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Summary: She disappeared from their sight the day after they graduated High School. Five years later, she appeared at one of the Vongola Function Parties as the Boss of the Rose Noire Family. Was she still the Haru that they knew? TsunaxHaru
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Haru leaped left and right as she defended herself from Andre's attacks. She immediately gave a reverse kick towards Andre, who reversed her with a punch. They separated for awhile before lunging towards each other, giving an attack that had done tremendous damage to the other side.
"You have improved, Haru." Andre said as his blond hair glistened under the sunlight, while Haru simply said nothing. She had to get this done. She glared at Andre who seemed to have been so glad about his encounter with Haru that he was grinning madly and maniacally.
Yet, for some reason, she remembered yesterday's events after she had told them of what Andre had done towards the famille that she had to banish him from the Rose Noire Famiglia.
The Conference Room 2 had become filled with silence upon what Haru had just said. Did she just say what they thought she really said? Violetta cleared her throat to make the others turn their attentions towards her. She didn't look shocked or surprised; She was one of the few people who knew the truth from the start.
"As such, I do hope that you understand why Haru-san truly has to defeat Andre. It is unfortunate that in this battle, we cannot afford to make a compromise with them. They have done too much damage." Vio declared as Haru said nothing else. Vio had exactly said the words that she wanted to tell everybody.
"We have no qualms about it." Tsuna said as the Vongola Guardians nodded to what he said. Losing one's mother to an enemy was surely painful, Tsuna was sure about that. If ever his mother were to die in the hands of his enemy, no one could probably stop him from avenging his mother's death.
"I believe that he is lucky that you simply banished him from the famille." Rico said, gritting in anger. He knew about how Andre had supposedly betray the famille, but not to the point of the death of the neuvième and the previous generation of Rose Noire Guardians. He swallowed as he closed his eyes. No wonder the four caporegime were furious about him.
"Well then, shall we discuss about the one-on-one fight? I believe we should discuss about that." Haru said as the others nodded, not wanting to think much about it. They shouldn't lose themselves throughout the whole ordeal. If ever they lose their cool, they will immediately lose the game.
Haru was able to block a punch directed to her by Andre, nearly a second late as she opened her eyes. What was she doing, trying to reminisce yesterday's events when she was in a middle of a fight? Was she trying to get herself killed? She shook her head as she directed a kick on Andre's abdomen.
"You seem to be so out of it, Haru? Is it perhaps because you remember the feelings you had for me?" Andre said, giving a sneaky grin at the last part, while Haru delivered another kick towards his face
"Stop with the disgusting talk, Andre. Any emotion and feeling I had for you is gone now. Well, if ever I had such feelings." Haru retaliated as Andre glared at her and punched her once again.
"Changement de l'elemente, des gants vides!" Haru cried out loud as light had surrounded her, transforming the evening gloves she had on to the legendary Void Gloves that the Boss of the Rose Noire Famiglia had always kept.
"So, that would be the element weapon I would be earning later." Andre said as he gave a smirk over Haru, who rolled her eyes.
"Let's see about that." She cried as she directed an attack towards Andre, knowing that whatever attack she is using now might help her in defeating Andre. She simply had to defeat him. She had to win over him. The fact that he had done so much to a lot of people is definitely dreadful. Plus, she couldn't afford to lose. She had so much to tell Kyoko and Tsuna.
Haru sat back on her chair as she had dismissed the meeting. She couldn't believe it. It was finally tomorrow. How quick things had progressed already. How fast time has passed by. She could still remember when she was still in Namimori, playing with Lambo and I-Pin, while eating take-out cake with Kyoko, as they watched the antics done by Tsuna, Gokudera and Yamamoto.
She smiled sadly as she sighed. How unfortunate that she couldn't go back to such times. Back when everything was so peaceful. She grimaced. Then again, it wasn't really peaceful since Tsuna was the Vongola Decimo. She shook her head, while a smile graced her lips. Either way, she was going to be connected to the mafia.
"It's nice that you tied your hair like before." She turned around and saw Kyoko, whose hair was let down in contrast to hers. Haru smiled and nodded.
"Well, I could use a change in my hairstyle. I figured that I was always comfortable putting it up than having it down." Haru replied as Kyoko stood behind her, leaning towards Haru's chair.
"It's funny how the Dixième still has feelings for the Decimo." Kyoko murmured as Haru turned to her, an eyebrow raised.
