Yo! to my beloved readers, alerters, favouriters and reviewers. Chapter 10 is up. The action's sucky as usual and I'm not sure you'll like the way I ended the battle. Please R&R anyways.

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Devil's Angel Chapter 10- Conclusion of the Wind Battle.

Kageshi pulled the trigger.

A huge column of flame shot towards Yuka, who was unprotected by any barrier jacket now, completely surrounding where she was and obliterating any of the weaker panes of glass in its path as well as creating a huge hole all the way through the school building that marked the boundaries and further. This shot would definitely kill anyone who was unprotected no matter how strong they were. (Imagine Tsuna's X-burner, but fired out of a huge black bazooka and the blue-yellow of real flames – not bright orange)

From the roof, Tsuna and co. watched the huge attack which left black columns of smoke in its wake, wide eyed.

"S-She can't have died, r-r-right?" Tsuna said, wide eyed as he stared at the huge columns of smoke.

"Without her barrier jacket, not even Yuka could survive an attack of that magnitude" Reborn said. His face was grave. He really had thought that Yuka had a chance of winning, after all her hard work training. Apparently not…

"Ushishishishi… Even the Devil's Angel was burnt to a pile of ash and smoke by our Kageshi" Bel said.

"Then let's go now. Time is money therefore wasted time is wasted money. We can finally get back to Italy now. Let's go" Mammon said.

"Wait! The battle is not over until one side joins the two half rings together. You must take your opponent's half-ring to win." One of the Cervello said.

Kageshi looked over to the huge cloud of smoke and flickering flames that were the result of his ultimate weapon's attack. The Devil's Angel was strong compared to the rest of the people he had killed, but she was still ultimately beaten…. Wait. Something wasn't right. Gusts of wind spread out the black smoke so that it was now grey and quickly thinning out. Kageshi thought he saw a humanoid shadow silhouetted behind the smoke. A huge gust of wind blew the last of the smoke away, revealing the Devil's Angel, standing there perfectly alive and uninjured apart from minor cuts and burns, with an evil black aura surrounding her, depicting the images of all the evil monsters and scary creatures that could ever be imagined.

In front of her was the big pane of curved glass which had made the bullets from before explode. This pane looked a bit more cracked and disfigured than the rest of them (though not much since they already were supposed to look cracked), and parts of it looked like clear wax, having been melted and starting to drip but immediately hardening once the heat source disappeared. Yuka reached out her gloved hand, placing one black-aura-emitting finger onto the curved pane of glass. It shattered immediately into a million shards of hot, hard glass, not being able to take the pressure of one finger and its gravity-warping black aura after the tremendous force that it had to withstand.

Reborn smirked, "I see… It seems that Yuka hid behind the pane of glass, and her aura absorbed any of the excess flame."

-And Reborn was right, though his explanation had been greatly simplified. You see, when Yuka's black aura was growing darker and deeper after her mask had been cracked, the mask's lenses had finally found a function that would let her see the strength of each pane of glass. Coincidently, the curved pane of glass that had cornered her and ultimately led to the destruction of her battle jacket – was actually pretty much the strongest sheet of glass on the battle-field, according to the strength filters of her cracked mask's working eye lenses.

Yuka had seen Kageshi charging his huge bazooka, and having the weapons and technology obsession that she did as well as having perfect memory when it came down to said technology and weapons, she quickly remembered the potential power of this weapon of mass destruction and compared it to the strength of the glass behind her. The glass would break eventually if subjected to the attack for a while, but with the length of time of the attack being what it was, it might just hold- And Yuka was pretty sure that even if it broke, her black aura would absorb most of the excess flame. All this information had gone through her head in a few seconds.

Just as Kageshi fired, Yuka quickly flew behind the glass. She was surrounded by blue yellow flames, which spread as it hit the glass, going around Yuka instead of burning her to a crisp as it would if the glass wasn't there, but still, Yuka could feel the intense heat. The density of the air within her black aura didn't allow any flames to intrude, though even if they had, they mayn't have had much of an effect since Yuka had applied flame-resistant lotion to her skin. Throughout the length of the attack (10 sec max.), Yuka had saw the cracked-looking glass truly crack, a little at a time while beads of molten glass got thrown along with the flame. But Yuka couldn't afford to worry about the inevitable breaking of the glass. She had to use her time wisely to attack Kageshi while he still thought she was dead.

