When I Was Your Man (2)

It had happened shortly after the Inheritance Ceremony, M.M had came into their usual peaceful life and had somehow managed to take over Chrome's place in the Kokuyo Gang. Chrome did not expect that of course, seeing that she always thought that she had such a strong bond with her master and even though none of the two ever admit it, Chikusa and Ken do seemed to care for her, hence, she was shocked when M.M had managed to push her away and stepped into her life.

Chrome Dokuro would never forget about that day, the particular day when she woke up only to find herself in an empty Kokuyo Land. The emptiness in her heart could never be described in words, she felt hopeless and was lost in the world. She remembered running down the corridors, her fingers piercing her palm and blood trickled down her hand but she ignored it. When she arrived in the living room, she could feel her internal organs crumbling into pieces, it was empty, no sign of Chikusa and Ken arguing, no sign of M.M calling out "Mukuro-chan", most importantly, no sign of her beloved Mukuro-sama. He was gone. They were gone, they left her when they knew that she had no one else but them. Chrome managed to force herself to walk all the way to the middle of the room, there sat a piece of furniture, a table, old and worn out, but she was the one who brought it back, with the help of Ken and Chikusa of course. It was the only piece of furniture that survived through all the battles held here. Her hands were shaking as she opened up the package on the table, a piece of paper fell from the bag.

"To: Chrome Dokuro,

Leave this place as I shall have no more uses of you.

Mukuro Rokudo."

The note was simple and short, simply like how Mukuro Rokudo had always liked, her hands were shaking, and her heart was breaking, into pieces and pieces, tears gather in her eyes but for some reason, she couldn't cry.

Why? Why? Mukuro-sama, why?

She kept asking herself, he asked her to leave, but where can she go, she has no one else in the world except for them, they were her saviours, her friends and her family. Are they not?

Chrome was practically breaking apart when her hands suddenly came in touch with a soft fabrics, she looked down and was shocked to see a set of Nanimori Middle School uniform laying in it, her heart started beating faster as she realised that she may not be all alone in the world.

"Bossu..." she murmured softly before she started running towards Nanimori Middle School, she managed to get changed before reaching the school and as expected, she was late. The school gate was guarded by the one and only Nanimori Middle School Disciplinary Chairman, Kyouya Hibari. Chrome was running with her head down and she ran straight towards Hibari, banging into him and losing her balance as she started to fall backwards, her eyes closed as she waited for the fall to finish, however, Hibari somehow managed to snake both his arms around her waist and had caught her before she fell. Chrome opened her lone eyes and was shocked to see Hibari so close towards her, his eyes though still cold, showed some sort of concern for her. Her lone eye started to tear up again and Hibari was shocked to see that. He let go of her and before she can even speak, he had spoke.

"Chrome Dokuro, what happened?" His voice was cold, his arms were supporting her from crumbling down to the ground and his eyes were showing concern, before Chrome can even react, tears were already trickling down her face and she was telling Kyouya Hibari everything that had happened. She was expecting him to call her weak herbivore but he had kept quiet, running his arms in circle as he soothed her. That year, Chrome Dokuro was only 15 years old and Kyouya Hibari was 16 years old.

~Two years later~

The return of Mukuro Rokudo back to Chrome Dokuro's life was unexpected and though all the guardians and her friends would tell her to never trust him again, she had still accepted her into her life again, putting her trust on him and had been mending their bond once again. Mukuro Rokudo had shown no sign of concern, as though whatever Chrome had been doing now was just what he expected. He did not once tried to mend his bond with Chrome and he still acted like his own self. He had always known that Chrome would choose him over the idiot skylark, and so, he acted as though nothing had happened, he acted as though knowing that the god of fate and luck would always be on his side, however, an unexpected incident happened and the bond was once again broken a year later.

Chrome had been in despair when her bond with Mukuro Rokudo once again broke, into pieces that no matter how hard and how much effort she could put in could never ever mend her bond with Mukuro again. The situation was so bad that even Tsunayoshi Sawada nor Kyoko and Haru can talk any senses to Chrome. On the last day of the week, she had chose to break her once most important bond in her life, she had talked to her bossu and the other guardians and was not surprised when though each and all of them told them to break that bond, they were weary of the effect of that on Chrome Dokuro.

"Kumo-san?" Chrome had met with Kyouya Hibari last, her relationship with him had improved so much since the event that happened two years ago and Hibari had even agreed on declaring her as an "omnivore" after her many protests.

"Hnn.. What is it, omnivore?"

"I... I... I am going to beak my bond with him," her voice was soft and filled with sadness, she felt tired of everything concerning Mukuro but to break her bond with him, she felt like she might not survive this second time. Hibari pulled her into a hug as he placed a hand on her back again, drawing circles as to calm her down, tears filled her eyes again as she leaned on him, hearing his strong heart beat every now and then, filling her own heart with strength and warmth.

"I...I... I do not want to, but he, he, Kyouya, he did it again, I do not know, what..." Her voice slowly faded as Hibari pulled her closer, listening to her rambling and talking without any senses, her tears messing up his new purple shirt but he felt no concern to it.


