Author's Note: Ah man! I haven't touched any of my stories for a while!...Well…more than a while I guess…But any who, I've at least updated a chapter for a story. I'm terribly sorry for the delay, I'll sure give you guys my reason as soon as I've updated the new chapter for HSVFGL (How to survive a Vongola Female Guardian Life). Anyways, everybody knows that it's February 14, 2011 today, so….

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!

^.^….however, I have three bad-news….sorry about this but chapter 9 isn't sadly a Valentines-day-special-chapter….I couldn't make any but be sure that this chapter is typically all about your favorite 6996….cause' I've been missing Mukuro-sama in KHR so I've decided to put him in a chapter at the least….oh, and you'll definitely should be expecting a lot of typos in this one since I was terribly in a hurry to do this other bad news is that HSVFGL's Valentines' Day-special-chapter will be delayed since I am currently having a hard time writing something for Chrome's valentine day dilemma…..XD

So …enjoy!

Chapter 9: Accident

These are only flashbacks and memories of Chrome Dokuro and Mukuro Rokudo.

It was a cold and cloudy day and he was only conducting an experiment. After failing to escape from the hands of the Vendice guards yet was able to free Ken Joshima and Chikusa Kakimoto, he was transferred in an even darker and deeper cell to which lights and sounds are forbidden, that escape is almost impossible to be accomplished.

Still, he never gives up. He needs to find a way to communicate with his subordinates, hoping that they will soon have a plan to break him out off those heavy chains.

He needed someone, anyone who he could have at least link a contact with his underlings. He needed a human, a mortal, but instead….he found himself a cat.

Ah, he remembered! This black cat, he possessed this creature when he was only about ten years old when he first arrived at Japan. He remembered that he needed to get used to the surroundings that then.

But it didn't came to him that he would lead such an innocent purple-haired girl to danger. He led her to a group of Mafia men and has discovered that her blood possesses such murderous schemes. She was the perfect catch!

So he disguised himself as that black feline once more; hoping to find that girl again. Yet again, it didn't came to him that he would meet her again in such an accidental tragedy.

He was saved by the girl. She sacrificed herself for such a creature.

"You're alright?" she uttered while she suffers the pain from the impact of the car that hit her.

He couldn't help but to be shocked by the scene.

She coughed some drops of her blood from her mouth "I'm glam….you're….okay." she smiled before she lost her consciousness.

"At last! I've found her!" he said "My…only mine….and mine alone." He touched her head and creased her hair a little "Surely, I will come to meet you again."

Soon, the ambulance rushed her to the nearest private hospital. The surgeons quickly and carefully tried to tend her wounds, but had found that several parts of her organs can no longer be used.

An hour after the surgery, her parents arrived:

"Are you her father?" a nurse asked when a man came in running to the hospital.

"No" the man answered "We're not related by blood." And he continued his steps forward.

"Dear! Nagi was hit by a car!" her mother rushed to her husband.

"Yes, what a nuisance!" her step-father replied.

"She tried to save a cat! Her right eye and several parts of her internal organs were badly damaged. She cannot be saved!"

"Hey…the doctor said that they might be able to save her with transplants of the same blood type."

"Are you crazy! I'm not having myself cut open just for her! I hardly understand her! She has no friends in school and she never got attached to you. The truth is saving her just doesn't seem worth it."

"Hey….she might hear you!"

"She won't. She's lying unconscious in the ICU."

"Oh! It's time. I need to go back to work; they need me. Do whatever you want here!"

….yet, inside the ICU…to be more specific, what's inside her mind?

"It's strange…" she judged without any second thought "I can hear everyting…I'm dying…I'm kind of relieved. It's finally going to end."

"It's not going to end. It just…..repeats!" a calm and gentle voice of a young man unexpectedly broke inside her mind.

"Who?" she uttered as her mind began to create an image of a beautiful place.

"Ah! You can here me. Okay then." The young man's voice replied as it took her to an uncertain place of a river-side, where the grass were pastured, where the trees dances so freely, where the sky was blue, and where the breeze of the wind accepts her presence.

Where was she? What happened? She was no longer confined in the hospital.

She stood up from her bed to get a clear view. She saw a young boy, who is about two years older than her, standing in front of her with a gentle smile and welcoming eyes.

"Kufufufu….I like taking walks!" his smile glisten to her.

"Huh? Who are you?"

"….you and I….are of the same kind."

"huh?"

"Kufufufu….to make it clear…..Nagi…..I need you. We need each other."

As a man is to a woman, and as fake is to reality. This is what illusions are meant to be read. To which something unreal is brought to existence.

From that day, she had acquired illusional organs from the crimminla she have saved. But how strange it is that he feels so attracted to this person. What's more of that, he also feels so annoyed every time she's with the skylark he keeps his eye on.

What is Mukuro to Chrome? And how did Hibari and Chrome came to be?

That was the end of the flashback, his flashback.

