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!
Author's Note: Hello to my dear readers and Happy (Belated) New Year wishing! Not long after the last chapter I was struck with writer's blue (does this statement exist!?), which something I always had right after posting a critical or climax story. Even when making this chapter, I fell ill not long after that and need some times to heal myself, delaying the story's progress.
I never thought to get such replies from my readers (although I know my dear readers would definitely have this kind of reactions…) but it's really make me soo happy! Some readers cried and wanted me to not kill Tsuna, but as a masodist as myself, I'll decide what will I do to Tsuna then, MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA~!
This chapter will be focusing on Suzume's investigation in Italy on the 10th day of Tsuna's disappearing. On the same day in Namimori, nothing happened in the Sawada Household, except that Tsuna was sleeping the whole day (as mentioned by Suzaku in real Chapter 08).
Animaddict: Hello honey, I just saw your review AFTER I post my latest chapter! Sorry I didn't even realize that time!
Regarding the pairings, sometimes I felt that Amano-sensei had created the female characters suitable for their respective partners. Somehow, I think that she might be creating Kyoko just for Tsuna only, while Haru seems to be like a 'universal partner' she could be with anyone else, but mostly she seems very suitable with Gokudera. The second after Gokudera is Hibari Kyouya; I always wonder why they choose Hibari as her partner since she's a bit loud and too much to handle (for me). I even saw the weird one –her and Xanxus! I mean…seriously!?
Aside from Mukuro, Hibari is always chosen as Chrome's partner. Just like Haru, I'm seriously don't understand why many fans choose them together. Was it because of Chrome's shy and timid personality makes her suitable with Hibari's 'do-not-disturb-me-or-I'll-bite-you-to-death' attitude? Or because of the Future Arc where Hibari and Chrome help with each other? For me, based on her situation, she loves only Mukuro and no one else…
Geez, this is all your fault! Hoho, just kidding, but your assumptions really made me step back and started to rearrange the whole plot! Also, after posting the latest chapter, I realized that the next chapter, the scenes are way too fast so I decided to change it…!
Well, I have to say that not only you, it seems like many of the KHR fandom readers ARE MASOCHIST! I just check this one story (I forgot the title, sorry) and read the first chapter. Just one chapter and the followers were 100s! Abandon-type story again, yeah…makes me wonder if all of us are masochist…
Wow, thanks! I hope this chapter can delight your interest too!
Xeyuwe20: Yeah, really a sad chapter… By the way you're the first reviewer, congratulations!
Haze: Thank you very much for your reviews dear, really make my day!
Hehehe, actually when I made the meeting scene, I just remembered that Ryohei really was away from the spotlight so I decided to put some of his scenes into the said part. I bet even after 10 years, Ryohei had gone mature but still had some innocent in himself. For me, Ryohei is a very kind and honest man so hearing such things as hidden prostitution really hit his nerves. At the same time, Suzume was actually happy that Ryohei is such an honest person…
I decided to put the warning because I know, not all people can deal with such tense scene. It's a lie to say that I'm not affected while writing it down.…
Don't worry, you just need to be patience. What will happen to Tsuna, please read and wait for it.
Urara S. H: Thank you for the review my dear. OK, OK, so this is your next chapter, and please be patience.
Sheizla.28: Thank you for reviewing this story! Wow, never thought the last chapter had trigged your interest.
You are happy with what had happened to Tsuna? …Seriously, I don't know what to say… -_-
Firehedgehog: duh duh duh?
Meangirl028: I'm glad that you love this story, and yes, you're welcome.
Kai: Haha, you're very welcome Kai. Hope you enjoy reading this special chapter.
Morgan: Will Tsuna survive? Sorry can't tell you. You need to read this story if you want to know the rest.
Uh oh…you're hitting the bull eyes! I won't reveal who's the stalker until the further chapters, and about the mission with Hibari? Don't worry, you'll get it in mean time. Hehehe…!
ManamiYuki: Said goodbye to the schoolwork and keep on reading this story! Hahaha, just kidding!
I'm glad that you like this story. To be honest with you, I never thought that many people would like this story since I made it more on crime-investigation genre; a bit against the norm isn't it? I hope you will keep on reading this story, thank you.
Mona: No, no dear, don't worry about the dropped follower. I even knew it was not you in the first place so please; don't be so sad about it. It's OK about the PM, you can send it anytime to me. Just don't forget to mention from who, or otherwise I'll be sitting in the dark, wondering from whom.
You're the only person that I found out wanted to see how the OCs look like. I already draw them but unfortunately, for the time being, I was unable to post it on either my DA or Tumblr account. My Tumblr only got the photo from different angle, and I was half inking the picture. I'll post the link once I'm done with everything.
Making a suicide scene is not my preferable, especially when it was done in graphic way. I know not all people prefer to deal with something sensitive like suicide; however, it doesn't mean that we just ignore it at all. For me, it was something that even Tsuna would dare to do, because under circumstances he faced right now, he just thought that it was the easiest way to solve everything. I'm not that evil to kill any characters just like that, even if its my OCs.
You too, hit the bull eyes! Yeah, a bit spoiler here: there is some connection between the stalker and what had happened right now. Hoho, please wait for this scene OK? XD
I understand what my readers feel; I had this many times when I wrote my Kyou Kara Maoh's story. Unfortunately, I had to put the said story on hiatus due to lost interest, but I won't put it for adoption; I already had planned everything from A to Z. So it was not a surprise if I found some exaggerate reactions because I also did that many times in the past so don't worry about it. Just write down what you feel and I'm happy to read it.
Summary: He left. Framed with a crime he never did, he believes nobody would never 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...
WARNING: This chapter contains graphic scene. If any of you are not good dealing with sensitive issues, I suggest you don't read this chapter until everything is done. You have been warned.
Previous Chapter: Andy and the group was shock to find out that Tsuna was trying to commit suicide and immediately rushed to Namimori General Hospital. At the same time, Tsuna's first PA Suzume was flying to Rome and started her mission on investigation of the illegal prostitution activities as well as to search for the mysteriously 'unreachable' Vongola members of Rome Branch…
Destination 9: Ambiguous
"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it."
- Samuel Johnson
-Autumn, Several kilometers from Rome, Italy; Day 9th of Tsuna's disappearing-
"Hmm…"
The sounds of someone were walking echoed throughout the area. "As we expected, the base is almost…"
Annihilated…!
Katagiri Suzume walked along the silent ground; the continuous sound of the heels hitting the ground resounded through the dark, empty space of the abandon base. The night was dark with the presence of a new moon, as it disabling any form of light to enter through the shattered windows. There was no source of illumination in the area; however, by using a special device in a form of visor, connected with a small device on her right ear, Suzume was able to look through the darkness. Even so, without the special visor, Suzume herself still can see through the darkness.
There was the dim light coming from the entrance she had come through, although the said entrance was half crumpled. Probably it was done during the sudden raid that happened in the base. She could see some broken electronic devices; hanging or sitting by the edge of a relatively large pile of broken wall. Some old, dusty boxes that took up most of the space on the left, corner most part of the base can be see from where Suzume was standing. Several seemingly tangled wires that pooled around the computer before wounding its way towards a much smaller room was located at the back of the base, which the small room was indeed the main source of the computer's energy.
"What a mess. I guess from what I see here means that this base was under attack without any of the members knew any of it," She said as she pulled down her black cap. She was grateful that her coat's wide collar and cap managed to hide her face.
