Chapter Six

-Lost Hope, Unveiled Past, and Destinies Intertwined-

Disclaimer: Unfortunately, the usual disclaimer is applicable to this story. Alas, it is still not the day for me to own Katekyo Hitman Reborn.

KHR belongs to Akira Amano.

Author's Note:

Italics/Italics = Poems, rhymes and legends.


In the speed of light Tsuna and his loyal friends passed through the void and were chucked out into the sky.

Before they could begin to fall, Hibari caught Tsuna on his back and the others became suspended in the air with a flying spell Byakuran uttered.

Reborn appeared a couple of seconds later riding a Leon broomstick.

"Heheh. Look at me, Dera Dera! I'm flying!" A certain baseball lover exclaimed as he made swimming motions in the air.

"Stupid baseball freak! Stop doing that, you're embarrassing us!" Gokudera crossed his arms and glared at Yamamoto.

Reborn pulled his wizard's hat down and smirked.

Who knew that Gokudera was that perceptive?

One glance at the sky in front of them and he knew that something was out of place.

It was all it took for him to see that they were in the presence of an entity.

Yamamoto swam towards the hot headed bomber, and they accidently collided with each other.

Just then, the same voice of the gatekeeper that spoke to Byakuran before started to speak again.


"Back again, are we now timekeeper?" A baritone voice boomed out.

"Ne, was I right? Did I bring the key?" An excited Byakuran exclaimed, clapping his hands happily as he congratulated himself.

Invisible eyes carefully scan the crowd and locked on to the heir of Fuoco and the only possible dragon left in existence.

"Yes, you have brought the keys. Now you need to know what they are."

The timekeeper suspiciously narrowed his lavender eyes at the proclamation.

He was pretty sure he heard wrong. Did the gatekeeper say keys plural, instead of key?

"I thought I only needed one key?"

"Alas once you have found some but not all the keys, then the ones present must be used. Now, answer me this, and you will find what the keys are.

Seven colours colour the sky,

It not matter which one,

What matter is the line.

From the past to the present,

The matter is the matter needed.

These things are a part of you,

You breathe life into one of me.

While the other lets you live,

The other can take life.

No two are the same,

But without the two of them,

You might just be a sham.

Everyone present has the two,

One the same, the other not.

We ask you this,

Who might we be?"

There was a momentary pause but Lambo broke the silence by farting.

The power of his gasses propelled him towards his not so brotherly figure, Gokudera.

"Ara ara, where is Lambo-san's grape candy?" The young cow proclaimed while picking his nose.

"Extreme question!" Ryohei punched the air.

Gokudera was racking his brain and then figured out the answer, not to Lambo's question but the riddle.

However, Hibari beat him to it.


"Blood and flames. The answer are flames and blood of the people." The dragon answered coldly.

"Correct. You may pass by giving the barriers those two things. That baby there knows the keys that I speak of."

Once again, Reborn put his best world renowned poker face own and stared down the invisible wall, assuming that was the direction the gatekeeper was in.

"Gatekeeper, just how much do you know about me?"

"Almost everything about your existence, Acrobaleno."

"Hmph. I see." Reborn said and turned to look at the others.

"You heard the gatekeeper. The keys are the people with the correct blood and flames. All of you must dispel your flames on the physical barrier. Your blood would then let you pass through the other barrier that only allows certain people to pass through."

Hibari looked amused. "But not you, baby wizard?"

"Let's just say I override the authority here, and normal laws do not apply to me."

Gokudera air-dragged Lambo towards the general direction of the invisible barrier.

"Stupid cow and I will go first Jyuudaime!" Gokudera saluted to Tsuna with his other hand.

"Stupidera, the great Lambo-san demands to know what we're doing!" A snot bubble came out of his nose and Gokudera had to let go of Lambo's hand to dodge it.

It appears that Byakuran's spell also applied to snot being able to fly as well.

