author's note: Hello everyone! Merry Christmas and Happy New Years. I hope you're all enjoying your holiday at the moment.

This chapter is going to have lots of stuff in. So, be warned.

Disclaimer: I don't own anything except for my OCs.

Hope you enjoy ^^.

chapter 14:

The Queen of Vongola.

It was only when our heroine finished her job, that Reborn told everyone about the good news of Varia defeating one of the Millifiore's funeral wreaths.

Ami was almost as happy as everyone else on it. Almost.

Sadly, to her, Byakuran was a bit too of a professional strategist (which Sho-kun was also good at). Though the difference between the two was..The brunette opened up her mouth to say something to the excited red-head, but stopped when she saw him almost dancing from joy.

"Sho-kun..." The girl whispered softly, hoping to get the other's attention. She didn't. So, after sighing deeply, she said it a bit louder, "Sho-kun!" This time, everyone turned towards her.

Taking a deep breath, the brunette started telling them about what just went through her head, "We can't let our guard down. This is Byakuran we're talking about. He does anything possible to be in the lead and you know it!" Ami turned around to the confused teenagers around her.

It was actually since the early years that Ami had the most straight forward mind of them all (from the tenth generation). It just that she thought straight (and had an odd luck of finding useful information at the right time) and connected the dots fastest. And by now all of them figured that much out.

"What do you suggest?" Reborn asked, getting straight to the point. The doctor thought for a while and then nodded, as if a gut feeling was telling her that it was right. "Rings. Byakuran knows you well enough not to trust you completely Sho-kun. Since you're well...you. The rest were just random pieces on a chess game that he put up. If you ask me, he probably searched for the strongest around while all the rest were too busy beating up the Vongola. The Vongola rings were copied before as well after all."

Although the words were bluntly hurtful, the older people in the group nodded in understanding. The teenagers got alerted, but now thinking in the same direction.
Except for the red-head, who didn't even want to start thinking that it was possible. No, Byakuran was his 'best-friend' after all. There was no way that he was deceived.

"My, oh my~." Shouichi's thoughts were interrupted by a familiar, only to himself and Ami, voice.

"As ever expected~! Ami-chan, you're brilliant!" The sickening sweet tone made the brunette widen her eyes.

Even through a hologram, the voice sounded as realistic as she remembered it to be a year ago. "Byakuran..." Her green eyes saddened from the memory that she just got, but she still stayed with her back facing the said hologram, trying to find some strength to turn.

"I didn't wait for anything less from you~." The white haired man kept talking, knowing exactly what it did to our heroine. "Wahh!" Tsuna exclaimed out of lack of vocabulary at the moment. There were too many surprises for him that day..too many for his brain to comprehend, 'Are Ami-nee and Byakuran close too?' the disturbing thought made him frown slightly, having his hyper intuition agree with it as well.

"Oh, you've been most entertaining too~" The guy turned to look at the others, "Now I got to see the strength of the strongest squad in the Vongola fight...and Sho-chan's desperate act of trying to lie to me too~!"

Irie Shouichi's face turned so pale that it almost seemed that he would fall unconscious at any moment, "Then you mean that Ami..." He couldn't even say it properly. So lost was he.

Ami walked to her friend to put a hand on his shoulder for his support. The look in her eyes didn't change, but at least now she turned to face the Boss of their opposing family, who was dressed in the White Spell's uniform.

"Byakuran...I thought better of you. Why did you..?" She thought that her own voice would abandon her too. Luckily, it still stayed there, waiting for its master to use it.

"Why? My sweet Ami-chan, your dear Tsunayoshi didn't tell you before his fateful death?" The hologram asked, as if he was purposely trying to create a hole in the brunette's heart, "Though I guess I have to say he did look rather annoyingly heroic in his last minutes." "Bastard, what are you trying to say?!" The young storm guardian was ready to explode the man to pieces. But Ami silenced him instantly with just one quick movement of her arm, "Hayato, you're smarter when you cool down your head." she just added after wards calmly.

It seemed like she calmed down herself at the time too, even able to force a smile towards the silverette.

"Byakuran, you know most of the humanity hates riddle-talking, so why not get straight to the point, you know that it would ease the situation by so much more." the brunette confidently said to her university buddy, almost as if there was no tension between them.

The marshmallow-loving guy couldn't stand it any more, so he just let it go and started laughing from no where.

"And that - is why I love you so much~!" He tried to stop, but couldn't. To him, it was too funny.

Everyone in the room, besides Sho-kun, got confused of what he meant.

Love? How could he?! But Ami was the first one to come to her senses, being the only person who was that dense on such topics.

