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Famiglia
Chapter 10
09/25/10
Hibari walked in the almost empty streets of his town, checking the surroundings for any kind of danger. He strode the road with precaution for any surprise attacks that may happen.
"Chairman," Kusakabe stepped in to his side. Hibari halted and waited for his subordinate's report, "The premises are all clear."
Hibari responded a nod and was about to continue when he took notice of his trusted man still not leaving his position. He raised his eyebrow, silently giving the other permission to ask his thoughts.
"Chairman, I know you mean well and want order on your surroundings… and you're doing quite well or rather better than the local police even but…"
"Stop stalling, Kusakabe,"
"But it's in the middle of the night. No one in Namimori would cause trouble at this course of time,"
"Is that all?"
"Well… yes, Chairman,"
"Hmph. Then get to your post now," with that Hibari walked off to scan the perimeters once again.
"Uhm… O-Of course, Chairman,"
Hibari sighed to the uncertainty in the voice of his subordinate. He's starting to think that a certain tuna fish have rubbed off his stuttering ability to this man. So, he paused once more on his tracks, "There will be trouble makers coming soon according to the baby… and Sawada Tsunayoshi."
Kusakabe looked, surprised, at the retrieving back of his superior then slowly he smiled softly and carried on with his orders.
"Ryohei..? Ryohei…! Ryohei!"
"Onii-chan's still not home yet, Okaa-san," Kyoko answered her mother's call.
"Eh? It's already getting late and I need him to buy some mushrooms (A/N: Sorry can't think of anything else. The idea of mushrooms just won't leave my mind.) quickly to the department store," her mother sighed.
Kyoko then smile and got up from her seat and went to her mother, "Don't worry, Okaa-san. I can get it for you."
"No, it'll be dangerous for a girl of your age to be walking in the streets in this time of the night," the older woman refused.
"I'll be fine, Okaa-san. The department store's just near (A/N: I'm not really sure about this.) so I'll immediately come back right after buying the mushrooms so I won't be in any kind of danger," Kyoko eased her mother, trying to be the good child that she is.
"Ok," her mother finally resigned, "But be quick."
"You won't even know I'm gone," Kyoko assured her mother and left the house.
She treaded the streets with ease but with the right speed to arrive at her destination in a short amount of time. She smiled happily as she easily found the mushrooms in the store and placed a few cans on her basket. She then made her way to the counter to pay for it. The lady smiled at her as Kyoko was given what she bought before bidding her goodnight. Kyoko returned a small bow before heading back home.
"I hope Onii-chan's home already,"
Shadowed silhouettes moved from roof to roof with each of their steps as silent as the night until they reached a shrine. Each landed flawlessly and took a view in the peaceful night of Namimori.
One of them sat on the entrance stairs of the Haiden (A/N: Haiden is the oratory or hall of worship in the shrine. It's the one in the front of the main hall, or the Honden.) as he heaved a sigh. Another was standing right beside him and three more were spread out in the vicinity.
"Dalmazio," called the seated man, whom is the head of the group. The said person turned his sight to him while pocketing his hands to his well-refined suit as he continued, "There's a local yakuza in this town."
The suited man made no comment or comply and walked casually in the streets, already knowing what to do.
"Finally, the old man's gone," a Ruzzian guy that's about in the end of his teens snorted as he ran his fingers to his orange dyed-hair.
"Ne, Ace~ Are we just going to stay here like this?" a playful girl's voice rung on the air.
"Shut up, Sakura," hushed the man standing beside their leader.
"Mou! Vin's being mean to me again, Ace," Sakura pointed her fingers, accusing the aforementioned person.
"Oi, you're ruining the quiet night," the orange haired-guy silenced the teenage girl with a bored tone.
"But how am I going to see Tsu-kun if I stay quiet and away from him!" the lone girl complained and stomped her foot to the ground.
Whines spilled from the girl's mouth and piled the air. Veins started to sprout from the Russian teen's forehead.
"Adrik, Sakura," their leader said in a solemn tone that brought the two in silence and in full attention, "I have something for you to do."
