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"I pass Vongola to you, Neo Vongola Primo." Orange flames flared off from Timoteo's scepter as he handed the mantle to Tsuna, who was in Hyper Dying Will mode. Reborn stood far on the side, watching with a rather proud smirk as his guardians stood behind him. He locked eyes with Timoteo for a moment before he turned to the crowd, spotting the Cavallone, Shimon, Giglio Nero and Gesso, CEDEF and Varia scattered among the black suited mafiosi.

His guardians, all seven of them, looked at him as he closed his eyes.

He opened them again, his and his guardians' flames flared off brightly.

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Tsuna sighed tiredly. He was exhausted, having to greet every single mafiosi in the room and tried to ignore the not so subtle mocks that some daring mafiosi had said. It was clear as daylight, their intention and how they looked down on him since he was younger, and perhaps the youngest Don of Vongola. (It's only a matter of time before they would know not to trifle with him and his guardians.)

His guardians were perhaps strolling around the mansion, their new home seeing that they weren't with him. They were fortunate that they could move around without constantly being stopped by someone. Tsuna envied them a little. He was in the office, his office, hiding. He rather not greet another set of people after all that. The ceremony started in the morning, and now it's already evening. How did it last that long, Tsuna didn't know.

A knock on the door and it swung open. "Tsuna?" Ryuuichi came in, a hand in his pocket. He was wearing a black suit with a grey button down shirt underneath. His dark brown hair was tied up, shorter than before since he had cut it after their graduation.

Tsuna smiled at him. "Hey. I didn't see you during the ceremony." Ryuuichi laughed slightly. "Ah, I was there, if you're wondering. Behind a pillar with Yuuichi." Tsuna raised an amused eyebrow as Ryuuichi shook his head. "Let's go. Dinner, with Timoteo-san." The brunette nodded and followed Ryuuichi out, the door clicking shut behind him.

"Who's joining as well?"

"Excluding you and your guardians, Timoteo-san and his guardians, CEDEF and Varia? Dino and Romario, Enma and his guardians, Reborn and Yuni. Gamma and Byakuran are joining as well, same goes to my brother and I."

He groaned. "That's quite a lot." Ryuuichi chuckled. "I guess it is."

Tsuna stared at the seventeen years old teen, wondering. "When are you going to make Giudizio public?" Ryuuichi gave him a loop-sided smile. "I already did."

"Eh?! When?"

"This morning, before the ceremony. There was a group that questioned me, so I answered him. Apparently everyone heard and whispered about the Historian and blah blah blah." He rolled his eyes, sighing slightly. "I wondered how did they knew of the Historian."

Tsuna hummed. He and his guardians were busy with the preparation, so they weren't present when that happened. Now that he think about it, there was a commotion going on before the ceremony started. If he remembered correctly, someone was punched and Coyote needed to do damage control. He sweated. 'Was that because of Ryuuichi?'

"Did they believe you?" Ryuuichi scoffed as they turned down a corner.

"As if they would. It took both Timoteo-san and Dino to affirm everything. Coyote-san could only do so much." Tsuna laughed nervously, finally reaching the dining room. The mansion was too huge. His guardians were enthusiastic about it, Tsuna couldn't really relate.

The heavy sets of door was pushed open, and Tsuna immediately saw a spot by the end of the huge long table, Gokudera and Yamamoto on each side and the rest on spread out. The Ninth was at the other end, his guardians spread out equally on each side. The rest of the spots were taken up by the expected members, except the rest of the CEDEF, Varia and Shimon other than Enma, Iemitsu, Xanxus and Squalo, were absent. (Fortunately.)

Timoteo smiled at them as Ryuuichi immediately went to sit on the spot in between Hibari and his brother. Tsuna returned the smile and sat on his spot, a bit awkward since he wasn't used to it.

"Now that everyone's here, let's start the dinner, shall we?" The old man chirped rather happily and the food was brought to the table. Ryuuichi blinked upon the Japanese food, not expecting it. Well, at least Timoteo was considered enough to ask the chef to cook Japanese food.

"It's quite good." Yuuichi commented silently as he ate. Ryuuichi took a bite as well and nodded, impressed. As expected of Vongola, huh. He chuckled internally at his own thought and continued to eat, listening to the conversation that had been thrown here and there with great amusement.

"Ryuuichi-kun." He perked up at that and lowered the cutlery he was holding, turning to Timoteo. "How is building up Giudizio coming about?" He twitched, sweating a little at how the old man was smiling at him. He looked as though he found a new toy to play with, yet not really.

"It's alright, since there's not much things to settle anyway. Thank you for asking."

"That's good. I heard that there's an assassin who's quite interested in you and your organization." He bumped his knees against Hibari's when he felt the slow emitting of dark aura. The man was already annoyed at the crowd today, and was in quite a bad mood since he was forced to participate this dinner. That had irritated him more than he already was.

Ryuuichi ignored the man as he raised an eyebrow. "Oh?"

"She's the same age as you are. Xena, as she had called herself. She's a solo assassin that took up a few of our missions before." He hummed. A girl. That's unexpected. He memorized the name and nodded. "I'll take note of her somehow." The smile on Timoteo's face grew wider.

"Do you have a place to stay then?"

"Not ye-" "Yep, they have." He snapped his head to Dino, who sat on the opposite side of the table, just as his brother frowned at the blonde. Dino suddenly grinned at him. "It's a gift from the Cavallone."

"That's not neces-"

"Accept it, Ryuuichi." He frowned and exchanged a look with his brother. "Your mother and father was the one who suggested it anyway." He sighed and nodded.

"Thank you."

Timoteo looked as though he wanted to say something when Xanxus took his attention away from Ryuuichi. Ryuuichi sighed in relief internally. The dinner went on without a hitch, fortunately, if you dismiss how Mukuro got bored and tried to annoy Hibari further, which ended up Ryuuichi having to restrain the man from outright jumping across the table to hit the blunette. No thanks to Mukuro.

The twins were about to head to the guest room as the others retired to their respective rooms, Hibari literally picked Ryuuichi up and carried him on the shoulder like a sack of potato, in front of everyone else.

"K-Kyouya! Put me down!" The said man ignored his protest and carried him away to what he supposed, Hibari's room. (It was placed the furthest away from the others', for various reasons.) Yuuichi didn't even stop the man as he laughed loudly. He couldn't see the others' face, but he could tell that they were amused as heck.

Ryuuichi felt like he was going to projectile sparkles onto Hibari's back when they reached their room. The moment the door closed shut, he was thrown onto the bed like he weighted nothing. (He was sure that he's pretty heavy, so did Hibari did weight lifting, because he doesn't seemed to be aware of it.)

The man loosen his tie and crawled up to him. Ryuuichi felt a hint of dread at how those bluish grey eyes glinted, and how Hibari looked like a predator. "K-Kyouya? What is it-" Hibari dived for his lips and immediately captured him into a passionate kiss. Ryuuichi gasped into his mouth as fingers tangled into his hair, his hair tie snapped. He couldn't help but moaned a little when Hibari bit his lower lips, body pressed flush against his.

He broke the kiss and breathed for air. Hibari didn't stop. Instead, he kissed his jaw, his collar bone and bit onto his neck, eliciting a groan. Moving up slightly, he nipped the ear as Ryuuichi shuddered. "H-hey. What's wrong?" The sentence ended with a high pitch as Hibari's hands slid under his shirt, pulling it out from his trousers. "Kyouya!"

Hibari gave him another bruising kiss, swallowing all the sound Ryuuichi made while his hands rubbed against the pale skin. Ryuuichi felt that the need for air was increasing and hit Hibari's chest, the man pulling off. Hibari leaned his forehead against his and stared into his eyes intensely. "Can we go all the way?"

Ryuuichi's face was set aflame at his words. He tried to pull away to hide his face, but Hibari had a tight grip on him. He felt himself turning redder when Hibari ground their hips together. "K-Kyou-"

"Can we?" Hibari nuzzled against his neck, peppering butterfly kisses. Ryuuichi squeaked a little burying his face with his hands at how low Hibari's voice was, husky and, god, sexy. He would probably have a permanent blush if Hibari doesn't tone it down. He ran his thought back to Hibari's question, asking himself thrice.

He was hesitating. He didn't know if they were ready, or if he himself was ready. He wasn't sure. But he trusts Hibari with all his life. He loves him, and he knew Hibari loves him as well. Yet, he still hesitated.

He opened his mouth to say something, only to groan again when Hibari ground harder. He grabbed Hibari's hair and pulled slightly. Hibari paused his fondling and looked into his eyes again. Ryuuichi flushed as he circled his arms around the man's neck. He pulled him closer and whispered into his ears.

"U-umm.. Please be gentle.."

Hibari smiled at that and kissed Ryuuichi again.

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The next morning, Yuuichi took one look at his brother and snickered under his breath like a madman. Ryuuichi looked as usual, minus the slight discomfort he has when he walked and the fact that his neck was littered with red hickeys that would be very obvious if he wasn't wearing a black turtleneck. That, and there was a teeth mark on his little finger. He blushed and shoved his brother half-heartedly as Yuuichi laughed loudly.

"Wow, locking you down already?" Ryuuichi frowned at first, didn't understand what he meant when it hit him. "You-!" An arm snaked around his waist and pulled him closer to a chest.

"He's mine every since the start." He elbowed Hibari's side, face getting redder. Yuuichi pulled a face and smirked at how Hibari held onto his brother.

"How-"

"He's cheesy, I know. Shut up." He raised an eyebrow and nudged Ryuuichi in a teasing manner. "I was going to say possessive but that'll do." He laughed again and skipped further away from them when Ryuuichi tried to smack him.

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"Hello." Ryuuichi turned to his side to see a girl with a glass of champagne in hand, barely touched. She was wearing a black dress, and from the way she was dressed, he could tell that she was hiding weapons somewhere on her being. It was well hidden and if Reborn didn't gave him a bunch of lesson on these, he wouldn't even notice.

He smiled to her and greeted back. He turned away from the scenery and leaned against the ceramic railing as she approached. "Beautiful night, isn't it." He took a sip from his own champagne, eyes never leaving her.

She nodded, smiling in a way of a person with secrets. Ryuuichi was very familiar with it. "It certainly is." He tilted his head slightly as he lowered the glass. "What brings such a beautiful lady out here?" It wasn't a compliment, nor was it a taunt. It wasn't anything at all, in fact. He was merely saying a fact.

She giggled slightly. Ryuuichi suddenly remember his first hit with Reborn. He would take to deal with this one any day than that one. "I could say the same to you as well, signore."

He chuckled and shifted the glass to his left hand, holding it out. "Ryuuichi Shiroki." She took his hand and shook it firmly. Her hand was softer than his, but gun calloused. And knives, perhaps. Her blue eyes twinkled slightly.

"Xena." The name sounded familiar to the twenty-one years old man. He blinked in realization, letting go of her hand the minute she loosen her grip. "Please to finally meet you, signorina Xena." Her eyes twinkled again. Either amused or impress, he wasn't sure.

"I'm surprise that you knew me, signore Shiroki." Her pronunciation on his last name was spot on. Perhaps she was multilingual. Then again, most of the mafiosi are multilingual.

"Vongola Nono mentioned about you before."

"Oh? Now that's even more surprising. I'd never expect the Don of the most powerful Famiglia to remember my mere existence." Ryuuichi hummed internally. 'Humble. Or was she trying to be?' Before their conversation could go any further, Reborn stepped out to the balcony. The hitman nodded at her as he turned to Ryuuichi, eyes shifting to the side slightly, indicating that he wanted to talk to him privately.

"I'm sorry. Please excuse me for a moment." She didn't mind it at all. In fact, Xena shrugged and stayed on the same spot as Reborn pulled Ryuuichi to the furthest end, out of her earshot.

"There's a group of terrorist on Sicily." Ryuuichi furrowed his eyebrows. "Does the authorities know?" Reborn pulled his fedora down slightly and scoffed. "As long as it's not on mainland, I doubt they would take an interest even if they knew. If the terrorist create a massacre here, the Cosa Nostra will be affected. It'll be a win-win situation for them despite the disaster."

"So you're planning to take them down before anything happens." The hitman nodded. "How many are we going to take down, and how many of us are going?"

"Shoichi deducted it to be a group of a hundred, heavily armed with machine guns, grenades and booms as well." Ryuuichi scowled. They had made it up for their lack of men with machinery and weapons. How typical. "Who else is joining?"

"Vongola cannot interfere directly. I'll go since they can't stop me anyway. Colonello and Lal are going, not sure about the Foundation." He nodded. They could do with that amount anyway. "I'll ask Kyouya later." Suddenly, an idea hit him. He smiled and turned to Xena, who had taken an interest on the stars.

"Signorina Xena." She turned to him. "How interested are you in taking down a group of a hundred, heavily armed?" Her eyes glinted. "Very interested." Ryuuichi didn't even need to persuade her, and smirked internally as he explained everything to her. Her eyes were a huge giveaway after all. 'Eyes are the window to the soul, huh.'

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There was an annoying and consistent buzz in the earpiece he was wearing, the signal disrupted. There must be someone who was disrupting it. Ryuuichi could only cursed at whoever it was as guns shots and explosions deafened him slightly. "Xena, left three. Grenade incoming on three o'clock." The said girl, who was beside her as they hid behind a sturdy brick wall, made a sound of acknowledgement to his words and immediately did her job.

They just found out that she was a Storm, excellent with long range shooting. She uses a crossbow, and instead of using arrows, she used long, thick needles the length of a palm, coated with Storm flames. Her shots may not always hit, but it did disrupted the enemies' shooting. The grenade, exploded in mid air feet away from where they were.

Ryuuichi positioned the rifle and looked through the eye piece. Immediately, he spotted someone holding what it looked to be a button. His eyes widen and his head snapped to the other side, where Xena was and saw a tiny red light, blinking in the dark. "Xena!"

Her eyes were wide upon noticing the boom as the trigger was pushed.

A loud explosion shook the whole building, Reborn and Hibari, who were in front line and was beating up some persistent idiots, looked up. Hibari's eyes widen slightly when he realized that it was the building his lover and the woman was in, Colonello and Lal were in the next as a blue stream of light shot towards the terrorist, immediately killing him.

"Hibari. Keep going. They'll be fine." The said man narrowed his eyes and turned back to the battlefield. Ryuuichi wasn't someone that weak.

He and Reborn killed off any of those who stopped them and raided the building. Just as they did, a purple opaque sphere floated in mid air, a black panther on top of it, large and growling loudly.

"Xena? Are you alright?" Ryuuichi patted the said woman's face gently, trying to wake her up. She had blacked out the moment the boom went off, the waves of the blast pushing her into Ryuuichi's arms as the shield was put up before it even exploded. "Xena!" She groaned, eyelashes fluttered and blue eyes were seen from the lids.

She gasped a little and sit up from Ryuuichi, looking at the sphere. "What is this?"

"Shield. You alright to go on?" She squinted her eyes at him before breaking into a crazy grin, as though she wanted to do that again. "Of course! They have to pay." Ryuuichi laughed a little at how excited she sounded and gave her a smirk of his. "Then let's join the front line."

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Xena was laughing in a rather happy manner despite Lal Mirch was patching her wounds up. Everything went went, and Ryuuichi was amazing as he worked side by side with her. The group of terrorist were eradicated in the span of an hour, Lal Mirch and Colonello joining them mid way.

Ryuuichi shook his head slightly, a small smile on his face, sitting at the back seat with Hibari while Lal and Xena was at the third row. Colonello was driving with Reborn on shotgun. All of them came out alright, with minimal amount of wounds. It was not easy, with just the six of them, but they did it.

"Hey Shiroki." He craned his head to look at Xena, her crazy grin was still there. "I want to join you." Hibari shot her a glare, but it was easily ignored by the both of them. Ryuuichi raised an eyebrow. "I want to join Giudizio."

"Are you sure?"

"Positive." Ryuuichi chuckled slightly. "Alright then."

Xena, 21 and a Storm, was officially the first member of Giudizio, by her own choice.

