Junko

"Huh? What the hell are you talking about?" Junpei said crossing his arms. He stared down at Daisuke's limp body. Now that he thinks about it, they don't exactly know that much about the Vongola besides them being deemed the strongest mafia family. But, could they be a negative mafia family that can possibly cause world destruction. Junpei shook his head, denying the thought. (No. Reborn and that Sonya lady seemed too sincere to be lying to us about something like that.) "Well? Explain yourself!" Meanwhile The last ten minutes has been a series of clashing blades. Aobe seemed to be fully amused while Alphonse seemed that he couldn't go on for much longer. He's been giving it his all at full force but he couldn't land any damage on the guy. Alphonse jumped back and held his side while breathing heavily. Aobe held his claws up. "What? The kid's all out of energy already?!" A twisted smile inched its way on to his face and Alphonse grimaced. "Don't tell me I can just kill you like this? You challenged me after all." Aobe dashed at Alphonse, who lifted up his two blades to block, and slashed him right at his side. Alphonse staggered backwards and touched where he was hit to feel blood oozing down at his side. His eyes widened a bit and looked at Aobe. Aobe simply grinned before he dashed at him again. Alphonse stood his ground and waited for him to get closer. Aobe was about to swing his claws down at Alphonse's chest but Alphonse ducked downward, rolled out of the way and slit Aobe's ankle, specifically the small joint that connected it to the foot. Aobe cried in pain as he fell forward towards the ground. Alphonse took a step backwards, ready to him to come back at him again. Aobe picked himself off the ground, his glasses broken on his face, and stood up. His ankle was red, as if blood was ready to burst out of out. "You really thought...a cheap trick like that could take me out." he growled before he lunged forward at Alphonse. Out of quick thinking, Alphonse stepped aside, the blades of Aobe's claws grazing his cheek, before thrusting his blades into Aobe's side. Aobe coughed out blood before Alphonse forced his blades out. He fell down to the ground, defeated and Alphonse winched in pain as the gashes from his side were still leaking out blood. He was about to walk away when he heard Aobe mutter something. "Just as I expected from someone of the Vongola family." Somehow, the guy was still smiling even when he's badly injured. "Just tell me this...why did you do what you did to us..." Alphonse stared at him, confused. Meanwhile Usami didn't bother to answer him. She was more focused concentrating not to lose sight of that small figure. The remaining three stepped inside of the abandoned church through a side entrance. The interior was a lot larger than what the outer appearance suggests. The ghostly shadow suddenly stopped in its tracks and Usami stopped walking, appearing confused. "You stopped again. Does that mean Kaede's here?" "I..I don't know. The small ghost stopped moving so...I think so." Usami inched closer to the small ghostly figure and knelt down next to it. She waited for a response from it, but got nothing. She felt a throbbing pain come to her head again, like earlier but much worse. Usami clutched her head in pain as the small ghost dissolved and disappeared. (Where did it go?!) she thought as she frantically looked around for it. Claude rushed to her side quickly before catching her body as she felt backwards. "H-hey! Are you alright?!" No response. Usami couldn't even see him now. Her vision was distorted, as if she was trapped in an endless void. Nothing but monstrous creatures and a distort setting was present through her eyes. Claude shook her shoulders, trying to snap her out of it but nothing. He sighed in frustration. He turned back towards Takushi. "Takushi, she isn't responding..." he said, sounding worried. Meanwhile Liz felt something something break in her rib cage as she felt Azumi land a direct blow there. She winched in pain and didn't even see the girl's fist aim for her face again. She couldn't move her body fast enough to get away. (I'm...done for.) That one thought floated around her head as she landed on the ground, not able to move her body even an inch. She snickered as some of her hair covered over her eyes. "You Vongola...are terrible. Simply trampling over everyone and everything." She tilted her head to the side, some of her hair sliding off her eyes, and she looked at Azumi. "You don't have any idea.....what you people did to us..."

