A/N: Thank you for all the reviews, favorites and follows!
Note: This chapter is Tsuna against Mukuro Rokudo, and the previous chapter was Tsuna against Gokudera Hayato.
December 28, 2016: Betaed by Pure Red Crane
Disclaimer: I don't own Katekyo Hitman Reborn so no suing please…!
Chapter Two
"That team would be useless." someone uttered and everyone looked to the source of the voice. There they saw Mukuro, sitting on the floor, holding onto a gun and pointing the weapon in their direction. "Because there will be no survivors." Mukuro added, prompting Gokudera to immediately stand in front of him, shielding Tsuna and muttering a curse under his breath.
"Let's meet again." Mukuro moved the gun he was holding, pointing it to his head. Gokudera and Tsuna let out a bewildered gasp with hint of confusion. Tsuna didn't know what was going on, but he gasped in growing horror when Mukuro smiled that same creepy smile even with the gun pointed at his own temple.
"Arrivederci." Those uttered words of Mukuro were followed by a bang. Tsuna could only gasp when Mukuro pulled the trigger against his temple. He watched as Mukuro's body fell downward with a resounding thud against the floor.
"Why… did he do it?" Tsuna asked hoarsely as he stayed rooted, looking at the now dead body of his once nemesis.
"Tsuna." Reborn said in warning and, almost at the exact time, Tsuna's eyes went wide as he suddenly felt a growing unease in the pit of his stomach. 'What is this feeling?' He stared unseeing at the lifeless body of Mukuro. The thought of watching someone commit suicide right in front of his eyes filled him with horror, but this current feeling…it was the feeling of something going horribly wrong. It was the first he had felt something as terrifying as this.
Tsuna shivered as he felt the temperature of the room go cold, his fingertips slowly turning blue. He heard someone talking, probably Gokudera, but the brunet couldn't register the sound, merely a garble of mishmash words that he couldn't understand. Tsuna looked at the dead body in front of him. He couldn't stop feeling that something would go horribly wrong.
"Reborn," he whispered uneasily. Tsuna slowly turned to look at Reborn's standing form.
"Something is wrong." Tsuna stated in half-panic and half-worry. Reborn turned to him, and then at the dead body of Mukuro with a passive look in his eyes. The brunet idly wondered why Reborn was looking at Mukuro's body in speculation. If Tsuna were to throw a wild guess, he would think that Reborn was waiting for the dead body to suddenly revive. That ridiculous thought somehow managed to ease his growing feeling of wrongness.
Tsuna turned to where Gokudera was standing, but found that the other was gone. Instead, his friend was walking towards the sitting Bianchi. Tsuna's feeling of wrongness returned once again when he saw where Gokudera was heading. However, that feeling confused him. Gokudera was only going to help his sister, nothing more, nothing else, so why was his heart beating so fast?
"Gokudera-kun, stay away!" Tsuna's eyes widened in confusion. 'Ah…What?'
"What am I saying?" Tsuna muttered with confusion as he looked again at Gokudera's direction.
"Don't worry, Jyuudaime. I can handle this." Gokudera reassured, but the brunet wasn't calmed. In fact, it was the opposite. He felt that Gokudera was walking into a trap, but that sense of wrongness was slowly getting familiar...Almost as if…
Tsuna's eyes widened in shock as Bianchi suddenly attacked Gokudera-kun, her own brother, with a trident. The brunet looked at them with alarm. 'Something is wrong…Bianchi wouldn't attack her brother!' His feeling of wrongness suddenly dimmed. He could even feel it in his bones.
"What's going on?" Tsuna muttered confusedly as he stared at Bianchi, who was looking at her hands, lost in confusion. Reborn hopped towards Bianchi, tapping his small chubby hand on Bianchi's forehead.
"Get a hold of yourself, Bianchi." Reborn then landed in front of Bianchi after that. "You just tried to skewer your little brother." Reborn continued with a deadpanned voice. However Tsuna could detect a hint of knowing on that voice.
Bianchi looked apologetic and she opened her mouth, probably to apologize. "I…" Bianchi paused as she looked down at Reborn, and then continued with a hurt look on her face. "What a terrible thing I did!" And with that, Bianchi attacked Reborn with her trident. Reborn dodged rather easily, having already gotten away even before Bianchi made a motion to attack him.
