WARNING! SERIOUS SPOILER ALERT! MUST READ BEFORE CONTINUING THIS CHAPTER IF YOU'VE NEVER EVEN TOUCHED THIS FANFICTION! This chapter is a continuation of chapter 3 (a three-shot series chapter BTW). Because of this, it is HIGHLY recommended that you return to chapter three and read it before continuing with this chapter to understand better what's going on. It may be confusing and random if you read this chapter straight away (funny though, guaranteed). YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
Yes it has been a while, but down time was needed since I've been really depressed lately. Of course I have several shorts in mind. Sadly most of them only have three paragraphs written then depression, and yeah, here we are. I definitely wanted this chapter to come next after the Gokudera/G chapter because I want to finish this, and I want a GOOD finish to the story [thus the short intermission in between each part]. If I do another one or two part story after this it'll probably be in this format, but as far as I'm concerned, it won't be for a while. Also, playing Magicka helps get the creative juices and the sadness to go away.
Anyway, the big reveal and epic ending is something none of you will see coming! However it's better to know how we get there before we get there (because you know, suspense and all that shit). If you're not that patient, you're losing out. Let's just get to the story. I do not own Reborn or Law and Order. This is a tribute to Dick Wolf and his great cop shows.
Chapter 6: Law and Order: Disciplinary Committee Pt.2
When shit hits the fan, pray that Reborn isn't involved. He's like the Riddler – crafty, intelligent, silly, and quite annoying because puzzles are stupid. – Alaude Hibari
Hibari Estate – Monday 2:00 P.M.
Tsuna came two after a light shone directly at his face. He had been unconscious for about two hours he guessed as he kept his eyes closed tight from the flashlight staring him down. The brunette slowly opened his eyes as the light backed away and he found himself in a dark, secluded room. As his vision cleared, he saw Hibari standing in his cambio form holding a flashlight in one hand and Roll in another.
"Where am I? A-A-Are you going to kill me here…"
"Considering it…" Hibari darkly replied.
"Can you please do it? I-I-I don't want to play whatever this is."
"Not unless you want to save the other herbivores," Hibari disappeared in the darkness and turned a light on. The captured crew was all in predicaments worse than him. Ryohei was tied up and hanging above the ceiling above a bunch of Roll copies with their spikes withdrawn; Enma was trapped, squeezed in a dog cage with another Roll clone inside; Yamamoto was pinned to the wall by several Roll with their spikes withdrawn, and two of them ready to pierce through the rain guardian; and Gokudera was hanging down from the ceiling like a punching bag with bruises all over.
"Why is Gokudera all beaten and bloody?"
"That herbivore won't shut up. He talks more than the boxing herbivore!"
"Fuck you," Gokudera was dropped kicked in seconds.
"Hiiiiieeee! T-T-This is too serious over a motorcycle!"
Hibari gnarled at Tsuna. "That motorcycle cost 20 grand! Plus the customizations totals up to $300,000! No tell me, would you be pissed that someone broke into your property and destroyed something that expensive that took years to work on," Tsuna's eyes bulged as he shook his head, "of course not, because you're a herbivore and stuck playing with toy trucks and tricycles with the lightning herbivore. Now tell me," Hibari rushed as soon and came face-to-face with him, hovering over him like Batman," WHO DID IT!?"
Tsuna at this point was crying. Hibari had the reason to be upset, and something in the back of his mind told him that he should've expected this kind of treatment from Hibari. If only the Sawada Adorability Gene could get him out of this. "I DON'T KNOW! P-P-Please," he cried, "l-l-let us g-g-g-go…"
Hibari continued to glare at Tsuna for several minutes until the second generation boss pissed his pants. The skylark looked down at the sky guardians already stained pants as a fresh set of urine set in.
"Pfft. You're no better than that Shimon herbivore."
Enma's cage shook as Roll crawled over his face. "My back really hurts, and I have to pee."
"That's what the paper in the cage is for!" Hibari screamed at him.
"MY NOSE EXTREMELY ITCHES!" Ryohei yelled.
Hibari sadistically smirked. "I can help with that." He walked over to a rope holding up Ryohei and lowered it. The sun guardian screamed as he fell toward Rolls' spikes, but immediately stopped as Ryohei came inches close to be impaled. "Does it still itch?"
