3rd Year. After that summer camp, everything changed around him. With him finally dropping his Dame-act, people finally see him as the kind sky he is.
Different, His guardians aren't the only one that'll come to his aid now. Even so, that brunet nev...
Grunting weakly, That boy slowly opening his eyes. Half lidded and sightings couldn't get any further than bunch of blurs, the first thing he noticed is the numbness and lack of sense towards his body.
Fever, he remembered to have one. But he was sure that the sting on his arms aren't from muscle pain, the location doesn't adds up.
Trying to blink the fogginess away, it took him a full minute to see that in fact he's in some sort of lab. Not hospital though. Guess that explain the distinct of the smell.
'Where am I...?' He pondered, not familiar with the place at all.
"Oh goodie~ you're awake!" someone in a jacket lab entered his view. A chackle he let out, the sound is unnerving to the weakened sky, and it says something since he knows of a certain pineapple head.
"two days knocked out cold, at least your fever has cracked" The man said.
He was being treated by a stranger?
"Thank yo—"
"Darling~ I won't be thanking me if I were you~" a shark like grin and only then Tsuna took notice of his blaring intuition. Sighing internally he had thought that it was just another headaches.
'Shouldn't be that shocked. Of all Scenario...' he thought bitterly.
"Can I at least have a name...?" the man actually laughed.
"Of all things, that is your dying wish?"
Tsuna's expression is indifferent.
"Heh~ guess the rumors are right about you. An oddball indeed" The purple haired man grinned.
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"Dr. Mauve is the name you can go with, brat. And I'm here to be your playmate for the counting days of your doom~" He said in a sing song tune that's eerily similar to a certain Mare ring user.
"You're not going to kill me...?" He asked, oddly enough he felt dread than relief.
"Of course not~ we can't have a dead battery, now can we?" He booped the younger's nose.
well shit.
Tsuna is more than ready to passed out again.
"You're lucky that I'm in charge of you, though~" the man said again. Somehow it perked the brunet's attention. "I'm a merciful guy at heart" He said in mockery, "I'll make this as painless as I could, so don't give up okay? Think of your family in the meanwhile"
a howl of laughter.
The don in training knows for a fact that the guy has no sincerity in his words whatsoever. Then why?
What did he mean by tha—
Oh.
Right.
Human battery. He is being used for his flames. And if he's giving up, then there will be no flames. And no flames equal useless body. Useless body means instant death.
Fuck.
Honestly, there's so much he could take. He internally sighed.
Then again, his intuition did pick up something in the man's tone when he implied that he's not going to be killed and that it will be a painless journey. Having no other choice, he decided to take accountably on that.
He's not giving up, He cant give up or it'll be a death stake for sure.
And he does have high hope that his dear family will come to his aid. So at the very least he need to behave and calm down for now.
Wrecking his brain, he wanted to try something.
"Mauve-sensei..." He called out, ignoring the fact that the said man is injecting more weird liquids into him.
"Thanks for taking care of me..." he smiled warmly before then slipping off consciousness.
Let's see if this plan of his could work.
.oOo.
A whole week later, with the same bleary eyes, Tsuna glanced to the side, a tired smile plastering his face as he saw the purple haired man.
"...hi, Mauve-sensei..." he greeted weakly.
a chortle, he's starting to become accustomized with it.
"Still treating me as one of your alley, heh? You really are something, brat~"
Well, the man has been keeping his promise, so...
Tsuna shrugged a bit.
"Very well then, guess I'm going to humor you" The man gave him his sharp grin as he took out another syringe, he asked, "How was your day, brat~?"
"Not in pain at least, thanks to you" The young don in training chuckled softly.
A smirk plastering his face, "Of course~ I took pride on my work. Besides~ on the contrary of people belief, a healthy subject is better than a trashy one."
"I'm not exactly healthy though?" The brunet retorted in slight amusement of his own.
"Should be thankful that your fever is gone at all, brat. I'm sure not even Trident-Shamal can fix that better than me~" Tsuna actually have a thought over that statement.
"Ne, Mauve-sensei?"
The man hummed, not putting that much care as he fiddled with the blood he just draw from the boy.
"If I manage to survive this and somehow get out, do you mind if I take you along?"
The man actually halted at that before then letting out the loudest laughter he ever had. The question, afterall, is simply ridiculous.
"You do realized that you're asking your captor, right?"
Again, Tsuna shrugs. "I get the vibe that you don't really care on who you're working for, as long you get to do your things." The man actually reminded him of a certain Lightning Arcobaleno himself.
"—And I can't help but agree about your statement regarding Shamal. I could somewhat see you two bicker already" It amuses the man to no end. The teen is indeed an oddball.
"If is the keyword, brat" He cheekily replied.
"Actually" The teen hummed, "when is the right word"
There's a twinkle in the younger eyes, and the doctor just simply lost it. Even in this situation the boy still have the gall to be this confident.
Then again, There's no reason for Tsuna not to. He doesn't mind to wait, the man before him has been a blessing in disguise despite his situation. If it were anyone else, he was sure that he won't lasted long. Not with the condition he was in before.
And apparently his tactic has been working well it seemed, the purple haired man is slowly putting his guard down without himself fully aware.
Good.
Now, the only thing that he must think of is a way to persuade his family not to kill the mad scientist.
He couldn't really think for long though, for the said man has sedated him once again.
