"Don't bother asking him. Kaka-nii took the term 'fast food' on the next level."

Kakashi, was ready to throw a pebble at the damn doctor if he won't stop looking through the windows of the stores every second. It was already thirty minutes since he followed the blond doctor and the man kept testing his patience.

He was...unsurprised when he saw how the doctor manage to be discreet. It was rather elemtary of the man using rubber mask, a few foundations here and there, a change of clothes and add a bipolar personality and viola! A new identity. Kakashi found it embarrassing for him not to notice this.

Faust had only took minutes to return to his driver/butler personality, and Kakashi admits that the man was a good actor. Even he took some time to match the blond -deranged- man earlier from the pristine looking man below him.

Kakashi paused in his steps- he still on the wall- as he saw the man pulled out his phone. The frustrated frown on the man's brows prompted Kakashi to grin, he knew that the man is expecting his accomplice to message him on whether Kuria was already in the warehouse. Too bad that the clone he send after his target earlier had already killed the man, and the four clones he got earlier had already finished their work.

That leaves him two clones, one back in the house hacking through the Estraneo and the other one with the leader of kidnapping group. The rest had already dismissed themselves along with his pack after they destroyed the car at different locations in Namimori. Three vehicles were drowned near the docks and the rest were either burnt to crisp, boxed in the scrap yard, or left in the forest of the death.

So far no casualties.

He blinked as a new batch of memories entered his mind, and Kakashi bit back a curse as his mind organized the information. Reborn had already made a connection, ne needs to send this progress report to Tsunade as soon as possible. It didn't help that his clone gave a hint of his presence here, while not alarming, he needs to more cautious if Reborn will take action. The severity of being caught will give his brother more troublesome situation to explain his relation with the Mafia to Tsunayoshi.

Kakashi hid himself back to the darkness and created another clone. His copy nodded and swiftly disappeared in a swirl of leaves. Itachi would will take over for a few days if this comes out ugly.

Returning to his hunt, Kakashi quickly followed the trail of the doctor who was now entering the residential district. A minutes later, he found himself hiding in cover of trees. A small trail of dirt road was the only sign that the there is a house ahead.

Giving out a quick pulse, Kakashi cursed as he felt a reply a half a kilometer ahead. His brother and rest of his group was just up ahead. It only took a few seconds for him to make a decision.

Kakashi dropped down on the ground silently and eased out his hold. It only took three minutes for the doctor to pause in his steps and began to survey his surroundings. Kakashi kept his distance placing as much distance between the doctor and the group ahead.

He was postponing the inevitable, hopefully Tsunayoshi won't get a hint of this.

Reborn stiffened as he set his gaze below. After the short chaos back in his hideout Reborn decided to drop the incident in favor of getting his student in the hospital only to read that Tsuna had already left the building and went accompany Kuria to his home. He would reprimand the brunet later for ignoring his order, but seeing that he was too occupied earlier with the hacker, he admitted that his inaction might have prompted his student to join the group.

With so much distance to cover Reborn had decided to have Leon to transform into a glider and hopefully he could catch up to his student, it was much better than hopping through the trees below. However, he was conflicted whether what he is seeing now was a fortunate or unfortunate event.

A few meters below him, he could two persons. The first was easily recognizable as Faust, or Dr. Faust to be precise, the pseudo driver was in the middle of the dirt road looking through his surroundings with caution. If Reborn was not a hitman by profession he could easily overlook the small dot just a few meters away from the man. Just by the strawhat alone, Reborn could easily match the appearance to the infamous Scarecrow of the underground.

He slowly circled the duo, using the wind to his advantage.

He eyed Scarecrow, perfectly hidden through the the foliage, he kept change his angle as the man disappeared from his sight. It was confusing thought that the man had been on the other of the computer minutes earlier, but seeing as Scarecrow has an accomplice, he didn't doubt that the man's partner in crime is somewhere in Namimori.

Reborn was conflicted, his priority was his student, yet on the other hand he can't just turn blind eye at the information that there is an unwanted men in his turf. But the message from the screen kept bugging him to not interfere. This was between the Scarecrow and Faust, there was an unsaid code that dictates that fights between Familgias would be left on their own.

Yet, there was one code that if any of Familgia were dragged into their fight it would always lead to a two on one fight. Wherein the third party would side with one, leading to the destruction of the other.

However, Scarecrow does not have any alliance with any Familgia as far a he knows, and only works as a freelancer...or is he? Reborn remembered the last line of the message. 'please forward it to her...'

Her.

Reborn knew many minor Familgias, having a female boss and he could only count on one hand the total number of female bosses. The first name that came up to his mind was of the Senju boss. Nevertheless, Reborn decided that he won't join the fray below and if what Scarecrow had stated in the message was true then he wouldn't have to decide where Vongola will side if Tsuna will be dragged in this.

