A/N: Hi, I'm back! Does anyone miss me? *looks around*
Well, first thing's first, HAPPY NEW YEAR minna!
*Get Gokudera to throw dynamites into the sky.*
Yamamoto: "Haha, I always knew that those were fireworks."
Gokudera: "What the hell, you Baseball Idiot... Oi, stupid woman, why did you even get me to do this anyway?"
Me: "It's a new year! And all of us are happy that the rumour of the world gonna end in 2012 is not true, right?"
Arigatou iNeedFanfiction for pointing out the mistake in the previous chpt! *pass out cookies*
And FallenxLinkin, when you say "The blood thing is really disturbing", do you mean that the keep blood here blood there kind of disturbing or the blood very gory kind of disturbing? I've been thinking about it since the day it was posted...
And before we get on with the story,
Notification: From next week onwards, this story will be a monthly update instead of a weekly one. Because school is starting and life is gonna get busy! I haven't decided on an actual date for the update though, I think should be around the 20ths.
Now, let's get on with the story...
Disclaimer: Everybody should know this by now, I don't own KHR.
It has been six days since Bel was sent into the infirmary. The Varia Mansion had been getting quieter and quieter lately. As if no one lives there.
Now that's rare for the Vongola's independent assassin squad, as it was usually filled with noise and chaos. Either the sound of knifes being thrown on a certain frog's hat, of the sound of wine glass thrown at a certain shark's head. Sometimes with the creepy laugh of "Ushishishi", sometimes with the shouting of "VOIIIIIIIII", or even the sound of gun shots followed by explosions.
So you can see that why the great boss of Varia, Xanxus, is getting irritated.
Where the fuck did all those scums go? Are they dead? Stupid scums, don't die and leave all the assignments piling up in here! At least finish them and get this place cleared up before you die, or I kill you myself! ( Dude, they're already dead! What are you gonna do? Murder their corpses? )
Well, the assignments and paper works were not the only problem here, without the shark, Xanxus just cannot rant out his frustration. So whenever a subordinate came in, he'll just throw a wine glass a him and fire one of his X-guns at the wall 2 inches beside him. And of course, 90% of them landed on the stupid retarded Thunder Guardian.
How stupid, that idiotic trash. Cannot even sence that the atmosphere is not right. Is he really Varia quality? Why did we even let him be a guardian in the first place?
Speaking of which, where did that annoying bitch go? What happened to all the sticking to me wherever I go? Ha, guess she isn't so-
"Dear, I'm back!"
Screw that.
"Miss me?" Meridionale asked as she pulled one of her smiles, a very bright one.
"Why would I?" Xanxus asked.
"Because I'm your wife?"
"How many times must I make it clear that we're. not. fucking. married. yet?" Xanxus said as he got irritated.
"Well, and I told you that we're going to get married soon!" the smile on her face just seems to get brighter. "And in fact, we're going to have our wedding next Friday!"
"WHAT?!" Xanxus stood up from his seat as he slammed the table with both hands. "Since when is it even planned?"
"Since 2 hours ago." the Cloud answered. "I just got approvement from the Ninth and onii-sama."
Oh for hell's sake, this sucks.
"I look forward to 5 days time!" Meridionale smiled again as she waved goodbye. "Fufufu~"
Xanxus stared as she closed the door before sitting back in his seat and covering his face with both hands.
My life sucks...
"Boss"
Xanxus removed his hands from his face as he heard that familiar voice.
Bad timing.
"You've heard that, haven't you?" Xanxus asked the silverette at the door.
"Yes, Boss." Squalo answered with a nod.
"Sorry"
"Hm?" the shark wasn't able to catch what his boss just said as it was spoken so softly. "What is it that you said?"
"I said I'm sorry." the boss repeated, louder this time so that the shark can hear.
"Why are you apologizing?" the Rain Guardian asked in confusion.
"About what happened that day." Xanxus answered, trying not to bring the details up in case it anger the shark more. "Aren't you mad about that? Aren't you avoiding me? I can see that within all these days."
"Boss, I-"
"Ushishishi"
A familiar laugh was heard, followed by a familiar knife sent towards Squalo's direction. The Rain, in return, sent another object in it's direction, shattering the knife before landing on the wall.
"What the-" the boss was stunned. That object... it wasn't an explosive from the shark's sword, which he now then notice that the Rain Guardian didn't have it with him, but a...
diamond?
"What's the meaning of this?" the boss questioned.
"Ushishishi, getting proof." Bel answered. The prince was still covered with bandages, like the time after Storm Battle. Lussuria suggested he stay in bed longer but gave up because the Storm threatened him with his knifes.
Mammon did the honour of removing the diamond from the wall.
