Chapter 6

"AHHHHHH!'

"SHUT. THE. FUCK. UP." I threw the nearest object I grabbed- my alarm clock- and chucked it towards the sound of the voice.

"OW! ... Joy, you're awake!"

"Go away." I pulled the covers over my head, annoyed at Reborn.

"Joy." Ieyasu plucked the covers away from my shivering arms, "It's been an hour. Get up."

"Joy, something happened after I saved you-"

"YOU SAVED ME?!" I exclaimed, abruptly sitting up, "When the hell did that happen?"

Reborn smirked, going into a heroic pose, "After you attempted to get your flames working, I activated mine in desperation! Except mine were yellow sparkles, and not orange flames..."

"His flames are very ... aggressive, to say the least." Ieyasu smirked.

All I did was stare at his image... To be specific, his sideburns.

"Oh..." He laughed sheepishly, "You noticed?"

"Saikou Reborn, tell me this minute why you curled your sideburns!" I laughed. "That is the most ridiculous thing I've seen you do by far!"

"I-it wasn't my fault!" Reborn ducked away into his own bed.

Yellow flames can heal, but when Biko-chan showed him how to heal with sun flames, the power of it caused his sideburns to heal tremendously, and curl while he was at it. I refused to let him cut his new... additions.

I giggled at Reborn's misfortune ('Don't laugh. They'll be considered 'hot' later in life.' they chided. It was so ridiculous, I nearly laughed outright at that.)

~Ieyasu~

"What does different colored flames do?"

Ieyasu sighed. "I knew it."

"Knew what?" Was it a cool answer?

"Knew you'd ask." Nope.

"Anyway, let's start out with the orange flame. As I like to put it, a sky flame. A sky flame can produce all the flames, some stronger than others. Considering your brother has a high affinity of sun flames- that's what I call his yellow flames- I would say you could produce the sun flame the best, next to sky flames, though that'll wait until next year. First, try to produce the sky flame again, then every time you achieve something, I'll tell you a bit about different kinds of flames. Deal?"

I nodded. "Deal."

~Means~

Ieyasu was the devil reincarnated when it came to training.

Every day, Reborn and I endured hours of brain-melting, body-slamming torture when it came to this.

But that wasn't the worst part...

Ieyasu trained Natsuko and Giotsu along with us.

In order to 'motivate' Reborn and I, he had his children, the oldest 3 years younger than me, train alongside us. Both of them surpassed us every single time. Be it math, science, ELA, flame training, history, or PE, they stalked us along to Biko-kaasan's or Yasu-otousan's lessons.

That's right, Biko-kaasan and Yasu-otousan. Over the past year, they have become like an actual mother and father to Reborn and I.

I had half a mind to give up, but the fact of me living, and Reborn made me stay.

Around 3/4 of the year, Reborn and I started suffering side effects, such as weaker bodies, more coughing fits, and such. Ieyasu could only help us by injecting his sky flame into us to make the effects go away, but even we knew the flames wouldn't help for long.

It was that time, when Reborn and I was resting, when a purple melon appeared in front of us.

"Ugh..." I moaned, "Am I hallucinating now?"

('Danger, Gioia,' they whispered, 'Dangerous fruits')

"Nufufufu... Almost accurate for an eleven-year-old." The purple melon then transformed into a man with weird eyes. It was blurry, so I couldn't tell whether it was me, or the... thing.

"Joy? I don't think you're hallucinating..." Reborn straightened himself up and reached for his gun. (A/N- Mafia=Advanced Technology)

I was terrified for some reason of this melon-man.

('DANGER')

"G-GET AWAY FROM ME YOU SICK MELON BASTARD."

"Oya~ Oya~" His eye twitched before dissolving as soon as Ieyasu stepped in the room.

"Is everything okay?!"

"if you count the fact that I was just hallucinating about melon men, no!" I frantically exclaimed, hyperventilating.

Ieyasu paused for a second before chuckling slightly. "I think your illusions are getting to you now, Joy. Take a break-"

"No, what Joy said was correct," Reborn interrupted, "I can vouch for her. It was a purple-haired person about your age, and had a melon-like hairstyle."

Ieyasu froze, before sinking down on a nearby chair slowly, silent.

"Joy and Reborn... I need you to get out of here. It's going to get dangerous."

We glanced at eachother.

'We are sooooo fucked.'

~Family (I think)~

Ieyasu told Reborn and I to take Biko, Natsu, and Gio and get out of there. We had an hour to pack whatever we could fit into a pack before getting the hell away from the area. Biko would get us to a safe area.

"But what about you?" Reborn questioned as he stuffed his neatly folded suit into a pack.

"I'll meet you guys at the safe area." The real question was "What if you don't..?"

But what was I thinking? Of course he'll get out of there. He's a mafia boss after all.

Right..?

~Sorry~

An hour later, everyone but Ieyasu left the house. Reborn looked worried, Natsuko and Giotsu were acting like little brats- as per usual- and Rebiko... was strangely... silent.

Huh.

I thought she would've been cursing at him for not telling her anything or something of the sort. It was odd to find Rebiko silent for once, and not energetic and overenthusiastic.

It all came together after running 5 minutes away from the house, when Rebiko stopped for a moment to listen for something.

"Everyone, continue to run. I need to go back for something."

And quicker than you could say, "Wait!", she left.

After a moment, Reborn snorted before turning back to the direction we left, "Like hell we're staying behind. Let's go back."

"I think we should follow Mama's rules." Natsuko piped up. "In a dangerous situation like this, she knows best."

Giotsu looked as torn as I felt.

Should we stay or should we go?

~Sorry~

I've forgotten how to tell, did I ever really know~

~Sorry~

Umm... Bad Apple is a great song? /don'tkillmeplz

Gah.

Sorry for not updating for the past 3 months.

There really isn't anything I can say, except "It takes an awful long time to have the time and the inspiration to write."

Sorry again.

I'll try to finish this, no matter how long it takes me.

So stay tuned plz ^^

Reviews~

Rozetta kreuz lilith- Iris is indeed awesomer than Dahlia. To the nth degree.

Dragon Clan Master- IKR?! And thanks ^^

Sono Chieri2- I'm glad you've done your research ^^ /applauds

LooksxxxFool- Yep. And I'm glad he was born that way (What is it with song references this morning..?) Hahaha yeah. I need to reread my story again anyway, so I'll look for them. Thanks for notifying!

R&R plz~