Earthbound Family

Ah, nothing like receiving reviews from people who are dying to see what happens. I know some of you might thing I'm evil...but hey that's who I am. Anywho, thanks for the reviews and heres another chapter to my fic. Remember this fic is on the final chapters already before the first arc comes to a close. Well enjoy while it last!

( Rise of a God part 2)

Today will be a day that will mark a historic day. The Millefiore was on its last leg and the odds were against them. The Earthbound's marked ones were leading their subordinates and the other families around the crumbling building in an attempt to bring down one of the most feared and dangerous families in the world. While they were taking care of the grunts, the Vongolas took on the Funeral Wreath in their carnage mode.

Daisy was the first to fall, since he stood little to no change at all against Hibari and his new box ability, which turned his hedgehog into handcuffs that easily multiply and capture him withing it's grasp before squeezing the life out of him and throwing the ring away before it disappeared. The prefect scuffed, not really caring if the ring got lost before he put away his box weapon and tonfas before walking out of the room and away from the now dead sun Wreath.

' Hm...I wonder if the she-predator is still around.' he mused ' I bet she is devouring these pathetic herbivores as we speak.' a light pink began to grace his face ' Maybe I should look for her and learn from her moves...to be better prepare for her in another occasions.' he thought as he began to walk to another section of the base in search for the cloud marked one.

Meanwhile, Torikabuto, the Mist Wreath, fell on the ground dead as Mukuro and Gamma, one of Yuni's closest subordinate wearing a mafia suit and had blond hair, towered over the dead Wreath in victory.

" Kufufufu. Well that was fun." the Vongola illusionist said in amusement.

The blond man sighed " Now that this pest is out of the way we can move on to more important things."

" Indeed." Mukuro replied before he notice the Mare ring of the mist being engulfed in black flames before it vanished. He frowned at the scene, not liking this one bit " Let us go. Something tells me these are just the peons holding us up before the King shows up."

Gamma looked confused but nodded none the less " Very well."

They began to walk before they met up with Hibari who, grudgingly, joined their group before continuing their way until they came upon another section of the base were the last remaining three Wreaths, in their Carnage form, fighting Yamamoto, Ryohei, Gokudera, Reborn, and Lambo. By the looks of thing the Wreaths were giving them a hard time.

" Tch. Figures the Herbivores would have trouble with these pests." Hibari grunted.

Mukuro simply laughed " It appears like they're in need of some help. Should we lend them a hand?" he smirked at the scene.

" We could leave them with the Varia." Gamma suggested.

The skylark grunted " The loudmouth monkeys are outside of the base blowing everything in sight. Enemies, allies, and for some reason, a group of chickens." this caused the other two to look at him with a raised brow but the prefect simply ignored them and continue " They were not happy with it before they swarm them and took them hostage somewhere in the forest."

Gamma's jaws dropped while Mukuro raised a brow and smirked " Who would've guessed. The mighty Varia being ambushed and defeated by chickens. This will make a perfect black mail material." he chuckled before an explosion caught his attention. He shook his head and sighed " Let's go and help them. The twins would nag me or kill me if something happened to their precious family and I do want to be on their good side."

The black hair prefect stared silently before opening his mouth " You just want to impress them because you like them and see them as friends."

" Kufufufu. What makes you think I even like those obnoxious brats in the first place? We can't be in the same room without trying to kill each other." Mukuro smiled innocently.

" Is that why you always doing what they ask, and even offering help when in their time of need ? Face it...you're going soft for them." Hibari said as he smirk.

Mukuro smiled seemed more forced now " Hibari...remember that little talk about keeping your thoughts to yourself and not say them out loud? Well your doing the opposite now and being TOO blunt. '.THEM."

Hibari took out his tonfas and walked toward the wreaths " Whatever you say. My job is to make your life miserable, deal with it."

Mukuro grinned forcefully scaring the blond man beside him " How I hate that bastard. One day I'll get him...just you wait." he took hold of his trident and went into battle followed by a reluctant Gamma behind him.

