DISCLAIMER: Katekyo Hitman Reborn and the characters belong to Amano Akira respectively. I own nothing but the storyline. Though, I'm not getting any profit from this and I'm not sure if this thing can make me a fortune.
Chapter 3
Mukuro enters his penthouse with his ghost friend, Haru. Once she steps into Mukuro's house, she wanders from one spot to another spot that eventually irk Mukuro.
"Haru-chan… why don't you stop floating and sit on the sofa…"
Haru complies, but she still floats while sitting on the sofa.
"Kufufufu… I should've known…" Mukuro rubs his forehead in disbelief since he himself told her to sit.
"I can't help it… since I became ghost I keeps floating…" "even when I thought I run and walks" she thought.
"That's normal for the ghost…" he says while taking off his clothes. His lean muscles shown to the unspeakable Haru with the mesmerizes sights in front of her. "Mm…?"
"Huh?" their eyes met and Haru goes "Kyaaaa!"
Rattle sound coming out from every single corner of his house. Mukuro runs towards Haru and call out to her. "Haru!"
Haru stop screaming and look at Mukuro's naked chest, her face start to redden again.
"Before you scream again, you should know that your voice would cause a poltergeist effect on other people…"
"Meaning…?"
Mukuro supports his body with both his arms on the sofa and lean forward to Haru's face. "It means, whatever you do, you'll scare the hell out of people around you since they can't see you like me…" then he pulls back his body.
Haru contemplates on her new knowledge of being a ghost while looking at her lap as Mukuro unties his hair while eying the frail girl that trying to accept the new information. He feels amused, she never changes even after she becomes a ghost. "Kufufufuu…"
"What's so funny...?" she pouted.
"You screamed…" he lean forward and dangerously close to Haru. "Is this an evidence that you're still a virgin… La Mia Lolita?"
Haru's face so red that enough to put the tomatoes to shame.
Mukuro smirks devilishly and goes into his room to take a bath. "You can take a peek if you want, Haru… since you know; couldn't feel and all…" he says playfully.
Haru's nose bleeds and her brain almost explodes due to much of heat. She angrily tries to grab sofa's pillow but her hand got through. Mukuro snicker as he looks at the funny scene. He goes inside the bathroom and purposely let the door slightly open.
"Stupid Mukuro-san! I hope you'll slip in there and die! Then I can hit as much as I can!"
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Kyoko sighs while lean her back on the white shiny wall. Ryohei comes to her with a cup of tea and forward the cup to her. "Still no changes…?"
Kyoko frowns while looking at the door as she takes the cup from Ryohei. "Still the same… she didn't respond at all when her parent come and talk with her…" Kyoko shook her head.
"How 'bout him…?" Ryohei too standing next to the door and look at Haru.
Kyoko just shook her head softly, and that alone is enough to make Ryohei understand.
Ryohei looks at the immobile Haru, no more smile on her thin lips. Regret succumbs him, he didn't know that one day she'll be hurt and the death that she's facing right now is not something that he had imagined for her at all.
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"God, you're so annoying! Go away!"
"If you don't love me anymore, then there's no reason for me to live in this world…"
Tsuna jerks from his sleep, breathing hard. Those words, of all things that he could say, he chooses those painful words to say to her. He wiped his sweaty forehead as he looks his surroundings and find that he is in his bedroom with Reborn.
"You scared the hell out of your mum, Tsuna…" says Reborn, his cousin that stay in Tsuna's house. "Passed out in the living room and broke a glass… you're lucky that the pieces of glass didn't hurt you…" he put a basin full of water.
"I'm okay…" he heaves out from his bed, but his legs betray him and make him lose balance.
Reborn sighs uncaring. "Sure, you are…" said while helping the young man to stand and sit on the bed.
Tsuna looks full of anger, hate, sadness, everything but relief or happy. He grip the side of the bed tightly and clenching his teeth until his jaw feels hurt.
Reborn that eying Tsuna since he slept, put the white cloth that falls from Tsuna's forehead, on the bed back into the basin and stand up. "You can't do anything by blaming yourself, Tsuna. You can't rewrite the fate, it's easier for you to just accept that it happened…" Reborn turned to exit the room.
"But it's my fault!"
Reborn halt from taking another step.
"I… if I hadn't… she wouldn't… Haru wouldn't…" he shook his head violently, he didn't have the heart to even finish his sentences.
