Hi Nobody here, so I work hard on this chapter and it has a little backstory for someone in the trio. (Maybe even a hint to something later). Anyway, I hope you enjoy this chapter and check out my A/N too. Now Disclaimers. Haru and Yuffie.
Yuffie - Nobody doesn't own Kingdom Hearts. That belongs to Tetsuya Nomura, Square Enix, and Dinsey Interactive. Besides no one can stop me.
Haru - He also doesn't own Katekyo Hitman Reborn. That belongs to Akira Amano, TV Tokyo, and Viz Media. Haru however always belongs to Tsuna.
Enjoy and Have a Merry Christmas.
KHReborn Chapter 5 - Understanding and Friends
Tsuna sat in his room on the ship looking at the ring he got from the Cheshire Cat.
What do I do with this ring? He thought. And what did he mean I was lacking something?
Before he could look into it more, the alarms began to go off in the ship. Tsuna fell out of bed dropping the ring and something else in his room and rushed to the bridge.
"Are we being attacked?" He asked the others.
"No." Replied Yamamoto. "We just arrived at another world." He pointed to the screen to show a beautiful jungle.
"And we are leaving it." Gokudera said. The others turned their heads towards him.
"What?" Tsuna said. "But why?"
"Our Boss wouldn't be in some remote place like this." Gokudera as he began to steer away from the world.
"Wait!" Tsuna shouted. "Yuni and Byakuran may be on that world."
"We have a mission. We can't have you making promises with every single person we meet." Gokudera said.
"Gokudera…" Yamamoto said.
"Please. I just want to see." Tsuna began walking towards Gokudera.
"No is no!" Gokudera said. "Now, let's go somewhere else."
"Wait-!" Tsuna suddenly tripped and landed on the controls.
"Oh cr-!" The Gummi Ship began to shake.
Fuuta and Jiminy rushed into the control room. "What's happening?" Fuuta asked.
"Tsuna landed on the controls and we are going to crash." Yamamoto said. The Gummi began to spiral to the world. Tsuna went flying out the bridge and hit the door that lead out of the ship.
Geez, why does this keep happening to me? Tsuna thought.
"Tsuna! Look out!"
Tsuna looked up to see Fuuta's book flying towards him. He closed his eyes and heard it make impact with something. He opened his eyes to see it missed him and he sighed in relief.
Then he heard a beeping sound. He looked again to see the book pressed the button to the door. The doors opened behind him and he began falling down to the world.
"Help!" Tsuna called out as the ship disappeared from sight. Am I going to die? He thought. Wait! The pills! He reached into his pockets, but found them empty. Where are they? Did they fall out of my pocket?
The ground slowly began to close in. "Why does keep happening to me?"
Back on the ship, Gokudera and Yamamoto managed to land carefully in a clearing.
"Geez, why did that Key Bearer have to mess with everything." Gokudera sighed after the Gummi Ship stop moving.
"Is everyone alright?" Yamamoto asked as he moved some of the items out of the way.
"We are okay over here." Fuuta called out.
"That's good." Yamamoto said then he looked around and noticed something. "Tsuna is missing."
"Good riddance." Gokudera said. "He is nothing but trouble. Maybe we can find another key person."
"Gokudera!" Gokudera turned to see Yamamoto punching him.
"What the hell, Baseball Idiot?" Gokudera shouted.
"You do not treat your friends like that!" Yamamoto said, his familiar grin gone from his face. Fuuta and Jiminy left to go straighten up the rest of the ship.
"What are you talking about?" Gokudera asked.
"Do you have any idea how Tsuna is feeling right now?" Yamamoto asked right back.
"Feeling?" Gokudera said then turned his head. "Obviously, he isn't concentrated on the mission like I am. We need to find the-" Gokudera got punched again. He rubbed the spot he got hit. "What the hell?"
