Arcobaleno
Way of Life
I don't own Hitman Reborn.
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Reborn wasn't sure he'd ever been so mad. As Vongola Nono fell out of the smoking wreck of Gola Mosca, both he and Tsuna looked on the old man. He had a bloody hole in his chest, and his hair was wild and unkempt. "There's a man inside!" Tsuna called out for the guardians to hear. Reborn finally descided he'd had enough with the Cervello's rules and jumped right into the arena beside Tsuna to get a better look at the man he had served willingly and faithfully for at least seven decades, whom he had helped train personally.
"Eh? Why… is he inside Mosca?" Tsuna asked. Reborn wanted to know that as well. Somebody was going to explain, and everyone else was going to pay. Reborn knelt forwards to check Nono's pulse and flush the elder man's systems with his sun flames through his hands. Hopefully it'd be enough to stabilize him. If not he'd have to get him off the battlefield with the help of the guardians. How he hated being small.
But first, to explain to the others. "Che." Reborn practically spat as he touched Nono's temple. "I've seen Mosca's circuitry only once. It looks like the 9th boss was forced to be Gola Mosca's power source," Reborn announced. Dammit Nono! How'd you let this happen? You may be old, but you could've taken pretty much anybody in Italy still, right? Reborn wasn't exactly positive about that. It'd been a long time since he'd even considered old age. A very long time. How debilitating was it really? But even if Nono was weakened, he still had his guardians. He had all of the Vongola. He had him! …But here he was, dealing with Nono's successor and there he was, half dead on the ground within close proximity of a hunk of high tech metal that'd held him prisoner.
"You've gone and killed the ninth boss." Xanxus informed Tsuna as he took a break from his dark chuckling. Tsuna immediately lost focus and began questioning himself. Reborn ignored them both and shot one final pulse of sun flame into Nono. The man jerked himself awake just in time to hear Tsuna uselessly lamenting.
"No. The one at fault… was me," Nono informed Tsuna. 'You're damn right it was Timotoe!' Reborn swore as he leaned back, breathing a sigh of relief. "We finally get to meet, young Tsunayoshi." Timotoe wheezed out. "I'm sorry. All this happened because of my own weakness. My weakness that allowed Xanxus to wake up from his long sleep." Reborn's head snapped up. He didn't know the full story even, and he wasn't supposed to know what he did, but here he was going to learn the whole story.
"What do you mean by sleep? After the cradle affair, Xanxus was cast out of the family and kept under strict surveillance by the Vongola. Wasn't he?" Reborn lied smoothly.
"Cradle affair?" Tsuna asked beside him.
"It was eight years ago- the largest coup d'état in Vongola History." Timotoe began.
"Because the rebel army was led by Xanxus, the ninth's son, this terrible truth was treated with utmost secrecy." Reborn informed Tsuna quietly. "The only ones know the truth are the family's upper echelon, and the highest Vongola elite who fought in that battle."
"Xanxus was stopped there, eight years ago. Since then, he's been asleep." Timotoe explained. 'Not just asleep. If he'd been just asleep, he would be eight years older that he is. That kid can't be more than fifteen!' Reborn thought to himself. "While his hatred and his grudge grew to frightening proportions." Nono finished off vaguely.
What was it with Mafia people and non-linear answers? Reborn thought hypocritically.
"Eh!? What do you mean?" Tsuna shouted in Nono's ear.
"What do you mean?" Reborn asked a moment later.
But it was not to be. At that moment Timotoe gave a great cough and spat blood onto the ground, giving a great shuddering breath.
"Are you alright!" Tsuna shouted. 'Does it look like he's alright?' Reborn had to refrain from shouting. "Please hang in there!" Tsuna girly screamed at Nono.
"Tsunayoshi!" Nono wheezed.
"Please take it easy!" Tsuna once again shrilly exclaimed.
"I've always," Timotoe began, but he had to stop and take another breath. 'I've always been hearing news about you, from Reborn, about the girl you like and your school, and your friends. You are a child with a heart that is really mismatched for a mafia boss." Nono admitted.
Reborn had to suppress another urge to say something that was not acceptable to come from his young mouth.
