DISCLAIMER I DO NOT OWN KATEKYO HITMAN REBORN
Natsuki's POV
I whacked the button of my annoying alarm clock finally making it shut up. I rolled over, feeling a presence beside me, I shot my eyes open. Bel slept soundly beside me seemingly not hearing my alarm.
'I guess Bel didn't change much either.' I was no stranger to Bel's lack of personal space. Bel climbing into my bed was a common occurrence. He would crawl into my bed at night as he claimed to crave warmth. I carefully removed myself from the sheets to avoid waking him up. If I did wake him up I know full well that he would be cranky all day.
In a hushed manner I got ready for the rest of my day. Once I closed the door behind me I released my breath. 'Bel needs to become a heavier sleeper.'
As I passed through the halls I could see Sasagawa Ryohei running laps on our course. 'With Sasagawa-san here I'll have to wear my mask more often.' I felt suffocated just thinking about it but I suppose that's why future me went on so many jobs. I opened the door to the training room only to be attacked by a blue flamed shark. I was able to jump out of the way letting the shark crash into the ground. "VOOOOI YOU'RE LATE!"
"Bel snuck into my bed again. Sorry." The shark returned to Squalo's side.
"That bastard of a prince needs to learn about personal space. Never mind that. Do you have your box and ring?" From my pocket, I pulled out the purple box last night and the rose ring I found last night. Squalo nodded and folded his arms over his chest.
"First thing that you need to know about the future is that boxes and rings are the main part of every fight. Rings are used to channel the natural energy inside everyone's body. You have the flames of Rain, Storm, Sun, Mist and Sky. Now unlike most people you are able to harness 5 flames hence why your ring was custom made."
"Is 5 flames rare?"
"Not necessarily. People just tend to have 2 -3 waves of energy but stick to 1 main flame or don't bother to test any other waves. Brats like the bomber kid in Japan and you have 5 flames and use all of them. You were a part of the testing of different flames that allowed to create your own box and ring."
"I created my own box and ring?" 'Future me is so cool.'
"Using Verde's research, of course, but you did contribute to the idea of multiple flames."
'Verde? Last night, all my links to him were cut off. If he helped me with my box and ring, then that means we're still in contact. Why wouldn't he answer any of the links then?'
"The most important thing to remember is that the flames are a part of you. Box animals, in particular, can reflect emotions and personalities of the user. Many people often get killed by their box in a panic. Your box is highly sensitive because of the amount of flames that you put in. Having 5 flames gave it the ability of taking on the properties of each flame but only with your rose ring. Individual ring flames would only allow your box to take on that one flame. For example, if you only insert your sky flames, then it would not be able to have the regenerate healing properties of the sun and so forth. That being said do not use your rose ring on any other box unless you want to break it. Understand?"
I nodded. "Good. Now, future you was a natural at lighting a ring, said that it was no different than her hands and resolve. Can you do the same?"
I held my hand out in front of me, lighting the flames the same way as last night. The ring actually made it easier to channel out my flames without getting exhausted. "Go ahead and open your box then." I inserted my flames in without any hesitation. A ball of 5 flames shot out of the box and landed on the floor.
Once most of the flames died off I found a small white puppy curled up. It stretched out its legs and shook itself awake. It opened its eyes mint eyes, eyeing me carefully. Its ears were filled with flames along with the tip of its tail.
"Cucciolo de CTPSN. You named him Fangs." I kneeled in front of him holding my hand out. Fangs must have been suspicious of me because I technically wasn't his owner. After seeing the flames on my finger, he barked in approval. He padded over to my side rubbing his head against my shin.
I lightly rubbed his head. "I'll be in your care for a while, Fangs."
"One more thing you need to know about Fangs. Powered by both Sun and Mist flames Fangs can change size and shape. You signaled him with the phrase 'attack mode'."
"Fangs, attack mode." I commanded. The mint eyes turned into slits of dark blue. His back started to split down the middle as a dark purple lump pushed its way out. The rest of the skin peeled away leaving a large saber-tooth tiger in its place. Looking closely, I saw that each claw tip he had had a different flame. He let out a loud roar that left me in awe.
"This future is amusing."