"That's not important to him." Yamamoto said grabbing Gokudera by his shirt.. "He has just lost his home, his family, his friends. It's a wonder how he keeps going." Yamamoto let go off him. "We're lucky. We know how ours are, but for all he knows, they could be…" He looked away then back. "Besides, you of all people should know about losing someone important."
Gokudera turned away in shame. He honestly didn't think how lucky he was nor how similar that he and Tsuna were in lost. Now that he saw the similarities and difference between him and Tsuna, he respected him even more.
Yamamoto smiled again and placed his hand on Gokudera's shoulder. "Just be sure to apologize." Gokudera sighed.
"Gokudera? Yamamoto?" Both of them turned to Fuuta and Jiminy.
"We found something in Tsuna's room when we were cleaning and we wondered if it was important." Jiminy said as Fuuta pulled out a bottle of pills.
"Isn't that…" Gokudera started.
"…Tsuna's Dying Will Pills?" Yamamoto finished.
The two of them quickly supplied up and grabbed the pills.
"Fuuta watch the ship. We'll be back later." They said and ran outside.
"Guess those pills are important." Fuuta said as the dogs pounced on him. "Wait! No! Hahaha!"
Meanwhile in another part of the world, a tree house stood high in the forest. Suddenly, a body came crashing down into the tree house.
"Owwww!" Tsuna stood up rubbing his head and back. "That hurts so much." Once the pain seemed to lessen, he began to look around. "Where am I? Is this some kind of house?"
Then, he remembered he was alone. "I wonder if Gokudera and Yamamoto nearby?" Then he sense something behind him. He turned to see a leopard on a balcony.
"EEK!" The leopard jumped off the balcony. Tsuna fell over and the leopard just barely overshot landing on Tsuna. Tsuna jumped up and thank what ever mysterious force that he still had his gloves and ring. The leopard slashed it claws at Tsuna who responded by raising his hands in defense. The claws didn't scratch his gloves, but one of his arms got cut by the claws. Tsuna began to punch back causing the leopard to bounce around the place. Tsuna dodged so he would get hit by anything sharp.
After a few more punches, it looked like it had stopped moving and Tsuna looked to be sure. The leopard then turned around and slashed at Tsuna again knocking him down. The leopard made one more lunge at Tsuna when something blocked it. Tsuna looked to see a man with long brown hair in only a loincloth blocking the leopard with a spear.
Is he some sort of wild man? Tsuna thought. The man managed to push the leopard away and after sharing stares for a few seconds the leopard leaped out a window and vanished from sight.
Tsuna sighed then jumped when he found the man looking at him.
"Sabor, Danger." He said.
"Umm…okay. Thank you for saving me." Tsuna said.
"Thank…you?" The man said slightly confused.
"Yeah…" Tsuna said. This is so awkward. He decided to change the subject. "Do you know what this place is?"
"This place. This place." The man responded.
"Umm…Do you know where the others are?" Tsuna asked. The man looked even more confused. Tsuna took a deep breath then said, "I got separated from my friends and I am looking for them." The man didn't respond. "You know friends." Tsuna said stretching the last part out.
"Friends." The man said.
"Yeah, I'm looking for a guy with gray…" He stopped and remembered what Gokudera said earlier then said, "Actually, I am looking for my friends, Byakuran and Yuni."
"Look for Biakuan, friends?"
"Eh…right." Tsuna said sweat dropping at the pronunciation. Then he noticed someone behind the man. It looked like Yuni.
"Yuni, friends?" The man said.
"…Right." Yuni then walked behind the man and vanished.
"Friends here." The man said.
Tsuna looked up in surprise. "Really?" The man said something that sounded like grunts. "What was that?" The man repeated the grunts. "I may not understand, but if you do know then can you take me to them?" Tsuna said.
The man pointed to himself and said, "Tarzan. Tarzan Go."
"Oh, my name is Tsunayoshi, but you can call me Tsuna." Tsuna said as he pointed to himself. "Tarzan go. Tsuna go too."
