A 1 x 1 roleplay with The Basic Nerd and myself so no posting here.

 

A Katekyo Hitman Reborn based roleplay. 

It's been years after Vongola Decimo's adventures and his rising to become the new boss of the most powerful mafia famiglia in all of Italy. Now that time has passed and it's time for the rise of a new boss to take Sawada Tsunayoshi's place.  A new adventure begins for this rising boss candidate and his future guardians. 

 

Junko:

 

 

Sky Guardian (Future 11th Boss of the Vongola Famigilia)

 

 

 

Name: Claude Sato

Age: 16

Gender: Male

Nationality: French/ Japanese

Personality: Claude is a shy type of guy. As of now, he doesn't really interact with people in general except for his family members. School wise, he's an average student (high Cs and low Bs). Due to not interacting with people, he doesn't exactly know how to act around them, per say how to hold a casual conversation without screwing something up. When he's nervous, he starts to stutter from time to time. He's usually forgotten in class, classmates hardly ever notice he's there.  

Backstory: Not really much of a backstory. He as just an average kid as he grew up. He always had a problem with interacting with people but his parents never really did anything to fix that, or at least improve his social skills. Dad works with a secret service type of cooperation in Italy so he's rarely home. Mom just recently got a job as a nurse at a local clinic as well. Claude's older sister disappeared a year ago and hasn't been found since (i have a twist for her soon) so he usually has the house alone to himself. 

Appearance: Claude is a shorty (shorties are cuties) standing at 5'3 has a normal body structure. He has dirty dark chocolate brown hair that is short and a bit spiky. His eyes are grey but, of course, turns orange yellow when in hyper drive. Clothes wise, it may vary so for now he's wearing a blue polo shirt, black jean pants and white sneakers. 

Weapon: two pistols

 

 

 

Cloud Guardian

 

 

Name: Alphonse Cevasco (or just Al if you're gonna be lazy about it~)

Age: 17

Gender: Male

Nationality: Italian

Personality: Alphonse is a calm collected and level headed guy. He's a very hard person to read. Alphonse can usually hold a straight face in almost any situation, or he'll fake an emotion. It's rare for him to break out of that state, maybe because he avoids any heavily emotional topics relating back to his past. School wise, a pretty good student. 

Backstory: Although he comes off as a very cool guy, to the point where he's stalked by girls at school occasionally, Alphonse had a pretty hard past. His father died when he was five years old. Their house was broken into in the middle of the night by two men that were apparently wanted for a while now. Alphonse's father died protecting him, receiving a blow to the head by an axe one of the men were carrying, dying instantaneously. Alphonse's mother was left to raise him on her own, which was pretty tough for her so Alphonse made sure that he wasn't a problematic child, comforting her when she would remember that terrible night, or trying not to act like a spoiled brat, etc. Sometimes that traumatizing night would just come back to him and haunt him. A few years after that incident, they moved to Japan. He still lives with his mother now. He's bilingual and knows a few more languages besides japanese and italian 

Appearance: 

 

 

Weapon: Two long black daggers

 

 

 

 

 

Lightning Guardian

 

 

Name: Junpei Onnea

Age: 16

Gender: Male

Nationality: American

Personality: Junpei is a more carefree and lax person. He can sometimes be too loud an obnoxious with anyone but it's just something he can't help. As much of a joker Junpei can be, there are very very rare moments that he can become serious. He doesn't really care much about school, which is kinda why he's failing....

Backstory: Junpei was always a carefree spirit but he's mostly like that for his younger sister. He never liked seeing her sad, especially since an accident happened that left her crippled, so he would always keep up his joyful mood to make her happy, even if he was in a bad mood himself. During his younger years, he was a better student and was offered to study abroad in Japan. His parents didn't want him to miss such an opportunity so they made him go. At the airport, his sister was crying since he was going to go alone, but he promised that he'll be back which at least made her feel better. Ever since Junpei arrived a year ago, he was having somewhat of a hard time adapting to japanese culture since he didn't exactly learn the language fully before coming (due to his laziness). He hasn't been taking his studies seriously recently and is considering to go back to America soon. 

Appearance:

 

 

Weapon: the manipulation of iron sand in the enviromnet to use as a weapon, although he's not as strong with this ability now since his powers are still developing.

 

 

 

 

Mist Guardian

 

 

Name: Usami Inoue 

Age: 15

Gender: Female

Nationality: Japanese

Personality: A timid soul. Usami is heavily anti social now and tends to stay away from people period since she came to the conclusion that nobody can legitimately take her serious with anything. Even though she's soft spoken by nature, she's not afraid to put her two cents into things if she feels the need that she has to. Years of being treated helpless sometimes places her in the state that she can't do anything.

Backstory: Usami was always considered a strange child. People could never understand her. Ever since she was 5, she's been claiming that she's been seeing things. Just figures out of nowhere, some that were peaceful and some that were just scary and tormenting. Her parents has taken her to many psychologists, none of them being of any help so they soon gave up on her. In school, she would also see things but kids would claim she was being stupid and creepy, and even bully her for it sometimes. When she was 12, something happened to her eyes. They became all foggy and hazy, the look of a blind person. Her parents panicked and took her to a hospital. The doctor claimed that she was blind but she cold see perfectly, it just that they wouldn't believe her because her results from multiple tests says otherwise. She would have a hard time dealing with this at school because people would pull the pity card on her, thinking that she was too helpless being 'blind' even though she still had her vision. Her eyes appearing as if she was blind is the result of her powers starting to awaken.  

Appearance:

 

For clothes, just a simple school uniform for now. I'll describe it more in the RP when the time comes 

 

Weapon: a silver grey whip

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Basic Nerd:

Rain Guardian

 

 

Name: Hiro Okazaki

Age: 16

Gender: Male 

Appearance: 

 

Personality: Bubbly and carefree, Hiro is known for always having a smile on his face. He can be somewhat of an airhead when it come to some things but other times, when things gets serious, Hiro becomes a whole different person.

Backstory: Hearing about the legendary Yamamoto Takeshi during his time at Namimori Middle, it triggered Hiro to become a better athlete in general since he was weak before at sports. He tried to follow Yamamoto's footsteps as a baseball player but it's just not working for him. He exceeds in a few other sports at Namimori High but he was still struggling with that one sport. On the other hand, he's gotten into the art of kendo to the point that his father started to take a liking to Hiro's sudden interest in kendo and started to train him himself.  When Hiro finally came out to his dad that he was having a hard time with baseball, his father insisted that he should give up with the sport and focus on kendo but Hiro refused and continued to try to get better at it on his own. 

Weapon:  Katana

Storm Guardian 

 

Name: Takushi Hara

Age: 16

Gender: Male

Appearance:

 

Personality: Takushi is a hot tempered person who is quick to snap or get pissed off at anyone and anything. Although he's short tempered, he also has a bit of a depression side to him but he doesn't like to show that side of him to anyone. Takushi has a whole mix of personality depending on who he's with. 

Short bio: Takushi was kicked out from a Mafia Family in Italy due to an unknown incident.  His parents shunned him but told him that the only way they would accept him as their son again, is to become a Guardian from a powerful Mafia Family, namely the Vongola. Moving to Japan with very little money, Takushi had one goal in mine: become a Guardian for this '11th Boss,' and ditch the Vongola once he was accepted back in his Mafia Family.

Weapon: Double Crossbows that can fold to fit in his backpack. 

 

Sun Guardian

 

Name: Azumi Nagito

Age: 15

Gender: Female

Appearance:

 

Personality: Azumi is pumped about almost everything taking her energy through the roof. She's very stubborn and not so bright when it comes to intelligence but her strength makes up for the gap in her brain. She can also be very violent, taking on anyone she sees fit as an opponent due to her big ego.

Backstory: Azumi got into fighting when she started watching boxing matches on TV. She always admired the boxer's strengths and wanted to become one of them, despite people discouraging her since she was a girl. Now, one of the most strongest and first girl boxer in Namimori, frail people can never catch up with her when it comes to energy. She literally does training everyday and seems to never run out of energy due to her strong fighting spirit. She has come across some thugs around town and has manage to take down ever one that crosses her path, which only ended up raising her ego.

Weapon: leather gloves with small spikes

 

 

 

There was a bright light. In that haze there was a silhouette, although Claude could never tell who that person was. It took the shape of a man, maybe even wearing a hat of some sort, but that was all he could figure out. Then, he would just wake up, left confused about what the hell he saw. It's been like that for a few days now and he was starting to lose sleep from it. Today, it happened yet again. Claude woke up from morning's sunlight shining in his face. Feeling drowsy, he drifted back to sleep only to be awoken by his loud alarm clock. "Alright, alright. I'm getting up." He grumbled as he hit the snooze button and stood out of bed. The house was quiet, his mother probably left early to work again, as usual. Not bothering to just sit there and stare into space, he moved and went to get ready for another day of school. It didn't take him long, well it never did, but he was in uniform within the next ten minutes and heading downstairs. Claude peeked his head into the kitchen to see that same yellow note left on the table whenever she wasn't here. Walking over, he picked up the note that happened to be sitting on a plate of food that seemed to be just made. {Sorry Claude honey. I decided to leave early again. Feel free to help yourself to breakfast} Already being used to this routine already, he set the note aside and went ahead and ate the breakfast she left for him before taking his bag and stepping out the door. On his walk to Namimori High, which wasn't really that far from where he lived, the roads were extra quiet today. There would usually be a lot of people roaming about on a school morning, but nothing. He couldn't have been late, yet again, he hasn't checked the time since he woke up. Claude dragged a hand over his face and sighed. (Great, not only am I tired but I'm possibly late.) He was about to quicken his pace when he felt a presence nearby and turned around. There was nothing. Claude squinted in confusion. (I could have sworn there was somebody there....maybe that man from my dreams.) The boy turned back around and kept on walking. ​"I really must be losing it..."

Edited January 31, 201411 yr by Junko

 As Usami exited the roof to meet up with the group, Kaede frowned, 'So she's not aware what happened back there.' His body and his winged lion began to wear away into mist but before he disappeared his last thought was, 'This battle will be extremely dangerous, not just for her but for me too.' 

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 "You have to be kidding me." Takushi walked over to the fallen Junpei, grabbing his arm and pulled him back up on his legs half-dragging, half-carrying Junpei to Azumi's room.