"Watch and learn, ahoshi!" Gokudera shouted as he lit his right index finger on fire with concentrated cherry red storm flames and crudely jabbed his finger into the undetectable wall.

"Ah, son of a banshee!" Gokudera cursed as he withdrew his hand began to suck on his bruised finger.

Very typical for a hot headed Gokudera to do such a thing so brashly, since he was supposed to be smart and logical.

"Ahahaha! Bakadera hurt his finger!" Lambo crowed, as his laughter generated green lightning flames that lit up his horns which struck the same place Gokudera's finger had been.

Two lifelike, different dragon eyes emerged from the invisible wall, one a fiery red and the other a calm lime green colour, and both had black slits as pupils.

Another five dragon eyes appeared beside the two open ones, but they were closed were closed.

Up next were Ryohei and Yamamoto.

Gokudera and Lambo hastily moved away from the creepy unblinking eyes that seemed to follow their every movement to give the two some room.

They directed their flames to the same spot again, and two more dragon eyes opened to look at them.

The one beside the green one had a sunflower yellow iris, and the one beside celestial sun eye had a Prussian blue one representing the rain.


Lastly, Hibari and Tsuna approached the invisible divider to the unknown.

Hibari felt his scales get all tingly with nervous and exciting energy due to the vast amounts of radiating aura being emitted from the eyes.

Hibari curiously craned his long serpentine neck up to further inspect them, puffing out cloud flames from his nostrils.

This opened the fifth dragon eye, which was in a rich plum colour that stared right back at the curious dragon.

The great dragon reared his head back and glanced at the eyes coolly at a farther distance.

Tsuna, still on Hibari's back took a long, deep breath and relaxed by closing his eyes.

He felt the power of his divine flame well up inside him and when he opened his eyes again, a clear bright orange sky flame was blazing on his forehead.

Some of Tsuna's sky flames got sucked into the sixth eye and that slowly made the second last eye open.

Everyone was expecting the sky flame's eye to have an orange hue, as it was the celestial flame it represented, but they were wrong.

The eye slowly cracked open to reveal a multitude of colours like the ones one might see in a kaleidoscope.

All the seven colours of the rainbow were harmoniously combined with one another, with the fiery orange being more prominent than the others.

The eye represented the harmony factor of the sky flames quite well indeed.

A content grumbling was heard in the distance, the sound possibly made by the mysterious gatekeeper.

The company of adventurers were to captivated by the beautiful sight of the sky-eye that they forgot that there was one last eye left.

Even Byakuran stared at it in awe, having seen nothing as unusual as that one eye.

At that moment, the entire barrier became shrouded and mist.

Then, not long after the mist parted to reveal a castle in the sky sitting on a bed of downy white clouds.


"You may enter."

The aged doors creaked open as a whirlwind blew them all in, except for Byakuran.

He hit the second invisible barrier with a loud thump, like how a bird would crash into a window.

"You do not have the proper blood required."

The angry timekeeper looked distraught for a moment until he brightened up as his usual slightly insane cheery self again.

"Ne, Tsuna tell me what happens next when you come back out, okay?" He waved and disappeared in a flash.

He would find out the outcomes to the little adventure they were about to have, one way or the other.


Their attention was drawn elsewhere when Ryohei punched his fist in the air at his discovery.

"Look at the extreme details on this extreme thing!"

The extreme boxer then was pointing towards a story of some sort, titled Alaude's Will located very close to where they were all standing.

When they had arrived, the torches lining the parapets were already lit, as if the castle had waited for their visit.

"E-eh? I think I recognize this from somewhere?" Tsuna exclaimed, still perched on Hibari's back.

"Dame-Tsuna! Of course it looks familiar to you. The legend was in one of your textbooks."

Reborn made a scorning sound as he quickly kicked his no-good student on his side and that made him fall to the musty stone floor.

"Jyuudaime! Are you alright?" A certain octopus head cried out as he helped his beloved boss up.

