{Varia headquarter, Italy}

A year later

Click

"There, I sent it," Yucca stated as he stretched, peeking behind him, he could see the whole Varia observing him.

A predatory grin adorned Squalo's face, "Good job small trash." he said patting the raven head's back a few times.

Yucca only hummed absentmindedly. It's been six months since Yucca started to lie about the Varia's condition to Iemitsu. Why? To make the Vongola let their guard down and allow the Varia to strike. This report was the last before the Varia starts to, thoroughly plan their upcoming moves.

"Ushishishi, I guess you were useful Yu," Bell stated.

A small smile graced Yucca's face at the younger's remark.

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"Voiiii! Listen to me!" Squalo ordered, his fist slamming the table a few times to gain the other members' attention. "We're going to free the boss!" he announced, provoking his comrades' excitement.

Levi grunted, approving of the younger male's words. Freeing the Boss had always been on his top to do list. From his point of view, waiting until now was foolish, they could have released him sooner if they had tried.

"Listen up Scums, here's the plan!" Squalo announced, giving out files to each member about how they would proceed. "The small trash will do the first move" he stated.

"No," Levi grunted, earning the others' attention. "I don't trust him to do this alone. What if he betrays us? I won't take the risk the boss has waited long enough to be freed." he stated flatly.

The target to these accusations didn't say anything, only observed the older male for a few seconds before sighing and passing a hand through his raven locks.

"I can stay here if it makes you feel better," Yucca uttered, finally breaking the silence and tension. This time he was the center of everyone's attention. "I don't want Levi-chan" Levi growled, "there to mess up because he's thinking about me," he stated cockily, unmistakably intending to provoke the pierced man.

"What did you say?" Leviathan snarled, Yucca merely smirked in response, further enraging the male.

"Now now, Yucca-chan, Levi-chan let's all get along alright?" Lussuria coaxed, "We wouldn't want the mission to fail because of the both you, right?" he threatened, his tone unusually low as his shades glinted under the artificial lighting.

"Voiii! Shut up trashes!" Squalo exclaimed annoyed. "I did the plan, so I give the orders. Now listen up Scums!" he said, his gaze sweeping over the assembled members for any, type of defiance. Satisfied, he continued.

"As I was saying, the small trash will infiltrate the Vongola's for the first strike. They still trust him so it should proceed without a hitch. Anyway, if it doesn't just kill everybody," he ordered, his grey eyes resting on the said male.

"Mammon," he called out, earning the petite figure's attention. "You'll accompany him, as mutual backups," he stated. Mammon hummed in agreement before Squalo resumed.

"After these two infiltrate the base, Bel and I will enter the ninth's office and take him into custody. What we do with him is for the boss to decide."

"Luss, Levi, you two go look for the boss and secure his position. Once you've found him, don't do anything, wait for everyone to regroup. We'll unfreeze him together." he stated firmly. The whole speech had been unusually severe, making Yucca wonder if Squalo was, indeed the one giving the orders.

"Voii! Any questions trash!" yeah, it was Squalo alright.

Seeing as none of the members had any questions at the moment, it was, decided the meeting would end. Taking a few more files with some fundamental information about the Vongola headquarter's layout and the people guarding it, Yucca went back to his room.

Silently reading over the documents with the detailed plan in it, Yucca laid in his bed in his pajamas.

"Unfreezing the boss," he muttered pensively, his mind going back to the Cradle affair report the Ninth gave him when he came to the Vongola headquarter to receive his mission.

"Wasn't it something called the Zero, Zero break? Zero-point break? Zero-point breakthrough..." he whispered, remembering what the report told about this technique.

"Wasn't it linked to something called Dying Will Flame?" Ruffling his hair tiredly, Yucca stifled a yawn before putting the files away in his nightstand's drawer.

"I'll ask the other tomorrow," he muttered sleepily before falling into a deep slumber.

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Ring, ring, ring

"Shut... up," Yucca muttered as his left-hand tried to reach for his ringing phone. With half-lidded eyes, he glared at his phone's screen to see who called him so early in the morning, Ran-chan.

Click

"Good-" he yawned, "-morning Ran-chan," he greeted sleepily. "What can this poor brother of yours do for you?"

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"Voii! What is the small trash doing!" Squalo shouted, standing in the middle of one of the underground training fields.

"Ushishishi, maybe he slept in?" Belphegor suggested.

"Voiii! I'll kill him!"

"Now now, calm down Squalo-chan. I'll go and fetch him okay?" Lussuria said, trying to soothe the fuming male as he made his way to the stairs, up to the second floor where the sleeping quarters were, located.

Since the whole Varia was down in the basement training, the corridors were unusually silent, and only the sound of Lussuria's footsteps and his humming could be, heard throughout the whole hallway.

Nearing the raven head's room the exuberant male started to hear voices, Yucca's to be precise and another slightly muffled one. The speech was, broken and, from where Lussuria was standing he could only decipher a faint whispering sound.

"Ran,"

"Later... too."

Now standing in front of the beech door, the green-haired male could hear every one of Yucca's words without a problem. Shamelessly eavesdropping, he supposed it didn't, really matter since if he wanted Yucca could have been more discreet. What he didn't know was Yucca had been too sleepy when he accepted the call to take any preventive measures when he answered his brother.

