LunarFallenStar: Hey guys! I apologize for the late update. I've just had my hands full. I'm drowning in essays and projects and assignments. Not to mention we found a Pseudo Tumor pressing on my brother's pituitary gland in his head as well as building pressure in his brain. He's been going to the hospital in the state capital city for treatments once every month and stress and all this other crap that you probably don't want to hear about. Anyway, I'm just very stressed and have been freaking out for quite a while. Here's the update and I hope you enjoy /bows
The classroom was abuzz with chatter. The new transfer students were the talk of the school, for most people at least. Ed sat in the front of his classroom, watching as his students conversed enthusiastically. His eyes landed on a certain group of students.
He smirked slightly when he saw Tsuna flushing slightly when Kyoko walked up to him, 'Ah~ So the Vongola Heir likes Kyoko? Let's see what I can do with this.'
Turning back to his desk, the alchemist picked up the single slip of paper which held information about the transfer students. According to the paper, their would be two of the transferring students in his class. Golden eyes widened when they read further, 'S-Shimon Middle School?!'
In the Hallway
A representative from the school's main office escorted the two transfer students towards their designated classroom.
"Welcome to Namimori Middle!" The man prattled on, "You will be in the class being taught by none other than Edward Elric. Now, he may look young, but he is quite qualified. A prodigy, you may say. He can be quite eccentric at times, but I hope you will not be too intimidated by him."
After reaching their destination, they stood outside their classroom, as per the man's order, and waited to be called into the room.
Inside aforementioned classroom, they could hear a young voice speaking.
"Now, class, as most of you know, we'll be having transfer students coming into this class as of today," The voice, presumably the teacher, continued, "Now, hopefully, you won't make them feel unwelcome, so do your best to be kind. Now, um... Shitt P...?"
The two could've sworn they heard the teacher mutter under his breath, "What kind of a name is that? I feel like I'm swearing..."
Taking that as her cue, the female transfer student stepped through the doorway and into her new classroom.
Ed's jaw nearly dropped and whispers spread through the classroom.
"I'm Shitopi-chan," the peculiar girl announced.
Her whole persona was strange. Her head was entirely bald, except for a small tuft of hair on her forehead. Where her hair should be, was a giant 'S' tattoo on the side of her head. Two inflatable rings were wrapped around her, seemingly floating. She wore the Shimon uniform jacket over her own set of clothes.
Ed smiled at her, the corners of his mouth twitching slightly, "Welcome to our school... Shitopi-chan."
All eyes now pried themselves away from the strange transfer student and fell on the other one, standing slightly behind Shitt P.
"And you are?" Ed inquired, eyes closed as he smiled.
"...Kozato... Enma..." The teen murmured quietly.
"Ah, well Enma-kun, Shitopi-chan," Ed said, turning to face the two new students, "Welcome to Namimori Middle!"
The teacher froze when his eyes landed on Enma, golden eyes widening slightly.
The red head was the spitting image of someone else he knew once. Fluffy red hair sat upon the slightly pale teen's head. His eyes were the same crimson as his unruly mass of hair, the pupils resembling a compass of sorts. Bandages covered his face and hands, showing that the transfer student either got into fights often, or he got picked on. Ed was leaning towards the latter. Enma was very scrawny looking, barely filling up his already small Shimon uniform.
He would look even more like the alchemist's old friend if he smiled.
Snapping out of his daze, Ed coughed into his hand and gestured to the class, "Well, take your seats, and we'll get started with the lesson."
The school day had passed normally, only a few interesting things happening here and there. The Vongola group drew closer to the transfer students, particularly Tsuna and Enma.
Staying late after school to make up for missing teaching days, Ed was currently sorting papers and filing them away, as per usual. Getting back into the swing of things was difficult as he had been in the future for a while. He still wasn't entirely used to switching between a violent mafia guy to a normal school teacher. Then, after things were finally returning to normal, the Shimon transfer students showed up, along with familiar yet new faces.
