A 1 x 1 roleplay with The Basic Nerd and myself so no posting here.

 

A Katekyo Hitman Reborn based roleplay. 

It's been years after Vongola Decimo's adventures and his rising to become the new boss of the most powerful mafia famiglia in all of Italy. Now that time has passed and it's time for the rise of a new boss to take Sawada Tsunayoshi's place.  A new adventure begins for this rising boss candidate and his future guardians. 

 

Junko:

 

 

Sky Guardian (Future 11th Boss of the Vongola Famigilia)

 

 

 

Name: Claude Sato

Age: 16

Gender: Male

Nationality: French/ Japanese

Personality: Claude is a shy type of guy. As of now, he doesn't really interact with people in general except for his family members. School wise, he's an average student (high Cs and low Bs). Due to not interacting with people, he doesn't exactly know how to act around them, per say how to hold a casual conversation without screwing something up. When he's nervous, he starts to stutter from time to time. He's usually forgotten in class, classmates hardly ever notice he's there.  

Backstory: Not really much of a backstory. He as just an average kid as he grew up. He always had a problem with interacting with people but his parents never really did anything to fix that, or at least improve his social skills. Dad works with a secret service type of cooperation in Italy so he's rarely home. Mom just recently got a job as a nurse at a local clinic as well. Claude's older sister disappeared a year ago and hasn't been found since (i have a twist for her soon) so he usually has the house alone to himself. 

Appearance: Claude is a shorty (shorties are cuties) standing at 5'3 has a normal body structure. He has dirty dark chocolate brown hair that is short and a bit spiky. His eyes are grey but, of course, turns orange yellow when in hyper drive. Clothes wise, it may vary so for now he's wearing a blue polo shirt, black jean pants and white sneakers. 

Weapon: two pistols

 

 

 

Cloud Guardian

 

 

Name: Alphonse Cevasco (or just Al if you're gonna be lazy about it~)

Age: 17

Gender: Male

Nationality: Italian

Personality: Alphonse is a calm collected and level headed guy. He's a very hard person to read. Alphonse can usually hold a straight face in almost any situation, or he'll fake an emotion. It's rare for him to break out of that state, maybe because he avoids any heavily emotional topics relating back to his past. School wise, a pretty good student. 

Backstory: Although he comes off as a very cool guy, to the point where he's stalked by girls at school occasionally, Alphonse had a pretty hard past. His father died when he was five years old. Their house was broken into in the middle of the night by two men that were apparently wanted for a while now. Alphonse's father died protecting him, receiving a blow to the head by an axe one of the men were carrying, dying instantaneously. Alphonse's mother was left to raise him on her own, which was pretty tough for her so Alphonse made sure that he wasn't a problematic child, comforting her when she would remember that terrible night, or trying not to act like a spoiled brat, etc. Sometimes that traumatizing night would just come back to him and haunt him. A few years after that incident, they moved to Japan. He still lives with his mother now. He's bilingual and knows a few more languages besides japanese and italian 

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Weapon: Two long black daggers

 

 

 

 

 

Lightning Guardian

 

 

Name: Junpei Onnea

Age: 16

Gender: Male

Nationality: American

Personality: Junpei is a more carefree and lax person. He can sometimes be too loud an obnoxious with anyone but it's just something he can't help. As much of a joker Junpei can be, there are very very rare moments that he can become serious. He doesn't really care much about school, which is kinda why he's failing....

Backstory: Junpei was always a carefree spirit but he's mostly like that for his younger sister. He never liked seeing her sad, especially since an accident happened that left her crippled, so he would always keep up his joyful mood to make her happy, even if he was in a bad mood himself. During his younger years, he was a better student and was offered to study abroad in Japan. His parents didn't want him to miss such an opportunity so they made him go. At the airport, his sister was crying since he was going to go alone, but he promised that he'll be back which at least made her feel better. Ever since Junpei arrived a year ago, he was having somewhat of a hard time adapting to japanese culture since he didn't exactly learn the language fully before coming (due to his laziness). He hasn't been taking his studies seriously recently and is considering to go back to America soon. 

Appearance:

 

 

Weapon: the manipulation of iron sand in the enviromnet to use as a weapon, although he's not as strong with this ability now since his powers are still developing.

 

 

 

 

Mist Guardian

 

 

Name: Usami Inoue 

Age: 15

Gender: Female

Nationality: Japanese

Personality: A timid soul. Usami is heavily anti social now and tends to stay away from people period since she came to the conclusion that nobody can legitimately take her serious with anything. Even though she's soft spoken by nature, she's not afraid to put her two cents into things if she feels the need that she has to. Years of being treated helpless sometimes places her in the state that she can't do anything.

Backstory: Usami was always considered a strange child. People could never understand her. Ever since she was 5, she's been claiming that she's been seeing things. Just figures out of nowhere, some that were peaceful and some that were just scary and tormenting. Her parents has taken her to many psychologists, none of them being of any help so they soon gave up on her. In school, she would also see things but kids would claim she was being stupid and creepy, and even bully her for it sometimes. When she was 12, something happened to her eyes. They became all foggy and hazy, the look of a blind person. Her parents panicked and took her to a hospital. The doctor claimed that she was blind but she cold see perfectly, it just that they wouldn't believe her because her results from multiple tests says otherwise. She would have a hard time dealing with this at school because people would pull the pity card on her, thinking that she was too helpless being 'blind' even though she still had her vision. Her eyes appearing as if she was blind is the result of her powers starting to awaken.  

Appearance:

 

For clothes, just a simple school uniform for now. I'll describe it more in the RP when the time comes 

 

Weapon: a silver grey whip

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Basic Nerd:

Rain Guardian

 

 

Name: Hiro Okazaki

Age: 16

Gender: Male 

Appearance: 

 

Personality: Bubbly and carefree, Hiro is known for always having a smile on his face. He can be somewhat of an airhead when it come to some things but other times, when things gets serious, Hiro becomes a whole different person.

Backstory: Hearing about the legendary Yamamoto Takeshi during his time at Namimori Middle, it triggered Hiro to become a better athlete in general since he was weak before at sports. He tried to follow Yamamoto's footsteps as a baseball player but it's just not working for him. He exceeds in a few other sports at Namimori High but he was still struggling with that one sport. On the other hand, he's gotten into the art of kendo to the point that his father started to take a liking to Hiro's sudden interest in kendo and started to train him himself.  When Hiro finally came out to his dad that he was having a hard time with baseball, his father insisted that he should give up with the sport and focus on kendo but Hiro refused and continued to try to get better at it on his own. 

Weapon:  Katana

Storm Guardian 

 

Name: Takushi Hara

Age: 16

Gender: Male

Appearance:

 

Personality: Takushi is a hot tempered person who is quick to snap or get pissed off at anyone and anything. Although he's short tempered, he also has a bit of a depression side to him but he doesn't like to show that side of him to anyone. Takushi has a whole mix of personality depending on who he's with. 

Short bio: Takushi was kicked out from a Mafia Family in Italy due to an unknown incident.  His parents shunned him but told him that the only way they would accept him as their son again, is to become a Guardian from a powerful Mafia Family, namely the Vongola. Moving to Japan with very little money, Takushi had one goal in mine: become a Guardian for this '11th Boss,' and ditch the Vongola once he was accepted back in his Mafia Family.

Weapon: Double Crossbows that can fold to fit in his backpack. 

