my dear reviewers:
Saruko: the war ended too soon? hehe Snowflake guessed it right - the Boss isn't defeated! It goes on! Like right now in this chapter XD. Now that I've read the smut again - you're right it was too short! But cry not! I have written another, much longer one for one of the next chapters.
Snowflake and Fatin Adolfina: I knew this Alice Thing was a great idea, it just somehow came up and I thought it would be awesome and freaky as hell.

And that the Boss is a Girl (16/17 years old) has just one reason - most of the time the big bad enemy is a guy, so I just thought it was time for something new!

Disclaimer: ... I forgot that for a few chapters. Don't own anything, just my crazy fantasy

Authors note: The fight goes on! This chapter and the next has horror and gore ... pfff, as if I could seriously write that! I mean it has some horror in it, but it's more on the funny side, because I'm not able to be serious!

So Yeah, an early update because I feel really inspired recently! But it's a little short. I needed some good point to cut it.

Enjoy or not, it's up to you! ;)

Oh the Horror

The hot topic on the news this morning was the raid and destruction of hidden drug laboratories.
The fabricators had been wiped out within one night, the police had worked hard to find the hideouts, but never found them and now an unknown source had erased those evil does from Namimori.
And they even had made it a point to inform the cops beforehand.
There was talk about a bloodbath, but nobody had died.
For now the police held back many informations.
Who did that?
Why did they do that?
Will this little town go under in a war between gangs?
There were many unanswered questions...

Tsuna sat at the table together with Hayato and Reborn, they ate breakfast and watched the news.
He felt quite content, after all he knew what had happened. He had been the one to order his people to get rid of this Bakeneko scum.
They had hurt Hayato, destroyed their store and almost killed his most beloved.
It was big time that they learned that every action would get a reaction. Now he just needed to wait until this stupid girl made a grave mistake. She would make one, he was quite sure about that. And than she will learn who the real Boss in town was.
He drank his coffee and looked at his girlfriend, admiring her beauty and remembering what she had done with her sinful mouth, that now bit into a slice of toast.
She felt his gaze and faced him, a questioning expression on her face.
He smiled and she blushed a deep red, avoiding eye contact.
Reborn who had heard them last night just smirked behind the shadow of his fedora.
Those two could be really awkward.
He didn't know what exactly they had done, but judging from his students perverted expression it wasn't just some innocent touching and kissing.
They had grown up so much so fast.
Now he felt like an old dude.

The door bell of Hayatos apartment rang, all three occupants looked up at the sound, pondering if they should answer to it or not.
At the second ring she got up, straightening her skirt out and putting a loose strand of hair behind her ear.
It seemed like it was her routine to look into the mirror, near her entrance, to check if she was presentable enough to open the door.
Nodding at her mirage she turned around and opened up for the intruder.

She came face to face with a person in uniform.
A police officer, who had Fumiko in some sort of security grip.
She furrowed her eyebrows at that.
"What are you doing to my neighbour?" she asked the cop.
"So this person told the truth. He seemed suspicious." the man answered and shoved Fumiko aside, with too much force.
"This violent behaviour is really unnecessary!" Fumiko screeched and the man in uniform had an hateful look upon his face.
"Could it be that you are homophobic?" Hayato glared at him and crossed her arms.
"Better safe than sorry." He replied and Hayato clicked her tongue in annoyance.
"This complex is called `The Rainbow Paradise´ it's a refugee for homosexuals and friends, so leave if you can't be tolerant." she explained with a mocking tone and the man in front of her looked confused.
"As far as I was informed you are a healthy girl." the healthy referred to the fact that she was straight.
With a smirk she answered in her male voice: "I'm Transgender. But I doubt that you know what it means."
He bleached and broke out into a cold sweat, seems like he knew what it meant.
With a strange sound he left them behind.

