Under a Clouded Blue
Summary:
"My ambition in life? To conquer the world because destroying the mafia is so last season and I never got around with it the last time anyway…kufufu."
In which Rokudo Mukuro is reborn into a parallel world and finds himself in the position of every other SI/OC. Did he mention Hibari Kyoya being his younger brother?
To hell with what Sepira's spirit has to say about him making sure everyone —even bloody Byakuran— plays the role they did in his previous life. But if that dead woman promises those imported chocolate bonbons from Kawahira's store— "Sure. Why not?"
Featuring the evil mastermind and guardian angel of the canon!character's fates (the hell?): Rokudo Mukuro/Hibari Kuroo.
DISCLAIMER: Amano Akira owns it all. Except the plot and a few characters of course.
WARNING: Mind the language and grammar, I don't have a beta. Also, lots and lots of crazy fluff (or at least that's what I attempted) between a certain little Demon and everyone's favourite Decimo in this chapter! Because, apparently Bunny!Tsuna was much loved in the previous chapter that I had to do something more with him in this one. Yes, I had to warn y'all, lol.
13. Hibari Kyoya's new obsession?
"Kyo-chan, stop tugging at Tsunayoshi's ears."
The younger Hibari in question paused, his hand still closed around one of the soft long ears of the onesie the shy little Decimo wore. He blinked. "Fluffy."
Kuroo sighed. "Yes, it is fluffy but that doesn't mean you have to keep playing with it. Tsunayoshi isn't comfortable with that."
Or with you, as a matter of fact.
The little raven head's eyes narrowed momentarily as though trying to assess why his brother was stopping him from doing something he liked. This was quite unusual. Kyoya turned his steely gaze upon the big bunny he had been entertaining himself with.
Was it because of the bunny?
Does Kuroo like the bunny too?
It flinched at the sudden weight of his attention.
Without much thought, Kyoya's hand reached out to pat the bunny's head. It began to tremble, making the raven wonder if the little creature was cold. He voiced out his thought to Kuroo.
The older of the two siblings huffed in fond exasperation. "Kyo-chan, he's not cold. Rather, he's just simply terrified of you."
"But I'm not scary." Kyoya blinked.
His older brother snorted (with all the elegance of a Hibari, of course) at his reply. "You attempted to bite him on the cheek," Kuroo quirked an eyebrow as he reminded his little brother what had happened not too long ago in the past two hours, "while so blatantly claiming that it looked tasty."
(After barely thirty minutes of gawking —mostly on the little Decimo's part— and appreciating the lifeforms that sat behind the cages, Kyoya was already bored. He claimed that it was because the "carnivores aren't eating herbivores".
Of course.
So they decided to rest instead . The three of them headed to the food court where Kuroo picked out a cosy place in the corner, told them to stay put before heading off to fetch something for the two to munch on. Children were, after all, much easier to handle when preoccupied.
When he returned, he was relieved to find that the duo were still where he had left them because he really wasn't up for looking for his brother again.
The two seemed to be engaged in a conversation on which animal had been the best among those that they had come across. Tsunayoshi was all for the little hedgehog, saying it was lonely and he wished he could have made it "not so sad", while the raven believed the lion was clearly, the best.
Kuroo found it strange, the little Decimo and the little Demon of Namimori wrapped up in a deep conversation with no tension and fear among the two.
Who would have thought they would get along on their first meeting in this world?
Unfortunately though, this was not fated to last forever.
The conversation was long forgotten the moment Kuroo placed the ice-cream he had promised before them.
Despite being shy and hesitant initially, Tsunayoshi eventually gave in and began to enjoy his treat with contended noises of appreciation.
And this was when Hibari Kuroo noticed a strange look in his younger brother's eyes.
The younger Hibari had stopped eating to stare unabashedly at the fluffy brown haired boy. His eyes trained to the little Decimo's face, an almost predatory gleam shining in those steely grey orbs. It confused Kuroo because he had never seen this side of his younger brother.
