Title: Falling into Darkness
Chapter 3 part 2: Happiness
Warning: There's swearing, violence and extreme OOC. If you don't want your innocence to be ruin, please turn back. For those who wants to continue reading, this chapter has a lot of time skipping both back and forward so be confused. Muahahahahahahaha.
Disclaimer: *Clears throat* I, lIl-Amaya-lIl, does not own anything except for my OCs and this pot. Ahem, I meant plot.
Note on how does the earpiece works. The user need to press a small button to speak but this doesn't apply if you're listening. If it's muted, the receiver can hear what the user say but the user cannot hear their response. The one that managing the system can hear all the conversation even when the user never press the button and also transfer messages to one user without the other users hearing it.
"Well, we have more thirty minutes to spare. But why are we taking a plane there?!" Cielo yelled, earning strange stares from the flight attendants. Since they are taking a small private plane that Vongola arranged for them, there is no passengers on board other then them. Meteor smiled half-heartedly swing his arm over thin air as if he was trying to do something. "Meteor what are you doing?" Cielo deadpanned.
Meteor look at the empty seat beside him before laughing sloppily. "Aaaah, it's boring without Cloud," he yawned, sulking into his seat. "It's fun to annoy him after all."
Cloud: Herbivore, I can hear you.
Meteor jolted up slightly before letting out a soft chuckle. "Of course, I have a brain for a reason."
Snow: That sounds like a lie!
Aurora: Looks who's talking.
Snow: Meanie.
"Drinks?" a flight attendant asked Cielo as she held up an expensive looking red wine bottle. "Ah, orange juice will be fine," Cielo smiled at her as she hand him his juice and hurried away to kitchen.
"Orange juice?" Star popped out behind him. She observed the juice with interest before continuing, "It resemble the colour of Sky flames doesn't it?"
Cielo nodded as a smirk creep up his face. "That's right. The kind of flame that will soon die out just like me drinking this juice," he took a sip and continued. "Slowly."
Aurora: Cielo-kun, your phrasing is wrong.
Moon: More lessons.
"EH?! WHY!" Cielo shouted loudly into the mic. He then started pouting about what he said wrongly. He gave up eventually after time past by. "Well, how's things going on there?" he asked.
Aurora: Going fine, just need a couple more minutes for it finish.
Cloud: Hn. I going to take a nap.
Aurora: Go ahead. Cielo, you might want to take a nap as well.
'Hmmm. I guess I will,' Cielo stretched his back before relaxing himself into the comfy seat. But he couldn't sleep at all, he turned and turned in his seat. Star looked at him worriedly while Meteor is sleeping like a dead log next to him. Cielo let out a soft whimper. Star immediately get the clue and went to a further place to think of a solution.
'Poor Cielo... he must thinking about them again...' Star glance at the small figure struggling to sleep. 'I guess I should help him...' she walked up to Meteor's sleeping figure and shook it gently. Meteor look at her annoyed, she quietly point at the shaking brunette. Meteor looked questioningly at the direction before getting the message but he was too tired to do so he rejected the idea by sign language. Sighing, she position herself properly with a few vocal exercising, she click her tongue to get the other guardians attention.
[Utsukushiki Zankoku na Sekai -
This Beautiful Cruel World]
That dream is where my heart belongs,
and it's something more fragile than my life.
Again and again, I abandoned and then rediscovered it.
Now sleep peacefully.
With my wish being ravished by my pounding heartbeats,
as soon as I'm on the verge of forgetting it, I immediately recall it.
In this beautiful cruel world,
we merely keep on asking "why" we're alive and living...
Ah, with this strength and this weakness,
if we no longer possess any rationality,
just what are we protecting?
Isn't that sky depressing?
The ashes and mirages swirl up in the sky.
Freeze solid to the warm words,
now sleep discreetly.
With my sigh being hid away by my clingy fantasies,
as soon as it's about to break free, it's pinned down again.
In this beautiful cruel world,
we merely keep on begging death to wait a little longer...
Ah, no different from the flightless weathercock,
we will not understand
whether truths are prettier than lies.
If only we were songs,
we would be able to sail at full speed in the wind,
and bring hope without fail
to someone out there.
In this beautiful cruel world,
we merely keep on asking "why" we're alive and living...
Ah, with this strength and this weakness,
if we no longer possess any rationality,
just what are we protecting?
Soft applaud was heard from the ear piece and surroundings right after the song ended. 'Did I choose a wrong song to sing?' Star thought and ran to her boss to see him occupying two seats and sleeping peacefully. She let out a sigh of relief immediately. Gently she ruffled the gravity-defying brown hair. Giving the brunette a warm smile, she went ahead to mute the earpieces so that their sleep won't be disturbed.
-Group A's Side-
"Moon, how is she?" Aurora asked scanning the slim figure on the bed. "She still so pale..."
Moon remained quiet, his eyes trying to concentrate on its job and hands emitting an intense flame. Aurora pouted at the reaction and went to annoy Cloud, who is laying on the couch, instead. "Clouuud! Play with me!" Aurora wailed. Cloud tch'ed and shifted away but a click from the mic stopped him.
-Insert song-
"Wooow~" Aurora started clapping like a seal while Cloud remained silent as he lean on the wall and Moon still doing his job. Aurora stopped her clapping and mumbled silently. 'Why am I stuck with two half-muted people, well three actually.'
All of the sudden, Moon jolted up and almost trip over the wires when he stepped back. Cloud got startled by the sudden movement and so did Aurora. "What happened?" Aurora asked in panic. Moon sighed a bit before giving a rare sheepish smile of his, "it's done."
Aurora cheered in joy while Cloud just return him back with a small smile. "Cielo~ it's a success!" Aurora informed happily. Buzzing sound was her reply. Cloud narrowed his eyes while Moon listened closely to the earpiece. 'Did something happen?!' The three thought in panic. "Snow, is Cielo's earpiece disconnected?" Moon asked worriedly.
Snow: Nope.
That just added more panic to the confused minds.
Snow: It's just muted.
The three barely resisted the urge to destroy the earpiece. "Herbivore," Cloud growled warningly.
Snow: Kya~ don't bite me.
Cloud growled again but this time far more dangerous. Aurora sighed heavily and broke the argument by changing subject. "Since Group D should be reaching soon and we are about go back to Italy too. Can you check on Vongola's schedule in the meantime?" She asked confident that she will listen. But she wasn't expecting the respond she got.
Snow: ...I'll try to...
"Eh?" Aurora blurted out. Moon clicked his tongue to get their attention. "Snow. The previous failure, forget about it," Moon spoke still with his usual emotionless face. Then animated sparks came out of the mic hitting Moon and disappearing.
Snow: Is that an encouragement I'm hearing?! Omo Omo! This must be one of my best days!
Aurora sweatdropped while Moon just muted the Snow's mic on his earpiece.
Aurora: Just do your duty...
Snow: Hai~
Cloud, who is quiet for a while, went to his boss's mom and scanned her slim frame. Colors had returned to the body and she will regain consciousness soon.
The three look at each other and sigh in unison. 'How are we going to explain this whole thing to her?'
-Group D's side- 10 minutes later
"Good afternoon, Regalo Famiglia. We are about to arrive at Vongola Mansion, please fasten your seat belt for a smoother landing," the pilot spoke through the speaker, waking up Cielo and Meteor up. Star quickly buckle their belts while they in return blankly stared at her, unable to come back from dreamland. After finished buckling the belts, she went back to her own seat to do the same.