Tarzan nodded and walked to the door. Tsuna followed after him. Upon exiting, Tsuna saw the magnificent jungle and was taken back by the size and beauty of it. Then he realized how high up he was and shivered a little.
Tarzan then jumped off the tree house into the forest below. Tsuna was nervous about jumping and before he could do anything else the ledge broke of and he tumble after Tarzan into the jungle below.
Gokudera and Yamamoto were taking a break from searching for Tsuna in a clearing of bamboo thickets.
"I hope Tsuna is okay." Yamamoto said sitting on a rock Gokudera was laying down next to him.
"Eh, he can take care of himself." Gokudera said back to his normal self. He turned to see a gorilla staring back at him. They both screamed which caused the gorilla to run away and dropped something.
Yamamoto went over and picked it up. "Isn't this-?" Before he could finish, a rustling was heard from behind them. Both of them got into action mode ready for any Heartless or enemies.
A man with brown and gray hair popped out of the thicket wielding a rifle. "Now who do we have here?" He said.
Tsuna landed in a dark cove area of the forest. Tarzan looked at him then tilted his head towards a stump. Tsuna looked to see a hole in it and pointed to himself than the hole. Tarzan nodded in response. Tsuna sighed then jumped into the hole. He found himself on a branch and tried to keep balance. Tarzan then appeared behind him, jumped over him than slide down the tree like he was skating. Tsuna followed his example and despite being uncoordinated, manage to keep his balance and stay near Tarzan.
Soon they found themselves at the end when Tarzan jumped off. Of course with Tsuna being Tsuna he naturally fell off head first. At landing, he found himself at some kind of campsite.
"Where are we?" He asked Tarzan. Tarzan then walked towards a big tent and led Tsuna inside. Inside the tent, a young woman was fiddling with something.
"Jane." Tarzan said causing the woman to turn around.
"Oh Tarzan, you're back." The woman then notice Tsuna. "Oh, and who are you?"
"Umm…Hi there, I'm-" Tsuna began.
"Ahh good. Someone who doesn't speak gorilla." Jane interrupted.
Speak gorilla? Tsuna thought. Then he looked at Tarzan. Was that what he was speaking with those grunts earlier?
"So, I guess you aren't related to him. Are you here to study the gorillas?" Jane continued.
"I doubt that is what their intentions are, Miss Porter." The three of them turned around to see a man entering the tent with brown and gray hair. Behind him was-
"Yamamoto! Gokudera!" Tsuna said.
"Tsuna." Yamamoto said. Gokudera didn't look at Tsuna. Tsuna responded by hiding behind Tarzan.
"Just some clowns. Not much use for hunting gorillas." The man said leaving the tent.
"Mr. Clayton, we're studying them, not hunting them." Jane said to the man. She then turned back to Tsuna and the others. "My apologizes, make yourselves at home."
Tsuna then peaked around Tarzan and said, "Well, I plan on staying."
"Well so are we." Gokudera said. Tsuna looked in confusing,
"We found this Gummi block earlier and we believe it may be our bosses. Maybe he is leaving clues." Yamamoto said.
"Okay, then I guess we will work together to figure it out." Tsuna said.
After some introductions, Tsuna turned to Jane and asked. "So what are you doing?"
"Well, we are trying to communicate with Tarzan, but it isn't easy. He was raised by gorilla, so he speaks it." Jane answered.
"He said something earlier. I guess it was in gorilla. Any idea how we can figure it out?" Tsuna said. "It may lead me to my friends, Byakuran and Yuni."
"Well we have this projector. Maybe one of the slides can help us." Jane went to it then looked at it curiously. "That's odd. The slides are missing. They might be around camp. Can you help look for them?" She asked.
"Sure." Tsuna said. All five of them looked around the place spotting the various slides all over the camp site. After collecting all of them, they returned back and Jane set up the slide projector. Various image filled the screen from a ship to two men fencing to a man giving a woman a bouquet. One image caught Tsuna's eye. It was an image of a castle.
