Chapter 46:

And a Hitman Works around it.

I just wanted to check, but you are all fine with me adding in more action into this fic right? It'll still be cute and fluffy, I assure you. But I don't want you all getting bored with daily life stuff- although this chapter is the last of the 'Daily Life of an Arcobaleno' arc. We'll be moving on to something much more interesting that was suggested to me a very long time ago. So I hope you're looking forwards to it.

And another reminder that Reborn's chapter is a controversial one, although you didn't seem to mind Bermuda's that much…

Did it make you sick?

Reborn didn't really care about this alternate future world thing that had happened. Nor did he care about the message that this older Boss-like Tsuna had said. He should sort his own problems out, not rely on a new born version of himself to pull through where he couldn't. And the reason he couldn't care less was because he was going to do it anyway. It was nice to know that Tsunayoshi had the potential to become someone like that- Viper had provided a good feel of his aura through her illusion movie and that Tsuna had one to be proud of.

But the thing was, Reborn knew he could do better. Reborn had planned to do better even before the whole fiasco had happened.

He knew that many people noticed it, the Varia had, the Giegue had and even the GateKeepers had. Tsunayoshi was a glittering mine of untapped potential. A literal absorbent blank canvas that he could do anything with. Tsunayoshi had taken very well to what training they had given to him so far.

Now it was time to strike down one of the most important and influential paint strokes and see if the canvas could handle it. This could very well define the picture.

Now was the best time since the Canvas was still mainly White, Black and Red. Tsunayoshi had grown up around their aesthetics. He had grown up on a Mafia Island. His view of the world was unbiased and fresh to mould. The reason being they had brought him up that way and he knew no differently. He didn't know this wasn't considered normal.

Reborn wasn't being selfish. Well only slightly. But doing it now was better for Tsunayoshi. It was going to save him from a broken heart and mind later on in his life. It was best to do it now before Tsunayoshi got a rose-eyed view of the world.

"Tsunayoshi, you like spy movies don't you?" asks Reborn, lounging on the sofa with his feet up on the coffee table.

Tsunayoshi looked up from the picture he was drawing with his crayons and grins. "Yeah! Me and Colonnello and Skull watch them all the time. Things go Bang and Boom and you have to be sneaky sneaky." Tsunayoshi curls his shoulders in and lifts up his arms, doing the stereotypical tiptoeing pose.

One side of Reborn's mouth twitches upwards in a smile. "Sneaky sneaky, eh? Good, you're coming with me today."

Tsunayoshi throws his crayons into the air with a cheer. He was going to get to go with Reborn today!

After breakfast Reborn takes Tsunayoshi up to his room before helping the boy to change into his… Spy gear. Which basically consisted of as much body armour as Reborn could fit onto the little boy. Sakura Miura knew how to make body armour. Although, Reborn considered, Tsunayoshi wasn't that small anymore. In the many months between now and the Bovino incident he had grown a lot. He was still small, complete with chubby cheeks and baby fat, but Reborn could see the muscles starting to form from their training. Being around them meant there was no chance of Tsunayoshi becoming fat.

"Reborn, you're forgetting something." Tsunayoshi whines as Reborn picks him up and heads for the door.

"Hn, I don't think so." Reborn never forgot something. Ever.

As they walk out of the door Tsunayoshi leans further over Reborn's shoulder, stretching an arm out back towards the room.

"But… But, the hat!" Tsunayoshi sniffs. Reborn had no choice but to return to the room and grab the fedora, slapping it down hard on the boy's head.

"All better~" Tsunayoshi sings, all sign of sniffles disappeared.

They leave even before the sun has risen. Walking down past the GateKeepers, they arrive at the docks and, luckily for Tsunayoshi, climb into a helicopter instead of a boat. When they are finally in the air, Tsunayoshi gets up on his knees and takes a good look outside. They were so high up, he could see everything from here. He wasn't scared of heights at all. Heights were safe. Heights meant he was above everyone and could watch everyone at once. Height meant he could watch and protect. Hmm, where had that thought come from?

"Where are we going?" asks Tsunayoshi, being forced to sit back down by a tug from Reborn on his harness. Everything was so loud that it was hard to hear, even with this large clunky helmet on. Reborn's voice sounds clear though, somehow blending in with the noise yet the deepness of it cut through.

"An assignment from Nono." Reborn replies, lifting the manila folder slightly from where he was re-reading it.

