The white light hit his face first, blurring his vision and making him dizzy for a good few seconds.
"Are you awake? How are you feeling?" A voice suddenly said.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Tsuna replied. His throat was dry and his tongue felt thick and heavy. 'Wow my mouth feels like sandpaper.' He thought. As if reading his mind, a glass of water was abruptly thrust into his face and he accepted it gratefully. He quickly emptied the contents into his mouth.
"Thanks," he said to the white-haired boy. "Who are you?" The boy stared at him. Did he look like an alien?
A pregnant pause hung in the air. "What do you mean who am I?" he finally said. This was absurd. He'd already introduced himself the very day this brunet regained consciousness and he doubted he was old enough to forget someone who'd just introduced himself the other day.
It hadn't been very long since he had introduced himself and the boy himself had already called him by his name several times to make sure he didn't forget. 'Maybe his memories were erased just like that purple-haired girl?'
"My name is Byakuran."
If there was only one thing he hated most about this famiglia, it would be that they used live children as guinea pigs for their experiments. Otherwise, he would not even bother trying to hide. The people were nice enough when they weren't trying to turn them into mutants.
Which was quite impossible now, truth to be told. Just two months ago, everything had been PERFECTLY FINE. Everyone took care of one another with no complaints. But the boss had gotten into an accident transpiring between two rival famiglias, one of which was an ally of Italy's strongest mafia family, the Vongola.
In a tragic turn of events, the boss of Estraneo had gotten shot by the family allied with the Vongola as war finally broke out between the two. The boss's most trusted subordinate took control of the family immediately after the passing and funeral.
That was when the whole of Estraneo changed.
The newly self-appointed boss had become obsessed with revenge and vowed to eradicate both Famiglias no matter the cost. The Estraneo famiglia didn't have a lot of fighters, so angry as he was, he couldn't let the entire famiglia run loose. They would fall to the combined strength of the two families.
The Estraneo famiglia was particularly gifted in the field of science.
They were scientists, inventors, chemists, researchers, biologists, you name it. And the boss knew with these kinds of people, they could create large advancements in technology capable of bringing down the people he loathed. Then he realized if he combined these with dying will flames, they could become unstoppable.
"Do you really need to have a flashback?" A monotonous voice complained. "They're going to find us."
"Sorry," said the boy with dirty blond hair.
"If we get caught, I'm offering you to the wolves." Chikusa said, hands still gripping tightly on his friend's shirt. Ken groaned.
"Ugh alright, I'm sorry already, so you lead the way." As he said this, Chikusa's eyes lit up although his expression betrayed no feelings whatsoever; he simply kept his pokerface intact.
It was funny how nobody knew why these two became best friends. Ken was outgoing, rude, VERY loud, loved snacking and hated baths. Chikusa on the other hand was quiet and preferred to observe. And loved to shower. So how they could even stand each other was something no one understood. Maybe opposites really did attract like people love to say.(You know...not in that way...)
The two boys crept along the corridor, keeping to the shadows as much as possible. Chikusa stopped in front of a door and pressed his ear against it before reaching for the knob and twisting it open. Both boys tumbled in and collapsed onto the floor... only to stare into a pair, er, a single blue eye and a single red eye on one face. Before either could scream at this oddity however, they had managed to cover each other's mouth with their own hand.
The boy stared at them, eyes glinting with amusement. "I was expecting someone bigger, you know, with knives or scalpels." What he received from the two new people who had just crashed into his 'room' was one, a look of alarm, and the other, a bare twitch. "Kufufu, I'm just kidding." laughed the strange boy with heterochromia eyes. If his eyes alone didn't make him seem enough of a danger, the two friends (Or Ken at least) would have commented about the lame joke. But the joke itself wasn't even a joke, it was a truth.
Ken frowned. "What-?" he began to say, confused, but the strange boy cut him off. "I assume you two are running away?" He said. Beside him, Kakipi just nodded. "Yeah, we are. Do you think you can hide us?" Another amused look was the answer he received.
"Does it look like we are even able to hide ourselves?" Just as he finished asking this, another girl appeared from behind the shadows and ambled over to the group. One purple eye peeked out from behind a curtain of violet hair. The other was covered by bangs parted to one side.
"Mukuro-nii?" said the girl. "Who are they?"
"I have no idea." Replied the boy dubbed as Mukuro by the girl. "They probably just happened to stumble in, kufufu." The two friends had nothing to say to this so they didn't do anything as the odd boy gave them both a once-over.
"Well?" said 'Mukuro' finally. "Are you going to introduce yourselves or not? You can't just go around barging into people's rooms and suddenly ask them to hide you with no explanations."
Ken was the first to stand up, dusting himself off before yanking up the glasses-boy so that they were both standing. "I'm Ken! Joshima Ken! But just call me Ken!" The girl decided there were way too many 'Ken's' in that single introduction. "This over here is Kakipi," he said while gesturing to his glasses-wearing friend and was promptly whacked over the head.
"Excuse his rudeness and idiocy. My name is Kakimoto Chikusa. You can just call me Chikusa." Again, the boy chuckled.
"What a lively pair we have here, no?" Said 'Mukuro.' "I'm Rokudo Mukuro and this is my sister, Nagi. Such a pleasure to meet you both, Ken, Chikusa. I hope we'll all get along."
AN: Short chapter is short yeah. Sorry for not updating.. long story. School, finals, projects, career trips, practice, sick, no internet and then more sick. But yeah I managed to squeeze out this tiny chapter.
Anyways yeah, Chrome and Mukuro are siblings so Chrome will NOT be calling Mukuro as "Mukuro-sama" and she herself will be known as "Nagi" ok? Ok.
Erm, tell me what you thought? Or did everyone leave already? ;o