Reborn look at Tsuna from over his shoulder without turning his whole body. "You have an appointment with the doctor tomorrow… don't be late for it…" and then he continues to walk out from Tsuna's room.
Tsuna nodded his head even though he knew Reborn didn't see it. He looks up when he hears a familiar footstep that going towards his room only to face Kyoko's older brother, Ryohei.
"Onii-san…"
"I need you to listen and listen carefully, Sawada… I never intend to stay here longer than I ought to…"
Ryohei looks at Tsuna with angry face as Tsuna stands up to hear what Ryohei has to say.
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Mukuro yawn while he walks through the hospital's hallway.
"Are you even listening to me…?" Haru puffed her cheeks.
Mukuro takes a glance at her and smirks. "You want me to kiss your lips like sleeping beauty, right…?"
"You didn't listen at all…!" Haru tries to hit Mukuro on the head, but like anything she tries to grab or hold before, it got through him rather than hit him.
Mukuro snicker as Haru bit her lower lips. After that, Haru stops following Mukuro even though Mukuro just keeps walking without her. She feels so angry since she has explained to Mukuro what she wants him to do, but he seems to ignore all of it. While standing in the middle of the hallway with her arms crossed against her chest, she feels someone walk through her. She wants to scream at the person, but then she notices the chestnut coloured spiky hair. Haru's eyes widen.
"Tsuna…?"
Haru follows Tsuna into a doctor's room that written 'check-up' on the door. Check up?
"How do you feel, Sawada-san…?" asked the doctor while using his stethoscope on Tsuna's chest.
'He's so thin… is he always as thin like this…?'
"I have been a bit stress lately, and my chest feels painful more often too…" he answers as he look at the name plate written Cavallone Dino, that rest on the table.
The doctor put away his stethoscope and then continue to count Tsuna's pulse rate on his wrist. Once he has done, he writes the numbers down. "Your heart pulse seems to be weak and inconsistent… you should avoid thinking too much…"
Tsuna smiles weakly. "Nothing going to change the fact that I'm going to die at any time…"
The doctor stiffen, and Haru looks at Tsuna in horror.
'huh…?'
"Sawada-san, you need to be strong, you can fight it! I've seen many of my patients that beat the assumption and live longer…"
Tsuna looks down facing his lap, and his eyes covered with his long bangs. "… I'm still alive today is like a punishment to me…".
The doctor drop his pen, he can't believe what his ears just heard.
"… I thought I'd do better when I decided to end everything for someone's happiness… instead…" he bit his lower lip.
"Sawada-san…"
Tsuna gets up from his seat and then bows to the doctor. "Thank you for today doctor…"
Haru didn't move herself from the door and got walk through again by Tsuna. Floating there, she tries to remember why Tsuna broke up with her.
"I don't love you anymore!"
"… going to die at any time…"
Haru looks down until she hears Tsuna's voice, asking someone outside of the doctor's room.
"Ah... Miura Haru-San's room would be at the ninth floor, room number three..." the nurse answered.
Haru's shock, he knew about her being in this hospital. She rushed to her own room and since she can penetrate anything, she managed to catch up with Mukuro.
"Mukuro-san! Please stop him! Stop him from coming here…! He can't see me like this!"
"Who…?"
"Tsuna…. He's here…" Haru tears falls on her cheeks. "… So, please… I'm begging please don't let him see me like this…" she plead, but out of Haru's expectation, Mukuro didn't budge at all.
"Why not…? Let him see what he has done to you… That is the most suitable punishment for him…"
Haru gasp, she forgot how cruel can her friend be sometimes, but she still tries to persuade Mukuro "… Please… you don't understand, he…"
Before Haru could finish her sentences, Tsuna already in the hallway that lead to Haru's room. Tsuna stops in his track upon seeing Mukuro stands in front of the room while facing him.
"Mukuro…"
"Kufufufuu… it's been a while, Tsuna…" he smiles with his cold eyes.
Tsuna taken aback, one of Haru's closes friend is here, but that didn't make his motive to be here waver. He continues to walk towards Haru's room and prepares himself. "I didn't know you're here…" he frowns.
Mukuro slid in both of his hands into his jeans pocket leisurely. "Why wouldn't I be…? She's my precious friend after all…" smirking while taking a glance at Tsuna.
