Contritum Caelum
Author : 27x18
Warnings : Super grumpy Byakuran
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Kikyo glanced down at his phone, they had been flying for quite a while now and a few minutes ago the signal had disappeared, he had talked to the pilot as well, seems that none of their communication equipment was working, it might be that Vendicare's location was a black zone.
That meant they wouldn't be able to communicate with Byakuran until they got out of this place. Kikyo did not like being cut off from Byakuran, with things as they were right now especially. Kikyo did not like being out of contact with Byakuran when Tsuna wasn't at her best, especially when taking on the the Vendice.
If they got into trouble then there was nothing they could do to get some help, no way to contact Byakuran if anything went badly at all.
"Hime, we're landing soon." Kikyo touched shoulder, Tsuna's eyes snapping open as he caught the fist coming at his face.
"Ah...Kikyo, sorry." Tsuna sighed while she cut back on her Flames and lowered her hand "We there?"
"Yes, hime." Tsuna stretched her eyes flicking to Mukurou, but he wasn't there, probably because they were about to meet in person. Tsuna headed to the small bar to get some tea, one hand twitching to a fist before she forced it to relax. "The pilots will put the stairs down once we land."
"You know you're going to fail, because you really are useless in the end." Tsuna ignored the annoying little voice that sounded so like genetic donor 1, also known as her mother. "That's why we tried to save the world from your failures."
"Hime….uh….the tea." Tsuna blinked down at the tea overflowing from her mug. Damn, she needed to keep it together, she was about to go up against the Vendice, she couldn't stay here and listen to shit she knew wasn't real.
"Sorry, Kikyo….a little nervous about going up against the Vendice." Tsuna sipped her tea before setting it down, she really didn't feel like it anymore.
"In Byakuran-sama's place, I will escort you." Kikyo assured with a short bow to her "Now….shall we blow a hole in the wall? Or knock on the door?"
"I like option A~" Tsuna looked over at the teen standing in the open door of the plane, grinning over at Tsuna "Charmed to meet you in person finally, Tsu-nee~" he narrowly dodged a knife that went flying towards him. "So sorry~ Tsu-hime~"
"We knock first." Tsuna ordered "If they don't answer then we blow a hole in the door and go to them." Kikyo grabbed a small bag as he went to follow them.
"I'll bring the explosives~"
"Explosives?" Mukurou chuckled "Can't you break in on your own Tsu-hime?"
"Try to keep up." Tsuna growled as Flames covered her hands, Tsuna pushing her Flames out as propellant to send her flying out of the plane, Kikyo not far behind while Mukurou whistled after her.
"Impressive…." Mukurou watched her flying off "Guess it's not all rumours~" he better do as told and hurry after the Gesso princess. Didn't want to get left behind.
Tsuna landed at a door built into the mountain at the centre of the island, flaring her Flames to call the Vendice before crossing her arms over her chest and glaring at the door until it opened and one tall creepy bandaged man came gliding out.
"The Gesso principessa, to what do we owe the honour?"
"I'm here to retrieve a member of my famiglia." Tsuna held the dead gaze of the Vendice guard even though she did so hate looking into those dead eyes "Chrome Dokuro." his eyes narrowed at her when that name fell from her lips, his eyes flicking to Kikyo then to Mukurou and back to her.
"Chrome Dokuro is not affiliated with any famiglia...we have more than accommodated the wishes of the Gesso in the matter of removing their famiglia from our cells and unleashing them on the world. We cannot hand over yet another, especially not Chrome Dokuro."
"You're going to kill an innoc-" Mukurou was cut off with a swift glare from Tsuna, falling silent he bit his tongue, they were right here, on the same island as his sister, they were so damn close and she was in just as much danger as she had been for the last few weeks. He was right here and he was helpless to do anything, he hadn't been able to even dream of saving her without getting help, it was really grating on his pride.
"I'm not asking." Tsuna growled, Kikyo letting his Flames light his ring. "Chrome Dokuro has been accepted into the Gesso famiglia and you will turn her over to us." the air was electric, sparks flying between Tsuna and the Vendice "Now."
"Denied." Tsuna narrowed her eyes further while Sky Flames began sparking around her fists. "Chrome Dokuro is sentenced to death. There is no release."
"Bring your boss here."
"Denied."
"Or we're going to go see him. Your choice doorman."
