Ah school, don't you hate me so? Well, my readers, with lot of scraping for spare time, I was able to get this chapter done, Huzzah! If it wasn't for those five reviews, I may have just let it go till next week, so thank you very much to AccessBlade, 10th Squad 3rd Seat, peppermint twertle, AoKuroUsagi16238, and MeganPollen!

And to answer a few of your questions MeganPollen: Yes, something big is going to happen, and that's why Alicia is left in the dark. These twins are based off of two people I know in real life (they aren't twins, but they act like it). In any case, I notice that twins get compared a lot, so that's why that's there. However, you are just going to have to wait and find out what that big thing is, sorry!

Anyways here is chapter 25! Please read and review at the end!

Chapter XXV

The group had been waiting in the meeting room as promised, but Hailey hadn't arrived. After waiting five minutes after the given time, Yamamoto had volunteered to go look for the girl. He set out and was wondering through the unfamiliar hallways of the Twins' side when he had randomly picked a doorway and had gotten lucky.

At first he didn't think he had gotten the right bedroom, but a few pictures and other items lying around told him that he was correct. But, still…

Hailey had always seemed so organized and tidy. So why was her room practically in shambles?

Everything was thrown around wherever, and it looked like many of the items were smashed with brute force. There were tons of paper lying everywhere, most of it torn or crumpled. A few of them were burned. It looked like things were thrown at the wall frequently, and were those claw marks? A table lay mostly broken, but somehow still usable, in the corner. It's chair had stuffing poking out on the sides.

A horrible sound caught his attention.

Yamamoto looked over and saw another doorway slightly ajar. As he walked closer he noticed that it was a bathroom. He opened the door, starting to call out the girl's name, when he was met with a terrible sight.

Hailey was doubled over the sink, throwing up blood.

Yamamoto barely registered that Hibari was standing next to her, holding her hair out of her face. The sight of red dripping from his friend's mouth a little and splattering the basin had shocked him to the core.

"Hailey!"

The white haired girl snapped her head up as she was wiping her mouth. "T-Takeshi…" What little blood that was left in her face, vanished. Hailey turned around and grabbed the front of the baseball player's shirt, staring at the boy desperately. "You can't tell anyone Takeshi! Please! Please don't tell anyone."

"You're vomiting blood. We need to get you to a doctor!" Yamamoto's mind seemed to have gone horribly blank. He only took in a few of Hailey's words, and even then it wasn't enough to piece them together into something coherent in his mind. All his mind could supply was that Hailey was horribly sick, maybe even dying, and that he needed to get her to a hospital asap.

"No, Yamamoto! Please!" Hailey shook her head desperately. "Please! You have to keep this a secret! You can't tell anyone else! Tsuna and Alicia would worry too much, it would be too much of a burden. Please."

Hailey wobbled a little. The lack of blood finally caught up to her. She started to fall back, but was caught by Hibari.

"This does not leave this room," Hibari ordered.

"I…But she…" Yamamoto's gaze flickered between the older prefect and the girl in his arms. He couldn't bring himself to ignore his friend's condition, and the blood still coating the inside of her mouth and smeared a little at the corner of her lips weren't helping.

"Please," Hailey whimpered. A stray tear managed to force its way out and down her face.

Yamamoto looked her straight in the eye, his gaze somber. "You've been dealing with this all alone haven't you?...How-…How much longer do you…"

Hailey closed her eyes, but decided to answer him truthfully. "I have about a month left."

"A month!" This was a shock to the boy. He had been hoping that maybe they would have been able to get her back to their time and gotten her to a hospital, maybe even save her. He had been under the impression that if they stopped this Shoichi guy, then they would be able to save the twins and his father from their horrible fate.

"Takeshi, please…" Hailey tightened her hold on Yamamoto's shirt, which she had yet to relinquish.

Yamamoto closed his eyes and took a deep, calming, breath. "Alright. I'll let you be the one to tell them when you're ready."

Hailey sighed in relief and let go of the boy's shirt, nodding in affirmative to his statement. "We need to go to the meeting room. I'm sure they're getting impatient."

It was decided that Yamamoto would help Hailey to the room, as it would be suspicious if Hibari was willing to crowd with others. When they reached the room Hailey pushed herself away from the boy so that it wouldn't appear like she was ill or weak.

"About damn time whitey!" Gokudera yelled as they walked in.

Hailey smiled weakly. "Sorry, I had some trouble with a few families."

Yamamoto was surprisingly quiet. But he couldn't trust his voice at the moment. He walked over to his seat and sat down.

