"Bronco-dono!"

A blonde whipped his head around, blinking with slight surprise as a young dirt-blonde came rushing towards him.

"Woah, woah, hey.  What's up, kid?"

The dirty-blonde caught his breath before straightening up, holding a folder out to the blonde.

"Bronco-dono....while doing some searching in the CEDEF building, I looked through a few cameras that were planted in the town Sawada-san is residing in on Japan...."

The young man looked as pale as a sheet; he swallowed.

"I think....you should look at the pictures I found..."

The taller blonde narrowed his gaze and took the folder into his hands and opened it, blinking in surprise.

There were pictures of Tsuna, the Guardians, the students and Reborn.

'Bronco' widened his eyes with shock as he stared at the pictures of Reborn.

"...He's......alive?"

The blonde quickly looked at the dirty-blonde in front of him.

"Basil!  You deleted these from the Vongola database, yes?"

The dirty-blonde, Basil, nodded.

"Hai.  I was worried that if....Iemitsu saw this....."

'Bronco' sighed.

"Ah....Iemitsu would try to kill Reborn again."

Basil frowned.

"But...."

The blonde raised an eyebrow.

"'But'....?"

Basil pointed at one of the photos.

"Doesn't he look much healthier now?  It looks like he's more....livelier."

'Bronco' tilted his head, furrowing his eyebrow as he studied the pictures.

"I suppose..."

"And another thing, Bronco-dono."

Basil pointed at a picture of Tsuna.

"Look at his eyes."

The blonde squinted his gaze at the grainy photo.

Warm, sunset-orange eyes gazed back.

There wasn't a single sliver of dull brown.

'Bronco' widened his eyes as Basil smiled with excitement.

"Don't you see?  Sawada-dono is showing effects of his own Hyper Dying Will mode.  He has Vongola blood.  He can be the rightful heir of the famiglia."

The blonde in turn rubbed his forehead and whistled lowly.

"Yeesh.....but how do we know if Sawada's strong enough to take Iemitsu down?"

Basil smiled and handed another folder to 'Bronco'.

The blonde opened the folder and widened his eyes.

"You....you forged a mission for me?  This could get you killed if I went to go look for the kid...."

Basil gave a nervous laugh.

"I'll be fine, Bronco-dono.  Please be quick though.  Time isn't always on our side."

The blonde smiled, ruffling the dirty-blonde's hair.

"Heh, thanks, kid.  And you can call me Dino.  You're way too respectful for my liking."

Basil nodded.

"Hai, Dino-dono!"

~~

Tsuna snapped his eyes open, staring up at the ceiling of his bedroom.

The brunet rubbed at his face and sat up.

He peered through his fingers as he looked out of his window.

"....Dino-nii......"

~~

"Aaay~Mina-san!"

The students looked up from their planning to save Koro-Sensei and saw Tsuna standing by the door.

The brunet smiled brightly.

"This is just a suggestion.....but would you like to try and assassinate me and my friends?  Just to relieve some stress for you guys, neh?"

The students blinked dumbly.

"Ano....Tsuna-Sensei....we've been trained to take down a mach 20 monster.....I don't think....."

Tsuna chuckled.

"Oh my~you're underestimating me and my buddies~!"

Tsuna set a few black, paint bullets dows before the group.

"You'll be using these colors now."

The brunet walked across the room and jumped out of the window, landing in the grass; he turned to look back at them, grinning mischievously.

"Well, if you want to try, step outside of the class, and the challenge begins.  The rules....use paint bullets and knives to try and hit them."

The students shared a glance before grinning; Ryoma rolled his shoulders, smirking.

"Heh!  At least the Red team will be able to kill something after all!"

Tsuna gave a mysterious smile to the group as they quickly put on their gear before exiting the classroom through the windows.

"Good~luck~!"

The brunet snapped his fingers....and he disappeared in a cloud of indigo mist; the students sweatdropped.

'Oh sh**.  What have we gotten ourselves into?'

~~

"Omnivore...is this really necessary?"

Kyoya furrowed his brow slightly as he crossed his arms, a cargo jacket draped over his shoulders. 

Camouflage jeans covered his legs, tucked neatly into army boots.

He was wearing a purple tank top.

Tsuna laughed sheepishly.

"Maa, I thought you would want to see if they were strong.  Personally, I think they are."

Kyoya yawned and started to walk away.

"Hn." (I'll head to my position then.)

Tsuna sweatdropped before looking over at the rest of the group.

"Well...I guess you guys can go on now--remember to hold back, but don't underestimate them either."