Hayato and Fumiko broke out into laughter, guys like him were so funny to tease.
But then Hayatos breath stuck in her throat, because Fumiko had her in a bear hug.
"I'm so relieved that you are back! Tuna-tan told me that you are okay, but I was worried sick!" Somehow she managed to get out of this man's grip.
"Tuna-tan?" she asked him like he had just said the most terrifying thing ever.
"Yes, it's his nickname. Cute isn't it? I thought it would suit him and Gen-chan had agreed, so now he is Tuna-tan, at first I wanted to make it Tu-tan, but that seemed too short, so I changed it to Tuna-tan. And to call him by his last name didn't bode well with me, because he has such a great given name." Fumiko was a master at rambling about things on and on, without taking a breath: "Now let me in I smell breakfast!" and he was a master at coming in whenever the door opened and strange enough Hayato didn't mind one bit.

"Good morning Tuna-tan!" he greeted enthusiastically and looked at Reborn, who looked back.
At first Tsuna and Hayato felt like two lions just met and wanted to attack each other, but than Fumiko swooped Reborn up and gushed at him, talking to him in Baby speech. His face was hilarious and Tsuna couldn't help but to break out in laughter.
His stomach hurt because of it, even Hayato giggled, but she could collect herself.
"Fumiko-san, please put him down and speak normal to him."
"Mou~ such a cute little baby I don't want to give him away. I will just hug him and love him and take him away. Can I adopt him? Please, pretty please?" he looked at Tsuna who just rolled over the floor laughing.
"Fumiko-san. Put me down." Reborn commanded and Fumiko looked at him with sparkling eyes.
"You can speak! How cute and so well pronounced! Oh my gosh I really want to keep you!"
By now Tsuna was almost choking on his laughter and Hayato worried who would die first him or her neighbour.
The only option she had left was to grab Reborn and free him of Fumikos hold.
As she held him close to her chest she looked at her neighbour scolding.
"Fumiko-san, Reborn-san doesn't like do be treated that way." gently she put the mini Hitman down.

The first Thing Reborn did was smoothing down his suit and putting his fedora the right way.
And his next move was to smash Tsunas head with his Leon mallet, because he had dared to laugh at him.
Than he glared at the gay man: "Don't do that again." it was obvious that he really wanted to kill this guy.
But Fumiko just gushed at how cute and special this little one was.

Still giggling Tsuna got up from the floor and rubbed the bump on his head, that his brain didn't receive any serious damage from the constant beating was a wonder in itself. Reborn toddled over to the sofa and wanted to sit down, but Fumiko was hot on his heals and wanted to hug him again, clicking his tongue he rounded it and jumped up, landing on Tsunas shoulder.
"You know. I think you're getting too heavy and too big for this." his student commented.
"Do you want to say, that I'm getting fat?" he had a pistol at his temple. "
No, but you're growing." than Tsuna grinned: "Like every good kid does." he ducked when Reborn wanted to kick his head, so the child landed in one swift move on the floor and shot a bullet at the young boss. Of course the brunette could avoid the bullet and jumped to the other side of the room, fleeing from even more bullets.
During this commotion Hayato casually cleared the table and brought everything into the kitchen.
Fumiko laughed and was very pleased that Reborn was such a playful child.
Tsuna didn't know if Fumiko was insane or just as oblivious as his mother.
This playful child wanted to kill him! (not really but it could happen)

After Fumiko had assured himself that Hayato was perfectly fine he had left them, because he needed to go to work.

Hayato was sitting on her sofa and writing a list for grocery shopping, there was almost nothing left in her fridge.
Tsuna used that time to make himself comfortable, with his head on her lap. Somehow he really liked to use her thighs as a cushion.
He had missed her scent and the fluttery feeling he got whenever he felt her presence. It made him excited but it also calmed him down.
He rubbed his nose against the soft fabric of her shirt, it made her giggle.
Sometimes he could behave like a child and it was cute. She loved those little moments when it was just the two of them, enjoying each others company.
But like any other time they were interrupted.
"Don't forget that I'm here, too."
Reborn hopped onto the sofa and made himself comfortable in the space between Tsunas head and her. He leaned against her side and relaxed himself a little. They gave of the picture of a young family, just lazing around without a care in the world.
And then the thought struck her, that she never will be able to make this picture come true.
She will never become a mother.