"From Gramps?" asks Tsunayoshi. Reborn nods his head, ignoring the name Tsunayoshi had just used. Timoteo had tried many times to get Reborn and Viper to call him that.

Reborn turns to the small child, a serious look on his face. "We're sneaking into a rival Family's house, stealing some information and then getting out of there. You have to be silent since we can't be seen. It would be very very bad to be seen." Tsunayoshi catches on to Reborn's serious no-nonsense mood and nods solemnly. He didn't want to stop Reborn from doing his job. Plus, spies had to be silent when they were being sneaky sneaky. That's what the cool hand movements were for.

"Why did Nono send you?" asks Tsunayoshi. It sounded rather easy, Reborn was an expert in hiding and remaining unnoticed.

"The Varia are too loud and the information that we are getting is something that can't be trusted to the normal Mafioso. He chose me since he knew I could do a good job and I'd protect his secret."

"Secret secrets." Nods Tsunayoshi, understanding the concept of secrets. Leon crawls down from Reborn's shoulder and onto Tsunayoshi's lap. "Hear that Leon? You've got to keep it a secret." The chameleon nods an affirmative before crawling up to sit on Tsunayoshi's shoulder. The boy giggles as Leon crawls up him since it had tickled so much.

The helicopter lands ontop of a skyscraper in the middle of a large town. They get out and go down the elevator before exiting the building. Never having seen so many people, so many strangers, at once, Tsunayoshi instinctively grabs Reborn's hand before taking a step backwards, placing the hitman between him and the rest of the world. Reborn tugs Tsunayoshi forwards and walks into the crowd.

They get a few looks, mainly because people didn't see a small boy in a suit too often, and also since Reborn didn't look like the type of person to have children. They continue on walking towards the edge of the city, getting into the more industrial area. The crowd thins out and Tsunayoshi starts to feel more comfortable. Eventually Reborn comes to a stop and pulls him into an alleyway after checking that no one was watching them.

Reborn bends down to be able to look the boy directly in the eyes, hard black meeting soft brown. "We're going to start." Tsunayoshi nods. But there was one last thing Reborn needed to say. One last piece of insurance. He couldn't have a moment of clumsy Tsunayoshi coming through. He needed the agile one. So looking directly into Tsunayoshi's eyes, eyes harder than they'd ever been before, Reborn says. "It's life or death."

Did your body stop obeying you?

Tsunayoshi's eyes taken on their own slight hardness. Almost like a password, phrases like that somehow initiated his serious side, the one that they had been training. The one that could run without tripping, the one that could run before he could walk. The one that dodges bullets and catches knives.

"Then don't disappear Reborn." Says Tsunayoshi quietly. That's what he knew death as, to disappear and never be seen again. There had never been any misconceptions over what Reborn's job was. Reborn sometimes made people disappear, sometimes he made them cry, sometime he hurt them worse than he hurt Skull. It was what the Mafia asked of him.

Reborn nods in approval of the boy's answer before standing back up. He checks his watch before grabbing the boy's hand once more. He pulls Tsunayoshi across the street and into an alley on the opposite side. They stop behind a pile of boxes.

"Leon." Reborn whispers. The animal walks over to Reborn from where he'd been under Tsunayoshi's shirt. "Check the route is clear for us to enter."

Leon nods before emitting come sort of croak, or whatever sound chameleons made. Within seconds the area was surrounded by bugs of all shapes and sizes. Tsunayoshi even recognises some of them from when they had been in the house or in the garden. Of course Verde kept on giving them those silly names that never made any sense and were totally wrong, but he eventually gave better names afterwards. There were ants, some fruit flies and some cockroaches. Leon makes another noise before the bugs all disappear. Some go into the cracks in the wall, others inside an air vent and some crawl under the door.

"What did Leon do?" asks Tsunayoshi, keeping his voice as low as possible. It was the voice he used to talk to Fantasma when Viper was still asleep.

"They are my minions and informants." Reborn explains. "Leon talks to them and then he tells me what I need to know. They are checking to see if the corridor we're about to walk into is clear of people. They are going to keep us safe." Tsunayoshi leans backwards, mouth forming an 'o' in understanding before he pats Leon on the head.

Less than a minute had passed before some of the insects had returned. They communicate with Leon through a series of clicks, arm movements and antenna waving before Leon turns around and looks at Reborn. Tsunayoshi watches the pair, waiting for the magic moment of communication. What was Leon going to do? Turn into a pen and write the answer? Turn into a keyboard and type the answer? Was he going to croak and Reborn was going to translate? Wait, could Reborn even speak Chameleon? What was going to happen…

Leon nods.

