Chapter 14
"Bernardino Vassallo, how long have you been inside Kai's body?" Reborn took out another gun from his pocket. "Or shall I say since when did you capture Kai and dressed up as him? To know the information of Sawada Tsunayoshi, you must be here for a short while, at least from the time we arrived back at the Vongola Headquarters from Japan. Or are you there ever since we arrived at Japan? Ever since the plane landed and Kai announced that he was going to get a drink of water while going to the washroom at the same time, he started acting a little weird after he got back."
"Gu~ You got that right, Reborn-chan." Bernardino said as he tied his long hair into a ponytail with a rubber band. "Nakamura Kai is in the deepest cell in the Vassallo family base, nobody except my Underboss No.1 and I know about the existence of Vongola Decimo inside the Vassallo family. Also, just for your interesting, unless you defeat me, meaningly killing me, I will not stop hunting down the Vongola family, and my goal. I guess Kai-chan told you the reason why a three years ago. I got his past memories from his brain when I captured him, so I know all about your techniques. You guys have no chance of defeating me. With the mist attribute ring and the major cloud attribute ring I own, I can wield all his techniques using the mist while doubling the affect with the cloud ring's characteristic. "
"You..." Reborn didn't know what to say. His brain was running quickly trying to absorb all the informations.
"As for why I know Sawada Tsunayoshi's secret identity, I heard about it from your dream. Remember, I have the ability to break into other's dreams thanks to my higher than Class A mist ring?" Bernardino stepped forward, leaning down to pat Reborn's hat while Reborn moved back in disguise. "It was quite fun encountering Sawada Tsunayoshi and use Nakamura's energy and power to fight him. Sawada Tsunayoshi is quite strong with his limit release, but I think he's still no match for me and my underbosses."
"Well, since you are here." Reborn touched his curled hair on the left side of his face, "I guess the invitation to fight is fake? Am I right?"
"Gu! One point for Reborn-chan!" Bernardino Vassallo jumped a little. This guy's worse than Byakuran, Reborn thought inside his head. "Yeah, that invitation was fake. It was just a way for me to learn about you guys' power, especially that mysterious Sawada Tsunayoshi. Actually, if he is here during our future clashes, you guys might have a chance to win. But ho, I really pissed him of so I guess he will not be coming back to Vongola ever. He probably hates Vongola now and want to be your enemy."
"You asshole!" Reborn exclaimed.
"Actually, Sawada Tsunayoshi really wanted to be a part of you guys. I know non can read his mind except Uni Giglio Nero, but if you pay close attention to his expressions and his movements, he was extremely eager to join you Vongola. He desperately wanted to be your comrades. But after he bombed me with whatever that thing is, his expression turned into deep sadness and a trace of unable to understand the situation." Bernardino put his left hand under his chin, looking up at the ceiling, as if trying to think back. "Well now, it's a complete different business. There's a high possibility he will join a rival family of Vongola, a.k.a. my 'ally' on this issue, and join the fight to end Vongola tomorrow night."
"Tomorrow night?" Reborn's voice shook a little. "Is that what you planned from the very start?" With the sky absent, what can the storm, the cloud, the rain, the lightning, the sun, and the mist do even if they try their ultimate best? Nothing! Nothing at all! Vongola Nono wouldn't work since he discarded his power for a peaceful senior life. Nobody else, definitely nobody else has the sky attribute flame in the Vongola family! NO! (Well, Xanxus's ruled out automatically since he's in the Varia and MIko-chan guess everyone knows his personality~~)
"Scared?" Bernardino teased. "Because you have no sky to put the other six elements into? You know the fact that neither Dino Cavallone nor Kozart Enma can replace Nakamura Kai, don't you?" Then he turned his face to the window. "Well, that Sawada kid got the nerve to replace Nakamura, and he definitely has enough power, but still, he's ruled out thanks to me~"
"Bernardino Vassallo!" Reborn bellowed, taking out his gun. Being the world's best hitman, he thought that he has the power to deal with Bernardino Vassallo. "I am going to end your life right now!"
"If you can~" Bernardino smiled as he stood still, not even taking out his weapon, which is also a sword. "But maybe I will finish you before you can even touch me~"
Meanwhile, about forty kilometres away from the Vongola Headquarters, Sawada Tsunayoshi, the centre of their discussion, was trying to find a way to get into the Vongola Headquarters quick with absolutely nobody noticing him. Since the Vassallo family planted their underbosses I to VIII every where, it's definitely unwise for actions like 'flying over the sky using bright sky attribute flame' or 'go inside the Vongola Headquarters through the main door faking as a visitor from the Cavallone or Shimon'. Thus dame-Tsuna was completely stuck.