Suzume once again had changed her appearance. Her previous appearance; long, wavy brown hair, with some makeup on her face, expensive blouse and long silhouette skirt with black stiletto, Suzume once again ditched the disguise and wore her true appearance, only with different clothes. With black cap, white coat embroidered with black lines and button and black turtleneck dress down to her shins, she did look like a woman with nobility. Since she originally was on undercover mission, she entered the city of Rome under the name of Sharon Knowles. After she left the airport and reached somewhere in Rome, she immediately changed back as Katagiri Suzume. When she reached the said base, she brought along her luggage as well.
Despite the cold night in Italy, Suzume casually made a stroll towards the Vongola Rome base all by herself. She however, was accompanied by Hibird of XXth Generation (unknown generation, although it is actually one of the Hibirds that Hibari had after the Arcobaleno Arc 10 years ago), which she called as Hi-chan (still taking the 'Hi' from Hibird).
Attached on Hi-chan's right leg was a small communication and camera device install by Spanner and Kusakabe as a method of contacting Suzume. Being a former superintendent herself, Suzume had left her usual phone under the care of Reborn and brought another one to Rome. It was common for her who previously went for undercover missions many times that she left behind her usual phone and replaced by another. It also to avoid being tracked by the enemies that she left her phone, but accepted the option of having Hi-chan with her and had a communicator attached on the small bird. It can be contact by either Vongola or The Foundation (Hibari's), but Suzume also added CEDEF and the A & R room connector without anyone in the family knew about, except people who were related with the curse matter (1).
Pulling out a small torch light from her handbag, Suzume enlarged the torch so that she could see the base more clearly.
The Vongola Rome Branch was located not far from the city of Rome. The base was well hidden in one of the warehouses in the said area and the warehouses were already abandoned. The one whole warehouse was used as the base, with only 20 people stationed in the base. The head of the Rome Branch was Paulo Rubardo, and during the last contact they had, Paulo was the one who sending the reports regarding the illegal prostitution activities.
Suzume walked back to her luggage and grabbed one of the plastic bags she placed near the luggage. She pulled out a candle and a box of matches, lit it up and placed on the desk near the damage wall. She could see the upper floors seemed to her, that the floors suffered the same consequences, and decided to go to the first floor. The first floor was covered with half walls and barely sees, unlike the second floor, which was fully covered. As she looked at the area, she realized the upper floor was less chaotic than the ground floor. She also went to the last floor and the said floor was even less messy than the other two, almost untouchable.
"Strange," She thought, as she stepped down to the first floor. "There are 20 people here in the base, and not all of them are in the ground floor. The second floor is bedrooms, first floor is more like a longue with kitchen and the ground floor is the main operation room…"
"How come this and the above floors are not that mess unlike the ground one?" She said as she bent down on the dusty couch that was less damage than the one she saw on the main floor. As she sat on the couch, her eyes landed onto the damage inflicted on the wall near the kitchen sink. She narrowed her eyes as she saw the sign that seemly look like a hole made by a giant mallet, "Unless…that damage is done by something that very un-Mafia-like ways…"
Viiing! Viing!
"A phone. A phone," Said Hi-chan as she (?) flew around Suzume's head. Suzume pulled out her phone that she put in silence and looked at it before answering the call.
"It's Andy," She said as she looked at Hi-chan. "Can you please look around at the outside, Hi-chan? Call me if you see anything."
"Roger! Roger!" Hi-chan said as she flew away.
Tit!
"Yo Andy! Anything to share?"
"Ahaha, sharp as ever!" Said Andy who was on the other line. "Remember about the family thing you ask me about?"
"You mean, the Amare Family? What do you got?"
"Don't be surprise…"
-Autumn, October 1st, Andou Clinic, Namimori, Japan; Day 10th of Tsuna's disappearing-
The smell of the coffee in the morning was enough to make him stay awake despite his lack of sleeps.
Andy was scrolling the information he was looking for, clicking and typing while listening to the conversation between him and Suzume, who is currently in Rome at nighttime. Japan that located at the eastern side of the world received the sun earlier than Europe (thus explaining the different day between those two). He grabbed the newly printed-paper and placed on his desk.
"It's not a newly found family!?"
"That's right. Apparently, despite the Amare family was officially appear six months ago, originally this family was formed 10 years ago; sometime in summer," Said Andy as he looked at the paper in his hand. "Because this family is not a well-known group, generally the information is not that much to know, but the boss is a lady."
"A Donna of the family?" Asked Suzume. "Well, despite me working with Tsuna for two years, the only family that I know with a 'Lady boss' is the Giglio Nero Family."
"Two years are short time you know," Said Andy as he kept on typing and clicking. "I need to hack the system, but as far as I have right now, the boss' name is Francesca Fridorithy, in middle 30s. She's a woman with beautiful blue eyes and dark auburn hair."
"Wow, she's must be a true beauty. Wait, you have the photo?"
"It was in the family's system but it's a photo when she was a young teenager," Said Andy as a matter of fact. "The Amare Famiglia originally from the northern Italy but about four years ago, the family moved away and settle somewhere in the Apennine Mountains," Leaned against the chair, Andy sighed while pushing his glasses. "Their exact location is unknown, since this mountain surrounding from Rome down to the southern part of Italy."
"If you want to hide, hide it in the forest," Claimed Suzume. "How about the members? Any flame-users? The captains? Arms?"
"I'm still searching for it so it might take time, but for the members, it seems like they only had 300 people. It's a small group after all."
"Small or not, 300 are a large number," Said Suzume as she walked near the computer room. "Do you think you can send the other information to me?"
"I just need to know where you are. By the way, in softcopy or hardcopy?"
"Send the softcopy first directly to my visor," She said. "Currently I'm a few kilometers away from Rome."
"Oh? So you're finally at the base?"
"Yeah, but as expected, there were traces of ambush attack everywhere but not under the circumstance of Mafia…"
Andy stopped typing as he heard Suzume's words. He narrowed his eyes as he slowly caught up the meaning of her words. "You mean…"
"Probably the works of "those traitors" since I see few bullet marks on the first floor, and the bedrooms only had trace of struggle rather than gunshots or self-defense," Suzume sighed. "Besides, I saw a mark of something strong but light that hitting the wall and blew half of it. No burning mark, no shape of human hands…who else would do such attack?"
"The enemies did destroying the base, right?" Andy started his typing while talking to Suzume.
"I believe that's what they intend to do," She said as she stepped down while taking her things down to the ground floor.
"Eh?"
"Looks like whoever was sent here, tried to cover up the attack by making it as Mafia fights. The things are that they wanted to erase something from the computer, and the easiest way to do is…blow up the computer!"
"That's what we called as laziness..!"
"If I repair the mother computer, do you think you can search whatever they had stored inside the computer?"
"Make sure the net is still OK and the computer didn't damage too much!" Suzume opened the small room where the wires went and saw the computer was indeed, looked damage almost everywhere. "Great, looks like they managed to blow it…hey?"
"What?" Suzume touched the computer with her hand, only to find out that it was empty air. When Suzume realized what was in front of her, she stepped forward and went through the computer. What she saw was definitely make her smirked in victory.
"Well, well Andy, looks like we've got the Goddess of Fortune at our side," Said Suzume as she turned around. "I forgot that Paulo is a Mist Flame-user."
"Oh! So he created a false computer and hid the real one deep inside!?" Cried Andy happily.
"Yeah, I guess they enemies really wanted to destroy whatever Paulo and the others had searched. But Paulo had realized their intention so before they managed to destroy it, Paulo created a false one and let it be destroyed. Paulo is an A-Rank Ring User so I don't think the enemies can easily detected his illusion. However, I don't know why they wanted to kidnap everyone in the base."
