Hello, hello everyone~ Yeay, the amount of people who had favorited this story has reached 200+ already. Thank you, thank you, thank you, my amazing readers! I'm so happy that I want to bake myself a huge mound of pavlova and devour it. actually, I already done that. MWAHAHAHA! Yes people, I'm high on sugar right now. Oh yeah *dancing randomly around the room*
As usual, I also would like to thank my Beta-Reader for her time. Thanks a lot! :)
First things first, Some standard shits;
Disclaimer: I do not own KHR.
Warning: Yes people, this story contained OCs and probably some OOC-ness are present as well.
You may now start reading~
Chp 19
Tsuna lifted his face up from the floor, the flame on his forehead extinguished. He looked upset, extremely upset. He didn't have a heart to land a blow on his opponent due to the fact that the bastard was in his sister's body. Funny how easy it was for him to kick his sister before, but he couldn't do the same thing now. Probably because he was very well aware that Tsukiko's life is in danger now.
He punched the floor in frustration, venting out his anger.
"What's the matter, Decimo? Afraid that you're going to kill your own flesh and blood?" 'Tsuki' laughed.
"You do know the only way you could stop me from terrorizing this town is by defeating me, do you?"
"I don't want to admit this, but he is right, Dame-Tsuna. You have to defeat him... at least try..." told Reborn monotonously.
Tsuna was in a daze as he thought of his sister. Reborn was right. He has to defeat his opponent or else he will continue to terrorize Namimori. That's why he was here now... he wants to put a full stop to all of this. But how, when he had to go against his own twin?! It would be easier if this was just their normal rough-housing and not a situation that would make him to hurt her to the point of threatening his younger twin's life.
"... I'm not going to die that easily..." Tsukiko's words replayed in his head over and over again. Tsuna let out a faint smile. It was her favorite phrase other than 'I'm not Ricardo's daughter for nothing'. Of course... of course he knew Tsukiko was willing to go through with this. Because she knew she will live! All he needs to do is to believe in her, like his sister believes in him. Tsukiko always believed in him. ALWAYS!
"Vongola Decimo... are you ready to admit your loss now?" 'she' asked with confidence, a hint of arrogance in her tone.
"Never!" determination was set in the teen's eyes. He slowly got back on his feet while glaring solely on the possessed-brunette. Reborn smirked at this.
"I will not lose against the likes of you, Dulio! I'm not going to be defeated by the likes of you! I'm going to win this... I will definitely win!" Tsuna felt his confidence building up inside him. True, he was up against his sister but at the same time he was not against her. He knew he could do this.
The Leon-cocoon on the hitman's shoulder was shaking and ejected up to the ceiling, emitted a very bright green light.
'Tsuki' put her hand over her eyes, trying to block the sudden invasion of the bright light.
"What the?! What have you done?!"
"Hieee~ what happened?! Leon, it's not the right time to shift into disco ball!" Tsuna really hated that shrieking had become a habit of his.
A kick made its way to the teen's skull and, again, Tsuna stumbled forward.
"Shut up, Dame-Tsuna. For some reason, Leon goes into his cocoon stage when my student is given a trial..." Reborn explained.
"Hmm? So this is all your doing, Signore Reborn..." 'Tsukiko' hummed in interest.
"You're even more stupid than that idiot Dame-Tsuki... haven't you've been listening to what I have been saying?!"
"Trial, you say? Are you telling me this is all staged, Reborn?" Tsuna asked, looking at his tutor suspiciously.
"What I mean by trial is 'life and death' situation, Baka-Tsuna! Your Aneki, Dino, had overcome his trial and that was the moment he received his new items from Leon and became Haneuma-Dino..." Another smack landed on the teen's head.
"New items?"
"His whip and Enzo..." Reborn added.
"Happy birthday, Enzo!" Tsuna accidentally let slip, the sarcasm evident on his face.
"that sarcasm might be useful for you in the future, but not now, Dame-Tsuna!" Reborn kicked the teen's head again.
As soon as the tutor finished speaking, Leon exploded into green goo and everyone looked up only to find something white floating in the air. It fell directly on Tsuna's face and he sweat dropped as he dangled the item.
"'This' is my item?" he sighed heavily. "WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WITH THIS MITTEN? WARM MY HANDS DURING THE BATTLE?!"
"Shh! Stop saying that! You might hurt Leon's feeling. After all, he tried so hard to produce it for you..." Reborn scolded his student as he picked exhausted-Leon up and gently pet it.
"Hieee~ don't cry, Leon. I'll put it on! Ohh... it fitted my hands perfectly! You're the best, Leon!" Tsuna sweat dropped even more when he saw Leon was actually crying.