Lambo, who was wearing a forest-green t-shirt and cargo pants, scratched his head; he had his camouflage jacket partially unbuttoned.

"Isn't that the same?"

Tsuna grinned.

"Holding back means knowing what your own power is like.  Not underestimating means to not know their power against yours--they can possibly outsmart you, Lambo-kun."

Lambo gave a lazy salute to the brunet.

"Gotcha, Tsuna-nii."

The curly-haired ravenet jogged off.

Hayato had his cargo jacket open completely, showing his dark-red t-shirt; fingerless, black gloves covered his hands.

The silveret gave a small smile to his boss and quickly jumped off the rock he sat on, heading to his own position.

Takeshi had his jacket partially buttoned; he had a navy-blue shirt.

The swordsman laughed brightly as he quickly trotted off of the hill into the trees.

Ryohei had a sleeveless jacket with a yellow tanktop underneath.

The silveret gave an exuberant yell before dashing into the bushes surrounding the area.

Mukuro and Chrome were wearing matching indigo shirts underneath long-sleeved cargo jackets; there were black gloves on their hands.

Tsuna smiled at the two.

"Go easy on them.  I know that both of you specialize in silent 'killing'."

The two smiled before disappearing in a cloud of mist.

The Decimo sighed before sitting back down, humming happily.

"This'll certainly be interesting."

~~
<<(With Class E)>>

"Keep your eyes open, guys," Yuuma called back to them. "We need to keep in mind that Tsuna-Sensei and his friends must be strong."

Ryoma rolled his eyes, smirking.

"Please, I bet this is all a bluff!  We can probably take them out easi--!"

"GET DOWN!"

Rinka suddenly shoved the delinquent onto the ground before hiding behind a tree as the others did the same--flattening themselves to the ground or hiding behind any type of cover.

Bullets rained on the group.

Ryoma jumped when a paint bullet whistled past his head.

Ryuunosuke looked from his hiding spot and widened his eyes beneath his bangs.

'Just like my long-range shooting skills...!'

With the teen's sharp eyes, Ryuunosuke could see a glint of silver from a point in the mountain meters away from the group.

<<(With the 'Sniper')>>

Smoke drifted from parted lips; the 'sniper' sighed softly.

"D*** that brat's arrogant.  He's lucky that girl saved him when she sensed the bullets..."

Hayato brushed his bangs back briefly, sliding his cigarette to the side of his mouth.

He sighed once more before tying his hair up in a tiny ponytail.

The silveret shouldered his sniper gun; he tapped the earpiece in his ear.

"Storm, here.  No students have been shot down.  All of them are alive.  Sh**y pineapple, you're up next."

Bzzt.

"Kufufufu, I take offense to that, puppy.  But I shall be moving, tata~"

Hayato sighed, taking his cigarette out of his mouth and standing up, looking for another shooting point as he walked away.

<<(Back with Class E)>>

"My heart stopped for a second there, ehehe."

Hinano laughed nervously.

Class E sat in a small circle, glancing around from time to time to look out for their opponents.

Yuuma sighed softly, smiling at the group.

"Well....what do we have on our targets?"

Nagisa pulled out his notebook.

"Eto....Hibari-san uses tonfas--I believe--and he's super fast on his feet--if you remember that first time Karasuma-Sensei showed us freerunning.  Takeshi-san....is skilled with a sword.  Rokudo-san and Chrome-san can use....magic?  And I think I saw Rokudo-san fight with Hibari-san while using a trident.  Ryohei-san....uses boxing--I saw him doing his own sort of training while using those types of moves.  Bovino-san.....is kind of...unknown.  I never saw him do anything before.  Gokudera-san...is also unknown.  Tsuna-Sensei has his own fighting style, he can shoot with a simple pistol and hit his targets without a scope, and he uses....flames?  And I suspect that everyone has some sort of close combat skills."

The bluenet laughed nervously.

"That's all I have on them."

The class gaped at him.

"That's a sh** load of info, Nagisa!"

Karma chuckled and ruffled Nagisa's head.

"That's our information gatherer~!  Now, what shall we do with this?"

"Ano..."

They all turned to look at Kaede, who gave a small smile to the group.

"I may....have some information on Tsuna-Sensei's flames--he used them against me when I was....going crazy..."

She coughed to dispel some awkwardness as she quickly recalled the events of the short battle.

"Eto, when Tsuna-Sensei was using blue flames, I felt sluggish and slow.  When he had...yellow flames...he became really fast.  Green flames....I think he used those as a shield.  Purple flames seemed to enhance his strength.  And then.....I think...there were indigo flames.......he could create illusions with them."

Nagisa quickly wrote this down while the groups tried to form a plan.

