She let her long green hair fall down as she wrapped a towel around her lithe body. Bubu sat in the corner, her ever present companion. She picked up the small rabbit and twirled around as Bocelli played in the background. She let out something that had only been seen a few times in her entire life, a smile. She thought about how she hadn't said a word yet had everybody thinking she was a man. In some other universe she must have been, she didn't have a shirt on when fighting Hibari and Dino. But what they didn't know is that less than.001% of the worlds was Daisy a male. She looked at her body in the mirror. She didn't have breast like Iris or hips like Bianchi. She didn't really look feminine in the suit she always wore. The quickly finished getting ready and hopped down to see the other Gigilo Nero members. Byakuran stuffed another marshmallow in his mouth and grinned at the sun guardian. She knew that his eyes held only a small bit of respect for her. That was it, no attachment or friendship. She walked to her boss and slowly knelt and kissed the back of Uni's hand. The young boss had taken in the refugees that the tyrants of the future had become.

Kikyo looked down at the sun and scoffed "I don't see why you do that every day. It's not like anyone has any doubts about you" that much was true. To those around her she was the most loyal person you could ever dream to see. With her immortality she made herself the best shield in existence.

She shook her head and met the cloud's eyes that immediately turned away "no, everyone doubts, this is my way of pushing them away"

Uni's giggle brought her eyes back "Daisy, you're such a gentleman" Daisy's mind replied if only you knew.

Byakuran looks deep within what he knew about this Daisy. Nothing. Nobody else knew anything either. The Vongola had found him in a mental institution and dragged him to see if he could possibly be a threat to them.

Uni spoke "my family will be coming here soon. I need to remind you to be on your best behavior."

Bluebell laughed "why? So we don't embarrass you?"

Uni giggled at her closest friend "no, I don't want him to kill you! They're the Arcobaleno!"

Skull gripped the side of his head as the memories raced. He sighed before sitting down on the couch, why couldn't he remember what happened before then? Reborn peaked around the corner and looked at the stuntman. Truth be told, Reborn was having mixed feelings about Skull regaining his memories. He was the only one besides Luce who knew about Skull. The hit man stepped around the corner "We're heading to Uni's now…What were you remembering?"

Skull shook his head "it's all fuzzy. All I remember before whatever happened was…Tumba, some really good chicken satay and lots of sex…that's it" Skull blushed slightly at the last one and dragged the other one along.

All the Arcobaleno crammed into the car for the three hour drive to Uni's mansion. It started out with Lal driving…for about ten minutes. She drove the van like it was a mix of jeep and tank. Colonnello and Reborn dragged her out of the driver seat and chained her to the back seat and sat next to her so she couldn't escape. Verde took the wheel for another thirty. At thirty miles and hour. Reborn told him to let someone else drive so they would get there before the next full moon. Fon and Viper don't drive so that left Skull. As the stuntman adjusted the seat everybody fought back shivers and tightened their seat belts.

Skull popped in a CD and started driving. For the first few minutes everybody was tense but as he hit the highway they started relaxing. Fon spoke after a short bout of silence "No offence, but I thought that you're driving would be…well, more like a stunt driver…"

Skull shrugged "I could drive like that if you want…" he gave a wolf grin as everybody shook their heads and the drive continued in silence.

Daisy watched with the others as the car drove up and they all hopped out. This was the first time meeting them…well, all of them…alive…maybe.

Uni rushed over to hug them all, even Verde and Viper. For Reborn and Fon especially it was a long tight hug. For Skull it was a quickly one that felt like it was just courtesy. As the other Arcobaleno walked in Skull grabbed Byakuran by his collar and hauled the man up off the ground and stared into his eyes "if you ever hurt her there will be things that you have never imagined to haunt you…" and then calmly walked into the house leaving a very shaken Byakuran.

The Arcobaleno Mansion was a spacious building with a suite for each person, Skull opened the door and ran his fingers through his short hair before pulling out his things and stashing them away. He flopped on the bed and words he didn't know escaped his lips

You consider me the young apprentice
Caught between the Scylla and Charibdes.
Hypnotized by you if I should linger

Something spiked in his mind and tears flooded his face as he felt like his skull was opened by way of a hammer. Memories ran though his head, laying on the grass with someone, her hand entwined with his as the sun caressed the two of them. he clawed at his head as the pain grew his hand on a pregnant stomach and his smile as he felt a little part of him in his lover, yes, his child molten fragments of his life poured through his mind and he screamed.

Fon and Verde busted into his room as he fell to his knees and held his head, his voice never stopping, Reborn leaned against the door frame "Don't touch him, he's remembering. Hopefully this won't be too painful" Skull's body tightened as another life ripped through him.

