Important Author Note: Unless it is specified who says which part, the dialogue typically alternates between Tsuna and Hayato.
WARNINGS: OOC, Language (there is a lot of cursing), Violence, Indiscriminate Killing (Tomb Raider Typical Killing- applies to humans, animals, and mythical creatures), Dialogue Heavy, Set In The Tomb Raider Games 'Verses, So May Not Make A Whole Lot Of Sense If You Don't Know TR (unless you, like me, don't mind that), Uses Dialogue From The Game, Collection of Snippets/Drabbles/Scenes Featuring Tsuna's And Hayato's Adventures In The TR Games, Beware Of Unexpected Mood Whiplashes, Ship Teasing, Slight BoyxBoy (why do I even warn about this anymore?), Platonic 5927 (To The EXTREEEEEEEME!), Snark, Badass Tsuna And Hayato, Badasses In Dresses, Perverted Swords, Cute Hammers, And As Always: Shameless Self-Indulgence/Ridiculousness.
Disclaimer: Don't own TR or KHR.
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Tsuna turned to look at Hayato as the two stood in front of the pawnshop, "I have a bad feeling about this. How about you stay out, and wait for me while I go inside and deliver?"
Hayato raised an eyebrow, "Fine. But next time we have to separate for a similar situation or reason, you're the one who'll be waiting for me while I go in."
"Alright." Tsuna smiled and headed towards the door. He had just put his hand on the door on the handle when he stopped and turned back to Hayato, "Just to be sure, how about you wait for me at another place? I don't like the idea of you waiting for me in front of this door, very close to this building."
Hayato stared. He huffed and turned around to leave, "You owe me big for this!"
"Thanks, Hayato!" Tsuna waited until Hayato left before he turned back towards the door.
He took a deep breath and schooled his features into neutrality. It was a good thing Hayato didn't ask too many questions or raise too much of a fuss; Tsuna didn't want him anywhere close to the dangerous person heading towards the door from the other side.
Tsuna could feel it; it was already too late for the guy they were supposed to deliver the passports to. And Tsuna may as well be walking directly into a trap, but he needed things from inside. It was why he and Hayato agreed to the delivery, after all.
Tsuna opened the door and entered.
As Tsuna walked in, he was facing the dangerous presence he sensed. Tsuna made sure to project slight curiosity but general disinterest and slight hurry. But he memorized the features of the person in front of him.
As the dangerous man walked out, he shoulder-checked Tsuna as he passed him.
Tsuna forcibly kept his flames from lashing out and burning the man to ashes.
Tsuna entered the room the man just left, and put the passports on the counter.
There was a door behind the counter and Tsuna headed towards it, even though he had an idea of what he would find there.
As Tsuna expected, there was a corpse on the ground as well as the same symbol that was there in Werner's apartment.
Tsuna walked past the corpse and explored the room, looking for the objects he came for.
There was a trap door, a bomb and a door that needed a pass code.
Tsuna looked around for a bit before his eyes landed on the corpse.
Okay, so it was time for some corpse-looting.
(Hayato would not believe him if he told him that he willingly looted the corpse of a murder victim without complaint.)
A quick search resulted in finding a scrap of paper with numbers written on it.
With the numbers in mind, Tsuna walked over to the door. Punching in the numbers and opening it, Tsuna walked into the room beyond it. He took a quick look around the small room, noting the holes in the wall, the button on the right side of the wall, the guns and their ammo on the shelves as well as a couple of maps and a bomb.
He did literally walk into a trap.
As he collected the guns, ammo and bomb, he hesitated slightly before picking up the maps. Once he picked up the maps, the door closed behind him, as laser rays burst through the holes in the walls.
Tsuna quickly opened the door; he wasn't going to stay here any longer, not with his intuition screaming at him to leave like that.
He went down the trap door, right as fire began to engulf everything around him. He ran through the tunnel to the opening on the other end, the fire licking at his heels. Reaching the opening, he jumped out and fell on top of a boat.
