Chapter 4
As Tsuna spoke with the older version of Gokudera there was a shuffling in the bushes. They both became alert and Adult Gokudera put his hand into his jacket. The bushes parted and Mizu and Suki stepped out. They all froze and stared at each other.
"Mizu?" Gokudera asked breaking the silence.
"Hayato-kun?" Mizu asked then added with a blush "You sure... changed."
"Mizu, Suki, what are you doing here?" Tsuna asked as they came closer.
"We'd like to know that too." Suki said and crossed her arms. Mizu stood beside Adult Gokudera and stared up at him as he looked down at her. He Blushed then hugged her.
"You're the only girl that ever had that effect on me." He said then there was a puff of smoke and he was replaced by young Gokudera. There was an awkward pause until Gokudera pushed her off.
"What the hell!?!?" He exclaimed.
"Humph," Mizu said turning her back to them all as she blushed embarrassed, "I sure like you better when you're older."
A girl popped out of the bushes and stared at the group, appearing as if she were about to fire but then she laid eyes on the twins. She immediately gave them a humble bow then turned to the guys, ready to attack. The twins looked at each other confused then ran off into the bushes, leaving the boys there.
"Those bastards!" Gokudera screamed pulling out some dynamite.
Tsuna was a lot less anxious to fight with this lady and politely asked who she was.
She didn't answer, she just started her attack which was releasing a box weapon at the boys which was a centipede. The boys were beat up before the twins returned to the clearing.
"Hey, Lal!" they shouted in unison.
Lal quickly jumped from the tree and went to the twins as her box weapon dared the boys to move.
"Yes?" she answered humbly.
They spoke to Lal inaudibly as the boys stood rock still. Lal was explaining to the girls that she was testing the boy's strength in order to train them further later on. The girls both nodded and told her to carry on. They had been instructed not to disrupt the time line too severely and if she needed to test them then they needed to be tested.

"I can't believe you two let her beat us up like this!" Gokudera fumed.
"We have to protect the timeline." Mizu snapped over her fried fish.
Lal smiled in a small way, "You do know that just yesterday Gokudera the older version of yourself proposed to Mizu..."
"WHAT?!" he screamed, "What the heck was i thinking?!"
A familiar laugh came from the bushes and out popped the future Yamamoto. Suki began blushing furiously at the future Yamamoto's mature and handsome face. He looked at her for a long time before speaking.
"What are you all doing here? Suki...you look...younger." he smiled.
''That's because I'm from 10 years ago," Suki said softly and he smiled a little more.

"Well it's great to see you." he said then all of a sudden they were attacked by a Gola Mosca.
While Lal Mirch and Yamamoto fought the Mosca Gokudera, Tsuna, Mizu and Suki hid behind a bush.
Suki took out some Mammon chains and instructed the boys on how to use them on their rings. Mizu and Suki's rings already had Mammon chains on them and so no one could trace their ring location but Suki and Mizu knew that if they stayed in the area too long someone would trace their rings to that location, find them then take their rings.
Mizu went into a trance and spoke to her future self through the moons of the eight planets. It took a lot out of her to reach her older self inside that great white machine but she managed anyway.
"Door to base...over there..." Mizu said when she stopped levitating and fell into Gokudera's lap - unconscious.
"Let's go..."Suki said about to crawl away.
"Wait...what about Mizu?" Tsuna asked her concerned, kneeling down.
"She'll wake up in a few hours." Suki explained, "Someone will have to carry her."
"Why don't you? She's your sister." Gokudera asked rolling the unconscious girl towards her sister.
"Are you kidding? All she's eaten for the past weeks in barbecued pork and instant ramen in a cup." Suki replied rolling her back at him.
They started rolling Mizu back and forth past Tsuna giving reasons why they wouldn't or couldn't carry her. Tsuna heard the sound of rockets coming towards them and so her grabbed Mizu and put her on his back.
"Something's coming..." he warned them.
Just then Lal and Yamamoto finished defeating the Mosca. Yamamoto ran to where they were and grabbed Suki's arm, pulling her in the direction Mizu had pointed to earlier.
"C'mon, more Moscas are coming." Yamamoto said seriously as her lead them to what appeared to be a dead end.
He opened it somehow and they all rushed in. Having four of the most powerful rings in the universe in one place wasn't very wise without Mammon chains but luckily they couldn't be traced anymore.
Yamamoto glanced down at Tsuna who was now holding the unconscious Mizu in his arms. Tsuna was staring intently at her peaceful face.
"She'll be okay." Suki ensured him.
"She is only like this because she tried to save us and neither of you wanted to carry her..."Tsuna said sadly.
"Tenth..."Gokudera began to say.
"Where can I put her?" Tsuna asked when the door of the elevator opened.
Yamamoto left with Tsuna while the rest of them headed to the main room where Reborn, Ryohei, Fuuta and Bianchi were waiting.