Reborn nods.

That's it.

Tsunayoshi looks between the pair as Reborn stands up with the obvious intent to walk through the door. That was it? No cool spy code? Not even a hand movement… nothing?

Tsunayoshi quickly runs up over to where Reborn was picking the lock. It clicks and the door opens. Reborn peers around the door, checking for any cameras before opening the door wider and letting them both in. Reborn draws the door close, so anyone who walked past wouldn't know that it had been open, but it was still a viable escape route. Reborn brings one of his guns out and re-checks that it's loaded before turning a corner.

They stalk down the corridor on silent feet. Tsunayoshi had helped Colonnello train to be silent in a forest in secret so many times that he could walk silently too. He found it was great fun to scare the others by surprising them since they never heard him coming. Reborn comes to a sudden stop, placing a hand behind him to stop Tsunayoshi too. Leaning down Reborn explains, "There is a camera just around the corner. It swings to the left and right. We're going to walk underneath it, but to do that we have to cross it's line of sight twice. We time it carefully and wait for it to face the other way before running to the middle. It can't see us if we're standing below it. When it faces the other direction, you run straight down the rest of the corridor and round the corner okay?"

"I understand." Tsunayoshi confirms. This was in the spy movies too. It wasn't possible for Reborn to carry Tsunayoshi across. Due to his larger size, he needed to be pressed flat against the wall to remain unnoticed. If he was carrying the boy, then they'd be discovered at the bottom of the camera feed.

Reborn decides to go first. If he was at the other side then he could always shoot the camera down in a pinch. He didn't want to since someone would notice the feed going off and call the alarm, but if it saved them from finding out about Tsunayoshi, then he'd willingly shoot it down.

"Tsunayoshi, can you still hear me?" asks Reborn in a loud whisper- Leon hadn't said that anyone was close by at the moment.

"Yeah." Tsunayoshi replies back in the same tone.

"When I count down from three, you run around the corner okay. The length you need to run is about as long as the dinner table. That's when you stop and wait for the camera to look the other way. On 'go'. Three… Two… One… Go."

At Reborn's cue, Tsunayoshi runs as fast as he can for the spot Reborn had described. He stands underneath the black box, watching it as it swung around to look at where he had been previously. Now all he had to do was run across. He knew when to run. That feeling was telling him again. It had… to be… now!

Before Reborn can even prompt Tsunayoshi to move, the little boy barrels around the corner and straight into him. Reborn catches him and gives him a pat on the back for a job well done. They would be safe for the rest of the way now. Nono had provided him with a map of the place, including where all of the security cameras were. There were no more between here and their ultimate destination.

He allows Tsunayoshi to climb on his back since they could move faster this way. Plus the little boy would be less of a target if someone came up on them from the front. They go down some twisting corridors, always checking for the sounds of human life before moving on. Reborn had timed this raid very carefully. Watchers and moles from the inside had provided data on the Family's schedules and dealings. Dawn was still less than an hour away, so no one would be up at this time. The time for parties had ended long ago, nor was it early enough to be awake for the day.

Eventually they make it to the room Reborn wants to be at. They kneel down and peek around a corner to see a closed door with a small box on the outside. Reborn knew he had the right room now. That box was a finger print scanner to allow access only to certain people. The lucky thing was, there were already people in the room since it was manned 24/7.

Leaning out into the open, Reborn shoots at a pile of boxes, trash, and cleaning materials. The silencer cancels out the sound of the bullet before it crashes into a mop handle. The mop moves, collapsing forwards in its bucket. As mop and bucket go down, they crash into the trash and boxes, causing a loud clattering sound.

"Eh? What was that?"

"Why don't you go and check it out. No one should be up yet."

"Yeah, but remember we had that celebration party last night. The others will be drunk out of their minds. It's probably one of them stumbling around."

"I'll go and check. Stay here."

"Yeah yeah, just don't get puked on."

The door opens and a suited man pokes his head out, looking down the corridor. Seeing no one, he takes another step outside of the room. Reborn takes the opportunity and shoots another bullet. Tsunayoshi notices that this one is a blue blur instead of the usual black one. It hits the man in the chest. Before the Mafioso can react, he falls asleep to the ground.

Putting a hand up to still Tsunayoshi, Reborn creeps across the corridor and into the newly opened room. There is the sound of another silenced bullet before another body hits the floor. Reborn pokes his head out before beckoning Tsunayoshi in. Whilst Tsunayoshi looks around the room, Reborn brings the sleeping body in the room before shutting the door so they wouldn't be discovered.

