Chiwassuuuu~~~~
Hi hi~~~~ so people, I'm glad you're liking the update soo far ^^
And happy 2015~ it's been a good year so far~ especially since last year was pretty bad (kpop wise) but it's turning out great~
For those who care, SHINee's Jonghyun had a solo whaaaaaa and ma boys sold out Tokyo Dome whaaaaaaa and I heard they're coming back soooon~~~~~
(suuuper glad they survived the deadly year called 2014 ^^ but I never had a doubt XP)
and I'm suuuuper excited for BIGBANG/WINNER comebacks, and iKON's debut~~~~ don't you be trollin yg
Anyways… you're reviews were all super nice and I was surprised by the amount of new followers and favoriters, you guys are not forgotten (~^ 3^)~
Quick (Readers') Review Corner:
AlexaTheWingedCat: thanks~~~~ ^/ / /^
Kyokosa2gawa015: thanks for reading~~~ I'm glad you're enjoying it ^^
DragonClanMaster: I can't wait either hehe... hopefully it'll be as interesting as I pictured ^^
AngelDemonSakura: you'll find out about the gloves soon hopefully, or in the next few chapters... not sure when I'll completely reveal Tsuna's identity and I'm sure Reborn has a vague idea of what Fon was up to... not sure if joining Tsuna would be Hibari's style since he's barely joined Katsu's haha and I'll be using the framework of the canon but I'll eventually try to warp it into something later on... so far, I'm just using it to move the story on
Brendatorres113: sorry about cliffhangers... it's just something I sorta like doing hehe (I may be a tad sadistic... jk, just a habit XP) I'm glad you like it but with Tsuna being a phantom thief, I think having a motorcycle would be a bit too loud and he's a bit too young to have a license XDD but thanks for your input, I'll think of something, okay? ^^
Gore23: Nah totally fine ^^ honesty is usually best haha, it's just a habit of mine to write little things when I get bored... and sometimes I write them to try to tie up loose ends that I miss XD but I'm glad you're liking this~~~~ thanks
SkyMadien1: thanks~~~~ and *spoiler alert* sooner than you think ;P
Maximum Ride12345: aha you guys are fun~~~~ and I'm so glad you really like it... I tend to doubt my writing capabilities, so it's nice seeing feedback like yours ^^ Max, you're cute~ and very enthusiastic, I like your personality, you're very outspoken haha and Jake, you seem very kind and responsable but be more confident... *whispers* and stand up for yourself a bit more, don't let Max trample all over you all the time hehe, try to take after her a little ne? *bows* thanks to you both for reading~~~~
Natsu Yuuki: thanks~~~ and ask questions to your heart's content... hmmm, how should I word this? Not necessarily a spoiler since I'm sure most people would've guessed this but Tsuna will eventually be decimo but not in the way that you'd think... I have the ending and storyline plotted out pretty much so no worries about the discontinuation~~~ ahh and congrats, you're the 100th reviewer~~~ thanksssss
Scarlet rose white: hopefully more Tsuna in this chapter, fingers crossed XDD happy new year~
Kuroi Rin: yup yup, it's a fun thing about Spanner haha ^^
Loner Kid: I'll try to write summaries at the beginning just to refresh yours and my mind ^^ just so that we all don't lose track due to my irregular updates, sorry~
Xeyuxe20: thanks for the greeting~ and I can't wait for the Tsuna/Mukuro confrontation either haha
Saa~~ let's get started!
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Quick (Story) Review Corner:
Tsuna arrived at Kokuyoland and discovers that his twin, Katsu, and his group are there to confront Mukuro. Tsuna then finds out that his mission had changed from detaining the escapees to liberating his captives and ensuring his brother's success. Katsu, after facing off against Chigusa, he gets Gokudera treated by Shamal and receives his mission from Nono delivered by Reborn. So he, Reborn, Yamamoto, Gokudera and Bianchi all set off to Kokuyoland where they confront Ken. Yamamoto beats him and then they're off again... Meanwhile Tsuna has infiltrated...
Target 7: Who Are You?
"Kufufu, it seems like we have a little bug coming into the building." Mukuro laughed to himself as Chigusa, who had passed out on the couch as soon as he arrived back, woke up. "Ah I see you are awake now." The boy shuffled on the couch and struggled slightly to sit up. He put a hand to his head as he tried to remember where he was.
"Ah Mukuro-sama, I've made contact with the Vongola Boss." He reported.
"I can see that, and they've come to play with us as well. Ken was unfortunately defeated." Chigusa was surprised at that and attempted to move but was stopped by the cobalt haired boy. "No need to be in such a rush, the reinforcements have come." He motioned towards the five towards the broken windows.
"Why have you come?" the beaten boy questions them with distrust.
"To work of course, Mukuro-chan pays the best." The red headed girl smirked at him. Chigusa just glares but is reassured by Mukuro.
