I Want A Cloudy Sky For My Wedding
Summary: Don Cavallone is getting married and Tsuna and all of his Guardians are invited. Quite a few people are surprised by this, Reborn especially, as he had seen how his former student looked at a certain skylark. However, when the wedding turns out to be more than it seems, will the Cloud unleash an unforgiving torrent? Or will it drift away, never to return, out of reach forever?
The explosion was so sudden that everyone was too stunned to return fire or anything of the sort. In fact, rare few people even ducked in case the explosion could send out flying debris that could be more dangerous than the initial bang itself. Not that it was needed, of course, as the explosion was relatively mild and had happened outside, but the force of it had been enough to throw the church's doors open, heavy mahogany things that they might be, revealing the hellfire outside and a single, terrifying figure soaked in blood that stood at the threshold.
Hibird took flight from Kusakabe's shoulder and circled the church above the smoke, singing a very familiar school anthem in its cute, high pitched voice as it fluttered about before returning to the Vice-Chairman of the Disciplinary Committee, smart enough to realize things were only getting started.
The smoke rushed in and everyone coughed for a long time but by the time they were ready to actually take in what had happened, the Disciplinary Committee had appeared out of whatever corners of the church they had been loitering in and have lined the aisle like a wall. Whether that was to keep the people from interfering or as a way to keep the guests safe was really no question as when everyone finally adjusted to the sudden influx of light and their ears stopped ringing, it became obvious that it was the one and only Hibari Kyoya that stood with his back turned towards the explosion.
There was a very unhappy frown on his face. "Bucking Horse, you owe me a custom made motorcycle."
"Kyoya!?" A delighted, relieved and utterly perplexed Dino called out as he tried to stop what was left of his coughing fit.
"You!?" Lucia growled at the same time, pointing an accusing finger at the teen. "I thought I finally got rid of you! Maria reported that they caught you and left you to that mad scientist's whims!"
"Well, actually, I'm not nearly so suicidal as to incur the wrath of two of my fellow Arcobaleno, especially when I'm already being held at gunpoint, so to speak," another voice said and they all blinked as a small figure hopped down from the satchel Hibari had eventually stuffed him into. With a lab coat, green hair, glasses and a green Pacifier that started shining at the proximity of Lal Mirch and Reborn, Verde huffed at the bride-to-be. "Besides, Fon-clone made me a better offer and is willing and more capable for running my experiments on Box Weapons, so there's very little you can offer me, Signora Tocceli."
"You let a civilian know about Box Weapons?!" Lucia screamed, looking horrified.
Hibari huffed. "I was not a civilian even before I became Vongola Decimo's Guardian of the Cloud Ring. Comes with the territory of being the Storm Arcobaleno's nephew. That's not why we're here, though. Well, at least why I am here for."
"Wait just a sec!" Dino interrupted, looking between the two. "Kyoya, did she seriously kidnap you?"
"Of course not, Bucking Horse. Don't be a herbivore," the prefect said with a sneer. "I found her hideout myself."
"Maria reported that you were captured mere hours after I issued orders to kill you!"
"You'd need an army to actually make me go somewhere where I don't want to," Hibari replied casually. "Sono stanco di giocare a questo gioco con te. Sono annoiato." He smirked when everyone who knew him gawked. Hell, even Verde and Reborn were looking at him with wide eyes and slightly parted mouths. "What? Did you perhaps assume that I speak only Japanese and English? Che sciocco."
"What?" Asked Dino weakly, too stunned to react otherwise. Lucia, on the other hand, was turning white as a sheet.
"You-"
"Heard it all? But of course. It's your own carelessness that got me serious. I would have simply bitten you to death like I usually do to those who break the rules or dare lay their filthy hands on that which is mine, but that wouldn't have been enough punishment for the likes of you." Hibari gestured for Kusakabe and the teen promptly appeared at Romario's side, handing him a thick file with the logo of the Disciplinary Committee printed on the front. "You made it personal. You were unwise enough to invite me into our game. Scacco matto. Your famiglia is no more."
