Target 20: Birthday Special! (Yuki POV)
"Today is my birthday!" I said in a singsongy tone in the shower. I was in a very happy mood today and nothing was going to make this day terrible. I had the best party planned, and Father was out of town on a business trip. He even rented me hotel lobby and ballroom. Father was the best. I had a bunch of fun games planned out too. (Let's just say that I instructed everybody who was invited to bring an extra set of clothes ;) It would be better if I didn't have to go to school, but alas, school was school, and I had to attend.
At school everyone was buzzing about my party, since I technically invited the whole grade, and everybody knew that I was hosting it in a fancy hotel. At lunch I was on the rooftop as per usual with Tsuna and Company, still inviting random people to come to my party.
Right now I really wanted to just rip all my hair out and then curl up into a ball and die. Remember when I said nothing could bring my mood down? Well right now my mood was murdered. I was currently yelling at the hotel staff to get all my preparations in order, only to find that my cake order was given to somebody else, so they had to make a new one, the prop bag holding all my items to play the games were currently missing, my party manager, Ms. Riko called me saying that her father was in the hospital because of kidney stones and she couldn't make it to my party. So right now, I was technically the party manager of my own party. Today was a day were I was suppose to relax, I was going to get my nails done, and then go to hair salon and get my hair and makeup done. It was suppose to be a very nice and relaxing day leading up to the party. But no, here I was running around like a madwoman, yelling t the incompetent staff to just work with me. I kinda looked like a madwoman too. I was very a bathrobe that said 'birthday girl' on the back courtesy of the hotel. I was walking barefoot with toe separators in between my toes because I had just gotten them done, and the polish was still wet. My hair was also in curlers, with half of my face on. (As in I only had makeup on the right side of my face.) The makeup artist was currently trying to put the rest of my makeup on, but it was probably hard for her since I was running around yelling out orders on what had to be done, and what had to be fixed.
After everything had calmed down just the tinniest bit, I saw a few familiar faces. It was Tsuna and his crew, with Ari, Haru, Kyoko, Nana, and Bianchi. (Bianchi was wearing sunglasses so we didn't have a fainting Gokudera.)
"Here, happy birthday," Bianchi said while holding something in a container. I knew what it was but I was afraid to ask.
"Nana told me about the cake incident, so I decided to bake you one!" Bianchi declared proudly, while everyone just sweatdropped. I managed a small smile.
"Why thank you for your thoughtfulness," I said, my mind in overdrive. I couldn't let my guests eat this, they'll die!
"I'll just go put this in the kitchen then," Bianchi replied loftily, as she made her way to the kitchen.
"Yam!" I hissed, and he came over. I handed him a ping pong ball that I found and pointed to Bianchi.
"Baseball!" I saw his eyes narrow and become serious for once. He lifted his leg, and threw the ball with all his might. I knew that the ball would not hurt Bianchi; it's just that we needed that cake to be taken care of. The ball sailed over the top of Bianchi's head, and smashed into the cake container. I could see the container fall forward, and I breathed a sigh of relief when it fell out of Bianchi's hands. When it did fall, it fell on one of the flower arrangements, and I watched as the cake melted through the plastic, and all the flowers wilted as purple smoking began permeating the room. When Bianchi turned to look back at us, we all turned away, feigning innocence. She seemed to buy it though, blaming the wire that was so conveniently right at her feet.
She looked at me, "I'm sorry about that Yuki, I seemed to have tripped on the wire."
"Oh, that's fine Bianchi, I think that the bakery sent over another cake anyway." I replied, thankful that we avoided a case of food poisoning.
"Ah, Yuki-chan, don't you want to finish getting ready?" Tsuna asked a bit hesitantly, looking at my current state of being.
"We can handle the rest of your preparations!" Yam declared, "So go get ready and relax."
"Relax to the extreme!" Ryohei chimed in, fist pumping. I teared up.
"You guys…" I said sucking in my tears so I wouldn't screw up my makeup. I was so thankful that I had such amazing friends. I walked over and promptly gave everyone a kiss on the cheek, and then took all the girls with me to get ready too.
I led them behind a curtain, and gestured to the other makeup and hair artists waiting on standby.
"Here you go, y'all finally have some work to do." I ushered all the girls to the artists, and they immediately began fixing them.
"It's my treat guys, so get pampered all you want!" I yelled gleefully, finally getting time to rest.
When everyone was done getting ready, I stepped out of the curtain and Tsuna called me over.
"Hey, Yuki-chan! Happy birthday! I'm sorry that we have to leave your party early but Lambo's battle is tonight. We can stay until 10:45 though." Tsuna voice had dropped to a whisper now. When I heard that it was Lambo's battle immediately I felt a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach. I wanted to hit myself for forgetting. Today was going to be Lambo's battle. Lambo's battle. I knew that it wouldn't end well, but the details were fuzzy. Recently, I felt like I couldn't remember things as well anymore, and I felt like I was forgetting a lot of important details.
"Yuki-chan, are you okay?" Tsuna's voice snapped me out of my thoughts.
"Uh, yeah, I'm fine…" I said a bit distracted. Now I doubted whether or not to go through with this party. I knew that Lambo would be critically injured, but I couldn't remember whether he survived or not. I was also debating on whether or not telling Tsuna, but I knew that Tsuna would interfere anyway, without my help.
I started fiddling around with a flower arrangement, trying to will myself to remember.
'Think! Think! Remember what happens!' The little voice in my head screamed. I tried, honestly I did, but I couldn't remember what happened. And it was whether Lambo would die or survive.
