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: Lately it's been raining in my place and usually the heavy rain will be followed by lightings and thunders, which is not a good sign to let the modem (for internet use) stay on. So usually in this kind of situation my family would turn off the switch, so no internet connection for awhile. However, raining days are the ones I love the most, since the strong wind usually bring the cool air and I would open the windows to let the cool air in.
After posting the last chapter, my mind went blank again; I really don't know how to start making the story again! Sometimes, whenever I decided to make serious focus on one chapter, after finishing it I will suddenly lost strength to continue it! Now I believe this is one problem that always happens if I did serious on certain parts of the writing.
I want to thank to all my readers for following my story! Reaching 100+ followers made me very happy since this is my very first story that ever got such numbers of followers. It's really surprising me, because the latest update was only about the characters' list, but the responds from the readers were very unexpected! It really made me shock that when I opened my mom's laptop (use only for internet surfing) and check my email I got more readers who liking or following my story! This is really made me happy!
Oh and by the way, in this chapter, all of my reader's replies will be at the end of the story so don't forget to read them!
Starting from chapter 11 (real chapter 10), the timelines of every scene in every chapter will be irregular from each other. In other words, there will be a scene where the story takes place in the future time and the next paragraph will takes place in the present time. Please read the bold line of the paragraph before you read the contents to avoid confusion.
Summary: He left. Framed with a crime he never did, he believes nobody would never forgive and ever remember him so he left the family. But little did he know that everyone had been tracing his footsteps ever since he was gone...
Previous Chapter: Yamamoto was heavily injured from the attack of mysterious enemies but a mysterious power saved him and the other two Guardians. He unconsciously remembered of an incident called as 'The Bleed Incident', which attract the attention of Stella de Estrada, Xanxus's wife. Suzume was informed by Stella about the attack with the assumption of them knowing who the mysterious enemies were.
At the same time, Arashi finally reached Namimori and met with the Sawada group. After receiving the information from Andy, he realized something that happened in the past and managed to get some of the answers from Nana; an assassin named 'Princess of Chaos'...
Destination 11: The Bleed Incident and Princess of Chaos
Remember the days,
Don't forget to change,
Our whole lives will live on through time...
-Autumn, October 1 (Midnight after 12.00 A.M), Bonfilio Mansion, Suburban Rome, Italy; Day 10 of Tsuna's Disappearing-
She glanced at the clock and realized it was past midnight. Suzume really needed some sleep, especially since the meeting with the supposedly head of Bonfilio family had to be postponed to the next day.
Her meeting with the second eldest son of the Bonfilio Family –Avan Bonfilio actually very short due to the late night and the head of the family –his father –already asleep; the said man was very busy that day and exhausted from the tight schedule according to Avan. He apologized for unable to meet her with his father as well as for forcefully taken her in, which Suzume replied that she was not mind at all (really Suzume?).
As she turned off the light and lay on the bed, Suzume glanced at the windows once again. She could hear the guards were whispering with each other, telling the others to tighten the securities within the compound. Despite the dramas and things that she had witnessed and see, Suzume somehow can feel the strange air within the mansion.
That's right.
Something was not right with the Bonfilio Family.
-Autumn, October 3, Namimori General Hospital, Namimori, Japan; Day 12 of Tsuna's Disappearing-
Arashi laid on the bed next to Tsuna, as Andy and the rest of the hospital staffs were making sure the blood transfusion he was undergo right now will not in problems and safely went to Tsuna. Nana and the others just watched from the corner of the room, looking on how the small tube that contained fresh blood from Arashi was transferred into Tsuna's body.
It was a shock to everyone, including Andy when Arashi suddenly volunteered to donate his blood to Tsuna after hearing the lack of bloods in Namimori General Hospital. It was true that Tsuna's condition was stabile; however, he still had low blood pressure that was caused from him losing lots of blood. According to the doctor in charge, at least Tsuna still needs 450 cc of blood in order to increase his blood pressure (A/N: I'm not sure the real measurement, but usually when I donated my blood the package always write as '450'). Arashi, after making sure he was fulfilling the conditions of a blood donator (1) he immediately went for the operation.
The only doctor who supervised Arashi was Andy, and since it was someone that he knows and trust, Arashi decided to ask another person in the room regarding something that he curiously wanted to know…
"Nee, Kyouko-san…" Asked Arashi without turning to his side. "Can I ask you something?"
Kyouko looked at Arashi weirdly, as she thought the said man will be asking her about her current situation with Tsuna. Despite having the strange feelings in her chest, she answered him anyway, "Yes, what it is?"
"Do you know… about the scar on Tsunayoshi's right wrist?"
Kyouko stared at him wide eyes, alongside with Nana who knew what exactly the ex-doctor was talking about and the two teenagers that looked at each other. Andy who sat next to Arashi just acted like nothing had happened, but deep down his guard never slipped.
"Based on your reaction, I guess you know more than what Nana-san knows."
"…"
"Will you please tell me what had happened that he managed to get that scar?"
Kyouko held her fist tightly as she asked, "What will you get from hearing such horrible incident?"
Arashi stared at the white ceiling before he sighed and turned his face to face the orange-hair woman. He placed his left hand onto his abdomen as he said, "I want to make sure if this is Tsunayoshi's first attempt of suicide…"
"STOP SAYING LIKE THAT!" Cried Kyouko as she stood up from her seat angrily. "Tsu-kun never did that, not even once!"
"But you can't deny the fact that he already did it, since he's already here receiving my blood," Said Arashi calmly, not even a smirk that attached on his lips. Kyouko gasped in shock as she realized what he was saying. "That's why I want to hear it from you Kyouko-san, since Nana-san said that that wound was done by a certain incident and you're one of the witnesses…"
Kyouko stared at Arashi who looked at the same woman with calm and cool eyes, something that resembled Suzume a bit. Since both of them were siblings, it was not that hard to know who followed whom (for anyone who knew the Katagiri Siblings). Both of them had the same calm and cool eyes, however their personality was different. According to Tsuna who knew them from their cousin Hibari Kyouya, as well as from his own observation, Arashi was much gentle than Suzume. He can be trusted for any serious conversation –personally or not since he did not easily judged people, he was well-observed and silent, a good listener and can calm even in emergency situations. However, he too had got some 'dark' traits from his sister. Arashi was not as short-tempered as his sister Suzume, but he can be ruthless when it comes to talk about people who seemed offended him; a trait he got from Suzume. Worst, the family had found out that his anger management slowly became decrease after he was no longer a doctor, four years ago.
Kyouko did not sure what exactly happened that make him lost his job as a doctor 4 years ago, but apparently the situation was too tense that Arashi suffered from serious depression and ended up fallen sick with serious eating disorder. When he met with Tsuna a year later, he was just recovered from his illness but his depression and eating disorder still disturbing him. She did not know how Tsuna dealt with him, but from what she heard from Ryohei, apparently Tsuna was the first person ever to open his heart after his depression period and slowly, healed his mentally illness (depression and eating disorder).
Arashi was closer to Tsuna just like Suzume, but he acted like Tsuna's elder brother in fatherly way…
She knew he cared Tsuna and everyone else, including Kyouko, so much.
That he asked the truth behind the scar, he asked her instead of searching for himself.
"Please trust me…"
Kyouko could hear his voice echoed throughout her mind, before she closed her eyes and sighed. Kyouko apologized to Arashi for her sudden outburst; what had happened to Tsuna really disturbed her and shaken everyone's heart. However she too, knew that Arashi was clearly disturbed by what he saw upon setting his foot inside the room. He too, did not want his love ones got hurt again.
She knew she had to tell him, as well as the others, the whole story behind the scar on Tsuna's right wrist.
Breathed deeply, Kyouko started her story, "It was happened 5 years ago, an incident called 'The Bleed Incident'. I was in Italy to celebrate Tsu-kun's birthday when…"
-Autumn October, Vongola HQ Infirmary Wing; Day 10of Tsuna's Missing -
Shamal put down his mug that contains coffee as he leaned against the chair while watching Yamamoto on his bed.
The elder doctor sat together with the World's Greatest Hitman named Reborn, or his real name is Renalto Sinclair (2). The hitman sat next to him and was watching over Yamamoto Takeshi, who was unconscious courtesy of Hibari Kyouya. Shamal looked at the monitor where the heart monitor was beeping steadily, showing that the young man was still alive. Aside from them were Xanxus' wife named Stella de Estrada and one of Vongola's best technicians Irie Shouichi who came to give Reborn any updates regarding the missing Decimo as well as Vongola Sky Ring.
"I never thought that you of all people would come here, Stella-san," Said Shamal as he looked at the pregnant woman who was sipping her tea calmly. "I thought you're either at the Estrada Family HQ or at the Varia Mansion."
"My husband has returned here from his mission and my father said that it's better to stay here," Said the mother-to-be as she smiled. "Besides, already entering the third trimester, my father would make a fuss for not being with Xanxus-sama."
