8 Gravity Runes
Ryohei and Hibari arrive and find every one of their people except for Tsuna, Kyoko, Haru, Chrome and Lambo on the ground.
Ryohei picks Gokudera and Takeshi up while Hibari picks John up. Kyoko and Haru were carrying Nesiara while Tsuna was carrying Basil. They take them to the hospital.
Once there they got into beds and Reborn appears with an older man and a young man. Reborn enters the room were Nesiara, Basil, and John were staying as Gokudera was standing already with bandages over his body while Takeshi was the same.
"Do you see what happens if you don't train properly," says Reborn mocking Tsuna as well as Gokudera and Takeshi before continuing, "If Nesiara wouldn't be there in the beginning things could have been worse and John got the Squalo to retreat. What were you three doing?"
"We were helping," says Gokudera angry as he and Takeshi stopped Squalo to kill Nesiara.
"Do you at least still have the box?" asks Reborn as Tsuna takes the box out.
"Why is this box so important to that Squalo?" asks Tsuna worried.
"Good we can still fool them," says the younger man as he enters the room.
"Dino," says Tsuna surprised to see him when the older man enters the room and Tsuna was even more surprised and says, "Dad."
"You have really grown from the last time I saw you, son," says Iemitsu as he pets his head.
Ryohei and Hibari were on the roof drinking some soda waiting for news on the group when Hibari says in his way, "I will leave for now. Report to me tomorrow about everything that happened today."
"Alright," says Ryohei as Hibari leaves thinking that he needed to get stronger. If the school could be attacked again if that man would come after Tsuna in school.
Ryohei went down to see how the others were dealing with the situation when he felt weak all of a sudden. He couldn't move and everyone around him seemed to be in the same situation.
Jack returned from Europe quite fast since he dealt with the Vindice making them retreat. The Vindice thought he was same Checker Face and thought on investigating into the matter and warned them that if they don't leave John and Nesiara alone he would return. He returned when Kyoko, Chrome, and Haru with the two toddlers arrived at the house to inform him of what happened.
"Hoh, it seems my brother wanted me outside Japan that's why the raven was nervous when it informed me," says Jack angry as he didn't even hide his anger and he disappeared from the eyes of Kyoko, Chrome, and Haru.
He appears in the hospital and everyone was feeling the pressure it was strong enough to not let people move while he was surrounded by a dark aura as he enters the room and finds his protegees in the bed.
Jack sees Tsuna and the others making them feel shivers run down their spines and Jack says, "It seems they fought for you but why is it that they are more wounded up than you."
Jack takes a step forward and says, "As a leader, you are a failure. A leader is the first to run into battle and the last to return from it even if you hate to be the leading figure."
Jack takes his shirt off and says, "Do you see those scars. They were inflicted on me while I was protecting people that trust me. People that consider me their leader when I was just an average Joe fighting to survive."
Jack then turns away from the six standing people that were looking at all the scars Jack had accumulated over the cycles he was alive. He had no free space on his upper body that was not wounded.
He puts his hand on both Nesiara and John and heals them completely making Nesiara's ear grow back to normal as letting all the scars disappear from her body while John was alright. It only seemed to be exhaustion that got him from overusing his powers.
"I hope you train your protege better from now on Reborn or death will follow him everywhere," says Jack seriously as he walks over to Basil and heals him up too. Then he takes Nesiara and John over his shoulder and leaves the room making Tsuna feel grief from hearing he would bring death if he doesn't become stronger.
Takeshi and Gokudera were the same and Reborn didn't have to lecture them any longer since Jack's lecture seemed more efficient than his as Tsuna says, "I want to get stronger what do I have to do to become strong."
That made a smile appear on Reborn's face as well as Jack who heard Tsuna say that as he was still outside the room.
He then begins to walk and find Ryohei who could finally move and he sees Jack's upper body and it looked to him like a battlefield where bombs dropped over and Jack says, "I remember giving you a training program are you slacking off."
"No teacher. I was training until we got the news that something happened to Nesiara and we rushed over. But I and Hibari get there late," says Ryohei seriously.
"It seems I need to train you all seriously and take the baby wheels away from you all," says Jack making Ryohei shiver from happiness after hearing that since his training program was already extreme.
Jack takes both home and finds the other group already at home except for Lancia that still needed to work and says, "Beginning tomorrow we will have serious training. It will be hard for everyone so return early from school. You will experience hell beginning tomorrow."
He lies both in their beds and leaves them. The next morning Nesiara woke up and felt her body aching she began to crawl out of her bed only to find out that what happened yesterday was not an illusion. She changed into another uniform and walks down the stairs to the kitchen. John was already there also with aches and pains all over his body.
