'Thoughts'

"Talking"

Spells/Other's thoughts/Skills

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{Korin's Voice}

Inner Voice

Chapter 4 The Upcoming Chaos

Korin sighed as he walked down the streets; he has a troublesome time since he came here.

There was that weapon tuner that came to Tsuna's house and turn most of the weapon of Reborn and Gokudera upside down and it was pure coincidence that there are assassins at the same time are trying to kill Tsuna via injecting a deadly poison. It was thanks to the fact that Gokudera is under the malfunctioned effect of the Ten-Years Bazooka courtesy of Lambo of the Bovino Family that turned him into a five year old as well as Korin's own ability to pin-point life energy from them that they are able to take them down, with help of Tsuna in her Dying Will Mode, that caused her to strip out of her clothes in her undergarments and causing her to very bad memory of being half-naked in front of her crush, although Korin had to admit that she is much more beautiful that she put herself to be.

Another time was that they went to the beach thanks to one of their classmates, Sasagawa Kyoko's brother's invitation. The girls were harassed by the senior lifeguards there, Tsunahime included who by the way, looked astonishing in her two-piece swimsuit in all comments by the guys there despite her being extremely embarrassed at the swimsuits her female friends had picked out for her; and if Korin didn't stood up, they might ended up being raped by them. The additional swimming contest that the senior lifeguards cheated via getting their juniors to ambush Gokudera and Yamamoto at the turning point of the island didn't really change much as Korin win it face-down by shundou-ing all the way, while saving Tsuna when she tried to save a child getting sweep away by the ocean currents.

The summer festival after that was as bothersome for Korin's sake. He was dragged by Reborn to help Tsuna to sell 500 chocolate bananas to pay for the damage of Yamamoto breaking the wall in the auditorium that somehow Gokudera is involved and Korin never did found out why. That later Korin was dragged into the fire when Hibari has to appear later for the placement fee or whatever that is and he was chased by the prefect for a rematch after he defeated him hands down.

Not sure what happened next but he ended up at the shrine where a large amount of delinquents are gathered and they were all defeated with ease with help of Gokudera and Yamamoto as well as the Dying Will Tsuna, giving Korin another good look at her developing yet sexy body. It, however, ended well with everyone watching fireworks.

Then there is that time with the Test of Courage at the graveyard that Korin decides to pair up with Tsuna to keep Reborn from traumatising the poor girl for life. Thanks to Korin's presence, Tsuna was much more at ease, much to the bomber's jealousy, and they were able to handle all the scary points. Of course, there is the part where Bianchi, a hitwoman that originally wanted to kill Tsuna to get Reborn back but became Tsuna's home-economics home tutor, shows up with a truly gruesome face make-up that truly terrified Tsuna and got her running for her life. To make matters worse, the poison lady's dead ex-boyfriend appeared and tries to drag Tsuna into the afterlife. Thanks to Korin, who arrived in time to exorcise the poor spirit with a few talismans he made himself. Thankfully, Tsuna was unconscious at the time so she never saw the spell being placed down and the others never truly figured out what happened that night.

"This town sure is much more bothersome than I hope for…" Korin sighed, 'Not just that, there are reports of Namimori students being attacked one after another. This is rather troubling… I better find the truth and fast…' This is why he had skipped school today to look around town for the culprits responsible.

He then heard an explosion coming from the shopping district, 'Okay, there is no such robbery that would use a bomb-related device so…' His guess was as good as any other as he made a dash to the shopping district.

Reaching there, he saw a dude with a beanie and glasses with a barcode on left side of his face in a green school uniform from the town across heavily bruised with blood dripping and covering the right half of his body and face. He then noticed Tsuna, scared stiff with Gokudera unconscious on the ground with blood coming out of the wounds of the needles sticking on his chest.

"Sawada-san!" Korin cried as he ran towards her, just as the beanie guy swings his wrists and send the yoyo flying in the air, and needles flew out of the holes on it.

Korin was able to used Shundou at the last minute and saved Tsuna from being a human cactus, the Knight slides on the ground with Tsuna in his arms, "You alright, Sawada-san?"

"M-Motoyama-san!" Tsuna cried, blushing at their skin contact.

"Tsuna-chan! You alright?-!" At the other side of the street, he saw Yamamoto running towards them.

"Yamamoto!" Tsuna cried.

"Yamamoto Takeshi, get Tsunahime and Gokudera and get out of here." Korin said seriously, letting go of Tsuna as she stood behind him, "I'll buy you some time."

"W-What about you?-!" Tsuna cried.

"I'll be fine." Korin tells her.

