Earthbound Family
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( A meeting with the Vongolas)
( -Vongola Headquarters- )
At the Vongola main headquarters in Italy, the entire place was buzzing around like crazy. There wasn't a single subordinate who stayed still and did nothing, they were all pretty busy. Of course they were taking major security measures and such since their leader, the Vongola Ninth, was going away to japan and try to make negotiations with the leader of the newly risen, yet powerful, Earthbound family. The old man had high hopes on getting on an agreement with them since the Millefiore family was beginning to be a troublesome family for them. Maybe allying themselves to another and equally powerful family will make them back off.
The man was currently signing some papers before his departure when someone knocked on the door to his office. Without waiting for permission to come in, three people entered the office. Timoteo, the ninth boss, smiled " Well what are you three doing here? Shouldn't you be getting ready for our little trip in a few hours?" he chuckled as they bowed in respect before him " Now, now, none of that. What brings you boys and my right hand man here?"
The two boys looked exactly alike. Both had spiky un-tame hair, thou one was honey brown and the other was blond. They had the same built, the same height, the same everything. Even their orange eyes looked alike, everyone was glad their hair was different or else no one could've tell them apart. They were the twins Tetsua and Tsurugi Sawada, candidates for the position of Vongola tenth. If they succeeded they will be the first pair to become boss in the history of the vongolas.
" Greetings Ninth." Tetsua, the brown hair boy, started.
" We were just thinking..." Tsurugi, the blond, followed.
" That maybe you should consider this meeting." they both finish in unison.
Timoteo raised a brow " Oh? Why would you two say that?"
" We can't trust these people..." the brown hair boy said.
" We don't even know a single thing about them..."
The old man sighed " True. The Earthbound family is shrouded in mystery, but they rival us in power and a treaty between us could do us all some good. Otherwise we might end up having a war between us if we make a mistake or if they do."
" Maybe you should listen to the twins boss." the last person, a baby in a mafia suit and a fedora hat, said. " In the beginning they started as the lowest, and nameless, family around, no one would even consider making them their allies. Then suddenly they become a very powerful empire with a name that most of the mafia world has heard about. Something doesn't add up there."
Timoteo nodded " True Reborn. They started as the lowest on the family power chart, they even faced extinction at the hand of other families." he said with his eyes closed " But I heard that one day, a man showed up at their door steps and offer his assistance. They consider it and were about to refuse, but a family had launch a surprise attack on them and the man prove useful in tactical warfare. The family survived the attack and emerge victorious. He defeated many rival families and made them their allies instead of erasing them from the mafia world. It is also said that this man controls a fearsome creature that is able to devour even the light. From that point on they made that man their leader and the family power grew until it rivaled our own which took us years to accomplish."
He took a breath before continuing " However, I have no idea how he looks or who he really is. That man is shrouded in mystery as the organization he runs. In fact, if he accepts to go to the meeting that will be the first time we actually get to see him face to face."
" But ninth! Why would you want a treaty with these people you know almost to nothing about!?" the twins argued.
" Because, you trashes, that organization control the entire mafia underworld trade system." a voice said as two people stepped in.
The twins turned and glare " Xanxus.." Tsurugi hissed.
" What are you doing here?" the other added.
Xanxus. A man cover with scars, who wore a long coat as a cape and wears a uniform came in. Beside him was another man thou a little shorter. His hair was silver and long and had a black uniform from chest to toe. Xanxus eyed the twins with superiority " I'm here because I'm also going to the meeting."
" Voi. What kind of brats doesn't know anything about the Earthbounds? Their boss controls the entire underworld. They keep an eye on every sale that goes there, from illegal documents, weapons, drugs, and any other activity. Their gaze is all around them and if there is something that they don't approve or someone that has broken a rule, it is said that said person is never found. Records, birth certificates, social security numbers, everything about that person disappears. It's like said person never existed. Personally I prefer being taken by Vindici than them. Nobody knew their name until they revealed it themselves a few weeks ago." the silver man said.
" Shut it Squalo. If the babies here doesn't know anything about them then they shouldn't even be here at all." Xanxus stated smirking.
" Oh? Are you saying you know everything about them? Tell me then, what does their boss looks like?" Tetsua said in a defying tone. He only receive silence as an answer.
