The Sword that Transends Sky and Darkness

by tarious123

A student walks through a park and meet a man in which caused his life to changed forever. A man saved him but why is he in the mafia? And he's a Mage? My First Fanfic. Pls R&R OCxOC Some chapters are getting edited.Originally named The Life of a Mage Mafiaso. Accepting OCs for Mare Knights.

10. Chapter 10

Hi~

Chapter 10 is here!

Kokuyo arc is nearing the end! Finish one arc with three chapters.

Korin: So what? You wrote long, that's all.

*Ignore him* Like I have said, KHR and Negima do not belong to me, my OCs do.

Korin: Don't ignore me! =.=|||

Enjoy this chapter :)

Korin: OI!

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'Thoughts'

"Talking"

Others' thoughts or skill names or spells.

Inner Voice

Chapter 10

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We have almost finished our main objective. I have gained Nerio into the Vongolia Knight fraction and now Tsuna is fighting this man that claims to be Rokudo Mukuro.

I don't know about you, but that man is not Mukuro.

How would I know?

The truth, I don't. I just know that this man is not the man we are after.

This is my new life.

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Xxx Normal POV xxx

As a recap, Tsuna is now in Dying Will mode, due to Reborn's bullet, and has saved Bianchi from being a huge pancake. Now, they are fighting the man who seems to be Mukuro.

"You can't defeat me with some half-assed power." He tells the brunette.

"Come at me!-!"

"Minna! What's going on?" Korin asked as he ran towards the group from where he was.

"Korin!" Bianchi called out.

"So, he defeated Nerio…?" The man claims, "But, you wouldn't defeat me. Bouja Reppa!" He fired his weapon at the running teen.

"Korin! Watch out!" She called out. The ball spun closer to him, bring a deadly gale in its wake. Korin stopped in his tracks to find the metal ball coming closer to him. "Farewell." The man mumbled. The teen simply raised his palm and took a horse stance, and the ball stopped completely when it touches the palm as the windblown past him. Everyone that was conscious, except Reborn, gawked at the sight of Korin's strength.

"What?-!"

"He stopped it like it was nothing!-!" Bianchi commented. "Like I said," She turns to face Cosma who was getting up, "Yan-san is the strongest among all of us." She commented.

"That was close!" The black haired teen shouted, "I thought was gonna die for sure that time!" He dropped the ball to the ground and quickly ran to their side. "What's up?"

"So you won, huh?" Cosma said to him, "This guy is stopping us from moving on and took out Yamamoto and Gokudera."

"So, he's that strong?"

"Yeah, Tsuna might need your help."

Korin sat down without a word, "Nope. He'll handle it."

"Huh?"

"It's his problem, not mine."

"What?-!"

"Besides, he seems stronger than before…" Korin added, looking at the two opponents who are looking at each other, with the man swinging his weapon in the air.

"Senja Reppa!" He shouted as he fired his ball. The ball went flying towards Tsuna, the gale following. The brunette ducked down and avoids the ball and its gale, before he dashed forward him and swung an uppercut at him, knocking him into the air.

"That boy…" Bianchi was startled at the brunette's performance, "He's gotten…"

"Like Korin has said, he's gotten exponentially stronger after coming here." Reborn said.

"Guh!" The man swung his weapon up to him in the air, "Hija Reppa (Flying Snake Fierce Domination)!" He fired his weapon in mid-air, sending the spinning weapon at the brunette. Tsuna stood his ground as the ball crashed into him, his hands grabbing onto it and sent it back at him. The ball was sent back towards its wielder and hit him straight on, sending him back to the ground with a crash, burying him in the pile of debris. Tsuna panted as he continues to stand, still in Dying will mode.

Reborn smirked, "Looks like we can head home to Namimori now."

Korin looked at the fallen Mukuro, his head been bugging him. He has this feeling that the man isn't that strong and that he is not who he seems to be. Suddenly, the supposedly defeated Mukuro stood up from the debris, cracking his neck, "Playing with that ball was just for entertainment."

"Urg…"

"He's fine, even after that attack." Bianchi said, "I can't believe it."

"But," Korin mumbled as he looked at him with a calculating look, "why does he look so guilty?"

"What do you mean, Yan-san?" Cosma asked.

"I think I can use my full force against you." The man said, "Let's go!" he threw his weapon into the air, "What I truly specialise in is…" The man ran towards the brunette when he is distracted by the thrown weapon and sent an elbow strike at his gut, "martial combat!" before running behind him and kicking him to the ground. "I'm not done yet!" he grabbed his head and sent it crashing to the ground. "You're finished." The man closed his eyes as Tsuna looked up to find the metal ball that Mukuro had flung into the air come crashing down on him. Everyone there was shocked of the man's power, and the fact that Tsuna was crushed by this beast.

"Your hope has been extinguished." The man tells them, "Who's next?" He was cut short when he heard the movement of his weapon, to find Tsuna still breathing, panting and heavily wounded, but alive and still able to fight. "What?-!"

"Not yet…"

"Impossible!"

"You're not a bad person…" Tsuna said, startling the man, "I can tell."

"You bastard, what are you saying?-!" The man shouted.

"With such a weak heart…" he added, "You can't defeat my dying will!-!"

"My heart…!" Mukuro shouted, "Don't talk like you know me!-! Defeating the enemy and sending them to the pits of Hell… That's my life!"

"That's a lie!"

"Shut up, brat!-!" The man shouted as he throws another of his punches at the brunette.

"I'll defeat you with my dying will!-!" The brunette shouted as he dodged the man's punch and hit him in the gut, defeating him. The man grunted from the pain as he fell onto his knees.

"I've… lost?"

"After you attacked, you close your eyes," Tsuna tells him, "as if you didn't want to see your enemy dying. You used the steel ball instead of your own hands to finish me."

"You have some kind of guilt inside of you, am I right?" Korin added as he stood up and walked up to them.

"Wha-?-!"

"And because of that, you hesitate." The brunette continued as he reverts to his usual self, "I thought it was odd. We didn't think you were scary at all. There is a kid named Lambo at our house. You're just like him."

"He is unreasonable at some time, but he means no actual threat." The black haired boy says as he stood next to him.

"You're a warm and kind guy." Tsuna tells him, shocking the man.

'These guys…' He thought, 'Did they saw though me with a single glance?' he smiled as he came to realise, 'I see… This is the Vongolia blood…' "I completely lost." He tells them, "I can see why Rokudo Mukuro is concerned with you."

"Huh?-!" Korin was startled.

"What are you saying?-!" Tsuna panicked, "Aren't you Rokudo Mukuro?-!"

"I'm a double."

"Eh?-!" Both teens are shocked to the extreme! (Sorry, I couldn't resist. ;p)

"A fake?-!" Bianchi shouted.

"B-But, you were the one in that prison photo!" Tsuna said.

"The real Mukuro would never allow himself to be recorded like that." The man tells them, "And Rokudo Mukuro… He's the man that took everything from me!"

Everyone was just shocked of the man's reaction and such that they are speechless till Reborn walked to him and said, "Tell me what happened."

The man hesitates, but told his whole story. As it turns out, he was once a member of a mafia family within the northern Italy five years ago; who took him in, and treated him like in a real family when he has none. He has rise up to one of the strongest in order to repay them for their kindness. It was until his boss took in another boy of similar background as him, and he was placed under his wings that his life will change. A few days after the boy entered the family, he found the entire people within the headquarters to be dead, killed with no survivor. He has found out that it was him, when he was being controlled by the boy, by Rokudo Mukuro.

"Soon my body and soul were taken, and I became the fake Rokudo Mukuro." The man tells them.

"So you despaired and became a monster who lives to fight…" Bianchi added.

"How could he…?" Tsuna said, his eyes widen in shock, "Rokudo Mukuro…"

"Messing people's lives like that…" Korin mumbled, body shaking with anger, "How can someone like him exist!"

"Let's take him out, Juudaime, Korin." Everyone turns to the owner of that voice that is Gokudera.

"Gokudera-kun!/Hayato-san!"

"Sorry for worrying you."

"Daijoubu?" Tsuna asked worriedly.

'I'm glad,' Bianchi thought in relief, "the side-effect of the Trident Mosquito must be over…'

"Vongolia," The man stood up, "You may be able to do it." He walked up to the brunette, "Defeating him… Listen closely, Vongolia. Mukuro's real objectives are-!" He shoved the brunette out of the way, "Look out!" A bunch of needles flew out and onto the man's forearm, causing him is scream in pain.

"It's the bastard with the glasses!" Gokudera shouted, "Where is he hiding?-!"

"He's already gone." Reborn tells the silverrette, "One hit and he disappeared."

The man collapsed onto the ground, "Daijoubu deska?-!" Tsuna yelled as he and the rest ran towards him, "Hang in there!-!"

"They're trying to keep his mouth shut." Reborn said.

"S-Sonna…" Tsuna stuttered, "Open your eyes!"

"Oi! Don't die on us yet!" Korin yelled at him.

"What a… terrible life…" The man said.

"Get a hold of yourself!" Tsuna called out before realising, "What's your real name?-!"

"You're not Rokudo Mukuro," Korin asked, "You must have a real name!"

"I'm…" The man started, "Lancia…"

"Hang in there, Lancia-san!" Both teens called out.

"I can remember…," Lancia said weakly, "when I hear that name… my old self's family… I can finally go to them right now…" He finally closed his eyes.

"Sonna…"

"How can this…" Korin stuttered, tears filling his eyes as he remembered the time he could not save the old shinobi back in Kyoto, "Not again…"

"Lancia-san!" Tsuna called out to the body.

"He completely used up Lancia," Gokudera commented, "and when he became useless… Damn it. Is this how they do things?"

"What does Rokudo Mukuro think people are?-!" Bianchi shouted in anger.

