I heard the door open and I looked up. Aragosta was standing there. "Have you learned your lesson?"

I nodded and said, "Please... Just let me go... Haven't you done enough?"

He walked over to me and patted me on the shoulder... "Ami, you will be here for a while, a long while. You might as well get used to it."

"No! I am not! Tsuna-san and Papa are going to save me... They're going to save me... I know they will..."

He laughed. "It doesn't sound like you have much faith in them. Your so-called 'saviors' are late. You must be wondering if they are coming at all."

"They are coming..."

"Are they really?" he asked. When I didn't respond, he grabbed my hand (they one he didn't break) and pulled me up. "Come on, Ami. Let's go get breakfast."

Breakfast was awkward. I didn't eat or talk, for that matter. Even when he asked me a question, I just stared blankly at my food. I was traumatized. I didn't know if Papa was coming or not. I didn't know if I would ever get out of this horrible place. And to make matters worse, he kept throwing me in the dark room. I hated it there and I wanted my pocket watch so I could kick his ass.

"Ami, you need to eat something. You must be hungry, right? Eat," he insisted. I stared at him and shook my head. "Ami, my god you're so stubborn! You're going to get sick if you don't eat anything."

"I'm not hungry." Such a huuuuuuge lie. I was starving, but I refused to eat anything. (Not literally starving, but really really hungry.) I hadn't eaten anything in three days. I took a sip of my water, because staying hydrated is essential.

Aragosta sighed. "I guess I can't force you to eat..." I pushed the food away. "Is there something else you would like?"

"As a matter of fact, yes. I want my pocket watch and I want to go home," I said.

"Ami! You are never leaving here and that's final!" he yelled.

"You're an-"

"Do you really want to finished that? One word from me and I can put you back in that dark room," he threatened.

"Asshole..."

"I'm going to let that go because you just got out of there. One more incident and you will stay there for much, much longer than one night."

"I hate you."

"I don't hate you. Actually, I think of you as my daughter," he said.

"EWWWWWWWW!" I stood up and slammed my good hand on the table in protest. "Omigod... NOOOOOOOO! I will never EVER EVER think of you as my dad, EVER! Papa Bermuda is my dad, my only dad. There is nothing you can ever do to make me change my mind."

"We'll see..." he said cryptically.

"If you do anything to wonk-up my mind, I swear I will personally kill you." Chrome-chan told me that a guy named Daemon Spade possessed her with his Mist Flames...

"If you can find your pocket watch, that is," he mocked.

"Yep... you just made number one on my most hated list."

He laughed. "All in good time, Ami. All in good time."

"I repeat: If you do anything to wonk-up my mind, I swear I will personally kill you."

He laughed. "Come with me, I'm finished eating. I have work to do." I groaned. "It's only precautionary. After you pulled that little stunt with the portal, your security has been increased." He grabbed my by the shackles on my arms and led me into his study.

"Sit down and be quiet. I have a lot of paperwork to do." I gagged at the thought of paperwork. He laughed at me. "What? Did Vongola make you do his paperwork?"

"No... Papa Bermuda made me do some of his... I hated those days."

"Wait... what? You said Bermuda? You aren't part of the Vindice, are you?"

"No, duh... My dad is the head of the Vindice... I kinda thought you already knew that. So much for investigating me."

"Well, we couldn't get much information from after you left the Estraneo Lab." I shivered and sat down. "All we could piece together was that somehow you escaped and the Estraneo guy was put in the Vindicare prison."

He got out a ball-point pen and began working. It was fun watching him suffer... for like fifteen minutes. I got soooooooo incredible bored. There was nothing at all to do except read boring books. I hated reading so that was defiantly not an option. I wished I had my phone so I could listen to music or text Tsuna-san to hurry the hell up.

I wandered around the room looked and poking at things that looked important and fragile. Aragosta looked up and said, "Don't touch that."

"I'm not touching it!" I lied. He rolled his eyes and went back to his paperwork. I decided I would make this time to annoy the hell outta him.

"What's this?" I asked pointing to something in the room that I really didn't care about.

"Thats a book, Ami."

"Oh..." Now I look stupid... Not exactly my smartest moment.

"Just sit down, don't touch anything and be quiet. I'm working."

"I'm not a dumbass!" I protested.

"Oh really? 'Whats this?' A book... Sure you aren't..."