"Reborn!" Tsuna called out worriedly for his tutor. Reborn hopped upward and then landed in front of Tsuna. Tsuna sighed in relief. His tutor was not injured from Bianchi's attack.
"This is troublesome." Reborn said after landing rather gracefully. There was a displeased quality on his voice. Tsuna could identify it as clear as day.
Gokudera didn't try to get up from his sitting position as he inquired. "Is it mind control?"
"No. She's possessed." Reborn answered in a matter of fact tone. Tsuna stilled at that.
"Is…" Tsuna was going to ask if it was really possible, but the horrible feeling of wrongness grew even stronger, making him close his mouth shut with apprehension.
"What are you saying?" Bianchi said in her normal playful voice. Tsuna looked at her. He could feel wrongness on his bones, but sometimes the wrongness also dimmed and it greatly confused him. It made him doubt if what Reborn was saying was really true. But…
'That's not Bianchi…' the brunet thought slowly as he stayed rooted in his spot. His thought was between believing and doubting Reborn's words, but his gut feelings told him to believe. But Bianchi looked normal, she acted like herself...Tsuna shook his head. 'That's not Bianchi.' he thought strongly and his doubt in Reborn's words dimmed and his gut cried out. 'I've felt this odd feeling before.' he realized. With this, his eyes went wide and he gasped rather loudly.
"Rokudo…Mukuro." Tsuna said slowly in a disbelieving tone. His eyes remained rooted at Bianchi's form. Bianchi stood up and let out the same creepy smile Mukuro would make. And as she stood up, Tsuna could see that Bianchi's right eye had the same red color as Mukuro's.
"We meet again." Bianchi – no Mukuro – stated. Tsuna shrieked in alarm, his eyes wide like a saucer. He could feel himself growing pale by the second. "He's back!"
"It's a curse!" Gokudera shrieked at the same time. Both of the startled young teens looked at the newly discovered Mukuro possessing Bianchi's body with wide eyes.
"It's possible, Tsuna." Reborn said. Tsuna wondered why Reborn didn't refute his statement, but it dissolved to the back of his mind because Mukuro was back and possessing Bianchi. That was more important, though he couldn't completely believe that because Mukuro was already dead.
Bianchi let out a creepy laugh, the same one Mukuro had used before. "I still have something to do. I've returned from hell."
He could only look at Mukuro in growing horror as he took a step backward. Meanwhile, Gokudera stared at his possessed sister with determination in his eyes. "Jyuudaime, let me handle this." Even though Tsuna wanted to refuse Gokudera's request, his friend had already stood up and made…ridiculous slashing movements in front of him like what an onmyouji would do to evil spirits. "Rin! Hyo! To! Sha! Kai! Jin! Retsu!"
Tsuna watched in utter bewilderment as Gokudera continued his exorcism. He sweat dropped, not believing that would really work in this situation. Tsuna idly wondered where Gokudera learned this before shooting that thought away when Bianchi made a sort of gagging sound.
"It's actually working?!" Tsuna could only stare incredulously at the sight of Bianchi desperately trying to breathe normally. Seconds later, Bianchi fell to her knees, unclutching the trident and letting it fall away from her.
"Bianchi!" Tsuna called out worriedly for the older woman. He walked towards her worriedly, planning to check her out.
"What happened?" Tsuna asked. No one deigned to answer his question. Tsuna crouched down and was about to see if Bianchi was alright when he felt something oddly wrong and it was coming from…Gokudera's direction.
"Tsuna!" Reborn said in warning. Tsuna turned and saw Gokudera attacking him with the trident. Tsuna dodged and landed on his butt next to Reborn.
"Reborn! Gokudera-kun's been…" Tsuna started in panic. Reborn placated his panicking student with a kick to the cheek. "What was that for?!" He didn't receive an answer because he immediately whipped his head to look in Gokudera's direction when his friend made a Mukuro-like sound of 'Oya'.
"So it wasn't luck." Tsuna saw Gokudera's red right eye and the similar creepy smile. "You're the first to realize that I've possessed someone after one glance." Gokudera, who was currently being possessed by Mukuro, voiced in an amused tone of praise. "You are amusing to no end."
"Though your tutor seemed to know too." Mukuro gave his tutor a questioning look. And before Tsuna could ask what Mukuro was talking about, Reborn spoke.