"Tsuna," I called out, and he turned around to face me again. "Promise me Lambo won't get hurt," I knew that Lambo would end up getting hurt, but he wouldn't get as hurt, because Tsuna interfered.
"I promise," He replied, his eyes glowing bright orange from his resolve, and I shot him a shaky smile.
It turns out I left my own birthday party early and I was walking toward Nami-Chuu with Ari.
"I have a really bad feeling about this," Ari confessed, and I couldn't help but to agree with her.
"Trust me, there is something wrong." I said, walking as fast as I could with 5 inch stilettos on my feet. When we heard faint sounds of screaming and we both looked at each other. We then proceeded to take off our shoes and sprinted up to the roof where the battle was being held.
"Who are you?" We heard a deep voice say. I totally forgot about the guards that were guarding the arena.
"We are with the Vongola," I replied, and the person asked us if we had any proof. Ari and looked at each other and shrugged; we couldn't waste anymore time. Ari threw one of her shoes at the person, and the heel managed to hit him square on the forehead. Then I grabbed Beatrix (She was all fixed now) and pistol whipped him. Our little fight seemed to attract the attention of the other guards and soon we were surrounded with 4 guys from the Varia.
"Oh my god, we seriously don't have time for this," Ari muttered, and I nodded. I pulled out my special gun, and then shot all the guys. They all fell to the ground, and Ari looked at me in horror.
"Did you kill them?!" She asked her eyes wide.
"No, I didn't kill them; I just shot them with needles that had a sedative on it. They should come to in a few minutes. Now let's get out of here!" I yelled, and Ari retrieved her shoe, and followed me.
"Shit," I cursed. We just had to walk in on the part where Lambo was being electrocuted mercilessly. We were panting heavily, and then Tsuna's eyes met mine.
I could see the struggle in his eyes. He knew that if he interfered, his sky ring would get taken, but he also knew that if he didn't interfere, Lambo would die. I stuck out my pinky, and mouthed the word, 'promise' Tsuna seemed to understand and yelled,
"Wait!"
"Where are you going?" Reborn asked, "You know you'll be disqualified." Tsuna looked at me again, and gave him an encouraging smile. Tsuna turned back to Reborn.
"I know that," He replied, "but I need to protect Lambo!"
Iemitsu looked proud of Tsuna, smiled a little. Reborn's lips also quirked up in a little smile, and he tipped his head down.
"I guess I don't have a choice." Reborn concluded.
Suddenly, Levi called up a bunch of thunder, and everyone held their breath as he brought it down, fully intent on killing Lambo.
When the smoke cleared, there was Tsuna standing there in his Hyper Dying Will Mode. After some praise by Gokudera, Yam, and Ryohei, Reborn looked up and we made eye contact. We stayed like that for a moment, and then he lowered his head, his hat covering his eyes. But I could see the smallest of smiles ghosting across his face.
Tsuna got his sky ring taken away, and Xanxus gave a very cocky speech. Next, they announced that Gokudera's match would be next, and I could see him look a little worried. After everybody left, Tsuna yelled out, "Lambo!" We all rushed forward to where he was lying on the ground.
"Stupid cow!" Gokudera yelled out, worry laced in his tone though.
"Are you alright?" Ryohei asked, as we all circled around him. Ari and I volunteered to bring him to the hospital, and I told everybody else to go home.
"No," Tsuna said, his voice firm, "We are going with you," I shrugged, and Ari picked up Lambo. When we reached the hospital we just told the doctor that Lambo got hit by lightening, which wasn't entirely a lie.
Lambo was immediately taken in, and we were all sitting in the waiting room. Well, Ari and I were sitting, but everyone else was pacing around nervously.
"Guys, calm down, your pacing is freaking me out," Ari deadpanned, while she was curled up on an armchair.
"Lambo will be fine you guys, trust me," I assured them.
Suddenly Nana walked in carrying a cake with the candles lit. Everybody started singing happy birthday and I couldn't help but blush in embarrassment. I was seriously surprised.
"You guys," I protested, "Is this even the right time to be doing this?" Nana just looked at me and smiled.
"With everything that's happened, I think this is a good way to get our minds off things." She said.
"Make a wish and blow out the candles," Everybody urged. I took a deep breath and wished that Lambo would be okay. In one breath I blew out the candles, and knew that my wish would come true. We had just finished slicing the cake, and everybody was enjoying the cake to the best of their ability. We still were in a hospital and awaiting the news on Lambo's condition. Then the doctor came out, and everybody turned their attention on him.
"It seems like the child will be fine. He is not in critical condition anymore. He still hasn't woken up, and is now in a coma though. I don't know when he will wake up, so right now he is in the ICU. You can visit him in a few minutes."
Everybody seemed to visibly relax, and I slumped back down into my armchair. Everybody seemed to calmed down, and now the fatigue was catching up with them. Yam sunk down into a chair, and looked like he was trying his best to keep his eyes open. Ryohei looked like he would fall asleep standing up. I looked around at everybody cramped in a small waiting room in the hospital. I could say that this was the most interesting birthday I have ever had. Right then it hit me; I didn't need to have a big party with tons of people, right now, in this waiting room, I felt closer and happier than any party would make me. (Although it did take Lambo almost dying to make me realize this.)
"My birthday wish came true."
A/N: Sorry, sorry, that took waaaaayy too long to write. Anyway today is my actual birthday and I'm soooo old….LOL Next chapter will probably be Ari's ring battle so look forward to it. It would make me happy if you guys reviewed, it is my birthday after all. Lol thank you to everybody who read it!