A/N : Sorry im late about this chapter.. and enjoy~

Beta-ed by Pure Red Crane.. TQ for always with me. :D :D

The Clash of the Great Power

Previously…

"Hello, Vongola." Teo greeted before flickering his eyes to look at the Arcobaleno and Shimon Cozart. "Signor Cozart and Arcobaleno. What an honor to meet with all of you here."

...

Tsuna collapsed when his Hyper Intuition flared like crazy. The throbbing pain made his vision blur. He could feel it. When Teo released his full power, this bad feeling kept on making his heart thump worriedly.

He needed to hurry up.

Because he could sense a storm was coming.

~only one true sky~

Giotto didn't greet back. He simply stared at the two men in front of him, as if he was analysing them. He mostly stared at Teo because of the weird power surging through the man. Even though Reborn had successfully shot him at the shoulder with the paralysation bullet, the man managed to stay awake and move. No one had ever stayed awake after they got shot with Reborn's paralysation bullet. Thus this man was the first to hold on.

"Giotto!" G came to his side, leaning slowly to whisper something. "We found three bodies. They are from Lacore judging from the crest on their weapons. It seems that they are the ones who fought against those two earlier. And you won't believe how badly they were injured they are."

"Lacore?" Giotto remained calm and continued to stare at Teo.

"I guess…" Dante started the talk and all eyes of his enemies stopped at him. "You're wondering about the people we fought earlier, correct?"

Silence.

"Remember, Vongola? When I told you about Lacore a few months ago?" Teo asked. "How we were trapped by them?"

"I did." Giotto answered. "What did you do to get them to hunt you down like this?"

Teo didn't answer. It felt like Giotto was slowly interrogating him to get the answer.

"Giotto." Alaude called from his right. "We will interrogate them after we catch them. Now is not the time to chat."

"You think you can catch us, Vongola?" Dante smirked, earning a deadly glare from Alaude.

"Pests like you…" Alaude pointed his finger at Dante and continued, "…are easy to capture."

"We will see."

That put the Vongola, Arcobaleno and Cozart on edge because they were expecting any fight to break as soon as Giotto said so.

"If I were you, I'd surrender myself willingly because you two won't stand a chance against us." Cozart said.

"We will not surrender until you beat us." Teo warned and glared at his enemies.

"Then fight it is."

~only one true sky~

Fighting with Vongola, Shimon and Arcobaleno couldn't be described in word. Those three famiglia combined together were strong as hell. At the moment, the favor wasn't' on Teo and Dante's side, mainly because Teo had been injured and Dante was still delayed in activating his power for some unknown reason.

Both of them decided to fight side by side and turn down any trick from their enemy to separate them.

"Isn't this the time for you to be serious Dante?" Teo almost hissed, squinting his eyes when another hit from enemy came from his left side. "Don't delay our time to find Tsuna. They might in danger."

Dante kept his mouth shut, not replying to Teo. But somehow Teo managed to notice that Dante was more focused than usual. The black haired boy is only using his minor attack so far. Maybe he has a plan.

No.

He always had a plan. He was the 'brain' of the Clauster.

Right now, Hibari choose to fight a close combat battle with Dante. Diverting his attention to block the tonfa from reaching his face and body, Dante stiffened when a cuff and blonde hair made its appearance.

"Shit!" He cursed and summoned his electric wire to block Alaude's from cuffing him.

Just when he finally managed to get away from Alaude, Dante was almost slashed by samurai swords and turned his head to see the two sword yielders trying to get at him.

When another slash was directed at him, he almost couldn't avoid it, but Teo helped, protecting him by shielding him with his Ice Shield.

The ice was broken into pieces and that somehow blocked Dante's view of Reborn who smirked at him before firing some bullet and kicking Dante on the stomach. From his left side, Colonello was also firing another bullet at him. Dante blocked it, causing the bullet to explode.

The black haired man flew across the park and landed clumsily while trying to avoid another oncoming attack from whoever was aiming at him. Too many flames were flying at him. He didn't know which one belonged to who.

"Dante!" Teo shouted and widened his eyes. He had only a few seconds to worry and glance at his brother when another attack from the Vongola's boss came through.

Great, now they were separated.