"Lancia… I still… Can't help you…" Cosma spoke as her tears dripped off her eyes, "Even after… all that to find you…"

"He really pisses me off…" Tsuna spoke as he stood up, "Let's go to Rokudo Mukuro."

"As you can see, Leon is in this condition." Reborn tells his student as he hold the cocoon-Leon, "You can't use the Dying will bullet."

"I know…" The brunette answered his tutor, "But… but, we need to do something about Rokudo Mukuro!"

The hitman smirked, "Korin, this is not in your order, so you can-,"

"I'm coming along."

"Hm?"

Korin stood up as the air around him starts to shake, "If I let someone like him stay alive, I wouldn't forgive myself." He said as he clenched his fist, "Tsuna, I'm going to kill Rokudo Mukuro!"

'Those eyes…' Reborn thought as he looked at the enraged boy, 'They reminded me of you, Yong-kia…' "I see. By the way, Lancia isn't dead."

"Eh?"

"The problem is the needles' poison." Reborn explained, "He might be saved if we can get an antidote within the hour."

"Honto?-!" Tsuna asked.

"Then," They turned to Cosma who trying to stand up, "I should be able to create it if I – urg!" She collapsed to the ground, her hands supporting her.

"Cosma!" Bianchi ran towards her friend, "You have taken two heavy hits already. Just rest."

"But…!"

"The yo-yo user must have an antidote." She assured her, "So don't worry about it."

"Juudaime! I'll defeat the glasses guy!" The bomber assured the brunette.

"Gokudera-kun… Arigatou!"

They shifted every injured personnel to a shady covered spot nearby. "Gomemen, Yamamoto." Tsuna mumbled, "Please wait; we'll be back soon."

"It'll be fine." Bianchi assured the brunette, "This place should be safe."

"Yan-san…" Korin faced Cosma who threw him a small metal rectangular-case that has two straps around it along with a dark-blue hoodie, "Take these. You'll need them."

"Arigatou, Materro-san." He thanked her as he strapped it on his left hand and put on the jacket after discarding his torn one while he placed his two swords with Cosma, asking her to take care of them.

"Jeez, just when we're about to get started…" Gokudera mumbled.

"Let's go." Reborn announced as everyone looked into the last building, "He's in there."

A yellow bird that flew in the air close to the building chirped, "Birds has been defeated! The twins have been defeated! Nerio has been defeated! Everyone has been defeated! Mukuro! Mukuro!"

"I see." Bianchi said.

"He's in there." Gokudera stated.

"Rokudo Mukuro!" Both remaining teens said.

"This is it." The baby informed them.

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They entered the building as Tsuna wore the clothes that Bianchi has brought along, which consist of a black shirt and beige pants. 'I'm glad that Bianchi brought a change of clothes, but…' He thought as he wraps his arms around his shivering body, 'I'm starting to get nervous.' He looked at Korin who sighed, 'I'm glad that Korin-san has calmed down though. He was rrrrrrrrrrrrreally scary when he's angry.' The brunette thought as the image of an enraged Korin still haunts his mind.

"This is it." Bianchi announced as everyone looked what's in front to her, which turns out to be a destroyed stairway, "The stairs has been destroyed."

"Mukuro is probably a floor above us." Reborn predicted, "There must a stairway still intact somewhere."

"Eh? What do you mean?" Tsuna asked his tutor.

"It's easier to defend against us if they limit the number of paths between us." He explained, "But on the other hand, they cut off their own escape routes. It means they're prepared to fight."

'HIEEEEE!-! I'm getting more nervous!' Tsuna mentally shrieked.

"Easier for us too," Korin said as he cracked his knuckles, "that way, we know where they will be defending from."

"Hm? There's a cell phone on the ground." Gokudera said that attracted the brunette's attention as he picked up the black phone, "It's broken."

"Ah! That's Hibari's." Tsuna realised, "He must be here."

"Hibari?"

"Mm. I'm sure."

"Oh yeah, his ringtone is our school song too." Korin added.

"Ah! Lame!"

"We're got more important things to do;" Bianchi reprimanded them, "let's find an intact stairway going up."

"Y-Yeah." Tsuna nodded.

They searched the place to find most of the stairways to be destroyed. They then entered a room that has an emergency ladder, still in one piece. "Ah! There's one!"

"An emergency ladder." Reborn said.

They then hear the spinning of a yo-yo. They turned around to find Chikusa playing with his yo-yo behind them. "There he is!" Tsuna exclaimed, "The yo-yo guy!"

Gokudera wasted no time and ignite his dynamites that he threw at him. The yo-yo user got ready but was shocked when the dynamites' fuse went off but a huge amount of smoke was released from each tube creating a smoke screen that prevent him from seeing his target.

"Smoke screen?" The brunette said in confusion "Juudaime," He turned to face Gokudera, "Leave him to me, and go ahead."

"Gokudera-kun!"

"Hayato!" Bianchi warned him, "The side effects from Shamal's treatment will still cause pain, just like before! Do you still intent to fight?"

"Of course." The bomber answered his sister, "That's why I'm here." Bianchi stiffen for a moment, but she turned around, "Let's go, Tsuna."

"Eh?-! But-,"

"Please go."Gokudera tells his boss, "Juudaime, you need to take care of Mukuro."

"That's true, but-,"

"Let's all hang out again when this is done." Tsuna stopped questioning his friend as he recalled why he was fighting in the first place. "Y-You're right. We will." He promised the silverrette. "Of course!"

"I understand, I'm going!" Tsuna called out as he followed the other group up the ladder.

"Oi, Hayato-san." The bomber turned to face Korin, "Don't die on me, got that." Gokudera smirked, "No need to tell me that, Crazy Tattoo."

"And come up with a better insult next time!" He called out as he climbed up the ladder after the brunette.

Gokudera turned around and faced his opponent. "You let them go without much of a fuss." He said to the glasses boy.

The smoke slowly cleared and the figure of the yo-yo user is fully shown, "Such was Mukuro-sama's command."

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They managed to climb up the ladder and onto the second floor, but they saw no signs of their enemy. They ran up to the third floor as they entered the movie theatre. There was nothing there except for a single Kokuyo middle student.

"I'm glad we could meet again." He said.

All of them took their stance until Tsuna shouted out, "Ah! You're…" He ran into the room, "Is this where you're being held?"

"You know him?" Korin asked.

"This is the Kokuyo student I met earlier; he is being held here!"

"Kufufufu, please take your time." He added, "We're about to start a long relationship together, Vongolia Tenth."

'What is this ominous aura?' Korin said as he scanned him, his Yūrei-me glowing as he saw a huge purple aura in the student's form.

"Eh? How do you know I'm Vongolia?" Tsuna asked him.

"Matte, Tsuna." Reborn warned him.

"Eh?"

"That's not it, Tsuna." Bianchi explained as she walked up to him, "He's…"

"Kufufufu…. That's right; I'm the real Rokudo Mukuro."

"Eh… Huh?-!" Tsuna yelled out as the doors behind them closed.

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Meanwhile… with Gokudera, he was desperately avoiding the needles that are being shot out of Chikusa's yo-yo. He ran out to the corridor and continue running away from the yo-yo user. "You suck!" He shouted as he ran into the corner. Chikusa adjusted his glasses as he sprinted after him. He was about to turn in the corner but then he noticed a dynamite that was glued to the wall and it exploded next to him, forcing him back a bit. "Two times bomb!" The silverrette threw a huge amount of bombs, in which the glasses boy defused almost immediately.

"You must be upset because you were beaten last time." Gokudera taunted him, "You made your move too quickly. Thanks to that, your legs are wide open."

The beanie student looked down in shock to find some lit dynamites under him that exploded at him. "My weapon is most useful in areas with obstacles." The bomber explained, "You lost the moment you ambushed me here." He then noticed a figure in the smoke, "Oh, I forgot. You're tough."

He took out some dynamites in his hands, "Die with these- urg!" He clutched his chest as the pain from before started coming back, 'Darn it, at a time like this…' The bomber leaned onto the wall, 'the side effect…" a shadow is visible behind the window.

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Back to Tsuna's group, they turned around to find the door closed, with Fuuta in front of them. "Fuuta!" Tsuna called out, "Don't startle me."

"He seems safe." Bianchi commented.

"I've been looking for you since back them."

"It's dangerous, so please stand back."

"Yeah," Korin agreed, "You better get out of-," He then heard a voice in his head that cause him to shout, "Bianchi, get away from Fuuta!"

"Huh?" Bianchi looked at him confused as Fuuta slowly inches in, with a tri-spiked sword in his hands.

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Back to Gokudera, he is leaning on the wall in pain of the side-effects from Shamal's treatment that he failed to notice a shadow behind him, in which a clawed hand crash right through the window and dug it into his chest. "You were wide open!" Ken said smugly.

At the same time, Fuuta has stabbed Bianchi in the gut with the spiked weapon. "Bianchi!" Tsuna called out as the woman collapsed onto the ground. Mukuro have a small smirk on his face as he watched the entire scenario.

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Ken sat out on the window sill. "You're alright." Chikusa said.

"I thought I was going to die, though." He replied to his comrade, "Hahahaha, take that you ba~ ka~" Gokudera looked at him with an intense look as he try to push against his wound to prevent any more blood flowing out. He slowly stepped back and slipped on a rug that causes him to fall down a pile of stairs. "Ah~ How uncool…!"

'My body…' Gokudera thought, 'It won't move.' One of Birds little yellow birds flew down and landed on the edge of the stairs behind him, "Beaten! Beaten!" It cried. 'Damn it. That pervert's bird is laughing at me, too.' He struggled to get up, 'How can I call myself Juudaime's right-hand man? I haven't been able to do a thing for him… Damn it!'

"Midori tanabiku namimori no, Dai naku shou naku nami ga ii…" The bird started singing. Gokudera saw this and chuckled as he took out the dynamite from his shirt. "Ah…! Does he still plan on fighting?" Ken spoke as he walked down the stairs to finish him off. The bomber, using all his remaining strength, flung his last dynamite back against the wall, destroying it with the explosion. "Haha, whatcha aimin' at?"

