Chapter 54
A Story and Some Omakes
Dr. Zack Addy: I'm sorry things are going badly for you.
[Hodgins chuckles slightly]
Dr. Zack Addy: Why are you laughing?
Dr. Jack Hodgins: My best friend is locked up in a loony bin, wearing gloves because he blew up his own hands, and he feels sorry for me. - Bones
I have officially fallen in love with Zack Addy. If anyone knows any good Zack Addy fics, review the name. I need my Zack.
Dr. Lance Sweets: [Booth is about to enter his car] Wait... What if he... look I don't know what if he overpowers me?
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Zack?
Dr. Zack Addy: I'm much stronger than I look.
Dr. Lance Sweets: He's done it before. He killed a man.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Okay. Zack, promise you're not gonna kill Sweet.
Dr. Zack Addy: I promise.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: There you go.
[Goes to his car]
Dr. Zack Addy: [dejectedly] Yeah.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: [slight chuckle] There you go.
Watch that show. It is awesome.
Reviewer Quotes
Pocky is THE asian snackfood of the Greek gods, Truth, and all things anime. - Aquilonlll
Nana had me placed in a spare room with Bianchi. There were quite a few spare rooms in the house; I-Pin and Lambo shared one, Fuuta had his own and Bianchi and I would be sharing one. Despite its outwardly small appearance, the house was quite impressive on the inside. "Sorry about the space!" she apologized, setting up a futon on the floor for me. "We're a little squished in here, with all the kids!"
"It's no problem," I assured her, mentally splitting the room. Bianchi would get the right side, I would get the left side. But then again, I would only be here a week. "I've slept in stranger places."
For example, the freaking Alps, in Europe, a Coca-Cola factory (you don't want to hear the story behind that one.), not to mention the fact that I lived in a mafia headquarters building. I think that would be the definition of 'slept in stranger places'.
Nana gasped, her expression practically glowing in excitement. "Oh, Yuni-chan! You absolutely have to tell me about all your adventures! Reborn-kun is always talking about his 'life in the mafia'. Isn't that cute?"
"Adorable." I answered, shortly, trying to picture the almost fatherly figure I knew as 'cute'. ...I think I need to bleach my eyes.
She nodded, honestly believing what I had said. She smiled, taking a seat on the futon she had set out. "Spit it out."
I lowered myself to sit beside her, crossing my legs. "Spit what out?"
"Your adventures, silly!" she laughed, lightly smacking my arm.
"Well, uhh..." I hesitated. Should I tell her mafia stories? Should I even be speaking to her at all? Reborn had specifically said not to spill info on the future. An image flickered into my mind, of Sawada Nana, ten years into the future, comatized in an American hospital. I sharply inhaled, closing my eyes for a second. "What to tell first?"
Nana's face split open in a grin, and she leaned forward, expectantly. "Do you have any mafia stories?"
Yeah. About your son.
"A few." I admitted, pretending to be sheepish. "A long time ago, there was a young boy who lived in, uhh...?" I trailed off, glancing unsurely at the housewife in front of me.
"Japan!" Nana piped up, beaming.
"Right." I agreed, going along with it. "He had a very pretty mother and a strong father. But, there was a secret his father had been keeping from him. The young Japanese boy was actually the chief candidate to a mafia family."
I paused for a moment, allowing Nana to gasp, loudly. "Really?!"
"Yes." I nodded, solemnly. "Really. His name was-"
"Ieyasu?" she offered, grinning.
I paled for a moment. Isn't that Giotto's Japanese name? "W-Why Ieyasu?"
Nana blushed, like a little schoolgirl that I'm fairly sure that we all know she was, deep, deep down. "It's, umm, cute?"
"Fine." I sighed, overexaggerating. "Ieyasu is a mafia boss candidate. And not just any mafia family: the strongest mafia family in the world."
Nana's eyes widened dramatically. "Is that the same family Reborn-kun is from?"
I hushed her. "I'm getting there. Anyways, Ieyasu was-"
"-perfect?" she offered, getting comfortable on the futon.
I blinked, refocusing. "Ieyasu was actually bad at everything and needed a tutor. So he got a tutor. His tutor's name was-"
"Let's make it 'Fukku-kun'." she suggested, with a smile. "It's cute."
Fukku sounds similar to the Japanese word of 'Revival/Reborn'. ...not to mention it sounds like a cuss word.
"No." I deadpanned. "Not Fukku. How about...Verde?"
"Verde it is!" she decided, getting comfortable.
