"You're not serious, are you…? Oregano…?" Reborn silently said, his face darkening at the information that he had gotten from the CEDEF member. It made no sense, yet it could be true… It was just plain randomness and a mixture of stupid ideas, as well as a pretty amazing imagination. Reborn would be stupid to fall for that so easily. But it was-
"I am serious, Reborn-san," Oregano replied in formal voice. "The new boss of the Todd family is no one else but Glo Xinia. Apparently, he too has memories of what happened in the future, and for the past month and a half he was gathering forces to attack the Vongola family. We have no information of how he became the boss, but as soon as we get that, we'll send it to you."
"I see," Reborn nodded, regardless of knowing that Oregano couldn't see it. "What's the status of the mansion?"
"We have no information about it. Headquarters were cut off from any kind of communication exactly ten minutes ago," Oregano said, swiftly trying to contact the Headquarters once again, but it was a futile attempt.
"And how about Ninth and his guardians?" Reborn questioned. He was turning nervous from all the lack of information. It was making him sick, knowing that there was nothing he could do to help the Ninth.
"We haven't managed to make any contact."
"And Vongola Decimo and his guardians? Any information on them?"
"Reborn-san… they're in Japan…"
"Japan…" Reborn felt some dots connecting in his head. "Sorry, Oregano, I'll call you back latte. Notify me when you get Glo Xinia's whereabouts." He finished the call, letting Leon to turn into his real form. Reborn observed small chameleon that was giving Reborn a smug look.
"What?" Reborn asked, returning the look. "Are you trying to say that all this is somehow related?" Even if Leon hadn't made any reaction, Reborn continued, "So you think that it's the Vongola Decimo and his guardians that we're forgetting about, since they should be here?"
Almost invisible nod from Leon had confirmed Reborn's doubts, and Reborn disliked the idea.
"Apparently, we have to get to know Glo Xinia's whereabouts to get this mess fixed." But Oregano said nothing about the pink-haired idiot's whereabouts… now did she? Well, not like Reborn gave her a chance anyway.
"I can't believe that they managed to get in this deep!" Giotto stated, hitting off another intruder with his fists. "This makes no sense… weren't G, Knuckle and Daemon there to counter them?" He swiftly dodged a fist coming from another attacker. He, Tsuna and Ryohei ran onto the group of six intruders while heading off to Giotto's 'important place' where he wanted to check on something.
Each of Vongola guardians got to fight off the two, which turned out to be quite difficult. Their attackers were tough, not giving up even after receiving a hard punch. From his concentration to defeat them, Giotto didn't even get a chance to be surprised by flame appearing on his descendant's forehead when they were attacked, nor with flaming fists and strange ring, or whatever it was, that Tsuna had on his wrist.
"Something is wrong," Tsuna concluded, immediately stopping his movements. The last man he had punched with his flaming fist flew off meters away, hitting the wall, but the guy now stood on his feet again, like nothing happened. Tsuna was sure that he had seen it before. And the strange sensation he was having…
"I agree," Giotto said. They were standing next to each other, prepared to counter the attacks. Ryohei roared, agreeing with that as well. His enemies were extremely persistent. Giotto and Tsuna watched as Ryohei, with only one punch managed to send the enemy up in the ceiling. When the guy fell down, they heard a loud cracking sound, indicating that the poor man's spine was probably broken.
Real shock came when the person actually stood up on their feet as if nothing ever happened. Ryohei was about to punch him again, but Tsuna stopped him.
Ryohei blinked, "Sawada?"
"Don't fight back, Onii-san, Primo-san," Tsuna grimaced.
Giotto and Ryohei were at first confused, since the six men had gathered in circle around them, ready to send them to oblivion. They couldn't understand what Tsuna was implying, but Ryohei wasn't going to disagree. He knew well that if Sawada had told him to stop fighting, there had to be a good reason… though he did want to know it straight away. Giotto was thinking in different direction. His brain was telling him to disobey Tsuna, but his intuition told him to listen. Intuition is to be followed then.
Though Giotto won't just wait for Tsuna to tell him why. Just like Ryohei, he wanted answers. "Why not?"