Chrome was making her way to her boss' home because of the sudden summoning she had from her boss' tutor awhile ago. So, now she's walking in the streets alone under the dark sky, passing by some students clad in black winter uniforms with pompadour hairstyles on her way. Then, a man in a black suit, like of what a business man wore, caught her attention. The man noticed her gaze and turned his head to her. She immediately avoided eye contact and continued her way. They went past each other without any further ado but she just couldn't shake the odd chilly feeling she saw in the man's eyes. It was almost like the man was blind but the way he moved is as if he has full vision of everything in sight. It was like it's devoid… devoid of any kind of emotion, only pride and honor bore inside him from being buttered so much in his life.
She then shrugged it off as she noticed she's already near the department store. A flash of a familiar orange head went passed the store's entrance, carrying a bag that she assumed as to what the said girl came for.
Chrome was going to greet the girl but then, she saw a guy drop down from a high altitude. She immediately took notice of the said man's obviously foreign facets and unnatural orange hair, that's of a darker shade than of her friend's. With that thought, she finally remembered her said friend being approach by the foreigner. Her violet eyes widened as she witnessed the two's disappearance, the latter knocking out the former's consciousness and carrying her off somewhere. She looked around panicking as to where the man has gone off to and sees him making his way to the direction of the shrine. She looked around once more to look for any of those disciplinary committee members littering the place to be called for help but to no avail, the said people were nowhere in sight when she needed them.
"I can't waste anymore time… Kyoko-chan needs my help," with full determination to rescue her friend, she ran as fast as her small legs could carry her.
"KYOKO!" Ryohei worriedly called on the silent night, "KYOKO! WHERE ARE YOU TO THE EXTREME?"
He ran across the town and stopped at a friend's house. He banged his fist to the door. He couldn't help but feel worried to his sister's disappearance. They both have a close bond which no one can ever deny. He felt irritated to himself as a churning feeling filled his chest.
After what seemed to be forever, Tsuna came to open the door for him. The brunette had a confused look on his face but certainly with a mix of worry painted his eyes.
"SAWADA! HAVE YOU SEEN KYOKO?"
Tsuna's eyes widened as the question came out of his mouth, getting alarmed at the boxer's panicked appearance.
"Wasn't she already home? I accompanied her back earlier," the brunette stated still confused.
"Stupid, lawn head! What're you doing here?" Gokudera came out of the brunette's living room and spat in the sight of the boxer.
"SHE'S NOT HOME TO THE EXTREME! Okaa-san sent her to buy something that I forgot what it is to the department store awhile ago. And she hasn't come back yet to the EXTREME. I've ran to the department store BUT SHE WASN'T THERE!" Ryohei roared to the sky for his beloved little sister.
"K-Kyoko-chan's missing…" Tsuna eye's flashed horrid then to worry and to anger. But what sacred him was a look of cold realization and panic forming in his eyes.
Ryohei could see his kouhai (Kouhai= junior) grip his fists into a tight ball and his eyes shadowed by his bangs.
"Juudaime?" Gokudera came to the brunette's side.
He then took sight of the baby hitman tutor a few meters away from Tsuna with half of his face being shadowed with the brim of his fedora.
A cool silence irked the surroundings, getting colder as the time slowly passed. An unfamiliar black-haired boy went into view with a questioning look on his face but none of them answered it.
"Tsu-kun! Look here~ it's me!" a voice rung in the air.
They turned their heads on the house's front gate and spot a girl who spoke, standing there with her hands at her back, and her body going up and down as she elevated her heels on and off the ground. Ryohei made no recognition to the girl but his Italian bomber friend immediately sent her a deathly glare. Soon enough, Tsuna lifted his head and revealed a pair of unusual cold eyes. The display of bloodlust in his friend's eyes sent him stepping a step back with his voice getting drained.
"Did you miss me?" she giggled as if taunting them to go after her.
"Where's Kyoko-chan?" Tsuna finally spoke dangerously with such venom etched into each of his utterance as if he'd wanted the girl to get poisoned by his mere words.
"Hmm… that ugly girl? If you really want to know…" she smirked and turned her back on them before jumping off to a wall, "Come here and try to catch me!"
She then sped off and not a moment later, Ryohei had found Tsuna already behind the girl's pace in his hyper will mode.
"Why are you just standing there lawn head? Hurry up or we're going to leave you!"
Gokudera's voice awakened him from his surprised and stunned stature. He shook his head and went running after his friends with his mind blank, still unable to believe the brunette's inhuman speed.