"I'll have you know that-"

"Shut up and let me work!" he yelled.

I shut up. For the next hour or so, I twiddled my thumbs. OMIGOD I wanted to kill something it was soooooooooo boring. You do not know boredom if you haven't been stuck in a room with someone doing paperwork and/or done paperwork. Seriously, I would rather watch fake grass grow or dry paint, dry. No, I am not over-exaggerating how boring paperwork is.

The next hour, he gave me a notepad and a pencil. I started doodling. I was a horrible artist so nothing really turned out ok. But what did turn out good, my doodle of Aragosta. I gave him demon horns, a mustache, a beard, circus makeup, buck teeth, and just about anything mean. When I laughed at it, Aragosta told me to shut up. When he looked back at his work, I stuck my tongue at him.

When the third hour of boringness was almost over, a man hurried in the study. He went up to Aragosta and whispered something anxiously in his ear. Aragosta stared at me the whole time. When the man left, Aragosta stood up and grabbed my arm.

"What the hell man?!" I exclaimed.

"Be quiet and come with me!" he sounded really angry. He nearly dragged me back to the dark room.

"I didn't do anything!" I said.

"It's only a safety precaution," he said.

"To hell with that..." I whispered.

He threw me in the room, almost literally. I fell on the floor and cursed him under my breath. He walked inside and shut the door. He pulled out a key. "I'm very sorry about this." He pulled me up off the floor, grabbed me again and shoved me against the wall. He pushed me down so that I was sitting and took out shackles that were attached to the wall. "Please stay still." He attached the chains to my feet. He unlocked my shackles, but then attached the ones attached to the wall to my hands. I was chained to the wall again.

"Ok... Tell me why I'm chained to the wall...?" I asked.

"We are having a bit of a security mishap. Like I said, this is only a safety precaution," he explained. There was a bang from somewhere in the manor. He clenched his fists and took a deep breath. He walked next to me and put his hand on the wall. I looked up from where I was sitting. There was a panel of some kind on the wall. "Stand up," he demanded. I stood up. He pushed a button on the wall. It dragged me towards the wall. It pulled me closer and closer. When it was finished dragging me, I was flat against the wall with my hands almost touching my shoulders. I couldn't move. "I'm very sorry about this."

There was another loud bang. "What the hell are they doing up there?!" Aragosta fumed. "I may have to..." He was talking to himself.

"You may have to... what?" I asked.

"I'm going to put an illusion on you to blend you into the walls. You are not to say anything. Not one word or I will personally deal with your voice, myself." He was very very angry... I didn't dare reply. He casted the illusion. I was now invisible...

An exact replica of his study appeared. I suspected it was an illusion. He sat in the illusionary chair and stared at the door. I heard more loud bangs. Something was obviously going on... something serious. Is Tsuna-san here?! Did he really come?! Yes... This has to him...

There was a very loud bang right next to us... I suspected Tsuna-san was very close. My assumption was proved when there was a bang on the door. "Ami-san?! Ami-san! Are you in here?!"

"Tsu-" Aragosta shot me the scariest look I think I've ever gotten. I shut my mouth immediately.

"Not. One. Word," he mouthed. He took a deep breath.

"Ami-san! If you're in there, please step back." I couldn't exactly move while I was pinned to the wall... "X Bruner!" The door flew open and a burst of orange flames flooded the room. I almost screamed, but I bit my tongue so it wouldn't sound.

"What a entrance that was, Vongola," Aragosta said calmly.

"Where is Ami? Where have you hidden her?" Tsuna-san asked. I saw Chrome-chan, Gokudera, Yamamoto, and Ryohei behind him.

"I have no idea what you are talking about. As you can see, I am all alone," Aragosta lied.

I wanted to scream, 'I'm right here!' but I couldn't find my voice...

"Boss... I can sense illusions. They are very very strong," Chrome-chan said.

"Illusions?" Aragosta bluffed.

"I can sense them! He's lying, Boss!" She pointed her trident at him. Aragosta put his hands up.

"Tell me where she is! Now!" Tsuna-san demanded.

"She's somewhere you'll never find her." He laughed evilly.

I found my words, "I'm right here!" I screamed. Aragosta clenched his fists.

"Ami-san?!" Tsuna-san asked.

"Ami-chan!" Chrome-chan said.

