Cho and Yamamoto strolled inside as they talked, as Yamamoto finished telling Cho about his hometown, Cho strolled ahead of him. "Sounds like a nice place," he said, "to bad you won't be gong back there, Vongola Rain Guarian."

Yamamoto smirked, "So, you play that game too huh?" he said, "I didn't think there'd be anybody here that did. He reached up and grabbed Shigure Kintoki from it's case, the bamboo sword transforming into a metal blade.

Cho turned around to face him and revealed that he had transformed, his eyes turned red and his teeth grew longer and sharper, as he took a stance, a long blade extended from each of his arms. He scraped them together as he spoke, "You ready, Rain Guardian?"

"Nice mask," Yamamoto said, "So what are you supposed to be anyway?"

Cho smirked, "There was a time when I was called Tarkatan, so if you must give me a title, you may use that one." Cho suddenly Rushed Yamamoto, his blades flying at great speeds, coming from multiple directions. Yamamoto seemed to be able to keep up, for now. But Cho's assault was wearing on him until Cho landed a slash across Yamamoto's chest, followed by a kick to his fresh wound.

Cho laughed, "Your blood is bittersweet," he taunted, "to think, the Varia's Rain Guardian, Squallo, lost to a whelp like you. I will be sure to brag to him about your defeat."

Yamamoto pulled himself up and readied his sword, determination running through him, causing him to forget the pain in his chest.

"Still going are you?" Cho asked, "How about I help you out a bit." Cho scrapped his blades together, producing a large spark, wich he fired at the sprinklers in the ceiling, the sprinklers activated, raining water down upon the two of them.

"Your fancy sword tecniques require water don't they?" Cho asked, "That's why you're the Rain Guardian after all. So why don't you show me just what it is you can do."

Yamamoto's grip tightened on his sword as he drew it into a fighting stance, the blade pointing at his opponent in front of him, "Shigure Soen Ryu," he said, "Shajiku no Ame!" Yamamoto suddenly burst forward quickly, water cascading from the blade as it rushed toward the chest of the Tarkatan before him.

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Gokudera didn't wait to watch as Tomo's entire body changed into a black mass, vaugley humanoid in shape with pale yellow glowing eyes. He was quick to draw a few bombs and toss them at her. The bombs went off with a loud explosion, but were mostly smoke and noise, in the confusion he rushed out of the room, looking for a way outside, if she was made of darkness, the first thing Gokudera thought to do was to get her into the sunlight, it would most likely weaken her.

Realizing what had happened Tomo was quick to chase him, her body slid across the floor like a snake. Gokudera looked behind him and saw her chasing him and tossed a few more bombs in her direction, but she was too quick, her body quickly slithered around them as she gained on him. Seeing no doors to the outside Gokudera ran for a window and threw himself out of it, bringing his arms up to sheild his face from the glass. He hit the ground and rolled on the grass, he was in the building's courtyard, the sun shining down from above. Gokudera was relatively safe for now, but he was trapped and the sun would go down eventually. He needed to think up a plan, it was as he was thinking a chill ran up his spine, his body felt cold. He looked behind him and saw Tomo there, wrapping her tendrils around him, slowly trying to crush him. But how? Did the sun not work? It was then that he noticed that she was sprouting up from Gokudera's own shadow. Gokudera needed to break free from her grip, He reached for one of his mini bombs, grabbing it he tossed it behind him. Because she was grabbing onto him, Tomo couldn't dodge it, but neither could Gokudera.

The blast seperated them, Gokudera quickly pulling himself up off the ground, the sun was behind him, causing him to cast a long shadow. "Clever boy," Tomo said, her fingertips extending into what Gokudera assumed were claws, he didn't want to find out the hard way. "But you forget to realize, darkness is everywhere, even in broad daylight the human body contains more than enough darkness for me to sustain myself."

"So that's what you were doing," Gokudera said, "siphoning the darkness from within my body."

"Does it matter?" Tomo asked.

"No," Gokudera said, "it doesn't." He tossed more bombs at her, wich she dodged easily.

"Are these toys all you have?" She taunted.

Gokudera smirked as the rockets activated, propelling the bombs and turning them around and striking her from behind. "I'll tell you this only once," Gokudera said, "Do not underestimate the Vongola."

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Kyoko, Haru, I-pin and Lambo were out looking for Tsuna after Lambo's little incident. They were traveling along one of the forest paths between the buldings when Haru noticed something.

"Kyoko," she said, stopping, "do you hear that?"

"Hear what?" Kyoko asked.

"Someone's singing," Haru said.

I-pin looked around, "I hear it too!" She said.

Further ahead of them Hirari approached them, his hands in his pockets and his head down slightly, as he strolled he sang this song. "Oh I am the Grither, you cannot escape me for pleading is useless and so are your prayers. The Grither is greedy for only one thing, to keep you from taking, to keep you from taking, to keep you from taking, his name in vain!"

He stopped a few yards ahead of them as he finished his song, "I told you we'd meet again," he said, this time, he was not so cheerful as before. There was murder in his eyes now, and the girls noticed it, Lambo on the other hand, did not.

"Oh yeah! Well I say 'Pthhhh' to your Grither!" he said sticking his tounge out, "Lambo-san will just beat him up!"

Hirari smirked and removed his glasses, "I really do love children, so ingorant. You do realize that I have to kill you now."

The girls' faces went pale, and even Lambo became nervous.

"Relax," Hirari said, "I only want the child, none else among you have said my name."

