Sun and Moon, Ryohei's Destiny 7 {Special Classification}
The plan was for Ryohei, Gokudera, Miharu and I to sneak into the prison, break out Mukuro without getting caught and without telling Tsuna or Reborn. If Reborn found out, he would stop us for sure. When we told Gokudera he couldn't tell Tsuna, he was a little devastated that he had to keep a secret from the Tenth. He looked up to Tsuna and hated keeping things from him. We informed him that it wouldn't be for long. He would have to find out eventually.
Right as night fall hit, the four of us hurried on to Vindicare prison. The guards at the front were easy to get past. They were too busy watching some show on a small portable TV. The guards at the actual front of the prison doors were another thing. The four of us snuck around the back to try and figure out what to do next.
"Any ideas?" I whispered. Gokudera looked around and smiled.
"Follow me," he instructed. The four of us did and he led us to a vent on the side that the rest of us missed. We crept through the vents slowly and as carefully as we could not to make a sound.
"Wait!" I whispered when I saw something we could use. "Miharu," I said to her and made a gesture for her to follow me and for the boys to stay put. I opened one of the vents that happened to lead to a locker room and carefully eased my way in. It seemed quiet. A little too quiet which meant we had to work fast. I was more than sure there weren't any cameras in the locker room due to privacy of the workers. Miharu followed me but still wasn't sure what I was planning. I grabbed a doctor's robe and mask and she did the same finally clueing in. Who knew if we might need them or not?
We climbed back through the vent and, just as we the vent closed behind us, the locker room door swung open as two men walked through.
"Hey Jerry," one man asked the other, "did you get those test results back yet?"
"The one for Rokudo Mukuro? Not yet. Though, Leroy wants to run more tests because he says he's got a hunch. So I gave the kid another dose to keep him sedated." The other explained. This didn't sound good at all. Though, it would have explained why he wasn't able to help Chrome in anyway and it might have even explained why he didn't help her when Ira attacked.
"Ha," the first man laughed, "oh Leroy and his hunches." The two men grabbed a few things out of their lockers and left. I looked at the others and pointed ahead of us. We had to keep going and we had to move fast. We continued on, carefully looking through all the other vents to see anything but all we saw were experiment rooms, rooms with animals, one room with some sort of tank big enough to fit almost any type of shark and then a cafeteria where only a few of the late night workers were. Finally, Ryohei was the first one to spot it.
"Oi!" He whispered and pointed. In a small white room, a boy who looked not much older than us lied flat on a cold steal table. One of his arms was hooked up to a machine that dumped some sort of liquid into his veins. I assumed it was the "drug" one of the men had discussed.
"They must have taken him out of the tank." Gokudera muttered. I was going to ask what he was talking about but decided against it. Now wasn't the time. I looked around the room, trying to see if anyone was in there but right as I was about to open the vent Miharu nstopped me and pointed. There in the upper corner of the ceiling sat a camera that turned from side to side. There had to be another way. Then I remembered Miharu and I still had the cloaks and masks we had taken from the locker room. I informed the boys of our plan, they would have to stay behind, but they had no objections. Our options were few and our time was short.
Miharu and I climbed back through the vents and found a locker room with no one in it. We climbed through the vent and quickly put on the cloak and masks before walking out. We had no clue where Mukuro was but we had to, at least, try to find him.
"Hey," a voice said behind us. Miharu and I were forced to stop. If we ran, it would be too suspicious and we would get caught. We turned around and the man walked over to us. So far he didn't have any suspicions because he seemed to act casual as he spoke with us. "Do you know what tests we were going to run on Rokudo Mukuro?" I looked at my companion who looked at me.
"Ask Leroy." I said as I tried to disguise my voice. "He said he had a hunch with something."
"Oh right. Him and his hunches." The man laughed. Miharu and I nodded and forced a small laugh ourselves. The man suddenly stopped and tried to get a good look at us. "I haven't seen you two around here. Are you new?"
"Yes, we're new." Miharu said, disguising her voice as well. She leaned in closer as if to whisper. "Special classification." The man nodded as he understood. Thankfully, he was able to fill in the blanks we hadn't.
"Right. Well thanks!" He waved and turned to walk off. Miharu and I turned and picked up our pace. We opened a door and found Mukuro lying on the bed. Miharu slipped around the room and unplugged the camera while I took the needle out of Mukuro's arm.
"Nice going back there." I told her.
"Thanks," she said and opened the vent for the boys to get through. The four of us placed Mukuro on the gurney that was still in the room. Ryohei and Gokudera grabbed a cloak and a mask from one of the drawers and the four of us began to wheel Mukuro out. The only problem now was how were we going to get him out without getting caught? "Five mintues," Miharu explained as we wheeled him through the halls.
Finally, I spotted an exit door. It was the first solution I could think of and we didn't have that much time. But right as we opened the door, sirens sounded throughout the entire building. Forget five minutes, we barely had five seconds. We ran with the gurney as fast and as far as we could but we were forced to stop once we hit the grass. The gurney wouldn't move any more. Ryohei and Gokudera picked up Mukuro and continued to run with him through the forest. Miharu and I followed. Dogs started barking and I knew they were bringing out the blood hounds. It wouldn't be long before the dogs caught wind of our sent.
We all ran as fast as we could. Gokudera and Ryohei had the worst trouble. It wasn't easy running with a body in your arms. Finally when we reached the road, a car stopped in front of us. We were doomed. This was it. We were caught and Miharu and I would be deported back to Italy. If we were lucky.
The passenger's side window rolled down to reveal and older looking man. I couldn't believe my eyes. "Get in," he told us. The boys jumped in and Miharu and I climbed in as well.
