Chapter 12

sukiyo kirai wakannai kirai

sukida igai arienai sukida!

suki to kirai wakannai tomarenai

suki kirai

Fran dropped himself on his bed as soon as the Varia returned to their base. When the Vindice left, Byakuran and his cronies disappeared as well, probably to plot more plots that would probably kick the Vongola's butt like what he did to Aoi. Fran had never once imagined that she was a criminal. Her attitude and actions were so different from all the bad people he knew and killed. Although she could be hot-headed, noisy, and irritating at times; she was the kindest, nicest, most patient and most forgiving person he had met, in his whole life. Aoi was also quite cute… and when he kissed her, her lips was the sweetest thing he had ever tasted… in his whole life, better than honey, better than that ice cream he stole from Belphegor. Waiiitt…. What am I thinking about? Aoi's an ex-Varia now. Xanxus would probably hire somebody else to take her place. Already, Fran felt a sinking feeling in the pit of his stomach. Waiiitt… what? I don't understand what I'm feeling. Depressed? Well yeah. Annoyed? Well yeah. Irritated? Of course! I got it now! I'm hungry…. The hunger's driving me insane…

A few weeks passed. The Varia settled down to its normal routine before Aoi arrived. The regular "I'll bash you to death" atmosphere was still in place. The habitual glares and orders for steak still happened. Squalo, Bel, Lussuria and Levi acted as if nothing happened to the Cloud Guardian. They didn't care… probably. But Fran was never the same. Sure he kept the same impassive face. Sure he kept teasing Bel. Sure he kept acting like a smart ass, but somehow something was gnawing in his heart.

"VOIII! Fran, what are you spacing out for?" Squalo shouted near Fran's ear, effectively jolting him out of his reverie.

"Sempai, we're on a stealth mission, don't you even know what STEALTH means?" Fran retorted.

"VOIII! Who the hell would give a damn about that? The Millefiore infiltrators are dead anyway," the sword master replied.

"Tch. The sound of your voice could be heard from a hundred meters away, I wouldn't wonder if we see some Millefiore scum prowling behind our backs," knives shot through the darkness, accurately aimed, killing a squad of Millefiore behind Squalo and Fran. "Ushishishi. You understand my point?" the prince interrupted.

"Ah. Bel-senpai, I thought the boss assigned you to the east wing of the Ninth's mansion?" Fran asked, without batting an eyelash.

"You nitwit, he assigned both of us to go west, to intercept about three squads," Bel corrected.

"Ah, really?" Fran followed Bel and left Squalo alone.

"Mou, this is such a hassle," Lussuria complained inside the mansion while waving his pinky and defeating a whole platoon of Millefiore soldiers. Talk about multitasking!

"Oni-chan! We need help here!" a wounded Varia subordinate along with several others in the same situation burst from the door.

"It can't be helped," Lussuria activated his sun peacock and used its attributes to heal the injured.

"For the boss," Levi muttered in another room inside the Vongola Mansion. He and Lussuria were assigned there by the captain, but not quite the official captain, Squalo. Levi had just electrified about a hundred of his enemies and he wasn't even breaking a sweat. Talk about the Varia! He turned around to intercept another volley of attacks. "What weaklings, I'll put an end to your suffering."

Squalo turned east (yep, that was his job not Belphegors', not Fran's) to slice down more Millefiore soldiers. Just as he stabbed through one soldier's chest, one of his subordinates fell from the tree above.

"VOII! What is that damned boss doing?" he shouted.

The injured fighter muttered, "The boss said he ordered steak."

"There is steak!" Squalo shouted while paralyzing one of his enemies. One of his men fell again.

"It was pork, he wanted beef," the man reported.

"VOII! But we also brought beef!" Squalo shouted, killing another of his foes, with his deathperation rain flame-coated sword. With a thud, another badly beaten man fell to the forest ground.

"We cooked the beef but it fell to the floor," the badly beaten man supplied.

"VOOOOOIIIIII! That damned boss! We're fighting here and he just wants to relax and eat steak?" He shouted an earsplitting roar and went to where his boss sat, tearing down anyone who stood before him.

Meanwhile, Fran and Bel were also having troubles themselves.

"Senpai, can I remove the knives on my back?" Fran asked.

"Polish them before you give them back to me," Bel replied.

"Yada," instead of polishing, as Bel ordered, he plucked the knives off and dropped them to the ground.

"Drop one more and you'll experience hell," the ripper threatened. At this point, instead of dropping them, Fran began to bend them instead. "Bend and drop one more and you'll really be seeing hell."

"Ah…" Fran clutched the remaining knives and waved them up in a manner that can be interpreted as surrender but as he did, the knives flew off his grip and landed on the forest ground with a clatter.

"Ka-ching," Bel ignited his ring and opened his box weapon and Mink appeared.

