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Reaching For The Sky

Chapter 11: Last mask

There was something different today, Giotto though. The kids were acting in a strange way and it was not because it was Friday. When he reunited with his guardian after the kids had gone school they agreed in this. Apparently all the teens were quiet and for some reason they were quite… fashionable. Daemon was utterly shocked when he visited his siblings this morning and saw them with matching earrings. They were not the only ones, some decided to put rings, Yamamoto was using a necklace, and there was one with a bangle, other with a bracelet and even a buckle. The stranger was they answer when asked where they got those things. All of them said the exactly same thing 'It was a present from 27'. Now who was 27 it is the question. Not that they discovered a lot after the whole day discussing such suspicious gifts and the strange behavior.

There was another thing that was making them nervous. Yesterday a agent of CEDEF passed a message with some information from the Impero family, and it said that they planned some kind of big experiment with some teens from the city. Knowing this and in the other day seeing their siblings walking around with suspicious gifts from god knows who led them to the edge.

It was already dinner at the Sawada household where the Vongola family current was. But they hadn't heard about their sibling since they had gone to school. The normally composed guardians were fidgeting not knowing what to do but at the same time really worried and wanting to do something. Giotto couldn't take this anymore too. It was totally nerve wracking. He looked to the clock that marked 7:13 p.m.

"Okay, let's go" he said getting up and startling his friends.

"To where?" G asked.

"We are going to look for our siblings of course" Giotto said.

"You at least know where they are?" Daemon asked lifting a eye brow.

"No" Giotto said with a stained smile.

"You think they have something to do with that information we received yesterday…?" Lampo asked unsure.

"Maybe" Asari answered with a dark look. "They could have become targets after we arrived here."

Lampo whimpered "We should look for them"

Giotto nodded going his way to the front door soon followed by his friends. Opening the door he suddenly stopped in his track making his friends bump in one another.

"Wha- Giotto?"G asked rubbing the back of his head that bumped in Knuckle when he almost fell.

Giotto didn't really listened and ran to the gate where a shadow was laying on the floor.

"What is EXTREMELY happening?" Knuckle asked getting closer.

"What do you think you are doing Giotto?" Daemon asked.

Alaude was the first to get closer to the shadowed figure next to the gate where Giotto was already. He inspected the figure and notice that it was a person wearing black fallen to the floor. But it was just when he kneeled next to the body that he noticed the pool of blood and the familiar face.

"It is the agent of CEDEF from yesterday" he stated in a cold tone.

"He is hurt, Knuckle he need your help." Giotto called.

It wasn't needed to call again as Knuckle was already at the agent side with his flame lifted.

"I need to find the wounds first" he said in a serious tone "help me turn him"

Giotto was already working turning the man on the floor to lay him on his back. When he finished however he noticed the blood coming from various knife wound on the chest and a deep cut on the neck.

"He is already dead" he stated with a hint of guilty. It was just then that he felt a hand yanking him by the wrist. He looked surprised to see the dead agent with a creepy grin on his face, his eyes opened only to show a dark void.

"Hurry up" the man said "The games begun" he almost singed in a creepy voice "Let's see who will survive until the end of the day. We will be waiting."

After the supposed dead man said those words he dissolved in mist leaving behind a shocked Vongola famiglia.

"…It was an illusion?" Daemon asked in disbelief. Giotto could only shake his head not knowing what to say. He could still feel the warmth of the other hand on his wrist and this only made him more creeped out.

"Was this a warning?" Asari asked thoughtful.

"No" G stated serious "It was a invitation"


After the invitation the Vongola famiglia was fast on move only to find little clues where they had gone. It hadn't another illusion, luckily, but there were some creepy messages. At 7:53 p.m. they had already run all over town and arrived in an open field on the middle of the forest. At the entrance of the field there was a sing with the following message:

'For those who dared to come to our area

Be welcome to your grave

We warn you that we will not be responsible to any kind of

Maim, killing, slashing, injures or mental instabilities that may happen.

If you still want to enter, good luck.

GM'

Now if that was the really creepy thing about the place. They have a happy go lucky creepy warning sign. And that is not strange, no, not at all. Giotto couldn't shake it off the nervous feeling he had entering the place past the warning. If their siblings were there they could be hurt, but it could be a trap too. Wait, it was a trap and their siblings were used to lure them out, Giotto corrected himself mentally.