Opening the window slightly, she peeked out. Sunlight almost blinded her eyes. Blocking the sunlight is the standing high and mighty building, the infamous Vongola Mansion. She glanced at her boss who is also looking out of the window smirking. She closed her eyes enjoying the trills of the plane going down like a roller-coaster.
For a while, they landed safely and proceeded to alight the plane.
Cielo spoke into mic, "we just landed, what about Group A?" But no one replied him. He look clueless at his two guardians who look back with the same expression. "Oh ya! I just remember that I muted our earpieces because of the noise," Star said before giving them an embarrassed grin. "Sorry~"
Cielo smiled at her and unmute his earpiece.
Cloud: Omnivore, we heard you.
Aurora: Fu~ Star, you're so cute~ *Heavy breathing*
Moon: We're reaching. Aurora, perverted self, resurfacing.
Aurora: Ah.
Cielo chuckled at the conversation. "Snow, time."
Snow: Hm... Current time, 17:20:09.
Aurora: What about the schedule?
'What schedule?' Cielo thought.
Snow: Our meeting is their last meeting. All the guardians got there too. Extra info, Iemitsu had informed them about Nana.
Cielo suddenly remember about his mom and asked in panic, "how's my mom?"
Cloud: Good but unconscious.
Cielo sighed in relief at the news. Figuring out that they need a plan for their assassination. He decided to discuss the plan with them now.
"Since we still have an extra 9 minutes. We are just going to plan on how we're going to confront the guardians. As you all know there's no cloud guardian there but two mist guardians thus we can't possible go for the same guardian battle style. After analysing a bit, I came up with this. It's obvious that I'm going for Federico, Cloud with Yamamoto, Aurora with Muku-" Out of the blue, a shiver went down my spine as I said his name as well as the other two. Mumbling of a certain carnivore was heard from the other side. It took quite a bit of time for it to be clearer.
Cloud: whyinthewordamIfightingwiththatherbivorewhileshegettofightthepineappleherbivore.
[Cookies for anyone who knows what he's saying.]
Coughing to snap the carnivore out of his rumbling, Cielo explained, "Mukuro will recognize you for sure while Yamamoto on the other hand is a bit on the dim side. Let me finish before you complain again, we do not have much time left. As I was saying Aurora with Mukuro, Moon with Gokudera. And finally Meteor and Star will be with Chrome, Ryohei and Lambo since they most likely will stick to each other. Meteor, I need you to lure them to each of us. In the forest around the mansion, there should at least four spots that is burnt to ground from Xanxus' rage not long ago and since they don't bother to cover them up, we're just going to take advantage of it then. Also I want you all to be in order the furthest spot from the mansion belongs to Aurora, the next one belongs to Cloud, Moon will the third one and then Star will be at the nearest one to the mansion. Meteor, your role is to led them to the stations right after Cloud start to fight with Yamamoto, you will return to your stations which is where Star is. Snow, I need you to monitor the system in case Federico decided to call for backup if that's happen, interrupt the system by shutting it down. And remember to maintain in your disguise until Snow tells us to change into our trademark cloak. Meet back at our usual meeting place after you're finish. Though it isn't going as what I first planned but we are still not at the crucial part so it's okay. So Group A will go to their respective stations first. Got it?"
All: Got it.
Snow: The time now is 17:29:47.
With a final breathe of fresh air and styling his wig to make it look more appealing. He spoke into the mic to cue the mission.
Cielo: Mission Part 2 starts now. We will be waiting for your arrival.
Getting the same responses as always. He and his two guardians step into the mansion with confident steps. Meteor wore an elegant smile, showing off his smile to every mafioso he walked past. Star wore the sweetest smile that every male mafioso eyed her all the way till she went out of view. While Cielo wore a professional smile on his face, greeting the mafioso with a bow. It continued all the way to the meeting room. A butcher on standby opened the door for the three which led them to a large room well designed and displayed many one-of-a-kind antiques. The current Vongola Decimo, Federico, sitting on a luxury sofa comfortably. "Welcome Regalo Famiglia, please make yourselves comfortable," he smiled, the three immediately knew that it's a fake smile.
"Vongola Decimo, it's our first time being so I hope you will treat us well," Cielo gave him a half-hearted smile. Federico maintained his fake smile, "of course".
"Where's your guardians?" Cielo asked, looking around for them. He could feel the guardians hiding in illusions but he kept quiet about it.
"Ah, they are out on a mission," Federico lied while looking at his guests head to toe with a judging face. "What about yours? Only two? They look rather weak," Federico commented. Meteor and Star glanced at him before letting out a scowl. Cielo just smiled innocently at them then at Federico, "I'm afraid that's not very true. There's four more guardians actually, three coming later and one is currently on a mission."
Federico nodded and smirked. "Is that so... But I'm quite surprised by how high ranked your famiglia is despite your guardians looking very weak," he mocked again with a smirk. Meteor stepped forward with vein popped but still has his elegant smile on his face. "Decimo, I hoped that you don't push us too far. I will not look over another insult to my family just because you're Vongola Decimo," he warned with his eyes glaring piercingly at the arrogant boss.
Federico was taken aback by the sudden counter but kept his cool. "Hm, I guess I shouldn't tease your family too much," he took out a gun and put on a table. Cielo look questioningly at him.
Aurora: Cielo, we reached.
Cielo mentally nodded and scanned the gun. "Why don't we play a game?" Federico suggested tapping on the gun. Cielo looked curiously at him. "A game called, join alliance with me or die," he took the gun into his grips and point the barrel down at Cielo who looked unfazed by the sudden threat.
Cielo smirked at him and let out a dark chuckle. "I refuse to join ally and I refuse to die. What are we going to do?" Cielo asked with mocking smirk. He look straight into Federico's eyes, showing him the honey brown eyes he have before changing to midnight blue. Federico jolted up at sudden change of color of Cielo's eyes. He stepped back in shock unexpectedly bumping in his guardians who is hiding in the mist. Exposing all the guardians to the three night sky guardians. Cielo chuckled at the sight of the lost and shocked faces of his ex-guardians.
Meteor faked his amusement by clapping before putting up a bored face. "How boring, hiding in illusions are way too common nowadays. Better think a better and more entertaining way to hide next time."
Star smirked as she stepped forward, "why don't we guardians wait outside and let our bosses settle their things themselves." The Vongola guardians look at each other, then at their current boss. Star snorted," is your boss that weak that you have to protect him all the time?" Federico snorted back at her obviously falling for the trap, "of course not. You all! Out!" He demanded. The guardians literally went flying out. Meteor and Star went out as well with a smirk.
Guardians' side
The door slammed shut after them. Star sent a 'sweet' smile to the butcher and whispered into his ear, "If you don't to get slaughtered, please leave as quietly as possible." The butcher took a second to register what had been said before running away without making a sound. The Vongola guardians looked around questioningly wondering if the butcher had been spooked by something.
Meteor took advantage of the confusion and whispered into the mic.
Meteor: Luring them in 5 seconds, Snow time and countdown.
Snow: 17:49:15. Countdown starts now.
5... All of the Night guardians smirked at the same time.
4... Meteor shuffled his foot a bit and earned cautious stares at him.
