Jumping through trees was not something that I enjoyed all that much but I had to admit, it did prove quite a challenge. It tested stamina and awareness, having to be in constant concentration to keep track of the trees, branches and rocks blocking the way but also knowing where your opponent was at all times.

After sparring with Hibari for a while in the middle of a grass patch in the forest, I spotted blonde hair and jumped away from an incoming tonfa to stand next to Dino. "Sorry, Hibari. It's getting late, I have to be home soon. Here you go fight the Bronco," I pushed Dino forward. Dino yelped in surprise, almost losing his footing in the process. He quickly gained his composure and blocked a tonfa with his whip before it hit his face.

Before Hibari could react, I ran out of the forest. I went home to take a quick shower and change into some comfortable clothes. I wore the new kimono that I bought the day Squalo came, deciding that it was going to be my lucky charm. I checked the time. 10:30. I had 30 minutes to get to the school and I was pretty sure Tsuna was there already. I felt a wave of nausea hit my head. Hibari had an insane amount of stamina and to be honest, I didn't know how much longer I could last against the prefect if I didn't get out of there when I did.

As I was about to walk outside, I heard Mom calling for me, "Yuki! You're going to go out this late?" She looked worried.

I smiled gently, "Ah, yea mom, I'm just going to go meet up with Tsuna and the others."

The mention of Tsuna and our friends made Mom smile and hold a hand to her face, "That's great! You're already making so many friends. Go, go have fun!" She shoo-ed me out of the house. I nodded and gave her a short goodbye.

I walked to the school and was greeted by a Cervello. I neatly placed my lips into a scowl and eyes narrowed. I didn't like these women and I didn't want them around my family. I didn't say a word as she told me to follow her. I was led to a large boxing ring surrounded by metal wires and in front of me stood Tsuna, Yamamoto, Gokudera, Reborn and a new guy I haven't met with short gray hair and boxing wraps around his hands.

I walked up to them and tapped Yamamoto on the shoulder. "Yuki! You're here," Yamamoto said when he turned around and saw me. My earlier display of irritation dropped with the presence of the boys in front of me. My scowl turned back into a grin, but turned right back into a scowl when my eyes landed on Reborn.

"They're just about to start," Reborn said to me, landing on my shoulder. "How was fighting with Hibari?"

Tsuna and the others turned quickly, looking surprised to see me in one piece. I glared at Reborn, "I had a feeling you made it so it happened like that." He knew I would go back to the roof if I saw Romario. I was always close to Dino. "He's strong but I'm sure you already know that. He just doesn't seem to think."

"You fought Hibari-san?" Tsuna squealed, fright overtaking his body thinking about the bloody prefect I had to fight.

I walked to Tsuna and patted his upper arm, "Don't worry. I'm not that easy to 'bite to death'." I air-quoted that last part. Tsuna still looked at me worriedly but then seemed to drop it.

"Oh, yeah. Yuki, this is Sasagawa Ryohei, Kyoko-chan's brother," Tsuna brought me to that boy that had gray-white hair and his hands covered in bandages.

I waved to him, "Hi, Sasagawa-san, I'm Yuki, Tsuna's twin sister."

Ryohei seemed excited, "HI YUKI-CHAN. IT IS EXTREMELY NICE TO MEET YOU! YOU REALLY DO LOOK LIKE SAWADA!" Excited was an understatement. He was extremely excited. I was taken aback and my body shook not expecting the intensity of his voice. He continued, "YOU CAN CALL ME ONII-SAN LIKE SAWADA DOES!"

"No problem," I mused. I gave two thumbs up. "Good luck, Onii-san."

"Say, Tsuna, should we huddle up?" Yamamoto stepped forward.

I made eye contact with Tsuna, who looked embarrassed at the thought of having a group huddle before an intense one-on-one fight. I shrugged, it couldn't be that bad could it? Tsuna shook his head, are they serious?