Suppressing a sigh, he looked up at the clock and noticed how late it was. Almost everyone had already left and the hallways were dark.
"I guess that should be enough work for today..."
Ed slowly packed things into his bag before swinging it haphazardly over his shoulder. Stepping out of the classroom, he was startled when a tiny foot collided painfully with the back of his head, sending him flying into the ground.
Peeling himself from the cold floor, Ed turned and faced the baby hitman, irritation clear on his face.
Reborn stood behind him, hands in his suit pockets.
"What's your problem, you psychotic baby!?" Ed growled, opening his mouth to protest more.
"Ed," The surprisingly serious tone in the infant's voice made all of Ed's protests disappear, "You do know that the Inheritance Ceremony will be taking place soon, right?"
"Well naturally," Ed stated, "Even I've received an invitation, surprisingly."
Pulling a letter out of his suit jacket, Reborn tossed it to the teacher who was now standing once more. Ed caught it quickly and stared at it.
"That was a letter that your new student, Enma, dropped after he was attacked by bullies," Reborn watched for the blond's reactions. Ed turned the letter over in his hands and eyes turned downcast slightly.
"Tsuna told me that he noticed you seemed slightly sad and strange today after the transfer students showed up," Reborn informed, "Then I found that letter... And finally there's your connections with the Vongola... I can only assume you know more than you're letting on."
Golden bangs now shadowed his face, hiding any emotions that might've been found in his eyes.
"Even if you tell me nothing, I will still find a way to get the information," Reborn spoke.
"I don't doubt that in the least, but still..." A smirk settled on Ed's face, and he chuckled slightly, "There are some memories you just shouldn't poke at..."
Looking at the letter one final time, Ed tossed it back to the mafioso. Finally raising his head, light finally shined on his eyes. Melancholic emotions swirled in the burning gold, with tinges of happiness and sadness.
With that, the golden haired teacher turned around, waving over his shoulder briefly before leaving.
Reborn's cobalt eyes stared in the direction he had left before clicking his tongue and leaving the school behind as well.
The Next Day
Arriving at Namimori middle, Tsuna was alarmed to find a giant crowd pooling in the front grounds of the school.
"What's going on?" Tsuna asked himself, looking around in confusion.
Quickly elbowing his way through the crowd, he spotted a mop of red hair staring at the scene happening upon the roof. Following the red head's line of sight, he soon spotted the giant banner handing on the front of the school, "EH?!"
"Korekiyo?!" Tsuna questioned, reading the kanji on the sign.
"... It's 'shukusei'..." Enma murmured, correction his brunet friend, "It's Adelheid's committee activity."
"Adel... heid?" Tsuna asked slowly, the name feeling foreign on his tongue.
"She's one of the transfer students that came with us here from Shimon. She's also a third year. Adelheid manages our school's disciplinary committee by violence. She's the president of the Liquidation committee," Enma explained, eyes never leaving the banner.
"Wha-?" Tsuna exclaimed in shock, quickly glancing over at his friend as chills ran down his spine, "That's exactly like Hibari-san's prefect!"
"Look at the roof top!" A student's voice shouted out in the crowd, "Someone's there!"
Tsuna stared at the roof top, and his eyes bugged out of his head as soon as he saw the sight, "AHHH!"
Two figures stood on the ledge of the building, staring each other down. The figure's were clothed mostly in black and the severe distance they were from the ground didn't help the visibility. However, everyone present knew at least one of the figures just by the aura they were emitting.
"Adelheid..." Enma muttered quietly, staring at the female on the roof top.
"Hibari-san!" Tsuna shrieked, staring at the skylark. His eyes looked at the other student standing on the roof and shrieked again, "AH! The Adelheid person too!" In the back of his mind, a single thought entered his mind, 'She's so tall!'
"Adelheid," Enma said a little louder, "Intends to beat that guy up."
