Some say the world will end in fire,

Some say in ice.

From what I've tasted of desire

I hold with those who favor fire.

-Robert Frost

Technically, the argument could be made that Skull was the first one to discover one of the most well-kept secrets of the world.

Not that anyone he told actually believed him, but that wasn't Skull's problem.

Ignorant, narrow minded idiots. Gullible fool his lily white ass.

In fact, he was holding out hope that one day, he would get a call from his fellow Arcobaleno demanding an explanation. Of course, depending on who it was and what they would see, would make the entire situation worth it.

There would absolutely be a jab on mafia hierarchies decided by rainbow colored magical flames which also determined personality type that they had no problem with, but myths and legends being truth was too much.

The whole thing started out three weeks after Luce betrayed them and their bodies were bound into toddler form.

Skull was trying to adjust not only to Omerta, to the mafia- being actually cursed like a fairy tale princess, holy shit- he was actually freaking out and being around the others wasn't helping in the least.

Usually, when he got into this state, he would get up, go out, and ride his motorcycle until things calmed down, but he couldn't do that now, could he? Not with this tiny body too small for his precious bike. So when he stormed down from the mountain, saw his bike that was too large, he just started walking, refusing to let his eyes linger on his motorcycle.

He just had to get home, call a few friends, some who would be mostly accepting of the impossible, and build himself a motorcycle that fit his new size, while one of them took his baby (that was too big now) home and he could do this.

It was three weeks, three weeks of frustration and random outbursts of emotions and Skull was not ashamed to admit that when he got home, to all the oversized furniture and counters, that he locked himself in his closet and cried for a solid hour.

He called an old carnie friend who worked in the mystic arts and was so, so thankful they accepted his explanation, however vaguely uninformative in the least, beyond the obvious and helped him.

Three weeks. Three weeks and Skull had enough of his pity party and threw a dart at the map, hopped a plane to Ireland and headed for the nearest bar to get spectacularly drunk. Truthfully, he only had to edit the picture for his ID and the height, before he was ready to go. A quick lie, that might actually been the truth, about a unique condition of dwarfism and a flash of his driver's license saw the bartender serving him with a look of pity.

Things got a little blurry after that.

Apparently the Propagation traits of his Cloud flames worked really well on alcohol content, especially if he concentrated.

He woke up to what he first assumed was a horse chewing on his hair. Other sensations filtered in, such as the grass beneath his fingers and the loamy soil underneath, a scattering of raindrops on his face and when he managed to crack his eyes open, it was to treetops and clouds.

Also the wickedly sharp horn that was glowing with a soft, silver shine.

He blinked once, twice, winced at the drums pounding in his head, before flaring his Flames and closing his eyes to allow the mystical fire to aid with the sped up healing of his truly awful hangover. This was probably the first time he started seeing hallucinations after drinking, but then again he never drank in a toddler's body before, so there was an explanation. Not to mention he had really wanted to be drunk enough to forget his new form, and had gotten his Flames involved in excess.

Of course, when he reopened his eyes he found his hallucination had only gotten worse as he was instead greeted with the entire picture, including the animal attached to the horn.

White, the color so pure it practically glowed, as in, actually really glowed, what the hell- made up 90% of his view. The other was dominated by the horn, which was still there. Which was growing out of the very white, silvery glowing horse standing in front of him, staring down at his small form.

Skull inhaled so fast, he choked on his own spit and prompt burst into a flurry of coughing. Which aggravated his alcohol-induced headache and general sickness which left Skull curled up against the ground whimpering in pain.

The was a soft nicker before the uni-horse, the horse which someone dressed up as a unicorn and painted with glow paint, obviously- stepped closer and breathed into his hair.

And Skull froze.

He lifted his head and turned to stare incredulous at the...being. A hesitant smile found its way onto his face. He heaved himself up and kept eye contact as best he could.

There was no lingering aches or pain in his body. All of it had vanished the instant the warm breath of the unicorn had ghosted across his face.