"I also know that up till now, you have never once fought in a battle willingly. You always have these lines between your eyebrows," Timotoe spoke as he brushed Tsuna's hair spikes away from his face, "clenching your fists as if praying. And that is why chose you to be the 10nth boss of the Vongola!" Timotoe exclaimed happily.
The tenth used the last of his sky flames to ignite his fingertip where it was pressed between Tsuna's eyebrows. A range of emotions shot over Tsuna's face, from confusion to nostalgia to wonder to acceptance. Reborn could only guess as to Nono was showing to Tsuna. But the old man's hand fell away, Tsuna began crying.
"I'm sorry, but I'm glad, it's you." Timotoe sighed as he collapsed, the last of his strength deserting him. Tsuna began wailing, trying to call the old man back.
"How dare you kill the ninth boss!" Xanxus cut in, hand to his chin, not even bothering to fake outrage. Reborn's blood flowed so loudly through his ears that Xanxus's whole speech was over.
"I will kill you, for vengeance!" Xanxus informed Tsuna. He said it like he was commentating on the weather, with no inflection what so ever.
'I tried to tell you Timotoe. This one is a bad egg. But you wouldn't listen because you thought you could tame the flames of wrath,' Reborn mentally berated the Ninth as he gripped Leon's pistol grip so hard he numbed his hand.
As Tsuna's guardians cried in outrage and confusion Reborn responded almost automatically to them. "If he only won the ring contest battle and became the next boss, those who knew of the Cradle affair would object to his succession and also continue to oppose him. But, if he trapped Tsuna into the role of villain , and attacked the ninth boss's enemy in a battle of revenge, that's a different matter. He would gain the absolute trust from the majority of the family. Besides, if he could prove himself stronger than Tsuna, who was supposed to be the tenth boss, it would further prove that he was the true heir. In that case, he could easily eliminate anyone who opposed him." Reborn reported back.
"Then Xanxus is planning to become the boss and establish a dictatorship at the same time?" Basil asked in outrage. That kicked Reborn's many years of experience back on, bringing him back to earth where he glowered at Xanxus.
'Yes. It was a well laid out trap. Mosca was supposed to kill all of Tsuna's guardians in an 'accident'. When that happened, he knew that sooner or later, Tsuna would come to take it down." Reborn explained, thinking on his feet.
"How could he?" Tsuna asked, tears falling onto the socks on his hands. "For something like that?"
"Please refrain from speaking such wild conjecture outloud, Reborn," One of the Cervello announced. "We will record everything that is spoken."
"Those guy's are!"
"I knew it! The Cervello are on Xanxu's side!" the guardians cried.
"Do whatever you want." Reborn announced to the Cervello cordially. "But my patience has run out!" He growled at them, shading his eyes with his hat. The two agents quickly quieted themselves. Good. They should be scared of him.
"But I will honor my promise to the ninth and not interfere. With my student's battle, that is." Reborn announced, allowing a smile to slide onto his face.
A moment later, a frown replaced it. Tsuna was cowardly, never doing things unless forced. Would he even fight Xanxus, even after everything that'd happened?
"Having said that, I don't know what my student, who hates fighting will do?" Reborn probed Tsuna.
"Xanxus!" Tsuna called, voice calm and stable. "I will take that ring back. You will not follow the ninths footsteps!" Tsuna called to him.
"Well said, Tsuna." Reborn praised as the two stared down Xanxus.
"I'll carve your name into the Vongola history books as the foolish runt who dared to defy Xanxus all by his little self!" Xanxus called back.
"He's not alone!" Gokudera called. "The boss's will, is our will!" the storm guard called as the troops readied themselves to come to Tsuna's aid.
("My will is my own," Hibari mumbled out vaguely.)
In response the Varia mobilized, anyone still able to move getting ready to fight.
Luckily or unluckily, the Cervello intervened. "Hold it right there, please! We will be in charge of the battle for the ninths revenge!" the Cervello agent explained.
"What!"
"We have a duty to oversee the whereabouts of the vongola rings." The agent explained.
Reborn snorted. Like hell they did. They had no idea the rings had even moved until they surfaced here in Japan with Basil being chased by Squalo. And even then, that's not your sacred duty, it's mine!