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He lifted his arms up to block the roundhouse kick from Yi Xiang, Liu Xie gritted his teeth at the pain and pushed him away. Yi Xiang rotated and landed on his feet, rushing forward to attack Liu again. Liu dodged the right hook only to fall onto the cobble-stoned ground from a sweep and a leg stomped onto his chest. He coughed as his breath was taken away, feeling his ribs break at the force.

"Where is your heart, Shao Ye." Yi Xiang pressed harder.

Liu gritted his teeth as he clutched tightly on the leg. "Why aren't you concentrating?" Receiving no reply, Yi Xiang scowled and lifted his leg off Liu's chest, only to stomp once more. "We're done for today." The man walked off with a huff, leaving Liu on the ground, littered with wounds and bleeding.

Liu curled around himself, wincing in pain. Of course he couldn't concentrate. They had been training for hours already, since the break of dawn. He hadn't even eaten anything, feeling as though he would faint out of hunger. He pushed himself up, stumbling as he did, and limped out through the back door into the bustling streets. He would have to get himself healed and get some food.

He gritted his teeth and pushed himself from the wall he was leaning on. He staggered a few steps away from the door and lost his balance. He was expecting to fall face first onto the dirty ground, not into someone's arms. They were strong, he barely noted. "Hey, are you okay?" He looked up to see a man with long, dark brown hair looking at him in concern. His Chinese accent weren't of the local, he noted. A Taiwanese? No, it sounded more clear. Probably more of the Southern parts.

He forced himself to pull away from the grip, only to almost lose his balance again if the man didn't hold him up. "I'm fine."

"Well, certainly not." The man muttered and slung Liu's arm around his shoulder, him holding Liu's waist as he pulled him down the street. Liu honestly did tried to protest, but he didn't have the energy to do so and resigned to his fate, letting the man drag him into a western clinic.

The nurse that saw his condition shrieked slightly and quickly opened the door to the doctor's office. There was no other patients, apparently. How fortunate. For Liu, not the doctor.

The doctor, an old Chinese man with stubble, gasped slightly and quickly told him to take his shirt off, inspecting him. He hesitated. The man who brought him here raised an eyebrow at that and pointed at a few parts of his body, coincidentally his wounds. Was that even coincidence?

"Few broken ribs, fractured knee, probably a minor concussion, dislocated arm and sprained wrist."

They looked at him in slight awe. Liu was surprised. The man did pointed out every one of his injuries, even when he didn't knew he had a concussion. With a smile from the man, the doctor immediately got to work, prying the shirt off him. The doctor found the man quite scary for some reason, despite the smile.

"W-wait-" Too late, his shirt was pulled off and the large tattoo of a black phoenix was seen. The doctor stiffen at that while the man whistled, amazed by it. Why was he amazed by it, Liu didn't know. 'He's.. Not scared?'

"Y-you're.." The doctor stuttered, blanching. The man blinked at him, the smile dropped. He stared at the doctor, then to Liu, who tugged his shirt over his tattoo, looking away.

"Doctor, I believe you have a job to do?" Liu snapped his head to the man, who was smiling again. Only, with a sharper edge. That, and the smile didn't reach his eyes. The doctor broke out of his reverie and shuddered slightly, immediately fixing Liu up. He would rather not go against the man if it means to accidentally provoke Liu.

(It wasn't as though Liu would be provoked. The doctor was the one who patched him up, and he was actually grateful for it.)

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"Thank you." Liu murmured, bowing slightly. The man immediately stopped him from bowing and nodded. He had paid for his medical fee despite his protest, and was treating him to a meal in a small restaurant. "No worries." Liu frowned slightly as he ate his food.

"Are.. Are you not scared of me?" He didn't understand when the man gave him a confused look as he swallowed. "Should I?"

"I mean, my tattoo.. You.." The man continued to look confuse. "Just because you have a tattoo, I should be scared of you?" Liu was frustrated. He couldn't decided between labeling this man as dense, or plain idiotic. He probably was a foreigner, granted, but did he not realized that Liu is a member of the Triad.

"I'm of the Triad." Liu wanted to kick him for some reason, when he shrugged as though it was nothing major. "Well, I'm of the mafia."

Liu choked on his food. He coughed and quickly downed the water the man passed to him, giving him a disbelief look. "What?" The man turned amused, smirking slightly. "As I've just said." How could someone reveal something so easily as though it was nothing major?

He continued before Liu could say anything more. "I don't really get the mentality here, actually. It's not as though having a tattoo means you're in some sort of dark organization. And even if you are, it doesn't represent how the person is. So if a child of ten has a scar that he wanted to cover up with a tattoo means he's in a gang or something." His eyebrows furrowed slightly. "Then again, Japan is more or less the same." Not Namimori, however. Namimori is different.

Liu blinked. "You're a Japanese?" He whispered, careful to not let anyone hear. He had nothing against Japanese, but most Chinese here, in this area he lives in for years, they loathe Japanese, still stuck in the grudge towards the Japanese for the Second Sino-Japanese War. And the news of what the Japanese did to the Chinese in other countries. To the others, it was humiliation and anger even after all these years. To Liu, it was nothing more than a History that will never repeat again. Everyone change.

Liu just doesn't get why would they still hung onto the History.

"Uhum." The man nodded, absolutely unfazed. Liu realized that the man knew of the hatred the residents here had for the Japanese. And yet, he wasn't the lest bit worried that he would be ambushed or something. "Your Chinese is pretty good." A wry smile appeared along with a shrug. Liu took that as a signal not to pry any further.

"Are you on a vacation?"

"Hm, not exactly. Speaking of which, do you have a phone charger?"

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"Why did you offed your phone?!" Ryuuichi winced and pulled his phone away from his ear as Yuuichi yelled at him. "I didn't. The battery was dead." He cast a small glance at Liu, who was looking at him in awe at how fast he was talking in Japanese. A loud sigh brought his attention back to the conversation.

"Anyway, do you have any idea where you are?" He blinked. He actually had no idea. He was walking around from one place to another since the morning, and it was already, what, six? He looked around for any sign board and spotted one. His eyes widen slightly. "So he's somewhere here?"

"Yes." He hummed. "Location."

"From what I see here, it's the night club two blocks down from where you are. You remember the picture?"

Ryuuichi hummed. "Yep. I'll go now. Call you later." And the call was dropped. He turned to Liu, who was still staring. "Are you looking for someone?" He was surprised. How did Liu know?

"You understood?" Liu somehow blushed a little. "I.. I'm a J-Pop fanatic somehow." He noticed how amused Ryuuichi was, yet it wasn't the mocking or teasing kind. It was kind of nice. "I'll need to find someone now, so-"

"Can I follow?" He blurted out before he could even stop himself and quickly slapped a hand over . The man tilted his head at him, eyebrows furrowed. "Are you sure?" He said in a way that sounded as though he was concern of him, rather than thinking that he would be a major nuisance. 'What am I doing?' Liu bit his lips slightly and nodded. Something told him that he should follow him for now. If he did, his life would change.

"Yeah." Ryuuichi hummed, debating for a moment before nodding. "Alright. Let's go." He led the way and walked down the street, a hand in his pocket. Liu quickly followed. "Ah right, I haven't ask for your name, have I?" He shook his head and introduced himself. "I'm Liu Xie."

"I'm Shiroki Ryuuichi." He nodded. 'Long Yi. Quite a nice name.. Well, if it's not pronounced in Chinese anyway.' Liu mentally slapped himself as they passed by an antique shop. "We're going to.. Capture this information broker. He had once tried to hack into my Organization's system. Unfortunately for him, we didn't put anything much up. Most are written in papers." A small smirk hinted with something that Liu couldn't recognize was given to him. A bit scary, and yet fascinating.

"Shao Ye." Liu jerked at that and turned around to see two guys running up to him, one with a metal baseball bat. Liu took a small step back as they stopped in front of him, scowling. "Where were you?" The first one said. The one with the bat openly glared at Ryuuichi, who was still unfazed. Liu briefly wondered if there was anything that can throw him off course.

"Is this person bothering you, Shao Ye?" He quickly shook his head and pushed the second one away when he took a step forward menacingly. "No. He isn't." He wasn't pleased, but stopped his steps at Liu's words. "What are you guys doing?"

"We were collecting protection fees from that shop," A thumb jabbed towards the antique shop. "when we saw you. Where is he taking you?" Liu bit his lips again, but before he could answer anything, a hand was placed on his shoulder as the man came forward.

"He's my guide. I'm lost." Ryuuichi answered steadily, eyeing the bat before looking into the first one's eyes. "Is there a problem?"

"Hell yeah there's a problem. Who do you think Shao Ye is to be your guide, bastard?"

He mocked a confused look, tilting his head slightly. "A friendly man, of course." His eyes probably glinted somehow, because he could see how enraged the two of them were. Liu tried to pacify them when the one with baseball bat swung it to hit him. Ryuuichi easily pulled Liu back as he dodged just in case Liu was hit instead, jumping back to avoid each swings.

He wasn't so bad, Ryuuichi mused. But Yamamoto was definitely better. Much better.

He reached out to grab the bat, pulled it down in a harsh manner that made the guy letting go of it. That guy cursed loudly at him as he shifted his holding on the bat. "You know. You're actually mistreating this bat." He observed it, noting the small dent it has and the scratches. Yamamoto would probably cringe at these much damage.

"What do you want?!" He smiled sadistically, a smile he picked up from Reborn. (The others kept telling him to stop using it, but it wasn't as though you can stop a smile. That, and he was sure Tsuna picked it up as well.)

"For you guys to not bother us, of course." He threw the bat back, its owner catching it with a stumble. "Come on, Liu. Let's go." Of course they wouldn't let them go that easily. The other one took a penknife out of his pocket and aimed to slash him. Ryuuichi sighed and took out his gun, pointing at him. He was actually running out of time.

Liu was surprised at the appearance of a gun, jerking back. The other two took a few steps back as well, fear evident in their eyes. "Y-you wouldn't dare!" Ryuuichi hummed, nodding slightly and lowered the gun.

"I would, but not here." They looked a little relief, only a little. "However, if you don't let us go, I'll shot your legs and arms." Ryuuichi glared coldly. They exchanged a look and the first one clicked their tongue. "Let's go." He said to the other one and ran the other direction.

Ryuuichi waited until they were far enough before keeping the gun back into the holster underneath his jacket. He turned to Liu and gave him an apologetic smile.

"Sorry about that. I'm in a bit of a rush." Liu stiffly shook his head as the continued to walk again, in a faster speed. "You wouldn't actually shoot them.. Would you?" Ryuuichi gave him a brief look as they turned down a corner two blocks after. "Under different circumstances, maybe."

That didn't calm Liu down at all. He just realized that just as the Triad is dangerous, the mafia is as well. And this man, is more dangerous than he thinks.

Liu had never felt so safe for once.

"I have to ask. Do you hate the Triad?" Liu avoided Ryuuichi's eyes. "Yeah."

"And you want to die, didn't you?" His head snapped to Ryuuichi in surprise. "How did you-" Ryuuichi shrugged, not answering anymore as they reached a night club.

They immediately went into the night club, electric-pop music playing loudly as the colorful spotlights shifted here and there in the dark place, creating a rather mysterious ambiance. Girls with revealing clothing and guys as well were on the dance floor, grinding their bodies together. Some were by the bar, drinking. There was a bouncer on the furthest side, perhaps only to keep watch for any fights. Liu frowned, as he had never went into a night club before.

And this night club wasn't their territory, it's an neutral ground.

Ryuuichi, as though he had been here for years, walked in and upstairs, to the VIP rooms without paying any heed to the girls that came up to him. Liu immediately followed him closely behind, not wanting to get lost in this kind of place.

Ryuuichi went into the first room and smirked. Just his luck, he had immediately found the man he wanted for. The information broker was a guy with slicked black hair, wearing a golden necklace and his fingers were full with rings. He was alone, with two girls beside him.

"What do you think you're doing here?" He growled, not appreciating that he was interrupted. He blamed that it was dark, that he couldn't even see who was it.

The man, the one with long hair, shrugged and walked nearer. "To kidnap you, of course." His eyes widen and quickly scrambled up to attack him. Ryuuichi pulled back as a left hook missed his skull. The girls screamed and hightailed out of there. Liu didn't stop them.

Instead, he watched in awe at how graceful Ryuuichi as he fought with the man. In matters of second, Ryuuichi had him pressed onto the couch, his knee on the back and a hand locked behind him. He frowned a little and immediately knocked the man out. Huffing, he got off and pulled the tie off from the man, tying him up with it. He pulled the man up and dragged him out of the room.

"We're going to have to use the back door. Come on." Liu followed him to the back, ignoring the looks of the customers. He went to open the door, only to find that it's lock.

"Hold him." Ryuuichi said as he pushed the man to Liu. Liu stumbled a little at the weight. The information broker sure was heavy. How did Ryuuichi managed to drag him as though he weighted nothing?

"What are you-" He jolted when Ryuuichi kicked the door down and slapped a few notes onto one of the workers that came rushing by to see what happened. Ryuuichi pulled the guy back to him and walked out, looking around the alley way. He took out his phone and sent a message.

He walked down the left, Liu following. As they reached to the front, a black car screeched to a stop in front of them. The dark window rolled down, revealing a man with messy, short black hair and narrowed eyes. Liu sweated at the glare that suddenly directed to him.

"Who is he?"

"Someone I found." Ryuuichi pulled open the back door and pushed the unconscious man in. He turned back to Liu and smiled. "Thank you for accompanying me for the day."

"I did nothing though?" He shrugged. "Maybe, but I'm amused." Oh he sure was. That, and Liu had lent him his charger. He glanced at Hibari for a moment. "Liu, do you think you can be missing from your home for twenty four hours?" Liu blinked in confusion. "There's someone I want you to meet."

Liu wondered if he should take up the offer. His heart wanted to go with it, but his mind was telling him no, and that his father would be angry. His father would be angry anyhow, then again. Liu followed his heart.

"Sure, if you don't mind."

And that was how he ended up at the back seat of the scary man's car, Ryuuichi in the shotgun arguing with the man about something. Their Japanese was too rapid for Liu to catch, but he knew it has something to do with him.

"Kyouya, go along with it." Hibari growled under his breath and steered them up onto a hill, the head lights on as the sun had already set. Ryuuichi shook head at his lover's antic with a fond smile, looking out of the window as silence fell. It took fifteen more minutes before they finally reached a traditional Chinese mansion. Liu was surprised to see a mansion up on a hill. In fact, he had never noticed it.

There was a man by the gate, in red and looked so much like the scary man but with long hair and a smile. He greeted them before blinking at his presence.

"Fon," Liu blanked out a moment, eyes wide. "This is Liu Xie. Liu, Fon."

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Liu wanted to scream. He also wanted to faint. Both because of the fact that Fon was sitting in front of him, serving him tea. The Fon, was serving him tea. He had never expected that. Never! The legendary Fon was smiling at him, and he had no idea what to do.

In the Triad, there was only one person who managed to get out alive and no one dared to touch that person, and that is Fon. It was said that Fon had maimed more than half of the Triad members, almost killing them. The leader had no choice but to release Fon, and no one dared to say no. Liu looked up to him. He wanted to be like Fon, but alas, he wasn't strong.

"Liu, right?" He nodded stiffly as Fon sat down in front of him, the tea steaming slightly on the table. Ryuuichi and Hibari had brought the information broker to the back room and kept him there. What they were doing after, Fon didn't knew. Fon wondered why his nephew's lover brought back this young man as well. He knew him somehow. He had heard of him.

Liu Xie, the heir to the current leader of the Triad. Young and trained, yet no resolve and the will to live. Maybe that was why Ryuuichi brought him here.

"Y-yes." He smiled. "No need to be so nervous, just relax." He said softly. Liu slowly, but surely, did calmed down. "Please tell me that you're alright."

"Eh?" Fon pointed at his bandaged. "A-ah yes. I've seen the doctor." Fon hummed. "Can you tell me how did you get injured?"

"Um, I was sparring with.. My instructor." The typical spar. Spars between the Triad members was never meant to teach and learn, only maim and kill. Fon had lost count of the number of times he had almost killed someone unintentionally when he was in the Triad.

