What The Hell

Chapter 13.

Tsuna's Vongola ring flare brightly, a white beam of light shooting out. He lifted his head, opening his eyes to look. The light shone on his forehead.

"Do it! Do it! Do it!" "Just spare my life!" A man in a suit cried from where he sat on the floor. Hibari looked at Maya. She smiled at him before going back to watching, an alert look on her face.

"If I die, my kid . . . My wife . . ." Tsuna and Maya watched as he was shot. Tsuna: What is this? These images are floating directly in my head. There were the screams of people, men, women, children.

There was a burning building, more screams. "Get revenge!"

"Get them!" A voice shouted as a car blew up.

"Wipe them out!" A line of Mafiosi.

Tsuna: What? What is this?

"These are the sins of the Vongola." What seemed to be a Mafiosi spirit said, sky flames as a mask over his eyes. More appeared. "Murder. Revenge. Betrayal. The endless pursuit of political power. The history of the Vongola Mafia." "One who holds the Vongola's Sky Ring, do you have the resolution?" Tsuna turned quickly. "Eh?" He breathed. "The determination to inherit these sins?" Poor Tsuna. Maya thought as she saw his face. He heard the "Save me!" and screams of others. His eyes began to fill with tears. "This is too cruel!" "Give me back my dad!" "Give back my wife!" The tears fell in sparkling streams. "Give me back my son!" Tsuna clutched at his head, the screams and yells still there. "These are the sins carried by the Vongola." "This is the Vongola's history." "Do not avert your eyes from the truth. Accept the truth." "You had better have the resolution." "You'd best have the determination to inherit these sins."

"No . . . Stop . . ." "STOP IT!" Tsuna's yell was heard from outside the sphere. HIbari smirked. Lal tensed. Lal: Sawada. "That's the end of his oxygen." Kuskabe stated. "It's a mentally and physically dangerous situation." "This is nothing more than another meaningless death!" Lal Mirch exclaimed, arms spread. "You need to stop the training right now!" "You're the one who told Sawada to wear the ring on his finger when he fights." Hibari retorted, his chin on his wife's head. Lal made a noise, her eyes narrowing. "That was correct." Hibari said. "And in this extreme environment, he is being tested to see if he can become the Sawada Tsunayoshi you wished him to be." There was a sound like a breath of wind leaving the hills, then a flash of small golden hoops and locks of long brown hair. Hibari caught his wife (his arms having loosened a while back), checking her forehead quickly. "Maya-san!" "Maya!" Lal looked at her "This is affecting her too! Call it off!" "Don't" the wind whispered "Not yet."

The tears kept falling from Tsuna's eyes. He shut them. "It's my understanding that no Vongola boss has been tested at such a young age, though." Hibari said after having made sure his wife wasn't in immediate danger. "That's all you can say after she passed out!" Lal: She might hurt me if I say fainted, with how delicate it'd make her sound. Lal then realized it made sense to continue the conversation. "Sawada can't do this right now!" There was the sound of footsteps. "Reborn!"

Tsuna kneeled, clutching his head."Tsuna-nii." Fuuta said, his chin on Lambo's afro. Lambo opened his eyes sleepily. "What's the matter, Fuuta?" He asked. He opened his eyes, awake now. "Ah! Are they still doing it? I wonder if Tsuna is having fun. If he's playing inside, Lambo-san wants in, too!" Fuuta held Lambo back. "No, Lambo." "Why not, stingy Fuuta?" "All we can do is wait and believe in him. Believe in Tsuna-nii."

"Kyo-san." Kuskabe said. Hibari was standing again, in front of the sphere. Lal: What will this accomplish? Do you want to change Sawada's personality?

"Stop . . . Stop it!" Tsuna cried. "Do not avert your eyes. This is the fate of those who succeed the Vongola. This is the very reason that you have life." "No!" A woman screamed. "Stop . . . No!" Someone else shouted. "No . . ." Tsuna gasped. "I can't do these terrible things!" "You cannot obtain power without paying the proper price." "If you want great power, you must have the resolve to succeed this great history."

"Great history?" Tsuna asked, peering through an eye. The tears still flowed. "That's what you call this?" Another woman screamed. "Save me!" Someone else yelled. Tsuna shut his eyes again. "I don't want the power to do this!" He saw Nana, Lambo, I-pin, Bianchi, Fuuta, Haru, Yamamoto, Gokudera, Ryohei, Kyoko. A shadow came over him. "Don't try to act so noble." Reborn had said. Tsuna looked up in surprise. "You're not capable of being a hero." Tsuna's eyes widened. "Returning everyone to the past? Enduring training to defeat an enemy? Such noble ideals aren't really like you. Your feelings back then were much more simple." "Back then . . ." "When you first lit the ring, what did you want to do?" "That's . . . I just wanted to protect Kyoko-chan!" "That's a good answer." "Isn't there someone you want to protect, even now?" "Of course there is. I want to protect everyone."

