DISCLAIMER I DO NOT OWN KATEKYO HITMAN REBORN
Natsuki's POV
Two days. Two days of this fucking hell. I avoided Tachibana like the plague. Never going anywhere my ring told me not to. The only time I made contact was when he wanted to test my skill. Diagnostic tests to see if I can fulfill his missions. Not that he could do half the stuff I did.

Azalea was a whole other problem. She was constantly hovering over me if I wasn't with him. A guard dog of some sorts. She wasn't silent about it either. Her presence was mocking me. Questioning how I felt as a puppet, telling me that I was bounded by fate to be where I was.

In conclusion, I was never left alone and I will never be free again. I experienced freedom for a little while. Why did I expect any happiness? From birth I only brought misery to other. At least I couldn't hurt the people I loved anymore.

I lied on the bed starring at the ceiling. I pushed a few flames out to Fangs' ring. In puppy form he rested by my side. It could hurt to bring him out but he was my only source of revelation. "Playing with the doggy again?"

"And here I thought you finally stopped being a bitch and leave me alone for once." Fangs growled at Azalea leaning against the bed frame. I absentmindedly scratched behind his ears after sitting up.

"Big talk for someone that can't even put up a flame without nearly passing out. How much does it affect you to keep the pest?"

"It only affects me mentally to keep you around." She gave me a fake laugh coming closer to me. She brought her face super close to mine with an annoying grin.

"If you find me to be such a pest then why don't you just exterminate me? Better yet double suicide with Yoshi." I scoffed, shooing her out of my bubble.

"Look I don't know why the two of you hate each other so much but keep me out of that. I really couldn't care less. I'm not dying any time soon so shut up." I pulled Fangs onto my lap feeling the nice warmth.

"The Stelle and Buco Nero rings. Opposite by nature. Truly."

"I don't have to be reminded. I never asked for this. Did you? Did you enjoy the pressure of your fate being controlled by another? That at any point Elena could have passed for an unknown reason and you were to suffer." I held up my Stelle ring. "Who died first, huh? In a base Vongola raid or did someone kill you else where?"

Azalea violently used her flames to pull my wrist forward. "You enjoying yourself? Say one more thing and-"

I looked her straight in the eyes. I was tired of everything. I didn't want to please any one anymore. 'Look me in the eyes Azalea. Are you having fun now? What the fuck more do I even care about what I say?'

She appeared disgusted as she threw my arm away. "Wow you're really broken aren't you? Even messing with you is boring now. Regain some emotions you puppet."

Azalea slammed the door behind her going to bother some of the workers or something. I sighed falling backwards. Fangs nudged my cheek trying to push me a little. I sighed again rolling over. He held out his tail flame in front of me face. "Are you trying to cheer me up?"

He whimpered putting one paw on my forehead. "Thanks Fangs. At least I still have you. You have to admit though. You may not have known me back then but I was really shy."

I weakly laughed. "I was constantly looking for approval. I second guessed everything that came out of my mouth. I was practically asking for Tachibana to take advantage of me. I should have listened to Mistress Celeste and trust my instinct. Who knew she was talking about my hyper intuition?"

I was in a daze barely hearing the door open. The one way I knew who it was my annoying ring shaking again.

"Azalea just asked for some sparring partners. Did you do something?" Tachibana walked in without even knocking first.

"Should it matter? Let her have some fun. It's better than having her bother me if anything." His footsteps came closer.

"This isn't going to affect your performance is it?" I was silent for a little while.

"No. I will uphold our agreement."

"Then carry on." He turned on his heel walking out.

I felt my locket glide on its chain under my shirt. I refused to open it knowing that I couldn't handle the images. The reminder of a happier time. I clutched it tightly. "I'm so tired Fangs."

Fangs reverted back to his ring form but not because of my flames. I sent him back because I didn't have the resolve to keep him up. Though I said that it wouldn't affect my abilities to Tachibana, it wasn't entirely true. I could fight without Fangs and the use of my flames but my head was no where the right mindset.

With Varia I had motivation. Stay alive. Prove myself. Protect the ones I cared about. Here? The only thing keeping me was my promise to Bel. If there was a possibility that I could go back without Tachibana I would take it. But that wasn't going to happen. Regardless of my reason, I had turned in my jacket. In all other cases it had been on Xanxus to make that choice.

