Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeeeey! It's been a long time since our last update hasn't it?
I'm sorry! Please don't hurt me! *Flails arms and hides in the corner* I blame SATs and APs.
Uhm. I promise things will get tons more interesting after this arc. Hopefully. It should. And it will pick up waaaaay faster than this too. Just... bear with us for now?
Anyways. A little more YukiYama romance, then a little SakuraKyoko rivalry. Yes.
Most of this was taken pretty much directly from the manga with a few anime lines, so if you've already seen those, this is pretty much a refresher. There's not much that changed. If you want to skip, go ahead.
Enjoy~
Chapter 16: What Was the Heck Was the What the What the What?
Alternate title: Lots of Time Traveling.
When we last left off~
"You bastard!" Gokudera exclaimed, punching Yamamoto. "What have you done?! Why is the tenth like that?!"
"Hey hey hey now. Calm the F' down. Or I won't hold back on you." Aoyuki growled menacingly.
"I'm sorry." Yamamoto muttered.
Now back to the story.
"Our enemies, the Millefiore, certainly have a monstrous fighting strength." Reborn continued, moving closer to the quartet.
"Yup. Their purpose isn't just to obtain all of the rings and conquer us." Aoyuki agreed, gently wiping the blood off of Yamamoto's chin.
"When headquarters surrendered, the Millefiore prepared to negotiate with a chosen Vongola representative. But they didn't. They shot him. They're ignoring all of our calls for a ceasefire, and are slowly picking us off, one by one, their goal being to wipe out all of the Vongola." Yamamoto recalled solemnly.
"Wait! So you're saying that everyone that came from the past is in danger!? Tsuna exclaimed, turning to Reborn looking for an explanation.
"Yes. But that's not all. Anyone with a connection to the Vongola will also be targeted." Reborn responded.
"Then! That means...!" Tsuna began panicking, thinking of his family. Specifically his mother. Since his father is perfectly fine and capable of protecting himself.
"Don't panic. We're not without hope." Reborn said, reassuring Tsuna slightly. "Yamamoto. The family's guardians haven't been confirmed as dead, correct?"
"That's right." Yamamoto confirmed.
"Then. There's only one thing to do." Reborn concluded, turning to Tsuna and Gokudera.
"Heheh. It's time to assemble your muthaf*cking guardians Tuna!" Aoyuki declared pointing at Tsuna with his index finger, accompanied with the sound system blasting Guilty Love. "Although, you've already completed a third of that job, since you already have your faithful dog-coughcough. I-I mean storm and the calm rain." Aoyuki muttered, rubbing his chin with his other hand on his hip.
~Aaaaaaaand. Time Skip!~
"So, have fun. Don't let whatever happens out there affect you too much. Look for Haru and Kyoko, Hibari too, if you can." Aoyuki chuckled, walking with them to the exit. "Heh. Kurakura. You're going too, right? Take care. With the you-knows. It's alright. Don't worry about it too much. You'll see. So... I guess I'll see you later then? Goodbye Takeshi." He said, turning to face Yamamoto. "Anyways, good luck! Be careful!"
"Will do. Don't worry. We'll be back soon." Yamamoto murmured, briefly kissing Aoyuki on the lips. "Let's go then."
~Outside~
"The remains of a factory in block 5... One of the six entrances is here." Yamamoto explained.
"Hey! What do you mean by 'The Vongola rings are our hope' You said you lost them! Why aren't there any Vongola rings in this era?!" Gokudera yelled at Yamamoto's back.
"Oh that story. A while back, they were smashed and thrown away." Yamamoto calmly explained.
"What! Thrown away! Who the hell would do that?!" "Gokudera asked, appalled.
"Yeah! After we suffered so much to get them!?" Tsuna demanded.
"The boss did. Of course, there were some guardians who objected, but you refused to give in Tsuna."
"I...Why did I do such a thing...?"
"Hahahahah! You don't know that either? You spoke of destroying the rings to change us. Among the mafia, there was a lot of fuss over the rings, another battle to claimed them neared. You were probably thinking it's best not to fan the flames of battle, right? That's just the sort of man you are. You were concerned with the existence of Vongola itself... Even now, we're still heavily relying on the rings.
"...", Sakurako was quiet, looking ahead for the explosion that was quickly approaching.
*BOOM* *CRASH*
"This way! Hurry!" An unknown figure called out from behind the curtain of dust.
"Ah! That's...! Lambo and I-Pin!" Tsuna exclaimed.
"Someone else is with them...!" Yamamoto noted.
"You mean... No way! That person is...?!" Tsuna stammered.