District 11. Claude could only remember that District well because they had agriculture, so they didn't had to worry much about not having food. Well at least that's what he thought in his head. "District 7? We product lumber to ship off to the capitol." he said and scratched the back of his head slightly, having flashbacks of his everyday life there. "We have a lot of trees over there too." Claude was suddenly interrupted at the sound of something hitting against the wall roughly. He turned around to see that the girl tribute from his district and an axe that looked like it was thrown into the the board of one of the archery stations. Something inside him suddenly sank into his stomach in nervousness. He didn't know that girl well but he has seen her around town sometimes when he was transporting lumber. He never recalled her being so strong, or even violent for that matter. Maybe this much pressure changes a person drastically. There was some muttering among the tributes before Claude turned back to Lily, his face somewhat pale now. "Maybe..we should go train for the games. What about survival skills? There's not much people over there by that station."

Junpei landed in the tree that landed besides Hiro. He poked his head out and climbed out of the tree, rubbing his head before looking over at a defeated Daisuke. He blinked for a second, not believing that he actually took that guy down, before crossing his arms and puffing out his chest a little with a smirk plastered on his face. "Hmph, you should have never doubted our strength." Junpei was gone gloating and turned to Hiro. "I don't know about you but we should catch up with the others. Azumi might be with them by now as well." Meanwhile Liz softly handed on the ground when the shock wave ended and threw mutiple attacks at Azumi before she could fully prepare herself. She came at her like a massive fighting barrage. Meanwhile Alphonse dropped his arm down and slip his hands into his pockets. Out came two long, dark blades. "Take Claude and Usami out of here. Leave this guy to me." The man, Aobe, raised his eyebrows in suspicion. Even Claude was a bit confused himself. He didn't think that Alphonse would be one willing to get in a fight. Usami tapped on his shoulder and gestured over to empty space. He didn't see anything but it took him a moment to realize that she was referring to that small ghostly figure that nobody but her can see. The remaining three nodded to Alphonse as they slipped away, Takushi and Claude trying to keep up with her. Aobe watched them leave before turning back to Aplohonse. "Huh? You think you can simply take me out?" he raised his claws and took a stance. "We'll just see about that." Alphonse said as he raised his weapons and the two of them rush at each other in full force.

Shizune's eyes widen as she witnessed the girl's blood blocking off her flames. (What the....since when was Cairo able to do that?!) Shizune's train of thought was suddenly cut off as lightning was making its way towards her. Out of reflex, her body was enveloped in flames in disappeared in a flash before she could be directly hit. Shizune reappeared a few feet away. She felt something stinging and looked down to see that her shoe appeared to be burnt from the electricity. She narrowed her eyes in annoyance. Cairo was only hindering her now. It was probably too late to talk Cairo into this but Shizune gave it a shot anyways. "Why are you still with Gilagmesh?" she said, lowering her keyblade. "Why are you still with Xante? Whatever happened to that promise he made to you. He never fulfilled it did he?"

Junpei felt his body being flung into the air, as if he was weightless but only that he wasn't and he was going to crash to the ground if they didnt do something about it. He saw Daisuke mutter something and Junpei looked at him from above as if he was crazy. "What are you planning down th-" his question was soon answered when he saw the objects that were launched into the with him and Hiro rushing at the both of them. (Uhhh...block!?) Junpei quickly stuck out his hands and waited for some iron sand to come to him to protect himself and Hiro but nothing happened. He looked down at his hand, nervousness quickly starting to settle in. (Do..something!) he thought to himself angrily as he seemingly braced for impact by lifting his arms over his head. When he peeked out with one eye, green lightning was surrounding the two of them along with iron sand, acting as a barrier. "Now that's what I'm taking about!" he said as he pointed a finger at Daisuke. The lightning and iron sand went into his direction, zapping towards him. Junpei grinned before he realized that he and Hiro were both falling down. His eyes widened as he looked down. (shit...) Meanwhile Liz felt her body float into the air and she simply grimaced. (Is Daisuke really doing this shit now? Yet again, that could just mean that his opponents are tough..) Liz was used to this sort of thing happening so she propelled her body in the air and rushed herself towards Azumi. "Let's end this!" Meanwhile It's been a while now since Claude has split up from Azumi, Hiro and Junpei. They were also still following Usami, who hasn't given it a rest for a while now. "Um, do you think that those other three will be okay?" he asked with a sign of worry in his voice. Alphonse nodded his head. "I'm not sure to be honest but all we can do is have hope that they'll meet up with us again soon." Claude gave a small smile and nodded his head. He was going to say something when he bumped right into Usami, who stopped walking. "Hey what's wro-" Usami lifted a hand up, signaling him to be quiet and pointed to a figure starting to appear in the distance. The figure came closer and closer to them until a blue haired male appeared. His hands looked abnormal, which ended up being steel gloves. The males eyes glided from person to person before he gave a sigh. "Man, I didn't think that Liz and Daisuke would be having trouble with brats like you guys..." he gave a small moan as the fingers of his gloves became sharper. He seemed uninterested to fight any of them. "Let's just make this quick, okay?" Aobe:

