Destination Unknown.
A fan fiction by Aoi Kitsukawa
Disclaimer: Katekyou Hitman Reborn belongs to Amano Akira and its related companies; I only borrow the characters in the manga/ anime. Please enjoy reading it!
Summary: He left. Framed with a crime he never did, he believes nobody would ever forgive and remember him so he left the family. Little did he know that everyone had been tracing his footsteps ever since he was gone...
Author's Note: A day after I post the story, suddenly my emails got lots of story's alerts, favs and reviews! Thank you so much everyone for liking, alerting or reviewing my story! I really appreciate them!
To Hina: Ahaha…I guess you just wait for the future chapters, sorry.
Princesslolitatheorca654: Thank you.
Belle'Masque: The family feeling that you mention in your review, it doesn't mean that it has to be making in the next chapter. It will be showing in that future chapters so please wait for it, thank you. Awww, I can't stop but remembering Yuki and Ame when Hana's cleaning and repairing their new home. So sweet!
Mona: Your review is the most grateful thing I ever received! Thank you so much dear! It actually got me shock and it's been more than five years since I received such review from readers (and on first chapter too!)! For you to say that my story is more reasonable made me speechless…and I also agree with you. I always saw the reason of the tragic stories always with the same unintentional killing, but it's the first time I found out that the other reason is because of feeling bored or lost interest.
Destination 2: Where did he go?
'People only realize the existence of others after they disappear from their sight…'
A strange feeling came across him that morning.
Dino blinked for a while as he was driven into the patio that reaching towards the main building. Lots of people were rushing in and out of the place, looked very pale and panic, even among them were people from CEDEF and some of them were from Varia. The 10th boss of the Cavallone Family made his way to the Vongola Mansion immediately after he received a call from his former tutor Reborn this morning, asking him to come to the mansion. Dino did not know what exactly happened at the HQ, but judging from his voice, he knew his tutor was furious, but at the same time, impatient.
Something was not right that morning.
He could feel it.
But what?
Ever since the last incident that happened last month, he was always aware of the sudden change of his surrounding. He could feel something was wrong but he couldn't identify what had caused him to feel that way. He felt nervous right now, because his former tutor Reborn, finally arrived at the Vongola Mansion this morning after spending almost two months at work field, working together with CEDEF in investigating a certain mafia family that involved with human and child-slave trafficking in New York. The said tutor, now in adult form, had received the information regarding 'that' incident and obviously, he was pissed off. He threatened Dino that if he did not come to the mansion, he will personally hunt him down.
Dino knew that he shouldn't take what Reborn said easily.
As he stepped out from the car and walked away with Romario, he saw a group of men in black suit was preparing their guns with communicators at their ears. What kind of trouble did this family involve? Aside from what had happened, nothing serious happened, except that not long after that Tsuna had collapsed and admitted to the hospital; that was what he remembered after being told by Tsuna's PA.
He realized that he couldn't see Tsuna or any of his Guardians. No, he did see Gokudera who was talking to his small squad, giving orders with serious and a bit…impatient, to the said squad. Not far from him was Sasagawa Ryohei, who was approached by one of his men and whispered something to him. At least he saw some of the Guardians.
But he couldn't see Tsuna at all.
Was he late?
But that person was never late.
Still, it was bothering him since there was no sign of his present. He looked at Romario, who shot a question glance at him. He just shrugged his shoulders, did not know where he was.
After waiting for some time, felt so restless and uncomfortable, Dino request to the maid who was in the same room as him (currently at the meeting room) to meet Reborn. The said man was actually was about to open the door when the maid opened it before he could grasp the door knob. The maid was shock to see the adult before bowing to him, apologized as she did not know Reborn was there. Reborn just shook his head and let the maid left the room, after she left a tray of tea set and some biscuits for the guests.
"Reborn…" Dino said nervously, as he saw the said man was indeed, intimidated.
"What exactly happened, Dame-Dino?"
"Eh?"
BANG!
"Don't pretend that you don't know! You understand what exactly I'm asking you, don't you?" The hitman shot his former student as he glared angrily at the blonde man in front of him. "Or do you want me to make a hole on your brain so that you can finally grasp what I'm talking about?"
"Wa-wait up, Reborn! At least let me explain this to you!" And don't shoot me again!
"It depends on your answers, Dame-Sino," Reborn was about to shoot his former student again when suddenly, the door of the meeting room was opened and revealed the Six Guardians.
