"You're right about that Gokudera-kun..." The voice states with a smirk on their face as the boss tilts their head at an odd angle and confirms with a maniacal cackle, "...I am dead."
"There's no such thing as zombies or resurrection." Hibari firmly asserted while he pointed his tonfas that were now lit with his purple flames.
Hayato slightly faces him, raises his right index finger and utters in a matter of fact voice, "Actually..."
"Not now herbivore!" He snaps at the silver haired male as he now points one of his purple tonfa at his neck instead of their opponent.
"I'm sure you all of people, Kyoya Hibari, should remember my face..." The boss claims as they purposely mention Hibari's name in their comment.
"After all the Vongola was charged with the duty to execute the hit on me." The voice asserts with a smirk on their face while they converse with the Vongola's 10th guardians.
Once Ryohei manages to catch a break from Satoshi, the boss' comment prompts him to inquire "Is that true, Kyoya-san?"
"It is true." Hibari honestly responds while Takeshi deals with the Mist user when he adds, "The committee didn't want to involve the entire family so Tsunayoshi selected two qualified people to attend the meeting with him."
"You and..." Takeshi mutters since he just so happens to overhear Satoshi's boss call Kyoya-san by his name, which few people barely had the honor to do even in the Vongola family.
"Gokudera Hayato." The boss instead supplies the answer to the question once their head returns back to its normal angle.
The boss then directs their sights back on to the silver hair male and challenges, "The mafia doesn't like when you kill without permission, neh Gokudera-san?"
"The Committee is the underground democracy of mafia bosses that monitors all of the mafia families activities so that they can remain in check." Satoshi reveals what the Committee purpose is to the group.
"Somehow this little incident happened to have passed by the CEDEF eyes as well." He deliberately alleges before he returns his focus back on to his opponents.
"Only the strong survives." The boss recites the cliché and includes, "You of all people should be well aware of that archaic cliché especially in our line of work."
"There's no time to waste on a corpse…" Hibari irritably snaps as he tightly clutches the handles on his weapons before he swiftly launches at the boss.
The boss seems completely unfazed at the intense aura of the intent to kill from the Cloud flame user as they extend one of their hands to the metal object and petrifies his tonfas.
'She can use sky flames?' Hibari, Takeshi, and Ryohei shockingly wonders after they notice the light orange flame emits from the boss' hand.
"Aren't my flames beautiful?" The boss dreamily queries with a daze expression on their face as they enthusiastically lick their lips.
The boss directs their sights back on to Hayato before they happily remark, "You used to say that all the time."
"What the hell is she talking about, Hayato?" Ryohei loudly yells his question after he unsuccessfully attempts to land a punch on the ever elusive Satoshi.
"If he won't tell you about us then I will." The boss declares with a wide smile on their face before they disclose their share history.
"Once upon a time there was this ambitious brunette, named Hitomi, who stood to inherit her family business. However, her father claimed that she constantly failed his tests to prove she would be a good Mafioso boss."
"He told her that his next child stood to inherit the family at the tender sweet age of sixteen. This greatly upset the girl so she decided to take matters in to her own hands."
"Often times, her sibling would have these terrible and horrible nightmares and could hardly fall asleep afterwards. So she offered a plate of cookies and a mug of warm milk to calm his nerves. The boy soon fell off in to an eternal peaceful slumber never to have nightmares again."
"You bitch!" Hayato angrily shouts at her after she suddenly admits that she single handily murdered her own flesh and blood.
The wide smile transforms in to a sadistic expression before she claims, "Why thank you! Now where was I? Oh yeah! The girl killed her brother."
"So the girl assumed that the inheritance will fall back on her but her father remained insistent upon someone else so he chose her mother. Well that decision didn't sit right in her so she caught her mother in her daily pruning of the flowers."
"Let's just say that the bloody red roses were simply a beautiful sight that day. Yet once again, she approaches her father who continued to deny her rightful inheritance. So he declared his Underboss to be his next successor."
"Who would have thought the humble, upright and loyal man had a romantic interest in his boss' daughter? The daughter dutifully played her role and was soon given to the handsome young man. Yet, the tolerant daughter quickly grew impatient and hatched another plan."
"Her husband declared her as the next successor since she proved to him that she had what it took to run the family if something were to happen to him. The girl was ecstatic at the news but there was only one problem...her husband stood in her way."
A maniacal giggle escapes her lips before she jokingly admits, "The sex was way better once he had his unfortunate accident."
"You're a sick individual." Ryohei sharply comments after he listens to her story about the female's boss past.
"No wait but I haven't gotten to best part yet." The woman declares with another giggle before she adds, "Someone caught wind that my father was next and that it was an in house coup de' taut so he had to go bye bye or at least I thought he did."