"The hell are you talking about!? You're all Xanxus's bitches!" Gokudera growled out. Reborn's opinion of the rash storm guard rose a fraction.
"Please watch your mouth!" a cervello agent snapped. Oooh, touchy? The other agent pulled out a decree. The sight of Timotoe's sky flame seal made Reborn cringe. "We have an official decree from the ninth himself! Any changing-of-hands of the rings will not be approved without our ratification!" The agent cried.
Where the hell did Timotoe find these dumb broads? Or for that matter, how did Xanxus know about them?
"You've got some nerve! You forced the ninth to give you that dying will flame seal against his will!' Basil cried.
"The winner of this battle will become the tenth boss of the Vongola, so we declare this the Sky ring battle!" The Cervello announced officiously.
"In other words, this will be the last of the sky ring contest battles held over the week. How does that sound, Master Xanxus?" The Cervello asked, dropping all pretenses of independence.
"Not a bad idea."
"Then tomorrow night, will everyone please assemble at Nami High?" the other Cervello asked.
Reborn hated that he was going to have to wait. But he recognized that Tsuna was tired out from his training from today. Also, he could use this time personally to send messages out. Also, if he had time, to kill all those pink haired cervello.
"It looks like the fake got a suspended sentence for now!" Belphegor cried out. Reborn was going to snap back at him until he realized something. The cradle affair had happened eight years ago. Bel had been in the Varia at the time. Bel is currently 16. So… Bel had joined the Varia at age 8. Well. That was… wow.
Xanxus snapped half the sky band at Tsuna, who (suprisngly) caught it. A moment later one of them threw a flash grenade, and they Cervello and Varia quickly split. Reborn waited for the others to notice Dino had arrived. Sure enough Basil noticed them. The Prancing horses quickly took the ninth and hurried him off to the hospital. "We're okay." Reborn informed Dino. "However…" Reborn announced vaguely as he observed Tsuna's shadowed face. A swift flying kick to the center of his back knocked him out of his brooding faze. "We're going home. You better get yourself properly recharged for tomorrow's fight!"
"Why do you have to kick me!"
"Because I'm really vexed right now!" And you're available and easy.
"What kind of reason is that!" The mafia kind, of course. Haven't you noticed? We're all clinically insane.
Reborn waffled through the day, saying what he had to to Tsuna, readying himself, forced Tsuna to go to high school when he himself wanted to go kill anyone whom he could remember ever being even vaguely associated with the ninths security detail. He'd be having some strong words with them when this was all said and done. Reborn witnessed Kyocho giving reborn a charm and call Tsuna's face a bullet train. It didn't make much sense to him either. Reborn spied on Tsuna from around a corner. He was having a good time with his friends.
"Don't forget this Tsuna," Reborn said quietly. Who knows, maybe Tsuna's hyper intuition was able to let him know. But these are the times he should treasure, the small moments with his family. Reborn sighed. He hadn't seen any of his family for a long time. And now that'd he'd come across four of them all at once, he wasn't sure what the world was coming to. Skull, Colonello, Viper. And Verde had sent those 'assassins' a while back to test out his optical camouflage. As school went out, they went to the hospital to visit Lambo. There Reborn unveiled his newest gift.
It was a special Armani suit. Leon had crafted it in his strange subspace shapeshifting stomach, and it was able to stand up to bullet fire, and more importantly, dying will fire. It was a great gift. In leon's strange wisdom, the suit was designed to look like Tsuna's namimori high school uniform. Also, Reborn informed Tsuna of the bonus Leon had made, but made sure not to unveil it. It was fun being vague.
"So you came, scumbag!" Xanxus shouted up at them. Reborn wished with all his heart he could simply shoot the bratty backstabber. It'd so much easier. Not to mention, cheaper. The vongola had to pay to fix up the school after all. Also, it would probably be cleaner. And more fun. Not to mention economical, understandable,
Wait. Calm yourself Reborn. Put the gun down. You made a promise to the ninth you wouldn't do this.
A stupid rash promise to a ninth that might not even have been the ninth, but a promise none the less.
Maybe one bullet through his eye would be good for him?
