The sound of pages being flipped filled my room, another boring day lead me to skim through a book that I have already read. It was the weekend, so I didn't really have anything to do and I really don't have anyone to hang out with, so I was content enough to hang out at home. Though, that in itself is starting to become a less desirable option, seeing as our house keeps getting more and more rowdy guests.
"Tch." 'They pretty much live here at this point.' I narrowed my eyes at the words on the page before flipping it once more. Not only do we have one booger monster running around the house, but now we have another tiny human as well. Though, this kid seems more well mannered than the cow-printed fucktard.
I put down my book when I heard my door open, my mother poking her head into my room.
"Na-cahn. I'm going to a piano recital with some friends. Would you look after the kids for me? I already asked Tsu-kun as well."
"Uh-huh." My monotonous hum satisfied her as she smiled and promised to bring back cake, seemingly glad to have a day to herself for once. Of course, I had no plans to interact with the snot monsters or with Tsunayoshi. He could deal with them himself, bastard needed to help around the house like the rest of us. And so I picked up my book again, planning on rereading my favorite parts.
"Waaahh!" My eyebrow twitched as I heard crying and some muffled shouting. I cursed whoever it was that designed our house with such thin walls as I heaved myself off my bed, tossing the book onto my covers and striding towards the door with annoyance.
"What the fuck are you doing?" I asked the question as I opened the door with unnecessary force, my hand gripping the door knob with enough force to turn my knuckles white. I blinked in surprise when I felt something grab onto my leg, making me feel wary as I spotted the egg-head kid. "Um, what?" My eyebrow raised as I felt uncomfortable with I-pin hugging my leg.
"Ah! The pinzu time bomb!" I felt lost as Tsunayoshi suddenly grabbed the kid off of my leg and threw it out the window as per lap dog 's (when did he get here?) suggestion.
"Tsuna-san! What are you doing to I-pin-chan?!"
"Now's not the time for that! When the pinzus on his head become one, he'll explode!" I raised an eyebrow and watched as some pure magic happened. The kid was hanging just outside the window by her hair as the symbols on her forehead changed.
"Ah, there's only three pinzus left!" And soon enough, it came down to one. Everything happened all at once as Reborn pulled out a gun just as something started to explode, replacing the blast with a cloud of pink smoke.
"You shot I-pin with the ten year bazooka!"
"Yes, the explosion has carried over to the future."
"Then that's ten years later I-pin!" I honed in to what they were all staring at, the smoke started to clear as a figure was seen standing in it.
"Why am I on top of the roof in the middle of deliver?" A chinese girl stood with confusion on her face, holding a take-out delivery container in her hands as she looked around in confusion.
"I-Pin's a girl!" There were a choruses of disbelief as Tsunayoshi shouted in surprise.
"Do you know her?" My gaze shifted over to a brown haired girl that I've never seen before. I decided not to question who she was, seeing as Tsunayoshi seemed to have a habit of bringing strange people into the house.
"Ah, Mr. Kawahira is not going to be happy if I'm late again." The twin braided girl glanced at her wrist watch before her eyes moved onto my brother. "Hello!" She smiled as if she knew him, making me wonder just what was going on here. They exchanged pleasantries as there were frequent comments about how the girl was normal before all hell started to break loose once Lambo came into the picture. Then again, when does it not become chaotic?
"Everybody run!" I blinked in surprise when the girl started to develop symbols on her forehead as well, just like the kid. I took the hint and left the room, honestly done with their antics as I shut the door to my room before hearing a rather loud noise that sounded akin to an explosion.
"I feel like I should ask, but something tells me that it'll be more trouble than it's worth." I sighed, feeling a slight rumble in my stomach. "Ah, I should probably go down and eat something." I blinked lethargically before I flopped back down onto my bed. "Whatever."
It didn't faze me much when I heard that students were being attacked by some unknown people. There were whispers from my classmate that it was from a rival school, but the whole situation struck me as odd. Though, it didn't necessarily pertain to me, so I didn't think much over it. I simply sat in class, not bothered by the large amount of absentees.
"Geez, this place looks like a ghost town." I glanced at the blonde haired girl standing next to me. By how close she was standing next to me, it seemed like she wanted to start a conversation, but I wasn't in the mood to be bothered.
"Mhm." I slid down my chair, crossing my arms as I prepared to go to take a nap.
"I heard Hibari-san even went out to investigate the problem." I raised an eyebrow and looked at the girl.
"Hibari-san?" She sent me a surprised look as she fully turned towards me.
