A/N: I'M REALLY SORRY FOR THE AGONISING WAIT FOR THIS FINAL PART! Life is just too busy for a person like me these days :/ but I have not forgotten about this fic! I thank all you wonderful readers out there for loving part 1 and hope that this chapter lives up to your expectations! Enjoy, and remember spread the 1896 love! :)
I do not own KHR, only the idea and writing of this fanfiction.
A Misty Reality - Part 2
Sawada Tsunayoshi peers worriedly at the Vongola Mist Guardian. She had lost weight.
"Um... Chrome?" he started slightly as she flickered those deep purple eyes to him.
"Boss?"
"Are... are you alright?" she looked away at his question and gripped her trident firmly.
"Yes I am," Tsuna bit his lip at her curt reply but refrained from probing his guardian further. Over the past few months, Chrome had become even more distant to the Vongola members not even Kyoko or Haru's perky spirits touched her. She was void of all that went on around her except for when her missions were handed down. Though Tsuna could tell something was on her mind, it didn't touch the way she completed her missions. In fact she was completing her assignments way ahead of its time limit.
"Will that be all, boss?"
"A-Ah yeah..." Tsuna trailed off as she abruptly stood up to leave his office her light figure quickly disappearing towards the exit.
"W-Wait Chrome!" those eyes that sent shivers down Tsuna's spine cast back to him.
"Yes boss?"
"Please take care," he blurted out. He wanted to say more but he knew that it was really none of his business and his hyper intuition whispered to him that her issue was something quite beyond his capabilities to solve.
"I will, thank you boss," Tsuna sighed audibly as the office door closed with a sharp snap.
"Even after all these years, you're still no-good Tsuna!"
"OUCH!" the Vongola boss yelped his forehead colliding into the desk. Reborn hopped off him and pinched the back of the young boss's hand, "ow ow ow ow ow! Reborn cut it out-!"
"She's a crucial part of the Vongola family, yet you leave her be even though you can sense her troubles?"
"I'm not exactly leaving her to her own devices... just that I don't think anything I do or say is going to make a difference- Stop it Reborn!" Tsuna yelled as he tried to bat away at his home tutor's agile attacks.
"Stop making pathetic excuses Tsuna when you have that hyper intuition!"
"I might have that... skill but I'm no esper!"
"Read. The. Situation!" Reborn said enunciating each word with a slap across Tsuna's cheeks with a paper fan conjured out of nowhere.
Outside Sawada's office, Chrome slowly walked away from the muffled cries of her boss. His sweetness almost traced a smile upon her usually drawn lips. Over the years, many of the Guardians have matured and changed to fit their roles in the Vongola family herself is of no exception. Yet no matter how much torment fate has put the family through, Sawada himself has hardly changed. In between instances of procrastination the past would fill Chrome's mind and she would silently wish for the times back in Kokuyo Land with Ken and Chikusa where life was a grotty mess but a happy and uncomplicated one. Complications, the perfect word to describe the thread binding women and men... and Chrome quickly shook away her thoughts. There was another assignment on her agenda and she was not going to let her speculative thoughts get the better of her.
Soft footsteps bouncing off the corridors of the Vongola mansion HQ, Chrome felt herself relax a little into the familiar surroundings. Strangely and almost ironically, this was perhaps the only place she felt like herself. Everywhere else was smeared with the memories of men; greedy, needy, rough, uncontrollable and stenching dogs. Though none of them had the chance to even touch her, she felt violated because her illusions were a part of her. It's always been an act, a realistic and dangerous pretend-game that she was very good at... until 3 weeks ago when he showed up in her life again. And very much like her 13 year-old self, Chrome lapped up his every word.
"My sweet Chrome," her eyes slowly opened and she smiled up at his handsome face that hovered over hers.
"Mukuro-sama..."
"You're finally awake, I apologise for throwing you into that world again without much warning."
"It's alright!" she couldn't help but blush at the closeness and the invading memories of what just happened. His scent overwhelmed her senses and she welcomed it, wishing it would consume her like how it used to all those years back. She was his.
"Chrome, I believe you still have a mission to complete?" and reality jerked her harshly back. Her brows knitted together in confusion but Mukuro-sama brushed a finger across the creases smoothing them out.