Megu placed a hand under her chin.

"Should we split up into groups?  It might make this faster."

Yuuma shook his head.

"But we don't know how strong they are."

Manami nodded nervously, pushing her glasses up.

"We might get wiped out instantly if we split up."

"Kufufu, quite possibly."

Hiroto nodded in understanding.

"I see...so wha--?"

He froze, including everyone else.

Was it just their imagination, or did they hear, 'kufufu'?

They then found a certain indigonet sitting Indian style within the center of Class E's circle.

Mukuro waved while widening his usual smirk.

"Kufufufu, konichiwa, kodomotachi~!" (Hello, children~!)

Class E screamed and scrambled away from the man.

"KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"

"HOLY SH**!"

"WHAT THE F***?!"

"EVERYONE, RUN!"

They ended up splitting into groups as they left the clearing.

Once they were gone, Mukuro sighed and stood up, shaking his head amusedly.

"Oya, oya....am I that scary?  I didn't even need to lift a finger."

The indigonet chuckled as he used his communication device.

"First Mist, here.  The children have scattered.  I am proceeding to chase one of the groups.  First Mist, out."

<<(With Sugino, Nagisa & Karma)>>

"F***ing he**!  When did he get there?!"

Sugino caught his breath while clutching his beating heart.

"I swear....he's as creepy as Kirara-san....actually, I think Rokudo-san is scarier than her....."

Nagisa gave a nervous smile as he also caught his breath."

Karma wasn't even sweating as he glanced around the area.

".....We split up in the end."

The three continued to walk through the trees.

They then heard splashing and barking.

"Bwahahaha!  Whoa, Jirou!  Settle down!  Ack, I'm soaking wet now!"

Sugino, Nagisa and Karma ducked down and peeked through a few bushes.

It was Class E's private pool.

And a certain Rain Guardian was playing with a brown akita dog.

Takeshi laughed as Jirou continued to splash around the water; the ravenet had apparently fell in the water as he floated about.

Karma looked at the two that were with him and signaled them to draw out their guns.

<<(With Kaede, Hinano & Manami)>>

"Hwaaaah!  That was really scary."

Hinano fell to her knees, rubbing her shoulders as if she were cold

Manami glanced around nervously.

"What should we do?  Our group split up in the end....."

Kaede puffed her cheeks out.

"Come on, girls!  Stand up.  We need to stay strong and alert.  Let's just try and regroup with the others."

Behind them, a certain purplenette was watching them, pulling a black mask over her mouth as she blended with the shadows.

She lifted the skull eyepatch on her right eye.

A red glow flickered to life.

<<(With Rio, Megu & Kirara)>>

Kirara huffed as she stalked through the forest.

"Fufu~I will curse that man later...."

Megu sweatdropped.

"I...don't think that will be possible...."

Rio crossed her arms and smiled slyly.

"Hm~I have an idea on how we might be able to take a few of our targets down...."

The other two girls looked at the blonde with lifted eyebrows.

<<(With Ryoma, Itona, Taisei & Takuya)>>

"Sh**!  We got split up from the group!"

Ryoma kicked a pile of leaves out of frustration.

Taisei and Takuya looked about nervously.

"D***, I nearly sh** my pants when he suddenly appeared."

"How the he** did he suddenly appear like that?"

Ryoma soon stopped his grumbling and noticed that Itona was looking at something.

Peering over the once-tentacle-user's shoulder, Ryoma saw that the shorter teen was watching a video clip of Ryohei from a bird's eye view; Itona spoke monotonously to his group.

"I dispatched drones.  Right now, I am trying to find our targets' positions."

Ryoma grinned.

"Nice, Itona!"

<<(With Hiroto, Hinata & Masayoshi)>>

"That was close!  He was right in front of me!"

Hiroto was as pale as a sheet.

Hinata sighed and lightly punched the blonde's arm.

"Stop being a whimp.  We didn't get caught in the end, ya' know."

Masayoshi laughed wryly.

"It was a close call though...."

Hiroto sighed.

"And now we're separated from the group....what are we gonna d--!?"

Hinata suddenly tackled the blonde and covered his mouth with her hand; she looked frantic as she shushed him.

She silently got off of Hiroto and motioned for Masayoshi to get closer.

Hinata jerked her head over to her left; the two boys narrowed their gazes at the small patch of missing leaves of a bush.

Past the bushes, there was a clearing.

And in the middle of the clearing.......was one Hibari Kyoya.

The three teens freaked out silently, but they then realized something.

'Is he.....'

'Sleeping...?'

