Hi everyone! Thanks so much for the praise on the action in the last two chapters and love for Lambo in his fight. I definitely aimed to make him a really cool fighter because in the manga, he only fought like what twice in the whole series honestly? That's a big no no to me! Also if you like hitman reborn then try out my other stories too! It has been too long since the last time I updated, been really busy but I'm back and trying to be as active as before. I got stuck wiring this chapter which was originally meant to focus on the girls on the story but I couldn't really put much thought into it so this chapter will instead skip ahead to the Arcobaleno battles.

Lambo had defeated Mr. Toro the assassin sent from the future to kill Lambo by the Giobbani. Lambo proves his worth as a someone who can stand by the rest of the Vongola and his resolution shines through like lightning through a dark sky. Now with the fated day of the Arcobaleno battle, the combatants arrive one by one to challenge one another.

"Sooo...let me get this straight Haru...you, Kyoko, and Chrome went OUT...with Lal Mirch and Yuni from the team were supposed to today?"

"Yup! That's the plan Gokudera-kun!" Haru was talking with Gokudera within the Vongola's hotel base. Haru decided since no one else was here at the moment besides her and Gokudera, to inform him of her departure. It was a rule now to inform one another wherever you are so if you go missing. One knows where you last were, or if you are attacked then one can head there immediately. They talked within Gokudera's room where he sat at his desk and Haru sat in front of him in a big spinning chair.

"The Hell? Were about to fight them! And you girls decided to go out and have some fun before beating the shit out of each other?" Gokudera yelled at her slamming his fists on the desk. Haru was taken back by this a bit but tried to play off his anger casually.

"Geeze...no need to get so mad Gokudera-kun! Were just having a little fun; we could use a breather you know?" Haru smiled at Gokudera but he just gave her a sickened look followed by.

"You make my brain hurt..." He shook his head unable to comprehend what goes through a girl's mind. They're going to become closer friends before they have to fight one another. Try to make sense of that?

"You make it sound like they're like the Giobbani! They're still our friends ya know! Come on Gokudera its fine to just to have some fun once in a while right?" She pouted as Gokudera simply shook his head some more and pulled off the glasses he was wearing."Augh! That's not the point! They could be trying to get some intel on you and soften you up before the fight! Their leader is Reborn you know!"

"Nu uhn! Their leader is actually Yuni right? Since she's the Sky Arcobaleno!" Haru folded her arms and looked away from Gokudera who simply sighed. "Yeah...the fifteen year old girl leading a bunch of grownups...makes sense...who's dumb idea was it to go out and have fun together anyway?" Gokudera said as he then noticed Haru's arm go high up in the air happily.

"Mine! Hehe!" She said with a cheerful giggle. "Why...did I even bother asking. You always have stupid ideas..." Gokudera went back to something he was working on until Haru got up in his face. "What...?"

"What do you mean I always have stupid ideas?" Gokudera then got up from his seat a bit and got back in her face."I mean what I said! You never think things clearly enough! You went to Hibari's house knowing his father was a member of the Giobbani and could've been killed! You always do reckless and stupid things ever since you joined us! I knew it was always a bad decision to have you in the mafia with us..."

"...So that's how you feel? That i'm some stupid little girl who isn't capable of handling herself?" She got up out of her seat and stared Gokudera down. She and Gokudera would fight practically every time they talked with each other. They never got along and always fought over something juvenile and simple. Haru tries to think better of Gokudera and tries to see the good in him but its difficult for her. To her he's a try hard rough boy, a dog to Tsuna, and hot headed. She couldn't see what was so good about him. He's the only person she couldn't understand. And to Gokudera, Haru is always the hag. Annoying, obnoxious, irritating, and overall believes she shouldn't be a part of the Vongola at all. But not because she's incompetent or can't hold her own...

"Ah..Haru...I didn't..."

"Forget it Gokudera...i'm leaving now for the trial today. And i'll be using the door if that's not too stupid of an idea for you!" In a fury she went to the door quickly and was out in a moment, shutting the door behind her and leaving Gokudera to sigh to himself and hit himself on the forehead.

"Dammit Hayato...when will you learn to be gentler...the Tenth's right hand man. And I still treat her like garbage...sigh..." He looked down at the piece of paper he was working on. "Her Birthday is May 3rd...if I remember correctly and that's after the trial. maybe I should get her something nice...since I can never be nice no matter how hard I try...this is why I...sigh..." Gokudera went back to his work as the angry Haru went outside and pulled out her cell phone to check up on Kyoko when she suddenly felt the presence of another next to her. She looked to her left to see that Hibari was standing there dressed in a tuxedo with a purple shirt underneath.

