Chapter 7: Chapter 7: An Unexpected Trap
The group leaves the dome area and come upon a set of stairs where Bianchi took care of Yamamoto's injured forearm.
"Are you all right?" Tsuna asks the baseball ace.
"Yeah, nothing to be concerned about." Yamamoto replies. "Sorry kid, I broke your bat."
"Don't worry about it," Reborn assures him as he takes out another bat. "I'll give you the spare."
"Oh! Thank you!"
"He got spares?" Tsuna deadpanned.
"At this rate, beating Mukuro will be a breeze, Juudaime."
"Don't underestimate Rokudo Mukuro," Reborn warns them as he throws them a photo of the three escapees. "He's gotten through tough situations by severely beating his enemies." Tsuna picks up the photo. "The prison break occurs the day before his execution."
Tsuna shivers as he looks at the one in the middle. "Rokudo Mukuro look really scary!"
"Move that thought aside, we should get moving." Kouga says as he walks up the stairs with everyone following.
They continue to walk along the path until Tsuna stops them. "Chotto, ano…" Everyone stops and looks at Tsuna. "We've walked for a while; how about a little break?"
"All right." Yamamoto agrees. "I'm beginning to get hungry."
"So, let's have lunch as well, Juudaime!" Gokudera suggests.
They all go to the picnic area where they assemble their lunch boxes and drinks.
"I'll pass out the sushi and tea." Yamamoto says as he starts passing out the bentos.
"Ah! Yamamoto's family sushi!" Tsuna exclaims.
"Out of the way, Yamamoto Takeshi." Bianchi pushes the baseball fanatic away from the table and takes out a cup of very dangerous looking cup of liquid. "Here you are, Tsuna. Poison Bug Soup for travel."
"Poison Bugs?!"
"It'll warm you right up."
"I think that'd make my body cold rather than warm…" Tsuna thought as his face pales of the sight of the poison condiment.
Then suddenly, the liquid starts to bubble and explodes in the cup.
"Was that poison cooking too?!" Ruki asks.
"No." Bianchi stumbles back from the explosion. "That's not it."
The bentos that Yamamoto brought along also start to bubble up as well. "Get down!" Yamamoto and Gokudera quickly duck down, just in time when the lunches explode.
"What was that?!" Tsuna yells.
"The enemy's attack!" Bianchi tells them.
"But from where?" Yamamoto asks. The bottles of tea on the table explode one by one when a sound wave is heard.
"That's sound…" Gokudera trails off as he takes out a couple dynamites and flings them. "Over there!" They explode all the way at the wall of the nearest building. Everyone gets ready for the person to come out.
"What a lame weapon…" A female voice comments, as the smoke clears out, revealing a red-haired girl in a female Kokuyo uniform with a clarinet at hand. "Why did Kaki-pi and Ken have trouble with guys like you?"
"Ah! That's a female Kokuyo Middle uniform!" Tsuna exclaims.
"That means…" Yamamoto gets out from his hiding space.
"I've never seen such shabby looking mafioso…" She comments ticking Gokudera off.
"What?! You're wearing a school uniform, you know?!" He yells.
The girl gets off the debris and walks towards them. "Don't call me 'you' like you know me. I'm M.M. And I wouldn't dress like this unless Mukuro-chan asked me."
"Mukuro…" Kouga mutters.
"So, there aren't just three of them." Gokudera realizes.
"Seeing gloomy-looking men just makes me sad." M.M. sighs. "If I had to choose, I'd rather date Mukuro-chan. Men should have money."
"What?!"
"Oh well. Now all I have to do is kill all of you, then go on a shopping spree for purses and clothes." She puts the clarinet mouthpiece in her mouth and blows, resulting in a sound wave that causes the rest of the bottled drinks to explode. The three boys immediately go for cover.
"Is that instrument her weapon?!" Tsuna screams.
"What's with that attack?" Gokudera asks.
"I don't want to die yet!"
"At this rate, we can't even get close." Yamamoto says.
Bianchi jumps out of the cover in front of the boys. "I'll go." Ruki jumps out after her. "Me too."
