Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Katekyo Hitman Reborn characters nor its cannon plot points.
Prologue. Part one
At first Nana heard movement, her husband, Iemitsu, thanking her for giving birth to a healthy son, the doctor saying congratulations, and her own panting. Next came a smacking sound, a cough, and a baby's cry. But that was the only sound as time stopped.
When the doctor smacked the baby's bottom he coughed and opened his eyes. They were bright with tears, and were bigger and more innocent then they could have imaged. But that wasn't what made everyone speechless and still and silent. The color, warm orange eyes (with a thin yellow ring), while rare, wasn't what did it either.
It was the baby's right eye. His mate eye.
If they counted the spaces between black lines correctly, this baby had seventeen soulmates.
When his eyes turned brown and his pie marks faded away time started again. Nana and Iemitsu named him Sawada Tsunayoshi with smiles on there faces. The doctor holding the now named baby left to give a check up and dress him. Nurses moved Nana out of the delivery room and into the maternity ward. Iemitsu, kissing his wife's cheek, went outside to make a call.
"Nono? It's me. "
...
"Yes Nono, Nana is fine. We had a little boy and he's so ~cute Nono just like a little tuna-fish and..."
...
"Why I called? His eyes Nono. They were orange."
One month after Tsuna was born, Iemitsu left for Italy.
Two months after that Nana's received a package with 455,000* yen, a small, pastel orange charm, and letter from her best friend. The best friend who disappeared and only sent letters.
I'm sorry I've only written to you Nana, but it's for the best. It means you don't have to see me suffer any more. This money is for all the birthday and
Christmas presents I missed over the years and the charm for the little baby you always talked about having. Give it to them on their eighth birthday.
Tell them that it's from Kuki oba-chan, and that its something I got from my mother, Hikari, when I was eight.
After that the letters stopped coming.
When Tsuna was five Iemitsu comes with a man. He was supposed to call Ojichan. There was a dog that scared him and Ojichan helps him. When they leave Tsuna feels different, like something is missing or hiding. That's all he can remember and he wasn't told how, or what, or why, until years later.
At age eight, after getting Kuki oba-chan's present, he starts hating liars and seeing things. Not hallucinations, but the truth and why. That his mother honestly was happy all the time.
She was happy because he was her Tsu-kun. She was happy because the sun was shining, because the rain would help plants grow, or because the snow was pretty.
But it was always a lie when she said he was a normal little boy. he hated that he knew it was lie, hated her for lying, and hated himself for that.
He knew the kids at school made fun of him because they were jealous.
He could see that the things they said were true.
He was strange. Abnormal because it's not normal to have the number seventeen inked on the inside of his elbow. He's Dame, no-good. He's a failure.
But he'll be okay. Because he saw that making fun of him made them feel better. They could forget that they were moving, or that their parents were fighting, or that someone died. He didn't know how he knew these things. He just... did. And if his hurting helped them deal with their pain so be it. And he hates lairs, hating is bad, so this must be his punishment. Even if it's not he'll still be fine. He is Dame after all. He can never change that.
Tsuna is thirteen when he learns that someone else can change him. When he learns that being abnormal doesn't have to be a bad thing.
End Prologue Part One
*455,000 yen is $3,991.75 according to google (which I also don't own)
I almost didn't want to post this I was so nervous. But tell me what you think. And please point out any errors you find, even if it turns out no one likes my story I at least want it to be good grammatically.
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