"I have to say that you marrying him and now expecting his child is quite unbelievable," Shamal's words made Stella chuckled. "Well, actually I really mean it Stella-san! To think that Xanxus would settle down with someone as beautiful and gentle like you…ah! If only we meet sooner…!" Reborn smacked his head with a thick book left on the table in the Infirmary room leaving the other two sweat dropped.
"Well enough chit chat Shamal-sensei," Said Stella as she grinned sly. It was an action that startled the three men in the room, especially Reborn since he actually once saw it on Suzume's. "What exactly the 'Bleed Incident' that Yamamoto had said before?"
Instantly, the same people went stiff when they heard the said incident. Both Shamal and Irie glanced at Reborn as if they wanted to make sure if it was alright for them to reveal the said incident since it was something taboo among the Guardians as well.
"You seem pretty interesting Stella-san. May I ask you why?"
"I was marrying into this family three years ago so it was common for someone like me wants to know whatever this incident is," She said as she calmly put her cup with a 'cling'. "However Reborn-san…" Stella entwined her fingers as she her gaze became hard.
"I believe that I also had the right to know since I'm not an outsider of this awful land of darkness; you should know that my mother is a daughter of Yakuza Jirou despite she's the second wife of Gino de Estrada; my father to be precise…" Dark aura slowly appeared in the room the moment Stella mentioning a bit of her background. "That's why I was known through two names by two places; Stella de Estrada as in Sicily and Yuzuki Otomi as in Japan."
Reborn narrowed his eyes as he heard her words. Stella de Estrada, or known in Japan of her maternal side as Yuzuki Otomi, was a second daughter of the Estrada Family that allied with Vongola Family. Her mother, Yuzuki Keiko was the second wife of Gino de Estrada who was the current head of the Estrada Family despite him having a first wife that also a daughter of a family in the Underground World. Both of her parents were married by the Yakuza Jirou's head Jirou Hajime –Keiko's father as a sign of friendship and success business relationship between the two families. The surname Yuzuki was taken from Hajime's mother's maiden name in order to avoid the family members being under attack by other rivals.
Despite being the family of Gino, he did not take his Japanese wife and children back to Italy. Instead, he let them stay in Japan and having the Japanese lifestyle but he occasionally came to visit them alongside with his first wife. The wives and children get along very well, and teach each other with their own cultural and background. Therefore 'Stella de Estrada' was a special name given by Gino whenever she came to Italy. She was educated in both normal and dark lives and was not afraid with the cruel life of Mafia world, due to her background and status as a granddaughter of Yakuza Jirou. Her appearance even showed her mix lineage; dark auburn and fair skin as well as beautiful, which assets that she inherited form her mother Keiko, except her deep blue eyes that she had from her father Gino.
Still, it was a big surprise to everyone that she was actually Katagiri Suzume and Arashi's childhood friend, after they met two years ago upon being Tsuna's PA. How they managed to be friends with each other was still a mystery.
"The Bleed Incident," Said Reborn as he calmly sipping his espresso. "Was actually happened several days after Tsuna's birthday 5 years ago, when Tsuna still in the process of being a boss."
"When he was 19 years old…well I'm still in Japan at that time," Said Stella as she leaned her face on her left hand. "So why that it was named as 'Bleed'?"
"It happened when the Vongola received information from Kozato Enma about invasions in one of Vongola's territory. A family named Galito attacked the said territory, injuring many people and kidnapped some young women. Unfortunately that time, Tsuna was the only one remained in the family and me also not available at that time due to some matters that need to be deal on behalf of Timoteo, leaving with no choice but for Tsuna to deal with alongside with Enma…" Reborn trailed off as he took another sip of his espresso. Stella, Irie and Shamal waited patiently for his next words.
"However, the operation was failed horribly as Tsuna was kidnapped and Enma was injured seriously. He was able to leave the place because IT WAS TSUNA who pushed him out from the place before he was taken by the Galito Family. And Enma had no choice but to run away or otherwise the remaining of the Galito Family will come and kill him. The people who went after those two were Shittopi and Adelheid but they only managed to save Enma."
"And they have no choice but to retreat with only Enma-kun at their side," Said Shamal as he leaned against his chair. "I also knew about this incident since I was the one who treated Tsuna's injuries at that time. Unfortunately for Reborn who returned with intention to assist Tsuna came by late and he was shock to find out that his Guardians, minus Lambo who's still in elementary school and Hibari who was on long term mission in Okinawa two weeks before Tsuna's birthday; was not with Tsuna and only returned from whatever missions that made them left Tsuna behind."
"Did something happen at between those times?" Asked Stella as she narrowed her eyes.
"Apparently yes, something indeed happen Stella-san," Said Irie Shouichi, this time. "Reborn-san, who was informed by Adel-san about what had happened, went to see the Guardians and confront them so that they'll spill out the beans. After some serious discussion (torturing according to Shamal who whispered it to Stella, while Reborn glared at the said doctor) between Reborn-san and the six Guardians…"
"Wait! What about Hibari-kun?" Asked Stella as she looked at Irie. The young man was a bit surprise that she called the skylark guardian with honorific "-Kun" before remembered that she and Suzume were at the same age.
"Well….actually Hibari-san did not involve in the first place so he just stays aside," Said Irie as he stretched his hair, felt a bit nervous. "But he too, was informing of what Reborn-san will said later."
Reborn exhaled his breathe as he continued from what Irie said; both Reborn and Hibari were surprised when they found out Tsuna had accidentally killed a female member during a mission, whose boyfriend was a spy of an enemy family. According to Chrome, he was about to shot Tsuna and had not chance but to defense himself. He did not know the woman suddenly stood in front of her boyfriend and received his attack, killing her almost immediately. Unfortunately, the scene where Tsuna used one of the enemies gun for self-defense and accidentally shot the woman was witnessed by the Guardians who came at the exact moment. The boyfriend grieved over his lost and commits suicide, but not before he blamed Tsuma that her death was Tsuna's fault.
While it was clear that his action was based on self-defense, the Guardians found that it was hard to deal with the said mission which later on became a heavy issue with Tsuna and his Guardians, even until now. They knew Tsuna was not in fault, but at the same time to see him killing a subordinate was hard to deal, therefore they decided to avoid him by taking far away missions, leaving behind the Sky all alone. In the end, Reborn beat them half death under the name of training for abandoning Tsuna. Hibari was safe due to him receiving serious mission that required him to act independently from Tsuna.
"After he regained consciousness, Enma then told us the hideout of the Galito family and we went to ambush them three days later, only to find out someone had already infiltrated the said place," Explained Reborn.
"Someone's already there?" Asked Stella.
"Yes, at the time we reached the base, almost all of the members were unconscious due to being beaten up or was knock out. The Galito family is not a small family either, and at least they have 50 elite members that their powers are almost as equally strong as Sasagawa Ryohei. However, even the elite group was defeated with heavy injuries; some were traumatized until now. We went searching for Tsuna all over the places, but when we came to one room, the boss was also knocking out. Interestingly though, the boss was found with nothing but his love-pattern boxer with lots of doodles written all over his face and body and none of the people died that night…" Stella, Shamal and Irie had to close their mouth from laughing; the boss was found with doodles all over his body and wore only boxer with love-pattern?
Wow, that is surely interesting!
"While the moment the others were searching for the leader, Yamamoto was the one who found Tsuna. What he saw was Tsuna, but he was unconscious and half beaten with right wrist bleeding inside a glass indoor conservatory. There was water flowing from the corner of the conservatory and his blood was mixing with the water, which is not good news at all. Everyone finally came by and tried to break the glass but failed, with the water that keeps on flowing endangering Tsuna for blood lost. Then that's when we found her."
"Her?"
"A female assassin," Everyone turned around and saw Fon was standing at the door with a tray of hot tea and some snacks. "Suddenly a woman in dark clothes and masked appeared and shot the glass down, successfully breaking down the glass. The Guardians tried to come near Tsuna but she shot them again, before Reborn returned the shot after she came down and tried to cut Tsuna's wrist again. She dodged the bullets and jumped back from Tsuna. Reborn asked her who she was, and she claimed herself as "Princess of Chaos"," Explained Fon as he put down the tray onto the table. Reborn just sighed as he asked the martial arts master.
"Don't suddenly jump into conversation like that, Fon. It's rude."
"Haha, I'm sorry but what you're talking about is something that I can't ignore."
After distributed the tea and took a seat for him, Reborn continued, "Of course you can't. After all, you're the only person in our group that managed to fight her hand-to-hand in the first place."
"Really?!" Asked Stella, excited.
"Indeed," Said Fon as he smiled. "I also assisted Reborn and the Guardians that time, but I arrived late. When I reached the indoor conservatory, Princess of Chaos had attacked the others away and came near Tsunayoshi-kun. From what we could see, it as if she was slashing his wrist and then let it goes, since Kyouya charged towards her. From my observation, she is a young but very experience woman; her movements like a pro acrobatic and very fast. She even can throw knives while in the air with high speed. She left the scene after she said: 'take Vongola Decimo for treatment as soon as you can'."
