Author's Note: Sorry it took so long. I was finishing up my Twilight story, Maybe, and trying to figure out how to begin this. So, here it is. =D
All of the Guardians walk into the training area either sluggish with fatigue or jumping with joy. Today was the day they would start training and they didn't have a clue what to expect from the great assassin. All they could do was wait and see.
With the Guardians was Reborn, his face unreadable as always. This morning, he got a call from Megumi. She discussed with him the talk she had with Tavor just the night before. They ended up deciding all the details for the battle. For example, the time and location. Reborn also received a call from Megumi's father. According to him, Megumi's brother was scheduled to be coming to Japan soon. Apparently, her brother found out about everything and is pissed off. Reborn was asked to withhold this information from Megumi.
Without warning, Megumi walks onto the training grounds, drops her bag onto the ground, and tosses about five throwing stars in the Guardians' direction. Gokudera, Yamamoto, Chrome, Hibari, and Ryohei are quick to move out of the way, leaving Tsuna and Lambo the only targets left for the incoming stars.
Inside Gokudera's head, he was cursing himself for leaving his precious boss defenseless like that. But, as Gokudera was about to run into the midst of the attack, Tsuna goes into Hyper Dying Will mode with the blue pills, grabs Lambo, and pulls both of them out of the way.
As the stars hit the rock wall and implant themselves inside it, the orange Sky flame on Tsuna's forehead evaporates and he turns to Megumi with a glare. "What was that for?"
Megumi picks up her bag. "Your training, of course. You have to be ready for a sneak attack. It seems you all have passed that test." She sticks her hand into her bag and fishes out a handful of stars. "Now, let's try individual speed. First up is the Cloud Guardian."
All is silent for a second and then all of the Guardians moves away, leaving Hibari alone, just the way he likes it. The prefect just smirks, obviously ready to get a little revenge for being beat by the female freelance assassin.
"Well, since you are the Cloud Guardian, let's get started." Megumi shows four stars in between each of her fingers and then throw them separately as Hibari dodges. Sometimes, he is unable to do so and just uses his tonfas to block them from penetrating him.
Megumi laughs. "You've gotten better. Self-training?"
Hibari glares and readies his tonfas, obviously just wanting to dodge and hit away more of the sharp objects.
Megumi smiles and continues throwing the stars, eventually switching to kunai when her stock of stars was running low.
In her eyes, the dark-haired boy was ten times better than before. This surprised her slightly, but then it also didn't. From the first time she saw him, she knew that he hates being defeated and will strengthen himself so he doesn't lose once more. It was impressive if you think about it. Most people don't try that hard. Maybe there was something more different about the Vongola Guardians than she imagined or was told about.
After throwing a couple of the kunai, Megumi stops and says, "It seems you have passed this, Hibari Kyoya." She turns to the group. "Next up is the Rain Guardian." As the two Guardians switch positions, Megumi goes around grabbing all of the stars and kunai she had thrown while training Hibari's speed.
The speed training for Yamamoto was a bit average to say the least. This was the first time seeing Yamamoto's ability and Megumi was shocked to see the amazing speed Yamamoto possessed, but it wasn't exactly the world's best pastime.
Even so, Megumi could see the makings of a great assassin in the baseball boy.
Next up was Gokudera. He was about the same as Yamamoto, besides the fact he was a bit slower than the other was.
After Gokudera is finished, Megumi sighs with boredom. It's no fun throwing sharp things at people when all they do is dodge them. Why not have a weapon to block them like Hibari did? At least he had some class when avoiding her attacks.
"Alright. Now it's time for my man Ryohei," Megumi says, smiling over at the boxer.
"Extreme!" Ryohei runs into the field and readies his fists, obviously willing to punch the sharp items away if needed.
Megumi takes out a couple of her spike balls and throws them. As one hits the ground and the other two fly past and hit the wall behind Ryohei, they explode on impact, causing rock to break and become crumble looking. Once the clouds of smoke faded away, Ryohei was lying on the ground. In Megumi's eyes, she knew he had dropped to the ground to avoid being hit by the spike balls. However, by closer inspection, she could tell that the ball that hit on the ground near him caused slivers of rock to fly at his face and leave thin cuts on the right side of it.
Megumi lightly tosses and catches the balls into the air, not enough to set them off. "Are you already finished, Mister Extreme?"
Ryohei jumps up, wipes a hand over his face, and lifts his fists once more. "Extremely no more. I'm just extremely warming up."
"Good." With a smirk, she ceases the tossing and throws another group of three balls in Ryohei's direction.
