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"Hm?"

The man pauses to look around. There was an illusionist here? Could this possibly be the Vongola illusionist? No... the illusions were too weak. This must be something his intelligence wasn't aware of... While the attack doesn't seem to be bothering the blonde man that much, it has caused him to pause in his attack on the two boys.

"Who's there? Show yourself-" He points his weapon at the boys on the ground, "or I kill them both."

Ryuutaro had already feared that something like this would happen. Reiji had been able to escape his illusions mostly as well.
And even though he'd trained so much... gotten so much stronger...
It wasn't yet enough.
He needed more strength. More. More. He knew he couldn't push Pisces to much higher power. Anybody from his world would break down, maybe even fall unconscious, at this level. But this wasn't his world.
And this person was way too strong.

....'kill them both'.
It was ringing in Ryuutaro's head. He didn't care about that stranger, the man could kill him, it wouldn't matter... but Hayato... Hayato... It wouldn't take much to end his life now.
Ryuutaro knew that once he stepped out, he'd probably get killed as well. Not even his self-confidence could make him believe he was getting out of here.
He needed to buy time. Time for... anything to happen. Anything to get them out of here.
But he couldn't risk staying hidden longer.
There was no guarantee the man would start by killing the boy he didn't know. He could as well start with Hayato. Ryuutaro couldn't let that happen.

The boy started to step out, into the illusion cosmos he'd created, deliberately leaving Pisces where it was. Maybe he could still use it. The man couldn't know where his attack came from. He just couldn't.
Adrenaline was running through his body and Ryuutaro somehow managed to keepo himself from trembling. There was no room for fear here. It'd just make him go into disadvantage even more.
Just that this was easier thought than done.

Not even Ryuutaro could've foreseen that one day he'd actually risk (and possibly lose) his life on behalf of someone else. It seemed to strange.

The man didn't make a move to attack. He honestly looked a bit surprised. Like he had thought, this was not the Vongola mist guardian or his vessel. He wasn't anywhere in the information he had been given. Perhaps he could answer his questions.

"Well, well, can't say I've seen you anywhere in the reports. Looks like the Vongola managed to slip one past us. So, maybe you can tell me what these two failed to. Where is the Tenth Vongola?"

He was... mistaking him for someone from the Vongola?
Ryuutaro wasn't sure whether this was good or bad.
And he was asking where that mysterious Tenth was. For a moment Ryuutaro wondered if maybe he could find him with his fortune-telling. The Tenth was supposed to be extremely strong after all... But Hayato... Hayato'd never forgive him.
But maybe he'd be alive. Maybe. Or be killed for being useless...
This was so difficult.
But Ryuutaro knew there thoughts were almost pointless. He didn't even know how the Tenth looked.... how was he supposed to find him like that? It was impossible.
"I'm afraid that it's impossible for me to tell you that."
Ryuutaro could more hear himself talking than actually actively talk. His voice sounded foreign to his own ears. But at least it didn't waver much.

"Well then, lets see if it's easier to get you to talk then these two."

He raises his weapon, and the two foxes once again begin to spark, but at the last minute the blond man turns to his right, blocking an incoming attack with the foxes. There stands another man, dark haired, ~~very Asian~~.

"I'll give you a hint about what you want to know. They came from the past."

The two men began to engage in combat, the dark haired man leading the fight away from the three boys, but not before casting a curious glance at Ryuutaro.

Ryuutaro thought he was going to die from fear at the moment the man raised his weapon. He felt himself turn to stone again. Fear, fear, fear. How did he get into this? How would he get out of it?

The solution apparently appeared to be another man he didn't know. Ryuutaro had no idea where he came from and whether he was good or bad, but he appreciated the fact the he showed up.
Once the two man got away a bit, Ryuutaro felt that he could move again.
There was only one direction his feet would carry him now. It was more of uncoordinated stumbling, but he was dashing over to Hayato, totally disregarding the other injured boy.