"Bianchi! Yuki-chan!" The brunette shocks of their courage.
"You're wrong." Bianchi tells M.M.
"Huh?" The girl stops and looks at the two.
"What's important isn't money." The poison cooker tells her. "It's love."
"What's with this woman?" M.M mumbles. "She pissing me off."
"That weapon works like a microwave." Bianchi explains. "It vibrates using sound waves and raises its temperature."
"You're right, so what? The sound waves from this clarinet vibrate atoms five hundred million times per minute." M.M. explains further. "The more the molecules vibrate, the more their temperature rises. Meaning, if a human was hit by these waves, the water molecules inside them would boil and – Boom!" She laughs casually as the others pale at the thought.
"Seriously?" Yamamoto questions.
"What a terrible woman." Gokudera states.
"Enough talk." Bianchi gets ready and searches into her bag. "Here I go!"
"Bring it on! I'll microwave your brains out!" M.M. gets ready to blow.
"I won't let you!" Ruki runs towards her, readying her blade to strike. But then, chains shoot out from the debris and catch her right wrist, causing her to stop with her wrist chained up.
"Ruki!" The Poison Scorpion shouts.
"Don't rush your death so soon, little girl." Another voice comes out from the broken building behind them. A young woman walks out of the debris, her blueish-black hair tied in a ponytail and her blue eyes glimmer with danger. In her hands is a sickle with a chain. "Or is that what you're planning?"
"Who are you?" Ruki questions.
"I'm Miki." She introduces herself. "Now then, you are going to tell me everything about your family history especially 'that man', Ruki Lanceford Mitsurugi."
"Kouga-san's and Ruki-chan's family history?" Tsuna repeats.
"What are you babbling about, Miki?" M.M asks her. "Mukuro-channasked that we make sure that they wouldn't survive to him."
"That's true. But I have other plans."
"I don't know why you want to know our history, but," Ruki immediately cuts the chain around her wrist. "Our history is for our family member to know!"
"What the- How did you?" Miki questions.
"Look!" Yamamoto shouts pointing to a sword in her right hand.
"When did she…" Gokudera starts and Ruki takes out her tessen.
"Let's go, Bianchi-san!"
"Yosh!" Bianchi takes out two plates of poisonous cuisine. "Poison Cooking! Large-scale Buffet!"
"She still had an attack like that left!" The brunette exclaims while Gokudera is trying not to puke at the sight of her sister's food.
"Another lame attack." M.M comments. "Burning Vibrato!" She blows her instrument, causing the food on the plate to explode as Bianchi advances towards the red-haired student.
"She's using her cooking as a shield." Tsuna states.
"Well done! But will it last?" Yamamoto asks worriedly.
"Bianchi-san…" Ruki looks at her.
"Oi, don't look away now!" Miki swings her chain towards her. Ruki turns around and dodges the sickle before squatting to dodge the chain again, but the chain wraps around the sword. "This is the end for you!" She swings the sickle which spins around heading towards Ruki. "Falce Ciclone!"
"This is bad!" Gokudera grimaces.
"She can't dodge it while her sword is like that!" Tsuna shouts.
"Ruki!" Kouga shouts.
At the same time, Bianchi closes the gap between her and M.M and throws her food at her, who dodges it with ease, but she has gotten close enough. "Finale!" M.M screams as the poison scorpion take out a poisonous cake. "Shortcake!"
"Did you really think I'll scream?" The clarinet girl splits her instrument into a tri-link staff, shocking the poison assassin. "I'm good at…" She swings her weapon at her. "close-range combat too!" Bianchi manages to dodge her strike but she spins the Sansetsukon around her and swings at her once more, hitting her over the head and sending her back from the force.
"Ah!"
"Bianchi-san!" Ruki shouts but cut short when she ducks down from the spinning sickle with her other wrist up in the air, making the chains on the sickle wraps around it.
"Ruki-chan! Bianchi!" Tsuna shouts as Bianchi falls to the ground while Ruki is resisting the pull from Miki.
"Who cares about love?" M.M says smugly. "There's nothing greater than money!"