"It's alright, it was just an illusion. I didn't want to... physically handicap you, hence the illusion but the feelings behind them that you felt, they lie not."
She couldn't help but believe him, forgive him, want him. She remembered letting him go, or rather him ushering her back to reality much to her chagrin. Chrome knew that Mukuro-sama had blessed her that night but the feeling of betrayal still shadowed the memory. She knew that she was acting silly and unfair but the heart is a funny thing that can't be justified with firm reason. Even now she was aching for his touch and craving for those blissful whispers over her naked skin... Chrome shook her head, this was not the time!
Unable to shake her thoughts off completely, Chrome allowed her body to wander across the familiar streets of Namimori. The sun was now setting over the low skyline of the town setting a darkening orange glow around her. It was the end of the week and most of those who had worked or gone to school were now in the comforts of their homes, chatting with their families animatedly trying to make their dull lives sound eventful. But there were the minority who stalk the darkening streets lurking around for their next unfortunate prey who wander into their territory. Even in the peaceful town of Namimori there would be beings with twisted hearts seeping out from the corners they hide in during the daytime. And these people were the targets of the Vongola.
Chrome jerked out of her voided trance. And suddenly the reality hit her. Sound was booming in her ears and the heat was suffocating her thin figure. That ethanoic smell invaded her nose and she wrinkled them disdainfully. Looking down with her good eye she realised she was holding a glass almost empty of alcohol. For a moment her only eye sparked into life with shock before dimming to its usual emptiness, there was no doubt she had ended up in one of backstreet clubs.
"So what do you say my lovely, how about we leave this shitty place and go to my place?" the Mist Guardian unenthusiastically peered at the man beside her. He stank of alcohol mixed with stale cigarette smoke and it was obvious he didn't bother investing in deodrant. One look into his eyes told her that he was a man with no capacity in his brain to contain responsibility or intelligence (unless money was involved). Right now, she knew that he was thinking that she was the weaker out of the two. Oh how wrong he was... and how bored she was.
Spinning on the barstool, Chrome fully faced her prey-to-be and showed him one of her innocent smiles.
"I guess you're right, this place is boring I'm only here for the cheap drinks," she blinked seductively before crossing her lean legs, the black skirt hitching up her smooth thighs.
She leant forwards and taunted him with her cleavage, "I'll only go if there are drinks involved."
It was a simple game and it was checkmate when Chrome saw the man clenching his teeth to stop him jumping her there and then.
"Drinks are free for a girl like you," he smirked greasily before reaching to grope her waist. At this moment Chrome sidestepped off her stool leaving an illusion of herself behind.
But she froze as felt hands grip her real waist. Calmly although slightly disturbed, Chrome spun to attack the real harasser with her trident but her attacker was quicker. Annoyed at herself for drinking a little too much Chrome swung her arm out for a slap only to find herself being pulled into a familiar embrace. Through her hazy alcohol swept gaze, she found a pair of sharp grey eyes lock onto her single eye.
"I wouldn't jeopardise my mission further if I were you. Though if you insist, I'll bite you to death."
...
The Mist Guardian fell into the hotel room haphazardly and threw out an arm which collided painfully with the side of the wall attempting to steady herself. Her trident fell to the carpeted floor with a dull thud but she ignored it, it was the least of her worries now. The electronic doorlock clicked as her kidnapper shut the door quietly before wrapping a strong arm around her thin waist like he did for most of the journey from the club to the hotel. Chrome writhed and weakly punched the arm.
"I'm alright, let me go-!" she protested before gravity took her again and she plumetted towards the bed. The double bed lifted her up on impact, and Chrome's world swirled into further disorientation. Giggling slightly, she picked herself up onto her elbows and tilted her head to watch an unamused Hibari Kyoya.
"Don't scowl me. It's not like I'm your child though I'd be surprised if you even get that far into the whole relationship thing-."
"You... what were in you doing in there?"
"Well what did it look like genius, flirting obvi-."
"As in why were in that club. Only I was debriefed this morning that Club Enigma was going to be where my target showed up tonight. So how did you know?"
She pouted sullenly, the alcohol was wearing off rapidly reality was seeping into her mind like black dye in clear water. With the unwanted clarity came the blatantly obvious reasoning. She had been thinking about Vongola targets and who was the one who was debriefed before her that she overheard? Chrome cursed silently.