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 When Takushi and Junpei arrived the others were already there greeting Azumi. "Tasushi, Junpei! You guys! What happened back there, did I win?" Azumi waved them inside as she was hyped on energy as usual. Her left arm was entirely wrapped around in bandages and some band aids covered some part of her face and body. "You don't remember?" Hiro questioned. She tapped her cheek in concentration for any grasp of memory but she shook her head. "All I know was I did Maximum Ingram, my body felt like it was gonna explode then everything else was blurry." Colonello sighed in frustration as he pointed to Azumi's right hand. "Why don't you look at your hand and see for youself?" Confused at what Colonello was trying to say, she did what he said and saw the complete full Vongola Sun Ring gleaming in her ring finger. Staring at it for a few moments Azumi looked at the group. "Wait I don't get it, how will this make me remember?" Colonello facepalmed mumbling something about how this brain dead girl is his student but replied with a simple, "You won," Everyone braced themselves as they could feel the temperature in the room go higher as Azumi gathered up all her spirit and let it out in one loud squeal of joy. "OMGITHOUGHTIFREAKINGLOSTTHATWHICHTHATMEANSWEHAVEANOTHERCHANCE!!!!" Unable to contain her excitement just from her voice, Azumi tackled Claude who was the closest one to her bed bringing him in a tight embrace before giving him a light kiss on the cheek. "I'M SO HAPPY!" Takushi felt rage roaring inside him as he pulled Azumi off of Claude, "Don't you hug 11th like that! You could've ended up choking him!" Azumi folded her arms looking away as she pouted. "Well I didn't so calm down Tasushi!" "Stop calling me that dammit!" They began another heated argument and Hiro stepped up once again trying to calm the both of them down but Takushi seemed to get more frustrated. 'These teens, crazy as hell.' Colonello sighed. 

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 Veronica bit her lip nervously when Elliot mentioned Zeru but the feelings were washed away when he put his hand on her hooded head just how she likes it. "Yea, you can depend on me, I don't know about Oz though he can be abit rebellious at times." Dumping the rest of the food she brought on the table next to his bed, she hugged him gently making sure she doesn't squeeze him too tightly due to his injuries. "Now I have to get ready, there's a channel that the Cervello women told us where you watch the battles." Handing Elliot the piece of paper with the channel number scribbled on it, Veronica took one donut from the bag before she waved goodbye. 

Elliott looked down at the slip of paper she handed to him before looking over to watch the girl leave after she gave him a small embrace. With his usual cheerful grin, Elliott waved goodbye and watched the door close before looking at the window. It was already getting late so soon. It was surprising how much time passes by when you're stuck in bed all day. Elliott let out a sigh before looking at the amount of food left on the table next to the hospital bed. A devilish grin came to his face. Within minutes, he went right away to consuming the food that was there. I have nothing to worry about. Those two will do fine tonight. 

Meanwhile

Claude was completely taken off guard as the pinkette nearly crushed him in her arms, feelings his arms being squeezed tightly. The fact that she still had this much strength left while hospitalized was amazing. "A-A-Azumi-?!" His face began to go red as he felt her lips brush against his cheeks. He soon parted from the girl as Takushi got her off of him. He staggered back a little, feeling more numb than he was when he walked in after his hours of training. Usami couldn't help but giggle at all of this, Reborn even smiling a bit, happy to see that she was okay. While all of this was going on, Alphonse looked over to Junpei, questioning why he was dragged in her by Takushi. Junpei scratched the back of his head, a dry laugh coming out of him as he explained what happened not too long ago. "But forget about me. Look." Junpei said as a finger was pointed too the clock sitting on the wall. It was getting late. "Woah, it's already nighttime?!" Sonya said almost completely shocked and Junpei simply looked over at her with a raised eyebrow. "Well yeah. Today's been a bit quiet in my room all alone." His eyes glanced to the ceiling, a finger brought up to his chin in thought. "Well I was playing poker against some of the nurses here and a cat." "You wh-" "WELL ANYWAYS, yeah what were you guys even up to all day?" he said, quickly changing the topic. Sonya slung an arm over Alphonse's shoulder. "Training for tonight of course." "Yeah. Reborn and I were training as well!" "I was training as well, with Kaede." "Welp, eveyone was apparently busy today while you sat your lazy ass in bed. I'm not surprised." "H-Hey! Did you completely forgot what happened to me a few days ago?!" "If you're able to walk and run your mouth like that, I'd say you're just fine." Junpei was going to agrue some more with the two of them before Reborn cut off the conversation. "Don't really mean to interrupt, but we have to get going. While we were on our way over here, one of the Cerevello women handed me the directions to the place." He looked over to Alphonse and Usami. "Are you two ready?" "Yeah." "Mhmm." "Alright then. Let's get going." "Oh! And the battle is on the same channel as the previous ones have." she handed Azumi the piece of paper for the channel number. "Be sure to get some more rest, Azumi~" Sonya said before she walked out the door, in a surprisingly good mood despite the bad gash Alphonse gave her on her leg. Usami watched as everyone began to file out of the room, one by one. I don't even remember how my training went and Kaede didn't say anything to me. What is something bad happens tonight... There was a slight tap to her head and she looked up to see that it was Alphonse. "No spacing out now. Let's go." "R-right..!" she muttered as she followed behind the other male out the door. Junpei didn't leave with them however and went to go sit down in a chair next to Azumi's bed. "Ugh, I don't think the nurses will let me leave the building so I'll just hang out here to watch the battles. My room's too lonely." Junpei glanced away in disgust. "Besides, that damn feline cheated me out of my money..."  

 Azumi felt a small smirk forming on her lips as she tried her best not to burst out laughing. "You...you lost to a cat? Pffttt.." When she looked like she was about to explode of laughter, there was a gentle knock at the door and Hiro came in. "The nurses caught me trying to leave but Takushi somehow managed to make it out. I think he was depending on me to get the nurse's attention so he could get away." He nervously laughed in embarrasemnt. "So I guess I'll watch the battle with you guys." Azumi pointed at another chair next to Junpei, "Go ahead, we're just talking about Junpei losing to a cat in poker." With a confused look Hiro sat on the chair. "Wait what's poker?" The sun guardian cocked her head. "Isn't it a sport?" The male frowned in concentration. "I never heard of a sport called poker..." 

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 'Ha ha yes!' Takushi thought in excitment as the group got farther and farther away from the hospital. Usually in previous battles Takushi would sneak out the window in order to watch the battle with 11th and the group; however, the nurses confiscated his crossbows which was necessary to climb down the window. So hoping Hiro would get the nurse's attention, Takushi could hide among the group and get out safely. When his plan worked he couldn't help but feel proud of himself. 'Good thing that sport freak is really tall.'  As they continued to walk Colonello, with his hands behind his head talked. "Oi Reborn, where exactly is Usami's battle going to be?" 

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 When Veronica was about to leave the hospital, she heard familar voices and knew it was their oppoments heading toward the place where she is to leave. Running as fast as her legs could move she hid behind the reception desk while she was invisible so the nurses wouldn't give her funny looks. 'Ugh they almost gave me a heart attack!' She felt her legs trembling not wanting to be spotted until the sound of their footsteps grew faint. Crawling out behind the desk she left through the exit where the Riviello group was waiting for her. "Took you long enough, we don't have much time before your match begins!" Raiden whipped around and started heading to their location with the others beginning to follow him. "Hey so what did you do together with Elliot at the hospital?" Oz stared blankly at Veronica who glared at him with an evil eye. "What is that suppose to mean?" After a couple seconds of awkwardness Oz looked away, "Nothing, forget what I just said." 

Junpei narrowed his eyebrows. "Of course it's not a sport! It's a game of some sort. You two are just clueless." The boy crossed his arms and he glanced away, appearing a bit annoyed. "Besides....that animal was cheating somehow. You wouldn't understand because you weren't there. Just turn on the TV before we miss any of the battle." 

Meanwhile

Reborn's eyes narrowed as he continued walking ahead of the group, not bothering to say anything. Within minutes, they were leaving the amusement park portion of Mafia Land and were entering the mountainous and rocky area. Just nearby that area was a wide plain. "Uh...Reborn? Where are we going exactly?" Reborn simply sighed as he stopped walking. "Usami's battle's arena of course. And looks like we're here." Claude cocked his head to the side in utter confusion before Reborn pulled the paper out of his pocket and showed him the directions that lead them here. The boy blinked, still confused before looking back up at Reborn. "So she's going to battle out here? But it's so dark." The only lighting that was available to them was the moonlight in the sky, which happened to be a full moon out so it was shining a whole lot brighter than it would normally be. "Ah, quit whining Claude. It isn't all that bad out. It's actually a bit beautiful tonight." Usami looked around, a bit anxious but also confused. "Where's Riviello?" she slightly muttered and the rest of them looked around to see that they were not in sight. Alphonse squinted to see small figures starting to appear from the distance. "Well would you look at that. Here they come now."    

Meanwhile

"Are they serious battling this far out tonight?" Danet complained as he stuffed the small paper back into his pocket. "Heh. Looks like they were expecting the hooded devil to be a bit too destructive tonight. I really can't blame them, especially considering what happened to Elliott." Danet sighed as he saw Claude group come into view. "Huh, looks like thy already beat us there. How am I not surprised." Seeing Takushi, Lukas couldn't help but slightly raise an eyebrow. He wasn't particularly happy to see the guy he defeated a few days ago but he wasn't outraged either. The same went for Danet, although he slightly glanced away at the sight of Hiro not being there. He didn't feel the need to thank him for what he did. The male was still disgusted by Hiro's act of kindness out of the blue like that. "Let's just get this over with..." he muttered under his breath. "Oi, Veronica. Isn't that girl your opponent tonight?" he asked as he noticed Usami. 

 "Yes sirr," Reading the paper Sonya gave them, Azumi slowly pressed the numbers on the remote as the screen showed the dark battlefield. Hiro frowned, "Tonight's battle seems dark and..normal." 