Tsuna felt that she was bothered by something and sat up.
He took her small notebook and looked deep into her eyes. She blushed because his stare was really intensive. He leaned in and gave her a soft kiss.
"Whatever it is, don't worry about it." She smiled at him, because he was right, there was no need for her to worry about those things.
For now she should just enjoy her young love.
"We need to go grocery shopping." she smiled at him and kissed his cheek.
Tsuna sighed, he didn't really want to go, it was so comfortable to lie in her lap, he could do that all day long.
But he knew that they needed food.
He stood up and wanted to lift Reborn up, but the Hitman was jumping up on his head and made himself comfortable.
Hayato took her handbag, purse and the shopping list.

As they exited the apartment complex the officer in charge followed them, just a few steps behind.
It was annoying, but sadly they couldn't avoid it.

Reborn had decided to walk by himself, he was getting too lazy for his own comfort.
He was in the middle of those two and would catch the looks of passers, wondering what made them giggle.
Than it hit him, that the three of them made a picture perfect family.
A young and good looking mother, with great style and graze.
A young handsome father, with charm and elegance.
A young child, stylish, charming and well behaved.
This thought made him grin.
Maybe he should tease those two a little.

At the supermarket he was insisting on being carried by Hayato, who was confused but didn't complain.
Tsuna was steering the trolley and grabbed the things Hayato pointed out to him.
They passed by the sweets section and it was time for him to pull a Lambo.
"I want candy!" he said.
Two pairs of eyes looked at him confused.
"You want what?" Tsuna asked him dead panned.
"Candy and chocolate!" he said in his most childish voice.
"Reborn what are you plotting?" he knew that his tutor was planning something crazy. The child pursed his lips, like Lambo liked to do when he didn't get what he wanted. An elderly woman looked at Tsuna, curious.
"Don't be mean Papa! I want candy!" Reborn had to hide his sadistic smirk or his whole plan would go to waste. So instead of a smirk he added some artificial tears.
"Hii!" Tsuna took a step back and looked around, searching for some kind of illusionist.
Hayato who still had Reborn in her arms was stunned and didn't know how to react.
A cute little child was crying and demanding attention her mother-instincts told her to soothe this poor little thing. But the poor little thing was a famous killer!
"Mama! Candy!" he demanded and she blushed to the roots of her hair and grabbed some candy, just to get it over with.
Whatever was wrong with Reborn, they should solve it some other time and not in the middle of some supermarket.
"Don't spoil him!" Tsuna scolded her.
"But he wants some, so we should just buy them." she defended her action.
"Just because he wants something doesn't mean he should get his way all the time." he said and looked at her like she did something really awful. Amused Reborn noted that his plan was successful and people looked at the young couple. They wanted to know who would win this argument.
"He is crying. There is no way I can just let him cry all day long because you are too strict." now she held him in one arm, his head rested on her shoulder and he grinned at the side of her neck. She smelled really nice, he noticed.
"If you give in every time he cries, he will grow to be a rotten person. You don't want that to happen, do you?" Tsuna crossed his arms in front of his chest, looking at her and waiting for her response.
"Just because I buy him some candy doesn't mean he will be a dislikeable adult." now she just pouted.
"Look at Xanxus." he said coolly.
"... That's a whole other thing. Xanxus was born as a brat." she knew that was mean. But she wouldn't loose this argument. As a woman she was more capable at raising a child, it was in her nature to know those things.
By than Reborn had to stifle his laughs, it sounded like he was still crying. She rubbed his back in an attempt to soothe him.
"Xanxus is a spoiled brat, because maids and butlers did everything he wanted if he just threw enough of a temper tantrum. The same goes for Lambo." Tsuna felt quite smug. Hayato took a deep breath to calm down, she glared a little at Tsuna and comforted Reborn, who really wanted to laugh out loud.
"I will buy this candy." she just said.
"You won't."
"I will."
"No."
"Yes!" they glared at each other.
"... why do we argue about child raising?" Tsuna scratched his head and now Reborn couldn't hold back any longer and broke out in laughter, startling Hayato in the process. He hopped down and put the sweets back into the shelf.
"As if I would eat this stuff." he commented and smirked: "You two are really a stupid couple arguing about such useless things." with that he left.
They blushed and looked at each other sheepishly.
"Sorry." they said at the same time and started to laugh.
And Hayato decided to buy a book about children and how to raise them properly, just because she wanted to win the next time this argument came up.
Later she had to confess that Tsuna had been right all along.

