Yes I know, I should be updating I Can't Do This Again but this wouldn't leave my head! That and I am having a bit of inspirational trouble with the current chapter...well, hopefully this will cure my stupid writer's block!
I don't own KHR. I hope you like these one-shots!
Tsuna was looking over Kyoya when he felt it. The urge, no, the absolute need to go to town, right now. Recognizing it as the feeling that Mukuro called intuition, Tsuna looked around the cave they called home. Even though he expected it, the nine-year-old still had his hopes dashed when he saw that none of the others had gotten back from berry-and-wood gathering yet. It was just him, Hayato, Lambo, and Kyoya. And Hayato was napping with a sleeping baby Lambo in his arms and Kyoya was really sick. Even if Tsuna woke Hayato up, one of them has to stay behind and watch over their youngest brother and ill brother.
"Maybe…I should wait till the others come back," muttered Tsuna quietly, unwilling to break Kyoya and Mukuro's most steadfast rule. Never go to town alone. With the exception of Kyoya, Mukuro, and Ryohei, Tsuna and the others must travel with at least one other person. And no, eleven-month-old Lambo did not count.
However, just as Tsuna said those words, he felt the prompting again, but even more strongly than before. While Tsuna gasped in response to the nearly over-whelming feeling, his intuition told him something else. It was the only way to save Kyoya.
Tsuna, both fear and hope dancing around in his chest, looked at his elder brother lying beside him. Kyoya, who never failed to protect Tsuna and the rest of his siblings from the bullies and the caretakers at the orphanage, was now having trouble with something simple as breathing. Whenever he coughed his whole body tensed up and the coughs sounded and looked like they were really painful. Sweat pooled around his face as he struggled to fight his undoubtedly high fever and his body twitch now and then, like he wanted to wake up but there was a carnivore stopping him. Either that or he was having another feverish nightmare that he couldn't escape from.
In any case, the eleven-year-old boy hasn't truly woken up for three straight days now and though Mukuro says otherwise, Tsuna knew that Kyoya wasn't going to be fine. Tsuna could see that Kyoya was just getting worse and worse as the hours go by. And though he didn't want to admit it either, Tsuna knew that without a doctor or the proper medicine, Kyoya wasn't going to make it.
This was something Tsuna wasn't going to let happen. He loved his blood-thirsty, overprotective, strong, and brave older brother too much for that. Plus he and his other siblings have been through too much together for something like the flu to drive them apart. And Kyoya was clearly no exception. Tsuna was going to make sure his oldest brother survived, even if he had to take a few risks and break a rule to do it.
So after a second of deep breaths to steel his resolve, Tsuna got up and looked at Hayato, wondering if he should wake him up so that Hayato knew where he was going and keep an eye on Kyoya for him. After a brief debate with himself, Tsuna decided to not wake Hayato up. His brother would just try to stop him, no matter how devoted the silver-haired child was to him. And time was of the essence, if Tsuna wanted to save Kyoya, he would have to go now. Even if it meant that Kyoya might have to be left unsupervised for a few minutes.
"I will save you Kyoya. I promise," Tsuna said softly before charging out of the cave without looking back once. If he had, Tsuna would have seen Kyoya weakly reaching out for him.
ouch...that last sentence man...just ouch. In any case...did you like this one-shot? Do you want to see what happens next/more from this AU? Or just a different one-shot altogether? Whatever your opinion is, please tell me in a review and I will see what I can do! Till then, good luck with your endeavors!