Future of the Sky
Friends
Ieyatsu didn't like Reborn's training methods, but he couldn't say that he and his big sister didn't learn a lot from him. Of course the most embarrassing was always when Reborn felt the need to use the Dying Will Bullet. Thankfully that didn't happen often, in fact only once more since that first day had he shot them with that particular bullet.
Ieyatsu had noticed something as he and his sister trained with Reborn, well he noticed it more easily now then he had before. For as long as he could remember Ieyatsu had always been more inclined to read or do homework, while his sister was always more active. Ieyatsu wasn't bad at sports, but his sister had always been better. At the same time his sister wasn't a bad student, but schoolwork came more easily to Ieyatsu. What Ieyatsu had noticed had to do with that difference between them, because apparently it had to do with the so-called Vongola Hyper Intuition that both he and his sister apparently had according to Reborn.
Of course it made sense to Ieyatsu, who had never been able to explain why his older sister always knew what pass to make in a team sport during gym, or why she was able to nail every flip, and tumble she did with the gymnastics team in their old school when she usually only practiced at school. With a strong intuition, a Hyper Intuition, to rely on would make things like that possible. Now that he had been told about it he could still see it as Reborn used his insane training methods on Amami, and himself, forcing her to fight, and revealing her to be the better fighter.
What Ieyatsu didn't believe was that he too had this Hyper Intuition, not that he told either Reborn or Amami. Ieyatsu knew that to tell Reborn would be asking for extra crazy training, and his sister would just assure him that he was being silly, and of course he had the intuition as well.
Who he did tell was Emiko, though he made her swear secrecy so she wouldn't tell anyone else, one day when they meet up at the park not too far from his house. Apparently because Ieyatsu had his first family member, despite the fact that Ieyatsu protested that Emiko was just a friend really, his training this week was what Reborn called "establishing a bond between boss and subordinates".
Ieyatsu, and every other teenager in the world, called it hanging out with a friend.
Sadly his sister wasn't so lucky because she got one on one torture, er, training with Reborn while Ieyatsu was out.
Anyways after Ieyatsu told Emiko his secret she hummed and rocked back and forth on her swing. The light brown haired boy waited for her response, letting the girl think over what he had said.
"I don't get it." She said finally making Ieyatsu nearly laugh. "Don't laugh! Just, just hear me out." The girl said embarrassed. Ieyatsu nodded, and she went on. "Look, intuition is, like, when you just know something's wrong right? Or that creepy feeling that someone is watching you, and you turn around and someone is? Or, like, when twins can tell when something is wrong with the other? Right?"
Ieyatsu nodded, "Mmhm, that's the idea."
Emiko nodded and continued, "So everyone has it if you're in the mafia or not, and I bet everyone had it at different levels or they're sensitive to different things. So what if your sister's intuition is just more focused on physical things? She really likes sports right? So maybe her Hyper Intuition thingey is just more active when she's active. That could be right?"
Ieyatsu thought about it for a moment before he said slowly, "I suppose… "
"Well I'm right," Emiko said matter of factly before she poked Ieyatsu in the forehead with a finger. "So I'm gonna guess that your intuition isn't really tuned into physical things, it's tuned to something different. We just have to figure out what."
"E-Eh?" Ieyatsu asked intelligently.
Emiko rolled her eyes, "Oh come on Tsu-kun! You're not gonna let your sister beat you out are you? We have to find out what your intuition reacts the strongest to so you can get your head back into the game properly!" Ieyatsu though it was funny that she called him by his family nickname already, though he wasn't surprised. Emiko seemed to have fewer boundaries then most of the people Ieyatsu knew, not that he minded. In fact he was happy that she was acing so familiarly with him given the fact that they hadn't seen each other since they were little kids.
"Emi it's not a-" Ieyatsu started.
"Game, I know, I know. Geeze it was figure of speech. Anyways…" Emiko jumped off her swing and onto her feet with a huge grin. "Get's go activate your superpower." She said a little too excitedly.
"Eh?! I don't have any-" Ieyatsu's protest was cut off as he was hauled out of his swing.
"No protesting! If I say you have a super power then you do, now come on!" Emiko said as she dragged the young man out of the park.
"W-Wait Emiko! What are we going to do?"
