-FORESEEN-
Chapter 2: The Future
"Lambo-san will not study!" Lambo whined as Haru laid out some homework on the table.
"Lambo! Studying is very important!" I-Pin snapped at Lambo as she arranged some papers she was holding.
All Haru could do was sigh. This is what happens each time she tries to tutor them. Well, mostly Lambo. Lambo, with his arrogance, refused to cooperate, though I-Pin was very enthusiastic.
"Now, now Lambo-chan, you have to stop doing that!"
Though she was well aware what Lambo would respond, it has become a habit saying that to Lambo. As expected, Lambo responded with a typical Lambo response.
"Tch! Lambo-san is the strongest Hitman in the world, so he doesn't need to study!"
"Aah..."
The rest of the session continued the unchanged. Haru was unsuccessful in her attempt to convince Lambo to study and to stop disturbing I-Pin, who was obviously very annoyed by Lambo's antics at that point.
During the past five years, it was safe to say that the person who changed most was I-Pin. She gave up on becoming an assassin and decided to pursue with her studies.
Now, she can speak Japanese very well and her hair has grown long so she doesn't have which Lambo would call a 'tail head'.
Despite I-Pin's growth over the years, Lambo was still the same. He still refers to himself in third person and bursts into tears if anything hurt him. It's safe to say that something's never change.
Though he trimmed his afro and stopped stuffing it with all that junk he carries around with him. But that doesn't mean he doesn't carry all that junk. Now, everything he carries is stuffed in a special bag sent to him by the Bovino family. According to Lambo, the bag is an extraordinary bag as it is bottomless and can an endless amount of things.
The bag was definitely fascinating. But it was the mafia. You can never predict the next thing which will happen and the things you will see if you get involved with them.
"Hurry up I-Pin!"
It seemed that Lambo was getting very impatient at this point. I-Pin chose to ignore him which made him even more furious.
"I-PIN!"
He was still ignored.
"Fine! Lambo-san is going to go to the future and play with everyone there!"
With this, Haru finally decided to intervene and take the step which everybody has labeled as 100 percent effective.
"Lambo! Tsuna-san told you to stop using it! We can't risk something like what happened to Irie-san and the Byakuran guy ever happening again."
"Tch."
Well, of course Lambo didn't pay any attention to her worlds and took the ten year bazooka from his bag.
"Lambo!"
Haru spoke with a stern glare. It has come to the last resort now. This was the moment where the 100 percent effective method comes into action.
"I will give you candy!"
With this Lambo's eyes brightened and drool started to form from his mouth.
Haru used his bliss to snatch the ten-year bazooka and put it on the shelf nearby.
A few years ago, everyone struck a deal not to spoil Lambo, considering the spoiled brat he was becoming. He has actually become a spoiled brat by now. So it was just a measure to minimize it.
Moreover, Tsuna decided not to give Lambo any pocket-money and Lambo can only get candy once a month. Though it didn't stop him from demanding for everything, he was a hell lot less irritating than he was before.
The only time anyone was allowed to give him candy was when he is on the verge of doing something very thoughtless and stupid. Like trying to use the ten year bazooka.
That is why getting candy now, is like a once in a blue moon occurrence for Lambo.
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Lambo left an hour later, though he wasn't able to complete half of his homework. The candy trick made him at least try a little.
Whilst I-Pin completed her work perfectly and left half an hour before Lambo did. Meaning the remaining thirty minutes was Haru trying her best to shove anything into Lambo's hollow brain.
His departure meant that Haru has to get started on her own homework. It has been just a week since school begun and yet, she was bombarded with tons of homework. Though she was glad that Kyoko, Tsuna and Hana all ended up in the same class as her. The rest of the gang were in the same class as well. Talk about coincidence.
According to Reborn, it was all the courtesy of a special class assigner called Vongolavsky. She has yet to find out who the said person was.
With a groan Haru made her way to her bed where her backpack was. But things took an unexpected turn when she suddenly slipped. It wasn't a clumsy slip.
Turns out Lambo has thrown an unfinished grape juice packet on the floor and thanks to that Haru felt herself falling head first to the ground. For a moment, she was relieved when she was able to regain her balance thanks to the chair that was there.
