Sorry for the previous freaky chapter 20! :( I don't know how it can be that jumbled up :/ I've been busy with college student orientation and I got sick too! That's why I am sorry :'
Anyway, enjoy!
Previously:
"Where is Gokudera's sister? I thought she is here with us since you gave her permission to do so."
Reborn grinned.
"Sharp as always. She is already in here before we do, Yamamoto." Yamamoto's grin widened as an amusement lit up in his eyes.
"Oh, glad she could make it."
Reborn's lips twitched upwards in amusement as he loves working with this young man. Such a sharp mindset.
'I know I am never wrong, Dame-Tsuna. He could be the one doing that. So, what do you say, Tsuna?'
GROUP EAST : Gokudera, Ryohei, Yamamoto
GROUP SOUTH : Fon, Reborn, Skull
GROUP NORTH : Lal, Lussuris, Fran
GROUP WEST : Colonello, Xanxus, Viper, Enma
GROUP SOUTHEAST : Squalo, Basil, Levi, Shamal
CHAPTER 20: FOOLED
Tsuna stared blankly at the big steel door in front of her. That Ayame girl is quite good. She didn't expect this. She never expected this.
"Bossu, you okay?" Chrome fidgeted in worry over Tsuna's quietness.
"Tsunayuki?" Mukuro nudged Tsuna's side with his trident and got no response.
"Tsunayuki-chan?" Mukuro tried again, this time with his index finger continuously which he sure will tick off the brunette soon.
"Hm?" Tsuna absent-mindedly turned to face them in daze which stunned them.
What could happen inside Tsuna demonic brain?
"You called?" She asked Chrome and Mukuro and spotted the damn finger that touched her and pissed her off. She calmly grabbed Mukuro's index finger and twisted it upwards.
"O-Ow, ow, ow, Tsunayuki-sama! It's not supposed to bend that way! Tsunayuki-sama?!"
Chrome coughed to hide her laugh.
"Oh? And you are not supposed to touch me and disturb my thought." She said with annoyance and continued to bend his finger to the way it's not supposed to.
"Ow, ow ,ow! Okay, okay! Please forgive my rudeness!" He said, still trying to sound polite to please his boss. Tsuna mentally smirked in victory and released Mukuro's nearly broken finger.
"Learn not to pick on your leader." she huffed and held her chin with her thumb and index finger.
Five minutes passed with a quiet Tsuna and Chrome and a whiny Mukuro before the said boss shouted, "Ah!" causing Chrome to jolt in surprise and Mukuro to bend his finger again in a wrong way when he was massaging them.
"Ow, ow, ow―" No one took mind of him.
"Something wrong, Bossu?" Chrome asked after calming herself down. Tsuna glanced at her and grinned.
"No, nothing, Chrome. Nothing..." She said with a secret smile.
-[x]-
"So... Reborn, where are we going?" Fon asked while glancing around, spotting trees whenever he stopped by to rest.
Reborn stared at Fon from the corner of his squinted eyes. "Hm?" Reborn replied with an uninterested hum. Fon sighed, feeling hopeless. He had asked his friend, Reborn, which his friend ignored or rather, asking him back with question or hum. He mentally face palmed.
"I think I have been asking you ten times. Care to explain?" Fon said back with a pursed smile which Reborn replied with a mischievous smile. Fon sighed again to hide his irritation.
"Oh, fine, fine. I will tell you one of many big secrets I know."
Fon raised one of his eyebrows, "Secret?"
"Yes, a secret. A big one." Reborn's eyes widened in excitement.
"Hey, shouldn't we be more considerate about our situation in the middle of nowhere?" Skull beamed with annoyance clear in his voice. The same as Mukuro, they didn't take notice of him.
Reborn smirked in delight at tempting his old dear friend, "Interested much?"
"Not really. No specific subject you told us about the secret." He shrugged while smiling.
"Oh, I guess some big secrets of Vongola Boss won't entertain us that much, will it?" Reborn faked a frown when on the inside he smirked in triumph.