Tsuna didn't answer at first. He looked like he was having an inner battle of should he do something, or not. In the end, apparently 'should' won.
"What is the meaning of this, Mukuro?" Question slipped from Tsuna's mouth.
Giotto confusedly riveted his eyes at Tsuna, who stood there with a poker face on. Intruders around them all stopped moving, having sneer looks on their faces. The one who was standing in the middle had his eye change color from usual green into bloody red one, with Japanese number six in it.
"Kufufufu, Sawada Tsunayoshi… I'm touched. You saw through my masquerade quite fast," the man replied. The hallway of Vongola mansion where they were, erupted in 'kufufufu' laughter coming from all six men.
Giotto's eyebrows twitched. He was just so confused. He recognized the men as Mateo's subordinates by their clothes… the ones who were chasing Knuckle when Tsuna and his friends came in his aid… but Giotto knew of no person working for Mateo that had Japanese name. He sure would've known about it… Alaude would take is seriously and wouldn't let Giotto overlook it… but… why did the guy know Tsuna? How?
"Stop this, Mukuro. If you continue possessing these people they might end up dying!" Tsuna said, clutching his fist. "It's not time to be joking around!"
"Kufufufu… naïve as always I see. And if I were to say that these puppets, or people, as you call them, would come here with objective to infiltrate the mansion with or without my aid, what would you say?" the man smirked.
Tsuna clutched his fists, refusing to believe in words of his second Mist guardian. But he had to admit that he was taken back by the statement at first.
"That would be of no surprise," Giotto was the one to reply. He made Tsuna and Ryohei look at him confused, while Tsuna was silently asking 'what?', and man Mukuro had possessed, looked at Giotto amused. Seeing the looks he was getting, Giotto continued to explain himself. "You have possessed Mateo's men. They were the ones chasing after Knuckle when you first came." The last sentence was there precisely for Tsuna, who nodded in understanding.
"Not as naïve as I thought you would be, Vongola Primo," the man replied, adding the 'kufufufu' once again.
"Do you know who that is?" Giotto asked to Tsuna, who averted his gaze at the smirking man. With a short nod, he confirmed.
"That's Rokudo Mukuro… my Mist guardian. He's possessing the whoever the uniformed guy is."
Giotto stared at Tsuna shortly, before blinking once… then twice. "Mist guardian…?" No. There was no possible way… Tsuna was just a teen. There was no way he could be in the mafia already. No. Giotto refused to believe it. Giotto didn't even pay attention to the second sentence. He shook his head in denial, earning confused glances from Ryohei, who was incredibly silent, not understanding what was going on.
Ryohei was sure that the pineapple head was present somewhere around there… but since he couldn't see him, he was extremely unsure of what was going on.
"Perhaps… Sawada Tsunayoshi… you haven't told your ancestor that you are the tenth Vongola boss to be?" Mukuro teased through his puppet's body.
"Y-you… are in the mafia?" Giotto stared at his young descendant in light shock. The flame burning on Tsuna's forehead should've been enough of a proof for Giotto, but he refused to believe that. Tsuna just looked too innocent. "But… wait. Tenth generation boss?"
"Nothing has ever gone the way I wanted it anyway," Tsuna shuddered.
Giotto stared at him. "T-tenth… generation boss…" he silently stuttered, when insecurity hit him. "Of Vongola, right?"
Tsuna gave affirmative nod, looking back at Mukuro's vessel again. "Would you stop possessing these people, Mukuro?" Tsuna gestured towards the six men surrounding him and Giotto.
"Kufufufu~ I may even do that, Sawada Tsunayoshi," Mukuro replied. "After all, I still have fifty three more vessels to play with."
Next second, the red eye turned back to normal green, and all six men crushed down on the ground. "No, Mukuro wait!" Tsuna called out, but it was too late. He groaned. Since when did his second Mist guardian turn so obedient?
Giotto was still stuck in confusion, and light shock from Tsuna-supposed-to-be-mafia-boss deal, while Ryohei…
"What extremely was that?" asked the confused Sun guardian.
