A/N: Sorry! I just had a new job and I barely getting the hang of it and getting my sleep back since my other job was all night shifts. Well enough rambling and excuses, I want to thank all the reviewers and those who had favorite and followed this story. Just so you know is an AU and some characters are not completely like in the manga or anime.
Disclaimer: Never will own Katekyo Hitman Reborn.
Chapter 6
Namimori, Japan
"Now, now children settle down," Reborn clapped his little hands in seriousness as he cosplay a kindergarten teacher on this fine morning (read: sun is not even out yet for a couple of hours). Reborn told everyone to come to the park to have fun or training as some thought (others for Reborn's amusement)
"Excuse me? Kufufufu but aren't you one as well?" Mukuro barely dodged a bullet.
"Care to repeat that?" Reborn asked rather darkly especially as he cocked his gun and pulled down his fedora, as Leon hissed.
"kufufufu, someone is in a need of a nap.." muttered the male illusionist, but Reborn chose to ignore him.
"Today we are going to play Vongola-style Hide-and-Attack,"
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"Oh I said the last part out loud, I meant Hide-and-Seek," Reborn smiled in mock apology, "now that we all here, introductions are in order, those who are pathetic enough not know who I am, I am the world's greatest Hitman Reborn," all smug-like.
"...Chikusa," muttered with no care.
"Ken!"
"Tsu-kun!"
"...chrome," shyly the girl incline her head in greeting.
"Kufufufu, Mukuro," leaning rather lazily on his summoned trident.
"Shamal Trident!" The doctor appearing out of the blue, shocking the girl and gasps of surprise from most of the boys.
"...Shamal what are you doing here?" sighed Reborn not really wanting to deal with his antics.
"For little Chrome-chan~!"
"Back off you perv!" Ken hissed, showing off his canine as Chikusa was twirling his yo-yo dangerously.
Tsu-kun in the other hand was giggling as he tugged Mukuro's sleeve. "He's funny, mean, but funny too." Mukuro smirked in agreement, but still a slight grip on his trident just in case...
Before anyone got carried away with their petty fights, Reborn began to say the rules, "Well Shamal will be the referee and no rules; who ever last found after time limit, wins!"
"Wait, who is 'It'?" Tsu-kun asked confused.
"Why thank you for volunteering Dame-Tsu", Reborn giving a sticker of "I'm IT!" to Tsu-kun who was caught off guard.
"Wait, Dame-Tsu didn't..." Tsu-kun froze as he realize two things:
1. he has to find everyone;
2. Tsu-kun just insulted himself!
"HIIEEEE!"
"Kufufufu, I'm guessing if 'It' loses and everyone who lost too suffer Vongola-style punishment?"
"Of course," Reborn nodded, "you have till midday and losers pay winner all of their savings"
"Eh, but Tsu-kun has no..." Tsu-kun notice the sudden deathly silence and realize he was alone with Shamal, who at the moment took out a beach chair out of nowhere and reading...some magazines.
"Um, Shamal?" The boy looked hopefully at the "perv" doctor who grunted that he listened. "What time is it?"
"...You got 2 hours or is it 1...?" he shrugged and went on ignoring Tsu-kun, "oh well."
Tsu-kun sighed, "meanie indeed," the boy walked after picking a random direction.
"AGH! Tsu-kun is dooomed!" At first Tsu-kun cried dramatically, but after a couple of hours he feel into a familiar depression..."I really am Dame-Tsu...na,"
"Look he trip...over nothing! Hahaha"
"What an idiot!"
"Who wants him on his team?"
"I don't want him!"
"You lower our class average!"
"No one wants to be friends with you!"
"No one wants you!"
"You can't do anything right!"
"Dame-Tsuna!"
"Dame-Tsuna?"
"DAME-TSUNA!"
Suddenly he crashed into a older girl. "Oh!" Tsu-kun looked up at the short orange haired girl.
"S-sorry!" the little boy bowed and frowned wondering why he stuttered.
"Kyoko get rid of that kid before I get rashes!" hissed a black haired girl that had a "grown up, no nonsense" air about her.
"Oh Hana don't be mean he's just a boy," Kyoko pouted childishly at her best friend and threw a wink at the little boy. Strangely enough a faint memory flew into his mind eyes.
"...she's talking to me!"
Tsu-kun frowned confused feeling that he met them before...Tsu-kun is not liking that his memories are coming too fast with strange feelings and not the kind that help whenever Tsu-kun is in trouble, he thought.