After all, his student's safety was on the line...as well as the possible guardian for one of the rings.

Kakashi slowly filtered out his killer intent as stepped closer to the doctor. Making to sure to resort to a more manual...way of killing the doctor. He was not a specialized as a tracker for no reason and feeling a new set of eyes above him was all he need to know that Reborn was watching them.

No jutsus, just shurikens and tanto. He reminded himself.

If he takes more time in fighting the doctor, he knew for sure that the group will catch them going at it. He would rather have not that.

Another minute passed and Faust finally stopped in his walk. The doctor dropped his grocery and stood stiffly.

"Come out." Faust called out.

Shrugging offhandedly, Kakashi complied and drifted through the darkness.

"Who are you?"

Kakashi kept his silence, giving more tension to the air. Mechanically, he slowly unsheathed his tanto and held it like a broken doll. Hey, he needs to keep in character. He made a slow nearly doll like step forward and held up his weapon.

The doctor just kept his stiff posture, but Kakashi saw the man reaching his hand on his back.

"Who are you?" Faust repeated, this time with tone of warning.

He inwardly scoffed, the thought of his infamy not reaching the doctor was insulting. Though the knowledge that the man was not informed of this made him realized that Faust have no connections in the underground for a while. It was pitiful, even the men he killed earlier knew of his name.

"...Your death..."

With a blink of an eye, he pushed a minimum of chakra to his feet and disappeared from the doctor's sight. It was invigorating to feel the familiar rush of adrenaline in his body. The thumps of his heartbeat raged as he chased the doctor into the woods, he knew he was already drown in his other persona and Kakashi relished at the sight of fear from the dull blue eyes. It was maddening to be locked up.

Wolf grinned as throw a a trio of shuriken at the doctor, who manage to dodge it at the last second. It didn't matter, he purposely made it slow. Keep frightening his prey and by the time Faust would be cornered, the man's defensive mechanism would lash out. Wolf couldn't wait to fight a cornered animal, the fear, the pained shouts...the blood.

At the hundred meter mark, he noticed that Faust finally had enough. Wolf could only watch and wait in excitement as his soon to be victim pulled out a customized Bardiche, Wolf laid in wait as Faust assembled the weapon. The rectangular flat edge is heavy and he new that it would the doctor more time to swing the weapon. Nevertheless, Wolf trickled a small killing intent and saw the doctor replied with his own.

The intensity was below from what he expected, but Wolf had already set his eyes on his prey. No matter how disappointed he was, Faust would still do his best to live.

"You bastard! How dare you attack me!" Faust shouted in rage, the dull blue eyes hardened and his lips discolored as he shifted into a stance.

Wolf tilted his head.

"DIE!"

Wolf saw the trajectory of the weapon before the doctor finished his swing. Without a prompt, Wolf met the weapon head on with his tanto and the loud clash of steel echoed throughout the forest. He grinned and a chuckle escaped his lips as he threw the weapon off with just a small tilt of his tanto. He saw the frustration from the dull blue eyes and Wolf shivered as Faust took his killer intent up on a higher level.

He reciprocated the action and with a grin, Wolf let it all out.

Kuria felt the hairs at the back of his neck stood up as he heard a drifting echo of steel clashing one another reached his ears. He paused in his steps as he gazed at the road behind him, something deep inside him resonated in glee and Kuria found himself smiling.

The small reaction made him frown and saw Naruto looking at him weirdly.

"Something matter?" The blond asked him.

"Nothing." Kuria shook his head and continued his walk.

But every step he took the small echo repeated in his ears, and in no time he was grinning madly. He didn't know why he was doing it, he heard sword fights in TV in the past and he never made this reaction...so why now?

A small shiver reached his body and Kuria stopped dead. This was far from the cold breeze he felt earlier, this was much more, more familiar...more.

Naruto had once again noticed his grin, and stopped beside him. A worried look on his features and Kuria found himself back on earth.

Shaking his head at the odd feeling. Kuria took his time to gather some sense and placated the blond's worry with a smile.

"We should hurry up, dattebayo. Your might might be worrying about you." Naruto commented and placed a hand on his shoulder.

"Yes, right..." Kuria nodded, however his voice felt off. "Kaa-chan."

The group was a few feet ahead of them, Kuria saw the similar looks from the males in the unit. It was rather disconcerting as he realized that it was anxiety...at him.

"How far is house again?" Kakashi's question distracted him for a second as he thought of the distance.

"Five more minutes." He replied as he took out his earphone and plugged it on his device. It would be better is he distract himself, yet somehow even drowned in the beats of music. Kuria still heard the echo of steels.

AN: So what do you think? I hope the killings wasn't too much. please drop a review^^