"Mukuro chose the wrong time to play pranks on us," Tsuna said, his face darkening. "Anyway, we better find anything about Chrome before he finds out that she's missing. I can't tell what he'll do if he finds out."
"Is that girl, Chrome… somewhat close to him?" Giotto asked, referring to the fact that he just met tenth generation of the Vongola on that day.
"To put it simply," Tsuna started, turning to Giotto, "Chrome is Mukuro's former… err- how should I put this…"
"Just say it," Giotto simply said. Tsuna sighed.
"Vessel… while he was being kept in Vindice's prison, he used her to communicate with us and even fight if needed."
"Yeah… I think I get it…" Giotto quickly nodded at his descendant, though he didn't really understand what was the deal. He felt like he didn't need to know more. The Mukuro guy was scary if he was kept by Vindice. Giotto nodded to himself. Yes… Mukuro was not harmless. Now why Tsuna was still keeping him on his side, that's what Giotto was curious about, but it probably wasn't the time to ask.
"But possessing… what did he say… fifty three people more…" Tsuna silently murmured in his chin. "With these six… wouldn't that be… possessing fifty nine people at the same time?" Tsuna eyed the six people that were lying on the ground, unmoving. He immediately shook his head no. Now that… that would be really bad. He really hoped that Mukuro was just bluffing. Giotto obviously shared his thoughts, although Vongola Primo obviously had no idea what it really meant.
"The hell, you stupid pineapple!" Gokudera growled at Mukuro once again.
Asari and Yamamoto had smiles playing on their faces.
"Did you just say what I think you said?" Mukuro scowled, dark aura leaving his body.
"Like hell I did, stupid pineapple-head! Do you want me to repeat it!" Gokudera exclaimed, taking out his dynamites, ready to throw them at the Mist illusionist. It was like electricity was sparkling when their eyes met.
"Maa maa, Gokudera, calm down a little," Yamamoto tried to brighten out the atmosphere once again. "Mukuro didn't mean that, right?" Look that Mukuro shot at him made him shut up.
"Shut the hell up, baseball-freak!" Gokudera yelled at Yamamoto. He was just tired from all the idiots that were surrounding his precious Jyuudaime. Did they forget what they were asked to do? Well, with exceptions of Mukuro. Though in Gokudera's opinion, he should join in the search as well. "And you stupid pineapple-head… shouldn't you go look for that woman or something!"
"I don't take orders from you, you stupid octopus-head!" Mukuro roared, but then it occurred to him. "Looking for who?"
"Oh… Chrome and Lyn went missing," Yamamoto quickly explained. Dark aura that was surrounded Mukuro was tightening and getting thicker and thicker. He was pissed beyond what Yamamoto and Gokudera had ever witnessed.
"I wonder…" Mukuro started in dangerously sweet voice, "who dared to lay a finger on Nagi?" He was pissed. Very pissed. And now that he started losing control over his vessels, probably the ones that he sent at Hibari, he was being even more pissed. "Their worst hell is about to come," Mukuro claimed before he disappeared in the mist.
"Isn't it bad now that he left?" Asari broke the silence. "Who knows what he'll do…" he added silently. He just hoped that Mukuro wasn't much like Daemon in personality, cause that… that would be disastrous.
"At least Mukuro's going to help us look for Chrome and Lyn, ne?" Yamamoto put a smiling face on and then chuckled a bit at the thought, putting his hands behind his head. Oh he was so relaxed.
"Stupid pineapple…" Gokudera silently hissed. "Now what are you standing here for, airheads? Jyuudaime gave us a mission to carry out!" he exclaimed, heading for a run towards the conference room.
"But it was Primo who ordered-" Asari started, but he was interrupted when Yamamoto dragged him along to follow Gokudera. Asari sighed. It was probably for the best that way.
Giotto, Tsuna (back in normal mode) and Ryohei were running the for whole time to nowhere else but… yes, you guessed it right, library. Tsuna and Ryohei couldn't exactly figure out what Giotto was looking for, but they chose not to ask unless if the young boss tells them himself.