" Or at least tell us his name." Tsurugi added. Once again silence.
The twins shook their heads " You know nothing about them, only rumors from the people that fears them." the blond said.
" That's really useless you know. If you know nothing about an opponent then maybe you're walking into their trap. Pathetic." the brown hair boy finished.
" At least I know something about them you little trash!!" he hissed at the twins, making them frown. " Personally I think the stupid old man is wasting my time with this nonsense."
The twins glare " Don't you talk about the ninth in such a disrespectful way you scum!" Tetsua barked.
" Or we won't guarantee your safety at our fight!" finished the other.
Xanxus laughed " You think you can beat me!!" but then he glared hatefully at the twins " I will destroy you and leave nothing but your ashes!" with that he stormed out of the room.
The twins growled at his direction. The Vongola ninth chuckled " Now boys, you need to get along with him. After all, whether you win or loose he is going to be part of the family." The twins frowned but nodded. Timoteo looked at the clock on his desk " Oh my, look at the time. We better leave now or else we'll be late to the meeting with him. Are you boys and Reborn ready? Are your guardians ready?"
The twins nodded " Yes grandfather. Everything is ready." they said reluctantly.
The old man chuckled " Well, let's go then. Time's a wasting."
( Nanimori: Tsuna's house )
Tsukuyomi had woken from his slumber thinking of the meeting that was planned for today. He had gotten to Tsuna's house late at night only to find said brunet asleep on the couch, clearly he was waiting for him. The raven picked him up and place him in his bed. Tsukuyomi smirked an awoke the other three boys shouting " IT'S TRAINING TIME!!"
The three boys were taken to a mountain filled with traps, explosive, giant sea snakes, mine fields, hidden grenades launchers, and, for some reason, a crazy lunatic polar bear who was immune to weapons and the dying will flame. The three boys did their best but ended running from all of it, but the bear chased them through the whole mountain while Tsuna screamed all the way " HIII. WE'LL BE EATEN!!"
Pretty soon it turn mid day and the red eye teen haven't told Tsuna and the other two about the meeting. ' Well, it's now or never' he thought. " Alright you three I want you to take a shower and meet me at this spot on this map" he said throwing a map to them. " You have half an hour to get there. See ya!" with that he vanished, leaving three bewildered eyes behind.
Half an hour later the three boys stood face to face with an abandon house in the middle of the forest. Shin looked around curiously " I wonder why Tsukuyomi-kun wanted us to clean up and then meet him here."
" Who cares! This is exactly like one of those scary movies. A creepy house in the middle of the forest, now all we need is a monster coming out of the house or behind us." Sky said getting excited.
" I see you made it." a voice said from behind.
The three boys shouted in fear and quickly attacked the source of the sound. Shin threw many knifes with his threads, while Sky took out his sword rushing at the target, Tsuna went into his hyper dying will mode rushing forward as well. A cloud of smoke rose from the spot but they quickly stopped their attack. Their target was bending in many uncomfortable directions avoiding the threads while he had the point of a blade just inches away from his chest and a fist inches away from his face.
" Tsu-kun!"
" Oh God!"
" We're so sorry."
The three boys apologize repeatedly while the raven was simply glad he was able to dodge all that " No harm done guys." he grinned " Now follow me." he walked toward the house and enter it. The boys hesitated but followed none the less. They followed the raven to the basement and were right in front of an empty wall. They were about to asked when their marks, along with the raven's, started to glow and a hidden door appeared. Their jaws dropped to the ground while the raven chuckled giving the code to the machine opening the door. He motion the three to follow him and so they did. They walked for a while, went down an elevator, and many people greeted the raven and the three new comers along the way. Tsukuyomi stopped in front of a door an opened it, the three boys quickly entered the room.
" Well now. Let me welcome you to the Earthbound Family headquarters in japan and also my office, or should I say Tsuna's soon to be office." the raven said with a grin.
Tsuna's eyes widen " What!? This is our mafia family headquarters!? But...the house outside!!"
" Tsuna, this whole base is underground. The house up there is a decoy. Plus this base is completely invisible to radars and such, not to mention made of the strongest metal known to man." the raven explain.
