Disclaimer: How many times do I have to say this? (Every time you up-load a new chapter, idiot!) I do not and never will own Katekyo Hitman Reborn! and Vongola 77 Character Book. Akira Amano draws them and obviously has the right to claim it.
Chapter 5 Morning Calls
Gokudera woke up abruptly as the loud knocks on the door became more frequent. He cursed when his head knocked the bed side table.
"Gokudera! Wake up!" called the person who was knocking through his door.
What the fucking hell does that idiot want?! Gokudera thought as he covered Haru's still sleeping body with a blanket. He grabbed the towel on the floor and wrapped it around his waist. Grumbling and muttering under his breath, he opened the door a little.
"What the hell?" he grunted at Yamamoto. "You better have a good fucking reason to this, sword freak!" He ruffled up his hair and massaging the small lump in his temple.
Yamamoto frowned at his friend's appearance. "Have you just woken up or are you just taking a shower?" he asked innocently.
"Just tell me what the fuck you want!" Gokudera thundered. He wanted to sleep again. Last night, he and Haru had alot of things to catch up to so he had barely slept.
His thunderous voice immediately woke Haru up. "Who are you talking to, Hayato?" she asked, rubbing her eyes. Gokudera whipped around and found his wife already in a sitting position and the blanket slipping off, revealing her bare chest.
When Yamamoto tried to push the door open wider so he could check the situations inside, Gokudera immediately banged the door closed into Yamamoto's face.
"OW!" Yamamoto cried. "What the hell was that for?!"
"Cover yourself, Haru!" Gokudera yelped at his wife in a not-so-kind tone.
"Hahi?" Haru tilted her head. He mentally slapped himself. How could he have forgotten how his wife tended to be every morning? She was always such an airhead when she had just woken up.
He walked (ran) towards his wife and grabbed the blanket to cover her again when the door clicked open.
"Heck! I was just going to te-" Yamamoto stopped mid-sentence when he saw the reason Gokudera had thrown the door into his face.
Haru looked at Gokudera (who sighed and struggled to keep his wife's bare body from other men's eyes), to Yamamoto (who turned around as quickly as possible with red ears) to herself. She shrieked as revelation hit her. She grabbed the blanket from Gokudera's hands and ducked inside.
"Sasagawa has woken up!" Yamamoto said suddenly. "I only wanted to tell you… that…" his voice lowering at each word. "See you downstairs …"
The door banged close leaving Gokudera grunting and cursing his bad morning calls.
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Yamamoto opened the door to the meeting room. Inside, Dino was observing the papers scattered on the table. Romario stood behind him, acknowledging his presence with a greeting. "Morning, Yamamoto-san."
"Morning, Romario-san." he said with a nod. Dino turned around and waved at him then pointed at the stacks of papers. Yamamoto sat on the couch across the table.
"The reports are in, Yamamoto," Dino said. "You want to check it out?"
"Nope. Let Gokudera do the paperwork," Yamamoto replied. "You can give me the summary."
"You woke him up, then? Have you told him Kyoko's awake?"
Yamamoto blushed as he was reminded of how he had woken Gokudera up. He nodded, avoiding eye contact with Dino.
"What's wrong?" Dino asked, confused at his reaction. "Why are you blushing?"
"I suppose you woke him up at the wrong time?" Romario guessed. Yamamoto's ears turned beet red and he cover his face with one hand. Dino cocked his head, not understanding what Romario had mean.
"What do you mean, Romario?" he asked.
His right hand man smiled. "Do you know who Gokudera-san was with, Boss? You escorted them to their room, didn't you?"
Dino's frown turned into a cherry red blush as he realized what Romario meant. After a few minutes of awkward silence, Dino cleared his throat.
"A - Anyway!" he continued, leaning forward to take some papers from the table. "The investigations report about the present Irie Shoichi is here. Some information about Giglio Nero and Gesso Famiglia are included, too."
"Any information on who attacked the women yesterday? Or who sent the sniper Gokudera killed?"
"Nothing so far," said Dino, shaking his head. "My men are still trying their best to investigate it. Apparently, Kyoya had disposed of the corpse at some unknown location. It's very tough to retrieve information from him, you know."
Yamamoto glanced at one of the papers. It contained Irie Shoichi's biodata.
Irie Shoichi
Age: 14
Born: December 3rd
Blood type: A
Height: 155 cm
Weight: 48 kg
Country origin: Japan
Note: At the 8th of August last year, received a package from Bovino Famiglia. The package, supposedly sent to Reborn, was sent due to Lambo crashed at Irie's apartment. It consisted of Pasta, Wine and Olive Oil, also some weapons for Lambo. The package is currently still in Irie's possession.