"That's strange things to hear," Said Stella as she glanced at Irie who in returned, nodded his head.
"But it was a big deal," Said Shamal as he sighed. "Tsuna was taken back here alive after the entire rescue mission but in critical condition. When I checked upon him, I found many wounds that came from being tortured as well as the old wounds he got from the surprised attacks. That kid almost dies by the time he came here due to blood lost and the other injuries. Yamamoto told me that the assassin might be the same person who torturing Tsuna since the way she cut his wrist was very unlikely to be done by ordinary people; it was professionally done. I found out from Yamamoto as well on how Tsuna was found lying in a pool of water, bleeding with a piece of clothe was tied around his arm to slow the bleeding."
"That sounds more like a torturing to me," Said Stella.
"Exactly. As expected, Hayato blamed himself for what had happened and for unable to save Tsuna from the assassin, especially since everyone believed that she was the one who cut his wrist twice. It was not until I made the blood test that I found something dangerous within the blood sample. After everything was over and his life was spare, I came out and told them that although she was an assassin, she actually saved Tsuna's life. It appeared that from the blood test I have found that an unknown poison was injected into his blood through the neck, and she had done what warriors in the ancient time did to take out the bad blood."
"It other ways, she actually saves Dame-Tsuna from getting killed by the Galito Family," Said Reborn as he titled his fedora down. "Because of how Yamamoto found Tsuna that time, it was called as 'Bleed Incident' and despite 5 years had passed, Tsuna and his Family did not want to talk about it anymore. Of course, it was their first time being misunderstanding too, before the Salkind Incident."
"No wonder why it was called as 'Bleed Incident'…" Said Stella as she looked at Irie.
"It was during that time that Princess of Chaos appeared officially to Vongola Family."
"You mean she never appeared before to everyone?"
"Princess of Chaos is a very mysterious person," Said Shamal as he entwined his hands together. "After the Bleed Incident, I decided to conduct an investigation regarding Princess of Chaos and as I expected, there are not much information that I can get although through various sources. Nobody knows her real name, her true identity, where she came from or the face behind the mask; she was feared by the Underground World itself due to her unexpected MOs as well as how silent she was in doing her job. However, she rarely accepting any kinds of mission despite how much the reward was offered, explaining why she was almost not seen throughout the last 10 years. She also very hard to find and usually the people who came in contact with her were either the victims or by coincidence. From what I had known, she only accepted the jobs that really required her skills and not some bunch of aimless. Do that and she will destroy half of the group –like what she did to the Galito Family?"
"Or like when a group of assassins that belongs to Cappone Family of Latin America were killed in just one night in Sapporo, 11 years ago," Said Reborn, calmly drank his lukewarm tea. "It's because they wanted to expand their influences but in process, they beaten an old man half death. The police unable to find who, but apparently the way it was done was none other than the princess herself."
"Looks like they got what they deserve," Said Stella coolly.
All of them chuckled lightly, as they agreed with Stella's statement.
"As far as I remember, I did meet her almost 13 years ago. She was spot during our encounter to each other when I took a mission to retrieve a head of Yakuza's son whose got abducted by its enemy. The Yakuza, named Kakita asked me to save the 4-year-old boy and I accepted the mission. When I came to the secret base where the child was hold as a hostage, I saw someone in the middle of falling bodies before I realized it was the masked woman," Said Fon, earning a question glance from Reborn.
"The Kakita group, huh?" Said Stella as she narrowed her eyes. "They're one of the allied clans in our clan Jirou. Yes, I do remember that they had said the same incident 13 years ago when the boss came to visit my grandfather."
"So you fought her?" Asked Stella.
"She suddenly charged towards me so it was a normal reaction," Said Fon as he took a sip of his tea. "Just looking at her once I knew it was a young girl, but her movements surpass an assassin with 10 years experiences. It's as if she can uses any kind of weapons by just touching them; I feel like I almost lost 10 years of my life being attacked by her!" He said as he smiled nervously. This had made everyone looked at him with curious. "We fought for almost 10 minutes when she suddenly retreated and asked me to take the boy away. I saw at her back, the boss was already died with a single attack aimed on his neck. Judging from the way the dead body sliding down on the ground and the angle of the knife, apparently he was attacked from behind with one strike. Strangely, she only killed the boss and not the subordinates. When I asked her name, she seems hesitated before calling herself as 'Princess of Chaos' and disappeared."
"Why killed only the boss? That's strange…" Said Irie.
"It's because the boss is the most evil ones, not the subordinates," Said Stella that later earned glances from the three men. "According to my grandfather Hajime, the enemy's boss was very cruel to everyone, even to his own family and people. One mistake, even small ones, he will kill them immediately. That's even worse than performing yubi-tsume (3)! When the Kakita group was asking for help, except the Jirou group no other people came to help. I don't know how she knew about this but my grandfather said this might be the reason why she only killed the boss. Seems likely, the princess assassin loathes people who refuse to answer someone's help, that's why she's threatening the Salestry Family before to have a nice cooperation with the Vongola."
"She did not appear again after the Bleed Incident, right?" Asked Shamal.
"No, she did appear again three years later, although just briefly." Said Fon. "But I wonder what makes her to appear again, in this time of all things…"
Everyone was silent as the group was in deep thinking. Suddenly Irie remembered something and asked Shamal why Tsuna's injury on the wrist was said to be done in 'professional' way.
"Well…to answer that, you do know that humans had three pulses on their body, right?" Asked Shamal as Irie nodded his head. "There are three areas where we can sense our pulse; near temple which usually hard to sense, under the jaw line and on our wrists. Usually if other people wanted to cut the wrist, the blade usually will be pulled towards the palm or across the wrist. However, this person pulled it towards the body in 45°, which is obviously very unusual. Besides, the wound was actually…"
"…Not too deep but not too shallow either, right Shamal-sensei?"
Everyone turned his head with shock towards the person who spoke: Stella de Estrada. Shamal was shock to find that she already knew what kind of wound Tsuna had received when he was not even able to tell the whole things to Irie. Shamal's right hand slowly move down way but Stella's deep blue eyes locked with his eyes, stopping him from doing whatever he wanted to do. A 'click' sound was heard and Stella casually looked at the hitman whose gun was pointed towards her.
"How do you know about that, Stella-san?" Asked Reborn as his dark orbs glared dangerously. "Nobody except those who got involved in the said incident knows about the wound."
Her reply was dark chuckles echoed throughout the room as the temperature dropped drastically, even making Reborn surprised with the sudden change. Stella's deep blue eyes glinted dangerously as she slowly turned aside, raising her left hand before pushing down the sleeve…
And revealed a long, thin scar across the left wrist.
"It's because I'm too, had the same wound as Tsuna-kun made in the same way by the same person a long time ago…!"
"…and that's how it was happened," Kyouko said as she ended her story. She stared at the young man whose right arm now was attached with plaster, a sign that he had done his blood transfusion with Tsuna as the receiver. Arashi did not say anything, he just staring at the ceiling with unreadable expression. However, Andy saw his face had signs of sleepiness and tired, so he walked to the door and called a nurse, asking for something. Nana held Kyouko's hand as a sign of comfort, which she really appreciated.
Arashi sighed as he finally realized what had happened.
He never thought that something like this actually happened in the past; well it was his fault too, for not realize it in the first place. However, the incident had happened 5 years before, and calculating the time gap, he was only 21 when he undergoes internship to be a doctor in one of the general hospitals in Shinjuku.
Just a year before that incident happened.
Arashi held his fist tight, a sign he was not happy with the past incident.
"By the way Kyouko-san, can you tell me more about the stalker that Miyabi-san told before?" Asked Andy as he realized that Arashi was not in mood to talk anymore; he's usually like that after making his blood donation and Andy at least wanted that young man to take some rest.
"Eh? Right now?" Asked Kyouko while Nana shot her a glance, showing that she was uninformed about the said matter.
Arashi yawned while Andy and the others were talking to each other, as he started to feel sleepy. Due to his blood given to Tsuna, he started to feel the effect of being sleepy and in no mood to have any kind of conversation. He was told by his sister many times to make sure he had enough sleep etc before donating his blood. Well, he actually lied about not exhausted though…Andy surely would have his ears the whole night after this.
Arashi felt his eyelids became heavier than before and he already fell asleep, without realizing that he had something that surprising him in his sleep…
-Dreamscape-
It is says that dreams are the window for the human's soul.
Opened his eyes slowly, Arashi grunt and mumbled something under his breath, before he realized that he was inside the place he still had some difficulty to deal with; a dreamscape.
"Damn, I did it again…!" Arashi said as he floated. "It must due to that blood transfusion…I still need to practice…"
Just like when Suzume told the three former Arcobaleno, Arashi was also a part of Katagiri family that had talent in spiritual field. He and Suzume were the current onmyoujis that still active in the family, which one of the powers he had was the power of Yumemi (4).
