Notes: Xanxus and Enma are OoC, yeah, but please bear with it.

Mystery

He walked around the mystery church. The church seemed like a really unreal one, with some vines hanging up from the far above ceiling, and the strange black and white tiles it had. Every step he made was really a hard one, with some smooth texture in skin yet hard in material grasses lying on the floor near the really big door in the middle side of the left wall. The red light shone from the glass windows with some encrypted divine pictures, which gave the ruined place a rather gloomy appearance. There were aligned long wooden chairs, two rows and 10 each row, total of 20, which some of them are already starting to be deteriorated. There was a piano in the left side of the front area of the church, and just looking at it made Tsuna felt nostalgic. As for now, he was standing near the door contemplating on what Enma Kozato just told him. He also just noticed that the place he slept on earlier had some lights illuminating in it. After looking above, he saw a hole in the ceiling, and saw a dark bluish ball of light. With some much examining of the place, he sat in one of the good-looking chairs and contemplated.

"I need you," a deadpan voice was heard. "You heard that man with a croaky voice right?"

"Yes..." Tsuna answered reluctantly, as he looked deep into what the red eyes wanted to tell him. But all he saw was pure darkness.

"The current Toshi is Timoteo-dono, and he has two sons, Xanxus and Kyouya," Enma explained, as he looked into the seemingly worried caramel brown eyes. "Since Kyouya has the greater potential, he was the one assigned to succeed Timoteo-dono, but..."

Tsuna fell silent as he listened to the other.

"But...he just broke a law in the code..."

"Code? Law?"

"I can't tell you the details...but as for now, having Xanxus as the next Toshi would mean chaos to the Le Grande... Xanxus was so rude and selfish. A Toshi musn't has these, but since only Xanxus is capable to become the heir, we people have no power to oppose it,"

"B-but...I mean...Hibari-san is also...kinda...umm"

"Comparing the two, Le Grande had chosen Kyouya, since he takes job seriously whilst Xanxus do not,"

"Umm...Can I ask a question?"

"Yes?"

"This place...is called...Le Grande...right?"

"Yes, and why?"

"Where exactly is this?"

"Just as what you said, you are currently in Le Grande."

"B-but! I-I'm not from here! This place's surroundings, atmosphere, condition of the sky and all! This is not the world I grew up!" Tsuna's yell echoed throughout the ruins. "The sky in my place was blue, the sun was yellow, the grasses were green, clouds are white and there are no scary faces that exist above there!"

"Hey, hey you mustn't be kidding on what you are saying..."Enma said in somewhat frightened tone. "What you're describing is the 'Earth'"

"Yeah, that's right! I'm from Earth! That's where I was born!" Tsuna explained in rather happy tone, as he thought the other boy was already starting to understand what he wanted to try to say to him.

"You mustn't say that again here, Tsuna-kun..." the red-haired warned, his face turned immediately serious.

"W-why?" Tsuna asked. "I'm just telling you that my place isn't here..."

Enma Kozato sighed after hearing a lot of babbles from the other boy. "Just don't say "Earth" again in anyone here. It will be dangerous. Don't ask for further details Tsunayoshi,"

And Tsuna's face became little disappointed not getting the answer he asked.

"Anyway, back to what I want you to do," Enma started in a more formal tone than before, as the brunet listened attentively. "Townspeople have been relentlessly conversing and forming troops to prevent Xanxus succeeding the current Toshi,"

Tsuna gulped. Would it be really a frightening experience to have that Xanxus to become their leader? True, he might be kind of rude, his voice was also scary, but a person must at least have a feeling of responsibility specially when put in a high position. Yet, they really refuse to have this Xanxus guy to be the Toshi. He wondered why.

"And I was the leader of the group"

"B-but...weren't you just with that Xanxus earlier?"

"I've been secretly spying on him – on what he does every day," he answered. "So I took the job of being his butler for that reason."

"Umm...so what do you want me to do?"

"We need to search for Kyouya,"

"Eh?" Tsuna asked out of pure surprise, as the red-haired man bid farewell to him saying he still have a work to do.

Tsuna was then left with several things in his mind. Searching for Kyouya? Weren't they just talking that Kyouya might be in some sort of place? Huh? And wasn't it Enma Kozato who said that time that that boy was in some place?

He later gave up on thinking and stood up, walked towards the door and took a peek on the outside. And he was surprised.

It was the most peculiar thing he saw in his very life.

