Chapter 48 - Future Final Battle

WARNINGS!

= OOCs

= Grammars and Spellings

DISCLAIMER!

~ I DO NOT OWN KHR ~

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"Talking"

'Thoughts'

Flashbacks

Author Note / AN

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Byakuran let tears flowed from his eyes, down to his cheeks, letting them dripped to the ground.

At the same time, Kikyo was gritting his teeth, tightening his fist in the process, before turning his attention infront when he felt a number of people's presences.

Kyouya who reached the location few minutes ago, Ryouhei with Lambo on his shoulder, Basil, Nosaru, and Tazaru came out from hiding, with weapons on their hands.

"Are you ready to fall, all of you?" Kikyo smirked.

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= 3rd Person's POV =

The fight with Kikyo was rather a short one after Varia, Fran and Mukuro appeared, as they were stopped by a sudden spark of green coloured flame appeared in the middle of the opened-space, far from the space where Ietsuna and the others were located.

Kikyo, who already released his Box of Carbage, stared at it, narrowed his eyes, remembering whatever Byakuran told him about the Thunder Guardian.

'So Byakuran-sama released Ghost. If I remembered correctly what Byakuran-sama said about Ghost, I better be away from him' Kikyo thought, closing his Carnage box, transforming back, before jumping into the forest, making Ryouhei and the others stared at the retreating form in wonder.

"Why is he...?" Ryouhei murmured, eyes still at the spot where Kikyo jumped onto before disappearing into the forest. Then he snapped his head towards the direction of the small spark when he felt it grew stronger.

"I am going" Kyouya murmured before dashing away towards the direction of the flame, followed by Mukuro and Varia.

"What about you guys?" Ryouhei turned towards Lambo, Basil, Nosaru and Tazaru.

Lambo groaned. "No way"

Nosaru, and Tazaru too stayed at the lake side. The two Storms' injuries were getting worser due to them pushing themselves to fight with Kikyo, which Ryouhei immediately put some Sun flame on their injuries.

"I will go, Ryouhei-dono" Basil said to Ryouhei, who nodded in return before standing up. "Let's go" Ryouheu said, running towards the same direction, where Kyouya, Mukuro, and Varia heading to, followed by Basil.

《》《》《》 Hidden Sky 《》《》《》

The fight with Ghost were not a fight at all, it was more like the Guardians' flames were taken when they couldn't do anything to the transparent Thunder Guardian.

Ghost then clashed with Ietsuna, who flew there from his location, in a flame-absorbing battle, which the transparent man was then got absorbed by the young Sky, before Byakuran with pure white wings appeared when all of them realized that Ietsuna's flame was still the same.

Ietsuna told the others to not to interfere in the battle of the two, which was a short one as the power difference between the two were one-sided, then Byakuran grabbed Ietsuna, after he crashed onto the ground from his attack, using his transparent giant hand, slowly crushing the young Sky.

"Well.. This is a disappointment. I expected you to put up a better fight. The size of someone's flames is equilant to the resolve of that person, and your flame is small, that means your resolve about wanting to return your friends safely back to the past, was extremely weak, huh?" Byakuran gave Ietsuna a fox-smile, which made the young Sky widened his eyes before glaring at the man.

That statement made Ietsuna thought about all the people from the past, who had been dragged into that battle, Ietsuna's desire to defeat Byakuran and protect his friends grew, and Ietsuna lighted his flame that shone brightly.

"Hm.. I won't lose to your little resolve" Byakuran smiled, also lighted up his flame, matching the level of flame with Ietsuna.

Ietsuna, gritting his teeth when he saw Byakuran's flame, further increased the size and strength of his flames. "Heeh.. Impressive" Byakuran mused, which he then once again matched with Ietsuna's flame by increasing his own.

The flames that were being released, rised even further, and when it reached an incredibly high output, a gong-like sound rang across the battlefield.

Byakuran's eyes brighten. "It's here" Byakuran smiled, and Ietsuna widened his eyes when he saw two barriers of Sky flames surrounding each of both of them.

