噫！玖渚久美子です〜 oh well, anyways! Now chapter! I am back from that trip. Great nobody noticed an asian girl hiding in the corner of the main hall, ha ha ha (laughing drily). ok, I was thinking about the future story and decided to give information about the prequel in some chapters coming up, mina-san will know why. But for now, please enjoy the new chapter! Arigato!
Chapter 17
"So..." Tsuna bit his lips slightly, "We want the Vongola Ring and the life of Yamamoto Takeshi to revive our old boss. But why are you guys so anxious to make him come back to life? Is he that special?" He blurted out the question that was bothering him the most.
"You are new here, so you don't know..." Ⅲ murmured under his breathe. Then he raised his head with great might. "Yeah, our boss is special. He had power to make everyone like him, respect him, even his worst enemies. It was his own personal beauty. And also, he lead our family to our highest point in our 200 years of history. Most of all, he had the power to see into the future."
"See into the future?" Tsuna exclaimed. The power of the Sky Arcobaleno? Oh my! Tsuna thought inside his head. Well, sure, Tsuna got the power to look into the future, too. But, somebody else completely unrelated to seven cubed. How bizarre! "Isn't that the power of the sky arcobaleno?" Tsuna asked with surprise.
"Huh, yes." V said slowly, "Of course. Also the holder of the mare ring in some cases. Do you not know that we are related to the Giglio Nero family?"
"HUH?" This was Tsuna's turn to be shocked.
"Our old boss's mother was Luce Giglio Nero's half sister." V blurted out with an interesting smile on his face.
"Gah!" Tsuna called out in surprise. There's way too many information to process for his brain now, he needed time to think all of them over and piece the random pieces into a complete puzzle. Faking to look terribly tired, he asked for a room to rest from the underbosses. Of course, they provided him an extremely comfortable room immediately and left him alone so they can discuss plans for the future privately.
Lying face down on the soft bed, Tsuna's mind flew to his world. It's not rare to see a family's members putting their lives on the line for their boss if the boss is extremely respected. But it is definitely rare to see the members risking so much to revive a dead person. Even though the stories are plain and unmoving, Tsuna felt a slow moving river of sadness beneath the words of the Vassallo underbosses.
Why does everything reminds him of his own world? In his mind, Tsuna saw the image of his guardians using their bodies to block bullets for him. It happened all the time. When Tsuna was too hurt or too tired to fight, he was always the best target for their rival, thus they will always choose to attack him. That was when his guardians will risk everything to protect him.
A lot of the times, his face was spilled with blood of his fellow comrades. It pained him so much to even think about it now. Without realising, tears trickled down his face. Slapping himself slightly, he tried to urge himself to make sense of the information provided.
So, the supposed fight tomorrow night is now discarded along with the plan. The final goal of the Vassallo family is lost from their sight once again. The Sky Attribute Vongola Ring. Nakamura Kai was captured by the Vassallo family when he arrived at Japan. The current boss of the Vassallo family, Bernardino Vassallo went into Vongola to take Nakamura's place. They wanted to get the ring and Yamamoto along the way. Even though capturing Yamamoto was a simple task, the ring was discovered as a fake which made everything more complex.
Then there was the ultimate question: Where is the true Vongola Ring?
As Tsuna leaned down towards the soft bed wondering the question, his Vongola Gear seemed to shine out a ray of light. But one second later, it was gone while Tsuna noticed nothing.
"So, by your guess, Reborn-san, the Vassallo family wants the life of Jyuudaime and one of us?" Gokudera said with an incredible expression while all the other guardians remained silent trying to absorb what Reborn just told them.
"The old Vassallo boss sacrificed his life for Kai…" Yamamoto murmured under his breathe. "But we treated his family like dead enemies…"
"It's not your fault, Yamamoto Takeshi." Reborn answered. "I got this story out of Dame-Kai by threatening to kick you guys out of the Vongola Family. Even with that he only told me just the important puzzles, no details at all. Please try to understand that I was trying to do Kai a favour when I told you guys the cover story of the Vassallo boss trying to kill dame-Kai."
"Why? Why did Vongola tried to tell us a fake cover story?" Rokudo Mukuro said with great confusion.
"Because he want you guys to be aware of the Vassallo family, be warned about their intent to killing you guys, so guys can be on guard of attacks all the time and not be one of the martyr of this fight." Reborn answered slowly. "Kai was thinking for you guys from the very start, as you can see, so don't blame him for his cover story if Kai ever gets back alive." Reborn said with a little doubt.
"Ever get back alive?" Chrome was clearly shocked for a second. "Boss, ever?'
"Reborn-san!" Gokudera exclaimed. "Of course we will get Jyuudaime back without a scratch, what are you saying? We have the resolution for that! We will never leave Jyuudaime alone!"
"Yes, of course I know that, Gokudera Hayato." Reborn said grimly with worried eyes. "Of course you guys have the resolution. But remember, the Vassallo family got the resolution to get their old boss's life back no matter what, and their resolutions might be even stronger than yours."
"But-" Gokudera tried to interrupt. Reborn silenced him with one impatient wave of hand.
"I am not worried about the Vassallos trying to kill Kai, they don't want to do that at all, they still think us as their friends on some standards, in addition their goal is not Kai's life, remember?" Then Reborn lowered his head. "I am worried about Kai trying to give his life to the Vassallo family instead of one of you guys to pay his so-called 'debt' to the family."