"Yeah...ah! Listen, Ran-chan, I'm really, really, sorry. I need to go, okay? I have work." Yucca declared flustered to the person on the other side of the line.

There was a small pause, probably the other person answering or hanging up Lussuria guessed."Me too, I'll call you later, I promise," Yucca declared his voice unusually gentle to Lussuria's ears before hanging up.

Lussuria took this as his cue to make his presence known, knocking at the door a few times, he entered the room.

"Good morning Yucca-chan!" he greeted cheerily, "hurry, will you? Squalo-chan is waiting for you, and I don't think he likes to," Lussuria lectured in a somewhat motherly tone before exiting the room and living the raven head to change into something other than his pajamas.

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Clang, clang

Blades met each other in a violently as both Squalo and Yucca lunged at one another. More than a sparring session, this duel was a lashing session, the goal was to exteriorize their frustration to gain a clearer mind for their future actions.

"You know," Yucca said between a few pants as he countered Squalo's vertical strike.

"Yesterday," he dodged another incoming attack by stepping to the left.

"Voii! Focus!" Squalo ordered as he sent a few thrusts of his sword in the younger male's direction.

"Zero point breakthrough," Yucca continued nonetheless. "and Dying Will Flame," he said. "Aren't they linked?"

Squalo furrowed his brows, not completely understanding what the younger meant, "Voiii! Speak up I can't hear you, small trash!" he cried as he sent a kick in Yucca's direction.

Yucca barely evaded, taking a gulp, of air, he too began to shout. "I said, don't we need Dying Will Flames to unfreeze the boss?"

Clang

"What!"

Swish, Clang, Clang, Clang

"Dying Will Flames!"

Swish, Swish

"Voiiiii! I can't hear you!"

Standing away from the two males were the rest of the Varia, observing them shout at each other while exchanging blows.

"Ushishishi, they look stupid," Bel said between a few creepy laughs.

This remark apparently, gained the two sparring males' attention.

"Wha-Bel!" Yucca whined.

"What did you say you, shitty prince?" Squalo shouted.

"Ah, they stopped!" Lussuria said, clapping his hands.

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"So," Yucca started, fake coughing to gain all of the Varia's attention. "as I was trying to say earlier. We need something called the Dying Will Flame to free the boss." he started, his gaze sweeping over each member in search of recognition of the term.

Seeing each one of the Varia's eyes narrow at the mention of the Flames, Yucca continued. "I have personally never witnessed it before, but I know the theoric part of it and guess how the Zero Point Breakthrough works based on the report, Iemitsu and the Ninth gave me to read before infiltrating you guys."

"As the saying goes, fight fire with fire, so I think we should try to melt the ice with Dying Will Flames," he concluded, waiting for the others' answers.

"Thant's not possible," Levi muttered, "only the Vongola posses Dying Will Flames. They won't help us free the boss, we'll need to threaten and kill them, and I don't think they'll concede, these people would rather die," he snarled. Yucca stared at the taller male silently for a few seconds, never had the pierced man speak so much to him before, Yucca felt a bit moved at the realization.

"No, it's possible. We only need to use an intermediate, a medium," Mammon declared behind his violet cape. "The only thing we don't have yet is a source of energy."

"What do you mean Mammon-chan?"

"I invested in arms a few years back, with the Vongola. Although the research may have stopped, I'm sure a prototype was, made. Therefore the only missing piece to the machine is a source of energy. Something or someone who's Dying Will Flame is potent enough to melt the Ninth's ice."

"Ushishishi, wouldn't that person be the Ninth himself though?" Bel asked, his grin becoming more feral at the implication his smaller companion was doing.

Mammon nodded, an imperceptible smile on his face.

"I see, then Mammon-chan, when can this machine of yours be of use?" Lussuria inquired, his voice dripping with a type of insane delight.

Mammon took a few seconds to think, all eyes were, focused on him. "I don't know. It's been a while since I last received a report about this project," he confessed, his tone flat and devoid of emotions.

"But I can try and contact them. Otherwise, we can always order one once we've taken the boss back," he stated.

"Voiii!" Squalo shouted, slamming his fist on the table. "Then it's settled, Mammon and the small trash will infiltrate the Vongola first and take control of the security. Once done, the two of you will head for this invention the baby mentioned."

"The shitty prince and I will take the Ninth down and look over him until either your unit," he said looking into Mammon and Yucca's direction, "or yours," he looked at Levi and Lussuria, "calls us. We'll come and bring the Ninth with us."

"As for Levi and Luss, the two of you will secure the boss' position, take down anything on your way and be sure to open the path for us when we regroup, try to be discreet" he trailed off.

"Listen up Scums this mission cannot fail it marks the rebirth of the Varia, of the Vongola with the boss as its ruler." he declared. "We already failed to rebel once, this because of some rat," he narrowed his eyes, clicking his tongue in distaste. "But we won't fail again, we, are stronger and fiercer than before. Those who betrayed and belittled us will feel the Varia's wrath once the boss is free!

The Cradle Affair is a stain on the Varia's name. Therefore, we'll wash it away with a second revolution. Because, in the Varia, failure is unacceptable we will succeed and take over the Vongola!

For the boss, we will start a revolution!"

Since the last chapter was pretty much a filler, here's a second one. I'll probably introduce Xanxus in the next chapter.

Thanks for reading, until next time.