Hide ran into the hospital and saw his mother in the lobby, but he ran up to her and asked where Hanabi and Morita were. The mother didn't know where Morita was, but she did know where Hanabi was. And it wasn't too hard to guess where due to the amount of nurses and screaming that was occurring in front of the her room.
"Let me go!" Hanabi screamed as she tried to break out of the hospital, "Let me out, let me out, let me out!!"
"Please stay Miss Gokudera!" a nurse pleaded as she and many more were trying to get the girl back into her room if not her bed.
"No!" Hanabi screamed and greatly wished that she had her cards so she could just blow them up and run off.
"Gokudera-san!" Hanabi immediately busted through the crowd of nurses as if they were now nothing and ran over to Hide like a dog to its master.
"Twelfth! I didn't think you would actually come and see me!" she said with delight, "You're not hurt, are you?"
"No, I'm not, Gokudera-san," Hide sighed with relief, Hanabi seemed alright to him so now he had to worry about Morita, but first, "What happened though Gokudera-san? Did someone attack you?"
The girl frowned and crossed her arms while scowling at the sour memory of being defeated. "It was that stupid...thing!"
"A thing?" Hide questioned.
"It looks like a person, but it isn't!" Hanabi continued, "It wouldn't go down no matter how many cards I threw at it! Like-like some kind of robot or what ever! It also wore really weird clothes too! That was the thing that pissed me off the most!"
Hide ignored the rest of what Hanabi was saying because after that it all revolved around how much unmatching clothes pissed her off. A thing, huh? Hide thought, his eyes wandered over to Hanabi's injuries. Her arm was in a cast, a bandage was wrapped around her head and patches on her cheek and neck.
Gokudera caught the sullen look on Hide's face and quickly said, "Don't worry Twelfth! I'm just a little off my game today! When I see that bastard again, I'll beat the crap outta him!"
This statement did not help him feel better in the least. Great, she's even MORE determined now...the boy sighed.
"Yo! Hide!" a voice yelled, a wheelchair rolled down the hallways at top speed. It zoomed past Hide and Hanabi leaving a trail of dust, the wheelchair wheeled itself back to them at a slower pace and the owner gave them both a grin.
"Morita-kun!" Hide gaped, "You're better already!?"
"Crap! What was that for you freakin' giant!" Hanabi yelled, "You nearly ran the Twelfth over!"
"Sorry, sorry," Morita apologized, the nurses had long since resolved to just let their group be and not bother them, "I got a little excited when I saw Hide though, sorry that I couldn't go to hangout with you today like we planned."
The other boy gaped at this, Morita was in a wheelchair and he was worried that Hide would be mad at him because he couldn't come and hangout!? What sort of mindset is that?
"Don't worry about that!" Hide yelled, "Your in a wheelchair and you look badly injured, shouldn't you be more worried about that!?"
Morita blinked and smiled, he started fiddling with the wheelchair while saying, "I'm a boxer, Hide, if I was worried about getting hurt and being hurt all the time I wouldn't be able to go outside."
"Geez!" the teen pulled at his hair in frustration, "How'd you and the whole Boxing Team get hurt anyways?"
The boxer brightened at this and began to explain enthusiastically, "Ah, well we were done doing our morning warm-ups when all of the sudden this weird guy came up to us and asked for the strongest guy among us, I said we were all really strong but I was the captain. And then he punched me and everyone started getting riled up by it and that's how we got in a fight, I was actually just looking for that guy since he was fighting the whole Boxing Team. But I couldn't find that guy anywhere."
"Was he dressed up really weirdly?" Hanabi asked.
"Yeah, he was!" Morita nodded.
"Tch! That pisses me off!" she said sourly and added, "The same guy got me too! He just strolled up to me and started attacking me out of no where!"
The same person? Hide thought.
Reborn walked over to them with a baseball bat that turned into a hamburger, Hide noticed this and asked, "What's with Leon?"
"Whenever he loses his tail he loses his ability to shape-shift," Reborn explained.
What kind of reasoning is that!? Hide gawked.
"Geez, I just realized that Megumi is going to be super worried about me now," Morita sighed.
"Megumi-san?" Hide cheered up when he heard the girl mentioned.
"Yeah," he continued, "Me and Megumi have been friends since were little, she's like a sister and she always worries too much over little things."
"That makes me feel so much better," Hide muttered as another item was thrown onto his guilt trip.
Leon changed from a hammer now to a glowing ball.
"That's good," Reborn grinned, "Now he's in his cocoon-state."
"What's that?" Hide dared to ask.
"When Leon loses his tail, that is usually a sign that my current student will undergo an arduous task," the infant explained, "As the time approaches, he will change into this cocoon and become something new that will help my student further in his training."
Why does this all seem to be out of some myth now? the boy wondered.
Hanabi overheard all this and quickly said, "Twelfth! Twelfth! You're going to go train, right? Can I help?"
"Not right now Hanabi," said Reborn, "Due to the current circumstances; it looks like the task Hide must undergo is to find the person who hurt you and Sakuraba first."
