Chapter 19

"Gokudera Hayato, when are you here?" Reborn said in surprise. He took no notice of him until now.

"I was here after our training." Gokudera said slowly. "That Irie bloke tried his best. We should thank him later."

"Huh?" Both Spanner and Reborn were surprised at Gokudera being grateful at people other than Nakamura Kai.

"When I looked into Tsunayoshi-san's eyes that day, before he fired at Bernardino Vassallo, those usually pure eyes was filled with deep sadness. He really wanted to be part of us. That was really easy to see." Gokudera said cooly. "But behind the wish of becoming part of us, there lies the resolution of protecting Vongola with his life." Looking at the shocked face of Reborn and Spanner, Gokudera turned his face away from them and looked up at the ceiling. On the ceiling, there was a painting of the sky. It was rumoured to be painted Vongola Primo himself.

"Well, when I first met him in middle school, I took no notice of him at all. He was just another garbage in the Nami middle school. But this time, when I fought him back in Namimori, his power seemed to grow rapidly. But even during the trainings, whenever my arrow touches his fire, there was this extreme sense of loneliness that passes through my body." Gokuder said looking into his hands. "I think the Baseball Idiot and Hibari felt that, too. When he was training us, I know the way was a little Spartan, but he was doing it for the good of us. He was actually feeling really worried for us about the fight."

"And the note he left us, you remember, Reborn-san?" Gokudera said slowly, now looking at Reborn straight in the eyes. "Did you notice the dried tear drops on the corner of the paper? He didn't really leave the Vongola on his own will, he felt that he was squeezed out of the Vongola because we did not accept him. There was no place for him in the Vongola."

Looking at Reborn who was now on the edge of crying, (Yes, Miko-chan know Reborn will NEVER cry, but just meaning here that he was pretty moved), Gokudera smiled a little. "So, I bet when Tsunayoshi-san learned that the Vassallo is our enemy on this issue, so he went undercover into the Vassallo family to help us. So let's just trust him! He will help us!"

"It make some sense." Spanner said chewing on his candy. "The dot of Sawada Tsuanyoshi was blue earlier, meaning rain attribute. But after removing the mist coverup using this fire detector, we see this giant orange dot. Meaning he was under disguise."

"Told you so." Gokudera smiled as he exited the room yawning. "Now I am fine knowing Tsunayoshi-san's on the same side as us. I am quite tired right now. Sorry, Reborn-san. Good night, mina." The he went into the hallway.

"Interesting comprehension, Gokudera Hayato." Reborn said with a mysterious smile. "Didn't know you are that careful."

"Huh..." Spanner said somehow in great confusion. "He didn't ask one thing about Vongola? Now strange!"

"You don't understand." Reborn said twisting his hair into more curls. "He was just trying to avoid the fact that Kai was captured with his power taken away from him. I bet for the Gokudera Hayato now, even speaking the name of Kai would hurt him greatly. He was just trying to put his hopes on Tsunayoshi-san."

"Of course," Reborn continued while Spanner tried to absorb the information. "After all these years, he learnt to trust his comrades, also to believe in their powers. In an emergency like that, I bet all the guardians know that it is more important to put the good of the whole Vongola family in front of the good of their friends. If with one life we can earn more time for the family to live, we will do that. Even if it means dame-Kai will die."

"Didn't you guys said you won't desert any of your comrades?" Spanner said as he moved towards Shoichi who was now on the edge of falling down from his chair. His eyebrows a little twisted. "I thought you guys would go and get Vongola out no matter what!"

"Yes. That was we said five years ago during the ceremony." Reborn said. "But dame-Kai was not in that promise."

"What do you mean by that?" Spanner said in great confusion while putting Irie Shoichi onto his bed.

"Nakamura Kai refused to be rescued by anybody if he was captured." Reborn said in a strange tone. "Nor did he want to be saved if he met a hard enemy."

"What the...!" Spanner said, his mouth half opened. He was unable to comprehend Nakamura's idea.

"Yeah." Reborn smiled bitterly. "That innocent dame-Kai didn't want anybody, even his enemy, to get hurt because of him."

"Help...?" Tsuna whispered into the thin air. "Nakamura Kai...the real Nakamura Kai said 'help' to me?" He tilted his head trying to understand the whole situation. "And what was that dark room, so creepy, but the atmosphere was kind of familiar in a way..." Tsuna narrowed his eyes trying to think back. Where had he experience such a grim atmosphere, the atmosphere filled with darkness and eagerness for power? He must have been in such an atmosphere just a few days ago! Bitting his lips hard, Tsuna tried to remember what happened to him in the past few days.

Then 'click', he remembered. His eyes widened a little but it regained normal one second later.

"The office of Mr.I..." Tsuna murmured as he activated his mist ring again, turning back into the fake identity of 'Rafael Piazza'. The realisation of that made him feel extremely unsafe inside this bedroom, as if Ⅰ was looking at him from somewhere near the whole time. "They kept Nakamura inside I's office?" He said out of astonishment.

