Here I give you the last chapter of this story. Sorry if there's any mistake.

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Tsuna-san…

You're always the one who protect anyone.

You pray for their safety through unwanted battles you've been through…

In exchange for your life.

I, who was never been seen by anyone…

You gave me hope,

You gave me real friends,

You gave me happiness.

You always make me feel alive and very happy, even though I don't deserve it.

But even so…

The days we once spent together,

The laughter that set peace in our soul…

I never regretted those days.

I cherish those joyful days every day, even to this day.

Tsuna-san…

Is it okay for me to do something useful for you?

Am I allowed to look down on my own life?

Because everything that you gave me, I will return it to you soon

I will…

Protect everything that's precious to you

...

"Remember, Vongola, you're bound by time limit to defeat her; 10 minutes. More than that, you'll be overpowered by her. 'Her' ability allows her to enhance her power in each 10 minutes she fights. Now, you still have the chance, but 10 minutes after, it'll be the end of you"

"Got it. But why do I have to stab her with this dagger?"

"That dagger is the only weapon that can kill her other side, but by stabbing Haru with it, it'll also kill her"

"But is there a chance Haru will survive while her other self won't?"

"It's a possibility, but almost impossible she would survive"

"Juudaime" Gokudera called. "Since you won't allow me to help, I hope this can help you" he handed over small dynamite.

...

Finally, the December 25th that decided everything had arrived. Under that falling snow, Tsuna and his guardians were waiting for Haru at the terrace of Vongola's mansion. As a chopper was going to make someone to land, his friends and Reborn that stood behind him were all looking at their boss; all with the same heart and concern for him. Of course they were concern; he was about to take his responsibility through ending the life of a girl he loved. The thought about letting them do the job were on their minds, but Tsuna stated it was his job only.

Finally with both red eyes, Haru came down from the chopper. She was kind of surprised seeing Tsuna was already on hyper mode. "Even though I predicted Vel would tell you everything, I admit, it's kind of surprising you would do this to the girl you love" she sneered.

"I will cut the unbreakable ties she has with you, even if it means I have to kill her" he replied with resolute eyes, but only Reborn that realized the obvious hesitation in his sharp orange eyes.

"Is that so? Let's talk before we begin. Why didn't you let your guardians do the job for you? As far as I know, you're against taking lives and yet here you are, prepared to take your first life; the girl you're too late to acknowledge and love"

"They have nothing to do with this"

Hearing that she chuckled cynically and gripped her sword tightly, "Kill me, if you can"

Without further delay, she dashed and swung her weapon to him, but much to her surprise, it was just a mere fake; a condensed flame. Tsuna appeared behind her and before she could make a move, he tackled her, "Now, Shoichi!"

In a flash, both Tsuna and Haru were teleported from there.

Haru opened her eyes and then stood up, only to be taken aback as she saw her surroundings. Covered in snow it might be, but the trees around her, the spot, she knew that place. They were there 2 years ago.

"You would choose this place like me, wouldn't you?" Tsuna's voice was heard from her back. She whirled around with narrow eyes, "On the contrary, I wouldn't. I prefer to kill you and then your mafia friends immediately—wait. Don't tell me you still want to save Haru"

"…" he just stood with eyes on her silently.

"Then, let's cut the chit chat and get this started" chains appeared floating around her, but Tsuna maintained his still position and unshaken eyes.

Despite her confusion, she commanded the chains to attack him, but to her dismay, he grabbed it one by one and melted them. "H-How did you… my chains can withstand dying will flame!"

"I've learned few special techniques before you came back"

With that, they both fought in close range. While she rapidly thrust her blade, he blocked and dodged. While he delivered punches, she blocked and dodged as well. The fight kept on going at the same pace and same movements. Feeling bored, she did something different. When he delivered a punch, she bent down and elbowed his stomach. Fortunately, he immediately blocked her sudden attack in time, but suddenly, she swung her sword against him and he blocked it again, as both struggled with each force to push one back, but their strength were equal.

"You're still hoping for her to come back to you, aren't you?", Tsuna flinched at that question. "It's useless. She won't come back to you. You've killed her 8 years ago, after all", his eyes bulged in surprise at that remark. He lost his focus for a second that suddenly his cheek got cut.