It turned out Giotto was only aiming to take a small box, before heading back to Tsuna and Ryohei.
"Let's go now. We should meet with Asari, Takeshi and Hayato at the conference room. They should be there by now," Giotto stated, looking at the two young teens. They both nodded.
Three of them were now running towards the conference room, when something in front of them made them brake like they had crashed into an invisible wall. Sight in front of them was more than… horrifying.
A young man stood there, circled by a group of men lying on the ground in rather bloody mess, filled with injuries. A young man was turned backs towards Giotto, Tsuna and Ryohei, but they didn't need him to turn to know who it was. Arm badge and tonfas dirtied with blood told enough.
"H-Hibari-san…" Tsuna stuttered, making the prefect turn to them. Hibari had an amused expression on his face. Whoever he had beaten, they probably weren't weak at all.
Tsuna flinched back, seeing the look of blood-lust that his Cloud guardian had sent to him. Yes, sure he knew that Hibari loved fighting. Sure Tsuna knew that Hibari was easy to bite people to death… but it's been less that fifteen minutes since Tsuna had seen him last. Defeating around fifteen people, or how many of them was there anyway… it was… in lack of other words, fearsome.
Giotto felt the same way like Tsuna had. He too thought that the sight was horrifying, and that's why he rushed to check if the intruders were still alive. A few apparently weren't, but two of them started getting up on their feet again, just to receive a tonfa in their head before getting a chance to do anything.
"O-oi, Hibari!" Ryohei roared, in shock himself.
"You can't just go and kill people like that!" Giotto said, stunned in a bad way. He approached to the two who got tonfa hitting their heads. Nope, there were no more movements coming from them. Hibari got them.
"It's undisciplined to have a pineapple-head command intruders," Hibari simply stated.
"EH?" Tsuna stared. "S-So, Hibari-san… you knew that it was Mukuro to control these people?" he asked, not sure whether he should scream or just wait for Hibari to finish his sentence. Either of the two were disliked by Vongola Decimo.
"Those who intrude are also undisciplined…" Hibari continued his sentence, glaring at Tsuna like he was the one Hibari was mentioning. "When someone is undisciplined, they should be bitten to death."
"HIIE!" Tsuna shrieked, waving his hands straight off. "I-I get it, I get it, Hibari-san!" Tsuna kept shouting. He had a feeling that Hibari was in the mood to go and bite Tsuna to death as well, and Tsuna hated the idea.
During the conversation that the boss and the guardian were having, Ryohei and Giotto were checking over the defeated group, just to make sure that if there was someone alive, that they'll be aided straight away. So far, they've only found one.
Giotto didn't pay much attention at first, but then it came to him. The one who was actually alive… he was having different uniform than the other ones. He shrieked inside, thinking that it was maybe a Vongola member who stepped on Hibari's way, but luckily, it turned out to also be another intruder.
Giotto stared at the face of the alive yet beaten up person. He couldn't take his eyes off of him.
"Oi, Primo!" Ryohei called, seeing that the blonde stopped moving at all. "Primo!" he roared, making even Tsuna and Hibari to turn and look at what was happening. Giotto quickly shook his head, as if he was trying to clear his mind a little, and then sneezed.
"This… I was afraid this might happen…" he muttered. "We need to get Knuckle here, and that fast. Ryohei, would you mind to go and look for Knuckle?" Giotto sent serious gaze at Vongola's tenth generation Sun guardian.
"Eh?" Ryohei blinked.
"K-Knuckle-san?" Tsuna asked. "P-Primo-san… don't tell me… that was not an intruder?" Tsuna asked, having a horrified look while glancing down at the injured person. Giotto frowned, shaking his head no.
"No," Giotto replied, putting on a poker face. "I think I might know what happened to the girls." His eyes slightly narrowed. "So Ryohei, can you go and bring Knuckle here quickly?" he turned to Ryohei once again.
"I'm extremely on it!" Ryohei roared, running off a few seconds latter.
"H-How do you mean… you might know what happened to Chrome and Lyn…?" Tsuna asked, worried now. He didn't like the sound of words that Primo said. He didn't like that at all.