"…no I'm good…" the terrified boxer whispered, a feat no one has accomplished until this day.
Yamamoto nervously laughed. "It's been really fun playing torture with you, Hibari, but my dad's probably worried and I have biology in the morning. I don't think I'll play this again though; it's not as fun as mafia.
"THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU!" Gokudera attempted to glare at Yamamoto. "THIS IS NOT A GAME! Maybe to this sick fuck, but not for us! How many blows to the head did you take as a child?" the storm guardian attempted to glare at the rain guardian, but with his black eye it ended up as more of a nervous twitch.
Hayato thought about it. "… I lost count around twelve…"
"God Damnit, baseball nut, I oughta UMPF!" Hibari bashed Gokudera's face with a tonfa.
"Why don't you ever shut up?" the cloud guardian looks over at Yamamoto. "And you still think I'm playing a game?"
Yamamoto tilted his head curiously. "I assumed that's why you brought us to your rec room." He looked over at the pool table, big screen, and couch pushed aside the wall by Gokudera. Then he eyed the PS3 on the coffee table. "Aw sweet you have PS3! Do you own MLB the Show 13?"
Everyone else in the room couldn't believe what they were hearing, and half of them hoped that if anyone was to die first it'd be Yamamoto. They broke out of their collective thoughts only by the sound of Enma pissing in his cage.
The future Shimon boss cried to out in the cage, "I can't hold it in with this scary hedgehog here."
"Then tell me who destroyed my bike? Was it one of your freaks from the Shimon?" Hibari walked to the cage and started kicking it.
"S-S-Stop! You're spreading the pee!" the red-head cried.
"THEN TELL ME WHO DID IT!"
"I-I-It was m-m-me! P-P-Please let me change my clothes and get this hedgehog away from me…"
The skylark gritted his teeth. "I knew it…"
"Enma didn't do it! He was at my house sleeping over and playing Cards Against Humanity with us!" Tsuna yelled. Gokudera's head snapped over to Tsuna.
"W-W-WHAT! But Boss… you didn't tell me you're having a sleepover…"
Tsuna felt bad as he looked toward the Persian carpeted floor. "Well, my dad said mom wasn't feeling well and didn't want any fights or loud things happening so I couldn't invite you. I'm so sorry."
The silver haired teen was angry and sad at the same time as he felt betrayed. Hibari, however, didn't give two shits. "How many were in your party?"
Tsuna jumped as the skylark looked over his direction. "S-Seven! Me, Enma, Yamamoto, Ryohei…"
"WHAT!? That turf head is the loudest of us all!" the storm guardian yelled.
"My dad kicked him out five minutes after he screamed out 'German sex dungeon'…"
Ryohei snickered. "I thought it was pretty funny that Hibari would own a German sex dungeon…" Hibari glared at him as he headed toward the tied rope. The sun guardian nervously gulped. "I-I-It was just a madlib game! I EXTREMELY don't want to get punctured. P-P-Please don't kill me…"
"… unless he does own a German sex dungeon…" everyone looked at Yamamoto. "There'd be nothing wrong with that if he did. What he does with Chrome in his own free time…"
"Finish that sentence and I WILL END YOU!" Everything got eerily quiet afterward. "So all but this herbivore," Hibari pointed to Gokudera, "were busy with this 'sleepover' playing a madlib."
"Cards Against Humanity is awesome! You mix and match words and things and places and events together into the funniest things! You can even make your own deck! Ryohei brought his over and…"
"Stop talking," Hibari glared. Yamamoto shut his lips tight. "Can you all confirm this?"
"YES-YES!" Tsuna desperately yelled, "Please call my dad and my mom! We went straight to school after we woke up! It was me, Enma, Yamamoto, Ryohei for five minutes, Basil, Irie, and Lambo. I mean the game wasn't appropriate for him, but considering his dad and everything, we think he's heard worse," Hibari contemplated this as he looked over at Yamamoto and Ryohei. Nodding, Rolls' spikes retracted and the clones popped out of existence as the rain guardian dropped to the floor and Ryohei let out a huge breath. Tsuna slightly smiled as it seemed as Hibari was going to let them go.
"You're all free, but this one," he points to Gokudera, "stays here."
"H-He didn't do it! Right, Gokudera!?" Tsuna pleaded to Hibari.