Giotto was almost freaking out when they arrived at the middle of the field, and he gave a loud shriek when from nowhere a masked person appeared in front of him.

It was a teen, probably, Giotto thought looking to the petite figure. He was using a black suit and a white mask. The mysterious person gave them a mocking smile before turning around in his heel and walking deeper in the Impero famiglia propriety.

"Wait" Giotto called following the figure.

"Giotto" G stopped his friend " Stop, this is obviously a trap."

"But…"

"He is right Giotto" Daemon agreed "He is luring us to a trap."

"But that is part of the EXTREME game" Knuckle stated "If we don't follow him we will lose" he reasoned.

Everyone looked at Knuckle in mute shock.

"What you said make sense" G said in disbelief.

"We are losing him weaklings" Alaude stated showing that the mysterious figure was disappearing in the forest.

"Then let's go" Lampo said walking ahead of them.

They only waked for a couple of minutes before seeing a door opened in the ground with a stair going down. Giotto examined the place and then looked each guardian in the face.

"He is inviting us down" Giotto said receiving nods from his guardians. "Let's go then" he said going to the stairs.


They arrived in an immense basement. It was a really big open camp with even a fake sun in the sky. Waiting for them it was eight masked figures, the one that they followed down in the middle of the group.

"Welcome to our underground base" The one in the middle greeted in an awful familiar voice "Why don't you introduce yourselves?"

"I am Giotto, the Vongola Decimo" he stated "And these are my guardians" he gave a step forward "Are you the ones know as Game Masters?"

He heard someone giggling in the masked side and noticed a lot of ironic grins.

"Yeah, we are" The one in the middle answered with a half smile.

"We are looking for some teens" Giotto answered "They disappeared today"

A tall young man broke off in laughter. His hair Giotto notice, styled like a pineapple and in his ear an earring. Oh, wait.

"You are amazing boss" the pineapple said "They really fell in your little game"

"Humf" A silver haired boy snorted "boss never fails in a game."

The one in the middle chuckled. "You flatter me Hayato, Mukuro"

"Hayato?" G asked in disbelief.

"Mukuro?" Daemon echoed the shocked tone in G voice.

"Hahaha I guess we should introduce ourselves too Tsuna" A tall raven haired boy stated.

"You are right Takeshi" The one in the middle said "Let's take off the masks now"

And one per one they took off their mask showing the ones they were looking for under them.

"I am Tsunayoshi, the boss of the Impero famiglia" Tsuna introduce himself with cold eyes and a playful smile "Those are my guardian" he said motioning his friends "We are often know as Game Masters"

"…Tsuna?" Giotto called unsure. "You are the leader of a Mafia Famiglia?"

Tsuna stared him with even colder eyes "We have been wanting to meet the famous Decimo boss and his guardian from Vongola" he said with venom.

No one really knew what to say as their younger siblings looked at them with sad and angry eyes. Now the secrets were all in the open. And they couldn't really even start to explain.

"Why?" Daemon managed to ask.

"Why?" Mukuro repeated with disgust "Maybe because you abandoned us when we really had no one else in the world, two kids alone with ability to use illusions, what do you think happened? What do you think your beloved Estrenao family did? Thanks to Tsunayoshi we have power. Now we will rule the things in the way we want. We don't need you anymore" Mukuro finished panting his face red from angry.

"Mukuro-nii" Chrome called giving him a hug.

"Mukuro" Tsuna looked to his mist guardian with worry.

"What the hell are you talking about?" G asked nervous.

Yamamoto looked at him with his eyes filled with sadness and pain. But it was Gokudera who answered.

"We are talking about your sins."

"We will let you drown in the pain that you caused to us" Tsuna stated after receiving a small nod from his guardians of mist. He looked over to the other side of the room where Marmom and Fran were unnoticed and received confirmation. "Let's finish this pain we feel today." And then the world fell into darkness.


Alexia: Now the past will be revealed to the Vongola.

Yamamoto: This looks like fun!

Alexia: Not really...

Yamamoto: Eh?

Alexia: Forget it.

Yamamoto: Hahahaha

Alexia: Please review!