"Okay. Right. Unicorns," Skull barked an incredulous laugh, staring up in dawning wonder as the unicorn looked back at him serenely

It nickered and huffed, blinking dark eyes down at him.

"Well," he muttered half to himself, thinking about checker-faced men that appeared out of nowhere, being dragged into the actual mafia, finding out the mafia had, as a whole, weaponized magical fire like some kind of magical girl anime, and he could in fact use that fire, and had been cursed to a child form as a result of his magical fire's strength, as he watched the unicorn paw at the ground, "Now, I think I can officially say, my life cannot possibly get any weirder…"

Later, Skull would quietly think to himself, that he should've kept his fool mouth shut.

Much later, Skull would thank every higher power that he hadn't.

Reborn is done processing his situation.

Oh, don't get him wrong, he's still furious, how dare she- and ignoring the sharp scrape of betrayal, but al diavolo, he's got important things to do, such as renovating all his safe houses and getting new guns and clothes and everything.

Priorities.

He needs to go inform Timoteo and Shamal and work around this situation to the best of his ability so that he can start looking for a cure.

There's a sense of unity about them now. Not to say they get along better, no, they're still vastly different people, now with a common problem rather than a common goal. Some of them stick together, some leave, but it's three weeks later and they're all back in that house, save for one.

Verde is the scientist, Viper the one with the information. Considering that they're both sitting at the table with smudges under their eyes, and shaking hands in the case of Verde, they haven't had any success. Three weeks is all it takes to process their new situation and move to correct it. Three weeks is all it takes before they hit a dead end.

Still, there's a sinking feeling in Reborn's gut that tells him they have plenty of time in order to deal with this.

Luce hasn't returned. He honestly doesn't know what he'll do if she does.

Lal Mirch's pacifier isn't the bright blues of Colonello's and she can't use her Rain Flames any more.

They're all stuck in the bodies of babies, courtesy of the Man in the Iron Mask, on whom they have barely half a page of cold, hard information.

The hitman can't help but wonder where he's supposed to go from here (because mio Dio, what is he supposed to do now?).

That's when Reborn gets a call.

It's the civilian Cloud, his new lackey. The one whose voice is now ten times more annoying and grating. Perfectly matching his equally annoying and obnoxious personality.

He answers it anyway. They're together in this Curse, and despite it all, Skull is a comrade, however low he ranks.

"Ciaossu," he says, high-pitched and squeaky.

Chaos, he purrs like a particularly bloodthirsty demon.

And a part of him hates that he can't even say his traditional, trademark greeting guaranteed to make most people blanch when he says it, because his vocal chords aren't developed enough. But he moves on from his childish voice, nothing like his previous baritone with its deliberate accent and rolling words, because there's nothing he can do about it, merde.

"Reborn-sempai," is what he hears, in surprisingly steady and even tones, high-pitched and childishly squeaky as it may be, "The world is a lie."

Reborn would usually shoot down anyone who opened up a conversation with him like this, but regardless of Skull's...existence...he's still an Arcobaleno like them, whatever the cazzo that means. Unfortunately, Reborn being the man he is, decides that there is some responsibility between them. Not a lot, but some. Enough that Reborn doesn't instantly hang up.

They share this Curse. All of them and their fate will be the same in the end, Reborn can't help but think.

Besides, there's not much information and for all he knows, this could be about their new state of being and the lackey has discovered something among his circus friends.

He doubts it, but apparently very little is truly impossible.

"Ho?"

Slightly questioning with a vague underlying hint of get-on-with-it-or-face-my-wrath. It doesn't have the same effect it once did, but it yields the same results, especially with someone suffering as he is and thus knows it's Reborn.

"Magic Flames, Ringwraiths that uphold mafia law, and real life curses like fairy tale princesses, huge surprise, whatever, but...Reborn, consider actual unicorns. Dragons."

And Reborn sighs and rolls his eyes. He expected too much from him, really.

