N/A: Chapter 10, so Hermione finally got her first mission as part of the Vongola. Vongola 9th and Kingsley are both concerned of the safety of their world, while the escapee enemies from the Wizarding world are planning to strike back in the matter of time.

Disclaimers: Still not mine to claims.

Chapter 10: The Accident

Hermione was now over the moon since the Vongola 9th had granted her silent wishes of having her first mission that afternoon and she can't tell how excited she was for it. Now she can show them what she is capable of and also to show them that she is just like them, reliable and worth trusty and all she could do is to prove to them that she will carry the mission successfully with no fail.

She is now in the operation room with some of the workers there, doing her best and managed to solved any problems given easily, since she is a fast learner and concentrated well during her early days here, she can easily adapt to their environment.

"Well, let's hope that everything will turned out find," Hermione thought to herself as the Vongola 9th was currently having a short meeting with Tsuna and the rest of the Guardians, includes Gokudera who had come back earlier about a couple of days ago from his mission due to his overload works, and so far their mission was in good progress and no problem had arisen so Tsuna and the Vongola 9th had requested him to came back earlier since his current project with Hermione is now half way through and he was ordered to return to the Headquarters since the Vongola 9th had prepared and planned to put Hermione for her first mission.

"Miss Granger, we are now ready to proceed into the next phase, and at the moment all report will be printed out for you. Is there anything you wish to have a check before we can continue to the next phase?" a young man who is part of the operation team informed her as Hermione shook her head, her eyes are focused on the large screen in front as the current phase of her and Gokudera's project of reforming and coordinating strategic programs since three months ago after they both had finalized their paper works regarding the project.

Both Hermione and Gokudera had been chosen as the pioneers for the project with the help from others, especially the Vongola 10th family and their allies, the younger generations, of course, since the project involved the using of current and latest technology and innovations. Both of them are proud of their achievement, but somehow deep inside Hermione was quite worried because this is her first project that she tries to achieve successfully even it is not a solo project. Despite her confident with their work, she was pretty tensed and tired while doing the project as she ought not to fail it miserably and she knows that it is not an easy escape when dealing with a mafia organization, especially in the bizarre Vongola family.

"Hold yourself together Hermione this is going to be just fine, believe in yourself. Don't ever think of failure, where is your Gryffindor courage. This is not the bloody time to lose your bloody confident." Her thought practically tries to scream at herself while tries to seal her worries by showing some confident in her face despite she could feel her heart rumbling because of nervousness.

Despite of her nervousness of the big project that had been handed to her and Gokudera, her wits and confidence had brought herself some respects and trust from others. Her intelligent and knowledge and willingness to learn and try something new and challenging had become the great assets for them, and seems that they didn't plan of having her leaving the organization anytime sooner or later and they wished that she will never leave them or the organization at all.

Meanwhile somewhere in the Northern Italy

Mukuro and Chrome are having a stroll in the small town in the Northern Italy that afternoon, and the rest of those involved in their mission are free to do anything for their leisure. So far their mission is in good progress and not a slight problem emerged and pretty soon they will return to the Headquarters with their satisfying report, the meeting with their allies had gone smoothly and they get the upper hand to be able to control the situation.

"Nee Mukuro-ni, did you call Hermione-san today?" Chrome asked Mukuro quietly as if she doesn't want to be heard as the mismatched illusionist glanced at her, Chrome had become his constants reminder of his and Hermione's relation, and she was way very happy about it.

"Kufufufufu, why my dear Chrome, since when you had become my walking reminder, well I have not yet but I'm planning of sending her a text message later on," Mukuro smirked as Chrome pouted her mouth.

She was about to retort back when they heard a loud voice and screams coming from the ice-cream parlour not far ahead.

Three men wearing masks was trying to rob the shop and two of them aiming their guns and the other is standing at the counter demanding the salesperson at the counter to fill a sack with cash while people around the shop tries to cover and save themselves and some accidently crashed to one another as the robbers aiming their gun randomly around, demanding them to shut up and takes their belonging out.

Mukuro and Chrome run to the shop and hide behind the shop's sandwich board as he took out his trident and begin to create an illusion to confuse the people inside the shop.

At that time all the civilians and the robbers feel like they were floating in the air and the surrounding seems to twirl in a different dimension as if the world had turned upside down. Shrieks and scream are heard coming from the ice-cream parlour as the people inside started to wonder what had happened and why people are floating around them or while suddenly the world seems to be upside down. Some of them started to feel dizzy and some even almost throw up in the shop. Mukuro and Chrome watched them carefully as some of the people inside the ice-cream parlour begin to faints and some already looked sick.

"What's happening?" one of the robbers almost shriek as he hold on his head, probably suffering from headache or dizzy and one of them who held a gun seems to aim his gun around and his grip on the gun seems to be weaken.

Mukuro seized the moment as he ran inside the shop to beat the crap out of the robbers. He managed to kick one of the robbers who held a gun in his gut pretty hard as the gun in his hand thrown to a nearby table as the people there scream, tries to get away from the gun that had landed on the floor.