"If you're working for those herbivores then there's no doubt that I'll bite you to-."
"I-I know this is going to sound unbelievable but I'm honestly not working for anyone else besides the boss! I'd just turned up for my debriefing and I was outside the door but the door had pretty bad soundproofing so I just heard something about Club Enigma and I knew that you were being debriefed because well obviously I bumped into you as you came out and that you never greet anyone anyway but I'd also heard your unique sharp voice. And earlier I was just walking through Namimori thinking about various things like how after work people talk with their families about their day and I was a little lonely since I don't really have a family. I-I mean, the Vongola family is sort of like my family but-but it's not like the time back in Kokuyo Land with Ken, Chikusa and Mukuro-!" Chrome's voice broke slightly as she stumbled over his name. He who has nothing to do with her anymore... again.
She tucked her legs into her chest and hugged them tightly rocking back and forth gently on the soft bed.
"Mukuro...sama," she whispered into her knees.
Even endowered with the power of Dying Will Flames, alcohol is still the best weapon to weaken anybody no matter how powerful they are. It was an interesting revelation in which Chrome heartily took into her arsenal of seduction techniques but what was now preoccupying her attention was how the Cloud Guardian was straddling her. Hands held in a firm grip over her head, she found herself very much trapped in his hold. Chrome's blood ripped through her as she felt the unmistakenable weight of him press against her lower entrance even through the layers of fabric.
"I recall that you've yet to repay me for your untimely disruption back at the club?"
"The mission was it-?"
"I, am not weak," he said hardly able to disguise that the pause was aimed at her but she agreed with him. Chrome wished she was like the Cloud Guardian, strong and confident in his power, always pushing forwards... moving on like the rest of the Guardians have done. Only she was left to ponder her past. She knew she had to let go but there was always that feeling haunting her that if she stopped thinking and caring about him, he'd slip away forever. And forever to her was a frightning thought.
The Cloud Guardian's eyes studied her passive expression. Chrome's eye widened when she felt his weight leave her. It was her turn to study him. Sitting beside her with an arm casually resting on a propped up leg, his attention now elsewhere. Chrome bit her lip. There was no doubt the rush of heated desire she felt in response to his advance and it took her all her concentration to not return the favour. But the traces of alcohol were whispering otherwise in her veins. She knew she should reply to what the Cloud Guardian had said earlier but she knew it would just be dull chatter to him besides, she was still battling with her own self control.
"Since our last mission 3 weeks back, you seem to have lost your touch with the way you approach your assignments. Or to be precise, since Rokudo Mukuro dared show his face and your encounter with him soon after."
"Don't insult Mukuro-sama!" Chrome surprised even herself with the sudden outburst. Internally she knew the alcohol wasn't going to disappear without putting up one last fight.
"Hmm, still using that name even after all those years?"
"He saved my life!"
"He ruined your life."
"He came back!"
"He's not here now."
"But I can wait."
"While he moves on?" Chrome snapped. A thousand emotions exploded from within her heart and she was riding the wave they've created.
"He won't forget me, he can't forget me! That's why he came back. He left with a valid reason, he stopped for an obvious reason! What do you know about what Mukuro-sama gave me that night? He's powerful, wonderful and everything exhilarating means! You can't see or understand his nature, only feel it! And he shared it with me, that intimate part of him that shows the total truth in an illusion..."
"Which explains why you are crying now?"
Ah, curse the alcohol. Chrome lifted a finger gingerly to her face. Tears wetted them. She looked back at the Cloud Guardian who was now a blur in front of her. Silence fell between them again.
"You can leave if you want, I know you don't like being around those who are weak," Chrome muttered bitterly allowing the tears to fall freely.
"I would not have taken you here if I thought so," but she shyed away from the Cloud Guardian hiding her face from his interrogating eyes.
"I am weak. I've always relied on Mukuro-sama. Ever since my accident where my parents gleefully took up the excuse to abandon me and leave me to die, he saved me. Mukuro-sama taught me the art of illusions and the difference between a lie and the truth..." she trailed off once more as her mind hit the very block that was suppressing her.
