Protecting, vice versa
Chapter 16: Ain't it ironic? (Part 1)
A/N: The tension is slightly lighter than those in the previous chapters, and also it's pretty ironic to one of the chapters. Also, I'm pushing my editing till after the next chapter, because this is just the first part due to a lot of school events. So... enjoy!
DISCLAIMER: Everything except the storyline does not belongs to me. Katekyo Hitman Reborn belongs to Amano Akira.
Betrayal.
Does it feel this way?
It... feels strange. Shock, sadness, hatred and anger all pilled up together, creating this weird... swirl of feelings in me.
Yet why... why is the face of the betrayer... covered in an expression of pure sastifaction? Do they not emphatize? Do they not feel our aching hearts?
...It doesn't look like he does.
After all...
...I've betrayed before haven't I?
And felt the pure sastifaction, haven't I?
And never spared a thought about the pain and hardship the betrayed experienced, haven't I?
I guess, after all, karma always comes back to you...
Hicagen slowly slid down, his conciousness barely hanging over the cliff, eyeing the unknown attacker, emotions spilling out from his once cold eyes.
"Wha..." ...was the first word that spilled out from the blonde's mouth.
"Aren't you supposed to be our ally?!"
The group blanked. And so a wind of solitude blew.
"Ally?"
"ALLY?"
"Why would allies stab their own kind?"
"Friendly kill?"
Tsuna put his arm out, his normal, squeaky, shouta voice coming out.
"Are you our ally or enemy?"
Of course the brunette would ask that question. A person who was supposedly an enemy for he was an ally of the enemy stabs his ally all of a sudden.
You don't understand it? Well, the unknown figure is an ally of Hicagen. Okay. Then he is supposed to be the enemy of Vongola. Okay. Then he stabs Hicagen.
And that's the part which made the group wary of him.
Of course, Tsuna trusts his Hyper Intuition... but he wanted to find out if this certain person is a lier or not.
The unknown figure, his previously smart attire now crumpled and filled with a couple of leaves, cleared his throat, opening his mouth to make the statement;
"I am neither an enemy..." He glanced at Hicagen. "...nor an ally." He looked back at the group, attempting to look cool with a glint of light sparkling in his eyes.
Enma blinked. "Then what are you?"
The unknown figure opened his mouth, and closed it again, seemingly not knowing what to say. Suddenly, he pointed his finger up in the air, as if he found the correct words.
"I'm human!"
"I MEAN, ARE YOU AN ENEMY OR AN ALLY OR SOMEONE IN BETWEEN?!"
"An enemy!"
"THEN WHY DID YOU SAY YOU WERE NEITHER?!"
Enma gasped in exasperation, not knowing what to say about the character.
Basil stood up, dusting dust off his coat while treating his wound- wait, Basil, where did you get those supplies from?
"Oh, thy got it from the Vongola medical men!"
I see- wait, DON'T GO READING MY MIND LIKE THIS!
Back to the story. Basil turned back to the unknown person, asking the question running through his mind.
"Thou was in the bushes, am I not wrong?"
The person blinked.
"Yes I was. How did you know?"
"Thy saw some ruffling in the bushes."
"...okay. Anyway, back to topic." He turned back to the brunette, which startled the said person.
"Kiyoshi Ryu..."
Tsuna stood in a defensive stance, as the voice he used seemed dangerous. But it was at that moment when his Hyper Intuition tugged the opposite way;
"YOUR VOICE IS SO CUTE!"
"..." Cue sweatdrops.
If Hicagen were to stand up now, he would immediately point at the hooded boss and go all, "HEY, HIS VOICE ISN'T THAT CUTE!"
Ahem.
Anyway, this is the overall view of the current situation; the unknown figure is now hopping around, squealing at the cuteness of the brunette's voice. As for the rest of the school, including the fighters, became white slabs of stone. While the bird of awkwardness flies past cawing.
