My first KHR story ^^. I'm not all that confident in it, but I went ahead and published it.

Enjoy! You too, wifeband.

Warning: Mukuro my sound a bit OOC. It's just the way it came out. This is actually a composition I made for my English class.

It all started when he was 10 years old.

Mukuro would always sneak out of the house at night and go to the park. He never did realize that his brother would follow him.

One night, when Mukuro was on his way to the park, he heard a car crash. It was one of the nights where his brother didn't hear him sneaking out. Running towards where the sound came from, Mukuro found a little girl lying on the street in a pool of her own blood. The boy ran towards the little girl, who looked to be about 8 years old, and gently rolled her on her back.

"Hey," he called gently, trying to wake her up. Her breathing was ragged and she was loosing a lot of blood. "Can you her me?" He asked loudly.

When the little girl didn't answer, Mukuro panicked. Without thinking he quickly, but gently sat up the girl and put her on his back. The car that hit her wasn't there and he felt a pang of pure hatred rise within him. Who would dare hit an innocent girl and then leave her to die on the street?

Mukuro ran towards the hospital, screaming for help when he got there. Immediately, a group of doctors and nurses surrounded him, taking the girl from his back and quickly sending her to surgery. When asked what was his relationship with the girl, Mukuro said he was her brother. They looked alike so the nurses believed him and asked him if he could call parents.

"I don't have parents, I live with my big brother." Mukuro told the nurse who was questioning him.

"Could you call him?" The nurse had asked. Mukuro nodded, took the nurse's phone and called his brother.

"Mukuro, what happened?" Daemon said as soon as he saw his little brother covered in blood.

Mukuro explained what happened, telling him that he said the girl he found was his little sister in the mean time. Daemon listened, feeling the same pang of anger Mukuro felt when he heard that the driver had left the scene. When Mukuro finished the story, Daemon stood up.

"Where are you going?" Mukuro asked.

"I'm going to call some people. We need to find the girl's back story and her real family." Mukuro nodded.

After two hours, Daemon came back, a file in his hands.

"I found her file. Apparently, her mother doesn't care what happens to the girl and her father died 3 years ago. She has no living family." Daemon finished.

"What's going to happen to her?" Mukuro asked his brother. "Can't she stay with us?"

Daemon thought about it. He was old enough to take in the girl and he had Elena to help him with her. Mukuro seemed to like her or the boy would have never helped her in the first place. What about Giotto's mother? Could she take custody of the girl, but let her live with him? Would Giotto be okay with bringing another child to their dangerous job?

"Daemon?" Mukuro called.

"I'm trying to figure it out, Mukuro." Daemon said distractedly.

"Daemon," A voice called. Daemon turned to see Giotto. "What are you doing here?"

"I should be the one asking that, my friend." Daemon said with a laugh.

"Tsuna has a fever so I told Mom I'd bring him to the hospital. Now," Giotto looked at Mukuro, "what happened?"

Mukuro told him everything, from the very beginning to when he asked Daemon if he could adopt the girl.

"Daemon?" Giotto turned to his friend who had a deep, thoughtful look on his. "I could ask Mom if she can adopt her, she did adopt Lambo until Lampo turns eighteen. I'm sure she'll have no problem taking the girl in and letting you guys take care of her."

"Are you sure?" Daemon asked.

"It'll be dangerous, yes. But I have faith that you will protect her." Giotto looked at Mukuro. "And Mukuro will protect her too. Just like how he protects Tsuna." Mukuro gave him a big smile.

"Then it's decided. Though we need the adoption papers and to change her name. It'll be better for her to have to connections to her real family." Giotto nodded.

"I'll call Alaude and ask him for some documents until he can go and take the signature where the girl's mother gives Mom full responsibility of the girl's well being." Daemon nodded gratefully. "Any idea of what name she will have? Better to change it than leave her original and risk our enemies finding out about her real family."

"Chrome." Mukuro whispered. Giotto and Daemon turned towards the little boy. "Her name will be Chrome."

"Why Chrome?" Daemon asked his little brother.

"I don't know, but something tells me that that has to be her name." Mukuro said, determination radiating off of him.