Bianchi struggles to get up from the ground as Ruki struggles to escape from the chains. Miki pulls the chains further making Ruki to skid on the ground. "Tell me about your family history, and I'll let you live."
"I told you before, the only ones need to know our history is us!" Ruki retorts.
"Don't bother with her, Miki. If you are not going to place the last blow, I will." The clarinet girl tells her as she gets ready to blow her instrument.
"This isn't good." Tsuna panics.
Yamamoto about to get out there to help but holds back by Gokudera. "Stop, Yamamoto." The bomber tells him. "She touched it."
"Huh?"
"Hehehe…" M.M about to blow but then she notices something. Her clarinet has turned into purple goo causing her to scream in shock.
"Her clarinet!" Yamamoto exclaims.
"Is that Bianchi's attack?" Tsuna asks.
"That's right." Gokudera answers. "Her ultimate dish: making anything she touches into Poison Cooking."
"Thousand Poisonous Flowers!" Bianchi yells.
"That's… impossible!" The red-haired girl falls to the ground, convulsing from the disgusting poison.
"M.M!" Miki about to go there when she feels a strong resistance and looks at Ruki. She moves her arms towards each other when her hands are on top of another.
"Mitsurugi Ryu Ougi…" Ruki mutters and instantly goes past her opponent with her arms crossed and crouching. "Kousetsu."
Miki slowly turns her head back to the girl. "What…?"
"What just happened?" Tsuna asks.
"Kousetsu is a move when the user instantly slashes the opponent before they realize and gets behind them within the user's range of their attack in front of them." Kouga explains as Ruki stands up.
"Someone like you who want to know our honorable family history…" Ruki says as the chains break apart around her wrist and shift her head back to Miki. "Does not deserve it!"
"I-It… can't… be…" She too falls to the ground, unconscious.
"Are you all right!" They all watch Bianchi runs towards the picnic table where Reborn is sleeping. "I'm so glad that we didn't interrupt your nap!"
"When did Reborn…?" Tsuna shocks of the situation.
"So Sis fought to protect Reborn's sleep?" Gokudera questions.
"Love is victorious." Bianchi declares.
"Bianchi is to be feared." Tsuna concludes.
"Well done." Yamamoto praises them and Tsuna realizes something.
"What about Ruki?" He asks.
"Don't worry." She says as she walks back to them. "I hold back when I dealt with her."
"'Hold back'?" Tsuna repeats and pales. "Then…"
"Yeah. Her opponent would've been dead by now if Ruki used the full power of Kousetsu." Kouga confirms.
Just then a creepy laughter breaks the tension, in which everyone turns to look at the owner of the laughter. "I am quite glad that avaricious girl M.M has been beaten. Much less is said about the woman Miki." An old man with a black hat and in the Kokuyo uniform says.
"Who are you?!" Tsuna questions.
"Now calm down and look at this." He presses a button on a remote, in which two screens are projected on the wall, showing Haru and Kyoko separately. "Your friends are being targeted."
"Kyoko-chan! Haru!"
"Teme, who the hell are you?" Gokudera shouts. "what are you planning?!"
"My name is Birds." He introduces himself. "The images you see here are being transmitted by the small cameras attached to my dear birdies."
"Hm?" Tsuna looks closely at each screen. "What is that?" They look at the screens and notices two creepy figures stalking Kyoko and Haru.
"What are those guys?" Yamamoto questions.
"So you noticed them." Birds says to them. "They are twin hitmen, loyal to me. Bloody Twins. They look adorable, but they were such ferocious serial killers that while in prison, they were not let out of solitary confinement even once."
"What?" Tsuna shouts.
"Just watch." He adds. "They want to play with your friends so much that they can't help themselves."
The two hitmen get up from behind them and their nails turn into claws, and slowly lower down it on the two girls.
"Ah! Watch out!" Tsuna shouts.
"What do you intend to do?" Bianchi questions the old man.
"Nothing, as long as you obey me." He replies.
"Don't screw around!" Gokudera grabs his shirt. "They're not involved in this!"
"Now, now. You'd best not touch me." He tells them. "I won't be responsible for what happens to your friends."
