Chapter 10: A Power that Doesn't Fit in the Mafia World.

"Lacratia del Sonata Macri! Kratis Aigis!"

When a person ever faces death, they always experience something similar. There are numerous claims of how the decease would feel when they meet Death's door. But for those who do escapes from death always claim they saw a bright light. This is what the Tenth Generation Family is seeing now. Death is upon them.

Nothing happened.

The bright light is still there, but there isn't any pain. If they were to die like this, wouldn't there be a brief of pain?

The light slowly dies down. The balcony is still intact and they are still here.

"What's going on? Why aren't we dead yet!?" Gokudera exclaims, patting himself to feel if he's still here. Yamamoto pinches his arm and winces at the pain that is produce. Present Reborn stares at his right hand, analyzing it.

"The blast didn't hit us." Reborn thought, but he suddenly remembers. "Tsuna!" Reborn shouts and turns to the girl's direction. But she wasn't there. "Where did…" Reborn hears rasping and snaps his attention to the heavy breathing.

Tsuna is standing on the ledge of the balcony; her breaths were coming off really hard. Except it was the state she is in that shocks the three men. Half of her dress was burnt off and only the bodice of her dress remains with tatters of the bottom material barely covering her bottom, showing off underwear. But it is the smell of burnt flesh that the Guardians and the hitman notice the most. Some parts of Tsuna's body are slightly burnt and red, but it is her outstretched right arm that is covered in third degree burns. Reborn's eyes were wide in shock.

"Tsuna!/Hime!" Both Gokudera and Yamamoto quickly make their way over to their boss to help her off the ledge.

"Don't come any closer!" Tsuna yells, lowering her arm and gritting her teeth from the pain.

"Tsuna… did you just stop that blast from killing us?" Reborn blurts the question out. Tsuna did not answer, her breathing become s heavier.

"What are you talking about, kid? The blast probably didn't reach us. Tsuna…" Yamamoto's words were cut off when Tsuna gives him a blank stare. Yamamoto shuts up, his eyes wide from surprise.

"Other…than…that. That shot…didn't hit us." Tsuna explains, tumbling off the ledge. Reborn quickly catches Tsuna before she hits the floor. Setting her gently down and trying to not touch her burnt arm, Reborn's grimaces at the injury.

"We have to get your arm treated right now!" Reborn declares.

"No."

"Hime! Please don't argue with us anymore. If we don't treat your burn, it'll get infected." Gokudera frets, his eyes full of worry for the future boss. Scowling at her lover and Guardians' fussing, Tsuna pushes herself to stand up using her other uninjured arm.

"Tsuna don't stand up." Yamamoto chides. Before anyone can move Tsuna to sit down, the Vongola Princess, using her good arm and what strength she has in her arm and legs stands on top of the ledge again.

"What the hell? Didn't you hear us Tsuna? You…" Reborn's words were cut off when Tsuna glares at him. He immediately shuts his mouth, but his scowl remains. Reborn can't help but feel that Tsuna isn't acting like herself right now.

"As your bo…no. As your friend. I ask that you listen to me right now." Tsuna exclaims. Flexing her good hand, she turns to the direction of the large mass weapon. "Don't ask questions. I'll answer them later. Right now, I want everyone to take cover!"

"Tsuna! Get off of…"

"That thing will fire in a minute. But it won't if I'm here." Raising both arms above her shoulder level, Tsuna begins to chant.

"Lacratia del sonata macri!"

"What is she doing?" Gokudera opens his mouth to shout to shout for his friend, but gasps when Tsuna's hands were encased with vivacious lilac energy.

" Τὸ συμβόλαιον διακονῆτω μοί, ἡ κρυστάλλινη βασίλεια! Ἐπιγενηθήτω, ταἰώνιον ἔρεβος," Enegry shot from Tsuna's hands and towards the mass object. Immediately, when the object is hit by the purple light, it began to freeze as spikes and pillars of ice are appearing from it. The area around the object is frozen with the cold substance.

"What is this?"

"αἱώνιε κρύσταλλε! Πάσαις ζωαῖς τὸν ἴσον θάνατον, ὃς ἀταραξία!" More ice began appearing on the object, covering it completely.

"I don't believe this. This defies the law of nature!" Reborn stares at the object with shock in his eyes. The object is now completely covered with ice.

Tsuna smirks at the mass weapon "Good riddance." She thinks and snaps her fingers. "Κοσμικὴ Καταστροφή!" Tsuna says under her breath.

