What The Hell

Chapter 12.

Lambo had been an idiot-as always. Maya thought, sitting at one of the offices in the Vongola base. Tsuna had found Fuuta to go get Lambo back, and Hibari had gone to bite the person that had Lambo to death. She'd taken this opportunity to get out of Hibari's base and go to the Vongola one to get some work done. "Thank you so much, Maya-san." Giannini said, poking his head in the office. "No problem. Watching everything is what I do anyways." She said, smiling before going back to watching the monitor. "This helps give you time to maintain the base anyways."

"All of that fuss for a sucker." Maya remarked as she stood with the others, watching Giannini build a lollipop machine. "A sucker?" Kyoko asked. "I spent a lot of time in California. That's our slang for a lollipop." "Slang?" Maya shook her head "The way certain people speak, perhaps? When they don't use the proper word, maybe?" Kyoko nodded. "Oh."

"I get the strangest feeling Hibari's upset." Maya remarked as they watched Lambo and I-pin lick the lollipop. Tsuna's hair rose up higher-"Oh look-it is possible for it to rise higher!" Maya said-as the door slid open to admit Hibari, who strode in quickly, grabbing Maya by the collar and dragging her out. "Ja ne." She called to the others, who'd sweatdropped. "Hibari-san's so possessive of her, isn't he?" Haru asked. They didn't know about what happened with TYL Maya. "That's cause he saw-" "No need to tell them!"

~One Week Later~

Tsuna: Lal Mirch said we'd start a new training program today. Are we done building up my Flame's strength in Hyper mode? He thought as he went down the elevator. "Well I wish she'd stop punching me." "Yo!" Good morning, jyuudaime!"

"We're going to have each of you train with an individual tutor."

"But I've gotten this far." Tsuna barely dodged the cloud flames flying towards him. He tried to block it from where he stopped on the wall. "If you lose focus, you'll die." Hibari said from where he stood, his arm around Maya. "Hey Tsuna." "You guys . . ." "We'll pry your abilities wide open."

Kuskabe stood to the side, behind Hibari and his lover while they watched Tsuna try to keep the hedgehog off him. "They're going at it." Fuuta said, ducking his head slightly while he and Lambo watched after exiting the elevator. "I was right. It was fireworks!" Lambo cheered.

Tsuna gritted his teeth.

"Jyuudaime is being pushed back!" "Seems dangerous."

"That light may be beautiful like fireworks, but it's not." Fuuta said. "You should remember that it's dangerous." Lambo made a noise. "You're the Guardian of Thunder, a vital member of the Vongola."

Tsuna kept struggling, finally managing to push it back. "He did it!" "Wow! He pushed it back!" Hibari smirked. "As I had heard from the infant, you're nothing like the man that I know, who was older by ten years." "What was that?" Gokudera demanded. "Nothing like him? When he's doing that well?" Yamamoto protested. "Bastard." Gokudera said. "Shut up and watch." Lal Mirch and Maya said in unison. They went back to watching. Tsuna closed his eyes, Maya watching intently as he reached the Zero Point Breakthrough to freeze the flames and the hedgehog. He was no longer deathperate for a bit, then went back to being deathperate.

Fuuta was surprised while Lambo exclaimed "The fireworks froze!" "Wow!" "Way to go, jyuudaime!" "It's not over yet!" Maya and Lal Mirch said. What seemed to be pieces of cloud floated to surround Tsuna. HDW Tsuna: This is . . . "Purple clouds! Are they multiplying?" Lal Mirch said. Tsuna tried to freeze them, to no avail. "Tsuna-nii . . ." HDW Tsuna: They're too fast. I cant keep up. He thought before he became completely surrounded, and was now inside a large ball made of cloud flames that had spikes on the outside. Hibari's ring broke. The ball fell to the floor with a crash, dust floating around it. "Tsuna." "Jyuudaime!" "What is that?" Fuuta asked. "He turned into a big ball!" Lambo exclaimed happily. "Needled sphere form." Hibari said, pulling Maya closer to him, both of his arms around her now. "An air-tight sphere made from compounded Cloud Flames that has the ultimate power of isolation. His Flames don't have the strength to break this." "W-what?" Gokudera asked.

