Hello guys! :3 Thanks a lot for the reviews and everything because it's like a giant chocolate protein bar to me (has been watching epic meal time XD) and it felt like a great birthday present... that's right! I turned 16 last July 19! Hooray for me!
So... someone asked if Elina will show up and most likely, probably will. I didn't make Deamon the bad guy but I did make him the character to be picked a lot :D it's punishment boy! XD
Besides, having Elina there would give Mukuro all the reason to prank him :3
I also mentioned that you guys can suggest characters right? It doesn't always have to be like a mafioso OC, you can suggest anything, from a child to the oldest you can imagine. They can be normal people who support the Vongola or can actually be part of other mafia families because... they will be essential, even if they are minor to the story and I'm not gonna tell what happens 8D
By the way, screw the timeline 8D cuz I get confused and my head is filled with lessons, lessons, lessons and cats XD
Tsuna couldn't even process it in his head as he stared at Flavio, who was adjusting the cuffs of his sleeves with a big fat smile on his face. The first to recover from shock was Mukuro who merely pursed his lips in an irritated way. Nothing could compare that to Hibari's though that flared like the flames of the sun. It would be fun to bite the bronco's ancestor to death and at just the thought of it... it made him smile wickedly, or at least that's what Tsuna saw.
Yamamoto closed his mouth and shook his head. Grinning, he said "It almost feels like we're back home. Ne?"
"Extremely similar!" Ryohei agreed.
"Yare, yare, and I thought things wouldn't get any weirder than the first generation." Lambo said.
All of these were spoken in Japanese as much to Flavio's confusion. He didn't know Japanese apparently, Tsuna was glad about that at least. He nudged Gokudera to silence him. They ceased talking and looked up at Flavio.
"Let's see here... a tour around the school sounds good, no? You know," he eyed them. "word got out among the students about your bunch."
"Eh?" Tsuna asked.
"Oh yes, the rumor it self caused such a sensation... took a long time to settle them down." he said while all the while making hand gestures that was completely unnecessary. In Tsuna's opinion, it looked like the guy was dancing. Flavio caught Mitchel's eye and made a quick hand signal. Mitchel nodded as he drove the carriage to the stables, leaving Tsuna and the others unaware between the exchange.
But were people supposed to know which family they came from? Apparently... yes.
Tsuna walked ahead with Gokudera and Yamamoto flanking his sides and the others following from behind. Students of all ages, from six to sixteen years of age, pointed and whispered to each other. When they passed crowds, they parted to make way and some bowed their heads respectively while others stood by the sidelines, casting them hostile glances. They were shown the classrooms, the mess hall, the... er... lavatories, the entrance hall, the gardens and many more.
Tsuna caught one student, around fourteen with unforgiving scarlet eyes and black hair glaring at him. He didn't flinched like he used to when he was younger but Tsuna didn't exactly like that look... it promised pain. He then wondered, what kind of students does the Academy take? He asked Flavio,
"Hmmn? Students? We don't take students from families that are against the Vongola... but we do take students from neutral families." he answered while standing in front of a life-size portrait of himself looking very dashing and with a winning smile. Gokudera looked at it with disgust while the others sweat dropped. Who would hang a picture like that? It would most likely corrupt innocent minds of children from the mafia. Hibari was eyeing the man, not letting his eyes wonder somewhere else. He wondered if this man was as strong as the bronco or even better, either way he wanted to bite this man to death.
Flavio didn't notice Gokudera and Hibari but he did think that the others were actually admiring it.
They moved on to the stables where they met Mitchel, who was talking with someone, that someone was huge and that he reminded Tsuna of a gorilla, as if he knew them. The moment they got there Tsuna wished he excused himself to the bathroom because he did not like the look the gorilla man, who was scrutinizing him from head to toe, at all.
"Ah! It's great timing you showed Headmaster." Mitchel greeted as he tipped his hat at them. "Young masters, this is Inigo," he gestured at the gorilla man. "and he's the combat instructor."