3... Star faked a cough to advert the attention to her and lean beside a window.
2... Rustling of leafs was heard from the earpiece followed by a low growl.
1... Meteor gained back the attention by bending his back to stretch his muscle for the run.
0.
Star broke the window next to her and jumped out with her left hand out. Meteor who jumped out a second after her, saw the hand and immediately high five it. Sending smirks to each other and a last glance back. Meteor stopped at first station as Star went to hide up on a tree. Going higher and higher she found sturdy branch to sit on and communicate with Snow, who on the roof, at the same time.
"Mukuro is ahead of us..." Star said as she signal to Snow not to come down yet. Observation is her specialty not only it allows her to see through illusions but also solid things. She could clearly see Mukuro hiding behind a tree not far away from where Meteor is standing, concealing his presence.
"Meteor, the male mist guardians is four trees behind you so when you are luring them avoid that tree." she warned the currently taking a break runner. "What are you saying? You don't believe in my speed?" Meteor snapped back at her quietly into the mic.
Aurora: She's right. This is not the time to be overconfident in your skills.
Meteor: I don't want to hear that from a person hiding in a bush.
Aurora: You-!
Star interrupted them, "Meteor, do-your-freaking-job."
"Fine." Meteor grunted in annoyance as he walked towards the building. The Vongola guardians were still stunned from what had happened. He bit his lips in order to surpass a laugh. He whistled loudly to snap them out of their frozen state. Gokudera was the only one snapped out his shock before his booming loudness shocked the others.
"You're not getting away!" Gokudera yelled as jumped out from the third floor but still managed to land safely. The other blindly followed the leader out and Lambo landed on his face successfully passing out before a battle.
"Lambo!" Ryohei carried the cow in his hands.
"Stupid Cow," Gokudera spat out. Meteor chuckled at the scene and teasingly said, "Catch me if you can." With that he sped off purposely dragging one of his feet to create a path for them to follow.
Remembering to avoid a certain tree, he decided to make curve around the tree before continuing to go straight. He zoomed past Moon who was just standing obviously on a tree.
On Star's side, she observed whether that the lure is going according to what had been planned. As expected Gokudera told the three slower ones to stay back. Mukuro had left his hiding place annoyed by the fact that his plans to ambush the red head failed and had teleported to where he had ran to which is where his worst enemy is waiting at. Yamamoto was using his rain flames to enchant his speed but he was just racing blindly through the forest passing Moon who is just staring blankly at him as he sped past. On the other hand Gokudera is running rather fast but also following the path as well.
But for Gokudera, he don't need to run as far as the rest when he heard a voice called him.
"Gokudera Hayato." Moon called as he jumped down from the tree he was standing on, his cloak. The storm guardian glared at him. Moon had his stoic face on as he eyed the guardian in front of him.
"Weak."
"What?"
"The weak must die."
Meanwhile Yamamoto who is speeding away blindly earned a tonfa to his face. Cloud walked out to reveal his presence to the rain guardian.
"Yamamoto Takeshi."
"Yes? How you know my name? And who are you?" Yamamoto narrowed his eyes at Cloud. Luckily Cloud had his bluish white wig wore the right way so that most part of his face was covered by the strands of hairs and the red contact lens he was wearing helped a lot plus the cloak covering most part of his body. Cloud got into his fighting stance with tonfas before saying his trademark phrase.
"There's no need to answer those questions. I came to bite you to death."
Mukuro, who is ahead of other two, caught up with Meteor who stopped at where Aurora is.
"Kufufufu~ Caught you," Mukuro gave him a sly leer as he thrust his trident at him. His trident froze in air, unable to move due to some unknown force. Meteor turned to him smiling innocently. Mukuro look back and forth to the guardian and frozen in place trident. Meteor continued with murderous tone. "Once you step into her territory, you never get out."
What happened next made Mukuro scared stiff. Meteor melting slowly as he chuckled, "this will happen to you next." Slowly, he melted into a girl who looked at him with evil grin. In reality, it was just Aurora switching place with Meteor by transporting at the same time, making a illusion to make seem that Meteor had melt into Aurora.
*Rustle* 'Geez, hiding in a bush as always,' Meteor sighed as he struggled to get out of the bush that he got transport to. Once he got out, he used half the speed he ran just now to return back to his spot, putting on his cloak at the same time.
Aurora look at the mist guardian in front of him.
"Fuu~ we met again. Rokudo Mukuro."
Her inner excitement raising as her prey muttered her name in realization and horror.
"Suzume."
The Battle Between Storm and Moon part 1
"The weak must die."
As soon as Moon finished his statement, he picked up a piece of stick lying around. Before Gokudera could react, the stick flew across his face cutting a long slash on his cheeks. Raging flames roaring behind the attacker as he advanced forward. Gokudera got back his senses back and quickly avoid a punch to his face by stepping back then another to his guts which he also avoided. From the second missed punch he saw, he knew that his opponent is only going easy on him. He grunted as he leap into the air as a cat appear on his shoulder.
"Uri! Cambia Forma!"
The cat snarled aggressively as it transformed into two belts of dynamites warped around the storm guardian with a pipe-shaped igniter sloppily sticking out of his mouth and a pair of sunglasses.
"Let's see if you can dodge this." He took three dynamites which brush across the lighter igniter to light it and threw them at Moon. "Rocket Bombs Version X!"
The three homing dynamites multiplied into many. Just when they are about to hit its target, Moon just swirled around, avoiding them by sipping in between the gaps. He made another turn to a nearby tree. Not wanting a forest fire yet, he kicked on the thick log in front of him. A crack visibly across the log and fell on the dynamites, burying them.
"What?!" Gokudera said in surprised. But before he could say another word, he felt a sudden pain in his right shoulder. He gripped on his shoulder only to find his hand cover in blood. The pain was unbearable. Then a hand removed his hand and replaced it. Within a blink, the wound disappeared. He looked up to see foe was the owner of the hand. He immediately shook it off in shock.
He hissed. "Why did you heal me?"
Blood staining his sleeves. Moon stared down with his fake sapphire eyes at him as he toss up a blood-covered rock.
"So that I can torture you over and over again, my lovely prey~"
A blood-thirsty smirk formed as he licked the blood on the stone. Well-aware that that time is inching closer and closer.
The Battle Between Rain and Cloud part 1
"I came to bite you to death."
Cloud waited for a reaction as he remained in his stance.
"Bite me?" Yamamoto asked, scratching his head in confusion. "That sounds so weird."
If not for his stoic face and his ability to control his body well, Cloud would have facepalmed so badly right now. 'Cielo is right. He totally qualifies as an idiot.'
"Considering that you have weapons out, you're looking for a fight aren't you?" Yamamoto narrowed his eyes as he enter his serious mode. With an overwhelming killer intent flowing out of him, he called out, "Jirou! Kojirou!" A swallow and a dog appeared next to him for a moment before it transformed into a pair of swords. Yamamoto charged at him in a lightning fast speed. Using his left sword to attack Cloud's legs while the other sword for the neck
"You're right for once," Cloud blocked the attack aimed for his neck with one tonfa while he used his foot to step on the blade that was at the bottom. "An opening," he stated as he swing free tonfa at Yamamoto's guts. Cloud remembered to take it easy first so he used one fourth of his strength to hit but even so the impact was so big that Yamamoto flew and hit a tree with a long thud.