"I will assure you, Lackey, there is no such thing," he explains easily before hanging up.

It's likely the stuntman went out drinking, going by the airy almost breathless quality to his voice.

His phone doesn't ring again and he puts it out of his mind.

He has pressing matters, more important things to do and he doesn't have time to deal with fairy tales. No matter that he's already got one foot firmly in one.

Reborn never once considers the probability that Skull might actually be serious.

Not now, anyway. Years later, he'll casually slip in this fact in conversations, that unicorns and dragons are real, and Reborn knows someone who can prove this. Because it's hilarious and the looks on people's faces when they jump to the conclusion that the World's Greatest Hitman believes in fairy tales are the best.

Later, he's vindicated, but not in any way he would have expected. Not in any way he would have believed.

Skull pushes the phone away from his ear to stare at it. To be fair, he's not really mad because he mostly expected that. But his eyes narrow and a grin paints itself on his face.

"Just you wait, Reborn-senpai," he growls between clenched teeth, "Just you wait, you arrogant bastard. I was going to warn you and everything, but hey, if you don't want any help, if you don't listen, no skin off my nose!"

His snaps his cell shut and turns to the large, expectant eyes locked on his tiny form.

Skull pauses for a moment, panic flooding through his system, because what if that was unspeakably rude and the unicorn is contemplating stabbing him with the sword growing out of its forehead made from starlight? It's automatic, a second later, when he bows his head.

(Hopefully unicorns are similar to hippogriffs)

"I'm sorry," he says quietly, inwardly wincing at the tones of his voice, "I don't really have people that care about me, or even care to listen when I speak. I meant no disrespect."

Because manners are important when you find a unicorn (or is it when a unicorn finds you? Does it matter?) It doesn't matter because now the unicorn looks...sympathetic? And he can't help but gape at this sudden prove of understanding between the two of them.

As the unicorn turns and neighs surprisingly loudly, Skull takes a moment to remember his manners, all the ones he ever learned, even from movies. They are especially important when meeting new beings of unknown power and for half a second, Skull lets himself relax. Unicorns, right?

A moment later, a dragon- a scaly lizard, with wings, the size of an actual house- drops down from the sky like SUDDEN DEATH FROM ABOVE and Skull is NOT PREPARED.

Not that Skull feels like he should need apologize for screaming like he was being violently murdered and then proceeding to throw himself to the ground with his hands up, trying to curl into a ball.

It wasn't like his following sobs and pleas alarmed both the unicorn and dragon to the point that they were frantically searching for the source of his distress, while simultaneously attempting to provide comfort. Comfort which involved close ups with breathing that smelled of smoke and burning, and only made his hysteria worse.

He did not need to apologize for any of that because, if it had happened, it would be a perfectly reasonable reaction to such a scenario. A scenario that definitely one hundred percent did not happen, because Skull was calm and mature, no matter what his body looked like or what any of the Arcobaleno said, and he didn't do any of those things.

Moving on.

Once he got over the dragon's (please don't let Alduin be an accurate representation of dragon kind) sudden arrival, he marveled at the huge wingspan, jutting spikes of the crest of horns about the creature's head and lining its' spine all the way down to the end of its' tail, which it then turned into a pointy ball of death.

It really was gorgeous though, being a red so dark it was almost black, with highlights of oranges and golds. It (he? she?) was about the size of a double decker bus though, not a mountain such as Alduin the World Eater, but closer to the descriptions of Smaug from Tolkien's The Hobbit. For which, Skull was now absurdly grateful that he had taken the time to read that book.

Not that what little knowledge he gleaned from that book made him an expert on how not to offend a dragon, as in a real, life, actual dragon-dragon.

Skull took in a deep breath as both the unicorn and the dragon stared at him in what he could only assume was curiosity and concern.

He had no idea how to react to this, so he decided to wing it- Dreamworks style. He hadn't shot the dragon down, it came on it's own, and it was displaying sentience, if not sapience so the only greeting he knew to give to a dragon it was.

