C 01: En-
Track: Lavender Town / Pokémon - Kanto Region Orchestrated
When he heard the sound of something slamming to the wall, Reborn was instantly alert. The head supervisor sighed heavily as he rolled his eyes. Damn Xanxus. He just couldn't resist to not ruin somebody else's weekend for once, could he? Reborn would need to place another call to replace the bastard's damn wall.
But when Reborn actually heard it from the room next to Xanxus' and not the guy's room, his curiosity went up by a long shot. The hitman didn't know other inmates who would violently express their insanity aside from Xanxus. Dino preferred to breakdown silently, not eating or interacting at all when he was caught up in one of his episodes. Mukuro would breakdown into insane laughter whenever he had one of those. And the others- the less insane ones- would just stare to the wall blankly while giggling to themselves.
The head supervisor lowered his fedora before eventually walking over to the inmate's door, peering over the single bulletproof 4x4 square window.
The inmate was cute, really. He was a petite brunet with gravity-defying hair with brown colorings. He looked like... Iemitsu.
Well, fuck.
Reborn rolled his eyes. If Iemitsu's brat was the type of inmate who'd wreak havoc every weekend like Xanxus, Reborn would ship him off to Fong's wing and never bother with him again. No matter what Iemitsu said, he would definitely-
"NO! STOP!"
Reborn's train of thought was cut short as Iemitsu's brat shouted on top of his lungs. With a trained reflexes, the doctor side of him took over and swiftly opened the bolt-hinged door. Reborn then marched inside the room, trying to find what was it that offended the boy.
The room looked like a standard room for him. White walls, a white bed, and a desk with nothing on top of it. In the other inmates' room, many things decorated the desolate place. Chrome, Mukuro's supervisor, actually took her time decorating her inmate's room with wallpapers that actually made the room looked like a misty haunted mansion.
Mukuro loved it, of course, Reborn remembered hearing the guy laughing nonstop inside his room for a few days until Chrome coaxed him out.
As he looked at the lonely and desolate white room, Reborn didn't understand at all. There wasn't anything that might look like it might offend the boy who was thrashing so violently next to the bed.
Seeing that the boy might injure himself if Reborn only stared at him, the supervisor took a calming breath before slowly approaching the kid. Be calm. Be slow. And the last but not least, be sure of himself. Because he didn't, how can he assure someone else to be calm if he himself wasn't assured?
"Oi, kid," damn. Luce always made this whole coaxing business seemed so much easier. "Calm down. Oi, calm down before you hurt yourself," The thrashing brunet stopped abruptly before flinching, and then went absolutely still. He sat with his knees to his chest, arms bound underneath his straitjacket. He then put his forehead on top of his knees while mumbling incoherent things.
Reborn tensed. Why would the thrashing kid suddenly stop? This never happened whenever he handled Xanxus. Reborn walked closer to the kid and reached out to touch his hair.
But then the boy's face lifted and his eyes snapped open. He stared at Reborn with widened eyes that actually looked like it was in orange-shade and not the brown Reborn remembered. His face twisted into a displeased frown before he asked him a question with an utterly cruel-sounding voice.
"Why are you touching what's not yours?"
Track: Pokemon Black and White 2 - Neo Team Plasma Theme Extended
The displeased expression didn't stay long. It immediately morphed into a maddened grin. "Who are you anyways?" The brunet stood up with a grace that Reborn didn't remember existing when he came to visit Iemitsu all those years ago, but then again, that distorted voice didn't exist either. "I'm-"
"That was a rhetorical question, dolt." The brunet cut him before he could say his name. "Your name don't fucking matter. Just... don't touch him so easily. He's not yours," A frown marred the face that was so familiar, yet unfamiliar. But then the brunet chuckled creepily before grinning from ear to ear. "He's mine! MINE, YOU HEAR? MINE!" The sudden outburst caught Reborn off guard. And he was sure that if he weren't a certified hitman, he wouldn't have been able to dodge the boy's sudden kick.
The brunet rattled on his straitjacket. "Stay away! You're going to take Tsuna away from me, aren't you?! STAY AWAY!" The boy who wasn't Tsuna slammed himself to the bed, burying his head to the pillow as he mumbled things about how Tsuna was his.
