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It wasn't much. Watching the baby beating the crap out of Ryohei, Gokudera, and Tsuna when Colonello showed himself. It wasn't much. Seeing how frustrated they managed to get because of that missing piece. It wasn't much. Seeing how everything seemed to click for them when they realized that they had that piece with them the whole time but never noticing. It wasn't much because it's only the outside that can see this. No matter what happens, there'll never be moment when that last odd shaped piece is left because the puzzle was complete without it.
Years have gone by. Years that will never come back. Years for something so pure to go mad with craziness; just a snap of the fingers and they'll be gone in a blink. It doesn't matter how much one can cry about the loss time. It doesn't matter how much can yearn to gain something from the years to come. So much time, so many differences, so many complications, can one even fathom the thought of trying to push them down or regaining them? A fools dream indeed.
"Y-Yukiko."
I spun around to look at him, my hand leaving the words etched into the bark. Tsuna stared at me a bit nervously, his body fidgeting a bit. A soft dejected sigh escaped my lips as I forced a smile on. I turned back to the tree, my fingers delicately touching the carving.
"Do you remember this?"
"Hai! It was after you saved me from some bullies."
"Ne, we had a promise right?"
My fingertips curled, my stomach becoming full of regret at the promise. From the corner of my eye, Tsuna appeared next to me. I gave a slight shake of my head, too much time has passed.
"Yuki…" He trailed off unsure of what to say. I turned to him, the smile still on my face.
"Gomen, I couldn't keep our promise."
"I-It's not your fault!"
"Tsuna we're really different you know that." I whispered brokenly, letting my fingertips fall from the carving. "But you must know right, or at least understand why I need to leave."
We stared at each other, the wind dancing between us haughtily. His brown eyes glanced at the carving troubled. His hands forming into fists. Once more the wind blew, this time tauntingly to fill my imagination with everything that could be possibly said.
It was useless. Everything was useless. You are what you are. No one can change that. At least that's what I use to believe. Coming here I realized everything I would have thought was useless was everything I had truly given up on. Friendship, trust, faith, family, love. Instead I had only believed in the things that were truly useless. Anger, hatred, revenge, despair.
"Reborn told me." Tsuna finally said, his eyes changing from their troubled look. "Hearing it that way was really easy for me to believe." I smiled feeling a mixture or relief and sadness flow through me at him understanding. "But I refuse to believe it!"
My lips parted slightly in surprise. His eyes burned with determination, burning a hole through my soul. For a moment I didn't know if I was more surprised and secretly relieved at his answer.
"You don't need to leave! Stay here with us Yukiko! Help me to not be someone that you can't hate! Help me be someone that you can trust! Yuki wouldn't it be so much easier for you to stay here?"
I closed my eyes taking in a deep breath. My boy began to tremble. How could I respond to something to like that? To that desperation to have someone as horrible as me to stay with them. Tsuna when have you grown up so much? Were you always like this when we were younger?
"Tsuna," I open my eyes, shaking my head, "even though it may not seem like it. I have so much hate in my heart for the mafia. Begging me to stay, wouldn't that make you selfish?"
A pang went through my heart at his expression. Another sigh escaped my lips.
"Then again, me leaving would be just as selfish. We're different. You-You fight for your friends, people you love and care about. I fight for reasons that can only be beneficial to me. Even though you don't want to do this kind life, you still take part of it, defending everything until the end. While I manage to escape at the first sign possible to escape. I'm a coward Tsunayoshi. Once again I'm running away from this life. I'm a sel-"
"I don't believe you! The Yukiko I know is nothing like that!"
"Then what do you know? What can you understand?"
I gasped for air, Tsuna taking a step back, his eyes looking everywhere but me. After a moment, his brown eyes finally connected with my grey ones the determination still burning brightly. Why, why must he look at me with those yes? Can he even fathom the emotion called hatred? Does he even know what that emotion feels like?
