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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"Give me the painting, and you may both leave."

Hayato's hand reached towards the painting and hesitated, he looked over towards Tsuna, who looked pensive for a moment before he spoke, "What choice do I have?" He motioned for Hayato to throw the painting over towards Eckhardt.

Eckhardt's follower dropped Kurtis down to the ground, Hayato and Tsuna inched towards him but he raised a hand to stop them and rose in his own.

"Gunderson, release Boaz."

Hayato braced the swaying Kurtis while Tsuna turned to face the gate which was opening off to the side.

"This old colleague of mine was once a human- before she displeased me."

The opening gate showed a grotesque creature, with a face that Tsuna and Hayato saw once before at the bio-research facility. Up on the balcony, Eckhardt and Gunderson turned around to leave with the man Tsuna once called 'babbling wacko'. Kurtis turned around to train his gun at the balcony.

"Not you Muller, you piece of dross! You failed me too." Gunderson pushed Muller off the balcony as well. Hayato aimed his gun towards the man alongside with Kurtis.

Muller attempted to run away from Hayato and Kurtis only to be grabbed by Boaz and thrown away.

"Come on, I'll give you a boost." Kurtis said to Hayato as he holstered his gun.

Hayato looked at Kurtis, then at Tsuna who nodded.

"Alright."

After Kurtis gave Hayato a boost to jump up towards the balcony, he turned towards Tsuna, "Tsuna, you too-"

"No."

"Wha-?"

"I will give you a boost." Tsuna's eyes narrowed and turned orange, his flames springing to surround him again, "That creature is no match for me. And we still have words to have with you. You're the first person who grew able to see us, and I'll be damned if I let you slip away like that."

"I can take care of myself."

"Well, so can Hayato, and look what happened to him after we separated at the Louvre."

"Hey! Do you have to keep bringing that up?!" Hayato hollered from the balcony.

"Yes, I do! You get to keep mentioning the pawnshop incident; I get to keep mentioning the Louvre incident!"

"Well, how about you shut up, get Kurtis up here, get rid of that thing and join us up here."

Tsuna gave Hayato the finger; Hayato poked his tongue out at Tsuna. Kurtis stared.

A shout from Boaz' direction prompted Tsuna to turn back to Kurtis, "C'mon."

A quick stare down later, and Tsuna was giving Kurtis a boost to jump towards the balcony.

Tsuna turned towards Boaz and his lips thinned, "Well then,"

Tsuna took a ready stance, feet spread apart, right arm extended behind him and pushing out a huge stream of flames, and left arm extended in front of him, palm facing Boaz. When Tsuna deemed Boaz too close to dodge his attack, a great stream of flames shot out of his left palm, engulfing Boaz and completely incinerating the creature.

Tsuna cut off his flames.

Kurtis stared in shock at the damage the fire cause, not only was there no trace left of Boaz, but there were two huge crates under where the flames were, one part of the wall behind where Boaz was, was even destroyed!

The creature was 'no match' for Tsuna indeed.

Tsuna looked up at the balcony, pushed his palms down and pushed his flames out of them again, the burst of flames was strong enough to propel Tsuna up into the air. Tsuna flipped mid-air and landed on the balcony next to Hayato and Kurtis.

"Let's go."

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"Alright, we can swim down now." Hayato said before he hopped into the pool, Tsuna following his lead. The two stared at Kurtis who was at the edge. He sighed and jumped in after them.

The two were crazy, but he wasn't any better. At least he didn't casually snark at others as he threw an undead knight down a hole.

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The three pulled themselves out of the pool.

"Did we just…" Kurtis looked at the ceiling, "All swim down just to get the Periapt Shard?"

Tsuna coughed, "It happens."

Hayato snapped, embarrassed, "You're no better than me, Tsuna!"

"Oh, really? Name one time."

"You want to go there? How about the time in-"

Kurtis sighed.

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"Oh great. Couldn't we have arrived, I don't know, before he managed to gather all the pieces together?"

"Hey, no matter how bad Eckhardt just got, remember that time with the literal demons? That time with the literal gods? That time with the literal armed acrobatic skeletons? You swam with fucking piranhas, Tsuna!"