"Since the illusions still available, I believe that Paulo and the others are still alive!" Said Andy as he kept on typing.
"I also believe in that matter too, but we need to track them fast. Two weeks have passed since the last time they had contact the Vongola HQ and anything can befall on them!" Suzume walked out from the room and make sure it was closed.
"Could it be that they saw what kind of faces the enemies were?"
"Well, I…!" Suzume suddenly alerted with something as she turned around. Andy stopped his typing and waited for her to continue their conversation.
"Sorry Andy, something's coming up!" From the tone he heard, Andy knew that Suzume was facing some trouble. "Last one; how's Tsuna right now?"
"…Asleep the whole day, but let me tell you this."
"What is it?"
"After what had happened, Tsuna-kun is not in very stable emotions, and you should remember what I told you before right? He spills the bean, and having a full breakdown."
"…"
"…"
"But, he's still asleep right? Nothing bad happened to him?"
"Aah…"
"…"
"…"
"Sorry about that…" Running footsteps could be heard in the line. Andy sighed as he closed his eyes in understanding.
"Don't blame yourself; you actually did a great job protecting him from the people who harm him, you know…"
"I couldn't protect him now…"
"Then let me and the others do it in your place. We'll try our best to help Tsunayoshi-kun, alright?"
"…OK."
"Well, something's coming up. I'll contact you later Andy," Said Suzume as she walked out from the warehouse. She looked around and saw something moving not far away from the other blocks.
"Be safe, Suzume."
"Will do."
Tit.
Andy ended his conversation with Suzume before he leaned against the chair and stretched his stiff body. After making a few quick movements, Andy steadied himself and started his investigation again.
"But seriously, the information about the Amare family is not that much compare to any other families in the Mafia world…" He mumbled as he grabbed his mug to take a sip of his coffee. "Is it true that this is a newly found family? If it's true, then why suddenly make attacks on the Vongola Guardians in German? The new families usually won't do such movement since they still small in numbers and not yet having enough alliances with other families. And in an obvious place? I remember Suzume really 'bite them to death' because the bills are more than 300,000 Euro…"
Andy shivered as he imagined the said woman chasing after the Guardians with any kinds of weapon she could grab to punish those Guardians. No need for him to go to Italy to see how she do it; he already witnessed many times on how Suzume became berserk or chasing after delinquents during their school time. Quickly shook his head, Andy drank the rest of his coffee while making a mental note of making another one, when he accidentally typed the Amare name wrong.
"GAH! I'm not doing this way! Urgh~! The search is multiple…" He complained while looking at the results. As he expected, results like 'Amore' (love), 'Love Story in Paris', even the word 'Marzipan' came on the search!
"Geez! I was searching for the mafia family not cake recipes…huh?" His gaze stopped at one word that appeared on the screen, which was something he never thought would cross over the search.
' Amaro Famiglia'
"Amaro?" He quietly asked himself as he clicked on the said search. After a few minutes, the page finally showed multiple results through one word, shocking the doctor very much.
"Thi-this is…!? Great, this might be helpful to me!"
"…!"
"…!"
"Hurry! Hurry! Over there! Over there!"
Suzume ran as fast as she could, leaving behind her things at the warehouse area. It is better than leaving them at the base where strangers would come and realized it was the Vongola Base. In front of her was Hi-chan, whom she sent to outside for patrol. Both of them went towards the woods not far from the base, which made Suzume had to run and jump despite wearing heels. The ground was really following the geographical landscape, but it added thrill to Suzume. It had been so long since she managed to run and jump in the air; something she really missed ever since she started working with Tsuna two years ago.
"…!"
"..Stop!"
The cries were louder than before, and she could hear the words 'stop' from the direction she was going. She was lucky that she was running through thick bushes and leaves, because her running footsteps seemed to be covered by the said plants. After reaching her destination, Suzume quickly pulled out her visor and wore it, before sneaked behind one of the trees in the woods. Since it was midnight, the area was surrounding in darkness, but thanks to her special visor, she managed to see what exactly happened behind the trees and bushes.
"Let go of me, you perverted Mafioso!"
Huh? Did she hear it right?
Suzume touched her visor, tried to make her vision became clearer within the dark. She saw several men in suits; probably black, were struggling with some…people in white robe?
A young girl, not more than 16, was being capture with one of the people in white robe. She was trying her best to release herself but failed.
"Ouch! Let go of me you freak! Let go of my men as well!" She cried while being pulled away from the crowd.
"Ella-san!" Cried one of the suit men. "Missy! Urgh, let go of me you bastard!"
"Leon! Help me!" Suzume startled as she heard the name.
'Leon? Why does it sound familiar?'
"Kuso!" Leon cursed, finally able to release himself after punching the man who struggle him. He quickly pulled out his gun but, as fast as he pulled it out, he got a kick from other side making him released the gun by force.
The man named Leon fell down and stepped by one of the men in white robe. The gun however, was thrown away and fell just at the tree and bushes where Suzume was hiding. Suzume narrowed her eyes as she slowly reached the gun and took it before anyone realized that she was there. She eyed the gun and realized it was the Austria-made gun, Glock.
She smirked while looking at her surrounding. Her right hand grabbed something long but hard before started to position herself, but stay still to listen the conversation in front of her. She gestured Hi-chan to come to her, and whispered something to the small bird. The bird nodded its head before flew away from the scene.
"Give up. You're no match against us the Vongola," Said the man who pinned down Leon. The statement had enough to make Suzume's blood boil that almost reaching 100 Celsius!
"Let go of her, you bastards! Don't you touch the daughter of the Bonfilio Family!" Shouted one of the men who were finally, got caught up by the enemies.
"Hahaha! I won't give damn to you! We're about to search for a sacrifice and she's the perfect one that we need!"
"Wha-what's sacrifice? You people are nothing but psycho! LET GO OF ME!" Cried Ella as she tried to kick the man who was laughing. He looked at Ella upside down, before came to her side and grabbed her shirt.
"Even though you're a daughter of a Mafioso, surely you're a pure virgin right?" He said as suddenly, he ripped her shirt and tore it apart.
Ella's scream echoed throughout the woods, and the men who saw the incident tried to fight back, but were beaten up. Ella cried while the man who tore up her shirt laughed as much as he could, before he looked at the poor girl with lust filling his eyes.
The man behind Ella let go of her, but not before tying her hands tightly. The laughing man, appeared to be the leader of the group, pulled her to him before shoved her to the nearest tree. He licked her neck, earning whimper from her, "Ehehe…just from your reaction, you never had any sex before right?" His right hand grabbed her face, stared straight to her eyes while his other hand roamed over her exposed torso. "Don't worry, you'll have it right now, AHAHAHAHA!"
"NO! NO STOP! PLEASE!" Ella cried as she struggled to get free. "LEON! LEON! HELP ME!"
"ELLA-SAN!"
"He's noisy, shoot him already!" Grumbled the leader as he gave signal to one of the men. The said man quickly pulled out his gun and was about to pull the trigger…
BANG! BANG!
…Only to find out that his chest had two holes on it soaked with red before he fell down and died.
The incident had caused everyone on alerted and started to gather their weapons, when a dark silhouette appeared behind the bushes, "My, my, what a bad guy you are…"
Everyone realized that it was a voice of adult woman; however, her appearance was hidden by the dark night and shadow. "Not only you're faking yourself as Vongola, but trying to take advantage on the hopeless girl and enjoy yourself while your subordinates only allow killing these men? You're pathetic!"