" Hey this is pretty cool. Just like the spy movies!" Sky said excited once again.
Shin looked around " I could get used to this."
Tsuna suddenly frowned " Tsu-kun...what is the reason you brought us here?" he said eying the raven.
The raven took a seat behind his desk and sighed " As sharp as ever Tsuna, you'll be needing that when you take over." he closed his eyes " In two and a half hours I'll have a meeting with a certain family to see what they want. And I want you three to come with me."
" So, we'll go. What's the problem?" Shin said while Sky nodded in agreement.
Tsuna knew there was more than what the raven was telling them " What family is the one you'll be meeting exactly?"
" The family we'll be meeting...." the raven's eyes slowly opened "...is the Vongola family."
Tsuna's eyes widen before he glared at the raven " And what makes you think I'll come to said meeting!?" he hissed surprising both Shin and Sky.
" You have to go because you are the future boss of the Earthbound."
" They'll be there for sure! I don't want to see their faces, it's too soon!" Tsuna barked.
The raven nodded " I know. But this will be good for training, think of it as a test. I will test your patient, judgment, and will in this meeting. Please Tsuna...for me."
The brunet growled before he calmed down " Alright. I'll go...I can't run from this forever."
Tsukuyomi smiled " I'm proud of you Tsuna-kun for facing your problems head on. Well now I think it's time for you three to get dress up, because were heading there right now."
The three nodded. " Ah, so this is the great Sawada Tsunayoshi I've been hearing about and two of the mark ones." a voice said from behind.
The trio screamed before turning around only to see a small child, a baby actually, standing on the head of an alligator. The child jump to Tsuna's shoulder and began to inspect him " Hm..good built, healthy look, and he seem to be in total control of his flames." he suddenly chuckled before he laughed, glasses hiding his eyes " My training regiment is a complete success! Sometimes my own ingenious mind even surprises me!!" he continue to laugh making the other two boys backed away from him with worry.
The raven chuckled " You couldn't wait anymore, could you now?" he turned to everyone " Guys this man here, or child, is Verde my right hand man and chief engineer for the Earthbound. He was the one to come with the training regiments for the marked ones. Also he's the brains of many of our operations."
" Wait! This little guys is the one to come up with the obstacle courses, guillotines, mine fields, and others!? Even that psycho polar bear!?" Tsuna shouted.
" Oh! That's just Bubu. He gets like that when some one gives him anything with sugar. He's actually a lazy bear." Verde explained.
Tsukuyomi chuckled " Yeah, I remember the first time it happened to me. Anyways, Verde could you take Tsuna and the other two to get ready? We'll be leaving soon."
The small child nodded before he lead them out to get them dressed. Half an hour later they were all ridding a limousine toward their destination. They were all wearing black open shirts with white under shirts and black pants. On both shoulders were in a plaque the Earthbound insignia, the planet earth with a pair of claws holding each side of the planet and a pair of wings covering them. The clothing were made of fine material which meant they were expensive. The also were wearing cloaks that cover all their bodies.
" I like my cloths better." Shin said annoyed.
" I know Shin, but this is our official suits. Hopefully this won't last the whole day." the raven responded.
Verde nodded " Indeed. I have things to do and experiments to get to."
Soon they reach their destination. A huge building in the middle of the city with the Vongola insignia. They stepped out of the limo and followed the raven to the counter. Tsuna stared at the building before he let out a sigh before he followed the others inside.
" Well, good after noon! How may I help you?" the receptionist, a young woman, said smiling.
" Yes, I'm here for the meeting." the raven said in a professional voice.
" Oh! You're two hours early, the ninth hasn't arrived yet. Please follow me to the waiting room." she said in a sweet tone. The raven nodded and the group followed her.
Two hours passed and another limousine arrive at the building and out came a large group. Timoteo, with Reborn on his shoulder, led the twins with their guardians and Xanxus, who reluctantly followed, was accompanied by Squalo. He reached the counter and smiled " Hello. We're here for a meeting I reserve for today."
" Grandfather we're telling you this is not a good idea." Tsurugi said.
Tetsua nodded " Beside, what guarantee you that he will show up?"
" Oh he's already here." the receptionist said in a dreamy voice earning many surprise glances from the group, even Xanxus seemed surprised. " He along with four more people arrived two hours ago."
