A/N: A new Chrome series story! And this time, it's an allxChrome one! XD You guys are gonna vote for whoever Chrome is gonna end up with! Good luck!
Notes:This story is taken place over ten years, characters can be OOC-ness.
New A/N (26th of July 2013): One of the reviewers reminded me about how crappy my grammar is, so I decided to re-write some parts of this story by now. Ja-Ne!
Illusions of the Mist
A Katekyo Hitman Reborn fan-fic
By KawaiiNekoNami
Prologue: Goodbye, Vongola
When you feel all alone
And the world has turned its back on you
Give me a moment please to tame your wild wild heart
I know you feel like the walls are closing in on you
It's hard to find relief and people can be so cold
When darkness is upon your door and you feel like you can't take anymore
Let me be the one you call
If you jump I'll break your fall
Lift you up and fly away with you into the night
If you need to fall apart
I can mend a broken heart
If you need to crash then crash and burn
You're not alone
-Savage Garden's 'Crash And Burn'
"Congratulation, Neo Vongola Decimo!"
The allied families' bosses who were invited to the grand ball made by the Vongola family congratulated the young Mafioso whose smile radiated from his face. Beside the man stood his fiancée, Sasagawa Kyoko who had her typical bright smile plastered on her face as she politely greeted and thanking those mafia bosses for attending her bachelorette party.
"My young brother is really lucky to have a lovely fiancée like you, Sasagawa Kyoko. Please do not hesitate to tell me in the future if he ever dared to make you shed a tear! Even if I'm his big brother, I'm not going to allow him to hurt such a wonderful maiden like you!" the Cavallone boss threatened playfully, and while Tsuna protested about how he would never made his fiancée sad, the other Mafia bosses were laughing merrily over the blonde's joke.
In the merry bachelorette party, in that much of happiness spreading around the Vongola mansion, everyone failed to notice a certain purple haired girl who was been left behind by others. She was someone who was supposed to be there with everyone and who should be there to be happy for the soon to be married couple.
Chrome Dokuro leaned against the marbled pillar, being the only person who was being surrounded with the aura of loneliness and heartbroken. Her purple hue stared at the Neo Vongola Primo from far. Sadness and sorrow were shown in her eye as she could not believe the brunette seriously had done such horrible things to her.
Just two weeks ago, she was still one of her boss's guardians. However, not anymore…
She lowered her head and stared at her hand. It still felt like it was yesterday when she lost her mist ring.
"Chrome, please come in." Tsuna ordered as he sat on his office chair. The purple haired girl nodded her head when she heard her boss's order and walked into his office.
"Is there anything you need, bossu?" the illusionist asked hesitantly as she looked at the brunette man in question. The Mafioso stayed silent as he rummaged through his desk drawer and pulled a file of paper out.
"Chrome Dokuro." She flinched when her boss called out her full name in such a serious and cold tone. "As the Neo Vongola Primo of the Vongola family, I banished you from your position as my mist guardian in this family."
"H-Huh?" Chrome's eye widened at what the other had just said, her purple hue was filled with the disbelief and surprise she felt right now.
"You have no reasons of staying in the Vongola family anymore." Tsuna stated coldly and the purple haired illusionist flinched under his emotionless and strict stare. Chrome's lips slightly trembled, as she could not understand why did he suddenly acted like this to her.
"B-But why, bossu? I-If you think that I'm not strong like the others, I could train even harder than I had! I-"
"Everything you do were never not good enough!" the brunette man roared out and banged his fist on the wooden desk. His orange hues were glaring at her in such cruelness that made the purple haired girl to feel tears were threatening to flow out from her eye.
Chrome gently bites on her lips before she stared down at the red carpet underneath her. "Am I… really not worthy enough… for you, bossu?" she asked in an almost inaudible and weak tone, but she knew the other could heard her. However, Tsuna chose not to answer her question as he threw the file to her before whirling his chair around, having no intention of giving her another glance again.
"Leave, Chrome Dokuro. As your boss, I had banished you from this family. You are no longer a part of us starting from now and I will be giving you two weeks of time to move all of your things out from this mansion." He stated plainly without looking back at her.