Outside the base, the six Earthbound dragons continue their relentless assault on the mechanized beast. By now the metal dragon had dents and damages on some areas were damaged by the constant rain of attacks it kept receiving. A torrent of water came from the skies and headed straight for the now two headed metal dragon. Only for it to summoned his shield to protect itself and fire several missiles from his chest and a pair of beams of sky and storm attribute from it's mouths.

" Kukukuku. I think the time has come to put an end to this little charade." Shinya smirked as the petals around his body began to glow red. He planted his feet firmly on the ground and began to flap his wings creating a strong wind gale. The petals around the body stayed in place but the energy they gather was unleashed in the form of rose petals along the wind. " Bewitching Gale." the rose dragon called as the wind carrying the energy petals hit the rain barrier around the metal giant. As the energy petals hit their target, the barrier shattered and the remaining petals enter the metallic body short circuiting the barrier for good.

" My turn." Nautilus gather rain energy into her wings " Poseidon's Storm." she roared before she gave a mighty flap, unleashing a pair of sharp rain type wind gales toward her foe.

Ikazuchi raised his front claws " I'm not staying out of this either. Thunder's Judgment!" he brought his claws down unleashing multiple electrical sphere into the ground, ripping the earth apart as they move through it.

Nautilus attack hit both of the dragon's wing, knocking his turbines and canceling the ability to fly. The white thunder dragons attacks blew up its legs as it made contact with them. The metal dragon began to fall, thou it kept firing the sky and storm flames from its head. Taiyo crackled " This will be fun!" he slammed his claws to the ground. The falling dragon never touched as a giant spear of stone went right trough his body and throwing him into the air leaving a very huge hole in the middle of its body. The flames stopped coming out of its mouth.

Delta saw the opportunity and gather energy withing his front claws " Azure, hold him up there in place."

The golden dragon didn't have to be told twice as he flew into the air and unleashed a web of storm flames holding the dragon in place as the flames corrodes the metal body. " It's all yours Delta." Azure said before he distance himself from the dragon.

The blue and white dragon then unleashed a pair of sky flames sphere that went right through the metallic body and stayed inside. " Nova Flare!" the great ruler of the sky shouted and as if by command a glow appeared inside the captive robot before he was engulfed in a giant sphere of sky flames. Instead of burning the dragon, it petrified his body until it began to disintegrate into dust.

All of the six dragons watched as their metallic foe slowly petrified and turned to dust before the body was not more. Even some of the web became petrified by the attack before it vanished. " Well now that that's been taken care off, let's finish what we came to do." Azure stated before he and the rest of the dragons turn to the smoking base. Only the hold their march and stared with disbelieving eyes.

" Is that...?"

" It cant be!"

Delta frowned with worry " This is definitely not a good sign."

Inside the base, the battle between the Millefiore boss and the Vongola bosses stilled raged on. Byakuran's attack were relentless and merciless, but the twins did not falter by this and returned their own attacks. The white haired teen came at then in an attempt to ram them or hit him with his wings, however the twins use each other to push themselves back quickly avoiding the Millefiore Boss.

Byakuran smirked " If all your going to do is dodge then you might as well give up you fools."

" Shut up you demon!" Tsurugi fire several flame indulged arrows at the winged teen.

The Sky Wreath laughed as he dodge them all. " What are you trying to hit? You'll never defeat me at this rate!"

The blond Vongola boss smirked " Haven't you ever heard of a diversion?"

At that moment, Byakuran felt his wings being gripped painfully tight. He looked behind and saw Tetsua holding his wings with a smirk on his face. Tsurugi wasted no time and immediately assaulted the white hair boy, punching him in the gut, shoulder, face, everywhere in a rapidly fashion before he punched him one last time in the chest sending him back a little. The brunet holding the wings, somersaulted while till holding the wings and brought the heel of his shoes to Byakuran's head with much needed force. Byakuran screamed as the kick hit his head sending his body crashing to the ground, the force was so intense that his wings were ripped off of his body and left in the hand of the brunet boy.

Tetsua looked at the wings in disgust before he burned them with his gloves and threw them away. He then looked at the ground where Byakuran had fallen " What's the matter Byakuran? Are you nothing without your wings?" he taunted as he smirked.

