Disclaimer: I don't own anything in here except for my OC's! All rights to their rightful owners. So this is the eleventh chapter, which continues from where I left off in chapter 10. XD The second part is up and going people~! Anyways, I decided to make this a little longer than I supposed it would be. So there would be a third part of this arc. Look forward to it XD. So, I present you guys with the 11th chapter!

Note: I've decided to lengthen this chapter so there will be third part to this. :) so I'm sorry for those who expected to know about Akane's past because that won't come up until I reach a certain part in the Kokuyo Arc.

Release Date: February 10, 2013

Next Update: February 12th or 13th , 2013

Chapter 11: Unknown Force & Past Part 2

"What is that?" Tsuna asked me while pointing to a green piece of…tail?

"…that's probably a tail of something." I said to him while kneeling down to pick it up but Reborn beat me to it.

"Leon's tail got cut…" Reborn informed us.

"…do chameleons lose their tails?" I asked Reborn but he ignored me. Just then, Leon kept transforming into different shapes. Some examples are an octopus, totem pole, TV, racket, and a UFO. Weird things he does.

"Is he okay? Why does Leon keep transforming into these weird things?" Tsuna said. Well nice one Tsuna. You voiced what I was thinking.

"With the loss of his tail, Leon can't control his shape." Reborn explained.

"Oh I see…" I commented then all was quiet for about 2 minutes. That was when another victim was found. We saw Kusakabe, Hibari's right hand man on a hospital bed.

"What? But I thought that Hibari-san went to beat the bad guys…he wouldn't lose right…" Tsuna said as he started to panic again. He was right…Hibari was strong. Even I admit that. He wouldn't be someone to just lose that easily, unless the enemy was crazily strong… now I'm starting to get worried. I started to play with my fingers and my hair.

"Are you worried?" Reborn asked once he jumped up onto my shoulder.

"…No, of course not. Why would I?" I said trying to sound like I really don't care.
"You're fidgeting with your fingers and hair. Those are signs of nervousness." Reborn said as he pointed to the finger in my hair. Damn him and his abilities to look through people. I just sighed and shut my mouth because I wouldn't be able to win against him anyways. He smiled and jumped off my shoulders.

"Tsuna, take care of Leon for a little bit. I'm going to go see Kusakabe." Reborn said as he threw Leon to Tsuna. Reborn jumped onto Kusakabe and took something like a golden stopwatch out of his chest and jumped back down.

"What's that?" I asked him. He walked over to us and opened the watch.

"…I knew it. Tsuna, they are trying to pick a fight with you." Reborn explained.

"WHAT?" Tsuna screamed.

"I didn't tell you guys but I actually found the same golden watches on every victim." Reborn explained as he showed us the watches.

"Six…five…four…are these clocks broken?" Tsuna asked.

"No, they are set to these times on purpose." Reborn said as he putted them away.

"Then that means…this is a countdown." I said to Tsuna.

"That's right." Reborn added.

"Countdown? For what?" Tsuna asked.

"The time on the clock on each victim represents them. For example, the fourth one which was found on Kusakabe. It means that he is fourth in a certain ranking that I found." Reborn said as he took out a piece of paper from who knows where.

"What ranking?" I asked.

"Fuuta's ranking about the people with the best fighting abilities." Reborn explained.

"What? So then…the third best person would be attacked next! Who is that?" Tsuna asked. I took the paper from Reborn and read the third name. It was…no it can't be.

"Tsuna! It's Hayato! Gokudera Hayato!" I said loudly at him.

"WHAT? Then we should hurry now! Let's go!" Tsuna said as he started to run.

"Wait, Tsuna. I need to go somewhere so you and Akane do this on your own. I have to go research about two things that have been on my mind lately. Ciao~" Reborn said as he dressed up as a ninja and disappeared.

"Reborn!" Tsuna said as he frantically looked out the window that Reborn just jumped out.

"Tsuna, I'll go first okay?" I said as I ran towards the exit of the hospital.

"What? WAIT FOR ME!" Tsuna screamed as he quickly ran after me.

