"Leader, this is Gokudera in section G-6, there are no sightings of the target!"

"Yamamoto in section F-5, nope, nothing."

"EXTREME Ryohei from EXTREME section D-4. No EXTREME target to be sighted."

Natsume Vongola clicked his tongue in desperation. He had to find him. Honestly, where can someone as petite and frail as Tsunayoshi Vongola would be?

His kid brother looked so ordinary within the entire Vongola City. He could blend in easily, even without his (normally) useless skill in make ups. "Find him!" He snapped to his squad. "The Mayor wants him, and so we will find him. If not, we'll bring shame to CEDEF's name. How can we, the most elite military force of Vongola, not find the Mayor's youngest brother who's a normal civilian?!"

Several of his squad turned off their communication device in order to focus. Natsume gritted his teeth as he carefully scan the map of the city. Several spots (like Namimori Library and Angel Sugar) has been crossed out due to the lack of one Tsunayoshi Vongola.

He can't fail the Mayor. Nobody is to fail the Mayor, even if Natsu was his sibling, nobody.

"Kufufufu,"

"Mukuro. You're in section B-2. What did you see?" Natsu took the communication device rather forcefully. If the thing had cables, it might have snapped already. "I-It's Chrome and Mukuro-niisama in section B-2. We found Tsunayoshi-sama's crest bracelet." That explains why he wasn't able to track his brother. Crest bracelet is a very important artifact here in Vongola City. It shows who you are and where you live. It also functions as your wallet and ID. Abandoning it... means you're an outlaw within the City.

And he never imagined Tsunayoshi, the quiet and meek Tsunayoshi, to ever defy such a law.

Out of the three brothers, their eldest, the Mayor, has always been the authority-figure in their family. And he's also the most powerful. Natsu, the middle child, is strong and elected to be the leader of CEDEF, the one who does the dirty works within Vongola City, the so-called perfect utopia. And Tsunayoshi... the youngest child has always stayed quiet under the Mayor's supervision.

Nobody, not even Natsu, knew what the Mayor does with Tsunayoshi. Some says Tsunayoshi lived a perfect, but sheltered life due to the fact that he strongly resembles the previous Mayor's wife. The current Mayor cannot stand the fact that his mother has passed away along with his father, so he sheltered his brother from the outside world that might harm him.

But... some also said that Tsunayoshi lives a neglected life. The Mayor is a very busy man and Tsunayoshi is locked within the Vongola Manor, only showing up for official businesses.

Natsu himself is only allowed to see Tsunayoshi twice a month. And during his visits, Tsuna is always the quiet, nervous, and generally a giant ball of endearing klutz who's very quiet, shy, and un-defying...

Until now.

"Good job, Chrome, Mukuro. Bring the crest bracelet here and we'll examine it." He sighed to the communication device and turned it off, rubbing his own temple with an utterly tired expression.

'Tsuna...' he shook his head as he took a sip of his coffee. 'Where are you? Why have you run?'

"What do you mean by 'he's escaped'?" The Mayor asked to the auburn-haired male with a tone that was devoid of all emotion. Shoichi Irie flinched, trying to calm his already-hurting stomach.

"Y-yes..." He spluttered. "Tsunayoshi-sama has somehow escaped from the Vongola Manor. The leader of CEDEF sent me a message earlier, saying that they found his crest bracelet abandoned in a junk pile. The only thing missing from his room is the orange hooded cloak." The Mayor looked up from his chessboard and flashed a very displeased frown. "Do I not tell you to guard him closely, Shoichi?" He flinched.

"Y-y-yes sir... but none of us really understand how he escaped. One minute he was there, and then we change shift for a minute, he was gone. It's like he disappeared into thin air." Shoichi spluttered, trying his best to no omit any of the details. But the hard part is there was no detail. He just... disappeared.

"Are you telling me that my brother somehow has the ability to turn invisible?" The Mayor sounded calm. Amused, even. But none of that fooled Shoichi. The Mayor... the Mayor was really angry.

"N-no sir, but..." Before he could say anything else, a blast of orange hit him and he felt himself... nothing. He felt nothing. Because he's dead.

The Mayor stood up from his seat and frown at his corpse. He then turned his gaze to the door and smirked. "Daemon,"

A figure wearing an indigo colored cloak appeared out of nowhere. "How is Tsunayoshi the last time you saw him?" The blue-eyed man smiled a sly smile. "He's fine." The short answer didn't seem to placate the Mayor's angry face. So Daemon elaborated more. "Fragile and secretive. He stops responding whenever I brought that up. He's very... obedient, Giotto, just like how you want him to be."

The Mayor nodded. "With all the trouble Dad went into hiding him, I assume that there must be something. Something that frightens him that Tsunayoshi might not be able to live a normal life if it's found and exploited." Daemon chuckled. "Is it really that bad? And besides, here you are, his own son doing what he exactly feared.

"I saw him, Daemon. I saw that something. It's what Mom invented for Tsunayoshi, it's the very thing that killed both Mom and Dad..." The blonde-haired Mayor smiled a wide, sly smile. "It's the secret of Vongola City, and I'll do anything to uncover it."

Night was calm and rowdy for the Arcobaleno bar in the slums of Vongola City. Who knew that the perfect utopia had such slums where people actually drink beer and get wasted?

Reborn, the strongest member of Arcobaleno Mercenary, was sulking as he hold a plastic bag that Luce had asked him to bring from the apothecary. Damn that Luce. How dare she made him do such a tedious job that an errand boy like Skull should have done instead of the strongest hitman?

When he made his way back to the Arcobaleno bar, he took a narrow way so he didn't need to find any unnecessary obstacle, like police patrol squad. But... he found something in the middle of the way.

Or someone, would be more appropriate.

He has unruly and gravity-defying brown hair, along with pale skin-complexion that put Viper's skin into shame. He was petite and he looked like he's 13 or something.

"What the fuck...?" Reborn put the plastic bag inside his suit and kneeled down to the boy's unconscious figure. He wore a dark orange cloak on top of a normal white pajama that was made from a very expensive material.

Reborn shook the boy on his shoulder. Hard enough to wake him, but still gentle enough to not hurt the guy. Such a frail looking person shouldn't be here in the slums.

"Oi, oi," Reborn called.

Slowly, the boy turned to wake. His eyes started to flutter open, revealing a very beautiful shade of brown. Reborn had never seen such beauty in slums. It reinforce his beliefs more that this kid doesn't belong here.

"W-who... are you?" A typical question. "I'm Reborn, the greatest hitman in the world." Normally, people from the elite part of Vongola City doesn't even know what the word 'crime' means. Much less a 'hitman'. But the boy didn't look fazed, in fact, he only stare blankly at Reborn.

"Who're you?" Reborn then asked.

The boy looked around, confused, but then his eyes widen and his entire body started to shiver.

"N-name..." He stammered. Name? "W-what's... what's my name?"