"EH?!" Tsuna grasped his hair in his hands and quickly grew frantic, "If she does things like that, the strongest disciplinary chairman, Hibari-san... Will beat her up! This is bad! We have to do something! let's go Enma-kun!"
"Eh?" Enma inquired quietly, watching as his friend ran off.
"Over here! You know her, right?!" Tsuna yelled back, his voice getting quieter as he disappeared into the sea of people.
Up on the roof, the staring contest continued, the wind dramatically blowing and ruffling their hair and clothes.
"Looks like you're finally ready to fight," Adelheid said, hands clenched into loose fists at her sides.
"Of course," Hibari responded cooly, "Your actions are intolerable. Let's end it here."
Adelheid's eyes widened briefly in shock when the prefect raised his weapons, their steel glinting coldly in the light.
"HIBARI-SAN!"
"You came, Tsuna!" Yamamoto called, looking at his friend.
"Tenth!"
"Yamamoto and gokudera-kun too?!" Tsuna asked looking at his two closest friends. Caramel eyes soon spotted another rather large figure standing nearby, 'Eek! D-Delinquent!'
"You know, this guy is a friend of a transfer kid who joined the baseball club! He's Kaoru Mizuno," Yamamoto explained, introducing the gruff looking student.
'I-is he even a middle-schooler...?'
"What are you doing, Hibari?!"
"Kyoko-chan's brother too!" Tsuna noted, glancing back at the boxer.
"Defeat the Nami student!" A Shimon transfer student shouted, glasses glinting dangerously.
"Looks like you got yourself into trouble, Adelheid," A more overweight person commented, his Shimon school uniform unbuttoned down the front, revealing his t-shirt.
"The other classes' transfer students?" Tsuna inquired staring at the two students.
"Kouyou, Rauji..." Enma murmured, looking at each one in turn.
"So you came too, loser Enma?" The one supposedly named Kouyou inquired, pushing up his glasses.
"Hey," The larger student greeted, waving slightly. He must be Rauji.
Looking up into the sky, Tsuna noticed yet another figure, "Ah! Shitt P's here too! Why are the transfer students gathering here too?!"
"Hey! What's going on up here?"
Most of them turned to locate the source of the new voice. Their eyes landed on a streak of gold as a figure ran up to them.
"E-Edward-sensei?!" Tsuna inquired incredulously, "Why are you here?"
"Sensei?" Kouyou asked in disbelief, "This shorty's a teacher?"
Swinging his fist down, Ed whacked the green-haired boy for his rude comment before turning to face the mafia don, "I'm here to make sure students don't do anything stupid on campus. If these dumb-asses kill themselves, it wouldn't be good. Plus, I can't wait to see Kyo-chan fighting someone possibly close to his strength."
"What are you talking about?" Tsuna shrieked, "Hibari-san might destroy her."
Ed shook his head, "That girl's stance isn't that of an amateur. This is definitely not her first 'serious' fight," A smirk settled on the golden-eyed boy's face, "This could be pretty interesting."
"IT STARTED!" Yamamoto shouted, snapping everyone's attention back to the two prefects' fight.
Lowering her hand down to her skirt, Adelheid quickly grasped a metal fan and snapped it open. Pushing against the cement of the ledge, she propelled herself forward, "Be purified respectfully!"
She swung her hands in a flurry of attacks that blurred together. When they stopped and started was completely undistinguishable to the untrained eye.
Leaning back and forth, Hibari dodged the attacks with finesse. His own movements were practically impossible to see.
"He's... dodging it..." Enma said in amazement and disbelief.
"That's another violation," Hibari chided, eyes slightly closed as he continued to dodge the multiple slashes directed at his person, "Basically I'm the only person who can bring weapons to school."
"For that guy not to waver at Adelheid's beautiful underwear showing attack..." Kouyou said, fist clenching in passion as blood trickled out of his nose slowly, "What a guy."
This caused Ed to hit the guy over the head yet again.
