Hey Everyone :D! It would seem the first chapter is off to a good start bwahahah! Yes indeed, this story will have disturbing and creepy moments! Adding horror to the story as well! BWAHAHAH! But this is still a romance story at its core so don't worry about that! I just wanted to take the romance to a much deeper level using psychological aspects that I am actually studying currently! SO YOU GET READ AND LEARN! Also it seems you guys enjoyed the new Kyoko, which is probably the most unique way to depict her character at least I think she is. I have also thought about how this story will already sort of end, along with the plot twists of the century! Anyway read on noodle!
"My father, Tsuna, was going through some very difficult times it seems. Though at the time I was not fully aware of what was going on with him, there would be days where I didn't see him at all. Maybe even a full week. He would often close himself off in his office and stay there for long periods of time. I would hear him talking to himself as if someone else was there. I often asked Haru who Tsuna was speaking to but she would just look off sadly and tell me my father is working very hard. He is just tired and sometimes may speak to himself. At the time even that answer confused me as I wondered why my father was so tired, why was he so sleepy, and I told myself:Papa needs to have more sweet dreams! How ironic it was for me to say such a thing. For my father was dreaming…and perhaps I was too. No we were all dreaming, and we didn't even realize it. How can we even tell that right now we are in reality? For in dreams and reality we feel pain, we love, we think, and we strive for happiness. However, in reality we forsake the things that should be as common to us as breathing air. But in a dream, you value every little thing that happens to you, like being with the one you love when in reality you cannot. So what is better? The dream? Or reality? I think now…that was what my father was desperately trying to decide for himself. But he was faced with several challenges…he had to face the Sins of the Heart. Something that I wouldn't find out later what that meant or what it did. However, I know the first sin my father encountered was Lust. A sin that spread to all of us like weeds…"
"Miss Keiko Sawada, are you not done writing in your journal for today?" Kieko became startled when she heard her name get called by the doctor. She was sitting at the desk in the room of the hospital she was instituted in that had given her. Keiko turned her head over to look at Doctor Laever, the man who was overlooking this entire thing. He was a tall man with a black swirl of hair on his head. He wore black framed glasses that covered his comforting blue eyes and had a toned, brown complexion. He was wearing the usual white doctor's attire with black pants.
"Ah…yes doctor! I had just finished writing today's entry in matter of fact," I told him as I closed my brown journal closed before setting in the drawer under the desk. I then got up and stretched as the doctor came in to thank me for coming in today.
"It's great that you're able to finally write about these things…and remember to take your time. I understand it's hard for you…to remember much," Dr. Laver told Keiko who gave a soft sigh and looked at him.
"Yeah…I know doctor. It's coming back to me…slowly but surely. Each day I remember something new…but it sucks my memory is in scrambles! It would make things easier for me if I remembered everything…then maybe I can find…I can find out what happened to my parents…" Keiko said as she turned around to look at herself in the mirror of the room. Keiko could see her mother and father in the mirror standing next to her with their hands on her shoulders. She would think how much she looks like her mother with some resemblance to her father. She had her mother's big brown eyes, and shared the same auburn colored hair as her. Only thing is her hair was really spiky like her father's had been but not to an unnatural level like his. Currently, she was wearing the Namimori Middle school uniform, a black-gray vest, red ribbon around her neck, and a dark gray skirt with a black studded belt around her waist. Plus she had to wear her XI gloves that her father had given her. Right now they were just mittens with the number 27 on them, but they were her prized treasure. She stared down at the worn mittens and smiled at them.
"Ah…those gloves were from your father correct?" The doctor pointed out to Keiko who was surprised by his presence. She had totally forgotten he was even in the room for a moment.
"Ah yes…he had given it to on my sixth birthday. He said one day I would needs these gloves to protect myself. Of course I didn't think he meant it in the whole mafia way, but to me these gloves were a symbol that he was protecting me…always…" Keiko said as she then turned her hands into fists.
"Ah…does that mean you won't injure any people today?" The doctor eyes Keiko who began whistling innocently. The doctor sighed as he looked Keiko straight in the eyes.
"How many was it today Miss Sawada?" He asked Keiko who acted like she couldn't believe what she was hearing. She walked towards the door giving out loud grunts and "no ways" as she tried to escape. The doctor called out to her again and she turned around to see him glaring at her.
"O-okay…I might have accidentally sort of kind of…punched a guy and threw him in an ice cream truck!" Keiko stated with a pouty face.
"Oh my lord Keiko! What did the poor boy do to you?" Dr. Laever asked her in shock.
