KHR: Oneshots

Bloody Mist

It was very late one night, or early one morning depending how you would look at it, when Tsuna received a phone call from Chrome. The brunette teenager grumbled softly her face buried in her pillow even while one hand fumbled along the dresser for her noisy phone.

Finally grabbing the noisy contraption Tsuna peeked out from her pillow at the bright blaring screen grumpily, though that disappeared moments later when she saw the name on the screen. Chrome never called her unless it was something serious, the shy Mist would always make sure she was calling only at times when it wouldn't put Tsuna out, much too polite to call at 3am unless something was very wrong.

"Chrome?" Tsuna asked hitting answer while she sat up, all traces of sleep chased away by worry, worry that increased the second she heard a sob over the phone line. "Chrome, what's wrong?" Tsuna was already up and throwing on some clothes. Completely ready to go storming into Kokuyo Land and kick the ass of whoever had made her friend cry.

"M-Mukurou-sama." Chrome sobbed in a broken tone. "Something is wrong with Mukurou-sama... boss, please, I need help." Tsuna all but leapt down the stairs ignoring the questioning gaze of her nine year old hitman tutor and pulled her shoes on, slipping on her mittens and popping a dying will mode pill into her mouth.

"I'll be there in a moment." Snapping the phone closed so she could stash it in her pocket Tsuna stepped out the front door and lit up her flames. The fastest way to get to Kokuyo Land was by air afterall. Not even noticing when a child sized hitman jumped up onto her back Tsuna flew off towards the abandoned amusement park. Something was wrong with her Mists, and Tsuna was not going to rest until it was fixed.

"Tsuna, what is this all about?" Reborn called down to her while they blasted through the air heading towards Kokuyo, Reborn knew it had something to do with Chrome but so far, his student hadn't shared anything much.

"Chrome said something is wrong with Mukurou." Reborn frowned darkly, he was still a little wary about the illusionist, since he had been freed from Vendicare. The Vongola HQ and Nono had sent orders for him not to interfere however, to keep an asset like Mukurou on their side they were willing to hand over to the madman even their heir.

"What's wrong with him." Tsuna didn't reply, she had no idea what was wrong with Mukurou, but whatever it was she was going to do everything she could to fix it. Mukurou was not like everyone thought he was, Tsuna could see through his masks, he couldn't lie to her after all, not with her intuition.

Mukurou put on a facade of laughter and perversion, more than once making many comments towards her that almost had Gokudera Hayato trying to start a fight with the illusionist. Mukurou however was not as scary as they thought. He hid behind masks because it was the only way for him to forget his bloodied past.

Mukurou had done terrible things in his past, there was no denying that, they all know about it. What no one every seemed to think of was that those terrible things weighed heavily on the teenagers mind. Mukurou had learnt about kindness and caring, and those had opened up the doors to guilt. Mukurou had to live with what he had done in his past. The teenager preferred to try hide from it and pretend he was happy and just cause trouble around himself to draw away from the real problem.

Tsuna had a sneaking suspicion that the guilt was finally coming to the surface again, it hadn't happened in a long time. Not since he had first been released from Vendicare five years ago when they had been fourteen. Then again when they were seventeen and Ken had died from long lasting complications left in his system by the Estraneo famiglia, Chikusa disappearing only a day later.

No matter how long you avoid however, it won't go away unless you face it, and Mukurou was finding that out first hand.

Tsuna landed and hurried inside, Chrome was hovering near the broken doors waiting for her, as soon as Tsuna's feet hit the ground Chrome lunged to her and grabbed her bosses hand and began pulling her inside.