 

Sun Guardian

 

Name: Azumi Nagito

Age: 15

Gender: Female

Appearance:

 

Personality: Azumi is pumped about almost everything taking her energy through the roof. She's very stubborn and not so bright when it comes to intelligence but her strength makes up for the gap in her brain. She can also be very violent, taking on anyone she sees fit as an opponent due to her big ego.

Backstory: Azumi got into fighting when she started watching boxing matches on TV. She always admired the boxer's strengths and wanted to become one of them, despite people discouraging her since she was a girl. Now, one of the most strongest and first girl boxer in Namimori, frail people can never catch up with her when it comes to energy. She literally does training everyday and seems to never run out of energy due to her strong fighting spirit. She has come across some thugs around town and has manage to take down ever one that crosses her path, which only ended up raising her ego.

Weapon: leather gloves with small spikes

 

 

 

There was a bright light. In that haze there was a silhouette, although Claude could never tell who that person was. It took the shape of a man, maybe even wearing a hat of some sort, but that was all he could figure out. Then, he would just wake up, left confused about what the hell he saw. It's been like that for a few days now and he was starting to lose sleep from it. Today, it happened yet again. Claude woke up from morning's sunlight shining in his face. Feeling drowsy, he drifted back to sleep only to be awoken by his loud alarm clock. "Alright, alright. I'm getting up." He grumbled as he hit the snooze button and stood out of bed. The house was quiet, his mother probably left early to work again, as usual. Not bothering to just sit there and stare into space, he moved and went to get ready for another day of school. It didn't take him long, well it never did, but he was in uniform within the next ten minutes and heading downstairs. Claude peeked his head into the kitchen to see that same yellow note left on the table whenever she wasn't here. Walking over, he picked up the note that happened to be sitting on a plate of food that seemed to be just made. {Sorry Claude honey. I decided to leave early again. Feel free to help yourself to breakfast} Already being used to this routine already, he set the note aside and went ahead and ate the breakfast she left for him before taking his bag and stepping out the door. On his walk to Namimori High, which wasn't really that far from where he lived, the roads were extra quiet today. There would usually be a lot of people roaming about on a school morning, but nothing. He couldn't have been late, yet again, he hasn't checked the time since he woke up. Claude dragged a hand over his face and sighed. (Great, not only am I tired but I'm possibly late.) He was about to quicken his pace when he felt a presence nearby and turned around. There was nothing. Claude squinted in confusion. (I could have sworn there was somebody there....maybe that man from my dreams.) The boy turned back around and kept on walking. ​"I really must be losing it..."

Edited January 31, 201411 yr by Junko

Lukas gritted his teeth as he tried to struggle his way out of the thick threads bounding him to the seat box that he was in. He noticed Takushi pulling out what appeared to be his half of the storm vongola ring. His eyes drifted to the front of the roller coaster that was quickly approaching the end where all the dynamite was sitting, waiting for detonation. Lukas released his grip on on his swords, allowing it to sit in the air, entangled in the thread around it and leaned his body weight backwards. The tough, thin thread was grinding hard against his skin as he tried to pull out of it, eventually cutting into his flesh. One by one, some of the thread binding his hands together started to break off. "You...cocky piece of shit..." he muttered under his breath as blood leaked down from his wrists. With his body able to move around a bit and Takushi within a good range, he left- straight for his neck. The remaining threads around his body started breaking one by one as he pinned Takushi to the bottom of the seat box, his hands tight around his throat. Whatever calmness he had left just disappeared. "I'M NOT LETTING THE LIKES OF YOU BEAT ME. YOU AND YOUR STINKIN' BOSS CANDIDATE CAN JUST DIE." Takushi's half ring stumbled out of his hands and Lukas reached for it. He cupped it hard around his fist and he looked over to Takushi, his other hand still around his throat. A victorious yet sadistic laugh escaped his lips. One of the Cerevello woman that was watching from afar with a pair of binoculars witnessed Lukas obtaining the other half of the ring and signaled the other woman to turn off the ride. The roller coaster slowly made its way to a halt, a few inches from touching the dynamite. The Cerevello woman reached in the pocket of her jacket to pull out a small microphone that allowed them to speak to both groups in their assigned rooms. "The winner of this battle is Lukas Forze of Riviello. Both groups are now allowed to leave their waiting chambers and meet up with their storm guardians at the platform at the end of the ride." 

Meanwhile

Claude and the rest of his group didn't waste no time to make it over there. After climbing a certain amount of stairs, they finally reached the platform to see each Cerevello woman helping Takushi and Lukas out of the roller coaster, both of them appeared to be heavily damaged from the fight. The Riviello group has already beat them there as well. Spotting his group, Lukas pushed himself away from her and stumbled onto his own feet. Claude looked over to see that Lukas had the complete ring on his finger before running over to Takushi. He gritted his teeth before looking back at Lukas and the rest of Riviello, infuriated. "How...how the hell can you do such a thing?!" He yelled over to him but Lukas stayed silent with his back turned to him. "Answer m-" "Are you looking to pick a fight or something?" Danet suddenly said and Claude looked over at him, confused. "What?" "You don't get it do you? Lukas's only goal was to win, no matter what the cost. Your storm guardian failed to understand how much pride he had in order to achieve that goal." "But...but he could have gotten himself killed!" Usami said, pointing over to the arrows still sticking out of Lukas's body. "So? Maybe that's how serious he was about obtaining that other half of the Vongola ring." Lukas started walking away and towards the stairs. Elliott gestured to help him but he simply rejected him. "...pathetic.." he simply muttered before disappearing down the stairs. Junpei sighed as he dragged his hand through his hair. "Dammit....I'm next, aren't I?" "Is that seriously all you are worried about right now?" A quick sign of fright passed through Junpei's face as he looked over at Alphonse. "W-What the hell do you expect?! I'm next aren't I!?" He rubbed his head in frustration. "I probably wont live to see tomorrow." "Geez what happened to all that big talk earlier?" Sonya muttered. Reborn stared at Takushi that was now leaning on Claude's shoulder before he looked over to the Cerevello women. "When does the next battle begin?" "The lightning guardians from each group has a hour to compose themselves before the next battle is to take place. Details on where it will take place will be revealed when you go back to your waiting areas."  

 "Ohh so Raiden's battle is next?" Oz turned to Junpei who was  panicking. "Looks like your oppoment is nervous." Raiden had a smug look as he chuckled. "I was worried for a sec I thought I was against someone strong, but it seems I'm just fighting a kid." The Riviello Family left the scene leaving Claude's group all alone. "Takushi?" Hiro said as he walked over to him. Takushi, leaning on Claude's shoulder was looking down with his teeth clenched. "How could I have let my guard down so easily?" Azumi smiled trying to cheer him up with a tease. "But your little stringy trick was epic and smart looking! You gave that red-head a good beating!" Unfortunely the storm guardian's eyes remained dark as he looked at Colonello as if he didn't hear what Azumi said. "Is...there a hospital around here?" Colonello scratched his head nervously aware of Takushi's depressed mood. "Yea, it's not that far away." After a couple minutes, they reached the hospital and the doctors took Takushi in as he disappeared passed the doors. Everyone was sitting in the waiting room thinking about their first lost as Colonello walked up to them. "They said he's going to be just fine, I heard from Reobrn he gets wounds like this all the time, korra." Azumi fiddled with her fingers looking straight down. Even Hiro was silent and emotionless. 

