{Varia headquarter, Italy}

In the main meeting room, also known as Xanxus unofficial personal quarter, sitting around the table, were every leading member of the Varia. A few hours prior, to their current meeting, they had successfully freed Xanxus from the ice.

The intimidating raven-head was comfortably sipping his wine glass, glaring at his subordinates who were patiently waiting for his directives (more or less). His gaze stopped on Yucca's unknown figure.

Eyes narrowed he asked, "Who's this?"

"Ah, that's Yucca, boss." Lussuria provided. "He joined a year or so ago."

Xanxus hummed, "How do I know you won't betray me, trash?" he took a sip of his wine. "After all, you did betray the old man."

Yucca smiled his business smile, "I didn't" he said, making Xanxus raise an eyebrow. "I was never loyal to him in the first place," he added, "my beliefs just... changed?" he stated or more like asked himself.

Xanxus smiled, "I see, but I don't trust you." cue to Bell's creepy laugh, "prove your usefulness," he continued "go to Japan and find the old man's candidate, his guardians, their occupations, their hobbies, everything." a smirk. "I'll give you a month since I am feeling generous."

Yucca stood up, his smile still in place he bowed to his superior, "Of course, Boss." With that, he left the room and went straight for his sleeping quarter to arrange his trip to Japan.

He would first have to find the candidates their name, and age, shouldn't be too complicated. The most "delicate" part will be infiltrating their life, depending on their social standing and occupation it may prove to be complicated.

Getting to his room, Yucca started to pack. Going over Vongola's official documents about the boss candidate, he stole them when they attacked their headquarter to free Xanxus, he, booked a plane ticket for Japan.

One of his many forged identity card and passport in hand, he sent a few emails and messages to prepare his arrival.

Standing up, he was about to head to the kitchen for a snack when he saw his reflection in the mirror. Frowning, he touched his raven locks pensively, should I dye them?

After all, the reputation of a raven-haired, purple-eyed hitman had spread since he took over Yucca's body, it wouldn't be surprising to meet fellow assassin while in Japan, especially near the boss candidate.

Changing his looks wouldn't hurt. He was beginning to miss his white locks anyway, should I get contacts too? Yeah, let's do that.

Rubbing his chin, he went back to his bathroom. Taking out a small leather case from under the sink, Yucca opened it carefully to reveal a panoply of hair product. Shampoo, hair conditioner, and hair dye rested in the box. Letting his finger glide over the different hair dye, he finally picked up the white one. Taking out a special shampoo and hair conditioner in the process to keep his hair in shape once they were dyed.

This new hobby of changing his appearance to a new one came from his old disciple in his past life as the God of Death. Although he wasn't as extreme as him, he accorded now more, value to the power of disguise than before. Resulting in his current panoply of hair product, lens, and other prostheses, all of them carefully stored in a few briefcases.

Getting to work, he started his "transformation." Soon his hair was back to its original white, and his usual purple irises hid behind light blue lenses. Checking his wallet one last time to see if he took the right identification paper, Yucca picked up his suitcase and made his way out of the property.

His snack would wait until he reached the airport.

On his way to the airport, Yucca felt strangely excited. Last time Koro went to Japan, it was to die, he wondered if, in this dimension, things would be similar or completely different from his old world.

Should he visit Kunugigaoka? Maybe later, when he had more time.

::

{Namimori, Japan}

Yucca was feeling jet-lagged, he didn't remember this type of flights were so energy consuming. He had spent, a bit less than thirteen hours on a plane, his limits were getting tested. Whatsmore, the ride to Namimori from Tokyo had taken three more hours, Yucca was, utterly drained. 

Slumping in his hotel bed, he decided to check his messages and work later. For now, he would sleep.

::

Yucca arrived Friday night when he woke up it was already midday, dragging his sore body out of the cover, he groggily made his way to the bathroom. A quarter of an hour later, he was out, dressed in some casual clothes, a simple pair of jeans and a black turtleneck shirt, his hair brushed and his business smile in place, he took his dark blue blazer in which he hid a small swiss-knife and put on his black dress shoes. Phone in hand, he made his way out of the hotel.

Outside, the sun was shining, stepping out of the building, Yucca met with a cool breeze. Inhaling the fresh air, he stretched before starting his tour of the city.

Yucca was disappointed, he didn't find anything suspicious. Sighing, he came to a halt at the sight of a silver-haired teen. He smirked, Smoking Bomb Hayato he thought, at last someone interesting has appeared.

Getting into character, he went to the male who was bickering with another teen. The other teen had black hair and instead of being angry was laughing.

"Excuse me," he interrupted the two teens, startling them in the process as his steps were extremely silent and his presence unbearably low. Refraining himself from laughing, he continued "are you two, students?"

The silver head tched, not wanting to get involved with the unknown male. On the other side, the raven one kindly answered him, not caring about how suspicious the foreign man was, considering their recent misadventure and his unusual attire for someone walking down the shopping district. "Yep we are, how can we help you, mister?"

Yucca sighed in relief before nodding. Pushing up his fake glasses, he asked "To tell you the truth, I'm looking for Namimori middle school, my flight landed only yesterday night, and I have yet to find the school. If you could show me the way, it would be helpful."

The raven head nodded enthusiastically. "Sure, we were going this way anyway. Name's Yamamoto Takeshi," he introduced "this guy's Gokudera Hayato." At the sudden introduction, Gokudera clicked his tongue and looked away, grumbling about some baseball freak.

Yucca nodded, "My name's William Jones, a pleasure."

Humming, Takeshi led the way with a grumbling Hayato. "I was wondering, why are you looking for Namimori-chu?" Yamamoto asked turning to face the white-haired male.