"No I didn't do it… if I knew something like this was going to happen, I probably would've helped him," everyone looked at Hayato.
Hibari went over to Enma's cage and opened it. He kicked it over to Yamamoto knocking him down in the process. Revealing a knife, he cut Tsuna and Ryohei's ropes off. Ryohei dropped to the floor while Tsuna removed the robes and stood up. The sky guardian picked up Ryohei as he looked at Hibari. "I know he didn't do it. Gokudera wouldn't do something like this, especially without anyone knowing…"
Kyoya glared at him for a minute before going over and cutting Hayato down. He gave him a swift kick in the gut before saying, "just in case."
The group collected themselves and began to walk out the rec room basement. Enma was hunched over holding his back in pain. "Is anyone surprised the Hibaris have a rec room? I thought they hated fun," Enma remarked.
"I think it's just there for show," Tsuna commented.
"Do you think it converts to a German sex dungeon?" everyone looked at Yamamoto.
"God damnit, Yamamoto…" Gokudera held the bridge of his nose.
As his captors left the rec room, Hibari stood in lone light in the middle of darkness holding and petting Roll. "I will find you; I know you're close. Something tells me… you're here…"
Lal Mirch and Iemitsu sat in the living room as they watched Tsuna's group walk out with pain, shame, and tears in their eyes. Iemitsu frowned at the sight. "Well, this is going longer than I expected. At least no one's dead."
"That kind of optimism combined with this level of abuse… you're sick."
The blonde beside her frowned. "It's better than your nihilistic reality."
Lal grunted at that. "Glad he didn't kill anyone, but I could've done without them screaming German sex dungeon."
The CEDEF second-in-command perversely smirked at her as she inched away from him. "Is that what you and Alaude do on your down ti… UMPF!" Lal Mirch struck him hard in the stomach as she stood up and sat at another corner of the room.
"It's a rec room you ass."
"Aww… Really? Does he have PS3?" the blonde stood up in order to look in the room.
"I wouldn't go down there if Kyoya is still there."
"Speaking of which," the blonde got serious (yes, he can do that) and whispered toward Lal, "does he know?"
"'Bout…"
"You and his daddy making whoopee?" he let out a lecherous smile.
The blunette looked down and twiddled her hands. "It's complicated with a child like Kyoya. You know who his mother is, and he's got enough trust issues with women as is. Surprised he's actually dating the Chrome girl."
"Oh yeah; Russian spy for a mom must be tough. Even tougher that the day we put her away… has a child and three months after tries to stab the baby daddy in his sleep." the two of them got quiet until they heard Hibari walking upstairs. "Oh shit!"
"Sit down, dumbass, and act like nothing's going on," Lal tried to act casual as Iemitsu laid on the couch pretending to take a nap. Hibari passed up the living room and walked in; he looked at Iemitsu then Lal Mirch.
"You've heard what happened?" Lal nodded. "Do you have any info on what happened?"
"No, but if I find something out I'll let you know. I understand having something close to you shattered before your eyes…," she gritted her teeth as she thought about Colonello.
"I trust you to do so. Unlike some people," he looked over at Iemitsu, "who continue to become a useless parasite in society; I'm surprised this herbivore is still employed."
Lal smirked to that comment. "Same. Good talking to you kid." Hibari nodded at her as he returned to his room. A saddened Iemitsu looked at Lal.
"You are so mean. You could've stood up for me." The blunette shook her head as she left Iemitsu to wallow in self-pity.
Shimon Mansion – Monday, 3:30 P.M.
A bruised and beaten Lampo sat in the meeting room with Giotto, Cozart, G, Asari, Knuckle, and Nana. He slouched down into his seat. "The pimp is not amused."
"Pimps don't cry Lampo, so stop calling yourself one," Nana remarked. "The children can't stand take this anymore. I cannot allow Hibari to continue on about this."
"Agreed, but Alaude is just as scary, and he didn't even need to use violence to… get what he want…" Giotto's eyes hollowed out as he began having flashes… "… I'm sorry I ate the cookies mommy. It won't happen… no… no mommy no! AAAAAHHH!"
Cozart and G went back and forth slapping Giotto to get him out of his day terror. "Oh man. Thanks," the blonde rubbed his bruised cheeks.