"Did you kill them?" asks Tsunayoshi, poking one of the men.

"No, I sent them to sleep." Reborn replies.

"That was a special bullet wasn't it?" Tsunayoshi asks, it had been blue after all.

"Yes, it was one of the ones that Lal and Colonnello got me." Reborn explains, walking over to a round door set in the wall. Now that Tsunayoshi takes a closer look, the gun was different than usual too. Apart from the bit that made everything quiet, the gun was longer and the bit that the bullets went into under the gun was larger too. Reborn's other gun was one of the spinny kind but that had less bullets in it.

Tsunayoshi watches Reborn as the hitman attached a small device to a keypad set in the round door. He recognises the green lightning bolt symbol on the side.

"Verde made that. What does it do?" asks Tsunayoshi. All Reborn had done was attach a few wires before staring at the screen intently.

"Yes, Verde made it for me. It's a safe cracker. It figures out the passwords so I can get in places that I need to." Reborn explains, grinning as the screen turns green and a loud click can be heard. The door to the huge safe in the wall opens up.

"Oi, Leon, do your thing. You're looking for file Ver.27.59." Reborn explains, holding his hand in the safe. Leon crawls down Reborn's arm and stands on his fist. Leon then does his glowy transformy thing before a tentacle launches out and latches onto one of the shelves. Leon pulls himself over to the shelf before climbing up and reverting back to his normal form. He runs over to a tray filled with disks before flipping them forwards one by one with his tail.

Reborn had needed Leon to do this since there were sensors in the floor that were pressure sensitive. Nor had he brought the tools necessary to elevate Tsunayoshi off the ground so that the boy could have gotten it. Using Leon was a lot simpler.

Reborn looks up at a squeak and watches as Leon comes back carrying a disk case in its mouth. Leaning in as far as he dares- although his balance was perfect- he takes the disk from Leon before Leon jumps onto his outstretched arm.

Just as Leon gets back on Reborn's shoulder three things happen.

One, Leon growls and bites Reborn's shoulder in warning.

Two, Tsunayoshi gets another feeling and backs away from the door and nearer to Reborn

Three, the door beeps before opening, revealing another suited man.

"Marrek is sick so I'm going to cover-…" The man then says a very naughty word before slamming a big red button that was next to the door. As alarms start blaring around them, the man falls to the floor, blood pooling out of his chest. Tsunayoshi looks towards the only other occupant in the room to see Reborn's arm raised, the gun pointing towards the now dead man.

Did you faint at the sight of blood?

"Reborn you…" stutters Tsunayoshi, looking back towards the man on the ground.

"He saw our faces so I had to kill him. Nono specified that no one was to see us. The other two didn't see us so I only put them to sleep." Reborn explains, tucking the disk away in a protected pocket before grabbing Tsunayoshi and running out of the room.

Reborn stays calm as they run through the corridors. Things like this never phased him anymore. Staying calm meant he was in control and that he wouldn't make any mistakes. Staying calm meant he'd live longer. And it was reassuring for Tsunayoshi too. Since Reborn wasn't panicking, neither was he, no matter how much the alarms hurt his ears.

If there was one thing that the Arcobaleno had taught Tsunayoshi, it was to stay calm even when things went wrong.

Reborn hisses as a Mafioso runs around the corner and into their path. Reaching into his coat pocket, he brings out a box that Verde had made to contain this special weapon. Tsunayoshi stares on astounded as Reborn draws out a slice of cake. Sure there was a no panicking rule, but that didn't mean there was time to eat cake! But that's when he notices the cake is purple with worms sticking out of it. With perfect aim, Reborn throws a slice of his birthday cake at the man blocking their path. The man hadn't expected a slice of cake so he had frozen and gotten it smack bang in the middle of his face. The icing stung his eyes so he screamed out in pain. That was a mistake as some of the cake entered his throat and it started to burn.

Reborn grabs Tsunayoshi again before running past the screaming man. For added reassurance, he shoots the man as they run past, leaving Tsunayoshi no time to look back at the blood falling to the floor.

Reborn doesn't care about the camera anymore since people knew he was here. He shoots the surveillance camera down before continuing to run down the corridor and back to the only escape route on this floor.

"There they are!"

"The Boss wants them captured!"

