A/N: OH YEAH! Months of glaring my computer screen, getting sidetracked by other stories, and stressing over classwork, I have finally updated this story! Thank you everyone for your response!
Disclaimer: I have not in any point in time own KHR! merchandise.
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Tsuna and Ryohei
Tsuna stood frozen, unable to understand why is she here of all places?! Especially now where it's dangerous. As if sensing the tension between the two Sawadas, Kyoko and Haru's bright smiles falter. He felt Hayato and Takeshi lean closer. As for Lambo, the toddler was trying to glare from his spot on Hayato's head.
The short brown haired mother smiles sheepishly, holding the box in her arms tighter as if trying to get strength from it, "Hello, swe—Tsu-kun."
At her hesitating words, Tsuna frowns, "Is something wrong?"
Nana looks up from staring at the box, then quickly looks away, "I—," then she lifts the box in her arms, "I brought you something for you to look forward to once you…finish. Good luck."
Tsuna stared at her so lost, unsure what he was supposed to respond to that. The minute he noticed her shaky smile falter, the sky flame wielder opened his mouth to comfort her, only to be distracted by Reborn jumping into his arms.
Ryohei stepped forward and claps on Tsuna's shoulder. With only speaking slightly lower than normal, the boxer said, "Extreme brother, it's time to move to the extreme."
The young boy starts, realizing how little time he has left, quickly walked passed his mother. Without another word, he was followed by Ryohei, while the others went to their designated spots for their next possible last round of the Representative battles. Tsunayoshi hates himself for feeling like a coward.
The sun peek through the trees as it raises up in the morning sky. While it was slightly chilled, the forest began to warm up as time passed. Birds were chirping around them while the wind blew softly, rustling the leaves, easily heard in the silence.
Tsuna tried not to fidget from his seat on a fallen log with Reborn sitting next to him, watching him like a hawk without obviously looking at him. Takeshi and Hayato already took position to fight with the two Vindice guards that are left (not including the boss watch wearing one) at an abandoned building's rooftop that were miles from where they were. They were being backed up by Chrome and Fran with Verde's upgrades. Lastly, the heavy team, which consisted of Squalo, Byakuran, Dino, Kyoya, Xanxus, and Mukuro, were standing in obvious challenge to Jaeger, located across town, far from Tsuna's current location and being watched over most of the Arcobaleno who somehow got hold off the watches as participates in case of something going wrong. Fon and the rest such as Basil and Enma were in midpoint without easily giving away Tsuna's position as standby in case of the Vindice guards try to get pass their opponents.
In all those locations was a fake version of himself as bait.
Tsuna isn't sure what to feel about that. Hopefully it will be enough bait for the guards.
"DON'T EXTREMELY WORRY! WE HAVE THIS TO THE EXTREME!" Ryohei finalized this with a punch forward. Ryohei may not be part of the fighting team, but the less number of watch-users near Tsuna, the better to hide his location. Tsuna let a small huff of laughter at the energetic boxer before looking again at his new improve Vongola Phone or V-Phone for short.
The phone presently showed footage of the other locations, but he knew he couldn't look at them long or his signal may be tracked.
"By the way," Ryohei began, catching Tsuna's attention by his curious tone down voice, "Do you still have your extreme lucky charms from my sister and Haru-chan?"
Tsuna blinks for a moment before wordlessly reaches into his dark shirt that he wore under his open green jacket to take out the charm around his neck with a tuna fish image on it. He smiles fondly at it before putting it back.
He looked up with a bright smile and responded, "Of course, Big brother!"
Ryohei froze for a moment and beams brighter than ever, tempting Tsuna to squint. Which was why, before he knew it, Tsuna found himself pulled up and under Ryohei's arm. He squirmed as the older boy rub his knuckles on his head.
"I CAN EXTREMELY SEE WHY KYOKO SAYS YOU BEING CUTE, EXTREME LITTLE BROTHER!" This froze Tsuna cold with a burning face.
"Ca—n't bre—ath!" Fortunately, the white haired older boy lets go before the dark spots take over Tsuna's vision. When he catches Ryohei still smiling at him, Tsuna cannot help, but smile back.
"Feel extremely better?" Tsuna's smile falter when he stares at the black screen of his V-Phone.
"A little. It's just," Tsuna bites his lip in worry as he leans back against a nearby tree., "I wish I can do more, but I'm still tired. I feel like I'm doing nothing."
"NOT EXTREMELY TRUE!" Ryohei crosses his arms and looks at Tsuna seriously, "WE ARE PREPARING TO THE EXTREME!"
