author's note: Hello Everyone~! Let's meet the so long awaiting guest to the stage (sort of)~, they are...you'll have to read to find out XD. Though probably all of you know who it is. So let's cut to the chase.

disclaimer: I don't own KHR, except for my Ami.

chapter 21:

When I woke up, I thought I just had a hang over or something. Not that I knew how a hangover felt, but right now I felt horrible. My left arm was hurting like hell came over it, and my legs were killing me. I guess being a good runner did not mean that you're anyhow a good biker or visa versa.

Trying to stand up to get to my pain-killers, I understood that I had a huge head-ache too. What did I do to deserve this? 'Be stupid.' Oh! Be quiet brain!

Finding the pills, which were in the bag that I took with me yesterday, I gulped them down my throat, hoping at least some of the pain would go away.

And guess what? After half an hour of lying in my bed, the pain sort of started to disappear. Oh, heaven pills!

Alright! I had my strength back, at least more than I had when I woke up. Let's get this party started, I took out my computer to start researching stuff, but was stopped by a strange smell. It was kind of weird, so I sniffed around to see what it was coming from..then it hit me. It was sweat. MY sweat! OH GOD! After all that biking I didn't wash myself yesterday. And better off, I was the whole night sleeping in my dirty clothes! EWW! ...what? I care for how I smell, thank you very much.

I practically jumped into the shower, throwing my clothes off myself. It couldn't be helped, they smelled pretty bad. And took the shower.

The water that was hitting me, it felt really nice. Ever thought that you became a more saint person when you come out of the shower clean? Well, that's what I thought now. I could feel myself growing some wings and flying off to my dream world. Sadly, the second I looked at my computer, I was brought back to earth. I sighed. Guess I'll have to leave my imaginary angel wings alone for now. Doing some dirty, hacking work, I don't want them to get dirty too.

The rest of the morning before school, I used up to look through some stuff on Varia. Though it was hard to get through them, I managed to get some. At least all of the members. The boss and all of his subordinates. There were seven main characters. The ones that got most of my attention was the robot and the baby. Both of them looked weird, I tried to hack on them, but always hit a dead end. It was getting annoying.

By the time I finally gave up on it, the clock showed that I had to already go to school. I got my lunch box, first-aid. I was going to check on Dino and Kyoya again. I hope they didn't pull an actual all-nighter. I won't ever understand the fighting maniacs.

Going to school, feeling a bit lonely I walked in silence. I guess I got used to the loud mornings that I got everyday. Everyone was off, training with their hardest. I could only get them the information and make them as prepared with what they are to face as much as was in my ability. I sighed and looked at my arm. Was this really ok? I'm just a normal, defenseless girl, who was even rejected by her own father. And now I'm trying to play a co-hero in this.

No. It wasn't, I knew that. But I'll go through it anyways, because I promised to help Tsuna.

With that in mind, I walked into the classroom.

The school was all normal. No problem there. I went ahead and had some friendly talks with some random students. The corridors seemed to be more lively (since last year, when I just came), at least, when I'm around. And a lot of people seem to greet me, it was suspicious, but I just went ahead and greeted them too.

Lunch time came. And just like yesterday, both the blond and the carnivore looked like bloody trash. And I practically had to pin down Kyoya to look through his wounds. Can they be a bit less serious on this? And anyways, how can you get this bloody in a time limit of one day? I guess you have to be a fighting maniacs to know that. I really didn't want to learn.

The first one that I took care of was Kyoya. I practically had to pin him down to take care of his wounds. He is so stubborn. Gee~. Sadly for him, I'm far more stubborn when I want to be.

The next one was Dino. No, duh. He was waaaayyyyyy calmer. So you would ask, why did I have a hard time to do my job? The answer was simple. My hands were shivering from the killing aura behind me. When I had enough of it, I threw a deadly glare at Kyoya, which somehow helped...a bit...maybe...not really. But HEY! At least I tried.

As annoying as the prefect was, Dino wasn't much better. He just hugged me, which made my face red. So I punched him on his injuries. I mean, I get he is Italian and all, but being too clingy was a total no-no for me. And he is still the meanie that told me that my cheeks were round. Don't think I'll ever forget that.

I stood up, pouting my cheeks at both of them and left.

After school, I went home to make the snacks for everyone. Then took my landlady's daughter's bike, I took off to visit everyone.

This time I thought that I should go and check on Ryohei first, since I didn't get the chance yesterday.

When I got there, I saw that Colonello was teaching him a really strong punch. I was in a state of shock, that I couldn't move after seeing Ryohei punch that enormous rock into bitter pieces. The boxer got really excited and kept on telling me about how great it felt. I guess I did miss my hyper and enthusiastic friend quite a lot. But I didn't show it too much, so I just told him that I'm going to push all of the knowledge that he skipped into his brain once we would be done with this huge event.