What am I thinking? I should concentrate on saving Kyoko…
…
…but Sawada's just so…
"EXTREME!"
Hibari leaned on the wall with his eyes closed beside the entrance of the Momokyo-kai's base; a base full of weak herbivores instead of ferocious beasts that he could enjoy greedily to prey on, in his opinion.
He then opened his eyes as a figure of an older man in about his mid-thirties, stopped a few meters in front of him. The black suit he wore suited his well-built body as white strands of hair littered his gray hair, contrasting his build.
"Are you strong?" the head prefect smirked as he readied his tonfas on his hands.
"Are you part of those low graded people inside?" the older man asked with his eyes closed and his whole stature as calm as the sky.
"I don't crowd with weaklings," he answered, excitement trembling inside of him, Finally, an opponent worthy of my time to fight other than the baby.
"Then, I don't have any business with you, young man. So step aside. You're interfering with my plans."
Hibari felt himself twitch with the insult the man has dubbed him. No one has ever denied him. No one has ever rejected him to fight that didn't run in fear. No one has ever offended him like this before in his whole life.
Anger surrounded his heart and determination filled himself to acclaim his tattered honor.
"Ne, Tsu-kun~is that ugly girl your girlfriend?" Sakura asked while making her way to the shrine. She waited for an answer to the person in askance but the said person didn't seem to intend to give her any kind of answer anytime soon so she spoke once again, "I'm so much cuter than her so you can just dump her and come with me! I'm more appropriate to you than she is. She's so stupid that she let herself get taken out so easily by that stupid Adrik. She's too weak! Someone as important as you are should have a stronger person right beside you."
"Oi! Don't insult Kyoko to the EXTREME! SHE'S AN EXTREMELY NICE GIRL!" Ryohei's disagreement barely gave the girl any kind of regret into her words and just shrugged him off.
"Whatever," she rolled her eyes and tried hard to get to their destination so fast so the brunettes wouldn't catch her. She looked at her back. She once again took notice of his bright orange flame in his forehead as he flew to seize her.
She pouted, Has he been this fast since I last saw him? It's been just a few days and I doubt he could easily get faster in that short amount of time… damn, I'm already on my fastest and he's still just behind my tail. She inwardly sighed in relief as she took sight of the Torii (A/N: The Shinto gate which we see in the entrance right before the stairs of the shrine.). She then glanced behind her at the baby hitman sitting on the silverette's shoulder, It's probably that Arcobaleno's doings.
"Welcome, Vongola Decimo," a familiar voice echoed in the air as she finally realized she's already on the shrine, getting passed their leader and stopping into the Haiden's roof.
The Decimo's group halted just beside the temizuya (A/N: The temizuya is usually an open area where clear water fills one or various stone basins. This is where worshippers wash their hands. It's located just a few meters after the stairs.). She observed the young boss and smiled at his dark appearance, But he got a lot more cooler than last time, too~
"Where's Kyoko-chan?" Tsuna said which seemed more like an order for them to answer his demands than of a simple question.
"Bossu," Chrome said with a surprised look on her face, standing right ahead of them but Tsuna didn't answer her with his usual smile, much to her worry and dismay.
"The girl's inside," a shadowed figure sitting on the Haiden's stairs pointed his thumb inside.
They tried to search for the kidnapped girl but it was too dark to see a thing let alone see what's inside.
"Who are you? And why are you doing this?" Tsuna's eyes flared a dangerous glint of orange flame along with his gloves as he spoke, warning them that he's ready to do anything to them if they'd answer him wrongly.
"Is that what you wish to hear last…"
Clouds dispersed out of the moon's way. Light traveled to the silhouette's sitting figure, unshadowing him from the black cloak of the night.
"…before you die?" a man with of almost the same age as the Cavallone Boss or perhaps is a year or two older than the latter was revealed. He has black brushed up hair with two short strands hanging on his forehead out-veiling a scar, assumed to be caused by a sharp object, just above his left eye. Coldness and bloodlust lingered on his pair off brown eyes. A bitter smile curved on his lips that looked as if he has seen too much death in his life that no normal person could ever imagine, "How sad."
"Answer me," Tsuna demanded.
"Of course," his conversant smirked as a silver metal flashed his sight, stopping it to get buried in his chest by a millisecond with his gloves.
