Lambo pointed silently at Gokudera, and with a loud moo, the bull charged. Gokudera face went pale with fear as the Storm Guardian quickly gathered his own Storm flames and fired them out in one large beam that collided against the construct bull's head and horn's. But the bull continued racing forward, barely even slowing down as he crashed into Gokudera with a loud rumble of thunder.
Gokudera was sent flying back with a pained filled scream, still encased in Lightning flames as he slammed through the front doors that lead into the ballroom, but that didn't stop his momentum.
No, what did though, was a limp form that crashed through the ballroom's ceiling from the mansion's second floor, crashing into Gokudera's body as the two crashed down into the middle of the ballroom floor, several feet away from Ryohei's unconscious form in the far corner.
...
Someone came from above. A body, signaling a battle over, and Lambo can only think of two people right now that made it to the second floor for their fight. And it's terrifying for him as he slowly made his way to the still smoking crater in the middle of the ballroom in order to see who lost, but the smoke would not go away.
So, Lambo slowly, hesitantly, looked up towards the winner. His eyes widened when he saw...
...
One Hour Earlier. . .
"I'll handle Gokudera.", Lambo tells Luffy confidently, "You just focus on kicking Tsuna's ass."
For a moment, Luffy just stared at his crewmate, then he started laughing loudly, a large grin encompassing his entire face.
"I wouldn't have it any other way!", Luffy declared with his signature grin, "Gum Gum...!"
Luffy's arms stretched back towards Gokudera, who flinched back, expecting an attack, only to gape at the true target of Luffy's next attack.
"Tenth-!"
It was too late to warn Vongola's Decimo.
"Bazooka!"
Luffy's hands shot forward, Tsuna's eyes widened in realization, too late, as the palms of Luffy's hands slammed into the man's chest, sending him flying back and straight through the wall behind him. Luffy gave chase, following close behind the flying Decimo.
Tsuna had crashed into a finding himself in an corridor with windows lining up the edge of the walls, Tsuna swears he can hear the clash of metal against metal in the near distance at the other end of the corridor, closer to where Tsuna knows a large window that leads to the outside, the backyard, is located. His body is impeded in a wall before slowly sliding out of the hole it had made upon it's impact, causing the Decimo to fall to the floor with a quiet 'oof'. With a groan Tsuna sat up just as hands zoomed past him to the crater his body just made.
"Gum! Gum!..."
Tsuna's eyes shot straight forward to where he was met by a bright smile. Not Again!
"Rocket!"
Luffy allowed the stretch of his arms to pull him forward, positioned so that his feet will land on the mafia boss.
Tsuna's eyes glowed an amber orange, "Shit-!"
The crater became another hole was that added to the pour walls of the Vongola mansion as Tsuna's body broke through the sturdy wall all the way through with this second blow. Although the building is pretty much use to it at this rate with the number of destructive fights that constantly break out, mostly between Hibari and Mukuro or Gokudera and anyone he deems a threat or believes to have insulted Tsuna. The only difference is it's a battle with theenemy on home field, the enemy, in which, shouldn't be thisstrong, strong in enough, in which Tsuna has to use his Dying Will Flames to defend himself.
With a sigh, Tsuna shakes his head, causing the leftover dust and rubble to fall out of his hair as stood up and dusted himself off, eyes glowing an amber orange and an orange flame flickering over his forehead. Looking around him as his hands reached for the inside of his suit jacket pockets.
"Ah,", Tsuna says to himself as he withdrew metal gloves, his X-gloves, weapons that he hadn't a need for in a while.
The mob boss found himself in another already destroyed hallway, different from the one he was just in. He looks through the hole he smashed through and blinked at the multiple rooms he had clearly crashedthrough according to the multiple holes and crumbling walls.
Huh. Tsuna spots stray icicles that are slowly dissipating into mist flames. This must've been an area one of his Guardians battled in, either Mukuro or Chrome, most likely the latter, she prefers ice-based illusions more while the former prefers fire.
"Gum Gum Pistol!""