"So you're going to get the guy who hurt me first, Twelfth? I'm not worthy for your vengeance!" the girl began bowing and stopped when a shock wave of pain ran up her arm, "Gaah, my arm!"
"Gokudera-san!"
"Scary-girl!"
~8~
"Geh," Poseidon stumbled back while holding onto its shoulder.
"You forced me into this, Poseidon," Yamamoto stated while holding a sword above it, "I will let you go only if you tell me who 'opened' you."
Poseidon's cold blue eyes swiveled towards the elderly man and said, "You abandoned that person the same way you abandoned me..."
The cold blue eyes closed and Poseidon's body relaxed and the color seemed to fade from it. Yamamoto put the sword back in its sheath and said, "I didn't abandon you, I simply put you away for another time."
Adam sidled himself out of the restaurant and surveyed the damage around the place, he surprised to see that the nearby building took no damage at all and that only the sidewalk was a little scratched. It was as if the whole battle that just happened didn't even take place.
"A-Amazing," he said in awe, "As expected of one of the most legendary hitmen in the Mafia World, you left no trace of taking down your target yet you still got something almost impossible done..."
Yamamoto turned around and walked towards the fallen Suzuki. He picked the boy up silently and walked into the restaurant, Adam followed at his heels but stopped when the old man turned back to him and said:
"Pick up Poseidon, it's not safe just leaving a 'body' out in the middle of the street," he said.
Adam nodded and picked the blue-hair's body up, he ran into the restaurant.
~8~
"Wait, your guy had blue hair?" Morita questioned, Hanabi nodded as she stood up. Hide was busy talking to the nurses and doctors to pay much attention to what Morita was saying.
"My guy had red hair," the brown-haired boy continued, "That's strange, probably doesn't matter though."
~8~
Red beads were thrown up in to the air and caught gingerly by a white-gloved hand. Bright-red hair blew with the wind as matching red eyes viewed the Takesushi Restaurant. It approached the restaurant and slid open the door. Adam and Yamamoto were both in the back at the time before it came in. It looked around until it saw its companion and picked Poseidon up, before leaving it stopped in front of the door and dropped a red bead playfully. The bead rolled around until it stopped at a crack on the wooden flooring and by then the red-haired/red-eyed thing left.
~8~
Hide walked back to Hanabi and Morita, who were now in the lobby, and said, "I managed to convince the nurses and doctors to let you guys out, but Morita-kun are you really alright with out the wheelchair?"
"Don't worry about it, Hide!" the boy grinned while running a hand through his cropped, light-brown hair, "I heal pretty quickly, what about you Scary-girl? You look a bit pale."
"My name is not 'scary-girl', giant!" Hanabi growled.
"Well my name's not 'giant' either, so that makes it fair!"
I'm with complete and total idiots...Hanabi thought grimly.
"Gokudera-san, are you sure that you're going to be okay?" Hide asked concernedly, "You are looking pale."
"You don't have to worry about me Twelfth!" she said cheerfully, "I have a strong constitution!"
Not in front of Rosario-san you don't! the boy pointed out in his head.
"Then let's get going to Takesushi, Suzuki and Adam-san are there," Hide said out loud, "It'll be best if we stick together."
~8~
They left the hospital and started walking around the town for a little while; Takesushi was on the other side of Namimori so it would take a while to get there. It took half an hour to get there, which was quicker than Hide expected to be, but the streets were now empty because the news had announced the attacks that had been going on. When they were still in the hospital, many other Namimori students were in the hospital as well, including some of the Baseball Team, the Disciplinary Committee, and some were just random students.
"This is my entire fault, I just know it..." Hide said out loud, he had meant for it to be a thought.
"No it's not, Hide!" said Morita as he swung an arm around the boy's shoulder, "I'm sure that there's a perfectly reasonable explanation for all this, it's probably some rival school that has decided to pick on Namimori."
"No, it's definitely Hide," said Reborn bluntly.
"You so good at cheering people up, Reborn," the blond muttered.
When they walked into the restaurant, Hide immediately slipped on something and fell to the ground.
"Twelfth!"
"Hide!"
"Ow, ow, ow, ow," Hide muttered and he sat up while rubbing his head, he picked up the item he had slipped on which was a tiny red marble, "What is this?"
"Boss?" Adam came out from the kitchen in the back of the restaurant and helped Hide up, "Are you alright? What happened?"
"I slipped on this marble," he said while holding the marble in the palm of his hand.
Hide's grandfather followed Adam from the kitchen and saw the boy holding up the bead. Yamamoto hurried over to the marble and snatched it from Hide's hand.
"Gramps?" the boy questioned but was hushed by Reborn and Yamamoto.
"I see," the old man said after awhile.
"What is it Yamamoto?" Reborn asked in a dead serious tone.
"Wait, you know gramps!?" Hide asked but was ignored.
"This is one of Loki's beads," Yamamoto answered, "It probably took Poseidon..."
"Hold on, what are you talking about?" the boy asked.
Yamamoto looked at his grandson and gave him a pat on the back, "Looks like your going through your own little trial now, eh buddy?"
Gramps is making no sense as usual! Hide thought as his grandfather kept on patting him on the back.