Everything was my own decision. Did they even react when they saw my resignation? Or was I just another body? I may have been a top officer but it didn't mean that they cared about me. Its like Mammon said. My emotions were controlling me. I want nothing more than for them to be safe. Even if it meant putting myself through this hell.

I fell onto my back as Squalo pointed his sword to my neck. "VOOOOI AGAIN!"

I used my bow to knock his sword away from me. "I don't understand. Why are you using the back of your sword? Your boss scare you so much?"

I jumped to my feet wiping the blood from the cut on my face. I spared a glance at the members watching my first sparring match with Squalo. Though he had tested me before, this was the first time that we actually tried to fight against one another.

'Of course he would use the back. Xanxus-sama will have any of their heads for killing me. That'd probably why he's watching us right now. The others were probably watching me for entertainment. If they couldn't kill me might as well mock and state the hierarchy here.'

Lussuria rushed up from his seat coming up to me. I froze as he raised his hand up expecting him to hit me. I flinched as his fingers rested below my cut. "Nat-chan you got a cut! Are you okay?"

I blushed taking a step back. Bel came from behind, wrapping his arms around my backside. He leaned in to my face not giving me any room. He gave his creepy laugh.

"I-I'm fine Bel, Lussuria. I-It's nothing. I've dealt with worse."

Levi approached with a small first aid kit. "If Boss finds anything wrong we'll be the ones getting punished."

Mammon opened the box taking out a bandage. He floated up to eye level as he was ripping off the wrapping. "Take better care of yourself. Squalo doesn't usually hold back against newbies."

I snapped my head over to Squalo. "You were holding back? Why?"

Squalo scratched his head, sheathing his sword. "The Celeste famgilia is a technician and mechanical type family. Though you're good, there's a limit to what they can teach you. 15 years with the same trainer in the same house wasn't going to help you."

I held tightly onto my bow. "I'm sorry. I'll do my best to improve."

"Fia." I braced myself. "Continue with your lessons with the Shark. I don't need you dying on my hands."

I bowed my head to all of them. Bel let his arms pull me back up. I tilted my head back to him. "Bel?"

"Hime, be afraid of us only for now."

"What do you mean?" His mouth moved in response.

I awoke from my sleep with tears on my face. I wiped them away shaking my head. 'Stupid memories.'

My door slammed open with a frustrated Tachibana and Azalea behind it. He stormed over to my bed grabbing me by the collar. "You! You acted strange today because you were planning this!"

I roughly yanked myself back, kicking him in the stomach. He fell backwards having his back hit the wall hard. "What the fu-"

I stopped myself when I saw his ring glowing with multiple lights. I brought my ring up seeing that it was matching his flashing lights. It wasn't buzzing the same way as when Tachibana was nearby. But I could feel that something was coming. "What's happening?"

"The last time this had happen was when Checkerface decided to seal the remaining the of us off." Azalea scowled at the rings.

"What does that mean? Is Tsunayoshi-kun trying to seal the Stelle and Buco Nero rings off?" My head flared as familiar flame signatures drew closer. The most prominent ones being a pure and anger flames mixing together.

"It means that all Tri-Ni-Sette stones are here." Sirens blared through the mansion as the alarms warned of people on the premises. Judging from the speed of they're approach it meant that they intentionally tripped the wires. 'No fucking way.'

"Do you remember this sound?" A shiver went down my spine with pure fear. I turned around not seeing anything. I held tightly to my staff as my heart rate went up. 'It's not him. They're not here. I betrayed them.'

"Did you already forget my lessons?" I held my head blasting out Mist flames from my rose ring for some mind protection. 'Go away!'

I felt my head splitting open from both the invasive power and my high release of flames. I could feel myself draining of flames as I push off the power from me. I couldn't let it get closer though. The attackers knew that I couldn't keep it up for long. They were waiting for that exact moment I dropped.

"Viper Mirage R." I screamed hearing the voice overtake me. My vision going black.

Tsuna's POV
In my hyper dying will mode, all my senses were hyped. With my hyper intuition, I became more aware of how everything truly was. I could sense the mixture of all the flames present. But I could also tell the emotion coming off them. Xanxus being the easiest and Reborn being one of the hardest. Then there were people like Kyoko and Haru that were both hard and easy. Their flames made it impossible for me to tell anything about them. As if there was a force surrounding them from my weaker flames. What made them easy was that I knew them for so long.