"Just rest for now, Chigusa, and leave the Vongola to them. I'm sure you'll all be able to handle them." He looked at them all expectantly, especially the man in the sargant's hat. He nodded towards him as the man just continued to hide his eyes under the shade of the hat.
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"Alright, it's now or never..." Tsuna breathes as he prepares himself before activating his flames but suddenly, he feels a cold shiver down his spine as he jumps away from the wall he was hiding by, and just in time as the wall collapses in a cloud of dust. He continues to jump away until he is back outside and rolls down the small hill slant and onto a dusty plain. His eyes shift around looking for the target until he notices a shadow walking from the cloud of dust around the newly created entrance in the building.
Tsuna examines him and sees the tall dark haired Italian man lugging around a wrecking ball, though there were weird grooves tracing the outside of the large ball. Tsuna sighs at the troublesome weapon and immediately dodges as the man swings the metal ball towards him. "Who are you?" Tsuna calls out towards the man.
"I am Rokudo Mukuro." He tells him simply. "And I don't tolerate bugs in my territory." He glares. Tsuna glares back as well.
"I know you aren't Mukuro, so tell me who you are." Tsuna says stubbornly.
"Why would you care whether or not I'm who I say I am?" 'Mukuro' starts to walk over towards the phantom thief while singing the wrecking ball in the air. "What monstrous strength." Tsuna thinks as he prepares himself for another attack.
"Because I don't feel comfortable fighting a fake who claims to be someone he's not." Tsuna answers as he jumps away from the metal boulder again. But Tsuna suddenly feels himself being propelled oddly and is thrown off balance as he attempts to land. "So I guess those grooves aren't just for show are they?"
"I see you've noticed. As expected of the great phantom thief." The man comments as he whips his weapon again.
"So you know who I am." The boy smirks as he jumps away, trying to get used to the current directions. Though they were propelling randomly so there was no set pattern to follow. They continued to go back and forth and the ground started to get torn up as the wrecking ball continued to smash into the ground. Tsuna was getting used to the wind movements but when he couldn't escape the path of the large metal ball, he instantaneously used sky flames to block for a split second before ducking away. The brunet then realized that the current somehow wasn't as strong underneath and decided to use this to his advantage.
The fake Mukuro was surprised at the boy's movements, but figured that it was because of his occupation that he was so formidable. "Who wouldn't know?" The man finally answers the question. "I just question as to why you are here. There mustn't be anything of value for you here, so why have you shown up?" He yells as he punches the boulder straight towards the boy.
"I should be the one asking questions." Tsuna suddenly leaps backwards and finally finds the chance to dive underneath the boulder and starts to rush towards the man. Shocked, the man immediately pulls the boulder back towards himself in an attempt to halt the thief in his tracks, but much to his surprise, he doesn't stop approaching him as the boulder quickly comes back towards them.
Tsuna grits his teeth as he looks towards the man who was shocked at his actions. "Why isn't he jumping away?" the brunet thinks as the man continues to stare at the boy who seems to be picking up speed.
"Why is he still running towards me?" the fake Mukuro thinks as he stands there frozen. The phantom thief then reaches him and tackles him down towards the ground just in time as the boulder comes flying over their heads and crashes into the trees.
"Are you crazy?! Why wouldn't you jump away?" Tsuna yells at the man but said man just punches the smaller off of him before kicking him away. The brunet grunts as he grasps his chest.
"Never let your guard down. And I could ask you the same thing." The tall Italian sits on one knee and wipes his mouth with the back of his hand, panting. The two just sit and stare at each other for a while before Tsuna breaks the silence.
"You... aren't such a bad guy, are you?"
"What are you talking about, kid?" He questions the phantom thief harshly.
"You never looked at me to observe my movements when you attempt to attack me. You always close your eyes when your weapon seems to make contact." The boy started off.
"That doesn't explain anything. What if it was just a habit of mine?" He rebuts.
"There was also just now... you are clearly skilled at hand to hand and could've taken me out in a single move, yet you let me get up and kicked me away. You could've finished me, yet you didn't." Tsuna reasoned.
"You let me... there's no way I would've disgracefully taken down an enemy that gave me way."
"Then what about fighting, using the ball to distract me while you take me down when I'm occupied? Why not use that tactic instead of relying completely on your weapon?" The man opened his mouth to respond but couldn't think of something reasonable. "It's because you couldn't bear to see the enemy as you defeat them and that you'd rather use your weapon instead of your sullying your own two hands."
"Don't speak as if you know all about me!" He yells at the younger but doesn't make a move to attack. Tsuna just stands and walks slowly towards the other.
"There seems to be guilt in your heart and you attacks were hesitant each time you threw your ball." The boy continues to walk until he stood in front of the other. The man on the ground just looks up at the black clad thief. "You know there's something about you... even if you seem scary, you aren't dislikable. You try to appear cold hearted but you are actually a warm and caring guy."