"You okay there, Tsuna?" Yamamoto asked.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Tsuna said. Why did that look familiar? I've never seen it on the island.
After finishing the slides, Jane turned to Tarzan. "Well, Tarzan?" Tarzan kept looking at the blank screen.
"Do you know where Byakuran and Yuni are?" Tsuna asked. Tarzan finally shook his head. Tsuna felt a little down. "But…I thought-"
"There can only be one other spot." a voice said from behind Tsuna. Everyone turned to see Clayton. "We've been in this jungle for a while and we have yet to see these friends of yours. It would seem like they would be with the gorillas, but Tarzan refuses to let us see them."
"Please, Mr. Clayton. Tarzan wouldn't-" Jane began, but Clayton interrupted her.
"Then take us there Tarzan. Let us see the gorillas. Go-ril-las."
Tarzan looked at Tsuna for a while then nodded.
"Are you sure?" Jane asked him.
"Tarzan go see Kerchak." He responded.
"Kerchak?" Jane asked.
"Ahh, must be the leader. Why don't I come along as well." Clayton said. "The jungle is very dangerous after all." He finished with an eerie smile that made Tsuna unsure about him. Clayton then left the tent.
"You okay, Tsuna?" Yamamoto asked.
"No. That guy, Clayton, he gave off a very scary feeling." Tsuna said.
"Yeah, I got that feeling too." Yamamoto said.
"Don't know what you guys are talking about." Gokudera said. "By the way, Baseball Idiot, give him his things."
"Oh right." Yamamoto pulled out the bottle of Dying Will Pills. "Here you are, Tsuna."
"Thanks you." He put them into his pocket. "Now, let's go." The three of them and Tarzan left the tent. However, upon leaving they were attack by Sabor.
"What is that?" Gokudera asked.
"Sabor. Danger." Tarzan responded.
Sabor then tried to strike at all of them, but they all dodged out of the way. He then tried to go for Yamamoto.
"Yamamoto, look out!" Tsuna said. Then he noticed that Yamamoto was in a pose.
"Shigure Souen Ryu…" Yamamoto said. He then cut around Sabor. "Shinotsuku Ame." The leopard leapt back and vanished into the forest.
Thanks, Dad. Yamamoto thought then turned to the others. "Phew, that was close. Well lead the way Tarzan."
After travel past some hippos and climbing up a tree. They saw two gorillas, a tough angry looking male one and a sad looking female one. Tarzan began communicating to the gorillas, but Tsuna and others didn't understand.
"Wonder what he saying." Yamamoto said.
"Who cares." Gokudera said.
After a few minutes, the tough one looked in the direction of the tree house then walked away with the female one following after him. Tarzan looked down in defeat.
"Is just me or did that one looked distracted?" Yamamoto asked.
"Maybe we should go in that direction?" Tsuna asked. Tarzan nodded in agreement. He then had them follow through some vines which took a while due Tsuna being afraid to let go sometimes. After reaching past a very enclosed space with a giant tree trunk in the middle and finding a multitude of Dalmatians there, they reached the tree house.
Upon reaching there, they saw Clayton pointing his gun at something. Immediately, all of them sprinted towards him. Gokudera manage to get there first and to distract him, threw a Mini-Bomb behind him, spooking both Clayton and the gorilla he was aiming at. The gorilla jumped away wile Gokudera picked up Clayton by his collar.
"What the hell was that?" He spat in his face. Up on the balcony, the tough gorilla from earlier look down at Tarzan in disappointment. Tarzan seem to be asking for another chance, but the gorilla turned away. All four of them turned to Clayton.
"It's not what it looks like…Ahh! There was a snake slithering nearby. I was protecting the gorilla." He said, but they could tell just how bad a lie it was.
"You are coming back to the camp right now." Gokudera said.
"And why should I listen to a kid like you?" Clayton asked and pushed him aside. "I'll meet you at the site later." He then walked away back into the forest. The rest of them sighed. Gokudera meanwhile saw some kind of silhouette coming off of Clayton. It almost looked like…! He turned away and began thinking it over.