"Deni-" Tsuna let a Flaming fist fly at the Vendice guard, the bandaged man being thrown back into the wall behind him with a crack "This is your final warning Gesso, you have been de-"
"Fuck your warning, I gave you my response." Tsuna growled slamming another punch into the Vendice guard sending him crashing through the cracked wall. "Mukurou, Kikyo, we're going in, since Bermuda won't come out."
"Bermuda?" Mukurou asked, poking the Vendice guard with an illusion trident to see if he was still alive "They have names?"
"Of course they have names, what did you think they just referred to one another as? Vendice Grunt? Vendice Admin?"
"Well...yes." Mukurou shrugged "They're not real people or anything."
"..." Tsuna blinked at him before shaking her head with a sigh "They are, actually. Or...were? They're complicated and Byaku-nii was lazy about explaining it." Tsuna stepped over the guard, Flames covering her hands "We're looking for the boss, short shit, Arcobaleno sized, comes with one of these, but no colour." Tsuna flicked at her new accessory, Kikyo glanced over at Tsuna his Mare Ring bright with Cloud Flames.
"Quietly?" Tsuna shook her head over at the long haired man a smirk taking her lips.
"No, we're going in and making a lot of noise, we want Bermuda to come out." Kikyo nodded with a kind smile.
"Well then, shall we make some noise principessa." Mukurou smirked as his eye flickered to the kanji for one, if it was noise when wanted, then noise he could very well provide. A rocket launcher flickering into existence in his hands, Tsuna had to whistle in awe at that.
"Real illusions, no wonder the Vendice want you dead." Mukurou just smiled at her and hefted the device to his shoulder.
"Duck~" he purred as he flicked the trigger and a rocket flew at the wall before then and blew it open, concrete shattered through the room as Tsuna covered her lips, sending Mukurou a smile when he provided a scarf for her to cover her mouth with to stop from inhaling the concrete in the air.
"Kikyo." the tall man bowed to Tsuna and moved out of her way when she raised her hand towards the gaping hole that led to a wall of some sort of metal, the Vendice had of course protected their prison with walls no human weaponry could conquer.
"Hmm? What's little Tsu-hime doing now?" Mukurou mused his eyes widening when Sky Flames burst from her hand in a concentrated attack that destroyed the wall easily and tore a path deep into Vendicare.
"Kufufu." Mukurou chuckled whistling in awe, seems that the rumours were completely true, this little Gesso was a force to be reckoned with. "Remind me to stop pissing you off~"
"With your physical being now in her reach that is probably a good plan." Kikyo chuckled "Hime can be very moody someti-Ah." Kikyo dodged a small dagger while he smiled over at a glaring Tsuna.
"Less talking more blowing shit up."
"Of course hime-sama." Kikyo bowed to her with a pleasant smile his ring bursting into Flames, "I do my best to serve." Mukurou was nearly bowled over as an army of velociraptors appeared and raced into the hole created by him and Tsuna.
"Were those…."
"Velociraptors, yeah." Tsuna confirmed "Byaku-nii likes to surprise people, so he has given his Guardians some interesting toys." Tsuna chuckled bouncing through the hole after the creatures while Kikyo followed close behind, "You'll get left behind if you don't hurry up." the teen girl yelled back while Mukurou shook off his surprise, the Gesso famiglia was turning out to be most interesting, he may even enjoy being forced to join them.
"Velociraptors huh, fine. Like hell I'm going to lose to a Cloud." summoning his own collection of velociraptors as well, all with lazers on their side. "Beat that Cloud~" Mukurou giggled jumping into the gaping hole after Tsuna and Kikyo.
"Kikyo has more." Tsuna yelled over when one of Mukurou's raptors jumped through a hole in the wall and straight into some more Vendice guards, Mukurou couldn't help but glower over at the Cloud, it was true, Kikyo did have more.
"Fucking Clouds." Mukurou muttered grumpily while pouting over at Tsuna "Mine have lazers, ergo, better."
"Less bitching, more noise making."
"I'd appreciate if you stopped." A grumpy voice came from the hole that one of the raptors had made, the creature torn in two came flying back through the hole before disappearing in Cloud Flames. "You don't take no for an answer do you Gesso girl?" Tsuna studied the new Vendice that stepped through the hole, one huge one and more importantly the tiny looking bandaged Arcobaleno before her on the big ones shoulder, she knew these two from the descriptions Byakuran had given her. The tall one, Jager if she was correct making the little one her target..
