I'M BAAAAAAAAAAACK MY DARLINGSSSSSSS!
And I brought another lovely chapter with me
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The updates of this story are going to be way tooooooo slow so please, please, PLEASE bear with me, to be honest I'm just going to update once a month or so... yeah... sorry guys...
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Rated T because of slight gore and because I'm paranoid! Rate might change.
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Disclaimer: KHR is not mine (unfortunately) I just own the plot and a few characters I'll add later in the story.
Summary: After a traumatic event that scared Tsuna both physically and mentally when she was younger, she decided that waiting for her patents and twin brother to notice her wasn't worth loosing herself in the process. Leaving home and creating a new life was difficult but it was worth it, but the arrival of certain hitman will change it? Even though her twin is the one supposed to become Vongola Decimo?
Pairings: Fem27xAll (for now)
Warnings: mentions of child neglect and bullying as well as death
"Blah..." talking
'Blah...' thinking
"Blah..." dreams/flashbacks
Published: 11-01-13
The Ring Battle
- Friends And Enemies -
(Rejection)
*Last Time*
"Are you planning to fight for the position?" he asked almost happily.
"She what? she can't do that unless..." Lal Mirch started but stopped suddenly, I guesses trying to understand what was happening and finally figured out "oh..." yeah, oh.
"What? no! no, I'm not going to fight for the position unless we really need and don't have other option" I quickly threw the idea out of the window "but I'm sure XanXan will" really, really sure.
"Then we need to protect the rings!" Lal yelled and I could almost pictured her slamming her tiny fists on a table.
"No, I'm sure Iemitsu is planning to sent half of the rings here in Namimori soon, Lal you have to convince him to sent a fake set with one of his proteges preferably without being too obvious, the Varia then will go behind him and we will let them steal the fake set of rings" I ordered feeling my HDWM activating.
"You talk just like a boss..." I heard Nono... sniffing? I must be going crazy.
"Are you crying?" please tell me I'm hearing wrong.
"N-No..." yeah, sure you are not...
"And then what?" interrupted Lal.
"Then we let fate take it's course, XanXan needs to accept the truth" it was enough of his daddy issues.
"Alright" Lal said as well as the rest.
"And Nono? Make sure you sent me a document giving me some kind of authority over the Ring Battle, there is something fishy and I don't want to take any chances, XanXan's mind works really weirdly I have no idea if he has a hamster or a chipmunk running inside that head of his"
"I will sent it to you, expect it today or tomorrow" Coyote said and I heard the rest of the guardians laughing about the joke I just made.
"Okay, take care old fart, I mean it" I really didn't wish anything had happening to Nono, I had to admit I really had taken a liking to him after all this years.
"I will Rose, take care too"
"Always"
Tsuna's PoV
Just as I predicted, XanXan indeed went after Baka-Hiko and I was now on my way to interrupt whatever that might happen during the Ring Trials, the second battle was today. Stupid Vongola informers, they are so unreliable.
I jumped from building to building and a couple of seconds later I could see a huge cage with electric poles in Namimori-chuu's rooftop, it must mean that it is the Thunder battle then.
When I finally reached my destination, the Cervello bitches were explaining the suckers the rules of the battle.
"Once again, you can't intervene on the battle, if you do, it would be an automatic loose for both, the person who is fighting and the person who intervened" of of the pink haired bitched said, I never liked them...
"And th-"
"Hello bitches" I greeted the Cervello girls with a sly grin, the only persons that knew who I was behind the metal mask that covered the upper half of my face were the Varia (and maybe the Cervello bitches too but I wasn't really sure and I don't think the really care anyway), Takehiko and I weren't identical twins, we were the total opposite if each other. While I resembled Nana, Takehiko resembled his father, in every fucking aspect.
But back at the subject in hand.
"You have no authorization of being here" one of the twin bitches said and I rolled my eyes at her, not that they would notice anyway.
"On the contrary my dear, I have every right" I smirked smugly at her showing her the document with the dying will flame in which Nono authorized me to be a judge of the Ring Battle and I could see from the corner of my eyes XanXan frowning displeased with the turn of events.
"There must be a mistake, I'm sure that document is annulled with the one Cervello has" XanXan said.
"No, no my little ice cube" he frowned even more at this making me laugh inwardly, I'm so evil "my orders just came earlier today, meaning mine should annul Cervello's making me the only judge" I saw Baka-Hiko cheering and smirked evilly "but since I really like the Varia so much I will let Cervello be a judge too"
"WHAAAAAAT?" both Sawada's cried.
