CHAPTER 4: HOW CAN IT BE DONE?
Oh, no. Oh, yes. They were roaming the mansion halls, towards the dining hall. She was wearing a simple red dress (I'm not going to describe the clothing much, sorry) that ended near her ankles. She wore it together with some sort of disgusting footwear which Bianchi called stilettos. Her hair, which had grown 5 or more inches long, now adorned her back, just past her delicate shoulders. Her heart hammering, it was as if she was walking towards the death chamber when in fact she was just going to dine together with the current Vongola boss. She neared the great doors to the dining hall which were opened for her by- this time- men in white. The door opened to let her in into a spacious and luxurious dining hall. How blinding was the light. There were chandeliers made of gold which held about a thousand candles, bathing the room with candlelight. It was all Vongola-styled. The massive table was also long and there were at least 9 people already sitting round the table with their mouths open. Well, except three persons.
Bianchi just smiled, admiring her job well done. Xanxus just stared at her with a blank but still scary look on his face. Reborn was eating.
The others though were…uh… (A/N: I'll try my best to convey to you how the setting looked like.)
Squalo had a trademark scowl possibly plastered on his sharky face while staring angrily at Tsunahime (gulp *Tsunahime* gulp).
Mammon said, "Pay up, Bel. She really is a girl" while holding out his tiny hand (Mammon: what did you say, writer?) –ehem sorry- an elegant hand towards a figure with blond hair covering the half upper portion of his face and wore a tiara on top of his head.
"Ushishishi, so she is mammon-kun." Said the blond (Belphegor: call me prince, peasant.) –prince.
Levi, however, did not know how to react. He was gaping widely with a dazed look on his face. So engrossed was he in his gaping mode that he did not notice that the spoon he was holding over his mouth was spilling its contents on the white mantelpiece.
It was Lussuria's turn next. Well, guess what? He was giggling terribly and was exclaiming Kawaii all this time. Not to mention his clasping his hands together and moving from side to side. Earning a disgusted glance from Squalo.
"Voi! Stop that idiotic thing you're doing you idiot!" he growled then returned his gaze to the highly nervous girl who was standing before them.
"Please take a seat Tsuna, or should I say, Tsunahime." said Timoteo calmly with a smile.
Tsunahime seated herself in a very awkward position indeed- for the only available seat was on the right-hand corner of the boss, right across the now glaring Xanxus on Timoteo's left-hand side. Fortunately, (or is it unfortunately?) she was seated near Reborn, which calmed the girl a bit.
"Can I please make an announcement?" began Timoteo. "We gather tonight to announce the real identity of Sawada Tsunahime, current keeper of the vongola sky ring and successor of the Vongola Famiglia." (Xanxus hn'ed and glared harder. Squalo scoffed and glanced away. Lussuria said "kawaii". Mammon was handing back some gold coins to Bel who went "Ushishishi." And Levi was, well… being Levi.)
And so the 9th Vongola boss recounted the events that led to the change in Tsunahime as the group listened while sporting an I-don't-really- care-look. But they do care, that's why they had their ears wide open but eyes wandering, wondering how a beautiful young woman came to be in this oh-so-small world. Tsunahime just sat quietly with her head bowed all this time. Bianchi was feeding Reborn with the air of love around her.
When the kyuudaime was done with his story telling, all eyes were averted to her and her alone.
EEIIHH! She screamed mentally. So far so bad.
….. ;^o …..
Tsunahime's POV
EEIIHH! I'm not going to survive the night! They emit a worse aura than that of the ring battle. I can't believe I'm in front of the Varia and in this form! What's with this stupid dress, and this stupid heels and this stupid curls? I look outrageous. Oh…if only the guys could see me now, they'd be laughing at me. I moaned mentally.
I wish they're not worried about me. Mom, Fuuta, Lambo, I-pin, Kyoko, Haru, Nii-san, Yamamoto-san, Gokudera-san- oh no, I hope Gokudera-san is not going nuts right now. I bet he's scouring the whole Namimori looking for me. I'm so much trouble, what if something happens to them while I'm gone?
I continued to worry myself by worrying on how worried they'd be with me gone. I almost forgot that the others were staring daggers at me.