Cloud scoff at how weak his opponent is.
"Otto, I forgot that I had to be serious," Yamamoto chirped, the next instant his tone dropped to cold and murderous voice, "I seriously need to stop thinking that this is a game."
His face was overshadowed by his hair as he made his next move. Out of nowhere, water started rushing in.
"Utsushi Ame (Duplicate Rain)." A wall of water covered Yamamoto creating a fake image of him.
'This is...' Cloud thought in silence as he tries to remember what the technique does. His eyes snapped open in realization. He rapidly shoved one of his tonfa up in the air awaiting the impact as his eyes watched for shadows. Knowing that his opponent could not do anything, he threw his tonfa at the wall of water slicing through it. As it makes its round back, it hit Yamamoto's head as what Cloud had been expecting.
"How did you-"
"You're still an herbivore after all."
His fake blood color eyes gleamed behind his hood as his tonfas shone brilliantly. As the sun behind starts to disappear.
The Battle Between Mist and Aurora part 1
"Kufufu... Suzume."
Aurora kept her excitement in as Mukuro shifted uncomfortably under her gaze.
"Why are you here?" Mukuro asked as he averted his sight away. Aurora sat on a log nearby as she took out a brown umbrella not feeling the need to answer him.
"Don't make me re-"
"How's life with the new Decimo?" Aurora asked as she fiddle with umbrella. Mukuro visibly flinch at the sudden question. Aurora look into the mist user's eyes.
'How am I supposed to reply? If Decimo-sama hears my answer, I'm dead,' Mukuro shudder at his thoughts.
Aurora raise her eyebrow as she reads his mind. "Is it that bad?"
'Of course it's-' Mukuro's thought was cut off by a loud thud nearby.
Then not far from them, a tree fell alerting the illusionist. 'What just happened?!' Mukuro look at the direction of the fallen tree. "The thud is caused by Yamamoto flying into a tree because of Cloud." Aurora fiddle with her braids after keeping the brown umbrella.
"What?!" Mukuro said in surprise.
Aurora shrugged, "and judging by how the tree fell, it must be Moon. Who's fighting with him again?... Ah. The octopus head. Probably it is just Moon not wanting to start a forest fire yet. I pity him fighting with Moon."
Mukuro's mind went blank before locking eyes with her purple eyes.
"What do you mean by that?"
"Poor little Gokudera." Aurora hummed as she stood up. "But you might want to worry about yourself though. Especially when you're trapped in the middle of thousand swords."
Mukuro's eyes snapped wide open as swords appear out of nowhere, surrounding him. "If only," Mukuro muttered trying to move his trident.
"Ah sorry, I completely forgotten that I froze your trident," Aurora said clapping her together to dispel the spell. Mukuro caught the falling trident and swung it around before hitting the end on the ground, dispelling the swords. His red eye showing the kanji '一'.
"The Realm Of Hell," Aurora stated. "The ability to create real illusions... It's almost the same as mine but..." As she took out her sketchbook.
"Green Aurora Phoenix." She whispered. Upon command the book started flipping by itself as glows in shimmering sapphire-purple light. A bird emerge from it, its green feather flaring in blue mist. Emerald eyes glaring at the pineapple-hair illusionist.
"!... you're able to create fictional creatures," Mukuro said in awe.
Aurora patted the bird's feathers proudly. "That's the difference between you and me. Though you can also make creatures that belongs to hell which I can't," she pouted slightly. "Ma~ it doesn't make a difference that I'm way stronger then you."
"Oya? You could only summon one at a time while I could summon multiple. How does that make you stronger than me?" Mukuro said as he hit his trident on the ground. Thorns shot out towards Aurora threatening with its sharp needle-like thorns.
"Who said that I could summon one at a time?" Aurora raise her eyebrow before smirking.
"Set 92. Rings."
'Why the heck will she use rings for in that kind of situation?' Mukuro thought. The book flipped by itself again. One moment was light. The next moment, rings started shattering everywhere. Aurora caught some of them and slip it on her fingers.
"Freeze." She snapped her fingers. The thorns, Mukuro made, stopped approaching her. A thin layer of ice was barely visible on it. Aurora proceeded to flick the frozen thorn in front of her. Just like that the thorns cracked and shuttered.
"Elemental rings is what they are called," Aurora explained, showing Mukuro her right hand. All her five fingers have a ring on it. Each ring has a different symbol and design on it.
Water, Air, Fire, Ice and Grass.
Mukuro examine the rings for a moment before raising his eyebrow. "I'm pretty confident that I have seen and know a lot of equipment but I never heard of those rings before not even once."
"Of course, no one knows about it not even Vindice. Only the first and tenth generation of Notturno knows about it," Aurora said proudly.
"N-Notturno?!" Mukuro shuttered. Everyone knows about Notturno famiglia is not a famiglia to mess with. It's either to be targeted or to be not. No one had ever succeed to find their base nor know their faces but apparently he knows one now. And it's a bad news as one were to see one of their faces, the person will be killed and buried instantly.
Aurora knows what he's thinking without even looking at his thoughts. She held up a finger, "ne, I want to let you know three fact about us. One, the rest of Notturno except me are wearing disguise and cloak." Holding another finger up, she continued. "Two, I'm supposed to wear the disguise too but I don't feel the need to." She held three finger up this time. "Three, my famiglia goes out full strength..." She stopped. Watching the sun disappear beyond the horizon. Then she continued,
"At night."
Her lavender hair flows beautifully as the night breeze came. She took her umbrella out and slide out blue sword. The sedative yet dangerous purple iris staring into her prey's eyes.
The Battle Between The Two Skies part 1
The door close with click behind me. My finger circled around the brim of glass of water in front of me. As the current Vongola Boss stare at me in the eyes.
"Interested?" I hummed picking up the glass of water and sniffing the content inside.
His left eyebrow raised and asked with a fake clueless tone, "in what?"
"This." My vision change from clear to translucent dark blue, making everything darker yet clearer. His reaction is different from the first time, Federico merely just blinked in amusement. I frowned in disappointment, 'I guess I better don't get my expectations too high for now.'
Federico chuckled, "not as interested as just now. I was rather caught off guard a moment ago."
I can't tell whether he's lying or not. But my institution is telling that he is half lying which don't help much either. But... his chuckles annoys me in a very bad way.
Federico look right in my eyes. "You... Look like Sawada Tsunayoshi don't you?" He tilted his head.
'He's sharper than he looks,' I remained in stoic face which I learnt from Cloud and Moon. And tilted my head to the same angle as his with an innocent smile. "What makes you say that I look like the fallen Decimo?"
"Hmmm..." Federico cupped his chin engrossed in his thoughts. Out of the blue, a vein popped, "you look like that Primo bastard..." Each word was filled with venom.
"Eh?" I jerked my head. "Bastard?"
"That freaking Primo bastard. Popped out of the ring and suddenly punched me right in the face and disappear right after that. He's going to pay," his shoe rapidly tapped on the floor in anger as he recall about it.
'...Primo-san! What were you trying to do?!' I screamed in my head.
"Back to the point, your famiglia..." he raise a finger at the window."Is making quite a commotion."
As if on cue, a tree fall from a distance. I narrowed my eyes. He returned it with a smirk. A smirk that make him seems like he knew everything.