"Man, they are loud" I shook my head, good thing I left that house many years ago, no doubt I would have become either annoyingly loud or irrevocably deaf, maybe even both of them.
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" XanXan stated laughing maniacally.
"Geez, don't you want your dramatic music in the background too? maybe I can make it" he glared at me but then smirked.
"It's been too long Rose" he smiled at me using my code name, yeah, Xanxus SMILED, freaky isn't it?
"Apparently not enough" I couldn't help myself, it was like an instinct to be sassy...
"Always so bitchy" he signed as if remembering something. Let me enlighten you guys, XanXan and I don't really know each other, we never really talked or even communicated before, a few years ago Nono suddenly decided he wanted me to visit Italy while Iemitsu was away on a mission, so one day I had decided to explore the mansion I ended up in the basement thanks to my annoying HI and that's how I 'met' him, a few hours later Nono found me and explained me everything, I asked if he could listen to is but the old fart answered no, that he was completely frozen, even though, my HI told me that wasn't true, XanXan could hear us. So being the little angel I was back then, the rest of my 'vacations' there I spent them visiting XanXan every day.
"Yah, yah, moving on, I think we still have work to do" I said referring to the Thunder battle.
"Wait a second!" freakishly annoying Iemitsu yelled "I never hear any of this!" he frowned.
"Me neither" the Sun Arcobaleno's squeaky voice said.
"That's because you haven't been reporting to Nono but instead to Baka-Mitsu over there Baby Sun" I told the baby, and now that I remember about it... "Nono is very angry with you asshole" I told the blue eyed fucker.
"What?" he asked dumbfounded, I wasn't sure if he was pretending or if he was just that much of an idiot, probably the later.
"Don't call that my dad bitch!" Baka-Hiko growled at me but I simply ignored him, no need to get riled up by mere trash... and now I'm starting to talk like XanXan... geez, give me a break...
"You sent the Sun Arcobaleno to train Baka-Hiko to become the Vongola Decimo without Nono's permission, of course the old fart is angry" I told him rolling my eyes.
"I received the order from Nono himself" the Arcobaleno said making me snort.
"He didn't gave it to you personally, a document like that could be easily falsified by the Vongola's Don CEDEF leader, who is Iemitsu who by the way wanted nothing more than to make his son the next Don of the famiglia mind me tell you" Iemitsu suddenly cowered a little at the glare the Arcobaleno sent him.
"What have you done Baka!" the baby hitman growled.
"I-I-I..." said idiot stammered nervously.
"Hello? anyone there? as much as I would love to see Iemitsu getting his ass handed, I still have something to do and I can't do them if this fight hasn't ended yet so both Thunder Guardians please step in the arena" I ordered, no place to argument.
Levi A Than stepped into the arena after giving me a short bow. Him and the rest of the Varia met about a year ago, Nono had assigned us to work together and despite how destructive we all can be we became good friends, maybe our destructiveness brought us together, who knows...
"Oi Baka-Hiko, your guardian?" I asked.
"Don't call me that!" he screeched "and here it is" he said showing me a... baby cow? no, a child dressed as a cow! what the hell? that is wrong in so many levels! call child abuse!
"A kid? you are going to sent this kid to his imminent death?" how cruel can he be?
"Uhmm..." and that ladies and gentle man, is Baka-Hiko, the most Baka person I have ever met...
"Ugh, whatever" it's none of my business anyway... "both Thunder Guardians in the arena"
The baby cow -now identified as Lambo- entered the arena too dragging in his hand a set of horns while the other was picking in his nose, that's just... ew...
The battle ended with Levi A Than as the winner and Lambo as the nearly killed loser that I had to save. Thank god Levi actually listened to me and let him live, I would have lived with guilt for the rest of my life.
"The winner is Varia's Thunder Guardian, Levi A Than" one of the twin bitches announced making me roll my eyes, thanks for stating the obvious "the next battle will be between the Storm Guardians Gokudera Hayato and Prince Belphegor" oh, so next is the battle between geniuses... interesting, I wonder who will win...
"I really do wonder who..."
A week has passed since the Thunder Battle, and so far, this didn't look good for the Varia, they were loosing and pretty badly. The only rings they possessed at the moment were Thunder and Storm...
"I do hope you have a Plan B XanXan" I told the scarred man, we were now witnessing the Mist Battle and Mammon was getting his ass handed by a little school girl. That's right, face Nagi's wrath bitches!
"I don't need it" he simply said, arrogant much?