"Yabai," Fran muttered. Mink aimed straight for him but when he was inches close, he turned and circled around his master and Mukuro's apprentice. Mink was awarded with screams of anguish and terror; the whole forest glowed with red fire. The knives were forgotten, thankfully. "Senpai, you didn't even consider the thought of setting this whole forest into fire haven't you?"

"Hmm? Yeah," the red flames subsided and Mink settled on Bel's shoulder.

A sly chuckle was heard from above. To Fran, it sounded like his senpai's laugh but when he looked, he saw someone identical to Bel.

"Hello little brother," the guy said, reclining on a red leather seat that looked very much like Xanxus's, "Did you miss me?"

Fran turned to Bel, who was frozen in place, "Ushishishi, who are you?" Bel replied.

"Hmm, still playing dumb? I'm Rasiel, you're older brother," Rasiel answered.

"Ah, senpai, I thought you murdered your brother?" Fran inquired.

"I did, it went like this…" and so, I, the author, take a page out of Bel's story of how he murdered his brother, which you (the reader) surely know because just as I am, you are most probably a KHR addict. So for the meanwhile, I recommend you to listen to Kagamine Len singing 'Nya, nya, nya, nya, nya, nya, nya nyanya nyanya! Nya nya!'

"Ehh… and so, killing your own kin is dangerous and good little kids shouldn't try it at home," Fran counseled, ever the calm boy who offers advices to young viewers.

"Teme, who are you talking to?" Bel asked out of annoyance, "I did kill my brother; the person in front is an illusion."

"No he's not."

"Yes he is."

"No he isn't."

"Yes he is."

"Are you guys done with your little chat before I send you to hell?" Rasiel asked, yawning out of boredom. "Bel, if you're so unsure, do you remember these scars you gave me and the little moon-shaped birthmark on the side of your belly?" Rasiel lifted his shirt, exposing the healed scars and the birthmark.

"Ehh… Bel-senpai, he's right," Fran said, lifting Bel's shirt, exposing his tummy.

"Idiot, and who gave you permission to lift my shirt?" Bel threw his knives on Fran's frog hat.

"I had enough of your games," Rasiel announced, "Die, because the prince said so," he activated his box weapon, releasing storm bats. At the same time, Rasiel's butler released his box weapon; the animal that appeared was huge and grey.

"You idiot, why didn't you open your box weapon?" Bel asked, one of his nerves popping.

"I couldn't do the pose I was planning to do. You know those things that the superheroes do. I couldn't raise my arms upwards because this huge black frog hot blocked my way, " Fran replied.

"No," Bel was about to add another word, but Fran and he popped, LITERALLY.

"What idiots," Rasiel muttered," and what a waste of time. Let's go," he left along with the macho butler.

In a few seconds, the real Fran and Bel dropped from the trees.

"Did you really have to kill me tragically, with much blood and gore?" Bel asked.

"Hai senpai, the illusion had to be realistic," Fran replied. All he received as an answer was a knife. "Itai, senpai," he complained.

"Let's go to the boss. I want to see my brother dead, for good," Bel said, and so they did, after they cleaned up the Millefiore trash around them.

They made it just in time to hear their boss say, "Tch, you trash, when the Vongola is threatened or faced in danger, we combine all our strengths together," as Rasiel and his companion crumbled into dust.

See? The world didn't end even when Aoi was missing from the scene. Many things happened when she was in prison. The Vongola ninth died. The next boss in line, Tsunayoshi Sawada appeared dead, but his ten years younger counterpart, came to the future via Lambo's ten years to the future violet cannon along with the last Arcobaleno of the era, Reborn, and his guardians. They fought Byakuran to restore peace in the world and to bring them back to their own past. Tricky isn't it? Tsuna and his friends thought that by destroying the huge round-shaped device in Irie Shouichi's base; they would be able to return to their era. But no, that was just a ploy to get the Vongola guardians into more intense training. This was to help them get stronger faster to be able to land a heavy blow to the real Millefiore guardians which included Byakuran. Tsuna (the boss), Gokudera (the storm guardian), Yamamoto (the rain guardian), Hibari (the cloud guardian), Ryohei (the sun guardian), Chrome/Mukuro (the mist guardian), and Lambo (the thunder guardian) were fighting Byakuran and his subordinates in a game called 'Chance'. However, they were defeated. Fortunately, Uni, came back to her consciousness and asked Tsuna for her protection and ultimately forced Byakuran to give Tsuna and the others a second chance. They were able to escape and now, are preparing for the second bout against the Millefiore Boss.

Yessss! Chapter 12! Agh. Summer's almost over. MUST. FINISH. BEFORE SCHOOL. STARTS.

The lyrics came from the song Suki Kirai sung by Kagamine Rin and Kagamine Len. :P

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