Coalesce
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Warning: violence, little bit of gore, death, BAMF!moments. (If it's too much, I could tone it down.) (Please read Author Notes at the chapter's end.)
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This chapter is for Driagirl123 of Devianart who made an awesome fan-art of Daniela Sawada. Here on FF. net she's under the alias Driagirl.
Go check out her page on Devianart (and here on FF. net) to see her work! (Along with Dany's drawing! T^T)
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Fon, Storm Guardian to one Dany Sawada, had to make a decision.
Warm brown eyes watch fondly as his Sky plays with her fellow housemates and new Lighting Guardian. Feeling through his Bond how much elated his Sky is, he is certain that he could very well be in paradise.
"You're going to deal with the Triad?"
His calm eyes turn to his fellow Guardian and Arcobaleno, folding his hands in his large sleeves.
"I'll be gone for only a short amount of time." The happy cries of Dany and his apprentice make him turn to them to see Lichi, his little white monkey, jumping into little Lambo's afro and disappearing into it making the children gasp in amazement and the young Vongola Decimo yells in distress. "I won't even get out of the country."
"Good." Reborn looks at the little prince, Fuuta de la Stella, who ended up, surprisingly, being Dany's Lighting Guardian. "Our Famiglia is getting bigger." Reborn tilts his fedora. "We don't need such hindrances." Fon nods serenely in agreement, taking a sip from his teacup.
"I agree." His eyes are sharp and there is Storm in his gaze. "I've indulged them for long enough."
"Hm."
•••
"Eh? Fon is leaving?"
They are reunited in Dany's room. Dany and Fuuta sitting on the girl's bed, Dany holding her Storm while Reborn is held safely in Fuuta's arms. Both facing each with the babies in their arms.
The Storm Guardian gazes warmly at the boy.
"Not for much long, Fuuta." Dany's hold on him tightens. He squeezes her hand in comfort. "I won't be gone for long."
Her purple eyes are almost hesitant and she buries her nose into his hair, basking in his calming musk. (Is it really strange that her 'baby' Guardians have a 'musk'? Probably.)
"You promise? Will you be safe?" Her voice is muffled and tiny, uncertain. Fon's gaze is soft as he turns into her hold and cradles her face with his tiny hands.
"It's a deal." Their Bond is filled with warm and longing. "I won't ever let you go for naught, Dany. I'll not leave your side. None of us will." The other two nod in agreement. His eyes turn serious and her face is understanding when he continues. "But there is something that I need to take care of."
Her purple eyes connect with his brown ones and she nods in acceptance. But there is steel in her eyes and her whole demeanor changes as she answers him. The Guardians straighten their back as they focus in their Sky, flames dancing in each of their eyes at her resolute voice.
"But shall you encounter any kind of inconvenience that may result in injuries upon yourself, call for Reborn." The baby in question looks sharply at her and she reassures him with a warm smile. "I can not help in such tasks that requires physical help from myself." Her voice gains a tinge of bitter longing. "My body and health do not permit me to fight alongside you." She looks at them with resolve. "But you can help each other, and we shall not be prideful about such things as reinforcements." They all nod grimily.
"You're right Dany-chan." Fuuta says, and then tilts his head towards his Ranking book carefully stored in Dany's closet, his hazel eyes fixed upon Fon's. "Fon…the Triad is listed as your second most hated enemy." Fon nods, Fuuta had told them he would make a ranking of all their past enemies so they could keep a track of possible confronts. "The first being…that man." There is resentment when the young boy speaks of the individual. The Arcobaleno had agreed to tell the Ranking Prince of their Curse. The boy is a fellow Guardian and could not be in the unknown of such information that could come to potentially harm their Sky, besides - the boy is a important and useful asset. "Is it them you're going to deal with?"
"Yes." He nods, remembering another of Fuuta's ranks, one that Reborn cleverly asked for and Fuuta immediately acquiesced - their past enemies most likely to contact their Sky in their current location. "The Triad and Checker Face were the only ones to appear in that list that worries me."
