Tsuna Dragneel
AN: Alright for those of you who are reading this for the first time, this is the edited version, betaed all the way up to chapter 12 by DemonxHalphas! Who I thank once again! And I may also look for another beta reader just because I am paranoid... For those of you who have read this before, hopefully the grammar is better. I had all my chapters re-done so feel free to re-read and re-comment, did it get better or worse? I'm also not going to reply to comments until I'm done with chapter 13 and I don't know when that is going to be done. And from now on all AN's will be with a chapter so I am also removing the other AN's that I already put up.
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Ch 1
BOOM!
There was an explosion to Tsuna's left as he ran through the battlefield. He was running away, and he hated it. He went into battle with all of his guardians, and saw all of them die in front of his eyes. There was no way he could win by himself, so he ran, and hoped to survive for his fallen friends.
'I can't run forever.' Tsuna thought as he was running out of breath and tears came from his eyes.
Tsuna slowed down some to catch his breath and check on his injuries quickly. His right arm was broken (he was pretty sure it wasn't the only thing broken), and he had scrapes on almost all of his exposed skin. Tsuna stopped by a wall that was barely standing and slid to the ground, using the wall to support him. Tsuna was starting to lose his energy and fast. He didn't even register his ring growing warm on his finger when he closed his eyes. But when he opened them, there was no battle, he wasn't hurt, and there was no wall he was leaning against.
The next thing he noticed was that his body didn't respond the way he wanted it to. He tried to get off the ground, but fell face first back onto the ground.
'What the-' Tsuna thought as he looked down at his body; he was wearing an oversized orange shirt that looked like a dress on him. 'I'm in the body of a one year old! Is this how Reborn felt when he was turned into one? Now I understand why he was pissed at first.'
However, Tsuna didn't have any more time to think on it, because he was picked up and faced with a kid with pink hair.
"Hey, what are you doing here by yourself?" The pink haired boy wearing a red shirt and brown pants asked—he couldn't be more than two years old.
"I-I don't know. I just woke up here." Tsuna stuttered a little.
The pink haired boy closed his eyes and made a 'humm' sound, as if he was thinking about something.
"I got it!" He exclaimed. "I'll take you back with me and you'll be my little brother! My name's Natsu Dragneel, do you know your name?" He asked.
Tsuna blinked a couple of times before answering, "Um, you can call me Tsuna, but do you really think it's okay? Taking me with you? And can you please put me down?"
Natsu only grinned wider. "I'm sure Igneel will take you in. After all, he did it for me!"
Natsu then carried Tsuna, despite his protests, to the cave where Igneel was waiting for him.
"DAAD! I found someone! Can we keep him?" Natsu called.
Tsuna heard something big move around in the cave and his hyper intuition told him to not get on its bad side. A few seconds later a red dragon came out of the cave.
"And tell me, Natsu, why would I let him stay when I have enough trouble with you?" The dragon, which Tsuna guessed Igneel was, asked.
Natsu looked like he was going to argue with Igneel, but Tsuna cut him off. "S-s-sorry f-for in-intruding, sir, I-I'll just go n-now." Tsuna was shaking from fear and aw at the dragon—even as he is now, he could feel the power the dragon gave off.
Igneel turned his attention to Tsuna (which he wasn't sure he wanted) and nodded.
"I see you have manners boy," Igneel said. "Fine, if you stay, you have to teach this boy over here manners, understand?"
Tsuna nodded.
"Good, now what's your name? I don't think you want me to just keep calling you boy." Igneel said.
"T-tsuna." He replied just before Natsu gave out a yell.
"Yosh! I got a little brother!" And some fire accidently came out of his mouth.
Tsunas' eyes were wide and his mouth was open when he saw that, but before he could voice the question he had, Igneel answered it.
"That is fire dragon slayer magic. While you're here with us I'll teach it to you as well as Natsu." With that Igneel turned back into the cave and the two boys followed him.
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Natsu and Tsuna were lying in a field looking at the sky, just sharing thoughts, when Tsuna got an idea.
"Hey Natsu-nii, do you want to train with me a little later?" He asked.
Because their heads were touching each other, Tsuna didn't see the way Natsu's face paled at the thought.
"Hehe, no, I'm good Tsuna." Natsu said while thinking, 'That's not training, that's pure torture!'
At that Tsuna sighed. He was trying to use Reborn's training methods to help both of them grow stronger with their magic, which they both mastered summoning, but still needed to improve by putting the fire into an attack. However, Natsu can be really fast when it came to avoiding his training. Tsuna was then wearing a white shirt with brown pants, and he put his hand on the orange scarf Igneel gave him—Natsu had a white one with a pinkish tint to it (other than that, he had on the same clothes but in a bigger size) -to loosen it some. Then Tsuna sniffed the air and bolted up.
