Alright, so I know my last chapter was so fricken horrible... Uugghhh...anyway, sorry for the late update. I've been busy. But, I assure you, this chapter is wwwaaaaayyyy better than the last.
Here's chapter 6. Enjoy!
I do not own any part of KHR. All rights go to Akira Amano, except for the characters I have created.
[3rd Person Limited: Kuroi]
She was a lifeless marionette. She did not talk much and she hardly moved unless tolled to. Kuroi's mind was in a rather thick fog that was impossible to escape.
Mukuro has entered her mind, and she no longer has control over it anymore.
Kuroi sat next to Mukuro on the dark couch in the shady theatre room. Her eyes fixated on nothing; she just remained staring straight on. Her eyes were dull in color and gleam and her expression was unreadable.
Mukuro rubbed the top of her head softly in a mocking manner.
"Kufufu~ my little, obedient pet. Though.. You're more of a puppet," He belittled her.
Kuroi remained motionless. She didn't produced any thoughts or emotions.
'Escape...' She heard a voice in her head, but didn't flinch nor pay attention to it.
'You must... Listen... Hear me... Escape...' It continued, but Kuroi did not listen.
"Mukuro...-san..." Chikusa walked in through the door and collapsed.
"Eh? Is Kakipi back?" Ken walked in through the doors,as well, and looked at Chikusa, "Haha! He looks so pathetic- all bloody and burnt. He looks so tasty."
Ken raised Chikusa's arm to bite down on it.
"Ken, don't chew on him," Mukuro scolded, "He's just unconscious. If he met with the Vongola, there's no way Chikusa would return empty handed unless he's found something. We'll wait for him to wake up."
"Fine..." Ken mumbled with dissatisfaction.
"Hmm.. It appears that the Vongola are here... Why don't you go have some fun, Ken?" Mukuro smiled.
"Heh! Gladly, byon!" Ken ran out of the room.
Mukuro turned his attention to Kuroi.
"Now... I have a job that only you can do, Kuroi-chan. Will you do it?" He smiled.
"Yes. Mukuro-sama..."
[3rd Person Omniscient]
"W-Wait, Bianchi- is that poison cooking!?" Tsuna exclaimed out of fear.
"Poison Cooking Solution Sakura Cake!" Bianchi through the poison cooking against the gate's padlock.
The old, grimy padlock disintegrated and withered away, allowing Tsuna, Gokudera, Yamamoto, Reborn and Bianchi access into Kokuyou Land.
They walked along the path leading up toward the summit.
[3rd Person Limited: Kuroi]
Kuroi and Ken were hidden in the mass amounts of foliage and watched the group travel along the path. Ken was kneeling on the ground peering out from a bush, while Kuroi was sitting on a high branch of a tree.
"Finally! I've been so bored, byon! They'll make for a delicious meal," Ken stated with his mouth watering.
Ken jumped out of the bushes and lunged for Yamamoto, causing Yamamoto to fall backwards onto the ground. The dirt and rock from beneath him was crumbling and eventually gave way, causing him to fall down into a hole. With such excitement, Ken jumped into the hole after his prey.
Kuroi just watched with a vacant expression as Tsuna, Gokudera, Bianchi and Reborn circled around the hole.
"What was that thing!?" Tsuna was terrified.
"It looked human," Gokudera replied, "Oi, Yamamoto if you're not dead, don't say anything, so we can leave!"
"..." No reply.
"Alright, he says we can lea-"
"What!?"
"Damn it!" Gokudera obviously did not want a response.
"Yamamoto, are you alright!?" Tsuna was worried for his wellbeing.
"Yeah! This hard, concrete floor broke my fall!" He answered back cheerfully.
"That idiot..." Gokudera said deadpanned.
Kuroi jumped down from the tree and walked quietly behind a bush over to another tree so that she could hear and see them better.
"There's something to his right," Bianchi stated.
"It looks like an animal," Gokudera described.