"What are you talking about?" Haru asked the former pixie-haired lass, whose hair had reached her chest. Well, that was surely a physical change on Kyoko.
"Haru, you know what I'm referring to. I doubt that you've become the Dixième with such obliviousness." Kyoko gave a grin at the last part while Haru rolled her eyes. Well, probably it isn't just her physical appearance that has somehow changed. Well, she dropped the honorific, but it was just fine, nevertheless.
"Your tongue's become sharper now, Kyoko." Haru replied, dropping off the honorific as Kyoko chuckled. It wasn't that high pitch tone already, but it was still a chuckle of amusement.
"Years in the mafia did that to me."
Haru grimaced. "I can just imagine your older brother frantic about it."
"Well, they obviously did. Even Tsuna-kun did." Kyoko said, giving another amused chuckle, "Ah. A habit. Don't mind it. We're practically like siblings nowadays, but don't change the subject, Haru." Well, it would seem that Kyoko got her.
"What makes you think so?" Haru asked with a suspicious innocent-looking pair of eyes looking at Kyoko, which earned Kyoko's snort.
"Oh, please. I've become your best friend for years. Besides, it simply takes two and two together to figure out that you supposedly fell for Andre because he apparently looks like Tsuna if you manage to color his hair to brown and change the color of his eyes."
"Well, I can't hide anything from you, eh?" Haru said, giving up already. She raised her hands in emphasis as Kyoko just chuckled, amused by her victory over Haru.
"You have to tell him." Kyoko said as Haru's eyes widened, "Even if they said that I was the only one ruined from your disappearance, he was affected a lot, too, you know. Imagine how worried he was of you that he was one step away from asking the Nono to find you." She noticed Haru's reaction, "You don't believe me? Well, ask the Decimo himself!"
"I get your point, but I mean, it's just too complicated." Haru said as she gave a sigh while Kyoko patted her head, still leaning on Haru's chair from the back.
"Sometimes, we, humans, have the tendency to complicate things and look for complicated solutions when, in fact, the answer to all our problems is just simple. Think Occam's Razor." Kyoko said, giving a wink at the last part while Haru just shook her head. "Besides, you owe us an explanation." She added as Haru just nodded.
Well, it seemed Haru truly had to give her best shot in winning the battle tomorrow. Otherwise, she might have not the chance to return everything to the way they were before. She smiled as she sat back on her chair.
"What if I told you that your Guardians are going to be attacked by my Guardians?" Andre asked as he give a smirk over Haru, who raised an eyebrow.
"And so?"
"There's a traitor in your Famille, Haru." Andre said as he had a twinkle in his eye. Haru's eyes widened. It was fine that the Martinio Guardians were going to fight off the Rose Noire Guardians, but if there was a traitor in the Rose Noire, it was a different matter.
"I bet you never expected us, eh?" The remaining Martinio Famiglia Guardians snickered as they towered over the Rose Noire Guardians, who were fending them off with the Element Weapons they had on their hands. For some reason, they were having a hard time since one of the enemy's abilities seemed to be reopening wounds that were inflicted to them for the past twenty-four hours.
In other words, Rico, Antoinette and Vio were proved to be wounded and crippled all over the floor, leaving K and Li-Chen fending off the enemy mafia Famiglia.
"K, are you good over there?" Li-Chen asked as she tried to fend off the Martinio Guardians with her Wind Fan. She delivered a finishing blow towards Marie, who had lost her consciousness as soon as she got hit by Li-Chen's attack.
"No problems over here. I'm doing fine, Li-Chen. Concentrate on having to send Rico, Antoinette and Vio back inside." K said as he threw one of his Metal Daggers towards another enemy's chest.
"Yes, sir!" Li-Chen answered as she threw Antoinette and Vio on her back, while she dragged Rico towards the entrance of the mansion. It was fortunate that her prior trainings of excessive weight-lifting had paid off this time, she grimaced upon remembering. She had arrived to the Mansion when she had seen a familiar face ahead.
"Li-Chen! Are you okay? What happened?" Sachiko asked as she gave a graceful smile towards Li-Chen, while Li-Chen just smiled in return. Li-Chen found Sachiko a really nice person, though she could be loud at times whenever she would bicker with Rico.
"We were apparently unaware of the enemy's abilities. However, I think we're good now. K is in the battlefield right now, as well as Haru-san. I ought to return then." Li-Chen said as she scratched her head and then turned around. She had to leave already as soon as possible.
