Chapter 4: Meeting the Group
On the way to the shopping distract Nana decided to ask Tsuna, "Hey Tsuna have you formed a contract with any of your spirits yet?" Nana asked as she looked over to him who just shook his head. "How about making one here in this alley. Hardly anyone uses it and people would think that we're talking to each other." Tsuna was a little reluctant but gave a nod of approval.
"Ok, first say, 'I', then your name, then say 'call upon the spirit you want to form a contract with first.' Then ask if it would like to form a contract with you. If it says yes, then all you have to do is to touch the body and say the words 'I (your name) form a contract with who ever you called', simple right?" Nana explained to her son. Tsuna nodded his head, so she knew that he understood. "That's great! Now, try and form a contract with your spirits."
"I Sawada Tsunayoshi call upon Satou, Itou, and Watanabe", Tsuna said as the area changed to a similar area that Nana fought the akuma. Inside the area, Itou, Satou, and Watanabe were floating in-front of Tsuna, and strange markings covered the floor. "Would you three like to form a contract with me." All three spirits nod their head.
Tsuna smiled at this and closed the space between the four of them. He put his right hand on Itou's left shoulder, his left on Watanabe's right shoulder, and his head on Satou's head. After putting his head on Satou's he whispered, "I Sawada Tsunayoshi form a contract with Satou, Itou, and Watanabe." When he finished, whole ground lit up as bright as the sun, but as soon after, the light vanished, leaving only Tsuna and Nana.
Nana looked in awe at her son. "Ts-Tsu-kun! That was beautiful! Ah did it work? Show me your arm." Nana demanded, in which Tsuna had obeyed. Nana then said the next phrase with her eyes glowing a light blue "Show me the contracts with the spirits."
After that, Tsuna's arm had three pictures. One showed a wolf, another a man, and the last, a woman. By the wolf's picture was the name Satou, by the man's picture was the name Watanabe, and by the woman's was Itou. Nana beamed and yelled cheerfully, "Congrats Tsu-kun! It looks like you were able to form a contract with all of them. I'm so proud of you." She said while squeezing Tsuna into a bear hug.
After letting Tsuna go, Nana took his wrist and made a left instead of a right to get to the shopping district."Hey Kaa-san were are we going? The shopping district is over there." Tsuna asked while pointing behind him.
Nana kept her smile, shook her head, and then said, "That was just an excuse to leave. We're really going to Redemption's headquarters." After about five minutes they were behind a cake shop that was on the edge of the shopping district. Nana tapped on the back door of the restaurant three times and stopped for a minute, and then she tapped the door two more times.
A middle-aged man then opened the door and asked in an annoyed tone, "What are you here for?" Nana still had her smile.
"For the 'Super Deluxe cake." Nana replied after a second. Still keeping her smile. The man sighed and push the door open further so they could enter.
"It's in the back ma'am, let's get them together." The middle age man said in a bored tone. Nana nod her head. She then walked in tugging Tsuna, forcing him to follow the middle aged man.
They went from the back door into the bakery to a compartment in the bakery to another compartment behind a wall that had a giant screen covering it. Once through, they entered a room that was big enough for five or six more people to enter. It had gray stone walls and a wooden floor. It was at that time when the middle aged man said, "I believe that you know where the cakes are held, right?"
Nana who was smiling through the hole said, "Of course, and don't worry we'll redeem ourselves if we were to break anything." With that the floor started to shake a-little and started to descend down. After two minutes Tsuna could see a floor that was busy with action from people and spirit alike.
Once they reached the bottom, Nana and Tsuna step off the machine and Tsuna got dizzy for a second. Before his head could straight itself up; he felt someone start to pull him to a random direction. He tried to follow as best he could with his head like it was but he still bumped into five things. Three of which, he didn't even want to know what they were. Who ever took him stopped and Tsuna did too. "We're here Tsu-kun," is what his mother said. His head had stop spinning, and the first thing he saw was a door.
"Wh-what?" Tsuna asked in a daze at the unusually imitating door.