A woman lay on the bed with a small bundle in her arms, Skull kissed her sweaty forehead and pressed his against hers "She's beautiful, just like her mother" the woman laughed.

Reborn was leaning against the door frame, the woman smiled brightly at him "Come here Reborn, come see your god daughter"

The hitman muttered "Hopefully this won't be too painful" and he stared at the little girl who snuggled into her mother's chest.

He slowly leaned against the wall and pulled himself up as the Storm helped him from the wall "Skull, are you alright?"

Skull tried to smile but it came out like a mask of pain "I-I'm alright…I-I just need to sit down…" he huffed tiredly and rubbed his arms. He shivered and laid down "I'm gonna take a nap…"

Reborn jerked his head, Fon and Viper got the message and left the two alone. Reborn watched as Morpheus took Skull away. He scratched the lizard under the chin and leaned back against the wall "Leon, I think it's time for him to remember why he was made and Arcobaleno…"

Reborn felt bad for doing what he was going to do. His heart rebelled against him for more than one reason but as he poured the vial into Uni's drink he prayed that whatever existed in the hereafter could forgive him for this more than anything else.

Skull woke up to Reborn shaking him "Lackey, Get up Uni's sick" something in Skull's heart clenched and he rushed out to see something that nearly killed him.

Uni had the pure white sheets pulled to her chin as her mother and the others crowded around her, her face was very red and the thermometer in her mouth read 100.2. She coughed as tried to wave the others away "It's fine, I promise nothing bad will happen"

Nothing bad will happen, nothing bad will happen, nothing bad will happen nothingbadwillhappen nothingbadwillhappen. NOthIngBadwillhAppEn!

His mind went black and he remembered who he was before that stream of light turned him into a baby.

Skull was never the happy go lucky. In fact he usually killed those people. As he trudged up the mountain he tightened his grip on the backpack and growled. Outside a large cabin, more like a wooden castle, was a beautiful woman in a pure white sundress with a large hat watering a patch of flowers. She smiled and waved as a man in a suit walked beside her. He hissed with such venom that most of the group paled and he slunk inside. He found an empty room and threw his stuff in the corner before the phone on the nightstand rang and he pressed talk. He was silent until the voice on the other end started "Well, I see you met your comrades"

Skull's voice was a hiss of something from hell "They aren't comrades, they're cattle for slaughter, worms beneath my boot. And I promise you that if this becomes a waste of my time I will hunt you down" and he snapped the phone shut and laid back on the bed and a knock came at the door, "What?" he snapped.

"Why so scary mister?" it was the woman from earlier. His growl was met with a giggle and she walked closer to him, her hands clasped together behind her back as she leaned to and fro as she stepped.

A knife appeared in one hand and he pointed it at her-she wondered how one man could look so violent with one arm behind his head acting as a pillow "Because unlike the all but two of you I'm an assassin, and unlike even those two I kill personally-illusions, guns. Those are just ways of keeping your hands clean" he snarled.

She nodded but had the audacity to sit on the bed, the tip of the knife millimeters from her spine, they studied each other for a long time. She was the one to break the silence "My name is Luce, what's yours?"

He didn't know why he answered, it was out his mouth before he could stop himself "Skull"

She nodded "Well then Skull, why don't I make something to eat and I'll introduce you to the others!"

Time. One word that changes everything. As it passed Luce and Skull grew closer, their years brought them across the world and through shared peril.

And Aria.

His mind was cracking. Skull let out a sky rending scream and the Arcobaleno now rushed to their fallen friend who writhed on the floor like too many worms dumped on the dry hard ground. Aria stayed near her child for a moment before her Uncle dragged her over "Aria, do you remember anything from your earliest years?"

The older sky tapped a finger to her chin "I remember playing with you and Skull…but back then something was happening to him, he'd forget things and then one day he left. When we met him again he had forgotten so much"

Reborn let out a dark chuckle "I guess that's what happens when you lose a lover like that" they all stared at him as they held down the thrashing cloud and the Gigilo Nero looked over the young sky heiress. The Sun continued "All of you have forgotten when we met Skull-he terrified us, he was a killer like me in caliber. But most of all we've forgotten how much he loved Luce." they stared at him in shock "But I remember and Skull's starting to remember." he turned to face Aria "You once told me you never met your father. That's a lie. He's been at your side for a long time"

They turned to the still cloud and waited for a long moment, his breath was silent and no one could tell if he had crossed the doors of death. Uni stared at her grandfather as Aria slowly laid his head in her lap. From Skull tears started to fall.