"No matter what, Hibari-san really is strong!" Tsuna said as he watched the fight in slight fear, "That girl better apologize to him!"
"Naive!" Adelheid growled, eyes glaring harshly at the skylark. For a brief instant, something sparked before Adelheid dropped back, bending over backwards and placing her hands firmly upon the cement of the ledge. Using her momentum, she swung her legs over in a back hand spring, the heel of her shoe uppercutting Hibari harshly as it made contact with his chin.
Hibari glared down at her, gritting his teeth in irritation. Swinging down his tonfa, he attacked her harshly, her body flying back as the attack knocked her off her feet. She skidded on the cement, slowly coming to a stop, "Ugh..."
Now in a crouching position, she glared at Hibari with her only open eye. Clicking her tongue in irritation, she opened her fans once more.
The harsh grey eyes of Hibari stared at her, cool and calculating, 'Right now... that was... Flames?!'
"So you've finally gotten serious," Adelheid said, spitting out blood that formed on her split lip.
"Yeah," Hibari replied, raising his tonfas once more, "I'll bite you to death next."
"EEK!" Tsuna panicked, "This is bad! He's gonna bite her to death! Edward-sensei, you're the teacher do someth-"
The brunet was cut off as a force from behind him pushed him forward, "Then, you go and stop them. Stopping the family's rambles is your job as a boss."
"Geh! Reborn!"
He flew forward, crying out as he soared towards the battle. Hibari and Adelheid approached each other, weapons raised and at the ready. Right as they collided, Tsuna slipped between them, absorbing the shock of their attacks. Collapsing to the ground, Tsuna groaned softly in pain.
"What are you doing? You." Hibari stared down at him nonchalantly.
Adelheid stared incredulously at him, "You didn't die from that?!"
Tsuna paid them no heed and cradled his beaten and bruised face in his hands, "Eeek! OUCH! R-Reborn! Why'd you do that!?" Turning to stare at the small figure standing on the rooftop.
"It's your job as a boss to stop meaningless fights," Reborn replied, pulling out his hat.
"A... baby?" Enma said slowly, looking at the hitman.
"He's speaking fluently..." Kouyou commented in disbelief.
"What are you saying?! This is a school fight! What does that have o do with being a boss and fight!"
"It has everything to do with you," Reborn said, placing his hat atop his head, "They're guests."
"Guests?" Tsuna asked, speech slightly slurred do to his mouth swelling slightly.
Reborn nodded, "Yeah. They're called the Shimon family."
All eyes descended upon the group of transfer students who were now standing together.
"They're a mafia family that was invited to the Vongola Inheritance Ceremony," Reborn explained, pulling out the invitation that Enma had dropped the previous day.
Golden eyes stared at the group before turning downcast and disappearing under similarly golden hair.
"What?!" Tsuna shrieked, "The transfer students are mafia!"
"Yes, all seven are according to my information," Reborn explained.
"then that means, Enma-kun too?!" Tsuna asked, staring at his red-haired friend.
"You never asked..." was Enma's simple reply.
"No way!" Tsuna gripped his hair as multiple thoughts raced through his mind.
"The connection between the Shimon family and the Vongola dates back to very old times. THey've know each other long before the time of Primo. Isn't that right... Edward..."
Feeling the harshly glinting cobalt eyes staring at him once more, along with many other pairs of eyes, Ed turned his head away, fists clenching at his sides. The Shimon family was quite confused at the mysterious teacher's behavior, though all attention returned to Reborn when he continued speaking.
"Though now they've become such a small and weak family, that even I'd never heard of them."
"That's enough, Reborn," Edward whispered quietly, but no one heard him.
The group glared at the baby harshly and Kouyou was the first to speak up, "You sure have guts to say that, you infant! Haven't you ever heard of sugar-coating talk?!"
"Don't think I have," came the simple reply.
"WHAT?! We came all the way here because we were invited to the Inheritance Ceremony!"