They left the supermarket without noticing that their tail was missing.
Tsuna carried the grocery bags, but he didn't mind and he wouldn't let his beautiful girlfriend carry something heavy.
She was just fresh out of the hospital and shouldn't strain herself too much.

Suddenly a car pulled around the corner and something was thrown out of the window, almost hitting Tsuna. He had been able to avoid the object and now the two were looking at it.
"A rubber chick?" Tsuna looked a little doubting at Hayato, who seemed to be deep in thought.
"It's a rubber chick with a cord around it's neck. I think they want to tell us something." She took the thing and found it had been sliced up and inside was a massage. She took the paper and paled.
"What is it?" Tsuna asked her and wanted to take the note out of her hands, but she just crumbled it in her fist.
"They have Nanashi-sensei." she growled.
Softly Tsuna took the paper out of her fist and looked at it.
It was a picture of their teacher, bound to a chair, blindfolded and gagged. A massage was written beneath it - come to the haunted mansion without delay or she will pay - "Those bastards ..." he glared in the direction where the car had rounded a corner.
"What is this haunted mansion?" Hayato asked as they walked to her flat, they needed to put on battle gear (suits).
"It's an old story. Somewhere in the Forest of Namimori is a mansion and it's supposed to be haunted by ghosts of dead animals." he explained to her.
"Why dead animals?" that was confusing.
"As far as I know there once lived a man who did crazy experiments on them. He wanted to pull a Frankenstein and chopped living animals up to put them together again." he shuddered at the thought and looked at Hayato, who had become really pale.
"What's wrong?"
"... We need charms and things to protect us. Ghosts can be really aggressive if you walk into their territory." she looked at him like a frightened little animal. He had forgotten that she was scared of this supernatural stuff, not that he could put it against her - he couldn't watch horror films without creeping out. But now he needed to encourage her.
"I think we can use this old story to our advantage." he grinned and a devilish plan formed inside his head.

They had informed the other guardians as well as the trio. They met them on the way into the forest.
And like a foreboding sign dark clouds formed over the blue sky and a strong wind came up.
The old trees shadowed the last bit of sunlight and even if it was just midday, they felt like deep in the night.
From afar the rolling sound of thunder could be heard.
The perfect setting for an all out battle.

Tsuna looked at his Family.
Yamamoto had an unusual grim expression on his face and even Ryouhei looked like he was out for blood. Lambo had begged to come along and was walking hand in hand with Hayato, who had insisted that he wouldn't leaver her side. And from the look of it Lambo was thankful for that, the sudden change of weather had freaked him out and as a small child he was even more afraid of ghosts than herself.
Chrome was walking besides Lambo and held her trident with a confident expression.
Mukuro wasn't there, but he felt his presence nearby.
Hibari was walking at a distance behind them, he disliked crowds but he wanted to punish the rule breaker.
Saruyama held a wooden sword over his shoulder and looked at his friends from time to time, worry clearly written all over his face.
Tsukino didn't have a weapon and Tsuna wasn't sure if he could fight or not, hopefully he had something up his sleeve.
Inukami was scaring him a little. This normally friendly and smiling guy had an expression like some kind of predator. He glared in the direction of the mansion and balled his hands into fists. They only thing he had on himself was a shiny little metal and Tsuna wasn't sure about the purpose of it.