The skylark was, indeed, sleeping; his arms rested behind head, fingers laced together.

The trio sweatdropped and whispered to each other; Masayoshi reached for his Anti-Sensei gun.

"What should we do?"

Hiroto shrugged carelessly.

"Kill him?"

Hinata chewed her lip as she shot a stink eye at the blonde.

"I don't think it would be that easy."

Hiroto sighed exasperatedly.

"Then what are you suggesting?  Give up this little chance we ha--!?"

The blonde noted that they were staring at him with wide eyes.

"What?"

He then noticed that they were looking past him.

Hiroto sweated.

".........He's right behind me......isn't he?"

Kyoya had amusement lighting his eyes as he stood behind Hiroto; the ravenet then yawned into his hand as the blonde slowly turned around.

The skylark inclined his head slightly, dropping his hand to his side.

".......Hn.....omnivores."

The three teens silently screamed as they bolted away from the Cloud.

Kyoya smirked.

"The fastest of the group, eh?"

The ravenet draped his cargo jacket over one shoulder; his smirk widened.

"Interesting...."

Kyoya gave chase.

<<(With Sumire & Kotaro)>>

The megane-teen furrowed his eyebrows as he craned his head to look at his current companion.

"Sumire-san...what are you doing?"

The chubby girl huffed as she tugged at a rope to tighten a knot before placing a pile of candy in the center of her trap.

"Setting up a trap, of course."

Kotaro sighed softly.

"Sumire-san, I hate to be the bringer of bad news, but I don't think that'll work against the--"

Snap.

The two teens quickly hid in the bushes.

A certain, curly-haired teen walked into the clearing

His shoulders slumped in defeat.

"Aw, man.......I'm lost."

Lambo blinked his single eye in surprise when he found candy in the center of the small clearing.

"Ah, candy!"

The ravenet jogged over, but then he was suddenly caught up in a net.

Sumire and Kotaro weren't usually the ones to swear, but--

'Are you f***ing serious?'

The two teens sweatdropped as Lambo simply unwrapped a lollipop.

"Meh, I didn't really want to do this anyways....you two can come out and kill me."

They jumped at that.

'He sensed us?'

The two teens crawled out of the bushes; Lambo gave a lazy smile to the two.

"Honestly, I guessed that I would be the first to get 'killed'.  The others are way stronger than me, so don't let your guard down yet."

Kotaro used his knife to kill Lambo while he was trapped.

<<(With Tsuna)>>

The brunet gave an exasperated sigh.

"Eeeeh.......I should've known that Lambo-kun wouldn't be motivated."

Bzt.

"Boss."

Tsuna perked up.

"Hai, Chrome-chan?"

"Eto....I managed to take down three students..."

The brunet sweatdropped.

"Ah....and who might they be?"

"Kaede-san, Manami-san and Hinano-san."

Tsuna sighed softly.

"Maa....please don't take down too many students."

"....Hufufufu....understood."

Tsuna sweated.

"....I can tell that Chrome-chan's enjoying this....."

<<(With Rinka & Ryuunosuke)>>

Rinka tsked as she hid behind a tree, reloading her sniper gun.

'To think that there would be another skilled shooter other than Tsuna-Sensei and Reborn-san.'

A red, paint bullet whistled past her ear when she tried to check her enemy's position.

She tsked and hid behind the tree once more.

She looked on the other side and found Ryuunosuke reloading his own sniper gun behind a rock; she signed towards the ravenet.

*What's our plan of action?  He knows where we're hiding.*

Ryuunosuke chewed on his lip briefly before signing back.

*We'll just have to be swift on our feet.  Try and mix up our positions.*

Rinka nodded.

*Gotcha.*

They waited before making their move.

Rinka rolled out into the open, shooting a few shots before rolling back into a few bushes.

Ryuunosuke had also rolled out into the open and shot at their target.

<<(With Hayato)>>

"Yeesh, these kids."

The silveret brushed his bangs back as he ducked behind a tree.

He peeked his head out slightly; his emerald-green eyes darted to every single movement made.

'....Hm?  It's quiet....'

Hayato shrugged and sat on the ground, reloading his sniper gun.

<<(With Rinka)>>

She furrowed her eyebrows.

'We won't be able to get any closer like this...'

Rinka placed a hand under her chin.

'We need to find a weakness....a weakness.....what kind of weakness would Gokudera-san have?'

She placed a hand on her gun, and a thought came to her.

'No....not a weakness of Gokudera-san's...but a weakness for all shooters.'

Rinka darted her gaze to the side and discreetly waved over at Ryuunosuke.

*Ryuu.  I know what we can do.*

The ravenet perked up.