"Huh... you saw through me only after watching my fighting habits." He chuckled to himself. "As expected of the infamous phantom thief."
"So will you tell me who you are now? Because you are obviously not Mukuro." Tsuna bends down at smiles towards the man.
"I was a man who wanted to live a simple life." He gives in due to something in him telling him that he could trust this supposed criminal, though he himself was no better. "As simple as it could be, working for a mafia. I was part of a small northern group that had taken me in and treated me as their own family when I had none to call my own. They became my life and showed me care that no one has ever shown to me before. To repay them, I became a bodyguard and decided to become the strongest man in northern Italy to protect them.
One day, the boss decided to take in another young boy with no family and I was to take care of him. I treated him with the same care that they had shown me, but there were times when I'd black out and suddenly awaken to corpses that I have no idea who they are. It wasn't just once or twice, but I had no idea why. And soon, I returned to headquarters and discovered all of my family members dead, not a single survivor around. I did that to them... with my own two hands... (Tsuna had heard of that incident as it had become well known throughout Italy, yet no one knew who the culprit was...) I killed them all." That statement shocked the brunet but he remained silent still, respectfully letting the man finish.
"I found out that the cause of it all was because I was being controlled! By that child!" Tsuna immediately became alerted when he heard that statement and began to try sensing the air around the man. The boy had also guessed who that child was, otherwise this man wouldn't be here today. "That brat, Rokudo Mukuro! I was taken over, both body and soul, and soon became the body double for him."
"What a horrible fate." Tsuna frowned. "But you are in no way at fault. You were implanted by mist flames and you were plagued with illusions."
"It must be because of those flames that he knows where I am at all times. If you're here to take him out, then it's best you stay away from me now otherwise he'll do something again." The man warned.
"You know, you never answered my question truthfully." The younger smirks at the older who gives him a questioning look, not remembering which question since many were thrown at him during their combat. "Who are you?" Tsuna reminds him playfully. The man decides to at least give him a name since he had already shared his life story.
"Lancia." He says.
"Then Lancia-san, how about we fix you up right now?"
"How do you mean, phantom thief?" Lancia gives a skeptical look. Tsuna then kneels in front of him and places his hands on his head, his palms covering the man's eyes. Not understanding what the younger was doing, he became confused and a bit wary but soon felt a warmth that flowed through his mind and then through his body. It felt like he was being liberated from something that held him down for years, but he was also starting to feel the fatigue building up as well.
Tsuna continued to implant his own sky flames into Lancia and hoped that it would absorb the mist flames harbouring his body and soon eradicate it. He knew though that Lancia would soon feel a weight being lifted off but would feel the built up pressure of his body from being held captive for so long. Once the man started to lose consciousness, Tsuna knew that his flames had done their job so that was when he stopped and laid him down as he slept for a bit.
"At least that takes care of one hostage." Tsuna just classified Lancia as such and decided to tell him somehow that he had to turn himself in to his brother. He wondered if he could just leave a note until the man started to stir awake. The brunet finally decides to use his night flames and envelops himself with it which causes his irises to turn a deep silver with a violet hue.
Lancia finally sits up and looks around to try and find the phantom thief but couldn't seem him anywhere and figured that he had disappeared already. Tsuna made a not that night flames do work as a sort of camouflage or, as Fon had put it, allows the user to become a shadow. The boy then whipsers to Lancia as the wind blows that he must wait for the Vongola Decimo and turn himself in to him. The man was confused at first but accepts it as his conscience speaking to him.
Tsuna smiles and runs back towards the building and tries to hurry to find Fuuta before he reaches his limit on the night flames.
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Katsu frowned immensely as he felt dead tired both physically and mentally. After dealing with that fanged freak that nearly ripped Yamamoto's arm off, he then had to deal with nearly dying from Bianchi's bento before they were interrupted by some weird flute girl who got beaten up by Bianchi. Then came this weird bird dude who was covered in yellow canaries and sent these long nailed freaks to attack Kyoko and Haru. He tried to use them to threaten Katsu into killing himself in order to save them but he didn't budge. Instead, he threatened that bird man to go ahead and see what happened if he did hurt the girls. Gokudera offered to take his place and offered his own life but Katsu just told him to shut up and back off. Being the loyal puppy he was, the silverette complied, much to Bianchi's annoyance.
Reborn wasn't impressed with how the blond was dealing with the situation but he knew that no harm would befall the two girls as he had told Ipin and Shamal to look after the girls just in case. After the danger was gone, they (aka Gokudera) beat the old man senseless. But oddly, during their confrontation with Birds and the twins, they heard loud thuds and ground shaking, even a cloud of dust appearing over the trees in the direction of the building but they couldn't focus on that since they were preoccupied with the girls.