~only one true sky~

Zero Point Breakthrough, the freezing attack where the ice wouldn't melt unless Giotto did it himself.

Teo was aware of this powerful attack because he had seen it once in a video that Dante had hacked when they tried to find information about Tsuna's family, mainly to stalk their flames, to know more about the weaknesses and the power of the flames.

Fighting ice with ice.

Teo didn't know if he could win this fight because, right now, the Mist users were trying their hard to blind his vision into the world of unreality, trying to break his sanity. If he didn't have the Clauster power, he might have fallen into the illusion long ago.

That was the specialty of the mysterious Clauster power. The weakness of the power didn't lie in the power, but in the body of the vessel. The stronger the vessel, the harder it was to penetrate their power.

Teo put his focus back when he noticed the one of the causes of Tsuna's suffering, Sawada Hijiri, and narrowed his eyes. The kid may be young, but from what they knew, he was pretty strong. The next Vongola boss if Giotto decided to retreat at a younger age. He was one of enemies to fight with, to bring him down. With Giotto and Hijiri fighting to get him, their right hands refused to leave their bosses' side and decided to help fighting Teo.

Ten versus one. A very huge disadvantage.

Teo made another thousand spears of ice and directed them at his enemies. He winced at the pain from the wound on his shoulder, hissing because he realized his power was slowly going down. His ice was now easy to break and his shield was weaker.

Hayato used his bombs to block all the oncoming ices. He threw some of the bombs at Teo and they exploded around the Ice Knight.

Giotto used his flames to create the Zero Point Breakthrough and surprisingly directed it at Dante, who was having a problem fighting alone.

Teo widened his eyes and immediately created the ice fortress to block Giotto's view of Dante. Protecting Dante meant Teo's back was vulnerable and before he knew it, Ryohei landed a punch. Teo coughed and whirled around a small wind to divert his enemies' attention to recover himself. The punch hurt as hell.

But then a surge of familiar power suddenly filled the park. Teo smiled and got back on track, knowing now Dante meant business.

~only one true sky~

When Dante sensed that Maxime already won the battle with the girl, he immediately activated his power.

Green light surrounded his body and the light was too blinding for his enemies to see.

The Vongola, Arcobaleno and Shimon that fought with Dante stopped in their track and widened their eyes when they felt the threatening power coming into surface. Another power was being released.

"Don't get too close at him!" Giotto ordered, his golden eyes narrowing, trying to see the transformation of the enemy. His hyper intuition was warning him that something bad was about to happen if he didn't stop the power from being released, so Giotto made another Zero Point Breakthrough and tried to get close so that he could freeze the enemy.

But before Giotto could get close, a black hole suddenly appeared in front of him. The young Vongola boss' eyes widened and stopped from flying into the trap.

"Giotto!" G shouted fearfully and shot the black hole. When his flames disappeared and were swallowed into hole, he gasped in surprise.

More black holes appeared randomly around the park.

"Kufufufufu…these things sure are annoying."

Mukuro casted an illusion, trying to swallow the black holes, but the more he got rid of, the more started appearing.

"I've seen these holes somewhere…" Giotto thought before he realized that the black holes were similar to one in the universe.

This was dangerous. One mistake and death was the answer.

~only one true sky~

Dante's appearance was not much different from Teo's. The addition was that two red braids appeared on both sides of his black hair. His clothes couldn't be seen too much because his body was draped with a green cloak.

He transferred himself to stand beside the already exhausted Teo.

"Took you long enough."

"I was helping Maxime. He was having trouble fighting the girl. Now that he has won, I can focus on these people now."

Oh, that's why. Teo didn't even think that Dante would channel his mind to help Maxime. No wonder the man couldn't focus on his current fight.

"Can you sense Tsuna? I lost him when that Sasagawa person punched me in the back." Teo grimaced as his shoulder was throbbing in pain. "My power is going down. We need to get out of here." he whispered as quietly as he could.

"Will try to do so. How long do you think you can last?"

"Less than one hour, I think. The paralysis effect is slowly eating me."

"Okay. I just hope that we have enough time to distract them before Maxime and Tsuna arrive. I think I can use the Black Hole for 10 minutes only. Considering it consumes my power faster than the usual."