Meanwhile…

"What's going on…so many people are absent…and Juudaime and Akane aren't here…" Gokudera mumbled to himself as he pulled out his cellphone. It was dead.

"Che…My phone died so I'm going home." Gokudera said to the teacher and walked out the door.

"WHAT? Oi, Gokudera! Get back to your seats!" yelled the teacher.

"Yawn* What…Tsuna, Gokudera, and Akane-chan aren't here…" Yamamoto said quietly as he woke up from his sleep.

"Yamamoto! Pay attention!" yelled the teacher again.

In Kokuyo Land…

"So…how was he? The Namimori School one of the number one in the ranking?" Ken asked as he bowled a bowling ball down a free lane.

"Kufufu…he was interesting but he was a miss. He doesn't belong to the Vongola Family. But he might be recruited in the Vongola in the future. Hibari Kyoya. He is a fearsome man." Mukuro said.

"Hm, Mukuro-san. Where is he now?" Ken asked.

"He's laying down in the closed room." Mukuro said as he pointed to a close room with closed walls outside the room that they were in.

"Haha! Is he even alive byon?" Ken asked again.

"We don't know but he might be useful to us. By the way, where is chikusa?" Mukuro asked as he put his hands down next to his legs on the couch.

"Kakipi went off hunting for the Number 3 person. Someone named Gokudera Hayato. Hope he's a hit, byon." Ken said as he licked his lips hungry for more blood.

"So when will I be fighting against the second person on the list?" Ken said as he jumped around excitedly.

"Kufufu…calm down Ken. It isn't long until you get your fun." Mukuro said as he chuckled at Ken.

"Whoopee!" Ken said as he jumped around like a maniac.

"…Ken. Stop jumping around now." Mukuro said as he started to get a little annoyed. Ken immediately stopped and laughed sheepishly.

"Uh, yes sir…ha..ha…" Ken said as he closed his mouth shut.

"Kufufu…I'm waiting to meet you…Tsukiyomi Akane….I hope you give me more fun than what Hibari Kyoya gave me." Mukuro thought to himself while laughing.

At the same time…

"…I guess I should find something to eat while I have the time…" Gokudera said to himself as he took out his money.

"Wait…I only have 65 yen? Oh man…" Gokudera said as he rubbed his head.

"…Gokudera Hayato…Namimori Student…Roll sheet number 8…founded." Chikusa said as he appeared from nowhere. Gokudera slowly putted his money away and turned to face him.

"…Who the hell are you?" Gokudera asked cautiously.

"Kokuyo Middle School 1st year. Kakimoto Chikusa. I'm going to be breaking you apart." Chikusa explained as he straightened his glasses.

"..Sigh…why am I always being bothered by random guys from different schools…Alright then…Let's fight." Gokudera said back to him calmly. At that moment, two strangers walked up to them and asked them.

"Whoa, a fight? Cool." They said.

"…This isn't a show." Chikusa said as he threw poisoned needles at them. The two strangers, eyes wide open, immediately fell down and fainted.

"What? You! What are you doing?" Gokudera yelled at Chikusa.

"…Cleaning up the trash. No need for lots of people to see this." Chikusa said as he quickly took out his yoyos and threw them at Gokudera. Gokudera could barely dodge it. Gokudera suddenly ran and went inside an alley.

"…Hide and seek…my favorite game." Chikusa said as he ran after Gokudera.

"Hn. Explode." Gokudera said as he threw dynamites at Chikusa.

"Those won't work on me." Chikusa said as he used his yoyo's to put off the lights on the dynamites rapidly. Then, he swung one at Gokudera's direction. The pillar that Gokudera was hiding in exploded.

"Che…this guy…he isn't a normal middle school student…he's a professional hitman…" Gokudera thought to himself.

"You! What family are you from?" Gokudera demanded, as he got ready for more dynamites.

"…Finally a hit. I'm going to make you tell me you're boss's name." Chikusa said.

"I won't let you harm Juudaime!" Gokudera yelled as threw two times bomb at Chikusa.