"Jager and Bermuda I presume? Excellent, I'd like to….negotiate the release of Chrome Dokuro to the guardianship of her famiglia." the small once Arcobaleno twitched slightly at her statement but otherwise showed little annoyance, though Tsuna was sure he was sure to be angry at her for the destruction she had cause in his home and prison.
"You were given your answer at the door Gesso." Bermuda growled, Tsuna studying him carefully, while she would love totake on the Vendice further to test out her strength especially against Jager and Bermuda. She also knew that the more trouble she caused from here on the less likely Bermuda was to agree to anything that had to do with Kawahira.
"Yes I thought that might be your reply, unfortunately that is not the response I desired." Tsuna sighed "I've taken Chrome under my wing, I really would appreciate it if you could hand her over."
"Someone has to answer for the mess she….where did you get that?!" Bermuda hissed his eyes locked onto the orange pacifier around Tsuna's throat "That belongs to your sister if I recall."
"It did, yes." Bermuda narrowed his eyes further glaring at the pacifier, if that was away from Yuni then it meant that either Yuni was dead, to which the pacifier would have returned to Checkerface being that there were no blood relatives left for the girl to pass it to or….somehow Tsuna had taken ownership of the thing….and that pointed to only one option.
"You came willing to trade I see." Bermuda purred his lips twisting up in a grin, there was only one reason she would be making such requests of the Vendice was if she had something good to trade.
"Now you're getting it." Tsuna murmured "I can't tell you directly~" Since getting the pacifier she had tried to give the location of Checkerface only to find she couldn't, looks like these lovely pacifiers came with safeties, or at least they did now, Tsuna had no idea if Bermuda had the same restrictions. "When I return home, I will be visiting a local antiques store, you might find something interesting if you come." Tsuna explained, she had talked with Mukurou a few times during the flight to be able to find what terms worked and what did not. "Hand over Chrome Dokuro." Bermuda was loathe to let the girl go, but the offer the Gesso were making was….well, unparalleled.
"You're using this one time jail free card able to be gifted to even a convict of crimes unparalleled on a girl you've never met." Bermuda held her gaze for a few moments before raising one hand to his surrounding guards, they had circled them during the conversation and been waiting upon permission.
"As I said, Chrome Dokuro is now part of the Gesso, while I don't condone the actions of or in her past, she is part of the famiglia now, I'll protect her with my life." Bermuda sat in silence staring at her for another moment before nodding.
"You Gesso kids, you've got real balls~" Bermuda chuckled as a lilac haired girl was pulled in, the shackles over her hands falling away while she stared at them in shock. "You're free to go, Chrome Dokuro."
"Nii-san!" Chrome ran to Mukurou as the teen wrapped her into a hug with a relieved sigh, she had actually been freed, Tsuna had kept her word. That meant he would have to serve her family from now on, but if it was someone like Tsuna, someone that had just given up the ultimate leverage for a girl she never met and an illusionist she had thought was a hallucination, then he didn't think that it could be all bad.
"Now, your part of this bargain girl, let's go visit your friend~"
"The plane is on standb….oh hell no." Tsuna groaned looking at the dark portal that had opened up before her "No, those things make you sick." Tsuna declined "The store isn't going anywhere." Hopefully. "I'm not going through that thing. It will be a few hours, a few hours should be nothing after all that waiting?" Bermuda reluctantly agreed, it was only a few more hours, and the portals did make those unused to them sick.
"We will meet you at the Gesso mansion in Japan." Tsuna gave a half bow to the Vendice before ushering her group of Gesso famiglia members out.
"You can talk on the plane, move." Tsuna ordered pushing Chrome and Mukurou towards the exit. All in all things had gone a lot smoother then she had hoped. Now to get this collection on the plane before the Vendice remembered the damage they just did to the prison. Then they just had to try get Kawahira and the Vendice to talk without killing one another.
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"There may be a way to cure her." Timoteo swallowed heavily when the table cracked under Byakuran's hands "I've sent for it, but we've never forced someone to take the serum to test it fully…."
