Welcome back! Sorry I know this late. Had a major writer's block and then when it's gone my internet stops working because the towers shut down. Sorry again!
Disclaimer: I don't own KHR but I do own my characters
I climbed down the ladder slowly. Alba stared at me impatiently when my feet hit the ground.
"About damn time." She mumbled when Tsuna came off the ladder. I glared at her to which she returned.
"Okay we're at the eighth basement floor. We need to destroy the security system on this floor." Ryohei said.
"That's right." Lal Mirch said coming down the ladder. "If we can down the system, we can stop them from sensing us. Taking advantage of this, we can destroy the server and launch a surprise attack on Irie Shoichi."
"That's if they haven't noticed us yet. We caused quite a ruckus up there." Alba cut in. Lal Mirch nodded in agreement.
"Before that, Tsuna and Yukiko, let me heal your cuts." Ryohei stated. I looked up not surprised that he had noticed. He should have had a guess when we were in the parking lot.
"Let Yukiko go first, hers is worse than mine." Tsuna suggested.
"No it's just a small flesh wound." I gave a small grin. Ryohei frowned and Alba grabbed me by shirt. She pulled up the shirt abruptly taking us on surprise. The guys turned red and Lal Mirch let out, "Some flesh wound."
"She's wearing bandages. You can look." Alba stated. The guys turned around slowly as she unwrapped the bloody bandages.
"You call that a flesh wound?" Gokudera yelled out seeing the deep cut when Tsuna let out a cry of surprise. "Wait lawnhead, being the extreme idiot you are, can you heal her?"
"No worries. I'm just going to heal it with this box." He pulled out an orange weapon box. His sun flame whipped around as he put placed it in. A scalpel appeared with the sun flame around the sharp edge.
"A scalpel?" Tsuna cried out in surprise.
"This won't hurt." Ryohei smiled at me and placed the scalpel on my cut. I winced lightly before realizing that it wasn't burning me.
"It doesn't burn." I said staring at the scalpel with curious wonderment. Ryohei let out a laugh.
"Although it's a flame, it's a dying-will flame with the sun-element in it. And the sun boxes' specialty is activation. This flame can activate the natural healing powers in your cells and increase hundredfold so that you heal much faster." He explained.
"It can take away my snow affect as well." I murmured lightly. "How interesting that the flames apply to that of the actual elements."
"All done."
"Arigatou." I smiled at him. He stared at me knowingly and by reaction I took a step back bumping into Tsuna.
"Ah gomen!" We exclaimed at the same time. His eyes widened and I let out small smile before pushing him lightly towards Ryohei. Ryoehi began to heal his elbow.
Alba leaned in closer to my ear, "The bait was taken." I nodded slightly listening to Gokudera and Ryohei bickering. "You were right about that, it seems it's a sore subject. I'm still a bit surprised that she managed to get in."
I glowered lightly at how she phrased it. This was not just a sore subject. The way it was left off, could not make it a sore subject. It's taboo for the both of us and the only way to get rid of it is to fix the problem. Even if one of us would end up dying.
"If anything were to happen I'm interfering right away."
"No. I don't want any liabilities in this one. This is a matter between us."
"No...it was only 20%." Tsuna said modestly rubbing the back of his neck. I tilted my head not realizing why everyone ,other than Lal Mirch, was surprised.
"Ah Yukiko how did you make your charm change? That was a cool trick!" Yamamoto exclaimed turning to me.
"Oh Giannini helped me make them. It's easier to travel with." I smiled pleasantly fingering the charms with great care. It meant a lot to me that Giannini had taken the time to help me make the charms for this. Along with the help of Annerie that is. "It doesn't add much weight on me either."
"Is that really everything you're going to take?" Lucky asked in disbelief. Cyber stood next to him staring at me amused. "That's a lot of stuff especially for someone who is going to play a poor maid."
I rolled my eyes at him. Does he think I'm barely starting this? That I'm just a rookie like before?
"No I'm setting up the perimeter. I'm sneaking it in little by little so as not to rise suspicion. But our main target is his kids right; I was thinking about placing in some cameras into their rooms for Cyber to survey."