I sat in the gazebo in the garden while enjoying some tea that I made for myself. It was nice that with all the fighting in the future that this place still existed. I set my cup down looking down at the new ring that rests on my finger. I lit my five flames marveling at whole they all mixed together.
I sighed feeling someone watching me. Not use to the presence I knew it could only be one person "I can hear you Fran-kun. Please do not approach me like you're going to attack."
I turned to face him. The same as yesterday he still wore that strange frog hat. He stuffed his hands into his jacket coming closer but never stepping onto the platform. He was smart not to do get too close to me. "I thought that I was being pretty discreet. I didn't realize you were a Mist user though."
"I'm not. At least not yet. Mammon trained me in a bit of illusions and magic but Mist flames are still a new concept to me." I awkwardly rubbed the back of my neck avoiding eye contact. He just nodded turning on his heel to leave. "Wait!" I retracted my arm that unconsciously reached out for him.
"If-f you're not b-busy, I could- you can- we-." I took a deep breath calming myself of my nerves. "Would you like to join me, Fran-kun? I have some extra tea."
He stared at me with confusion. I wasn't sure how much he knew about me but given that he didn't about my flames it was clear future me and him didn't speak much. Nonetheless he sat in front of me and poured himself a cup. He didn't say anything the entire that time that I felt like he was not interested in getting know much about me.
"Um Fran-kun?"
"Yes?"
"I um I wanted to apologize to you. Last night I was rude to you and judged you based on Mukuro rather than who you were. I guess it's just kind of weird to think that you're Mammon's replacement. But anyways, I know how it feels to get treated poorly based on appearances rather than personality. I'm not very good around strangers without my murderer mindset but I want to try and along with you."
"I didn't bother me much. My master doesn't have the best reputation." Hearing that he didn't hold anything against me made me release a breath that I didn't know I was holding in.
"That makes me feel a bit better. So if you don't mind me asking, what's with the frog hat?" I pointed to the giant, lumpy frog hat that weighed him down.
"Bel-senpai made me wear it. It symbolizes that I'm the second Mammon." I chuckled.
"That sounds like something Bel would do."
He knocked on the hat. "The stupid prince does nothing but play with his creepy knives. It doesn't make sense how you could date him for so long."
"Date? Oh no, me and Bel are just friends. Everyone in Varia is important to me and that includes you too now."
"You don't know anything about me."
"Then tell me. Something everyone tells me is that I'm pretty stubborn so I'm not going to give up. I don't get along with many people, so please bear with me for now." I raised my cup up to partly cover my warm face.
He sighed. "This place just got a lot louder."
An explosion echoed in the mansion, signaling that Squalo made his entrance. I, on the other hand, preferred a subtler way and entered through the side window.
"How was everyone else?" Asked Squalo through the ear communicator. Everyone gave in their location and a confirmation of entrance. "Good. All that's in here are weak idiots. Hurry up and destroy everything. In the meantime, find the pack leader."
"Roger." I said at the same time as everyone else. I switched off my communicator so that they couldn't hear anything on my side.
"Emergency! Varia has infiltrated! Every member on defense!" The announcement rang through the halls along with a barrage of footsteps. The hall was quickly barricaded with white dressed Millefoire soldiers.
'Meeting point is at the top in 20 minutes so I'll have to be quick.' "Remember my mask as it is the last thing you'll ever see." I threaten.
One member was brave enough to rush forward with his cloud spear. I sighed at his stupidity. I calmed removed my staff and blocked his down strike. I smirked under my mask at the man's gasp. "If you actually want a chance at winning then attack all at once."
With a fluid movement in my wrist I knocked his spear out of his hand, sticking into the ceiling. I acted quickly and used the other end of my staff to push my blade into his Adam's apple. The white clothing turned red as he held his neck and fell to the floor. I pushed the staff further down cutting him a bit more in half.
The rest of his group screamed as they rushed at me. 'Taking advice from the enemy is your death.' I slipped my staff back into its holster. I wouldn't need it anyway against these sorry excuse for assassins. I jumped up to take the spear out if the ceiling. I stepped on 2 people heads and landed in the middle of the group. I dropped to the floor, swinging my leg out, knocking them off their feet. I spun the spear in front of me. 'This is lighter than I expected.'