"Kyoko-san! Haru-san! Run! Leave this to me!" I-Pin yelled.
"Eyargh!"
"Argh!" Tsuna cried out.
"Up there!" Sakurako pointed.
"Give the finishing blow."
"Leave it to me, aniki."
"And here they come," Sakurako muttered.
"Millefiore's Black Spell!"
"?! Black... Spell...?" Gokudera and Tsuna repeated.
"Then...! K-Kyoko-chan and the others are?!"
"Let's go! Remove the Mammon Chain from the Vongola rings." Yamamoto ordered.
"I'll take these then. Don't interfere, Tazaru-aniki!
"Don't screw it up then, Nosaru." Tazaru said.
"Heh heh. Here I come! My prey!" Nosaru cried out as a war cry, opening his box with his storm flames. "I'll devour you while you're still weak! …! You, in the shadows. I'll have your heads!"
*Clang*
"Aniki, who is this guy?" Nosaru asked, still pressing his scythe against Yamamoto's blade.
"He might be on the hit list. I mean, how am I supposed to remember guys I'm going to kill?" Tazaru scoffed.
Epic Fighting Scene We Can't Even Hope To Reproduce In Words.
"What's with this guy!? He's blocking my attacks!"
"Let's do this..." Yamamoto muttered, "Shigure Souen Ryuu 8th Form."
"! Get out of there, Nosaru!"
"! Gyaaa!"
"Shino Tsuku Ame, the Pelting Rain, if I recall properly from Yuki's rants." Sakurako noted.
"Not deep enough."
"Uffff. That... was close..."
"I heard the Vongola has two sword masters... He must be one of them."
"How disrespectful! How dare you ruin my matching shirt!" Nosaru exclaimed. He then swung his scythe, sending a blast of storm flames towards the group.
Yamamoto, seeing this, tossed up another blue box and opened it, sending out a wall of blue flames.
"What!?"
"A water barrier...!"
"You guys, remember this well. The rings have the power to open these boxes." Yamamoto explained to the trio.
"I see! So, that's what you do the hole on this thing." Gokudera synthesized, holding out a box of his own.
"Oh! Where'd you get that?"
"My future self had it in his bag."
"That's right. He said he found a powerful one."
"I won't let you hog the limelight!" *Click*"Hmm...? Nothing happened."
"Ha ha hah! There isn't just blood in the human body. There are things you can't see with the naked eye. We also have life energy coursing through our bodies in the form of pulses of hadou. There are seven hadou. When you harmonize with the ring, your hadou pases through it and is converted to high density energy. That is the dying will flame." *Click*
"Ugh! The flame!" Nosaru cried out, as Yamamoto's box animal shot past him.
"So powerful!" Tsuna exclaimed.
"What's that...?"
"This guy! I'll kill that flame!" Nosaru roared, swinging his scythe around him.
"He really is... the Vongola guardian of the rain." Tazaru muttered.
"Huh? Oh... Oh no! Kyoko is missing! Could it have been... that blast just now...!" I-Pin proclaimed.
"No... No way!" Tsuna proclaimed.
"That's not for certain. Go and look for her Tsuna! I'll take care of the enemy!"
"I'll go too!" Sakurako declared, running after Tsuna.
"It's too fast! I can't catch it!"
"I'm taking back what I said, Nosaru. I wasn't going to interfere, but now a big fish has wandered into our boring mission, I can't just let them go."
"That's not fair! He's mine, aniki! I'll give you the rest!"
"All right, I'll wait for you. Until I take care of the rest!" Tazaru sent a wave of storm flames towards Tsuna's and Sakurako's retreating backs, sending them crashing through a window.
"Ouch!" Sakurako screamed in pain from the attack after landing into the pile of bricks with Tsuna.
"Wait...where's Tsuna?!" Sakurako frantically scanning the area for Tsuna. as she tried to squander the area, a giant realization hit her like a brick. "Isn't this the...Tsuna!"
Sakurako slid down the pile of bricks grunting in pain as she looked for Tsuna, unfortunately Sakurako saw someone she didn't want to see at the end of pile. A familiar orange haired lady having a hard time standing up.
"Kyoko?" Sakurako sadly blurted out in shock.
The lady turned to face Sakurako, revealing that it was the TYL Kyoko, with a surprised face.
"Sakura-chan?" Kyoko stared at Sakurako, "How come you look a bit younger? Why's your hair longer? I thought you were with Tsuna-kun on your..."
"Uhhh..." Sakurako began to sweating beads as more questions were thrown at her. "I...uhh..."
Suddenly a familiar voice entered the area of which Kyoko and Sakurako were in, "Sakurako-san and Kyoko-chan?"
