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**Important Authors Note: I am currently working on another story in which Tsuna and friends live in a superhero alternative universe and their Dying will flames determine their powers, and I need your help to decide on good superhero names for Tsuna and company. I was thinking I could use the mafia names of the characters that have them like for example Gokudera would be Smoking bomb without the Hayato part, because of the secret identity, and so on and so forth. I would need help with those that do not have a mafia name. The names I like will go in the story and credit to those who came up with it will also be mentioned.
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Prologue:
Focused honey brown eyes watched intently as the anchor introduced the reporter on scene and let her take over the news of today's event.
An eleven year old boy stared at the young reporter as she started talking into the microphone.
"Thank you Akita-san. Good evening, I'm Endo Aiko from Namimori news. I'm reporting live from Namimori shopping district where earlier a fight between two meta-humans broke out in the middle of the crowd. What makes this fight different than the others that occur on a daily basis is that one meta-human was defending an elderly civilian from being robbed by the other meta. And not only that but todays savior was no older than ten years old, and he still decided to take on the meta that is in his teen years. But what's even more surprising is the fact that the element the young savior was using during the fight, which led him to become the victor. Ladies and gentleman, what was witnessed here today is a moment for the history books. The young meta possessed powers associated only with the Sky flame.
Yes, I did say Sky flame. It's hard to believe a Sky element user is here in our humble town. As soon as the fight was over word of this broke out immediately and within minutes different photos and videos from witnesses present have been posted on the World Wide Web for the world to see. And after ten years of absence Namimori has received its first Sky element user.
And here we have footage that was submitted to us by a girl who was present at the moment the conflict started and was able to record the whole thing on her cellphone."
They showed a somewhat blurry and shaky video of the fight taking place on the street, in front of the stores and crowd that was backing away slowly from the two individuals in a one sided argument. And as the reporter had mentioned one meta was in his teens and the other was like ten years old. The 'ten' year old had an orange hoody that was way too big for him covering his hair and the sides of his face accompanied by some black sunglasses covering his eyes. You can easily see that the little meta was trying to calmly talk the older one down so he would put the shop owner down from his vice like grip he had on him. The older meta was visibly irritated with the kid and told him to go away but when he didn't move the older boy use his Rain element powers to summon water from the pipelines underground and tried to blast the younger boy with it. His planned failed when the other simply sidestepped the attack which only angered the Rain user further, thus the fight began.
The rest of the video was simply the Rain user attacking what turned out to be the 'ten' year old with the strongest element of them all, and him in turn deflecting some attacks from himself and the astonished crowd so no harm would come to them. After a few minutes he attacked with his own powers. The Sky user had a big orange flame on his forehead and hands which he used to attack the other with and within 3 minutes of offensive action from the young Sky user he ended the fight as the victory. As he did the camera zoomed in on the flabbergasted crowd as they came to terms that they indeed were watching a Sky user in their town. When they snapped back to reality they started applauding the young boy for his heroic showmanship which only got louder as said boy nodded to the shop owner and took off flying out of the phone's view. After the reporter finished giving a play by play of the video she started talking about the views it has so far.
"I just been told that this video you just saw has reached 1,000,000 views on YouTube since it was posted two hours ago. And right now people all over Japan and the entire world are asking themselves what would possess the rare but powerful Sky flame user to help a human he didn't even know? Where is he? Will he save more humans or was it a one-time occurrence? But more importantly, just who is the mysterious hero? I'm Endo Aiko from Namimori news. Have a good day. Back to you in the studio, Akita-san."
One click and the television went completely black as Tsunayoshi, or Tsuna for short, shut it off after seeing the only part of today's news he was interested in. Like he thought the news had covered the story very quickly. A little too quickly for his liking but it was normal under the circumstances. Tsuna just wished he had more time to think about it before it was aired for the whole country to see.
Tsuna sighed in defeat and walked to up the stairs to his room. Once the door was closed he faced his unmade bed where an orange hoody and a pair of black sunglasses laid haphazardly on the messy sheets. He just stood there looking at them knowing thousands of people had seen them on the news or on the internet already and there's still thousands more who have yet to see them.
He didn't regret his decision to out himself as the only Sky user in Namimori, against his parents' wishes, since he was planning to become a superhero when he got older but let's just say things got out of hand and his plans where pushed forward. That's all he ever wanted to be, a superhero that fights for those who can't fight for themselves. His father taught him that was important. He also was responsible for his near perfect control with his powers; it was all thanks to his training he had with him since he was 6 years old. Training he still keeps up after his father passed away.