The iron sand finally collapsed to the ground after the shock wave made contact with it. Junpei stood up and stared down at the iron sand still circulating around his arm. He looked up to see that he even shocked Daisuke with what he just did. "Hehe, it's my true brilliance of the one and only." he said sounding overly cocky. (Now what will happen if I...) Junpei stuck out his hand that the iron sand was floating around and there was a quick flash of green electricity before the sand moved sharply away from his hands and formed three big rods rushing at Daisuke. The recoil from sudden force of the iron sand knocked Junpei backwards and into the ground. He didn't care how numb his butt was feeling now, this was all so interesting that he couldn't comprehend it. Meanwhile Liz laid there in silence for a moment before quickly sticking her spear towards Azumi, the tip of the sharp end just barely touching the middle of her throat. "Did you think...a tiny punch like that...was going to end me?" she said as she struggled back up to her feet. She removed her spear away from her throat before waving it hard in the air, clearing out the mist in the area around them, making a clear right. "If you insist, I'll take you head on."

(greetings Lexi uwu) Claude noticed that the girl was shivering from top to bottom. When he was close enough, the redhead stopped in his tracks not knowing what to say to her. She isn't intimidated by me....right? He looked down a little in silence, listening to the sound of grunts and thuds of weapons from the other tributes trying to sharpen their skills for the hunger games while he couldn't even swing an axe properly. Some of his neighbors from back home would be dissing him by now. Claude heard the girl mutter something and he looked up. He stared at her, looking a bit dumbfounded before his mind started processing properly again and quickly tried to get out a response to her. "O-oh! Um...hello..." he stuttered. He was off to a good start, or at least he hope he was. "My name...is Claude..from District 7. What about you?"

Liz felt something crack her face as her body was hurled back from the impact. Her body skidded for a minute before she was rolling and came to a stop. She couldn't scream in pain or do anything. The pain was just throbbing too hard throughout her face , which started leading down into the other nerves of her body. A single salty tear drop rolled down her face and onto the ground, burning her cheek she just got punched in. Meanwhile "They what?!" But Hiro couldn't answer his question. Daisuke threw another attack at him and he turned to Junpei. The blonde tensed as Daisuke kicked his foot forward in the air, sending a massive shock wave through the air. Junpei scurried off his feet and ran. He dashed faster before he fell hard on his face from tripping over a rock that was laying around. He winced in pain as he opened his eyes and noticed some black substance was forming around his hand, as if it was attracted to him. Junpei felt the shock wave much closer now and he crouched up in a ball, shielding his head for the impact. Just then, a wall of iron sand raised up in front of Junpei, taking the blow of the shock wave. Junpei was still shivering before be raised his head up and looked around to see that it was gone. Iron sand started to form around his arm, just floating there in an endless cycle. "Is....is this my doing?" he said in awe

never. im not that crazy o-o

As his body was thrown into the ground hard, Claude made a grunting sound as he felt his body start to throb. Usami, Junpei and Alphonse also felt the shock as they crashed to the ground. Claude forced one eye open to see that somebody else has appeared before them, probably one of Kaede's men. (This one...looks stronger than the one Azumi is fighting..) Usami struggled up to her feet and opened her eyes. Her focus was off before she started seeing the small figure again, still gesturing her to follow it. With the small distraction Hiro used to buy them some time from that attack, Usami scurried after the figure and it started to move again. She was determine to keep track of the small figure so they could finally find this Kaede guy and get all of this over with. She was terrified, but she felt that they could make it somehow with Claude on their side. Claude nodded to Takushi as he saw Usami running off again. Alphonse picked himself off of the ground, rubbing his head before turning to notice that Hiro was taking care of this Daisuke person. He gave him a nod of reassurance before going to catch up with Usami. As soon as the group was gone, Junpei was the last to wake up. It appeared that he was knocked out hard. He opened an eye, looking over to see that it was only him, Hiro and that new stranger. "EH?! Hiro, where the hell did everyone go?!" he said as he sprung up to his feet. He looked up to see that Daisuke was about ready to attack again. "Wait is that...." he said pointing over to Daisuke and quickly panicked. (What the actual hell. I don't even have a weapon!!) Meanwhile "Huhhh? You think such a technique will work?" Liz said, sounding intimated. She took a fast step forward and made her way quickly at Azumi with weapon in hand.