Kuroo openly frowned when Kyoya shifted closer to the blissfully unaware Sawada Tsunayoshi.
Something is off.
Even the little Decimo finally seemed to notice it, turning to face Kyoya with his caramel brown eyes slowly widening in confusion.
But this didn't stop Kyoya in his advance.
So when he moved closer, breaking past the other's personal space to bring their faces at an uncomfortable proximity where their noses almost bumped against each other—
Good lord! They weren't about to kiss, were they!?
—Kuroo moved instinctively at the same time. He hauled the younger raven back by the collar, none too gently, the very moment the little demon flashed his whites.
Hibari Kyoya's jaws clamped down on nothing but thin air (—but what would have been Tsunayoshi's cheek if Kuroo had not acted quick enough!).
However, the damage had already been done.
Despite not physically.
Tsunayoshi stared at Kyoya with an ashen look, his ice-cream long forgotten and splattered on the ground.
There was a beat or silence.
And then, Sawada Tsunayoshi burst into tears.)
The raven simply shrugged it off as though it was nothing. "Soft. Like cotton candy."
The little Decimo squeaked, eyes beginning to water again as he brought his hands up to cover his cheeks. " 'M not c-cotton can—hic—dies."
Kuroo gently tugged the brown haired lad towards him before shooting his younger brother a stern look. He wasn't looking forward to having to calm down the little Decimo once more. "It's alright, Tsunayoshi. He wouldn't do it again."
But the young Decimo precariously retreated behind Kuroo instead
"Is the bunny sad?" Kyoya tilted his head to the side, his expression saying that he was trying to comprehend the situation but miserably failing to do so.
(Kuroo couldn't help but wonder if the Demon of Namimori had always been this dense.)
"Is it because mama bunny is late?"
"Kyo-chan, he's now hiding behind me for a reason." The stormy bluish-grey eyed boy sighed. Just how long was it going to take to get the plain truth across to him!?
"You're scaring him. He's not sad, he's scared. Of you."
Kyoya wore an adorably concentrated look as he finally (like finally!) understood why the bunny refused to stay close to him. His eyebrows furrowed and lips pursed tight as he tried to find a solution to this problem. "I won't bite you."
This had the little Tsunayoshi poke his head out from behind Kuroo, an expression of surprise and a little bit of uncertainty etched across his features. "You…promise?"
"I do." Kyoya replied without hesitation, catching Tsunayoshi off guard. The kid had clearly not been expecting compliance from the raven.
Those magic words seemed to be what Tsunayoshi was looking for.
"So, we…friends?" Tsuna asked as he stepped away from Kuroo, a sudden boldness overcoming him.
(Tsuna knew this scary raven haired kid wasn't a bad person. Something told him he was a nice boy, and that he wouldn't really hurt him. And that the boy was just a little lonely, like that small hedgehog.)
Kyoya also took a cautious step forward. He edged closer to the bunny with slow steps so as to not frighten it off. Kuroo had, after all, said that it was scared of him.
"Friends?" The little demon repeated the word that sounded, tasted foreign on his tongue. He paused before answering with a blunt and bold, "No."
Tsuna's eyes widened. "B-But you— hie!"
Tsunayoshi screamed because the scary little boy was suddenly standing right in front of him. He flinched rather violently when the raven's hands came down upon his shoulders only to pul him flush against the other's taller frame.
"No." Kyoya repeated, looking quite pleased with himself for catching hold of the creature before it could run away again. "Bunnies cannot be friends. You are not my friend."
Tsuna cowered, praying to not be bitten seeing how close the other was to him.
"No. You are my pet."
Kuroo who had been silently watching the two this whole time, laughed. It broke the tension that had settled between the two younger kids who now turned to face him— Kyoya's smirk had been wiped off clear from his face, replaced instead by a displeased look because the "moment" had been ruined.
As for Tsunayoshi, the boy's caramel doe eyes which were trained on the older Hibari only seemed to scream for help.