"Who's there?" Another two men went forward, tried to attack the dark silhouette. Both of them were smacked on their faces, and immediately fell down with bleeding nose. For a while, everything was silent as everyone was too shock with the sudden assault.
A chorus went up among the men as they managed to regain back themselves. "Triple? Get her!"
They came at Suzume in a rush, guns pointed out. Suzume's smile only widened. It was probably going to be necessary to eliminate the other enemies before she could fully concentrate on Ella and her supposedly called men, anyway; they were just making it much more convenient by attacking her at once.
The first man from her right side to reach Suzume tried to pull his trigger so it can shoot straight through Suzume's heart, but Suzume spun to the ground and smashed the man's shins with the stick she picked up out of nowhere. The speed was so fast that none of them could detect when she had arrived at the said man. The man's momentum flipped him up and over the crouching enemies, and he crashed headlong into the bushes behind Suzume. He was already twitching in pain before he fell to the ground, unable to move. Everyone was sure that all of him or her had heard cracking sound right before the man landed onto the ground.
From her crouched position, Suzume dove to meet the next two attackers. One of the enemies was about to take out on her immediately when he realized that her left hand was pointed right onto his face. He tried to step back, but her actions were too fast than before he knew it, his head was already had a hole between his eyes.
He fell onto the ground, no longer alive.
The same stick smashed the second man who tried to attack her ended up with his face, breaking his nose and lost consciousness. Suzume swirled around playfully; her face had the arrogant smirk, yet giving everyone in the same area a sudden chill down their spine.
"Kekeke…six down more to go!" She said as she aimed the gun to the rest of the men in white robe.
Although the men in white robe were very advantage the number of their members, they were still surprised at how fast their new enemy moved. As Suzume leapt back, the men thought that she might be tried to run away or at least, tried to steady herself when she suddenly did a back-jump. Then the next thing they knew, she shot them three times through different angles, successfully hitting the rest of the guns. She then moved forward with speed that impossible to see, and gave each of the men nice punches and kicks at their guts. All of them fell down, unable to move.
The leader who tried to molest Ella was so shock that he forgot the girl next to him. He roared and jolted forward, pulling out something shining like a long knife from his robe. Most of the suit men gasped in surprised and worried if their savior (since they did not know who the woman is) got hurt by the said knife. The leader swung his long knife as he ran as fast as he could. He knew the said woman was unable to step back since a large tree was behind her and the only way to escape either was to jump at her side or went forward. He already knew the possibilities, so he prepared another knife on his left hand. He believed by the time he swung his long knife to the woman, she would tried her best to avoid the fatal blow before he would throw his second knife onto any spots of her body. The second knife contained a poison that will be inflected onto the victim at the moment the sharp blade made its contact with living skin.
"NO!" Cried Ella while the last man swung his long knife, confidently he can kill her.
What he never expected that the said woman suddenly disappeared into thin air as he swung his long knife, and hit nothing in the end.
"That's pathetic, you know," He looked up and realized she was already jump onto the air, above his head, before her body bent back and with high speed, slamming something very hard on his right shoulder.
Crack sound was heard and the last man fell onto his knees, before screaming in pain. Suzume elegantly fell down the earth and stood not far from Ella. Gun pointed at the head level while her left hand held the same stick she used to beat up the men in robe, the one who claimed were the Vongola.
"For someone who claimed from the Vongola, you're very weak," She said as she pulled the hammer behind. "Now spill the beans before I make sure you're not good enough to see the sun next day!"
He gritted his teeth in anger and pain, before he spoke, "You bitch…who the hell you are?" Something glowed in the dark that gained Suzume's attention, before she realized it came from his forehead.
"NOBODY COULD AVOID MY ATTACK LIKE THAT AND EVEN IF THERE IS ANYONE, ONLY THE PEOPLE OF GUARDIANS COULD DO IT!" He screamed loudly, before his body shone suddenly, shocking Suzume and the others.
She could swear that she saw a symbol was glowing on his forehead, but the symbol was cross in horizontal way.
"EVERYONE! RETREAT!" As on cue, all the men in white robe minus the death suddenly glowing and disappeared, one by one, shocking Suzume who never expected this would come.
"TEME! WHO THE HELL ARE YOU, YOU BASTARD!" She screamed angrily as she ran and shot the glowing people. "COME BACK HERE!"
Still, they managed to run away.
Suzume glared at the dark sky, felt so angry with herself. From the moment she heard the enemy's remark, she knew the things she was dealing was no longer related only to the Mafia World. Now everything will become more complicated; she felt like she wanted to beat someone to release her anger right now!
"A help! A help!" Suzume startled from her world as she realized Hi-chan was flying around the suit men, cried for help. "Emergency! Emergency!"
"Oh crap, I totally forgot!" She said as she ran to the group. "Are you guys alright?"
"Yeah…somehow…cough!" Said the man named Leon, before coughed painfully. "How's Ella-san?"
Suzume pulled out her white coat and quickly untied the poor girl before she covered her with her coat. Suzume lit up her torch light and placed it upward, so that everyone could see each other. Suzume then checked on the said girl since, from the conversation she had heard, was someone respectable in the family.
"Aside from torn shirt, bruise wrists and pale face, nothing wrong." She said before turning back to Ella. "Can you stand up, dear?"
Ella lookd scared, as she slowly backward. At first Suzume was clueless why she was acting like that, until Leon suddenly appeared and shoved Ella to his back that she finally understood what had happened.
"Don't touch her!" He said, tried to protect Ella.
Suzume just shrugged as she kneeled down, "Well, just because I already shot those guys it doesn't mean that I'm going to kill you. What's the point?"
"Then…who are you?" Leon was shock to see her already at his side and patted Ella's head.
"I'm just a tourist who got lost, that's all."
"Eh?" Suzume then grabbed Ella's hands, much to her shock before slowly lifted her up.
"How's everyone?" She asked while holding Ella's hands. She could feel that she slowly snuggled to Suzume; for protection or for comfort, she did not know. Perhaps, for both, after what she had went through that night…
"We…we're fine…" Said one of the men.
"Here as well…"
Suzume looked up and saw Hi-chan flew lower to her and landed safely on her head, chirping, "I'm here. I'm here."
"My master, searching for me. I'm here."
Vein popped up onto Suzume's head as she shouted angrily at the said bird. "WHY YOU LITTLE BIRDIE! WHERE THE HELL DID YOU GO!?"
Everyone was shock to hear her sudden outburst, including Leon and Ella. When Ella looked at the source of the outburst, she realized that it was a small, fluffy round bird with beak look like duck. "Uwaaah~! It's a very cute bird!"
"Cute enough to send me here," Said Suzume as she glared the bird angrily. Hi-chan flew quickly to Ella's side and landed on her shoulder, said: "Scary! Scary! Master is Scary!"
"Ahahaha, he's so cute! What's his name…ano…"
"Sharon Knowles, and that girl is Hi-chan," Said Suzume calmly.
"It's a girl!?" Asked Ella as she looked at Hi-chan with disbelieves. "But…but…how did you know? I mean…it's really a 'maru' (2) bird, right?"
"Ah, about that," Suzume said as she made sure that everyone was on their feet and started to leave the ground, leaving behind the corpses. "My cousin gave me not long ago as a souvenir. I thought that it was weird, it cam mimicked our speaking and even can sing (just Namimori-chu anthem song! –cried Suzume in her head), so I asked him if this bird is a parrot. And you know what did he say to me?"