'Tsuki' groaned as she rolled her eyes at the scene that unfolded before her. What are they? Comedians? Didn't they know she could easily kill them when they were preoccupied with their argument?! Honestly, she was getting annoyed and no one was paying any attention to her.
"Oh, what's this?" Tsuna take off the mitten on his right hand and pulled out something from it. "Bullet?"
"I've never seen that kind of bullet before, but if it came out from Leon it must be important... hand it to me, Dame-Tsuna" told Reborn.
"So there is something that you don't know about..." Tsuna said in a mocking tone as he tossed the bullet to his tutor.
'Tsukiko' took a good look at the mysterious bullet. She didn't know why, but she felt really in uneasy after she saw the bullet.
"I swear to god I'm going to shoot you in the face soon..." even though he said it calmly, Tsuna knew his tutor was quite irritated with his comment.
Tsuna scoffed at this, not believing that his tutor would shoot him right here, right now. During their training... yes. In real battle, is he crazy or what?
"Hah... like I would believe that!"
'BANG!' Tsuna's face met the floor again. He looked startled. Reborn shot him! Reborn shot him in his face!
Wait, wasn't he supposed to be dead by now?
"SAWADA EXTREMELY WHAT?! HE CHARGED INTO ENEMY'S LAIR?! THAT WAS SO EXTREME!" Tsuna looked confuse. Did he just hear Ryohei's voice just now? Isn't the hospital supposed to be 5 miles away from here?
"Onii-chan... stop moving! You're barely healed!" now, Tsuna could hear Kyoko scolding her brother.
As expected of Ryohei to be enthusiastic for every little thing.
"Tch! What the hell is wrong with this barrier?! Juudaime, I swear I'll try to break out of this and aid you!""Hn... you'll just get in his way, Puppy""Ahahaha... I hope Tsuna is fine..."
'So, Yamamoto still can keep calm even though he is trapped in the illusion barrier? That, or he was just clueless' Tsuna thought.
"Kufufufu~ what are you talking about, Yamamoto Takeshi? Tsunayoshi-kun will definitely win this""And he will definitely bring Hime-chan home safely...""No doubt about that! Last thing that Ore-sama wants to do tomorrow is to attend a funeral"That's right... his friends were trapped in Dulio's illusion barrier, but he can hear them clearly as if they were sitting right next to him. They had calmed down because they knew he would get them out from there. One thing bothered him...
"Why can I hear everybody's real time rebuke?"
"Because I shot you with the rebuke bullet just now... and Dame-Tsuna, I don't think you have to hear my rebuke to know what I'm thinking"
"Hahi! Tomorrow is Haru's appreciation day! Must wake up early tomorrow!"
Tsuna sweat dropped.
'Who the hell was that?!' He shrugged, probably someone who was in the same mind-wavelength as his friends... that might be the reason why that random thought entered his channel of thought.
Tsuna nodded his head and let out an exaggerated sigh. So, all of his friends believed in him, huh? Well, he definitely couldn't let them down now!
'Tsu-kun! Tsu-kun! Can you hear me?!' Tsuna looked straight at the person before him and knew she wasn't talking to him although he was very sure the voice came from her direction.
'Hime-chii?'
'Ahh~ good! You can hear me... just as I expected, the rebuke bullet has established a telepathic connection between us' Tsuna couldn't believe his eyes, but he definitely saw the vision of his sister were floating right behind her physical body.
'you're not dead, are you?' he ask curiously.
'of course not, Baka! Although... I am currently in the same realm with Vongola ghosts-tachi. Anyway, I will die literally if you don't follow my instructions!' Tsukiko scolded her brother.
'Hieee~ don't die, Hime-chii! How am I supposed to explain it to Okaa-san? She might bury me alive with you if you died!' Tsuna began to panicking. The image of his angry mother really terrified him. After all, Nana was not the former #1 assassin for nothing.
Ghost-Tsuki rolled her eyes. 'Dakara~ I'm not going to die! And to do so... I'm going to need your help, Tsu-kun. You with me?'
'Anything for you, Hime-chii...' Tsuna's heart was thumping so hard as soon as he finished listening to his sister's plan.
'ARE YOU FREAKING INSANE?!'
'I am insane enough to allow this bastard to take over my body' Tsukiko laughed. But, she returned to her serious expression in a split second.
'I'm only telling you half of the plan because you're going to decide on the other half of it... Whatever your decision is, I'm with you, Tsu-kun... Just remember, no hesitation!' Ghost-Tsuki then disappeared into thin air.