I dove into the story of 'Ieyasu' and 'Verde' with intense fervor. Detail by detail, I spun the story of a young boy and his baby mafioso hitman into a seemingly romantic story between the same young boy, the brunette girl with the bright eyes and the genius girl who couldn't take a hint.
I'm pretty sure that women prefer romance over the pure facts.
And I changed a few things. Like I changed the names of things. Instead of 'Flames', it was 'Rainbow Energy'. And instead of 'Rings', it was 'Necklaces'. You don't even want to know what kind of shit I did to the Varia.
I don't the Varia would like it either.
But it was pretty much the same as canon, just with different names. And a lot more romance. And Verde wasn't as violent as Reborn.
"And then," I was nearing the end of my epic tale. "there was this giant dome made out of the-"
"The Rainbow Energy?" she cut in, again. "The Rainbow Energy that Ieyasu-kun can shoot from his hands and Xanxan-kun can shoot from his guns?"
"Yes." I nodded. "The Rainbow Energy."
Might as well start singing. Someday we'll find it, the rainbow connection. The lovers, the dreamers and me.
"Yes, well, the Rainbow Energy that made up the dome. The Energy then centered in on Kari-chan's Shoes." That's right. I replaced the Arcobaleno Pacifiers with shoes and the name 'Yuni' with 'Kari'. Sue me. "And it created a new dome, around Kari-chan, and carried her away."
"Away where?!" Nana cried, truly distraught.
"To Ieyasu-kun and Pedoran, of course." I dismissed with ease. Don't ask about the names. Don't. Really. "Their Rainbow Energy domes collided and Kari-chan was inside one giant, seemingly unbreakable dome with Ieyasu-kun and Pedoran."
Nana placed her hand over her heart, as if imagining the pure terror Kari-chan felt. "How awful."
I nodded, grimly, trying not to think of the Real Yuni, of my future, of what was coming for me. That is, if I didn't screw everything up in the process. "It is. So Kari-chan had some problems: should she revive Verde and the other Shoe Holders-" a.k.a Arcobaleno. "-or live on, towards a brighter, better life?"
"Oh no!" Nana protested, knowing what would happen. "Not Kari-chan!"
"Yes, Kari-chan." I cleared my throat slightly, but went on, regardless. "Kari-chan focused all of her Rainbow Energy into her Shoes. The Shoes lit up so brightly they could probably have been seen from outer space."
Nana leaned in, as if sharing a secret. "But people can't go to outer space."
Umm, actually they can. Ever heard of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin? 1969? No?
"Yes, they can." I contradicted, trying not to smile at her surprised expression. "Her Shoes were shining, brightly. Her entire body was glowing from the Rainbow Energy. Ieyasu-kun protested, deeply. He didn't want anyone else to die, not after what had happened to Yakyu-kun's dad." A. K. A. Yamamoto's dad.
"S-She's dying?!" the woman inhaled, sharply. Talk about a plot twist. "I didn't like her that much, her personality was a little too sugarcoated and sweet."
I sweatdropped. Kari had been based off of Canon-Yuni...
"But that doesn't mean I wanted her to die." Nana said, sadly.
"Anyways," I went on. "with the help of the Clams-" A. K. A. Vongola "-Kari's friend, Colulu, managed to make it inside the dome. Kari-chan used up all of her Rainbow Energy to bring back the Shoe Holders. She disappeared from existence, leaving behind a white cape and the Shoes of the other Shoe Holders that she had been holding. And while the Shoe Holders were being brought back, Ieyasu-kun got mad. Real mad. And he attacked Pedoran."
"Ieyasu-kun is being a bad boy." Nana actually was scolding her son...albeit indirectly.
I shrugged, going along with it. "He had been away from his mother for a while and his dad was never around to teach him right from wrong. He killed Pedoran, freeing the world and saving all of humanity. Kind of anti-climatic, if you ask me."
Nana puffed out her cheeks. "Poor Kari-chan. She does all that to help her friends and they aren't even angry. Well, except Ieyasu-kun, but he's kind-hearted."
"True dat." I agreed. "But her friends, the one with the pink hair and the one with the dark skin? They cried, missing Kari-chan."
"What about Colulu?" she demanded, apparently very unsatisfied with my story's ending. "What happened to him?"
I smiled, sadly. "He gave his Rainbow Energy to die with Kari-chan, his friend."
Nana sniffed for a moment, tears actually welling in her eyes. "T-That's so sad!"
