Thanks to Natsumo, Kuroi Rin and Kei for reviewing! I was at the end of my rope after the last chapter, and recuperating took a tad too long… so enjoy this chapter! :D

I wasn't too sure if I had hit my head real hard (and not remember it), or if I was just too tired to even comprehend the weird things anymore…

We had come back to the future and I soon found myself camping outside (it's the first time that I'm camping by the way), and I'm not liking it one bit. It's cold for one, and you can't find any warmth with the unforgiving ground (it's evil!), plus there are a lot of bugs here (I'm not such a huge fan of those critters either). All I want is to sleep in a room, nice and warm (maybe even take a shower), under a blanket and snoozing away. God… life really must hate me.

I have lost count of the days that we were here since… I don't know… since we came here?

Yup, such a hardworking brain I have.

I decidedly taken a nap (to my never ending horror and surprise, surprise I get knocked out just to sleep), and woke up to have people being tense. Which in my case was pretty weird (last night was pretty easy going, compared to this morning). And then life must have really hated me, since it decided that a short bathroom break needed to be a nice long walk in the woods (goddamn it all!).

So walking through the forest for half an hour (I still think time deceived me here), I made my trek to who knows where, and soon found myself in a clearing. Surprise? No, not much, just the fact that it was a literal battle field (though I don't think that it would be called such with these orange spheres growing out of nowhere), everyone injured and only two in the center.

I walk up to the closest person there…

and it turns out to be Kyoya. I give a wave, something that I'm pretty sure he ignored. "Hey,"

Nothing. The jerk was ignoring me. I shrugged and continued talking, secretly hoping that he would answer me. "What's going on?"

Still nothing. He really is ignoring me! I feel like sitting in a corner until everything passes, but I don't want to be near the ground with all those bugs at close up view. Nope. I huffed, frowning as I turned back to the scene in front of me, trying with all my might in piecing the situation together. It hardly helped much, but I did get that Bakugan-sama was flying with wings on his back… "Wait! He has wings? Since when?"

"Herbivore, shut up." Kyoya growled.

I gave a snort. "Well sorry, but I just came here a while ago and you have not answered me since!"

I did not get a reply, that bastard, and so I returned to watching the scene before me. Turns out a few second of idle chatter can really speed things up, especially when you don't want it to happen. I had to blink about three times to process that there was an orange sphere flying towards the two that were already enlarged. On a closer inspection, as close as it could be when the object is in the sky while I am stuck on the ground, I could make out a person inside. "Should I be surprised with the fact that there is a person inside there, or with the fact that there is an orange sphere with a mind of its own… decisions, decisions."

"Herbivore, do you want to be disciplined?" Ah, totally forgot that I was in the company of Kyoya.

"No thanks, I'm busy on thinking on what I should be surprised about." I held up my hand casually. "So keep ignoring me, like you have been the past ten minutes or so."

He did ignore me, but not before whacking me round my head. "Ow! What was that for?!"

"For being a herbivore." Was all that I got.

Then his ignoring streak started. I gave out a huff and turned back to the scene, and because time likes to seriously ruin someone's management, it skipped a whole bunch of talking and somehow I was looking at Bakugan-sama trying to kill Tsuna… with some white lightning-like dagger… The seconds it took for it to sink in, I was horrified at what I was seeing. Without thinking, I ran towards the spheres, that were now one huge dome, nearly smacking into it with my face pressed up close just to know whether what I saw was real or not. Unfortunately it was.

I turned to look at the other occupants of the dome, Uni looking terrified and Bakugan-sama looking like a raving madman. Bakugan-sama must have seen my horrified look, cause he gave me the most creepiest smile I had ever seen. "Oh! Cannon-kun, how nice of you to see me again~"

"I don't see anything nice about this," I retorted.

"Mou~ That's so mean, Cannon-kun~" Bakugan-sama gave a demented pout. His creepy smile returned. "Well, no matter~ I'll make you mine after this battle, so wait for me, Cannon-kun~"

I blanched. He did not mean sexuality-wise, right? Maybe I'm overthinking things, and that was not what he meant at all… Why am I even wasting thoughts on this topic? Argh!

I snapped out of my, disturbing, thoughts when a shout came from Tsuna's direction. "Tsuna?"

"That hurt!" Tsuna whined, reaching into his breast pocket to pull out a ring from it. Since when?

It was pretty quiet, except for outraged shouts of Bakugan-sama on the far end of the dome. Then there was small speech about he had friends to trust in and so on. In short, it was the typical good guy speech that manga characters usually say. I gave a wry smile at the connection. "Man, Tsuna, acting like those heros in mangas, you should stop reading those."