"Miguel didn't just join and immediately become boss Kaichou. More than likely, he already has some things set up around his manor. You're possibly already being tracked by his guardians already." Cyber stated glaring lightly. "Suspicion isn't what we need right now. Take this instead." She threw a small brooch at me. "It's a camera, but to everyone else it's a fake sapphire brooch. If anyone asks it your boyfriend bought it for you to celebrate your one year anniversary."
"Boyfriend? She's like five." Lucky cut in. Cyber roller her eyes.
"Fine your brother sent in to you. Besides I need you to walk around the manor and examine everything even the smallest holes. I need enough data so as to know the weakest and easiest ways to get in."
I sighed and crossed my arms. I don't see why I couldn't just go on with my plan. It wasn't that bad. My eyes wandered to the bulging bag and felt like an idiot. They were right about it being suspicious. Besides no one would guess that the brooch is a camera. It seems harmless and not life threatening. The brooch results would come out better than my obvious ideas.
"Ano Yukiko?"
I blinked a couple of times and glanced at the group. They were all staring at me and I coughed a little. Alba motioned for me to hurry up and I ran after them a bit.
"Stop daydreaming." Lal Mirch glared at me and turned away, resuming her running. I shook my head and grasped my forehead. Where did that flashback come from? The more important question is why?
"Model filter?" Akane questioned. She re-winded the scene back and forth a couple of more times. She frowned at the thought of her being wrong. But she couldn't be. One second the Vongola were there and the next it seemed like they vanished in thin air. Her cameras at the base were limited and they barely catch onto the Vongola. But now, it seems she's at her wits end.
"Mada mada dane." She grinned to herself when she saw something that she had been overlooking. There was a small time lapse. So small you would think nothing of it. They were good. Real good; to bad they were dealing with someone who did this for years and could even do it in her sleep.
If anything they were more than likely going to head to the security servers. First things first when you break in somewhere that has high security: get rid of the cameras and break down their defenses. Judging by the disappearance and time lapse they were more than likely already there.
Akane closed her computer and grabbed her weapon boxes. She placed them in the inside of her coat, away from the naked eye. Her rings were placed on her fingers and a robotic dog stayed by her side.
Unsurprisingly, her door had opened the two Cervello entered into the room.
"Irie-sama is waiting on you. He wants to know if you found the source yet." One of them said. A low sigh escaped Akane's mouth.
"No, this person has a lot of experience. I need to plug my computer into the main one. Combining the two would give me a greater chance o finding and pinpointing the source." The two Cervello nodded at her explanation and stepped aside to let the computer expert go first.
Irritation filled Akane as she walked away from the direction that led to the security server. She was this close to seeing the traitor again. Perhaps she could slip away from the two. But judging on how both were on both of her sides, like a prisoner being guarded, there was little hope in that. If only she had realized the time lapse sooner, then she would be on her way to the server right now. She'll be damned if someone else had caught up to them, because Irie is not someone to take lightly and neither are the top fighters here. More than likely the Vongola have been found out already. There is, however, still a chance that she could get to them first, but they don't matter to her. No the traitor is the one she wanted.
A small giggle echoed out through the room. I tensed up and took a small step back. My eyes scanned the room and Alba grabbed my shoulder. She shook her head lightly at me and my hand fell from my hip. Her hand let go of my shoulder.
"To anticipate a randomly increasing number of target and counter each one, just as expected from a failure Arcobaleno." A voice stated. The sound of a snap was heard and the lights turned on. A child-looking person floated down, smirking at us.
"Ma-Magician?" Tsuna exclaimed surprised. I frowned and crossed my arms. Magician? Ha with that outfit, he just looks like a wannabe.
"That outfit, magician's doll, Ginger Bread." Lal Mirch analyzed. I scoffed lightly to myself. Wearing an outfit like that doesn't make you look like a magician! A mental image of my previous look entered my mind and I coughed lightly. Okay so maybe I shouldn't be so critical about Ginger Bread.
