Chapter 9: A Friendly Akuma?

Tsuna woke up with something sticky and wet on his face. He got up to search for where this disgusting substance was coming from, only to feel something slightly heavy fall on his lap and the substance on his face being pulled. He looked down to see a kid no older than 5 on his lap in a cow suit with snot connected from his nose to the substance on his face.

Right Before he screamed, Reborn popped out of nowhere with Leon and pointed it at his knees and threatened, "Scream and I will shoot your knee caps off." Tsuna's face paled but nodded his head to show that he understood. Reborn let a breath out and Leon transformed back into his lizard form. Reborn looked over to Tsuna with wide eyes and explained, "Leon can transform into anything, touch him and die."

After seeing Tsuna's head nod again Reborn then explained, "This is Lambo, he's staying with us, mama has already agreed to this and set sleeping arrangements in your room. Oh yeah, he might bring a out a purple color bazooka when he's mad, sad, upset, or scared. If he does then he'll shoot himself with it, a man should replace him. Ask that man if he ever shows up if you want to know anything else."

Tsuna nodded his head and moved Lambo off of his lap and on to the couch. He then immediately walked towards the closest bathroom to clean his face. He walked in the bathroom only to see Satou laying on the vent with a content expression shown clearly on his face. Tsuna just had to ask, "What are you doing Satou-san?"

The wolf lifted it's head towards Tsuna direction and said in content, "Enjoying the heat and air this thing is giving off. You should try it sometime when you're a ghost, it feels wonderful~." Tsuna was wiping off anything left on his face as he listened to his dead friend, and nodded his head thinking it was a good idea.

Tsuna started walking up the stairs to go to his room. Before he could open his door Watanabe, came running out of it with a red mark on his face. Confused, Tsuna opened the door to see Itou who's face was red. If it was from anger or from being embarrassed is what Tsuna wanted to know.

Itou was holding her needles in a way so that she would throw them at whoever opened the door next, but seeing that it was Tsuna calmed her down a-little. She still had her needles ready to throw them though. "Huh, Itou, are you alright? You look madder then you usually do when you're with Watanabe."

Itou let out a breath and voiced out of her anger in the calmest way she could, "He wasn't making his usual sexual comments. He told me that I wasn't helping and that I was more of a liability than a help! True I'm not as strong as Satou or skilled as him, but I can still hold my own against any opponent."

Tsuna put his hand on her shoulder to show his support. He's not really sure on how to support a person, let alone a dead one. He said the only thing he thought could help at the time with a sad smile, "I'l go and talk to him. That's not like the pervert we know to be cold to a woman."

Tsuna walked out of his room and saw Watanabe floating around the corner with a puzzled look on his face. "Do you know why Itou just freaked out on me? I just came from the women's bath-house, that I go to every Thursday, and she yelled at me for being lazy and being too attached to it. I thought we solved this a while ago?"

Tsuna gave him a mini-glare as he sarcastically answered, "Well it might have something to do with you calling her a liability and useless on the battlefield. Why did you do that? I thought you would never do that to a woman?"

"What are you talking about? I've been at the bath-house all day to get a good view. I haven't seen either Satou or Itou all day." Watanabe explained confused at what's being said. Tsuna was in deep-thought for a while before hearing Satou's growl.

"Let's check that out," Tsuna said in shock, "I've never heard Satou growl at anything that's not an akuma." Watanabe nodded his head and followed after Tsuna who had already ran (and tripped) down the stairs. When Tsuna pushed himself off the ground the words, 'Force entry of the combat spirit barrier' came into his view. He blinked and he was in the barrier with two Satou's in the middle of it growling at each other.

Watanabe was right by Tsuna with his hand on the hilt of his sword. Itou came up on the other side of Tsuna with her needles in her hand ready to throw at anytime. The Satous were showing their teeth and claws out.

Watanabe was the one to ask, "What's going on here? They look exactly the same. How is that possible!?"

Itou smirked, summoned more needles,* while chanting, "Soul Detector," she then threw the up in the air. The needles after being thrown into the air started spreading all over the room. Each individual needle had a small flame at the bottom and were connected to each other with small lines of light. It created a field that made everyone in it semi-transparent.