"Yeah." Reborn sips his coffee, his fedora shadowing his eyes. "The rest of them is mere scum compared to those. And the Mafia still don't know of our new status." Black eyes connect with brown. "But you can handle it, can't you?"
Fon's answering smirk is the prove that he is, indeed, Kyouya Hibari's relative.
"Absolutely. I'll be back in two days. With gifts, of course."
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The next morning, a Sunday, they (as in the Sawada Family and all of its aggregates) accompany the Storm Arcobaleno to the train station.
Tsuna doesn't have the slightest idea as to what the hell they are doing there.
"Why the hell is Fon-san suddenly traveling to Tokyo?!" In true Dame-Tsuna style, the Vongola heir is panicking and making a ruckus in midst what already is chaos. Because that's what happens when the Sawada household in its entirety goes out of their house. "Lambo, stop fighting with I-Pin! M-Mama! Please, don't eat those cookies Bianchi made!"
"Ara? But Bianchi-chan had put so much effort into making them."
"Yes, Vongola Decimo. I've put too much love and effort into them. Just for my Reborn."
"Ara, weren't they for Fon-chan?"
"Him too, if Mama insists."
"Does't matter! Don't eat it!" He pulls Lambo away from I-Pin and holds the boy in his arms as the I-Pin runs towards her master. "Hie! Lamboooo! For once, behave!"
"Nooooo! Lambo-sama does what he wants!"
"Haha! Tsuna, that's so cool. The other baby, Fon isn't? Well, he is going to Tokyo!"
"Oi! Baseball freak, why are you even here?!"
"Haha, funny, I don't know! Just felt like it, ya know? Reborn-san called, too!"
Tsuna does not even know when TakeshiYamamoto and Hayato Gokudera entered their group.
"Bye, Fon-chan! Be careful, ok?"
"Hahi! Tokyo is a dangerous place, Fon-chan! You gotta be strong!~"
Tsuna is carefully not thinking about the fact that Kyoko-chan is in the same place as his crazy family. And lets not think about Haru Miura's presence and apparent friendship with his crush.
"Reborn! Why are we even here?!" Tsuna turns towards his tutor, who is sitting on top of his sister's head as she crouches down in front of Fon, holding hands with Fuuta who is squatted by her side as well, saying their farewells to Fon. Tsuna immediately cringes at her shiny, tear filled eyes.
H-holy sh-! Lambo falls from his arms and goes laughing loudly towards Nana, who is buying water to Fon along with Bianchi. Dany is crying?!
"B-be careful!" Her lips are trembling and her voice is almost a squeak. "B-beat them to a pulp!"
"What the hell is happening?!"
He fails to see the mischievous glances treaded between Dany and her Guardians.
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"Sawada-chan."
Looking up from her textbook towards her teacher, Dany blinked as he pointed towards the class' door.
"You're being called."
Blinking, Dany nods and gets up from her desk, walking out of her classroom and ignoring the insults Gokudera is throwing at their professor for his apparent 'insolence' towards the Juudaime's 'Honored Sister'. Closing the door as she walks out of the classroom, she can still hear Tsuna's cries, Gokudera's profanities and Yamamoto's laugh.
Purple eyes meet with narrowed black.
"Kusakabe-senpai?"
"There was another attack."
Her eyes sharpen at his words and she feels the slight additional weight on top of her head that tells her that her Sun is there with her.
"Take me to Hibari-senpai. Now."
Dany is the unofficial President of the Student Council, and it is a known fact in the school. She has duties to attend now.
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"Where is…Fuuta?"
Nana blinks at her daughter's question. She sees the worry in her eyes and remembers that Fuuta-chan is her daughter's best friend. Since the boy entered their house, the two of them were never far apart - along with the two babies. Dany liked to hold hands with the boy, and the boy now sleeps in her daughter's room along with Fon-chan.
It is cute.
"Ara, he went to the park, but…" She frowns worriedly, and Reborn-chan appears suddenly at her daughter's side. "He didn't came back and it's already late."
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It was suspiciously coincidental that the Triad's Red Pole, the military commander of the Triad, was stationed on Tokyo a mere week after Fon's time-limit on Japan.