He thought that I was joking, but then I smirked and made it clear that I was nowhere close to joking. The boxer, and even Colonello, froze. So, I just said my goodbye and that I would come tomorrow with more snacks. Oh, Ryohei said that he loved it, which made me giggle.

The next one up was Hayato. The bomber was trying to hit paper-airplanes. I asked what he was doind, and he answered that it was to learn a new move. I didn't understand, since I was not a dynamite genius. Anyway, I just went through his wounds, which seemed to heal quite finely. But I saw him with a cigarette in his mouth. I should think of a way to get rid of his addiction. Seriously, the longer he'll smoke the worse it will get.

Anyway, I skipped the long lecture this time, knowing that I still have stuff to do. So I just went to meet my adorable little brother, after kicking Shamal in the stomach for trying to hug me. I had enough of that from the blond already.
After you get used to it, he becomes quite a good punching bag, if you know what I mean.

When I got to Tsuna, I shrieked, he was hurt again. I gave the pills to Tsuna again, but it seems that the training was paying off and he didn't complain as much. Uwwaahh~, my adorable little brother is growing up in front of my own eyes.

Ok, that sounded like I'm an old grandma...but WHO CARES? I hugged my cutie until he wasn't able to breath and then let him go, before he fell unconscious with the lack of oxygen. Couldn't make him fall, or else the devil would kill me. Taking care of his wounds, I gave the snack and this time I made some for Basil too. The boy is pretty hurt from that fight with the shark after all. His wounds couldn't have healed that fast.

And even from there I took off. No matter how long I wanted to stay, they needed to train, and I still had Takeshi to visit.

When I got to the dojo, I felt the seriousness there. Just when I came in and made my appearance clear, it sort of calmed down. That felt weird. I never thought that Takeshi could pull such a serious face. Shall I add that I was a bit scared of it? Well, maybe not exactly scared, but I definitely stepped some steps back to watch the scene . Even when he is playing baseball, he never made such a face.

He had no wounds, so I just gave the snack and listened to Takeshi talking about what he learned. I just listened and smiled at him, 'A happy face suits him far more.' was what went through my mind then.

After I was done with the biking, I felt completely tired again. Though this time, at least I didn't pass out.

Getting back on my computer, after taking a shower from all of the sweat that I got, I started to get some more info while snaking on some cookies in frustration. The security on their territories was enormous. No wonder they are called the elite. But it made me smirk too, if I get into there, then I might find something valuable.

The last time I checked the clock, it was over 3 o'clock in the morning. But I already had fallen asleep automatically by then. My brain just shut down, just like my computer.

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The next five days went by pretty much similarly. I saw the improvement in their fighting, it was great. Really. The only problem was, the things that I was finding out on our enemy was not good. They are totally on another level from anything I have seen. And no matter how long I was looking up at their weaknesses, I could find anything useful enough, that would lead to out advantage. It just wasn't there. Che. I wonder if my researching will be of any use at this point. I was still looking up for information on that baby and the robot.

Now I was walking with Tsuna, Basil and Reborn. They had finished their training earlier, so I joined them to go back to Tsuna's house. They were talking about 'dying-will pills'. I guess, if you think about it, it's pretty handy. But Basil said that they are not as efficient as the bullet, so I guess they are not the totally best. The boy was also talking a lot about his master. I wonder who this 'master' is. Probably strict and a law-follower or something, after all, he taught Basil quite strictly I have to say, even to my standards and my standards are pretty high. I was taught pretty much like a noble after all.

When we reached Tsuna's house, the first this noticed was... "D-dad?" Tsuna asked, surprised. "You're actually awake for the first time...wait. Are you going somewhere?" My little brother asked, after analyzing his dad's movements. The man was putting on his boots and stuff. I was also wondering where he would be going right now. It pretty late right now...

Iemitsu-san's face saddened and he said coldly, "Yeah. ..Seems like an uninvited guest has arrived earlier than expected." That one sentence made me freeze. I felt dead, like there was no tomorrow.
Basil and Reborn made a reaction too, but it wasn't as obvious as mine. Tsuna. though, looked clueless (I was kind of happy about that. He didn't need to know what kind of horror that one sentence held).

"Is that true, Iemitsu?" Reborn asked calmly. "I got the information from the main land, so there's no mistake." Iemitsu told us. "It...can't...be." I was able to pronounce with my eyes as wide as they could go.

"Hmm...seems like you were right. Xanxus isn't someone to play around with...But, this was unexpectedly fast..." Tsuna's father looked at me with a sad look in his eyes. "Damn." I made an intellectual response, clutching my right fist tightly.

