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Miku and Daemon played a big role by incinerating all the bugs while locating one of The Seven in order to safely deal with him and avoid casualties as well as damages.

'Fire is convenient against bugs.' said Miku.

'The hell, isn't the ol' geezer fire too?' Yusuke asked, baffled.

'My flame,' said Daemon with a forced smile while annoyed with the boy for that remark, 'Only controls the mind and they can't burn.'

'My flames heals or augments me temporarily as well as activating physical characteristics, so no.' Reborn quipped. 'Miku is the only flamethrower we've got.'

'For now, we dealt with Kamiya idealistically...but its concerning.' said Genkai as Daemon gleaned information off the Doctor and made him forget ever knowing the enemy. Before meeting Sensui, he was a genuinely good doctor who was happy with his powers and getting to do his job much better. 'These men are approached for their abilities, made to watch Chapter Black, and they wound up hating humanity as a side-effect that they cooperated with Dark Angel.' she stated.

'Is it THAT easy...?' Miku frowned. 'To turn people into evil by just watching a videotape?' the two mafioso had trouble accepting that, too.

'It's the psychological impact it brings.' said Genkai. 'It affects the worst people who are pure and good at heart. Those vulnerable to this the most, are children. To counteract that tape, they must see the White Chapter.'

'That's kinda cliche.'

'Well, Reikai isn't exactly good with naming senses. Complain to them, not me.'

'...'

'Well, we got us names and faces.' said Miku. 'We oughta tell Kurama's group before we go attacking.' she said. 'I wish I know full abilities other than this as I hate unknowns.'

'Well that's what makes it interesting, no?' Reborn grinned. 'This is adventure but Miku, at some point...' he said as he went serious. He also wants to know how Miku's mind works as a Donna trainee. Daemon was of the same opinion, watching the girl.

'I'll be forced to kill? Nah, these guys aren't worth my first-kill cherry-popping.' said Miku with a dismissive handwave. The boys did a spit-spray while the adults in the room raised an eyebrow at her choice wording. 'We capture these five guys, brainwash them into forgetting they ever met Dark Angel and Gatekeeper as well as having watched that tape and their time with this macabre team with a little memory editing as we did Kamiya, and let them live normal lives again.' methodology is mafia-style if she can casually use brainwashing as a solution. 'Our real enemy are only two people who, while powerful, are understaffed and needed throwaway bait while they complete their dream gate.' she said. 'We take that away...'

'Yeah, all of us have to know what they look like first before we strike.' Yusuke agreed.

'Our sole advantage is this...that Dark Angel and Gatekeeper doesn't know me, Reborn and Daemon. Everyone else, they know. We can strike anywhere and they don't know us.' said Miku. 'So we'll have to keep distance from you and keep contact by phone after Kurama's group joins us for information dissemination today.'

'What of that boxer though? He's a liability after he freaked out and wanting an out.' Daemon piped up.

'Too late, they've seen his face. He's dead without us protecting him and since he left us earlier...I doubt we'll see him again.' said Miku grimly.

'Miku...what is your range?' Yusuke asked her worriedly. 'Your range covers only hearing minds, right? You're way stronger than Murota.'

'My range?' Miku chuckled darkly. 'My range is 10 km.' Genkai looked grim as she nodded, and Daemon already knows. Yusuke, Reborn, Yanagisawa, and Kido gaped at her. 'No criminal activity can last long in any place I'm in if I chose to become a policewoman. It doesn't matter if you're underground or in a plane up in the sky as long as you're within the area I'm in. My territory is spherical and very large.'

'...are you serious?' Reborn asked her tonelessly, out of shock. 10 km. That's effectively 1/4 of Vongola Territory in Italy not counting the sea so she has to be put further mainland...and that's huge. She's human security by herself for her generation when they persuade her into bosshood and she'll be its most fearsome boss in history. In alliance meetings, no shady intention will EVER go amiss, much less any intention of betrayal or assassination. Nope, nooot gonna work on this lady.

'Murota...he was quickly abducted by Dark Angel and Sniper a mere ten minutes after we parted with him from the hospital.' this was to Yusuke's gang's horror. 'We couldn't react. Even if we want to, Dark Angel is too strong. Sure we can take down Sniper but Dark Angel...is a Class S Human.' Miku shuddered, 'Daemon and I will be dead in seconds.'

'Fuuuuck...' Yusuke swore. They just got somebody killed just for simply associating with them?!