"I ought to neuter everyone... like that stupid cow brat. He almost cut Tsuna's throat! I neutered him..." He licked his lips before putting on a smile. "That Haru-bitch thought that she knew the best for my Tsuna, what a joke..." There was a condescending snort before the smile went wider. "And now... there's you." The boy pressed on the word 'you' like it was made of filth. Reborn shuddered involuntarily before clicking his tongue. He never felt this intimidated.
"Who are you?" Reborn asked, his obsidian eyes straight on the not-Tsuna's face. "Oh, I'm Tsunayoshi Sawada!" The boy stated proudly, bits of affection lingered in his eyes as he spoke his own name. "But... call me Zero. Yeah, Zero, that sounds great. What do you think, partner?" There was a silence, but then the boy's shoulder slumped and he looked at Reborn with a great amount of fear.
"You're... dad's friend...!" Reborn's eyes narrowed. This was the dame-Tsuna he knew. His voice sounded normal, and not layered, cruel, and distorted like the previous one. "R-run! Quick! H-he's going to-!"
"I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!"
There was another kick from the not-Tsuna- Zero. The orange-eyed brunet panted harshly as he seethed. "Don't speak to him! Do you know how much I've waited to have him all to myself?!" Reborn blocked and dodge Zero's kick. And damn he was rusty. How many weeks had it been since Xanxus last threw a tantrum?
Reborn tried to receive as many attack as possible because if he dodge, then Tsuna's body would definitely be harmed even more. But when Zero was about to launch a kick to Reborn's jaw, he fell down spectacularly. "Don't... guh... Run, mister, hurry!"
Tsuna then threw himself to the nearest wall before eventually slid down to a sitting position.
Reborn's heart was racing. That... was hands-down the craziest encounter he'd had for a few months now. But then suddenly, an ear-piercing laugh was heard from the sitting boy. "Are you telling me not to mess with him? Hmm, partner?"Zero's hands moved under his straitjacket. And after a futile attempt of trying to release himself, he laughed out loud.
"Why should I listen to you, partner?"His layered voice made Reborn's hair stand on end. Aside from what he had described about the brunet's voice before, he can also sense overwhelming cruelty and pure malice. Reborn instinctively stepped back. Orange eyes widened in surprise for a bit and then he gazed at Reborn with maddened orange eyes. He scoffed and grinned from ear to ear.
"Kehehehe,"He chuckled madly as he banged the back of his head to the white wall. "Consider yourself lucky, doc. Tsuna's so willing to protect you that he actuallykissedme!"Zero grinned wide to Reborn's face. He still looked like he hadn't sleep for days with the way he widened his eyes. "Huh…?" Reborn immediately cursed himself for his dumb retort. Zero fell to the floor, laughing hysterically."You heard me? Tsuna kissed me!"He cackled.
This was the first time in his career as the head supervisor that he met a patient like this one and Reborn didn't like it. This wasn't just the normal Split Personality case. This was scarier and seemed so obsessed with Tsuna. And judging from the way Zero spoke that Tsuna kissed him, means that he could see Tsuna, right? So... did that mean Tsuna himself had gone to the point that he was seeing illusions of his other self?
"Don't turn silent on me, partner."Zero purred to himself, his eyes distant. "What's bugging you? Are you sleepy? No… you can't be…"He purred once more. After a few minutes of silence, the brunet jumped up from his position on the floor abruptly. He eyed the doctor with his usual madman look. But this time, anger laced his sunset colored eyes as he gritted his teeth.
"Leave," he seethed. "You're making him too nervous to talk to me. Leave before I force you to." Zero sounded so deadly calm and it made Reborn stayed on his place, curiosity peaking over the anxiety felt. But when he didn't make any move to leave, Zero snapped.
"STAY AWAY FROM HIM!"The lunatic raged, his distorted and warped voice sounded crueler than ever. "YOU PEOPLE ARE GOING TO HURT HIM! REJECT HIM! BULLY HIM! AND I'LL ALWAYS BE HERE FOR HIM! LEAVE LEAVE LEAVE!" Orange eyes looked at him madly as Zero ripped his straitjacket into pieces. But before he could hurt Reborn, Tsuna used his hand to choke himself instead of letting Zero rip Reborn's throat off.
