A/N: Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! I'm SO sorry about the massively long wait for this chapter. My time suddenly fell away from me and I had no way of writing this chapter. But I have good news, I now have a laptop which mens that I can hopefully (fingers crossed) update my stories more frequently.
Disclaimer: I do not own KHR, it belongs to Akira Amano
Warnings: Probable OOC-ness, AU, MPD!Tsuna and cursing (courtesy of Gokudera and Cielo, but too much exposure causes other characters to pick up the habit)
blah blah blah - Yoshi talking when not in control
"blah blah blah" - Yoshi talking through the one in control
blah blah blah - Cielo talking when not in control
"blah blah blah" - Cielo talking through the one in control
blah blah blah - Erebus talking when not in control
"blah blah blah" - Erebus talking through the one in control
Screaming pain. That's all the boy could feel. It didn't matter that he was sitting in his room, not the room he was dragged to all the time, with no other soul in sight. He sat, curled up, in the corner of the room with his eyes screwed shut and a scream ripping its way out of his throat.
This pain that he was feeling was unlike all the pain that he felt when the 'doctors' took him to the room. It was a blinding pain that was coming from his brain. He could feel his heart beat pounding within his head, feeling like it was trying to escape through his brain.
A sharp pain shot through the centre of his brain, like a red-hot knife piercing through it. His scream cut off as the pain suddenly subsided. He whimpered as the echo of the pain remained.
As he finally settled down he heard manic sounding laughter. The laughter was quickly followed by a sentence that immediately made him relax.
"Thank you," he croaked out, breathlessly. He heard some more laughter, less manic than before, and then he found his eyes closing. As he drifted off he heard the echo of the sentence that made him feel safe.
Just relax, and I will stop everyone who harms you.
"W-Who are y-you?" Tsuna's voice shook as he looked up at the three people standing before him.
"Aw Tsuna, how do you not recognise me?" The child with the caramel eyes asked. Tsuna tilted his head to the side in confusion. The way they spoke sounded awfully familiar, but he just couldn't quite get his finger on it. Laughter cut off his thoughts. His head flashed towards the one with the black eyes.
"Oh man, this is priceless. Although you won't know who I am, even if you figure out who those two are." This statement made the black eyed teen go off into the shadows, a depressed aura coming off of him.
"Of course he won't know who you are, we hid you for a reason." The orange eyed man said with a huff.
"But I just wanted to help and keep the promise I made." He walked back out of the shadows with a sad look on his face.
"Well, you went about it the wrong way." The orange eyed man scolded. Tsuna laughed a little at the sight of the other teen's face at being scolded. All eyes turned to him as the sound escaped his lips.
"Yoshi maybe you could get Cielo to stop scolding Erebus?" Tsuna asked with a smile on his face.
Erebus's jaw dropped open and Yoshi squealed with glee.
"Yay, you figured it out!" Yoshi screamed as he tackled Tsuna with a hug. Cielo just stood there and shook his head.
"H-how?" Erebus stuttered out.
"You nearly killed two of my classmates and a teacher. They told me who you were. I didn't believe them at first through." Tsuna looked away from Erebus.
"One of your classmates threw bombs at you, the other one attacks you with tonfas nearly every day, and your so called teacher is a hitman. I was trying to protect you. I've done it before and I will do it again if I have to." Erebus growled as he walked closer. Tsuna looked at him, horror written all over his face. He flinched as Erebus got closer and tried to scurry back. It worked until he hit his back against the staircase and could only watch as Erebus stalked closer.
Tsuna screwed his eyes shut only to open them and find himself lying down. He let out a groan, unsure as to whether it had just been a dream or something completely different. As he was thinking this, he glanced around the room and noticed that he was not in his bedroom as he had previously thought.
Tsuna shot up off of the couch he was lying on when he figured out where he was. He turned around slowly and felt his breath stop. Finding himself in the firing line of Hibari's glare was definitely not good for his heart. He let out a short shriek before bolting out of the room as fast as he could.
It wasn't until he arrived at his classroom door that he realised that he should have asked Hibari for a note that explained where he was. He sighed deeply before opening the door.
"You're late." Reborn stated before continuing on with the class. As Tsuna walked past he didn't notice the leg sticking out in his path. This in turn caused him to fall face first on to the floor and made the entire class fill up with laughter. Blood started rushing about in his ears and he could faintly hear Gokudera yelling at the class to shut up.
"You bastard." The growl came out of his throat before he could stop it. He felt Erebus thrashing about in his mind, wanting to take control. With a wince, he picked himself up of the ground and staggered into his seat, ignoring the looks he was getting from the people who had been close enough to hear the growl.
He clutched onto his head once he was seated on the chair and quickly found himself listening to the painful shouts that were echoing around his mind. He could feel Yoshi sitting quietly in one corner, slightly scared of the ongoing screaming match between Cielo and Erebus. Tsuna mentally wished that they would just shut up.