"What is it?" Asked Ella, curiously.
"He said that: Her name is Hi-chan, daughter of Hibird species. Not a parrot or not a duck either!" Suzume said as she mimicked her cousin's words. The entire group minus Suzume and Leon found it very funny.
"What!? Just like that?"
"I really wish that I could kick his ass for that," She said annoyingly. "By the way young lady…"
"What are you doing here in the middle of the night in the middle out the woods?"
Suzume's question made Ella stopped her walk, as well as the other men as well. She slowly looked up and saw that Suzume was looking at her with cold eyes (she had removed her visor after the enemies escape) as well as an unspoken authority that not allowed her or any of her men to speak a lie.
Ella slowly shaken, felt extremely afraid with the said woman. Suzume saw Leon was about to open his mouth, when suddenly a flash of bright light appeared on them, followed by shouts near the outside woods.
"Ella! Leon! Everyone! Are you alright?" A silhouette of man slowly appeared behind the light, before a man with dark auburn and blue eyes revealed himself.
"Avan-Onii-chan!" Cried Ella as she ran and hugged the man whom she called as Avan.
"Young Master!" Cried the men behind Suzume and went to the said man. Slowly, the lights turned off and revealed several black limos were parked just outside the woods and not far from the Vongola Base.
Suzume narrowed her eyes; somehow, she has a feeling that something important will be revealed to her tonight, but she did not know what exactly that 'something' was. She saw Ella who cried in her brother's arms and looked at him, as if she was trying to say something. The said brother looked shock and turned his face to look at Suzume, before walking to the said woman in hurry, followed by Ella and Leon.
"I heard from my sister that you're the one who saved her and our men's lives!" He said as he grabbed her hand and shook it. "Thank you! Thank you very much for saving them, especially my younger sister! She ran away from our home and we don't have any idea where she had gone!"
"SHE'S WHAT!?" Shouted Suzume, shocked.
"Onii-chan!"
Suzume glared at the young girl, and almost started her 'motherly lecturer' when something hit her. "That's right; may I know who you are? You come here with all these people…"
"Oh, that's right," Said Avan as he bowed a little. "My name is Avan Bonfilio, a son from Bonfilio Family. I want to thank you very much for saving Ella and my men. If not because of your help, we probably found them too late!"
'Ei? Bonfilio? A MAFIA!?' Cried Suzume mentally as she realized what exactly she had encountered. 'Wait a second! Isn't that the Bonfilio Family one of the families that against the Vongola?'
"A-Avan…Bonfilio? My, what an interesting name…" Suzume smiled nervously as she tried to calm herself. "My name is Sharon Knowles, a former bodyguard…"
"Really? That's explaining your cool action Sharon-san!" Cried Ella happily, as she tugged her brother's sleeve. "Onii-chan, can we let her stay at our house? She's lost and had nowhere to go…!"
"Really Ella?" Avan said as he looked at Suzume happily. "Well of course she can! By the way, is that luggage belongs to you? It's a great pleasure to have such a savior as our guest!"
"Eh?" Suzume could only stare dumbstruck as she watched these people escorting her to one of the limos, along with her luggage.
"WHAT THE HELL I DO THIS TIME!?" Suzume cried mentally, as she was carried away by the expensive-looking limo.
-Autumn, October 1, Andou Clinic, Namimori, Japan; Day 10th of Tsuna's disappearing-
RIING! RIIIING! RIIING! RIIIIING!
"Hello, this is Andy, currently not at home. Please leave you messages after the tone…"
BIP!
"…"
"ANDY YOU SLOWPOKE! WAKE UP OR I'LL DESTROY YOUR FRONT DOOR RIGHT NOOOWW~!"
"WAAAAAHHH!"
DEBUK!
"IT HURTS!"
Andy's eyes immediately shot open before he started looking around, trying to look for the voice that was yelling at him. He winced in pain as he finally realized that he fell asleep on the bed in his study room (he put one in there if he needs to work late night), and somehow he managed to get himself fell from the said bed. It was near afternoon, however due to his thick, dark curtains (because he usually work very late at night and not a morning person either) he barely see his surroundings, and the light from the screen of his computer was the only thing that lit the whole place up.
He blinks. Computer? He then realizes he was sitting on the floor. He must be accidentally asleep while checking this 'something'. However, he remembered something and quickly grabbed his phone, which he put next to his pillow.
Andy you slowpoke! Finally wake up huh?
I've call you many times but you never pick it up. So I know that you are not sleeping the whole night again, right? Did you go search for something?
Never mind that, I just want to tell you that Tsuna-san is still asleep, but so far nothing wrong happens. If you want to do your regular check-up, please inform us before coming here. We might prepare something for you.
-Seiryuu
A large vein popped up on his head after he read the message. 'So it's that damn brat that yelling to me this morning!' He thought angrily as he slowly stood up.
He makes a small yawn before looking at the screen 'Oh yeah, I was trying to hack the Gaspella Famiglia's top-secret files. From what I found last night, it is one of the few families that swore allies to the Amare Famiglia.'
He suddenly typed some complicating codes to the computer, 'I hope they won't notice it…After I'm done with this family, I need to hack on the Cavallone Famiglia for information. I just need some information on "that" Family…'
Andy paused for a while as he looked at the papers he printed out and were neatly place on the long desk. Good thing he already put it into its respective type of information or otherwise his brain will exploded!
He looked at the paper, which he was holding right now. It was a paper regarding the accidentally founded family he had done while searching for the Amare Famiglia. For some reason, Andy felt like it was sound familiar to him…
'This Amaro Family sounds somewhat familiar…did someone has mention this name to me?' Andy typed another code, grabbed the mouse before clicking something, and then continuing to type in full speed, before finally pressing 'ENTER'.
He wiped his glasses while watching a loading bar to appear…
1%-2%-3%
He looked at the other paper, which was lying innocently on his left side. So far, the information regarding the Amare family only consist of the numbers of the member, the photo of the young Donna and her name as 'Francesca Fridorithy'.
27%-28%-29%-30%
Andy knew he had to search more, especially since Suzume finally made her own movement by undergoing her very first mission after two years in the Vongola. If Suzume had decided to make such decision, he knew that something wrong must had happened that led his friend to act on her own.
Especially since "that" incident, four years ago…
80% -99%-100%- CODE ACCEPTED.
Andy sighed in relief before scanning through the files of some Families that the Gaspella Family had collected. He then typed 'Amare Family' in the search bar and pressed ENTER. He watched it load before the said Family's file appeared.
He clicks on it.
The Amare Famiglia is a newly rising family that actually was founded 10 years ago. Originally, from the Northern Italy, this family had moved their main HQ somewhere in the Apennine Mountains. The exact location of the family is unknown, even the closest allies of this family did not know where they are. If they need to meet with the others, they will send a messenger and arranged a schedule.
"So the location is still unknown huh," Said Andy as he scrolled down.
The family's whole capability is not known generally. So far, the family consists of 300 members; at least 2 hackers or IT specialists, 3 assassins and 10 snipers were detected in the family. Almost all of them are the Dying Will Flame-users, with the exception of having the Sky Flame-user. The hackers are good in hacking especially on machines or computer, and their methods of operation usually in guerilla attacks or shooting from far and hidden distance. However, it was done in secrecy and only got detected 5 years ago. Their first public attack was on September xx, which the target was the Vongola Decimo's Guardians.