There was pure silence, the air seemed to be denser than one second before. With a short cough and a dry laugh, Rokudo Mukuro broke the silence.
"So how are we going to deal with issue then, kufufu?" Mukuro said with a worried face. "Now we learned the truth, I guess the only way to deal with this problem peacefully is to talk?"
"No!" Sasagawa shouted while punching the air. "We shall fight to the extreme! The personality of the Vassallo family told me that they will not back up unless they get what they wanted!"
"That's true." Reborn nodded slowly. "A battle is the only way to deal with this issue."
"But," Hibari suddenly said in everyone's gaze. "But, little baby, what does it have to do with Sawada Tsunayoshi? Explain."
"Nothing except a small guess." Reborn said, pretending to not care. It's not yet the time to tell them that. Reborn thought. Not yet. But actually, even Reborn himself couldn't explain the coincidence on time involving the sudden change of both the Vongola Ring and Sawada Tsunasyoshi. "I was just too pissed about Tsunayoshi-san leaving Vongola like that, and mad about about Bernardino Vassallo using those dirty tricks."
"I guess we shall start making a plan, then?" As the right hand man of Vongola Decimo, Gokudera suggested out of experience. "A plan to dismiss their thought of jailing Jyuudaime, the thought of taking the life of one of us, the the thought of taking away the Vongola Ring."
"The first two should be prior to the third one since we don't know the whereabouts of the Vongola Ring, either." Reborn said drily.
"Yes, Reborn-san." Gokudera smiled bitterly while nodding slightly. "The best plan that come into my mind is that the Vassallo family and us fight tomorrow night, as their original plan suggested. This battle can be a one shot to end this stupid conflict. If we win, they give us back our Jyuudaime; if we lost, we..."
"Yeah, just realised, we don't have the Vongola Ring, they will not be satisfied." Yamamoto said drily. "And if we lost, to carry out their wish, one of us will die. That's considered worst case scenario."
"How about that they can keep dame-Kai until we can fulfil their wish?" Reborn said bitting his finger. "Yes, Gokudera Hayato, I don't like that either, but that is the only thing the Vassallo family can be satisfied about if they couldn't get their wish fulfilled. After all, the misunderstandings they have is not with the whole Vongola Family, but only with dame-Kai for not acting quick enough."
"Shit." Gokudera swore loudly but he agreed the plan in silence. "Great then." He said with a small anger. "I will send a message to the Vassallo family then." Then he stormed out of the room leaving the rest of the guardians with a grim atmosphere.
"Boss..." Chrome said in a low voice as she looked outside the window with teary eyes. All the guardians know the difference of power between themselves and the Vassallo family, there's basically no chance that they can win. Nakamura Kai will just be a scapegoat of their failure.
"I guess now we must pray that Sawada Tsunayoshi has not yet sided with the Vassallo family on this issue." Reborn said. "And if we can locate him, we must find him as soon as possible." Then he ran out of the room heading for the office of Spanned and Irie Shoichi. For the extra delicate fire detector they owned. The rest of the guardians nodded at each other and exited the room in silence. In their heart, they know, if they want to win the fight with the Vassallo family, the only chance was on Sawada Tsunayoshi.
"I-nii, the Vongola just sent us a message." III knocked on I's door as they finished their argument about their feelings on the issues around Nakamura Kai. Or their so called way of dealing with a hot problem. "It seemed like the Vongola wants to fight us tomorrow for the issue."
There was silence for half a minute. The silence brought III some great pressure. The I spoke. "Any standards?"
III was used to I's strange choice of words. "Yes. If we won, we keep Nakamura and do whatever we want to him until they can find the true Vongola Ring. If they win, this issue just goes into the air and we give them back their Nakamura Kai."
"Seems like every good thing's on their road." I's sneering passed through the door. "Well, anyways, the Vassallo family has us, right? Great then, we shall accept the offer. Maybe just a past time." Then I added twenty seconds later when III was about to leave. "I will go too this time."
"You sure?" III said in pure surprise. "I-nii, are you sure that the six Vongola guardians with no Sky deserve I-nii to move?"
"Yeah." I said with some strange means. "This is a great chance, I can't miss it. I will tell our stupid boss about it later."
"Yes, I-nii. We will all follow your orders. Rafael Piazza will also come with us incase we need his hand or power." III said quietly as he backed away from I's closed door.
Inside the wooden door, I sank back into his chair in pure excitement, his eyes shining. A trace of red appeared on the corner of his corneas. "Fat chance." He murmured with desperation, as if trying to grab something. "I can't let you go this easily, fat chance."
Slowly, he opened a drawer on his desk which locates in the centre of this dark room. Not a lot of people in the Vassallo family entered this room before. Most of them don't even know the existence of I since I rarely leaves his room. Most of the time, it's the underbosses or Bernardino who visit him. Slapping his two hands together in happiness and eagerness to fight, also to reach his goal, his right hand reached for the thing lying peacefully in the drawer.
Wiping off the dusts on the thing, I gently puts it inside the pocket on his shirt: the pocket closest to heart. Smiling a little, his pupils seemed to be glaring with red lights, the red belongs to the colour of pools of blood.
"Time for you to go, Tornator."