"*chuckle* you're the only one who likes our school song that much." Gokudera said as the wall crumbled, revealing the heavily wounded skylark behind it.

"Huh? This guy's…"

"Namimori Middle Discipline Committee Chairman, Hibari Kyoya." Chikusa finished Ken's sentence.

"You look well…" Gokudera mumbled.

Ken just laughed, "So this half dead guy is supposed to be your reinforcement?"

"I could have gotten out myself, but…" Hibari said as he stood up, "This works. Leave those two to me."

"Do as you wish."

"Oh?" Ken saw the yellow bird flew down and perched on the discipline chairman, "He tamed Bird's bird."

"Then I'll have them."

"What's a half-dead guy like you mumbling about?-!" Ken shouted, "I'll take him!"

"I thought you say that." Chikusa sighed. Ken put in another set of fake teeth and his hair turns orange and bushier and his hands turns to paws. "Lion Channel!"

"Oh~? Are you a puppy?" Hibari taunted him.

"Quiet, you little duckling!-!" The lion-human hybrid shouted as he ran on fours towards the prefect, who kicked his fallen tonfas from the ground and strike him. He strikes again and again until he sent one heavy blow at the Blonde student, sending him up the stairs and crashing out the window.

"Ken!" The beanie student shouted as he turned around to face the skylark.

"Suki yu," Hibari spoke as he got ready to fight, "Kamikorosu. (I'll bite you to death next)" (I'm not sure if I got this right, though.)

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Back to Tsuna, Bianchi laid on the floor motionlessly due to Fuuta actions from before. "Bianchi!" Tsuna called out, "Bianchi, hang on!"

"Fuuta, what are trying to do?-!" Korin yelled at the ranking prince. He immediately tried stabbing Tsuna but the brunette managed to dodge it in time. He stab Korin next but the black haired boy dodged it as well. They stepped back and notice Fuuta's eyes; they looked empty and blank, like someone under hypnotism. 'He couldn't be…' Tsuna thought.

"Seems like he's under mind control." Reborn voiced out his thoughts.

"S-Sonna…" Tsuna said, "Wake up, Fuuta!"

Fuuta just went and stab Tsuna once more. The brunette dodged it and then avoided a slash from him. Mukuro just sat on the stage, chuckling away. "W-What should I do?" Tsuna spoke as he stepped back from the controlled kid, but was then pulled back by a whip that Reborn as tied around him.

"I bought the whip Dino gave you." Reborn tells him, leading to a confused look from Korin.

"Dino gave you a whip?" Korin asked the brunette.

"Now is not the time!" Tsuna shouted at him, "And what do I do with this thing?-!"

"What do you do? What do you do?" Reborn repeated, "If you don't do something, you'll be killed."

"But the opponent is Fuuta! I can't hurt him!"

"Kufufufu," Mukuro chuckled, "what will you do, Vongolia Tenth?"

Tsuna continue to step back as he backed away from Fuuta, then his eyes widen in realisation. 'I know!' Tsuna thought as he ran towards Mukuro.

"Oh…?"

'If I attack Mukuro directly…' He then noticed footsteps behind him to find Fuuta running behind him "Don't follow me, Fuuta!"

"Yabe!" Korin ran after them and stood in front of the ranking prince. "Korin-san!" Tsuna called out, as he saw Fuuta tried to stab him but them was blocked, by a blade from Korin's sleeves. "Now, Tsuna!" Korin tells the brunette who understood and swung the whip at the pineapple man but he hit himself and tangled his legs in the process. "I failed!"

"Hahahaha, you're always surprising me." Mukuro laughed, "Look behind you, it's dangerous…"

Tsuna looked behind to find Fuuta tangled up with him, with Korin's legs tangled behind. "Ah! Fuuta and Korin-san got tangled up as well!" Tsuna cried. The ranking prince try to reach for his dropped weapon but the brunette swipe it away from his reach, "Stop it, Fuuta!" He then noticed Fuuta's eyes. 'Those are the eyes that Lancia-san has…' he thought as he recalled on how Fuuta tells him that he can't come home, 'Is he feeling guilty because Mukuro made him do something terrible?' The ranking prince finally got his weapon and got ready to swing it down on the brunette.

"Ah!"

"Tsuna!" Korin yelled.

"Fuuta…" Tsuna gritted his teeth, "You didn't do anything wrong." Fuuta stopped at Tsuna's voice, "You didn't do anything wrong at all. We're all your allies, Fuuta, so don't worry and come home." Mukuro eyes sharpened as he saw this. Fuuta lifted up his dagger but then he clutched his head in pain.

'To break the mind control, he's said the phase they want to hear the most.' Mukuro thought.

Fuuta stopped clutching his head as he broke out of the pineapple's control, "Tsuna…-nii…" He managed to say before collapsing on the ground. "Fuuta!" Tsuna grabbed him as he falls on him, "Oi!"

"Fuuta!" Korin quickly got to his feet and ran to beside them.

"It seems like he crashed because of what you said." Mukuro tells him.

"Sonna…" Tsuna shoved the kid, "Fuuta!"

"And he hasn't really slept in the past ten days." The pineapple added, "He was a troublesome boy from the start. To find the Vongolia Tenth, we came to Japan, but we didn't know where to look, specifically."

"So you had Fuuta come to you." Korin said.

"Yes… But he followed the Omerta and kept silent."

'The vow of silence, Omerta.' Tsuna thought.

"Even under my mind control," Mukuro continued, "he never said anything about the Vongolia. He's quite impressive."

"So without a choice," Reborn added, "you used Namimori's combat prowess ranking, which had been created, to draw out Tsuna's family."

"My plan worked perfectly. After all, the Vongolia is here right in front of me."

"Teme…" Korin growled as his bangs overshadowed his eyes.

"You did this to Fuuta, who was innocent." Tsuna said, and he stood up and faces Mukuro, "Rokudo Mukuro! What do you think people are?-!"

"Toys…" Mukuro replied, leading an out-raged Tsuna and Korin and screamed, "Don't screw around!"And they dashed forward with their weapons ready. "I never would have thought that I have to fight directly." Mukuro stood up from his seat and the kanji on his right left eyes spins till and stopped at the kanji of four. He jumped down from the stage with a pole in his hands. They pasted each other as they attacked. After a few seconds, cuts appeared throughout the brunette's and the black haired boy's body, causing them to scream in pain. "Itai!"

"Is something, the matter?" The pineapple turned around to show a flame on his right eye as Tsuna and Korin collapsed knee first to the ground. He then noticed a cut on his right arm, "Oh… Looks like you managed to cut me, Vongolia Knight."

"W-What happened?" Tsuna panted.

"I-It all happened in an instant!" Korin panted, "But I managed to land a hit."

"He struck as the three of you cross paths." Reborn said.

"Exactly what I would have expected from an Arcobaleno," Mukuro said as he placed the tri-spiked weapon that Fuuta wielded onto his pole, forming a trident, "That's exactly right."

Both teens turned around and noticed his flaming eye. "Ah! The dying will flame on his eye…" Tsuna said.

"Oh? So you can see it."

"That's not a dying will flame." Korin tells the brunette.

"That's right." Mukuro explained, "This aura is the Fourth Path, a combat skill I learnt from the Path of Asura."

"Asura? Skill?"

"Are you familiar with the 'Transmigration though the Six Worlds'?" Mukuro asked them.

"When people die," Reborn explained, "they are reborn as a demon, as a hungry ghost, a beast, an Asura, a human or a deva."

"The six realms of reincarnation…" Korin summarized.

"I have the memory of going to all the six realms." The pineapple tells them, "I've attained six combat skills from the six underworlds."

"What are you… talking about?" Tsuna said.

"If that's true, you're quite a monster." Reborn says to him.

"I don't want to hear that from you, a cursed infant, an Arcobaleno."

'A-Arcobaleno? Does he mean Reborn?' Tsuna and Korin thought. "Now let me show you," They turned their attention to the pineapple in front, "my next skill." Mukuro's eyes spin once more and stopped at the Kanji of one. Both of them froze. "Here I come." He tapped his trident on the floor, and it starts to crumble underneath their feet.

"S-Sonna…" Tsuna mumbled, "The building's…" he then spotted his friends falling off to the abyss below, "Ah! Fuuta! Bianchi! Reborn! Korin-san!" He then started falling after them. He nearly screamed until he felt a huge pain on his cheek, which is caused by his tutor punching him and resulting in him falling to the floor. "Why did you do that, Reborn?-!" But then he noticed that his surroundings are back to normal. "H-Huh?"

"What you saw was an illusion." Reborn tells his student.

"E-Eh?-! An illusion?-!"

"Kufufufu," Mukuro chuckled, "You saw through it. Well done. Yes, the First Path, The Path of Hell, is a skill that destroys the spirit with an endless nightmare."

'S-Scary!' Tsuna thought.

"But I'm surprised on how you managed to see through it," He looked at Korin who looked back at him with his eyes glowing once more, "Vongolia Knight."

"Ah! Korin-san! Y-Your eyes!" Tsuna said but then he remembered, 'Now that I think about it, Korin-san's eyes have been glowing when he saw Nerio.'

"As expected of the one with the 'all-seeing eye'," The pineapple stated, "the Yūrei-me."

'Y-Yūrei-me?' Tsuna thought.

"Shut up, you pineapple." Korin taunted.

*Twitch* "I'll pretend that you never said that. But now I've beginning to see your relationship after observing you." Mukuro tells them, "The Arcobaleno is here to monitor the Vongolia, while the Knight is here is protect him."

"That's not true." Reborn tells him, "Because I'm Tsuna's home tutor!"

"And I'm not protecting him," Korin replied, "I'm assisting him as his friend."

"Kufufufu, I see. That's rather unique." Mukuro said, "But is the teacher not going to attack? I don't mind taking the three of you on at the same time."