As the boxer dodges each attack, Tsuna turns to Reborn and asks, "I remember those. Aren't they from when you first trained Yamamoto?" When the chibi nods, Tsuna gawks. "That means that when she throws, it's going over 120! Wow."
About halfway through the speed training, Megumi decided it was time to swap the spike balls for the bar that contains the scythe. "We'll try your close-combat speed." Holding the bar, she takes out the Rain-class ring and slips it on.
Off to the side, Hibari watches curiously. He remembers when the girl had taken out the bar and ring, but he couldn't recall anything after that. It was as if the memories were dumped into a river and floated away.
The others Guardians just stared at Megumi, confused. They haven't heard about Hibari's pre-training session, so they didn't know about a bar and a ring. From their distance, they couldn't tell if the ring was a flame ring or not, but they assumed it was the previous guess.
Though, seconds later, their questioning was answered when the ring lights up with Rain-class flames and the enshrouds the bar. The bar extended to be longer and bring out the long, sharp end just as it did when Megumi and Hibari fought.
The flames around the scythe flickered as it's user sprinted forward in the direction of her student. Ryohei just stood there; ready to dodge whatever was to come. But, he wasn't quick enough. Before he knew it, the beautiful redhead was in front of him, a simple smile placed on her face as she touches the sharp end of the scythe lightly on Ryohei's shoulder and lets flames creep onto his body and cover Ryohei as it did Hibari. The whole time, Ryohei yells, "What? What's happening?"
As the flames were almost done surrounding the boxer, Megumi decides to pull the scythe back, bringing the Rain-class flames along with it. Extinguishing the ring, the scythe morphed back to it's original form. "If you weren't able to dodge that, you will need more speed training." She turns away and looks at the others. "You'll all have an exam at the end of your training to see if you are fully ready for this battle. Last night, I just information about the battle. It will be taking place in Namimori in two months."
"In Namimori? In two months? But what about the people and will we be ready?" Tsuna shrieks.
"Don't worry about the people. In order to keep them safe, I will do something special so they won't even have a clue about what's going on. As for your latter question, it all depends on how hard you work to keep Tavor from winning."
They all nod. If they were to refuse, they had a feeling that their enemy would end up destroying them and their world no matter what.
Megumi claps her hands together. "We'll continue with the Mist Guardian." Chrome steps forward and readies herself as Megumi once again tests another Guardian's speed.
After Chrome had come Tsuna. Both performances were average, just like Yamamoto and Gokudera's. There wasn't anything remotely interesting about them besides Tsuna's Hyper Dying Will Mode. For some reason, seeing Tsuna that way made Megumi feel a sudden attraction to the short, young mafia boss.
Finally, Megumi calls for the Lighting Guardian and Lambo gets up from his place on the ground and skips to the training area.
"Nee-san, what are we doing?" Lambo asks, sticking his pinkie in his ear and cleaning out the earwax in it.
Megumi grimaces. "We're testing your speed. Are you fast, kid?"
"Lambo-san is super fast, like Superman." Lambo does the Superman pose, though all he does is show off his lack of muscles.
"Well, you'd better be showing them…now." Megumi throws her dagger in Lambo's direction. It misses by just a centimeter.
Lambo freezes and then looks back at the dagger. He is silent for moment and then begins to cry. "Mama! Mama!" The snot just pours out of his nose.
"What are you doing, Megumi? You're going to-" Reborn cuts Tsuna off.
"Baka. Look once more."
They all look and realize at the same time.
"She missed it on purpose," Gokudera states.
Megumi looks at them. "Of course I'd purposely miss. I'm not heartless enough to kill a child." As Megumi is about to throw another dagger when a group of people. There were six of them: a floating baby, a blond man with a tiara and bangs that cover his eyes, a man with long silver hair and a sword, a man with crazy hair and closed umbrellas scrapped to his back, a man with multi-colored hair, and a man with black hair and a tough-looking exterior.
The last one looks at Megumi, glaring. "Megami, you shouldn't have come to Japan."
"Xanxus!" Tsuna shouts, shocked to see the boss of the Vongola assassination team, Varia. "How do you know Megumi?"
"Well, I had to, Xanxus. I don't have much choice. You know that," Megumi says to Xanxus. With a sigh, she turns to Tsuna and the group. "To answer your question, it's because Xanxus is my adopted brother."
"WHAT?"
Not sure if 120 is acurate. Anyways, wasn't planning to bring Xanxus in for another 1 or 2 chapters, but whatever. Now, review please!
-Ashley(dolphinherovamp5)