Skull reached out a tiny hand, palm flat and fingers straight, and waited to see what would happen.

Tsuna found the thing hiding from his tormentors.

Not that hiding from people was anything new, but this time, apparently they saw fit to chase him halfway across town, far away from his normal paths. Truthfully, the only reason why they'd given up, was because someone had started screaming about the devil or an evil spirit or something.

Tsuna was a bit busy with running for his well-being.

So when he noticed a rather large rock, perfectly positioned to the side of a very tall, wide tree, his brain jumped and stuttered before it reasonably pointed out that spot was a very good place to hide. So, behind the rock with his back against the tree Tsuna went, squeezing his eyes shut and deliberately slowing down his breathing, no matter how much it hurt his chest.

Long, slow seconds ticked by, stretching into a solid two minutes before Tsuna opened his eyes and released a great big breath and slumped back in relief. His arms unfolded from his knees as his legs fell to the side and he was-

Heat-

When his leg landed on an oddly textured warmth, Tsuna couldn't help the whimper that escaped his lips as he jerked up and away-

His gaze landed on the most beautiful thing he had ever seen.

It was a stone, glimmering in brilliant colors of blues, silver and greens, and while Tsuna was never called words like 'brave' or 'courageous'. He was nine years old without a single friend and bullying was a constant, normal and expected even. Lonely and desperately searching for something and with this beautiful stone that he found, he entertains the idea, somewhere in the back of his mind, that this was meant to be.

Of course, it's also that part of his brain that trips and stutters before it works properly, because something is wrong with him, Tsuna knows. It's why everyone calls him 'Dame'- (it's why he doesn't deny it, it's why he lets them and endures, endures and survives-) but there's something about this stone that's wrong. Or right. One of the two, but regardless, it's both the same in the end.

His lips thin as for once in his life, Tsuna shoves the fear and apprehension away and hopes, reaching out with his scraped and bleeding hand to curl his fingers around the stone. He tries to lift it, but it's bigger than he thought, heavy and so warm- (like the warmth he used to have inside him before-) so he moves closer and brings his other hand to grasp this brilliant, beautiful thing into his arms and he pulls.

It comes easily, after a slight hesitation and Tsuna sits there, cradling this stone in his lap and just stares.

The warmth from the rock, that might not actually be a rock, increases, not enough to hurt, to burn, but enough that the heat starts to spread up his arms and Tsuna can feel tears beginning to gather in his eyes.

It's been so long since Tsuna has felt any kind of warmth, one that dwells deep in his bones and is bright and home in a way he can barely remember and he muffles a sob even as it wretches itself from his dry throat. A light shines from the inside and he can see something, curled up in the middle.

This isn't a rock, or a stone, it's an egg. There is something living inside and Tsuna's breath catches.

He tenderly reaches out and trails a finger down the shell, watching at the orange swirls and blends with the silver following the path of his fingers. He is utterly in awe and entirely lost in this tiny, unborn creature.

That's how the devil finds him in the end.

But now, after this, all of the stories Tsuna will tell all begin with, 'this is when it changed'.

Hibari Kyoya was a unique individual and defined his worth and self at the very young age of eleven.

His parents had raised him to be the protector of Namimori and only recently had he been deemed strong enough to strike out on his own. He had bitten all the hostile yakuza to death and arranged a deal with the police department for the betterment of Namimori. He had gained a competent and loyal subordinate who could be easily trained as needed.

Hibari Kyoya has proved himself a carnivore and the herbivores of his city, his school will learn to follow the rules. He will keep them safe, of course. But herbivores wander around, obvious to the dangers of life. Which is exactly why Kyoya was going to be scarier than anything out there.

He just has to get through a couple more yakuza and clean the rest of the scum out before he deems his duty a success.

It's during his patrols that he finds them.