Claude swung his axe down on a practice dummy, getting a cut into the dummy but also getting his axe stuck in the process. He drew a breath before grasping onto it again and getting one of his feet on the dummy before pulling back with all the energy he had to get it out. It slipped back, causing Claude to stumble backwards and fall flat on his back, the axe gliding on the floor next to him. He dragged his hands over his face as he laid there on the floor. I'm hopeless... he thought before moving is hands off his eyes and looked over to see that the elevator opened and girl stepped out. From what she was wearing, she appeared to be a tribute just like him, and just as terrified as he was. Claude pushed himself off of the floor and just stared at the girl. What should I do? The thought of making friends never crossed his mind when he came to this place since they would all end up killing each other anyways but he was feeling a pit of loneliness in his stomach, so, cautiously, he started walking towards the girl.

Claude wanted to go back and help Azumi but at the same time, he didn't want to. That feeling of fear just stuck to him. Plus, he didn't know how to go back into that mode Reborn shot him into. As they kept moving forward, the fog started to grow less thick. Usami was still walking, as if in a trance, following that same figure that was guiding her and the rest of them to Kaede. Junpei was seeming to grow unreasonably impatient though. "Are you even sure where you're going?! We haven't spot that Kaede guy yet." Claude waved his hands to calm Junpei down. "I-I'm sure she knows what she's doing." Claude was sorta doubting her as well, just a little. Alphonse shrugged his shoulder while not bothering to look back at them. "Besides, do you have any other method of locating this guy? This is all we can go on for now if she's correct on where she's going." "Oh yeah! Well whatever, maybe this guy is scared shitless to come and face me." Claude frowned a bit. (Maybe it's the other way around....) Meanwhile "Come on little girl. Still can't find me? Pathetic." Liz could be heard in the mist and out of sight, her voice echoing from all directions. She was making it more difficult and frustrating for Azumi to land a single hit on her. Liz ducked low with spear in hand. She was a few feet away from Azumi from the backside. She dug her feet into the ground before dashing off to land a heavy blow on the girl.

"Wait, Azumi, are you su-" Claude felt a tug on his arm, and it happened to be Alphonse. Takushi didn't look pleased one bit. "Leave her to this. She'll catch up to us later. Look, Usami is on the move again." he said as Usami was up on her feet and navigating herself through the fog. Claude looked back at Azumi for a second before going to catch up to Usami, the others following behind her closely. Liz watched them go before pulling her spear out of the ground. "Oh my. I get to be stuck with the over confident one. Don't worry, I'll be sure to end you quickly." Liz took a stand before taking a step forward and just disappearing, as if she was moving at the speed of light. Azumi was looking left and right, trying to spot the woman before she felt something slash down her back hard. Liz:

"This..thing...is leading me to him.." Usami said as she followed the ghost figure into the graveyard. Junpei felt Azumi clinging onto his arm and squirmed a bit. "What the hell?! Let go!" He couldn't seem to get his arm out of her grip since she had him locked in good so he finally gave up and followed behind the others into the heavy fog. It was hard to see anything yet Usami was still navigating herself through as if this was nothing. Usami saw the figure stop and she stopped as well. She was wondering why it didn't keep moving when something swung at her, causing her to fall backwards into the dirt. "Usami!" Claude shouted before he heard something stab into the ground. "Ugh, we have visitors?" A voice said from the fog. The figure walked up closer to reveal themselves to be a woman a few years older than they are. "Eh? So I wasn't losing it. There are people here for once." "A-and just ho the hell are you?!" The woman cocked her head to the side and stabbed her spear into the ground, near Usami's head. "The name's Liz. If you're here looking for a certain someone then turn around and go home." "Certain someone...you don't mean Kaede do you?" "Oh? So you have done your research. And yes, but don't think I'll let any of you out of here alive."