Tsuna sat by Mizu's bed for quite a while - about an hour before she even moved and when she did Tsuna didn't like what happened. Mizu coughed as if she were choking on something and when she did her monitor line went flat.
Everyone rushed inside (except Gokudera) everyone was around her bed. Suki held her sister's hand and stared at her pale face. There was silence in the room then a hiccup which brought her monitor back to a steady beeping. Suki slapped Mizu across her face.
"Don't you ever scare me like that again!" Suki growled to her.
The room slowly emptied until only Tsuna and Suki were left. Suki left soon to go talk to Yamamoto who promised to tell her about rings. Gokudera came slowly into the room.
"Tenth...you should go eat something. Haru and Kyoko made some sushi along with Yamamoto." Gokudera told his beloved boss.
Tsuna was getting hungry and so he got up from the seat next to Mizu's bed. He gave her one last look before leaving the room.
Gokudera stood with his hands in his pockets as he watched the door close behind Tsuna then he looked at Mizu. She actually looked sort of, kind of ok when she wasn't being all Mizuy...
Who was he kidding...she looked beautiful...but she was Mizu so there wasn't anything behind this feeling. He would just ignore it until it went away.
"You don't have to worry about her you know Gokudera." Bianchi said from the door.
Gokudera turned to see his half sister standing there with an IV in her hands.
"I'm not worrying!" Gokudera shouted at her.
"You haven't gotten sick yet..." Bianchi said "That's good."
Gokudera then realized her face was bare and fell over in pain, gripping his stomach. She put him onto a bed.
"I know Mizu has been confusing you since the day you first met her and you never really liked her but you will." Bianchi said putting on her goggles. "In the future, she's the only one that kept you from doing stupid and reckless things and that's why you proposed to her."
Gokudera groaned, "She must have used that mind control thing on me again..."
"No. From the day she promised never to use it on you again, she hasn't but yet from that moment on you started to risk you life for her. At first you thought she was using it on you but then you realized that you were volunteering your life for her's."
Gokudera looked over at Mizu and then looked away blushing. Why was she the only one that ever got him to blush like that?!
Suki listened attentively to Yamamoto speak about the rings and the war and some stuff she accidentally tuned out staring at his 'gorgeous' face.
"Suki, you just zoned out." Yamamoto said waving a hand in front of her. She blinked blankly a few times before jumping back to reality.
"Oh, sorry. So how's your father?" she asked and suddenly Yamamoto's features darkened.
"He's dead." he replied simply
"I'm sorry I brought it up."
"It's alright. You didn't know." he said with a forced smile. He scratched the front of his hair and something caught Suki's eye.
"Is that...?" she began but trailed off. He stopped for a moment and looked at his hand.
"This?" he asked with a genuine smile as he pointed at the ring on his finger.
"Yea. It's so pretty." she said as she stared at it.
"You're so much like you older self. She did the same thing when she first saw it." he said with a smile and took it off for her to see. She rolled it around in her hands staring at it with awe, then stopped.
"Who'd you marry?" she asked and his smile got all the bigger.
"You." he said and her jaw fell.