Reborn eyed the two and tugged his fedora down to hide his concerned expression. He figured that Yamamoto must have caught Hailey off guard and seen her state of health. This was definitely going to be riding on the boy's consciousness, and they could only pray that nothing bad came out of it.

Tsuna frowned a little. Hailey seemed kind of pale and Yamamoto seemed to have something bothering him as well.

Hailey sat down as well. "I'll put the camera's that are focused on Alicia up." She typed in a sequence of codes, and a few more keystrokes later the shopping district popped up on screen.

"Huh? Where's Risa-san?" Tsuna turned toward his Star Guardian.

Hailey offered a tired smile. "See if you can recognize her."

Reborn smirked a little. He had spotted the girl a few moments after the camera view popped up on screen.

The three teenage males scanned the screen, but came up with nothing. They couldn't spot their friend anywhere.

Hailey chuckled and typed another order into the computer. The camera zoomed in a little till the main focus was on a girl wearing a light pink knee length dress, a white cardigan, short white heels, and a white beret. The girl had her black hair hanging down freely and when she turned they saw that she had silvery/gray eyes.

Tsuna blushed. 'That's Risa-san! She looks so..so…girly! But that dress does look really good on her…Wait what am I thinking! I like Kyoko!'

Hailey tapped a few other buttons so that they could get audio as well.

"Stupid Millefiore. Stupid Hailey and Danielle, and their stupid dress. Stupid information. Stupid dress that restricts my movements. Stupid butt monkey that has the stupid information. Stupid dress. Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid." Thankfully it appeared that she was quiet enough so that no one else was able to hear her. "Can't fight properly, and even if I do it'll attract those damn perverts. Must not twitch from annoyance. Must not kill Millefiore on sight. Must act like a stupid, idiotic, useless, wussy- ass, weakling of a prick, no good, detestable, deplorable, moronic, failure of a girl. Must not punch the innocent to vent anger."

The teenagers sweat dropped a little.

Hailey chuckled. "As you can see, Alicia doesn't really like dresses. But she's a good actress. If it wasn't for our high frequency microphones, we wouldn't even be able to tell how irritated she really is."

Alicia walked up to a sleazy looking male. He was rather large, wore an olive toned coat over his black shirt, and had his hair pulled back in a ponytail.

"Scusi. You talk Italian?" She asked in broken Japanese.

The younger males were impressed. It truly sounded like Alicia wasn't able to speak Japanese at all.

"Si," the man replied.

Hailey tapped a few buttons to activate the translator.

Alicia sighed in relief. "Thank goodness! I was supposed to meet my friend, but I got lost! Do you think you could help me?"

The man stared at the girl with a hungry, and utterly disgusting, look. "Well, my pretty little miss. What are you in need of my assistance of?"

"I'm trying to find the bakery near the east side of the shopping district, I think." Alicia pulled a cute little thinking face. "At least, I'm pretty sure that's what she said…"

The man pulled her hand forward and kissed it. "The allow me to escort you. By name is Gioggiolo."

"Hmph. There goes his little information device." Hailey smirked.

Alicia clasped the man's hand with a bright smile and a slight blush. "Thank you so very much for your help! My name is Angelica!"

"And there goes his ring." Hailey snickered. That man really was a fool.

Gioggiolo placed and arm around Alicia's shoulders and led her to an empty alleyway, where he was immediately taken out.

Alicia glared at the man. "Yeah, right you bastard. Like any female in their right mind would be thankful to you."

She pulled out the device and started going through the files quickly. It only took her a few short minutes till she gathered the needed data then went off to another portion of the shipping district. At one point the camera switched to a fuzzy, black and white screen. The group had to wait patiently as the wires were mended, but it didn't take too long. Soon a smirking Alicia, looking straight at the camera, popped back up on screen. She mouthed 'I'm gonna get you back for this Hailey', then turned and disappeared around a corner.

Hailey tapped the keyboard once again and the screen turned off. "Is that good enough for you? As you can see, nothing happened. In fact, I would call this rather boring and a waste of time. But you should understand that you have nothing to worry about now, right?"

Tsuna nodded hesitantly, then paused. "What would have happened if Fuuta had gone out?"

Hailey looked over at her charge thoughtfully. "Fuuta? Nothing at all. My worry was that Lambo was going to sneak out and follow Fuuta as well, and the ignorant child would have blown Fuuta's cover and lead that Gioggiolo idiot straight to you."

