Chapter 1: Show me that power~The rain fell hard that night a certain little brunette boy could remember it well. The same dream each night he fell asleep after testing. Though this time the drugs had knocked him out, he could feel them poking him with other needles or at least something sharp. 'Stop poking me it hurts!' But no matter what he tried he just drifted away to that dream that he wasn't sure if it was anything more then that.
~Tsuna's Dream~
The boy yawned he could feel the ground moving underneath him, wait why was it moving underneath him. He had been in his bed sleeping next to someone last time he had opened his eyes. A blurry image of some man in a suit it was his father, what was he doing with him. "Daddy?" He felt a hand a hit his face as he cried out hitting the door from the force. The boy didn't know what to say he just felt the tears fall from his eyes. "Shut the heck up boy and get out." The car pulled to a stop and the man just tossed Tsuna out of the car before driving off again.
The lightning flashed as the boy was left there, that was slowly starting to become a blur like all his memories were fading away. Almost as if they had never existed to begin with, that was probably not a good thing.
~end of Dream~
Tsuna woke with a start the pain in his head returned, where was he? Something cold was touching his skin, or at least he thought it was. But as his vision focused the boy looked up to see chains holding his arms to the wall. So the boy was still at the lab it was the last thing he wanted to wake up too. So much for dying in his sleep like he had hoped for. This was just another day of torture listening to the other kids scream. Or take a few short gasps of air then nothing more. 'I hate this place...just make it end!' The boy bashed his head against the wall ignoring the pain that each hit seemed to cause.
He could feel something warm run down his forehead but the boy just kept hitting his head again and again. Till he heard the cage door open and felt rough arms pulling him back. "LET ME GO!" Tsuna cried out taking a bite out of the guard's arm to get him to let go. The boy saw his chance after that to run far away from this place. Tsuna was glad his friends had no idea about this place the few friends he had.
It was better for him to have been the one caught rather then Hibari or the others. Not that some of them would care all that much like Hibari Kyoya. He was a loner never one for hanging around the group. But Tsuna had gotten him to open up at least a little bit before this happened. 'Have to get back to Hibari!' He had a feeling that he was going to be mad at him for just up and vanishing. After that promise to never leave his side but there was no control over the matter was there.
In Tsuna's mind it had been either him or they would take the others and he couldn't have that. Keeping his friends and the one he truly loved out of harm's way. That was all he wanted to do even if his life was the sacrifice. As he turned another corner he almost ended up hitting someone looking up at the person in the white coat he shivered. The other guards were getting closer he could hear them he had only two choices. Use this person as a hostage or just jump over him and run like hell.
"Sorry about this." He slammed his hand into the person's body to knock them against the wall. Hopefully he succeeded in knowing them out before he dragged them into a room. The boy slipped into the lab coat as much as he wanted to get out his own way. This would be the less deadly way for him and he wouldn't have all that much trouble in getting out of here. With his flame as weak as it was he couldn't just fight his way out even if he wanted to.
Looking around for some rope Tsuna thought about tying them up but would he even be able to before he was found. Those footsteps were getting closer to this room awakening his fight or flight response. 'Focus Tsuna one wrong move and you are stuck.' The boy tried to ignite his flame but could barely get it to burn for long before it just faded again. The boy's body was already beginning to break down. Whether it was from lack of flame or trying to push his flame to the breaking point he was going to get himself into trouble.
"Just one chance before they find me." He jumped through the window not aware of the car underneath him. Or who might have been in the car the boy just fell in front of the car. To see that white hair and those eyes glaring at him. The man that had kept him captive all this time along with the others. "Tsunayoshi Sawada just as the same as the day we captured you. Always trying to escape where will you run this time?" It didn't bug this man at all that he was trying to escape, he just slipped a marshmallow in his mouth. Almost as if he was waiting for a response from the boy, trying to trick him into conversation.
"You won't trick me twice!" The boy yanked the piece of glass from his side wincing but not crying out. Though the blood that dripped on the ground was driving his senses made. The fangs cut through his gums he needed to feed. But on who or what would he feed on. There was only so many people here and one of them he couldn't even touch. Nor did he want to drag normal people into his problems.
"So sure of yourself then let's see how far you can run I'll give you a head start." The male laughed, Byakuran had always been some sort of prankster in his own way. Tsuna of all people should have known this from how many times he had been tricked. This was just another of the tricks he was going to play wasn't it. He raced off away from that man if he stuck around he'd probably get in trouble.
The boy noticed people running at him and jumped up using those two heads to get himself further off the ground. He just jumped over them making sure to knock them together for good measure. "You won't be taking me or them back I'm going to stop you."He winced stumbling only to feel hands drag him back into the alley. He struggled against the warm hands against his cold skin it felt weird. Would they notice anything about him maybe how cold he felt, or the wounds on his body.
His body felt weak in the arms he realized what he was breathing in. Even for his senses being weakened he should have known what that smell was. But he didn't which was not a good thing who was it. Tsuna looked up to see sunset colored eyes and hair a lot like his. "Who are y..." his eyes rolled into the back of his head before he could finish that sentence. His body felt heavy to him but the male holding it over his mouth just picked him up like it was nothing.