Claude dragged his hands thew his hair as he stared down at the ground. His face was still pale from seeing Takushi in such a state. He's never seen anyone like that in such a condition before that it literally stunned him from saying anything ever since they left the roller coaster attraction. Sonya, leaning against the wall near the rest of them, looked over at Claude with a bit of concern in her eyes. She sighed as she pushed off of the wall and walked over to Claude, crouching down to meet eye to eye with him. "Hey. We still have six more fights to go. We can still turn the tables on them." she said as she placed her hand on his shoulder but he refused to look up from the ground. This was really getting to him. She looked over to the rest of them to see that they were equally as silent. Usami's face still shocked in disbelief as she slouched in her seat, Alphonse staring down at his hands and Junpei crouched in his seat, still stressing over his upcoming battle. It was just a minute before Reborn appeared out of the doors that Takushi was carried through and into the waiting room. "Takushi will be fine. Although..." His eyes went over to Junpei. "It's almost time." Junpei made a slight moan as he moved out of his chair. "Where is it going to be?" Reborn simply pulled a piece of paper out of his pocket. "This was attached to one of Takushi's crossbows. It has directions of where to meet up yet I've never heard of this place being here before." "Maybe it's...a new attraction that they opened up." Usami said, finally breaking her silence. "But why didn't they just tell us in person? This ain't no damn treasure hunt..." "....Can I...not go this time?" Claude finally said, looking up a bit. He was met with questionable stares. "Well, it's just that I don't want to leave Takushi in the hospital all by himself..." 

Meanwhile

Lukas laid asleep in his room in the penthouse. His sword was sitting at his bedside with a note attached to it with tape. Danet, along with the others hanging around in his room as he slept, noticed the note and pulled it off of his sword. "Oooh what's that? A secret admirer or some crap like that?" Elliott asked curious as he bit into a rice ball. "....No. It's directions to the location for Raiden's match." Not really interested, he tossed the paper over to Raiden, who barely caught it in his hands. "That's for you."

 "Are you sure? Cause Junpei is gonna need us to cheer him on!" Azumi was about to keep on encouraging Claude but Hiro nudged her signaling to let him stay. Colonello took the piece of paper that Reborn was holding and frowned. "I know every nook and cranny in Mafia Land but this is new. Just what is the Cervello planning, korra?" Hiro shrugged. "In Takushi's battle, they were on a rollar coaster, so Junpei's battle must be pretty crazy too." Azumi tapped her foot impatiently with her arms crossed. "Well it's an hour so we should start heading there." Agreeing, everyone started heading out the door except Claude who was watching them leave one by one. "Take care of Takushi for us Claude!" Hiro waved before he disappeared out the door. 

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 When the doctors finished fixing his wounds, they left Takushi lying on the bed in the patient room. Multiple times he tried to leave but the staffs always manage to catch him and drag him back into the bed, insisting that Takushi should let his wounds heal first. Now he was looking up at the ceiling, his mind swimming about his battle. The feel of Lukas's hand around his throat still lingered and the shock when Lukas put the rings together made him want to jump off a building. Then the next thing he knew, tears were falling down from his eyes dipping themselves right into Takushi's pillow. His pride was crushed.

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 "Hmph," It took a moment for Raiden to read the paper as he checked the clock to see what time it was. Then with a flourish he stood up. "Well I'm off to my battle, who's going to come watch?" Oz only responded with a snore as everyone turned to see Oz asleep next to Lukas. If Lukas wasn't so injured Oz would be dead by now. "Is he crazy? If Lukas wakes up he'll skewer him!" Raiden was about to move Oz but Veronica interuppted him. "Just leave him be. If Lukas finds Oz sleeping next to him then he's dead right? Anyway I guess I'll go. I wanna see you get beaten up by that blondie." She smirked, "He's not that bad-looking either." 

Claude watched as everyone walked out of the hospital waiting room, Sonya giving him a reassuring smile before disappearing through the doors. He glanced down again before hearing someone come out from Takushi's room. He hopped up to her feet to see that it was a nurse. "You can go in there and wait with him if you want." She said, gesturing to the door, before walking down the hallway, apparently having other patients to attend to. Claude looked at the door before drawing in a breath and pushing the door open. He crept his way inside to see Takushi lying in his hospital bed, silent. He wasn't sure whether to simply approach him or wait until he was ready to say something. From were he was standing, Takushi didn't seem like his usual self. The lost must have really gotten to him. Claude went over and sat down at the chair close to the bedside, not saying anything or noticing the fact that the storm guardian was in tears. He didn't know what to say. Waiting it out was probably the best thing Claude could come up with now, so he waited, staring straight ahead into space. 

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After the rest of the group left Claude to wait with Takushi, they followed the hand written directions on the paper to the location that the battle was going to take place with Junpei versus Raiden. When they finally made it there, they were met with an empty wide open area. It looked like a skating ring except there was no ice, just a dark nickle colored surface.There were bleachers where people would sit to watch. "Just what is this place?" Alphonse said as he glanced around. There was a small sign sitting on the gate to get it, which read 'Electric Boarding' "Electric Boarding.." Junpei read, now seeming to have calmed down. "Just what the hell is that?" "Perhaps it's like skateboarding in some way.." "What makes you say that?" Usami pointed over to a stand on the other side of the gate that had a sort of board holder, the boards inside appearing to look somewhat like hover boards. A loud, and overly cheerful voice came from the other side of the gates. It was, of course, Elliott along with the rest of Riviello. "Heeey it looks like we're going skating or some crap like that!" "Elliott, shut it. It's the dead of night. Why must you be so loud." "Sugar runs through my veins.. I can't be held back." he hummed. He looked over to see that Claude's group was here and he squinted. "Eh? The boss candidate isnt with them this time." His voice suddenly went dramatic. "Is that squirt taking one for the team to grieve over a broken up loser? Aw I'm so touched~" "D-don't talk back about Claude and Takushi like that." Usami said, raising her voice for the first time in forever. "Hmm? Can take the obvious truth? Aw that's too sad, but don't come picking a fight with me friend. I'm not going to be your opponent." 

 When Takushi heard the door to his room open he thought it was the nurse checking on him to make sure he was there. However the chair next to him creaked as if someone sat down and Takushi frowned wondering who it was as he slowly turned. The sight of Claude surprised him and he cursed at himself for seeing Claude in a state like this. Quickly wiping his eyes he said, "1-11th! I thought you went off with the others to watch Junpei's fight!" Takushi sat up wincing a bit forgetting about the damaged side the doctors just fixed. His lost battle came into his mind again and Takushi's face fell. "Sorry for stupidly losing that battle. I won't forgive myself."