"Then why ask me to stay behind when you had already made sure Lambo wasn't going to cause any trouble?" Fuuta asked.

Hailey shrugged. "You could have still gone, but I was going to send Alicia out anyways, so I thought that I might as well have her take care of your little technical difficulty while she was at it."

"So where's the stupid cow?" Gokudera asked. "Should you let him out of that closet now?"

Hailey stared at the boy with a slightly incredulous air. "Did you honestly believe that I would actually lock him in a dark and empty closet?"

"But you sounded so serious," Tsuna pointed out.

Hailey snorted. "I may have gained a colder side, but I'm not heartless. I put him in a playroom with Aiden. Danielle should be letting them out any minute now."

Reborn sighed a little. "I thought you wanted to teach him a lesson. With this, the stupid cow will always expect mercy."

"Though the child can be a rather thick thorn in my side, I cannot get him to learn his lesson if everyone else is so soft," Hailey scoffed. "Everyone else must learn that letting him get everything he wants is going to keep his bratty behavior in place, before I can get him to break out of it."

Right then, Alicia barged into the room, already back in her regular set of clothes. "I am never doing that again."

"Never say never~," Hailey sang ominously. "In any case, why don't you spare with Tsuna."

"Oh?" Alicia raised an eyebrow. "Am I finally allowed to fight him?"

"If it's alright with Reborn." Hailey said with a glance to the small hitman.

Reborn smirked. "Go ahead. This'll be a good test to see how much Dame-Tsuna has managed to progress."

Tsuna shivered at Alicia's predatory grin. This was a good chance to see where he stood in this era, but the girl's smile was seriously making him want to run away.

"No backing out, Tsuna," Reborn kicked the back of his student's head. "Now let's get going."

"So we'll be using the Vongola training room, huh?" Alicia looked around the empty concrete room with bored eyes.

"Yup. This way I can shove off all the repair bills onto Tsuna!" Hailey said with a bright smile.

Tsuna sweat dropped a little at Hailey's response. She didn't even bother to lie. He sighed quietly to himself.

But Yamamoto frowned a little. He never realized how fake her smiles were until now. She was just like he was before. It must be really lonely.

"And I have a little motivator for you," Hailey continued. She handed Alicia another manila folder like earlier.

Alicia raised an eyebrow but took the folder without asking. Her eyes zoomed across the first page, then froze and Alicia promptly fell over. A second later she jumped up looking incredulous, but kept going, only to fall over again when she read something else. She jumped up again and turned toward her sister looking outrageously flabbergasted. "Wha-What's wrong with his eyes? What the hell! How can he not make the connection! I mean- Arg! And then he-…but then behind a rock-….the fuck!...How can he be so stupid! He didn't even hide! What the heck!"

"Alicia, dear," Hailey said while trying to contain her laughter. "You've become incoherent."

Alicia went over to the nearest wall and started pounding her head against it while shouting some more incoherent words and sentences.

"Erm…what's going on?" Tsuna asked hesitantly.

Hailey burned the folder and its contents, making sure it all turned to ash and would never be put readable again, before answering. "Alicia has become rather frustrated with you, that's all."

"With me! Why?" Tsuna pointed to himself and exclaimed.

"What was in that folder?" Reborn interjected.

Hailey smiled a little bit. "A piece of the future. And Tsuna, I'd advise you get into your dying will mode. Or Alicia may very well kill you."

Tsuna's gut suddenly screamed at him to duck, and not a second too late as a blast of silver flames barely missed his head. "Hiiiie!"

"If that's how it's gonna be, then I'll knock some sense into you now," Alicia growled, box weapon out and at the ready.

"Get going, Tsuna." Reborn fired a shot.

"This will be a good time to see how much Alicia has improved with her weapon of choice too," Hailey commented.

"Hm? Wasn't gun-freak always a good shot?" Gokudera asked grumpily.

"Well yes, but those guns of hers weren't only designed for shooting," Hailey told them as she watched the two initiate fighting.

Reborn smiled a little. "I see."

Gokudera looked down at the small hitman. "See what, Reborn-san?"

"Those guns were also made for hand to hand combat," Reborn told the other two boys.

Just as he finished explaining Alicia showed the group by blocking one of Tsuna's punches with the top of her gun, which they noticed was built with a guard in a sort of trapezoid shape, and hit the boy with butt of her other rifle. Tsuna fell back a few paces, covering his chin. But Alicia didn't give him any time to rest and charged forward.