Tsuna mentally groaned. It's official, his sister is definitely an idiot AND crazy! Then, he re-thought his sister's plan and he knew this plan could probably work somehow. Crazy or not... whatever plan she had in her twisted mind, they always worked out well (in some cases, not really). He really hated it when his sister was playing the 'racing against time'-game with him. Tsuna noticed his sister's possessed-body was now perspiring badly, just like as his sister said it would, and he knew it was time for him to begin his counterattack.
A sadistic smirk was plastered on the future-decimo's face and 'Tsuki' didn't fail to notice this.
"W-why are you smiling?" 'she' asked, confused, trying to figure out why 'she' was having a hard time breathing. Her clothes were soaked in her own sweat. She winced, feeling a stabbing sensation from inside 'her'. It felt like someone tore her internal organs with a sharp knife and squeezed some lemon juice on it... no, this pain is much worse than that. What the hell is wrong with this body?
"Enjoying the pain, Dulio? You're sweating pretty badly, I see" asked Tsuna, mockingly. An orange flame came to life and this time it was glowing bigger than before. He put his hands wrapped in gloves closer to the flame and it was engulfed in flames as well. He got in his warrior stance, readying himself to attack.
'How on earth did he know I'm in pain?!' The possessed-brunette thought, shocked.
"Oii, oii... you're not going to hurt your sister, are you?" the boy's opponent asked nervously.
Tsuna scoffed ignorantly.
"Bitch please... I broke her bones numerous times already..." he paused.
'Although, I did it accidently~' he shrugged at the thought before continuing his speech.
"What makes you think I'll hesitate landing another hit on her, especially when it is you who is inhabiting her body now" the older twin the charged towards his opponent and 'she' dodged his attacks narrowly and obviously having difficulty as well. Both her breathing and movement was getting heavier and heavier.
Tsuna clenched his right hand into fist as he focused his flames into a single point, the flames glowing even fiercer.
"... Get ready to meet you maker, Dulio!"
His opponent was frozen where she stood when she saw that the ball of flame in the boy's hand was coming her way. That was the moment his opponent knew she should do something.
'BUSHHH!' The brunette girl's body received the full blow and she was thrown ten feet up to the air and simultaneously, the barrier that was surrounding his friends vaporized into thin air, revealing his friends' relieved, but shocked faces.
"Juudaime!/Tsuna!/Tsunayoshi-kun!/Tsuna-kun!" the other teens exclaimed.
Tsuna saw the girl's body gone limp and he leaped to the air so he could caught the girl's body before she hit the floor.
"Hime-chii? Hime-chii?" the older brother gently shook the girl's body and a recognizable pair of warm, hazel eyes came to his view. Tsuna smiled faintly and hugged the girl tightly.
"You figured it out, nee Tsu-kun? I always knew you would..." the girl said in a weak voice, and then she passed out before her brother could say anything.
"The fight is not over yet, Dame-Tsuna..." Reborn announced when he saw Dulio's body moving again.
"I know, Reborn" he laid his sister down on the floor and then turned around to face the tutor.
"This time, please take care of her..."
"Damn it, you're getting bossy just like your sister, Dame-Tsuna. Just get this over with so we can go back home!" the Hitman lightly scolded the boy who replied by chuckling light-heartedly.
"I said 'please', didn't I? Minna, this is something that I should do myself so wish me luck..." The boy nodded once to his friends, turned around again to face his opponent. He looked at his tutor over his shoulder.
"And Reborn, please don't tell me what to do..." after showing another playful smirk, he marched off to face the Dolore's boss.
"Luck is for weaklings, Herbivore!" Hibari said monotonously.
"Go kick some ass, Juudaime! I'll be rooting for you!" Gokudera cheered for his boss.
Yamamoto gently picked the unconscious younger twin up as the other teens (minus Hibari because he was too cool and Gokudera because the girl was not worth his attention) fussed over her.
The Hitman tutor mentally rolled his eyes, feeling slightly annoyed with the twins' ability to 'talk back' to him. Even Dino never dared to do that to him, even though he is now the Cavellone's boss.
"You twin-brats surely are a handful..."
Dulio slowly stand up on his feet although his knees felt weak.
"Damn... I left this body for thirty minutes and it's already as cold as the dead..." he complained before shrugging.
"Well, I was literally 'dead' though..."
"Welcome 'home', Dulio..." Tsuna said sarcastically. "Your body was totally ancient, I can hear the creaking sound of your joints from here..."
"Shut up, brat! This old body is enough to take your pathetic ass down!" Dulio cried angrily. Clearly feeling insulted by the boy's comment.
Tsuna hummed in amusement, visibly faking it.
