Ryuuichi was in awe. He was honestly amazed. He knew that Tsuna would be very awesome at this point, but seeing it with his own two eyes was just astonishing. The brunette, after shouting at them to take care of those who had fallen, flew towards Jager and punched the man continuously. A crater was made from the impact. It was only when Jager punched him in return did he flew back. 

"Again, Jager didn't use short warp." Reborn commented. Tsuna blinked. "Now that you mention it..."

"I was just careless." He noticed that Jager was panting as the man pushed himself up. Small Gia was panting as well. 'What does this mean?' Bermuda then came floating down to Jager's shoulder. "My my, the rats are coming to bite one after another, huh. I'm just a little impressed.

"But we will put an end to it soon. There aren't any people left to help. Finish it in one breath, Jager." Tsuna's eyes were wide as he took note that once Bermuda settled on Jager's shoulder, his ragged breathing settled down. "Yeah" He was alarmed immediately. It was like the man had fully recovered in mere seconds.

Then it hit him. "It can't be!" Reborn looked up at Tsuna in confusion. Tsuna's eyes were filled with realization and that was when Reborn knew that the brunette knew something. Bermuda floated off Jager's shoulder, claiming that it was the end. 

In flash, Jager short warped and appeared behind Tsuna. Tsuna was taken in surprise that he hadn't had much time to react. The man was going for the blow when a steel shield appeared behind Tsuna. "Rokudo?!" Something pulled Jager back, foreign words forming circle around him. 

"Tsuna-kun! Get away!" Enma shouted. In anger, Jager cursed out and short warped to the red head, Fran and Chrome. Even with Tsuna's warning, they didn't managed to dodge his attack. 

Two chains interfered and pushed him away from the trio as he blocked it. They realized that he didn't short warp once again. "Did you realize something, Tsuna?! Explain to me!" Reborn yelled in hurry.

"The Vindice store the flame energy given to them by Bermuda to fight! Bermuda lands on Jager's shoulder so frequently because he is replenishing his flame energy!" Bermuda and Jager clicked their tongue. They secret was out. Well, not so secret. Seeing that Bermuda was the one who founded the eighth flames and not the rest of the Vindice, it was quite logical. If it wasn't for Bermuda, they would've died long time ago. 

Tsuna flew down as he explained. "The Vindice that had finished fighting couldn't catch their breath even if they rested. Jager's the same after warping. Its because they can't create their own flames. Bermuda probably keep landing on Jager's shoulder because using short warp requires an enormous amount of flame energy."

Ryuuichi frowned at that. He was still on the ground, sitting. Dino had being brought to the hospital by Gamma and Yuni and he stayed. His fingers twitched, feeling Dino's blood drying. He knew of that, obviously, and the thought of the current Arcobaleno constantly requires Bermuda's flame to live, if things didn't go the way he knew, was absolutely absurd. Even the Arcobaleno hated that.

"No good, Bermuda-san!" Onomichi popped out of the bushes just as Bermuda landed on Jager's shoulder for the nth time. "Please move away! Even if you're the  Arcobaleno of a team participating in the battle, if you have not release your curse, you're still interfering! Any further contact will be seen as an attempt to supply energy and prohibited as interference! If you do it again, you'll be disqualified!"

Ryuuichi sweated at that exaggerated movements from that strange man, but refocused his attention on the fight again as Jager moved. He short warped once again and appeared behind Tsuna. (Ryuuichi was starting to believe that he likes these kind of low attack by strike from the back) Hibari and Mukuro both defended the brunette. Their trident and chain clashed with his arm.

"Are you only able to sneak around behind our backs?" "Too obvious. He must be worried."

"You're prattling" Jager short warped again and appeared from above. He struck the two on their shoulders as Ryuuichi jerked. "You guys!" 

Mukuro grimmaced as he started his illusion, sealing Jager's hands on their shoulder. "Judging from the battle so far, it seems to whole-body short warps is his limit. As if I'll let him get away! I'll seal him together with us."

Ryuuichi frowned in concern. It was clear that both Hibari and Mukuro were at their limit. Mukuro had being in pain as far as he could see since the first attack from Jager. The teen probably haven't heal from the previous attack. Hibari, on the other hand, looked better than Mukuro, but Ryuuichi knew that the prefect wouldn't cope it any longer.

"Bite him to death, you little animal"

"Tsuna-kun! Use the Shimon Ring too!" Enma threw his ring to the brunette. Tsuna caught it and wore it with his ring. He focused his flames and the flame of Gravity to use X-Burner. He shot, and created a gaping hole on Jager. The seal broke as Jager flew over. Soon after, Hibari and Mukuro fell as well. "He won't die from that! Finish Jager off!" 