"I was thinking. In video games, the main boss would always be in places people would least likely check." Claude tilted his head to the side. "And where would that be exactly?" Junpei gave a dramatic gasps. "Cloud, are you kidding me?!" "Claude." "Obviously it would be at some sort of huge abandoned building of some sort." He clapped his hands together. "So, any of you have any idea where one could be? Because I have nothing." Alphonse pulled his face from under his scarf. "There should be one not to far from here. Here's the way." And with that he walked past the group and down the road. Everyone stood there for a moment before all following behind him. It felt like a good thirty minutes before they reached a huge structure that resembled a church. "So this is the place. The building looks, unsafe...." Junpei slung an arm over his shoulder. "Aw, don't wuss out on us boss. We'll be fine with you here." While those two were talking, Usami looked up at the structure. She was about to comment on it before something in her suddenly throbbed and the small ghostly figure that were just looming by started to turn more twisted and started lurking towards her. She took a step back, bumping into Alphonse. "No..make it stop. Make it stop!" She was clutching her hair, tears about to come before she looked up and saw a normal figure. It seemed to be gesturing her to come and follow. Usami hesitated for a moment before starting to inch herself towards it. "Usami. Where are you going?" "I....I think I know where Kaede is.."

Claude was left in his house alone as everyone else just filed out. He sighed and placed the vase down on his table before walking upstairs. He changed into his sleepwear before climbing into bed and falling asleep within the next few minutes. He had too much on his mind that the stress just knocked him out. The next morning arrived, a Saturday morning. His alarm wasnt set on the weekends so he woke up as the sun glared in his face. Claude sat up and rubbed his eyes with the back of his hand before remembering that he had to be somewhere about now. He immediately sprung out of bed and threw a polo and jeans on, not worrying to eat breakfast. (Crap, crap, crap. If I'm late then who knows what Reborn will do to me!) Claude ran as fast as his legs could carry him until he reached the end of the street. When he got there, everyone else was already there waiting for him except Reborn and Sonya. He panted as he tried to speak. "Where....is Reborn....and...Sonya?" "They said they would go on ahead without us." Junpei crossed his hands in annoyance. "Can you believe those bastards? So much for helping us." Claude looked up and noticed that something was sitting on Usami's belt of her skirt. "Usami...where did you get that whip from?" Usami appeared startled. "I...I picked it up from one of those gang members you took down. I thought I might need it so....I brought it along." "The same goes for Al. That little thief." (Now that I think about it.....what am I suppose to defend myself with?!)

Sonya stared at Hiro with a confused look. Claude was taken aback by Takushi's sudden actions and words. "Y-yeah...of course I will." (I hope.) Reborn stood up and placed his hands in his pockets. "Well that's that for now. I'll be taking my leave." "As will I." Claude stood up. "Wait, you're not staying?!" "Of course not you idiot! I have my own place." Alphonse stood up and walked towards the door. "If that's all you needed to say then I'll be leaving as well." "Are you at least coming??" But Claude couldn't get an answer because the boy already left by then. Junpei sprung to his feet and went towards the door, giving a wave behind him. "I'll be off too. Later Cloud." "Claude." Usami got up, clutching her bag. "I'll be going now.." she said as she walked towards the door, Sonya following after along with Reborn.