The mansion came into sight and it looked like the perfect picture of an haunted house.
The garden was wild and with the time had become a part of the forest.
Destroyed statures were strewn along an old path.
The walls of the mansion were dark and windows were scattered and closed with wooden planks, some of them had been broken. Graffiti was all over the walls and waste was laying around.
Hayato scoffed a little at that, no Familiga with self-worth and dignity would behave like that. The Bakeneko were really just a stupid gang.

The thick brushwood moved and Yamamoto pulled his sword, ready to strike.
Two large wolves came into their view, but they didn't seem like they wanted to attack.
"Don't worry. Those are my dogs and their names are Pochi and Mochi." Inukami said and came up to those large animals, patting the heads of them.
Yamamoto smiled: "I have a dog too, his name is Jirou. He is an Akita-Inu." Inukami looked at him and somehow they began to talk about dogs and how great they were. Tsuna looked behind them and saw a lot more dogs of varying sizes and forms.
His eyes landed on the devil incarnate - a Chihuahua.
He shuddered and had to suppress the urge to hide behind someone.
Inukami held the metallic small object at his lips and a variation of soft sounds came out of it. The dogs scattered all over the place and it seemed like they moved in some kind of order, like there was a plan nobody knew.
Just the two wolf like dogs and the Chihuahua were left and moved with him.
Tsuna made sure to hold a safe distance to the little beast. (Inukami gave him a strange look...)

"I smell a trap." Tsuna looked at the double door: "Lambo, don't leave Hayatos side."
He looked at his friends a last time and pushed the door open.
It gave of the typical sound of old and unused doors and he felt like a mouse walking in the lions den.
"This really looks like a typical haunted mansion." a voice behind them said.
They looked at the back and saw someone unexpected.
"Kururo Saruko What are you doing here?" Hibari glared at her.
"I was bored and saw you guys walking around." she just shrugged her shoulder: "Thought you could need a little help."
"If you turn into a burden I will bite you to death." the cloud guardian warned her.
"Aww... don't worry chairman, I can defend myself." and with a maniacal grin she pulled out two knives.
Tsuna just face-palmed. Why was it that he never met normal persons? Was everyone he knew a battle crazed maniac? Hayato pat his shoulder. Even she hadn't expected that.
"Well .. okay." he coughed a little to get their Attention back: "We will move in pairs. Yamamoto you will go with Inukami. Ryouhei take Tsukino with you and Saruyama will move with Chrome. Hibari - Kururo is your responsibility. Hayato and Lambo will come with me." he got a nod from the most of them, just Hibari glared at him, promising to bite him to death later.
"Well then, move out and be careful."
With that they all moved into different directions, vanishing into the dark corridors of the large mansion.

Yamamoto and Inukami moved to the third floor of the west wing, taking careful steps on the old wooden staircase.
It was hard to move in this dark environment, they just had little light from the outside. Nobody had thought about bringing a flash-light, because the day had been sunny enough until a few moments ago.
The stairs made creaking sounds under the pressure and Inukami was extra careful because of his dogs, he guided them with signs and no language. Yamamoto was really impressed.

Chrome and Saruyama were on the second floor of the same wing.
The wallpaper was dirty and destroyed, some walls had holes and there were stains that looked like dried up blood.
It smelled like mould, dirt and urine.
They reached the first door, it was hanging on its hinges and a part of it was missing. Saruyama pushed it open, now they could take a good look into the room.
The window at the other side had no glass and no planks, the rain was flowing right into the room and onto the old and broken bed beneath it. Old chairs and a table had been broken into pieces, the dirt on the carpet hid it's former colour.
There was a hole right in the middle of the room, it looked like it had broken down because of the buildings old age.
They didn't walk further inside, afraid to break through the floor.