'Its to be expected I guess.' Genkai wasn't too happy either. 'Now this changes things. An S-Class Human. A-Class powers is as far as humans can reach. I myself, used to be A-Class until I had Yusuke inherit my powers. For a human to obtain S-Class Powers...something special should happen. Miku, what happened to this guy that he achieved S?'

'He's got a bad case of MPD.' said Miku. 'All personalities are very individualistic that there may as well be seven people in one body.' she said, looking utterly perturbed. 'All seven personalities trained hard in Seikouki for seven years each of them to divide over forty and it works because they all share one body that in a way, it fulfilled the over-forty years requirement.'

'Now that explains it.' Genkai pinched her nose hard. 'Seikouki is a power very few can attain...and it takes extreme discipline and grueling training. The highest echelon of power regarding Reiki. I used to have it myself but not anymore...and I'm too old for that shit.'

'Old hag, what are our chances?' Yusuke demanded.

'I'd say zero that our best bet is killing the Gatekeeper to prevent the expansion of the Tunnel, and that will require immense sacrifice alone because Dark Angel will kill us all.' said Genkai flatly. 'It'll only be worth it if we kill Gatekeeper but even then, we just merely bought Ningenkai a bit more time as Dark Angel can just find another like him.' she shook her head. 'Miku, have you found Hiei and transmitted?'

'Yes. But he's keeping an eye on the cave outside the radar. He won't leave. He's leaving the humans to us.'

'Well, all we need now is Kurama's group before we split up.' Yusuke decided. 'Oh yeah, can't you transmit to them too?' he suggested.

'I can only do it with a fellow Telepath.' Miku snarked. 'And none of them are Telepaths! Only exception is Daemon as he used to be a ghost that he can be contacted by telepathy too!'

And so, upon gathering in Yusuke's apartment, Kurama's group got intel update.

'I see...so that's how it is?' Kurama chuckled a bit nervously. 'Granted, all of us are B-Class powers but against an S...?'

'Well, now that we're all here I can finally lay one last nail.' Miku piped up.

'One last nail?' Reborn frowned.

'They are looking for someone who can dimensionally cut barriers. The reikai barrier in the tunnel is an obstacle and they are looking for someone with that power. And I'm worried about Kuwabara.'

'Me? But I lost all my powers!' Kuwabara choked out. 'I'm basically a normal person now!'

'You're evolving rei-power wise.' said Miku grimly to their surprise. 'You have what they want.' everyone stared at Kuwabara in horror. 'Your powers are coming back, but not enough to restore your rei senses yet but in a couple days from now by the time of Megallica's Concert, you can now use your powers again.'

'Kuwabara...no going out for you.' Yusuke decided immediately.

'B-But Megallica's Concert...!' Kuwabara protested, earning exasperated sweatdrops...and kicks from Genkai, Yusuke, Reborn and Miku.

'That's enough out of you.' said Reborn coolly.

'To think a concert is more important than livelihood...sort out your priorities.' Miku sighed.

xxx

Daemon's Apartment...

'This is a whole new ballpark.' Reborn swore as he reported directly to Timoteo. He just got wind that Timoteo pulled out Nana and Yoshimitsu, and already on plane for Italy for their safety while trusting him with Miku's survival. 'What do you think, Spade? Should we throw our lives for this?'

'Well, even if we don't, we'll still die from demon onslaught anyway.' Daemon drawled. 'My rebirth from death is pretty short-lived if you ask me. But I'd rather die fighting than accepting worldwide Armageddon as my COD.'

'I suppose that's true, but it doesn't mean we have to like it.' Reborn scowled. 'Miku is Vongola's most fearsome boss to ever live if she takes the seat. She'll be the most powerful boss in history with an absurdly-clean reign.'

'Its always the ladies.' Daemon chuckled. 'After Giotto and Ricardo...Daniela and Miku were the only strong ones in the family's successors. As much as I want Miku in the seat as Vongola Decimo, its best to make the Ninth Generation and Iemitsu squirm and sweat for their...poor choices in their time.' he purred sadistically. 'And ultimately, its up to her. If she doesn't, Vongola will collapse or find a way to make her take the seat using dastardly means out of desperation...and as its strongest boss, its her VS the Family in a one-sided battle with her the victor as she can read minds. She can protect what she deems hers, and kill you before you can even make attempts.' he said while being a literal couch potato with senbei crackers and watching TV. 'Even if she is an inferior fighter to me, nothing I do will work on her unless its a battle of attrition due to lack of training.'

'Point.'

Reborn supposed as they talk, Miku was eavesdropping.

Next, they got a phone call on a rainy night the next day.