It's when Kyoya hears the smallest of sounds, a painful cry, not unlike a small, wounded animal would make, so he heads for that direction immediately. He makes good time, scaling a building and jumping from one rooftop to another, til the trail ends below a large tree. He has to reach for the branches, and jump harder to make the gap, but he does it anyways.

It's below the branches that he hears the sound again, only softer and when he glances down, what meets his gaze is not what he's expecting.

It's a small herbivore. The one everyone calls 'dame'. The one with the fluffy hair. Sawada Tsunayoshi, son of his mother, Sawada Nana and a no name outsider father.

Kyoya knows many names, mostly of offenders, allies, and subordinates, those that are his, his father's and his mother's, but this one has earned his attention for the sole fact that he gathers a crowd wherever he goes.

In a negative manner.

Hibari entertains the thought that perhaps he could provide encouragement to the herbivore, in some manner that will force him to do better. On the other hand, he could use him as bait to trap those that would easily harm others, smaller and weaker than they are in an pitiful effort to usurp control of the herd.

Truthfully, he doesn't know which choice he would pick as the moment he finished contemplating his decisions, the herbivore makes the saddest noise that instantly puts him on the same level as a wounded animal. There is nothing Hibari can do now. Option three it is then.

Hibari flings himself out of the tree and lands near silently on the thick grass and gazes at a bowed head of fluffy brown, almost orange hair in the sunlight and a small quivering body. It's only when he takes a step forward that he gains the herbivore's attention and is leveled with red-rimmed burning eyes the exact color of a violently auburn sunset.

And Kyoya pauses.

Because the...small animal is cradling a truly astonishing thing. It draws his focus and his curiosity because Kyoya is certain that the small animal is hunched protectively over an egg, the likes of which he has never seen nor heard of before.

This changes things.

There are bruises and dirt smudging the small animal's face, tears in his school uniform. The position he's in, behind a tree, a boulder, it's a defensive one and well hidden. There are lines in his face, of exhaustion and his breath hitches weakly in his chest.

So perhaps this small animal was protecting the egg?

Kyoya's face darkens and he carefully searched his memory for those he had seen in the area. If someone had endangered the life of an unborn, Kyoya would grant no mercy.

However, his intentions towards the protection of the unborn creature wasn't made clear to the small animal and he shrinks against the bark of the tree and bares his teeth in a pathetic attempt to scare him away.

Outwardly, Kyoya scoffs, but lowers himself to the ground in a crouch, reaching out his hand, palm up. Inwardly, though, he approves of this obvious acknowledgement of the danger of his carnivore self. Obviously, the small animal was in high alert and won't be calmed easily.

Still, as Kyoya stayed in his position and watches as confusion and then incredulity spread over the small animal's face before that curious burning in his eyes slowly begins to fade and some tension eases from his slight frame. The egg is still pressed firmly into his side, as far from Kyoya as he can get while still keeping it close to himself.

Carefully, Kyoya doesn't move and watches in satisfaction as the small animal makes tiny movements to adjust his position and brings the egg to his lap before sitting up straight from the tree. Kyoya takes this as approval and leans forward to place his own hand on the silvery blue egg.

It's warm, he notices in barely concealed awe.

He ignores the tiny, barely there flinch of the small animal and brings his second hand up to delicately trace the swirls of blues, purples and silver, feeling the rough but smooth texture of the egg.

Hibari Kyoya is known as a devil, an evil spirit with the strength of ten men at the tender age of eleven. It shouldn't be so surprising to either of them that the egg cracks under his touch.

Tsuna knows exactly who Hibari Kyoya is.

While others may claim the same, and truthfully only a handful are fully aware of his personality and weaknesses, Tsuna figured it out.

It wasn't easy. It gave him headaches for weeks. But he knew that he had to. It was important, even if Tsuna had no idea why.