Out of madness towards himself, Tsuna, who was siting down by a tree right now, punched the ground extremely hard, making a small hole on the ground, sending the grass and the small rubbles around him flying away a little. Staring at the hole in anger, Tsuna suddenly figured something out.
What if... What if I dig a hole right into the Vongola headquarters? Like, like a subway or something! With his eye's suddenly wide open, Tsuna stood up and raced towards the direction of the Vongola base. If he was actually going to do that, the best thing is to get near the headquarters as near as possible, so he wouldn't need to dig a lot of soil out (attracting a lot of attentions then) or wasting a lot of energy (bad if there's some enemy waiting for him at the end of his hole). Within 1.5 km and 0.9 km can be a good choice since the Vongola Headquarters will not treat him as an attacker.
After running like hell for two hours, he reached the forest surrounding the Vongola Headquarters. From here, he can use his fire power since not a lot of people were in sight. Breathing heavily, he sat down beside a small tree for rest.
Wiping the sweat off his face, he sighed in deep relief as he noticed the fact that the Vongola Base in the distance was already fixed perfectly by Nono and his group of workers. Or shall I say it as Nono fixed it temporally by creating a mist illusion. He would fix it through time, slowly and maybe more delicately. That was the style of Vongola Nono during the ring battles with Xanxus and the rest of the Varia group.
Taking a drink of water from the small lake beside the place he was resting, he was ready for takeoff. As Tsuna was going to start running again, he noticed a dark shadow behind a small tree. The dark shadow seemed to be staring at him ever since he got near this lake. It was strange. Then Tsuna remembered the conversation he eavesdropped two and a half hours ago, from the two underbosses of Vassallo, III and VI. They talked something about VII and VIII saw the explosion happening in Vongola. From this distance, the man in the dark was definitely unable to recognise anything except the outside edge of Tsuna's body and the colour of Tsuna's hair under the sunlight, which was gold.
So this must be one of them, then. Tsuna thought. So shall I defeat him for the sake of Vongola for the surprise attack beforehand? That can be a good idea but then the consequence will be that my identity shall be discovered by the Vassallo family as sided with them. That will be bad for me in the future, having such a strong family as the rival. But since they don't know my position on this business right now...A brand new idea popped into Tsuna's head as he realised his advantage.
Maybe I can actually be a 'spy'!
Tsuna smiled at the thought. That will definitely work then, he shall be a spy and pretend to take side with the Vassallo family thanks to the advantage the Vongola guardians gave him by accident when they were doubting him which caused Tsuna to leave. The Vassallo family might think that he hates Vongola for that! But that caused another big problem...
How am I able to help the Vongola family then? Betraying the Vassallo family just like a snap and making the Vongola guardians unable to trust me even more!
That was when a completely new idea formed inside Tsuna's head. This time this is definitely going to work out. He never tried it before, but he guess he trusts Mukuro's mist ring a lot since its class A ring and it specialises on making illusions. And he would also have to rely on his rain attribute ring that Dino gave him as a present four years ago. This will definitely be basically flawless thanks to these two Class A rings.
Smirking inside his head, Tsuna activated the mist ring and walked towards the man in the dark with a big sincere smile on his face.
"Bernardino Vassallo, I have this question." Reborn said as he fired another bullet at Bernardino Vassallo. Both of them now got the equal amount of scratch on their body, but non of them were big cuts that can be large enough to be called a wound. This was a stalemate. "I don't know what's your family's professional attribute. Except the Shimon, the Giglio Nero, and the Vongola, most of the family is a master on only one of the seven attribute. Like the terminated Rizzo family was a master on mist, what about you guys?"
"GU~Us?" Bernardino said as he took Reborn's bullet with one single hand. "Since you looked like you tried a lot to find out, I think I am going to tell you then~ Reborn-chan~" Slowly, gulping down some air, Bernardino spelled out the word slowly.
"C, L, O, U, D."
"Cloud?" Reborn's face was suddenly filled with surprise. Cloud? One of the hardest attribute to control in the known fifteen attributes? They are masters on that? This is...fearing!
"You afraid then?" Bernardino smiled. "Well, my attribute is Sky of course, but all my underbosses' element is cloud."
"Thus, unless you can find a rain attribute or sky attribute wielder stronger than all eight of them, there's no chance you can calm down my underbosses' power."
We hesitate between choices, then we finally realise that it is already too late.