Okay! So sorry that this one took longer to update. I was a bit busy. Which reminds me; Sunday I may not be posting any updates on either story, because I'm going to be doing a bunch of stuff with my friend on that day. I'm terribly sorry! :'(
But don't worry! I won't stop posting.
By the way, if you want to skip the filler info (there's a lot, I know it sucks... And I hate it too) you can skip down to Kuroi's POV. As long as you see what happened with her, it's fine. SO FLOOPING SORRY ABOUT THIS CHAPTER!
Here is chapter 5. Enjoy!
I do not own Katekyo Hitman Reborn! All rights go to Akira Amano, except for the characters I have created.
[3rd Person Omniscient]
"Eh? What do you mean they're trying to pick a fight with me?" Tsuna questioned Reborn.
"This is it," Reborn held up a gold pocketwatch.
"What's the deal with this watch? It's stopped. Isn't it broken?"
"This watch was found on Kusakabe's chest after he was attacked. A similar watch was on Sasagawa Ryohei's chest after he was attacked," Reborn took out a second watch and opened it, "There were several other victims that received a watch on their chest aftertoeing assaulted. One of the watches stopped at six."
"6... 5... 4..." Tsuna repeated the times that were displayed the watches on the watches.
"Don't strain yourself with those high numbers, Tsuna. It's a countdown."
"What the heck!" Tsuna was surprised.
"Once I realized that it was a countdown, I found a correlation," Reborn took out a sheet of paper, "Take a look at this."
Tsuna took the paper and read it outloud, "'Namimori~ Chuu's Fighting Strength Ranking'... Eh? What about it?"
"... Are you naturally this dense? ... The order of the victims matches the rankings exactly," Reborn explained the significance to Tsuna.
"Really!?" Tsuna read over the list again, "Oh, wow! They do! But... This ranking list..."
"It's Fuuta's ranking list," Reborn bluntly stated.
"What the heck is going on...?" Tsuna was utterly stunned.
"We, mafia, have a code that we live by, the Omertá," He announced to Tsuna, "It's a code that states that under no circumstances should one reveal his or her secrets about their organization. Fuuta's ranking lists are entirely top secret. There's no way any ordinary person would have access to it."
"Wait- so.. Since, the number four person was attacked, does that mean they're already going after the number 3?"
"Yup."
"No way!" Tsuna searched over the paper, yet again, "Number three, number three, number three- ah! Reborn, what do we do?"
"Deal with it. I have other things I need to do," Reborn started walking down the hallway.
"What? Me!?" Tsuna gestured to himself.
"Yes. Oh, by the way, I need you to check in on Kuroi. She should be in the Reception Room back at Nami~ Chuu. Either that, or the Music Room. If she's not there..." Reborn trailed off.
"What? What if she's not there!?" Tsuna was in a state of panic.
"Let's just say it'll make the situation worse..." Reborn was vague about his answer.
"Huh...?"
[At Kokuyou Land]
A bowling ball rolled down a lane and knocked over the pins.
"Ha! ... So, Mukuro-san, how was he? The boss of Nami~ Chuu? What was his name again? Sparrow? Duck?" A spiky, blonde-haired Kokuyou male student mocked.
"Please, Ken... No puns... And, he was a miss. ," Mukuro concluded," Kufufu~ What a fearsome man he is, Hibari Kyoya."
"So, what did you do with him?" He asked curiously.
"I took him out. He's just lying down over there, unconscious." Mukuro replied with a smile stretched on his face.
"Heh! I wonder if he's still alive! ... And what about that little brat?" Ken asked with a sinister smile illuminating his face. He seemed intent on wanting to know how much she's suffered and how badly injured she is.
Mukuro fixated his sight over to his right. There, he pinpointed Kuroi lying on the decrepit floor, in a revolting and debilitated condition.
"Kufufu~ She's rebellious. Her mind won't accept me. She keeps refuting," Mukuro may have said it with a smile on his face, but one would easily be able to tell that he was perplexed and frustrated.
Mukuro turned his attention back to Ken, "Oya~ where is Chikusa, anyway?"
"Hmm? Oh, Kakipi went after the third ranked person on the list," He answered, "He said it was getting more and more tedious and that his chances weren't very good."
"I understand that feeling. After all, we haven't gotten a 'hit' yet," Mukuro sighed and diverted his attention again back over to Kuroi, "Well, if you'll excuse me, I have matters to attend to."
[3rd Person Limited: Sawada Tsunayoshi]
'I have to hurry! I need to warn Gokudera-kun! Hopefully I'll get to him before they do. ...Ah, man, then I have to go get Sora-chan. I hope she's alright...' Tsuna thought to himself as he ran down the street.
As Tsuna ran down through the neighborhood, a giant net came down from the sky and encompassed Tsuna, tangling him up in it.