He looked up just as a fist was flying for his face, Tsuna tilted his head just so for the hit to mist, adjusting his gloves and in a split second his hand was on Luffy's face as he slammed the pirate Captain to the floor. Luffy's foot shot up, slamming into Tsuna's face, followed by a punch, Tsuna managed to block the kick, but the force of it still threw him back, and ducked under the punch throwing and elbow, only for his elbow to bounce back.
Right rubber, the idiot ate a devil fruit.
"Won't work on me~!", the straw hat pirate cheered with a determined grin
So, while the pirate captain laughed at the foiled attack, Tsuna's other hand came out from under his arm, the palm of his gloves glowing a bright orange and a wave of orange fire shot out at Luffy point blank. Luffy's body was smoky as it was thrown up by the torrent of flames, smashing through the ceiling.
There we go.
Using his sky flames to propel him upward as they shot out form his palm, Tsuna flew after Luffy, only to be tackled the minute he entered the second level floor, finding himself in a hallway now, tackled to the ground by Luffy. Holding out his hands, once again glowing a bright hot orange, Tsuna shot out a burst of flames causing the two bodies to be lifted from the floor, and allowing Tsuna to flip, once again slamming Luffy down to the floor, causing their moment to come to a sudden stop and Tsuna landed a couple feet away from Luffy.
Already jumping back up to his feet, not wanting to allow Tsuna to get any more hits than he believes the pirate is allowed, Tsuna shot himself forward with another burst of his sky flames.
Covering his fists in said flames, Tsuna's flame covered fist slammed into Luffy's jaw with a burst of flames, then another punch to the gut, causing the pirate to cough out a gasp as the wind got knocked out of him. Luffy stumbled backward and Tsuna pressed his upper hand, lunging forward. But Luffy hit the flaming fist to the side with a backhand, doing the same to the follow up punch, ignoring the burns that were being formed on his forearms as he falls back, dodging a burst of flames that shot out from Tsuna's palms, aimed for Luffy's head. Using a single hand to support himself, Luffy twisted in mid-air, slamming his foot against Tsuna's face.
Tsuna flew to the side, body smashing halfway through the plaster wall, not even getting a chance to recover, Tsuna let out a shout as Luffy threw himself against Tsuna's back, causing both bodies to crash through the wall all the way, and tumbling into a new room, the living room, in which that had a large window in place of a wall that led to the outside, a large window that was already destroyed before the two Skys entrance.
Unfortunately, Tsuna didn't get a chance to muse over the destroyed window before Luffy was already aiming another punch for his face, almost all of the straw hats punches have been aimed for his face actually. Is that on purpose?
Following Luffy's example in the last room, Tsuna easily took to stance, blocking and knocking Luffy's blows away and off their intended target. Unfortunately, Luffy was doing the same, making it seem as if they are on the same level.
Key word being AS IF!
The flame on Tsuna's forehead pulsed and flared as Dying Will Flames surrounded Tsuna, who aimed one hand behind him and the other in front, the palm of his X-gloves glowing brightly.
"XX-Burner."
Luffy's eyes widened just as the flames reached him, destroying the entire room and entrance into the corridor behind Tsuna in the process. When the attack dissipated, Tsuna smirked at the sight of no straw hat to be seen, must have been thrown out the open window from the force of Tsuna's flames.
Lambo's sky? As if.
Tsuna approached the opened window, looking down to the ground below where a body laid, only for the bottom of a sandaled foot to smash against his face as Straw Hat Luffy, clothes slightly smoking and burned, swung down from where he had taken shelter from the brunt of Tsuna's attack on the roof.
"Gum... Gum...!", Luffy's arms stretched behind him before shooting forward, "Gaitling!"
With a flare of his flames, Tsuna created a shield that Luffy's fists just bounced off harmlessly. But despite no damage being done to the mafia boss, he can feel the force behind the barrage of punches. He can feel hos his Sky Flames shutter, but remain strong against the attack.