Fon was no fool. He knew a trap when saw one.
In the past, he would be dreadful of such encounter. His past mistakes and choices hating him and keeping him in the Chinese syndicate. When in his younger years, Fon did not know how keep a leash onto his flaming temper. Lashing and destructive, he was menace never seen before — a behavior that cost him his freedom as caged him with Duty.
(The status of an Active Flame User without its Sky as they latch on to something, anything or anyone to disregard/overstep/forget their lack of Harmonization — Duty)
Since before the Curse, Fon had came to peace with himself and grudgingly accepted his fate as a Hitman. He accepted that he wouldn't find a Sky strong enough to keep him grounded.
Fon had never been more happy to be wrong.
And now he has a family. Not a pretty, strategically formed one. Where strengths were counted and everything was carefully programmed. No, his family was unpredictable and so delightfully loving.
More than Famiglia, Fon now has a family.
And Fon would protect his family from his past. He would destroy anyone and anything who dared to stand on their way.
"Oh, the great Fon finally had courage to face his superiors?" There was no response from the said Arcobaleno.
Brown eyes stare blankly at the man lounging on the Chinese chaise. He is dressed in a silk blue qipao, long brown hair in a low ponytail and a ever smiling face as he mocked the Martial Artist.
"Tch." The Red Pole frowns uglily at the baby. Reaching with his hand at the side table by his side, he takes one long gulp from the scotch bottle on top of it and with a gasp let it fall to the ground as he gets up from the chaise and walks towards the baby. "The higher ups didn't like your little rebellion. Missing your dead-line?" He tutted and crouched gracefully in front of the Storm. "I don't think you will be easily forgiven."
Fon doesn't look away from the man, but he can sense the armed men around them. The grand room he is in is filled with luxurious Chinese décor, its rich aura is ruined by the opium and sex scent that permeates the room.
These were the people who could hurt his Sky. These scum were potential threats to his family.
It was their, the Triad's, mistake — sending operatives with almost no training with Flames and a arrogant and still very much young commander.
The man, the Red Pole, suddenly has a gun in his hands and he points it directly at the baby's forehead.
"I think they will need a new Arcobaleno now." He tilts his head. "But a submissive man like you never should have had the title of one the World's Strongest." A pleasant, twisted smile appears on the man's lips. "Now, die." He fires.
But he's too slow.
In a mere second, the Red Pole's head is smashed onto the ground, the sickening sound of his skull shattering into pieces and cutting through skin, cartilage and flesh, the blood splashing on the polished floor echoing in the suddenly too silent room. Pieces of scattered brain, bone and hair splatted on the floor like pancake. Blood sprays as the man's head is smashed into the floor, cracking a small crater and forming a macabre picture of a flower made of blood along with the cursed baby's Red Flames that seem to burn the corpse on the floor as Fon jumps from the head he had just smashed and perches himself on the chaise the dead man was perviously lounging.
Red eyes take in every men in the room. The grandiose space has fifteen in total, and in the whole building there is over a hundred men.
He smirks inwardly, he was an official mafiosi now, hum? A Vongola, and he would now prove his role as a Vongola Storm Guardian. How did they put it?
Continuously at the heart of the attack, the furious Storm that never rests.
Smiling serenely, Fon bows and when he straightens his back, his smile is twisted into a bloodthirsty smirk and his killing intent freezes every single one of them. (People, with time, often forgot why they were called 'The Strongest Seven'.)
(He would make them remember.)
Desperate, they immediately start to shoot at the baby. Hundreds of bullets come in his direction at incredible speed — yet, swiftly he dodges all.
Firstly, he stomps one of them dead onto the ground with enough force to leave a small crater, taking his handgun (Six bullets remain by the weight of it) and shoots at one of the closest bullets, deflecting it away from him. Within the next second, he kills another one and runs up on one the six pillars in the room. The men keep shooting and he jumps towards the ground in-between two pillars, and kicks one of them down (skull fractured, will not wake up, still alive but dead soon enough) while shooting another one.
Eleven left.
