Summary:Tsuna didn't really know how it happened. One moment he was walking down the street and the next he ended up in a very dark room with people not really looking very happy to see him. Moreover, what caused Tsuna to panic at this was the sight of the first generation of Vongola along with an adult looking Reborn. Apparently Tsuna was quite infamous in this parallel world...

A/N: Chapter 1-5 has been updated with some grammar fixes and adding in more text. Nothing major but enough to make it more readable~

If you want you can re-read them before reading this chapter. :D

Chapter 6 – Train Trouble

"YOU GOT CHASED BY WHOM!?"

Tsuna cringed at the doctor's volume. Sure it wasn't even close to Ryohei's normally loud yells but still he was close enough for his ears to protest of it.

"By Reborn…" Tsuna almost whispered, looking a bit worriedly at the doctor who seemed to be getting a heart attack.

"A-AND Y-YOU…!" The doctor exclaimed in disbelief.

"…Got away" Tsuna finished for him and scratched the back of his head while grinning sheepishly. "I'm not sure how though."

Shamal leant back in exhaustion on his seat in the booked train compartment. They were on their way to Florence for now in a high speed train. The moment Tsuna had arrived at the station he had spotted the doctor almost instantly and just shared looks with saying "Emergency, we need to head off NOW." No longer than a half an hour they got their hands on some tickets to Florence. It was first now on the train that Tsuna started to explain what had happened. And the doctor had freaked out when the brunet had mentioned that it was in fact Reborn who had chased him for a few blocks.

"Well… I'll be damned…" Shamal finally sighed in relief. "Though that means they are still hot on our trail. I'm afraid it might take us a few days before we're completely safe from them."

Tsuna nodded absently. Still he had that tingling feeling that he had some help in that alley. The checkered pattern… It reminded him from how he got here. It couldn't have been that he imagined it right?

"Uhm… Shamal."

The doctor looked at the brunet with full attention. "Yes Tsuna?"

"Do you know anything about a checkered pattern?"

Shamal was silent, but he didn't look too confused by the question, instead he chuckled lightly. "Funny you would ask such a question."

"Huh?" The young teen's caramel eyes widened in shock. Did Shamal really know about it?

"Ombra asked me that a few years back too." Shamal's expression turned serious. "And he was quite interested in checkered pattern after that, muttering something about a 'man in the iron hat' or something close like that."

"W-wait… Man in the iron hat!? Do you mean Checkerface!?" Tsuna exclaimed in surprise. It did make sense now with the checkered pattern… But why didn't this what he now assumed to be the parallel version of Checkerface and Kawahira show himself if he was the one helping him?

"Checkerface?" Shamal looked confused for a moment. "Is that his real name? I only heard him being called the Man with the iron hat."

Tsuna pondered back and forth. So obviously Checkerface had helped him out that he was quite thankful for. But he really felt like talking to him face to face. Maybe he would know something about Ombra's plans…

As they were pondering in silence Tsuna felt himself tense all of the sudden, Shamal didn't fail to notice the brunet was sensing something coming and felt himself raise his guard as he heard footsteps coming from outside their compartment. Hearing the footsteps made the brunet feel uneasy and he unconsciously picked up his mittens from his pockets. Shamal eyed the mittens curiously but kept silent as the footsteps coming nearer and stopped right outside their compartment.

The doctor gripped what Tsuna noticed was a small and probably undetectable gun with his right hand from his inner pockets of his coat. Tsuna put on his mittens in case something bad was about to happen. This time the Hyper Intuition wasn't ringing sharply as the other times they were spotted but still felt the warning bells ring softly at the back of his mind, giving him a mild warning.

The door opened slowly and a man in a black suit looked in on the passengers. It was obvious he was a Mafioso, but the brunet felt like this Mafioso wasn't one of the Vongola's. He was from a different Famiglia.

The man looked rather bored but studied the occupants of the compartment carefully, his eyes lingering longer on Tsuna but then moved it to Shamal. The doctor looked uninterested back with a hint of saying 'you want something?' but it seemed the Mafioso wasn't going to say anything.

