Warnings : Grammatical mistakes and such. English is not my mother language. Gokudera somewhat OOC and Akashi that I used here is Oreshi or Akashi before he obtained Emperor Eye (I will edit the previous chapters' 'Bokushi' or Akashi that has obtained Emperor Eye into Oreshi)

Chapter 14 : Finally Light it Up

A cloud flame flickered, big enough from the purple head's ring. Although his eyes were glimmered with amazement, his lazy tone reported, "Aka-chin, I finally light this bright enough."

The said teen gave a nod as acknowledgement, "Good job, Murasakibara. Keep making it brighter." His attention turned into the struggling Kise "You're the last, Kise."

Kise whined, didn't like the idea that he was the last one that hasn't have his flame lighted up from his group. He wondered why someone that has less motivation in doing anything in life, could light up a flame from the ring.

"How can you do that, Murasakicchi?! I mean, you're not that motivated or having any resolve on any thing!"

The giant turned his head to the blonde, slightly annoyed "Kise-chin want to be crushed?"

Kise shrieked then faked a cry. Spouting of how cruel Murasakibara is.

"Shut up pretty boy! Hurry up and think of some resolve!" yelled Gokudera impatiently.

Even though Akashi told them to go, he asked them to light the flame first just in case. He asked Yamamoto and Ryohei to light their flames as example and told his regulars that the flames can only be lighted if they have resolve or passion. It was how the ring works, which the rest of the GoM thought the ring is some kind of machine.

Gokudera concluded that Akashi is really involved with Vongola, and the redhead revealed some hints to Gokudera and the other two guardians.

For someone who's smart, Gokudera able to recognize anomalies from Akashi when the redhead didn't mention that the flame came from human's body. Akashi didn't even mentioned the behind meaning from the flames. He didn't even tell his friends that this flame system is now used in mafia.

Secondly, when Gokudera asked him why he didn't light up his own flame, Akashi simply told him that it may cause some damages to them which made Gokudera scowled and thought that Akashi just showing off. But still cautious of him.

Although deep inside, Gokudera was quite jealous to the Miracles because they're able light up (although) a small flame, and kept increasing after Akashi told them some stuffs. Lal said that it needed twenty four hours or so to successfully light the flame, but they are only in few first time he light up his flame was in a pinch and a bit before that, he was struggling on how to light up his own flame despite getting a good result in one go.

Gokudera hated to admit it and never will admit that, for civilians, they're quite good.

Aomine and Kuroko were the first to light up their ring in fifteen minutes. Although the flame is not as much as like how Gokudera or the other Vongola light it up, it's at least could open a box weapon or to cover a little part of weapon in flame. Their flames are different. Although Kuroko had a soft blue hair, his flame is a mist type. While Aomine's hair is dark blue, his flame is a rain type.

Few minutes later, Midorima was able to light up his thunder flame and like Kuroko and Aomine, the flame was tiny but increasing little by little afterwards. And now, Murasakibara with cloud flame on his ring and trying to increase it. It was all left to Kise. Unless he won't do something with his ring, the game won't start.

"Akashi-cchi, you said that I need to think something about my resolve, right? But I don't know how!"

Instead of answering, Akashi only sent him a cold and annoyed stare as if saying 'shut your mouth and use your brain', which greatly made the blonde teen shivered and quickly shut his mouth off.

"YOU SHOULD THINK SOMETHING EXTREME!" Ryohei suggested with his shout, which making Kise and the rest sweat dropped. That didn't help at all.

"You lawn head! There's no way he'd catch that up, you stupid!"

"Who are you calling stupid, tako-head?!"

"You wanna go?"

"FINE BY ME! WE'LL SETTLE THIS IN MANLY WAY!"

"Maa, maa, both of you please don't waste your energy before we play. Gokudera, put down your weapon. Senpai, please lower your fist."

And so, the Vongola team were on their own world while Kise desperately thought of the way out.

"Kise-kun, I think you should think of something that you want to win. Something that you can't lose no matter what." Kuroko helped.