In her murderous trance, she quickly muttered a string of commands to her mask. She was only just getting serious, starting to use her own weapons of mass destruction, just as Kageshi had used his. The column of flame had disappeared, leaving small fires and a huge black cloud of smoke which was quickly getting dissipated in the huge winds. Yuka muttered the last of the commands as the last of the smoke disappeared and a fleet of sleek black missiles flew out from both a box in her belt and her laptop, which was sitting on a the round platform. She put one gloved finger on the glass, which had surprisingly lasted, but had more cracks in it than could be counted. Not surprisingly, the glass shattered on touch, the tiny amount of pressure enough to separate the millions of shards of glass that had somehow managed to still be held together after the attack, but couldn't stand anything anymore.

Kageshi saw this, and heard the swishing of missiles that were clearly faster and more high tech than the ones from before, coming towards him. He dodged them and thought that that was that. But the missiles curved from their paths aiming straight back at him. He hid behind one of the stronger pieces of glass, expecting the missiles to come after him and merely hit the glass, but they swerved around the glass panes, exploding all at once as they hit him. Each missile had the strength to obliterate any living thing in a 3 metre radius and since this was tens of missiles exploding all at once, It was just as well that Yuka had moved away to mutter commands for her next attacks. But Kageshi wasn't any normal living thing and Yuka knew that. Even after the smoke cleared, Kageshi was still standing, clearly injured, but his injuries not slowing him down in the slightest. Only death would ever be able to stop Kageshi- and killing Kageshi was practically impossible.

Before, Yuka had just wanted to win a quick win without death or destruction of the school (And she was pretty sure she'd win), but after the damage done to her beloved mask, she really wanted to slaughter Kageshi, even though her genius mind had already thought of a way to win without doing so. She would use that way to win in the end, but she delayed it so that she would have more time to torture Kageshi. It would definitely work as long as Kageshi didn't notice it (maybe it'll work even if he did)- and Yuka had taken all the preventative measures to ensure it wouldn't be noticed.

She quickly activated all her CMBs (Compact mini-Bots- The exact ones from training), which were all programmed to aim at Kageshi and unlike the times when they were used for training, any limiters were taken off and they wouldn't drop unless they were really broken (Which was unlikely since their outer shells were coated with really hard substances).

Yuka put back her whip, taking out a flame thrower from out of nowhere and shooting it in the direction of Kageshi, who was quite easily dodging the CMBs but was having a little trouble destroying them with the guns, instead taking out his scythe and chopping them to bits. The flame thrower actually did manage to extend that column of flame throughout the great distance in between them (It did help that the huge wind was blowing toward Kageshi. What a convenient coincidence. O.o).

The great thing was, the CMBs were flame resistant and since her attack was merely fire, while Kageshi was trying to avoid getting burnt- while at the same time trying not to get fried, blown up, stabbed, baked, frozen, etc, The CMBs were cruising along comfortably, not caring about the flames that were coming out of Yuka's flame thrower. Yuka really wanted to see Kageshi's flesh smoulder and crinkle up, becoming black as it burnt, giving off that horrible smell of burnt flesh that proved that he was suffering. Kageshi had cracked her beloved mask, which had been with her longer than the name "Devil's Angel" had, so he deserved to suffer. That man may be the best at hiding and ignoring pain, but no matter what, he would still feel it.

Indeed, if Kageshi felt any pain, he didn't show it. He hid behind the safety of the stronger panes of glass as he sliced more and more of the CMBs to pieces while Yuka followed his dodging to continue trying to burn him with the flame-thrower. All was well, and considering that Kageshi's minor injuries were gradually building up while Yuka wasn't getting injured at all. That was until…

"Look out!" came the familiar blonde's voice out of nowhere. Yuka's heart skipped a beat, quickly turning around to look at Dino, who had arrived along with Kyouya. (See, Kyouya was in the forest behind his home, sparring with Dino when he saw a huge column of flame arising from his school. Kyouya had kinda gotten the impression that his sister was invincible, and would never let his school be damaged, so he decided to continue sparring with Dino instead of watching her battle. But seeing the huge column of flame, he really wondered whether Yuka and his school were alright. Similarly, Dino, who didn't yet know that Yuka was the Devil's Angel, knew that Tsuna's Wind Guardian would be up against the strongest guardian of Varia, and that if that column of flame and debris meant she had been defeated, then it would mean that the Varia had won and would probably exterminate Tsuna and co. So they decided to head towards the school). But Yuka, in turning around, hadn't noticed her position until it was too late.

"Thirty minutes are up. The battle field's weapons will now shoot at anything it its vicinities" One of the Cervello said at the same time as ten machine guns all started shooting at Yuka. In her murderous trance, she had failed to notice that Kageshi had lured her to an area surrounded with the pillars in which the weapons were hidden, knowing that thirty minutes were almost up and the weapons would appear soon, and moving himself to an area without many pillars while he destroyed more of the CMBs. Furthermore, Dino had distracted Yuka, who may've noticed the machines sooner if she hadn't spent the time to spin around and look at Dino. Kinda ironic, how Dino was probably the cause of the bullet wounds on Yuka's body.