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  Azumi's face brightened up looking at the hoverboards. She remembered watching futuristic movies where the protagonist rides on one of them and flies down the street, and the fact that a hoverboard is right there  made her skip over to it. Right as she was about to pick one up, the voice of Elliot shattered her fantasy as he began trash-talking about Claude and Takushi. Clenching her fists, Azumi growled. "Let me beat the crap outta him!" If it wasn't for Colonello holding her back, she would've been throwing punches at Elliot already. "Whoa whoa take it easy. If you fight him now then you'll be disqualified from the ring conflict, korra!" "But-" "That's enough." Everyone turned to the source of the voice and a Cervello woman came out almost like from a shadow. She looked alike as the last woman for the storm battle but this woman was wearing a different outfit as she walked over to the two families. "Both lightning guardians from opposing families are present and on time. Will the two lightning guardians step forward." Junpei and Raiden both stepped forward with Raiden smiling brightly. "Lets see who will be standing at the end of this match kid." The Cervello woman took their half rings checking if they were real before giving them back. "These are the real Vongola rings. For this battle of the lightning guardians." She gestured at the hoverboards. "These hoverboards will be flying around the ring. You have the option of riding them but be warned: An accident can occur and due to having no safety equipment, having a crash will almost be an ensured death." Veronica widened her eyes. "Ensured death? It's a good thing Raiden had skateboarding experience then." "The goal of this battle is the same. Obtain the other half of the ring from your oppoment. The rule of no interference with outsiders still holds. Now, would the other guardians sit in the bleachers in order for the match to start." Following her orders, everyone except Junpei and Raiden headed to the stands sitting seperately from the opposing family. 
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 Colonello stared at the arena that the lightning guardians were about to fight and he couldn't help but worry. "Do you think Junpei is gonna be ok? He didn't really have a real trainer afterall, korra." Hiro layed back in his seat with his hands behind his back before giving Colonello a reasurring smile. "I've seen Junpei fight against Daisuke before, I'm pretty sure he can pull through." Azumi suddenly stood up from the bleachers before cheering, "Junpei you better win!!"

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 Hearing Azumi's loud cheer Veronica glared over at Claude's guardians. "Urgh, she's so loud! From the way she acts, I'm pretty sure that girl is their sun guardian." She looked at Elliot giving him her puppy eyes. "Please silence her when you fight in your battle Elliot." Meanwhile, Oz was taking up an entire row with his body as he was lying down snoozing. 

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 "Whenever you two are ready, you may begin." With that, the woman walked off to the side and pressed the start button. Immediatly, the hoverboards came to life and began zooming around nearly crashing into the lightning guardians. "I guess I'll be getting on!" Raiden jumped into the air as a hoverboard came right underneath his feet before landing on it. Getting the hang of controlling it, he summoned his six spears out of thin air all static with electricity. "Eat this!" The spears tipped forward until ressembling the sharp tip of an arrow and an electric lazer beam shot out of the center aiming right for Junpei. 

From the bleachers where they were sitting, Alphonse narrowed his eyes. "If Junpei is able to wear me out after two days of training, then he should be able to." he said, really hoping that Junpei was going to make it out of this one. Even though he thought the blonde to be one hell of an idiot, he still seemed strong. Alphonse slid his face down into his scarf a bit and Usami looked over at him before looking back at Junpei on the arena. She, as well hoped for him to do his best. "Like Sonya said earlier, we have more battles to go in order to turn the tables on them." All of them looked over to Reborn. "Junpei will be fine." "He can't be that stupid...right?" Meanwhile, on the other side of the arena where Riviello was watching, Elliott went silent as he looked at Azumi from across the arena, giving her a somewhat ominous stare from behind his black rimmed glasses. He soon snapped out of it and patted Veronica on the head. "Well if that really is their guardian, then I will do more than just silence her..." 

Meanwhile

Claude shook his head. "I couldn't just leave you here alone in the hospital while we all go to watch Junpei fight." ​He looked up, some reassurance crossed his face. "...It's alright. That guy..." Claude found himself clenching his fists in his lap, his eyes reflecting a small flame of determination. "He will pay for what he did to you." A small silence soon took over the room before the nurse that Claude saw earlier walked in and handed a note to Claude before walking out. Confused, Claude looked down at the paper in his hand and started reading the message aloud. " 'This is Sonya. I forgot to mention a smallll thing to you before I walked out and I didn't want you to really miss out. You can watch the fight between Raiden and Junpei on the TV in Tasushi's room. The private channel in order to see it should be on the paper. Enjoy little bro!' "  At the bottom of the paper was Sonya's cursive like signature and a three digit number. He looked over to see that The remote for the television was sitting on the other side of the bed, closest to Takushi. "Hey Takushi, can you turn on the television to this channel?" he said, passing the paper to him for the channel number. In a way, Claude was still happy to be able to cheer on Junpei even though he didn't show up. 

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"Wait wait wait wait- i'M NOT R-"  Junpei started to say frantically before a hover board came beneath his feet. His body fell backwards onto the board as it was lifting him a little bit over the ground. He rubbed his head as he tried to stand up properly on the board. He looked up and saw the beam of lightning zipping at him and the color in his face immediately disappeared. "S-shit!" He said as he put his arms up in front of him in defense. Lightning zapped a bit around his arms and iron sand from the ground of the arena quickly made its way to Junpei. There was a huge flash as the beam struck. The light went away to see that Junpei made a shield just in time before he could be hit. The iron sand shield started losing its for and Junpei looked at Raiden before he turned around. He tipped the board to go over as he started zipping away from Raiden as fast as he could go without falling off, with the iron sand hovering behind his hands. 

 Takushi blinked at Claude's determination, "11th..." Is this how a boss should act? His old mafia family always treated each other by strengths, and if you ever lose, they won't hesitate to kick you out. ("A strong family must have a hard heart, if it's too soft, the family is doomed to disaster.") That's what his father told him. 'How...does he care about everyone so much? Even when they lose to something so stupid?!' His train of thought were interuppted when Claude asked a favor regarding about the television. "Ah, right away 11th!" Reading the three digit number from the letter, Takushi entered it into the remote as the TV screen turned black for a second before showing an arena with hoverboards flying around. "What the?!" The storm guardian searched for any signs of Junpei and spotted him flying away from his oppoment. 

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 "Are you running away from me now? C'mon, the fun just got started!" Raiden followed after Junpei with his spears circling protectively around him. It didn't take long for him to catch up and just went he was about to strike, the sand covered Junpei like a shield. "Iron sand huh? Maybe you're not so weak looking after all." With a wave of his hand, 3 spears went below the sand in the arena gone from sight. "Better fly faster kid or the spears are gonna pierce you." Junpei was confused at first until suddenly one of the 3 spears rose from the ground like a spike almost hitting Junpei's board. The spear went below the ground but as Junpei continued to keep flying, the spears kept coming up. "You're wide open!" Raiden came from the side using his other remaining spears to knock Junpei off his board as Junpei landed on the ground. 

Claude suddenly got to his feet. "What...what is Junpei doing?!" He was starting to considered whether these Riviello people should be deemed dangerous. He expected Junpei to have a ball park with this battle but he didn't expect this. Maybe he was just all talk. Either way, he still had faith in his lightning guardian. "Come on Junpei, you got this." he cheered but not too loudly. 

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The hard thrust from the spiked sent Junpei flying as he made hard contact with the ground. His body was sent rolling before he came to a halt on his side. All of a sudden, a shocking pain came to his body, which caused him to cry out in pain. Usami immediately stood up. "W-what's wrong with him?!" "It's a certain thing that happens when you are knocked off of your board." Everyone from Claude's group immediately looked over to see one of the Cerevello women suddenly appearing next to Usami.  She ignored their shocked reactions and continued. "If you are knocked off of the board, then you are shocked by a special type of lightning until you're back on your board." Alphonse furrowed his eyebrows. "But isn't he the lightning guardian? How is that able to affect him." "Other attributes." "Huh?" "Yes, the lightning guardians aren't suppose to be affected by this but since this lightning is mixed in with other attributes, those attributes are actually damaging him instead of the lightning." Usami slouched back into her seat and puffed her cheeks out, annoyed. "Well that's a dumb feature to an amusement park ride." Junpei found his board hovering back over to him and he made a desperate struggle to pull himself back on. Once he was on, his body was still shaking, small flashes of yellow electricity was still flickering around his body. Junpei was breathing heavily now. That five minute shock took a lot out of him. "...guh" he muttered out as he got to his feet. Iron sand pulling itself out of the arena's ground yet again and hovered around his hand. "Heh, you think you...c-could get rid of m-me with a trick like t-that?" he said as a sword formed into his hands. His body was still shivering but he tipped his board forward and went full speed towards Raiden. "Have some of this!" he shouted as he threw his sword towards him. The iron sand sword split into multiple swords, in which all of them were heading straight for Raiden. 