He twists, missing one kick coming at his back and shoots the male before he can shoot him. Jumping again, he quickly shoots the ones with the damned machine guns, killing three of the four, each with a bullet in-between their eyes. (one machine gun remains, can't kill him from current distance, handgun useless now)
Six left.
He throws the empty handgun at one's head, knocking him out (yet another fractured, would die in a bit as well) and runs towards the only one left with a machine gun.
His target is at the room's door, beyond the six pillars that form a corridor directly to him, there is four other targets — they have minor training in combat compared to Fon, and all of them are aiming their useless handguns towards him. (as if a simple bullet would harm him. They weren't even close to Reborn. It was ridiculous to compare)
A series of kicks to one's chest while using him as a shield and Fon takes his handgun and uses his falling body as leverage to jump. With one front flip he is facing his remaining targets. (He only have two bullets)
Quickly taking out the two minor targets while still mid front flip, his feet touch the floor for a mili second before he runs zigzagging towards the last one. Two feet away from him, his Pacifier shines Red along with his fist and his eyes as he jumps towards the last one with his Flames pumping through his body.
Fon spins his little form to gain momentum and with the sole of his little feet kicks the man squarely on his nose, the fragile structure enters into the man's skull forcefully and he goes flying through the door, only stoping on the wall across the hall. Blood and Storm Fames in his trail, and when his body smashes onto the wall— it is nothing more than ashes as Fon's Flame Disintegrates the corpse. Debris and dust in his path as a bunch of armed men aim their guns towards the door.
Fon steps out with his hands calmly clasped behind his back, serene smile on his lips and as calm as the eye of a hurricane. Looking over his shoulder at the destruction he made, Fon smiles for only a moment before looking back at the his targets. He would only let one of them alive, and send him to the Leader. I think it would be a sufficient message for my retirement?
"Ni-Hao." Blazing red eyes stare them down, killing intent greater than they had ever seen or felt making many of them fall to the ground unconscious. "I'm afraid that I'll have to…" Here the baby smiles amusedly at them. "Beat you all to a pulp."
Chaos ensues.
(Too much time with Reborn?)
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When Fon returns, he finds a desolate Sky and a grim Sun. But there is the obvious lack of the Lightning.
From the train station they walk directly towards the park where Fuuta was last seen. Tsuna and the others (Kyoko, Haru, Gokudera, Yamamoto, I-Pin and Lambo. The chaotic bunch.) are there waiting for them. Fuuta isn't there, and Dany feels the start of panic growing in her chest. Her hand is clenching, and her eyes are dull.
She then looks at her Reborn and her Fon, and she can't forget about them. Smiling trembling at them, she crouches down and draws them into a warm hug as the others go searching form them.
"He is not here." It's Reborn who says it. Because there is no beating around the bush with Reborn.
"No. He is not." She feels through their Bond. Fuuta is in pain. Fuuta is scared. Fuuta needs them. Fuuta needs her.
•••
The next day, Ryohei Sasagawa is the one to suffer an attack.
Dany feels empty when Hibari-senpai is out and running for blood just as info about the culprits being from Kokuyo arrives.
But she only nods when he looks at her - even when Tsuna screams for him to wait. Tsuna screams at her, saying in that desperate and distressed way of his that he is still poisoned and allergic to Sakura's.
(She doesn't have the slightest of ideas from where and since when Hibari is allergic to Sakura trees of all things. She blames Reborn, Tsuna and her Intuition is telling her to be cautious towards suspicious doctors. Then she blames the perverted Shamal.)
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Everyone goes to the hospital to see Ryohei. Dany stays back, much to Reborn's irritation. He asks where she is going, and she tells him to the park.
He doesn't ask which park.
He just says to be careful and that Fon is heading towards her.
Reborn never felt as angry with himself as he is when he sees his Sky walking away from him, (from safety) and he can't leave.
He wants to wring Timoteo's neck because there is Duty keeping him with Tsuna and away from his Sky.
But Fon arrives just as she is about to get out of his field of vision. The Storm Guardian jumps lightly on top of her head, and looks back at him with blank brown eyes that are accusing.