Hayato was going to kill him.
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Hayato stood leaning on a wall, carefully observing the man on the other side of the river. It was the same man from before, in the café and before the club.
His head turned to the wall on his left as the other man seemed to intently focus on it. There was a rumbling sound.
Hayato frowned. His frown turned into a look of shock as he saw Tsuna jump out of the opening in the wall in a burst of flames (Hayato was sure those flames weren't Tsuna's), and fall down into the river. There was no splash, so Tsuna must have fallen on the boat that was down there.
Hayato was going to kill Tsuna.
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Tsuna stood up and heard the sound of someone clearing their throat above him. His head snapped up to find Hayato staring down at him, unimpressed and eyebrow raised.
Uh-oh.
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"Time to storm the Louvre?"
"Time to storm the Louvre. Through the sewers. Again."
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"Ehehehehe."
Tsuna rolled his eyes at Hayato as he giggled while setting up the bomb, and hopped off the rails into the pool below. There was no timer on the bomb, so they had to take cover immediately after putting it, and there was nowhere other than the water. Not a second later, Hayato dropped into the water after him.
And then the bomb exploded. Hayato and Tsuna high-fived at the bottom of the pool.
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"Home sweet home."
"I can't believe you just implied that ancient places are our home, Hayato."
"Well, can you blame me?"
Tsuna huffed and shook his head. He looked over the edge and at the ground down below, "This is one long drop. And… what's moving down there?"
"How about we go down and see for ourselves?"
"Ugh."
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"Oh my god! It's a skeleton!"
"Tsuna…" Hayato looked, face blank, at Tsuna.
Tsuna averted his eyes and sighed, "Fine. I'll stop."
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Tsuna surprised Hayato by being the first one to drop down to the ground.
Tsuna surprised Hayato even more by taking a ready stance, and facing the moving, armed skeleton.
And then Tsuna's eyes glowed orange.
With that, the Tsuna vs. skeleton match began.
Hayato settled down on the stone step he was standing on to watch. It was good to see Tsuna gather his courage and finally face something like this when he used to jump and screech whenever they came across it.
As long as Tsuna didn't hurt himself (too much) or bring the place down on their heads.
Now, where was popcorn when you needed it?
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"Well done, Tsuna. Bonus points for beating it with its own sword."
Tsuna preened.
"Now, let's find the lever that opens this hatch and then we can go down and see what's there."
Tsuna stopped his preening and looked at the hatch, "Hey… you mean to tell me that we could have avoided the skeleton by simply evading it, opening the hatch and going down it?"
Hayato cocked his head to the side, "When you put it that way…"
Tsuna stabbed the sword in his hand into the sand, dropped to his knees, crossed his arms across his chest and pouted.
"Oh, don't be a baby."
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"Back to the flying arrows and surprise spikes again."
"So, back to basics."
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"Look, there's another skeleton in here."
Tsuna sniffed and continued walking to the middle of the hall, ignoring the aforementioned skeleton.
"Huh." Hayato raised an eyebrow, well then.
"Aw, Tsuna. You're all so grown up now. It feels like it was only minutes ago that you were freaking out over skeletons. Oh wait…"
Tsuna gave Hayato a vicious glare and the middle finger from over his shoulder. Hayato mock sniffed, his baby brother was all so grown up now.
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"So, the doors have element signs outside and inside."
"And each element sign in the hall opens up three doors-" Tsuna delivered a powerful kick to the skeleton, pushing it back a few feet away from the two. "-so maybe the door that matches from the inside as well is the door we should check?"
"I'll get the water and air doors. You get the fire and earth doors."
"Yes, sir!"
"That was cute, but don't salute me again if you don't want me to salute back."
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"Enjoyed your swim?"
"Not much. What collapsed over your head?"
"You mean what collapsed under my feet? The floor. Don't worry, it got right back up."