"The truth? There is no truth when it comes to illusions," his words were like knives through her heart and she shook her head defiantly.
"There is! It's the feeling that I lack in my illusions. Up till now I've always focused on the appearance, the outside, the crust. Of course for those weaklings I deal with they're more than enough but Mukuro-sama showed me what I lacked! He filled that emptiness that was consuming me-."
"Then left you."
Chrome swung an angry arm towards the Cloud Guardian which he stopped in mid-air easily. Without much strength, Hibari flipped her onto her back and pinned her to the bed once more.
"The illusions you experienced, you felt, were as you say just the surface. Rokudo Mukuro only pointed out a door you could open or close but he never took you through it. Don't you see, the emptiness that he's left you with never left because they cannot be filled by meager illusions. Wake up to reality because only in reality can you truly fill that void."
Doubt filled her purple eye before morphing into fear. Though she had matured over the years, she was still very alien to what intimacy really meant.
"I know I should try it instead of making an illusion fill my place but ever since Mukuro-sama showed me I've realised how... special it is and so I can't just randomly sleep with an unknown man purely for sake of matter. Besides, I wish to repay Mukuro-sama for what he's done for me-."
Chrome's breath hitched cutting her off from the rest of her sentence. Her hands tightened into fists as the Cloud Guardian ran a slender finger from behind her knee and up her inner thighs.
"Sex, is over-rated."
She squirmed under him which only brought him to increase his firm grip on her thin wrist. Carressing over her moistening core, his skilled hand travelled up and pulled at her top which sprung open to reveal her covered breasts. Unlike Mukuro-sama, Hibari was not one of patience. He was impatient and achieved the optimum results with least efforts. As he licked her jawline tentatively, his hand proceeded to unclip the front of her bra. Reaching the increasingly vigorous pulsations of her jugular, he sucked at her slender neck. He clamped his legs around her as Chrome began to protest in moans but he gave her no chance to adapt to his movements.
"C-Cloud Guardian!" she managed to gasp before Hibari's able hand travelled back to her lower entrance, this time skimming the edges with a finger in teasing fashion. Chrome involuntarily thrusted against him in response now completely unaware of her surroundings, just how thick the covers of the bed was beneath her and how skilled the Cloud Guardian was at turning her on as much as she didn't want to admit it.
Giving Chrome a final bite of the neck, Hibari moved down to her well-defined breasts licking his lips lustfully. Though her bucking against his hand was sending his member crazy, the movement sparked a little annoyance in his pleasure-filling mind. With a vengeance, Hibari licked the path in between her two mounds languidly causing another high moan to escape from Chrome's lips. And as he distracted her with alternative sucks and licks of her fine breasts, he tore away at the restraining fabric of her skirt before unbelting himself. But it was her turn for the impatience. Bucking her chest upwards, she pushed Hibari temporarily off giving her the access to his pants. After pulling herself up with the belt that he hadn't quite removed, Chrome's hands bee-lined for his zipper. His eyes flashed dangerously at her interference but it disappeared as soon as it came when her hands brushed his hardened self. Quickly and viciously pulling down those expensive pants, she admired the coming erection in Hibari's briefs.
Suddenly, Chrome's mouth began very dry. Doubt washed over her threatening to consume her because it was then that it hit her, she really didn't know what she was doing. Picking up her uneasiness, the torrent of movement halted from Hibari though momentarily.
"Maybe, maybe I can't do this after all," leaning back Hibari watched her struggle with her thoughts.
"Did you not hear what I said earlier?"
"I-I did! It's just that, well..."
"There's two aspects to why sex is such a hype amongst herbivores. One, the unlucky consequence of child-bearing and or STIs if the only intention was for pleasure. Which leads on to number two, the sensation."
It made sense for number one to be the reason behind Chrome's doubts. She wasn't on the pill because she's never had to be since her illusions always filled her place. Her throat tightened, one look into the Cloud Guardian's eyes told her that he was no fan of unfinished business. Attempting to tuck her legs towards her, Chrome tried to subtly dislodge herself from Hibari's cluthches but to no avail. A hand clasped around her inner thigh forcing it back down.
Without amusement, Hibari's gaze flickered before a hint of mockery filled them.