Ryohei was ecstatic with the idea and pulled all of us into a huddle. I mean… it couldn't be that bad. Just yell 'fight'.

I decided to go with it. "Ryohei…. FIGHT!" Ryohei screamed.

"FIGHT!" I yelled along with Ryohei and Yamamoto. Gokudera and Tsuna were less willing, their voices were more like whispers.

"All right! NOW I'M EXTREMELY POWERED UP!" Ryohei yelled. Man, did this guy have a strong set of lungs. I wouldn't want to have a yelling contest with him.

"You got this, Onii-san!" I said, still wanting to bring more spirit into the fight. This guy was really simple-minded. Ryohei put both of his hands up in a fighting position, then turned around to enter the ring.

Ryohei had taken off his shirt and Lussuria was admiring his body. "Hey, you're pretty cute."

I rolled my eyes at the metro in front of me, "Luss, stop messing around." I said, worried for Ryohei. I knew Lussuria's capabilities in Muay Thai. But Ryohei had been trained by Colonello so he stood a very good chance against Lussuria.

"Ahh, Yuki-chan, you know it's not very often I find someone that's my type," Luss said wiggling around and admiring Ryohei's body in the ring.

All of a sudden, the ring was filled with light. I closed my eyes immediately and shielded my face with my arm. "This special ring, illuminated with artificial light, was made specifically for this fight," one of the Cervello said. Reborn handed me a pair of sunglasses and I gratefully took it into my hands.

Ryohei won the fight with a powerful punch, Maximum Canon, that was able to break the metal knee that Lussuria had and the Varia knocked out Lussuria before they could continue.

"The next match will be for… the guardians of lighting," The Cervello said. I looked at the little kid who was asleep with a grimace. Well, we'll see how this one turns out.

As Tsuna and I were about to start heading out, Kyoko ran to us, once more. She came earlier during the fight, which was a big part of the reason that Ryohei won, with the power of love of his sister. Colonello was able to get her away for a little but I guess wanted peace of mind again. Kyoko asked, "Tsuna-kun, Yuki-kun, what is my brother really doing?"

My brother was freaking out, he didn't seem to know how to lie to the young orange-haired girl he obviously admired. I looked towards Reborn, Yamamoto and Gokudera. Together we replied to her, "Sumo-wrestling!" Tsuna looked at us like we grew two heads.

"Oh, that's really it, huh?" Kyoko said, feeling a little more relieved. I gave her a small hug which she gratefully returned, happy for the reassurance. I looked over to my brother and gave him a small wink and suggestively looked over to Kyoko. He turned beet red and motioned 'no' with his hands. I rolled my eyes. It was just a hug.

Ryohei went to his sister to comfort her even more.

"That was great, Juudaime! We won the first round!" Gokudera beamed at his boss.

I quickly put an arm around Tsuna, "Yea! Tsuna, chill out a little bit!" I pinched my brother's cheeks. "You missed a totally good opportunity to give her a hug," I whispered. I swear my brother could use some help in the manning up and talking to a girl department.

I woke up to something hard and metal hitting my face, "What the fu-, Reborn!" I quickly changed my words before I got hit by the giant green hammer I saw in the infant's hands.

"Nice try," Reborn smirked before I was hit in the head for inappropriate language.

I held my head in my hands, trying to put pressure to alleviate the pain. "What are you waking me up so early for! Why don't you go do this to Tsuna?" I created distance between myself and the violent tutor.

"I want you to go fight Hibari today," Reborn said.

I shook her head, "No, I'm not fighting that crazy guy. He's insane, Reborn. All he wants to do is beat me up."

"Then don't let him," Reborn acted like it was simple.

I huffed in annoyance, "It took me forever to even get out of fighting with him. I had to run and use Dino."

Reborn resisted, "I think it's better if you fight Hibari for the next couple of days. It gives you and him better training, not to mention if you and Dino fight him together. We will keep you updated on everything that's happening, of course."