Cracks began to appear and the mass object begins to break. In an instant, it shatters. Large and smalls chunk of ice flies everywhere, landing in the moving current of the ocean. What is now left of the mass weapon is just a faint image of where it was.

"In-in-incredible! Hime, you did it!" Gokudera cheers, his eyes full of admiration to the girl. Yamamoto laughs. "I thought we're going to be goners!"

Tsuna gives a weak smile to her excited friends. "We're still here."

"How did you do that?" Tsuna turns to Reborn when she hears the question from him. "Could you repeat that, Reborn?" Tsuna asks. Reborn's eyes were covered with his fedora, shadowing it from view, his mouth in a straight line. Leon was twitching with fear, trying to make himself discreet from Tsuna's eyes.

Raising his head, Reborn's eyes were full of intensity. "What did you just do?" His voice is calm, but is serious.

Tsuna smiles faintly to Reborn, her eyes cloudy with nostalgic. Without answering, she blacks out.

A week later.

"My body hurts…" Cracking her eyes open, Tsuna notices that she is looking at sky. "The sky is really blue today." Tsuna thought, but squints when the sky becomes clearer and marks began to appear in the sky. Her eye sight now clear, Tsuna sees a spread canopy above her. "Where am I?"

Noticing that is daytime, Tsuna stretches a bit. Turning her head to look to her left side, Tsuna can see that Yamamoto and Gokudera are sleeping on the sofa beside the window. Tsuna giggles at her friends sleeping positions. Yamamoto is slouching, his back against the sofa with his chin touching his chest. Gokuder is sleeping on his side, spread out on the sofa and using Yamamoto's thigh as a pillow.

"I wish I have a camera right now." Tsuna giggles quietly, trying to not wake the two teenage boys. Turning her head to the opposite direction, Tsuna could see Reborn is sitting on a chair and sleeping. A smile spread across her face and Tsuna, being careful, moves a bit on her right side and not putting pressure on her right arm, Tsuna puts her left hand on Reborn's knee. A hand shot out and grabs it.

"Waking someone while they are having a good sleep is rude, Tsuna." Taking the girl's hand in his, Reborn gets off his chair and kneeing beside the bed, his elbows on the bed with Tsuna's hand clasped between his.

"Sorry."

"Don't be."

Shifting into a more comfortable position, Tsuna brings Reborn's right hand to her lips. Giving a chaste kiss, Tsuna puts her hand down with Reborn still in her grasp, her arm tired. "I hope you guys haven't been sleeping in the same spot for awhile."

"Nope! Just for a bit" Reborn saids. Tsuna gives a quizzical look.

"Just for a bit?" Reborn sighs.

"For a week at least." Tsuna's left eye twitches. "What! Aren't your backs and necks hurting right now? And why a week? Weren't you guys given rooms of you own?"

Reborn chuckles at Tsuna's outburst. "Cute" The hitman thinks to himself. Giving a light kiss to his lover's lips to calm her down, Reborn sits back on the chair and begins to talk.

"You've been unconscious for a week now. Things been hectic since the attack. Right now the Vongola is investigating for the whereabouts of the Demenza Family so that they can bring them in and question them." Reborn explains.

"Are there any clues to where this family is right now?" Tsuna asks.

"Not at the moment."

"Good. I want to ask a few questions to the head of the Demenza Family." Tsuna says, grimacing at what happened at the party. Tsuna realizes something and quickly sits up, but yelps.

"Don't sit up so fast."Reborn quickly arranges a mountain of pillows against the headboard behind Tsuna and moves her to lie down on them.

"I just remembered. Where is Kyoko-chan, Haru, Fuuta, I-pin and Lambo? Are they here too?" Tsuna frantically asks her face full of worry.

"No." Reborn answers. Tsuna sighs in relief and using her good hand, she rubs her eyes with the back of it. "That's good. I can't stand it if they are in danger."

"I understand. After you were hit by the Ten- Year Bazooka, your counterpart didn't appear. We waited for you to come back, but five minutes had already past. That's when we got really worried." Reborn explains. "It was an hour and a half later that we decided to do something. After contacting Chrome and Hibari over to protect the girls and kids just in case. Gokudera, Yamamoto and I shot the bazooka at ourselves and we ended up on the balcony. The rest is history."

"But you guys are still here. That means you're stuck as well." Tsuna exclaims.

"Yeah. The future was alright since we had Irie's help to return to the present. But right now… it's difficult to explain." Reborn rubs the bridge of his nose, his face scrunched up in exasperation.