"He never was the kind of person to share information, I know," Yamamoto replied as he scowled at the paper. "I always had a hard time finding him and getting information about what he's been doing with the Foundation."
Dino frowned at the bit of information about Hibari. "The Foundation?"
Yamamoto suddenly realized that he was talking about the future Hibari to Dino. "I'm sorry. I'm talking about what he'll be doing for Tsuna in the future," he corrected himself.
"He joined the Mafia?" Dino asked in disbelief. "And works for Tsuna, too?"
The Hibari Kyoya Dino knew was not the kind of person who liked to place himself in groups, much less work for someone weaker than himself (or so Hibari always thought of Tsuna).
"I always ask Tsuna the same question. Wondering how the hell he was able to make Hibari work with us," Yamamoto said, chuckling as he remembered when he had popped out the question.
That day, they were in Italy. Tsuna was the official Vongola Famiglia Tenth Boss. They were about to attend a function to celebrate the occasion. The function, apparently, consisted of a couple ceremonies according to Vongola's tradition.
One ceremony was where the six Guardians kissed the new boss' Sky Ring and pledged their loyalty in front of all the affiliates, allies and even few rival Families.
No one was surprised when Gokudera was up first to pledge his loyalty. Nobody was surprised either when Yamamoto, Ryohei, Lambo and Chrome followed suit.
When Hibari Kyoya appeared out of nowhere, dressed in a sleek black suit with Hibird perched on his shoulder, walked gracefully towards Tsuna, kneeled and kissed the Sky Ring on his right hand then
silently said his version of loyalty, almost everybody present (those who had the bad luck to cross paths with Hibari) had their jaw hanging.
Dino Cavallone (the future one), the tenth generation Cavallone Boss, was literally petrified and had to be dragged off to his mansion. Gokudera Hayato, the tenth generation Storm Guardian, acted like he was seeing his sister without goggles on.
After the eventful ceremony, Yamamoto decided to ask Tsuna (who was tending to Gokudera in one of the rooms in the Vongola Mansion): why did Hibari do that?
Reborn (who was smacking unconscious Gokudera's head) smirked and answered the question for Tsuna. With a little bribe Tsuna and I have planned for him, it was easy to make him do that, the little guy had said.
What Tsuna had bribed Hibari, Yamamoto never knew. Tsuna always kept mum about it. He shrugged it off every time Yamamoto asked him. He had always said: you know how Reborn's always scheming things, Yamamoto. You should ask him.
But Yamamoto never got the chance to know what the bribe was. Reborn was dead now and so was Tsuna.
"I want to know the secret to tame him," Dino joked, laughing. "It's a miracle that Tsuna managed to do it."
Yamamoto nodded. A small, sad smile appeared on his face. Memories of Tsuna always made him regret the day he had died.
"On with the investigations!" Dino said happily. "I have found something interesting about the box weapons you guys told me about."
"That will have to wait until Gokudera's here, "Yamamoto told him with a grin. "He's the one doing the paperwork as I told you before. He's smarter and more focused than I am."
As soon as Yamamoto said that, the meeting room's door banged open and Gokudera's scowling face appeared. His appearance was different from his usual professional look. His necktie had been left untied and his shirt was not tucked inside. What was more frightening was his expression. It looked like an angry devil from hell.
"One more time, sword freak…" he hissed at Yamamoto. "One more time you dare to walked your ass into my room and I will blow that fucking airhead of yours to bits!"
"Ahaha…" Yamamoto laughed sheepishly at Gokudera's deadly aura. "You're not…"
Gokudera pointed his silver gun at Yamamoto's head. "… serious…right?" Yamamoto's last words were left unheard.
Dino's eyes grew wide, moving from Gokudera's silver gun to Yamamoto. "He-hey… Gokudera!" Dino stuttered. "Do-don't be so angry at Yamamoto. Why don't you check these reports, first?"
When Gokudera didn't move his gun, Romario made his presence known and patted Gokudera's shoulder.
"Please, Gokudera-san. We don't want any bloodshed here," he said calmly.
After a few seconds of consideration, Gokudera holstered his gun back. Yamamoto and Dino sighed in relief.
"Tch!" He spat while he adjusted his necktie. "You're lucky today, sword freak," he grunted. "There'll be no mercy next time!"
I hope there'll be no next time, Dino thought. He ushered Gokudera to the couch but stopped as his ears caught Haru's squeaky voice.
"Hahi! Hayato!" She called when she saw him in the meeting room. She wore a black knee-length pencil skirt and bloody red V-necked long-sleeved sweater. "You forgot your jacket!" she said, handing the Armani suit to her husband. "Good morning, every one!" she greeted.
"Morning," Yamamoto replied quietly, trying to avoid her eyes.
"Good morning, Miura-san," Romario greeted her back.