"You used that bullet, didn't you?" Reborn asked in a serious and…dangerous tone. Despite panicking, Tsuna could still notice that Reborn's voice was indicating otherwise. It wasn't a question at all, but a statement, as if merely stating a fact he already knew. Tsuna looked at his tutor with more question on his face.
'What bullet?'
Mukuro was looking at Reborn with a serious look on his face.
Tsuna easily saw that, despite standing still and face closed off, Reborn was angry, if his voice was any indication. Though he couldn't help but feel that there was something not right about Reborn's voice. It was merely a gut feeling.
Mukuro in Gokudera's body laughed that same creepy laugh.
"So you knew that this is caused by a special bullet?" Tsuna's eyes widened before turning to Reborn in confusion.
"Special bullet? You mean like the Dying Will Bullet?"
"That's right. Mukuro used the Possession Bullet. As its names implies, that bullet allows you to take control of another person's body." Tsuna's eyebrows furrowed in distress as the explanation went. That kind of effect was even worse than mind control.
"That's why Bianchi and Gokudera-kun have been…"
"It was a special bullet created by the Estraneo Family. Not only do you need a strong spirit, but you must also be suited for the bullet." Reborn said. Mukuro merely laughed in correspondence.
"It suits me just fine."
"This is nothing like mind control. I don't control them; I take them over. Which means that this body is mine." Mukuro said with that same creepy smile, raising his hand and using his nails to make a scratch across the throat on Gokudera's body.
When Tsuna saw what Mukuro was doing to Gokudera's body, the brunet yelled in worry, "Stop that!"
Mukuro merely laughed and Tsuna closed his eyes at not being able to stop someone from hurting his friend. "Now, I'll possess you next, Vongola Tenth."
"Me?!" Tsuna' exclaimed, eyes widened in alarm as he pointed at himself.
"I knew it. Your goal is to…"
"It is not my goal! It is my means. My revenge can only begin after taking control of a young Mafia boss." Tsuna could only move backward with fear.
"What are you saying?" Mukuro laughed again as he walked towards the afraid brunet.
"No! Possessing me would be useless! Nothing would come of it!" Tsuna yelled as he moved his hand on top his head for cover.
"Be careful of his weapon." Reborn warned. Tsuna opened his eyes to look at the trident Gokudera was currently holding. "If you're wounded by that trident, he'll be able to possess you." Mukuro laughed and looked at the infant.
"I'm impressed that you know." Mukuro moved forward as if to attack Tsuna, but instead he threw his trident at Tsuna's back. When Gokudera suddenly fell, Tsuna looked at his fallen friend with confusion. 'Huh?'
"Exactly." Bianchi's sudden voice startled the brunet. Tsuna turned to her and noticed that next to her was Hibari. His eyes widened at that. 'No…'
"But I call this ritual a contract." Mukuro, through Bianchi, explained and crouched down. The trident made contact with Hibari's cheek, drawing a small speck of blood. Tsuna gasped at that and Bianchi fell next to Hibari, the trident falling from her grasp with a clinking sound. Tsuna saw Hibari slowly get up and his eyes widened.
"He couldn't have…gotten inside Hibari-san too!" he murmured to himself. Hibari stood up shakily and then made a move forward to attack the brunet with his metal tonfas. Next thing Tsuna knew, Mukuro had hit him on the right cheek. Tsuna fell to the floor at the impact and he could hear that Hibari fell as well.
"Oya. This body isn't of much use." Mukuro muttered through Hibari's body, trying to stand up but unable to. "Fighting in a body like this… what a fearsome man, Hibari Kyoya is." The sentence was followed by a thud when Hibari's body fell on the floor. Tsuna immediately walked towards Hibari's fallen form with a worried look on his face. He also noticed something different.
"Mukuro's presence is gone."
"Be careful. He'll possess either Gokudera or Bianchi." Reborn warned, but Tsuna could hear a deadpanned quality to it and he shrieked in panic at the thought of Mukuro possessing his friends again.
"That's terrible!"
When Gokudera made a move to stand up, Tsuna gazed at his friend, hoping that his friend would be back to normal this time. A second later, Bianchi made a move to stand up and Tsuna shifted his attention to her, wishing that she was back to her normal self. Of course, it was a lost cause because he immediately saw the sign that Mukuro was inside his friends, both of them at the same time. He could only look back and forth between them as he made a disbelieving look. Tsuna should have expected something improbable to happen. "Two at the same time?"