A sudden explosion from the train got the occupants to quickly gasp in surprise and hold on to something. The train slowed down to a stop as all three got up and recovered from the shock they got.

The Mafioso pulled out a gun and ushered the brunet and the doctor to be still. Tsuna felt like lying low and just do as he said for now. It seemed he as well wasn't expecting the sudden halt to the train. The man pointing his gun back and forth between the two passengers flipped up his phone in irritation and murmured something unidentifiable to someone at the other end. Tsuna frowned slightly, as he managed to sort out the 'clone' and 'doctor' from the Mafioso's muttering. Shamal seemed to have caught up at that as well as he made his move before the Mafioso could react in time.

A gunshot echoed in the train.

Then chaos erupted.

The moment the gunshot was heard Tsuna jumped up, flames exploding from his transformed gloves as he knocked out the Mafioso by a quick chop at the man's pressure point near his neck. Shamal had missed, narrowly scraped the man's shoulder with the bullet, and even if Tsuna felt relieved by that he knew he had to take immediate action to make up for it.

Grabbing the doctor's wrist as he dragged him along, blowing up the window along with the wagon wall and jumped out from the train, he started to run with the doctor in tow. He had only caught a glance of the doctor's surprised expression the moment he'd managed to force his body into the Hyper Dying Will mode. Tsuna had to admit it felt rather harsh to his body to force his way into it like that. He was more used to using the pills as a boost to remain in it. He could feel it trying to wear off but he kept his concentration at its full capacity to keep it up.

Tsuna could hear yells from behind. Shoot. They were already on their trail. The brunet dared to glance back as he could make out some Mafiosos jumping out of the train and running after them, armed with guns which they surprisingly didn't use at the moment. Tsuna frowned even more, calculating silently the reason behind it. He came up with the conclusion.

They were to be captured alive.

Shamal was starting to slow down from the running they had done as he seemed to not being able to keep up the speed. "Run Tsuna, I'll keep them occupied." The doctor panted.

Tsuna shook his head. "I'm not going to let them get you." He answered calmly in a few octaves lower than his usual tone. Shamal frowned at the remark.

"It's better if they only get me. Not both of us." He tried to convince but Tsuna was steadily running with a firm grip on the doctor.

"No." The teen muttered. "We'll just need to fly away from them."

Shamal stared at the brunet, dumbfounded and out of words. "Y-you can fly!?"

A small smirk made it's way to the brunet's calm expression. "Hang on tight. This will be a bumpy flight."

Tsuna slowed down his pace and more or less dragged the shocked doctor on his back. Keeping a firm grip still on his wrist he moved his other hand down and let his Sky flames erupt.

As Tsuna felt himself and Shamal blast upward towards the sky he continued to ascend in a rapid speed to get as far away from the Mafiosos as possible within a small amount of time. He could only hope they wouldn't have any aircraft nearby to follow them within a short period of time. Shamal shrieked in surprise as they ascended up. The air started to feel light and it became harder to breathe. Tsuna knew they wouldn't be able to ascend this quickly if they were to survive the cold air and high pressure on their lungs at that height.

Tsuna tried to spot any nearby clouds that could be used as a camouflage, hopefully one that wasn't too high up. They were already high enough to feel the strong winds and chilling air make their way into their lungs.

Luckily a bit to the north Tsuna spotted a quite big cloud heading east and it was around the same level that they were on at the very moment. The brunet took the chance to twist and blast his way to it and settled in a steadier hovering position inside the cloud.

"Sorry about the scare." Tsuna chuckled amused to the doctor who was clinging around his neck for dear life.

"WARN ME NEXT TIME!" Was the only reply he got from the fuming Shamal. "You almost gave me three heart attacks at once!"

Tsuna couldn't help but laugh heartily at the remark. "Well I'm not a first-class for bringing someone with me when flying. Before I've only flown with a person strapped with a parachute a few meters behind me or only carried someone for a small distance."