"Excuse me?" The voice startled Tsuna. He looked up to see Nezu-sensei standing directly in front of his desk. Tsuna blanched slightly when he realised that he had been so caught up in listening to the screaming fight, which was still on going and was getting louder as time went on, that he hadn't noticed when English had finished and Science had started.
"Did you just tell me to shut up?" Nezu-sensei's incredulous voice pierced through his thoughts yet again. Tsuna gulped when he heard that. He must have muttered his thoughts aloud just as Nezu-sensei walked past. Tsuna felt his face heat up as he shook his head. He let out a short a sigh of relief when Nezu-sensei gave him a disapproving look before turning away and continued his boasting.
His relief was short lived when the screaming match returned full force because nothing was distracting him anymore. He let out a soft groan before banging his head on the table, praying for the day to come to an end.
The planes arrival at Tokyo airport was greeted with a fanfare of friends and family screaming and crying. Hugs were shared, lovers met in passionate kisses, tears were shed. Bianchi looked on in envy. She let out a frustrated sigh as she started moving further into the airport so she could get her luggage. However she had only taken a single step before remembering that she had brought something else with her.
Bianchi spun on her heels and walked back the way she came, trying to find the little rat that she had brought with her. Why did she have to come here with him? Yes, she looked after him, but did his Family really have to dump him on her?
"'If you're going to Japan, bring him with you. It would do him some good.'" Bianchi spat out the words that the brat's father had said. She didn't know how it would do him some good, it was more like they just wanted to get rid of him.
Bianchi stopped. She had been walking for a while now and still hadn't found the brat. Looking around she tried desperately to find a glimpse of him anywhere, but had no such luck. She let out a frustrated growl and shoved her hands in her pocket to grab her phone. Instead she pulled out a grape candy wrapper and a small, messy note written in Italian.
After skimming over the note, she growled again and walked back over to the carousel. She grabbed her black suitcase as it came out. After a moment's hesitation, she picked up the cow print suitcase.
"'Going on ahead'. Honestly, he's still such a child." Bianchi laughed as she hopped onto the bus headed for Namimori.
"Wait for me, my love." Bianchi smiled as the scenery passed by.
Reborn felt a small shudder pass down his back. He glanced around briefly before shrugging and turning back to a struggling Tsuna doing push ups on the ground.
"You call those push ups? Put your butt down and straighten out your back." Reborn punctuated his sentence with a hit with a Leon-Mallet on said butt. Tsuna's arms, unable to hold both his weight and the force of the hit, collapsed from under him which left his face kissing the ground.
Tsuna, having already gone through a few of Reborn's methods, immediately pushed himself back up off the ground even though all he wanted to do was just lie there. Reborn nodded in approval when Tsuna started to do push ups again.
After Tsuna had finished doing one hundred push ups, Reborn told Tsuna to get up. He stood up, shaking his arms and trying to get the feeling back in them.
"You have to run around town five times with these attached to your arms and legs." Reborn stated as he dropped the weights onto the ground before Tsuna. The weights had landed with a dull thump, but had cracked the concrete they landed on. Tsuna blanched but moved to pick them. Reborn smirked when Tsuna struggled to pick them up.
"There's no way I'm going to be able to run with these on. Especially not after all those push ups." Tsuna stared at the weights that he couldn't move. Reborn picked them up and then moved towards his student. Tsuna started to back away but was stopped by the gun being pointed at him. A sigh of defeat was let out as Reborn began to strap the weights onto Tsuna.
Once everything was strapped and pulled tight, Reborn set Tsuna off. He began running at a pace that would be considered walking by most people. Tsuna struggled to lift his arms and legs, but to his credit he continued moving. It might have been the gun that was pointed at his head that made him keep running though.
By the time Tsuna had run the five laps it was dark and he was completely out of it. Reborn took one look at him and sighed. It was going to take a while before he was fit to be a mafia boss.
Reborn made his way towards Tsuna and started taking off the weights. It was as he was doing this that Reborn suddenly felt a strange sense of foreboding. He glanced up and looked around, his eyes flicking around the entire place. Tsuna's laboured gasping and the wind blowing through the trees was all that he could hear. He flicked his eyes back to Tsuna just in time to see him start to shiver.
"Time to go." Reborn stated as he pocketed the weights. Tsuna glanced in his direction before staggering towards his home. He had barely taken three steps before he face planted into the ground. Reborn waited a moment before moving closer to his student. He heard the faint breathing and let out a small sigh.
"Honestly." Reborn said with a shake of his head. He reached down and picked up the sleeping Tsuna. Once Tsuna was resting comfortably in his arms he started walking in to his current residence.
Reborn felt a small tickle on the back of his neck, but he ignored it and continued walking. If he had turned his head, he would have seen the pair of bright green eyes staring out from the darkness.
