Warnings: Rated T for themes and language. I will be using both manga and anime b/c I like parts of both plots. And errors in grammar, spelling, etc.

Disclaimer: I do not own Katekyo Hitman Reborn anything, but I hope to bring my OC into the world of KHR.

***My favorite KHR Fanfic is the Russian Roulette series written by Vixen Tail. Sonya is the BEST. I hope to create characters and plots like Vixen Tail does and will do my best with information gathering, etc.***

Enjoy the story!

Italicized words = I use them to emphasize, when there is a different language, and when the characters are thinking. If it gets confusing - sorry.

NO! Ate Angela! ATE!

It was hot.

One of those days where you'd go to the beach or stay at home blasting the airconditioning. However, Angela was invited to spend some time with her extended family and guess where they decided to go - the beach.

Angela typically enjoyed reading on the beach, but her younger cousins joined them this weekend which meant actually swimming and playing in the sand. She couldn't blame them. Her closest related cousin David was nine, his older sister Anna was thirteen, and the rest were in between those ages or a bit younger. She'd rather be a twenty-year-old playing with little kids rather than talking about school and work with the adults.

Following the group of kids as they swam to the nearby sandbar, she stationed herself on the edges to keep an eye on as many as she could. She saw Anna with their twelve-year-old cousin Abby on one end and David nearby on a boogie board. She really admired him for being able to swim as well as he did at his age. She knows some kids who are his age who are too afraid to even dunk their heads into the water for more than three seconds.

So there she sat, praying that she didn't get sunburned as the parents and adults chatted on the beach and the kids adventured out into the ocean.

Everything was fine.

And then it wasn't.

Angela decided to take a quick scan around for her cousins, but couldn't find David anywhere.

Don't panic, she thought, He could just be behind somebody and I can't see him from my position. Getting up she noticed his boogie board floating a few yards from the sand bar and no David. Looking further out she saw David floating further and further away from the boogie board and away from the sand bar and knew it must have been a rip current that caught him.

"Someone help!" Angela cried out jumping up and down and waving her hands in the hopes of getting the attention of the lifeguard. But everyone on the sandbar - mostly kids and a couple of adults - were in shock that a kid got whisked away that fast and the lifeguards had 200 or so other people to watch that they must not have heard or seen her over the bustle of people and the crashing waves.

Not knowing what else to do, she dived into the water, paddling on his boogie board, until she reached him and switched places with him so he could rest atop the float. The poor kid was frozen and must have been in shock because he just stared at her with frightened eyes and a trembling lip. After peddling so hard to reach him, she was out of breath and noticed they were even further away from shore. Possibly 100 yards and counting because she could still feel and see the pull of the current dragging them further and further out into the ocean. Still no friggin' lifeguard in sight.

Angela heard about how swimming perpendicular to the rip current may help so she gathered her energy to propel them as much as possible back to shore. She wasn't a bad swimmer, but it felt like she was moving nowhere but out to sea.

Then she felt it - a wave was coming.

Angela could feel the water lowering and pulling and knew she couldn't keep holding onto the board while David was on it or else the board would overturn and they'd both be pushed under the water.

There was only one choice.

"David. David, listen to me," she tapped his cheek and treaded the water as much as she could to bring her face as close to his as possible. He whimpered softly.

"Hey, hey, hey, it's gonna be alright, okay? You'll be alright and I'll be alright-" She wasn't going to be alright "- and we'll-" you'll "- be back on land with everyone. Promise."

The water was pulling.

"David, I love you, everything will be fine….Don't worry." And with that, she gave him one last push as the wave crashed on them and carried him back to shore.

You'll be alright. Everything will be fine.

If only.

Sand and salt were all that she could see as she was pulled under the water. Seconds seemed like minutes for her and she knew she was drowning. She had no energy to swim up, couldn't feel the floor, and it was growing dark.

Or was it just her? She could see the sun and sky above her as the water calmed, but just like in those movies you watch as someone is passing out, Angela felt like the dark was creeping in at the edges of her vision.

At least David's alright. He should have gotten back to shore or someone must have gotten to him by now. Unlike me. It was a morbid thought, but she was satisfied that David was saved from having a short life and that his parents wouldn't have to bury their only son. No parent should ever have to bury their child.

She was sad she was dying, but she was the last of her immediate family. No siblings. Father died from diabetes a year ago. Her mom died from a shooting outside of the hospital she worked at 2 years before that. And she had to put down her fourteen-year-old labrador-pitbull, Banban, just last month because her arthritis was causing her so much pain even with the medicine the vet prescribed. No one was left but her.

"Thank you, God, for letting me live the life I lived. For taking care of Mom, Dad, and Banban up in heaven. For saving David. Thank you, and please take care of me as well."

Finally, she let her eyes close. Her last sight being the blue sky.

Ate (ah-teh) = older sister in Tagalog

Rip currents have been recorded to span over 1,000 feet from the beach and some rip currents aren't circular therefore this one wouldn't bring Angela and David back to the shore and instead took them straight out to sea. Although rip currents are only on the surface of the ocean, it was the large wave crashing down on David and Angela that pulled her under and disoriented her.

Everyone be careful at the beach b/c lifeguards can't always be there for you and rip currents act quick. There are tells to find out where they are which you can research online really quickly. It's important to be aware of your surroundings and to not overestimate your swimming abilities b/c anything can happen just like that.

Thank you for reading! I wanted to wait until I finished planning out the plot, but a have a good chunk planned already and wanted to get this out to start. I'll do my best to bust out the chapters I've planned, but writing is harder than math and science for me so it'll take a bit of time.

Review if you're interested in the Angelo delle Rose!