Dino beamed at her. "Yo! Haru! Had a good night sleep?" he asked her.
Yamamoto choked but immediately covered it up with small coughs when he noticed Gokudera's scowl. Dino noticed Yamamoto's choking sound and looked at him questioningly.
Haru blushed at Dino's question. "Thank you for your patronage, Dino-san," she replied, bowing her head a little to Dino. "And it's not Miura anymore, Romario-san. It's Gokudera Haru." She blushed deeper at her own words.
She cast a small shy smile to her husband and that was when Dino noticed the small pinkish bite marks on her neck and collarbone.
Gokudera scowled at how Dino was staring at Haru's neck and at Yamamoto's beet red face. He pushed Haru out of the meeting room. "You go and see Kyoko, Haru," he told her. "I need to discuss some things with them."
"Hahi?" She tilted her head and looked questioningly at him but he had already closed the meeting room's door.
Gokudera put on his jacket and buttoned it up. When he was all set, he cast an annoyed look at Dino and Yamamoto. "Would you please stop staring at my wife like that, Dino-san?" he said, first looking at
Dino then at Yamamoto. "Forget what you saw this morning, sword freak. And I'll forget that you've seen it."
Yamamoto nodded quickly. Gokudera sat on the couch beside Yamamoto and gathered up the papers. He took out his glasses from inside his jacket (wonder where he hid it? Dino thought) and scanned the reports.
Dino sighed and asked Romario to get him some aspirin. It was only forty past seven in the morning and his head already ached like he had been working overtime.
Author's Note:
Pretty much nothing happening here. I wonder if it's too boring to write the story in this kind of pace. Because, you see… I'm writing about what could've happened to the TYL! Guardians and the people sent to the past. I like to write it this way because I could describe how they passed the days in the past. Tell me what you think! And… does anyone read these notes, I wonder? Don't skip it, okay? You'll need some of the information here about some points in the chapter.
Irie Shoichi's Bio: I took it from the Vongola 77 Character Book. I just added the note to the bio.
Giglio Nero and Gesso Famiglia: If you don't already know, it's the two families that merged to form the Millefiore.
Guardian Ceremony Vongola Style: I made this up. I noticed in Target 112 that when Iemitsu met the fake Ninth, he kneeled and kissed his right hand. I'm assuming he kissed the hand where the Sky Ring would be if it was in the Ninth's possession. And that's how I made up the tradition.
"Wonder where he hid it?": I always wonder where the hell Gokudera hid the unfathomable amount of dynamites in his body. And you see… Bianchi was able to produce those Poison Cooking foods out of nowhere! Could it be… they're magicians? XP. And Gokudera loves to do magic shows too (remember that he tends to do magic shows in all of the parties he attended?).
There'll be more about Irie and the Millefiore next chapter. Maybe about who sent the sniper and attacker too? 83
The Firecracker sequel is still under construction and I'm getting lazier each day. Instead of continuing writing it, I ended up writing the Mistero del Pianista sequel! Geez… I need to sort out my priorities. (;)
Big huggies and kisses to all of you who have reviewed, favorite and alerted this story. \o/
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Big thank you for one99five and EtoileCyberPrima too (gah! Special mention!). You guys make me re-read all my works again and make me re-editing it. Maybe it was an excuse but really, grammar is my weakest point in English (not to forget English is never my main language, I've got too many languages to learn!). And I really rushed my writing too much that I didn't notice even the smallest mistakes you have pointed at me. One99five, thank you for being my beta-reader. You don't know how much you make me happy! でもね 本当にありがとうございました。(Demo ne Hontou ni arigatou gozaimashita)
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And here is the preview for the next chapter! I hope it'll ignite your curiosity more, my readers!
Preview (new add-on, people! Be happy!):
Chapter 6 Closed Loop Opened Loop
Lambo scratched his own chin. "There'll be… hmm… What's the word?" He muttered to himself.
"There'll be time paradox, stupid cow!" Gokudera snapped. "Meaning they could disappear all together."
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"It was all began with the investigation report from the Foundation," he started.
"The one future Hibari do?" Dino asked. Gokudera looked at him questioningly.
"I told him a while ago." Yamamoto told him. "But, I thought Hibari was only investigating the mafia rings, box weapons and those difficult things."
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"Was that why he chose to destroyed all the Rings?" Yamamoto asked.
"Maybe yes, maybe no. He never told me the exact reason." Gokudera answered. "He destroyed the Rings even before we get the wind of what was this Millefiore Famiglia scheming."
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"You remembered all Gokudera had said, Romario?" Dino asked Romario. When Romario nodded Dino stood up from his seat. "Then start the investigation quickly. Contact the main Vongola Headquarter, the CEDEF, the Varia and the Bovino Boss. Tell them I want to talk to them immediately."