"Yukiko aren't you a magician too?" Yamamoto asked and I nodded slowly at him. Ginger Bread touched the floor, his gaze burning holes into me. I glared at him to which he smirked.
"That's my old name. Now I'm Milleifore's 8th Division Vice-Captain." He informed chuckling lightly. "I'm surprised that the enemy's invasion managed to get up to here. Ma I have a duty to report your presence here, but getting rid of you all isn't bad either." He grinned a small laugh escaping his lips. He narrowed his eyes at Lal Mirch his grin becoming a bit sadistic. "Just like your Colonello."
A short gasp escaped Lal Mirch's mouth and Ryohei eyes flashed angrily. I pushed Tsuna back a bit as Ryohei screamed at the 'magician'. I shook my head at him when he looked at me. My eyes turned back to Ginger Bread who laughed again.
"I think you're mistaken. The cursed 7 Arcobalenos are weak because of the non-trisette and are dying because of the non-tri-ni-set emissions, right? Why should I dirty my hand with something so boring? All I did was laugh at the cruelty and proposed the last method."
This guy was starting to piss me off and it seems like I'm not the only one. My eyes followed the motion of Ryohei's hands before the ring lit up in the Sun flame. Lal Mirch stopped Ryohei glaring at Ginger Bread.
"Step back Sasagawa, this guy is mine." Lal Mirch ordered.
"Wait, with your body it's impossible. I'll go!" Ryohei exclaimed angrily. I shook my head at him. He's already losing his cool, if he was to fight like this he would probably lose. Emotions blind you.
Cyber flew past me and I turned back angrily at the culprit. He smirked lightly fueling my anger even more. He would pay for doing that to Cyber!
"Darlin' I haven't even gotten serious yet." His smirk turned into a grin and scream of anger erupted from my mouth. I ran at him quickly swinging my baton at him randomly. He laughed and dodged my attacks. "That's the best you can do?"
A card slipped into my hands and I threw it at him. The card sliced his cheek and his smirk fell a little. A gun appeared in his hands, but I was already blindly barraging him with attacks.
Pain exploded in my body and my eyes closed tightly. I bit my lip, silencing my scream, and held onto my shoulder. Smoke came from the gun and the man blew it away.
"Now darlin' don't look at me like that. It ruins your beauty."
My glared hardened and I made a move to grab my baton, but a loud yell stopped me.
"Idiota!" Lucky screamed at me holding off a few guys of his own. He kicked one hard in the throat and flipped another over him. "You're trapped! If you make a move you're going to die!"
I froze and did a quick survey of the room. Lucky was right, I blindly led myself into a trap and if I make one move I'll blow myself up. I can't believe I did this to myself! It's like the beginning all over again! I should have known better than let my emotions get the better of me.
A low moan escaped my mouth and I held my head in pain. It happened again. Another memory from when I was in the organization. But why am I remembering memories I would rather much forget?
"Stupid woman, watch were you going." Gokudera snapped when I accidently bumped into him. The pain increased slightly and I gave a incoherent apology. Hands grabbed my shoulders when I began to tilt backwards.
"Hey you alright?" Gokudera asked quickly. I nodded lightly ignoring the pain it sent to my head. Gokudera let go of my shoulders and stared at me unconvinced.
"But, to pass me you get only one chance. Once I clean you up, I'll go and give my report. But, of course I'll be bored by then." Ginger Bread's stated capturing our attention. I sighed in relief for that distraction and watched as he began to float upwards. He snapped his fingers and something shot upwards from in front of us. Sun spiders appeared and webs grew rapidly from them. Soon we were blocked from Lal Mirch.
"Spiders! Is this a box weapon?" Tsuna exclaimed.
"But I didn't see any box taken out." Yamamoto answered.
"Was it set up before we got here then?" Gokudera asked.
"Matte, " Ryohei said, "there's no ring on his finger."
"Yuki," Alba began and I glanced back at her, "magic perhaps?" After that was said Ginger Bread laughed lightly.
"So what do you think of my fiddling?"
