Well, here you go! Please review and tell me what you think about this chapter ^^ i personally enjoyed writing how Natsu gets along with Tsuna oh, and tell me if there's anyone you think she should get with and why. right now i have no idea and although it's early on, it's still nice to hear what you think so far.

I must have passed out at some point, because I was woken up when someone knocked my chair to the floor. I hit the floor hard and pain traveled up my left arm that was pinned under the chair.

"Ufufu. It seems you had fallen asleep during my performance. I just wanted to wake you up so you could enjoy the rest of the show, and answer a few questions of course…What do you know about the Vongola Family?"

"Vongola? Is that some kind of pasta or something?"

I was kicked for that answer and my side burned as breathing began to get difficult. Mukuro had probably broken a few of my ribs, but he didn't seem to care as he dragged me towards the window where I saw Tsuna stop a giant metal ball. I was surprised that Tsuna had so much strength, but when I looked around, I saw all the others unconscious on the ground, injured.

"The Arcobaleno fired a special bullet."

"But, if it is the last one, then they've fallen for our trap. Now we're a step closer to completing our plan for the Vongola's 10th boss."

I watched as Tsuna was beaten by the man outside and I felt useless being forced to sit and watch this. I did feel slightly relived when Tsuna was okay, but the guy with the spiky ball was suddenly taken out by the beanie wearing guy next to me. I was shocked that Mukuro would be willing to take out his comrade and I knocked my chair over accidentally and glared at him.

"Fufu. This is what happens in this world, princess. Of course, you wouldn't know about the horrors of the mafia."

"I know more than you would think…"

He turned towards me slightly surprised.

"Oh? Enlighten me."

"Nemu Tachibana. Ring any bells?" His eyes narrowed as I continued. "He was my father. Him and my mother were killed by another mafia group and my brother and I were left on our own…So yeah, I think I know enough."

He smirked and sent beanie head away, before untying me from the chair and tossing me to the floor in front of his couch. I was still somewhat tied up and couldn't do much as he sat down and shoved his foot down on my side over and over again until finally stopping. I felt another presence and assumed that Mukuro was talking to whoever it was. The he suddenly kicked me and rolled me over, to see Tsuna, Reborn, and Bianchi looking at me in shock.

"Natsu! W-What are you doing here?"

"I had a run in with a kid called Futa. Turns out I was interesting enough to be dragged here by Mr. pineapple head over there."

He kicked me in the back for the nickname and I spotted Futa standing behind Tsuna, but something was wrong. Tsuna turned around and suddenly, Futa pulled out a weapon and stabbed Bianchi. Futa started attacking Tsuna and I addressed Mukuro.

"What the hell did you do to him?"

Mukuro just laughed and I struggled to get out of the ropes to help Tsuna before Futa killed him. I found a piece of glass under me and I began cutting through the ropes as Tsuna somehow stopped Futa. All of a sudden, Tsuna got pissed and charged at Mukuro. I doubted that Tsuna could take him if Hibari couldn't and the moment Mukuro passed him, Tsuna was on his knees with multiple wounds. They began talking about something, but I couldn't make it out and focused on getting untied.

It was then I noticed that Mukuro was showing off his 'powers'. The first one was an illusion of the building falling apart. I was partially numb to it though, because the pain of the glass cutting into my palm kept my mind in the reality. The third one summoned poisonous snakes and I finally managed to cut through the ropes, but Tsuna was saved by Hibari and Gokudera.

"Heh, nice to see your alive, Hibari."

I coughed up blood as I forced myself to sit up, catching Mukuro's attention but only for a split second as Hibari attacked Mukuro. Everything was going pretty well, until Hibari's wounds reopened and cherry blossoms appeared.

Well, that isn't good. Illusions or not, Hibari is weak to cherry blossoms.

At least that's what I thought until Hibari attacked Mukuro. I glanced at Reborn who pointed to the medicine bag Gokudera was holding and then Mukuro and Hibari collapsed.

"It's all over."

Although that's what I believed Reborn said, but I had this pain in my stomach that made me think other wise. Movement out of the corner of my eye made me turn and watch as Mukuro shot himself, but I still had this bad feeling. I struggled to stand, using the couch to hold me up when suddenly, Bianchi stood and attacked Gokudera and Reborn. A quick glance at her face told me this wasn't Bianchi.