"H-he tried to look up my skirt! And no way in Hell was I going to just let him do it! I will have you know these are my favorite panties! My super powerful battle undies! No man's eyes shall lay eyes on it so easily without feeling the full force of a thousand burning creators of death!" Keiko shouted as she ignited her fists in Sky Flames unintentionally. She saw the doctor sighing at her as she tried to blow out the flames on her hands quickly but it wouldn't work.
"And how many times must I tell you that you are a special case in the mafia world. You are a direct descendant of the Vongola blood line from your father whose compatibility was very high with your mother. A very rare case where you have an extraordinary amount of Sky Flames! You will become unstable if you let your emotions get the best of you!" He stated to her strictly. Keiko rolled her eyes at him with a sigh and her arms folded across her chest.
"Yes, yes I know Doctor! You don't need to lecture me all the time…I can control my flames a lot better now!" Keiko exclaimed to him who just looked at her in disbelief.
"Oh really? You can control your abilities now? So no more burning down lingerie stores…"
"They didn't have the size I want! They were discriminating against girls with smaller bust sizes!"
"No more getting so emotional during movies that you blow up a theatre…"
"Anyone would cry if they saw a small deer find its mother again!"
"Keiko. You threw a guy into an ice cream truck for doing a childish prank! Which I must ask, he is okay right? You did get him out of there?" Dr. Laever said to Keiko who stopped and looked at him.
"…Oh shit," Keiko said to herself as she hit her face with the palm of her hand. The doctor sighed loudly this time.
"That's another phone call I should be expecting…you know a doctor's note can't excuse everything you do!" He said as he walked over towards the door and opened it for Keiko to depart.
"Well no biggy Doctor! I can just use the ol' Undicesimo privileges! Being a mafia boss does have it perks you know…" Keiko winked at Dr. Leaver who stared at her.
"Perks you cannot use until your tutor Reborn approve you to be the boss. And until you can control your powers, mature a lot more, and learn that boys are your punching bags. Then perhaps you have a 1% chance at becoming a full boss!" Dr. Leaver said which made Keiko growl at him.
"Oh whatever…I just got to practice more! In matter of fact I know just the specimen…to practice on!" Keiko exclaimed with a big grin stretched across her face as she quickly ran out the door through the other workers and patients rudely as she did. Dr. Laever wanted to tell not to run in the hospital but then again she would just fly instead. Luckily this is a mafia hospital otherwise they would be sued so badly. He couldn't believe it, but he knew that girl would carry on her father's legacy. She would bring the one to bring this world out of the nightmare that was brought about.
Keiko went to the front door of the main lobby. She then looked to her left to see a woman standing there ready to put on her Dark Miasma suit. A full black leather suit which will protect people from the Dark Miasma outside.
"Is the DM really heavy today in some areas?" Keiko asked the woman who looked at her with sorrow filled eyes.
"Indeed…some areas are completely covered with the stuff. There have been reports of at least fifty people being sent into endless nightmares…" The woman said with a sigh as she looked out the window with Keiko to see the sky. Right now it was clear but they knew at any given moment it could turn black and the Dark Miasma would fall upon the land.
Keiko growled at the thought of that evil stuff that floated outside. Just floating above the road and carrying with it such an impure darkness. Thanks to the events years ago when she was a kid, this stuff appeared and is now threatening the land. Dark Miasma is a black, cloud like substance that appears in the sky randomly. It showed up years ago when her father tried to solve the mysteries that were going on.
His work however, was left void because of what happened to him…but Dr. Laever believes that Tsunayoshi Sawada did find the answer to this strange phenomenon and it is in Keiko's memories somewhere. Unfortunately, Keiko has her past completely scrambled all because of the person who started this…Fuji. Never will Keiko forgive Fuji, the person whose crimes started all of this. So now Keiko must work to find an answer to this as day by day her memories slowly recover. If the answer to all of this is truly in her memories then she really wishes it would come to her quicker.
For some reason Keiko is only remembering things slowly, yet vividly at the same time. She also somehow is able to know about events she shouldn't have known like how her deceased mother is visiting her father. That was all in the past, and events she shouldn't know about but does. Keiko ponders this and questions how it is all possible. It would appear that just like her father years ago, dreams and reality are affecting her too. This is all so strange and confusing to her…dreams, the mafia, Fuji, her father, her mothers, her sisters, and the Dark Miasma. What does this all mean? What's the point of this cursed DM causing people to go into nightmares of all things? That's when Keiko heard the sirens go off for the town to be cleansed. Luckily, the government is able to move the DM back into the sky and stall its return for a while. They have giant machines that zoom through the sky and suck it all up like a vacuum and then take it to the sky again where the DM will dissipate. Keiko sighed with relief; though she is immune to DM it doesn't mean she wants to be in the stuff.