"You okay, Tarzan?" Yamamoto asked. Tarzan shook his head.
"Kerchak no trust many. I not know how to fix." He said.
"Well, lets go back to camp for now." Tsuna said and all of them slide down the vines back to the camp site. Upon reaching it, they explain the situation to Jane when they finished, Clayton finally came back.
"How dare you do a thing like that." Jane scolded.
"Now, now, Miss Porter. I wasn't aiming at the gorilla. There was a-" Clayton began.
"You are not to go near any of the gorillas again. Do you understand?" Jane said.
"It was just a mishap, I assure you…" He stopped when he noticed the others glaring at him. "Fine have your way." He said elegantly then left the tent.
"What am I doing with these nimrods? I'm going to hunt down every last gorilla. No group of children and a wild man will stop me." He took out a pipe. "I'll bet my life on it." He then heard a rustling and got his gun out. Then something jumped out at him and he fired.
Back in the tent, the others were discussing what to do next and about keeping the Dalmatians there till they finished the mission, they heard the shot rang out. The group ran out of the tent and found Heartless surrounding a gorilla.
The group went into action taking out all the Heartless surrounding the gorilla. Tsuna and Gokudera had a bit of a difficult time since they couldn't use their "fiery" attacks around the campground. After all the Heartless were defeated, the gorilla gave them a Gummi block.
"The Heartless seem to be active now." Yamamoto said. "You know. Now that I think about it. I don't think we've seen a Heartless till now."
"I wonder why they just appeared recently?" Gokudera said.
"Family trouble. Must protect." Tarzan said and ran to the forest. Tsuna and the others debated on what to do next.
"Gokudera, why don't you go help Tarzan?" Yamamoto said.
"What? Why?" Gokudera asked.
"Me and Tsuna are going to check on Fuuta and Jiminy and take the puppies safely back to the ship." Yamamoto said pulling Tsuna closer to him. "Good luck." He then took Tsuna to the tent to pick up the puppies.
"Eh. Whatever." Gokudera said running after Tarzan.
In the tent, they picked up the puppies and began walking to the ship. Tsuna wondering why Yamamoto split them up like this.
"Hey, Yamamoto?" Tsuna asked. "Why did you split us up like this?"
"Hmm?" Yamamoto said. "Well, I kind of want to talk about you about Gokudera."
"Right…Why did he seem so…unemotional about others?" Tsuna asked.
"I guess you could say it was his upbringing." Yamamoto began. "He was the illegitimate son of a high ranked man in our world. He had a lot to do and a very busy sheltered life with little to no friends. His half-sister also tended to experiment his Poison Cooking on him and most people looked at him with disgust." Tsuna looked down. He was amazed at how much Gokudera had gone through. "However," Yamamoto continued. "there was one person who he cared about. His mother. At the time, he barely saw her due to restriction placed on him, but whenever she was there, he always seemed happy." Yamamoto smiled then frowned. "Then, about ten years ago, some kind of event happened and his mother was killed." Tsuna frowned as well. "The Boss and my father knew about it, but were not allowed to tell us till the time was right. Gokudera became really withdrawn, but always tried to prove himself to high ranked people. Eventually, our Boss took him in as his new right-hand man and from then on he does nothing but try to impress and fulfill all of the Boss's orders."
After finishing the long explanation, they had reached the ship. "I hope you can try to understand and befriend Gokudera." Yamamoto said. "He may say mean and hurtful things sometimes, but he is a good person."
Tsuna help placed the puppies in the ship and talked to Fuuta to show he was all right. However, deep in his mind he thought about everything Yamamoto said and decided to talk to Gokudera later.
In the middle of the jungle, Gokudera and Tarzan were destroying Heartless one after another and helping the gorillas. Gokudera had to limit his dynamite used to prevent forest fires.
