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Meeting Vologona X

It was August 3rd and Althea was reducing Tsuna to Meatballs.

The battleground was a pile of rubble and Tsuna's Guardians observed from a safe distance beyond a Barrier, created by Flames and Magic.

Tsuna had better intuition but Althea had experience fighting for her life against opponents stronger than her, although Tsuna was slowly improving.

So the result of the weekly training was still to be decided.

Seeing Tsuna launch a huge Blast towards Althea, Gokudera began to think back to the day they met her.

When he heard her introduction his brain immediately recognized her, the Girl Who Lived, Gokudera honestly thought that the name and the way the English behaved were both idiotic.

His mother was a Squib, from her, he had inherited her powers and he, being the genius he was, had for years obtained all the certifications that allowed him to work for the Mafia, without going against the Vindex.

It didn't take him long to realize that Nono was using a legal loophole to allow Althea to work with them, after all she was closely related to a Mafioso and decided to train with various members of his family, as long as she continued School and did not participate The Vindex had nothing to say about any mission.

Although Althea was Xanxus' sister Gokudera just couldn't consider her a danger to Juudaime; especially considering that Nono was currently her Legal Guardian and she was sincerely determined to put Tsuna back on par (they had discovered that the reason why Althea was furious with Nono was the fact that he had allowed himself to be convinced by Iemitsu to seal Tsuna's Flames, the damage done to a person by sealing Flames was such that this technique was considered on par with the three Unforgivable Curses. The only reason Nono was not considered a transgressor was the fact that he was unaware of the collateral damage. Nothing would have stopped Althea from roasting Iemitsu though), the Flame seal of a person with hyper intuition led to an imbalance of physical and mental abilities (Reborn had promised himself to tell Nono four and strangle Iemitsu) and this was where it came into play.

The Potters have possessed a particular ability since the time of Godric Gryffindor, the continuous interaction of their Magic with the Flames of Heaven had formed over the generations a kind of secondary ability compared to the usual Harmony of Heaven, they called it Rebirth, it was the possibility of using Flames to connect to another's Flames and 'repair' them, meaning that if they used this ability on a person suffering from Flame manipulation they could undo the damage (it was rumored that the name of this ability was given by a Seer after reading the future of the Potter family, although it was never explained why, all that was said by way of explanation was 'wait and see') and by now this Rebirth was so powerful that it could correct the imbalance inflicted in such a case.

It would have taken a lot of beatings, I mean training, and a constant exchange of letters written with a special pen that used Flames as ink during the school year, for the treatment to work though.

In short, Gokudera thought that Althea wasn't bad, he just hoped that she wasn't aiming to marry Juudaime.

Takeshi didn't have much to say about Althea, only that he enjoyed sword training with her and respected her for her skills.

Ryohei simply despaired that she couldn't join the Boxing club.

Lambo had decided she was his new big sister the moment she conjured up a bowl of grape candy.

Chrome was relaxing around Althea, it hadn't taken long for the two to recognize each other as former victims of abuse, and consequently, Chrome had found a new role model to follow, Althea was strong and determined and Chrome wanted to become like her to serve Mukuro-sama to the fullest.