Chapter 9

Meeting the Mist

(Lambo)

"That was a good breakfast," Lambo commented patting his full stomach, Ruka slightly flashed a smile while looking at him; he was actually waiting for Lambo to finish his breakfast for about 2 hours already. "Though…" Lambo added but then pause as he averts his sight on Ruka, "Ruka-kun, Lambo-san will be going now." He immediately stood up at the chair he was seating.

"Where are you going?" Ruka furrowed his brows out of wonder. As much as he knows, Lambo just arrived yesterday and is new at the school, there is no way he knows any place to visit or something unless he's going to where Natsume is.

"Home," Lambo simply answered now striding towards the exit, Ruka almost choke in his own saliva of what he abruptly heard.

"W-what?" The blond blinked a few times before he could manage to ask that single worded question. Lambo just throw him an odd stare then just shrug after – he just doesn't care – and then decided to continue his march out of the place. "You'll get trouble if you do that," Ruka said panicking at the cows plan.

"Puhlease, there is no such crime as just going home," he continued his pace as he casually waves his right hand at the panicking blond.

"No, once you became a student here, be it temporary or not, you can't just go home without any consent from the school management and besides the guards won't let you out and surely will report you to the higher ups." Ruka trying to convince the brat said it in one shot, and if he doesn't change his mind, this will cause problems to his best friend who's currently responsible at the lads every doing even though he's at the hospital.

Lambo stopped from his pace and turn his head to face Ruka again; Ruka hoped that Lambo would change his mind. The bored expression Lambo used to face him made him gulp but felt horrified when a mischievous grin cracked on his face, "Ore-sama will just bomb the gates then," he answered.

'Oh great I forgot he destroyed the elementary school building for an instant,' Ruka sarcastically thought to himself.

"Okay bye again Ruka-kun," Lambo for the second time bidding his goodbye, he wave his hand again then turn back his attention to where he plan to head but then before he could fully avert his concentration to that certain exit, he found himself falling on the floor butt first – he just bump into someone. He raises his sight up to know who just made him fall on the ground embarrassing the great Lambo-san – more like glared at the culprit. The said someone was a blond, to be specific the freaking gay adviser who acts like Lussuria.

Narumi stared at him as if trying to remember who he was then flash an apologetic smile and offer his hand to help Lambo to stand, "I'm sorry Lambo-kun," he apologized.

"…"

"Anyway, I heard you're going somewhere, where is this somewhere?" Narumi asked at Lambo with a smile.

Lambo lined his brows in a doubt, "why would I tell you?" Seriously, Lambo doesn't have any plan on telling Narumi where he is heading, he has this feeling that he will interfere to his plan. "Whatever, It's none of your business," he stated, afterwards he decided to finally exit.

Narumi just awkwardly laughed at the cow that just rudely left the conversation though he was sure that he heard him told Ruka that he is going home. "Ruka," he called at his student, "did he said where his home resides?" he asked.

Ruka shook his head as a response, yes, Lambo had open up some weird stories about his life but he never stated where he is staying in Japan. He didn't even know how Lambo got there, what only Natsume told him was he just encountered him in the hallway and bombed the elementary school building, nothing follows. "Narumi-sensei, how did Lambo ended up coming to our school, he didn't even know what alice is and seems like he is as clueless as Mikan when she first arrive," Ruka asked curious as how really Lambo arrived there cause unlike Mikan, Lambo's arrival seems kept secret.

"I myself don't know too, Ruka-kun," Narumi admitted, "he just appeared in front of me yesterday in the hallway as I was heading to our classroom, I was actually surprise at his sudden appearance."

As for Lambo who's already in his way to the school gate or anywhere where he could get out of the boundary of the place he was in, well, he's actually lazily striding to nowhere, he actually doesn't know where exactly he was, he just realized it after he was finally far away from Ruka and was already lost.

(Hayato, Tsuna and Takeshi)

"Do you think this is the right path we are taking?" Takeshi blandly asked as he wanders his sight around the forest. Tsuna just sweat drop because he also don't know, are they lost? Obviously, yes they are.

"Don't worry Juudaime, even if we are lost rest assured that you'll be okay as long as I'm here," his storm confidently announced. Though, after he said those words, his mind travelled back to the guy he immediately encountered last night he arrived, he couldn't really sleep thinking what really happened. "Juudaime, I think I already know what the Alice Reborn-san talking about and why the school called Alice Academy," he said stopping from his pace. Tsuna averted his sight at him also stopping from his stride. "This school perhaps doesn't really accepts geniuses or prodigies as we all know, they only probably takes the kids who has special abilities in them, and they call this special ability an Alice then school was named after it, I'm not really sure if this assumption of mine is correct but on what I encountered yesterday night when I arrived here, I got caught in unexplainable situation, I've met a guy who's probably a student here and for a moment I can't move my body and the guy was the cause of it. I was wondering how he did that without me noticing it and then he said something about 'Shadow Manipulation Alice'," Gokudera looked at Tsuna's orbs. "And if Alice is equals to special ability as what I assumed, then the guy I encountered can manipulate shadows." Silence occurred afterwards.

"Maa Maa," the rain snapped, "as long as this guy you're talking about doesn't reach our shadows, I think we're good."

Gokudera gritted his teeth for the reason that Takeshi said it before he does, he wanted to show off to his Juudaime, "I was about to say that sword freak!" he exclaimed glaring at the rain, Takeshi on the other hand just plastered a goofy grin. The storm then decided to just let it go and stood still in front of Tsuna, "as the sword freak said, we're good if he can't reach our shadows, probably, or maybe," he for a second paused, Tsuna gulped down as he was intently listening at his storm, "they're not humans but instead UMA's."

