For the King I Love

25. chapter - Dei Mei Regis

Characters:
Tsuna - White Rabbit
Hibari - King of Hearts
Kusakabe  - Knight of Hearts
Gokudera - Tweedle Dee
Yamamoto - Tweedle Dum
Shamal - caterpillar Absolem
Hana, Kyoko - chefs in the Red palace
Haru - gardener
Reborn - Cheshire Cat
Dino - Alice
Mukuro - Mad Hatter
Chrome - Mice Mallymkun
Ken and Chikusa - Hares
Varia - the Royal guards of Hearts
Vindice - the Others
Six Funeral Wreaths - the White Royal guards
Yuni - White queen
Byakuran - White knight
Time - Checker face
Ryohei - Captain of the palace guards
Bianchi, I-pin - chefs in the White palace
Lambo - gardener

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The noise of thousands of voices was like a rumble - deafening, powerful and terrifying. As the brunette stood at the center of the arena, facing Ryohei he felt his legs shaking uncontrollably. Actually his whole body trembled and he wasn't able to lift his head not even for a moment. His breathing was hard and he felt like running away.

The man in white who led him there left a while ago only saying not to attack each other till the fight will officially begin so both of them were now waiting for Dei Mei Regis to start. None of them said anything and Tsuna couldn't even imagine he could say something. He was too nervous and scared so he was happy enough he could walk normally. He felt thousands of eyes on himself but didn't have the courage to actually look neither at Ryohei or balcony where his King was.

"Oi, Sawada," Ryohei called out to him suddenly. The brunette flinched and looked at him. He wasn't smiling or anything, he was serious and that made Tsuna nervous even more. "I'm not gonna go easy on you, so fight me with everything you've got!" he warned him. The Rabbit gulped. He wasn't happy to hear that. He hoped Ryohei could be a bit nice during the fight but now it looked like he's in deep shit.

He nodded but remembered he wanted to ask him something. "...why did you choose me? You must know I have no chance against you..."

Ryohei stared at him for a while but then he frowned and almost seemed angry. "No chance? What are you talking about? One cat told you're super fast so I'm looking forward to our fight!" he said and his eyes sparkled as he couldn't wait anymore.

'One cat? .....REBORN!?!' Tsuna squeaked internally. 'This can't be! He told Ryohei something like that? What should I do??'

"Ehm, that's not true! I'm not fast at all!" the brunette tried to explain quickly.

"Don't lie! I can't wait for you to show me your strength to the extreme!" Ryohei grinned, totally ignoring what was said. Tsuna stared at him with desperate expression thinking that even talking to wall would be better. 'It's useless! He doesn't listen to me!'

Suddenly loud gongs were heard and their sound filled whole Dome. Everyone shut up and several men in white appeared on one small balcony closest to the arena and had a welcoming speech, telling everyone rules which were quite simple - you can give up if you yell it so that they can hear you and you will loose when you aren't able to fight anymore. Also no one can interfere the fight and the whole competition doesn't have any time limit. As the man in white was talking Tsuna started shaking again. It was almost here!

After the speech the man said that the fight will begin with sound of gong. It was completely silent. No one said a word and everyone waited for the gong. The brunette noticed that Ryohei got ready and took a defensive stance. He gritted his teeth and wondered what should he do. He didn't have much time to think. In that moment the merciless gong rang getting people exhilarated.