Mukuro's eyes shot open, one cobalt blue and the other scarlet red, both glaring. If looks could kill, he would have burned the house down instantly with just his glower.
Where was Tsunayoshi? Where was his everything? Hadn't he just gotten the brunette back yesterday?
Why hadn't he woken up when the teenager had slipped away?
The questions swirled around and around until he irately shoved them to the back of his mind. The only questions he needed to be asking himself was 'when' and 'to where'. Everything else could come later.
He peered up to the open roof, eyeballing the sky. The sun was coming up; he could see the edge of the glass tinted brightly and the graduating shades of blue above. But it was only just, probably only minutes since the sun had touched their hemisphere.
Annoyed, he glanced down. Peering back at him was his blossom.
The blossom was actually not a child of his; literally, it was a part of him. Like another limb… like another eye.
He slid off the bed and kneeled in front of it, tickling its petals open. In an ancient dialect, one foreign to earth, he asked the lotus sweetly, "and have you seen where our everything went?"
A shiver raced up the lotus's stem; "Out the door."
"And do you know the time our everything went out the door?"
"The clock on the bedside said 4."
So Mukuro would say roughly two or three hours…
"Will our everything return?" The lotus asked, sweetly.
"Our everything will return."
He stood up and the lotus closed its petals, its own silent rebellion until Tsuna returned; a limb that wouldn't work without air and love and fairytales.
Mukuro wished to be much the same way – and, honestly, he was acting much the same way – but he had to find the brunette before he could play the rebel.
Somewhat pleased that he had gone to bed fully dressed and so did not need to waste time with his wardrobe, he went to the door and swung it open, noting its unlocked state.
He also noted the three men standing outside of it, two of them very familiar and one of them faint in his memories that were actually more of Tsuna's.
All three of them opened their mouths at the same time, looking equally exhausted if not handling it at different stress levels.
Before they could utter a word, he meekly held up his hands in mercy and sighed. "I don't know where he is, I was just about to go looking for him."
"Liar!" The octopus dog barked… ironically, just like a dog. Mukuro cooed at the resemblance internally but offered a sneer outwardly.
"I am not lying."
"Then let us in and check the place out!"
"Most certainly not. This place is pure, you would only dirty it."
"You bastard!"
"Oya~ just because marriage isn't common where I come from doesn't mean you get to be mean about it… And you…" He speculated the tan one, Yamamoto, for a long moment. "You're not going to hit me again, are you?" Because that had been a surprisingly good punch. "I'm being honest," for once, at least to these people, "I don't know where he is. If you would like to, you all can join me in the hunt for Tsunayoshi."
"Wait, so you're the plant?" The blonde man was eyeing him from toe to head, blue eyes sharp and hand thoughtfully spread across his whiskery chin.
Mukuro raised an eyebrow at the two teens who were suddenly very interested in the ground. "Oya~ I thought Tsunayoshi could trust you two to keep a secret… yet here you are, having told this man all about me, I presume?"
"I'm Tsuna's father," the blonde growled, stepping forward and capturing Mukuro's attention. "And if I have to go on another wild goose chase to find my son, I'm going to shoot you."
"… You sired Tsunayoshi? How did he turn out the way he did?" He stared at callous features, tan skin, and bulging muscles. "I'm impressed. Alas, I don't think shooting me will solve anything. After all, I'm the one here who is most likely to find Tsunayoshi."
"Really?" Yamamoto cocked his head curiously. "And how's that?"
He grinned cheekily. "I have a, how do you say, 'homing device'. I'll just have to find my way home all over again."
Author's Note: He's not a stalker… he's just a part of Tsuna! :D But, no, honestly, he might just be subconsciously stalking Tsuna… Hah.