"Reborn-san!" Said Gokudera. "When did you arrive here, Reborn-san?"
"This morning," Said the adult. "That's right. Where's Dame-Tsuna? I need to speak to him regarding 'that matter'."
Everyone went sifted and nervous as Tsuna's name was mentioned. Nevertheless, Yamamoto said, "He's still in his room I guess, since we never saw him this morning…"
"You guess..?" Asked Reborn, suspiciously. Yamamoto just shrugged before he decided to take the hitman to the east wing of the mansion, where Tsuna's room was located. As they reaching the room, Reborn couldn't help but feel that the Guardians were hiding something from him, especially when it comes to Tsuna's matter. Reborn decided that after his meeting with Tsuna, he would asks the Guardians and will shoot them if they refused to answer.
However, as they reached the building and went to his room, there were no replies inside the room.
It was silent.
Felt curious, the blonde tried to open the door, only to find out it was unlock. Dino looked at Gokudera who nodded his head, and proceed to open the door.
What they saw after that was a rather shocking one.
Inside the spacious and luxurious room, besides the furniture and books, nothing was left.
It was empty.
The clothes, the belongings, all of them were gone!
And Tsuna too!
Where did he go?
Why everything is empty?
"Tsuna's gone?"
"What is happening here?" Asked Dino as he turned around facing his former tutor and the Guardians. "Reborn! Everyone!"
"We don't know…" Gokudera's shaking voice slowly heard in the room. "All of us, for some reason, fell asleep without even realize it…"
"And what do you mean by that?" Reborn said with stern, a bit pissed off with the reason he heard.
"Not just us," Yamamoto stepped in, causing everyone looked at him. "Not only us, the guards, the maids, the servants, everyone! We all fell asleep at the same time and none of us realized it! Until some of the CEDEF members came in, they found out that all of us on the floor fell asleep!"
"Are you sure it was not done by the enemies?" Asked Reborn, looked angrier.
"If the enemies were the one who done this to us, there should be traces of them interfering the ground zero. However, according to CEDEF, none of us were injured when they found us, and everyone was alive without even small injuries inflicted on us," Ryohei explained, causing Reborn to narrow his eyes.
'How could it be that possible?' He thought as he frowned.
As the home tutor and Guardians were talking to each other, Dino went inside and saw the suit that was hang on the wall. Dino knew that it was Tsuna's favourite one since he always wore it on many occasions. He grabbed the clothes; the suit smell nice and was ironed by the maid, means that he never wore it yesterday. He looked around and his eyes fell on the desk.
He saw nothing but a letter.
Dino went to the desk and pick up the letter. He stared wide eyes, and looked over his shoulders to see the Guardians before he looked at what was written on the front letter. There was some writing on it, obviously Tsuna's handwriting. However, it didn't refer to anyone; only one statement that had caused turmoil appeared inside the adults' body.
I'm sorry…
"Satisfy now?" A woman's voice made everyone in the room turned around in defense, only to realize two adults were leaning against the door.
Both of them wore an anger expression, which they concluded the anger was due to the reason of their missing sky. And it was towards them, the people who claimed to be Sawada Tsunayoshi's friends and family. The male leaned against the doorframe; hands inside his pocket suit while the woman folded her arms against her chest, with one of the legs leaned against the door.
"After leaving him alone for a month, now you're going to realize his existence in this world? What a shame. You people should just quit from your position and kill yourself!"Said the woman who glared at them angrily.
"What did you say, Katagiri Suzume!? You're just Juudaime's PA, nothing more!" Growled Gokudera as he was about to pull out his dynamite. Yamamoto and Ryohei quickly grabbed the said man from destroying the mansion.
"And these PAs are the one who stay by his side when he was in stress and during his hospitalization! Where exactly you people when he need you the most?" Barked Katagiri Suzume, shocking again the Guardians and Dino.
Reborn just tipped his fedora down, hiding his eyes from the view. He knew what the woman said were true. Although Reborn just found out about the problem last week due to his long, dangerous mission, he felt responsible for not being able to be at his student's side, to ask him what happened.
"And you still have guts to call him Juudaime after what had happen, Gokudera Hayato," Said Katagiri Arashi, Suzume's younger brother. "Aren't you distrusting him so much when 'that incident' happened?" Gokudera flinched when he heard that.
"Not even his father, or his friends at his side! None of you were with him, because all of you are too busy to believe to the stranger rather than your OWN BOSS AND YOU OWN FRIEND!" Barked Arashi furiously, this time.
