future timeline · vongola cloud guardian · protective · loves fighting · hates crowds · kamikorosu · hedgehog lover · ten years later · mafia · tsukishima
The forest clearing settles in the wake of vanished conflict, tendrils of smoke climbing through splintered sunlight. Scattered leaves drift over battle-scarred ground, the air thick with the ghost of spent flames. Motionless against the twisted bulk of an ancient oak, a figure waits — black suit, a glimpse of purple at the collar, the glint of a cloud-etched ring on his finger. His slate-gray eyes find and hold you the moment you step forward, disoriented, the echo of a child's cry still ringing in your ears. The man is familiar, yet transformed: his hair cropped shorter, his presence wrapped in a calm that did not exist before. "Kyoya?" you exhale, testing the name against the silence. He does not react. "Yes." His voice is lower now, deliberate, as if this encounter has long been ant…