"But…"

"GO!"

Tsuna flinched at his raised voice, something that was very rare. Yamamoto nodded in understand and lifted Gokudera on his shoulder like a sack of potatoes, "Come on, Tsuna-chan. We need to get Gokudera to a doctor."

"A-Ah, a-alright!"

"You're not getting away." The dude said as he flicked his wrists at Tsuna, the yoyo spun out.

But this time, a gunshot was heard and the yoyo was blasted out of the air into countless pieces, Korin stood in front of him with his gun ready, "That was a warning shot." Korin said as he cocked the revolver gun, "I don't have to spell it out for you, don't you?"

'Where did he get that gun?-!' Tsuna cried in shock.

"I see… Motoyama Yan Korin…" The dude said, "Seat number 12, Namimori Middle 2-A…"

'Of course! Motoyama-san is tied with Hibari-san for first-ranked in Nami Middle Fighting strength ranking list…' Tsuna realized.

"What of it?" Korin asked, "More importantly, why are you targeting the Namimori students? What purpose are you trying to achieve?"

"That is not your concern." The dude said, "More importantly, you're HIS target, so I can't lay my hands on you."

Korin raised his eyebrow curiously, "Who are you talking about?" He then heard the police coming towards them.

"I need a shower…" The beanie sighed as he walked away, although his face doesn't show it, his body is badly wounded and he is already on the verge of collapsing. "Hey, you!" Korin shouted out, just as he took out a small paper charm as a huge gust of wind blew by causing him to cover his eyes, and then the yoyo guy is gone.

"Who was he…?" Korin wonders, before he remembered the bomber's condition, "Ah, right!" He turned to the two who are still confused on what's going on, "We need to him to a hospital as soon as possible!"

To Korin's disappointment, they brought the unconscious grey-haired Italian transfer student to the school's infirmary instead of the hospital due to the distance between the two. After a while, Bianchi came in asking why her half younger brother is hospitalized here instead of a real hospital with licensed doctors to look after her and Shamal, the so-called school doctor/pervert/lolicon/assassin (That's a lot of slashes for one guy…) tries to attack as always and failed as always.

"He'll die if you take care of him." Korin said after Bianchi demands that she take care of Gokudera, "Besides, even if we leave it to the doctors at the hospital, he wouldn't recover right away. Right now, he needs rest."

"Like he said." Shamal stated.

"Out of honesty, if you take care of him, he'll just fall unconscious from seeing your face."

"True…" Tsuna muttered as Yamamoto just laughed, only to get the fury of Bianchi.

Korin has noticed Tsuna's face when she looked at Gokudera unconscious, 'She's blaming herself for what happened…' He thought, 'That's so unlike a mafia boss…' He sighed, 'But just like her…'

He decides to leave her be and went to the roof to calm his mind down, 'So it was Tsunahime they are after…' He thought, 'But then, what was that wind just now…? I sensed magic energy so it was a magic spell, plus that charm… Are there other mages in this area beside me that I don't know about…?' He looked at the ring on his index finger, 'With this on, he or she shouldn't have noticed I'm a mage as well…' He then noticed Tsuna running out of the school all panicked-like, 'What's with her…?'

"She panicked."

Korin heard the familiar voice of the infant hitman from behind him, "Panicked? What did you do, Reborn?"

"Practically nothing." Reborn tells him, "All I did is told her about the Ninth orders."

"The Ninth's orders?" Korin asked, "What are they?"

"Ah, you're her bodyguard so I guess you deserve to know." Reborn said, "The Ninth has given the orders to find and capture the convict that escaped from the mafia prison who goes by the name Mukuro along with a gang of escaped convicts that he controls, as well as their hostage. Failure to do so is death."

"So she freaked out about the death-when-fail scenario?" Korin said, "It's no surprise. How can an average-" He felt a small stare from the infant, "okay, below average middle school girl, handle something like this? Even if she has the blood of the First Vongola Boss in her, she's still a normal girl. The Ninth boss sure is taking a big gamble on her."

"It just shows how much the Ninth trusts her on this case." The Knight-to-be looked at the infant really full of doubts, "This kind of thing, normally he would just leave it to CEDEF or maybe just sent Ninth Knight for it."

'I doubt that is possible…' Korin thought, remembering how his father is, "Well, I better go look for her." He leaped on the edge of the roof and flashed away.

'No matter how many times I saw it, I still can't believe he is capable of such things…' Reborn thought, 'Even so, maybe that's why he was sent here? [He possessed something mysterious inside of him that may benefit or destroy the Vongola], that was the note that Ray sent me. Mysterious power inside of him… what on earth…?'