"We'll discuss that latter," Giotto said firmly. "Now, could you please go and bring Asari and his group here? There's no need to do anything about the girls for now… or in other words, there's nothing we can do."
"A-all right…" Tsuna quickly nodded, unsure of why there was nothing they could do, but deciding not to point it out. He headed over to the conference room, being cautious of not stepping on any single person that was lying on the floor, which wasn't an easy task. He did manage that somehow, in his mind wondering how come that Hibari didn't even get his uniform dirty.
Giotto's eyes narrowed at Vongola's tenth generation Cloud guardian, before he spoke. "You maybe did not do it on purpose, but I'm grateful that you've let this person to live."
"Hn." That was probably the only thing that could be expected from Vongola's Cloud guardian anyway, and Giotto sort of got used to it.
But what Giotto couldn't, and probably never will be able to get used to… is that his descendant seems to have really blood thirsty guardians. Really blood-thirsty ones. Maybe even more than his Alaude and Daemon.
"OOI, KNUCKLE!" Ryohei roared, storming through who knows which corridor yet again. He could swear that he had run over the half of the mansion in search for the Vongola's first Sun guardian. He continued running around, occasionally yelling 'Knuckle' out of the blue, until he was shut up by no one else but G, who apparently was rather pissed off.
"The hell you stupid squint! Will you stop freaking yelling so much?" G burst out on Ryohei.
"Don't slow me down! I'm extremely looking for Knuckle!" Ryohei roared back. G rolled his eyes, irritated from all the yelling.
"Tch… why do you have to be so loud?" he mumbled, but Ryohei ignored him.
Ryohei found who he was looking for. "Knuckle! Primo is extremely looking for you!" he yelled, seeing gimps of black haired boxer standing alongside Daemon, curiously observing people who they had crushed along with the ground, since Daemon's illusions seemed to have no effect on their attackers.
"Ryohei?" Knuckle turned over to the younger boxer. "Why is Primo looking for me?" he asked.
Ryohei stopped his running and yelling, putting his hand on his chin in order to look like he was thinking hard, which he actually was doing. "I was told what Primo is looking for you for…" he stated absently, "but I extremely forgot!"
Knuckle shook his head. "Oh well…" he sighed. "Take me to Primo then… I wonder what's he up to."
Ryohei took in the notice of what Knuckle said, and headed off running the way he had come from earlier. Knuckle was straight off behind him.
Daemon, curious of what was going on, followed them as well.
G, noting that he was about to; first of all, stay alone; second, he noticed that his boss asked for Knuckle, not G, which meant that something bad happened, he couldn't stay behind. He followed the three as well.
"By the way, Ryohei!" Knuckle called, noticing that they had entered the same hallway for the third time after around five minutes running, "Where did Primo ask you to take me?"
"Uh… Primo said… Primo didn't say anything!" Ryohei exclaimed. Then again, by his logic, it was probably the medical room or whatsoever, since there were plenty of injured people.
Knuckle sighed. "I guess you should follow me then," he replied to Ryohei, taking over the lead. He stormed forward, in foot followed by Ryohei. G and Daemon were slightly slower, doing hard to catch up with two Sun flame users' activity.
They weren't surprised when it turned out that they ended up in the medical rooms. After all, why else would Giotto call for Knuckle so urgently unless someone was hurt?
"Extreme!" Ryohei exclaimed once they were all in the medical rooms.
Knuckle hurried over towards Giotto, while Daemon and G stood on the doorway, dumbfounded. It was surprising how many people was able to stay in that room, starting from Ryohei, Giotto, Knuckle, Tsuna, Gokudera, Yamamoto, Asari and even Hibari, who had taken a corner for himself to settle in.
"Good that you're here, Knuckle," Giotto said, his face having a bit relieved expression on. "If I'd ask from you to heal him, only, but note, only until it's enough for him to wake up, would you do it?"
Knuckle blinked, staring down at the person who was lying on the bed. He couldn't recognize who it was, but he could definitely recognize the clothes. "Ah," he confirmed. Tensed atmosphere in the room tensed up even more. No one could tell why. Knuckle approached to heal the guy wordlessly.