•••
She sits on one of the benches' surrounding the play area, holding her Storm Guardian close to her chest.
"Don't worry."
Blinking surprised at the Storm's sudden affirmation, Dany looks down to see him craning his neck towards her.
"Duty may stop Reborn from many things, but it's only because he is new at being a Guardian. He will come around." The baby looks towards the bunch of kids swarming around an ice-cream cart. "There was only one Sky in which Reborn came close to Harmonize with."
"Luce-san…"
"Exactly." Her frowns delicately at the memories from his past. "I, too, was close to Luce and wished her to be my Home. But with Reborn…it was different." He smiles bitterly. "Luce was almost like an artificial Sky to us, if such a thing exists." His hands grips one of hers. "Reborn was…close to Luce. She was a great strategist and was of great help with our missions. She always was serene and kept us from conflict. We respected Luce but Reborn…Reborn admired Luce." He looks away from their laced hands, his are of a mere a baby. Not truly his hands. "He thought she would accept us as her Set. But Luce already had one, and thus we were Rejected." He looks back at her. "Since then, all Reborn knows is Duty. We were all Hitmen before Guardian. For too long. Far too long."
•••
He observes the Vongola's sister from a distance while she speaks with one of the Arcobaleno. He is Possessing a kid's body, and hoped to lure the girl to their Hideaway.
But an Arcobaleno was not in his plans. And they were a bunch he better not mess with.
Principally the Storm.
Fon was one of the strongest men in the world. He, in his current body in this life, could not hope for a fair fight with such a man.
He would only approach her, then.
When the Martial Specialist jumped out of her lap and headed towards the ice-cream cart, (most likely to buy one for the girl. She looked like she needed it) he put a smile on his face and walked towards her.
It was when he was not two feet away from her that she focused completely on him, purple eyes freezing him into his spot, and he noticed the unrestrained power radiating from her - completely without finesse, but so pure.
Her Sky flames had such a strong Attraction he could feel the beginning of a Bond forming - a Bond he could feel was no simple ordinary Bond.
Freezing, smile leaving his face as he stares at her a mere two feet away, he temporarily seals his Flames deep, deep into himself. The Bond is left there, barely, but she is still holding strong onto him, and he feels angry. Absolutely angry because he wants to Reach out!
He wants to fall into her embrace and be safely secured by her, and protect her and be with her.
He hates it.
Nodding coldly at her, he turns away. Ignoring her hesitant, sweet and young, voice telling him to wait. (His legs dare to falter at her words. But he perseveres and continues on.)
Mukuro Rokudo would not fall into a Sky's grasp.
(He ignores the half formed Bond. And the orange roses that now fill his Mind Plane.)
(He is no Guardian.)
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"Who was he?"
"I…don't know."
"Do you wish me to look for him?"
"No…No."
(Something tells her that this has yet to end. She will meet him again.)
(Soon.)
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When the day they decide to head out to Kokuyo Land comes, Dany hates herself.
She hates herself because she had no strength. She is dead weight and for that, she can't go search for Lightning.
Leon's tail falls, Gokudera is attacked and there is a pattern in the attacks. Something regarding missing teeth, but she puts it aside to Tsuna to deal with and reads the letter Vongola Nono had sent. Technically, Dany can not read the letter. But she is Reborn's Sky and Timoteo is only an ally. An ally that seriously pisses her off because - how can he just order Tsuna to fight with such a dangerous criminal?
But Dany is made of fire and blood, so she deals with it the way she can. Not what she wants, because what she wants is to kill them with fire. But that is not available for now.
So, while Tsuna is out and saving his friend, Dany plots.
Reborn and Fon only watch in amazement as their Sky forms an attack plan, mounting counter plan after counter plan.
(Daenerys learned how to fight a war. Wars.)
(Daniela would make sure to put that knowledge into use.)
•••
When they go out, Dany is scared. She is so absolutely scared.
She fears for her loved ones.
It is in that moment that Dany finally notices - this life is not much different from her other one.
She still needs to fight for her halcyon days.