The blonde blinked at Kuroko for a second, and asked "For example?"

Kuroko hummed as he thought about an example for his resolve. Then, he pointed his finger to his chin, "For example, I want to fight the models so we can get Vongola's vanilla shake for later."

"Really?! You thought about that, Tetsu?" Aomine asked in bewildered. Couldn't believe such a simple resolve would light up the shadow's ring.

"No way. That was just an example." Kuroko explained with his ever so monotonous tone.

"I was about to think about doing my best in modeling so I can get more fans."

"Die Kise-kun/Kise/Kise-chin/narcistic bastard." Said the Miracles in union excluding Akashi. This made a great impact to now broken hearted Kise.

"You guys are really cruel!" He fell into the sandy sand dramatically and faked another cry. He then gripped his fist as he shouted "Fine! My resolve is to defeat you all!"

Then, a blast of sun flame came out from his ring, spreading flame everywhere as it freaked the Miracles near him.

Akashi's eyes widened in surprise, even the Vongola stopped their fight too. Everybody's eyes laid on the blonde. The blonde laughed at himself, witnessing what he had just done. Gladly, the flame decreasing quickly, making it to the normal heat. A moment of silence past, before Akashi coughed.

"Shall we go?"

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"Tetsu, It's coming!" shouted Aomine when he scanned two flying starfish that popped out from the sand, went straight to the shorter bluenette.

Quickly, the shadow shot the starfish with his handgun.

"Nice, Tetsu!" said the ace, however, he failed to notice clams that came out behind him and shot their pearls. No matter how good the reflexes that Aomine has, it was too late since the pearl blasted fastly.

Aomine closed his eyes, prepared to get hit by those pearls. However, instead of getting hit by those pearls, he heard explosion behind him. As he opened his eyes, he spotted Gokudera, holding nothing and only a cigarette on his mouth. Gokudera took his cigarette off and exhale the smoke, making Aomine winced because of the fragrance.

"You owe me one, ganguro."

However, as Gokudera finished his word, Aomine threw one of his sai to Gokudera's direction and almost hit his left cheek. But turned out missed as it hit a flying starfish that bigger than the rest of the other starfishes that just right behind the Storm.

Aomine grinned, "Now we're even."

"Heh, not bad." Gokudera praised but his instinct told him to move out. Aomine, on the other hand felt the same too. Something's coming from below.

Without wasting another time, both of them quickly evade the spot as Aomine picked his sai quickly while doing so. And their instinct were right. This time, a Giant crayfish that thrice their size (twice in aomine's case). Gokudera thought the model (he didn't even thought it was a model anymore) was Verde since it remind him at the Arcobaleno trials. They need flame to defeat it.

Aomine felt that he was back to his childhood, whereas, he caught a lot of crayfish and cicadas, and Momoi would scold him. But in this case, he felt that those experience of catching crayfishes didn't have any use now. Besides, he won't eat crayfish that big.

Gokudera, on the other hand, knew that Aomine had already mastered his flame control and able to control fire. However, he's still a normal people. And juudaime doesn't like to involve normal people. It turns out that he need to use box weapon.

"Oi, Aomine." Gokudera called the bluenette's last name as his hand picked the cigarette and threw it on to the sand "Back off."

A vein popped on Aomine's forehead as he pointed his weapon to the crayfish model "The hell, Gokudera? I can take this guy!"

As on the cue, one of the crayfish's tweezer punched the ground, making a large amount of sand flew as the ground shaking. Aomine had to use one of his leg to prevent himself from falling. However, Gokudera stand on his spot and stepped on his cigarette as if nothing happening and only stared at the giant crayfish coolly.

"This guy is on a different level." Said the silverette as he took his D-Rank ring and light it up with his flame "Better just sit there or go to a safer place if you don't want your legs get broken and can't play basket." -and ignite it into a box as a skull-like cannon came out from the box, with storm type flame on it's sides.

Aomine didn't know when or how did Gokudera got a dynamite and put it inside the canon as he pointed it to the giant crayfish.