"What do you have against piranhas?!"

Ignore them, Kurtis thought as he raised his gun, ignore them.

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"Still alive, miss Croft. You are resilient. But over the decades, I've killed more mortals like you than I can remember."

"Bite me-!" Hayato slapped a hand over Tsuna's mouth.

"And stolen their body parts like a cheap grave robber." Kurtis snapped back.

Next to him, Tsuna and Hayato frowned, "Should we feel insulted too? I mean, we're technically 'grave robbers' as well."

"Hush, Tsuna, we're clearly on a higher level than him."

"And I will now take yours. Both of you."

"To wake this thing?" Hayato scoffed.

"I'll give it indigestion!"

"Tsuna, shut up."

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"I hunted down and killed the last of the Lux Veritatis."

"That's it; I'm going to kill him."

"You're the guy with the sharp toys, Kurtis."

'Sharp toys'? Kurtis pointedly did not comment.

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"I am immortal!"

"NOT WITH THESE SHARP TOYS WE HAVE, YOU AREN'T!"

"The Shards!"

"Tsuna! Stop waving them about!"

"Killjoy."

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"It is my destiny to breed Hell on earth. You are nothing to me."

"Greater beings than you tried. Care to guess how successful they were?"

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"Tsuna, don't burst into flames again!"

"I'm not doing it on purpose!"

"Uh-huh."

"He does that often?"

"More times than you think."

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"His aim sucks."

"Dogs are scarier than this."

"Hayato, dogs are the scariest thing ever."

"Hush, Tsuna."

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"He's… making clones of himself?"

"He's doing his absolute best to avoid getting close to us. Does he suck at hand-to-hand or something?"

"That would be embarrassing and disappointing."

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"Did he just use the clones just to teleport himself in?"

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"Wow. He does suck at hand-to-hand."

"Kurtis, the Shard."

"Right away."

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"Is he going to scream like that every time we drive a Shard into him?"

"I don't know, but I certainly hope so. It's surprisingly satisfying."

"Wow, Kurtis, you're so vicious. But I agree with you."

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"He's using fire now?"

"His aim still sucks."

"And I feel insulted on behalf of the fire being shot at us."

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"Oh look, he's making clones again. Except this time from fire."

"Is he… going to repeat the same approach as before?"

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"He is."

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"At least we get to hear him scream out of the experience."

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"I'm offering you the chance to become part of a benign new order in the world."

Tsuna shot him.

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"He's a Nephilim? Doesn't matter, I'm gonna kill him regardless."

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"I'm reminded of that one time with Set."

"Set? Like the Egyptian god?"

"Yes, that Set."

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"There, done. Can we leave now?"

"Yes. And-" Tsuna looked at Kurtis, "-we have some things to investigate."

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Tsuna and Hayato never got that chance to 'investigate'.

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After they made it out of Eckhardt's lab, Tsuna halted in his steps and sighed, despondent.

"Tsuna?"

"I… I don't think we'll get to stay here."

"What do you mean?" Kurtis observed him.

"Oh." Hayato was silent for a moment, "Maybe we could find a way to contact him even afterwards. Or he could."

"I don't know, Hayato. I'm not sure."

"What? We've been taken away by the light after the 'end' of our 'adventures' a lot of times. And it's true that we were moved through space, and sometimes through time, but what makes you think that this time would be different?"

"It's just a-!"

The light, horribly familiar to the two of them, swept them up, leaving Kurtis to stare in shock at the empty space that was just occupied by Tsuna and Hayato.

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Tsuna and Hayato both groaned after the light deposited them, then immediate snapped their heads up in shock; their voices were-!

"Oh my god!" Tsuna exclaimed, looking at the way too young Hayato in front of him, then looking down at himself, "Hayato! We're kids!"

"I can see that!"

"Who are you?"

The two froze and turned towards the speaker to see a dark-haired woman staring at them in shock.

"You," Tsuna started, "Can see us?"

"Of course I can. Why would I not be able to see you?"

Tsuna and Hayato looked at each other. This was new.

"Who are you? And where is my daughter, Lara?"

Uh-oh.

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End chapter 6