Nana smiled slightly, "This is where you'll meet your team. Oh yeah! I should tell you about Redemption's teams. Where should I start? Oh I know I'll start with mine, the nullus spiritus Pugnator.* They're the member to the team who can't/won't use a spirit to fight with. They mostly choose the Purge (a gun made to fight akuma) to fight."
"Next," Nana continued, "is the defensivas spiritus Pugnator.* The spirit they form a contract with are masters of using barriers to fight akuma and protect the other members of the group."
"Then there's the spiritus Pugnator.*" Nana put up three fingers so she wouldn't lose count. "These people use the spirits they formed a contract with to fight akuma, while they stay protected behind the defensivas spiritus Pugnator."
"Finally there's your type Tsu-kun, the spirtius possidentes Pugnator.* The spirit that you form a contract with will combine itself with your soul. This give you the abilities of the spirit and make them into weapons to fight the akumas with." Nana finished, a little out of breath.
Tsuna just nod his head trying to remember all the information he just received. He then walked towards the door, slightly nervous. He reached towards knob slowly, still feeling the threatening presence behind the door.
Nana then decided he was going too slow, and shoved him into the room regardless of her son's nervousness. Tsuna stumbled forward and his face met the ground. As he was getting up he heard a, "Ts-Tsuna-kun! Are you ok?"
Tsuna looked up to see Kyoko in a squatting position over him with a worried look on her face. "I-I'm fine." he said while blushing slightly. He then remembered where he was and stared at Kyoko in shock, and asked her the question he already knew the answer to, "Yo-your part of Re-Redemption?!"
A somewhat deep male voice came in from behind her to the left saying rather harshly, "Look at where you are, baka!" Tsuna looked towards the voice and saw a blonde teen who was slightly smaller than the baseball star of his school, Yamamoto. The teen was wearing a shirt that had a cross in the dead center of the shirt with skulls mirroring each other in the upper corners of the cross. The word Redemption was written in a bridge like way on the upper top of the shirt blocking some of the cross from view, but not much.
"Ignore him. I mean he's just dame-Tsuna after all " Came a cold female's voice behind Kyoko to the right. When Tsuna looked he saw Hana, Kyoko's best friend. She for some reason hated most guys in the school and often called them monkeys. Unless it's Tsuna, then it's still dame-Tsuna but at times she might call him, dame-monkey. Her eyes widen for a second; and turned to him and asked, "Your not our spirtius possidentes Purnator are you?"
"You got that right Hana~chan." Nana said while stepping into the room, still with her smile on her face. She then turned to the group of four who were mostly looking at her in shock, while Tsuna looked at her more curiously.
"Mi-miss S" Kyoko, Hana, and the fourth person said in shock. Hana and the fourth person then asked "Why is the leader here?" Tsuna's eyes widened in surprise.
"Ka-Kaa-san you didn't tell that you were the leader of this organization." Tsuna said loudly making the other teens' eyes widen.
"Now now Tsu~kun. I told you that I was high up in the organization didn't I?" Nana stated more than asked but Tsuna just nodded any. Nana's face stiffen a-little but kept the smile she had on while saying, "Now, as I was saying, you four are now officially a group for this organization, Redemption. As most of you know the covers of our organization are clothing, bakery, and a few department stores that are world wide. These shops are in the most heavy populated areas of akuma."
Nana's smile completely dropped as she continued, "Akuma have been popping up more recently, and their souls are appearing to form more human like souls, making them harder to find. It's been put into speculation that they are starting to become human again. If an akuma reincarnates, they have been known to preform horrible and gruesome acts against humanity. Some examples are 'Jack the Ripper', 'Son of Sam', and even the 'Zodiac Killer'. These are the reasons we cannot let the akuma be complete."