That was the tackiest retelling of Katekyo Hitman Reborn ever... I mean, 'Rainbow Energy' and 'Shoes'. What the fuck, Sawada Nana?
I started panicking, pulling tissues out of a box on the floor and fussing over her. "I-It's alright. Kari-chan saved the world."
And so will I. ...and yes, I do realize that that was really cliche.
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My view of the world isn't as tacky or cliche as I make it out to be. There are layers of the social structure, but each layer gets darker and darker. It's rare that you find someone from the top layer, like Sawada Nana. Me? I'd be in the middle. Not dark or light. Just...lost.
Short, so here are omakes.
Yamamoto's P. O. V. Third Person
There was nothing worse, Yamamoto decided, than knowing who killed your father.
The facts were laid out in front of him, in ink. Yuni of the Sky, Previous Boss of the Giglio Nero and Boss of the Black Spell ordered the assassinations of Yamamoto Tsuyoshi and Sawada Nana.
The little girl, with the blue eyes brighter than the sky, who he had taken to the Sawada house, back in the beginning, back when they were kids, back when...back when his father was still alive.
Yamamoto might as well have been an accessory to murder. At least, in his books, he should have been.
Maybe, if he hadn't taken the cute little toddler, with expressions too mature for someone of her age, or even his age, to the Sawada home, to the place where they spent their time, then Tsuyoshi wouldn't be dead.
Maybe, if he hadn't taken the lost girl, with an uncharacteristic guilt hanging over her shoulders, to the Sawada home, then Nana, the nice woman who had been Tsuna's mother (who still is, Yamamoto had to remind himself), would be alive.
His mafia instincts (whether Tsuna denied it or not, they existed) had told him that the girl was no threat, no harm.
Had his instincts been wrong?
Had he been the one to condemn them to what would inevitably become their fates?
Or was that girl so perfect of an actress that she had him convinced from the start?
Yamamoto tore his eyes from the coffin in front of him, the one that held what had once been Tsuna, it still was, just...not the same, and stared up at the sky, rain pouring down around him, masking the salty tears that had been making their way down his once flawless face, which was now marred with scars.
She was the perfect con-artist. She had had their trust, abused it for knowledge, and killed Tsuna.
Yamamoto had been wrong. His instincts had been wrong.
So why did he feel like he had been right?
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I-Pin P. O. V. Third Person
"I'm sorry." Fon apologized to her, touching her shoulder lightly, with his small, infant fingers. "I'm sorry, I-Pin."
The Chinese girl did not respond, cradling her head in her hands, wondering, just wondering, what she had done wrong, what had been wrong, what hadn't been done right.
Yuni had been I-Pin's friend. They weren't the usual best friends, they didn't have toothbrushes at the other's house, or knew all of each other's favorite foods, but it had been enough. They were best friends. Their friendship was fleeting, emails and texts making up a majority of their communication.
But it had been enough. I-Pin had been satisfied.
And now Yuni was gone, thanks to those barbarian Varia folks. She was gone and with the enemy and not her friend and also her friend and everything and nothing. All at the same time.
I-Pin took a shaky breath. Sawada-san will go and speak with Yuni. He will make things right. I believe in Sawada-san.
When a bleeding Tsuna was hauled into Vongola HQ, carried by an incredibly angry Hibari-san, I-Pin realized that things weren't going to be right.
Things weren't going to be the same.
Not after Tsuna was dead.
Not after Yuni was gone.
Not after everything had fallen apart.
Okay, time for the excuse as to why I'm only updating now...
On the sixth, I had dinner out, after work.
On the seventh, I had homework and was sick.
On the eighth, I had to tutor some dumbass and then do homework.
On the ninth, I didn't even sleep. That tells you how busy I am.
So there's today, the tenth.
Sorry.
Review Replies~
TNM-Writer - Have you seen canon? In canon, Yuni didn't teach Tsuna jack squat. So now, Yuni is going to be a little more useful.
anyandeveryanime - I didn't see it, lol. I haven't slept in like 5739765 hours.
Khorale - I can see the conversation between future Yuni and present Yuni clearly. "Sup girl?"
catrinebatrine - Haha, the bitches who aim for your face better look out. Death itself is headed their fucking way.
shirokuromokona - First sign is denial, lol. Is she a Yankee? ...
QRed - a Pokemon trainer? "Tsunayoshi! I choose you!" "...why am I dressed up like Pikachu?" "Shut up."