"At the Ring Battle, you desperately fought for us. You almost died that day for someone like me. For someone that is the one thing that you hated! Even though I couldn't understand why you would do such things, especially when Akane and Hiro, you fought against them trying to protect us, it confused me even more. You even went to the Vendicare trying to protect us! You wanted to make up for the things you did when you were in that Organization. Even then when it came to us being in the future, you still gave it your all at the Millefiore!"
"Sawada Tsunayoshi, why is it that you can always see past the bad in someone? In all of your opponents you have never truly hated them. You only fought to protect and prove them something. How is it that someone like you managed to get mixed up in this cruel world where everyone can look out only for themselves or their family, seeing nothing but the worst in someone?"
Tsuna's eyes widened slightly and he took a step forward, his hand reaching up. Our eyes never broke apart and through his eyes I managed to see how broken I was. I saw the girl that was confused, torn, and broken, yet why is it that he could see something so different?
"You're not a bad person Yuki. You never were."
"Baka!" I screamed at him, tears threatening to fall. I took a step back from him ignoring the hurt look that flashed across his face. "I can't completely belong to you in this form! I can't give myself whole to you and the family like this! Too many doubts can become very dangerous. Let me leave, let me become someone that can be useful and dependable to you and everyone else. These demons of mine, let me fight them on my own!"
"Why can't you just let me help you?" He screamed back taking us both by surprise. We both faltered a bit, the atmosphere changing between us.
"You don't need to go through this alone. I-I know I'm not that dependable, but you can still lean on me and everyone!"
"Tsunayoshi-baka," I whispered the tears finally falling down. "Baka, baka, baka, baka, baka! If I stay here, I know can fail many times and it'll be okay because you'll be there to catch me along with everyone else. I can't have that kind of safety because with the way I am now, I can't allow myself to truly be your Guardian! If I leave I'll –"
"Am I not that dependable?"
"Iie." I gasped for air, wiping away my tears. My eyes widen slightly at how close we were. Somehow we managed to get closer to each other. "Dame-Tsuna, I never did believe in that name because I knew you would one day surprise them. Because Tsuna you're so dependable I'm afraid to let you down because I doubt the way you do things a certain way. Leaving I'll become someone that can trust you fully."
"C-Can't you stay?"
"Tsuna," I placed both hands on his shoulder, finally giving him a real smile. "I'll come back."
"That's what you had said last time before the first time you left."
"I came back didn't I?"
"But you're leaving again."
"Tsuna, it's not like before. You have friends who care about you deeply. They're risking their lives for you because they believe in you. It's different this time because of them. Tsuna, let me become someone like that for you and for them."
"Why-Why can-"
"I'll come back and when I do, I'll be ready. My past won't be holding me down. I'll be free. I'll be yours to have."
"Y-Yukiko if y-y-ou say it like t-t-that people might get the w-w-wrong idea!" He stuttered his face becoming a bright red. I gave a soft giggle leaning up towards him. His eyes widened at how close we were, his face becoming redder if possible.
"Baka Tsuna, it's because of you I'm like this."
My eyes started to flutter close, my mind up about what I was going to do. My hands slithered behind his neck clasping together.
"W-W-W-W-What d-d-d-do y-"
Our lips finally touched and for a moment, just like as how it was described in those stupid doramas, shoujou managas, and romance books, it felt as if time had stopped. For once I wasn't really worried about something. It felt…refreshing to finally do something that has been plaguing my mind for the longest time. After an eternity, well actually a few seconds 'm just quoting a book here, I finally pulled away from him away of my burning face.
"It's because the Vongola's Tenth Boss managed to capture the heart of the heartless Lady Kaichou of Organization Orphan. Well that's what was in the Mafia Times."
"N-N-N-N-Nani?"
"Aishteru Tsuna."
Hey mina thanks for reading this! Please tell me in the review and tell me how you guys like this chapter of Of Magic and Dances! Just wondering, but who are your guys favorite KHR! character(s)? And just so you guys know, I'll be redoing the chapters of this story. I decided I'll just go through the chapters and change them. Forgive me for such a late update and because of this I leave this present to you guys :), I'm cruel aren't I? Review and tell me your outcome about the sudden confession and kiss!