Teo slowly nods. "Well then, let's fight!"

~only one true sky~

True to Dante's word, his black holes only lasted 10 minutes before his power reverted to medium level attacks, but could be described as strong.

Because of Teo's state of weakness, Dante had become his shield during the fight. Teo could only do a few attacks because his power was depleting faster from the drugs. Somehow, during the fight, Teo made a mistake by not noticing a bullet that was fired by Reborn (because he was the sneakiest and strongest hitman in the world) and Dante was the one who saw it. He already defended himself from other's attacks and then the oncoming surprise attack made a hole to thrust through his chest.

Teo's eyes are wide as he held himself from screaming Dante's name and continuously shooting Ice Blades to the main culprit : Reborn. He already couldn't hold himself and now because of him, Dante was flying to the other side of Ice Fortress and stopped moving as blood continuously came out from his wound. Dante, who already lost conscious, had transformed back to his original form and Alaude took this opportunity to capture Dante.

Teo couldn't even get to Dante's side because when he started to move, Giotto and G blocked his way. He was so distracted by Dante's downfall that Giotto got to attack him using his Zero Point Breakthrough, so that the injuries could be minimized by freezing the victim. They wanted their enemy alive to be interrogated or else Alaude would throw a fit at not having his prisoner.

Teo summoned his own ice to block the attack and this time, his power suddenly went down. His appearance also back to original state. His heart was beating fast and his thoughts whirled with different outcomes if the Vongola captured him. Tsuna would be in danger of exposure. With the last of his power, he channeled it to tell Tsuna not to come near the park. He was afraid Tsuna would also get captured.

When he had used his remaining power, two bullets were fired and came in contact with his right leg and his stomach. He collapsed to the ground, groaning in pain while his leg started to get consumed by Giotto's Zero Point Breakthrough Ice. His vision was dancing with black dots as his head made contact with the hard ground.

Seeing his enemy on the ground, Giotto held his hand to stop the attack on the Clauster. His golden eyes examined the fallen enemy, to make sure that the man really was defeated.

Teo clenched his hand as he held his head to glare at Giotto with his determination that he would rather die than become their prisoner.

"Surrender yourself and this will be easy." Giotto said with seriousness. His eyes narrowed to fight with Teo's glaring one.

The Clauster coughed and wheezed, "Nothing is easy when dealing with scum like you."

"Why you-!" G roared, but stopped by Asari's hand. "Get your hand off me! I'm going to kill this pest!"

"Alaude will kill you before you get your hand on him." Asari answered calmly, gesturing to a glaring Alaude.

"I don't care! He just insulted our boss!" G's arrow was already directed to Teo, but Giotto stood in front of it with him still facing Teo.

"Let it be, G. Don't waste our efforts for these past few months. We already have the main culprit."

G tsk-ed annoyingly and his arrow vanished, obeying Giotto.

By now, the ice had already frozen Teo's lower limb and that was his limit before he completely lost consciousness, staying vulnerable to his enemy.

~only one true sky~

Somewhere…

Tsuna's eyes were glowing golden as he clenched his hand, watching Teo getting taken into some kind of van by their enemy, or his ex-family. He had long received Teo's warning about not jumping to help, afraid he would be Tsuna's hindrance while fighting and getting their boss captured and exposed. He listened to Teo's warning because if Teo begged, Tsuna couldn't say no. Teo told him to go back to the mansion and call for help before attacking Vongola. Make a plan and then declare the war.

He saw that his ex-family were surrounding the area and fixing everything that had been broken from the fight. Tsuna knew this day would come, where his fate would bring him face to face with his ex-family. He just knew it, but not this quickly.

Tsuna was still standing like a statue behind the alley when Maxime came with his shocked face, albeit already knowing about Teo and Dante.

"Tsuna…" Maxime spoke slowly as he approached his leader.

"I know, Maxime." Tsuna replied. He tilted his head to face Maxime. "Let's go back to mansion first. After that, we'll think about our plan to save Teo and Dante."

Determination.

To save his brothers, even if he had to destroy the strongest mafia in the world.

"Yes, your Highness." Maxime kneeled in front of his leader and obeyed.