I flipped backwards and sat on one man's shoulder before twisting his neck in an unfavorable way. I kicked his knife out of his hand and into another's stomach. I jump off the man's shoulder, shoving his corpse onto his group. Using the momentum, I trusted myself at the one in front of me, taking the borrowed spear into their chest. I swiftly pull the head out letting the trail of blood splash onto a few of the surrounding members. With their eye sight being distorted, I zipped in between them, slipping in a few stabs here and there.
As each of them fell, I was able to slip off each of their rings. I gathered all the rings into one hand. 'Seriously? The best they have are B-rings? I don't know what's more depressing, this or the fact that Vongola base was defeated by these losers just a few hours ago.' I slipped on 3 C and 2 B Storm rings onto my right hand.
"Let's end this with a bang, shall we?" I said to the backups that stared to block the hall. I placed my Storm blazed knuckles on the floor letting the flames spread beneath their feet. The floor gave out underneath them, dropping them down a floor. Apparently Millefoire floors weren't the strongest as the second floor collapsed from the weight of rumble and bodies. Only a limb or two stuck out from the debris.
'Millefoire is even lamer than I thought.' I waited a few seconds before giving up. I kicked the borrowed staff at the pile. 'That was no fun. I was hoping at least one of them did the movie scene where a hand shoots out of the rumble. At least I finished early.' I threw the leftover rings down the hole. I had no use for such low class rings.
I made my way to the balcony, meeting point without any more trouble. Before I could reach the entrance I found Lussuria and Bel surrounded by Millefoire soldiers. I used my illusions to fake a vine that strangled one member and threw him at part of the group.
"You guys look pathetic. Letting yourself be surrounded like this." I said as I stabbed one man's chest.
"This all Lussuria's damn fault! If he stuck to his own sector, then they wouldn't have swarmed here." Bel said, slicing down a few more men.
"That's not very cute Bel-chan! My sector was boring so I thought I could help you." Lussuria metal kneed another.
"I didn't need your help!" I rolled my eyes under my mask. Even in times of life or death, they still have time to argue.
"VOOOI FIGHT SERIOUSLY!" I found Squalo and Fran running towards us.
"Ah Squalo-chan, Fran-chan! Even though you say that there's barely any room to move!"
"That's why I told you to go away earlier!" Bel yelled back. Squalo and Fran joined our group and continued to finish off the Millefoire. 'Why are they're so many of them?' Fran stepped to the side, tripping a solider from behind him. The solider stumbled forward onto my staff. I let the blade slide out to pierce the man.
"Good job, Natsuki-senpai." Fran held up his hand to show his gratitude.
"I already told you to call me Haunting Shadows or Shadows on missions." I lightly slapped Fran on the back of his frog hat.
"Ah I forgot." I looked around at all the fallen bodies. 'I wish I could be as laid back as Fran.'
I dug my heel into one of the bodies. "I think that was the last of them for now."
Levi's voice came on the communicator. "I found the commander! Boss! Please respond! Boss! But before that... Someone get me out of here!" I turned down the volume. Apparently Levi has somehow managed to get trapped in the wall, whatever that meant.
"Leave it to Levi to get lost." I said. I sat down on one of the men.
"Ahhh how boring, he got captured so easily." Bel said as he leaned against the wall. I, mentally, agreed with him. Since Levi found the commander, we basically finished our job.
"We already defeated all of the Millefoire members here too. I can't decide if it was good or bad timing, that old geezer." Fran said.
"But it only took 10 minutes. As expected of Varia quality, right?" Lussuria said, trying to look on the bright side.
"10 minutes is too long, trashes." My ears perked at the sound of Xanxus's voice on the communicator. Xanxus often destroyed his ear piece so this goes to show how excited he was about the raid. Though I doubt he'll ever admit it.
"Squalo strategy commander!" A random member shouted out on the communicator.
"Huh?! WHAT?!" Squalo yelled back.
"The forest is flooding with Millefoire members! 4, 500 members are seen!" The member replied.
"Aren't we in a big pinch?" Bel said but judging by his tone he seemed to be enjoying this idea.
"Hear that? What should we do, Boss?" Squalo asked.