"We were separated from Yamamoto so that we could not help him," Reborn justified.
Kuroi watched them and waited for her opening. By listening to the sounds that she heard, she could tell that Ken was running all over the place and attacked Yamamoto from every angle. She could hear his voice change to different pitches; something that she's never heard before. However, she did not care. She was only there to do her the job that Mukuro assigned her.
Reborn looked in her direction, prompting her to duck so that she wasn't seen. She kept her dull, gold eyes locked on Tsuna.
"Hmm..." Reborn looked over the bush with curious eyes.
"What's wrong, Reborn?" Bianchi asked him.
"What are you looking at?" Tsuna looked over at the same bush Reborn was gazing upon.
"Hmm... I thought I saw something. Maybe it was just my imagination," He said distantly.
"... Mukuro-sama..." Kuroi mumbled quietly.
"Aaaahhh!" Tsuna rubbed his head in confusion, "What do I do?"
"Well, you're the boss, you do something," Reborn said as he kicked Tsuna into the dark pit.
It was unclear as to what they were all saying. Kuroi was too intent on focusing on her job, thus she drowned everyone else out.
All she could hear was a bunch of yelling and shouting.
"Yamamoto!" Tsuna yelled.
"I've got you!" Ken said, his voice muffled as if he had something in his mouth.
"You're wrong," Yamamoto said with a serious demeaner.
There was a loud smack and a thud.
"Yamamoto... Your arm..." Tsuna said.
"It's alright. I've had worse injuries. I can still play Baseball with this little scratch," He reassured.
After a while, Gokudera, Bianchi and Reborn managed to get Tsuna and Yamamoto out of the hole. Bianchi wrapped up Yamamoto's arm in bandages.
"That'll do," She said plainly.
"Thanks," He thanked her and turned to the kid, "Sorry, I broke the bat."
"It's alright," Reborn pulled out another bat, "Because, I have a spare."
"Where the Hell were you keeping it!?" Tsuna questioned him in shock.
Kuroi went back to the dilapidated building. She walked into the Cinema Room where Mukuro was. He was sitting on a stool next to a bed where Chikusa laid.
"Mukuro-sama..." She walked up to Mukuro and stood next to him, clutching onto his arm with no emotion.
"Yes, my dear, Kuroi-chan?" He ads it sound sweet and polite, but he was really just mocking her in the end.
"Ken has been eliminated," She said without looking at him.
"Hmm... I see... No matter, everything will be fine," He assured her with a smile.
"... Hnnnnn..." Chikusa woke up.
"Oya? So you've awakened?" Mukuro asked with such simplicity, "The third-ranked person on the list must've been quite troublesome."
"I met the Vongola Boss," Chikusa announced.
"So it seems. He and the rest of his followers are on their way here, now. They even managed to defeat Ken," Mukuro's smiled faded as he said this.
"What?" Chikusa got up abruptly.
"Don't panic. Our reinforcements have arrived, after all," Mukuro tried to stop Chikusa from getting up too fast.
"As blunt as always, this guy," A feminine voice was heard.
Kuroi, Mukuro and Chikusa looked over toward the new people. One was a female with short, red hair and purple eyes. Another was rather tall and masculine with a tattoo on his jawline and he wore a hat. There were two... Things... Sitting on the couch. They had pale skin, no eyes and were very lengthy in their anatomy. The last person, was an ugly looking old man with a hat and yellow birds sitting around him. Everyone there possessed Kokuyou~ Chuu uniforms.
"To think we've been cellmates for such a long time," She continued.
"What are you doing here?" Chikusa questioned with contemptuous eyes.
"I'm here for the money," She said proudly, "Mukuro-chan pays the best."
"I'm only here for the thrills," The old man said.
The rest remained silent.
Kuroi fixated her gaze onto the tall man in the back that hid his eyes under a hat. She could sense something odd about him, but she ignored it.
