Parallel reality world

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Warning: fem27 oocness and language of characters

Summary: In a parallel world one of nono's children had a child and this child was destined to be the tenth instead of Tsuna and this child was raised by Sawada Nana to better protect him from the mafia. He went through all Tsuna was supposed to go through. He now faces Tsuna to be the tenth.

Chapter six- Battle and Arena

The ride to the Vongola manor was very quiet. Except for the occasional sigshs and yawn, even the children did not do their usual banter and there was no one willing to start a conversation either. But whenever the taxi went over a speed bump, Reborn could feel Tia's hold on him tighten. He knew it meant she was nervous and maybe a bit scared. But those feelings were understandable, after all that happened. As he glanced at Tia, he felt a bit of pride. You could see nothing in her face revealing her inner turmoil; she had the perfect poker face, the very same one that both her eldest siblings excelled in. The thought made him sigh inwardly as he thought of his other two students.

One of his students was currently left behind in the airport, while the other one's whereabouts were currently unknown. He could only hope that Teo would make it to Vongola manor safe and that Tsuna was already in the Vongola manor and safe. "Reborn." He was cut off from his thoughts when he heard Tia call out to him. "Reborn," She began again softly. "We're here." Reborn looked up and true enough he could already see that they had reached the gates of the manor. The car drove into the courtyard and there Reborn saw the Ninth, his guardians and Iemitsu waiting outside by the door. He saw the ninth raise an eyebrow at the taxi, he still probably had no idea of what happened at the airport.

Once the taxi stopped and the doors opened, everyone went out quickly with Ken and Chikusa going off to the side and the three children running over to Iemitsu. The man in question of course reverted back to being the overly-doting and dopey father that he was and rushed to hug them in his usual dramatic fashion, much to the amusement of the others present. After Iemitsu's moment, greetings and introductions were given. To Reborn the most interesting so far had been when the Ninth and Tia officially met for the first time. It was nothing sappy, but was still a pretty happy scene. After those were out, Iemitsu began to look around and before he could even ask Reborn beat him to it.

"We got trouble." It took only a second before his words registered in Iemitsu's mind. He gave a sigh before asking. "When do we not have trouble?" His words laced in bitter sarcasm. "So, what happened?" He prodded his old friend, and thus began Reborn's very detailed yet brief report on the events that occurred shortly after their arrival in Italy. It only took a couple of seconds after Reborn finished his tale and for the Ninth to begin barking orders to his guardians about trying to contact Teo's group and locating where he was right now, investigating what happened at the airport and to tighten security around Vongola.

He even ordered for Iemitsu to take the children, Ken and Chikusa inside the manor for their safety. Time and events just flew by and as more time passed the more anxious everyone got. After-all it there was only a ten minute difference, so unless traffic was really bad they shouldn't take this long. After half an hour of waiting and no contact with Teo's group and no way to locate them either, the Ninth called for an emergency meeting in fifteen minutes. Reborn and the Ninth waited outside for ten more minutes before they went inside and headed to the meeting room. But as was expected of veteran mafioso; they had already all gathered there.

After-all it was alright to wait for the boss but it was inexcusable to make the boss wait. Not just that, but just like time the mafia waits for no one. Those in the meeting room probably got here as soon as they got their summon and with the longest time probably being around five minutes. As the Ninth walked to his chair at the head of the table, Reborn sat down on his left while Iemitsu sat on his right. The meeting then commenced and after bringing everyone up to speed, pandemonium occurred. People began screaming about Vongola hunts while others screamed about retribution and others screamed about an incoming battle. People began arguing on what they thought is the best course of action to take.

The only calm ones left in the room were the Ninth, Reborn and Iemitsu, who was futilely trying to calm the others down. The chaos went for about five minutes before Ganauche knocked and went to the room, as soon as Reborn saw him, he instantly noticed how his fists were balled up tightly. Behind him was the CEDEF member named Oregano, her face ashen and anxiety in her eyes. In her hands was a CD, and after a moment's hesitation handed it over to Ganauche. The man took it and went to the Ninth, whispered something Reborn couldn't catch that made the Ninth's eyes widen. "Are you sure about this?" He asked in a grave voice.

