Interlude: Meeting
It was quite a journey wherein they have to pass Seven Arcobaleno Trials.
Some was easy, some wasn't. They had to pass a test based on a quality the Arcobaleno wanted tested...but in Verde's case, he flatly doesn't care, being a scientist through and through that Mai scared him off and scared him into giving them his seal 'or else'...after causing wanton destruction and mayhem, that is!
She was easily their scariest Guardian.
Not only that...on their final night together...
'You gathered us in your house.' Tsuna told Mai as Ken and Chikusa weren't too happy with their presence. 'Why?'
'Future Hibari-senpai and Future Kusakabe-senpai informed me and Chrome-chan of a disturbing revelation as to why you died in the future.' Mai laid down the bomb that caused the boys to stiffen.
She told them what they know that Hibari and Kusakabe told them, and the fact that the Decimo Generation seceded from Vongola in the future out of grief and grudge, and Future Gokudera was heavily reliant on Yamamoto because only Yamamoto could soothe his pain of Broken Harmony but without him, Gokudera was 'in a very bad shape'.
Needless to say her listeners are all disturbed by the revelation, and combining it with the reason why Millefiore was born...
'We need to decide what to do.' said Tsuna. 'Something everyone will agree on so we will have no regrets.' he said. 'In the future...they're out to kill us for our rings, something that no longer exists there. We will be forced to do the unthinkable just so we would live and return to our world. Not only that, we have to take Yuni from Millefiore. I feel that if we have her, the tides will change but we'll be hard-pressed keeping her away from them. We need a plan to keep her away while defeating Millefiore.'
'I feel that the very problem and answer lies in Yuni herself. Why did Byakuran kill the six other Arcobaleno for their pacifiers but kept her alive? That's what's been bugging me.' Mai pointed out.
'Now that you mention it...isn't it because she's a Sky? Isn't killing Skies tantamount to Vendicare unless very justified?' Yamamoto asked his friends.
'Skies have unusual Factors and still a mystery in the future while we elements only have one factor yet versatile ways to use it to compensate. Moreover what are these boxes Irie gave us?' Gokudera wondered aloud as they looked at their jeweled boxes. 'We can open them now since we know how to use our powers. And the boxes are based on purity not brute force.' then as one, they took their boxes and injected it.
Except for Tsuna who got his Box Animal just NOW, it also sent a light to his Growlithe Box. The other six boxes united with the Box Animals of the Adult and one Teenage Guardians, and one of their pokemon. Gokudera's...troublesome cat and Charmander, Yamamoto's sparrow, dog, Wingull and Squirtle. Ryohei's Kangaroo and Hitmonchan, Chrome's Ralts and the Owl(as both Future Chrome and Mukuro didn't have a Box Animal and Mukuro stole Glo Xinia's owl), Hibari's Hedgehog and his Skitty, and Mai's Cow(it was Future Lambo's), and one of her Pokemon Boxes, her Mareep Box.
"That's weird!" she thought.
'Well, that's that I guess.' Tsuna blinked owlishly. 'The question now is, what's that light...? But tomorrow morning we'll go back to the future so I guess we can figure it out once we return to the future.' he mused. 'And we'll have to ask Irie what the light is because our adult selves must have planned something that we don't know about while they banked on us.'
'...what annoys me is why us when they can easily do this.' Hibari spoke for the first time.
'That's the million yen question.' Yamamoto sighed. 'What is it that we have...that they don't?'
'But either way, all our answers are in the future.' said Tsuna. 'But again, I remind everyone...we may do something we really will NOT like for the sake of survival and to save the remaining two worlds. Not only that, we also have to protect Haru, Kyoko-chan and the children.' then he looked annoyed. 'Why did my idiotic future self involve civilians?! It would be OK if its just us!' he swore in exasperation while pulling his hair. 'Has being boss made him nuts after the Vongolan Council screwed the future selves over?! Now I know what NOT to do when I grow up!'
'Again, that's something we may have to ask them.' Mai deadpanned. 'There's also our adult selves. They're now their own organization after seceding when as you put it, they made future you weak and somewhat...nutty as you put it. There's now THREE Vongolas. The Vongola they abandoned, CEDEF, and then our small group. But once we're done saving the future...what will happen to our adult selves? What if Vongola wants them back? Would there be war between them? And who will the Varia side with? Who will the alliance side with?'
Silence...
'Crap...civil war...' Gokudera choked out as it dawned on them and he was the only one to voice it out.
'Only this time, its no Cradle Affair like with Xanxus.' said Tsuna grimly. 'It'll be a whole new Internal Conflict. And I don't think they'll survive that one. Because the six others abandoned Vongola when Future Me died...if the Vongola Rings are somehow restored when we fix the Parallel Worlds...it'll be a nightmare! Vongola WILL want the rings back from the rebellious tenth generation. But dad only has one child. Me. Without me, there would be no 11th generation. But what if somehow behind my and mother's back, he was forced to be with another woman to have a new Vongola heir Vongola CAN control?'
'Shiiiit...I don't like that! I extremely don't!' Ryohei burst out in horror.
'We need to talk with Kusakabe-san about this.' said Tsuna darkly. 'This is the nasty that awaits our future selves after we survive Millefiore. That's assuming the Vongola Rings there are restored. We have to save our Future Selves too and this time...from our own.'
Nobody liked this prospect.
Not at all.