I'm back and with new chapters! Yes that's right, CHAPTERS! I'll be releasing two new chapters today since I didn't have the chance to update last week due to left and right examinations and other requirements. Damn college life, but I hope you enjoy this double chapter release :)

Standard disclaimer applies.

Now on with the story!~

(SAKI POV)

It's been two weeks since the total annihilation of the Castello famiglia, and has been a week since my ex-boyfriend was hailed the new boss of Vongola Famiglia.

To say these past days were hell, would really be an understatement. After Kyoya and I recuperated, we were briefed with what we were going to deal with. It was quite simple, infiltrate the mansion, isolate the boss, set up a bomb, if anyone comes in our way, kill them. Although the memory still shook me up every time I remember.

**Flashback**

We had to fly all the way to Italy to reach the home base of the Castello famiglia. Even if they were somewhere in the lower parts of the mafia's hierarchy of power, their numbers are still to be reckoned with. In other parts of the world, other members of Vongola's assassination department were out to destroy the enemy's branch bases.

The nerve wrecking part of this mission was I was supposed to disguise myself as an escort service girl, and I didn't like it one bit. For the sake of the mission I had to endure it, so here I was now in a dress that hardly covered my body and being escorted by Kyoya – yeah, we've come to first name relations now we've established some well-earned respect from one another.

Seduction was definitely not my forte, especially when I'm seducing a 40 something year old perverted excuse for a mafia don. Then there was my usually never caring partner that seemed to find my situation amusing.

"Don't say anything or I'll make sure the next time we spar you're as good as dead when I'm done with you." I threatened him, as if it would work against the Cloud.

"Then, I say you look rather ravishing, have fun being touched by a pervert." He said as he walked away.

It was easy infiltrating the Castello mansion, after posing as an escort service girl and gaining the attention of the boss, I was immediately brought over to the mansion, with the boss expecting that I would provide entertainment. Of course as part of the mission, I had to lure the boss away from the mansion and I did that by requesting to go to the gardens.

I will admit that the Castellos had a divine garden, it looked like a setting plucked straight out of a fairy tale, but now wasn't the time to be admiring flowers, I had a job to do.

"My dear Rize, your beauty is surpasses any of the beauty these flowers possess." The Castello Don said, trying to smooth talk me purring out the alias I gave.

"You flatter me too much, these flowers were obviously tended with great care to achieve such beauty." I said, not looking at the don because I'm irked by his face.

"My dear, if you'll only allow me, I'll take such good care of you that your beauty will not tarnish." He said while running his hands from my shoulders to my arms, I suppressed the shiver from the action and before he can do anything else, something blew up from behind us.

"What the hell?!" the don was frantic as he saw that his beloved mansion was crumbling to the ground. Looks like Kyoya did his part of the job, which just leaves my part.

"I believe I won't let the likes of you take care of me, after all you are the one that ordered the explosion of the plane my parents were aboard." I said nonchalantly.

"You're the bitch that's in a relationship with the Vongola Decimo?!" he pointed an accusing finger towards me.

"Was in a relationship, but that doesn't matter now." I said as I pulled out the gun I've been hiding behind the petticoat of the dress I was wearing. "The matter at hand right now is how should I kill you." And I pointed the gun towards his head.

"Just because you have a gun, that doesn't scare me. You're nothing but a weak woman." And he tried to attack me, I dodge and I sent a kick to his gut that made him topple to the ground.

"You said something about me being weak, hmm?" he shuddered when I gave him one of my sickly sweet smiles that promised pain.

"Please! Spare me! I'll give you anything you want. Money, jewels, mansions, anything! Name it, you'll have it. I'll even help you to get back with the Deci-" I cut him off by shoving the muzzle of the gun in his mouth.

"Stop sprouting out nonsense. The only thing I want now are my parents, but you can't give me that now can you? So die, you low life." And I pulled the trigger and I didn't even flinch when the blood started pouring from the back of the don's head.

I stood up and walked away from the corpse and towards the burning mansion. I had to find Kyoya, I need to get out of here. And of course finding him was a grueling task as it is, shooting goons left and right wasn't actually fun especially when you're questioning your own mental stability.

After practically destroying further the demolished mansion, I've finally found Kyoya and his own carnage of bodies strewn over the room.

"I think you've had your fun, but don't you think it's time for us to get out of here? We're gonna be buried alive if we don't." and that seemed to be reason enough for him to carry me princess style and jump out of the window and just as we run away from the burning mansion it exploded for the second time around.