"Oooof…"

"What the…?" before the robber near the counter finished his words, Mukuro give him a hard punch in the face which send him to collided against the table behind as he fell on the floor.

As he tries to get up Mukuro send him another kick in the gut making the robber to groan in pain as he held on his stomach, but Mukuro somehow didn't aware that the other robber with gun had aimed at him when he was punching one of them near the counter and as the third robber fire his gun, screams and shouts are heard coming from the customers and workers in the shop as Mukuro managed to dunk only to get his left shoulder got shot as he swayed his trident using the other hand and beat the robber pretty hard, knocked him unconsciously on the floor as he fell on his knee, holding his injured shoulder to stop the blood from flowing fast as Chrome let out a scream and ran into the shop.

"Aaaahhh…," Mukuro groan in pain as he held on his shoulder, his face winced from the pain. He then slowly stopped the illusion as Chrome ran in towards him, her face paled and she was trembled to see his condition. The people inside the parlour are stunned and panic as some of them seems as if they were suffered from heart attack and such, while some others suffered from dizziness and couldn't stand up properly.

"Mukuro-ni, are you okay?" Chrome asked in a hurry as she tried to console the injured Mukuro, her voice trembled as if she is almost crying. The people inside the shop glance at them nervously and he realized that the commotion inside the shop had attracted some civilians outside as well as people begin to roam the area with questions in their faces.

"I'm alright, don't worry. Let's get out from here before thing's getting worse," Mukuro said as his voice hissed from the pain, he then creates another illusion to confuse the people in and outside the shop in order to escape before the police arrived as he let Chrome held his trident as he tries to get on his feet.

One of the workers managed to call the police before another wave of illusion reappear again as the people in and outside the shop looked like they were stunned with their 'new' surrounding while some of the customers that are pretty aware of the previous attack left the shop in a hurry before they got themselves stuck in another illusion. Mukuro held his injured shoulder and tries to counter the pain as blood flow from his wound, soaking his white shirt with blood as Chrome helped him to get on his feet and left the ice-cream parlour in a hurry. They were thankful because the people in and outside the shop are at the moment either 'amazed or stunned' with the illusion created that they didn't realized that the two illusionists had the left the shop. Chrome dragged Mukuro into a nearby alley and hides there as she with her trembling hand took out her phone in a hurry and dialled one of their teammate's number. As she waited for him to answer the phone, she helped Mukuro to hide behind some boxes to avoid being seen by anyone as they wanted to avoid suspicious from the public. Mukuro tries to restrain the pain of his injured shoulder by putting some pressure on his shoulder to stop the bleeding.

"Yes, hello…" voice of Ryohei is heard from the other end of the phone as Chrome answered in a hurry.

"Ryohei-nii, help us. Mukuro-nii got shot…we are…now hiding, please hurry," Chrome trembled as she tries to control her panic voice, she looked around and hide behind some of the boxes as they heard a police siren approached the main street not far from where they had been hiding.

"WHAT…What's going on, where are the two of you now, is he seriously injured?" Ryohei's voice seems to spoke loudly on the other end of the phone, and Chrome knew that Ryohei is pretty much furious at the moment.

"He got shot in his shoulder, he tries to stop some robber in a shop when he got shot, we are behind the alley at the third main street at the ice-cream shop that we went two days ago, I think the police just arrived at the shop, please hurry," Chrome's voice trembled as she tries to calm herself as Mukuro tries to restrain his wound with his hand, he hissed in pain when his finger accidently poked into the wound.

"Okay, just stay where you are, I will get Dino as well, don't move or make anything stupid, alright." Ryohei responds as he ended the call.

While waiting for them to arrives, Chrome tore the sleeves of Mukuro's shirt to cover the bleeding as the wound was pretty serious as the bullet penetrate deeply in his shoulder. Mukuro is now paled since he has lost a lot of blood and Chrome who managed to calm herself tries her best to stop the bleeding.

The main street is now full with people and from her angle Chrome could see the three robbers were now handcuffed and thrown inside the police car as some of the police were taking some statements from the witnesses. Mukuro had managed to stop the illusion just to buy enough time for them to hide from the civilians before the police arrive, and luckily his blood didn't drip much on the floor and on the road, which worried him much because he hated dealing with the police.

As Chrome stand on guard, she heard a voice hissed called for them as Ryohei and Dino arrived. Ryohei then slowly lifted up the injured Mukuro slowly as some of Dino's men help to cover the area while Dino and Ryohei help Mukuro and Chrome to get into the car.

The journey to the hospital went pretty smoothly despite hisses from Mukuro as Romario tries to apply some bandage upon his wound.

Once Mukuro was admitted in the private hospital belongs to the Vongola and immediately went for surgery to removes the bullet, Ryohei and Dino lead Chrome to the canteen to get some drink and food for her as she was seems pretty weak, maybe because she was panicked earlier.

After eating, Ryohei who is pretty much calm asked her about the incident.

"Chrome, what happened?"

Chrome who is now calm, well not quite, inhaled a deep breath as she tries to recall the memory of the incident earlier.

As Ryohei and Dino listened attentively the doctor came to informed them about Mukuro's condition.