"Hello?" Kyoko was trying to get Tsu-kun's attention for a while as she tried to wave her hand in front of the boy.
"Oh s-sorry! my n-name is-s, um, is Tsu-kun," trying to sound brightly over his sudden return of stuttering. Fortunately the girl thought it was cute as her friend only huffed in annoyance.
"Hello Tsu-kun, my name is Kyoko and my best friend here is Hana and she is sixteen and I am turning fifteen myself." Hana protested and sputtered at her crazy friend for spewing personal information to a stranger and a child no less! Ignoring her, Kyoko asked, "So what are you playing?"
"Probably lost," interrupted Hana, annoyed at being ignored.
"Nah-uh! I playing hide-and-seek!" Tsu-kun feeling somewhat insulted.
"With your friends?"
"...friends?" Tsu-kun had not thought that way before, well he did, but actually hearing it from someone else and feel proud of it.."Yeah! With my friends!" Hana twitched as she saw a flowering background behind the little boy reminding her of an dark pony-tail childish best friend of hers...Her thoughts were interrupted by Kyoko giggling as she bid goodbye to the boy who said he better find them or else he "pays."
As they walk away Kyoko gasps,"Hana! You didn't get any rashes!"
"Wha?" Hana was speechless. That never happen before?! the serious looking sixteen-year-old girl thought. Maybe that child was no child? Remembering faintly a young boy who was quiet and bare through the monkeys of her school who hurt him.
"Maybe you are cure Hana!" Hana snorted at Kyoko's "diagnosis" as she scratch a rash when they passed by a preschool.
"HIEEEE!" At the back of his mind, Tsu-kun thought how he been screeching often today. But hey you would too if a rain shower of needles are pouring around you! Oh did Tsu-kun mention he was being attacked by an animalistic, canine-toothed teen as well?
"Remember squirt, you have to touch them so they are 'out,'" drooled Shamal before he squealed at the magazine as Tsu-kun cart wheeled away as needles pierced behind the boy.
The little boy looked around and grinned at his object of his first catch or should he say "fetch."
Tsu-kun ran like no tomorrow or as if Reborn was after him and pick up the stick and yelled, "Fetch!" Ken looked up disoriented and ran after it and brought it back to Tsu-kun happily. Tsu-kun grinned mischievously as he patted his head, "Good job and you are out." Ken froze and growled as he sat next to the perverted doctor. Unfortunately Tsu-kun could not have a victory dance for he ran when another rain shower of needles came back.
That is until he crashed into someone when Tsu-kun looked back to see if he was being followed.
"Kufufufufu, either you are lucky or as usual I'm unlucky," Mukuro smirked down at the pouting Tsu-kun,
"No fair, not even a challenge!"
"what was that? You want me to show you a challenge?" Mukuro had a dangerous crazy glint in his eye. Then again, Mukuro was also annoyed to be found like that, but he didn't have time to torture a little boy since a shower of needles that barely missed the male illusionist interrupted such thoughts.
"Watch it Chikusa!" hissed Mukuro who threw an illusion toward the emotionless beanie boy. This ruined the poor illusionis's victim's concentration, long enough for Tsu-kun to poke the boy at his side.
"3 down and 2 more to go," Tsu-kun muttered rather seriously as he went in search of his two hiders/attackers. Whereas everyone else thought two, is the other one if Chrome is the first one?
Vines and swirls of darkness flew chaotically around Tsu-kun who relied on luck, feelings, ...and Reborn's "tutoring."
"Oh, my dear Chrome," wiping off an imaginary tear, Mukuro looked proud at his cousin's illusions. He remembers when he last saw her, she had problems to even hold a mist flame for few seconds. Behind him, his lackeys decided there and then that they swear to not tell Mukuro the reason for her sudden boost was because of those scientists.
"Come on Chrome win that prize, so we can eat like kings!" Ken yelled from the sidelines as Chikusa nodded with a faint trace of drool at the thought of delicious food.
"But Tsu-kun's mom and Uncle Yamamoto are great cooks and would not mind cooking you guys something like chocolate cake or..."
The teens froze, but some for different reasons. Ken and Chikusa thought of good food he heard of the great chiefs Nana and Tsuyoshi, but the chocolate cake...
Mukuro thought drooling at his favorite treat: chocolate whereas Chrome careless the flavor but any cakes is enough for her. Seeing his chance, Tsu-kun pokes Chrome side and yells, "And now for Reborn!"
This snapped everyone from their daydream even Shamal's.
"Reborn?!"
"He's playing?!"