"F-Fon." He tilted his head slightly, as an indication for Liu to continue. "How.. How can I be strong like you?" Right off the bat, so it seemed. Fon's eyes widen before they closed shut as he chuckled. He opened his eyes again and took the tea cup up. "I'm flattered. Thank you."

He took a small sip, looking at Liu as he did. "You can, but not without resolve."

"Resolve?"

"Resolve, kakugo, determination, whatever you call it. It is the prime thing one needs to achieve something." Ryuuichi suddenly came in, changed out of his casuals into the traditional Chinese attire. It was white in color, with black lines decorating the sides. He smiled at Fon, who looked pleased that he was wearing it.

"Thank you. It's really comfortable." Fon nodded as he sat down beside them. "You're welcome." Ryuuichi turned to Liu as Liu contemplated his words. He continued.

"Tell me, do you have the resolve to live?" Liu jolted out of his stupor, noticing how intense Ryuuichi and Fon was looking at him. "I.." He looked down onto his hands.

He actually didn't have any. He was caged ever since birth, he could never be free. He had no free will to do anything, to go anywhere he wants without his father and his men breathing down his neck. And he could never run away.

Because 'Once a Triad, forever a Triad til Death takes you.' Liu had actually planned on killing himself, because he had no will to live in this golden cage, he had no chance of getting out, and he wasn't as strong as Fon.

Liu stayed silent.

Ryuuichi said nothing of his silence and turned to Fon, exchanging a look with the man. Fon gave him a loop-sided smile. "Do you want be free, Liu?"

Liu looked up. ".. Yes."

"Then find your resolve to live. Live, and break free. Nothing can hold you down except yourself." Ryuuichi looked to the door just as Hibari popped by. "He's awake." He nodded and stood up. Before he walked off, he turned to Liu for a moment.

"I can lend you a hand, but show me your resolve first."

Hibari was glaring at Liu even when he did nothing, disappearing down the hallway with Ryuuichi. Ryuuichi chuckled slightly at how his lover was. "Are you jealous?" Hibari frowned at him.

"I'm not."

"Sure~"

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Meeting Fon had brought fire to his heart. His words had made it flared. He couldn't help, but hoped and wished. He couldn't help, but build up the resolve in him to fight and be free from the Triad. But that wasn't what Fon and Ryuuichi said. They want him to find the resolve to live.

He just couldn't seem to find it.

The next morning, at the break of dawn, Liu walked out from the guest room in a sleepwear Fon had lent him. He couldn't sleep a wink and decided to see the sun rise. As he walked to the court yard, he saw Fon doing Tai Chi. He was in awe. Fon noticed him and gestured him to come over.

"Let's do some exercise." He slowly nodded, wondering if he should. Fon saw his dilemma and smiled. "Don't worry. It's just breathing exercise."

Oh. Liu didn't expect that since to him, morning exercises meant sparring. Yi Xiang was damn harsh.

So he sat down beside Fon, both of them taking in the fresh air and relaxing. Fon was so calming, despite the fact that he could easily kill Liu with a snap of his hand. Liu decided not to let his mind stray and focused on breathing. "How's your night?"

"It's okay. Thank you for letting me stay."

"No worries. I noticed how deep in thought you were since you arrived yesterday. Do you want to talk about it?" Liu paused, debating. He spilled everything to Fon.

Ryuuichi yawned as he walked out of his and Hibari's room, heading towards the kitchen for water when he saw Liu and Fon on the grass, Liu saying something to the older. He stopped his tracks and stared. Liu's flames were dim before, as though they were going to fizzle out. But now, as Ryuuichi had saw, his flames were slowly growing, slowly burning more brightly. He probably found a resolve.

Ryuuichi wondered for a moment before he took a step out to the court yard. His timing was probably not the best, but it seemed like Liu had already finished his rambles.

"Good morning." Fon and Liu greeted him back, Liu looking at his untied hair. Ryuuichi took a sit in front of Liu and stared into his eyes.

"Do you want to get out of the Triad?" Something burned in his eyes after the flash of surprise. Ryuuichi took that as the resolve. Not the kind he wanted Liu to have, however.

"Yes."

"Then I offer you a two choices. I can help you to get out of the Triad. They'll no longer bother you and you'll be able to start anew as a normal person, or you join me in my Organization. I'll not hold you back from what you do, where you go, or if you wanted to leave my Organization after joining. What you choose, it's your call."

Liu blinked. "Your Organization?" Ryuuichi nodded.

"My Organization is more prone for taking up odd jobs from allied Famiglia and watch over the law along with the mafia police. Hence, the name Giudizio. Please don't misunderstand, we're not the police themselves, but what we do is similar. We are kind of like a judge, in another words."

Fon smiled. "They protect more than harm, actually." Ryuuichi scoffed a little. "Vongola is more vigilant."

Liu bit his lips. Ryuuichi was offering him a chance for freedom. He wanted it, but it didn't sit well with him. It would meant that he got out not on his own power. And, joining Ryuuichi? He wondered if he wanted to join the dark world just after leaving one, but Fon said they protect. Protect what, he didn't know. However, it left a fuzzy feeling in Liu.

Protecting. He was taught to harm, never protect. He probably couldn't do it, yet he wanted to try. He wanted to change. Liu took a deep breath.

"I want to get out. But, about joining or not.. Will you please let me think of it for a while?" Ryuuichi nodded, agreeing. "And.. I wanted to get out on my own power."

A rather genuine smile appeared on Ryuuichi's face. "Of course."

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That was what he said, wanted to get out on his own strength. Easier said than done, Liu gritted his teeth. He had confronted his father and told him. His father was absolutely furious, but he stood strong. Seeing that he wouldn't change his mind, his father told him that he could only leave if he won against Yi Xiang.

Liu cursed. He had never won against his instructor. The only thing he could do was place a bruise or two on him. He was too strong for Liu.

'I need to do this. I can do this.'

So they fought. Yi Xiang was brutal, and Liu noticed that he had been holding back during their training, because now, Yi Xiang's hits were on spot and hard. Liu gritted his teeth upon the punch to his gut and coughed, falling down onto the ground. His injuries haven't heal, giving Yi Xiang more advantage than he already was.

Liu needed to win this.

He pushed himself up, knowing full well that his father, and the rest of the members, were watching him. He needed to prove to them, that he will leave.

"You coward!" Yi Xiang roared as he round house kicked Liu on the head. Liu narrowly dodged the kick and staggered away. He rushed forward and threw hard punches. His blood burned. He wanted to get out. He is going to get out.

He didn't know what happened, but a flash of light blinded him for a moment and when everything registered, Yi Xiang was a few feet away from him, on the ground and slightly charred. Liu's fist was actually cackling green electricity. Everyone stared in shock, absolutely surprised. Even his father.

"Ahh, I knew this would happen." Ryuuichi appeared, dragging a beaten to plump guy behind him. It was the information broker, apparently. "Shiroki?"

His father growled. "Who are you?" Ryuuichi gave him a smirk and threw the information broker to the ground in front of him. "You think?"

Liu couldn't believe his eyes. His father actually paled upon that. "Y-y-you.."

"I hope you'll know not to simply try and pay someone to steal the information on Vongola."

"What do you want?!" Ryuuichi hummed and pointed at Liu. "Nothing, except him. A lightning. How unexpected." Liu blinked, the electricity disappearing. He looked at his fist, confused. His father turned to him, eyes narrowed and face red in anger.

"Are you serious about getting out?" Liu thought he was dreaming, because his father was seriously asking him. As though giving him a choice. Liu half wanted to punch himself to see if it was true.

Instead, he showed his father the fire that was burning in his eyes. "Yes." His father stared for a moment before sighing in exasperation. "Alright."

"What?"

"You can go." His father's eyes soften slightly. "You're just like your mother.." Liu's eyes widen upon his words. His mother had died fighting, trying to get him out of the Triad. She took her own life as a retaliation, in front of his father. Tears welled up in his eyes, but he kept it in. He nodded to his father.

Just as he was about to walk towards Ryuuichi, he hesitated for a moment. Turning back to his father, he gave him a tight hug. His father stiffen at that, but Liu felt the hand on his head. He smiled.

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"Shiroki." Ryuuichi kept his eyes on the road as he turned the steering wheel, humming in acknowledgement.

"Let me join you." He glanced to Liu slightly before smiling. "Sure."

Liu Xie officially became the second member of Giudizio after Xena, a Lightning and 24.

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Ryuuichi breathed in the cold Autumn air as he lied on the roof, half-heartedly counting the stars. After losing count for the nth time and his eyes were strained, he stopped, closing his eyes and let out a shaky breath. On days like these, Ryuuichi couldn't help but hope that he wouldn't feel anything at all.

He wasn't sad, nor was he angry.

He felt empty.

He opened his eyes again. It wasn't a foreign feeling, but he felt that he could do without it. Giudizio is rising, his brother, Xena and Liu are alright, content, even. Ryuuichi should be happy that they're happy. He had no energy, however. Perhaps it was because of the meetings he had this week, perhaps it was because of the amount of work he had. Or perhaps he was just missing his home.

His mental energy was depleting. He was tired. He wanted to isolate himself from everything until he recharged.

Pursing his lips, Ryuuichi forced himself to forget about everything, making himself to think of nothing. It didn't work, however, as his mind worked overtime even when he didn't want it to. Groaning, he moved an arm over his eyes, covering them. He sighed.

"What are you doing here?" He jolted up and turned to the window to the attic he had climbed out from. Hibari was looking at him with unreadable eyes, climbing out and sitting beside him.

"I-" Ryuuichi stopped. He didn't know what to say. His heart clenched. He changed the subject instead. "When did you come back?" Hibari had went to a three month mission to who knows where. It was the usual thing, but Ryuuichi couldn't see him as he himself was off on a trip to France for a research.

"Two hours ago." Hibari noticed how Ryuuichi wasn't looking at him in his eyes. While Ryuuichi still has the habit of avoiding looking into people's eyes unless he was making a point, Ryuuichi would always look into Hibari's. Hibari reached over and pulled Ryuuichi onto his lap and held him close. He breathed the familiar smell of Ryuuichi, taking it in. "I miss you." Ryuuichi buried his face on Hibari's shoulder, nodding. "I miss you too. I miss you so much.."

He pushed Hibari down and kissed him in a desperate manner, as though there would be no tomorrow. Hibari pulled him closer, dominating the kiss easily. A hand slid under Ryuuichi's shirt, eliciting a moan as his hand were cold against his bare skin while the other rested on the back of Ryuuichi's neck. Hibari pulled away slightly and stared into Ryuuichi's glazed eyes, as though they would shed droplets of tears into his. Why was his small animal suffering in silence?

He rubbed a thumb over the eyelids, gently caressing his cheek like Ryuuichi was the most fragile thing on earth. He wanted Ryuuichi to let him share his burden with him. He wanted Ryuuichi to know that he would be there for him even when things were at its worst. He wanted him to let him in fully.

"I.." Ryuuichi stuttered out, his voice shaky and soft, almost as if Ryuuichi was afraid to speak. "Do I even deserve you?"

Hibari frowned. "You do. I should be the one who doesn't deserve you, but I want you. You're mine as how I'm yours." Ryuuichi took a shaky breath. "I love you." He said, and again, and again. A drop of tear fell. "I love you, Kyouya." Hibari pulled Ryuuichi down and kissed him again as he murmured into his lips. "I love you too, my love."

That day, Ryuuichi almost lost his own heart to the multiple jeers and mocks from the other Famiglia members, almost believing in what they said as he was already socially tired. That day, Hibari brought him back and showed him that there was never the need to suffer by himself, and that he will always be with him.

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"Give him a week break." Yuuichi didn't need to turn around to see who it was as he continued to cook breakfast for everyone. He reached over the sink and grabbed the batter. "That's the first thing you say to me in the morning?"

Hibari's arms were crossed as he leaned against the door frame, unfazed by the half-hearted remark.

"And even if you didn't say anything, I had already planned to do so. A month, in fact." Yuuichi sighed. "He has been overworking himself since the beginning of the year. Honestly, did he forget there's still me and the others? Granted, most needed him to look through but still.." He sighed again and turned to Hibari.

"Take care of him, Hibari."

"I will even if you didn't tell me to." Hibari walked back to Ryuuichi's room, leaving Yuuichi alone in the kitchen. He briefly brushed his shoulder, where a bite mark was, throbbing slightly.

Ryuuichi woke up to a familiar chill and pulled his duvet around him immediately, covering his body. A black hole appeared and two members of Vindice appeared with a man with ginger hair, chained and struggling. He frowned. "You guys couldn't wait for me to actually wake up, could you?" He grumbled, but the bandaged men dismissed it.

"Shiroki Ryuuichi. There was a mass murder of the Pio Famiglia. You had heard of it, no?"

He nodded. "Yeah. Yesterday, was it? How's everything?"

"The Don was alright, but half of his men died." Ryuuichi stifled a small yawn. The Don of Pio Famiglia is a good man. As long as he's alive, there shouldn't be a problem.

"And so...? What actually brings you guys here?"

The struggling man was pushed to the front and he ended up kneeling on the ground. Ryuuichi frowned even more. An active flame user, but lack of the will to live. How typical.

"This man is a suspect of the massacre. However, there was not enough evidence to deem that he was the one who did it."

"I killed them, alright? I killed them!" A British, perhaps, seeing that his words were heavily accented. And a liar.

"Sure you did." Ryuuichi shot back slightly. He ignored the growl and looked at the Vindice. "And so? Why did you bring him here?"

"Bermuda said to hand him to you. What you do to him is your wish, he said." He scratched his cheek. What was Bermuda thinking? He should just let the man go, but why would he want him to see him?

"Fine, but tell Bermuda that he owe me an explanation sometimes later."

"Bermuda is a busy man, Shiroki Ryuuichi." The chain on the man clicked and rattled off him, Vindice disappeared back into the portal with a farewell, leaving the man there with Ryuuichi. Ryuuichi huffed and looked at the man.

"So, what's your name?"

The man stumbled up and growled. "I don't have to tell you."

"You don't, but I'll have to refer you as Man, you want?" Ryuuichi raised an eyebrow.

"... Gilbert." It wasn't his real name, but Ryuuichi would take it. The door opened before he could say anything else, Hibari coming in. A murderous aura filled the room, almost suffocating Gilbert.

"Who is he?" He asked.

"Gilbert. Vindice brought him here." Ryuuichi turned back to Gilbert. "We'll talk about things after breakfast, okay? I need to change. Kyouya, could you bring him to the dining room?" The murderous aura lessen upon the explanation, but it was still there. At least Gilbert could breathe properly.

Hibari glared at him. "Come on." And he walked out of the room. Gilbert gritted his teeth and followed. He wasn't stupid enough to fight. He's strong, but the Asian man is much more stronger. It was so obvious.

Ryuuichi slumped back onto his bed the moment the door closed shut, leaving him alone. He sighed and buried his face onto the pillow. He should get ready for the day. He didn't felt like it, but he has to. He groaned. At least he'll be alright even only a little.

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The moment Ryuuichi stepped into the dining room, he immediately saw Xena being insufferable and kept asking Gilbert questions. Gilbert, in turned, stayed silence. Hibari and Yuuichi were silent, however. Liu was sizing him up finding him intriguing.

Ryuuichi sighed and sat down beside Hibari. "Good morning. Xena, stop torturing him." She pouted but stopped. Ryuuichi thanked Liu when he poured him a cup of tea, taking a sip.

"Ryuu, what's going on?" He looked towards Yuuichi and shrugged. "Vindice."

"Stop the delays and tell me what you want." Gilbert growled. Liu immediately frowned. Ryuuichi lowered the cup and sighed. Too early. It was all too early for all of these.

"Alright. I don't know why Vindice brought you here, but that's that. But you're an active flame user. Sun, to the boot." Gilbert stiffen. "What sun?"

"Huh. So you knew about the flames but not in details huh. That can be fixed. Tell me, Gilbert. Do you know what we are?"