"I wanted to watch all the battles," I muttered, disappointment blowing through me as I received the order.

"Why do you want to watch? You don't even have a battle," Reborn said.

I clutched the ring ring at my chest, "That's why these fights are so important to me."

I sighed. I knew I wasn't going to win this one. "Alright, alright, keep him occupied for the next couples days. Got it." Reborn thanked me and walked out of my room. I took my time as I put on some comfortable clothes to fight in, got a quick breakfast and left for the forest.

It was the day of the Storm battle which was two days after the Sun battle. I was currently running towards an opening that I spotted. My fights with Hibari consisted of, fight, run to catch my breath, fight, run to catch my breath again, fight, run and wash, rinse, and repeat. We ran through every terrain in the area. We went to the beach, the roofs of the city, the cliffs and now they were back in the forest.

Dino and Romario were keeping up. Dino occasionally interjected our battles but he mostly stayed out of it and gave both Hibari and I tips as they fought. Not that Hibari listened but I was grateful for the advice. It reminded me of when Dino would train me back home.

Hibari managed to hit me in the chest while I was in my thoughts. I was thrown backwards by the impact. My chest heaved forward as my back came into contact with another tree. I wheezed, trying to breathe in and out slowly in order to stop the pain I felt on my right shoulder blade. I carefully rotated it and heard a small pop as I did so. I squeezed my eyes shut and grimaced. I wasn't done yet, I just needed a second. I refused to be beat by this guy.

"Yuki!" Dino called to me and ran over. He inspected my shoulder, holding me gently in his arms as Romario came around to look at it as well.

"I'm fine. I just need a second." It wasn't the worst I took today and I couldn't take that big a break. Hibari was staring at us and I wasn't weak.

"Dino, I said IM FINE," I pushed the male away and stood up. I looked at my battered hands which were cut up and bleeding because I was fighting with my bare hands the entire time.

I faced Hibari and took two metal sticks from my pockets. Hibari glanced at my weapons with curiosity and I took that as my cue to charge at him.

With a swing to the right, I used the metal stick to stop a tonfa and then quickly switched my grip and used the metal stick to pull Hibari closer to me. I used the other stick in to hit Hibari in the neck.

Hibari stumbled and gripped his tonfas even tighter. I knew the weapon gave him a new challenge to enjoy. We kept fighting, trading blows back and forth. This time, our fight had each of us taking more hits to the body.

I almost couldn't take the pain. The adrenaline was the only thing that kept my senses from letting the pain of a hundred hits overtake her. I stood my ground though, remembering what Reborn told me.

I took the offense and rushed forward. I struck at Hibari and didn't stop, trying not to give him a chance to retaliate. He did at one point though and moved his tonfa to hit me in the stomach with his right arm. He gave me the opening I wanted. I blocked with my left stick and jumped to swing from the right. Hibari moved his face slightly to the right to avoid the stick.

I then flicked my wrist. The metal stick opened and harshly hit Hibari on the top right of his head. Hibari grunted and fell to the ground. He closed his eyes. The impact of the hit most likely caused his vision to turn blur as he swayed left and right. I smiled, he didn't realize that they were fans.

It was made of metal. It had dark brown ribs and the cover was shiny black thin metal that allowed the fan to be neatly closed but still fatal and make cuts when opened. On one side of the fan was a bunch of cherry blossoms and as you looked across the fan, the cherry blossoms faded into snowflakes.

Dino jogged to check on Hibari, "Nice, Kyoya, she doesn't take her fans out much."

"We'll finish this fight another time," Hibari ignored Dino and started walking back towards the direction of Namimori.

"Wait, Kyoya," Dino started.

I bent over placing my hands on my legs. The aches on my body were getting to me now that Hibari was leaving. I was too tired to think about trying to go after Hibari to stop him. It's not like he would listen to me anyways. "It's fine. I think we've done enough." I slowly stood up, trying to regain my composure. "Let's follow after him. Maybe we'll get there in time to see the end."

