"Wake up kid!" I felt my ribcage being kicked.
I opened my eyes and saw the interior of a car. My mind was hazy and I was drowsy. I wriggled my hands, they were tied behind me.
My collar was harshly pulled up and I was dragged out of the car into the blinding sunlight. I was still partly asleep, so I did not protest as men in suits led me into a building. We stepped into an elevator and I decided to keep quiet while trying to remember what happened to me before waking up in that car.
"We know where Sasagawa Ryohei is." I recalled them saying.
"Hey," I broke the silence. "Can I ask you something?"
The elevator door opened.
"You better ask our boss." One of them replied and pushed me out of the elevator.
They led me into hallways and I soon found myself in a spacious room which was more like the room of a cult. The theme of the room is black; black carpets, black couches, black drawers, black cabinets, black-dominated murals, black decorations, black everything. There was a superior-looking table in front of the glass wall which serves a window to the outside realm. The window was deprived of lighting up the whole room by pitch-black curtains which were partly drawn, only letting a narrow strip of sunlight illuminate the middle of the room from the table to the door, like a golden aisle. Between the table and the window was a big and somewhat regal black chair which faced the other way.
"Sit down, Yuu-kun, be my guest." A deep, man's voice addressed me from behind the chair with a gesture from a pale but unblemished left hand motioning me to sit on the chair by the left side of the table.
The men who accompanied me into the room helped me on the said chair with my hands still tightly tied behind me.
"You may go." The man on the chair told his subordinates.
The men bowed down and left the room.
"I heard you have a question to ask." The man told me. "Feel free to ask it."
I hesitated because my fascination of the extreme darkness and blackness of the room made me forget what my question was. "Umm," I tried to come up with an alternative query. "Why do you plan to take us, the children of the guardians, instead of taking the guardians themselves?"
"Where did you learn of that plan?" The chair spun around, revealing a tall man seated on the chair. He was dressed in an elegant but simple black shirt buttoned up to his chest, suggesting a debonair personality. His long, crossed legs were also clothed in black pants devoured by black laced-up boots for the last six or seven inches. His piercing eyes and his pony-tailed long hair were also deep black. The man was around his mid thirties. His dark apparel, hair and eyes were contradicted by his snow-white complexion which was complemented by his European features, making him look somewhat like a vampire, but his accent was perfect and fluent.
"Tss. How unprofessional of you! I thought you were monitoring me all this time." I replied. I was still under the influence of drowse which makes me as tactless as my father.
The man laughed. "You're amusing Yuu-kun, just like your father. How unprofessional of us indeed! But tell me, who told you the plan?"
His manners were light and easy. "Kou-niisan told me. He was supposed to be working for you." But I would never fall for his style. "But I killed him when he told me he'd kill me." I added with malice in my tone.
"Ah. You must be talking about Matsui Kou. Yes, we found him dead the other day. My, my, Yuu-kun is a deadly little boy." The man said with his unfading manner. He swung his chair around once more and viewed the outdoors. "We decided to take the next generation Vongola instead of the current because you're not as heavily guarded as your parents. And perhaps, every child is a loving parent's weakness, am I right, Yuu-kun?"
I had something to say and a question to ask. Do the heavily guarded guardians include Papa? And you're making the incident two years ago an example for your last sentence, aren't you? But these things did not make their way into his ears because I voiced another question instead.
"You seem to be waiting for someone or something to arrive." I said as I noticed his constant viewing of the road in front of the building through the window.
"Anytime now, the children of the other guardians would also be seized and then, when all of you are gathered here, I will have you all dead." He explained cheerily.
A slight smile uncontrollably curled on my lips. I had the urge to laugh at him but I wanted to play some more. "Can I, um, ask you something?"
"Yes. What is it?"
"Since I'm going to die anytime now," I suppressed a snigger. "Can you please tell me…" I just really wanted to kill the time and so, I have not really prepared a question. I bowed my head to think.
"Tell you what happened to Sasagawa Ryohei?" he finished it for me.
My head shot up and glared at him. That was the question I forgot to ask a while ago!
"Very well! Since your going to die soon, I'll tell you." The chair spun around and he looked at me. "I intended to kill your father when we kidnapped him. But then, your father turned out to be someone who could be highly efficient to us, the Tenebre family, so, instead of killing him, I decided to turn his to our side."
"Idiot! Papa is a man of extreme dignity! You can never turn him to your side! NEVER!" I roared at him with a sudden outburst.
The man leaned over to me and rested his chin on his clasped hands with his elbows on the table. He smiled slyly and spoke in a tone like that of someone who is about to tell a deep and ancient secret. "Do you know how blacksmiths bend metals, Yuu-kun? They put them through the burning, blazing, smoldering, scourging flames and hammer them to shape."
"You tortured Papa!" I yelled, my eyes wide with fiery rage.
The man gave a low chuckle and turned his chair around once more.
-end of chapter-
Author's note:
This would be finished by Father's day, I swear! *Gets saddened by the nearing Father's day* I fear that I may not be spending the day with my father. He's going to accompany his sister on a trip, my uncle is too busy to do it, so my father is going instead. *cries* Don't leave me alone again! TT^TT (yes, there's the word 'again')