"But don't get in over your heads. The reason we transferred was to escape the earthquakes, and Namimori town was convenient since we received the ceremony invitations. In other words, we'll continue to attend school without any interference," Adelheid explained cooly.
"Wait, I'm confused," Yamamoto said, chuckling softly.
"What exactly does this mean tenth?!" Gokudera questioned loudly.
Tsuna waved his hands in a dismissive manner, panicking slightly, "No, I swear it's nothing! Nothing at all! It's just you know... one of Reborn's weird ideas!"
"Get it together already," Reborn chided, kicking the Vongola tenth, "The Vongola Inheritance Ceremony that will take place in seven days... will be a ceremony like no other, where Tsuna will officially inherit the title of 'tenth'."
Gokudera, Ryohei, and Yamamoto all stared at Tsuna in surprise, voices not hiding their excitement and disbelief, "Woah~!
"The ninth knows everything about your fight with Byakuran. He's the one who decided upon this ceremony," Reborn explained further.
Gokudera wiped his eyes as he was overcome with emotion, "The time has finally come! I'm moved beyond words, tenth!"
"No no no!" Tsuna shouted, shaking his head frantically, "I never agreed to this!"
"But wait," Ryohei said, "Didn't Sawada inherit the title of the Tenth when he defeated Xanxus, who was the other candidate at that time? Will having a ceremony change everything?"
"You're really clueless, Ryohei," Reborn smirked, hat shadowing his eyes, "Being a candidate to become boss and officially becoming boss is as different as hell and heaven. To become the boss of Vongola, means to obtain control over the Vongola Families across the world. In other words, it means that he'll dominate the underworld society."
"Eek!" Tsuna shrieked in fear, "The underworld society?!"
"It's a ceremony where great powers are passed on. The entire world of mafia is focusing on this event. Not only will the prominent leaders of Vongola come to see the face of the next Vongola boss, powerful mafia families from around the world will be arriving in Japan for the ceremony in due time," Reborn said, "It's already well known, but the newly rising mafia family, Trad 6, will be coming. As well as the ferocious tigers of Asia, the Leilei brothers, and the grave-diggers of Russia, the Giegue family."
"That's... WAY TO SCARY!" Tsuna shrieked, visibly paling.
Everyone turned when a shout ripped through the air of the rooftop, "HEY! WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING!"
Gokudera clicked his tongue in annoyance, "Tch, the teacher's here."
"See ya!" Reborn called as he jumped off the rooftop, Leon now in the form of an umbrella.
Ed walked up to the seething teacher, charming smile in place, "Sensei, sensei, please calm down. I was just escorting these delightful students back to class."
"E-Elric?!" The teacher stared at the golden-haired man in shock.
"Really, you should be thanking these students. They went out of their way to stop that senseless fight and even made sure no school property was damaged. I hope you can excuse their tardiness just this once. I believe they have very much earned it. Poor Tsunayoshi-kun even took a hit to stop the brawl."
The other teacher blinked a few times before slowly stuttering out a response, "F-Fine! Just get to class!"
As the teacher left the roof top, Ed turned around and gave a small thumbs up. His cheerful smile turned into a smirk as he stared at Hibari, "Don't sleep for too long outside, you might get a cold..." he paused a moment before continuing, "Kyo-chan~!"
The skylark gritted his teeth before walking towards the teacher slowly, anger seething.
"Did I make Kyo-pyon angry?" Ed smirked before retreating towards the stairwell, "I guess Hi-tan just doesn't like being teased."
The two disappeared down the stairs, Hibari with his tonfas at the ready.
The rest of the group walked down the stairs, Kouyou commented quietly, "Quite the... eccentric teacher."
Adelheid, hearing this, could only nod ever so slightly.
That school day passed without so much as a hitch. Well, there had been a slight hitch. Tsuna had been attacked. Naturally, he was okay with barely so much as a scratch on him. However, Gokudera could not take his precious tenth being attacked sitting down.
