Penny: HAPPY ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY! To the readers who have followed me from the first chapter, thank you for continuing to read Taunt. To the newer readers, thank you for following my fic even though I hadn't updated in a while. On that note, before anyone kills me, my excuses for a late update is because during summer break I did so much traveling to the point I hadn't had a lot of opportunities to get to my computer and this fall semester is my SENIOR YEAR (I'M OOOOOOOOOOOOLD). So, classes are harder (not really but more work) and other things pop up. And one of the bigger reasons is I'm editing past chapters (half-way to finishing third ch). It became apparent when writing this arc that I had many plot-holes and details missing.

This ch may be confusing because of this editing; this ch is probably riddled with some things that don't make sense. And spelling errors too because I didn't edit this to the point I normally would. I'm updating because it's the ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY of not just this fic but the beginning of me writing fics and I hadn't planned to have an update till I finished editing the fic (I plan to have the edits done by December or beginning of January) but this is a monumental day and I wanted to update even if the ch isn't up to my others. In other words this ch is more of an outline I'm going to use when I rewrite this ch, and is only here because OYA.

I decided against writing by arc, because I found out I have no patience for it and there are a lot of documents I would have to keep organized.

Fire Judge readers: I'm almost done with the new ch and plan to have it updated sometime next week.

Rule readers: There is a poll on my profile for: who should the next rule be about. Once there is separation between every character, I will write in order of the popularity. If there is no separation by the beginning of December I'm going to close the poll and use what votes are in as a guide line.

To EVERYONE who reads ANY of MY fics read this: I WILL NEVER ABANDON ANY OF MY FICS. IT MAY TAKE TIME FOR ME TO UPDATE BUT I WILL ALWAYS EVENTUALLY UPDATE!

Now enjoy this ch till it's edited!

Hiro barely remembered just how much his flames had been a dark dusk orange with some brown streaks when he first unleashed his flames the time he fell out of a tree. And how much he hated his always absent father, hated his weak Mama who cried all night for said man.

She was too stupid and air-headed to ever notice what he thought or felt; he put on a better mask then even she did.

He was absolutely horrible to the other kids on the playground from throwing insults to beating them up. Hiro knew that he hurt them and that he should of felt bad for what he did, but he had always felt detached from the world; he knew that he wasn't that sane. He could do whatever caught his interest and all he had to do was put on a mask of innocence and he could do anything, even with witness. It was amazing how adults would believe what they wanted and ignored what they had actually seen.

He remembered how one of the kids' parent ignored them when they said he hit them. Even when the kid had a black eye and the two of them were the only kids on the playground. The mother just smiled, one of those self-suffering smiles, and said, "Sweetie, you shouldn't blame others for your own actions, and Hiro-san wouldn't do such a thing, he is too sweet." The kid would then be grounded for a week after he kept saying that Hiro hit him.

No one remembered the way he was before because they were either too young to remember, or the image of his past self (sweet, caring, sporty, and smart) was replaced to what he is now; a caring older brother, smart and role-model student, helper and accepting person.

His flames most likely didn't look that way anymore because of his Papa or more specifically Tsuna. It might have been a speech inspired because of the color of his flames but that night after he unwittingly released his flames his Papa explained to him that his little brother (who would be expected to be born in two weeks at that time) was to be his responsibility to look after, since he was now a man.

A man that had one responsibility; protect his little brother. Tsuna who became a focus in his life and a stability his Mama never gave him. And by the time Tsuna was born he already had a little bit of darkness taken out of him by his little light. But when Tsuna was born that was the day almost all of the darkness inside of him left and through the years his little light sky took more and more darkness out of him, replacing it all with light that now made him into his own bright sky and not a night.

Unlike his brother, he would never be the greatest sky; he had too much anger and hatred (compared to Tsuna) to always accept everything like his Otouto, who could accept everything and everyone. Something he couldn't do for certain people, like someone who hurts his brother or friends (he even now still holds a grudge against Haru, but because of his brother he will not show it).

He had come to find the three mafia kids to be little siblings to him, even if they do sometimes get on his nerves and make him worry about Tsuna's health more. Especially with all the grenades Lambo throws, but those have been thrown less and less the more time he was at the house. But that could be because he was always with Tsuna, and everyone tried to keep Tsuna from anything remotely mafia. Even Takeshi didn't bring up the 'mafia game' because he didn't want to bring up violence with Tsuna near.

