Chapter Three

Finding out that Kohinatsu's flames were active and useful, and were both Storm and Lightning had been a shock to Reborn's mind.

Finding out that Nana wasn't the only one in the family that should be in the hospital was a blow to both Reborn's pride and his mission.

Finding out that Tsuna was not only a Sky Flame but can use every other Flames type too- had been like god's revelation.

Finding out that due to Iemitsu's utterly foolish decision, both Tsunayoshi and Kohinatsu have only a little time left to live was utterly disturbing and perturbed. In more than one way.

In front of Reborn was the pale face Tsunayoshi.

They all are currently inside Tsunayoshi's bedroom. The older twin was completely unconscious and looked so wane. If not for the breathing sound and raising chest, Reborn would have thought that Tsunayoshi was dead already with how pale he looked.

On the table to the left of the bed was a yellow folder that Kohinatsu had given to Reborn after his demand for information from the twins.

On it was the Label: Tokyo Main Hospital and the name; Sawada Tsunayoshi and Sawada Kohinatsu.

Reborn haven't read it yet. But, already, his instinct was ringing at the back of his head, causing Reborn to have this total poker face on. His expression was completely blank and unreadable but he has his doubt that Kohinatsu wasn't able to read it.

Reborn doesn't know what was going on that caused both Tsunayoshi and Kohinatsu to have a limited amount of time left to live. But, if what Kohinatsu told him was true and the medical assessment was right, then Vongola was going to be fucked - upside down and sideway - very badly.

Reborn turned toward the yellow envelope and opened it.

He reads it.

And slowly, Reborn's handshakes with agitation and unease.

Three more years?!

Both Kohinatsu and Tsunayoshi only have three more years to live?

Why?!

... No heart?

... No internal organs that match with their special blood?

What do you mean?! Both Tsunayoshi and Kohinatsu were blood type A, okay? How was it... oh.

Tsunayoshi's heart was given to his mother. His right kidney was given to his brother while Kohinatsu had given his Gallbladder to Tsunayoshi.

Somehow, all of these operations had caused a mutation to the twins' blood type, changing it from Blood Type A into something O-Negative. If that was enough, then it wouldn't be a problem. But the thing was, both Tsunayoshi and Kohinatsu are twins. And their blood rejected all other blood types, even the O-negative ones. Asides from each other, both Tsunayoshi and Kohinatsu have a very bad reaction toward other people's blood. It didn't matter that it was the exact same type of blood as their own. The fact it wasn't from one of them had causes their body to reacted in a very bad way.

The doctors had tried to do three operations on each of the twins already, but their body rejected all of the donors. The fact that both Kohinatsu and Tsunayoshi haven't died on the operation table already with their three operations, it was a miracle.

As for why the twin can only live for three years, this was due to the fact that Kohinatsu's lymphatic system was completely compromised. His circulatory system was already fully compromised with deadly poisons. The fact that the boy can move was now a day was a miracle that causes all the doctors to stretches their heads in confusion. While Kohinatsu's lymphatic system was compromised, Tsunayoshi was a rare case.

His endocrine system was completely wrecked up with so many different kinds of poison that the doctor had to call him the Poison Hormones Boy. While Kohinatsu's situation looks hopeless, he still has some hope of recovering and living a normal ordinary life once they get most of the poison out of his system. However, for Tsunayoshi... his hormones were completely wrecked up to the point that it makes Bianchi's poisonous cooking look like children's play. Fuck, even Bianchi's cooking wasn't that powerful enough to cause what Reborn had seen in Tsunayoshi's records.

How Tsunayoshi had survived until today was even more of a miracle.

The fact that Tsunayoshi's Sky Flames had helped. Reborn had this suspicion that it was due to those poisons within Tsunayoshi's endocrine system that made it possible for him to uses the other 6 Flames. However... there is no proof of that, either.

And what Hibari Kyoya had done before...

Ah - don't tell me, Hibari Kyoya had used Cloud Flames to propagate the good cell within Tsunayoshi's body while using Mist Flames to construct the antidote for the poison?

But if that was the case, they couldn't Kohinatsu use Lightning Flames to harden the good cells that Tsunayoshi still has?

