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To RaNDoem: I love scenes like those too, no matter how cliche. I just find the love and friendship really beautiful. Choosing between family and the one you love is so hard sometimes. I think reading Romeo and Juliet kind of influenced how I wrote that chappie. Here's the next one, and I hope it's just as good.
"Talking"
'Thinking'
I snapped out of my state again. I was forgetting my original plan by focusing so much on the thought of having to kill Tsuna.
"Aura-chan?" I asked, sneering at him. "Have you gone mad? Your friend Aura is in Vendicare prison, remember? She aided Mukuro and gave him information about you so that you would die, but their plans were foiled, weren't they?"
I gave a Lelouch psycho laugh.
"Besides, my name is… Torikabuto. My hair may be the same colour, but my eyes are a nice shade of cobalt blue, not that pale lilac colour," I told him, standing up and grabbing my swords. "Now, this time I will make sure you properly die in hell."
I laughed at his shocked face.
"Did you like that little performance I gave?" I asked him, snickering a bit. "It was well played, wasn't it? Knowing Byakuran, he loves shows, so I gave him one. You played along quite nicely, Tsunayoshi-kun."
"How dare you mock Aura-chan," Tsuna said lowly, standing up. There was a murderous look in his eyes that didn't suit him.
"What's wrong?" I asked, bringing a hand up to my mouth. "I thought Aura-chan wasn't your friend anymore. After all, she did betray you. Why do you care so much about her? Aren't you…"
I gave a sneer that was so powerful, I froze the buildings around us.
"In love with Sasagawa Kyoko?"
He twitched slightly.
"So? Why should one girl matter so much to you? She's not the one you love, nor is she your friend anymore. Doesn't she deserve to just rot away in Vendicare? It's not like you can save her anyways. You'll die by my hands in this battle," I told him.
I launched forward, and flipped over him when he tried to attack me.
"You lost your cool. Those who fight need to know how to control themselves," I whispered into his ear. "Now, let yourself be trapped in my illusion."
I pulled out my mist box and slammed my Mist Mare ring into it. Out came a cloud of mist which could be manipulated using my psychic ability and mist flames. It was something Melody had created since she knew I had mist flames, but had problems with making illusions.
'Perhaps I should torment his mind with Kyoko? Or maybe make him see his friends dying? Or perhaps even letting him see his own death?!' I thought, manipulating the illusion.
My heart skipped a beat.
'I am really losing my mind. The stress is getting to me. If Aura was here, I could take a little break and regain my sanity,' I thought, shaking off my insane and cruel thoughts. 'No, I'm going to have to do something cruel if I want to gain Byakuran's trust. I need to gain his trust in order for my plan to work. Sorry Tsuna, but I know that you'll be able to break out.'
I moved my hands along with the mist.
"You've lost," I said, and flew away from Tsuna, not wanting to see his suffering any longer. If we defeated Shoichi, his suffering would stop anyways. Long distance illusion making combined with my box and psychic abilities would be hard to maintain, but as long as I remembered my true intent, I was sure I would be fine.
Taking to the skies, I headed over to where I knew Kikyo was headed, and where Shoichi would be as well.
"ARGH!"
I stopped in my tracks.
"Ryuto? Ryuto?! RYUTO?!" I yelled into the transmitter.
"Sorry Aura… I've failed you…" he whispered softly before the transmission was cut off. My heart pounded at the thought of how badly he was hurt. Or even if Kikyo killed him like he did Genkishi in the anime.
'What do I do? Ryuto? Or the target? What would he want me to do?' I thought, looking between both locations. 'No, Ryuto wouldn't want me to be weak minded and go after him. I need to defeat Shoichi and then I can go check on Ryuto. Takeshi would never kill someone… right now at least.'
I continued towards the spot where Shoichi was again. I wouldn't let anything else distract me, I promised myself. My goal was clear: I was going to kill myself and Byakuran for everyone else.
A blast flew past me, and I looked back to see Gokudera with his weapon pointed towards me.
"How annoying," I said, glaring at him.
"You! Why the hell are you fighting against juudaime?!" he yelled at me. I snorted and started to laugh maniacally. It was sorta a thing that was passed down from my father to Byakuran to me, I guessed.
"I suppose I do strike a resemblance to that Aura girl. There are two differences between me and her though. 1," I flew down and punched him across the face, sending Gokudera flying back from the force, "my eyes are blue while hers are lilac."
His cat, Uri, jumped at me. I used the blunt side of my sword to swat it away like it was a baseball and I was a batter. I guess hanging out with Takeshi was finally starting to catch up to me after the 10 years.
"2, my name is not Aura, it's Torikabuto," I finished, creating an icicle. "Now, die and stay down so I can go and finish off Shoichi Irie."
Swinging my arm, I sent the icicle at full force towards Gokudera. He seemed in shock, and barely managed to dodge my fatal attack. However, the icicle cut his cheek and pierced the top part of his shoulder, pinning him to the ground. It was good enough for me at least.
"Pathetic," I whispered, walking past him. I knew the camera couldn't see what I was saying since I was facing away from it. "Get up and save Shoichi before Kikyo gets to him. I can only go so slow while Byakuran is watching me."
After that, I flew into the air and headed towards Shoichi once again.
"O-OI! Stop right there!" I heard Gokudera yell towards me.
"You're not worth my time," I told him, not looking back. "My mission is to win, not to play around with children who don't understand."
"A-Aura-san! Someone's coming!" Daisy said into the transmitter. I knew who he was talking about, probably. I had a good feeling it was Takeshi since Tsuna was still stuck in my illusion and wouldn't be escaping anytime soon.
"It's fine, Daisy. I'm protecting you," I said, closing my eyes and focusing on the ice barrier I had placed around our base. A splitting pain went through my head when I felt the full force of Takeshi's attack against the ice. I had to keep it up, though.
"BOOOOOM!" A loud explosion filled the air, and I looked back to see smoke coming from the area where I captured Tsuna. Another pain struck my head, and I knew that Tsuna had escaped during my moment of weakness when Takeshi attacked.
'Damn it all. I have to keep them back and let Kikyo finish this quickly,' I thought, looking forward where smoke was also coming from. It was most likely that he had managed to hit the base and was chasing it down.
"Kikyo, please hurry up. I'm getting a splitting headache with the barrier being so far and having to keep it up against such a powerful attack. You have 2 minutes before it comes down," I said into the transmitter, clutching the side of my head. "I'll keep back Vongola Decimo and his annoying right hand man."
"O-ho. I understand, Aura-chan. It shouldn't take too long. He'll be gone and you'll be free in no time," Kikyo replied. I sighed and turned the other way again. A speck caught my attention, and I immediately knew it was Tsuna.
"This time I will make sure you don't move again," I whispered softly, and spread my arms wide apart in order to keep balance in the air as I performed my most powerful attack. "Ghiacciolo Tempesta!"
I targeted Tsuna and sent my millions of icicles at the one point he was heading for. While I hoped it would hit him, I also hoped it wouldn't. I didn't know anymore. I couldn't think properly. My head was hurting from the fact that I hadn't been using my abilities lately, and from the fact that I wasn't in my real body, probably. I mean, it was my own body that could handle my cryokinetic powers.
'X-Burner,' I thought, seeing the icicles being ripped apart by a high condensed amount of high power flames. 'I Iost. You really have gotten stronger, Tsuna. I'm happy. At the same time, I kinda wish you stayed the same way as before.'
At the last moment, I pulled down and dodged the blast. At the same time, my mind shattered as the barrier protecting Daisy broke down.
'I'm finished. I can't go on any longer.'
"I guess it's my turn now, right?"