Tsuna's eyes didn't wander elsewhere, it stays on Haru alone. His chest aches seeing her body black and blue with bruises, stitches and wires around her.
"I did say before Tsunayoshi… hurt her and I'll kill you…" Mukuro says while looking at the young woman the floats between him and Tsuna. She shook her head softly as to tell him to stop talking about it.
Tsuna looks down, he still remembers the threat as if he's been told about it yesterday.
"She might become a ghost after this to haunt you to death…" Mukuro continues again while feeling amused, despite Haru keeps elbowing him for talking nonsense.
Tsuna stiffen, he clenches his teeth and curl his finger into a fist and then release it. "She can do whatever she want to me, I deserve it anyway…" he smiles weakly. "… Maybe that is the most appropriate punishment for the stupid me…" he walks away from Mukuro and Haru.
"Hey…!"
Tsuna halts from his track.
"How do you know that she's in this hospital…?"
Tsuna takes a deep breath, then exhales. He remembers back when Ryohei came by his house yesterday.
"Sawada, I don't know what had happened between the two of you and I don't want to know about it either. Come to XXX Hospital to visit her, that's the least you could do after you broke her heart… visit her or you'll be sorry for the rest for your entire life!"
"Someone that close to her like you told me about it…" and then he continues to walk towards the exit. Mukuro wanted to ask who, but he decided to let him go.
After Tsuna's gone from their sight, Haru put her palms on the see-through glass and look at her dying body. She mumbles something, but Mukuro didn't hear and asked her. Haru's tears trickles slowly on her cheeks. "… Death is terrifying…"
Mukuro has taken aback, he forgot about what Haru need to go through for her to be a ghost. "Everybody scared of death, Haru. None of us in the world would escape from it…"
Haru cries, she knows how scary death are and she didn't want Tsuna or any of her friends go through what she had. Mukuro's next words didn't help her either, but it's enough to make her realize that her dream can be kept only as a dream.
"… Wait for a little while… I'll be by your side, we all will be by your side…"
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That night, Tsuna is panting on his bed while clutching tight his front shirt. His chest hurt so bad, his lungs feel burned and his tears forming in his eyes. He tosses around until he falls from the bed as his hand hit the glass that's enough to make Reborn and Nana run to his room.
Looking at her dear son panting in pain, she hugs him and support his back. Reborn quickly dial a number on his mobile.
"Ambulance!"
Tsuna being dragged into an emergency room using the moving stretcher He's been given an oxygen non-stop all the way. Nana cries in Reborn's bosom in front of the emergency room, she didn't ready herself at all for this. Looking at her son's unbearable pain, it ache her heart that she wishes the pain can be transferred to her.
"Aunt Nana…"
Nana looks up from Reborn's bosom to see the one that call out to her. "Kyoko-chan…"
"Tsuna… he…" she cries again.
"Tsu-kun…? What happened to him…?" Reborn looks away when his eyes met with Kyoko's.
"He's in the emergency room right now…" Nana managed to answer her.
Kyoko shifted her head to look at the room to her left. "Emergency room? Why?"
"He has a heart disease, the doctor diagnosed it as congenital heart disease…"Reborn answered to Kyoko.
"… Heart disease…?" Kyoko shocked, she didn't know what to say, she feels overwhelmed with the news. Now both of her close friends are in the hospital and both of them starting to fade before her sight.
Alright! End of chapter 3, we still have several chapters to catch up on, so yea, brace yourself. Does this fic moving too fast for you, because this is my first time writing things out of my comfort zone… too hard to read perhaps…? Ugh… I don't know what to say anymore…
How's Mukuro's character to you? In the main series of KHR, he is the most realist thinker than the rest characters (only in my opinion), so I try to portray that kind of Mukuro, but was it too much? Ugh… Doctor Dino, lets just pretend he's working as foreign doctor working in Japan. It just gives me some 'not-so-appropriate' thought while imagining him in white coat, so I made him as a doctor. Oh yea, the hospital logic, you usually found a character in any television drama or movie where a character asks a nurse that walk by, where is so-and-so's room number and they answered swiftly. From the experience of staying in a hospital for about 2 and half month, I can guarantee you, they'll give you the right room's number. Why? Hospital's gossip spread faster than any other place. Trust me…
Well, until we meet again in the next chapter… bye bye!