"I'm fine, Gokudera."

"Dame-Tsuna, look at this part of the legend." Reborn pointed to the end of the legend inscribed on the cracked walls.

The brunet walked over to the emblazoned details and began to read out loud.

In the meantime, the boss of the wielders of the harmony flame, Vongola Primo Giotto had come to a conclusion.

His conclusion was that he must make a pact with all of the divine flames to defeat the common enemy they have.

Vongola Primo prayed to the Seven Acrobaleno Gods of the Divine Flames that they would help him mend their broken ties, and they helped by giving Primo the Seven Acrobaleno Seals and the Dragon Capes.

He was told by the great gods from above that in order to defeat the approaching danger; he would need to give an Acrobaleno Seal and a Dragon Cape as a peace offering to the other six rulers of the states of divine flames so that they could form an alliance.

The Acrobaleno seals would give the holders of them the ability to use their powers to the limits in desperate situations, while the Dragon Capes would turn the holders into dragons.

Although, one particular family already had that ability and were made to be in charge of the Capes.

A Poem from when the Pact was made:

The Sun of bright, the old ways remembered,

If the Sky gets Misty or Cloudy, you'll be sure to consider,

When the Storms will come,

In which will bring the Lightning and the Rain to come to band together.

It is the Sky that envelops all,

Uniting the seven divine flames to defend against the evils of this land.

The two families that have the closest ties,

Since the beginning of time,

Will have the last say,

When all others say 'nay.


Gokudera's eyes widened as comprehension filled them when he looked back and forth frantically at Hibari and the legend.

Reborn smirked again in amusement.

The bomber's explosive and impulsive nature got the better of him and he finally snapped.

"If you were a Nuvola, why did you kidnap the Tenth, dragon?" Gokudera questioned, his left eyebrow twitching in irritation as he advanced towards the entertained and amused Hibari.

He was still irritated from the dragon spewing out the answer to the conundrum the gatekeeper posed quicker than him.

A tanned hand grabbed onto the hot head's shoulder, preventing him from advancing towards the dragon.

"Mai, mai Dera! No need to act so suddenly, I'm sure Hibari had his reasons."

The spikes along Hibari's neck glinted in the light of the torches as he tilted his head in question.

"Enough ramblings. Enter the main chamber at once, lest I have no more patience in dealing with mere children." The annoyed voice of the gatekeeper spoke out.


When they entered the auditorium like chamber in the deep recesses of the aged and untreated castle, they did not expect to find six large frozen blocks of ice waiting for them.

They were positioned neatly in a shape of a semicircle, surrounding a gold pedestal.

In every chunk of zero point breakthrough ice, there lay an enormous dragon frozen in time with their eyes closed as if they were in deep slumber.

Each dragon was ten times the size of Hibari, who was already pretty large for a dragon.

Although, an azure coloured dragon at the right end of the arch did not have his head frozen.

A content purr came from it at the same time as cool, calculating gray-blue eyes as cold as glaciers stared at the crowd and their disbelieving faces.

The other dragon's lips curled up into a content smirk when Hibari's aubergine scales stood on end.

"I formally welcome you all to Nuvola Castello. Now, release me from my arctic prison at once."

Ryohei scratched his head in confusion while Lambo picked his other nostril.

Reborn was nowhere to be found and Tsuna began to stutter again.

"H-how would we do that, Mr. Dragon sir?"

The dragon rolled his eyes at the herbivore, regardless of how the scent of the small weakling attracted him.

He was used to all those princeling smells, been around them for generations.

"If you've been educated well, clearly you must know that this ice is made out of negatively compressed deathperation flames. Meaning, in general that it should be melted using deathperation flames."

Imaginary light bulbs lit up on above everyone's heads as they finally knew what to do.

The group of friends and Hibari positioned themselves equally around the mysterious dragon and poured their celestial flames onto him.

Each person had their eyebrows scrunched up in intense concentration, all of them wanting the ice to melt.

