Chapter 13

A World Hopping Maniac

Just taken a sneak peak at the next Reborn chapter and it looks really really good! I can't wait for the translations!

To: A Random Human: Thank you for the compliment! Wow, smart little bro you have there. Thank you for the advice, I'll keep it in mind if I get stuck. I love the 'Yet' at the end. With Verde here, god knows what his Vocab will be! Thank you for taking the time to review too, it means a lot.

Here they were once again at the Gate, and Tsunayoshi was determined not to go out.

"No!" he shouts, stomping his foot. "Reborn doesn't like him so I don't!"

"How can you tell if you've never met him?" asks Luce, they had been arguing for about 5 minutes now. Tsunayoshi's argument seemed wholly based upon Reborn's opinion.

"Because Reborn said so!" He is really determined not to leave. Reborn has a reason for everything, apparently, so there was (most likely) a very good reason for him not to step out of those gates once more.

"Reborn's opinion isn't too trust worthy" says a deeper voice, walking past the little boy. Tsunayoshi looks up and gasps as the man walks out of the gate too.

"Are you coming too Verde?" asks Tsunayoshi excitedly. The scientist turns around and looks at the little boy.

"I am. I have some people to visit." And that was all Tsunayoshi needed to hear. Running down the path, he nearly trips once more, but Verde catches him.

"Sorry." Tsunayoshi says, standing back upright. As he and Verde start to walk down the rest of the path, he gingerly reaches up and grabs Verde's hand. The scientist merely adjusts his grip and continues walking.

Luce would never understand why Tsunayoshi liked the more… eccentric and down-right dangerous people in their little made up family, more than the peaceful side. However the important thing was he was out of the gate, whether she made it happen or not.

"Why doesn't Reborn like this person?" Tsunayoshi asks, genuinely interested.

Verde grunts before saying "In case you haven't noticed, Reborn doesn't like a lot of people. It's part of his background to be suspicious of people." Tsunayoshi makes a little 'oh' sound, before continuing on with the walk.

They stop infront of a gate that is next to Aria's one. Yet before they can even ring the bell, the gate opens. Little Tsunayoshi can barely register a person dressed in a whole lot of white before something is placed in his mouth. He takes a step backwards before realising what's in his mouth: a marshmallow. Smiling at the taste, he finishes it, before looking up at who gave it to him.

With the gate now fully open, he can see that there are three little boys waiting for them. All seemed to be the same age as him. The first one had a large bag of marshmallows in his arm and white hair. The second boy was blond, wearing a green all in one and special glasses like Verde wears sometimes when he's dealing with metal. The third one was hiding behind the other two, clutching his stomach. He had red hair and glasses on.

"Hello Luce, Verde. Nice of you to visit." Says the white haired boy, smiling at both of them.

Tsunayoshi takes a few steps backwards and hides behind Verde's leg. He has this strange feeling that he should be scared of this boy, yet why should he if he's never met him before? No matter how he tries to talk himself out of it, there is just this feeling that the boy before him could harm him really badly.

Luce notices this, but just assumes that Tsunayoshi is shy at meeting new people. Grabbing his arm, she pulls him away from Verde's legs and introduces him to the three boys.

"Tsunayoshi, this boy here is called Byakuran. The blond one is called Spanner" said boy rummages around in his pocket and produces a funny shaped lollipop. Something inside Tsunayoshi tells him that this boy is alright, so with a nod from Verde, Tsunayoshi accepts the gift with thanks. "And the one hiding at the back is Shoichi." The boy waves and moves to stand on Spanners other side.

"Verde, we've got something cool to show you" says Spanner. Verde smiles down at the two boys and gestures for them to lead the way.

Still keeping a hold of Verde's hand, Tsunayoshi follows everyone else inside the house. After a little walk they stop, and Byakuran opens a door. Peaking inside, Tsunayoshi can see a group of people older than him sat on sofas drinking coffee.

"Oi Idjit, where did you run off to?" says one of the boys inside.

Byakuran coughs and waves a hand in Luce's direction. "We have guests Zakuro." Those inside all turn to look, even the baby with bright blue hair.

"Ah-ho, it's so nice to have you join us, Miss Luce. Care for some tea?" asks a different boy with green hair.