After finding an area to rest, Gokudera decided to talk with Tarzan. "These gorillas are important to you, aren't they?"
"Family." Tarzan said. "Gorillas raised Tarzan since baby."
"You know you aren't related to them." Gokudera said. "I mean you are human like us."
"Family…" He then proceeded to grunt while pointing to chest. Gokudera was confused, but before he could ask for clarification Heartless ambushed them.
They took out the last batch and Tarzan said, "Gorillas safe. Meet back with others." They then proceeded to return back to the bamboo thicket.
"Oh Gokudera. Tarzan." They turned to see Tsuna and Yamamoto walking to them. They walked together, but before they had chance to talk about their progress, Sabor jumped out of the bamboo knocking down Tsuna and Yamamoto.
"Tsuna. Yamamoto." Gokudera called out. He turned to Sabor. "You'll pay for this you bastard." He began throwing dynamite like no tomorrow, but the leopard seem to jumped out of the way. Gokudera did some calculations on how Sabor moved and went over to Tarzan to tell him his idea. Tarzan nodded and disappear behind the thicket.
Gokudera then proceeded to throw his bombs again. At first Sabor tried to jump out of the way, but when the leopard moved it hit some of the dynamite which were mini and blew up causing the leopard to fall. Before it had a chance to react, the bigger ones blew up around it causing a huge smoke cloud.
"Double Mini Combo" He said. He then turned around to go to the others who were amazed at Gokudera's skills. Then the dust cleared, showing Sabor was still alive. It then attempt to pounced on Gokudera.
"Gokudera!" Tsuna shouted, but right at that moment, Tarzan popped out of the thicket and slammed his spear into Sabor. The leopard cried out then feel over dead.
Gokudera then pulled out a cigarette and lit it. "Just as planned."
"That was awesome, Gokudera." Tsuna commented. Gokudera just smiled he then noticed a pipe laying on a rock nearby.
"So how are the gorillas?" Yamamoto asked.
"Family safe for now." Tarzan replied.
"That's good." Yamamoto said. "Looks like things are starting to calm down." Then a scream came from the campground.
"You were saying?" Gokudera said pocketing the pipe.
"Jane!" Tarzan ran towards the camp with the others behind him. Once they reached the campground, they found no one there.
"Where could she be?" Tsuna said. He then noticed Tarzan seem strange. "You okay, Tarzan?"
"Jane in danger. Jane near…tree house." He said. They all left and headed for the tree house fighting all the Heartless that got in their way. As soon as they reached the dark area, they found Jane with the gorilla that Clayton tried to shoot earlier trapped behind some vines.
"Tarzan, Everyone, look out!" Heartless then began to spawned endlessly.
"Where do they keep coming from?" Gokudera asked blasting them one at a time.
Tsuna took down a few himself when he felt a very dark aura coming from somewhere and noticed a fruit that wasn't there before.
"That fruit." he said, "I feel a dark aura coming off of it. We need to take it out." The group had Gokudera and Tsuna take care of it while Yamamoto and Tarzan kept the Heartless at bay.
"How do we get rid of it?" Tsuna asked.
"I'll blow it up." Gokudera said pulling out his dynamite.
"Careful, we don't want to destroy the tree." Tsuna commented.
"Don't worry, I'll just place them at the stem." He did just that and destroyed the fruit. The Heartless vanished and everyone took a breather.
"Man, they just keep coming." Yamamoto said.
"Jane!" Tarzan went over to her and also began talking with the gorilla.
"What happened?" Tsuna asked.
"I don't remember. The last thing I saw was Clayton entering the tent then we were here."
"Terk says Clayton took family with those dark creatures help." Tarzan said.
"No, he plans on hunting them. You must stop him." Jane said. "But where could he be?"
Gokudera pulled out the pipe and looked at it. "I think I know where. We need to get back to the bamboo thicket." They slide down the vines and reached their destination and continued in the opposite direction of the camp.