"It's difficult to explain what?" Tsuna asks, noticing how Reborn just stops explaining. Reborn stops rubbing his nose and reaches to take something out from his back pocket. Producing whatever is in his hands, Reborn drops the object on Tsuna's lap. Tsuna's gasp when she sees what that the object is a gold pocket watch. It was finely crafted pocket watch, but there is a crack on the face of the watch.

"Re-Reborn… where did you got this." Tsuna lifts up the item and stares.

"It was left on the bed at our hotel room. A note was attached to it. It read: "This will help you get home." Reborn quotes. Tsuna's crack into a wide grin and she giggles like mad. Reborn stares at her, feeling a little creeped out at the sudden silly laugh.

"…What is it?"

Facing her lover, Tsuna's face shines with relief and happiness. "A time machine."

Silence.

"Oh wow! A time machine!" An excited voice asks. Tsuna yelps and nearly fell off the bed if Reborn hasn't caught her. Both Gokudera and Yamamoto were staring at the pocket watch, stars glittering in their eyes. A vein throbs on Tsuna's forehead. Taking a pillow, she whacks her Rain and Storm Guardian on the head. Both boys cry out in surprise and moves away from their female friend's wrath. Huffing, Tsuna places the pillow back in its proper place.

"When did you guys woke up?" Reborn asks, adjusting Tsuna's pillow a little more.

"When you were explaining about the how you found the time travel machine." Yamamoto said, giving his signature grin and placing a hand behind his head in embarrassment.

"I'm sorry, Hime. I didn't mean to eavesdrop on you and Reborn-san!" Gokudera apologizes, now on his knees and head on the floor. Tsuna sweatdrops at Gokudera's dramatic apology.

"Gokudera-kun, it's okay. So get up, please." Gokudera lifts his head up, but remains on his knees. Yamamoto sits down on the sofa.

"So, Tsuna. You were saying about the time machine." Yamamoto exclaims.

The pocket watch felt cool against her hand. " Yeah. Back to the subject. Right now the time machine is useless." That is not something the other three occupants in the room expect to hear.

"What!!!!!"

Giving a nervous laugh at their reaction, Tsuna begins to explain. "This is just a regular pocket watch right now. Can you hear that it's not ticking right now." Nodding their head in affirmation, Tsuna continues. "On these three days once a year which is during the Mahora School Festival, the Cassiopeia (the pocket watch) begins ticking. By ticking, this means it's working."

"I see. So it's useless right now?" Reborn asks.

"Yes." Tsuna saids.

"And only works on three days ayear."

"Yes."

Reborn is quiet for a minute and finally opens his mouth. "Okay. We're stuck right now." The three other occupants sweatdrop at the hitman's pronouncement.

"We can tell, Reborn-san!" Gokudera says.

Reborn just smirks. "Just stating the obvious."

"Yeah… But you didn't have to say it out loud." Tsuna thought, her eye twitches.

"So, how are we going to get back home?" Yamamoto asks the others.

Tsuna clears her throat for the others attention. "I was kind of distracted for awhile. But what day is it today?"

"May 3." Gokudera saids, now sitting on the sofa beside Yamamoto.

"That's it!" The others (except Reborn) jump at Tsuna's yell. Holding the Cassiopeia from its chain and showing it to the others. "This will begin ticking in ten days. This means we can go home!" Tsuna declares, a wide grin decorating her face.

"Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!" Gokudera and Yamamoto cheers, excited that they will be able to go home.

Tsuna laughs at her friends' antics, but stops when she feels puff of hot air beside her left ear.

"And you need to explain to me later how you defeated that weapon." Reborn whispers in the girl's ear. Tsuna shivers and ducks her head to hide her blush. Reborn sits back on his seat and smiles at his lover's shy disposition.

A note from Peony-chan:

Hope you guys enjoy this chapter. Now we know how Reborn, Yamamoto and Gokudera got to the past and no worries since they have a way to get home.

The spell Tsuna chants is one of the many ice type spells Evangeline A.K. McDowell uses. It's called "The End of the World"

Here's a translation of the spell from Greek to English: "Heed the Contract and Serve Me, Queen of Ice! Come, Unending Darkness, Eternal Glacier! Bring Death to All That Has Life, Eternal Rest! End of the World!"

For more info of the spell, check it out on Negima! Wiki. Also the Cassiopeia (pocket watch) comes from the Negima! It's the same watch that Negi uses to repeat the festival over so that he could visit his students and participate at events.

P.S. It was kind of strange to describe stars in Gokudera's eyes. But I can't help it. Gokudera is actually into the paranormal stuff, so that's why he acted like a fangirl.