".. The mafia."

Ryuuichi nodded. "Indeed. You don't seem to know everything, so you can't be classed as a mafiosi. But you knew of the flames and the mafia, and you're a suspect who claims to be the one who did the massacre of the Pio Famiglia, so you can't be classed as a civilian either."

Xenaa looked a little alarmed. She was dead asleep the whole day yesterday because of jetlag. She didn't knew of the massacre.

"So I'm giving you a two choices. Either you choose to be a civilian fully and leave anything you have against the mafia, or be a mafiosi and join my Organization."

The others stayed silent. Gilbert let out a dry laugh. "As if I have much of a choice." He bit out. Ryuuichi gave him a blank look.

"I'll join you and your merry little troop." A smile appeared on Ryuuichi. It wasn't genuine, nor was if fake. It looked tired.

"Welcome to the Giudizio, Gilbert."

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Hibari pulled Ryuuichi into his arms once they were out of view. Ryuuichi let out a small, relief sigh and leaned against Hibari. He shivered slightly when Hibari brushed his fingers against the red spots on his neck and shoulder hidden under his shirt. Hibari placed a small peck on his head.

"Let's go travelling for a month." He felt Ryuuichi stiffen and pulled away to look at him in the eyes. "What? Don't you have work? I've work?"

"You've worked enough. Your brother cleared your schedule. I'm on a break."

He stroked Ryuuichi's head and kissed him. "Let's go to where you want." Ryuuichi hummed, smiling. He felt so ease with Hibari it made him a little concern. Though, he didn't care. He leaned up slightly and kissed the older man back. "I'll go anywhere with you." Hibari's eyes soften as his lips tugged up slightly.

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"Did you know, they say the colder the room you sleep in, the better the chance are for you to have bad dreams." Ryuuichi chuckled to himself, looking out the window of the airplane at the horizon over Hibari, who sat by the window. The sun was setting, as they had boarded the night flight back to Japan. The scene was beautiful, and Ryuuichi felt like not even taking a picture of it would justify the beauty. So he just watched, memorizing everything as much as he could.

"Perhaps that's why I'm able to sleep well whenever you're beside me." He pulled an amused face at Hibari and chuckled again. He pulled out his phone and plugged in the earphone. Placing one of the bud into his ear, he pushed the other one onto Hibari's. The older man raised an eyebrow but went with it. He was fine with it since whenever Ryuuichi did this, it meant that he would only play soft musics, or just replay one song over and over again.

Immediately, the sound of piano was heard through the earphone. Ryuuichi hummed silently and leaned against Hibari, intertwining their fingers together. They were in the first class section, and unlike the normal one seater, they took the double one. (Vongola made that happen.) Hibari and his problems with crowds. Ryuuichi was slightly exasperated, yet he found it quite cute of Hibari. After all, for the both of them, privacy was the utmost important.

Though Hibari tends to take small risks in public.

They've decided to return to Japan and visit each places in a month. It seemed a bit impossible, since Japan, by no means, bigger than Italy. That, and they couldn't even finish visiting every place on Italy in a single year, let alone a month. Well, they were busy after all.

"Hey," Ryuuichi hummed silently as he played chess against the computer on the monitor. "Do you think I'm a monster?" He paused and looked at Hibari, who had a blank face. He turned back to the monitor and made a move. "You are."

Hibari's eyes widen in surprise. "You're a monster, just as how I am a monster as well." He was confused. What was his lover saying? In comparison, he was much more of a monster than him. Hibari was cold hearted, unlike Ryuuichi. He killed more than him, destroyed more than him. If anything, Ryuuichi was more of a human.

"I mean," Ryuuichi won the game. He left and turned back to Hibari with a small smile. "Aren't all humans monsters? We create, we destroy, we bring, we take, we protect, and we kill. We did all these for ourselves just to live and just for the sake of it. We're all born a monster with darkness that constantly grows. No one is without darkness, not even kids." He absentmindedly rubbed the back of Hibari's palm, playing with the fingers.

"Not even infants?" He nodded.

"Not even infants. Well, perhaps the minute it was born, but even so, there'll still be darkness in them. Perhaps its just a tiny dot the size of a virus, but it'll grow along with us. It's almost the same concept as 'normal'. There's no such thing as 'normal'. What is 'normal' anyway? Is it true what we do everyday is 'normal' or is it not? There's no answers to these things. Just as how there's no one who isn't a monster."

Hibari stared into Ryuuichi's eyes, whose dark brown orbs were shining slightly, full with trust and love. His own doubt disappeared immediately, a small relief smile on his face.

Monster was a name he heard ever since he was young. He never really pay a heed to it, but it still annoyed him with the thoughts of 'Aren't I human as well?'. Over the years, he had disregarded it and embraced the fact that he was monster. Just recently during his mission, a kid who had witnessed him fighting called him a monster. Unexpectedly, it stung a little. And when Ryuuichi said he was one, it hurt a whole lot more.

Until he explained. Hibari never felt so blessed and loved before. He chuckled a little as Ryuuichi leaned in to peck him on the lips. "You're my monster, love."

"You should become a philosopher instead, you know?" Ryuuichi laughed. "Then I'll be a philosopher who kills, wouldn't I?"

Just as he gave his heart to him, his heart was returned along with another as everything doubled.

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"So this is your room from now on. See if there's anything you need, and we'll go buy it next time. And your shirts. Definitely need to fill up your closet before Ryuuichi comes back. He'll probably buy anything that is of your size immediately, regardless of whatever." Yuuichi handed a set of keys to Gilbert as he showed him his room on the third floor, closest to Liu's room. Xena took the furthest one since Ryuuichi was adamant that no one take a step near her quarters unless she gave the permission.

"You can explore or do whatever you one for the day since there's nothing to do today. Though, remember not to go into others' rooms without permission."

Gilbert doesn't looked as though he appreciated that. He kept scowling at everything despite Yuuichi's best effort to calm him. Or he was calm, but prefers to scowl at every single thing that seemed to offend him unknowingly. Yuuichi had no idea why Ryuuichi would recruit this man, who seemed to hate him. He was sure that even with Vindice's influence, Ryuuichi wouldn't simply let someone join them. Which was why their Organization never grew bigger than five people.

Ryuuichi never had the plan for their Organization to grow, nor had the mind to find an heir. Not now, not ever.

Gilbert scoffed. "Like hell I would do that."

Yuuichi frowned. "Look, perhaps you didn't like this idea that much, and we just got to know each other like, a few hours ago, but this is now your home. We're now your family, by default or not. Throw that grump out and try and get along with everyone." His phone suddenly beeped before Gilbert could say anything. He took it out and read the message. "If you need anything, find Liu or Xena."

And he walked off, leaving Gilbert there. Yuuichi felt that they really need to make everyone bond with Gilbert somehow.

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Yura panted heavily as he zipped across the rood, hyper aware of the shouts behind him. Everything was foreign to Yura. He wasn't anywhere near his house, he wasn't in Russia. He took in a mouthful of air and quickly jumped over the fence, thanking the years of parkour experience he has. Yelping, he shouted an apology when he accidentally surprised an old lady, but didn't stay back to see if she was alright. Instead, he kept running.

There was only one thing that explained everything. He was kidnapped. To where, even he didn't know, but it was an Asian country. Given that it was Autumn and it's cold here, he doubt it was South East Asia.

He winced when something nicked his thigh, but kept on running. He climbed over another set of fence and into this large area, a school, perhaps?

"There! He went there!" He gritted his teeth, and quickly ran into the building. It was already evening, so there wasn't anyone other than the guards. While he doubt that the guards were able to do anything to his captors, he still tried to see if he could find anyone who can help him.

He burst into a room and slammed the door shut. Immediately, he climbed into the huge closet and locked the door. There were muffled shouts, and multiple foot steps, all frantic. He twitched when they were close, and covered and nose when they came into the room as well. "Shit, where is he?" 'Japanese?' Yura wondered briefly but he used all his might to not make a sound, not even daring to breathe.

"He shouldn't be that far." There were five men, if Yura remembered correctly. He wasn't weak, he knew at least how to defend himself, but against five possibly armed men? Yura wouldn't make it out alive. "Let's find him in the other- Ack!" A loud thud made Yura blink. "Who are yo-" And another, and another, and another.

And then a gun shot. Yura flinched at the loud sound, but he realized the one who took down the men was the one who fired it since one of them yelled in pain. Then silence.

"Ahh.. Kyouya wouldn't be pleased." Something clattered against the ground. Metal, Yura noted. A gun, perhaps? He blinked again when there was nothing. No sound at all. Not even a single breath or step. Yura felt that he wasn't exactly out of danger yet, but whoever it was, they saved him somehow.

A knock on the closet door made Yura jump. "Hello? You can come out now." Yura frowned. He couldn't understand. "I mean-" A cough. "It's safe now." The next sentence was spoken in English. Perhaps his savior realized he couldn't understand Japanese. He bit his lower lips and debated.

"Please stand back.." He rasped out, voice parched. A beat after, he pushed the closet door open, creaking loudly as the hinges were rusty. His eyes widen upon seeing the guys that previously chased him on the ground, all unconscious. One of them was bleeding, but still alive. They made Yura sick.

"Are you okay?" He focused his eyes onto the man in front of him, dark brown hair and eyes. Asian, definitely, but his English was so good.

".. Yeah." Ryuuichi nodded. He held out his hand for the teen when he noticed that his thigh was bleeding. He would have to bring him to the infirmary, so it seems. But the teen doesn't look as though he could walk any longer. Yura's legs were shaking. "Please hold on."

"Wha-" With a heave, he easily picked the teen up, careful of his wound and walked out of the room. He stepped over the unconscious men, making a mental note to tell Hibari and walked up the stairs. "I-I'm alright!" He ignored the protest and went straight to the infirmary.

Placing Yura onto the bed, he told him to take off his trousers. Yura blushed and sputtered incoherently. "A-ah, don't get me wrong. You're injured. I'm just going to patch you up." Ryuuichi raised both of his arms to prove it. The teen was wary, but he slowly nodded and slid it off. Ryuuichi smiled a little and went to take the bandage and some other stuffs on the shelf.

"Can you tell me what happened?" He asked as he dabbed the antiseptic-soaked cotton onto the wound after cleaning it with a damp cloth. Yura grimaced at the pain, but held still.

"I don't know. I was back in my neighborhood in Russia, and then when I realized it, I was in this storehouse.." Ryuuichi nodded. "Who are those men?"

"I don't know."

Ryuuichi paused for a moment and stared at Yura with a blank face. He looked away and grabbed the gauze and bandage, rolling it over the wound. "Is it too tight?" Yura shook his head. Ryuuichi hummed and kept everything away. "Well, can you walk?"

"I.. I think so?"

Ryuuichi nodded as Kuro and Shiro came out. Yura jerked back slightly at the sight of full grown panthers, nuzzling themselves on Ryuuichi. They were up to Ryuuichi's hips, and are very big. And they popped out of nowhere. Yura was very confused and surprised.

"They'll bring you to the reception room, where my lover is. Tell him the situation. I'm going interrogate those guys." He patted the both of them and they made their way to Yura. Kuro sniffed him slightly before letting out a soft noise at the back of , he and Shiro both staring at him.

Ryuuichi chuckled slightly at how uncertain Yura looked. "Don't worry, they won't bite you." Unless it was those who attacks Ryuuichi. Yura glanced at him, doubt in his eyes. He reached his hand out slowly, and gently patted Shiro on the head. Shiro nuzzled into his hands while Kuro booped him on the leg slightly. He couldn't help but smile slightly.

Ryuuichi smiled and walked out silently. The smile dropped as he made his way back to the room he left the unconscious men.

Yura shakily stood up, steadying himself. His legs still felt like jelly, as he did ran for a long distance. Though, he wasn't an athlete for no reason. Huffing, he walked out of the room and up the stairs slowly, Kuro and Shiro patiently waited for him as they led the way to the reception room.

When he opened the door, he had not expected a man glaring down at him. 'He did say 'he'..' Yura sweated at how cold the temperature suddenly became, only with Kuro and Shiro beside him to ensure that the man wouldn't outright attack him.

"Who are you?" Japanese, he couldn't understand, but he somehow knew. So, he replied in English. "U-umm.. Your lover helped me? I was chased by five guys." The man's eyes narrowed. It wasn't directed to him, fortunately. "Sit." A brief gesture to the couch as Hibari pulled out a laptop out of nowhere.

"Name, age and Country." He asked the moment Yura sat down, typing furiously on his laptop.

"Yura, 18 years old and Russia." He nodded curtly as silence fell between them, only the sound of constant clicks on the laptop filling up the room.

Yura felt awkward. He was suddenly grateful of the panthers' presence, or he might break under the tensed atmosphere. The door slid open and Ryuuichi came in, dragging the man who was shot with a scowl. "Kyouya. You have a plier somewhere?" He slid the door close and dropped the man on the coffee table in front of Yura, making the teen jolt.

"Shelves. Second drawer."

"I'm suddenly wondering why you have a plier here even though I was the one who asked.." Ryuuichi made his way to the shelves and pulled the said drawer open, taking out a rather old looking plier, rusted. It was small with a blunt tip, but Ryuuichi would make do with it.

"Stupid people with their kamikaze style.." He grumbled underneath his breath and walked back to the unconscious man. He tilted the head back and opened the mouth widely. Before he did anything he looked back to Yura. Yura's eyes were wide, in both shock and disgust.

"I suggest you look away." He did the moment Ryuuichi said it, whipping his head to the side and eyes closed. Ryuuichi gripped the plier properly and placed it into the man's mouth. Giving a brief scan over the teeth, he narrowed his eyes. He used the plier and gripped onto the last tooth on the bottom left. He harshly twisted it and pulled it out.

A loud scream echoed the room as Yura flinched. He didn't dare to open his eyes even then. Ryuuichi cringed at that internally, since he really didn't like doing this kind of thing. Though, he couldn't have this guy dying. The four other which he didn't shot committed suicide, each hiding poison that kills off the brain the moment it's eaten in their last teeth.

He threw the plier along with the tooth into the dustbin as the man coughed, eyes frantic. He glanced down at the man with blank eyes and gripped the head, slamming it onto the table when he started screaming again, only, with profanities that made Hibari wanting to kill him off immediately.

"Shut it." He tighten his grip on the skull, causing immense pain. "Who are you guys and what did you want from him?" Yura slowly took a peek, cracking his eyes open. He was immediately greeted by the man struggling against the rope that held his hands together behind him, and how tight Ryuuichi was holding him.

"None of your goddamn business!" The man screamed again when he felt as though his head was splitting. Hibari came forward as Ryuuichi released his grip. They exchange a brief look before Ryuuichi sighed, heading towards the laptop. "Do it in the next room, perhaps?" Hibari grunted and dragged the struggling man out, closing the door behind him.

Yura stared at the door for a few moments, and then a series of loud screams echoed again. He jumped.

"Sorry about that. Do you have any idea why you're kidnapped?" Ryuuichi scanned over something on the laptop. Yura shook his head, but then realized that the man wasn't looking at him. "I don't know."

"... You're the second child of a noble, huh." He flinched and looked away. Ryuuichi raised an eyebrow over a particular information and turned to Yura. "What's your pronoun?"

"Huh?"

"I mean, are you a he or a she?" The teen flinched again. "I'm sorry, that was a bit insensitive of me." He quickly shook his head. "I'm a he.." Yura frowned at his lap. He hated it when people ask him. It wasn't that he didn't want to admit, but people always discriminate him, look at him in disgust and tried to convince him that he's not he. He hated it so damn much.

"Okay." His head snapped up to Ryuuichi, who seemed nonchalant about it. That was actually the first time someone accepted him simply like that. Ryuuichi was looking at him, eyes and body seemed to accept it. Yura was stunned. "Well, judging from your background- sorry, have to look just in case we couldn't get any information-, I think you're either kidnapped just for ransom, or some dispute in your family.."

Ryuuichi's voice faltered slightly as his eyes narrowed a little at the ceiling before shaking his head. Yura wondered what he was thinking.

