Two month later, Vito Corleone came home and his whole family visited him in his room. He was healthy enough to live outside of the hospital, but he hadn't completely recovered; so, he couldn't get back to leading his family. He still wanted to know what was going on, so he asked Fredo, Sonny, Tom, Gon, Killua, Tessio, and Clemenza to come in his room and tell him what had happened since he had been shot.
Tom explained, "You know, that day when Michael went to the hospital, Sollozzo's men came to kill you. We realized that letting Sollozzo alive would be too dangerous, so we decided to kill him. And … we also killed Bruno Tattaglia."
When Tom talked, when he was able to listen to himself telling the Don what they had done, he felt that maybe they were handling their business the wrong way. And it was confirmed in some way, since the Don grimaced at the hearing of this news.
"Where's Michael?" Vito Corleone asked in a weak and nearly inaudible voice
"Well, he's the one who got rid of Sollozzo," Killua said.
"He's in Sicily," Clemenza explained. "Under the protection of Don Tomasino."
Vito sighed and said, "Please, give me a little time to rest."
"OK, Pop," Fredo answered.
They all left and let Vito alone in his bedroom.
Six months later.
Killua and Gon were sitting in their room reading books about dragon, when the doorbell rang. Killua went to the door and opened. It was Clemenza.
"Hi, Kiru. Is Sonny there?"Clemenza asked. Killua noticed he seemed upset about something.
"No, he's buying some groceries," Killua answered. "Why? What happened?"
"These bastards Tattaglias have snatched two of my men and I think they were able to get information from them," Clemenza answered. "Have Sonny call me when he's home; I'm gonna talk to Hagen."
"I'm pretty sure he'll be home soon; maybe you could just wait for him inside," Killua suggested.
"OK, but we should call Tom and Tessio," Clemenza answered. He went into the house, called Tom and Tessio, and asked them to come. They all sat in the living-room. Gon joined them too.
Ten minutes later, Sonny came home and greeted them. Clemenza told him about what had happened.
Sonny grimaced and said, "I think we should kill that Tattaglia caporegime, Gabriele Tattaglia."
"It's gonna be hard, Sonny," Tessio said. "He's well protected."
"Do you agree we have to get rid of him?" Sonny asked rhetorically.
Tessio sighed.
"Knocking him off is the easy part," Sonny said.
"No it's not Sonny!" Tom protested. "Do you realize how dangerous it is? And I don't think we should kill him."
"Listen to me Tom," Sonny said. "These guys are not gonna be nice to us. The sooner we get rid of them the better it's gonna be."
"Killing such a high-ranked person is still too dangerous," Tom insisted.
Killua said, "I could do it. I've been trained to be an assassin for about ten years. And I know an illusion technique that creates several reflection of myself when I use it. That could be useful."
Everybody was surprised except Gon and Sonny who already knew about Killua's past. "So that's what he's been hiding," Tom said.
"Show us your technique," Sonny said.
Killua started walking slowly around the room, and gradually, several reflections of him appeared. Everybody was amazed, except Gon, who had seen Killua perform the Shadow Steps several times before. Killua went back to the chair on which he was sitting.
"You could do it," Sonny said to Killua.
"Sonny, he's a child," Tom said.
"I was four on the first time I killed somebody; now I'm sixteen," Killua answered proudly.
"You shouldn't be too proud of it," Tessio said.
Tessio was the only one who had understood that there was a part of Killua that wasn't sane at all, that there was a part of that kid that was like Luca Brasi.
"Anyway, I'm sure Killua could do it," Sonny said.
"But … Killua! You said you'd never be an assassin again!" Gon cried out with clenched fists.
"They need help," Killua said.
Gon clenched his fists and left the room.
"I think you should talk to him, Kiru," Sonny said. "I'll tell you more about Gabriele Tattaglia later."
"OK," Killua said. He left the room and went to see Gon, who was in his room.
"Gon, what's wrong?" Killua asked.
Gon was sulking.
"C'mon, tell me," Killua insisted.
"Nothing, it's alright if you make your own choices."
"Then what the fuck is wrong!?" Killua asked.
Gon went out of the room and ran out of the house. Killua thought, "Well, that's not like him at all." He went back to the living-room and explained to Sonny what had happened.
"I gotta follow him," Sonny said looking for the house keys. "He's upset, he's gonna do something foolish."
"He'll be even more upset if you follow him," Killua said, but Sonny was already out of the house.