"What did you just say!?" Lucia's bodyguard shouted from up above and they all turned to see him reveal himself from behind a veil of illusions with a sniper rifle in his hands.
"Oh, it was like reading about Daemon Spade's reign of terror all over again," Verde said, adjusting his glasses. "Only with a lot more Cloud Flames and spikes and tonfa. And I got to watch it live instead of reading about it. The research facility was even destroyed on accident. The Tocceli manor ... Well, there's hardly anything left of it."
"You bastard! You're lying!" Lucia screamed, taking out a gun from underneath her dress and shooting at the Cloud Guardian, only Hibari didn't bother to dodge. Instead, lighting quick, he took out a box, lit Flames to his ring and showed it into the box, before something burst out and took the bullet for its master. Roll the hedgehog sent Lucai a cute glare as it puffed up threateningly where it was floating besides Kyoya now, and people were gawking and gaping and trying to interfere, but there was a bunch of civilian teenagers standing in front of them and unless they wanted to end up in Vindicare, they couldn't attack. "You-!? Why do you have one of our Box Weapons!? Why do you know how to use it!?"
"Roll is rather helpful, isn't he?" Hibari commented idly, calmly walking down the aisle. Massimo fired shots at him until he ran out of bullets, but Roll simply multiplied so Hibari was covered from all sides. Lal Mirch soon descended upon the bodyguard and right hand man, taking his weapon and tying him up. The other CEDEF agents got up, too, taking their own guns out and pointing at the other Tocceli men that had just stood up to help their boss. "And it's not that hard. I figured it out after seeing it done once. Everything else that I got curious about, I asked the green fake baby to explain."
"You know my name."
"As do you mine and yet you still refer to me as Fon-clone," the black haired teen replied casually.
"Hibari-san, are you okay?" Tsuna asked as the prefect walked past their row on his way towards where the bride, groom and priest were standing.
"That's irrelevant to the situation at hand," Hibari dismissed, taking another copy of whatever documents Kusakabe had given to Romario from said Vice-Chairman of the DC. "What is relevant is that the Tocceli family is no more."
"You'll be hunted down by Vindice for this, brat!" Hissed Lucia, to Hibari's obvious amusement. Just then, a void-like portal opened and out came the wrapped figures in long coats and tophats that were the Vindice.
"Is this the one, Hibari Kyoya?" On the middle Vindice's shoulder sat what looked like another Arcobaleno, only he was as wrapped up as the rest of his companions. Everyone tried to get as far away from the mummified people as they could, feeling a deep chill in their bones. The priest crossed himself three times and hid behind the cross that had been hanging around his neck, then promptly fainted when that didn't rid the House of God of these unnatural beings.
"Lucia Tucceli, the new Donna of the now destroyed traitor Tucceli famiglia," Hibari began, handing the document over to the Arcobaleno-sized Vindice. "Their dispute with their long-time allies, the Cavallone famiglia, started several years back, when the previous heir boldly dared to traffic drugs on Cavallone controlled territory despite the Cavallone having made it clear they have no interest to allow such practices where their influence can reach. The heir was killed in a shoot out when the Cavallone dismantled the drug rings and Don Tocceli lost his only son and Lucia Tocceli lost her elder brother. Weaker than the famiglia they blamed for their further misfortunes, they started plotting for Don Cavallone's death, waiting for the right moment to strike. Only Don Tocceli recently started succumbing to his age and became bedridden, unable to lead much of the family's business, so his daughter took over, starting by investing most of their family's fortune in Verde's and two other scientists' research on a new Flame-based type of weaponry. Verde might be an Arcobaleno, but the other two were civilians. They were only the first ones she's brought into this business."
Most of the room gasped, as what they were hearing so far was damning enough. Just the involvement of outsiders, of ordinary civilians was enough to garner a place in Vindicare prison. Lucia Tocceli and her remaining men were walking dead. They had broken Omerta. There will be no mercy for them.