"How exactly, may I ask, did this experimental serum manage to find its way into the hands of the whore and her spawn? You have yet to answer." Byakuran asked sweetly, Timoteo could feel the pressure of his Flames bearing down on him, the Flames this young man had at his disposal were terrifying. Strong, stronger than Timoteo had even imagined at his peak, and at his current weakened state were more than he could imagine being able to defend against should Byakuran decide to start a war here and now.
"We never intended for this, and we never meant for it to happen, and we definitely never condoned their actions. In fact we abhor the actions of the Sawada girl." Zakuro cracked his knuckles with a smirk down at the old man, he was going to enjoy having the leash taken off, whenever it came to the little principessa Byakuran lost all restrictions and they got to play with all their power.
"Excuses, excuses and coverup. Again. You fucked up and you know it, you kept that drug somewhere those creatures could access them, even though you suspected of the abuse, even though you knew Iemitsu was his wife's little bitch. Now you have to cover and cover fast so there's no war." Byakuran hissed "Your five minutes are up, get the fuck out of our mansion, when Tsu-hime returns you will fix this, if you cannot then I'm taking off all restrictions. My famiglia and my Guardians will wipe out every single person in the Vongola, every allied famiglia. Gone."
Reborn nudged Timoteo, they had worn out their welcome, it was time to retreat before they made things worse….the antidote better work, Timoteo wasn't sure they would be able to stand against Byakuran if they couldn't cure Tsunahime.
"Zakuro, throw them out." Zakuro couldn't help the feral grin taking his lips, stepping towards the Vongola head, Timoteo standing quickly and heading for the door, he did not want to antagonise the teen any further.
"Piss the boss off, please, we'd relish the chance to play with the Vongola~" Zakuro purred after them at the door "Fuck up even more~ "
"We'll take our leave for now, once we have our hands on the antidote we'll return.." Reborn bade jumping to Nono's shoulder, staying alert until they were in the car and at least halfway home.
"That boy, his Flames…."
"Yeah….he could take out the country if he wanted….we just better damn well hope that the antidote works. As things stand it would be best to call the other Arcobaleno, against Byakuran and all his Guardians even I'd struggle to stop him….and that's all without Tsuna coming back and helping." Timoteo nodded his eyes glued on his shaking hands, they needed as much help as they could get should this escalate.
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As soon as the Vongola were out the door Byakuran grabbed the phone up and dialled Tsuna, growling when the message told him the number was out of range or disconnected. Slamming the phone down he picked it up again and tried to call Kikyo, he had sent his Cloud with her so he should be able to contact him if Tsuna's phone was down.
Byakuran was not amused at all, first he hears from the Vongola that Tsuna's been drugged, poisoned and hurt, then now he can't talk to her. Byakuran's blood ran cold as he realised he had no idea where she was even, Tsuna had hurried out on a last minute job, he had no idea of where and why. Byakuran hated not knowing and the current situation only made it worse
"Byaku-nii?" Byakuran glanced over at Yuni, pressing his Flames back down before he could worry her more. "What's wrong?" Byakuran didn't want to worry Yuni, but she was perceptive, even if he was suppressing his rage she still knew something was up, he had to talk to her about it if he didn't want her beside herself with worry.
"The Vongola are walking on thin ice and Tsu-hime is out of contact." Byakuran summarised "Don't worry little one, Byaku-nii will make sure it all turns out okay." Or that everyone involved is dead.
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Iemitsu was dreading the reunion with the Vongola boss, while CEDEF was an independent organisation they still came under the policing and rule of the Vongola. Iemitsu was surprised he wasn't being escorted by Timoteo's Guardians, or worse, the Vendice.
Looking down the stairs to the collection of Vongola waiting below he suddenly wished that he was in the hands of the Vendice, waiting for him right there was a much too calm looking Timoteo with Reborn on his shoulder playing with his damn lizard gun.
One heavy swallow later he began to slink down the stairs guiltily trying not to look at Timoteo, the calm the old man was exuding was terrifying in its own way, Timoteo was furious, he had to be, but there he was with a calm smile on his lips as if he was just greeting Iemitsu during a holiday.
"Nono, I…" the golden glow in the Vongola head's eyes silenced him real fast, Iemitsu quickly ducking his head down. "S-Sorry."
