Wohoo :D! Thanks so much for the support you guys have given me! The story has received a lot of love and I appreciate that so much! Out of all my stories, this is perhaps the deepest one I have wrote on Fan Fiction. Especially since I used my own experiences to help write the story! I also just can't help but laugh a bit as you guys try to figure out everything in the story, though I don't think I'm so good at writing mysteries though I haven't had any complaints yet! Though I DO WARN YOU NOW, this chapter will be darker then the rest of the story. So if you are a younger, and or more sensitive reader then I do recommend skipping over some parts. This is also very long, but I make them long because I can't guarantee fast updated all the time! The rest won't be this long, I promise! Unless this is nothing to you guys in that case I say go for it! So anyway hope you enjoy! Read on Noodle!


Haru, Nagi, and Yuni along with the children were sitting in a row on the helicopter. Their arms were tied with ropes while the childrens' wrists were tied together. Kiyoshi had the tape removed from the mothers but kept it on the children to make the ride less noisy. He sat in front of the tree women and hummed the tune rock of Rock A Bye Baby to himself as he waved his hand as if he was conducting it in his head. The women were silent even though their mouths were free, as they feared what would happen if they spoke up. Nagi was disappointed in herself as she allowed herself to be defeated so easily as she looked down at the handcuffs. "What are these things? When they put them on me, it felt like they pricked my wrists...then I was unable to use any of my illusions..." Nagi thought to herself as she looked up to see Kiyoshi looking at her.

"Ah..Mother of Pain...you are wondering about my nifty little device on your wrist? Those handcuffs are my Cradle cuffs hoho...they inject the victim with a specialty neurotoxin that goes straight to your brain. It then seals your ability to muster up any Dying Will Flames in your body, as if your mind forgot how to do wonders of technology and science..." Kiyoshi said with a laugh as Nagi looked at her handcuffs with a slight horror. Who on Earth was this man who was capable of making something that seals Dying Will Flames so splendidly? Nagi noticed however that there was one on Nagi, Yume, and Keiko as well. It seems he put them on anyone who can use flames, he even predicted the potential a child may have to use them!

"However, I do not wish to keep you on those cuffs for too long or you may permanently forget how to use your Mist Flames, which would be most unfortunate seeing as your organs are simply illusions Mother of Pain," Kiyoshi said to Nagi who stared at him intensely. Haru had forgotten that Nagi's organs were simply illusions! "Wait...how are you still able to be okay Nagi? Shouldn't your organs have disappeared then?" Nagi realized this herself and questions how she is able to sustain herself until she remembered the ring on her finger. The Vongola Mist Ring that Mukuro gave her, his power was sustaining her right now. Which means she and him are still linked, this entire time! Which means Mukuro has been watching over Nagi, transferring some of his power to Nagi to make sure she sustains herself. Nagi eyed the ring closely as she felt regret and guilt.

"Ah...yes...I see your heart is developing nicely indeed! Please tell me Mother of Pain, what do you feel right now? Guilt? Sadness? Hope? I only got the chance to experiment with one Mother, so now I have the chance to speak with the full set!" Kiyoshi said excitedly. Nagi pulled away from him, feeling repulsed by his behavior. She couldn't see behind that mask of his, but the smile on the mask was most likely the same expression he had underneath it. He sighed with disappointment, "Sigh new mothers are always hard to understand. They will stand strong to protect their children no matter what. Admirable to say the least! Hoho!" Kiyoshi laughed which sickened the women. He wouldn't even allow any of the women to attend to the children that had to be scared out of their minds. Yume wouldn't stop crying along with Nagisa. Keiko was still out cold with Haruka trying her best to remain tough. Haruka looked at Haru whom she sat next to with a deeply worried and confused look.

"Don't worry Haruka, everything will be okay all right. We will get through this...just gotta hold on all right?" Haru told Haruka who looked at her for a moment before nodding. She then snuggled up to Haru with her head on her arm. "Such a sentimental moment Mother of Love..." Kiyoshi said before Haru snapped at him. Not caring who he was at that moment. "Why do you keep calling us the mothers of whatever? My name...is Haru Miura! You know that you psychopath!" All the other men on board was shocked to see such disobedience from Haru. They were going to get her back in line but Kiyoshi stopped them. Wishing not to harm them any further for now.