"No . . ." "What?" The 'spirit' asked. "I thought I could do anything to protect everyone. But I . . . I don't want this kind of power!" "What was that?" "If you're going to make me succeed all of these mistaken actions, I'll destroy the Vongola!" Reborn smiled. Tsuna: What am I saying? Sorry, everyone. Sorry . . .

He fell into someone's arms. He opened his eyes to see the kind old face "K-kyuudaime!" Ninth smiled, steadying him before going back to his place in a line. "Ah!" Tsuna stared in amazement at the Vongola insignia and the people lined up there. One by one, the people(except for the man on the throne and the woman by his side) lit their flames.

After all their flames were lit, the man rose from his throne, the female standing next to him. He lit his glove. "I accept your determination." He said, eyes solemn. Tsuna: What is this? A dream? An illusion? "A portion of our time carved into the Ring." Primo answered. "Time? A moment?" Tsuna asked. "Prosper or ruin; do as you wish, Vongola Decimo." Tsuna: Vongola Decimo? Tenth? "We've been waiting for you. Especially her." Primo said, his eyes on the lady beside him. For what was she but a lady? She had a graceful, though curvy form. Perfect posture and a plain dark green dress. Tsuna saw thick, long wavy hair, dark red lips, but he didn't see the rest of her face. All the lit flames flared. A Vongola insignia under Tsuna flared too. They all turned to flames, even the lady by Primo-though her flame was different, a dance of black and white. But Tsuna saw her face, for a split second. Those large, memorable eyes. His eyes widened, his jaw opening in surprise.

"You will succeed the mark of the Vongola." The light flared even more brightly, making cracks in the sphere.

HIbari, Lal Mirch and Reborn watched the sphere begin to break. "It's so bright!" Lambo said as Fuuta stood, still holding him. "What? What's going on?" "Kyo-san! What is this?" Kuskabe asked, shielding his face with one arm. "The needled sphere is breaking." There was plenty of wind and dust while the sphere was breaking. Hibari gritted his teeth, while Lal watched in amazement. Reborn looked up. HDW Tsuna's gloves were glowing. As they stopped, they noticed that the gloves were different. HDW Tsuna: X Glove, Version Vongola Ring. Fuuta gasped, Hibari's eyes narrowed "Hn." Lal was surprised too. "That's . . ." "He overcame it." Reborn said. Lal nodded. Lal Mirch: This is what we've been waiting for! They say that the Sawada of this era equipped the Ring from the back of his hands and drew out it's power. "I had no idea that it was gained after the trial." Lal Mirch said. "Yeah." Reborn said. "I wasn't too sure of it myself." Lal gasped. "The truth is, this trial was the only thing I could devise that would power him up quickly." Lal's eyes widened. "I bet Tsuna's the only one who passed the trial with that kind of answer, though." Tsuna looked at his glove. A purer flame came out. Fuuta gasped. "Wao." Hibari said. "Look, Lambo." Fuuta said. "It's Tsuna-nii's beautiful Flame. Higher quality Flames that are pure are clear like that. If it's Sky, it'll be orange. Sun is yellow. Rain is blue. Lightning is green. Storm is red. Cloud is violet. Mist is indigo. And the higher the purity of the Flame, the more it's abilities can be drawn out." HDW Tsuna: It's a weird Flame. It doesn't look too reliable, but it's flowing out from deep within me. "You seem a little more like the you that I know."

"I can do whatever I want from here, right infant." "Yeah. That was the deal." "Then . . . Let's begin."

"I don't even feel like killing you myself. I'll use a box." Hibari said. His eyes widened when he couldn't find a box. Tsuna was holding it.

"Please work." HDW Tsuna said as he opened it. It shot out. "It's fast!" Reborn smiled. Lal: To steal the box from Hibari in that one moment . . . Hibari: So this is Sawada Tsunayoshi. You prove to be interesting, after all. "Same hedgehog?" Fuuta exclaimed. "He had another box!" Lal Mirch said. "Uh oh, needle and needle went bzz!" Lambo said. "The plan was good." Kuskabe said. Hibari smirked. "I change my mind. I want to fight a stronger you. I'll hang around with you 'till then."

"What we found is all mystery."

"Sawada, let me enjoy tomorrow as much as I did today." Hibari said, about to leave when he noticed his wife still unconscious. "Hn?" "She should have woken up by now." Hibari scooped her into his arms and carried her to his base. Kuskabe followed.

"If you're like this how are you going to invade Millefiore and defeat Irie Shoichi!" Lal Mirch said, smacking the sleeping Tsuna. "WAKE UP!" Yamamoto and Fuuta had that expression on their faces. "Such a strong Sparta style teaching." Fuuta said. Lambo laughed-stupid, annoying, evil little punk-"Tsuna is getting pu-pu-pe-ed!" "Didn't she say she gave up on teaching Tsuna?" Yamamoto asked. "What happened? Open your eyes Sawada!" Reborn smiled.