"You're slow," the girl commented calmly. She fired another shot and followed with a swift kick to his side, sending Tsuna flying. "And you're flames lack strength and purity. In fact…"

Tsuna got up again and accelerated towards Alicia, trying to get in her blind spot.

Alicia tossed her weapons to the side and grabbed Tsuna's wrists, flipping him over so that she was behind him with his arms crossed. "I don't need any flames or external weapons to fight you, as you are right now." She sighed and released the boy so that she could flick him lightly on the nose.

Tsuna let his flame fade away and gazed down at the ground. He knew that he was still too weak to get them all back to their time. But for this much of a disadvantage… Alicia wasn't even at the peak of her health.

"You've improved since last time, but you still have a lot of room for improvement. The strong fighters will be able to strike and kill you easily." Alicia pressed a spare gun to Tsuna's forehead.

Tsuna's eyes widened a little and he froze.

"However the strongest fighters can strike easily and take down their opponent without killing them." Alicia lowered the gun flicked the boy on the forehead.

Tsuna's eye's softened. Alicia was helping him too. He smiled a little.

"And a good boss won't be so god damn obliviously stupid!" Alicia snapped and slapped Tsuna upside the head.

"Itai!" Tsuna held his head.

"Way to ruin the mood, good job!" Hailey called out, holding up a thumbs up.

"Juudaime!" Gokudera ran over to his boss. "Damn you gun-freak! How dare you hit the tenth!"

"Well as you can see, I just did," Alicia said offhandedly.

"Smart ass," Hailey snorted.

"Eh?" Tsuna looked around, noticing something was wrong. "Yamamoto, what's wrong?"

Yamamoto was frowning at the ground, his hands balled into tight fists. He snapped his head up and turned toward Hailey. "I want to spar with you, Hailey."

A knowing look flashed across her eyes. 'Clever, Yamamoto. You mean to make me show everyone my condition.' She closed them and lowered her head a little with a small smile, before returning her gaze to the boy. "Another time, Yamamoto. But for now you must wait patiently."

Yamamoto's frown deepened. "Why not? You are also a swordsman. This would be a perfect time to show everyone else more about you as well."

Pained sadness flashed across Hailey's eyes. "Another time, but for now I have more work to take care of."

The group watched as Hailey walked out of the room.

Tsuna glanced between the door Hailey had exited and his rain guardian. "Yamamoto…What's going on?"

The baseball lover sighed and shook his head a little to clear his thoughts. He turned with a smile toward his other friends. "Nothing much. I'm just trying to get Hailey to spar with me so that I can improve." This wasn't totally a lie. He did hope to spar with Hailey since he heard that she seemed to be skilled with a blade as well. But that wasn't his true reasoning.

Reborn just stared at the door, still making sure to keep one ear open to listen to the conversation. He knew about Hailey's…illness, but it seemed that perhaps Yamamoto had seen her condition. But from the boy's tone, Reborn can tell that her health was a lot worse off than he had originally thought. So what could he do to make sure it didn't get any worse? The twins were valuable allies and he didn't want to lose either one. He needed more information. Perhaps he would confront Hailey about it, but would she willingly tell him? It wasn't like he could try forcing it out of her with her current status, and that would probably cause more problems than solve.

"Hey, Risa-san," Tsuna called out suddenly, "Why did you and Hailey-chan join the Dimenticato?"

Reborn's attention perked up and he turned to look at the girl as well.

Alicia twitched a little and turned to look at the boy who asked. "Why the sudden curiosity?"

"Well, you two seem to be doing a lot for your family, but you never seem happy with it," Tsuna explained. "So I was just curious why you give so much of yourselves. You must have some reason for wanting to join the mafia."

"Ah, well…" Alicia let her gaze drift as she thought about the events that led up to them 'joining' the Perduto e Dimenticato Famiglia. "We never wanted to join… Before everything that happened, we were just two ordinary girls. I was studying to be a lawyer and Hailey was studying to be a doctor… If you asked us if we would ever get involved in the mafia, we would have laughed… But we weren't really given a choice."

"Why don't you hate all those bastards then?" Gokudera questioned irritably.

"If you didn't choose to become a member then how come you let yourself get recruited? How did they find you two and why did they want you two to join?" Reborn asked. This was a good time to not only learn more about the twins, but also the mysterious Dimenticato.

Alicia smiled sadly, still lost in her thoughts. "We were ripped out of our previous lives and no matter how much we try, we can never regain what was lost. After that we found ourselves at the Dimenticato headquarters. It was because of our special circumstance that we were added among their ranks. I can't hate any of the members because they gave us shelter and a family after we lost our other home."