"What?!"
"I can still give them commands. Your friends' lives are in my hands. You have no right to complain!" Gokudera growls feeling helpless. "So never touch me again, you fool!"
"Damn." Gokudera lets go of him.
"As long as you obey me, two of them will be safe." The old man says to them. "Now let us begin. Let's… see… I want all of you to beat up Vongola Juudaime."
"What was that?!" The Bomber shouts.
"Gokudera!" Yamamoto yells at him.
"I said punch that Sawada-kun right there!" Birds repeats. "You want the two of them to return home safely, don't you? Then beat him."
"That kind of one-sided demand is underhanded!" Gokudera retorts.
"Don't be unreasonable!" Yamamoto adds.
"What should I do? Kyoko-chan is busy talking with Kurukawa. And Haru is reading a book with headphones on. They haven't noticed the Bloody Twins at all." Tsuna thought and clenches his hands. "I never imagined this would happen. What should I do? Reborn?" Tsuna looks back to where his tiny tutor is, but he is still sleeping. "Why are you sleeping at a time like this?!"
"Even if you refuse, it's no skin off my nose." Birds says and orders the Twins, "Very well, do it."
The group gasps when one of the twins swings his arms around his surroundings with long nails behind Haru and jumps upwards before she looks back to see the Twin. Seeing no one is behind her, Haru looks back to her book until the pole behind her is cut several times.
"My other hobby is startling others. Seeing others' unguarded, sad little faces excites me so!" Birds exclaims with a small blush and laughs.
"Onii-sama…" Ruki gets closer to Kouga, hugging his left arm.
"That bastard…" Gokudera says.
"He's complete pervert." Bianchi comments.
"Are you certain you should talk about me in such a fashion? If you don't do as I say this time…" Birds trails off as the other Twin gets behind Kyoko and points his nails at her head before about to stab her.
"All right! Yamamoto! Gokudera-kun! Kouga-san! Hit me!" Tsuna shouts and the Twin stops his tracks and pulls his hand away from Kyoko.
"Tsuna!"
"Juudaime!"
"Are you sure!"
The three look at him which Tsuna has a worried look.
"I went and said it." He thought.
"Tch, it was about to get good. So close. Start before I finish counting to five."
"No… Um… Well…"
"One."
"Y-Yamamoto! Gokudera-kun! Beat me up!"
"Two."
"Don't be stupid!" Yamamoto tells him.
"We can't do that!" Gokudera adds.
"Three."
"B-But! If you don't, the two of them will be…"
"Four. Five!"
At the last count, Bianchi suddenly punches straight to the face which sending Tsuna to the ground.
"Sis! What did you do that for?!" Gokudera asks.
"I originally came to Japan to take care of Tsuna so I could return to Italy with Reborn." Bianchi says. "Consider yourself fortunate since that's all you got."
"Is that true?" Ruki asks the two boys besides Kouga.
"Well…" Yamamoto trails off.
"Th-That's right… Huh?" Tsuna notices that there is a little pain on his punched cheek. "That didn't hurt much." He then looks up at Bianchi.
"I'm used to being the bad guy." Bianchi states.
"Well done, you've cleared my condition. Then I'm sure you can clear the next one." Birds says.
"What?! There's more?!" Tsuna shouts.
"No one said there would be only one."
"Son of a bitch! You're taking it too far!" Gokudera shouts.
"That's right!" Kouga agrees.
Birds laughs. "You cleared the last one so well. I'll make the next one final." He taps his walking staff on the ground which the wood breaks apart revealing a double-edge jagged sword. "Stab Juudaime with this." He says as the sparks appear on the blade.
"What?!" Tsuna shouts as he and the others shock to hear this.
"Your startled faces just now were exquisite!" Bird exclaims as he laughs before throwing the sword at them. "Now, do it!"
"That's crazy."
"Screw you! You pervert!" Gokudera shouts.
"That's unreasonable!" Yamamoto comments.
"There's no way we're going to do it!" Kouga shouts.
"That's right!" Ruki agrees.
"I refuse." Bianchi says.