*What is it?*

~~

Hayato frowned.

'Three minutes have passed....and not a single shot has been fired.....'

The silveret knew where the students were positioned, so....

Hayato stood up and found Rinka's and Ryuunosuke's jackets peeking out a bit; the silveret narrowed his gaze and shot their sleeves.

The Storm sighed and left his spot.

"Well, looks like I got you two.  It's game ov--"

Hayato froze when he walked past the bushes.

Behind the bushes....were only the jackets.  Not a student in sight.

The silveret darted his gaze around.

'Where--?'

Rustle, slash!

Rinka and Ryuunosuke fell from above, bringing their knives down, successfully slicing Hayato's back and front.

The silveret blinked with surprise, touching the black ink marking the front of his red shirt.

"....Huh."

Hayato chuckled softly.

"...Ah, the weakness of all shooters: misdirection and close combat."

Rinka and Ryuunosuke panted slightly as they stood up; the Storm smirked.

"Not bad you two."

The top shooters brightened at the praise; Hayato then stretched.

"Well, I'm done.  Good luck with the battle-crazy skylark and the insane pineapple--they'll cause you the most trouble."

The silveret then walked away.

<<(With Karma, Nagisa & Sugino)>>

The three teens leveled their Anti-Sensei guns at Takeshi while hiding in the bushes.

They fired once Takeshi pushed himself out of the water.

The bullets were a few mere centimeters from the ravenet's head.

But Takeshi ducked down back into the water and the bullets sailed over his head.

The ravenet popped his head out of the water and laughed.

"Waaah~!  That nearly got me."

Jirou paddled over to Takeshi and climbed onto the ravenet's head as he pulled himself out of the water once more.

The Rain stretched and wrung his coat out, smiling brightly; Jirou hopped off and wagged his tail, sitting on his haunches.

"Maa, nice try, you three, but it'll take a little more than that."

The said teens jumped.

Karma smiled, a bead of sweat rolling down the side of his face; the redhead quickly shot another round of paint bullets.

Takeshi blinked before reaching for his temporary sword--an Anti-Sensei one with blue paint.

The ravenet deflected the bullets in a blur of colors before shouldering his katana.

Takeshi grinned.

Sugino's eyes narrowed slightly; he reached back for his silver bat which was strapped to his back.

Nagisa looked at the other bluenet nervously.

"Sugino-kun....."

Takeshi watched as Sugino came out into the open; the ravenet blinked with surprise and recognition at the weapon in the bluenet's hands.

"Ah!  That's my old weapon..."

Sugino paused with surprise.

"It is?"

Takeshi laughed.

"Yep!  But, oh man!  It sure brings back memories, hahaha!"

The ravenet sighed, before steadying his sword in front of him; he grinned.

"I'm guessing Tsuna gave it to ya'.  Anyways, get ready, kid!"

Takeshi jumped and flipped over the pool before landing on the side where Sugino was.

The bluenet shook off his shock and blocked a swing of the sword from Takeshi; the teen's blade changed into a katana.

Sugino was pushed back slightly; Takeshi stepped back and dashed forward, slicing downward.

The bluenet narrowed his gaze, and blocked, gritting his teeth.

Takeshi then perked up, dodging to the side as bullets whizzed past his head.

He looked up and saw that Nagisa and Karma were there; the Rain sweatdropped, pouting.

"Hey, three on one?  Unfair~!"

Takeshi had to back up as more bullets came his way.

Sugino then charged at Takeshi with Karma and Nagisa backing him up from behind.

Takeshi blocked a strike from Sugino before stepping back to avoid a swipe.

The ravenet inclined his head and let a bullet pass by his head; he smiled.

'They have nice teamwork.'

Takeshi looked up from Sugino to look at Karma and......wait.

The ravenet blinked in confusion when he only saw....Karma in the bushes.

Where was Nagisa?

Takeshi furrowed his brow as he continued to dodge Sugino's attacks.

When the Rain looked back at Sugino, he noted....that the bluenet was looking at something behind him with a mischievous grin.

Takeshi felt his instincts work up and spared a glance behind himself.

He saw hands right in front of his face.

Clap!

Takeshi felt his nerves lock up all of a sudden.

'Eh?'

He saw Nagisa standing there, who had a nervous smile on his face; the lighter-haired bluenet's features lit up with accomplishment.

Sugino then managed to cut Takeshi's chest.

The ravenet fell onto his bottom.

It took a few mere seconds for Takeshi to regain his bearings; he grinned widely.

"Hahahaha!  Wooooow~!  Neat trick and awesome teamwork, guys!"

