Bite To Death

Tsuna arrives from Italy, and on his request, is placed into a specific group that stands apart from the main ones. The group is supposed to take off four day after the Chairman left, which makes Tsuna wants to pull his hair out. Kyouya could be in serious trouble but people only look mildly concerned at most.

He does understand why they need to wait, because finding one person in a city the size of Tokyo is like finding a slightly smaller needle in an Olympic-sized pool full of them, so co-ordinates are necessary before they do anything. However, Tsuna can't help his worry.

He spends the time distracting himself with organising his troops into something half resembling the neat units of Patrollers that Namimori has. Truthfully, the Italian safe zone just points at people and sends them out to do what they will instead of assigning power levels or routes.

He wakes up on day four and has two hours to get ready before he's shoved into a small crowd of people hovering around some very fast cars.

He recognises most and wonders how the hell Namimori managed to get these people to join. The group is made of insanely dangerous powerhouses that do not work as a team what so ever.

The Varia are gazing rather longingly at a sleek black camaro, and Tsuna even finds the Arcobaleno (sans Luche and Verde) playing rock paper scissors for a red Ferrari. A blond with a whip at his side is trying to climb into a car but four other suited a.d.u.l.ts are dragging him away.

A red haired male Tsuna's age is trying to mediate between a group of other teens and failing. A white haired one with a bag of marshmallows is ordering around others, all of them with exasperated expressions, while a purple teen with a strange chuckle is scanning another car further away with two other males, one a blond and the other wearing glasses.

Tsuna ends up standing with a smaller group in Patroller uniforms, Takeshi and Ryohei he recognises from before he left Namimori, while Hayato and Lambo introduce themselves as Mafia.

"Kyouya is moving according to predictions so it's okay to begin," Verde proclaims, the scientist pushing up his glasses.

They're given backpacks full of food and water while those who use bullets, knives or dynamite have another bag to carry with extra stock.

As a last step, the scientist explains the set up inside Tokyo. He tells them that the very centre has large speakers set up playing music to keep the infected away from the border where Namimori stands and that smaller speakers are scattered in a wider radius to reach further.

Kyouya took his infected with him (and Tsuna got a very quick rundown as to what that means – Jesus Christ) so while the Chairman will be on the street and fighting freely wandering zombies, the lilac infected are moving through buildings and opening doors for more infected to get loose. This method saves time and clears out the zombies quicker.

Verde says the estimated amount of infected is anywhere between 28 to 25 million, and that's an incredibly optimistic guess. To not get stuck in a pile of bodies or have to maneuver on top, Kyouya will most likely be moving in a spiral out from the centre to best keep the corpses isolated.

Therefore, Tsuna and the rest will be driving into the middle, cutting a straight line from one point of Namimori's border. It's the least infested route since Kyouya would have taken out most of the infected in that area as he travelled.

They all nod at the information and enter the cars. The racing car shoots off and quickly disappears in the distance as well as a few other sports cars.

"So how do you know Kyouya?" Takeshi asks with curiosity, glancing sideways at Tsuna, both of them in the backseat.

The brunet blinks in shock but the menacing aura from the other teen is gone in a split second so maybe Tsuna is just imagining things. "Well, he…" Tsuna trails off then, not really sure how to describe it.

"Yeah, he does that a lot," Lambo speaks up from behind the wheel.

The rest nod in sympathy and Tsuna feels like they'll be great friends.

It becomes quickly blatant that Kyouya indeed travelled the same path, seeing as they encounter mass graves. At some points the amount of corpses reaches over c.h.e.s.t height on Tsuna and the largest spans six entire city blocks in every direction. Hayato can be heard murmuring as they pass by, quickly estimating numbers in the higher three digits for every one they encounter.

They shoot the odd infected group wandering around but never anything close to a hoard. It's at least twenty minutes out from the centre by the time faint music reaches them through open windows. As they get closer, the barely there sound turns into a ground thumping, bone rattling level, all from the large speaker set up in the middle of the street.

"That bastard," Hayato grumbles when they get near enough to see. "How that hell are we supposed to catch up to his count now?"

What Verde said about the spiral might be true, but all Tsuna could see was destruction. The buildings seem to have large bites take out of them, maybe half the size of a small car, near the bases – not enough to destabilise them but enough that Tsuna has to wonder what caused the damage.

Tsuna has no idea where the middle is, and most of the speakers are buried under infected, their sound far more muffled. It reaches taller than Takeshi and slides down slowly over eleven blocks to knee height then another two blocks until the infected are simply scattered lightly across the ground.

Tsuna has no idea how many Kyouya has already taken out, he just knows that the Chairman won't stop unless he's forced to.

They find the racing vehicle with Skull inside parked to the side of the road with the other fast cars that disappeared at the start. Tsuna's car slows to a stop and an explanation is shouted, barely loud enough to be heard over the music and the occasional gun fire from Reborn who is taking out zombies appearing from around corners.

"Kyouya must be on another side!" Byakuran yells over the loud music, half signing his words to be understood. "The blood is barely dry, so he's fine!"

"We'll go meet him!" Mukuro shouts and gestures Ken and Chikusa to get back in the car.

The rest of them seem to shrug and Tsuna slides back into the car with everyone else. Mukuro leads the way this time, and they circle the destruction zone around two blocks out so they don't have to run over bodies.

They pass four speakers until Fon's car puts on hazard lights and comes to a stop.

The rest of them follow and park the cars again, emerging and looking around. It's pretty much the same setting as the other one, with the mountain of bodies and the speaker which is around two meters tall, one meter across, and half a meter deep.

"Is he sleeping?" Mukuro abruptly asks no one in particular.

Tsuna blinks and tries to follow the other's line of sight but the other must have super vision or something because Tsuna can't see anything.

It's only when he gets closer that Tsuna notices the figure lying on top of the speaker.