There was only one little detail now that Reborn kept missing, and he was fully aware of it. Now what that little detail was, he couldn't remember. He forgot all about it, and it was raging him inside. He knew that Todd family had a building that was used as temporary Headquarters in Japan, and he sent Skull to get rid of it in any possible way, but there was something else that he was missing on.
Maybe something about Hibari and Lyn again? But it didn't make any sense. Infant was pissed beyond belief. Even constant shooting around couldn't help him relax… nor Bianchi's warm ideas… and even Nana's food. None of that worked. Once he finds out why, he was going to make the reason suffer, and that a lot.
But for the time being, he should only concentrate on finding Glo Xinia's whereabouts, or that's what he was telling to himself. After all, it was a serious deal if that guy was planning something. Another problem that Reborn had, though not that he'd ever say it out loud… but whoever was missing… Reborn got used to them. Like really got used to them.
Anyway, he had no time to be bothered with it. Quickly, he took Leon, who in the meantime changed into a phone, and started making another call.
"Hey," Reborn said, realizing that someone had picked up the phone. "I'll need you to drop over to Japan in less than twenty hours. I need explanations." He waited for a few seconds to hear over the reply, then continued, "This is not a matter to be joked with. Gather the others and come to Namimori. You've got twenty hours, no objection."
Reborn sneered, hearing that the called one agreed. "Don't make mistakes in the mid-way. I need everyone you can bring. This time, I think you messed up something."
Not so happy reply greeted back the Sun Arcobaleno, but Reborn ignored it. After all, the plan was set. Now only he needed to count on CEDEF to find where Glo Xinia was, everything else should be easy.
"Oh, and don't forget it, you've got twelve hours."
"WHAT! YOU SAID I HAD TWENTY, KORA!" exclaim came from the other side of the phone. Reborn smirked.
"I changed my mind." He heartlessly finished the call the moment the second person started screaming, yelling and shouting again. It wasn't worth of Reborn losing his hearing. Not worthy at all.
"Now all we've got to do is wait for him to wake up," Giotto said, nodding to himself and crossing his arms. It was as simple as that. So very simple. But he was impatient so much! And so curious of what happened to the girls-
"Heck! Are we supposed to wait for hours for the scum to wake up?" G grunted, tapping his leg.
After they had brought Knuckle to heal the intruder, Giotto and G took their leave to Giotto's office. Giotto's guardians, along with other members of Vongola, went to clean up the mess after Rokudo Mukuro and his little puppet invasion. The ones who survived were coldheartedly thrown out of the mansion's area, waiting for their boss to pick them up (just later they found out that Mukuro was possessing the boss as well). Mukuro in the meantime appeared, and went off with Tsuna and his guardians to get some rest in the rooms prepared for them. Well, exclude Hibari. He was on the roof. In Giotto's opinion, that guy had a thing for roofs.
Regardless, G and Giotto were in Giotto's office now. Giotto also sent a maid to bring over Tsuna, since he wanted to discuss something with him, and in the mid-way convince G that Tsuna truly is supposed to be a mafia boss, since his right hand and Storm guardian really refused to believe it.
"Anyways," Giotto said, continuing their long forgotten conversation, "All we can do now is wait, G. Kyoya had really beaten that guy well."
"Like I'll ever believe that," G grunted once again, insanely tapping his foot. "Oi, Primo!"
"Yes, G?" Giotto sent a half-hearted gaze at his right-hand-man.
"I just don't get it… how can a single person posses sixty people?" G scoffed. His mind trailed off back to the moment Rokudo Mukuro came, pointing out that he had stopped the invasion on Vongola mansion. Like heck if G would fall for the story. He wanted to squash him right there, but he felt a bit sorry since the Daemon-look-alike looked rather exhausted.
"Fifty nine, G," Giotto corrected.
"Heck… and what about his own body?" G retorted.
Giotto shook his head. "G, his body doesn't count from what he said. So it's fifty nine. And no, I don't know how he can do that, hence, I called Tsuna over here. Tsuna appears to know that pretty well."
