Title: Risk
Disclaimer: Sadly, I do not own Reborn!.
Rating: PG-13? A little violent.
Summary: In which Enma rules the mafia world.
AN/Warnings: Title comes from a board game; spoilers for people who haven't read up to... um. Let's go with chapter 290? I'm not so sure though.
Tsuna is dying, brown hair flecked with blood, vamped ring shattered once again, lying in shards and he thinks of broken mirrors and bad luck and tries to ignore the way he can't stop crying. Tsuna reaches out to touch him, but he can't reach and Enma refuses to move closer. It's his last movement, and his arm sticks out like that in rigor mortis, reaching and failing and reaching and failing.
The battle is anticlimactic in the end. There is a point when Enma is certain Tsuna will take the opportunity and kill him and he doesn't and then Enma finds the opportunity to kill him and he does, forcing his dying will into that last shot for pride and watches Tsuna smile a little sadly as he plummets down.
The first Vongola Guardian he kills is the Storm one, the loud annoying obnoxious one that spared Shitopi-chan from death, and he does his best to be merciful as the raging, sobbing Guardian tries to run an arrow through him, movements erratic at best and unorganized. He falls in a graceful arc, instant death, and he thinks he hears him whisper, "Yamamoto," but he doesn't think too deeply about it.
The mafia world falls to him, crumples underneath his power, and when he has a gun pointed at the Ninth Vongola Boss, the Vongolla tells him something he has been denying to himself. Pitying words about love and betrayal and wasn't this what happened to his ancestor, once long ago? Things run full circle in the end. The old man crumples in his chair, a bullet through the brain.
The Varia are too easy to annihilate after that.
When he takes his mantle as the Tenth Shimon Boss, he finds Reborn and offers him a position. The baby stares at him searchingly for a moment and then tells him in his off-handed sort of way, "The difference between you and him is that he was a better person," as if he doesn't already know that, is reminded by that every time he breathes and Tsuna does not. Reborn soon disappears afterwards, the only Arcobaleno to leave his post as an assassin.
