Seashells of the Sky
Summary:"Wait, what Family became the Black Spell of Millefiore?" Tsuna asked. Lambo sighed, eyes shadowed, "The Vongola Family." AU
Chapter Six: Of the Sky's Brilliant Strategy
Afterwards, new faces popped up.
"Dino-san!" Tsuna yelled in surprise as the blonde suddenly bounced in. The brunet had been told by the older skylark to wait there.
"Yo, little bro'!" Dino said calmly when he saw them, covering up his shock with a smile. Behind him, Romario lingered coolly.
"So, you're here as well, Dino." Said a voice ominously.
"Ah, Reborn!" Dino yelled happily when he spotted the infant. His smile faltered slightly as he continued, "You're looking great!"
"What do you mean by that?" Dokuro asked nervously.
Dumb Lambo stiffened but was saved from saying anything when Bianchi burst into the room.
Promptly, Gokudera coughed loudly and collapsed, "Gah!"
"Hayato!" Bianchi cried out dramatically, catching her falling brother, "I'm so glad you're alright!"
"Ciaossu, Bianchi." The Poison Scorpion's head jerked up at the voice, and her eyes started to water. She set aside Gokudera and gathered the baby in her arms, "Reborn!"
"Okay, I have to know," Tsuna interrupted, frowning, "Why are you guys acting so sad around him?"
Dumb Lambo cleared his throat, and Tsuna turned to him. He said slowly, "The thing is… Reborn isn't around… in our present."
It took a few minutes for them to process that.
Finally, Tsuna shrieked in alarm, "HIIIEE? Reborn is? How?" He glanced worriedly at the silent baby.
Bianchi said quietly, "All of the Arcobaleno are dead. Byakuran developed an Anti-Trinisette bullet that succeeded in killing all of the infants."
There was dead silence.
Suddenly, for the second time in a day, Kyouya stormed in without a greeting.
"Get training!" He growled.
During the next two months, they all trained hard. Dumb Lambo had been sent to… interesting alternate universes approximately five times.
In one of them, he'd been this really cool prince… he was rather disappointed when he returned, clothed in golden robes and wearing gold jewellery.
As the days passed, Dumb Lambo had a bad feeling. After all these weeks without being attacked... just what was going on with the Millefiore Family? He strayed away from thoughts about the Black Spell.
Now, they were planning on how to get to Irie Shouichi.
As it turned out, they really didn't need to.
After those two months, they all had one week of downtime. However, Dumb Lambo, Reborn, Yamamoto, Gokudera and Tsuna chose to plan their offence instead.
The two skylarks had started fighting three days before and onward without even stopping. The forest surrounding the base was fast on its way to being demolished with them raging around.
The others were off fooling around somewhere. Tsuna would have slept in, but Reborn forced him to 'start acting like a Mafia Boss and take the initiative' by holding him at gunpoint. Lambo had also come as well, though his reason for being there was a given… and he'd been 'politely' asked by Reborn. Gokudera was determined to be at his Tenth's side as his Right Hand man and Yamamoto had tagged along just to annoy him.
Now, in the middle of Tsuna's pathetic attempt of trying to make up a plan, the invasion started.
"What's the plan, Dame-Tsuna?" Reborn had asked patiently, calmly sipping at a cup of tea.
"I-um…" Tsuna looked surprised at the sudden prompt, and flushed.
"W-why can't you make up one, Reborn?" He complained, and began to stretch, but winced at the sudden muscle pains.
Reborn rolled his eyes, "Dame-Tsuna, a mafia-boss has to have good plan-making abilities."
"W-what?"! Tsuna was gobsmacked; then he sighed, relenting.
"F-fine…"
Lambo smiled softly. Even if they were ten years younger, he'd missed their rather 'lively' arguments, at times.
"Well…" Tsuna began. And went beet red when everyone looked at him attentively. He coughed nervously, and fidgeted with the hem of his shirt as he continued.
"I-I think that… ah, we, er, should storm the – uh – base…" Tsuna stammered out.
"Yes, Dame-Tsuna," Reborn said mockingly, "We take the offence."