Ganauche nodded, before turning around and addressing all those present. "In our investigation, we hacked the airport's main computer and after looking at the security footage we have found that during the ten minute period Taddeo-sama and his guardians had encountered enemies. But they had been able to escape on a cab. The only problem is that the cab in question cannot be located and after a thorough investigation found that this cab is not registered in any private company or in the government's database. The chances of the cab belonging to the enemy are high and it is very possible that as we speak Taddeo-sama and his guardians are in the enemy's hands."

As Tia walked around the large garden in the Vongola manor, she felt at peace. The garden was filled with many beautiful flowers and the daylight felt great. She had disliked feeling cooped up inside the room; the atmosphere was really tense and just like the ride to the manor, the room also had an uncomfortable silence. But aside from that, there was also the lingering fact that if she stayed in the room, she knew all she would do is to remember the events and constantly worry about Teo and the others. She stopped as she thought about it. She really hated it, being protected and being unable to do anything to help her brother or his friends. But for now all she could do was to bear with it, and wait for them to come here.

As she accepted her reality, she began to focus once more in her walk. She let the scenery distract her from her current predicament, after-all her worrying wasn't going to bring her brother's group back sooner, so there was no use in thinking about it. She should just enjoy her stroll and the surrounding nature, besides there was no way she would let something like this ruin her first trip to Italy. As she came to an intersection in the road, she turned to the right and beamed when she saw the giant hedge labyrinth waiting ahead. Like any other child she ran inside, wanting nothing but to explore the maze.

Inside her mind she made a mental note to thank the Japanese-speaking maid who told her about the garden. As she ran through the maze, she felt as if her worries began to drift away the deeper she got in the labyrinth. The only thing in her mind was the maze's confusing turns and corners, each of them making her more excited to finding out where exactly she was. As she turned another corner, she stopped when her ears caught a familiar sound. It was the sound of flowing water and without thinking, she ran towards it. Soon, she found herself in what was probably the center of the labyrinth. The whole placed was almost completely enclosed by hedges that formed semicircles on both sides.

But the most eye catching thing there was probably the fountain, it was circular, made of marble and it was very beautiful and had a lot of intricate designs. Tia found herself drawn to the fountain and before she knew it, she was in front of it. She gingerly reached out to the fountain and gave a happy sigh when she felt the cold, refreshing water on her hand. She then began to walk around the fountain but stopped after she had walked half way. To be more precise, she froze as soon as she saw what- no, to be more precise- who was waiting on the other side of the fountain. There sat a girl who looked exactly like her, but was wearing a dress instead of a skirt and on her lap was an animal that she didn't know the name of.

The girl looked equally surprised as well, but recovered faster. "Buon giorno a voi." She greeted politely, while she began to absentmindedly pet the animal, which seemed to make it happy based on the sounds it made. Tia, due to practically living in Namimori, Japan all her life wasn't as fluent as her brother in the language but she did know a few things from Reborn, Teo and Gokudera- enough to know that she had just been given a greeting. "Buon Giorno." She replied, making the other girl give a small smile. Tia returned it, and like that suddenly the uncomfortable silence that Tia had been trying to elude made its way to the fountain.

No words were said but Tia knew who the girl was and the girl most probably knew her as well. She was Calvina, her twin sister, her older twin sister to be exact. But at the same time Calvina also felt like she was a perfect stranger as well. Tia found it strange, it wasn't like they had no contact whatsoever, they did write letters and emails to each other once in a while but those had been mostly pleasantries and greetings, so at that moment she had no idea what to say or what to do. While she searched her mind for something to say, her elder twin sister seemed to be feeling at a loss as well and as the silence stretched on, the atmosphere became unbearable for the two girls.