Mukuro turned to Kuroi.
"Kuroi-chan, you need to go to your post in case you need to finish your job if they do not succeed," Mukuro ordered her with a polite smile, though it was fake of course, "Though, I'm sure you won't need to. I'm only doing this as a precaution, of course."
"...Yes, Mukuro-sama..." Kuroi turned and exited through the door, carrying with her the end of a decorated trident.
Kuroi walked back and found Tsuna and the others setting up lunch at a nearby table. She peered from around a tree and waited.
Just when they were finished with setting everything up, music from a nearby building started playing.
"Where is that music coming from?" Tsuna requisitioned to know.
The bottles of tea, water, juice, etc. exploded, as did the food.
Tsuna and the others ducked behind the bench for cover.
"What the hell is going on!? Where is that music coming from!?" Tsuna went into a panicked state.
"It sounds like it's coming from..." Gokudera was able to detect the music's location, "Over there!"
He threw sticks of dynamite toward the old building. Explosions proceeded to go off.
"What lame weapons," A female voice insulted through the cloud of ash and smoke, "I wonder how guys like you managed to get both Kakipi and Ken."
"That's Kokuyou's uniform!" Tsuna pointed out the obvious.
"Then that means..." Gokudera said.
Kuroi was paying attention to the girl, but she diverted it back to Tsuna and drowned her out. She was clutching at the trident, waiting for her opening.
The girl continued to insult the group and claimed that money was more important than anything, which was why she took the job in the first place. That's when Bianchi stepped up.
"Money isn't the most important thing in the world, it's love," She claimed with such confidence.
"Huh? What an annoying woman," She said with displeasure.
"That clarinet is like a microwave, isn't it?" Bianchi asked, also displeased, "When water is exposed to radiation, the temperature will rise, causing it to boil."
"So what if it is."
The girl began to monologue about how the clarinet works, while Kuroi snuck in closer to Tsuna's location.
By this time, Bianchi and the girl were in a physical fight. Bianchi charged her with poison cooking in either hand. She threw both dishes, but the girl dodged. Bianchi took out another dish and prepared to attack again.
"Death berry shortcake!" Bianchi said the name of her attack, "This is the end for you!"
"Kkyyaaaa!" The girl screamed, "Oh, is that what you expected me to say? Well, you should know, closed-quarters combat is my specialty!"
Her clarinet turned into a sort of nunchuck and she swung at Bianchi, hitting her in the face, sending her skidding and rolling on the ground.
"Oh, no! Bianchi!" Tsuna had his hands on the top of his head.
"Oi!" Yamamoto started to move forward, but he was stopped by Gokudera.
"It's already over," He said.
"What do you mean?" Yamamoto asked.
"So that's the move she perfected. To be able to turn anything she touches into poison cooking," Gokudera thought out loud.
The girl had already put the clarinet in her mouth and tasted the killer poison cooking. She fell on her back, twitching and was then rendered unconscious.
"Are you alright?" Bianchi ran to Reborn and hugged him.
Meanwhile, Kuroi was getting closer to Tsuna. When she was about to attack, Reborn looked in her direction, causing her to hide behind a tree.
'Please... Listen... Escape, now... While you still can...' She heard the voice again, but continued to ignore it.
"Oi, Tsuna," He called for him, "Did you remember to check in on Kuroi?"
"Eh? Sora-chan? ..." Then he finally realized, "Aaaahhhh! I totally forgot about her! What am I gonna do!? What if she's not there!?"
"Don't worry, Juudaime," Gokudera said, "I'm sure she's back at Namimori."
"I wouldn't bet on it..." Reborn disagreed.
"What do you mean?" Yamamoto asked him.
"Let's just say you might want to keep your eyes open and be on guard," Reborn said as he hid his eyes under his hat.
Kuroi heard footsteps coming in the group's direction and looked toward the origin of the sound. The old man was there.
"You know, I'm glad you were able to defeat that M.M. girl," He said with a smile.