"Well you see..." Adam began and started to explain what had happened to him and Suzuki, and who Poseidon was but Adam had no clue who 'Loki' was.
"Poseidon was definitely the guy who attacked me," said Hanabi.
"Then it was probably Loki that attacked my team," said Morita while he was looking at the red bead, "That guy had like a necklace of these and was tossing them up and down."
Yamamoto nodded and noticed Hanabi also staring at the bead, he said cheerfully, "You must be Gokudera's kid right? Hanabi-chan!"
"What are you talking about, geezer?" the girl asked sourly, "My name's Gokudera, but I doubt that my dad knew you."
"Nah, of course he knew me!" Yamamoto insisted, "I worked with your grandfather for a long time, we worked together a lot before we retired."
"Che, my grandfather was a top-class assassin," she said proudly, "He wouldn't hang around some lowly fish-merchant."
"Hahah, you even talk like him!"
It took Hide a couple minutes to put two and two together, "Wait! Gramps, you were an assassin!?"
"A hitman to be specific," the elderly man said bluntly.
"And I thought you were my normal side of the family!" Hide screamed in terror, "That means I wasn't normal to begin with!"
"Yamamoto had a lot of talent when he was younger, he was well-suited to be a hitman since birth," said Reborn, this didn't help Hide in the least.
Great, my gramps is an assassin and my grandfather is a Mafia Boss, the boy thought in horror, I'm practically suited to be in the mafia!
"We can handle all this later though," said Reborn, "Right now, we need to focus on where to find this Loki and Poseidon so we can get on with finding out why they are here."
"Hey kiddo, you do remember what they are, don't you?" Hide's grandfather asked, "Those aren't things that can be messed around with easily."
"Which is why we need everyone we can get, where's Suzuki?"
"In the back, he's asleep."
"Is he alright?" Hide asked, he would have asked what they were just talking about but this was more important at the moment, "Is Suzuki alright?"
Yamamoto gave him a surprised look before smiling and nodding, "Yeah, he's alright. Take him with you for the rest of the day and give him this."
Hide caught a baseball bat that Yamamoto tossed over to him, "It should help," he said.
"What should help?" a voice asked, Suzuki stood by the kitchen doorway.
"Suzuki!" Hide brightened and ran over to the boy.
"I fell asleep in the middle of a fight, how lame of me," he said while running a hand through his matted down, black hair, "I won't do it again though, promise ya Hide!"
"As long as you're alright," Hide sighed with relief.
Yamamoto stood up and said, "Back to the point, that red bead that Hide slipped on belongs to Loki, the one who took Poseidon. Loki's not stupid enough to just leave a trace behind, but it's certainly mischievous. It probably dropped it there for a reason, I'm sure that if you all look you will find red beads scattered around Namimori. But I think I might know where exactly both of them are heading..."
~8~
A metallic door opened and Loki stepped through it with Poseidon hanging off of its back. It flicked a red bead up in the air and caught it again as it walked down the halls that had rust and mold growing around the walls. Loki reached a door that it had to force open, cold air rushed out of the room as it stepped through the doorway and closed the room off again. It walked through the freezing room, stirring up cold air as it went, and stopped when it reached a large computer.
Loki laid Poseidon down on the table in front of the computer and robotic arms and wires came out of the walls. One arm had a small, opened box which Poseidon was sucked into. Wires covered the icy box and took it into the walls.
"...Lo...ki..." a voice whispered.
"Yes?" Loki answered with a plastered grin on its face.
"Loki...what...hap...pened?" the voice whispered again.
"Who knows," Loki shrugged, "But Poseidon sure took a pretty bad hit."
"I'm...not...jo...king...Loki..." the voice hissed.
"I know, I know," it said quickly, "Poseidon approached Yamamoto Takeshi and Gokudera Hayato, but it didn't defeat Yamamoto. I was able to get Sasagawa Ryohei, but not Sawada Tsunayoshi."
A wire came out of the wall and traveled its way towards Loki's ear.
"Hold on! What are you doing!?" Loki asked, slightly startled.
Collecting data: the computer screen read. The wire slipped its way into Loki's ear and images started to appear on the screen. There was quiet for a few minutes before the wire unplugged itself and went back into the wall.
"You...have gotten...the wrong people..." the voice whispered.
"What? No! They match the location and occupation, and two of them had a 50% and more DNA match!" Loki argued, but his smile was still in place.
"Those...aren't them...except..." the screen flickered and an image of Hide running down the street alone with a worried look on his face was on the screen. "This one...looks exactly like him..."
"Is it enough?"
"...It is...enough to cause...a stir..." the voice said more quickly.
"Do you still want us to go after them?" it smiled.
"...No, get in...your positions...and get ready..."
"Right," Loki left with its fixed smile in place.
~8~
Note from the Author: Alright! I won't be updating for another week but I thought two chapters was good right? Anyone read the newest chapter of Hitman Reborn!? Kinda slow, I thought, but can't wait until next week when Tsuna opens his Box Weapon. If you guys want to chat about this chapter or Hitman Reborn!'s chapter, then come on and join the forums! Especially mine: Just another Forum.
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