"Congratulations. You won." He suddenly started clapping. I gave him a clueless look before my institution told me dodge to the side. "Take your prize," in a swift motion, the gun that was on the table was held firmly in his grips and his fingers pulled the trigger almost instantly once his target is locked on. I quickly tilted my head to dodge the bullet that was aimed to my head. "Wow..." Both Federico and I said in unison. I silently rubbed my neck that I almost sprained in the process of dodging.
"Fast," I puffed up my cheeks and said, "but it's not as fast as him."
"Huh?"
Ignoring him, I proceeded to crack my fingers one by one. "Ne. You seems so much stronger without your guardians. Even your aura changes when you're with them. Why is that so?"
He kept quiet, staring at me while I stare back into his teal eyes. 'That's definitely something not inherited from the Ninth.' 'Hmmmm... From the mother I guess,' I wondered. My fingers urged to pull out the gun that is hidden in my jacket. A dead silence followed, a single cold sweat trickled down my temple.
Star: Cielo! Duck!
I instantly ducked down by habit. A surge of wind is visibly flowing above me. I narrowed my eyes as a barely visible thin stream of orange flame can be seen flowing in the middle. Pure Sky flame. 'Such pure flames despite his attitude towards his family.'
Star: Cielo! Foc-
A hand forcefully ripped the hidden earpiece off my ear. I snarled at him, glaring.
"Ah, sorry about that. There was a bug on your ear just now," Federico said as he crashed the 'bug' in his hand. "Just joking," he stuck out his tongue.
*Drip*
Blood trickled down my ear. "You done it." My frown curled up into a cheshire smile. Everything started to darken. Brilliant orange rays from the window starts to shorten. Stars scintillating behind the clouds and the moon peeking out, waiting for its cue to come out.
The one-sided fight
I snicked when I saw how Meteor struggled to escape from the bushes. I decided to advert my attention to the three below. I look up to Snow who is busy with her laptop then back to the three to meet a pair of large purple eyes staring at me. "And I thought I concealed my presence rather well," I jumped down from my spot, alerting the trio. "Chrome Dokuro, Sasagawa Ryohei and..."
"A cow?" I gave the cow-like child a weird look. The child was about to explode but held it in. "Lambo-san will hold the anger in. I must independent without Tsuna-nii's help." 'Tsuna? Oh as in Tsunayoshi. Cielo's former name..."
I faked my innocence and said, "Tsuna? Who's that? A tuna?"
Snow: Pffffffffffffffffftttttt
I quickly mute the earpiece. "You, shut up. And do not tell Cielo about this, and if you do," I whispered into the earpiece, a shadow cast over my face, "I'll kill you." I glared up to the location where Snow is.
"Sawada is not a fish! He is one of the best people I met," Ryohei yelled as he threw a punch aiming for my stomach. "Woah! You need to take anger management class," I grabbed his knuckles. "Ne. I think I can take you all down single-handedly, if this is all you got. But this is not what you got right?" I said trying not to show any signs of mockery even though I just did.
"Chrome Dokuro, you might want to send your owl friend to the other Mist guardian. It might help him survive just a few minutes more," I warned the mist, earning a startle from her. But her expression changed to a confident one. "I believe in Mukuro-sama. He will not fail."
These three. Even though they are the few weaker ones within the seven guardians, their trusts in their comrades is certainly admirable.
Rustling of grass being stepped on filled the area. "Sorry for the wait." Meteor arrived at the scene with a few leaves stuck in his wig.
"Taking longer than you should be," I taunted. "Slacking off like always aren't you?"
Meteor snorted, "I thought I hid it rather well." His hands dusting off the leaves. I looked at him with narrowed eyes, "underestimating me are you?" He then raise his hands up, one waving a imaginary white flag. "No never."
"Waaaaaaait! I want to fight too!" A kiddish voice yelled. Noises of leaves rustling could be heard before a falling figure fell hard on the grass. "Itaiiii!" I look at fallen Snow and thought for a while before slapping my hands together when an idea popped in my mind. "Then, Meteor with the Sun, Star which is me is with the Mist and this leaves Snow with Thunder." Snow opened her mouth to protest but I interrupted her by smacking my hand over her face, pushing her back to where Lambo is.
"Cupola di stelle."
Three dome trapped the said pairings. The domes was made out of stars connecting to each other forming the weather symbols that it holds. The little lamb that was trapped inside the dome with me, started to back away into dome's invisible wall.
"Don't be scare, eye-patch girl," I said. "I will try not to hurt you too much. Especially when you look so cute~!" I almost went ahead to pinch her cheeks but I have my pride not to. The eye-pat- I mean, Chrome, started to fidget which made me want to hug her more. 'Moe~" the lone word started to chant in my head as I hold in the urge.
"Ne. Do you want to just talk? After all I'm only good at supporting and I do not want to hurt you either. Consider me as kind that I never put you with the other two violent one," I gave her a small smile. She relax but still is cautious about me. I sat down and decided to observe the other two domes. Meteor was just toying with Ryohei by running about, Ryohei actually took the bait and chased after him. While Snow... she knocked out Lambo within seconds by smashing her laptop on the poor teenager cow's face and continued managing the system.
I sweat-dropped at how violent and sadistic they are. I saw Chrome gasped when she turned to look too. "You got my point right?" I asked. She nodded timidly, showing a bit of gratitude. "I have a question to ask you," I said. "What did Suzume said to you?"
Her eyes widened at the name mentioned. She opened her mouth to answer. Just then something started to bug me, I stopped her from continuing. Using my eyes' ability, I look towards the tall building. To my horror, I saw Cielo was in daze from looking into the current Decimo's eyes.
"Snow! Set my earpiece to Cielo's!"
In my corner of my eyes, I saw Snow gave me a glance before swiftly typing on the device before notifying me that it is set. I mumbled a thanks. To add on to my horror, Federico was ready to fire a stream of flames from his hand. Though it might not be visible to the naked but I can clearly see the air being compressed into a ball.
"Cielo! Duck!" I yelled. Chrome was startled by the sudden scream. As expected, Cielo ducked down by instinct. Then sky flames as pure as Cielo's went bursting just a few inches above him. 'How does he have such pure flames with his cocky attitude?!' Cielo was just as shocked as me. But I was more alert, I could see how Federico is reaching out slowly to grab something.
"Cielo! Focus!" I shouted again. But I was a step too late. Federico was faster to rip the earpiece off Cielo's ear. Buzzing noise was all what the earpiece could produce til it was crushed into pieces. "Snow, set my earpiece to normal."
Snow: Done.
At first I wanted to tell them about the earpiece but I could sense Cielo's killer intent from here hence I decided not to tell the others about Cielo's current situation. Knowing Cielo, he would most probably not hold back. After all, his earpiece cost a bomb and whoever spoils it will have to face the consequences.
Not to mention that the time had arrived. Snow stood up, giving Meteor and me a look. Using her fingers, she started to countdown as she mouthed the number. Her eyes filled with blood-lust and excitement. "Five, four, three, two, one, zero."
The bright sky is gone
The twinkling stars have come out
The quiet moon brightens the dark sky
The joyful snow brings smiles
The dazzling aurora brings wonders
The hasty meteor came to grant your wish
The mysterious cloud hides your fear
The dark sky bring the six together into one
The Battle Between Storm and Moon part 2
"Prepare yourselves!" Snow's voice rang through the forest. "We're going to dominate this fight!"
