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When I woke up there was no one to greet me. The only thing that hugged me with open arms was silence. Its buddy loneliness was next in line to consume to engulf me with it's power.

A lone beeping sound registered in my ears. Slowly turning my heard towards the noise I saw that the culprit was the heart monitor. But what had made it odd was that my heart beat was slower than it should have been. Like it was displaying its own form of sadness. The emotion that I didn't want to show.

Carefully I turned my head back up to stare at the ceiling. There was no point in trying to see if there were any flowers or cards. My room screamed emptiness at me loudly either way. So it wouldn't have mattered.

But I shouldn't have hoped there was something the moment I realized I was awake. Because who would want to see a murderer like me?

My mind began to recall the times I would regain consciousness for a minute before losing it. But there was one conversation that I woke up on that haunted me.

The one were they spoke of my past. What I have really been doing these past six years to everyone. Who I was up until a few months ago. But that wasn't what hurt me. No it was that one second glimpse of Tsuna's face that did. The look of horror, disbelief, fear his body and eyes showed.

Maybe it was better if no one was here. That way I wouldn't be able to see the looks of their faces once they saw me.

Now I know it was a mistake come back. I knew what would have happened if I came back, except that mafia part mind you, yet I still did it. Just to have a chance at a normal life. But normal wasn't what I got. No it was something completely different than what I would have thought my life would have been.

"Yukiko." A voice whispered lightly that I barely caught it. Hesitant at first I turned my head. There was Tsuna staring at me nervously.

"Tsuna." His name rolled off my tongue as we stared at each other. But that one moment made my fear come true. He was staring at me with those eyes.

Tsuna walked cautiously towards me and sat down on one of the guest chairs that was near my bed.

An awkward silence engulfed us.

"Why did you come?" The words came out of my mouth before I realized it. Mentally I hit myself and called myself an idiot for saying that.

"To see you." He stated. I could tell he was nervous just to be by me. I looked away from him and bit my lip. His actions were hurting me and he didn't even know it.

"Please leave." I whispered lightly. I couldn't take it anymore. "I-I can't stand it."

"Stand what?" Tsuna asked confused.

"The way you're acting towards me! The look that you're giving me!" I snapped making him flinch. I turned my head away from him.

"So nervous and afraid." This was exactly what I didn't want to happen.

"Gomen Yukiko." He whispered. He looked down to his lap.

"What for?" I mumbled lightly.

"Acting this way. Its...its just how am supposed to act?" His voice cracked.

"Y-You left so suddenly! It hurt me Yukiko! We were supposed to celebrate my birthday that day! But you never answered the door or showed up. You were my only friend! The one who didn't think of me as no-good Tsuna." His voice became softer. "Then I find out where you've been and what you have been doing. Tell me how am I supposed to act?"

He was right. I have to tell him. I have to tell him how I became like that. How Lady Kaichou was born.

"I'm sorry Tsuna."

He stood up suddenly. I turned my head and watched as he walked away. I wanted to say something but I couldn't. It felt like a frog was struck in my throat.

"So much happened when you were gone. I-I don't think we can be friends anymore. I..I hate you Yukiko."

His words pierced me. It hurt.

"Shame. Then you'll never know why I did the things I did." I finally croaked out. But it was too late he was already gone.

A tear slid down my face as I closed my eyes. Oh how I wanted to crawl into a pit and die right now.

How did I get in this position in the first place? It's just a blur right now. But then again that could be caused from the pain caused by the poison.

I gasped for air but it didn't help my situation. My body felt like it was on fire. I felt like I was suffocating well most likely I was but still.

The heat blurred my eyes and it increased if I even moved. Breathing was becoming even more difficult because with each intake of air it felt like a thousand knives stabbing into me. I couldn't even try and ignore it because with the poison it increased the pain from my wounds as well. To be in fact, it felt like my blood was boiling.

"Stupid girl...you should..have just died." Aurora gasped out withering in pain. I ignored her trying to concentrate on something to help me forget this pain to an extent, but I couldn't. The pain was too unbearable.

A annoying ringing was going on my ear as I held my stomach. Distant voices could be heard. Pictures flashed in my mind.

"Don't revolve you're whole world on just something. There are other things out there for you."

I didn't want hear her. I didn't want to hear the lies she told me. But why isn't my mind listening to me?

"Listen Yukiko, you have to move on. You can't always grieve on your father. It hurt me too, but he wouldn't want to see you like this."

Why is my mind looking back on the empty words my mother told me? Why can't I just put them away?

"No more crying okay. Just think about everyone else and how they care about you. You live for yourself and don't let anyone else think otherwise."

"Why?" I whispered trying to push myself up but I couldn't move. It was like every time I moved the pain would intensify.