"Tell us, Reborn! So we can destroy them and be the strongest!" Skull screamed excitedly which earning a hard punch and kick on his stomach and man's precious jewel. That shut him up perfectly. His comrades just walked ahead of him, not bother to help him at all.
"So, Reborn."
"Hm?"
"What kind of blackmail you do to make Tsunayuki surrenders one of her big secrets?"
"Ouch, that's hurt, Fon!" Reborn faked crying, making Fon rolled his eyes comically.
Reborn brought his hands to the air, "Okay, okay. She didn't tell me rather I found it out myself." He smirked. Fon raised one of his eyebrows and threw his comrade a polite smile.
"I'm sorry old friend..." Reborn stared at him questionably and dropped his smirk, "...but to tell you the truth, I never expected Tsunayuki to be so careless around you for you to find out her secret, furthermore, I simply thought you force her with one kind of blackmailing tricks you usually use to gather information from the said person."
"That's rude!" Reborn pouted as if has been found out.
Fon sighed again and scratched his head, "So, what is this secret you so proud of?" Reborn glanced at him with another devil smirk plastered on his face.
"Do you believe in me when I said that the plan Tsuna had told us is fake?"
Fon stopped on his track as Reborn's smirk widened.
"…What?" He barely muttered.
"Tsuna had told us the fake plan whilst she held the real plan. That brat…"
"…"
"Chill, Fon. I know what my student is doing with her plan." Reborn patted his shoulder.
Fon glanced awkwardly and asked him, "Do you know her real plan, then?"
"Sadly, that kid is quite smart in hiding and running, so it's a no." Reborn stated with a matter-of-fact tone. Fon resisted the urge to smack his face with his palm.
"Then how do you know that the plan she told us is fake?"
Reborn's smirk came back on his face, "I noticed some unusual formation when Tsuna told us earlier…"
Tsuna's Plan
"First of all, let me finish this discussion and don't cut off my talk! If you do I will kill you!" Tsuna threatened with her glare, "Gokudera-kun, Onii-san and Yamamoto will head to East. On the way there, you will need Gokudera-kun's brain to lead the way. Remember, Gokudera-kun, «Where the tip of the leaf directs, that where you will go. Where the squirrels stand, that where you will map out the reality. Where the door was found, that will be your downfall»"
Tsuna wrote those «special directions» for Group East in a piece of paper and gave it to Gokudera.
"Fon-san, Reborn and Skull will head to South. For you Group South, it will be wise to let Reborn lead the way and «Mind of the neglected. The wind will know what's wrong and tell you while the cloud and the storm only can hide behind the sun. The cloud will tear while the storm will burn»"
Again, Tsuna wrote the «special directions» and threw it at Reborn who caught it with two fingers.
"Lal, Lussuria and Fran will head to North. Well, I think this group will do better so just…" Tsuna scratched something on a small paper and give it to Fran.
"?" Fran tilted his head to the side and read it out loud.
"«Frog knows when will rain and which way to lead. Peacock will cry when the bullet was hurt»"
"What does that mean, Decimo?" Fran tilted his head to the side. Tsuna only sent him a secret smile and put her index finger in front of her lips.
Tsuna then faced the remaining and continued, "Next is…Colonello, Xanxus, Viper and Enma-kun." They nodded, "You four will head to West. You need to rely on Enma-kun's clumsiness. «Brace the lies, kill the truths» is my only direction to you guys. Good luck!" she saluted them with a big grin and gave Colonello a small note.
"Lastly~ Squalo, Basil-kun, Levi and someone-who-will-appear-later. You will head to Southeast. Someone-who-will-appear-later might tell you the weaknesses of the nature. Make sure to use the information given properly. Now, dismissed!" She raised one hand as the others stared at each other dumb-founded―not really knew how to use the given hint properly. It's not like they will go to a war, more like they will fight based on Tsuna's plan, like she was the one planning it, not that Ayame girl.
"Oh!" They looked at Tsuna for her sudden out-burst. "I forgot to mention other people it seems."
They tilted their head in puzzled expression.
"Nah, I will just tell you the hint. Doesn't it seem more exciting when you only get to know the small secret behind something big?" She squealed.