"I will not let you" Bermuda interfered just as Tsuna was about to did as told. "Now that I've come this far, I won't let the likes of you to get in my way. Present please!"

Ryuuichi held in his breath as Bermuda grew into his adult form.

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Did Ryuuichi mentioned that Bermuda looked like a lizard somehow? Did he? No offense to him, but honestly, Bermuda looked absolutely weird. Not to mention the Night flame that was flaring off his arms. Ryuuichi huffed, tensed. "Let's clean up a bit." He scowled when Bermuda short warped in split seconds and appeared beside the others, crushing their battler's watch one by one. He jumped when Bermuda appeared beside him and crushed his as well. Their eyes met for a moment before Bermuda disappeared and appeared behind Tsuna.

(Ryuuichi wanted to punch him in the face for scaring him.)

"Alright. Now you can't borrow aid from anyone. I can relax and fight you now. Well, I said that but it'll be over in about ten seconds"

He twitched in annoyance at the arrogance, but Bermuda was right. He could simply eliminate them all in a blink of an eye. But then, they have Tsuna. Ryuuichi still wants to sock him though. 

Tsuna couldn't read Bermuda's movement at all. He was too fast that his eyes couldn't catch up. He clenched his fist. "I can short warp without limit. I have no weaknesses. It's execution time, Sawada Tsunayoshi-kun." Bermuda short warped and appeared behind Tsuna again. The brunette quickly moved, dodging a round house kick just in time. Bermuda's hand aimed at his head and it managed to scrapped his cheek as he dodged once again.

"Nicely dodged. Is this the hyper intuition of the Vongola? But you're one tempo slow" Bermuda appeared behind Tsuna again and punched him. This time, Tsuna hadn't had the chance to dodge. A knee aimed at Tsuna sent him flying back. "Time to end it" Bermuda appeared inches in front of Tsuna's face and was about to kill, when a loud bang made him short warp again to dodge an incoming bullet.

"Chaos" (Ryuuichi, out of nowhere, took out his silenced phone and took a picture)

Tsuna landed on the ground, kneeling. "You again.. Just who are you?" "I'm an old friend of Reborn's. I told Checkerface it was no good otherwise and he let me onto the team. Ryuuichi scoffed at that. Honestly, why couldn't Tsuna just see through that. It was so damn obvious.

He looked towards Verde and saw a rather stiff Reborn standing beside the Lightning Arcobaleno. 'Of course he looked stiff. That was a doll.'

"Fufu.. How interesting. I'll also take you to be Reborn's friend." "My thanks, Bermuda" 

"It's fine. I'll have you vanish soon enough, after all." 

"Just try it" 

(Ryuuichi wanted to face palm at the conversation between those two arrogant men)

Bermuda warped again and attacked. Reborn swiftly dodged each and one of the attacks with ease, reading his movements as he go. He's the World's Strongest Hitman after all, with capitals. But then, Bermuda's attacks started to hit. "Your appearance was meaningless" Reborn dodged the last two attack and took out his gun.

"I wonder about that. My goal is this shot." He took a bullet out and placed it into the cartridge. He clicked it in place. "As long as this shot hits, it's fine" Oh come one. It would definitely hit. It wasn't as if Reborn was any lesser man. "Got you." Reborn aimed at Bermuda's face.

"Come die at once" Tsuna's eyes widen at the words as he shot. Bermuda, as expected, dodged the bullet and short warped behind the hitman. However, the bullet wasn't for Bermuda. It was for Tsuna. The bullet curved and headed towards the brunette.

Tsuna didn't dodge, seeing Reborn's silhouette at the man's words. He knew it was the dying will bullet. 'Go, Tsuna.' Reborn smirked. 'Everything I want to pass down to you is in there'

The shot hit Tsuna right on the forehead. 

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Reborn's usual smirked was on his face. Ryuuichi could see that. He smiled upon that and shook his head. Reborn sure does thing in a flashy way. "Fu.. That was a dying will bullet just now, wasn't it. If so, he's still alive" Bermuda short warped and appeared on top of the fallen brunette. 

He was about to stab him right through the heart when a hand shot out from the body, grabbing him. The mere strength gripping on his arms had him back away. Tsuna stood up from what seemed like a cocoon that reminded Ryuuichi of a snake shedding skin. 

"Reborn!" Ryuuichi blinked. He hadn't heard that for a while now. "I'll defeat you like my heart depends on it!" Tsuna declared, pointing at Bermuda. Just as he did, his Vongola gear crumbled into pieces. He had removed his Vongola Gear. Gokudera, Yamamoto and Ryohei watched in disbelief, wondering why did he did that.

Light and conscious regained in Tsuna's eyes, flashing in orange. Strong, intense Sky flames flared off his whole body, burning hot and bright. "All my cells have prepared for death in order to defeat you." His voice was calm in contrary to his raging flames. The pinnacle of dying will. It sounded strange, but it happened.