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 Veronica didn't say anything with her cloak completly covering her face as if she was trying to control herself. Suddenly the two Cervello women appeared out of the darkness and stood in the middle of the field. "Tonight's battle is the mist, will the two opposing guardians step up please." With silence hanging in the air, Veronica and Usami stepped forward until they reached where the Cervello women was. After checking their rings, one of the woman spoke up, "We have confirmed that these are the real Vongola rings. This fight will be just like the other battles, whoever takes their oppoment's other ring and completes it is the winner." The woman gestured at the plain. "Within these plains is the battle arena." Takushi blinked, "Wait that's it? There's nothing crazy that's going to happen?" She shook her head, "No, a battle between mist guardians is always destructive and adding something to the battle will most likey end up getting them both killed." 'Destructive? Do they mean even more than Azumi caused?' The thought gave Takushi a headache. "Now, please step within the metal rectangle." The two women guided each group into seperate spots with metal tectangles nailed onto the ground. After everyone entered inside, red laser like bars surrounded the group along the rim of the rectangle like a cage. Colonello crossed his arms remembering this scene too well from last time. "I'm guessing if we pass those bars the group's mist guardian will be disqualified." The Cervello nodded, "That is correct," Oz stared at the bars intently as his finger slowly almost touched the laser until Raiden slapped his hand away. "Are you a dumbass? Didn't you hear what they just said?!" The Riviello cloud guardian turned to Raiden with a blank expression. "No, what did they say?" He sighed in frustration before pointing at the floor. "Just go to sleep." "Okk," Oz took this opportunity to lie down on his back with his hands behind his head as his eyes closed. 

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 Looking at Usami, Veronica couldn't help but get a feeling to rip her throat out. 'They're the ones to hurt Elliot, it's their fault, they need to pay. If I win then we're free to kill all of them. Including that pink haired girl..' A glowing red eye could be seen through her cloak as anyone could tell she's in a dangerous state. Shadows curled at her legs and body and just when the Cervello announced the start of battle she disappeared into thin air. "I will murder you and throw you down in hell.." The entire plain was covered in complete darkness as the moon too was blocked. 'That does not look good..' Takushi gulped. Suddenly dozens of shadowy figures crawled out of the darkness with their yellow eyes glowing. ((They're Heartless yayyy))

At the sound of the Cerevello women commencing the battle, she couldn't help but keep her eyes on Veronica. Although she couldn't see her face, she could feel that dark aura seeping out of her. It was all a bit too scary but she stood her ground either way. She wasn't going to forfeit or lose this match. But all of a sudden, the girl simply vanished and Usami's eyes widened, becoming more alert. Her hand instinctively went to her whip sitting at her side as she looked around for where Veronica could have went. A dark voice echoed in her head as everything began to go dark. The burnette quickly looked back behind her to see Claude and the rest of her group before they disappeared into darkness as well. The last bits of moonlight was also swallowed up. There she stood, nothing visible within her field of vision. Although she has gotten over her fears of the dark a long time ago, a cold shiver went down her spine as yellow orbs began to appear around her. "What the...." she muttered under her breath as these orbs began to come with small figures, which soon began to lunge at her. Usami unraveled her whip but the small shadows were faster, one digging their teeth into her arms. Usami held back a yelp of pain as she threw the creature off and lashed her whip at it, the creature then disintegrating. More began to lunge at her and again, she cracked her whip down at the creatures. Although after some time has passed, it seemed to be no end to them and her arms were starting to feel numb. Usami stopped moving, disregarding the next swarm of shadows coming at her, and focused her eyes at the ground as the came. From the darkness, molten lava began to crack from the earth as the ground began to shake. Within seconds, lava erupted from the ground, destroying the shadows that stepped on it. Even though it was just an illusion, it was pretty impressive. Usami focused harder and a molten rock shot out from the ground, like a comet, and towards the sky of darkness. She was hoping to hit wherever the dark barrier stopped to bring Veronica out again. Usami bit the bottom of her lip as she grabbed her arm that was bit earlier, which was starting to leak some blood. "Just come out already instead of hiding...." she said as she narrowed her eyebrows. 

Meanwhile

"Oi, did the TV break down or something??" Junpei asked curiously as the screen went black and there was no response. He squinted his eyes and stared harder but only to come up with nothing.

Meanwhile 

Claude only saw a flash of Usami, her eyes filled with confusion and worry, before she disappeared behind the black dome. He was going to reach out to her but Sonya quickly grabbed his wrists and gave his a dark stare since he was foolish enough to try and do that while he was inside of the laser cage. Claude shook her grip off of him and looked back at the huge dome. "Do you think that she'll be alright in there?" Alphonse asked as he stared at the huge thing. "All we can really do is hope whatever is thrown at her in there. She did a lot of intensive training with Kaede today so she should be prepared for this match." Claude slightly glanced down. Being contained in darkness was one of his fears that he never told anyone. Imagining himself in Usami's place simply frightened him. He couldn't help but be a little impressed that she could go through being in there, although he can't say that for sure since none of them could see what was actually going on from the outside. 

Meanwhile

"Oh. So Veronica seems to be going all out on this one." Danet said as he observed the giant black dome the girl has encased Usami in. Lukas simply crossed his hands behind his head as he stared at the battle past the laser cage that they had to wait in. "Seems like it, although it's been a while since she used that on anyone. Oi, Raiden. How long do you think that little girl will last against Veronica?"  

 Raiden scoffed, "Probably a minute, I bet that girl is screaming her head off right now." Oz who's still lied down, turned to the battle curious about what's going on inside. 

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 When the rock flew into the darkness, it continued to fly far far away away until it disappeared from view like it was sailing toward eternal night. "Come out? No, I want to see you in pain, I want to hear your endless scream, I want you to die." The scenery changed and Usami found herself back at the classroom in Namimori High. The classroom was empty and it was quiet expect for Usami's heavy breathing. She entered into the hallway only to see dead bodies scattered on the ground the smell of corspe reaching her nose. The dead bodies were students, but what shocked her even more was she spotted some students she knew, her closest friends. Junpei, Azumi, Alphonse, Hiro, Sonya, Colonello, Reborn, and Takushi all with the same look of shock in their eyes as they lied motionless all covered in blood and scratches. Usami continued down the hall and spotted Claude who was still alive staring at the bodies in grief. When he spotted Usami his face was covered in fear and anger, "How..could you Usami? You killed them! You killed our friends!" He started to back away and sprinted around the corner. Confused Usami went after him but noticed her hands and body stained with blood as she froze staring at it. The voices of her friends' screams echoed in her head however a small muffled voice was heard apart from the screams. "This is one hell of an illusion she's giving you huh?" It was Kaede's voice. "Smell, hearing, touch, and feelings, she perfected most of it. Not bad for a young girl like her,"

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 "Damn it! What's going on in there?!" Takushi felt like he was back in the hospital helplessly watching someone's battle with no voice of encouragement reaching them. Colonello stared calmly at the black shroud still covering the battle field. "Veronica is probably showing all kinds of illusion to Usami, but.." His fists tightened. "I'm sure she'll be fine." 

Usami cringed her nose at the strong scent of blood in the air. As Kaede's voiced echoed in her head along with the screams of her friends, she couldn't remove her eyes from the amount of blood that was suddenly stained on her body. Her whip that sat in her hand was even stained as well. She placed a hand to her face and leaned against the blood stained wall as she tried to remain calm, although it wasn't working much. How am I suppose to get out of this?! The thought angrily back to Kaede as a response. Tears began welling up in her eyes but she tried her best to hold it back. She wasn't going to give Veronica the satisfaction of seeing her about to break down like this. Taking a deep breath, Usami moved off of the wall and tried her beast not to look at the bodies on the floor. "Claude.....gotta look...for Claude." she muttered as remembered that that was the only person alive running around here. As she turned the corner, however, he was nowhere to be seen. The screaming that was going on in her head only got louder, which started forming a headache. Usami's walking slowed as she went down the hallway, stepping over more bodies, before falling onto her knees and clutching her head in both hands. Her arms and legs were shaking. She could feel the blood in her head throbbing harshly. "Just...shut up. ALL OF YOU SHUT UP!" but of course the screaming kept on going.  ι ¢αη нєℓρ уσυ, υѕαмι... At the sound of the voice that stood out from all of the screaming, Usami looked up and saw that everything was dark again. "What the..." she muttered before a pair of bright purple eyes shined in the dark. "W-who are you??" she asked as she stood up and took a step back from the eyes. There was a small chuckle. мє? ωєℓℓ..ι ∂ση'т ραятι¢υℓαяℓу нανє α ηαмє вυт ¢αℓℓ мє ωнαтєνєя уσυ ℓιкє. ι єχιѕт ιη уσυя нєα∂, αℓℓ σƒ уσυя ∂αякєѕт тнσυgнтѕ тнαт уσυ ѕтσяє∂ αωαу ιη тнє вα¢к σƒ уσυя мιη∂ ¢яєαтє∂ мє. Usami stayed silent, the pain in her arm from earlier was still present. αηуωαуѕ, ιт'ѕ яєαℓℓу ѕα∂ тσ ѕєє уσυ ℓσѕιηg ℓιкє тнιѕ. ιт кιη∂α вяєαкѕ му нєαят, ιƒ ι нα∂ σηє. αℓℓ уσυ ηєє∂ ιѕ α ρυѕн. "....A push?" The eyes appeared as if they were grinning in response as dark purple aura began to form around Usami. уєѕ! уєѕ! тнαт ѕнσυℓ∂ ƒιχ єνєяутнιηg! вєѕι∂єѕ, уσυ ωαηт тнιѕ gιяℓ ∂єα∂, яιgнт? ∂єѕтяσує∂? ∂ση'т уσυ нαтє нєя ƒσя тяуιηg тσ ρυт уσυ тняσυgн нєℓℓ? "...Yes....I do." Usami muttered as she stared at the bright eyes that were hovering in the darkness. The purple aura formed into hands and cupped Usami's face. ωнσ кησωѕ? συтѕι∂є σƒ тнιѕ ιℓℓυѕιση, уσυя ƒяιєη∂ѕ ¢συℓ∂ нανє вєєη мυя∂єяє∂ ву нєя. ℓσηg gσηє. αη∂ уσυ вє αℓℓ αℓσηє αgαιη. αη συт¢αѕт. тнє σηℓу ρєσρℓє тнαт υη∂єяѕтσσ∂ уσυ....∂єα∂. Usami's eyes widened at the last statement, tears welling up in her eyes. The purple aura that was surrounding her turned dark as it began to swallow up her body. вє ¢σηѕυмє∂ ву уσυя нαтяє∂, уσυя ∂єѕραιя тσ ѕανє уσυя нαρριηєѕѕ.