"Okay then, Chrome it is. Speaking of Chrome…" Giotto turned his head towards the doctor that had come out of the surgery room.

"How is she, doctor?" Daemon asked.

The doctor smiled. "She'll be okay. Had the little guy been a minute late, it would have been too late for most of her organs." The doctor turned to Mukuro, giving the boy a pat in the head. "You did a great job coming here." Mukuro smiled proudly at the praise. "Would you like to see your little sister?" Mukuro nodded.

"We'll stay outside." Daemon told the doctor. "I'm sure he wants to be alone with his little sister." The doctor nodded and steered Mukuro to Chrome's room.

"She's sleeping right now, but will wake up in a couple hours. Do you want the nurse to bring you a pillow and a blanket?" Mukuro nodded, thanking the doctor before he sat on the sofa, watching the girl he had saved.

'You'll be just okay' Mukuro thought. 'I'll always protect you.'

Seven years have passed since that faithful night. Mukuro, now 17 years old, has become overprotective of the girl he had slowly started to fall in love with. Chrome, now 15 years old, was very shy and unaware of her adoptive brother's feeling towards her. Mukuro was glad she didn't know how of his feelings towards her. It was enough that their group of friends had realized. Even his brother realized!

"It's not as if you make it a point to hide it." His brother said, laughing creepily when Mukuro glared at him.

"Don't tell her." Mukuro hissed.

"She'll find out eventually. You keep beating up every boy that so much as glances at her." Elena told him gently. Mukuro blushed and looked away. "Why don't you just tell her? She knows the truth about everything after all."

"What if she doesn't feel the same way?" Mukuro asked his brother's girlfriend.

Blue eyes shinnied with a knowledge neither of the men in the room was aware of. "Trust me, just tell her how you feel." Mukuro was doubtful, but he listened to Elena.

Mukuro went to Chrome's room, knocking in that special rhythm he and Chrome had to signify it was him. The door opened, an invitation to come in.

Mukuro stepped inside, looking around the room while Chrome closed the door. He saw a bunch of text books on her desk and went to check out what the text books were about.

"Homework?" Mukuro asked when checked the titles of the text books and Chrome's homework planner, which was full of to-do's for the day.

"A lot of it." Chrome said quietly, sitting down on the chair. Mukuro sat down on Chrome's bed.

"Need help with that?" Mukuro asked after a while of watching his cute Chrome struggle with her Chemistry work. Chrome nodded gratefully. Mukuro got up and pulled the bean bag the was on the other side of the room. "Okay, let me see…."

30 minutes later, Chrome was done with her Chemistry homework and Mukuro had a headache from so having to remember the periodic table of the elements.

"Was there a particular reason you came here today?" Chrome asked while doing her Algebra II homework.

Mukuro blushed. He had forgotten why he had come to her room in the first place.

"Um…well, you see…I…how should I say this…" Mukuro stuttered out, blushing furiously while he tried to get the words out.

"Yes?" Chrome looked at her adoptive brother, wondering what was it that he was trying to tell her.

"I know it's going to sound a bit weird, but…well…" Mukuro muttered the rest of the sentence. Chrome looked confused as to what the boy wanted to tell her.

"I can't really know what's wrong if you mumble out things, Mukuro." She just had to tease him. Chrome hid her smile when Mukuro's blush deepened.

Suddenly, she felt Mukuro hug her. What shocked her was what he mumbled in her ear.

Chrome felt tears of happiness build up in her eyes, but she held the down in favor of hugging Mukuro back. She felt the arms around her tighten their hold on her, but she didn't say anything.

Standing on her toes, Chrome pressed a kiss to Mukuro's cheek, mumbling her response in his ear like he did to her.

Daemon and Elena stood in front of the door, grinning like idiots.

"They grow up so fast." Elena whispered. Daemon nodded. "Do you think Mukuro-?"

"He knows her limits." Was all Daemon said before he turned around, going to the kitchen. "Come on, let's make some 'Congrats!' dinner and tell everyone!" Daemon called. Elena shook her head, taking out her phone and sending everyone one single word.

Finally.

There you have it =D. Hope you liked it.