"Ah, so here you are, you naughty boys." A familiar voice called out with a huff of exasperation. "Didn't I tell you to wait by the front?"
"Alison, it's alright. They seem to be enjoying themselves."
Mother and tante had arrived.
"Took you long enough." Kuroo drawled.
"Kyoya…oh, and who might this be?" Hibari Izanami asked in curiosity as she quirked an eyebrow.
"This is Tsu—"
"My bunny." Kyoya declared, shifting his grasp from the bunny's shoulders to wrap his arms around it in an almost possessive embrace, all the while ignoring its whimpers. "Can we take it home? It's a nice pet."
"—nayoshi. Sawada Tsunayoshi." Kuroo introduced. "But Kyo-chan, here, thinks he's a bunny and for the past two hours, I have not been able to convince him otherwise."
Tante lightly knocked the younger Hibari on the head. "Kyoya, you're suffocating the poor child, let him go."
"But the bunny will run away."
"Kyoya."
"No."
Izanami laughed as she placed a gentle hand on her youngest son's shoulder. "Kyoya, you wouldn't want your bunny to die, would you?"
The raven scrunched his face up. "Of course not."
"Then you should let it go," she told him, "just a little bit. Enough so that your bunny can breathe. Can you do that?"
"But the bunny will run away." Kyoya stressed upon his point, his grip growing tighter in his agitation.
"Then let me hold him instead." Izanami suggested. "I promise I won't let him go."
After a second of hesitation, the little demon loosened his hold, albeit reluctantly, allowing his mother to scoop up the trembling caramel eyed boy into her arms.
"Hello there." She greeted the young Decimo as she soothingly rubbed circles on his back in an attempt to calm him down. "Don't mind Kyoya, he just finds you very cute."
Kuroo snorted at the statement, making his little brother bristle.
"Let's go home." Kyoya said. He looked around with a look of suspicion. "Now."
"Kyo-chan, you are not taking him home," the stormy bluish-grey eyed older brother replied in exasperation, "and for the last time, he is not a bunny. At all."
"Where did you pick him up from?" Tante asked with a raised brow as her hand instinctively moved to brush a few strands of Kuroo's fringe to the side.
He made an annoyed sound as he lightly slapped her hand away. "Kyoya found him; the poor kid was being bullied."
"Weren't his parents around?" The blonde woman frowned.
"No, they— ah, here comes his mother."
"Tsu-kun!" Sawada Nana in all her brightness and sparkles (Kuroo could never really understand how she managed to pull that off every single time) exclaimed as she hurried over to their side.
"Oka-san!" The boy perked his head up from where it had been resting on Izanami's shoulder immediately on hearing his mother's voice.
Kuroo gave an amused smile at the sour look that darkened his younger brother's face when he realised Tsunayoshi's mother had arrived. It was quite funny how Kyoya who had been so jealous and eager for the young Decimo to leave earlier was now all for taking him home to keep him as a "pet".
"Oh there you— Izanami!?"
The raven haired woman seemed surprised as she turned to fully face the other woman. "My, if it isn't Nana."
Kuroo's smile slipped a little. "Wait, the two of you know each other!?"
His mother laughed in delight. "Why, of course! Remember how I told you I stayed in Namimori while you were in my womb? And a friend kept me company?"
"Oh!" It was Sawada Nana who exclaimed. "So this is Kuroo-kun? My, he's grown so big!"
Tsunayoshi who had been shifted over to his mother's arms stared down at the older of the Hibari siblings with wide eyes. "Oka-san knows Kuroo-nii?"
"So, we can keep the bunny since you know the bunny's mother?" Hibari Kyoya asked, sounding hopeful.
Meanwhile, Kuroo believed he needed to sit before he lost balance from the sudden load of information that hit him.
Thankfully enough, tante had come to the rescue. "Why don't we all sit down somewhere and catch up? This does seem like it will take quite some time."
The group ended up in a cosy family sushi bar which was apparently, the best in Namimori. And surprise, surprise! It was run by none other than the Yamamoto family.