"Because that's the law."

"So, it's the law?" He asked, "What a very proper, mafia-esque response."

"And I don't need to do a thing." The hitman replied, "My student will defeat you."

"Oi! Reborn!" Tsuna yelled at hit tutor. "Oh…? What a beautiful, trusting relationship." Mukuro exclaimed, "How amusing. Very well then." His red eye spun into a Kanji of three. Snakes started falling from the ceiling and onto the brunette and his friend.

"Ah! Snakes!" Tsuna shrieked, "Are these an illusion as well?"

"No, they're real." Korin replied him.

Tsuna paled. "N-No way…!"

"The third path, The Path of Beast," Mukuro explained, "the skill to summon animals that will kill my enemy. Your student is in trouble, won't you do anything?"

"Don't be so certain with yourself, Mukuro." Reborn said as the snakes attacked the brunette, "I'm the best home tutor." The snakes then stopped in their tracks as Korin stood in close to his friend, an image of a growling beast rose from him. They slithered away, with the fear of getting killed. Mukuro was unfazed until a flying tonfa was thrown at him which he blocked it.

"Juudaime, please get down!" The two teens looked up to find many lit dynamites coming at them which exploded and scattering the snakes away. Through the smoke, they saw Hibari supporting Gokudera near the entrance. "Sorry we're late."

"Hibari-san! Gokudera-kun!" Tsuna called out, "You're both…"

"Do you understand now, Mukuro?" Reborn asked Mukuro, "I didn't raise only Tsuna."

"I've paid you back now." Hibari said as he flung the silverrette to the side. 'He threw him away!' Both teens mentally shouted.

"My my, there's a lot of spectators today." Mukuro said, "What is Chikusa doing?"

"Heh, the glasses guy and the animal guy below are taking a nap together below." Gokudera said.

"Way to go, Gokudera-kun!" Tsuna praised his friend.

"It's not as if I beat them…" He mumbled.

Hibari crouched down and picked up his tonfa. "Have you prepared yourself?" He asked the pineapple.

"You're very scary." Mukuro commented, "But please don't get between me and the Vongolia. Besides, you can barely stand right now. I've broken many of your bones, after all."

'Hibari-san…' Tsuna thought, 'He's been through so much.'

"Have you prepared your last will?" Hibari taunted.

"You say such amusing things." The pineapple said, "I have no choice, I'd better take care of you first." He eyes spins till it shows the Kanji of four again and a fade flame is ignited on his eye. "This will end in a moment!" He clashed with the skylark. Hibari blocked it and strikes back at him and Mukuro dodged it and strike again. This goes on in a super fast speed that Tsuna could not blink.

'It's so fast, I can see anything.' Tsuna thought.

Their weapons then clashed and hit a standoff. "How long does a moment for you last?" Hibari asked. Mukuro just smirked at his question and just broke off and jumped back before clashing with him again.

"Amazing! Expected of Hibari-san!" Tsuna said.

"Don't underestimate them, Mukuro." Reborn tells the illusionist, "They're still growing."

Mukuro and Hibari continue to clash with each other, "It seems so…" Mukuro said, "We may never know how the battle would have gone, if he had not been hurt." Hibari suddenly just stop, as the blood drops from his arms to the wooden floor.

"Hibari-san!" Tsuna shouted.

"This is a waste of time. Let's finish this quickly." He says to the panting prefect on the floor. His eye spin yet again to the Kanji of one and sakura started to appear throughout the ceiling of the room.

"S-Sakura?" Tsuna asked.

"Hibari can't move when he's near sakura." Reborn explained, "He got the Sakura-Kura. Shamal gave him earlier with a Trident Mosquito."

"Eh?-!"

"Damn that Shamal!" Korin mumbled.

"Let's have you kneel before me again." Mukuro said as the prefect seemly to be weaken, slowly stumbled towards him.

"Hibari-san!" Tsuna yelled but Reborn just smirked. The skylark that was stumbling around, suddenly lash forward and land a powerful blow on Mukuro, shocking the brunette and the pineapple.

"O-Oya?" Mukuro was confused until he heard Gokudera's laughter.

"You weren't expecting this." Gokudera mocked him as he took out a paper bag, "I got medicine for Hibari from Shamal."

"T-Then…!"

Hibari ran forward and land a final blow on Mukuro, sending him back and onto the ground. "H-He did it." Tsuna stuttered.

"Tch. He got all the good parts." Gokudera grumbled. Tsuna looked down on the fallen Mukuro, still can't believe that it is over.

"You finally did it." Reborn tells the brunette. He looked at his tutor before looking on the floor in front of him. "It's over…" Tsuna said, "I can go home now!"

"But you were perfectly useless in the battle with Mukuro."

"Leave me alone!"

"Relax! I'm useless here too, you know." Korin tells him. They then heard a thud and turned their heads, to find Hibari collapsed on the floor. "Hibari-san!" Tsuna called out as they ran over to the fallen skylark, "Daijoubu deska?"

"He was fighting unconsciously near the end." Reborn explained, "He must been really upset that he lost once before."

"Hibari-san's…" Tsuna said, "Amazing… Ah! We need to take everyone to the hospital, quickly!"

"Don't worry about it." The hitman tells him, "A very skilled Vongolia medical team is on its way-"

"That team will be useless." They turn to face Mukuro standing up with a pistol in his hand, "Because, there will be no survivors."

"Teme…!" Gokudera immediately stood in front of Tsuna.

"Let's meet again." Mukuro said as he pointed his gun at his head, "Arrivederci (See you soon)." And he fired at himself, leading to a very shocked brunette who witnessed it.

"He killed himself…"

"Why did he do that?" Tsuna could only wonder.

"Maybe he would rather die than be caught." Reborn replied, "Or…"

Tsuna suddenly feels a chill down his spine. 'W-What is this feeling?' He thought.

Korin felt the same chill, 'Something's not right.' He thought.

"We can't capture him alive, but there's nothing we can do about it now."

"You finally defeated Mukuro." They turned their heads to find Bianchi slowly getting up.

"Aneki!"

"Thank goodness, Bianchi's woken up!" Tsuna exclaimed.

"Don't push yourself." Reborn warned her.

"Will you lend me a hand, Hayato?" Bianchi asked.

"Um… Fine, I guess I don't have a choice." Gokudera replied, "Just for today!"

"Ah! Gokudera-kun/Hayato-san, Stay away!" Both teens suddenly shouted. Gokudera and Reborn looked at the two teens, confused.

"Is something wrong?"Bianchi asked, "Lend me a hand, Tsuna."

"Eh?" Tsuna scratched his head, "What are we trying to say?"

"This is weird." Korin mumbled, "But I haven't done that since…"

"Don't worry, Juudaime." Gokudera assured his boss, "I can handle it."

"Thank you, Hayato." Bianchi thanked him.

"Give me your hand…"

"Hai…" She then swung the top part of Mukuro's trident at him, cutting his cheek. This has shocked everyone in the room.

"W-What are trying to do?-!" The silverrette yelled at his sister.

"Ah? My hand…" Bianchi replied.

'I was right, something is not right.' Tsuna thought, 'Bianchi…'

"What's wrong, Bianchi?" Reborn said before jumping towards her and giving her a light tap in the forehead, "Get a hold of yourself, you just tried to skewer your little brother."

"I…" The poison scorpion said, "What a terrible thing I did!" She tries and stab Reborn but he managed to dodge it and jumped out of the way.

"Ah!"

"Reborn-san!"

"This will be troublesome." Reborn stated.

"Is it mind control?" The bomber asked.

"No." The infant replied, "It's like she's possessed."

"Is it a curse?"

"Is that possible?" Tsuna asked.

"Regardless, it's a fact."

"What are you saying?" Bianchi asked them, "It's me."

'Something's definitely wrong,' Tsuna thought, 'That's not Bianchi.'

'This sensation, where did I…?' Korin thought deeply. Then, it hit them. "R-Rokudo…" Tsuna stuttered. "Mukuro…?" Korin finished the name.

"Kufufufu, we meet again." Bianchi said as she turns around, revealing Mukuro's red eye on her right eye.

"H-He's back!" Tsuna shrieked.

"It's a curse!-!" Gokudera yelled.

"There isn't a curse for that." Korin told Gokudera.

"It's not something that ridiculous." Reborn assured them.

"B-But…" Tsuna looked at Mukuro's dead body, "He's really dead."

"Kufufufu, I still have something I must do." She said, "So I've returned from the other end of the cycle."

"H-He really is-,"

"I-Is that…?" Tsuna asked.

"That shouldn't be…" Korin muttered.

"The only thing I can think of is…" Reborn says, "It can't be…"

"Who shall I take care of first?"

"Juudaime, let me handle this." Gokudera tells his boss as he stood in front.

"But she's-,"

"Rin! Hyo! To! Sha!" He chanted as he forms imaginary symbols in the air.

*Dead-panned* 'An exorcism?-!' Tsuna thought in shock.

*Face-faulted* "That's not how you exorcist a ghost!-!" Korin yelled at the bomber, "And where did you learn those anyway?-!"

"Kai! Jin! Retsu!" He continues to chant and the possessed Bianchi starts to growl in pain.

"I-It's working?-!" Tsuna said out. "I don't believe it!" Korin said. Bianchi then collapse onto the floor.

"B-Bianchi!" Tsuna called out, "What happened?"

"I don't know." Reborn replied him.

Tsuna and Korin walked up to her, "B-Bianchi?" The brunette was about to touch her when he and his friend then notice something wrong about Gokudera. "Did I do it?" He said politely.

"Go…ku...dera...-kun?"

"Mukuro!" Korin shouted as he pushed Tsuna out of the way as the knife cut his side. "K-Korin-san!" Tsuna called out, "Oi, Reborn! Gokudera-kun's…"

"Oh… So it wasn't luck." The silverrette said as he turned around to show the red right-eye, "You two are the first to realise that I possess someone after one glance. You're amusing to no end."

