author's note: Hello everyone~! Next chapie finally is finished!
Pairings: Yes, as you probably already got it, this is mainly Ami x Tsuna story, though there will be different triangles from here and there (Byakuran is a very good example). There is also going to be Annette x Xanxus, look forward to write this pair a lot...I don't know why...
Yes, I have nothing else to tell you, so let's get on with this~,
disclaimer: I don't own KHR, except for my OCs.
So let the show begin~!
Chapter 2:
Friends or foe?
The next week went by with awkwardness. Although it was only between two people, the whole HQ had vibrated this feelings. Well, these two people WERE the Boss, himself, and his older sister-figure, the Queen.
Luckily, none of the guardians, except for Gokudera Hayato, the right-hand man of the Boss, were present at the time.
"Did something happen between you and Ami?" The silver haired storm guardian asked, watching his boss stiff due to the question and then spit out some of his coffee, which he was drinking (Fortunately, or unfortunately in Tsuna's case, the paper's in front of him didn't get damaged)
"Ahaha~, what makes you think that?" Tsuna sweat-dropped, trying to act cool on the subject. Though who wouldn? He didn't only get rejected fully...but also not even taken seriously.
"Well, juudaime, you kind of have been spacing out a lot since ever she returned. And it almost feels like she is trying to avoid you too. I mean, before she would come and help you with work and such most of the time." Gokudera analyzed, while giving him another file of papers that the brunette had to look at.
"No, no..what are you talking about. Ami..-nee (he still didn't know what to call her)..is just probably tired from her trip and is still recovery just from that." Tsuna gave a white lie to his old friend, taking the devilish papers (Tsuna was sure that if they were human, they would be smirking and acting like devils towards him. For sure) that said something about a contract with another family. Innerly rolling his eyes, the boss wonders why in the world does Vongola have to be so popular?
Not wanting to press the subject, the storm guardian nodded, "If that's the case, then I was worrying for nothing." The serious expression on Gokudera's face had turned lighter, making it very clear why he, the scary right-hand man of the Vongola's Boss, has so many fan girls.
Well, at least all the gossip fan girls on the net.
In the meanwhile, Ami literally did just wake up. Her messy wavy hair turned curly (yet again), so not being bother about bushing it, the brunette just put it into a very loose pony-tail.
Last night she sat yet again till very late, trying to figure out and upgrade the medical department in the Vongola (since that basically was her job) thinking about all of the sun boxes, that have the healing feature to them. And trust me when I say there are a LOT of them. Seriously.
"Good day, Ami-sama." A maid opened the big, beautifully carved, dark wooden doors.
Ami sighed, again with the '-sama'... "Good morning, Louisa." She just replied, not bothered anymore about the calling (or that she just said morning), putting on her clothes and glasses.
"You sat late yesterday too, didn't you, seniora?" Louisa asked, giggling at the messy desk and bed in front of her. On the desk were different codes and difficult medical names and lot's of papers with some experiments and a computer who was calculating some of the data (still), which the maid had absolutely no idea of.
"Sort of." was the quick reply before a yawn came out of the brunette, "Is breakfast ready in the dining hall?" she asked, feeling hungry.
The maid shook her head, "No. but lunch will be ready in a few minutes. Actually I was told to come and tell you this." Ami laughed nervously, so it was already lunch time, huh?
Putting on her doctor's coat, the brunette was about to head out before, turning around and telling the maid to not touch anything on the desk, since all of it was important.
Opening the door to the dining hall, Ami noticed her...little brother (she got now the same problem as Tsuna) sitting down at the table, eating his lunch.
The girl brunette first became just still, then pale, then a flush of pink became visible.
Anyways, the room filled with stiff, awkward, long silence. Both of the brunettes didn't know what to say or do, or even react.
So after eating in that same atmosphere her lunch, Ami decided that it enough...
"I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!" The doctor-girl screamed in frustration, holding her head.
"Tell me exactly how this turned out like this, brat?" An older female voice said, rather irritated at the circumstances, twitching her right eye. "You're really mean, you know that, Annette?" Ami replied with ghost-like face.
"Yeah, well..since when did I become your family councilor?" The same lady with the french accent asked.
Ignoring the question, the brunette continued complaining, "I mean, I don't know how to react, talk...ok, I can't even look at him anymore with feeling awkward."