"Geez… Wonder why." The doctor muttered under his breath, cursing about young people giving out free death wishes.

Tsuna averted his attention from the doctor and looked around him. He could slightly see through the cloud which was starting to give him the shivers of the cold water that was being absorbed by his clothes. His flames helped a bit with warming him up but he still could feel himself being drenched by the cloud. His thoughts went to a certain skylark that resembled this cloud very well. This cloud had been aloof from any other cloud in the sky and had aided a good hiding spot for the moment. He was almost thankful to the cloud itself for being aloof on just this day, time and place.

It made him think back what had happened at home. Had Ombra ended up where he was in Nanimori, and if so… was he going to stir up trouble? The brunet shook his head in frustration. He had to focus at the now and here. He got enough problems at the very moment now to worry about.

For example. Where would they head off to?

"Tsuna, if you're done enjoying the view I'd be more than thankful if we could at least try to get the hell out of here if you don't mind." The doctor remarked in a annoyed tone yet still warily due to him being at such a height without any mends more than holding on tight to not fall down to his death.

Tsuna nodded. "Which way would be best to take?"

"Fly east along with this cloud until we're out of sight from this area. Those Mafiosos was from the Estraneo Famiglia and they are sure to report their finding of us to the Vongola.

The brunet tensed. "The Estraneo?" He asked in a wary tone.

"They are an allied team with Vongola. They are quick to set up traps to Vongola's enemies and are very loyal to them as well." Shamal gritted out.

Tsuna couldn't help but sigh in frustration to all of the differences in this parallel world. Some of them were just too odd for his liking.

Giotto took in every detail shown in front of him, careful to not miss anything as they walked through the damaged train that the Estraneo Famiglia had apparently had a very big interest in. They had been waiting on the train for an ambush and taking over the train without bigger problems. It seemed however that they had accidently made the locomotive's motors explode in high pressure thus making the train halt in the middle of nowhere.

About ten Mafiosos of the Estraneo family had been found in the forest nearby, they seemed to be confused and had confirmed them chasing after a doctor along with a young boy that they had thought could be Ombra. An unconscious man in a trashed compartment of the train had woken up but couldn't remember what had knocked him out. He remember opening the door to the compartment and noticing two people then everything seemed to had gone blank.

It was out of luck Vongola had noticed Estraneo's sudden movement to take over several trains going out of Palermo, but it did make sense that they too was after the Ombra clone.

Giotto let his gaze go over the damages of the compartment. A bullet was pierced into the doorframe, which seemed like it had missed its target. In the wall towards the window was a gaping hole that had been broken through from the inside of the compartment, meaning the duo inside had taken a rather rash escape route and had run into the forest.

A handful of the Estraneo family had pursued them for a couple of hundred meters but they lost sight of them after they somehow had vanished without any trace of which way they had taken.

The Vongola boss walked through the hole in the wagon and made his way into the forest. He didn't stop until he arrived at the place where the targets had mysteriously disappeared. It was a small clearing with the sky clearly visible. The blonde crouched down and studied the grass.

It was burnt.

The sky blue eyes of the blonde narrowed. They couldn't have… flown, right?

"Giotto."

The blonde let his attention fall to the voice behind him. His dear friend Cozart had arrived as he too looked around the clearing scanning for clues. He moved towards the Vongola boss with a small frown.

"I got the word from Estraneo. They got some information about another Famiglia that is after the Ombra clone. Right now there are a total of three others not including the Vongola and its allies that have begun a search for Ombra. This is starting to get into an even bigger mess than hoped." The Shimon boss confirmed.

"As usual when Ombra puts one of his bigger schemes in place." Giotto muttered. "It appears they flew away from the scene here as there's no other trail of them.

Cozart was silent for a moment. "Without an aircraft?"

The blonde nodded. "I have a vague feeling they were able to fly with the help of dying will flames."

