A Dish Best Served Cold {KHR}

Target 11 - Dates and Torture: Vongola Style Pt. 3

All of the male students were so mentally and physically tired when they made it out of the maze, that they all collapsed immediately after emerging from the foliage. "Are they okay?!" Tsuna asked, almost yelling as soon as the guys collapsed.

Reborn growled slightly, trying to get the brunette's attention again. "They'll be fine, Shamal's on duty in the infirmary today," the ex arcobaleno dismissed. The brunette sighed and nodded, taking another bite of the cake he had layed in front of him.

Casually tightening his arms around the boy, Reborn smirked and snuggled into the crook of his lover's neck. He rubbed circles on Tsuna's hips with his thumbs to try and calm the brunette down even more while the maids and butlers gave cold refreshments to the males.

Shamal was quite an attractive man; strong jaw, straight nose, sleek dark brown eyes with dark hair which was parted in the centre, covering the tops of his ears then tapering in length to reach his shoulder at the back of his head. He also had side burns fading slightly under his ear.

He had a slight stubble, and a slight charm. Of course, this didn't help his ego as he knew he was attractive and was very cocky about it. Confident, but more so cocky. Despite all of this, he didn't have very much luck with women.

Women would either fuck him then dump him, ignore him or be downright disgusted. He was quite a flirt, sometimes straight shameless. When the dark haired man strut down to the garden, he scowled at the pile of mentally and physically exhausted students on the floor.

He immediately identified them, and made momentary eye contact with Reborn. After that, he smirked for a moment before requesting the maids and butlers to take them to the room. Tsuna, being the loveable and oblivious idiot that he is, thought that 'the room' meant the infirmary.

Boy, was he wrong.

The room referenced a chain of torture labs/rooms which were situated underneath the Vongola HQ and land. Catacombs of sorts, with many halls, rooms and tunnels. The halls had large archways which lined the edge of the walkways, with another set of walkways and archways perpendicular to them.

In between the sets of archways, was a long river which led to many places and had its own sets of corpses and decomposing fleshy bits sitting dormantly at the bottom. These catacombs were, in the beginning, not called 'catacombs' as that term referred to an underground cemetery.

Catacombs had many twists and turns, hallways and passages. Originally, they were used as a last resort escape mechanism, riddled with traps and secrets of the Vongola famiglia. It was used as a last resort, as it was designed by Giotto and G- Vongola Primo and his Storm Guardian.

The passage ways were to confuse outsiders, enemy famiglias and invaders which wished to cause harm to the Vongola. After a while, they were considered a type of cemetery with the missing bodies and many deaths which happened over the years of use.

Thus, they were dubbed the 'Catacombe di Anime Vagate' (catacombs of wandering souls). Though, they were forgotten for some time after Vongola Settimo took over until Vongola Nono finally discovered them. Tsuna and company found out about them on their first visit by accident.

Because of the complexity of the twisting hallways and confusing directions planned to put off strangers, if you were stuck in the catacombs then you would wander for days, weeks maybe even months before someone found you.

No fish, nor any other animals lived in the catacombs as the water was filthy with dirt and much, not to mention blood and infections it could have sucked out of the unfortunate souls which drowned within it.

This was partially the reason why it was dubbed the Catacombs of Wandering Souls.

Most of the rooms were used for interrogation, as jail cells and torture chambers but about 5% of them were used to store valuables, information and famiglia heirlooms like the Vongola Rings, the Sin which was given back to the Shimon famiglia and etc.