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Chapter 7 – Let's Play A Game!

"Madeline, no, Lacie. Lacie, wake up." I hear a familiar voice. I crack open one eye to see Bermuda.

"Good, you're awake!" He exclaimed. "We will soon begin the training…" I open my mouth to say something but I can't seem to say anything because my stomach growls.

"Let's get you something to eat then," Jagger appears out of no where and hands me a bag of food. Which I eat slowly with out saying anything, I hear Jagger and Bermuda whispering from where they stand. "Is she really okay? She hasn't said a single word…"

"She hasn't talked for years, of course she hasn't said anything." I turn to face them and hold out the empty boxes of food. "But you were eating so slow…" I shrug and throw away the trash.

"You know, for the past nine years, Vongola had conducted a search for you and they still are." Bermuda says and I snap my head towards them in shock. My face clearly asked 'How do they even know I'm alive?'

"Because Fran, your brother, said that he could sense that you were still alive." I nod in understanding.

Fran…(Somewhere in Varia HQ Fran snaps his head up looking around. He swore he just heard a unrecognizable yet familiar voice.)

"Well shall we start the training? We still have half a year to actually release you and until your birthday…" I nod again and look at my clothes and sigh. I look up at Jagger and point to my soaking dress.

"Right, here you are." He hands me Vindice Uniform except girly. Wait… if my birthday is half a year, give or take, then I'm fifteen. I'm a teenager. Sweet.

I walk to the bathroom and lock the door. Taking off the old dress and slipping on some under garments(don't ask) and I slip on a pitch black mini skirt slightly ripped and torn with holes(which makes it look pretty cool). I start wrapping white bandages from my waist and up and stop right in the middle on my neck. I use next roll for my arms then my legs/feet, then I slip on some black combat boots. Next I'm guessing is for my head but I have no clue how to do that. I drape the long cloak over my shoulders and let it cover my body. I look in the body mirror which I guess is for me and notice that my facial expression looks more mature, I'm taller, have boobs(guess I should have noticed that when I was wrapping the bandages…) and my hair now reaches about to my knees. Whoa. That is long…

I open the door with the extra bandages and hold them up to Jagger.

"What is it?"

"I need help putting these on…" With the same, but mature, monotone voice I had years ago.

"Ah, right. Your hair did grow exceedingly long, do you want to keep it like that?" Jagger asks and I just nod. He helps wrap the bandages around my face(or head… whatever) and it's like seeing a whole new world.

I can't see.

"How am I supposed to see?"

"You sense where everything is. That is why we woke you up half a year early, to train you."

"I see." Something is set on my head. "What is that."

"Your Vindice Hat. You really look like one of us now."

"Wait, can I have some chains?"

"Right, those. Cloak, off." And so I take off the cloak and then I feel people surround me and feel some weight be added to around my torso but the one around my neck is the one that made me feel at home.

"What's the one around my neck? It feels more like a collar than a chain."

"It's a badge, the sign of Vindice, it's more for you so that you don't forget it. And it's more…. 'girly.'" I smile and nod. I feel the cloak being draped around me again.

"So, we'll begin with teaching you how to see without actually seeing."

And so that's how it was, after about eight weeks I officially could sense every little speck of dust around me without having to take off these bandages.

It took about another twelve weeks to master the Night Flame(which is really hard to do) and we also found out that I have more flames in my body. I have Sky(Don't know why, am I really that pure? Aha, I think not), Storm, Rain, Lightning, Cloud, Mist, Sun. Jagger and Bermuda believe that I have flames of the Earth as well but I believe that I don't.

So Jagger and Bermuda gave me the last two weeks just for missions to pick up people and bring them back to Vendicare. Oh, did I mention I learned how to use chains too? It's actually quite easy.

"Well, there is still a a days until you turn sixteen, so how about you make your big appearance by, oh I don't know, sparring with Tsuna, Xanxus or" he smirks "Hibari Kyoya."

"NO." I snap. "Anyone but Hibari-sama…"

"I see, well, Sawada Tsunayoshi is having a meeting about your search on your birthday and also a party for Fran and we were think you can spar with some guardians there. They are also inviting the Simon Family so beware."

"I have no say in this, right?"

"None what-so-ever."

"And I'm guessing they have to rip off the bandages to find out it's me, correct?"

"Precisely."

"When is this meeting?"

"Right now."

"WHAT?" Then Bermuda was gone and I was going through a short-warp portal and now I'm appear in the middle of a meeting.

Total Déjà Vu…

Everyone stands up abruptly at my sudden appearance. The good thing is that I landed on my feet and not my butt. That would have been embarrassing…

"Why are you here, Vindice? Your not like the rest, I thought you are to be guarding the-" Tsuna began but I cut him off by bowing.

"I am a new member, and also different from the rest of Vindice." I say using a deeper voice so that I sound like a boy.

"I see, what is your business here." I feel him relax as does everyone else but I can feel that they still have their guards up.

"Please relax. I am not an enemy unless you choose me to be. I am only here to wish Fran over there," I short-warp next to Fran, "a Happy-early-Birthday and a present of course." I feel everyone tense, even Fran next to me."