But of course.
Kuroo felt as though the town was trolling him, what with it suddenly shoving people he knew from his past life right in his face.
Yamamoto Tsuyoshi seemed the same, if not much younger.
It all just very, well, strange.
Kuroo hummed as he politely helped himself to the sushi before him. It felt quite nostalgic, eating these again. He couldn't help but remember how the Rain Guardian would drag them all to his father's bar after long missions to treat them with an "all-you-can-eat" sushi buffet. Even when they were way past their prime time.
And even after some of them had passed on.
He chewed slowly as he took it all in—
"Hey! You're the ice-cream senpai!"
—and then, promptly choked on the fucking fish.
"Takeshi! Don't go surprising customers like that!" A young woman scolded as she quickly appeared by Kuroo's side, handed him a glass of water and provided her assistance by lightly hitting on his back.
"Ahaha," the newcomer gave a sheepish laugh as he scratched the back of his neck, "sorry, I didn't mean to scare you."
Kuroo stared impassively at the mini-Rain Guardian before him as he took a big gulp of water. There was a reason he never liked the man in his past life. He was always laughing.
How un-cute.
"It's nothing." Kuroo easily brushed it off with a casual quirk of his lips.
"He has a bad habit of always interrupting customers, especially the young ones." Yamamoto Azumi sighed.
So, his mother's still alive.
"That was just once!" Takeshi pouted at his mother before turning back to face Kuroo, a finger so shamelessly pointing at him. "But look! He's the one who gave me the ice-cream!"
Wait.
He had actually met the mini-Rain Guardian before this!?
"What's this about ice-cream?" Tsuyoshi grinned as he joined in the conversation.
"Dad, this senpai gave me two ice-creams when we were at the zoo!"
"Takeshi, what have I told you about pointing? And did you—"
"This senpai did?"
"Yes!"
"—thank him for it yet?"
"Ah!" Takeshi exclaimed. He gave a quick and polite bow all the while wearing a wide grin. "Thank you for the ice-cream!"
Kuroo blinked.
The trio were just so…energetic, inrather chaotic manner that he couldn't be blamed for taking a few seconds to process the whole situation. He gave a small nod in acknowledgement. "Your welcome."
"That was really nice of you, I'd never seen him so excited." Azumi smiled at him.
"Well, what say we show him appreciation the Yamamoto way? Today's special just for you!" Tsuyoshi laughed. "And it's on the house!"
Well, this was going to be one lively day spent in Namimori.
By the time evening rolled by, they finally decided it was time to part.
Which was such a relief because...
The three kids had been busy doing what kids did to entertain themselves (yes, even Kyoya was —surprisingly enough— joining in on the fun, but that was most likely because he wouldn't allow his bunny to go off with someone else) and seemed like they might cause a catastrophe if whatever it was that they were up to wasn't stopped soon.
The women didn't seem to know when to bring an end to their talk.
And Kuroo was just too polite to ask Tsuyoshi to stop feeding him ("It's alright! This one's on the house as well!") because there was only so much of fish he could take in his whole life.
"Ah, Tsu-kun's starting to feel sleepy, I'll have to take him home."
"What an adorable boy! My Takeshi never seems to run out of energy!"
"Kyoya, Tsunayoshi has to go home so you have to let him go. Don't worry, I promise you will get to meet him again."
—blah, blah, blah.
Kuroo needed to rest before his mind lost it.
"Jeune garçon, you forgot to take the packed sushi Yamamoto-san prepared for you." Tante said as she walked out the sushi bar, a carry bag in hand, after having paid the bill. "I thanked him on your behalf."
The stormy bluish-grey eyed boy felt himself turn a little green at the thought of more fish. He replied, sounding a little strained. "You can have it, tante. I'm pretty sure you will enjoy it more than I would."
The woman smirked, clearly showing that she had seen right through his tough act. "Why, thank you."
"You're welcome."
