RETURN TO THE HOMELAND – KILL KILL KILL
The Sea Between the Italian and Japanese Warships
As those below could swear that they can hear Tsuna screaming the ultimate flame continues to grow around the body of the world's hope. His power keeps rising, further and further, like nothing they have felt before.
"WAVES" the young girl I-Pin screams at the top of her lungs.
As the mafioso adjust their balance to avoid the waves Haru looks up into the sky. Her balance had to improve enormously to master the heavy sword she uses so she has little trouble in maintaining her stance atop the waves.
"What is Tsuna doing?" the storm policewoman asks.
"It's harder for him to break into ultimate form now" Gokudera begins, "He is doing it slowly and unfortunately losing quite a lot of energy. It is hurting him like nothing he has ever felt but the power he gets back will like nothing we have ever felt".
"Big bro is too powerful" exclaims Lambo.
"The energy is suffocating even from here" Iemitsu notes, his voice laced with pride and awe.
An Italian Ship Elsewhere in the Mediterranean
This ship is the one carrying the Chiavarone group aboard. Furthermore, it also carries one great protector, someone who could create a delay if a powerful enemy was to attack. Thus Dino had chosen he strongest man he could find outside the seven great mafioso. The Vongola cloud guardian, Hibari Kyoya.
The ship begins to shake and all the crew fall to their knees.
"Romario, what is going on" Dino shouts to his right-hand man, the vibrations leaving him no other way of being heard.
"I have no idea" Romario replies in confusion, "We've had no reported sightings of the enemy in this area". The various ships which were hosts to the great seven had been spread all over the Mediterranean, maximising their chance of intercepting the Yakuza fleet. This ship is the only one without one of the great seven aboard, hence why Hibari has been separated from his Vongola comrades.
"It's the herbivore" Hibari explains dispassionately, "His strength is rising".
"This is Tsuna's power?" Dino questions, not daring to believe the man he viewed as a younger brother could put out this level of power.
The Italian Ship with the Millefiore
Yamamoto uses the wing technique taught to him by Byakuran to float above the warship. Looking in all directions and concentrating his flames on his eyes, he hopes to see the Yakuza coming early. He is shocked however, shocked by this great power he feels approaching.
"Yamamoto, what the hell is this?" Ganma shouts from the deck to his newly appointed boss.
"It's Tsuna… TSUNA IS USING THE ULTIMATE FLAME" Yamamoto replies.
The Italian Ship with the Mafia Police
"Is that…" Kyoko stutters while looking at her boss.
"No mistake" Lancia interrupts his comrade, "It's Vongola". Lancia smiles and remembers he once had ambitions of fighting Sawada Tsunayoshi, of enjoying a true challenge against the Vongola boss. 'I wouldn't stand a chance' he tells himself.
"I told you to believe in him" Bana shares his subordinates smiles. They have all doubted Tsuna up to this point, shared an enmity towards their former opponent. It has been difficult for all of them to let go of their hatred. Now that Tsuna is their last hope, it seems he has not let them down.
The Italian Ship with the Shimon Family, Reborn and Basil
This ship is unusual in that it contains three of the great seven mafioso. Something that a lot of people disagreed with Dino about. Tsuna and Bana had both shared Dino's thinking though, they believed that it would be necessary to group a trio together, perhaps they could outnumber the Yakuza in one fight, win quickly and maintain their numbers advantage. If the Yakuza had the same idea, then it would just mean they had a fair fight.
"Reborn is that Tsuna" Enma asks with a smile.
"Yeah" the Hitman tutor replies, "He's a special kind of talent isn't he". Reborn recalls the day he first walked into the home of Sawada Tsunayoshi. The kid thought that the Arcobaleno was joking about being his new home tutor. Since them both of them had changed so much, experience emotions they never thought they would feel, nor had the right to feel. Ultimately Reborn is smiling because he is looking in the direction of his student who has long since surpassed him.
"You're telling me" Enma responds in agreement.
"I can't believe that someone like him really exists in this world" smiles Basil.
Enma turns to the members of the Shimon family and CEDEF, "Let's survive this battle everyone".
"For Tsuna" Basil yells.
"FOR TSUNA" they all shout their agreement. If the kid known as no-good can push himself so far, who are they to do any different.
The Sea Between Tsuna and Honda's Warships
Tsuna finally finishes powering up and wastes no time in attacking Honda. Tsuna throws his right fist towards Honda. The Yakuza leader immediately catches the off-hand attack but Tsuna has planned for such an event, just as Ryohei taught him in their training. The 10th follows with a much stronger punch from his right hand, sending Honda flying back through the air.