Kuwabara was literally targeted because he was the weakest as the enemy still thinks he hasn't recovered his powers yet, and Miku intercepted Seaman to protect Kuwabara's secret. Despite warnings, he STILL went to Megallica Concert with his friends!

...so Daemon, get your ass to Sakazuki Park to make him forget. Captured him. was her e-mail to Daemon.

Well, after getting soaked to the bone, they took Seaman home.

'This is the second one, Vision.' Daemon spoke to her. 'With this, it's three more.'

'Yes, Dreamer. Its only a matter of time now. This boy should forget things beyond his time. Leave the darkness of humanity for us to clean and let him live a normal life.' Miku agreed. 'And let's fix things at his house.'

Miku is the only one who knew about the transmitter in Seaman's pants, as while Daemon controlled Seaman into a bath and memory editing, she took care of the laundry...and the transmitter.

xxx

'It seems he's compromised.' said Sniper as he and Gourmet listened to the radio linked to Seaman's transmitter.

'Vision and Dreamer...Vision can see the future while Dreamer implies a few things.' Sensui mused thoughtfully. 'They have capable people on their side but we haven't seen them yet.' he said. 'Go to Seaman's House and see if they're still there and see who they are.'

'On it.' and Sniper left using a gate Itsuki opened for him.

However, he cannot see anyone inside Seaman's house. 'E-eh? Didn't they go here? Or was it a blatant misleading attempt?' he wondered as he went to the houses of the others but no sign of outsiders to note. '...where did they take Seaman...?'

xxx

'Kufufufu...I put my territory around here...you won't see Seaman, little Sniper.' Daemon purred as he and Miku watched.

'We'd nab him too but as he is needed by Sensui for his efficiency, he'll just be seduced to the dark side again while Seaman is easily discarded. Seaman's powers focus on delay and capture and he has poor combat capability so he really wasn't trusted.' Miku shook her head. 'Sad to say, when things go shitty, we beat him and make him realize what he was made to do is wrong.'

'Too bad, such an opportunity within our reach too. Shame.' Daemon tut-tutted. 'But he's a Cloud.'

'...you're not serious about me being boss are you?' Miku glanced at him.

'You know full well what goes on in heads.' Daemon quipped. 'You read Vongola like a book in their short time with you.'

'Yeah.' said Miku. 'For now, they prioritized escape from Japan to avoid our situation. However, they're wondering how to go about my parents legally to make me go back to the Sawadas who to me, are strangers.' she narrowed her eyes. 'To the point that their careers are threatened. Livelihood...or give me up.' she swore. 'I know you want nothing to do with Vongola anymore since you're flat out disappointed in everybody there...but I'm counting on you for my foster family.' said Miku grimly. 'Them and their livelihood. Mother already suffered from a rival company's assassination attempt on my parents this is the last thing in mind I want for them.' she pleaded. 'Sometimes...I wish they never found me, but damn the foster system paperwork.' she growled, clenching her fists. 'It left a trail!' she swore.

'If we ever survive this situation...please, use all means necessary to protect the peaceful lives of my foster family. Be it home life, social life or avoiding any sabotage on livelihood.' Miku asked of him softly. 'Can I count on you?'

'Nufufufu...is that all you ask of me, Miku?' Daemon smiled. She did not ask him to be her Guardian for all his power and experience. She wanted the consent of those who said 'yes' to her but her foster family is more her priority.

'Yes. The mafia...what an irritant in our lives.' Miku grunted. 'And curse my lineage. I just had to have the misfortune of being a Vongola.'

'Well, blame your predecessor and your father.' Daemon snorted. 'They made many fatal mistakes in their time. Had they raised Enrico, Massimo and Federico well instead of spoiling and making their heads big, as well as taking security seriously, you would have continued to live a semi-normal life here in Mushiyori. But alas, complacence, arrogance and overconfidence, riding on the coattails of power left by the late Daniela...it was an opportunity preyed upon by the smart.'

'Tch!'

'As it was, Xanxus, the foster-child of Timoteo was the only competent one. But alas, his misfortune is his blood just like you. He's not a blood-Vongola thus would not be accepted by the Sky Ring.'

'Ironic. I didn't want anything to do with mafia and Xanxus wants to succeed, yet blood fucked us up.' Miku sighed depressingly. 'Whoop-dee-doo.'

'Now now, let's see what the future brings.' Daemon chuckled. 'But I accept the job you asked of me. Family over business...that wasn't a valued quality in my era back then when I was an aristocrat.' he said. 'Arranged Marriages are solely for benefits regardless of whether children wanted their fiancees or not. I was just lucky that I was paired with a woman I loved and she loved me just as much.' he sighed as he took out his locket containing a photo of the seven elements with a woman. 'Very few engaged nobles were as lucky as us...yet a bad decision made by Giotto got her killed.'