BANG

The crayfish exploded.

The ace didn't believe his eyes and unconsciously whistled "Bro, what are you? A terrorist?"

"Tch. Like hell I'd do that kind of cheap job."

"Then what are you?"

Gokudera almost, almost answered that he's a right-hand-man of a mafia boss. But he stopped what he intended to say. There's no way that he'd let Aomine knew who he is. Not after what he did just now. If he blurted that fact, Aomine would totally believe in him. He's a hundred percent sure of it.

So, he answered half truth "I'm juudaime's right-hand-man! So, it's obvious that I should capable of doing things like this to protect my bo-" when he almost finished his word, the silvernette was splashed by sea's water. And from the same direction, Yamamoto standing on the water's surface –with his Yamamoto bat that changed into a katana-, grinned at Gokudera nervously. Much to Aomine's delight since he just witnessed the silvernette's uncool moment. He's laughing his ass off now.

"Oi baseball-nut! Do you have any eyes?!" the now wet storm guardian shouted at the rain.

Yamamoto only laughed "Hahah! My bad!" Then continued concentrating.

Kise, who stood not too far from Yamamoto, had his jaw dropped. He couldn't believe at his own eyes!

Some minutes ago, they were fighting on the water, so it make normal people a little bit too hard to move. Needless to say, Kise and Yamamoto are athlete and therefore, extremely talented too on their own sports. So, moving in water with short pants and waving weapons were not that difficult. Kise did his job on slashing jellyfish models into half with his short katana, and Yamamoto did his job on hitting every pearls shot from the clams with his bat. Meanwhile, Midorima shot with his riffle whenever there're some models that Kise couldn't handle.

All's went fine until A giant crab that twice Murasakibara's size.

Kise thought he wouldn't be able to give a single scratch when he observed it's shell and decided to leave it to Midorima. However, it was a useless effort when Midorima's shot didn't give a single scratch. So, Yamamoto was the one who took action.

At first, Kise told him it was useless to cut through that crab with that bat of his. However, the baseball teen only gave a grin as he sliced one of the crab's leg, making both Kise's and Midorima's (who's at the safe distance) jaw dropped.

The crab fell because of his unbalanced weight, making a splash from the water. Yamamoto grinned as his eyes glinted dangerously.

"Unfortunately, you're not a real crab. If you were, I'd turn you into a sushi and told old man that I'd make a sushi from giant a crab." He mentioned his father as he swung his bat that now turned into a blade playfully. Then he readied his stance as he made a move "Oh well, I'll cut you since that's the rule anyway."

The rain guardian charged as he put his blade edge to the water, then when he almost close the gap between the giant crab, he swung his blade from the water, making a huge amount of water followed the blade's course too, successfully cut the crab into two. However, the water splashed Gokudera and made him mad.

Albeit Gokudera's shout and Yamamoto's laugh, the two decided to continue concentrating and fought their own enemies. Which made Kise and the other amazed at them. On the other side, Ryohei just punch everything that came to him while shouting EXTREME here and there. Gladly, at his far distance, nobody got an earache from his EXTREME shout. It was still a mystery where Akashi and Murasakibara fought. Maybe they're inside a mangrove forest that right behind them. And true to their thought, the group that on the beach area could hear some explosion sound and saw one or two trees falling from the forest direction.

After they finished defeating the models, Akashi and Murasakibara showed up from the forest. Murasakibara looked bored as always, but they could feel the purple head somewhat had this more amazement and fear radiance towards the redhead.

"You guys finished?" Akashi asked with his scissor blade on his hand as he swung it with his finger, making the group winced because it looked dangerous when Akashi swung it. Even Murasakibara distanced himself a bit from Akashi.

"Yeah." Answered the greenhead as he adjusted his glasses "What next?"

"We should proceed. Our treasure is Tsunayoshi-kun, right?"

The others nodded, while Gokudera tch-ed, didn't like how Akashi demanded them. But in the end, he has a point. When they moving on, the ground shaking as the water's surface wavering.