"I don't care how many trashes there are. Eliminate them all." I snickered at Xanxus's obvious answer. How could I expect anything more from our battle crazed Boss? We all nodded at each other before making our way to the veranda. From there we could see the multi-colour flames lighting the forest.
"Flashy show they're putting on. Trying to impress us, maybe?" I said as I could feel my adrenaline rising. Bel placed his hand on my head for a second.
"Ushishishi I'm going to enjoy this. I can't wait." Behind us I heard Levi finally making his appearance. He brought up his tiny flag that said, 'I do not approve of the current Vongola Decimo.' I scoffed at him. He'll do anything to impress Xanxus.
I listened in as Varia started to complain about our situation. The most entertaining part being Fran's insults towards Levi. Though Lussuria had to stop Levi before he murdered Fran.
"So what are we going to do now, Squalo strategy commander?" Lussuria asked.
Squalo hummed as he thought. "Levi, Lussuria, and Shadows standby in the castle and wait for my signal. If anything happens, you'll be the backup. I'll guard the entrance on the east. Bel and Fran will cover the south. Take as many minions as you want."
I heard Bel and Fran, wince at the same time as me. "Geh. I have to look over Fran?"
"As if I'd like that. I don't like your type at all. Because I took over Mammon's place, I'm forced to wear this stupid hat. I didn't agree to wear this hat, you know."
"Squalo strategy Commander that Froggy might die during the mission... By my hand, that is." Bel said pointing back at Fran.
"And why am I on standby? I'm not the one who abandoned post or got lost in the walls. Why should I remain here when its way more entertaining to be out there?" I said with disgust. Standby in an empty castle had no appeal. Besides this was my first real fight in the future and I did not want to stuck here of all places.
"EVERYONE SHUT UP! BABY OFFICERS ARE TO LOOK AFTER ROOKIES! AND YOU'VE ONLY BEEN IN THE FUTURE FOR 4 MONTHS SO YOU CAN'T PROPERLY FIGHT YET!"
"I'm no longer a baby officer."/ "4 months is more than enough time to learn." Bel and I said at the same time. Both of us were not happy with the circumstances.
"Bel. Bel." We both looked over to Levi giving strange winks and hand gestures. From what we could read, he was saying 'Go ahead and kill Fran.'
"No way. If I did, then I'll end up teaming up with you. That's worse." I snickered a bit as Levi tried to tackle Bel. Squalo clearly saw Levi's message and kneed him in the stomach. I burst out laughing at Levi's, now, ugly green face. From a safe distance, I poked Levi with my staff.
"We really are a messy squad, physically and mentally." Lussuria said.
"NOW GET GOING! THAT'S AN ORDER!" Squalo yelled at Bel and Fran. They both clicked their tongues at each other. Reluctantly they both jumped off to the south side of the forest. I watched with a slight feeling of jealously.
When we returned to the main lobby, it was already littered with Varia members that were injured. "Luss-nee, Shadows-sama we got a little hurt." I aggressively rubbed my head. 'With only 32 members available it makes it even more difficult to properly attack.'
"Yes, yes now everyone gather 'round." Lussuria clapped his hands. He let his Sun Peacock heal him while a Sun Fangs took care of the less serious injuries. At least watching their hair and nails grow at an exponential rate was amusing enough. We sent Levi out a bit later to check out the North side after an explosion shook the ground. I would have gone but the rest of the members preferred Fangs healing over Kuu's, that they grabbed onto my leg letting Levi go first.
"VOOOI! LUSSURIA! LEVI! SHADOWS! WE GOT A FUNERAL WREATH ON THE SOUTH SIDE! GO BACK UP BEL AND FRAN!"
"I call dibs! Fangs, let's go!" I recalled Fangs back into his box leaving Lussuria with the remaining patients. I effortlessly jumped through the trees on my way to the south side without any problems.
'Something is wrong. Where are all the soldiers?' I perched myself on a branch. 'There's traces on cloud flame all over this place.' I listened to the sounds of muffled gargling in the distance. I followed the cloud traces away from where I was suppose to go. Though I wanted to help Bel and Fran, I couldn't let this mystery go unanswered. I followed the trail over to a group of Millefoire soldiers being sliced up by a grotesque being with cloud covered claws. 'That's a Bloody Twin, isn't it?' I looked closer to find a purple Mare ring on his left hand. 'Lucky! I found a funeral wreath! He's taking out his own members too. That makes it easier for me.'