Another gong-sound appeared a few times, making everyone, except Byakuran himself, tried to figure out where the sound came from and what the sound meant.

Pointing at the two Skies' rings, "Vooi.. Those sounds came from their rings" TYLSqualo said, narrowing his eyes. That was when TYLDino realized widened his eyes. "The rings ...were resonating with each other?!"

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/ Tsuna's Location /

Tsuna was still resting when he was woken up by his shining pacifier, he slowly sat up when a small orb of Sky flame appeared and turned larger, trapping Tsuna inside.

When he saw the barrier surrounding him started to fly towards a place where he was sure the place Byakuran and the others were located, breaking through the wall in the process, Tsuna groaned. "You told me to sleep but then you used the rings to summon me? I will definitely punch you in the face if I still have the strength to at least properly walk" Tsuna mumbled, before widening his eyes.

"Won't Yu-chan also be summoned? ...Sh*t..."

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/ Yuni's Location /

On the sitecamp where Reborn and the others were located, they all widened their eyes when Yuni's pacifier shone, breaking the barrier surrounding it, and a ball of flame barrier swallowing Yuni, who gasped, trapping her inside.

'Oh no.. Tsuna-kun!'

The barrier then started to hover and flew towards to the battlefield, makimg the other panicked, trying whatever they could to break Yuni's barrier, which didn't do anything to it.

"Yuni!"

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/ Back to the battlefield /

Ietsuna's allies realized that none of their attacks had any effect on the now expanding barriers. Soon they noticed another barrier floating towards the other two, and much to their dismay, they realized that the person inside that barrier was actually Yuni.

"You all must be wondering why Yuni-chan is here, right~? Well, it's because me and Ietsuna-kun summoned her!" Byakuran exclaimed, before he frozed for a second. 'Eh? Doesn't that mean Tsu-chan will also be summoned? ...Oh no.. D*mn it! Here I promise we will leave together!?'

Mukuro noticed that the Vongola ring, the Mare ring and the Arcobaleno pacifier were the cause of this phenomenon, and realized that the Sky Elements of the Trinisette were gathering together. He wondered if the strain put on the rings during the incredible released of flames by Ietsuna and Byakuran earlier, caused the three to come together.

Kyouya too seems to realize that, but then he widened his eyes. Does that meant that Tsuna, who was still the Sky Arcobaleno would be summoned? He really hoped not. And as if answering his question, all of them saw another ball of flames, coming from the opposite side of where Yuni came from, floating towards the three Skies.

All of them widened their eyes. "Tsu-kun!?" Ietsuna shouted out, eyes still widened.

As the barriers get closer together, Hayato realized that both Sky Arcobaleno's flame barriers were attempting to join with Ietsuna and Byakuran's. The allies immediately pulled out their weapons as if knowing the danger of the barriers combining, and began firing their attacks, trying to stop the two Arcobaleno, which ended up useless when they realized that the barriers were too strong to crack.

The moment both Sky Arcobaleno stepped inside, Tsuna, Yuni, and Byakuran widened their eyes when both Sky pacifiers shone brightly, making Yuni hurriedly stepped back, trying to make a distance from Tsuna.

"No.. No, stop it!" Yuni shouted, tears formed at the corner of her eyes, her hands clapped together around her pacifier, hoping it would stop shining. "Please, stop it!" Yuni shouted again, tears flowed down, dripping to the ground, but her pacifier didn't stop, making everyone, excluding Tsuna and Byakuran, wondered why Yuni was so desperated in stopping her facifier from shining.

Seeing that desperate face of Yuni, and Byakuran though his was well hidden but still not good enough to hide from him, Tsuna smiled, staring at his shining pacifier. He could felt it, the pacifier was draining his strength even faster than before, due to the dominant pacifier was near.

"It's okay, ...Yuni" Tsuna said, with a soft smile on his face, making Yuni snapped her head towards Tsuna while Byakuran immediately snapped his gaze towards him. Everyone also turned their attention towards Tsuna.

"Bu-but.. Tsuna-san.." Yuni whimpered.

