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Title – Blood of the Covenant
Rating – PG-13 for language and violence
Characters – Gokudera, Tsuna, Reborn, Yamamoto
Notes – My sincere apologies to anyone I lured in with my initially consistent updates, only to drop the floor out from under you just when we were getting to the climax. No excuses; I just overestimated how quickly I’d be able to get the last few parts of this out.

Anyway, I know you probably just want to get right into it so I’ll shut up.
Warnings – These contain spoilers, so skip ahead if you want to avoid.
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1. Horrific injury warning. I really don’t want to spoil things, but think along the lines of some of the more shocking moments in the series (particularly around the Inheritance Arc, and near the end of the Arco Arc).


2. More of that mind control business.


3. Character death…?

( Tsuna fell limply to the ground, and Gokudera’s heart plummeted to his stomachCollapse )

( Prologue | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 )

Title – Blood of the Covenant
Rating – PG-13 for language and violence
Characters – Gokudera, Tsuna, Reborn, Yamamoto
Notes – Hey all, just wanted to apologize for the delay in this chapter. Since it’s the finale and everything is finally coming together, there were a lot of details to work and rework. I basically underestimated how much time it was going to take. And I figured that if I was going to leave people hanging at any point, it would be kinder to do so with the previous chapter than this one, at least in terms of cliffhangers.
Warnings – These contain spoilers, so skip ahead if you want to avoid.
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1. Trigger warning for suicidal thoughts/behavior.


2. Probably should throw in another one of those mind-control warnings, since, yeah. That’s happening again too.

( Gokudera made his way up the winding mountain road toward his childhood home.Collapse )

( Prologue | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 )

Title – Blood of the Covenant
Rating – PG-13 for language and violence
Characters – Gokudera, Tsuna, Reborn, Yamamoto
Notes – All right, brace yourselves, because this is it. Now entering Catharsis City, population: these guys. We’re about to go to some very real places; it’s fucking feels o’clock.

Also, this is by far the longest chapter in the fic. I literally could (and possibly should) have made it into two chapters, but screw it. So anyways, just a heads up.
Warnings – These contain spoilers, so skip ahead if you want to avoid.
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1. Trigger warning for a fairly vivid description of a panic attack/breakdown/whatever you want to call it.

Also, just. Feelings. Just. A lot of feelings, everywhere, all over the place. It’s a mess.

( '…Hey, Boss.'Collapse )

( Prologue | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 )

Title – Blood of the Covenant
Rating – PG-13 for language and violence
Characters – Gokudera, Tsuna, Reborn, Yamamoto
Notes – I am not a doctor, and there’s a limit to how much research I was willing to do for this fanfic written for a series in which people are regularly stabbed, blown up, have their internal organs removed, and so forth, and yet still come out of it just fine in the end. So I apologize if any of this is so inaccurate as to fuck with anyone’s suspension of disbelief. In the end I figured that probably just comes with the territory.
Warnings – Some description of injuries, but nothing especially graphic or triggering (I think) in this chapter.

( 'Tell me why you lost.'Collapse )

( Prologue | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 )

Title – Blood of the Covenant
Rating – PG-13 for language and violence
Characters – Gokudera, Tsuna, Reborn, Yamamoto
Warnings for this chapter – These contain spoilers, so skip ahead if you want to avoid.
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1. Psychological abuse.


2. Not sure how to summarize this one, but if the idea of not being in control of yourself at all and being manhandled while totally at someone else’s mercy is triggering to you, then yeah. This’ll do that.


3. More graphic violence. One event in particular which, while not fully written out and described in exact detail, is still very much implied and pretty damn gruesome.

( Even before the smoke had cleared, Gokudera knew he was in trouble.Collapse )

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Title – Blood of the Covenant
Rating – PG-13 for language and violence
Characters – Gokudera, Tsuna, Reborn, Yamamoto
Notes – Well, here comes the flashback and the confrontation I’ve been building up to for three weeks, which in hindsight was a very stressful thing to do! But at least after this I can stop worrying about whether it’s too angsty, or not angsty enough, or OOC, or what have you. I’m committed to it now!

…sob.

Warnings for this chapter – These contain spoilers, so skip ahead if you want to avoid.
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1. Once again reiterating that warning for psychological abuse. We’re talking mind games, guilt trips, death threats, blows to self-esteem and self-worth; the works.


2. Warning for graphic violence. Like bloody, murder-y type stuff, including one particularly gruesome event witnessed up close and personal.

( 'It's strange. The older you get, the less you look like our father.'Collapse )

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Title – Blood of the Covenant
Rating – PG-13 for language and violence
Characters – Gokudera, Tsuna, Reborn, Yamamoto
Notes – You know what, I have so many notes at the end of this chapter that I’m not gonna bother with anything up here. No warnings for this chapter either.

( Tsuna couldn't help but feel like they were taking the definition of 'blending in' very loosely.Collapse )

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Title – Blood of the Covenant
Rating – PG-13 for language and violence
Characters – Gokudera, Tsuna, Reborn, Yamamoto
Notes – Thank you all for all your super nice feedback so far! I hope you continue to enjoy it. This is more of a setup chapter here, but next chapter things will start to pick up.
Warnings – None for this chapter.

( 'I still can't believe your house has an elevator, Tsuna.'Collapse )

( Prologue | 01 )

Title – Blood of the Covenant
Rating – PG-13 for language and violence
Characters – Gokudera, Tsuna, Reborn, Yamamoto
Notes – Ready or not, here comes the first big headcanon dump; brace yourselves for impending backstory revision. Though I really did make an effort to make sure everything still fits neatly into the established canon.
Trigger Warnings for this chapter – These contain spoilers, so skip ahead if you want to avoid.
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1. It’s still only minor, but have another tw for psychological abuse (and arguably, physical abuse, depending on how you feel about enabling accidental poisonings), because I’m playing it safe here.

( 'It's not good to keep secrets from family.'Collapse )