(Was he in the mafia before he came here? Maybe that's why he had that crossbow with him when we met him.) Claude was tempted to ask him what he knew but he kept his mouth shut. "Eh?! You mean I''m going to be shocked by lightning or something?!" "I think he was speaking metaphorically, Junpei." As Junpei was still panicking and Alphonse trying to calm him down with logical reasoning, Usami tugged on her school uniform skirt. "Create something...from nothing...." She muttered. She was somewhat starting to understand why she was seeing things. She has been keeping herself in check ever since she left school since more of those ghostly figures were appearing more. Reborn smirked and pulled out his pistol. Everyone immediately shut up and Claude was ready to hop off the sofa and run out of the house. "Remember when I said that I was going to shoot you earlier? Well I did, and you seemed to pass my test." Claude looked at him, confused. "Remember how you went berserk and took down all those gang members half naked? That was the result of the dying will bullet. Because you were determine to stand your ground against them, the bullet work. If you were not in that mindset, you could have died." "W-what?! You mean that that could have killed me?!" Sonya shrugged. "More or less but don't worry about it. You're still here, aren't you? Besides, we have bigger things to worry about now that we have filled you in on what you needed to know." "There has been a series of crimes recently that resulted in a few casualties. The police hasn't gotten any lead-" "Because they're so inept with their detective skills, ugh." "....but we managed to find out at least the name of the person behind this." "R-really? But what do you want us to do about it?" "Stop him obviously." "The person's name is Kaede Tamashiro, but that's all we managed to find. His appearance and accomplices are unknown at this point." "Also this man is dangerous so don't go on thinking this will be some walk in the park. He's been targeting people that has once been associated with or at least knew about the Vongola." Claude sat up in his seat. "Vongola?! S-so that means he will be after us next?!" "Preetty much. But nothing like the good old element of surprise on our side am I right?" Reborn's face appeared more serious now. "Tomorrow, all of you will start your search for Kaede first thing in the morning. Postponing something like this could get more people killed." "What about us?!? What if we can't take him?!" Sonya snickered. "Jeez, what a bunch of pessimistic brats.." "What the hell did you say, lady?!"

"No actually. I just never mentioned Sonya to anyon- A-Azumi don't touch that!" Claude said as Azumi ran off deeper into his home. He sighed and gestured everyone to wait where they were and went upstairs to get something to wear. While everybody were waiting, they proceeded to go sit down in the living room. Sonya looked over at Takushi. She simply smirked at him. "Anxious one, aren't we." She said, placing a hand on his head. "Don't worry, Reborn and I will be filling you guys in." Claude came down later and looked around to see that everyone was piled in his living room. (I..I've never had this many guests before....) "Claude. Hurry up and sit down somewhere so Sonya and I can start." Snapping out of his thoughts, Claude quickly nodded and sat down between Takushi and Hiro. Reborn, sitting in a chair with Sonya sitting on one of the handles, started to speak. "I've already told Claude this before but I will say it again. Claude is a boss candidate to become the next boss of the Vongola Famiglia. Along with being the boss, he has six guardians with him. The guardians are by these attributes: storm, rain, sun, lightning, cloud and mist. These goes off the natural phenomenons of the weather. Of course, the boss would be deemed the Sky attribute. " Reborn paused for a moment, letting everyone take it in, before Sonya butted in. "So I guess you kids are wondering 'who gets what attribute'. Well it's quite simple really. It was already determined~!" There was a series of gasps in the group. Takushi was going to interrupt and say something when Sonya pointed her finger at him. "Might as well get you over with. Takushi Hara. You'll be our future boss's storm guardian." She gave a smile at him. "Oh and don't think I don't know about your past. Reborn and I are already aware what you came to Japan for. Just keep that in mind~" "Hiro Okazaki. You're the boss candidate's rain guardian. Junpei Onnea, you will be the lightning guardian." "Mr. Cool guy over there. Alphonse Cevasco, you'll be my little bro's cloud guardian. Usami Inoue, you're the mist guardian....and..." Sonya noticed that someone is missing. She gave a deep breath. "AZUMI! GET YOUR BUTT IN HERE!" A hard thud fell to the ground and a few seconds later, Azumi peaked her head in the door before walking in and sitting on the floor. She had a vase sitting in her arms, which appears that she almost broke it. "Azumi Nagito, you're the future boss's sun guardian." "Okay kiddies~" she said clapping her hands together. "That's the basic rundown of it all. Any questions before we continue?" Nobody said a word before Alphonse spoke up. "Are you sure you people know who you are picking? You've never met any of us before today besides Claude. How can you be so sure that you're picking the right people?" Junpei sprung to his feet. "Al is right! We're just a bunch of average people.....well except for that over there...errr Clovis was it?" Claude gave a small frown. Reborn sighed. "Let's just say that it was fate that you were chosen." He turned to look at Usami, who tensed up a bit. "Usami being the mist guardian will explain why she appears blind to everyone and can see things others can't" (H-how did he know that?!) Usami thought as her eyes widened. Sonya slammed her hand on the table. "No more whining. You're now future guardians and boss for the Vongola famiglia. Any other questions?"