"Tsuna/Tsuna-kun?" Both Sakurako and Kyoko faced Tsuna who was covered in dust.
The threesome were silent each trying to put the puzzle pieces together about this situation.
"I've finally found you." A vulgar voice entered the area giving the three a scare. Immediately Tsuna and Sakurako went in front of Kyoko as they faced Tazaru.
"What's wrong, kid?" Tazaru questioned.
Sakurako took notice of what Tazaru said finding that Tsuna was stuttering in fear while holding the pill case and his gloves.
"Everything's okay...!" Tsuna kept mumbling to himself.
Sakurako nudged him, "Get a grip! I'm with you!"
Tsuna nodded however the thought of Sakurako fighting in his place gave Tsuna more worry. To even worsen pink smoke appeared from behind the battle ready teens.
"Eh?" Sakurako and Tsuna said in unison finding the present time Kyoko having no clue what's happening behind them.
"Tsuna-kun? Sakurako-chan?" Kyoko's face soon changed from a surprised face to a smile, "I'm so glad I found you two!"
"W-Why is she here in the future?!" Tsuna sputtered.
"What's going on? We were all looking for you guys and the others..." Kyoko stopped mid-sentence, "What do you mean the future?"
"I'll explain later!" Sakurako covered for Tsuna trying to hide her anger.
"Tsuna...incoming!" Sakurako immediately dragged Kyoko away from the incoming attack made by Tazaru. However the attack caused the two to get fly from the blast diving straight towards the ground.
Shoot...if only I can use my other power at this time!
Sakurako hugged Kyoko tightly bracing for the impact, but she didn't felt the ground.
Huh?
Sakurako opened her eyes to find herself and Kyoko carried on Tsuna's, or should I say, HDWM Tsuna's back.
"Tsuna?!" the two girls answered in surprise.
"I'll protect you two, even if it costs my life." Tsuna responded to them as he placed the two somewhere farther.
Sakurako noticed that Tsuna's flames were different from before.
Did he receive power from the ring already? Was it because of my presence here that Tsuna progressed faster than usual?
"This feeling..." Tsuna muttered to himself. "Scared?"
Tazaru flinched, but returned to what he was after, "Shut up! Flames are like women! It's how you use 'em!"
Tazaru raised his scythe readying his ring, "And annoying flies like you just need a bit of bug spray!"
Projectiles covered in storm flames hurtled towards Tsuna, luckily Tsuna dodged them immediately flying straight back into battle.
Sakurako sighed turning over to a shocked Kyoko, "Reborn will explain everything in my place after this is done."
"O-Okay..." Kyoko responded back to Sakurako with a face of worriment.
Tsuna...I feel very awkward talking to Kyoko now...so finish the battle fast!
Soon a scream of pain and a crash was heard from behind Sakurako.
That was quick.
~Time Travel Back to Base~
"So, you've all come here." Reborn addressed the new group. "You must have been shocked at many things. I don't want to add another, but I have to tell you what's going to happen from here on out. Please listen carefully."
~Meanwhile~
"Ah! Look out!" Tsuna suddenly yelled, sitting up. "Ow ow ow."
"You've been injured! Try not to move around too much! We're at our hideout! You lost consciousness right after defeating the enemy!"
"What about the others?!"
"It's okay. Everyone's all right."
"... She... came over... She came over here! Kyoko-chan came from the past!"
"... Well, about that... Sasagawa isn't the only one... everyone else too."
"Eh?! No... No way! Everyone from 10 years ago came too!?"
"Right now, I'm not quite sure how everyone got hit by the 10-year bazooka... But, it seems like they were all hit from behind..."
"That's...! That's terrible. This can't be happening! How could they all be here! If they stare here in such a place, they'll all be killed!"
"..."
"Uwaaa... I hate this." Came a voice outside the door. "This world of the future... So full of destruction..."
"!" She looks really pale...!
"... Tsuna-kun..." Kyoko looked at Tsuna.
"Tsuna-san!" Haru cried, running to Tsuna. "I want to return to the peaceful Namimori! I want to go back!"
"...!"
Kyoko and Gokudera looked quietly at them, while Yamamoto, Reborn, Sakurako and Aoyuki silently entered.
"Haru, Kyoko. Here, drink this. It'll calm you down. It's a special herbal tea." Reborn explained, passing the cups over to the girls. "This is the thing I entrusted you two with earlier. Just read and follow it."
"REBORN!" Tsuna yelled.
"Huh. Oh, you're up and about already?"
"...I..."
"Oh boy. Here it comes." Aoyuki muttered, leaning against the wall.