 Hearing the Cervello woman's explanation through the TV, Takushi felt his anger rising. "Just how crazy could these battles get?!" He wished he was there to give the Cervello a piece of his mind but he was stuck at the hospital. 

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 Azumi's face was dark looking down with her fists clenched. She seen Junpei battered all the time due to his foolish challenges against Azumi but this was the first time she saw him this badly hurt with the same determinism in his eyes. "How firetrucking could you.." The Cervello women looked at her as Azumi raised her head which was blazed with anger. "How could you put an idiot like Junpei into that type of battlefield? He could die!" The expression on the women didn't changed as one of them answered. "If they end up dying it's not ours to blame." "Of course it'll be your fault!" Colonello put a hand on her shoulder with a grim look. "Yelling or being violent against them isn't going to change the situation. Just have faith in Junpei to make it through this, korra!" After seconds of staring at Colonello, she turned back to the battle. 'Don't die. We still haven't fought against each other since you got your unique powers.' 

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Raiden raised his eyebrows watching the iron sand swords come at him. "Pretty impressive, however.." His six spears started surrounding him like a windmill as the swords made contact with the spears, it quickly disintegrated leaving only smears of the iron sand landing on Raiden's clothes. "So kid, any tricks up your sleeve cause I'm getting bored over here." 

Claude sighed out of frustration. "Well..this is a mafia battle. They just seem downright crazy all of the time now. Just look at the battles we had with Kaede and his men. But..somehow I think we'll make it through this." Claude gae out a nervous laugh as he scratched the back of his head. "That probably came out cheezy, didn't it. Sorry about that."
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Junpei narrowed his eyebrows as he watched the iron sand swords that he created disappear. He was breathing heavily. The harsh shock from making contact with the arena floor took too much of a toll on. Still, he needed to keep his hopes up, somehow. Junpie noticed the gray flakes of sand scattering all around Raiden's clothes. He didn't bother to answer his question but just focused on his stained clothing. Junpei shakily raised a hand up towards Raiden. His voice all of a sudden started to sound nonchalant. "Well of course I do. I am the all powerful Junpei after all." Raiden stared at the blonde confused but he wasn't expecting what Junpei did next. Junpeu flicked a finger up and lighting danced sharply around his hand. The small fragments of iron sand on his clothes turned into small spikes, piercing Raiden's body.

Reborn gave a small smirk as he witnessed this. "So Riviello's lightning guardian left himself wide open for Junpei to make a move." Sonya turned over to him. "Yeah but will that be enough to take him down? Junpei is already in a mad condition."  "What happened to not being overly pessimistic?" "Tch. I'm just curious." She stared back down to the arena at Junpei and her brows narrows in concern. 

 Veronica winced as the spikes went through Raiden's body. "Owch, that's going to leave a mark." "Yayy go blondie." Oz said with an emotionless tone. The Riviello mist guardian looked at Oz and hit him in the head with her fist. "Why are you cheering for the other team?!" Uneffected by the hit Oz sat crosslegged. "Well Raiden is a jerk and like to call me names. He always view youngsters like me weak." He gave a tiny smile. "But that guy sure is showing him." 

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 "Cheezy? 11th, if you say we will make it out of this then I know we will!" Takushi's eyes were on fire with energy. Hearing a commotion from the screen he turned back to see Junpei making a comeback as he heavily damaged Raiden. "Look 11th! Junpei might win this!" 

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 Raiden let out a yell as blood starting pouring down his skin. "You...little firetrucker.." He began to wobble somehow managing to stay on the hoverboard. "I'll freaking finish you right now.."  He took his jacket off as it landed on the ground and his spears began to spin until it suddenly vanished into thin air. Then the next thing Junpei knew, the 6 spears were completely surrounding him from top to bottom and all sides. Each spear cackling with electricity began to glow and Raiden let out a laugh, "Ha ha! No place to go! And don't think shielding is going to work cause each of these spears can go right through it with all my power!" "Looks like his oppoment wants to end it right now, korra!" Hiro looked at the battle as he shouted. "He needs to get out of there now!" Azumi got up her seat just thinking about going in but she knew she would end up getting disqualified. "Junpei!" 

Elliott sat his chin on top of Veronica's head. He was silent for the past few minutes now during the battle. Danet finally noticed and looked over to him with an eyebrow raised. "What is it?" Danet followed his eyes to see that he wasn't paying any attention to the battle but the pink haired girl across the arena that was close to raging, Azumi. "....Are you still focused on that brat or something?" Still he didnt utter a word. "E-" "Consume." "..What?" An eerie grin appeared over her face. "I'm going to consume her...when our battle  against each other comes....there will be nothing left but death itself." Danet narrowed his eyes, somewhat confused before looking back at the battle. "Whatever, it's not like I ever understood you anyways." 

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Junpei's eyes darted from one spear to the other before looking straight ahead at Raiden. His attack got him but Junpei didn't expect him to still be able to move from that. Riviello was probably truly a bunch to fear. Junpei heard Hiro and Azumi shout from outside of the arena. Thoughts started frantically darting around his head but all of the possible options he was coming up with were not going to get him out of this. There was literally nothing left for him to do but forfeit. But that was going to make him look like a whimp, which would end up crushing his ego in a long shot. Junpei looked down and closed his eyes before going silent. Electricity started flashing around his body dangerously, from top to bottom. He opened his eyes and thrust his palm against his chest. "Is that how it is then!? Threatening me with some bullshit taunt like that!?" His crimson eyes flared as the green electricity sparked around him. "Well?! What are you waiting for?! If you're going to end it then do it now!!" 

"What...what the hell are you doing Junpei!?" Alphonse said as he shot up from her seat. Reborn glanced down, the dark shade from his hat covering his eyes. He was probably thinking the same thing. "Just how is the Riviello lightning gurardian going to react to this?" he muttered, fearing the worst.  Everyone were on edge now from this. Just what the hell was he hoping to get from an act like this? "...Junpei." Usami muttered before sliding her hands over her eyes in her seat.
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Claude and Takushi suddenly looked stunned from what was just happening. "No...Junpei, what are you doing?! This isn't a game dammit" Nervousness started settling into Claude's body and he kept his eyes glued to the screen, not even noticing a few hospital workers peeking into the room to see what was all the commotion about before they went back to what they were doing.  

"You freaking idiot!! You're going to piss him even more!" Takushi cursed at Lukas in his head for putting him in the hospital so he couldn't actually be there at Junpei's battlefield. 'If he takes that attack he's not going to survive!' He glanced at Claude to see nervousness clouding his face. 'If that dumbass blondie end up dying that'll put 11th into more state of depression.' 

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 Oz was fully paying attention to the battle now, not saying insulting remarks for the first time as Junpei starting shouting at Raiden. The Riviello mist guardian was also staring at the scene while she furrowed her eyebrows not sure what Raiden's oppoment is thinking. "Does he really think he could handle Raiden's ultimate blow? It's going to feel like hell." She snickered. "Ah well, I guess Raiden will dance on his corspe." "I admit I don't know what he's thinking but he sure is crazy." Oz said. 