Yucca gave a polite smile, "I'm going to stay as an external advisor for a week." he admitted scratching the nape of his neck.

"Really," Takeshi exclaimed, "then you're a teacher."

Yucca nodded "I tutor more though, that's why I usually don't go to school."

"My, you're like the kid then." Yucca raised an eyebrow confused, the kid, what kid? Whose kid?

Hayato growled, "Don't compare Reborn and this no-name, you baseball freak! Reborn is out of his league, no doubt about that." Taking out a cigarette, he continued "Comparing Reborn to him is disrespecting both him and the tenth!" he ranted. Takeshi only laughed as he tried to appease his companion.

Behind them, Yucca silently noted the information he had just received.

As expected, Hayato is part of Sawada Tsunayoshi's entourage. Takeshi seems to be involved too. As for the "kid," or Reborn, I didn't expect "the world's greatest hitman" to be a kid. I should definitely, look into this. But a teacher? Is he my long lost sibling? His life holds too many similarities to my past life. Thinking about this possibility, Yucca chuckled.

::

End of the weekend, Yucca was happy to say he knew every inch of the neighborhood and its inhabitants

Once he had these, information, it hadn't been hard to determine a list of suspicious individual and their job and connections after a bit of hacking. He had also narrowed his list of potential threats and possible guardians or members of Tsunayoshi's family. And he had, of course, executed a background check for all of them.

In the end, he had a nice little list in his head with every person he needed to look out for and their "basic" information. Well as essential as a hitman's basic knowledge about their target could be.

Getting ready for the next day, he took out one of his suit and dress shoes before recording his progress down on his computer and going to sleep.

He couldn't afford to be late tomorrow. After all, he needed to be at his best when infiltrating enemy territory.

::

"Good morning class" professor Nezu greeted, "this is professor Jones. He is going to overview your mathematics and science lessons for the whole week. Respect him, for he is one of the world's elites, like me." he announced with a smug look.

Sweeping his gaze over his youngest students, Dohachiro added: "Don't embarrass yourself either, it will hinder my reputation."

This remark earned him a twitch from Yucca's right eye. He certainly did not agree with his "colleague," after all, he was one to pride himself in his students more than anything else. Both their success and mistakes were also his to bear, and he wouldn't have it any other way else.

Looking down on them this way was a bit annoying to ex-teacher Koro.

As Yucca's impression of Nezu Dohachiro was getting worse, his thoughts on the matter where interrupted by the said science teacher.

"Especially you, Dame-Tsuna," the teacher stated with disdain. "although it doesn't matter who teaches you, in the end, a Dame will always be a Dame." he finished with a laugh, earning a few snickers and muffled laughter from his students.

Yucca narrowed his eyes in distaste, this teacher, was, extraordinarily low. Had he not been on a mission, Yucca would have kicked his ass without any second thoughts. But for now, he would restrain himself and smile. Smile his most beautiful fake smile.

He was only a professor in a foreign territory, who was he to oppose a local teacher's method?

Looking over the class, Yucca's gaze, landed on an embarrassed brunette. The male was looking down fiddling with his fingers uncomfortably. Not far from him, was Gokudera who was fuming with anger, snarling at all who mocked his boss. Finally, the ravenette, Yamamoto, was trying to, peacefully calm his classmate down, a tint of well-hidden anger in his brown orbs.

So this is Sawada Tsunayoshi, Yucca thought as he scrutinized the younger man. He had seen him already when doing reconnaissance during the weekend but never in class.

It pained Yucca to admit it, but Tsunayoshi was, really pitiful. To be honest, he looked almost as miserable as his ex-students from 3-E.

Yucca felt the need to raise and protect the teen the same way he did with Nagisa and the others. Sadly, life wasn't so simple, at the moment, both of them were enemy (although Tsunayoshi surely didn't know that) and helping his boss' enemy wouldn't serve his cause.

Internally sighing and shaking his head in resignation, Yucca only smiled. If helping the teen to rise in society wasn't possible, making his days easier in school while he was present was still a possibility.

Happy with his compromise, Yucca waited for class to begin. He still needed to collect information on Tsunayoshi and his "friends'" behavior outside of their familial environment. People tend to change when not with their friends and family. The best would have been to observe them in an entirely foreign environment, but for now, he would do with what he had.

::

{Fiumicino airport, Rome, Italy}

A week later, Yucca was back in Italy. Same as when he landed in Japan, he was feeling jet-lagged, still not used to long flights.

Stretching, Yucca gave a tired yawn. With a pair of shades covering his face, messy white locks and a white sweater with multicolor marshmallow patterns his brother had gifted the original, Koro tiredly made his way to the taxi station.

Once the taxi driver dropped him to Roma, a low-ranked member of the Varia would take him back to the headquarter. There, he would report to Xanxus.

::

{Varia headquarter, Italy}

In a dim-lighted room, six figures sat around a long beech table.

"The CEDEF is moving," the boss announced in a low voice as he sipped his wine.

"Is that so." the newest member rhetorically asked.

"Absolutely! Squalo-chan is tailing them. He'll bring the rings' other half back soon!" the feminine member exclaimed gleefully.

In the dark-lighted room, half of the Vongola rings' gem glinted.

So, as you may have guessed, the Varia arc is going to begin soon! Next chapter, the Canon storyline will make its entrance, so will most of the Canon characters.

Did you know the CEDEF's members weren't the first Canon characters to be introduced?

Also, did you notice? CLOUDY just passed the 1K read. So thank you so so soooooo much ^^

Thanks for reading. Until next time