"I call you that because you ladies are special pieces in my little experiments," Kiyoshi began explain with a tip of his hat. "You see a long time ago I witnessed something truly marvelous. A young middle school boy with spiky hair who ran up to a young lady in an attempt to confess to her! It was a truly beautiful sight, for his Dying Will was nothing like I've ever seen before! It was powerful beyond beliefs, filled with much potential! Then at the last moment, another beautiful young lady was in trouble and his Dying Will changed to go save her...! I'm sure you know what I'm referring to Haru Miura..." Kiyoshi said as Haru thought about this. Haru then remembered it was the day she was playing with Lambo and I-Pin with Kyoko. She was on her way to play with them until some guy on his bike crashed into a tower of pipes that was going to fall on her. That's when Tsuna came running in his underwear to come save her at the right moment. She was so happy that she passed out from how cool Tsuna was.

"Wait! You were there?" Haru asked Kiyoshi who laughed as the woman in the blue hood next to him stared at him awry. Haru forgot she was there as her movements were odd. She moved and acted like a child, moving her arms around frantically and staring off into space. She reminded Haru so much of a newborn baby. Kiyoshi then told Haru that he happened to be strolling by as a new visitor to the town. When he had witnessed the event, he was blown away by the marvel of someone who was willing to confess to the girl he loved like his life depended on it just to save another. This then drove him to create his life's work, the perfect heart using this boy and the women around him.

"Women around him...? You mean...us?" Nagi asked Kiyoshi who told them yes. He said that the four of them were the perfect subjects to become the four Mothers. Each of them holding on to the piece of motherhood that represents them best and would allow them to nurture Tsuna's heart. He also said that the four children with them would also help to purify Tsuna's heart and make it perfect as Kiyoshi desired. That's when Yuni finally spoke up against Kiyoshi. "So basically...we're just some toys in your little game? Tools for you to use like we're nothing...as if we don't have souls? You...killed everyone in my Famigilia...burned down the house I called my home...had Nagi...raped...made Haru move and live in isolation along with Tsuna! Just...for something like a perfect heart? No one's heart can be perfect, even Tsuna's! It cannot be without imperfections..."

"Silence Mother of Hope! Do you think I am without knowledge on how feelings and hearts work? I may do the inhumane, but it precisely because of that I am humane would you not agree? One cannot grow unless they encounter cannot strive for tomorrow, without the pain of yesterday trying to hold us back!" Kiyoshi exclaimed as she slammed his cane onto the board of the helicopter, silencing Yuni. "You see...I understand how humans work very well. I can understand people's feelings and see right through them, for I am the thorn that lies within all hearts. I understand very well...that no heart is truly perfect but can still be...perfect with all of its imperfections. With all of its faults and imperfections, and all of its benefits and gracious gifts. A heart can become perfect. It takes suffering however, it takes pain to do so. It takes hope to let it know it can wish for the new day! Love, to let it know it isn't alone in this world and finally...another heart to let it know...it will never be alone," Kiyoshi said as he rose his head up. The woman next to him stopped moving around aimlessly and looked at him.

The women looked at one another as they heard these words that felt so sincere, so caring. They hated this man for everything he has done, yet how could a man who did such terrible things...say something like that? It felt as if those words didn't belong with the villain. He was that was he not? He was the one who committed crimes, the drug lord, the powerful and terrifying villain! But does the villain speak about hearts from the bottom of his own? They felt his words were so true, and understandable at the same time. It almost made him seem like he wasn't such a terrible person. But they knew that his ways were crooked, and he himself knew that. He knew very well he was psychotic, that everything he did was wrong.

However, he argued that "No human has ever became the best person they can be without doing the wrong things they thought they would ever need. I must do horrible things...I must...for I am simply life's dark angel. When things happen to you that are out of your control, far from your understanding. You would say that it is life's fault or perhaps whatever God you may believe in, it is their work you say! It is their fault this terrible thing happened to you and you hate life or God for it, but afterwards somewhere down the road. You thank them, you thank them for giving you the chance to learn from that thorn in your path you stepped on. You became stronger because of it...humans cannot grow without those thorns on our path. We cannot live without them, and thus I chose to be the thorn in your hearts...to help you all grow despite the costs. Do not worry my ladies...for a rose bears thorns and beautiful petals. And one particular petal will still be your reward despite holding the rose of love," Kiyoshi said with a bow to them.

