Well, scene 47 already today! ;D

I'll keep cramming until scene 49 for today, so I can catch Mukuro's birthday, which will be coming up, if I'm not mistaken. If I am, oh well. More for the readers to read. :D And more reviews, too. Heh.

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Soto breathed a sigh of relief. The Ninth was going to make it through – he's not going to die just yet.

"I'm sorry…" repeated the Boss. "But I'm glad…it's you…" He fell unconscious – at least Soto knew that. He knew that the Ninth will survive – Reborn hadn't been with the Ninth for around a year already, and he probably doesn't know what the Boss has been doing to keep himself able to fight.

"No, don't- please, wait! Ninth…Ninth!!" cried Tsuna.

"How dare you kill the Ninth!" snarled Xanxus. Soto glared at the Varia leader. He was still going on with the lie – only if Reborn had known…

"The despicable way you struck down the Ninth is a challenge against his own son, Xanxus, as well as the noble Vongola spirit!" proclaimed Xanxus with a wide grin. Soto just sighed at the utter failure Xanxus had scored at acting. But how shocked everyone was, nobody seemed to notice.

"W-What…?!" Tsuna looked back to Xanxus.

"There's no need for investigation!" said Xanxus. The watching Cloud Guardian rolled his eyes. No need for investigation, yeah right. Tsuna isn't even strong enough to kill anything close to a human!

"The burns on the Ninth's chest are the undeniable evidence!" Burns? He could have hit himself with a burning pot and gotten the same burns, idiot! Jeez, talk about non-sense…

"Now that the Boss has been murdered, the Ring Contest Battle is meaningless!!" The Ring Battles are supposed to prove which Boss and Guardians are worthy – if we don't have that, how do we choose? Vote? Yeah right – people will vote out of fear rather than judgment.

"For the Boss, my father, and for the future of the Vongola-" What future, Xanxus? If you ascend as Tenth, you're going to have no future!

"I will kill you as vengeance."

"W-What?! What the hell did you say?! He wants to what the Ninth?!" Gokudera responded.

"So, this is what he'd aimed for…" grimaced Reborn. "if he only won the Ring Contest Battle and became the next Boss, those who knew of the Cradle Affair would object to his succession, and would continue to oppose him. But, if he trapped Tsuna into the role of the villain, and attacked the Ninth's enemy in a battle of revenge, that's a different matter. He would gain absolute trust from the majority of the family. Besides, if he could prove himself stronger than Tsuna, who was supposed to be the Tenth, it would further the proof that he was the true heir. In that case, he would easily eliminate anyone who opposed him."

"Then Xanxus is planning to become the Boss and establish a dictatorship at the same time?!" exclaimed Basil.

"Yes," confirmed Reborn. "It was a well laid out trap. Mosca was supposed to kill all of Tsuna's Guardians in an accident. When that happened, he knew that sooner or later, Tsuna would come and take it down."

"H-How could he…f-for…for something like that…?!" Tsuna said to nobody in particular.

"Please refrain from speaking such wild conjectures out loud, Reborn. We will officially record everything that is spoken." Soto didn't like the Cervello at all – he knew Italian well enough to know that cervello meant brain. They were planning something – something that just might be related to destruction.

Tche. Obviously

"Those guys…" mumbled Yamamoto.

"I knew it!" burst Gokudera. "The Cervello are on Xanxus's side!!"

"Do whatever you want – my patience has run out," frowned Reborn. "But, I will honor my promise to the Ninth and not interfere…with my student's battles, that is. Having said that, I don't know what my student, who hates fighting, will do…"

Tsuna stood up. It was time he stood for himself – not for people to hold him up anymore. He looked hard at his competitor.

"Xanxus," he began. "I will take that ring back. You will not follow in the Ninth's footsteps."

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Well, Tsuna gets the last say again. :D

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Have an awesome year, and please review~!! :]