They looked at Mitchel and at the man named Inigo. The man certainly looked the part, Ryohei couldn't take his eyes off of the bulging muscles that looked like it could tear stone in half without so much as a scratch!
"Um... hello." Tsuna greeted.
"So this is Primo's?" Inigo said in a booming voice.
"Yes, ain't they all so cute?" Flavio said lovingly, earning death threats from Gokudera in Japanese, death glares from Mukuro and irritation that was burning the air thick as miasma in the air from Hibari, who did not like to be called cute at all.
"It's so stuffy here! Mitchel, are the hay fresh?" Flavio asked, oblivious to Hibari's dark presence.
"They're all new sir!" Mitchel replied.
"That's odd..." Flavio said thoughtfully while rubbing his chin.
Unlike Flavio, Inigo could tell what kind of Hibari was... the kind not to be messed with. He had seen and met the first generation once but only G, the loyal right hand man of Vongola Primo and storm guardian and Asari Ugetsu, the sword wielding rain guardian, when they were here for business. He had heard rumors about the Cloud guardian, who he had admired long before even meeting him. And this boy... let's just say that the aura Hibari was emitting fit the description exactly so in other words... he must be under the Cloud guardian's charge!
"Your name boy?" he asked gruffly.
"Ah sir! This is Hibari Kyouya." Mitchel said quickly, he was wise enough to know that master Hibari was not the patient type. He had put up with people who irked him since they left and Mitchel was sure that Hibari's patience was hanging by a thread and that Headmaster Flavio wasn't making the situation any better by dancing around the said carnivore.
"Flavio-san..." Tsuna said as he saw Hibari's eye twitch. Tsuna prayed in his heart that Hibari wouldn't snap and kill the man right off, he was doing so well too! After two years you didn't expect him to have learned nothing about his guardians right? For one, he had finally mastered the art of bribing Hibari... with a small price. Bone-breaking pain and hysteria.
Yeah, that sounds bad but Tsuna had pleaded before they left that he can fight him any time once they get there and true enough, Hibari had held on to his word but...
"Flavio!" they heard and turned to see a serene looking young man with hair as black as ebony, face small and heart-shaped with half rimmed glasses and cold grey eyes. Flavio stopped dancing and froze, his eyes wide.
"Ailith... I thought you woud be back before dusk?"
Ailith ignored him and knelt before Tsuna. "Sawada Tsunayoshi I presume?"
Tsuna gulped, "Yes sir..."
Ailith smiled which caused shivers run up and down their spines as if they were doused by cold water. "I hope you like your stay here," he said kindly but coldly. He stood up, walked towards Flavio and wordlessly grabbed him by the collar. He dragged him away with Flavio waving his handkerchief at them sorrowfully.
"Farewell my dears! Mitchel, be a dear please show them to their doooooormsss!" he said as he was dragged back inside. Tsuna stared where Flavio had gone, his mouth hanging open. What the hell was that?
"What the hell just happened?" Gokudera said as they were being shooed by Mitchel back inside. Inigo watched as them as they left, his eyes only sparkling in amusement. It would be interesting what these youngsters can do.
"That was Headmaster's personal assistant, Ailith." Mitchel said as they walked down the halls to the southern part, which they haven't really been in yet.
In Enollavac Academy, there were four dorms; the east belonged to students who came from neutral families. The west belonged to students who came from the allied families, and the north belonged to the most dominant family on campus. It wasn't really a dorm though, it was one of the towers that stood side by side by the academy. The other tower was the living quarters of the teachers of course.
And then the south dormitory...
"You call this a dormitory?" Mukuro said in distaste.
"Is this place even fit to live in?" Gokudera said. Mitchel scratched his neck, an apologetic look on his face. The dormitory was completely left off, it was old and it's walls were cracked. Vines creeped on the faded walls whilst it's land grew wild all around it.