"I just said no riddles." She commented, beginning to send of a dangerous vibe. "Oh dear. Now I see what was going on between him and you.. Ami-chan, you're as dense as ever, aren't you?" The mocking tone didn't make the situation any better, "I'll just say this forward then... You don't belong in this world, Ami-chan. The only reason why the Vongola survived this long was only because they had you as their support. Your med teams are seriously annoying, but they were a part of you in the family, that's why it was all very amusing. Can't you see that by just joining Millefiore your life would become so much easier. And in the mean time we can create a new world. I need one last piece to complete my goal and that's you."

"Since ever I got my power, I always thought of us. And us only. Can't you see how perfect this is?" The boyish like tone in Byakuran's voice made it seem that he was trying his best in convincing her. But with failure as the only result, there was only one reply that was expected.

"Go to hell." Ami replied with eyes that meant business. Her sharp remark dumbstrucked everyone present.

"Byakuran, if you really thought that I would fall for something like you being the real leader of the Millefiore who controlled and planned out all of your army's moves, then get a life. You might have gotten some extraordinary powers, but you're a kid none the less. And about about me not fitting in my family, I'll personally make sure to show that you're wrong." Though the young adult wore glasses, her sharp glare came through perfectly fine.

Hayato softly smirked at her statement, forgetting his suspicion he had on her a while ago. Tsuna suddenly blushed, but smiled shyly as well, 'Ami-nee is as mysterious as ever...but she's always there when we need her...' he thought with a sigh.

Hibari just stared at the older Ami. He hardly recognised her actually, but the air around her felt almost similar now. The type of air he had the pleasure of enjoying when she was serious about something. Though now that her face wasn't as cute anymore, the aura became more..fitting for the part (a.k.a. it became sort of scarier). And yeah, well, he was also willing to happily bite the white-haired man to death. He just dared to say something so bluntly that the prefect from Namimori Middle couldn't handle...and it was to Ami of all people.

His eyebrow twisted irresistibly. Though he never understood why it always feel like that.

Luckily, everyone was too concentrated on Ami and Byakuran to even notice such obvious changes on the guy's face. He was really lucky, since the blush didn't bother of going away then.

The rest of the adults sighed, desperately wishing to find out how the brunette's head was working.

"Haha! You really lost it, dear cousin~!" Another male voice came from the same direction as Byakuran's hologram. It didn't take another second before another figure appear next to the said man.

"Though for the first one, you're right. I was in-charge of the Millefiore's movements." The obvious accent made it too clear who it was. Ami didn't believe her own eyes...It was over ten years since she met the guy, so who wouldn't be?

"William..?" She pronounced his name, wondering just how long it was since she thought of him..or the family actually.

"I say! Have you finally began to remember who your true family is?" The english man smirked, obviously very prepared for this event.

He was wearing an official, well-made black suit. His hair colour was lighter than Ami's, but still rather brown. So basically, he was/is/ will be very boring looking. The only difference in his appearance was that he wore a pair of small silver earrings, making them glow in the light. But that really was the only difference. His eye-colour was a boring brown, though with a slight devilish glow in them, as if they could turn maroon any time at will.

The brunette tried to take in the information quickly...but it wasn't working. The only reason she could come up for this was because of... "You're indeed like that traitor ancestor of yours. The Vongola woman that dared to come to our family..daring to trash our blood with that of the devils. Cursing our family with such misery." The spitting, mocking words acted like arrows that our heroine tried to somehow dodge, but couldn't.

"You've got no right to talk about Juliet like that! She nor I were or are traitors. You know that well enough in that cowardly heart of yours." The brunette raged without lifting her voice to any higher note.

"Indeed?" The english man answered, "Who knows... I definitely know that you're pathetic in joining the Vongola. And you know precisely what we are willing to do to erase them from this planet."

"What did ya say, bastard?!" Gokudera exploded, though no one payed attention to him. All of them were thinking about their own position and how bad it was.

"As dark as always William-kun~." Byakuran commented, but he let his companion to continue, since that might actually change Ami's mind on things. Of course, he wasn't the one to give up when the goal was so close..almost in his reach.

"And you're too smily, Byakuran." The cousin replied back, before continuing, "Your father was correct with saying that you're her copy. Since you've done the very same thing." Ami's memory suddenly flushed a picture of her serious father. The old man who always sat behind his desk or walked proudly to the meetings with his clients.

"Don't...Don't talk to me like that! He kicked me out!" The younger cousin's face showed panic. Her small family drama haunted her at the back of her mind. She never thought that there would be a day it would come back to the front.

