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Devil's Princess Chapter 4 – Varia Comes
It was the middle of the night, when a clash between sword and triangular blade occurred on the roofs of the town of Nanimori. A blade-wielding brown-haired boy who was about fifteen was clearly losing against a man with long silver hair, who wielded his sword skilfully and was asking why the boy was in Japan. Yes… Despite the low resolution of the live-streaming video and the darkness of the night, that silver-haired man was definitely Superbi Squalo, the sword wielding rain guardian of the Varia. This battle was one that Yuka Hibari had watched for hours, tired but alert from drinking her assortment of different types of teas. She didn't really care what happened to the boy, Basil – since upon confirming weeks ago that the Varia had indeed caught the scent of him and was following him, the Vongola half-rings that he was delivering were swapped with fakes, that Yuka had helped make herself and were meant to be lost to the Varia eventually- not that Basil knew that (Poor kid), in fact, for security reasons, not even Reborn knew that, or the fact that Basil was delivering the half-rings in the first place.
Yuka finally convinced herself that the battle would drag on forever and there was no point in watching - recording it down would be enough, since they were nowhere near Tsuna - yet. She closed her laptop and went to bed, deciding that it was crucial to be near Tsuna for the time being and that she would go to the Sawada household first thing in the morning.
Tsuna woke up on a Sunday morning, quickly dressing and going downstairs, almost getting tripped over by Lambo and Ipin running around. Sleepily, he walked into the kitchen to find- a huge feast sitting on the table and Yuka-sensei, wearing a puffy-sleeved blouse and long skirt, eating it along with Reborn and Fuuta.
"Yuka-sensei! Why are you here?" Tsuna said.
"Am I… unwelcome here?" Yuka replied, with puppy-dog eyes and her sparkling aura.
Blushing, Tsuna turned to his mother, who was singing happily while cooking even more food, "More importantly, it's only morning. What's going on this early?" his mouth open in an amusing shocked facial expression.
'Yeah, what's the meaning of this?" Poison scorpion Bianchi asked.
Followed by Fuuta, "Did Tsuna-nii get 100% in a test?"
'Ehh.. Noo.. Yesterday was my usual no-good life" Tsuna replied.
"Then what happened" Bianchi asked.
"Mom?" Tsuna asked. Nana continued singing.
"Mom?" Tsuna asked again. "Lalalalalalalala~"
"MOM!" Tsuna shouted.
Finally, Mama Sawada stopped singing while chopping vegetables lifting her head up and saying, "Oh! Tsu-kun. Tsuuuuuuuuukuun~" waving the vegetable knife about while Tsuna told her to be careful with the knife.
She went back to chopping vegetables and Tsuna asked, "Hey, what's going on? You're acting weird", while both Yuka and Reborn were both sitting smugly eating the feast, already knowing what had happened.
"Really?"
-.-" "Definitely weird!"
"Oh! I haven't told you yet. Dad's coming home!"
"Eh? Didn't he disappear? Did they find him?" Tsuna said – and upon hearing how his father Iemitsu Sawada had gone around the world to dig oil but thought that telling Tsuna that he disappeared was more romantic – Tsuna massively sweat-dropped saying -.-", "Did you think I'd be satisfied with that?"
Then Nana showed him a postcard of the artic and penguins (Tsuna – do they even have oil there?) that Iemitsu had sent, saying that he would come home soon. So it ended up being that Nana had cooked a feast, and would continue cooking, even though she didn't know exactly when Iemitsu was going to come, not that Reborn, Yuka or anyone else minded for that matter– since everyday would be a feast.
So this was what Yamamoto, Gokudera and Tsuna were discussing as they were walking to school, with Yuka a couple of steps behind them.
Both Gokudera and Yamamoto were enthusiastic, Gokudera wanting to be the first to greet Juudaimen's father and Yamamoto just thinking it was great that Tsuna's dad was coming. Tsuna was the only one who was uncertain wether he really wanted his father to come, because he thought that his father was weird, rarely being at home and always saying strange things.
Behind them Yuka was listening silently to their conversation, while checking for Varia updates on her laptop. On hearing what Tsuna thought of Iemitsu, she almost smiled, amused how badly that Tsuna thought of his father compared to who Iemitsu really was and what he really did. She continued to listen while working on her laptop until she heard Yamamoto say something about hanging out and skipping school, his suggestion backed up by Gokudera.
