It wasn't often that Amaya found herself willingly going out for a purpose that wasn't her own or her family's. Yet she knew as soon as she looked from the window in her room to see her meddling neighbour Tsunayoshi that for once in her life she would be helpful to somebody else's cause. Only that morning, as she was walking off to go to her college did Nana corner her in the garden, a look of pure and utter hopefulness in her face as she begged the 18 year old to keep an eye on her son. Amaya had to admit that Tsuna had been a little off lately, the blonde had noticed the sudden influx of foreigners that had started to parade around Tsuna like he was a prize pony. She really hoped that nothing had happened in the year she had left Namimori School, honestly she's gone for one damn year and everything goes to hell.
Amaya left her house, the cold night air making her quickly regret not wearing a coat or more suitable clothing. How stupid could she have been to wear a dark blue mid length dress in this weather? She was going to freeze before she found out what the hell was going on with Tsuna. She quietly followed the teen a few steps behind trying not to make him aware of her presence and it wasn't long before she recognised their destination. Namimori School was intimidating during the night, the building was looming over passers-by like a bad omen and it wasn't like the school was nice and modern. Amaya stood there for a little while longer than she expected, Tsuna had disappeared completely from her sight and it was at that moment that she decided it was probably best for her to get moving to find the danger prone boy. Taking a deep breath, she stepped over the line that was the School's premises and began to softly call Tsuna's name in the hope that he would come out of somewhere and meet her, yet as she carried on calling Tsuna did not appear.
"Jesus where in the hell is he?" She muttered under her breath, her heeled boots clicking lightly on the cement floor as she ventured deeper in to her previous School. It was at that moment that a blinding light struck her sensitive purple eyes like a slap to the brain, it wasn't welcome and it certainly wasn't needed. After regaining her composure and a string of curses, Amaya was able to focus on the source of the light with a glare in order to shield her eyes, she wasn't going in to this shit blind. The gym was her next port of call or at least it was the only lead she had to find Tsuna and by hook or by crook she was going to drag him home kicking and screaming.
When she finally burst into the gym, she didn't expect what she saw. In fact what she saw was far from any expectation that she had when she left the house. Tsuna was in the middle of a group of teenagers and a fucking baby, what the fuck was there a baby there for, on the other side of the room where strangers in black clothing that she immediately got a bad vibe from. What probably stood out the most was the large cube cage in the middle of the area that was emitting the most light Amaya had ever seen in her life, inside of the menacing light cage stood one of her under class men and a strange man with a green Mohawk and a pair of red sun glasses. Her entrance seemed to have caused quite a stare as all of the occupants of the room soon turned their gaze to her, looking intently and almost through her as her eyes scanned the room.
"What the fucking hell is going on here!" Her voice was louder than she expected it to be, she wouldn't be lying if she said she wasn't satisfied by the way Tsuna quickly jumped back a few feet in fear of her. "Tsuna," She called. "Why is Ryohei Sasagawa in a fucking light torture cage?" Upon hearing his name, Tsuna was thrust forward by his companions who looked at a loss as to who the blonde was, they were trying to be polite about it but the Varia had different ideas.
"VOOOOIIII, stupid wench get out of here!" Squalo was the first to speak up, raising his sword menacingly in the direction of the blonde 18 year old. Amaya raised her eyebrow, she was seething right now at how a total stranger could be so rude to her, she didn't care if he had a stupid sword she wasn't going to be spoken to like that by a long haired prick.
"Who the fuck are you calling a 'Wench', you long haired Sissy!" She began to move forward during her little outburst but quickly hit a road block in the form of Tsuna's braver friends while the boy in question stood off to the side. The white haired one grabbed her arms in an attempt to pull her back while the more familiar Yamamoto was in front of her with a smile doing his best to calm her down. The Varia didn't try that hard to restrain Squalo, all it took was the robot to grab the end of his sleeve and he couldn't walk out to meet the foul woman.
"Now now, calm down Senpai" Yamamoto spoke in a soothing voice in order to try and calm her to little effect. Reborn sat on Tsuna's shoulder while watching the whole ordeal, a smile broke over his face before he spoke quietly to Tsuna in barely a whisper.