•••
Laying on her bed alone in her bedroom as she waits, (she can't do much more than that and she hates it) Dany thinks back to the strange boy who she Reached out to. He had Rejected her, he Broke their connection even before it could be complete.
He did with skill a child of his age should not have.
She couldn't even reign in her Attraction!
Suddenly, she could feel Fuuta's Bond again and she gasps when his terrified feelings reach her. (He is afraid for her. Silly boy.) She curls under her heavy blanket, hugging one pillow to her chest as she send reassurance to him and gratitude and happiness to Fon and Reborn.
Now, she waits for her brother.
And she knows Tsuna will make it. She knows because he too, as she is in this life and always would be, is made of fire and blood.
•••
That night, they all camp in Tsuna's room. (Nope. Tsuna wasn't going to stay in a cold hospital room. Dany knew of her Sun Guardian's Flame attributes and yes, she did asked him to heal the boy — at least enough to allow him to go home.)
She is sleeping with Tsuna on his bed, and Fuuta is at her bed's side. One of her hands is firmly grasped in his. Fon is sleeping besides him, I-Pin and Lambo not much far away.
"I don't know if I can still make ranks. I'm scared to try."
Fuuta was kidnapped because of his gift - and those bastards had taken his confidence from him. She squeezes his hand.
"You don't need to. But don't run away from your fears."
His hazel eyes looks searching at her. But then he smile softly and nods. He closes his eyes and sleeps.
She smiles at him and closes her eyes.
And opens them again to a beautiful field filled with orange roses, a lone tree next to her and great pond separating her from a forest.
It is a beautiful place. Calming and ethereal.
Looking around she spots someone's legs on the other side of the tree. She looks down to see herself dressed in white silk. The dress is very similar to her previous life's garments.
Carefully, she walks towards the other person. Crouching next to the older boy's sleeping body, she hugs her knees, putting her chin on top of her knees as she watches his form.
He is slender and tall, with long legs and long fingers. His face is almost aristocrat-like - all sharp angles and cheekbones. His hair is a dark shade of blue, the tips of it pinned up in a strange, morbid and comical mock of a crown. He is dressed with a long sleeved white button-up shirt and white pants. Like her, his feet are free of shoe-wear.
"It is rude to stare." Blinking surprised at his smooth, velvet-like voice. Dany nods mutely as he opens his eyes and stares at her with different-colored orbs. One is a deep indigo and the other a passionate, hateful red with a kanji as its pupil.
"Forgive me for my rudeness." She tilts her head. "I'm Daniela."
He stares at her with a raised eyebrow, a sinister smile on his lips.
"I'm Mukuro."
Her eyes sharpen and and her fingers twitch.
"The Illusionist."
"Kufufu~"
Straightening herself, she glares him down with fire in her eyes.
"You are the one with the sob story and the useless followers." They weren't useless, at least not all of them, but a jab is a jab.
His eyes narrows at her and his smile widens.
"You tell me."
Raising an eyebrow at him, she sits carefully with her legs by her side and hands carefully put on top of her knees. Primly, she lifts her chin and smirks at him.
"I don't need your confirmation. I know."
"Kufufufu~" He smiles mockingly at her. "Your brother thought he knew, too."
"Tsuna-nii also knew that he wasn't you." She smirks right back at him. "But unlike Aniki, I do not ignore my Instincts."
"Kufufufufufufu~" He looks at the tree's top, its branches swaying lightly with the breeze. "You're interesting."
"Where are we?"
"In my mind." She tenses. "Ah, you understand the meaning then. Of being inside of an Illusionist, a Mist's, mind." He looks away from her, gazing at the distant forest beyond the pond. "Don't worry though. I' can't really hurt you."
"You are weak from the battle."
"Maybe."
(Fatigue from his battle is not the reason.)
(Her Intuition whisper of another answer.)
(She remembers the strange boy. His right eye was red.)
(Mukuro Rokudo is no Guardian of Daniela Sawada.)
•••
"Mafia…Land?"
Fon's gaze is warm as he tells Dany that Reborn has planned a vacation trip for them all.
"Yes."