I stopped. I stopped struggling. I stopped trying to fight off the poison. Instead I just laid on my back and let the pain just finally consume me. I just stared at the stars with blurry eyes. Then it finally went black. Maybe I closed my eyes or maybe I didn't but I was glad for the darkness.

A loud crash was near me making my darkness go away for a second. Slowly I opened my eyes and saw that the podium thing had fell down. The snow ring was within an arms reach between Aurora and I. We stared at each other as she reached towards it.

My arm struggled to reach it as well. Our finger tips touched it at the same time. But by some luck my finger went into the hole and slowly I moved it out of her reach. She glared at me before withering in pain.

I closed my eyes grasping onto the ring tightly. It felt so cold in my hand. But I was afraid that it would melt with the intense heat I feel. The heat that made me feel like my body was burning inside out.

With a bit of a struggle I managed to get the ring into the watch. In a second a cold surge went through my body, I welcomed the feeling as the heat gradually went away. It wasn't until now did I realize how hard I was breathing.

My eyes wandered over to where Aurora was withering in pain and I stared at the ring. Should I just let her die or help her? She did almost kill me in the fight and broke the baton Reina took so long to make for me. But it isn't right to let her die for something like that. Sure it was important to me, but it wasn't what kept me close to Reina.

I sighed running my hands through my hair before tossing the ring at her making it hit her face. I smirked a little. That could be my revenge then.

"Bitch." She growled out once she put the ring in. I chuckled a little standing up. I leaned onto my left leg for support.

I'm not going to lie. I was proud of the damaged I caused her. Seeing that her exposed skin was wrapped in bandages almost made my day. At least I was in a bit better shape than she was and is that blood on one of the bandages?

A sudden pressure was applied to my stomach and blood came out of my mouth. My vision went black for a moment but when it went back to normal I glared up at Aurora. She stared down at me smirking smugly. I grinned a little. I did kind of deserve that.

"Never trust your enemy."

I fell onto my back not bothering to fight her. What was the point really I did what I had to do already.

"Exactly my thought." I mused staring up at her. She stared at me emotionless until an explosion happened in her hands. She opened her hands and smoke poured out of it. My grin widened as I held up the ring. I sat up giving her a cocky grin.

"Did you really think I was just going to let you have it?" I asked cockily as I twirled the ring around my finger. She glared at me before a smirk appeared on her lips.

"Then I'll just have to pry it out of your cold dead hands."

She charged at me with her hand back and ready to swing. I dodged her punch and rolled away from her. Pain seared through my right leg.

"Before you do that," I started dodging another one of her attacks and stood up. "I want to know why you killed everyone four years ago."

It could have been me but I swear I saw her freeze at the mention of it. But it was probably me because she did a round kick at me and my back connected with one of the trees that was laying on the floor.

I stared up at her and wiped away the blood that dripped from mouth. Her eyes showed anger. Great I could use it to my advantage.

"A blond violet eyed girl named Camilla Nicola disappeared. If memory serves me right you said you were that person. But you lied." I grinned at her as she ran at me with a broken branch in her hand.

"Shut up!" She growled out swinging the branch at my right. I jumped up and landed on my left leg. I ignored the pain that vibrated through my body.

"You were just the voice. The replacement with a fake wig. You used your songs to express your caged in feelings, but what made you snap was that it wasn't you showing it."

"Shut the fuck up!" She growled leaping over the tree and tackled me to the ground.

"Elliana Kingsley was the appearance." I whispered low into her ear remembering the name Ai had told me when she came to see me. What came with her was a dozen of lilies.

"What the hell do you know." She grabbed me by the neck and squeezed it hard. With a bit of trouble, I gave her a mocking grin.

"Your twin." I gasped out. The pressure applied to my neck was released for a second but without a moment's wasted I kicked her in the stomach hard making her get off of me.

"Aurora Kingsley daughter of one of the governor's in England. You and your sister were the result of an affair."

"How the hell do you know this?"

"Why from your biggest fan of course. Oh and wikipedia." I grinned at her laughing a little.

"Now that you know, I'll have to kill you." She laughed darkly. I smirked to myself seeing the people behind her.

"Oh and them too?"

Aurora turned around and her eyes widen as she saw Belphegor and Mammon behind her.

"Ushishi~ Who knew the useless maid had such a background." He grinned at her.

Maid? I thought questionably to myself. He called her a maid. What the fuck?

"Shut up you fake prince!" She growled out. Belphegor's lip twitched but his smile didn't waver.

"You're death can wait." Aurora turned back to me and smirked. "Besides I already got what I wanted." She held up the ring. My eyes widen. She must have gotten it when she was choking me. Damn bitch.