"You don't know who he is?"
"I wouldn't be asking if I did."
"Right. I forgot that you were anti-social." She sighed a bit. I wasn't bothered by the half-hearted insult, I guess it was true to some extent. "Well, he's the head of the disciplinary committee. He's a pretty violent guy who really hates crowds."
"He has a phobia?"
"Ah, I wouldn't say that. He just really hates crowds." She made a face at my question, almost as if she remembered something unpleasant. "He tends to get what he wants by beating people up, it's best not to cross him." She shifted her eyes away to look at the window before she looked back at me. "Though, it's been a few days. It's kind of weird how he isn't back by now."
"Hm, just let it play out." I closed my eyes. "I'm sure it'll be fine. There's only so many people they can beat up before the police catch them. DNA evidence and all that."
"I guess..." I let the Tanpopo's unsure voice be the last thing I heard as I drifted to sleep, glad that the beatings have at least given me free class time as the teacher called off our lessons.
~Transition_\('-')/_ Transition~
In the end, Tanpopo woke me up, saying how it turned out that we only had a half day at school today. As I slung my book bag over my shoulder, I was interrupted.
"Are you walking alone?"
"Yeah, what of it?" I raised an eyebrow at the person who seems to be popping up constantly in my school life.
"It's just... school's going to be shut down for a while because of this..." She shifted her eyes away. "It's just dangerous. And, uh, someone weak, like you, will easily be beaten up." Her voice gained its usual strength by the time she ended her sentence, though her face strangely didn't match the slightly malicious jab.
"I'll just beat up whoever bothers me." I brushed her off as I nonverbally ended the conversation, choosing to head home and enjoy the unexpected vacation from school.
"Is that a Nanimori student?" I continued to walk as a pair of women talked to each other. I glanced behind me and saw that they stopped to stare at me. They weren't very quiet as I could hear everything they were saying.
"How can she be walking alone like that? Doesn't she know how dangerous it is?"
"We should also get going, we don't want to be caught up in anything." The other woman agreed and I let out a scoff once I was far enough away.
"Tch, what a bunch of idiots." I frowned at their behavior as I finally saw my house. What caught my attention was the small group conglomerated outside of the gates, though. "Where are you going?"
"Huh, Nakuka!" Tsunayoshi stumbled as he rubbed the back of his head. "Uh, no where, really."
"Doesn't answer my question." I sent him a blank stare that said that I wasn't believing his innocent behavior.
"Ah, well, I-" He could tell that his floundering didn't help his case, but his relief was evident as I sighed.
"Does mom know you're heading out?" He nodded. "Okay, then. Just come home before dark, mom will be worried if you don't." The scrawny boy agreed to my terms as his small group of friends headed out to who knows where. I didn't let that bother me as I walked into the house, temporarily setting my book bag in the hallway as I walked into the kitchen.
"Oh, you're home!" My mother smiled at me as she started to fold another article of laundry. "You just missed Tsu-kun."
"I know, I passed him outside." I absentmindedly picked up a towel and folded, setting it on the pile of other folded clothes.
"Oh! Then can you run outside really quick and tell Tsu-kun, Bianchi, and Reborn-kun that dinner will be at 18:30? And Fuuta-kun, too, though Reborn-kun told me that he'll be at a friends house for a while, so you might not be able to." I sighed in exasperation before nodding and jogging out of the house, half hoping that the group would still be within the vicinity.
'Shit, they're not here.' A frown settled onto my face as I scanned the streets, trying to catch a glimpse of a head of gravity defying hair. I continued to jog to the end of the street, checking the street corners as I did so. I was set on thinking that they were too far away to catch up with now as I stopped and sighed.
'This would be easier if we just had cellphones." I deadpanned and glanced at the random teen on the street as he clacked away on his phone, most likely texting some girl he hooked up with. He clicked off the device and locked eyes with me. I was going to look away, but he suddenly spoke.
"Looking for someone?" I set him a slightly wary look as I nodded, choosing not to speak to the stranger. "Well, they went that way." The brown haired teen pointed to my left as he sent me a pleasant smile. The smile didn't exactly feel genuine, but most of mine generally weren't, so who am I to judge?
"Thanks." I nodded to the boy and jogged in the direction he had pointed to. It was only about three minutes later when I stopped in the middle of the sidewalk, my ire setting in for the first time this week.
"What the hell. They're not here." I sighed in agitation. "You know what? Fuck this. They can find out when dinner is themselves." And so I spun around, walking towards home as I did so. The sun was rather pleasant on my back and I let the quiet day calm my nerves down, listening to the noises of the cool autumn day as I did so. I tuned back into my surroundings and noticed how close my house was.