"Aah…I remember this one. It's the attack that leads Suzume into her berserk mode due to the bills…" Said Andy as his sweat dropped. "Good at hacking machines… likes assassinating from far distance where they cannot be seen…heh, coward."
The boss, Francesca Fridorithy, of the Amare Family, is the first boss of the family. It was rumoured that she is a very beautiful yet intelligent woman that took the mantel as the head of the Amare Family (the founder). She is skillful in guns and had a record of able to shoot by using shotgun with a single hand, six times non-stop. However, despite she is not as strong as any other bosses in the Underworld are, she is supported by a group of strong people who swear their loyalties to Donna Amare.
She had no relatives from both of her parents' side, and it was confirm that the Donna's parents passed away when she was 17, victims of airplane crush. The father, Damian Fridorithy was an ordinary businessman while the mother Fiona, was a full-time housewife. Donna Francesca once had a brother named Benjamin but died due to leukemia. She is the only child in the family.
It is unknown whether she was married or not, however it was rumored that she already had a son. The father is unknown, but some people said that the child is actually a love child of Donna Amare and a supposedly heir to a certain Mafia Family. Her son's name was believed to be "Rico".
By the time of this report was made, the Amare Family was in process of recruiting Glo Xinia as well as Genkishi who was formerly from the Giglio Nero Family.
"Glo Xinia and Genkishi?" Andy was shocked a he stared at the screen. He quickly typed the keyboard, trying to search for something. "If I remember correctly, that bastard Xinia is the one who attacked Chrome Dokuro a few years back right(3)!?"
After he found what he wanted, he quickly printed all the information and saving the rest into softcopy, before sending them to Suzume. He glanced at the clock and realized it was already lunch.
"Damn, one after another. I hope today no patients arrive…!" He grumbled as he grabbed a towel and walked into the bathroom.
Unfortunately, his wish was not granted.
-Autumn, October, Vongola Mansion, Sicily, Italy; Day 10th of Tsuna's disappearing-
Yamamoto yawned as he slowly walked to the kitchen. Ever since Tsuna was missing, nobody in the family, including Nono and his Guardians would come and sit to eat together in the dining room. Although after the Salkind Incident happened, at least Tsuna was seeing eating at the said room, sometimes joined by Nono's Guardians minus Coyote (whom had to take care of Nono who actually sick that time) alongside with his PA. The room was usually silent despite there were people eating there. Yamamoto and the rest of the Guardians went for missions so they rarely managed to eat together.
Yamamoto stopped walking. Remembering Tsuna brought painful memories to him, especially when it was related to the incident that changed their lives forever.
It made his heart ached so much when he remembered the painful and horrified-looking face that Tsuna had that time. When he and Gokudera received a call from someone who claimed had seen the missing young Decimo somewhere in Sicily; how he and Gokudera were shock to find out that the others had arrived, including Dino and Romario of Cavallone Family, Iemitsu and Basil from CEDEF, and how each of them were called there with different reasons. Soon the PA too, came to the mansion where they were gathering, before all of them split up to search for Tsuna.
Strangely, aside from Romario and the PA, all of them were called by a maid who appeared out of nowhere in the silent and so-called empty mansion, and told them to go to one of the rooms in the west wing of the mansion.
That was when they saw what had happened.
He suddenly realized that the man in front of him was not the man he used to know from his childhood. He was not the man who used to be his best friend, not the one who had saved his life once, nonononono…
He started to loose his faith in Tsuna due to the incident, since what he had done was not something a Mafia Don like him should do. He slowly distant himself from Tsuna, unable to face the truth he had saw just now. He was unable to say anything to Tsuna, unable to face him, unable to make decision until Sasagawa Kyouko came and their fracas had ended the engagement they had built for a year. As if the incident had triggered something in his self, he slowly felt the need to stay away from Tsuna for a while…avoiding him at all cost.
Even it meant that he had to take many missions as much as he wanted, or waiting for the call from his baseball team for another tournament (but he couldn't get it because Tsuna went missing). He even believed that whether he should trust the current Tsuna, not the one he used to know…He himself rejected Tsuna from the bottom of his heart…
And now, now his best friend is…gone.
Gone forever.
Yamamoto felt very guilty; the morning after Tsuna was found missing from the mansion, he felt like his heart became empty, void of everything. Not to mention Suzume and Arashi blamed them for what had happened, which made him even depressed than ever. Reborn was very angry after he found out the cause of the missing Decimo, but had to suppress himself in order to respect Nono and not to mention, his health became decrease after the sudden news. From that moment, Yamamoto and the other Guardians, including Mukuro and the Kokuyo Gang, as well as Varia had join search for Tsuna.
Yet they were unable to find him…
However lately, he somehow always forgot about Tsuna. If nobody was there to mention his name surely Yamamoto won't remember either. Even if he did remember him, it will follow by extreme exhaustion and sometime pain in his muscles. At firshe he thought it might be due to his over practicing at the training room, but later became suspicious that it happened frequently, even if he did not practicing his swordsmanship. The same thing happened to the Guardians and selected people, except the PA and the Twin Mist Guardians.
Could it be that something strange had happened in this mansion?
Slowly opened the door, Yamamoto was startled to see Reborn sat on the long desk in the kitchen, casually sipping his espresso while reading a newspaper; I-Pin was making the breakfast with Chrome and (surprising) M. M, Bianchi was making her Poison Cooking with purple smoke floating in the air, while surprisingly, Nozaru and Bluebell were also there, preparing the dishes. Reborn looked up from his cup and greeted the young swordman.
"How early you are today, Yamamoto," He said as the said man sat in front of him. "Hm? You look a little bit down."
Yamamoto smiled a little, but still unable to erase the heavy feeling he had, "Nothing…just, a bit tired."
Reborn decided not to say anything although he knew that young man was lying. "Why Nozaru and Bluebell are here?"
"Nyuu, it's because Yuni-chan told us to come here," Said Bluebell as she placed large bowl fill with warm rice. "She said that she had seen a glance of the future regarding Suzume-san's mission."
"EH!?" The occupants in the kitchen turned around and saw the rest of Vongola 10th Generation including Hibari, who stood at the main door. "Are you sure Bluebell?"
"Well, why don't you boys sit down? Breakfast is almost ready," Said Bianchi as she put her Poison Cooking on her place. Gokudera sighed in relief as he realized Bianchi wore her goggle, which saved him from fainted.
The clicking sounds of the chopsticks, and spoons (for those who did not use chopstick since the breakfast was served in Japanese style) soon heard in the kitchen after the small 'Itadakimasu'. Yamamoto had a sip of miso soup when Bluebell mentioned their intention came to Vongola Mansion.
"Yuni-chan said that the mission Suzume-san was leading will be a huge success!" Said Bluebell as she took a piece of karaage. "But, at the same time she said that Suzume-san might be encountered something unexpected."
"What do you mean?" Asked Hibari who sat at the farthest seat at the table.
"I don't know, I mean, even Yuni-chan can't say what it is. She only saw Suzume-san was coming out from the…etoo…what's the hotel's name…? Ah, never mind that! She came out from the hotel with such victorious expression on her face!"
"That doesn't means anything," Clamied Gokudera.
"Gamma-aniiki asked her for details, but the only things she said are that, after she saw the future she felt relief, but at the same time, she felt something heavy related to Suzume-san…" Said Nozaru, slowly.
"Eh?"
"So, Yuni couldn't see the progress of the mission?" Asked Reborn.
"Nope." Both of the teenagers said in unison. "But she sure that her mission will be a huge success."
