Arcobaleno
Way of Life
I don't own Hitman Reborn.
Arcobaleno centric, Mixed P.O.V.'s. All Reviews are welcome.
When Reborn met Tsuna the first time, he was secretly very, very surprised. Reborn recognized Primo in everything Tsuna did, was, and lived. Sure, he had read the detailed report on everything Tsuna had ever done, read, eaten, etc. made by the Vongola, but that didn't really include something only the Arcobaleno would have been able to see. Tsuna was actually something of a loner.
The first time Reborn saw Tsuna, it was a month before Tsuna saw him. He watched, followed, saw. (Occasionally lined Tsuna's head up with the end of the sniper rifle and considered a mercy kill.) But during that month of observation, Reborn started seeing things. They were thing he saw because of his paranoid nature, his experience as Hitman, and his time with Primo.
Reborn made a list of observations.
Tsuna himself did not see it, thinking he just had no friends because he was a loser. Reborn saw it. Tsuna unconsciously pushed people away. Reborn's thoughts were that Tsuna might be doing this because he had so little self esteem he thought it was a dark spot on others lives to be with them. Tsuna might be doing this to protect them from getting to close to him and his life within the mafia, something Tsuna's body recognized, even if the mind had not yet been informed.
Tsuna had little habits, like staring deep into a person's soul and trying to himself and their lives from their point of view. Primo did this to see how best to talk to them. Tsuna did this to evade danger and skirt around people who were perhaps a danger to him.
Tsuna had a strange habit of getting himself into troubling situations. Reborn figured he did this subconsciously. Perhaps it was to train himself? All in all, Reborn was not happy with his new student. Honestly, no matter how much of Primo Reborn saw in Tsuna, he was not impressed. In Reborn's books, Tsuna was about as soft as a pillow. Reborn needed something to work with before he started the actual training.
It was one day before Reborn was getting ready to snipe Tsuna in the head when he saw what made him change his mind. Tsuna was on his way to school, and klutz that he was, he walked into a group of bullies and dropped his stuff onto them. Reborn was getting ready to intervene when he saw something strange. Tsuna had fainted, but he was still standing. Reborn watched as Tsuna used hyper intuition to dodge their attacks, as he gathered his stuff together and then ran off. Reborn was watching when Tsuna woke up halfway to school. Tsuna acted no different after that. Rebron knew the human brain in Tsuna had just woken up, or had created new memories to fill in the gap.
Reborn watched. Tsuna's brain and Hyper intuition battled out what would happen. Hyper won, naturally. Tsuna avoided that spot the next day, where the bullies had lain in wait again. Reborn took care of them. Latent power laid in Tsuna, occasionally rising to the surface. Reborn was pleased.
Then came the big day. Reborn put the letter in Nana's box. Tsuna came home and Reborn watched. Tsuna acted slightly different that he should have, Reborn noticed. Hyper Intuition. All the Vongola Sky flame Bosses had held Hyper Intuition, but Tsuna's had the most potential by far. Reborn could work with that.
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As the days rolled by Reborn spotted more and more similarities. Primo had some very potent genes, it seemed. Reborn trained Tsuna, and kept observing. When Reborn started picking guardians he noticed that Tsuna had different ways to act around each of them. Primo had done this to keep his strange group together during their wars to establish the Vongola family. Reborn attributed this to the Hyper intuition. When the day Leon's tail had fallen off Reborn had noticed that Tsuna had been a little stressed. Hyper Intuition was powerful.
When Tsuna got his gloves, Reborn was not surprised, although he was a bit ticked. Training Tsuna in Primo's moves was going to be tough, considering only Primo knew his own moves. Reborn had helped train Bosses Terzo (Three) through Settimo (Seven). Settimo then trained Ottavo, who then trained Nono. Reborn had been around for a very long time at this point. But, since Reborn hadn't trained Primo he didn't know how to help Tsuna or anyone who could give reliable instructions for using the gloves. Tsuna would be mostly alone in figuring out his moves.
