Characters:

Tsuna - White Rabbit

Hibari - King of Hearts

Kusakabe - Knight of Hearts

Gokudera - Tweedle Dee

Yamamoto - Tweedle Dum

Shamal - caterpillar Absolem

Hana, Kyoko - chefs in the Red palace

Haru - gardener

Reborn - Cheshire Cat

Dino - Alice

Mukuro - Mad Hatter

Chrome - Mice Mallymkun

Ken and Chikusa - Hares

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Their footsteps were echoing in the tensed silence and heavy atmosphere weighted their hearts down as they entered the dark throne room, which had the same marble floor and massive columns with beautifully decorated heads. The throne room was enormous, so it took them some time before they came closer to the throne which were up at the end of the stairs. Whole room was decorated with countless red flags and one large window let in the bright light, illuminating the scene in front of their eyes. Hibari, who sat on the magnificent big throne with beautiful red carpet, wore a long black coat with an armband on his left sleeve saying 'DISCIPLINE' and glared at them, resting his head on his palm. The floor was full of blood and Tsuna noticed that even Hibari's hands were red by the dark liquid. He felt his heart beating quickly and squeezed his hands nervously as he kneeled down with others.

"I'm very sorry for interrupting you, my King, but there's something I have to immediately discuss with you." Kusakabe stared at the floor, avoiding the eye contact with him. His body was stiff and Tsuna could saw how much was he nervous.

"Hn, what is it?" Hibari's voice was even colder than the brunette expected and made everyone shiver.

"It's about the prophecy. I'm afraid it came true earlier than we thought."

"What do you mean?"

"This man by my side is Alice we were waiting for - the legend's description fits and he even came exactly as Shamal predicted."

Long silence filled the room and no one dared to break it, not even Dino, who would usually say something by now. He could clearly feel that he underestimated the Red King and that he should be serious if he didn't want to end up as the man before him. He regretted a little that he didn't try to escape during their way to the palace, but on the other hand he felt strong excitement growing within him from finding such a formidable opponent.

"How did he get here? Explain, Rabbit."

Tsuna flinched and felt stab of pain in his heart. 'Rabbit...he has never called me like that...' He lifted his head and paled as the dangerous steel eyes pierced him and made his body tremble. The brunette felt his fast heartbeat, shaking hands and knees and suddenly it was so hard to breathe that he couldn't even imagine how is he supposed to talk right now. It was suffocating and fright mixed with desperation squeezed his chest heavily as if something hard was wrapped around his lungs. He gulped and let out long sigh.

"I-I-...i-I'm t-tru-truly...s-so-so-...s-sorry, my K-King." he stuttered with unusually high pitched voice. He was scared of how indifferently Hibari looked at him now, but more than that his heart ached. It hurt - those cruel narrowed eyes, cold expression - it was so different from how he normally behaved towards him. It hurt...

"I don't need your apologies. Explain it to me."

"W-when I-I wa-was-"

"Speak normally or I'll bite you to death!" Hibari growled and Tsuna squeaked, frightened.

"Hai!" the brunette bit his lips nervously and continued, hoping he will manage it. "When I was in human world he spotted me and followed me when I tried to run away. He fell through the floor near the door."

"So you let human enter Wonderland. You know, what punishment does wait for you, right?"

"...hai." Tsuna could no longer look at him. He felt tears filling his eyes and he kept shaking more and more.

In that moment he heard sound of footsteps coming to him. The brunette lifted his head and gasped when he saw Hibari walking calmly closer with bloody tonfas in his hands, glaring at him as if he was some kind of useless insect. 'Has he always seen me like this?' he thought and tried to hold back the tears, but couldn't stop one tear escaping from his eye and rolling down. In an instant Hibari stopped moving with eyes widened a little as he watched the small animal in front of him, scared and sad, trembling on the floor. He remembered one distant memory from his childhood, but what truly surprised him wasn't that the brunette cried, but the fact that he felt so unpleasant and ashamed because it was his fault.

"Tch!" the King made annoyed sound, gritting his teeth. "I'll punish you some other time! I'm not in a mood anymore."

Tsuna flinched and looked at him, surprised by his words as he went towards kneeling Dino and Kusakabe. He quickly wiped off the tear and felt relieved that the King spared him.

"Oi, herbivore, stand up and introduce yourself!" Hibari ordered, glaring at Alice with displeased expression.

Dino slowly got on his feet and looked directly into the King's eyes. "I'm Dino Cavallone. It's nice to meet you." he said while staring at Hibari, who watched him and as the silence was growing between them, so did the tensed atmosphere. It was as if two strong auras were crashing into each other and everyone felt that this quiet was just a silence before the storm.

Suddenly Dino let out long sigh and rubbed his head. "I have to admit that the existence of this bizarre world shocked me and on my way here I could see bunch of strange things that I'll never probably see again, so I have to say that Wonderland is really beautiful and exciting world." he made a short pause and everyone was curious what will he say next.

"Even if it was a short visit I enjoyed it and I'll never forget about it," Dino smiled but then his expression changed rapidly into serious one. "But let me tell you one more thing - I'm not gonna marry you even if my life depends on it!"

Silence...

Everyone was staring at Dino with their mouths wide open and shock with horror mixed within their faces. 'DOES HE WANT TO DIE?!' they thought and glanced at Hibari, who glared at him, eyes narrowed and arms crossed. Then he smirked and slight laugher escaped his lips.

"Wow, looks like you could actually be quite good opponent." the King sneered and in an instant his hands were holding pair of tonfas. "Alright, I'll fight you."

"Huh?" Dino stared at him, surprised.

"Wha-?! But my king this man is a precious guest!" Kusakabe tried to save situation but vainly.

"I don't care. Now get out of my way or I'll bite you to death!"

'Fuck! There's nothing I can do about him now that he's like that!' Kusakabe gritted his teeth and turned to Dino. "I'm sorry Dino-san." he said and blonde man, still shocked, stared at him.

"He? For real?" Dino mumbled and glanced at Hibari. Feeling excitement circulate through his veins, he smiled and grabbed his whip. "I guess it can't be helped." he said.

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I'm sorry that this chapter is so short. I'll probably upload next chapter tomorrow already, so don't be mad :D

Anyway the chapter contains fight between Dino and Hibari so look forward to it ;)

I hope you'll enjoy it ^^