He immediately called for a joint assembly between the Vongola and Shimon groups. So, here they were, sitting at the Nammy's restaraunt.
On one side of the booth was the Shimon group, which consisted of Enma, Adelheid, Kouyou, Rauji, and Kaoru. On the opposite side was naturally the Vongola, and those in attendance were Tsuna, Gokudera, Yamamoto, Ryohei, and Edward.
However, Gokudera wasn't pleased.
"WHY ISN'T EVERYONE OF VONGOLA AND SHIMON HERE?!" He growled loudly, earning a bunch of stares from the other customers and wait staff.
"W-well, it can't be helped Gokudera-kun," Tsuna said, trying to calm down his storm guardian who sat down in a huff, "Hibari-san doesn't like crowds, and Lambo went out to play. We called Chrome in Kokuyou Land, but Jyoushima Ken hung up on us."
Upon hearing Ken's name, Edward, who was also attending the small 'meeting' of sorts, growled. He didn't have a good impression of the animal boy after Ken had mistaken him for a girl. Guys can have long hair too, dammit!
Adelheid spoke up as well, "We tried to call all our members too, but Katou Julie is out right now, and Shitt P is busy meditating."
"Wha- Meditating? Her?" Gokudera repeated,, pulling out a note pad and pen, "So she communicates with the depths of the earth around this time of day."
"You're still going on about that?!" Tsuna shrieked in exasperation before trying to change the subject, "A-anyway Gokudera-kun, didn't you have something you wanted to say to us all?"
"YES!" Gokudera shouted in remembrance as he stood up and smacked his hands on the table. Taking a moment to clear his throat before continuing, he began to explain, "Today, you were attacked by some mafia punks that want to interfere with our cermony. There's no guarantee that it won't happen again. That's where Vongola and Shimon need to come together and protect the tenth, along with this area!"
"Huh!?" Tsuna shrieked.
The Shimon's aura grew rather serious and Kouyou clicked his tongue before hissing out a barely audible word, "What?"
"I discovered that both family's members' area of expertise are well divided. So we should form teams between members that share areas of expertise, in order to protect tenth! Firstly, the sport freaks, Yamamoto Takeshi and Mizuno Kaoru. In the third year's building, there's Hibari Kyoya, Suzuki Adelheid, Sasagawa Ryohei, and Aoba Kouyou. In Namimori Park there's Lambo and Ooyama Rauji. And in other areas near Kokuyou, there's Chrome Dokuro and Katou Julie. Of course the one to protect Tenth's classroom will be me and Shitt P.! And lastly, though I doubt He'd be of much help, there's Kozato Enma."
Hearing the Silver haired boys comment on the red head, Edward hissed at him, "Don't be rude when asking for other's help, Gokudera. You're lucky I'm not near you or you would've gotten a fist in your face. Specifically the right one."
The Shimon family briefly wondered why that was so important and why Gokudera gulped slightly.
"You thought this out pretty thoroughly," Yamamoto commented.
"You're pretty worked up about this," Ryohei noted.
"Wait, Gokudera-kun, you don't have to go that far!" Tsuna objected.
"Honestly, in the end this is all just a bunch of nonsense," Kouyou spoke up, "Why do we, as guests, have to take part in this?"
Ryohei and Gokudera visibly glowered, while Yamamoto tensed slightly.
"Families underneath the Vongola Family should cooperate," Gokudera growled, "That's common sense!"
At this, Kouyou rose from his seat as well, "Whoever said we were beneath you?! At least call us equals! You really are a bunch of idiots!"
"What did you say?!" Ryohei spat back.
"Eek!" Tsuna grimaced, "Not good!"
"Desist Kouyou!" Adelheid chided, quieting the boxer.
Gokudera opened his mouth for another snide comment, but was cut off when a strict voice
"That's enough Gokudera!"
All eyes fell on the Golden-eyed teacher in shock.
