Tsubasa Reborn ch2

The Missing Piece of the Sky

The end of the school day had finally come, Tsuna stretched his arms over his head and yawned. Gokudera and Yamamoto packed up their stuff and walked over to him as Tsuna slowly packed away his things.

"I've got baseball practice so I'll see you later O.K?" Yamamoto said smiling.

"Sure," Tsuna says nodding. "Got a game coming up? You're practicing a lot lately."

"Yup, careful walking home." Yamamoto said before turning away and leaving the classroom.

"Tenth I have to go pick up somethings from the store." Gokudera said very sadly. "Please be safe on your way home!" He finished with a deep bow.

"Now, now Gokudera-kun." Tsuna said nervously. "I don't live too far from here."

Gokudera and Tsuna left the grounds together and say goodbye at a crossroad. Tsuna continued by himself, after a short while Tsuna noticed a group of big kids from his school. He recognized them as a small gain of bullies from the year above him. He tried to turn away but they spotted him.

"Well, well, well if it isn't No-Good-Tsuna." Said the one with the most muscle. "Don't look like that punk Gokudera's with you."

The leader was smirking as he talked to Tsuna, the gang started to surround him.

'Figures I'd get bullied when Gokudera-kuns not here' Tsuna thought to himself.

"Got any spare change?" He added, "we want to buy some drinks but don't want to spend our own money."

Hey held up his hand.

"I don't have anything, go ask someone else." Tsuna said with a defiant tone in his scared voice.

"Here that boys? No-Good-Tsuna thinks he can talk back to us."

The leader swung with his fist suddenly and it collided with Tsuna's left cheek. The force knocked him to the ground, Tsuna felt his cheek swell up and the corner of his lip was bleeding.

"Got any change now?" The leader said as his gang laughed.

But just as the leader swung someone grabbed his arm.

"Whose the wise guy?" The leader said spinning around. "Oh no not you!"

It was Ryohei.

"You really shouldn't pick on people." Ryohei said raising his fist threateningly. "Never know who their friends might be."

Before any of them good react to Ryohei, he swung out and punched the leader in the face. The impact was so hard the leader fell to the ground out cold.

"Knock out!" Ryohei yelled victoriously.

The gang picked up the leader and ran off.

"You alright Sawada?" Ryohei asked helping Tsuna off the ground.

"Yeah." Tsuna said whipping off the blood.

"You know, you really shouldn't be walking around town without someone with you." Ryohei said. "You're an easy target, and I don't mean just bullies."

"I know, but it's annoying that I can't walk down my street without worrying about being assassinated or something." Tsuna sighed.

Ryohei sigh too and they walked back to Tsuna's house together.


*

Back in Tsuna's room Reborn had some visitors. Almost everyone from the Arcobaleno. They sat around in a circle on Tsuna's bed with Reborn.

"This is getting out of control." Colonnello said clenching his fist.

"Who was it that was first attacked?" Lal Mirch asked.

"That was me." Skull said.

"Figures." Reborn said exhaling.

"And what's that supposed to mean?!" Skull said getting to his feet.

"Well, if I had to guess you would be the weakest amongst us." Mammon said.

"Let us settle down here." Fon said speaking up, "we need to explain the situation calmly to get all the finer points across."

Skull sat down still angry but continued like he hadn't been interrupted.

"As I was saying, I was on my ship when this guy dressed in black appeared, he carried rings on all ten fingers and had (as far as I could tell) every flame type but Sky. Anyway he beat up all my men and took my Pacifier from me! The only thing he said was 'finders keepers.' Then left." Skull explained.

"He said the same thing to me." Said Colonnello. "He took my Pacifier and said that then left. I heard from Verde as well, his Pacifier was stolen too. And it sounds like, from the same guy."

"He battled me with illusions and all the other flames, but never released a Sky or Sun Flame." Mammon said. "As you can see I no longer have my Pacifier too."

"That's not the worst thing either." Lal Mirch added. "The Outside Advisor told me that Aria is missing."

Tense silence filled the room. Aria is the current holder of the Sky Pacifier and therefore the leader of the Arcobaleno.

"There can really be only one thing that this person wants if he's stealing our Pacifiers and has the Sky Arcobaleno." Reborn said at last. "The Tri-Ni-Set."

Everyone stared at him in silence, what Reborn said made sense to them. Why else would anybody know about the Arcobaleno, let alone attack and steal their Pacifiers.

"I take all but Lal Mirch had their Pacifiers stolen in a similar way?" Reborn asked.

Everyone nodded.

"We need to tell Sawada immediately." Lal Mirch said standing up. "Where is he?"

"He should be on his way home from school." Reborn said thoughtfully.

"Then why are we still here?" She said. "We should inform him right now, he is a member of the Sky Tri-Ni-Set after all."

"What would we do if the enemy is watching us." Fon said calmly. "He may not know what Tsuna looks like, and we could led the enemy to him."

