THE NEW WORLD – ACROSS THE WORLD
A Mafia Hideout, Australia
Australia is a country that defies geography, a country that enjoys relative economic prosperity despite being south of the equator where poverty is far more common. As a result of this the Yakuza presence in this country is quite strong.
Regardless places like this hideout do still exist, although there is no strong resistance movement there is a definite dislike for what these criminal invaders stand for. The hideout in question is the hideout of Kozato Enma and the hideout of the remaining Arcobaleno members.
Enma is swinging his hammer around at an astonishing speed. Sounds like 'whoosh' and 'zoom' are left in the aftermath as air is scattered around the room. Weaker individuals may have actually been pushed back by the air but even Virgo, the weakest of the Arcobaleno is stronger than an average human.
"What is he attempting to do?" Virgo asks as he tilts his head backwards and looks up at the ceiling.
When nobody answers he continues his observations, "It seems to me that he is training more out of frustration than motivation".
"Weren't you paying attention" Skull shakes Virgo violently as he complains, "When he found us here he told us why he is so angry".
Fon shakes his head, "He actually managed to find a few surviving members of the Japanese Military and tried to setup a resistance in New Zealand, they were attacked and he was the only survivor".
Fon is correct, it seems Enma's destiny in this war is that of a sole survivor. After the first battle, Reborn died, Basil died, the Shimon family died, he was then the sole survivor. Enma got lucky enough to find some new friends to set up a resistance with yet just a month ago they were found and all of them died. Now Enma has reunited with the remaining Arcobaleno, if things continue on this path all of the Arcobaleno will also die.
"No good ever came from training out of frustration" Colonello notes before adding his signature "hey".
His wife Lal-Mirch shakes her head. Lal isn't like the remainder of the Arcobaleno, she was only half-cursed and therefore had her adult body returned after Sawada Tsunayoshi demanded the curse was lifted. The result of this means that Lal joins Enma is the only adult in the room while everyone else is in their late teens.
"This isn't training" Lal-Mirch notes, "This is therapy".
Fon watches Enma as if there is nothing else to look at. His eyes become empty as he seems to be gazing into an infinite vortex, it's like his eyes are open just for the sake of being open. Then his pupil's focus intensely in reaction to one of Enma's motions.
"No…" Fon begins, "This is…".
Virgo tilts his head forward to look at his fellow Arcobaleno. "What is the matter with you" he asks.
Fon is staring wide eyed at Enma still, his reaction so extreme that even Enma himself has stopped and focused his eyes on the storm arcobaleno. The martial artist has travelled the world and seen all sorts of fighting techniques before, perhaps he is second only to the deceased Reborn, why is he reacting so dramatically.
"I've only ever seen one person do that" Fon declares as he points at Enma's hammer, "Enma, can you do that motion again please".
"What motion would that be" the Shimon boss asks inquisitively.
Fon grabs a nearby knife and demonstrates a downward slice. "This slice that I'm doing here, you did it with your hammer, please do it again".
Enma holds his gaze on Fon for an additional few seconds, not sure what the storm Arcobaleno is so excited about. Nevertheless, he shakes his head to bring his focus back and picks up his hammer before attempting the slice.
Once the slice is done the red-haired mafioso brings his eyes back to Fon so as to check if he is satisfied.
The martial-artist shakes his head. "No, you followed it by going sideways with a sort of slice and turn motion".
Enma shrugs his shoulders as he recalls what he did, "I don't think I can do that again sorry, I don't really know how I did something so bizarre the first time, this hammer is way too heavy".
The various others present all nod gently to themselves. The motion that Fon is talking about is difficult to do even for experienced sword-masters, Squalo and Yamamoto for example are two people who have mastered it. Expecting that turn to cancel the hammer's vertical momentum is unrealistic.
"Then you need to practice, you need to keep trying and trying again and again" Fon thoroughly tells his junior.
"What has got you so worked up, hey". Colonello is also rather experienced when it comes to fighting style and sees nothing special in what his counterpart is asking of one of the seven great mafioso.
Fon turns to the others before explaining himself. "This technique is called wielding the heavy as if light, only one man has ever mastered it. That was the man I called my master".
A couple of people have heard tails of Fon's master, a strong individual certainly yet Fon himself had surpassed him, so what made this technique so special.
"My master took years to perfect that technique which limited the time he could spend training other areas. As a result, his base strength was low, so can you imagine how strong Enma would be if he, who has already mastered the ultimate flame, could learn this technique".
"God knows how strong he will be" Fon finishes.
Lal-Mirch smiles sarcastically, "Or perhaps not even him".
