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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The moment Tsuna sensed Hayato's flames, he knew that something surprised Hayato more than usual.

When he didn't sense the flames get back under control a few minutes later, he worried. It was unusual that Hayato's calm was shaken so much that his temper reverted back to how it was back when Hayato was a teen.

Tsuna kept the flames in his mind's eye as he tracked its progress out of the Louvre until it was pulled back under control right outside of the museum. Tsuna headed there.

The moment he arrived, he halted in his tracks; Hayato was on his back, unconscious, with what looked like a strange blue and white dagger next to him on the ground.

Tsuna took a second to blink in shock at the scene before he rushed over towards Hayato. Tsuna picked up the dagger and started to shake Hayato.

"Hey, Hayato. Hayato. Wake up, Hayato. Hayatooooo."

With a groan, Hayato shook his head and opened his eyes. He blearily looked up and, at the sight of Tsuna above him with a dagger, gaped, "You really are going to kill me."

Tsuna looked, contemplative, between Hayato and the dagger, and then smiled. Hayato shuddered.

"Hmmm." Tsuna played a bit with the dagger. "Maybe some other time?"

Hayato sagged in relief.

"Now, how about you fill me in on what happened after we parted?"

Hayato stiffened, "Ah. That."

"Yes, that."

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"What do you mean he groped you?! I'm going to kill him!"

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Bouchard found them after Hayato successfully calmed Tsuna down and managed to get the dagger from him.

"What are you doing here?"

"No time now. Quickly!"

Tsuna and Hayato shared a look. It was time to get to Werner's apartment to find clues on what happened, and lucky them, they have a guy they can commandeer for a ride.

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As the three piled into a car, Hayato took the chance to ask some questions, "What were you doing at the Louvre?"

"Trawling police short wave. You were attracting a lot of attention in there. I figured you might need some help."

"Thanks." Well, color them surprised. But Hayato was still suspicious; Bouchard probably had his own agenda.

Bouchard put his hand on Hayato's leg, just above the knee, "Wouldn't you prefer somewhere safer than your friend's apartment?"

Hayato stared blankly at the hand, the urge to violently rip it off rising in his chest. Tsuna leaned over, grabbed the hand and deposited it back in Bouchard's lap, all while he had a sickeningly sweet smile on his lips, "I found some leads in the Louvre that may link to his death. I have to check his apartment."

"We're almost there. There's something you should know. The police bands were full of details of another Monstrum killing- in Prague."

Prague? Hayato looked at Tsuna, wasn't that guy, Mathias Vasiley, mentioned in Werner's notebook staying in Prague?

"Would it be a dealer named Mathias Vasiley by any chance?"

Bouchard looked at them, "Yes. You knew him?"

"No." Tsuna opened the door of the car, and got off, closely followed by Hayato.

"I'll… wait here."

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"What a mess." Tsuna looked around the apartment.

"Let's spread out and look around."

Tsuna side-eyed Hayato, but nodded his acquiescence.

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Tsuna and Hayato had finished their search and were standing in front of the wall that held the red symbols all over it when a man with a rifle entered and took aim at them.

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Hayato leaped at the man, grabbed him and threw him off the railing to the stairs below. Tsuna ran after him, gun raised and trained on him, but the man was unmoving.

And his phone was ringing.

Tsuna proceeded to search the body for anything useful while Hayato who just joined him pulled out the dead man's phone and answered.

"Is she taken care of yet?" Came Bouchard's voice from the other end. "Hello? Is she dead yet? We have to get back to Prague."

"No, Bouchard, she isn't. But your little friend is. I'll take care of you later." Hayato ended the call and threw the phone away.

Tsuna raised a blue card, "It's time to go to Prague."

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"Well, look. It's Bouchard." Tsuna mouthed to Hayato, then took out his gun and used to it knock out Bouchard.

"Time for some Q&A."

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"He's dead? What the heck?"

"More importantly, how?"

"Let's get out of here."

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"We've got an Obscura engraving and the pass. Off to Strahov."

"You're so excited to storm the place."

"Well, why wouldn't I be?"

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"This reminds me of that one time at the Russian base."

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"Tsuna?"

Hayato stared worriedly at Tsuna who was stock-still in front of him. The two had just watched Eckhardt murder someone in front of their very own eyes. The smell of burning flesh wafted up to the ventilation shaft, where the two were hiding, and into their noses.