"Wait… what!? But that would at least make them noticeable from the sky right? Dying will flames are hard to miss when spotted in the sky."

"I have a feeling that if they did they had their luck on their side. It might have caught the ones chasing them off guard as they didn't look up in time until they had managed to camouflage themselves."

"It's quite astounding how they managed to slip away this time as well, it almost feel like this is just another one of Ombra's tricks."

Giotto couldn't help but to agree. It wouldn't surprise him at all if Ombra had planned ahead for at least hundreds of different escape routes for his little clone and the one taking care of him right now. But somewhere in the back of his mind hinted more of something else had happened.

Something he'd need to figure out soon.

Reborn would not say that he was happy. Not one bit.

His dame student hadn't made his way home yet and it had been more than five hours since he left for the grocery shopping. A small feeling of worry started to build up and he was sure to give Tsuna a good tort… tutoring session in 'Do not get yourself into any kind of messes without me knowing'.

With a huff he stood up and walked outside to check what in the world would take Tsuna that long to just buy some milk and stupid grape candy. Walking along the street leading to the shopping district he didn't find any clues of where Tsuna could have headed. The shop had closed a while ago and it was no use asking the owners as they had headed home as well.

A figure in the distance caught the Arcobaleno's attention as it headed towards him. Reborn acknowledged the persons presence by tilting his fedora in greeting.

"Chiaossu Hibari."

The skylark nodded in confirm, glancing down on the infant with his steely eyes. "Carnivore."

"Have you seen Dame-Tsuna anywhere?" Reborn let the question sound more curious than serious.

Hibari seemed to frown slightly at the question. "Is the small animal missing?"

"He's been gone for five hours." Reborn changed his tone to a more serious one, giving Hibari the clue of it being important. Hibari seemed to tense more as his hands twitch towards his tonfas.

"Has it anything to do with an imposter?" Hibari asked out of the blue which got Reborn to frown.

"Imposter?"

"He looked like an adult version of the small animal, calling himself 'Ombra'. I fought him as he trespassed on Nanimori's school grounds about 4 hours ago."

The new sudden information was not what Reborn had expected but it was sure to have something to do with Tsuna's disappearance. His small fists clenched. "Where did he go afterwards?"

Before Hibari could answer Leon jumped down from his seat on the fedora and changed his shape into a cellphone going off franticly. Reborn narrowed his eyes on the number as he picked up.

"Reborn-san!?" A familiar and frantic voice echoed from the other line.

"Souichi? What in the world is going on? This better be important, Tsuna is missing."

"I-I-I K-know! Byakuran n-n-noticed this a while back. He h-has been quite w-w-worried about s-something that is occurring…"

"Stop stuttering and speak clearly." Reborn's voice was murderous, making the poor boy at the other end flinch even if Reborn couldn't see him.

"Byakuran had a huge headache about 5 hours ago, resulting in him being unconscious for a couple of hours afterwards. When he woke up he was almost frantic and whimpered something about 'He's coming…'" A slight pause was made and the young inventor continued. "When he calmed down he said something about Tsuna had switched places with one of his parallel selves from another parallel world of ours. He mentioned the name 'Ombra' but he keeps shivering as something is hurting him from trying to contact his other self in that parallel world."

Reborn went silent and gritted his teeth in frustration as he called into the phone before he hung up. "We're coming. Keep the marshmallow boss sane until we arrive." .

Whoever this Ombra was… It couldn't be good.

A/N: And thus everyone is confused from right to left.

Sup?

It's been a little while since the last update. Reason? I was unsure how to continue it. I mean how I would build the story up and such. I do have a lot of plot ideas for it and all I can say is I am unsure how to let this thing go. But I got some lead to continue it now at least… while being stuck on my other story x'D Geez.

Another reason was I was away. On camping, been stuck in the house cleaning and I've been drawing stuff like crazy again. So much time flies away. But at the same time I get new ideas for this thingy.

Yell at me if you find any mega-weird grammar… k?

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