"This," the Mist pointed at the hole made on the wall. "is exactly the same as the ones at the place we found Bel." he said as he revealed a picture they took at scene of the crime.
"Squ-chan," Lussuria spoke, glaring the shark. "Bel-chan already told us, you're the one who attacked him!"
"Ushishishi." Bel showed his Cheshire grin. "That night when you came back from your mission, I noticed that something was off. Because I'm a genius. And not to mention, a Prince! Ushishishishishi~."
"Bel-senpai, stop dragging, just explain it directly." Fran said.
*Stab Stab*
"Ushishi. The Prince is talking here, Froggy. Do not disturb! If you miss the Prince's stabbing for one week, then the generous me will enjoy my time stabbing you later after we're done with this." Bel said, turning back to Squalo. "So the next day, I followed you for your mission. But when I reach there, your victims were already dead."
"Lussuria checked the place. This is the picture we took there." Mammon said as he took out another photo. This one shows small holes that formed the outer shapes of three human body on a wall. The holes were the same as the other ones in the first picture.
"And that was when I got attacked," the Storm continued with his speech. "by you!"
"Bel-chan told us that you didn't use your sword to attack." the Sun Guardian took the role of speaking. "Instead, you use this." he said as he took the diamond from Mammon's hand and showed it in front of the Rain Guardian.
"Because you both were long-distance combatter, it shouldn't be hard for you to fight Bel into this place." Mammon explained, showing the first picture.
"Diamonds were the hardest substance known by men." Fran explained. "This should be able to prove enough that why you can beat the crap out of Senpai." he said, pointing at the shattered pieces of the knife on the floor.
"That's right. You broke my knifes with you diamonds. And use them to attack me, leaving me to this state." Bel said, pointing at himself for emphasize.
"Who in the world are you?" Mammon questioned the Rain Guardian.
Everyone in the room stared at the silverette, waiting for him to give his answer.
"Hmph." the shark closed his eyes. "That's right. I am not Superbi Squalo."
"Then who are you?" the Storm Guardian asked again, with a more threatening tone this time as he pulled his knifes out.
"You want to know who I am?" he chuckled. "There's no point of you knowing that."
Without warning, he sent three diamonds at Bel's direction, shattering his knifes once again.
"Why, you godamn piece of crap peasant." the prince growled as he sent another set of knifes at the guy, who appeared to be Squalo's, direction, who dodged them with ease.
"Prince the Ripper," he spoke. "by now you should understand, that there's no way you can win against me."
"Don't mess with us." the Mist Arcobaleno said as he made an illusion of clones, surrounding the shark.
"I'll make you suffer." the clones said in unison as they each created tentacles from under the hood, attacking the Rain.
But the guy reacted faster, he sent his diamonds towards the tentacles' direction before they reach him and broke them, the only things left were pieces of paper for the illusion.
"Don't you think it wouldn't be very fair if you all attack me at once?" he asked as he dodged an incoming punch from the Sun.
"In battles, we don't talk about fairness." Bel answered as he sent another set of knives at him, which just ended up being shattered into pieces, again.
"Then I guess it won't be good for me to stay here any longer." the guy said as he lighted his Rain Varia Ring but didn't punch it into the Varia Box. Instead, he took out a different Box from his pocket and punched the blue flame into it and pointed it at the window, letting out a rain flame covered whale.
"See you guys not-so-soon." the guy in Squalo skin and voice said as he jumped onto his Box Animal's back after breaking the window. "Ciao ciao!"
"Wait! What have you done with Squalo?" Xanxus called out in futile as the guy already left.
"Boss." the group of Guardians said at the same time as they turned to face their boss.
"What in the world just happened?" Xanxus asked his Guardians. "Since when did all these happened?"
"Boss, I only noticed the oddness in Squalo's behaviour since that night when he came back after his mission." Bel replied.
"Which night is it?"
"That night when you, him, and Meridionale didn't come down for dinner."
That day when I sent the bitch and them out for a mission together? Xanxus thought. That means the same day as... that kiss...
"The rest of us figured that out later during the day after Bel-chan was attacked." Lussuria reported. "And that's why we separated ourselves, searching for clues to both Bel-chan and Squ-chan's incidents."
"And that's when we found these." Fran said, pointing at the two photos in Mammon's hands.
"So it probably happened on that mission." Mammon concluded.
"But another problem we discovered is," the Varia Mama said. "that all the victims were killed. And through my experience of seeing Squ-chan's victims, the wounds on them just don't seem to be made by him."
"So who could be the one?"
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A/N: Once again, HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Tomorrow school is gonna start and my mum is already very annoyed with me keep updating on this story. So please wait patiently for the next chpt.
*Don't worry, I always keep to my words!
Thank you to people who liked this story until now!
R & R please!