Author's Note: I'm so sorry that it's been so long. I just kind of lost interest in all my fanfiction, but I'm trying to finish now. :) Thank you for the reviews, everybody! I loved them!
Tsuna and his guardians hadn't known what to expect, but it certainly wasn't what they were greeted with.
When walking into their usual training grounds, their eyes immediately land on the whole set up made up of fences, rock walls, twelve-inch-wide tubes, wires running along the ground, and a steely-eyed Megumi with a whistle hanging from her lips. It was obvious from that moment that this training session was going to be the worst. No surprise though. With it being the final one before the battle, Tsuna was able to imagine Reborn doing the same thing.
A sharp sound begins to echo throughout the area, causing each of their ears to ring once it finally stops. The whistle drops from Megumi's mouth and she takes on this look that tells you that she is in charge. "Okay. Listen up, punks. This is the last and final training we're going to do together and it's going to go the way I plan." She points at Gokudera. "You. I want you to climb that wall five hundred times. Right now." Gokudera's jaw goes slack for a moment and then lifts back so he can talk, but Megumi cuts him off. "No complaining. Do it now." He looks like he's about to attempt to speak again, but then stops himself and jogs over to the rock wall so he can climb it.
Megumi's eyes dart to Yamamoto. "You'll be crawling through those tubes until you're no longer breathing."
Yamamoto is shocked since Megumi was completely different before, but proceeds to run toward the tubes and crawl through them, slowly at first and then faster as he gets the hang of it.
"As for the rest of you," she says, grabbing the rest of the guardians' attentions. "You will all, expect Hibari and Sawada-san, be climbing those fences five hundred times, crawling under the wire until you can reach the other end in thirty seconds, and then you'll be throwing these hand grenades at Gokudera and Yamamoto." She hands Chrome, Ryohei, and Lambo each a handful of grenades that are white and have some sort of glow to them as Gokudera yells, "Hey!" in the background and Yamamoto laughs at their "fun."
As the three guardians jog over to the fence, Tsuna asks, "Megumi-chan, what am I doing?"
"You will be facing off with my dear friend, Daniel." Suddenly, out of nowhere, a boy with a lighter shade of red hair than Megumi's, multiple freckles across his face, and a slight pout appears beside her, looking nervous.
"Please go easy on me," he mumbles, before fading into a mist, which surrounds Tsuna and causes him to disappear within seconds also.
"As for you, Hibari," Megumi says, a breezy tone in her voice as she speaks. "I need you to go get me a coffee."
Hibari glares. "Go get your own coffee. If you're not here, you aren't making a disturbance to Namimori's peace and well-being. I'm going to bite you to death if you don't leave."
It's silent in the space between them until Megumi steps toward him and begins to pat his shoulder. "I will not do what you say, but you will do what I say. I promise that once this is all settled out, I will no longer disturb your peace. Agreed?" She receives a gruff gesture and his back to her as he begins to walk toward town. "I knew you'd see it my way."
"You're doing better." Megumi spins around and comes face-to-face with Reborn.
"Of course I am. Thank you for taking over while I was gone."
"I've been in charge most of the time during their whole involvement with the mafia. No need to thank me. It's my duty as Dame-Tsuna's tutor."
Megumi giggles as she takes the whistle into her hands. "You're right, Reborn." The whistle is then at her mouth and she is staring at Lambo with murderous eyes. "Lambo, what the hell are you doing? You should be climbing the fence!"
He had been twirling a flower between his fingers, but then threw it as soon as he heard Megumi's voice. "Ah…ah…nothing! Lambo is climbing, see?" He begins to climb the wall, down, and back up again.
"If I see any of you stop and rest, you're going to be eating dirt." Megumi blows the whistle and everybody begins getting serious.
About thirty minutes later, Hibari returns with a paper coffee with hot coffee inside it, hastily placing it on a rock and then standing beside Megumi. He crosses his arms as he stares at her in silence. Megumi grabs the cup and nonchalantly takes a sip. A few seconds pass and then she says to Hibari, "This needs more sugar."
"I got the coffee the herbivores always say they get you. Don't lie or I'll bite you to death."
"Don't you think you overuse that phrase? 'I'll bite you to death.' Doesn't it get old saying that?"
"No," he states bluntly.