Reborn also helped trained Tsuna's guardians. They all resembled Primo's guardians too. Funny. Reborn also didn't know how to best train them. Shame. Reborn figured he really didn't have a large chance of messing up their teachings, seeing as they were all using older, simpler weapons. Really, the technology in the world hadn't changed much over hour hundred years. People just took that long to stop fighting medieval and switch to more reliable means, such as guns and bullets. That however, did not stop some such as Yamamoto from using his sword, or Ryohei his fists.
When Tsuna was able to beat Mukuro Reborn was slightly proud, but much more angry with himself. Reborn had not been able to get into a fight in a long time, due to the rules set by Primo (Whom hated when Reborn killed people) and the Arcobaleno. (Which limited his stamina) Reborn quickly trained himself to as far as the curse of the Rainbow would let him. Once he reached this point Varia decided to attack.
When Reborn decided to send out the rings to Tsuna's guardians he knew he was going to need help. He called in Colonnello on a favor they both knew didn't exist. Reborn didn't bother to train Lambo, knowing there was nothing he knew how to teach Lambo, having rarely ever met Primo's very own lightening guardian. Rain learned from an outside source. Storm was fine alone, but he sent in Shamal anyways. Cloud was a good opponent for Dino, Reborn's former student. Mist was by itself, as per usual. Reborn had no intention of training anyone who resembled Primo's Mist guard. Sun went with Colonnello, who knew what to do.
Reborn himself trained Tsuna. He also asked the convenient Basil, a sky flame and dying will user to help Tsuna. There was no way he could let the Tenth fail. To do such would let down Primo. Reborn would never forgive himself if that happened. Basil was told he was going to need to eventually fight Tsuna.
When Reborn decided to finally investigate this generations Varia, he was surprised to see that Xanxus was leading. That boy should know what was going to happen just by looking at the past. Ah well, Xanxus probably didn't pay attention in history class anyways.
Belphagor, the Prince. A dangerous foe, but Gokudera should be able to combat the prince. Lussuria? Royhei had this. Squallo? Reborn didn't know about that. Leviathan? Lambo was toast. Mammon? Rebon couldn't find any info on the mist guardian. Reborn also couldn't find any info on the cloud guardian, whom Varia usually hadn't ever had in the past generations. Ah well.
When Royhei won, Reborn nodded so slightly to Colonnello nobody but an Arcobaleno would have seen. When Lambo lost, Reborn blamed himself. Of course, nobody but Colonnello would have been able to see that. When the Cervello took Tsunas ring he was getting ready to shoot them all, but stopped when Colonnello shot him a look. Across the ring, Mammon considered why Reborn didn't just kill the group and let them all duke it out over the rings.
The next day Reborn finally put Basil into use, using him to fight Tsuna until Tsuna had enough control over his flames and will to fight. When Tsuna beat him, Reborn knew things were looking up. When Gokudera almost died fighting Belphagor, Reborn was really getting ready to kill the Cervello. Colonnello had to steal Leon from him for a while.
Yamamoto won. This is the only reason the Varia still exists, without Colonnello and Reborn killing all of them but Mammon, whom they interrogated until they figured out if it was really Viper or not. If it was Viper, they might have locked up the mysterious Arcobaleno. If it wasn't, they were going to kill the person, take the Mammon chain, and give that to Verde for processing. The two Spartan Arcobaleno had it all planned out. However, Yamamoto won, so this never happened.
When Chrome showed up, Reborn watched as Mammon decided to mess with them. Reborn watched as Mammon, decided to show Tsuna and his guardians something they could not see. Tsuna and co. freaked out, and yelled something about a kiss. Chrome, Ken, and Chikusa stood in the door, seemingly frozen. The moment passed and Mammon dropped the powerful illusion. Reborn dropped his awareness until he could see into the illusion and then chuckled at what Mammon had just done.
Across the room Mammon's mystic frog Phantasma blew smoke and stomped on top of Mammon's head. Reborn observed as Mammon got ready to fight the new guardian. Reborn's Pacifier glowed, and Colonnello swooped in. Reborn and Colonnello watched Mammon closely. They were very curious as to see if this was really Viper, their least seen Arcobaleno family member. "Looks like another stupid-looking idiot has joined you. I'll make you look even more stupid during this fight." Mammon told them. Reborn and Colonnello winced. If this really was Viper, the illusionist had regressed into insanity or stupidity. Or possibly this was to get them to underestimate him. Nothing was known about Viper, that is all that is known.