"You'll have to go through me, first." Aragosta emitted his Sky Flames. Chains appeared...? Vindice chains... Are they illusions? No... They were real chains, but fakes.

"Vindice chains?!" Gokudera exclaimed.

"Don't be fooled! They're fakes!" I said.

"Shut up, Ami! I'll deal with you later! After I've finished your friends off, you won't ever see the light of day again!"

"Don't underestimate us," Tsuna-san said. "Chrome-san, find Ami. Everyone else, cover her!"

Chrome-chan was grabbed by the chains. She fought them off with her trident. The chains wouldn't stop attacking her. Yamamoto stepped in and cut all of the chains. All the links were in halves when he was finished with them. Gokudera began attacking Aragosta with his Flame Arrow attack.

Chrome-chan did her Cambio Forma and got this lens thing... I couldn't hear what she called it because of all the commotion. She looked around the room and I looked at her. Her eyes shifted to me. I made eye contact with her. She kept scanning the room... Did she not see me? She met my gaze one more time and nodded too. She defiantly saw me... She looked at Aragosta, who was completely in battle. She ran over to me, clutching her trident.

"Ami-chan! I'll get you out of those chains," she said. She jammed her trident to the floor.

"Ami-san!" Tsuna-san said. He was immediately drawn back into battle by Aragosta.

Chrome-chan took her trident and cut the chains. She made an illusionary key and unlocked the shackles. I was free! I hugged her. "Thank you so much!"

We ran back over to the battle. Chrome-chan pressed something in her ear. "Roger that, Boss..."

"What's going on?" I asked.

"Boss wants us to step back. He's going to fire a very powerful X Burner," she explained.

"Wait! No! He still has my pocket watch! It'll be destroyed..." I got an idea. I summoned my chains and they grabbed Aragosta. I had them swing him all around. My pocket watch fell out. I ran over to it and grabbed it. I ran back to Chrome-chan. "Tell him to stop. This is my fight," I said.

"But Ami-chan-"

"Just do it! Please, Chrome-chan. I can do this," I think... He broke through my chains. "Quickly Chrome-chan!"

"Ok, Ami-chan," she said. She whispered something.

"Ami!" he yelled. "Give that pocket watch back to me!"

I stuck my tongue out at him. "It's mine! And you can't have it!"

"Ami-san? Are you sure about this?" Tsuna-san asked me.

"This is my fight!" I yelled. Everybody stopped fighting and looked at me. I pointed at Aragosta and said, "I'm gonna kick your ass, Aragosta!" I took a deep breath. "Lupi Della Notte! Coco and Torta!" My cubs appeared. They licked me. "Coco, Torta... This is serious. Cambio Forma Version X! Occhiali di Bermuda and Mace di Bermuda!" They howled and turned into my mace and goggles. I grabbed the mace and put on the goggles. "Screw my hand..." I said. I summoned my chains again and had them go after Aragosta. He dodged them all with ease.

"Not gonna get me with that, Ami! Take this, A Burner!" He emitted a huge amount of flames from both hands, just like Tsuna-san had...

"He copies techniques?!" I said. Everybody dodged this quickly. It wasn't as powerful as Tsuna-san's... I ran at him with my mace and struck him in the side. He cursed in Italian.

"Ami... You're going to pay for that," he said angrily. He was bleeding where I hit him. The Ball of Death must have punctured him several times... A large chain came out of nowhere and grabbed me by my neck. I was being strangled.

"Ami-san-"

"Stay... back..." I gasped. The chain got tighter and tighter. I had dropped my mace and I was about to be strangled to death.

"Ami-chan! Catch!" Chrome-chan tossed me her trident and I caught it. I took it and cut the chains. I dropped to the ground and gasped for air. I tossed the trident back to Chrome-chan.

I had another trick up my sleeve. "Melody of the Night!" I said. I grabbed the electric guitar and started playing. I could see the sound waves through my goggles and adjusted my position to make them go to Aragosta only. He dropped to the floor. I picked up my mace and walked over to a twitching Aragosta. I got it ready to swing, but I couldn't do it... I couldn't kill him. As much as I loathed him, I just couldn't bring myself to end his life. "I can't do it..." I said.

"You're so weak..." Aragosta mocked. "Real mafiosi wouldn't blink at this situation."