"Rain check Bel, Fran, you're on your own. I found the Cloud funeral wreath. I'm going to intercept." I whispered into my com. I could hear Squalo yelling at me to wait for backup but I paid no attention.
I jumped down behind the Bloody Twin. I had to quickly flip backwards to avoid a claw to the face. "Didi. Didi." He started to stagger back and forth repeating, "Didi. Didi. Didi." 'If I remember correctly, Didi was the other twin that was killed by Trident Shamal in the Kokuyo incident. Looks like he didn't take it well.'
"Didi!" Jiji immediately changed his pace and came swiping at me. 'He's fast.' I made calculated movements in order to avoid getting cut. He tried to swipe at my head, when I bent down and grabbed his arm. I pulled his arm down, hearing a bone pop as a sign that I successfully pulled his shoulder out of place. I then wrapped his arm around my shoulder and flipped him over. I took a few jumps back to see how he's react. I removed the staff from the holster as I saw Jiji stand back up. His body must have cracked 20 times by the sound of it.
'He's a literal monster.' He came at me once more with his claws. I kept taking steps back until I jumped up a tree. I watched as his claws sliced the tree down. I quickly regained my balance and went to another tree. 'I'm getting nowhere with all this jumping around.'
Jiji stopped chasing after me and sway back and forth. 'This guy is mentally insane.' He let out a high pitched scream throwing his hands, wildly in the air. I held my ears in an attempt to block it out. 'What's going on?'
"DIDI!" Jiji's flames grew in size. He took out a Box from his jacket and jammed his ring in. A large ball of cloud flames came in my direction. I hooked my legs around the branch and hung upside to dodge it.
'A cloud Vulture. Avvoltoio Nuvola. Since Jiji couldn't fly his vulture would. A combination of air and ground coverage.' The vulture turned around, coming at me once again. 'I guess I've got to up my game too.' I let my legs give in and flipped off the branch. I slipped off the Sun ring Lussuria gave me and replaced it with my rose ring. Squalo said I shouldn't expose my Sky flames to people but I wasn't going to let Jiji escape alive.
"Cucciolo de CTPSN. Fangs, attack mode." I doubt that little Fangs could take care of such a large vulture. Fangs let out a roar as he transformed into his saber-tooth tiger form. "Fangs hunt down the box. I got the Bloody Twin."
Fangs followed my order, sinking his claws into the tree to volt himself up. He tried to swipe at the vulture when it started to multiple itself. 'Cloud propagation ability.'
A loud explosion distracted me from Jiji trying to swipe down at me only to get partly stuck in the tree. I took advantage of the distance and tried to stab him. He twisted his body in an unnatural way only letting a graze cut on him. He managed to push his nails further down the wood towards my head, breaking the tree. I held my staff out blocking the attack. I kicked some distance between us, finding that my staff had small scratch marks on it. 'If I didn't position it the way I did, my staff definitely would have snapped. I need to find a way to avoid those pesky nails.'
Squalo's voice came through my ear, demanding to know everyone's position. "I'm a little busy!"
I screamed out. I turned the communicator to mute so that I could focus solely on Jiji. I looked around at Fangs switching between attacking copies and trying to avoid its beak attacks. He had multiple cuts on his legs that indicated that they were too much for him.
"Fangs! Switch dance partners!" I swung up on a branch while Fangs went to the ground. The vulture did the same trick of surrounding me with copies.
'Remember Cloud copies could only do so much. The original should have the most power.' I kept twisting and turning away with the footwork Lussuria helped me practice to dodge the ten vultures that didn't give any breaks between attacks. With a little help from my Vongola intuition I found that had the highest concentration of flames.
As the last one came to me I released a shield of Sky Flames from my palm, pushing the vulture back. I launched forward slicing the copies that tried to block the original and stabbed its left wing. With a hole in its wing, it started to plummet out of the sky. Using the flames from my ring I forced myself to fall at the same speed. I stabbed the space between its body and its wing. With a slight push sideways, the blade pushed the wing off. It let out one finally cry before returning to its box.
