Nah, nah, really really really long chapter I should say, 2254 words! Oh my. Miko-chan was reading the manga again and saw Uni Giglio Nero saying that Byakuran, herself, and Tsuna are all similar to each other. Ok, so, Uni can see into the future, Byakuran can go to other parallel worlds, what can Sawada Tsunayoshi do then? Maybe TYL Tsuna knew about it, but not our dear young boy. Gah! Wish we learn about that soon, Miko-chan's getting anxious!
Oh, also, ごめいなさい,皆. (sorry, mina) I might go on the trip sometimes this week so I might be unable to update, but I will notify mina-san one day earlier, so it's alright for now... Just keep track and Miko-chan will tell mina-san soon! (if she is actually going)
Chapter 12
Before Tsuna was able to duck, Nakamura put the sword back onto his belt and smashed his hands onto Tsuna's back. Tsuna winced a little in pain. When he tried to get away from Nakamura, he realised that Nakamura's hands seemed to stick on his back. As he heard whispers of random latin sentences from Nakamura's mouth, Tsuna slowly took out the revolver from his pocket. He couldn't just fire a bunch of fire at Nakamura like that, it will definitely hurt him greatly. It's preferred not to kick Nakamura in you-know-where unless it's absolute needed. After all, Nakamura was the Vongola Decimo of this world. So, the only way that wouldn't cause too much damage...
Then Tsuna realised something really wrong. As his hands went for the revolver, he felt all the dying will flames inside his body starting to freeze gradually, all attributes, totally frozen into solid form like ice. Zero Point Breakthrough? Tsuna thought, Revised version by Nakamura? Crap. As soon as he felt the flames frozen, he knew he was in big trouble. His hyper mode was going to disappear while his fire power dropped rapidly, and he could feel his power draining out of his body going towards Nakamura's hands. I was too careless, Tsuna thought, falling for such a simple trap. I totally forgot about the fact that Nakamura can use the Zero Point Breakthrough too, I underestimated him. After, he's the Vongola Decimo now while I am nobody. And what was that 'I am going to kill you', wait, don't tell me...
Tsuna tried to move his hand, but he found it extremely difficult. Great pain accompanied every movement he made. He could even feel the pumping of his heart slowing down. Two second later, Tsuna fell down to the ground with his whole body unable to move an inch in everyone's shocked stares.
"Jyuudaime, you used that technique!" Gokudera exclaimed. "The technique you hadn't used in five years!"
"Kai," Yamamoto rose an eyebrow, "You sure you remembered the effects of that technique? I remembered."
"I know." Nakamura reassured them. "All dying will fire including all the blood frozen for up to two days. May cause shortage on oxygen in brain or malnutrition. 80% of chance that the person will either die or unable to use dying will fire again. I know, but that was the only way to let him know that are stronger than he thinks. Am I right, Sawada Tsunayoshi?" Nakamura didn't wait for Tsuna to respond since even moving his own mouth muscle was impossible at the time for Tsuna. "I wasn't serious at all since I thought all would be a game. But yesterday after I saw the documents you marked I realised that you, Sawada, can be a huge threat."
"Huh?" Reborn was evidently surprised at this outcome.
"Where did you learn the perfect signature pattern of the Vongola Decimo? And how did you know the only correct format to mark the mistakes on the report if there was any? It is top secret among the Vongola bosses, even Reborn doesn't know about it!" Nakamura said with an angry expression. "Tell me, Sawada Tsunayoshi, are you a spy?"
"What!" Nono exclaimed. "Tsunayoshi-kun knew the official patterns? Even I couldn't master it after two years of practising! It was so hard to follow, and can takes up to three years to understand just the sentence format for suggestions! And Tsunayoshi-kun did it perfectly? How can he learn them all by just looking at the previous documents in one day?"
The guardian's mind went back to the past few days which they spent with Tsuna. Yeah, if Tsunayoshi-kun is a spy, of course he knows about the hidden door in the dinning room, about the location of the meeting rooms and dinning hall, and of course he knew which door to touch and which door is just a trap door! That explains everything perfectly. But Sawada Tsunayoshi didn't feel like a spy, everything he did right now was for the sake of Vongola, though... And that piano music he played which was written by Gokudera's mother, with such emotions...
"And why, Sawada Tsunayoshi," Nakamura said slowly, "Did you choose that guest room that has the full view of the Vongola Headquarters after I used a traditional code in Vongola only known by the boss to lock the door? How did you figure that code out? And why did Byakuran Gesso said that he knew you from five years ago? Are you part of the group who planned the war in the future? Were you part of the Millefore?"
Tsuna winced inside his brain about his stupid mistake. Crap, he thought, I saw the code lock and typed that ten digit code by habit. Now that's an evidence against me. Reborn couldn't tell them I am the sky Arcobaleno candidate since I told him not to no matter what. So, to make myself safe from the situation of being frozen from head to toe and can die in one or two minutes, one good way is, no, the only way is...
To release that limit seal!
Trying to make a crooked smile, Tsuna raised his head slowly. As he saw Nakamura looking at him with the cold orangish eyes, Tsuna mouthed one sentence that shocked both Nakamura and everyone who was watching him in closely detail.
"Bad choice, Nakamura," Tsuna mouthed the words, "Very bad choice of words to say to the true Vongola Decimo."