"Tsu-kun really is cool!" Sakura squealed as she took back her weapon. She twirled to gain momentum and slashed her blades to him in a swift motion. A cloud of dust dispersed in the air as a crater formed in the pavement.
SWOOSH!
Hibari swung his right arm to his opponent's shoulder but the other only moved to the opposite side to avoid his tonfa.
"Tch," the head prefect slid to the older man's direction and strokes his pair of tonfas at every angle he could see as an opening in his opponents. However, though it may seem as he could see every part of the man's body unprotected, since he arrogantly had placed his hands in his pockets, Hibari can't even make a single land on the man.
"You've got skills. You're fast. You're attacks are fatal to normal people. You're fighting style is good however… You cannot defeat me so just go home child. You're not used to fight people who don't even need to fight you to beat you. Hmph, your recklessness and your unrestrained bloodlust are your biggest weakness. An illusionist could easily beat you," the man casually said while having a bored expression as he parry each of his attacks.
With each second passing by, Hibari was getting irritated but thrilled at the same time. As he slashed his arm again and aimed at his opponent's face.
A flash of surprise passed his face but was immediately turned to his composed self. Hibari paused as the man smirked.
"So, you're Vongola," the man pointed his sight to Hibari's finger that's filled by a ring, "The Cloud Guardian nonetheless."
"I'm not part of that herbivore's herd,"
The other raised an eyebrow on his statement then shrugged, "I believe your name would Hibari Kyoya."
Hibari narrowed his eyes with the mention of his name.
"They say you are the strongest guardian and you fit the role really well like of the first generation cloud guardian,"
"You don't know who I am,"
The older man took out a box and lighted his ring with his yellow flame. A pair of sais came out and was held in his wrinkled hands.
The man smirked, "Originally, it's Adrik who wanted to kill you to prove that he isn't the weakest of our group. But I really don't care neither about him nor of the group. They might want to rid the world of the mafia but my only purpose for cooperating with them now is to have revenge over the world's best hitman… but right now, I just have to deal with Vongola Decimo's strongest guardian."
A pouting Sakura was unveiled as the cloud of dust cleared their sight, almost like's she's whining as she picked her scythe from the rubbles sitting beside it. They followed her gaze upwards, as they studied Tsuna's floating form with his orange flame supporting him.
"Sawada Tsunayoshi you're the Tenth Boss of the Vongola,che è il più forte della onorata società [1], and the capo di tutti capi [2]," said the person that was labeled as Ace as if mocking the future boss, "You wish to know who we are and our purpose…?"
They all then turned their attention to the man.
"Oi, Ace," the person behind Ace spoke, a tone of warning lingering on his call. Ace raised his hand in return to stop any of the man's protests.
Sakura the giggled, "Vin's been stood up." The person that they now have identified as Vin glared at the girl however she only returned a smile on him.
"It's alright Vin. They're just gonna die anyway and besides they are going to be the stepping stone of our plan so why not let them get informed," Ace stated with much confidence then his attention back to them, "We are the Angelo Cremisi… Crimson Angel."
"What kind of sick game are you playing at? After killing too many people, you dubbed yourselves as angels?" Tsuna muttered in disgust as the enemy's leader only laughed. Vin was going to attack him when Ace stopped him once more and his laughter ceased.
"Of course! We're going to be like of an angel that will rid the loathful mafia whom has RUINED so MANY lives for so MANY YEARS!" Ace now had an insane look in his face as he spoke and emphasizes some of his words with great intensity, "We'll taint ourselves with the delicate crimson blood for the sake of fulfilling our purpose."
"Bastards," Gokudera spat but Ace kept on smiling.
"Think of it as the world's rebirth. There'll be no more trouble or bloodshed after this. We'll be treated like angels maybe even gods that have saved them from a corrupted world caused by YOU and YOUR KIND," Ace pointed a finger directly at Tsuna with a mad and frustrated look on his face, "The first step to get rid of the mafia is by killing the Vongola Decimo, WHICH IS YOU!"
"Bossu," a look of worry filled Chrome's face then changed to determination and refusal to the enemy, having a sense of protectiveness as equal as Hayato's and Ryohei's at the moment.