Back in the illusion high school, where Usami has been crouched up on the floor motionless for the past few minutes, she opened her eyes that were once brown turned into a dark red shade. Her breathing seemed to calm down as she stood up to her feet. A dark grin ame to her face as she uncoiled her whip again. "....Tsubasa.." as the name escaped her lips, the tiger began to form next to her but in a different appearance. It appeared more wild, the purple stripes on it more sharp and jagged, and its teeth much more sharp and menacing. Usami climbed on its back before clutching her whip tighter, fire starting to flare from the tips. "αн, ι'м тєяяιвℓу ѕσяяу αвσυт тнαт νєяσηι¢α." Usami nearly shouted as she motioned Tsubasa to move forward before destroying the wall illusion of the building with a swing of her whip, her soft tone completely changed to a much darker one. "ℓ̳̹͖̘̳͎͎͓̜̠є͖̦̣̜̫̥̬̫͓̻т̡̢͇̭̮̣͕̜̙͓ ̢̣̫̞͖̠̮̥̬͖т͉̭͍̮̗͓̼̥̱̪н̹͕͇̤̤̫̖̯͓ͅє̤̬̞̩̩̗̠͈̦̪ ̢̯̼̖̰̟͎̮͉͜я̣̫̲͈̮̣̱̣̫͕є̜̯̝̝̝̹͕̞̼̫α̨̞̬̩͚̼͓͉͇̠ℓ̫͈̭̦̟̭̬̰̭ͅ ̠̖̗̦͍̫̯̺͎̻в̧̖̤̜͍̦̼̳͜ͅα̰̣̱͖̬͙͚͚̫̪т̹͍̰̯̫̹̯̲̥͇т͓͚͈̗̦̰̗͍͓͍ℓ͈̙̻̗͙̣̻̬̹͖є̢̢̥̜̻̰̲̱͓͎ ̺̗͕̩̫͈̣̗̙̣в̨̻͚̫͙̙̦͖͈̠є̠̜̖̩͍̰͎͇̘͈g̢̖̺̘̦̟͓̯̼̺ι̩͇̖͙͉̪̠̳̯̤η̨̡̜̩̭̱̳̳͎̳" 

 "Usami, hey snap out of it!" Kaede's voice was filled with panic and concern but he felt something was pulling his presence back until he was completely mute in Usami's head. The illusion broke from Usami's whip and the setting went back into the dark dome, Veronica who was still somewhere hidden looked at this new deadly Usami with confusion. 'What the..what happened to her? She looks like some kind of demon.' She gritted her teeth, 'Doesn't matter, she's just putting on a show.' "Changing your personality and appearance isn't going to help in this battle, besides do you have any sanity to hurt your friends?" 9 figures entered from the shadow all taking the appearance of her friends, what was different however, was they were alive. "Usami! Hey you don't look like yourself." Azumi raised an eyebrow. Takushi stepped in front of Claude protectively. "11th stay back! Usami looks dangerous." "Usami?" Hiro stared at her with worry. Reborn loaded his pistol, "We have no choice, she's not the regular Usami we know. We need to kill her." Sonya bit her lip nervously before taking out her own weapon. Soon her friends were armed with their weapons and charged at her. The only person who wasn't was Claude since Veronica has no clue what his weapon was or he can go into hyper dying will mode. 

Usami didn't hear him, more like she couldn't hear him. Her eyes were focused the figures tat began to rush at her. The same dark smirk stayed on her face as Tsubasa started charging towards them at full speed. "нα! ∂ση'т мαкє мє ℓαυgн!" Usami responded as blade aura began to surround her whip and blades began to stick out of it. The first one that seemed to have rushed at her and made it closer was Takushi. He appeared with full rage as he was about to shoot at her with his crossbows. Although, Usami was surprisingly faster now and swung her whip down on the male, the blades dragging through his chest as he let out a piercing scream. Tsubasa went to jump for Junpei and Alphonse, claws and teeth ready to dig into their skin. Usami noticed that Claude simply stood there and raised her eyebrows. "нυн? ¢ℓαυ∂є ∂єαя, ∂ση'т уσυ ωαηт тσ נσιη уσυя ƒяιєη∂ѕ?" She asked as she clutched on a fist full of Takushi's hair, holding him up by his hair. The boy's body appearing damaged. She slashed her whip again as the others advanced closer towards her. "∂ση'т тєℓℓ мє уσυ'яє gσιηg тσ ѕιт тнєяє αη∂ ℓєт уσυя яιgнт нαη∂ мαη тαкє тнє вєαтιηg ƒσя уσυ." Usami let him go, almost tossing him to the ground before rushing at the others since that one attack wasn't enough to take them down. A while later, the nine people she considered to be close to were laying on the ground, a bloody mess. Deep gashes and cuts all over the bodies. Red eyes gleamed as she looked at Tsubasa ripping an arm off of Sonya after she attempted to shoot at it. More screams just filled the area buut none of it seemed to bother her. The brunette reached up to wipe some blood that was on the side of her mouth with her finger, which was stained as well. "тнєу ∂ση'т мαтєя тσ мє. ι'м ѕтιℓℓ ωαιтιηg ƒσя уσυя αρρєαяαη¢є" Usami has completely lost it. If they weren't  illusion, this could have passed for a full on slaughter. 

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"......Something doesn't feel right.." Claude muttered as he stared at the giant dome. "What do you mean?" "I hear.....screaming coming from in there, a lot of it. And...it's not just from one person either." Sonya crossed her arms and closed her eyes to focus. "Well I don't hear anything. Are you sure you're not imagining things?" Claude simply didn't reply and glanced down, his eyebrows narrowed. Maybe it was all just in his head.

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"It's been a while and neither of them has come out." Junpei said as he finally leaned back in his chair. "Just what is going on in there..." 

 Veronica watched the scene in horror as Usami slaughtered every single of her friends. 'She..completely lost it, is she even human?' She stepped deeper into the darkness out of sight but Usami seemed to sense her presence as she turned to her direction. Before Veronica knew it, Usami swinged her whip into the dark dome and she felt the burning rope wrap around her ankle and with a cry she was pulled out of her hiding spot and the dark illusion finally shattered. Luckly even the illusion of Usami's murdered friends disappeared too before anyone could see it. However that means everyone saw the strange aura radiating from Usami. 

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 "That illusion is gone!" Azumi felt relief and searched the screen for Usami. The camera zoomed in on their mist guardian but the crazy look in her eyes made Azumi blink in confusion. "Is it just me or does Usami look a little..different?"  

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 When Veronica roughly landed on the ground, her hood fell back finally revealing her face. (http://cache.desktopnexus.com/thumbnails/1146295-bigthumbnail.jpg too lazy to put a description). Slowly getting up she looked at Usami, "You've turned insane. Just to beat me?" She smirked as her aura also became more deadly similar to Usami's. "But I won't lose so easily, I'll punish you all for hurting Elliot." Cracks appeared at her feet and antique creepy dolls with pieces of lava on their bodies crawled out like they came from hell. "You have any idea how he's important to me?" Her cloak swayed side to side as the wind started to blow. With tears streaming down her eyes, she let out a shout, "ELLIOT WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO UNDERSTOOD ME!" The antique dolls charged at Usami spitting out flames as everyone watched in horror.  

As the dark dome shattered, Claude looked up and his eyes widened. "U-Usami.....?" he said as he couldn't believe the girl went as bad into this state. "What the hell happened to her while she was in there....!?" "Oi! Usami! Are you okay?!?" Sonya shouted over Claude's head but she didn't seem to say anything in response, or even acknowledge that they were standing nearby for that matter. "....Claude you were right. Something didn't seem right since the dome went up. Maybe her opponent did something to her while they were in there." "If that's the case, then why does she look like she's having a hard time dealing with her?" Alphonse said as he pointed over to Veronica as hot tears streaked down her cheeks. It was actually the first time any of them got a look at her face.
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"Holy shit, the girl lost it...." Junpei breathed as he saw the dark aura swirling around Usami. "Do you think that her opponent had something to do with this?" 
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Elliott watched the battle from his hospital bed, another potato chip sliding into his mouth. "So you finally got your hood knocked off.." he slightly muttered as he looked at the screen. Him along with the rest of Riviello were probably the only people that saw Veronica's face before, although Elliott was the only one that seen it more than once or twice. The others probably forgot how she looked since its been so long since they saw her hoodie off. Elliott's eyes drifted to Usami and his eyes narrowed. The same petite girl that he lent money to for foo before this whole ordeal started....it was like she completely transformed into a monster. Maybe...this is her true colors. At the sound of Veronica's last statement before she launched another attack at Usami, Elliott stared as tears trailed down her cheeks. A small sigh drew out from his lips. And I always will....Don't lose to her Vivi.

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Lukas bilnked in shock as the dome fell apart, revealing the two girls, dark auras surrounding their bodies. Both appearing like demons. It was quite a scary sight. "Damn...it's been so long since I've seen Veronica like this. Or even seen her go all out for that matter...." "Looks like she finally found her equal." "Are you shitting me?! That girl didn't look like that before this fight began. What the hell happened in there?!" "If anything, that can't be Veronica's doing. The girl would have killed herself by then." "So....what is it then?" "I have no idea..."

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As Veronica's face was revealed and she started to yell at her, Usami's expression remained unchanged, really as if she didn't give a damn about what the girl was going through due to the battle between Azumi and Elliot. For a second, she appeared a bit dazed. Her red eyes gleamed as the antique dolls began to rush at her all at one. She moved to step to the side to avoid the but one of the dolls was one step ahead of her and head butted her right in the stomach, the fire spitting from its mouth burning her legs and lower torso. The brunette's body was flung back and skidded across the hard ground, scraping her skin, before her body came to a stop, appearing limp like one of a dolls. Claude could he screaming from afar. Usami lied face down on the ground, motionless. The Cerevello women looked at one another before one of the were about to speak up, believing that Usami was done for, when the ground started to shake. Just as that was happening, the sky began to appear as if it was melting, the white stars starting to disappear and being replaced with red ones. As the ground was quaking, it also began to shift a bit, causing the gravity to almost disappear. Everyone in the air started feeling themselves elevate off of the ground slightly. The cracks that appeared at Veronica's feet opened up wider and a dark purple glow shined from the inside. Out came visible vectors (http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/12/125404/3631924-5712881154-elfen.jpg), about ten of them, and began to grab at Veronica's arms, legs and neck. Usami finally lifted her head up and staggered to her feet. The burns on her body appeared bad but she seemed to ignore it and began to slow walk her way over to Veronica. A small amount of blood from the impact of that attack trickled down her face from her head. Whip was being dragged along the ground, blades shining brightly, ready to strike at her next prey. Tsubasa seemed to have stayed where she was, most likely on command. Usami planned to deal with Veronica on her own. "уσυ нανє ησ ρℓα¢є нєяє ιη тнιѕ ωσяℓ∂" Usami finally spoke, another dark, ghostly voice seemed to be echoing hers as she spoke as she raised her whip. the vectors still restraining Veronica harshly. "∂ιѕαρρєαя"

"Usami...Stop! Please!" Claude was being restrained by Sonya and Alphonse as they were still slightly floating off of the ground. Tears could be seen running down his face. He couldn't stand to watch this any further and tried to pull out his guns to destroy the cage, but that would have only ended up in Usami being disqualified. "Let go of me dammit. LET GO OF ME!" "You idiot, you know we can't do that!" He hung his head, more tears streaming down his face. "But Usami....I can't watch her like this. This...this is all a nightmare." "We can't do anything until the battle is ov-" "BULLSHIT. SHE MIGHT END UP KILLING THAT GIRL!" Both of them grew silent. He has a point but all they could do was watch from where they were. Claude grew silent as well.