"No problem."
"Glad to do it. Want me to do it again?" Cozart asked.
"N-No thanks."
"Good, now my son is with a chiropractor trying to fix his spine and seeing a psychologist at 5. I WANT REPRORATIONS, DAMNIT!" Cozart slams his fist on the table.
"Dude, you have to be black to get those," Lampo remarked. Everyone looked him like he was an idiot.
"You're a fucking idiot," G spoke first. "We all want the Hibaris to pay for this. It isn't right especially from some stupid motorcycle."
"I don't know, it's worth is 300 grand of work."
"WHAT!? For a motorcycle?"
"I'd be mad about it too if someone wrecked someone that expensive, but I won't be going on a killing spree if it did happen. Don't they have insurance?"
Knuckle nodded. "It's not about the money now, it's a pride thing; someone broke into their "fortress", and broke the "royal chariot." Whoever did it has the hammer coming down on them."
The men nodded as Nana was displeased. "I don't care who did what. My boy is bleeding and has pee stains on himself. I want action!"
"Yeah!"
"Come on guys!" Cozart stood up, "LETS KILL THE HIBARIS!" crickets echoed through the Shimon hall as they nervously looked around.
"… Or… WE CAN MAKE A STRONGLY WORDED LETTER DISAPPROVING THEIR ACTIONS!" Giotto sprung into the air but got the same treatment as Cozart.
"… Or we can just sit here and plead with God they don't come back…" Knuckle quietly replied as the men sat down and then agreed.
Nana sadly sighed at how nothing was getting accomplished. All of the sudden, the doors in the mansion opened as a blinding, sunny light covered the figure. He walked closer as Giotto looked over at Knuckle.
"Knuckle, did you summon an angel to defeat Alaude and Kyoya?" Giotto asked in shock.
"I-I don't extremely think so… I extremely hope I did…"
The fedora wielder walked toward the group coolly as they stared in awe. Cozart stupidly asked out loud, "are you an angel?"
Reborn simply smirked. "Luce said that after our first time." He tipped his hat as everyone recognized his face.
"Reborn!"
"The Pimp in the Fedora!" Lampo raised his pimp cup at him as Nana smacked him in the back of the head.
Reborn nervously laughed at that. "Yeah well I had to put that title away when I got married. Oh well. Once in a lifetime…"
"Why are you here?" Asari asked.
The hitman smirked. "To help, of course. What if I was to tell you I know who trashed Hibari's motorcycle?"
Cozart and Giotto jumped Reborn as he easily evaded him and they crashed to the ground. G stood up and yelled, "WHO DID IT! I'LL STRANGLE THE BASTARD!"
"That'd be difficult. He's a very difficult…"
"I knew it! It was Daemon!"
Reborn looked around the room as Cozart made that statement. "Huh? Daemon?"
"He's had it out for me since I kissed Elena on the cheek that one time during a greeting at Chrome's birthday party. A GREETING OF ALL THINGS!"
"Daemon's always been a jealous bastard," Giotto remarked. "I'm with you brother!"
The two bosses stood up and yelled, "LETS GET'EM!" and ran out the mansion. Everyone else eyed Reborn.
"Somebody should check on that."
Spade Estate – Monday, 4:30 P.M.
The entire Spade family sat and had an early dinner. Out of the entire Vongola and Shimon family, they were having the most quiet and safe evening. That alone made every member of the family paranoid considering what was going on.
"I, um… have something to say…" Daemon glared at Murkuro as he played with his mashed potatoes.
"Unless you got someone pregnant, we don't want to hear it."
"Daemon!" Elena yelled at him. "Go ahead Murkuro."
"Yeah, it's about what's going on with the Hibaris…" everyone's silverware had dropped as the sound echoed across the room. "I… OUCH!" Murkuro looked down at his foot as he looked up toward his father.
"He's been sending them anthrax in the mail. They caught on and I've stopped Murkuro from doing it but…"
"Anthrax!? Really? First fire, then anthrax! You're a lunatic," Murkuro yelled at Daemon.
"Wait… fire!? What are you two talking about?" Elena shut the other two up. Chrome quietly continued eating as they argued.