"Hmmmm… I don't know yet!"
"E-Ehhhh?! Emiko, I don't think this is a good idea!"
"I said no protesting, now come on! Stop dragging your feet too!"
An hour and a half, and a lot of protests of crazy stunts later Ieyatsu, and Emiko still hadn't figured out how to trigger Ieyatsu's Hyper Intuition. First Emiko had him try to remember any time he's gotten a funny or creepy feeling in his life. Ieyatsu had explained the times he could remember, but really all he could remember was that he's always been able to tell when someone is lying to him. However that feeling hasn't always been reliable.
Of course Emiko had said that didn't matter, and they then began testing Ieyatsu's intuition against people. The testing really didn't go all that well, and left the two teens sitting on a bench at a different park a little tired.
"Hey Emiko…" Ieyatsu said quietly to his slightly dejected friend.
"Hmm?" The girl replied.
"We've been followed for awhile now…" He replied.
"Ah?" Emiko questioned.
"Mmhm, sorry I didn't tell you. I wasn't sure but now…" He stood up, and smiled apologetically, "It seems like we're surrounded. So just, just stay there for a bit."
"Haa? Ieyatsu what are you, oh." Emiko asked changing what she was saying in the middle as a handful of men in suits made them selves known. "Y-Yeah, I'm not moving, promise." Emiko nearly squeaked in alarm.
Ieyatsu smiled back at her as he started walking away, "Ok, I'll be back."
"E-Eh?! H-Hold on!" The girl exclaimed only to be ignored.
Emiko watched her friend approach the suited men, and then nearly levitated from her seat on the bench when they suddenly attacked him after a rather short conversation. The girl fumbled for her phone she yelped, and dropped it when a bullet whizzed past her arm and lodged it's self in the back of the bench just an inch away from her.
Though she was nearly hyperventilating now Emiko stayed put where she was, because Ieyatsu had told her to stay, but really guns?! How unfair was that to be pulling out guns on an unarmed kid!? Besides Emiko didn't know how long she could follow Ieyatsu's request to stay put because that really wasn't her style. But against gun toting-
Wait, was that a red flaming scythe?
Emiko stared dumbly at the suited men as they ditched their guns for different, flaming, weapons. This was getting out of hand, really, really out of hand. Emiko doubted that Ieyatsu could hold his own for much longer against these guys, he needed backup.
And the only other person there was Emiko.
Unfortunately Emiko didn't have any way of helping. She wasn't really a fighter, not a fighter like Ieyatsu was being right now, up in the other people's faces throwing punches, and kicks. She didn't really know how to use a weapon, only her brother had been old enough to be taught their Father's sword style before he died, though admittedly she didn't think that a gun would be too hard to use.
Emiko didn't want to kill anyone though.
Just knock them out for a good hour or two, so that she and Ieyatsu could book it out of there. Her father had taught her how to pitch, and Emiko's aim was spot on. So if she could just get something heavy to throw…
Something tapped against her foot making Emiko jump, and look down to see… A baseball? Leaning over she picked it up, and looked around to see where it might have come from. More then a few feet away from where she and Ieyatsu were Emiko finally noticed people coming over, most likely wondering what the gunshots had been about. Amongst that crowd, standing by a woman on a cell phone, was a pair of kids. One was holding a baseball bat loosely in his hands as he watched Ieyatsu excitedly, and the other who wore a baseball mitt was staring at Emiko. The girl blinked, but grinned at the boy as she stood up, and took a few steps away from the bench.
The baseball was perfect, and there was no more time to waste. Ieyatsu was getting his ass kicked with the appearance of the flaming weapons.
Emiko took the pitching stance her father had taught her all those years ago, her brown eyes sharpening, and narrowing as she locked onto her target, the man wailing on her friend with the red scythe. She held the ball firm in her hands watching the batter carefully. She would strike this batter out no matter what.
To Emiko the noise around her went quiet, as if the whole stadium held it's breath waiting for her pitch that would decide the game. Emiko wound up, waited a moment for her shot, and then let the ball fly from her hand. The baseball flew, at a speed Emiko was sure her father would have been proud of, and hit the man in the face with a satisfying thud as he fell to the ground out cold and bleeding from his now most likely broken nose.
