Chapter Four
"You mean you can get us back to our own time zone?" said Kyoko, shocked. The people of the future nodded while the real Anna Boulevard stepped forward, bowing.
"We invented a time machine around ten years ago, and since we have storages of Vongola Decimo's flames and of his guardians, we will be able to get you to the time zone of wherever they are!" she said happily, attaching a small watch to Kyoko's wrist that had the date, time and year on it.
"If you press this button here and select a name of one of the Guardians, it will take you to one of them…" she continued, skimming through the names on Kyoko's time travel watch, "Oh, and you can only time travel once a day…"
"That's fine." said Kyoko, looking at her brother. "we know Tsuna-kun and Hibari-san are together… and Gokudera and Yamamoto left together too… so I think we should split."
"But Kyoko-"
"No buts Oni-chan, we need to get everyone back together, fast."
Ryohei sighed. Just go along with it.
"Fine. But I want you to go to Sawada's time. I know he'll protect you no matter what- to the EXTREME." said Ryohei. "I'll get to Yamamoto and Hayato."
They both nodded as Kyoko picked up Lambo, who was bickering.
"LAMBO WANTS GUMBALLS!"
"Thank you for helping us." said Kyoko, looking at the two they had knocked out yesterday, "Oh, and sorry about-"
"It's fine Miss Kyoko." said Anna, smiling. "You probably didn't know what to do in such an unusual time."
"And Sir Ryohei, it was an honour to meet you in this time." said James, holding his son Edward on his shoulders. Kyoko and Ryohei smiled as the pressed the side button to their watches, hearing Lambo scream for gumballs all the way through time.
"How d-do you m-mean, they'll b-be h-here soon…?" questioned Tsuna, biting his lip nervously as a light suddenly appeared next to him, Kyoko and Lambo appearing next to him.
"Tsuna-kun!" she said, looking at her watch, frowning. "what a terrible time-zone you ended up in Tsuna-kun!"
"K-Kyoko-chan!" gaped Tsuna, looking at her arms, "And L-Lambo?"
"LAMBO WANTS GUMBALLS!"
"Shhhh, be quiet Lambo-Dono!" said Basil, covering his mouth. Lambo could still be heard whining and then a moment later, soldiers were there, guns poised to shoot.
"Kill them!" the roared, firing, but then was shocked as Tsuna was in front of them, his dying will flame flaring wildly across his head.
"Don't try to hurt my friends." he said, punching him out the way before grabbing another's gun and bending it in half. The rest of them got the idea and bolted for it before Tsuna could do anything else.
"R-Run away!" they screeched, bolting for it. Tsuna closed his eyes and diminished his flames, looking at Kyoko worriedly. "Y-Your not hurt a-are you?"
"I'm fine Tsuna-kun." she said, looking him up and down, "but your not…"
"D-Don't worry about m-me…" assured Tsuna, "Where is e-everyone e-else…?"
"Well, Oni-Chan, Gokudera-Kun and Yamamoto-kun will be here tomorrow…" said Kyoko quietly, "The time travel watches need a day to recharge before they can take more than one person to another time…"
"A-Ah…" said Tsuna nervously, "w-well… we need t-to h-help H-Hibari…s-san… and M-Mukuro…"
"Don't be in such a rush Dame-Tsuna."
Tsuna whipped round to see four Arcobaleno behind him. Reborn, Fong, Mammom and Colonello stood, irked slightly because they had to use a lot of their power to time travel with Verde's new invention that he had miraculously 'brought' with him. Currently Verde was going towards Lal, Chrome and Skull's location.
"R-Reborn!"
The demented infant smirked and tilted his Fedora, his eyes seemingly distracted.
"I can see that Hibari and Mukuro have been captured by Hiroto Dazai." commented reborn.
"H-Hiroto… Dazai…?"
"Yes." replied Reborn. "Before I became an Arcobaleno, Hiroto was a fellow hitman who was often sent on mission with me since we were both talented with guns. He was a strange one… always had been interested in time travel. Obviously, he kept hunting down methods to do it, and he finally came up with a method by setting certain timers on Lambo's ten year Bazooka." continued Reborn. "Naturally, if we all went through it one by one, we would have ended up in complete different time zones, but much to Hiroto's distaste, we went in groups. Sure, Tsuna rightfully should have been left here by himself but fortunately Hibari was pushed next to him by Ryohei, which was also a mistake-"
"St-Stop confusing m-me R-Reborn!"
"And I don't know how Mukuro ended up with those two, considering he was the last to go through the Bazooka-"
"REBORN!"