"Huh, that was pretty fast." There was something off, but I brushed it off once I couldn't put a finger on it. And so I ignored the off-putting feeling and went up the steps that lead to the front door; at least, that's what I would have done if my foot hadn't phased right through the concrete step.
"What the fu-" My eyes widened as everything seemed to distort and suddenly snapped into a different image once I blinked. I was suddenly in a chipped, barren room with concrete walls. The place seemed to have deteriorate quite a bit from its original state as I could still see faint patches of sunshine yellow paint in certain corners of the room. I looked around in confusion and narrowed eyes, noting how my back was to a door. I reached for it and tried the knob, but it didn't budge. Another sigh escaped my lips as I backed away from the prison-like door and sat on the ground, annoyed with the fact that I was still in my school uniform.
"Well, what now?" I mumbled into the air before I closed my eyes, cursing whatever entity plagued my second life with such a weird experience. "Ah well, I guess it beats studying."
~Transition_\('-')/_Transition~
Tsuna nervously stared at the screen with both Kyoko and Haru on it. He gulped his nerves down as he trembled, watching as one of the bloody twins started to tip a bottle of sulfuric acid over his crush's head. He finally screamed out at them to stop and said that he will stab himself with the knife that Birds had. He couldn't let them get hurt just because they are connected with his group, they didn't deserve it. They weren't a part of the mafia, he felt that he was responsible for their situation and so he had to fix it himself.
"I'll do it for you." He set a determined, but nervous expression on his face as he denied Bianchi's offer.
"It's all right, I'll do it myself." And so he took the knife and was ready to plunge it into himself when there was a commotion on the screen. His heart leapt with hope and joy as he saw Dr. Shamal protect Kyoko (and Hana, but he didn't really notice her there) while Haru was protected by TYL I-Pin and Lambo.
He felt relief and optimism as he looked towards his tutor whom had a familiar smirk on his face.
"Family protect each other." And then he was launched towards the perverted old man, clumsily punching him through his surprise. Gokudera also made sure to get a few kicks in, effectively knocking the old man out as his birds flew off to who-knows-where. He could tell his friends were relieved as much as he was as he turned to face them. It was then that a certain fact bothered him.
"Hey, Reborn?" The baby hitman turned to him with his unreadable face. "You don't think that Birds sent anyone else to my home, right? Mom and Nakuka are there alone."
"Don't worry. I sent one of my surveillance insects to keep watch over the house and to notify me if anything happens." Tsuna shrieked as a large amount of butterflies crawled over the baby's face, his momentary relief: gone. Sure, butterflies were pretty from far away, but they were pretty scary looking up close. He still refuses to touch one after that incident in the fifth grade.
Though, his butterfly trauma was easily forgotten once he heard a voice. The same voice that had been missing for a while now.
"Fuuta..."
~Transition_\('-')/_Transition~
Thunk
Thunk
Thunk
Clank
"Aw man, how long have I been in here." I whined half-heartedly as I flung bits of concrete against the wall. It felt rather satisfying when some of the pieces crumbled by the force of my throws. "I guess I at least have sunlight." I huffed as I took up another concrete pebble and flung it through the bars on the door's window, aiming for it to fly through the gabs from where I sat. I kept missing, narrowly sending the pieces through before they turned midair and turned in a way so that they bounced harmlessly off the bars.
"Herbivore, stop that incessant noise this instant." My ears perked up at the voice as I walked up to the door, trying to get a better look into the hallway as I stood on the tips of my toes.
"Someone else is here? Who are you?"
"Hn." The voice sounded tired; I tried to get a better of the person as I gripped the bars and tried to hold myself up long enough to catch a view through the other door's window, the same door that the voice came from. I quickly gave up when the height of the window started to annoy me and when I realized I couldn't spot the voice's host. "I'm Hibari Kyoya, head of the disciplinary committee."
"Oh, so you're the guy that Tanpopo was talking about." I settled myself back into my original position, trying to scrounge up any level of comfort I could at this point. "She did mention how you've been gone for a while."
"Are you a student of Nanimori Middle?" I blinked at the seemingly random question, but obliged the teen.
"Yeah, I am."
"I see." There was a pause and I waited for the boy to speak again, but I soon came to the conclusion that he wasn't going to continue speaking, probably more content with the silence of his jail cell than with our short conversation. And so we sat there in complete silence, neither feeling the need to talk to each other.