Claude stood up, getting the impression that Takushi was starting to act weird around him. "Eh..?!" he looked down to see that he was only in his underwear. "W-where did all my clothes go?!" "They just sorta...came off.." Junpei raised an eyebrow. "So you mean this guy strips before fighting?! That's...down right strange..." "W-wait a minute! I'm not a fighter and I don't strip!" Claude was quickly trying to explain himself when Alphonse interrupted him. "In any case shouldn't you go home before people starts seeing you?" He had a point. Claude didn't want to stand out there in the open like that for another second. He nodded, still embarrassed and started walking in the direction of his house, everyone following after, leaving the defeated gang lying on the streets. Meanwhile When they finally made it there, there was a figure on top of the room. Claude looked up and his eyes widened. (It can't be...) "CLAUDE DARLING!!" The figure leaped off of the room and glomped Claude, knocking him hard to the ground. "Aw I haven't seen you in soooo long! You even stooped being a good for nothing and made some friends. Aw I'm so proud of you my darling little brother." He couldn't breath. The rest of the group could just stand there and watch as Claude was literally being tackled by what looked like to be one of his family members. "Sonya, that's enough. Get off of him." Reborn said as he walked out from the side of the house. Usami's body tensed up. (This was the guy Claude was talking about, the same one from earlier...he looks dangerous. Will he do anything to us?) "Don't be a kill joy and ruin a family reunion you bastard!" Sonya growled before moving off Claude and jerking him up to his feet. "It....it's been so long..." Sonya looked at him a bit confused. "Where were you this entire time....we all thought you were dead!" Claude started to tense up, not noticing that Reborn was there and tears started coming to his eyes. Sonya sighed and placed her hand on the brunette's head. "What? I'm a big girl. Shouldn't I be able to go off on my own?" "But-" "Shut it. I'll fill you in more once we get inside." She glanced over to look at the others. "And maybe your friends would like to know as well." Sonya:

Claude was unconscious for a few minutes before he rubbed his head weakly and open his eyes. The other two were standing over him to see he was alright but Takushi was closest and actually seemed worried. Claude was a bit confused but he answered anyways as he sat up. "Y-yeah I think so." Usami let out a sigh of relief as she stood up. "How did you...um, do that..?" Claude's expression went blank. "Uh..." He didn't really know how he managed to take down all of those people on his own, it just happened. Usami walked over to one of the bodies of the gang leaders that were knocked out. Something of interest caught her eye and she bent down to pick it up. It was a whip, a silvery grey whip. Usami stared at it, grazing her fingers over it. (Wow.. this is beautiful) Meanwhile The three of them came closer to them and Junpei jumped down and slung his arm over Claude's shoulder while laughing. "Hehe! So you're Mr. tough guy like me huh? You gotta show me how to do that. You know, help a buddy out, am I right?" Alphonse seemed unamused when he accidentally stepped on something. Two black blades were sitting at his feet. He picked them up and stared at them for a moment before putting it away in his school bag. (They won't mind if I borrow this..) Meanwhile "So it worked after all..." "Whaaa?! Just mere luck. It just had to be." "Do you really not have much faith in Claude? Within due time, he is going to become the next boss." The female huffed and started to walk near the stairway that led off of the roof. "Hmph, whatever. But in any case I'll be off now." "And where are you going?" "Congratulate him of course. He passed your test and that should count for something, am I right?" The female gave a wave of hand and disappeared into the staircase, leaving Reborn there to watch the group from above.