"That's not all." Tsuna turned to look at a sudden disturbance at the door and he paled at what he saw. "There is them too." Reborn stated. Tsuna looked in abject horror as two of Mukuro's companions came in sporting the same red eye.
Tsuna shrieked in panic at the thought that they were going to face four Mukuro's. One Mukuro was already enough on his plate, now there are four of them. The brunet couldn't help feeling helpless about their current situation.
"Possessing four people at once..." Reborn commented, mildly intrigued.
"That's not all." Gokudera threw a handful of dynamites up in the air and all Tsuna could do was run away in panic.
"He can use the abilities of those he possesses as well." Reborn commented after making an observation. Mukuro used Gokudera's body naturally to throw dynamites around like the bomber's normal self would, and with deadly accuracy too.
Reborn immediately sensed that Mukuro would attack him as well and he dodged one of the attacks made by the one enemy named Ken.
"You should worry about your own life, Arcobaleno." Reborn dodged the incoming attack from the yoyo user with his black suit. The hitman lamented in the fact that his precious suit became a shield and promised himself to buy a new one later on. Mukuro continued his attack with dynamites so that all Tsuna could do was to take cover as he grew more terrified.
"The second path, path of the hungry ghost, is the skill used to steal the enemy's abilities." Mukuro explained as he continued laughing.
"This is really bad." Reborn commented. Tsuna couldn't even find it in himself to be indignant. Reborn didn't need to say it out loud. He could see just fine how bad their situation was. "He possessed them and he can use the skill's he's stolen." Reborn summarized and Tsuna idly wondered if Reborn was doing it to make him understand.
Tsuna then felt a sudden heat from his right and when he turned, noticing that magma was coming out of the floor. He shrieked in panic. It was hot. He was going to be toasted alive.
"Save me!" he yelled, not knowing what to do. His friends were against him. He couldn't fight against his friends. Surely, Reborn would do something!
"If possible, I'd like to take you without harming you." He heard Mukuro speak, but he was far gone to his terror to think about that devil's words.
Tsuna's hands were on his head as he protected himself from the sudden heat encompassing him. His eyes were closed tight. "I can't take any more of this!"
"You haven't learned a thing." Reborn commented. Tsuna could hear that Reborn was saying it with a disappointed look on his face. "This is an illusion." Reborn jumped towards Gokudera, and Mukuro took this chance.
"Oh my, you'd better worry about yourself!" The mafia hater flung several dynamites while Reborn was mid-air.
When the dynamites exploded, Tsuna could only gasp worriedly, "Reborn!"
"That shouldn't have killed you, Arcobaleno." Mukuro voiced through Bianchi. From the smoke after the explosion, Reborn suddenly came out of it. Mukuro seized this chance and, with the trident in Ken's hand, made a move to skewer Reborn with it.
"Found you!" Tsuna could only watch with mouth agape.
Mukuro sported a triumphant look on his face at the thought of finally having the Arcobaleno in his possession. He looked a bit shocked when he only managed to stab the fedora. Reborn, with fast lightning skill, took his fedora from Mukuro's trident before landing on the floor in a graceful movement. Tsuna could only look at Reborn with a relieved look on his face.
"I can't help." The brunet could see that Reborn looked apologetic at that moment, despite Reborn still having that cool expression in place. "Tsuna, do something quickly."
"Don't be unreasonable!"
Mukuro started his attack again, using Gokudera's body to throw dynamites in the brunet's direction, making the short boy immediately stand up, hands hugging his head in defense, and then ran away from the explosion.
"This is beyond what I can handle!" Tsuna yelled in the midst of the explosion. He couldn't possibly do something about this. He was Dame-Tsuna. There was no way he could stop Mukuro from this madness. Despite his protest, Reborn continued, even while dodging several attacks from the yoyo guy.
"If you're my student, you can overcome this." Reborn was looking at Tsuna with an indifferent face, but his eyes told a different story.
"It's unfair to use irrational logic like that!" Tsuna retorted, avoiding another explosion. He was a bit happy that Reborn believed him to be capable of overcoming this, but seriously there was just no way he could fix this.
"Your teacher is panicking." Mukuro commented after letting out his creepy laugh. Reborn turned to look at the currently possessed Bianchi with a knowing look on his face. "He's falling into chaos over his student's crisis." Bianchi approached, her hands holding onto poisonous cakes. Reborn dodged those attacks rather easily.