"Sorry won't begin to cover this Iemitsu. You leaked a classified drug to civilians without the permission of the Vongola famiglia. Even worse you leaked it to your family, who as they have demonstrated recently more then a little unstable themselves. Do you know how close we are to war with the Gesso because of this?" Iemitsu had no words, he hadn't even thought twice when Nana asked him for something she could use against threats to Natsu, he had assumed there were some civilians that needed to be scared off from bullying his last remaining daughter. For Nana to have kept it, experimented with it and now used it to drug someone in an allied famiglia was all going to come back on him and he knew it. He never should have given her something so dangerous, regardless of how much he loved his wife and didn't want to disappoint or upset her.
He had betrayed the Vongola with his actions.
"Lal will arrive soon with the experimental cure. We will be going to the Gesso mansion once we have it to wait for Tsunahime who is away somewhere right now. I'd prepare yourself Iemitsu, Byakuran, the Gesso heir is more than a little protective of the girl."
"Nono, I swear I didn't know that Na-" the glare from Timoteo shut him up real fast.
"We will talk about that later. More importantly right now we have to stop a war from starting." Timoteo all but hissed over at him, Iemitsu clammed up completely then, anything more he might say was only going to make this worse. He had to shut up and do as he was told for now.
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Leaving Iemitsu in the car with Reborn, Timoteo headed to meet a small private jet a smile touching his lips in relief when the tiny Lal Mirch stepped outside the doors of the plane holding a small cooler in her tiny hands.
"Nono, you didn't need to come meet me." Lala chuckled jumping down the staircase in one leap before looking up at the tall Vongola head. "I could have met you at the mansion."
"I was retrieving Iemitsu." Timoteo explained while he took the precious cargo into his hands, cracking open the small cooler to see three vials inside. "I have another favour to ask Lal." the small Arcobaleno nodded in response, she was happy to take on any order Nono wanted to give.
"I've sent for as many of the Arcobaleno as will answer my call, I need you to bring them up to date and please prepare. You may need to come into the Gesso mansion on little notice to stop a massacre." Lal's eyes widened behind her visor while she blinked up at Nono, while she knew a little about what was going on, it sounded much more serious than the small tidbits she had heard. "My Cloud Visconto will bring you up to date, I trust you can co-ordinate the Arcobaleno once they arrive. Reborn will be with me in the mansion, however the rest is left in your hands."
"I will take care of everything Nono, don't worry." Timoteo nodded down to her before bowing gently with a soft thank you, turning away from the Arcobaleno he tightened his hands on the cooler he was holding while striding off to the car. They needed to get to the Gesso and try diffuse a war by presenting Byakuran with the possible cure.
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"You!" Iemitsu only had time to stumble back one step before the furious Sky was upon him, Byakuran had his hand grasped around Iemitsu's throat while Flames rolled off the teen "You are a dead man Iemitsu. You and your whole brood won't see another sunrise."
"I-"
"You as good as beat her yourself you fucking failure, you left her there, you left it alone, you let them break her!" Byakuran snarled his nails biting into Iemitsu's throat "You are a dead man Sawada Iemitsu. You, your whore and your bitch of a daughter." The man was having trouble breathing, which was fine by Byakuran as he glared at the sad excuse for a human "I was going to let you and your bitches live, ,but you couldn't leave well enough alone, you had to try to hurt her again."
"I-I….didn't….know." Iemitsu choked out as Reborn fired a shot at Byakuran, the white haired teen just moving so Iemitsu was in the path, the young Lion of the Vongola taking a bullet to his arm instead of Byakuran, Reborn tched and moved in to physically try separate them.
"That's enough, Byakuran, we need him to help with the cure!" Reborn growled out hoping like hell that the bluff worked, but if they didn't do something now then Iemitsu was going to be killed. Regardless of his fault in the current situation he was the Vongola's to punish, not the Gesso's.
"Byaku-nii!" Byakuran dropped the man when he heard Yuni, he didn't care what anyone else in the Vongola or the world said, he was going to kill Iemitsu, but if Yuni wanted him to wait then he would wait. "Please….wait until Tsu-nee is home, please." Byakuran glared at Iemitsu for one more moment before his fist hit the wall beside the man, half the wall crumbling to dust on the floor.
"As soon as Tsu-hime is here, we're going to gut you, slowly." Byakuran stepped back, under protest but if Yuni asked it he would oblige, for now.