"We have been expecting you!" The Cervello cried as they leapt from a building. 'Jeez, why couldn't they just enter like normal people?' Reborn asked himself as he surveyed them from his third floor perch on top of the school. Reborn ignored them until he heard them mutter something about 'compulsory summons'. A quick glance down at the guardians nearly made him bust out laughing.
"Viper's in a cage" Reborn sang softly to himself, repeating the unbelievable words over and over.
He might have deserved it when Viper very nearly sent him off the edge of the building with a surprise push form behind. The female Arcobaleno walked up beside him, standing on the ledge with him. Below she had taken the liberty of placing an illusionary copy of him.
"Next time ask before you place fake me's around," Reborn advised his sister as he gazed down upon them.
"Viper cannot be caught." 'Mammon' shot back angrily.
"Is that Lussuria?" Mammon asked as the bedbound man was rolled up by the Cervello.
"I think we need to hear this." Reborn decided before the two of them floated down to the ground level on psychic power.
"I thought you couldn't really fly anymore?" Reborn questioned as they moved closer.
"I can still hover and slow fall." Viper reminded him as she approached the Mammon copy in his cage.
Reborn carefully stepped into the fake silhouette of himself. Viper let the illusion go, and no body noticed his fake body suddenly becoming very real. Viper might've tried to climb into Mammon, but the cage looked locked up tight, so she ingored her copy instead and floated behind Bel's head. If he noticed her, he gave no indication.
"Lambo!" Tsuna cried upon spotting a Cervello holding the infant. Reborn's blood ran hot, and it was only Viper's hooded face reminding him to remain composure that prevented him from reflex killing the Cervello. He'd had lots of experience with helpless or even critically injured hostages. It was the first time he contact with a mafia family all over again. 'Hitman' had been brought into this world by a similar circumstance. 'Reborn' felt he too would be taken out of the world by a hostage situation. They were always so unprofessional, messy. Nothing about it usually came out right around him.
"Look at you Reborn, nearly shooting fellow Vongola's. What would Primo think?" Viper scolded him.
"Primo would forgive this. In fact, Primo probably would have killed her himself, whether she was in his family or not. Primo was no saint, despite how he acts." Reborn argued back.
"Oh I know. I would never have agreed to work with him if he was a saint. Saints aren't ever real. Can't be trusted at all. You know what I mean, right?" Viper asked as they observed the cervello and guardians talk.
"You worked with Primo?" Reborn asked in surprise. His most mysterious sibling had always been in the Vongola with him, and he hadn't noticed?
"So did you. It's no surprise. Then again, I was there before you were as well. I made the Varia by myself. I have been in the Varia this whole time. I have led this unit from the shadows since the very first Vongola." Viper explained. Reborn thought he caught a glimpse of pride in his sister's normally bland voice.
However, he wasn't going to remark, because she'd really beaten him out bad this whole time. He only hoped he could rub it in Colonello's or Lal's face that Viper had known where they too were this whole time. And Fong was always vaguely 'somewhere' in China. Through forgetfulness or shyness or whatever, their martial artist brother had never left any one of them with an address or method of contact.
"In the sky battle, all rings as well as lives of the six guardians are at stake." The Cervello explained.
"Then what was the point of the first battles!" Reborn shouted at the girl, but Viper covered it up and smoothed it over. The guardians groused each other out.
"Caught you?' Reborn asked Viper.
"Shut up. I had to make them think of something, and Xanxus wouldn't believe I just came back. I swear, that kid is an idiot, but he knows people.
"You're a real smooth talker, Mammon." Reborn told his sister as Yamamoto questioned the Cervello about Squallo.
The Cervello went to collect Hibari's ring. "I lost it," He explained to them.
"That's a nice cover Hibari." Reborn approved, knowing Viper was still blocking his voice. "We've already collected it." The Cervello explained.
Then why did you go up to him like you wanted it in the first place then?
"One of the conditions of the battle will be to join together the two parts of the ring. However, the battle field will be the entire school." A Cervello explained.
"Fool! It's going to be so expensive to fix!" Viper complained. She looked like she wanted to kick the pink haired girl in the ankle.
