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The sound of screaming following with loud smack waking him up. A heavy dark aura came out of him even made the baby yokai shivering in his sleep.
Without changing, Reborn stalk out of the room with his partner already turn into a green gun.
"Care to explain to me what the hell happened right now to cause a commotion?!" Reborn growled darkly.
Shamal who had been in grasp of furious and red face Aria seems in cloud nine, between concious and unconcious with a handprint on his face.
"Reborn, this pervert jerk sneaking into my room and watch me sleeping!" Complained Aria angirly as she slapping Shamal's face again back and forth.
Sighing, Reborn massage his forehead. A dark aura vanished from thin air but his gun still pointing into Shamal's head. He knock him with his gun, "Tell me at least you already call your friend?"
"Yes. He'll be here soon just stop hitting my head damnit!" Shamal slap Reborn's gun away from him while trying to break free from Aria's grip. After success doing so, he quickly make a distance afraid if this grumpy hitman will hit him again.
"Have a gut to call me grumpy, Shamal?" A sounds of clicking and he fired.
What how?
Shamal sprawled on the floor look utterly shock and terrified. "The fuck Reborn you almost kill me!" The hitman only rolled his eyes and leaving an angry doctor, letting Aria continue torturing the pervert.
"Alright, alright stop already you two." Grumbling Fon, also not kind of morning person. But the most important thing is why they need to fight in front of his room?! God, he wondered how can he still staying in this place without being insane.
He went to the kitchen and make himself a tea.
"Ah make a coffee for me too, Fon."
Sighing, Fon complied and start to make an espresso after he made the tea. Of course. He didn't know how much he has been sighing this past day after those incident with yokai/fox.
"Here." Fon gave the cup to the hitman who gratefully took it and mumbling thank you. He sat beside the hitman and enjoying his hot tea.
"So, how's the baby fox?"
Take a sip slowly tasting the bitterness in his tounge and sigh blissfully. "Yokai. And still unconcious I guess."
"So, this man doesn't mind with kind of things?"
"Who knows. I've already prepared if it goes wrong thought."
As if his name being called by demon, Shamal shivering and look around frantically after feeling a goosebumps all of sudden.
One by one member of Arcobaleno joined them. Aria already in the kitchen preparing for breakfast humming happy tone while Shamal unconcious on the ground with full of bruise.
"Why Shamal sleeping on the ground?" Asked Skull.
"Aria knocked him out." Answered Reborn calmly as if those are the most normal thing, but well that's true for Arcobaleno's life, so Skull only nod and shrug it off, he decided to help Aria making a breakfast.
Finally after waiting for more than an hour, the doctor arrived. The first time Reborn meet the doctor, in his minds immediately said if this doctor was like an ordinary people. He is around 30 years old, He has unruly short taupe-brown colored hair, with bangs that reach just below his eyes. His eyes are brown in color and seems kind of person. He wears simple gray shirt with long black coat.
"Hi, I'm Nicholas and Nico for short. Shamal said you guys need my help." The man said.
Reborn eyeing the man up and down when Aria walk pass him with secretly giving a warn look and mouthing 'Don't do anything stupid.' then she shoved him an omelette plate before averting her eyes to this young handsome man standing in front of her.
Smile kindly she reached out to shake hands. "I'm Aria and yes, thank you for coming Mr. Nico."
Nico nodding, smiling back to the woman. He quickly reach the hand shake it. "Likewise."
"Oh Nico, this's Reborn." Pointing at the man with fedora who replied with tipping the fedora lightly, holding an empty plate. "he'll be the one accompany you."
Nico only nodding in understanding with wide eyes looking at the guy.
Since when did he ate the omelette? I swear he only held the plate without eating it!!
"Something wrong, doctor Nico?" A bariton tone bring him back to the world and he quickly shaking his head while saying no.
"Alright, follow me." Reborn said, his eyes twinkle with amusement under its fedora.
Nico followed the fedora man cautiously, he feels uneasy near this man for unknown reasons. A words of dangerous repeating itself in his mind. Warily, he let the feeling aside and following the man.
Speaking of his friend, where he is anyway. "Mr. Reborn, do you know where my friend is?" He asked and quickly get in to the room when Reborn opened the door for him.
Staring contest begin between them, made him feeling uncomfortable with the hard stare the man giving him. But he tried to not showed it and remain calm. Until for unknown reason Reborn suddenly smirked under his fedora. The man finally averting his eyes from him much to his relief. "Oy Lackey, go wake that pervert doctor up and have him to come here."