Gon was walking down Long Island's streets when he heard a group of people talking about chakra. There was a woman and two men; they seemed to be about twenty-five years old. The woman was fair-haired, tall and green-eyed; one of the men was black-haired, average-height and gray-eyed; and the other one was tall, brown-haired and blue eyed. They looked like they were in a hurry. Gon decided to follow them. At some point they started talking, but after about thirty minutes of silence, gthe girl said, "Amy's staying home, she can't control her chakra today, and she sends things flying wherever she goes."
"Good thing she stayed home," the black-haired man answered. "People would've been able to see her powers."
"Who cares about that, James?" the brown-haired man asked rhetorically. "You know the people we're helping are willing to let everyone know about chakra; people would find out about her power at some point. Are you even on our side?"
"Oh shut the fuck up, Dan, there are other people in this street," the girl whispered.
"They got no idea what we're talking about, Carla," Dan said. "It's no big deal."
"Anyway, are you two sure we're gonna arrive to the meeting on time?" James asked.
"We've almost arrived," Dan answered. "It's in the park over there; the meeting point is a tree next a pond."
"Won't there be people in the park?" Carla asked.
"It's eight o'clock, don't worry about people being in the park," James replied.
They went into the park. Gon followed them carefully and hid behind a tree near the meeting point. There were six other people that had already arrived, three women and three men. It was getting very dark and Gon couldn't see their features. He thought, "I can't see their features, there's no point in watching them, let's hide completely and only listen to them." He hid completely and listened to the conversation. People greeted each other, a woman asked about Amy. James explained what had happen. Then, a man said, "Max and Mary are dead, and Jake and Edward are nowhere to be found."
You should be more careful about your son, Patrick," a woman said.
"Edward will come back, and he'll never betray us," Patrick answered.
"I don't think so. Edward is gonna do anything he can to go away from you, you know. You've been too hard on him during his childhood," the woman said.
"Sounds funny said by the woman who came here because it's where her little sister's murderer is, Akira," another man said.
"Kathrin is my little sister, not my daughter. And I was in no way responsible for her, she was twenty-seven years old," Akira said.
"Anyway," Carla interrupted them. "Why isn't Nicholas here?"
"He's sick," Akira answered.
"Patrick," another woman said. "We haven't heard of Edward for months; how can you be sure he'll come back."
"Edward's not coming back, Alice," James answered. "He knows really well that Patrick will beat the shit out of him the minutes he sees him."
"Shut up," Patrick said.
"How about discussing interesting stuff, folks?" a woman asked.
"You're right, Lin," Akira answered. "We should form the teams. I think Dan, James, Carla, and Amy should be together. And Ken, Lin, Alice, and Jim should be together too. I'll be with Nicholas and Patrick. You guys agree?"
"Not me," Dan answered. "I'm not staying with James."
"We're not gonna change everything just because you don't agree," Patrick said.
"OK, so we're done?" Akira asked.
"Yeah," everybody answered.
"See you in two weeks," Akira said.
They all left. Gon thought, "So that was Edward's father. I should go tell Christopher about all the things I've learned."
He headed up Hell's Kitchen, where Christopher lived. He arrived in his apartment. It was not vey big and there were a lot of book. It smelled like coffee. He greeted Christopher and explained to him what he had heard and told him where the meeting point was. Christopher suggested, "We should go to that park in two weeks."
Then he asked, "Have you heard anything about their power?"
"Not much," Gon answered. "Some girl named Amy has got psychokinesis powers, and one of them is Edward's father, so I guess he can use psuychokinesis too. But that's all."
"Too bad," Christopher said. "How is Killua doing?"
"Good," Gon answered. "I gotta go."
"OK, see you in two weeks!" Christopher said.
"Bye."
Gon left the apartment and went back in the street.
During all this time, Sonny had tried to follow Gon, but hadn't been able to and ended up walking randomly in the streets, hoping he would find him. In the end he decided to go home. He went back to his house. It was nine o'clock, and he was getting worried.
"You haven't found him?" Killua asked Sonny.
"No," Sonny answered dryly, clenching his fists. "I hope he's comin' back soon."
Sonny told Killua when he would have to kill Gabriele, and where. He was telling him more about Gabriele, when the doorbell rang. Sonny opened the door; it was Gon. Gon apologized to Sonny for coming home so late, and went to Killua. He said, "It's okay if you do it. I don't have to interfere in your choices."
"OK," Killua answered casually.
The two boys ate dinner and went back to their room. Gon told Killua and Edward what he'd heard back in the park. Edward started panicking, and Killua comforted him, "Don't worry, we're not gonna let anyone hurt you."
"How can you be so sure?" Edward asked.
"Trust us," Gon answered.
The three of them went to sleep.