" Wait, there's a total of five waiting for us?" both teens looked shocked.
Timoteo shook his surprise " Well we better not keep him waiting. Please take us to the meeting room and then inform our guest we have arrive and that we can start this meeting."
She nodded and did was she was told. The Vongolas were now in the meeting room getting anxious. They were about to negotiate a treaty with a family that no one knew anything about, the atmosphere was getting intense.
" I don't like this." a silver hair teen, named Gokudera, said.
" Kufufufu. Cheer up storm guardian, if everything goes well we'll make history to strike a deal with this mafia." said another guardians with mismatch eyes, one red with the kanji of a number on it and another one blue. He was Rokudo Mukuro, the mist guardian. There was a quiet girl standing close to him, Chrome, who was also the mist guardian.
" Yeah. Isn't this exciting, haha!" another teen with short black hair and a sword strapped to his back. His name was Yamamoto Takeshi, the rain guardian.
Ryohei, the sun guardian, was punching the air " Yeah, but if they try anything we'll beat them up To The Extreme!!"
On the edge of the room stood another boy, wearing a jacket as a cloak, eying Xanxus carefully. He was Hibari Kyoya the cloud guardian. Xanxus glared at the bunch " Tch...you pest talk to much."
Tetsua growled " Watch it Xanxus or I might decide to pulverize you here and now instead of waiting for the ring battles."
Xanxus hand began to glow as a sphere of flames appeared on it " What was that trash!? Talking big and mighty will get you killed!" he growled.
Tsurigi stood next to his brother and glared " Don't do anything stupid here. Continue this nonsense and I'll give you a few scars to match those one."
Xanxus eyes widen in rage but before he did anything the door on the opposite side of the room opened. Everybody stopped what they were doing and looked at the door, tensions already rising and the meeting hasn't even started. In came four boys wearing their cloaks and eying the situation with raised brows, while one had his face down looking at the floor. The Vongola stared at shocked at the four new comers.
" What?" Tetsua said stunned.
" But...they're..." Tsurigi continue equally stunned.
Xanxus burst into laughter " They're fucking brats. You mean to tell me that the family everyone fears is run by little kids?!" he continue to laughed.
The raven serious expression never left him and in a blink of an eye was standing right in front of the taller man. Xanxus laugh stop abruptly as his eyes got wide. The raven slowly pulled his hand out of his cloak and raised it to the man's head. Timoteo and the others were about to take measures, but the raven simply poked Xanxus forehead with two of his fingers. He then smirked " Never underestimate an opponent, no matter how weak and small he may be." his body began to vanish " You never now what said small body might hide." the raven had completely vanish, or so they thought as Xanxus stared at the raven who was still right in front of his group, the smirk still plastered on his face.
" An illusion? It even had me fooled and I'm an expert illusionist. He's good." Mukuro's eyes narrowed at their direction ' Just how powerful are these guys?' he asked himself within his mind.
The raven took a seat in front of Timoteo while Xanxux glared hatefully at the raven for making a fool out of him. He cleared his throat in order to get everyones attention " Are you the leader of the family known as the Earthbound? If so, then it is an honor to meet you."
The raven expressionless face returned " I'm sure it is Vongola." the twins glared at him. " For now yes, I am the leader of the Earthbounds."
Reborn was the one who spoke now " What do you mean by that?"
" How rude of you Reborn." another small child jumped out of nowhere and seated himself on the raven's shoulder " That is no way to talk to a mafia boss. I thought you, a tight ass that you are, would know that."
" Verde." Reborn frowned " So you're with them I presume."
Verde smirked " Correct. And to answer your question, Tsukuyomi-kun has been training the true mafia boss of the Earthbound."
The twin raised a brow " And who might that be?" both asked at the same time.
The raven smirked " Why he is right here." he said pointing at Tsuna.
Said boy raised his head to look at everyone, eying them carefully before he smiled and bowed " Nice to meet you all. My name is Tsunayoshi."
The twins gasped as they took a closer look at his face. " No way. He looks just like..." Tetsua started while Tsurugi finished " …like mom."
Another chapter done for your enjoyment. Review if you like and I might right even faster ( smirks). Till next time.