"Ah...H-hibari-san! H-hi!" Haru was surprised to see Hibari and wasn't sure what to do if she met him now. How would he act? What would he say? Sure they ended that day at his house on more friendly terms than before but Hibari is still Hibari.

"Hmph.." He simply said as he coldly walked past Haru and opened the door to the hotel. Haru now angry at his cold disposition turned around and yelled angrily at him. "Hey! Why do you still have to act like that! I'm your friend remember? Adress me at least, i'm not forcing you to do anything more than that!"

Hibari then turned to her quickly with an evil look on his face. Haru quickly backed away in fear. "Or you know...we can do peace signs to say hello..."
Hibari didn't say anything for the first moment but when eh turned to go inside he said, "Hello...Haru..." and with that he said nothing more as he went into the building without looking back. Haru smiled gently at this and felt at least Hibari was more sensible than Octopus head she thought. She went on with her day as she walked down the street through the busy crowds of people.

Meanwhile Tsuna and Kyoko were on there way to the site requested to show up at by the Arcobaleno. Tsuna had checked ahead to see where his famigilia were at, he checked his phone to see Gokudera and Hibari at the hotel doing some last minute confrontations. Ryohei was on his way along with lambo as he was in charge of healing Lambo's wounds for the fight. Only ones Tsuna had no idea of their location was Mukuro and Chrome who was no where to be found. They seemed to be more distant than Hibari at times and Tsuna was worried about their safety. But he was even more worried about the Giobbani instead of the Arcobaleno. How much do they truly know about them? They keep sending assassins to fight them but haven't directly showed up themselves. And another thing he wondered about is their capabilities in technology and power. Hibari noted his father used a Dying Will flame called the Dark Cloud. Something neither Verde, Reborn, or even Mukuro with his underground knowledge seems to know anything about. Tsuna could not understand the Giobbani's plans one bit, nothing seem to fit. If they truly are back and so powerful, why not just attack them now and be done with the Vongola? Tsuna felt their plan was far bigger than anything one could possibly imagine. His nightmares he receives from his connection to the sky...he felt was a big hint but a hint to what?

Kyoko stopped behind Tsuna and Tsuna kept walking for a moment before he noticed she had stopped. he turned to her who seemed to be lost in thought too and feeling confused about something. "Kyoko? What's wrong?" Tsuna asked her as he moved closer to her and held her.

"Ah...Tsuna...I...something has been bothering me lately." Her eyes darted to the ground, unable to look Tsuna in the eyes. "Hmm? What is it? Is it about the Arcobaleno?"

"Oh..no..its not that...its..." It was silent for a moment and then Kyoko gathered her words and tried speaking again. "Its about the Vongola...the first generation."

"Hmm? Giotto and his guardians? What about them?" Tsuna said confused as to where this came from.

"Its odd isn't it? These trials were doing, were doing these trials to get stronger but even if we do them we won't get strong enough to beat the Giobbani or at least that's what they said. But ideally they are much stronger than us, so wouldn't it be better if they handle this instead?"

"Hmm...well...I don't know. They said that both famigilias together would have a hard time trying to fight them so I assume were getting stronger to grab hold to some slither of hope."

"Yeah...however...if that is the case. Why don't they train as well, instead they're focused solely on our strength and empowering us...it just seems like were not being prepared to fight the Giobbani...but something else entirely. Almost like...were fighting..."

"Fighting what...?"

"Ourselves Tsuna. AN internal and external struggle of the Vongola. The maiden trials for instance...was the whole purpose of that just to secure a wife? It seems odd for them to being with that trial when the possibility of our survival was supposedly never high in the first place...not that I mind it entirely."

"Well it does make sense if it was more about us then the Giobbani...it was about us..."

"Exactly! Us. Not them. You, me, and Haru went through an internal struggle don't you see? I had to face the reality of my feelings and not hide them, you had accept the responsibilities of being a mafia boss and get over your indecisiveness, and Haru also had to face reality..."

"Hmm...then you believe the real challenge here is not the Giobbani...but ourselves then Kyoko? That makes a lot of sense...but the trial in front of us a real battle between us and the Arcobaleno. Only problems I can see are between me and Reborn. The first time I ever fought him, I held back and lost along with the other guardians. Now we must fight again and I undoubtedly can feel it will me versus him in one of the rounds."