Falling to his knees next to him, Ryuutaro looked him over. They needed to get away from here, but he didn't even know how he could touch him without hurting him further.
Hesitantly he brought up his hand, featherly brushing Hayato's cheek.
"Hayato...? C-can you hear me? ... if so... just... look at me, alright? Just..."
Ryuutaro trailed off, not knowing what more he could even say.

... that voice... it could really be? He could feel his heart beating faster, his chest rises and falls a bit faster, and he forces himself to open his eyes. It's blurry at first, but after blinking a few times he can see him. Ryuutaro. His breaths became shaky and his eyes started to water. He was here... he wasn't alone. The corner of his mouth twitches as he tries to smile. He then opens his mouth slightly to try and talk, but he only manages to make whimpering noise before he starts coughing up blood.

"Don't talk!", Ryuutaro quickly ordered, sounding a bit panicked. He had no idea what he could do now, other than hope. Hope, hope, hope.
He needed to think this through rationally, but it was so hard. Seeing Hayato like this made his chest hurt. He couldn't stand it. This shouldn't happen. It just shouldn't.
Ryuutaro held back the tears. There was no way he'd cry now. It'd only make him weaker.
Finally a coherent thought hit him. He couldn't carry Hayato away from here alone, couldn't treat his wounds, but...
"D-do you have any allies around here, who I could get? Don't talk, just blink two times for 'yes' and one time for 'no'."

Hayato stares for a moment, taking a few moments to process what it was Ryuutaro was saying. Allies... allies... Yamamoto! The teen tries to look over to the other boy, attempting to turn his head to look at him. He found himself unable to do so. He looked up at Ryuutaro, his brows knit together. Hoping Ryuutaro would know if the other boy was dead or not... if Hayato's ineptitude had gotten the rain guardian killed.

He was scared. Scared for Yamamoto's life. Scared for his own. Scared that he would leave Ryuutaro alone in this world. The only thing the teen could do was to lean his head slightly into Ryuutaro's touch. He wanted to tell Ryuutaro he was scared.... to be close to his boyfriend.... but all he could do was just look up at him... frightened.

For a little while Ryuutaro didn't understand what Hayato was trying to tell him, but with a bit of thinking the pieces finally found their way together.
"That man... h-he talked about killing you... you 'both'. So he's supposedly... in the same state as you."
Ryuutaro really didn't feel like going over to check. He didn't want to leave Hayato's side even for a second and that boy was just a stranger.

Ryuutaro took a deep breath, trying to keep his sanity. He let his finger gently pet Hayato's face some more, an attempt to calm them both down.
"We're going to get through this...", he whispered even though he had no idea if that was true, "It will be fine... It will be fine..."

So he was alive... thank god... thank god. Hayato seemed to relax, breathing becoming more stable and the tenseness in his body fading. The main reasons for him to stay awake fading... he still wanted to listen to his boyfriend, to feel him next to him, to see him there. But Gokudera's vision was going dark and blurry, Ryuutaro's voice began to sound so distant. Hayato's body began to feel heavy... and the pain felt so far away... he had to fight to keep his eyes from rolling back into his head. His body seemed to go limp, as the strength to even hold his head up faded from his body.

Ryuutaro could feel the change and it was terrifying him beyond belief. He knew that Hayato needed to rest, but he just couldn't help thinking that if he fell unconscious now... he might not wake up ever again.
"Hayato... Please... d-don't leave me now."
Now Ryuutaro just couldn't keep the tears out of his eyes. This was too much. Usually he at least had time to prepare for bad events, due to his ability, but now...
"...please..."
He didn't even know what he was asking for anymore.

