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no_true_pairTitle: All Returns That is Yours
Fandom: Katekyo Hitman Reborn
Characters: Chrome, Mukuro.
Rating: Teen
Content Notes: Ten Years Later Arc Spoilers, discussed character death, near death experiences, temporary character death. All very vague, but there. Mukuro being in Vindicare
Prompt: July Fourth - Chrome has something important to tell Mukuro.
AO3 link
She slipped back into existence, into his mind, some time in the night.
Mukuro didn't reach out to her, waiting.
His dreams were as tricky as his mind.
"Mukuro-sama, I'm back," came Chrome's sweet voice over their mental link.
He relaxed, against his expectations.
"So I see," he said eith a chuckle, when of course the opposite was true.
He saw nothing without her eyes providing sight.
It had been harrowing.
He kept silent.
"I was in the future, Mukuro-sama," Chrome said.
Mukuro didn't doubt her.
In the way they communicated, she couldn't lie to him.
Hide something, like he so often did, but not lie.
They told each other the truth.
"Now what adventures did you have there, my dear Chrome?"
She sighed. She sounded tired.
"You can tell me later, it is of no consequence to us."
"But it is."
"Is that so?"
"I know a way to free you, Mukuro-sama."
He froze.
Freedom. From the chains and the tank, the numbness of his senses and the forced stillbess of his limbs.
He took a deep mental breath.
"How?"
"A boy you found. He was young, ten years in the future, but talented."
"Hm."
"The boss of the future didn't get you out."
Her voice sounded strange. Not fear, nor pain or hatred. Not anger, either.
He finally settled on distress.
"Oh?"
"He died," Chrome said, "but he did not free you for ten years."
"And that upset you," he said, hoping his voice stayed neutral.
The knowledge that Sawada Tsunayoshi would die had always been inevitable.
"Hadn't it?"
Chrome thought. "I want you free, she said finally, but it upset the now boss. Our boss."
He scoffed but let it stand.
"You died, Mukuro-sama," Chrome whispered and this tone was a familiar note he could easily recognise.
"You need not fear for me. We will not make the same mistake now, will we?"
"I felt you die. It was so real"
Her voice was shaking.
Mukuro could find no words for her.
"I had to make my own organs. Cloud mam helped."
Her moniker for Hibari was chatming. As usual.
"I see."
He didnt ask how she did it. If his methods had taught her anything or iff she had learned it all on her own.
She would not need him for much longer.
The thought filled his gut with a heavy, sick feeling
But for now she was still his.
"Tell me more about that bpy who has so much talent."
As always, Chtone obliged him.
As always, Mukuro planned and waited.
There nothing else he could do.
But things had begun to change.
Soon, he told himself, soon.
He didn't know if that felt like a threat or a promise.
Fandom: Katekyo Hitman Reborn
Characters: Chrome, Mukuro.
Rating: Teen
Content Notes: Ten Years Later Arc Spoilers, discussed character death, near death experiences, temporary character death. All very vague, but there. Mukuro being in Vindicare
Prompt: July Fourth - Chrome has something important to tell Mukuro.
AO3 link
She slipped back into existence, into his mind, some time in the night.
Mukuro didn't reach out to her, waiting.
His dreams were as tricky as his mind.
"Mukuro-sama, I'm back," came Chrome's sweet voice over their mental link.
He relaxed, against his expectations.
"So I see," he said eith a chuckle, when of course the opposite was true.
He saw nothing without her eyes providing sight.
It had been harrowing.
He kept silent.
"I was in the future, Mukuro-sama," Chrome said.
Mukuro didn't doubt her.
In the way they communicated, she couldn't lie to him.
Hide something, like he so often did, but not lie.
They told each other the truth.
"Now what adventures did you have there, my dear Chrome?"
She sighed. She sounded tired.
"You can tell me later, it is of no consequence to us."
"But it is."
"Is that so?"
"I know a way to free you, Mukuro-sama."
He froze.
Freedom. From the chains and the tank, the numbness of his senses and the forced stillbess of his limbs.
He took a deep mental breath.
"How?"
"A boy you found. He was young, ten years in the future, but talented."
"Hm."
"The boss of the future didn't get you out."
Her voice sounded strange. Not fear, nor pain or hatred. Not anger, either.
He finally settled on distress.
"Oh?"
"He died," Chrome said, "but he did not free you for ten years."
"And that upset you," he said, hoping his voice stayed neutral.
The knowledge that Sawada Tsunayoshi would die had always been inevitable.
"Hadn't it?"
Chrome thought. "I want you free, she said finally, but it upset the now boss. Our boss."
He scoffed but let it stand.
"You died, Mukuro-sama," Chrome whispered and this tone was a familiar note he could easily recognise.
"You need not fear for me. We will not make the same mistake now, will we?"
"I felt you die. It was so real"
Her voice was shaking.
Mukuro could find no words for her.
"I had to make my own organs. Cloud mam helped."
Her moniker for Hibari was chatming. As usual.
"I see."
He didnt ask how she did it. If his methods had taught her anything or iff she had learned it all on her own.
She would not need him for much longer.
The thought filled his gut with a heavy, sick feeling
But for now she was still his.
"Tell me more about that bpy who has so much talent."
As always, Chtone obliged him.
As always, Mukuro planned and waited.
There nothing else he could do.
But things had begun to change.
Soon, he told himself, soon.
He didn't know if that felt like a threat or a promise.