"Changement de l'elemente:Fouet du le bois." A sound of a whip was heard as Li-Chen turned around to see Rico's Element Weapon, the Wood Whip, activated and lashed towards Sachiko who had a knife on her hand. Sachiko had released the knife as a result, while Li-Chen widened her eyes, trying to process what was happening at the moment.
"Were you trying to kill me?" Li-Chen asked as her eyes widened in surprise while Sachiko turned away from Rico's disapproving glare towards her.
"I am not a fool to not know who are truly part of my men, Andre." Haru said as she gave a simple smirk towards Andre. She knew what was bound to happen. She knew where her secretary's loyalty lied. "From the moment when I had employed her, I knew of what was bound to happen."
"Oh my, and yet you employed her?" He asked while Haru simply nodded.
"Perhaps, I was too hopeful for her to turn her towards me." She replied in return, "Nevertheless, I had always suspected when she turned in to give me a flyer that said that I needed a secretary or rather, Rose Noire does."
"Well, the famille always had a secretary." Andre said as Haru nodded.
"However, they never took a secretary from the outside. The famille secretary was always the heir of the famille. The reason why you never found out about it was because whenever I would be in family meetings, I would disguise myself." She would have added that she actually enjoyed disguising herself since it was a chance for her to try out costumes and other disguise equipment that she never knew existed prior to that. However, that was already unnecessary.
"I see. I have underestimated you once again. But, don't worry, Haru. I'll end everything right now." Andre said as he lashed out towards Haru once again. However, to his dismay, Haru was able to successfully dodge all the lashes he had been throwing towards her. "I will have to use it then, eh?" He remarked as he took out a spear-like weapon and raised it to the heavens.
"Je soulève ce lance dans le ciel. Je soulève cette lance sacrificielle pour honorer les dieux. J'espère que pour résoudre ce problème avant moi. J'offre mes gardiens pour apaiser la faim et la soif des dieux. Venez devant moi un pouvoir illimité qui me seront utiles. Oh, un pouvoir illimité qui a sorti des dieux, venez me remplir comme je l'ai sacrifier les gardiens que j'ai avec moi."
"What's happening?" K asked as their opponents had suddenly disappeared before them, while the skies had darkened above them. There was no sign of a storm coming, though, but for some odd reason, there were dark skies and heavy clouds coming their way.
"Is this some kind of dark and bad omen?" Li-Chen said as she widened her eyes, while looking back to her fellow Guardians who said nothing.
"Well, our opponents disappeared..." Antoinette replied, "I don't think this is quite bad." She chuckled as they looked up to the sky.
"Look! There's a ray of light at the place where Haru-san is currently fighting with Andre!" Rico pointed out as they bit their lower lips.
"Let Haru-san win this please." Violetta pleaded to the heavens as she closed her eyes.
A/N:YEEEEEEEEEEES! I have finally updated again. :) I apologize for the long wait. Well, college happened. :)) Thank you to those who placed this under their Favorite Story and Story Alert! :D
Yuki Chronos: Don't worry. I updated already. *wink* *wink* Hmmm. Is Haru still in love with Tsuna? I'm not sure, but perhaps, yes, perhaps, no. AHAHAH :))) Just stay tuned to Black Rose ;)
novella12nite: Yup. They got engaged. If you were to ask me, Andre is basically Tsuna, except power-hungry and rude. :) So, yes, he was a nice fellow, but was just too greedy and well, basically what the Guardians said against the man.
Spirit kagome: Hmmm. I'm afraid you won't know see their reactions yet. Probably, next chapter?
Dream-Eating Monochrome: THANK YOU. :DDDD
TRANSLATIONS:
"Je soulève ce lance dans le ciel. Je soulève cette lance sacrificielle pour honorer les dieux. J'espère que pour résoudre ce problème avant moi. J'offre mes gardiens pour apaiser la faim et la soif des dieux. Venez devant moi un pouvoir illimité qui me seront utiles. Oh, un pouvoir illimité qui a sorti des dieux, venez me remplir comme je l'ai sacrifier les gardiens que j'ai avec moi." - I raise this spear into heavens. I raise this sacrificial spear to honor the gods. I hope to resolve this problem before me. I offer my Guardians to appease the hunger and thirst of the gods. Come before me unlimited power that will help me. Oh, unlimited power that has come forth from the gods, come and fill me as I sacrifice the Guardians that I have with me.
Changement de l'elemente:Fouet du le bois - Change Element - Wood Whip
famille - family