I apologize for not updating in a while, this chapter is mainly just a bunch of fluff but I hope it's enjoyable.
Since the theme for this chapter seems to be 'game show' and the questions are just trivia about the characters of Skywards and one KHR question, I have put down the questions as underlined and the answers in bold…I don't know what I was thinking when I decided this but I thought it would be fun…for some reason. Now I know better.
Hope you like this chapter and please read and review! :)
EDIT!: *blushes* Thank you Nehszriah for pointing out my fault! The part where Anna loses her remote and she explains why was only half of a sentence, such an amateur mistake! XoX If you happen to read over this, please read all the way through! For the integrity of my story! I feel so foolish now! D:
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Hide was currently in a race against time with Reborn. The tutor held a book open in one hand, a timer in the other and a case of dynamite underneath him, which he had no doubt gotten from Hanabi.
"If you get the next question right, I'll give you a hint for which wire to cut," said Reborn in his usual casual tone.
"Just get on with it already!" Hide screamed as he shakily held a pair of scissors in his hands and stared at the dynamite.
"Very well then," his tutor shrugged and asked, "What is an example of a polar molecule?"
"Uh, um…" the blonde haired Japanese sweated as his eyes darted from the dynamite to Reborn, he gulped, "W-Water?"
"Correct!" the infant announced and then continued, "Here's the hint to the wire then, do not cut the red wire."
"There are no red wires!"
"Then that proves your not color blind also."
"Just get on with the next question!"
"What are the three types of isomers?" he asked and then added, "I'll tell you another hint to which wire to cut for this one also."
"Um, um," he began shakily, Shit! I don't have a clue what the hell an isomer is! "Uh, structural?"
"And?"
"Geometric, and…uh…"
"Go on."
"D-Dipole?" he asked meekly.
"Wrong," Reborn stated sourly, "The answer was structural, geometric, and enantiomers."
"What the heck does this have to do with the Mafia!" Hide yelped, "Isomers have to do with atoms and stuff like that!"
"A Vongola Boss knows everything about the universe," his tutor said this as if it was fact, a very unrealistic fact, yet a fact nonetheless, "But a student of mine that doesn't even know this doesn't deserve to live."
After saying that, the timer hit 0 and Hide embraced himself for the explosion. A few seconds for something to happen made the boy build up the courage to look up at Reborn, who was still sitting on the case of dynamite with a pair of Leon-scissors in his hand. A blue wire was cut.
"Stupid-Hide, everyone knows it's the blue wire that you cut," the infant scoffed.
"I think that's only you that knows that, Reborn," Hide muttered as the doorbell rang and he went downstairs to answer it, "Geez, that whole thing practically gave me a heart-attack, Reborn just suddenly woke me up and threatened to blow the entire house up if I didn't answer all those questions right."
He opened the door and had to look up to see Morita's face.
"Hey Hide!" the taller boy waved cheerfully, he held up a bag and said, "I got that game that you wanted to borrow."
"You do?" Hide brightened and moved aside, "Come on in, do you want something to drink?"
"No thanks," he answered and walked on in he looked around before asking sheepishly, "I'm not interrupting you from anything, am I?"
"Oh gosh no!" the blonde haired boy shook his head quickly, "If anything I think you saved me!"
"From what?"
"Ciaossu, Sakuraba."
"From that," Hide sighed miserably as Reborn appeared on the stair's railing.
"Heya, kiddo," Morita waved to him.
"You interrupted an intense study session between me and Hide, Sakuraba," the infant stated, "But I will forgive you if you join in on the upcoming study session with us."
"What?" the boxer questioned before laughing it off as if it was a joke, "Sure, why not? If this will help me in school, I might as well! Haha!"
Morita-kun, this isn't a joke…Hide thought worriedly.
"Good, then the next session will be in the living room, come," Reborn ordered, he jumped off the railing and strolled on into the living room.
Hide followed while silently praying that the next 'study session' would not lead to anything involving explosives and sharp objects. When they walked in, they were both greeted with bright lights and neon colors, there were podiums lined up against each side of the room and a large screen in the center. Hide's living room now looked like a game show.
"W-What happened to my house…?" the resident of the home asked slowly.
"Relax, Boss," said Anna, who appeared from behind one of the podiums with a remote control in her hand, "It's just holograms."
"Holograms?"
As proof, Anna pressed one of the buttons on her remote and the game show set instantaneously reverted itself into a normal living room with a couch, armchair, TV, and coffee table. She pressed the button again and everything turned back into the game show setting.