"Right now, I'm in the same state that you were in when you created the flame of the eighth attribute." Bermuda looked alarmed. "Right?"

".. That's right. In the depths of my despair, I became an avatar of vengeance directed at Checkerface. When pure dying will took over my body, without a hint of hesitation, the 'Flame of Night' was born."

Tsuna's flame had not subsided as he countered that. "My apologies. It's not the same. My dying will isn't born of despair. It's born from hope." 

Ryuuichi tilted his head, realizing something. Now that he think about it. Bermuda was like the Night where darkness rule and Tsuna was like the Day where light took over all. Like Bermuda was all the negativity while Tsuna was practically the opposite of him. How intriguing. In rage, Bermuda rushed and short warped behind Tsuna again, only to met a fist in his face. 

"What?!" He short warped again, but was faced with another fist. "Why?!" 

"Just only one reason" Nope. Ryuuichi did not just squealed at that. "This is my dying will"

"Don't get carried away!" Each attack from Bermuda was blocked. All of them. Tsuna looked absolutely unfazed by that as he stood on his ground, steadily countered. Bermuda on the other hand, started to panic. "I've no choice! I'll bury you with my one hundred percent sure-kill final technique!"

He let off a great amount of Night flame. "Die!" Pitch black portals appeared, circled Tsuna. "I'll make you vanish with my Night flame!" He started jumping into each portal again and again until they could only see blurs. His speed was far too fast for their eyes to catch up. 

And then he appeared from above. Shooting down directly at Tsuna. He came down so fast that he didn't manage to dodge the fist on his face and was sent propelling into the air. Bermuda frowned. The brunette didn't had the intention to kill him. It made him wonder, for all the people he had faced wanted to kill him. He had never encounter anyone who doesn't want to kill him. A part of him relented.

'It's my total defeat, Sawada Tsunayoshi. Or rather, Reborn.'

Jager yelled in surprise, despair that his master had fallen. Tsuna did not answer him, but merely destroyed his boss watch. Ryuuichi slowly raised his hands and silently clapped.

A soft, tired smile was plastered on his face. It was finally over. The fighting. After so long. "Team Reborn is victorious!" Despite that, none of them were celebrating. Tsuna had immediately ask of those injured's condition as Ryuuichi stood up slowly, dizzy for a moment. 

"Congratulations! Reborn-san, the Arcobaleno of the winning team, will be able to have his curse removed!" Tsuna's eyes were blazing as he turned to face Onomichi. "Don't lie, Onomichi. The true purpose of the Arcobaleno battle is to dispose of the current Arcobaleno, taking away their lives, and selecting the next generation of the Arcobaleno to protect the pacifiers, isn't it?"

The said man looked confused, when Checkerface appeared. "You can't blame him. Onomichi really doesn't know anything." The iron-masked man shifted his head slightly to Ryuuichi and tilted his head. Ryuuichi grunted, rolling his eyes, his hands clenched into fist. He really hates masks. And he wanted to punch Checkerface.

'Oh well' He sighed. Checkerface was amused of his reaction, but he turned back to the others. "It looks like Bermuda-kun has told you guys about the secrets of the Arcobaleno and the pacifiers. It looks like you've been fed quite a few nasty stories."

"It's all true!" Ryuuichi was caught in exasperation and amusement as Tsuna, Bermuda and Checkerface argued. Or more like Bermuda was arguing. He blinked when he caught sight of Talbot and another man walking to their direction. The others doesn't seemed to noticed them when Checkerface explained of his kind. He tilted his head at the other man. 'Is that Nono's guardian?' 

"Checkerface, will you give this a try before making the next Arcobaleno?" 

"And what's that?" 

"A device to take the place of the pacifiers. If you use this, the pacifiers will never be needed again." Okay, Ryuuichi couldn't deny that he felt something akin to satisfaction when Checkerface was taken aback. Talbot then proceeded to explain the whole thing, which Ryuuichi kind of had tuned out a moment there. At first, Checkerface refused to let Bermuda to take in charge of the Pacifiers since that device needed the eighth flame.

It was only when Yuni said that there's a future for the pacifier, did he accepted it. Quite easily, they would say. Too easy. "In order to protect this planet, I've never deviated from the belief that small sacrifices are necessary to prevent greater ones and performed my duty until now, hiding this shameful face behind a mask. But I've always thought that if there was a better way to maintain the Tri-Ni-Sette, then by all means I should do it, and entrust it to the next generation."

Ryuuichi smiled. Honestly, Kawahira sounded like a old man. Then again, he really is. 'Once an old man, always an old man' He snickered internally at his own thought, but lent a hand. They all formed a circle around the device and readied themselves, grabbing their flames from their core.

