It's City Life
This was inspired after watching a musical.
Summary: After his mother's death, Tsuna moves to the city to start his life on a new slate and try to fulfill his dreams. Hibari is an illegal immigrant from China, who has been living in the dark underbelly of the city for 5 years, trying to earn money to get his sick father to a hospital. Both meet in this dark place, trying to fill up their loneliness and strive in a community that seems impossible to survive in.
There's going to be major OOC-ness and other stuff.
Anyways. I wanted to focus more on the darker and poorer sides of the big cities we see today. Everyone thinks that cities like New York, Boston, Tokyo, (Ikebukuro!) and etc. are all lights, shopping and a place that always seems to be striving. But as they say, "Every light has a dark."
The poorer parts of the big cities we see today, are actually very hard places to live in. Everyone likes to see the brighter side of everything, so no one seems to want to notice the people who are more unlucky.
Warnings; Language, dark themes
Um... this gets more darker and angstier as it goes on.
Anyways… onwards~!
Tsuna POV
"There's always tomorrow."
His mother had told him that a lot when he was a child. He had always been bullied and called "Dame-Tsuna" by other children and was always feeling rejection and loneliness. But when his mother had told him those words, he'd felt hope and a comfort that his mother would always be with him. But after his mother passed away, the quote brought more dread than anything. The feeling of dread more amplified at the age of 28.
He hoped that the quote would bring hope like it used to after moving to the city, but seeing the peeling walls, dirty windows, and the room that was supposed to be his new house, he didn't think "tomorrow" would do anything to make his living quarters any more enlightening.
When people think of the city, the first thing they would think of would be bustling people, bright lights, and roads crowded with cars. But as they say, "every light has a dark".
Tsuna lived in the dark underbelly of the city where the poor lived.
The kind of place that Tsuna lived in was nothing like the bright cities. It was the complete opposite. The only reason people ever crowded at one place was to see a fist fight between drunks and the only time people ever tried helping each other was to drag another dead homeless body off the streets.
Tsuna sighed and fell on the small mattress that served as a bed. Turning over on his side, he stared out of the dirty glass, where he could see another window that belonged to the apartment next to the one he lived in.
The neighboring apartment was stationed closely to the one Tsuna was currently occupying, and the distance between the two windows were enough for two people to reach across.
In the room across from his window, Tsuna could see a raven haired male that seemed to be practicing some sort of martial art. He recognized the weapons to be tonfas, from his father who had taught him personal defense and some basic fighting skills.
"He seems kind of familiar…" Tsuna murmured to himself. Tsuna felt he had seen the man somewhere, but couldn't put a name to it. Suddenly, Tsuna bolted up, an imaginary light bulb blinking above his head. "When I was moving in!" He exclaimed, as if he made an incredible breakthrough.
*Flashback*
Tsuna climbed out of the cab, after paying the taxi driver a few bills.
"Keep the change," Tsuna said. After stepping out, he looked up at the new apartment he would be staying at. The place looked like it would fall apart, if not for the wooden beams supporting it.
Tsuna remembered when he was looking through new homes that he could move into, that this was the only thing he could afford with the amount of money he had at the moment. He also remembered the phone call with the apartment manager.
When Tsuna had commented on the size of the flat he was staying in, the manager had replied, "Start out small, then finish up big," and promptly hung up.
Tsuna sighed, and was jerked out of his thoughts when he heard someone clearing his throat. He looked up to see a burly man carrying brown, cardboard boxes. The man's face was shadowed by a hat that shadowed most of his features. (A/N: This is not Reborn!)
"Where did you want all this?"
"Oh, um, just leave them at the door, I'll figure out what to do with them soon… Um… I'll help you carry some." Tsuna held his arms out and almost fell at the amount of boxes that suddenly dropped onto his arms. What did I put in these anyways? Tsuna thought to himself while trying to balance all the boxes.
"Shit," Tsuna muttered, when he saw two boxes tumble off the stack. He waited for the sound of falling items, but was surprised when a black haired male came into his line of sight, holding the very boxes that he dropped.
"Weak herbivores like you shouldn't be carrying heavy weight like this," The raven haired male said. His eyes were a cold, steel gray that pierced his own caramel ones.
Tsuna was still trying to figure out if that was a insult or a compliment before he realized there was a blush across his cheeks.
*End Flashback*
"He's good," Tsuna said to himself, watching as the man swung the tonfas with a grace that only a skilled martial artist had. When the man with the tonfas turned, Tsuna realized he had been caught staring. Feeling heat rise to his cheeks, he looked away from the window, to hopefully avoid eye contact.
"Herbivore," he heard a muffled voice from outside. Snapping his head toward the dirty glass again, he saw that the raven haired male had opened his window and was calling towards him. Tsuna hastily opened his window, not wanting to be rude by ignoring the man.
"Y-yes?" Tsuna stuttered, his eyes never leaving the prefect.
"Why were you staring at me, herbivore?" The question was said so monotonously, that it could've passed for a statement.
"Um… I was just… watching you practice your martial art skills… Er… well I think you were practicing… Uh, you're very good!"
I sound like a complete idiot. Tsuna mentally smacked himself on the forehead. Why the hell was he stuttering so much?
"Hn." was the only reply Tsuna got. He blinked, confused. Was that supposed to mean something? "Herbivore, what's your name?" Isn't that a little out of the blue?
"Tsu-Tsuna. Well, my full name is Sawada Tsunayoshi…" He trailed off.
"Hibari Kyoya," said the raven haired male. Then he closed the window and drew the curtains. Blinking owlishly at the glass, Tsuna stared at his reflection in the now dark window.
Why the hell am I blushing again?
Okay~! DONE!
This is so horrible… T^T
It didn't turn out how I wanted it too… OTL *sobs in emo corner*.
Anyways… review please. Flames accepted.