Just as Luffy's attack came to an end, Tsuna leapt back, Tsuna dodging the punch of the attack, grabbing the outstretched arm before swinging the rubber man through a wall, but the arm twisted in his grasp before gripping tight to Tsuna's own arm as well. With a shout, Tsuna was flung forward as he was pulled by the hand through the hole in the wall, he had thrown Luffy thrown, making the hole larger as he collided against the edges, finding himself now in his own office that he had met and spoke with the Straw Hat pirates mere hours earlier. With gritted teeth, Luffy swung Tsuna back around in a large arc just as Tsuna did to the pirate barely a minute ago.
Luffy released the Tenth Vongola Boss, who tumbled across the floor for a second before Tsuna rolled back to his feet just as Luffy lunged for him. A Sky flame covered fist landed a blow against Luffy's shoulder then ribs, then the other side of said ribs. Tsuna grabbed Luffy by both sides of his head, the flame on Tsuna's forehead flared as the Decimo headbutted the pirate, letting him drop to the floor with a grunt. Taking a step back as he looked down on the pirate in boredom.
He'll admit, Straw Hat caught him off guard, if Tsuna pulled his punches during this fight, he could have lost, he could have lost his Lightning Guardian for good because of this... nobody. Because of a dreamer who thought he could do more than he actually could achieve.
"Give up already while you still can.", Tsuna warns as his glowing amber eyes seem to burn onto panting Luffy's form, "There is no way you can win. There is no scenario here that ends with you walking out of Vongola mansion with our Lightning Guardian."
Luffy pushed himself up to his feet, expression blank as he stared at Tsuna from beneath the brim of his hat.
"What part of him makes him yours?"
Tsuna blinks, not expecting to be talked back to. Ever since Straw Hat kicked open his doors, he has said near nothing to the Vongola Boss, except for that one declaration that Luffy is his Guardian, Luffy hasn't said a single word to Tsuna or his Guardians, as far as the mafia boss is aware.
But... maybe now, things can be settled with words. Now that the pirate Captain is finally talking back.
"I've been with Lambo since he was five years old and I was twelve. His family sent him to kill Reborn, my tutor, in hopes of getting the child killed. I've helped raised Lambo nearly his entire life. Been there as he failed school, caused trouble for others, people left him, even that teacher of his that would visit to tutor him had left.", Tsuna explained, "Everyone else left, but I stayed. He's, my brother, famiglia. And you think I'm just going to stand by and let you take him away from me again? When he's finally back home? When I finally see that he needs help? What makes you thin-!"
Not expecting the sudden blow, Tsuna found himself kissing the floor with another bruised cheek to add to the collection of the day's fight. Tsuna turns to Straw Hat, about to get up, only to receive another, powerful, but unexpected blow to the jaw.
"Shut up.", Luffy frowns at the Vongola Boss.
"Wh-?"
Another punch, but this one was blocked by a shield of Dying Will Flames.
"Shut Up.", a fourth punch that is quickly followed by a fifth, then a sixth, "Shut up!"
The pace and strength of each punch increasing as Luffy gritted his teeth, anger quickly filling his expression at a rapid pace that follows along with his attacks.
"Shut Up! Shut Up! SHUT UP! SHUT UP! SHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUP!", Luffy screamed as his arms became a blur, still shouting nonstop for Tsuna to shut up angrily, neither sky noticing how the ring on Tsuna's ring finger began to glow, it's light pulsing angrily in time with Luffy's punches against the shield of sky flames, a shield that was quickly beginning to crack and break, "Shut! UUUUUUUUPPPPP!"
A flash of bright orange light blinded both Luffy and Tsuna just as Luffy slammed one more powerful fist against the shield.
It broke, just as the rest of Tsuna's office became damaged as a wave of energy crashed through the room in a singular destructive wave.
Tsuna slowly blinked the dust out of his eyes only for them to widen at the sight fire filled his vision, the entirety of his office was cover in flames. Sky flames, that are not his own. And standing in the middle of it all, is Straw Hat Luffy with an orange Sky flame flickering on his forehead., standing right behind him is none other than Vongola Primo, the one who first created Vongola, who supported Tsuna through a few of his fights in his past, now supporting his enemy... a pirate who wants to take one of his own away.