"Somehow, this doesn't help…" Hide grimaced.
"Wow!" Morita said with dazzled eyes as he walked around the show's set and waved a hand through one of the holographic podiums, "This is so cool!"
"Stop doing that," Anna said coldly and kicked the boxer in the back, she looked back at her remote and said, "You can't be wearing those clothes if your going to be on my set, here," she pressed a button and suddenly Morita changed from his green and yellow jersey and cargo pants to a red blazer with a white t-shirt underneath and dark jeans.
"Woah!" the boxer said in awe, "What happened to my clothes?"
"It's still a hologram, you idiot," she stated and looked at Hide, "You'll need to change too, Boss."
"What?" before he could protest, Hide found that his clothes had been changed to a blue t-shirt with a black necktie around his neck and khaki pants.
"Much better," she said with satisfaction and turned her attention back to the remote in her hand.
"Wait, what's going on in the first place?" Hide asked in complete bafflement, "Reborn, could you explain?"
"I thought this would be an interesting way to test your knowledge of all of your Family members," the infant replied.
"Did you have to go so far with the holograms?"
"Yes," he stated and added, "Look, the others have come also."
"What?" Hide began to question but stopped when he saw Hanabi, Adam, Suzuki, Nagi, Ahiru, Nico, and Megumi entered.
As each person walked into the room, their outfits changed almost completely. Suzuki, who's clothes had changed from a white sweater and jeans to a blue vest with a black t-shirt underneath and light blue jeans, approached Hide cheerfully.
"Looks like we're on the same team, Hide!" he said while swinging his arm around the boy.
"Team?" Hide questioned.
"Twelfth!" Hanabi yelped, when she entered the room her shirt had dyed itself red and a matching head band in her hair appeared, her skirt was black and had a red skull decorating it, "I'm sorry, Twelfth! I can't believe I'm not on the same team as you!"
"Hold on, what are you guys talking about?" he asked.
"Did Mr. Reborn not tell you yet, Hide?" Adam asked eagerly, he was wearing a red polo-shirt with white strips along the sleeves and khaki pants.
"Tell me what?" he asked while staring suspiciously at Reborn.
"Oh that's right," the infant nodded as if he had just remembered something, "This is the 'study session' for you and your Family members, Hide: you are all divided up into teams based on the colors you are wearing: Blue and Red. The two teams that go up against each other will have to answer a series of questions about someone you all know, if the question is about someone on your team then that person is not allowed to answer the question or tell their teammates or the other team the answer. And for questions about certain people only, a person from each team will not be allowed to answer. You'll be rewarded a point for each question you get correct and the team that reaches 4 points will win."
"What kind of study session is this?" Hide questioned with his mouth hanging open in horror.
He was quickly growing resentful of Reborn's games until Megumi, who was wearing a blue tank-top and a black skirt came over to him and giggled, "Looks like I'm on your team, Hide-kun."
Reborn, you're the greatest tutor on earth! he thought to himself happily.
"I guess you guys are on my team then?" Morita asked while staring at Nagi, Hanabi, Adam and Nico.
"Hmph! Don't worry underlings, I'll definitely get the prize!" Nico laughed loudly, he had a white sweater and pants, a red 'N' decorated the back and front of his sweater.
"Who said anything about there being a prize?" Nagi asked as he watched the little boy jump up and down in amusement, he was wearing a red hoodie that had a black skull and crossbones on his chest with dark colored jeans.
"Oh yeah," said Anna as she continued pressing buttons on her remote, "The prize is something really amazing, something that only the Vongola could achieve."
"That's right," Reborn nodded, "The prize is a legendary Vongola treasure that has amazing powers and abilities to it."
"Amazing powers?" Hide asked skeptically.
"Ahiru wants it!" Ahiru exclaimed eagerly, one could almost see the stars in her childish eyes; her clothes had become a blue dress with blue boots on her feet, Ahibird was flapping its little wings excitedly when she said, "Hide-nii, let's beat those herbivores to a pulp!"
"Th-Then I guess I'll try, Hibari-chan," Hide shrugged and thought, I might as well go with it, it's not like anything bad will happen if I lose…
"The team that loses will have to go through a horrible punishment that will be administered by me," said Reborn.
"Let's win this guys!" Hide exclaimed to his teammates and took a quick head count of them, "Wait, we only have four people here, and Red Team has five, right?"
"Good point, Hide," his tutor said, "Don't worry, she'll be here soon."
"She?"