'This is awkward.' I sighed as I stared at the dust motes floating through the rays of sunlight. 'It kinda feels like he's angry over there.'
"Uh, so... how did you get locked up here?" My mouth twitched when my instincts told me I brought up something I shouldn't have brought up. "I was walking home and all of a sudden, I was here..." There was silence as I awkwardly tossed a rock into the air. The conversation felt extremely one-sided; normally, I'd be fine with that, but I just wanted to figure out what's going and get this shit over with. "Hey, you there?"
"Be quiet, herbivore." The boy's fairly deep voice growled. Though, I only felt offended and angry at his tone.
"You listen here-"
"Oya Oya, that wasn't very nice little skylark." I was cut off in my yell when my door opened, revealing a slightly older teen with blue hair in a spiky ponytail.
"Who are you?" I narrowed my eyes, looking up at the figure through the dim light.
"Hm? Isn't it more polite to introduce yourself first?" His calm smiled vaguely pissed me off as I glared at him, not willing to share my name with the bastard. "Oya, it seems the Vongola's sister is quite obstinate. Kufu~ I'm Rokudo Mukuro, nice to meet you, Sawada Nakuka."
"Herbivore, fight me." I heard Hibari speak up again.
"You won't be able to beat me with how weak you are now. I already beat you anyway, Mr. skylark." I huffed at his arrogant tone; not caring if this guy was dangerous or not, I spoke up.
"Were you the one who brought me here?"
"You sure a smart one."
"Why?" He fully turned towards me and stepped closer, making a small halo of light around his head as he blocked the only light source in the room.
"Oya, I have been meeting quite a lot of impatient and bad tempered people."
"Cut the crap and just answer the question." He laughed a little in his unusual way before he continued.
"I need control over your brother in order to obtain my goal."
"Tsunayoshi?" I raised an eyebrow. "Why him?"
"As I thought, you have no idea about what's going on in your own house. Kufufu~ How sad." I narrowed my eyes, silently demanding him to explain himself. "Haven't you noticed how secretive Vongola and his friends have been around you, and how Reborn's innocent facade comes down when you aren't around?"
"Hn." I agreed with what he said. I did notice how strange everything has been, I just never brought it up as I felt it wasn't any of my business. I stayed silent for a few seconds, contemplating my next question before I spoke up. "So, what's your goal? I watched as his smile become wider, almost tense, as his countenance seem to darken.
"Oya? It seems the Vongola has arrived. Sorry, little flower, but you will have to go to sleep now." I didn't need my instincts to tell me that he was going to do something, but I was cut off guard as the room began to swirl and finally turn to black in a matter of seconds. As my senses shut down, the last thing I heard was the irritatingly ominous laugh of Rokudo.
~Transition_\('-')/_Transition~
Tsuna was put on edge once he entered Kokuyo Land's decrepit theater. The fond memories he had here was forgotten as he worried about the badly beaten Yamamoto and Gokudera he had to leave behind.
"Tsuna, focus." He shook the thoughts away at the squeak of Reborn's voice, knowing there was a good reason for it.
"Fuuta, you're okay!" He felt relieved when he spotted the child, leaning against the wall with blank look on his face. Something inside him told him something was wrong, but his elation for finding the child overpowered his intuition as he moved closer with Bianchi.
"Fuuta? What's wro-" He tensed as they all stared in shock at the sandy blond child as he stuck a blade into Bianchi's stomach.
"Ugh-" Tsuna let out a distraught cry as Bianchi spat out blood, her eye squeezed shut in silent pain. And that's when he realization hit him, making his stomach turn in dread. Rokudo Mukuro let out an amused laugh as he seemed to catch on to his distress.
"Tsuna, do something. If you don't, then you will die."
"How? Fuuta's my opponent!" And he refused to hurt the child that was so well behaved and helpful back home. No, he wouldn't hurt a child. That's when he took one look at Mukuro and decided that he was his best bet as he ran towards him, shrieking at the possessed Fuuta to not follow him. "I have no choice!" He took out the length of cord he picked up off the crowd, trying to use it as a whip only for it to smack him in the eyes. He let out a cry as he fell down, causing Mukuro to laugh.
"You are full of surprises, Vongola. You should be careful, there are more dangerous things behind you." And Tsuna turned his head, surprised when he found that the chord tangled Fuuta up as well. The child struggled and his hand soon found the trident shaped knife, raising it above him to stab Tsuna. He felt initial panic, until he remembered Lanchia and the guilt he laid to him about the deeds he had done when he was possessed. He felt pity as he stared up at the child.