Luffy's fist stretched out behind him, covered in Sky flames and it flung forward, "Lambo isn't yours!"
Tsuna blocks with another shield, but this own broke immediately with Luffy's singular blow.
"You don't get to decide who Lambo is!"
Another shield broken.
"You don't get to force him to be your family!"
Tsuna was forced back from the force of the second punch that, once again, broke his shield.
"That's Not What Family Is!", Luffy broke through the shield all the way, his fist slamming into Tsuna's nose this time, there was a loud 'crunch!' as cartilage broke easily underneath the force of Luffy's fist.
Tsuna slowly pushed himself up to his feet with a grunt, half-hazardly wiping away the blood dripping from his nose. Eyes widening in shock to see Luffy high in the air, right above him
"GUM! GUUUMM!", both arms bent and pulledback, ready to throw another powerful blow, at least that's what Tsuna expected"GAITLIIINNNNGGG!"
Unable to defend himself, Tsuna body was flung down to the floor, body bouncing against the floor only to be slammed down again from the sheer force of the flame encased fists of Luffy's attack. The floor slowly began to crack beneath Tsuna's body.
The thick reinforced concrete used only in this room for the rigorous training the high ranking mafiosos of the Vongola use to keep their strength at such a high level it is. Meant to withstand the attacks from the likes of Gokudera, Ryohei, and Hibari. Cracking, breaking beneath the seemingly nonstop blows of Straw Hat Luffy's singular flame infused attack.
Floor gave away, and Tsuna found himself flying downwards, no falling, crashing against something electric (was that a body), causing more pain to flare as Tsuna and the second unknown body crashed down, creating a large crater, at least a foot deep into the flooring of the ballroom, back where this fight at first started.
Back when Tsuna thought he could beat the pirate easily. But instead, he had... lost?
Thick dark smoke obscured his vision. Had he really lost?
...
Someone came from above. A body, signaling a battle over, and Lampo can only think of two people right now that made it to the second floor for their fight. And it's terrifying for him as he slowly made his way to the still smoking crater in the middle of the ballroom in order to see who lost, but the smoke would not go away.
So, Lambo slowly, hesitantly, looked up towards the winner. His eyes widened when he saw...
...
Luffy, standing at the edge of a hole he must have created, with a large satisfied grin on his face and... and a Sky Flame on his forehead!? WithPrimo of Vongola standing right behind him!?
Lambo doesn't know how to feel at the moment. Luffy got Sky Flames? Wait, no. But he's definitely using Sky Flames, and he's definitely in Hyper Dying Will Mode. Although he doesn't look all that different than his usual self unlike when Tsuna goes into Hyper Dying Will Mode.
Lambo glanced to Primo, who is still standing behind Luffy and bowed his head in... apology? Lambo thinks that's what it was at least before Primo leaves witha burst of Sky Flames, the Sky Flame on Luffy's forehead going out with a flash of purple Cloud Flames and a puff of, almost cartoonish looking, white smoke, alongside Primo's disappearance.
Tsuna's flame never went out like that before, Cloud Flames aside, it just went out in the past, like blowing out a flame of a candle. What-?
There was a quiet groan beneath Lambo, interrupting his thoughts and quickly forgetting about his confusion as his focus snapped down into the crater to see Gokudera and Tsuna. The Decimo that should have come out on top, only to fall back to the bottom. The sky in which Lambo hoped for his defeat, but deep down, wasn't sure if Luffy could succeed, yet here's the proof right in front of him.
"Oi Luffy!", Lambo jumped at the unexpected shout from next to him, turning to see Zoro standing there looking up at Luffy, "Come on! We got the kid back, let's set sail!"
"Huh?", Lambo can't help but say dumbly.
Zoro turns to the teen with a small smile, "Ready to go?"
Slowly, Lambo turned to see every single one of his friends, every member of his crew, standing there, in front of the large open double doorway. Rain has finally ceased, the storm clouds drifting away, revealing the sun. In which shined from behind Lambo's crew, as if showcasing them as the heroes from a fairytale.
Wait.
No. Not heroes.