"May we know your name?" Tsuna smiles and sits down. Everyone follows but I can feel the stares.

"No."

"Jyuudaime asked for your name, so spit it out!" Gokudera hisses at me. I jump on the table and crouch in front of him.

"I can kill you at any moment so you really don't want to pick a fight with me Gokudera Hayato-san. Then I realized something and stood up then walk over to Mukuro and kneel in front of him.

"Can I help you?" I can feel the venom in the sentence. I reach out, everybody puts their guards up, and start playing with his hair. I was completely oblivious to the fact that my cloak had opened up in the process. "Wait, you're a girl?" I freeze.

"Oops~" I stand up and twirl around to face all of them.

"Wait, that's a girl?!" Tsuna stands up and walks over to me. "How do we know if you're really with Vindice and not just a spy?"

"Here," I point to the collar around my throat. "That's the symbol of Vindice, so there's all the proof you need." I check the time, almost time. "So what were you guys about to talk about?"

"That is none of your business," Fran spat coldly. Wow, harsh much?

"I was just asking, doesn't mean I don't already know," I lean against the wall. "You're still looking for her, Lacie, your sister. After this meeting is your birthday party, correct?"

"…Correct."

"Well, I was only going to say that our investigators have found something on Lacie-chan." Tsuna begins, everybody leans in even me. "Mukuro and Fran being the one's who last saw her, they say that she was taken in Vendicare but there are no files on her being there at all. In fact, there are no files about her in the whole world. No birth certificates or anything."

"That's just not possible." Hibari stated.

"Hmm, but couldn't the files have been burned or erased?" I offered.

"You...you must know something about it." Gokudera said.

"I may or may not. I don't know, I have bad memory." I heard a snap… I think that was a nerve.

"VVVOOOOIII! THAT'S IT, YOU REMIND ME TOO MUCH OF THIS DAMN FROG. DO YOU OR DO YOU NOT KNOW ABOUT HIS FUCKING SISTER?!"

The door opens and everybody looks to see…. ENMA-CHU!

"Sorry we're late…" He said quietly.

"Ah, Enma-kun, please sit down. We're having a little… chat at the moment." The Simon Family come in and sit down. Everyone is here.

"This is my present for Fran~" I say cheerfully while everyone sweatdrops. "All of you will choose one person to fight me and if they beat me, I'll tell you what I know. But if I win then…Mukuro must go back to Vendicare with me~"

"What! No way!" Chrome stood up worriedly.

"Want to play my game?" I ask.

"I've heard of you, trash," Xanxus speaks up, we all turn to him. "You ask your 'prey' to play a 'game' with you. It's more of a bet though, if they lose you drag them to Vendicare or kill them, according to the job you were given, if you lose you let them go, not once have you lost but challenging Vongola was a big mistake."

"Oh, but this is a present~" I correct him. "Will you play or not?"

"We'll play." Tsuna declares. "When is this battle?"

"After you choose your play—I mean fighter."

"Understood, who will fight?" They all turn to him and all say,

"You're the Boss, you do it." He sighs and I clap.

"Tsunayoshi-kun, I guess we're battling! How exciting!"

"This is a fight I am not willing to lose. Follow me." Everyone stands and I just follow along at the complete back. Fran keeps glancing back at me suspiciously.

Everybody enters a room that is just completely huge. For fighting I'm guessing. All the guardians stand to the side and lean on a wall or sit down. I walk down to the middle of the room like Tsuna and feel nervous. I already know he's going to beat me—no one needs to tell me to not know.

"When does it begin?" Tsuna asks already in HDWM. I smile and slowly take off my cloak. Folding it neatly and short-warping to Chrome. Everyone flinches(Except for Hibari, he's too cool to flinch) and I can feel Mukuro's intent to kill if I touch her.

"Chrome-chan, can you please hold on to this for me?" I ask nervously but don't show it. She nods slowly and I set it down next to her before short-warping back to my spot. "The match… starts… Now~"

CLIFFHANGER~

If you guys are wondering, the chains around her torso are basically supposed to be like Jagger's.

Review Responses:

ReaderWorm101 – Well here ya go! I had to type this up after 4 hours of walking and I am dead tired. So be lucky I updated today ;P

Clocked002 – Thanks! That means a lot! :3 And Imma leave a hint for the next chapter…: The bandages slowly start to slide off starting from my chin. Tsuna's grip around my throat tightens and the lack of air brings tears to my eyes. When the bandages have slid of to the point of where you can only see my mouth. I can see everyone flinch, yes even Hibari, flinch as they see me smiling at what is happening.

…There ya go. A hint for everyone. Gosh, I'm too nice sometimes =.=U

zero-amu – Not really 'kidnapped' but temporarily imprisoned and now released. XD

Soul Vrazy – *cue maniacal laugh* *serious* No.

Well, I'll probably update tomorrow. It all depends. Well, my bishies(Yup, I called you bishies. I like the word. Deal with it), I am off to sleep….

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Screw it, Imma just start writing the next chapter. Ttyl, maybe?

Bye-Bi~

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