The girl waited on the rooftop, the wind blowing softly, ruffling her hair. The rooftop was high enough that everything below was muted. 'A perfect place for Hibari Kyouya, right?' she thought. 'Far away from everyone. Like a skylark, always alone, always free.'
As she continued to relax, watching students head back home, she heard the door slam open, making her jump.
"You idiot woman, what makes you think that you can defeat that guy by yourself?" Gokudera shouted, storming onto the rooftop. "Maa maa, Gokudera. I'm sure that Tamako has a perfectly good reason for this." Yamamoto said, placing his hand on Gokudera's shoulder. However, as he said this, he looked at Tamako with disapproval. Tsuna then stumbled in and tried to dissuade her as well. "Tamako, you don't know this, but Hibari-san is really strong. I don't want you to get hurt."
The girl smiled softly. "Thanks everyone, but you've never seen me fight. I've already beat Hibari several times, remember? This will just be a longer drawn out fight." Then she blinked. "Wait, how did you even know about the fight? I didn't tell anyone and I'm sure that Hibari-san didn't go around and tell peopleā¦"
Tsuna looked horrified by the idea of Hibari-san telling people stuff. However, then he simply shrugged and said "Reborn, of course." The girl just sighed. 'Of course he would find out' she thought. "Oh well, make yourselves comfortable and out of the way if you want to watch" she said. The three boys looked at her, trying to find a way to dissuade her out of the fight. However, when they saw that she wasn't going to back down, they sat to the side of the rooftop.
Then, the four of them waited silently. Just as Gokudera was about to lose his patience, the door opened softly, revealing the devil himself. His black jacket blew softly in the wind, trailing behind him. His hair was disheveled and messy. 'Wow,' she thought. 'He's really hot.' Then as she realized what she was thinking, she shook her head, trying to get the image out of her head. The prefect smirked at her. "Shall we begin" he said softly, his tonfas already out and in his hands.
The girl smiled and got up. She had changed from the school uniform into more comfortable clothing, mainly shorts and a t-shirt rather than the skirt and collared shirt. The prefect looked at the clothing in disdain with his sharp grey eyes. "For being out of uniform on school grounds, I will bite you to death" he snarled and lunged forward. The girl simply watched as his tonfas neared her. Then, just as the tonfas were about to hit her, she gently steered his arms and body away from her, using the momentum that he already had. As he realized that he was moving in the opposite direction, he snarled and lunged at her again. However, the girl kept her calm, doing this repeatedly and dodging his attacks.
The boy's watched as Tamako and the prefect blurred, their movements so fast that they could hardly keep up. However, they could see as the prefect was getting obviously frustrated as he was unable to hit the girl. "Wow," Yamamoto said softly. "She's really good, being able to keep up with Hibari-senpai." Gokudera snorted but reluctantly replied "Well, she's already beaten him before so of course she would be able to keep up with him." As Tsuna was about to say something, a small blur jumped up on Tsuna's head. "Reborn" Tsuna shouted. "Stop sitting on me!" Reborn simply ignored the annoyed boy and analyzed the girl's movements. "She's using a type of fighting called Aikido. Aikido requires very little physical strength because the fighter uses the opponent's momentum and redirects the attack rather then facing it head on. However, to be this good at this, she would have had to be studying this all her life. Very few Aikido users are as good as she is." As the three boys stared at her in astonishment, Tamako was wondering when she should end the fight.
'This is boring' she thought. 'I mean I guess that I shouldn't have expected a lot since I've already defeated everyone in the Varia except for Xanxus.' Her mind wandering, she remembered her sparring with Xanxus. Since she could already quite easily defeat the rest of the Varia, the only way that she could get stronger was to fight with Xanxus. However, it was a lot of fun, so neither of them really minded. However, compared to her spars with Xanxus, this was child's play. 'Okay, It's time to end this fight' she thought. As he lunged towards her again, she quickly flipped his body and as he fell towards the ground, she slammed her knee into his stomach, knocking the breath out of him.
"I win" she said, not even out of breath, "And this is my prize." Before anyone could even tell what had happened, she was holding a pocket knife to his cheek. Then she quickly scratched his cheek with the knife, drawing a few drops of blood. Then, slowly, so the prefect could watch, she brought the blade to her mouth and licked the drops of crimson off. As she tasted the blood, her eyes turn red for a second with blood lust before turning back to her normal emerald. Then she pocketed the knife, let him up and walked to the three boys who were gaping at her. She sheepishly scratched the back of her head. "Sorry" she said. "It's a tradition that I have, to win a fight, I must draw blood. The licking part is sort of just what my Brother does, so I guess I just sort of got it off him." Seeing as they were still gaping at her, she sort of just stood there awkwardly, before walking away. "Okay, I've got homework to do, so bye-bii." As she walked off, Hibari got up, dusted off some invisible dirt and stormed off.
"Tamako, my dear precious sister, blood is wonderful to spill. It's pretty, no, beautiful. And therefore, you should always spill blood when you fight. You have killed and survived, but you have not actually experienced the art of killing. For killing to be an art, you must spill the blood, make them scream and cower before you. And when the peasant bows down in front of you in defeat, that is when you win a true fight by proving your royal blood. After all, a fight is no fun without spilling blood. Ushishishishishi, now watch as I show you the art of killing." The 13 years old girl in a white dress watched as her brother tore the screaming man apart. Blood splattering over her dress, staining it crimson red.
"Aniki" the little girl whispered. "Aniki, stop. You're hurting the man." The teenage boy turned to look at her, his entire front covered in blood. "Ushishishishi, the pain is part of the beauty, Tamako. Like your namesake, you are the jewel of the Varia. You must always sparkle and stand above everyone else, like a true princess. Now, It's your turn. Show me that I did the right thing sparing you all those years ago."
The boy handed the cowering girl a knife covered in red. She stared at the knife, before clenching the blade and approached the cowering man. The man looked at the girl in stained red and whimpered. "Please don't" the man whispered, his body shaking. The girl hesitated, as her hand shook. The boy came up behind her and put his hand around hers. "It's time for you to grow up, my cute little Imoto. You are already sparkling, but now you must be shaped into a ruby. Now, cut into him and prove your worth. Prove that you have true royal blood running in your veins. Prove that you will always be loyal to me."
Tamako woke up, sweat and tears covering her body. 'Just a memory' she thought. 'Just a memory.'
TBC
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