Second Life

Mist and Cloud

Tsuna blinked twice, sight finally sharpen after the second. He pushed himself up and looked at the surrounding, finally noticing the arcobaleno that was standing beside him. "You're finally awake" He asked the hitman where they were, voice slurring a little in which Reborn told him that they were in the combat field for the Mist Battle, their school's gymnasium.

"Juudaime! How are you feeling?!" Gokudera suddenly popped out, making him jump a little. Ryohei, Yamamoto and Basil was present too. The baseball star had an eyepatch on one of his eyes and was fine and dandy, fortunately. Tsuna felt relieved when his friend was alright.

"Worry about yourself before others. Everyone were worried because you had been asleep this whole time." Reborn said.

Tsuna was confused. He didn't know he was asleep the whole time, and he had a fleeting feeling that he had met someone before he blacked out. Really, how do you erase a memory of what happened in a day just by sleeping? "By the way, Juudaime, the Mist guy hasn't shown himself yet." Gokudera said, much to Tsuna's horror. The others started doubting that the Mist guardian existence. It was quite bad too, since the Varia had arrived.

Tsuna finally looked up, and saw the Cervello, an infant and the Varia. The memories before he blacked out finally came back to him, but it was hazy. Though, his thought was broken when a voice called out. "Sorry for being late. Was doing something" Everyone looked towards the entrance of the gymnasium, and saw Ryuuichi.

"Eh?! Ryuuichi's the Mist Guardian?" Tsuna exclaimed. Ryuuichi blinked and halt his steps towards them before chuckling. "No no. I'm not. Your guardian is that one" He pointed behind him and two teens in Kokuyo Middle's uniform appeared. Everyone tensed up as Gokudera took out his dynamites. (Ryuuichi laughed at their faces)

"Calm down, you guys. they brought the Guardian of Mist" Reborn interrupted, promptly stopped a war from happening. Realization hit them. "T-then could the Guardian of Mist be..." Gokudera stuttered a little. Yamamoto added his own thought "Yeah, if they're bringing him... Could it be?"

"I can't believe it. Is the Mist Guardian.. R-rokudo Mukuro?!" Ryuuichi chuckled again, making them more puzzled than they already were. "Well, let's just say, you guys are half correct." He peered behind him as a teen shorter than Ken and Chikusa with the same hairstyle with Mukuro appeared. "Nay"

A girl in Kokuyo Middle's uniform and with an skull-imaged eyepatch was holding a familiar trident. "My name is Chrome. Chrome Dokuro" She had a splitting image with Mukuro if not for a few differences. They could pass off as a twins if they want to. Gokudera was stubborn on the fact that Chrome was Mukuro because of their similarity, making Ryuuichi sigh.

The bomber had thought that Mukuro was possessing the girl, which wasn't exactly true. The girl looked dishearten when Gokudera didn't believe her and stated out his reasons, until Tsuna interrupted him. "Not Rokudo Mukuro" The brunette must have felt that the presence of Mukuro wasn't on her. Ryuuichi smiled at that.

'Your hyper intuition really helps, Tsuna'

"You defended me? Thank you, Boss" Chrome said as she ran up towards Tsuna, looking a little bashful. (She looked more like emotionless, rather than bashful) She leaned in and gave the brunette a kiss on the cheek, making Tsuna blushes, much to Ken and Gokudera's chagrin, while Yamamoto, Ryohei and Basil sweated. Ryuuichi laughed out loudly at the red brunette. The girl must have been accustomed to foreign greetings, rather than the usual Japanese one.

He looked towards the Varia with a smirk that he couldn't stop but had it on. They were clearly underestimating Chrome, seeing that she was a girl. Well, it's their lost anyway.

Xanxus had his usual poker face on. He narrowed his eyes a little at the smirking teen. There was something about the teen that he couldn't pin point what ever since they first met. He not only wasn't afraid of his flame, but he had actually whistled in amazement with a grin. He wasn't faze when their gaze met just now too and if not, the teen's smirk had gotten larger.