Lie no. 73:

Everything was OK for a little while after that, Nana was able to get full custody of Tsuna (and much of Iemitsu's money because the idiot hadn't signed a prenuptial) and she began to become a lot more aware of the things happening around her.

Then Reborn went missing.

Truth no. 14:

After the first few days, Harry began to get worried. Of course it wasn't that bad, because Reborn was the strongest hitman in the world. If anything, he would be fine.

Then Tsuna and Gokudera went missing. Then Yamamoto, Kyoko and the Haru girl he had seen around. And then his sister. Before he knew it, the entire Vongola tenth generation was gone. And he hadn't been able to do anything about it.

It was at that point he began having a break down.

Grabbing his wand from the draw he kept it in, he began throwing wards up around the area as his fingers dialed Squalo's number (he'd learnt the wards soon after he and Rosa moved in with Squalo, a contingency plan of sorts).

Truth no. 15:

Nearly a week went by before he had the information dump which had the nerve of calling itself a dream. And Rosa had been returned to him. When she made her way inside the house, he grabbed her into a hug.

If she felt a few tears bleeding through the shoulder of her shirt, she didn't say a word.

Lie no. 74:

Dialing. Ringing.

"I'm going to be staying in Namimori to make sure you guys don't lose the heir, again"
"Oh? Any other reason?"
"Voi, why would I have any other reason?"
A chuckle
"Nothing."

Lie no. 75:

It was a calm morning as Rosa physically dragged Squalo into walking her to school. 'Because I do not want to face the demon girls at the school on my own' was her reasoning.

Mothers and her fellow female students stared and whispered as the two bickered down the street:

"Why are you so loud?"
"Why are you so obnoxious?!"
"I swear if my brother wouldn't hate me I probably would have stabbed you by now!"

It was nice for things to be back to normal.

Lie no. 76:

When Rosa finally made her way into the class, everyone stopped talking for a moment before many girls rushed up to her. Asking who the man walking with her was, how she knew him, where he was from ("Because he is obviously not Japanese") and Rosa couldn't help but seethe:

"He's Squalo, he's my brother's boyfriend and he's Italian. He's 24 and way too old for any of you fangirls."

Because, let's face it, those girls were creepy and they needed a good ol' slap to the face from Reality.

Lie no. 77:

The Vongola heir and his closest guardians (Gokudera, Yamamoto and, oddly enough, Rosa) were lying about in the Black living room after school staring blankly at the empty tv screen that haunted them since the earthquake that had occurred when they returned from the future. The heat was blistering and boiling. Their skin all but melting under the rays. Every fan in the house had been turned on and faced in their direction but it didn't seem to work.

Then the door opened. All of the children tensed silently as they saw Squalo of the Varia walk in, having heard stories of the organisation from Reborn and Gokudera. Then they all paused as Harry walked in behind him, only for the bespectacled man to have the shopping he carried stolen by the assassin and taken to the kitchen.

The students, minus Rosa (who had gotten used to Squalo being Squalo) tilted their heads to the side and watched the couple's interaction.

"You don't have to do that..."
"It's fine."
"Squalo, shouldn't the kids be here by now?"
"They are," the assassin said and pointed in their direction, causing Harry to turn and notice them. "Oh, hi! Are you all ok? You look like you're all on your way to death row."
"The heat. It burns," Rosa explained simply
"Ahhh. Well, you do know there is some ice cream in the fridge, right?"
"What?!" the Vongola group exclaimed, rushing for the fridge. Narrowly missing Squalo in their dash, they ignored his roar as they went for their bounty.

Truth no. 16:

One particular night after returning, Rosa couldn't sleep. Memories from the future plaguing her dreams. When Harry woke up for a midnight snack, he saw her sitting on the couch looking deep into her empty cup as if attempting to divine the future from the leaves left behind.

Grabbing a bottle of water, he sat down beside her silently. Hoping that she would understand that he would be there if she wanted to talk, for hew knew what scared her so deeply due to halted memories that had been passed to him from an alternate version of himself. She only said one thing:

"The only reason I survived… is because you took a hit for me. And uncle Sirius had long since died... Please don't leave me like that. I love you two, too much."
"We won't, Rosa. Never."

When Squalo finally made his way into the living room the next morning, he saw the two asleep together on the couch with a Russian soap opera playing.

Lie no. 78:

Rosa's box weapon was a turtle.

Well, technically it was a leatherback sea turtle at it's highest possible size of 1.55m. And for some odd reason it was staring at Harry with its beady eyes from its place in the bath tub as it floated about in the water and lightning flames floated off it's large shell.