"And that was the very same reason why you possessed my sister's body, then?" in a split second Tsuna re-appeared near Dulio's face and landed a punch. The older man was pushed backwards because of the sudden attack.
"I definitely cannot forgive you for that, Dulio!" he threw another punch.
"And for hurting my friends!" and another punch.
"I cannot forgive that too!" he said with another powerful kick.
"And for terrorizing Namimori's citizen!" and another fiery punch.
"Like hell I would forgive you for that as well!" and strong kick.
Dulio received non-stop physical assaults from the boy yet he couldn't do anything. He tried to draw out some of his remaining flames but failed and he finally remembered that his ring was still on the girl's finger... without his ring he was nothing. He doesn't have a choice but to resort to using his own fists and legs to counter the boy's aggressive attacks.
However Dulio's turtle-like speed couldn't even match the boy's lightning-speed hits and he ended up sprawled out on the ground. His cheek was pressed down onto the cold, cement floor and he could see Tsuna's emotionless expression from the corner of his eye. He didn't even have enough strength left to lift his head up. He shut his eyes tight, knowing he lost, and he knew that the future Vongola Decimo would land his final blow now. He waited and waited, but the finishing blow never came.
Dulio slowly opened his eyes when he heard a movement and saw the boy was crouching down to face him. The flame on his forehead and fiery gloves were no more. Before him was a normal-looking, middle school-boy with a pair of kind and considerate eyes, looking at him with compassion.
"Aren't you supposed to kill me now, boy?! Because if it were me, I would finish you off without a second thought"
Tsuna shook his head in disapproval.
"I am not like you, Dulio..." then his eyes narrowed and he leaped back.
The badly beaten Demitrio and Melania came to their boss's side to aid him.
"If you want to hurt my master further you'll have to get past me first, Shrimp!" Demitrio cried, holding his broken machete in his hand. There was a stern-expression in his face and Melania was no different from him, readying herself to attack at any given opportunity.
Just like the Dolore, the Vongola teens went to Tsuna's side with their weapons in their hands, preparing to attack if the enemies made a move to attack their leader-figure.
"Leave..." was Tsuna's simple command. He gave a cold, warning glare to his losing opponents.
"Leave... and never come back!"
"Herbivore!" Hibari protested, disagreeing with the brunette's decision to let the enemy off the hook.
"Kufufufu~ if I were you, I would be begging for someone to kill me rather than having the Vindice hot on my trail..." Mukuro said.
"After all, you broke one of the laws by having the 'Possession bullet' in your ownership and not to mention using it on someone..." Chrome added.
The Dolore went pale as soon as they heard the Estraneo kids' warnings.
"And you assaulted civilians as well..." as if the siblings' warnings were not enough, Gokudera pointed that out as well.
"Seriously, just go! Never step foot in this town again. I don't want any more trouble..." the brunette said.
Demitrio clenched his fists while Melania bit her lower lip as they put their boss's arms over their shoulders to help him run away.
"Y-you'll regret letting us live, Vongola Decimo... we'll see what happen next" said the beaten up-Dulio begrudgingly.
Tsuna just shrugged and watched until the Dolore disappeared from his sight. After that, he rashly went to his sister's side to check on her condition. Hearing from the Hitman tutor that she was just okay, Tsuna sighed in relief. He picked his sister up bridal-style and turned around to meet his friends.
"Minna... let's go home~"
His friends returned his smile as well.
"Haii, Juudaime!" Gokudera chirped.
"Ahodera, Ore-sama wants ramen for dinner..." Lambo said as he tugged on his cousin's sleeve.
"Right behind you, Tsuna..." Yamamoto said happily.
"Bath... I'm going to soak myself in a bath..." Chrome said, stretching her arms up.
Mukuro saw another unconscious boy lying down on the floor and he tried to pick him up as well.
"Damn, this kid is heavy. Kyoya-kun, would you mind to lending me a hand..."
"Hn..." as usual, the prefect ignored him and passed by him.
"Carry him all the way to Cavellone's headquarter, Pineapple. He is that Dame-Tsuki's friend now..." told Reborn as he joined the teens' crowd, leaving Mukuro and Basil behind.
"Hmph... why did the Dolore make this place their hideout, anyway? I heard this place is haunted..." Gokudera blurted the fact out all of a sudden.
"Ahahaha... Gokudera, there is no such thing as ghosts~" Yamamoto laughed at him.
All of sudden, they could hear the sound of metal chains clanging from afar, then it disappeared and a minute later the sounds appeared again. Then, they could hear a high-pitched screaming voice and a ghostly voice calling for help.
"Yakyu-baka! You jinxed it!" Lambo yelled and quickly made his way to the port's exit.
