Hayato personally hated hospital for the simple fact that he automatically associated it with death and bedridden people.
However, he made an exception since his body felt as if it was on fire at the moment.
'What's going on?' Hayato wonders to himself as he hones in on the sound of footsteps, IV machines, and chatter around him.
He opens his eyes, scans his surroundings, and concludes that he was in the emergency room of a hospital.
'Why am I here?' he ponders as he attempts to scoot off of the bed when he feels a sharp pain in his left arm as well as his ribs.
A guttural groan emits from his mouth as he rolls on the opposite side of the body once he feels the pain dull a little.
"It looks like the patient is up and moving." Hayato overhears what he assumes was a nurse right before the curtain that separates the patients from each other slides open.
"Sir, can you remember your name?" the nurse politely inquires toward him as she swiftly moves about the small space to check his vitals.
"Hayato Gokudera…" he manages to inform the nurse of his name before he answers a series of questions that was consider as vital information.
'If I'm here then that means…' realization dawns on him that if he was in the hospital so were the other two.
"Did a young woman by the name of Haru Miura?" Hayato questions the nurse as he attempts to avoid the sharp pain on his left side.
"Haru Miura?" the nurse repeats as if to think of whether or not she heard the name at any point of the day.
A pregnant pause follows until she snaps her fingers and tells him, "That name was being thrown around a couple of times while I pass the ICU."
Hayato eyes widen at the acronym the woman used since those who lives hang in the balance were typically routed there.
'She didn't say anything about Chiharu.' He notes as he speaks up once again in order to ask the nurse about Chiharu when the sound of swooning women hit the floor captures his attention.
Hayato rolls his eyes at the action once his brain registers the only person who can cause single, married, divorce women drop to their knees.
'Oh great…of all the people who got here first…it had to be him…'
Earlier...
"How is she?" A frantic Kyoko inquires to random doctors that passes by her until they were able to locate help to find out where Haru was.
The doctor assigns a nurse to guide the group to their destination before Shamal breaks away from the crowd with claims to need a "smoke break".
Everyone, who knew Shamal, saw through the lies as an excuse to randomly and shamelessly flirt with the women nurses.
"Should we check on where Hayato is?" Takeshi poses about the silver haired mafiso to Tsuna as they follow close behind the nurse.
"That's why Shamal left." Tsuna mentions to his Rain guardian, which prompts him to quirk an eyebrow at the statement.
It was that moment that he remembered that Shamal mentored Gokudera and even inspired him when he was younger to use bombs and explosives.
"What about Bianchi?"
"She's on the way as we speak now."
An "oh my god" captures the males attention as they peer up to see Kyoko break out in to a sprint after the nurse points them in the right direction.
Various machines were attached to her body as it feed out information to the nurses that surrounded her in order to keep her alive.
The only thing that sent a wave of relief through her body was the constant rise and fall of her chest, which meant she continues to breath.
"She's opening her eyes!"
Kyoko's declaration swiftly ebbs away the silent fear of death that continuously lurks every human being and instead was replace with genuine happiness.
Tsuna peered at his close friend and deemed that after what happened today that it was the appropriate time to reveal the secret.
'Now is the time…'
"Excuse me but is there a toddler name Chiharu Miura in the hospital?" Kyoko poses to a nurse, who totes a wooden clipboard within her arms.
"We haven't had any toddler by that name admitted in the hospital at all today." The nurse claims after she peers down at her clipboard to confirm the notion.
Kyoko faces her husband with an expression of concern on her face after she hears what the nurse tells her.
"You don't think…"
Meanwhile,
'Why am I in so much pain?' Haru wondered to herself as she opens her heavy lids only to be blinded by a bright light.
'Am I dead?' She questions once she assumes that the bright light was her time to ascend to the heavens.
'Oh Kami-sama, I'm not yet ready to go and leave Chiharu behind…and Hayato,' Haru quietly prays when she suddenly realizes that the silver haired mafioso manages to crawl back in to her thoughts.
'Did he ever leave?' her conscious probes while she focuses in on the sights before her when she spots a ceiling beyond the light.
Incoherent noises surround her as her mind attempts to process what was going around her as the pain continues to throb throughout her body.
"She's stable doctor." A nurse announces after she checks Haru's vitals that displays the she was no longer in critical condition.