"Fire… for…um… the barbeque Alaude and the boys were having while we were… um… camping…"
"Bullcrap! We went to the Hibaris last night to mess with them! We didn't have anything to do with that damn motorcycle, but we… or I did something else…"
"You stupid boy!" Daemon stood up toward his son. "She didn't need to know! Your mother and sister were innocent in this monster of lies and evil until you said that. Now they'll be condemned to hell with us!"
"Mom's already going there! You guaranteed that when you put the ring on her finger!"
"Murkuro!" Elena sat shocked at her son for what she said. "What did you do? Did you touch that motorcycle? Be honest…"
"No I didn't. I was trying to get into Hibari's room so I can plant some 'evidence' that Chrome was cheating on him with Tsuna; then, I'd plant some 'evidence' in Chrome's room that Hibari was cheating on her with that Adelheid chick. They'd fight and fight until Chrome would get so upset she'd do what any enraged Spade would do: kill Hibari."
Chrome dropped her fork and knife as the room went silent. Elena and Chrome were seething with rage, but Daemon felt a sense of pride in him. "Deception, information tampering, and acts of misdirected violence… you make your papa proud," he gave his son a hug and a noogie for that. Murkuro smiled like a child on Christmas Day, but unfortunately, they didn't take notice of the women in the room.
"Murkuro, you are in a level of grounded no child will ever see the likes of; satan will look at you and say you are in a level of hell I can never survive. Not only did you try hurt that boy, you tried to hurt your sister who loves you and…"
"…Mom…"
Elena turned to Chrome. "Y-Yes sweetie?"
"C-Can I… s-say something?" she quietly spoke. Elena nodded as she turned to Murkuro. "Murkuro, I… I understand you don't like Kyoya, b-but it doesn't give you right to hurt him or me just because I'm seeing him..."
"You betrayed me when you dated the guy!" Murkuro slammed his fist on the table.
"…I-I… didn't finish talking.."
"You have no defense!"
"…b-but…" Chrome's words got quieter as Daemon eyed his daughter cautiously. He turned to Murkuro.
"You should let your sister speak…"
"Fuck that! I'm doing a good thing by getting him away from you! This relationship is an abomination that should…" Murkuro stopped talking as a fork flew by his face; it wasn't just any fork though. The fork is real.
Daemon and Elena frighteningly looked at one another. "Shit just got real."
"LISTEN PINEAPPLE HEAD! You have no right to interfere with who I'm dating! I'm sick of your stupid rivalry, and so is he! If you ever start something like this again, or get in the middle of my relationship with your bullshit, I will take that fork, tear out your intestines, boil it, and serve it at a soup kitchen as the meal of the day! It'll be called Pineapple Express and it'll be fucking delicious! DO YOU UNDERSTAND!?"
Murkuro slowly nodded. Daemon, shaking in fear, slowly reached over to his daughter's shoulder. "C-C-Chrome dear, i-if daddy c-can do something t-t-to help…"
"HERE'S HOW YOU CAN HELP! Splash some gasoline all over yourself, light a match and throw it on yourself, and run in some damn traffic because that's the only way you can be useful! You put him up to this! Better yet, don't burn yourself. Maybe I'll just go to Kyoya's and do somethings I'll regret later; somethings a father should NEVER know their daughter to do. On second thought, no, just go light yourself on fire, and just to be nice, put yourself under an overpass so the homeless bums living off it can finally have something to keep them warm. THEN, YOU CAN FINALLY BE FUCKING USEFUL!"
No one had noticed during Chrome's vengeful rant that Daemon had balled up in the corner of the room shakily holding up a lit torch toward Chrome. His nightmares were becoming reality; because of his son he had lost his daughter forever. Now, he would have to live the rest of his life knowing his precious Chrome was on the road to becoming a tramp.
"F-F-Fire cleanses all…"
"SHUT THE UP AND TAKE THIS USELESS BROTHER OF MINE AND GO APOLOGIZE TO THEM RIGHT NOW!"
The father-son pair ran out the house as enraged Chrome walked over to get her fork and return to her meal. Elena sat frozen as a statue as she watched her daughter continue her meal.
Chrome looked up at her quietly saying, "thanks for dinner." She continued eating the mashed potatoes as Elena stood up to get a drink of water.
"I can't believe I gave birth to that." Elena murmured under her breath.
CRASH!
