Disclaimer- Don't own Katekyo Hitman Reborn, Amano Akira's. Or any dialogue from chapter 31.

VERY IMPORTANT PLEASE READ: I am just going to say that I will NOT tolerate plagiarism or taking ones idea as a 'prompt' when it sounds ridiculously the same. Have some creativity dammit and some consideration for people that actually take the time to think up the ideas too. And don't even think about spouting the stupid excuse "it's a common plot" because that's just being damn right childish. Grow up. I just had to state that after hearing a story from a friend of mine.

Sorry for the late update everyone, forgive me I had writer's block and also assignments bombarding me. I'm also currently obsessed with Noctis for the coming Final Fantasy Versus XIII, he's so hot it's not even funny, he's so hot it's a sin.

Oh yes, this is chapter 31 in the manga, the one with the 'Family vs Family' new years game. Yes I know it's very far back from the latest chapter. It'll progress quite fast though. I'm using onemanga scans as because Viz Media translations sound stupid. And NO I am NOT going to write every goddamn word in the chapter.

Apologies for the long A/N, I hate it too, looks so ugly, I promise no more for next chapter.

Warning for Oocness, I try my best. Did not copy or plagiarize in any way, this chapter will, however, contain dialogue from the original manga, borrowed.

Chapter 12

Vongola Versus Competition

Elsa felt obliged to do it today. It was one of those sudden change-of-mind moments when you realize it's the only way to go about it. And a girl as easily peeved off as her was definitely not one to accept a loss (of fortune).

And all this was decided after a sly son-of-a-bitch invited the Cavallone pimp and his two concubines along for a little gathering on the last day of new years. Yes, Reborn was a psychological mastermind, he had told Romario and Luciano—according to his calculations—that Elsa would actually want to wear a Yukata today. Luciano's first reaction was to laugh til the snot in his nose flew out and rained on Romario's face, and of course the response was a gun to his temple.

Dino blinked several times with a flabbergasted stare, "Can you repeat that?"

"I-I want to wear a—whatever that thing is called—Yu-something…today."

"Really?!"

"Yes."

"Hey, that's great! What made you change your mind?"

Elsa blushed irritably, "N-Nothing in p-particular."

Well actually, the reason was quite obvious. Ever since the first day of the new year, she was a bit (very) envious of Yano's pretty-refreshing-girl appearance, and she still hadn't forgotten the 'Dino holding Yano's hands so lovingly' incident. For Vongola's sake, Dino shared suite with her and didn't even make a small attempt to attack her in any way. They say men, regardless of the girl, will turn into an animals when in the same room with the opposite sex—then again this was Elsa de Luca we're talking about. Anyway if Elsa liked it, it wasn't considered sexual abuse, more like passionate—

"Well then, let's get you change"

"I want Luciano please."

Dino sighed, "Fine."

Elsa was blushing madly enough, and really, she wanted this damn klutz to see the finished product, his klutziness would turn her into a living horror, anyway. And there was also this sweet unbiased love she had to consider, she wondered whether this decision was because of money or her growing affection for Dino.

Fuck, what am I thinking?

She was going to laminate a hundred dollar bill tomorrow and make it her personal reminder to stray a mile away from such a bothersome emotion. She was sure it was only temporary anyway.

xxxx

"Hey, why do I have to help you?" Luciano frowned, a bag of make up in one of his big hands and a brush in the other.

"Because if you don't then that's telling me you must really want Yano to be Dino's beloved wife. And when she does become his wife, they'll have maybe six or so little prats, three girls frolicking in their repulsively bright frilly skirts and three boys tripping here and there with their killer-smiles glued to their faces, and then you'll also have to handle a daily basis of moaning and groaning echoing the mansion coming directly from the tenth Cavallone boss' master bedroom." Elsa smirked, "Do you want that?"

Luciano shook his head frantically. He'd be in hysterics if that ever happened.

"This is also a once in a lifetime opportunity for you to use your skills that you've been hiding."

"YOU HAVEN'T TOLD ANYONE HAVE YOU?!"