"And what'll you accomplish by killing a single person such as me,"
"Can't think of a reason, Tsu-kun?" Sakura tilted her head sideward and had her forefinger in her lips.
"You're the heir of the mafia bourgeoisie, the only heir to succeed Nono, in fact. With you dead, Vongola will grow into panic and that will be the cause of your famiglia's downfall!
"Allied famiglia's would get stepped on by rival famiglia's for living under your wings, as they will then take this chance to be on top. And every famiglia will fight over this and eliminate each other. They'll kill each other! And for those who survives… We'll wipe them out like the ants that they are!"
Sakura squealed at their leader's speech, getting pumped up all of a sudden. And the next thing they knew, she've already attacked Tsuna once more.
Gokudera watched in awe as his Boss moved faster than before and in a fluid motion that he could only see in professional hitmen.
Metals clung in the ground and caught his attention, tearing off his sight to his Boss now combating the girl. He spotted weight bands lying there innocently on the spot where the brunette once stood. He went to examine it and have concluded that each must have a kilogram weight. Counting the bands, he found 16 of them.
C-Could it be that… J-Juudaime's been wearing this the whole time? His mind screamed as astonishment drowned him.
He took his gaze back to the pair in combat. The girl's smile has now been wiped off of her face as she now concentrated on the fight. She swept with the grip of her scythe on his Boss' feet but the brunette jumped upward to avoid it with his hand pressed against her arm while his feet and body hung on midair.
Sakura clicked her tongue and threw the grip of the scythe to the shaft with her other hand from behind and positioned it to give Tsuna a fatal blow on his chest.
Gokudera felt himself tensed up until Tsuna flicked his hand up so his body would go on a higher altitude. With the scythe's pole at her back and the blade in the open at front, Tsuna landed his feet on the blade's ridge, stopping at it as if it were the ground. Indigo flames soon flowed on the blade. Tsuna then moved out and landed on the floor.
The two paused for a moment, but a second later they fought once again. Tsuna pushed his fist to a punch to his opponent so the other spun the shaft and pushed his arms out of the way, catching his guard wide open. Tsuna realized this, so he rotated his body and kicked her side. Sakura, being the first to receive a blow, got a bit aggravated to this then licked the red liquid escaping her lips.
"Tsu-kun," her body swayed as if she was drunk then stood still and smiled once again, "I think… I'm falling more in love with you!"
"Stupid twisted woman!" Gokudera growled but he was easily ignored.
A snort from the Haiden's entrance then took his attention. His expression turned into his usual scowl and whisked his eyes to the orange-head.
"This is boring," the man rolled his steel black eyes and kicked a lone pebble in the ground as if to prove his point, "Hey, Ace. Lemme in a fight or I'll fall asleep, damn it!"
"You're an idiot, Adrik. So stay still," Vin answered for their leader.
"Vin, go get the other one," Ace said, which was immediately answered by a nod by the said person.
"Hey, wasn't that my job? I've already took one of the Decimo's girls so why don't you just lemme handle all the kidnapping since I don't think I'll be on any fight any time soon," the person named as Adrik complained.
Vin and Ace ignored him as the former made his move to leave but a red and green missile-like projectile went passed his way. Vin moved his eye to his direction as Gokudera loaded a dynamite on the skull-filled-cannon strapped on his left arm and pointed it to Vin.
"As Juudaime's right hand man, I won't allow you to continue!"
The two exchanged sharp gazes with one another, each refusing to give up on their glaring contest.
"Finally!"
The two tore their eye-to-eye contact as Adrik charged at Gokudera and took out a box. He lit his ring and inserted the red flame into the box.
Gokudera was quick to react and activated his Sistema CAI. He used the shield to block the enemy's attack as he took sight of a gun on the other's hand. The Italian bomber jumped to the storm disc and sped up to Adrik's back and fired. The orange-head twisted his body to avoid and shot him bullets reinforced by storm flames. This exchange continued until his breath and moved his way to the enemy's seemingly-right-hand-man of the other group. Just as he noticed a set of bullets coming straight at his way, a pair of fists countered these and a roar filled the air, "EXTREME!"
"You finally did something smart, lawn head," he snorted with a smirk as he and Ryohei got side-to-side.
"I EXTREMELY confused as to what's going on right now but I do know that I have to fight!"