"Geez... are they all defeated now?" Katsu complained.
"That should be all of them... all that's left is Rokudo Mukuro." Reborn informed. "But we should hurry and investigate that commotion from before." The infant told the small group and jumped onto Katsu's head. "Still not as soft." He remarked.
"Then don't sit up there!" Katsu felt his vein throb in his forehead. But then they started to run in the direction of the commotion. As they drew closer, Gokudera immediately stopped Katsu and told him that he felt a strange presence. Katsu, not listening to him as usual, walks out in front of him and looks around the destroyed plains to see a building poking above the trees ahead and a man sitting in the middle of the empty area. The silverette readied his dynamite sticks as they recognized the man sitting there as the face of Rokudo Mukuro from the picture that Reborn had shown them before they left on this mission.
The silverhaired boy was going to make a move but the infant had stopped him. "Why Reborn-san? He's right there! We must defeat him, it's our mission right?!"
"Approach him, Ba-Katsu." Reborn ignores the bomber.
"Reborn-san!" Gokudera protests but is drowned out by Katsu.
"I told you to drop the stupid nickname! And why would I approach a felon?" The blond narrowed his eyes at his tutor.
"Something happened and he isn't hostile right now. So go see what happened, Ba-Katsu." The arcobaleno tells him again. Katsu stares into the black eyes of the hitman and after a few moments, finally gives in, not wanting this argument to continue as it was getting troublesome, and knew that he wouldn't win over the stubborn infant.
"Hey you!" Katsu calls out towards the man. He turns his head towards him and stands up, causing the blond to shrink back a bit due to the size of the man. "Y-You're Rokudo Mukuro, aren't you?" He still tried to keep up his tough attitude to psych out the other.
"I'm sorry, I'm not. I used to be his body double but was just recently liberated." He explained.
"By who?" Reborn questions.
"I feel as though I shouldn't reveal his identity." Reborn respected his wish.
"Why were you just waiting here?" Katsu questions.
"I was told to wait for you and to turn myself in." He responds without resistance.
"Why?" Bianchi decided to question this time.
"My guilty conscience."
"Aha, so what's your real name if you're not Mukuro?" Yamamoto asks, lightheartedly.
"Lancia."
"So why are you here and worked for Mukuro?" Reborn asks him this time. The man then decides to explain his story to them, since he knew who the world's greatest hitman was. "Hn... that was a famous incident. To think you were behind it all." Reborn commented after hearing the man's backstory.
"Alright, can we finish with the 20 questions and just forget this guy?" Katsu narrowed his eyes at the man for wasting his time.
"Please wait a moment, I should tell you before you go confront Mukuro what he's planning to do." After hearing that, they were all ears. "He's planning on... LOOK OUT!" Lancia immediately pushed Katsu away as he was attacked by needles. Everyone else had ducked by Yamamoto was also struck by the surprise attack.
"Yakyuu-baka! OI are you alright?!" Gokudera looked over him while Katsu just knelt beside the man who had saved him. "It was that yoyo freak!" Gokudera exclaimed and tried to look for him.
"Don't bother, he's gone." Reborn stated.
"A hit and run." Bianchi commented.
"So they were trying to keep him quiet and decided to try and take some of us out in the process." Reborn informed.
"Looks like they succeeded." The blond scoffed.
"They were hit with poison laced needles." Bianchi said as she looked at them. "They'll be fine if we get the antidote to them in an hour."
"So that glasses brat should have the antidote on him right? Juudaime, let's go get him!" The silverette exclaimed.
"We should hide these two first. I don't want those guys to have an upper hand on us again by finding these guys." Katsu said, not wanting a repeat of what happened with Birds and those freaky twins.
"Juudaime is so kind~" Gokudera grinned and commenced in helping to move the two guys into the shadows of the trees, behind some bushes.
"At least you're thinking, Ba-Katsu." The infant hitman sort of praised his student.
"Shut up, Reborn." Katsu retorts as he moves Yamamoto first, with Gokudera's help. As soon as the two were hidden, they all looked towards the building and immediately started to head over there.
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Yoshaaa sorry it took a while and that it was pretty short today,
And that I sorta flaked out on the ending again T-T
I was writing out an outline of this since January
Though I never really got around to writing it out due to exams
And luckily, I just used one page of my story notes…
So hopefully more updates will come sooner ^^
Also before you comment on it,
I'm aware that M.M's weapon was a clarinet,
But I just figured that Katsu wouldn't care enough to know what it was
Or at least, say the right instrument
Hope you enjoyed it, though there was a lot of content from the canon…
I promise it'll deviate in the next chapter
If it was boring I apologize hehe but chapters like this are needed
Saa till next time
Owari-desu~~~~~
Uploaded: 08/03/2015