Two grown men flew through the window as Chrome jumped out of her seat terrified. Elena looked over at her daughter. "Go to your room and call your uncle Giotto…"
"YOU SON OF A BITCH! YOU DOOMED US ALL AND GOT MY ENMA HURT!" Elena witnessed a fight break out between Daemon and Cozart in their dining room.
"Get off him!" she reached for a pan and came charging at Cozart.
"Elena you don't understand! He and his son trashed Kyoya's… hmpf!" Daemon kneed Cozart in the crotch and threw him back out the window.
"Damn. I always knew one day you and mean were going to get into this battle! I've been waiting to wipe the floor with you!" Daemon withdrew his scythe and began recklessly swinging at the Shimon boss who began evading it.
"Daemon stop!" as Elena ran outside she saw Giotto waving his hands up defensively against Murkuro. "Murkuro don't!"
"L-Look Murkuro. I'm not going to hit a child; we just want Daemon."
"You're not going to pass. If you want him, you'll have to get through me," Murkuro got into a fighting stance as Giotto sighed.
"Okay then; I'm going to get a lot of heat for what I'm about to do. Let this be your lesson in fighting!" As Giotto went into a stance, he yelled, "BRING IT ON!"
Murkuro, not intimidated, surprised Giotto by swiftly spinning into a roundhouse kick; the blonde took the blow unintentionally as the young mist guardian's heel dug deep in his face. Murkuro's kick had not only taken blood but a couple of teeth as the Vongola boss spun crashing to the ground. His eyes went cross eyed as he blacked out from the attack.
It took seconds for Murkuro to realize what had happened; he had defeated Vongola Primo with the world's greatest roundhouse kick! "Ken was right; you really can learn how to fight by playing King of Fighters all day." When he noticed his father having trouble hitting Enma, Murkuro yelled, "DO A ROUNDHOUSE KICK!"
Daemon looked over at Murkuro and was shocked to see Giotto on the ground. His ego couldn't be any higher at this point; however, he felt his karma dropped substantially because of this. Following his son's example, Daemon performed a lack luster roundhouse that got blocked by the Shimon boss. The red-head threw him off balance and did something magical…
Chrome walked up to her mom as she watched Enma fly off the ground with his leg spiraling into a roundhouse. Dove flew in the background as the world went into slow motion; the slice connected to Daemon's face as the Spade patriarch bounced across the lawn and into the mailbox. Both Spade women agreed that moment that Cozart Shimon's attack was majestic as he appeared to float by on the ground as if he was angel.
The Shimon boss gave out a random thumbs up. "That's right; I watch Van Damme movies too!" Cozart yelled at Murkuro as the young Spade rolled his eyes and kept kicking the Shimon boss. The two continued fighting on the lawn as the CEDEF came buzzing into the area to stop the conflict.
Chrome looked toward her mother. "Mom, are we trash?"
"No, but we're getting there." Elena watched Daemon's body lay lifeless on the ground.
Hibari Estate – Monday, 5:00 P.M.
Alaude was not pleased with what he heard happen in the last few hours. His rec room was a mess, the Spade residence ended up in a fight between the family and Giotto and Cozart and that happened to turn into a roundhouse competition between Cozart and Murkuro, and Reborn was once again poking his head where it doesn't belong. Didn't that man have a family? Does he really have so much free time as to stick his nose where he shouldn't?
As Alaude sat in his office drinking scotch, four knocks happened on the door. "Come in."
Lal Mirch entered his office as she noticed him already drinking. She smirked, "already? Did you really expect things to go smoothly when your son is involved?"
The platinum blonde poured her a glass as she politely took it and sat across from him. He shook his glass as he stared at the liquid move through the ice. "I need to talk to him."
"About a number of things I told you to address in a while."
"We weren't dating when you said those things, and frankly I didn't need someone childless to say such things to me," Alaude bitterly replied as Lal looked down from him. "Sorry."
"It's fine; I think I did step my bounds there, but Kyoya's old enough to know what really happened to his mom and about… us. He can't be that mad over you moving on." The blunette moved her hand over his as he interlaced their fingers together.