It's torture to have a dinner with the varia. It's so horrible to think that I'd be the next dish. Eeiihh! They'd serve my head in a platter. Aahhh! Goukudera-kun! Yamamoto-kun! Nii-san! Where are you when I need you? Aahh! Belphegor-kun is smirking at me. Lussuria is so weird, he's just giggling and saying "kawaii" all the time, who is he referring to anyway? Mammon is like Reborn, he's doing nothing! Gaah! Someone please, help me! I just want anyone to know that I kept my last will and testament in my hidden compartment inside my wardrobe. I wrote it the day I began training with Reborn. Please tell mom and the others not to forget me. oh..I'm gonna die! Xanxus is- eh? Smiling? Gaah! No, he can't smile. That must be a smirk or something. Oh my God, my eyes are also failing me. Help…me…
I forced myself to look up and was shocked to see that they were now silently eating their meals. I glanced at Reborn and then at Kyuudaime and found him raising his spoon, encouraging me to eat. Reborn was oblivious to the fact that I was trembling; he just kept eating. I gulped loudly and reached for a spoon. My hand was midway when began to panic again. Which of these spoons will I use? I thought as I stared horribly at the set of spoons, knives and forks in front of me.
End of POV
The moon was brightly shining at the gloom in the middle of the forest, east of the Vongola mansion. A small fire was built in its center, bathing the whole clearing with enough light to warm the figures who sat huddled near the fire. They wore battered clothes and they were weary of travelling all day long. After the incident with the landmines, they dared not to venture closer to the mansion unprepared.
Roar!
A sudden grumble startled them and two of them stood up except the Vongola's sun guardian, Ryohei.
"Oi, octopus head! I'm extremely hungry! Why can't we just go to the mansion and find Tsuna extremely quickly and go back to Japan to eat Yamamoto's dad's extremely delicious sushi and get on with my training?" burst the poor guardian.
"We can't lawn head because if your brain permits you to remember, they dragged Jyuudaime unwillingly and brought him to the mansion. It must be the Varia behind all of this. The Kyuudaime still has a soft spot for that idiot of a Varia boss whom he calls his son. That's why we can't go directly in front of them for confrontation. They'll kill us immediately if we simply go knocking on their damned gates!" said the smokin' bomb Hayato with the continuous rise of his voice until he ended his sermon screaming in the top of his lungs.
"I extremely don't get it!" exclaimed the boxer with his eyebrows meeting in the center of his forehead.
"Aahh!" Gokudera let himself fall on the ground with a thud.
Yamamoto was smiling as the silver-haired boy finished his tantrum. Then, he lightly chuckled as the two finished their exchange.
"What are chuckling at, stupid baseball freak?" Gokudera turned his glare on the carefree Yamamoto Takeshi.
"Hahaha. Nothing. This setting just reminds me of my childhood days when we go on a camping trip. We build a bonfire and roast marshmallows and sing all night long. We sleep on the ground in our sleeping bags and tell stories until we fall asleep. Ah…good times, good times." said the rain guardian as he shook his head lightly with a smile plastered on his (Gokudera: annoying) face.
"How come that with all the possible and highly efficient Mafiosoes in this world, the two of you gets to be chosen? I am so unlucky even to be within fifty meters from you. And that's saying something since I came from Italy." whispered Gokudera under his breath.
"Hahaha…now, now. Don't say things such as that Gokudera-kun. I'm sure Tsuna wouldn't want you to hear that."
Gokudera felt a sudden twinge in his heart as he remembered his oh-my-beloved boss was away from him and he had nothing else to do but to wait and plan for their next attempt to rescue his boss. He remained in that state, mulling things over; remembering what it was like to be with his boss. How Tsuna praised him for his hard work. What Tsuna had said to bring him back to his feet when he was feeling down. How concerned his boss was every time he faints upon seeing his sister. And about that time when…
Roar!
His thread of wistful thinking snapped.
"Will you shut your stomach up, Lawn-head!"
"You are extremely louder, Octopus-head!"
"Hahaha. Yes, during our camping trips, we used to have fun fighting too. Ah..Such times eh?"
Roar! This time, the earth shook.
"Huh?"
"For the second time, that was not me. And how extreme his stomach is, whoever he is, to shake the earth with that. Hey! Join the boxing club!"
"Shut up!" yelled Gokudera in a desperate (and useless) attempt to quiet him down.
"But why? How can he hear about joining the boxing club if I whisper it to him? Men should be EXTREME!"
At that same moment, a bulging head of a monster loomed into view, followed by a helicopter which the monster swatted like a fly. The monster padded towards the direction of the clearing where the three Vongola guardians were at.
"Hey, that looks like…"
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Can you guys guess who that was? Don't think too hard or your brain cells will suffer! *LOL*
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