Honda drifts backwards through the sky. His arms and legs trailing his body slight as he subconsciously uses his limbs to slow himself down. Before he manages to stop himself the old man punches the air with such force that the friction creates fire from the oxygen. The fire travels towards Tsuna, a fire attack created not from the dying will flame but from pure strength.
The mafia leader replies in kind. A burning axle is fired from his gauntlet clad fist, colliding with the flames mid-air. A huge explosion ensues, a ball of fire spreading from the origin all the way to the two fighters before dissipating.
Tsuna follows up his first flame attack with another. This time Tsuna uses rage edition, a power he first used against Vongola Bana. Though it is countered in a way Tsuna never expected, Honda uses his palm to bat the flame up into the air as if it is nothing.
Surprised at the ease with which his opponent deflected his first attack, Tsuna follows up with another, a third flame attack. This time it is the X-Burner he discovered in the build up to his battle with Byakuran.
As the flame hurtles towards him Honda frowns. "Do you still not get it". Honda shows less remorse than with his previous deflection, this time he doesn't send his nemesis' flames up into the sky, he sends them down into one of the smaller ships surround the warship Tsuna arrived on.
Tsuna gasps in astonishment, just how strong is this guy?
"I told you right at the beginning, I am far stronger than you" begins Honda, "I could sense your power and I have seen someone with a perfected ultimate flame".
"Your multiplier for that form may be slightly greater than theirs but it's not much, after seeing you in your base form I need only to do the maths and work it out".
"You will never beat me".
"Do you think I will give up just because of that" Tsuna yells at the self-proclaimed god, "All the people behind me fighting in the ships, the people beneath me fighting on the water, all the people of the world, they are depending on me to win".
"I won't back down just because you have a sharp tongue".
"Foolish man" scolds Honda, "The strong rule, the weak should just do as the strong will if they wish to survive".
As he finishes his sentence Honda launches at Tsuna.
'Fast' the Vongola boss says to himself.
Honda arrives at Tsuna with a slightly greater altitude than the chestnut haired flame user. The tattooed man swinging his foot into Tsuna's head, propelling the younger of the duo through the air at great speed.
Before Tsuna is able to slow himself Honda intercepts the path that he himself set Tsuna on. Honda catches Tsuna by the back of his head.
"Got you" laughs Honda as he begins to slam Tsuna's face into his knee repeatedly.
"I knew that would be all you had" taunts the Yakuza before he stops kneeing his opponents face. Honda throws Tsuna down into the water below.
"The only difference between Primo and yourself, is that he uses his brain".
The Italian Ship with the Mafia Police
Bana focuses his dying will flame on his eye as he looks down the scope of the world's greatest bow. At such a great distance it is implausible to focus on the fight between Tsuna and Honda for anybody else but it is not impossible for the blonde policeman.
"Can you see anything" Kyoko asks eagerly.
"I think I can see Tsuna" Bana says while he is straining. He drops the bow to his side. "He is… down".
"WHAT" Kyoko yells in response.
"That can't be" Sorata shakes his head.
Lancia tries to calm his comrades, being the most battle hardened of their group and one of the most battle hardened of the entire Italian force. "Vongola will get back up, we have to believe that and carry on fighting if we want to survive".
"But that's…" starts Kyoko.
"The bucking Bronco would have started his evacuation plan if the situation was beyond recovery" continues the cloud policeman, "So we will keep on going, right boss?".
"That's right" Bana says with complete confidence.
The son of the 1st raises his bow back to his eye and turns to look at the nearest Yakuza ship he can find. "That man at the head of the ship looks like…".
"GET IN THE WATER NOW".
All of the mafia police jump onto the water, the ship behind them exploding as thousands of voices all cry out in pain. It is an intimidating sound, one that would scare anyone. Even Lancia has been hoping never to hear a sound like this again but the Yakuza have forced it upon them.
'It was a projectile of some sort, something like that destroyed the ship' Bana decides in his head but opts against telling his comrades. If projectiles like that were to continue coming at them there would be nothing he could do to stop it, his allies would die.
Bana is grateful at the sight of an incoming opponent, that would allow him to fight them one on one with whoever launched that attack.
The attacker is an old man, who flies over and lands on the water opposite the force that has become known as the mafia police. This old man is the saviour of the young girl Sakura, the old man Gon.
"Are you people…" he begins before his sight settles on Bana. "Primo…". Gon recalls his life changing encounter with Primo, the very reason he is fighting for the Yakuza now. That man had changed his very outlook, had proven that loyalty is the most important thing.