I heard another loud bang outside... I turned around and looked at the door. Papa was standing there with Reborn-san. "Ami! Step away from that man!" he yelled.

"Bermuda?!" Tsuna asked. "What are you doing here?"

"Saving my daughter!" he said. "Get away from him, Ami!"

I stepped away reluctantly. Papa's chains grabbed him. Jager-kun came in next and he grabbed Aragosta from Papa. "You won't see the last of me, Ami," he said. Jager-kun warped out.

"It's over..." Papa said.

I slowly dropped to my knees and I felt a tear slide down my cheek. "It's over..." I repeated. Tsuna-san and everybody ran over to me. Coco and Torta changed back into cubs and they licked me. They turned back into rings and I put them back into my pocket watch.

Papa hugged me first. "Ami, are you ok?" he asked. I shook my head. "Did he hurt you at all?" I sniffed and nodded. "Where does it hurt?" he asked. I held up my broken hand.

Ryohei stepped forward and said, "I can fix that for you if you want."

"Please do..." Papa said for me.

He got out something and it glowed in yellow flames. The pain in my hand lessened over time. It soon faded all the way and I could move my hand freely without it being hurt. "Thank you," I said.

"You're extremely welcome!" he said.

"Can we go home now?" I asked.

"Of course, Ami," Papa said. "I'll take you home first. I'll be back for the rest of you, okay?"

"Ok," they all said simultaneously.

Papa hopped into my arms and he warped me back to my apartment. It felt so good to be home again and not in that horrible prison Aragosta called home. Papa said, "I'll be right back." He warped out. I went into my room and threw myself onto my bed. I heard a small pop, Papa was back. "Ami? Ami where are you?!" he asked.

I got up and walked into my kitchen. "Chill out... I was just in my room," I said.

He ran up to me and hugged me again, I hugged him back. "I was so worried about you! I can only blame myself for what happened... I sensed the Mist Flames and figured Chrome was with Kyoko... This is all my fault-"

"No... It's Aragosta's fault," I said.

"Well, that too, but it's partially my fault too," he said. "Are you sure you aren't hurt anymore than your hand?"

"I'm fine, Papa. Just scarred for life..." I said.

"Aragosta is going to pay for his actions... Kidnapping, abusing, and not to mention stealing a very important mafia figure's Guardian," he said. "That's just to name a few of the charges he'll face."

"He'll be locked up for a while, right?" I asked.

"A while doesn't even compare to the sentence I have in store for him..." Papa said grimly.

"I'm starving..." I said. I went into my fridge and looked around.

"Did he not feed you?" Papa asked.

"No, he gave me food, I just refused to eat it," I said.

"Did you plan on starving yourself to death?" he asked.

"No... If I did eat, I wanted to make it, not some cook that could put something in it to wonk-up my mind," I explained.

"You don't seem any different now that you're back... That's not normal," Papa said.

"I guess I'm just relieved it's all over. I wasn't really scared of Aragosta until the very end," I said. "Except when he said he thought of me as his daughter... I was thoroughly creeped out then..."

"He said what now?" Papa asked.

"He said he thought of me as his daughter..." I repeated. "Creepy, right?"

"Excuse me for a minute..." he said. He warped out.

"Ok?" I went back into my fridge and then shut the door. "Nothing good..." I went into my pantry and got out a bunch of sweets, like candy and chocolate. I chowed down for the first time in three days, and boy, having sweets for your first meal in three days is like tasting heaven.

I heard a knock on my door. My heart started pounding. I sunk down in my chair and willed them to go away... Another knock. "Ami-san? Are you home?" It was Tsuna-san's voice. I sighed in relief and got up to answer the door. I opened the door. "Ahh! There you are, Ami-san."

"Did you need something?" I asked.

"Yes, I wanted to know if you were doing ok... I mean, everyone is asking about you so-" he said.

"I'm perfectly fine!" I said with a smile.

"R-really? Is that so?" he said.

"Would you like to come in?" I asked.

"May I?" he asked. I showed him in. "If I may, would you tell me all that happened there? We all are very curious... Y-you don't hve to, of course, if you don't want to..." he added.

"Um... I guess I can..." I said. "Where should I start?"

"Bermuda said something about Kyoko-chan..." Tsuna suggested.