This morning was different than any other morning as the food was served in a brown packet that they needed to open while Jack was sitting on the table with the others and says, "From today on I will train you all to surpass your limits even if I have to make you all hate me by doing so."
"What does that have to do with the food being Military Rations," asks Mukuro confused as he was playing with it.
"I will train your will and body even if I have to break them first so you can become stronger. Here are the training programs for everyone. If some slacks of even just by one push up or sit up he will have to make double of the program the next day and if it happens again it will be quadrupled. You have been warned," says Jack as he hands them out Chrome had a standard training program for novices, while Mukuro and his group had now programs that were like John's and Nesiara's previous program.
John and Nesiara were pale from seeing their program and John says, "You can't be serious."
"Oh, I'm," says Jack as he opens his rations and continued, "You two not only lack experience but also stamina it seems. Also, you both lost your composure fighting the man you fought. Without a cold mind, you won't achieve anything trust me. I made similar mistakes when I was young. But I could control my anger and use it to my advantage. You will learn how to do it too. Maybe I can awaken one or two of your bloodlines in the process. Now eat or you all will be later for school."
They go to school when John and Nesiara felt heavy and John asks, "Why do I feel so heavy?"
"Don't know I'm feeling way too heavy," says Nesiara as the others were feeling it too.
"Those are gravity runes in your shoes. You two feel 10x gravity right now. Mukuro and the others are feeling 5x and Chrome is feeling 2x. It will help you build strength, stamina, and agility. You will live like that until I tell you to take the shoes off," says Jack as he takes another pair of shoes out and says, "Those are for Ryohei."
They went to school wrestling with themselves while Jack was already planning what they were going to have to fight against.
On the way to school, John hands Ryohei the shoes over and Ryohei began to walk slowly surprising his sister in seeing him staying behind with the others while she was dragging both Nesiara and Chrome behind her.
Once in class Nesiara sees Tsuna as well as the other two boys having a serious face that they wouldn't want to feel shame for being protected by others just because they were weak.
Jack's words made quite an impact on the three as they took this seriously now. Nesiara didn't want to ask how it came that they were this serious now.
Class pass and Hibari wanted to train with John but he had to pass as he says, "Can't train together with you today except you come with me home. The old man wants to train me and the other more stricter so what happened yesterday doesn't happen again."
Hibari was thinking about it when he sees how slow John was in walking and asks, "Is something wrong with your legs or body?"
"Nah, just some aches the real killer are my shoes," says John as he tells Hibari about the shoes.
"I will come too. I can't let the others get stronger while I fall behind them," says Hibari as he joins him and leaves his second in command in charge of holding discipline in school.
The return to the house and once the passed the entrance gate the whole courtyard was bigger than it was before with training dummies everywhere.
Hibari was on guard thinking he was trapped in an illusion again when he hears Jack say, "It seems we have a new face. Well, then you will have to wear those shoes at every time even when you sleep."
Then he explained Hibari the rules while the rest already started with their training running 100x Suicides for Ryohei, Mukuro, and his group. Chrome had to do 25x Suicides while Nesiara and John had to do double of what Ryohei and the other had to do. Hibari got the same program as Ryohei with a slight change of making him practice more his technique instead of strength.
They were running when Jack says, "There is no escape from this Hell the only way to escape is to survive it and tell the tale of how hard it was."
After running they had to do 100 push-ups and 100 sit-ups for Nesiara and John it was doubled and Jack says, "I'm here to train your will to surpass your former weaker self and shape you to what you could become."
And after that came combat training against Jack and his clones. He was lecturing them and trying to bring their inner force out. When John suddenly awakened the Light. Yamato, as well as his body, was surrounded by Arc Light instead of Lightning as quite fast.
Jack still took him out and says, "You have done well in awakening your Guardians power but that is only one of many. I got a list from Logan to help you with this."
He gives John the list as Nesiara was also showing that her bloodline was slowly awakening as she didn't want to be left behind by John. She summoned parts of the Monkey King armor that was protecting her but also a dark smoke appeared around here making Jack be surprised that she could use the Wraith Form.
"We will have so much fun," says Jack as it wasn't his Monkey King armor that was appearing on her but the old one that he had before it was fused into the one he had now. Her eyes were about to turn golden but Jack snaps and they kept being crimson while saying, "Crimson eyes suit you better than golden ones."
Nesiara then falls unconscious and Jack catches her and takes her inside so she can rest for today. He then continues to train the others while saying, "You wish you are dead after this day is over."
The only person that was not being trained was Lancia as he was at work but even he couldn't escape Jack's clutch and was trained more intensive when the other were already finished and completely exhausted.