 "U-Usami, WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING!" Azumi turned to see Hiro yelling and for the first time he looked desperate and pissed off at the same time. She couldn't blame him, Hiro was soft-hearted and seeing one of his friends about to kill a young girl would most likely have made him mad. "She..she's joking right? This is all one big illusion from Veronica to make us freak out.." Azumi's voice faltered half praying she was right but seeing Usami's oppoment in pain she knew it wasn't a big illusion.

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 "YOU BITCH LET GO OF HER RIGHT NOW!" Oz was wide awake now floating in the air, tempting to just run through the cage but Zeru would kill him if he did that. "That girl is hella scary..and I thought Veronica was the scariest person.." Raiden muttered. The Riviello cloud guardian turned to Raiden, "We need to do something!" Raiden looked away not looking at Oz, despite how much he hates the members of his mafia family, he grew attached to them and was family unlike the life he had back home. However he knew they couldn't do anything and Oz knows it too but hated to admit it. 

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 Colonello looked at the scene in horror, he never seen the 10th generation want to kill somebody but now the Vongola guardians he's supporting right now was a little different. "If she does kill that girl, you're going to have to kill her when we're about to come out korra!" Takushi gritted his teeth, "We got no choice do we? She might kill everyone here for all we know!" 

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 Veronica struggled but the grip on the vectors seem to tighten and she was beginning to choke. Watching Usami come closer and closer she couldn't help but shake in fear. Her head was panicking too much to create an illusion and more tears streamed down her eyes. 'Is this how I'm going to die? I don't deserve this!' "Elliot.." She managed out. 

=FLASHBACK=

 It was back when Veronica was only 10, right before she joined Riviello. When she was borned her appearance was unnatural. Her startling red eyes, and doll-like skin, people called her and her mother a witch which was enough for her dad to move away. Soon after he did however, Veronica's mother commited suicide after leaving Veronica in front of a foster home's doorstep. The owners of the foster house were friendly and took her in with open arms. Even the kids there were friendly but that changed when Veronica showed them her creepy dolls and they began to avoid her. Oblivious to what's going on, the owners signed her up for kindergarden and unsurprisely, she became the laughing stock of the school. Going through a couple years of bullying, she was in 5th grade playing by herself with her dolls until a couple boys went up to her and took her precious dolls away from her before throwing them in mud and stomping on them. "You witch! I bet those creepy dolls are actually people that you put a curse on!" Veronica stared at them in disbelief with her quiet voice she said, "S-stop," They ignored her and continued stomping as the faces of the dolls were becoming distorted and her head started to hurt. Clutching her head she kept muttering, "Stop stop stop stop stop STOP!" A scream pierced in her ear and she looked up to see the antique dolls the size of an adult running after the bullies who ran away screaming like girls.

 "So Zeru wasn't lying when he said he saw potential in a little girl like you." Startled by the voice she turned around to see a teenager boy with blonde hair wearing glasses with a lollipop in his mouth grinning at her. "Who are you?" She asked. The boy raised an eyebrow, "Me? The name's Elliot, I'm here to recruit you to a mafia family." Veronica stared at the boy blankly, she never heard of a mafia family before, but at least he wasn't calling her a witch. "Recruit me?" Taking the lollipop out of his mouth Elliot answered, "Yea, I'll let Raiden explain the whole thing when we get there but it's up to you if you wanna come." She got up on her feet, Veronica wanted to join, she really wanted to go, the guy seems friendly enough and her owners would worry about her the first couple weeks but they won't really care. "I'll go but.." She pointed at Elliot's lollipop. "Ooh you have a sweet tooth too huh? No problem kiddo." Elliot searched his pocket taking out a cherry round lollipop as he handed it to Veronica who unwrapped it and stuffed it in her mouth. "So then, shall we?" Elliot held out his hand and eagerly for the first time Veronica grabbed his hand. 

=FLASHBACK END=

 

 Veronica smiled at the memories as she felt her body going numb, "I'm sorry please win this without me." Her face looked like a broken young child as she stared up at the sky. 'Goodbye, Riviello..'

Edited March 31, 201411 yr by The Basic Nerd

Despite all the screaming that was going on, all of it was muted out from her head. The sheer urge to kill now was driving her. With a swift swing of the arm, the whip moved moving itself upwards and towards Veronica's chest. Before the blade can deeply dig into the girl's body, one of the blades on Usami's whip knocked something off of the small necklace that Veronica was wearing. The necklace that help her other half of the Vongola ring. There was a small and quick moment as the necklace broke and the ring flew off. As it fell, it grazed Usami's finger, where her ring was. At that moment, Usami stopped moving. Her mind stopped moving and she stood there, as if frozen. Her eyes, still red, went wide as she stood there, which seemed to baffle everyone. Flashes of previous mist guardian generations all ran themselves through head. Battles, struggles, and also happy moments. It all played like a movie on fast forward. As if they were all count up from the very first Vongola family generation. Finally, there was Decimo's generation. There was a girl, a bit younger than her, there. Struggling through pain but somehow making it through all of these hardships. There were slight flashes of a guy that seemed to be with her when she needed him, although Usami couldn't make out this person. You're not alone, Usami. ....!!! You're in good hands. Claude will be a strong boss and as the mist guardian, it's your duty to follow him. The shadow that was talking in her head revealed themselves to her in her mind, which happened to be an older version of Chrome. She laid a hand on the girl's shoulder. So, for your family's sake, don't stay in your misery and move forward. .....Forward...? Chrome simply nodded before leaving Usami there before everything went black. Outside of her body now, her eyes seemed to dissolved back into its soft brown color, but they were pale. The illusions that was corrupting the area disappeared, the rotting sky, the vectors that was choking Veronica to death, everything. The blade disappeared from her whip as Usami collapsed to the ground, that huge flash knocking her out cold. Veronica collapsed as well, a gash going through her side from the whip semi slashing her. Veronica's half of the ring was sitting next to Usami's head. Everyone was silent and waited before seeing that neither of them could get up. "Er...The winner for the mist guardian battle is Usami Inoue. The final battle before the battle between the bosses, the cloud match, will begin in an hour." The lasers disappeared from the cage and the two of them began to walk off, leaving the groups to tend to their mist guardians. Claude was the first to run out and towards the fallen brunette. He looked down to see that she wasn't moving, but she was still breathing. Her legs were still badly burned and some blood was still tricking down her face from that blow to the head earlier. Although, the ring was sitting right next to her. Claude looked up to Sonya, knowing that he was too weak to pick the girl up, and she nodded as she scooped her and the other part of the ring into her arms. 

Alphonse stayed silent as he stared at the girl in Sonya arms. She may have been a victor but she was close to being a murder. Alphonse slightly glanced down as he adjusted his scarf. "Let's...hurry back to the hospital...." he muttered as he glanced at the Riviello group rushing their way over to Veronica. He wouldn't want to stay too long around them before one of them lashed out at them.

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Danet, Lukas, Raiden and Oz broke out at a run towards the fallen girl. Danet was the first to reach her and immediately got down on his knees and listened for a pulse. "She's...she's alive..." he said as he tried to catch his breath. "That girl...she's was so close to ending her. I didn't think that such a thing was possible. To defeat Veronica in such a brutal way...." Lukas picked her up and placed her on his back. she reeked of blood and dirt. "We need to get her to the hospital now." "Zeru won't be too pleased about this...." "He's not the only one you should be worrying about this time..." 

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Teeth gritted and fists clenched. The male has his head down. Just a few minutes ago, he was yelling like mad as the last few minutes of the battle went on, as if his words were going to give her strength to beat Usami. But he was badly mistaken. And now he couldn't watch the rest of the scene, watching his small soldier being taken out of there hardly in one piece. The remote was sticking out of the screen. With the amount of strength that he managed to regain, he broke the television with the chuck of his remote. He wouldn't be able to watch Oz and Zeru's battle now but it didn't matter.  Revenge....what is some shit like that going to do for me now? How will that fix anything. A hand was placed on his face out of frustration as he leaned forward on his bed. "Veronica...."

 Claude's group hurried at the hospital with Riviello following close behind them. By the time they arrived the doctors and nurses were ready yet again to tend to the mist guardians. As Usami and Veronica disappeared behind emergency room doors, the two worried groups seperated. Riviello went to Elliot's room to check up on his condition on Veronica's defeat, and Claude's group headed to Azumi's room where her, Hiro, and Junpei were waiting. Being this there 2nd victory they would've been happy but the whole situation of the battle left them in silence. "So..Usami did really go super creepy mode?" Azumi asked. Colonello sighed a little shaken from the battle, "Yes, however just as she was about to kill her oppoment she stopped which means she broke free from the insane state." Hiro was looking down fiddling with his fingers. He couldn't believe a quiet girl like Usami could turn crazy enough to try to kill another girl. 'When Usami comes to, I'm sure she'll ask for forgiveness,' But in the back of his mind he asked himself, 'What if she goes crazy again?' Hiro shook his head, he shouldn't be thinking like this about his own friend. 'She'll control herself, I'm sure she will.' 

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 Meanwhile in Elliot's room, they weren't surprised to see Elliot in frustration. Not wanting to be a part of their conversation, Oz left saying something about getting his weapons. Scratching his head Raiden said, "Man I wasn't expecting Veronica, a demonic beast like her to lose, although that other girl was also hella devilish." 