Gokudera went into a more alert stance while the other just calming watch the moon rise up steady.
"Time. Arrived," Moon said in short. He jumped up a tree then another, using every tree to kick him up higher. After seventh kick, he started rotating in the air rapidly. His disguise went flying to every direction. When the spinning stopped, Moon landed on the ground with cloak fluttering behind him. Gokudera was startled by how fast he changed, his eyes was not able to follow the fast action and not able catch how Moon looks like.
A intense silence filled the scene, not even rustling of leaves was heard. Gokudera narrowed his eyes. Figuring out that if he doesn't make a move, the silence would most probably suffocate him so he decided to make the first move. "Quadruple Bombs," Gokudera threw his dynamites with deadly accuracy and speed. But it was a bad choice. Before it even reached Moon, it was sliced up into pieces.
"Chinmoku no sebunsuraisu(1)," Moon muttered with a white scythe held in his hand. Seven strokes chopped up the dynamites leaving them to explode. Gokudera hoped that the hood would be blown off to at least let him see the face of his attacker. But sadly his wish was not granted. Bone loops suddenly surrounded him, guarding him from the menacing scythe that came slashing non-stop. "Thanks Uri," Gokudera mumbled shyly, his partner purred in response. Uri emerged out his gear, gracefully landing on the ground.
"Kitten," Moon's eyes suddenly sparks at the small animal. 'When I first saw it, I only saw it for a few seconds so I thought it was just my imagination. But I guess not.' Moon lowered himself down to appear small to the snarling cat, hopefully to calm it down just a little. Unlike his intimidating expressions just now, it was peaceful and kind now. Gokudera was bewildered by his actions and stayed still. Moon gave a tender smile to the calming cat. Uri purred affectionately and rubbed itself against the legs of Moon. "You're...quite a good owner," Moon muttered as he scratch behind an ear much to kitten's joy considering the feminine purring.
"Tsunayoshi. Why betray him?" Moon asked suddenly. His hood shadowing his whole face. It took Gokudera quite a bit to comprehend the meaning but by then he was overwhelmed by the guilt. He kept quiet. Uri was fully aware of the silence and shifted its attention to its own owner. It meowed in concern, pressing its paw on Gokudera's pants as if it is trying to comfort the other. Gokudera saw what Uri was doing and gently picked it up. He cuddled the cat into a warm hug. Moon stood up. His smile disappearing.
"If only I could see him again and say sorry. I could say that I can die without any regrets. But now I can't. There's a grave but no traces of him on it so what's the point of apologizing there," Gokudera's tone was utterly sad and clearly disappointed in himself. Yet it felt empty. Moon popped a vein at those words. Empty hopes. Moon don't say another word instead he took out his ring and box animal.
"Such empty words pisses me off." Moon said before inserting the ring inside the box. Glistening silver-green flames covers the whole box before a silver wolf jumps out with a threatening howl. Uri immediately got scared and started hissing aggressively at the wolf. "Hoshiki." One word and the wolf took off at the silent command. While Hoshiki distracts the opponent. Moon got into his fighting stance with his scythe gripped firmly.
He took three steps and jumped into the sky. Hoshiki moved out of the way, out of the danger zone. "Chinmokunouta: Kuresento no shizukesa(2)," Moon came crashing down. The scythe made a long and deep slash on the Gokudera. With that Gokudera was down with Uri panicking. Moon leave a note with the 'Notte' on it and assured the frantic cat that its owner is alive. He took one last glance and left.
The Battle Between Rain and Cloud part 2
"We're going to dominate this fight!"
Yamamoto immediately scanned the surroundings when he heard the loud voice, while Hibari merely just scowled at how loud Snow can be sometimes. Hibari took advantage of the confusion and changed into his cloak within seconds. Right after, he whacked his tonfas hard against Yamamoto's back. If it wasn't for his natural hitman's instincts, he would have his spine snapped into two. "Ouch! That could have ended badly," Yamamoto rubbed his now sore back. "Wait when did you change your outfit?" he said amused.
"Hibari, Hibari," a familar voice of a certain creature called from a distance. Cloud's eyes widen by a millimetre as he recognize the voice that stayed near him for years. 'Hibird...' His eyes went from corner to corner, searching for the yellow bird.
"You shouldn't let your guard down, you know," Yamamoto's cold voice whispered into his ears, sending shivers down his spine. Out of reflexes, Cloud immediately threw his head back, headbutting the human behind followed by an uppercut to the chin.
"Roll!" Cloud called. A surge of purple flames shot out from his box and landed on the floor. A hedgehog emerged from the raging flames. "Roll... a hedgehog..." Yamamoto trailed off, seem to be in deep thoughts. 'Did he recognize Roll?' Cloud cautiously stepped back into a defensive stance.
"Is that some kind of Sonic reference?" Yamamoto asked with flowers surrounding him.
'I will fucking kill you,' Cloud growled in his mind. Different giggles could heard from the earpiece. Cloud tighten his grips on his tonfas in anger. He grind his teeth to relieve the building anger inside of him. "Let me ask one question before I bite you to death."
"Yamamoto Takeshi, Is there a person with the name, Sawada Tsunayoshi, in Vongola?"
Yamamoto did not react much and kept his emotionless face on. Cloud tapped his foot indirectly asking the motionless latter to hurry up. Yamamoto sighed and said without a single care, "yes and he's dead." His reply made Cloud narrowed his eyes at how easily Yamamoto said the word 'dead'. If he at least have a slight conscience in his heart, he would at least have shown some guilt. "Hn. Good enough," Cloud lied. "Roll." Roll look at its owner and started merging with the tonfas. Sharp spikes appeared on the now merged tonfas, looking dangerous than ever. Before Yamamoto could react, the spikes came crashing down at him, stabbing him in the shoulder when he attempted to dodge.
Cloud clicked his tongue when he missed, his killer intent roaring behind him. He immediately went into rampage mode. Attacking at every open spot with both accuracy and strength. Yamamoto was blocking most of the attacks though there were some that slip through his defense but he patiently waited for the chance.
"Attacco di Squalo," Yamamoto finally countered. His two sword came in contact with the tonfas, sending shock-waves. Cloud knows the moves, finding the remaining strength in his legs and abruptly threw them at the side of Yamamoto's head. Knocking the consciousness out of the swordsman. Both fell onto the floor. One had fainted and the other stunned from the attack. "That was way too close," Cloud muttered. With a bit of struggle, he stood up and leave a paper with the word 'Notte' on Yamamoto's unconscious body.
The Battle Between Mist and Aurora part 2
"We're going to dominate this fight~" Aurora hummed along with Snow. Mukuro was not fazed by it and decided use it to counter. He swung his trident at Aurora which deflected by her sword. The green phoenix was a problem for Mukuro as he need to keep an eye on the bird.
Aurora noticed that Mukuro was not giving her his full power. Deciding that it's not fun like this, she call her phoenix back. "Erase Aurora Phoenix, Set 92" The bird and rings glowed and went back into the book. Mukuro gave her a curious look.
"Just giving you some handicap so that it's more entertaining," Aurora simply reasoned out. Mukuro narrowed his eyes as if he does not need such handicaps Aurora shrugged it off with a cool gaze. She started by jogging and then accelerating to a jet-speed run. Mukuro barely block the threatening point of the sword with his trident. Her intentions are thirsty for blood to be spilled.
