Hey, this is miko-chan who is hiding in the main hall of the hotel. Ok, I know there's not a lot of words in this chapter, but just saying I am running away from mon parents for the sake of this... so, gomei. Uh, ok, so my nationality... I found that a problem in the reviews since English is my third language... Umm, you can't call me a full Chinese, you can't call me a full Jap...Uh, I'll just say I'm a mix. Oh, just adding this, the asian characters inside this work are all kanji, they look like traditional Chinese (actually they are~~) but some of them don't make any sense in Chinese. Help from beta readers is a great idea, but miko-chan think I will just leave that for a while... Anyways, thanks grace-san! Yes! Mistakes on mafioso and mafiosi. But isn't Cosa Nostra 'our thing'? I read it from a giant thick book on Mafia History. It said in the book that CN means the Italian Mafia, and Mafia's just for American Mafia. Oh whatever, maybe different viewpoints. I will research more on that since there's still lot of people who think Mafia does not exist~
Chapter 16
"What, II, what's so bad?" III asked anxiously as he saw II exiting I's office with a look of disappointment. As he took a closer look at II's expression, his face colour turned pale. "Don't tell me that the plan was suspended!"
"Yes, it is now suspended." II announced the news to all the underbosses and Tsuna. "The target was a very nicely constructed fake. Even Nakamura himself along with his tutor was unaware of it being a fake."
"Huh?" Tsuna's mind was totally blank for a second. "How can the target be a fake? It's impossible! It's the-"
"Yeah, we know, Rafael, it's kind of a shock." VII shook his head slowly. "I don't really believe it either. But it's not impossible since the Vongola was fully aware of our target throughout the time. It's kinda weird that the Vongola themselves was not aware of the situation though. Somebody else must be in it."
"But...but but!" Tsuna was still trying to understand the concept.
"How in the world can the target, the sky attribute Vongola ring, be a freaking fake!"
"That's what we all want to know." V said grimly as he pulled up his hood.
"Around two weeks ago, two hours after we got off the plane..." Reborn whispered to himself as he wrote all the informations he knew out on a piece of paper. "One day later, attending university, meeting Sawada Tsunayoshi. Two days later, going back to Vongola with Sawada Tsunasyoshi..."
"Sawada Tsunayoshi?" Reborn's mind suddenly froze, so did his movements. Then as quick as lightning, he ran to his suitcase and dragged out a short message from the Vongola staff who was assigned to take a close watch on Tsuna ever since he was in middle school.
"Fell inside a lake after tripping over a stone. Up a few minutes later looking perfectly well except looked totally like a loser." Reborn's finger went under the sentences as he was whispering them out. As he saw the time stamp on the bottom of the short message. His face twisted a little as he did the math. That was when his whole body went numb.
"What the fuck!" Reborn's shout rang through the whole Vongola headquarters one minute later. The voice alerted the guardians and lead them to the office of Reborn. As they slowly opened the door, they saw Reborn throwing a calculator onto the wall, damaging a few painting greatly. There were pieces of paper being teared apart and then burnt by the sun attribute flame.
"I cannot believe this..." They heard Reborn talking to himself as he shoot the calculator in the air with his Leon revolver. "Why in the world is everything suddenly related to Sawada Tsunayoshi...why..."
"Huh?" That was the only word that appeared in every guardian's mind.
"Can one of you tell me about the incident, I really have no idea..." Tsuna was kinda confused about the obsession the underbosses had about the sky attribute Vongola Ring. "Can you just brief me about it, for the sake of my information?"
"You don't know?" VI stared at him in amazement. "Are you a new-bee to this world?"
"You can say that. Well, not really." Tsuna scratched his head. "I was in this world long ago, but I just didn't care a lot about what's happening outside my small world. Can you please tell me about it, VI-san?"
VI's eyes went for II. As II gave him a nod of approval, VI started the long story.
"Well, as you can see, Vongola and Vassallo had been allies for around 170 years. We had always been great friends, but when Nakamura Kai went into the position of Vongola Decimo, he did something that made all of us extremely mad."