"His brother was the one who's behind all these." Hibari said the moment he came into the room. "Seemed like he wanted the yakuza to sell him off." Yura couldn't help but let out a small sigh. He wasn't particularly surprised. His family never really liked him much before, more so after he told his parents that he's transgender. He had somehow suspected that they would probably try to get rid of him.

Yet, it still hurts.

"Huh. Can't let him have that." Yura, for the nth time, was surprised as he look at Ryuuichi. "Which Yakuza?" Hibari pulled out his phone and tapped something on the phone. "It's done."

".. Kyouya, what did you do?" The said man shrugged. "I set the others onto them." His grey eyes narrowed. "I will not allow any of these activities happening in Namimori."

Ryuuichi rolled his eyes as he shut the computer, leaning back against the chair. He turned to Yura again. "So, Yura. What do you want to do from now on?"

".. I.. I don't know.. But can I ask something?" Ryuuichi stayed silence, gesturing him to continue. "Are you guys.. Mafia?" Yura asked, unsure and a little bit afraid.

"Yes." He took a deep breath, nodding. "Okay." He said breathlessly. That was unexpected. Oh, wait, no. It wasn't. Ryuuichi did pulled the man's teeth out without a single bit of remorse, and in front of Yura anyway. He was somehow glad that he didn't watch it. Then again, Yura hails from a noble family with many dispute between the Russian gangsters and underground. Yura didn't know of the details, but he knew just as much.

"Hmm, so do you want to go back-" "No!" He quickly slapped shut, apologizing for cutting the man off. Ryuuichi merely chuckled and waved it away, not the lest bit offended. "It's alright. Since you're 18, you should be able to cut off your family ties, if you want to, and start a new life. That is, if you want to."

"I.." Yura didn't know if he wanted to cut off his ties with his family.. He still like them despite what they did. They're still family. Ryuuichi seemed to knew his internal dilemma and leaned forward, his fingers intertwined. "Or, you could stay here in Japan with my parents. Unless, of course, you want to follow us back to Italy but you would have to join the mafia by default."

Last year, Ryuuichi had persuaded his parents to retire even when they were still so young. Yuuichi agreed with him, despite their protest. It took them eight months before he was able to force them to retire, constantly bothering them with it. Now, they had started a small cafe in Namimori, near TakeSushi.

"Can I think about it..?" Ryuuichi smiled.

"Of course."

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Yura couldn't stop blushing the moment Ryuuichi and Hibari brought him to Ryuuichi's home, where his parents were around. They immediately fussed around him and drew a bath for him, lending him some of Ryuuichi's old shirt and trousers. He was flustered, and the two men who saved him wasn't much of a help as they kept watching in amusement.

Ryuuichi had explained the details to them, and his parents merely shrugged the information off, accepting it right off the bat. Yura honestly wondered what was with this family.

"Yura~ Is Earl Grey Tea alright for you?" Sakura's voice was heard from the kitchen as he stuttered a yes in reply. Ryuuichi snickered at that for a moment before walking off to take a call.

"Yuu? What's wrong?"

"Sorry, didn't want to bother you when you're on your break but the Pio Famiglia's Don passed away yesterday." Ryuuichi's eyes narrowed as he leaned against the wall, arms crossed. "Cause of death?"

"Unknown, but there's a rumor that he died because of poison gas. Some people accused that it was Gilbert's doing, but he hasn't stepped out of the compound even once."

"Have you told him?"

"Yes. He knew the moment the news came." Ryuuichi sighed, rubbing the bridge of his nose, easing a headache away. "And how is he?" A pause, Ryuuichi frowned. "He immediately admitted along with a proof. Vindice came and took him away this morning." Ryuuichi cursed under his breath. ".. What should we do? Liu and Xena are restless."

"I'll head back immediately and pay the Vindice a visit." His eyes glinted slightly, a bit murderous. "I won't let them take away my family." After a few more words and the information of the mourning ceremony for the late Don, the call ended. He looked to the side and immediately saw Hibari staring at him with a solemn look.

"Something came up?" He nodded. "Yeah. I'll need to head back immediately." He walked back into the living room, where his parents turned to him with concern. He huffed and told him the news of the passing of the Don, and that he needed to be back in Italy for something. They nodded, his father helped him book the ticket. He turned to Yura and patted him on the shoulder.

"You can stay here until you've made up your mind." He gave him a soft smile, squeezing his shoulder a little before letting go, walking back to his room to pack some stuffs. Hibari followed him up, a small frown on his face.

"I'm going back as well."

"You know you don't have to. Besides, I'll need to settle this alone." He pulled Hibari closer and kissed him. "Don't worry, everything will be fine. Take care of my parents, okay?"

Hibari sighed and kissed him again. Whenever Ryuuichi had something in his mind that he wouldn't tell Hibari, he preferred not to involve anyone. It sometimes frustrated Hibari, but he knew he could handle it. After all, if anything happen, Ryuuichi would accept any help from him, or the others.

"Be careful." He muttered onto Ryuuichi's lips, arms around his waist as he pressed his body against his. Ryuuichi smiled. "Of course."

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Yura wasn't used to it. He wasn't used to being fussed around. He was an independent kid. He did everything on his own. He could surely do everything alone now as well, but Sakura and Kei wouldn't let him after knowing that he had an injury. When he woke up the next morning, Ryuuichi was already gone, back to Italy, and the two adults still fussed over him.

Yura felt awkward, and embarrassed. Yet, he felt loved for some reason. They cared about him more than his own biological parents do, even though it was just a short span of time. He envied Ryuuichi for having such a pair loving parents, though he wasn't hating his background.

He was glad of it, as it had shaped who he is today, and that he get to know Sakura and Kei.

"Um, can I know about what Ryuuichi do? I mean, I know he's a mafioso, but.."

"Ahh, did Ryuu gave you a choice of joining him?" Kei chuckled. "How typical of him. Well, Ryuu is the president of this organization called the Giudizio, he's also the middle man for two of the most powerful Famiglias, the Vongola and the Cavallone. In addition, he's the Historian. His work mostly centered around Giudizio." Yura blinked at the fact that Ryuuichi was a Historian. He didn't understand that.

"Giudizio, as what in Italian is, Judgement. They mostly do researches on various of things, and overlook the blindspots of the Mafia law. While they do not carry out the punishment for those wrongdoers, they do see if said wrongdoers deserves a chance of restarting before they sent them to the mafia police; Vindice. On the other hand, if Ryuuichi stands as the Historian and not the head of Giudizio, he'll carry out the Judgement himself."

Yura got more and more confused, but he had gotten a general gist. "So, the.. Giudizio is a vigilant group?"

Kei hummed, shifting slightly. "Not exactly. If vigilant, it would be Vongola, whose current Don has the mindset of changing the whole Mafia. Giudizio isn't that nice, nor is it cold. Giudizio stands as a neutral party to all. It's a bit confusing, but once you see them work, you would understand."

Yura nodded stiffly.

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"Si. We will definitely attend. Thank you." Ryuuichi waited until the other person finished his sentence before dropping the call. He pulled the earphone out and toss it aside. He turned the steering wheel a little to the side before hitting the break right in front of a huge metal door with steps in front. He got out and looked directly into the security camera, hidden.

"I want to speak to Bermuda." He declared loudly. He had immediately came over to find Vindice after he arrived back in Italy. He was feeling slightly jetlag, but he was restless. He couldn't even rest in the plane for god sake. There was no answer, silent as it always is, until the door creaked open, two Vindice men came out.

"Bermuda-sama is busy."

"Well, you can tell him to be busy after I'm done." He bit back, but still stood by where he was. Before they could say anything else, Jager came. "Let him in." At his words, they opened a path for him to walk through. Ryuuichi grunted a little before walking in, passing by the guards.

He immediately felt the difference in temperature from outside and inside the prison. The prison was really cold, almost as though it was lifeless. 'Well, it is a prison..'

Jager led him to Bermuda, who sat by a small throne while staring at a monitor. Bermuda turned to him, and Ryuuichi could practically see him smiling under the bandage. "Hey, Ryuuichi-kun. I've been expecting you." Ryuuichi huffed.

"Sure you did. Let's cut the chase. Where's Gilbert?" He narrowed his eyes at Bermuda as he floated onto Jager's shoulder, sitting there. "Hmm? Oh that man? In the prison, of course."

"Let him go. He's innocent."

"And what proof do you have that he is, as you said, innocent." Ryuuichi scowled and gestured to his own eyes. "Do you think he could possibly lie to me?" When Bermuda said nothing, he clicked his tongue. The head of the Mafia Police is the same. There was no way that anyone could deceive him. Of course he knew that Gilbert was lying. But because there was a proof that came in form of a gas tank, empty with poisonous gas. The type that wouldn't even be detected even after breathing it in.

"I don't have it now, but I need him to get it."

Bermuda stared at him for a few moments more before turning to Jager. The tallest of them nodded and went to where the prisoners were kept, and dragged out a struggling and trashed looking Gilbert, chained and eyes blindfolded. "We'll give him five days of grace." Gilbert stiffen at Bermuda's voice even though he wasn't talking to him. "If no proof of his innocence is handed by then, we'll have to take him back."

"Sure."

Jager pushed Gilbert to Ryuuichi, who grabbed his arms tightly to hold him up. He tighten his grip when Gilbert kept struggling. The chain clicked and fell off from the man, leaving only the cuff on. "You sure is protective, Ryuuichi-kun."

Ryuuichi gave Bermuda a sinister kind of smile, a tad bit wry, however. He wordlessly turned and pulled Gilbert out of the prison, carefully guided him to his car. He opened the door and pushed Gilbert into the back seat, ignoring the loud protest. He slammed the door close and it immediately locked automatically.

"Let me out!"

He slid into the driver seat and drove away. He drove back to the Giudizio's mansion, breaking the speed limit as he tried to contain his irritation. Gilbert kept making noises and tried to break the window open despite that his hands were still cuffed behind him. Once they arrived, he slammed on the break, causing Gilbert to fell to the front by force.

He opened the door and pulled Gilbert out. "What do you want?!" The front door opened as Liu and Xena, wide eyes and surprised, came out. "H-head? What's wrong-" He waved at them a little, but continued to drag the man into the building. He went to the bathroom and filled it up with cold water, the door locking before anyone could come in.

He gripped Gilbert at the back of his head and slammed him into the water, forcing him to stay down for a few seconds before pulling him out. Gilbert gasped upon able to breathe and panted, the blindfold soaked.

"Are you awake now?" Ryuuichi finally spoke after a long moment of silence.

"Hah?!" Gilbert weren't able to say anything more before he was slammed back into the water. It was damn cold. He struggled, not wanting to drown in this kind of situation. He was pulled back up again before he knew it and was thrown onto the floor.

The blindfold was tugged away, and Gilbert blinked against the dark room. Apparently, Ryuuichi didn't even switched on the light as he loomed over him. "Are you awake?" Gilbert scowled.

"What the hell is wrong with you?!"

"I should be asking you that question you idiot!" Ryuuichi yelled at him. Gilbert jerked, eyes widen. Why was this man so furious?

"Why are you admitting something you didn't bloody do?! What was going on in your mind that it was the right thing to do?!"

"It's not even your damn business-"

"It's my goddamn business alright you dumbass! I'm your goddamn family!" Gilbert stayed silence, absolutely speechless. "From the moment you chose to join us, you've already became our family! I don't care what kind of shit you were thinking before that, or what kind of background you came from, but you're one of us now! And you worried us! Do you know, how damn concern we are?! I give no shit to your weird suicidal attempts but if you want to do it, at least tell us that you wanted to leave or something, or we will never let you go!

"Clear your goddamn mind." Ryuuichi gritted before he stormed out, leaving a drench Gilbert behind with his own thoughts. Gilbert didn't understand. Why would he take him as family? He doesn't deserve it. He doesn't deserve any happiness. But what Ryuuichi had said left him thinking. Did they really took him as one of theirs? He didn't know.

Yuuichi came in, a solemn look on his face. He unplugged the tub and let the water flow away before plugging it in again. This time, he filled it up with warm water. He turned to Gilbert, who was still on the ground, and pulled him up, steadying him.

"What Ryuu said was all true you know. He didn't even managed to rest when he rushed back here from Japan, immediately going after you. Hell, I'm sure he didn't even eat or drink anything." He muttered and clicked the cuff open. Gilbert rubbed his sore wrist, looking down to his bare legs.

"Ryuuichi doesn't always invite people to join us, which is why we're so small. He found it insignificant to have so many people, but he does ask when he found those he felt that he has a connection with. Less than five times, I would say." Yuuichi handed Gilbert a set of clean clothes and a large towel. "Take a bath first. We'll discuss the rest after."

Yuuichi clicked the light on, dim at it is, and walked out, but not before stopping for a moment. "We really care about you even if it doesn't seemed like it, you know." He closed the door shut.

Sighing, he turned to Liu and Xena, who both were frowning in concern. "How's he?" Xena asked.

"A bit shaken. Where's Ryuu?"

Liu shook his head. "Not sure. Head had stormed away without a word." Yuuichi sighed. "Well, we'll leave him alone for now. He needs to calm down."

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True to what Yuuichi had said, Ryuuichi returned to his usual self half a day later. The twins silently discussed of the Pio Famiglia's incident and why it has anything to do with Gilbert, and Ryuuichi suspected that it could be a grudge. "Who told gave the news again?"

"The right hand man of the Don." Ryuuichi frowned. "Isn't he supposed to be dead?" He had seen the report and the people who had died. The right hand man should have died during the mass murder, sacrificing himself for the Don.

"Yeah, but strangely, his name on the list suddenly disappeared." Yuuichi showed him the list, pointing at a gap. "There's no trace, no nothing." Ryuuichi hummed and stared at the gap.

"An imposter. A mist, to the boot..."

"Rave." They both turned to Gilbert, who came out of nowhere. "Rave Cristhe. He's a illusionist who impersonate people." Ryuuichi crossed his arms and raised an eyebrow. "He.. He was the one who made me kill my family." Ryuuichi narrowed his eyes. "Okay. We'll have to find him." A smirk appeared on his face. "It seemed like we need to raid a funeral ceremony, Yuu."

His brother sighed in exasperation. "I realized."

Gilbert merely blinked in confusion.

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"Thank you for coming." Ryuuichi smiled and shook hands with the late Don's right hand man. "I'm truly sorry for the lost." He exchanged a few more words, Gilbert and Yuuichi behind him. He would say that the imposter's acting skill was really good, because he didn't even twitch when he saw Gilbert. Though, his eyes were different story. Those eyes filled with hate and disgust.

"I'm sorry, but mind if we talk to you in private? It has something to do with the rumor." Ryuuichi whispered into his ears, knowing full well that he had his attention. He didn't want to waste anymore time in this.

"Sure. This way." The imposter led them to a more private part of the garden, passing by a bunch of people who were mourning. The ones who lived during the mass murder, he supposed.

Ryuuichi's smile dropped the moment they were out of sight. "Is it true that the Don died because of poisonous gas?" The imposter nodded. "Yes, but there was no sign of anyone getting into the Don's room when he was asleep. There was no clue of what kind of gas it was. And yet, the Don died in pain.."

Ryuuichi hummed silently. He glanced at Yura, who took out a picture of a tank. The imposter took it with a frown. "What is this..?"

"A gas tank with the word 'Rache' crafted out at the bottom."

"Revenge? Why would anyone- Is this the one that contained the poisonous gas?"

Ryuuichi nodded. "Indeed." The imposter gripped the picture tightly. "How did you guys find it?"

"We didn't." He gave them a weird out look. "It came to us out of nowhere." He laughed slightly, as though they had just said something stupid. "How can that be possible? There's no way a tank can suddenly appeared in your room out of thin air."

Ryuuichi smirked. He had just gave himself away. "That's what we wanted to know, signore Zest. Or should I say, Rave Cristhe." The imposter stuttered. "What are you talking about? Who's Rave Cristhe? And how should I know about it?"

"Stop acting." He looked absolutely scandalized, but Ryuuichi merely stared at him in silence with a blank look. Seeing that his cover was busted, he chuckled. "As expected of you, Head of Giudizio."

