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Deep breaths.
Skull was taking deep breaths.
These were the times he certainly missed his old life…and his Jigitarisu.
Seriously, if he had known this was how things would have ended then he wouldn’t have entertained his Jigitarisu’s wish to play with the Arcobalenos and follow Checkerface’s plan.
Because thirty years of dealing with these oblivious idiots too full of pride was more than enough for him.
And anyone would believe that now that the curse was ‘broken’ thanks to Sawada Tsuanyoshi’s plan that Skull could finally be free of the idiots.
But no!
Skull was forced to stay in the Arcobaleno Villa with the other Arcobaleno’s until they all were back to their age of when they were cursed so Verde could make sure they were fine.
Which Skull finds stupid as Verde is a scientist and not an actual medic or similar but of course no one listens to the ‘lackey’.
Now, he was forced to still be in the fucking villa despite looking like he did when he was cursed as Yuni wanted to celebrate them being back to their age.
Seriously, the only kid Skull had ever wanted to hit was his student but at this moment he wanted to slap Yuni for this.
‘Lovely give me patience’ Skull thinks just before he is called by one of his so dear co-workers
“LACKEY! BRING THE DAMN DRINKS ALREADY!” Reborn shout from the garden
“Bitch” Skull mutters as he grabs the drinks and takes them outside, hating how they are all acting like he had done nothing to help them and like he was simply their servant
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‘I feel something will happen’ Tsuna thinks as his HI starts to act right after Reborn called Skull to bring the drinks even if Tsuna and Yamamoto had offered to help but Reborn just waved that around while saying that Skull could at least be productive in someway ‘Poor Skull-san…I’m glad my elements are nothing like the Arcobalenos’ he adds as he remembers how Skull is treated like an idiot by most of the Arcobalenos despite everything he has done for them
“Is something wrong, Juudaime?” Gokudera asks, noticing Tsuna seemed lost in his own mind
“Ah, no!” Tsuna exclaims, smiling at his storm so he wouldn’t start drama for no reason “I’m simply lost in the memories of what has happened this last months” he adds and Gokudera nods at that as many things had happened so it wasn’t surprising Tsuna got lost while thinking of all those things
“Hey, Tsuna! The drinks are here!” Yamamoto says and Tsuna looks to see that Skull was putting the drinks in the table
“Shall I get you something, Juudaime?” Gokudera asks and Tsuna can almost see the puppy tail wagging on his back
“Ah, there is no nee-” Tsuna was going to say but was interrupted by a sudden explosion comes from the left, were luckily there was no one
“YOOOOOHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!! IT’S YA BOY, JABBER!” a voice shouts as the air clears enough to reveal who was behind the explosion as everyone points their weapons towards where the explosion comes from
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Jabber was bored.
His lovely Mume had been away for months so there wasn’t any opportunity for him to get a good fight.
Anyone would believe that with the flames and being in the mafia, he would find strong people to fight but they at most were equal to the Hell Guards and even then somewhat weaker.
Of course that Jabber had betted that the Arcobaleno would at least be like his Mume’s siblings in strength or intelligence but with them never finding out he and his Mume used to trade places until the curse, he got disappointed.
He wishes they were back in their world where they could fight each other to death or Jabber could even fight actual strong people.
But nothing he could do about that, they still had no idea how they ended up in this world or why they were dragged here.
As he was about to plan on scaring the Carcassa again, he suddenly felt the presence of the man that got Jabber and his Mume into the mafia before it disappeared once again.
Jabber looked around the room while making sure he was holding his dear Mume’s weapon so she wouldn’t be stolen but he found nothing until he looked at the table in the middle of the room and saw a paper there.
Not completely trusting it, mostly because having his Mume in toddler size wasn’t fun and Jabber would have destroyed the world if he had been in his Mume’s place, Jabber slowly approached the table and picked up the paper to read it.
Bermuda has agreed to take you back to your world, you simply have to activate your…vital instruments, I believe that is what you call them, and he will get a read of where to send you.
My apologies for what I made you go through,
Checkerface
Not even a second after reading what was in the paper, Jabber ran out of the room while shouting about him and his Mume not planning to ever return, which gained sighs of relief from the entire Carcassa for not having to deal with a certain masochist fight lover freak.
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The moment the explosion happened, Reborn and the others didn’t lose a second in pointing their weapons towards the source of it.
“YOOOOOHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!! IT’S YA BOY, JABBER!” is what they hear the person say and as the dust settles they are greeted by a man with tan skin, a somewhat thin body but not in an unhealthy way, long brown hair in dreads, somewhat strange clothes that seemed to be made from different pieces of cloth and the most flashy thing about him were his bright hot pink eyes that seemed to be shining and the large claws in his hands that seemed to be his size if not bigger
But before anyone could demand answers, they watched Jabber be kicked against a few trees that broke and hear him laugh about it.
“Stop shouting, ya damn freak!” the person who kicked said, revealing it had been the famous lackey of the Arobalenos
“But Mr. Bad Attitude, where is the fun in that?” Jabber whines as he gets up
“Fun is the day I finally have enough and kill ya!” Skull says glaring at Jabber
“So keep looking at me like that” Jabber winks making Skull groan
“Of course, damn masochist” Skull groans
“Lackey! Who is this idiot?!” Lal demands, interrupting both of them
“Oh? And who are you to call him ‘lackey’?” Jabber says glaring at Lal
“No fight, ya freak!” Skull tells Jabber
“You know what will stop me” Jabber smirks
“Why did I fucking marry ya? Worst decision of my life after agreeing with ya plan” Skull mutters before turning to the others “This damn freak is, unfortunately, my husband who is a masochist so attacking him will just excite him” Skull explains
“Your…what?” Colonello asks in disbelief
“Awww! Haven’t you told our dear co-workers about me, Zan-Zan?” Jabber teases
“...Co-workers?” Yuni asks confused but isn’t the only one
“Ugh!” Skull groans
“Mou, have you been lying to us?” Viper asks and Skull looks at her with a deadpan look
“Listen, bitch” Skull says as his flames appear in his hair and eyes before disappearing which revealed his dirty blonde and black hair and blue eyes “Not my fault ya idiots call themselves the greatest but can’t even realize Skull De Mort does not exist” he says
“I must admit I was disappointed when no one noticed it” Jabber points out
“What do you mean?” Verde demands
“Ya damn idiots never realized that Skull was both me and Jigitarisu” Skull says “Jabber was bored and decided we should both act as Skull despite him being the stuntman and not me” he adds
“But…you were the only one cursed” Yuni says a bit confused
“Yeah, this damn idiot decided to test a fucking new poison that day so I was left to be the damned cursed one” Skull says, glaring at Jabber who simply send him a kiss “My real name is Zanka” he adds
“But there are a lot of information about Skull De Mort” Vipper says very unhappy that her information might be wrong
“Because Skull De Mort is the name all stuntmans of Circus Du Oblako, they simply die too early due to some stunts” Zanka clarifies “But ya wouldn’t be able to find information about us anyways” he adds
“Why wouldn’t she?” Fon asks
“Because we do not exist” Jabber says grinning “We aren’t from this world so we do not exist in this place” he adds
“UMA?!” Gokudera explains
“That is what Kawahira is, we at most are…superhumans” Zanka sighs
“Superhumans? You are weak, does it mean the others of your world are too?” Lala says getting a herself pointed with Jabber’s claws and a rolling of eyes from Zanka
“If I really wanted, I could have killed all of you before…I simply saw no reason to do it even if most days you made me want to kill ya” Zanka says, at the same time Jabber deactivates Mankira to grab the staff in his back and throw it at Zanka
“I believe you missed that” Jabber says as Zanka grabs the staff
“More then I missed ya, for sure” Zanka says as he passes his hand on Lovely Assistaff to make sure Jabber took well care of her and didn’t damage her on his way here
“Is that…a stick?” Lambo mumbles which gets him a furious glare from Zanka
“Lovely is not a damn stick, ya dumb cow!” Zanka growls
“Ahhh~ Why don’t you act like that towards me, mume?” Jabber whines
“Because I’m not a fucking exhibitionist, ya freak!” Zanka says “And why the fuck did ya come here? Did you get bored of messing with those idiots?” he asks as he turns to his husband
“Oh, right!” Jabber exclaims before starting to jump around(like he did in his fight with Zanka but without Mankira activated)
“Is he…okay?” Tsuna asks softly
“Probably” Zanka answers “He has always been like this since I met him” he adds
“And…you still married him?” Chrome voices out
“Yep…I have no idea how I fell for him but it somehow happened” Zanka sighs fondly
‘God…I hope this does not happen to me’ Tsuna thinks as he shivers in just thinking of ever ending up married to Mukuro, Byakuran or even Reborn