"But they're disrespecting the Vongola!" Gokudera protested, "And the tenth!"
"I don't care what you think they did!" Edward growled, "I also don't care if you think I'm being out of line or anything of the sort. I'm not speaking as a member of the Vongola family but as your authority and an elder now. The Shimon is an allied family of the Vongola, the longest allied family to be exact, and they are by no means the Vongola's underling. It doesn't matter how much power they do or do not possess, this is not a hierarchy at all. They are still our equals as another mafia family we have ties with. Also, don't make me remind you that you don't hold sway over the decisions of the Vongola family yet."
"What?!" Gokudera growled at his teacher.
"You heard what I said, at the moment you are nothing more than a candidate for the Storm guardian. When the Inheritance Ceremony arrives then you can boss around others. If you die anytime this week, they'll simply find another storm guardian," Ed lectured. Sure he may be blowing things a bit out of proportion, but Ed was livid, "Now sit down and stop your childlike fighting! You're asking an allied family for their support and you must do so respectfully! If you plan on being a guardian, you better get used to it."
The emerald-eyed teen irritably sat down, arms crossed angrily over his chest.
Turning to Adelheid, Ed smiled, "I apologize for forcing you to witness a most horrifying side of me. You were going to say something before I cut you off, so please continue, Adelheid-san."
The long haired girl nodded, "It was no bother..." Clearing her throat, she turned to face the majority of the Vongola group, "I would like to talk with the members who aren't here. Give us some time to think."
"Ah... Okay..." Gokudera murmured, thinking in the back of his mind, 'So she's the leader.'
When the Shimon Family left, Reborn finally appeared, sipping on a drink, "She's really something, that Suzuki Adelheid."
"Hey are you sure this is okay?!" Tsuna inquired, whispering to his tutor, "Gokudera-kun's getting different families involved!"
"Pretty interesting right?" Reborn smirked, "I'm all for it."
"You too?!" Tsuna sighed in exasperation.
'There's something about Shimon...' Reborn thought to himself, gaze briefly flicking to Edward who sat staring at his drink quietly, 'If we work with them, I might be able to figure it out.'
LunarFallenStar0o0: FINISHED! Okay, sorry for another late update... again
Anyway... response to review time!
YuGiOh-Lover25: I'm glad you liked it! And the fanart you did was out! Still a very praise worthy thing for me. I will always the picture you drew! And I'm glad you like my writing skills (what writing skills XD)
majishan: And you are most correct. Ed knows better than anyone.
Crimsonlocket: Happy (Late) New Years to you, too Crimson! I've been trying to get a fail outline going, but I have the worst attention span ever. I get distracted by everything. I'm hoping I can find a beta soon. Thanks for the kind words though :)
UniCryin: Thanks for the review and I wrote a long chapter again! Huzzah!
YuyaKnightwriter97: I kid you not, I'm SO excited to write the Shimon arc! I've been looking for to it for so long. It's just so much fun!
fuisr: Thanks for the review! And worry not, no matter how late my updates will be, I have no intention of dropping this story :3 And you are a beautiful person! (don't know why I'm saying this, just thought I should)
buslimpan: Thanks for the review and I'm happy it exceeded your expectations. I can't believe people actually like my story, and that's it even worthy of being called fascinating. Thank you.
HebaAce: Thanks for the review, and at some point I might do an omake thing of the guardians waking up, I saw a video and I've been inspired!
archsage328: Thanks for the review! And I'm so excited for the Shimon Arc! /throws glitter in the air
Dgame7: Thanks for the review! And sorry for any errors.
Resha Tsubaki: Thanks for the review. Oh cool, I'm glad you liked this story. And I'm planning to end this story at the end of the Reborn manga, or a little bit after that, just so it's not like, BOOM, random ending. Don't worry, I don't really update often (I suck at updating) but I don't plan on dropping this story. I don't really want to spoil what happens to Ed (and something most definitely does happen), so I guess... wait and see? ':)