Finally, there was Sakurako. Her face was perfected. Perfected to be unreadable. It was like Natsuki's but further pushed with her Sognare flames. She never made me feel nervous though there were times that she gave me chills from a single word. Maybe in status she would be lower but as of who we were in terms of experience and attitude, I couldn't compare. I had an image of who she was in my mind at the mention of her being Natsuki's sister and she, not only lived up to that, but exceeded it.

This was only exemplified throughout the week. This wasn't the first time that we only had a short time to prepare before an attack. It was, however, the first time that we planned an attack with people I never thought I would be fighting with. Surprisingly, Kyoko and Haru managed to keep up with Sakurako's training. They didn't complain like I did when I first started out and they were fast to pick up anything that they were told. Even Reborn was impressed on how far they came.

What was more shocking was how they trained. One would think that trying to train separately would make them less coordinated. For the entirety of their relationship, they were attached to one another on the hip. I think it was because of this relationship that when they were put together their training showed the best results. They weren't aware of how each other worked but still trusted one another to follow without any signals.

Kyoko was more beautiful with her confidence. Haru was more cheerful with every accomplishment. When we meet Natsuki, whether she comes back or not, I would have to thank her for everything she did for us. Making me take the Mafia a bit more seriously, for saving I-pin and Fong, and for giving the girls a new way of thinking. I owed her a lot.

"You're not scared Tsuna?" Reborn asked me. I took in a deep breath closing my eyes. I felt the flames coming off of Mammon.

"I am but not the same as before. I'm a lot calmer now." I peaked back seeing Mammon slowly enveloping all of Varia and Fran with his Mist flames.

"Let's stick to the plan. Decimo, you and your members go forward to the building while we stay here with your Mist guardians to defend Varia. Reborn-san please deal with any strays; I want an upfront confrontation with Tachibana. If Varia fails to convince Natsuki then I will flare out a signal to retreat and we end it there. However, if Natsuki does return her physical body would still be with you and she will give you the code word to signal you that she is on our side. Then you will capture Azalea to find out how to break their link."

In order for Varia to be able to speak with Natsuki we first had to separate the three of them. According to both Xanxus and Sakurako, if Tachibana really was weak as we thought, then Natsuki would have tried to stick to him in order to make sure their side didn't lose. So we had Mammon take all of Varia and Fran into Natsuki's mind. The only problem was that the amount of power needed to take all members into a non-physical space they needed a safe space to leave their physical bodies.

A giant mass of Mist flames took up the space behind us and we had to make sure that nothing touches it or else the spell gets broken. That's, also, why Chrome and Mukuro had to stay behind. They wouldn't be able to initiate in any combat though as they had to focus on keeping Mammon, Fran and the rest of Varia grounded. The four of them were combining all their powers to keep everyone safe in Natsuki's mind with their physical bodies.

Mukuro was the special case though. From Sakurako's plan we needed at least one Mist user to help deal with Azalea. We needed to make sure that Azalea didn't try to use any tricks to escape. That's why Mukuro had to leave his physical body here and accompany my group while possessing Mukurou (Gufo di Nebbia). His power would be more concentrated into his tiny owl body and would be able to return if anything happened. His connection with both Fran and Chrome made it easy for him to sense if anything happens to them in the case of emergency. That would be the best option as well as Fran would be going with Varia and Chrome staying out here.

In conclusion, Mukuro was the key to knowing everything about Natsuki's retrieval group. In the worst case scenario, he would have to abandon us which gives Azalea the full chance to come over to this side with Tachibana.

I took a step forward when my ring started shinning. It's never shined with this amount of colours before. I looked at my ring and to the Sognare and Scudo rings displaying the same light show. Somehow I knew that this meant that the Tri-Ni-Sette was on the move. "I'll go ahead and hold back Azalea as much as possible. The rest of you follow as fast as you can."

All of my guardians and Reborn nodded in confirmation. "Sakurako-san, please take care of Kyoko-chan and Haru."