"W-we won't let you!" Haru said, stepping between Hirari and Kyoko, who was holding Lambo, despite this, her body was shaking with fear.

Hiriari chuckled, his body began to enlarge, his skin changing to a tan-ish brown, his face becoming much uglier with a mouth full of sharp teeth, his arms extended to become like pythons with large hands the size of basketballs.

Upon seeing this, Haru's legs gave out from shock and she fell to the ground, Hirari approached and she began to crawl away from him. Kyoko was frozen with terror as Hirari reached out with one of his long arms for Lambo, who stared wide eyed at the monster before him. "Gotta-Stay-Calm!" He told himself, but instead burst into loud tears as he blindly reached into his afro and threw handfulls of grenades at Hirari. The explosions knocked Kyoko back, mostly from suprise, and Lambo fell to the ground at Hirari's feet. Before the dust settled Lambo pulled out the 10-year-bazooka and jumped inside, fireing it and expelling a pink cloud.

"My my," Adult Lambo said as it settled, "and I was just getting cozy at home." He looked up to the face of the monster in front of him and gave a sudden scream of terror as he jumped back into the 10-year-bazooka. It fired again, summong 25 year old Lambo, upon taking one look at the monster he flinched in suprise.

"Arn't you an ugly one," he said.

Hirari growled and reached out, trying to grab at Lambo's head, but Lambo dodged it and ducked, placing one hand on the ground "Electtrico Reverse!" he exlaimed, releasing electricity into the ground, specifically tward Hirari. Hirari's body shook as he was shocked, he couldn't move.

"You'll have to excuse me," Lambo said, "but I have to finish this quickly."

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Without warning, Timmothy suddenly pulled a knife and lunged at Chrome, who instinctivly blocked it with her trident. Their weapons clashed and Timothy's blank stare met her eye, for a second she thought she saw a dark figure behind Timmothy, it was too quick to make any details aside from the fact that it was tall and slender. Suddenly, Timmmothy was gone and she was in a forrest, the sky was dark, and the trees around her were dead, the brances twisted into creepy shapes, it was cold. Chrome looked around and it felt like she was being watched. She was scared, her hands gripped her trident tightly. Mukuro-sama, she thought, please help me.

Chrome suddenly heard rustling behind her, she turned and saw Timmothy lunging at her with his knife. Chrome was quick and swung her trident at him, striking Timmothy in the side of the head, knocking him away. Timmothy rolled over from where he landed, he attempted to get up but his body began to shake and he was hit with a violent fit of coughing. Chrome looked up too see that same dark figure standing over him, this time she could make out what it was. It was tall and slender, wearing a business suit, but it had no face, but Chrome could tell it was looking at her. Chrome suddenly felt terrified of this thing, she wanted to run. Her legs buckled beneath her and she fell to the ground, she looked up and saw it was getting closer. She couldn't contain her fear any longer and let loose a scream. Then, in an instant, the trident was pointed at the thing's face, or lack thereof.

"You know," Mukuro Rokudo said, "I don't take kindly to those who bully my Chrome."

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"And who might you be?" Ryohei asked as this new challenger stepped into the ring.

"Same Tako," He said, "I apologize in advance, but I don't plan on fighting fairly, of course you should be aware of this, it's how the mafia works."

"Bring it on," Ryohei said, "fair or not, I'll take you down to the extreme!"

Same smiled, revealing a mouthfull of sharp teeth, "At least you're enthusiastic," he said as he transformed, his body became a mass of tentacles, he used them to keep a vauge humanoide shape as his head changed to that of a shark.

The change suprised Ryohei, but he quickly recovered as Same lashed out with his tentacles. Ryohei countedred them with his fists, punching them away. Since Same needed to use some of his tentacles as legs, he could only attack with a few at a time.

Ryohei kept at this until he found one of Same's tentacles wrapped around his wrist, Ryohei tried to remove it but anotehr oen wrapped around his other wrist. Same pulled Ryohei's arms open and attacked with his tentacles.

"I don't know about you," Same said, "But this is making me hungry." He chuckled to himself as he pulled Ryohei toward him, opening his jaws, reavealing rows of sharp teeth.

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"There isn't really any hard feelings," the guy said as his hair turned white, "Just business." What appeared to be a bolt of lightning materialized in his hand and he threw it at Hibari like a spear. Hibari swung to deflect it but the bolt electrocuted him as it struck his tonfa.

Hibari's opponent laughed, "Seriously!" he said, "you really thought you could deflect pure lightning with those metal tonfa? You do know that those things are like lightning rods right?"

Hibari picked himself up, he didn't seem that hurt, just very angry. "Thanks for telling me," he said.

"Well," the guy said, "I'm suprised you can stand so quickly. Most would be paralyzed after a strike like that, maybe I'm getting sloppy." Two more bolts appeared in his hands, "You can call me Sanda Inazuma and I'm a Olympian, you may as well give up."

Hibari spun one of his tonfa in his hand, "You talk too much," he said rushing forward. Sanda threw both bolts at him, but Hibari sidestepped them. Sanda summoned another as Hibari neared, this time using it as a staff, blocking Hibari's first attack. Mearly contacting it caused electricity to shoot through Hibari's body, despite this, Hibari was able to move and attack with his free hand. Sanda was suprised he could even move with the amount of electricity running through his body and Hibari's tonfa struck him in the face.

"I told you I'd bite you to death," Hibari said, "even with all of your lightning."