"I said that that won't work." Chikusa said as he used his yoyos to put out the fires once again. Then, he suddenly used amazing speed to throw his yoyos with spikes on them straight at Gokudera.

"…Che…I guess I have to use that now…even if it is small…" Gokudera said as he threw a small dynamite on his back as a fire power to increase his speed. Chikusa noticed this and prepared for the hit. He dodged right after Gokudera threw a fist at him.

"Ha! Two times bomb!" Gokudera yelled as he threw two times bomb again at Chikusa.

"…What a one trick guy…" Chikusa as he put out the fires like last time but he missed three of the smaller dynamites, which were already near his face. They exploded on him.

"Ha. Got you there. I already threw those smaller dynamites before I threw the bigger ones. It was close to you enough that after I threw my two times bomb, the small ones seemed liked normal bombs." Gokudera explained with a smirk on his face. Don't underestimate the Vongola. Explode." Gokudera said as the next set of dynamites exploded right in front of Chikusa.

Akane's POV

"Gokudera-kun!" Tsuna yelled as we reached him.

"Huh? Juudaime? And Akane too?" Gokudera said he crawled over to Tsuna.

"Good Morning!" Gokudera said and smiled at Tsuna.

"Are you okay? You seem hurt…" I asked while kneeling down to check his wounds.

"It'll be fine. They're not bad wounds. Just scratches here and there." Gokudera said to me.

"Oh…then where is the guy you were fighting? I don't see anyone here…" I asked while looking in around.

"What?" Gokudera said, as he was surprised that Chikusa wasn't there.

"…Well this saves a lot of time…" Chikusa said as he crept behind Tsuna.

"HIE! Scary…" Tsuna yelped as he jumped back next to me.

"Let's get this down with." Chikusa said as he suddenly threw yoyos at us. It was so fast that even I couldn't see properly after it almost hit Tsuna and me. But…Gokudera jumped in front of us and took the hit for us.

"Gokudera-kun!" Tsuna yelled as the color drained from his face.

"Juudaime…please run away…Akane…I leave Juudaime to you." Gokudera said as he started to lose consciousness.

"Hayato…" I said worried…but wait. I can't have emotions…oh screw me and my natural kindness. Gokudera just smiled a little and fainted.

"Next is you." Chikusa said as he threw his yoyos at me. This time I was prepared. I took out my twin swords and cut the ropes the hold the yoyos together. But I missed one because I wasn't used to the speed yet. It went straight to Tsuna.

"Tsuna! Dodge!" I yelled to him.

"Hie!" Tsuna yelled but at that moment, someone pushed Tsuna down in time so that they both would evade the attack. That person was…Yamamoto.

"Yamamoto?" I said as I looked at him.

"Phew…that was a close call." Yamamoto said to me while smiling. Then he looked over at Gokudera and frowned.

"…I heard that there were people targeting Namimori students…but this is worse than what I thought." Yamamoto said and glared at Chikusa hard. I froze a little bit. I've never seen Yamamoto that mad before…

"Get out of the way." Chikusa said as he threw his yoyos at Yamamoto. Yamamoto took out his bat, which transformed into a sword and cut them. Since when did Yamamoto carry a bat around that transform into a sword when used properly? Must be Reborn's present for him…I wonder when that happened? Probably when I wasn't around.

"I see…you're Yamamoto Takeshi…roll sheet 15…the second strongest in Namimori." Chikusa said.

"So what." Yamamoto asked still glaring hard.

"You're not my target…you're Ken's. He would get mad if I took what is his." Chikusa said. Yamamoto then lowered his sword a little.

"But…the girl there isn't right?" Chikusa said as he threw his yoyos at me.

I quickly used my swords to cut the ropes that held the yoyos together and deflected the spikes out of it with my two swords.

"…Never mind what I said earlier…you're on the list too…" Chikusa said. I blinked once and twice.

"…Was I? Tsuna, was my name on the list?" I asked Tsuna. Tsuna took out the sheet of paper that had our names on it.

