A/N: Hi there! This is the continuation of the last chapter so remember PARALLEL WORLD= Para! Tsuna.
Chapter 8
PARALLEL WORLD
"Are you sure this is the right place, Reborn?" Tsuna asked. The tone was a bit off in what Reborn heard it. He might have probably been taken aback seeing the deserted rundown place. He decided to let it pass but took note on that, he needs more evidence to prove that Tsuna is what he suspects his student was… a type of person who doesn't have the ability to care to anyone, to be specific, a person who doesn't have a heart. Though, it'll be troublesome if he does doesn't have it since that's the most important side a befitting boss should have or else Vongola will face another bloodshed again.
"Is this whole area abandoned?" It was Gokudera who asked.
"This place used to be a compound recreation area called the Kokuyo Center." Reborn said.
"Of all places…" Tsuna murmured to himself.
Reborn had heard the murmur so he decided to ask, "what did you say, Tsuna?"
Tsuna has frozen but that was only for a second, "I've come here before."
"That's it?" the arcobaleno mocked as if Tsuna just said something not useful but the hitman was actually observing his every behavior and words.
The brunet sigh in irritation, "this place had a karaoke bar, a movie theater and a small exhibit of flora and fauna." He said speaking out what he remembers in his memory.
"If you've been here before, lead the way, Tsuna." The arcobaleno suggested with his innocent beady eyes.
Tsuna smirked, "I only said that I've been here, I didn't said that I remember every little detail this place has and besides, that was a long, long time ago." He smiled. "A long, long time ago…" he trailed as his eyes dulled down for a split second not knowing that the hitman who's now narrowing his eyes had noticed it.
As they finally went inside, Yamamoto was first to encounter a fight and as for Tsuna, it might not show to his face but he was actually bored waiting for the fight to finish. He doesn't care that the baseball freak was fighting for him.
He doesn't want anything to do with the fight but thanks to his tutor who had kicked him into the hole, he was now in between in their fight.
Tsuna then decided to just finish it in his own when the animal transforming guy named Ken decided to attack him but his plan was ruined when Yamamoto has ended it instead.
So Yamomoto win the fight but his arm has been hurt badly. And as expected, Tsuna doesn't care. He just wants all of this to end.
After, Mukuro's reinforcement has now come to fight them but in the end they didn't have a chance.
And so Mukuro finally appeared but it turns out that it was not him but another person named Lancia. Tsuna was the one who fought him and was defeated without the use of dying will bullet. Reborn wanted to use it but his student hasn't given any hint of regrets so that was out of the option.
On their way of finding the real Mukuro, a guy whom Gokudera recognizes has appeared. He recognized him since he fought him before and was the reason why he was currently hurt badly, the guy stated that he won't let them pass through, Gokudera then told Tsuna that he'll took care of him and took the opportunity to go ahead.
Tsuna was pleased at what he had said and without any hesitation; he did what Gokudera told him.
Reborn didn't like how his student just easily accepted the decision Gokudera had suggested, but he couldn't do anything about it for now, especially when Gokudera himself volunteered at the present situation. And he did say that he's not going to help.
"It's nice to finally meet you, Vongola." A guy who was inside the dark room they had entered said.
Tsuna narrowed his eyes at the said guy. He just entered the room with Reborn while Bianchi remained with his brother who's currently in a fight.
"I see…" Tsuna nodded in acknowledgement. "The real Mukuro…" he momentarily paused and tilted his head, "right?"
The guy who Tsuna assumed as Mukuro cracked a smile as his mismatched eyes is now field with obvious amusement.
"Kufufu, I have a hint that the information I had seen about the Vongola in the Vongola's main system isn't real…" the guy named Mukuro narrowed his mismatched eyes, however the playful smile was still plastered in his face. "Or is it the arcobaleno's doing why the data was wrong?" he said averting his sight at the hitman.
The hitman casually shrugged what the escapee had said making Mukuro frown.
While Tsuna is already in confusion, this actually answers why his brows are now creased, he doesn't know why Mukuro had referred Reborn as an arcobaleno which actually means Rainbow.