Keiko was one of only three people that are known to be immune to the stuff completely. Apparently something her and her mother shared is what Dr. Laever told her. Her mother was the first to be immune to this stuff, and thankfully that passed down to her. So Keiko was free to move about the city regardless of whether or not it be cleansed. However, that limited the help of her respective guardians. Except for her "partner" whom she is forced to work with for the time being. The one guy she hated the most, which is why she is going to fly to him to punch him the face a few times. It's good to relieve some stress she thought. She's thinking too much and Keiko feared her brain might hurt.
Once the sirens went off and an announcement went off that said the city had been purged of the DM. Keiko quickly stormed out the door and smelled the fresh air. Namimori was a lot more beautiful when that DM stuff isn't around. Which fired Keiko up even more to save the day! To help those in need in this time of crisis for Japan! To…her stomach growled very loudly and she let out a loud unfeminine burp.
"Oh shoot…I'm really hungry. Now I really got to go see him and then he can pay for my meal! I'll just use my good old fashioned womanly charms to seduce him into buying me as many burgers as I want! I knew having this fine body of mine would pay off! Thanks mom!" Keiko shouted to the whole world before she focused on herself now for a moment. She focused very hard, thinking of the one thing she wants to protect most with her dying will and then released it! She entered Hyper Dying Will Mode, the orange flame appearing on her forehead, and her gloves turning to metallic ones with XI engrave don the back of them.
"All right…it seems I can control this better now. Still have to stick to my five minute time limit though…well it won't take me long to get to where he is. He's in the same place all the time…" Keiko stated to herself before she took off flying into the air for the park she knew he would be at. The laziest, loneliest, and biggest loser in the world. He was her partner. He was unmotivated, uncaring, and completely lacking in his resolve to do anything with his life. He was Keiko's Sun Guardian, the successor to Ryohei Sasagawa who was Keiko's uncle.
Keiko found him in his usual lying down on a bench in the park. It was a park her father and mother Haru used to take her to a lot when she was young. A luscious green park with trees, lakes, rolling hills, and sakura trees. It was a beautiful place that Keiko absolutely loved! How could anyone be able to ignore being active in such a place? Then she glared over to him who was lying down on the bench lazily sleeping. She got mad as she stomped her way over to the bench and saw a picture book lying over his face.
"Seriously! You fall asleep reading something that actually has pictures? How much worse can you get you lazy bum…hey…are you listening to me? Hey Kioshi! Wake up!" Keiko raised her leg up with her foot right below his waist and stomped down hard on the poor boy. He up screaming in pain with his hands holding onto his family jewels as eh rolled off the bench in pain.
"Dammit Sawada! Why the Hell…you got to wake me up like that! Damn this hurts so much!" Kioshi stated loudly as he rolled around on the grass. But his cries gained no sympathy from Keiko who brushed some hair from the front of her face and rolled her eyes at him. She couldn't believe how weak and pathetic this guy was. She tried her hardest to make sure this fool couldn't reproduce anymore and make more losers like him but sadly it seems everything is still intact.
"Well I was going to try to wake up using my womanly assets but I figured I would be a good girl today!" Keiko said with her hands on her hip proudly with a smile. The boy then moved the book from his face to reveal that he looked dreadfully tired. Kioshi was a spiky, silver haired sixteen year old boy with an expressing that made you want to punch him in the face for no reason. He was always getting beat up and despite the fact he was well built. Being at the height of physical strength, even a five year old kicked his butt which Keiko did. He had clear blue eyes, a band aid on the bridge of his nose, and wrappings around his fists. He wore a yellow hoodie which covered his plain white t-shirt paired with some black jeans and black shoes.
Kioshi stared at Keiko hard for a good moment before saying, "What assets? You're as flat as a washboard…" Keiko then rose her foot up and drop kicked Kioshi into the ground head first! There were other people in the park who witnessed this obviously illegal crime taking place but they were used to it. Keiko proceeded to stomping on Kioshi's head many times to bury his head even deeper into the ground! "Let me say this….in as…few words….as possible! DIE, DIE, DIE, DIE, DIE, DIE, DIE, DIE, AND DIE A THOSUAND MORE TIMES!" Keiko shouted before she let her foot up from Kioshi's head. He then slowly rose his head up and spat the dirt out of his mouth. Surprisingly he was still alive thanks to his amazing healing abilities, any damage done to him was healed instantaneously it seems thanks to his powerful Sun Flames.