All night, Mukuro kept his head wandering around that memory that he treasures the most; the memory where he first met her. If only he could save her life again.

But….he never gives up!

Meanwhile, four hours have passed after the arrival of Hiroshi Yuuto and Rosso Calibri to Italy with their complete victory in their hands. They've scurried all the way back to the base in Milan to present the demand of their leader.

Hibari and Chrome on the other hand were still asleep from the drug that was sucked into them. From the orders of the Estraneo boss; Hibari was placed at the lower canal dungeons with ropes and chains tied around his hands, neck, and feet, while Chrome was brought to Rosso's bedroom for a short matter of time.

As soon as Nagi had woken up:

"Relax" Rosso calmed the frightened girl "It is against my orders to harm you."

"Wh….what do you mean?" Chrome asked with a confused yet frightened expression.

"You don't need to be afraid of me. I won't hurt you." Then she brought her hand a little forward to Nagi "My name is Rosso."

But Chrome gave the long-red-haired female a confused look with dark red blushed on her cheeks.

To Rosso's amusement, she suddenly giggled and said "I guess Hiroshi's right…you are quite adorable."

"Hi…Hiroshi?" Chrome uttered "Why does that name…seem so familiar…Ano…where am I?" Chrome continued with er curios questions while her eye explored all over the room.

"Mainly, this is my room. But considering that you were asleep all throughout the flight, you're in Milan, Italy."

"Italy? How? How did I get here?"

"I think she has had enough of the given information, Rosso." A voice suddenly broke out from a corner of the room.

A blonde young man, who is about the same age as Mukuro, emerged from the shadowed wall. His smile was purely gentle towards both of the females, as if he was glad to see them especially the captive.

"Don't tell me you were here all this time Hiroshi." Rosso stood from her chair with a stubborn expression.

The blonde laughed "Don't be so rude, I just came here!"

"Hmpf!" Rosso looked away snobbishly.

Amused by her reaction, Hiroshi smiled and approached closer "Don't be that stubborn around me now Rosso. Can't you see we have a guest?"

Yet Rosso continued her impression towards the blonde without any response.

"As much as I want to tease you further more, I need to have a word with Little Nagi, if you wouldn't mind?"

"Make it quick. I still need to dress her up." And Rosso exited the room.

By the time the area was completely calm and hollowed, Hirsho finallt began his conversation with the Vongola guardian.

"I'd never thought that…I could meet you again, Little Nagi!" Hiroshi smiled as he sat beside her.

Chrome, still panicking, retreated a little from the young man.

"Who are you? And….how come you know who I am? Why do you call me little Nagi? And how come…you're somehow so familiar to me?" she questioned.

"You've….you've forgotten. Dammit that Mukuro!" he sighed a bit before wrapping his arms arounf her lightly, leaving Chrome with a wide open eye.

"Don't be afraid, little Nagi." He whispered "I will help you remember. Though, this might hurt a little." And he pinned another drug on her back, causing her to doze off slowly.

"Wh…what are you….what did you…do?" Chrome uttered as she began to fell dizzy.

"Don't worry Little Nagi…you'll soon remember….and…I would finally fulfill my promise to you." Hiroshi said before Chrome fell asleep.

"That Mukuro…used his lotus illusions so that you could forget your past as an Estraneo member….but even though you've forgotten…you and Mukuro will always have an Estraneo blood."

However, at another area of the base, specifically at the cell prison where Mukuro and the others are being kept….

"Mukuro-chan…what are you doing?" M.M. froze in shock, realizing what she thinks her master is trying to do with Ken's teeth.

"Mukuro-san, don't kill yourself just because "Chichiroo" has that stupid girl already." Ken pleaded.

"It's Shichirou, Ken. Not Chichiroo." Chikusa corrected.

"Kufuffu…you are all…too afraid." Mukuro laughed.

"Mukuro-sama…what are you trying to do?" Chikusa asked in a calm tone. Apparently, he knows that Mukuro is planning something.

"Shichirou said that the floor is a dying-will-blood sensor." Mukuro answered in a very serious tone "If I could hallucinatemy mist flames to sky flames, the door might as well open for us." And he cut a wound in his hand as an amount of blood spilled from the injury.

When the drops of Mukuro's blood fell on the floor:

"The door…it opened!" M.M. uttered in surprise.

"At last! We can get out of here!"

Much to their happiness, the gang breaks free fro the cell without even any alarm signals occurring. Once again, Mukuro used his illusion to hide their existing escape from the security cameras scattered all over the ceiling.

"Come on! I know the way outta here!" M.M. directed.

"We can't leave yet!" Mukuro unnecessarily turned the other way.

"Mukuro-san! Where are you going?" Ken wondered with concern.

"We need to find Nagi!"

Nagi, as we all know:

"I..I remembered!" She said with her eye wide open after waking up from the drug Hiroshi gave her.

"You…now…you remembered who I am?" Hiroshi asked.

"Yes…I know now…Big brother!"