"And how do you know that he's not the one who did it? He's the only one in the room with the victim!" Cried Lambo, before he quickly hid behind Ryohei when he realized that Suzume was getting angrier than before.
"Oh? Just like that? Don't compare me with your brain, ahou-shi! Unlike a spoil brat like you, I can think better than you are!"
"Really nee-san? You're emotionally mad right now," Said Hibari Kyouya who leaned against the wall. Both he and the Katagiri siblings were cousins.
"SHUT YOUR MOUTH HIBARI KYOUYA! I EVEN HAVEN'T FINISHED UP WITH YOU YET!" Hibari flinched when he heard Suzume's raising voice. He knew better that his cousin was actually a very, very high-temper than him.
It was a miracle she still has not beaten or killed anyone right now.
"Now that Decimo is missing, I want you people to tell everyone in the family as well as our top-alliances, including Nono, to keep this matter secret from the other mafias," She said as a 'click' was heard inside the room. Everyone's eyes landed on the Colt. Python .357, which was in Suzume's grip.
Wha-what the..?!
"And I'm a woman with my words. If any of you ever told anyone about this, I'll shot you straight to your brain without any failure! I'm not joking, because before this, I am a part of Keishichou (2) and associated with CIA and INTERPOOL! Do that, you'll die!" Everyone minus Arashi, Hibari and Reborn stared with shock, as they never thought that a former police officer was actually working with a mafia family –in Vongola, to be specific.
"So what are you going to do?" Asked Reborn as he tipped his fedora down. He somehow felt that he could trust her and Arashi in handling the Vongola while the main boss disappeared. "Are you going to do all the things in Tsuna's place?"
"Just like usual, Reborn-san," She said as she put back her gun back to its case. "However, Nono need to be in charge for approval or anything that required a boss' signature. If anyone within this family asks about this, just tell them Tusna-kun isn't in condition to work for a while."
"Easy to say than to do it…" Lambo grumbled until this time, Reborn shot him at his head side, causing the teen ran behind Yamamoto this time, "Just do it, stupid cow!"
Everyone nodded gloomily, and was about to leave the room when they heard Dino said, "Where's…the Sky Ring?"
"Huh?" Everyone was staring at him, confused and numb, not quite understood what he was talking about. Dino was holding the tore up letter in his hand, and his face paled.
"The ring –I mean the Vongola Sky Ring! In this letter, Tsuna said he left it on this letter! So where's the ring?" Everyone was shock to hear Dino's words and quickly glanced with each other, before scattered to search for the ring in the room.
"I don't see the ring here," Said Yamamoto who searched at the closet.
"Same here," Said Ryohei.
"Same here too," Said Chrome.
"Not in the drawers too!" Claimed Suzume, who was with Gokudera searching for the ring at the desk.
Everyone stared to each other, looked horrified as they finally realized what it mean was.
"Could it be…someone stole the ring?" Said Lambo as his face paled. While the Vongola Sky Ring needed only the true bloodline of Vongola to succeed the ring, it was also a part of Tri-Ni-Sette, and was among the valuable rings in the world. Losing it would means that they would loose something historical, which not even money could replace it.
"We don't have much time. Dino and the Guardians will come with me to inform Nono about the missing ring, and after that we'll go search for it," Said Reborn as he pulled out his gun and pulled the safety lock. Seriously, he really needed to shoot someone if not because of the situation that required him to suspend it. Not to mention the incident which involved his former student, and now he had to search for the missing ring and Tsuna too.
"What about us?"Asked Arashi.
"I think you two better stay here. Aside from Tsuna, you two are the only people I can rely to manage the administration in this mansion. And Suzume, don't hesitate to shoot them if they refuse to take your order, understand that?"
"Roger that!" She said with happiness gleamed from her face. Shockingly, Hibari was the first person to leave the room, not because of his hate for crowd, but he left due to the fact that knowing Suzume's sadistic smile, he knew better to leave before she turned into her SM (3) mode!
At first, they were puzzled with his sudden action, not until they left the mansion and Hibari told them the reason why, that all of them shuddered in fear (including Mukuro minus Reborn). All of them somehow felt extremely relief that they had left the mansion before the sadistic Suzume released her mode.
They don't want to think what will happen if they left the scene later than now.