Hayato looked up at Ryuutaro... he wanted to stay with him, but he was fading... and he didn't know if he would wake up this time. He just found Ryuutaro again... he could stay with him... they're in his world... but he just felt so weak. If he had to leave... if he was going to die... Ryuutaro needed to hear it... one more time. He gathers the last bit of his strength and shakily reaches his hand to gently grab the neck of the yukata, tugging his boyfriend down so he could hear him. He wouldn't be able to repeat this, he needed Ryuutaro to hear it. Unfortunately, he knew he wouldn't be able to get out the whole 'I love you'. The only way he could get it out was in Italian. He knew he had never told Ryuutaro what those Italian words meant... but hopefully... if he did die... he would look them up.

The teen has to take a few shallow breaths before he can get himself together enough to speak. It's raspy and barely above a whisper, and more blood dribbles from his mouth as he speaks.

"Ti...ti amo..."

And then, he reaches that shaky hand to brush a tear away from his lover's cheek, however the gesture is cut short. His eyes roll back and his hand falls, the teen's body finally goes completely limp.

Edited 2011-07-30 17:11 (UTC)

For a moment Ryuutaro felt as if his own heartbeat, his own breath would just stop along with his lover's hand falling down.
He still didn't know just what Hayato had said... but he remembered to have heard those words before. Remembered the way Hayato'd said them. If this was... what he really needed Ryuutaro to know there was little doubt about the meaning.
"I ...love.. you, too", he whispered, hearing his own voice turn into a helpless sob.
It hurt. It physically hurt him.
This wasn't over. He refused to believe it was. Hayato'd wake up. He had to. There was no other possible future.
He had to wake up.

And yet Ryuutaro couldn't stop himself from crying. The fortune-teller just broke down, struggling to breath through his convulsive sobbing.

Why did this have to hurt so much? Why did he make himself so attackable by falling in love?
But he knew the answer anyway.
Because every single moment had been worth it. Because it was fate.

And this wasn't over now. Fate would never do that to him. Hayato would wake up. He would. He would.
Ryuutaro told that to himself countless times while sitting in front of his boyfriend's unmoving body.

It doesn't take long before there's the sound of rustling as someone approaches the clearing.

"Gokudera-kun! Yamamoto!"

And then another boy stumbles through the bushes, nearly tripping over his own two feet. His eyes are wide and full of panic when he sees his friends on the ground, he rushes towards them, stopping at Yamamoto and falling to his friend's side, since Yamamoto was closer. He bites his lip as he looks him over then up at Gokudera to see his condition. His worry turned to surprise when he sees the the teary... what he assumes is a girl in front of him. Obviously this one was upset about Gokudera's condition... so was she his friend? Tsuna had never seen her before, and they hadn't met anyone here in the future... so maybe she knew Gokudera's older self? Tsuna swallows the lump in his throat to address 'her'.

"A-are you.... are you a friend of Gokudera-kun's?"

At the sound of a voice, Ryuutaro looked up, trying to control his crying.
This was nothing he'd willingly let people see him like.
The other person was just as unfamiliar to him as anybody else he met in this world. Judging by the worry in his voice, the boy seemed to be an ally of Hayato. Hopefully that wasn't all just an act. It didn't look like one, but Ryuutaro couldn't be completely sure.
Trusting people in this world seemed like a horrible idea.

The fortune-teller wiped his tears away, hoping not to ruin his make-up much more. His voice was extremely shaky, no matter how much he tried to control himself.
"Hayato's my boyfriend", he stated without hesitation. And then he added, with a lot of waryness: "And who are you?"
Right now he couldn't bring himself to fake much politeness.

"B-boyfriend?! I-I-I didn't know h-he was dating anybody! I-I mean... h-how did you get here? A-and...."

The boy stops himself, there were more important things to deal with right now. He gets up, carefully stepping over Yamamoto, to kneel down on the other side of Gokudera. He offers Gokudera's 'girlfriend' an awkward and meek little smile.

"My name's Sawada Tsunayoshi, G-Gokudera-kun's my friend."