Ahhhh- shit. So that's why.

There are no Rain Flames to calm down the raging flames that Kohinatsu's Lightning and Storm Flames created.

Having Kohinatsu using Lightning and Storm Flames was not an option.

With its disintegration characteristics and its hardening characteristic, Kohinatsu was like Yin-and-Yang. Whatever flames he uses, it will cancel out any intended effects, causing it to be utterly useless. If Kohinatsu can use Rain Flames too, then maybe it can calm down and weaken the undesirable flames into benefits.

After all, from what Reborn knows, Sky Flames and Cloud Flames created something that That Man had called Disconsolation Flames. A kind of flame that is full of melancholy effects. A Reverted kind of flames that are sorely negative for any living beings. While Sky Flames and Lightning flames come in two forms; one is to neutralize and negate any upcoming type of flames while the other is a Sealing type of flames. Using Sky and Lightning flames, Kohinatsu can neutralize the poison in his body but he can't seal or neutralize the poison within Tsunayoshi.

Shit.

Reborn didn't waste time as he called the Pervert Doctor.

Kohinatsu looked at Reborn with a calm angered look within his eyes but he didn't move. Hibari Kyoya was resting by the window with a pale face. The amount of Cloud and Mist Flames that Hibari had used has shocked Reborn more than a bit. He had thought that Skull was the only Cloud in the world who had that much amount of Cloud flames in his body and soul.

To his shock, Hibari Kyoya have even more purer Cloud flames than Skull, the Cloud Arcobaleno, who might as well be an immortal with how hard it is to kill that guy. And now, Fon's look-alike has even more flames than Skull? Fuck!

It would take at least 5 more hours before the perverted doctor got here.

Goddamnit, Reborn hates waiting but he wasn't the World's Greatest Hitman for nothing. Even if he hates the waiting games, he would wait.

In the meantime, he has some calls to make.

Reborn looks at Tsunayoshi for a couple more seconds before he steps out of the boy's room to make a call.

Leon changed into a phone without having Reborn telling him.

Three seconds later, the phone connected.

"Reborn? What's wrong?" An elderly voice called out.

"Nono, we have a problem," Reborn hissed out. He tried to keep his calm but he was pissed off and feeling like he's at the end of a road filled with thorns and rocky cliffs with a tornado or hurricane behind him!

Reborn hasn't known the two twins for that long. He was only here for a month, and yet, he knows that he likes staying with them.

Tsunayoshi might like to play the vanishing games with Reborn and Kohinatsu might be too busy for him to get any chaos into their lives but, damn it, Reborn has already noticed that his flames and Tsunayoshi's flames were very compatible. It was to the point that sometimes, Reborn has to will his flames to not act or react at all whenever Tsunayoshi's near for fear of accidentally harmonizing with the boy. That's how compatible they and their flames are.

"What problem?" Nono asked from his end, feeling a little unease. His intuition might not be as good as his mother but Nono wasn't the Don of Vongola for nothing. Even though his choices are very questionable now that he's getting older and older.

"Both Tsunayoshi and Kohinatsu can't be the Decimo," Reborn hissed into the phone with as much control as he can handle.

"What do you mean? What's going on Reborn?" Nono asked with a tense voice.

"Both Tsunayoshi and Kohinatsu have a limited amount of times that they can live, Nonno. That damn Iemitsu, he didn't even know that his wife, Nana, was completely unresponsive and might as well be dead! He didn't even notice that there were multiple assassins attempting on his family member's lives! How those two boys were able to stay alive until today was still a mystery to even me! And now, none of the boys are eligible for the Decimo seat!" Reborn was so angry that he started to hisses at Nono on the other end. His hand that was gripping only the Leon phone had already tightened the phone up so much that Leon was already twitching with annoyance at his partner.

While Reborn was talking with Nono, he didn't notice that Tsunayoshi had already woken up.

Tsunayoshi's eyes were as deep and dark as the ocean floor while flashing in dark amber and gold.

"Tsuna," Kohinatsu took hold of Tsunayoshi's hand and lightly held onto it.