Thinking about him always brought a smile to Tsuna's face. He loved his dad a lot and he had to thank him for a lot of things he gave him, not just his help with his meta-human abilities. And even though they didn't agree on Tsuna being a superhero just yet, his dad understood him and he never said no to him when Tsuna asked permission to fight others in the name of justice. He always said he can protect others when he's older.
Tsuna can still remember the last time they talked about it even though it was 3 and a half years ago. It was the first time he actually understood why he couldn't be a superhero right then and there, and why his father was so worried about him enough to not let him become one yet.
One late afternoon as the lasts rays of the sun where starting to fade, the sky turned a beautiful orange and yellow hue as the sun was setting over the horizon. Tsuna and Iemitsu had just finished their last training drills of the day and now they were just catching their breath before they headed home. Tsuna was laughing at his father's usual antics as his mind drifted to all the progressed he accomplished that day and inevitably in to the subject of him fighting crime. So he found himself asking his father as to why he can't be a superhero yet if he was already getting stronger and stronger each passing day for the hundredth time. Iemitsu heaved a sighed as he prepared to have this conversation again and at the same time trying to come up with some new way of explaining his reasons to his son, again…
It was one of the rare times Tsuna saw his father acting serious and not being his goofy self.
"Son, we had this conversation before. You can't be a hero yet; to be one you need better control, more power and knowledge about the world around you, and about yourself." He paused here and as soon as he saw that Tsuna was going to interrupt his speech to give him reasons that are valid in his little eight year old mind he started speaking again. "And no you are not ready yet. Your control is very good, especially for someone your age but you're not near as ready as you need to be to go out there and fight people that want to hurt you. People who won't care about your age and won't have mercy on you. I know you think you are ready to go out there on your own but trust me Tsuna when I say you will thank me later for this." He finished.
Tsuna stared at his father for a second and then shyly asked him a question his been wondering about for a while.
"Dad, do you remember when you taught me about all the different kind of fl-lames and powers?" When Iemitsu nodded he took it as a sign to continue. "Well you told me that Namimori is not ready for s-someone like me. What did y-you mean by that?" He asked in a very low voice. Iemitsu could instantly tell this has been on his mind for a while and that he took what he said the wrong way.
"Oh Tsuna, come here." He beckoned and instantly the shy boy obeyed and stood from the grassed they laid in to climb to his father's lap. "You misunderstood what I meant. What I meant to say is that Namimori is not ready for someone so special like you. Someone that holds so much power, potential and the key to changing the future with said power. People here and in other places are not ready to face what you represent. You may be too young to understand what that is right now but someday you will, don't worry."
"Oh ok. So why are the adults n-not ready then? Do t-they have to do some training too?" At that question Iemitsu had to hold himself back from laughing out loud.
"Yes, you could say that. But it's not a physical training like yours; it's another type, a mental one. And as for your first question they are not ready because the things you can do and that people similar to you can do aren't things that normal people can accomplish so they don't understand. Like me and your mom, we can't do the same things you can Tsuna but we don't love you any less for it. And I think I know what your next question is. You are going to ask why does it matter if they don't understand if we aren't affected by it, right?" Receiving an affirmative nod he continued. "Well son people fear what they can't understand and that's something I'm afraid it's going to affect you later on in life and even now. You are going to get a lot of different reactions from humans when they find out you possess the Sky flame, the rarest yet the strongest of all the flames. You just have to learn to pick yourself up when you fall, don't let yourself be put down by others words, hold your head up high and most importantly to never ever, and I mean never change who you are for the sake of what others think of you. Do you understand me Tsuna?" He asked his him seriously as he looked him straight into his wide honey colored eyes. At the very enthusiastic nodding he let himself smile again.
Tsuna finally understood what his father was trying to tell him all along. With the exception of a few minor details that he was sure he will get later. This made him very happy. It made him have hope for a better future.
Tsuna sighed as he thought of that day. A day that marked his life much like this one. His first appearance as a Sky flame user in public. And even though he knows his father wouldn't have liked the timing he also knew he would have approved of the reasons as to why he did it. He was saving an innocent man from being hurt, wiped cleaned of his money and store valuables without being able to do anything for himself. His father, the man who taught him right from wrong and justice vs. revenge would have definitely approved.
With that in mind he decided to not dwell on that any further and just go to work on custom ideas. After all every superhero needs an awesome custom and a symbol of their own.
To be continued…
Well that's all for now.
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Until next time,
Girl in Blue