The remaining sweat-dropped or face-palmed. Tsuna then cleared her throat and put on a serious mien.
"Let me get this quick: «Beware of the poison, when the night sky disappears, the cloud will shine and the haze will scream in joy. When the mist came after the opening haze, the cloud would burn in rage while the haze will be rain and the empyrean would fall with a smile. Them who are contained within the universe will coruscate in grief»"
Their jaws dropped.
"…I don't understand any single thing-kora!" Colonello stated proudly before Lal smacked his head and rolled her eyes.
Tsuna only smiled, "You will understand when you reach your destination. There will be the others to come so no worries!"
"…The….others…? Who?" They asked in unison which earned a grin from the said boss.
"Like I said, you will know and understand when you reach your destination. So, any objection?" Tsuna said between her gritted teeth.
They quickly shook their head and gulped.
Group South
"Ne, Fon." Reborn called with an amusement smirk graced his lips. The said man only nodded absent-mindedly.
"Huh?"
"I think you are the last to know this. I think they got the hint already." Reborn tipped his fedora to hide his mischievous glance whilst Fon stopped moving abruptly.
That's when Reborn's silence turned into a snicker.
Group East
"WHAAT? JUUDAIME LIED TO ME?!" Gokudera shouted at the top of his lungs while the grip on his head tightened.
"Maa, maa…" Yamamoto laughed but somehow his shocked expression was shown a bit on his happy-go-lucky mien.
"SAWADA IS EXTREME!" Ryohei punched the air in front of him while shouting once in a while.
Group North
"Hm, yes. Decimo successfully made me laugh. Hilarious. I'm flattered."
"No lies, Froggie. I'm so pissed off at Sawada. Really, I am. I want to blast her head off."
"Ehem, but she is our boss~" Lussuria cooed.
"I don't give a shit." Lal replied as she reloaded her gun and Fran cracked a laugh.
Group West
"That bastard." Xanxus cursed as he kicked a nearby pebble.
"KORA! I am fooled by a young teenager!? I'm feeling so stupid!"
"Hn. You are stupid from the very beginning anyway."
Colonello quickly threw a deadly glare at Viper, "Say it again-kora!"
"Maa,maa… Tsuna-chan must have her very own reason…"
"SHUT UP!" The three of them shouted at the poor red-head in anger as the victim could only shrink in fear.
Group Southeast
"VOOO―"
"SHUT THE FUCK UP, YOU SILVER HEAD!"
"WHAT DO YOU―"
"QUIET!" Shamal and Levi hissed as Basil sweat-dropped.
Back to Group East
"Do you believe me now?" Reborn asked with a victorious grin.
"…Yes, I do."
"Good boy."
Fon snorted as Reborn laughed hysterically.
―Beep―Beep―
'Hmn?'
"Bossu, your personal device is ringing." Chrome pointed out as Tsuna rubbed her back head sheepishly.
"Oh, it's mine? Haha, thanks Chrome-chan." She said before looking at her personal device[1] that looked like an electronic note book. She touched the screen as the screen's circles wallpaper moved to every direction and revealed a message.
"Who is it from, Tsunayuki-chan?" Mukuro pondered out loud.
Tsuna tapped the message and the screen showed her the content of the said message as she smirked approvingly.
"It's from Spanner." The two mist ring holder tilted their head.
"Did the message say what we thought about just now…?" They asked in unison as Tsuna grinned and showed them her personal device.
The duo smiled and shook their heads.
«Vongola, mission accomplished. You just need to see the new formation and yes, a new reinforcement is on his way. Make a bet with him. ―Spanner»
Note:
[1] Personal Device: a square device―12x8 cm―that was made by Vongola's Mechanics, fully requested by Vongola Decimo. It can provide a map and network connection between the same holder based on IP Address within the same country. For a map: you need to download a full map from the hacked website and transferred it to the personal device's SD Card, therefore the real map should be 'messed up' first before you can use the hacked one in order for the doer to go unnoticed by victim's computer tracking. More information will be revealed in next chapter.
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