"And there it is...the internal struggle you must go through as long with an external one. I think these trials are meant to make not only stronger on the outside...but the inside...but do we truly need to be this strong...can I...be this strong?"

Tsuna embraced Kyoko more closely and kissed her on the lips, letting their hearts become entwined in a tight red string of their love. It wrapped around them and then slowly unwinded as Tsuna pulled away. "There...f-feeling stronger now?" Tsuna blushed. Kyoko who was caught off guard blushed back and simply nodded, too embarrassed to say anything. And hand in hand, the two walked to the site of the first battle where they all assembled. Arcobaleno and the Vongola.

There they met in a field located far away from namimori where there was plenty of space all around with trees acting as a border to conceal such a vast space. On one side of the field to the left stood each member of the Vongola even Mukuro and Chrome at the last minute. And on the other side was the Arcobaleno, all except Bermuda. The winds picked up as the two sides faced one another without saying much of anything to one another. Each member of the VOngola was in their battle outfits of their own choosing. It seems their eyes said it all before the judges, the Cervello, arrived on the field. Two masked, pink haired and dark skinned women walked down the field. The Cervello has served as judged to events the Vongola participated before and are once again called upon to do three things.

Keeping the rules in contestants of the someone with a higher position.

"First we shall have the leaders of both sides come forth to participate in the Coin and Card Game." The one on the left side said.

"We will also explain how the Card Game works to both leaders." The one the right said as Tsuna looked to his friends and nodded. he walked forward as did Yuni from the Arcobaleno. Once they arrived in the center of the field, the Cervello called for some men bring forth a table with cards spread about the top. Each with a decoration of the Vongola emblem crossed with the Arcobaleno pacifier that was colored in a rainbow.

"Now allow me to explain how this all works. In my hand I hold a coin, one side the Arcobaleno's pacifier symbol. And on the other is the Vongola emblem. I will flip the coin and whatever side it lands on, that side gets the chance to go for the card game. The leaders will then draw a card which will have a different location at random and that will be the location of the fight. Once the location has been set, you will pick a battle style card. Which determines the rules for that battle. Once that has been set, we the judges shall then randomly select two fighters. Does both sides understand the rules?"

"Yes." They both said at once. "Very well. Then let us toss the coin to see who will get to pick a location." The cervello woman on the left then tossed the coin high up in the air. Each side slipping in the air numerous times before it fell back into her hand. The tension was high between both sides and everyone there was feeling it. Especially Lambo who attempted to run away at that moment but got caught my Gokudera. The Cervello lady looked at the coin and announced the winner. "The coin toss goes to the Arcobaleno! Sky Arcobaleno Yuni, please come forth and draw a card for the site of the battle."

"Yes." Yuni walked up to the table and examined each card carefully. She closed her eyes and hovered her hands around the table. Haru then remembered something and whispered to Ryohei next to her.

"Hey...wasn't Yuni psychic? Can't she see the future?"

"OH? Hmmm, yeah she was!" Ryohei realized it too.

"Then were playing at a disadvantage if she can." Mukuro said simply, snickering to himself.

"Not entirely...I mean Tsuna has hyper intuition...if that applies here..." Lambo said sighing. "I wish I had hyper intuition too..."

"You have a danger sense stupidcow...pretty much the same damn thing..." Gokudera mumbled.

"You guys hush up! I'm trying to see where we'll be fighting!" Kyoko yells at them.

"No need to yell in my ear Kyoko-san..." Chrome says as she rubs her ears.

"Ah s-sorry..."

"You are all so loud and obnoxious..." Hibari sneers.

"What was that!?" Gokudera was ready to challenge Hibari right then and there to mortal kombat but luckily Yuni had drew the location. She showed the card which bore to Cervello who then announced the battlefield will be the Grand City location.

"Grand city?" Kyoko asked confused. "Like a big city?"

"Its probably like the city we fought in the choice match." Yamamoto added to the conversation. "Now we have to see what the rules are to the battle." He laughed.

Yuni drew the next card and then showed it to the Carvello who would also announce the battlers which they randomly drew from a box of names. The tension rose again as each side eyes the other side down. The first two battle was...