"What will you do if Mammon looses? I don't think the Gola Mosca can go against Baka-Hiko's Cloud Guardian, that kid looks too strong to go against a machine" I said "if this goes on, you will lose" he suddenly smirked and I felt my HI going haywire, there was something wrong here, something terribly wrong!
"I do have a plan" he started "but you don't need to worry about that, I will win in the end" he vowed and I grimaced at my own thought, I needed to talk with Iemitsu.
Mammon lost in the end just like I had predicted... thank you Hyper Intuition.
I was right now with Baka-Hiko's team trying to find where the hell Baka-Mitsu was.
"He's not here" my eyebrow twitched at that, of course he wan't here, I knew that already!
"I know that" I tried responding as calmly as possible "I want to know where is he"
"Why do you want to know where my dad is bitch? you could be planning on attacking him for all we know"I arched an eyebrow at that, seriously?
"Now why the hell would I do that?" I asked "in case you don't remember, we are on the same side" he snorted.
"As if, you made it quite clear you were on Xanxus's side when you decided to let Cervello be a judge" oh, so that is what all this is about.
"Well, letting the Cervello be a judge is not an advantage for them" Baka-Hiko adopted a confused look "I just let Cervello be a judge because that would give Xanxus a sense of security, as for now, he already thinks I'm on his side" not entirely true, but not entirely false, I would prefer if Xanxus became the Vongola Decimo instead of Takehiko, but we can't have everything we wish for, I learned that the bad way...
"So... you are on our side?" he inquired confused.
"I'm on my own side" I huffed angrily "and that means I'm on Nono's side at the moment" I assured them.
"At the moment?" the baby Sun asked "are you planning on betraying him?"
"Betraying him? you guys think too low of me" I sighed "Nono and I have a deal, as long as that contract satisfies both of us, more me than him actually, I have no reason to turn my back on him"
"A deal? what kind of deal?" Gokudera Hayato asked me and I frowned.
"I don't see why that is any of your business, but as you may, or may not know, here in Namimori I'm known as Deadly Rose" I explained and Baka-Hiko shrieked.
"What!? D-D-Deadly Rose?!" he stuttered frightened.
"Yes, Deadly Rose" I confirmed "Nono found me a few years ago and offered me to work for him and he would pay me in return, I accepted"
"Why? you can't be much older than ourselves"
"That's none of your business" I told him with a sharp tone but not being rude "now, since you aren't going to tell me where Iemitsu is, you better tell him to check on Nono" I told them "Xanxus is hiding something, and I fear it has something to do with Nono" I admitted.
"Alright, I'll send him immediately"
Almost two weeks have gone by since I started judging the Ring Battle and the battle between the Cloud Guardians was about to start.
I kept glancing back and forth between Hibari Kyouya and the Gola Mosca, something was wrong here, I knew the Gola Mosca was weaker than Hibari Kyouya by far, it was obvious at simple glance, so why was Xanxus making him fight against the feared prefect of Namimori?
Nono...
My HI had been repeating again and again, but I knew nothing of him, he wouldn't answer me, none of the ninth generation would and I had no idea why.
"Do you have news of Iemitsu?" I asked Baby Sun.
"The Baka says that there is something wrong with Nono but doesn't know what it is" Baby Sun growled annoyed.
"Just as I feared..."I muttered under my breath "Arcobaleno, have medic attention close, we might need it" I ordered him and he nodded lowering his fedora making it shadow his eyes.
"What else has Iemitsu hide from me Deadly Rose?" he asked.
"Rose is just fine" I told him earning a nod in return "and I can't tell you that"
"Why?"
"Because I was sent here to be judge, not to help you discover Iemitsu's dirty little secrets" and to be honest, it was better for me this way. No Arcobaleno would get in my way after all.
"I see..." from the corner of my eye I could see a mischievous glint in the baby's eyes and I immediately knew I was in some deep problems.
"The match between Hibari Kyouya and Gola Mosca will begin now" the Cervello bitches announced.
"And that's my clue, I gotta go" I told him before going to my post besides the Cervello girls.
As soon as the battle began, the prefect started throwing blows left and right. To be straight, Gola Mosca was getting his metallic ass handed. But then I noticed something and my blood ran cold, my eyes focusing solely on Xanxus. I was sure my face was one of horror.
"How could you...?" I asked feeling betrayed by him and jumped into the arena before he could even answer me, not that I cared. The prefect was about to deliver the final blow when I got in his way starling the audience when I threw him back.