It's then Reborn's turn to mutter a naughty word, so Tsunayoshi slaps his wrist in punishment. However now is not the time to think of such things when they are currently surrounded. This mission had just gone from bad to worse. Reborn quickly reaches into his pocket before bringing out two vials of a bright yellow mixture. As he starts to shake the vials he grunts something to Leon. Leon jumps off Reborn's shoulder to land on Tsunayoshi's face and turn into a gas mask. It didn't matter if Verde had injected them with the antidote to stop them being affected, Reborn wasn't going to take a chance.

He was not going to let anyone harm Tsunayoshi.

"It's time for some Chaos." Reborn says as the vials fly around his fingers. The Mafioso get closer and closer to them, some finally recognising just who they have captured. When they get close enough, Reborn send the two vials flying in opposite directions towards the two groups that had pinned them in.

"Verde Power!" Tsunayoshi cheers as the vials go flying. Reborn shakes his head as he is reminded of a show about planets and princesses and the moon. Of course he wouldn't know about a girly show like that. It wasn't as if Luce had been ill one week and forced him to watch every single season of it. Of course he had escaped…

The vials crash and at first it seems as if nothing has happened. The Mafioso laugh before continuing to close in on their pray. But one by one they stop moving and fall to the ground. As comrade after comrade goes down the men start to panic, only quickening Verde's poison's trail around their internal systems. Within moments all the men are incapacitated on the floor, looking like statues.

Reborn walks over and uses a foot to roll one man over. He doesn't respond. Leaning down Reborn uses gloved hands to check for a pulse or a sign of breath. Neither are present. Like Verde had promised it worked on a group. Reborn would have to ask for more of this stuff. He was sure a garden of statues would be a great present to any Boss that messed with Vongola.

"Are they sleeping with their eyes open?" asks Tsunayoshi, staring into the blank gaze of the man closest to him.

"No Tsunayoshi. They aren't sleeping. I killed them too before they could tell anyone we had been here. C'mon we need to leave before more people come."

Did you panic?

Tsunayoshi nods, Leon now sitting on his shoulder instead on his face. Carefully climbing over and around the dead men on the floor, Tsunayoshi follows Reborn out of the building and back into the streets. Again, making sure no one was watching, they dive into a different alleyway and make their way back to where the crowds of people ate them up.

Reborn doesn't relax until they are back in the helicopter and over open water, Mafia Row in view on the horizon.

When they land back at the Docks, instead of leading Tsunayoshi home, Reborn walks past it and into the forest to the side of their house. Colonnello had said there was this private clearing that he and Tsunayoshi went to calm down. Hopefully he could have a talk when they got there. Tsunayoshi had been strangely quiet ever since they had left the Mafia Den and the boy hadn't stopped stroking Leon the whole time.

Finally at the clearing, Reborn sits down in the grass and pulls Tsunayoshi down too. He would prefer to lean against a tree, but a fearful image wasn't what Tsunayoshi needed right now.

"Tsunayoshi, look at me." Demands Reborn. When Tsunayoshi doesn't comply, he grabs the boys chin to force the eye contact.

"So this is what you do? What you and Lal and Colonnello and Fon and Viper and Bermuda and Luce do? That was killing?" Tsunayoshi asks in a monotone voice. Luce may not kill anymore, but she might have done in the past. She used to be a mafia Boss. Giglio Nero were small and neutral but even they had their share of trouble.

"That's right. I killed them. They won't get up again, they won't talk or smile or anything else ever again. They also won't hurt anyone again." Reborn states, knowing Tsunayoshi needed the truth right now. There was a difference between knowing that they were killers and watching one of them kill. There was a difference between imagining the loss of life and watching it leave a body.

"I-it's what had to be done, right?" asks Tsunayoshi, finally willingly meeting Reborn's eyes to get his answers. "There wasn't any other way?"

"No, there wasn't. If they recognised us, then they would have come after us again in the future. They might attack the Vongola, or even the other Arcobaleno to get back at us for stealing from them." Tsunayoshi nods but doesn't say anything so Reborn continues. "They were going to hurt people with the information on this disk. Nono had to weigh their lives up against the thousands that he could save. It's not an easy choice, nor one he likes to make. But the majority come first. Family comes first. That's just the way of the Mafia Tsunayoshi."

Tsunayoshi looks down and restarts to pat Leon while he thinks. Reborn gives him time to think this over.

"I told you I'm changing things around here. I won't let anyone else be killed when there are other options. Vongola is mine to lead or destroy. And if killing is our future then I'm destroying it!"

"You said it Juudaime!"

