My eyes fluttered open. I felt as if I was stuck to the couch. "Well I know who's not going to school today." I said to no one in particular. "I can't let them get hurt. If I lose control of my powers, I'll kill Tsuna and the others." My body sat up. "I can't let that happen again. I won't lose anyone precious to me again." I said as I set my resolve.
My shaking body got up and walked to the kitchen where I enjoyed Nana's cooking. "The air is quite dense. Something is going to happen." I mumbled to myself.
I spent the day re-wrapping my wounds. My body was still weak, yet I walked outside for a walk. I saw Tsuna and the others all grouped up. I walked over cautiously. Having the night flames has its advantages since I can blend easily within shadows.
The Varia made their appearance. I walked away in disgust. "I really hate the Varia. I want to kill them but they'll be useful in the future." I went to the park to swing. "I wonder what I can really do with my flame." I said out loud.
"Then I suppose we go test that out, kora." I looked to see Colonnello smirking at me. "I'd like that." There was a pause. "Let's go to an open area, kora." I had no emotion on my face. I just followed him.
"Reborn sent you, didn't he?" I said. "How did you know, kora?" I glared at him. "It's something that Reborn would do." I simply stated. He laughed and turned around to face me. "We'll just fight with no holding back, kora." He simply stated. He started to shoot at me. I un-leased my chains and aimed for his head.
"You'll have to do better, kora." He began to shot at me with an automatic. I simply stood there having the moon flames deflect the bullets. The chains wrapped around my arm. The night flames were fused together with the chains. I ran towards him and punched the ground with my broken arm. I yelped in pain but concentrated my power into the punches.
He jumped back only to crash the earth, till he jumped back up. "I have an anti-gravity shield so your flames won't affect me, kora!" I glared at him only to have my anger increase. The gravity around him got to a point where the ground collapsed in. He jumped back panting. The fighting lasted for a while.
He had me use so much flame that I had collapsed. He shot me in the shoulder and stomach. There was blood running out of my body. "Shit, we need to get her to a hospital, kora!" Colonnello yelled. "This isn't anything." I got up and started to lose control. I lost consciousness from a shot in my back.
Everything was dark until I opened my eyes and saw white. "You're finally awake, kora." I looked to my side and saw Colonnello smiling. I said nothing to him. "Did I lose control?" I asked. "Almost, but if it wasn't for Reborn you would've." He explained to me what happened to me after that.
I heard a knock at the door just as I fell to a very deep sleep. "Come in." Colonnello said. All of a sudden I heard footsteps running towards me. Tsuna and the rest were in tears. "Lux-chan, are you alright?!" Tsuna yelled. "She's sleeping, Tsuna." Nana came to me and sat a huge lunch on the table. "This will make her feel a lot better." She left. Kyoko and Haru set down come cakes. They had left shortly after. "What happened to her?" Yamamoto asked.
"I'm not so sure but whatever happened must have been really bad." Tsuna said softly. "She always gets hurt badly and tells everyone that she's fine." Tsuna continued. "She lies to us and it hurts. Reborn told me that she barely eats and food is a luxury. She's always so alone." Tsuna took a hold of the blanket and started to cry.
"Jyudaime, you shouldn't bother worrying about her." Gokudera said. "Gokudera, how can you say that?!" Tsuna yelled at him. "Dame-Tsuna, she's sleeping." Reborn said. Everyone quieted down. "She seems innocently peaceful while sleeping." Yamamoto said quietly.
I stirred in my sleep a little. Reborn got out a music box and started to wind it. "Reborn, what is that for?" Tsuna asked. Reborn put the music box next to my head. "The melody used to calm down children after something bad had happened to them." Reborn explained.
I smiled a little making everyone in the room smile as well. "I think you should go, I have errands to run." Tsuna and the others were going to say something but Reborn put his gun up. After they left, he turned to Colonnello.
"You didn't have to push her to the point of her losing control." Reborn sternly told Colonnello. "I'm sorry but I was going to die if I didn't shoot her. She doesn't really need training, Reborn." Reborn nodded. "But she needs to have enough energy to use the flame continuously without passing out or losing control of her mind." Colonnello stayed silent knowing that Reborn was right.
A few days passed when I was discharged from the hospital. I was walking to class before I was stopped by Reborn. "Let's train while everyone is in school." "Where are we going?" "The roof." I knew that this was going to turn out horribly but I still went to the roof. Hibari and Dino were fighting each other. "You're going to make me fight Hibari, aren't you?" Reborn just smiled.
After a long time of watching the two of them fight, Dino gave up. That's when they noticed us. "Lux-chan what are you doing here?" Dino asked me. "I'm going to train but I'm pretty sure I need to be hit a couple of times on the head to regain my memories." I replied nonchalantly. "Fight me." Hibari said. "I was planning on it." I released my chains and wrapped it around my arm. Dino stepped back far away with Reborn.
Hibari ran to me with unbelievable speed in which he attacked. I dodged and attacked. The wrapped around the tonfa and threw it aside. Hibari quickly recovered and attacked. Our fight seemed like it went on for hours. "Should we stop them?" Dino asked. "No. Besides, Hibari has wanted to fight Lux." Dino just watched you intensely. Something distracted me that Hibari smashed his tonfa in my head.
My body rolled towards the edge of the building. Something clicked in my head when he hit me. Reborn smirked noticing my aura. "What happened to you being strong?" Hibari questioned. "Don't underestimate her, Hibari. She's just getting started." Reborn commented. Hibari looked back to me and dodged my flame. "Black…flame?"
