The pile of jumbled up mess his thoughts were creating for his mind space didn’t make calming down very easy. But, he wasn’t entirely too preoccupied to hear what Hibari said. After all, experience had proven to him that he needed to be on his guard or else there will be dire consequences, and a mental breakdown (if this could be considered one) was no exception.

Now, the first phrase granted to him by the Cloud Guardian was appropriate by all means. It was the second statement that sent a well defined arch to his brow as his attention was temporarily deterred. Fading? What the hell did he mean by that? He would have expected a better insult from him than that, or at least one that was less ambiguous.

“What are you talking about?” Gokudera couldn’t keep a snap from escaping his lips, especially when the person he was addressing his question at happened to have unceremoniously turned his back to him. He still wasn’t aware that he was a vanishing mess (seeing how he was too busy frowning at Kyoya's back), so the misunderstanding was inevitable. “How the hell am I fading?”