Without thinking about it, Tia began awkwardly. "Umm… The weather's great today isn't-" She was cut off when they heard heavy footsteps approaching. Calvina instantly stood up, and the animal that had been dozing off in her lap woke and jumped to her shoulder. She then used one hand and grabbed her twin's hand and placed her other hand on top of Tia's mouth. Tia gave a muffled protest, but Calvina merely shook her head and mouthed a word. "Avversario." Luckily, that was one of the words that Tia understood and nodded to Calvina. The elder of the two nodded back before taking her hand away from Tia's mouth and pulling her towards one of the center's exit. As fast and as quiet as they could, they moved in the maze with Calvina leading the way.

They soon found themselves near the maze's exit and made a beeline to it. But before they reached it, a hand found itself on Tia's shoulder. It made the twins stop and when they looked back they saw a very scary looking man in a suit, he had a smirk on his face as he saw the twin's faces pale. Raising his other hand he brought the pistol in his other hand to Tia's head. "Move and I'll shoot." He said in perfect Japanese. When he saw how the twins seemed to have frozen he barked out a laugh, this was way too easy. He had expected it to be harder since his targets were supposed to be at the Vongola main manor but to think they would go outside, they practically walked into his trap. "Now come with me or else-"

"Or else what?" A voice asked behind him. Before the other voice's question even registered in their brains the man was sent flying towards one of the walls of the maze. Calvina and Tia just stood there, unmoving for a moment before they looked at the face of their rescuer. "Sorella!" Calvina said as relief flooded her face. "Onee-chan?" Tia asked, as she looked at the brown haired girl in front of her. Tsuna, who had been keeping an eye on the enemy glanced back at them and looked them over, they didn't seem hurt but they seemed pretty shaken up. "Run." It took only a moment before the twins remembered the man and ran for the exit. Once she saw the twins exit the maze, she placed her full attention to the man slumped against the wall.

The man groaned in pain as he tried to move. He probably broke a rib or two when he collided with the hedge. While that didn't make sense, he knew better than to dwell on that when he had other pressing matters to attend to like for example putting a bullet in between the person responsible for his injuries' eyes. He opened his eyes to glare at the interloper and his eyes met orange. He froze as he stared at who was in front of him. "Of all the people…" He thought before getting rid of that thought and his hesitation as he quickly stood and raised the gun that was still clenched in his hand at her. The girl merely stood there emotionless but in an instant there was a reversal.

Before the man knew what hit him he was now lying on his back, and he felt something on his chest. When he looked over to check what it was, he saw it was her foot. But not just that; his pistol was also now in her hands, pointed at him. "Who sent you?" She asked but he merely smirked, that seemed to be the wrong thing to do because she then began applying pressure to her foot and that sent pain shooting through his torso. He grunted and she tried again. "Who sent you?" When he kept quiet she sighed. "You know, this labyrinth isn't just made of hedges it's actually made of enforced metal. The hedges were just grown to cover it." The man just stared at her, as he gave a comment offhandedly. "That explains a lot."

"I know for a fact that when I threw you to the wall you broke a couple of ribs. So, I know that you must be in extreme pain right now. So why not make it easier on yourself and just answer my questions." She waited for a few seconds and when it was apparent that he wasn't going to cooperate she removed her foot from his chest. "Oh, is that so?" She murmured, more to herself before she suddenly, brought her foot back down to stomp on his chest. "Ahhh!" The man screamed as he turned to his side, clutching his torso protectively. Tsuna watched as the man used all his strength not to pass out from the pain. The man took a ragged breath as he looked up to meet Tsuna's eyes and gave a weak glare at her.

Suddenly, without warning Tsuna fired. Four shots, with each bullet making its way to a different limb though each shot was fired to purposely miss the man's vitals. "Now I'll only ask you one more time. Who sent you?" She asked as she pointed the gun at his eye. The man surprised her when he suddenly began laughing. "My comrades in the maze will come for me, reinforcements are also on their way here and once they do come I will definitely enjoy putting a bullet hole in your head." The girl looked unimpressed as she watched him smirk. "Your comrades are probably all dead by now. I know that my guardians would make sure of that and the reinforcements will never make it."