Elsa sighed, "If I wanted to die I would've done that a long time ago you big oaf."

Luciano's smacked his hands onto her shoulders, she yelped in pain.

"Call me that one more time."

"S-Sorry..."

Luciano took a long look at her; he tilted her head back and forth, examining her not-so-striking features.

Elsa sighed, "Just do the best you can…"

"You know, Elsa, you're not ugly."

"But I'm not the latter either."

"I'll agree on that. But make-up can do a lot."

"I know."

"And so can falling in love…" Luciano muttered under his breath. Oh god, that was cheesy.

"What?"

"Shut up and sit still!" He unzipped the bag and yanked out a brush. His hands moved swiftly and flawlessly, and that was when the magic was applied, Luciano's personal enchantment on the 17-year-old girl from a rural, unknown town in Italy. She was beginning to regret this.

"Hey Elsa…?"

"What?"

He's calling me Elsa again, she thought.

"I take back what I said about wanting you to get out of the engagement. Anyone but Yano…" Luciano grumbled—his innocent attempt at apologising.

"I know." She turned her head to the side.

Luciano put on his daunting glare, "Stop moving."

xxxx

"Ano…good morning Dino, Happy New Year again ne?" Yano greeted, bowing in her even flashier new years dress, this time a striking pink.

"You're looking nice, Happy New Year?"

"Eto, is that all you have to say? You're so cruel ne~"

"Sorry sorry, you look cute!" Dino chuckled.

"Ano, is Elsa-chan not here yet?"

"She should be here by now—"A wooden slipper hit the back of his head, causing him to stumble forward. He grappled for something to grab hold onto before he could topple over, then felt someone grab onto his wrist before he could. Regaining his balance, he turned around to thank the person, and that was when he gawked, eyes widened with astonishment. Elsa was glowering at him, but not with her usual sharp I'm-so-gangster eyes, but the eyes of a random foreigner that happened to be passing by perhaps?

"What are you staring at Bucking-Horse?" She let go of his wrist, causing him land butt-first on the ground with a thud.

"E-Elsa?"

"Eto, Dino I don't think this is Elsa-chan. She looks nothing like her…"

"HEY!" Elsa squawked, "Stop making crap up, it's me alright."

"Eto…she's scary…p-please stop bothering us…"

Well, at least it meant she looked good enough for Yano to be worried. But dang, Elsa felt really cut knowing without all the make-up and gunk slopped on her face she was just a plain nobody. Dino approached her and brushed a lock of hair to the side of her face, he stared with uncertainty which really pissed her off. He slapped away his hand, pulled her dress up and trampled on his foot, "Fuck you."

Dino collapsed to his knees, cooing at his foot, "Y-Yep….It's Elsa all right."

"Ah! Dino!" Yano snuck an arm around him gently, "Elsa-chan! Dino didn't mean it. It's just…you look very…different from usual."

Was that an insult? or a compliment she refused to spit out? Elsa didn't know, she picked up her slipper and slid it on her left foot. She turned to Luciano with a thwarted expression on his face. Well, it really wasn't the reaction they were both hoping for from the Cavallone boss. Elsa smiled at him apologetically. She was right; the hot boys always went for the better looking opposite sex. Maybe she could try shifting over to girls—no. Never mind that.

They walked down the road, 'they' including Dino's hoard of men, arriving at a row of common houses.

"What are we doing here?" Elsa questioned.

"We're here to see Sawada-san" Romario answered.

"Sawada? Is that the one you mentioned?" Yano asked, her arms were tied around his.

"He's my little brother" Dino replied.

"I didn't know you had a little brother?" Elsa frowned, there were a lot of things she didn't know about him, and well, she tried not to be uptight about it.

"Ano. Not literally his brother, Reborn's new student. Eto. I thought you would have known as his bride-to-be Elsa-chan ne?"

Elsa griped through her clenched teeth, "Well god I'm sorry."

"Eto, I didn't mean…"

Elsa began gnawing on her sleeves furiously. I…Elsa de Luca…will not pound this little prick's face to a bloody pulp.

Not that she would dare.