"W-What's going on?" Tsuna said.

"There's no mistake." Reborn stated, "You made it look like suicide, but you used that bullet." Gokudera (Mukuro) looked at the Arcobaleno, "The use of the Possession Bullet is forbidden. Where did you get it?"

"Kufufufu, so you noticed," He stated as well, "that this is a possession caused by a special bullet?"

"What?-!" Tsuna shrieked.

"Special… bullet…?" Korin hissed as he covered his wound.

"Like the Dying Will Bullet?"

"That's right." Reborn replied, "As the name says, the Possession bullet is a bullet that allows you to take control of another person's body."

"What?-!" Tsuna shouted, "That's why Bianchi and Gokudera-kun have been…"

"It was a special bullet created by the Estraneo Family." The hitman tutor continues, "Not only do you need a strong spirit, but you must also be suited for the bullet."

"Kufufufu, it suits me perfectly." Gokudera(Mukuro) stated.

"Long ago," Reborn added, "the cold-blooded use of the Possession Bullet caused it to be forbidden. The bullet and the knowledge used to create them should have been destroyed back then."

"This is nothing like mind-control." The possessed silverrette stated, "I don't control them; I take over them. Which means," he cut his own neck, "this body is mine."

"S-Stop that!" Tsuna shouted.

"The bullet must have been what you used to take control of men like Lancia." Reborn said, "But, why do you have them?"

"Let me just say…" He tells them, "It's because they are mine. Now…" He looked at the brunette, "I'll possess you next, Vongolia Juudaime."

"H-Huh?-! ME?-!"

"I knew it." The infant realised, "Your goal is to…"

"Kufufufu, it's not my goal; it is my means. My revenge can only begin after taking control of a young mafia boss."

"W-What are you saying?-!" Tsuna shouted as the possessed bomber walked towards him, "S-Sonna?-! Possessing me would be useless, and nothing will come out of it!"

"Be careful of his weapon." Reborn warned him, "If you're wounded by that blade, he'll be able to possess you."

"I'm impressed that you know." Gokudera (Mukuro) said as he threw his weapon, just missing Tsuna's head and passing it to Bianchi that has gotten up as Gokudera collapsed, "Exactly."

"B-Bianchi!"

"But I called this ritual a 'contract'." She stated as she sliced Hibari's cheek. She then collapsed, and then Hibari's body started to fidget.

"H-He could have," The brunette stuttered, "gotten inside Hibari-san, too?-!" Hibari got up and swung his tonfa at him, knocking him back.

"Ite!"

Hibari then collapsed, "O-Oya? This body isn't much of a use…" He said, "Fighting in a body like this… What a fearsome man, Hibari Kyoya." He then fell to the floor with a thud.

"Ah! Hibari-san!" Tsuna shouted as he ran towards his body, "Mukuro's presence is gone."

"Be careful." The hitman tutor warned his student, "He'll possess either Bianchi or Gokudera. Korin is a possibility too."

"HIEEEE!-!-!-! Korin-san too?-! S-Sonna…?-!" Gokudera's body then started to stand up, "G-Gokudera-kun?" He then noticed that Bianchi started to get up as well, "Eh? Bianchi too?-! Two at the same time?-!"

"That's not all of it." Reborn tells him as the door was slammed opened, revealing Ken and Chikusa, "There are them as well."

"Uwa! Four Mukuro-s?-!" Tsuna screamed.

"Possessing four people at once…" The hitman said, "It's unheard of."

"That's," Gokudera(Mukuro) says as his red eye spins till it stopped at the Kanji of two, "not all!" and he threw dynamites at him. "Ah!" Tsuna screamed as he ran from the explosion, "Dynamites."

"He can use the abilities of those he possesses as well." Reborn stated before he dodged an attack from the possessed blonde student.

"You should worry about your own life," He turned around to find Chikusa(Mukuro), "Arcobaleno!" he shouted as he spins the yo-yo and fired the needles at the infant, who blocked it with his coat. Meanwhile, Gokudera (Mukuro) has thrown the dynamites at the brunette and injuring him with the explosion.

"The second path, Path of Hungry Ghosts, is the skill used to steal the enemies' abilities." The possessed bomber explained.

"This is really bad." Reborn stated, "He's possessed them, plus he can use the skills he's stolen."

"I was hoping for a five against one scenario but," Bianchi(Mukuro) stated as he looked at Korin, still haven't move from his spot and still conscious, "for some reasons, I can't possess him."

"It's simple." Korin smirked as tells her, "I'm immune to possession, like the rest of my family."

"Oya? That's interesting." She said as her red eye spins and stopped at the Kanji of one. The ground around Tsuna started to glow red and bubbles as a pillar of fire was shot out from it. "HIEEEE!-!" The brunette shrieked as another two fire pillar shot out from the floor, "Tatskete(Help me)!"

"If possible," Ken(Mukuro) tells him, "I'd like to take you without harming you."

"You can surrender, you know." Chikusa(Mukuro) added.

"I can't take any more!"

"You haven't learnt a thing." Reborn commented as he jumped at the possessed silverrette, "This is an illusion!"

"Oh my." Gokudera(Mukuro) spun around and threw a few sticks of dynamite at the infant, "You better worry about yourself!" and they exploded at him.

"Ah! R-Reborn!" Tsuna cried.

"That shouldn't have killed you, Arcobaleno!" Bianchi(Mukuro) said, as the hitman's hat is visible moving from the smoke, "Found you!" Ken(Mukuro) said as he jumped and stabbed it. He landed but then noticed that it was just a hat. "Ah?"

Reborn jumped and retrieved his hat as dusted the dirt of it, "I haven't felt the air of real combat in a while." He commented.

"Reborn…"

"I can't help." He added, "Tsuna, do something, quickly."

"D-Don't be unreasonable!" The brunette cried as he ran away from the explosions from the silverrette's thrown dynamites, "This is beyond what I can handle!"

"If you're my student-" He was cut short to dodge incoming needles, "If you're my student, you can overcome this."

"It's unfair to use unreasonable logic like that!" He shouted.

"Kufufufu, your teacher's panicking." Bianchi(Mukuro) chuckled as she walked to hitman tutor, "He's falling into chaos over his student's crisis." Reborn dodged the poison shortcakes in her hands. "I'm not lying." He said, "Your aniki, Dino overcame it too."

"D-Dino-san?" Tsuna asked.

"When Dino was my student, he faced with a life or death situation." Reborn explained, "He overcame that and transformed himself. From weakling Dino, he became the Bucking Bronco Dino."

"Became?" Tsuna looked at his tutor in confusion, "I don't get it! Dino-san and I are-"

"Above you." He looked up from Reborn's words and saw dynamites falling down at him and exploded, sending him tumbling to the floor. "That's enough talk;" Chikusa(Mukuro) said, "let's bring this to an end." He got readied the dagger and a violet flame appears on his red eye before he ran towards the brunette. Tsuna shrieked but then he suddenly collapsed. The possessed blonde then picked the dagger.

"What? It happens sometimes." He stated, "Even if I take over someone's body, when that body breaks, there's nothing I can do."

"You mean… You're forcing them to move even though their wounds shouldn't allow it?" Tsuna said.

"That's why you didn't possess Hibari." Reborn understands.

Chikusa's body starts to get up, "Ah. Chikusa can go a little further."

"Stop it!" Korin yelled out, "If they kept moving, they're wounds will-"

"I'm fine." He said, "I don't feel pain."

"W-What do you mean!" Tsuna shouted, "Aren't they your friends' bodies?-!"

"That's incorrect. Once I possess them, it's my body. It's my right to decide whether it breaks or dies."

"Wha… That's wrong…" Tsuna said.

"Don you have time to be concerned about others," Bianchi(Mukuro) asked as they slowly walked up to the brunette, "when you're about to get killed?"

"You're an amusing man." Gokudera(Mukuro) added, "You're not suited for the mafia."

'Ah! Blood are flowing out of their wounds…' Tsuna thought.

'Their wounds are too severe.' Korin thought, 'Plus, their muscles are strained from all the fighting they had done.'

"Please stop this!" The brunette yelled, "They'll die!"

"Kufufufu, I remember now." The possessed bomber said, "When you were fighting Birds, you were about to stab yourself to save your girlfriends."

"Eh?"

"Let's do it that way." He concluded, "Because of your softness, you will be possessed by me."

"Listen well." The possessed Bianchi stated, "If you don't want any further damage done to your friends," The possessed silverrette continued, "make a contract with me without trying to run away."

"N-No way…"

"So you do hesitate. In the end, a person like you can't survive in this kind of world. You're not suited to be Vongolia Tenth." Ken(Mukuro) showed his dagger, "Now, give me your body."

"What should I do…?" Tsuna cried, "Reborn, what should I do?-!"

"I can't do anything for you." The infant tells him, "Pull it off on your own."

"Sonna… You always help me out! Don't abandon me, Reborn!" The hitman heard enough and kicked him in the chin.

"Ite…!" Reborn landed on him. "Don't sound so pathetic." Reborn tells the brunette.

"B-But…" Tsuna cried, "W-What can I do?" Reborn grab his shirt and pull his head up to him. "Listen, Tsuna. You're the Vongolia Tenth and no one else!"

"E-Eh?"

"If you shout out your feelings; that would be the answer a Vongolia would give!"

'My… feelings…?' Tsuna thought.

"Kufufufu, so the home tutor has given up in despair." Ken(Mukuro) mocked, "What he really feels is that he want to run away from this place. Or, you won't run for the sake of your friends?"

"I want to win."

"Huh?"

Both Korin and Reborn grinned. "I want to beat Mukuro." Tsuna replied. Unknown to them, Leon started to shake.

"Oh? That was unexpected." He said, "I'll hear the rest of the story after I possess you… after you've killed your friends with your own hands."