"I understand." Reborn said. "Haru and Kyoko, if you would please leave us for a bit. I wish to speak with them." Waiting until Haru and Kyoko left the room, Reborn continued. "I only told Kyoko and Haru that we're currently in a very dangerous situation. I didn't say anything about the mafia or the Vongola."
"... If we don't return... We can't let everyone stay in a place like this! Somehow or another, we must find a way to go back!" Tsuna panicked.
"This is what happens when you get agitated over every little thing. In any case, gathering the guardians is still something we can't avoid."
"What?! Why is it always like this! I've had enough of your random declarations! You are always saying things like that!"
"It's not random." Gokudera interrupted, pulling out the letter. "I've found the way to return to the past! The hint was lying in here all along. Let me read it to you one more time. Please hear it out."
"The G-Script, eh?" Aoyuki noted.
"Gather the guardians. With the Vongola rings, defeat Byakuran. Eliminate the guy with glasses in the photograph. Everything will return to as it was. That's all."
"But what you just said..."
"Yup. It's the same as what my future self told you from the start. I, too, thought it was a message to me from my future self and didn't realize it. But, since I learned of the facts from this morning, I realized that something which shouldn't exist in this world has been named in the letter."
"! The Vongola rings!"
"Furthermore, this letter says nothing of going to the past to eliminate the guy with glasses. Rather, it refers to defeating Byakuran in this era..."
"Do you understand? This letter was addressed to those who hold the rings in this era. In other words, it was addressed to all of you. So if we follow the message in the letter, gather the guardians, and kill the man with the glasses, everything will return to as they were. We'll be able to return to the past." Reborn concluded.
"Re... Return to the past?!"
"The good thing is, we now have an objective, and that's this man with glasses. Lal Mirch has identified him. He appears to be Irie Shouichi, one of the Millefiore's squad captains."
"How do you feel now? Do you think there's hope of returning to the past now?"
"But... but... I don't know if we can trust that letter or not..."
"Please believe it! Even after 10 years, no, 100 years, I could never hold onto a letter that could mislead the boss!"
"Go-Gokudera-kun..."
"Come on, Tsuna! Just relax! You're not alone in this mess! We'll work it all out together. It'll be fine!"
"That's right Tuna. You're forgetting who you are, and who we are. We are the Vongola. We stand strong and fight to protect those who are important to us. It doesn't matter if we can't accomplish it now. We can train, and strengthen ourselves to overcome it." Aoyuki added.
"I think it's a good thing we've come here. We'll shape our own futures with our own hands." Yamamoto continued.
"You! Don't act so cool! That was my line!"
"I'm the right hand man after all." Yamamoto grinned.
"You wish! You're just role-playing aren't you!"
"You two..." But Haru and Kyoko-chan got pulled into this again...
Aaaaand. Any second now...Aoyuki thought, switching his gaze from his watch to the door.
"Hey! I said, wait a minute! Lambo-cha..! Kya!"
"Oh jeezus. Be more careful Haru." Aoyuki said, catching her before she fell, then turning his body slightly to catch the bowl of potatoes on his shoe. "You almost dropped this."
"I'm so sorry! It's that Lambo-chan, always up to mischief. I had to chase after him!"
"What's all this... Potatoes?" Tsuna asked.
"Haru-chan! Are you alright?" Kyoko ran in, holding another bowl, and carrying I-Pin on her shoulder.
"Kyoko-chan! …. And onions?"
"Since they can't fight, I've asked them to take care of meals and look after the two kids." Reborn stated.
"We're making curry for tonight." Kyoko declared, helping to pick up some of the fallen potatoes.
"Please look forward to it!" Haru added, picking up Lambo.
"Ehh? How did they cheer up so quickly?"
"But, of course! Especially at a time like this, we can't just mope around all day long!" Haru assured.
"We won't lose to all of you. We've decided that we'd try our best too! Let's get to the kitchen then!" Kyoko declared.
"Hey Kurakura. You helping? Heheh! Keep away the 'monsters' under the sink, eh?" Aoyuki asked, grinning at said Kurakura.
"I should...I'm going to find Ginanni-san before they do." Sakurako whispered the last part to Aoyuki as she ran toward the kitchen.
"They regained their spirits so fast."
"Women are really something..."
That's right... I have such good friends around me... I can't be impatient myself. Right now, I must concentrate on what we have to do in this era. And we'll do it right! Tsuna resolved.
I'm so sorry. This chapter was really boring. It's just copying and changing some stuff, adding and deleting others. Blargh. If you read/watched this, this chapter was probably pretty boring for you. I apologize.
I hope you enjoyed some part of this chapter at least?