It's too bad that they don't know that Tsuna has already been involved in violence no matter how much he hates it and that he will eventually be dragged into the mafia; it was impossible for them to imagine someone like Tsuna in the dark world.

Hiro didn't delusion himself like his father that Tsuna would forever be unaware and not apart of the mafia. With him and his dad in the mafia it was only a matter of time before Tsuna was dragged in. But that doesn't mean that he wouldn't try to keep Tsuna away from the mafia as long as he could and once he was in the mafia he would protect him with his Dying Will. He knew that his friends- no, his family would do everything they could to protect him too.

So, when Hiro found out that his Otouto had been kidnapped with Fuuta he could feel some of that darkness come back but also that little bit of insanity that he hadn't felt since Tsuna was little.

He was just about to make plans of how to get Hibari to get his Committee to start looking for Tsuna when he noticed that Hayato was fidgeting, something he always does when he wants to say something, but doesn't know how to say it. The only way to really get him to talk was to be the one to be blunt and ask.

"What is it you want to say Hayato?"

"Hiro, um, remember that bracelet that I gave Tsuna for his birthday?" Hayato started out saying and got a nod. Which there couldn't have been any other answer because Tsuna had been using everything he got for his birthday and he hadn't taken off the bracelet except when necessary.

He continued, "well you see, I kind of put a tracker in it," he ended in a rush. But because Hiro had experience with girls in his class blurting out fast confessions he heard what Hayato said.

Now, normally he wouldn't have liked what Hayato did and if someone said they put a tracker on his Otouto before he found out about the mafia he would have overreacted. But good thing for Hayato that he does know about the mafia and right now his Otouto is missing.

With this new piece of information it only took Hiro a split seconds to figure out a plan to rescue Tsuna and Fuuta, because of his experience as a baseball captain and with Reborn's teachings of strategies and quick reactions (he was very glad that he kept up with his workout plan he had for baseball, without it he would have surely died because of Reborn "training").

It took him a few hours to get everyone together. Hayato, Takeshi, Lambo, I-pin, Ryohei and Reborn were already there with him. Bianchi was there with a quick call from Hayato. And Haru (who saw the broken window of the Sawada residence when she came for her daily lunch with Tsuna and went to find Hiro to see what was happening), had proved how stubborn she could be and Hiro really wasn't going to push away someone when they were willing to help Tsuna, even if he didn't like them and had no fighting experience.

The first part of Hiro's plan was to get Kyoya to send his Committee to beat up the underlings and provide a distraction. This wasn't to hard of a thing to do as when he told Kyoya about Tsuna being taken, the older boy was almost out the door, ready for a fight, before Hiro could finish what he was going to say.

What followed afterwards was an extremely, determined perfect gathering his Committee to attack the front gates of Kokuyo Land (which the GPS system said Tsuna was), while Kyoya was heading in the opposite direction to pick up something Hiro had said only he could get.

Then Hiro had everyone gather around him in the prefect's office (after asking Kyoya if he could borrow it for a meeting). Hiro told them all about his plan and what they were going to do while the Committee distracted the front gate of Kokuyo Land while they went to the back entrance, which not a lot of people knew about.

Hiro had only known about it from the one time that he and Tsuna went there while the park was still open and he didn't want to lose Tsuna in the huge crowd. Which had been at the front gate so he followed his intuition to the back of the park to a partially hidden entrance.

After he told them the plan they all walked to Kokuyo Land. Once they were at the back entrance they could hear the sounds of fighting and see smoke coming from the first part of the park. They split up into the groups and left in the directions that Hiro had planned beforehand.

Team Hiro consisted of Reborn and Haru. Team Hayato with I-pin and Ryohei. And Team Takeshi with Lambo, and Bianchi.

Team Hayato went left and Team Takeshi went right of the entrance, while Team Hiro went straight towards the building.

Team Hiro slipped in with their stealthy moves, slipping through the shadows of inside the main build, stopping every once and awhile to make sure they were going in the right direction on the map that they made during the meeting.

It was at the second story of the building; just two turns from the door to the room Tsuna was in that they heard something that froze them to the core; a scream. Not just any scream either.

It was Tsuna's.

In 0.5 milliseconds, Team Hiro had gone from where they were to kicking down a double door to the room Tsuna was in. They all stopped at the scene they burst into and all of them would have been rolling on the floor from laughter, if the situation was different.