Reborn continued to ignore Tsuna as he continued on with his very long and detailed speech.
"And now we've managed to gather he's gathering up all the guardians, but he failed to notice Tsuna was the Vongola Decimo, which we should be thankful for since Dame-Tsuna was at his weakest point- until now."
"R-Reborn! Stop making f-fun of m-me…" muttered Tsuna.
"Get a grip, hey!"
"… I won't be able to find any money worth items in this time of war."
"I think we should all calm down and think of a solution to get Hibari and Mukuro back." stated Fong calmly. Reborn smirked at Mammon and Colonello began arguing with one another.
"Dame-Tsuna. As the Vongola-Decimo, the decision is yours."
After a few hours, Mukuro woke up and sat up slowly, glancing around the dark room only to notice he could only see out of one of his eyes.
"Oya?" he thought blankly to himself. "It seems this patch over my eye is blocking off my abilities…"
He the looked over to a corner where a figure sat, visibly sleeping.
"Kyoya-kun."
No response.
"Kyoya-kun…?""What is it… Herbivore…" it replied back quietly, his head lifting off the wall and his eyes opening tiredly. Unknown to Mukuro, he had only just gotten to sleep around ten minutes ago, and was exhausted from the small beating he had received earlier for not spilling anything about the Vongola Decimo that should have been in this time zone.
"Kufufufu, so you weren't dead." chuckled Mukuro, despite the current predicament they were in. Hibari shot him a glare and winced slightly.
"I'll bite you to death..." he said weakly, looking bite to death. "Later…"
Rokudo's smile turned into a frown, unseen by Hibari, as he noticed the current condition of the Skylark. He was much weaker than when that Commander had captured them. In fact, he seemed weaker than when he had beaten him to a pulp all that time ago in Kukuyo land.
He continued to stare at the Skylark before allowing his voice to go back to it's serious tone that it rarely took these days.
"Where is Tsunayoshi?" he questioned, watching the cloud guardians head lift up once more.
"He got away…" stated Hibari. "Those bastard Herbivores failed to recognize who he was."
"Ah, actually, we never failed." said a voice. Their attention was drawn to a nearby door as light flooded the room, blinding Hibari slightly but Mukuro seemed unfazed.
"Around two hours ago, some of my men came across the little brat that ran away with an Italian boy and some female carrying a child. It was then noticed that the boy had a dying will flame much to the Vongola Primo's." commented Hiroto, his smirk widening. "Of course, only one of my men were able to see the dying will flame, but he too is from the future so it wouldn't have really mattered."
A low growl echoed round the room and to the commanders- and to Mukuro's surprise- it came from Hibari. It seemed he was getting pissed off at how many people were watching his Herbivore.
"Oh?" thought Hiroto, "This may be… interesting…"
Ryohei appeared in Gokudera and Yamamoto's time zone as expected, Gokudera toppling over in surprise while Yamamoto gave him a high five.
"You didn't show up at that persons funeral did you?" asked Yamamoto cheerily.
"It's Queen Victoria's baseball nut!"
"Nope, but my trip here was EXTREMELY fast and EXTREMELY no problems at all." said Ryohei, looking at his time watch. "It's says that this won't be able to go for another twenty hours…"
"Twenty hours?" gaped Gokudera. "But Judaime will need my help by then!"
"Maa Maa, 'Dera, we'll just have to wait." said Yamamoto, going and wrapping his arm round the bomber's shoulders. "Tsuna can take care of himself!"
"But Judaime-!"
"Maa Maa, as his right-hand man, you should know how strong he is!" continued Yamamoto. Gokudera let his cheeks flush with pride at actually being acknowledged at Tsuna's 'Right Hand Man'.
"T-That's right! Of course! J-Judaime will kick some s-serious ass!" said Gokudera before adding, "W-Well… if need be t-that i-is…"
"Maa Maa, excited about the Mafia game again 'Dera?"
"IT'S NOT A GAME BASEBAL: NUT, HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO FREAKING TELL YOU? I SHOULD SHOVE DYNAMITE UP YOUR ASS!"
All the while, Ryohei was standing next to a nearby tree, punching it to his hearts content while shouting 'EXTREME!'
"I-I've made my d-decision-"
Well, Tsuna had made his decision until Chrome, Lal, Verde and Skull plopped next to them, completely unscathed- unless you could count Skull's abused helmet as unscathed.
"Well we nearly have everyone here now, what was your decision Dame-Tsuna?" said Reborn, looking at Tsuna expectantly.