Natsu, who was surprised to suddenly not feel Tsuna's soft hair on his head, propped himself on his elbows.
"Tsuna? What's wrong?" He asked.
"I-I can't smell dad. H-he was just there a minute ago." Tsuna said with worry in his voice. He didn't want Igneel to disappear, he was the best father figure he ever had.
Natsu sniffed the air as well. "Ah, you're right, I can't smell him either. Um, why don't we head back to the cave and wait for him to come back?" Natsu said in a rare moment of him acting like the older brother.
Tsuna nodded his head and they went in the cave. They had enough food for a week in the cave, but after five days of Igneel not coming back, Tsuna convinced Natsu to take the remaining food and leave the cave that was their home. Not long after that they came to Magnolia, Natsu was acting like his normal over active self and breaking things. Thankfully, it was nothing big or expensive, so Tsuna was able to keep them moving by apologizing and using his puppy dog eyes. That is, until Natsu ran into an old man.
"I am so sorry sir," Tsuna said when he reached the old man and Natsu on the floor. The old man was wearing a white shirt with a symbol on the front (Fairy Tail), a gray jacket, and black shorts. Tsuna helped the old man up, and when he saw Natsu try and get up he stepped on the older boy's back.
"Natsu! You should watch where you're going! Now apologize to him." Tsuna said grinding his foot into his back.
"Owowowow! Sorry! Sorry!" Was all Natsu could say before the old man spoke.
"What do you two boys think you're doing being out here at this time of day? I'm sure your parents must be worried about you." He said.
"We're looking for him!" Natsu said before Tsuna could stop him. "Have you seen a big red dragon named Igneel?"
"Dragon?" The man mumbled. "Tell me, boys, are you two dragon slayers?"
"That's what our magic is called, yes." Tsuna said—for some reason he felt that he could trust the old man.
The old man looked as if what Tsuna just said confirmed something for him.
"Well then, why don't you boys follow me?" He asked.
Tsuna gave him a short nod and started following him while dragging Natsu on the ground behind him. When they stopped, they were in front of a big building with the same symbol as the one on the old man's shirt on it. The old man opened the double doors to the place and let the boys take in their new environment. The place was spacious with a bar, a lot of tables, and people.
"Welcome to Fairy Tail." The old man said.
"This is a guild isn't it?" Natsu asked and the old man smiled and nodded.
Natsu ran off into the crowd before Tsuna could stop him… again.
'And I'M the younger brother.' Tsuna thought, then turned to the old man. "Are you the master of the place?" He asked.
"Haha, yes I am. My name is Makarov, and I do believe that I never got your names." He said as he laughed.
Tsuna's eyes widened when he realized that and did a 90 degree bow. "Sorry, my name is Tsuna Dragneel and my older brother is named Natsu Dragneel."
Master Makarov patted his head when they heard Natsu yell.
"YOSH! STRIPPER, FIGHT ME!"
Tsuna quickly ran over to where Natsu was to see him and another kid with black hair, wearing nothing but his boxers and about to fight. Before either of them could start anything, Tsuna jump kicked Natsu in the head and a girl in armor with red hair punched the other kid.
"Gray, don't fight the new members and put some clothes on!" She yelled at him as she stomped and grinded her foot onto his body.
"Y-yes Erza." Gray said into the ground.
Meanwhile Tsuna had Natsu on his back, grabbing his scarf and started banging his head on onto the floor.
"How many times do I have to tell you to not go picking a fight with everyone you see!?" Tsuna yelled. After a minute of that he stopped, and left Natsu knocked out.
He turned to Erza. "I'm sorry for my older brother, he has a really thick skull."
Everyone who heard and saw that was in shock. 'He's the younger brother and he acts like Erza when he's yelling at someone,' was what half of them were thinking, the other half thinking, 'That cute little thing did that?'
As Tsuna and Erza started talking, everyone had a bad feeling about the future for the two boys on the ground.
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"You know," Erza started as she walked with Tsuna back to the guild from training. "The training we do can be seen as torture right?"
"Yes, I know, what brought this up?" Tsuna asked. He had his hands behind his head and started to walk backwards to face Erza while they were talking.
"Then why do you double what you give Natsu and Gray when you're training yourself?" She asked.
Tsuna turned around and answered, "Well, Natsu-nii and Gray are rare people."