'The darkness it scares me Don't put me back there please...' Tsuna sat up feeling someone shove him down again before placing something wet on his forehead. "Don't move you will open those wounds again." The boy blinked he couldn't recognize that voice but it was almost as if he had heard it before. But the name just escaped him like almost everything else. "Have to go before he finds me." The boy struggled to get up only to feel that pain in his side return. There was nothing he could do he just struggled to curl back up on the seat of what seemed to be a car.
He could barely see his vision was blurred and for some reason he couldn't get his vision to clear. Another voice interrupted the quiet inside the car. Tsuna could hear someone talking but could barely make the words out as he blacked out again. Probably because he ended up pushing his body way too hard after all he had gone through today.
His dreams slowly turned to nightmares no reaction was shown outside of his mind. Other then the slight whimper and clutching at the blonde man's jacket. Tsuna had no idea he was grabbing it his mind was too far absorbed into his nightmares.
"What do you think he's dreaming about?" That blonde spoke lightly touching Tsuna's hair a way of trying to comfort him without waking him up. "Only he knows that maybe he will tell you." He just gave a slight nod removing his jacket to cover the sleeping boy he noticed how his clothes were torn. They would need to be replaced but he would deal with that when he was awake better not to scare him.
-Switching to Tsuna's Dream/Nightmare-
The boy was running away again from some person he couldn't see. He could just feel them getting closer and closer to him trying to drag him back. But back to where not back to that lab place he had tried his best to run away from? Tsuna knew one way to end it all without getting anyone else involved or people hurt. Not the people he cared about anyway but the cost of such a thing did he want to let it go.
"Remember Sawada Tsunayoshi you cannot get away from me. It's either you or those people you hold so dear." Tsuna tried to struggle the mist flowed over him, he felt as he had hands on his throat before he woke with a start. He shoved the person who was holding him away trying to get away. He knew he was in some sort of car but he didn't know who he was with or what they wanted from him.
"Hold on We aren't going to hurt you." That voice where had Tsuna heard it before. One of the meetings he had walked past the room that Master kept sealed only to hear voices. He could never forget that day the first time he remembered seeing his master kill someone. But if that person had been there how was he here now. "No get away from me he killed you! He killed you!" The boy freaked bashing his head against the door his flames caused the window to shatter into pieces.
Giotto blinked so he was right, this little boy had been there that day. It was just a test to see how far that man would go to hurt someone not that he had known someone was watching. "Shh we won't hurt you. We aren't him." It made Giotto wonder what that man had done to this child, he was nothing more then about fourteen by the looks of him. But his eyes held more fear and possibly hate then he had seen in years. Not that he could take back the past all he could was change the kid's future.
"Stay away from me..." The boy slipped down not caring about the blood from the shattered glass. He just wanted to hide tugging the jacket over his body. It was safer under here where no one would be able to see him. 'No one can see me break here.' Tsuna closed his eyes again trying to keep those images of the lab from his mind.
Even if he didn't know these people they said they weren't the same but he had fallen for that before. And where that had got him was still stuck in his memory. He didn't care what these people thought they knew nothing about.
Tsuna could feel eyes on him but he wouldn't take the jacket away from his face to see them instead he looked at the window. The window had the cracks in it where he had broken it but other then that it looked as if something was holding it together. He just watched the rain drip off of it wondering if he was finally free from that lab. It felt so fake to him so staged that someone might be plotting this from the beginning.
A voice interrupted his thoughts as he looked up at the blonde whose name he didn't bother to ask. "Well we are home little one." He held out his hand to the boy who only slapped it away climbing out of the car. The instant change in tempature made the boy shiver not having shoes caused these problems for him each time he had escaped.
"Where is this place? Why can't I just leave?" He felt weak on his feet and just wanted to curl up out of sight of people. But he was stuck here with two people or maybe more that he didn't know. "All in due time Tsunayoshi for now let's get you inside and out of those wet clothes." Wet clothes what did he mean by that other then Tsuna had just stepped into the rain, then he remembered the blood on his shirt.
"Uh I guess." He looked around hiding behind Giotto as the lightning flashed across the sky. It reminded him of many nights left alone with just the lab and the others crying in pain. Or seeing Byakuran's face as he tried to hurt him. "Can we just go inside please?" The boy clung to Giotto almost as if he was hanging on for his life maybe.
The boy didn't like thinking of what might happen to him next or what they might do to him. He just kept close to Giotto the whole time till they got inside. Then he just pulled away and huffed as if Giotto was clinging to him not the other way around. "The clothes you said I could change into? Where are they?" Tsuna was being a bit more angry then he meant to be but he didn't want to open up to these people.
"Alaude will bring them to the room later first I want to get a closer look at that wound. " That and try to get the kid to be able to get a good night's sleep for once he really looked like he needed it. Tsuna looked to this other man so that was his name then just another thing that was pointless to cling onto but he had to hope he didn't forget it. "Fine but don't go thinking I trust you." He tried to hold that angry glare on his face but the more he stuck close to Giotto the more he felt as if it was fading away into nothing.
