Chapter 22

"What's happening?" The guardians sealed inside the mist world were all confused right now, they didn't know what was happening. The whispering between Sawada Tsunayoshi and 'Nakamura Kai' was so quiet that they only caught sound of a completely unfamiliar name. "Cesare Rizzo?" Reborn mouthed out the name. 'Rizzo... Rizzo..." Then his eyes widened with surprise. "The last boss of the Rizzo family which we destroyed five years ago?"

"We didn't find any trace of him anywhere." Gokudera said as he thought back into that fight. "He disappeared right of after we destroyed his family headquarters. What's wrong with him?" His eyes were filled with confusion.

Mukuro narrowed his eyes. He was feeling a sense of unease, so was Chrome who was shivering behind him, clutching his arm tightly. What is this feeling? Mukuro thought. I must have felt it somewhere before. Maybe not in this life, maybe in my past lives... somewhere, somewhere definitely.

"Is...is that Rizzo guy inside Kai's body?" Yamamoto said with great hesitation.

Silence. Nakamura was definitely not acting like himself. But the boss of a terminate family inside their boss's body? Creepy. Bitting her lips, Chrome verified the thought of the guardians. "That's true." She said weakly. "It's not boss. Boss cannot wield the mist attribute flame, but I can feel the mist attribute movement in the air surrounding boss."

"Shit." Reborn swore out loud as he turned his gaze on Tsuna who was breathing hard.

Tsunayoshi-san. He thought slowly. Please win.

"Shall we start?" Tsuna said as he tilted his head. His Vongola Gear was already out. "I don't want to wait so long to kill somebody I already defeated." But as he said that sentence, he already released the limit seal on his VG. Inside his heart, he knew that this was not the Cesare Rizzo he fought before. If it was really that technique...it might cost him his life to erase every trace of Cesare on earth.

"Ah, I'm not ready yet." Cesare said with a wide grin. He still looked extremely relaxed. "Since this is not my body..." Cesare said slowly, "then if I use it up fully, it's still alright..." He turn the outside ring of the Tornator again. One second later, the black flame consumed Nakamura's body, but it disappeared one second later. Nothing different could be seen, but Tsuna's face colour turned dead pale, so did the cheek of Rokudo Mukuro.

"You..." Tsuna was unable to speak for a second. "You know that technique? That technique banned by the Vongola VI many years ago? Don't you know doing that will cause Nakamura's body to corrupt once your soul leaves the body?"

"Yep." Cesare said, still smiling. "It will corrupt, of course. But it doesn't matter. Nobody will use it even if it won't corrupt."

"But there's still Nakamura Kai-!" Tsuna was speechless for a second, then his eyes widened with fear. "You-you consumed his soul?"

"Yeah, that banned technique developed accidentally by the mist guardian of Vongola V before his death leaked to my family's information net long ago, you know." Cesare said slowly. "The technique of consuming other's soul to increase your own power. Everything's great. But you must find a body to put your own soul inside or you cannot use this technique. The body of Nakamura Kai will be the third body I destroy."

"You consumed his soul..." Tsuna was still murmuring. "His soul..." Then suddenly he raised his head and shouted, freaking out both the guardians and froze the smile of Cesare Rizzo. "You erased every trace of Vongola Decimo of this world on Earth? How cruel of you!"

"Huh!" The shock inside every guardians' heart. "Our boss...erased from Earth?"

"But..." Tsuna suddenly lowered his voice, his expression turned cool, his eyes were smiling. "Is that all?"

"What do you mean by is that all?" Cesare was clearly surprise at Tsuna's expression. "Consuming your fellow Vongola Decimo's soul, and you just said 'is that all'? You are more cruel than you look, Sawada Tsunayoshi-chan."

"Yes, of course I am more cruel than I look." Tsuna said impatiently. "I thought you know that I discarded my innocent long ago!" Then his voice died of. "Even if I didn't want to do so." Staring down at his own two hands spreader out in front of his face. "I don't even know how many blood is spilled on these two hands, how many lives were deserted, how many dreams were destroyed." His voice was shaking a little. Cesare's eyes narrowed, for the first time in five years, he felt a wave of emotion going through his body. How familiar, this sight. Cesare sighed inside his head. Just like the me when I just inherited my father's position. "But anyways." Tsuna said with a bitter smile. "This is my fate, right? No matter if am I dead or alive, my soul always belongs to Vongola, I have no choice." His voice stopped abruptly. "No choice at all!" As all the emotions erupted from his heart, a shot of fire went out from his left hand, aiming right at the left corner of the room."

"You are there, right?" Tsuna tilted his head. "There all along, watching this nonsense, Byakuran Gesso. Get outta there right now." There was a hint of impatient in his voice. Shaking his head in the dark, Byakuran walked out of the corner of the room.

"Ahhh, Tsuna-chan you noticed!" Byakuran said with a happy face, totally ignoring Cesare Rizzo. "You sure look well!"

"So you left me a stupid mess to deal with?" Tsuna's voice raised with a hint of nonsense, his finger pointing at Cesare. "Your own mistake, for me to end?"

"Ah, sorry, Tsu-chan~" Byakuran still ignored the existence of Cesare, "That thing is just a failure. Sorry to cause you such difficulties. But can you deal with it for now? After we end this stupid thing, you can go back home."

"Home?" Tsuna's voice grew more quiet. "You mean-my world?"

"Yep, home." Byakuran smiled. "But you have to deal with this first, or I will not help you, Tsu-chan!"

"Are you threatening me?" Tsuna's eyes narrowed.

"Noo! Of course!" Byakuran backed up a little. "Just an offer. But you..."