Eulphy Whitlock Lupin - Leo is from a very, very close friend of mine who died (AWKZ.). And 'Inuyuka' came from 'Inuzuka', Kiba, from Naruto. He was one of my favorite characters, so I screwed with one letter of his name and BAM. Leo Inuyuka was born.
o-o - 1000 is coming soon. -_- nervous as hell.
CuteDork - Giotto isn't hot. He's FUCKING SEXY.
Lanaught - HDWM smirks make me die, slowly, of awesome righteousness.
pinkus-pyon - Byakuran is kind of annoying. No offense, but I just don't think he is mentally secure.
coldgazeproduction - don't judge. -_- I was in a real big rush.
Yuni-FMA - I love FMA. Yuni agrees. "FMA rocks! Especially Alphonse, my dearest love..."
TheParadoxicalOtaku - It isn't epic long...I have short chapters, but the updates are usually fairly frequent. However, I was experiencing issues that delayed the chapter today. *shakes head*
a simple fan - I usually have TONS of free time. But suddenly work and school have decided to eat my face.
George - Long Live by Taylor Sw- AH, KYOKO SPARKLES! *uses Tsuna as shield*
CC - I think it's a cheerleader 'pyramid' not a triangle... *sweatdrops*
ResyaAfhirsa - I'm busy as SHISHITSHITSHITSHIT. No time. AHKEJTRHLITRJ. Love your new picture.
Memory25 - MEM. My favorite author in the world. Alaude. And. Hibari. In. The. Same. Roo- *explodes*
KatoKimeka-chan - G is pretty cool...and his name exudes badassness.
Namimori-Skylark-18 - Fuuta is fun. I love Fuuta. I should write a Fuuta fic. Because HE IS DAYUM AWESOME. I'm so tired, lol.
Searchingformyheart - I try to keep to plot lines, because I am not original enough to write on my own. *sweatdrop* If you want to PM me the lyrics for a song that you think would fit, then go ahead :D
CrimsonSkyTamer - Thanks for the chocolate frog. Wink, wink.
Furionknight - Great :D
MeWubFranxx - Yuni's life source = pocky
LoStInIlLuSiOn - TSUNAYOSHI KUN.
MeLikesROFL - Hey, when I miss 4 days, I usually do a double update. However, right now, I am swamped with shit.
Rikuo Nova - I love REBOCON. Those people are awesome.
palmtoptiger-san - Reborn wouldn't chuck Tsuna under the bus like that...would he?
Michiyo - thanks, lol.
The Ice Sorceress - The Trials will be coming! DUN DUN DUNN.
Slytherin'sBlackUniform - I like Uniform. It's hilarious.
LoreleiJubilation - I like your name.
Celeste D. Lilica - I hope you enjoyed the story.
Skylark Klein - Finishing this story will be fun, but tragically sad.
shanagi95 - Yuni is in the past, so there are 2 Sky Arcobaleno in the same time period.
Kine X - An ancestor? AWKZ.
Pailrose - A jelly war? Dafuq...
KeiGinya - I think Obito is the sexiest thing since Draco Malfoy, if that helps. I love Daemon Spade! Except for, you know, the fact that he's a total body stealer. Fuuta like becomes Jesus over the time skip. He shoots up like a tree. A TREE I TELL YOU. Ricardo was simply a coincidence.
xXMissOtakuXx - Sorry for taking so long -/-
Rebi-chan - Angst. KGEjrslgjrhdgv;sdrfgtrkdb. No. I suck at angst. I apologize for my shit angst. Fuuta is nine, so the fact that he believes Yuni is understandable.
Aquilonlll - Pocky is the asian snackfood of the greek gods. Well said.
Paigecat - The fuck? You totally spammed me, lol. 962 reviews. Just wait 38 more, lol. Then you're there. I love Blackbird! It's so cute and funny, and Shipper!Yamamoto rocks my freaking shoes. That's how badass Shipper!Yamamoto is.
Guest - Spams are hilarious.
o-o - thanks, brothah. Reborn's a mafioso. duh.
KuroNoAki2772 - Final battle will definitely be interesting.
So, so sorry for the short and late update, I'm a bitch.
HOWEVER. My next update will be over the weekend, because I have spontaneously become busy as hell. It's weird... But I will keep my triple update, long chapters promise.
If I get to 1000 reviews, I will write three chapters (5000 words each, excluding author notes and review replies) and post them all at the same time.
So, yeah.
QUESTION:
Who is your favorite person that Yuni talks to in 'Truth of the Sky'?
Leave a review.
Maybe.
And some M & Ms, I just ate through like 263460 bags of them.
Lots of love,
LeoInuyuka