Although Yuka had managed to dodge most of the bullets from the machine guns while making sure that her vital body-parts weren't hit and her black aura slowed any bullets down, reducing impact, three bullets managed to find their way into Yuka and many more had grazed her skin, leaving it tender and red. She was hit on her shoulder, arm and near her stomach, blood welling there as well as all over her body where the bullets grazed her. It hurt like hell, but she didn't let that slow her down- she had been through worse.

She quickly flew to the central platform, blood dripping as she flew, picking up her laptop from where she had left it. Knowing its strength, she used it as a shield as she typed, trying to hack her way into the system that was controlling the weapons. But before she got a chance to do so, Kageshi attacked with his scythe so suddenly that she only had a chance to raise her hand to defend. Her hand had protective gloves on, one of the only things that hadn't been completely obliterated along with the rest of her battle jacket, but it was also less strong than the rest of her battle jacket, to ensure full mobility to her fingers- and it wouldn't hold up against Kageshi.

Yuka got flung downwards, her hand now bleeding with a huge gash on it but despite the fact that now both her arms were injured in some way or other, she smiled evilly behind her mask. She had seen what she had wanted to see- confirmed that it was working as it should be and knew that victory was hers, no matter how much more battered up she got. Slowing down to a hover (using her fire-powered shoes of course), she continued the fight, both of them avoiding the automatic weapons easily now that they knew of them. The fight was almost even- Kageshi with his scythe and black-aura-emitting Yuka with her Squalo-sword again. Both got injuries- but Kageshi didn't seem to be affected by them at all.

Unknown to Kageshi, his half-ring and the chain on which it was hung on harboured hundreds of small micro-robots, all having been planted on him during the beginning of the battle, when they were fighting a close-combat battle as they were now. The largest of these robots was about the size of a small button (1cm diameter). It had attached itself to the half-ring, so that it would be difficult if not impossible to separate them until it was commanded to. The rest of the robots were each the size of a sugar crystal ( Built small to avoid discovery), created using the latest micro-technology research. These micro-bots contained concentrated doses of hydrochloric acid, releasing a steady stream of it- though only a few micrograms at a time so that it wouldn't be noticed. Hundred of these micro-bots sat on the link on which the half-ring hang from, slowly but steadily eating through the metal.

Kageshi was indeed the best at hiding and ignoring pain. While Yuka was getting more tired from her injuries, he had completely shut off his (though they were as bad, if not worse than Yuka's), creating more broken bones, gashes and bruises on the Devil's Angel. He felt a slight irritation near his neck, where the half-ring was hanging, but quickly dismissed the thought of it being anything more than simply skin irritation as he swerved to dodge Yuka's sword attacks, and the exploding projectiles that came with them. She had clearly run out of missiles, and was getting slower- to the point where she could actually be seen by Tsuna and co., though to them, she was still a blur, and still very fast. Kageshi had Yuka cornered by a glass pane, who was shooting out exploding projectiles that once dodged, were harmless- only able to impair his vision with all the smoke it had created- and since she knew exactly where she was- it didn't slow him down in the slightest. Kageshi was about to finish her off, when he felt the chain on his neck sliding off. He paused, looking at the chain slide off, realising that the ring wasn't falling with it- it was no where to be seen, with all that smoke from those explosions.

Of course, Yuka had created the smoke on purpose as she saw the link of Kageshi's chain being completely eaten away, this activating the small robot that was attached to Kageshi's Half-ring. She knew that the inbuilt wings of the robot would expand and send the ring straight towards her, and that it did. Yuka saw the ring emerging from the smoke with the wings from her robot. She caught it in her hand adeptly, despite all her broken bones, joining it with her own and thus winning the battle of the Wind, despite not having actually beaten Kageshi physically. The only requirement was to join together the two-half rings, and that she had done.

"The winner of the Wind battle is the Devil's Angel" One of the Cervello announced. Kageshi shrugged and went back to the Varia's side, easily dodging the tonfa swipes from Kyouya, who had seen his sister get injured by Kageshi, and really wanted to bite Kageshi to death, as well as all the missiles that Gola Mosca shot out for losing. Varia's policy was to eliminate the weak, but though Kageshi had lost, he was anything but weak. He certainly wouldn't be harmed by a mere robot. "The Next battle would be that of the Mist" the Cervello continued, before leaving, followed by the Varia.