Reborn and Colonnello saw through all of chromes weak illusions, and most of Mammon's medium powered illusions. If this was Viper, the curse really stripped the illusion of a lot of power. It was about at that point, when Mammon removed his chain that Reborn and Colonnello's pacifiers glowed. Viper was Mammon. They both knew instantly Chrome had lost. They quickly explained to the group whom Viper was. Chrome attacked, then utilized snakes from the Path of beasts. It was at that moment that Viper was caught that Reborn noticed a little flicker in the corner of his eye. He focused on it.
When Chrome hit Viper with the illusionary fountain of fire, Reborn was able to catch the illusion in his eye. He didn't look away from it. Colonnello had seen as well now, and was searching for that tell-tale flicker. When Viper used his Flash Freeze move, but Reborn and Colonnello saw the truth hidden behind the lies. "What a mistake. I fell for the illusion, Hey!" "Me too. As would be expected from Viper."
For you see, it was not that they had fallen for the high power illusion of the Flash Freeze, but that they had been seeing an illusion from the beginning. Mammon had never existed. Instead, over on the side of the gym, close to the Vongola cage, stood Viper, a slight bit thinner than the illusion known as Mammon. Chrome was never fighting the real deal. Reborn and Colonnello observed from their peripherals. Viper's pacifier was glowing, and Phantasma was spinning around his head in a circle at high speeds. Viper was still going easy on Chrome though. If he was to really join the fight, no illusionist on the planet could win against the Arcobaleno, just like how the other Arcobaleno were equally unstoppable.
"An Illusion takes over your perception. In other words: It dominates your brain, which controls your five senses. The domination becomes stronger with the power of the illusionist, and the chance of falling for the spell increase. However, when an illusionist has their illusion countered by an illusion, it means they have given up control of their perception." Viper explained for Chrome and Tsuna. Reborn knew this well, as did Colonnello. They had both been in situations where they had been fooled for a while. Reborn had been tortured with great pain. Colonnello had lived in a fantasy world for three hours. They escaped and killed their foes, sure, but they knew the power of an Illusionist.
Viper snapped, demonstrating his control. Reborn and Colonnello did not see anything change, since they could see through the high level Flash Freeze illusion. Chrome however, cried out in pain. The skin on Tsuna and his guardians were hot to the touch, their bodies trying to fight something that did not exist. They had fallen for the spell, hard. In the hands of an illusionist like Viper, a medium level spell like Flash freeze could kill armies. Holding an illusionary double and using other high level spells like this were unheard of from anybody but the best illusionists. The group would try to fight the illusion, but really be picked off one by one from behind the scenes, never once seeing what killed them.
"How does it feel, the power of the cursed Arcobaleno? Now, show me your true form. No matter what you do, it's too late. You are already a denizen of my illusionary world." Viper told Chrome. Reborn shuddered slightly. Everybody was a denizen of Vipers world. He was the scariest of the Arcobaleno, even if reborn was the strongest. Colonnello wondered why the Varia would be insane enough to employ Viper, then wondered if they really knew anything about Viper at all.
Mukuro appeared. Reborn and Colonnello watched. Viper cast about five illusions at once. Things blurred around the gym, but Reborn refused to lose sight. But Viper turned and cast an illusion straight at him. Reborn could no longer see Viper. Colonnello stealthily nudged Reborn, pointed at a location, and then blinked rapidly in Morse. 'There.' Reborn could see Viper again. Viper cast another illusion, this time on Colonnello. Reborn pointed at Viper and conveyed it to Colonnello. Mukuro watched while he cast his own illusions.
Reborn wasn't sure what the others saw, but he knew Colonnello and himself were the only ones in the cage who could see what was really going on. Both Mukoro and Viper were actually casting powerful illusions, sending illusionary doubles flying around trying to trick each other. The brains of Varia and Tsuna's groups would fill in any gaps in the hastily made illusions.