"Guess you have a Mother for the Tenth Generation" A smirk escaped him when Tsuna's face paled and the poor boy almost fainted but the smirk was quickly removed with the duel 'excuse us' greeting followed by a flash of pink. The Cervello landed in the middle of the two parties, looking each over once before landing on the blonde girl that had caused such a commotion in the battle.
"Who is this?" They asked in a monotone to no one in particular, Amaya realised that she had to get serious now in order to appeal to these virtually identical people who seemed like they would take no shit whatsoever. She gently pushed Yamamoto out of the way so that she could step up and face the two girls herself, she was older than him for Christ's sake and she wasn't about to hide behind a child.
"My name is Amaya Tokudome" Her voice now held a more calm and sensitive tone compared to the one that she had previously used on the silver haired swordsman who remained glaring at her in disdain.
"If you aren't here for a purpose, then please leave or you will be removed" The Cervello spoke, one of them saying the first half of the sentence whilst the other finished it all too mechanically. Amaya looked at the Cervello, studying both of them and then looked to the cage and the other competitors as if she was completing the puzzle to why her neighbour was here in the first place.
"This is a battle of some sort, yes?" Amaya asked the pink haired women as she began to really study the room in the way she wasn't able to do when she had first arrived in it due to sheer shock. It was only now she realised that the lights had dimmed for them to have this small conversation in order for it not to be as harsh as it originally was.
"This is the Sun battle for the Vongola Sun ring" Was the reply that Amaya received and frankly a reply that didn't tell her about anything that was happening here. All she got was that they were having a fight for a ring, damn that ring better had been carved from the rarest diamond on earth for them to have gone to such a length to try and win it.
"I am here to judge and give support to Tsuna, since I presume that you are on the side of the gloomy group over there" Amaya raised her arm and gestured past the Cervello to the now calm group of people dressed all in black, and realised that each one was more peculiar than the other. For one, one of them was a straight up robot, for another there was another god forsaken baby here. There was a tall black haired man with intricate piercings on his face that were all connected through a series of chains, a blonde teenager who looked similar to the age of Tsuna and the others but it couldn't really be judged because of the fringe that was covering his eyes. Lastly was the guy with the silver hair who insulted her, Amaya could tell straight away that even if he hadn't have made that comment she would still probably punch him in the face sometime in the future. Squalo could second that notion as the feeling was mutual.
"We judge fairly and have no affiliation to any group" The pink haired duo said in unison as they watched the blonde haired girl pace in front of them, one pale hand on her waist while the other was playing with a strand of hair.
"Have you met the gloomy group before?" Amaya quizzed them, trying to think of a way she could stay and ensure the kids safety.
"Yes, we have previously met the Varia" They answered.
"Well then that right there is an unfair judge," Amaya spoke quickly after their answer. "The fact that you have previously had dealing with them strategically puts Tsuna and his group at a disadvantage. I on the other hand have only ever dealt with Tsuna and have no knowledge of the Varia which means putting me on the judging panel will provide both a fairer and better judgement for you." She finished her little rant with a small smile and a quirk of her eyebrows like she was daring the Cervello to go back and undermine her knowledge. Amaya studied psychology, she knew how ties worked on people.
Tsuna twitched for a second as he looked to Amaya in awe, the fact that she was able to go up to a total stranger and argue just to ensure that she could be there if anything were to go wrong with him and the guardians made him realise the people he had around him cared more than they let on. The Cervello studied the woman before turning to each other, communicating only through the look and nothing else, no eye contact or hand movement, they turned back to Amaya with the same plain face the always wore.
"Your request is… Granted" The one closest to her spoke which made her eyes grow slightly in relief. She had really hoped that what she said would get through to them but honestly she had her doubts when the words came out of her mouth. Tsuna, while not a bright kid also knew that this was unexpected, he knew that the Cervello were supposed to have a reputation for not being biased so why would they allow themselves to crumble when a woman accused them of being biased.
"VOOOII what the fuck did you say!" Squalo spoke up in order to break the silence while his comrades began to recover one by one as well. The creepy blonde kid was the one who spoke next with a menacing smirk plastered on his cold features.
"It seems there's another play thing- shishishi" His laugh gave Amaya chills, not in the sense that she was scared but in the sense that she had never heard anything like it before and it was honestly freaking her out a little.