Hibari Kyoya was a carnivore. Everyone else was a 'herbivore' in the 'herd'. The 'herd' was everyone that was in school, for the moment. Older, younger, they were all classified as herbivores who made up the herd of Namimori. Perhaps there were a few who held the 'carnivore' status as Hibari Kyoya did, and perhaps there were adults he didn't automatically label, but not likely.

Hibari, as the 'carnivore' in this picture, protected the herbivores in the herd. It wasn't his herd, of course, but he kept the order and maintained stability. He enforced the rules and prevented chaos.

The rules which he decided meant anything and the chaos which prevented him from sleeping peacefully in the sunshine whenever he wished.

But, Tsuna knew, Hibari Kyoya had a weakness for small animals. Cute and cuddly, even if they were dangerous and deadly, small animals. They were to be protected, because they were useful and pleasant to look at.

Tsuna didn't really want to know the entire line of thinking that Hibari did, but he was confident in this. So he wasn't really worried, that much, when Hibari reached out to examine the stone. It might have been an egg, now that he was actually thinking in connection to Hibari-

crack

Tsuna stopped breathing and stared in horror as the stone-maybe-egg-probably-egg began to crack in fine lines of spiderweb cracks.

crack

They deepened almost instantly and Tsuna spared an instant to level Hibari Kyoya with the most blistering glare he could muster. Only, the boy was staring in fascination and that was when Tsuna made the connection between 'egg', 'breaking' and 'hatching'.

He would have screamed, he really would've, but he was captivated by the claw tipped, scaled limb that broke through the shell, which was followed immediately by a scaly head.

The top half of the egg just slid off, cracking into several pieces as it's insides were revealed.

As was the small, scaled creature with tiny horns sweeping away from a thin, angular face, peering up at Tsuna before launching itself straight at his chest with a happy chirp and a flutter of leathery wings.

It sounded suspiciously like 'mama'.

And the world was never the same.

Hibari Kyoya was eleven when he fell completely and utterly in love. The kind of love that would define him for the rest of his life.

It was the love that would lead to the slaughter of many, the destruction of entire cities and the dismantlement of many organizations, some legal, most illegal, and in one extremely rare and unique situation, was partly responsible for the destruction of several hundred realities.

It was the love of a parent for their firstborn child.

Kyoya watched as the dragon with its long neck and lithe almost serpent-like body uncoiled itself from the embrace of it's new mother, it turned bright, intelligent eyes towards him and their gazes locked. Steel gray with flecks of the deepest blue and Kyoya was lost.

It squealed and hurtled itself into Kyoya chest, making happy little snuffling noises as it did so. It quickly gained a hold and scampered up to his shoulders, twining itself lovingly around his neck before leaping back to the small animal it had claimed as a mother.

Leaving the claim of 'father' to him.

It curled into those thin arms and yawned, showing off fangs and sharp, white teeth before apparently drifting off into sleep.

Kyoya couldn't help the warm soft feelings in his chest, but he quickly found something else to focus on. Clearly, he had been lied to.

Dragons did exist, which is why they had been painted, why people embroidered them on kimonos and named dangerous attacks and finishing moves after them.

But one did not casually collect one and bring it home to any child who asked, be they carnivore or herbivore. One clearly had to earn the honor of being chosen to be a parent to a dragon. A mother, to care for the small animal, a father to protect it until adulthood.

Beings of high intelligence, who were undeniably carnivores of the highest order, but fragile in their infancy.

Obviously, no one could be told of the dragon, until the dragon approved of them.

Kyoya nodded firmly and levelled his gazed at the small animal. Clearly, there was something about him, something that was deemed worthy, just as he was. But, as Kyoya carefully considers everything he knows about this small animal, he comes to a conclusion that is both entirely correct and no where near to the truth.

But Kyoya doesn't need anyone else's convenient truths, it's obvious when one looks at all the evidence and in his world, there is no higher opinion than that of his child.

Tsuna was different from normal children in many aspects.

This situation lead to revealing one of the most prominent differences.