Unknown to them, after the siblings left the room after the Guardians (Suzume let out her hysterical chuckle 'mahahahaha' that even Arashi wished to join the Guardians), Suzume took out her right hand, which previously inside her pocket coat. Held out the fist, she slowly opened it and revealed the item inside her hand.
"Are you sure to do this, nee-san?" Asked Arashi as both siblings walked out from the east wing of the mansion. None of the maids, servants or guards walked at the pathway where they were now, since all of them were busy with cores and roles.
"Better than do nothing," She said as she glanced at the window. The light of the sky seemed dim, not cheerful like usual. Perhaps, the sky was mourning for the lost of the family's sky too. "I really pissed off with that treacherous bitch! She's the one who destroy everything!"
"Including Sasagawa Kyouko-san's relationship with Tsunayoshi-kun…" Said Arashi, trailed off.
"I know from very beginning that this bitch is a sly fox! She's trying to seduce Tsuna-kun by using any means, but the last thing I ever thought that is she's using this dirty trick!" Suzume kicked the door of an empty room hard until it was crack. "At least he's escaping right now…"
"What are you going to do with that?" Arashi pointed the item in Suzume's hand. "Minami and Higashi are already there, waiting for your orders."
"I'm going to investigate that incident, before, during and after the incident, the people who got involved, and which family she belongs to," Suzume pulled out her flipped phone and opened it, dialing some numbers. "And I want you to go back to Japan after those two leave."
"Ah..! That's right, our nephew…" Suzume nodded as she stared at her phone.
"Nee-san, are you sure you don't want to tell them that actually, you're the one who keep it?" Arashi asked as his sister looked up from her phone.
Suzume smirked as she flipped her phone, "Naah, no way hell I would tell them! I don't think that lion cub wants to be separate from his master. It's better to leave him with Tsuna."
She handed the item into Arashi's hand, "Make sure you gave this to those two, and told them to pass it to Tsuna. I'll tell more later on."
Arashi nodded his head as Suzume slowly walked away, already mumbling about paperwork and anything else. 'Just like Tsunayoshi-kun..!' He thought as he looked at the item in his hand, before clinched it tightly.
It was the Vongola Gear –Sky Ring Version X.
HINTS OR EXPLANATIONS:
1) Colt Python .357 –It is a .357 Magnum caliber revolver formerly manufactured by Colt's Manufacturing Company of Hartford, Connecticut. It is sometimes referred to as a "Combat Magnum". It was first introduced in 1955, the same year as Smith & Wesson's M29 .44 Magnum. It is believed that the Python was the finest production revolver ever made.
(2) The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department (警視庁 Keishichō) serves as the police force for the entire Tokyo metropolis. Founded in 1874, it is head by a superintendent general, who is appointed by the National Public Safety Commission and was approved by the prime minister. The Metropolitan Police, with a staff of more than 40,000 police officers and over 2,500 civilian personnel, manages 101 stations in the prefecture. It is the largest urban police force in the world. The number of inhabitants per police officer amounts to 290:1.
The main building of the Keishicho is located in the Kasumigaseki part of central Tokyo. Built in 1980, it is 18 stories tall, a large wedge-shaped building with a cylindrical tower; it is easily seen from the street and a well-known landmark. Suzume once worked in this place, however for some unknown reason she left the police force.
(3) SM –It is mean 'Sadistic-Masochist'. In Japan, SM means 'Sado-Maso', and usually it has something to do with exclusive nightclubs or brothels that offering wild sex service. It's either the customer or the worker who wants to do the SM activity.
Chapter 2 has done. I will be posting the next chapter probably in mean times, not too sure about this. I'm honestly say that this chapter is the hardest one to finish, since it's about time the Family realized the missing Tsuna, and adult Reborn who finally came home on the same day. Also, their fracas among themselves…it's really hard to make it.
Did you saw two familiar OCs in this story? Yes, the Katagiri siblings, which appeared in my previous work –Between Curse and Hope. It's my habit to use the same OCs if I'm making my stories in the same fandom, however it also depends on necessity to use it again or not. I'm not sure if I would use the other OCs but…unless they not appeared yet in Curse and Hope, they'll not appear in this story.
I'm actually rushing to finish this chapter because currently, my house was under renovation. My mother wanted to have plaster ceiling to all over the room, which include mine as well. So I need to pack my things and shoved them into bags or closets or whatever it takes! Geez, why now? My sanctuary is getting invaded!
Please read and review. –Aoi Kitsukawa.