"But school…" Tsuna said.
"Yeah… what about school" Yuka said with a sparkling smile that seemed to hide something sinister, having caught up quickly and slipping in between Tsuna and Gokudera almost like a ghost.
"Today's a review day, isn't it" Yamamoto said while Gokudera agreed, completely unaware of the sinister edge of the side of Yuka that only Tsuna had witnessed (Since for manipulation, Yuka uses her angelic side first then resorts to her demonic aura as well as violence if her sparkly aura hadn't worked (or if she's feeling pissed at someone) and in the school so far, her angelic side had worked for practically every occasion, meaning that not a lot of people had witnessed her demonic side despite many feeling that there was something scary behind that angelic façade and that she wasn't someone whose bad side you'd want to get on).
"It's Sunday all around the world. It's important to relax from time to time!" Gokudera said.
Yuka decided that the Tsuna wouldn't be as easy to find if they were outside of school, so she said, "Fine…If your going to jig school than I will too" before proceeding onto a phone call excusing herself from a day of teaching (Despite knowing that Kyouya would not be very happy that she skipped school, even if she was a teacher), her voice laced with honey and her aura practically spilling through her phone into the ears of the principal on the other end, while Yamamoto and Gokudera argued about wether they should call everybody, which they ended up doing.
In the middle of the city, they stood together in a crowd, the little ones racing ahead. Tsuna, as usual, was thinking about how cute Kyoko looked and being happy that she was coming too. His day dreaming was interrupted by Reborn who said, "When we get home, we're going to study like crazy over the things you missed today".
"That's right; I have a whole stack of extra work for you to do as well." Yuka said. Tsuna's dreamy smile turned upside down- Yuka's comment hadn't help at all.
Then the atmosphere got cheery again when they started talking about going to the game centre and what games they wanted to play, until Kyoko noticed that Lambo was missing.
Lambo was quickly found, due to the help of Yuka and Ipin. You see… Yuka had predicted that Lambo would get lost sometime or other so she had sneaked a tracking device into his afro and with her laptop, they found the street that he was on. Ipin then saw him sitting in a cage in a pet shop.
After a multitude of apologies with Tsuna being embarrassed to have these events happen in front of his beloved Kyoko, her saw that Lambo was doing even more embarrassing things with the items from a woman's underwear store across the street.
After even more apologies, they finally arrived at the Game centre. Everyone had a lot of fun, though Reborn and Yuka won the most in the end. For the slot machines, Reborn was just naturally lucky and Yuka had easily rigged them up so that she would win every single time. Both their accuracies and reflexes were perfect in the shooting games and Yuka had easily accessed all the cheats on the computer games.
They took many photos, bought souvenirs, and bought drinks.
The rest of them went off to follow the little ones while Tsuna rested. Tsuna and Kyoko were in the middle of a conversation when there was an explosion above them. Someone (Basil) fell out of the sky and landed on the eternally unlucky Tsuna, creating a big cloud of dust.
"My apologies" Basil said when the dust had cleared, before seeing that the person who he had landed on was the one he had come to Japan to find. "Thou" he said, the use of such old-fashioned Japanese in the 21st century was questioned by Tsuna.
Gokudera, Yamamoto and co. came, asking wether Tsuna was alright – Yuka was nowhere to be seen.
"Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow…" Tsuna said, rubbing his throbbing head.
Reborn looked at Basil thinking, "Why is he here already? Yuka didn't tell me?"
His train of thought was interrupted by a huge, "VOI!", followed by the appearance of the owner of the loud voice, who had long silver hair, was wearing a black uniform and held a sword in his hand.
"What's this? A bunch of outsiders are starting to make a crowd. Any piece of trash who stands in my way will be cut!" resulting in a heap of questions from Tsuna and co. (What's this?)
"I feel a storm brewing" Reborn said, his face grave.
The silver-haired man then swished his sword quickly, brewing up a big wind, impairing the vision of all those near by.
The woman and children were evacuated by Reborn while Basil stood protectively in front of Tsuna.
Looking at his blue dying will flame, Tsuna wondered who the boy who already knew his name was.
Basil apologised for bringing them into a situation as dangerous as this when he had finally found him. He tried to drag Tsuna to the safety of a building but was stopped by a VOIing Squalo.