~only one true sky~

A few days later…

Teo didn't know how long he has been caged inside the transparent room with both his hand chained together with some kind of device that would inject some drug into his system if he ever activates his power.

Judging from the view, he must be inside the center of Vongola's mansion, with the strong guarding around him. The Vongola must have thought that he was a very dangerous criminal, considering that they knew Maxime (accidently) killed their men, for them to put ten people just to guard him.

Teo tried to sense where they put Dante though, worried that they might have done something bad to his brother. But so far, he could sense that Dante was calm and safe, not too far from his room.

In these few days he had been captured, Teo had lost count at how many times he had been interrogated for their organization's whereabouts and who their leader was. It seemed like only certain people could come into his cage, the one who visited him the most was Alaude, the persistent one.

Tsuna's father came to see him once and just by glaring at that man's face, his rage rose and he couldn't help but try to kill the man, resulting in himself getting injected by the drug, making him docile for most of the day. After that, that man didn't come again. Maybe they knew something must be wrong.

Teo must be spacing out because he didn't realize that the door to his cage had been opened and the familiar face of Alaude came into view.

He immediately glared, something he always did whenever Alaude came. The blonde ignored it and stopped ten feet from Teo. His hand suddenly threw some document in front of Teo, startling him.

Teo diverted his attention to the document. The front page said 'CONFIDENTAL'. He suddenly had a bad feeling. What was his intention this time, showing him a confidential document? Teo grabbed it, but didn't open the paper. Instead, he returned to glare at Alaude, his expression indicating that he demanded an answer.

"That…" Alaude pointed his finger at the document, "...is a bit of information we got about you guys from Lacore."

Silence. But shock evident on Teo's face.

"Clauster. That's what they called you. Your origin is still a mystery. You guys work in shadows. Accidently came into Lacore's radar and became their target for months." Alaude concluded what Teo wanted to hear. He couldn't say anything more because they only got that bit of information from the Lacore thanks to their spies that infiltrated Lacore and the Lacore men they captured trying to sneak into their mansion three days ago.

Alaude suspected that they may have heard that the Vongola managed to capture the one they had been trying to track for months and tried to get into the mansion for the Clauters. They were dying to know what was so special about these Clausters that the Lacore wanted so much.

"We tried to find your identity, but our system can't detect your fingerprint. Considering that so many criminals don't have identification, I'm not surprised you also don't have one."

"I'm. Not. A. Criminal." Teo retorted and hissed. His hand crushed the document, suddenly wanting to burn the information Vongola managed to get about them.

"Oh? Then if you are not a criminal, why are you so stubborn about telling me your name?"

There was that question again, to get his name. Teo remembered the first day after the drug had been injected, he could vaguely see the Mist Guardians. The three of them tried to possess him, but the Clauster's power couldn't be penetrated by flames. So the Vongola had to bear with interrogating him.

"I'm a nobody with no name."

"You can't hide your identity any longer."

Teo made a boring face at that statement. He was glad he was so stubborn by nature. Secrets must not be revealed for the sake of his family's safety.

"And we are already locating your organization's whereabouts by locating the same power that you used."

Teo snapped. "You can't locate any other power apart from flames! We aren't flame users."

Alaude smirked.

That bastard, Teo cursed him silently.

"We have realized when we discovered about your existence, the balance became off between the rings because another power came surging. You 'Clausters' are threatening to make a ruckus in this world just by existing. But you are looking down on us? Our inventor created a machine that can locate power other than flames."

Teo's face turned pale.

"And it won't be long before we know about your family's location."

Oh damn.

All Teo could think about was the safety of his family. The mansion may have magnetic force to hide it from being seen, but if Vongola's modern locaters could penetrate the magnetic force, his family would be in danger of being exposed.

Luck wasn't on their side.

~only one true sky~

Outside the big and carefully crafted gate of the Vongola mansion, the silhouette of a boy could be seen. He used a black cloak to hide his face, with only his mouth seen. It was only a matter of time before the Vongola would notice him standing there and he would make a grand entrance to lift his foot and walk in this place again.

How nostalgic.

A/N again XD : im not gonna promise when I will post the next chapter… haven't start it yet.. but I will do my best for the next chapter… review?