Vongola Family Secret Files

Chasing Heartbeat (6927)

Mukuro, calls himself perfect and all, but lacks one thing. That is his heart, his soul, and his sanity.

His heart, oh geez not literally, was taken brutally, stomped repeatedly, and was crushed to pieces by every single person he'd met at the Estraneo Famiglia that promised they would never ever left him alone, but no one kept their that promise.

No one.

"Now, don't cry little one. I would definitely survive this one." An old man once told him, smiles and patted him at his head. That old man was the first person that ever treated him good, that's why he is very hopeful that the old man would keep his promise.

But he never did.

He merely end up like the others.

That's why Mukuro decided that he would never, ever give his heart to anyone again. His heart is his, and only his. That's a promise.

=•=

Tsunayoshi Sawada is an amusing one, Mukuro mused to himself. The teen has that determination and innocence in his eyes that made the illusionist thought that no one should have that look in their eyes. Only the brunet.

And gods, that wear-my-heart-in-my-sleeve way...

Mukuro didn't want to protect the brunet. No, he only wants to protect his future vessel. Right? So after the battle, Mukuro vowed to himself that he will be after the brunet just to protect his future body.

=•=

"Hey Mukuro, I was thinking..."

"So you are thinking?"

"...forget it." Mukuro snapped from his amusement when Tsuna starts to walk away with an irritated look. "Hey, Tsunayoshi-kun! I'm just joking, geez..." He playfully caught the brunet's arm and held it, a little not too tight. "You can ask me anything."

"Forget it!" Tsuna yelled a little too loudly, face reddening as the brunet look at anywhere but him, fidgeting under his eyes. "I'm just going to ask Chrome or—"

"You went at me first, Tsu-na-yo-shi-kun." Mukuro sang, wrapping his arm around the brunet's shoulder whose face reddened even more. "Now, are you going to ask if possessing you hurts—"

"Do you ever fall in love before?" Both of them fall in another silence. Then Tsuna squeaked and scurried away when he felt the illusionist's shock. "I-i mean, do you ever experience love before?" Seeing the man's still gaping look, Tsuna turned tails and ran out of the building where the illusionist and his goons are loitering around with a "Igottagonow
Mukuro!JustforgetaboutwhatIask
Thankyouverymuch!"

Mukuro didn't even manage to react when Tsuna almost ram through the door, opening it with a slam and surprising Ken whom was about to enter the door before running away like his pants are in his flame. Ken turned to him with a surprised sound at the back of his throat. "Did you do anything to him, Mukuro-sama?"

Mukuro smiles and shook his head amusedly, watching the brunet running out of the place in full speed. "Tsunayoshi merely caught me off-guard that's all."

=•=

The next time the question resurfaced, it was after the battle of the Rainbow, when Mukuro was still relishing the fact that he has his own body now, while the brunet is having a break from all the craziness that happened to his life.

They met accidentally, and after a bribe of chocolate-vanilla sundae, Mukuro managed to took the brunet with him for a walk.

"Do you ever fall in love with someone else, Mukuro?" Tsuna blurted out of nowhere, his attention still focused on his sundae while the illusionist choked under his spit. "Eh? That question again..?" Mukuro grinned lecherously and leered at the brunet. "You keep asking me that question again and again, Tsunayoshi. Are you falling in love with me?" Amused at the red face he'd gotten, Mukuro immediately added. "But that would be insane, because even if I'm no longer saying the gayish possessing phrase, I'm still a straight man."