Chapter 1:
The Comeback
Tsuna took a deep breath and let it out slowly as he opened the door of their house. It has been so long since he last went home. He was only 10 years old when he went to Canada to study and now, he's already 21.
Tsuna looked around the house and found Kyouya, his childhood friend, lying on the couch. He smiled as he walked towards the older man. "Kyouya!" he called.
Kyouya opened his eyes grumpily. "What are you doing here?" he asked.
Tsuna flinched. "Ah… I have a long vacation so I thought about… coming here…"
"Fine." the skylark stood up and walked towards the door.
"Where are you going, Kyouya?" the brunet asked with wide eyes.
"Away from you." Kyouya answered coldly.
Tsuna watched as Kyouya left the house. So he's still angry at me…
This house had been a gift from their parents when they were still kids… before they… died in a car accident.
Tsuna sighed and carried his luggage up the stairs to his room. He stared at his room. It was terribly clean but it was filled with kid's stuff. The walls were painted with under the sea design. His toy box was still there. His walk-in cabinet was still filled with his ten-year-old clothes.
He lay on his bed which was thankfully long enough for him. His heart throbbed in pain as he imagined Kyouya's angry face staring at him in disgust.
Tsuna was turning 6 so he, Kyouya's parents, Alaude and Helena; his dad, Giotto; and Chrome and Mukuro, Kyouya's siblings went to the mall to buy him balloons and cakes. When they were finally going back home, Tsuna's fever kicked in to the highest level so he had to sleep in the car.
When he woke up, he found himself in a hospital room. At first, he thought that it was just his fever until he heard the nurses talk.
"Everyone in the car died." the first nurse said.
"Yeah, but the kid was sure lucky to be saved. He was having fever, right?" the second one said.
"Terribly high fever actually. He was asleep when the accident happened so it seems that the fever was really a blessing in disguise for him."
Tsuna tried to remember what happened before he drifted to sleep but failed.
The door suddenly opened and a raging Kyouya came in.
"This is all your fault!" the seven-year-old skylark screamed at the brunet. "You killed my family!"
Tsuna was taken aback. "I… I…"
"Kyouya, don't blame Tsuna for what happened. It was an accident." Daemon said calmly as he held Kyouya's shoulders.
"It was his fault!" Kyouya screamed. He looked at Tsuna again. "You should have died!"
Tsuna was scared. Tears started to roll down his face. "I'm sorry…" he apologized.
"I will never forgive you!" Kyouya said angrily. "I want you to die!"
Tsuna opened his eyes with tears rolling down his face. Yeah, he'll never forgive me…. He stood up and stripped his clothes. He went to the bathroom and took a cold shower. He leaned on the wall as another memory flooded in his mind again.
"Hi, Miss Nurse!" Tsuna tried to be cheerful but failed.
"Hello, Tsunayoshi!" the nurse greeted with a smile on his face.
"Good morning, Tsunayoshi-kun." the doctor greeted.
"Hello, doctor." Tsuna greeted back.
"Tsuna, I have to talk to you about your health." the doctor said.
"I've always been sickly doctor but I maintain my vitamins so it's okay." Tsuna said with a small smile.
"That's not what I meant, Tsunayoshi."
"Huh? Then what do you mean, doctor?"
"W-well…" the doctor pushed his glasses up his nose. "A-actually it was our fault, son."
Tsuna turned his head so he could hear the doctor clearly.
"We… we accidentally… we didn't mean it… we…"
"If you were talking with my dad, he'll kill you if you stutter like that."
The doctor took a deep breath. He knew that Tsuna was just trying to help him even if the kid is still trying to move on from the death of his dad and friends. "The blood donor from where we took the blood we injected from you… he… he is an AIDS victim."
Tsuna stared at the doctor. He didn't quite understand what the older man just said but he knows that it wasn't good.
The doctor and the nurse left him after that.
He stared at the door for quite a while before deciding to get out of the room since he wasn't wearing dextrose anymore. He went to the mini library of the hospital and looked for a medicine encyclopaedia.
Tsuna was no stupid kid. He was the opposite, actually. He is one of the most intelligent kids you'll ever know.
He searched for the word the doctor just told him. AIDS…
"AIDS… AIDS…" he chanted as he skimmed on the A's of the encyclopaedia. "There you are!" he said as he found the word. "AIDS or Acquired Immunity Deficiency Syndrome is the final stage ofHIV disease, which causes severe damage to the immune system." he read."It is mostly sexually transmitted but can also be transmitted through… blood transfusion…"
Tsuna sighed.
Yeah. AIDS has been taking the life out of him literally. Only he and his Uncle Daemon know about the sickness and that was the reason why Daemon sent him to Canada so he can have the treatment he needed and for the proper education for the kinds of him.
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"Why didn't you tell me that he's coming home?" Kyouya screamed at Daemon who was seated behind his desk in his office.
"It's still his home, Kyouya." Daemon said calmly. "Besides, life's too short to be filled with anger and pain so can you just stop blaming him for the accident?"
"Why should he only be the one to survive?" Kyouya asked bitterly. "Why not Chrome? She was just a baby, for Christ's sake!"
"If it's your time, it's your time."
"What the fuck's with that reasoning, Uncle Daemon?"
"It's my fucking line, Kyouya so shut up and just let Tsuna stay at the house until he decides to go back to Canada!"
"Ugh… Where should I stay?"
"At the house." Daemon answered simply.
"Do you want me to kill him?"
"Do whatever you want."
Kyouya rolled his eyes as he walked out of Daemon's office.
Daemon sighed as he watched Kyouya leave his office. If you only knew, Kyouya. If you only knew…
Sorry for this fanfic. Please read and review! Then tell me if I should continue.