"Genjū Gagaia," Mukuro said, his gloved hand raised to summon the crows. Aurora did not move from her spot and instead snapped her fingers. Unlike how she always use her right hand, this time she used the left instead. And on one of fingers was a ring. With a symbol of an hourglass. The approving crows stopped all movements, wings were not flapping yet still staying in the air. "Tch," Mukuro was not expecting that the power to control time is actually from a ring. He drew out a gun from his belt and pulled its trigger right after. Aurora did not bother much about the bullet and dashed forwarded, crouching low. She gave Mukuro a kick to the guts followed by a slash from her sword. The illusionist blocked both with his trident and spin the trident around. One of the points managed to make a cut on an undefended leg. Aurora winced a bit, 'it had been quite a time since I had been damaged. Too long that I'm not used to the pain anymore.' She started tampering the wound to at least make it numb so that it is more bearable.
"Kufufu, looks like you're in pain just with one scratch," Mukuro said with a mocking tone. Aurora glared and pouting, "It's been a year or so since I have someone make such a wound on skin. I hope this will not leave a scar on my pretty legs." 'She being narcissistic!' Mukuro groaned, disliking the fact that he had to meet such a person. Aurora read that thought and wanted to snap back at him. But knowing that it might be the best decision to do so, she kept her anger in. "I'm going to change the subject," Aurora warned. Mukuro stared into space, he could guess what she going to say.
"Sawada Tsunayoshi, he saved you from Vindice don't he?" Aurora knew that she hit a jackpot with that question. Mukuro avoid her eyes and instead he glared at the innocent grass that had did nothing wrong to him. "Kufufu, why do you have to ask that question?" He said bitterly. It's definitely obvious by now, his tone and movement proves that he is guilty for betraying his ex-boss. He had never this bitter in life. Not once but twice. First was when he saw the boss fall from the roof and had to bear the pain to forest. And second is now, being question by an enemy about the decreased Tsunayoshi. "Kufufu..." He laughed bitterly again. Aurora knows that the silence will only drag longer and asked again, "what if Sawada Tsunayoshi is still alive?"
This question totally caught Mukuro off guard but answered nonetheless. "Kufufu, I don't think I will be able to face him again. After I did all those things, I never can."
That answer caught Aurora's attention. His sincere voice that said the sentence, before his voice was filled with emptiness until now. 'At least his response is good. I guess I don't have to be too violent for today.'
Silence filled the air. Mukuro dared himself to look up. He was surprised that he saw a small yet warm smile that was directed to him. Aurora then smiled another apologetic smile but moving swiftly to his back and accurately hit the pressure point at the back of the head. Mukuro swaggered and fell on the grass with a thud. "Sorry about that," Aurora apologized and tore a page out of her book and wore 'Notte' on it and left it beside the unconscious illusionist.
Aurora look at the fallen figure and then averted her eyes to the night sky. "I still have work to do."
The Battle Between The Two Skies part 2
"We're going to dominate this fight!" I heard Snow's voice yelled. I chuckled while Federico looked out clueless about what is happening. I took out my cloak and just put it on without taking off my disguise. "Let me tell you something," I dropped my voice to a dangerous one. "Cielo Notturno," I stopped, noticing Federico evidently stiffen at the name. "Is not a famiglia that you can insult and get away with it," straight after the last word, I activated my Hyper mode, letting the dark blue flames consume my body. Federico stepped back from blazing flames. I swiftly kicked the gun out his hand. I would end this battle with an X-Burner but I cannot afford to risk my identity. Neither can I release a huge amount of flames to summon a barrier with my Sky flames.
Federico and I exchanged attacks for minutes and it is not going anywhere. Whenever his Sky flames meets my Midnight flames meets, it results in a mini explosion that damaged both the users. I had no choice but to use my box animal.
"Tsuyuro," I inserted my ring into the blue box. A small lion club appeared behind, unlike Natsu, this lion is black in color with blue flames as its mane and tail. Tsuyuro sniffed around for a moment and raced off to a vase and growled aggressively at it. Federico widen his eyes at that. "Wait! Don't scare Kaede!" Federico ran to the vase too, panicking. He tried to calm the lion down but failed badly. 'Gosh, he looks like he about to burst into tears,' I sweatdropped as I called Tsuyuro back. Federico laid on the floor as if he was trying to get something out. "Kaede," he whistled. I was surprised at how gentle his voice was. "Gotcha," Federico said softly. I sense his smile even though his back was facing me. A genuine one. A puff of fur stuck out from the vase then its body. It turned out to be an orange fox with sky flames flaming brilliantly on its ears and paws. The mischievous fox snickered as it is held in its owner hands, high up in the air. It look so happy with Federico.
One part of me soften up but there is the other part of me wanting to destroy that happiness. I clenched my fist and pulled it back to give Federico a punch. However I did not punch him. I looked away from heart-warming scene. Instead I press my fist against heart.
It hurts.
The fox saw me and grinned like an idiot that does not know that it's in danger.
My heart hurts.
"You shouldn't be playing around, Kaede. You must not get hurt. After all, you're my precious friend," Federico nuzzle his nose against the fox's nose. The fox giggled like a child in return.
Shut the fuck up.
The smiles on their faces were on my face once. They stole it. He stole my happiness from me. I must kill. I must kill him. He deserve it to be dead. Killed.
Kill.
I finally lost it.
"Operation F," I commanded. A scale appeared in my vision. Federico heard me and turned back shock evident on his face. "Kaede, run," he whispered into the fox's ear but I heard it. I felt a cheshire smile creep onto my face, "I'm not going to let you get away." Federico knew that I was going aim for his fox and decided to sacrifice himself for his beloved animal.
Underneath the hood my eyes glared into his determined eyes. I stood and straighten only my right hand. This is a gamble, I do not have earpiece so that Snow can tell me the voltage amount that I'm going to output without getting distracted.
"X Freezer." Midnight flames shot out from my hand, directly hitting the Vongola boss. "It's cold!" Federico yelled out in pain as he grab his frozen arm. Perhaps my attack output was too weak normally it would freeze a whole person but I guess he is lucky. I look at the scale. '25,000 FV'
'Only?!' Shocked by how little voltage is needed to deal such damage like second degree frostbites. The fox saw what had happened and ran to its owner, looking at him with concerned eyes.
I was once again ticked off by their interactions. "Federico," I called. Federico frowned at me. "The happiness that you're having now, I will destroy it in the future," I warned. "Mark my words."
"Why is Cielo Notturno targeting Vongola?" he asked. I did not answer him and left. The back of my cloak showing the symbol of my famiglia crest. "Cielo Notturno will never let their targets leave their eyesight." With that, he broke the nearby window and flew out into the sky.
"I really need to learn how to control my power without the help of the earpiece."
At the meeting point
"Cielo! You're the last," Aurora called from below where Cielo is flying. Cielo looked down to see all his guardians smiling at him. Snow was waving enthusiastically, her knees' skin was scraped. Cielo noticed the scrape and asked while landing, "Snow, don't I ask you not to fight?"