Claude was silent and parked on a chair in the room, his head down and not uttering a word. He didn't want to talk about what just took place at that battle. The whole thing could probably leave him scarred for a while. He didn't necessarily hate Usami for what she did, if that was even her doing that by her free will, but it was all scary to him. So this is one of the things a Vongola boss had to witness... Alphonse glanced over to Claude before looking back at the others who seemed to have engaged in a small conversation. He, too, was still in shock from the whole ordeal but letting something fog up his head would only hurt his chances in winning the battle. "Something influenced to get the way she was during that battle. Maybe Kaede would know something about that. He's probably going to talk to Usami about it when he can reach her." "Are you saying that he couldn't speak to her during the match?" "Probably not. He would have snapped her out of it if he could." Junpei sighed as he sat back in his chair, arms crossed. "Well you said she snapped herself back to normal right? Then I'm sure she'll be fine. Besides, we won another match didn't we?" But nobody in the room seemed to replied to him with the same amount of enthusiasm that he had. The smile on his face went down a little before Alphonse spoke up. "Junpei is right. More than likely, she's back to her normal self and we got another loss. There's no need to still be hung over about that." "Did that whole scene not bother you one bit...?" Alphonse raised his eyebrows as he looked over to Claude, the boy's head still down. "You say that like it's nothing. Did you not give a damn that she was about to murder someone!?" He was silent for a moment before adjusting the scarf around his neck, releasing a sigh. "Don't dismiss me to be a heartless bastard." he started, his tone of voice getting a whole lot serious. "This isn't the first time I've been through something like this, so it wouldn't phase me much." Alphonse walked to the door before stopping there. "There's still a lot you don't know about me. Keep that in mind. I'm going ahead." And with that, the male was out the door. Sonya couldn't help but let out a small grin. Making me the only exception of course, but he wouldn't know something like that~

Meanwhile

Elliott didn't answer to Raiden. He probably didn't notice him, Lukas or Danet coming in. Even if he did, he wouldn't give a damn anyways. Veronica was badly injured and Zeru was going to get on her case about it. His head was still down, a hand against his head in frustration, before he finally looked up at the destroyed TV screen again. "Shit man.....why the hell did you attack the TV?" Lukas asked as his eyebrows were raised at the sight of the damaged monitor. Elliott didn't answer him. "But good to see that you healed up fast enough to do that." Although Lukas didn't sound like he actually cared, but was just saying it for the hell of it. The room then fell silent, the only sound that could be heard was the faint sound of music that was coming from Danet's headphones. "......Where's Veronica's room?" "Huh?" Elliott slid his legs out of bed before touching his bare feet onto the cold floor. In his hospital gown, he walked around the bed and went towards the door. Pushing his glasses up the bridge of his nose, he turned back to look at the others, a sort of gleam coming to his red eyes, as if they were demanding an answer from the three of them. "Where is she?" The three of them blinked as they glanced at one another before Danet answered him. "I don't exactly know but she should be in one of the nearby doors. Just read the labels on the door. They should tell you." "Unless you didn't have that much common sense to figure that out..." Lukas muttered under his breath but when he looked up again, Elliott was gone and out the door. "...Tch." 

 As Alphonse left the room, Takshi huffed with his arms across his chest, 'Talking to 11th like that, how could he?' "Well when Usami is done being treated we can ask her plently of questions. There we'll find out what she was thinking at that time." As everyone continued to talk, Azumi turned to the clock noticing the time for the cloud battle wasn't far. 'If Alphonse wins this, all that's left is Claude's battle and if we win that, this whole mess would be finally over.' Inside she felt relief but she knew it wasn't going to be easy. There was a possiblity the Riviello won't let this happen even if they do win. 'Damn it Al! It's almost time for your battle and you just leave the room?' 

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 Raiden sighed shaking his head, "I think he completely lost it, it would be horrid if he runs into Zeru on his way." Suddenly the door opened as Raiden jumped in fright thinking it was Zeru but instead it was Oz who peeked in with a daze face. "Seeing Elliot looking completely lost, I gues he didn't take Veronica's defeat really well." The Riviello lightning guaridan scoffed, "Geez kid you almost scared the hell out of me!" Oz raised an eyebrow, "Am I that scary?" Shaking his head frustrated Raiden yelled, "That's not what I meant! I thought you were Zeru!" Oz puffed his cheeks out a little like he was containing his laughter, "Raiden, you shouid get your eye checked. The amount of time you read those perverted magazines might be affecting it." A spear summoned in Raiden's hand with his face completely red, "You little.." He threw the spear with lightning speed straight at Oz's forhead, but in one swift movement, Oz caught it in his hand just inches away from skewering him. "That was really close, almost like you really wanted me to die." Tossing the spear to the side, Oz took out a piece of paper from his pocket. "Oh yea, I came here to tell you about the location of my battle. Since I already read it and I know where it is, here you go." He handed the paper to Danet before exiting the room. Gritting his teeth, Raiden slammed another one of his spears to the ground, "I swear one day I'm going to murder him in his sleep."

The door slowly crept open as the blonde simply let himself in as he found the girl's room. He was more calm now and he stayed silent as he walked into the dimly lit room, the only light source being the moonlight that was leaking in from the window next to Veronica's bed. Slow steps were taken after he closed the door as he inched his way over to her bed, hoping that she was still breathing. Once he was close enough, he could see from the small machine that she was hooked up to, the bright green line was still going up and down, just faintly. A small sigh of relief passed his lips. She was still with the living. Elliott would have went after Usami if it was the opposite. He looked over her to see that a small breathing mask was attached to her face and her hood and other clothes were set aside on a small table on the other side of the room. Without all of that on, she could have passed for another harmless looking girl that has been badly assaulted by God-knows-who. Elliott's usual lively red eyes dulled down as he wen to sit in the chair next to her bed, the side that was closest to the window. He leaned over and stroked her snow white locks that scattered themselves across the pillow. "You did your best today.....that's all that really matters..." he muttered under his breath.

Meanwhile

The elevator doors slid open and he found himself in the main lobby. Just a few minutes ago, he came across one of the Cerevello women that has been controlling all of their battles. A small slip of paper was handed to him and the woman left before he could say anything. So..this is the last one before it's Claude's turn... he thought as his eyes went down to the slip of paper in his hands. The battle was going to be at that fun house that they visited before, when they were confronted by Lukas and Danet. The place was pretty big but he doesn't see why they would hold the cloud guardian battle there of all places. Alphonse walked out of the hospital, the feel of cold air rushed onto his face, which only caused him to pull his scarf up over his mouth. Damn, when did the temperature drop? Although, the chill was bringing back bad memories. From that night that it happened. Before any images can flash into his mind, Alphonse just quickened his pace and kept walking for a few more minutes before he reached he fun house. It wasn't too far from the hospital, surprisingly. As the raven haired male stepped in, he was met with a familiar amount of mirrors that were all around him, as walls. His eyes glanced around to see that it was dead silent, only his won breathing could be heard. "....Nobody else is here yet..."

Meanwhile

Danet placed a hand on Raiden's shoulder. "You don't have to act like we all didn't know." Lukas crossed his arms behind his head. "Yeah, you think we wouldn't notice? You damn sicko." Lukas began walking over to the door and pulled it open. "Well, let's get going." "What about Elliott?" "The fatass is gonna want to stay with Veronica for a while. Best to not bother him before he kills you. Besides, he has Zeru to deal with later on anyways." 

 "Oh? I'm surprised you're here first," Alphonse turned around to see Oz just entering the fun house with hands in his pockets. Scratching his head, the black haired male let out a sigh, "Man, this ring conflict caused alot of problems for me. Thanks to you guys not shuting up and letting us take the other half of the rings, I'm forced to battle against you instead of sleeping." Before the other male could reply, the door to the building opened and the Riviello entered excluding Elliot, Veronica, and of course Zeru. Soon after Claude's group came in. "Back here again?" Takushi scowled, knowing it was the place where they first ran into Lukas and Danet starting this ring conflict. 

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 Back at Azumi's room, the usual three people were sitting in front of the TV staring at the battle scene. "All these mirrors, I think my head's gonna explode." Azumi groaned as she clutched her head. Hiro chuckled until he spotted someone familar. A teenager male was standing near Alphonse like he was just talking to him. 'He looks just like that guy that was sleeping in my room earlier! Don't tell that guy is Alphonse's oppoment?!' 

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 Unsurprisely, the Cervello woman entered from within the maze of mirrors walking up to the group with all signs of emotions gone. "The Vongola Cloud Guardian Battle is about to begin, may the two opposing cloud guardians step up here please." As usual, Alphonse and Oz stepped up letting the women check their rings until finally they announced, "We have confirmed that these are the real Vongola rings. For this battle it's the same concept however keep in mind that this is a maze of mirrors. You can get lost easily or you can use these paths to your advantage." A hand rose up and everyone looked to notice it was Oz's. "Er I have a question," With a blank expression Oz continued, "Can all the observers wear a blindfold?" An annoyed twitch appeared on Takushi's head as he gritted his teeth, "Why the hell do you want people who's watching your battle wear blindfolds?" The Riviello cloud guardian replied with a dull tone, "Welll I don't want people seeing me fight. The thought of people watching me brings chills down my spine." Oz gave out a small shiver but everyone could easily tell it was fake. The pink haired women shaked their head, "I'm sorry but we must let them observe your battle." "Fine..I'll make it quick," Oz muttered, With that mess taken care of, the women gestured outside, "Outside this fun house there's screens for each group showing the battle. Will please everyone besides the cloud guardians exit out?" Still confused with Oz talking about how he doesn't like people watching his fight, everyone left the fun house leaving only the cloud guardians alone. On the ceiling the intercom spoke, "And let the Vongola Cloud Battle...begin!" 

 Air, that was what replaced Oz's spot as the Cervello announced the start of the battle. He seemed to have disappeared but not out of thin air like Veronica. "Hey, lets play a short game. Find me in this maze." Alphonse's oppoment's voice echoed throughout the field as Alphonse began his search for Oz. A few minutes passed and a shadow was lurking behind Alphonse with it's feet not making a single noise. Then seeing an opportunity, the shadow leaped toward Al revealing that it was Oz with his hidden blades sticking out of his sleeves. Suddenly to everyone's shock, Oz slashed in such extreme speed slicing across Alphonse's back, chest, then arms before hiding into the confusing mirrors leaving Alphonse with bad injuries off the bat. 

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 "W-what just happened?!" Takushi blinked looking at the screen barely catching Oz hurting Alphonse. "Such speed, and agilty. It's like an assasin.." Colonello looked down. He had to deal with plently of assasins before and he knew how hard it is just to beat one sneaky enemy but in a mind-breaking enviroment like this, Oz has the upper hand. 