"Fiddling? Is this magic? Ryohei question. Alba nudged me slightly and I sighed.
"That spider will inform me if you try and meddle with it. It's my servant. It would be best for yourself if you didn't move too much or I'll have to get rid of all of you." He answered. My eyes narrowed at how cocky he sounded. Did he really think this would stop us? He's not the only magician here.
A deck of cards appeared in my hands and Ginger Bread eyes found my own. Lal Mirch ran up the wall before jumping off and fired at Ginger Bread, who had dodged.
"Do you think those cards will break my spiders?" He asked ignoring Lal Mirch. She glanced back at me and I grinned at him.
"You don't know that half of it."
"Yukiko don't! This is my fight!" Lal exclaimed and I looked back at her. After a moment, with a sigh of defeat, my deck of cards disappeared and Ryohei turned to me angrily.
"You're going to let her fight this alone! She's not strong enough!"
"Hey you would want the same wouldn't you!" I snapped back taking him by surprise. "Obviously Colenello meant a lot to her, probably more than he did to you and she's trying her hardest not to let that fact blind her. Don't snap at me for it, when you know you would want the same and defeat him by yourself. This is her fight whether you like it or not boxing-idiot." I huffed and crossed my arms.
"As she said, so just watch there silently, although this is the end." Ginger Bread pointed a broomstick at Lal. Knives came out from the head of the broomstick at a rapid speed. At the last minute, Lal pulled out a box weapon managing to put her ring in as the knives were about to make contact. Smoke filled the air and when it began to clear I could vaguely make out the form of her box weapon surrounding her.
I plopped down to the floor sitting Indian-style.
"Baka-onna!" Gokudera exclaimed. "How can you sit at a time like this?" I glanced back up at him.
"Because I have faith in her." I replied nonchalantly. "I know she can handle herself and I might still be worried, but like I said before, I have faith in her."
I stared intently at the fight and watched as how Ginger Bread dodged all the attacks. He grinned lightly as the tails began to follow him wherever he would go. But suddenly, two tails appeared behind him and another two appeared in front of him. Each one grabbed his arms and legs, capturing him.
I grinned lightly. "See what did I tell you Cancer? She can handle her own."
"It's from experience. Her strength comes from the numerous battles she has been in." Ryohei put in.
"Tell me who killed Colonello." Lal Mirch demanded.
"So you really are interested in his death, who would tell.." He chuckled infuriating Lal even more. She closed her hand and the tails tighted around his body parts making him cry out.
"I'm going to break those arms and legs unless you tell me." She said darkly. I stared at her amazed and a small grin lit up on my face. I kind of like this Lal Mirch.
"Stop it!" Ginger Bread cried out. "They're really going to break."
"Matte Lal." Tsuna said right before Ginger Bread stopped his cries of pain. A smile appeared on his mouth and I tensed up immediately.
"Just kidding." His smile turned sadistic and he snapped his fingers. An explosion came from right by Lal Mirch and she fell to the ground as a grey pacifier fell to the floor.
"What happened?" Ryohei yelled as she gripped her shoulder.
"Spiders? When?" She hissed lightly.
"Now this became an unfair game." I said softly getting up. I took off one of my charms and walked up to the web of spiders.
"Is that all? The fun starts here though." Ginger stated disappointedly. A butterfly came from my charm it landed on my opened palm.
"Naive, naive paa." He said as fake arms and legs fell down. His broom flew back to him and he giggled lightly. He glanced at me and a laugh came from his mouth.
"What are you doing? That butterfly can do nothing to my spiders."
"Yukiko stay out of this!"
"Ne, I think they're a bit hungry. When was the last time you fed them?" I asked smiling lightly. My butterfly flew from my hand flying dangerously close to the webs. The spiders stared at it, watching its every movement.
"What happened to having faith in her?" Gokudera questioned. I glanced back at him.
"This guy has been playing us from the very beginning and its getting on my nerves." I replied simply keeping a careful eye on my butterfly. "Magic? Yeah right this guy is no magician, just a kid playing dress-up."