Emiko stared for a moment in shock, along with everyone else, before she jumped up and down with an elated cry of "You're out!"
Ieyatsu snapped out of it first, grabbing the ball before he turned and ran towards Emiko. The closer he got to her the worse he looked, finally he placed the ball in one of her hands, and grabbed the other with the simple order of, "Run!"
The brunette started pulling her over to the stunned crowd, and as they passed the kid with the catcher's mitt the girl gently tossed the ball to him, "Thanks kiddo." She called as she was pulled along without stopping.
The two kids only stared at the two of them in wonder as they beat a quick retreat.
By the time they got to the Sawada residence Ieyatsu was exhausted, and extremely pale. Leaving it up to Emiko to get him into the house, and call the attention of his tutor and sister. The three of them got Ieyatsu up to his room, and his wounds mostly treated. Emiko sat by the low table in Ieyatsu's room with Amami and Reborn. Her legs were crossed, and her arms were braced against her ankles.
"It was Dad that saved us, I'm sure of it." She said with a sure tone after she explained to the two of them what had happened.
Amami blinked at the other girl curiously, "Your dad?" She asked.
Emiko nodded, "Mmhm! Baseball was Dad's favorite sport; he's the one that taught me how to pitch. He must have guided those two kids to us from up in heaven." She explained.
Amami smiled down at the table, the expression on her face an interesting mixture of emotions, "Mmhm, I'm sure he did…" She replied.
"Or it could have been a coincidence." Reborn said boredly.
Emiko made a face, "I don't believe in coincidence. It was Dad." She replied tartly.
Reborn grunted, and stood, "Whatever it was, you did a good job. Go home now." He said before walking out of the room.
Amami looked up at him with a little shock, and then worry before she shook her head. "Thanks for bringing Tsu-kun back Emiko-chan." Amami said to the black haired girl.
Emiko grinned, "It was nothing." She replied before getting up as well, which made Amami get to her feet. "I guess I should get home though… Nii-chan might be worrying about me."
Amami walked with the girl out of the room, and down the stairs to the door. "Mmhm, tell Kenji-san I said hello." She replied.
Emiko paused for a moment at the door after she got her shoes on, and looked at Amami. Finally she said, "Nee, Ami-chan, I think you should tell Nii-chan what's going on. He won't let me tell him, and if something like this happens again…" She started.
"It won't." Amami said firmly. "You, and Kenji-kun have a nice life here Emiko. Just by knowing, just by being seen with us, that nice life is put in danger. Tsu-kun, and I will be leaving soon I think. After something like that I doubt Reborn will want to stay here much longer, and once we're gone you guys can go back to your nice life here. No mafia danger, no having to throw baseballs at people's faces. That's what I want for you guys, it's what I think my dad would want for you guys." She explained.
Emiko's face turned into a frustrated pout, "Mou! Ami-chan, you just don't get it!" She exclaimed making the brown haired girl blink, "Nii-chan and I want to help you guys because we're friends again now. You two can't do this mafia stuff on your own." She exclaimed more causing Amami's expression to turn more surprised before she stomped out of the house, shutting the door behind her with a slam.
From around the corner of the wall leading into the living room Reborn smirked, and tugged at his fedora, having heard the whole exchange.
A/N :: All I have to say about this is that I really adore writing for Yamamoto's kids. Espcially when I can stick baseball references in in the most serious, or intense seeming places. It makes me smile every time. Anyways I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter! I've got just two or three more chapters before I'm back at the end of the Namimori/Rain Guardian Arc, which is where I started when I decided to redo everything.
I do need an opinion from you guys though! After the Rain Guardian Arc the group will be leaving Japan to get two more friends for their company. The Sun, and Storm to be exact. Now because I can't quite decide for myself I want you guys to tell me which you'd like to see first. Do I go and pick up Ryohei and Hana's kid, or Haru and Gokudera's kid? It rather effects how the chapters play out so let me know! I'll put a poll up in my profile that will last from now until the next chapter update dome time the week of December 9th.
Please review with your dying will! Flames will, as always, be used to roast marshmallows with Byakuran.
Disclaimer: Akari-chan doesn't own Katekyo Hitman Reborn!, any of it's characters, places, or anything like that.
Reposted 11/20/12
