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Spoiler Alert! Manga verse, most of the Representative Battle as reference. Back button if you don't like spoilers!

Warnings: Still OOC!


CHAPTER ELEVEN

Confusion


"Get back," Tsuna said, turning slightly to Chianti. He was in his Hyper Dying-Will Mode. "I'll take care of this."

"Tsuna?" Yamamoto called, the surprise appearance causing him to let his guard down and his sword turned back to its wooden form. Suddenly, a black-and-white figure shot from the ground and aimed itself on Tsuna, who caught it with a slight surprise.

"TSUNA! Let's go home!" Lambo cried, snot and drool everywhere.

And then time seemed to stop for a while when a click of the gun was heard. Tsuna looked up from the child on his arms to the mouth of the green-black gun pointed at him.

"Are you an illusion too?" Reborn asked, finger on the the trigger. Tsuna just looked at him with confusion. It was only then that they noticed that Tsuna was slightly panting, fatigue written all over his face. His face was pale and dark bags under his eyes showed his lack of sleep. He looked like he lost weight too, especially with the large kimono he was wearing.

"I don't have time for such questions," Tsuna replied. He took a more comfortable grip on Lambo as he stepped forward. Reborn raised his gun to point directly at Tsuna's face.

"I won't hesitate on pulling the trigger," Reborn stated, almost calmly. Tsuna just smiled.

"Yes, like you would always do before."

Before Reborn can even pull the trigger, Tsuna ducked and the bullet cut the tips of his pointy brown hair. Holding Lambo with one arm close to his chest, he aimed a punched packed with the force of the hard Sky flames but Reborn side-stepped. The black-clad hitman kneed the teenager on the stomach, who barely managed to twist out of the way.

"Hey, what are you two doing?" Mukuro asked without his smile, watching Tsuna slide on the road dirt away from his tutor. "I thought we're here to take back the Vongola boss from the enemy?"

"..." Hibari.

"Yes, Mukuro's right, Reborn," Yamamoto said, keeping his sword in its case before holding out a hand. "Let's calm down, alright?"

"Have you ever thought that..." Reborn started saying, looking at the heaving Tsuna. "...the boy before us is an illusion too?"

"That's ridiculous," Mukuro said. "He's not an illusion, Arcobaleno."

"But Tsuna wouldn't fight us, right?" Reborn continued. He was frowning so hard that his usual calm eyes showed anger. Tsuna looked at those deep dark eyes, noticing the slight, almost-hidden confusion in them.

"I'm not an illusion," Tsuna said. But he knew that those words wouldn't work on Reborn. Even he was surprised to find that the teacher lost his cool just because of his sudden appearance.

"Let's go home!" Lambo insisted, oblivious to the fight. "I wanna eat Mama's cooking!"

What Lambo said seemed to jolt Tsuna, even if he was in his Hyper Dying Will Mode. A smile graced his tired face, lightening it up and even the deserted illusion world they were in. But his statement was sad.

"I'm sorry," he said, setting the five-year-old on the ground. "But I still can't go home..."

"Why?" Lambo asked.

Tsuna opened his mouth to answer when a loud cry sounded from the distance. He looked at the general direction of the shrill voice before meeting eye-to-eye with Chianti.

Without another word, the brown-haired boss began to ran away as fast as he can.


Six men stood there, wrapped in tattered black cloaks, loose bandages and cold chains. They also wore tall black hats, as well as those clear Pacifiers that hang on their necks.

The smallest of the men was nothing more than a child. He had round face and large staring eyes. Bandages draped on his shoulders, loosening more as he walked forward from his group towards the others.

"Let us pass," he said in a commanding voice that did not fit his small build. His serious face looked like a child's and no one would take him seriously had not those hunched large men in black and chains stand behind him.

"As I have said," Verde said, raising a knowing finger. "Five people are only allowed to enter the 'door'. Any more and it will collapse."

Bermuda frowned at this, yelling, "Yield! You have no idea what will happen when you let 'that child' live!"

"What do you want with Tsuna?" Lal suddenly asked. "That child has done nothing wrong. Do you realise that he's the reason why we all acquired our adult forms despite being Arcobaleno?"

"We won't let you hurt him," Colonello said, pulling his gun from his back.

"I don't care!" Bermuda said, fury clouding his childish eyes. "Sawada Tsunayoshi is fool! He should have stayed the innocent little boss of Vongola. Now he brought to this world a demon in its whole form!"

"What are you talking about?" Fong asked, surprised. But his form didn't drop.

"Stop talking and let's get the fight going on!" Skull yelled. Out of nowhere, his giant armored octopus appeared and shot its slimy tentacles towards the small form of Bermuda.

But the small boy wasn't there anymore.

"You can't escape me!" Skull said, looking around for the Vindice boss. But the boy was nowhere to be found.

"The stupidest always attack blindly first," said a voice from above. In a flash, Bermuda was above the gigantic octopus, falling fast and kicking the animal with an unexpected strength from his small stature. The octopus was back to wherever nowhere it came from.

"My octopus!" Skull called out.

Bermuda dropped lightly on the ground, smiling at how easy he could finish the job he had set out to do. Yet he knew that the 'stupidest' was the one he had defeated, and there are seven more who stood his way. Still he smiled and began to speak as the dark presence of his flames made itself known. He proceeded to stand beside his followers, letting them bathe into the overflowwing power that he now have after getting his adult form.

"I am Bermuda von Veckenschtein," the small boy reintroduced himself. "I am the founder of the Vindice, protector of the Mafia laws. And I am here to kill my mortal enemy, as well as the one who brought him to this world."

Wrath lurked in those round eyes as the flames of the night intensified.

"I am here to kill Checkered Face and his father, the young Vongola Sawada Tsunayoshi."


A/N:

Who can see where this is going? :)

I guess I'm not very good in writing action. This is another short chapter. TT_TT

Anyway, in his adult form, Bermuda von (Ctrl+V) Veckenschtein can "empower" the other Vindice so he can wander around rather than remain on Jager's shoulder. Refer reborn. wikia for more info, or maybe reread the manga itself. :)

Bermuda von Veckenschtein dropped the bomb. What in the world is he talking about?