'One done. Another to go.' I went over to Fangs who was better at long range attacks then me. See while Jiji covered sky and ground, Fangs and I took long range and close combat. Fangs let out a roar filled with Storm flames that allowed him to attack Jiji without touch his nails. Jiji movements became more sluggish, letting Fangs easily access biting and scratching. "Didi... Didi..." Jiji said in between breathes.
'Weakness found.' I closed my eyes as I covered myself in an illusion as Didi. Jiji stopped all movements once he took in my appearance. He held up his shaking hands, dragging himself towards me. I didn't speak but merely held my arms out for him. Having Jiji come closer to me sent a shiver down my spine. Jiji finally reached me and wrapped his arms around me. I could hear light distorted, sobs coming from him.
I took the twisted blade of my staff and stabbed it into the side of his throat. I twisted it further in until I heard his vulgar sufferings quiet down. I removed his ring before tossing him aside. A cruel way to trick my enemy, yes, but he shouldn't have been so easy to fool. At least I let him die in the hands of his beloved brother.
I crouched down and patted Fangs. I noticed that the cuts on his legs were already starting to heal from his Sun flames. "We need to work on your dodging skills." Unlike me, Fangs was a bigger target for the vulture to attack, especially with the little room he got.
At the same time an explosion of Sky flames lit the sky. "Xanxus-sama really went all out this time. I wish I could have seen the loser's face when he obliterated them."
I held out Fangs' box signaling for him to return. I went back to the, now in shambles, Millefoire castle. As I made my way across the rubble, I heard Squalo talking to Xanxus. "That's because the other guys are more useless than I thought."
"Are you talking about us?" I heard Bel and Fran say together. I jumped onto the pile in front of me.
"Isn't that a fact? Letting the enemies get through so easily." Squalo said back to them.
"About that. That's because Bel-senpai is weaker than his brother." Brother? I thought he died?
"I'm the stronger one." Bel threw a few knives into Fran's hat.
"What're you doing?" Asked Fran.
"I'd like to point out." I grabbed everyone's attention as I made my way down the rocks. "That the person you put on standby was the only one that proved any actual help." I tossed the Cloud Mare ring at Squalo that he swiftly caught.
"And I'd like to point out that you only got to see the Funeral wrath because you went after. If I put you on the North side, you would have missed the Funeral Wreath leaving Levi to intercept."
I made my way to Squalo, poking him in the chest. "I have to disagree. See unlike Levi I can actually handle myself. So I could have defended the North side then made my way to Jiji, easy."
"Is that so? Take off your mask and say that." Squalo took a step forward having both of our selves pushing ourselves onto each other. He was a head taller than me but I was not going to back down.
Without losing eye contact, I removed my mask. With the same amount of confidence, I told him, "Without a doubt. I mean it's not like you were much help either."
"If you think you're such a big shot, why not fight me right here?"
"You think you're up to it? Little Squ-chan must be tired after working so hard." I said in a baby like tone. This only got him angrier. Even though Squalo and I got along, we still had our differences at times. You did not survive in Varia by being full of flowers and smiles.
He scoffed at me and rolled his eyes. "I'd like to see you try and last a second against me."
"Funny, I was going to say the same thing." We both pushed each other off one another. Squalo readied his sword while I held my staff in front of me. I could hear Fran monotony cheer me on in the background. "Get him, Natsuki-senpai." I took a step back, grounding my right foot.
"Boss... Boss." We lowered our weapons once we saw a badly damaged Levi wobble his way towards us.
"Oh my Levi. You're all tattered and torn, aren't you?" Asked Lussuria, running in between us towards the injured Levi. Squalo and I both puffed at each other before putting our weapons away. We both seemed to lose our ambitions after seeing Levi acting so lame. Besides, I knew that I would have lost to Squalo in any condition.
I watched as Kuu healed Levi's injuries. Out of all of the healings that Kuu did today, Levi's was definitely the funniest.
"The operation's finished, right, Boss? All that's left to clean up the small fry. Should I tell the kids in Japan how it went?" My attention was drawn over to Squalo's one sided conversation with Xanxus. According to the plan, the Vongola kids were to invade the Melon base in Japan and capture Irie Shoichi at the same time as us.
