It was a clerical error that had dire consequences... Some idiot misread the list and had Bianchi slated for the Animus shortly before the group was supposed to return.

Tsuna only found out at the last minute, and by the time they reached the facility in the secret location it was already too late...she was under the influence of the machine.

Bianchi's mind was still quite fragile. If they handled this wrong they could send her straight back to the Templars, which meant they would have to kill her before she revealed anything she shouldn't.

Like the fact that the Brotherhood had a powerful active Sky in their ranks hiding in Japan, or the fact that Shamal and her brother were allied to them.

Hayato was one of the first to his sister when the machine finally turned off...it was too dangerous to pull her out so quickly after deep diving into the genetic memory of an ancestor.

Bianchi was trembling, and latched onto Hayato's sleeve in an effort to remain herself.

Because of her fragile mental state and because they didn't target the specific memories of one ancestor (this had been more of a test run to find out which ancestor she was most compatible with) her memories were a complete mess.

Hayato, despite his well justified phobia of his elder sister, held her dearly. Just because she scared the living crap out of him with her crappy cooking didn't mean he hated her. She was the only family left he bothered to claim.

A day and a night passed agonizingly slow as Bianchi fought to remain in control of her own sense of self. With the influx of foreign memories, some as a Templar and some as an Assassin, she was having great trouble remembering who she was.

And then, like a miracle, something finally allowed the memories to settle into place.

She felt warmth in her body, almost like it was floating. A sense of 'home' and 'belonging' that was indescribable.

She latched onto it eagerly, desperately...and she felt something in her soul subside and click into place.

She woke up thirty-five hours after being put into that machine with a bond that connected her to Tsuna, with a worried looking Hayato right next to her holding her hand.

"How are you feeling?" asked Reborn.

"Like myself...it's strange, but I can still hear their voices."

"That's normal," said Shamal. He carefully examined her with his Mist flame...and looked to Hayato. "She's stable, for the most part, but I would recommend against her going back into the machine unless they were deep diving a specific ancestor in another year or two. At least the Animus did one good thing...the shock of the dive caused whatever remained of the conditioning to either fracture or be rendered useless."

Bianchi shuddered.

She never wanted to be around another Templar again. She could tolerate Hayato and his Assassin's training, but the trauma of what she went through left some deep scarring.

"I'd rather just stick to the mafia side of things," she said.

"That can be arranged. If you don't mind telling the Creed everything you can remember about the Templars, we can have the memories themselves fully sealed and make it clear you're a neutral party," said Shamal.

"It won't keep off the zealots, but it'll keep you safe from the general morons," said Tsuna.

Bianchi nodded. She could live with that, even if she would always be at risk.

It was better than the alternative.

Seeing a large group of men around the house, Tsuna mentally steeled himself for a massive fight.

That is, until he got a good look at who was waiting for him.

"You have got to be kidding me. We finally get Bianchi sorted out and your old student decides to pay a visit?" said Tsuna incredulous.

Dino Cavallone blinked that he had been recognized so easily. Then he spotted the unusual tattoo and his eyes widened slightly.

"Ah. You didn't tell me that your new student was an Assassin... a blooded one at that," he commented.

Reborn blinked.

"I wasn't aware you knew about the silent war."

"While the Cavallone doesn't have an Assassin or Templar blood in them, they've had a long history with the Vongola and naturally have an agreement with the Creed. We're silent supporters of the Brotherhood and thus all heirs are trained from age ten to know how to spot a full Assassin and know the current passcodes. We've supplied many horses, medicines and general supplies to the Creed for centuries now," said Dino shrugging.

Tsuna's stance became far more friendly hearing that. Though Dino's eyes widened in recognition when Natsu flew to Tsuna's shoulder.

By this point he had enough Flames stored in him that the tips of his feathers were stained a Sky orange, and his eyes were an amber color identical to Tsuna's own when he was in Dying Will mode or even Hyper mode.

"No way... you have one of the specially breed eagles?" he said in shock. "And one of Falco's eggs at that!"

"His name is Natsu," said Tsuna proudly.

Dino grinned, and pulled out an odd turtle.

"This is Enzo... you could say he's Leon's because when I first got my whip he fell right on my head with it," said Dino.

"...How the hell can a chameleon like Leon produce a turtle? I mean I know he's a Ditto with a preference for that shape and all but did he mate with a female Squirtle or something?" asked Tsuna baffled.

Dino, once he processed exactly what Tsuna just said, started laughing.

"Better not make too many references. When I made that comment once to Romario Reborn had absolutely no idea what a Squirtle was," he laughed.

"Don't be too sure. I caught him cussing out Whitney before summer break while trying to get all the badges in Pokémon Gold, and I think he moved on to Ruby or Sapphire last week," said Tsuna snickering.

Reborn scowled at them both.

"So I take it Natsu is a Braviary or a Rufflet?"

"Rufflet, definitely, though he's been using some of Articuno's moves," said Tsuna immediately.

"Enzo is like a Squirtle or a Wartortle with a Water Absorb ability that makes him a headache to deal with when he gets wet," grinned Dino. "Though if he takes in too much he could easily be a Blastoise."

"I think that's Colonello," said Tsuna.

Dino snickered.

"Which one is Reborn then?"

"Absol, all the way."

It didn't take much convincing for Dino to stay the night, and much to the amusement of Tsuna he did have his games with him. Or at least the newer ones anyway.

Lal had a bad feeling for over a week, and it wasn't until she spotted Iemitsu's new 'accessory' that she found out why.

"Where on earth did you get that?"

Iemitsu noticed she was looking at his new pin and grinned.