Alaude may not be the warmest of people, but he could show affection when needed (even if it was all done by small motions). He loved Lal's touch; it was becoming a drug he needed in his system. Six months of dating was getting to him; hidden rendezvous was not going to do it anymore. She was moving on from a commitment phobic Colonello, yet he was unable to face his son who had unresolved issues of his own. The longer he waited, the more people would get hurt through Kyoya's interrogation tactics. It was bad enough he couldn't get anything out of his guardians, but now the effects were echoing throughout the family. This was a family affair, and it was one that had done too much damage to too many people.
"Kyoya and I got close by working on cars. When he was young and asking so many questions about his mother, I couldn't tell him why she left; he wouldn't understand, and he still didn't get the idea of what mafia was. His uncle, my brother, Fon, gave me the idea to give him something else to focus on until we figured this out. At the time that fool Knuckle put an old automobile in my bedroom as an April Fool's joke. I came up to his front door and kicked him in the crotch as my joke."
Lal sighed as she walked over and sat on his lap. "We're going to have to work on your 'humor'."
Alaude merely smirked. "I didn't want to waste the machine and Kyoya liked cars and motorcycles so we worked on getting it back together in over a year. It was our 'free time'. Eventually he wanted to do another, and we did; then we did one more before he went to high school, but this one we put together was a motorcycle. He let me have it for some reason; afterwards he told me he wanted to work on something for himself, and that's when he started becoming his own man."
"A very violent one, much like his daddy, but he'll grow out of it."
"Yes, he hopefully will, but I think a part of his anger comes from his mother, and it's time I dealt with it."
"What about the motorcycle?" Alaude heard Lal's words echo through his ears as his brain went into overdrive trying to find a solution to this problem. Before he could answer there was another knock on the door.
"Father, I request an audience."
Lal and Alaude's eyes bulged as the cloud guardian silently lead his girlfriend into his private bathroom. He walked over his desk and sternly replied, "come in."
Kyoya entered the room noticing his father had been drinking. To him that only meant one thing: he had failed miserably. It was odd he had two glasses, one of them with lipstick on them. He didn't see anyone leave or passing by his office. That alone made the skylark suspicious. "No luck?"
"No, and I take it you failed as well," Alaude watched his son nod in defeat; it was rare that they both of them faced a losing battle. The best way the CEDEF boss thought to escape this situation was to change the subject, but the only one he could think about at the moment was Lal's subject about Kyoya's mother. "Kyoya, there's something we need to talk about."
The skylark sat down as his father became more serious in his tone. He couldn't help but stare at the second glass with the lipstick on it. It bothered him, and he was fixated on it. "Who was here before me?"
Lal, overhearing from the door, cursing under her breath, "shit."
Alaude was confused at that statement until he saw the glass with lipstick on it. Quickly he replied, "Oregano was here earlier with her search in the garage; she found nothing. I happened to have been drinking and decided to be… polite and offer her glass."
Kyoya's eyes squinted at that statement. He'd pass her up earlier that day; she had red gloss on her lips, not teal lipstick. "Hn."
Alaude knew Kyoya saw through his lie, but he would never go to the truth. So, he changed back to the subject he regretted. "We need to talk about…" he breathed slowly as he found it difficult to speak his mind.
"If you're going to sit there and spout bullshit to me, I don't need to hear it. I have better things to do…"
Kyoya was about to stand up before Alaude yelled, "sit down, boy! This is serious." The skylark did what he was told. "This is about your… mother…" he quietly released.
Kyoya gave his father a dark glare. "You said it was something serious, but it isn't. I'm leaving." Alaude gripped the glass in his hands as the 2nd generation cloud guardian walked out the room. The blonde walked out after him, but found he was nowhere to be seen in the hall. He reentered the office to find Lal pouring more scotch in his glass.
"…Didn't think he'd get that angry over his mother."
"He always has been suspicious about why his mother left him; it was easier to lie to him when he was three unlike now. The distraction was good for him, but somehow, I always knew that he'd begin looking into her disappearance."
Lal handed him his drink as they both sat down. "That might be why he worked on that motorcycle by himself. He needed that alone time doing something he loved and to reflect on things he couldn't talk to you about; things that he felt you were hiding from him."
Silence befell the room before the phone rang in his office. Alaude answered. "Speak."
"Master, Mr. Reborn is downstairs. He requested an audience with you. He says you might have a visitor and wishes to speak with them as well."