"The car was parked a little distance away from here, you aren't too tired to make the trip are you?" She asked as she began walking, gesturing for him to follow.
"Of course not." He snapped in irritation.
Okay, so maybe he was tired.
And this only seemed to amuse his tante.
Sawada Nana and her son had already left by then, leaving Izanami with a restless Kyoya who seemed to be making things difficult by refusing to get into the car because: "But the bunny—"
Kuroo rolled his eyes, leave it to the little Demon to be such a dramatic.
However, as he took a step forward with the purpose of intervening and saving his mother the energy of trying to get the younger of the two siblings into the awaiting vehicle, he found himself frozen in his spot. Not out of any momentary shock or realisation, or anything of the matter. No.
Rather, it seemed to be because of the shadowy hand that had risen from the ground and was now holding his leg in a firm vice grip.
He directed at impassive glance toward it before proceeding to shake it off when he realised a little too late that doing such was a grave mistake on his part. Almost immediately, whatever it was that had held his leg captive emerged out of the ground to bind him in a full body grasp and he was suddenly pulled back into a world of grey.
A dimensional time gap.
Kuroo watched in fascinated horror as another materialised and took his place by his tante's side as he was sucked into the colourless world, someone who seemed to be an exact replica of him. Even in the confines of being trapped in between reality and an impromptu space that had been just created, the raven could easily make out that his replacement was a mere illusion. A mere but powerful one.
And there was only one person he could think of currently in this time period in Namimori who could create such an illusion that would leave him mildly impressed.
He gave up the pointless struggle against the shadowy creature to tilt his head back and meet the person responsible for it all. The very person who wore a familiar checkered mask, paired with that obnoxious white suit and iron hat. Kuroo couldn't resist the smile that crept up on his lips. This old geezer didn't even seem to have changed from the last memory the raven had of him.
"Checker Face." The raven all but chuckled, not missing the way the other's eyes seemed to flash with a certain degree of uncertainty. He sarcastically brought out his question. "To what do I owe the honour of being graced by his Excellency's presence?"
"Who are you?" The man asked, taking just three long strides to close the distance between them.
Kuroo felt amusement at the fact that the usually "all-knowing" man seemed to be having questions of doubt regarding the raven's identity.
"Or rather," Checker Face narrowed his eyes, "what are you?"
A/N:
Yet again, I never even had the intention of pushing a five year old Yamamoto Takeshi into the picture, he just happened. Well, I'm pretty sure none of you minded his presence though…right?
Anyway, since most of you found Tsuna in a bunny onesie really adorable, I couldn't help but put more of him in this chapter with an extra addition of Hibari Kyoya being obsessed over him. Like, who wouldn't be? No wonder Kyoya wanted to bite him. Hah!
Also, I know I just disappeared for three months but I did warn you people didn't I? xD
I'm currently on a one month vacation back home that lasts until the 22nd of October (yaaaaaaass!) so yeah, I'll do my best to update at least one or two more chapters before I go back to uni. Just pray I do, and also pray I don't get trapped in something awesomely called a "writer's block", lol.
[Thanks for all your wishes and congratulations for entering university life! That was awfully sweet of y'all! :')]
Kuroo's year 9 is quite important to this plot I have in mind so we're gonna be sticking to it for like maybe one or two more chapters before I fast forward his life to get to the juicier parts, also known as canon!era.
And thank you for all the support! I always get so touched every single time my phone buzzes with a new mail that says someone either put this in their favourites, follow list or both. Not to forget all your reviews!
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Genma: Thank you! I'm glad you really enjoyed it after finding my work, I'm touched and all teary that you would reread this story a lot (T^T)/
Neko1290: I bet you got worried again seeing how I disappeared for three months after the last update xD I hope this update is not too late for your tastes though :') Also, Kuroo and a badass fighting scene…hmm, probably soon but how soon, I'm not too sure, lol.
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Failing Wings: Not to worry, Kuroo will be there beside Kyoya all the way ;)
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