Yuni looked at Haru and Nagi with confused looks. None of them could tell at that moment what their feelings were towards Kiyoshi, his actions were they justifiable? They were so confused, he did all of this for Tsuna? For them? The things he has done were terrible, but in the end were they also good things? If they were to look at him as if he was life then this would all be normal events that life chooses to throw down their throats. Because life isn't fair, it never has been, and never will. Yet it is still beautiful, like a rose itself...

They found out that were being taken to Mount Fuji after some time passed. They looked around as they were escorted out the helicopter that landed near a lake. Yuni told them that they were at Lake Kawaguchi which was located in Fujikawaguchiko, southern Yamanashi Prefecture near Mount Fuji. Yuni has been told by Gamma about this place, he had went here once with her mother for some reason. Kiyoshi told him she was correct and then informed them that the area is a popular resort, with many lakeside hotels, windsurfing facilities, camp sites, and excursion boats. He said it was quite a lovely place to settle everything. However, he said the place where it will all end will be within his base. Located near the base of Mount Fuji, they were escorted underground from a restaurant that was simply a front.

Once inside they saw the place they were in had the appearance of some lab. The wall were a shiny gray, with multiple rooms on each side of a long hall way that stretched out to an intersection that went left and right. They were escorted down the right hallway where at the end of this hallway was a big room with lots of cords hooked up to machines. Then in the center of the room were people working at computers, on the screens were different things none of them could understand. However, Yuni recognized some of it as they walked past them. These people were developing that drug that controls people, and possibly other dangerous substances like the one being used on herself and Nagi.

They were then escorted into another room that led out the back of the one before. This room was different from the rest of the base they have seen. The lab walls were replaced with white walls, and a homely feeling to it. There was a nice brown carpet, and a single wooden table in the middle of the room with two wooden chairs on each side. They also noticed the room had three doors on the walls which they guessed led to another room. "Is...this where you will be keeping us?" Yuni asked Kiyoshi who simply laughed and turned to them. "Oh Heavens no...you ladies will be escorted to your own rooms in preparation for the main event!" Kiyoshi said with a twirl and a tip of his hat.

"Main..event?" Haru asked as one of the men grabbed on to her and Haruka and began to drag them towards one of the three rooms. Haru and Haruka couldn't fight back much as they saw the others being dragged in mother-daughter pairs to the other rooms. "What are you doing to us Kiyoshi! What the Hell is this?" Haru shouted form the top of her lungs as she saw Kiyoshi laughed loudly, psychotically as he laughed loudly. "To the depths of your hearts my dear mothers! To the depths of your own hearts I shall take you! So the petal will choose to fall gently down into your hearts...hoho! Yes...come my petal...come!" He said loudly with a wicked laugh. He dismissed his test subject 001 to go with a a tall man who escorted the woman out the door along with Keiko who the woman dragged with her. Keiko cried out for her friends and family was that was being taken from her! Kiyoshi then sat at the table on the left side, he took off his hat and removed his mask which he set both on the table humming Rock A Bye Baby again he ignored the cries of the women around him.

(SENSITIVE READERS SKIP THIS PART! NOTHING TRULY GRAPHIC IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN, HOWEVER IT MAY BE TOO HEART BREAKING OR TOO MUCH FOR SOME READERS. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND SKIPPING THIS IF YOU FEEL YOU WON'T HANDLE THIS WELL)

"Ah...do not scream lovely mothers...for this is all for the sake of the perfect heart! You must be brought down, down to the deepest levels of a human heart. There you will find what you all have been seeking! Mother of Love, Haru Miura...you have not experienced the suffering I desired you to experience. Your isolation was meant to drive you to seek love, but instead you were a naughty girl and tried to hide your feelings of love. Not good at all...so I will force you to admit your love..." Haru was brought to a room where she was then tied to a chair by a man. Haruka was tied to a chair as well but was facing the opposite direction of Haru side by side. He put some headphones on Haru and set a TV in front of her which the headphones were connected to. Haru demanded to know what was going on but the man didn't answer. He simply turned the television on and she saw herself walking with Tsuna. "Huh...me and Tsuna?" She said as the man left.