"Pfft…pooey! What the Hell was that for Sawada?" Kioshi yelled at her as he sat up and rubbed his head.
"You just called me flat chested! I am at least a B-cup you know!" Keiko shouted back at him with a glare. Kioshi waved her comment off and said, "More like B for bad attempt at growing into a woman."
"Oh…BAD ATTEMPT? You're just asking to get pounded aren't you Kioshi? I been meaning to practice some new moves I learned from Reborn…perhaps I should demonstrate!?" Kioshi then began to crawl away like a spider on the ground in fear! However, Keiko jumped into the air after him and body slammed him. She then proceeded to beating Kisohi up senselessly as other families enjoyed picnics, flew kites, and watched the beautiful sky. As in completely trying not to witness Keiko injure this boy.
After a while Keiko sat up on the bench sighing in relief as she stretched out her arms with a yawn. "Ah! You always know how to make me feel better Kioshi!" Keiko said with a smile before Kioshi painfully got himself up on the bench and from the corners of his eyes looked at her.
"All you did was beat me up for four hours…" He mumbled.
"Four hours well spent!" Keiko stated back to him in a matter-of-fact tone.
"For you and not me," He said rubbing his painful and sore body.
"Yeah…so?" Keiko said with a confused look.
Kioshi sighed before saying, "I want a new job…" However, Keiko laughed as she patted him on the back strongly and practically broke his spine as she did. She said Kioshi was such a funny person and always knew how to be the perfect dummy. Kioshi rolled his eyes and looked off into the distance.
"Whatever Sawada, this is precisely the reason why you can't get a boyfriend. You beat up any guy you meet! At this rate we're just going to have you switch teams and find you a nice girlfriend named Steve," Kioshi said bluntly which made Keiko grasp her heart painfully.
"G-girlfriend?! No I like boys! Don't say things like that! I haven't given up on finding a boyfriend yet! Trust me! I just have to find a durable guy…" Keiko said pouting.
"Durability shouldn't be a trait you look for in guys!" Kioshi yelled at her.
"And D cups shouldn't be the only thing you look for in girls!" Keiko yelled back at Kioshi who smirked at her as he put a hand under his chin and smiled cockily.
"Hmph! It's called having exceptionally high standards! I look for the perfect woman, one who is sweet, caring, and gentle! She is also beautiful, bodacious, and BOOTYFUL! Basically everything you're not Sawada," Kioshi said bluntly again. Keiko then punched him in the face, not hard enough to knock him off the bench though. She felt all the women in the world were telling her to do so at that moment.
"And that's why you don't have a girlfriend! Hmph!" Keiko said with her legs crossed over the, arms folded, and eyes looking away from Kioshi who figured he should keep his mouth closed otherwise Keiko would throw him into an ice cream truck again. He barely managed to get out of that situation with the cops. He was just curious about the kind of underwear she had on was all.
Kioshi then looked at Keiko who now drew her attention to some birds that flew in front of them. She was so focused on them that it made Kioshi think it is only moments like these when she is truly gentle. A beautiful and blessed girl in this world that is suffering because of the DM. He was mesmerized by how she is so filled with life when some people have completely lost their way. Even with the terrible things that happened in her past, much of which she can barely even remember. She still finds the strength each day to smile as beautifully as that. She is too good for this world Kioshi thought. But she's the only person that can save this world; she is the Eleventh boss of the Vongola, his boss, and his best friend. Well she was his only friend…and only female acquaintance willing to get close to him as most have a restraining order on him. He was so caught up in her beauty that he was barely able to catch himself and stop his staring.
Keiko then turned to him with an excited smile and pointed out the birds to him. 'Look Kioshi! Have you ever seen the birds get so close like this before! It's amazing!" Keiko said with a big smile that nearly broke Kioshi's heart. He wanted to tell her something sweet, something plausible, but only this came out.
"Well if all animals weren't afraid of you then maybe you wouldn't have to act like a little kid over some birds," Kioshi said to Keiko who pouted and glared at him.
"You always got ruin my dreams don't you? One day I will have a pet that won't run away from me!" Keiko stated with her fist in the air proudly.
"Your pets didn't run away! Heck your goldfish killed themselves and-" Kioshi stopped himself when he saw Keiko's eyes become beady and pure. As if they were drawn by a Shoujo artist and they looked into his very soul! "T-they what…?" Keiko said in a child like voice.
Kioshi quickly tried to cover it up before she goes unstable and blows up the whole park! "I mean…they went to fishy land like I told you! They're still on vacation you know!" Kioshi said as he looked away from Keiko with a guilty look. Keiko looked at for a moment fiercely before she smiled at him.