"D-Dad's friend…" Tsuna panted as he choked himself. "Run!" He pleaded miserably.
Reborn quickly ran to the door and locked his most dangerous inmate inside the white room. Reborn was a fearless man. But seeing Iemitsu's son, someone whom he had knew to have a great potential, struggled like that with another being who wanted to actually killReborn... was enough to make the Italian felt fear.
And how he despised it.
After taking a calming breath to compose himself, Reborn slid down in front of Tsuna's room and pressed his ear to the door.
"Nobody, and I meannobody, will have you, Tsuna. I can't let them get close to you, can I? Because you're mine. Has been, and will always be."
Track: Kingdom Hearts Re:Coded OST - Dearly Beloved Extended
Tsuna woke up with a slight groan.
This was actually the first time it had struggled to the point that Tsuna had tried to kill himself... so, no. The cutting incident, the suicide attempt that left thin scars on top of his right wrist was not his fault. This was one of many things to differentiate Tsuna from that voice, he was right-handed and while the voice was in control, it was left-handed.
The brunet then stifled a yawn. Where was he again? "Good morning, sleepyhead."A slight happiness could be heard within the distorted, cruel-sounding voice. Tsuna found this bizarre. The voice never sounded like it knew anything else but cruelty and evil. "H-hi, partner…" God. This felt weird.
His mind then started to register his surroundings. White ceiling, white floor, white walls and white door. Oh, he remembered where he was. Vongola mental asylum. Whoop-de-fucking-do.
The brunet then sighed, suddenly feeling melancholic. "I'm not crazy. Why should I be put in a mental asylum?" Tsuna muttered as he tried to sit, leaning his back on the wall. "Kehehehe,"Maddened chuckle resounded from inside his head. "It's for my sake, partner. I got you here so nobody but me could have you."Tsuna flinched, expecting the voice to just molest him. But, it did nothing aside from chuckling darkly.
Tsuna laid his head on his knee, sighing. "Well, partner, it's better than being all alone in this place, right?"Tsuna scoffed as the voice cackled evilly. "If I'm all alone, I won't be here in the first place." He said without stuttering. This time, it was that voice's turn to flinch.
"You're mine…"The voice said, reassuring itself. "Mine. And nobody else's."
Tsuna felt his mouth moved without his consent, making a smile. That was weird. Tsuna never knew that it was capable of feeling something totally normal such as insecurity.
C 01 End: -counter.
Tsuna's Theme: Kingdom Hearts Re:Coded OST - Dearly Beloved Extended
Zero's Theme: Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep OST - Enter the Darkness Extended
Reborn's Theme: Umineko no Naku Koro ni OST - Black Lilliana ~Melaconlia~
ZeroTsuna/7227 Theme: Pokemon Black and White 2 - N's Room Extended
Zero vs Reborn Theme: Pokemon Black and White 2 - Neo Team Plasma theme Extended
Do you know why this update is so fast? It's because you guys are so awesome. I woke up with more than 50 emails from fanfiction, telling me about alerts and reviews. Keep on being awesome guys!
Next chapter... would be the reason I'm confused between keeping it T or stepping it up to M. Look forward to it!
To address things up:
1. Why is Tsuna so different here than the previous version?
Since this question is definitely asked by second-time readers, I'll assume that everyone's read the previous version. Here, I want his relationship with Zero to be more mature. And since the entire HadeS thing one year ago didn't happen, Tsuna didn't rely so heavily on Zero. Quite the contrary, over here, Tsuna viewed Zero as a company before things started to go out of control. He tried so hard to make things seem normal, but Zero always messes with that, so he was rather pissed at him.
2. Will Zero change?
No. He'll still be our beloved psychotic-obsessive maniac. Although he's more... intelligent here, should I say?
3. Similar Plot or Completely Different?
Completely Different.
Okay, if you guys have any more questions, post them in your reviews and I'll answer them here :D
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