"This place needs a good mowing." Lambo said as he raised his foot to let a millipede scuttle to it's destination.
Hibari merely stared at the building thinking that it's actually perfect for Mukuro to live in, that it was the pineapple head's ideal home. A smirk tugged on his lips. Tsuna cleared his throat.
"Come on guys, it might look better in the inside." he said, hoping to cheer them up a little.
But sadly, it was not better than the outside at all... it was worse.
When Ryohei swung the door open, it crumbled to pieces before their eyes. The wood rotten to the core. The floor wasn't in good condition too; Gokudera had taken one step when the floor broke, leaving him to pull his leg out.
"Help me out!" Gokudera cried as Tsuna, Yamamoto, Ryohei and Mitchel pulled. Once he was free he dusted his pants, swearing at the same time.
"This place is EXTREMELY crappy!" Ryohei said.
"For once, I agree with you turf-head. This place is completely shitty." Gokudera said as he ran his finger on the window, his face twisting into one of disgust as his finger was covered with what looked like, a hundred years of dust. "And not to mention filthy."
Chrome sneezed which made Tsuna also sneeze. He had to admit it... this place sucks. It gave off a sense of gloom actually, perfect for the Varia's lighting guardian Leviathan to dance around in, not only that it made them homesick. His home in Namimori certainly made them homesick but after spending a few weeks at the Vongola mansion, they felt like they had found their second home and now that they had been whisked god-knows-where, they missed Vongola mansion with Knuckle's booming voice, Alaude's cold atmosphere, Lampo's whines, Asari's gay laugh, G's bickering and Giotto's warm smile.
After a while, Yamamoto stepped up. "All it needs is a bit of cleaning!"
"It just doesn't need a bit of cleaning...it practically needs to be fixed!" Gokudera said.
"Then we'll do just that!" Yamamoto replied cheerily. Tsuna smiled. Gokudera muttered under his breath but can they complain? It's the only place where they can stay? He turned to Mitchel, like hell he'll clean this shitty place before knowing why they have to stay here! They were Vongola!
"Give me a reason why we have to live in this godforsaken place!" Gokudera hissed at Mitchel who held his hands in front of him. He had heard of the storm guardian's charge had an awful temper and he wasn't one too eager to feel young Gokudera Hayato's wrath. "Gokudera-kun!" Tsuna grabbed on to his shoulder.
"Jyuddaime! I will not accept this place fit to live in! Jyuddaime doesn't deserve this at all!" Gokudera said. Tsuna sighed and looked at Mitchel, to be honest, he too wanted to know why. Mitchel rubbed his neck warily,
"Please don't get all caveman on me masters!" Mitchel pleaded, "You see there are these... ranks in the school. Members who come from one family, with the highest grades and who has most of the school's respect are put in the northern tower. Now please don't blow me up, I'm tellin what I know!" he said when he saw Gokudera reach into his pockets for his bombs. Tsuna scolded him and encouraged Mitchel to go on. "In-In this case here, there are really no place for you to be put in. This is also Cavallone territory and the students here have no idea what the Vongola are like. This is the first time that they had students directly from the Vongola famiglia. The southern dormitory was the only place available, so they say but wait, wait, wait!" he shrunk himself under the glowers that were being sent at him.
"So they're disrespecting the Vongola?" Gokudera snarled, where was that gay bastard? He'll kill him! They have to prove themselves? Bunch of shit! Mitchel shook his head. "No, not like that sir! It's just that this is a mafia school!"
"Mafia school?" Chrome blinked. "The way students are being taught here are based on the conditions that the underworld is?" Mukuro mused. "So this place is like a training ground for students." Tsuna said and shuddered, does this mean that students here are being taught to kill? He didn't like that at all.
"Erm... you see young masters, in order to be recognized you have to have respect... a lot of it." Mitchel said. "And the conditions of dormitory reflects on that."