"I agree to the EXTREME!"

"Vongola is turning back to Primo's Vigilante Group. You're either with me or against me."

"We're with you, Vongola Decimo."

He didn't want people to die, to disappear. But Reborn did it to keep people safe. No one had mentioned this when they told him about Knights! Nearly everyone around him had killed right? But that didn't make them bad people did it? Anyone who was a bad person couldn't smile like Luce could, nor could they give him hugs like Viper did, or pats on the head like Verde did. Bad people didn't have that feeling of love, right?

"J-just promise me…" Tsunayoshi starts. Reborn doesn't say anything or even move until Tsunayoshi continues on. "That you'll only kill people who deserve it. The only people to disappear are people who you have too. Okay? I-I understand that you kill to keep me and the others safe. I d-don't like it, not at all. But you have to, right?"

Tsunayoshi looks up with tears in his eyes. He really didn't want people to disappear, but that was just what the Mafia did right? The mafia killed people every day. He'd grown up around people who killed. I-i-it was normal.

Reborn lays a hand on the top of Tsunayoshi's head before bringing the boy in close for one of his extremely rare hugs. "I promise."

They return back to the Arcobaleno house once Tsunayoshi has better control of himself. Opening the door, Tsunayoshi runs upstairs and grabs Natsu before returning downstairs. He walks over to Lal who was watching the news before sitting down on her lap whether she liked it or not. He brought his knees up to his chest, buried his head into Lal's shoulder and refused to move afterwards.

Lal looks up to Reborn. "What happened?" Reborn's answer is to discharge the ammunition from the gun. Lal can see that the holder in the gun is almost empty. Reborn didn't waste bullets if he didn't have to, unlike Colonnello. She brushes her hand over Tsunayoshi's hair to calm him down, but looks at her hand when she feels something sticky against his cheek.

"Oh Tsunayoshi." She whispers, giving him a tighter hug. It was always hard to watch the day when her trainees lost their blood innocence, either first or second hand.

"I'm alright." Tsunayoshi mumbles.

Lal stands up, supporting the child in her grip. Colonnello walks in and sees Tsunayoshi looking sad. As he walks on over to check on the boy he spots the splash of blood on Tsunayoshi's cheek. Since he didn't have a cut there, it could only mean one thing. But he didn't like seeing Tsunayoshi sad like this. That look didn't suit his face.

"C'mon Tsunayoshi, let's get you washed up." Says Lal, turning to walk up the stairs.

"Aww, Tsunayoshi, how come you get to have a bath with Lal?" pouts Colonnello, voice fakely whiney.

"'Cause she likes me better than you, Colonnello." Says Tsunayoshi, at least trying to smile at the joke. He sticks his tongue out at the soldier before Lal takes him out of view.

As soon as the sound of Lal's footsteps couldn't be heard on the stairs, Colonnello turns on Reborn, this aura and voice that of a freezing blizzard. "How could you do that!"

"Hn, it's better to get it over and done with now. Or did you want to do the explaining to a teen Tsunayoshi who would have reacted worse. If we waited we could have lost him totally. It's better he knows now. Less heart ache that way."

Colonnello brings his fist back and slams it into Reborn's jaw. Reborn's head turns with the movement and stays facing the side.

"Anything else? I'm not going to regret what I did." Reborn replies, voice quiet and low.

"Now is not the time for your Live by your Dying Will code Reborn." Colonnello growls out. He grabs Reborn by the collar before dragging the hitman into the kitchen. "We're having an Arcobaleno meeting."

There wasn't a lot to talk about at the meeting since the damage had already been done. Viper had offered the boy the chance to forget what he had seen, but Tsunayoshi had said he'd wanted to remember. He then asked everyone to stick to the same promise that he had made with Reborn.

None of them could refuse.

We all knew this chapter was coming at some point. And that point seems to be now. Can anyone remember where the quotes in italics came from? They were the hints I had placed in a previous chapter towards this event.

Since this is the end of the Arc, we have our sentences to look at!

What a mother know, a scientist theorises, a psychic guesses and a martial artist does naturally. Whilst a stuntman tries his hardest, or a Jailer does it with superiority, Soldiers keep on going and a hitman works around it.

This was originally supposed to be about the Arcobaleno learning how to look after Tsunayoshi as a baby- like learning how to change and feed him and such- but I suppose it fits with looking after the small child too.

I hope to see you next time for the next slightly more action packed arc.

Phantom Hitman 1412

First Published 18 October 2012