"Except the heavy feeling…" Said Mukuro. "Come to think about it, Suzume always had this kind of heavy air around her, right?"
"Eh?" Said Chrome. "All that I could feel is that…she's super strict when it comes to paperwork…"
"And when she decided to punish us for all the paperwork. She's a true Spartan!" Cried Lambo with tears fell like waterfall. He still unable to forget the incident where he and the rest of the Guardians minus Chrome got punished for the damages they done in Germany.
"Don't remind it!" Said Mukuro as he paled. "But…rather to say heavy, it should be mysterious…"
"How come you can say like that Mukuro?" Asked Ryohei as he picked up a piece of tamagoyaki.
"It's the first impression that I felt when the first time we met her three years ago. At that time, Suzume-san looked depress and pale, but at the same time she seemed to keep lots of secrets that sometimes it as if it was burdening her for the rest of her life. Don't you should feel it too, Hibari-kun?"
Hibari opened one of his eyes as he glanced at Mukuro. "I felt it many times."
Everyone looked at him, whom putting his miso cup on the table, "I lived with her for almost three years, and the same air is what I felt from her during my childhood. It became heavier after one accident that made her neck received such horrible scar."
"An accident?"
"That's what Kamui-jiisan told us. However, when we visited her, Ran-nee and Arashi at the hospital, none of them seemed to have injuries that look like accident. All of them were wrapped up all over the bodies as if they barely alive, worst, none of them wanted to tell us the truth on what exactly happened to her!"
Reborn could see that Hibari's hands were shaking, which is something rare to see from the Cloud Guardian. He could feel that, whatever accident happened to the Katagiri siblings, it was very clear it had disturbing their cousin very much.
"It's as if she was carrying something…" Said Hibari regretfully, as he kept on wondered why his cousin decided to keep the skeleton in the closet all by herself. It always made him angry at her stubbornness, but he was unable to do anything.
Even Arashi and the late Suzuran, before she passed away, refused to tell hi either.
Yamamoto said nothing as he watched the scene, but quietly finished his breakfast and grabbed his Shigure Shoen, before he left the kitchen. He told the others that he wanted to go on patrol at the nearby woods not far from the north wing of the mansion. He thought about what Hibari had said; about how secrecy his cousins were that they refused to tell him their secrets, and Yuni's words regarding Suzume.
"Gamma-aniiki asked her for details, but the only things she said are that, after she saw the future she felt relief, but at the same time, she felt something heavy related to Suzume-san…"
What exactly Yuni mean by that?
Yamamoto walked to his said destination and greet the others guards while going there. Unbeknown to him and the residents of the mansion, a dark figure was hiding within the trees and watched as Yamamoto left the mansion all alone. He smirked before disappeared into the forest.
Nobody knows what kind of danger would fall on them, especially Yamamoto.
-Autumn, October, Bonfilio Mansion, Sicily, Italy; Day 10th of Tsuna's disappearing-
Suzume stared dumbly at the room she currently occupied.
She felt like she wanted to kill herself; how on earth did she do that she manage to slip into one of the families who went against the Vongola in the first place!?
'I can't believe it that I do this! Yes, I know this is an undercover mission but what the hell am I doing in the enemy's territory!?' She mentally cried as she held her head in frustration. She rolled herself on the floor, still clutching her head while cried waterfall tears. 'Not to mention that I had to let go of the base before I can do any research about it! AARRGGHH! I'm doom!'
After half an hour crying in silent and rolling (comically) herself onto the floor, feeling too depressed and frustrated, finally the woman gave in and slowly crawled to her bed –I mean, a queen-size bed with four pillars at each side; attached with beautiful deep blue sea curtains, and flopped herself on it.
Lying herself onto the soft mattress, she took a look at the guest room she currently stayed. It was a luxurious and spacious room; white cream wall and ceiling with curtains the same colour as the bed, a very large, expensive-looking wardrobe, a set of sofas with coffee table and a small area not far form the sofas for coffee-making, large windows and a desk for office work near a large bookshelf. The carpet was soft as well as the mattress and blanket; must be very high quality products. A beautiful painting, one that Suzume saw was one of Pablo Picaso's artworks; hanging onto the wall. No need to see the bathroom; must be more elegant and luxurious. Judging from her observation, Suzume assumed that this room is one of the rooms served only for VVIP guests and she was one of them. Probably due to the fact, she had saved Ella from being violated by the men in white robe.
She was unable to reject the offer of the young Ella and her brother Avan, whom seemly really wanted her to stay at their mansion. Suzume had to reconsider the choice too; while she was glad that she was offered to stay in better place, she was worried about the base. She knew she had to act quickly and uncover the mystery of the missing members of Vongola Rome Branch. Suzume felt annoyed as she remembered that night's incident. The man whom having the crossing symbol on his forehead made her felt cautious and hostile –the same feeling she got when she was involved with "that" matter. Judging from that incident, now she confirmed that there was indeed, a third party that got involved with the problems that she and the rest of the Vongola were trying to deal with.
Suzume's phone was ringing again, and the caller was no one other than Andy. Hi-chan flew onto her head and comfortably nestled on her hair, while she answered the call.
"Hello."
"Yo Suzume! How's the day?"
"It's midnight here in Rome, but since it's already past 12, so basically it's already October first am I right?" She slowly fell onto the bed, carefully not to shock the little bird on her head.
"Japan is much faster than Italy," Said Andy as he took a sip form his cup. He was not opening the clinic today, but readying himself for some emergency case (stand-by mode). "By the way, I've got some info regarding the Amare Family but I don't think you'll like this one."
"What do you mean? Spill it!" With that, Andy told her everything, from the basic background research until the additional information that he doomed as bad news.
"You've got to be kidding me…Glo Xinia AND Genkishi!?" She said with stern voice. "Isn't that Genkishi still in the Giglio Nero Family?"
"I know you're going to ask that, so I decided to search about that matter through the said family and guess what? Apparently Genkishi left the family almost six months ago!"
"WHAT?"
"There's more. It seems like Genkishi, wishing to have a journey as a swordman and decided to leave the family with Yuni's permission. He disappeared not long after that and his exact location is unknown until now."
"I remember that Tsuna once told me about his journey to the future, where he encountered Genkishi," Suzume said as she reached her luggage and searched through it. "Besides, I did ask Yuni about him if he ever joins the Representative Battle 10 years ago (4) and her answer is negative!"
"You mean, he's not participating."
"Indeed."
"Well, another matter that worrying me is this Glo Xinia guy. I did some research and found out that he had fought against Chrome Dokuro and Rokudo Mukuro several times in the past 10 years including during their future journey. However, his fight with Chrome is more frequent than his fight with Mukuro. Don't you think it's really fishy here?"
"Yeah, I do realize that and from what I heard from Chrome, he seems like obsess with Chrome. A perverted psycho, if I must say!"
"Right now, his current location is unknown but his last family before his disappearing is the Altea Family."
"The weirdo family," Said Suzume as she rolled her eyes. "It's a very stupid family that tried to kidnap Dino's turtle Enzio but accidentally picked up Roll…!"
"Oh! The one that had caused your cousin went berserk and ended up destroying the family all alone because they kidnap his barinezumi (5)?" Andy had to suppress his laugh, when he remembered the details of the incident.
"Yeah, Tsuna-kun had to give him a whole month break from any missions or works due to the said incident, even went as far as letting him go back to Japan that whole period! Dino told me that not long after he returned to Japan, Dino went to visit him and Kyouya still pouting and angry for what had happened!"