Tsuna turned to look at Hayato with orange eyes, "I don't know why, but it feels like that bastard is mocking us. I want to burn him to cinders."

"Well." Hayato paused momentarily, what should he say to that? "That's the spirit. Now, let's keep moving."

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"I can't believe that babbling wacko gave us the slip!"

"'Babbling wacko'?"

"Hush."

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"Not only crazy plants, but also crazy creatures! Just what the heck?!"

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"What the heck is that thing swimming in the water?"

"I take back every bad thing I ever said about crocodiles."

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"I never thought I could feel so murderous, Eckhardt is teaching me new things about myself."

"The guy just rubs you the wrong way, doesn't he?"

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"It's locked?" Tsuna uselessly pushed at the door.

The guy from the Louvre walked in front of the transparent part of the door. Tsuna's features immediately blanked. Hayato sighed.

"You really have made a mess of things, haven't you?"

A self-satisfied smirk crept over Tsuna's face. Hayato sighed louder.

"Who for? The stalker who stole my painting?" Tsuna scoffed.

"What do you need with the painting?" Hayato interjected, if he let Tsuna lead the conversation, he'd just rile the guy up.

"Maybe I'll explain later, miss Croft, but for now I need to go and turn the power back on." The guy just wasn't endearing himself to Tsuna.

"Leaving me here." With a progressively more annoyed Tsuna? Scratch that about the guy not endearing himself to Tsuna, he wasn't endearing himself to Hayato.

"You've caused enough problems over the last two days." Yeah, just stroke Tsuna's ego over that some more, it won't help your case though.

"Safer for everyone if you stay in one place for a while."

Now that, Hayato couldn't fault. Except for the part where Hayato himself is stuck with an annoyed Tsuna.

"You'll be okay in there."

Yeah, Tsuna would be. But Hayato wouldn't be. He'd have to listen to Tsuna's whining. Tsuna had a lot of things to whine about, and as long as he and Hayato kept moving and working towards an objective, Tsuna didn't have time to whine. But now…

Tsuna snapped Hayato out of his horrified speculation by slapping the dagger he picked up outside of the Louvre against the door while keeping it in clear sight of the guy on the other side of the door.

"And this?"

"My Periapt Shard! You…"

Periapt Shard? They heard that name before. From that woman that was eaten by that strange creature (or plant, they didn't really know or want to know).

"Picked it up at the Louvre, yes. After you stole my painting." Hayato winced at that.

"All this can wait. I know where you'll be. Take a breather from damaging things why dontcha."

Hayato leaned his forehead against the wall; that may as well incite Tsuna to damage more things.

The guy saluted them and left.

Hayato groaned.

"'Take a breather from damaging things' huh?" Tsuna squared his shoulders, his flames springing forth to surround his body. "This measly chamber is nothing; I'll tear it down and chase after you. Easily."

Hayato knew it.

Then Tsuna did something unexpected, he dispersed his flames and mused with a smile on his face, "Maybe I should actually just stay here."

Hayato was shocked, what?

"Let him come to me."

Ah. Hayato relaxed, all was right in the world again.

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The two laid in wait for the guy on the ceiling of the chamber, right above the door. They were rewarded when he entered and looked around but didn't look up.

Tsuna was the first one down, disarming him and training his gun on him. Hayato jumped down just in time to see a mutated human-like creature behind the guy. Tsuna's flames sprung forth, devouring the strange creature and reducing it to ashes. Tsuna's flames retreated but didn't go away, they merely draped themselves across Tsuna's shoulders and down his back.

"Thanks." The guy was blatantly staring at the flames. Hayato's eyes bore into him, he was more perceptive than any other person Tsuna and Hayato met (heck, he was more perceptive than gods Tsuna and Hayato faced off against).

Tsuna didn't respond, even though it was a perfect opportunity for him to say something snarky to the guy, he merely stared at the guy.

"Name's Kurtis." Kurtis (and what a relief it was to have a name for a face, Hayato got tired of referring to him as 'the guy' in his head) offered his hand for a handshake, while his eyes were still trained on Tsuna's flames.

Wow, so brave of him.

Tsuna still didn't respond so Hayato did instead, "Lara. And this is business."

Hayato grabbed Kurtis and pushed him towards the wall, searching him in a style similar to the one Kurtis used with him in the Louvre. So, okay, Hayato still held a tiny grudge over what happened in the Louvre.

Tsuna, the current unflappable bastard, still kept his gun trained on Kurtis.