Tsuna stares at him. As if sensing his confusion, Ryohei quickly taps the ground with his foot, crushing a couple of leaves and hums for a moment before elaborating, "It's like before my extreme fights. I mentally prepare to the extreme."
Tsuna tilts his head and curiously asks, "What do you think about?"
Suddenly a large rocky mountain appears, lifting Ryohei as he raised his fist in the air with the words of "EXTREMELY WIN!" shining brightly above him.
He roars, "I EXTREMELY THINK HOW I WILL EXTREMELY WIN!"
Tsuna only sighs in exasperation no longer surprised by this response.
Ryohei must have caught on and wraps his arms over his shoulder in a half-hug with no sign of a large mountain ever appearing, "It was extremely harder than you think. HALF THE EXTREME BATTLE FOR ANY TRUE MAN IS BELIEVING THEY WILL EXTREMELY WIN THEIR UPCOMING FIGHT!"
Tsuna stares as he quietly processes his words. So it's me who needs to believe in myself? It sounds cliché and yet…
"Well said," Reborn puts in. Tsuna looks down to see his tutor wearing boxing shorts with his elephant-looking hat. He mentally counted down until a certain someone catches on. He didn't had to wait long
"THANKS, MASTER PAO PAO TO THE EXTREME!" Ryohei rubs his nose with his fist, beaming at them.
That is when his V-Phone decided to go off, signaling someone had made contact. Confused, Tsuna looks at his watch and saw that sure enough the battle had begun for a while now.
Are the watches broken or something? Tsuna frowns at the lack of sound signaling the fight. He felt a strange dread forming in his gut.
He quickly checks on his friends again. Unfortunately, only one video was available: Basil and Enma working together with the illusion of himself fighting the pair of Vindice guards. It would seem they bypassed Hayato and Verde's group completely and attacked the Dying will duo. To his horror, behind them were a familiar guard with a pair of dolls, waiting to finish off any of the lost watch participates and somehow herding the two boys toward Tsuna.
"Bunch of unextreme men, not extremely surprised," Tsuna turns to his self-proclaimed brother at his muttered words. Ryohei was putting away his V-Phone before tugging his bandages wrapped around his fists tighter.
The Vongola heir looked toward the calm and now eerily quiet forest when explosions went off a bit too near for comfort. Tsuna turns to his self-proclaimed big brother in worry.
It wasn't time for him to get into a fight, especially those two guards, who should have been defeated by now. And his only back up is Ryohei who doesn't have the right to fight.
The Namimori boxer frowns in thought, he just received a message only meant for him to back up their back up since it seems those zombie guard things were aiming to kill, more so when they lost their own watches. He would weaken them enough and help stop them before those guards send a message of the true location of his extreme brother.
Speaking of him, Ryohei turns to his extreme brother and feels a slight déjà vu at the faint fear and worry in the younger boy's eyes so like his sister's. Ryohei punches his fists against each other and eyes Master Pao Pao, silently communicating to watch over the brown haired boy.
He turns only after receiving a slight nod. Ryohei prepared himself, Feeling the fight is coming in fast to them.
His extreme little brother tense next to him, "Extreme little brother, don't get involved in this unextreme fight!"
"What? Big brother—!" The boy eyes widen in worry and confusion, but Ryohei quickly reassured him. This fight is not meant for him, in especially how these unextreme men no longer have a watch and right to fight his extreme little brother.
"THERE IS A TIME FOR EVERY MAN MUST UNDERSTAND TO TAKE AN EXTREME MOMENT TO BREATH AND TO FIGHT TO THE EXTREME! YOU HAVE BIGGER OPPONENTS TO DEFEAT. LEAVE THE UNEXTREME ONES TO US!"
"Extremely listen to him, Tsuna!" the brown haired boy looks up at the tree where Master Pao Pao stood manly in his small height. While his extreme little brother nervously laughed, the boy thankfully made no move to interfere, trusting him.
Ryohei beams at him and gives him a thumbs up before getting back to position. The extreme fight was getting louder and closer. He can even hear a couple of muffled shouts of pain and fury. Ryohei smirks and activates his Vongola gear.
"BRING IT ON!" a couple of birds flew overhead and then a small voice spoke behind him.
"Uh, Big brother, you're facing the wrong way…"
There was an awkward silence before Ryohei roars and punches back after pivoting his foot, releasing an explosion of sun flames, "EXTREME BACKWARD PUNCH!"
"Hit the ground, Kozato-san!" suddenly cried out the Rain flamed boy.
A couple of black writing rings was barely seen under his attack. As for his Sun flames, they hit point blank at the weird doll-thing of the unextreme zombies.
