Chrome's Brother: Fast Forward

Part 18

By Blockhed13

Disclaimer: I do not own Katekyo Hitman Reborn! ™

"Umm… Who's he?" I raised an eyebrow as I let go of Chrome.

"Sho… Shoichi-kun." Tsuna stuttered.

I looked around, "Umm…" I saw Yamamoto, an older version of Ryohei, and an older version of Lal Mirch lying on beds, "I'll ask later…"

Ryohei's puffed into pink smoke, and the younger Ryohei was there.

"Where am I?" Ryohei looked around, and relaxed when he saw all of us, "Where's Kyoko?"

"Ehh… Big brother…" Tsuna grasped his words, "Kyoko's fine… We're fine."

I walked over to him, "Where were you earlier? I couldn't find you."

"I was out looking for everyone! I was walking past Tsuna's house, and here I am now!" Ryohei explained, " I am EXTREMELY CONFUSED!"

Well, that makes two of us; that's for sure.

After a rather unusual occurrence, which involves a strange man and the breaking of Shoichi's ring, Shoichi turned on this strange giant white disk machine. Flames of all sorts of colors flew out of this white device and into my friends' hands, including Chrome. They got boxes like the one on my hip in assorted colors with the Vongola crest on the sides.

I nodded, "That was cool."

Shoichi looked at me, "Kumoru, the Kumoru of this time left you something too. He told me to give it directly to you, not a messenger." He informed.

"Forget the buildup. What is it?" I sighed.

He walked over to me and reached in his pocket. I held out my hand, and he pulled out a ring and dropped it in my hand.

This is a very strange ring. It's silver and there's some sort of design on it; but it's hard to see with a small chained wrapped around it.

"What is this ring?" I looked at it closely, and all around it.

Shoichi shrugged, "He said that it'll serve you at the time you most need it. And that he doesn't expect it back."

I raised an eyebrow, "I'm not this cryptic. I guess it's important." I thought to myself, puzzled. I looked at the chain, and I tried removing it.

It wouldn't budge.

"Why won't this chain come off? I noticed the other ones do." I looked at Shoichi. He shrugged, and shook his head.

"I wondered that myself. Kumoru just chuckled, and told me that was the idea." He answered.

I moved my Varia ring to my right ring finger and put my new ring on my right middle finger, "Hm."

"In order to use the boxes, you need to go back in time to get the Arcobaleno seals." Shoichi informed.

"What'll happen if we try to open the boxes right now?" Tsuna asked curiously.

"No one knows. Supposedly, the boxes will explode." Shoichi answered.

Everyone looked in fear. I looked in haughtiness.

"When are you going to send us back?" I rolled my eyes.

"As soon as possible." Shoichi answered. A blond man wearing a green jumpsuit and goggles joined him. This man, as I've learned, is Spanner.

"I'll help you." Spanner promised.

A/N: Alright, alright. This is the beginning of the Arcobaleno trials for the boxes. I'm going to skip over this mini arc (and probably the Choice mini arc too) because it's mainly the Vongola guardians' story, and I can't really work Kumoru's in. I could have some brother-sister bonding between Ku and Chrome, but, that would get old after two or so chapters (and I already have bonding planned for when they get back) and I don't think you guys want half this arc to be just bonding. So, I'm going to skip ahead to when they return to the future.

Well, next chapter anyways.