Tsuna did not have a father. His mother had a husband that occasionally showed up and pretended to be Tsuna's father, and his mother encouraged it, but Tsuna knew better. Still, he only tolerated him for his mother's sake.

But he still understood the concept of 'parent'.

A 'parent' was someone like mama who looked after their child, fed them and wanted them to be happy. A parent protected their children and made sure to understand their problems and help them through their life to the best of their abilities.

So when faced with a baby and the sudden, violent realization that Tsuna was now a parent…as in, he had a child to look after and protect.

Something kickstarted in his brain.

Tsuna was going to be the best parent...with Hibari Kyoya and if anyone disagreed, he would hurt them.

Going by the look on Hibari's face, Tsuna figured that he wouldn't be alone in parenting, or in hurting people who disagreed with them.

But for the first time in his life, Tsuna wasn't afraid.

He was determined and happy- so very happy.

Going by the vicious baring of teeth that Hibari Kyoya was sporting, Tsuna believed he felt the same.

It is unfortunate for Sawada Iemitsu, who is currently sorting through piles of paperwork in the CEDEF Headquarters in Italy, that the entirely correct part of Kyoya's conclusion, is in regards to his decision.

Sawada Tsunayoshi is clumsy to unnatural degrees, bafflingly unable to properly do simple school work and drew negative attention in droves.

This is not normal.

Kyoya understands that and the idea cements in his mind that someone has done this to him. Someone came into his territory and took a small, defenceless child and did something to hurt him to such a degree that he couldn't function as he was supposed to.

Clearly, in Kyoya's mind, this had something to do with the dragons. If only certain people...if only chosen people could find and hatch a dragon egg, that meant that there were two groups. Those for and those against.

To what degree, Kyoya didn't know, but obviously dragons were a significant, which meant that there may be people looking for dragons and the ones chosen to raise them.

Which meant, in Kyoya's mind…

There were dangerous people looking for them. These dangerous people had no problem hurting the little ones and would take their own little one and Kyoya would not let them.

Fortunately, for Tsuna who was alternating between staring at the dragon cuddling into his thin frame, purring as he stroked over smooth silvery scales, and staring at Hibari Kyoya who was radiating all sorts of conflicting emotions, this meant this his life began changing for the better.

Mostly, there was determination and a strong sense of must-protect, which going by the look the boy was raking over both him and the baby, meant both of them.

When Kyoya reached forward, ever so slowly, to pull Tsuna and the baby dragon into his lap, he didn't protest. There was a warmth to Kyoya, to the dragon, between the two of them that eased a pain in Tsuna's chest and he couldn't help the shuddering breath that left his lungs.

The next instant, Tsuna found himself going limp in the boy's arms as exhaustion washed over him, feeling safer in this moment than he could ever recall in his life.

In this moment, he didn't care what Hibari thought of him, he was just so tired, and everything felt so much better.

Little did he know, Hibari Kyoya was entirely approving of this trust his child's chosen mother had placed in him. He had a lot to do, to ensure their safety…

Perhaps a flock?

More subordinates?

Guards?

Definitely the re-education of the herd about Tsunayoshi's new place in the hierarchy.

Regardless, what was needed at the moment was a safe place for Sawada Tsunayoshi to rest. The Baby Carnivore had some sort of fire energy as red as rubies that disintegrated everything it touched; perhaps the small animal had something similar that was drained when their baby hatched?

Kyoya paused when he realized the eggs shells had glimmered orange in Tsunayoshi's hands and purple in his own.

Which would lead to a logical conclusion that he possessed some sort of flame energy as well...some people possessed energy that manifested itself as flames. These came in different colors, how many, Kyoya didn't know, but if there were more, perhaps the little one would be drawn to them?

Which meant that Kyoya would not need to go searching, they would be drawn, either those with the fire, or his little one.

With that thought now firmly cemented as fact, he carefully gathered them close, before pulling out his phone and hitting the first number.

"Kusakabe? You are needed at my location with transportation for three."