"Hello, young Twelfth," Rosario greeted, Hide and the rest of his teammates nearly jumped when they realized that she was right behind them. She was wearing a black suit jacket with a blue blouse underneath and black pants. Upon seeing her, both Hanabi and Nagi fell to the ground in pain.
"Anna," said Reborn, she nodded and pressed a few buttons on her remote, a pair of blue-shaded goggles appeared over Rosario's face.
"Oh papa, I wish you would tell me before you did these kinds of things first," Rosario sighed while adjusting her holographic goggles.
"F-For some reason I feel better…" Hanabi muttered as she shakily stood back up with her brother.
"Me too," he agreed weakly.
"That explanation is for another time," Reborn stated and jumped onto the podium at the center of the room.
"Get to your places," said Anna, the remote she was holding became a long thin stick with a black sphere at the tip, "We're starting in five, four…three…two…one…"
~8~
"This is 'So You Think You Know Each Other?' with me, Anna Grandhart," Anna announced in a slightly monotone voice while she held up the long, thin microphone in her hand.
"And me, Home Tutor Hitman Reborn," said Reborn.
"What are you guys doing?" Hide asked.
"Don't ruin our fun," the infant said after he had kicked his student in the face.
"Let's introduce our players for today, Mr. Reborn," Anna suggested, "In the Blue Team, we have the soon-to-be Twelfth Vongola Boss, Sawada Hideyoshi."
"Ow…" he muttered while rubbing his nose.
"The baseball player who's a genius musician, Suzuki Kouhei."
"Is this part of the Mafia Game too?" Suzuki asked while smiling cheerfully.
"Namimori Middle School's idol, Tanaka Megumi."
"Idol?" she questioned.
"An Outside Advisor and skilled sniper, Rosario."
"Hello."
"And the little girl who will, without a doubt, one day become a horrible and feared delinquent, Hibari Ahiru."
"Ahiru will beat any herbivores that get in her way!" the little girl said with determination.
"Mr. Reborn?" Anna nodded to him.
"Very well then," Reborn nodded back to her and jumped onto the Red Team's podium, "Over in the Red Team, we have the idiot-boxer who has a scary face, Sakuraba Morita."
"What?" Morita asked.
"The idiot-part of an assassination team, Adam Grandhart."
"Hello," the foreigner smiled.
"A bombs-expert who hates bombs and is the idiotic self-proclaimed right-hand to Hide, Gokudera Hanabi."
"I wanted to be on the Twelfth's team," Hanabi cried to herself.
"The idiot who is on possibly a thousand drugs at the moment, Gokudera Nagi."
"It's only twenty-six tranquilizers," Nagi said as if it was nothing, and then added as an afterthought, "And they're prescribed by doctors!"
"And an idiot."
"My name is Nico Bovino!"
"So now that we've introduced everybody," Reborn continued while ignoring what the contestants said, "Let's get the game started."
"Right," Anna nodded and pressed a button on her microphone, a large screen appeared out of no where and a picture of someone's face appeared on it, it was Hide's picture.
"The question for this round is: Who traumatized the Boss when he was little?" Anna asked and added, "There are three people for this round that are not allowed to answer: Boss, Suzuki Kouhei, and Gokudera Hanabi."
"Dammit," Hanabi bit her fingernail; of course she knew everything there was to know about Hide, which doesn't sound the least bit creepy at all.
"I know this one!" Morita yelled and hit the buzzer that was on his podium, "It's his granddad, right?"
"Which one?" Anna asked, "His dad's dad or his mom's dad?"
"Um," the boxer hesitated for a second before saying uncertainly, "His…his dad's dad?"
The sound of a bell ringing occurred and Anna said, in a still monotone voice, "Yay, you're right. You're team gets one point."
"Let's try and get the next one everybody!" Suzuki cheered his teammates on.
"The next question," Anna began and pushed the button on her microphone again, a picture of Colonello appeared, "What relation does Colonello have with Boss's gramps, Yamamoto Takeshi? Everybody can answer in this round."
"I think I know," Hide said uncertainly and hit the buzzer on the Blue Team's podium, "He's gramps' old friend from his mafia days, right?"
The bell rang loudly, "Correct! A point goes to the Blue Team."
"Now for the next question," said Reborn, "How old are Morita's younger brothers? The people who are not allowed to answer this one is Sakuraba Morita, Tanaka Megumi and Adam Grandhart."
"Me? Why me?" Adam asked.
"Because I said so," the infant said with a straight face.