"Waow, don't tell me the infamous seductive Chrome Dokuro has never used the condom," he said casually earning a rushing blush from the young illusionist.
"I didn't have to..." she pouted completely overcome with embarassment and for the first time she heard the Cloud Guardian chuckle.
"Illusions may seem perfect and flawless but it removes the unforeseen fun that reality offers," he says in a matter-of-fact voice before pulling out the small packet. Chrome watched with curiosity as he tore away the packaging to reveal the round layer of latex.
"What do I need to do with it?" a smirk crossed Hibari's face and he lowered his mouth next to her ear tickling it with his breath.
"Just relax and bear with reality," Chrome shuddered from the lust in his voice before her mind whited out to his onslaught on her body once again.
She arched her back towards him as his finger nursed her tender clit before going down further towards her entrance. With a thumb now pressed over her sensitive mound, Hibari slid his finger in. Chrome cried out with pain before morphing into gasps and moans of pleasure. Throwing the used condom packet aside, Hibari now used his free hand to hold down her thrashing leg. Raw emotions rarely touched him but right now, the sheer moans and the seducting movements of the woman underneath him were sending waves of desire through the Vongola Guardian. He wanted to drive himself into her and he knew she wanted it too. His shaft was now aching to penetrate those tight walls which surrounded his wet finger. It was just a matter of time.
Chrome raked her nails down Hibari's strong naked back protesting the pain at the anticipation but he ignored her though only just. Her cries increased as he doubled the intrusion and she bored down on his fingers desperately willing for his shaft.
"D-Do it," she panted in between her groans but she knew her words fell on deaf ears. He was dominating her, she played by his rules. Blinding from the climaxing ecstasy, Chrome made her attempt. Unclenching a hand that was fisting the bed covers viciously, she forced a gap between them large enough for her to shoot down and clasp his hard member. She was riding on the wave of instinct, instinct that drove Hibari to pull out his fingers from her sharply.
She stroked him surprising herself at how feeling his erection in her hand increased her need instead of quenching it. Unknown to her, her sudden move sent the Cloud Guardian over the edge. He clenched his teeth vigorously it was his turn to thrust. But Hibari Kyoya hated being dominated. Pulling himself from her grasp, he pulled Chrome's arms up over her head as he repositioned himself over her.
They panted heavily their breaths painting each other.
"Welcome to reality," he breathed before driving his throbbing member into her.
It was painful but it was that very pain that made her feel so alive, so in the moment. Her walls automatically pressed down around his shaft and he allowed a few seconds for her to fully accommodate his size. Then he pulled back. She no longer tried to suppress her cries. It was a situation where the scandalous noise felt so right, so brilliant. The pause was short lived.
Hibari grinded hard against her pushing himself as far into her as he could. With each thrust he quickened his pace and intensity driving her up the bed. Though still very much trapped in Hibari's hold, Chrome was able to reach the headboard of the bed. Levering herself against it, she thrusted back with equal vigor. Even so, it was not enough.
"H-Harder! Faster!" she gasped barely coherant in between her ragged breaths. Soon his rhythm became erratic and desperate. Gripping her hips for a better hold, Hibari changed his angle into her as they began to climax.
Stars, white against a void black background exploded from behind Chrome's eye as Hibari released himself one last time into her. Her mind blanked out, throttled by the crash of sweet bliss. The room fell silent except for their harsh breathing. Chrome felt the heat of the Cloud Guardian leave her and she welcomed the contrasting coolness.
Their was no need for words. Through half-lidded eyes she looked up at the Cloud Guardian, a stupid but amazed smile upon her lips. For the first time in years, Chrome's mind was free of thoughts of Mukuro-sama. And so as she lay in the folds of soft linen bathing in the release of ecstasy under Hibari Kyoya, she decided she quite liked the idea of reality.
I realised as I re-read the previous chapter of this fic that I didn't promote safe sex! And so I rectify that terrible mistake in this chapter xD (but then you can't really impregnate or pass on an STI to someone with an illusion... right? o_O) Anyway, hope you enjoyed Chrome's experience with Hibari, apologises for how long Chrome's insecurity moments lasted before Hibari got down and dirty with her... just felt wrong without it since Hibari is not the rape-type in my mind! Thanks for reading :)
Shaari