Yes Ryuutaro, this tiny, meek, and derpy little thing is the brave, strong, courageous, and all around most amazing person ever that Gokudera never shut-up about. Of course this little teen doesn't consider himself mafia, thus he considers Gokudera his friend over his 'right-hand-man'.

Naturally Ryuutaro knew that there wasn't really a way Tsuna could have known of their relationship.
Even though for them it had been over a year, in this world Hayato probably had never been missing.
Naturally, Hayato could've told him, but at the risk of sounding insane...? It was unlikely.
And if it was like it had been for him when he was returned to his world, Hayato might... have passed it off as a dream. The thought did hurt a bit.

"How I got here is ... quite a long story", Ryuutaro said in the very same moment he recognized that name. He rarely heard it, because the name 'tenth' was so much more present, but... could this be? Could this really be?

"My name's Fukami Ryuutaro", he introduced himself, looking at the other boy. This was nothing like what he imagined that wondrous tenth to look like, "You're... the 'Tenth' if I'm not mistaken?"

"EEEEI?! Y-you're a boy?! G-Gokudera-kun is...?!"

... Actually... it... shouldn't have been that much of a surprise. Gokudera had been... sort of... stalker-ish to Tsuna in the past. Really it was just sort of pulling the pieces together... which he had never bothered doing... he was usually too busy trying to keep Gokudera out of trouble. They flaily little teen calms down a bit when Ryuutaro asks the second question... he's still a bit confused to say the least, but calmer. This whole situation was just so weird, but he would have to let this sink in later.

Of course Gokudera would go around calling him the 'Tenth' or 'Boss'... and probably blowing his image way out of proportion, hence this boy's confusion. He meekly rubs the back of his neck and looks away, a bit embarrassed thinking of what Gokudera probably said about him.

"Y-yeah... Gokudera-kun... made me out to be a lot more then I really am again, didn't he? He does that a lot."

Ryuutaro got out his fan. Not even Tsunayoshi Sawada, famous Tenth, is save from fan-shushings.
Not after obviously mistaking him for a girl.
"I assure you, I am completely male."

Taking the fan back, he looked down at his unconscious boyfriend, swallowing hard.

"I will gladly explain some more of these things to you, once we got him away from here. He needs help... "
Ryuutaro had to take a deep breath to keep himself from losing composure again.

At the fan-shushing Tsuna actually falls back on to his and just rapidly nods in apology. Though he pulls himself together again when he sees Ryuutaro's demeanor shift. He didn't need his hyper-intuition to know that the other boy's worry was genuine. Tsuna nods, this time in agreement. Before he goes to get help, he reaches into his sweatshirt pocket and hands Ryuutaro a little packet of tissues. The other boy's...erm... make-up was kind of smudgy. Then Tsuna realized he never thought he would be worrying about a boy's make-up in his life. WHY did him and a normal life EVER seem to work out? But still, he was Hayato's friend, and he was upset. ~~clearly he had never seen Hayato after his run ins with cars.~~

"Here, I'll be right back."

And he turns to run back from where he came, only to be stopped as a tall figure ~~with hair that could poke out an eye~~ emerges from the bush. Tsuna looks started for a moment. "Ah! Y-you're..?!"

"Kusakabe Tetsuya," The man interrupts, "Hibari's subordinate."

Tsuna nods and backs up to let the man pass and give him access to the two injured boys on the ground. He lifts up their shirts and pokes them a bit, getting a small flinch or grunt in pain from the boys if he hit an injury.

"Their lives are not in immediate danger, but still need to get them treated quickly." The man easily hefts the taller boy, Yamamoto, onto his back, then looks to Ryuutaro curiously. Tsuna nods, wordlessly letting Tetsuya know that he was with them.

"Can you two take Gokudera-san?"