Tsuna shook his head. "I am ready, Yuni.. Thank you for being being friends with me, for staying with me, and see me as your brother.. I love you" Tsuna said, but Byakuran knew those words were also directed towards him, both him and Yuni.

Turning his head towards his allies outside the barrier, Tsuna looked at them one by one, before stopping at Kyouya who was staring at him with wide eyes. "All of you too.. Thank you for seeing me as a friend ...and family. Kyouya, I am sorry ...and thank you" Tsuna smiled, tears gathered at the corners of his eyes.

"Tsu-nii.." Tsuna called, making Ietsuna unconsciously jumped a little from the transparent giant hand grabbing him.

"You especially.. I am sorry for being cold towards you, and for ignoring you.. Also thank you for accepting me as your brother.. For protecting me.. For helping me.. For caring for me.. For not abandoning me.. For loving me ...Thank you ...for everything... I love you before, now, and always will, brother.." Tsuna smiled sadly at them.

"Tsu-kun!" A familiar voice called, and Tsuna turned to the voice. There he saw Kyoko and the others, who just arrived, standing while staring at him with wide eyes.

"Kyoko.. You too.. Thank you for everything you did for me" Tsuna smiled softly, making Kyoko started to cry. "Why ..are you thanking me? It's me who should be thanking you for saving me from those people to get to Sasagawa-senpai when they thought I was his sister!"

"...Kyoko, even though you knew I was dying.. Thank you for taking my hand.." Tsuna grinned at the young female, who unlike the others, she just blinked, not really understanding what he meant.

Tsuna smiled, his eyes slowly travelled from each one of them, before back to the three Skies infront of him, before suddenly his knees gave up, and Tsuna then positioned himself to sit down, alerting all of them.

Tsuna turned to the Sun Arcobaleno on TYLFuuta's shoulder, who was staring at him with a readable expression which he refused to show it, though Tsuna could see it. "Reborn.. Thank you for accepting who I am.. I hope you realized that you actually have a family of your own, and they are near around you actually" Tsuna smiled, making Reborn widened his eyes. Family? Not Famiglia? His own family?!

"You guys.. Once again.. Thank you.. And I am sorry.." Tsuna's slowly dropped, his pacifier shone even bright, engulfing Tsuna in Sky flame, before flew towards Yuni and entered her pacifier.

"Tsu-kun!" "Tsuna-san!" "Tsunayoshi!"

Yuni bit her lower lip looking at the dimming pacifier. Tears wouldn't stop dripping to the ground. "Tsuna-san.." Yuni whimpered, hugging her pacifier.

Byakuran's face didn't show any expression at all, his face didn't betray his feelings at all. But in his mind, he was suffering, he was crying, his heart ache. One of his brother already died. He wanted to cry just like Yuni but he had to keep his act for the sake of the plan.

Holding down his tears, a fake smile appeared on his face. "Oh, so he died, huh? Too bad, here I was hoping Tsu-chan will be able to witness Ietsuna-kun's death. Oh well, say hello to Tsu-chan from me" Byakuran said, his fist tightening, Ietsuna swore he could heard his bones cracked, before he fell limp when Byakuran released him.

"Ietsuna-san!" "Ietsu!" "Ietsuna-sama! Byakuran, you b*stard!" Hayato shouted, firing his Storm flame at the barrier, but nothing happened to it. "D*mn it!"

Byakuran was about to approach Yuni while saying no one was able to save her anymore, when Reborn interfered by saying his student would be the one to defeat him, though Byakuran then laughed when he saw Ietsuna didn't even moved from his position.

Byakuran took one step forward when all of them heard Ietsuna's voice, before the said young Sky slowly and weakly getting up, though he was no longer in his hyper mode.

Byakuran told Ietsuna that it was unlucky of him to have woken up in his situation. He mentioned that he knew a lot about Ietsuna, everything about him being a normal middle school student who failed in both academics and athletics, till he met a Reborn who thrusted him into the dangerous world of the Mafia, about Ietsuna's battle with Mukuro, and the battle with the Varia.