"Gahh! Hibari-san!" Baka-Hiko shrieked when I ran towards the Gola Mosca and ripped him open revealing an unconscious Nono, he was very weak. Now I knew how the Gola Mosca was working, he was feeding off Nono's flames.
"Nono!" I cried terrified "hang on there! Reborn is getting help!" I told the elder man as I poured my own Sky flames into him helping him recover even a little "Reborn! quickly!" I yelled at baby Sun who was returning with Cavallone Dino and his men.
"Dino will take care of him now Rose" the Arcobaleno tried to reassure me.
What pretty much happened after that was that the Cervello stopped me from killing or even injuring Xanxus resulting in one of them getting hurt, something I regretted. I may be a little cruel as a result of being expose to the Mafia at such age but I wasn't heartless. After the Cervello girls stopped me they announced there would be a final battle. The Sky battle which consisted in the participation of all the guardians.
At least the worst was over...
"I will become the Vongola Decimo!" Xanxus yelled at no one in particular as he slipped the Sky Ring in his finger, I waited...
...
...
...
Nothing...
The ring rejected him.
Don't misunderstand, it's not like I don't understand. I knew since the beginning that the ring would reject Xanxus and that in the end the whole battle was useless, but Xanxus needs to know, no... understand that everything that Nono did for him -for us- was for our own good, even if we didn't knew or realized at the time.
"Xanxus..." I tried to talk to him, I even stopped using the nickname he hated so much (yes, I knew he hated it when I called him XanXan) but he stopped me with a fierce glare.
"No! shut up!" he yelled angrily, but I knew better, he was hurt.
I had to do something, and it had to be now. I hated seeing Xanxus like this...
"Xanxus! stop this nonsense now! this isn't you, this isn't the man I know you are! the Xanxus I know wouldn't have care so much about a stupid title, he would have stood up proudly in his two feet already, not a single ounce of regret of all the things he had done in the past, so what is you are not really Nono's son? " he growled at me but I simply ignored it, I wasn't done "that means nothing Xanxus, nothing! If you can't become the next Vongola Don, then let it go, don't cling to something you can't have! instead be a man and let it go, create your own Famiglia Xanxus! show Nono that you are much more worth than just Vongola! people would follow you Xanxus, many people wouldn't hesitate to follow you, the Varia would follow you" I said looking at them and nodding in acknowledge and them nodding in return "I would" and it was true. I meant it. Xanxus may be cruel, crazy, and asshole, a jerk... but he had a heart too, and that was something people didn't often saw.
"Rose..." he breathed almost as if he was relieved.
"Uhmm… I hate to interrupt this breathtaking moment, but where is my ring?" ahhhh, but of course, what a way to interrupt Baka-Hiko…
"Here" I tossed the ring at him and he barely caught it "I shouldn't be giving this to you considering Nono's opinion of you becoming the Vongola Decimo but whatever, I'm sure he will talk with you later when he is feeling better" I grumbled annoyed, why was I still doing here? my job is done.
I was practically ready to leave since there was nothing left for me to do there but was interrupted by a loud an annoying voice.
"W-wait!" ugh! what now?!
I turned around quickly and growled at him.
"What?" I gritted my teeth angrily at Baka-Hiko who kept on looking back and forth between me and the Sky ring than now was resting in his middle finger.
"Uhm... isn't the ring supposed to do something? I don't know... maybe emit a fucking bright light or some shit like that?" he asked with a confused frown in his face.
"Well... yeah, I guess..." I wouldn't know...
"Then why isn't it?" oh well, that must be because...
Because...
Ehm...
...
...
...
Wait a fucking second...
I quickly ran to his side startling him and his friends who started yelling profanities or point their weapons at me, but I ignored them, there were more important matters at hand. I took Baka-Hiko's hand in between mine and started examining the ring on it. Something caught my eyes and I felt myself gaping in desbelief.
"Uso..." I was at loss of words, this... this couldn't be happening!
The ring... rejected him?
Yay! There it is, THERE IT IS! Phew I finally was able to post this...
So that's it! you love it? hate it? please be patient I know you have a lot of questions, but all will be solved in due time.
*HDWM: Hyper Dying Will Mode.
*HI: Hyper Intuition (for those who don't know)
*CEDEF: Consulenza Esterna Della Famiglia (External consultancy family)
*Uso: impossible, it can't be, etc, etc...
I hope you like it aaaaaaaaaaaaand... don't forget to review XD
And sorry for the grammar mistakes
I-chan out~ (or Mia, whatever you like)
Bye bye!