Walking a few blocks down the road, Elsa could see a group of children loitering outside a house, and incidentally they were heading towards them.

"Dino-san…and all his men?!!" A voice cried.

"We came here to play new year's Family versus battle in Vongola style," The Cavallone boss responded with his suave grin, "It's my first time seeing some of you, nice to meet you."

"Nice you to meet you too" A petite girl wearing a similar festivity dress to Elsa's bowed. Elsa glanced at her up and down. Damn, she was still a middle-schooler yet already this cute. Not to mention the girl with a darker hair beside her as well. The generations were getting better looking by the year, why wasn't Elsa part of it? She thought.

"Yo!" An energetic boy with a turf top head greeted. Elsa glanced behind him; there were two others, one of them a gray-haired foreigner, Italian perhaps?

"Eh wait…what is this Vongola ceremony thing…?" Elsa recognised that hapless voice from anywhere. She lunged herself out of Dino's crowd, "Tsuna?"

"Who…?" Tsuna blinked with a puzzled expression. Well, a foreign chick was waving her arms at him, and a pretty cute one too, and he didn't know any cute foreign chicks apart from Bianchi.

Elsa frowned irately. Was she that butt-ugly without gunk on her face? She didn't even know if it was a compliment or a plain insult, and if Dino wasn't impressed by Luciano's work of art, that just meant he thought of her as a butt-whooping-monstrous face. Oh joy.

"It's…Elsa. From the festival?"

"Eh! You're Dino's fiancée…"

"Ah…you could say that…"

"You're getting married? Congratulations!" An overly jolly-looking guy spoke from behind the turf-top.

"HAHI! How lovely!" One of the girls behind Tsuna squealed.

"Thanks" Dino scratched his head, a little smitten. What was there to be blushing about? Elsa thought, the fact it was someone as pathetic as her? It really didn't feel good at all; it kind of...hurt a little.

xxxx

Well, after some short introductions. Elsa had found out that turf-head was called Ryohei Sasagawa, jovial-face was Takeshi Yamamoto, the egg-head child was I-Pin, the bratty infant was Lambo, the peculiarly orange haired girl, Kyoko, was the sister of Ryohei, and russet brown haired girl that for some reason kept yelling out 'HAHI' was Haru Miura. What got her amazed was that the foreign-looking guy happened to be THE Smoking-bomb Hayato Gokudera from the Vongola family. Now why on earth would he be here?

"No grudges held, regardless of who wins Tsuna" Dino grinned.

"I will be the judge" Reborn said, seating himself in an umpire's chair.

"How did it turn out this way!?" Tsuna squawked.

Of course, Elsa had no intention in joining this ridiculous game, Arcabaleno or not, mafia did not play with little middle-schoolers and infants. Well overall, mafia was nothing like she thought it up to be.

"Eto…nice to meet you, I'm Yano, Dino's closest friend." It was only natural Yano would start her sweet, innocent act with the others, and of course they'd fall for it. Elsa sat beside Luciano, and together they grumbled, whined and glared with hawk-eyes at Yano. The competition continued, and Elsa was beginning to bore to death, what was the whole point of dressing up nicely in the first place, she wasn't having a very great start to the year.

She stood up abruptly, turning to the left, "Luciano, I'm going for a walk."

"I'll come with you"

Elsa sighed, "I meant I need to pee, but if you insist on joining—"

"Yeah I'll stay here"

With a smug smile she following the river and headed under the bridge, the distance between herself and her dim-witted fiancé that paid no attention to her whatsoever, widened with every step. And she was sure he wouldn't notice her absence anyway, which was pretty doubtful, since she was looking back every five seconds or so.

Dino you bastard, it's your fault I'm dressed like an idiot and acting like an idiot. Gah, I need to get a hold of myself, god knows what I'll do next, she thought while pinching herself hard on the cheeks. She jogged further down the river until even the sight of Tsuna's wild, big hair was no longer visible, and lay on the verdant ground with her arms behind her head. The clips pressed painfully into her head. She began to daydream.