"She was accusing our unbiased nature, in order to preserve our status as fair judges the only logical response was to appoint her as judge" The sentence was spoke in unison and made Amaya smile slightly at the fact that she was able to make these people who obviously were integral to what was going on second guess themselves. It made her feel powerful in some way.
"Should we begin then?" She began before walking to stand next to her neighbour, "I'm sure that the boxing freak has spent enough time waiting to show his talents." She finished her sentence with a nod in the direction of Ryohei who had been leaning against the cage while the ordeal was undergoing, his opponent stood near him watching as well but with a happier smile on his face then his comrades.
"Oh, she believes in you. The praise of a pretty woman will not get you anywhere though." The mohawked man spoke as he made his way back to his corner of the ring. At his comment both the blondes of the Vongola began to twitch their eyebrow, it seemed that they both had an issue with what Lussuria had said to them.
"Pretty?" Ryohei said with a blush, well he whispered it more like as he was slightly scared at the blondes response.
"Praise?" She whispered so only Tsuna and the white haired boy standing at her other side could hear her. "How can boxing possibly be praised?" She really wasn't a fan of boxing, she thought it was rather brutal with little to no grace in it at all. If you were going to take someone down, at least do it with a little style and finesse otherwise what was the point of doing it at all. She was brought out of her little dislike of boxing commentary by the sudden invasion of sunglasses in her sight, she tilted her head slightly to look at Tsuna who had passed her the glasses with a shy look on his face while his other hand was preoccupied with scratching the back of his head.
"Urm Amaya-San, thank you for sticking up for us. It means a lot." A faint blush appeared on his face that quickly fell when she snatched the pair of glasses out of his hand and placed them on her face to cover her eyes.
"Don't thank me yet, Tsuna," She began as she watched the pink haired woman look at a necklace that both of the men in the ring worn. "Thank me when I get you all out of this in one piece." Her head turned to face the other team who had gone back to standing in the shadows and were looking upon the gym with nothing but bored expressions and disdain hidden deep in their eyes. It didn't take a lot to guess that these men were dangerous, if being threatened by a sword hadn't given Amaya that hint then it was the way in which they composed themselves in this situation. They had no pity or worry in their eyes, not even deep down, these people weren't worried about their comrade neither did they care for anything apart from the ring around his neck that was evident by the tall black haired one taking a sudden deep breath in when both pieces were on show. "Who are they?"
"They're the Varia" Tsuna informed her but upon seeing her puzzled expression and raised eyebrow he continued after remembering she already knew that information "They are the Vongola assassination squad, I'm supposed to be the next head of the Vongola family." Tsuna tried to say it in a way so his neighbour wouldn't freak out or become absolutely lost in his explanation. When she finally nodded and looked content he breathed a small sigh of relief.
"So you are battling a bunch of assassins even though you are a future mafia boss, well you are their future mafia boss." Amaya sounded confused and Tsuna realised that as someone who was new to all of this she hadn't been around for the bigger part of the story and mentally scolded himself for thinking that just a few simple sentences could clue her up on what was happening.
"We're fighting because there are two possible candidates," Tsuna hissed when the lights for the arena suddenly turned on again providing some discomfort and momentary blindness despite the eye protection he was wearing. "I and the leader of the Varia, Xanxus, are the two candidates." He finished his explanation as he slowly began to open his eyes, not trusting the light in front of him to not penetrate the sunglasses and send him blind again.
"What's the deal with the rings?" Amaya understood that to some people she would be grating on their nerves with all of these questions but she didn't care in the slightest. She just found out that she had stood up to a bunch of dangerous people, assassins to be quite clear, and risked her neck for a bunch of teenagers so there was no room for politeness right now.
"Each guardian has a ring, there are seven in total, and the battle is for the completed ring. The team with the most rings-."
"Is the winner" She finished her sentence and turned to face the Varia once more upon sensing a death like glare directed at her head. Her shielded eyes locked with the white haired guardian who also wore sunglasses to protect his eyes, she could sense his contempt for her and knew that there was nothing he would like more than to stab the life out of her. She grinned at him with a sarcastic toothy smile which she saw visibly infuriated him which only made her happier. "I guess as your judge it is my job to make sure you are the winner then," She turned to look down the line of people Tsuna had managed to gather and suddenly felt a sense of duty towards them. "Don't worry boys, I've got your back."