He swam through the space as Arashi felt like he was floating in the air; aimlessly flew away inside the unknown space he currently is. The astral space was dark, silence and empty, and he was the only person in the space that glowed in the dark until he saw a familiar figure that appeared at the astral plane.
Sawada Tsunayoshi.
"Tsunayoshi-kun?"
Arashi watched in silent as he saw Tsuna's body was floating in the astral plane. Without wasting any time, he quickly followed the said young man as he swam through the astral plane.
What exactly are happening here?
-Autumn, October 2, Bonfilio Mansion, Suburban Rome, Italy; Day 11 of Tsuna's disappearing-
Suzume just stared at her reflection with disbelieve eyes.
"What the hell…" She said as she touched her pale face, red eyes and messy hair.
"HOW COME I FELL ASLEEP FOR ONE WHOLE DAY~~!?"
Ella Bonfilio, a daughter of Bonfilio family could only sweat drop. She could hear Suzume's scream of frustration but at the same time tried to take her bath; Ella believed she should just keep on quiet since Suzume was trying her best to face her annoying yet truth fact: she had overslept for the whole day! Ella was the one who came to the room to wake her up yesterday, but she found out that Suzume was really; really exhausted even during her sleep that she let her alone in the room to rest.
She never thought that Suzume was asleep until the next morning (today)!
It was the same thing that Suzume had thought too! At first she woke up after having some sleep, she thought it was her usual less-than-6-hours sleep. With that though, she dragged herself to bathroom to have a cold shower (despite it was autumn and the air slowly turn cold). When she was about to grab the door knob, a knock was heard and revealed Ella, who came in with curious expression. Feeling weird, she asked her what's wrong and that was when Ella dropped the bombshell: she had been asleep the whole day.
So it was not a surprise (maybe for Ella since she was the one who told Suzume about this) that a scream of frustration was echoed throughout the estate!
After taking some time washing her and dried up, Suzume walked up from the bathroom and saw Ella was sitting on one of the chairs near the coffee table in the VVIP room. The said girl awkwardly said that she would wait outside for breakfast and left the room. After Ella was gone, Suzume quickly grabbed the wet towel as she opened her luggage and took out her clothes: a pair of black pants, deep blue shirt with black vest, black belt and black, long stockings. Suzume stared at the clothes as she slowly frowned; these were one of the clothes she usually wore during her police officer's period. However, she quickly shook her head and wore them, feared that she had kept the poor girl waiting.
The breakfast was in the family's main dining room. Along the way to the dining room, Suzume couldn't help but to think that it might be was done in the way that… she would think as if she was looking around the banquet. It was probably extremely large table for hundreds of people to come. The foods on the table must be smelled wonderful and even looked delicious. This kind of imagination made her chuckling, which earned Ella a question. Suzume was about to say something when her eyes fell upon a large, beautifully painted portrait of a family. Suzume stopped herself from walk and stared at the painting.
"Sharon-san?" Asked Ella as she looked around. She was a bit startled when she realized the elder woman was looking at the family portrait.
It was a portrait of a big family, from what Suzume could see. Right in the middle of the family was a man with short raven hair, but with bangs that went more towards his right side. His deep, beautiful emerald eyes were the ones that seemed very fascinating, Suzume thought. On his right side was a beautiful, elegant woman with long, black hair that was tied on her left side and fell onto her left shoulder; her gentle black eyes looked like a beautiful crystal bathed with lights. Her skin looked a bit pale than the man whose skin was fair brown (not too dark like being tanned) as if she was sick, which actually attracted Suzume a bit. On his left side was a woman with wavy brown hair that reached her back, fair skin with blue eyes that reflected beautifully. Her smile resembled Ella's a bit.
"Who are these people?" Asked Suzume as she touched the wall.
"Oh…that's our family portrait, painted 10 years ago," Said Ella as she came closer to Suzume. She realized that Ella had a painful smile on her face.
"10 years ago?"
"It was done several months before Mama Avery passed away," Said Ella as she pointed towards a woman who sat on the right side of the man in the middle of the family. "Mama was father's first wife."
"His first wife?" Asked Suzume, shocked. She then remembered a bit of information send by Andy, when she checked her email that morning. 'My, this is worthy information, but how come I don't know about this in the first place…? No wait, I just read the first paragraph, damn it…!'
"That's right, my mother, Samantha Aquevera is the second wife despite being the current wife now," She said as she looked at the portrait longingly. "She's a civilian but was given as a gift from a family who got her through human trafficking."
Suzume frowned; she never liked that kind of story since she was in a mission to undercover the illegal said activity in Rome. Moreover, Suzume had bad experiences with it comes to illegal activities which she had encountered during her police days and she still feel uncomfortable with it. However, she felt something that she needed to deal with this family, especially when she needed to know why this family was so against Vongola.
"Why your father accepted her?"
"Despite father is a Mafia boss, he's not a cold-heart person," Ella said. "Mother was tricked to work oversea without knowing that she was sold in the black market as slave. One family bought her to give to my father as a gift; according to father it was due to our family managed to stop weapon smuggling in that family's territory."
"The three of them were so happy," She said. "It's not that hard to know that your parents and Mama Avery loved each other very much."
"Amazing, you know so much just from looking at the portrait."
"Let me guess more; actually both of the families knew about these human trafficking matters and tried to save the victims, but by the time they got into it, only your mother was found. The other family was in debt with your father and gave her to him, since they found out that your mother was brought in illegally and she had no visa or passport. Therefore your father decided to marry your mother to avoid the authorities, am I right?"
"Eh!? Ho-how did you…?"
"Usually people who were illegally come here did not have any legal documents with them. Even if they do, it's rare since the victims of human trafficking usually was told with lies before they realized it was already too late," Suzume secretly glanced over her shoulders as she saw a dark figure near the pathway. She smirked as she acts as if she did not realize the figure yet.
"So tell me about your siblings in this portrait, Ella-chan."
"Well, if you let me…" She said cheerfully before continued. "The current Bonfilio Boss had 7 children -4 sons and 3 daughters. The eldest son's name is Waldo, second is my brother Avan, then Glenn and the last one is Gill."
"Which one is from your mother?"
"Avan-niichan and Gill."
"Then…your sisters?"
"Well, the first is Annabelle, second is me and the last one is Liliana," She said as she pointed at a baby which was on Samantha's laps. The small baby was sitting on her mother's laps happily; she resembles Samantha more than Ella.
She could see a small version of Ella; raven hair tied up in two upside pigtails and her lively emerald eyes matched perfectly with her cute smile. Next to her was a young boy, no more than 5, stood with wide blue eyes and wavy raven hair, which Suzume concluded was Gill (since he was mentioned last by Ella). Suzume realized there were three children; two teenagers that stood behind the father and mother and a small boy next to the first wife's back.
"Who are they?" Asked Suzume as she pointed the two teens.
"Oh, that's Waldo-nii, Glen and Anna-nee," Said Ella as she looked at the portrait. "The one behind father is Waldo-nii, and he really resembles father a lot that people tend to say as if he was his young version," Said Ella as she chuckled. "The boy over there is Glen –he's actually the same age as me, and he's having father's eyes and Mama's hair which make him a pretty boy –that's make him a born-natural narcissist, hmp!"
Oh, this child is a self-proclaim bishounen, huh? Interesting…"…And this is…"
"Annabelle Bonfilio."
A deep, yet young voice suddenly echoed throughout the pathway, making the two ladies turned around immediately. Behind them was a young boy almost the same age as Ella, with black eyes and hair that was cut at his left side, stood with elegant grin (well, mostly a bit more arrogant through Suzume's eyes…). His brown jacket that the sleeves were rolled up to his arms, tight black shirt and brown pants with brown shoes had made him a very handsome young boy.
"She's our very elder sister who's resembles Mama Avery very much. A very lovely person…" He said as his eyes turned cold. "…Who left the house suddenly several months ago."
"SHUT UP GLEN!" Shouted Ella suddenly, shocking Suzume a lot. She looked at Ella whose now face was red fro anger, and the said man became frown.
"What are you doing here Glen?" She hissed. "Aren't you refuse to come back home?"
"There's a guest arrived yesterday right? It's not my policy to ignore the guest despite our family crisis," Suzume narrowed her eyes as she caught the words. 'A crisis?'
"Let's get to the dining room already. Father is already there and you're taking too much time to bring our guest there for breakfast," Glen said as he walked pass the women. Both of them did not say anything and started to walk, but Suzume's eyes kept on staring the portrait before she kept on her pacing with the two Bonfilio half-siblings.
When they entered the dining room, everyone was there and all of their eyes fell on them, especially to Suzume. She could see the black, brown and raven hairs; men and women, emerald, black and blue eyes…an elegant woman was standing near the window panel with kind-heart smile and gave warm to anyone who see her…
'Huh?' Suzume thought, before Ella called her to lead her seat.