His last sentence made her shattered and felt like she is some cheap thing that was been used all along. A single tear dripped out from her eye as she stared at her ring for the last time before forcefully tried to pull the tight ring off her middle finger. She had been wearing it ever since she is thirteen… it made her felt as if she had lost a part of her life as the ring was finally off from her finger. She placed the ring on the desk before bowing down to show her strong respect and loyalty for her boss, even if he had just banished her.
"I'm really… glad for able to work under you, bossu. All these time, I'm really grateful to you as you are the first person who truly accepted who I am. The time I had spent along with the Vongola family will forever be a precious and unforgettable memory in my life. Thank you… for giving me a family and a home to stay all along…" her lips managed to quirk a forced, but sincere smile.
She didn't know why, but tears were blurring her vision by now. Choking on her own tears, she could felt that her smile was slowly disappearing. Her legs did not listen to her order anymore as she ran out from the room 'till she reached an empty hallway.
Drip.
Drip.
Drop.
She leaned against the wall, hot tears finally ran down freely from her violet eye. She could not hold back the urge of crying out her pain, sorrow and sadness aloud, but she managed to stop herself from doing so as she held her palm up to cover her mouth.
Am I that weak that you detested me for being a burden?
Am I not worthy enough to be your guardian… or your friend?
Am I… not good enough for this family…?
She had always loved Vongola with all her heart. It was the first place she had called as her 'home' as everyone in the family treated her as a part of them. So why… why did he banish her from this place in where she always seek for the warmth of a family?
He had banished her, leaving her no place to go. The only place she could return now is the empty and broken Kokuyo building in Japan. Mukuro had cut off their connection and ignored her ever since she had made her decision of becoming Tsuna's mist guardian. So now, just like always, the cunning blue haired man had disappeared along with the other Kokuyo members as if they were just a pile of mist.
She had no one… to go back to anymore…
She felt hurt, unloved and been left out. All she wanted now were those comforting and gentle words of the older illusionist that will always calmed her down. She wanted her Mukuro-sama, she always had. He was like the source and reason for her to live in this cruel world all long.
Even when she knew that he would never be here for her again, but a small part of her heart still wished that he could appear in front of her with his rare gentle smile that only belonged to her and comfort her by taking her into his warm embrace.
Her violet hue scanned through her surrounding and suddenly, she noticed a man in the middle of the huge crowd, pulling a gun out from his dark jacket and aiming it at Kyoko who was unaware of the danger of her life now.
It only took Chrome a millisecond to react. She pulled her short trident out from her suit and pressed the button underneath to lengthen up her weapon as she quickly dashed towards the hidden assassin.
In a gust of wind, she had moved behind the assailant and before she knew, her hands reacted by themselves. She slammed her trident hard against the man's back, making the man to fall down onto the floor and missed his target.
BANG!
The crowd immediately turned silent when the gunshot echoed through the mansion. All of the Vongola guardians unleashed their weapons as they looked around, searching for the assailant. Gokudera, as the right hand man, stood in front of Tsuna and Kyoko protectively with dynamites held firmly in his left hand while his right hand hold a gun with Vongola crest engraved on it.
The crowd slowly dispersed as Tsuna walked by, Kyoko was being held firmly against him as the brunette feared for her safety. When he reached the source of the gunshot, his hazel brown hues widened in disbelief at seeing a familiar purple haired figure stabbing her sharp weapon at a man who had a look of fear on his face.
"C-Chrome…?" Tsuna called out in a mixture of worried and disbelief. However, Chrome ignored his call for her as she glared coldly at the assailant underneath her.
The man trembled in fear as he pointed his gun at the former mist guardian, but the purple haired illusionist displayed no fear in return. Instead, she pushed the sharp point of her trident even deeper into the man's stomach, making the other to scream out in pain.
"Chrome! Stop it!" Tsuna yelled as he grabbed the illusionist by her arm. The purple haired girl ignored his call once again as she pulled her weapon forcefully out from the man's stomach and aimed the sharp point of her trident at the other's right eye this time.
"I won't allow… anyone to hurt my friend." She muttered in a low, cold tone. However, before she could push her trident into the man's eye, a firm hand grabbed her wrist and in a second, she could felt a sharp, stinging pain came across her cheek out of sudden.
Her violet orb widened in disbelief. Slowly, she turned her attention towards her boss and used her hand to touch her slowly reddening in pain cheek. Tsuna widened his eyes in realization since he was also surprised that his hand had just reacted by itself.