Attempted to get away, he broke his defense to fly to the air with perplexed face. However, Haru instantly appeared behind him to swing her weapon vertically against him, though he managed to block it, he got smote to the snowy ground. While his spot was concealed with small particles of the snow, she immediately stabbed where he fell, but he wasn't there. He appeared on her left and punched her with his blazing gloves. Although she blocked his punch, she got slammed to a tree and he immediately discharged his XX burner.

He approached her with the dagger while she didn't move, but all of the sudden, the dagger on his hand was tossed away and as if on cue, she abruptly grabbed his wrist and whirled him around to slam him to the tree with brute force, and then created another deep scar at his old scar while slashing his body. He screamed in so much pain while she was carving his old X wound, making another new mark at his old mark.

"Stay put. I have to destroy that cursed dagger" she approached the dagger, but suddenly, Tsuna held her from her back through a restraining hug. Thus, again, she threw him to the ground, causing him to roll over. Lying down on his stomach, the purity of the white snow got tainted by his blood. At that time, she cut his head off immediately, but turned out it was another fake. She was too late to realize Tsuna on her back, and when she was going to turn around, shimmering ice of his zero point breakthrough immobilized her and thus, he discharged his strongest XX burner he could blast in his painful condition, but afterwards he fell on his knees due to that tremendous pain and blood loss.

As the smoke covered her presence, he walked towards the dagger which was near the smoke and as soon as his hand was going to touch it, it got tossed away again to the back far away from him.

"Why…?" the smoke got cleared and she appeared standing with burn marks and injuries. "You were distracted by my words a moment ago, so why?"

"Because… I don't believe you" he answered while holding his wounded body.

"What?" she raised an eyebrow.

"Although I say that, to be honest, I don't know what you're talking about. So, why did you say I killed Haru?"

"It's not just about 8 years ago or before. Despite her messed up family, she's honest about her feelings for you. Every time she expressed it to you, you shove her like she's an insect. Every time she's stepped by your rejection, another pain marked a spot. Even though it hurt her, she kept her cheerful mask, so that you wouldn't know what she truly felt. You added her pain"

"But at that time, I…"

"You didn't know about her family, is that what you're going to say? If you knew back then, wouldn't it be just an act of sympathy? She didn't want sympathy. She just wanted to be seen. You persuaded her to expose herself to the world and be open mind just for her to get hurt more. You already hurt her more than she's supposed to be, but 8 years ago… when Kyoko looked after you in the hospital, she was supposed to look after her best friend's feelings! Either she's too dense to realize Haru's feelings or she already knew"

"You killed her with your smile and expression towards Kyoko's existence, making her existence once again invisible. I threatened you and your friends because of you. She trained hard with blood spilled every day because of you. I'm here because of you. All of it because of your lack of tolerance" she added with stabbing glare.

"I… don't know what you're talking about"

"Her realization about your feelings for Kyoko had awakened me! I exist as her shield. If your existence is the source of her suffering…" he backed away as she stretched her hand towards him. "Then, I'll erase that existence" her wide-opened hand started to charge a flame, like his X burner. Instead of preventing her, he ran to get the dagger and by then, she blasted it off. The smoke from her blasted flame wasn't easy to disappear, so she went inside the smoke to make sure of his dead body, but much to her surprise, it was empty.

Suddenly, he appeared right in front of her face while pointing the dagger, but she quickly dodged it and immediately drew out a gun from the holster. However, he already saw that one coming. Before he grabbed her hand and her neck, he threw the small dynamite to his back, thus with the force, they hurtled like rocket towards the tree and due to her position, Haru got smashed into the tree. He pinned her to that tree, but when he was going to use the dagger, a hesitation in his eyes was seen. Now, he wasn't even sure whether to kill her.

Do it

His vision was suddenly disturbed by a female voice on his mind and a face of someone similar to Haru appeared. As his vision came back, Haru was going to attack him, but he dodged on time. Again, he got a glimpse of an event, but this time, he felt familiar of the rain that washed the earth along with that bloody memory; the entire event 2 years ago, as if he was experiencing the unforgettable incident again, but with a different body.

At that memory of a past, he saw himself already lay on ground on his back. However, instead of finishing him off, Haru dropped her weapon and approached his body. The Tsuna 2 years ago wasn't able to do much. He lost a lot of blood and his eyes were losing sign of life. After a brief stare, she kneeled and held his hand. As she held his hand, his body emitted orange glow and his wound started to close itself, leaving just a scar.