The Vongola are always known for ending things with a bang, or in this case, a ka-blam.

**End flashback**

And now, a week after the infiltration, I'm still shaken up. I'm not shaken up because I killed a bunch of people, they had it coming, what scares me the most is how I easily killed them without having second thoughts or even flinching as I pulled the trigger. It was like spilling blood after blood and having no care in what I was wasting. To make my situation even worse, everybody, and I mean everybody were all at Italy, celebrating the start of the reign of the new don of the Vongola.

Kyoya remained in Italy and the others followed, stating that they need to discuss some more things with the Ninth generation, while I immediately went back to Osaka to make the necessary arrangements for my parents' funeral. I allowed only a select few to attend the wake and an even fewer amount of people on the day of the burial itself. Once my parents arrived at their final resting place, I had an extreme emotional breakdown, if Rika wasn't there, I would've completely lost it. They had to restrain me to the point that they had to knock me out.

Now here I am in my house in Osaka, feeling empty and broken, but I am also determined to heal myself, and trying to get all of the stuff there packed up. Rika was here with me, keeping me company since I refused to spend time with anyone and she just threw herself on me, so I practically had no choice. I have to admit I admire her dedication, I've been pushing everyone away, but she keeps pushing back and insisting I don't deserve the isolation I was giving to myself. She hasn't left me for the past two days.

"Saki, are you sure you want to continue doing this now? I mean, it's barely even three days since your parents'…" Rika trailed off, as if she can't finish her last sentence.

"We're almost done, so why stop now? Besides, I know I need this, this is the closure I need and my first step towards me healing all of the scars my heart and soul bears right now." I answered, fighting back the tears that always seem to have a never ending supply.

"Alright. Just remember that we're all here for you. I'm here for you, and it pains me to see you like this." She replied and I just continued throwing stuff into boxes marked with "Keep", "Donate" and "Throw Away".

It was only early afternoon and only one room has been left untouched since we started packing yesterday.

"Saki, if you want I can do the packing here by myself and I'll just ask you where to put the other stuff if I'm not too sure about it." Rika offered and I shook my head.

"No. Rika, I need to do this, I can't allow myself to be this broken, it's pathetic of me and it's definitely not what my parents wanted to be to so I need to suck it up." I said and I opened my parents' bedroom.

The clenching feeling in my chest was more painful than I expected, but I had to shrug it off.

'Saki, you're your parents' daughter, you can do this, no matter how much the flashbacks in your head hurt.' I thought to myself as I started browsing the room and little by little started packing up my parents' belongings.

Rika and I emptied the closets first, I kept a few of my dad's clothes and knickknacks like the vintage watch that came from grandpa, his prized aviators and others stuff I deemed worth keeping. Mom's stuff was a different story, while sorting away her clothes, I found her jewelry collection behind her mountains of clothes.

"I always wondered where she kept these, I always wanted to wear them when I was a kid." I mused to myself, remembering the days where I would ask my mom if I could borrow any of her jewelry just cause.

"You're keeping those, right?" Rika asked and I wanted to have even a little lighthearted atmosphere so I said,

"Duh. These cost a fortune y'know." Acting quite a bit snobbish and that seemed to ease the tension a bit.

After accomplishing the task that is clearing the closets, we searched the room more for stuff that may still be hidden there somewhere. I was looking at my mom's vanity mirror when Rika called me.

"Saki, you need to see this." And I quickly went to the bedside tables where she was searching. She immediately handed a black wooden box with my name written in an intricate font on the lid of the box.

I opened the box and the melody of Canon in D filled the quiet room. Inside the music box was a complete jewelry set with its main design were stars. The necklace, the bracelet, the earrings and the ring made the black velvet covers of the box's insides seem like a night sky filled with stars.

"Typical of them mixing my favorites into one gift, practical as always. And can they be any more forgetful? Flying to my graduation without my gift." I said with a tiny, humorless laugh. I continued inspecting the box and there was a small compartment on the side, I carefully opened it, inside was a note.

'To our dearest daughter,

Happy graduation! Your father and I can't believe how time just whizzed by and now our little girl's all grown up. We cannot tell you enough just how proud we are of you. You may have been a rambunctious child while growing up, but seeing that you've come so far to prove time and time again that no matter the situation, you can always find a way to shine and let others see the wonderful light you possess. Just like these stars, they are as beautiful and they shine as bright as you do.

We love you so much Saki. May you continue to shine and not let your light be dimmed.

