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At first, she wasn't even aware that she was awake. All her mind was able to register was that whatever she was lying on, it was soft. Really soft actually...too soft.

She wasn't in the cave.

And with that, Chrome remembered everything.

"Hayato!" Chrome cried as she shot her eye open, only to have to close it because the light was too bright. She waited a few seconds before she opened it again, this time as slowly as she could. Chrome still ended up having to blink a few times in order for her vision to clear up but before she knew it her surroundings became clear to her.

She was in a bedroom. A bedroom that had bright-colored flowers and green vines imprinted all over the warm-yellow walls. Chrome could see real flowers in a blue vase on a small table by the window, which overlooked a rich green, grassy field. The door and the few chairs in the room, as well as the small table, all had a design of some sort, making Chrome wonder if they were actually hand carved.

All in all...Chrome had a deep suspicion that wherever she was, this room belonged to a rich person.

Was that person with the yellow pacifier rich?

Why did he save her?

Where was Hayato?

Chrome started to get up only to find that her body was extremely sore and that it felt like someone had placed ten-pound weights on her arms and legs. There was also a small prick of pain in her arm, causing the young girl to look to her left.

To her surprise, there was an IV needle taped to her arm, connecting her to the small clear bag on a gray metal stand next to her bed.

Was...was she not in a bedroom but in...a hospital room? A...fancy hospital room?

A grunt suddenly broke her out of her thoughts.

Startled, Chrome gasped as she looked to her right, a bit afraid of what or who she might find.

She saw Hayato.

Her silver-haired brother was sleeping on the bed next to her, a oxygen mask covering his nose and mouth and an IV drip in his arm. His face was scrunched up in slight discomfort before easing into a peacful expression.

He was alive. Her brother was unconscious, but alive.

"Oh thank goodness," Chrome breathed out, pure relief swarming through her body as she let her head drop back down to her pillow. "He's okay...Hayato's okay. He's gonna be okay."

"Are you serious?! Reborn just dropped two kids off without so much as an explanation and left?!"

And with that, her pure relief got tainted with fear and apprehension. That unfamiliar voice belonged to a grown man, a grown man that definitely did not sound happy.

"Yes, and please keep it down, the poor kids don't need that kind of ultimate wake up call."

This voice, while unfamiliar and male as well, at least sounded calm and... kindly. Maybe.

"What is that supposed to mean?!"

"Calm down G, Knuckle just doesn't want the kids to be frightened. They are in a strange place after all, it would make things worse if they wake up to a stranger yelling in the hallway."

Chrome found herself agreeing with the third voice.

The first voice, or G, didn't respond right away.

"Ugh, fair enough. So what's the second thing I should know?" At this point, the voices sounded like they were just outside the door, making Chrome's anxiety grow. After all, just because two of the men sounded like kind people, doesn't mean that they actually are.

And besides, even if the men were actually good people, it doesn't mean that her and Hayato's troubles were over. Because if they found out that Chrome and Hayato were living with their siblings in a cave...they would no doubt be torn away from each other without a second thought.

The men would call it 'helping.'

What should she do?

"You...may just want to see for yourself," said the third voice, sounding somewhat nervous. The doorknob then started to turn and in a moment of either pure desperation or brillance, Chrome closed her purple eye and pretended she was asleep.

They can't question her if they think she's sleeping right?

"Is it really that...oh," G responded as Chrome heard the door open. "Oh."

Please let them be fooled, please let them be fooled...

"Whatever you do, please don't scream," whispered the one whose name Chrome believed was Knuckle. "As you can see, they're still asleep."

Yes! They believed that she was still sleeping! Though...why did Knuckle think that G will suddenly start screaming?

"Okay...then I will admit something...very personal...very calmly. I am still a virgin, so there is no way he is my child."

A bunch of questions suddenly started buzzing around like bees in Chrome's head, ranging from 'men can be virgins?' to 'what exactly is a virgin anyway?' But the one most prominent was 'why does G think that the others believe that Hayato is his child?'

Despite herself, Chrome gave in to her curiousity and risked peeking a little.

What she saw...made her one working eye shot wide open in shock.

The three men...looked just like her brothers. Very eerily so. Sure, they were clearly much older than her brothers, and some of the hair or eye coloring was different, but if Chrome didn't know better, she was looking right at Hayato's, Ryohei's, and Takeshi's fathers.

"Oh, you're awake! That's an ultimate relief!" exclaimed the one who could have been Ryohei's father happily

...Darn it.

So yeah...the first generation has entered the field! Woo, this is gonna be interesting! And G is a virgin:) So what did you think of the chapter? Please leave a review on the way out and I will update shortly! See ya till then and have a good night/day!