"Hmm… Mist. Kyouya would be very pleased. I should like to meet Rokudo Mukuro myself…" Yuka muttered as she walked over towards Tsuna and Co., her black aura disapperaing.

"Are you alright? You're bleeding everywhere." Tsuna asked. Indeed, she was bleeding everywhere, blood even flowing from the enlarged crack on her mask- How can a person who was bleeding everywhere be alright? Common sense- they aren't alright.

"Yeah, I am bleeding everywhere…." Yuka said, feeling all the pain coming back to her - she was starting to feel dizzy as well. She took off her mask, which was stained with her blood, before starting to fall back.

'Yuka!" A concerned Tsuna said- a crowd was gathering around her.

"You're… Yuka?" Dino asked, looking down on her.

"Yeah…" She managed to say, flashing a last smile which made Dino flush, before being swallowed up into a vortex of pain and darkness, slowly disappearing as she fell unconscious.

At 4 am, Dino paced back and forth in the private hospital room. The doctor said that Yuka had lost a lot of blood, as well as having broken a multitude of different bones, fracturing half the bones of her body, and received many other more relatively minor injuries. It was a miracle that she was still alive, though they didn't know when she was going to wake from her unconsciousness. Dino was still absorbing the shocking information that Yuka was the Devil's Angel, remembering Reborn's comment about how the sister of Hibari Kyouya couldn't be as innocent as she seemed. Gradually, he started to accept the fact that Yuka was the Devil's Angel, eventually falling asleep with his head in his arms on Yuka's hospital bed.

It was ten in the morning on the next morning, the sun waking Yuka from her slumber. She saw Dino sleeping peacefully and smiled at his adorable face. In the end, she decided that she still did like this adorable bucking bronco. By the bedside table, were cards and flowers; clearly from Tsuna and his friends. Her laptop and Mask was also there. Sitting slightly away from these colourful gifts was a tin of green tea leaves. So Kyouya had come as well. Yuka smiled even more; she really was in a very good mood despite her aching body. The peaceful aura that she emitted when she wasn't purposefully trying to manipulate people really was… nice - much more beautiful than her manipulative sparkling façade. This peaceful Yuka was what Dino saw when he woke up, his face turning completely red. Yuka had woken up in mere hours – not the days or weeks that the doctors had said she would.

"Ah… You woke." Yuka said. Dino immediately straightened up.

"Are you alright? I'll call the doctor." He turned to find the doctors

"No, I'm fine… Stay here…." Yuka said, grabbing onto Dino's hand, stopping him from leaving. Dino turned around, looking at Yuka's pleading grey eyes. Her face had been mostly protected by the mask, a bandaid on her forehead being the only sign of injury there. The rest of Yuka's face was as it did normally- beautiful- with wavy black locks framing a delicate-looking (emphasis on the looking bit) features, her expression more soft-looking than it normally was. His face turned red as a tomato.

On impulse, he bent down, and kissed Yuka on the lips.

Yuka's eyes widen slightly, her face turning pink as she kissed him back. What was wrong with her? Dino was just another guy, wasn't he? This was merely as kiss. Why was she turning completely pink?

Dino broke the sweet moment in embarrassment, though a voice at the back of his head was shouting, "She kissed me back! She kissed me back!"

Yuka turned her head slightly away, her face still hot. Dino broke the awkward silence by saying, "Umm… I'll go and tell the doctor you woke up" before leaving the room, his face still bright red.

By the time he had come back with the doctor in tow, Yuka had regained her composure and façade, quickly starting to try and convince the doctor to let her leave. The doctor, however, was dead set on her staying, going on and on about how serious her injuries were and how she shouldn't even be alive. Yuka's good mood was the only thing stopping her from killing the stupid doctor then and there (half her bones broken or not)-and her good mood was starting to waver with the doctor's annoying ranting.

Fortunately, Yuka didn't have to dirty her hands (with blood) because Kyouya came. With one glare, the doctor was sent scurrying off, submitting to letting Yuka leave- though placing great emphasis on her staying in the wheelchair at all times and not using her injured body parts at all- i.e. sitting in a wheelchair all day doing nothing. Of course, Yuka ditched the wheelchair as soon as they were out of the hospital. Sure, walking was painful -scratch that- moving was painful- But it was way better than doing nothing, constricted on a wheelchair- More specifically- an old useless wheelchair that had no technology what-so-ever. Even if she was to go around in a wheelchair- it would be in one that she had made- with all sorts of functions that would give her the freedom she would have if she weren't injured- not an old wheelchair that would merely be a handicap.