"Tch. You're really stupid… but not that bad…"
"Now hurry up and do what you EXTREMELY have to do,"
With that Gokudera gave him a nod and chased after Vin.
"Chrome…" Reborn called.
Chrome turned her sight to the arcobaleno as the baby jumped up to her shoulder.
"Can you keep an illusion that can conceal this whole ordeal from the whole town?" the baby hitman asked, hoping for her answer a yes, "I'm assuming that even Hibari's in a fight right now."
"The Cloud man?" she asked.
Reborn nodded and continued his speech, "With this much of a ruckus, the whole town would go into panic if they'd know what's really happening right now. It'll be a big mess if that happens."
She fell silent for awhile, giving things a thought, This is going to be really difficult to handle and it'll take too much flame… but Boss needs my help and all the rest are giving their best… I'm the only one not doing anything. I have to help them, in any way I can.
"I have to get to the center of things then Reborn-san. Can you tell me where that would be?"
Reborn smiled and nodded to her to follow his gaze.
Osu! I have to give my best as well!
Tsuyoshi was cleaning up his shop when heard faint blasts and from afar. He went outside and looked around but sees nothing. The faint sounds he've been hearing also subsided even the dangerous aura that he has felt since awhile before the faint sounds came.
"What's going on?" he asked himself then, he went back inside and looked up to his son's room.
Spinning her weapon, Sakura lounged herself to her opponent, focusing on tearing him apart. She spun the scythe above her head then bash it off to Tsuna's right but he jumped back to avoid this. She spun it again and tried to hit his left this time but he knocked it off to the side and held it tight in his one hand. She then pulled the blade backward to hit his back but he quickly let go of it, flew up and back flipped up a few meters in her front.
She swung her weapon to her side and smirked, "Ne~ Tsu-kun! You're just perfect for me! You're so strong and cool! You're cute too and really charismatic. You're my ideal man~"
She took the scythe into her one hand so the pole would be along her forearm. She twisted her wrist and twirled. She pointed the tip of the blade to his stomach. He barely dodged this and received a scratch.
"You say that but your act the opposite of which,"
They both paused with one still on his fighting stance and the other had an almost innocent look of naivety.
"Eh? What do you mean?"
"As if attacking me or more like trying to kill me is a sign of affection,"
"…hmm… do you wanna know why I'm doing what I'm doing?" she grinned at him and snickered, "Well you see… I promised myself that when I would finally meet my true love and soul mate~ I'll kill HIM!"
With her last words, she attacked him once more. She had a mad look on her eyes that could send others chills down their spines and froze right on their spot.
"Why?" he cooly asked in between dodging and punching the girl.
"'Cause~ I don't want anyone else to have you and that…" she sped up to him and swung the blade to hook his neck but he ducked so he'd be behind the blade. He held his one hand to the shaft and the other on her arm so she'd be locked within his grip. However, confidence still remained in her despite her situation.
The surroundings begun to get filled by mist.
"…you showed out late!"
Her last statement startled him and has loosened his grip. Spikes came out of the scythe's pole even to her grip. Blood dripped down her hands. She then lifted her hand and watched her blood gush out her wounded flesh. She brought it to her mouth and licked it, enjoying the taste of her own blood touch her tongue and teeth.
It disgusted him. Then, the spikes retreated back inside the pole, so it wouldn't cause more blood spilling on her body.
She repeated that to her other hand but this time looked at him as she licked each drop of blood. She was even smiling as she did the most unnatural thing a girl could do.
As she got finished with the blood sucking, she continued to look at him. At the same time, the surroundings cleared up and the temperature got up. They were suddenly right inside a volcano's mouth, full of hot lava. He flew up as he felt his feet heat up.
"You see Tsu-kun… There's this fake lover that I got some time ago and I thought he really loved me but it turned out he was only toying with me~ I even thought he was my one and true love… just like you!" she slashed the blade up his front.
"I gave him everything he wants but one day I see him with another girl! The nerve! I was even prettier than that girl… but that's not the most stupid and irritating thing… this girl was a friend of mine and she, the apparent real girlfriend of his," she rolled her eyes as if she careless, "dared him to pretend to be my lover then dump me like a rag! She's such a bitch! Can you believe that?"