Alaude quietly growled. "Send him up. Tell the rest of the help I am not to be disturbed during this meeting, not even by Kyoya. Keep him busy and out of trouble."
"O-Of course sir. And may I say I-I'm worried about…"
Alaude slammed the phone down. "Reborn is coming."
"Shit. I'm outta here," Lal stood up ready to leave the room.
"You can't. He knows you're here; he wants to speak you as well."
"Aww, c'mon. I'm not even a part of this family and I'm stuck in this drama," she slumped in the chair.
Alaude smirked. "The curse of dating a Hibari."
"Jerk."
They waited a minute before Reborn arrived. He leaned against the opened door eying the two. Alaude and Lal were sitting beside each other. How cute. The hitman closed the door before speaking his mind. "I'm ending this right now."
"I can't let you do it like some spoiler on an anime episode, especially considering this is a family issue I need to resolve with my son," Alaude replied.
"Then why's she involved? Oh that's right, impress your date with a joy ride on the fastest machine you can find – your son's motorcycle," Reborn smirked as Alaude gripped his fists. "Had a friend of mine catch you speeding down the road with his girl," the fedora man looked toward Lal. "He also saw that little 'accident' you had before you jumped and crashed into that barn. Funny."
"Wait…" Lal crossed her arms, "Colonello saw us!? He's the…"
"Yup. He already knew, and told me right away, and I decided to get back at the two of you by making you sweat a bit. Didn't realize you make up a phony investigation to distract your son, but instead your son would go on a rampage and tear two mafia families apart. My godson and his friends are injured and traumatized, the Spades are fighting Giotto and Cozart like Chuck Norris and Van Damme are going up against each other, and yet you continue to go on this charade by going on your own personal attack while trying to get into Lal's pants. Have fun with Colonello's leftovers, but just end this stupid investigation and tell your son. This is stupid, and you need to tell him you two are dating."
"Reborn, Kyoya and Alaude have a lot of things to talk about and if you do this, you could be hurting a family. Please, let them resolve this before…"
"A civil war between Hibari and the Vongola happens? Yeah right. You two had your chance and did nothing. Now I have to do what I have to," Reborn got serious.
Alaude contemplated his next move. "Lal, let me speak to Reborn alone."
"Y-You sure?" Alaude nodded as Lal got up and walked past Reborn giving him a glare. She waited outside the room as they began speaking. As she stood outside the door trying to listen in, she heard footsteps and voices coming up the stairs.
"Y-Young master your father doesn't want to be disturbed he…"
"Be quiet and mind your business, herbivores," the skylark glared at the maids as they ran away from him. Lal watched Hibari close in toward his father's office. "Why are you here?"
She smirked at him. "Trying to listen to your old man putting Reborn in his place."
"They're fighting?" Lal nodded.
"It hasn't broken into anything physical… yet… I hope it doesn't. He has a really nice office."
Kyoya stared closely at Lal's lips and noticed the teal lipstick. Putting two and two together, Hibari darkly glared at Lal. When she made eye contact with him, she became nervous.
"D-Do I have a booger?" she quietly laughed at the random comment she made, but saw no change in Kyoya's facial expression.
"Are you seeing my father?" Lal's eyes widened to that question before there was an explosion erupting from Alaude's office.
Outside the mansion, Asari and Knuckle were parking their car to go inside and assist Reborn. As they left the vehicle, they saw the explosion at Alaude's office as the section of the house was covered in flames. They quickly called the fire department as many CEDEF officers escorted the help and others outside the mansion. They ran into mansion in hopes of finding Alaude, Reborn, and Kyoya.
So yeah, it got serious in the end; I've always wondered why Hibari was so angry so I thought up a story about his mom and yeah. I'll get into that further in the final issue of this story. Who would've thought it was him of all people? Real father/son moment coming there. The Van Damme/ Norris reference is from after I saw the Expendables 2; never saw the first one but I did like it. Surprised how little Jet Li was involved in that movie. Sad face. Cards Against Humanity is a real game and it is insanely funny in the most disturbing way. Anyway, the Emma/Cozart chapter is up next. Also, the Ryohei cop buddy chapter is coming. Very bromantic. Ryohei/Hibari bromance with minor Hibari/Chrome and father-son Ryohei/Knuckle. Until next time. Please review. Reviews are yummy.