She watched as the man's face scrunched in anger. "Va' all'inferno, Vongola sporcizia!" The man said with all the disgust he could muster. "You first, though." She said as she pulled the trigger and like that it was over. Tsuna sighed as she went out of hyper dying will mode and began to search the corpse for anything that would give her a clue as to what he was or who sent him. The only thing the man had been a cell phone, a wallet and a knife. The cell phone had no contacts, which meant it was probably used for the sole reason of contacting the man she had just killed. The wallet had money, a credit card and a fake ID but nothing that gave her any clues.

The knife on the other hand, caught her interest. The handle was blue and had a weird crest engraved on it. The crest was of a crab with one of its claws was raised and in between its pincers was a rock? She wasn't really sure... But she didn't remember or know of any mafia family with a crab in its emblem. She thought about the possibility that it could just be some souvenir he bought at a gift shop, but waved it off. The knife was much too sharp to be something mass produced and who would bring a memorabilia of some sorts on a mission? She shook her head as she pocketed the items to give to the Ninth later. She began to head out the exit but stopped when she noticed something.

She then knelt down next to the corpse and checked his hand; sure enough there was a burn mark that began from his hand continuing to his arm. As she looked at the burn in his hand she noted how it was shaped like sidewards letter 'U'. At that point her intuition let itself be known and told her that this was something important. After looking at the peculiar burn in his hand, she began rolling up his sleeve to see what was underneath. She froze as she saw the whole burn; it was shaped the same as the crest that was on the knife. "Just what is going on?" She whispered softly, she was about to examine the burn when the sound of an explosion caught her attention.

She turned around and saw smoke coming from the exit of the maze. She was about run over to see what happened when she heard beeping. She immediately looked around for the source and to see if there were any enemies nearby, but she couldn't find both. But by intuition she figured out that the noises was coming from the corpse, more specifically from underneath his 'crest burn'. She quickly began to scramble away, but it was too late and the corpse exploded. Fortunately, Tsuna managed to duck just in time to avoid getting killed or losing a limb but the impact from the explosion had rendered her unconscious. While in other parts of the maze similar explosions took place.

In the meeting room, chaos once again prevailed as people began shouting about a incoming battle and rescue operations. The Ninth himself thinking along those lines but not voicing them out, he already had half a mind about ordering either the Varia or CEDEF to lead the rescue operation. The only thing that stopped him from issuing the order is that if he did; it would create even more chaos and panic within the family, practically giving their enemies a chance to strike. But what other option did he have? There was no contact from Teo and no way to affirm his current whereabouts right now. If only there was someone who could track Teo and his family without alerting the rest of the family.

But where would he find someone like that? As he thought about it he realized that what he wanted was impossible, because there was no way someone that convenient existed. But as he looked at the room's state he figured he had to think of something fast. The Ninth was about to give up and issue an order to Varia when it hit him. There was a person who could conveniently track Teo and his family. Tsuna, Tsuna- he realized. She could go with her family; they were definitely strong enough and quite skillful, they could do it. The Ninth began to feel hopeful about his plan as he stood up from his seat. The effect was instantaneous; everyone quieted down and returned to their seats.

The ninth cleared his throat as he began, he opened his mouth but before he could even utter a word the door burst open revealing Coyote, his usual cool composure completely gone as he rushed over to the Ninth. "Ninth, it's an emergency the Primo Casa and the Fortezza Labirinto has been attacked! Not just that Tsuna-sama, her core family, Calvina-sama and Tiziana-sama have gone missing." It took a moment for the words to sink in and even then the whole room was stunned to silence, the complete opposite of what had happened twice before. It was then that the Ninth fully realized that whoever was pulling the strings didn't want a battle with Vongola. No, they wanted a war.

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Translations: :)))

Buon Giorno a voi- Good day to you.

Avversario- Enemies.

Va' all'inferno, Vongola sporcizia!- Go to hell, Vongola scum!