"Ami-nee...even you know what's going on? Can somebody tell me already?" Tsuna asked, still not following. I looked at him, then at Iemitsu-san. The man just said, "Looks like the Varia have arrived in Japan." "WHA-! THOSE REALLY SCARY PEOPLE?" Tsuna's jaw dropped. But then he started rubbing his head with his arms, "WAIT! Does dad know?" I sighed. It's just impossible not to have my adorable little brother not look cute, right?

"I'll go check on all of the guardians' safety and inform of the situation." Iemitsu-san said and looked at Basil, "Assist me, Basil." Why Basil, I wonder... "I shall accompany you, master!" The boy replied. Ma...ster?

I looked at Basil as confused as my little brother. Then both of us looked at his dad. "..Dad?" Tsuna asked, "Yes?" Iemitsu-san smiled at his son. Tsuna pointed a finger at his father, "Master?" The older man pointed at himself and repeated his son's words, "Master." "WAIT! Master?" I freaked out. That was the last thing I thought the man would be. I mean...Basil's master? It can't be! This was not making any sense!

Ok, maybe I should have looked up some info on him. But then...I knew that he isn't of any harm, so why bother? Now I'm totally regretting it.

While I was in a 'complete denial' state, somehow things were moving on their own. Tsuna's dad and Basil left and Reborn made Tsuna to go too. "W-wait for me!" I said, following my little brother and his devil tutor.

While we were running, Tsuna was panicking about why the Varia came so early. I tried to make him calm down, but it was pretty unsuccessful for I was worried myself.

Then we bumped into Kyoko and Haru. They said that Fuuta, I-pin and Lambo were playing together but they lost them and were wondering if they came home. But as much as I could tell when we were back home, the kids weren't there. That when my stomach started to feel sick from worry. And out of instinct, I ran.

"W-wait, Ami-nee!" Tsuna shouted at me, "Wh-what are you doing?" He ran behind me, struggling to keep up.

On the way, while we were still running, Reborn told us the awesome news: Lambo is the thunder guardian. "LAMBO IS WHAT?" I screamed at the hit-man baby and put more speed into my running. Until we heard a scream. It sounded like it belonged to a child's. I stopped to turn around to the scream.

When we finally saw moving figures we saw that it was the kids. They were running from a masked, dark uniformed man. The next second felt so long and I felt that I was running was slowly. I possibly couldn't get to them before they would get hit. Damn.

But before I got to the kids and the man was able to hurt them, the masked guy was thrown back.

"Vongola's Guardian of the Sun and Colonello's best Discipline." I couldn't help but give a helpless giggle at his flashiness, "Sasagawa Ryohei..is here!" The boxer introduced himself. I sighed.

But before we knew it, another masked man jumped from the wall or something, but he was slashed. Then another came, but he was blown down with what looked like dynamite.

"Geez~, why does the stupid cow have the ring?" Hayato said in displeasure and frowned at it. "Well, you guys are safe now." Takeshi told the kids. I felt like tears coming from my eyes from the relief. I know I'm a cry-baby. Nobody has to point it out.

Once we knew that there won't be any more attacks, at least for now, both me and Tsuna ran to everyone. "Tsuna-nii! Ami-nee! I was so scared!" Fuuta ran in my arms, I could feel that he was shivering. "It's ok, now." I said softly, patting his head while hugging him. I-pin was hurt. She probably tried to fight back. And Lambo...well, he was Lambo. A spoiled little baby-boy.

Both mine and Tsuna's jaw dropped after we saw that his ring was in his different dimensional hair. That hair is really weird. It's not normal.

Hayato was bickering about how Lambo could get the ring, Takeshi was just saying that it's alright, at least safe and Ryohei was saying that this was an easy victory. And I was looking at I-pin's wounds. They looked pretty serious, so I started cleaning them straight away.

But before I knew it, I heard Reborn's words, "..He's coming." He didn't mean the...real one, right?

"So you guys did that?" A manly low voice said. When we looked his way, the man had really spiky hair, piercings, and eight sticks (?) popping out of his back. Ok, they weren't popping out, they were stuck to his back, but it looked like they were popping. Anyways, I recognized the man straight away. His name is Leviathan, Varia's 'thunder guardian'. Weapon: 8 parabolas that he used to summon thunder or whatever. He looked a bit more decent in the photos that I got...well, I have to say that I'm pretty much disappointed in Varia's style. I mean, the had a guy with beautiful long hair, who doesn't take care of it, A guy who wants to be a gangster or god knows what, what else could there be?

Well, anyways, he was going to attack us, wuhoo~, great move genius. I looked at him sarcastically, was he seriously going to hurt a defenseless 5 years old? Well, his serious look sort of answered my question. Yup, he was.

I narrowed my eyes. Doesn't he have any morals? But before he could attack, we heard someone else speak, "Hold it. Levi!" And an appearance of 4 more character was made. And the baby with the robot were one of them.