"The next stage of their plan was to get a marriage proposal across to Don Cavallone. The plan was to kill him either during the wedding ceremony or just afterwards. They made the mistake of thinking he didn't have a very detailed will regarding what was to happen to his family in case of sudden death. They wanted the Cavallone's power and influence. This would be a broken oath." More gasps sounded throughout the church. Broken oaths of this kind were not taken lightly in the mafia. "Finally, they had planned to, through Cavallone, weaken if not outright attack Vongola. With time and further preparation, yes. They would have to wait for the Box Weapons to be perfected and made in such quantity that their significantly smaller forces could actually stand up to the might of Vongola."
"Only the new Cloud Guardian stepped in and got in the way," Reborn said with a smirk as he jumped on one of the Disciplinary Committee members' shoulder to get a better view. The teen didn't flinch or even look at him. He was in front of his Chairman, after all. To do so would be utmost disrespect.
"To be more precise, Bucking Horse invited me to his wedding, apparently hoping for me to solve his problems for him," Kyoya corrected, cocking his head at the blond in question. "You should have just told me. I would have dealt with this problem a lot sooner for you if you couldn't do it on your own."
"We had no proof," Dino argued weakly. "We couldn't accuse them without proof without making it like we had something against them or that we were starting a feude."
"That's because you're all a bunch of herbivores," the Chairman says as if that explains it all. "It took me and my Disciplinary Committee two days to hack their systems, find all the data we needed as proof, check mafia 'laws' so I know whether or not I can bite them to death without any consequences to me, Fon or the Vongola that I am now unfortunately associated with, you or my Disciplinary Committee, make a plan and go through with it and I lead a group of middle and high school students. Oh, and make a deal with Vindice about a certain prisoner. That's still on, yes?"
"Given you've just gifted me with entertainment that will last me until next year while also helping make our job easier on us, sure. As long as you truly do have a way to seal Rokudo Mukuro's possession powers," the littlest Vindice replied and a clink of chains was all the hint anyone got before a thoroughly confused Mist was dragged in front of the Vindice. And then released. "The drugs will last for another twenty four hours before he can use his Flames freely again."
"I am sure Verde has something to help with that. The probation period is three years?"
"I'll allow two, since you just stopped the biggest, most dangerous operation that has involved enough civilians to earn a lifetime in Vindicare three times over and stopped the distribution of weaponry that could lead to a mass mafia war that could kill even more civilians. Vindice thanks you for your assistance, Hibari Kyoya. We'll be taking the offenders now."
"Not so fast!" Lucia yelled, promptly pointing a gun at Dino's head. "If any of you move, he's dead!"
"Boss!"
"Dino-san!"
"It's over, Lucia," Dino says carefully, not making any sudden movements. "You lost. Just go quietly. If you resist, you'll probably only make it harder on yourself."
"I don't care for your advice, Cavallone!" The woman screamed, sounding a bit unhinged. "My father is dead! My famiglia is gone! And now I'm going to end up in Vindicare. What more do I have to lose? Why should I care?! And it's all because of you and that stupid brat of your's who you're in love with!" The blond actually flinched at that while most people were stuck between confusion and trepidation as to what might happen next. "So if I'm going down, I'm taking you with me!"
"Truly, you're such a pathetic herbivore." That was the only warning they got before a chain with a small mace suddenly sailed through the room, hitting Lucia's gun-holding hand square on and making her drop it in pain. Hibari was on her a second later, a pair of handcuffs coming into his hand from somewhere and he clasped it around the woman's wrist.
"You think this is enough to stop me!?" Screeched Lucia as she reached with her free hand as though to hit the boy over the head with her bouquet of flowers that were now sizzling with green energy.
"Hibari, watch out!" Reborn called out, not realizing that the Cloud Guardian was well aware of the hardening factor of Lightning Flames due to his little 'adventures' over the past few days.