Excluding the principal, who was still celebrating the fact that his precious school wasn't really destroyed, just the field. And he celebrated more about the fact that someone is going to pay for the damages.
Byakuran hummed a little, walking over calmly... before putting his mini White Dragon on his neck. With his mouth still in a smile, he asked, a playful yet serene tone dancing in his voice;
"Who are you?"
The unknown figure smiled a little, before swinging his left hand back and positioning it into midair...
Before appearing behind Byakuran from a momental whirl of dark flames.
Touching the albino's cheek with a finger, which made the Gesso boss turn at the sudden heat, the unknown figure whispered into his ears;
"Now, now, don't be hasty, will you?"
The other free hand of the unknown figure reached up and stroked the albino's chest, before heading to the bottom of the shirt-
"Umm, back to topic, please?"
Basil limped over, saying those lines while comforting a sniffing Bluebell.
The group sweatdropped, nodding their heads in agreement to Basil's sentence. Apparently, they were stunned at the fact that the unknown figure was... gay. Or at least that was just a simple assumption to the scene that had unfolded before them.
Coughing a little, the unknown figure removed his body from Byakuran's chest, unaware of the commotion he had caused between the group that was fighting and the students above.
"I'm sorry for losing control of myself." The unknown figure deadpanned, as if he had done this almost everyday. He then put his hand to his chest, continuing with the topic that had been pushed aside due to the little scene he had with Byakuran just now.
"My name is Hua Ming. Chen Hua Ming. (陈华明)" Hua Ming bowed, before tilting his head up, a menancing glint shooting past his irises. Of course, the group which had fought against the Gole Fenice had noticed it (except for Byakuran, who was still in shock from the sudden carress earlier.
"I am the boss of the famiglia Ye Shan. (夜山/Night Mountain)"
Hearing the name of the famiglia, Tsuna froze. With a shaking finger, he pointed at the smirking figure, opened his mouth-
"Are you from India?"
Silence.
Cue kick from the back of the brunette's head.
"Dame-Tsuna, is your brain not working again?"
Hearing the whisper of his old nickname, which could only have been said by but one person...
He whirled his head around.
A pair of onyx eyes stared into his brown ones.
"Reborn!"
Ryohei's eyes slowly opened, vision still hazy. He had disappeared for about 3-5 chapters- how much time has passed since he last showed?
Cue his usual first-word-of-the-day.
"EXTREMEEEEE!"
Raising both arms into the air, he scared away the Vongola medicalmen who were treating him.
"Onii-san!" Kyoko cried out in relief from above, half of her body sticking out of the window, her messy orange hair spilling all around her face while her classmates were frantically trying to pull her in.
With that cry of relief, the boxer remembered; he was fighting against the Gole Fenice's Storm Guardian, Flariek. Then he remembered the raging burning pain shooting right into the core of his right hand.
Then he remembered the sight of his hand-less arm.
Stopping halfway in the middle of his shout, the Vongola Sun Guardian lowered his arms, sadness plastered on every inch of his facial features.
He turned to his right, squinting his eyes, half-expecting a cast wrapped around his wrist, with no fingers or a palm beneath it. While the other side of him, the brainless one was expecting a cast, but under it, was a fully healed hand.
Well, the second option was obviously out of his reach.
That is, if he lived in OUR world.
After all, he lives in the world of KHR; the world in which anything and everything can happen. An example being a couple of people being able to go inside a damaged lazer-secured confined space without being lazer-ed. Oh, those geniouses Squalo and Dino! (Hint hint; Varia Arc, Tsuna vs Xanxus)
Ehem.
So, of course, he saw a cast wrapped around his wrist, and somehow, the boxer's expectations were still held high, as if his gut feeling was saying; "There's still a hand under there!"
It was irritating; he knew that there was no hand under there, and wanted to shake it off so bad.