Realizing that this might get interesting, the Varia cloud guardian, asked, "Hoo~, you mean there finally is a lucky guy that got a bingo?" A sly smirk, that only promised trouble was on her face, "Who is the prince charming?"
Ami palm-faced herself, "T-that's not the point...But, well..." Being the naive girl she is, the brunette answered anyways, "It's about Tsuna.."
The sly face was completely replaced with a jaw-drop and a surprised face. She expected it to be maybe Dino Cavallone, or even that cloud guardian, Hibari Kyoya, or even their own genius from the Varia, Bel in the last case (although he didn't really match the 'prince charming' picture), but...Tsunayoshi Sawada, as in the Decimo? Now, that was a surprise.
"So you started to have feelings for your brother?" Annette asked, while raising an eye-brow.
A minute of silence was there, no response. "I'm not quite sure..." the brunette finally answered, "It kind of started about a week ago, when I returned from the States."
"A week ago? What happened then? He confessed to you or something?" The older lady asked half laughing, putting another sip of wine from the glass she had. And
"He proposed." Ami answered bluntly, before turning red.
Whatever the amount of wine Annette drank, it was all spilled out now, much to her displeasure. "He did whaat?" She commented finally.
"W-well..." Playing around with her fingers, the brunette told the whole story. "But...one last question, why are you so interested?" Finally getting back to the real world, and letting her naiveness run away.
"Why not? I'm always up for some good gossips~." Telling her true intentions out, Annette gave a very pleased smile on herself, getting comfortable in the leather, big and soft armchair.
Palm-facing herself, Ami noted that she should never again talk about private things to this cat-like woman in front of her.
"Maman, you are acting like scum again." A pair of crimson eyes, glared from the door.
"Zoé? Who told you that you can call me that?" Annette raised an eye-brow at her daughter. Although most of the outer features were of her own resemblance, the inside was just like her father's.
"Papan." Zoe answered, still glaring at her mother, who stood up now.
The beautiful, model-like, slightly tanned figure stood up. Annette wore her Varia uniform, with a silky, black, long scarf going down her back (like with a ball gawn) and a pair of black high-heels, making her even taller than she already was. The long black hair was taken away into a high pony-tail, though having her bangs and some front hair stick out.
The only thing that ruined this beautiful picture, were the twitching black eyes, "Did he now? Anyways, why do you keep on listening to that idiot of a father you have?" She whined.
The daughter jerked her head away, "Fm..je préfère papan." She said with her head held high and continued her walk to God knows where.
"Heh, happy marriage life you have there~." Ami finally got her revenge. "Ha. At least I have one." Was Annette's come back, getting back to her cool and almost leaving the room.
"French woman." Ami crossed her hands in annoyance, "English brat~." Annette threw the Vongola Queen an electric eye-contact, before leaving the room to 'talk' with her 'beloved' husband.
Sighing the brunette grumbled. Annette was someone she could absolutely not stand, and yet, had to rely on all the time. What do you call this? It's probably somewhere in between rivalry and bad friendship or something. Not that either were correct.
"Well, I should probably go look for Lussuria for now." Ami told herself, standing up.
Getting out of the room, Ami found herself in the middle of a an empty hallway, 'Why can't they have a map here or something?' she thought, finally admitting that she is lost.
Yes, although the brunette has grown older, her sense of direction didn't improve even a bit. The only thing that did change, was that she was able to download any map to any place. Yay for hacking~!
But unfortunately, Ami didn't exactly think of taking her phone or mini comp with her, so...that was rather pointless.
But before she could go to an emo corner and complain her heart out to her imaginary buddies, A bush of yellow hair past her by...
"Ah! Bel! Wait up!" She shouted to catch the blond prince's attention. "Ushishishi~, the princess came here to play with the prince?" The guy turned around to the called princess that was calling him.
"I'm not a lazy Cheshire Cat like you, so don't even think about it, Bel." The girl rejected straight away, "I just wanted to ask where Lussuria is now." Crossing her hands and frowning at the lazy prince.
"But the prince is bored~." The long-banged Varia's storm guardian complained, stuffing his hands into his pants' pockets, "Fine. I'll tell you where Lussuria is, if you play with me." His signature grin grew on his face as big as ever.
"How many times do I have to tell you that it doesn't work on me?" The brunette was starting to regret of asking him and was about to start walking away, before the crazy prince caught her and gripped her left arm, turning her fully towards himself...and placing one of his knives right on top of her cheek.