But there was no worry, as the Vongola Cloud Ring flared brighter with Hibari's Cloud Flames, engulfing the cuffs for a moment before the restraint suddenly started propagating. Up Lucia's wrist, around her torso, then her waist, legs, up her neck and then down the length of her previously free arm, completely immobilizing her in but a second. Hibari tugged on the cuff he still held, the chain now considerably longer as he leaned away since his target was caught, and as the chains strained, the cuffs covering Lucia's body tightened, forcing her to release a cry of pain as well as the flowers, now useless as the Lightning Flames faded from them.
"Handcuffs!?" Just about every mafioso in the room gasped, for they knew their history, they knew Vongola's history. Dino's jaw was on the floor as he stared at his student. Hell, all of the present CEDEF's personnel, too. Even Reborn was giving Hibari a considering and maybe even a bit wary look.
Hibari reached out and casually took off the subtle ring off of Lucia's little finger and put it casually into his makeshift satchel. "Stop pretending at being a carnivore, fake-herbivore. Someone like you," he said, leaning in to practically whisper-purr the words to her. "Cannot bite me to death." With that, he flicked his wrist and the woman, trapped as she was, toppled down with a loud banging noise.
The Vindice's Arcobaleno clapped slowly, impressed by the brief show as he was. Then he directed the other bandaged forms to round up the rest of Tocceli men so they can be taken to their new permanent residence.
Hibari frowned down at himself, at all the blood and slight gore covering his person. "I need a new suit."
"It's right here, Chairman," Kusakabe faithfully held out the white piece Hibari had initially chosen.
"Hibari! Are you okay!?" Yamamoto, Gokudera and Ryohei yelled as they ran over to the Cloud Guardian. Chrome went over to Mukuro while Tsuna just followed quietly but quickly after the others to the prefect. "You had us worried for a second there."
"Who do you think you are talking to, Yamamoto Takeshi?"
"Never mind that!" The Storm Guardian interrupted whatever Yamamoto was about to say - and he was going to try and say something, because the baseball player had just opened his mouth. "It's clear you're okay, so let's get to the important bits. Like since when the hell do you speak Italian!?"
"Or use handcuffs," a troubled looking Iemitsu said as he came closer to the group, eyeing his son's Cloud Guardian very warily.
"Or are Flame active, for that matter," Reborn added, jumping to Dino's shoulder since the blond was the closest to the previously missing prefect. Mostly because, so far, he had been the only one to be able to stand up to Hibari's strength, as far as any of them knew, and the teen had just gotten a whole lot stronger, so even that's been put in question. Needless to say, no one was eager to get bitten to death.
"I started learning since that day I bit you to death in the Reception Room," Hibari replied casually. "You said family and Gokudera Hayato is shamelessly Italian and so was the Baby, as it would seem, so I did research and figured out you were with the mafia. I figured learning Italian wouldn't be a bad skill if it meant I could never be left out of any important information that might be passed along in a different language and knowing more languages is useful. By the time Rokudo Mukuro came along, I had a decent dictionary for conversational purposes and my grammar was coming along well enough. Listening to those herbivores and pineapplehead and their other lackeys helped me get down the accent better. By the time Bucking Horse started sparing with me a few months later, I could understand most of the conversations his men had around me in Italian and being exposed further to the language by native speaks mostly got rid of an accent I might have retained."
"You don't have a foreign accent at all," Dino said, running a hand through his hair. "Damn. All that in a little over a year?"
Hibari gave him a deadpan look. "I can discern, figure out or learn a fighting style after seeing it once and correctly analyze a person in a matter of seconds. A communication barrier as simple as the knowledge of a foreign language will not restrain me."
" ... That doesn't even make any sense!" Declared Gokudera, throwing his hands up in frustrated surrender.
"The handcuffs," Iemitsu almost demanded, though he knew better than to demand anything from what appeared to be a true Cloud. That way lay madness, insurmountable pain and unspeakable property damage.