Their special condition must have been because they possessed moon and star flames was Reborn's conclusion. But that didn't answer all of his questions.

"Is that why you two try so hard?" Yamamoto asked. "Working yourselves to death? What good will come out of that?"

"A chance to see our precious ones again," Alicia answered softly. She unconsciously reached up and placed a hand over her pendant.

Flashback

"Alicia! Hey Alicia! Look!" Hailey called out as she ran toward her sister.

They had been with the Dimenticato for two years already. They were finally starting to grow a little taller and had learned a lot over all those months.

Hailey finally reached her target and stopped in front of her twin, shoving a pair of necklaces into the other's face. "Look, Alicia! I found necklaces just like out old ones!"

Alicia backed away a little so that she could focus more clearly on the objects dangling down from Hailey's hands. Her eyebrows rose up in surprise. "They look…exactly the same…"

Hailey nodded vigorously. "Un! I was hoping that there would be a couple in this world so I went searching all over using our connections! Isn't this great? Now it's like we're still connected to mom and dad!" Even though Hailey looked so happy, she also had tears pouring from the corners of her eyes.

Alicia took one of the necklaces and brushed a finger over the intricate design, feeling the weight and the thickness of the white gold. It was truly amazing how similar it looked to the one from their original dimension. A cherry blossom branch went across the front. Their mother explained that this was to remind them as well as others that you were always learning as you went through life. The kanji for luck was next to the branch. On the back was their favorite flower bent around a small moonstone. The moonstone was for: calming, good for meditation, spiritual guidance and protection, prophesy, and brings happy experiences to those who are sensitive.

Alicia closed her eyes and held the necklace close to her heart. Each member of their family had this necklace. "Mother…Father…" Alicia whispered.

"It's perfect right, this way it's almost like we're still together. We still have a link to mommy and daddy." Hailey's voice broke.

Alicia reached forward and hugged her sister. The two of them cried their hearts out for their situation for the first time since they had come to that world.

End flashback.

"Risa-san…are you okay?" Tsuna asked gently.

Alicia took a calming breath before looking back up at the others. "I'm fine."

Tsuna didn't completely believe the girl, but had something else to ask her first. "Risa-san…what will happen to you and Hailey-chan when your mission of protecting us comes to an end?"

Alicia studied the boy. Trying to decide how she should answer that question. "The White and Black Panthers live solely for protecting you and your guardians. So, naturally, when that protection is no longer needed, then the two of us will have served out purpose in this world and will lose our reason for living."

Reborn lowered his head so that his fedora shadowed his expression. "So it's true. All Dimenticato die as soon as their guardianship is over."

"What!" Tsuna looked back and forth between the two. "But-…But you still have a really long time right? The only reason you died in this time was because of the Millefiore, right?"

Alicia shrugged. "I don't know. But I figure I should be able to gain at least a few years if you can successfully take care of all of this. Which brings us back to you training to get stronger. In any case, I really need some shut eye. See you tomorrow or whenever, later." With a short wave, Alicia walked out of the door as well.

Extra- After Alicia's Death

Tsuna sighed and placed the papers he was holding back onto the desk. He was exhausted, but he couldn't bring himself to take a break. Alicia had died to make sure this plan went through properly, so he had to make sure he did his part as well. He couldn't let Alicia down again.

There was a soft knock and a familiar silver mane walked in. Gokudera walked in, followed by Kyoko.

"Juudaime, you should take a break. You've been at this for hours."

"I'm fine, Hayato." Tsuna gathered up all the files concerning his secret plan and locked them in his drawer. He pulled another stack of paperwork toward himself and started looking over the contents.

"Tsu-kun, you should rest a little. Let's go out to eat somewhere," Kyoko offered.

"Not right now," Tsuna replied wearily without looking up.

Kyoko reached forward and place both of her hands on top of Tsuna's furiously scribbling one, finally grabbing the man's attention. "Please, Tsu-kun? For me?" It wasn't a very fair tactic, but if it would get the man out of this building, then it would be okay…right? She was helping him, so why did she feel a little guilty?

Tsuna sighed and ran his other hand through his hand. "Alright. Just for a little bit."

Kyoko smiled. "Thank you, Tsu-kun."

The two walked around through the town while they tried to figure out where they wanted to go to eat. It seemed like Kyoko wasn't really in the mood for much, despite being the one who insisted Tsuna go out with her. Eventually they decided where they wanted to try and ambled over at a semi-leisurely pace.