From the sea, slowly, a creature appeared up. Apparently, it was a squid. Gokudera thought it was a kraken and his eyes glimmered with excitement and amazement. However he realized it's not a kraken and slightly disappointed. It's 'just' a giant squid that smaller than a real kraken with two type of flames; sun and storm on it's two longer tentacles, and the rest of six tentacles have rain type. Oh, and it seems, it's height is around four meters or so. So, technically, it's not a realy kraken thank you very much.

Akashi didn't like this in a single bit since he's sure all of his models don't have flames and had been defeated just now. And the level of the creature in front of him is not like all of the models that his members and the Vongola fought. It was much stronger and even stronger than an average box animal. He knew the Vongola member here didn't bring their real fighting equipment. He bet the new Vongola ring or what did they say now? Ah yes, Vongola Gear- was still in their room since Akashi saw it that the Guardian had fought using D-rank rings and simple boxes only.

They're at a disadvantage- was what Akashi thought.

However, he is not at the disadvantage.

As a responsible captain and someone who make this event, he took an action.

He smiled to his teammate and Vongola

"Guys. It seems, this one is broken and you shouldn't face it since it'd be dangerous." He lied "You can go first. I shall deal with this one broken model."

As someone who knew their captain well, they just obey Akashi and persuade the Vongola to go with them.

"Gokudera-kun, Yamamoto-kun, and Sasagawa-san, take my member to go to the villa."

It wasn't a request. It was an order.

"Are you capable destroying it, Akashi? It's too dangerous" Yamamoto opposed.

"Don't act like you're capable of anything you tomato!" the regulars winced at Gokudera's word, but Akashi didn't flinch at the silverette's insult.

"Yeah! Leave it to us!"

It seems, the kraken's gotten bored to get ignored so, when Kise took a small step, the kraken immediately attacked him with his sun flame tentacle which there's no way Kise managed to avoid it. Fortunately, Akashi took a quick step and sliced the kraken's tentacle with his scissor blade that coated with blazing red flame.

"Are you even capable destroying it's arms with your current weapon?" he said as he glanced to their D-Rank rings and comparing them with his A-Rank one which successfully making Gokudera, Yamamoto, and Ryohei, gaped.

As on the cue, the tentacles where Akashi sliced, grew back. And it attacked Akashi again. But the redhead effortlessly cut the squid's poor tentacle once again.

"Go. I'm taking full responsibility of this fail thing." He demanded with his intimidating and demanding aura despite his smile.

The rest only obeyed without further arguments as the redhead charged to the monster right away.

"I never know that Akashi-cchi is that strong! I know he aced everything in our school, but I never thought that he aces martial arts and sword play too! Who in the world is he?"Kise chirped in the most annoying way as they walked.

"Un~ Aka-chin is indeed very strong. He cut down four trees when we were together in the forest." The purple head said. "Although he was scary back then." He added.

Midorima scowled. There's something fishy but not bothered to ask. He just kept walking on pace while keeping the rifle though.

Gokudera scowled too. Due to Kise's annoying ramble, however. Despite that, he's quite interested in Akashi.

"Oi, blonde." The silvernette called, turning his head back to Kise.

"What is it?" Kise asked, a twitch on his forehead popped, slightly irritated to the nickname.

"Who is Akashi exactly?"

"That's what I've been asked, Gokudera!"

Midorima took an interest in this conversation. Maybe he can find something in this soon to be conversation. So he answered Gokudera while adjusting his glasses

"Akashi is the heir of Akashi Corp. What else do you expect?"

Midorima thought that Gokudera would scowl and insult him. But his expectation was wrong when Gokudera only stared at him in silence. Although they didn't know them for a long time, only a few hours, Midorima knew that Gokudera is a type of person who will response of any kind of simple statements in the most delinquent way as possible due to his hot head.

"Oh yeah. He is." –was all his reply.

The greenhead didn't satisfied with the storm's response. There's something that Akashi and Vongola hide. Something dangerous.

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