Ryohei catches at the corner of his eye Master Pao Pao drag Tsuna into some bushes, just in time for a couple of chains danced just above the extreme Rain and Earth dying will boys.
The extreme red haired boy quickly informs him, wincing when he touched his arm, "You can easily defeat them! They lost their watches to Yamamoto-san's group already, unfortunately Basil lost his too!"
Ryohei smirks with a protective glint in his eyes, summons his box animal, "KNOW WHEN YOU ARE EXTREMELY DEFEATED!"
The weird puppet guy scoffs with a heavy wheeze, "We don't need…Boss' power to…defeat you!"
Ryohei frowns for a moment, but shrugs it away. There are more important things at stake and the boxer will only focus in one thing.
"ITS NOT OVER UNTIL THE BELL RINGS TO THE EXTREME!"
Shakily and eerily reminding him of his extreme brother, the red haired boy shakily joined him in attacking the unextreme guard trio.
They didn't last 5 minutes. It was rather disappointing. Even Kangaryuu pouted by his side at not able to fully go all out fighting these things who imprisoned them weeks before. The whole thing was extremely suspicious. While the red haired boy was on his back, trying to catch his breath, seeing that they are no longer fighting for their lives, Ryohei had his fists up to his face, in case his opponents were faking. Then a sharp gasp broke his concentration.
The extreme baby shows up (he wonders if Master Pao Pao left for another emergency) shoots out of the bushes, summoning his flames before putting them away with an annoyed tsk. Suddenly his extreme brother falls out of the bushes landing on his knees while clutches at his chest, breathing fast. Ryohei can faintly hear his little brother mumbling something with his head bowed down.
Ryohei quickly rushes to Tsuna and lifts his face to shout at him to snap him out of it only for his words quickly die. The younger boy's eyes were solid gold, but there was no usual extreme glow Ryohei is used to seeing. The younger boy's eyes were shifting back and forth, seeing something not there, not noticing him.
Then Master Colonnello shouts from their communicator linked to their V-Phones. "Enemy has found your location. Prepare for contact, kora!"
"Boss is coming in hot in pursuit!" Mammon snaps.
Ryohei's attention returns to hear some of the younger boy's words, "Hurts …. Xanxus' right arm!...so much blood….they need back up….explosions…a sky barrier?…"
"What the heck is going on over there?!" Octopus head shouts from Ryohei's earbuds, "Turf-Top, Tsuna-sama better be alright or so help me, your boxing days are numbered!"
While not answering to the Octopus Head's threats, Ryohei did what he does best (next to being the best boxer), he shouts at Tsuna's face, "EXTREME LITTLE BROTHER!"
Tsuna's eyes stopped shifting and tried to focus. This gave the Namimori boxer hope, "COME ON, LITTLE EXTREME BROTHER! ITS ALMOST TIME FOR YOUR EXTREME FIGHT!"
The young boy lifted his arms to the boxer's arms for support as he shakily stood up.
Tsuna closes his eyes and takes in a deep breath. The dull golden fire in his eyes brighten into determination raising his fist toward Ryohei, "Half the extreme battle for any true man—"
Ryohei beams when he fist-pump, finishes with a shout,"—IS BELIEVING THEY WILL EXTREMELY WIN THEIR UPCOMING FIGHT!"
The young Vongola heir turns around and puts his gloves on. They transformed into his X-Gloves, activating his Vongola Gear. Fire sported out around him before settling down to a steady flame.
Ryohei feeling even more pumped up, punches forward with Kangaryuu copying his stance, "I MAY NOT ABLE TO JOIN YOUR EXTREMELY FIGHT, BUT I WILL EXTREMELY CHEER FOR YOU! WORRY NOT, I WILL HAVE EVERYONE EXTREMELY HEALED! FIGHT TO THE EXTREME!"
The moment was shattered by a sudden appearance of black flames in the clearing. A furious looking Vindice zombie thing shouted, "We are not going to be made fools of!"
But Ryohei wasn't worried. Watching his extreme little brother's straight back like a true man almost made Ryohei cry manly tears, but right now he must focus on healing Basil and check over that annoying Octopus-head and the rest of his team, who were slowly making their way to them.
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A/N: I was shocked to find out the same mangaka (writer/artist) of KHR had recently made another (currently ongoing) manga called elDLIVE. The art and story is very captivating, in my opinion, and an anime was made out of it too (still hadn't had time to watch it though)!
Anyways, the next chapter will be up around 2 months, but don't worry I will finished this story before the year ends at least, I only need to finish my heavy class load in the summer…so much fun. Upcoming next, baby galore! Until next time, LaniAhava out!