"That makes sense, kufufufu," Mukuro thinking back of all the mini games the guardians minus the sky, played with the sadistic baby," after all he isn't the referee. Suddenly the air turned cold and everyone's eyes (except Tsu-kun) had a mad glint as they in unity thought, "No way that sadistic baby will win!"
Surprisingly Chrome whispering with conviction when down to Tsu-kun's level and said, "Tsu-kun we will help you find him."
Tsu-kun was confused, but happy with the help
"Ok squirt you have 30 minutes till the deadline, we must spread out and yell out when we find Reborn, got it?!" An outcry of agreement resounded the neighborhood and they took off.
Vongola Mansion, Italy
Alls quiet at the Decimo office without the Decimo and three diligent guardians doing the paperwork as said Decimo was on another meeting with who knows. Gokudera was disturbed though as he subtle glanced a the happy-go-lucky rain guardian all serious like in a bad way and the a quiet loud mouth sun guardian. With his famous almost insignificant patience the storm guardian asks," What gives?!"
"Whatever you mean?" Takeshi putting on his false smile only directed to the Decimo, which at this point Hayato feels insulted and hissed warningly like an angry cat, "Takeshi..."
"Squalo-sensei asked me something," sighed Takeshi.
"...and?"
"well...I think I'm going to see Pops to help me with it," Takeshi scratching his cheek in embarrassment and Hayato has no idea why.
"EXTREMLY WHY?!" Ryohei getting his loudness back on, "CAN WE EXTREMELY HELP YOU?!"
"Nah," the rain guardian though grateful sighed, "besides I need time off since Squalo-sensei wouldn't teach me anything till I found such answer and what better way, but go home."
"I'LL EXTREMLY GO WITH YOU, AFTER ALL I EXTREMLY MISS MY SISTER!" They did not notice as Hayato turned tense as the sun and rain became excited to see their home country again.
"But the boss..." the sun guardian muttered going back to his quiet self and moping.
"Yeah, especially after Mukuro left, he's been..."
"JUST GO!" This made Takeshi and Ryohei jumped as Hayato tried to calm his outburst, "I'll think of something, unlike this other idiot."
"What?! YOU WANT TO EXTREMLY WANT TO START..." But Hayato left the room and the door lightly closed. The two guardians stared each other confused at the right-hand man's actions. Just as they walk to open the door the said door open and Hayato frowning glared at them, "You can go now."
"Wow Hayato, what did you say?" Takeshi was surprise as Ryohei was speechless for once.
"Just go before he changes his mind," huffed Hayato as he crossed his arms.
"Hahaha, thanks Hayato," smiling at his best friend.
"Extremely thank you," surprisingly lowering his yelling and rubbed his nose in a bashful kind of way.
"Yeah, yeah," he turned away to hide and fail at growing blush, but turned to them seriously, "be careful though something is definitely off and Kyoya and I will get to the bottom of this," they nodded and left.
Hayato sighed as he stared at the paperwork as he thought Mukuro's last words, "See you soon..."
"See us where?"
Somewhere in Namimori, Japan
"KYAA!" Kyoko ducked as another assassin reached for her as Hana tried in vain to fight back.
"What the...?" Hana notice their emblem with a familiar bullets on the shield like her best friends famiglia...then she knew no more.
"Hana!" the short orange haired girl panicked as she saw her friend slumped against the wall. When she looked around, Kyoko notice she was surrounded.
"Boss said punishment to those who defy them...and you're the punishment for such act little girl," sneered one of the assassins.
Kyoko cried as she saw her friend bleeding, and surrounded by men who now prepared to shot her.
"Chrome-chan we wont make it! Do that swirly thing with your brother!" and older man yelled.
"Oy! I'm her cousin!"
"...Darn, I guess Reborn won."
Kyoko saw that the first voice was right, it will be too late as she barely saw the people running toward her who are too far away.
"Too late indeed," who seemed the leader cocked his gun smirked cruelly.
Kyoko was about to shut her eyes to resign to her fate when a flying purple pizza twirled and landed on the leader's gun hand.
There was a hiss as the man cried out, "AHHH! MY HAND! IT BURNS!"
"Pitiful loveless men," scoffed a young woman with sharp green eyes.
A/N: WOA! Too long, figures no wonder took me a while to update *shifting eyes*
Anyways this chapter in a way was a filler. So wonder what is Reborn up to? Oh I think at the next chapter someone will find out about something and a mystery (and some of your curiosity) will come into the light. Hopefully it wont be disappointing. See you hopefully in two or one week!