"W-We strike n-now… Gokudera-kun, Y-Yamamoto and O-Oni-san will be here s-soon…" said Tsuna quietly, closing his eyes. Sure, he would have waited for them to come here, but who knows what could be going on with Hibari and Mukuro? What if this Hiroto person didn't intend to let them live? What if he hurt his friends further?
"Hmm… strange decision for you Dame-Tsuna, is something wrong?" commented Reborn. Tsuna nervously bit his lip.
"W-Well… H-Hibari-san g-got shot in the a-arm when w-we first g-got here a-and when w-we tried t-to stop that H-Hiroto gu-guy f-from taking H-Hibari-san… M-Mukuro was s-stabbed I-in the s-stomach… I d-don't know h-how long t-they'll b-be able to h-hold o-out…" said Tsuna nervously. Reborn just nodded his head and let it drop. He knew that it was all a complete lie and that he knew the honest truth, but he wouldn't just say it with so many people standing around.
"Dame-Tsuna… you fell… for Hibari Kyoya of all people…?" thought Reborn. "Stupid if you ask me, but if it's what he wants…"
Sitting in a throne like chair, Hiroto Dazai sat smugly with Hibari chained to his side. Lined up in front of him were the people who had accompanied him to the future.
"Master, why do you have that boy sitting next to you?" said a female right at the end, her arms crossed as she glared at an unconscious Hibari.
"Ah, my dear Isabel, the time will come when you will know." said Hiroto, chuckling at her jealously, "Now, along to the main topic. The Vongola Decimo has brought two more of his guardians into this time, one of them being Lambo Bovino, who obviously can't fight in his current predicament. The other is Chrome Dokuro, who can easily be manipulated with her precious Mukuro-sama." Hiroto chuckled at the end. "The others, Ryohei Sasagawa, Gokudera Hayato and Takeshi Yamamoto will not be here until tomorrow, roughly around 20 hours from now."
They all nodded and smirked. They knew they would have tough battles from now on, but the pathetic soldiers from this time can weaken them before they actually get here. Some where excited, some where bored, some were seemingly thinking. They also knew of the six Arcobaleno being here, which would cause some problems since they didn't have the 7^3 policy here to immobilize them.
The things that troubled them the Vongola Decimo and… the pesky Arcobaleno…
Reborn.
"You may head back to your quarters." said Hiroto, watching them nod in agreement and scatter a split second later they scattered. He then kneeled down next to Hibari and cupped his chin, forcing him to look up and awake from his short slumber.
"Now then Kyoya… you are the perfect piece of bait to capture Vongola Decimo…" said Hiroto, stroking his cheek softly causing him to flinch away in discomfort. After struggling with soldiers who were taking him out of his cell, he had received a severe beating, right in front of Mukuro no less, but the strange thing was Mukuro wasn't smirking or laughing, he actually looked deeply concerned.
Hibari struggled to keep his eyes open as Hiroto never hesitated to stroke his cheek once more. That damn Herbivore had it coming… right then, Hibari bit his hand full force, causing him to his and retract his hand quickly before smacking across his face for his disobedience.
"… for a Japanese boy, you really are quite beautiful." he hissed, wiping at his bleeding hand.
"I don't want such comments … coming out of your… mouth… Herbivore…" struggled Hibari, feeling his face swell slightly.
"… A little mind control is in order…" snarled Hiroto, closing his eyes and allowing his hand to heal. His flame attribute was actually sun type, but one of his troops was a sky type… she just never wanted to take charge.
Hibari aimed a glare at him. Like hell he was gonna let him use mind control. He closed his eyes quickly as Hiroto smirked.
"Hmph." he said, "There are more ways than just doing eye to eye mind control, Kyoya Hibari."
Hibari opened his eyes and glared at he felt his chin was cupped again. He then tried to flinch away once more as Hiroto's head dipped forwards, his eyes into contact with his again.
"Actually, this form of mind control could also be counted as possession." he laughed, crashing his lips against Hibari's who instantly froze, his head locked in place by his hands. Struggling was futile as he felt a hand run down the back of his neck. It felt like an eternity before Hiroto finally pulled back, a smirk crossing his features.
"Your body now belongs to me." he cooed gently, "Hibari Kyoya."
Hibari tried to scowl but instead he fell forwards into the man's arms, his chains suddenly unlocking themselves and setting him free, but it was already too late. His mind had already blanked out.
A/N: *nervous laugh* e ish so nervous about this chapter :p
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