The breakfast was not as grand as Suzume expected, but still, the chefs made lots of food that she even wonder if they managed to finish them all. Despite they were in Italy, the breakfast was served in mix styles (means the food was not only served in Italian food), but she was grateful that the Earl Grey Tea was served on the table as well. On the dining table was where she met the current head of the Bonfilio family –Trevor Bonfilio. During their morning chat, Suzume looked at everyone on the table, especially Trevor and she could see traces of his youth on his aging face, similar to what she saw on the portrait that morning. The wife Samantha was there too, sitting next to her husband. Both of them look so lovely together as if they were an ordinary married couple while in truth Trevor was a Mafia Don (this situation reminds her of Tsuna and Kyouko before the Salkind Incident happened. Tsuna was shy yet gentleman to Kyouko who always smiled to him with shy attitude, despite knowing she was engaged to a Mafia Don), however when Suzume eyed the children, almost all of them gave each other cold shoulders except the small children –Gill and Liliana. Gill who was 11 years old happily chat and eat with his sister Liliana, and Suzume could not help but smile a little.
She was wondering why the elder children, including Avan were silent while eating when she heard a voice calling for her, which actually shock her a bit. "I'm sorry for what my children did to you last night, Sharon-san," Said Trevor.
"Eh? You mean…the runaway Ella?" On the spot, Waldo and Glen chocked their own food while Avan almost spit out his coffee, while little Gill and Liliana looked at their family with questioning look. Suzume was sweat dropped.
"Sharon-san!" Cried Ella as she blushed deeply. The parents only shook their head as they knew what had happened, but the elder siblings minus Avan seemed quite shaken with the sudden revelation.
"COUGH –You… you did… what Ella…? COUGH! COUGH!" The eldest brother Waldo tried to speak but fail. Avan gave him a glass of water, which the eldest brother was grateful to have.
"Se-seriously…Ella –COUGH! –What the hell…COUGH!" Glenn tried his best to grab the water and drank wholly. "Did you run away AGAIN?!"
"SO WHAT? Don't ever try to accuse me something when you're the one who left this family in the first place!" Screamed Ella angrily as she slammed her fist on the table, shaking the whole furniture.
Suzume was startled. She never expected that a serious singling fracas would explode right in front of her, but she remembered a little bit from the information that Andy sent to her that currently, the Bonfilio family was having some inner crisis. Suzume regretted that she was unable to read more about the information since Ella was knocking her door for breakfast. Suzume sighed hopelessly since she actually just wanted to joke on Ella's last night commotion, but she never thought it would turn out this bad!
Even Trevor and his wife Samantha were looking a bit panicked since a guest was among the family and was witnessing the commotion.
"I have my own reason! I leave this family since it's no longer feeling like how it use before!" Shouted Glenn angrily as he stood up. "I don't want to live inside the house that's forgotten my mother who already passed away for 10 years!"
"So you're accusing me for the cause!?"
"Because you too, forgotten my mother Ella! It feels so unfair that only you and the others are having dad's attention! How many times you skip mom's anniversary (the one he mentions here is Avery's death anniversary)?"
"GLENN! ELLA! STOP THIS FIGHT AT ONCE!" Shouted Trevor with voice that equals to thunder. The small children flinched in fears and Suzume could see tears were gathered in their eyes.
"LIKE I CARE!" Shouted both teenagers before they faced each other.
"You're not the only affected by Mama's death! Have you ever thought why I decide to run away from home?" Cried Ella with angry tears.
"Heh! Must be because you just want to hang around with you silly friends!" Mocked Glenn, who almost made his brother Waldo tried to jump on him if not because of Avan restrained him.
Suzume could see several staffs entered the room looked very worried with the commotion, but she realized that the other three staffs when behind the children, with calm pace. Some of them even sighed as they positioned themselves in case if things were flying over the room; Suzume could not help but remembered when the Vongola Family had food fight and threw things, before she came in and threw several damn pots and pans straight to the Guardians' face (saved Chrome and Tsuna) for wasting food and property damages. It was her first week of working with the Vongola family and yet, she felt like she was their nanny.
Suddenly she felt like shoving Bianchi's Poison Cooking straight to the Guardians' mouth. "How annoying…" She hissed.
(Somewhere in the Vongola Mansion, several people who wore the Vongola Ring sneezed suddenly. All of them were wondered if someone was badmouthing them, which is true. They just don't know it was Suzume. Lol)
"I'M LOOKING FOR ANNABLLE –NEE-SAN!" Ella's scream shocked Suzume from her own world, and quickly look up to see a very, very angry Ella with tears already strained down her face. She could see her whole body was trembling.
"You're the one who's hanging around a lot Glenn! Unlike you, I left the compound to search for our sister! Yet you're busy blaming others for something that probably not their own fault at all!" Shouted Ella as she pointed at Glenn angrily. "Our sister is missing for more than 6 months! I want to search for her that's why I left!"
'Wha-what?!' Thought Suzume, when she realized the sudden change in the room. Slowly, but calmly, she reached up her teacup while listening to the siblings' fight.
"But why you're going as far as endangering yourself if you're going to search for Annabelle?" Asked Waldo, who rarely speak ever since Suzume met the family. "And why by yourself? Why not talking to any of us?"
"It's because you people are against her relationship with her friend!" She cried. "Anna-neesan said he's only a friend, but you people accused him as a spy! And you Avan-nii, you even said before that Anna-neesan is eloping with her boy friend, that's why she disappeared and none of you ever bother to search for her!"
Oh boy…another case of troublesome teenager that I need to deal again, geez..!
"I want to see her again…" Cried Ella, as her covered her face. "I just want to see Ann-nee again…"
Suzume felt sad, seeing Ella crying for her missing sister but she knew she had to be alert with her surroundings. Something was not right as she slowly touched her gun, when children's screams and the sounds of falling chairs were heard in the dining room. As she calmly sipping her tea, she saw three people; the ones who stood behind the children had grabbed both Gill and Liliana and shouted to the others warnings, while the children started crying. Samantha cried in horror as she watched her children were taken as hostages, Glenn quickly pulled his half-sister back to his side while the other family members gathered at the corner of the room. The door was slammed open and revealed a flushing-face Leon with the other members. Slowly opened her right eye, she saw Leon's gaze fell onto her before he looked at the three invaders in front of Suzume.
She knew troubles have come to this place.
-Autumn, November, Somewhere in Italy-
"Boss! Boss! Where's the boss!?"
Several people in black suits turned around when a young man dashed in into the premise frantically, before he had to stop at the wall and leaned against it, trying to catch his breath. Several men came to him to support him. After a while, he finally breathed calmly before he proceeds to go to one of the rooms upstairs. He was carrying urgent news for his boss.
As he reached the third floor, he quickly walked down the pathway where he met with the last room at the end of the pathway. It only had a single door, but the decoration that was crafted on the door showed that the owner of the room was someone in high position. It was thick and painted with the same color of the wood but beautiful. The said man grabbed the knocker, made of metal and knocked the door twice. He waited for some time and slowly, the door was opened and revealed a man half-naked, stared at the man in front of him.
"Have something for me, Adonis?"
"Yes Darius-sama. It's a letter from "that person"," Said the man named Adonis as he gave a letter with wax seal to the man named Darius. The door was half wide open and it was the same man that met the 25th Boss of the Vulpa Family –Darius Deneiro. He narrowed his eyes as he saw the latter and asked Adonis when did it arrive.
"Just now, Darius-sama. It was sent through the raven with a silver chocker attach around," Said Adonis.
'A raven with a silver chocker…definitely 'him'…' He thought as he tore apart the letter and read it:
Darius,
By the time you receive this letter, I hate to tell you that our opponents seem to realize our movements. The spell that you've cast upon 'them'; some already were got purified and protected under some powerful spell. For some reason, I can't help but to believe that there is a shaman among 'them' and the cause of the sudden purification. I don't know who this person is, but let me tell you this: our attempt to seize the Vongola Rain Ring and defeat its bearer Yamamoto Takeshi had failed due to one interference. Someone with the same kind as us, someone who is a bearer of powers different that the Mafioso.
You should know what kind of people right?
Due to the fail attempt, one of our men is injured, but we will precede our plan as usual. We'll wait for information that our spies that infiltrated into the Vongola Family. Right now, do whatever you can even if you just want to have some 'fun'.
Counting on you.
SC
Darius stared at the letter annoyed as he read the last paragraph. Oh how he wish to castrate this person so that it was unable to have fun like what it mentioned in the letter! He sighed as he flipped the letter and said to Adonis, "Is the plan on the Bonfilio Family going like usual?"
"For moment yes, we just need to wait for their report tonight."
Darius Deneiro nodded his head to the young man and closed the door. He looked at the floor and his gaze fell onto a large sigil that was drawn to the floor. It was drawn with unknown descriptions, symbols and letters, and at the upper left of the sigil was almost fade away. He bent down and touched the fading area, and frowned.