Maya looked into the sphere with her mind to see how Tsuna was doing. HDW Tsuna: It's no good. I can't do anything to it. "The amount of oxygen is limited inside the isolated area. If you don't escape soon, you'll die." Hibari said, pressing his lips to his wife's to wake her up. Tsuna heard what Hibari'd said, and was surprised.

"Knock it off!" Gokudera shouted. "You come out of nowhere after all this time . . . Do you plan on killing jyuudaime? Let him out!" "It's only natural that the weak return to the dirt." Hibari said. "While I may have a reason to kill Sawada Tsunayoshi, I certainly have no reason to let him live." Gokudera looked at Maya "Stupid woman! Don't you have any emotions! Don't stand there and let him kill jyuudaime!" "Tsuna's not going to die." Maya said, holding Hibari's shirt so he didn't attack Gokudera. "I have seen his future."

"So, let's start our training." Reborn said. "H-hold on, Reborn-san!" Gokudera protested. "We need to be here fir jyuudaime!" Yamamoto agreed "If Hibari says he'll do something, he'll do it." "I know. That's why he's Hibari." Reborn said before adding "But Maya's already said Tsuna will live. The psychic gene is in her family, though it doesn't show up very often." They looked at Maya. "It's true. My older brother was psychic as well, though we didn't get visions very often." "But this will help Tsuna. There's a murderous intent here from Hibari. All of the trials the previous Vongola bosses had to overcome had a true murderous intent behind them." "Vongola . . . Trials." "Hn." Hibari smirked, kissing his wife again. "Now." Bianchi said, grabbing Gokudera. "Ack!" "Let's begin our lessons so we can defeat Irie Shoichi." Gokudera crumpled from seeing her face. "Gokudera!" Yamamoto ran to said boy. "There's just no helping him." Bianchi said. "Yamamoto, I'm going ahead." Reborn said "Come to the tenth basement floor." He walked to the elevator. "H-hey kid!" "Let's go to our room." Bianchi said, picking up Gokudera. Tsuna kept slamming himself into the cloud walls. Hibari sat in a chair Kuskabe pulled up, pulling Maya into his lap.

HDW Tsuna: What should I do? What should I . . . he glanced at his ring. He threw his hands out and sky flames flared. The cloud walls shook a bit, making Hibird fly off of his perch on one of the spikes. He perched on Maya's finger. Her husband watched her gently stroke the bird with a finger.

Yamamoto went to the tenth basement floor, wondering if he had it right. He whipped around with his sword when he noticed a murderous intent, and caught sight of a strange, adult shadow. "You've gotten better, Yamamoto Takeshi. You noticed my murderous intent." Reborn said. Yamamoto was surprised "However, you still haven't completed mastering the Shigure Kintoki." "K-kid!" "Your future self said that if you could draw out the sword's power with your Ring, you wouldn't lose to the Sword Emperor in this era." "My future self?"

"To that end, I think I'd be willing to show you my true form." Yamamoto's eyes widened.

Gokudera dreamed. "So you're awake, Hayato." Bianchi said, looking at him. Her goggles were on.

Hibird looked around a bit from his perch on Maya's finger. Lal Mirch stood, waiting. Kuskabe looked at his watch. Kuskabe: He's almost out of oxygen. Hibari yawned into his wife's hair.

Tsuna tried to regain his breath. HDW Tsuna: I can't last any longer. The next blow will be my last. He rose. HDW Tsuna: It's do or die. I need to concentrate my most powerful flames into a single point. The cloud walls shook again. Fuuta was sitting against the wall as he held the dozing Lambo. Fuuta: Tsuna-nii, do your best. His eyes widened a bit and he looked up. Fuuta: Is it raining outside?

Yes, it was. Such a lovely thing, the gray clouds and misty rain.

Chrome breathed hard as she walked around Kokuyo Land. "Ken, Chikusa . . ."

Tsuna breathed hard as he fell to the floor. HDW Tsuna: It's not even budging. But there is a small portion of the wall's armor that melted. He thought, looking at it. HDW Tsuna: Around this ring . . . Then, this thing's weak point must be a higher grade of Flame. But how do I make a giant Flame that's good enough to break through this sphere?

HDW Tsuna: I can't die here. What should I do? Isn't my determination enough? The flame died and Tsuna fell to the floor. He tried to breathe. He took off his glove to look at his Vongola ring. Tsuna: What more do you want from me? His eyes slid close. Tsuna: What . . .