"Gyahaha, Lambo has arrived." Yoshi let out a giggle at the scene that greeted him when he walked into the kitchen. Mama had just left to go shopping and Tsuna had been doing homework when a loud thump had sounded from down in the kitchen. Tsuna sighed before making his way down the stairs only to trip and fall the rest of the way to the bottom. Yoshi took his chance at this moment and took control.
Tsuna was unhappy about there being no warning but just sighed. They hadn't really had the chance to do things, so he let it happen. Yoshi smiled before picking himself up off of the ground and walked into the kitchen. Once he walked in he saw a young boy, around 7 or 8, jumping around Reborn with said man trying his best to ignore him. The boy had cow printed clothes and messy black hair that, if Yoshi looked closely, had a few pieces of candy placed in it.
Yoshi giggled when he saw that Reborn's eyes were closed, like he thought that if he couldn't see the child that they would go away. With a smile he walked into the room.
"So you finally showed up." Reborn stated without opening his eyes.
"Now, now, Rebo-kun, be nice. It's not every day that we get visitors." Reborn's eyes shot open and he looked over at Yoshi, who had moved over to the frozen Lambo.
"Now then, La-kun, how do feel about having some ice-cream?" Yoshi asked the boy, who jumped in excitement. As he ran over to the freezer, Yoshi let out another giggle. He felt Tsuna's exasperation but just smiled as he pulled out the ice-cream. Lambo was jumping in his seat and chanting about eating ice-cream over and over again. Reborn looked like he was about to hit the kid, but appeared to have a lot of self-control.
"Here you go La-kun. Enjoy." Yoshi smiled as he placed the bowl of ice-cream in front of Lambo, who immediately dug into the cold treat.
"So why are you out?" Reborn asked in a hushed voice. His eyes flicked to Lambo and then back at Yoshi quickly but Yoshi just ignored it.
"Tsuna let me. Ah, no, okay, actually I took over because I wanted to see what was going on." Yoshi had winced as though he had been hit over the head after his first answer, but he smiled when he finished speaking. Reborn just shook his head and Yoshi glanced over at Lambo. Lambo was devouring the ice-cream and had nearly finished the bowl. He had gotten it all over his face though.
"So, La-kun, where'd you come from?" Yoshi asked once the bowl was empty.
"Lambo came from Italy." Lambo grinned as he placed the bowl onto the table.
"Really? Did you come with anyone?" Yoshi asked, face alight with curiosity.
"Ah-huh, Lambo came with –"
"You stupid cow!" The shout from outside cut off the rest of Lambo's sentence and made the boy squeal and then dive under the table. Reborn let out a short sigh that Yoshi couldn't tell if it was of relief or annoyance.
"What were you thinking running off on your own? You could have been ki – Reborn!" Suddenly a blur of magenta and black flew into the room and wrapped itself around Reborn. Reborn blinked once before taking a sip of his coffee. Yoshi stared blankly before letting out a little giggle.
"Haha, Rebo-kun, who is this and why did they just storm into the fucking house?" Yoshi slapped his hands over his mouth before letting out a nervous giggle.
"My name is Bianchi and I'm here to see Reborn."
"This is Bianchi, my fourth lover, and she's here for work."
Yoshi blinked before grinning at the different responses he received. The now identified Bianchi let go of Reborn and ducked to see under the table. A small squeal and a sound of triumph was heard. Seconds later, Bianchi stood up and held Lambo in the air by his collar.
"Reborn's right, I'm here for work. He sent a message saying that he need me to help train the new heir and here I am. Of course, this brat happened to overhear and immediately latched himself to me and forced me to bring him." Bianchi looked down at Lambo and Yoshi saw some affection held within her eyes when she looked down at him. Reborn caught his eye and flashed him a small smirk. Yoshi grinned back before roping Lambo into coming with him. Lambo immediately struggled out of Bianchi's grip and ran after Yoshi.
Reborn watched the two run around in the backyard as he continued to drink his coffee. Bianchi moved to an empty chair and sat down.
"Rokudo escaped." Bianchi's words caused Reborn to spin around and stare at her.
"How long has it been since the Vindice released this information?"
"About twenty one hours now. However he appeared to have escaped for at least another two hours before they released that he escaped." Bianchi's expression was unwavering but Reborn could see some flashes of fear within her eyes. He let out a soft sigh that went unnoticed by Bianchi.
"Well, he shouldn't come here. After all, he is a criminal in both eyes of the law. Why would he come to Japan?" Even though he said that, Reborn still couldn't get rid of the feeling that something horrible was going to happen.
Unknown to both the occupants in the kitchen and the two playing outside, a third party had overheard the conversation that had just happened. They quietly left the house the way they entered and made their way down the street.
"First Reborn, then Smoking Bomb Hayato, and now The Poison Scorpion and the news about Rokudo Mukuro. Just what are you doing over there, my old friend?"
A/N: Wooh, cliffhangers are fun aren't they. So who do you think the third party was. Let me know in the reviews. Please and Thank you.