Though Giotto didn't speak another word to the boy as he walked him to his room there was thoughts going through his mind. What had changed this kid from the way he had been before? It made him even more annoyed that he hadn't seen it before knowing that it might have ruined this child for good. "You will be sleeping here my room is just down the hall and Alaude's is right next to you." He was not happy with that arrangement but Giotto knew that Alaude wanted to make sure this kid wasn't dangerous.
Before letting Giotto have his old room back or sleep anywhere near this kid. Much less be left alone for very long in the same room with him. He just looked around the room having not slept in a room like this unless a hospital one counted for the longest time. He wasn't all that sure what he was supposed to do, say thank you for getting him out of that life. Or run and hide because they might be tricking him for his flame power as well. The male did not need another person to do that to him with his flame power already running low from near exhaustion.
"Sit down on the bed please." Giotto slipped the jacket off of the boy's shoulders to place it on the chair next to the desk. He wanted to get a closer look at the wound and see how the stitches were holding. Tsuna huffed but listened only stopping to slip his shirt off. The wound stung and if he bent to far one way he felt as if it was tearing or being opened again. Maybe just because he wasn't actually used to having the stitches in it.
"Hm well it seems to be holding but be careful with it if the wound opens again it might be worse next time." He placed the bandages back over it after cleaning off the area around it to get rid of most of the blood that had stained his skin. Though he moved the boy's shirt off the bed it was stained with blood the mark where it had been sliced was obvious. There was no way it could be worn again by anyone even if they did manage to fix it and get the blood out.
"...Thank you.." The boy muttered looking at Giotto out of the corner of his eye. Maybe he didn't know exactly what to say but at least he had said something. He leaned back on the bed to avoid laying on his wounds. They hurt but he wouldn't complain the boy had much worse in the lab. And that was all there was too it if he kept complaining then he was nothing more then some whiny brat.
There was a knock on the door as Giotto sat down by the bed he wanted to talk to the boy. But there was so much that needed to be done and Alaude would make sure it was all done. The male didn't speak just handing the clothes to Giotto before leaning back against the wall. "Alaude can you please stand outside I'd like to talk to Tsuna alone." He could tell his Guardian was not pleased but he backed out as he was asked to do. If anything happened he would be right outside the door to do something about it.
'What does he want to talk to me about?' Tsuna sighed getting up to take the clothes that Giotto was holding out to him, he didn't want to touch him. So he just grabbed the clothes and pulled back quickly. Not caring that he was in front of Giotto he just took off his clothes showing all the scars, healing cuts and bruises. "You are thinking what I'm going to ask you aren't you?" It was just a feeling he had but with Tsuna it was probably correct just by the look in his eyes when he heard Giotto say that to him.
"So what If I am. What do you want from me?" He slipped into the clothes before sitting back on the bed, the knife he had in his hand was hidden under the blanket. "That lab? What exactly happened there when you escaped?" It was a matter of what he was going to say to him or how it said it. Then there was also the matter of whether that man would follow Tsun and try to bring him back.
"Just he said that he'd hunt me down again or he'd grab my friends which I can't let him do. No matter what the cost to me is." Not that Tsuna needed to tell Giotto all of that this man knew nothing about him. And he barely trusted him which was probably not good if he was telling him this. But he had asked so he might as well know about that. It was only what happened near the end he wouldn't find out anything else.
" Now please leave me alone I'd like to get some sleep." Tsuna glanced at the door to get Giotto to realize he wanted him out. He hadn't even asked for the male's name he just wanted him to leave. "As you wish then. Alaude will bring you to breakfast tomorrow morning." With that Giotto backed out of the room looking to his guardian. They might not have heard much but it seemed that more then just Tsuna was at risk to being dragged back into this.
"Tomorrow morning go back to the scene where we found him and see what you can find." Giotto walked with Alaude at his side towards his room. Well the new one since Alaude didn't want him that close to Tsuna till they knew more about him. "Well I'll see you in the morning Alaude get some rest." He smiled closing the door behind him before he slumped down against it.
"He has no idea who I am. Little brother why don't you remember." Giotto knew that freaking out over it was not about to help him any. But he wanted to have his cute smiling little brother back the one he had before all this happened. More like before he had left the house, not that he knew why his parents had done what they did.
"Tsunayoshi I won't let them harm you again." With that he crawled into his bed just to watch the stars out the window. He was wishing to himself that he could get his younger brother back soon. And keep him safe as well as those others he was so worried about.
~Tsuna's Room~
Tsuna looked out the window he had to wonder what the others were doing. He just wanted to find them no matter what if they were alright. Or if someone had found them he just had to be sure that they were out of his clutches or at least far away from them. "Be careful Kyoya...everyone I will find a way to save you from him if he gets you." The boy's eyes closed as he slipped under the blanket to hide it was warm and safe there to him. After all he had happen it was the best thing for him to have right now.
Unknown to him he was being watched by those same eyes he had tried to escape. They were waiting to make a move and take what belonged to them.
Author Notes: Well yea end of this one just having a moment lately where I might just stop writing this stuff. Like i'm not good at it and shouldn't even bother trying to be. But knowing me that'll either pass or bug me for the longest time.
Who knows anyway enjoy.