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Chapter 33: WITHIN THE MIST

"Kufufu…" Mukuro was sitting on his beat sofa polishing his trident. Ken and Chikusa were nowhere to be found. "Kufufu…" Mukuro laughed again as he started swinging the trident above his head. "Where are they? It is unusual for both of them to be gone." He then created an illusionary squirrel and threw his trident right at it, hitting it on its head. "If I find them… kufufufu…" Mukuro rubbed his hands together and smiled menacingly, thinking about some ways to torture them.

"Mukuro-sama… they left a note here." Chrome appeared, holding her trident near her chest and holding a paper in her hand. "They said that they had business with the Vongola in Italy and wouldn't be here for quite some time and Mukuro-sama…" Chrome lowered her voice and continued. "…your smile had just reached a whole new level of creepiness." Chrome turned away and went to a couch nearby that she found earlier and sat down, facing away from Mukuro. Ken… you didn't have to go all the way out to get one for me… Pasted on the arm of the couch, was a note left for her. I said, Sit here, ugly girl. The sofa is too small for all of us to squeeze in! Sit elsewhere!

"Kufufu… Chrome, you do know that I can hear you." He snapped his fingers and both the dead squirrel and his trident disappeared. "My smile and laugher are top class and of course, they improve every time." He held out his palm and a group of purple mist gathered for a while and left, leaving a trident. "As of right now, there is something even more troublesome." Mukuro's eyes turned serious. "What happened, Chrome?"

"Huh. Nothing. What's wrong?" Chrome wasn't sure what Mukuro was talking about. From his tone, she was positive that Mukuro wasn't joking around and something was troubling him. "I feel fine."

"Yes, I can see that. But, don't you think that you are sticking to the young mafia boss a bit too much?" Mukuro was softly tapping his trident on the floor. "It's unnatural… it's bugging me. I don't feel comfortable when you are around him, being so close."

Chrome immediately blushed. "Eh…Mukuro-sama… you… you…" Her throat felt dry. "Mu… Mukuro-sama… are you…" Chrome stopped, twideling her fingers.

"Am I?" Mukuro probed. Chrome seldom speaks her mind. Odd. Really odd.

"Are you… jealous?" Chrome managed to say. "Are you jealous, Mukuro-sama?" She immediately looked down when she asked.

"Ku! Kufufu…" Mukuro choked on air upon Chrome's hypothesis. Me, jealous? What is she thinking? Mukuro then quickly recovered. "Maybe, my dear Chrome. Maybe I'm a bit jealous."

Chrome didn't reply. She had her head down, looking at her lap. Is Mukuro-sama trying to tease me on purpose? Or is there something really wrong with me? I feel… all right. I'd only just been thinking a lot more lately. Just a little bit more. Thinking? Had I actually been thinking a lot recently? I'm so confused!

"Chrome, before you enter a frenzied state of being torn in your thoughts, we need think about something else. Something that we can't lose." Mukuro should up and walked towards Chrome's couch.

"Eh?" Chrome snapped out of her thoughts. Her eyes widened as Mukuro approached her, holding her hand and pulling her towards him into a standing position.

"Don't worry, Chrome. We are just getting fired up." Mukuro smiled and pulled her into an embrace, causing the shy girl to blush deep red.

Just then, Chrome heard Mukuro's voice in her head, decoding the message behind Mukuro's simple words.

Boom! An eruption appeared right behind Chrome. She wasn't started at all and she promptly followed that eruption with another eruption of hers. Lava started to rapidly fill up the room as both the Mist guardians started to pull away from each other.

"That should do it." Mukuro smiled as both off them levitated on top of the lava.

"Yes." Chrome smiled and looked at Mukuro. Mukuro returned the look.

"Kufufufu." Mukuro laughed. "They had made a grave mistake." He then shouted. "Come on out, pawns that are just hiding around us."

Just then, several men appeared. They walked into the lava, looked right at the Mist guardians and laughed. "This kind of illusions can't fool us you know?" One of them said and with a stroke of his hand, the lava immediately retreated and vanished. "Or rather… your illusions can't fool us." He snickered.

"Oh my… so we are going to die at home base eh?" Mukuro spoke, but this time a drip of sweat emerged from his temple and rolled down the side of his face. "This isn't good, I don't want to exhaust anymore of my energy…" Both Mukuro and Chrome fell onto the ground, surrounded and threatened. Mukuro and Chrome quickly recovered and took their battle stance. It's not good… We're really surrounded! Chrome's mind screamed. She shot a look at Mukuro. Mukuro-sama… he doesn't seem fit to fight too… the time travel did take up quite a considerable amount of energy from us. She squeezed her trident as she gathered more courage and confidence. This was a fight that she was placed at such a disadvantage, despite having an ally as the famed master-classed illusionist Mukuro.

"I see that both of you are tired." Another man snickered as he brought out a pistol.

"So?" Mukuro asked mockingly. "Are you going to give us a break?" He sarcastically added. Why a pistol?

"Oh sure!" The man replied. His tone was as sarcastic as Mukuro's. "As both of you are the Vongola's Mist guardians, we'll give you a special once in a lifetime treatment." He caressed the trigger and he took aim at Mukuro. "A one-way ticket to hell." Bang! The villain squeezed the trigger.

Mukuro dodged but due to his current physical state, the bullet grazed his cheek. Blood trickled down and Mukuro touched the opening with his finger, looked at it and licked it. Chrome was shocked. Mukuro-sama? Mukuro looked at the suspect that caused him to bleed. He then wiped off the blood and glared.

"What?" The villain mocked Mukuro. "Scared already? Let me have some fun."