After a while the ice began to melt slowly but surely, disappearing into wisps of hot steam.


Meanwhile, Reborn had teleported back to the Capital, Destino.

He retold all the events that happened to Timoteo, who was nodding at the end of every sentence.

His face grim when he said,

"Reborn. Hurry, it's after me again."

"Understood, Ninth. I'll try speed things up a notch."

The baby wizard bowed, afterwards departed in a stylish fashion and a flashy bang.


Shortly afterwards all the zero point breakthrough ice melted off of the aged dragon.

It took a deep breath and stretched its spiky Prussian blue wings, analyzing his saviors all the while.

Everyone else backed away from him to give him some space.

"Be back in a few seconds." Was all he said as he exhaled heavy purple clouds flames and covered himself completely with them.

Truthfully enough, as soon as the cloud flames parted it revealed a platinum blonde haired young man standing upright, with the same narrow glacier like eyes as the dragon from before.

He wore a grey trench coat with a pair of handcuffs attached to it.

A long, luxurious dragon scaled amaranthine cloak trimmed with thick, dyed purple fur hung off his slight shoulders.

The mantle that covered his shoulders emitted a radiant shine and spoke of ancient powers; a kept secret almost lost to mankind.

"I have not formally introduced myself yet. My name is Alaude of the Nuvola Famiglia, the gatekeeper and the Forgoer." The man called Alaude bowed.

Hibari narrowed his eyes at the flamboyant display.

Wait, if he was a dragon how could he have turned into a human? Could he do that as well?

The shape shifter smirked as he read Hibari's mind.

"Why, of course you can. You're a Nuvola as well." Alaude raised a brow at that.

Of course, he knew who Hibari Kyoya was, that including his past, and his parents.

"How do you suppose I do that?" Hibari snapped back, hating to have his mind read by a being more superior than him.

"Hn. I have no interest in fighting a mere child. Since you're in your adolescence, have you tried propagating before?"

Hibari growled out an affirmative.

"I see. Then you do know what to do. You need to do the reverse of propagating and compress, absorb your cloud flames so that they are inside of you."

Hibari, following Alaude's example tried it out.


A moment later and a naked teenage boy appeared out of the cloud flames.

He had almost the same haircut as Alaude, although it was less disheveled and was midnight black in colour.

Their faces and physique were also very similar and the two could be mistaken as brothers.

Sharp, gray eyes glared at the crowd before him.

"Herbivores..." What are you staring at?

"Hieee!" Tsuna screamed out, avoiding Hibari's questioning gaze while blushing furiously.

One look at Hibari's intimdatingly handsome face had made Tsuna quickly look down, which was where the cloud's man-parts were.

The others stood where they were and refused to look up, everyone of them blushing.

Hibari was becoming very irritated and began to walk towards Tsuna, who quickly backed away from him.

His important parts were bouncing around like there was no tomorrow.

"Eh-eto. Hibari-san? What are you doing?"

"Herbivore. Look at me."

Tsuna looked up meekly at the still naked Hibari, who held his face up to his and crashed their lips together.

Tsuna's head hit the floor as Hibari went on top of him.

"Tenth! I'll save you!"

"Hahaha. Gokudera, that looks fun."

"Extreme!"

Tsuna's eyes widened as he let out a surprised gasp.

This gave the hungry carnivore the opportunity he needed to slip his tongue into Tsuna's mouth as he began to map out the wet cavern.

The brunet, still too stunned to respond just closed his eyes and gave into the pleasure that Hibari was making him feel.

Their tongues danced together in a wicked dance for dominance, with Tsuna losing the battle.

Hibari's warm human hands went up his shirt, making him shiver.

Tsuna's legs wrapped around Hibari's as their kiss deepened even more.

Both wanting to press their bodies even closer together, wanting to melt into each other.

Tsuna snapped out of his reverie.

Wait a hold on a jiffy, this was his first kiss!