Four years ago…

"Ah! Elsa, come va?" A cute, young brunette boy slung his arm over a much younger looking Elsa's shoulder. Her hair was short, very short, which gave her a tomboy look.

"I-I'm good…" She blushed, her hands clasped together awkwardly.

"Are you free tomorrow?"

"Relatively…"

"Great! Bring a basketball and meet me here!"

"O-Okay…" The young Elsa smiled.

xxxx

Elsa swung her legs back and forth whilst sitting on the bench with a carroty orange basketball clutched in her hands. A silly grin played on her lips as she waited for him to turn up. She heard voices in the distance and feet shuffling quickly on the ground. She felt a sudden sharp tug on her hair and fell back on the dirt ground, the ball dropped from her hands and rolled to the side.

"It hurts!" She peered up at the perpetrators, one being the same brunette boy.

"Gahahaha, is this her?!"

"Ew? This girl likes you? I feel for you man"

"And you say she follows your every order?"

"Yep." The brunette smirked spitefully.

"Hey girl, do you like spaghetti or macaroni?"

Elsa's lips wavered in response.

"Eh? Is she a mute? Ah well, I think spaghetti works for someone as scrawny as you"

"I found one!"

The young Elsa began shaking furiously as a long, succulent, squirming worm caught between two fingers came towards her.

"It needs a little flavoring." The brunette peppered a handful of god knows what on the slimy little thing, "Hey keep her mouth open, I want the whole thing in."

The brunette took it from the other boy, her hovered the now-gray writhing thing above Elsa's mouth. A hand was cupped under her chin, fingers pressed on the sides of her mouth, forcing an opening. Tears began welling in her eyes as she trembled, sweat trickled down her forehead.

"Hey Elsa, I forgot to tell you I only date pretty girls. Can you imagine me dating you? Your mum's a slut and your dad's a drunkard, you're a plain dunce and you've got no friends…" He brushed stroked the side of her cheek as his smirk grew, "…That's why It's so fun torturing you."

Elsa began gagging and sobbing with tears. The worm twisted in a spiral as it hovered dangerously above her lips, then squirmed around as it touched the tip of her small tongue. The dirt wiped onto the corners of her mouth. She felt the furious moving of the slimy thing struggling and flicking about. That was when he pushed it up with a finger, stabbing the creature against her canine tooth with a squish.

And he was Elsa's first love.

xxxx

"Elsa?!" That annoying voice yelled.

"GET YOUR FILTHY LITTLE HANDS OFF ME YOU TWERPS!" Elsa slapped the blonde Italian with a piercing crack and sat up half-awake.

"Ow…" Dino rubbed his now bruised cheek, "What did I do this time…?"

Elsa, shook her head dizzyingly. She then realized she just back-handed her fiancé on the face for no reason. She recoiled back, "S-Sorry, bad dream."

"I know, you were scaring the crap out of me. I thought you were going to burst out crying!" Dino shouted.

She swung an uppercut at his chin. He fell backwards, "Shut up. I do not cry Bucking-Horse"

"Ouch…alright alright…come back already the competition is over" He said, standing up and dusting his pants. He then offered her his hand; she looked up at him with a doubtful expression. He tilted his head in confusion, "What's wrong?"

She grabbed a hold of his hand, "Nothing. Nothing at all. "

When she got up, Dino didn't let go. Elsa tugged back, his grip remained firm. She swung to the left, he still didn't let go. She cocked an eyebrow at him, "Let go."

He suddenly caressed her behind the ear. She jumped back in shock, "The hell are you doing?!"

"I forgot to say how beautiful my fiancée looks today."

Elsa went beetroot. She was burning like hot tar. That took her by surprise…he sure kept her waiting. She wasn't going to dress up for a long time now. She shoved him to the side, "A METER DISTANCE."

Dino chuckled, walking ahead of her, "By the way, it was undecided in the end."

"Eh?"

"Poison Scorpion came in last minute. She's chasing Tsuna right now, poor guy." He sighed, reminiscing his youth.

….

"Did you say…Poison Scorpion Bianchi…?"

"Hm? Yes?"

She fainted.

Come va? – how are you?