"Now, seriously? You're much more naive than I imagined from the start." William stated, disappointment filling the air around him. "He told you that I'll be taking over the family. The old man never wanted for you to leave...it was your own decision to go and join the enemy's family." It was really thought impossible for Ami's eyes to get bigger by a few centimetres more than normal...though now they knew better.

Guilt had taken over her. Maybe it was really that she was that naive in believing her cousin to whom she hasn't spoken to for a decade, but it felt like the reality showed her a different light. What if her father really did think differently from what he made her believe? Was it too late to make up for her mistake? But he still wanted William to be the heir, so it doesn't really change anything, right?

She started feeling seriously bad and William wasn't helping by saying, "But that's over and done with. I'm rather ignorant on what's to become of you, but Byakuran here wants to keep you as a pet...And frankly speaking, I wouldn't mind you suffering at the lose of your dear family being completely wiped out by me." In the devil's name, the guy looked like he was finally enjoying his bitter revenge against the Vongola with the help of Byakuran.

"Vongola won't be wiped out and you'll have bear the guilt of making the Lonestand family fall under the rule of another family...You're a pathetic loser for letting our pride stolen like that." Ami replied, not letting the man that stole her position as the heiress of her own father's family win the fight.

"Heh~, You want to hear something funny?" The white-haired Millefiore's boss asked a rhetorical question, intruding the relatives quarrel, continuing without a response, "The prince charming on his white horse said about the same thing~ to William-kun here. Though he also added that you would become mine over his dead body...It's ironic, really." The usual smily marshmallow-loving guy shook his head, giving a sly smirk afterwards.

That was the last blow to Ami which she could stand. Her knees gave in and she fell, making her curly hair to bounce a bit in mid-air.

"That's right. Your beloved Tsunayoshi isn't around because of you...It sadly is your fault, Ami-chan." The guy added to the drama. Though Ami didn't listen to that already.

That's the good thing about having an ability to cut yourself from the world. At hard times as such, you could just go into your own world to cry your heart out for as many hours you wanted to.

Though after a bit, when the brunette gathered enough strength she came back.

Still sitting on her knees, the girl looked at the inhuman guardians that Byakuran found from all over the world with inhuman strength. Funnily enough, it didn't surprise her that much. Anything that came from Byakuran didn't surprise her any more. He was an alien from the beginning, which she liked about him in the start...but now, it was something that she quite detested him for.

"Sho-chan~, do you still remember the game named Choice?" The white-haired boss asked, making both of his old friends alert, "I'm planning to make it real. You'll get details ten days later. I won't be moving during that time, so rest properly~."

"How can we rest properly, when you just showed us something so monstrous?" Reborn asked, raising his small baby eye-brow at their enemy.

"You're the arcobaleno? Interesting~. I'm not exactly sure how you're suppose to, but try to. Since I'm being generous enough to give you time. After all, it would be no fun with just crushing you completely right now. And Sho-chan's betrayal had to have some effect on my pride as the leader. That's why I thought it would be time to have a proper match~. The stakes are of course The trinisette and Ami-chan too."

This irked the female brunette and gave her enough strength to stand up.

"Byakuran...The Vongola won't lose, and I say it as its Queen, so be sure that it sits in your head well. I'll come to the Millefiore when I'm dead myself!" The over powering presence made her seem majestic and powerful. Those sweet green eyes, glowed brightly, hinting a slight orange color in them behind the glasses. There was no suspicion about her words. There was no hint of unsureness in her tone, that dropped by a few levels.

The guy just smirked back at her, "We'll see about that, Ami-chan. We'll see in the ten days.." The guy's lilac irises glowed coldly, though there was hope in them, hope that his love would finally come to him, even if force had to be used to get her.

"Though I would like to talk longer with all of you, I'm afraid the Melone base, where you're located, will disappear soon enough...do your best to escape, though I don't think you have the time to~. See you in ten days~." The hologram said, before both of the men vanished as mysteriously as they appeared.

"What was that about?" Spanner asked confused on the situation, "Did the-" He couldn't finish his sentence before a huge explosion appeared.

Ami looked at Shouichi, who looked at a clock. The brunette sighed, since the older Hibari told her the plan of the coming. Though of course she still wanted to be sure. That's why she took out the ring with the small Vongola crest imprinted on it, which was around her own neck (on a chain) and closed her eyes before taking a strong hold on it.
There was a glow of a small flame from the ring, unnoticed by the others but strong enough to help the Vongola's rings force field to become complete.

When everything calmed down, the doctor tucked her ring back under her own shirt before anyone knew. The rest were lying down from the strong gravity field that they just experienced.