"If you can hear me, Ms. Miura, blink twice." A masculine voice instructs her, which prompts Haru to follow the directions.
"You're in Tokyo Municipal Hospital." The doctor explains to her before he adds, "You were involved in a car accident."
'A car accident? When…where…how?'
"Doctor, there's a group of people outside that request to speak to the patient." A nurse informs him in a whispered tone.
"Inform them that once we move the patient to a room that she is free to have a limited amount of visitors until we execute more tests done on her." He issues specific orders to the nurse.
"Ms. Miura," the male doctor calls out her name and waits until he has her focus. "we're moving you to another room."
'It must be Kyoko and the others…' She mentally assumes after she overhears what the nurse says as a sense of relief washes over her.
'Wait a minute...what about Chiharu?!'
She attempts to question about the location of her child but it hurts to move her mouth not to mention the dryness of her mouth.
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"What are you doing here?" Hayato inquires after he hisses from the excoriating pain from his ribs.
He was face to face with none other than his mentor, who introduced him to dynamites even though it clashed with the usage of his mosquitoes he still taught the young lad everything he knew about combat and explosives.
"I can ask the same of you." The male wittingly retorts as he shifts his weight to the left, slides his hands inside of his pants' pockets, and glares at the silver haired male.
Hayato cuts his gaze away from the brunette haired male out of a hidden sense of shame, disgust, and frustration.
"Hayato?" a worried feminine voice questions as it captures the two men attention.
The two males cast their gaze toward a woman with long purplish hair with an expression of concern on her face.
"Bianc…" Not even able to finish her name did he find himself within her arms as she squeezes his neck to see if he was still alive.
"I am so glad you're still alive!" "I thought I lost you when they told me of the car crash!" "Are you hurt anywhere?" She rambles on not aware that she continues to inflict even more damage on his tender body.
A guttural groan emerges from Hayato as the intense pain swiftly travels throughout his body as it forces him to push her off of him.
"What was that for?" Bianchi inquires after the incident when she witnesses him clutch his left side along with a painful expression on her face.
Shamal immediately breaks away from the nurse that tends to Hayato's pain with a handful of painkillers, "Aren't you going to ask about your companion?"
The mention of the word companion causes images of Haru's face to flash through his thoughts. He recalls her facial expression as they wait for the light to turn green.
After that, there was a very bright light along with a blur and was in the emergency room of some local hospital.
"Shit" he mutters under his breath as he transfers his hands to cradle his head as his head starts to pound from his thoughts.
"How is she?" Hayato asks as he attempts to curb any emotion from his tone when he speaks.
Shamal and Bianchi faces each other as if to signal to the other on whether or not which one of them should answer that question.
"She's…"
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"Hey…" "What?" "Wonder what the boss wants with that little runt back there?" "Who knows?"
"You think the boss has a fetish for little girls?" "Why would you even think that?" "Our boss is…weird."
"Ssh…we're about to see the boss now."
"Did you get what was requested of you?" Their boss poses with no emotion present in their voice as they spoke from their oversized leather seat.
The subordinates tossed the tied up unconscious little toddler on the floor in front of their boss' feet.
"Excellent work…" their boss congratulates them on a job well done, which earns an expression of appreciate from them.
A pregnant pause settles among them as their boss rises to their feet, secures their grasp around the rope, and says "…you're dismissed."
The pair bows out of respect before they exit from the main office with thoughts on what their boss plans could be with a little girl.
"Maybe we will find out in a couple of days." One of the subordinates suggests to his comrade, who nods his head in agreement.
"Can't say that it will be any quiet from this point on…"
"...especially since we picked a fight with none other than the Vongola family themselves."
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The wheels of the hospital bed rolls forward as Haru observes her surroundings while her mind starts to race about the location of her daughter.
'Maybe she's with Kyoko…' she assumes, which slowly washes away the fear of the unknown from her thoughts.
'Please let my baby be with her.' Haru inwardly pleads before she mutters another quiet pray over her child and even Hayato.
'I must have really hit my head hard if I thought about him.' She scoffs to herself with a gentle shake of her head left and right.
'Yet you can't deny the fact that you still have feelings for him.' Her conscious reminds her as she feels the bed jerk a little.
However, her brief moment of happiness would soon become eradicated once the truth was brought to the light.