"Who are you?" Tsuna asked, frightened.
"What do you want?" Yamamoto took a step forward.
"Now, now. Please, calm down and take a look at this," He pointed to a wall that had a screen projecting images of Kyouko and Haru.
"Kyouko-chan! Haru!" Tsuna exclaimed, "Why are they there?"
"You bastard, what are you up to!?" Gokudera demanded.
"So you're our next opponent?" Bianchi was unhappy as well.
"Now, now, I told you to stay calm," He said, "Let me explain everything. My name is Birds..."
Kuroi drowned him out as well, and began moving again to find herself another opening.
While Birds explained his devious and horrible plot about the, what he calls, 'Bloody Twins' and Kyouko and Haru's significance, Kuroi was wandering around the foliage. Reborn looked in her direction and became suspicious.
Kuroi didn't pay attention to the conversations taking place, but she peered around a bush when she heard shouting and the sounds of footsteps running toward Birds. She saw Gokudera holding the old man by the shirt, getting ready to punch him. But when he looked at the screen, he reluctantly let go.
Tsuna and others were given orders by Birds, and if they didn't do them, the two girls would be killed.
Everyone was in a frantic state, though, Kuroi was unsure why since she stopped listening. Then, she heard a distinct sound of a fist hitting a face. She looked up again, to find that Bianchi punched Tsuna in the face.
Still surveying the area to get the best opening to do her job, she partially heard Birds explain another task: to have the Vongola 10th stab himself with a wavy blade.
Before Tsuna was about to strike himself, odd sounds from the monitor went off. It appeared that Dr. Shamml was able to save Kyouko and her friend from one of the twins.
"You guys still forget," Birds said with triumph, "I still have one of your friends."
Before he could give the order to have Haru killed, Ootona Lambo and Ootona I-pin appeared and took out the other twin, saving Haru.
Gokudrea went up to the old man and kicked him the face, rendering him unconscious.
As Kuroi was circling around the area, she ran into a boy with a green sweater and a scarf.
"... Fuuta..." She said with no expression or emotion.
"You are..." He trailed off and stared back at Tsuna.
Just then, Bianchi called out toward Kuroi's and Fuuta's direction.
"You'd better come out, now, or we'll make you!" She shouted out to them.
"Wait- it's just me..." Fuuta walked out from behind the bushes.
Kuroi ran off in the direction toward Mukuro. She was not supposed to be seen.
She ran deeper into the forest and was able to find him. When she found him she hooked onto his arm and explained, vaguely, what happened.
"Mukuro-sama... M.M. and Birds have been eliminated," Kuroi said with no emotion, "I was unable to kill Vongola 10th. Too many people..."
"It's fine. I've decided to deal with him personally, so your job is finished for the moment," He explained.
Mukuro looked her in the eyes, "Though... You may still be of use to me... Go ahead and head back to the Cinema Room. I'll be there shortly."
Kuroi did as he ordered and ran off to the Theatre. All the while as she was running back to the building, she could hear that same voice in her head repeat the same thing over and over.
'Escape... Run away... You must...' Kuroi took notice of the voice this time, but she shrugged it off again a few seconds after realizing it was there.
When she got into the theatre room, she found Chikusa still there standing by a window.
Kuroi walked over to the couch and sat on it, awaiting for her master to return and to continue to be plagued by a faint voice in the back of her controlled mind.
[END]
YYAAAYYYYY! I've finally updated the story! I hope you guys like this one. I was even able to get it done before 2:00 a.m.! Yyaaaa! New record!
Sorry it was a bit rushed intheirs chapter. I wouldn't have been able to do much with Kuroi if I were to take things slower. What she was doing was too simple to right a few chapters about, so that's why it's a bit rushed.
Anyway tell me your favorite part and (or) quote in a review and tell me what you think as well.
I will be posting soon, but for now I'll see you in the next update!
POOF!