In oredr to prove his bugging gut feeling wrong, he forced up his other hand, and grabbed his cast, ripping it off with such force that the huge bandage flew till the end of the field after it was taken off, despite the voices of warning from the Vongola medicalmen.
The Vongola Sun Guardian froze as the sight greeted him.
He raised it up slowly, and all the audiences gaped dumbly at the sight that greeted them.
"MY EXTREME HAND!"
Without even processing the situation, the white-haired boxer started running around in circles like a dog chasing its tail- wait, the mental image it gives off is quite disturbing...
So, in case you still don't know what's happening, behind the cast... was a completely, fully, healed hand.
How was this possible?
Well... let's just say that a certain gay and disturbingly well-built boxer had come... with his entire squad.
Trouble canth be smelt, canth it not?
"Ryohei-kun~"
Cue the boxer halting in the middle of his dog-like running and falling down due to the sudden stop.
He turned his headaround slowly, with his body still flat on the ground.
That disturbing butt-shaking just made his eyes burn and turn back again.
Well, it IS Lussuria and the rest of the Varia Assasination Squad, you can't expect anything less from their official and grand entrance to this fanfiction!
"Reborn!"
The baby hitman looked at the hooded brunette with calculating eyes, and then looked up at- wait, who was that again? Oh yes, Hua Ming. Anyway, Reborn looked at his face and squinted, as if concentrating a lot.
Tsuna blinked in confusion. "Reborn...?"
The ex-Sun Arcobaleno sighed in exasperation, and it seemed like he was troubled over something.
"I don't like his face."
Well, that was a huge blow to Hua Ming's pride.
Still, the boss of the famiglia Ye Shan laughed off nervously, as if he had never heard the comment. He tried to push away the topic of the conversation while attempting to raise his ego, by starting with; "Well, you know, my face isn't that-"
And he got cut off again.
"Dame-Tsuna, who is this guy anyway?"
Well, that was certainly a bigger hit to his ego.
Of course, rage did built up immensly in the body of the boss, but on the outside, all that was shown was simply a sacarstic, yet malicious smile...
And he vanished into thin air; only to reappear the next moment- behind Reborn.
As if time slowed down, the words were said perfectly clear for the hitman to hear before his attack hit the ex-Sun-Arcobaleno's body; "Regret your words, pay for your sin."
But Reborn IS the world's best hitman after all.
It was an instance; Leon changing into a metal stick, Reborn grabbing hold of the shape-changing chameleon, swinging his arm to the angle of the attack, and blocking the attack with a... a...?
...hold on, not one, but two weird-looking wheels?
And the wheels, from the glint of the sunlight reflecting off it, appeared to be made from metal.
He swung it back into his suit (no matter how on earth he did it) and smiled unconciously.
"How do you like my weapons, the Wind and Fire Wheels?" (1)
Silence.
"Wind and Fire Wheels?"
"...was it used in some magic incantation or something?"
Reborn silenced the chatter by firing his Chaos Shot into the ground, creating a vibration under the ground. Smirking, he uttered out a sentence bluntly;
"Now I remember this guy."
With that, Hua Ming brightened up a whole lot, while everyone who was watching stared quietly as the boss of Ye Shan picked up Reborn, threw him into the air, and snuggled the ex-Sun-Arcobaleno close to his face-
Woah woah, wrong move, dude.
And the warning came too late, as the huge dude got kicked in the face.
As Hua Ming recuperated from the harsh kick that came with suddenness, Reborn cleared his throat, and pointed at the coughing boss. With a clear, cute, yet stern voice, he announced the start of the buisness;
"Lets get down to the correct matter."
Gokudera gaped dumbly at the situation; Squalo "VOII"-ing endlessly in front of a Yamamoto lying on a stretcher, Mammon counting his money in a corner, Fran picking his nose in the corner of loneliness while complaining to the "fake prince" about his hair which was getting more curled up as each year passed, Bel throwing his knives at the huge frog hat due to the moans from the future Varia Mist Guardian, Levi pouring red wine for his boss sitting on a grand, red, velvety chair, and finally, Xanxus was doing what he has always been doing; sitting on his chair like the boss he always is.