"We were able to remove the bullet out from his shoulder, he has lost a lot of blood but luckily it is not that serious, so far he is okay and needed a good rest. At the moment we are very grateful if you didn't disturb the patient because he is very much needed some good rest," the doctor spoke nicely but in firm, serious tone.

"When can we see him doctor?" asked Chrome, her hands held together as Ryohei put his hand on her shoulder to ease her worries.

"Well, if according to his conditions we cannot tell when, but so far he is okay, maybe tomorrow you can come and give him a visit, and for now why don't you go home and get yourself some good rest," the doctor responded politely as he nodded his head at them.

Chrome glanced at both Dino and Ryohei before she nodded her head understandingly. The three of them then left the hospital and returns to their hotel rooms for the day.

Mukuro was in deep slumber, he no longer feel the pain in his shoulder as silent surrounded him and he is now lost somewhere in a dream world.

Standing in a green field filled with colorful flowers and green grass, Mukuro, wearing a white shirt and white, long pants, stood in the middle of the field, his long hair let loose as he observed the surrounding. Looking around, he realized that he was alone there and there's no sign of others, none but him alone. The clear blue sky above with sun shines onto the whole field as wind slowly blowing into him, letting his long hair to flow freely.

He closed his eyes as he begins to embrace the quietness and peaceful surrounding as the wind blow softly against his skin when he heard a voice, a soft female voice called out for him.

"Mukuro, Mukuro…"

Mukuro slowly opened his eyes and looked around him as petals of colorful flowers are now flowing freely in the air as the wind blows softly as some of the flower petals glides against his skin.

"Mukuro, Mukuro…"

The female voice called him again as she was nowhere to be found, Mukuro looked everywhere but he couldn't move his legs from where he was standing. The voice was very familiar indeed, the voice he missed to hear the most lately. Mukuro tries to move forward when he felt a hand touching his back, a soft, female hand.

"Mukuro."

The soft female voice called him from behind as he could felt her tiny hand at his back. Slowly turning around he is now face to face with the only woman he wishes to see for the last few days since he was busy engaged in a mission.

Her smiles and beautiful honey brown eyes are very tantalizing as her long, soft and slightly wavy brunette hair flow freely as the wind blows. She was wearing a beautiful sleeveless, short above knee length white dress with straps, revealing her soft, fair skin as she smiled at him.

Mukuro was mesmerized as she slowly held her hand and touched his face and caress it softly, which makes Mukuro to closed his eyes and held his hand above hers, oh how he missed her touch.

As he opened his eyes, she was now standing face to face with him and she was getting closer to him, closing the gap between them as his free hand slowly making it way to her waist, hugging her tightly as her free hand is now caressing his neck and pulled him towards her.

"I missed you," she whispered to him as he could smell her hair, it was the smell of rose and jasmine.

"I missed you too," Mukuro too whispered as his hand caress her soft cheek as he lean his forehead on hers, his lips curved into a smile as he could see her blushing.

He leans his face on her as their lips almost touch when suddenly…

Mukuro awakes from his slumber, looked around when he realized that he was in a room with some machines and wires attached to him and he winced as suddenly his shoulder feel a bit pain. He tries to get up but couldn't, lying on the bed he tries to recalled of what had happened earlier when slowly the vision of the early incident slowly came into his mind. Yes, now he remember of what had happened, he was shot in the shoulder and he remember Chrome dragged him into an alley and then begin to recalled the moment Dino and Ryohei arrived to take them away as he was admitted here. Looking at the ceiling, he now remembers that he was in a hospital tending to his injured shoulder.

Inhales a deep breath, he tries to remembering his dream that he had just now, he smiles when her face appeared in his dream, the woman he missed badly since he was sent for a mission.

"Hermione"

The Vongola Headquarters

Hermione suddenly awakes from her sleep, looking at the watch it was only 3 a.m. as she buried herself in her light blue duvet but she couldn't sleep anymore. She had a bizarre dream where she was standing in a green field filled with beautiful and colourful flowers and the sky was clear and the weather was calming. She was wearing a beautiful sleeveless, knee-length white dress as she saw Mukuro coming towards her. His long, blue hair was let loose and he was wearing a white shirt and white long pants, smiling at her as his hand reached for her.

"Mukuro," she called for him as he approached her and hugged her tightly. She felt save in his arms as she hugged his waist and buried her face in his chest while he buried his face in her soft hair.

"I missed you," she told him as he could feel her smiling.

"I missed you too," he responded to her as he kissed her forehead tenderly.

His fingers stroke her soft cheek softly as he leans towards her, their lips almost touch when she snapped from her dream and awakes all of a sudden. She could feel her cheek flushing from the dream, and how much she missed him.

They haven't contacted each other's for days now since they were both busy with their duties. There's no news from any of them but so far she knew that they were safe.

Looking at the window, the night was dark with no cloud and the moon and stars shine brightly in the dark sky. Remembering her dream she was hoping that it could come true someday.

"Mukuro"

There you goes, chapter 10 is done, so chapter 11 might take some time so please be patient. As usual, please review.