"The first battle will be a one on one match until K.O. between Haru Miura and Bermuda Von Veckenschtein!" The entire Vongola famigilai froze up as they heard the name Bermuda.

"W-w-what!?" I-I have to go up against that creep in the first match? No way..." Haru fell to the ground on her knees and the Vongola surrounded her. Tsuna looked back and saw how Haru had fallen. "H-hold up" Tsuna said to the lady. "There's no way Bermuda can be a fair matchup for Haru, its completely one sided."

"Vongoal Decimo. Regardless of whether each combatant is suited for the other is not of our concern. We drew randomly and fairly two names and those were the ones we drew. If you deny this battle then we will consider that you forfeiting the match and the win going instantly to the Arcobaleno."

"Ugh.." Tsuna backed down and returned to his side of the field along with Yuni to her's. Once Tsuna returned he simply shook his head.

"Boss! No way Haru can go up against Bermuda, it barely took all of us to go up against that guy. Only you can beat him!" Gokudera exclaimed.

"I know but...nothing I can do about it. Haru. You don't want to do this right?" Tsuna looked down at Haru who stopped shacking in fear and looked up. She saw everyone's worried face. "I...I..."

"Get up Haru Miura." Everyone turned to see Hibari walking through the group over to Haru. "Get up and fight..."

"Huh?" Hibari picked her up by the hand and made her stand on her own two feet. "It doesn't matter how strong Bermuda is. We have all gotten stronger and you are far from being a weak herbivore like Tsuna..."

"Hey..."

"Stand. Stand higher than any small animal that tries to bite you. For your fangs will bear a strength that can bring down any adversity. You are not alone in this...isn't that similar to what you told me? I refuse to be lectured like that by someone so weak. So prove to me you are strong and worthy of being a part of this 'group'. Otherwise just go home and stay weak and useless..."

"Hibari! That's going to far now!" Kyoko retorted. Hibari simply closed his eyes and walked away from them leaving the group to attend to Haru. Haru thought about Hibari's words for a moment and then she stood up.

"You alright Haru?" Yamamoto looked into her eyes and saw how powerful she was now. "Sorry guys...for a moment I had lost myself there. I'm fine now, I promised myself I wouldn't be the weak girl who cries all the time. I promised myself I would be strong and now I have a chance to prove that strength. I can do this!" Haru walked to the center of the field with confidence as her friends watched her. It was then she realized...Bermuda wasn't even there yet.

"W-wait...where is my opponent at anyway?" The Vongola looked around but Bermuda truly wasn't anywhere in sight.

"Sigh...leave it to Bermuda to show up late. Knew we couldn't trust him." Verde said with a calculating glance as he examined the siutation.

"Please! We can barely trust you for this!-Kura!" Colonello said.

"Oi, oi. What exactly are we supposed to do if Bermuda doesn't show up!?" Skull freaked out.

"If the participant does not show up within half an hour, then the victor of the match will automatically be the opposing team. If neither show up then it will be considered a draw and neither side gets a point." The Cervello woman on the right said to the Arcobaleno.

"Ahhh! Where is he!?" Skull jumped around frantically before Fon hit him on the head.

"You fool...do you not feel his presence all around us?" Fon said simply as Skull looked at the those around him who were sensing the dying will flames all around them. A dark, eerie feeling filled the air. At first Tsuna felt it similar to something in his nightmares but the feeling all too well resembled his past foe. Bermuda!

And out of a dark portal that appeared out of thin air in front of Haru comes Bermuda himself. The strongest Arcobaleno and user of the Flame of the Night!

"Well hello there Vongola...I apologize for being late...now tell me...who's going to be my first victim?!"

Haru gulps as she steels herself for the match against Bermuda with both sides waiting to see what will happen next.

"Let the match between the Vongola and the Arcobaleno begin! Haru Miura vs Bermuda Von Veckenschtein! Location change!"

And the ground beneath them began to rumble and shake with a tremendous force as the world began to split and turn with building emerging from the ground. The location is changing, but will Haru be able to change her will to fight Bermuda!?

NEXT TIME! THE BATTLE BETWEEN THE ARCOBALENO AND THE VONGOLA BEGIN WITH HARU VS BERMUDA!? THE MOST POWERFUL ARCOBALENO VS THE MAIDEN WITH THE BRIGHTEST SMILE! WHO WILL COME OUT ON TOP IN THIS HEATED BATTLE IN THE GRAND CITY! NEXT CHAPTER:The Terror of the night!