"Not that they need it but of course, Decimo." I looked at the two girls once more. They nodded at me as well. I cracked a small smile that soon disappeared once getting serious. I covered my hands in Sky flames knowing that I was fully pin pointing our location.

"Let's go." I kicked one of the movement sensors that were set up all around of the base. An alarm should have been triggered to scare all of the random members and show Natsuki who exactly we were.

Without another word, all of my guardians set off towards the building. I flared out my flames taking flight. The scene became a blur before I found myself in front of the doors. Azalea and Tachibana were already outside by the time I got there. Azalea looked up to see me still floating above them. "Find the source of Mist flames now!" She pushed Tachibana down the trail knowing why I was here.

He looked pissed off but still ran off. I dropped down in front of her. She wasn't intimidated by me that much I could tell. I could see her eyes roaming over me. I felt my Vongola ring still buzzing even if the colours stopped. Even if she wasn't the owner anymore, my ring found her to be a threat.

"Ugh you look exactly like Giotto. Not only is that revolting, it's extremely disturbing as well." I found her body giving off black mist that I never noticed before. It came off of her like steam going in my direction.

"Where's Natsuki-san?" She sighed heavily.

"You already know that answer Vongola. I really don't like the idea of leaving Yoshi alone with ring holders around so if we can just skip to the part where you start crying in plead, that would be a better use of my time."

"You're not getting past me." I shifted my foot back.

"Fine have it your way." She held her hand out towards me releasing a wave of flames. My entire body shook in fear. I looked at my hand as it wouldn't stop shaking. I clutched my fist hearing the gloves squeak with it. I pounded weakly against my chest. It was like I couldn't breathe. 'W-what was that?'

"Something wrong, Vongola?" I looked her straight in the eyes as she walked closer to me. I couldn't answer back. My body wouldn't listen to me. It wouldn't stop shaking.

"You know Vongola I really hate humans. People like you and Giotto have to step down to us, superior species. We had to split the Tri-Ni-Sette stones in sevenths because human couldn't handle it. Do you really think you stand a chance against me?!" She stood in front of me glaring at my ring. "Humans don't deserve the power we granted them."

She reached out for my ring when a force pushed her back. The power gave the feeling in my body back, even making me feel lighter. "Fuck you Giotto!"

'Primo...' I looked down to my ring. After Talbot fused our animal rings with the souls left in the Vongola rings I thought we had lost everything in relation to them. The entire time they remained silent during our fight the Shimon and the representative battles. 'They're still with us.'

I felt six other flames come from the back. I steadied my breathing feeling the emotions coming off of the flames. A mixture of rush, anger and determination. "We may not deserve the power that your species gave us but I'm going to use it to protect the people I care about."

Azalea took a step forward when a rocket bomb surged passed me. She didn't get phased as it passed straight though her but it paused her movement for a little bit. "Juudaime!"

Hibari was the first one out of the forest with everyone following behind him. Gokudera and Yamamoto came to my side with both their katana and dynamites ready. "Are you okay Tsuna?"

I looked around me seeing them stand in the way of Azalea getting closer. "Yeah. And I think Sakurako-san's theory was right. I haven't actually tested it out though."

They all looked at me. I returned each gaze to them. "We're going through with the plan D. Mukuro-san stay back with Lambo to make sure she doesn't leave. Yamamoto-san, Hibari-san, Onii-san, work around her. Gokudera-san, we're aiming to restrain."

Not everyone responded but I could tell how their bodies reacted that they understood everything. We've all known how each other worked, we always paid close attention to how we would affect one another. We've been though so much together as individuals that we know who we were. Our placement, our skill, our personalities, they couldn't be more different. But I trusted these people with my everything. Maybe Natsuki was right that I could be using my position as boss to make them listen. There was that thought after that event. But looking at all of them surrounding me, I was just glad that I could fall back on them in times of need.

"EXTREME!" Ryohei was the first one to charge first. In terms of foot work, he was the fastest out of all of us. That doesn't mean that he reacted fast it meant his body knew where to go and what to do. Behind him were Yamamoto and Hibari according to plan. Those two were our most natural fighters. Yamamoto and Hibari were such a deadly duo that respected that even if their mindset was different, knew their ultimate goal in the end.

Ryohei took his boxing stance stopping right in front of her. Hibari and Yamamoto took their time to activate their Vongola Gear putting their animals through Cambio Forma to read her reaction. "MAXIMUM CANON!"