"By the way you're bleeding. Clean yourself up." She threw and handkerchief at me. I looked down and for sure there was blood staining my shirt. Hey I wasn't going to come here in hospital clothes.

The trio disappeared as I started to cough a bit. This was definitely was not my day.

Carefully I took off my shirt and undid my bandages. Blood was pouring out of my wound. I winced a little and ripped off a part of my shirt that wasn't soaked in blood and tied it around the wound.

"Oi stupid woman where the hell are you?" A voice called out. I looked up surprised and hurried to put on my shirt but it was too late.

Yamamoto, Gokudera, Ryohei, and Chrome appeared in front of me. We stared at each other as my face turned red as well as theirs.

"HENTAI!" I screeched throwing a broken branch at them. It hit Gokudera in the face since everyone else dodged.

"STUPID WOMAN PUT ON A SHIRT!" He screamed turning away as well as the others.

"What the hell do you think I was trying to do!" I screamed back successfully putting on my shirt.

"Ma ma it was just an accident." Yamamoto stated. I huffed and limped towards them.

"I'm done." I mumbled grabbing one of the broken poles from the podium.

"Took you a damn long time. They could be attacking Jyudaime!" Gokudera growled at me. I glared at him and used the pole for support as I walked.

"Well I'm sorry that I was trying to stop myself from bleeding to death." I hissed lowly giving him a dark glare. He froze at my glare before mumbling about something as we ran, well in my case limped, to where Tsuna was.

"Jyudaime!"

"Tsuna!"

"Boss!"

We slowed down and stopped as we saw them. Belphegor was by Xanxus who was laying down on his back.

"Thank you all for being audiences to the birth of the new boss." Belphegor laughed putting on Xanxu's ring.

You know that really wasn't necessary. I mean Xanxus could have put it on himself. But with the way Bel put it on him made it look like he was proposing. Okay stupid thoughts! This is a desperate time for us right now and you can't be thinking about stuff like that.

I coughed a little shaking my head to get the thoughts out of my head. That never happened.

"The greatest treasures of all time, passed down through the Vongola." Mammon began picking up the chain. "Give the young blood of Vongola great power!"

He makes it sound like a chant. Maybe he's a witch doctor? Damn it stop it with these stupid thoughts! This never happened before!

Aurora began to laugh softly as Mammon placed the rings into the chain. She stared at me as she placed her ring in as well.

Xanxus placed his ring on and all the rings started to glow. They actually looked a bit like the rainbow.

Okay stop it! It's the blood loss. Yep definitely the blood loss that is making me think like this. Damn you Aurora.

The light from the sky ring grew brighter and Xanxus stood up laughing.

"This is power! An unending power is overflowing!" He stated power crazy.

"Looks like we'll be getting huge bonuses." Mammon stated happily.

"All you care about is your damn money. I just want my debt to be cleared off." Aurora smirked crossing her arms.

"This is proof of being the successor to the Vongola Family! Finally, finally! It's coming true! Now I can become Vongola Tenth!" Xanxus stated but after those words were said the power started to die out. Xanxus fell to his knees before falling into the floor.

I stared at him surprised. What the hell just happened?

"Boss what's wrong?" Aurora and the others went towards Xanxus.

"The rings...Xanxus...They rejected Xanxus." Tsuna said in surprise.

The rings rejected him? How the hell can the rings reject Xanxus? He's the Kyudaime's son. Unless...

My eyes widen. There is no way that could be true, right?

"I bet you feel good about yourself." Xanxus stated picking himself up. Aurora and Bel helped him.

"That's right the Kyudaime and I aren't real family!"

So I was right. I thought looking away from them and held onto my stomach. It was starting to hurt even more.

"I know." A voice stated. My eyes widen and Yamamoto called out the name Squalo.

My eyes started to glow blurry and my fingers started to feel sticky. I looked down and saw blood on my hands. Blood was dripping out from the ripped cloth.

I grabbed onto someone that was close which was Yamamoto. He looked at me as I glanced up at him.

"Sorry I got you're jacket dirty." I mumbled.

"Yukiko!" He exclaimed grabbing onto me as I started to fall forward. I started feel light headed. I felt him move around for a bit and then my shirt being untied from my wound.

"Here." He placed me gently onto the floor. I closed my eyes as my head began to hurt. Pressure was being applied to my wound and I could feel something being tied around my stomach.

"It's not that good, but it'll stop the blood for a bit." Yamamoto stated. I opened my eyes and sent him a grateful smile.

"Stupid woman can't even take care of her own wounds." Gokudera mumbled glaring at me. His shirt was torn. I smiled a little bit and leaned onto Yamamoto for support when he helped me stand up.