"Bossu…?" she managed to call out the older man in front of her, despite she was in a deep shock state.
"This isn't the Chrome I used to know…" slowly, the brunette loosened his grip around her wrist and let go her hand. "… you are never like this. What had happened to you…?" Tsuna asked worriedly to her.
Chrome lowered her head, letting her bangs to cover her tears brimmed eye from the other as she tightened her grip around her trident and held it close towards herself as if it was her only source of comfort. "After what you had done to me… how can you ask me to continue acting as the shy and timid Chrome…? I'm never needed… so why must I continue to work so hard to please others? No one will ever need me… no one will…" she whispered out almost inaudibly, but the guardians and Tsuna can hear her painful whisper.
"C-Chrome… I…" Tsuna lifted his hand, wanting to caress her cheek and comfort her. But much to his surprise, he could not touch the purple haired illusionist as his hand just went past her.
"Why… am I always being leaved behind, all alone? Isn't this… just the same like the time when I'm Nagi…?" her voice was choked by the tears that ran down her single purple colored eye, before she disappeared into a pile of purple mist.
The Chrome who stood in front of him was just merely an illusion, yet Tsuna is surprised that he could not sense it all along.
The true self of Chrome walked out from the back of the marbled pillar she had been standing all along. She slowly tilted her head up to look at them, and everyone noticed the tears forming at the edge of her eye.
"Please let me explain, Chrome-!"
The purple haired girl shook her head and took a step backward when Tsuna tried to approach her. She did not give him the time to explain himself as she slowly turned around, disappearing into a pile of mist.
Unknown to everyone, a pair of violets eyes had been watching the purple haired illusionist's movements all along. A playful smile danced on the albino's face as he popped a small piece of the sweet marshmallow cake into his mouth.
In a small apartment that Chrome had just rented a week ago, the girl was reading a book while enjoying the silent company of the moon that seemed to shone so brightly, just for her. She had always loved to gaze at the bright shining room that often made her felt comforted. Besides, it had just set peace for her shattered heart and made her forgot about all the pain she had felt in the past two weeks.
'Why… am I always being leaved behind, all alone?'
She looked up from her book and stared at her reflection from her window. The full moon illuminated her violet hue and made her bright purple eye looked like it was the lightest purple you had ever seen. It made the illusionist seemed surreal and sorrowful.
"Chrome Dokuro." She jolted when she heard someone called out her name. Pulling out her trident, the illusionist looked around her surrounding in aware before she saw a familiar albino man sitting on her couch, his legs crossed in Indian-style and her identity file was hold firmly in one of his hand.
"Chrome Dokuro, real name is Nagi, twenty-three years old, female, born at Namimori, Japan on 5th of December of 19XX, both parents were currently divorced, supposedly to be dead in the age of thirteen during a car accident."
The purple haired girl winced as the other utter each of the words out mechanically.
"You have a very interesting past, Chrome-chan."
As the albino approached the younger girl with his typical playful smile, he held his right hand out and gently tilted her chin upwards. As his fingers lightly grazed against her smooth skin, he felt a burning urge of possessing the purple haired girl in front of him as his alone.
"Tsunayoshi-kun is definitely a foolish man who never realized how lucky he was to be granted with such a powerful and skillful illusionist like you." Byakuran said before letting go her chin. "I know this might be too rushed for you, and you might probably not accept it as well. But…" slowly, he stuffed his hand into his pocket and pulled out an item from his pocket. "Please think about it, okay? Millefiore family is in need of a mist guardian now and I will personally always be waiting for you to accept it." He grabbed her hand gently and placed a cold item on her palm.
Her violet eye slightly widened in surprise when she realized what he had just gave to her.
A ring. To be more obvious, it was an A-class Mare mist ring.
Chrome knew that the decision she is going to make now might make a change to her future. However, she don't think that Byakuran is planning something bad behind her and her heart is asking her to accept his kind offer.
'Accept it, Chrome.' The little voice behind her mind said. 'You might find a new place for yourself after accepting his offer. It's not every day you can get an infamous family's boss to invite you to his family. Besides… where and who can you go back to anyway? You have no place and no one to go back to anymore.'