"I don't want," The brunette said, "to lose to such a terrible person. I want to beat this guy!-!"

"This is the end!" Mukuro said but then, a light is shined strings are stuck throughout the room. "Vongolia! What do you do?-!"

"I didn't do anything." Tsuna said. "Tsuna, look up!" Korin said, and the brunette looked at as well to find Leon on the ceiling. "Ah, Leon!"

"He finally emerged."

"Emerged?" Tsuna and Korin asked.

"Like 'that' time." Reborn smirked, "Like when Dino became the Bucking Bronco."

"Sokka… It is your doing, Arcobaleno." The possessed blonde student said.

"You're wrong. This is the shape-shifting chameleon, Leon, my partner." Reborn explained, "For some reason, he becomes a cocoon when my students are given a trial."

"I-Is that what it was?" Tsuna asked.

"And when the student grows, he emerges." He added.

"E-Eh?-!"

"That's amusing." Ken(Mukuro) said.

"I wondered what he'd show us in the end…" Gokudera(Mukuro) added, "His pet emergence."

"You two are certainly unique." Bianchi(Mukuro) commented.

"He's laughing at us!" Tsuna cried, "What is this?-! How is this related to Dino becoming the Bucking Bronco?-!"

"Just watch."

"Eh?" Both of them looked up. "There's something is his mouth." Korin said.

"He's about to spit out a new item." Reborn tells him, "Just for you, my student."

"Eh? New item?" The brunette asked.

"In Dino case," The hitman tutor added, "he spat out the Bucking Bronco Whip and Enzo."

"Eh?-! Enzo is Leon's baby?-!" Both of them shouted.

'But, if something like Enzo appeared, it would help.' Tsuna thought.

"I cannot put up with your playtime forever." Ken(Mukuro) stated, "Let's call an end to this break," he ran towards the Leon-cocoon, "and finish this!" Reborn kicked his student out of the way. "This is in the way…" He sliced the strings along with Leon, "So I'll take care of it!"

Two green blobs landed in front of Tsuna, "Ah! Leon!" He cried.

"Don't worry." Reborn assured him as the green blob merged together to form a slime-looking Leon, "Leon is a shape-shifting chameleon. More importantly, something was shot upwards." They looked up to noticed two glowing objects above them and falling, "It looks like it's safe. That's the new item."

"T-That's…" Tsuna looked up as the twin objects landed on his hands, "Huh? These are…" He hold up two wool mittens with the number 27 behind each of it, "Wool mittens?-! How do I fight with these?-! Wasn't Enzo or some kind of weapon supposed to pop out?-! What's the point of giving my hands good circulation?-!"

"Ah! Those look like…!" Korin said, noticing the similarity between those mittens and his fingerless gloves, "Tsuna, put those on, quickly!"

"What are you saying, Korin-san?-! These can't be use for fighting?-!" He yelled at his friend.

"You were amusing to the end." They turn around, noticing the possessed blonde student is striking at Tsuna but he surprising blocked it with his mitten, that knocked off the dagger but pushed him back. "You deflected my attack?"

"I-I'm safe…" The brunette sighed, "Oh? Something's inside." He removes one of the mittens and a silver bullet comes out from inside, "A-A bullet!"

'A special bullet!' Ken(Mukuro) thought in shock.

*smirk* "So that's what it is." Reborn said, "Tsuna, toss that over."

"I won't let you!" Ken(Mukuro) yelled as he swung his weapon at him, and he jumped to avoid, and then Bianchi(Mukuro) took his arm but it tears off and reveal to be Leon. The Arcobaleno jumped towards Tsuna and grab the bullet.

"I've never seen a bullet like this before." He said, "We'll just have to give it a try."

"Eh?-! G-Give it a try?-!" Tsuna shouted.

"I won't let you!" He looked to his side and noticed dynamites flying towards him, "S-Sonna!-!" Tsuna cried.

"I've given up on obtaining your body without harming it." Gokudera(Mukuro) said, while Leon turned into Reborn's trusty green gun and the hitman load it with the bullet, "You won't make it in time!" An explosion blew up the area closest to Tsuna.

"Tsuna!-!" Korin cried.

"He took the full brunt of the bombs." Bianchi(Mukuro) said. "Oya oya, this is going to be a severe wound." Ken(Mukuro) said. The smoke clears and Tsuna was lying on the floor, motionless. "It seems that it have no effect." Chikusa(Mukuro) said, "So the special bullet was useless too. Now you're out of options. What an anti-climatic ending. Now," he took out his dagger, "let me take over your near-death body from you."

"Sonna… Tsuna…" Korin looked at his friend, tears filling his eyes.

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Xxx Tsuna POV xxx

'It hurts…' Tsuna thought, 'My entire body hurts… Am I going to die now? It's enough, right? I did well, right? Minna, Gomen. This is it for me… I had enough of being hurt… I had enough of being scared…'

"Ah! These clothes!"

'Huh?'

"Tsuna went out again after making a mess!" Nana said in his room, "I keep telling him to take care of his things on his own."

'Eh…? Kaa-san…? Is this a dream?'

"What is this?-!" Hana said while flipping through the class file, "Sawada's test is in with the daytime duty journal. And he only scored two points."

'My language test…'

"He really is Dame-Tsuna." She added, "He really needs to try harder if he wants to get Kyoko."

'Why am I hearing Kurokawa bad-mouthing me?'

"It seems like it's the effect of the special bullet."

'Reborn…'

"What you're hearing is real-time rebukes to you from others." He tells the brunette.

'Rebukes?' Tsuna thought, 'Why do I hear rebukes at a time like this? Am I going to be told I'm Dame-Tsuna to the very end?'

"Hahi! What is he doing?-! Charging into the enemy Headquarters isn't the rational thing to do!"

'That's Haru!'

"GyaHahahaha!" Lambo laughed, "Haru's crying!"

"I-I'm not!" Haru retorted as he wiped her tears, "Haru is going to be a mafia boss' wife. I wouldn't cry over something like this! Tsuna-san, Do your best!"

'H-Haru…'

"Calm down, Kyoko." Ryohei calms her sister.

"But Shamal-sensei said that Tsuna-kun charged in!" Kyoko said.

"Don't worry."

"But!"

"Kyoko-chan, Sawada-san is really strong." Mikuri tells her friend.

"That's right! He's the strongest guy I've ever cross fists with." The older Sasagawa assures her, "I won't forgive him if he comes back defeated."

"Besides, Korin-san is there as well, so there is no worry." Mikuri added.

"Y-You're right." Kyoko said, "He'll be all right. Tsuna-kun, come home safely."

'Kyoko…-chan…'

"Don't make the same mistake I made." Lancia voice said, "Protect your friends. Protect your family with your own hands."

"Tsuna… Don't you…" Korin's voice says, "Don't you dare die here!-! Stand up and beat that pineapple bastard already!-!"

Tsuna gritted his teeth. "I don't think I need to voice out my rebuke." Reborn said.

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Xxx Normal POV xxx

With that, Tsuna opened his eyes, with a new determination burning in them. "Oh? You're looking at me like that?" Chikusa(Mukuro) said, "But let put down the curtains now. I can have you dying yet." He stabbed at him but Tsuna's hand grabbed the dagger, shocking the possessed beanie student. The mitten starts to glow, surprising him and Korin who was on the verge of crying. It has transformed the mittens to black metal gloves with white fingers, like Korin's but is a full glove, and broke the spike on it. He stepped back in shock as Tsuna got up.

"Mukuro…" Tsuna spoke, "If I don't defeat you, I can't die in peace!-!-!" He voiced out as an orange flame is ignited on his forehead and his eyes turns orange. Chikusa(Mukuro) immediately jumped back. "That aura over your head…" He stated, "I see. The special bullet did hit you, but the flame seemed fiercer then when you fought Lancia."

"The Rebuke Bullet draws out Tsuna's calm fighting spirit." Reborn tells them, "It's completely different from the Dying Will Bullet."

"That's not all." Korin said as he wiped his tears, "It has made Tsuna enter Hyper mode, a bullet with a new power!"

"Hyper mode? What nonsense." Chikusa(Mukuro) said, "It just seems to me that he's simply lost his will to fight. Either way, he is no match for my skills." His red eye spins till reach the kanji of two, and which Ken just jumped at the brunette who simply grabbed him from behind, immobilising him before he knocking him back with an elbow thrust.

"That's not all." He stated as he spun his yo-yos that fired needles at the brunette, who stood there as the needles just past through him.

"That one is an illusion." Tsuna looked at the shadows, "Over there." He ran over and punched the hidden Chikusa, knocking him out immediately while causing the dagger to stuck in the wall with the spiked area sticking out.

"What?-! Impossible!" Gokudera(Mukuro) said.

"He couldn't see through the Path of Hell's illusions earlier." Bianchi(Mukuro) stated.

"This is an effect of the Rebuke Bullet." Reborn stated, "'The Blood of Vongolia' within Tsuna has awakened. Instead of removing external limiters and using pressure during a crisis, like the Dying Will Bullet, the Rebuke Bullet removes all limiters from within by awakening the person's hidden awareness."

'So that's why I'm able to see everything much more clearly when I in that form.' Korin realised.

"And at the same time, it unlocks the limiters for his senses on the inside." Reborn added, "Meaning, this power only appears when one is succeeding the Vongolia bloodline, Hyper Intuition."

"Hyper Intuition?" Gokudera(Mukuro) asked.

"According to Vongolia's first Boss and Knight who have it, it's the power to see through all." Reborn stated, "Tsuna and Korin had shown signs of it in fights up to this point."

'Signs?' Korin thought, then he recalled on how they had thought that Lancia is not that scary at all and how they realised Mukuro has possessed Bianchi, 'Of course. I had been always to tell who has done the wrong since I was young.'

"Although, he hasn't mastered how to use those gloves yet." Reborn stated.