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"We've put the stones, but nothing happened. We searched everywhere around the hall but haven't found anything. Where should we look next?"
"What about the 'incorrect' doors? We haven't looked there yet."
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"Hey look, there's a door."
"And it has a plate on it with the elements' symbols."
"So it was here."
"Hiding it here… smart."
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"'Through the spirit of the keeper'?"
"What's that sound?"
The two turned around to see a spirit wreathed in orange light flying towards them.
Tsuna unintentionally burst into flames. Hayato face-palmed.
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"Alright, Tsuna. I got the painting. You can stop acting like a human torch now."
"I didn't do it on purpose!"
"Uh-huh. Now, let's go."
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"I have a bad feeling. Stay alert, Hayato."
"Yeah. I got the painting, we just need to leave. Tsuna?"
"Hm?"
"Let's separate."
Tsuna instantly stopped and looked at Hayato, incredulous, "That's ridiculous! It's too dangerous!" He hissed.
"Yeah? Didn't stop you from going into the pawnshop by yourself."
"You're bringing that up now?!"
"Yes."
"Are you still mad about that bomb?"
"…"
"Alright. Fine. But if anything happened to you…"
"I would wish the devil dragged me down to hell instead of staying around to suffer under your 'tender mercy', I know."
Tsuna narrowed his eyes at Hayato, "We'll meet up outside, then."
With that, the two separated.
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Hayato ducked. Was that a blade?
But who? All the others he faced on his way used guns.
He looked the way the blade came from, there was no one-
A gun was pressed into the back of his head.
Tsuna was going to kill him.
The person behind him inched closer to him, putting a hand on his shoulder while keeping the gun carefully trained on him.
Then the hand slid down his shoulder, his arm, his hand, taking the gun from it and throwing it away. Hayato was bewildered, this never happened to him before.
Then the hand moved to… his hip?! Then across his stomach towards the other gun Hayato had on his leg.
Was he… being groped while being disarmed?
(A first for everything, he thought, shocked.)
How did Tsuna handle such a situation?
Then the hand took the painting from him.
Oh no, you don't.
Hayato whirled around; his normally green eyes were starting to bleed into red as he glared at the person behind him. It was the same guy from the café.
Hayato's hand had already lashed out, grabbing the gun and squeezing. Hayato's own red flames, unlike Tsuna's orange ones that acted like normal fire, burned through the gun's barrel like acid. The guy stared, shocked, as his gun practically melted. He jumped back, clearly aware of Hayato's red eyes honing in on him despite not realizing that he wasn't confronting the person he thought he was confronting.
Probably one of the only slight upsides to people around Tsuna and Hayato never realizing that they weren't Lara Croft.
The other guy retreated, and for every step he took away from Hayato, Hayato took a step towards him.
The blade sailed past Hayato from behind him again, but Hayato merely inclined his head to the side to avoid it. The other grabbed the flying blade, which retracted its edges into the metal disk in its middle.
Then the guy turned tail and ran off, Hayato hot on his heels.
There were gunshots, and glass rained down on them, but it disintegrated before it could hit them.
Hayato's flames were already running wild, like a metaphorical storm around him, making a mess, destroying objects and burning the imprint of his steps into the ground.
A quick, controlled burst of his flames caused some debris to block the path of their other pursuers.
The chase took Hayato and the other guy to a stairwell. He jumped off the rails down to the bottom. Hayato didn't hesitate to do the same.
Hayato followed the other person outside, and found him unconscious on the ground.
Hayato stopped, pulling his flames back under his control. His target was on the ground, it was time for him to do his own thorough body search.
Hayato knelt down next to him, and was about to flip him over to search him when he sensed a presence sneak up on him. He turned around, but was too late to avoid the strike to his head that rendered him unconscious.
His last thought was how he hoped he woke up before Tsuna found him like this.
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End chapter 4