"How cute!" Both of them just chuckled as they remembered how hard Tsuna had to sooth Hibari's anger, whom according to Kusakabe, refused to see everyone. Tsuna had to do many things, from trying to have s mll conversation with Hibari up to search for something that can reduce the Cloud Guardian's anger.
Poor Tsuna.
"By the way Andy," Andy steadied himself as he heard Suzume's request tone. "Can you send the information regarding the Amare Family to Irie Shouichi, and ask him to not distribute it to anyone until he met with Reborn-san?"
"Eh? Why so sudden?"
"I've got a feeling that this mission needs more than just Kyouya," Suzume sat up and walked to the nearest window, looking at the outside. "It seems like I need Reborn-san, Kyouya, Lambo, Ryohei and perhaps…Kikyou-kun and Bianchi-chan?"
Even from far away, Suzume could see the guards outside were nervous upon something. She could feel that something was not with the family, judging from the way the guards behave.
"EH? Kikyou-kun and Bianchi-san? What are you going to do with these two UNBELIEVABLE people!?" Shouted Andy in shock. He never expected Suzume to be such a daring person, asking someone from Gesso Family to come together as well as asking Reborn's current lover to tag along!
Andy was grateful that the Varia is still in Argentina, or surely Suzume would drag the Okama Lussuria together!
"I have my own plans to do, mahahahaha…"
Uh oh, here comes the super-duper evil laugh of the evil lady Suzume…!
"I want you to keep on digging the information OK? Also, I want you to investigate the Vulpa Family –their activities, historical background ("Are you think this is a historical statue Suzume!?" Cried Andy madly), who are the allies or anything that relevant and send to me, got it?"
"Geez, easy to say than doing it! Am I a slave to you?" Cried Andy, waterfall tears.
"Just shut up and do your job! I won't ask you like that if not because of the current situation I'm having right now!"
"What? You're under attack?"
"Not yet, but there's a possibility. The guards seem nervous upon something," Grabbed her Colt Python gun that she hid perfectly in her luggage (escape the scanner in the airport), she opened the loader and make sure it was fill with bullets. "Also, I want you to search this Bonfilio Family right now. Yes, put aside all the matters I ask you before aside, because I want to know why this family is very angry with the Vongola, and why the daughter Ella wants to run away from home!"
"Hoo…still have problematic teenagers on your ground?"
"Beats me, but both of us know it's something strange since this is a Mafia Family we're talking about," She placed the gun on her back waist, before grabbed a dark brown leather jacket and her scarf. "Send them to my communicator visor, and sorry for the troubles Andy."
"Pay it with you keep on living Suzume," Andy stopped his hands from working, as he narrowed his eyes sternly. "You know how much we care about you…"
Suzume just smiled as she walked to the bed. "I know, until then."
"Take care."
After ended the conversation, Suzume quickly wore the jacket; she already changed from her black dress and white coat into white-collar shirt and black pants, but still wearing the same shoes. Wrapped the scarf around her neck, hiding the scar on the neck and slipped black gloves through her hands, she gestured Hi-chan to follow her. While she slowly walked to the mahogany door, she actually listened to the sounds on her surrounding. It was something about Suzume, that aside from her being a former officer, had very sensitive senses. Her ears could hear the footsteps of other people not just form the outside room but also at the outside. Right now, as she standing in front of the door, she slowly smirked as she listened to the footsteps, knowing very well, who was going to her room now.
As on cue the door was open, she spoke.
"My, how nice of you to come and pick me up Leon-kun?"
Leon, the man who was on the group that got attack before, jolted in shock. Stood in front of him was the woman he came to know as Sharon Knowles, smirked in cool way to him. He actually quite against the decision of bringing the said woman into the compound, but he could not able to resist his high-up's decision. Moreover, he was told to bring her to meet the boss of the Bonfilio family, Trevor Bonfilio.
However, she surprised him by her sudden words, right after he opened the door without knocking (he is already suspicious to her, which led to his current actions); as if, she knew who was at the other side of the door. Her smirking face should be enough to make him annoyed, but that was not the exact feeling he had right now.
Despite her lips curled up, showing her arrogant smirk, her eyes betrayed her action. The cold, dark and emotionless eyes gave him such chill down to his spine, as if in front of him was not an ordinary woman…
But a God of Death.
"Show me to your boss young man."
He obeyed it without hesitation.
End of Chapter 09
Hints or Explanations:
(1) People who were related with the curse matter –This can be referred to the real Chapter 07: The Glass Heart.
(2) Maru – It means round inJapanase Language. Take a note that Hibird's body is actually in round shape, making him look very fluffy and cute (maybe the real reason why Hibari took in him after Kokuyo Arc).
(3) "The one who attacked Chrome Dokuro a few years back" – This is referring to the fight between Chrome and Glo Xinia during the Future Arc. From my observation, he seemly very obsessed with Chrome, even giving the impression of him trying to sexual assault Chrome. His attitude and personality making Irie Shouichi and even Byakuran, felt annoying with him.
(4) "I did ask Yuni about him if he ever joins the Representative Battle 10 years ago" – This statement is regarding if Genkishi ever join the said battle 10 years ago. As far as I remember, it seems like Genkishi was no longer appear after the Future Arc. I don't know if others had realized this, but I just make him not participate in the said battle.
(5) Barinezumi –It is actually 'harinezumi', which means hedgehog in Japanese Language. However some of the canon characters such as Gokudera called Hibari's hedgehog as 'barinezumi', a combination of his surname and the hedgehog just like 'Hibird'.
Cliffhanger!
Sorry for the very, very, very late update my dear readers! I was having writer's blues before went for the most awaited event of the year –Comic Fiesta! Kyaaah! I managed to have a picture with cosplayer Tsunemori Akane of Psycho-Pass while my brother managed to get Kougami Shinya and Ginoza Nobuchika! Mouuu~~~! I want them too~! Not long after that, I had to cut off the bushes and long grasses at my grandma's house that resulted of me fallen sick!
Only one scene related to the canon characters, sorry minna! I thought that I could manage the story well but after making the arranging and remake, I still need many times to fix it. As I mentioned in the earlier notes, this chapter is about the mission Suzume led and how the investigation was done in order to search the mysterious Vongola Rome Branch and the Amare Family. Many things will be revealed in the next chapter, especially regarding the mission as well as Yamamoto's fate and the condition of Tsuna. However, for Tsuna's part, I need to see if his part is suitable to be in the next chapter, or I will post it to the future chapters.
And here's some of the sneak preview of chapter 10:
-"And among those 'scumbags' that you're saying just now, Kyouya is also a part of them!"
-"Just like you said, these children are fighting for their own destinies…"
-Please, save my son…he didn't deserve this…
- "H-how come…you're not affected with…these?"
-"Stained by blood, dirtied by the anger and grudge, anything you call as a justice is nothing more than a fairy tale,"
This is the link to see the OCs faces, but I won't tell who: marrylissa. tumblr image/ 105496611607
Come to think about it, my readers are mostly masochist huh? Also, I want to ask you guys about this:
The story is getting darker and serious, with some parts contains graphic scenes. Do you want this story to remain in T or change it to M rate? As far as I concern, until the story is too gore or contains sexual explicit scenes, it will remains in T rate. I want your opinions regarding this, because so far I won't do the sexual scenes randomly unless it was necessary.
I hope this story can satisfy the people who were waiting for it. Please read and review. Until we meet again. –Aoi Kitsukawa.