Shouldn't have his first one been with Kyoko instead of a guy? He thought to himself in alarm.

Exasperated, and out of panic, he pushed Hibari off of him.

The little Tsuna was flushed red all over and panting, his hair in a tousled mess.

The lustful skylark let out an annoyed growl just as a sack of clothes hit him on the head.

"Put those on so you do not disturb the peace."

For once in his life, Hibari did as he was told, because he saw the reasoning behind it.

This time he was the one disturbing the peace, after all.

He walked out of the chamber and changed in private.


With expensive silk clothes adorning his masculine body, Hibari Kyoya in his human form was ready to join the rowdy mob again-even though he didn't want to.

All he wanted to know now was what that herbivore dragon said about him being a "Nuvola" as well.

He walked back into the auditorium, looking around to see that everyone was sitting down on a long, rectangular conference table with Alaude at one of the ends that they hadn't noticed before.

After that little excursion, Tsuna refused to meet Hibari's eyes when he walked in.

Yamamoto was restraining Gokudera from getting up, and Lambo was dozing again.

Ryohei was practicing boxing by punching the air with his fists.

Reborn had magically appeared again, and reclined his feet on the table in luxury and utter relaxation.

"Kyoya, sit." Alaude ordered.

"I'll bite you to death for your disrespect."

"I'm your grandfather, and I knew your parents."

Hibari's grey eyes widened in shock. Could he know who killed his parents?

He felt the crowd's curious eyes looking at him and repressed a shudder.

He would bite them all to death later for not minding their own business.

He sauntered over to the farthest end of the table away from the herbivores and sat down, crossing his arms casually on his chest.

He glowered at everyone present, Alaude especially.

"Explain. Now."

Hibari's grandfather complied and launched into a tragic tale of Hibari's past.

"Twenty six years ago, your mother laid an egg. The egg was you, Kyoya. At that time, many other dragons from surrounding kingdoms came to visit you, young princeling. Until that fateful day, merely five days from you being delivery, when a being from the very pits of hell barged in and killed everyone here brutally. Our family was unprepared for the ambush."

Alaude paused for a brief moment, looking up at his listeners and sucking in a deep breath.

The next part was going to be a big blow for his great-great-distant grandson.

Hibari basically just signalled him to continue on his storytelling.

The others too, were waiting for him patiently to resume.

Reborn on the other hand, looked very impatient.

"You know what happened next. While your father was distracting the murderer, your mother used the last of her flames, her dying will to transport you to the cave where you spent the rest of your ten years as an egg there. The killer went mad when he knew that you escaped, and killed your parents and departed, laughing savagely."

Alaude quickly glanced at Hibari again, who was digging his long nails into the worn table.

"At the time, I was still frozen but some of your father's flames melted my head just as he died. He transferred some memories of the battle before he joined your mother in heaven."

A loud crack was heard at Hibari's end, where he had broken a large piece of the table off with his nails.

He had a barely restrained look of bloody murder on his face, while a menacing aura came off him.

The young Nuvola gnashed his teeth together.

"Continue."

"Then you hatched, and now you're at the age of sixteen, the age where your abilities start to develop. I do not know who the murderer is, your father did not see it because the creature was shrouded in darkness."

Alaude went to Hibari, and delicately passed him a pair of long hollow metallic tubes with segregated joints, black handles on them.

Like everything in the castle, the pair of weapons looked worn, but treated with care and pride.

"They were your father's. I hope they serve you well."

Hibari peered down at the tonfas in his hands, then lashed out at Alaude with them.

The older skylark easily dodged the attack.

"I'll bite you to death."

"I do not fight mere children."

"Hn."

Hibari dashed out of the room again, and the loud clashing and clanging of tonfas were heard in the distance as he got farther and farther away from them.

The juvenile skylark leaving a path of mass destruction behind him.


Alaude had seen the look on Hibari's face, and it wasn't lovely.