“Tsureai, can you tell me why you came here before ya made an earthquake happen?” Zanka decides to interrupt his husband, a bit curious about what got Jabber so excited but that also made him come when he lost all the interest in the Arcobalenos and mafia related things
“We can go back!” Jabber says grinning even more, looking a bit too unhinged for everyone else
“Go back…you mean you found why we ended up here too?” Zanka asks since he has no idea why they were brought here
“Ah, it was the masked man” Jabber says “He probably couldn’t find a strong enough cloud in this world and grabbed us…not sure why both of us but at least I got Zan-Zan to be mine thanks to that!” Jabber says as he diverges a bit
“...I’m not even surprised” Zanka grumbles at knowing it had been Kawahira who was behind this “And how do we go back?” he asks
“Just talk with a…Bermuda? And let him have a feel of our vital instruments so he can know what place to send us” Jabber says
“...Just them transformed and not touch them, right?” Zanka asks
“I believe so…or whoever Bermuda is may lose a few fingers” Jabber smirks and Zanka relaxes a bit
“What are…these vital instruments? Are they part of a game?” Yamamoto asks
“Lovely is my vital instrument, it is an objected I cared for so much that it became part of my soul and can transform into a weapon” Zanka answers as he activates Lovely Assistaff
“And I have my Mankira!” Jabber says excited as he activates Mankira but not in her true form like before
“If you scratch me with them before we are home, I promise that I will make sure you will never feel pain ever again!” Zanka growls as Jabber makes the move to put an arm around him
“Come on, Mr. Bad Attitude! Live a little!” Jabber whines
“Remember what I said, tsureai” Zanka says glaring at Jabber who pouts at that but does deactivate Mankira before putting his arm around Zanka
“...Uh, so why did you never use your…Lovely Assistaff?” Tsuna asks, nicely before someone could demand an answer and maybe anger Jabber
“Why would I use my Lovely for something so disgusting as you? Even Jabber and the trash beasts are more clean than you guys” Zanka says making a face at imagining using Lovely Assistaff to fight the mafia
“Awww, you just don’t want them near a part of your soul” Janka says giggling but Zanka does not correct him because he wasn’t wrong
“Anyways, if you don’t have anything intelligent to say then we will be leaving as I want to go home” Zanka says as he deactivates Lovely Assistaff and grabs Jabber hand to drag him away “Until never again!” he says waving Lovely Assistaff as the two disappear through the hole caused by Jabber’s appearance
“What the fuck just happened?” Viper asks, not sure if this wasn’t all a strange dream or even caused by someone with mist flames
But they were left with no answers as when they, the Arcobalenos, tried to find Skull later it was like he had evaporated and the Carcassa had said they had no idea where Skull and his husband were but that they never wanted to see them again so they gave them no new information.
This would be a mystery that no one in this world would be able to find an answer to, no matter how many generations pass by.
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“Home, sweet home” Zanka says the moment he exists Bermuda’s portal, which closes the moment Jabber passes through a second later then Zanka
“Hey, mume” Jabber calls and Zanka looks at him with a raised eyebrow “How do we explain that we are married despite being young again?” he asks grinning as he and Zanka looked 18/17 like they did before Kawahira dragged them away but still had their wedding rings
“Shit!” Zanka curses which makes Jabber laugh ‘God, the guys will kill me but…Jabber is mine and I will kill anyone who tries to separate us’ he thinks before hitting Jabber and starting to say this was no laughing matter
“Don’t worry, mpendi!” Jabber says as he grabs Zanka by the waist and brings him close “I can always leave the Raiders and become your househusband” he says and Zanka sighs
“My househusband? Will you cook for me with your poisons, to make sure I will never leave you?” Zanka says as he puts his arms around Jabber’s shoulders
“If my mume wants to…but no matter who get in our way, I will kill them since you are mine and only mine” Jabber hums
“As long as you know you are only mine too” Zanka says before he kisses Jabber
Zanka Wonger and Jabber Wonger had already been possessive and obsessive when it came to each other but…having their cloud flames awakened worsened it so if the Cleaners, the Raiders or even the Hellguards tried to separate them…well, it wouldn’t be a pretty sight for anyone.