Our heroine went around, helping the rest to stand up and ask if they were ok. It seemed like it wasn't that big of a deal. And Shouichi begun explaining to Spanner, who seemed as if he was a lost, helpless child, not knowing what just happened.

The explanation was a bit long, so the brunette didn't listen much to it (since, well...mechanics weren't her strong point to begin with).

But everyone understood why they were the only ones to not transport to god knows where.

All the Vongola rings together created a force field that was strong enough to uphold such events after all. So, yeah...as you have guessed probably, it also meant that an appearance of a certain expected teen was made, filling the space with pink smoke.

"WHERE IS THIS PLACE TO THE EXTREME?!" He remarked, obviously confused.

His underclass men were first surprised, but then delighted in the end, "Big brother from ten years ago!" Tsuna exclaimed, looking in the said guy's direction.

The short brunette was almost jumping with joy at seeing his sun guardian asking energetically where he was and where Tsuna has been for the past god knows how long.

Ami chuckled in delight too, since Ryohei always somehow knew how to shine a bright happy feeling into everyone (though he was stupid at times...but even that could be covered when you have such a happy gift).

Sadly, as suddenly the happy times were coming, they were going just as quickly. Kusakabe didn't have the intention to not speak about the obvious problem, so he started off with a, "There is no doubt that Sasagawa's and the sun ring's arrival is a valuable thing, but...the situation is no good."

He took a breath before continuing, "Stronger than the previous Funeral Wreaths... How could we fight with our power as of now." His statement was correct, and everyone knew that... Well, except for Ami, who wanted to protest, but got beaten by a happy-go-lucky smily teen, "Then we just have to do it the rough way~!" His smily face almost looked as if he wasn't on his death bed a while ago.

Everyone turned his way, making Yamamoto laugh nervously somehow.

"But charging like that, without a plan even..." Spanner noted, looking towards the teens, who silenced a bit, understanding the location of their disadvantage now.

But Ami wasn't willing to give up so easily. That's why she turned in her university buddy's direction, after correcting her glasses, that were about to fall from her nose.

"Sho-kun, why not tell us what you've got more in store for us?" The question was innocent...it was only the way that it was pronounced that scared the poor red-head to death. "S-sure, Ami-san." he replied, before coughing a bit, "W-well, we were sort of prepared for such events to happen, that's why..." The inventor walked to his big machine that stood only a few metres away from everyone now.

"Please except the gifts that were left to you by the guardians' of this era. These will help you win the Choice game you'll have to play in a while." And just as the doctor thought, out of the white round machine came out six boxes, that went straight to their masters.

"The Vongola boxes..." Ami said out loud, getting surprised herself at their appearance. It was a long time since she saw them herself.

Everyone seemed interested in them and yet, the doctor looked at the clock on her phone before realizing that she had a short amount of time to say her good-byes.

Tsuna noticed the sudden urge for faster paste in his older sister's movements. "Ami-nee, is everything alright?" He asked, giving her that irresistible cute face.

"Why wouldn't it be?" the girl replied walking in the boy's direction. Patting his bushy hair, Ami grinned at him. But those big brown eyes furrowed before she could say anything, "We will win this for sure, Ami-nee." The seriousness left his older sister startled a bit, "Hell we're gonna let them win!" Hayato agreed with his boss, holding out his new found box weapon. "Hahaha~, we'll just have to do it the rough way in the end, eh?" Takeshi laughed, getting out of the nursing bed.

"Jee~ don't push it." The curly brunette looked at the younger versions of her friends in slight sympathy, "Though I'm not exactly in shape right now to help you...That's why, I'll be saying my goodbyes now...Take care of my younger version, alright?" Everyone got dumbstruck again, 'What was she talking about?'

Ami, as if connected to her teenage self, realised that she would change any minute before she could change, her last thoughts were just, 'Prince Charming on a white horse, eh? That definitely suits Tsuna quite well...'

Before anyone could reply something to her small weird blabbering, pink smoke filled the area for the second time that day.

And out of no where stepped out a teenage girl with baggy shorts and a L-sized T-shirt. Her hair was put away into a pineapple hair-style. And a furious expression took over her roundish face.

Looking straight, she saw the red-head and asked, "Are you Irie Shouichi?"

YAY! Mini-Ami came~! FINALLY!

So? How was the chapter? Boring? Depressing? Too far-fetched? Reviews are lovely. Tell me if anyone is too OOC, I'll try to work on that then.

Hope you enjoyed the cliff-hanger X D ~. Happy holidays~!