The black haired teen actually frowned. "It was a whim," he admitted, looking down to the handcuffs that had a single, small purple Flame lit at the junction where the chain was attached to the cuff. "I saw them and picked them up."
"If you'd like to keep them, we have our own chains and collars," offered the mummified Arcobaleno as he and the tallest of the Vindice joined their group. The infant-sized one tipped his hat at the future Vongola boss and his Guardians. "My name is Bermuda von Veckenschtein, the holder of the Clear Pacifier, a former Arcobaleno, the strongest of my generation and the founder and leader of Vindice. I must say, it's actually really a pleasure to meet you in person, Hibari Kyoya. I must thank you for the entertainment you've provided. It's rather rare that we get something fun to do or witness every once in a while. Life is too dull in Vindicare prison."
"And that's another thing!" Tsuna realized, staring wide-eyed at Hibari, who simply nodded to his new ... acquaintance without batting an eyelash. "How come you saved Mukuro?! I thought you hated him!"
"I do not care for such herbivorous emotions as 'hate'," Kyoya replied easily, waving him off, even as he nodded to Bermuda that he would like to keep his new weapon of choice, strange as it was. "I saved him from his sentence because I cannot bite him to death if he is rotting in some basement of a prison for the rest of his miserable life."
"That does sound like something you'd do," Tsuna and Dino said with a sweatdrop.
"A true Cloud, indeed," Reborn hummed. "And what about your status as Flame active, Hibari? You can't tell me that you figured it out on your own, right? Or did Verde teach you?"
"I know one Fon, thank you very much," the scientist in question sneered from where Haru had picked him up and was cooing over another of 'Reborn-chan's cute friends' with Nana and Kyoko. "And he was more than Flame active by the time he threatened me with the full might of Vongola, Cavallone and two pissed off Arcobaleno, one of Sun the other of Storm."
"I figured it out the other night, at the club," the Cloud replied easily enough when everyone turned to look at him. He was studying his new handcuffs, apparently still confused and curious himself as to why he would have picked them up at all, let alone kept them. "That fake-herbivore sent assassins to kill me. It wouldn't have been all that alarming in that nightclub, since the bouncers had to take out at least three dozen of my own prey and they didn't even blink. They managed to damage my tonfa, which, by the way, you will be paying for the repairs of." Dino nodded quickly, accepting this easily enough because he didn't really need to be threatened to do anything Kyoya asks of him. "It took me a few minutes to figure out how to fight back and what each of the Flame types did. After that, I simply bit them to death."
"I absolutely love even that dangerous part of you Kyoya, but that's seriously beyond human, you know," the Cavallone boss said as he ran a hand through his hair.
"I guess something good came out of this whole mess," Reborn said nonchalantly. "Though we'll have to get Verde set up in a Vongola lab and start training Tsuna and the others so they might at least marginally catch up with Hibari-"
"Whoever said anything about Verde going to the Vongola?" The Disciplinary Committee Chairman asked with an arched eyebrow. "The Disciplinary Committee is more than capable of providing him with his own secure lab and the funds to continue his research. And since I'm the Vongola Cloud Guardian, Vongola will definitely be the first and only to get the fruits of his work, but I'm not about to leave a power like this in the hands of a bunch of criminals who will probably sell the technology for profit on the black market and probably create circumstances to start a massive mafia war, which will no doubt drag me and mine into it because the little animal has the worst luck and chaos follows you like an obedient dog, Baby. I don't need that, especially not in Namimori."
"That's not up for you to decide," Iemitsu growled, growing annoyed with Hibari enough to try and command him.
Hibari arched an eyebrow. "I think you will find that yes, it is, since Verde has made a contract with me personally and it has been me and my Disciplinary Committee that has just shown up two of the strongest mafia families in Cosa Nostra. And we are teenagers."
"Burn!" Hissed Bermuda in sadistic pleasure and even Reborn was smirking. Hey, he had no allies when someone was getting dissed, he just liked watching people succumb to the chaos!