He also said that Ietsuna had been really unlucky, then when he came into the future, his luck had finally ran out, and if Ietsuna hadn't been bought to the future, he wouldn't have had to suffer as much as he did, and told the brunet to curse his own fate for everything that had happened.

Ietsuna went silent for a while before denying Byakuran's theories, surprising everyone. Ietsuna explained that, although the future had bought him great fear, pain and worry, and although he was only truly happy for a short period of time, Ietsuna understood that everyone had to take the good with the bad, and said that he considered everything that had happened to be precious moments in his life.

Byakuran, had a mysterious smile on his face when he heard what Ietsuna had said. "Your way of looking at things was certainly interesting, Ietsuna-kun, though you should realize that none of what you said will matter, once I kills you that is" Byakuran smiled, taking out a small white dragon, making everyone outside widened their eyes and attacked the barrier, knowing what Byakuran wanted to do.

Ietsuna widened his eyes, as he was no longer in his hyper mode, he panicked. "Wa-wait!" Ietsuna said, extending and flailing his arms infront of him.

"Don't want to" Byakuran exclaimed, throwing the small dragon towards Ietsuna, hitting him right at the heart, and Ietsuna, as his allies froze seeing that, fell. But before Byakuran could do anything, he was interfered by a loud scream.

Ietsuna got up, screaming that that attack hurt. As allies watched in relieved, Ietsuna rips his shirt, and widened his eyes when he saw the ring Lancia gave as a token of gratitude, was the one receiving the blow by the white dragon for Ietsuna.

Ietsuna seeing the ring, began to realize that everything that had happened up till that point had played a part, and led up to everything he had done.

Ietsuna turned his head towards Byakuran and said that he wouldn't give up a moment which he had spent in the future, the pain, the suffering, the fun, none of it. Ietsuna realized that he was there now was because of the people staying by his side, whether it were Ipin, Kyoko, and Haru's support through doing the chores and helping him, and the other Guardians by being there, or Spanner helping Ietsuna perfected his X-Burner, or the Vongola Boxes left to the current Guardians by future him, or Kyoko helping him understanding his animal partner's intentions, he realized that everyone he had met had helped him for him to reach that point, and that he wouldn't be here now if it hadn't been for their support.

Ietsuna questioned what Byakuran had said about him being unlucky, and said that he was wrong, because he felt really lucky, and that he tresured every moment he had spent since he had come to the future. Ietsuna finally said that his flame could only have been born in this world, the world Byakuran rules. Ietsuna's mittens lighted up, while he continued saying that Byakuran had hurt many people, and Ietsuna, now back in hyper mode, promised to make Byakuran payed for all that he had done.

After that, all of the Vongola rings shone brightly, and each one of the Primo Generation appeared with the Sky appeared last, making Ietsuna and his Guardians jumped a little because of them looking a lot like their parents or in Ietsuna and Ryouhei's case were their uncles, before the man unsealed Vongola rings' true form.

Primo tapped Ietsuna's shoulder. "Undicesimo, give that Mare child a scare" He said before disappearing.

And the battle started again, with the difference of Ietsuna getting a lot faster, and when during the fight, Ietsuna managed to kicked Byakuran to the ground after ripping the pair of white wings off, Byakuran's back grew another pair of black liquid-like wings.

In the middle of the fight, their attentions turned to Yuni who was supplying her flames at all of the Arcobaleno's pacifiers, with the exception of hers and Reborn's.

"You are serious, aren't you, Yuni? You are planning to die?" Byakuran glared at the woman, though inwardly he was looking at her with heavily heart.

Hearing what Byakuran said, everyone widened their eyes, immediately shouting at her to stop. "It's okay, Yuni! You don't have to do it! We can look for another way!" Ietsuna shouted.

Yuni shook her head. "No, this is actually the only way for you all to be able to go back to the past safety" Yuni smiled.

"Princess" A voice called, making everyone turned their attentions towards the source. Yuni slowly turned towards the voice, with a sad smile on her face.

"Gamma.."

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