"I think I know this one too," said Hide with a look of surprise on his face, he looked over to Morita and said, "Morita-kun told me when we were at the beach, they're eight and five, right?"
"That's right," Morita nodded with the same amount of surprise as Hide, the bell rang loudly and he said, "I'm amazed you still remember that, Hide."
"Well, you did tell me it recently…"
"If by recently you mean a month ago," the boxer pointed out, he smiled when he saw that the blonde haired Japanese was fretting over it and said, "Thanks though, Hide, for remembering."
"Quit saying thanks to each other!" Nico interrupted the cheery moment that was going on between the two, "You're both on different teams, and we're losing! We need points!"
"Don't tell us what to do, brat," Hanabi scolded the child, "If you're so eager to get points, why don't you start answering questions."
"I don't see you doing anything, stupid girl!" the boy stuck a tongue out at her.
"You little…" the bomber began with a deck of cards in her hand but was stopped when Nico tripped over himself when he was backing away, a large purple bazooka came out of his hair and landed on in causing pink smoke to go everywhere.
"What happened?" Hide coughed and saw a figure emerge from the pink smoke wearing a red button up shirt and white pants, "Adult-Nico?"
"How troublesome," a teenaged Nico sighed and looked around, "It seems that my environment has changed along with my clothes."
"I made preparations in advance incase this would happen," Anna explained.
"Idiot-Nico, you are in the middle of a game show," said Reborn, "The question is: What type of weapon does Suzuki use? The people who are not allowed to answer are Suzuki, Morita, and Hide."
"That one's easy, Mr. Suzuki uses a sword," Nico yawned and hit the buzzer gently.
"Correct," Anna said monotonously as the bell rang.
"No fair!" Ahiru frowned, "The herbivore grew into a bigger herbivore!"
"Well," Reborn began with the Ten Year Bazooka in his hand, "It's only fair…"
"W-Wait, Reborn, what are thinking of doing with that!" Hide yelped as the infant pointed it at Hibari and pulled the trigger.
Pink smoke filled the room once more, nobody could see for a bit but they could all see a figure emerge from the pink smoke.
"I will bite to death whatever herbivore disturbed me from my sleep and put me in this outfit," a voice said threateningly, Hide winced at the memory of pain that this person had last inflicted onto him.
"H-Hibari-chan?" he squeaked, the black haired girl emerged from the smoke wearing a light blue dress with blue rain boots on, not to mention the long black overcoat that was still draped around her shoulders.
She turned her attention on Hide and asked darkly, "Was it you, fake-Hide-nii?"
"Hieee!" the boy squealed in horror.
"Hide-kun, you must have some pretty poor ventilation with all of this smoke around," Megumi coughed as little clouds of pink smoke surrounded her, once all of the smoke was cleared she looked up and came eye-to-eye with teen-Ahiru, "Wow, what a pretty girl! Is she your friend, Hide-kun?"
"Y-You could say that…" he trembled.
"Oh, it's you!" Suzuki exclaimed when he saw the girl.
She gave him a blank stare before saying, "Oh, right."
"Ahiru," Reborn began, "You are in the middle of a game show right now and you're on the Blue Team. Would you be willing to lend your services for this?"
Ahiru closed her eyes and was silent for a few seconds, as if she was tossing the idea around in her head, before she pointed at the Blue Team and asked, "I'm with these herbivores?"
"That is correct."
"Very well then," she crossed her arms against her blue dress, "I will do it for the favor I owe the black haired herbivore and for you, Reborn-chan."
"Haha, she talks the same way as Ahiru-chan does!" Suzuki laughed.
"But I will bite to death who ever had put me in this outfit without my own knowledge…" she said darkly, Anna went back to pressing buttons on her microphone-remote.
"Glad to have you on our team!" Suzuki grinned widely.
"I hate owing others favors," she stated.
"The next question," Reborn began, "What special weapon does Adam use against the God Box, Nyx? Only Adam is not allowed to answer this question."
"What? Nobody even saw that fight though, except for Adam and Nyx," Hide argued.
"Electrically-charged daggers," Ahiru answered flatly.
"Correct," Anna chimed as the bell rang once more, "A point goes to the Blue Team."
The young Boss' mouth fell open, "I don't think I want to know how you knew the answer…"
"Ahiru's from the future," Reborn explained, "The likely-hood that the Adam Grandhart in the future told her is rather high."
"I have now repaid the favor to you, herbivore," she said flatly.
"Favor?" Hide questioned and looked at Suzuki, "Did you do something for her?"