Love,

Mom and Dad'

I couldn't hold it back any longer and I cried my eyes and heart out for the nth time. I held the box close to my heart as if, if I hold it there I'll feel my parents closer to my heart. As I cried Rika held me, whispering soothing words that would calm me down. Once I was mentally and emotionally stable again, I observe the jewelry again and I noticed the star on the ring is significantly larger than the others. I put it on my right ring finger and I stared at it, there was this weird tingling feeling from the ring but I dismissed it.

"Thanks Rika. I can't thank you enough for everything you've done for me these past few days." And I hugged her.

"Anything for you Saki, can't have you tearing up the town because of your emotional rampage." She joked as she hugged me back.

After a little while I pulled back and said, "Alright, let's finish this already then I'll cook something for us to eat."

"Now that's the motivation I need. No one can top your cooking skills." Rika said while rushing to get things done and I just laughed at her antics.

I put the music jewelry box in my bag, I was gonna help Rika when there was somebody pounding on the front door.

"I'll get it." I said, I was very cautious because this might be another enemy, and I'd sooner be six feet underground now than let those low lives hurt even a single hair on Rika's head.

The pounding continued and just for formality's sake, I asked "Who is it?"

"Saki! It's us! Open the damn door right now!" I heard Kyoko's voice and I immediately opened the door.

"What are y-" I didn't get to finish my question when I was tackled to the ground by Kyoko and Hana.

"Saki, we're so sorry. We couldn't come back sooner because Tsuna almost wouldn't budge about us going home. If it weren't for Reborn and Hana's complex reasoning and manipulation skills, we wouldn't be here." Kyoko said as she embraced me.

Reborn was right, these two here really are my best friends, besides Rika, they would do almost anything for me. Guess I have to thank Reborn for helping them get back here.

"It's okay. I was almost ready to accept the fact that you may not come back, but I also always believed you'd defy the boss and fight your way to get back here."

"Like hell I'd listen to Sawada after knowing what happened to your parents. You think we'd let you be alone in Namimori? He's an asshole more than ever and I'm more than repulsed to be even near him." Hana huffed in anger.

I couldn't help but laugh at Hana's statement, there's the snarky ice queen I know.

"Are you done with the dramatics now?" I heard a baritone voice say and approaching my front door was a man in a fedora.

"Reborn! You came back too?!" I was beyond astonished to see that he was here.

"Obviously. I'll be manning everything Vongola related here in Japan, be it mafia or non-mafia related. Also, I'm here to keep an eye on you three, these two as by the Decimo's orders, you by my own free will." He explained.

"Saki, who was at the door?" Rika came down and she looked surprised to see me on the ground with my two other friends on top of me and a grown man standing on my porch.

"Forget I asked, you sure attract the weird ones Saki." Rika said with a smirk.

"That means you're the weirdest one of them all. You've been my friend the longest." I shot back and I had a smirk of my own that made me win the supposed banter war.

"Shut up! Anyway, I came down to see who was at the door and also to tell you that I'm done packing everything else that was left. Now can you cook all of us here a meal? I'm sure they're all hungry after coming all this way to see you." She gestured to Hana and Kyoko.

"Alright already. You all wait at the dining area." Then I turned to Kyoko and Hana, "Sorry if the house is almost bare, I'm planning to sell it since I'm living at Namimori now."

"Oh, I was wondering why it was a little empty." Kyoko mused and they sat down on the dining table.

Once I was done cooking our meal it was instantly devoured by my house guests. Looks like Rika was right that they were all famished from the trip to get here. While Kyoko and Hana did the dishes Rika decided to take her leave.

"Hey guys! I'll be heading off now! I'm confident that Saki will be fine in your care." She told the others then she turned to me.

"And you, take care of yourself. Don't give these guys trouble or I'll kick your ass." And I laughed at her threat.

"Don't laugh at me Saki, I'm being serious here." She reprimanded and I shut up, "Before you fly back to Namimori, call me, okay?" and I nodded in response.

"Alright. I leave this psycho in your hand hands. Good luck to all of you." She said before slamming the door shut.

"Looks like she was your anchor during the difficult times of your life." Reborn said as he was still seated on the dining area.

"Yeah. She was the one who wouldn't leave me alone and insisted on helping me. She thinks I might go on a rampage, if only she knew what I did before flew in." I said with a bitter smile on my face.

"After that annihilation mission, what are your thoughts about it now?" Reborn asked.

"It only felt good after killing the boss, but the next thing I felt was fear. The fear of me turning into a monster with the way I killed without a second thought, I was terrified of what I was becoming." I started as I started fiddling with my new ring.