"Hm…Akane-chan is…WHAT? Akane-chan is in the number one spot of the fighting ability next to Hibari-san's name!" Tsuna screamed. I raised an eyebrow.

"Hm…so? What about it?" I asked Chikusa.

"…Someone has also already taken you. Our boss has decided to take care of you personally like how he has with Hibari Kyoya." Chikusa explained. My eyes widened at Hibari's name.

"…You didn't do anything to him right?" I asked while narrowing my eyes dangerously.

"…You will see soon. I'm done here." Chikusa said as he disappeared from our sights. I sighed. But then averted my attention to Gokudera.

"Is he alright?" I asked.

"Maybe…we should hurry and bring him to a hospital." Yamamoto said.

"Right." I said as we hurried to bring Gokudera to a hospital.

"…so why is Hayato being hospitalized here?" Bianchi asked us. We didn't know a safe hospital to put him in so we decided to give him to Doctor Shamal in the Namimori school.

"Bianchi-chan!" Shamal screamed as he ran to give Bianchi a kiss.

"Shut up!" Bianchi said as she kicked him right in the face. The shape of her shoe was red on Shamal's face. I stifled a laugh and put my hands up to cover my mouth. Shamal immediately turned to look at me. I quickly put my hands down and whistled like I didn't know anything.

"Akane-chan! You're so cute when you whistle!" Shamal said as he ran towards me. I kicked me him right in the stomach again and he fell back towards the wall.

"…Another instinct." I said emotionlessly. Bianchi turned to look at me.

"…Akane. I like you." Bianchi said as she held her hand out for me to shake it. I looked at her hands.

"…Same here. We could beat a lot of perverts like him together." I said as I smiled at her. We shook hands. Tsuna sweat dropped at this scene.

"Bianchi and Akane are scary…" Tsuna mumbled.

"Did you say something?" Bianchi and I chorused at Tsuna.

"HIE! No!" Tsuna said. Some day, I will surely play a bet on Tsuna. Whenever Tsuna screamed HIE like a girl, you have to drink one shot of beer or wine. If you last a whole day without fainting, then you win. Seriously. He screams like that about 30 times a day. I sighed and looked at Hayato.

"Will he be okay?" I asked Shamal once he got over the pain.

"…I don't know. I've done what I could." Shamal answered back seriously this time. I sighed and scratched my head, after all…if I wasn't there…he wouldn't have needed to jump in front of me and Tsuna to protect us….was I just a burden? I decided to take a small breathe of fresh air. I walked towards the door knob and saw that Tsuna was also heading towards the door. I opened the door for him and motioned him out. He smiled at me and we both sat down outside the door.

"I was just a burden…I shouldn't have gone…" Tsuna suddenly started to wail.

"…Tsuna. You're not the only one that thinks that. But this is no time for regrets." I said to him.

"Akane's right." Said a too familiar voice. I looked up towards the ceiling, which was where the voice was coming from. There was Reborn hanging from a gooey and greenish Leon.

"Reborn! What were you doing at a time like this?" Tsuna said to Reborn.

"I was investigating prison break." Reborn answered back.

"A prison break?" I asked curiously.

"Yeah. A prison break occurred at a prison that is meant for holding dangerous Mafiosos who have committed many grave crimes. The one that was leading this prison break was someone called Rokudo Mukuro. He came to Japan with two other subordinates. They enrolled into Kokuyo and took over the school." Reborn explained to us.

"What? Does that mean…WE'RE FIGHTING AGAINST THE MAFIA?" Tsuna screamed as he started to fret.

"No, the opposite. We are fighting with people who have been thrown away by the mafia." Reborn said.

"Thrown away…" I thought to myself. This wouldn't be an easy fight.

Meanwhile, in Kokuyo Land…

"Chikusa? Is that you?" Mukuro asked. A bloody Chikusa walked over to him and fell down to the floor.

"...kufufufufu…it seems like we've got a hit." Mukuro said as Ken walked up to him.

"Kakipi? AHAHAH! He's so worn out….and his flesh looks so cooked rare…I want to eat him." Ken said as he licked his lips hungrily and drooled.

