Iemitsu's return to Japan after five years was nothing like he expected. First Basil had been arrested by the cops for causing a disturbance at his home, then he found himself being held back by airport security and almost arrested as well!

How the hell did Xanxus manage to get a warrant out for his arrest that fast?

It wasn't until he went to the darker side of Namimori that his blood ran cold with fury.

Apparently someone was very busy in completely trashing the Vongola's name.

And the Varia didn't even bother to hide the fact they were the ones to spread the rumors.

Timoteo should have never taken in that ungrateful gutter trash, Sky Flames or not.

Seeing the familiar scarred features of the illegitimate fourth son, Iemitsu saw red...only to end up on the wrong end of a haymaker from the pregnant wife of the Cavallone Decimo. He was sent flat on his ass and promptly chained up.

"That is for threatening my husband and my children," she growled, a note of impending death in her voice. "Fon, Colonello, make sure that bastard is fully secured. I'm sure the Temple Guards would like a long detailed chat with him concerning his crimes on Japan's soil against his own kin."

Iemitsu's eyes bulged at the sight of the Rain and Storm Arcobaleno. What were they doing here, much less following the orders of a civilian?

Colonello he could understand, as everyone knew at this point that the Cavallone Decimo had hired the man as the permanent bodyguard for his wife...though there was a lot of speculation as to what Dino had on the Rain to pull that off without driving the familigia bankrupt for real this time.

But Fon? A man known for his neutrality and role as a neutral enforcer among the Triads?

What the hell was going on?

Timoteo had no idea his life was about to get a hundred times more complicated.

First Iemitsu sent out the rings far too early for reasons he never bothered to explain, and within hours of learning that information from Oregano rumors start springing like wildfire that the Vongola was trying to indirectly kill the last living heir of the Primo and the current Decimo candidate after they deliberately weakened him with a Flame Seal when he was a child!

As if that wasn't bad enough, the Cavallone sent a letter to the Vongola stating explicitly that if they didn't control their External Adviser then they were going to drag the Vindice in to mediate a meeting between the Cavallone Decimo and other parties and the Vongola.

Apparently Iemitsu had threatened the Decimo's wife in order to force the man to deliver the rings to Tsuna, while sending a decoy in the form of his apprentice Basil.

There were also rumors that Iemitsu lost custody of his son to Xanxus of all people, though the Wrath had openly elected the Cavallone Decimo and his wife to act as his proxies.

Timoteo rubbed his face. Things had become very complicated in short order ever since he decided to drag Tsunayoshi in as his heir.

So when he heard new rumors that the Cavallone's wife was holding the half-rings hostage until Tsuna came of age or had finished Reborn's training, he decided enough was enough and cleared his schedule.

He needed to visit Japan to get answers directly and find out what the hell was going on before things spiraled out of control any further.

Timoteo looked every year his age when the shock of seeing his mother's ghost from the ring out and about fainted.

Mostly because Daniella was firmly on Harmony's side when it came to Tsunayoshi to the point she was giving him one hell of a riot act for letting things get this far, starting with his inability to keep his OWN heirs alive and ending with the horrible mismanagement of Iemitsu and his blatant insanity.

And the Temple Guards had confirmed Harmony's suspicions about Iemitsu. The man was a narcissistic sociopath who didn't give a damn about his own child to the point he thought nothing of almost literally sending his son to his early grave along with his Guardians.

How the Vongola missed the fact Iemitsu was an inverted Sky (which meant it was almost impossible for him to find Guardians) was a complete mystery as it was pretty damn obvious to anyone who spent more than five minutes with him.

An inverted Sky only saw themselves and their Harmony was focused inward to the point that there was very little chance of them attracting Guardians. As such it only lead to a downward spiral of narcissistic and selfish behavior.

That Iemitsu was clearly a sociopath on top of his narcissistic stupidity...well, that just meant he was clearly unfit to ever be a leader of anything, Sky Flames or not.

But that wasn't the worst part of it. Oh no.

The worst part was that a mere civilian had the Vongola familigia by the balls and she damn well knew it. Worse, she knew exactly how to deal with manipulative old men who should have retired much sooner.

There was one question he did have though.

"How on earth were you able to summon my mother out of the Sky Ring?"

Harmony had a pained look on her face.

"Blame Giovanni Vongola, Daniella's younger brother."

"...The one who died in an attack by an enemy familigia in England?" said Timoteo slowly, dawning disbelief in his voice.