Tsurugi glared at his direction " Tetsua, focus!" he scolded his brother before the sound of laughter could be heard in the room.

From the ground, the Millefiore boss rose slowly before he looked up to where the twins were hovering. He was now bleeding heavily from the spot he was just hit on and other places, but he didn't even cared " Now this is what I'm talking about. The trilled of the battle, the taste of blood..." he licked some of the blood running down his face like it was one of his sweets "...this is the trilled only the Earthbounds could provide me! Now there is no reason to hold back!" he grinned maniacally " I'm so happy! This is great, you know why it's great?" he grinned before blood came rushing out of the wound left from his ripped wings before the blood took the form of wings itself " Because now I can rip you guys apart with my full power!" he laughed.

" So you're finally getting serious? We were just warming up with you until now." the twins said in unison.

" Oh you bet. Play time..." he then launched like a rocket toward the twins leaving a trail of blood behind "...IS OVER!"

The twins immediately tensed for battle. Byakuran came and try to deliver a punch to Tetsua, but said brunet blocked it. Tsurugi tried to deliver one of his own only for the Sky Wreath repel it, bushing him back but letting himself opened. The brunet took the chance and elbowed Byakuran right in the face sending him flying backward.

" Are you ok?" Tetsua asked his twin.

" Yeah, but is not over yet." the blond replied.

The white hair teen stopped his body and glared " Tch. You annoying brats! Die!" he shouted. His wings transformed into dragons heads and extended toward the two boys.

Tsurugi was able to dodge and punched the crazed teen again, dispelling the attack. Only for Byakuran to turn his wings into multiple bloody claws. However, the twins had already seen a similar move and were able to dodge it, the blond boy use one of his sword to spin around cutting the claws.

Tetsua looked at his twin before he turn to Byakuran with a smirk on his face " You're loosing it. Your organization has fallen, your Wreath are probably dead, and only you remain standing here now. But not for long!"

" Don't get cocky with me you ass!" the bloody white haired demon roared in anger before several blood spears came from his wings and headed straight for the brown hair boy.

The brunet Vongola Sky guardian dodge with ease " Is that all you got?" he grinned mockingly. But his body froze when he heard a voice from behind him.

" Havent you ever heard of the word decoy?" Tetsua turned around only to see the flaming hand of Byakuran ready to unleash his attack " DIE! WHITE FINGER!" a beam came from his hand, ready to finish him.

Tetsua froze in place, not believing what he was seeing. Byakuran tricked him. " Tetsua, move!" a voice shouted, telling him what to do but he didn't. The next he knows, he felt himself being pushed away before an explosion took place on the spot he was just seconds ago. When he finally got his senses back he saw his brother falling to the ground unconscious.

It was then that he realized what happened, his twin has taken the blow. " Tsurugi!" he shouted with panic as he descended next to his twin before grabbing him by the shoulder and shaking him lightly " Tsurugi, come bro wake up!" he said as tears began to fall from his eyes when he didn't get a reply.

The white demon laughed as his body touched the ground " Not so confident now, are you? You are pathetic. It really is a wonder how the hell you Vongola trash manage to pass the Earthbound trial. You even were celebrating my losses, but you know what? It doesn't mattered to me, they are simply my tools for me to use and bend at my will. If they died, I don't care. I'll simply look for others suited tools and start a new. The organization, my base, the Funeral Wreath...everything is expandable and replaceable. This is all a game I've been playing from the start, and I play to win even if it's not now. So in reality, I haven't lost anything because I still got myself." he grinned at the brunet.