"WHAT?" Gokudera shouted, outraged. "You'e telling me that the respect we have is like..." he wrung his hands around in despair. "Fucking zero percent?"
Mitchel flinched. Yamamoto laid a hand on Gokudera's shoulder. "Maa maa Gokudera, we'll get to that later. First we have to fix this place up!" he grinned.
"Stupid baseball nut!" Gokudera shouted at him and sighed, there was no helping it then. As much as he hated to admit it, baseball nut had a point. Tsuna looked around him.
"Where's Hibari-san?" Tsuna asked as he looked around, looking for signs of his cloud guardian.
"Boss..." Chrome pointed outside where one a healthy green patch of grass, lay Hibari, sleeping soundly without a care in the world with a yellow puff ball perched on his head.
Tsuna's eye twitched.
"I came here to help but I did not agree with working with the mafia so leave me out of it." Mukuro said.
"Chrome?"
"I'll stay here Mukuro-sama." Chrome replied shyly.
"Very well, if you excuse me... Kufufufu..." Mukuro laughed quietly as he walked towards the door.
"Mukuro! Stay and help us to the extreme!" Ryohei shouted, making a grab for him but just as he thought his hands had grabbed on to something, Mukuro had vanished into mist, leaving him face first on the floor.
They sweat dropped.
Tsuna looked up what they were against and sighed. "Get ready guys... we're in for a fight." Yeah, a fight against the horrible dust bunnies. Tsuna thought to himself.
They rolled up their sleeves and covered their faces with a their handkerchiefs, Mitchel, Yamamoto and Ryohei armed with a broom, Gokudera and Chrome with dusters, Lambo and Tsuna with rags. They found all of these under the stairs.
Mitchel raised his hand. "Um... did I mention that students would be here soon?"
They stiffened. Oh shit, if people see the state of their dormitory they would really make a bad impression.
"Why didn't you mention this before?" Tsuna said, panicking. This place would take a week to clean!
"Nothing waits for you in the mafia world young master." Mitchel quoted. Tsuna cringed, that really sounds like it came from "Reborn's Twisted Guide Book to the Life of a Mafioso."
He turned to his friends. "Change of plans! We're doing this our way!" Looks like they had to clean this place under one day... which is impossible but then again, he had seen a lot of things that were impossible so why not? But if that's the case then they need Mitchel out of the picture... he didn't want anyone to see what they we're planning. Gokudera sneaked behind Mitchel and knocked him out swiftly. Having the thought of asking why Mitchel knew so much completely erased, they laid him outside with Hibari (far away, mind you) and went back inside.
"You didn't have to knock him out Gokudera-kun." Tsuna said as they summoned out their box weapons.
"Sorry Jyuddaime but...-ow Uri! Not on my head!- I misunderstood." Gokudera said as he tried to pry Uri from his head.
Tsuna sighed, "It's fine Gokudera-kun."
And so the battle of the south dormitory began...
"EXTREME!" Ryohei screamed as he pulled the floorboards like a possessed maniac with Garyuu beside him. Gokudera had offered to to burn it away but Tsuna said no. He didn't want the dormitory to be burned to ashes so they had decided to replace the wood. Now they weren't expert carpenters and that they they would most likely screw the place up but what else can they do? They can expect no outside help that was for sure. Upstairs, Lambo and Tsuna were cleaning the rooms while Yamamoto was outside, cutting down wood. The box animals were great help, Beef Bowl made himself useful as to hull the lumber in for Yamamoto.
Kojiro kept watch for people above while rest helped Tsuna and Lambo with the beds, how the bed's remained clean compared with the rest was a mystery. Lambo concluded that the Academy was nice enough to actually keep the beds clean and ignore the state of the building.
As if Reborn's training had come back and had manifested itself in forms of six children who were working in inhuman speed.
