I was dreaming when I wrote this/ So sue me if I go too fast
All characters belong to their respective creator.
Modest Mouse song inspiration: Bury Me With It
Hummingbirds
i: skyfalling
(we were shootin' at a mound of dirt/ well nothing was broken nothing was hurt)
The first time Tsuna orders you to kill, it's in the dead of Namimori summer, peace and quiet blasted to hell. His arm is bleeding, and his body is awkwardly sprawled over the rubble that used to be his house. In the back of his mind, and in the back of yours, you pray that Nana is at the market. All you can hear is his voice, torn and breaking on the edge of shock.
"G-get rid of them, G-goku-dera-kuh-kun..."
Later, when you watch your explosives rip flesh from bone and spit on the ground, muttering, "Don't mess with the Vongola," into the lifeless eyes of the Varia dogs, too angry to be sick to your stomach, you kiss the guardian ring on your finger. Welcome to the family, Hayato.
It isn't difficult to stop the bleeding. Your hands shake as you fix the bandages and you know that you weren't alone in your panic, but for another reason entirely. Tsuna's body is frail, the finger that bears the Vongola ring a weak consigliere to an even more pathetic famigliaof a fist. You kiss the ring and hold back the bile in the back of your throat.
"Go-gokudera...? What do we d-do now?" he asks. There is a puddle of sick around your feet, and the bomb shelter stinks of it already, Namimori heat spilling in like teargas. You look up at him, wondering why in the hell you have to be two boys whose game of guns and bombs and blood has suddenly become very real.
"Decimo... leave it to me."
The realization that you actually love this boy is greater than the awareness that you are now a true Mafioso.