Ryuuichi took deep breath and released a great amount of flame, mixing it with the others' in a colorful rainbow. All the flames absorbed into the devices. He couldn't stop smiling, even as he felt his energy draining further.

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"Honestly, why were you guys fighting just because of stupid stuffs?" Ryuuichi grumbled as he dragged Hibari off to another room, Hibirds fluttering about around them. The nurses and doctors they passed by looked so horrified despite the comical scene.

He, annoyed, wondered why was he doing this when he remembered.He had visited them all, coming earlier than Tsuna and the others. 

The first person he had visited was Dino, bonking him on the head for being so careless. Though, he was very glad that the blonde was alright. And then, a loud explosion made him jump out of the chair he was sitting. He literally slapped himself in the face and groaned. He then practically tore the fighting maniacs apart and dragged the prefect away, giving all of them a stink eye for destroying the hospital. 

'Whoever put them in the same hospital and on the same floor made a really bad mistake.' He huffed in annoyance. Then again, it wasn't as though it would be his problem. 

When they reached the furthest end of the floor, he pulled Hibari into the empty ward and closed the door shut, minding that he didn't accidentally shut the door on one of the yellow birds. He blinked in surprise when he realized that two of them situated themselves on his head. He sighed, but paid not much heed to them.

"Go rest. Shoo shoo." He waved his hand at Hibari, gesturing him to the bed. The others didn't know, but the prefect had a fever a few hours after admitting into the hospital. It made him wonder how did he managed to fight in this kind of condition. He was practically burning up!

Hibari was amused, enough said. It wasn't everyday that someone would interfere a fight, especially his fight, by pushing all of them aside and gave them an annoyed, yet pouty look. It certainly wasn't everyday to see the others and he himself stopped at merely just his look alone. Hibari had half expected them to blow at Ryuuichi, if they weren't so frozen in shock. (Most of them, especially Xanxus, hadn't came across someone else other than Tsuna in his Hyper Dying Will Mode who dared to stop their fight without wanting a death wish)

Ryuuichi groaned at the Hibari's smirk and pushed the man onto the bed before settling on the chair. "Seriously, what's with you guys and fighting in this kind of condition?" He grumbled under his breath. "Damn fighting maniacs- Ouch!" Hibari flicked him on his forehead suddenly. His hands shot up on instinct and covered that sore spot.

"What the heck?" He frowned.

"You're an idiot" "Hah?!" Hibari's smirk widen. He all but ignored the irritated tone and lied down on the bed. "Move and I'll bite you to death" 

Ryuuichi twitched at that. 'Can.. Can I punch him?' He then sighed inaudibly and settled back onto the chair. A small smile crept onto his face. 'Oh well. At least it's over.' 

His smile fell. 'How the hell am I going to tell them..?'

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A/N= CHAPTER 401 TO THE END! Finally! The last Arc ended! I'm so happy yet so sadddd 

The next chapter will be where Ryuuichi explains things to all of them! The ones confirmed who will appear are Yuuichi, Sakura, Kei, Tsuna and the others, Dino, Yuni, Reborn and Enma. Who else do you guys things should appear? Their presence would be mentioned but what they did would probably not be elaborated.

After the next chapter, there would be two more arc! The next arc, well, I haven't decide on a name yet but let's go with Trapped Arc? This arc was mainly focused on Ryuuichi, Yuuichi, Hibari, and the others, of course. Guess who will be appearing as well~ There's no estimation of how many chapters this arc will last, so we'll just have to see.

The last Arc, however, is a secret. I wouldn't really say it's an arc of the story, but who cares. XP Sorry, but my lips, or in this case, words, are sealed tight about it! I won't give hints! Details will be revealed in the last chapter of Trapped Arc! Probably. XDD

Well, this chapter is honestly a bit boring, I would say. But I seriously had fun writing it. I mean, I think this is the first time I wrote a fight scene with until this point? And practically the whole chapter is the fight scene. Sorry if it's weird because I honestly find it hard to descripe. 

Do you guys know that the word 'warp' appeared 19 times?! Including this one!? I'm like, so annoyed for various of reasons. *flails hands around*

Fun Fact= Ryuuichi fell asleep soon after he made himself comfortable on the chair. And Hibari was like, not even sleeping. Lol. And Hibird constantly chirped here and there, settling themselves on Ryuuichi's head and shoulders. Hibari was damn amused, enough said. 

Ehh, I think that's it? Ahhhhh I'm so happy that I can't seem to settle down. XD (Why do I felt that I've been updating too fast?) (And honestly, I'm not really satisfied with this chapter)

[I apologize for any grammar, spelling, etc. etc. mistakes]