Mukuro was now emitting a creepy aura, 'kufufu'-ing repeatedly while staring at the Gole Fenice's Rain Guardian, as she laid, still unconcious, at the corner of the field she had always been after she was knocked unconcious. Lambo was running around, randomly throwing grenades and had once nearly set off the Ten-Year-Bazooka on some of the Vongola medicalmen. Ryohei was running around with an imaginary tail, and it appeared that he was chasing it, while raising his healed fist up in the air.
Oh- and, if you are wondering how it had been healed, Lussuria simply used his peacock and silently remake the boxer's hand.
Continuing- ALL OF THEM DID NOT SEEM TO CARE- except Mukuro- ABOUT THE TENSE SITUATION GOING ON IN THE FIELD.
After all, they were away from the field, and rather behind the school, recovering from any damage attained.
But at one corner of the location they were at, they were able to see the whole field, and apparently Mukuro was the only one there (observing Reina).
Not surprising, since it IS about the first time he had been defeated. Well, that's besides the time where he had fought his current boss.
If not nothing's really happening here, just that the disturbing scenes from Lussuria keep happening occasionally.
Then, the sound of a blullet being shot and the vibration of the ground that followed soon after attracted the attention of the whole recuperating group.
"JUUDAIME!"
Gokudera, of course, due to his "affection" for his beloved boss, was the first to hop over the fence and run towards the field, despite his injuries. The bomber was then followed by Ryohei, who was "EXTREMELY" excited hearing the gunshot.
Wow. Superhuman strength and stamina.
The rest of them slowly limped over with the help of the Vongola medicalmen, due to the more severe injuries they recieved.
"Let's get down to the correct matter."
The group gulped, as the boss of Ye Shan got up, dusted his suit, and walked over to his original position.
By this time, the injured group had limped/ran over to the field, but their entrance did not deviate any attention from the Q&A session with the boss of Ye Shan.
Coughing, the ex-Sun Arcobaleno changed the grip of the Leon-metal-stick to his left hand, and pointed it at Hua Ming. The baby hitman asked, yet somehow stated very matter-of-factly, a question which probably most of you will be able to answer; "You are the boss of the famiglia ye Shan, am I not wrong?"
Nod.
Reborn tilted his head slowly, before continuing on with the next question after about 5 seconds of silence; "Which boss?"
"The 5th."
Silence engulfed the location as Reborn put his hand on his chin, thinking deeply about some information. Finally, he used that hand which had held his chin, and pointed at Hua Ming.
"The famiglia 'Ye Shan'... was supposed to be extinct 395 years ago."
Tsuna and the gang, including the audiences above, gasped as the baby hitman made his final statement, which could have as well expanded the duration of the Q&A session.
"What the hell...?!"
(1) These two wheels are melee weapons, wielded as a pair, associated with Chiense martial arts.
Each wheel is a flat metal ring approximately 38 cm (about 15 inches) diameter. One quarter-segment has a padded grip with a cross-guard; the other three segments have protruding flame-styled blade. With one wheel in each hand, the practitioner can slash, stab, parry, or disarm an opponent.
In a mythological story, a wind-wheel and a fire-wheel were tread on whilst chanting incantations, to serve as a magic vehicle.
REPLY TO REVIEWS
Faliara: Now you know. More to be revealed in time to come! :)
khrforever D: Hai, hai, I've revealed his identity. More to be revealed in time to come!
Sorry that this chapter is not too well written. You see, even though its after exams, I've been staying back NEARLY. EVERYDAY. TILL 5-6PM. Please symphatize ;-;
I don't know why I'm ranting here but... yeah. Leave a review please QAQ.
Await the next chapter, which could be coming slightly earlier due to the approaching holidays!
RawwrMage (10/02/2014)