I don't own Katekyo Hitman REBORN. I hope you enjoy this.
Chapter 1: Premonition
There was water dripping around. I could hear it. I opened my eyes and saw that I was in some kind of dark mansion. The floor was wooden and creaked at my every move. I was sitting, leaning against a wall in what looked like a living room without furniture.
It was difficult to discern anything in the darkness, but I realized that something was lying on the ground, about three feet in front of me. I stood with effort, finding that my body was sore and covered in bruises. My hands were drenched in blood.
I didn't know what was happening or in what place I was. I felt chills. I knew something was very wrong in that situation, even not having a hyper-intuition like Juudaime's.
Juudaime ...
My heart sank suddenly and I began to feel very afraid. Is he around? Driven by an unknown force, I forced myself to walk towards what I had seen lying on the ground. To my horror, I realized it was breathing erratically. It was a person.
In a further step, I almost slip in a lot of liquid spread on the floor. It didn't seem to be water, I could tell even without seeing it properly.
"Gokudera-kun..."
That voice... I felt my blood run cold. I didn't care for anything else, I ran towards that voice. Soon, I slipped on the liquid and fell upon the body. A strong smell of blood invaded my nostrils.
I had just fallen on the chest of that person. I could not discern anything, but my hands felt the blood gushing from various points. Then a small and soft hand gripped mine. So cold and trembling.
"Gokudera..." The voice was very weak, almost inaudible, but I could be sure that the person was under me and that was his voice I was hearing. I didn't want to believe. I needed light, I needed to see, I had hoped that my senses were deceiving me. Yes, it had to be that! That voice could not be...
"URI" I shouted. The fire cat jumped burning out of my gear on my shoulder and appeared strangely quiet. The flames of its ears and tail lit up the place and I could look down.
It was as if the sky had shattered and fallen on me. I could not speak or move... I was losing feeling in my body. I started shaking and my vision was blurred.
It could not be true.
Juudaime... bleeding on the floor... so many deep wounds from which blood flowed... his face with no color... eyes half-opened...
"You're okay... Gokudera-kun... that's good..."
Gokudera Hayato opened his eyes and saw the sky above him. He was lying on the school roof, Sawada Tsunayoshi was at his side, looking at him with concern. The silver-haired man could not avoid facing his boss for what seemed to be an eternity.
"Gokudera-kun, you're crying. You had a nightmare? Your cry startled me, are you okay?" Tsuna inquired worried. His friend told him earlier that he had spent a sleepless night watching a documentary about the Loch Ness monster, and because of it he would use the interval between classes to sleep on the roof. Tsuna went with him, not wanting to be left alone, since his other friends were busy that day.
"Maybe I should call Dr. Shamal," Tsuna said. However, before he could get up, Gokudera bowed exaggeratedly, banging his head on the floor.
"I-I... I never... Juudaime..." The Guardian spoke without stopping crying, which made the Tenth feel uncomfortable.
"Gokudera-kun, please do not-"
"I'll never let anything bad happen to you." Hayato finished speaking, rising to be able to look at the face of his boss, still with a large volume of tears streaming down his cheeks. Tsuna had no idea about what was happening, but thought that it was better to do something.
"Hey, Gokudera-kun, what if we went out for a ride after school? We could go to the store that you always talk about." Tsuna suggested, smiling. Hayato was a little calmer.
"If that's what Juudaime wants to do." He said, trying to force a smile.
Far away, on a bench in a park, a girl with long orange hair watched the dark clouds gathering in the sky.
"The storm is fun ... it is so easy to play with it. But what I really want is to have the sky."