"Kufufufu, you are amusing to no end." The possessed bomber said, "But, even though you can see through my attacks, you cannot defeat me." His red eye than spins till it reaches the Kanji of four and the violet flame ignite on it, "I'm certain you haven't forgotten that these are your friends' bodies. Can you raise a hand against them?" He ran forward and land an elbow thrust at the brunette, "Can you?-!"

"Can you?" Bianchi(Mukuro) ran forward and knee'd him. The brunette ended up as their punching bag in the middle, "Kufufufu, you can't raise a finger against me."

"You made a wonderful sandbag." The possessed silverrette said.

"He's not taking their attacks…" Korin realised.

"That's right, Korin." Reborn tells the black haired boy, "Their attacks aren't hitting him." The brunette then grabbed the possessed bomber's punch, "If he were to guard or evade, it would strain Bianchi's and Gokudera's bodies. So he's catching and absorbing all of their attacks with his body in order to protect their bodies."

Tsuna got behind the silverrette and hit the back of his neck, knocking him out, "My body-" He cried out before he landed on the floor.

"He intuitively saw a way to stun their bodies' nervous systems." The hitman said.

"Intuitively?" The possessed poison scorpion laughed, "Don't screw around!" Tsuna was about to immobilise her. "Leave this one to me!" Korin shouted as he jumped from where he is and knocked her out with a chop on her neck.

"Damn… it…" She collapsed into his arms, with Bianchi on Korin's arms and Gokudera in Tsuna's.

"Sorry to keep you waiting." Tsuna apologized as he and Korin placed them down gently, "Reborn, take care of them."

"Don't be so bossy." The infant commented as he walked up to them. Tsuna turned around, "Come on out, Mukuro." He said, "You're alive, aren't you?"

They heard a chuckle as Mukuro stepped out from the shadows. "I will acknowledge that your fighting skills have escalated greatly." He commented, "However, I can have you becoming elated just because of that. Have you noticed that there is one of my skills that I have not used yet?"

"The Fifth path, Path of Humans." Reborn said.

"That's exactly right." He said as he swung his pole down, "Our world is the Path of Humans. In reality, it is the most hideous and cruel underworld."

"Because this is the place where darkness are being created," Korin commented, "Am I right?"

"That's right, and I'm not being ironic here." He replied, "That is why I hate this world, this skill." The pineapple raised his hand up to his red eye, "If possible, I'd never use it. Because The Path of Humans is the most hideous…" He squeezed his eye till blood comes out of it and covered his hand, and he removed his hand to show the Kanji of five in it, "… and most dangerous skill!" He stated as a black aura surrounds him.

"An ugly black aura." Reborn commented.

"It is truly the devil's skill." Korin added.

"Can you see it?" He asked, "For warriors who emit aura and fight, the size of their aura…" He ran towards the brunette and swings his pole down at him, "their strength!" The brunette grabbed the pole, but then Mukuro struck an uppercut that his stomach that sent him flying up.

"Tsuna!" Korin called out but was cut short when Mukuro side-kicked him.

"Between you and I," The pineapple spun his pole above him, "there is too much difference in strength!" he swung the pole at Tsuna and sent him flying all the way across the room. "Hahahaha, how weak." He laughed, "I only intended on warming up."

"It's gotta be…"

"Huh?-!"

The orange flame grew more brightly than usual within the smoke, "What?-! His aura!" Mukuro startled. Reborn and Korin smirked, as the smoke cleared and Tsuna has both his hands in the flame on his forehead, igniting the gloves, "If that was all your power," The brunette calmly said, "I would've been disappointed."

"You're beginning to get it." Reborn praised his student, "The X-Gloves are made from the same material as the Dying Will Bullets. They were born from Leon, after all. That's why it can light the Dying Will Flames, though Korin figured it out already."

"I was right, it is similar the gloves Ero-Ray gave me." Korin said.

"Hm. Like a cat who puffs up its fur to look bigger." Mukuro commented, "Simply changing your aura is meaningless."

"The Dying Will Flame isn't an aura." Tsuna tells him.

"Oh…? That's interesting." He walked up to him, "Then, show me!" he ran up and swung his pole at the brunette who grabbed it with his burning glove and melt the area before snapping it in two, shocking the pineapple before he swung the flaming gloves by his cheek.

'It's hot!' Mukuro thought as he stepped back, 'The aura is emitting heat!'

"The difference in energy density between an aura and the Dying Will Flame is much too great." Reborn tells him, "Unlike an aura, which can only be seen by a selected few, the Dying Will Flame has gained its own destructive properties. It's super-condensed energy."

"Then those gloves burn as well?" Mukuro asked.

"That's not all." Tsuna tells him as he ran towards the pineapple and Mukuro swung his weapon in defence but he did not hit anything as he vanished. "He's disappeared!" Mukuro said. Tsuna then appeared behind him, "I-Impossible! When did you-" He was cut short when Tsuna punched him, Mukuro blocked it but was pushed back and fall onto the floor. "What… was that? What did he do?"

"Aren't you done warming up?" Tsuna asked.

"Kufufufu, Hahahaha!" Mukuro laughed, "What a happy miscalculation in my part. With your body, rather than scheming, I can attack the families directly, and cause a war within the mafia."

"So, that's your goal." Reborn said.

"It is like Nerio said." Korin commented, "You planned on eliminating the mafia."

"Kufufufu, of course not, I am not so small minded." The pineapple added, "I plan on possessing the body of every important person in the world. By controlling them, I will paint this world in a pure and beautiful darkness, a world war." He looked at the brunette, "Or is that too cliché? But I will start with the mafia… Eradicating the mafia."

"Why are you so obsessed with the mafia?" Reborn asked.

"Do hold a grudge against them?" Tsuna followed suit.

"What have the mafia done to you?" Korin added.

"I don't have any intention of indulging you further, because through my ultimate form, you will become mine. Behold!" He stared sternly at them as a phantom of him suddenly raced out and attacked him.

"An illusion." Tsuna said, "This isn't going to-" The phantom goes right through him but a rock inside it hit him.

"You let your guard down, baka-Tsuna." Reborn scolded his student, "Mukuro hid a rock within the illusion."

"Got you!" Mukuro cried as he jumped up and attacked from above.

"Tsuna!"

"I know!" Tsuna replied his tutor as his gloves burst into flames, and he vanished from his position and reappear behind Mukuro in the air.

"He got behind me again!" The pineapple said in shock as he tried to block, but the brunette's punch went past his weapon and hit his face, sending him crashing down onto the floor as he landed safely.

Mukuro lay motionless for a moment before he fidgeted and slowly turn his head to look at Tsuna, "So, this is… the Vongolia Tenth." He said weakly, "The man who… defeated me. Now, finish me off." Tsuna eyes widen in shock, "I choose death… over being captured… by the mafia…"

"I…" Tsuna turned around, "can't do that." Mukuro then smirked as he got up and ran and grab both of the brunette's wrists. "That softness is what's going to kill you!" He told the brunette. "Mukuro! You-" Tsuna cried but hissed as his wrists are squeezed harder by the pineapple.

"Oh?" Mukuro hold his wrists firmly, "I know your odd abilities are from the flames on your hands. If I can take hold of your hands," He head-butted the brunette, "then your nothing to fear!" Tsuna grunted in pain, "Why do you think I sent so many assassins after you? To take over your body after you're drawn out all of your power. Job well done. Now you can rest!" He twisted the wrist a little before he kicked him across the room, "Now see where you're being thrown onto!" The rest of the members in the room turned and noticed that the brunette is on the course to the dagger that was stuck in the crack of the wall. "You cannot manoeuver in mid-air. You will lose because of your pathetic kindness."

"Go, Tsuna!" Reborn tells his student, "Show him the power of the X-Gloves!"

"Uwa!-!-!" Tsuna cried as he placed his hands behind him. The gloves then glows and then a huge burst of flames appears behind him from the gloves, stopping him from getting impaled by the dagger.

"He used the flames as thrust?-!" Mukuro cried.

Tsuna flew over with the flames from the gloves. "High speed manoeuvring, using the Dying Will Flames as propulsion." Reborn explained as the brunette grabbed the pineapple's face, as Mukuro cried in pain and the aura on his face slowly dissipate, "The Dying Will Flame cleansed that ugly black aura." Tsuna pushed him over and crash him down on the other end of the room. Behind them, the dagger's blade cracked and crumbled as Mukuro's defeated.

"It's over." Reborn added.

"Yeah…" Tsuna said as he reverts back to normal, "Ah! Everyone's hurt!"

"Nothing to worry about," The tutor assured his student as he held up a green phone, "The Vongolia Medical team has arrived. It looks like they are able to provide an antidote to Lancia's poison."

"Yokatta…" Tsuna sighed.

"Isn't that good? Tsu…na…" Korin said as he blacked out and collapsed on the floor.

"Korin-san!"

"Don't worry." Reborn said, "He just lost consciousness from too much blood loss."

"S-Sokka…" He turned and looked at Mukuro, "Mukuro… He's not dead, is he? Is he alright?"

"As naïve as ever." Reborn sighed.

"Stay away from him, byon!-!" The two turned around to find Ken and Chikusa crawling towards them, "Don't you mafia touch them!" Ken shouted.

"W-Why?" Tsuna asked, "Why do you go so far for Mukuro? You were possessed and used by him!"

"Don't talk to us like you understand." Chikusa said weakly. "This… is nothing, byon," The blonde student said as he tried to get up, "compare to… the suffering we endured… back then…"

"Back then?"

"What happened?" Reborn asked, "Why do you hate the mafia so much?"

"We were…" Ken said, "used by guinea pigs for human experimentation by our own Family."

"Eh?-!"

"Just as I suspected." Reborn realised, "You're members from the Estraneo Family that created the forbidden Possession Bullet."