"Let's stop playing chase. Who's that kid anyway?" Squalo said.
Basil noticed that he didn't recognise Sawada-dono and cursed for not just continuing on instead of drawing attention to Sawada-dono. Squalo attacked – Basil tried to block but ended up being thrown back. Squalo was threatening Tsuna at sword point when a whole load of dynamite came his way. It was quickly dodged and in seconds, both Yamamoto and Gokudera were quickly beaten and lying on the ground, eyelids twitching and barely conscious, Tsuna watching hopelessly from the side, the only reassuring thoughts were that Kyoko, Haru, and the kids had been evacuated to safety, and that Yuka had disappeared somewhere which must have been safer than here.
Squalo turned to him, about to attack, but Basil came again, viciously defending the skilful swordsman.
He wondered what to do, and found a pair of mittens thrown at him by Reborn (who was dressed as a pot plant), who told Tsuna to always have these mittens by his side, even on the hottest days.
Basil finally fell to the ground, defeated, his dying will flame dying down.
"You, die!" Squalo said, but finding himself stopped by a pair of gloved hands of Tsuna in dying will mode.
"Reborn! I will defeat the long-hair with my dying will!" Tsuna said, but even with his dying-will, he couldn't land a single blow on the long-haired man. Soon, the dying will bullet wore off and Tsuna started running away, a multitude of exploding projectiles being shot towards him (from Squalo's sword).
Basil pulled him behind a chunk of building, introducing himself and saying that his master had asked him to deliver something. He handed Tsuna a box filled with the fake Vongola half-rings and when asked what it was, said that Reborn knew. He then told Tsuna to take the box and run but Tsuna didn't get a chance, because the building that they had hidden behind suddenly got destroyed in a cloud of dust, revealing the silver haired swordsman behind.
"I see how it is. This is an emergency I can't let go. I need to defeat you and take those back." He said, pointing his sword at the two teens.
"What is it? What's going on?" Tsuna asked
"This isn't good" Reborn said, wondering where Yuka was. As a tutor Reborn couldn't intervene in his student's fight, especially because of who the opponent was, but not having officially joined the family yet, Yuka could.
Just as Tsuna was sinking into despair, a masked girl holding a shiny-looking sword identical to the one that the long-hair was holding suddenly flew in between Tsuna and the swordsman. She was wearing stockings under a white dress, the skirt-part short and flowing to prevent constriction of movement as well as gloves and boots. Her black hair was tied in a lose bun and her face was hidden behind a mask, which was plain white except for a small, tattoo-like design, on the right cheek. The design depicted a set of white angel wings framing a set of red devil horns on a dark evil-looking background that for some reason reminded Tsuna of Yuka's dark aura.
This mysterious girl , who only Reborn knew was Yuka, immediately engaged into a heated combat with the Long-hair, each wielding identical-looking weapons, though after a while it was apparent that the girls' sword was far more technologically advanced than the Long-hair's. Yuka didn't emit her terrifying aura so that Tsuna wouldn't recognise it.
Throughout the even-looking battle, Squalo looked at the well-known design on the mask, thinking, "The emblem of the Devil's Angel? Really? This kid has connections with theDevil's Angel? Boss had been trying to get her to join Varia for a long time... but from what I've heard, the devil's Angel should be able to slice me into shark-bait easily."
Swinging his sword at her in the battle which the girl was only taking the upper-hand slightly, though she might have been holding back, he thought, "This girl's strong and she seems to be holding back, but still, she's not nearly as strong as the Devil's angel is supposed to be. The Devil's Angel's strength probably got exaggerated."- Or that's what he thought until the moment where she rushed past him and he struck his sword at her flowing skirt.
CLANG! What? The dress is hard - and after more encounters, he finally realised that the dress was not only hard, but also very very very heavy, as was the boots, gloves and stockings, for that matter. The dress itself must've weighed 50kg at least, let alone the rest of her clothes. She's wearing at least 100kgs on her body (a weight that would crush a normal girl to death), yet she can still move so freely and gain my upper hand at the same time. Crap. I need to end this battle quickly and get the Vongola rings.
Suddenly, the Devil's Angel leapt away, disappearing as quickly as she had come.
"VOI! Where did you go?", he asked, before shrugging and going back to terrorising Tsuna, who was really starting to panic. But soon, Squalo found what must have been the reason for the Devil's Angel's disappearance.