All colors of all objects were different. The scene was a very wide plain, with no towns or any houses seen even afar. All he could see were the tall black mountains which shaped like Mount Fuji only that the top has yellowish color. Those mountains surrounded all the edges of the panorama he could see from his point. He then saw a tree with gray trunks, and bluish leaves that swayed even without wind. The grasses were lighter in color than what was growing in the church, and the ground itself was color red. The sky remained the same as what he saw from the church, with those creepy grinning faces and dark clouds.

Holding back his terror from the scene, he walked outside and left the church. He walked and walked, searching for a town but to no avail. Where did Enma went?

Being an impatient person, he ran fast towards the unchanging landscape and after several minutes, he saw a little village in his left and dashed after hearing his stomach's plead.

Reaching the town, he took out his wallet and got money. He then searched for a food store and saw one, which fortunately looked like food, except for bizarre color it had. The bread was still brownish in color with green dots in it. At first, Tsuna thought it was already old for it had molds, but it smelled so yummy.

"Hello! How much is this bread, sir?" Tsuna asked politely, pointing out the most aromatic bread.

"60 Grande for one, boy!" The old man shouted, as he was mixing the ingredients for making bread.

"60...60 Gr-grande...?" Tsuna said hesitantly, knowing that his money wasn't a Grande but a Yen. Fortunately, he had brought a lot of coins, but the currency was really different. "Ummm..."

"Will you buy, boy?"

"Umm...this is 60 yen..."

"Sorry boy, but I'm not asking for those silver coins," The old man said. "I told you that the price was 60 Grande! JUST 60 Grande! It is the cheapest you can ever see here!"

"Umm...Sorry but I really don't have such money..."

"If you say so, but come back!" The old man said cheerfully, as he saw the retreating figure of the brunet, when he unconsciously had taken a glimpse of its nape, which had an "X" symbol in it.

"DAMN YOU!" The baker yelled, as other villagers were surprised and took a look outside. The baker then threw all the hot bread displayed in his store to Tsuna. Tsuna then hissed in pain as the heat of the bread almost burnt his skin, but other villagers didn't even tried to rescue him.

"P-please s-stop..." the brunet pleaded.

"He's from EARTH!" The old man shouted, other villagers seemed enraged and threw rocks at him while shouting "Die!"

"S-stop...p-please..." Tsuna continued to beg for mercy for something who-knows what he had done, but seeing no hope for the situation, he tried to concentrate and muster all his remaining energy to run, and so he did. As he escaped from the village which seemed to abhor him to the core, he still heard lots of curses for him.

But he became tired from running while enduring the pain he had from rocks and hot bread thrown to him. He fell down in the hard ground, and twisted his ankles. He couldn't run anymore.

Damn, move!

Then townspeople who displayed hatred in their eyes to the brunet continued their relentless rock throwing to Tsuna, but then, they paused as light and fast footsteps seemed to come closer.

"Belphegor-sama!" the villagers chorused.

"Ushishishishi... so the guy who that traitor loved is here..." the blond man with wide grinned appeared, and was in the center of all the villagers. "Time to have fun~"

The blond guy got his hands on his pockets, as he drew out five knives from it. Tsuna panicked. He knew those knives were definitely for him, to hit him, to kill him. So he tried to run even if his feet were aching.

"Ushishi...hey people, I'll have my reward for this 'kay~" He threw the first knife. Townspeople inhaled.

But Tsuna had reflexively dodged it.

Here comes the second one, still no good.

Third. Tsuna had barely evaded the attack.

Fourth. Tsuna was already running away, just sometimes he was stumbling for his feet were really in pain.

"Shit. This guy has definitely good dodging skills." Belphegor admitted grudgingly, as wide grin in his face disappeared. "But the prince will never allow traitors to live!" he said as he unleashed the last knife he had.

And Tsuna was pierced in his back. He fell down, as townspeople rejoiced.

The brunet felt his world crumbling apart, he felt pain no more. He could still feel the ward blood that had been washing the land where he laid now. And before he could close his eyes, he asked one thing to himself...

Why...do I have to die...?

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And he was about to faint from the wound he had when...snow fell, covering the crimson blood that flowed out from his body...and also...

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Hibari's presence was the panorama he last saw.

Chapter end.

Another note: I have question to those who read this: What do you think will be the ending?

And The Outbreak will be in hiatus. I'm terribly sorry.