Yakuza HQ, Japan
This the Yakuza HQ's dining room where Honda has spent the majority of his time. This room is constantly filled with various delicacies and some of the world's finest entertainment is put on for the sake of 'god' in here.
Currently Honda is sat in the room with his most trusted assistant, Kara. The sabre wielder with no discernible reason for following Honda, yet is undyingly loyal towards him. Kara is someone who seems to treat Honda as if he were a god regardless of circumstance, truly his easiest subordinate to manage.
The pair look up as a raven haired Yakuza enters. This is Kosuke Lucy, the increasingly deranged sister of Yaru the traitor. Lucy's hair looks dishevelled and she has a maniacal look in her eyes, something that has gotten worse almost every day since Yaru left. Ironically the brother that Lucy hated so much was perhaps her last means of protection against losing her mind.
"You wanted me god" Lucy calls.
"Ah Lucy you have come" Honda notes as if it is not clear for all to see. "Have you read the reports of these increased amounts of resistance from around the world".
"I have sir" Lucy answers.
Resistance has always been a problem in Japan, mostly from the brilliantly organized group known as the Chiavarone mafia but also for a time from the Vongola guardians. Fortunately for the Yakuza the guardians were rather open about their strategy and couldn't get in touch with the more sophisticated Chiavarone. After one too many fights it appears their efforts are crippled.
"I can tolerate resistance in Japan, it will take a long time for it to go away here" Honda notes as he takes a bite out of some bread, "But I cannot tolerate resistance from the rest of the world".
Honda continues to eat after he explains this to Lucy. The latter holds her position without daring to speak after the former continues until he finishes his bread. The silence that spreads throughout the room is accompanied by an absent expression from Kara, something that puts Lucy more on edge than ever. Lucy despises the look of emptiness from Kara, how could she be so empty when she is almost constantly surrounded by the greatness of god.
Honda finishes his bread, "There was a sighting not too long ago in South America, a sighting of Sakura… and your brother".
Lucy leans forward urgently, "Where is he now sir, you want me to kill him right?".
The Yakuza boss laughs as he notes Lucy's eagerness, she has been trained well he thinks to himself. "It's good that you are eager to kill your treacherous brother but that's not what I am asking you to do".
Kara speaks to Lucy after Honda gestures to her. "The Millefiore were sighted in the rainforest, god wants you to eliminate them all. Fail and you risk punishment".
Upon hearing the mention of punishment Lucy's eyes widen to the extreme before clamping tightly shut. She places her hands on either side of her head as it shakes rapidly from side to side, she would do anything to avoid the cane, she never wanted the feel it's rusty spikes again.
Kara smiles lightly, "Go".
Upon hearing the word Lucy runs out of the room quickly, killing most of the slaves she passes in the corridors for potentially slowing her down, she has to do this quickly, she needs to kill now. She has to kill the Millefiore.
Honda laughs maniacally while he witnesses Lucy scurry out of the room. "Have you prepared the backup".
"It's in place lord god".
Honda laughs once more, "Good, good, you have done well Kara".
The Millefiore Hideout, South America
The four leading members of the Millefiore family sit at a round table, discussing whether or not they should act on the advice given to them by Sakura. It could be a lie, it could be a trap, yet it could not. Byakuran can't help but think to himself, why would two of the strongest Yakuza members bother leading them into a trap, if they couldn't win themselves then there would be almost nothing they could do.
Suddenly the ceiling starts to shake and little sparkling shards start to penetrate through it. The shards are sharp and Yamamoto's eyes widen as he realises what these shards are. These shards are glass, the same sharply cut glass used by Kosuke Lucy when she attacked Tsuna's wedding.
The glass bursts through the ceiling and rains down towards the quartet of mafioso.
"YUNI" Ganma yells as he tackles her to the ground and positions himself between her in the glass.
The glass approaches the couple with alarming speed. Luckily for the Millefiore Byakuran had quickly turned into Excalibur upon seeing the glass. Yamamoto grabs the hilt of Excalibur and swings it just above the heads of Ganma and himself, deflecting the glass and saving the Millefiore's chief members from harm.
"Yuni, are you alright" Ganma asks.
"The family…" Yuni stutters, "The family… are they OK… did anyone survive that attack".
Yamamoto clenches his fist tightly; he doesn't need to go outside to work out the answer to that. Outside screams can be heard, what started as one great long scream decreases in volume and gets quieter and quieter. It's as if the entire Millefiore family cried out in one moment.
"I'm sorry Yuni" he mutters, "It seems I've failed as a boss… the screams should tell you what has happened".
Yuni brings her small hands to her mouth, "Oh my god… we should have left, we should never have trusted those last two".