"What's going on..." Lal trailed off staring at me. Realization hit her and she glared up at him. "Ah! Entering the room, and attacking us straight away, the box weapon wasn't activated yet."
"That's right. In relation to this, the sorcery stuff was just a lie." He admitted. "What was attached to your body was a small sun box weapon, a Ragno Ciel Sereno egg, activated by a signal, they will grow and then attack."
"Nande!" Tsuna cried out. Ginger Bread glanced at me curiously.
"Though what does your butterfly have to do with this?"
I grinned up at him as my butterfly flew back into my palm. It changed back into a charm. "Just my personal agenda: revealing the fake you are. . You made the mistake of claiming to be a magician, and from the very start I've been watching your movements. The spiders happened to help a bit. And by believing that my butterfly can do something you fell into my trap. This butterfly," I held the charm up, "was frozen before it turned into a charm. That's why when it came to life, it didn't move at first, but as it stayed by the Sun spiders, the Snow affect began to wear off and it was able to move."
"That doesn't change anything." He scoffed lightly. He turned back to Lal Mirch. "Also, there are still a few more Ragno Ciel Sereno Cannone eggs attached to you. See." He snapped his fingers and another one exploded on her arm knocking her down to the floor.
I pursed my lips as I glared at him. Does he really think that my butterfly wouldn't change anything at all?
Gokudera ignited his storm flame and Ginger Bread giggled.
"Oops, don't do anything silly now, her organs might be bitten next." Gokudera's arm fell down and another laugh came from Ginger Bread. "In thanks for letting me have fun, I'll tell you something, Lal Mirch, Colonello, fighting alongside the Arcobaleno Viper, died protecting him. It seems like he is fond of taking people's places for other people. It was the same the day the Arcobaleno were born right?"
"The day the Arcobaleno were born right?" Tsuna repeated. I clenched my hands and stared at the spiders that were on Lal. I couldn't do anything right now because they were on her.
"The great thing about it was," Ginger Bread continued, "the saved Viper saw he had no choice of winning and killed himself. Makes you laugh doesn't it. Viper is an idiot too but, Colonello's nature shows itself, a useless busy body. The reason you haven't used that impure pacifier, is because he saved you right? What a bitter bitter guy, Colonello. How tragic your life has been, miserable Lal Mirch. all of this because of that nosy Arcabaleno, the bitter Colonello."
"WILL YOU JUST FUCKING SHUT UP ALREADY!" I screamed. "I SWEAR I WILL KILL YOU WHEN I GET OUT!"
"Yukiko." Alba grabbed my shoulder and I shrugged her off. My nails bit through my skin and I took a big breath.
"You think you can get away downsizing Lal? Lal I may not know Colonello, but if you go down like this what would he say? Don't give up yet, because some stupid kid playing dress-up decides to sprout bullshit!"
Lal Mirch pushed herself up slowly and I began to smile. "Take that back."
The scars on her cheeks began to expand and the pacifier in her hand began to glow a bright blue.
"That pacifier is..." Tsuna trailed off.
"Take back the insult to Colonello or die, choose one Ginger Bread." Lal Mirch said calmly. A shiver ran up my spine at how dark it had sounded against my ears.
"Is she going to be okay?" Gokudera asked.
"Maybe. Her scars!" Tsuna replied.
Ginger Bread scoffed and and smirked lightly. "Huh, what a sore sight, is that the remains of the pacifier from when you became a failure of the incomplete curse? Well, although you are incomplete, you are still an Arcobaleno. I thought that impure pacifier of yours couldn't be used anymore. But unfortunately, your last spurt was too late, if I snap these fingers, spiders will fly out of the eggs and attack you at once, and then that will be the end."
"Matte!" Tsuna cried out.
"Wonderful, when I hear cries of distress, it becomes exceedingly fun to snap my fingers." I laughed softly to myself and shook my head. He wasn't the only one who felt that way.
We both snapped our fingers at the same time, except only one thing happened. The webs and the spiders turned into ice. Ginger Bread looked back at me and then back to the undamaged Lal Mirch.