"Let's go, Haru" the current Tsuna immediately looked at the man who just spoke, it was Vel. Before she stood up, she put a dagger on his hand, "…Save me"

Tsuna was taken aback seeing the whole event, and when Haru walked away from him, before she completely left him, she gave her last mirthless stare towards him.

His vision without warning returned to his own time, however with a different sight, as he was the one who leaned on the tree and Haru pointed the gun at him. But this time, the resolution on his eyes returned. To her surprise, he put his hand to the gun to blast X burner, and when she dodged it, he snatched her sword, putting it to the back of her neck while his other hand pointed the dagger to her heart. "Haru, if you can hear me, please respond"

Gradually, her one eye turned brown along with tears that came out from that one eye. With her last voice, she whispered to his ear, "Free me"

He dropped the sword so that their eyes could meet each other. He embraced her for the last time, "…I'm sorry"

And then with that, he finally stabbed her. Her scent, mingled with the snow that was tainted with her blood, choking his breath. With smile of relief and tears, she whispered "Thank you"

He might stop his death and his friends'; however, it was replaced by the death of Haru, and to him, it wasn't worth it. He embraced her body as he fell on his knees.

The snow that fell on earth represented none other than pure sadness for Tsuna. As the snow knew no stop for falling and made white the soil, he leaned against an unscathed tree with Haru's body on his lap. She died by his hand, she died leaving him and her friends. He wished he could feel her pain all this time, because that was the only thing he couldn't do for her. And as he caressed her Mare ring, he could feel her pain. The ring as though answered his prayer. The snow fell along with his warm tears for feeling her pain.

Having felt her true feelings made him realized something. She didn't deserve to die without having to feel those pains.

"I love you, Haru" he whispered as he looked at her and cupped her cheek to begin a technique that Reborn never approved of. Orange flame gradually appeared surrounding them, just like when Yuni gave her life flame. This time, it was his turn to give his flame to Haru. He smiled at her face as the process of giving away his flame continued.

"Be happy for me, okay?"

~#~

Haru's black hair returned to brown and when she opened her eyes slowly, both were brown. But this time when she woke up, he wasn't there. She was surprised to be alive, but she was more surprised when she realized she was on Tsuna's lap, and so she rose up. She looked at him, but he wasn't moving.

"Tsuna…-san?" with trembling hand and pale face, she gently cupped his cheek; his body was cold and his eyes were shut. "Tsuna-san, answer me! Tsuna-san!" she kept calling his name, but he didn't budge or flinch. Her face turned paler over the fear of knowing that he… died.

Afterwards, Reborn, Gokudera, and Yamamoto came to the scene, however only to see Haru lowered her head in front of Tsuna. Seeing Haru was okay, Gokudera and Yamamoto were going to draw out their weapon. "Stop", Reborn ordered and they withdrew their weapons.

"Haru, is that you?" Reborn questioned.

"Tsuna-san is…" as tears fell from her lowered head and shadowed face, they immediately knew what she was trying to say. "T-This has to be a joke. He can't be…" Gokudera fell on his knees over the shock. Yamamoto's face was also turned pale and Reborn's face couldn't be seen for his fedora hat concealed his true expression.

Haru's POV

It's been a day since his death. Today, everyone's at his funeral. They're mourning for his loss, crying. Gokudera-san is screaming for him to come back and blame himself for his death. This is supposed to be the day where you move on your life without me and yet, you did this to everyone.

Now, I think my tears have gone since the time I realize you died in my touch. I'm just looking down at your tombstone and watches everyone's sorrow. You took the burden… which it's should've been me. I'm the one who should be buried under that soil, and yet…

Why…?

Why did you recklessly end your life?

Why did you abandon everyone who loves you?

You have so many precious things to protect and worth living.

You're the reason why I become strong, you're the one I want to protect.

What's the point of those sacrifices and cruel training… what's the point of becoming strong… when I can't even protect the reason, you?

Tsuna-san, I hope I'm wrong, but ever since your death, somehow I come to realize something.

This is just the beginning of the end

I'm not good with fighting scene, so I'm sorry if it turned out bad.

This fic may not be one of the best Tsuharu stories, but thank you for the support! And I'm really happy that you took your time to review and read this story. I'll try to upload the sequel sooner.

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