Title: Repeat (The Final Story)

Summary: Tsuna runs and they chase.

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Skull takes it as a warning and leaps off the couch, snagging Tsuna's hand as he goes. They both cackle as Reborn chases them out of the room and down the hall. They take the turn almost too quickly and shriek as Reborn's fingers brush the back of their clothes.

Fon and Kyouya step out of a room ahead and blink at the chase scene, unsure if they should back away into the room again.

"Kyouya, Fon, save us!" Tsuna cries jokingly.

The two relatives share a glance and then plant their feet as they smirk, both of them managing to span the entire hallway and blocking off escape.

Skull, hand still gripping Tsuna's, scrapes his nails up the palm. Tsuna grips harder as the message is received. Just before they slam into the Cloud and Storm, they part. Skull drops down and skids between Fon's legs like a baseball pro, while Tsuna flips over Kyouya's head.

And they're gone.

Reborn blows past the two stunned men but soon they're following as well, all five vaulting over the staircase to drop to the floor of the front parlour. Tsuna almost lands on poor Enma who startles badly at raining men. The Earth flame user gets grabbed and pulled behind the Decimo with Skull sprinting along beside them.

"Tell my Guardians I love them!" Enma cries to a passing Vongola member, a final message before he dies a tragic death.

"It'll be fine," Tsuna scoffs, clearly delusional. "We'll lose them in the garden."

"Oh, not the garden again," Skull whines. A quick look behind him. "Never mind! I love the garden!"

"Why has Xanxus joined in?!" Enma blurts out, picking up the pace after he sees what made Skull panic.

"I think it's just instinct," Tsuna muses. "Him and Kyouya tend to chase when they see people run."

The three reach the hedge maze and get three steps inside before splitting up at the first intersection, Enma and Skull running off in different directions because no matter how much they love Tsuna, they are not getting in the way.

Skull honestly thinks he's lost them, right up until a bullet whizzes through the hedges and skims his ear. A squeak escapes him and he ducks belatedly.

"Try not to kill anyone," Fon berates lightly, his faint voice slipping through the hedges.

A few more turns and Skull encounters Verde messing with the vines hidden inside the leaves, a strange scanner thing in the scientist's hands that seems to be beeping in a disturbingly quick fashion.

Skull zooms past and snags Verde's arm, hoping to use him as a distraction. He's rather shocked that both of the Arcobaleno have chosen the wrong path, but whatever, he's not getting beaten up.

"Skull," Verde snaps, almost dropping the scanner as he's pulled along. "I was busy." He grips the stuntman's wrist and yanks backwards, forcing both of them to a stop. "What have I said about interrupting my work-"

Fon and Reborn whip around the corner.

Verde chooses the safest option and starts running again. "Why did you piss them off?" he hisses at Skull. "How did you make Fon angry?"

"I don't know why they're chasing me!" Skull cries and then makes his voice louder so the other two can hear. "Why are you chasing me? Tsuna went left!"

Enma faintly hears Skull sell out Tsuna and wonders why he hasn't done the same, especially considering Xanxus is tearing through the maze after him, and Enma just found a dead end.

Wait. Enma controls gravity.

Earth flame flares to life on his forehead he takes a huge leap over the hedge, unwilling to fly straight up in case Xanxus decides to shoot Enma out of the sky. Unfortunately, Enma doesn't see Tsuna and lands right before the Decimo slams into him.

Enma groans, the air pushed out of him from Tsuna landing on the Simon. Tsuna huffs out a laugh, half muffled in Enma's shirt, and pushes himself up.

Chrome, having been yanked into Tsuna's sprinting, skids to a stop on the rocks just in time to avoid collision but Kyouya (and Byakuran, who though it was a game and joined in) keep charging.

Chrome sniffles and hiccups, wiping away a tear. Byakuran quickly backpedals, nope-ing out of there. Kyouya looks indecisive for a brief second but vaults over a nearby hedge and disappears.

She stops.

"I think you're faking," Tsuna begins. "But my hyper intuition is dead silent right now."

Chrome giggles and plants a kiss on his cheek. He flushes and smiles back. Enma rolls his eyes.

The traitor then ushers Chrome back into a run, leaving a breathless Enma splayed on the ground. The Simon almost thinks it's done and he can finally eat lunch.

Heavy black boots thump onto the rocks beside Enma's head and he blinks up at the man blocking the sunlight from reaching Enma's eyes. Xanxus glares down, his scars vibrant against his tan skin.

Byakuran grumbles half-heartedly and kicks at the rocks. A cry of pain comes from around the corner and the hedges rustle loudly. Byakuran rolls his eyes and continues, eventually coming across Dino half swallowed by the leaves.

The mafia boss flails uselessly and Byakuran wonders if he should just find one of the suited men that follow Dino around like particularly muscled mother-hens. Dino slumps into the hedge, looking pathetic and hopeless.

Byakuran sighs and steps closer, planning to grab the back of the man's jacket and pull him out. He really was not expecting the man to start failing again and backhand him across the face.