"Kanna Ken." Mukuro said as he glared at Ken. Ken froze and turned stiff at the sound of his full name being used.

"He is still unconscious. There is no way that Chikusa would come back without information on the Vongola." Mukuro said as he laughed evilly.

Back to Tsuna and Akane…

"HIE! So what should we do?" Tsuna asked as he furiously scratched his head.

"You will defeat him." Reborn stated like it was very obvious.

"What? I CAN'T!" Tsuna screamed.

"I got a letter from the Ninth. It was some orders directed to you." Reborn said as he handed the letter to Tsuna. I took a look at it.

Dear Vongola the 10th,

I've heard from Reborn about how much you've grown. It seems like the time has come for you to take the next step as a boss candidate. I am giving you an order. I want you to capture Rokudo Mukuro and the other two escapees and rescue their captive. I wish you luck.

P.S If you refuse, you'll be treated as a traitor and will be killed.

Signed…Vongola The Ninth

As I expected, Tsuna started to complain about this.

"HIE! THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ME!" Tsuna screamed and ran away.

"Tsuna, wait!" I said as I quickly jolted after him. When Tsuna was tired he stopped around somewhere in the neighborhood.

"Tsuna…listen." I started to say.

"I can't work for the mafia!" Tsuna exclaimed.

"Tsuna. Don't forget what they have done to look for you. No matter how far you run, no matter how much you run, they will keep coming after you." I said to him so that he would understand what I was trying to tell him.

"It's true…I'm angry at Mukuro. I think what he is doing is wrong! Hurting people like that…but what can I, dame-tsuna do about it…I have no strength…even Hibari-san hasn't returned…" Tsuna said as he started to feel depressed.

"Tsuna. I don't think the people around you think that way." I explained to him.

"What are you talking about…." Tsuna asked me.

"I believe that you have strength inside of you Tsuna. I'll go with you in this fight." I said to him. He turned to look at me.

"Akane-chan…" Tsuna said softly. At that moment another voice joined in.

"Juudaime! Count me in that plan!" said a voice also too familiar. I turned around and my eyes slightly widened.

"Hayato? Are you okay? You're wounds were pretty deep from what I saw earlier…" I asked a little worried.

"Nah, they're just scratches." Gokudera explained to me.

"Hey, let me go too! I'll help you guys!" Yamamoto suddenly popped in between us.

"I heard that you guys were playing mafia with another school! Sounds fun!" He exclaimed while smiling widely. I couldn't help but face palm. Gokudera and Tsuna just sweat dropped at Yamamoto's stupidity…well that is a good trait of his. I mean, his playful personality brings out the brilliance inside of him. It's what makes the mood become better.

"I'm also worried about Hayato. I'm going too." Bianchi said as she walked up towards us. I quickly ran towards Gokudera and put my hands in front of his face again. I mean…it would be bad for him to faint again. He quickly turned around.

"Bianchi…I think you may need to wear something like a pair of goggles so that Gokudera wouldn't faint…" I said to her.

"Right." Bianchi said as she took out a pair of goggles from a piece of poison cooking.

"Well now we have everyone." Reborn suddenly said as he appeared from nowhere. I actually got used to that. He seems to have like 10 people that look like him…I mean he manages to appear here and there in no time.

"I know where their hideout is. Let's go beat Mukuro and save the captive too." Reborn explained to Tsuna.

"Captive? Who is that…" Tsuna wondered in his mind.

"It is someone who you know very well." Reborn said as he read Tsuna's mind.

"Hey! Stop reading my mind!" Tsuna screamed.

"Too bad." Reborn said back.

"Let's go, Tsuna. To beat them and prevent any more innocent victims from being hurt." I said to Tsuna.

"Right. Let's go!" Tsuna said as we ran towards where Reborn was pointing. I hope that we survived…no we can. With everyone here we can. As the Vongola Family.

The end of chapter! Please review a lot! Another question for my readers~

What is your favorite arc in Katekyo Hitman Reborn?