"Hahaha," Takeshi laughed but then stop, "that actually makes sense." Tsuna sweat drop at the same time panic occurred inside his head.

"Oh wait! I actually forgot the anti-Alice ring…" Gokudera trailed off as he ask himself why the Alice of the guy took effect on him, he took out the ring from his pocket and looked at it, maybe this only took effect if being properly wear, he then put it in his finger and look at his Juudaime. Tsuna's anti-Alice ring is worn as a necklace, "Juudaime, I think it is best to wear the ring in our fingers, it's probably more effective that way, I wasn't wearing this ring when I encountered the guy," Gokudera suggested and informed at the same time as Tsuna nodded and also wear it as he does. As for the rain, he was wearing it in his finger already, they then started walking again, as they did a cemented path finally came to view. The three beamed, Gokudera immediately volunteered to walk ahead first to check if there's anyone there. At first he didn't found anyone but a few seconds later, a brunette little girl who's probably the same age as Lambo bumps into him.

"Ah g-gomen, I wasn-," the said brunette couldn't finish her words as she saw the frightening glare of the storm.

"Are you blind or am I too short for you that you didn't saw me in the way?" Gokudera burst out.

The brunette is seemed to be offended of what the storm has riled up to her as she threw a glare back, "I already said my sorry you…you mister!"

Tsuna who was watching the scene mentally faced palm, they are trying to be discreet as possible and look what just happened, and his storm is fighting with a little girl. Takeshi on the other hand just laughed at the incident at the same time commenting that Gokudera really likes kids.

"Ah, Hayato-kun just forgive her, I think she didn't really mean it," Tsuna said walking over, a little bit nervous since if his storm assumed right, then this girl in front of them has probably have an Alice too and that means danger but since his intuition is saying something different, he thinks it'll be alright, the kid isn't dangerous at all.

"B-but," Gokudera tried to protest but as the right hand man of his sky, he needs to just let it slide as his sky wants to. He sighed then sharply glared at the kid again, "you should thank Juudaime for being so kind, now get out of my sight you ugly brat."

Not liking the way the storm named the kid, this kid didn't hesitate to glare back.

"Mikan-chan, I thought you're going to-," Someone spoke a few meters away behind the kid but stop as this person notice the kid named Mikan was glaring at some familiar silverette.

Gokudera on the other hand was taken aback as he immediately remembers the guy; he couldn't forget the said guy especially the name, the guy named Tsubasa Ando who he first encountered in the said place.

"Tsubasa-senpai, that ugly looking octopus guy is bullying me!" Mikan runs over her senpai and hides behind it. Tsuna panicked thinking what is the best thing to do as he starts to look 'dame' in the eyes of the stranger.

However, the storm was ticked off of him being called ugly, "who you calling ugly, brat?" Yelling at Mikan, Tsubasa just plastered a smile for a sec as Tsuna mentally sweat drop but notice that Gokudera discreetly walks closer at him, "Juudaime, that's the guy I was talking about earlier, the one who can manipulate shadow," he whispered. Tsuna took note on that.

"Maa, maa," Takeshi who was still hiding at the forest walks near them, "can you just forgive my friend here," he glanced at the storm then back to the child wearing a smile, "he's just really fond of messing up with the kids, but he actually really like kids, he's just too shy to show it."

"Who are you talking shy you baseball freak?" the storm protested.

"See that," Takeshi ignored the storm with a laugh, "he's just another Tsundere who doesn't admits what they like." He said again with a smile, Mikan then nodded. Tsuna wasn't really relieve of the outcome, his guts keeps bugging him that the guy who just appeared seems to be hiding something, adding the fact that it's the person his storm was talking about.

The kid named Mikan then bid her goodbye saying to his senpai that she'll just take a peek at the international Hollywood star called Mouri Reo.

Afterwards, as Mikan's figure already vanished. Tsubasa's smiling face altered to something serious. "So who are you people?" he eyed the three of them, "I know you're not from here so making an alibi is not an option." The storm and the rain narrowed their eyes at the statement as the sky took a deep gulp due to panic that they've been discovered. Silence field the place, they should be confident that they have anti-Alice device but relying on the said device alone will put them in danger as his tutor keep telling him to take everything seriously even if the advantage was on them.

"So what are we going to do now Juudaime?" his storm asked readying his VG and box weapons. The rain was also waiting for his command. Tsuna then eyed the shadow manipulator before he opens his mouth to state his plan but then suddenly it became a gape because of the unexpected teddy bear that strides at the center between Ando and them.

Ando on the other hand blinked at the appearance of the bear, he was confused as why Mr. Bear was there but these confusions were all erased as a familiar blond came to view following Mr. Bear. "Kaname?" he pondered aloud. "The hospital discharged you today?" he asked snapping out of his shock.

"Ah yes," the blond called Kaname timidly answered with a smile.

"Jeez, you should have told us… we would have gone all out to meet you!" Ando said scolding the blond, while the blond just sheepishly smiled.

As this was happening, Tsuna couldn't help but pales and release some cold sweat, he was sure of the very familiar aura coming at the blond in front of them, "Juudaime, are you okay?" Gokudera who notice his sudden discomfort asked. He just sweat drop as his storm didn't notice.

"Do you feel sick, Tsuna?" this time it was the rain who asked, he then mentally face palm as why they haven't realize that it's his mist. And why was Mukuro there anyway, did Reborn sent him here?

End of Chapter

A/N:

Sorry for taking so long, anyway hope you like the chapter. There isn't much about it but hope you enjoyed it. Please do point out the grammatical errors and misspelled words, I'll be glad to change it. ^-^/