Tsuna quickly sped up as well. Scratch that... he started running while carrying his sister in his arms.
"Hieeee~ I'm outta here!"
Gokudera turned pale as well. He looked at the rest of the teens and noticed they started to run as well, while the rabid-prefect was already nowhere to be found. He was torn between running away and going 'ghost-hunting'. Knowing that the rest was not actually 'interested' in ghosts, he decided to go home too.
"Wait for me!"
"Oii, Oii! Don't leave me here!" cried the Pineapple-head while trying to lift the unconscious boy by his own.
*Omake*
The sounds of metal chains resounded throughout the old port and the surroundings were getting colder. In a certain warehouse, a black portal appeared out of thin air and four human figures wrapped in bandages and in black cloaks stepped out from it.
Bermuda, the boss of Vindice, was looking around.
"No one can run away from the Vindice..." he said in a cool monotonous voice.
'CRICKET! CRICKET! CRICKET!' the crickets from outside were chirping happily, filling the air with their sound. Were crickets supposed to be coming out in this season? It was not even summer yet here in Namimori.
"..." the DD12 warehouse, on the other hand, was filled with an awkward silence.
"Uhhh..." Jagger decided to break the silence. "Bermuda-sama, I think we just missed them..."
"Damn it, Alejandro! First, you fucked up our location and we appeared at random warehouses and when we finally reached the right one, they are already gone?!" Jack said in frustration.
"I was expecting a good fight but instead I got attacked by a bunch of warehouse mice. MICE! It hurt like fuck!"
"Oh shut up, Jack. You're zombie, you can't feel anything, yet your screaming could put any girls to shame! And it was not my fault that you were the one who dropped the navigation device into the Atlantic Ocean!" Alejandro retorted back.
"Both of you are idiots! Now shut the fuck up before I sew up your mouth again!" Jagger scolded the two and then he approached to Bermuda, concerned.
"Bermuda-sama, are you alright?"
Bermuda had his shoulders slumped forward as he walked back into the black portal.
"I'm going home..." he said in a gloomy tone, clearly disappointed with the lack of action.
"Ahh... Bermuda-sama!" Jagger quickly joined him into the portal and they disappeared, leaving both Alejandro and Jack staring at the blank space where the portal was.
"Did Bermuda-sama just ditch us? He did know that we couldn't go back unless he opened the portal for us, right?" Alejandro asked.
"Damn it, Alejandro! That's it; you're going to pay for the cab fare and my plane ticket!" Jack stomped his feet angrily as he stormed out of the warehouse.
Alejandro ran after his comrade.
"Hey, at least let split the fare 50-50, will ya? I need to eat too!"
"Fuck no, you dolt! You don't have to eat, you're a freaking zombie as well!" Jack barked back angrily.
"But I have to restock my bandages... and I want to buy the new Gunpla set too!"
"Hell, to the NO!"
And that's how two of the most fearsome Vindice officers ended up riding on the 'Economy class' of the commercial flight back to Italy.
"Alejandro is definitely a cheapo..." Jack muttered.
'SMACK!' Alejandro smacked the back of his comrade's head.
"Shut the fuck up, Jack! Beggars cannot be choosers"
*end of Omake*
Yeay, this is the last chapter for this current arc. How was it? No, don't leave yet! *dramatically stretched my hands out* This is the ending chapter of the current arc, not the story as whole. I wanted to take this opportunity to thank all of my fellow readers for your patience and support by staying tune on this story as well as the reviewing, for the whole 21 chapters already. Thank you, everyone! *Bows down gratefully*
So, so, so... can anybody guess what the next arc are all about? Oh, how was this arc's ending by the way? I know it might not up to your expectation, but that was all I could come up with. Lame? Alright, I'm going to kill myself now by eating all of the cakes my sister made just now.
So, as usual... these are my replies to the previous lovely reviews.
Scarlet Rose White: Yeay, Tsuna finally manned up! And he landed some fiery punch to Dulio's face as well, right?
xXnazaraXx: well, you don't have to. He's lost to Tsuna already. Hehe~
Risako: Well, Tsuna eventually got shot at the end though, so you're not entirely wrong. Thanks for reading by the way.
Urara: Hmm~ Tsuna sacrificing himself to save Tsuki, huh? I think I'll take note on that. thanks for the idea.
Guest: Well, I wish I thought of that earlier but I already came up with this ending before you post out you review. Anyway, I really appreciate the time you spent to review this story. Thank you for reading.
Mousletwong: well... we'll see about that. *wink*
As usual people, thank you for reading and don't forget to give out some reviews as well. please stay tune. Love you all and see you soon. Ciao~Ciao~