Yamamoto shakes his head, "No we shouldn't but don't blame yourself Yuni, as the Millefiore boss I should have been the one to make that call… I won't let them get away with this".
Yamamoto sprouts wings from his back and flies up through the glass filled ceiling. He carries Byakuran in his sword form with him. His gaze is intense, his anger clearly telegraphed through his facial expressions.
A voice comes from the sword, "Yamamoto, make her pay won't you, make her pay for hurting our family".
"Yeah".
The words 'our family' hurt Yamamoto greatly. He has spent so many years with the Millefiore family but perhaps never thought of them as family as deeply as he should. He had always protected the Vongola family yet now he had let the Millefiore family down, this truly disgusted the Vongola Rain Guardian and Millefiore boss.
Lucy spies Yamamoto, her true target when she came here. She immediately creates one long beam of glass and fires it towards her opponent. Yamamoto reacts to this by swinging Excalibur at the glass beam, knocking it away before it eventually shatters on collision with the floor.
Lucy sees her attack has failed and dashes to her opponent, she is right next to him. Now that she has the advantage of close range she fires shards of glass at Yamamoto once more. The Millefiore boss throws his sword up into the air before he uses white applause. The defensive technique is difficult to use against this sort of attack; it makes his hands themselves bleed but it works.
Yamamoto looks into the air and catches Excalibur as gravity pulls it back down towards him. He then looks Lucy in the eyes, his own filled with rage. The Yakuza maniac widens her eyes notably before Yamamoto slams his sword into her body, launching her down into the ground with a huge thud.
Before long, Lucy stands back up and screams before she continues to attack Byakuran, her attacks become increasingly frenzied as time progresses.
"Does this psychic link still work" Yamamoto speaks into his own subconscious.
"Only when I'm in sword form" Byakuran replies.
"This girl though, her attacks are getting more and more berserk constantly" the rain guardian declares.
"Plus with your injured hands your grip has weakened" Byakuran, currently being Yamamoto's sword itself, is the most suitable person in the world to make this observation.
"Yeah, we need to put her away quickly".
Lucy continues to send attack after attack towards Yamamoto, resisting them is becoming ever more difficult for the swordsman as his hand injury continues to bother him. Suddenly Byakuran turns back into his human form and appears before Yamamoto. The former Millefiore boss begins to use white applause to deflect the attacks.
"Go get routed in" Byakuran yells to his partner.
Realising that Byakuran is referring to a technique he used against Tsuna in the future, Yamamoto nods. The baseball player drops down to the ground and roots begin to sprout left and right from his body. He is preparing for a full force attack.
"BYAKURAN, I'M READY" he shouts.
Byakuran deliberately floats backwards in the air, mimicking as if he is struggling to defend against Lucy's attacks. Truthfully the white haired mafioso is struggling to defend against the attacks, the period of time where he was unable to train has left him behind the great seven mafioso when it comes to strength.
When Byakuran gets driven back so far he suddenly transforms into Excalibur, dropping down until he lands in Yamamoto's hand. Upon catching Byakuran, Yamamoto swings Excalibur as hard as he can, creating a flying sword attack that hits Lucy will full force.
Lucy protects herself with a glass barrier, although the barrier shatters it does largely protect her from damage. She emerges from the shattered glass with the odd fleck of blood on her face, although this is mostly from the shattering of her own glass.
Yamamoto's breath is heavy. "She stood up to that well" he notes as he tips his head to the side.
Byakuran remains in his sword form. "YAMAMOTO, BEHIND YOU".
The baseball player turns on the spot, searching for what his mentor is referring to. He spots it immediately; someone he recognises from the war. The man who fought Xanxus, the crazed Varon.
"HIM",
Varon ignores Yamamoto and grabs two of his weighted balls. The man who has clearly lost his mind throws the balls into the Millefiore hideout with full force, two small explosions happening where the balls hit.
"YUNI… GANMA… dammit" Yamamoto kneels down as he holds his head. "I have to save them… how do I save them…".
"Yamamoto" his sword speaks to him, "They're already gone".
"Don't give me that bullshit" the Millefiore boss yells at the weapon in his hand.
"Don't think this is harder for you than it is for me" Byakuran retorts, "They are my family, I have known them for even longer than you. But right now we have to face up to reality, for the good of the whole world".
Lucy is beginning to compose herself, readying glass for another attack. The situation is currently two on one, it is not looking good for Yamamoto and Byakuran knows it.
"Run, we'll got the United States" Byakuran tells his pupil.
Yamamoto tightly closes his eyes and nods. A tear slips out of one eyelid before he yells to the fallen Millefiore. "I'll avenge you guys… I promise".
With that Yamamoto once more grows wings from his back and flees as fast as he can. He heads North, towards the USA.