"I already told you many times. I don't mind at all of you refuse." Birds says.
Tsuna looks at the sword and reaches out but stops his hand.
"Then let's start with this girl." The old man says looking at Kyoko's image.
"Kyoko-chan!"
"She looks like an adorable little angel." He comments as the Twin beats his fingers above Kyoko's head.
"What should we do?! Can't we do anything?!" Gokudera asks both Bianchi and Yamamoto but they didn't answer.
Tsuna, Kouga, and Ruki stare at the monitor as Birds laughs.
"Now… do it."
"Stop!" Tsuna shouts. "I won't let it happen! I can't let something terrible happen to Kyoko-chan when she's got nothing to do with this!"
"Then please get to it." Birds says and Tsuna grabs the sword. "You have ten seconds."
"You bastard!" Yamamoto shouts.
"How easy. That sword is smothered in a poison that would kill a man with the slightest scratch." Birds thought.
"I'll do it. I'll call an ambulance immediately afterward." Bianchi tells Tsuna.
Tsuna pulls out the sword. "It's all right. I'll do it myself."
"Tsuna." Yamamoto calls.
"Please reconsider, Juudaime!" Gokudera comments.
"He's right, Tsuna!" Kouga says.
"Tsuna-san!" Ruki calls.
"Gokudera-kun protected me without a thought about his own safety." Tsuna remembers how Gokudera protected Tsuna and Kouga from Chikusa's poisoned pin with his body. "Yamamoto could have ended up unable to play baseball anymore." Then he remembers that Yamamoto uses his strong arm so that Ken could bite it. "I can do…"
"THIS MUCH!" He raises the sword high enough and about to stab himself when a voice screams out in pain which stops Tsuna at his leg.
What's the matter?" Birds asks as he looks at the monitor which has the Twin lying on the ground.
"The enemies of woman are my enemies as well." A man's voice says which causing Ruki to hide behind Kouga. "Hi~ Kyoko-chan. I came to save you. For cute girls, I don't mind having muscle cramps the next day."
"Dr. Shamal!" Tsuna calls out.
"What?!" Birds exclaims.
"Shamal? The hitman genius Trident Shamal?!" He thought.
"Good job!" Yamamoto cheers.
"You took too long, you quack!" Gokudera yells at him through the monitor.
"Now, now. Have you forgotten that I have one more?" On the other monitor, there is still the first Twin with his nails near Haru's head. "Now it's this girl's turn."
"Haru!" Tsuna calls out.
"If you don't want that to happen, please continue. Come now, Vongola Juudaime. Stab yourself as you've been told. Right now!"
"Hah!" A girls voice exclaims causing everyone to look at the monitor which showing the TYL I-Pin attacking the hitman.
"That's…" Tsuna trails off.
"I can't allow you to attack women." I-Pin says.
"Well, well. Haru-san, you're all right now." The TYL Lambo appears walking towards Haru.
"I-Pin! Lambo!" The brunette calls out.
"Impossible! Why do they keep coming?! No one knew about this!" Birds shouts.
"I'm glad I followed Haru-san like I was asked." I-Pin states.
"His instinct was right on." Shamal comments.
"'Like I was told?' his instinct?'" Tsuna thought and realizes something.
"Could… Could it be…"
"Ahem!"
Tsuna turns to the tiny hitman. "Reborn! You…"
"You should be glad that you have a family that will look out for you when you're in trouble." Reborn tells him.
"Yeah." He replies as Tsuna rubs his nose. "Hey, we're not a family!"
"Now it's our turn." Gokudera states as he, Yamamoto, Bianchi, Kouga, and Ruki march towards Birds.
"You two! Kill them!" He orders.
The hitman on Kyoko's monitor gets back up and Shamal looks back at her and Hana.
"I recommend that you go home quickly, ladies. Seeing any more would be poison to your eyes. Also, you might lose sleep after falling for me." He tells the two girls.
"Let's go. Let's go, Kyoko. It's better not to get involved." Hana tells Kyoko and takes her hand.
"All right." She replies and Hana drags Kyoko away from Shamal. "Goodbye, Shamal-sensei!"