Dino put his arm on my waist and wrapped one of my arms around the back of his neck for support. I blushed at the close contact. "Hey! I can walk myself," I tried to quickly pull my arm away but hissed when sudden pain entered my upper arm and shoulder. The pain caused me to lose my balance and fall forward on my face. Luckily, Dino's arm around my waist stopped me from dropping any further.

"Looks like you're having trouble. Need help?" Dino smiled, cheekily.

I felt my face become redder than before, "Thank you."

"Aww, are you embarrassed?" Dino teased. I rolled my eyes and smacked him in the head. "Ow!" Dino yelped.

"You're lucky you're like my brother," I started walking with Dino still helping me. We headed to the school. I stared in worry, the windows were blown out and you could see smoke. The Cervello stopped us at the entrance, but once they saw me, they let us in. We walked around looking for Tsuna and everyone else.

"Yuki! Dino!" Tsuna exclaimed when he saw us. Then Tsuna's eyes glanced over the cuts and bruises I had. I looked over at Gokudera, who was in a similar state after his fight with Belphegor.

"Bel really got to you, huh?" I said to Gokudera. Gokudera's fist tightened but then he released his grip. He looked down.

"Romario, can you go look at Gokudera's injuries?" Dino asked his subordinate. Romario took a look at his face.

Dino looked at Tsuna, "I guess we just missed the Varia. Did Kyoya pass through here?"

"Well, he was here a second ago," Tsuna replied.

Dino looked around, "What? Where is he?"

"See, told you," I said pointedly at Dino. "He was gonna go straight here."

Reborn interrupted, heads turned to look at the infant, "He left without going too crazy."

Dino muttered, "Really? I see. That's good." That's good? I think I was more surprised than Dino that Hibari was able to come here to the school looking like this without going on a rampage.

"So, where have you guys been?" Tsuna asked Dino and I.

Dino replied for me, "I guess you could call it a 'training trip'."

I snorted, "Yeah, for me and Hibari. Dino didn't do a thing"

"Training trip... with Hibari-san!" Tsuna's eyes looked frightened as he took in my injuries with the new information.

I laughed seeing Tsuna's face, "Don't worry, Tsuna! Look at me I'm still alive! We pretty much just trained everywhere. The mountains, the beach, the rivers, the forest, the cliffs." Tsuna looked like he saw a ghost.

"We were scared of how Hibari would react if the school was destroyed so we tried keeping him as far away from the school as possible. He probably wanted to come back, though," Dino explained.

Reborn asked, "So, how much stronger is Hibari?"

Dino shrugged, "I don't know. He's definitely stronger but I can't even tell by how much. That guy, his potential is endless."

Reborn hummed in approval, "And Yuki?"

Dino looked at me with a fond smile, "She's definitely grown as well. She fought well against Hibari the past two days."

I dropped my head and blushed at the sudden praise, "Thanks Dino. Don't think I forgive you for offering me as bait though. That guy really puts you in survival mode. I had to take out my fans today."

"Fans?" Tsuna asked. I took out the two identical fans I had fought Hibari with earlier.

"Wow, how cute!" Yamamoto said.

Tsuna came up and traced his finger over the edge of the fan. I yelled, "Wait, Tsuna!"

"Ow!" Tsuna pulled his finger back, eyes widening as he saw blood draw from the papercut size wound.

"It's still a weapon, Tsuna," I chuckled at his innocence.

Yamamoto laughed, "That looks like a fun toy!" I sweatdropped. This guy really thought this was a game and my fans were toys.

A/N: Hiyoo! Tbh, writing the ring battles is exhausting. I wanna stay canon but like we've all watched the anime/read the manga and I'm just trying to integrate Yuki into the story more but dang a lot happens. I forget that. I just wanna be like -watches ring battle skip to end-. But I'm tryna work on my creative writing so we'll see haha.