"Are we…" She frowns slightly towards Reborn who was lecturing Tsuna. (beating up the poor boy) "Are we going to participate in those strange things that happens to Tsuna?" The cursed baby blinks at her with surprise before laughing softly.
"Of course not, Daniela." He shakes his head fondly at her. "Reborn would never put you in these situations."
•••
"This is Colonello."
Dany blinks at the not-baby. Seeing the bright blue glowing Pacifier, she nods. Rain Arcobaleno, hm? She narrows her eyes at him and hugs Reborn closer to herself. The one who wasn't supposed to be there.
"Pleasure to meet you, I'm Daniela."
"Kora! Yo, kid! I'm Colonello, the Strongest Arcobaleno."
"How is it?" Reborn's voice sounds almost indignant and his smile is a menacing little thing.
She wants to bash Colonello's head into the ground for daring to call her a kid. But then she remembers that, yes, she is child, and simply nods, a resigned smile on her lips as her Sun Guardian jumps from her arms and hits the Rain Arcobaleno's brow with his own.
Sighing she looks at Fon and Fuuta, and they smile at her. Smiling back she looks up at the sunny sky with a beaming smile.
She had a good feeling about these vacations.
Looking at the blond baby by the corner of her eye, she raises an eyebrow in curiosity and amusement.
What a crude person.
•••
Wide purple eyes stare at the baby standing on the top of a giant armored octopus.
The baby tilts his helmet-covered head at her as Reborn jumps on top of her head and she hugs Fon closer to her body and her grip on Fuuta's hand tightens.
"Waaaa, Dany-chan! That's Skull de Mort! The Cloud Arcobaleno and the first ranking unluckiest mafiosi!" Nodding at Fuuta's awed words and never taking her eyes of from the Cloud in front of her, she can't help but think - that's one crazy person.
He laughs loudly and calls himself the best in the world just to cower at Reborn's gaze. But she feels there is more to him.
This person is old.
Slowly, she Reaches.
Surprisingly, they Bond.
"W-What?" He points at her with a shaking finger and wavering voice. It is a mask, she can feel. He is confused and surprised and so very very lost. "T-This slip of a girl is Skull-sama's Sky?" Besides her, her Guardian's tense and looks at the other baby with incredulity (in Reborn's case, disgust) while Colonello stares doubtfully at him. "N-No! I…" His voice is no more a squeak. It is deep, velvet-like and decisive - without fear or hesitance. "I won't accept it."
•••
"Really?"
"Yes, Reborn. Really."
"Tch…Are you sure about it?"
"Yes."
"Skull? Seriously, Colonello is better than him."
"What do you mean by that, kora?! And what was that about Guardian?!"
"Tell anyone and you're dead."
…
"But…Seriously."
•••
A/N: An earlier chapter because of Driagirl and the little fact that this story has over one hundred favs and follows? (OMG. I'm just…I can't even describe!) and the next one is being written. Share your ideas and thoughts, maybe even theories, I can't promise to answer them now for the sake of the plot and its surprises, but I will definitely read them and take them into note! ^.~
Yes. What you just read is the giant ass possibility of a BAMF!Skull. But what KHR character isn't, in some given moment, a BAMF? What are your thoughts about the poor sod? And yes, their confusing Bonding will be explained later in the story — along with the whole concept of Bonding in itself.
And about that Fon scene, I hope it wasn't so bad. First time writing intense scenes like that. Did you guys enjoyed it? I want to explore this so said unstoppable force that is the Arcobaleno. Yes, I know. The Triad won't be so easily dismissed. Fon hurt their pride. I'm aware of that, but this is Katekyo Hitman Reborn! If Reborn can do those kinds of shit, Fon can too. And please, Fon is as much as professional as Reborn. He must know how to handle a gun.
While writing this chapter, I noticed how god-like Fuuta's ranking can be. It's amazing.
Also, muchachos, next Arc is going to be The Shit.
Even upped the Rate to T.
Why? One word.
Varia.
Want another hint?
Xanxus needs to erase all threats to his claim to the Vongola Famiglia. Better to start with the weakest link, don't you think?
~MariDark