Well. It's been a long time coming but the writing is now on the wall.

I'm officially leaving the KHR fandom, so I will not be updating any of my remaining fics. Sorry guys. It's been fun, but it stopped being fun a while ago. I stopped enjoying this fandom largely because of the people in it and when I moved in I found it so much more fun and less stressful in other communities. So I'll be posting what I had planned for each of my KHR fics, I ask that people please do not copy or continue them further, I worked hard on them, they're still my babies, and Rei and I have already shared a lot with this community. Please respect our wishes, mine especially, when it comes to my fics. Do not repost or continue them, please.

It's been a fun eight years (almost exactly) since I started writing here. But the time has come to say goodbye.

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PLANS FOR: THE HAND YOU'RE DEALT

Typical Namimori Daily Life Arc shenanigans. All the while Aya is trying to find a new job throughout after she got fired from the convini.

Convenience Store - Hibari rocked up and trashed the place. The manager wasn't frightened of her, so to avoid it, she got kicked out.

Cafe - Bianchi didn't approve of how they handled their sweets, she tried to 'help' and ended up poisoning all of their clients. Aya was asked to leave. She didn't even last an afternoon.

Bakery - She managed a week before Hibari rocked up. And kicked off a fight with the herbivores crowding around her, it happens again the next day, and the manager asks her to get her boyfriend under control, when she tells her that he ISN'T her boyfriend HE JUST WON'T LEAVE HER ALONE. She loses her job again.

Hotel Cleaner - This one has nothing to do with Hibari, and everything to do with her. She loses her temper with a particular disgusting guest who keeps leaving horrific messes in his room, used condoms and such, writing on his mirror about what he wants to do with her (since he saw her cleaning the other rooms on the floor so he knows who she is), she ends up pitching a fit when he walks in and makes a crass comment about her ass as she's trying to reach the used condom under the toilet. She ends up beating him with a chair. And gets fired. The only reason she avoids criminal charges is because she kept pictures and records of the shit he left.

Restaurant - Waitressing. Again, Hibari's fault she got fired. He sits in and when he sees someone making a very obvious attempt to peer up her skirt. All the destruction. And she doesn't even wait to be fired, resigns.

Maid Cafe - She manages a weekend, she's VERY popular. The first day is fine, she manages to avoid the stupid maid dance thing because she pretends not to hear anyone who asks. Then, Hibari comes in, and immediately gets territorial about designating her. And her boss is too terrified of him to let her escape or serve anyone else. She manages to talk her way out of doing the dance when he asks why she didn't do it. By the end of the day, she just can't stomach working there anymore. She hands in her apron and goes "Sorry. No."

And then she ends up at Takesushi. Hibari doesn't dare cause trouble there because his mother and Tsuyoshi are friends and she will END him if she hears of any shenanigans.

Shit happens with Mukurou and Kokuyoland, Ken physically outs the fact that Aya is trans in the worst way because he is a total fucking asshole. Hibari then proves to be a total traditionalist shitheel after the fact when he starts kicking off at Aya for wearing the wrong uniform and polluting Namimori's morals with deviant behaviour. She tells his mother to reign him in or she will bury him. Fon does it for her.

Xanxus and the Ring Battles. Iemitsu doesn't want her to be Tsuna's Storm Guardian, but he doesn't really have a choice in the matter because Reborn puts his foot down, and the first time he tries to say anything negative about her to Tsuna he packs a bag and goes to stay with her in her flat rather than stick around in the house with him. She wins her fight against Bel because unlike him, she is currently Flame Active, and she's got a mastery over all of them. Xanxus sends Lussuria to try and recruit her and while they do become friends, there is one thing that Lussuria can understand and respect: Loyalty to your Sky.

Dino finds out about Aya being trans from Hibari, he doesn't much care, and he scolds Hibari for being so closed minded about it. She's pretty well known in the mafia as trans. Is he really so fucking surprised? Also, dick move outing her without her permission.

10-yrs-later Arc, Older!Aya has fully transitioned. She's also prepared and knows she has a short period of time before her younger self arrives. She hands Tsuna her notebooks, every ring she has, and her box weapons, saying her younger self will know what to do and that she loves him before poufing into her younger self. Aya quickly reads through the notebook, equips herself properly, and then begins to lead Tsuna towards where she hopes Lal is waiting. Older!Ryohei takes her aside once they're all safe in the base, and has a serious talk about the fact that she finally came clean to them about being a Reincarnate, and the only reason she never transitioned was because she thought the little male Hayato may one day wake up and she didn't want him to live with her choices on his body. He informs her that this doesn't happen. Hands her medication that the Vongola developed and used flames with specifically to help her transition and tells her its time to be who she's supposed to be before leaving.

Her older self apparently married Hibari. This actually disgusts her given his behaviour, and she can't see it being a happy marriage despite her own diary claiming that it is.

Hibari DOES pull his head out of his ass during the Future Arc, but after everything is said and done, Aya is firmly on the side of 'that was then, this is now, our choices are ours, and I say no'. She's willing to forgive him and work with him, but that's as far as it goes.

Shimon Arc.

Aya has no interest in Shitopi-chan, she's polite and uses the girl's preferred names, but otherwise leaves her to her own devices as that seems to be where she is happiest. One of her old mafia friends, Alexei, from the Giegue Famiglia, rocks up to Namimori with flowers for her. He offers to take her out for a date before the Inheritance Ceremony and she agrees. Adelheid kills them. Aya gets stood up and it isn't until the next day when Reborn tells them that she realises what happened and goes immediately to kill Adelheid for it. When Julie jumps in she instantly changes targets and punches Daemon Spade out of him for everyone to see.

The Shimon find out they've been manipulated from the start and that Daemon Spade has been using them. The Inheritance Arc shenanigans don't occur. The Vindice are not summoned.

Then it's the Arcobaleno Trials.

Aya apologies to Reborn for everything, but her debts will not allow her to work for him. She joins Team Fon, even as she whispers the truth of what's going on to Tsuna so he can try to find an alternative.

When Hibari goes to shatter his watch, she snatches it off him and tells him to go right ahead and fight as he pleased but do not fucking ruin her Shifu's chance to regain himself you spoilt fucking selfish brat. She and Lussuria go and get parfait while the idiot men beat themselves bloody.

She stays long range when Jaeger gets into the fight, but when he attempts to take her out, she makes it a lot harder than expected as literally the most versatile and multi-adaptive combatant in all of the famiglias (five flames, close, mid, and long range combat, genius level intellect, and more weapons than you can shake a stick at. She's fucking OP and I am so salty that Hayato wasn't either).

Talbot rocks up with the orbs. Jaeger and Bermuda agree to the plan of holding up the Tri-Ni-Sette as revenge. Kawahira chuckles at the irony of the fact that the strongest fighter present was the only one he couldn't use, Aya's mixed flame nature made her too much of a 'mongrel' to use.

And in true Vongola fashion, I was thinking of a cracky ending where Dino, Hibari, Tsuna, Levi, and Skull try asking her on a date all at the same time and get into a fight. With Tsuna and Skull slinking away before the violence really kicks off, and it just drags in more people.

Aya meanwhile links arms with Bianchi and Lussuria and they all go off to get icecream together with Haru, Kyoko, and Chrome.

And that was to be the end of the fic.

Again, please do not continue or repost these fics. Or regurgitate these ideas either.