The Cervello also gave each contestant a wristband. Mammon's band fell to the ground through the cage, but nobody noticed the deception. Viper picked it up.
"This is suspicious. I don't think I'm going to use it," Viper said as she tucked it away in her coat.
"Ah. Here comes bird boy and Shamal." Reborn observed. Sure enough Colonello dropped from the sky being carried by his bird, but Viper quickly let him into the illusion. Shamal wandered right by.
The teams were already dispersing to their respective fight locations. "I had better go," Viper announced as she headed to the gym.
The Cervello hit a button on a remote and instantly all the guardians let out series of pained noises or just stayed quiet. "A poison? How low, hey!" Colonello replied. Then the Cervello explained the poison 'Death Hitter'.
"When this is over, do you want to go Pinkette hunting with me?" Reborn asked Colonello casually as he rubbed an imaginary spot of dirt of Leon's gun barrel with a cloth.
"Sounds like a plan." Colonello answered darkly as he hefted his anti-tank rifle.
Reborn listened carefully for anything he could describe as the go ahead to shoot his dying will bullet. Xanxus watched closely as well. Reborn could tell he wanted to shut down Tsuna's opening. And the Cervello had stated in vague terms he was only going to get to shoot one hyper will bullet.
And Xanxus had the nerve to ask if he'd made it in time to stop Reborns bullet.
Reborn and his companions quickly evac-ed the field. If anyone was still there when the match began you could bet that Xanxus would use them to his advantage. Quickly Tsuna lay into the older boy with quick fists and flying powers, but Xanxus was even faster when he was fresh.
"No Tsuna, you need to get him up into the air! He's less mobile there!" Reborn muttered.
"There's no way Viper got poisoned, Kora. What's she doing?" Colonello asked.
"I'm here. We're in our own shut off conversation right now." Viper whispered in their ears. Reborn didn't bother to turn around, but Colonello swung instinctively and reached for his gun.
"Hey, she's not here maggot!" Colonello cursed in confusion. Reborn glared at the fatigue wearing army boy. Colonello didn't call him maggot unless he was really surprised or really mad at him, and those were the only two acceptable times. Ah well, he'd plot his revenge later.
"No I'm not really here. I'm standing by the Chrome girl and making sure she can keep her organ's up. I don't trust Murkoro to do it himself really." Viper transmitted to them telepathically.
"That's so weird, kora!" Colonello complained.
"Muu. Fine." Viper replied. A moment later Mammon joined them. Nobody besides the Arcobaleno noticed. "Speak to this if it helps you." Mammon told Colonello.
There was a loud boom, and a surge of heat. All three turned to look at the fight. "That's the flame of Wrath." Reborn commented for the benefit of Viper, whom might not be able to tell what was going on that well.
They all listened to Tsuna taunt Xanxus, listening to Tsuna ask him if he wanted to pit their flames against each other.
"He can't be serious!" Colonello cried.
"Just watch. Tsuna seems to have a plan." Reborn reassured the rain Arcobaleno. Sure enough, a moment later Tsuna's combination of hyper intuition and high mobile speed landed a solid blow onto Xanxus. The older boy was thrown into the reinforced concrete and it collapsed around him.
"Muu. Xanxus's isn't going to like that. From there he'll probably draw." Mammon informed the two.
"So explain to me really quick why you changed your name?" Colonello asked Mammon.
"Is now the time?" Reborn snapped as a concentrated shot of wrath flame emerged from the dust cloud and grazed Tsuna's shoulder. Too close! If it hadn't been for Hyper Intuition…
"I didn't change my name! I, the real deal, am Viper." Mammon explained. A sly smile crossed his face. "But my male illusionary counterpart is named Mammon. See?" Mammon asked. Sure enough, he was subtly more masculine than the real Viper.
Xanxus stood and emerged from the fire toting a familiar pistol with an X on it. "I thought we agreed with Ottavo Daniela to destroy those accursed pistols of her father Settimo Fabio!" Colonello yelled in anger.
"Still mad about that time Fabio upstaged you in guns? His pistols always were slightly more powerful than your rifle." Reborn teased.