"You again with that…" G snorted. "Come on Primo, use your brain. There's no way the kid can be a mafia boss. Just look at how he looks!" he claimed, sure of what he was talking about.
"G, if I were using my brain… I would've died hundred times over," Giotto said simply.
"Not if you ask me!" G blurted out. "Anyways, the kid is the wimp, deal with it! Sure I get it that you like the idea of your descendant being the mafia boss and all, but out of all of them… choosing the weakest?" he averted his eyes. "Exclude the brat," he quickly added, thinking of Lambo. Though even Lambo wasn't that weak. From what Lampo said, the stupid cow-brat kept throwing around grenades. G groaned inside. Okay, maybe they are in mafia… he whimpered on the inside.
Giotto victoriously smirked, sensing the change in his Storm guardian. "It's all right, G. The proof is about to come," he added, putting a smug face on.
G moaned in displeasure. He could've just told his boss that he believed that the wimpy brat was a mafia boss, and even if Giotto would know that he's lying, it would be less irritating. Now, Giotto even wanted to prove it no matter what G said or done. Darn…
It was only a minute later that Tsuna walked into the office.
"Sit down, Tsuna," Giotto said before the Vongola Decimo even got a chance to close the doors, leaving G to do it with obvious snort of dissatisfaction.
"Y-yes…" Tsuna silently agreed, taking his seat, pretty nervous about it. He couldn't find any reason for his great-great-great grandfather to call him to his office like that, so formally.
"Tsuna, you are aware that there are some questions that I would like to ask you," Giotto stated. He waited for Tsuna to give a quick nod before continuing. "And you are aware that I need you to tell me the truth, am I right?" he asked.
Tsuna once again gave a short nod. He kept wondering why his ancestor was talking to him like he was a five-year old. Oh well, he just had to deal with it for now.
"Tsuna… Is it true that you're about to become the tenth boss of the Vongola family, and that Rokudo Mukuro is your Mist guardian?" Giotto asked. "I need you to say it, not just nod," he added, after he received a half-hearted nod as a response to his question.
Tsuna really didn't want to answer that one truthfully. Especially while having knowledge of the impatient and anticipating Storm guardian in the corner. In the end, he stammered, "Y-yes… it's true."
Giotto, expecting that, only smiled, satisfied with the result. But…
"WHAT?" G bluntly asked, looking at Tsuna as if the teen was insane. Sure, some of the 'descendant' group could be in mafia… that stays… but Tsuna?
Tsuna nervously chuckled. "U-um… that was my reaction too when I first found out about it…" he continued nervously laughing, sounding more like he was being in pain or something like that. G rolled his eyes. Tsuna sighed, deciding to explain it a bit. "B-but, after everything that had happened… I don't know… I had less and less choice about it. Not that I had any choice to begin with…"
Giotto and G only stared at Tsuna, partly feeling the pain in his words. It didn't even matter that Tsuna's sentences didn't make any sense. Just from the sound of his voice they could say that Tsuna was never happy about it.
"Wait… you had no choice?" G raised a brow at Tsuna. Tsuna let out another nervous chuckle.
"Well that would be because of-" Tsuna stopped in the middle of the sentence. Question in his mind appeared. Because of who? Because of what? He couldn't remember how he even got drawn in the whole mafia thing. All he knew was that it was quite painful for him.
"Because of?" Giotto asked, trying to boost Tsuna to continue the sentence, but it was useless, Tsuna kept shaking his head like no.
"Oi, are you alright?" G asked, noticing that Tsuna was now muttering non-understandable stuff that probably made no sense. Tsuna's brown hair was being even messier because of all the head-shaking.
"Tsuna, what's wrong?" Giotto asked, now starting to be worried about it. Tsuna didn't suffer from any kind of trauma because of mafia… right? His intuition told him that it was something else, but Giotto had no slightest idea of what it could be. Whatever it was, it sure bugged Tsuna.
"Oi!" G snapped, grabbing Tsuna's shoulders and shaking him. "Pull yourself together, brat! What the hell is wrong with you?" he snapped.