" Is that what you think this is? A game?" the brunet gently laid his twin on the ground before standing up, his back facing his opponent " All the lives you ruined, all the people that gave their life for you, everything...it was just a game to you?" he said before his gloves tighten and began to burn with sky flames. He then turned to look at Byakuran with all the hatred he could mustered as his dying will flames grew in power unleashing a powerful pressure pushing the other teen back " YOU SICK MONSTER! YOU THINK LIFE IS A GAME THAT YOU CAN MANIPULATE IN ORDER TO WIN? ALL THE HARDHIPS ME AND MY BROTHER PASSED WITH MY OLDER BROTHER AND HIS FAMILY WAS JUST A MOVIE FOR YOUR LIKING! WHO THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU ARE! "

Byakuran faltered before answering " Who do I think I am?" he then began to laugh " That's simple! I'm the future god of this miserable world! The hardships with the Earthbound was brought because of you and frankly I don't know how the hell you passed them. The Earthbound mark ones are the true monsters of this world. Chosen by the Earth to protect its secrets and in order to do that they were given immense power! You know nothing of them and their secrets!"

" That may be true. We passed our test because they held back! Even Tsuna held back because he could damn well crush us if he wanted to! I don't care what secrets they may have, one things is clear thou...you don't deserve to live! You use peoples life like it was meant to be expandable, you're the real monster here!" Tetsua roared in anger.

The white hair teen laughed even harder at this " This is hilarious, truly hilarious! You will regret ever knowing them you know, once their true enemies show their faces. Thou you already met the other half of their enemies." from his feet came blood strings that attached themselves to the ground and steady the demon teen " Either way, people lives are expandable, tools that can be use or thrown away. Yours is no different." his hand that held the ring was surrounded by black flames " You and all the others are just part of the scene you know as life and I'm the one that see all that's going on and able to change it! But you and the others messed up everything!" the last sentence was shouted in anger as he build up his energy.

The brunet Vongola snarled as he took position, placing one arm facing his back and the other the front. The hand on the back let go a stream of orange flames to steady his body while the front began to burn with reddish flames " Operation...X" he muttered as he charged his devastating attack.

" YOU AND YOUR PATHETIC BROTHERS, ALONG WITH EVERYONE ELSE RUINED EVERYTHING FOR ME! THE EARTHBOUNDS WERE MY TOOLS TO ACHIEVE GODHOOD, BUT YOU HAD TO STICK YOUR NOSES IN MY BUSINESS!" Byakuran roared enraged.

" SHUT UP! DON'T YOU DARE INSULT MY BROTHERS AND MY FRIENDS ANYMORE THAN YOU ALREADY HAVE! YOU DESERVE NOTHING MORE THAN TO DISAPPEARE!" Tetsua roared back.

Byakuran then unleashed his beam of dark flames toward the brunet " DIE!"

Tetsua unleashed his own attack at the same time " BYAKURAN!"

The two beams collided with each other creating a powerful pressure force that pushed anything near away. The two attacks pushed each other, neither giving in to the other. That change when Tetsua's X Burner began to push back Byakuran's dark beam, his determination and his will was far greater than the other teen's thirst for power. It didn't take long before the Vongola X Burner completely over powered the other attack, dispelling it and engulfing Byakuran in sky flames.

" AAARGHH!" the white haired teen shouted in pain. ' How...How did this happened? I had it all. Ever since I received the Mare ring, I always thought I was destine for greatness and no one could ever stand in my way. But what caught my full attention and halted my plans what that fateful meeting with him. The one who's power caught my attention and the one who I fell for.'

-Flashback-

A young Byakuran was smiling with glee. He had finally received the Mare rings from the Cervellos due to his ability to peek into parallel worlds, thou they didn't notice he lost the ability since one of his other selves died in battle with the Vongola. Well at least he learn his lesson and knew what to do, at the cost of his ability. That, however, didn't make him falter. This time he was going to find his followers and finish the Vongolas for good and obtain the Triniset, now that he knows how it works.

He walked, humming happily through the park, where a large lake resided and many trees were planted expanding it's beauty...not that he cared. As he walk by a hill something caught his attention, at the bottom he could see a another boy watching the lake. Upon closer inspection he looked like the one who defeated himself in another parallel world, but he knew he wasn't Sawada Tsunayoshi for the boy had black hair and ruby red eyes.

He kept walking closer to get a better view, but he tripped because of a branch and nearly roll down the hill were he was watching, if it wasn't for a fact that his body didn't touch the ground. In fact he was floating in air, or more precise being hold on the air. " The gravity around my body...it's being bend." he said in awe before he looked at the source. It was the boy he was spying on, his right hand was extending while a cobalt color dragon mark glow from his arm. His hand were glowing with black light.