"He knocked up my grandmother before he had a chance to properly propose, and she remarried in a hurry since she was Irish and had no other family. Fortunately she managed to hide her condition so no one figured it out that she had already been pregnant at the time."

Timoteo was not an idiot, regardless of his foolish choice in making Iemitsu head of CEDEF or going along with the idea to seal the man's son.

If Harmony Cavallone really was his cousin from his long dead uncle Giovanni from an unplanned pregnancy (which would explain why he was in England long enough to be targeted) then there was a very high chance that she had Flames.

Specifically Sky Flames.

Everyone wondered what it was that the Cavallone had over Colonello, the Rain Arcobaleno, to the point that he canceled his decades long contract with Mafia Land for permanent bodyguard detail around a civilian woman. There was no way the Cavallone could possibly give the man a deal lucrative enough that he would stay with them for so long.

Unless they hadn't given him a deal at all.

"You're Colonello's Sky, aren't you?" he half-asked, half-guessed. It would explain more than it didn't.

"Not just Colonello's Sky," said Harmony bluntly.

Timoteo looked around and saw four of the eight current Arcobaleno.

Viper was already attached to his adopted son Xanxus.

But seeing Fon, Reborn and Skull on top of Colonello's obvious presence slammed the truth home.

He sagged into the chair, the truth hitting him like a ten ton brick.

"What do you intend to do with the rings?"

"I am going to hold onto them until Tsuna is at least eighteen, when he will be old enough to make his own decisions. The fact Iemitsu sent them now, when he's barely had over a year of training is completely ridiculous. Never mind the fact that Tsuna's Lightning is five. Expecting a child that young to understand the responsibility and burden of being a Guardian is beyond stupid and goes straight into ridiculous," said Harmony flatly. "And since I have a valid claim to the same title, there should be no arguments from the Alliance. And if they try to press the issue I will retaliate until they understand that I will not allow Tsuna to take the title of Decimo until he's older."

Timoteo winced at the accusation. It was like he was facing his mother when she was well and truly pissed off. Still, he could openly explain to the Alliance that the rings were currently in the position of a placeholder until his heir or his Guardians were old enough to take them on.

Seeing the Vongola don defeated by an angry, pregnant Sky was something Reborn was going to find hilarious for a very long time. There was no way in hell Timoteo or the Vongola were going to live down the fact they were told off by someone everyone in the mafia considered an "informed civilian" because her only connection to the Cosa Nostra was through her husband and her bodyguard.

Either way, no one in the Alliance was crazy enough to piss off Harmony as badly as the Vongola had by trying to kill the children in her care.

And finding out she was directly related to the Ottavo (and therefor a potential Decimo candidate in her own right) meant that no one said a word about her keeping the Sky Ring until the current heir was old enough to take the title and reveal himself.

Anyone who did think to ask questions was quickly shut up by offering to ask her directly. Considering she was able to beat the current Vongola don into submission with mere words, that kept the complaints to a minimum.

Though the Vongola's reputation took a massive hit when the "rumors" were confirmed. Harmony produced medical documents and proof, and Iemitsu had been more or less abandoned by the Vongola after his recent behavior...especially when it came to his own son.

It was a perfectly ordinary morning...right up until Harmony felt a twinge across the bond she had with her twin children and a sharp stab of alarm go across her mind.

She was up and out of the house before she even registered where she was going. By the time she made it to the scene, her children were missing, Romario and Dino's Rain were badly injured (but not in a way that made it impossible to get answers now) and she was positively livid with fury.

"Who?" she demanded.

"Death Eaters. They were laughing at how easy it was to get the children of the girl-who-lived," said Romario. It was clear he was very pissed off.

As impish as the twins were, everyone adored Ren and Diana.

Harmony didn't feel the hot spark of rage that often dominated Xanxus' Sky Flames and fueled his Wrath.

No, this was the icy chill of a very pissed off mother who's children was being threatened.

By the time the general alarm about the twins being taken (which set off a very large number of people) the English magical enclaves would have no idea of what was about to descend on their backwater society.

In England...

Everyone with even a lick of real power felt it. The sensation of an unstoppable, oncoming storm that would wipe all the slates clean.

When the first wave hit, it brought hope to those unable to leave the country before the ICW slammed down bans that kept first generation magicals trapped in hell. Entire families were wiped out within a single night down to the last child. Unspeakable atrocities occurred at least every other month.

The great Albus Dumbledore was so content to keep playing things safe, believing that their "Savior" would return to do her duty and end the war, while chaining his people down and casting them out if they dared to strike back with force. He gave redemption to those who didn't deserve it and refused to see his blind faith in the greater good was destroying everything around him.