He needed context. "Rosa!"

Lie no. 79:

He looked down at the girl as she sat on the couch with the turtle nestled at her feet. She could feel his disappointed gaze as she tried to focus on the lightning turtle instead.

She should have expected this. She knew he would get memories of the future, but she had so stupidly forgotten that his memories were halted. Hadn't even had a chance to see her fight to protect those she now saw as family. Hadn't had the chance to meet Lilou (who she had easily named after his mother, using the french endearment as a recognition).

"Explain, please," he asked her
'Where is Squalo? This would be so much easier if he was around to help explain where Lilou came from…' she couldn't help but think.

"This is Lilou, she's lightning turtle… my box animal. I thought you might want to meet her, but I wanted her to get used to the house first… Sorry…" she told him
"Are you sorry that you did it, or that you got caught?" he inquired.

She decided to stay silent. That was more than any answer she could really give.

"Rosa…" he sighed "You are my sister, my lovely little sister, who I would do anything for. When you decide to do crazy things… please tell me first, ok?"
"Ok…"
"Thank you, Rosa. And thank you for naming Lilou after my mother."

'He'd noticed!'

Lie no. 80:

It was one particular afternoon when Lambo started crying and accidentally used the ten year bazooka against Rosa. What everyone saw, was not what everyone was expecting.

She stood tall, as any lightning should, wearing a beautiful dress and the Vongola Lightning ring placed easily on her left ring finger along with a golden band. She had grown her black hair out so that it mimicked Squalo's a bit rather than the short spikey mess she had at the age of twelve.

Oddly enough the first reaction came from Gokudera, who exclaimed "You get married?!" The older woman grinned, so much alike to the grin they knew from a younger Rosa, "Yup, three years going strong, dumbass. Although, that might be because he's smart and knows that if he tried anything I'd break him."

Then her eyes fell on her older brother and somehow her smile got larger and her eyes shone in something akin to pride. "Hey, big bro," she greeted softly "Man, you look so young! I now truly realise how small you are."
"Oi! Just 'cus you're older now, doesn't mean I can't still ground you!" he stated, to which she laughed.
"Don't be dumb, brother. Well, time is running out," she began Just know, that despite how weird you all are and how much you drive me crazy, I lov-"

Suddenly, her words were halted as a large amount of smoke went off and the Rosa from ten years in the future was replaced with the Rosa from their time. They looked at her in confusion, as she had a shocked expression and a red face. "Are you ok?" her brother asked in worry
"Ask me again in a few minutes," she mumbled in response.

For some reason she was avoiding Gokudera for a week afterwards.

Truth no. 17:

Rosa was gonna kill Lambo.

In the numerous occasions that the child hit people with the Ten-Year Bazooka, not once had it hit her. By some stroke of Luck, she had been safe. Until the little twerp and ruined her chance of getting to know her Sky some more (because Tsuna is a naive pain in the ass, but somehow he had joined her family and she couldn't help but tolerate the weirdos that found their way into it).

As the smoke faded, she began to realise a cold hand was holding hers. Turning to the side and looking up, she saw Gokudera (a much older version of her [it hurts to say it] friend) and it was at that point that she screamed.

Yanking her hand away, she backed up with a red face and pointed an accusing finger at him. Yelling: "Why the hell was I holding your hand?!"
"Ah… well… you see I can't tell you…"

She then proceeded to yell profanities at him in various languages, starting with Japanese, until the five minutes ran out and she was sent back to her time.

Truth no. 18:

"Come on, we have to get back to the wedding… You ok, Hayato?"

"I forgot how many insults you knew in various languages…"
"Oh! That was today?!"

TADA! I was originally planning to do the future arc but realised how long it was and I just got super unmotivated and instead of torturing myself with it, I wrote it through Harry's perspective cus we always see the future arc perspective. But don't worry, most of the future arc stays the same but anything different will be noted in any future Lies and Truths.

I love writing this series and I will continue to love it, but soon we will be coming to an end in terms of the actual canon story (I follow the manga). I may do some TYL stuff afterwards, but I'd still like some prompts from all of you. And I only have 1 exam left tomorrow and then I'm done, so my updates should speed up again!

Speaking of TYL, TYL!Rosa is now my favourite. From Truths 17 and 18, you probably realise who she is married to. And in Lie 80 and Truth 18, there is a two part easter egg (1 part in each segment) about something that will be happening in the future.

Also, Lilou is Occitan and the 'ou' means a pet format of something. Do Lilou is a short from of Liliane or in this case Lily. It's pronounce lee-loo

Hope you continue to enjoy the series! Let's get to 100 lies!