"All right, let's kiss next time, my pretty little kittens!" Shamal replies back as he waves at the two girls. "Now, let's do this." He turns back to the hitman who is standing back up. "I'd better tell you this as a doctor. You shouldn't be moving." The hitman about to attack Shamal but suddenly stops. "You've been infected with the Vibration Syndrome." Shamal brings his finger out when a mosquito with a trident needle lands on it and the hitman's head begins to swell. "But I told you too late. You're breaking out." The moment he said that the blood spurts out all over the hitman's body with Shamal's back facing towards him.
"That's one of the Trident Mosquito's disease?! That's scary!"
"Curse you, Shamal! Then we must get the other one!" Birds shouts, looking at the other monitor.
On it shows the other Twin getting ready to attack them with TYL I-Pin in front of Haru and TYL Lambo.
"What's this ruckus about?!" Haru asks.
"Lambo, take care of Haru-san." I-Pin asks.
"Okay." Lambo replies and grabs Haru's shoulders. "Now, Haru-san. Let's leave this to I-Pin." Lambo escorts Haru away from the two.
The hitman immediately attacks I-Pin but she dodges before retaliates back and soon jumps on him.
"Haku. Hatsu. Chun." I-Pin wraps her legs on the hitman's neck with her right hand and left arm and her left arm around his right arm and then she bends the two limbs upwards with the neck twisted. "Haisangen!"
"Wow, I-Pin! As expected from Rank # in the 'most promising hitman 10 years from now'!" Tsuna exclaims.
"Impossible. They were serial killers known as the Twin Devils! Rokudo-san's mission levels are too high. Now if you'll excuse me-"
He soon interrupts when Gokudera kicks him in the face.
"Where do you think you're going?" He questions and puts his leg down as Birds collapses. "He was out after one hit."
"Those who give orders aren't that tough to begin with." Yamamoto comments.
"In the end, he acted out of selfish motivation." Reborn adds.
"Hey, Reborn, who are these guys?" Kouga asks him.
"They broke out of prison with Mukuro." He simply answers.
"Wait! You mean there were three other escapees with Mukuro?!" Tsuna questions.
"According to Dino, the prison break was caused by Mukuro and his close friends plus M.M., Birds, and the Twins. Seven People." Reborn states and shows three pictures of the previous three that were fought. "We knew about the others, but we didn't imagined they would have rendezvoused."
"It's not 'didn't imagined' is it?!" Tsuna and Kouga yell at the baby.
"But, but, but, Dino said these guys didn't matter." Reborn replies cutely.
"Don't change your personality to get out of this!" Tsuna yells at him and then looks around. "There are more, aren't there?"
"There are." Bianchi says as she looks at the trees. "Stop hiding and come out. I know you're there. If you don't come out, I'm coming."
The group waited for the moment as the person who is hiding to appear.
"Wa-wait. It's me." A boy's voice calls out and steps away from the tree.
"Fuuta!" Tsuna calls out.
"What… What are you doing here?" Gokudera asks.
"Did he run away from them?" Yamamoto wonders.
"In any case, I'm glad! You're looking good!" Tsuna exclaims and walks towards the boy. "Everyone's here, so don't worry! Let's go home together."
"Stay away, Tsuna-nii." Fuuta says.
"Eh?"
"Fuuta?" Ruki calls.
"I can't go back with you guys." The Ranking Prince says.
"What are you saying?" Tsuna asks.
"I'm sticking with Mukuro-san. Goodbye!" He shouts and runs away from the group.
"Wait! Fuuta!" Tsuna shouts and runs after the boy.
"Tsuna, wait!" Kouga runs after him.
"Hey, Tsuna, Kouga!" Yamamoto calls out.
"Juudaime!"
"Onii-sama!"
The three run after the two when Bianchi calls out, "Watch out!"
The three stops when a steel beam is thrown near them.
"A steel beam?" Yamamoto wonders.
Then they hear chain rattling behind them and turns to see a man with a large chain ball with snake grooves on it and his face is cover by a hat and don in the Kokuyo uniform.
"The next killer." Gokudera points out.