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 Even Raiden was a tiny bit impressed noticing Oz's style was quick and fluid. "I see, so that's why he's on solo missions, because he's an assasin." He clenched his fists, "But how the hell does a lazy ass guy like Oz move that fast?!" 

Alphonse blinked as Oz's body seemingly disappeared at the start of the battle. What the... He glanced around before hearing the male's voice echoing through the building. At this, Alphonse drew out an annoyed sigh as he drew out his two black hand blades from their holster under his jacket. He then slowly began to make his way down one hallway in the fun house cautiously. Oz was bound to strike at any moment now. He needed to be ready. But to his surprise, there was no sign of anyone here. No breathing, footsteps, anything. Alphonse had sensitive hearing so the slightest moment he would have been able to hear by now. But there was nothing. Just what is that guy planning to d- His thoughts were immediately cut short at the sharp feel of a blade digging itself against his skin. !??! Alphonse tried to move his arm past the pain to turn his blade on him but Oz was just to fast for him. What was only a good minute of that string of attacks felt like an agonizing hour. By the time Oz was done striking and retreated, Alphonse was already a bloody mess. Various sizes of cuts going along his back, arms and chest, some of them already beginning to bleed. Alphonse felt his entire body throbbing with pain as he pushed himself to stay on his feet. He stood there for a second before beginning to walk forward, further down the hall of mirrors that were reflecting his injuries. While he was walking, eyes went back and forth from mirror to mirror, trying to find some sort of blind spot. Just how is he moving so quickly? If only I can find a spot where he can't jump at me with ease. Just then the hallway began to open up into another larger area in the fun house. It was in a shape of a wise circle, mirrors lining the walls. It was better than a narrow hallway at least. Once he got to the center of the area, Alphonse stopped walking and glanced around, eyes narrowed. There was still no sign of Oz. 

Meanwhile

"Well damn. When this guy said he wanted to take care of this quickly, he really means it. More like a ninja than an assassin really...." Sonya commented, a bit of shock crossing over her face. "You think he's going to be okay in there? That guy is moving too fast to keep up with." There was still a hint of concern in Claude's voice after having to witness the previous battle. "That may be true, but remember he's still human. Alphonse's opponent is just manipulating the shadows so it can appear that he's moving so quickly. It's mostly just a game of hide and seek for him." "But that's not fair. That's only making it harder for Alphonse to catch him, especially in his current condition now." Claude said as he gestured to the screen. "Did you already forget?" "...Eh?" "The only rule was for one of them to obtain the full ring. How they did so doesn't matter. Basically there is no rule to this battle." 

Meanwhile

"Well looks like he's less of a slow bastard and more of just a lazy one." Danet commented as he took out one of his ear buds, his interest going up as he saw a badly injured Alphonse on the screen. He glanced down at his phone that he pulled out of his pocket and happen to be listening to music from. "A minute and twenty four seconds into the fight. Let's just see how long this guy lasts against Oz." "Shit, it's only been that long? Gahh, Oz needs to hurry the hell up so I can go to sleep already." Lukas said as he let out a yawn, not even bothering to cover his mouth as he did so. He wasn't major on manners but didn't care nonetheless.

 Seeing Alphonse this injured already made Azumi's heart drop. "Damn it! Fast people are so hella annoying!" She yelled remembering Liz who was her oppoment with the battle against Kaede. Her ability looked similar to Al's enemy but just as Azumi thought people couldn't go any faster this guy showed up. 'When Liz was planning to attack, you could hear it right before it hits you. However Oz was his name right? Well he completely hides his presence and since you can't even hear him, you're left with the horror of when he's going to attack.' She gullped. this was the first time she ever seen the quiet male this hurt and put into quite a pickle. "C'mon Al, you can do it.." Azumi muttered. 

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 Hidden in the shadows of the mirrors, Oz watched Alphonse walk into the circular area. Anyone leaving your oppoment this hurt would give themselves a pat on the back but Oz wanted to slam his head against one of the mirrors. 'I should've killed him right there but that creepy uneasy feeling screwed me up!' People don't see it, but before the battle when the black-haired male said he didn't want people to watch his battle, it's because the sensation of being the one being looked at creeped him out. Basically, Oz loves the excitment of hunting his prey without their notice however bad memories form in his brain when he felt like he was the one being watched and he can't do anything about it. It was because of that one fateful night, that one night that haunts Oz in his head.

=FLASHBACK= 

 Oz was a spoiled rich kid without a heart living happily in a mansion. His parents were always away on business trips so he was lonely with the entertainment of abusing his power with the maids forced into his every command. His mother tried to introduce him to other kids from other rich families in order to make friends, but Oz would get tired and annnoyed at them quickly and he would say something harsh leaving the kids in tears. "It's not my fault they always talk alot, I just want someone who's quiet and barely talks at all so I could do whatever I want in peace!" He would say. Suddenly that night had to happen, that one night. Thinking Oz should spend some time away from the mansion, together with the maids, they went to town shopping, Oz was 12 at that time. Yet what the young spoiled boy didn't know, was an assassin was hired by an unknown cilent to kill Oz, who is also the next heir to his family's business.

Night fell and Oz found himself lost in the silent town ending up getting seperated from the maids. Wandering down the empty quiet street, the only sound were his own footsteps and the shouts as he yelled out for help in hope of any of his servents hearing his voice. Minutes passed and there was no sign of anyone coming to his rescue. Suddenly his ear picked up a nearby branch breaking and Oz whipped around only to find empty air. Thinking it was just his imagination, he continued walking but he couldn't help and feel like something was staring down at him with their eyes glued to his back. It was the worst feeling Oz ever felt in his life and he wanted it to go away. His legs picked up speed as Oz began to jog and the noise was getting louder and louder as his heart was beating faster. 'They're getting closer! Closer!' Were the only thought running in his head, he was being hunted by a predator and he was his supper. Fortunely as he turned a corner, the young boy ran into a dead end. Turning around with his back against the wall, his eyes searched for any sign of his predator until his senses tingled, and he looked up to see a masked man jump down from a building with his dagger ready. Oz was sure he was dead as he closed his eyes bracing for death but a yell of pain was heard above him and Oz looked up once again to see the assassin that was about to kill him punched into another building. 

 Seeing the unconisious assassin Oz could only blink until suddenly two figures appeared before him almost like they were invisible. One was a teenager with blonde hair and glasses, and the other was probably a little girl Oz's age but it was hard to tell due to a cloak covering her face. "What do you think about that punch Vivi?" The blonde male looked at the cloaked girl. With her mouth being the only thing visible on her face she smiled. "It was pretty good Elliot, though I think our mission was to recruit that guy." Her voice was small and tiny, and Oz felt somehow attracted to it, it was different than those annoying talkative kids he was use to. Despite the two people obviously being the ones knocking that assassin, out, Oz raised his voice. "Hey, why is your voice so quiet? Is there something with your throat, do you have some kind of disease, or you got some kind of curs-" He felt a hand grab his shirt and slammed him against the wall, hard. Feeling the bruises forming on his back, Oz opened his eyes to see that blondie's face close to his with a smiling face. "That's just how Vivi is, and I would appreciate it if you don't talk to her that way." The tone in that teenager's voice was calm but Oz felt a protective brother-like aura over that girl. Vivi, the girl that blondie was calling, didn't say anything staring at Oz perhaps with curiousity. Long story short, they asked him to join their mafia family and agreed only because Oz was interested. He wanted to be just like that assassin, he wanted people to feel just like he did when he was being hunted. Not only that, but he was interested in Veronica, she was one of the quiet one in the group and he likes her silent voice except when she gets pissed off, but Oz brushes that off. Multiple times he wanted to talk to her but with his always tired state and Elliot's protective barrier around Veronica, he just couldn't get close.

=FLASHBACK END=  

 

 Oz shook his head. What was he just thinking just now? At first his mind replayed that awful night but then it got off topic to Veronica. 'I blame my tiredness,' He thought. His muscles were throbbing, and his forehead was beaded in sweat. Manipulating the shadows, controling his breathing, and having to move that fast drains a bunch of his energy which is why Oz can't use this move many times and he sleeps almost 18 hours a day. 'I have to finish it, I have to finish it now. I can't look back at the past right now.' Closing his eyes he concentrated, straight at Alphonse. Feeling his body becoming lightweight, Oz began to control the shadow as he appeared from Alphonse's own shadow that was created from the light. With his oppoment's back to him, Oz took out his hidden blades from his sleeves geting ready to unleash another flurry to attacks that will most likely end Alphonse's life. 

Minutes passed by. All he could hear was the sound of the blood throbbing in his head and his heavy breathing. Alphonse stood there, about to lose his patience with his opponent any minute now. The fact that he can remain calm in his current condition was quite impressive. Eyes remained averted downwards to the  ground, as if he was in deep thought. There was a small faint sound of movement. Whether he was just hearing things or not, Alphonse gripped his blade tighter and quickly turned around, ignoring the numbness in his torso. Before Oz can land a blow towards the male's neck, Alphonse flipped the bade around in his hand and side stepped to get out of and danger Oz was going to bring on him...and then. Bam. A direct hit in the back of the male's neck with the base of the handle part of Alphonse's weapon. That was one method he was taught in order to knock people out, although he rarely used it. Alphonse watched as Oz fell flat on his face to the ground with a thud. Still in pain, he slowly made his way over to Oz's fallen body, still keeping his guard up in case he were to quickly recover from that, which he didn't. Alphonse knelt down and slid the ring right off of the unconscious male's finger with ease before clicking it together with his own. He then got up and proceeded to make his way towards the exit of the fun house, leaving Oz to lie there. A few minutes passed before he walked out, appearing as if that was nothing but child's play, although his injuries says otherwise. He slid his weapons back where they belonged and walked over to Claude and the others. Everyone was pretty speechless that he was able to take the boy down without any bloodshed. "The winner of tonight's battle is Alphonse Cevasco. The final battle, the sky match will be tomorrow. Bosses, prepare yourselves. Goodnight." was the reply of one of the Cerevello women before the two of them left the area. Sonya slapped a hand on Claude's shoulder. "You're up tomorrow champ." she said cheerfully as Claude nodded in response before looking towards Alphonse. "Wow, you made it look easy." Alphonse shrugged his shoulders before glancing away. "Eh. Just wanted to get it over with already." "Are you..okay?" "Just tired."

Meanwhile

"Are you shitting me? He lost to one of the oldest tricks in the book...." Lukas said as his face darkened. "That's bullshit. I'm not going to be the one to scrape him out of there. One of you bastards do it." Lukas said before he began to walk away angrily. Danet looked over to Raiden. "Well you two do have a good love hate relationship, am I right?" 