"I owe you one." Seriously? Hayato wanted to punch him.

"You owe me a painting." Yes, a tiny grudge.

"Sorry. That went AWOL at the Louvre."

Didn't even have the decency to hold onto it, gah.

"What brings you here from Paris?" Hayato asked as he threw the metal disk with retractable blades away. The sound it made as it hit the ground felt satisfying.

"Eckhardt. We have business that only one of us will walk away from. You?"

Kurtis turned around to face Hayato. Hayato looked at Tsuna, then back at Kurtis, "Personal reasons."

Kurtis stared at him, and proceeded to spill to him and Tsuna what he knew about Eckhardt's plans. So, he really was willing to explain things.

"Eckhardt is the original Black Alchemist-" The retractable blades on the metal disk on the ground sprang forth, the disk in itself was surrounded by an orange glow as it began to spin. "-and now he's very close to finding the last painting."

The metal disk flew into the air and began to circulate around the people in the chamber.

When it came close to Tsuna, Tsuna's flames reached out and engulfed the disk, then they yanked.

Kurtis stumbled back in shock.

"You-!"

The flames retreated from around the disk to return to their position wrapped around Tsuna, they sparked in metaphorical satisfaction. The disk itself was still rotating in mid-air, except that this time, the orange light was different, instead of creating an aura around the disk it surrounded it like an extra layer, and the edges of the blade sparked with Tsuna's flames.

Well, Hayato observed the disk, that was new.

Kurtis stared at them in shock- wait. He actually was staring at them. His eyes flitted between the two of them, as opposed to how before he stared at their general area.

"You… you are not Lara Croft…"

He could see them!

Tsuna's eyes bore into Kurtis, who was staring at Hayato with a gaping mouth, "You're the one from the Louvre."

Hayato propped his chin on his fist, "You remember which of us you saw where now?"

"Yes. You, at the Louvre. Him, exiting the tunnel. Both of you before at the café, the club-"

Tsuna holstered his gun, effectively cutting off Kurtis. Tsuna narrowed his eyes at Kurtis, and put his hands on his hips.

Hayato huffed in amusement, "Looks like you won't be killed any time soon. I'm Hayato, this is Tsuna."

"You said," Tsuna interjected, "That Eckhardt is very close to finding the last painting. Does he know where it is?"

Kurtis stared for a moment before he answered, "Yes. It's hidden in the Lux Veritatis Vault beneath the Strahov. That painting must be destroyed, and to do that I need the Shard you picked up at the Louvre."

"There should be three Periapt Shards."

"Eckhardt has the last one. If all three Shards are united, they can destroy him permanently, so he keeps it safe."

"Oh?" Tsuna put his index finger to his lower lip, "I can't just… reduce him to nothing via fire?"

Kurtis subtly swallowed. Hayato waved a hand in front of Tsuna, "Ignore the pyro. Tell us about the Shards."

Kurtis refocused on Hayato, "They're ancient weapons of the Lux Veritatis. Two of them were entrusted to my father. Eckhardt murdered him to stop them passing into my hands. He failed."

"So Eckhardt went after your father. And you want revenge."

"Justice!"

"We should work together." Hayato looked meaningfully at Tsuna. Tsuna rolled his eyes and threw the Shard to Kurtis and let the disk drop into Kurtis, fire gone and blades retracted.

"You're… trusting me?"

"How can they be used to kill Eckhardt?" Hayato gestured towards the Shard in Kurtis' hand.

Off to the side, Tsuna sniffed; Hayato ignored him.

"He must be stabbed with all three Shards."

"We can divide the forces against us if we split up." Tsuna looked sharply at Hayato at that. Hayato raised a placating hand, "Not like that Tsuna. You know it's useless anyway." Hayato refocused on Kurtis. "They won't be affected by me and Tsuna going after them as two separate people, the two of us are still considered 'Lara Croft', a single person. Kurtis, you need the third Shard so you should go after that. Tsuna and I will find the last painting and destroy it."

"Okay. Eckhardt guards the Shard in his old Alchemy lab in the lower regions. I can find my way there."

Hayato pulled out the engraving and beckoned Kurtis closer as he held the engraving between them, "The engraving shows the painting hidden in something called the Vault of Trophies. Here. The entrance is underwater. No problem."

Tsuna turned around and headed out of the chamber, Hayato followed after him as Kurtis went the other way.

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End chapter 5