But the relief didn't last long. Because when she pushed the chair back, it hit the shelf nearby and before she knew it, it was the ten year bazooka that was falling on her.
Damn that thing. Lambo forgot to take it back, so it was still on the shelf. Well not anymore, because that thing was falling, right towards her.
It happened so dramatically that she wasn't able to clearly comprehend the whole situation. The whole thing happened so fast, because when Haru opened her eyes, she found herself in a bright, purple place.
That didn't last very long either, because in a split second, she found herself standing on her feet.
With the first glance at her surroundings, she was sure that it wasn't her room. And like hell that was even her home. There was only one explanation. Ten years. The Future.
"If I was hit by the ten year bazooka, does that mean I am in the future?"
That whole thought made her shudder.
Sure, she was curious about how her future will be like. But she also believed that knowing something like that will be a bad omen. It would be like skipping to the end of a book and miss all the great parts of it.
For a few seconds, she was stunned by her surroundings.
It seemed like she was in a hallway. Not just a hallway. A very richly decorated and a magnificent one of that. The walls were made from hard wood and the floor was made of wood and there was a red carpet covering it. It looked somewhat like a castle. At least she didn't end up in the middle of the road. But still.
"Where am I?"
That was all she could think as walked softly through the hallway with questions like what she was doing there on her mind.
The peaceful walk didn't last long as the sound of a nearby door opening put her to a halt. She was quick enough to hide behind a giant armor which stood there.
From a side she was able to make out faint shadows of the two people who left the room.
"There should have been a way. You should have figured it out!"
Haru's eyes widened. That voice.
"Don't you think I would have done something if I could, Tsuna!?"
Her eyes widened even more. There was no mistake. One person Tsuna and the other person was none other than the pervert doctor.
"Sorry. It's just... I just can't believe this. He can't be dead."
Her eyes widened even more if possible.
This was one of the worst possible situations one would land in a trip to the future. From what she was hearing, someone just died. And judging from Tsuna's voice, it was obviously someone very important to him.
What was going on?
"I know…"
She can hear Tsuna sighing to that.
"This was the worst situation imaginable…"
"True..."
"I can't believe I have to inform everyone about this now… I was hoping it would be happy news that they were going to hear from me. But…"
"…"
Haru wasn't able to make out most of what they said afterwards due to them walking far away from the door to the staircase.
But Hearing that short exchange of words, Haru was dying to know what was going on. No matter how much she tried to convince herself that people from the past shouldn't intervene with the future, she can't help it.
Taking a deep breath, Haru took a bold step into the room which Tsuna and Shamal left a minute ago.
The next scene was not what she expected.
Because the room was literally crying out death.
The person lying on the bed, attached to all those medical equipment's was none other than Hayato Gokudera. Vongola's Storm Guardian. The guy who was always mean to little kids. The guy who always called Haru a stupid woman.
On instinct, Haru ran towards the bed.
"Haru?"
She didn't even notice Bianchi who was sitting near a side of the bed. Her eyes were bloodshot and her voice was trembling. It was a side of Bianchi that Haru has never seen.
"Bianchi-san..."
Haru was at loss of words.
The Ahodera of this time is dead. He was actually dead. And Bianchi was obviously having a hard time with that.
"I still can't believe Lavina-san passed on her disease to Hayato..."
Bianchi murmured in a broken voice.
"We found out too late... A-and n-now…"
Because of all the pain she was enduring at that point, Bianchi didn't even notice that it was the past Haru she was speaking to.
"I-I just hope, Lilia-chan doesn't suffer the same fate like her father and grandmother. You must look after her well, Haru."
Bianchi continued.
Lilia-chan? Gokudera has a kid? And why was Bianchi telling Haru to look after the kid?
Haru's mind was wobbling with confusion when out of nowhere, the pink smoke covered and before she knew it she was in her own room.
That five minutes surely felt like an eternity. But that five minutes has scarred her more than anything else could.
What just happened? How could Gokudera just die? How come no one knew about that illness? Who was Lavina? And who was Lilia-chan that Bianchi mentioned? And why was she telling Haru to look after her? And most importantly, how should she act in the present time after witnessing this?
-TBC-