"That would be lovely, thank you Kikyo" Luce looks down at Tsunayoshi. "Do you want to join me, or go with Verde?" she asks. Tsunayoshi takes another look inside, and gets chills. He points to Verde and Luce sighs. "Alright then, I'll see you later." She and Byakuran step inside, with the white haired boy waving to him before he shuts the door behind himself.

Tsunayoshi suddenly feels a lot calmer and turns to the two boys still with him. "Oh, sorry, my name is Tsunayoshi" he says waving at the pair. They both wave back.

"So what have you two been up to?" asks Verde as they walk down more corridors. Tsunayoshi watches on in amazement as Verde continues to have a conversation with the two. He had never seen Verde talk that much! Although he didn't get most of what they were saying either.

When they finally entered the correct room, Tsunayoshi decided it was funny how much like Verde's room it looked. There were books everywhere, along with long strings of wires, tiny versions of tools Verde had and lots of metal and screws and the like.

The boys plopped themselves down in the only clear space in the room. Verde sat down too and Tsunayoshi placed himself in Verde's lap. The boys opened their eyes wide at this, not believing the sight. Verde didn't really mind though, already more than used to it. Tsunayoshi quite often sat and watched him work. Instead, Verde just brought his hands around the child to pick up the contraption set infront of him. Bringing it closer to himself, he had also absentmindedly brought it to a place that was easy for Tsunayoshi to look at it too.

They were interrupted from their inspection by Shoichi laughing. Verde raises an eyebrow "What's funny?" Even Spanner has a slight smile on his face.

"Nothing really" admits Shoichi. "But you two both had the same expression on. Tsunayoshi was copying you perfectly."

"He was?"

"I was?" asks Tsunayoshi, tilting his head to the side. Tsunayoshi quickly forgets that as the light bounces off the item in Verde's hands. "Verde, what is this?"

Verde looks down at him, and then to the boys "Care to explain?" he offers.

Spanner sits up a little straighter and starts to explain "Light Piano". And that's all he says, as if that's all he needs to say.

Shoichi took over the explanation as if it was perfectly natural to do so. "Spanner came up with it one day. Basically, there is metal on the bottom of the keys. When you press a key, the Piano makes the correct sound like it should. But the metal also touches some more metal and lights up a light bulb too. So you get lots of different coloured lights as you play a song. Watch"

At the cue, Verde placed the tiny kiddy piano on the floor and Shoichi proceeded to play a scale by dragging his finger down the piano. As each note sounded, the light lit up, creating a trail from top to bottom and back up again. It looked as if the lights were chasing Shoichi's finger.

Verde took the piano back and flipped it over to show the wires underneath. It was really very basic. Just simply wires going from the keys to the battery to the bulb and back. "A good job boys" Verde praises. Tsunayoshi knows they must have done well since Verde never says that to anyone.

"Um" says Tsunayoshi, looking down at his hands. "Can I… Can I have a go?" the lights had looked really pretty and he wanted to see them again.

"Sure" says Spanner, giving permission. Verde lays the flat piano across his knees for Tsunayoshi's easy access. Slowly, he taps one key and jumps when it makes a noise. Gathering up courage, he taps another key and giggles when the light lights up. Having more courage now, Tsunayoshi taps lots of different keys, watching the lights flash on and off. It doesn't sound very good though.

Whilst Tsunayoshi is busy playing the two boys get up and run around the room picking up pieces of paper. Verde stops Tsunayoshi from playing once the two boys sit back down again. Spanner lays one piece of blue paper on the floor. Tsunayoshi looks at the white lines, wondering what it is.

"Robot" supplies Spanner "Mini-Mosca" Tsunayoshi had to admit that the vaguely human shaped drawing did look cute. Verde picks the paper up and looks at the hand written notes.

"So it's like a helper. It can do odd chores, and even has a … microwave, along with storage compartments. Hmm, sound really useful. You'd have to wait until you are older before you could possibly make it though." It is the first time Tsunayoshi sees Spanner smile.

"Um, what's a robot?" asks Tsunayoshi. It sounded cool whatever it was. Verde has to think for a moment to decide on how to make Tsunayoshi understand.

"Well, it's made from metal and looks similar to us; they generally have arms, legs, hands and such, but not always. What they do depends on what you tell them to do. It's a very basic term to describe a lot of things."