"What the Hell just happened!?" Tsuna wriggled around like a worm, but to his disadvantage, he became even more wrapped up in it.
"Yes! Tsuna-san is saved!" Haru appeared with Lambo and I-pin tagging along with her.
"What? How the hell am I being saved? And why?" Tsuna complained and continued to twist and turn in the net, trying to get loose.
"Haru heard about the people targeting Namimori~ Chuu students and that it was becoming dangerous for Tsuna-san," Her eyes gleamed, "So, we thought that if we could get to you first before they did, you'd be saved."
"Gyahahaha! Baka~ Tsuna is all tied up, now," Lambo teased.
"Lambo! Stop teasing!" I-pin ordered with her high pitched, cute voice.
"Stingy, stingy, stingy, I-pin," Lambo detested.
"Stop, Lambo. I'm not stingy," I-pin countered.
"This makes no sense!" Tsuna shouted ever so confused, "Stop playing these silly games!"
"It's not a game," Haru tried to persuade him, but to no avail.
"Haru, get me out of this! I have somewhere to be! I'm in a hurry," Tsuna protested Haru's act.
"Stingy Dame~ Tsuna," Lambo said while boredly picking his noise. (Ew...)
"I'm not stingy. Just hurry up, and undo this net!" Tsuna was becoming more and more frustrated and started rolling around.
"*sigh* If Haru must, and if that's what Tsuna-san wants..." She tried to play the "guilt-trip" on him.
"Hurry!"
Lambo, Haru and I-pin all knelt down and tried to untangle the net to free Tsuna.
"Hurry up! There's no time!" He continued to rush them.
"Haru's trying! We're going as fast we can," Haru said, feeling a little nervous from Tsuna rushing them.
"I-pin's trying," She reassured.
"Dame~ Dame~ Tsuna! Stop being so mean," Lambo continued to tease.
"I'm not being mean!" Tsuna protested.
After a few minutes, Haru, Lambo and I-pin were able to untangle Tsuna. He jumped up, happy he was finally free.
"Yes! Thank you!"
Tsuna ran down the street and continued until he reached a public telephone. He hastily dialed Gokudera's number and waited.
"The person you tried to reach is unavailable, for their phone is either busy, turned off oridles not have power. Please try again later," A monotonous voice recording answered on the other end of the line.
"Aahhhhh! Why is it that when I need to reach Gokudera-kun, I can't?" Tsuna scratched at his head in frustration.
"Oh, no, it's a Namimori~ Chuu student. Don't make eye-contact. We shouldn't get involved with them," A random school girl said to her friend when she spotted Tsuna.
"... That's what people think of us?! Harsh..." Tsuna said to no one in paticular.
"Yeah, I know. There was even a fight atKokuyou student at the Namimori Shopping District going on right now," The other school girl said in response to her friend.
"Wait a minute... A Kokuyou student and Namimori student fighting? ... Gokudera-kun?" Tsuna raced off toward the Namimori Shopping District hoping to find Gokudera there.
As Tsuna ran through the shopping district, he heard explosions go off in the distance.
"Gokudera-kun!?" Tsuna ran in the direction of the explosions.
When he arrived at its origin, he found Gokudera a little battered up, but he was still okay.
"G-Gokudera-kun!" Tsuna exclaimed in shock.
"J-Juudaime? What are you doing here?" Gokudera was equally stunned.
"Oh.. Um... It's just that there was a rumor going around that you were being targeted..." Tsuna replied sheepishly.
"Really? You came to warn me just for that? I'm sorry for the trouble, but I took care of the guy," He stated feeling accomplished.
"What- then it was true..." Tsuna tensed up.
"He's somewhere over there," Gokudera turned his head to the shield of smoke emanating from the ground where his target once was.
"You've saved me a lot of time."
Tsuna and Gokudera looked over toward the cloud of smoke and ash. A tall, skinny figure appeared out of the smoke. He wore glasses that were now broken, a white beanie that had blood caked on it and a green Kokuyou school uniform that was all tattered a bloodied.
He limped forward toward the two.
"This will make things a lot easier," The lengthy boy flicked his arm up.
"Watch out, Juudaime!" Gokudera threw himself in font of Tsuna, taking a handful of needles to the chest.
"Gokudera-kun!" Tsuna was astonished.
"Please... Run, Juudaime," Gokudera fell to the ground. Blood trickled out from where the needles pierced into him.
"Gokudera-kun! Are you alright? (Obviously not, idk why he ever asked that in the first place, even in the anime/manga) G-Gokudera-kun!" Tsuna went into a panicked frenzy.
The tall boy approached him and flicked his arm again, sending needles Tsuna's way. However, before the needles could penetrate him, someone knocked Tsuna out of the way and onto the floor.
"Yo, Tsuna. I see that you're playing that mafia game again, so I'm here as well," Yamamoto grinned, "Though it looks like we aren't doing so well..."