No cloud should act that, that frail.

Weak.

Was there any way to get Kyoya to take a breather and calm down?

Not likely.

Reborn cocked his head to the side.

"Oh, but it is possible. Leave it to my dame student. He already knows how to handle the little dragon."

"Huh? M-me calm Hibari-san down? No way! I don't think that's possible Reborn!" Tsuna shrieked.

He did not want to get bitten to death, him having seen the murderous look on Hibari.

Leon crawled down from Reborn's wizard hat and into his right hand, where it transformed into a wand.

He pointed it at Tsuna threateningly.

"Eeek! Not the wand, Reborn! Anything but that!"

"Then do as you are told."

"Okay, okay! Yeesh!"

"How come I don't see you going?" Reborn waved his wand at Tsuna again.

His student dashed out the door, still wailing about how unfair his tutor was being.

"Anybody want to explain what that was about?" Alaude asked.

"I merely solved the issue." Was the answer he got from a certain sadistic tutor.


"What the hey, Reborn? Always making me do the things I don't want to do!" Tsuna ranted.

He was following Hibari's path of annihilation down one of the many long hallways of yet, another castle.

Then, his jogging slowed down into a brisk trot as he reminisced about what Hibari did.

He had turned into a human and kissed him!

The human Hibari was as elegant and stately as his dragon form.

Who knew that Hibari was a shape shifting Nuvola anyways?

Well, obviously the oblivious Tsuna hadn't known that.

He still thought of how Hibari's gaze was filled with desire, impulse, and...love?

Tsuna licked his lips, still tasting Hibari's unique, weird but pleasant musky flavour.

That little act from the shape shifter left Tsuna all confused about his feelings.

If Tsuna found Hibari, he wouldn't know what to say to him.


At the end of the path of destruction, Tsuna walked into a portrait gallery.

The framed paintings were vignettes, head shots of people that were obviously from the Nuvola.

Hibari was seen to be standing in front of two portraits of a man and a woman who looked eerily similar to him, tonfas still clutched tightly in his hands.

He turned his head towards the visitor and seeing that it was Tsuna, ignored him and turned back to look at his parent's portraits.

Tsuna walked up to him and tugged on his sleeve.

"A-ano Hibari-san? I'm sorry about what happened to your parents."

Hibari dropped onto his knees, devoid of any emotion and hugged Tsuna.

His shoulders heaved in silent mourning, but the tears that threatened to fall did not fall.

Surprised, Tsuna drew comforting circles on his back as they held each other close.

"It's alright, Hibari-san. I've got you. You don't need to hold it in." Tsuna calmly stated.

That was all the skylark needed to break down and cry, silent streams of tears trailing down his face like cascades.

He let out a strangled wail, lamenting for his losses.

He barely knew his parents for a week, and they were taken from him.

When they were taken from him, he hadn't even hatched yet.

Meaning that Hibari never knew what his parents looked like, and who they were.

All the effort into finding out what exactly happened to his parents.

Every ounce of hope he had left about them still being alive was gone.

He had lied to himself, kept on saying to himself that his parents were still there for them.

At this instant, he faced reality as it ruthlessly struck him across the face.

The two of them stayed in that position for a while, neither saying another word.

Tsuna shared Hibari's sorrow, understanding how hard it was for him to cope.

He shared the same feeling of hopelessness, ready to give up on life, until Reborn had come along.

Before, all he had been was a figurehead, a tool used by his parents to gain them more status in society.

Although when he failed miserably at everything that Nana and Iemitsu put him through, they began to pay no attention to him.

That was when the abuse from the servants started to happen.

So of course, Tsuna would understand. It was as if destiny had brought them together to help and support each other.

"I didn't even know them, Tsunayoshi and they were taken from me. Now, all I have left is you." Hibari squeezed Tsuna into his chest, the last of his tears dry on his pale face.

"I won't Hibari-san. I won't leave you."


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