"I only gave her a box of sushi," he shrugged.
"Blue Team is now ahead of Red Team by one point," Anna announced, she looked over to the Red Team and said, "You guys will definitely lose at this rate."
"Way to root for your brother, Anna," Adam sighed.
"I try," she shrugged and pressed a button on her remote, "The next question," a picture of Hanabi showed up on it and the twin sister continued, "What is Gokudera Hanabi scared of?"
"What kind of question is that!" Hanabi yelled, her face was red with both fury and embarrassment.
A buzzer went off and Nagi said cheerfully, "She's scared of explosions!"
"Correct," Anna said in the same monotone voice she had been using before.
"I am not afraid of explosions!" the younger Gokudera protested.
"Come on now, Hanabi, you don't have to deny it," her older brother said with a serene smile on his face.
"I'll show you denial!" Hanabi threatened, a pack of cards was in her hands.
"What!" Hide's mouth dropped open when he saw the familiar and explosive pack of cards, "W-Wait! Gokudera-san!"
"Are we playing cards now?" asked Suzuki.
"Geez, scary girl sure gets angry easily," Morita sighed.
"Don't call me scary!" she snapped, one of the cards in her hand flew out and when it landed on the ground it exploded.
"What just happened?" Megumi coughed as smoke surrounded her and everyone else.
"It would be wise to evacuate all innocent bystanders now, Rosario," Reborn said to his daughter.
"Okay, papa!" she nodded and took Megumi's arm and led her outside of the house.
"Anna, I would also suggest that you turn the holograms off now," the infant said to her.
"That's going to be a problem, Mr. Reborn," the foreigner said.
"Why?"
"I don't have my remote…" she said and paled a little, "I think it must've fallen out of my hands when the Smoking Bomb threw her card..."
"That would be a problem," the infant nodded, smoke was still everywhere but he could vaguely see his student fumbling through the debris, Leon crept onto the tutor's hand and formed itself into a gun, "And here's the solution."
He shot the Leon-gun and about ten seconds later a powerful roar from a certain Japanese boy with blonde hair and who was only wearing blue and white striped boxers.
"MAKE SURE EVERYONE IS ALRIGHT WITH MY DYING WILL!" Hide roared, the orange flame on his forehead was alit and flickered, "VENTILATE THE AREA!"
He ran over to the glass screen door that separated his living room and his front yard and slid it open harshly while screaming, "VENTILATE!"
"Use Leon," said Reborn as he tossed Leon over to Hide.
The boy grabbed Leon, which turned into a giant fan, and started to fiercely fan all of the smoke out of the room while yelling, "VENTILATE! VENTILATE!"
Once it was cleared, Hide turned back to everyone and yelled, "IS EVERYONE ALRIGHT!"
There were a few mutters of 'Yeah's and 'I think so's, Ahiru was the only one that didn't respond.
"How unsightly," she muttered when she saw Hide in his underwear screaming, she stood up to leave and said, "I'm leaving."
"WAIT!" she stopped suddenly and stared at him, "WHERE'S MEGUMI-SAN AND ROSARIO-SAN!"
"I sent them outside where they wouldn't be hurt," said Reborn as he watched Ahiru continue her way out of the living room.
"WHERE'S THE HOLOGRAM REMOTE!"
"It's probably broken," said Anna, she looked down at Hide and added, "Or else we wouldn't be able to see your underwear."
"EH!" this was not yelled when Hide was in Dying Will Mode, his flame had disappeared and his face was now bright red.
"You know Hide," Suzuki began, "For some reason, you become super cool whenever you're only wearing your underwear."
"Eh!" the boy's mouth fell open.
"Yeah," everyone else in the room agreed.
"EH!"
~8~
And so the game show ended without any winner or any loser, therefore nobody received the punishment and nobody received the reward.
"So what exactly was the reward, Reborn?" Hide asked that night when he was pretty sure that Adam and Anna had fallen asleep, "From the way you were talking about it, you made it sound like a really cool treasure that could do anything."
"There was no prize, I made it up," the infant said before falling asleep.
"Why does this not surprise me," the boy sweat-dropped.
I don't think it's time for you to understand, Reborn smirked in his sleep before continuing his slumber.
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Oh Reborn, you and your crazy antics :) Once again, I apologize for not updating in a while. The poll for which character the next Skywards extra should be centered on in on my profile, for those that have voted before you can vote again ;) just a simple reminder to ya.
I don't own KHR Amano Akira owns it, and let us hope that s/he shall continue with it!