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Kanda frowned. Well, he always frowned, but his frown was a little bigger right now. He was looking down on a bowl filled with steaming ramen. Even so, he distinctly remembered demanding soba with tempura. Angry, he began to get up and get some real breakfast.

Lambo stared at the weird man's hair. It looked really funny, but there seemed to be candies holding it up. Candies...


Flashback to earlier that morning...

"You. Give me a tie." Kanda turned to Gokudera, who had just finished changing. He gave the swordsman a strange look.

"Why would you need a tie? You aren't wearing a suit." Kanda stared. Then he realized what the other boy thought he was saying.

"No," He said, shaking his head. "Something to tie my hair with."

"...Oh. I don't have anything." Then, an idea came to Gokudera. An evil grin spread across his face. Kanda felt as if he had made a mistake asking the silver-haired boy. "...But I do know who might!"

And Gokudera ran across the hall again.

"Oi, he wants to tie up his hair! Like a girl!" Gokudera laughed, before having a pillow muffle his voice.

"Idiot! I told you to stop barging in! Besides, I'm a girl! What's wrong with looking like me?" She snapped.

"Good morning, Gokudera-kun." Kyoko smiled and stretched, seeming to have just woken up.

"Morning, Kyoko-san." He said, then turning back to Haru, "But he's a dude! He shouldn't need one... Which is why, if he needs a hairtie, we're going to make him as girly as possible!"

A maniacal expression spread across his face. "Which is why, give me your frilliest, girliest, hairties."

"...What did you say you were going to do?" A dark expression was on Kanda's face as his hand clenched into a fist.

"Oh, good morning, Kanda-san." Kyoko gave another light smile as she left the room. Kanda ignored her.

"What were you going to do?" He snarled.

"Get you a hairtie." Gokudera retorted.

...All right then.

"Well, where?" Surprised that he had accepted that response, Gokudera froze, confused at what to do. Luckily, Haru came to the rescue. Walking over to the drawer by her bed, she opened it and, after rummaging through it a bit, pulled out two bands.

"Here you are." She said, handing the ties to Kanda. They looked like wrapped candies, one wrapped in pink 'paper', covered in polka-dots, and the other in green, also with little dots all over it. Kanda stared.

"I said I needed a hairtie, not sweets," he emphasized. Haru cocked her head in mock confusion.

"But these are hairties. By the way, they aren't that strong, so you might want to use both and layer them."

Kanda glared. Not specifically at Haru, although it could be directed towards her. It was a glare mainly for the world, she supposed.

"What else is there?" he demanded. Haru, glad she didn't have to lie, shook her head and sighed.

"I don't have any extras besides those, all my others are at home," she said sadly. Then, she turned her head, pointing at the tie in her own hair.

"If you want, you can use this one." It was a simple green elastic band, and Kanda would have gone for it if not for the two obnoxiously loud acrylic strawberries perched on it.

Kanda grimaced and shook his head. Grabbing the 'sweets', he left the room. Haru stared.

"Well," She stated. "That was rude."

She realized that Gokudera had long since left as well, and she had been talking to herself. Taking in a deep breath, she said,

"IDIIIIIOOT!"


And that was why Kanda was currently being drooled at by Lambo. Well, more specifically, Lambo was drooling at Kanda's hairtie...which made it all the worse.

So, Kanda sighed, and as he took a step forward,

"Hey! You're done? Great! You're the last one left!" Gokudera called, waving as he ran over. Latching on to Kanda's arm, he made a direct U-turn and began dragging him out of the room. "I've been ordered to take you to the training room." And with utter determination, he began to stomp towards the room exit. He didn't get very far, as Kanda wasn't moving.

"Let go." He glared and ripped his arm out of Gokudera's grasp. Then he looked at the ramen. It wasn't soba, but they probably weren't going to give him anything until he went to the meeting. So he leaned his head back, opened his mouth wide, and poured the entire bow of noodles (excluding the actual bowl) into his mouth.

Gokudera stared. Then, Kanda put down the bowl, using his free hand to wipe his mouth, and stared at Gokudera.

"Well? Where are we going?"

Not waiting for an answer, he strode out of the room, turning left at the door. Coming to his senses, Gokudera shook his head.

"Hey! You're going the wrong way!"


Entering the room, everyone turned to stare at Kanda. The baby was talking with a blond man he hadn't seen earlier, who had an annoyingly carefree grin on his face. Reborn, seeing that the man had arrived, turned and said,

"We will now tell you what will be happening six days from now. Th-"

"La~" Huh? The people all around Kanda were taking on confused expressions, one by one, as they noticed the little spheres floating in the air around them, accompanied by a La~La~La~ soundtrack.

"Ah!" A gasp escaped from Yamamoto's throat. An intrigued look appeared on his face.

La~La~La~

"It's like a 3-D Pacman!" Indeed, the strange creatures looked just like the main character of the game, but the main difference was that these floating items had the complexion and the texture of a marshmallow; soft, white, and powdery.

La~La~La~

"What is this, Gianini?" Tsuna asked.

...Yes, what are those strange looking things?