Mukuro then directed his attention at Tsuna, the mismatched eyes was observantly looking at him as the creepy smile grew wider. "I wonder if what 'he' told me was the real Vongola's nature." Mukuro was looking at him but his words seemed not directed to Tsuna but to the escapee himself. "Kufufuf, interesting…" Mukuro maniacally trailed as his red orb has changed the characters in it. Tsuna had noticed it but didn't know what actually mean by that until the escapee had spoken once again. "Let see if all he said was real…Kufufu." And after, Tsuna found himself in a fight with Mukuro. He doesn't know when it started but he couldn't help but smirked. Mukuro wasn't really that good in fighting, that's what he thought and was confident with it.
Everything was under control until; Mukuro instantly backed away and stopped fighting the brunet. Of course, Tsuna got confused as Mukuro's smile vanishes and a smirk replaced it. "Kufufu, I shall take over your body."
Tsuna raised a brow as he doesn't get what he was talking about, the only thing that goes inside his mind with the statement was possess. "Do you mean you're going possess my body?" Mukuro smiled and courtly nodded. "That's pathetic, you're not a ghost who can possess body, and ghosts are just illusions that are made by human's creative mind."
"Kufufu… you are right," Mukuro shifted his sight at the arcobaleno, "I'm not a ghost and probably they are just made by illusions but then what will you do if I let you meet this person? Kufufu." He then averted his sight on the very dark corner of the room.
Tsuna directed his attention to that corner and into his surprise, an albino the same age as Tsuna appeared. "Y-you…" Tsuna tensed up but this all stop when he heard Mukuro's laugh. He then shifted his sight back to the laughing escapee.
"Your reaction is really interesting after seeing…" he stopped in his laugh, "the illusion I have created." He deadpanned and the grinned afterwards, "so how was the feeling of meeting your childhood best friend you had killed?"
"Reborn-san, what's happening here?" Gokudera who just arrived in the room where Reborn and Tsuna are currently in asked. He was confused as why his Juudaime was standing at the center of the room while an unknown suspicious guy was casually sitting on a slightly dirty couch in the room.
"Tsuna is currently under Mukuro's illusion." The arcobaleno answered while Mukuro release a chuckle.
"What?" Gokudera tensed up and was about to approach Tsuna to snap him up from the illusions he's currently seeing but the arcobaleno had stopped him.
"Kufufufu, as expected to an arcobaleno, you sure knows how illusion works." Mukuro commented, "However, if you don't do anything right now, the vongola might end up even more broken after this."
"What do you mean by even more?" Reborn has now transformed Leon into a gun and has pointed it to the illusionist.
"Kufufu, that's unexpected, you the strongest arcobaleno didn't know what your student actually going through and has been fooling all of you by his fake nature? Kufufufufu…"
"What the fuck are you saying?! There's no way Juudaime would do that!" Gokudera snapped.
"No," Reborn narrowed his eyes.
"B-but Reborn-san-," Gokudera tried to defend his Juudaime.
"I know Gokudera but I actually have a hint that Tsuna is hiding something…"
"But it's only natural to hide some secrets even to friends-,"
"That's the problem Gokudera," Reborn cut him, "Tsuna doesn't see any of us as his famiglia or friends nor even trust us." Gokudera was instantly silence at the hitman's revelation. "I'm actually investigating what happened why my student became like this but seems like he," he pointed at the smiling illusionist, "knows the answer."
"Kufufu, well I apologize on behalf of the disappointment that I will cause you," Mukuro stood up from his seat. "The arcobaleno was right, none of you were trusted and considered as a friend but you haven't thought that you were all just treated as toys to entertainment his boring life." Mukuro shifted his sight at the frozen brunet. "Right, Vongola?"
Both Gokudera and Reborn were taken aback when the illusionist had directed to the brunet as questions field their thought like if Tsuna had broken through the illusion already.
There was only silence at first before a menacing hum was heard, "hmmm, I wonder…" the brunet turn his head to their direction. His eyes were now visibly dull. "I wonder if all of you here can escape alive."
Mukuro smirked, "Kufufu, he broke."
"What did you do?" Reborn venomously asked already ready to pull the trigger.
"Kufufu, nothing special, I just let him go through his past again." He simply answered not even bothered at the gun directed at him, "his past where he had taken the life of his very own friend."
End of Chapter