"It's not your fault." Fuuta's hand stilled before he started to grip his head, encouraging to Tsuna to convince the boy that he's not at fault. "We're on your side, Fuuta. You don't have to worry about anything, just come home with us." Fuuta let out a small wail as tears dripped from his eyes, his eyes seemingly cleared up as he whimpered.
"Tsuna-nii..." Then he collapsed, blood dripping from his nose in a light stream.
"Fuuta?! Oi!"
"It looks like you went too far. He's suffering from a clash of wills." He lamented mockingly. He maintained his smile as he talked about the suffering of the child under his possession, saying how he hadn't slept in ten days and how he tried to protect Tsuna. "He even closed off his heart and lost his ranking abilities." Mukuro felt slightly victorious as the Vongola looked panicked, thought it was a empty feeling as he stared at the collapsed child. Yet another child had suffered under the mafia, only more reason to destroy it and the world. He closed his eyes briefly as another child took his place, one with blue hair spiked into a pineapple fashion.
He shook himself of his own memories as he smiled again. He didn't hold anything back as he explained his plans. "Our plan was a huge success. The Vongola is standing in front of me, after all." And even then, his planning was to a tee as the Vongola reacted just how he predicted he would.
"Rokudo Mukuro, what are people to you?!" He closed his eyes and opened them with sinister smile, his memories of the mafia flashing behind his eyes.
"Toys, I suppose."
~Transition_\('-')/_Transition~
I looked around, confusion flooded my system as I stared at the ceiling. At least, it would have been a ceiling if I wasn't floating in a large body of water.
"Enjoying yourself?" I eyes widened in surprise as I shifted myself and saw Mukuro, floating along side me. "Interesting mind scape you have here." He looked around at the rather barren landscape, noting the dim sunlight that shined from above with circular rings spread out on the surface as rain fell. I too stared at the rain through the surface of the water, glancing at the bottom-less darkness underneath us. I wearily brought my feet closer to me, not wanting to be close to the darkness in anticipation of what might be there. I decided to ignore it as I brought my attention to the blue haired male, noting his heterochromatic eyes for the first time.
"Where are we?"
"As I said: in your mind. Your's is quite melancholy." I raised an eyebrow, strangely feeling at ease as my hair floated around me.
"Is it? I think it's peaceful." I closed my eyes for a few seconds, letting the muffled sound of rain and thunder comfort me before I opened them again. "You never did tell me what your goal is."
"Hm, you're still interested in that?"
"It was the reason why you kidnapped me, but I could really care less." There was a brief silence as Rokudo seemed to contemplate something.
"My plan is to destroy everything and make it new. I'll clean the world with darkness."
"Alright."
"You're not opposed to my plan?" I brushed my hair back as the water resisted my movements, making my hair float back slowly.
"I could really care less what happens in the world. It could burn for all I care."
"Even if you're family was to be destroyed in order for me to obtain my goals?" I hesitated, letting myself float as I stayed silent.
"I don't have many attachments to this world. What's the use of fighting against something I have no control over?" I reached up and plucked a single red flower, drowning it in water as I observed it.
'Huh, a spider lilly.' I opened my hand as it suddenly dissolved in a red wisp, leaving a trail of murky red before it diffused into the blue waters around us.
"Kufufu~ How interesting." I turned my eyes to the boy, locking my eyes with him as something unreadable flashed in his eyes. His smile suddenly turned into a frown as he winced; Rokudo seem to ignore my questioning gaze as wiped his expressions clean once more. "It seems that I have to bring my full attention to the Vongola, he seems to have gotten serious. I'll leave you one last warning since we seem to be akin in some aspects, don't trust the Vongola."
The world seem to darken and I was suddenly awake, the water world was gone and the dusty cell took its place. I sat up, still feeling like I was swimming in water as I silently looked around. The room seemed to have gotten more chaotic as the walls appeared more chipped and debris littered the floor. The door still stood, but I spotted a hole in the wall. So, naturally, I got on my hands and knees and shimmied through the small opening.
I sighed and got up, swiping my hands against myself to clear any dirt that I may have gained on my apparel. I looked around and headed up the stairs, careful to not trip over any potholes in the concrete stairs. Voices met my ears as I came to the final steps.
~Transition_\('-')/_Transition~
Tsuna and Mukuro stopped their fighting when Leon started to float. The green chameleon emitted a light and something plopped into Tsuna's hands. Though, another object seemed to fall, unknown to everyone else in the room.