Mukuro woke up from that nightmare again, his hands felt cold as cold sweat start to drip down his face, he felt cold and lonely, he looked around his bed and finally found it, the white owl, the only thing that can, in these days, give him warmth. The day their bond broke, he acted as though it was nothing, despite Chrome crying and apologising, he still acted as though it was nothing. He did gave her a smile that broke her heart once more, he saw her run, run and run into the arms of that idiot skylark, he saw her cry and dirty the skylark's shirt, he saw the skylark soothing her, he saw everything and it was only then that he realised that Chrome Dokuro, no longer belongs to him. She is no longer his vessel, his follower or his friends. Mukuro Rokudo realised that, when his bond with her broke, it was not Chrome Dokuro who had been holding onto that bond tightly, clinging onto it as though her life matters on it, but it was him, he was the one who really held the bond tightly, he was the one depending on Chrome all this while, not her. This realisation had shocked him, he was lost for a few days though he didn't show it at all, he appeared to be all normal, he attended meetings and carried out his missions, he ate and slept as usual. It was Chrome who had stopped attending the meetings and had stopped carrying out her missions, she didn't eat nor did she sleep well. It was a month later when she had came out from her shell back into the world, the guardians were giving her all the attention, practically taking care of her everything and were banning her from taking any dangerous missions alone, afraid that she might kill herself out of desperation. While all full attention was on Chrome, none of them seem to be caring about how Mukuro was doing. The only attention that he got was from the one that he did not expect, Reborn.

" Kufufufufu... and what do you want, baby?" Mukuro was attacked when he was sleeping, well, almost sleeping. He could never sleep nowadays and whenever he sleep, he would enter the illusion world where he once met Chrome, he would remembered everything that happened and he would wake up with cold sweat trickling down his forehead. The hitman had caught him moments before he drifted out into sleep, Leon had once again turned into a gun and was being pointed towards him. Mukuro's trident was up the exact moment he felt Reborn's presence, he pressed it against the gun and was trying his best to stay alive.

"Ciaossu, Mukuro," Reborn greeted him as though he was not trying to kill Mukuro in the middle of the night, in the Vongola Mansion.

"Kufufufufu... I don't remember asking for a midnight call from you," Mukuro replied while smirking sadisticly. Reborn stared at him and jumped down from the bed, he landed on the ground and fixed his fedora, shielding his eyes from Mukuro's view.

"You are regretting," Reborn said coldly.

"Kufufufu... what are you" His sentence was cut down by Reborn, who simply gave him a cold stare that seemed to look through his soul and all of a sudden, Mukuro felt that he was being naked in front of the hit man.

"Chrome Dokuro, she is the one and only female mist guardian in the Vongola Mansion,"

"..."

"She may seem weak when she left you, but she is not now."

"..."

"Though, she was weak when she first arrived. "

"..."

"She had been taking lessons from Gokudera and the others, she was practically injured everyday and dame-Tsuna was so worried that he wanted to pull her out from training."

"..."

"But Chrome had managed to convince dame-Tsuna to change his mind, she rejected his offer and her determination had caused Hibari to offer to train her as well."


~Hospital, Room 369~

Tsunayoshi Sawada entered the room once again, his hand holding onto a bouquet of white daisies, he placed them gently into the vases and settled down on the chair next to the bed. He gently moved Chrome's bang away from her eyes and held her hand gently. His brown eyes showed concern.

"Bossu..."

"Chrome-chan, are you okay now?"

"I... I am fine, gomen, bossu."

"*sigh* Chrome-chan, there is really no need for you to do this, you know?" Tsunayoshi Sawada's voice was soft and gentle, he gently patted her hand and was clearly not happy with seeing her getting all hurt again. His voice filled with concern and Chrome felt her eyes tearing up again, her bossu was just being too kind to her. In fact, everyone was being too kind to her, they had accepted her and befriended her when she was all alone, they had shown her what and how a Famiglia is and had practically shoved her into their ever-growing Famiglia.

"Bossu, I... I want to do this, not because of me being abandoned by Mukuro-sama, I... I want to be strong, I want to protect bossu and everyone, Arashi-san, Yamammoto-san, Ryohei-san, Kumo-san, Reborn-san, Lambo-chan, I-pin-chan, Kyoko-chan, Haru-chan, Bianchi-san, and Maman. I want to protect them, I want to be strong to protect the ones I love..."

"Chrome-chan.."

"Bossu, did you not tell me that every member of the Famiglia should protect their Famiglia, did you not generously accepted me into the Famiglia when I thought that I would have to go through all my life alone again, did you not show me the happiness of having a Famiglia, did you not, show me, the joy to love and be loved by you, bossu.." Her voice was soft, the words were simple but meaningful, she had made it clear, she will and will always protect the Famiglia like the others, and that was why, she wanted to be strong.

Tsunayoshi Sawada felt a surge of warmth in his body, he held onto Chrome's hand and smiled, nodding and giving her his words of advice. At the end of the visit session, he had gently placed a kiss on her forehead and had whispered a few words that had caused Chrome to tear up and cry with happiness.

"Do be careful, as you are the only flower in the bunch of demons, as well as the only sister who we all dare to claim to be ours and will, and shall always belong to the Famiglia..."


Mukuro was left speechless, he had not knew about everything that had happened to her after he left and now he dared to come back and ask to redeem himself after everything he had done. Reborn had left Mukuro to his own thinking, but before he left, he did leave a word of warning from Tsunayoshi Sawada.

"Shall you dare to hurt Chrome Dokuro again, I swear, in the name of Vongola Decimo, I shall torture you physically and mentally, tearing you apart by doing so with the other guardians, Mukuro, do realise that when it comes to Chrome's well being, we are more than willing to sacrifice our life for the only flower of the Vongola Famiglia..."


A/N : Second part of the series, hehehe, this chapter is basically talking about how important Chrome is to Kyouya Hibari as well as the other guardians, last chapter should be up by the next few days, thank you people.