"You haven't changed much. Superbi. Squalo. Getting so serious against children. Aren't you embarrassed?" Dino said, arriving at the scene with his men, just in time to see the Devil's Angel leave, and to recognise the emblem that marked her as the Devil's Angel. As well as bringind new hope to the eyes of Tsuna, who from the millisecond that the Devil's Angel left, was sure that he was dead, and his arrival had made Squalo's eyes narrow in thought.
"Bucking Bronco Dino? The Devil's Angel must have a grudge on Bronco or something" Squalo thought, his ignorance in human behaviour (or angelic for this matter) leading him to think up something so childish (since in reality, if the Devil's Angel really had a grudge on someone, that someone would be dead), "This kid has Connections with the Cavallone as well?"
"If you insist on continuing on your tasteless game, I'll take you on." Dino said, his eyes narrowed in seriousness.
Squalo was already worn out from the unavoidable battle with the Devil's Angel. Taking on the Bronco would be even more of an unwanted hassle.
So he said, "Voi! I'd be ready to take you on here and now, but boss wouldn't like it if I take on the family alliance – So I'll just go home quietly…There's no way I'd do that!", grabbing Tsuna by the hair and taking the fake half-rings without him noticing it.
"Let go of Tsuna!" Dino said, his whip flying in Squalo's direction and getting blocked by the sword's exploding projectiles, which created a cloud of smoke.
"Tsuna!" Dino shouted. Tsuna was found, unharmed but Squalo was leaving, and with him went the Vongola half-rings that neither Tsuna nor Basil knew were fake.
Reborn commented that it wasn't good idea to follow him, this comment leading to a question of why Reborn didn't help them and attack him.
"I'm not allowed to attack him." Reborn said, and upon being questioned why, he said, "Because he's in the Vongola family as well." -This statement leading to Tsuna's big exclamation that a Vongola had tried to kill him. As his younger dame-student stressed out about that and his older dame-student helped bring the injured to safety, Reborn pondered about the stolen Vongola half-rings, or more specifically why Yuka had let them be stolen, when she could've beaten Squalo.
He walked to a nearby alley, where he found Yuka, already changed back into her blouse and skirt, her hair back in a side pony-tail.
"Yuka, it's not like you to let something as important as the Vongola half-rings to be stolen so easily, or to come late for a fight, for that matter. Where did you disappear to anyway?"
"Well… I wasn't expecting Basil to be in this area so I had to go prepare when I found out that information. For one, I had to change my clothes or my identity wouldn't remain anonymous for long. I also had to go home to get the sword. You know how a lot of the good weapons out there are based on my earlier blueprints of weapons that were either sold or stolen from my trash cans. So I thought it would be interesting if I fought Squalo with the more advanced version of the sword." Yuka said in a sheepish voice, her sparkly aura now spewing out cute things, kinda like Reborn when he told Tsuna that he hadn't come as quickly since he had to evacuate the children as well as fetch the unneccessary pot-plant costume.
"Hmph. I know you want to know why I let him go", Yuka said, her attitude turning serious. "The half-rings in the box aren't real. Cavallone has the real ones."- For she had decided to back out of the fight when Dino had arrived, giving Squalo an opportunity to take the fake half-rings in the presence of the Bucking Bronco, instead of unrealistically and suspiciously taking them on the watch of the almighty Devil's Angel, who couldn't possibly lose to him if not on purpose.
Their conversation ended there, each walking their separate ways.
Yuka walked to the street, before taking a taxi home where she found her brother waiting, ready for a spar. As usual, Kyouya took of his jacket, which weighed quite a lot, while Yuka put on even more weights. That way, they were almost even, and Kyouya would even come close to winning sometimes. At the end of the day, Yuka quickly skimmed over all the information that she had got from all her monitoring devices. In short, it seemed that Cavallone had revealed that Basil was bait and that he had the real rings and along with Reborn, they had explained about the Vongola rings. Tsuna had come home to find that his seemingly no-good father had arrived, vulgar in his manner, making Tsuna ashamed to have to show his embarrassing father to his friends, not knowing who his father really was.
It was late and Yuka had a feeling that the days following would be quite hectic and that it was a good idea to rest. She went and checked on her already asleep brother, before going back to her own room, setting her laptop on her bed-side table and going to bed.
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