Bana lashes out in frustration, "Don't you Yakuza people know best of all, I'm not Primo, you created me, MADE ME A DAMN CLONE".
Gon sighs, "So Honda will go this far to check that I am loyal to his cause".
"Very well, I will fight you then, descendent of Primo".
Bana activates the ultimate flame which surges around him with great heat, it is not perfected like Tsuna's but it is incredibly dangerous. The blonde clone fires an arrow at Gon with incredible velocity.
Gon retaliates with a dart, the two sharp projectiles colliding perfectly in mid-air and disintegrating at the same time. As Gon is distracted Bana takes the advantage, closing the distance between the two and using his bow as a melee weapon to drive Gon into the air.
As Bana pursues his opponent he yells back to his subordinates, "You guys, Yakuza are coming from that ship, prepare yourselves for a fight".
Lancia smiles, "I have been looking forward to this".
A Yakuza Ship on the Rear Lines
Aboard this ship are the remaining chiefs of the Yakuza. The Kosuke siblings, Yaru and Lucy, the young musician Sakura and the mysteriously passive Kara.
Sakura lightens the atmosphere by playing a cheerful tune on her trumpet. Not missing a note as she skilfully follows the rhythm she came up with not too long ago. A song inspired by her 'big brother' Yaru.
"Cut it out already" complains Lucy.
"Sakura doesn't want to" the young girl proclaims as she sticks her tongue out at her ally.
Lucy brings some glass up behind her as if she intends to attack Sakura. Reacting to this Yaru stands between the duo and raises his boot clad leg.
"You use to be just like that sis, the real you, I won't let you hurt her".
"I won't have any fighting" Kara announces without looking at the group, as if their childish behaviour is below her.
As she senses that everyone's weapon is still raised she elaborates, "If you value your lives put the weapons away, or the master will kill you".
The Kosuke siblings begrudgingly put their weapons away/down and Sakura decides to show discretion by stopping the music. She knows that Lucy is stronger than Yaru, she doesn't want her 'big brother' to get hurt.
"Good" says Kara as she walks over to a nearby glass window. The window does not show the view out to sea but instead shows the view of the cargo bay, where several boxes are covered by tarpaulin.
Kara presses a button that projects her voice to some speakers, allowing her to communicate with the crew in the cargo bay.
"Release him" she demands.
The tarpaulin is pulled back from one of the boxes, at least what everyone thought was a box. What is revealed is not a box but a cage. Inside that cage is a man, a man with hair down to his waste and with a crazed look in his eye. The man looks left and right, swinging his head and his eyes rapidly as if to take in every bit of visual stimulus he can. He is clearly insane but more importantly, his full body tattoos indicate that he is definitely a Yakuza.
"KILL KILL KILL" the insane man yells.
"What is this… is he supposed to be our comrade" Yaru asks Kara, disbelief thick in his voice.
"Not at all, Varon is his name and he is simply a tool the master uses" Kara explains.
"You can feel the power radiating from him, the master is wise to keep such a tool lying about" praises Lucy, who seems to have fully accepted Honda's status as a god.
'If you're not careful sis, perhaps you will end up just like this… did the master once treat this man as well as he treats me?' Yaru asks himself.
Kara pushes the button once more, "Varon, it's Kara".
The man identified as Varon looks towards the loudspeakers where the voice originates from.
"KA RA" he speaks aloud. Perhaps it is wrong to say that Varon speaks it aloud, more that he vocalises it. It is clear from the way he talks that he has lost all capabilities he once had of speech. Now it is not speech, just sound.
"Kill the mafia" Kara orders.
After hearing the word 'kill' Varon roars and smashes through his cage. Formerly a thick reinforced steel structure the cage is made to look flimsy by the might Yakuza. As Varon leaps out of the ship bursting through the hull Kara smiles to herself.
"I best go with him, we want to make sure we can capture him again" she comments, "You three go the other way".
As Kara follows Varon out of the hole the insane man made, Lucy creates her own hole. As the shards of glass splash down into the ocean below, Lucy screams as she launches herself from the aperture, ready to shed blood in Honda's great name.
"Big sis Lucy is scary" Sakura decides.
"Don't worry, I won't let her hurt you" Yaru declares solemnly, "I'm prepared to do whatever is necessary to protect you".
Yaru brings something out of his pocket and shows it to Sakura. "It's a radio, see if anything bad happens to you we can contact the boss and he will come save you".
Sakura nods, "I'll just play my trumpet and all the bad things will go away".
Yaru smiles at his friend's innocence. "Yeah, you just play your trumpet Sakura… and all the bad things will go away".