Disclaimer: I don't own KHR. Although, if I did, there'd be a live action already and Hibari would be hot(ter than he already is).

Edited: 31.1.16

A/N: I was having trouble figuring out how to perfect this chapter and give it to you guys. I didn't know how to write all of my ideas down so that they were easy for you to understand. So I came up with a solution that would make my life just so much easier. I deleted the first chapter.

Did anyone really ever think about how little I-Pin and Lambo must've felt when their big brothers went out all the time, sometimes for really long periods of time without telling them anything? And then coming home and being all beaten up and still not telling them anything? Can anyone imagine how lonely the two must've felt? I know 15 y/o Lambo talked about it in the manga a bit but idk. I just feel like as the youngest person in my group of friends, I can relate to them a lot. Maybe that's why I loved Lambo so much when I watched the Anime. Sure, he was really annoying and stupid, but did it occur to anyone that maybe he was acting like that on purpose to give the older guys a reason to relax around him? Because I distinctly remember a few times when Lambo actually read the atmosphere and acted completely serious.

I feel as if my writing style's changed quite a bit since I last uploaded a chapter. I hope the change isn't too abrupt? (Wow, last time I uploaded a chapter was like the very end of July. Hope none of you guys hate me.)

"WHY IS SOMEONE SO DANGEROUS TARGETING NAMIMORI?!" Tsuna screeched, making Lux wince.

Her ears had adjusted to listening to Reborn's quiet voice, so suddenly hearing Tsuna scream was a bit…painful. She turned to her fellow mafia heir and raised a single eyebrow, giving the older boy a look that said something akin to; "Really? You seriously don't know?"

"I hope you realize that currently residing in Namimori are three mafia heirs, two seconds, and an arcobaleno, though there are rumors of a second one roaming around. Considering the fact that our enemies were exiled from the mafia and we're all 'young and vulnerable' I think it's quite obvious why they're targeting Namimori." Lux explained slowly, as if she were talking to one of the children back in the facility.

Tsuna blinked, slowly digesting the explanation, "But who's the third heir and second second?"

"Bianchi-san and Hayato-san, of course. Who else?"

From: Guardian Angel

To: Princess

Subject: Progress Report #3

If you get a letter from the old man saying something along the lines of, "Your stupid friend Angelo blew up another training room while he was sparring with his psychopathic cousin from the Varia." please don't be mad.

-Angelo

P.S. I mailed you a few extra blades just in case the ones your using get damaged.

Please be safe.

Attachments: mercy_on_my_soul . mp3

Lux frowned as she tightened her ponytail, securing the Bovino insignia ornament at the top of her head. She stared at herself in her mirror, clad in tight black clothing and the cow-print fingerless gloves that she wore to protect her hands from the chains of her kusarigama. Lambo, who'd been studying the Mandarin Chinese language profusely since meeting his same aged peer, I-pin, whispered a quiet conversation with the girl as he watched his older sister prepare for battle. When Lux sat down on the wooden floor, legs crossed and eyes closed, the two five year olds quickly hopped off of their perches on the bed and waddled toward the older girl. I-pin takes up the space in front of the older girl and mimics her pose. Lambo stood behind her, her eyepatch (which had been lying nearby on the ground) in his hand. He proceeded to place the eyepatch over his sister's right eye and secured the string around her head. He tugged lightly, making sure that it wouldn't fall off during battle.

Lambo worried about his sister, but he knew that voicing his concerns (which he was sure she was already aware of) would only make her feel more worried about him instead. It isn't as if he didn't hold any faith in his older sister. It was only that this would be her first battle in Japan and it'd be against some very well known criminals, the ones avoided even by the mafia. He knew she wouldn't die or anything. Reborn would never let that happen and Lux was most definitely strong in her own right. Lambo just didn't like the idea of his aneki getting hurt in the first place.

Lux let out a huff of air before opening her single eye and giving the two younger children a smile. Her smile didn't exactly reach her eye, but they could tell that the girl was calm. Lambo crawled into her lap and I-Pin scooted closer. She was about to say something important, they could feel it. She ran her fingers through Lambo's hair and sat silently for a few moments, gathering her thoughts before finally..."The other guys think that the two of you are only children and shouldn't be involved…but I-Pin, your master's already been keeping you updated about what's been going on, hasn't he?"

At the younger girl's nod, she continued, "And Lambo, you were the one who hacked into Vindice's security system and found some of the information that we gave to Reborn in the first place. Surely you're smart enough to piece everything together without me spoonfeeding you."