"It turned out the committee had hired assassins to "kill" him." Hitomi reveals, which leads her to convey, "As it stood now, I was official declared as the boss of my family."
"As you all know when there is a new boss there has to be an inheritance ceremony where other mafia families join together to recognize the individual as the new boss." The woman states the obvious known facts that they learn by being in the mafia.
"So guess who I came across at my event? The silver hair green eyed mafioso, who chain smokes like a train and drinks like a fish known as Smokin' Gokudera Hayato." She revealed to the others how she met him.
"He seemed completely uninterested in what was going on so I approached him to question his grumpy demeanor. It was then at that moment that I fell really hard for him." The female boss explained why she felt the need to approach Hayato.
"It didn't help that he had you lackeys around him so I had to be really smooth about it." She irritably remarks about the presence of the other guardians at the event.
"Of course he was completely standoffish nevertheless he congratulated me and wished me well with my family and its future endeavors. I knew at that moment...I had to have him for my own personal satisfaction."
A creepy smirk stretches across her face after her statement as it creates an uncomfortable sensation to develop among the Vongola guardians, except for Hibari and Hayato.
"On my way home, some lower level thugs attacked me once my guards set me out on to my business." The female verbalizes when she eagerly poses "Guess who came in like a knight in shining armor?"
"That man right there," She dramatically declares as she happily points at Hayato with a gleefully expression present on her face.
"I acted like a complete helpless damsel in distress because I had figured out that he had followed me after my inheritance. I tested him to see if he would allow a recent appointed boss to be attacked by outsiders and by Kami-sama he didn't disappoint me."
"You can say we started to date after the incident. Yet that isn't the correct word for that sentence, so let me rephrase that...You can say he started to collect information about my whereabouts, actions, business deals, family members or other information needed to take me down." The woman says as another smirk materializes on her face.
"I remember that day quite well...it was a beautiful sunny day around lunchtime where I patiently waited for my Gokudera-kun to arrive for our lunch date when a masked assailant caused a ruckus and fired off shots."
"The only thing I felt was my skin on fire from being pierced with a bullet, the constant flow of blood that pumped out of my veins, and the sound of my heartbeat." She dramatically recounts the incident as one of her hands clenches her heart.
"Once again my knight in shining armor had come to my rescue or at least that's what I thought he would...instead there was the coldest expression of hate present on his face before I closed my eyes." Hitomi reveals the results of the incident.
She giggles before she confesses, "I secretly wet myself when I saw that look in his eyes...the real Hayato Gokudera or the Vongola's best hitmen."
"So how are you alive?" Hayato inquisitively challenges as he tries to plan out his plan of action.
The female 'tsk' her tongue, wags her index finger, and recites, "Patience is a virtue, Gokudera-kun."
"Anyway...what you didn't know was that Satoshi was present at the cafe with me. He utilized his Mist flames to tweak a couple of things, which by the way did you really have to make me hear my own heartbeat before I died?" Hitomi reveals the actual flow of events to him.
"Clearly the results of my performance have been shown." Satoshi boastfully declares as he fends off another attack from Takeshi.
"Who would have thought that the Vongola created a wonderful weapon such as Chiharu Miura? She is the perfect guinea pig for my latest invention, the Fountain of Youth!" The female happily boasts with a wide smile on her face.
"Did you know our flames are at its strongest when we are young because we have yet to learn to control the intense power? Children naturally produce five or even special cases such as Chiharu ten times the power to fuel several city blocks." She discloses to them information about how age impacts flame output.
"Not to mention she has the ability to manipulate other flames like someone else that I am very familiar with..."
Hitomi is cut off from a beam of red Disintegration Storm flames coat in green Hardening Thunder flames.
"That's not nice to interrupt someone while they are in the middle of their story! Shame on you! Go to time out!" She sharply belittled him as if he is a child, whose hands were caught in the cookie jar.
The female boss steps forward, runs toward Hayato, and executes a roundhouse kick to his head with flames at her feet. He manages to dodge the attack however some of his hair breaks off
"I think I might play with her until I lose interest in her." Hitomi suddenly mentions with another lick of her lips.
"You do know what happens when I lose interest in something, I get rid of it." Her comment earns yet another blast of Storm flames while he screams, "You won't lay a hand on her."
Meanwhile
Tsuna and the others finally arrive at the Vongola's headquarters before the brunette swiftly extends one of his arms out in order to signal to the group that they should immediately halt right where they are.
"If you were to take one more step closer then the self-defense program would have been activated." He gravely warns the pair in a serious tone.
"This is Giannini we are talking about," Shamal causally dismisses the claim before he supplies the reason why he is not concern, "Since when has anyone of his wacky inventions work?"