"Okay then. Well, since the coffee actually is perfect, why don't you try and find Daniel and Sawada-san? That will certainly test your abilities to the extent I desire, which is probably the same as yours. Am I right?"
Hibari just looks away and pulls out his tonfas, obviously ready to take out the mist-user at any time.
As Hibari goes off to search for any clues, Daniel suddenly appears behind Megumi, lazily wrapping his arms over her shoulders. "So, we're just friends?"
"Of course we are. I broke up with before this mission, remember?"
"I know, and it was mutual agreement. But, I've still missed you. I wish we could go back to those times we'd sneak off into the streets of Italy and assassinate all those unsuspecting people."
"So romantic," Megumi muses sarcastically.
"You know it." Daniel detaches his arms and takes a seat beside her. "I saw you eyeing that guy with the scar earlier. How long have you two being going on?"
"Not long, to be honest. But, I feel a real connection. Too bad I can't keep it going forever." She looks down, eyes sad as she begins to pushing the toe of her shoe into the dirt.
"I get that. Remember my ex-girlfriend, Loretta, I told you about? Well, I had broken up with her because of my involvement with the mafia. I really didn't want her to get hurt and she deserved a better life than I could have given her."
Megumi stares off into space and then comes back. "I never got to meet her because of that reason. I wish I could have met her. She seems like the perfect girl."
"She was." Daniel grins and begins to stare off now.
"Did you love her?"
He comes back, his expression grim as he twirls his thumbs around each other. "I did. I truly did. Actually, I still do. But, what can you do when your profession is to kill people and the girl you love has probably already moved on?"
Sitting back, she replies, "You can't do a lot except the obvious two options: take her or leave her. But you know if I was her, I'd want you to take me. I wouldn't care that you were dangerous. Actually, I'd be attracted to that. I wouldn't want you to leave my side. My only wish would be to be with you."
"Do you mean that?"
It's quiet as she looks at him and nods.
"Well then, I suppose after this whole thing, I'll go and talk to her."
"You do that." As Daniel begins to fade back into the air, Megumi asks, "By the way, where's Sawada-san?"
"I already beat him."
"Then get his ass up and beat him again until he is able to tire you out."
"You got it, boss." And then, Daniel is gone once more.
Three hours and a large amount of tears later, all the guardians are laying on the ground, panting their lungs out, except for Hibari. He is standing a little away from them, looking slightly wore out. Megumi stands over them, a grin on her face. "Congratulations to all of you. You have finally succeeded to complete the finale of your training. Now, in a few days we will be facing off against Tavor and the Bellini family. I'm sure it will lead to our victory, so do not fret."
"What if by the off-chance that we do lose?" Chrome asks shyly.
Megumi gives her fellow girl a soft smile, kneels, and pats her head. "My friend, I will never allow this battle end in defeat. There is no chance at all we'll lose. It just can't happen."
"You make it sound so easy. So, if it is, then why are we doing all this shit?" Gokudera asks, looking awful grouchy for somebody who's used basically all his energy training.
"Just trust me. It will go as smoothly as possible."
"Hey. Where's the Varia?" Tsuna suddenly asks, looking around.
"They're just preparing for the big battle," Megumi says, a smirk on her face as she looks toward the sky.
Deep in the forest, a gigantic house stands tall and inside is the Varia, sharpening their weapons and practicing their hand-to-hand combat.
"Mmmm….your body is so delicious, Bel," Lussuria says, licking the blond as his shirt lifts.
"Get away from me, you peasant," Bel yells, throwing multiple knives in his direction, which end up stuck in a wooden coffee table and a bottle of orange soda.
As the soda begins to spray on all the members, the lights flicker and they all pause what they're doing to look around.
"Somebody is here," Mammon whispers, floating toward the threshold to the room. "I'll go check it out." He leaves and a few seconds later, a breeze blows throughout the room, which is odd since there are no windows. Suddenly, Mammon's scream comes from the hallway and the whole Varia rushes toward the sound, curious as to what has happened.
But, upon arrival, they are faced with nothing except a letter with a black flame on the top.
This is actually a little different than I planned for it to be. Probably stupid for me to add on now, but it's all ends up in the same place. So, it's all good. Please review!
-Ashley(dolphinherovamp5)