"Our older boss, rumoured to be the wisest and kindest boss out of all of the Vassallo bosses, went to visit the Vongola Decimo privately one and a half year after they officially came to power. Meaning a one to one meeting at a top secret, sound proof, bullet proof room. Nobody knows what's happening inside the room once the door is shut. Our boss brought with him two of his closest guards, one of whom had been employed by a rival family just two days ago and was assigned to a mission to kill Vongola Decimo along with our boss."
"Our boss only took notice of the strange actions from his guard two minutes before he was attacked. He tried to warn Vongola Decimo of it, but Vongola Decimo took no notice or didn't understand due to his limited experience. The guard went forward to kill two minutes later."
"The guard was a mafioso quite strong, thus he was the closest guard of our boss. He tried to kill the boss of Vongola first. Vongola Decimo was extremely weak back then, he had no power of awakening his Hyper Mode without taking any Dying Will Flame pills or special bullets. And due to some reason, he forgot to bring it with him, the sun Arcobaleno was absent due to an annual Arcobaleno meeting."
"So, our boss tried to protect Vongola Decimo with all his might. But the guard activated his mist ring and created the illusion of our boss being the attacker and the guard himself being the person getting hurt. Even when he got into Hyper mode later, Nakamura couldn't recognise the illusion, or he was faking it, which has a higher possibility, since our boss disagreed with him on an important business on the development of Vongola on equipment transportation and weapon transportations. The disagreement caused heavy loss of both his and the Vongola's reputation in the Mafia world. He regained them slowly later by pressing more on this issue two year later."
"So, pretending or not, Nakamura Kai attacked our boss at full power. The result was expected, our boss was badly wounded but not yet dead. That was when the guard still with tons of energy headed for Nakamura. At that point, Vongola Decimo was extremely tired and had no power to protect himself whatsoever, he was actually directly facing death. Our boss went ahead and blocked the final attack for him, sacrificing his own life for Nakamura Kai. And for some reason, his soul did not stay inside his body, instead, part of the soul flew inside the Vongola Ring while the rest remained in the atmosphere. Basically meaning that he still got the chance to be alive."
"Finally, Nakamura Kai decided that the guard was the bad guy. Simple task, took tons of time. For the first time in his whole life, this part's quite astonishing, Nakamura Kai, the rumoured 'kindest person with the weakest heart of the Vongola family', strike for killing on his own will. Meaning he finished off the guard using all his will. That was quite shocking when the news went to our family."
"My onii-chan told us all about the story!" VII said with a proud smile. "He got all the details by investing the body of the guard and using some special machines!"
VI gave a small nod and continued the story. "The reason we want the sky attribute ring is not to seek revenge since our boss give his life to Vongola on his own will. The reason we need it is that as boss's soul still remains inside the Vongola ring, there's a high possibility, around 95%, that boss can come back to life. That's the true reason."
"Then why don't you just ask for the ring?" Tsuna asked in great confusion as he digested the story. Interesting case, he thought. "Why do you guys make such a fuss? I thought you guys wanted their lives or something..."
"Well, actually, we do need the life of one of them to help revive our boss. Since our boss is also a cloud attribute flame user, for the highest success rate, we need the strong soul of a rain attribute person to cool the doubling affect of the cloud down, he can also be the sacrifice to open up the part of the Vongola ring containing the souls. Chill, we will not ask for your life. First, you are not as strong as the rain guardian I guess. Secondly, you have no misunderstanding with us." II shook his head with a tricking smile as he saw Tsuna faked to panic a little. "So we also need the life of Yamamoto Takeshi."
"Then the ring...?" Tsuna pressed on.
"Because if we are going to get the soul out, we need to break open the ring. Direct meaning: if they give us the ring, they will never get it back."
"Huh?" Yamamoto smiled, "Tsunayoshi-san? What's wrong with him, Reborn-san?"
"No, first thing first, where's Jyuudaime? I don't see him anywhere, Reborn-san." Gokudera asked with a long worried face. "Do you know about him?"
Reborn stared back into the anxious eyes of the guardians, then he decided as he let out a deep sigh. Loads of explaining to do, Reborn thought, I really don't like it.
Taking an extra sip of coffee while picking up the remains of the calculator, Reborn began the long story, starting at the part about the old Vassallo boss visiting the Vongola family, a story he refused to tell the guardians, also the story that Nakamura refused to tell him at first and only surrendered under some harsh circumstance.
It might be time for them to understand the Vassallo's true goal. Reborn thought.