He knew it was impossible to remake the same spell again.
However, he knew he can do more with the other parts of the sigil. As he stood up, his gaze fell onto the large, king-size bed where a young woman was lying over, naked. Her face and skin were pale although she was breathing weakly, and on her chest laid a pebble-like crystal that became dim. He walked to the bed, picked up the crystal and stared onto it. Slowly, his hand was glowing and the light went into the crystal, making the crystal lighter than before. After the light was gone, he bent down and pushed the crystal onto the woman's chest, before it was absurd and disappeared into the woman's chest.
"Surely the 'survivors' won't happy to see this spell again, oh well…" He sighed as he grabbed the blanket and covered her up. As he closer the bed curtains, he looked over his shoulders where another young woman, clad only with transparent night gown, was tied onto the wall. Her body was shaking and her tears stained her face; she looked very afraid and jolted whenever Darius stepped further to her. As he stood in front of her, he raised his hand and slowly, yet painfully, traced her neck point down to her navel, encircled with his point finger. He could feel that she was trembling all over.
"But I won't be as cruel as Umenomiya Shirou who's the one that starting all this messy spell, in the first place…"
-Autumn, October 2, Bonfilio Mansion, Suburban Rome, Italy, Day 11of Tsuna's Missing-
Suzume widened her eyes as she heard the news of the Rain Vongola Guardian was attacking by some mysterious enemy, a day after she left the place. She sighed as she remembered what Stella had told her about the same thing, but with something additional only she would know.
"Are you sure about this Shouichi?" Asked Suzume through her laptop.
"Yes I am. Yamamoto is under treatment but Shamal-sensei said that his injuries are quite serious too. Mukuro and Sasagawa-san (Ryohei) were able to help him before everything got serious…" Shouichi could only sweat drops as he saw his superior pulled her hair out of frustration.
"Kusoo~! I knew this would be happen even though I just left the mansion! Damnitdamnitdamnit…!" Several curses were out from Suzume's mouth which enough to make Shouichi nervous than ever.
Suzume held her forehead as she tried to consume the information given by Shouichi to her. From Rokudo Mukuro's report, apparently the enemy was only one but enough to defeat Yamamoto without having serious injuries inflicted on his body. Besides, according to Yamamoto, the enemy was the same person the Guardians had encounter during their mission in Bonn, Germany. But the thing that really disturbing she was the words that Yamamoto had said before he unconscious.
The same person's 'forehead has a glowing symbol of planet' that attacking him and the other Guardians back in Bonn, Germany!
And the symbol was glow with dim green light!
Suzume knew damn well what it was mean about!
She seriously know it better than anyone in the Vongola Family, saved Stella. She knew from the beginning that "those traitors" were already participating in this chaos, but she never thought that they had intention on Vongola Rings. She also knew that they must have done something upon the Bonfilio Family that made them go against the Vongola when in the first place, they was one of the families that remained neutral to anyone in the Mafia World.
However she decided to focus more on her current situation, as she said to Irie, "Alright Shouichi, thank you for the information and please told Reborn-san, Lal-san, Colonello-san and Timoteo-san that I already received the reports regarding the assault on the HQ. By the way Shouichi, please tell Reborn-san, Kyouya, Ryohei-kun, Lambo, Fon-san, Fran if he already reached the Vongola HQ, and Bianchi-san to prepare to be summoning to Rome this evening. The things still in progress, but I need them, especially Kyouya to be on standby mode. Perhaps the mission needs more people than I thought."
"Roger that Suzume-san and please be careful." With that, Shouichi excused himself from the line and Suzume turned off the laptop after the conversation.
She thought about what Shouichi report to her had. He told her that only Mukuro, Ryohei, Reborn, Stella and Shouichi himself that knew about the enemy's differences as well as some strange attack that was able to save the Guardians from attack. Suzume knew who was the one who helped them, but just like the others, it was very clear that she felt very disturbing when it comes to the enemy with a symbol glowed over his forehead.
Suddenly she remembered Arashi and Andy back in Namimori. If the "traitors" already made their moves in Italy, they must have sent some of their people to Namimori right? Since that was where people who are related to Tsuna lived…
Cursed loudly, she grabbed her cell phone and dialed several numbers. She had to move faster than those people, or otherwise the Vongola and related people would face critical crisis!
She had a bad feeling about this.
-Autumn, October 2, Vongola Mansion, Sicily, Italy; Day 11 of Tsuna's Disappearing-
Hibari was packing his belongings when someone knocked the door and revealed Kusakabe Tetsuya, Hibari's right-hand man of Foundation Organization. He came in after Hibari gave his approval, along with a brown file which the tall man was holding under his arm.
"Kyou-san," He said as the tall man handed a file to him. "This is the instructions (better to say orders but knowing Hibari…well Tetsu knew better not to say it obviously) that Suzume-san gave to Irie Shouichi a half an hour ago."
"From Suzu-nee?" He asked as he grabbed the file and opened it.
"Yes. Apparently she was somewhere in Rome, and was staying at some place that she refuses to tell, however she seemly fine according to Irie-san. Also, Irie-san had told her about what had happened to Yamamoto-san and she asked for the security to be tighter than before," Reported Kusakabe.
Hibari grunted as he read the contents. Apparently not much was given by Suzume, however she did mention that the Vongola Base in Rome was evidently under attack after sending their last report regarding the Aerial Hotel, and all the members including Paulo Rubardo, the head of the Base were missing. Suzume concluded the reports by saying that she was investigating the cause of the invasions as well as how much damage the base had suffered.
"And by the way Kyou-san, Stella-san asked me to deliver this to you," Said Tetsu as he handed a large box that was tied up with white mizuhiki (5). It was a large, square white box and seeing Tetsyu was carrying it leisurely, Hibari judged that inside the box contained clothes. He did not found it surprise since he always saw the Vongola girls (Kyouko, Haru, Hana, I-Pin and Bianchi, sometimes with Yuni) shopping with lots of boxes and shopping bags; usually Tsuna, Gokudera, Yamamoto and Ryohei were the carriers.
"She asked me to give to Suzu-nee?" Asked Hibari as he took it from Tetsu.
"Yes, apparently she asked Stella-san to retrieve it from her quarters and to give it to you. Stella-san said that she wanted this clothes to be sent to Rome, but must be through her cousin which is you, Kyou-san," Explained Tetsu. "She said that only her relatives and close friends know what exactly contains in this box."
Hibari narrowed his eyes. He realized that on the knot of mizuhiki, he saw a small seal paper which was attached on it. Immediately he knew what exactly he had to carry, and silently put them into his luggage.
"Do you know what exactly she asks for, Kyou-san?"
"Ah…" He said. "It's something that Arashi had as well."
"Arashi-san?"
"Yeah," He said as he slowly traced the seal.
"It's Suzu-nee full regalia…"
-Autumn, October 2, Vongola Rome Base, Suburban Rome, Italy, Day 11of Tsuna's missing-
Suzume stared at the large screen inside Vongola Rome Base.
Apparently during the unexpected invasion that leading to the mysterious missing members of the base, the screens inside the base were not damage, which earned her questions about them.
"How's the situation, Suzume-san," Suzume turned around and face-to-face with Avan Bonfilio, the second eldest son of Bonfilio Family. Behind him, several men from the said family were busy repairing the damages that inflicted in the base. Some of them busy connecting the wires, some were hammering the walls, repairing the floors, sweeping and mopping, moving the trashes and broken furniture etc. Ella and Gill could be seen giving orders to the maids and staffs regarding what they need to do; despite each of them were busy cleaning and repairing as well.
"It's going to be good, Avan-kun," Suzume bowed to the young man humbly and said, "Thank you very much for you and your family's help. Without this help, there is no way that the base can be repair in such short time."
"No, no, we're in huge debt of you Suzume-san. Without you, maybe something bad would happen to my family and our anger towards Vongola might be increase as well."
Suzume smiled as he heard Avan's words. Then one of the men called for Suzume and Avan, telling that the illusion casted by Paulo was finally dissolved. Both of them walked immediately towards the super computer that previously protected by the head base Paulo Rubardo. As the others begun their inspection on the computer, Avan looked at Suzume as he started to refresh the incident that led her to revealed her as Vongola's acquaintance.
After the unsuccessful murder attempted made by the three disguise masters and were shoved to the Bonfilio's underground prison, Leon started to accuse her of being a Vongola spy; he had the suspicious that 'Sharon Knowles' was more than being a former bodyguard and investigated about her. It turned out that the said person actually did not exist, and he was about to warn the family when the attempted attack begun. When he came into the dining room with the other members, he was shock to see both Gill and Liliana were taken as hostages, but the villains that were holding them seemed to be under fire; they were shaking and pale faces. The family members were all gathered around the Don while he tried to calm down his crying wife, begging someone to save her children. Everyone went to the corner except Suzume, who was calmly sipping her tea.