"Don't hunt them all on your own~!" Umm...scratch my last statement on Varia's style. It was worse. I knew that, but to see it in reality, it was plain odd. The guy that just said that had a green mohawk that wasn't standing, like usual, but lying on one of his sides.

The others looked more or less okay, especially that guy, who looked our age with the tiara. If not for the tiara and long bangs that didn't let anyone see his eyes, he looked pretty ok.

But what slapped me back to earth was a very loud, "HHEEYY!" The shark made appearance. My body froze and my left arm started hurting like crazy.

"How dare you trick me?" He said with his loud voice, "You piece of trash."

I narrowed my eyes, what did he just call us? But I couldn't move even a millimeter, not talking about speaking. That was out of the question.

"Which one of you is wielding the ring of rain?" He demanded to know. So Takeshi answered, "Me."

The white shark started to grin and say that he will slice him up in 3 seconds, well, that was before he was pushed out of the way.

I thought I was going to die. I never thought I would see the man in person ever in my life. "Xanxus." Both me and Reborn said at the same time. Though my voice was far more shivering than the babies, who was as calm standing as ever.

Tsuna fell, I knew that he is shivering. Well, I mean, anyone would would fall unconscious from a scary guy saying your name in a low tone and trying to kill you. I was surprised that my little brother didn't yet. The man in front of us was everything the word 'deadly' has to offer or even more.

But before he could do anything, something fell in front of him. "Hold it, Xanxus." A familiar voice said, "That's enough."

All of our heads turned to the voice, "From here on, I'll take charge of things." He said. "I-iemitsu-san?" I said with wide eyes. Tsuna was even more surprised, "DAD?" "Juudaime's dad?" Hayato asked surprised at that statement.

"You...what are you doing here?" The shark rose his sword at the older man. "Xanxus...is one of your minions planning to lift his sword against me, the outside advisor?" Iemitsu-san asked clamly. And a staring competition started between him and Xanxus.

The atmosphere between the two was so thick, that my body was starting to get cold. Was it getting chilly? I thought that I became deaf or something again. The fear has eaten me whole. Why was I here? I hate the mafia. I couldn't feel anything around me, just my heart beating.

I was in that state, until I heard Tsuna's voice, "What's going on? Besides...why dad?" He was completely out of it. I snapped out of whatever I was in. That's right, they don't know what is going on at all. "An outside advisor" Reborn answered his question, "That's Iemitsu's job in the Vongola. He is a Vongola, but at the same time he isn't. He isn't involved in during regular times, but when the family is in an emergency, he has the authority of the №2 figure, after the boss."

So he really was an important figure, as I suspected. Tsuna was really confused. Then Reborn explained that they have the authority to choose their heir as well, that's the reason why the rings could be cut into two.

Then Basil came down to us and gave a rolled paper to my little brother. "This is the direct order from the ninth." The same paper was given to Xanxus had a dying-will flame. Ok, now they used the dying-will as a stamp?

It was written in Italian, so I took a peek on reading it. After all, I was going to the Vongola HQ quite often, so my Italian did get better. What was written in it didn't sound like the ninth at all. I know, I don't like the old man, but as much as I knew him, he wouldn't give such orders. Never. Or, he really was just another mafia boss that didn't care for people. I didn't want to believe the latter statement.

Basically what was written in it was, 'I want my son to be the boss, but Iemitsu wants to give the ring to his own son. But I don't want a useless battle between my own family members, so let's start the Vongola's battle to satisfy everyone.' I really wanted to drop my jaw, but the thing that I didn't read through, Iemitsu-san added (well, he was translating the whole thing to his son, but I mean..you know...) "Those that wield the same type of ring, will fight in a one on one battle." Damn, that sounded grand.

And out of nowhere came two more characters. Haven't they been doing that the whole time now? I wouldn't surprised if an alien comes out of nowhere.

In front of us were two ladies, with masks over their eyes and long, pink hair. They introduced themselves as the Cervello organization that is ruled directly under the ninth. And they said they are going to be the judges for the battles. Iemitsu-san wanted to object, but they said that they are directly under the ninth order, so he can not place a thought on this.

They started describing the rules or something to everyone, but I wasn't really listening, knowing what this was all about. The last thing that they said was they will meet us in Namimori Junior High at 11 o'clock in the night. So it's a night battle?

The ladies left and after they did, Xanxus gave Tsuna a death glare and also left with everyone else from the Varia.

I went up to my shivering little brother and hugged him. I knew that I couldn't do much more than that. "We'll be able to go through this..." I whispered into his ear, and his shaking quietened down a bit.

After that, we all went home. I don't think I would be able to sleep tonight. Whatever will come tomorrow, it's going to be bloody. With that I hugged my pillow and tried to fall asleep, but failing..

This going to be a long night...

So~, how was the arrival of our uninvited guests? Please review~.