She cupped both of her hands around the ring and she could felt its warmth against her touch. Perhaps… the answer might not be as difficult for her to decide as she thought it would be. She can see the older man had a bright smile plastered on his face when she slipped the ring to her finger.
"I… am willing to become your mist guardian, Byakuran-sama." She stated, gazing at the ring she was now wearing. The ring gave out a familiar warm feeling for her. Just like… her Vongola mist ring. She felt as if a part of her life was back as she stared at the shining purple stone.
Byakuran smirked in delight when the former Vongola mist guardian accepted his offer. This girl- no, Chrome Dokuro, is definitely the talented illusionist he had been looking for all these years. He will turn her into a well-trained and strong illusionist that will make the Vongola family to regret for banished her.
"Shall we go then?" the white haired Mafioso asked as he turned around and opened the window panels. Cold breeze brushed through the purple haired illusionist as Byakuran helped her to untie the knot of her left eye-patch, revealing a beautiful violet orb that held the same color as her right eye.
'Goodbye… Vongola…'
"You are really beautiful… Chrome-chan…" Byakuran praised as he gently caressed her cheek while staring deeply into her clear purple eyes.
As Byakuran placed the piece of eye-patch on her palm, Chrome put the eye-patch on her desk along with her trident. She knew that she will no longer needing them again as starting from the very moment when she accepted the Mare ring, she had vowed to become stronger to prove those peoples who had once humiliated and betrayed her that she is not as weak as they thought she is.
Byakuran noticed that the pair of violet hues that used to fill with so much love and care had changed. Her pools of purples were now fill with her hatred and revenge for those who had once hurt her before.
The white haired Mafioso climbed to the edge of the window and pulled his hand out for the younger girl. Chrome slowly reached her hand to grip on the albino's hand, and much to her surprise, Byakuran pulled her into his embrace and wrapped his arms around her securely. He held on her even tighter when he jumped down from the window, but he managed to land gracefully on his feet.
Chrome's face flushed a rosy scarlet as the albino placed her down safely on her feet. His funeral wreaths (excluding Torikabuto and Ghost) looked at the illusionist with interest before the green hired cloud funeral wreath spoke.
"You better show us that you are a worthy illusionist, Dokuro. A worthy illusionist that Byakuran-sama had specially chosen." Kikyo told her, a smile presented on his face as he welcomed her to be as a part of them.
Chrome didn't say anything as she just nodded her head in response.
The funeral wreath members followed their boss who started to walk away, and Chrome can felt herself unconsciously started to follow them from behind as well.
"Chrome…!" Tsuna called out once again as he turned on his feet towards the exit of the mansion. His hyper intuition keep pricking him inside and was giving out an ominous feeling at the back of his mind that only made him ran at a quicker pace. The brunette scanned around his surrounding hastily, the familiar purple haired figure still wasn't presented in his line of sight. He began to sprint on his way, whipping out his phone from his breast pocket in a quick process.
"Gokudera-kun…" soft pants escaped through the brunette's mouth and he almost sounded desperate as he continue running while surveying his surroundings.
"Tenth!" the right hand man answer, his breath ragged and he almost sounded as breathless as his boss was as he continue running through the empty hallway, searching for the missing illusionist.
"Did you… find Chrome…?" Tsuna managed to ask out through his breathless state. The silver haired man from the other line gave out a desperate sigh to show that he did not found the girl either.
'I'm never needed… so why must I continue to work so hard to please others? No one will ever need me… no one will…'
The Mafioso's grip on his phone unconsciously tightened as the image of the purple haired illusionist appeared in his mind. He had hurt her so deeply… that he knew he might not have the right to meet up with her again… but then…
"Please… forgive me and be safe, Chrome…" the brunette mumbled, a single tear threatened to fall out from his eyes.
To be continued.
Ending Note: Okay, let's make clear here first. This is not a 2796 story! NO! Tsuna is engaged with Kyoko so he won't be getting together with Chrome! T_T Sorry, 2796 fans! But you guys still can vote for the other pairings! Please! Vote so you can see more about the pairing you like and... Chrome will end up with the guy who get the most votes! :D
Voting Corner~
ByakuranxChrome (10096): 0
MukuroxChrome (6996): 0
HibarixChrome(1896): 0
GokuderaxChrome (5996): 0
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Or any other suggestion is welcomed! XD