He lifted his hands to view, much to the surprise of Nagisa because he expected to ravenet to still be immobile.

Takeshi saw how his hands were shaking slightly; he chuckled.

"Maa, nice fight."

Jirou paddled through the pool and climbed out, hopping onto Takeshi's head.

The Rain hopped onto his feet and stretched; he grinned and saluted the three teens.

"I wish you luck with the others!  See ya'!"

Takeshi jogged off into the forest.

But.....just then, on the other side of the pool--

Rustle, rustle!

Hiroto, Hinata and Masayoshi burst through a bunch of bushes; they found Sugino, Nagisa and Karma on the other side.

Hiroto waved at them panickingly, shushing them.

The trio of fast assassins then jumped into a tree, hiding within the leaves.

Nagisa blinked owlishly.

"Eh?"

Rustle...

Karma, Nagisa and Sugino sweated.

A certain skylark stepped out of the buses where Hiroto, Hinata and Masayoshi recently came through.

Kyoya glanced around for his previous prey, but he didn't see them.

He then rested his eyes on the new trio of students; he smirked.

"More omnivores...."

Sugino and Nagisa screamed mentally while Karma made a slight nervous smile.

<<(With Sumire & Kotaro)>>

"Ano..."

Sumire tapped Kotaro's shoulder, gaining the other's attention.

The chubby girl bit her lip nervously.

"Do you....get the feeling that....we're being watched?"

Kotaro pushed his glasses up before nodding his head slightly.

"Yes....."

Above them....Chrome and Mukuro were watching.

The two glanced at each other, sharing mischievous smiles.

*Should we go, my dear little sister?*

Chrome nodded lifting her eyepatch; a red eye glowed softly.

(O.D.D.- In their original world, Mukuro used illusions to reform Chrome's missing eye.  A small bond formed between their right eyes, and Chrome gained Mukuro's Six Paths of Reincarnation. ~('ε｀~ ))

The two illusionists appeared before Kotaro and Sumire; the two fell asleep after looking at the red eye that spun with different numeral kanji.

The two 'twins' used their paint knives to 'kill' Kotaro and Sumire.

Bang!

Chrome blinked in surprise as her shoulder was shot with a paint bullet.

Mukuro stepped back in time to avoid two bullets.

The two illusionist turned their heads to see Rio, Megu and Kirara with their guns leveled.

Rio huffed, lowering her gun slightly.

"Tch.  The plan almost worked."

The blonde had proposed a plan of using the other classmates as bait for their true targets.

Megu sweatdropped at the memory.

'Rio-chan was smirking the entire time.......'

Chrome sighed, knowing she was out.

She bowed and gave a small smile as she disappeared into a cloud of mist.

Mukuro chuckled eerily.

"A nice plan.  But you'll have to do a little more than that, bambino." (Child.)

Rio frowned.

"Hmph, calling me a child?  I study Italian from Bitch-Sensei, so I know what you just said."

Mukuro merely widened his smirk as he twirled the Anti-Sensei knife in his hand.

"Kufufufu, oh well.  Enough chitchat.  Prove to me that you're not a child then."

<<(With Ryoma, Itona, Ritsu Taisei & Takuya)>>

Ritsu relayed the current status of everyone; Ryoma frowned seeing that most of them were taken out.

"Hmph.  I guess we gotta get going now."

Their current target: Ryohei.

~~

Ryohei was meditating in a clearing--he was taught this by Fon.

(O.D.D.- Ryohei had also learned to control his outgoing personality.  He's still energetic, but more calm now. (*^_^*))

The silveret sensed a group approaching him.

Silver eyes snapped open, and Ryohei grinned, hopping to his feet.

"I'm EXTREMELY pumped now!"

Ryohei stepped to the side as a bullet came from the sky.

The silveret lifted his gaze and found...a drone.

The drone shot a bullet at Ryohei once more.

Ryohei tilted his head before placing a fist into his open palm.

He grabbed a nearby pebble and threw it at the drone, knocking it out of the sky.

"I EXTREMELY got it!"

Just then, Ryoma popped out of a bush and slammed into Ryohei.

The silveret blinked in slight surprise; he skidded back with the impact.

Taisei and Takuya also appeared surrounding Ryohei.

Ryohei glanced around before grinning, raising his bandaged hands in front of him, getting into his familiar boxing stance.

"This is EXTREME!  Are we having an EXTREME fist fight?"

Ryoma felt a tick mark on his head at Ryohei's loud words.

"Yeah, yeah, we are."

Ryohei grinned.

"Then this should be an EXTREME three on three."

Ryoma frowned in confusion.