"Woolen gloves?!" Tsuna shrieked, he had no idea what to do with these! Nonetheless, he slipped them on as a possessed Ken attacked him, stabbing at him with the detached trident head. Instead of the blade going through the gloves, much to everyone's surprise, it was reflected. In confusion, Tsuna removed the object that saved his hand from some major pain.
"A bullet?"
"So that's it, Tsuna, pass it here!" He wasted no time to pass the bullet onto his mentor, knowing that the baby had something planned.
"I won't let you!" Bianchi got in the way, Mukuro's eyes flashing in surprise as the bullet he grabbed with Bianchi's hand turned into Leon.
"I just need to shoot you with this special bullet, though I've never seen this type of bullet before."
"W-Wait, you don't know what it does?!" He didn't have much time to question it as the possessed Gokudera sent out a barrage of explosives just as Reborn's gun shot the bullet into Tsuna.
Once the smoked cleared, Mukuro was satisfied with the sight of Tsuna sprawled out on the floor. He wanted to savor this moment as the Vongola's future boss seemed to be defeated. It was true, though, Tsuna had accepted defeat in that very moment, but he wasn't counting on the images of people he knew flitting into his mind.
"Eh?" He moaned as he heard his mother complain that he didn't clean his room along with Kurokawa finding his japanese test. 'Rebukes?' He seemed to blanche as he heard Haru say there was no spirit in going into the enemy's base head on, but a sniffle told him that she was really worried about him.
"I'm going to be a mafia wife! *sniff* Please, don't give up, Tsuna-san!" 'Haru'
"Calm down, Kyoko." 'Nii-san?'
"But Doctor Shamal said that Tsuna and the others had set off..." 'Even Kyoko-chan?'
"Don't worry. I've fought with him before. I know he's strong. If he comes home defeated, then I won't forgive him."
"That's true. Tsuna-san, come back safe and sound."
"Don't repeat the same mistakes I did, kid!" Tsuna grit his teeth as he heard Lanchia's voice. "With your own hand, protect your friends! Protect your family!"
Emotions overcame the boy and for a second, he swore he heard another voice. "You have some explaining to do..."
He forgot about the voice as he grabbed onto the trident tip with his gloved hands, ignoring it as his gloves transformed.
"Mukuro, if I don't defeat you, even if I'm dying, I won't give up!" And that was all it took to seal Mukuro's fate.
~Transition_\('-')/_Transition~
When I finally opened the door, I was greeted by the sight of Tsunayoshi's friends being loaded up onto hospital gurneys. They were attended by what looked like hospital staff, though I ignored that as I located Tsunayoshi, a battered and bloody one at that.
"Tsunayoshi..."
"Agh! Nakuka, why are you here?!" I blinked, the gravity of the situation still hasn't really settled with me. I shook my head as I never did learn how I got here, I had an idea of why, though.
"I was brought here by someone." My eyes trailed around as I spotted Fuuta. Huh, haven't seen him in a while.
"Are you okay?" I was vaguely surprised with his concern, I stared at his face for a second as his eyebrows furrowed. "Nakuka... do you have something to tell me?"
I blinked. "No... I don't." I didn't react when he suddenly seized up in pain, falling to the ground as Reborn explained why he was in pain. My mind was somewhere else, though, as I stared at my second life's brother. My body automatically followed the boy as he was also wheeled off on a gurney. I stopped for a second, spotting something obstructing my path and knelt down to inspect it.
The twitching face of a dwarf hamster looked up at me, it's white fur oddly marred by a stripe of bright orange that ran down the middle of its back. Its beady black eyes stared up at me as if to say that it did not fear me. My hand fell to the ground, instantly, the creature scurried onto my open palm. I looked down at it as the hamster sat on its hind legs, we stared into each other's eyes before I broke it off and climbed into the medical van that Tsunayoshi was crammed in to.
My eyes were still trained on the hamster once the vehicle started to move, my finger ran down the soft orange on its fur.
'Tsunayoshi... Just what are you hiding?'
Author's Notes:
Hey, readers! I hope you all liked the chapter and weren't too disappointed that I skipped over Dino and Fuuta's introduction. I just wanted to skip over to the exciting parts, ya know? So... forgive me?
Any who~ Reviews are always awesome. So, make sure to leave some for me! Even saying you liked the chapter makes me happy and makes me write more for the story! Unfortunately, I'm an impatient person and I could make this fanfic a lot better if I just put more time in making it longer and don't skip over parts. But whatevs...
Thanks to everyone who reads this story and see you guys next time.