"You're one to talk! If the X guns were stronger than my rifle, then they're also better than Leon!" Colonello announced. Mammon took a wise step out of the way of reborn wrath. To his/her surprise, Reborn did not take his legendary temper out on Colonello.
"Leon can turn into anything I want him to so long as it's not four times bigger than me. I'd say that's far more useful than just being able to shoot powerfully and fly like you and Settimo!" Reborn argued back.
"Well at least I can do both at the same time, unlike you or him who have to switch and then go back to flying!" Colonello pointed out.
"Muu." Mammon began, but was cut off.
"I still have other guns I can use!" Reborn argued back.
"Guys?"
"And what, break your arm firing?"
"MEN!" Mammon shouted at them.
Both quelled under her wrath. "Promise me you'll never say it like that again." Colonello muttered at Mammon as he turned to face the fight.
"Why not?"
"We've only just learned your identity and gender. I personally thought you were a guy. So it's a little creepy and weird at the same time to be called 'men' by somebody you still think of as a guy more than you think of as a girl." Colonello explained. Mammon slapped his head under his hood and sighed loudly. Her teammates were insane, and she still didn't have much social knowledge after all this time. She was busy leading teams of psychopaths for money after all.
Xanxus had just leveled his guns at the ground and fired off, enabling 'flight'. Tsuna preformed an awkward dodge and the fired shot from Xaxnus's gun went right into the gym. 'Mammon' shrieked and then flickered out of existence for a moment before rematerializing. The puppet was shoddily made this time. The coat was an unadorned black and the hood was down, revealing a perfectly round and smooth pale tan sphere. Two dark soulless inhuman pits took the place of Mammon's eyes, with pale purple flames seeming to burn inside his skull. Another flicker and Mammon was back.
"Ah. That surprised me. I almost got a direct hit. Made me lose all my concentration and fizzled my connection." Mammon explained.
"You're creepy without a face, Kora." Colonello announced as he picked his gun back up off the floor.
'I have a face! Xanxus just ruined my illusion!' Viper shrieked into Colonello's head.
"Don't bother Viper. A startled illusionist is never a good thing. And you should know better than to go around poking snake nests." Reborn quietly admonished Colonello.
"What if she really doesn't have a face?" Colonello asked Reborn in a hushed tone.
"I can hear you." Viper announced from behind Colonello.
Xanxus shot the poles holding up the Lighting and Storm poles.
"Muu, and my second Mammon clone made some really pitiful noises too." Mammon speculated as Xanxus ignored his mist guardian. "Ah well. Bel believes himself to be close to Mammon. He will no doubt come to 'rescue' Mammon. He will be waiting." Viper dismissed.
"That's even colder than Xanxus," Colonello mused. Mammon stared at Colonello for a moment before winking right out of existence.
"Colonello, be nice to your sister, or she'll kill you in your sleep." Reborn advised.
"Be nicer to your younger brother then, maggot." Colonello hissed at Reborn with rage. Vaguely Reborn wondered if it was something he'd said. Surely Colonello wasn't even worried about Viper actually killing him, right?
'I already have a brother. We're not family. We're… friends. Rivals.' Colonello argued with himself against his instilled unifying instincts.
'I'm not cold, I just have no one to really rely on. The only one who will watch my back is me. Everyone else is lying and thus, expendable. That's not cold, it's just good business.' Viper thought to herself as she hugged her knees in the gym.
'Touchy touchy. They can't seem to move on from their pasts. Not that I know anything about that. I just change my face and run away.' Reborn mused depressingly.
Bel was intercepted by Hibari. Gokudera quickly attacked Lussuria, preventing him from hurting Lambo. Gokudera broke Lussuria's parabola's, swiped the ring, saved Lambo, and moved out quickly. Hibari shredded the wires with chains and weights from his tonfas. Bel ran away to continue on saving his comrades. Across the field, Sanxus began to speed up, growing more accustomed to the high speed that Tsuna moved in. Training a bead on Tsuna, Xanxus unleashed two full clips of pistol ammo onto the younger Vongola. Taking a direct hit, the Armani uniform was destroyed, and Tsuna was forced to begin his zero point breakthrough.