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 The Riviello lightning guardian looked suprised expecting his oppoment to be cowering in fear or begging for mercy. "Not bullshit kid. but if you insist, I'll give it everything I got!" The spears started glowing brighter as Raiden's green lightning cackled. "You don't have to give your farewell to your boss and his guardians." His lips curled into a sneer. "Cause after the sky battle when we win, Zeru is going to kill every..single..one of you." After he said those words his spears moved forward as they glowed so bright it looked like they were thirsty for blood. Azumi remembered yelling his name before the entire battlefield was covered with bright light from the impact as the ground shook too. 

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 Back at the hospital again, all Claude and Takushi saw was the white light taking up the entire screen with a high pitching noise of the audio being messed up. "What..happen?" 

Claude went silent as he waited for the audio and the camera that were broadcasting them this to fix itself back up or something, anything. He just wanted to see what happened to Junpei and possibly the others. Although he was hoping for it to work so badly, the TV just went static and he weakly pushed the button on the remote, shutting the television off. "No..." he muttered to himself as he stepped backwards and stumbled into his seat. This was probably worse for him than what happened to Takushi. Forget the whole ring conflict ordeal, Junpei could possibly be dead from that. He kept muttering 'no he can't be dead' to himself while staring down at the ground with his hands dug into his hair, tears formulating at his eyes. Claude couldn't really think straight now. This was all too much for him.

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The light was blinding. Nobody could see a thing but empty whiteness for a minute before it started to die down. As soon as that happened, Alphonse was the first one to shoot up from out of his seat and his destination was to the gate that lead inside the gates. Once he got there, his hand immediately clutched for the handle when somebody stopped him. It was the Cerevello woman tightly clutching him at the wrist. "What the hell are you doing?!" He shouted, nearly at a growl, which was very unusual for him. "The battle i-"  "The battle is complete when one of the guardians contains the full ring." Alphonse felt a tug at his scarf from behind and looked back to see that it was Usami, her eyes welling up in tears. "If you go in there...Junpei will be-" "He could be dead!" The light finally cleared up and Junpei appeared lied face down on the glossy arena floor. Faint flashes of electricity was still sparking around his body. He appeared unresponsive and wasn't moving. Alphonse gritted his teeth. "Junpei!! Wake up!!" The other finally caught up to Alphonse and Usami. Reborn and Sonya rendered speechless.

"Damn...talk about a total knockout.." Danet muttered as he leaned forward in his seat. Elliott almost broke out in a cackle, a piece of pockey sticking out from the side of his mouth. "Hell, Raiden knows how to put on a show doesn't he? I didn't even see that coming." 

 While everyone was worrying about Junpei, Raiden limped over to him but not to help his oppoment lightning guardian. He bented down reaching for the other half of the lightning ring before putting them together. "Heh..that was..nothing." Raiden turned to his other fellow guardians as he kissed the ring. "Two wins for Riviello, Zeru should be happy." The other Cervello woman walked over to the machine pressing a button allowing the gates to open. Immediatly, everyone rushed in quickly heading to Junpei. "I-Is he breathing?" Azumi was nearly in tears. Seeing Junpei's body looking like it's near Death's door made her want to destroy this entire battlefield. Colonello gently turned him over checking the side of his neck for any pulse. "He's barely alive korra! We need to take him to the hospital!" Hiro stared blanky as all of this was going on. 'I thought he was gonna...win.' Remembering how amazing Junpei fought against Daisuke, Hiro find it hard to believe Junpei ever losing to a real oppoment. His face turned into an scary glare as he glanced at the Riviello Family. "I won't forgive them..hurting our friend like that." 

 Veronica skipped over to Raiden who was barely walking straight with the ring held tightly in his hand. "I wanna..head back to the hotel.." His eyes closed and he was unconsious as he started falling toward Oz's direction. Not wanting to be squash by Raiden, Oz caught him but he felt his fingers slipping. "Ugh, Raiden is so heavy." Veronica looked at Oz with a bewildered expression. "Huhh? C'mon Oz you're not that physically weak!" 

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 Seeing Claude in total distress, Takushi got up from his bed not giving a damn about the pain from his side. "1-11th!" Noticing Junpei still alive he quickly started pressing a button that alerts a nurse. A couple seconds later a nurse peeked her head in the room. "Yes how may I help you?" Takushi marched over to her and began shaking her shoulders as the nurse stared at him in surprise. "One of 11th's guardians is heavily injured and we need you to get firetrucking ready to treat him when he gets there!" Getting dizzy from Takushi shaking her shoulders, the nurse replied. "R-right away sir, um what's your uh guardian's name?" "It's Junpei now hurry your ass up!" The nurse gave out a small yip before bowing and leaving the room. 

"This concludes tonight's battles. The next two battles between the rain and sun guardians will be tomorrow night at the same time. Information on where to meet will be given to you prior to the dealine." both Cerevelo women nodded before the two of them walked past Claude's group and left the arena. Alphonse picked Junpei up onto his back, his rage changed into a hint of desperation. "We can talk about this later. Right now we need to get him over to the hospital and fast." Nobody was in a disagreement and they all followed after Alphonse, who literally broke out at a run, towards the hospital Claude and Takushi were currently in. Who knew that Alphonse was a bit athletic.

"Ah yes! My battle is tomorrow. That girl won't know what hit her." Elliott literally cheered. "No he isn't weak but he is lazy." Danet said as he walked up net to Elliott and Veronica. He glared at Oz out of annoyed. "Hurry up and drag his body home. I want to go to sleep."  With that, he turned on his heels and walked off, really wanting to get some sleep. It was almost 2AM in the morning and all of this tension tonight was too much for anyone to handle. 

 

 Everyone burst into the hospital nearly collasping on one another. "Junpei..Junpei is horribly injured!" Azumi yelled at the nurses nearby. The nurse that got yelled by Takushi eariler ran up to them with a bed ready and doctors setting up to operate. "We'll take it from here," Gently taking Junpei from Alphonse's back, their lightning guardian disappeared passed the double doors as silence washed over them. "We should head to Takushi's room, see how they're doing korra!" Colonello said. Nobody disagreed as they slowly walked into Takushi's room where Claude and his storm guardian was waiting. "We saw the whole fight, Junpei going to be all right?" Takushi asked. Hiro scratched his head nervously, "Don't know yet, but I'm pretty sure he's all right." Feeling the tension of the two defeats they recieved, Azumi spoke up, "So the next two battles tomorrow is rain and sun right?" She wrapped her arm around Hiro's neck though she had to stand on her toes in order to reach his height. "I'm pretty sure me and Hiro could make something happen!" Hiro's lips spread into a grin. "Yea, we can work it out!" Releasing her grip on Hiro, Azumi's eyes began to flare. "Alrighty then!" She pointed at Colonello. "We're going to train like crazy before the battle and beat the hell out of my oppoment!" Colonello sighed overwhelmed by the energy she still had in her. "I guess we should.." With that, Azumi marched out of the room dragging Colonello in tow before heading to the building where they trained. Hiro turned to the group with a friendly wave, "Well I should get working too. See ya tomorrow!" The door closed as Hiro jogged out heading in the direction Azumi left. "They better not train too much." Takushi said.