"Fun? I'll let you play…" Mukuro's gaze pierced his opponent. Boom! Mukuro summoned a strong gust of icy wind and froze him.

"I thought I told you that it wouldn't work…" The man stepped out of the ice. "You just wouldn't learn… Argh!" He felt a sharp pain at his leg. Looking down, he saw a highly venomous snake having it fangs sunk into his foot. "Why… you…"

"Kufufufu. The Realm of the Beasts." Mukuro swiped his hair aside, reveal the kanji number three on his red eye. "I'll let you have fun. My definition of fun…" Mukuro opened both his arms wide in welcoming posture. "Welcome to my world of fun. My fun! Such fun is only given by me! Such fun… is to torture you till you'll prefer hell!" More beasts were summoned and dropped into the midst of the attackers.

"You…" One of them cursed at him. A Storm flame then appeared and Mukuro fell backwards. When he fell, blood flowed. Flames of the sky started appearing and the beasts were all slain. The attackers had taken out their weapons, each weapon infused with a flame of the sky. "You'll curse your own life… Mukuro."

"Mukuro-sama!" Chrome looked at Mukuro. His right eye was shot by a storm infused bullet and blood was flowing at an incredible rate. "Mukuro-sama!" Chrome shouted again. Mukuro didn't respond. "Mukuro-sama!" Chrome snapped and she screamed. She then created multiple illusions, all attempting to kill the attackers but none worked. "Arrgh!" Chrome immediately attacked the opposing force with her trident. She swung it across but it was skillfully dodged. She followed up with a thrust and again, it was easily avoided. Grabbing the trident, the man that Chrome tried to attack yanked the weapon out and threw it to his accomplice

"Allow me to tell you something, Vongola's Mist guardian." The man said as he gave a playful smile. "We are highly trained individuals, both physically and mentally. Our mental strength won't be destroyed, even when facing of Mukuro."

"Why? Why are you doing this?" Chrome threw a punch but her wrist was easily caught and was held in an arm lock. "Arggh!" Chrome yelled in pain.

"You can't do anything without your trident. We know that." The man laughed.

"Don't you dare touch her…"an eerie voice was heard. It came from Mukuro who was slowly recovering.

"What?" Chrome suddenly felt no more pain. The arms that were holding her exerted no force at all. In fact, the arms fell onto the ground, detached form the unfortunate body.

"I have to thank that guy that shot my eye…" Mukuro appeared behind Chrome. "With that one shot, I can finally show the ugly side of us humans once again… The Realm of Humans." His red eye was showing the kanji number five. "Ugly… human world. Ugly people. Kufufufu." Mukuro advanced towards the crowd.

"Charge! He was already shot! He shouldn't have much strength left! Let's take him down!" The mass of men charged at him.

"Looks like you are willing to die. Chrome, stay back." Mukuro came in direct contact with the assassins.

Crunch! Mukuro swung his trident knocking his opponents back and send a kick to one of the masked men, sending him flying backwards obstructing some of his comrades' advance. The men reacted quickly and immediately surrounded Mukuro and attacked. Mukuro was not even scared. He spun around lifted his trident and sent it down on an unfortunate individual's head. It was followed by several punches and kicks. After 2 minutes off madness, the size of the attackers drastically dropped to a number of 20, a quarter of their original number.

"Come forward. I'll spare you no mercy." Mukuro looked at the remaining forces.

"You… are a monster." One of them said and he stepped back.

"Nope. You are wrong." Mukuro's eye switched to the kanji number 1. "I'm just an ulgy human. Just like you guys." The room began swirling around and engulfed Mukuro.

"You idiot! Didn't we say that your illusions don't work on us! We…" The man's voice trailed off. "We can't pinpoint where you are now…"

"Kufufu." Mukuro laughed as his illusion hid him.

"You bastard! What had you done?" Another shouted.

"You are trapped. This area you've attacked me in is my world. Not to mention that, I've also casted several illusions when you thought you had me down." Mukuro said. "Right now, you are in my illusion. An illusion in an illusion."

This is bad! The trapped men panicked.

"Now now. There's no way for you to run. I'll make you stay and enjoy myse… oh sorry, I meant yourselves. Kufufu." Mukuro gave a sadistic smile.

"No. Nooooooo!" The men screamed as their mind consumed themselves as their worst fear flooded their mind. To add to the level of horrible illusions, Mukuro had made extra effort to multiply himself and had his words flood into their minds.

"Argggh!" The men died. Their brains overheated and bled, casuing instant death.

"You don't mess with me, you know." Mukuro laughed and turned to his right. "Kufufu. Was that an interesting show, Arcobaleno?"

"My my…" Viper appeared and looked at the mess created by Mukuro. "That was indeed interesting."

"Why are you here?" Chrome asked.

"I'm supposed to help you but I didn't feel like doing something without profit." Viper lamented. "But since both of you took them out, I'll say that both of you deserve some compliments."

"So, is there anything else?" Chrome asked.

"Yes. I'm supposed to give you this." Viper handed Chrome a package. "This contains my own memories when I fought in the past."

"We won't need it." Mukuro said. "You've been defeated by us. Why would we need your memories?"

"I refuse to give information without money. However, believe me, there is a reason." Viper disappeared. Indigo flames were emitted and burst in the sky.

Happy new year! I live in Singapore so it's the year 2014 now! Mukuro sure is cunning! Where is Ken and Chikusa? Chrome getting to close to Tsuna? What will happen next?You will find out in the other chapters! Well, please review! I really do appreciate reviews! You can throw in some ideas for the next chapter! I will try to add those ideas if possible! One last thing, I getting busy but I will try to update fast. Till the next chapter, see you! Let's EXTREMELY wait for it!