Tsunayoshi looked at Kohinatsu without blinking his eyes before turning toward Kyoya and tilted his head slightly. Large ember eyes watch Kyoya with an intensity that causes Kyoya to twitch in both excitement and fondness. That eye wasn't the eyes of a herbivore or omnivores, that's for sure. That was the eye of a freaking damn strong carnivore.

Tsunayoshi turned toward Reborn's direction as his eyes flashed with deep golden amber. Both Kyouya and Kohinatsu didn't make a sound as they saw the deep amber color of Tsunayoshi's eyes.

While Reborn was busily hissing like a cat at Nono, he didn't notice that Tsunayoshi had already woken up and was eavesdropping on him.

"Tell that damn idiota that I will murder him when I came back with the medical files." Reborn hissed out with a killing intent that caused Nono to pale rapidly because, instinctively, he knew that Reborn didn't lie to him.

Reborn didn't wait for Nono's response as he hung upon him.

His hands were still clenching tightly as he tried to control his emotions. Reborn was good at controlling himself. But oddly, for some reason, he can't seem to stop himself from emitting out killing intents whenever his mind reminds him of Tsunayoshi and Kohinatsu's situation.

The last time that his emotions got the best of him was during that damn event that caused him and the six other people to be cursed. And since then, he hasn't let his emotions get the best of him, even as a little toddler.

Reborn might be cursed but he was glad that his flames were strong enough to not completely cause him to be like Luce and her daughter.

Reborn wasn't going to lie to himself. He knew that his flames had already started to accept Tsunayoshi - even though the boy himself doesn't seem to notice it. So, just the thought that he might lose Tsunayoshi before anything even happened was very frightening.

When Reborn went back inside Tsunayoshi's room, he was met with the glowing ember eyes of his subject of confusion. Those ember eyes were full of powers, and not just political power, but rather powers that have to do with the very aspects of Will and Forces.

Reborn and Tsunayoshi eyed each other for a long while before Tsunayoshi closed his eyes and went back to sleep.

Kohinatsu looked at Reborn with a deep look before he sighed out loud.

Hibari glared at the hitman before he left the room. If he passed the carnivore's test then that meant that he's trustworthy. For now.

Reborn sits beside the bed and watches Tsunayoshi as he breathes slowly. Tsunayoshi's face was still pale but not as pale as before.

His eyelashes were abnormally long and Reborn can't find any spot on his face that's dirty or has pimples at all. The flames that Reborn could sense from Tsunayoshi were dense and pure. So pure that Reborn worries for his body. After all, the higher in purity a flame is, the harder it will be for the human body. And all of the flames that Tsunayoshi can use? They were all in high purity. The weakest one was Mist Flames and that was still high enough for Tsuna to do a couple of Mist Applications without much trouble.

Reborn didn't know what else to do as he called that pervert doctor and told him to get his ass here ASAP.

He really wanted to talk with the two twins but for some reason, Reborn's instinct told him to not ask any more questions for now.

No matter how curious and frustrated he was.

When Shamal got there 4 hours later, Tsunayoshi was still sleeping but his face was now better than before.

"Reborn, what do you call me here for?" How the man had gotten into the house was a mystery but Kohinatsu's shackle was already up. His eyes glowed in a similar color of ember as he glared at the man inside his and his older brother's room.

"I need you to check on Tsunayoshi." Reborn didn't bother to delay as he ordered the perverted doctor.

"Huh?"

However, before Shamal could come close toward Tsunayoshi, Kohinatsu already had his knife at the Pervert Doctor's throat.

"Get your fucking damn mosquito away from my brother right now!" Kohinatsu's eyes glowed with a deep orange ember similar to Tsunayoshi's eyes. But unlike Tsunayoshi's calm and deep profound look eyes, Kohinatsu's eyes were full of Lightning and Storm Flames on the edge of violence.

"What?" Shamal was too shocked to react before he found more than half of his mosquitos gone due to the sudden Lightning Flames attacks from the boy in front of him. The boy that still has a sharp knife on his throat. The fuck? The knife feels like Mist Construction!