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 "Bossss we're homeee." Oz was barely grasping Raiden as his body was sliding on the floor. Unsurprisely, they got no reply back from Zeru and the cloud guardian sighed. "Well I guess I shoud just dump him in his room." Hauling Raiden, Oz walked down the hall mumbling silently to himself about how heavy Raiden is. Veronica let out a yawn stretching her arms and legs looking at the time. "Pass 2AM huh? Better take a shower." She turned around and hugged Elliot, "Good night~" Then she went into her room. 

Usami weakly blinked as they left the hospital room. "Do they know what time it is? It's like 2 in the morning. How are they still able to train now?" Claude shook his head. "I don't know but the next set of battles aren't until later on at night again. They should have plenty of time to rest before then." His eyes drifted from her to the door. A slight mutter escaped his lips. "Junpei..." Usami yawned and sat down in the long chair that was at the corner of the room. Alphonse was already sitting there in the very corner of the chair, silent ever since they took Junpei away. He was probably unnoticeable being so dead silent. Usami lied her head against Alphonse, who didn't seem to care, and shut her eyes. Claude narrowed his eyes in confusion. "S-she's planning on sleeping here tonight?!" Sonya shrugged her shoulders. "I don't see why not. It was a long night, plus the walk to the ship is kind of lengthy." "Hmph, either way Takushi and Junpei did the best that they could today." Reborn said. There was a faint hint in his tone that he was proud of them even though they lost brutally. "These may be the first two losses but we still have to cheer on Hiro and Azumi tomorrow." This brought somewhat of a wash of relief over Claude. Reborn turned his back on them and made their way to the door. "Well you all have fun camping out here. I'm going to sleep. Goodnight." Sonya looked over at the others before waving. "I'm heading back as well. More space on the bed for me. Ciao~" Reborn and Sonya exited the room, leaving Claude, Takushi, Alphonse and a now sleeping Usami in the room in silence. All Claude could do was stare at Alphonse as he shifted Usami's head on him. He really looked depressed; Claude didn't know what to say or how to comfort him for that matter

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Elliott gave a smile to the small mist guardian as she walked away before falling backwards onto the couch. "Hehe, looks like we're up next tomorrow, huh Raiden." The young man stayed silent for a second, the faint sound of his music from is ear buds being heard. "Yeah..." he finally said. Something looked to be bothering him all of a sudden. "I guess it will be...another win for us.." Danet stared into space for a moment before turning to walk down the hall and to his room. Elliott stared, a bit confused before lying down on the couch and slowly closing his eyes.

 Takushi went over to Claude peering into Claude's line of vision. "11th, you should go to sleep." His boss didn't reply still staring into space at Alphonse. A couple seconds of awkward silence passed before Takushi sighed and picked up Claude over his shoulder. That snapped Claude into attention as he began trying to get out of his grip but Takushi calmly placed him in his hospital bed. "You can sleep on my bed 11th! I'll be on that couch!" Knowing Claude would protest against that, Takushi dashed to the sofa and lied down already sending out fake snores pretending he was asleep. "Zzzzz..."

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 "Hey Colonello!" After shattering the boulder for the 5th time, Azumi turned to her instructor. "I know Rivio look like tough oppoments, and I'm not sure Maximum Cannon is going to be enough.." Colonello folded his arms, "They're called Riviello, and there is another move we could use," He looked down unsure, "But I don't think you could learn it fast enough." Azumi widened her eyes tackling Colonello almost knocking him out of his feet. "Teach. Me." The blonde didn't say anything and just stared at her until he finallly waved his hands in surrender. "All right, but no slacking off, korra!" The sun guardian saluted with a smirk. "Yes sir!" 

Claude sat there and stared as Takushi fell asleep on the couch, or at least he was convinced that he did. The brunette didn't want to get up and try to get him back into bed. Such efforts would be pointless seeing how loyal Takushi was to him. Claude turned his gaze back over to Alphonse and Usami. Usami was still fast asleep, leaning against his shoulder, but it appeared that Alphonse finally passed out as well. A small sigh came out from between Claude's lips and he laid back into the bed finally. It was warm, due to the fact that Takushi has been sitting there for a while now. (What am I going to do...) Claude thought as he stared up at the ceiling. (If his guardians are this tough, then what will happen when I go against Zeru?) He slid his hands over his eyes in frustration. He was seriously stressing over this again. He began to imagine what the battle will be like for him when that day comes before his eyes started growing heavy. A few minutes passed before Claude fell asleep

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The room was silent and dark except for the dim moonlight shining in through the window. The redhead opened one eye before looking around. It took him a second to realize that he was sitting in his room in the penthouse before pushing himself to sit up. A sharp pain stabbed him in the chest and he winched and looked to see that there were bandages covering his chest and shoulder. That's right. The storm guardian battle. The arrows that were sticking out of his flesh for a while before someone finally got that darn thing out of him. Lukas rubbed the area where that heavy wound that Takushi gave him used to be. He looked down and looked at the full Vongola ring on his finger. It's been there ever since the battle was over and he refused to set it down for a second. A satisfied grin came across his face, despite him still being injured. He still probably didn't give a damn about his injured. "Riviello....will definitely win this battle....with Zeru on our side." He weakly said before looking out the window and at the dead night sky.  

Edited February 20, 201411 yr by Junko

 Morning came and the birds chirped outside. Off in the distance, crowds of people can be heard entering the park not noticing the illusions covering the damages from yesterday's fight. In Takushi's room, Claude, Alphonse, Usami, and Takushi himself slept peacefully in their spots forgetting about the reality they're in and setting themselves in their own little dreams. Suddenly the door slammed open revealing Azumi high on excitement despite there being bags underneath her eyes. "Oi!! You gotta wake up!" Seeing Takushi being the nearest one to her, she skipped over and started shouting in his face. After a couple tries, Takushi opened one of his eyelid looking at Azumi with a grim look. "W-what do you want?" Then to the storm guardian's surprise, Azumi picked him up by the waist and spinned him around. "There's great newsss!" Embarassed being picked up by a girl Takushi squirmed out of her grip falling on the floor with a thud. "Don't you firetrucking do that to me again!" Azumi giggled cheerfully, giving the group a confusion to why she was so happy. "Well I checked up with the doctors that was taking care of Junpei and they said he's going to be ok!" She pointed at the exit of the door, "We can check on him now though he's still not awake." Azumi grinned, "Also Hiro and Colonello are already there so lets go!" Turning her heels she dashed out the door leaving smoke behind. 

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 The curtains in the penthouse flew open as Raiden who recovered abit over night was walking around waking up each of the Riviello members. "Morning already?" Veronica covered her face with a blanket not wanting to open her eyes to the sunshine. "Just 10 more minutes.." She mumbled. Raiden's eyebrow twitched, "C'mon the hotel have breakfast already set up for us." Suddenly the room started shaking violently as books started falling off the bookshelves and objects were rolling over the floor. "I said..10 MORE MINUTES!" The Riviello lightning guardian jumped and slammed the door before Veronica could use an object to kill him. She was not a morning person. Going to the next room he opened the door to see Oz sounding asleep not even fazing when Raiden opened the curtains in his face. "God you're such a pain to wake up." Raiden grunted as he took the blanket from Oz revealing him in his white tank top and boxers. Feeling the cold air settling in Oz shivered his eyes still closed. "C-cold." Raiden gave out a smirk satisified with Oz looking miserable. "Then you shouldn't be wearing that while you sleep, now get up you lazyass." Seeing Oz like this, Raiden almost thought this was going to be the best morning ever, however the miserable face Oz had was wiped clean off his face and was replaced with his peaceful snores. "Hey don't firetrucking tell me you went to sleep again even though you're freezing?!" Getting no response Raiden gave up and walked into Lukas's room who seemed to kinda recover from the battle. "Oh Lukas, got better already? Not surprised knowing how stubborn you are." 