"...have no choice, right." Tsuna finished the sentence as he turned his face back at Cesare Rizzo who was staring at them with a small crooked smile. "Surprise at why I am not afraid at all?" Tsuna said as he read Cesare's mind. "Or surprise at the reason why am I still calm when I learned the situation of Kai?"

"Both, I must say." Cesare said as he got one step closer to Tsuna.

"Afraid can do me nothing, it can only bring me fear. Such emotion is not needed during a battle." Tsuna said calmly as he clutched his fists. "As for Nakamura Kai, I can do nothing about it right? I thought of the worst case ever since I noticed the existence of you inside Nakamura's body and when you lit up the black flame. It's called the Tornator right, that ring." Tsuna pointed at the Tornator on Cesare's hand. "Made by VI's mist guardian himself. It was lost after his funeral ended. The user of the Tornator must make this oath with the ring. The user must desert his own body to bring out the power of the Tornator. After that, no ruled apply. The user must find another body to put his soul inside. He can consume more souls to increase the already strong power of the Tornator. The darker the flame, the more the soul the user has consumed, and thus the greater the power."

"Ah, I must not ignore the existence of the Vongola Intelligence Agency lead by Hibari Kyouya, right?" Cesare said slowly emotionlessly.

"No, Hibari Kyouya has nothing to do with this. I found all these information by myself two years ago. From the flame you own, Cesare Rizzo, you have probably consumed more than thirty five souls of mist element holder, and at least ten souls of cloud element holder, right?"

"Also a sky element fire wielder." Cesare's smile grew from crooked to 'normal'. "And maybe another one."

"Ah, alright, if you say that." Tsuna said shaking his head. "All I have to do now is to end you life, then I can go back to my normal life. My resolution of going back home is probably much stronger than your resolution of getting my soul." Staring at Cesare in the eye, Tsuna couldn't help adding another sentence. "You remind me of Mukuro, like a lot."

"HUH!" Both Rokudo Mukuro and Cesare Rizzo shouted out loud, "What the hell?"

"Anyways," Tsuna said as he lit the fire on his gloves. "TIme to end all these nonsense." Then his body disappeared. Cesare's eyes widened a little, then his body, no, not his, Nakamura's body disappeared one second after Tsuna. Reborn's eyebrows raised as he calculated the speed of these two people inside his small head.

"Holy shit." He murmured. "One km every five seconds and even quicker, are these two people even human?"

Tsuna's first attack was caught by Cesare's two hands. With a smily face, Cesare tried to push Tsuna backwards. Bitting his teeth hard. Tsuna shot out his high purity flame and gave Cesare some small burns on the hand. For some reason, those burns disappeared quickly after Cesare backed away from Tsuna.

"High recovery speed? Power of the sun attribute." Tsuna said twisting his eyebrows. "According to the rules of the Tornator, after consuming more than seven souls of the same attribute, you can own the attribute and wield it properly. How many other souls did you eat, Cesare?" His heart was aching a little. Tsuna is always the same kind person. No matter how much had he changed, the deep root of kindness will always be seeded deep inside his heart somewhere. "Just how many people did you kill."

"Nah, nah, chill, Tsunayoshi-chan." Cesare said slowly. "Maybe a hundred and something, maybe more, I think. As for the people I killed...ah...I really don't know, maybe more than one thousand?" His grin became wider as he saw a flash of anger went through Tsuna's eyes.

"You asshole!" Tsuna said as his body disappeared again. This time he was prepared. The X X Burner was already set. To Tsuna's surprise, Cesare didn't even move, he was just smiling.

"You sure you want to fire that?" Cesare said with a giant smile. "You know I will not be killed, then only person that will be suffering is Nakamura Kai. No, shall I say the only thing that will be suffering is Nakamura Kai's body?"

"I know that." Tsuna said in a deep voice.

"Then go ahead." Cesare said slowly. He knew Tsuna couldn't hurt his comrades, even if they attack him and betray him. Thanks to Nakamura's body, Tsuna wasn't using even fifty percent of his full power at this time.

Gritting his teeth, Tsuna fired. He knew that Nakamura's body will corrupt as soon as the fire touches it, but it was not the most important issue right now. There must be sacrifice on every road towards success and power, and this time, the sacrifice/martyr will be Nakamura Kai, no matter he likes it or not. Tsuna had no choice at all. From the start of his encounter with the Mafia, Tsuna was always the person whose road was already chosen for him. Of course, he made the choice of those important fights. But if he could have just refused Reborn from the beginning...

"Wait! Tsunayoshi-san!" A voice came from the ground.

But it was already too late. The flame already consumed Nakamura's body. Tsuna's hand went back to the side of his legs. His attention was full. Cesare's soul could be anywhere right now, trying to fight his mistakes.

Then he felt a wave of coldness on his left. He he tried to duck, it was already too late, a arrow of black fire was already flying at him at top speed. The power of the black fire was unpredictable, with so many souls' power inside. Tsuna guessed one arrow can equal two of his XX Burner Max.

"Shit." Tsuna swore under his breathe. He decided to take it hands on. No, he didn't decided, that was the only thing he could do at the time.

Then he saw a dark shadow flew in front of him, and a wave of silver. Then 'clash', the sound of an arrow going through a human body. Tsuna caught the arrow. But when he looked at the arrow in his right fist, he found it dripping blood.

Slowly Tsuna looked forward. His eyes started to flash, with surprise, with fear, with sadness, and with many other emotions. Two seconds later, his brain finally cooled down. His mouth went into an 'O'. Rushing forward, he shouted out loudly.

"Gokudera-kun, why? WHY!"