What was really going on behind the scenes varied between Mukoro, Colonnello, and Reborn. If they could discuss what was going on, they would be able to spot that they were really in an illusion of the highest caliber, but since they didn't dare, each saw a different tail. Colonnello saw Mukuro charging the flying Viper whom was throwing basketballs ineffectively at Mukuro. Reborn saw Mukuro on the defensive from Mammon's assault of mist flame reinforced paper attacks. Mukuro himself fought against a flying Viper equipped with a copy of his very own trident staff.
Viper however, saw Chrome running around with no organs and Mukuro super imposed over her body. Viper saw the Vongola family, minus the two Arcobaleno talking about one or two of her illusions. The Varia were just watching the show, knowing fully that they could not know if this was reality or not. Even Gola Mosca, a machine, was not seeing reality, but knew after running several checks in data banks and search engines that what is was seeing was not real. The two Cervello fully thought that what they were seeing was reality, and thus had not called Viper out on her foul play of not actually fighting yet. Tsuna, Gokudera, Royhei, Basil, Yamamoto, Ken, and Chikusa, Mukuro's pals, watched as Mukuro ran around battling Viper. Viper however, sighed as the sixteen people (Seventeen if you count Mukuro, who wasn't there in person) around her watch as her illusionary double, known as Mammon lost the fight with Mukuro.
Mukuro pulled out all the stops. He started casting his most powerful illusion, having figured out his opponent was an illusion itself after Viper had teleported out of a hit that the body double could not have evaded. Viper used even more power, and the second illusionary double spell stopped working on Reborn, who quickly showed Colonnello. There were two doubles, the one Tsuna saw, the one Mukuro saw, and the real Viper, standing where she was from the very beginning, inside the cage of the Varia, beside Belphagor. Mukuro cast his Columns of Fire, Wrapped in Lotus. Viper made the double cast an Ice World and Red Void, two of the higher level spells.
Beside Reborn, Tsuna's hyper Intuition went off, and Tsuna's mind was taken elsewhere. Viper cast Double Swarm, sending in tons of high quality illusionary doubles to hold Mukuro's attention, then attacking with Blue oblivion, a two pronged spell. Reborn recognized all these spells from battlefields he had shared with illusionists of high caliber.
Inside the bag, the real Viper handed over the ring. Mukuro was surprised. Reborn and Colonnello looked on, seeing through the illusionary bag. "Why?" Mukuro asked. "Because even though I will fight for Varia, I know that this is how it's supposed to be." Viper told Mukuro. Reborn smiled, and Colonnello was surprised their comrade was really one of them to that extent. They had figured Viper wouldn't care about their duties as Arcobaleno, unless it helped her escape their curse.
Viper let Mukuro out of the bag. Mukuro held up the two half rings, and cast a showy illusion of Viper being squeezed by Phantasma, then suffocated and exploding by Mukuro. Reborn and Colonnello smiled stealthily as Viper muttered "show off." to Mukuro as she stood by his ankle, totally invisible to everyone but the Arcobaleno.
All but the Arcobaleno and the Cervello were shocked at Vipers loss, not knowing of her secret betrayal to Varia. Viper cast a quick illusion when it was all over, of Mammon escaping out the window. Xanxus, in his chair, issued orders to Gola Mosca. "When this is over, kill Marmon." Xanxus told Gola. On the other side of the room, standing by Reborn, Viper glared daggers at Xanxus and plotted revenge on their leader. Maybe a naked Levi would do, or perhaps he'd get Lussuria to sing. Even drunk Squalo would do. (Viper of course, knows Squalo is not dead, because really, who didn't?)
Reborn and Colonnello saw her for the first time in their lives, because she had drained so much of her flames. Colonnello was giddy, realizing that Skull owed him fifty bucks and Verde two hundred. Reborn sighed as he realized he had lost twenty bucks to Lal. The only one to not have bet on Viper's gender was Luce, who probably knew anyway. (Viper didn't count of course.)