"Oh, yeah!" I said. "I was eating dinner when my doorbell rang. I asked Papa to get because I was a little freaked out... He said it was Kyoko-chan and I got up and answered the door. I could kinda tell something was off... but I didn't know that it was really Aragosta masked in an illusion. He injected me with more Pure Rain Flames as sedative... I blacked out and I woke up in the room you rescued me in. I saw my pocket watch next to me and reached for it. Aragosta stepped on my hand increasingly harder and eventually broke it... He, then, turned off the lights and a harp started playing. It sucked out almost all of my Flames. After a couple hours, he let me out. He locked me up in his study while he went to go eat while I searched for my pocket watch. He came back as I searched through it... He got really mad and slapped me. He called this guy and put me back into the dark room. I spent the rest of the night there..." I shuddered at the thought. "I refused to eat breakfast in the morning and then he took me back into his study. He did paperwork for, like, four hours. Then, he locked me back in the dark room 'cause you guys all busted in. The rest, you know."

Tsuna-san sat there for a moment, silent. He took it all in and said, "The mafia is to blame for your horrible life... I can understand if you want to drop out of the Vongola Family..."

"You can't be serious... I would trade my life for anything in the world! Sure, it's been rough, but I love all of you guys. Plus, my dad is kind of the head of the Vindice, so you can't get rid of the mafia in me that easily," I said. "Unless you fire me or whatever, you're stuck with me!"

"You really are an amazingly strong person..." Tsuna-san said.

I blushed and said, "I couldn't even defeat Aragosta..."

"I meant strong willed," he said.

"Oh... Thank you, I guess..." I said, still blushing. "And thank you so much, for saving me, you know... I knew you'd come even though Aragosta said otherwise. I always believed you'd come to save me."

His face turned bright red and he said, "I-it was nothing really..."

I laughed to myself. "You're so cute when you're embarrassed!"

"What?" he asked.

"Oh, nothing..." I said quickly.

"Well... I should probably tell everyone how you are doing..." he said. "I'll just... go! Bye, Ami-san! I'm so glad you're alright!" He got up and walked to the front door.

"Bye, Tsuna-san!" I waved goodbye and shut the door behind him. I sank onto the couch and said to myself, "I gotta tell him later..." Papa warped in a couple minutes later. "Where have you been?" I asked him.

"I just blasted a whole into a mountain rage to release my anger at Aragosta," Papa said calmly.

I looked at him like he was crazy. "Wha...? I don't even want to know..."

"What did you do?" he asked me.

"Tsuna-san came to check on how I was doing. I also explained everything that happened to him so he could tell the other Guardians," I said.

Papa nodded and said, "Aren't you going to tell me?"

"Can I sleep first? I'm kinda exhausted... I haven't had a wink of sleep in like two days," I asked. It was only two in the afternoon.

"Of course you can sleep, Ami," he said. "But you tell me everything, in explicit detail, when you wake up, got it?"

"Gotcha, Papa," I said. I gave him a thumbs up and I changed into sweatpants and a t-shirt and went to sleep. I slept until ten in the morning. Thats 21 hours, baby. I was freaking exhausted. I yawned as I walked into my kitchen.

"Sleeping Beauty has awoken from her slumber!" Papa said.

I rolled my eyes. Papa tapped me on the shoulder. "Huh?" I asked.

"Are you forgetting something?" he asked.

"What?" I asked.

Papa sighed and said, "Tell me everything."

"Oh... That..." I said. "Ok."

"Let's talk on the couch," he suggested. He hopped on my shoulder and I walked over to my couch.

I let him and myself get comfortable before I began my story. I explained everything to him in detail, unlike what I told Tsuna-san. Bermuda was my father, after all. I told him everything I said and did and all Aragosta said and did in our short, horrible time together. Papa listened intently and nodded occasionally.

When I finished telling him everything, he said, "Aragosta and his men will definitely pay severely for what they have done."

I don't know what prompted me to burst into tears, but I did. I hugged Papa and said, "I didn't know if you and Tsuna-san were coming or not! I shouldn't have ever doubted you!"

Papa hugged me back and said, "It's ok, Ami. You're alright now. Know this: If anybody ever tries to hurt you ever again, I will personally see that they are taken down."

"I love you, Papa!" I cried.

"I love you too, Ami," he said.


(I do not own any of the KHR characters, places or anything related to KHR. I do however own the character Ami for she is my OC. Please do not use her without my permission.)

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