"Then when I got here, I realized that if I'm surrounded by the people I trust I can pull myself together, that I won't become a monster when there are people that believe I'm not one." Kyoko and Hana took that time to enter the dining area.

"Now, you guys are here. People who actually know what I did and still don't view me as a repulsive creature. That's enough reason for me to stop tormenting myself with the fear and guilt I feel, and to start living again. Sure, a lot of devastating circumstances had happened in my life, but that doesn't mean I should stop living as well. I'm done with just existing for the past few days, I know I'll get by with you guys here." I said with the first genuine smile on my face.

"Very well said. So, am I allowed to assume that you'd like to take more missions for the mafia side of the Vongola?" Reborn asked.

"As long that it doesn't get in the way of my non-mafia related work in Vongola, I'll be fine." I answered.

"Wow, who knew that the voice actress, will be a part-time assassin. It's like some cheesy spy movie." Hana said with a laugh.

"And like every cheesy spy movie she needs a signature alias for the mafia world to call her." Reborn said and he was looking at my hand.

"May I take a look on that ring you're wearing?" and I removed the ring and handed it over to Reborn. He examined my ring and I was wondering what sparked his interests with it.

"Where did you get this ring?" he asked.

"Its part of a jewelry set that was my parent's graduation gift for me." I answered, I was suddenly confused on his interest on my ring.

"When you put on the ring for the first time, did you experience something like a shock that ran through your finger?" he asked.

"How did you know?" I asked back while stroking my right ring finger.

"Your ring here is made from the same material the Vongola rings are made of." He started and all of us three girls gasped in surprise.

"I don't know how your parents acquired this ring, but all I know is that your dormant flames have been awakened due to the fact that it found an object where it can materialize itself into flames." He said as he handed the ring back to me.

"Let's see what kind of flame you possess. Try to think of your resolve," he instructed me.

My resolve was to be a better person, not just in terms of personality but in term of the way I live. I want to become stronger to protect those who are dear to me, so I won't have to lose anyone ever again.

"Now imagine your resolve as a flame, burning hot and violent, but still controllable. Make the flame larger by igniting it more with your resolve." He instructed further and that what I did.

Suddenly my ring was emitting a strong purple flame. I tried to touch it, it didn't burn me but I could feel the heat coming from it.

"Hmm… Looks like Kyoya is gonna have fun when he finds out the two of you have the same flame." Reborn mused and I really wasn't paying attention to what he was saying. I was too absorbed on the fact that I can emit Dying Will Flames like the guardians, and my flame type was of the same flames as Vongola's strongest guardian.

I snapped back to reality when Reborn was calling my name and I knew better than to agitate the hitman, for Mavis' sake I still want to live, y'know.

"Y-yeah?" I asked nervously

'Please don't shoot me. Please don't shoot me. Please don't shoot me. Please don't shoot me. Please don't shoot me.'

"I was saying I think I've found the perfect alias for you." And there was the notorious smirk on Reborn's face.

"What is it?" I asked, though I'm still terrified.

"Stella" he answered.

"Oh… I like it. It means star right? And Saki is just as pretty as the stars above." Kyoko was the first one to react and she gushed over like it was going to my on screen name for television or something.

"I was referring to her ring. It can be on the same level as the Vongola rings but there's something off about that ring of yours compared to the Vongola rings that I can't seem to determine what. Anyway, for now I'll take into account to rank your ring as an S-class ring. A-class rings were the strongest ones and of quality nearest to the Vongola rings, but yours is different and even more similar to the Vongola rings, yours is the first and only recorded existence of such a ring so you better take care of yourself." Reborn explained.

"But I will admit, just this once, that someone like you can live up to the name Stella in its meaning." Reborn spoke again as he stood up and prepared to leave.

"We look forward to seeing your handiwork in the future, Stella di Vongola." And with that Reborn took his leave and walked away.

"From the looks of it, it seems that you'll be busier in the future, Stella." Hana said.

"Yeah. I need to train more, I have a lot of expectations to live up to." I said as I nervously touched the skin behind my neck.

"Don't worry Saki. If there's any person in this world that can pull it off, it's you. Besides, you've got us here to support and lift you up when you feel like giving up." Kyoko said and she pulled Hana closer to the both of us.

"You're right. I can do this. From this day onwards, the mafia is going to be shaken up by a girl called Stella." And my friends couldn't help but smile at my declaration.

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~Maiden of the Sky