When she stood up slowly, Avan was surprise to see how dark, frightening her eyes were. Her smirk seemed like a person who lust for the blood, and her dark aura that surrounding her caused the temperature dropped down almost immediately. Everyone in the room were shaken involuntarily as they could feel a dark, frightening aura slowly bloomed within the room. He accidentally looked down and almost shrieks in fear, upon seeing shadows on the floor were all linked to Suzume!
Then…
He quickly shook his head, too afraid to refresh the incident that finally connected his family with the Vongola's acquaintance and her true reason came to Rome. He looked at the elder woman and somehow wonders who exactly this woman was, and how come she had become such a calm woman but with hidden dark potential?
"Avan-san, the wires are successfully repaired," Said Leon, waking him up from his world of dream. "So the computers can be connected to the large screens."
"Good job Leon," Said Avan as he nodded to Suzume. She turned around and thanked the technicians that repairing the computers and wires, before asking them to not to touch the super computer due to the information inside the said computer. The technicians nodded their head as they left; no one's wanted to disobey her words after what had happened that morning in their family's ground. He could see Suzume pulled out something from her pocket, which seemed to be a pendrive and connected it to one of the USB ports. She typed something on the computer and waited for a moment, before she clapped her hands and left the place silently. Avan realized she wore a dark visor that he did not see before.
"I'll connect the super computer with my visor so I can see whatever Paulo was trying to save," Said Suzume as she pinched on the right side and revealed a small microphone. Hi-chan flew over her head and landed onto Suzume's finger. Ella who finally finished cleaning the third floor saw the small, fluffy bird and came down.
"I really like Hi-chan. Can I play with her after everything done?" Asked Ella hopefully. Suzume opened her visor and stared at Avan, before both of them chuckled and looked at the young girl.
"Yes, you can but Leon and Glenn need to accompany you," Said Suzume while Ella pouted.
"WHAT?" Cried Glenn.
"I'm not a kid anymore!" Protested Ella.
"But you can't forget the people who tried to assault you before Ella. It's better if some men accompany you for safety," Hearing Suzume's words made Ella unhappy, but she had no choice but to agree with it. "Besides, playing at the outside near the trees and small bushes might be good since it's already hot."
Although Vongola Rome Base was located in abandoned warehouses, it took the last lot that really near the forest, and the place that Suzume mentioned was at the back entrance of the base. In other words, the base was looking more abandon and creepy due to its location near the forest making it a suitable hidden base.
Ella sighed as she nodded her head. Suzume just smiled as she patted her head, "Don't worry Ella, I will try my best to help you and your family, but first I need to contact my friends at the HQ." Suzume looked up and saw that the base was almost recovered from the damages or anything that could make it dirty like before earlier. She walked to the platform where the computers and screens where located and pushed the ON button for power generator.
"Is everyone ready?" Said Suzume loudly, as she started the communication line.
"Yes!" Everyone said.
"Thank you for your help! I'll be contacting you guys for more help!" She said while looking at Avan and Ella.
The others just chuckled as they moved. The members of the Bonfilio family quickly gathered their things, pick up any trashes or rumbles and leave the base. Suzume raised her thumb up, while typing on the keyboard while waiting for the signal to be received by Vongola HQ. Avan, Leon, Ella and another person were standing behind the platform, waiting for Suzume's next move.
At the same time at the Vongola HQ, Irie Shouichi who was resting from his search for any clues of Tsuna's disappearing suddenly jolted up from his seat when a signal code from the Vongola Rome Base reaching the HQ. He almost fell down from his chair due to his shock, but quickly regained his posture as he read the code. He widened his eyes as he realized that it came from the base that they lost contact two weeks ago. He quickly picked up his headphone and called Reborn and the others to come to the briefing room. Gokudera and Lal were the ones who arrived when Irie started to decode the signal.
"What is it Irie? Did something happen?" Asked Lal as she arrived. Behind her was Gokudera, followed by Colonello, Ryohei, Reborn, Lambo, Fuuta, Mukuro, Chrome, Fon, Kusakabe and Hibari.
"I received the signal that came from the base in Rome!" Said Irie, which earned several people's attentions. "I'm trying to decode it so that we can come in contact with the base!"
"Finally…we had a contact with the base," Said Gokudera as he sighed. "But what about Suzume-san? Is she still searching for the clues or whatever she had to do in Rome?"
"Despite her attitude, I won't be surprise if the one who contacting us in Rome is Suzume herself, "Everyone turned around and saw Stella along with Bianchi, Xanxus, Timoteo, Ganauche and Squalo, stood at the entrance.
"Stella-san!" Said Irie as he turned around as well as Gokudera. Unfortunately for Gokudera, Bianchi did not wear her goggle so his reaction was…as usual…
"ARGH! Aneki! Urgghh~!" He groaned, and fell to the ground, with foams in his mouth. Fuuta, Ryohei and Lambo came to his side, asking if he was alright, while the others were sweat dropped (minus some people that you know who…).
"Ara Hayato, why are you lying here at all places?" Asked Bianchi. Irie and Stella just stared at her and wondered if the lady actually realized what she had done to her own brother?
"How do you know it is her?" Asked Mukurou, earning everyone attention again as he leaned against wall. Hibari did the same although he chooses the farthest wall from the crowd, since he hates crowding.
Kusakabe led Stella to the nearest chair and helped her sit down. Xanxus followed by and sat next to her. Being in her 7th month of pregnancy, it made her exhausted easier than her first trimester. "She did send us her updates, wasn't she?" Said Stella as she sighed. "Besides…"
"Whenever she receives any undercover works, she rarely send any messages until she managed to get somewhere that she can trust and contact her comrades," Said Stella with seriousness that rarely shown, even Xanxus, Reborn and Squalo were impressing with her expression. "Especially since she was a former police of Keishishou (Tokyo Metropolitan Police Force) several years ago, so I do know some of her MO."
"I see…" Said Mukurou when Irie shouted that he had successfully deciphered the code. Everyone stared at the large screen in the briefing room until a clear image of Suzume, who was sitting on chair, appeared.
"Greetings everyone!" Said Suzume with a polite smile.
"Suzume-chan~!" Said Stella cheerfully. Her action made everyone tried to prevent themselves from laughing.
"Otomi, we're no longer kids anymore…" Said Suzume as cloud of gloom appeared over her head. "Frankly speaking, don't make that child you're carrying to be in the same sense as you are or Xanxus would cry out loud."
"Who's going to cry woman!" Said Xanxus, a bit annoyed.
Suzume just ignored him, which made almost everyone, including Squalo almost laugh since Suzume managed to make fun of Xanxus, which something rarely seen. Besides, Suzume is one of the rare people that can talk straight to Xanxus and did not fear him. How did both of them confront with each other was unknown since they too, rarely seen each other.
"That's so lame, Suzume…" Said Otomi (Stella) as she pouted. "By the way, where are you right? I read the reports that you sent and the mission that you undergo is in Rome, and the signal we received in from our base in Rome. So you're in Rome?"
"I am in Rome," She said as she whirled her chair. "In fact, I'm in one of the enemies' territory."
"WHAT!?" Cried everyone, shocked. Both Reborn and Timoteo looked at each other before Nono asked her.
"Which family's territory you are now? Did you get caught?"
Suzume suddenly frowned before she glanced over her shoulder. Everyone watched through the screen as a silhouette of a man slowly appeared from behind and approached Suzume who's slowly faced back the Vongola members. Timoteo widened his eyes as he finally realized who the man who's now standing behind Suzume.
"You're…"
"Greetings, Vongola Nono…" He said, as the green eyes looked at the former Don Vongola. "My name is Trevor Bonfilio of the Bonfilio Family."
End of Chapter 11
Hints or Explanations:
(1) The Conditions of Blood Donator – In my country, several conditions are put for the blood donators if they want to donate their blood and I am one of the donators. According to rules and regulations, if someone wants to donate his or her blood, at least this person:
-is 18+; if less then Guardians' permission is required,
-weight must be 45 kg and above,
-sleeps at least 5 hours,
-no medicines like antibiotics taken before or less than a week,
-healthy on the donation day,
-no medical problems; if you did undergo treatment for Hepatitis A & B, you're not allowed to donate blood
- taking some heavy food before and after donating the blood or otherwise you'll faint
-Did not involve with homosexual, bisex, both or working as sex worker and not a partner of these people (blood will be test even after the donation was done to avoid AIDS or HIV and other diseases infected other people),
-not misused drugs through injection,
-Last donation is more than 3 months.
(2) Renalto Sinclair – Reborn's real name. It was revealed in one of interviews with Akira Amano that this is his real name before he changed it to 'Reborn' after being cursed as an Arcobaleno.
(3) Yubi-tsume – A ritual in Yakuza world when one of the members failed to gain any achievement in his missions, he had to cut off his own pinky fingers. It started with the member to grab a knife or tanto, drank sake to overcome the fear and/or pain, before stabbing the finger by him. It is said that it was done to reclaim his pride due to failed mission, and some people said that it also to show loyalty towards the group.