"Like this one" says Shoichi, holding up a piece of paper. It looked like a square box on wheels. "This is a vacuum cleaner that will do the cleaning by itself and won't bang into things. I haven't figured out how to do that part yet."

Verde laughs. "I'm noticing a theme here. Do you two hate cleaning?" Both boys nod. "And to answer your problem, you can make a program using lasers that can measure the distance between it and obstacles, can sense the things around it and manoeuvre around them" All three little boys look lost "You'll learn that later. Just know it can be done." Shoichi brightens up and claps.

"That's cool!" Both Shoichi and Spanner look rather excited to know something like that can be done.

"And finally, what did you two make with the moving motors and cogs I gave you?" Last time Verde was here, he had shown the boys the motors that could move up and down and left to right. He had left some behind that were already attached to power sources and metal poles, so basically it was like an art attack. The boys just had to join a few of the together and chose a shape- nothing too difficult since Verde had already done the hard work. Basically all it really needed was some glue and imagination.

Spanner gets up and walks over to a different corner of the room, before placing a teddy bear infront of Tsunayoshi and Verde.

"Teddy!" shouts Tsunayoshi- finally something he knew.

Oh, this was more than Verde was expecting.

Spanner reaches inside the teddy's back to press the power switch. The teddy's head moves left to right whilst his arms moves up and down as if asking to be picked up. Tsunayoshi giggles and claps at seeing the teddy move.

Picking it up and taking a look inside, Verde saw how simple it really was. It was amazing that it worked at all considering everything was stuffed rather haphazardly inside, but he hadn't expected anything more from the boys. The three component motors weren't linked at all, but rather just stuffed into the arm or head whilst the motor remained floating around in the teddy's chest. However he was amazed that they had even thought to put it inside something. The range of motion was limited by how far the teddy could already move, and by how far the fabric would stretch.

However Verde was impressed considering the young age of the two boys. They really were mechanical geniuses, especially with his help and guidance. When they grew up and understood what they were doing better, they would be nearly as good as him. Like with the Piano, they didn't know what electricity was, but it was enough for them to know that three wires, one battery and two pieces of metal to make a switch would make the light bulb light up. At this age, they didn't need to know about the movement of electrons, nor about conductivity. Tsunayoshi giggles once more, before copying the movements of the bear; rather jerky, slow and 'square' movements left and right.

"Hahaha, Verde look, I'm a robot too!"

"Gya! Tsunayoshi that was so cute!" shouts Luce, rushing over and hugging the life out of him. Whilst she has ahold of him, she walks out of the door and down the corridor. The little boy waves forlornly to his two new friends and has no choice but to be carried by the woman. A few moments later finds him sat on her lap in the room of scary people.

Yet Colonnello always told him to face his fears straight on and soon they wouldn't be scary anymore. Luce had always told him to get to know people before he judged them. So he would.

"Um, hello" he says, looking at the people around the room.

"Tsunayoshi, this is the Gesso Family. They are very good friends with my daughter Aria."

Tsunayoshi jumps a little when suddenly one of them is directly infront of him, holding a small yellow and white flower "Hello little one. My name is Daisy"

"Um, I really like your bunny" says Tsunayoshi pointing at the bunny in Daisy's arm and smiling.

"Thank you" says Daisy. "Do you want to hold her?" Tsunayoshi nods, and giggles as the bunny changes hands. He sits there playing with the bunny for a few moments, flopping its ears and making its arms move before he notices that all eyes are on him.

"Hee hee" he giggles nervously. Looking around for a change of subject, Tsunayoshi spots the baby being held in the green haired man's arms. What was he called again? Luce had said it earlier, umm, umm, Kikyo! That was it.

Jumping off Luce's lap Tsunayoshi toddles over to take a closer look. "Who's that?" he asks. Byakuran comes over and softly brushes the blue hair of the baby, smiling down sweetly at her. Taking her out of Kikyo's hands, Byakuran gently rocks her before offering her to Tsunayoshi "This is Bluebell." After seeing that display of affection, the something inside Tsunayoshi eases and the feeling completely goes away.

Luce comes up behind the boy and gently helps Tsunayoshi to support the baby. She's surprisingly heavy for a four year old to carry, so Tsunayoshi ends up sitting on the floor to better support her. After a few minutes, the baby gets bored of playing with Tsunayoshi and falls asleep, so Luce takes her away from him.