Korin leaped from roof to roof, hoping to find that girl that he was in-charge for protecting, "Now where is that loser girl…?" He muttered to no one in particular, and then noticed the girl walking alone on the streets below him, "Ah, there she is." He landed behind the corner in front of her and walked up to her, "So there you are." Korin said, "I was looking for you."

"M-Motoyama-san?-!" Tsuna cried in shock.

"I heard about that order from the Ninth." He stated, "To take on some gang of escaped convicts of the mafia, the Ninth must be going loony… I mean, you are just a normal girl, aren't you?"

"…" Tsuna kept quiet, bangs overshadowed her eyes.

"I wouldn't blame you." Korin sighed, "I mean, how a normal teenage girl can handle a group of ex-assassins?"

"Why are you saying this so lightly?"

"Hm?" Korin looked at the girl, whose eyes has now filled with anger, "How can you say something like this so lightly?-! You know that I'm just a normal girl! You know that I'm no good! I-I… I can't do this at all! I'm just Dame-Tsuna! I didn't even want to be a mafia boss! Reborn just appeared in my life and announced it without a care of my feelings!-! You have no idea how that felt! Dragged into this because I'm related to the First…"

He sighed at the girl's outburst, "Believe me, I know how that feels."

"No, you won't!-!" Tsuna cried, "You're just like Gokudera-kun, right? You are in the mafia since birth!"

"Well, technically, my family isn't your average one but…" Korin muttered, "Like you, I was dragged into the mafia as well."

"Eh?"

"Truthfully, I never even heard about the Vongola until a year ago." Korin explained, "I was attacked, and then saved by my future mentor that told me that my family is actually has the bloodline for the Knights for generations. After that, I was dragged to Kyoto to train and then came here as your guard. So I know how it feels."

"Motoyama-san…"

"But I choose to accept this, unlike you." Korin stated, "I have my personal reasons, but I saw know that continuously rejecting it will not do any good. It is in our blood that we are given this title, but it was also their choice to pick us. What's done is done, you mustn't look back and keep moving forward. That was a phrase that my mother spoke of all the time."

"Motoyama-san… b-but, I'm just Dame-Tsuna, how can I take on someone even Hibari-san can't defeat?" Tsuna asked sadly.

"Is that what you really want?"

"Eh?"

"Fights aren't won by strength alone." Korin said, "If you are determined on winning, you'll find a way to do it. So tell me, is that your real feelings?"

Tsuna looked down at ground, tugging on her skirt, "I… I think what Mukuro's doing is really evil! I really want to take him down, to stop him from hurting more innocent people."

Korin smiled a little, "That's good." The smile seems to make him ten times more handsome, as Tsuna's face turned as red as a tomato just by looking at it.

"B-But… it's impossible for me…" Tsuna added, "I'm just Dame-Tsuna, not some kind of superhero… I can't take on them…"

"They don't seem to think that way."

"Eh?"

"Hime-sama, there you are!" She then heard a familiar voice, "Let me come with you." The bomber tells his boss.

"Gokudera-kun?-!"

"This time, I'll definitely kill that glasses freak!" Gokudera announced.

"B-But, what about your injuries?" Tsuna asked worriedly.

"Those are just scratches!" Gokudera laughed off, before stumbling a little.

'They aren't!-!' She cried.

"I'm going too, Tsuna-chan." She then heard the cheerful voice of the baseball fanatic.

"Yamamoto!"

"The kid told me about the matter with Kokuyo Middle." Yamamoto said, "You're having an inter-school mafia role-play, right?"

'You were tricked, Yamamoto!-!' Tsuna cried.

"I'm going too." They then heard the familiar voice of the Poison Scorpion, "I'm worried about Hayato's condition."

At that same moment, Gokudera faints from seeing his sister's face, 'It has opposite effect!' Tsuna cried.

"Looks like people are gathering under you whether you want or not." Korin said, "Now, the only thing left to do is to charge into their hideout. You know where it is, don't you, Reborn?"

"You're really sharp, Korin." The baby said popping out from behind the wall, "Of course, I have done my research. Their hideout is at the corner of the old highway where it is secluded since the creation of the new highway. Their hostage is most likely to be there as well."

"I've been meaning to want to ask you, who is the hostage?" Korin asked.

"Someone Tsuna knows very well."

…

To be continued…

This shows the start of the Mukuro Arc! FemTsuna
is a little OOC here, but you know teenage girls…
Mood Swings everywhere… Hahaha…

With that, I thank you for reading this!