"If it won't come true, then I'll defeat anything in my path until it does!" Xanxus exclaimed angrily. How much did I miss?

"I agree with you boss ushishi~" Bel held up his knives and Aurora raised her scythe. When did she get that? Damn I'm so behind.

Gokudera threw his dynamites at them and took out some new ones. Everyone got into a offensive position. I let go of Yamamoto and held up the pole I used for support. There was no way I wasn't going to help them. This would be the last time we fight together after all.

"How rotten can you be? We won't let you!"

"You all couldn't even die properly." Bel laughed at us.

"Besides one of you is already half-dead." Aurora grinned looking at me. I glared at her.

"We still have a score to settle." A baritone voice stated. I glanced over and saw Hibari.

"So Vampire-san finally decides to show." I mused softly to myself. He turned his head and glared at me. Holy crap, how the hell did he hear that?

"It's six against three. The odds are against you." Gokudera stated smug.

"Six against three? What are you talking about?" Mammon asked amused.

"Your opponents are a force several times larger than us."

They're getting their subordinates. Tch assholes knew they couldn't take us all on and called them.

"Once it was sure the boss would win, they would come in an annihilate anyone who had anything to do with this." Aurora stated.

Shit! Aya and Ai!

"If that's how it's going to be, then let us join Tsuna's side!" A voice stated through the intercom.

A Cervello agreed and pressed a button on a remote, but it didn't deactivate the censors. Mammon said they took care of it.

"It's useless, it's set to explode if attacked from the inside." She stated completely shooting down the voice's idea to break them out.

"If that's so, then I could always attack from underground." A voice crackled. It was the old hag of course.

I sensed a presence behind us and turned around. Three Varia subordinates where there.

"Took to damn long." Aurora growled out at them.

"Reporting: The entire...Varia squad, except...us, was defeated." One stated and claimed about a demon before an attack hit all three of them.

"L-Lancia-san!" Tsuna exclaimed.

"So that's how it is. The let's get this over with!" Bel threw his knives towards Tsuna. Yamamoto appeared in front of him deflecting the knives with his sword.

Mammon then flew towards but stopped as Chrome used her illusion.

Aurora frowned and disappeared. She reappeared behind Tsuna swinging her scythe down. I appeared in front of her pushing her scythe back with the broken pole.

"Touch him and I'll kill you." I growled out kicking her hard in her chest. She flew back dropping her scythe. I smirked as I saw the blood seep through the bandages.

Xanxus began to curse at us angrily.

"You're bleeding; clean yourself up." I stated mockingly throwing back her handkerchief. She caught the cloth and smirked at me.

"Xanxus-sama we are disqualifying you and taking the Vongola rings away." The Cervello stated. I coughed a little bit as my vision began to blur again.

"Now we will end the Ring Conflict and announce the results. Due to Xanxus-sama's disqualification, the winner of the Sky Match goes to Sawada Tsunayoshi. Thus, the ones who will eventually become the successors of Vongola will be Sawada Tsunayoshi and his seven guardians." She stated.

"Iie...there will only be six guardians." I coughed out. Everyone looked at me surprised. "The Snow ring was forbidden and it should stay that way. Besides...I'm not welcomed." I whispered the last part to myself.

Tsuna fainted causing a big commotion. I sighed to myself and Momoko appeared in front of me grinning.

"You did good kid, just don't die yet okay. She still wants to see you."

"Tch who said I was going to die you old bat. Besides take me to the dance studio, there's something I have to talk to Aya about."

"You're funeral." The old hag gently picked my up bridal style and I leaned my head into her chest closing my eyes.

"I'm just..going to take a small nap." I mumbled before falling into the darkness.

"Phase one complete." Cyber grinned from on top of the tree branch. Lucky smirked and leaned against the tree from below. Both of them had made it in time to witness the fall of the Varia after what they had done a few hours ago.

"Though don't you think you were bit harsh on her Lucky?" She mused jumping off the tree.

"She deserved it. No one betrays the Organization and gets away with it. Even her. We'll make her suffer like this along with him. Besides it makes things more interesting." Lucky gave a dark chuckle as they both walked away.

"What ever you say Tsuna." Cyber stressed the word before laughing. Oh what fun these next few weeks would be for them. Well until the Vindice come of course. If they were going to go down, all three of them will go down.

well this feels bad =/

thought i should put a bit of dramatic irony, also called tragic irony, in there and see how that works out. But it didn't come out the way I wanted :/

Please press the review button it makes me- erm Yukiko very happy *cough cough* and while you are it tell me who she should end up with as well! It can be in the review or Pms.

Thank you for reading =)

Here's the votes for who Yukiko should be with so far:

1. Hibari

2. Tsuna

3. Gokudera

4. Yamamoto