"Kohinatsu, let Shamal checks on your brother," Reborn said from beside Tsunayoshi's side. His tone bear no room for refusal but Kohinatsu still doesn't move as he let out another spark of lightning into the air, killing any mosquitoes that he hasn't already killed.

"I said, get your fucking damn mosquitos away from my brother, you fucking damn Mist!" If the Lightning attack just now wasn't enough, the Storm flames attack from Kohinatsu causes Shamal to move backward and out of the way so fast that it left an after-image behind just as Kohinatsu sliced the air with the knife.

"Kohinatsu! Stop!" The cold voice from Reborn cause Kohinatsu to pause in his attack but it wasn't fast enough to stop the Storm Flame attack from Kohinatsu from reaching Shamal.

Luckily, Shamal wasn't a good-for-nothing when it comes to closed combat so he moved out of the way fast enough to avoid the pure Storm Flames attack from Kohinatsu.

"Hinatsu, that's enough." A voice called from the bed.

"Nii-san!" Kohinatsu wanted to protest but seeing the looks on Tsunayoshi's face, he clenched his teeth with a groan and stepped back obediently.

Shamal found himself at the end of a very deep look from the boy on the bed. Shamal completely froze, unable to even move as his eyes locked on him. His mosquitos didn't even dare to go near this fluffy-looking boy!

What the fuck?! Shamal wasn't ashamed to admit that all that he could do right now was breathe and not move. Since... well... That's all that he could do!

If Shamal accidentally and eventually turned toward Reborn for help, then no one was blaming him.

But to Shamal's big disappointment, Reborn wasn't even looking at him. He was watching Tsunayoshi like a hawk. All of his attention was on the boy in the bed and he doesn't even notice that Shamal was freezing in his spot right now.

Eh? What was that in Reborn's eyes? Was that what I thought it was?! Reborn, you're getting pulled into that boy's Sky Sphere of Influences!

And holy shit! Reborn's letting it happen!

2 hours later, Reborn and Shamal both exchange grim looks.

Shamal had to probe, explore, inspect, analyze, examine, and even scrutinize Tsunayoshi's body and Flames so deeply that he now knows Tsunayoshi's body even better than he knows his own.

And so far, things aren't looking good.

After confirming both Kohinatsu and Reborn's fear of how badly hurt Tsunayoshi's body, soul, and Flames was, Shamal had looked at Tsunayoshi with both a surprised look and a look that seems to be between 'how was he still alive?' and 'just how strong was this boy's will to be able to stay alive?!'.

Then, he compared and contrasted what he found to the medical files that the two boys already have. To Shamal's shock, it was way worse than Shamal and Reborn had thought.

For Kohinatsu, his condition was causing the inside of himself to constantly die and fixing itself. Sun Flame helps somewhat with his condition but not for long. Mist flames are a big No-No. For some odd reason, Kohinatsu's immunized to Mist Flame. Thus, using the Mist Flame on Kohinatsu was pretty much useless.

As for Tsunayoshi... That was even more complicated.

Nothing works for him. So, the best that they could do was the same way that Tsunayoshi's Cloud seems to be doing so far. Multiplying the Goods Cells that Tsunayoshi still has inside his body to counterattack the Not-Good Cell.

Had this situation been for anyone else, they would have long ago died. But because Tsunayoshi is a Sky and a very strong one at that, he was able to harmonize the so-called Good and No-Good cells inside his body to work together for a better future. It's like there's a Yang-Yin Flames inside Tsunayoshi the very same way that his Sky Flames and Night Flames were going inside Tsunayoshi's body. Creating a balance that needs occasionally helps from Cloud's Multiplying Function inside his very own body.

Or if they could get Verde into the situation, that man could try to see if it was possible for him to create pills that would multiply the good cells and not the bad cell. But... chances of that happening were pretty much non-existent since Verde and Reborn Do Not Get along.

Kohinatsu's takes to the news was a darker and more solemn look in his eyes. As for Tsunayoshi, there was no change in his expression.

Reborn's hand clenched tightly as he tilted his hat over his eyes.

Within a couple of minutes, Hibari Kyoya came back. He exchanged a look with Kohinatsu before his eyes darkened and he clenched his fist hard enough to crack the tonfa on his hands.