"Do we know when she will be returning?" Timoteo asked while the old man carefully extracted Iemitsu from being directly in the sight and getting Reborn to tend to his wound quietlty. Looking to Byakuran for an answer, until Tsuna was here there were few ways they could calm down Byakuran. The white haired teen was climbing the walls his dangerous purple glare on all of them while his Guardians kept a defensive ring around Yuni and an offensive stance towards all those unwanted Vongola bastards inside the meeting room of the Gesso mansion.
"Byaku-nii?!" Yuni called as everyone in the room focused in on the tiny child, the girl holding out her mobile phone to Byakuran "Tsu-nee called-" the phone disappeared into his hand while Byakuran turned his back on all the observers.
"Tsu-hime! Where the fuck are you?!"
"...What flew up your ass and died?" Byakuran had never felt so relieved when he heard his sister speak to him "I'm on my way home, the job went fine by the way."
"Cielo….you have no idea what's been going on." Byakuran sighed "You scared the shit out of me little sister."
"You're swearing….the Vongola were involved weren't they?"
"Just get back here Tsu-hime….soon." Byakuran whispered his hands shaking even as he gripped the phone tight to his ear "It's bad Cielo….just please, get back here where it's safe."
"It's not safe anywhere Caelum." Byakuran had to chuckle at that, she was so very right, between Kawahira and the Vongola, Tsuna was safer wherever she was. Still he selfishly wanted her to be back with him, and soon. He needed his little Sky close so he could finally relax even just a little knowing she was close and safe.
"Just come home Cielo, please, come home to us."
"I'm about 4 hours out, see you and the little one soon." Byakuran tossed the phone back over to Yuni before flicking his glaring purple eyes back over at to the Vongola.
"Hey, can we play yet?" Zakuro asked grumpily "Sitting here without punching their heads in is….torture boss."
"Just wait until Tsu-hime's home." Byakuran sighed, while his preference was to kill each of them in the most agonizing of ways, he would wait. "Once she is however…." Byakuran breathed softly his violet eyes flicking over to Zakuro. "Iemitsu is the first, then I want you to hunt down both his whore and bitch daughter" Zakuro nodded with a smirk as red Flames danced over his knuckles.
"That idji-hime, better get here soon~" He was so excited about being able to play with the so called Lion of the Vongola that he slipped up and nearly called Tsuna an idjit, but a glance over at Byakuran told him the other hadn't heard or recognized what he said, the tall man sighed quietly in relief until Bluebell chimed in to rat him out to Byakuran.
"Kikyo will kick your ass." Bluebell giggled as she hugged Yuni "Speaking bad words about Byakuran's hime~" the blue haired girl's' eyes flashed before she sighed, even if it annoyed her to no end, Tsuna was Byakuran's Tsu-hime, there was no getting around it, the one time she had tried to usurp their hold on Byakuran he had gotten angry at her, therefore Tsuna and Yuni were not only exemptions to Byakuran's normally ironclad patience, they had to be exemptions to her jealousy..
"Bad mouthing hime….be careful." Daisy agreed softly while hugging his broken bunny and using one of his paws to wave over at Zakuro. Tsuna had helped him repair his bunny many times. Even if Byakuran didn't ask it, Daisy was on Tsuna's side, even if he had trouble showing it.
"Tsuna will be here in a few hours." Byakuran clarified his hands clenching "And for your sake Vongola it better work." An untested trial for a drug never used. If this didn't fix Tsuna, Byakuran didn't care about alliances or Mafia politics, he was going to kill each and every one of them until his rage subsided at the complete destruction of the Vongola famiglia.
"I swear we will do all in our power to save Sawada Tsunahime." he got a glare for that from both the Gesso children, even the sweet and shy Yuni even looked mad at him.
"Gesso Tsunahime." Yuni correctly softly her dark eyes locked on Timoteo, the Vongola head not able to stop the shiver running down his spine his eyes meeting her own. "Tsu-nee is now and will always be, our family. Not yours. You lost that right."
"Well said little one." Byakuran chuckled ruffling her hair affectionately. A pout coming from Yuni, not in front of the Vongola.
"How long exactly will Tsuna be?" Reborn asked changing topic away from Tsuna and family, now was not the time to be antagonising the Gesso.
"Approximately four hours. During which time you are not going anywhere, especially him." Byakuran sneered over at Iemitsu, like hell he was going to let that bastard out of his sight so he could run away before Tsuna had her pound of flesh.