She closed her eyes letting his punch go through her. Ryohei punched the doors behind her destroying it completely. She turned her hand backwards towards him to release some more flames at him. I heard him scream in pain but I couldn't react to that. Hibari's cloud hedgehogs scattered around the space as the two of them set off. Yamamoto and Hibari bounced in sync off Hibari's hedgehogs towards Azalea who still hadn't moved from her spot. Both covered their respected weapons with flames. This made Azalea finally react by opening her eyes.

Her eyes slanted as they came from both sides. Both suddenly crossed their arms over their chest. Their movements were put to a stop as if a barrier was put around Azalea. "What fancy weapons you have there. Are those the Vongola rings?"

They quickly flipped off of the barrier. Ryohei came out of the building with his Vongola gear activated. They surrounded her as her flame pressure raised. "Did you see that Juudaime?"

"Plan D switch to A." Azalea turned to me. I attracted all of the attention to me. "We're going with plan A now. Everyone has to turn on their Vongola Gear now."

I caught Gokudera smirking beside me. Gokudera, Lambo and I went through out Cambio Forma. Mukuro was the only that didn't have his gear on him as he left it with Chrome so he was to stick close to Lambo. "I don't like the sound of that."

Azalea's body started to fade out. "Hibari-san, Mukuro, Lambo."

"Yara you don't have to be so demanding, I know." Mukrou's wings spread covering themselves in Mist flames.

"I don't have to be reminded." Rolls' body flatten themselves out spreading above us as an incredible speed. The Mist flames merged with the hedgehogs as the continue to trap us in. Azalea's body became somewhat solid again. She flared her hand at Hibari who was blocked off by Yamamoto's rain flames and Gokudera's Bone Loops. She stopped aiming at the two of them when Ryohei came at her from behind. "MAXIMUM INGRAM!"

His punches were not powerful for them to break through her barrier but each punch had to be protected against that her attention wasn't on Hibari or Mukuro.

"Lambo-sama's turn!" The horns on his helmet sparked around him, coating the entire dome in his flames. We trapped ourselves inside his Roll's dome using the power of Mukuro's Mist to keep Azalea here, Hibari's Cloud to cover any holes possible and Lambo's Lightning to make it impossible to break through.

"I see. So this is what you were planning. But you should know something. My flame isn't meant to be destructive. It's meant to be painful." She disappeared quicker than my eye could catch. I felt her flame reappear too late as I heard someone scream.

I turned around seeing her hand around Mukurou's neck. "Mukuro!"

"A star has collapsed and a black hole was born. No light nor sound can escape. It's the end of all that come close. That's what the Buco Nero stone is." Mukuro was trying to his flames to push off but with keeping up the dome and keeping connection with the retrieval group, he didn't have the strength to do so.

"You think I'm blind? There's was a trail off Natsuki and off of this owl. He's one of the points that's keeping her off the battlefield right now and the creator of this trap. All I have to snap this little owl's neck." His screaming continued as she was clearly playing with him. The dome, even though made out of Rolls, it would only work if Azalea could remain inside.

"Elettrico Ironhorn!" I felt an increase of power coming off of Lambo who was on all fours. His body was covered with Lightning flames. I was going to tell him to stop when I saw the ground beneath him changing. 'He's creating iron-sand like Future Lambo did against Ooyama.'

After I-pin's kidnapping, Lambo had gone into a state of quiet. After Natsuki had accused him of being a liar on wanting I-pin back, he matured. He still stole my food and ran around the house screaming, but when it came to listening to us, he always did. It was like a part of him knew that what he was doing wasn't a game anymore. That people that he cared about, like I-pin, were in danger because he didn't work hard enough to protect them. When Sakurako was discussing our plans, he never talked back and listened attentively.

His iron-sand grew in large boulders out of the ground. "You brat!"

Azalea created a stream of Buco Nero flames at him. Receiving that directly he yelled out in extreme pain. He didn't back down though even when I did earlier. To draw damage to himself and away from the rest of the Famiglia, serving as a lightning rod. Vongola Decimo's Lightning Guardian, Lambo Bovino.

"Turfhead!" Lambo shouted out when his flame size started to decrease.