"What happened?" Yamamoto asked. I held out my butterfly charm and smiled.
"MY butterfly wasn't so useless after all. It took a lot of control and energy, but as my butterfly flew near the web and spiders, it was sugar-coating them with my Snow flames. Even though the spiders had Sun flames, they were weak and I managed to override the flame with my own. I was waiting to confirm that Lal Mirch would be okay before I took my plan into action."
Ginger Bread stared at me in disbelief.
"It's true that I am failure." Lal Mirch stated looking up scaring Ginger Bread. He began to snap his fingers over and over again and kept looking back at the ones I had frozen.
"This body of mine grown with the incomplete curse, causing an irregular variation in my body, and a wave of energy affecting my body, different from the original flame." Lal explained looking down to the pacifier. "It changed to the mist and rain element. That's why this pacifier didn't change. Originally, it wasn't Colonello, but me that was supposed to have this pacifier. This blue pacifier, in exchange for my life, I will release! The element, Rain!" The Rain flame covered her body and Tsuna let out a startled to gasp.
"The dying will flame!"
"Hey it's the same color as mine."
The spiders began to fall off Lal Mirch one by one. I tapped the web lightly making it shatter into pieces.
"I see. I know the reason why the spiders didn't come out of the eggs." Ryohei said.
"Really? Care to enlighten us then?" Alba said sarcastically. Ryohei either didn't hear her or just flat out ignored her. I'm going with the latter, because hey, I can't blame the guy.
"It's the power of the pacifier, the sun-element which activates the increased growth of eggs is being tampered by the rain-elements tranquility attributes."
"B-But, to wear the flame instead of using a box weapon..." Tsuna trailed off.
"This is the first time I've seen something like it." Ryohei stated in disbelief. Lal Mirch stood up, still holding the pacifier in her palm.
"The body of an Arcobaleno is different to yours." She explained. "The structure of this body... No one could understand the sadness and despair. If I had become an Arcobaleno like that, my soul would cease, and I would have chosen the same path as Viper's end. It was because Colonello was there... It was because Colonnelo was there, I lived. Thanks to him I could live until now..."
"Hoo," Ginger Bread said with fake understanding. "to you Colonello is a hero, but in the end you're also going to die here, so you're not going to be able to repay what Colonello did."
Lal Mirch placed the pacifier on her neck. "Ginger the on that is going to die is you!" She launched herself at him.
"Irie-sama, it seems that I found the source." I said turning my chair around. Irie turned around quickly and took quick strides to where I was. I tunred around, rolling my eyes at him.
"I pinpointed it to a local store near here." I typed somethings and on the screen appeared an closed down building. I clicked onto it, making the screen zoom in. "Here." I pointed to the sign.
"It's abandon." Irie pointed out. I bit my lip trying not to say anything stupid, but thank you very much Captain Obvious. I had no clue that this place was abandoned until you showed me.
"It's not the time to be waiting for an answer, Captain Irie." Ginger Bread's voice came from the intercom.
"8th Division squad Vice-Captain, Ginger Bread." A Cervello confirmed. "Where have you gone in the middle of standby mode? Such action is not-"
"I thought of telling you this one important information. Please look at the monitor."
The abandoned building disappeared. Instead what popped up made me really angry. That stupid doll had to ruin it for me! I swear if I find you Ginger, I will make you wish that you never crossed my path!
"Turn on the alarms!" Irie commanded. I stood up as a big commotion spread through the room. I walked briskly away from the Cervello and to Irie.
"Sorry boss," I began giving a salute, "but I have a very important guest that I can't make wait anymore."
"Wait Akane!" He grabbed my arm. I frowned and turned around smiling.
"Ne, this a long awaited reunion. I hope you can understand." I kissed his cheek lightly and the hold on my arm loosened quite a bit. I grinned and walked away from him.
"Sayanora Irie." I smirked as I clicked the remote that was held in my hands. In a minute the servers would be attacked once again by my virus, but this time I won't be there stopping it.
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