"And for the current situation of Nakamura Kai..." Tsuna knew perfectly well about Nakamura's current body condition just by looking at it. His life was extremely fragile. With his power taken away from him, he was just a cow ready to be slaughtered. He was in no shape of escaping. How can the Vassallo treat him like that! Tsuna was extremely pissed remembering that. After all, he and Nakamura Kai both belong to the Vongola Family and they have blood relationships with each other.(well, all Vongola Boss are related to each other in blood)

But when the underbosses were talking about Bernardino Vassallo, they said he was a kind boss who is very generous. Tsuna was kind of confuse right now. They said he never hurt anybody just for fun. He was just another regular man. How can such a man do such things to a innocent kid?

That was when Tsuna realised another output. The output he hated to consider in whatever situation.

There's a betrayer inside the Vassallo family.

Then a huge wave of headache attacked him: side affect of him working too hard marking those documents in the Vongola HQ a few days earlier. He winced and passed out back onto his bed in pain. The night fell silent again.

But Tsuna didn't realise, when he fell back onto his bed, he reseted the mist ring by accident, turning himself invisible from others. It will be only the next morning that he notices that. And it will also be in the morning that he notices something else, something even more shocking than the 'Help!" from Nakamura this midnight.

"Please work." He said in a low voice after praying to the god in his heart. Slowing, he turned the outside ring of the lit Tornator into a specific place. The flame instantly turned invisible, showing just how hot is the flame right now. Tilting his head again and praying once more, he put the invisible fire right over the heart of the object.

The object made a short sound of wincing in pain, but it fell silent one second later. As the barely visible flame grew larger, the face of the object turned from extremely pale into a healthy colour of normal skin, a little bit like rose. The dark hair of the object seemed to regain its shine. The smile on his face grew larger and larger. When the invisible flame finally ran out, he let out a harsh laugh.

He put away the flame on the Tornator as quick as possible. Holding back his excitement, he leaned down and touched the face of the object like observing a nicely carved statue. His face went into a wild expression when he realised that he had succeeded. He did much better than he himself had expected! He quickly took off the Tornator and put it back into his shirt pocket.

Whispering a latin like language under his breathe, he murmured a thank you to his god. Then he stood up, gazing down at the object he just renewed. Letting out a short sneer, he said with those bloody red pupils:

"Yo, Vongola, and my dear Vassallo friends, see you in hell."

The next morning, Tsuna woke up at seven thirty. Thirty minutes later than his usual time, maybe because that he was way too tired in his heart these few days. He had a dream about Byakuran talking to him yesterday. He bet it was not a dream but some kind of message sent by Byakuran because our dear Shiro-chan did that to the pissed Tsu-chan once before in his own world when Byakuran couldn't find the exact whereabouts of Tsuna.

"Tsu-chan, where are you right now?" Byakuran said in his dream with a worried face. It was a true worried face, not just a joke by him. "I couldn't find you anywhere! I heard from a source that you bombed the Vongola Headquarters? Great choice to get your furiousity away, but leaving the Vongola headquarters is not such a great choice for you! I am actually very worried when I couldn't locate you in the area belongs to the Vongola family!"

"Anyways, just saying, I think I found a way to send you back to your world! But, uh, it's only 95% safe now. So, for you own safety I will not let you try it so I won't send you to some other parallel world. I will try to contact you in one day, that will probably be when its ready." Byakuran said in a light tone. "So be careful tomorrow and try not to get hurt! Or when I send you back and your guardians found out that you were hurt in the heart, they are going to kill me."

"My guardians?" Tsuna asked with some kind of confusion.

"Yes, your guardians! All of them, Tsu-chan!" Byakuran said happily. "They are all back!" Before Tsuna could thank him, his head disappeared and Tsuna woked up with an extremely exited face.

Then Tsuna realised that his body was invisible. Smiling drily at his mist ring, he switched the ability into simple disguise. Tidying himself up, he exited his bedroom wearing his formal suite after making his bed. He found his door to be unlocked, but he remembered locking the door from the inside yesterday night before sleeping. But that was not important right now. Today was the day to fight the Vongola family, and today would also be the day he, Sawada Tsunayoshi, fix this stupid issue within these two families.

Tsuna arrived at the place where the seven underbosses except I usually spend their whole night playing poker and falling asleep on each other's body around two in the morning. He knocked on the door gently. Nobody answered.

Tsuna tilted his head slightly. He knocked a little harder, but still there was no sound inside the room. After trying for three times, Tsuna got a little impatient. Whispering 'Gomei' under his breathe, he kicked lightly on the door. The door flew open, it felt as light as a feather: somebody unlocked the door earlier. Or maybe they forgot to lock it, Tsuna thought. Then he stepped inside the room.

His feet stopped right there. Tsuna's mouth, already in the shape of saying 'good morning', froze in the shape of a small 'o'. His eyes were coloured red. Not because it turned red on its own, but because it was reflected by red lights inside the room.

Tsuna's leg was shaking along with his hands. He was on the edge of collapsing onto the floor. So that was why his door was not locked...somebody was there earlier...but thank god he switched the mist ring ability...

All seven underbosses, dead. Murdered, no, slaughtered right inside their own family.