Summary: She had only one goal set in her life after the pain, the misery, the neglect, the constant reminder that she will never be great because she's born female, born weak, born with no Flame…and hopefully, the goal will be their undoing and not hers. Rewrite of 'Desecrate Through Reverence.'

Warning/s: Major AU; Dark-ish!Fem! Tsuna; Unknown pairings/unknown endgame pairing; OOC

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A/N: So, this is it, guys. The rewritten version of Desecrate Through Reverence that I made you guys wait for. I don't even know if you guys will be interested for the second try, but I guess I'll gain new readers, too, so that's…that's good.

If you did wait, however, thank you! I appreciate that so much! Here's some virtual cookies and brownies, because I can't mail them to you guys! (Also, I suck at making them.)

(Also it would be creepy to ask your home addresses.)

So, here's the story. Hope you all love it! xx

Disclaimer: I do not own Katekyo Hitman Reborn!

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Prologue

She stood on the edge of a cliff, idly sitting on a large boulder that was embedded onto the soil, moss and vines already wrapping themselves around it. She looked at her watch, a silver wristwatch made of mixed silver and armored steel, with golden hands against a black background. Underneath the face is a poisoned needle coated in a neurotoxin that can destroy a person from the inside out. It read ten past four, and she wondered when he will be arriving.

She looked beyond the cliff, beneath it, even, and seeing nothing but a vast, vast space, a deep river with jagged rocks at the bottom, waiting for her to fall. A wrong move and she would plummet downward, finally meeting the sharp ridges that await her.

It's a lot like now, she thought to herself. Like…chess. One wrong move and she was dead. To win, she had to plan the previous hundred moves. Unfair, quite, but her plan had been set to motion, and one more move, one more right move, and she wins.

Her phone rang, the little ringtone echoing through the forest. It was a remote area beyond the gardens of the mansion. One has to pass through a myriads of scattered foliage and vegetation to even find it—the place that only she herself knows…well, her, and him now.

She smoothed her black pencil skirt, sweeping away imaginary creases and wrinkles. She always prided herself for being neat and poised nowadays, unlike when she was younger and much more reckless and held such things in disregard.

She answered the phone, tapping on the screen. "Good afternoon," she said in Italian, her voice smooth and cold, like the rumors say of her persona, and most especially of her heart. They were close. Just not entirely. Her heart wasn't cold.

Not entirely.

"Donna?" a voice spoke through the phone, a playful lilt on a deep baritone. "The job is done."

She couldn't help but quirk the corner of her lips upward, almost managing a smile. "Good," she replied, voice clipped. "And I suppose that you will be arriving shortly." It was not a questioning statement—she's expecting him. Has been expecting him since two in the afternoon when everything was set in motion.

"Of course," the man replied, a purr to his tone. "I cannot let such an alliance go, after all."

She smiled at that; as the rumors say, it looked cold and empty. "Don't make me wait."

"Ah. But you have been, haven't you? You were always so eager—especially when you were much younger."

"I suppose." She clicked her tongue. "Then don't make me wait any longer. They will be trying to reach me once they—" She stopped, already imagining the deed she has done. The phone might be tapped. One wrong move and you're dead. "Do not make me wait," she repeated instead.

"I wouldn't dare," the man answered. "I have, after all, tried to make my mission as fast as possible."

"Good," she repeated. "Do not make me wait, or the alliance is off."

She hung up.

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End of Prologue

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A/N: Okay, so I decided to start this rewrite with a prologue of…mysteriousness. Hopefully mysterious, of course.

Btw: the chapters will be as long as I can manage, but the wait in-between will probably be the same. Sorry.

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