"I-I don't know! Someone seems to be interfering with the network!" Gianini exclaimed frantically typing, pressing different buttons, trying to get the music to stop, sweat pouring down his face. The new man watched with a suddenly serious expression.

La~La~La~

The 'pacmans' began to bob closer to each other, reaching out and grouping together.

La~La~La~

At the center, they formed a tight compact ball.

LA~LA~LA~

And in the center, there was an explosion, something appearing out of the ball.

Byakuran!

A little chibi, with the same body type as the boy with the hat appeared. Its hair was a mess, a mass of crazy white. Under one eye was a mark bearing three half-diamonds. The clothing, however was the strangest. He wore a clown's clothing, which had ruffles down the front and around his neck, along with the striped pants running down his legs.

"What?" Gokudera exclaimed.

Hahahahahahaha!

The voice laughed.

Hahaha-

Suddenly it was cut off, as Kanda had tried to chop the creature in half. It immediately reformed again, however.

"Tch." He muttered, his sword hand dropping to his side. The guardians stared at him.

And again the image exploded. One by one the white objects disappeared, a new image slowly being formed in the empty spaces.

A man, basically a grown up version of the earlier chibi, appeared, his mouth covered over a plastic spoon while he smiled. An abhorringly sweet looking ice cream was on the table in front of him, Kanda felt disgusted just looking at it. There were many scoops of the ice cream itself, chocolate, strawberry, raspberry, and some other scoops that had such strange colors he couldn't even begin to fathom what flavor they would be. Drizzled over the entire thing was chocolate syrup, which ran down the entire mess, working its way around the sticks of (also chocolate) Pocky and the wafers stuck along the sides, reaching into the soda at the very bottom of the bowl. Of course, there was also a mess under the bowl, but...

The man's eyes turned to Tsuna. Smiling, he said,

"How was it? Wasn't the animation amazing?"

Tsuna, surprised, exclaimed, "Byakuran!" The look in his eyes screamed, Why are you here?

Taking the spoon out of his mouth, he used it to pick up some of his treat.

"I was bored, so I came over to play." He said. Then, he pointed his spoon out at everyone as his eyes scanned over the room. "Want some?" Then his eyes landed on Kanda. A flicker of surprise ran across his face, but he couldn't forget his original purpose, so he continued, even with the shouts of 'Bastard!' coming from Gokudera.

"Well, actually I'm here about Choice." He said, licking the cream off of the spoon.

"After all, I haven't told you where we are to meet. Six days from now, at twelve-o'clock noon, I expect to see you at Namimori Temple."

"We're going to be fighting at Namimori?" Tsuna cried.

"That's right. Be sure to bring everything you need." His eyes flickered to Kanda, then back to Tsuna. "Also, make sure that everyone from the past is there." His eyes slid over to Kanda again. "Even non-guardians." Now then, since he was done with the message, he could have some fun. But...

"Everyone?"

"Even Kyoko and Haru?"

"Why do they have to get involved?"

Well, they didn't actually have to come, Byakuran just wanted them to suffer. But he had to give a reason...

"That way it has meaning. After all, you should have to put everything on the line as well, wouldn't you say?" And then, as an afterthought, he added,

"If not everyone is present, you will be disqualified." And now he could have some fun.

"Now then..." He turned his head to Kanda again, who was getting a bit paranoid after seeing that this man kept staring at him.

"Hello, Yuu-chan~" Kanda froze. Then he glared.

How dare he call me by my first name!

Not even wondering how Byakuran knew his first name, he spoke.

"Don't call me that." And he made a show of reaching for his sword, forgetting that the other man was merely and image being screened from another location.

Hmm... How does Byakuran know Kanda? Could they be on the same side? In fact, could Kanda be a spy? But...according to the lists, he can't lie, so I'll just keep a bit of trust in him for now. ...Maybe make Hibari his guard tomorrow.

Those were the thoughts that ran through Reborn's head when Byakuran addressed Kanda. The other guardians reactions went more along the lines of, WTF? Kanda's a freakin' spy! He tricked us? Oh, so Byakuran's also a UMA! and the like.

"Hahahaha~ Of course, Yuu-chan~" Kanda's mood got worse. "I never thought that we'd meet under these circumstances, however." That was when Kanda finally realized something important.

"How the f**k do you know my name?" Byakuran looked taken aback, then amused.

"Aww~ Yuu-chan doesn't recognize me?" He smirked. "I am-"

The screen went black. Gianini, who hadn't been paying attention due to the fact that he had been frantically trying to shut down the connection, smiled in victory.

"I have severed the connection!" he said proudly. Gokudera facepalmed.

"You idiot!" He said. "We were about to find out something big about Byakuran and Kanda!"

"...What?" Gianini asked, confused, his former victory forgotten.


Back in DGM verse...

Rhode licked a lollipop and smiled.

"Tyki," she said, referring to the man sitting next to her.

"Hmm?" He turned to face her.

"I've found out where Yuu-chan has disappeared to."


End chapter.

...Well, something's finally happened! Okay chapter? Review please!