Tsuna nods again, and goes back to the spot next to Gokudera, slowly trying to ease him up into a sitting potion so he can get Gokudera's arm over his shoulder. He's careful not to touch Gokudera's damaged hand, instead holding his wrist to keep him supported. It felt so strange to be holding onto Gokudera like this, usually he was at least somewhat conscious.... but now... his body was just completely limp. His head lolled lifelessly as he was moved, the only sign that he was alive was his labored raspy breathing. It was frightening....

Edited 2011-07-31 00:25 (UTC)

'Their lives are not in immediate danger'... Ryuutaro lets out a sigh of relieve at these words.
Even though he had no idea where the man saying them came from and why being subordinate of a certain 'Hibari' made him trustworthy. It seemed like he had no choice but to play along with all of this. Figuring out this world would probably take him a long time.

Ryuutaro wordlessly helps Tsuna with carrying Hayato. This did feel as horrible to him as it did to the other boy. Ryuutaro bit his lip.
He only spoke up again after they already silently carried Hayato for a while.

"Who was the man who did this? And... why did he do it?"

Tsuna looked down at the ground worriedly. It was tough to explain... and he didn't even know if he should.

"It's... a long story... and it's kind of hard to explain. But I guess the easiest way of saying it is... well... the Vongola are being hunted. As for who attacked Yamamoto and Gokudera-kun, I think his name is Gamma"

They step into a clearing by a shrine.

"WAS Gamma." The tall, dark haired Asian man corrects Tsuna, standing right near the mangled body of the blonde man. ~~spoilers, he's not dead~~. "There's an entrance to the base here." The man turns, and looks like he's about to walk into a pillar, but suddenly just disappears.

Tsuna's eyes widen in shock. "H-Hibari-san!? H-he disappeared!"

Kusakabe takes off Yamamoto's Vongola ring and then speaks up, "There is, however, one problem with us taking our leave from here. That is the rain and storm Vongola rings. They would have shown up on the enemy radar by now. We can't let their signal disappear from here."

A dark-hair woman with a peculiar scar on the right side of her cheek steps forward. "I understand. Leave this matter to me." She takes the Rain guardian's ring, and then holds her hand out to Ryuutaro, since the storm ring was on the hand draped over his shoulder. Her stare at the new boy is harsh. She hadn't met him before, and obviously didn't trust him. But now was not the time for such matters, she would, however, be sure to keep a close watch on him.

While Ryuutaro at first still tried to make sense out of everything happening around him, he gave up when Hibari disappeared just accepting the weirdness of this place mostly, only vaguely trying to keep up with what was happening.

At least he knew what the woman wanted, even though he didn't like the way she looked at him. Not that he trusted her or anybody here any more than she trusted him.
Hesitantly he got the ring of his boyfriends hand, handing it over. He hardly had a choice at the moment and certainly wouldn't argue with the people here.
Getting through this somehow seemed to be the only thing he could do right now.

Kusakabe leads the two boys through the hidden door Hibari had just walked through... and apparently not waited for them. He was nowhere to be seen.

Tsuna seems just as new to this as Ryuutaro, looking around the underground facility curiously. He asks Tetsuya a few questions here and there, mostly about where they were. Supposedly some research facility of Hibari's that was connected to the Vongola base... but closed off until now because Hibari hated people crowds.

Eventually they come to a point where they can lay Hayato down on a stretcher. It's a bit difficult, Gokudera was not only taller (if that wasn't evident by how his feet had been dragging on the ground the whole way there...) but he was heavier too. Slowly he helps get Gokudera into a sitting position, then easing him down, holding his head so it doesn't loll around as they do so. That had really been bothering Tsuna. After getting the teens legs up he steps back and lets him get wheeled off. He looks at Ryuutaro again, a bit worried for him too, but also curious.

"Um... do you want to borrow some clothes? Yours got sort of bloody... I'm sure there's a place we can wash them around here...." Tsuna looks around as though a magical laundry room will appear before them,"Um... I can tell you more about what's going on if you want..."

and hopefully he would talk more about how he knew Gokudera...