While they waited for their order to be taken and then for their meal to arrive Kyoko tried her best to get Tsuna to talk. But the man seemed oblivious to her effort. Most of his sentences were short and hardly any of them left any room for further discussion.

Tsuna was trying his best, he really was, but he just couldn't bring himself to focus on the woman's words. For wherever he looked he would see Alicia. They had been all over this town together, so it was impossible for him to avoid any of them. If only there was somewhere where he hadn't visited or created some memory with the girl. Maybe then he could talk more openly with Kyoko. But as it was right now, whenever the woman across from him spoke or smiled, Tsuna could see Alicia laughing and teasing him, or perhaps joking about their friends.

When he looked out the window he could see Alicia walking down the street, complaining about her sister yelling at her for sitting on one of her documents, and the ridiculous argument that ensued.

If he shifted his gaze to the park then he could see Alicia sitting on the swing, smiling like a little kid and demanding for him to push her, because she was just that lazy. Or going down the slide on her stomach, despite knowing she was going to fall off the end, and whine about how much the landing hurt. Or else she would be playing on the grass with the kids and her sister, laughing merrily, with a gentle look in her eyes reserved solely for her friends.

Then if Tsuna turned his gaze back inside, directing toward the bar, he could see Alicia laughing loudly, probably at himself, and they would talk and have fun. Or it would be a bad day and Tsuna was comforting her about something that had happened on the mission. Alicia never took deaths well, and like her sister she would have locked herself in her room for a few weeks if Tsuna hadn't forced her to come with him for a walk. Another time it was Alicia comforting Tsuna, and although her words were usually harsh, she knew exactly what to say to get him back up on his feet.

Tsuna was seeing and hearing the other everywhere, but all of his memories would flash forward to that day. The sickening scent of her blood would fill his nose and for a second he could see her blood on his hands, like it was fresh. But he never saw her dead face, nor the empty look that probably appeared behind her closed eyelids. She had died peacefully and made sure that Tsuna wouldn't be haunted by that piece of self-inflicted guilt.

Alicia always knew what to do…

She knew everything…except how to stop herself from dying and breaking his heart.

Kyoko and Tsuna walked back in silence till they reached the base entrance, there Kyoko finally had enough and stopped the other man from entering.

"Tsu-kun, I can't take any more of this!" Kyoko said with a frown as she gazed directly into the other's eyes.

Tsuna blinked in surprise. "Wha-"

But he was silenced as Kyoko pressed her lips to his. "Tsu-kun, Risa-chan wasn't the only one who cared about you." Kyoko took a step back and smiled sadly. "But that's all I'm going to do. You fell in love with Risa-chan and I'm going to respect that. But don't you think that your current actions would make her sad? You said that Risa-chan said that even though she knew she was dying, she smiled and said that she was thankful for all the time that you and everyone else spent with her. You also said that she wanted you to smile more, like you used too. Tsu-kun, this means that she didn't want you to fake your smiles. She really wanted you to be happy."

Tsuna started at the orange haired girl numbly.

Kyoko's smile widened a bit, but gained more sorrow as well. "I can't forgive her for dying, leaving you behind and not telling at least you about it. But I also know that she did it so she wouldn't burden everyone with that information, and that if we were angry with her then we wouldn't be as sad. I'm also aware that she must have been really lonely, and you'll only make her feel worse if you allow yourself to drown in your misery, Tsu-kun. So try to lighten up a little. I'm sure better days will come. You just have to try letting the rest of us in."

Tsuna lowered his head, his bangs covering his expression. He stayed there for a short while before looking up and smiling, a small genuine smile. "Thanks Kyoko…I needed that…And I'm sorry."

Kyoko nodded and the two of them headed inside.

Later that night as Tsuna drifted off to sleep, he couldn't help but imagine what Alicia would have done if she saw him now. He chuckled a little. Alicia would have definitely yelled at him and kicked him around calling him something along the lines of a pansy and a few other insults. She then would have finished with a good slap to the face and tell him off sternly for his behavior and that if it didn't stop soon, then she would beat him into the next year or at least till he could tell up from down.

Alicia knew how to keep his heart from completely shattering after all.

And with that final thought, Tsuna fell asleep.

Okay, I nearly brought myself to tears when I was imagining all of their emotions. This turned out to be a rather depressing chapter, yikes. If you want something a little more light hearted to read, then you can check out my other story Vongola Academy.

Well I hoped you liked this chapter! Please review and tell me what you felt!