Claude could have sworn that his heart stopped for a minute. His eyes shot open at the sound of Azumi's voice. From the look on his tired face, he didn't sleep as well last night, as expected. He sat up in the hospital bed and rubbed his eyes. "Azumi...what are y- wait, Junpei is going to be okay?" Some spark of hope lit up inside him as he climbed out of bed and slid his shoes on. Alphonse lifted his head up and stretched his neck back. He looked as if he didn't sleep well either. His eyebrows raised as he heard the good news. Alphonse looked down at Usami, who was just now waking up as she moved off him. "Did anyone say something.....about pancakes..?" Alphonse simply shook his head in response as he stood up and walked towards the door and the small trails of dust clouds that her feet left behind. She must have been doing some hardcore training for her feet to be this dirty in a hospital. Alponse looked towards the others, his expression changing back to neutral even though he was relieved inside. "Let's get going." He said before walking out of the door. Usami grumbled. "....Am I getting pancakes or not?!" Claude stared at her in confusion but didn't question it. He just figured that she was always hungry. "Later. For now let's go meet up with Junpei." 

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When they arrived to the room, Reborn and Sonya were already there, Reborn parked in a car and Sonya leaned against the wall. They both didn't seem like they had to issue bad news so that was a good sign. Junpei lied on the hospital bed, motionless and somewhat pale. There were bandages wrapped around various parts of his body and an IV was coming out from his arm and lead to a small fluid sac on a rack sitting next to the bed. He appeared to be in pretty bad shape from first glance but it was a relief to see that he was still alive. There was a small minute or two of silence before Reborn finally spoke up. "It was quite impressive that he managed to survive something like that. Came out of there with a broken rib, a few torn muscles. He should be fine within the next few days." Usami slightly cocked her head to the side. "So..does that means he's stuck inside this hospital for the next few days." Reborn nodded as Alphonse walked to stand besides Junpei's bedside. He said nothing. Sonya clapped her hands together. "Well! We only have until tonight before it's Hiro and Azumi's turn to battle it out. With our little athlete nuts, we should be able to beat them, am I right?" "....right." Claude muttered. He just remembered that they already suffered two losses. They couldn't get another one. 

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Hearing Raiden come into the room, he turn on his side, the sheets pulled more over his body. "What does it look like? I'm not dead yet so what do you think?" he growled. He hated being in such a condition. It made him feel weak. After a minute, he finally sat up to look at Raiden. "And just what the hell do you want? Came here to tell me about your battle I couldn't give two shits about I suppose?" 

"Goddammit, Veronica keep it down in there before you piss off Zeru!" Danet shouted into the hallway before coming out into the main area. Elliott was already there, eating what looked to be enough breakfast for a buffet, but of course he wasn't going to share. It was just one of those things he refused to do. He saw Danet walk in and gave a smirk. "Which one of you bastards forgot about not bothering Vivi in the morning?" he said as he took a bite into his french toast that was sitting in his hands. Danet sat down at the table but didn't bother to reach and get any. The last time he did, Elliott literally knocked him out cold for a few days. "Tch. Sure as hell not me." he looked over to Zeru's door and narrows his eyes. "He hasn't been out of there. Just what the hell is he doing locked up in there?"  "Somebody's worried about their boss, huh? I don't know but it's not like I really care. He's bound to come out sometime." 

 Takushi winced when Reborn explained a whole list of injuries for Junpei. "And I thought my injury was bad, his is completely worse." Azumi glared at Sonya, "Wait did you just call us althete nuts?" While Azumi began pestering Sonya about it, Hiro looked at Claude noticing his unsteady mood. "Hey Claude," He put his hand on his boss's shoulder. When Claude looked up Hiro gave him a reasurring smile, "Don't be depressed Claude! Azumi and I are sure to get a win today." He glanced at Junpei, "Afterall, we didn't come here to get beaten up by them." He ruffled Claude's hair, "And when we win, we could go back to relaxing again with brand new rings." Takushi huffed abit jealous that Hiro is trying to cheer Claude up instead of him, his right hand man. "I'm going to the roof, its been awhile since I've last had a cigarette.." Without another word Takushi left the room heading for the staircase up to the roof. Azumi stopped with her mini fight with Sonya and looked around noticing Colonello was nowhere in sight. "Colonello? Where did he-" A loud but calming snore was heard over the conversations everyone was having and they looked down to see Colonello passed out on the sofa sleeping with a bubble on his nose as it grew wider as he breathes out and shorter as he breathes in. "He must be tired from training you last night." Hiro said. Azumi folded her arms, "Was training me that tiring? I'm not even feeling..sleepyy.." She fell unto Junpei's bed near his legs as she too passed out and snored softly. 

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 Raiden gritted his teeth always hating Lukas's bitchy attitude. "Why you-did any of your parents ever teach you to firetrucking respect older people?!" He looked away, "Teens these days, just go eat breakfast, you have legs so you can walk." He left the room and already seeing Elliot and Danet awake, he sat down with them at the table and began eatting down his own breakfast. A couple minutes later, Veronica walked to the table, her barefeet touching the cold hard floor. Her hair was in a jumbled mess but she didn't seem to mind as she plopped down next to Elliot. "Told you I would get up after 10 minutes." She growled at Raiden before innocently eatting toast. "Also good morning~" 

Edited February 21, 201411 yr by The Basic Nerd

Claude somewhat grin at Hiro comforting him. He looked down slightly. "...Yeah." He quickly looked up to see Takushi leaving the room. "W-wait a second...you should be smoking in-" A hand came on his shoulder and looked back to see that it was Sonya. "Ah, just let him go. He probably needs some alone time anyways." Claude sighed as he looked over at Azumi passed out at the end of Junpei's bed. It was really baffling to him as to how she could fall asleep so suddenly. He walked over to her body and positioned it better so that she was fully on the bed, still sleeping soundly near his legs. Alphonse still hasn't said anything but he looks displeased that she would just collapse on there out of nowhere.  "You all really don't plan on staying here till nightfall, do you?" Reborn said as he raised an eyebrow. "You all still have time to do some training if you're up for it." "Reborn is right. For now, we should let them rest." Alphinse was about to protest when there was a slight tug on his scarf and looked back to see that it was Usami. Her eyes looked pale, as if she was trying to reach into his mind somehow. Either way, she somehow convinced him that it was time for them to go and he made his way towards the door before walking out without another word. Usami sighed as she looked back at Junpei. "Alphonse is just going to be depressed until Junpei wakes up huh..." she muttered softly.

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"Somebody must have slept well last night..." Elliott said, almost at a mutter at he stared at her jumbled hair on top of her hair. It almost looked like tumbleweed mixed with a mane. It was quite a sight. "...Mornin' " Danet said, almost reluctantly. A few minutes later, Lukas finally emerged from his room. Under his tank top and sleeping pants, his bandages were quite visible. Elliott looked up from eating and raised an eyebrow. "No crutches?" Lukas simply settled down into an empty seat slowly. "Shut it you firetrucking piece of shit." "That didn't answer my question."