"I'm not lying. Tsuna will overcome this." Reborn stated rather strongly, and then looked at Tsuna's direction. "Your brother, Dino, overcame it too."
At those words, Tsuna stopped running, turning to Reborn in question. He was curious. Why Dino was being mentioned now of all times? "Dino-san?"
"When Dino was my student, he faced a life or death situation. He overcame it and transformed himself. No longer was he the weakling Dino. He became the Bucking Bronco Dino." Reborn explained. Tsuna stood in confusion.
"Became? I don't get it!"
Tsuna didn't know how Dino became the Bucking Bronco. The blond had always been a cool person, though he usually was useless without subordinates. But Dino was Dino and Tsuna was Dame-Tsuna.
"Dino-san and I are-" 'aren't the same.' Before he could finish his sentence, Reborn interfered.
"Above you." Tsuna took one look above him and saw several dynamites. When they exploded, he was flung to the floor and landed on his butt. He gasped in pain.
"That's enough talk. Let's bring this to an end." Mukuro made his way to Tsuna, trident in hand. But before he could attack Tsuna with it, the yoyo-user, Chikusa, fell to his knees with a thud. Tsuna looked at the fallen sight of the yoyo-user and turned to Mukuro.
"It happens sometimes. Even if I take over someone's body, when that body breaks, there's nothing I can do." Mukuro stated with an air of indifference. Tsuna stared wide eyed at that revelation.
"You're forcing them to move even with their horrible wounds?" Tsuna couldn't help but shook a little at that.
"That's why Mukuro didn't possess Hibari." Reborn stated. Mukuro laughed through the fallen body. The weak body was trying to stand up, despite how vulnerable he looked.
"Chikusa can go a little further." Mukuro evaluated.
"If you force him, his wounds will-" Before Tsuna could finish his sentence, Mukuro chuckled.
"I'm fine. I don't feel pain."
With that statement, Tsuna felt anger course through his veins, "Isn't that your friend's body?!"
"That's incorrect. Once I possess them, it's my body. It's my right to decide whether it breaks or dies."
Tsuna stared in ghastly horror at those statements. He shook, not with fear, but on how wrong it felt to him. To think that Mukuro was this heartless to his comrades… "That's wrong."
"Do you have time to be concerned about others when you're about to be killed?" Mukuro said using Bianchi's body. Tsuna averted his gaze from the yoyo-user to Bianchi and Gokudera, who was approaching him and was immediately drawn to the sight of blood blossoming from their wounds.
"You're an amusing man. You're not suited for the Mafia." Mukuro commented. Despite wanting to agree that he didn't want to be in the Mafia, Tsuna was revolted at the thought that he could only watch helplessly as his friend's body was being used for Mukuro's amusement.
Tsuna didn't want to think about what would happen to his friends if those injuries got any worse. Tsuna didn't want his friends to get hurt anymore.
"Please stop this! They'll die!" the brunet yelled with eyes filled with helplessness.
Mukuro merely laughed at his begging and that didn't seat well with the brunet. However, he didn't have time for that. Any more and those wounds would endanger Bianchi and Gokudera.
"I remember now. When you were fighting Birds, you were about to stab yourself to save your girlfriend." Mukuro stated in self-discovery. Tsuna had a bad feeling about where this was going.
"Let's do it that way. Because of your softness, you will be possessed by me." Mukuro started, "Listen well. If you don't want any further harm done to your friends, make a contract with me without trying to run away." Tsuna gulped down.
"N-No way…" The brunet's words were in disbelief and disagreement, but the later was weak against his ears. A part of him believed that his life wasn't important.
"So you do hesitate. In the end, a person like you can't survive in this kind of world. You're not suited to be Vongola Jyuudaime." Mukuro said using Ken's body. Tsuna noticed that Ken was the one holding the trident. Tsuna wanted to refute that he didn't want to be the Vongola Jyuudaime. He didn't even want to be in the Mafia, but he was too afraid to speak up. "Now give me your body."
"What should I do?" Tsuna muttered to himself as he grew paler by the second. He turned to Reborn pleadingly. "What should I do, Reborn?!" Reborn shook his head.
"I can't do anything for you. You must pull it off on your own." Tsuna felt worse by every second, he felt like actually crying because Reborn wouldn't help him.