Lal Mirch gritted her teeth but didn't pursue the matter. She sat down and crossed her arms.

"Tsuna should be getting home very soon." Reborn said.

"And what if he's attacked on his way?" Mammon asked.

"Are you worried about him?" Colonnello said teasing him.

"No, but we do need him to get back our Pacifiers." Mammon said with an unchanging tone in his voice.

"It's obvious that whoever took Aria didn't wait for all of the Pacifiers to be in his custody but do we know when she was taken." Reborn interrupted before Colonnello said anything to Mammon.

"It was after Verde and before me." Fon replied. "My guess was he wanted to take care of the Arcobaleno in Italy before he went after her."

"And I had mine stolen before Verde." Mammon scoffed.

"And mine before Viper." Colonnello chimed in.

"I'm Mammon now." Mammon said angrily.

"So the order is: Skull, Colonnello, Viper, Verde then Fon." Lal Mirch counted off her fingers.

"Yes." Fon replied.

"Think he'll come after you?" Colonnello turned to Lal concerned.

"No way," she said embarrassed. "He is only going after real Arcobaleno."

"I'm home!" They heard Tsuna call from downstairs.

"Seeing how he's not running upstairs I think he's okay." Reborn said.

Lal Mirch frowned at him as they heard Tsuna's footsteps coming up the stairs, Ryohei coming up behind him. He opened the door and saw most of the Arcobaleno sitting on his bed.

"Am I interrupting?" He said.

"Nope we were just waiting for you." Reborn said standing up.

Tsuna sat at his desk and Ryohei stayed in the doorway, listening to Reborn.

"So that's the story, you two see anything strange?" Reborn finished.

Tsuna and Ryohei both shook their heads.

"What happened to your face Tsuna?" Reborn asked.

"Oh you know, the usual." Tsuna sighed rubbing his still swollen cheek.

"You should have fought back, Maggot!" Colonnello said disappointed.

Tsuna sighed again and shrugged his shoulders.

"Anyway, we should get back to business." Fon spoke up.

"Right, you too need to warn the other Guardians about what's going on and to keep a look out." Reborn instructed.

Ryohei and Tsuna nodded and got up and left the room.

"You sure its okay to let them walk around freely?" Skull asked. "Wouldn't be better if the Vongola brat stayed behind incase this guy is after the Tri-Ni-Set?"

"Tsuna's much stronger than you Skull, I think he'll fair better than you!" Reborn responded.

Colonnello snickered and Mammon smiled as Skull went off on Reborn. Downstairs Tsuna's voiced carried.

"Come on, pick up." He said slightly irritated.

Ken and Chikusa never answered when they needed to talk to Chrome. Ryohei had left to tell Yamamoto at school and while he was there, find Hibari and tell him too. While walking around the two were going to find Gokudera. It was Tsuna's job to find Lambo and contact Chrome. The phone rang for a few minutes before Ken finally picked up.

"Huh, who is this? What do you want?!" Ken yelled into the receiver.

"I need to talk to Chrome." Tsuna replied.

"Oh the Vongola." Ken teased. "She doesn't want to talk to you!"

"Stop lying!" Tsuna said starting to get mad. "Just put her on, it's important!"

"Is it now?"

"Ken who is it?" Said a voice in the background.

Tsuna heard Ken telling Chikusa about the call. The a third voice came through, it was Chrome. There was a scuffling sound before Chrome's voice came through.

"Boss?" She said.

"Yes. Chrome listen carefully." Tsuna instructed. "There is some guy waring black walking around. So far he's stolen almost all of the Arcobaleno's Pacifiers and the holder of the Sky Pacifier is missing."

"Really?"

"Yes, apparently this guy can use all of the types of Dying Will Flames except Sky, so you really need to be careful."

"Alright Boss." She replied.

"Actually it may be better if you came to Namimori for now." Tsuna advised.

"Alright, I'll leave now."

"Be careful Chrome, and don't let your guard down."

"Yes, Boss."

Chrome hung up and Tsuna put his phone down and left the house. He was going to search the park for Lambo first. He walked down the street and came closer to the playground. Suddenly he heard Lambo started screaming and crying. Tsuna started running, the entrance to the park drew closer.

"Hey, Lambo!" Tsuna called.

He reached the entrance and Lambo ran up to him crying.

"Tsuna!" He cried.

Tsuna bent down and picked him up.

"Tsuna! Some stupid head took my candy!" Lambo cried.

"Your candy?" Tsuna repeated confused.

Tsuna lowered Lambo a little to look in his hair and a shocked look on his face appeared.

"The Vongola Ring is gone." He said, nearly whispering.

He looked up to see four people just standing there staring at him. But he was the one who should be staring. Their cloths were very strange.



Katekyo Hitman Reborn: After the Future Battle and Before the Inheritance Ceremony.