Lambo nodded and she felt his small hands grasp tightly onto the fabric of her shirt. He's worried for her, she knew, but he really had no reason to be. Lux could take care of herself. "The two of you are already involved in this situation, whether they like it or not, but they won't let you come with us to Kokuyo Land. The two of you understand, right? They're not like us, they're not used to the fact that children your age could already know hundreds, thousands of different ways to kill someone. They're not ready to accept it despite already seeing what you're capable of. So they're treating you like civilian kids and they're acting like the two of you are too dumb to understand anything. But I won't treat you like that. I won't coddle you. The two of you are essential to the success of this mission and I don't care how angry at me Tsuna-nii will be later when he finds out I'm the one who told the two of you to do this, but I trust you guys. And Tsuna-nii needs to understand that despite your young ages, he can depend on you too."

The two younger children looked up at Lux with wide eyes. They'd never expected her to say something like that. Lambo felt his chest warm up and he practically glowed with pride. I-Pin sat a little straighter herself. Those were the words that they'd been wanting to hear since they'd learned of the whole situation. They had been watching their older brothers fight, and fight, and fight; watching them come home wounded and broken, but none wanting to disclose any information; watching them put false smiles on their faces and pretending that everything was okay and saying ridiculous things like, "Everything will be okay." and making them feel worthless. Useless. Weak. Making them feel like they were nuisances and they just weren't good enough to stand on the same grounds as their older brothers and sister. They were trained to handle these situations, these things have been ruthlessly pounded into them every day since they were old enough to understand things. But why? Why couldn't they be allowed to help?

"Reborn-san has already contacted Shamal. He is to watch over that Haru girl who was stalking you the other day." At the familiar name, Lambo shudders, "Apparently she's a fan of Tsuna-nii as well. And Reborn-san." Lux smiled, "The girl's been associating herself with the members of the 10th Vongola generation and even if she's a little creepy, we don't want her to die, do we?"

"Your assignment is a little different. Lambo, your mark is Sasagawa Kyoko, younger sister of Ryohei-san and crush of Tsuna-nii. You are to watch over her and protect her. Take the pistol with you; you'll know when to use it." She looked her younger brother in the eyes, "Do you think you can handle it, Lambo?"

Lambo stood from his position on her lap and clenched his fists. His eyes were set and they flickered with a passion that even Reborn would've been proud of. Lux didn''t think she'd ever seen him so determined before. "I can do this, Aneki." The boy confirmed, "I will protect Sasagawa Kyoko with everything, short of my life."

Lux smiled before turning to I-Pin who'd been fiddling with the long sleeves of her qipao. "I-Pin, I know you're nervous because your master usually accompanies you on your missions but remember that you will most likely be doing this little mission alongside Lambo since your mark seems to always be with Kyoko-san." She laid a palm on top of the younger girl's head, "You will be protecting Kurokawa Hana. Do you think you can do it?"

"I-Pin can!" The girl chirped, and that's all Lux needed to hear before she felt completely satisfied.

"Good. Go on then my little troopers." Lux gave the two children a ferocious grin, one that could only be outmatched by Prince Belphegor or Angelo themselves. "Lambo, all the tech stuff is shoved under the bed. Hack into as many security feeds as you want; find those girls."

She opened the window of the room, and after one last look at her younger brother hard at work, she jumped and went on her way to Kokuyo land.

She had a villain to catch.

She sent thousands of volts of electricity through the chains of her kusarigama and her skin glowed with a bright, blinding shade of green. She felt the hot, energetic flames come to life from within her and her skin began to feel tingly; prickly and everything burned. Her eye flickered between shades of green, the lightning within her danced and she grinned as she electrocuted Mukuro's zombies, one after the other. Hibari had certainly done a good job, but Reborn had left it up to her to clear out the rest of the obstacles, leaving only the big game for the Vongola boys. Lux gyrated between the 'zombies' and the trees and every time she heard a body thump on the ground, she would let out a satisfied huff of air, each huff a small celebration of victory. She breathed in the earthy air and stomped particularly heavily into the ground, enjoying the sounds of crunching leaves and grass. It was all a game to her. Thump thump thump. She kept the rhythm, thump thump thump to the beat. The further she got into the forest, the quicker the tempo, and she danced with her lightning, and everything is going according to plan when-

clap.