"Oy Squalo-sama, patch me through to Sawada-san." I put back on my mask and turned on the communicator. Squalo seemed confused at first but realized what my goal was. I could hear the mechanic on the other side complain about a possible bug in the transmission but we really couldn't care less.
"Irie Shoichi, second commander of the Millefoire and acting commander of the Melon base. Is he there?" I asked. The rest of Varia remained quiet behind me.
"Y-yes." I heard a voice say.
"Time travel. It's obvious that you somehow were able to perfect it. I want to know how."
"You're Haunting Shadows, yes? Unfortunately, I can't give away that kind of information to you. It's highly sensitive and I can't risk any time-space problems." I scoffed at his accusations. If he didn't want any problems with time-space, then he shouldn't have brought people to the future in the first place.
"Let me rephrase myself. Tell me how you plan to send me back to my timeline."
"What do you mean?" His voice change from being meek to a more commanding voice. If I was a civilian I probably would have shivered in fear.
"4 months ago, I witness a suspicious, the younger version of you target Yamamoto Takeshi on Nami Chuu's baseball field. I planned to push him away from the ten year bazooka, only to land myself in the future."
"Now that you mention it, it did feel like someone pushed me when I came to the future." Yamamoto's voice came in the background indicating that I was on a speaker.
"So Haunting Shadows must have been the anomaly I saw in the readings of Yamamoto-san's arrival." There was a break of silence. "I understand; I can send you back to the past but the situation is a bit complicated on this side. I would prefer to speak to you in person."
I looked over to Squalo who gave me a nod of approval. Xanxus on the other hand did not care. "Understood." I cut line off.
"Trash, while you're there they are not to find about your father." Xanxus demanded.
"I wouldn't dream of it. I do not need Reborn or Sawada-san to go blabbing their way at my sorry excuse for a father." The last thing I needed was for the Kuudaime to find out that I was still alive and have him take me away from Varia. Though I made amends with the Celeste Familiga, I felt nothing for the stranger that is my father.
"Fran, lend me a Mist ring." Fran fumbled a bit in his pocket before tossing me a Varia Mist ring. I put it on, releasing a Mist centered Fangs.
"What are you doing, Nat-chan?" Lussuria asked. I gathered up puppy form, Fangs into my arms.
"Heading to Japan. Mammon taught me a simple transport spell that I could use. I found that in this era Mist flames are very compatible with magic so to make sure I don't land in the ocean or exhausted myself to death, I'll used a little boost from the rings." I placed my hand on Fran's shoulder. "With a little help from you."
"I've never tried teleportation before, unless the conscious counts." Fran said. He must have been referring to Mukuro's wandering mind.
"Just follow my lead. Light your Hell ring." With one arm I held Fangs close to my chest and with my other arm I wrapped it around Fran's shoulders, letting my head touch his head. He followed my instruction and lit his 666 Hell ring. From what I knew, Hell rings were more powerful than any other Mist ring because of the price to pay.
"Clear your mind. Breathe deeply and I'll do the rest. Just remember the sensation of flight." I whispered softly. I saw his eyes close shut, watching him breathe slow, steady breathes. 'This must have been what Mammon felt like when he was teaching me.' I followed in suit, closing my eyes.
'The Melon base in Namimori was an underground base in a part of the shopping district. Sawada Tsunayoshi has the strongest presence there so I'll follow his lead.' I concentrated solely on the familiar Sky flames of Vongola blood. I felt Fran's warmth disappear, feeling my body extremely light. When the weight came back, I opened my eyes to find myself in a concrete wall based, open space with the young Vongola and a few extra people. Fangs returned to his box, probably in exhaustion. I, too, felt light headed and unstable.
"Haunting Shadows of Varia. So tell me more about your story, Irie Shoichi."
A/N: So in the raid section is from the drama CD: Varia, 10 minutes in darkness. The copy that I found was also in Japanese without subtitles so I had to self translate most of Varia's conversations. I won't lay out the script like I did with Bel's scene in chapter 5 because its about 16 minutes long and for the most part everyone fought by themselves so there's no use in translating everything for this chapter. Just thought you should know that most of the things that Varia said in this chapter is in correlation to the Drama CD and the episode. (Yes, Levi did get stuck in the walls.)