"Oh Gionvanni didn't create this...it was a combined effort of Gokudera-san and Kyoya-san's intelligence and Kyoya-san and Yamamato-san combative skills." Tsuna reveals the reason as to why they should be concern about the system.
"Why in the hell would you ever create such a weapon like that?!" Bianchi dramatically challenges the Vongola's Decimo.
"For incidents like this...now does this explain why I wasn't in a rush to get over here once they told me that they made it back to the Iron Fort?" He claims with an easy going expression on his face.
"It is terrifying but reassuring at the same time. Good call, kid." Shamal honestly admits as he shivers at the thought of being caught in that weapon.
Tsuna clears his throat before he informs the group, "Just give me a couple of seconds to deactivate it."
"Kyoko-chan did you know about this?"
"I knew about the defense alarm. I thought Gionvanni created it but to know that those three did it...speechless." Kyoko remarks about her the extent of her knowledge about the alarm.
"So Hayato is actually good for something other than blowing things up," Shamal appreciatively mutters as he casts his eyes off to the side as he raises his hand in his pockets.
Bianchi overhears the brunette male's comment when she retorts, "So says the teacher who taught him how to hone his skills as a hitman."
Shamal ignores the comment while he lazily scratches the back of his head with his hands and releases a sigh, "So says the woman known as the Poison Scorpion for her deadly cooking."
"What was that?" She irritably questions when he remarks, "Oh what lovely weather we are having today, Bianchi-chan."
Tsuna materializes in front of the group to announce, "The self-defense is down for now but we can safely enter inside."
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Takeshi was rebounded once again by Satoshi's attack as he skidded directly back to the side of the silver haired Sun flame user.
"We can't keep this fight up for much longer." He remarks as he tries to catch his breath and maintains a steady output of his blue Rain flames.
"Never give up to the extreme...but the longer this match draws out the less favorable outcome we have." Ryohei speaks as he reminds his companion to continue with the fight.
"I'll go in for the slice." Takeshi softly whispers to his partner about his next attack when Ryohei adds, "I'll finish him with Maximum Ingram."
"My, my, my you two are rowdier then the other two." Satoshi comments once he suddenly senses the flow of the battle change on his opposition side.
"I am happy to have you two as my new opponents. Shall we continue to dance?" He brightly affirms with a joker grin on his face.
Takeshi executes Yarazu no Ame while Ryohei continues to gather as much Sun flames that is required for a full 100% charged Maximum Ingram.
Satoshi patiently bids his time to substitute his Mist clone to accept the brunt of the attack while he remains unharmed and continues to gather enough energy to cast an illusion.
The female boss constantly dodges Hibari's attacks only to narrowly miss being shot by Hayato.
'I can't let my guard down once I evade his attack. If I do then I will be blasted to smithereens by Gokudera-kun's gun.' She inwardly assumes as she purposely lands a few feet back up the steps.
The female boss casts her sights over to her comrade before she inquisitively probes, "Satoshi are you ready yet?"
"Give me a few more seconds!" He yells over to her as his eyes closely traces Takeshi's bodily movements as well his hands that remain on the hilt of his katana.
She ducks away from the swing of the tonfa at her face as she lifts her legs in attempt to connect with his chin when she jaws, "I don't even think I have a few more seconds."
"Quit being bossy and let me finish up. I want it to be really nice for our house guests." He respectfully snaps at his boss.
Hibari unexpectedly feels the hairs on the back of his neck stand on end once Satoshi casts the illusion and backs away from the female boss just before Hayato releases another attack.
"What took so long?" She annoyingly questions.
"I was having too much fun with my prey." He provides an answer, which earns a retort from her, "Whatever just fall in to position."
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Lambo and I-Pin dutifully watch over Chiharu, who remains peacefully asleep, when they suddenly overhear the sound of footsteps approach their location.
"Get ready, Lambo," She quietly orders him as she abruptly assumes her stance to perform her Gyouza martial arts on the intruder or intruders.
"I was already ready." The bovine hitman sharply proclaims while he twists his pair of golden horns to the side of his head.
"Lambo...I-Pin where are you guys?" Tsuna loudly calls out to the pair as a means to inform that they he has arrive back at headquarters.
"Wait a minute...that's Tsuna-nii's voice!" I-Pin happily remarks before the sight of the familiar brunette enters in their line of vision.
"I-Pin, Lambo..." The others file inside of the room while Bianchi runs in Chiharu direction only to find her fast asleep.
"You two followed the directions that were given to you and for that I am very proud of you two!" He compliments them on their job well done.
The two teenagers tackle the young adult as he gently rubs the crown of their heads with his hands and calmly settle them down with, "Alright you two, I need for the both of you to tell me where the others are."