Tsuna stopped shaking his head, staring at G in surprise. He took a few seconds of dead silence to clear his mind and then speak. "I… I can't remember." His voice was so weak that G and Giotto struggled to hear what he was saying. "I-I can't remember!" Tsuna pointed out again. "I… I can remember my guardians… and everyone here… I can remember it all! B-but… I can't remember anyone else!" he cried.
For Giotto and G it was enough to see the look that Tsuna was giving them to know that even Tsuna was horrified from the idea. They themselves found it too strange.
"Appears that you're not the only one then, Sawada Tsunayoshi," serious voice came from the direction of the doors. Everyone turned their heads to look at who it was, but saw only wall and doors. There was no one there. Or so it seemed.
"I also forgot…" the voice said. From the wall, the illusionist slowly started revealing himself.
"The hell, what are you doing here?" G was the first to snap back together. "How did you even get here?" he shouted at no one else but Rokudo Mukuro, who was frowning.
"It's not my fault that you were paying no attention to me," Mukuro simply said.
"But eavesdropping other peoples' conversation isn't exactly a polite thing to do," Giotto pointed out, on which Mukuro 'kufufufu-ed'.
"I was never polite to begin with," the illusionist replied. "But I couldn't remain silent to what Sawada Tsunayoshi said. First I thought it was because I was tired… but it appears, from the conversation of other Tsunayoshi's guardians as well, that no one actually remembers anyone else from our time."
"Add that to the disappearance of those two illusionist girls… it can't be a coincidence," G pointed out, and his boss quickly agreed with it. Tsuna was just too surprised to even think right about it.
"Whoa, wait a second!" G suddenly exclaimed, dragging all attention to himself. "If this guy is your Mist guardian, and the other four," G said, referring to Gokudera, Yamamoto, Ryohei and Hibari, "wouldn't that mean that one of the girls isn't a guardian, just like the brat?"
Silence once again covered the office, as Tsuna and Mukuro kept exchanging something that seemed to be a conversational looks in form of 'you tell him' and 'no, you tell him'. Either way, of course it was Tsuna who had to explain it.
"U-um… about that…" he started nervously. "Actually, only Lyn is not a guardian…" Tsuna pointed out. Giotto and G glared at him, confused.
"Only Lyn?" Giotto repeated, suspicious about it. He knew Tsuna wasn't lying, but… "wouldn't that mean that you have seven guardians instead of six?" Vongola Primo asked.
"Well… yes…" Tsuna nodded bluntly. Not to keep the confusion around, he quickly explained it. "Lambo is the Lightning guardian… Chrome is my second Mist guardian…"
Giotto and G would ask a bunch of questions at the same time like how can Tsuna have two Mist guardians, that a maid didn't suddenly break in his office, yelling "Primo!"
Giotto quickly recognized the maid as the one he had asked to watch over their little enemy-spy-guest, and come and tell Giotto when the mentioned one wakes up.
"Clara?" he questionably looked at the woman, but she quickly shook her head as in 'no time to explain', but then again, she did speak up a second after the four males were a foot behind her, panicked.
"Master Knuckle told me to urgently call you." That was the only thing she said, because next second, there was no need to talk again. They were at medical rooms. Giotto and Tsuna let out a gasp, seeing that Knuckle was healing that guy again. And the entire room was a mess…
"Knuckle, what in the world happened here?" Giotto asked, still unable to comprehend it all. He rushed up towards the patient, who was now having additional injuries to the ones that Hibari made him.
"He woke up and tried to break out," Knuckle simply said. "I had to extremely knock him out so that he wouldn't escape."
Giotto quickly nodded in understanding. That's probably the reason why the room looked like there were some grenades thrown around.
"Make sure that he doesn't escape after you heal him," Giotto said, his eyes turning very serious. "We can't let our only lead to Chrome and Lyn just yet…" he silently eyed Tsuna and Mukuro with pity in his eyes, finishing his sentence with a silent "Nor we can ignore that this all could maybe even be connected."
Giotto was totally oblivious of the look that his right-hand was sending at him.
Apologies for spelling/grammar mistakes. English is not my first language, guys!
