Facing Insanity

Week 8: Godly Problems

Day 1) Reborn's Curse

Reborn sat at the dining room table, the kids had left for school Hibari having gotten Lambo enrolled in Elementary school. Hadrian sat across from him, with Nana on his left and Luna on his right. Reborn refused to look up from his breakfast.

"Luna Love, you're out of lipstick." Nana laughed.

"Oh? I should put some more on then." Luna replied.

"Let me do it for you."

"Okay!"

Reborn stole a peek, to see Luna wearing bright green lipstick while Nana wore bright pink. Both women smiled before kissing Hadrian's cheeks. Making sure they left lipstick marks as the dark hair man closed his eyes as if in pain.

"Lilly-chan was right! This is fun!" Nana laughed as she grabbed another lipstick color from the make up kit on the table.

"While the women ruin my face," Hadrian started as the women laughed. "Reborn, what kind of Curse is it that you wear?"

Reborn blinked ignoring the women as they started leaving kiss marks on each other's faces instead of Hadrian's.

"My curse? Well I'm the World's Greatest Hitman." Reborn said simply.

"And I'm a god called the Master of Death, Luna's a Prophet who swore allegiance to Death's Master, Teddy is a half werewolf, and Lilly is a goddess." Hadrian said just as simply.

Reborn blinked, What the hell? God and Goddess and Werewolf and what the hell?,

"Okay, The Arcobaleno Curse is a curse held by the seven strongest infants, who each possesses a different colored pacifier that corresponds with their Dying Will Flame." Reborn answered.

"Curses run in fear of my Hari-nii." Luna said confidently.

"Do you want your curse broken?" Hadrian asked as he cleaned his face off with a cloth. Reborn watched as Hadrian smeared the lipstick around his face instead of removing it, while he thought. Yes, he wanted the curse removed, but was it truly possible?

"If you can remove the curse I'd greatly appreciate it."

"Okay, so who cursed you? Why did they curse you? And how did they curse you?" Hadrian asked.

"A man who called himself Checkerface or the Man with the Iron Hat. He cursed me and the other Arcobaleno to protect the Tri-Ni-Sette. There was a mountain with some sort of carving in the rocks. After standing on the ledge there was light, then there was pain." Reborn answered. Hadrian nodded before he disappeared into the basement.

Day 2) Gods

Hadrian had turned the basement into a ritual chamber. Reborn felt like he had stepped into an occult fanatic's paradise. There was a large runic array etched into the floor, with bottles of animal parts along the walls. In the corner was a bubbling cauldron over a flame, with crystal balls hanging from the ceiling. Luna danced through the randomly placed crystal balls, caressing them as she passed. Reborn watched in fascination as the crystal balls shimmered to show an image of the Arcobaleno.

One had the Lackey Skull riding a motorcycle through a forest, being chased after by men on dirt bikes. Another had Mammon sitting in their office of the Varia going over stacks of paperwork. Then there was Colonnello giving out orders at Mafia Land, and Lal Mirch was doring paperwork somewhere. Fon was training his newest student I-pin, in the mountains somewhere. Verde was building something in a science lab. Reborn got a headache looking at the crystal that showed him, looking at a crystal of himself, looking at a crystal showing him, looking at a crystal of himself...Headache, don't think about it..Damned crystals.

"So I've talked to the Aspect of Death, don't ask how he's gone senile in his old age and I don't want to talk about it, and he's told me I have to make a deal with the Aspect of Life who might not be too happy with me." Hadrian said. Reborn nodded, as Hadrian continued.

"Now, the Aspect of Life loves me, really creepy actually..." Hadrian said before shaking off the memory.

"Anyway she loves me but the Aspects of Fate don't. The Aspects of Time don't like you or your predecessors or this Checkerface guy who cursed you. So instead of being helpful they're being difficult." Hadrian explained while he grabbed cans of animal parts off the shelves. Nana walked next to him with a box for the selected animal parts.

"Apparently Gaia gave Checkerface and this other person one task, don't ask who I didn't get an answer. They had one task, 'Protect the Seven Stones'. What stones I've got no clue. The Aspects want us to figure it out ourselves or something." Reborn listened as Hadrian spoke, but watched the cauldron boil and pop as Luna sprinkled herbs into it.

"Anyway, instead of protecting the stones the idiots broke them into pieces and seemingly scattered them across the world. So in order the break the curse I've been told to kill this Checkerface guy, reclaim the Stone pieces into my family, because they can't be repaired but simply keeping the stones tied to a godly bloodline should keep the balance that was destroyed when the stones were broken."

Reborn watched as Hadrian suddenly dropped a handful of animal parts into the cauldron. It Fucking Burped! Hadrian took a thick mug and dipped it into the concoction.

"Here drink this." Hadrian said as he held out the bubbling mug to Reborn.

"No." Reborn replied instantly.

Hadrian pouted but as Reborn watched the concoction bubble and pop he refused to change his mind. I am not ever drinking whatever that is.