Tsunayoshi then goes and walks over to the masked man. The Gesso Family are interested to see what Tsunayoshi's reaction will be. Most people are scared of him. Even adults run in fear from him, disturbed by the mask, children don't even get close enough to see the mask, scared by his mere size.

"Don't be sad, I'm got scared." Says Tsunayoshi, patting the huge man's knee. "Just don't let Verde near your mask alright!" he smiles as he looks up, hands behind his back. The Gesso Family are amazed that someone outside of their tight family could even know about that. No one has even mentioned it. Even Luce doesn't know what Tsunayoshi means.

"What do you mean Tsunayoshi?" Asks Luce, looking confused.

Tsunayoshi spins around to face her, hands still behind his back, before bringing one finger to his lips and winking at the Gesso Family "Can't tell, it's a secret!" Then he bounces over to Kikyo before Luce can say anything. "Ah-ho"

Kikyo looks shocked for a moment, before smiling back and saying "Ah-ho"

"Ah-ho"

"Ah-ho"

"Heeheehee, you're so funny mister" the boy laughs, holding his stomach

"And you're so cute Tsu-chan" says Byakuran offering the bag of marshmallows. "Did you like Sho-chan and Spana-chan?"

"Yeah! They had moving lights and a moving teddy bear." Answers Tsuna, arm motions aplenty. He looks around at the older laughing people but feels like something is missing. "Isn't there one more of you?"

Byakuran gives him a funny look before deciding to play a game with the child. Leaning in close he whispers "Yeah, a Ghost"

Tsunayoshi pales and barely stutters out "A-a A GHOST!" he takes a few steps backwards, sees Byakuran nod before screaming "Wahhhh!". Spinning around he forces the door open and runs down the corridor "Verde! They have a ghost! Save me!"

Tumbling into the mechanic's room Tsunayoshi barrels into Verde, grabs him and starts bawling his eyes out. Sternly Verde tells the child "Tsunayoshi there is no scientific evidence proving ghosts are real. So stop crying."

Tsunayoshi sniffs and looks up. "But Byaku-chan said there was."

Verde sighs "I'm telling you there are not. Now it's time to go home."

"Alright" mumbles Tsunayoshi before turning to wave at his two new friends "Bye Bye! I had fun today"

Spanner 'hmm' in agreement and waves, whilst Shoichi says "We did too, come back next time Verde come over!"

Taking Tsunayoshi's hand so he doesn't get lost, Verde goes back to find Luce. "We're going now" he says as he walks past the door Tsunayoshi had left opened in his hasty escape. Tsunayoshi takes a peek inside the room as he passes and sees someone new in there. Tugging his hand out of Verde's he runs inside.

"Reborn? Wah! Put the Gun Leon down" he screams

"I knew I couldn't leave you in here with this brat" growls Reborn. "If he harmed you at all, I'm going to-"

"I was scared because he said there was a g-g-ghost in here." The small boy admits looking around the room suspiciously. Reborn glares at him before whacking him on the head.

"That was all? Grow up idiot. There are no such things as ghosts. How could you be scared of something that doesn't exist?" Sighing over Tsunayoshi's meekness, he picks the boy up over his shoulder and leaves the room.

"Sorry about Reborn" Luce apologises. She makes her farewells before following the men out of the house.

"Tomorrow you are coming with me somewhere safe." Informs Reborn as they leave the Gesso Family behind them.

Now before you all have a go at me for how smart our mechanics are, I know that most 4 year olds couldn't do that. But this is Spanner and Shoichi who are being taught by Verde. Like I explained, they just copy the concept Verde shows them with no real understanding, alright. And who doesn't love the Mini Mosca from the anime?

I hope you enjoyed the trip to the Gesso Family, join me next time!

Phantom Hitman 1412

First Published 11 March 2012

GYAAAA! I've just watched Rebocon 5 which I didn't even know was out. It is so funny, and even better than the ones before!