A sharp yes could be heard as a respond.
"He's asleep?" Asked Nico in surprised.
"No."
"..."This guy's insane.
"I just being me." Reborn suddenly said as he walk away from the door and approach the basket, knelt down in front of it and gesturing for Nico to come closer.
Did he reading my mind?
"No, your face like openbook."
Sweatdrop, he felt insulted. Huffing in annoyance Nico approached the fedora man and knelt beside him. He look inside the basket and couldn't hide his surprise to find baby yokai sleep in it.
Speechless consuming him until sounds of coughing gaining his attention. "How'd you find him/her? I thought all of them already being slaughtered by hunters yesterday?"
"Lucky boy, he's survive because of the blast sending his body fall from the cliff before hunters killing them, I guess they think if the kit's not survive after falling so they're not try to check it out."
"Lucky one, huh." Nico picked the baby youkai carefully into his arms and un-wrapped the blanked before put him to the ground. After that he took a telescope from his backpack and check his heartbeat or pulse before moving to check the damage by un-wrapped the bandages to see if there is an infection in the wound.
"His wounds has begin to close. He recovered faster than an ordinary animals I see.." Nico said with awed, he changed the bandages with a new one. "But we need to make sure, I need to take him to m-"
"No."
"Wha- but we don't know-"
"No means no. He recover faster than ordinary animals right? Then he'll be fine."
"If you're worried about him then how about you coming with us?"
Reborn only glaring at the young man. He didn't like someone talked back to him. The tensions between stubborn man and angry hitman almost suffocating.
"What the hell happen here, I can see black thick aura surrounding this room." Shamal wrapped his hand around his body when he feels the cold attacking him.
As if nothing happen Reborn took the baby yokai from the man to put it on the basket again and stood up with basket in his hands.
Shamal quickly step aside when Reborn walk toward his direction, pass him, ignoring his confused look.
After make sure the grumpy hitman out of range Shamal closed the door and approaching his friend. "What the hell happen with you two?"
"I I just want to make sure that the baby fox's all right by bringing him to my vet and do CTR scan tests, but that man make it everything harder.." Nico groaning.
Oh that's why Reborn looks so angry, Shamal massaging his forehead. "I forgot if you such a stubborn man." He said grumbling.
"You can't do that to him if you want to still alive!"
Clacking, Nico take off his telescope and put it back in the bag along with the bandage rolls. After that, he slung his ransel over his shoulder and get up. Facing his old friend. "What's up with him anyway? Does his mood always be like that? He's much worst than my girlfriend."
Shamal clap his hand over Nico's mouth while hissing at his ears. "Goodness Nico! You need to watch your mouth. You don't know who is dealing with."
Nico slap Shamal's hand and raised his eyebrow at the terrified man. "Why do you act like he's some kind of demon?"
"Worst. Reborn's much worst than demon." Shamal shivering in fright remembering when he accidently made Reborn mad and after that he began to appreciate his life more than before.
"Relax man. It wasn't like he can hear us from here." Nico patting his friend's shoulder soothing and start heading out of the room.
"You have no idea." I bet he can hear us even from other side of the world, added Shamal mentally as he following Nico from behind. It seems Nico didn't hear what he just said or pretend not to.
"Alright, my duty is done then. I really hope can known more about that baby yokai."
"Why? Because you want to give the information to the hunters?" Yhe doctor asked bluntly.
Nico staring incrediously at Shamal. "The hell, of course that's not my ittention!"
"You know what, I once read from article about yokai, spirit, demon, or whatever you call them in. I got informations if yokai kitsune growth their tails each years until it full 9 tails and the article says each spirit like Nekomata, Hihi, Inugami, Onikuma, byakko, Kudan, Obake and Kitsune has different hidden power.
Well, I already meet Nekomata once before when I was on the way to my grandma's house at night, it looks like a domestic cat, but I can say if it wasn't, I don't know how but maybe you can understand what I mean when he's waking up.
I still remember it has silverette fur with black on its ears and tail, its eyes are green glowing in the dark. I only can see from a far before the cat hissing at me and dashes away. But well, I can say if the spirit still a baby with one tail."
"So, after you read those articles and meeting between you and that nekomata, you begin to feel interest about them?"