"Understood!" Ryohei's speed was unmatched. I saw on his arm his bangle fully lit at 100%. 'He had turned on his Vongola Gear before Azalea hit him at the beginning. That was enough to load him up to maximum power with his Sun flames constantly healing him while we were still carrying out everything else.'

His bangle lit up in a brilliant light as he stood in front of the boulders that Lambo made. "MAXIMUM SUNSHINE COUNTER!" Destroying the misfortune that attacks the Famiglia with their own body, they become the Sun that brightly shines upon an area. Vongola Decimo's Sun Guardian, Sasagawa Ryohei.

I heard multiple explosions and the sound of rubble being thrown around. In the closed area it didn't us enough air to clear the area fast. "Mukuro! Use this time to escape! Create a hole and go back to Sakurako-san's group!"

I knew that having Mukuro leaving would make it that much easier for Azalea to leave but I had to take the risk. The damage he gotten was already enough to break through the dome. "Get rid of the dome!"

"Who would think that I would be listening to a Mafiose?" A light shone through the top of the dome. I saw the white owl flying towards it when a black flame surrounded him. 'She's still okay after getting hit by Onii-san's punch?!'

"Don't think so birdy!" The Mist flame that surrounded him slowly turned black. Mukurou's flames were completely black along with the two eyes rather than red with a kanji inside. 'She possessed Mukurou!'

She let out a bird like cry as she laughed. She got rid of the dome completely continuing to hover above us. "A physical body! You puny humans are nothing but bugs to me! This still has so much Mist flames inside it too!"

"Kufufu that's because hurting me doesn't reduce my flame levels." A voice echoed around us.

"W-What is this?!" At the tips of her wings were Mist flames.

"This owl is my Vongola Gear. Did you think that taking control would be that easy?" 'That's it! If we couldn't keep her in a dome without risking our members, we could trap her in Mukurou.' Creating from nothing into something, turning something into nothing; bewildering the enemy, so making the famiglia untouchable. Vongola Decimo's Mist Guardian, Mukuro Rokuro.

Without being told Hibari's handcuffs latched onto her leg with his chain from his metal tonfa attached to it. Roll made another ball this time with the spikes inside and crushed the owl inside. It gave me a second of hope until I saw black flames seeping out. "Hurry up animals."

A man with few words but was the backbone for everything to work. Even trapped in Mukurou it didn't mean that Mukuro had full control of her power to contain her. We had to act fast and it was Hibari that knew that. A drifting Cloud, whom cannot be bound. Protecting the famiglia from an independent standpoint. Vongola Decimo's Cloud Guardian, Hibari Kyoya.

"Leave the rest to me Hibari." Gokudera's hands filled with multiple sticks of dynamite. When the ball that Roll made had a big enough crack Gokudera lit every stick he had on hand with every type of flame that he had.

"Go! Rocket Bomb Version X!" More bombs than I could count flew towards the ball that had was already on the verge of breaking. All hit the target.

"That's not it!" He jumped onto one of his Bone Loops to get close to Azalea. Before the smoke even cleared he took aim with Flame Arrow Version X loading it with a heavy looking ammo. The ammo shot off creating a thick stream of Storm flames directly at her.

"Uri!" His final move. He signalled his trusty partner to jump onto her own Bone Loop riding it until she was close enough to the cloud of smoke. Uri jumped into the smoke, not even wasting a second until exploding in a red flash. Continuously at the heart of the attack, the furious Storm that never rests. Vongola Decimo's Storm Guardian, Gokudera Hayato.

"Juudaime!" A tiny version of Uri dropped out of the cloud. Gokudera quickly retrieved her getting out of the way.

"Operation XX." The headset responded back turning on my contact lens. I could see the two gauges in my view. Getting into position I started to raise my flame levels.

"Ah that was fun but not enough." My eyes widen as the owl wings were seen still flapping in the air. "You stupid humans really think-"

Azalea was cut off when behind her, Rain flames shot up next to her. It was Yamamoto using one of his swords as a boaster to fly in the air. "Sorry I can't let you do anything."

His point his sword at her, increasing the amount of flames given off it. With his close distance and the handcuff still on her leg, she didn't have time to fly away. "Shigure Soen Ryu: Aggregate Art: Jiunoka."