Three Death Eater hide outs were annihilated to the point that the foundations were turned to rubble within a week. Five teams from the Order of the Phoenix had their wands snapped, their magic bound and tossed into cells they couldn't readily escape from.

It took a full two months before people woke up and realized that for once, someone was actually fighting back and doing something without handing out 'redemption' to the side doing most of the damage or falling for Dumbledore's empty promises.

It took two weeks before people found out what had set off the very pregnant Savior that she would willingly return to deal with the problem.

Voldemort had her children hostage.

Dumbledore was sitting calmly, despite the fact he was surrounded by people who would happily see him dead at the first look of disapproval from Harmony Potter.

"You have a lot of god's be damned explaining to do," she snarled. "Not only have you let things escalate to this level of depravity, but you've clearly lost your mind!"

"There's no need to be so testy. I know that females in your state can be rather...delicate...but that is no excuse to lose your temper," said Dumbledore with a placating tone.

He quickly shut up when she shoved her wand under his chin with a look that could kill.

"Just because I am pregnant does not mean I am a fool, Dumbledore. Not only have you allowed that idiot Riddle and his merry band of morons run roughshod over most of the UK and parts of Europe, but you openly restrict your men from actually getting off their asses and doing something about it. Which is why your level of incompetence will no longer be tolerated."

Dumbledore gasped as the magic-draining cuffs were slammed on his wrists. Harmony easily liberated his wand...which promptly bonded to her over him.

He would be dead by morning from the shock of having his Flames forcibly suppressed and being unable to use his magic.

When asked later, Harmony would claim that she was exercising Moody's Constant Vigilance considering her "fragile state" and had him chained up with the special hand cuffs on principle just in case he was someone under polyjuice or a glamour there to kill her. Considering there was no way to actually prove she was lying her ass off, no charges would ever be filed.

On an unrelated note, the Order was very relieved to have the shackles that kept them from actually doing anything removed and that someone far more competent was going to clean this mess up.

Snape was given one last mission...find out where the hell her children were and she'd let him live. He had operated as a double spy under severe protest and not only had Dumbledore never bothered to use the information he did pass along correctly, but he was really getting tired of all the damn Crucio's aimed his way from his so-called Master.

"Nufufufu..."

"I do not have time for a shade that should have died centuries ago. Either get out of my way while I retrieve my children from these idiots, or help me end them in as painful and as brutal a manner as inhumanely possible," said Harmony without looking up.

Daemon Spade blinked.

For some reason he saw a weird mixture of Giotto and Elena in the pregnant woman who was just a few weeks from popping, and it was really messing with his head.

"How do you know I won't kill you right now for stealing the rings?" he asked casually.

"I'm Daniella's great-niece. I'm holding on to them because the head of CEDEF is a complete and utter moron and tried to instigate a Ring Battle and get his son killed when he hasn't even had more than a year of proper training, never mind fully worked off that damn seal," said Harmony flatly. She turned to look at the possessed man. "And if you behave I might be able to convince Verde to clone Mukuro so you have a real body to possess without having to fight for control. I do need a Mist, after all."

Verde had harmonized with Harmony the second she started tossing him soon-to-be-dead magicals with the strict orders that they not leave his labs alive... or if they did, that they were so disfigured that they were killed on sight on general principles.

Verde was not one to turn down free unwilling test subjects, much less magical ones that would be unable to escape. Harmony would supply him with people he could throw his more dangerous experiments at in exchange for him working occasionally with the two young inventors that immediately had his interest.

He got free food, a proper lab, two young bucks that could actually keep up with him and Harmony was more inclined to let him do what he loved rather than send him out for field work unless she thought he'd enjoy it. Being tied to a Sky that was only loosely affiliated with the Vongola and had very little to do with the one she married into was a small price to pay.

Daemon stared at Harmony.

"What's in it for me?"

"You get to screw over the magical enclaves here and I don't have to look for a Mist anymore," deadpanned Harmony. "I would ask Luna, but she's too busy recovering to properly take the spot right now."

Daemon stared, before he chuckled again. He liked this woman... she reminded him of the times Elena had that no-nonsense tone in her voice and force...er, convinced him that it was in his best interests to do what she told him, mixed with that idiot Giotto's conviction and charisma.

"Oh, and if you happen to make Vongola Nono's paperwork quadruple while making Iemitsu's life hell, I'm sure the others would be delighted to lend you help. I have it on good authority Reborn has had several ideas on that front."