Nico nodded staring into space as if thinking about something. "I want to know more about them, what are they doing in here.. because they must have a reasons why spirits like them showing up and reveal themself in our world. If that hunters manage kills kitsune I'm afraid something will happen."
"I think their existence will not affect our world."
"But don't you feel anything lately after they (The hunters) start killing those kitsune. The occurrence of earthquakes and landslides without any reason that happened. And that happens not just once but fifth per month! So I think there's something or anything hiding under us waiting."
"So you mean whatever it is was waiting for the right time to reveal and end the world?" Shamal start to look interest.
"Yes. I guess its similiar like Arcobaleno as a balancer, while they are a balance between the world of humans and spirits. If one by one the spirit are gone from earth that can be-"
"Doomsday." Shamal said seriously. "We're doomed."
Nico sighing. He scratch his neck and look over the other of the group that was in living room before look back to his friend. "That's the reason why I forcing Reborn to let me take the baby yokai with me. I don't know how many kitsunes remain in our country, if he is the only one left I really need to make sure he's alive and healty till he grown up."
Nico went to the front door when suddenly he turned around with his hand on the doorknob. His face was hard and serious when he staring Shamal. "Shamal promise me if anything happen to that kit call me immedately."
"I promise."
Nodding, Nico says goodbye before left the house in hurry. There's a jurnal waiting for him to write.
"So, do you believe what he said?" A baritone voice said after the man dissapear from their sight jolting the doctor in surprised and almost scream in manly way.
Shamal turn around to find Reborn was leaning against the wall with arm-crossed staring with an eyebrow up. "God, you surprised me. How long you've been there?"
"Long enough to listen all of it."
"Hey, that's rude eavesdropping on other people's conversations." He pointed out.
"You still not answer my question." Said Reborn. It was clear if the hitman changed the subject.
Grumbling, only this time. This time he'll not bring it up. "I don't know 100% yet, but I know about him more than anyone, so I know when he was joking around or not, and that one, I'm pretty sure he's not tried to joking around."
"Is that so? Then why kitsunes didn't show their hidden power to defeat humans?"
"I don't know alright. I still don't know. Maybe they used their power not for humans but something else, they're like guardians the protector of human kind."
"You mean that monster in underground? And the kitsune with other yokai in this world is human guardians?"
"... Yes?"
Without warning Reborn pulled the trigger and almost hit Shamal's head. If Reborn changed the positions of his hand, the doctor could be death.
"Why are you sounds unsure like that, Baka-Shamal?"
"Yes. I mean YES I think that's the reasons why they're here!" Scream Shamal, sweating bullets.
Reborn snort at the pathetic doctor. The gun turned its shape back to Leon the chameleon. "Then, you need to prove it with dear friend of yours if his theory are true."
"I don't know.. but well, we need time to find the answers."
"Hn."
"Reborn the fox show signs of awaken." called Colonello.
They both rushed to the living room to see the others were already there, as best as they could to make a distance between them and the kit, they didn't want to make it scared and fret.
Reborn crouched next to Verde to see the fox's are ears twitching and a slight wiggle its nose cutely. Slowly but surely the eyes opened revealing a bright yellow-orange eyes staring into the space.
{Meanwhile}
Black silhouettes were seen walking in the darkness between shady trees. Its dark black fur is mixed with dried blood, his face had a long scar on its left eye {Similiar like Kakashi from Naruto}. He came back to the land where his family had been slaughtered. He walked to the edge of the cliff where Iemitsu's son last seen.
He looked down to see if Tsuna wasn't there anymore which mean the kit still alive (?) and being kidnapped by humans when he caught a strange footprints on the ground.
He already made promised to his boss to protect his family no matter what. And now, he'll fulfill his vow by saving Tsuna from them even if it kills him.
An outrage and resentment was seen in the only kitsune {He still not sure if Tsuna still alive or already been death. So he assuming if he's the only one survivor} member who survived from the massacre. His eyes blazing widely, he will show them all the true power of kitsune if it really needed, even though he must violate the highest prohibited regulations in the world of yokai.
Done~
And hey, I just watch Aquaman yesterday and the movie for my opinion is really awesome/amazing. I give 10/10 for rating, how about you guys?
Anyway, for reminder: I'll update the story every sunday unless there is an exams or lots of tasks in my campus and sorry for the grammar and mistakes I made, English is not my native language so yeah.