" That could've been a nasty fall." the raven hair boy then brought the white hair boy before him using his powers. " You better be careful were you walk." then the red eye boy notice what the other was holding " Rings? Are those the Mare rings? Aren't those part of a Triniset guarded by the Arcobalenos?"

Byakuran gasped " How did you know that!"

The other boy chuckled before he grinned " You just told me. If you denied it I would've believe you. After all, not anyone can wear those ring and they're pretty hard to find. I guess you're involved in the mafia world like me, huh?" the boy said casually.

The white hair boy felt threaten " Who are you! And how do you know about these! And What was that glowing dragon mark on your arm that appeared while you manipulated the gravity around me!"

" You're sharp. I'm still trying to hide the mark when I use my powers, it's the mark of an Earthbound." the raven boys grinned.

" Earthbound mark? Are there more of you? How did you get so much power and without the use of a ring?" the white boy asked intrigued.

The other boy grinned before he poked Byakuran on the head playfully causing the boy to pout and blush. " That's a secret, and maybe there are others like me or I'm the only one. By the way my name is Tsukuyomi, what's yours?" he said as he offered his hand.

The Mare ring holder hesitated for a second before he took it and shook " Byakuran."

Tsukuyomi let go of the hand and stared at the white hair boy's eyes before he frowned " You know we could be friends, the best of them. But what bothers me is that darkness inside your being, embrace it too much and you will loose your way."

Byakuran averted his eyes " But all I have is that darkness and I'm afraid to loose it. If I have to become evil and twisted...then so be it. All I want is power." he muttered silently, almost as if trying to reassure himself of his goals. That didn't stopped weird feeling he got...was it regret?

Tsukuyomi smiled sadly " Darkness is not evil, it's just an element that one uses and because of the way it behaves people automatically label it as evil. I have my own darkness, but I am able to seal it and use it how I see fit." he then sighed " It's a shame really. I really wanted to be your friend." he began to walk away leaving the other boy to his thought before he halted and turn to look back and grinned " Maybe in another life you and I can be together. Well, farewell for now." with that he walked away disappearing withing dark flames.

Byakuran sighed sadly before he smiled softly " See ya."

-End of Flashback-

As the memory passed through his mind, Byakuran could feel his body slowly fading away, turning to ash, but he did not scream anymore. ' Tsukuyomi-kun...was this what you meant would happen to me if I followed my own twisted darkness? Where you trying to protect a monster like me? Would everything be different between us if I followed your darkness?' his body was now almost completely gone, but he didn't care for he felt at peace. ' How I wish I could've been the chosen marked one of the sky, maybe then you would've fallen in love with me. But something tells me it wouldn't happen. You're love for Tsunayoshi-kun was fated. I envy the lucky guy, but you know what Tsukuyomi-kun? I'm glad I've met you, and I'm happy that you found someone who loves you just as much. I just wish things could've been different between us.' he then smiled a true smile, and before his entire being was erased, he made one silent promise the raven hair boy ' Let us meet in another life and become the best of friends the world has ever seen.'

With that it was over. Byakuran was nothing more than a pile of ash on the ground and the only thing remaining was his Mare ring. Tetsua panted before dropping the ground in complete exhausting, not noticing the Sky Mare ring disappearing within black flames. He used his arms to support himself as he continue to pant, trying to fill his lungs with air. He was sweating heavily and he was now out of his hyper dying will state.

The brunet Vongola felt someone steady him before looking up in surprise " Tsurugi! You're ok!" he hugged his brother.

The blond chuckled, he two was out of his dying will flame showing his mismatched eyes " You give me too little credit Tetsua. I can handle myself just fine." as he said this the bracelet around his writs snapped open before dropping to the ground. " It's finally over." he sighed.

An earthquake soon shook the entire foundation and the twins momentarily fell to the ground. Their intuitions suddenly warned them of an imminent doom and shiver from the amount of power that suddenly filled their senses. At that moment all of the guardians enter the room and ran to their side.