"I made a few new friends who were more than happy to supply extra funding. We might be getting a new training facility and they're from Allied families."

If that wasn't the symbol for the Abstergo foundation, she would become a nun.

"What sort of friends?" asked Lal, hoping she was wrong.

On the plus side, if she was right then Tsuna now had all the 'reason' he would need to brutally murder his genetic donor, or at least have it professionally arranged.

If Iemitsu really was stupid enough to allow his ego and hatred of the Varia cloud his judgment enough to join the Templars, then Lal would personally insure that the Alliance knew why his own son killed him.

Actually, the idea of that idiot joining the Templars without knowing it was far too possible for it to be dismissed. Iemitsu always did like having things follow his own idiotic world view without bothering to consider the bigger picture, and he hated Xanxus...and by extension the Varia...with a passion for reasons he never fully explained.

Iemitsu was more than happy to try and convert Lal to people who she knew for a fact were Templar agents, unaware that he was talking to the enemy of his new 'friends'.

The first thing Lal did upon confirming Iemitsu was now in with the enemy was to insure he didn't find out exactly how many Assassins were actually part of the group.

For once Iemitsu's disinterest in doing his paperwork properly worked to her advantage. She was able to quietly 'kill off' several of the more experienced agents without anyone the wiser, allowing several of Iemitsu's new "friends" to be hired in their place.

If Iemitsu thought she was going to let the fact he had chose the wrong side go down quietly, he was sorely mistaken. She was going to make damn sure that if he was going to hand over the Vongola to the Templars, that he would pay dearly for it...and with any luck they could wipe out a good number of Templar agents with an ambush they never saw coming.

Besides, Nono really needed a better External Adviser if he was going to keep listening to someone so blatantly stupid as Iemitsu.

When Tsuna heard the general warning that CEDEF was being infiltrated by Templars because Iemitsu had apparently made "new friends" according to Lal, he was torn.

On one hand, he could easily believe his genetic donor was stupid enough to join a group that wanted to strip free will from mankind and rule them like slaves.

However he still felt some lingering feelings for a man that had donated half his genetics to him.

The latter feelings were easily swept aside by the cold, hard knowledge that this was also the same bastard who would have sealed his Flames without a second thought, sent a Templar who rendered his own mother who happened to be a Master Assassin into a helpless, airheaded civilian who couldn't defend herself even if her life depended on it, and who left them all alone for years at a time while pretending he actually gave a damn about his family while he was busy dragging his own organization down into the mud for being an idiot.

On second thought, screw it... Tsuna hoped that bastard died screaming for what he did to his mother. At least now if he had the chance to stab Iemitsu in the back he could honestly claim that the fool chose the wrong side.

After all, the Ninth wanted the Vongola to go "back to their roots" according to Reborn, and Giotto was from an Assassin's line, not a Templar one. Keeping a Templar like Iemitsu around was very counterproductive for what the current don wanted.

"You look rather bloodthirsty," said Reborn.

"Iemitsu has some new...friends. Ones that made the deadline for his overdue demise shorten to the point that if I get the chance I can now happily stab him in the back with a smile on my face and not get yelled at for it," said Tsuna darkly.

"...Patricide is heavily frowned upon. And the Alliance certainly won't appreciate having such a man lead the Vongola."

"Ah, but the Ninth specifically stated he wanted the Vongola to go back to what it was in the Primo's generation, right? Having Iemitsu around would make that very difficult, seeing as how he's decided to join the wrong side," said Tsuna with a vicious smile on his face.

Reborn had to blink.

"Iemitsu is a Templar?"

"Lal Mirch just confirmed it, and is setting up a massive trap for the Templars using CEDEF and Iemitsu. Once all of our agents and those from Assassin's bloodlines are removed and Iemitsu fills their place with his new 'friends', we're going to wipe out the organization entirely and with any luck take out as many Templars as we can," said Tsuna. "After all, Iemitsu didn't even recognize an Assassin when he married one, despite the Vongola being an Assassin's bloodline through Giotto and to a lesser extent Daniela. He should have known better."

"Daniela was an Assassin?"

"Not really, but she did get the training for her weapon from one and she was a major supporter. In fact she often gave the Brotherhood missions during World War Two that helped to keep the Vongola alive as well as take out several Templar facilities. I'd be surprised if her son was unaware of the Creed."

Reborn almost felt an iota of pity for Iemitsu, but to be honest the idiota had it coming for a very long time. The damage he did to his wife alone would have given his student reason enough to kill the man, as did the fact that Iemitsu's only claim as Tsuna's father was because he donated half his genetics to the boy.

It would be so easy to argue that Iemitsu's rights as a father and parent died years ago because he was never around. If anything, Fon had a stronger claim on such a title than that idiot.

Besides, once word got out that Iemitsu was a Templar agent attempting to subvert the Vongola through CEDEF, it would become less a case of "patricide" and more in line with "icing a threat against the Family" in a very permanent fashion.

Dino had been surprisingly helpful in mapping out who was Templar or Assassin among the Alliance. Though the majority of them were allied to the Assassin's Creed, all Tsuna (or Reborn) would have to do in order to smooth the ruffled feathers over the percieved patricide would be to point out that Iemitsu tried to have his son, a powerful Sky sealed and that his incompetence rendered his wife completely helpless as well as brain damaged.

Honor thy father was one thing, but honoring one's mother held a lot more weight in the mafia. More than a few dons would be a bit more sympathetic once they found out what Iemitsu did to Nana, especially considering he often left her neglected for years at a time and barely paid her any real attention when he did visit for all of a week.

It wasn't like the idiot's infidelities were unknown, after all.