~ Eskabanza Family ~
Cristoforo was furious. It had been two days when his spies had reported that the children where no longer in Vongola territory.
There were men who he had set out to find them only to be mysteriously wiped out. In his fury he had sent assassins after assassins at the Vongola. True to his word he had kept the Vongola at bay, to be too preoccupied with their own troubles than think about the children and it had gone well... until now.
He didn't need to worry about the Vongola family now that the brats weren't there but of all places to appear in... the territory of the Cavallone Family? As if the Vongola weren't bothersome enough! It was bad enough to be working with the likes of that man. He shuddered. The Arcobaleno's were fearful enemies...
"We're you thinking of me Cristoforo?" said a voice behind him. He jumped, scattering papers all over his office, he turned around to meet a young boy of twelve, sitting with his leg over the other. His hair was strawberry-blonde, eyes blue as the sky with a sweet and tender face. No, don't let him fool you, he was sweet and charming, but his eyes told otherwise; cold... colder than Alaude's will ever be.
"Uh... I... I..." Cristoforo stuttered before bowing. His face deathly pale. To appear so suddenly almost gave him a heart attack!
The child looked at him lazily before picking up his favorite quill and snapping it in half.
"I told you not to worry didn't I? Leave them to me... I'll somehow lure them out." he said.
Cristoforo did not argue, he was too afraid. "Yes sir..." he said bowing his head once more but not before getting a glance of the round orange pacifier around his neck, once bright orange but now tinted with impurity and in a total shade of dark orange, a color which reminded him of rotten oranges for some reason.
"Vongola Famiglia... bearers of the Vongola rings... what have you got this time?" the boy mused. It's been too long since he had been to school... it's time to go back Enollavac Academy.
He smiled.
~ Vongola Famiglia ~
Tsuna felt the hairs stand on the back of his head. Chills running up and down his spine. He shuddered. What was that? he wondered to himself as he and Lambo started to beat the couch in the lounge.
Whatever it was it was coming, this time though it will be big. At that moment a thought ran in his head, Big things come in small packages. His lips pursed into a tight line.
No matter what though, they cannot forget their reason for coming here. They were fighting for their future but as of now they can do nothing but go with the floor. Tsuna was positive that he can attract trouble for miles around so he was confident that something, or someone would show up.
...
"Mare? What's wrong? Your dozing off again." said Lia as she shook his shoulder, bringing him back to reality with a sigh. She worried for him, his hair color was already unusual as it is... white, his eyes light purple and the most unusual was that he had this strange marking below his left eye.
"I'm fine, don't worry. It's just that..." he trailed off and looked towards the sky. He couldn't say... but he felt like something was pulling him to the south but he can't... he had to help with the staff and... he didn't want to leave Lia.
Lia frowned at him, tossing her long braid of black hair over her shoulder and sighed. Mare is so weird sometimes... she dropped a basket of potatoes on the table. Mare jumped and gaped at the basket.
"You're not seriously letting me peel all this right?"
"For slacking off the job you earned it." she smiled and planted a small kiss on his cheek. Mare blushed slightly. "I don't see how this is reasonable." he muttered as Lia skipped out the door.
He scratched his head and began his work, after all, the Academy's students don't eat their potatoes with skin on them.
Somehow fate had started to turn it's gears in motion, once again bringing the threesome together, but will they take to each other as enemies or friends?
Only time will tell.
Gay = here I meant bright and happy not referring to homosexuals okay? :3
So we get a glimpse on what the Arcobaleno's fates were! Can you guess which Arcobaleno I mentioned here? Don't worry, I'll explain what happened to them in the future and now moving on wards!
Mare... I'll tell you one thing is that he does not look like Byakuran (Physical features such as the eyes, hair and mark are the same but not the looks!), as how he came to be, once again I'll explain him in future chapters :3
Thanks a lot to those who are supporting my story! I wanna give you all a nice big bone-crushing hug but then I would be sued for that XD
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