Clap. Clap. Clap.

She looked up stiffly, nervously, because none of these zombies should have had the ability to do that but when her eye met with red and blue, she understood. The man standing before her wasn't a puppet, no, he was the puppet master himself. Rokudo Mukuro in flesh and blood, unless of course what she was seeing was an illusion, but she knew it wasn't. She could feel that he was real.

"Kufufufu," He laughed, "You're quite an exceptional dancer, aren't you, Bovino Lux?"

She backed up. This man was dangerous. Dangerous. Dangerous. And there was something about him, something pulling her toward him and she was scared because his presence is comforting and it felt familiar and it shouldn't have been because she didn''t know him. SHE DIDN'T KNOW HIM BUT HER MIND KEPT TELLING HER TO RUN TO HIM, TO HOLD HIM, TO WHISPER INTO HIS EAR AND TELL HIM THAT EVERYTHING WAS OKAY. So she panicked because she was afraid and she attempted to back up even further but she was stopped when her back met with the trunk of a tree. Was this one of his mind tricks? One of his games? She starts freaking out and she didn't know what to do but her face remained calm, impassive. She reminded herself to breathe and breathe and breathe. She stood tall and straight and she looked the man straight in the eyes. It was then when she saw that he was no longer smiling. His eyes were opened wide, and his brows furrowed, as if he were in pain. He fell to his knees and let out a strangled shout, "WOMAN, WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO ME?"

What was going on. WHAT. WAS. GOING. ON. She wasn't even doing anything. In fact, she should've been the one yelling at him, asking him what he was doing to her. But he looked like he's in pain, so much pain, and even though he was the enemy and she knew well that he needed to be put down, she couldn't bring herself to do so. He looked up at her, one of his hands resting on his forehead, the other tensed and rested on the ground, keeping his body upright. His red eye glowed with the kanji for five, Path of the Humans, but he wasn't attacking her, he's was not even trying to attack her. He was trembling.

It hit her fast, oh, so fast. PANG. PANG PANG PANG. Her head felt as if someone was just stabbing it and not stopping and it hurt. It hurt so bad. She let out an inhuman screech and she too fell to the floor; the floor littered with corpses; the very same floor that Rokudo Mukuro was also writhing on. It came to her in bright flashes. In fragments, shards. But she felt it, she felt the pain from that day. She heard the screams and smelled the alcohol. She saw the blood coating her immobile hand and the bright red and blue flashes in the background. She heard the sirens and the shouts and screams and oh god.

OH GOD.

SHE HEARD HIM, SHE HEARD HER SWEET BABY. HER LITTLE BROTHER, THE BOY WHO WAS ONCE THE LIGHT OF HER LIFE AND SHE HEARD HIM SCREAMING FOR HER. FOR HIS OLDER SISTER TO WAKE UP, SHE HEARD HIM CRYING AND SOBBING AND SHE NEEDED TO GET UP. TO TELL HIM THAT SHE'S OKAY BUT SHE CAN'T.

"WHY?!" Lux wailed, "WHY?! AM I SEEING THIS NOW?!"

Her fingers stabbed themselves deep into the ground and she could feel the dirt under her nails. She watched as her tears, one by one, came raining down and she sobbed. "WHY ARE YOU MAKING ME SEE THIS?!" She looked up to where the master illusionist was standing just moments before but he' wasn't there anymore. He wasn't there.

She looked up, down, all around, looked for even a hint of where he could have possibly gone but there wasn't a trace of him left.

Lux gave the world a monstrous scream and to anyone who's ears it might've reached, it would've given them a chill that would've reached their bones. She screamed and it was painful, broken. She screamed again and it was just so utterly despairing and tragic.

She laid there in the field of corpses. She cried and cried and cried and it went on for the longest of times. When she stopped is unknown, but all she could feel at this point was emptiness. Her face staid completely blank and every action she performed from then on was steady, mechanic. It was almost as if she were a robot. She sent electricity through her chains once more, although now she was at the front gates of Kokuyo Land instead of fighting a group of animated dead people in a forest of death. She swung her sickles downward, slicing right through the metal. She swung again with her other arm and the gate broke down. She stood straight and tall and put on her face a placid smile.

She couldn't let them know what had taken place just moments ago. She couldn't.

A/N: Well. I can't say I regret ending that chapter there, though I'm sure a few of you are going to come after me with knives.

I'm curious to see what you all think of this chapter so pleeease review!