"You guys made it forbidden out of your own convenience." He retorted, "Because of that, our family was being completely destroyed. The cornered heads of the Family began developing special weapons to survive. Children within the Family were gathered together for those experiments. Day after day of cruel experiments… We had no way to escape. But he… He destroyed our current existence all by himself! He was the quiet one that never drew your attention. I think that is the first time I heard his voice. That moment, for the first time for our lives… We had a place to be. I won't let you destroy that!"

Tsuna looked at him, shocked of their stories, "But…" he suddenly said, "I can't sit and watch my friends get hurt. Because," he looked up at them, "that's my place to be." The two Kokuyo students were surprised of it. Then, they noticed figures at the entrance. "Ah! The medical team!" But then, chains are hooked up onto the three Kokuyo students.

"That was fast." Reborn said grimly.

"Who are they?" Tsuna asked.

"Vindice." The hitman answered, "The protectors of mafia law. They punish those who cannot be punished by the law." The bandaged men in black coats started dragging them towards them. "W-What are you doing?-!" Tsuna shouted.

"Quit it, Tsuna." The brunette looked at his tutor in confusion, "Defying them will be trouble."

"But-"

"This is the law."

"What will happen to the three of them?" Tsuna asked, "Ah! What about Lancia san?-!"

"They will be judged and punished." Reborn replied.

"Punished?"

"Who knows, but it won't be light. Our world isn't soft."

As soon as the Vindice left, the medical team came in. "Sorry to keep you waiting!"

"Is there anyone that's hurt?" They all quickly take care of the injured people, Fuuta, Gokudera, Bianchi, Hibari and Korin, and took then out in stretches.

"Minna…" Tsuna said but then, a bunch of pain is felt throughout his body, "Ite-te-te-te-te-te!" He kneeled down and hugged himself in hope for the pain to stop, "Itai! What is this?-! " He shouted, "My entire body hurts!"

"Combat using the Rebuke Bullet is very hard on the body." Reborn tells him, "The stress on your body has come back as pain."

"You got to be kidding me! IT HURTS!-!-!-!" He cried and then blacked out from the intense pain.

"So, you passed out from the pain." Reborn sighed, "I still need to train you. But, you've overcome the Ninth's trial. Well done, Tsuna." He walked up to him and leaned on him, "As a home tutor, I'm…" He too fell asleep as well.

…

One month later, everyone had recovered and all's good. The funny thing is, Nerio has been enrolled into the school, as a third-year, starting next semester, much to everyone surprised but was more surprised that he claimed that he's Kasumi's sister. He claimed that Korin has recruited him in the Vongolia Knights so he's free from Vindice's grip. They are still not used to having him as their senpai, especially Gokudera who was always on his guard around him, that Korin find pretty hilarious.

Now, they are at the baseball game that Yamamoto is in, who just happened to have scored a home-run.

"Way to go, Yamamoto!" Tsuna cheered.

"That's amazing, Yamamoto-kun!" Kyoko followed suit.

"Honto!" Haru agreed, "It's a great-big, gorgeous home-run desu!"

"Keep it up, Yamamoto-san!" Mikuri shouted.

"GyaHahahaha! It is all thanks to Lambo-san!" Lambo boasted.

"Geez, why is the opposing team struggling with against Yamamoto?" Gokudera sighed, before he stood up and shouted with dynamites in his hands, "Teme! You better get your act together, or I'm going to start a riot!"

*Dead-panned* "Gokudera-kun, why did you come, anyway?"

"Maa, calm down." Ryohei tells the bomber, "There's something that we have to do if we're here to see the sport."

"Huh?"

The hyperactive boxer stood up and shouted, "Quit baseball and join the boxing club!-!"

*Dead-panned again* "That's wrong, too!"

"Onii-chan…" The younger Sasagawa sighed.

"Hahi… Dangerous as always." Haru sighed.

"Ah, look out, Tsuna-nii." Fuuta warned his older brother figure. They looked down to find a foul ball flying towards the brunette and he ducked and Bianchi caught the ball. "Ah! Bianchi, Cosma-san!" Tsuna said.

"A-Aneki…" Gokudera as his stomach grumbled in pain.

"I bought the bentos." She tells him as the silverrette fell over in pain once more.

"Ah! Gokudera-kun!"

"Ah…" Nerio sighed, "Are they always this noisy?"

"But, Nerio-nii-san." Kasumi tells her brother, "Isn't it rather lively?"

"You are really cheerful, as always, Mimi. But I would rather stay at home and read."

"Nerio-nii-san, you need to learn to socialist with people, like Korin-kun! Say, where's Korin-kun?" The violet haired girl asked.

"Yan-san has something else to do." Cosma tells her, "So he wants me to tell you that he couldn't make it."

"That's too bad." Tsuna said, "We hardly had anytime to hangout normally."

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Meanwhile with Korin, he has gone back to Kokuyo land to look for the girl that looked like June. "She should be around here…" He mumbled, but then he saw something shining in the debris of the building. He walked up to it and saw that it is a metal pendant. He picked it up, "What is this?"

Please put that down!

"Huh?" Korin looked around, "Who is that-?"

Put that down right now!-!

"Oh! There!" Korin turned behind him and saw the same girl he saw at the entrance when he first came here.

I said, her eyes started glowing, put that down!-!-!-! A huge force to push him and he flew to the end of the building.

"Ite-te-te-te-te-te…" Korin mumbled as he got up, "I thought so…"

"Ah! I did it again!" She panicked, "What should I do? He can't see me, and entering his mind is creepy! Ah…"

"Huh?"

"Ah! He is going to freak out! I'm sure!"

"Pft-Hahahaha!" Korin laughed, "Wow, you looked alike, but you are really different from her."

"Eh?-! Is he talking to me?" She looked at him, "But he shouldn't be able to…"

"Hai, I can see you." He tells her, "And I heard the whole thing."

"Ah?-!" She screamed as her face turns beet-red, "F-Forget about it! Forgot the whole the thing!"

"Oi oi, Calm down…" Korin sighed, "Is your name August Casterwell?"

"Eh? How do you know?" She asked, "W-W-Who are you?"

"An average student mage, who also happens to know your sister." Korin introduced himself, "I'm Korin Yan."

"Ah! You're that boy from a month ago…"

"Yup!"

"Wait, you know my sister?"

"That's right, June Casterwell right?"

"Ah! June?-!" August suddenly said out loud, "Is she okay? Is she doing well? Does she have a boyfriend? Where is she?"

"Calm down!" Korin tells her, "Okay, don't freak out, but your sister's dead."

"Eh?"

"She tried to revive you with a revival spell but it back fired and it took her life."

"J-June is d-d-d-d-dead?" She asked, tears sliding down her transparent cheek, "Trying to r-r-revive m-me?"

"I'm sorry. But she is doing fine." Korin added, "Although her spirit looked a little lonely…"

"I see… Ne," She asked, "can you tell her that I'm sorry for everything?"

"No."

"Eh?-! Why?-!"

"Because you are going to tell her yourself." Korin tells her, "As I'm bringing you to her."

"Eh? But I can't get out of here." She replied him, "I'm stuck here."

"You have an unfulfilled wish in your heart." He added, "So, you're stuck here, close to your body or to the object that you hold dear."

"An object…?"

"This pendant you have." Korin showed her the pendant in his hands, "It is what binds you to this area, and what kept you from disappearing."

"D-D-Disappearing?-!"

"That's correct. So if I brought it with me," He pocketed the pendant, "You should be able to leave with me."

"H-Honto?"

"Hai!" Korin nodded, "So, let's go, okay?"

"H-Hai!" Korin left the place with August floating behind him, "Err… I should keep the pendant with me all the time." Korin mumbled, "But still…"

"So, you're going to Wales soon?" She asked.

"No… I'm not heading there anytime soon."

"Is that so?"

"Well, I still have a mission for me to do here, so I wouldn't be leaving for while."

"I see…"

"You know…" August looked at him, "You and June looked so alike, yet you're really different from her."

"Really?"

"Yeah… But you're both just as beautiful…" August blushed at the comment.

"August? Is something wrong?"

"No… it's nothing."

"Huh… "

"Ah! Korin, look out!" August warned him as Korin looked at her confused before he felt a pain on his head and fell onto the floor. "Ite-te-te-te…" He turned around to find a baseball behind him, "Ah? What is a baseball doing here?" He then realised, "Ah… Yamamoto-san… Oh well, I think I should return home now."

"So… I'm-"

"You're staying with me… At least until I find a way to sent the pendant to Wales. Oh! Why don't we mail it there?"

"No! I get airsick real easily!" August disagreed.

"How can a ghost can airsick?" Korin asked with his eye brow raised.

"W-Well…"

"Anyway, you can stay with me till we find a way, okay?"

"Um… Sure."

Korin just sighed, thinking of the new troubles of he had to face, plus the need to explain to the rest of his tenants of the same room. 'Ah… Look like I had more trouble… But,' He looked up in the sky, 'it's kind of nice… Since I've came here, there's people that care for me, my friends… I wonder… if I'm like this, many years ago…'

To be continued

つづく

There! Chapter 10 DONE!

And I added a new mystery! Korin's past!

Korin: Eh? My past?

Yup! I just had to add a mystery, right?

Any way, please review!

I'll add August's bio in the next chapter. Also, for those who hadn't read my new slots in my OCs, I'll repeat and elaborate.

There is a two new groups: Mare Knights(The other group under Byakuran, with the leader that has the same power as the boss)
and The Assassino Family, a family that existed before the Vongolia since ancient times but changed when the Vongolia is created
and has connections with the magic world.

Slots available are,
Mare Knights: All the knights, including the leader, that's right! I have a bad guy leader role available.
Assassino Family: 9 elites, ages vary, and 5 students/recruits, ages between 13 & 20 (By the way, I won't show the assassino OCs, only a few until I entered the Negima Arc. So, take your time!)

The slots there are currently available are in my profile.

And I like to thank Pikapikaluv for her OCs. Thanks! XD