"We weren't going to." Timoteo assured setting the cooler onto the table so it was within Byakuran's line of sight. "We will wait here until Tsunahime returns."
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Tsuna waited until they had taken off before she interrupted the cuddly siblings, Chrome clinging to Mukurou even as the flight took off, blinking over at Tsuna with big eyes while half hidden behind her older brother. How the hell had the Vendice thought this super shy timid girl had been behind Mukurou's crimes. The girl didn't look like she's be able to hurt a fly, then again that could also make her extremely dangerous.
"U-um." Chrome stuttered peeking over at Tsuna from behind her brother, "Th-Thank you." Tsuna smiled gently over at the girl, Chrome relaxing just a little at Tsuna's smile.
"Don't thank me yet, there were conditions to your release." Tsuna sighed waving to Kikyo. "Some tea please." the tall man headed for the bar to make tea for the teens.
"C-Conditions?" Chrome asked hesitantly while Mukuro pet her head gently. "Nii-san?"
"Sit." Mukurou ordered, Chrome blushing and nodding brightly and taking the seat across from Tsuna, Mukurou grabbing another on the other side of the Gesso girl next to his sister.
"You were released from Vendicare but there were conditions, the first is that you are now part of the Gesso famiglia." Chrome flinched at that glancing at her brother. "Both yourself and Mukurou."
"Nii-san…." Mukurou just rested a hand on her head in response, his message clear, keep on listening.
"Mukurou agreed to these terms, there is no way Vendicare would release you without me taking you into the famiglia. As such any future actions that might bring the eyes of the Vendice to us are no longer permitted. I have no problem with killing you both if you try to hurt my famiglia."
"K-Kill?" Chrome stuttered while Mukurou chuckled and pet Chrome's head again.
"Now now Tsu-hime, you don't have to be so business-like, we're friends after all." he was given a glare at that. "So not friends? After all we've been through~"
"After you bugged me for weeks? Harassing me both when I was awake and asleep? No, not friends." Tsuna growled, she had been even more confused about what was real and what was not thanks to his impeccable timing.
"Well...can you at least dial it back a bit, you're scaring Chrome." Mukurou pouted while Tsuna looked back at the small shy girl, while she was Mukurou's sister she did seem quite an opposite to the flamboyant and outspoken, often annoying, Mukurou.
Taking a deep breath Tsuna softened her expression, looks like this Chrome was similar to Yuni, while powerful, also very much still an innocent child.
"Sorry, I've been dealing with your brother, and I'm sure you know how frustrating he is." Chrome couldn't help but giggle in response, it was true, Mukurou had a special talent for pissing people off. "Whatever you have done in your past is wiped clean, but what you do from here on out is required to stay within the rules of the Gesso famiglia."
"A-Are we prisoners of the Gesso?" Chrome asked carefully while Tsuna shook her head.
"No, you can come and go as you please, but just know anything you do from here that is even slightly similar to your past reflects on the Gesso famiglia. I merely ask that you don't bite the hand that feeds you so to speak." Mukurou studied her for a few moments while Chrome sat deep in thought.
"I thought I might stick around Tsu-hime~ Seems that's where all the fun is~"
"Exactly what part of any of this has seemed like fun to you?" Tsuna grumbled, between her slowly losing her mind, being made the new Sky Arcobaleno and then being made to take on the Vendice.
"Hmm….blowing up Vendicare." That was by far the most fun he had in a long time, and if he stuck around the Gesso assassin it was quite possible he would be able to get into more enjoyable situations, all without breaking any of his new famiglia's rules.
"Ah...that was you?" Chrome murmured "All the noise."
"The Vendice were not willing to release you, nor negotiate." Kikyo explained setting down some tea for each of the trio. "Tsu-hime, we've exited the dead zone, Byakuran-sama will be worried." Tsuna nodded stepping out of her seat for a moment to go call Yuni, Byakuran would probably yell at her but there was no way he'd get angry at Yuni.
"Kikyo." the tall man snapped to attention when Tsuna called, he knew the hint in her voice, something was up. "See if we can get home any faster."
"Something wrong….boss?" Chrome asked hesitantly, Tsuna blinking over at her for the new name she had received, but waving that off for now Tsuna shrugged.
"This and that. It's nothing for you two to worry about."