Reborn's VA does her opening with her background dancers wearing her costumes from other Rebocon's. And Spanner and Shoichi's simulation is even better than the Blue version. Spanner has this huge ps2 like controller and immediately stops the song and plays around with it, changing the lyrics too. Then a load of robots come out and start dancing and Shoichi doesn't have a clue what's going on. Spanner gives him these glasses and then Shoichi dances like the robots too- which is awesome. At the end Spanner puts on the glasses too, and both of them go off stage like a load of robots. It's so funny even if I don't have a clue what anyone is saying! And during Squalo's song, he's on stage with a sword battling the back up dancers! And you know those songs people sing together, like R27 Canvas or 61869 One night Star or they sing those live too! The Canvas with Reborn and Tsuna singing is my fav Reborn song atm.

There's this little ranking bit where the public could vote for songs under certain categories. In disk 1 the ranking is for 'ones that made you laugh'. Number 5 was Spanner and Byakuran's version of Lambo and I-pins Ramen song, which was really funny since they don't really show any emotion at all, just like in Blue. At 4 was Mukuro and Dino's Kufufufu but Dino's VA wasn't there so he didn't sing. Next at 3 was Lambo and Squalo, dressed in all-in-one cow suits! (yes I know!) like Lambo wears normally singing Lambo-san no Yabou . And if that wasn't enough, Spanner comes on with a fake 10 year bazooka, shoots it and sings as 15 year old Lambo since he does that voice too, dressed in the same cow suit the others are in. The two 'Lambo's' hide behind Squalo as they switch between their two ages with Squalo shooting the bazooka as they sing different lines of the song. And then the two Lambo's do the whole, Who are you, I'm Lambo bit, and then ask Squalo. Squalo does his little bit from his song Chinkonka no ame, and goes I'm Squalo, Superbi… and Little Lambo cuts him off. Next at 2 was Yamamoto and Reborn singing Reborn's cosplay party, which is really funny too. All of the others on stage have cards with Reborn's various cosplay throughout the series and hold them up when it's mentioned in the song. But what makes me laugh the most is Yama and Reborn's dancing! At number 1 was the Varia version of Tatta Latta- I loved it when they did it at Rebocon Blue. But this time, Levi and Lussuria do it too. It's practically the same as at blue, but with the two others added in.

Hibari's VA sings Pride really well, and as he leaves stage left, he stops, spins and glares at stage right where Mukuro comes on to sing End:Res, which was funny. And for Xanxus' song, the Varia all come on with Flaming tikki torches for the first half. The background dancers are really good too and full of energy like in Bloody Prince. Gokudera doesn't have any songs until after 1.5 hours! He sings the same song he did in Red where everyone goes into the audience and swings scarves about, Hashire I think. Then Ryohei's VA plays the harmonica really well before singing Looking at the sunny sky without any backing music and he's really good!

For the encore they sing to our promised place, with the Varia and the rest singing too.

And that's disk 1!

For Disk 2 they show what they did on other days/shows. So in a different show, Basil guest stars and they do Right now. Then Chrome sings afterwards. And then Yuni.

On a different day, Dino sings too followed by Lal's burning prayer and then Mammon sings her song! Mammon's VA is really cute too. Then there's 598033 familia followed by Byakuran and Shoichi doing gr8 story and then Xanxus, Squalo Bel Lussuria do funny sunny day.

Then there is a load of different rankings this time 'this made me numb' with the girls doing tatta latta, then Chikusa, Chrome and Mukuro sing Kufufu. Then it's supposed to be Yama and Squalo doing chinkonka no ame, but Basil plays squalo's part instead, and finally is Sakura addiction with Hiba and Mukuro.

Then there is a third set of rankings for you can feel the bond. In 5th was Reborn and Tsuna doing Yama and Goku's oretachi no joy with Tsuna holding a baseball for Yama and Reborn holding a fake dynamite for Gokudera. In 1st and 2nd place was Yama and Goku's other song, with them in second place and D18 version in first place. There was a funny bit where Dino and Hiba have to sing but Hiba doesn't want to, says no and goes sits back down as the intro is playing. Dino goes over to get him back up, so Hiba uses that opportunity to take centre stage and sing the opening. Since they went first, during the instrumental break, Gokudera comes on saying 'that's not right, we'll show you the right way' basically. Then all four sing together!

Sorry for the ramblings, I was writing as I was watching, lol. PM me if you want the link to watch/ download it. I don't own it in any form and all credit goes to the people who did the hard work alright.