"That's horrible!" Tsuna sniffed rather loudly. "You always helped me out!" The brunet's voice was layered with plea, begging for Reborn's help inside. He would do anything to see his friends safe. "Don't abandon me, Reborn!" Tsuna said in slight hysteria. In response, Reborn kicked him, making the brunet fall to the cold, hard floor.
"I would never abandon you, Tsuna." Reborn almost hissed at him. Tsuna could immediately tell that the hitman was pissed over something. He felt so helpless that he was almost on the verge of crying. He lay there with his eyes closed. "So stop feeling like that. And remember that I raised you not to be so utterly pathetic." Reborn continued with a slightly emotional voice. Tsuna couldn't help but feel warm. Still, despite those reassuring words, the brunet's helplessness remained like a leech.
The thought that Reborn wouldn't abandon Tsuna was actually a first that Reborn said to the brunet that made him think that he shouldn't be this pathetic. However, he was Dame-Tsuna, but if…
"What can I do…? I am da-" Before Tsuna could even finish that sentence, Reborn had lifted him by the scruff of his shirt, dragging him upward and interrupted in a voice that was borderline dangerous. Tsuna had never heard such a sound from his tutor's mouth.
"You idiot boy! You're Vongola Jyuudaime more than anyone else!"
Tsuna was definitely taken aback by the tone Reborn was currently using, looking at his tutor with wide, shocked eyes. It felt oddly…nice.
"If you shout out your feelings, that would be the answer a Vongola would give."
'My feelings?' Tsuna repeated in a daze as Reborn hopped downward, but his gaze never left his student.
"So the home tutor's given up. What he really wants is to run away from this place. Or…you won't run for the sake of your friends?" Mukuro mocked. Tsuna continued looking at the floor. His mind was swirling with different thoughts.
"I want to win." Tsuna murmured softly to himself. He clenched his fist as he gritted his teeth. "I want to beat Mukuro."
"Oh? That's unexpected. I'll hear the rest of the story after I've possessed you." Mukuro was clearly amused, snickering creepily again. "And after you've killed your friends by your own hands."
"I don't want to lose to such terrible person." Tsuna murmured. His eyes had taken a determined look. "I want to beat this guy!" Tsuna's feelings shook his very core. Leon burst out of his cocoon, turning into a bright light that momentarily shocked the spectators.
"Vongola! What did you do?!" Mukuro yelled in displeasure.
"I didn't do anything!" Tsuna admitted. He gasped loudly when he looked upward and saw his tutor's pet chameleon. "Leon!"
"He's finally emerged." Reborn informed them.
"Emerged?" Tsuna asked dubiously, looking upward at the bright light Leon was emitting with sudden fascination.
"Like the time when Dino became the Bucking Bronco." Reborn said with a proud smile on his face. Mukuro let out a displeased sound under his breathe, though he was still amused by the whole thing.
"I see. Arcobaleno, this is your doing."
"You're wrong." Reborn refuted softly. "This is the shape-shifting chameleon, Leon, my partner. For some reason, he becomes a cocoon when my students are given a trial."
"Is that what it is?" Tsuna asked curiously as he peered at Reborn.
"And when the student grows, he emerges." Tsuna made a disbelieving gasp, doubting yet believing Reborn at the same time.
"That's amusing. I wondered what he'd show us at the end…his pet's emergence. You two certainly are unique."
"What is this?" Tsuna commented as he looked at Reborn with a frown on his face. "How is this related to Dino becoming the Bucking Bronco?"
"Just watch." Reborn gestured for the brunet to look upward and look he did. Tsuna saw Leon smiling and doing something with his mouth, like chewing on something. "He's about to spit out a new item. Just for you, my student." Tsuna immediately detected a pleasant tone in the voice. He looked rather hopeful at the thought of getting a new item, especially if it could stop Mukuro.
"In Dino's case, he spat out the Bucking Bronco Whip and Enzo." Reborn said, still looking up. Tsuna whipped his head to look at his tutor as if he was really saying something so ridiculous, but the tutor paid him no mind.
"Enzo is Leon's baby?!" Tsuna said in disbelief, and then he slowly turned to look at Leon, feeling almost giddy.
"I cannot put up with your playtime forever. Let's call an end to this break and finish this!" Mukuro said. And with that, using Ken's body, the possessor made a run towards them with killer intent. Reborn kicked Tsuna away from Mukuro's range of influence. Then Mukuro slashed Leon in two. Tsuna was worried though Reborn was fast enough to placate his worried student.