Azalea's owl body was covered in high concentrated Rain flames slowing down all her movement. 'That's the same move that he used on Genkishi during Choice. Yamamoto-san could have attacked her too.' He looked at me giving me a nod. To square away conflict and wash away the blood spilled. The Requiem of Rain. Vongola Decimo's Rain Guardian, Yamamoto Takeshi.

With Azalea's movements almost completely sealed off, I raised my flames higher and faster. I couldn't let the moment that they all created for me go to waste. I focused the contacts onto the target and had my flames push towards the maximum capacity. The lines were balanced out. 'Gauge Symmetry. Standby for Launch.'

"XX- Burner." Both hands shot out a beam of Sky flames at the bird that couldn't even move.

When I released everything, I fell to the ground. I took deep breathes, watching the black item fall out of the sky. 'That wasn't enough.' I could still feel her flames off of her. We may have weakened her but she couldn't die. She couldn't. Not when she was just a will inside the ring.

That's when Sakurako's words fully made sense to me. I doubted that Azalea would be weak enough that only my seven guardians and I could defeat her alone. I couldn't believe that someone with such a presence be taken down easily as she said. Plan D meant doubt. If I doubted Sakurako then I had to asses Azalea myself. She couldn't take physical hits. Not Gokudera's regular dynamites or Ryohei's Maximum Canon. She only cared when Hibari and Yamamoto used their flames on her. That's why we switched to Sakurako's main plan of attacking her with the Vongola gear that she wasn't use to.

Attacking her wouldn't make a difference because as long as Tachibana still has the ring, she would remain. She was like Daemon Spade. I heard the sound of wings fluttering. "Everyone! Give me all your flames left, please!"

They didn't need me to tell them any reason. My hands formed a square as I calmed myself. I could feel the flame flicker around me. All their Vongola Gears shined towards me, even if Chrome was a distance away I could feel her earrings resonating with us. I counted my breathing down. This, however, meant that our Mukurou trap couldn't be kept and Yamamoto and Hibari's restraints were gone as I took all their flames. My Vongola ring warned me of Azalea getting up again.

I saw the six different coloured flames standing near me. There were no bodies to them but I could see each of my guardians. I couldn't take in everything, without hurting myself. I, also, couldn't stop her unless I did. The Vongola rings were only a seventh of what the original Tri-Ni-Set could do. Sakurako was right in saying that only another Tri-Ni-Set could fight back. So I'll just have to increase my flames by a 7th.

"Zero Point Breakthrough: Revised." Sun, Lightning, Storm, Rain, Mist, Cloud- He envelops them all, he accepts them all. That is the Sky's purpose. Vongola Neo-Primo, Sawada Tsunayoshi.

Six rivers of flames came at me. I took them all feeling the immense strength that I gained. My body immediately converted them into my flames. I felt like I was being ripped from the inside out. Azalea regained her wings to be fully black as Mukuro went back to his physical body. She was trying to escape using her flames. Quickly, my hands were behind me, shooting myself at her with all my borrowed flames to push me as fast as I've ever been. Before she could even react I stopped with my hands in front of her face.

The Xs on my gloves shifted gears into I. I saw a glint of fear in her eyes. "Giotto-"

"Zero Point Breakthrough: First Edition." Ice spread all over her owl body freezing her inside. I fell out of hyper mode crashing to the floor. I screamed still having the remaining effects of over taking flames on me.

Everyone reacted to me but couldn't move far. I had taken majority of their flames, not to mention that they already used up a lot to attack Azalea. "I'm fine! I'm fine!"

I grabbed the dirt underneath me, stopping my screaming. 'This is what the original owners had to go through?!'

I had already used up all the flames they gave me to freeze her fast enough. Because the Zero Point Breakthrough worked on turning the positive flames negative, I had to increase the amount of flames that I would usually used. My body used up all of my flames, took in seven times the amount that I should have and fired all of it at once. I looked at the block of ice next to me. "We actually managed to capture her."

My body was still in a lot of pain but we completed our part of the plan. 'Natsuki-san, there was hope in saving you. Please listen to Varia.'

A/N: I'm in university now so there is a big break between updates. I appreciate all reviews and readers so thanks for dealing with the long update times. The story is about 3-4 chapters left that I planned out so please anticipate that. Until next time 3.