Chapter 20

Three days passed quickly. Fon was standing but only barely. Viper kept on telling Verde he was not up to it but the scientist will hear nothing of it. Fon, determined to help the Decimo, consumed the potion and continued as planned. Viper watches once again as the man she loves leave her behind.

"I'm really sorry Viper. I promise this will be the last time. When all these are over I will tell you honestly how I feel about you. Please wait for me just a little longer…" Fon closed his eyes and walked out of the door from Verde's lab in his adult form leaving Viper to pick up the falling pieces of her heart. Verde gave her a sympathetic glance and left for his secret lab. It was only a matter of time before the new formula would be complete and the curse to be broken.

"This is the most I can do for everyone. After this we shall be parting ways. There will no longer be anything binding us together. I will be able to carry on furthering the progress of my work in science for a better future." Verde thought.

Colonello and Lal were already bored from standing by an entire night from instructions from Verde. Reborn was as usual in a meeting with the Vongola Nono. "He's really busy isn't he?" Colonello asked Lal. Lal was silent. Colonello sighed.

"I wonder what Luce even sees in him…" she whispered almost quietly. Colonello looked at her. "Who knows? Maybe his curly sideburns that she always never failed to mention?" That made Lal laugh. She cuddled up to Colonello who wrapped his arm around her. "I hope he can find someone…" she murmured. Colonello nodded and placed his chin on top of her head.

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Hibari had taken a sleeping Tsuna back to his house and they slept in each other's arms till morning after their night of confessions. Two days had passed since and Tsuna was beginning to know Hibari better. The prefect also grew to learn a few more things about the brunet for instance why he was constantly tripping over his own feet.

They worked out a solution for that problem by getting Tsuna to learn how to dance. Apparently the brunet had poor balance and coordination skills which were crucial for combat practice. Hibari's initial idea of sparring freaked the poor boy so much they settled for something milder. Dancing was something Tsuna thought would have been impossible his entire life. He would have been correct if he were to dance as a male counterpart. Now, with his boyfriend in lead, there were no worries of messing the beat up. All he had to do was to follow the lead and Tsuna caught up perfectly. His senses were heightened with the lack of sight and he could sense movements even the slightest rustles of leaves outside made him very aware.

Hibari seemed pleased with his progress and awarded him a small kiss on the smaller boy's cheek. Tsuna blushed. Another thing Tsuna learnt about the prefect was that the cold and aloof guardian was actually a very soft and kind person beneath. He was also a romantic sap which Tsuna was a sucker for. A good morning kiss, good luck kiss, thank you kiss, I love you kiss, take care kiss, welcome back kiss and even a good night kiss… from morning to night Tsuna kept receiving the prefect's form of affection through kisses. Strangely, Tsuna had still not gotten used to it even after two days. "I wonder when I would stop feeling embarrassed about it…" then Hibari surprised his lips once more. Tsuna covered his mouth with a hand and felt his ears heat up. "Maybe never…" he thought.

Hibari had already missed one day of school and Kusakabe, swamped with work, had no choice but to call the disciplinary committee chairman back. Hibari was reluctant to leave Tsuna at home and felt really uneasy about it. Tsuna made a compromise that he would only stay in the room with an adjoining toilet. Hibari promised to be back for lunch at home with him before they head to Nami-chuu together. Tsuna smiled in agreement and the skylark promised himself to be back in two hours.

Once the roar of Hibari's motorbike disappeared, Tsuna went to the room which Hibari calls the tea and meditating room. He opened the door leading to a garden outside and sat down on the tatami mat. After a few days living with Hibari he figured out that Hibari's house was a large traditional Japanese house with modern interiors for the front part. Behind, in was really old and traditional. Hibari loved to spend time there in the garden. Tsuna had not been able to see how things looked like but he knew there were trees and a pond in that garden. Hibari once took Tsuna out to the garden to learn how to dance saying it was stifling to dance within concrete walls. He knew the garden was huge but Tsuna never dared explore on his own. The lack of eyesight still made him feel insecure especially when no one was with him.

Tsuna inhaled deeply and sighed. He placed a hand on the floor and felt it made contact with something long and hairy. Tsuna froze. The thing beneath his hand moved and Tsuna screamed.

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Fon was nearing Hibari's house. Colonello and Lal had given him the green signal to proceed when he heard a high pitched shriek from the house. Dashing inside on instinct, Fon saw the boy jump ten foot into the air with fright. He saw the millipede on the floor and back at the brunet who had lost his sight. Kicking the millipede out of the way, he shut the room door and told the brunet "It's gone now Tsunayoshi."

Tsuna heaved a sigh of relief but frowned a few seconds later. "Hibari-san?"