They both sighed when they realized they had no proof, and thus they would have to wait for another time to cash in their bets. Stupid illusionists.
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The next day Viper came and had a talk with both Colonnello and Reborn in Tsuna's room while he was gone. "You gave Mukuro the ring and let him show the others exploding. I didn't know you were a nice person, Hey!" "Don't go spreading it around. I only want money so I can retire." "Wouldn't you have enough money after around four hundred years?" "I'm saving for when the curse is broken, because until then, we won't be able to age. Who knows how long we'll live after that though." "You seem to think that this curse will be broken." Reborn asked Viper. "Of course. Verde's had some headway." "You've been with Verde, Hey!" Viper spit out her drink, and Reborn smacked Colonnello on the back of the head. "Tact, you idiot." "What I'd say?" Colonnello asked as he rubbed his head.
"Anyways, Verde and I made the Mammon chain, which hides me from methods of detection. Several people have been after Fong and I, so we've gone into hiding. They call themselves the Gesso family. So far they're an unimpressive group, and if things don't get much worse over time, then they'll never be a major threat. But, none the less, Fong has been hiding in eastern Asia. I've been in Verdes bases with him for a good deal of time. My illusionary double, Mammon, has been with Varia, along with Phantasma, allowing me to direct Mammon. They have no idea that I've been the shadow leader, and Mist guardain of Varia for about four hundred years now, because I change my illusionary doubles name every generation and am careful with my habits and looks." Viper explained to Reborn and Colonnello. "Now, what have you two been up two?" She asked.
"I've been training sky flame leaders of the Vongola and allied families, occasionally performing hits, and once spending several weeks on the run from a powerful assassin who decided he should try to mess with an Arcobaleno." Reborn told them briefly.
"I've been with COMSUBIN, then the Vongola family, the CEDEF for a very short time, and then I was at Mafia land as a punishment from Lal for messing up one of her raids on another mafia. Reborn didn't tell you, but we met Skull there, and he's the military leader of the Calcassa family now." Colonnello told them.
"Were you there when…..Luce…." "Yes. I also took a day or two off thirty or so years ago to try to figure out how she broke the curse. I dug through their family history, and found some records. I still have no idea how Luce broke the curse of the rainbow, but there was a second curse on her, and possibly on us, if we break the Rainbow curse ourselves the second curse reduces our lifespan. Luce broke free… oh say…. Forty years ago. You know how she was pregnant up the mountain and we couldn't figure out if she had had the baby or if she was still pregnant? Turns out she hadn't had the baby, and it started growing with her. Luce gave birth about ten years before she died, and then passed on the pacifier to her daughter, who's named Aria. That Makes Aria in her late twenties or early thirties right now, just to let you two know."
"Wow, you've been busy, Maggot." Colonnello told Viper. "Very, but being able to be in two places at the same time also helps. I run myself, Phantasma runs the clone. I wondered for a while what you're animals all did. I know Leon shapeshifts and that Falco is disproportionally strong, but it would appear Verde's Caiman does nothing. Rather a shame really." Viper explained.
Reborn and Colonnello nodded. Viper was turning out to be a veritable fountain of information. "So, Mukuro. I need to know more about him." Viper told Reborn and Colonnello. "What, you thinking of getting revenge?" Colonnello asked. Viper shook her head no. "Arcobaleno trails will be coming up, dummy. Plus, I heard that he single handedly destroyed the last Estraneo family base. I'd not heard of this base, and If I hadn't heard of it, there might be others. I can't let them come back." Viper told Reborn and Colonnello. "What have you got against them, Hey? I know they're scum for what they've done, but you sound too angry to just want them dead off their reputation." "That's personal."