Yuka's limo came to pick her up and inside it they sat. On the journey back to Yuka's home, Dino sat on one side, facing Yuka and Kyouya (diagonally). Throughout the trip, Kyouya noticed his sister and tutor both acting strangely. The silence was awkward as they avoided each-other's gazes, though their eyes somehow managed to meet every minute- flickering away to look out of the window as they noticed each-other looking but eventually wondering back to each-other. Yuka stopped this cycle, staring straight on at Dino and breaking the awkward silence.

"Dino, how's training with Kyouya been?" she said, flashing her usual sparkling smile. Yuka had decided that to avoid the awkward situation that they were in from embarrassment, all she had to do was not be embarrassed- so she hid her embarrassment behind her façade.

With the awkward atmosphere broken, it was easier to reply. "It's going well. Kyouya's been improving quite a lot."

Kyouya did not like being talked about as if he weren't there- so he proceeded onto glaring at Dino, who began to feel a chill down his back that Kyouya's glare had caused. He shifted uncomfortably, trying to use is eyes to somehow inform Yuka of Kyouya's glaring.

"Nee… Kyouya, I'm all beaten up so I can't spar with you anytime soon. I'd like to avoid fighting until I get better so you'd have to make do with the klutz over there for the time being" Yuka said cheerfully to Kyouya.

In the background, Dino was saying, "Klutz? I'm not a klutz."

"Face it. Without your subordinates you're even clumsier than a Klutz" Yuka said teasingly before continuing her conversation with Kyouya while Dino sulked in the corner. Finally, they had arrived at the driveway of the Hibari residence.

Yuka smiled, "Cheer up Dino. I was just joking. I'll have my driver take you to your hotel. You really need some sleep or you'll get bitten to death by Kyouya in training later. See ya later then~" and she entered her property, completely wrapped in bandages yet managing to still walk as if without injuries.

The limo drove again, and Dino was left alone in the huge car. His thoughts wondered to their kiss… How soft Yuka's lips felt… No! What was he thinking about? This was wrong. He tried to stop his mind from repeatedly replaying the memory in his mind- not really succeeding. By the time he had arrived at the hotel where Romario was waiting, his cheeks were flushing.

"Boss… Why are you're cheeks pink? What were you doing?" Romario asked.

"N-nothing…" Dino replied, quickly walking up towards his hotel suite. Romario wasn't convinced. Boss seemed to care a lot for Ms Hibari. He even stayed at the hospital over night for her. And now he was blushing for no reason. Romario couldn't help but wonder what had happened between the two of them… Anyhow, it was a good thing that boss had found someone he liked. He had been so wrapped up in Mafia affairs that he hadn't had much of a chance to do the normal things that youths of his age did. Partying? If formal Mafioso parties gone to as the Cavallone Boss counted. Night Clubbing? He was way too clumsy to dance and if he brought his subordinates… Can you imagine what a racket group of black suited middle-aged men would cause in a public night-club? Dating? He had too many fan-girls than could be counted back at Italy but never had he ever dated any of them seriously- since the stalker fan-girls would find out sooner or later and being the bitches that they were, something would happen to whoever he was dating and yeah... So now that they were in Japan, maybe it was a good thing for boss to relax and have someone he liked…

Yuka spent most of the day modifying a hovercraft that she had made a while ago. Working with her technology was something that always worked when she wanted to distract herself from particular thoughts… -In this case, of a particular blonde… Her hovercraft had been modified to a comfortable armchair that could move as fast as the speed of sound and had many functions built in it. After hours of working with her already injured hands, she finally finished, plopping onto the chair in relief. Sitting in this hover-chair was a lot more comfortable than using her injured muscles and it could move fast, fly, and many more things- making it not a handicap, but actually being of assistance.

She happily floated into the main house, glad that she had made the armchair just the right size; Spacious and Comfortable, but still able to fit through all the doorways and such. Also, it could recline, so she could rest whenever, wherever she wanted- even in the sky, since it could fly/hover. And- it had an easily accessible pocket just for putting her laptop in. Lying in the hover-chair, she floated up to above the roof, dozing off under the blue sky. Tonight… would be the battle of the Mist- the battle of the illusionists- and Yuka had always been curious abut illusions, ever since she noticed that if she concentrated hard enough, she could make scary creatures appear to float about in her dark aura…

Yeah... I had them kiss... Was is too sudden maybe? Tell me through reviews or PMs. The truth is, I had finnished writing the battle and the chapter was really short so... the idea kinda just popped into my head and Yeah... I can picture the scen perfectly in my head but I don't think I wrote it down too well.

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