Xanxus practically teleported in front of Tsuna, moving faster than he had in the entire fight. The harsh uppercut delivered with a gun barrel to Tsuna's chin sent him skywards. Instantly Xanxus was behind him. But his shot was dodged as Tsuna's hyper intuition warned him and his own anger sent the bullet off course. Tsuna landed heavily only to look up into another full clip barrage.
The resulting explosion was felt all over the entire school ground. Colonello dipped his head in respect for the dead. However, Tsuna was alive. In fact, he was now in excellent condition. Going into 'minus' state (point zero breakthrough) Tsuna was now running on a nearly full tank of flames again. But, Tsuna was still greatly hurt. He just wasn't feeling it.
Xanxus attacked, slipping right past Zero point breakthrough revised by shooting his gun sideways for a sideways movement while shooting with his other hands. The older boy whizzed around Tsuna like a tornado shooting as often as he could. Still through Tsuna took the blows. Xanxus stopped and unleashed a final blow, shooting a massive blast. But Tsuna was behind him, arm cocked back for a punch. He'd done it! Hand shooting forwards to grasp Xanxas' head Tsuna glared at the elder boy with a eyes calm. Xanxus swore and ascended, but the trick didn't work twice. Immediately Tsuna shot upwards, right into Xanxus's face. He was faster now. A punishing spinning kick threw Xaxnsus upwards. Xanxus was forced to land and shoot, but Tsuna threw a wall of fire at him .
"What the heck is going on! His movements are completely different!" Colonello exclaimed. Tsuna shot his hands forwards and stole away Xanxus's shots, stealing the power and converting it into his own flames.
Elsewhere Hibari fixed up Yamamoto and Gokudera woke up Ryohei.
"YOU FUCKING BASTARD!" Xanxus swore at Tsuna as he pulled himself off the ground. The scars on his face elongated, forming a massive maze of scar tissue across his face. It was a dark ugly wound, like someone had run barbwire as thick as telephone wire over his face.
Yamamoto and Gokudera quickly proceeded to the gym. Viper watched apathetically as Bel and her clone formed a devious plan to get the rings from the Vongola guardians.
Squalo arrived in a wheelchair, two pistols on his head, led by Dino followed by his crew. Bel cured Chrome of the poison, and Yamamoto surprisingly showed a smart plan as he kicked his sword out at Bel, and then quickly arrived at Mammon, katana tip at the illusionist's eye level. Mammon of course, was fake, but one of the most convincing illusions available to Viper.
"It looks like the situation is reversed!" Yamamoto announced happily. Viper exerted only a little power before the tables had once again turned. In the space of a second three hundred (low quality) illusionary Mammon's floated freely in the gym, and he revealed he'd had them wrapped in an illusion since they entered the gym.
The Cervello brought Dino and Squalo to the observation box. Tsuna landed a devastating blow to Xanxus's face. Tsuna dodged the two powerful retaliatory shots and threw himself into a grapple with Xanxus. The resulting explosion threw Xanxus to the ground. The other panicked and Squalo looked pleased until Reborn felt he should intervene.
"Look at his hands." Reborn pointed out. They all noticed at the same time Xanxus did. His arms were encased in incredibly jagged ice, like he was wearing an ice Morningstar.
In the gym Mammon used his hell tentacle illusion to attack Yamamoto and Gokudera after he'd threatened to rip out Chrome's limbs with the powerful rope-like vines. And then Ryohei blasted in a wall with his fist, spooking Viper. Both Mammon and Bel disappeared, and Viper escaped as the walls came down.
Meanwhile Xanxus heaved and puffed in his rage as he glared at Tsuna, who only calmly gazed back. "Those scars are proof that you were once totally consumed by the zero point breakthrough over your entire body. You can no longer ignite flames on your hands anymore Xanxus. You've lost." Tsuna declared.
"And here I was thinking of what else you were going to say!" Xanxus laughed lightly. "You're fucking kidding me!" he yelled as he smashed the ice to pieces over his knees, shredding his hands and stabbing deep into his legs with the ice.
"It's useless Xanxus. If you keep doing that the result will be worse that those scars the ninth gave you." Tsuna told the elder boy.
"Then Xanxus was struck by the ninth's point zero breakthrough!" Colonello realized.