They're pirates. He is a pirate. They didn't do this because they are heroes, they didn't fight because he needed rescuing (although he did). They did this because they wanted to. They fought, because they wanted him.
No, the light of the sun wasn't shining on them as if they were heroes, his saviors. It's a guide, showing him the path to his freedom. To his crew.
Luffy whooped gleeful as he leaped down through the hole he had made, arms stretching, allowing him to swing forward and land next to his first mate. Zoro shook his head good naturally, Nami joins the mini circle with a proud smirk of her own, Sanji steps, smoking on a cigarette as he ruffles Lambos hair with a chuckle, and Ussop comes him wrapping his arm around Lambo's shoulders.
"Hey! Hey Lambo! I overcame a monster, beast of a man! He didn't go down no matter what attack I hit him with. Noteven go down after he hit him in the head with my 'Ussop Hammer'!", Ussop bragged proudly, "But I came out on top in the end. After all, no one can beat the Great Warrior Ussop!"
"Well, I had two fight two opponents at the same time.", Nami states smugly while Ussop gapes at her with his jaw dropped.
"HOW!?"
"I'm just that good.", Nami waved away his shock nonchalantly, a smug air about her as she smirked at their sniper before looking at the sunglasses resting on top the sniper's head of his goggles, "What's with the sunglasses anyway."
"Huh?", Ussop reached up for the glasses before tossing them away with a shrug, "The guy I fought had the sun fire thingy, turned himself into a mini sun, I couldn't see without them."
Lambo choked on his own spit, "You fought Ryohei?"
"Yeah, I think he mentioned that being his name. Kept shouting the word extreme it was weird and borderline creepy with how much he used the word.", Ussop mused as he rubbed his chin.
Huh, don't underestimate Ussop. Why is this a thing Lambo is just realizing now? Although, if Lampow and Primo anything to go by, and remembering what happened to Gokudera's ring reacting in the middle of his fight with the Lighting Flame user. Lambo thinks it's safe to assume Luffy wasn't the only one of the crew to have gotten a chance to use Dying Will Flames and met on of the first Guardians of Vongola.
"Hey Lambo." Nami asks the teencuriously, "Why are you all wet? You're going to get a cold if you don't dry off quickly."
Luffy laughed as he points to both Zoro and Lambo, "Shishishi, Zoro and Lambo got soaked."
Lambo crossed his arms defensively, unable to help the pout that pulled on his lips, "I was fighting out in the rain."
"I got hit with what was basically a water cannon but... without the cannon.", Zoro sweat dropped before he looked at Luffy and Sanji pointedly, "And are you two smoldering as if you just stepped out of a fire?"
Sanji looked to the side almost boredly, "I think I went through literal Hell."
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN 'YOU THINK'!?", both Nami and Ussop shrieked at the chef who just chuckled sheepishly as he shrugged.
"The mafia boss guy had fire on his fists.", Luffy explained simply with a giggle.
"Of course you did.", Zoro muttered as he pinched the bridge of his nose with a tired sigh, he then looked back up with a smile, "Well, we got the kid back. I think it's about time we leave before we're chased off another island."
"Wait, when did that happen again?", Nami asks curiously.
"Buggy.", Lambo reminded helpfully, "Clown guy who you stole the map of the Grand Line from?"
"Ah, yeah, that's right.", Nami nodded with a snap of her fingers in realization.
Luffy smacked his fist into the palm of his hand with a nod of his own, "Big Nose."
Ussop raised his hand, "I also vote we leave now. I think Zoro's right, they may not have expected us to win, but at the very least more people will come to clean the place up."
"Yeah... I think we've overstayed our welcome.", Sanji agrees with an exhale of smoke before placing his cigarette back between his lips.
Luffy adjusted his hat with a grin, "Alright then! Let's-!"
"L... Lam... bo?", a weak voice interrupted Luffy, gaining the attention of the entire Straw Hat crew.
Laying there in the middle of the crater, on top of Gokudera's twitching unconscious body, was a barely conscious Sawada Tsunayoshi. Lambo felt himself freeze, not out of fear, but uncertainty. What does he do next? He won. They all won, right? So, what does Lambo do now?