Don't misunderstand me, Tsuna got no meaning of revealing his true identity, he was just saying it to create an epic effect, also to hide the wave of sadness now rising rapidly inside his heart and the tears rising up in his eyes, blurring his vision. As everyone's face was frozen in shock, Tsuna release the limit seal which was put on his Vongola Gear by himself a few years ago. The limit seal sealed away 40% of his full power, meaning before, it was merely 60% of Tsuna's full power. Nothing really.
A shot of Sky Attribute flame surrounded Tsuna's body. Nakamura backed up in surprise. He sensed a familiar power, like the power of Primo. Can Sawada Tsunayoshi be another form of Primo in the current days? Like the relationship between Rokudo and Chrome, but only more complex? Nakamura suddenly thought. Nah, too strange. But what is this power? Narrowing his eyes, he could feel the blood and power he froze in Tsuna's body was melting, and even more fire power was coming out of Tsuna, much more.
"I really don't like using this," Tsuna said as he patted the dust off his pants, "It costs me too much energy and I really dislike being extremely tired after a battle. But since you decided to call me a spy and think my power is negative compare to yours, Nakamura Kai, you really deserve to learn this lesson, you deserve to let me releases the limit seal. I really don't want to hurt Vongola, you know." Tsuna said clearing his throat, hiding the fact that his eyes with filled with sadness.
"Limit seal?' Nakamura raised an eyebrow.
"Yep. I sealed away 40% of my full power since it would be extremely inconvenient for me to not be able to control myself at full power." Tsuna said as he adjusted his earphones, another distraction to his true emotions. "I am going to show you just how big is the gap between you and me. And Nono," Tsuna turned to Vongola Nono slowly, "Please do your best fixing this main hall later, I think there's an annual party two weeks away from now, right? So please try your best, I mean it. If you need any extra money, just go find the Gesso family. They would be happy to provide you some." He tried to smile, but it only turned out to be a small lift on the side of his mouth.
Coughing a little, Tsuna whispered the words 'Operation X' into his earphones. Two seconds later, he was already ready to fire at 750,000 FV thanks to all the speed practise.
"Try to duck this, Kai-kun." Tsuna said simply, "If you can't, at least try to protect yourself at full power. Or you might die." Then he fired.
"X Burner Max Power!"
A giant shot of sky attribute fire filled the room. Reborn already dragged all the guardians away with Nono so they can all be safe. But they were still too slow. Even with 70 metres between them and Tsuna, they still felt the hot wave coming towards them. One second later, dusts covered all their sight as they could only hear a loud 'Bang' from the place where Tsuna and Nakamura was standing.
As the dusts went away, Reborn cleared his face slightly and focused at the sight in front of his face, then his body froze in shock.
This is no longer the Vongola Headquarters he knew, this place is like... like a war zone after a nuclear bombing! What the... Reborn was unable to move for a second. But the main business now is to find where is Nakamura. Tsunayoshi-san should be able to protect himself since he fired that attack. Reborn thought as he headed towards the place where Nakamura was. Nakamura's words still rang inside his head. But that was a little strange, for dame-kai to say those words... Reborn wondered.
After searching for a really long time, he found Nakamura lying behind a broken sofa, unconscious. His face was quite burnt but the rest of his body was all right. After sending Nakamura to the nurse's office, Reborn returned to seek any trace of Tsuna.
But Tsuna was not there. Reborn got a little anxious after he searched the whole Vongola base along with the guardians but still had no trace of Tsuna. When he finally decided to break into Tsuna's room, he found the room to be empty, with Tsuna's luggage all gone. The room was extremely tidy, the owner must have cleaned it carefully before leaving. There was a newly wrote note on the table. In front of the table was a window wide open. The note was written to the Vongola Guardians. Gokudera opened the small enveloped with shaking hands, but trying to be really careful as if tearing the envelope can cost him his life. As soon as he took out the short message, he started reading it out aloud to everyone with shock gathering in his eyes gradually.
"To the Vongola Guardians,
Sorry to cause you guys so much trouble in the past few days. Since your boss decided to not accept me as a part of your group, I decided to leave so I won't cause any embarrassments for the family. Thanks for the food and the comfortable room, I am grateful for that. Nakamura Kai is right, I am quite suspicious for breaking into his office and knowing all those top secret things. He is a very careful person, so he shall be a great boss, I guess. He would lead Vongola to a new height. Take care of yourselves in the battle three days later, or shall I say two and a half days later. Good luck.
Sincerely,
Sawada Tsunayoshi
P.S.: Do not tell Nakamura about it since I guess he will go and try to find me if he knows about it. For now just tell him that I am really sick and make him prepare for the battle. If you guys won, tell him if you want to if he ever ask about it."
Reborn bit his lip. He could read hopelessness out of these polite words. Unable to be accepted into a group that you live with everyday is extremely torturous. What Nakamura said half an hour ago even raised suspicion inside his heart. But after reading these words and seeing a drop of tried tear smudging the name, Reborn decided that he might want to give a lesson to Nakamura once he wakes up.
Thirty Kilometres away from the Vongola Headquarters, Sawada Tsunayoshi was sitting alone on a bench in the Quattro Canti area, holding his face in his hands, unable to see his impression. But if you look under his hands, you could see a face totally messed up by tears with eyes filled with desperation.
Then he heard a shocking sentence, from the two person who was standing behind him, talking in a low voice.
"Time for Plan V1."
"We shall attack the Vongola Family tomorrow night. Boss and his top underboss are getting anxious."
One trouble after another trouble, that is something you call life.