"You seriously have a weird sense of humor."

"But that's what a jester have, no?" Ryuuichi raised an amused eyebrow. "Jester huh, so tell me. Why did you started a mass murder on the Pio Famiglia, and killed the Don?"

Rave scoffed. "For revenge of course!" He said in a rather maniac way. "The goddamn bastard ruined my life, so I ruined his back. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth."

"And you manipulated Gilbert into being your scapegoat." Rave shook his head, chuckling again. "Of course not. I merely asked him to, and he did. He was such a dear, obedient, even. You do know that he had killed his family with his own hands, did you not? And I didn't even tell him to do it!" Yuuichi had to restrain Gilbert when the man wanted to punch Rave as Rave laughed maniacally.

"Uh huh." Ryuuichi remained unfazed. "You didn't tell him. You merely turned yourself into him and killed his family in front of him. You used mind break and mentally scarred him. You convinced him that he was the one who killed his family when he breaks. A work of a psychopath and a twisted man."

Rave giggled. "So? There's nothing you can do about it anyway." Ryuuichi shrugged. "I sure can't. But they can." Rave shuddered upon the drop of temperature and turned around when he heard chain rattles. "Vindice." He hissed. "You called Vindice, to a mourning ceremony?!"

"Huh. So you do have some sensibility." Rave gritted his teeth and made a run for it. He didn't get too far, because Gilbert managed to catch him and threw him to the Vindice. Chains immediately wrapped around his neck. "Is that enough for a prove, Bermuda?" Ryuuichi asked the infant who sat on Jager's shoulder.

"Yes. Congratulation on clearing your name. I hope there's no more repeats. Farewell." Gilbert backed away slightly at how monotonous Bermuda sounded. The Vindice disappeared into the portal along with Rave, who screamed how he would hunt them, and he would torture them. Of course, there was no way he could do it. Even Mukuro can't, so how could he.

"Head." Ryuuichi turned to Gilbert with a confused look. Since when he called him as head? Gilbert pursed his lips and bowed. "Thank you. I'm sorry."

Ryuuichi immediately pulled him up, but Gilbert stayed in that position with a stubborn shook of his head. "No, listen.. I had always hated myself for being so weak. I hated myself for not able to save my family. I believed that I don't deserve anything but grief and death. But.. Thank you for snapping me out of it. Thank you for accepting me."

His voice faltered at the end, tears dripping down slightly. Ryuuichi smiled and shook his head slightly. He forcefully tugged Gilbert up and pulled him into a hug. "You're so silly. Of course I'll accept you. We'll accept you." Yuuichi sighed and patted the man on his back. Ryuuichi snickered a little and pulled his brother into a hug as well, hugging them both tightly.

"H-head- Can't breathe-" He laughed loudly.

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Gilbert slumped onto the floor with a bunch of plastic bags in hand, full with what he needed such as clothes, shoes, formal attire and random stuffs. Yuuichi took one look at him and laughed. "I told you to buy what you need before Ryuuichi decided to buy everything for you." His brother tends to go overboard with buying things for them after all. Liu and Xena kind of learned the hard way as well.

Ryuuichi rolled his eyes at Yuuichi as he walked in, several bags in hand as well. "You're exaggerating."

"You know full well that I'm not." Yuuichi went to help Gilbert with the bags when Hibari, along with an eighteen years old teen arrived. Ryuuichi blinked at the both of them while Yuuichi stared at the teen. "Kyouya-" The said man immediately pulled him close and kissed him in front of the others. Yuuichi palmed his face while Gilbert and Yura gaped.

Ryuuichi turned red, but kissed back. Hibari finally broke the kiss as Ryuuichi panted. Ryuuichi hissed at him for that and punch him lightly on the chest. He pouted a little when Hibari refused to let him go, a hand around his waist. He huffed. "Mind telling me what's going on?"

"U-um, can I join your Organization?" Liu and Xena appeared from separate direction, one from the kitchen and another from the stairs. Yura fidgeted upon the stares from everyone.

Ryuuichi tilted his head. "Are you sure? You do know this is the mafia, right?" Yura nodded, eyes suddenly filled with determination. "Yes. I'm clearly disown by my family, so I'm going rebel." Yura had been thinking about it for a week or so. His family was prideful, known to be clean despite it isn't. They thought he was weak, and wanted to get rid of him. So, he would show him that he wasn't that easy to be rid of. He would show them that he's more than who they thought he is. They would know that they had made a mistake for throwing him out.

Ryuuichi hummed, somehow understanding what he was thinking. He smiled. "Welcome to the Giudizio, Yura. And welcome to the family."

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Tsuna smiled apologetically at Ryuuichi as they walked to where the dining room is. "I'm sorry, Ryuuichi. You've just came back from a mission and.." Ryuuchi shook his head, patting Tsuna on the shoulder. "Don't worry about it. I'm alright. So when do I leave?" The brunette frowned. "If it's no trouble, as soon as possible. There was news that they would transfer to another base soon."

"Okay." Ryuuichi paused his steps for a moment. Tsuna tilted his head and blinked. He stared at the man when it clicked. A small teasing smile appeared on his face. "Hibari is in his quarters." Ryuuichi raised an eyebrow at the twenty-four years old brunette, quirking an amused look.

"You and your intuition." Tsuna chuckled and waved at him, walking away. Ryuuichi huffed a little and turned around, walking the other direction to the more secluded part of the Vongola Mansion. He wanted to see his lover for a while before he head off to France. And perhaps, see if he needed anything.

His shoes tapped silently against the wooden floor, traditional Japanese house style. He ignored the few rooms he came across and walked straight towards Hibari's room. He slid open the door.

"Kyouya are you-" He jerked back as his eyes widen. Pulling his lips thin, he turned on his heels and hurried away, speed walking, ignoring the call. The only thing he could remember, despite him not wanting to, was Hibari in his loose Yukata, pinning a naked girl down.

"Ryuuichi-san." He jolted to a stop before he bumped into Kusakabe. "Ah, Tetsu-san." He smiled at the man, but the smile didn't reach his eyes. "Are you visiting Kyou-san?" He nodded.

"Yeah, but it seemed like he's a bit busy. I'll be gone for a mission for probably a week or two. Please inform him." At Kusakabe's confirmation, he paced away. Kusakabe frowned. Ryuuichi looked so bothered even with the way he carefully controlled his body as he walked. He looked stiff to Kusakabe's eyes. Briefly wondering why, he went to find Hibari. The leader of the Foundation shouldn't be doing anything at the moment, seeing that he had cleared his schedule.

To his utter surprise, Hibari was running towards him with a scowl. "Tetsu." Kusakabe perked at the hint of panic in Hibari's voice, even his eyes were frantic. "Where's the small animal?"

"Ryuuichi-san? He just left on a mission." Hibari clicked his tongue, able to pick up the soft rumble of a car leaving the estate. Just how fast does Ryuuichi walked? He scowled and turned away. "Take care of the intruder in my room."

Kusakabe frowned again. Usually, Hibari would be the one who deals with intruders. He nodded and made a beeline to Hibari's room, where the door wasn't closed.

His eyes widen upon seeing an unconscious girl on the ground, with only a piece of cloth covering her bare body. He finally understood what happened.

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"Head." Liu called out as they boarded the private plane with bags in hand, full with weapons inside. It was Vongola's private plane, so they had no trouble passing through at all. "Vice messaged me that Hibari have been trying to reach you since the morning. Did you offed your phone?"

Ryuuichi squinted his eyes at the text message from Yuuichi as Liu held his phone up. True, he had offed his phone after leaving Vongola's estate. He realized that he was being childish and he should probably listen to Hibari's explanation. Hibari wouldn't possibly cheat him or anything, and he himself knew as well. Though, he couldn't bring himself to actually contact with his lover. Not when he was about to leave for a mission. And not when he didn't have the energy.

He really needed to clear his mind.

"Tell Yuu I'll keep it off during the whole mission.. And tell him to tell Kyouya that I'll talk to him after the mission." Liu raised an eyebrow at that but nodded, typing back to Yuuichi.. Ryuuichi blinked and looked back to the boarding area. "Where's Gilbert and Xena?"

Liu lifted his head and looked around. He twitched upon seeing Xena teaching some crude stuff to Gilbert at the very end of the plane, in the shadow. "There." He pointed at their direction.

Ryuuichi glanced over and sighed, palming his face. "Xena. What are you teaching Gil?" Xena jumped and quickly hid her phone behind her, averting his gaze. "N-nothing!" Gilbert tilted his head at that while Ryuuichi narrowed his eyes at Xena's behavior. Ryuuichi turned to Gilbert instead, asking him what the Irish had taught him.

"Wait don-"

"French greetings." Xena palmed her face and tried to sneak away, but alas, Ryuuichi stopped her with a pointed look. She pouted and stayed.

"Oh? Let's hear it." Gilbert looked uncertain, but he nodded. "Branleur." Ryuuichi did a double take and had to hold onto the wall as he rubbed his temple. Liu merely raised an eyebrow as he never knew French. Xena, on the other hand, snickered under her breath like a crazy person. Gilbert furrowed his eyebrows and exchanged a confused look with Liu.

"Um, Gil.. Do you have any idea what that means?"

"It means good morning, right?" Ryuuichi slammed his head onto the wall. "Dear god. Xena, please don't teach him the wrong thing. And stop trying to teach everyone profanities of sort."

"It's not even a profanity." He sighed. "It's still rude." Gilbert looked at them in confusion. "What are you guys saying?" Ryuuichi stared at him and deadpanned. "Branleur means wanker. Good morning is bonjour."

Gilbert blanked out for a moment before he flushed red. "Xena!" The said woman laughed loudly. "Sure cannot win against you, Head. Just how many language do you know?"

Ryuuichi shook his head at her antics. "About six? Or perhaps five since I've forgotten a lot on German." Liu sweated. "Just how many time do you have?" Ryuuichi quirked a smile. "A lot." He chuckled a little and waved at them to be seated since they would be taking off soon.

Sometimes, he was really grateful for them for taking his mind off things, intentionally or unintentionally.

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"Who are you?" Kusakabe asked the now clothed woman as all her limbs were cuffed, his legs to the bed. She stayed silence, not even rising her head. Her face was shadowed by her long blonde hair, messy and a tad bit dull. She had regained conscious over an hour ago, and Kusakabe had came to ask her questions.

"How did you get in?" Vongola's security is not to be trifled with. Everything was surveilled by the technicians, every inch of the estate guarded and should be illusionist-proof. Minus Mukuro, Chrome, Fran and Mammon, since no matter what, they could never make a technology that could detect them.

Once again, she stayed silence. Kusakabe sighed and left her with a tray of food and water. He would have to question her again tomorrow. It was really late already, and he still need to warn Tsuna about Hibari's bad mood. He could literally feel it when he was about two kilometer away from the Cloud. Kusakabe sweated.

'The one who tames the beast is also the one who sets the beast on chaos, huh.'

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Ryuuichi pushed the transmitter onto his ear, clicking it in place as the others did as well. "Clear?" He spoke, covering slightly. The rest nodded and continued to put on their stuffs. Ryuuichi checked the magazine of his guns before clicking it back. He placed both of them on the holster strapped onto his shoulder. He strapped in the extra magazines around his waist and touched his bracelet slightly, smiling at the familiar presence of his partners.

"Now listen. There should be about five hundred of them inside, all armed and are good fighters. Do not underestimate a single of them and kill if you must. Be careful and stick together. Be aware that we could be watched at every moment. Those who gets injured, don't push yourself and retreat. Don't risk your lives. Gil, you'll be with Xena, Liu with me. Is there any questions?"

A collective no was heard. Ryuuichi nodded. "Alright. Liu and I'll go first, follow after a minute." With that, he, along with the Chinese, sneaked into open air. Ryuuichi had cast a shield over the both of them just in case there was snipers. The exchanged a look and counted to three before Liu pulled open the door.

The rest waited impatiently in the shadows, tensed as they counted down. Once a minute pass, they sneaked out.

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"Liu, I'll go to the leader first." Liu nodded and Ryuuichi ran down the hallway silently, reeling in his flames and presence. He stayed in the shadow, wondering why there weren't any bright lights. Unusual, since the details Tsuna gave him was that the factory was brightly lit even during the middle of the night. He paused. There was no one at all ever since their arrival. No guards, no nothing. 'Unless... They realized we were coming?' He narrowed his eyes and gripped his guns more tightly.

He continued his tracks to where the leader should be. Just as he was about to open the door, it slammed inwards even before he touched it. "Welcome, Head of Giudizio." He cursed mentally and sighed. It was a trap. The leader stood in the middle, looking absolutely smug as multiple and multiple of armed men stood around him, pointing their guns and weapons at Ryuuichi.

He walked in as a path was opened to him. "How are you enjoying the visit?"

"Not that much." Ryuuichi looked around him. "How did you gather all your men in this tiny space?" The leader chuckled. "Oh it's easy. Just clear out most of the junks and done." Ryuuichi hummed, a little bit impressed. Exactly five hundred and sixty-one of them.

"Well, I do have to ask, what brings you here?"

"Don Vongola found out that your men were selling drugs and are doing human trafficking. In addition, slavery." The leader mocked a hurt look. "I wouldn't. We wouldn't." Ryuuichi saw through it immediately and he raised a pointed eyebrow. The leader chuckled. "As expected of the Historian, huh." He sauntered near Ryuuichi as the younger narrowed his eyes. He grabbed the cheek and tilted Ryuuichi's face, staring.

"You do have quite a pretty face, you know? You should worth a few millions." Ryuuichi swatted his hand away and leaned back. The man smelt of tobacco and while he was used to it because of Gokudera, he found it distasteful when it was from the man in front of him.

"And what makes you think I'll let you sell me that easily?" The man laughed loudly, as though Ryuuichi had said something stupid. "My my, do you still think you can win, Giudizio's head? Look closely if you must, you're surrounded! There's no way you can run. And your men, they're probably killed by the trap we placed as we speak."

Ryuuichi scoffed and rolled his eyes. "As if they'll die that easily. And.." A small, lazy smirk appeared on his face. "Who said we came alone?"

As on cue, a shark with blue flames came flying into the room, a few of the five hundreds died when they were sliced down. "Voiii!" A familiar voice bounced off the wall. "Are you scum ready to die?!" Gun shots echoed in the room along with the sound of knives flying around. "Ushishishi~"

Ryuuichi sighed upon seeing blood spills and yelled at the two Varia men. "Don't kill all of them!"

"Don't tell us what to do, Brat!" He twitched. Liu, Xena and Gilbert came running in and immediately started fighting. Maiming, rather than killing. Though, they did somehow accidentally killed off a few. "Thirty!" Ryuuichi paused. "Dammit- Twenty-eight!" Were they betting on who can take down the enemies more?

He rubbed his temple and turned back to the leader, who was panicking. "That, and I never said that I'll come as the Head of Giudizio." He raised his right hand and showed the Vongola Ring he wore on his pointer finger, an A-rank ring that Shoichi made. Shoichi really outdone himself, as the ring was able to withstand his flames without cracking. Ryuuichi was very pleased and grateful. "I came here as a Vongola."

He smirked again. "My condolence to all."

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"Cheh. Too easy." Squalo clicked his tongue and flicked his sword after bringing down the last one, shaking the blood off the blade. "Oi brat! Hurry up and settle it or we'll leave you behind!" He and Belphegor stormed out of the room, leaving the members of the Giudizio with the last few survivors and the leader.

Ryuuichi wiped the blood off his cheek and grimaced a little, Gilbert healed Liu's bloodied knuckles up as Xena panted, having to overexerted herself. "P-please. Spare us-" He turned to the leader as he cowered slightly. "I-I've a daughter- Please-"

He frowned. "If you have a daughter, much more a family, then you shouldn't have done all these. Selling drugs, human trafficking, slavery, black markets, and selling organs. You've done all these for years, ruining people's lives, and you're telling us to spare you because you have a daughter?"