"Sh-shut up, Reborn!" Tsuna glared at his tutor who only ignored him.
Lambo, meanwhile, was a bit disappointed. Either Tsuna was going to learn how to be strategic soon, or Tsunayoshi had some help making up his plan.
Well, Boss had Kyouya…, Lambo thought.
Tsuna sighed in frustration and carried on.
"A-anyway, storm the base and… well…" He cleared his throat nervously.
Lambo could barely refrain from snorting aloud. Instead, he sniggered. Which he managed to disguise as a cough. However, the brief, reproachful look the brunet sent him told Lambo Tsuna wasn't fooled.
"Brilliant plan, Tsuna!" Yamamoto cheered, looking genuinely pleased.
"That baseball freak… acting so comfortably with the Tenth… should blow him up… I should be praising the Tenth instead…" Lambo sweatdropped when he heard the furious muttering of Gokudera beside him. Half a second after the last word, the silver-haired teen leapt up, his eyes gleaming.
"Tenth!" Gokudera yelled fiercely, making everyone jump in shock, sans Reborn. "What a great idea! We shall improvise as soon as we reach the base!"
Tsuna sweatdropped while Yamamoto beamed. Reborn sniggered.
Suddenly, the alarm started to blare.
Everyone jumped once again, and Lambo cursed. He got up and headed for the control room, the others following close behind.
"I don't understand," Lambo swore, "this place is supposed to be undetectable!"
"Yes," Reborn said quietly, hopping onto Yamamoto's shoulder as they ran along.
Lambo looked at him questioningly, and Reborn continued gravely, "But not undetectable to the Vongola, right?"
Lambo paled; Tsuna and Yamamoto looked confused but didn't say anything.
"You don't think we'll have to…" Gokudera frowned as he trailed off. Lambo looked away.
"To what?" Tsuna asked curiously, glancing at both of them, but they'd already reached the control room.
"Gianni, what's happening?" Lambo demanded, striding into the room.
"The invaders… I can't seem to get a clear read on them." The small man said nervously, tapping away at the keyboard. "However, they just seem to be waiting outside…" He informed dubiously.
Lambo frowned, "Where are the Cloud Guardians?"
"They came back in a while ago," Gianni reported, "but they seemed really tired. They went straight to sleep."
The Thunder Guardian groaned wearily, " Just great… just what we need right now." He really felt like going into a corner and crying in frustration while simultaneously pulling his hair out. However, he managed to stifle the admittedly overwhelming urge.
"What should we do?" He asked, swallowing his panic and instinctively turned to Tsuna.
The brunet looked stunned, "M-me?"
Reborn said seriously, "You should be leading here, Tsuna. What do you suggest?"
Tsuna bit his lip, thinking. Finally, he got out his 27 mittens and pills, saying, "We'll go out and meet them."
The urge came flooding back. Lambo really badly wanted to cry now. In fact, he was breathing rapidly and sniffing occasionally, trying to stop the oncoming flow of tears.
When they saw the opposition, Tsuna, and Gokudera stared in shocked silence, while Yamamoto frowned at the figure, thinking hard. Reborn stood warily to the side, observing the person standing in front of them silently.
The figure, meanwhile, was staring at them in surprise, but looked like he'd expected them. His fists were clenched so tightly that the nails bit into his palms and blood was steadily dripping.
Tsuna mouthed the figure's named slowly in disbelief. Gokudera's features hardened as he glared accusingly at the figure. Lambo stood there wordlessly, right eye closed as he leant back in a more comfortable position to observe the person. He'd finally wrenched his raging emotions under control.
He pointedly ignored the faintly apologetic looks he was getting from the figure in front of them.
Finally, Yamamoto broke the silence with a strained, light-hearted laugh.
"Wow!" He exclaimed, "you've suddenly grown taller, Hayato!"
Then he added, as if just he'd just thought of it, "And there's two of you!"
A/N: Lol, i forgot to introduce Gianni... haha, please excuse my mistake~ ;) Ahh, Hayato is now revealing himself~ What will happen? =3
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