(4) Yumemi – A dream seer. A person who has the ability to see a future through dream or sometimes can invades other people's dreams, and their strengths were different from one another. Some stronger dream seers had to sacrifice certain parts of their body as compensation of using strong powers, but there are few among them that was born with stronger strength without even making sacrifices. There even some that can use this ability to kill people's soul through dream.
(5) Mizuhiki – it was decorative woven cord made by washi paper. It is used to create festival ornaments, envelope decorations and traditional headwear.
Review Replies:
Thank you to all of you who're kindly reviewing this story. So here are the replies for my dear readers:
Xeyuxe20: You're very welcome my dear, I'm glad the second special chapter had helped you clearing some confusion that I made. Sorry about that. Regarding your questions:
a) "If I may ask tho is this princess of chaos still an enemy of Vongola?"
-As it has been mention in special chapter 02 (Chapter 12 according to the FFN chronology), Princess of Chaos apparently not attach to any kind of families. The assassin was seemly to despise people who refuse to answer someone's help, thus threatening the Salestry Family to have a nice cooperation with the Vongola. However, since majority of the Mafias feared her that they want to have almost zero connection to this person therefore her status as an ally or enemy to the Vongola is not clear at the moment.
b) "Just why would she do that if she torture tsuna in the past?"
-Based from the stories of the people who involved in the Bleed Incident, Princess of Chaos did not torturing Tsuna like people assumed that she did. The scar that Tsuna had was actually made to let the poison that was injected into his body out from the blood system. However, since it was made in very 'assassination' way, with a piece of clothe was tied around his arm to slow the bleeding and Fon once encounter the said person in the past, the Guardians believed that she was the one who tortured Tsuna. Until Shamal told them that a poison was detected in the blood stream that they realized she just wanted to help Tsuna.
Well, I won't do like Chu-chan made for her story but yeah, the misunderstanding still not yet to be clear among Tsuna and his family and it's still far away from my plan. Just wait and see…
Guest: Hehehe, thank you for loving this story and I hope you enjoy this story.
akumubride: Hey, thanks for the review my friend! You gave me lots of questions that almost made me drown in shock! Regarding your first question, I hope you can refer it to xeyuxe20's replies since I answer the same question just like you.
Regarding the third big incident (the "That Incident 4 years ago") yes, not only Reborn, but even Timoteo, Tsuna, Katagiri Kamui and Arashi knew what kind of incident that happened 4 years before the story start.
ManamiYuki: Damn, seeing you bragging on how you got high marks despite studying last minutes really makes me jealous to the death! Hehehe…just kidding, you better watch out even though you're just a first year high school student!
Well…this chapter will explain the said incident as well as the infamous assassin that almost all the Mafioso families refused to has a connection with her. I hope you enjoy the story!
Glassed Loner: Oh my, thank you for liking this story my friend, I really appreciate it!
Well, most of my readers told me that they also exactly like you; felt reluctant to read this story in the beginning but then started to follow it. I don't know why, but I do think it might be due to me who am did not like to follow the mainstreams easily like everyone else (the mainstreams usually about Tsuna got abandoned due to accidental killing or slowly got apart from friends due to lost interest, someone new appeared and usually as Tsuna's hidden twin which is more awesome than him or simply because of their current lifestyle after battle) and decided to choose against the norms.
Also, detective-mystery theme is rarely done by many authors, but for me it's really interesting to do. I'm mostly got inspire by many US' detective dramas like CSI and Law & Order: SVU, and for manga usually from Young Kindaichi's Case Files. Yes, that's why the OCs acting independently and different than the Canon Characters.
When you're mentioning the tenses are a bit jumping from one part to another, sometimes it's because of writer's block or 'writer's blue' that usually disturbing me after certain part of the story. However, if you realize it I did mention before that the storyline is not consistent like the usually arrangement. I decided to make it unparallel because of Tsuna's journey period which is several days earlier than the people in the Vongola Mansion as well as to make other 'shock' elements in more than one part of the story. Also, there were certain reviews that complaining there were not enough Tsuna's scenes and saying other parts of the story as annoying which actually piss me off! Because of these kind of reviews I almost terminate this story for revenge if not because I consulted my friend! Seriously rude!
I'll try my best to improve my writing, but to be honest with you it's been more than 5 years since I left high school so I don't know whether my skill in English is better than ever (English is a compulsory language to learn), but I love English more than what I thought! I'm glad that I finally had someone who likes the 2795 or any hetero relationship story like me. Thanks for telling me my dear!
Arciia: Oh my, sorry for making you cry. How dare me? Of course I dare! Please cry more MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA~!
You're asking me what is "Costa Notre"? The spelling is actually Cosa Nostra that is been used to refers to Mafia but my damn computer always remake it as the said term!
Romario? Hmm…please guess hehehe!
Mona: Hohoho, you're welcome and of course I'm still alive. I'm glad that I decided to make the other special chapters to answer your questions, especially when I realize the length was way too long…again, as well as listing the characters so far despite there are some that I was unable to put too.
I know what you're saying. Sometimes there are some authors that making the abandoned or tragic story way too much that I wonder if they wanted to torture Tsuna or what? Sometimes I even questioning the purpose of making the said stories and usually when I realized the stories are not in my preferable I just abandoned the stories, no more reading. But I never say that I did not accept the guardians who're against Tsuna, don't know why either.
Oh and by the way the audio system is way beyond repair so I had no choice but to leave it like that, I'm broke. Damn it!
I have to say you manage to pinpoint one of the important elements in the story aside akumubride-san that managed to ask me so many questions last time! Unfortunately I have to limit the answer in fear of spoiling the next chapter!
a) "What did the enemy mean about Tsuna not being the "true successor" when only those with Giotto's blood relation (along with the said guy's approval) can be able to even obtain the Vongola ring in the first place?"
-Up until this moment, I can't reveal what exactly these people mean it to Yamamoto, however it actually disturbing Yamamoto and the people whom he told to the most, mainly Reborn, Irie, Stella and Suzume. It was an obvious fact that those without the bloodline of the Vongola, neither through Giotto (Primo) or Ricardo (Secondo) bloodline that the last remain was Timoteo, the ring itself will rejected it just like Xanxus. And yes, Suzume learnt about Vongola when she started working with Tsuna.
It was unknown how Byakuran did to the rings in his case during the Future Arc, but it might be due to the help of Mare Ring although Mare Ring is actually weaker than Vongola Ring. Vongola Ring had to be reducing its power (thus changing its appearance according to Giotto) in order to achieve the same substance of power with the Mare Ring and the Arcobaleno Pacifier. Therefore, whatever the enemies were doing is still unknown.
You already foresee the answers in your review mona-san, and I had to say it's quite shocking me as if you knew what I was thinking! But the story still far from the critical moments so please enjoys the story as well.
Finally done! DONE! DONEEEEE! AH I'M SO RELIEF SINCE THIS IS BEING MADE WAY TOO LONG! SORRY FOR THE LATE UPDATE MINNA~!
Ever since my PC's audio system was no longer function, I have to use my android phone to listen to the songs. It's really hard since this makes me recharging the phone many times and I can't just open the file to switch songs like I did with my PC. No, the sound system no longer can be repair and if I want to, I have to change the whole motherboard! It's very expensive and I don't enough money right now! Despite that, I'm still searching for new songs (whether the current ones or a few years back; mostly anime songs hehe) and lately I managed to get myself downloading and watching 'Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica' (before the damn PC got crazy! Yeah, I only can still watch animes but with no sounds~~!), the one that Gen Urobuchi (usually call him 'Butcher') worked before he done with Psycho-Pass and found this song: Magia by Kalafina. I love most of Kalafina songs since this group is collaborate with Kajiura Yuki-san, one of the outstanding composers in Japan's music field. Before, she also collaborated with Fictionjunction YUUKA (check on Madlax's OSTs) and Fictionjunction YUKI (probably in Pandora Heart's OP song).
Ah, if any of you had watch 'Soredemo Sekai wa Utsukushii' (Even So, the World is Still Beautiful); you will found an insert song in Episode 11, which actually was not in the OST CD, called 'Ame Okuri' (Farewell Rain) by Chisa Yokoyama. I've got two versions (after searching like hell in the net); short sentimental version and anime-scene cut version. It's a very beautiful song that when I first heard it, I cried so much.
And here's some of the sneak preview of chapter 12:
A 12-year-old girl with black hair that barely passed her lower jaw slowly sit up from the middle of burning earth, before she stopped and stared at the cold bodies at her surroundings. Her whole body was aching terribly, her neck was bloody wounded although the bleeding was stopped miraculously; all in all she was injured terribly. A Blue Star insignia with lighting sparks embalmed on her left chest, showing that she was one of the people who participated in the gruesome battle.
Until we meet again. Thank you for those who read this story, I really appreciate it. Ja ne. –Aoi Kitsukawa.