"So, tell me." "Mukuro is a powerful illusionist. He has incredible potential, and is pretty good right now even. He did see through your first layer, and occasionally get a glimpse of the real you. That's more than we can attest when we're not trying. He destroyed that outpost, decided he hated everything to do with the mafia, took over a man named Lancia, destroyed several families of scum mafia, and then eventually breaking out of a high security Italian prison along with Ken and Chikusa, whom you saw in the Vongola cage. He then came to this place, attacked a large number of Namimori high school students, captured Hibari, and sent Chikusa to fight Gokudera. Tsuna, Yamamoto, Gokudera, Bianchi the Scorpion, and I then went to go fight him. We took down some grunts, Yamato was injured by Lancia, Gokudera by others, Tsuna got lost in the woods for a while, where Mukuro asked him some questions. Ranking fuuta was also held hostage and pried for info, although he refused to talk."
"I take it Tsuna beat him, and that's how he got into Vendice? Then he staged another break out, and covered for Ken and Chikusa when he realized not all of them could get away? Impressive. Glad I made the right decision. He's not very loyal to Vongola though is he?" Viper commented. "I'm hoping there isn't a repeat of Daemon Spade." Reborn told them. Viper and Reborn had a moment of Silence while Colonnello realized he needed to sit down and read 'Vongola a history.'
"Did you know Verde sent two assassins after Tsuna?" "Hmm? Oh, that's what he meant when he said he needed a laugh a month or so ago? How'd you kill them?" "Didn't." "Really." "I guess." "Don't tell me you've gone soft, Maggot!" "Anyways, the next trail is Cloud. Any hints?" "Well, Gola isn't actually that tough. Any guardian on your side but lightening could take it down. But, he can take bullets and be fine, so the Varia has used him as a mobile shield that shoots rockets occasionally. But, seeing as he's the weakest of us, I have to wonder if there's a trick, or a trap to him. Who knows what goes through Xanxus's mind." Viper explained.
"So, you going to explain to us your hatred for the Estraneos?" "Doesn't their rap sheet explain it?" Viper asked. "Not to that degree." "Fine. The Estraneo's know more about me than I would like. If I could remove the threat they might give that info to someone who could use, say, the Gesso family, then they could actually track me down. Also, I have personal reasons to hate every one of them." Viper mumbled.
Someone could be heard running up the stairs, So Viper quickly cast an illusion over herself and Colonnello. Tsuna opened the door. "Reborn? Oh, Reborn, dinners ready!" Tsuna told Reborn. Reborn nodded and went down stairs. Viper and Colonnello glanced at each other before sneaking downstairs and stealing some food before leaving.
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Later that same evening, Reborn was training Tsuna with Basil. Reborn watched as Tsuna almost got hit with a fatal blow, and was thrown to the ground by Basil. Reborn applied punishment and motivation in the form of a uppercut. Tsuna mumbled something about Hibari's match. "Leave Hibari's match to Gokudera and Yamamoto." Reborn ordered Tsuna. After all, Reborn had confidence Dino had made Hibari stronger. "You should focus on completing this technique." Reborn told Tsuna. In actuality, there were several techniques, Like flying and then the Zero point breakthrough of Primo.
They trained some more. Tsuna was on the limit, but he announced he had figured out what the technique was for. 'Oh good, that makes one of us.' Reborn mused as he listened to Tsuna.
Meanwhile, In Italy, Lal Mirch was having trouble with a Gola Mosca unit, one of the Soldiers of the future. Iemitsu was sitting shot in the sewer ahead, staring angrily at a Impersonator of Vongola Nono. Hibari was just showing up at school. Tsuna was finishing his move.
Things happened very fast for the four Arcobaleno. Lal's group stooped the Gola Mosca, and she found out Nono was in Japan. Viper, Colonnello, Tsuna, and Reborn arrived at the school in time to see Hibari taking swings at Xanxus while Mosca's broken shell rampaged around the Area. Chrome ran into the landmine field, and was saved by Ken and Chikusa. A turret aimed at them, and Mosca attacked with a particle beam. Tsuna stopped both attacks in the nick of time, saved Chrome, ripped Mosca to shreds, and discovered an unconscious Vongola Nono in the shell of Mosca.
Reborn got out his gun. Colonnello leveled his sniper rifle and lined Xancus's head up with his red dot. Viper watched on, trying to figure out who's side she wanted to take. Lal got ready to go to Japan post haste, having realized things were about to get very interesting there.