Snow blinked, oblivious about the bleeding wound on her knee. Cielo point at her knees. Snow lean forward to look. "Oh! That's when Star smack me in the eyes," Snow laughed, waving her hands indicating that it is just a small matter. Cielo look questionably at Star who laughed too. Then I noticed how she is completely unharmed. So is Meteor. Aurora said that she got slash in the leg and Moon had some burn marks hidden from the others but it cannot escape Cielo's eyes. Knowing him, Moon does not want the others to worry so let it slide this time. What worries Cielo the most is who Moon is currently treating, Cloud. Cloud is partially paralysed from the stun attack. "Are you okay?" Cielo place his hand above Cloud's hand. Cloud snorted, "It's just a mere cowardly attack that got me."
Cielo gripped the warm hand and held it close it near his face, "please be more careful next time. You know how much it worries me when you got hurt?" Unknown to Cielo, Cloud's face redden up by the action and words. He took his hand back to cover his redden face and stood up. Meteor whistled disturbing the embarrassed.
"Alright, let's go back," Aurora announced, saving Cloud from his embarrassment. Bluish indigo flames encircled them, teleporting them straight to their hideout.
"Mission Part 2 cleared. Everyone, you have worked hard," Cielo said in the midst of teleporting.
Cielo and his guardians walked out of the flames. "I'm home," everyone chorused at different volumes. But they don't expect a reply.
"Welcome back," a familiar voice greeted. Everyone except for Cielo and Cloud became alerted. Cielo command them to stay down. Cielo's eyes were wide open in disbelief as a figure came out of the kitchen. Tears welled up in his eyes. He approach the figure slowly. "Tsu-kun."
"Ka-san!" Cielo stumbled into the mother's arms just like a little kid who found his mom after getting lost. He cried the loudest than he ever had. Cloud look at his boss sadly, it the first ever time he saw Cielo cried this loud before. "Geez, Tsu-kun," Nana ruffled her son's hair. "You don't change at all," she said, totally glad that her son is still the cry-baby that she always loves. Wiping away the tears, Nana kiss his forehead, comforting the crying brunette.
"Tsu-kun," Nana look up at the guardians and continued, "and friends, I cooked dinner. Let's go, have a meal to fill your empty stomachs." The guardians' eyes shined at how motherly and friendly the mother is.
During their meal, they found out that Nana despite being in coma, she was able hear what was going on. She said that she had almost died thrice by going to critical condition but she maintained strong. Cielo almost cried again when he heard that. She now knows about Mafia, Cielo had no choice but to tell a very long story to them. Cielo still want his mother to stay as innocent as possible so he advised her to stay in and in case she does not knows; where they are right is underwater. After that, it is after midnight already. Snow suggested to tell embarrassing stories about each other. Nana told them about how Cielo used to score in his middle school days.
Aurora smirked,
Snow snickered,
Star squealed,
Meteor grinned,
Moon smiled,
Cielo chuckled,
Cloud stared. He knew that the sky that he knows came back. A small smile surfaced.
'Please stay like this forever.'
-Mini Omake- A totally one-sided fight
"We're going to dominate this fight!" Snow yelled at the top of her lungs. "Fuuck," Snow cursed as the word came out stained. Too bad for her, Lambo is already knocked out and is currently acting as a cushion for her to sit on. Star jumped her soon after she put Chrome to sleep with spell. Meteor came in later after he made Ryohei spin until he fall because of dizziness. Snow hands them two special earpiece that customized to listen to everything that happening on. "Cielo's earpiece is crushed for your info," Snow supplied, her eyes still glued to the computer. The computer displayed the dialogues that they had, all accurately typed out.
They heard Moon using his moves but then they heard meow from the earpiece. "Oh my, Moon is weak to animals," Snow stated.
Moon: Kitten.
Moon's voice came out super weird for them. They are just too not used to his gentle voice that he rarely display.
Suzume: Just giving you some handicap so that it's more entertaining.
The three widen in jealousy, "that's not fair! She never gave us handicap before!" Meteor started throwing insults at Aurora for being unfair. Then they saw the dialogue with Cloud calling Roll out. Star asked Snow to switch to his.
Cloud: "Is that some kind of Sonic reference"
A unfamiliar voice was came out of the earpiece instead. Figuring out that it is Yamamoto, they could not help it laugh out loud. Snow laughed to the point that she accidentally press the direct message to Cloud, sending the giggles to him. "Oh shit," Snow said as she wipe her tears. They heard a growl that was directed to them.
Moon: Tsunayoshi. Why betray him?
Cloud: Yamamoto Takeshi, is there a person with the name, Sawada Tsunayoshi, in Vongola?
Aurora: Sawada Tsunayoshi, he saved you from Vindice don't he?
The three asked at the same time, the voice collided with each other. Meteor whistled at how sync they were. Star and Snow started to clap at it too. But then the conversation of Aurora and Mukuro gotten their attention. They don't that the Mist guardian had gotten in such trouble before. They heard how sincere Mukuro was unlike the other two. "I guess Mukuro is not such a bad person after all," Star commented, Snow and Meteor nodded in agreement.
"Nn," Lambo woke up only to feel crushed by the weight on top of him. "Hea-vy," he managed to mutter out. Snow took offence to that and once again smashed her computer on the cow's head. The lightning guardian fainted once again.
"R.I.P Lightning guardian," Star and Meteor chorused.
~Chit-chat corner with the characters~
Amaya: *Sweetly* Cut~ Everyone~
Aurora: Ya. Right. Nine months to just to record a chapter.
Amaya: *Roll on floor and ends with a kneeling position* Please forgive me, Reader-sama!
Snow: Since when Amaya-san is a dramatic person.
Moon: Today.
Nana: *From a distance* Tsu-kun! Can you help me get my bag for me? It's by the door.
Cielo: Hai!
Amaya: *Sob* Cielo. Such a good kid. *whispers* I want to corrupt him.
Cloud: Oi. I heard that.
Amaya: Eeeeeks!
Star: Don't worry Amaya-san. I agree with you.
Cloud: Kamikorosu!
Amaya and Star: AHHHHHHHH! *Runs away*
Amaya: Be sure review! Both compliment and criticism is fine with me. I don't mind if hurts me.
Moon and Star: Masochist.
Amaya: I heard that!
Important A/N: I got no idea how am I going to apologize to you. My mind is actually crowded with ideas but all are freaking erotic in every way and you can see it in Cloud's battle and then near the end. I really like messing with Cloud. I will try to shorten my chapter so that it takes shorter time to update. Pardon all the line breaks in this chapter, I put it so that it's much neater this way. Sorry if you are confused before the code names, I got confused too so we are even… I guess. And I have questions for you readers.
Question 1: 27R or 2718. Yes, Tsuna is the seme in both pairings. Which one you like better?
(27R is actually a confirmed pairing in this fanfic. Sorry those who wants 2718 but the reason I asked this question is because I want to see how many people like them. And if there is a lot of people who choose 2718, I might as well add some 2718 cuts in the future chapters. And good news for 8059 shippers, 8059 is a confirmed pairing too.)
Question 2: Short or long chapter?
Question 3: Which is current favourite OC in this fanfic?
Question 4: Do you like Federico?
Question 5: What do you think of the current Tsuna/Cielo?
I really need you guys' opinion. At least two or three reviews would be good enough for me to write more confidently.
Chinmoku no sebunsuraisu(1) : Seven slices of the silence
Chinmokunouta: Kuresento no shizukesa(2) : Song of the silence: Crescent's quietness
I used google translate so don't bash for wrong Japanese.
Word Count: 11974