"I'm sure the princess can spare some minutes for me." The grin grew even bigger as he figured he finally had her. Though the only thing that he got was a bored expression from the brunette.
Ami was so used to these actions. I mean, in the start she did get scared of the knives coming out of nowhere and such, but now it was just getting annoying. Whatever did she do to deserve this? - I don't know, maybe out-smarten the genius in the Ring Conflict and catching his attention with your 'princess' like behavior? That might be it, no?
"I don't have time to spare, so don't even think about it." She slapped the hand which held the knife away and with the one that was grabbed, she punched the poor genius in the gut. "I'll really pity your girlfriend when you get one." The brunette freed herself and turned to leave.
And just so you know, Ami's punches are not something to be taken lightly. That's why most people want to stay on her good side. But then again, there were some crazy people, especially in the mafia. Belphegor is not called the (crazy) genius for nothing, right?
He was struggling to stand up, but grinned again when he did. After all, if she wasn't like that, Ami wouldn't be his princess.
The brunette finally opened one of the doors, which led to the kitchen, "Lussuria, are you there?" She asked, almost in tears.
"Oh, dear, whatever happened to you?" The gay tone of the said man asked, walking towards the door to pet Ami.
"This place is just so confusingg~~!" She complained, going in to the room and sitting down. "Well, it can't be helped, now can it, Ami-chan?" Varia's sun guardian answered, getting a glass of water for the girl.
"I know, I know...but still-" The doctor cut her own sentence, because of a loud gunshot coming from the stairs above. "Ara~, they're at it again." Lussuria commented, "Actually, one of the reasons is because of them that we have to keep this HQ so complicated. Boss probably broke another wall or something."
The Varia's couple wasn't that far from normal, it only always took everything to another level, but that's about it.
It's just that other married couple usually argue all the time and in the most extreme case slap each other when fully in anger.
The only problem here is, both of them are professional assassins, so arguments usually led to the use of guns and flames (of wrath), which could destroy half of the Varia HQ at a time.
And one more thing, which is not exactly normal in their family was, that their daughter, Zoe, loved to watch them fight. And being the spoiled kid she is, the little devil did a lot to help that happen (just like the bit earlier). I mean, most kids in the families hate it or try to avoid arguments at any cost, this was the total different story.
"Shouldn't they be stopped before the whole HQ gets destroyed? I mean, you have followers in the building too, right?" Ami asked worriedly.
"Hmm~, stepping in between Anne-chan and Boss is probably not the best idea, since that's just suicide." Lussiria answered, quite truthfully. The brunette thought for a bit, "Yeah..and before we even get to them, that Zoe will stand in the way...Geez, that girl can be such a scare. Those red eyes are really like Xanxus's and she already can fight at her age too. She is like what now, 8?"
The flamboyant man nodded in agreement. "Well, let them be then. Hey, I came here to upgrade your box weapon, Lussuria. It took me a long time to figure this out...hope it works." Ami changed the subject.
"Eh? Upgrade Pea-chan? You can do that?" The sun guardian asked surprised, making the brunette nod. "Yup, if you just give Pea-chan to me, I'll install it straight away. And then we might be lucky to be able to heal some of the hurt followers to check if it works, right?"
It took an hour or so for Ami to upgrade the 'Peacock of Serenity' box weapon, but it seemed to work. So they went to the next floor to check if there are any injured Varia followers there. Luckily (or unluckily for them) there were.
Poor guys who got in between the wrath of the Black cat and The Varia boss.
By now, that argu -no...- battle finished, leaving only broken walls (and people) lying around. Xanxus was already again sitting comfortably in his king like chair drinking tequila, while Annette went to another room to get another bottle of red wine. Neither cared about what they did to the floor.
"They will never change, right?"Ami commented looking sympathetically at the scene in front of her.
Piling up all of the injured people, the man with the red mohawk used Pea-chan with it's new upgrade to check if it worked. And it did. It healed all of the wounds (and grew hair and nails on it as well).
"Well, now you can heal in bigger numbers too." Ami said, proud of her own work. "You really are a genius~ Ami-chan, this is great!" The supposedly older man did the caramel dancing moves. It looked really weird, but the brunette knew that it was a compliment, so she smiled back at him, "My work here is done, so I'll just go then." The girl waved her hand at the Varia's sun guardian, who waved back saying, "Visit whenever you want~!" Who would?