"Is it the Vongola? I bet it's the Vongola. Can we blow them up too?" Mukurou brightened immediately, since the Vongola and Kawahira were the two main concerns at the moment, and one he knew he might well be allowed to let loose. He had been so good while trying to get Chrome out, venting in the early areas of Vendicare hadn't been nearly enough. If the Vongola had buggered up though that meant he might be able to do some more venting.
"We're family now Tsu-hime~ We can help~"
"I don't know what's going on." Tsuna shrugged, "All I got from Byaku-nii was that the Vongola were involved and he's super pissed. We'll find out the rest when we reach the mansion."
"Byaku-nii?" Chrome asked while Mukurou took over for a quick run down with his sister.
"Mmm, our Tsu-hime here is second eldest, there's a white haired grumpy bum called Byakuran and an adorable little one called Yuni-chan~"
"Oh-o. I must ask that you keep your tongue about Byakuran-sama." Kikyo purred putting one hand on Mukurou's shoulder an immense pressure slamming down on his shoulders while Mukurou shot a glare at the older man.
"I also ask that." Tsuna added while Mukurou nodded reluctantly. "Yuni and Byakuran are off limits for any harassment, bullying or other. Otherwise do as you want."
"Will do, Tsu-hime~" Chrome nodded quietly in agreement with her brother, not that she had any plans to harass or bully anyone, it was however one of Mukurou's hobbies.
"Kikyo, are we going to make it any sooner?" Tsuna asked while Kikyo nodded, he had negotiated with the pilots, they would arrive an hour earlier than planned.
"Good." Tsuna murmured her hand catching on the back of a chair when her vision went side up on her. "The sooner the better." Tsuna mumbled while Kikyo's eyes widened diving in to catch her when Tsuna collapsed in a heap.
"Hime!"
"What the hell is happening?" Mukurou hissed when the pacifier on her chest burst into Flames that then proceeded to flicker in and out.
"She's burning up, get me ice!" Kikyo ordered as Chrome hurried to the freezer behind the bar to get some ice, Mukurou rolled his eyes at his sister before summoning ice packs for Kikyo to use. Chrome always forgot about real illusions, then again it took a lot more out of her to use them than it did him.
"Is that meant to do that?" Mukurou asked looking pointedly at the pacifier, Kikyo shaking his head, nothing like this had ever happened to Yuni.
"All we can do is keep her cool until we get to the mansion, keep those packs cold." Kikyo ordered. "Girl." Chrome flinched before nodding shakily. "Fold down one of those chairs, they convert into a bed." Chrome nodded scurrying over to the chairs and messing with the controls for a moment, Mukurou sighing and going to help her, Chrome was flustered, and flustered Chrome wasn't much help.
"Illusionist-"
"Mukurou."
"Turn your back." Mukurou pouted but did as he was told. "Girl, there are clothes in there, find something less restrictive and hot." Kikyo ordered setting about getting the hot clothes off the Gesso hime. "Mukurou, provide more ice packs, without turning around." Kikyo ordered, Tsuna was burning up, they really needed a Sun or doctor here, neither of the pilots were and they were still hours from home. All he could do was try keep her cool.
Byakuran was going to kill him as it was, if anything took a turn for the worse then he wouldn't be killed, and that was worse.
"Hold on hime."
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Note:
So, huge huge ghue gehug gegeughuesildsnjkl delays, always did most of my writing when I was manic. and I'm not on medication for that...so the best way to write so far is to not take my meds, and well, that doesn't work out so well on this end.
I've spent the last 3 months working on the chapter and I do apologize if it's not up to par, I'm doing my best under the circumstances, but unless my lovely friend the doctor reduces some, or all preferably, meds I'm on chapters will be sporadic.
I refuse to stop writing, it's just taking a long time to get anywhere at the moment, but these stories will be continued. Some days I only get a few words in, other's I manage a page, it's very much dependant on the day, regardless, all stories will be continued. Eventually.
I'm sorry to everyone for the delays, especially as they drag on and on, I'm working hard on it, just...slowly.
Thankfully this chapter was almost done, so I've been working on this as much as I can. So here we have a chapter, finally. I will be working on getting the others out as soon as I can.
Turning Point is on its way, I restarted the chapter three times now. But it's getting there, hope to have that out before Christmas, but no promises.
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