" Tenths! Are you ok! Where is that Byakuran?" Gokudera began to bombard the twins with questions.

" We're ok Gokudera-kun. Byakuran is dead, Tsurugi and I made sure of it." the brunet replied. Each of the Vongola stared at the blond making him squirm in discomfort, but their stares weren't filled with hate. Tetsua sensing his twin discomfort gain their attention " Now is not the time to deal with this, he's with us and that's all that matters. Our intuition just went haywire a few seconds ago. Are there any threats left in the building?"

" The Wreaths have all been taken down, but their rings have gone missing." Mukuro stated.

At this everyone looked for Byakuran's ring only to see that it too was missing. Reborn frowned " Something is not right here."

The twins intuition flared up again and both of them looked up " What ever it is, it's in the upper section of the base." the said in unison.

" Then you better get up and follow us." the entire Vongola turned at the entrance to see Shin and the rest of the Earthbound mark ones,along with Verde and Zeo, standing at the door. " I'm sure you guys must have sense the tremor earlier, Tsuna has been gone for a while, he went to the upper section to see if anything was left to be dealt with."

" Tsuna is up there! Whatever is causing this it's located in the upper section!" the twins shouted.

" Or he's the one causing it." Reborn stated making everyone faltered except the mark ones.

" No, he is not the one causing this...discomfort." Misty said. " He's there with it, I can feel it."

Sky nodded " This power...it feels familiar, but at the same time it feels different."

" We better hurry and see what is going on. Whatever it is, it's worse than the Millefiore." Shin said as he lead the large group to the upper sections.

In said section, Tsuna stayed frozen in place as he gaze at his beloved one with mixed emotions, not noticing his bracelet coming off. He felt longing for his touch, but something was not right with the scene before him. Could it be the seven flames that floated around him? Was he going to attack him? No, that wasn't it. He remembered what Sky said about him but he still couldn't place what was wrong with him. The raven boy looked the same...but still...

Tsukuyomi chuckled at the wide eyed brunet, clearly amused " What's the matter Tsuna-kun? I'm not a ghost, if that's what your thinking." he began to walk toward the brunet, the seven flames following him close by. " It's me, your one and only." he embraced the brunet while leaned in with a smirk "Or did you not miss me at all during these times we've been apart? My touches? My kisses? Do you long for them?" with that he kissed the sky marked one.

Tsuna nearly fainted right there and there as he closed his eyes. ' God, how I miss this! Missed you!' he thought. ' But then...why are your lips so hard instead of soft? Why are your touches cold instead of warm? This kiss...why...why...WHY DOES IT FEEL SO WRONG!' he mentally screamed as he opened his eyes before he forcefully push himself from the raven boy, giving a great distance between them and just in the time before the spot he was standing on was suddenly crushed down creating a deep hole. " W-What?" Tsuna said surprised " That could've kill me by the immense pressure!" he looked at the hole and then at the chuckling raven.

" Hehehehe. That Vongola intuition is really becoming a pain, you know?" Tsukuyomi grinned darkly. " It doesn't matter how well you act, that thing will tell you of danger right before it happens. Well it doesn't matter." the seven black flames the revealed what they were concealing, the seven Mare rings. " I have all that I need right here."

At that moment the Vongolas and the rest of Tsuna's family came through the door behind him. Watching in surprise at the immense hole left in the middle of the room before looking at the two. Tsuna looked back at them and shouted " Stay back! Don't come near him!" his eyes narrowed at the raven boy " You...you are not Tsukuyomi! Who are you!" he snarled.

The golden eye smirked before he laughed. The entire base began to shake as the walls behind the raven began to crumble, revealing pitch black skies and thick black mist leaning close to him. From behind the raven rose a dark looking serpentine dragon, who looked at them with superiority and a sneer. Tsukuyomi's marked began to glow as the group before him looked at him with wary and fear.

Tsukuyomi laughed evilly before he grinned before he and the dragon spoke as one " I am GOD!"

The sky is filled with dark intentions. How will Tsuna and the others handle this new turns of event? Find out next week!