"You're-" I began but couldn't even finish my sentence, I was too speechless.
"The Bucking Bronco!" Miharu finished for me. The driver, a man in a regular suit, began to drive the car back toward home. The Bucking Bronco just laughed and nodded.
"Yes, but just call me Dino," he smiled. "Reborn asked me to come and pick you five up." I blinked at him. So Reborn really did know everything and he really did nothing to stop us. In fact, he had helped us by sending in reinforcements.
Dino's driver, who I learned was Romario, took us back to our apartment where Mukuro was staying. We thought it best he stayed with us seeing as how he was going to be a wanted criminal by morning. The boys brought him inside the house and placed him on one of the beds. Miharu and I would have to share her bed but neither one of us minded. Though, I ended up not really going to bed. I sat by Mukuro almost the whole night. I felt so guilty about Chrome. It was my fault she was hurt. Eventually, I fell asleep in my chair.
Around near dawn, before the sun was even up, I awoke to a voice.
"Who are you?" I opened my eyes and jumped when the blue headed boy was staring at me. For a moment, I didn't answer. I couldn't help but look at his different eyes. One was blue, which wasn't all that bad, but the other was red and had a symbol on it. I decided not to ask about it because I figured I would come off as being rude.
"I'm Mizushama Sayomi. My friends and I helped you out of Vindicare because Chrome's in trouble. She's very sick and I was told you were the one to help her." Mukuro lied his head back down on the bed and looked up at the ceiling with a small smile. At least, I think it was a smile.
"She's fine now." He simply said. I didn't really understand how he could know that but I had no choice but to trust him.
"Thank you," I said. "And I'm sorry about Chrome. It was my fault she was hurt. I should have been there."
"It is your fault," he said, both his eyes now back on me. "But you helped me escape from Vindicare prison which means I won't kill you." I tried not to laugh. It would have been interesting to see him try. "You also took care of my Chrome. You gave her a bed and food for her to eat." I blinked at him. How did he know? He tried to get up but I pushed him down.
"No! Stay down. You still need more rest. They gave you a big dose in order to sedate you." Mukuro sunk back down into the bed and sighed out of frustration. Where did he have to go? Was there some important meeting he just couldn't miss? "I'll go get you something to eat." I went into the kitchen to make him a small sandwich but when I returned the bed was empty. The window was opened. Mukuro was gone.
When Miharu awoke, I told her all that happened with Mukuro. She didn't seem too worried and neither did I. We headed to school and found Tsuna and the others. In the middle of the night, we learned there had been another attack. Someone had broken into Yamamoto's house and hurt his father. Thankfully, his father knew how to defend himself and wasn't badly injured. Tsuna still seemed a little bit upset. We all were. Gokudera even tried to hurt Culpo for hurting Chrome.
After school, Miharu and I followed Tsuna home. He barely said anything all day. He walked into his house and placed his backpack at the door. His mother, of course, was busy in the kitchen cooking something. Reborn sat on one of the stairs. No one said a word. That is, until, Bianchi walked in, wearing orange goggles, with news about Chrome.
"Tsuna, the doctor's said her organs are getting better but she's still unconscious." That just confirmed how badly she was truly hurt. I could tell Tsuna understood this and slammed his hands on the wall.
"No more." He muttered. I wanted to comfort him but I didn't know what to say. "Why must my friends always get hurt?"
"Tsuna," Reborn said to get his attention, "there is a way to keep them all safe." Tsuna looked over at Reborn as if trying to understand what Reborn was getting at.
"What are you talking about?" Tsuna asked. Reborn just smiled and headed upstairs. "Oi! Reborn! You still haven't answered my question yet!" Tsuna followed him upstairs. I turned to Miharu and she seemed to have the same thought I did. It was best we both left for home. But when we finally did reach home, I didn't want to go in. Instead, I went for a walk. I thought of all sorts of things. Culpo and how I hated him. I thought of Chrome, hoping she was alright and I thought of the others. They all still needed training but how was I going to do that?
"Oi!" I heard behind me. I turned as Ryohei ran to catch up. "What are you doing out this late?" He asked.
"I could ask you the same thing." Ryohei stopped in front of me but he continued to jog in place.
"I always go out for a run at night. Care to join me?" He asked. I smiled at a better idea.
"Want to race?" His ears perked up at the thought of a competition. "First one to the beach wins."
"I accept to the extreme!" Ryohei hadn't even finished his sentence before I was off running, laughing the whole way. "Oi! That's cheating to the extreme!" He yelled though he was still laughing. We both ran so fast, we were neck and neck. Needless to say, it ended up being a tie. He was good, then again, so was I. We stopped at the beach and sat in the sand to watch the sun set. We sat in silence for what seemed like hours. The sun was starting to sink behind the water. It was beautiful but I couldn't really enjoy it.
"Oi, you alright?" Ryohei asked. I looked over at him, forgetting he was even there.
"Oh, yeah. I'm fine." Ryohei gave me a look of disbelief. I smiled and shrugged. There were a lot of things on my mind. I was worried about Chrome. I was worried Culpo would hurt someone else. He had, after all, tried to hurt Yamamoto's father. Who knew if he was going to try again? I didn't doubt he would. "I'm just worried about everyone." I sighed. "Chrome, Tsuna, Gokudera, Mikuru," I paused and looked at Ryohei, "you." I felt something for him but I couldn't really understand what it was.
"We're all great fighters to the extreme!" Again, I smiled at his optimism but it wasn't helping very much. Culpo was strong and he would do anything to get his way. I knew him too well. I was about to say something else to Ryohei but someone stopped me.
"Reborn?" The small Mafia tutor walked onto the beach and stopped in front of us.
"You two should come with me. There's something the Guardians all need to discuss."