"So, you four are going to help with the fights to stop the evil creatures from going any further into the re-birthing process." Nana's smile came back slightly, "Of this group, the nullus spiritus Pugnator will be Hana, as she refuse to form a contract with a spirit. The defensivas spiritus Pugnator will be Kano because of his contract with the spirit Kane. The spiritus Pugnator will be Kyoko, with her contracts with Amane, Chiyo, Eri, and Ryo. Lastly the spirtius possidentes Purnator is Tsu~kun with his contracts, Satou, Itou, and Watanabe. You each will be given a number that you will represent you. Tsu~kun is 27, Kano-san will be 23, Hana's 87 and Kyoko-chan gets the number 95." After she finished Nana took a breath to keep herself from going lightheaded. "Any questions?"
The whole group raised their hands. Nana sighed and pointed to Hana. "Are you sure that Tsuna should be in a group? He isn't trained, knowledgeable, or athletic."
Nana gave a small smile in return and asked Tsuna, "Tsu~kun will you please roll up your right sleeve~ " Tsuna nod his head and rolled his sleeve up revealing three pictures and names by them. Tsuna slightly blushed when he realized that he forgot about them. Nana then looked back at Hana and said, "These are the spirits that Tsu~kun made a contract nine minutes and fifty-eight seconds ago. He was not only able to make a contract with all of them but he did all at the same time." Hana and Kano mouths dropped, and Kyoko gasped.
Tsuna wasn't sure why the three reacted as they did or why his mom was so precise with the time (I did that for no reason) but he ignored it for the time being so he could ask, "Kaa-san how will we know if an akuma has appeared, and what do we if one shows up during school?"
Nana's reply was, "When you are about to leave, we will give you each contacts that will warn you of an akuma and the contacts will have an arrow that you'll be able to see pointing in the direction of the akuma, and if you're in school just say the phrase 'I need to redeem something.' That will usually work. If all else fails; just make a run for it."
Kyoko then spoke up asking, "What if we find someone who's willing to join Redemption while we're fighting the akuma and/or while we're resting?"
Nana answer was, "Take them here. We will deal with it."
Finally Kano asked his question, "Are you and this kid really related to each other? I mean no offense, it's just kind of hard to imagine that our leader, the best spiritus Pugnator Redemption ever seen is related to this girlish looking guy who, at first glance, looks dame. Again no offense."
Nana's smile faltered a little, especially when she saw Hana agreeing with Kano. She then said, "Yes Kano-san I did in fact gave birth to Tsu~kun and his brother Sor~kun on October 14th and you just haven't seen what he can do. Besides that the triple contract is rare for any level of redeemer. More over he also wasn't tired after the contract, which means his spirit is already high. So with this information please keep him safe until we can find a tutor. Now for the last thing I will be your team leader so please treat me well." With that the four members fainted in shock. Nana sighed, she was going to have to work on that.
Reborn smirked when he finished typing in the number. It rang exactly two times before the person picked up the line. In a harsh voice they said, "Yes, who the hell is calling me on my cell while I'm at work."
Reborn smirked 'same as always' he thought. "Is that anyway to speak to an old friend. I would think that you of all people remember my phone number." He could hear the person at the other end move slightly and sighed out of annoyance.
"Of all the- you know what never mind. Just tell me why your calling me so I can repay you." The voice on the other end of the line replied mad but quiet.
Reborn smirked, "I see your not cursing. Boss near by?" This time Reborn heard another sigh of annoyance so he decide to ask what he was going to ask the first place. "I would like you to come over to Japan and teach my baka-student's brother. He shows great promise of becoming a great asset to the Vongola as well, and with that your done."
Reborn could hear the phone being put down, a door open, a, 'Hey boss! Can I take about a year off to repay to help Reborn and to take a vacation?', he then heard a reply which he couldn't understand, and the phone being picked back up. The voice then said with annoyance "Boss said sure, but if he dies I am suppose to return back to the base. Is that all?"
"Yes, that's all." Reborn smirked. Not only does he have new interesting students, but also an old 'friend' coming too. This was definitely worth the trip to Japan.
*Nullus Spiritus Pugnator-No spirit fighter
*Spiritus Pugnator-Ghost fighter
*Spiritus Possidentes Pugnator-Spirit Possessing fighter
*Defensivas Spiritus Pugnator-Defensive Spirit fighter
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