The crowd cheered as Reborn announced Akihito and Ken's victory.
Team Saru - 1, Team Tsuna - 0 The score board read.
"We were so close too." Hibari says optimistically. Ken meanwhile was bowing down to Mukuro a million times because of their loss, but Yamamoto did not seem to care at all. "It's all right Ken, we still have to more games to go after all." Mukuro says so Ken would stop his actions before he got hurt. By the time Ken lifted up his head to look at the navy haired boy, his blonde hair was already full of sand. "Mukuro-sama! I will be sure to win the next match for us!" Ken says with determination. Mukuro smiles, "Good, now get up before people start staring Ken." he says. Ken did as he was told and got up from his kneeling position as fast as he can.
"This thing will be a piece of cake! Now all we have to do is beat you next match and we'll win." Saru calls out proudly to Tsuna and his team.
"You don't even know if you'll win you pathetic monkey, last time I checked, you lost a fight to Tsunayoshi-kun." Mukuro says back. A nerve bulges on Saru's forehead and his face looked red as a tomato, "You fuckin' pineapple headed bastard!"
"I happen to like my hairstyle thank you very much."
Everybody else sweat dropped as they watched Saru and Mukuro curse at each other like no one was watching. In order to stop all the pandemonium, Reborn blew on his whistle which sounded through the speakers. Everyone present covered their ears in pain. The sound of the whistle without the speakers was already bad enough. "All right, our next game is going to involve everybody present." Reborn announces. He was now in a mermaid outfit, complete with a bright pink curly wig, a seashell bikini, and a green tail, sitting on a large rock nearby. "This game is quite simple, all you have to do is swim from here to that boat over there." the infant says and points to a boat floating in the distance, "The first team to reach is the winner, on the condition that everyone in the team is present."
Tsuna looked at the boat floating in the distance. It looked like it was about 100 meters away from the shore. "Isn't that a bit too far?" Gokudera asks. Reborn smiles and brushes his 'hair' with a fork like in one of the movies, "The more challenging the better, don't you think?" Tsuna paled at this, sure he knew how to swim because of Reborn and his friend's training in his world, but this looked like double the length of a regular swimming pool. "Of course, we'll be generous with you and give you people a 20 minutes break. Now off you go." Reborn says and waves his hand.
"You seem nervous Tsuna-san." Hibari says worriedly.
"Y-Yeah, I've never had to do something like this before." Tsuna answers. The two of them were in the same place they were when they first arrived. Sitting under the shade of an umbrella and staring at the blue ocean.
"It's all right Tsuna-san it's only swimming after all, and if we lose it's okay too, this is only a game after all." Hibari says to reassure Tsuna. Y-You have no idea what you're talking about, do you? Tsuna wanted to say. He was not worried about losing the game, it was more like he worried about he and the other's lives. Anything can happen when you are in the middle of the sea. "If anything happens, then I'll protect you, Tsuna-san." Hibari says. Hearing that made the brunette blush many shades of pink. It is not weird when Hibari saves Tsuna in multiple situations, but this feeling was way different.
"Hey you two, your break is up." Chikusa says, looking down at the two. He looked even more threatening with a shadow covering his face.
"Un, thanks." Hibari says, not noticing the dark aura that came from the boy. Chikusa sighs and walks away from the pair. "Don't worry about Chikusa, he's always this way I guess." Hibari says to Tsuna. The brunette nods nervously and gets up.
Hibari and Tsuna start walking to the place where everyone agreed to meet, which was a part of the beach that was completely devoid of people. Which was weird because there were tons of people watching the game before. "Is everyone present?" Reborn asks, still in his mermaid cosplay. It really is a wonder how he was able to move in that thing. "Let's just get on with it already." Saru says, "I feel like beating someone to a pulp." He is most likely referring to Mukuro who happily responded, "Oh, it's on."
Everyone took their place in the ocean water, which reached up to their waists. "Ready, set, go!" Reborn said and blew on his obnoxious whistle yet again, his bright pink hair flying in the breeze.
It was at this time that Tsuna was so grateful was taught how to swim before this happened. He would have drowned in deep water by now if it was not for his friends and the other Reborn in his world. It has already been a while since the race started and Tsuna could already tell that he was in last place. This is bad, I might cost us the game if I lag behind. Up ahead, people were starting to stop at a buoy floating on the water. That's weird Tsuna thought, why aren't they moving? By the time he caught up with the others he was able to read a message written on the buoy.
75 meters, everyone stop here.
"Oh, Sawada, you took your time." Yamamoto says.
"Sorry..." Tsuna said apologetically, "But why are we stopping?" he asks.
As if answering his question, the water current started to go in weird directions. After a while, everybody noticed that it was going in circles. "A whirlpool?! What the hell is happening?!" Chikusa exclaims.
"Oi brats! Is this your doing?!" Saru shouts.
"If it was, then we wouldn't be in here with you would we?" Mukuro shouts back.
"Tsuna-san!" Hibari says, trying to find Tsuna in the chaos.
The current got stronger and stronger, and pretty soon everyone was going in circles getting closer to the center of the whirlpool by the second. Tsuna was constantly being dragged underwater, and he was struggling just to get short gasps of air. "Hibari-san!" Tsuna desperately shouts. Why was he calling out Hibari's name was a total mystery to Tsuna as well. Seconds passed by and Tsuna was already near the center of the whirlpool, and he was getting dragged underwater more and more often.
Then everything went dark.
A/N : Now I know that this chapter is shorter than the usual ones, but I promise that next chapter WILL be longer!
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