Chrome's P.O.V.

I was running around the hospital, trying to finding a brown mob amongst the big crowd in the hospital. Lambo was close to me, being a clumsy eight year old he was kept tripping over air, which I mentally giggled at the sight. And it reminded me of a certain boss I was looking for, where was boss?

"Chrome-nee! Watch out!" Lambo shouted. I saw a black-green blur that bumped to me, sending the both of us to the floor. Lambo ran up to me, assisting me to stand up. I opened my eye and saw the friend that told us to watch over her friend, Lee Lenalee.

"Lenalee!" Another voice shouted. Then a running Lavi approached us and helped the girl to stand up.

"Sorry! Chrome-chan!" She apologized.

"No, I'm sorry! I wasn't looking where going!" I apologized back, locking stares we giggled. But then I remembered what I have to do. "Um, did you happen to see a boy around our age?" I asked

"Hm?" Lenalee tilted her head.

"A lot, Chrome-chan." Lavi replied

"Ugh, we know rabbit." Lambo grunted. "A boy with brown hair like this." He tried imitating Tuna by raising his own hair. "brown eyes. Well he kinda looked feminine…" he trailed off, looking at me. And before I supplied the next information Lavi beat me up to it.

"Oh you mean Tsuna-fish?"

"Tsuna-fish?" both of us questioned.

"Yep. Right Lena?" the girl nodded in affirmation "He was a great guy. You know him?"

"Where did you saw him?!" Lambo asked, unintentionally raising his voice.

"Oh, now I know." Lavi grinned at us. "He is still probably at a shop in front of the hospital. And possibly waiting for you. Hurry up. You might not be able to reach out to him. It would be locked if your seconds late." He said then grabbed Lenalee's hand. "Good luck with Tsuna-fish!" then in an instant they turned to the stairs and went up. What did he meant? Lock? What was- oh…?

"LAMBO!" I shouted, making the child cringed. "Call the others immediately, tell them to wait at the café in front of the hospital." Lambo nodded. "And make that as fast as you can." I smiled and he grinned.

"Right away, Dokuro-sama!" Lambo grinned. We locked eyes for a second before dashing opposite sides. The child really has grown well.

I stopped for a while, looking for the shop where Boss invited me for a coffee-making challenge for my birthday. It was one of the most memorable birthdays I had ever had. The Boss hadn't known that it was birthday, but he gave me a memorable birthday, by giving me a salty coffee. I still remembered that flustered look of his when he realized that he put salt instead of sugar, it was very amusing. The next day he was very guilty of giving me the salty coffee on my birthday which Mukuro-nii heard and had Mukuro-nii on his tail for the whole day. Funny scene indeed.

Bingo. There was the shop. I cautiously went to the shop and peeked in it. There he was, talking to the Shimon Decimo, with the smile that torn my heart to pieces, it was forced. Boss never did that unless… he was hurt. I quietly went behind him. Here it goes. "B-Boss…" I muttered.

"A-ah, Chrome…" he responded weakly, not even bothering looking behind to catch glimpse of me. It hurts.

"Oh C-Chrome-chan, good afternoon." Enma-kun greeted, and I nodded. "Excuse me for a bit, Adheleid seemed to be calling me." With that he left, and I took the chair he just sat on. Boss was boring holes on the coffee, not making any eye contact… What am I here for again?

"Miss?" a waitress called out.

"Ah, hai?" I replied

"What coffee do you want, Miss? Or could you possibly want a chocolate drink?" the waitress asked kindly.

"E-Espresso..."

"Got it! Desert?"

"Oh, a pineapple cake would be fine… And miss?"

"Hm?"

"Could you give me 3 sachets of salt?"

"S-Salt? Ah, yes of course. Anything you need?"

"It's fine."

"A pineapple cake, an espresso and... salt?"

"Yes." I confirmed. With that the waitress left us, and I flashed a smile at Boss who was gaping like a fish.

"Salt?" Tsuna asked, and the memories dawn him. "Oh that…"

Awkward silence was around us. I don't remember why I am here anymore! Kami-sama help me!

"SO why are you here?" Tsuna asked coldly, now I can see through his façade. I smiled gently, recollecting the words I needed to say, but before anything else I activated mist flames and sent our conversation through telepathy, to the people who wore the Vongola rings.

"I'm sorry Boss." With this he looked up, meeting my amethyst eye. "We didn't mean to tu-turn our backs at you…" I bit my lip, and Tsuna was expectantly hoping the next words, which I granted with pleasure "We were scared… scared that you have turned into a… monster." I said, spitting out the last word as if it was poison. "That horrifying look of yours, that hands that were once stained with blood... I can't help to think that a person like you would kill without hesitation…"

"Sorry…" he muttered. "I did it to-"

"Protect us." I ended for him, and once again gaped at me… He never changes. Hiding my suppressed giggles I continued "We've been fools. We knew that this business is about what you did and we were clouded by the fact that you just broke a promise that was really meant to broken because you know it… And we even had children to slap the truth to us… Pathetic adults aren't we?" I sighed.

"Here's your order." The waitress earlier placed my order, and I thanked her for it. I began preparing my coffee, putting the salt in my coffee.

"I regretted in betraying you, being a fool and all. And I'm perfectly sure that everyone else is too." I smiled

"Y-you're not mad at me?" Tsuna stuttered.

"Not until Fuuta and I-pin called us brainless idiots." I, again, sighed. I sipped at my salty coffee. "Ahh, bliss."

"You're drinking that?" Tsuna said in horror.

"I just did, didn't I?" I smirked. "Besides I have to thank you in giving me this. Best coffee ever." I smiled genuinely. "And probably the others want to taste your own version of coffee." Tsuna chuckled a bit, I looked through him and I did a mental tap dance. It was genuine!

"They wouldn't." he smiled.

"Oh I'm sure they would. Gokudera-kun would be gladly taking hundreds of it."

"But I'm su-"he stopped as he saw where my finger was pointing to. A note was placed above Gokudera-kun's head 'I'd be glad to!' it said. Tsuna gaped at it in horror, soon shaking and burst into fits of laughter. Laughter of an angel.

"We better get going, the others are begging for us to leave." I said, sending a small message to the Shimon Decimo, and stood up.

"B-but what if..." he trailed off.

"Oh come on." I sighed and grabbed his hand, dragging him outside the shop. Soon, Boss was between in the center of hug of his guardians, which excludes Mukuro-nii and Kyoya for they stood beside me. Then I felt a sudden weight on my shoulder, only to find Reborn-san looking at his student with sorry and fond eyes.

"Chrome, Hibari." He called

"Hai?" he responded with a whisper.

"Namimori High. 2-B. Tomorrow. Tsuna." He said, at first I didn't know what he meant but soon beamed up to him. I turned around and interlaced my fingers through a skylark's fingers; I looked at him and nodded. Before we set off without anyone noticing (except Mukuro-nii of course) Reborn-san jumped off my shoulder only to land his foot on his 'precious' student.

I gathered mist flames around us and hid ourselves as we walked away from them. Taking another glance I can Boss glaring at Reborn, I chuckled at the sight and grip Kyoya's hand tight.

"What do you think Kyoya?" I asked.

"Tomorrow will be a very noisy day." He grunted, to the others it may looked like he's displeased about it but if you only looked closer you could see small tugs on his lips. Only Boss and I were the only ones who can see through his façade.

"You think so? I think you can bite more tomorrow." I smirked at him and he smirked back at me.

"Hn."

Tomorrow's gonna be a great day.