Tsuna looked around and saw that Watanabe and Itou had a small ball of white light in their chest. He looked over to the Satous and saw only one had a ball of white light in it, and the other Satou had more of purplish, black ball of light in its chest.

Itou smirked and explained, "Soul Detector is a move that I can use to see the souls of all things in it's field." She then turned to Watanabe and asked, "So am I still a liability, or does this prove you otherwise."

He chuckled at her and told her, "I don't know why you guys keep saying that I called you guys liability but," he slightly drew his sword slightly and continued, "I'll prove to you that I'm not a lazy!"

Tsuna couldn't help but think, 'he's not even trying to defend himself against the part where he's a perverted.'

Watanabe had gotten into a stance and announced, "Redemption sword-style: Revealing swipe!" He disappeared for a second, but appeared behind the Satou with a darker soul a second later sheathing his sword.

The Satou he cut looked over to Watanabe before wincing and swelling. It exploded throwing a cloud of dust up. Once it settled, it revealed an akuma the shape of a baby wearing a pig outfit, and with a small amount of skin covering its skull. When the akuma looked up, it saw Satou, Itou, and Watanabe glaring down at it, ready to attack it and finish it off.

The akuma started screaming and crying, this threw off all of Tsuna spirits. It then got off the ground and ran behind Tsuna as if hiding. It looked up to Tsuna and plead, "Please help me, I'm a good akuma. Really! I haven't done anything except tell them the truth."

This got the everyone's attention. Itou was the one to asked, "What do you mean with, 'tell them the truth'?"

The akuma flinched and slowly explained, "Uh, I-I wa-was the on-one who told you, that you were a liability, and the swordsman that he was lazy."

"YOU LITTLE BRAT!" Itou and Watanabe screamed at it. Before they could finish the akuma off, something passed them with incredible speed.

"I don't think that's a good idea guys," Nana said as she appeared out of nowhere. She took a quick around and continued, "Lets talk in Tsu~kun's room."

Now in Tsuna's room, and was out of the 'Spirit combat barrier.' Everyone was waiting for Nana's explanation. Said woman took a breath and started to explain, "This akuma," pointing towards the one who looked like Satou not long ago, "is a rare friendly akuma. Something probably happened when a person die, for example they could repent or went insane right before their death, their soul will become confused and become a friendly akuma."

"Redemption finds them quickly and take them in for research and battling data. He's here for a new program to see if friendly akuma and Redeemers can live together, so if he's destroyed then we might cause a war between us and our progress to find akuma will slow down to a near stand still. So please hold back from destroying him." Nana pleaded with the spirits.

All of them sighed but nodded their heads. The akuma had at some point fell asleep on the floor, so no one bothered to deal with it. Nana smiled, "Well that's all good night Tsu~kun."

"Night Kaa-san," Tsuna mumbled out. He was still feeling the affects of the puppy dog look so he was still tired. He crawled into his bed and was out in seconds.

Reborn's killing senses were going off a-lot of today. Sure most of it was from him and that stupid cow, but he felt it go off when he was just sitting in the kitchen after Tsuna went to his room. So he went to find her, she should know something by now. He found her just coming out of the bathroom.

He smirked and teased, "I guess that even the great Lal Mirch needs to go every now and then, I'm I right."

She blushed heavily and turned towards him with a pistol pointed at him, "Say that one more time and I will feed you bullets for dinner."

Reborn's smirk was gone and seriously asked, "Have you found anything odd with those two? Or have they shaken you off as well?"

Lal looked straight into his eyes, "I've learned that they do work at a bakery and that Tsuna works with three teens. I haven't learned much more, but I can train him most of the time now."

Reborn narrowed his eyes, he felt like she wasn't telling him everything. "Alright, thanks Lal. Let me know when you find out anything," and with that said he left. He was in one of his hidden hideouts trying to think. 'I'm being left out of something. Lal has find out something, but what exactly did she find out!? Sorbaka doesn't know either. What's going on.' Reborn sighed, "I need sleep. She should be here tomorrow, and that'll be a long day."

*Itou can summon needles at whim, and come out of a greenish color.

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