"Oh of course! Mr. and Ms. Fish are just on vacation! Though it has been ten years…I'm sure they're having fun! Right Kioshi!" Keiko said to him with that innocent look in her smile. Kioshi nodded his head slowly with an exaggerated sense of relief. He felt the fish were safer than he was if Keiko ever went ballistic! But he knew that was because Keiko couldn't deal with losing anyone else in her life. He saw the talk of her pets going away reminded her of the people that went away in her life. Making it silent between the two of them for a moment.
"Hey…Kioshi. What do you think happens to those people that leave us forever? Do you think they are still able to remember us? To think about us wherever they may be? Where do they even go for that matter…?" Keiko said in a low voice which surprised Kioshi but not so much. He knew Keiko really came here to confide in him like she always does. Beating him up was her way of venting all the negative feelings so he gladly allows her to do it. Any pain he feels is nothing to the pain she has felt. Kioshi then thought about this for a moment.
"Hmm…I wonder…I would like to think they wherever they may be. That they are happy and will always think about us. Because people don't go anywhere when they disappear, they live on forever in our hearts. As long as you never forget them always hold your love for them in your hearts. Then they can never disappear Keiko, no one will ever leave you. I know I won't, not now…not ever," Kioshi said to Keiko who looked at him with tears in her eyes. She then embraced Kioshi with her arms wrapped around him and cried in his chest. Kioshi put his arms around her and patted her on the back.
"Stupid…" He thought, "She was trying to be so strong again! Now she has no choice but to cry…dammit. She shouldn't have to cry…I know she has to but dammit…dammit dammit! Her tears…are wasted on this world. But I swear to you Keiko…I will protect you! I will help you save this world, and you can live your life happily. Especially before I disappear…as I don't have a lot of time for this world…"
Keiko then pulled away from Kioshi and wiped away her tears. She then stood up from the bench and was silent for a moment. Kioshi knew what she was thinking before she even said it. He stood up and flexed his muscles, punching the palm of his hand with his fist.
"So what's on today's agenda boss? Are we going to ask around the people to see what they know, beat up some thugs trying to take advantage of the chaos by DM, or perhaps we're going to take revenge on more lingerie stores by stealing all the customer's bras again?" Kioshi said with a smirk as he nudged Keiko playfully. Keiko looked to him with a smile and put her hands on her hip.
"Hmf! Of course we're going to do all that and more today Kioshi! Today I'm feeling even more Supertastical than before! This must be my super week! But first you're treating to me all the burgers I want!" Keiko stated with fire in her eyes. Kioshi sighed with a hand over his head.
"And by all the burgers you want, you actually mean the entire store's stock. You already made McRonalds go out of business in Japan alone! How many more franchises do you plan to ruin?" Kioshi said as they began walking off together.
"What can I say? A girl has got to eat! I got to eat a lot of meat!" Keiko said as she rubbed her growling tummy.
"Oh I see, you think this will hope you grow bigger breasts! I saw the magazines in your room! What was it? Bigger Bustier Think Better?" Kioshi said which caused Keiko's face to become completely read in embarrassment and fury.
"That's it! You're getting a seismic toss right into an ice cream truck!" Keiko stated as she spun her arm around ready to attack. Kioshi backed away from her in fear.
"Oh please no! I'm going to get sick if I go back in there! Please Keiko spare me! Ahh!" Kioshi began running as Keiko chased him through Namimori. Even though currently the situation can be bleak, there can be some pure and fun moments in the world. Keiko had to become the mafia boss and succeed her father, but at least she has someone very close to her that was willing to aid her. She had to take care of the problems in the future just as her father had to take care of the problems in the past. That's what she began to realize a dream is like. A place where the past and future can connect, a place where anything can happen.
Ten Years Ago
"Keiko was having fun with the boy who would succeed Onii-chan. I am amazed to see that in the future she grows up to be such a fine woman. I'm glad she can be happy even though she was forced to become the boss. I only hope that this future I am seeing…won't have to happen quite like this. If this future…really is true…then must do something to stop it here in the present, Keiko's past! I will save my family and friends! Keiko…you must do what you can from where you are…and I will do what I can here…" Tsuna wrote in the back of his journal before he got up from his desk. He looked over to see Kyoko sitting quietly and thinking about something Tsuna had just asked her.
"Who am I you ask me Tsuna? Isn't it obvious…I'm the woman you want and need. And I am going to prove it to you…why don't you and I go have some fun with Haru then? Let's see which of you truly want more…" Kyoko said with a smirk as she glared at Tsuna who was worried about what she had planned…