Byakuran stumbles, his hand automatically coming up to cover the injured cheek. Dino finally pops out of the hedge, his struggling freeing him, and turns to find Byakuran staring with wide eyes.

"I am so sorry," Dino rushes out. "I didn't know you were there."

Byakuran slowly drops his hand and Dino winces at the almost perfect red imprint of the Chiavarone crest. Dino's luck is so bad that his family ring is the one that hit Byakuran.

"You wouldn't kill the Chiavarone boss, would you?" Dino stutters as Byakuran advances.

"I'm curious to see if cleansing the world is any easier the second time around."

Tsuna feels content, knowing that he saved Enma since the other man isn't involved in the great chase anymore. Chrome giggles breathlessly beside him and the two take a right turn at the intersection.

Takeshi and Hayato glance over when they hear the rocks crunch against each other and start jogging towards Tsuna.

"Tsuna!" Takeshi cries happily, waving. "Wow, Hayato's Juudaime radar worked."

"Oh, Tsu~na~yo~shi!" Mukuro calls in a sing-song voice, calmly striding down the path from where Takeshi and Hayato came from, clearly having stalked the two so they would lead him to Tsuna.

"Go," Chrome says. "I'll hold them off." She then bursts into tears, dropping to sit on the rocks as she buries her head in her hands.

Takeshi turns tail and runs, seconded by Hayato who breaks so hard he skids on the rocks, half falling before he plants a hand on the ground and scrambles to his feet.

Mukuro, on the other hand, simply speeds up into a run. "Not this time, Chrome," he laughs and leaps over the wailing woman.

Tsuna escapes while Chrome creates a diversion, and soon reaches the middle, panting but victorious. He doesn't see the wave of opaque indigo flame that washes over him from behind and engulfs him entirely.

When it disappears, Tsuna is backed against the wall of a small, private garage deep inside the crop of trees on the far side of the Vongola property. Mukuro stands only a few centimetres from him, staring into Tsuna's eyes.

Tsuna smiles and reaches up to cup Mukuro's face in his hand. "I know you don't think so, but both of your eyes are beautiful."

"You think the symbol of all my suffering is beautiful?" Mukuro replies scathingly, his mood taking a downturn due to the topic. "The only reason I haven't ripped it out is because it makes me stronger. It's a necessary evil, Sawada Tsunayoshi, much like Soul Marks."

"It's beautiful because it's yours," Tsuna corrects. "It's a symbol of how strong you are to get through everything that's happened."

"How… disgustingly naïve you are," Mukuro murmurs softly.

His eyes slide closed and when he opens them they stand in a field of flowers, tall enough to reach their hips with vibrant colours spanning the entire colour spectrum. A duo of butterflies twirl past, spinning around each other in flight before taking off into the field that stretches forever.

"Beautiful," Tsuna whispers, but he's not looking at the flowers.

"Tsuna?" A soft voice calls. "Are you there? I just saw you."

"Kyoko!" Tsuna calls out, bright and happy as he turns to where her voice came from.

Mukuro steps back as he lets the woman enter the illusion. He knows when he's not wanted.

Tsuna and Kyoko hug tightly and pull back to smile shyly at each other.

It's sickening to watch. Mukuro rips the illusion away from himself and reappears on plain grass near a small garage. He keeps it around the two others, blocking them from view in a dense mist bubble that blurs and smooths into the surroundings, completely erasing their presence.

It was never going to be easy or end up resolved in a few days, Mukuro knows that. It's an impossible thing to expect with this many people, equally as stubborn and about as co-operative as a brick wall.

Then there's Kyoko, who is always going to have Tsuna's attention. It would be so easy to hate her, but she honestly loves Tsuna, and Tsuna is just so happy with her. They fit well together, all soft edges and sweet words.

Mukuro takes a deep breath and straightens his back.

"And that's why you're an herbivore."

Mukuro whirls around and spots Kyouya perched on a branch overhead, stretched out on the tree limb without a care in the world. "Not now, Skylark," Mukuro dismisses. "I have better things to do than entertain you."

"No you don't," Kyouya denies, glancing over at the spot where Tsuna should be with an unreadable expression on his face.

"I'll have to try harder next time to keep his attention," Mukuro muses lightly, a fake smile coming quickly with the ease of experience.

"Fight me," Kyouya suddenly dares Mukuro.

The Mist turns to the waiting Skylark and there's a genuine smile on Mukuro's face. Bloodthirsty, but still real.

Tsuna deliberately ignores the faint sound of his hyper intuition pointing out a very large and very destructive fight happening only meters away.

"We'll figure this out together," Kyoko says with a soft smile.

Tsuna can't stop the grin from emerging. He highly doubts anyone will protest if he says he wants all the options.

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A/N:

That was the end! Hope you enjoyed!

Although I could have spread it out more I kind of wanted it to end like this, still confusing and open to interpretation. I also didn't want everyone crowding around and proclaiming their love, all cutesy and disgusting, because that would have been too OOC.

Anyway, thank you for reading this and reviewing and everything else!