"N-no-"

"It'll be a death penalty for you and your men, but just simple death isn't enough.. Well.." They survivors paled upon the familiar sound of chains rattling. "I'll leave it to the Vindice." Desperate yells and plead were heard as they were taken away. Ryuuichi turned a blind eye from them and went to check on Xena, when the leader shouted.

"I curse you, Shiroki Ryuuichi! I curse you to never be free from your sin! I curse you to eternal darkness!"

He gave him a wry smile. "I've never been free from my sins before, nor my own darkness." More agonizing yells before silence fell between all of them. Xena frowned at Ryuuichi of his words. Gilbert and Liu looked as though they wanted to say something but didn't know what. Ryuuichi merely shook his head.

"Come on. Let's go find if there's any victims here. And the drugs." Xena and Liu went scouting the area first, checking every room they came across while Xena was a few steps behind them. Ryuuichi was about to leave the room last when Sora suddenly came out without consent. Ryuuichi blinked at the wolf. "Sora? What's wrong?" He patted the wolf, rubbing the ears slightly. Sora whined a little before trotting to a wall.

Sora sniffed around before toeing at a spot, whining and barking. Ryuuichi frowned and followed. He crouched down and patted the wolf to calm him down. "What is it?" Sora toed the spot again. Ryuuichi squinted his eyes at it and touched. He knocked it and it sounded hollow. He shifted to the other side and knocked on it again.

"Head, what's wrong?" Xena came back into the room when she realized Ryuuichi wasn't behind them.

"There's another room behind this wall..." He stood up and backed away, taking out his gun. He charged it up with cloud flames and aimed at the wall. He pulled the trigger and a cloud flame coated bullet hit the wall. The wall crumbled down and revealed a big, empty room. It was lifeless and cold.

They coughed at the dust as Sora trotted in. He circled around a lump, nudging it with his nose. He whined for Ryuuichi's attention. Ryuuichi hurried over and his eyes widen. It was a kid, skinny and pale with scars around his body. He was still breathing, thankfully, but he was cold.

Hypothermia, Ryuuichi deducted.

"Goddammit." He carried the kid up, noting how light he was. "Get Gilbert and Liu! We'll be leaving for the hospital immediately!" He quickly pulled off his coat and covered the kid with it. He pressed him against his body, rubbing his skin as to warm him up. He immediately ran out of the room, Sora following.

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Slave. The kid was a slave, abused and tortured. Absolutely lack of nutrition and weak. The hospital had wanted to call in the police but Ryuuichi managed to stop them, that the one who did it had been dealt with. (They were a bit horrified, however.) There was others, all who the Varia's squad member that came as well had found, but none of them were as bad as the kid Ryuuichi found.

About the age of eight to ten, he would say. They had tried to find any of his family, or anyone with blood relation with him, but found none. An orphan, they say. Once he woke up, he would probably be sent to an orphanage.

Ryuuichi sighed and leaned against the back of the chair. That fact left a bad taste in . He didn't even know why. He knew Sora didn't like that fact as well, seeing that he has been wanting to pop out at every second.

Actually, he had came out just a moment ago, after the nurse left. The kid was attached to the machine, covered with heavy blankets and the heater on high, unconscious. He was having a high fever and it just broke. Ryuuichi stared at the ceiling, patting Sora, who took up the two other chairs beside him with his head on Ryuuichi's lap.

Now that there was nothing to take his mind of things, everything just hit him like a train wreck and was giving him a headache. First was this kid and what he would have to say to him when he wakes up. Second, Hibari.

It was funny how Hibari is the source of his endless happiness, yet is the source of his empty sadness. However, he wasn't sad at the moment. Confused, slightly angered, and insecure. While Ryuuichi couldn't bring himself to like girls because of his memories as one, he was well aware that he was no longer one and is a guy. It brought uncertainty of his place in Hibari's heart.

During his down days, he would wonder if Hibari would prefer a girl more, if Hibari would want someone who can bear his blood child. Each time, he would be reassured, but the thought still lingers. (Sometimes, he just hates his brain so damn much.)

Even so, Hibari isn't one to cheat, Ryuuichi knew that very well. If he had wanted to be with a girl, he would have told Ryuuichi and end everything.

Ryuuichi choked a shaky laugh of disbelief and hurt. He covered his eyes and tilted his head back. 'Dammit.. That hurt.' He sighed again. He seriously need to talk with Hibari. Sora whined a little and snuggled closer to him. Ryuuichi looked at the wolf and smiled. "Thank you, Sora." He turned to the kid. "What do you think of him?"

Sora huffed and nudged his no longer moving hand with his head. He pushed it to his nose and it affectionately. Ryuuichi chuckled and leaned down, nudging him on the nose. "You sure like him, do you not?" Sora barked in agreement as Ryuuichi shushed him.

"Quiet down. We can't have anyone walking in on us and see you." Ryuuichi smiled. He looked up from the wolf and stared into nothing, feeling slightly better. He blinked. "Where's the others?"

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Hibari gritted his teeth and swung his tonfa down to smash Tsuna on the head. The brunette, barely able to dodge it, flew back as Hibari quickly followed. "W-wait Hibari!" The older man ignored the protest and kept attacking, frustration boiling in him. The intruder hasn't spoken for days and he couldn't contact Ryuuichi at all. Granted, Ryuuichi was probably feeling self-conscious now, and it was all because of Hibari's fault. He had the right to avoid him for a while.

But Hibari didn't meant to make him feel like that. That was the last thing he wanted to do, hell, perhaps never.

"Hibari!" He was brought back to earth upon the punch in the gut and he was thrown back a few feet away, still standing. He coughed as air was pushed out from his lungs, trying to get it back. He wiped his lips, realizing that he had accidentally bit it to the point it bleed. "Hibari, are you alright?"

He swatted away the brunette's hand when Tsuna wanted to help him and stumbled away. "I'm fine."

Anger flared in him again. Suddenly, the thought of Ryuuichi being unreasonable filled his mind. He snarled and attacked the brunette again, ignoring how Tsuna yelped in surprise. Ryuuichi should have stop and listen to his explanation, should've not jump into conclusion.

Ryuuichi should have trust him.

He stopped in midst of his attack and left without a word. Tsuna frowned in both confusion and worry. It seemed like he need to ring Ryuuichi up.

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"Ryuuichi. You're an idiot." Ryuuichi yawned and stretched, Liu's phone in hand and against his ear. "You called me in the middle of the night just to say that I'm an idiot? Thank you very much, because apparently, I didn't know of that fact well enough." He couldn't help but be sarcastic. He was dead tired and exhausted, and all he wanted was to sleep for a thousand years and Liu had to wake him up because Tsuna had called just to say he was an idiot.

He could not.

"Do you know how Hibari's suffering right now?" His jaw locked and hands clenched tightly. "I know you're probably hurt because of something he did, but you could at least call him, you know? He almost killed one of his squad members for the sixth time during training today."

He sighed and ruffled his hair. "I know... I know, goddamit, but I want to talk to him face to face rather than on phone."

"There's skype."

"In goddamn physical form, Tsuna. I don't give a damn about video calls, and you know that." A sigh was heard over the phone. Tsuna spoke again, in a more softer, exasperated tone. "I'm sorry, Ryuuichi. You're probably hurting as well.. I shouldn't even interfere in your relationships but he's hurting so badly. He's overexerting himself in the span of less than a week. That wasn't even possible until now."

Ryuuichi's heart clenched. Of course Tsuna would know that Hibari's in pain more than he does. Tsuna is his Sky, not him. Ryuuichi bit the bottom of his lips. He wasn't jealous of Tsuna, actually. He merely envied how their bond works. He could feel Hibari on the other side, but it wasn't as good as Tsuna's. That, and Tsuna's hyper intuition.

He took a deep breath and heaved. "I'm sorry for all the trouble, Tsuna."

"Ryuuichi, that's not what I meant-"

"I know. But it's just that, I need some time..." Tsuna stayed silence. "I... Look, there's this kid. He was a slave. He had hypothermia when we found him, and is unconscious in the hospital. There was something about him that made me restless if I were to leave now."

"... Are you going to bring him into the mafia? A kid?"

"Hell, no. Or.. That was what I think. I'm not sure. Besides, he has a choice. I can't force him."

"Ryuuichi.. Please don't do something you'll possibly regret." Ryuuichi let out a weak laugh and tilted his head down. His hair shifted and shadowed his face. "I hope I won't.." After a few apologies of disturbing his rest and such, the call ended. Ryuuichi handed back the phone to Liu as the Chinese glanced at him with concern.

Ryuuichi sighed and rubbed his temple, trying to ebb the headache away. "Are you alright, Head?" He waved his hand dismissively. "Yeah, I'm fine."

He wasn't.

He stood up and grabbed his coat. He didn't bother to tie his hair up and wore it, walking out of the room. He paused for a moment and looked at Liu. "Do you want to join me for a drink or two?"

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"Sometimes, I really think that I'm a goddamn idiot. I'm already having a headache, and I'm trying to get myself a migraine for tomorrow." Ryuuichi scoffed and downed the glass of cider. Liu stared in both awe and uncertainty at how much Ryuuichi could drink. That was already the ninth glass and Ryuuichi was still calling for another glass. Well, Cider doesn't have that much alcohol in it compared to sake, but still.

Liu wasn't drinking, only a cup of tea since he needed to be sober for Ryuuichi. And honestly, he felt like he didn't even need to do that, because Ryuuichi looked absolutely sober, like he didn't even drank nine- ten glass of alcohol at one go.

"Head.. I think you have enough." Ryuuichi looked to him, holding the eleventh glass. He sighed. "I guess." He downed the last one and paid. They made their way out of the club, and Liu was pleasantly surprised that Ryuuichi could still walk straight. He scrunched his nose. "You sure can drink, Head."

Ah, no. Ryuuichi was definitely slightly drunk given the way he couldn't control his laughter. "I just so happen to have a high alcohol tolerance. Well, not as high as Xanxus, but still considerably high. Funny how things works because Kyouya is definitely a lightweight. When he's drunk, he's so insufferable. But ya know, I find it bloody adorable. Minus the fact he'd try to molest me in front of others, but still. Adorable as heck."

Liu sweated as Ryuuichi kept rambling, most of it were about were about Hibari, he realized. Ryuuichi sure loves Hibari, Liu mused. He wondered what happened to the both of them, however. Ryuuichi was good at hiding his emotions, but Liu, and definitely the others, could see how down he was. And they say Ryuuichi is emotionless and cold. What a bunch of bullshit.

When they reached the hospital, Ryuuichi was silence once more. Eerily so. Liu led the both of them back to the kid's room and found that Xena and Gilbert were both awake, staring at them. Gilbert raised an eyebrow, having to pick up the smell of alcohol. Ryuuichi grunted at them and took up a corner, sitting on the chair. Somehow, his animal partners popped out of nowhere and surrounded him.

He fell asleep almost immediately. Liu merely shook his head.

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The kid finally woke up after five days. Ryuuichi had stayed beside him as the others went sight seeing. The doctor had done a small check up on the kid before leaving them alone.

"Hey, how are you feeling?" Ryuuichi asked softly as the kid blinked up at him. Confusion was clear in his eyes. Ryuuichi smiled softly and stroked his head gently. Upon his touch, the kid finally remembered everything. All the torture, all the screams and pains. He recoiled at the touch and tried to inch away from Ryuuichi, eyes closing in fear.

Ryuuichi frowned slightly but took his hand away. He held them up to indicate that he meant no harm. "It's okay." He said. "Everything's okay. It's all over. You're save now. You're free." The kid's eyes snapped open and he timidly turned to Ryuuichi. "I-it's over?" He croaked. Ryuuichi smiled again and nodded.

"It's over." Tears sprang out from the kid's eyes and he wailed, albeit softly. Ryuuichi merely sat there as he watched the kid cry, silently comforting him. Sometime after, the kid had fallen asleep from all the crying, tired. Ryuuichi pulled the cover up to his chin, stroking the teal hair. He watched over how relaxed he was, finally able to escape the darkness. Heavens forbid he bring him back to it.

Ryuuichi scowled.

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It wasn't much of a surprise when the kid stuck to Ryuuichi after he was discharged from the hospital. They brought him to the hotel they were staying, buying him some clothes and footwear just because. (For relieving stress as well.) The kid, Eliot (After countless of tries when Xena asked and once from Ryuuichi), was wary of most of them except for Ryuuichi.

Though, he was slowly opening up to them. He was still timid and soft spoken because of what he had been through, but at least he doesn't look that much scared of them now. Ryuuichi shook his head in exasperation when Xena- and Gilbert in lowkey- cooed over him as she handed him a cup of hot cocoa. He leaned against the headrest of the bed.

He pulled out his phone, which had been offed ever since the beginning of the mission and stared at it, contemplating. It has been over a week, he should on it already since they would be going back the next day.

Speaking of which..

"Eliot." The said kid perked up as Ryuuichi gestured him to come over. He placed the cup onto the table and trotted over to Ryuuichi in a rather adorable manner. He sat down in front of Ryuuichi on the bed and waited. "There's something I need to tell you." He turned nervous at that as the others stayed silent.

"You know we're the mafiosi, right?" He nodded slowly. "We'll have to return to Italy tomorrow. You'll have to get into an orphanage, or we'll look for a-" Ryuuichi stopped short when he saw tears falling from Eliot's eyes.

"A-are you going to sell me off?" His eyes widen. "I-is it because I did something wrong?"

Ryuuichi immediately pulled him into a tight embrace and shook his head. "No no no. It's not like that. You did nothing wrong. You're free now. You can start anew and live a better life, with a family."

"I don't want to... I want to stay with you guys.."

Ryuuichi pulled him away slightly. "Eliot, we're the mafia." He stressed, emphasizing the word. "We're the one who brought you all the darkness." Eliot dived for his chest and shook his head against it. "No. They did, not you guys. You guys saved me. Please don't throw me away.."

Ryuuichi felt his shirt wet, but he paid no heed to it. He rubbed Eliot's eyes as he tilted his head up to look at him, wiping the tears away. "Eliot, do you know what you're saying?" The said child nodded. "Yes."

The older sighed and pulled him closer. "Alright then.." He hoped that he had not made the wrong choice for allowing Eliot to join them.

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Ryuuichi gazed at the sleeping Eliot, holding the pillow tightly. He closed the large sliding window to the balcony and breathed in the night air. There was no stars, the sky clouded. He stared as he leaned against the cold glass. He pulled out his phone again and stared at it.

'Should I..?'

He bit his lips and sighed for the nth time. He booted it up and instantly, it beeped loudly for almost a thousand times. Well, not exactly a thousand times, but it seemed like it as Ryuuichi was surprised. He peered at Eliot and sighed in relief when the kid didn't even stir.

He silent it and sweated at the amount of mails and miss calls, most from Hibari while some from Tsuna and his brother. He clicked open Hibari's mail and read all of it. Most were short, telling him to call him back and some were apologies of sort. One of it was an explanation, seeing that it was longer. He didn't read that. He felt guilty.

Pursing his lips, he hesitantly typed a reply saying that he would talk to him tomorrow. His thumb lingered on the 'send' button a moment before pressing it. He locked it up and put it back into his pocket. He leaned his head over the window and closed his eyes.

Somehow, he really missed Hibari despite everything.

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"W-where are you going?" Ryuuichi blinked at Eliot, who tugged at the hem of his shirt when he was about to walk the other direction. He smiled and patted him on the head. "I'm going to find someone. The others will bring you to our home first- your new home." Xena grinned and showed them a thumbs up. ("I'm driving!" "Oh hell no Xena, you're not driving!")

"You'll be there right..?" Ryuuichi nodded. "Yep. I'll after I settle some things."

Eliot nodded slightly and let go, but not before hugging him. He hurried over to Xena and Gilbert's side, waving at him as they walked out of the airport. Ryuuichi ruffled his hair slightly. '.. Did he grow attached to me in the span of four days?' He chuckled nervously under his breath and walked the other direction. He'll have to walk to Vongola's mansion. It wasn't as though he had never did it before anyway.