On the floor below them Ryouhei and Tsukino looked into an utterly destroyed room.
The ceiling had crashed onto the bed, table and chairs. Everything was in debris, even the bookshelves were broken and countless of old books were torn to pieces, some of them looked like they had been used to make a fire.
Ugly stains decorated the carpet and walls and a foul smell hung in the air. In one corner they saw the almost rotten body of some kind of animal, it looked like a cat but they weren't sure of it.

Hibari and Kururo investigated the second and third floor of the east wing, they had split up to make it faster.
Even if Tsuna had said that he should look after her, Hibari was sure that this girl could handle things on her own - she wasn't a part of the DC for nothing. He knew from Kusakabes report that she could fight and if she died it would just mean that she was nothing more than a mere herbivore.
Instead of opening doors like any other normal person would, he just broke them down, to get rid of his irritation.

Kururo strolled around and hummed the melody of some Horror film, smiling like she was a little boy in the candy store.
From time to time she opened a door to look into rooms but so far there was nothing interesting.

Tsuna with Hayato and Lambo was walking around the ground floor.
They had called Uri and Natsu for some light. But somehow the flicker of their flames made the whole atmosphere even more creepy.
The first room they entered was a kitchen and the stench was almost unbearable.
Lambo squeezed Hayatos hand really hard and was shaking from fear.
"You should have stayed home stupid cow." she whispered softly and tried hard not to shake herself, she really did hate ghosts.
The foul smell originated from the rotten food all around the room and a few rats ran over the waste hills.
"Let's go out of here." Tsuna ushered them out of the kitchen and back into the corridor.
"I wonder if the stories about this place are true." he whispered as they walked further down the hall.
"I hope not!" she hissed fearful and made some move with her hand that was supposed to fend demons off.
Natsu and Uristarted growling at the same time, it made their masters stop and lookin the same direction as them.
A toy cat on a three wheeler came out of a door, accompanied by some strange sound.
The cat was torn and tattered, it looked like someone had put parts of different toys together.
There was some static as it moved its mouth and than:
"Do you want to play a game with me?"
"Holy fuck!" Now that, she couldn't hold back. With Lambo in her arms she hid behind Tsuna, who looked as terrified as she felt.
Reborn had forced him to watch this particular film and he hadn't been able to sleep for three whole days.
He gulped and looked at the strange thing.
He needed to show courage, he was the next Boss of the most powerful and feared Mafia Familiga, he couldn't be afraid of some toy.
"What do you want to play?" he hissed at it. But the thing didn't answer, instead he heard the giggle of a small girl, followed by a children's song with different voices. "Juudaime." Hayatos voice was shaking as she grabbed the back of his jacket.
With sharp eyes he looked around but neither did he see something moving nor did he feel the presence of another human.
And now that he strained his ears he could hear that this song was coming from some kind of device, it sounded like a radio.
"Hayato. There are no ghosts and we aren't trapped in an illusion. The voices come out of a radio or something."
"Are you sure?" Lambo asked and was near a breakdown, tears collected in his big green eyes and he held himself really close to Hayato, afraid to let her go.
"I'm sure. Now let's go."

At the same Time Inu and Yamamoto stood before the same thing and looked confused.
"Hahaha it's kinda like in SAW." the rain guardian laughed and Inu just nodded.
"I think we should just kill it." the older of the two said: "It looks like a good gnawing toy for my boys."
He did some move with his hand and the dogs tore the thing apart.

Ryouhei had freaked out when the thing came and just used his extreme power to destroy it.
The punch had left a hole on the backside of the building, it was a miracle that it was still standing.
Now he was a shivering mess in some corner and Tsukino had to comfort the boxer and tell him that the evil Jigsaw man wouldn't come to get him.

Chrome smiled at the strange toy kitten and took it.
"I will keep it. It's cute." she said to Saruyama who hid behind her, all colour was gone from his face and he shivered in fear.

Hibari bit the offending thing to death.

Kururo just beheaded it.

And somewhere in a surveillance room someone didn't know if she should cry or laugh.

*lol* The next one will be really awesome spooky. Pff ... yeah right hahaha. But it will have fights!
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To much Horror? Not enough Action?
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