'Bad decision?'

'He dissolved Vongola's power for reasons I didn't know...' said Daemon, lost in his memories and with Miku's ability activated, she could really see those memories. 'As a result, security in our mansion was lax while we all fought against our enemies. Enemies planted explosives in the right places...and she was lost.' he said in a pained voice. 'Half my heart died that day and the remaining half was in anger. I investigated why...and made the culprits for suggesting we dissolve our power to Giotto pay for it all and forced Giotto to step down for allowing sabotage to us.' he shook. 'And I left what was once my home and family. My heart was in pieces and before I knew it...I was a restless ghost.' he said.

'I was forced to watch Vongola go downhill as a bound ghost until I regained some power and I began living in host to host. And when I see a worthy leader I pull strings but when they have fallen in my eyes, their mysterious luck stops.' he told her. 'Only when Daniela started leading, she burned with such fires that her 'luck' was from start to finish of her reign. She was like Giotto as a leader but didn't have his...susceptibility.' he chuckled. 'And to think your fool of a sire looked down on a woman's ability to lead as she ensured the Vongola Alliance survived TWO World Wars.'

'Well, he clearly did not brush up on History or he did, but deliberately ignoring her part in history out of sexism.' Miku scoffed.

'I see...probably it.'

And they remained out of the way, functioning mostly as informants...though when Sniper came to assassinate Kuwabara, he got sniped instead by Reborn, but didn't kill the teenager. Due to Miku's request of Daemon, only she and Reborn are active in watching over Mushiyori.

'Jeez, I know how it works, but this is kinda sad picking on Kuwabara-san~' Miku mused as they watched from the roof. 'If they think he's powerless since the tournament, shouldn't they be leaving him alone?'

'Loose ends is loose ends, Miku.' said Reborn. 'Even the weakest enemy can have a trump card given a perfect opportunity, and be a spanner in the works. Sensui clearly doesn't take any chances.'

'Tchee...' Miku clicked her tongue in distaste. 'Well, we pick Sniper up and make him change his mind!' she carried Reborn and sprinted forward so fast that to untrained eyes she teleported.

Reborn had to tightly hold onto his fedora when she did so. Too fast. Miku picked up Sniper.

'Y-you...' Sniper croaked out as he got picked up by a younger girl.

'I felt someone dying here and I came to check it out.' said Miku, speaking in a way how girls her age do when she was usually 'years older' in her speaking. In fact, she talks like older teens do. 'Dunno why you got shot for but when you can help someone, you gotta go do it.' she said.

'Why?'

'Do you need a reason to help or save someone?' Miku pointed out before shaking her head. 'But sadly, very few think like I do these days. There's always a catch to everything lately. So be a good kid and do good things without a catch too because there's few of us in this world now. There's hardly such thing as 'selfless help' these days. Hey, fix him.' Miku asked of Reborn. 'No idea how to explain how he got shot to the Emergency Room and we can't deal with the police right now!'

'This kid?' Sniper croaked out, eyeing Reborn incredulously. He was well-dressed, he thought this baby had to deal with cosplaying parents.

'Un. I can fix you.' Reborn spoke in a baby-ish way possible and milking all baby-cuteness for all its worth. 'I can make boo-boo go away!' in his inner self? "Good thing there's no other witness to this or they'll never let me live this down!" he swore in vexation while being all cute. "Miku owes me for this." 'Bad boo-boo go away~!' and he used flames to heal Sniper's wound...that HE caused, by the way! 'All gone now, neechan!'

'Ah...its gone.' Sniper blinked as he looked down his bloodied shirt. His wound was gone, though the bloodied hole in his shirt remained.

'You OK now yes? Even if he's a baby, my cousin knows how to fix injuries by gut instinct.' Miku told him while carrying Reborn like she would a doll.

'Yes, I...I'm alright.' Sniper looked at the kid before him who wore a bright smile.

'That's good! Well, see you around and hopefully not hurt again!' and she left with the baby she has.

"A reason to help...?"

xxx

'Jeez, we had to act all cutesy.' Reborn griped when they were far away enough from Sniper.

'Teehee, its a necessity to trigger a change in him.' said Miku with an unrepentant smile. 'It will cause a conflict with what he knew through Black Chapter. And big things start small don't they?'

'A seed of doubt.'

'Yup. I did my part, so its up to the front liners to make him doubt Sensui more.'