She stroked the staff to his knees so he jumped up. The spikes again showed up, but this time around needles were shot at him, and the same at hers. This confused him, Why is she letting herself get hit by her own attacks? She doesn't even seem to mind… Is she insane?
"So right when I got them both alone… I killed them!" she laughed manically as more blood dripped from different parts of her body from the needles that were shot at her.
"They were both crying for mercy when I started to slash their bodies with my scythe~ Pity. They both looked so good with the blood spluttered all over them. Maybe that's the reason why they were together and I learned that they're soul mates! So like them~ me and you are soul mates and therefore we have to die together with so much blood spilling all over us! It'll be a master piece that everyone will adore and love forever! So let's kill each other like the lovers that we are ne, Tsu-kun!"
The lava around them boiled up and Tsuna began sweating, This is just an illusion. I can't let myself get fooled by this. But her illusions are strong. Damn, she really is crazy. Just what are these people thinking? Are they all like this?
"Oi, Arcobaleno… aren't you going to do anything?" Ace asked as he sat so casually face-to-face with the world's greatest hitman.
"Hmph. Don't underestimate my student. He's already been through a lot of fights and I'm sure he'll be able to defeat that girl. And so as the rest of his guardians,"
"Hmm… quite confident now, aren't you? Or is the real reason because Nono has ordered you not to interfere?" Ace smirked as Reborn narrowed his eyes. The raven haired man laughed and looked at him amused, "Let me tell you this. As confident as you are with the Decimo and his famiglia's strength, I have the same confidence with my comrades… well, except for the Japanese girl. She'll probably just kill herself along with the Decimo. She's good but she's crazy, that's why I never gave her any box weapon to begin with. I'm still on my right mind you know. However, the others aren't as pitiful as she is. In fact, your Cloud guardian is in quite a danger."
"What do you mean?"
"Your Cloud may be the strongest guardian the Decimo have but Dalmazio Lombardi is a different story,"
Reborn's eyes widened a bit then turned to a fierce glare.
"Oh, so you recognize him after all. He'd be so happy that you remembered him. And I think we both know how strong he is…"
Hibari panted with both his hands laid limply on his sides. He lifted his arm and wiped the blood off his lips. He cursed as he looked at his pocket where his box weapon resides. He couldn't use it due to the small space he have for the battle. The houses and infrastructures would get destroyed if he uses this plus the peace would get disrupted when people would run out of their houses as their homes' collapse. It would cause great mayhem.
Herbivores, he thought and lighted his tonfas with cloud flames once again.
"Can you still keep up?" Dalmazio taunted.
Hibari charged up to his opponent and attacked. His movements got sloppy and less effective with his beat-up body. Exhaustion was also adding up to the equation. And he was not at all happy about it. He felt like cold water was suddenly splashed to him to wake him up from a dream.
"Anou~ sempai… do you need any help?"
A/N: Whoops! Cliff hanger…! And Chrome didn't have much participation in this chapter, did she now? But no worries, I'm not a fan of a weak looking Chrome… tee hee, I've got plans for her.
Anyway… I originally planned on updating yesterday, 'cause it was my birthday but I wasn't able to finish it. Anyway, I know… the box weapons should be rings now 'cause the cannon showed that Tsuna's and the rest of the gangs' box weapons are all transformed into rings but hush now my beloved readers… I've got an explanation to that which wouldn't be up in awhile but there really is. Same with Seiji's brother thingy… its gonna be used in awhile as well. So if you guys have anything to say at all just click the review button just below. C'mon don't be shy… I don't bite but Hibari does so… Review or Hibari will bite you to death~ tee hee
[1] che è il più forte della onorata società – 'which is the strongest of the honored society'. The Sicilian mafia, which I assumed that the Vongola mafia family originated at Sicily, Italy 'cause that's where mafia started, is known to be the honored society.
[2] capo di tutti capi – 'Boss of Bosses', that's what the media refer to mafia bosses of the strongest mafias.
PS: Sorry if there are grammatical errors and stuffs there that quite an eyesore… I haven't reread it yet 'cause I'm damn sleepy now. I'll do the corrections tomorrow. But right now, I have to have a shot eye. It's night time here right now... so bare with it until I wake up in the morning and edit things.
PPS: I think all that needs to be corrected are now all covered. But if I had missed a few errors in spelling. I apologize for that.