She remembered this as a day Haru asked Tsuna to go for a walk with her. She remembered that day so well, it was such nice weather and there was a good mood. She had actually planned to confess on that day long before Kyoko would hear Tsuna's confession. However, what should have been their day was ruined when Kyoko showed up and asked Tsuna to come with her to her house to help with something Haru could not remember what. Haru thought Tsuna would say no since he was with her, but he accepted in a heart beat. He told Haru goodbye and left with Kyoko like Haru wasn't really there at all. And like that one by one she had to witness times where Tsuna escaped her, times where he was with Kyoko, she was forced to watch moments where Tsuna clearly had no intention of loving Haru. All the while hearing Kiyoshi's recorded voice tell her terrible things about her unrequited love. It brought Haru to tears, as she begged for them to stop torturing her like this. However, she couldn't hear Haruka desperately trying to calm Haru down but Haru couldn't hear her. The headphones blocked everything out, leaving only the tortured voice in her mind to hear loudly with her own heart. "Tsuna...help..." Haru said with tears falling down her face.

"Mother of Hope, Yuni...you have forgotten yourself! You who used to believe so firmly in hope have lost yourself, and believe there is no such thing anymore...I must make you see that hope exists!" Kiyoshi said as Yuni was thrown into a box that was locked shut. There was darkness all around her and she couldn't break out no matter how hard she tried. She banged on the box and hit everything, she looked around for something she could use to escape but there was no use. She still bore the handcuffs that sealed Dying Will Flames, making this even harder on herself. Her daughter Yume was left outside to do whatever she wanted. Yume hit the door, knowing that her mother was in trouble but was unable to do anything. "Let me out! Let me out please! I can't be here! I...want to get out!" Yuni screamed as she felt the darkness around become never ending walls that surrounded her. "Tsuna...save me..." Yuni told herself as she began to cry.

"And oh Mother of Pain, I only wish I could help you in a gentler way. However, I already dealt you enough pain as it is and you have grown your heart into the desired place I wish for. Your body and heart has experienced enough pain as it is...but we can never be too sure about that can we? Hoho...yes...I must make sure your heart is perfect too! So you will return to the state you were most damaged in...and forced to feel pain until like before a rose petal saved you!" Kiyoshi said to himself. Nagi clothes were torn up, tattered now. She was beaten quite a bit leaving injuries all over her body, and tears fell down from her eyes as the man finished his work. She knew this appearance well, for she looked exactly like this when Mukuro..."Damn you Kiyoshi...why...must I...why do I have to remember this?! Why?" Nagi shouted as the man finally set a mirror in front of Nagi. Forced to see herself in the way she was left when Tsuna failed to save her from the drug induced Mukuro. Nagisa was restrained by several Cradle Cuffs to inhibit her powers as she cried out for her mother.

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Kiyoshi heard all their cries from the three rooms they were thrown in as he hummed that tune. As he awaits for him to show up and put an end to his life's work. The men that left the rooms reported to Kiyoshi their job was done. Kiyoshi thanked them for their work, and told them that their jobs here were done. He asked them to tell the same thing to the other workers who were no longer needed. He asked them to escort them to wherever in the world they wished to go in the world. Kiyoshi had essentially fired them all and wished to be alone in this base. Where he said his end was near, and didn't wish for anyone else to be hurt unnecessarily. The men nodded and did was they were told. Soon the whole base was evacuated on planes and helicopters that left the base. "Every rose must meet its end, but 'tis it the thorns of petals that die first? Under the sky...I wonder...Tsunayoshi Sawada...what will miracle will you pull off today...with your Dying Will?"

NEXT CHAPTER: Petals and Thorns Pt. 2

Tsuna and Kiyoshi meet, and their confrontation begins in a battle of ideals! Will Tsuna be able to save the girls? Or is doing so all according to plan? Kiyoshi, the master mind makes his long awaited final move against Tsuna!