"Don't worry. Leon is a shape-shifting chameleon." Reborn commented. "More importantly, something was shot upwards. It was the new item." When Tsuna looked up, he saw something glittering. The new item descended towards the brunet. It fell on his face and his eyes widened with bewilderment.
"Yarn mittens?!" Tsuna loudly proclaimed as he stared with a gobsmack look on his face.
"How do I fight with these?" Tsuna asked in complete confusion and bewilderment. "Wasn't it some kind of weapon that was supposed to pop out?! What's the point of giving my hands good circulation?!" Tsuna said in growing hysteria. Reborn merely looked at him pointedly. It was as if Reborn didn't care about the brunet's easily shaken personality at the moment.
"Just put them on." the hitman said in a deadpanned tone.
"You were amusing to the end." Before Tsuna could dodge, Mukuro had already attacked him with the trident and as he looked at his enemy with wide shocked eyes. The brunet was stabbed right where his heart was located and he let out a gurgle of pain.
"Oya? Looks like I've wounded you, Vongola." Mukuro stated with a slight hint of disinterest.
Before Tsuna could fall completely to the floor, he managed to remain kneeling. He was wheezing and had a hard time breathing. His consciousness was flickering and he grew pale.
"It was amusing till the very end, Vongola Jyuudaime. It's now time to sleep." He heard someone say. It was so familiar, but he couldn't pinpoint who it was.
"Tsuna!" another voice said. The sound was so achingly familiar and it was so worried. The brunet probably should know who it was, but he didn't, and he felt bad for it. So he slowly opened his mouth to apologize.
"S…Sorry."
Then he fell downward, hitting the hard and cold floor limply, lost in the darkness.
"Maybe he would rather die than be caught. Or…"
"What's wrong, Bianchi? Get a hold of yourself. You just tried to skewer your little brother."
"This will be troublesome."
"No. It's like she's possessed."
"Regardless, it's a fact."
"It's not anything that ridiculous."
"The only thing I can think of is…"
"I don't know."
"There's no mistake. You made it look like a suicide, but you used that bullet. The Possession Bullet is forbidden. Where did you get it?"
"That's right. As the name implies, the Possession Bullet allows you to take control of another person's body."
"It was a special bullet created by the Estraneo Family. Not only do you need a strong spirit, but you must also be suited for the bullet."
"Long ago, the cold blooded use of the Possession Bullet caused it to be forbidden. The bullets and the knowledge used to create them should have been destroyed."
"That bullet must have been what you used to take control of men like Lanchia. But why do you have them?"
"I knew it. Your goal is to-"
"Be careful of his weapon. If you're wounded by that trident, he'll be able to possess you."
"Be careful. He'll possess either Gokudera or Bianchi."
"That's not all of it. There is them as well. Possessing four people at once… It's unheard of."
"He can use the abilities of those he possesses as well."
"This is really bad."
"He can use the abilities of those he possesses as well."
"You haven't learned a thing. This is an illusion."
"I haven't felt the air of real combat in a while."
"I can't help. Tsuna, do something quickly."
"If you're my student-"
"If you're my student, you can overcome this."
"I'm not lying. Your brother, Dino, overcame it too."
"When Dino was my student, he faced a life or death situation. He overcame it and transformed himself. No longer was he the weakling Dino. He became the Bucking Bronco Dino."
"Above you."
"That's why you didn't possess Hibari."
"I can't do anything for you. You must pull it off on your own."
"Don't sound so pathetic."
"You listening, Tsuna? You're Vongola Jyuudaime more than anyone else! If you shout out your feelings, that would be the answer a Vongola would give."
"He's finally emerged."
"Like that time. Like when Dino became the Bucking Bronco."
"No you're wrong. This is the shape-shifting chameleon, Leon, my partner. For some reason, he becomes a cocoon when my students are given a trial."
"And when the student grows, he emerges."
"Just watch."
"He's about to spit out a new item. Just for you, my student."
"In Dino's case, he spat out the Bucking Bronco Whip and Enzo."
"He's coming!"
"Don't worry. Leon is a shape-shifting chameleon. More importantly, something was shot upwards. It looks like it's safe. That's the new item."
"Who knows? Just put them on."
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