"Mukuro. Tsuna, that's Mukuro!"

"What?"

I thought it was amusing when Gokudera started doing a ward against evil spirits, but then he started acting weird too. This isn't right. How was he able to get Bianchi and Gokudera? Wait…the trident!

I looked around for the trident and spotted it at Bianchi's feet. I rushed over to grab it, but Gokudera was faster and tried to get me with it as well, but I dodged.

"Oh? Have you figured it out already? You are quite perceptive, Natsu."

"Tsuna…the trident…don't get hit by it or you'll be possessed too."

I gripped my side and took labored breaths as Mukuro possessed Hibari only to drop him and take over Bianchi, Gokudera, Ken, and Chikusa; who'd just entered the room and attacked Reborn. I too had to dodge attacks from Bianchi when I noticed a change in the red eye. The symbol changed to the character for 2.

"Tsuna! Careful! He's using another power!"

I dodged her poison cooking while Reborn dodged needles. Tsuna, being the hopeless kid that he is, was hit by Gokudera's dynamite. Suddenly, the floor was bubbling and lava poured out. I stumbled to Tsuna who was freaking out and I explained that this was an illusion just as Reborn was hit by dynamite.

"Reborn!"

His hat flew out, but he got it back and claimed that he couldn't help anymore.

"You have to act, Tsuna, Natsu, and quickly."

"He's right Tsuna. Mukuro is just using their bodies. They still have their wounds and I have mine. We won't last in a drawn out fight."

I dodged a set of bombs, but my left arm was hit with a barrage of needles and I was kicked against a wall next to Reborn. Coughing up more blood, I spotted Bianchi and Gokudera getting closer to Tsuna and talking.

"Can you really afford to worry about others? You're about to die."

"You and that girl are pretty interesting people, but hardly Mafia material."

"Tsuna…Don't listen to them…He said the same thing to me, but worrying about others is the best thing to do in this situation…They give you strength."

I forced myself to stand, noticing Reborn's smirk out of the corner of my eye. Tsuna couldn't give up here, so I undid the dress shirt I was wearing to show the multitude of throwing knives I had over my tank top. Grabbing a handful, I turned back around to Tsuna once more.

"Fight Tsuna, and I'll be your strength. Now tell me what you want to do!"

"I want to beat Mukuro…I want to take him down!"

I threw a bundle of knives and distracted the opposing group when Leon surprisingly flew up and glowed. Ken managed to get out of my range and attacked Leon, but two gloves dropped on Tsuna's head. Something was also tossed in my direction and I caught hold of it before it collided with the side of my head. I stuffed it away in my pocket for the moment just before Tsuna plowed into me.

"Tsuna…Get off me."

He mumbled something and pulled out a small bullet from the inside of his gloves. My eyes widened and I took it from Tsuna to toss it to Reborn, but Mukuro began interfering. Luckily, he was fooled by Leon and I managed to pass it to the real Reborn when Tsuna glanced up in fear. I didn't have to look up at that point to see the dynamite that surrounded us and I quickly protected Tsuna from them, something scraping my shoulder in the process.

The smoke cleared and Tsuna had enough strength to glance up and see me hovering over him, severely injured, but smiling. My arm gave out and I fell in front of him, reaching up to pat his surprisingly soft head of hair.

"Heh, you can't give up yet…Everyone needs you, Dame-Tsuna."

My arm fell to the ground and I forced myself to stay awake. Tsuna stood up and knocked out Chikusa and Ken. I could only watch as Tsuna took out Gokudera and Bianchi and brought them over to Reborn. He then came over to me and picked me up.

"I'm sorry, Natsu."

He laid me down next to the other two and told Reborn to take care of us. Reborn patched up the others and when he got to me I spoke.

"R-Reborn…my brother's gonna kill you…"

"Hm. Only if he finds out."

I tried to laugh, but my ribs were broken and Reborn quickly put a hand on my shoulder.

"You need to relax, Natsu. Don't worry about Dame-Tsuna."

"He's not the one I'm worried about…"

It was then that my vision went black; my fingers barely touching the small ring in my pocket.