However, the thought of walking was thrown out the window as he saw Hibari by the exit he was heading to, looking for him in the midst of the crowd. Ryuuichi stopped his track and blinked. His heart leaped before dying. He clenched his hands in the pocket of his coat and walked over.

Hibari spotted him as he was in his earshot. "Hey." Ryuuichi greeted softly, almost reluctant. Hibari stared at him silently as Ryuuichi refused to meet his eyes. The older man nodded at him before turning around wordlessly, speed walking out to his car. Ryuuichi pushed down the pain and followed.

Hibari drove the both of them to Vongola estate, knowing that Ryuuichi needed to report to Tsuna. It was silent during the whole trip. Ryuuichi hated the silence. It wasn't how it used to be. He was tempted to actually scream bloody murder for no reason. Actually, he was, internally anyway.

"I'm sorry." He blurted out before he could stop himself. "I'm sorry for all that." He was referring to how he ignored Hibari's call and all, for not listening to him. Hibari was still silent as he slowed the speed slightly. Ryuuichi bit his lips. He deserved that anyway. However, what surprised him was that Hibari actually stepped on the gas and turned sharply down a secluded, dark alley, big enough for the car to drive down. Ryuuichi yelped when his head hit the window at the sudden turn, and grimaced at all the honks.

"What is wr-" His words died down when Hibari pulled the seat belts off and moved to his seat, looming over him as he kissed him desperately. It was hard and bruising, the kiss. Ryuuichi couldn't help but moaned when Hibari bit his lower lips, easily dominating the open mouth kiss. They broke off when the need for air was too much, panting. "W-what?"

"I'm not sorry." Hibari muttered on his lips upon seeing the blood, it before kissing him again. Only, in a more gentle manner. Ryuuichi gasped into Hibari's mouth as his hands clenched onto Hibari's shirt, bunching it up. He knew Hibari was referring to his lips, but his mind strayed.

"I did nothing with that woman. I don't even know her." Hibari said in between the multiple kisses he gave. Ryuuichi was getting dizzy at the lack of oxygen as Hibari left his lips to kiss him on the neck, sucking. "I love you and only you, Ryuuichi. I only want you." He said breathlessly and bit down hard, breaking the skin. He lapped the blood up and returned to kissing him on the lips.

Ryuuichi couldn't help but let out the tears he had been holding back. "I'm sorry for not listening. I believed that you didn't, but I can't... I'm sorry.. I love you." Hibari the tears up, Ryuuichi's eyes fluttered close. He reached over to the seat and pulled the lever, pushing the back rest back. Ryuuichi blinked in surprise when he was lying horizontally.

"W-wait what-?" Hibari growled and pulled Ryuuichi's shirt apart. "O-oi you want to do it here?" He trailed kisses and bite marks from Ryuuichi's collarbone down his chest, eliciting soft gasps from the younger. "Kyouya-!" He pecked him on the lips, rubbing his cold hand against the skin. "It'll be alright."

Ryuuichi bit back another moan and huffed, pulling Hibari down to lock their lips again. "F-fine.."

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Hibari smiled softly at the unconscious man, exhausted. He cleaned the both of them up and pulled his long coat over Ryuuichi's body. He caressed his cheek gently before turning on the engine. He drove them out of the alley and back to Vongola mansion. Ryuuichi remained asleep during the whole trip even as Hibari picked him out from the car, making sure that his coat was covering his body properly.

"Kyou-san-" Kusakabe's words died in upon seeing Ryuuichi in Hibari's arms. And his bare legs. He could help but flushed a little. Kusakabe coughed and looked away from Ryuuichi. Hibari gave him a pointed look, silently telling him to talk to him later and walked in, heading to his bedroom.

He placed Ryuuichi onto the bed and was about to hit the shower, when he noticed that Ryuuichi was holding onto his shirt tightly. He chuckled silently and gave in, slipping under the covers with him. Ryuuichi, almost immediately, snuggled up to him, burying his face in his chest. He threaded his fingers into the dark brown hair, rubbing the scalp slightly. Hibari still love him, and he'll always love him, just as how Ryuuichi could never leave him.

("I love you, Kyouya- Ah- Please--" "I love you too, forever.")

Supposedly, fate liked to toy with them. Hibari wanted to bite fate to death, but he was thankful. Because their feelings increased more than they realized.

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She had been silence for almost ten days, apparently. It wasn't even her highest record. She could stay silence for years and she wouldn't even miss talking. Food and drinks was given to her everyday, as they had wanted to keep her alive. The man with pompadour would ask her the same questions every single day. How she got it, and why.

She never answered him.

Just as she thought it was him again, she was wrong. Instead, it was the man she saw on the first day she was here, wearing a black turtleneck. He blinked upon seeing her chained and frowned at someone by the door. He scoffed and kicked the door shut, seeing that he was holding a tray of food. "Are you alright?"

Ah, strange. A different question. She stayed quiet as he placed the tray on the small table. Ryuuichi didn't even mind. He merely reached forward to her and unlocked the cuffs on her hand. She glanced up at him in confusion. "I don't know how, or why you did that, but I don't think you deserve to be locked."

He moved onto her legs. "Your father is Cheney of the Minu gang, right?" She stiffen as he stood up and pulled the chair nearer, sitting on it. "He was the one who told you to sleep with one of the Vongola's guardian, no?" Again, another bullseye seeing how she jerked to meet him in the eyes.

"He's imprisoned. I don't know if he's dead or alive, but he has been taken away by the Vindice."

".. What?" She finally spoke, although, it sounded more like a croak. "Why?" "Years and years of offenses; human trafficking, drugs, black markets, slavery. You know." She lowered her head. She knew, obviously. Her father was the one who told her to sell her body. Her father was the one who told him to infiltrate Vongola mansion, and sleep with one of the higher officers. Just so they could have Vongola as a permanent ally and back-up if anything happens. Neo Vongola Primo is famous for his kindness after all.

She hated all that and never liked him, but he was still her father. He was the one who single-handedly raised her up. She obeyed.

Now with her father in prison, possibly dead, she had no idea what to do with her life anymore. Ryuuichi, as though understanding her turmoil, hummed. "Do you wish to start anew?"

She looked at Ryuuichi again. "To live a new life as a civilian, or to stay in the mafia, it's your choice. I can lend a hand if you want." She frowned slightly. "Why?"

"'Why'?"

"Why are you helping me? I.." Ryuuichi chuckled. "I've no idea. What you did was because of your father, and a mistake from you was to choose Kyouya. But well, we're all humans, we make mistakes. If you wanted to stay in the mafia, specifically Vongola, Tsuna would perhaps give you a chance, I'm not sure. You'll have to talk to him on that part. If not, you can join my Organization, I've no problem with it. Or if you wanted to be a civilian with no ties with the mafia-"

"Is-" He paused when she interrupted, not minding it. "Is it really alright..? For me to.." He blinked at the question and smiled. "Of course. A second chance will always be given to those who deserves it." 'Yet a second chance could only do so much if they does not make use of it fully.'

"I.. I never wanted to join the Vongola.. I don't really like Vongola.." Now that he remembered, Vongola Nono once planned an attack on her father's gang. It didn't happen, since when they planned it, Tsuna had shot that idea down and left it too rot. Perhaps she knew of it, and was scared, because in the mafia, forgiving never really exist. Until Tsuna when the brunette took up the role.

Ryuuichi tilted his head. "You didn't want to become a civilian?"

She shook her head slightly, looking down at her lap again. "I can never forget what I've done and being through. It'll always follow me. I don't deserve to be a civilian, even if I do get a second chance." She gripped her hands together tightly. "I... I heard that you protect the law.."

"Ahh, not exactly. The one who fully protects the law is Vindice. We only make things more easy to breath. We do help Vindice sometimes, which was why we did so many research."

"Can I- Do I deserve to even follow you guys?" She was getting more nervous when Ryuuichi stayed silent. "Hey, look at me." She slowly did as told at the blank words, expecting him to be angry. To her utter surprise, he was smiling at her. "Now phrase it again and look at me as you did."

She breathed in deeply. "Can I join you?"

His smile widen as he reached his hand out for her. "Of course. Shiroki Ryuuichi." She hesitated for a moment, a bit scared to touch him but slowly did as he waited patiently. He shook their hands. She took another breath and mentally threw away her dead name. "Ivy."

He only looked more pleased.

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Ryuuichi rolled his eyes at Hibari's antic as the older voluntarily drove him and Ivy to the Giudizio mansion. He was growling and snarling at her the moment Ryuuichi let her out, only to quiet down slightly when he explained that she was their newest member. Hibari ended up sulking, however. Doesn't seemed like it with his usual cold stare, but he was indeed sulking. Ryuuichi stifled a chuckle and wondered why Hibari disliked her so much. Well, other than what had happen, of course.

Then, it clicked. "You're a Mist, are you not, Ivy?" She turned away from the window and nodded at him. Hibari's grip tighten on the steering wheel, seemly wanted to growl in distaste. "No wonder." He meant by both things. "Vongola mansion's security was down that day since Shoichi, Spanner and Giannini were doing some fixing, so even an amateur illusionist could pass through without a hitch."

She blinked. "There was security?" Ryuuichi stared at her blankly. Hibari did growl then. "I'm going to kill those herbivores and increase the security." Ryuuichi silently prayed for the Vongola's technicians' lives. (Somewhere, three men shuddered.)

Hibari pulled up by the gates as Ryuuichi immediately skipped into the mansion, Ivy following shortly. She was a bit wary of everything, but nonetheless, excited and nervous to meet the rest of the Giudizio members. She wondered if they would accept her.

Ryuuichi had not expect a kid of ten to barrel onto him the moment he stepped into the house, however. It was only Ryuuichi's reflexes that he was able to stay up straight. "Eliot?" The kid immediately hid behind his legs as a voice echoed from upstairs. "Eliot~! Come here! There's still another costume you need to try!"

Ryuuichi gave Xena dead eyes when she popped out with a lacy dress in hand. She 'opps'-ed and quickly hid the dress behind her. She blinked when she spotted Ivy behind Ryuuichi, watching everything with confusion.

"Head! Who's that?" She asked as she hurried down to where they were. Ryuuichi turned to Ivy and gestured her to step forward. "This is Ivy. She'll be one of us from today on. Ivy, this is Xena. Supposedly your senior in work aspect since she's the first member other than my brother. Though, I find you more matured than her."

"Hey! Don't say something like that!" He chuckled. Xena bounced over to Ivy and squealed. "Finally, a girl! We're going to best friends! Can I show her around, Head?" She gave him a pair of puppy eyes that he was totally immune to it. He chuckled again, patting Eliot slightly. "Sure, if you leave Eliot alone from the dresses and all."

She cheered and immediately brought Ivy away. Ryuuichi could only shook his head in exasperation. "Ryuuichi, who's this?" Hibari came up to him and Eliot, not even trying to hide the fact that he was staring at the kid. Eliot tried to hid himself more behind Ryuuichi's leg, latching on. "This is Eliot, another new member of our little family." Ryuuichi laughed at his own joke. "Eliot, this is my lover, Hibari Kyouya."

Eliot scrunched his nose at the word, not understanding it. "Like, married?" Ryuuichi blushed at the sudden question and sputtered while Hibari smirked, immediately liking the kid. "Yes." The older said. Ryuuichi socked him in the arm, still couldn't speak properly. They weren't engaged or anything, but their relationship could surpass even an old married couple. Hibari was damn smug of it.

Eliot tilted his head, finding Hibari not that scary. He moved out slightly to properly look at Hibari. "Okay." Ryuuichi palmed his face, trying to calm his burning cheeks and sighed. There was no point arguing with a kid. And, he had to admit that it was somewhat true. "Eliot, why don't you tell Liu that he would be cooking for two more people?" Eliot looked a bit reluctant to leave Ryuuichi's side, but hurried down the hallway.

Hibari was still smirking at him. Ryuuichi huffed, a soft red hue on his cheeks. He couldn't help but crack a smile, as Hibari leaned his forehead against his, kissing him on the lips.

(No matter when, no matter what era and regardless whatever, they'll still love each other.)

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A/N= I DIED! THIS CHAPTER IS SERIOUSLY A MONSTER! I TOOK MORE THAN FIVE DAYS AND MORE THAN THREE SEPARATED DRAFTS TO FINISH THIS THING. UGH. 

Fun Fact= The ceremony was held in Italy, Vongola Mansion. BTW, they were all eighteen there, minus a few others. 

*cough* Hibari and Ryuuichi did did that.

Note= Xena and Ryuuichi met when they were both 21, three years after Nono mentioned about her. Ryuuichi was 22 while Liu was 24.

Shao Ye means Young master in Chinese. Long Yi is the literal translation from Ryuuichi's name.

Second Sino-Japanese War is supposedly the World War II, according to Wikipedia. I'm not sure.

Fun Fact= Ryuuichi, when too socially exhausted, can be depressed most of the time. Hibari knew, so he comforts him whenever that happen. Another thing, Ryuuichi's home is actually Hibari. *smirk*

Gilbert was 29 while Ryuuichi was 23, Yura was 18. They joined on the same year. Ryuuichi met Yura during the month break he and Hibari had.

Rache meant revenge in German.

Ryuuichi can be harsh and cruel at times, hence the cold water thing and the.. Tooth pulling. Yeah. He doesn't do it always though. Very rarely.

Fun Fact= The trust between Hibari and Ryuuichi is beyond what they realize, but Ryuuichi's insecure. Usually is whenever he was exhausted. Like, Ryuuichi is actually fragile and weak underneath his iron armored heart. *nod nod* It just that the iron cracks a little each time he overexerted himself and Hibari would heal it up :3

There's not much climax to be honest, but damn it if I were to write any longer, I'm going to die. 

I rushed this chapter so please please please ask if there's anything that you don't understand. There's too many things and I can't remember it all. 

Also, Happy New Years guys! Thank you for the great year and I hope for everyone's happiness and fortune for 2017! 

Sadly, I won't be able to update the last few chapters that quickly since school's starting and I'll be damn busy. *sigh* Oh well. 

Please comment on this sentence for any request.

Questions!

-From starfirepie

--You know you're very cute and adorable Tsuna-sam-- I mean Tsuna. Tell me, is there anyone you like right now? I mean like a crush? I'm curious. ^_^ If you do, does that person's starts with a R?

Tsuna: U-umm. I'm not sure? I mean.. I don't know if I still like Kyoko-chan or not, but there's something. 'R'? Who? I don't think so?

-From MiyakoKuga

--When are the character profiles coming?

*laugh nervously* Sometime soon, I think. Not that early, since there'll be a few more chapters. It'll be on the last chapter so.. Yeah

--1861. Did ya get married?

Ryuuichi: *blush* W-w-w-what?!

Hibari: Theoretically, yes. One way or another. *smirk*

-From Bazookayel

--Would Tsuna and Kyoko have a relationship? I mean seriously, even in manga, it didn't happen or if it did happen we don't know how.. I think the only part where it's like they are falling with each other is when the last frigging part of the manga.. Tsk just let Tsuna have a normal relationship so that you know.. Heirs.

Umm, well, I didn't thought of that much. Will probably do in the next chapter..? But then again, yes, I agree. Tsuna should have a normal relationship in his not so normal life.

--Now that I think of it.. Eliot! Can Ryuu and Kyoya adopt him?!

*cough* They're considering. (But psshh. Of course they would *smirks*)

-From Ayaka1206

-I've a question to Hibari! If someone is hugging Ryuuichi *ahemMukuroahem* will you bite them to death haha joke. 

Hibari: Definitely. Unless Ryuuichi stops me. Which I wouldn't even care.

-This is the real question. Well, if you're all grown up like 10 years in the future do you visit Ryuuichi everyday like even when your have mission and also did you and Ryuuichi have a cambio forma? Just asking and please don't bite me to death huhuhu *bowing 90 degrees*

Hibari: Occasionally. Not during mission. I don't understand your question about the cambio forma.

I RUSHED IT SORRY IF I LEFT QUESTIONS PLEASE LET ME KNOW AND COMMENT ON THIS SENTENCE IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS!

[I apologize for any grammar, spelling, etc. etc. mistakes]