"What the he** are you talking ab--?"

Ryohei suddenly moved in a blur.

Three Ryoheis appeared; they all grinned widely as they spoke at the same time.

"Let's have an EXTREME match!"

Ryoma, Taisei and Takuya sweated slightly.

'Holy sh**.'

<<(With Kyoya)>>

The skylark yawned.

Karma smiled before shooting a few paint bullets.

Kyoya shut one eye as he deflected the bullets with his tonfa, which he pulled out 'magically'.

"Hn.  You are boring me, devil-omnivore."

The teens sweatdropped.

'Wha--? 'Devil-omnivore'?'

Rustle!

Hiroto jumped out into the open, lashing out with his knives.

Kyoya bent forward and ducked under the first two swipes.

Hiroto tsked and lashed at Kyoya's legs.

The ravenet merely jumped over the blonde teen.

Masayoshi then decided to jump out of the tree, cocking his twin, Anti-Sensei pistols as he fired a round at Kyoya's open back.

The skylark rose an eyebrow slightly as he shed his cargo jacket and deflected the bullets with it.

Kyoya shifted his stance and dodge a kick from Hinata, who had a knife attacked to her boot.

The girl gritted her teeth as she quickly followed up on her attack, performing a cartwheel before sending a barrage of kicks while balancing on one leg.

Kyoya sighed, shutting his eyes as he ducked under her attack and rolled out of the way.

Hiroto then took the chance to try and stab Kyoya in the side, but Kyoya quickly grabbed the blonde's wrist.

Silver-blue eyes opened slightly and looked at the teen lazily.

"Too slow."

Hiroto blinked dumbly as he felt himself get thrown into the air by his wrist.

The blonde flailed and he soon fell into the water; Kyoya had thrown Hiroto into the pool.

Hiroto broke the surface of water and gaped at Kyoya with bewilderment, coughing some water out of his lungs.

Hinata sweated slightly before narrowing her gaze.

'We'll just have to try harder!'

The two groups of teams made eye-contact with each other.

'Let's go!'

Karma smiled as he shot his round of paint bullets at the same time Masayoshi did.

Sugino quickly dashed to the other side of the pool; Nagisa lowered his presence as he followed behind.

Hinata somersaulted forwards before doing a handstand; she twirled on her palm as she swung her legs in a circle at Kyoya.

The ravenet smirked.

'Her attacks are getting faster...'

Hinata quickly landed onto her feet and drew her knife and gun.

Kyoya then noted that Sugino was about to bring his sword down from behind.

The skylark brought out both of his tonfa and blocked both attacks--Sugino's sword and Hinata's knife--causing his body to face sideways.

This allowed to give Hiroto a clear shot of Kyoya's front side from the pool; the blonde quickly leveled his gun; although he was a bit unsteady floating in the water, so his bullet missed Kyoya's ear by a hair's width.

The skylark smirked with amusement before pushing Hinata and Sugino away from him.

Masayoshi and Karma readied their guns and fired.

Kyoya released the chains stored in his tonfas and swung them around, deflecting all of the bullets with ease.

The teens sweated.

'Hidden weapon compartments!?  Are you f***ing serious!?'

Kyoya rose an eyebrow as he drifted his gaze over all of the students' faces.

'....Missing one....'

The skylark paused.

Slither.

Kyoya blinked and stepped to the side, a knife passed by his head; he found Nagisa there.

The skylark walked a few steps before stopping; he studied the short bluenet.

'.....The omnivore....that's closest to being a carnivore....'

Kyoya sighed.

"Hn.  Omnivores......all of you aren't strong enough now, but....."

The skylark walked up to Nagisa--and to the bluenet's surprise--allowed himself to get stabbed by the small teen; the students gapped.

"EEEEEEEEH!?"

Kyoya smirked.

"...You have plenty of time to improve.  I am interested to see the results."

The ravenet then stalked away, leaving the stunned students behind.

"What....the.....f***....JUST HAPPENED!?"

<<(With Mukuro)>>

Mukuro stepped back as he dodged a few bullets.

The indigonet smirked as he made a few illusions of giant spiders.

Megu was freaked out slightly, Rio ignored them and Kirara's eyes sparkled with fascination.

Rio growled lowly as she grabbed a low tree limb and swung forward, trying to kick Mukuro in the chin.

Mukuro merely tilted his head to the side and let the foot pass through before lunging with a knife.

But Kirara was there, firing a few shots, causing Mukuro to back up as Rio retracted her legs and pulled herself up to crouch on the tree limb.

Megu broke out of her stupor of the spiders and quickly shot her own round of bullets at Mukuro.