Claude was rushing at them like a one man army. One of the men drew near to him, ready to throw a punch at the boy's stomach. Claude quickly side stepped his attack and slammed his fist into his face, knocking the man out cold. The rest of them seemed more determined now and three of them rushed at him all at once. Claude slid under one of the men before kicking him hard in the back. He threw another punch to the back of another's neck and throwing a series of punches at the last one standing. The boss of his gang stood there and stared at the rest of his men, all fallen. "What the...you'll pay for this you bastard." Claude said nothing and readied his fist like one of a true fighter. They both rushed at each other, the gang leader throwing a few hard punches into Claude's chest, throwing him back a bit. Claude paused for a moment before staggering back up and rushing at the man with the same amount of speed as before, drop kicking the gang leader into the ground. Usami stood there and stared at Claude, eyes widened with shock along with everyone else. Claude gave out a victory sort of roar before the flame disappeared and he collapsed to the ground with the other rushing to his side. Meanwhile "Damn, he sure kicks ass..." Junpei said, looking a bit terrified at Claude's strength. Alphonse slid his hands into his pockets and started walking over to the other surrounding Claude. "Wait! Where are you going?!" "To go see if he's okay of course. Aren't you two curious as well?" The two of them nodded, curious to see how anyone like him could pull that off, and scurried to follow behind Alphonse

Claude was somewhat nervous as they walked down the sidewalk in a group, well at least with Takushi tagging along but he didn't say much to Claude so it was all good. An intimidating looking group of thugs started to come down the street and immediately started talking to them, specifically Takushi. (Did he know these people??) It appeared so and they seemed that they wanted revenge on that guy. Usami's boyd tensed and she took a step back, behind Claude. "We need to get out of here." She said, her cloudy eyes tensing in fear. "W-why are you standing behind me?! I can't do anything." The other two looked as if they were ready to fight but Claude was about to just make a run for it along with Usami. There was no way he could take these guys on - - - "Man what a what a wimp. I don't see how the hell we can be related." Reborn was on top of a roof near where Claude and the rest of them were. His gun changed into a rifle and his eye was sitting in the eye piece. "Well that's your younger brother. Not much we can do about it for now except straighten him out." The female with him sighed and placed one foot on the ledge of the building and leaning over to get a better view. "Oh yeah? Well do you really believe that he will survive that shot of yours?" "We won't know until we try." And with that, Reborn pulled the trigger. - - - (It can't end like this.... I can't let it end like this.) There was no way they could outrun them so the only thing they can do is try to fight back, however the hell that'll work. Just when Claude was going to say something to reason with the others, something hit him dead center in the forehead. He was too late to react. Claude's body fell backwards and landed on the ground with a thud, his eyes still wide open from the shock. "C-Claude?!" Usami was about to get down next to him when he suddenly blinked, his eyes changing to a bright shade of orange. "Cla....." Everyone else looked just as shocked as she did. "REEEBORRRRRN!" Claude just sprung up from the ground, his clothes suddenly ripping off, except for his underwear, and an orange flame appearing in the middle of his forehead. "I will defeat you with my dying will!" He chanted towards the group before rushing at them with full speed. Meanwhile "I rather not. I'm not much of an athletic person.." Alphose said before Junpei went back to arguing with Azumi. They were at it for the next few minutes before Alphonse stopped dead in his tracks. Junpei saw that he stopped walking and looked at him funny. "Something the matter man?" "What's that noise?" The two of them gave Alphonse a confused look and he just walked around the corner. His eyes seemed shocked at what he was witnessing and the other two quickly followed to take a look. "What the hell...is that guy's hair on fire?" He paused for a moment. "WoooT! Be sure to beat the crap out of those guys!" he cheered.

Claude's face looked tired and strained. He has been trying to hold back tears from when he heard his name called to be a participant in the Hunger Games. Honestly, he was terrified. The scenery of the capital couldn't even make his situation any better. He didn't want to train, he just wanted to go back to his normal lifestyle of chopping lumber and keeping the family running. But it's not like he has much of a choice now; if he didn't then he would die. Claude has been standing there for the past few minutes now ever since they dropped him and the rest of the tributes off at the training center. He snapped out of his train of thoughts when someone accidentally bumped into him while training. He didn't remember the person's name but the girl looked like someone from one the higher districts. She has a sharp weapon that resembled a trident in her hands and Claude quickly backed up. The girl looked at him weird before she went back to training, stabbing one of the practice dummies hard with her trident. I should probably get to practicing now.... he thought and looked over to the stand that kept the weapons. There were many different kinds of things he could work with, some weapons he didn't know even existed. Claude walked slowly to look at each one closely before stopping at one that appeared too be an axe. Claude stared at it for a moment before taking a good grasp and pulling it off the table. It was heavier than what he was used to working with but Claude tried to get used to the feel of it before he would start trying to swing it around.