Erza put a hand on his shoulder and gave him a look that said 'explain'. Tsuna smiled at her and found a place to sit, he had a feeling that this was going to be a long talk. Erza followed suit in front of him and waited for him to continue.
"Natsu-nii and Gray are two very truthful people," Tsuna started. "People tell lies every day to anybody they can. Sure, people tell the truth sometimes, but people have to work for it. But those two are truthful, and are easily subject to hurt—that's why they're so hard to find." He took a deep breath, preparing for the yelling Erza might give him when he said his next sentence. "So I'm training harder to protect them."
"Idiot." Erza whispered, but she knows Tsuna heard her. "You don't have to go that far. You coul-" Erza was cut off when a giant egg landed in-between them.
The egg had orange flame designs, on it and Tsuna felt that he had to protect the egg for some reason. So Tsuna picked the egg up and told Erza that he was going on ahead if she wanted to stay behind for some reason. Erza just shook her head and followed him back to the guild. When they got to the guild they saw all the kids gathered around another egg like the one they found, but blue.
"Natsu-nii, what's this?" Tsuna asked as he placed his egg next to Natsu's.
"Isn't it obvious Tsuna? These are dragon eggs! So we have to hatch them!" Natsu was so pumped up that he had some fire coming from his mouth.
While Natsu was going on his little rant about the eggs, Erza was in a glaring contest with Mirajane, and everyone was just doing their own thing like every other day in Fairy Tail. So Tsuna took his egg and went to where he normally stays when Natsu and Lisanna left to build a temporary home for when they take care of the egg.
The next day, after some confusion on where Natsu's egg went, both of them hatched. But they weren't dragons like Natsu hoped for—they were two flying cats. A blue cat was hatched from Natsu's egg when an orange cat appeared from Tsuna's. Natsu named his cat and new partner Happy because he made the people around him happy, and Tsuna named his cat and partner Lion because the cat reminded him of his box weapon. But his box weapons name sounded too close to Natsu's so he went with Lion.
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A few years have passed after Lisanna died and the test to become an S-class wizard came and went. Tsuna was now an official S-class wizard and Mirajane stepped down from being an S-class wizard to just work behind the bar. They allowed her to serve the food and drinks, but not much else, since she was still young.
Tsuna, who was wearing a black shirt with an orange jacket that only covered his shoulders, white pants and the scarf he got from Igneel, was curtly looking at the S-class job request board trying to decide which job to take. Tsuna then saw a request about finding an ancient artifact hidden in someplace. The request didn't say what the item could be, so he took it, and left to tell Natsu he was leaving. He found him fighting with Gray again over something, and gave up trying to keep track of what they were fighting about.
"If you two want something to do that badly, I could always train you, you know." Tsuna said, and they froze.
"I-it's ok Tsuna, we were just playing." Gray said as he put his arms around Natsu and Natsu did the same saying 'Aye' as if he was Happy.
Tsuna looked at them with disbelieving eyes but said, "Natsu, I wanted to let you know that I'm leaving to do a job, I'll be back in a few days." Tsuna then turned to walk away, but then he remembered something. "Oh, and Gray?"
Gray gulped and nodded to show he was listening.
"You might want to put some clothes on." And proceeded to leave when he heard Gray yell and start putting his clothes back on.
About a half hour later Tsuna was on a train having motion sickness and Lion was patting his back.
"Ne Tsuna, you ok?" Lion asked—this was his first time seeing Tsuna sick.
Tsuna nodded and said, "J-just make sure w-we get o-off at the r-right place, a-and I'll buy you t-ten fish."
"Ten?!" Lion exclaimed. "You amazing Tsuna! We have to get off now!" Lion then grabbed Tsuna by the back of his shirt and dragged him off the train.
When they were off the train Tsuna coughed some more and stood up straighter.
"Thanks Lion, I'll buy you five fish here and five when we get back." Tsuna said and started walking to where the job was with Lion flying behind him.
"Heh? But why can't I have all ten now?" Lion asked.
"Because we need to take the train back home and I don't want to buy twenty fish." Tsuna said, and Lion was left grumbling about something behind him.
After a couple of days, the job was completed, and Tsuna and Lion were walking back to the train station.
"How is this an ancient item?" Tsuna asked himself as he examined the object in his hand.
It was a rusty chain with six boxes on it. The boxes had thick slits in them as if there was something meant to be put in them. Over all, though, it reminded Tsuna of the chain he had to wear in the battle of the rings with Xanxus.
Lion pulled him out of his thoughts when he said the three dreaded words:
"The train's here."
Tsuna passed out right there and Lion had to drag him on and off the train.