"Yes?" Fon answered.

"I thought you left for school…you said you would be back around lunch."

Fon chuckled at the brunet's confusion. "Can I not come back earlier to see you?"

Tsuna blushed a nice shade of pink. "That's not it Hibari-san…"

Fon waited for the boy to continue what he wanted to say. "Hibari-san just left not long ago and with your motorbike. I didn't hear it when you came back. Did something happen?"

Fon paused for a while. Reborn had said the boy was dense but it did not seem to be the case at all. He was very sharp. Fon smiled and calmly replied "I thought I'd surprise you. That is all."

"Oh…" came the reply but he knew the brunet was not buying it. Fon changed his techniques "Since I came back earlier and someone is not happy about it I should just leave."

As Fon walked away, Tsuna clung onto him and pacified who he thought was Hibari like a child. "This is strange. He seems to be treating the scary prefect like a little kid. Is this how they really are?"

Tsuna fused over Fon and finally agreed Fon to take him out for a walk.

On the way Tsuna and Fon chatted. Tsuna enjoyed the conversation very much but felt that Hibari was being rather distant. "Hibari-san, did something happen?"

Fon did not know what to do anymore. The boy's intuition was always interfering. He continued to walk in silence ahead of Tsuna. Tsuna followed behind as quickly as he could, glad that the dancing paid off and that he was not tripping over his own feet. "Come to think about it, his footsteps do seem different. Usually Hibari-san would walk very firmly on the ground heel first. How come he is walking with his toes first? It feels as though he is afraid to step on the ground and is floating…"

Fon passed the agreed meeting point and gave a small nod. Tsuna felt the change in air currents around him. He was being attacked but his body could not respond quickly enough. He felt someone grab him and tried to call for Hibari. "Sleep," the voice told him. Tsuna fell unconscious.

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"I see, good job then."

Verde turned to Viper who was sulking. "The mission was a success. All that is left is for Reborn to continue the plan." Viper only hoped that the plan would work. It was extremely risky but knowing Reborn, it would most likely succeed. The man had never failed before. "Just make sure Fon is safe. I don't care about plan anymore."

Verde nodded. "I don't want to have anything more to do with the Vongola either. I'll be going back to my research." Viper said nothing as Verde left.

"Now… time to test it out."

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Colonello clutched his stomach and Lal panicked. "Don't worry," Verde assured. This is just a process in the change. We changed into this form with that cursed light. I am just making use of the light spectrum from the same curse in the opposite direction. The light expanded when it hit the stone crater and rebounded to each of us. Seven colors for seven characters. This is how the trinisette works. I am merely reversing the effects of it. The element absorbed by each of us made us immune against that particular light. Our body on the other hand is vulnerable to the other six elements and if absorbed, it will weaken us. The light in the future used were sky element. Since Luce passed away, there was no one else who would be physically immune to that sky element's curse. All of us were affected then. I merely broke through the physical barrier of immunity to that cursed light for Colonello here by shooting atomic particles in the path of that light. It enters straight to his blood stream and breaks down the immunity. Once the immunity is broken it becomes extremely painful. It is the same feeling as when you were exposed to the cursed rays in the future except it is ten times worse from the particle acceleration to speed up the process."

"How long will this last?" Lal asked. Verde estimated the time to be about twenty minutes and Lal waited. Colonello howled as another wave of pain ripped through him. "Let us hope it works."

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Hibari was scanning through the pile of paperwork left by his absence. He barely noticed a new presence in the room until a cough interrupted his train of thoughts. There stood the storm arcobaleno in his infant form. Hibari glared at him and considered biting him to death.

"Your lover has been kidnapped."

Hibari's heart skipped a beat. He blamed himself for leaving Tsuna alone. "Where?" he growled. Fon threw him a name card with written address on it. "The kidnapper is a strong opponent. He looks just like you. Do you have a twin brother?"

Hibari glared at the Chinese infant. "No." With that, Hibari grabbed his famous gakuran and left abruptly. Fon quickly headed for where Tsuna truly was. Reborn should have started the meeting already. "Hibari, I hope you can pull this through. It all depends on you now…"

All the important figures were headed for the same place. A final battle was about to begin. The clash of famiglias who were once allies. How will the lovers prevail?

To be continued…

Author's Note: This is really short but the clash should be interesting. I have planned it out but I'm not sure if I would write according to planned because usually when I write, 90% are changed when the characters come to life and write their own story using my hands. I don't think when I write so all that you have read were the characters telling the story by themselves. I'm not sure if any of them were ooc because you can say when I'm in writing mode, I'm possessed. They wrote it themselves so when I say I don't own I really don't own. Please leave a review to let me know how you would prefer the ending to be :)