Meanwhile

Usami was curled up under her covers in the hospital bed. She has been listening to most of Alphonse's battle  from the television. She would have been happy that they got another win but her mind was too clouded with other thing for positive emotions. for the hours that she's been asleep, she's been piecing together exactly what happened to herself during that battle. Now that she knows, she been like this ever since she woke up. What was making her mood worse was that Kaede didn't contact her once ever since she was knocked out at the end of the battle. Dry tear marks streaked her face, only to be replaced with new ones. Teary eyes went over to the completed mist ring that was sat next to her head on the pillow. It was the whole reason why she went ballistic in the first place. She had the urge to get rid of it but that would only lead to trouble with Reborn. A small breath drew out from her lips as she turned on her other side, facing away from the ring. 

 Surprised at how fast the battle was, Azumi didn't care as she jumped on the bed yelling, "Al won! Al won!" Hiro just sat there smiling, somehow they managed to have even scores with them now despite the loses in the beginning. The only battle left now is Claude's, the sky battle. 

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 Takushi frowned quite disappointed that Alphonse's battle went easier than expected. 'I shouldn't be thinking about that now, now there's only 11th's battle against their boss, Zeru was it? Probably just some old geezer.' Colonello looked at Alphonse's injury, "Even though you won, that guy left you with bad injuries, you should head to the hospital before you end up bleeding out." 

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 Raiden pointed at himself, "Wait you want me to carry his lazy ass?! Hell no lets just leave him here to rot!" However Danet already left and was gone from sight. 'If I just leave him here, Zeru won't be able to punish him for that stupid lost.' Sighing from the position he's in, Raiden went over to the fallen Oz only to hear a faint snore from the male. "Are you fking sleeping?! No way!" Yet it was true, Oz quickly regained consious from Alphonse's attack but he was too tired to let the battle continue on, so he ended up falling asleep. Facepalming, Raiden dragged Oz from the cuff of his shirt and was kind of surprised he was light, almost like an empty suitcase. 'Does he eat much or does his ability drain him that much?' Suddenly he felt a hand slap Raiden hard on the back as he almost gagged out. Looking down, Raiden saw Oz who was half-asleep, half awake. "Don't carry me like some sort of ragged doll...or I'll kill you." He muttered with a deadly tone behind his words. 'He is an assassin, unless I don't do what he says I won't be able to sleep peacefully..' Frustrated, Raiden put Oz on his back like a piggyback ride with the black haired male still asleep. Taking each step after the other, Raiden let out a curse in his head feeling his right shoulder tense where Oz was lying his head against. When he finally reached the hospital, the first thing Raiden did was throw Oz to a bunch of waiting chairs letting out a crash in the waiting room. "I'm never..going to carry your lazy ass ever again." With that Raiden left the room while the young cloud guardian was left in the room scratching his head before falling asleep again. 

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 Meanwhile in Veronica's room, the Riviello mist guardian slowly opened her eyes to see Elliot by her bedside stroking her hair. "E-Elliot.." Her heart skipped a beat, the last time she was in a hospital was from a couple boys throwing rocks at her and nobody showed up to make sure she was ok. Yet here was an actual person, caring and worrying about her with the proof right before her eyes. She tried to get up but pain pierced all over her body and she lied back down. Then the realization came to her, she lost, she lost her battle and the other group won. Right away just as that thought appeared in her head tears fell down your red eyes with her head scrambled in thoughts. "I-I lost..I'm sorry Elliot, I'm sorry, I was too weak to avenge you and I should've just ended her when I had the chance." Veronica looked away not wanting to look at his face, "I'm so useless, Zeru is going to punish me, maybe kill me." 

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 Staring at the TV screen that was now blank due to the battle being over, Zeru clutched his drink filled with wine until the glass cup shattered in his hand as the glass rained down on the floor. 'So they managed to make it to the final battle.' He got up from his chair staring at the moon lighting up the night sky. "I'll end this charade, after this conflict is over and I become the next Vongola Boss, I will give those trash punishment of hell. I will make sure, they will never lose another battle." He let out a dark chuckle as he took out a cigarette, "Claude Sato, your death is upon you." 

Alphonse narrowed his eyes at Colonello's comment before turning around in the direction towards the hospital. "Fine but I'm walking there on my own." he said without bothering to look back and started down the small path towards the hospital. "Shouldn't we follow after him in case he falls down from his injuries or something...?" "A wise suggestion. After you." Reborn said as Claude narrowed his eyebrows at him a bit along with a slight nod before following after Alphonse quickly in order to catch up with him. Once they got there, Alphonse seemed to have spooked one of the nurses with his sudden appearance and she quickly dragged him down the hall with a face of worry. Alphonse, however, didn't seem to try and resist and just followed behind her as she pulled him by the wrists. Claude was going to say something, a bit worried before he saw Junpei witha cup of coffee lingering in one part of the main lobby. "Junpei, what are you doing down here?" "Oh I just thought I'd get some fresh air." "But we're still indo-" "Shut up. Besides, this coffee tatstes like shit. Is this the crap people have to drink to stay awake? It's basically torture." he said as he made a face and tossed the beverage in the garbage. "So I heard Alphonse won. All that's left now is you." Junpei said with a smirk as he poked him in his chest, which seemed to anger Takushi a bit. "Shouldn't our boss get some rest tonight or something. It's going to be a big day after all." "Of course. I'm feeling a bit worn out after all." "Of course you are. Well I'm going to sleep. Goodnight." And with that, Junpei left to the elevators that lead upstairs to his room. Claude turned to the others. "We should probably call it a night too." 

Meanwhile

After almost falling asleep for sitting there for quite a while, Elliott seemed to have snapped himself awake at the feel of Veronica's head moving, which was a good sign that she has awaken. At the sound of her calling his name, his mood was kicked back up. "Vivi..!" he said excitedly as he kept his voice down but noticed that something was wrong. Elliott's smile faded away yet again and his crimson eyes softened at her words. He remained silent for a moment in thought as the girl turned her head away from him, probably trying her best to hide her tears, but things like that usually never worked with him. Elliott was too quick to catch onto things. "That's a lie. You should know that." was the first thing that came out from him before he pushed his glasses up and continued. "Over my dead body he will. I wasn't there to help you with your battle but I won't let anyone harm you." His hand that was entangled in her hair moved over to her teary cheek as his thumb wiped them away. "So don't cry. That's what others should be doing at the sight of your power." he said with a slight chuckle, remembering that this little girl is very destructive when it comes to certain things. 

Looking ticked off from Junpei acting so causal around 11th, Takushi was about to complain when Claude mentioned about sleeping. Taking his words into a command, Takushi nodded, "You're exactly right 11th! It must have been a long night for you, you must be exhausted." Even he was exhausted, from Usami's intense fight he felt like he was the one fighting in the battle. Hiro stretched his arms letting out a soft yawn. "Well since it's already pass 2am, I'm going to pass out on the bed, good night!" With a cheerful wave, the rain guardian left. Azumi put her fingers on her chin as if she was in deep concentration. "Sky battle huh? Does that mean the battle could possibly be in the air?" Colonello crossed his arms, "Maybe but I guess we'll have to find out tomorrow, but right now I'm tired. I'm going to head out. Sleep well, korra!" With that the soldier blonde left the hospital. When Colonello disappeared out the door, Azumi pumped her fist in the air. "Alright, so tomorrow is the last battle which means we must be in super high spirits to cheer for Claudeyo! So now..I'm..going to..sleep.." Her eyes closed and she fell to the ground snoring. She seemed to have wasted all her energy to stay awake in order to watch the battle. Takushi stared at the sleeping Azumi before sighing. Most likely Reborn or Sonya wouldn't carry her and he didn't want Claude, who could barely carry Usami, bring a girl that was alot taller than their mist guardian. Bending down, Takushi put Azumi on his back with abit of effort. She was heavy, it was almost like carrying a couple sandbags but being in a mafia family your whole life pays off. "I'm going to dump this idiot off her room before heading to mine, good night 11th!" With Azumi on his back, Takushi went down the hallway dropping Azumi off on the bed, and went to his room.

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 Veronica cracked a small smile as tears seeped into her pillow. "Ha ha, you're right." Wiping the remaining tears from her eyes she calmed down. Suddenly she couldn't help but think about what happened at the battle. Her oppoment lost her insanity in order to defeat her and Veronica almost died but her enemy stoped. The girl's eyes of endless abyss appeared in her head, it was the first time Veronica was scared of someone. 'I..I wonder..did she suffer through the same thing I did?' Then another thought came to her, who won the Cloud Guardian Battle? She was unconsious throughout the whole battle but her question was going to be answered when a knock was heard at the door and Oz peered in. "Oh, you're awake." With hands in his pockets he frowned. "Were you crying?" She looked away trying her best to cover her red filled eyes. "N-no, but how did your battle go?" He sighed leaning against a wall. "I lost, got knocked out from the back of my neck. Boss's battle is tomorrow." Veronica was shocked, Oz told her about his solo missions and his abilites. His abilities were made to just kill someone in just one strike, how did he lose? Almost like he read her mind, the male spoke up, "If you're wondering why I lost, I guess I did it purpose." "Huh? Why would you do that?" "From what I heard, the sky battle involves all the guardians including the ones that lost. If I won that battle, Zeru would kill you both, the ones that lost even though you promised you would make it up to him. So I lost, which means there will be a sky battle and everyone particpates, isn't that another great opportunity to make it up to Boss? That's also why I left my oppoment with injuries, he won't be in any good shape like you guys." Taking a few moments to take all this information in, Veronica blinked. "So you lost..in order for us to have another chance?" Oz gave out a loud yawn, he was beginning to feel sleep again. "Yea, if it was Lukas, Danet, and Raiden left in the group, I'd rather kill myself." Veronica felt her heart beating in excitment, not all hope was lost, "T-thanks you sleepyhead!" Her face was lid up with joy like a child finding the gift they wanted on Christmas. "Sleepyhead? Well I'm not denying that.." Oz mumbled with a hint of blush on his face, he headed toward the door. "I'm leaving now, I won't be able to make it back to the hotel so I'm taking another night here at the hospital, sleep tight." After Oz exited the room, Veronica looked at Elliot. "We..we have another chance! If we help Zeru win his battle, maybe he'll forgive u-" She let out a yawn, her eyes were feeling heavy.