He must have heard me to glance my way and give me some lopsided smile. I returned it, only for it to disappear at the sight of Giotto appearing beside the brunette. He spoke of something about restrained power, while I took a look around at the others. They had the rest of the ghosts appear before them too. I sniffed. "Talk about being left out of the good stuff."

I moved away from the orange dome and took my spot near some tree coverages, silently making small connections to Namimori Park. "Kufufufu, what's with the long face, Cannon-kun?"

"Nothing to do with being left out of the good stuff, that's for sure." I muttered only to pause and rethink that I was indeed talking to someone. I turned and felt my eyes widen, it was that damn pineapple!

The pineapple smirked. "Kufufufu, now that face is slightly more better."

I turned back around, frowned and muttered. "Damnit! I should've also packed a blender, why didn't I think of it till now? Stupid time flow…"

"Oya, oya? What's with this blender business?" The pineapple questioned, with a… was that a miffed tone?

"That would not be any of your business, pinapple-kun," I scoffed, not caring for the murderous glare sent my way. That wasn't even on the level of Bakugan-sama's.

"Kufufufu~ I see," I turned to look back at the pineapple, still regretting that I did not pack a blender with me. "how do you want to die, Cannon-kun~"

"That doesn't seem like a question to me." I countered with a deadpan. "So I'll take my cue for silence."

"Kufufufu~ There are many ways to kill an individual using silence as well~" Maybe I should start backing away from the creepy pineapple? But then I would be in the clearing again…

Damnit, I should have made a will back at home.

"How about I take my leave, pineapple-kun." I said curtly with a slight nod.

"Kufufufu," His tone seemed to go back to normal, though I didn't like the glint in his eyes… "I have the most suitable mission for you, Cannon-kun~"

Nevermind, the tone returned…

"And it is?" I questioned hesitantly. You can't be too careful around pineapples, especially when you are trying to kill them using a blender and with them having a scheming look most of the time… yup, I should have never even questioned in the first place… too late now.

The smirk grew a tad wider. "I want you to travel to Vindice, and negotiate for my freedom, kufufufu."

"And I'm going to find this Vindice, how?" I resisted to urge to roll my eyes.

"Head to Europe, on the coldest mountain." Pineapple stated.

I blinked. "Wait, so you're telling me that this Vindice lives on the coldest mountain in Europe."

"That is what I said." Pineapple gave a sigh of impatience. Where did his laugh go?

"Won't they freeze up there?" I deadpanned. This was the coldest mountain we were talking about, no sane person would take their living quarters that high up.

"Kufufufu, if you value your life, Cannon-kun, it's best if you do as I say." There is his laugh again…

"So you're threatening me to go and negotiate for your freedom," I started out slowly. "but you're here, right in front of me, all alive and well."

"Do I need to elaborate myself?" Pineapple grounded, his irritation surfacing. "Do so when you have returned to your time, otherwise, I'll make sure that you won't be sane for much longer."

I thought about retorting, but then thought better of it. "And what makes you think that I can do this? I don't like the cold you know."

"I'm sure your Uncle would like a visit." Pineapple gave a smirk, his trident twirling in semi-circles.

I blanced, for the second time. My Uncle and I weren't the best of best pals, and he would often criticize me for the most lowly of low reasons. It was safe to say that I didn't like to associate myself with that man. "With that eccentric guy? You have got to be kidding me!"

"Kufufufu, our time is nearly up, Cannon-kun," Pineapple gave one of those well hidden evil looks. "and I'd say that you don't want to tortured to the end of insanity."

A loud explosion caught my attention and I turned to look to see what it was. Apparently, Bakugan-sama was being fried to a crisp with Tsuna's flames, I'm not even surprised anymore by this. I turned back to the pineapple to ask a few more questions, but found that he had disappeared. In turn, I scowled. "I need to find a bigger blender."

Soon the orange dome dispersed…

and everyone had a huge reunion. I later realized that Bakugan-sama was indeed dead, along with Uni (who had regenerated the arcobalenos thus ending in her losing her life) but she wasn't alone and had her best man die along with her (funny, no matter how I look at it, he would be considered as a pedophile). After that whole fiasco, we soon were able to go home (and that was when I had witnessed the presence of the babies, all similar to Reborn), and it was just my luck that the memories would be given to their nine years younger selves as well (like I said, just my luck).

So now it was (un)official that I had to go visit my eccentric Uncle (who was anything but sane), living at the base of the coldest mountain in Europe.

I wonder if my parents would allow me to visit him (but if it was them, they'd be like 'oh why not? You haven't seen him such a long time now, go pack your bags and leave for the next plane on the flight queue')…

I'll see how thing turn out then, the time machine is nearly done, better end here.

P.S. I am not looking forward to mountain climbing, I might just end up cracking my neck with my luck.