A calming hand pats Lambo's shoulder, the teen turns to see Hibari standing there, now next to him. He looked ruffled, a little bruised, but overall, he looked okay... and he was fighting Reborn.
Hibari just gotten ten times scarier.
But Hibari squeezed Lambo's shoulder reassuringly, before lifting Lambo's hand, palm facing up, and laid Lambos... old Vongola ring in the palm of his hand. With another reassuring pat on Lambo's shoulder, Hibari stepped back, leaving Lambo surrounded by his crew, standing before the crater Tsuna is barely conscious in, staring up at Lambo with... an unreadable emotion in his eyes.
Something Lambo couldn't understand no matter how hard he tried. It makes sense, Lambo hasn't known Tsuna in a while, he hasn't understood anyone but Hibari and Ms. Motina before he met the Straw Hats. He doesn't even understand the members of the crew he has joined. Not yet anyway.
But he wants to.
He wants to stay with them so bad. He wants to leave this island filled memories that never fail to make Lambo feel uncomfortable in his own skin. He wants to belong. And he has never belonged while being a part of Vongola, and yet almost the second after he met the first beginning three of the Straw Hat crew, he clicked. He clicked with every crew member that became a Straw hat.
So, if it were a choice between Vongola and the Straw Hats.
'Clink... Clink... Clink-clink.'
Tsuna couldn't take his eyes away from the Vongola ring that was dropped and bounced down into the crater, landing right in front of his very eyes. The Vongola ring, once again, being returned to him as symbol of their youngest Guardian severing the last of his ties with Vongola... again.
And this time, Tsuna can do nothing to convince to stay. To stop him. To get the child to listen. That is when a stray thought wanders through his mind.
Maybe it's about time Tsuna was the one that should start listening.
Slowly, painfully, Tsuna reaches out with a shaking arm, stretching and moving his chest and ribs in a way that screamed at him to stop moving, but Tsuna ignored the pain and kept reaching forward, letting his hand fall on top of the ring, his fingers hooked around the chain connected to the damning ring. Even slower than when he had reached out, Tsuna dragged the chain, and thus the ring, towards himself. Lambo wants to leave, Lambo no longer see Vongola as his home, maybe not even as his family anymore.
It's time that Tsuna finally listens, and let him go.
Lambo is already walking away; Tsuna never got the chance to apologize. It's fine, he didn't listen. It's should be just that Lambo does the same.
The teen Guardian, no longer Vongola's guardian, as well as the rest of the Straw Hat crew don't stay long enough for clean up or good bye. Lambo's good bye was his letter, and practically all of Vongola spat at it and ignored it as if it meant nothing. As if his words meant nothing.
Just like how they treat Lambo like nothing. He's done here.
"I want to go.", Lambo mumbles tiredly.
"Okay.", Luffy nodded, comically serious as he does so.
"Right boys, let's get the Going Merry ready to set sail.", Nami orders, "I want to leave this island as soon as inhumanely as possible."
Luffy, Ussop, and Sanji all saluted Nami as they shouted in sync, "Yes ma'am."
Lambo blinks in bewilderment as the trio of older males run out of the courtyard with Nami strolling behind them as she hums cheerfully. The distraction was enough for one of Zoro's arms to sneakily wrap around Lambo's waist and he suddenly lifted Lambo like he would a barrel of sake. The boy let out a suprise 'oof!' as he fell forward, hanging limp, only thing keeping Lambo from crashin face first to the cobblestone ground is Zoro singular arm wrapped around his middle. Swordsman started walking towards, where he assumes, Lambo's room is.
"C'mon kid, let's get your stuff while the others handle things on the ship.", Zoro states casually.
"... Your going the wrong way then."
"Huh?"
Author's Note:
Hah! I finished! The last chapter of my own original arc is finaly done! Whoo hoo! I am on a high right now! And in record time two, I think it's only been about two or three months since my last update! Don't worry, they've been thoroughly beaten, but this doesn't mean we are done with the Vongola just yet!
Hope You Guys Enjoyed It! Be Your Best You! Bye~!