"I don't care where I go, as long as I can do my research," Verde says, and he truly sounds like he couldn't give a damn. "Though, seeing as there's rarely a Cloud with Hibari Kyoya's purity of Flames and Fiama Voltage, I'm inclined to go with him since he has showed an interest in my research and agreed to help me conduct more Box Weapons experiments."
"That sounds like you're making a deal with the devil," Yamamoto observed with a laugh, but he sharpened instinctively when Hibari threw something at him, catching it like he would a baseball ball. It turned out to be another Box Weapon, blue and looking like water or ice was dripping from each edge of the cube-shaped object. "Wha-"
"Try it out when you figure out how to ignite Flames," Hibari said, taking out more boxes and randomly throwing them to the others. "Also, worry not. Even if this herbivore manages to do something to me, which is highly unlikely, Fon is-"
People screamed as a small form all but barreled through them, knocking some over in the process and an almost impossibly fast red blur all but jumps at Hibari, who seems to be expecting it and turns around to catch the red-dressed Arcobaleno.
"-right here and will probably be sticking to me for the next few months for what I did."
"Damn straight," said the Arcobaleno of the Red Pacifier, glaring at his larger lookalike. "What were you thinking, turning off the transmitter and then giving me bread crumbs all over the place that coincided with places reportedly destroyed by what looks like a force of nature? Is that blood? Is any of that your's? Who did this? And why is the Vindice here?" He paused long enough to nod to Reborn, Lal Mirch - who had already handed over her own captive and had now come down to join in on the Vongola/skylark drama - and half-glared at Verde, whom he was suspicious of being behind the whole mess in some way. "Reborn, Lal, Verde."
"Fon," all three greeted, Pacifiers glowing faintly. "Still faster than the wind and the Pacifier's reaction, huh?"
"Why is my nephew in this state? Both geographically, for that matter, and physically," asked the Storm Arcobaleno with a hard, cold tone of voice, which was actually pretty rare for the usually calm and serene Chinese martial artist.
"Can we catch you up later?" Reborn asked, stealing a glance to where the guests were now becoming restless and displeased. They had come for a grand wedding, after all, not a Vindice arrest.
"We'll be taking that as our cue to go," Bermuda said casually and his subordinates turned around to walk into a wormhole that opened for them to step through. "Feel free to ring us up anytime you feel like it, Hibari Kyoya. You might just make life interesting." And with that, they were gone, leaving Tsuna, Dino, Reborn and company to explain to a very displeased looking Fon just why his precious 'cute little' nephew had gotten involved with such dangerous entities.
"Hey!" Called one of the guests, a middle-status Don, looking a bit pissed. "What are you going to do about this?" He demanded in English so that more people could understand him.
"This ceremony is ruined!"
"You've wasted our time by inviting us to a fake wedding!"
"Way to throw a party, Cavallone!"
"Everyone, please calm down," Dino tried to take control of the situation, but people just kept shouting their displeasure until there was a faint clinking sound that came from a pair of handcuffs. It somehow made shivers run down everyone's spine and they all turned wary,scared eyes to one Hibari Kyoya.
"Do you want to be bitten to death?" He asked in clear English, though his words carried a very real threat. "There was an assassination plot. Unless you want to be brought in as possible accomplices, you will be silent and do as you're told." Some went to protest, most indignant that a teenager was trying to order them around, but Hibari's murderous intent translated to all languages very nicely. It shut them up better than if they were being held at gunpoint. "The wedding is off, but there will be a party to appease your herbivorous needs to socialize and stuff yourselves with overly extravagant foods and alcoholic beverages. You will not disrupt the discipline or you will be bitten to death. Have I made myself clear?" When no one seemed to utter a single protest, he nodded.
"But it was supposed to be a wedding party!" Insisted an old Donna grumpily under her breath, but Hibari had sharp ears and turned to give her a downright evil smirk.
"Someone just needs to be dressed in white, right?"
Dino nearly fainted on the spot.