Yamamoto looked sullen at Gokudera and then the attacker. He had a serious demeanor playingthroughout his expression.
"You're in my way," The Beanie-boy flicked his arm yet again and yo-yos and needles flew around Yamamoto and Tsuna.
However, Yamamoto took out his bat, and in one clean swing of it, it turned into a sword and cut the strings on the yo-yos.
"I see... You must be Yamamoto Takeshi," Beanie-boy examined.
"So what of it?" Yamamoto was still carrying his serious expression.
"You're Ken's target. He would get upset if I were to steal his prey from him," He explained.
[3rd Person Limited: Sora Kuroi]
Kuroi didn't understand what was going on, but she knew what she heard was not good. She finally awoken from her long sleep. Her vision was still a bit blurry and she could no longer move, for if she did, her wounds would open back up.
She heard footsteps come her way. She could feel a presence towering over her in a threatening manner. Kuroi tried to move her head to get a view of who was next to her. Blue hair in the shape a pineapple was all she could recognize. She didn't have to have perfect vision to figure out who was standing there... It was him... It was Rokudo Mukuro.
"Oya~ Oya? It seems you're finally awake," He cooed.
He knelt down next to her and pulled her by her hair to lift her up to his eye level.
"You've been very intollerable, lately," He said with a fake smile, " You need to relax and let go of your mind and accept the fact that you can longer be in control of your mind. I am your new master now. Submit to me."
He grabbed her by the leg where a wound he previously inflicted on her laid. He dug his thumb into her wound and twisted it, causing it to reopen.
"NNNAAAARRRGGHHHH!" Kuroi screamed in pain.
"Why must you be so disobedient? If you allowed me access to your mind, all of the pain would go away," He tried to negotiate, "The little Ranking-Star turned out just fine."
He looked over to a dark corner. A little boy with light brown hair, a green sweater and a scarf sat in the corner holding onto his big red book. His eyes appeared lifeless.
"See? He is unharmed. He has no such wounds as your's," Mukuro smiled maliciously.
Kuroi was seething with rage. She closed her eyes and tried to not think about the pain. However, images ran through her mind. Hellish images and thoughts circled around in her mind. They weren't her thoughts. They couldn't have been. They were HIS!
He was trying to penetrate into her mentality. He was trying to take control of her. To use her to his advantage.
His mind intercepting her's. The visions he forced upon her brought pain into her head. She couldn't not think about pain, because he forced it in her through means deemed unimaginable.
Kuroi fought back. She didn't want to become someone's puppet. She didn't want him to use her, especially if that meant he would use her to harm the people she cares so much for.
All she could do to protect herself and other's around her, was to reject Mukuro's "mind-control" at all costs. If she is as powerful as others say she is, the worst thing she could do is to allow access into her mind. All Hell would break loose if she did that, so she refuted.
"Kufufu~ are you sure you want to keep up at this? You may not survive much longer," He stated.
"I'm ... Hah...not afraid... Argh-... Of.. Dying..." She managed to say with the last of her strength.
"Oh? Are you sure? How would you know? You haven't tried it, yet," He sneered.
Kuroi looked at his menacing, ruthless expression. She knew he was having too much fun with torture. It sickened her. She had to refuse him at all costs.
"Now, let's try this again, shall we?"
He raised his hand and carressed her bruised face. At the instance of his touch, he entered her mind.
"NNNAAAAAARRRGGHHH- AARRGGHH! ..." Kuroi was in mental pain. Her head throbbed, it felt as if it would explode.
Kuroi was running out of strength and she could not hold on much longer. Mukuro took his chance.
"AAARRRGGGHHH-!" Her screaming came to a stop, her eyes widened, and they became lifeless, gold orbs.
"Oya~? So, now you give up? And I was having so much fun," He said, "Well... At least I've finally gotten what I've wanted."
He stood up.
"You are now my very own puppet... Sora Kuroi."
[END]
HOLY SHIT, WHAT JUST HAPPENED!? Is Kuroi under Mukuro's control? What will happen to her? Man, and Yamamoto getting serious? Shit just got real. XD
And yes! I'm sure you all hated this chapter... I know I did. But, I had to get the info in somehow or else the story wouldn't make sense in a way.
DON'T WORRY! THE NEXT CHAPTER WILL BE SOOOOO MUCH FRICKING BETTER!
Man, this chapter took a while to write. Sorry about the meaningless parts at the begginning. I needed to put in filler information about what was happening with Tsuna and the others. But hey at least the ending was interesting.
Tell me your favorite part and (or) quote in a review and let me know what you think. I'm sure no one appreciated the lack of Kuroi's appearance. She wasn't in it that much and over half of this was filler info. Sorry about that. But at least there are more characters in there :D
And just a reminder: I may or may not be posting Saturday and Sunday because I'll be at my friend's house. But I will update as soon as I can, so for now, I will see you in the next update.
POOF!