The illusionist deflected the bullets with his knife.

Rio drew a gun and knife, jumping from the branch while bringing her knife down.

Mukuro merely stepped the side and the knife embedded itself into the ground.

Rio leveled her gun and shot at Mukuro's face while also kicking at the indigonet's legs.

The illusionist tilted his head to dodge the bullets, but he blinked in slight surprise when his feet were kicked out.

Mukuro fell onto his back.

Megu, Kirara and Rio then used their knives to stab him.

Mukuro blinked in surprise.

"Oya?  You got me........"

But then he smirked.

"But not the real me."

'Mukuro' burst into a cloud of indigo mist; the girls stared in shock.

And then Kirara and Megu were cut down.

Rio tsked as she leapt backwards.

Mukuro stood there, tossing his knife in the air before catching it as it came down.

The indigonet smirked.

"It was a good fight."

Rio gritted her teeth as Mukuro started to approach....only to get nailed in the face by a tonfa.

Mukuro nursed the forming bruise on his forehead as Kyoya stepped out of a few bushes.

"Kufufufu....what is Skylark-kun doing?"

Kyoya yawned.

"Baby-Omnivore told me to side with the other little omnivores...."

The skylark smirked.

"I get to bite you to death, pineapple.  But...you have to 'die' first."

Rio took the chance to shoot Mukuro in the chest; the indigonet sighed in disappointment.

"How rude.  But..."

Mukuro materialized his trident.

"I guess I don't mind, kufufufufu~!"

Kyoya drew his tonfas.

Rio sweatdropped and quickly motioned Megu and Kirara to follow her out of the area.

<<(With Ryohei)>>

Ryohei grinned as he threw a few punches.

His 'clones' did the same.

Ryoma, Taisei and Takuya dodged before lunging in with their own punch or kick.

The Ryoheis ducked, swerved to the side or jumped.

The three silverets then broke away from the teens and joined up together, cocking their fists back.

"EXTREME PUNCH COMBO!"

Ryoma and his team blinked in confusion as the Ryoheis punched....air?

'What the f*** is he doi--?'

Ryoma jolted when he felt the air push him back onto his bottom.

Ryohei grinned.

"The forces of my blows...."

The second Ryohei followed.

"Are so strong, that they can cause..."

The third Ryohei finished.

"The air to become condensed and used as a power to force my opponents back."

Ryoma and the others sweated.

'Is he f***ing serious?  That's insane!'

Bang, bang, bang, bang!

The three Ryoheis formed back to one, and the real one dodged a rain of bullets.

The silveret lifted his gaze and found Itona positioned in a tree.

The white-haired teen hopped onto the ground and reloaded his gun.

".....The weakness of close-combaters.....is the opposite of shooters"

Ryohei grinned.

"EXTREMELY true, but I won't go down without a fight!"

Itona pointed behind Ryohei.

"But you are outnumbered."

Ryohei blinked and turned around; apparently, the rest of the students caught up and surrounded the silveret.

The boxer sighed.

"EXTREMELY unfair."

He got shot down.

~~

Class E high-fived each other, but Karma quickly calmed them down.

"Oi, wait.  We still have Tsuna-Sensei, ya' know."

The students started talking.

"Hmm...Ryohei-san said he was on that hill over there, rig--?"

BANG!

They whipped their heads to the hill.

"A gunshot?"

"Do you think Reborn-san's up there?"

"....I have a feeling it's not..."

Class E quickly ran towards the hill.

~~

The students finally made it to the hill in a matter of seconds.

They all froze at the sight before them.

Tsuna was narrowing his sunset-orange eyes at a blonde, who was holding a whip in one hand.

The brunet was holding a bullet in between his fingers.

Men in suits had the Decimo surrounded; Class E called out.

"Tsuna-Sensei!"

The Decimo blinked in surprise and glanced up at them.

"Mina-san?"

The blonde with the whip lashed out at Tsuna; the brunet in turn stepped to the side and dodged.

Just then, Tsuna's Guardians landed beside their Sky, making a small circle around the brunet.

The newcomer blinked in slight surprise before hardening his gaze.

"Così avete Custodi. Ora mi presento correttamente." (So you do have Guardians.  Now let me introduce myself properly.)

The blonde straightened his back and narrowed his eyes.

"Mi é noto come 'Strappi Bronco'." (I am known as the Bucking Bronco.)

He lashed his whip to the side as he let out his boss aura.

"Il mio nome é Dino Cavallone, boss mafioso del Cavallone Famiglia." (My name is Dino Cavallone, mafia boss of the Cavallone Family.)