When they reached, the cliff area, they found the Heartless ganging up on Kerchak and Clayton aiming his gun at the female from before.
"Stop it." Tsuna cried out. Clayton did so and turned towards the group his face completely emotionless. The gorillas used the opportunity to run.
"Clayton?" Tsuna said.
"Not Clayton." Tarzan said then grunted. "Not Clayton."
Clayton then started attacking them with the various Heartless. Tsuna and the others took them down without any effort. Soon only Clayton stood surrounded by Tsuna and the others.
"Was that your army? You are going to need something bigger to take us out." Gokudera said. On cue, the wall behind Clayton blew up. Whatever mysterious force that caused the wall to blow up also seem to make Clayton rise in the air. Then out of nowhere all of them were hit by the mysterious force.
"Me and my big mouth." Gokudera groaned as they got back on their feet.
"How are we going to attack something we can't see?" Tsuna asked.
"Well, I think we can assume that whatever thing that attack us, Clayton is riding." Gokudera answered. "So if we attack him, we might attack whatever this invisible creature is. I'll go first and damage then while Tsuna and Yamamoto take care of the creature, Tarzan can go after Clayton."
"Right." Everyone answered. Tsuna decided to take out his pills and eat one. His flames glowed softly yet fierce.
Gokudera went first and unleashed a whole barrage of bombs. "Triple Bomb." Explosions filled the air as the creature and Clayton was bombarded with dynamite after dynamite. After the smoke cleared, the creature was now visible. It looked like some kind of green chameleon like heartless.
The creature aimed to strike Gokudera when Yamamoto jumped in the way.
"Shigure Souen Ryu" He twisted in blade and spun it to create a mini whirlwind to block the oncoming attack. "Shibuki Ame" The creature cried out in pain causing Clayton to lose his grip and Tarzan then jumped up and knocked Clayton off the creature. Tarzan and Clayton then dueled rifle vs. spear.
Tsuna meanwhile started to battle the chameleon. He began punching it while jumping all over the place using his flames to jet around the creature. Soon the creature vanished again and while Gokudera and Yamamoto couldn't see it, Tsuna could sense it without any looking. He then burst forward and released one final thrust at the creature. The creature became visible and started to lose balance as it walked towards Tarzan and Clayton.
Tarzan noticed it and said to Clayton, "Move." Then jumped backwards. Instead of listening, Clayton aimed his rifle to kill Tarzan, but before he could pull the trigger and shadow appeared over him and by the time, he could react, it was too late. The Heartless collapsed on Clayton, killing him and both faded away as a heart floated away.
Everyone was silent when Tsuna said sadly, "I guess that's it." The others just looked grim.
"No choice. Clayton not Clayton." Tarzan said.
"It seems like his pride in focusing on his personal mission rather than the welfare of others consumed him by his darkness." Yamamoto guessed. Gokudera looked away, not wanting to see what he might of become.
"Tarzan, Everyone, you're all okay." Everyone turned to see Jane and Terk coming from the bamboo thicket. "Where's Mr. Clayton?" The others looked away, but that gave her the answer. "Oh my!"
"We didn't do it, he did it to himself." Gokudera said bitterly. They decided silently to discontinue the discussion. As if to brighten the mood, the gorillas lead by Kerchak came by and Tarzan talked to them. He seemed shocked by what they were saying. Then Kerchak walked up to Tsuna.
Tsuna froze not sure what was going to happen. Then the huge gorilla grabbed him and threw him up on top of a cliff. The others soon followed but as usual, Tsuna landed on his face.
"Where are we?" Tsuna asked.
Tarzan came up the cliff carring Jane. "Tarzan home." He answered.
He then lead them behind the waterfall and up the slippery cliff edges till they reached a cave at the top of the waterfall. In the cave, beautiful butterflies cover a single spot on a tree.
Tarzan made the same grunts again. Tsuna still was confused. "If this is your home, then it looks like…" He seemed sad when Tarzan raised his hand to his ear. The others did the same.