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Month passed by in blink of one eye. Ami worked hard around, helping the allied families and making new medicines, trying to improve different, important box weapons. She was so busy, that it almost seemed she forgot what happened between Tsuna and her.
In a very short time, the name of the great doctor was spread across the underworld.
Then one day came a note to her. It said that their boss was sick and they needed professional help. The Giglio Nero Famiglia wasn't an ally of the Vongola, but they weren't on bad terms either, so Ami didn't even think twice before going there to see the problem.
Coming close to an old-looking traditional italian-styled building, Ami's face turned serious, "Don't shoot, I'm Ami, the doctor you called for." The doctor coat kind of helped them to believe it a bit more.
"You arrived quicker than we thought you would." A man in a black suit came out from his hiding spot. "I came as quickly as possible, what's the condition of your boss now?" The brunette got straight to the point.
"She seems fine, but stays in bed the whole day, it has been like that for a while now." The man answered. "Lead me to her." The girl commanded.
One of the reasons that Ami came here without a second thought was because she knew that the Giglio Nero's boss was the sky arcobaleno. If anything, the brunette has been also breaking her head about trying to figure out how to break that curse, but had no success.
"Ah, Ami-chan is it?" A warm smile of the Sky arcobaleno was sent towards Ami, who nodded in response.
When they were left alone (although the man were standing right outside of the door) Ami took out an A-level sun ring and a yellow box. Using her flames from the ring she opened the box, out of which came a rather middle sized suitcase.
"Shall I start checking?" The brunette asked, going fully into professional mode.
For several days, Ami tried to come up with something to help avoid the illness. Though even with all-nighters, she couldn't find anything to help.
"Please don't strain yourself so much, Ami-chan." The gentle, already looking more sick, lady in the bed said coughing a bit, "The curse can't be broken anyhow anyways. I've already accepted this fate."
"I'm sorry, Aria-san..." The brunette set next to the bed, taking Aria's hand.
"It's sad when we, the sky arcobalenos, have the power to see the future, but can't do much when our deaths are near..." The dark-green haired lady continued talking in a quiet, sad voice.
"No, don't talk like that..." The brunette tried to deny what's going to happen. "There is still time...I'll try to figure something out..."
"I'm happy to see that you care so much, but my time has really come. Though I might just be of a little help still..."Aria continued her last words, "In the near future you will be tested on various subjects...Actually, I'm afraid to say that you'll be having a hard time. The person you thought was a good friend of yours, will turn against those that you love to get what he wants...That person is a part of the trinisette, the rightful owner to the Mare rings.." She stopped to take a breath.
Ami listened closely, though she didn't exactly know what the lady in front of her was saying. So she just stayed quiet.
"I really would've preferred to at least not make my daughter go through this, but I believe I must..." It was then when the door to the bedroom was open and a young girl that had Aria's features came in. The little orange flower right under her left cheek, which underlined the fact that she was Aria's daughter, which was the tattoo of the Giglio Nero bosses.
"Good day Ms. Ami, my name is Uni." She said. Uni was obviously sad about her mother dying, but she tried to stay strong and not cry.
"Ami-chan, can I ask you for a favor?" Aria had asked, getting the attention to herself. "Of course, Aria-san." The brunette answered wholeheartedly.
"Please take care of my daughter and the Giglio Nero when I'm gone..." It didn't even take a minute before the female boss of the Giglio Nero closed her eyes and died. A bitter pain went through Ami and she saw that Uni came closer to the bed. The young girl's hand were shaking, but she still held in her tears.
"It's alright to cry now..." Ami said, with a rather emotionless face. It wasn't the first time she saw a person die in front of her. The point was, that she felt helpless and useless.
The only thing she could think of right now was to hug the poor girl who just saw her mother die in front of her. The girl finally broke out into silent tears when she couldn't hold it any longer.
They stood in that pose for a very long time, until Uni felt strong enough again to face the family and become their next boss.
*sniff**sniff* Uwaahh~! Aria, why did you have to die so soon?
This moment in the manga and anime made me always teary, Giglio Nero Famiglia just has to be this moving, right? TT^TT
Well, I hope you enjoyed this chapter ^^, please review and tell me how you felt.
Oh, and by the way, if anyone is confused to why Annette calls Ami 'English brat', it's because she really is English. So~, since I'm really evil (Ami: and super lazy. Director: HEYY! Am not!) you'll have to read the first story: The sister of Vongola Decimo to find out her past.