"Can you control the flame?" Reborn asked. Slowly I nodded and got back standing. After a couple of minutes of silence, my body flew towards Hibari as if my body was on automatic. The flame wrapped itself onto my hand. I struck to kill him but he dodged. Yet, I still managed to burn his jacket. He returned with a counter attack but it was all futile. I went to attack but I stopped myself.
"W-why did she just stop?" Dino questioned. "If she would have attacked, she would have killed him. I wouldn't expect anything less of my student." Reborn commented. I looked to Reborn and walked off of the roof. When I exited, Hibari collapsed from exhaustion.
When I got home, I sensed the Varia inside. I walked inside to be welcomed with a bottle gunning for my head. "What do you want?" I said while dodging the bottle. Xanxus said nothing. Squalo, on the other hand, started to yell at me. "VOI! Don't talk to the boss like that!" "Let her be, trash." Squalo gawked at Xanxus's words. "Answer my question: what are you doing in my house?" I questioned and took a seat directly across from him.
"Questions and answers."
"Ask whatever you want." He poured a drink for me to indulge on. The rest of the Varia was in total shock that their boss would show hospitality. Mammon came and sat on my lap as Xanxus started to speak. "Are you the brat's guardian?" "Hmm, why does it matter?" I asked as I took a sip of the delicious drink. "I want you as my guardian." Everyone in the room was really surprised.
"VOI! We can't have someone like her on the Varia! She's just a woman!" "Shut up trash. You don't know her like I do." "Boss, you can't trust her!" Levi said. "If you all know what's good for you, shut the hell up scum." Xanxus growled. "Now, friend, do you accept?" I smirked and replied.
"I'm sorry but I can't accept. I am the brat's guardian and nothing will change that." Xanxus closed his eyes and thought for a bit. "Fine, but you're welcomed to come to the Varia whenever you please." "VOI!" "WHAT?!" Everyone seemed to scream. "Would everyone stop screaming?" "Muu, they don't shut up. It's no use Lux." Mammon told me.
"Let's go trash." Xanxus said. They all stopped their arguing and left. Xanxus stopped at the door and turned to look at me. He put his hand on top of my head like an older brother would do to his little sister. "Don't disappoint at the battles." "I wouldn't dream of disappointing my somewhat big brother." He growled and left with the others.
"I never knew that Xanxus was your somewhat big brother." Reborn said. "I've known him since Grandpa took me in. He sort of grew onto me since we were alike." Reborn just nodded. "The battles commence in a week. Make sure you're prepared." Reborn told me. "I'll be ready. Just make sure everyone else is ready." Reborn left.
I walked to Tsuna's house a little later for dinner. "Ah Lux-chan how are you?" Mama asked me. "I'm doing good mama. Is Tsuna in his room?" She nodded. I walked quietly upstairs and knocked on Tsuna's door. When I walked in, Tsuna was obviously freaked out over the Varia. "L-Lux-chan what are you doing here?" "I came to have dinner with you and I can sense that you're tense over something." He froze on the inside.
"Why don't you tell me what's bother you?" I asked, wanting to help. "I-I'm sorry, but I can't tell you." He said. He wanted to protect me from being involved in the mafia. How cute is that? "Lux-nee chan come play with Lambo!" Lambo yelled. "Go downstairs and wait for me okay?" He smiled and ran downstairs. "Tsuna, you do know that if anything is bothering you that you can tell me, right?" "…But what about you?"
"What do you mean?" I asked. "You're always getting hurt badly and you'll tell everyone that you're fine. You lie to everyone and it hurts…My mom even said that you have the look of a lost child. Just tell me why you won't tell any of us what you're thinking or if you're hurt?" Tsuna was in tears as he looked up at me. I never knew that he felt like this. "T-Tsuna...is that what you feel?" He nodded.
I covered my eyes with both of my hands and started to cry. "I-I'm sorry. I never knew that you felt like that. I thought that being how I am would protect the people around me. All this time of me trying to act strong, I was just harming others instead." I collapsed to my knees as tears started to flow onto the floor. "Lux-chan…"
After cleaning up the both of us went downstairs and Tsuna ended up playing with Lambo while I helped Mama with dinner. We all gathered around the table and started to eat. It was total chaos but it was worth it. Fuuta kept staring at me. I nodded towards him letting him know that it was alright to rank me. "Lux-nee is number one in strong females." Tsuna whipped his head toward Fuuta as he continued.
"She's also number one in prettiest fighters. Her love interests include Hibari Kyoya, Xanxus, Dino, and Mukuro Rokudo." Tsuna's mouth literally dropped at this. "How interesting…" I said. After dinner I left and headed home.
Reborn turned to Tsuna and smiled. "Good job, Tsuna." "Eh?! Good job for what?!" "For breaking her of course." Tsuna was outright dumbfounded. "B-but isn't that bad?" "Not for Lux. When she was a child, she was stone cold. Colder than Hibari and Xanxus combined." Tsuna shivered at the thought. "But what about Fuuta's ranking about her being a good fighter?" Reborn smirked. "In time, you will know why she's known as number 1 in strongest female. For now, imagine her almost as strong as me…" Tsuna's mouth dropped as the thought crossed his mind,
The next day, I took a morning walk but was ambushed by the mutt and glasses. But this time, there was a girl with them.
"You're who Mukuro-sama told me to come to…"