"Oh, you can hear the waterfall from here." Jane stated. Tarzan made the grunts sounds again.
"Friends there, see friends."
"Oh!" Jane said. "I see." She made the grunting sounds as well. "That must mean heart. Friends in our hearts."
"Heart." Tarzan said in agreement.
"Oh, I see." Tsuna said a little disappointed. I guess Byakuran and Yuni aren't here.
"Friends, same heart." Tarzan started. "Clayton, lose heart. No heart, no see friends. No heart, no friends."
"I'm sorry, Tsuna." Gokudera suddenly said. "I should of understood your feeling more instead of my own."
Tsuna was taken aback by this, but replied. "I-It's okay, Gokudera." He paused then said, "Actually, I should apologize too. Yamamoto explained to me about your past and I understand now."
Gokudera was a little angry at Yamamoto, but sighed and said, "Nah, it is fine." Then smiled. Tsuna smiled in return.
Yamamot wrapped his arms around the two. "Yeah. All for one, right?" Gokudera got angry and slowly pulled out a stick of dynamite.
However, before he could do anything, a light came from the center of the butterflies revealing a keyhole. Tsuna pointed his Key Ring at the hole and a light shot out and keyhole disappeared as the sound of something locking filled the room. A Gummi Block popped out which looked exactly like the one from before. Tsuna picked it up and pocket it.
"Well, guess the Boss isn't here." Yamamoto said.
Gokudera sighed. Terk went up and bumped shoulders with Gokudera. "What do you want?"
"Looks like somebody likes you." Jane teased. Everybody laughed as they went back to camp while Gokudera got angrier.
In a dark chamber, the green skin woman from before stood in the center of the room and discussed various things with voices coming from the shadows.
"What drew the Heartless to that world?" One of the voices asked.
"The hunter brought them there. It was his lust for power that baited them. But it seemed like it was too much for him and consumed him."
A second voice laughed and said, "Yep, chomped to piece of more like squished."
The first voice spoke again as one of the shadows move to the lit up area. "A weak-hearted fool like him stood no chance against the Heartless." The voice is revealed to be from a man in black that held a scepter in the shape of a cobra. "However, that boy is starting to become a problem. He has found a few Keyholes already with that blasted Key Ring."
"Have no fear. It will take him ages to find the rest." A hologram projected itself revealing Tsuna and the others. "Besides, he knows not of our other plans."
"Right, the princesses…" A third voice said.
"They are slowly falling into our hands, one by one." The woman then turned her attention to the side. "Speaking of which…" Another figure popped of the dark revealing it to be Alice who look frighten over her predicament.
Back in the camp, Tsuna and the others were saying their good byes.
"Tsuna, Tarzan, friends." He then handed Tsuna a ring. On it was an emblem that looked like a butterfly.
They departed for the Gummi Ship and took off leaving the place.
"Well, looks like things are back to normal." Yamamoto said.
"Setting course for the next world." Gokudera said starting up the rockets. "How does it look, Baseball Idiot?"
"Clear, no enemies for miles." Yamamoto said. Gokudera then pulled a lever and they blasted forward. "Why not take a break Tsuna?" Yamamoto said.
"Yeah." Tsuna said. He then looked at the ring he was given. He smiled for all the memories it held.
To be continued.
Next Time - Duels at the Coliseum and a well recognized cloud to be introduced.
A/N - Honestly, I had no idea how this chapter would turn out. I was going to do Olympus Coliseum first, but after working on this chapter, it felt right just to continue it. Adding in the details about Gokudera and the conflict between him and Tsuna seem to fit and help them better understand one another. I wonder if anyone can guess what happen to Gokudera's mother or when.
Also, has anyone made the connections to the rings yet? It is pretty obvious, but I won't introduce it till we go back to Traverse Town.
Anyway, I hope everyone is having a good Holiday and amazed at my update pace. Please read my other stories and review.
Till Next Time.
~NoT